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HONESTY • INTEGRITY • PROFESSIONALISM Photos from the Women’s March on Philadelphia and D.C. PAGE 13

Protests sweep nation as Trump takes office At least 50,000 people participated in the local Women’s March, many calling for LGBT equality.

By Paige Cooperstein PGN Contributor

men in her hometown of Philadelphia. Many said they couldn’t afford to go to Washington

By Jeremy Rodriguez or would have trouble bringing their kids on

jeremy@epgn.com Emily Cooper Morse found the Women’s the trip. There wasn’t yet a march scheduled Two allegedly anti-LGBT March on Washington online almost imme- in Southeastern Pennsylvania. attacks occurred this past week- diately after the presidential election results “For eight years, I listened to President came in favor of Donald Trump. Her best Obama say over and over again, change only end in Philadelphia.

In one incident, a man attacked friend lives in the nation’s capital, so she happens when ordinary people get involved … a 19-year-old male bisexual stu- planned to protest with her. Opponents of ” Cooper Morse said from the stage in front of dent near Temple University Trump see his administration as hostile to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. “I’m an ordiand in another, a man attacked women, the LGBT community, people of nary person who hadn’t turned those words into action.” a transgender woman in Center color and many others.

She decided to start a Facebook event for a

But then Cooper Morse noticed another disCity. The Philadelphia Police Women’s March on Philadelphia to coincide cussion happening online between women and Department is investigating the with the one in Washington on former case and made an arrest in Jan. 21, the day after the inauguthe latter. ration.

In the most recent incident, a “I wanted to see if I could student reported an attack on the just get a couple-hundred peo2000 block of North 15th Street ple in a park marching in solito Temple University Police. The darity,” Cooper Morse said as attack occurred 12:30 a.m. Jan. the nearly 50,000 people lining 22, according to Philadelphia the Benjamin Franklin Parkway Police. laughed and applauded.

Temple’s Executive Director of She noted that the Women’s Campus Safety Services Charlie Marches here and across the Leone said the offender, accomcountry were taking place almost panied by two women, walked 100 years to the day after Alice by the victim, who was accompaPaul chained herself to the White nied by three friends. After one of House to demand women’s sufthe victim’s friends accidentally frage from President Woodrow bumped the suspect, the latter A CENTER CITY PROTEST HOURS AFTER TRUMP’S Wilson. She said the 2017 allegedly said the word “faggot” INAUGURATION marches demand not only equalas he walked by.

“Our complainant turned back and said, ‘What?’ and then the offender said, ‘You don’t get to • The business practices of bars in the

By Jeremy Rodriguez talk to me’ and said [the expleGayborhood substantiate the numerous jeremy@epgn.com tive] again,” Leone said. “And reports of racism and discrimination the then they walked past. As our complainant walked past, he said The Philadelphia Commission on Human PCHR heard. the person, from behind, pushed Relations offered recommendations to • Past and current employees of certain him and knocked him to the combat racism and discrimination in the LGBTQ social-service agencies report patground. That’s when he banged Gayborhood at a press conference Monday. terns of discrimination relating to the agen In its report, “Inform, Monitor, Enforce: cies’ employment practices. his hands and knees.”

The suspect is described as a Addressing Racism and Discrimination in To address these findings, PCHR offered white male, about 5-feet-8-inches Philadelphia’s LGBTQ Community,” the four recommendations: • Bar owners and staff must receive training tall and 150 pounds. One woman PCHR confirmed four findings: accompanying him — described • LGBTQ people of color, women and on the City of Philadelphia’s Fair Practices as white, 5-feet-4 with black transgender people often feel unwelcome Ordinance (FPO) and implicit bias.

• Board members, directors, managehair — asked the suspect to stop, and unsafe in Gayborhood spaces. according to the report. There • Racism and discrimination have been ment and staff of the Mazzoni Center and is no description for the second ongoing issues among Philadelphia’s Philadelphia FIGHT must receive training PAGE 19 on the FPO and implicit bias. It is recomLGBTQ community for decades. woman.

THE JAN. 21 WOMEN’S MARCH ON PHILADELPHIA Photos: Scott A. Drake

ity for men, but among women as well.

State Rep. Donna Bullock, a Philadelphia Democrat, addressed the largely white crowd with a message of making feminism more inclusive. She said she heard from black women who didn’t want to come to the Women’s March on Philadelphia because they didn’t feel welcome.

“Now let’s just talk about it, right, because we have to … ” Bullock said. “Many of us still feel like we’re not a part of this community PAGE 13 called feminism.”

City releases Gayborhood racism findings, recommends training mended that other nonprofits serving the LGBTQ population voluntarily participate in these trainings as well.

• The Independent Business Alliance (IBA), the region’s LGBT chamber of commerce, should provide training in leadership development for prospective and new board members.

• Nonprofits that receive city funding to provide services to the LGBTQ community must conform to the nondiscrimination provisions of the FPO and the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) requirements included in their professional service contracts with the City of Philadelphia.

Additionally, PCHR presented a timeline PAGE 2 for these recommenda-

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Farnese attorney: No ‘smoking gun’ in case

By Timothy Cwiek timothy@epgn.com Federal prosecutors have no “smoking gun” proving that state Sen. Lawrence M. Farnese Jr. bribed a constituent in order to advance his political career, the lawmaker’s attorney told a federal jury this week.

Defense attorney Mark B. Sheppard scoffed at the notion that a May 18, 2011, phone conversation between Farnese and Ellen Chapman is a “smoking gun” proving they engaged in bribery.

Sheppard acknowledged that during the conversation at issue, Chapman sought financial assistance from Farnese for the college tuition of her daughter, Hannah Feldman.

Sheppard also acknowledged the conversation took place during the same time period that Farnese was garnering support for his bid as Democratic leader of the Eighth Ward.

“But one had nothing to do with the other,” Sheppard told the jury of five men and seven women.

Sheppard said Farnese didn’t agree to donate $6,000 towards Feldman’s tuition until May 23, 2011 — five days after the purported “smoking-gun” conversation.

“This was a public figure helping a constituent,” Sheppard said. “It’s the kind of thing we expect our public officials to do every day.

Don’t let them make this into something dirty, because it’s not.”

Sheppard continued: “It was a payment to a young lady [Feldman] who lived in his district, worked on his campaign, whose father was an extremely important constituent and whose mother is a committee person.”

Farnese didn’t need to buy Chapman’s vote because he had the support of many other committee persons to be elected ward leader, Sheppard added.

“Do you bribe one [voter] when you need 30 [votes]?” Sheppard posed.

Chapman’s attorney, Stuart M. Patchen, also scoffed at the notion that the May 18 conversation was “sinister.” “[Prosecutors] have to prove [a bribe] hap-

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tions to go forward. Posters detailing the Fair Practices Ordinance must be displayed at employee common areas at all Gayborhood bars within 30 days, and FPO training must be completed within 90 days. All implicit-bias training must be completed within 120 days, and bars and nonprofits must report completion of recommendations to PCHR. In a statement to PGN, Mazzoni Center board president Jimmy Ruiz said the agency was grateful for the PCHR’s “work in putting this report together, as well as the individuals who came forward to share their stories and experiences, which was not easy for many of them to do,” referring to the Oct. 25 PCHR hearing in which members of the community addressed incidents of discrimination and racism. “It is extremely important that we as an organization hear about these experiences, so that we can fully understand and participate in the ongoing conversations about racism in the LGBTQ community, and so that we can continue the work we are doing to improve our own culture and create an environment where everyone — staff, patients and anyone else who interacts with us — feels safe and respected.”

Ruiz noted, however, that the organization had “concerns” that “at no point through the process did PCHR contact us to provide any explanation and/or response.

Therefore, we feel that some of its conclusions are not based on providing all involved a voice.”

Ruiz said that in the last few months Mazzoni, which some audience members at this fall’s PCHR hearing accused of unfair employment practices, has worked to “engage employees on the issues of racism, implicit bias and diversity in the workplace.”

Next week, staff will undergo two days of workshops by Connecticut-based social-justice organization National Conference for Community and Justice.

Ruiz added that Mazzoni will follow up with PCHR to ensure it complies with the recommendations in its report.

“Our latest activities are just one step in an ongoing process, and we are committed to continuing this vitally important work, to strengthening our relationships and the trust of the people we work with and serve and to reaffirming our core values so that each and every person who interacts with Mazzoni Center in any capacity

pened in those eight minutes and they have to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt,” Patchen said.

Patchen insisted there’s no such proof, and he urged jurors to end the “nightmare” prosecutors are putting Chapman through.

“This case will offend your sense of justice, your sense of what’s right and wrong, and what they’re putting [Chapman] through,” Patchen said.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan I. Kravis told jurors there’s ample evidence that Farnese and Chapman engaged in bribery and other unlawful activity during the spring of 2011.

He said the government will present witnesses and documentation proving the defendants violated state and federal laws involving fraud, conspiracy and bribery.

“Senator Farnese wanted to be a ward leader very, very badly,” Kravis noted.

Kravis said the ward-leader position placed Farnese in a better position to advance his political career, and that he bribed Chapman in order to obtain the post.

is treated with compassion, dignity and respect,” Ruiz said.

Scott Wilds, president of FIGHT’s board of directors, urged that the report be revised so it does not discourage patients from using the organization’s services. He added staffers are not opposed to undergoing training.

In a statement, FIGHT said that, of its 177 employees, 91 are African-American, 68 are Caucasian, nine are Latinx and nine are Asian. Two African-Americans, two Caucasians and one Asian individual comprise the “top-management staff,” according to FIGHT’s statement.

Its 17-member board is currently comprised of 11 African-American members, two Hispanic members and five Caucasian members. Twelve members are male and five are female. The organization does not require board members to disclose sexual orientation or gender identity, but it is believed that at least six of the 17 are LGBT, including two of the four officers.

FIGHT also provided a copy of the handbook’s equal-employment opportunity and hiring policies, which outlines its nondiscrimination policies. “[The report] suggested our employee handbook is inadequate, when in fact, it’s very specific of the things that they were looking at,” Wilds added.

“They did not check with us on any of these things before the report was released. It gives me pause as to what process the staff of the commission went through in reviewing it before it was sent out,” Wilds said. “We are happy to meet with the staff to discuss things.”

At Monday’s press conference, Mayor Jim Kenney noted that the city is not going to “just simply issue this report and move on.”

“There are a number of activists and folks in the room who have been in my face before,” Kenney said. “And you know what? Get in it. We need to have people in our face because unless you are vocal about it, unless you bring it to the forefront and bring it to power, bring it to the people who can change it, it’s not going to change. If you got to yell at me, yell away. I’ll hug you at the end of it. We’ll be good. We need to continue to have activists that step up and get in the government’s face.”

PCHR Executive Director Rue Landau was also on hand to speak about the report findings.

Kravis also said it’s of no consequence if Chapman didn’t actually vote for Farnese during the December 2011 ward-leader election. “Whether Ms. Chapman followed through on her end [of the bargain] does not make a difference,” Kravis said.

“Both of these defendants are guilty of the crimes they’re charged with,” Kravis emphasized to jurors.

The Eighth Ward is a political subdivision, largely in Center City west of Broad.

It serves as a conduit to party leadership, and it’s a source of information during campaigns and elections. At the time of the alleged incident, Chapman served as an Eighth Ward committee person.

In November, Farnese handily won re-election as a state senator. He has a strong record of support for LGBT causes, including a statewide LGBT civil-rights law and a new probe of the Nizah Morris case.

The trial is expected to run through early next week. n

“This was a long process and a lot of work, but in the end, we’ve created a report with additional resources that encompasses what we need to do to reduce or eliminate racism and discrimination in the LGBT community,” Landau said.

Audience members in the press conference questioned why city Director of LGBT Affairs Nellie Fitzpatrick did not speak about the findings.

“The director of LGBT Affairs is here,” Landau said, referring to Fitzpatrick in the audience. “But this is PCHR and this was our work and our jurisdiction and what we do.”

During the conference, Abdul-Aliy Muhammad spoke to Kenney from the crowd and said, “Nellie needs to resign.” Muhammad is a co-founder of the Black and Brown Workers Collective, an organization that has frequently called for Fitzpatrick’s resignation. He said the organization is asking for someone with “a more intersectional lens.”

“We know through the process of a year-and-a-half of community forums, we know from this report, we know from the hearing, we know from our direct actions that Nellie has been a hindrance to change around addressing Gayborhood racism,” Muhammad said. “Knowing that Nellie’s office is a barrier and she’s in leadership there, we’re asking for her to go.”

Kenney mentioned that Fitzpatrick works “really hard” in her position within the Office of LGBT Affairs.

“Not one person is responsible for racism in the Gayborhood or fixing racism in the Gayborhood or fixing racism in society,” Kenney said at the conference. “That’s a pretty heavy load for one person to deal with. So we’re all in this together.”

Fitzpatrick said she is “happy” to be the focus of protesters’ complaints and in turn bringing attention to “a critical issue.”

“Quite frankly, protesting my being here is certainly getting more attention from government and getting government to move in a way that maybe protesting the bars wouldn’t have,” Fitzpatrick said. “For that purpose: excellent. I’m proud to be a lightning rod to get things done.”

Shani Akilah, creator and co-founder of the Black and Brown Workers Collective, said they only had one suggestion for Fitzpatrick, moving forward.

“To resign,” Akilah said. n

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21 — Feature: ‘Vagina Monologues’ raises funds and awareness 23 — Comics 25 — Scene in Philly 26 — Out & About 29 — Family Portrait 30 — Q Puzzle

SUNDAY FUNDAY: Dirty Frank’s was packed Sunday afternoon for a fundraiser for LGBTQ Home for Hope. The shelter for LGBT residents, the first of its kind in the state, receives no public funding, relying instead on private donations.

The event featured a silent auction, a cake raffle and a drive to collect cleaning supplies and household goods for the residence. Fundraising totals were not available by presstime. PECO pledged to match donations up to $5,000.

“There were a lot of tears that were shed. I don’t really feel like we see these kinds of exchanges in other spaces. It’s a beautiful combination, which allows people like me to really be safe in a short amount of time.” ~ Elicia Gonzales on the power of the Creating Change Latinx Institute, page 17

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Sims, Williams to re-introduce conversion-therapy ban

By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com State Rep. Brian Sims announced last Thursday that he plans to re-introduce a bill to ban conversion therapy for minors in Pennsylvania.

The controversial practice of therapists attempting to change a client’s sexual orientation has been denounced by every leading major medical and psychological association. Sims and Sen. Anthony Williams introduced legislation to ban such efforts for those under 18 in the last two legislative sessions, but the measures did not move out of committee.

Williams introduced the Senate version of the bill Jan. 12, along with five Democratic cosponsors: Sens. Daylin Leach, Christine Tartaglione, Judith Schwank, Art Haywood, Sharif Street and Vincent Hughes. A representative of the House Democratic Communications Office told PGN Sims was circulating a cosponsorship memo and plans to introduce the measure “in the near future.”

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Thursday at Philadelphia City Hall, Sims acknowledged the bill could face resistance.

“I’m not blind to the political climate this is being introduced in,” he said. “But I believe my colleagues will understand that this is not an issue of LGBT civil rights; it’s an issue of public health.”

Sims, along with PA Psychiatric Society PresidentElect Gail Edelsohn, cited data that children exposed to conversion therapy are at greater risk than their counterparts for suicide, depression, anxiety, low self-esteem and substance abuse.

“People and organizations that are experts who we trust tell us this is not medicine, this is not science. This is child abuse,” Sims said.

He noted that preventing such abuse should not be an effort to only attract Democratic support.

“This is not a bipartisan issue,” Sims said. “It’s an issue about protecting children.”

When Sims first introduced the bill four years ago, New Jersey and California were the only

states to move to ban conversion therapy for minors; since that time, three more states, along with Washington, D.C., have followed suit. Pittsburgh last month became the first city in Pennsylvania to adopt a municipal-level law banning youth conversion therapy.

A similar bill is being spearheaded in Philadelphia City Council by Councilman Mark Squilla. That legislation is awaiting action by the Committee on Public Health and Human Services.

Sims was also joined by state Reps. Jordan Harris and Chris Rabb, along with Mayor Jim Kenney.

Kenney called conversion therapy a “gross violation” of human rights that “promotes misconceptions” about LGBT people. He also issued a directive to parents whose children may be questioning their identity.

“Tell them you love them, hug them, tell them you value them,” the mayor said. “That’s the best thing you can do for your kids.” n

MAYOR JIM KENNEY (LEFT) AND STATE REP. BRIAN SIMS SPOKE AT A JAN. 19 PRESS CONFERENCE TO ANNOUNCE THE RE-INTRODUCTION OF LEGISLATION THAT WOULD BAN CONVERSION THERAPY FOR MINORS IN PENNSYLVANIA. SIMS AND STATE SEN. ANTHONY WILLIAMS HAVE LED THE BILLS FOR THE PREVIOUS TWO LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS. Photo: Scott A. Drake

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Reenie Kane, a DJ who spun at LGBT clubs and events in the area for decades, died Jan. 18 after a heart attack. She was 62.

Known to many as the “First Lady of the Turntables,” Kane worked extensively in the Gayborhood and at other LGBT venues since the 1970s.

Robert “Sandy Beach” Hitchen met Kane when both were entertaining at Chez Paree in Atlantic City.

They later connected when Kane was DJing at the now-defunct 12th Air Command in the 1990s and she brought Hitchen in for her Thursday USO shows.

“We worked six years every single Thursday, no breaks, no vacations,” Hitchen recalled. “We became very close.”

Ian Morrison, who portrays drag queen Brittany Lynn, also met Kane through the USO show and worked with her extensively as he developed his drag troupe, Drag Mafia.

“When I performed for my first time in drag as Brittany Lynn, [she] told me that I needed a drag name when I told the hostess, Tinsel Garland, that my stage name was Ian Morrison,” he laughed. “Since that first night we bonded and, over the course of the next two decades, Reenie spun the best of disco at every venue that ever brought in Drag Mafia.”

“She was always looking for that new sound,” Hitchen said. “She knew what everybody wanted to hear. She had that sixth sense of what would make people dance.”

In a 2009 interview with PhillyGayCalendar, Kane said her first-ever gig was at The R.A.R. in South Philadelphia in 1974. She worked at Chez Paree from 1978-90 and went on to spin at Gayborhood

locales like 12th Air, Shampoo and Voyeur.

She was also a staple at community events and fundraisers. Kane played every year at AIDS Walk Philadelphia and also supported agencies like the South Jersey AIDS Alliance.

Her generosity was noted after she suffered a heart attack several years ago and the community turned out in force for a fundraiser at Voyeur to help her with medical bills.

“She would give the shirt off her back to everybody and that came back to her when we did the fundraiser,” Hitchen said. “I’ve never seen so many people turn out for a fundraiser for an individual as I did that evening.”

Morrison said Kane’s impact on the LGBT nightlife scene will continue to be felt.

“She was a true trailblazer as a female DJ since the ’70s and touched so many lives in so many cities,” he said. “She was definitely the First Lady of the Turn Tables, and the strength behind all of the drag queens that ever took to the stage here in Philly.”

Kane is survived by longtime partner Adele Landini; sisters Katherine (Greg) and Margaret; brothers Michael (Suzan) and Charles (Linda); and many nieces, nephews and cousins. She was predeceased by parents William and Maureen, sister Loretta and brother William.

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‘Gender Revolution’ film blends stories, science For J. R. Ford, father of a 5-year-old have been 90-percent favorable or neutral, transgender girl, appearing in the upcomwith only a “very small number of people” ing National Geographic documentary responding negatively.

“Gender Revolution: A Journey” with Katie Couric’s involvement with the associated Couric was “more than an obligation.” He film was part of a longer, personal learning and his wife Vanessa let Couric into their process. On her talk show, in 2014, she asked Washington, D.C., home, hoping trans actors Laverne Cox and that, as Vanessa explained, their Carmen Carrera questions about family would be “relatable” to surgery and their bodies. When those who know little about transCox upbraided her for bringing gender people — and that other up these personal topics that families with transgender children were inappropriate for discuswould “know they’re not alone.” sion, Couric chose to let Cox’s The Fords were speaking criticism air, she explained, in on a call about the film with order to show that people can be LGBT advocates and journalists, ignorant but learn. She later had along with Couric and National Cox on her show again, where Geographic Editor-in-Chief Susan the actor told her, “I commend Goldberg. They are only two of you on really being teachable, the many people Couric interbecause not everybody is.”

Dana Rudolph That experience, coupled viewed for the film, who also included trans and intersex people with a growing awareness of from young children to seniors, their parents new ways that people are looking at gender, and spouses, scientists, doctors, psycholospurred her to learn even more. She congists, activists and authors. nected with National Geographic as they Couric, an executive producer and host, were working on their gender print issue and skillfully blends stories about trans and inter- developed the documentary “for people who sex people’s everyday lives with an explorawanted to be educated, like me,” including tion of the scientific underpinnings of gender members of families both like and unlike and the cultural shifts in our understanding of those in the film. “I attempted to give people what gender means today — honoring what a framework for a more informed conversaGoldberg calls National Geographic’s tradition,” she said.

Couric shared that Gavin Grimm, a trans tional lenses of history, culture and people and science. teen whose lawsuit for the right to use the It is the stories that are the heart of the boys’ bathroom will soon be heard by the film, however.

U.S. Supreme Court, once told her that trans “I wanted to get to know the people behind people don’t always want to have the oblithe headlines,” Couric said on the call, and gation to teach everyone about trans issues. “to open a window into their lives so people Through the film, Couric may have helped to could see them as being not so very different lighten that burden. from the rest of us.”

And while the media often includes interGoldberg, too, affirmed, “What makes me sex people, if at all, as an afterthought to covthe proudest are the voices of these families erage of trans people, Couric puts them first — not celebrities, regular folks.” in “Gender Revolution.”

The work is a companion to the January “We thought that was a good jumping-off 2017 National Geographic magazine, a sinpoint” for showing viewers “how gender gle-topic issue on “The Gender Revolution.” can’t be imposed by society,” she said.

The subscriber cover features 9-year-old Throughout the film, Couric models an Avery Jackson, the first known transgender admirable willingness to learn and evident person to front the magazine in its nearly respect for her interviewees. While she 130-year history. The newsstand cover feaadmitted she probably didn’t get everything tures a diverse group photo of transgender, right, she said, “I hope people will be tolerant cisgender, bi-gender, intersex and androgof the genuine care we took in trying to make ynous people. While the magazine looks this understandable and accessible.” broadly at gender identity, roles and expres“Gender Revolution” will premiere on sion, the documentary focuses more closely the National Geographic channel at 9 p.m. on transgender and intersex people.

Feb. 6. It will be broadcast on National Goldberg, the first woman to helm the Geographic in 171 countries and 45 lanmagazine, said she decided to publish the guages. It will also be available through issue after realizing that, instead of just doing on-demand services and National Geographic pieces on the lives of girls and boys around television apps, with Hulu subscriptions a day the world, which they had wanted to do, after it airs, and will be for sale via Amazon they needed to look at the whole spectrum of Video, iTunes and Google Play. n identities in order to cover gender in a truly inclusive way.

Dana Rudolph is the founder and publisher Response so far has been “overwhelming,” of Mombian (mombian.com), a GLAAD Goldberg said. The issue has become one of Media Award-winning blog and resource their best-sellers, and social-media reactions directory for LGBTQ parents.

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Stand up for the ACA financing for HIV care in the U.S., according to the With so much happening in our political system at the moment, it can be difficult to keep up with Kaiser Institute. Prior to the ACA, accessing health each new development. The fact is that under the care was extremely difficult for someone with HIV, new presidential administration, there are many reaand we cannot risk going back to that. sons for LGBTQ Americans, and other marginalized We’re certainly not alone in this view. Ezekiel communities, to be concerned. This week we’re J. Emanuel, MD, Ph.D., chair of the Department of looking at the Affordable Care Act, and what a Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University repeal of this legislation would actually mean, both of Pennsylvania, has said that a repeal of the ACA in the broader picture and specifically for LGBTQ without an immediate replacement “would create Americans. havoc and significant disruption in the We believe that a repeal of the ACA American health-care system.” would be disastrous for millions of Emanuel explained that if Americans, including many of the popCongress repeals the ACA and specifically ulations that Mazzoni Center serves: repeals the individual mandate, including LGBTQ people, women, low-income the subsidies that allow individuals to buy people and people living with HIV/ insurance in the marketplace, it would AIDS and other chronic health condi“totally disrupt” the individual insurance tions. marketplace. Insurance companies would Last week, the nonpartisan largely (if not entirely) stop selling to Congressional Budget Office issued a individuals, even those who do not receive report that at least 18-million people subsidies, and the result would be millions more without health insurance. could lose health insurance in the first If you’re among the majority year if Congress repeals the Affordable of Americans who receives your health Care Act without replacing it. Members through an employer-based of the LGBTQ community would be Elisabeth insurance program, or Medicare, it would be a misoverrepresented among these populations.

Flynn take to think that a repeal of the ACA will not affect you. As more uninsured people Researchers at the Urban Institute are forced to access care through emergency rooms, estimated that the percentage of uninsured lesbian, hospital costs increase and those costs are passed gay and bisexual adults fell from 28 to 11 percent along to those of us with employer-based programs between June 2013-March 2015. These findings in the form of higher premiums. reflect the trends we have seen in rates of insured What can you do to ensure your voice is heard on versus uninsured patients at Mazzoni Center Family this issue? If you live in Pennsylvania, contact Sen. & Community Medicine in recent years.

Pat Toomey today at: 717-782-3951 and ask him to With regard to nondiscrimination protections, block the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. (If you Section 1557 of the ACA prohibits discrimination on the basis of “race, color, national origin, sex, age live elsewhere, you can look up your senator at senate.gov/senators/contact and do the same.) or disability” in any program that receives federal If you get your insurance through the Affordable funding. The Obama administration had interpreted Care Act either through the Exchange or through this clause to include gender-identity and sex steMedicaid, our friends at Equality Pennsylvania reotyping. This means that programs and providers cannot deny services to an individual on the basis of would like to hear your story. Visit equalitypa.org to find out more. You can also share your story online, their trans identity and must provide treatment conon your own social-media pages and on Mazzoni sistent with a person’s gender identity. A full repeal Center’s Facebook or Twitter pages, and use the of the ACA would remove those protections. hashtag #MyCoverageStory.

This week the U.S. Senate is holding confirmaWe may not be able to stop the confirmation of tion hearings for Georgia Congressman Tom Price, Rep. Price to HHS, but it is imperative that we raise whom Trump nominated to serve as Secretary of our voices in support of the Affordable Care Act and Health & Human Services. We have grave concerns work to ensure access to affordable health care for about the suitability of Rep. Price for this critically all Americans. important role, for several reasons.

For our part, Mazzoni Center is committed to proPrice has consistently and vehemently opposed viding quality primary care to anyone who needs the ACA and helped draft several bills to replace it. it, regardless of insurance status; we will continue The replacement plans that Price has proposed in to help patients access things like prescription-drug the past rely heavily on tax credits, which are not assistance and other forms of support, but for people adjusted for income; they would favor the wealthy who cannot access insurance, there are unfortunately and offer little or no relief to Americans living in limits to the assistance that we can provide. That’s poverty or those with low incomes. why standing up for the ACA is so important.

In addition, a repeal of the ACA threatens covIf past public statements and voting records of erage for services that help some of the one in five key people associated with the new administration Americans with a mental-health condition.

We also have serious concerns about Price’s views are any indication, our communities have a battle ahead on many fronts. It is critical that we stand on Medicaid, and his proposals to limit federal up and continue to advocate not just for our health Medicaid spending by giving states a lump sum, or care, but our civil rights, our environment and all block grant, and more control over how they could use it. Many poor Americans would lose their cover- the things that allow us to pursue healthy and meaningful lives. n age in this scenario.

Medicaid is the single largest source of health Elisabeth Flynn is senior communications manager at coverage for those who are living with HIV in Mazzoni Center. the U.S., and the second-largest source of public

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D’Anne Witkowski

The Colson Center for Christian Worldview

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Strength in numbers As gloomy of a day as Jan. 20 was, Jan. 21 was its polar opposite.

An estimated 3.5-million people around the globe took to the streets to demonstrate support for equality — whether it was women’s rights, racial justice, LGBT rights, immigration rights, environmental rights or rights of the disabled, the nation and our allies around the world joined forces to send a message to Donald Trump and his administration. The biggest takeaway for our new president seemed to be the dazzling size of the Women’s March protests, which dramatically dwarfed his own inauguration. Immediately Trump’s team went on the defensive to shift the narrative and the visuals away from the immensely powerful photos from Saturday’s marches.

Trump has shown time and time again that he has a petulant-child obsession with being the biggest and best. Last weekend, he very clearly was not, and that appeared to shake him.

While the schadenfraude of the moment alone may be worth it for activists, the depth and breadth of the marches also sent a message to other power brokers in Washington. While he may be preoccupied by the size of the resistance because of his own ego, despite what he might think, Trump is not running this country alone — and it’s imperative that the entirety of the Trump administration and any allies it may amass understands just how many Americans are willing to fight back against oppression.

Within this resistance movement, the spirit that led so many women and their allies to the streets last week is not only the antidote many of us needed for the political culture in which we now find ourselves, but it was also a call to action. No longer can the communities who came together last week ignore one another’s causes. Countless Americans are at risk of being further marginalized by this administration, and giving the president and his supporters a pass to attack one community validates an attack on the next community and the next and so on.

We’re all in this together, so we all need to fight together — and for one another. n

This is a watershed moment for religious leaders in the United States. More than 75 Christian leaders have come together to do a remarkable thing: They’ve signed a statement titled Preserve Freedom, Reject Coercion (PFRC), which, according to the statement host Colson Center for Christian Worldview, is “a statement that affirms every American’s freedom to peacefully live their lives according to their beliefs and opposes government coercion or censorship of fellow citizens who have different views.” The signatories “are united by the idea that all laws must respect freedom and promote justice for every citizen, no matter who they are.”

When you consider the level of anti-Muslim hatred that helped Donald Trump win enough votes in the Electoral College (but not the popular vote; if only he could have gotten 3-million more racists to the polls!), Christian leaders coming together and speaking out in favor of religious freedom for every American, surely this truly is groundbreaking, folks. Maybe we can all get along.

Ha ha, just kidding. The statement has nothing to do with protecting religious rights for Muslims and everything to do with Christians demanding the right to discriminate against LGBT people.

According to Christianity Today, “The declaration follows months of conversations among Christian college leaders around the Fairness for All strategy, which would bring religious leaders and LGBT advocates together to try to secure satisfactory legal protections for both.”

The signers of the so-called “Preserve Freedom, Reject Coercion” statement have two words for the LGBT community: “Bye, Felicia.”

You see, what the Fairness for All coalition calls “compromise,” the PFRC calls “coercion.” In other words, they’re not so much in favor of LGBT people having any rights. At all.

“In recent years, there have been efforts to add sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classifications in the law — either legislatively or through executive action,” the statement reads. “These unnecessary proposals ... threaten basic freedoms of religion, conscience, speech and asso-

ciation; violate privacy rights; and expose citizens to significant legal and financial liability for practicing their beliefs in the public square.”

I suspect that LGBT people didn’t have any input into this statement. Because basic civil-rights protections are hardly “unnecessary.” In fact, LGBT people are still fighting for basic rights across the country. Marriage equality may be the law of the land (for now), but people can still be fired in more than half the states in America simply for being, or being perceived as, LGBT. This is the kind of thing the PFRC signers are fighting to “protect.”

These Christian leaders have this paranoid belief that Christianity is under attack in America, which couldn’t be further from the truth.

When they have to come up with a secret hand signal that means “Merry Christmas” so that their fragile sensibilities are not damaged by the words “Happy Holidays,” then they can start claiming they’re persecuted. Oh, and about that: I don’t know, but you’d think Christians, of all people, would set the bar a little higher when claiming persecution.

The signers conclude that the only good LGBT nondiscrimination policy is NO nondiscrimination policy. Ever. At all.

“We therefore believe that proposed [laws], including those narrowly crafted, threaten fundamental freedoms, and any ostensible protections for religious liberty appended to such laws are inherently inadequate and unstable.”

“Inherently inadequate and unstable?”

You must be talking about the Trump/ Putin administration.

Seriously, it’s galling how, in order to make this argument, the signers have to completely disregard LGBT people are human beings capable and worthy of love.

But, hey, Christian leaders: Enjoy your rapey adulterer Putin finger puppet in the White House. Looks like Santa, er, I mean, Jesus, has been very good to you this year! n

The signers of the “Preserve Freedom, Reject Coercion” statement have two words for the LGBT community: “Bye, Felicia.”

D’Anne Witkowski is a poet, writer and comedian living in Michigan with her wife and son. She has been writing about LGBT politics for over a decade. Follow her on Twitter @MamaDWitkowski.

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Take up action — not an emotional-wellness chicken Last night I watched the HBO docyour own “emotional-wellness chicken” or umentary on the relationship between you can accept the world we have, stand up Hollywood legend Debbie Reynolds and and be counted and work to change it. her daughter Carrie Fisher, best known Personally, I’m old enough to have for her role as Princess Leia in seen two previous presidents the “Star Wars” saga. The film, cause me this same nervous “Bright Lights,” is a wonderful feeling as they moved into the trip through Hollywood and White House and made drastic sort of a “Grey Gardens Goes changes. They were Richard Hollywood.” The living condiNixon and Ronald Reagan. tions, like in “Grey Gardens,” Of those, Reagan attempted to are unique but it’s the condicause the most drastic damage tions of both the main characto our community. The result ters and those they touch that was that we organized and brings you to the point where fought back. In the end, we you’re asking yourself, What became stronger as a commuworld are these delightful peonity and that experience helped ple living in? build the networks we have There is one particular scene today. where a character is introduced So when there are community that might be a metaphor for our Mark Segal organizers that call for action times. The woman seems to be — and that time will come in a fragile state and needs some reassur— don’t pick up an emotional-wellness ance. To constantly remind her that she’s chicken. Answer the call. n fine, she carries a live chicken in her arms.

Her husband tells the camera it’s her “emo- Mark Segal is the nation’s most-awardwinning commentator in LGBT media. His tional-wellness chicken.”

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Activist basics for the Trump era Regardless of where we sit — or where we toss and turn — during these long nights since the United States presidential election, many of us are wondering what we can do to take care of ourselves and each other, and how we can even hold our gains in the HIV epidemic, much less prevent the loss of significant ground.

Given the platform of the Trump/ Pence administration and the leadership of Congress, there is not a lot of promise that we’ll get closer to the end of the HIV epidemic. In fact, there will likely be significant changes in programs serving people with HIV or seeking to prevent new HIV cases. In addition, members of communities with high rates of HIV are facing threats to our health, our relationships and our families, to say the least.

A lot is already emerging in terms of ways to respond. In fact, there may be too much; in keeping with our time of information overload, the sheer volume of resources and opportunities to contribute can itself be an overwhelming impediment to action.

Yet, as the HIV community, we have a robust history of resistance, resilience and victory that calls us to the forefront of where we need to go today.

Within hours after the election results came in, HIV leaders joined with others to form the Activist-Led Emergency Response Team (ALERT), a growing activist network for sharing information and ideas. And I’m working with HIV activist Jennifer Johnson Avril on a new effort called #ActivistBasics, which draws from the rich history and present-day efforts of HIV and other activist movements to provide tools, information and inspiration for our present and coming struggles.

A movement born in a moment of challenges The HIV community was born in the Reagan era, a time that may hold the closest parallel to today in terms of political conservatism and policies that impede an effective response to the epidemic. Today brings additional challenges, including a weary and polarized population that has in many cases seen its standard of living decline as a direct result of the very policies Reagan unleashed.

As a young adult, I was raised in the HIV movement during the presidency of the first George Bush, and I know that this movement has much to offer those who are looking for the way forward today.

I have learned that our time, energy and passion are precious resources. That drives

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Street Talk Do you agree with President Obama's commutation of Chelsea Manning's sentence?

"Yes. I believe Obama made his decision based on the merits of the case. Obama undoubtedly was aware of the trans David Hall issue, but chef/caterer that wasn't Fishtown the deciding factor. Obama isn't the kind of person to give someone a free pass based on gender identity.

It's not in his make-up. He's an honest person."

"Yes, I agree with it. Clearly, Chelsea was suffering through very terrible conditions. I have mixed feelings about Foster Longo how Obama piano teacher handled Bella Vista whistleblowers during his presidency.

But in this particular case, I fully approve of the commutation."

"It sounds fine to me.

Obama is my guy. I trust his judgment. The punishment didn't fit the crime.

People who Erin Schafer committed dog walker similar Point Breeze offenses got much shorter sentences. The president wasn't saying what [Manning] did was OK. Just that she should be treated fairly."

"Yes, I'm all for freedom of information.

I'm pretty antigovernment so I don't think what she did was so horrible. I support her as a trans woman. But I would support wasn't trans."

my urgency to ensure that we’re using them in the best possible ways to further justice and to help sustain our efforts, rather than exhausting ourselves without hope of success.

Working on key HIV issues, as well as being a part of broader movements, gives us the opportunity to combat HIV stigma, as we — people with HIV and their friends, families and communities — stand shoulder to shoulder with old and new allies as we come to learn and appreciate the issues that affect each others’ lives.

Here are some ideas that we’re talking about in our #ActivistBasics effort: Going with what we know: ourselves Just as I have reached out to comrades and loved ones, asking, “What are we doing? What should I do?” others have reached out to me. It is an honor for us to hold each other in this moment, valuing each other’s hearts and minds and spirits, and sitting in uncertainty together. And in

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this uncertainty, I encourage us to go with what we know: ourselves.

In this moment, what do you know about your strengths, your skills, your drive? In what areas do you feel confident, and how can you bring that together with the areas in which you hope to grow?

Make a list of your skills and qualities, your areas of interest and those about which you are curious, and bring that self-knowledge to take your seat in our coming efforts for HIV justice.

There’s going to be a lot to do, and no one person can do it all, so go with what feels productive and important to you.

Make a list of what current initiatives and groups appeal to you. Then put them into a 2-by-2 grid. There are four boxes in a 2-by-2 grid: one for efforts that are easier for you and may have the most impact, one for those that are easy but may have less impact, plus one each for harder efforts that have more or less impact. That can help you decide where to start first — probably something PAGE 19

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She talked about Sojourner Truth’s famous 1851 “Ain’t I a Woman” speech.

“When she gave her speech, she talked about how she could plow a field as hard as any man,” Bullock said. “She was talking about equal pay. When she gave that speech, she talked about how she bore 13 children just to see them sold off in slavery. That’s reproductive justice, people.”

Bullock added, “We must listen and continue to listen to each other and be open to each other.”

She emphasized that people should continue to come together to build resistance to policies that oppress their fellow Americans.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney also had some advice for march attendees. He said anyone feeling hopeless in the current political climate should volunteer for an organization or a cause they are passionate about.

He also announced his intention to sign a wage-equity bill that City Council passed last year. It would ban employers from asking job candidates about their salary histories. Although similar laws exist elsewhere at the state level, this bill would be the first of its kind in an American city.

“Remember, we got through World War II,” Kenney said. “We can get through this.

Never give up hope.”

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Hopefulness was a word that attendees used repeatedly to describe the mood at the Women’s March on Philadelphia.

Tyler Read, of Oxford in Chester County, felt very positive being surrounded by supporters of America’s diversity. Read wore a transgender pride flag to the event.

“I think it’s valid,” Read said. “People shouldn’t be able to be discriminated against based on who they are.”

Read plans to continue to be out and visible while in high school to foster understanding among the students.

Loretta Tocci of South Philadelphia posed for a photo in front of City Hall while walking to the rally. She held a rain-

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bow sign that said, “Women’s Rights are Human Rights.” Tocci said, after the march, she would get started sending emails and letters and making phone calls to elected officials in the tri-state area, especially the Republican ones. She wants them to consider opposing Trump’s cabinet picks among other things.

David Zinn and Mikael Eliasen also joined the march. The Center City couple has been together for 17 years. Eliasen said being with Zinn inspired him to get more involved in community action.

Zinn said they want to “support people who are under attack with this horrible cabinet.” n

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Florida man on surviving Pulse, finding pride

By Jeremy Rodriguez jeremy@epgn.com Ricardo Negron-Almodovar worked until the late hours of June 11, 2016 in Orlando, Fla. His plan was to go to Pulse, a gay nightclub he frequented.

Negron-Almodovar, 27, went to the club alone that night to enjoy a show on Latin Night and didn’t notice anything suspicious until after midnight.

“I was actually paying my check when noise was heard and my reaction was that it was part of the music,” said NegronAlmodovar, who is from Puerto Rico but currently resides in Orlando. “But then it was evident that it wasn’t. People started screaming and throwing themselves at the floor, which I did too.”

The sounds Negron-Almodovar heard were gunshots.

“There was a brief pause in the shooting and I was close to a door that led to the patio,” he said. “So people that were near me started running out the door and I ran out too.”

While Negron-Almodovar survived that night, the mass shooting from a lone suspect left 49 dead and 53 injured.

Negron-Almodovar was in attendance at the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Creating Change Conference, a national traveling con-

ference dedicated to LGBT equality, at the Philadelphia Downtown Marriott last weekend. He was among several individuals on the “Community Strength: Healing in the Aftermath of the Pulse Tragedy” panel, which was part of the conference’s Latinx Institute.

“At first I didn’t really talk about it but when I started doing this work, I was way more vocal about it,” he said about sharing his story.

Prior to the Pulse shooting, NegronAlmodovar conducted voter canvassing with the Hispanic Federation, a Latino membership organization. Several weeks after the incident, his role expanded when the organization founded Proyecto Somos Orlando, a campaign dedicated to providing mental-health services, case management and other resources for Pulse victims and their families.

Through his involvement with Proyecto Somos Orlando, Negron-Almodovar speaks about his experiences as a survivor.

While at Creating Change, he said he learned from others during his first time in an intersectional space at the Latinx Institute.

“There were so many stories to share and to learn from. It was overwhelming but in a good sense. Everybody is talking about their struggles. You can learn from those struggles.”

One of the issues discussed in the institute

was about visibility in the Latinx community.

Negron-Almodovar said there are not many Latinx people in positions of power.

“The representation of Latinx [people] in elected positions [compared] to how big the population is, it’s nothing,” he said.

In addition to speaking out about his story, Negron-Almodovar said he is now more open about his LGBT identity. He indicated the rainbow bracelet he wore on his wrist with a chuckle.

“I was out but I was more conservative about how I expressed my relationship,” Negron-Almodovar said.

Prior to Pulse, he said, he didn’t show public displays of affection with his former boyfriend outside of gay spaces such as in bars and clubs.

“People like myself — gay and super-proud with their loved ones — died,” he said. “So why hide it? Now I’m even more proud about it. Those people [who died] are not able to enjoy what they were enjoying and I still can.

I might as well just be in your face about it.”

What happened at Pulse, he said, changed his perspective about being an LGBT person.

“Now I understand what it’s like to have pride.”

To learn more about Proyecto Somos Orlando or to donate, visit hispanicfederation. org/SomosOrlando. n

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Demonstrators call for inclusion at conference

By Jeremy Rodriguez jeremy@epgn.com Lourdes Hunter began a demonstration for more than 100 people on the fourth floor of the Philadelphia Downtown Marriott.

“We hear the beat of the drum,” the 40-yearold transgender woman said into a megaphone as another participant made music with a drum.

“The beat of the drum represents our ancestors.

The beat of the drum represents those who cannot be here today. Feel the beat of the drum.”

Blackout Creating Change was a demonstration for black trans lives at the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Creating Change Conference. The Jan. 20 event was calling for the Task Force to mandate portions of Creating Change ticket sales to go toward organizations led by and for trans women of color.

Additionally, the demonstrators were asking the Task Force to implement a $25 registration fee for students, low-income and disabled people while providing free registration for poor trans people of color. Several participants who identified as transgender people of color spoke about their experiences with the conference.

“This conference isn’t catered to us,” Hunter said to the demonstrators. “It’s catered to cis white gay affluent LGBT people.”

Maxwell T. Isaac, a black trans masculine person, organized the demonstration with Hunter.

“The space is inaccessible due to costs,” Isaac, 23, said. “If you are a student or someone who is low-income or a person with a disability, you’re facing other major financial costs and the cost is simply too high. People have to make rent. People have to travel.

People have other things on their plates and, instead, they’re worried about a registration cost to access a space. Also, when you are not centering the people who are most impacted by state-sanctioned violence, you are sending the message of violence.”

Isaac said the group was willing to work with other organizations to ensure the voices are being centered.

“We are looking forward to working collaboratively, not only with the Task Force but with any nonprofit that would like to benefit trans women of color and trans folks of color,” Isaac

said. “So, it’s a collaborative process. This is not the last step. Demonstrations are the beginning and then we continue the work. So we’re looking to see how we can engineer or help to create a conference that is more accessible, that is more representative and that feels safe.”

Nayimah Sanchez, a co-chair for Creating Change’s local host committee, observed the demonstration but did not participate. She suggested organizations from different states should send one or two members from their group to the conference. These members can then bring the information they learned back to their organizations. “[They’re] organizing people to go against the Task Force and the Task Force is affording us the opportunity to have this space,” Sanchez said. “I do not support it and I’m a trans woman of color. I am oppressed. I’m working three part-time jobs. And I’m still struggling to survive. The reality is that we need minimum wage to be increased. We also need access to education. We also need access to health care.

This is the place where we learn how to organize and mobilize on those particular issues, not to attack a particular organization that’s trying to bring us all together.”

In an email statement to PGN, Task Force Deputy Executive Director Russell Roybal pointed out the various services Creating Change offers.

“Our goal every year is to make the Creating Change Conference as accessible and affordable as possible,” Roybal said in the statement. “About half of attendees pay discounted registration rates. For example, we offer registration scholarships and limited income/ student registration rates. People under 18 and over 65 have their registration fees waived. In addition, the Task Force, in conjunction with our local host committee, provides community-housing options and operates six hospitality suites for trans and gender-nonconforming people, bi people, elders, people of color, youth and disabled people. The hospitality suites provide no-cost food and beverages.

The conference also offers ASL interpretation, Spanish translation and other accessibility services. Finally, we are constantly trying to improve the accessibility and cost of attending the conference.” n

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#CC17 Street Talk What kind of change do you want to see for next year's Creating Change Conference?

"More discussion on anti-blackness in the Latino community, as well as a longer session on creating queer POC spaces.”

Angel Hierro North Bergen, N.J.

“I think for the conference to take a radically intersectional approach to LGBTQ concerns. This conference in theory is super-radical, Miko Fedenko but in reality Brooklyn, N.Y. it’s very, very white. I think each individual workshop should make a specific effort to discuss black and of-color issues.”

“I think they’ve improved. I was here two years ago. I think they’ve done some major improvements.

Perhaps not having a cis straight man Pat Hurley as one of the Long Branch, N.J. major keynote speakers.”

“I think it would be really interesting to see more local activists.

I know they really try to bring in a lot of people from the local Lakeia Spady city, wherever Houston, Texas they’re at. I feel like I haven’t met too many of the Philadelphia activists so if they could do that, that’d be pretty cool.”

“I think the event organizers might need to look deep into their hearts and figure out how to bring speakers to the event Crystal Huff that are more Boston, Ma. representative of the change we want to see in the world, including not using ableist language while still prioritizing anti-racism efforts, the beauty of the queer family and making sure that our event is as inclusive as possible.”

“Definitely more spaces for queer femmes of color.”

Lavender New York City, N.Y.

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Locals turn out for Latinx Institute ‘Glee’ star on Trump,

By Jeremy Rodriguez jeremy@epgn.com Members of Philadelphia’s LGBT Latinx community joined 250 other Latinx individuals from around the country at the Philadelphia Downtown Marriott for a national traveling conference.

The National LGBTQ Task Force hosted the “Union Equals Fuerza: Latinx Institute” Jan. 19 at the organization’s Creating Change Conference. The Latinx Institute featured activities, icebreakers and workshops focusing on LGBT issues within their community.

Nikki López, executive director of GALAEI, applauded the overall energy of the people in Grand Ballroom I and J for the Latinx Institute.

“What I love most about the Latinx Institute is being able to connect and see this sort of electric thread that is connecting all of these Latinx activists and queer Latinx activists across the country in one space,” López said. “The Latinx Institute is a conglomerate of all of these connections that are built and really showcases how we take care of one another especially in spaces like this.”

Members of the Gran Varones, a video and photography project aimed at telling the stories of Latino and Afro-Latino gay, queer and trans men, facilitated a discussion on various topics of intersectionality. During one large group discussion, they provided a list to participants. The list included topics such as race, ethnicity, immigration status, sexual orientation and gender identity. They asked the participants to share which identity they feel safest and least safe.

López chose “race” as the identity where she feels least safe.

“I have always identified internally as Afro-Latinx but because I pass as white and I’m read as white, I always struggled with vocally and externally proclaiming that I’m AfroLatinx,” López said.

Alex Velez, 23, had similar feelings. Velez was one of the

participants selected for the Embajadores program, a group comprised of LGBT Latinx individuals from Philadelphia. As part of this program, Velez attended Creating Change with the the intention of using the lessons he learned within his local community.

“I was very hesitant to become involved with the Latinx Institute because throughout my life, I thought maybe I wasn’t Latino enough in regard to language, culture or styles,” Velez said. “However, I was actually doing the workshop for AfroLatinos and I saw the feedback from the crowd and other people felt the same way. Some thought they weren’t Latino enough. So that’s definitely something that I took back from it because I didn’t realize that this was a common feeling that many of us are feeling. We just never talk about it.”

Velez mentioned how there were workshops designated for specific identities with sections for Afro-Latinx and trans Latinx people, to name a couple.

“I definitely felt like there was something that all marginalized groups can take back [to their local community],” Velez said. “There was a little bit of everything here for everyone and that’s something I definitely appreciate.”

Elicia Gonzales, a community activist, said the space allowed people to be vulnerable and open up to each other.

“There were a lot of tears that were shed,” Gonzales said. “I don’t really feel like we see these kinds of exchanges in other spaces. It’s a beautiful combination, which allows people like me to really be safe in a short amount of time.”

Gonzales said she wants the Philadelphia community to take what they learned from Creating Change to “continue to support brown and black queer people in Philadelphia after this conference ends.”

“I think there’s an ethical obligation — that there is a call to action — that really demands that the white LGBT community can no longer be passive in fighting against anti-blackness, in fighting against anti-class issues,” Gonzales said. “We really are coming together and are really demanding that the white LGBT community steps up and takes charge.” n

People of color, allies engage on racial-justice issues

By Jeremy Rodriguez jeremy@epgn.com Sue Hyde, the director of the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Creating Change Conference, began a chant for thousands of conference attendees during the opening session for the Racial Justice Institute.

“What do we need?” Hyde asked the crowd.

“Racial justice,” the crowd chanted back.

“When do we need it?” Hyde responded into the microphone.

“Now,” the crowd shouted back.

The Racial Justice Institute began the 29th-annual five-day national traveling conference, which is being held at the Philadelphia Downtown Marriott.

During the opening session Wednesday, Hyde said she reflected on the meaning of the day as the country enters a new presidential administration.

“There is nothing more important than focusing ourselves, our minds, our bodies, our hearts, our souls, on the building of a more racially just LGBTQ movement and a more racially just society,” Hyde said.

After Hyde’s introduction, Task Force Deputy Executive Director Russell Roybal spoke about his experiences with the Racial Justice Institute. Roybal attended his first Creating Change Conference in 1995 in Detroit, Mich.

The first session he went to was called the People of Color Organizing Institute.

“It literally transformed my life, my thinking, my political analysis, and I will always be grateful and indebted not only to the faculty that day but to the participants that I got to meet,” Roybal said. “It made me want to do this work and to use a racial- and economic-justice lens through all of the work that I’ve done since then.”

Roybal talked about the importance of attendees using what they learned after the conference concludes.

“It is important that we continue this work throughout the weekend so that what we talk about today doesn’t only happen in this space but happens throughout the conference and that we take it home to our organizations in our home communities,” Roybal said.

Attendees broke into pairs to discuss experiences with conversations on race, times when they witnessed racist acts

and other topics on racism and intersectionality.

The Rev. Dr. Jamie Washington, the president and founder of the Washington Consulting Group, spoke to the audience about how the conversations would be facilitated for the day.

“We want to send a message that every voice and perspective matters,” Washington said. “This is not going to be a space where we are talking at you.

This is going to be a space where we are going to be engaged with each other.”

Additionally, Washington talked about honoring the work of others who did activism work in the past. He mentioned the legacy of Native American people and the “LGBTQAI folks who suffered, struggled and shared” for the conference attendees to be in this space.

“In order for us to fight for racial justice in 2017, we must recognize those who went before us,” Washington said.

“This didn’t start with us and it won’t end with us. Our work today is to look at ‘now what.’”

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trans visibility

By Jeremy Rodriguez jeremy@epgn.com When out performer and former “Glee” star Alex Newell came to Philadelphia, he used words like “amazing” and “brilliant” to describe the experience of being surrounded by other LGBT activists.

“It’s like the meeting of the minds,” Newell said. “We’ve all come together for a special purpose. It’s like that movie, ‘The Witches.’ But we get shit done. I love it.”

Newell was in town for the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Creating Change Conference, a traveling conference dedicated to LGBT equality. Newell performed five songs following a Jan. 22 awards closing ceremony at the conference. The songs included “Basically Over You (B.O.Y),” “Collect My Love,” “Nobody to Love,” “Stronger” and “This Ain’t Over.”

Newell performed during the same weekend as President Donald Trump’s inauguration. While many in the LGBT community have expressed fear over a Trump administration, Newell is waiting to see what happens.

“It just began,” Newell said. “That’s where I’m at. We can’t keep putting lipstick on a pig about it. So we’re just going to see and wait. Wait it out and once something goes wrong, we will make a noise.”

Newell began playing Wade “Unique” Adams, a transgender character on “Glee,” during the show’s third season and continued on the show until its sixth and final season in 2015. He acknowledged that his character provided trans visibility in the media.

“If we don’t recognize how time progresses and how time makes things happen,” said Newell, who also noted the efforts of transgender actress Laverne Cox and “Sense8” star Jamie Clayton, “[There] was a time in television where I wasn’t allowed to be on TV and when they did portray me, somebody else was playing me that didn’t know my struggle, didn’t know anything about it.”

Newell said “Glee” continues to shape conversations around the LGBT community because of one reason: music.

“Music brings everyone together. Music is therapeutic.

It’s cathartic. Whether you’re going through something completely different from someone else, it draws up a conversation. When I hear ‘Don’t Stop Believin’,’’ it’s something that I affiliate with me working so hard to obtain my goal. Other people might have a different thought about hearing that song but we still go back to the common ground of why we heard that song.”

Newell also noted the most rewarding aspect of playing his “Glee” character.

“When you talk to someone and you look them in the eye and [they] say you helped them through something, that’s the most gratifying thing in the world.” n

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Swathed in purple, Andrea Jenkins ascended the podium at Philadelphia City Hall Jan. 19 to recite her original work, “A Requiem for the Queers (or why we wear the color purple).”

Jenkins, a transgender candidate for Minneapolis City Council, built momentum with repetition.

“All y’all can go and get married now,” she said, “but I can’t even vote because my ID does not match up to the person standing in the ballot box. All y’all can go and get married now, but I still have to suffer a urinary tract infection because I can’t go to the bathroom in some public spaces.”

Jenkins talked about the need to uplift transgender leadership. She said that informed her choice to run for public office even though, if elected, it would mean giving up her dream job working on the Transgender Oral History Project at the University of Minnesota.

Jenkins was among several transgender people who spoke at one of the first fundraisers for the Trans United Fund. It coincided with Creating Change, the nation’s largest LGBT conference, which the National LGBTQ Task Force is hosting this year in Philadelphia.

Trans United Fund started last year in Washington, D.C., as the first national trans-focused political-advocacy group. It is part of Trans United, which works to build leadership capacity within the trans community.

Angelica Ross, co-chair of the fund, described its aim.

“It’s about bringing together all of the power within the trans community,” she said. “There were so many trans people who were launching their own organizations and a lot of us were doing a lot of hard work by ourselves alone in silos without funding, without resources.”

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Ross said Trans United Fund will serve as a place for trans leaders across the country to share talent, resources and funding. They can also learn how to advance each other’s leadership in elected or other roles.

Sharron Cooks, a longstanding activist in Philadelphia who became well known nationwide for serving as the only transgender woman of color in the delegation to the Democratic National Convention, also spoke. When she took to the podium, she led a round of applause for registered voters in the room. Cooks then emphasized the importance of community and relationship building.

“My success is not success unless all of you are succeeding as well,” she said, noting she was pleased to support all transgender people who “put themselves on the line to be visible.”

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Messages of hard work ahead, the need to end stigma and hope for the future rang clear at “Convergence: Forging the Path,” which delved deep into the advances and challenges facing the HIV/AIDS community.

The Creating Change program was sponsored

by Gilead and included a performance by Todrick Hall, remarks by Black AIDS Institute Executive Director Phill Wilson, Dr. Richard A. Elion of Whitman-Walker Health and a moving piece by storyteller and HIV activist Ken Williams.

Wilson recognized the advances that have developed in the fight to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic, noting that diagnostic tools today “allow us to see the epidemic in ways we never have before,” but pointed a finger at the challenges that lie ahead.

“Let’s not get it twisted: We have not ended the AIDS epidemic yet,” Wilson said, citing things like stigma, racism, homophobia and transphobia that have fueled the epidemic, but which have shifted over time. “We’ve come to a different place in time where we can talk about when the age of AIDS will be no more. Pills will never cure HIV. Science is not going to be the answer. The answer in some ways will be the collective will of people in this room.”

“Convergence” concluded with a State of the Movement from the National LGBTQ Task Force.

“I am so honored to stand here today with my

colleagues,” Task Force Executive Director Rea Carey said. “Like perhaps many of you, I woke up the day after the election with a lot of emotion and not actually for partisan reasons but for reasons much greater.”

Carey expressed the need for the LGBT community to resist the new administration and to not allow communities to be divided.

“We will be tested in our hope and in our resolve to stand together. There will be enormous pressure on all of us to be divided from each other, to turn against each other in the hopes that our energies won’t be directed towards the threats of this administration.”

“We have been here before,” she added.

“Whether fighting slavery, fascism, the genocide of indigenous people and culture, McCarthyism or the government’s complicity in hundreds and thousands of deaths by AIDS, we know how to organize and sustain each other. We are a resilient people. If there is ever a time to fight for something bigger than yourself, now is that time.”

Task Force Faith Work Director Naomi Christine Leapheart closed out the event by addressing the need for attention on intersectionality within the LGBT community.

“We aimed for marriage, convinced that maybe poverty and homelessness among LGBTQ youth and trans communities were just too far outside our actual grasp. We got excited when a few folks got starring roles on mainstream TV, we forgot that so many black and brown and native queer bodies remain invisible.” n

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whether they attended the conference in the past. The rooms included: people of color and multiracial first-timers; people of color and multiracial returners; white first-timers; and white returners.

During the session for white first-timers, participants shared experiences of realizing their white privilege and how they can be allies to people of color. Lois McCullen Parr, who co-facilitated the session, said that “people who identify as white are taught not to talk about race and in fact given negative messages that if you talk about whiteness, it’s a bad thing.” She said white individuals need to examine how they have been socialized, and in turn, step out of that socialization.

“That takes learning and introspection and paying attention to feelings and what’s in your body and being willing to be uncomfortable,” Parr said. “So we’re inviting people to embrace discomfort as a place for growth.”

In the afternoon, participants engaged in sessions where they could share experiences with individuals matching their identities. Workshops were in place for people of color; multi- and biracial people; white people; and trans and genderqueer people.

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Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Council forcing employers to ignore wage history goes too far

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ou have to give Councilman Bill Greenlee his props.

The guy is a tireless advocate for those struggling to climb the corporate ladder. Last month, we saw his attempt to back-door minimum wage increases and Cadillac health care programs through legislation moving away from the “lowest responsible bidder” standard. This month, he has taken the lead to defend a bill that would prohibit employers from asking job applicants their salary history; a bill designed to address historic wage discrimination against women.

The theory goes like this: Women historically confront wage discrimination as they enter the job market. This gender discrimination is perpetuated, as women move up the corporate ladder, each time the employer factors in their prior payment history. Remove the question and you will remove the discrimination.

This don’t ask-don’ttell bill passed City Council unanimously in December and was due to be signed into law (or become law without the mayor’s signature) at the end of January. That was until the giant atop the Comcast beanstalk awoke.

The Comcast argument, while no doubt driven by their desire to bargain with prospective employees from a position of strength, is couched in terms of the First Amendment. As reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer, “Shortly after the bill passed, Comcast lodged new complaints, in a call with the city’s solicitor and then in a 25-page legal memo. An attorney hired by the company argued that the legislation violates the First Amendment by limiting employers’ right

to ask applicants about their salary history. He urged Kenney to veto it or risk exposing the city to a lawsuit.

‘While my client and others in the business community who are considering a legal challenge do not want to appear confrontational in any way, it is important to note that a successful challenge … could make the city liable for a substantial award of attorney’s fees,’ attorney Miguel Estrada wrote on behalf of Comcast.”

Then Comcast’s grand poobah, David L. Cohen drops the antibusiness F-bomb: “It’s an accumulation of activities by the city … and a whole series of pieces of legislation that inject the government, or have the government intrude into common business practices that are just creating a reputation for Philadelphia as being antibusiness.”

But Greenlee, the Jack in our beanstalk metaphor, is no shrinking violet. He told reporters following his meeting with Cohen and Wonderling “we agreed to disagree.” That places the ball squarely in Mayor Kenney’s court who, in turn, did what most mayors do when they need to buy some time — send it to the lawyers.

Of course the Ivory Tower on 6th and Market went all-in behind Greenlee in an editorial, titled “Just Say No to Comcast,” calling on Mayor Kenney not to “cave to media giant Comcast’s dire yet unspecified warnings of litigation if he doesn’t weaken a pay equity bill.” Mayor Kenney, to his credit, is no shrinking violet either, telling the Inquirer, “Comcast doesn’t tell me to veto anything. I mean, I didn’t get elected by Comcast.”

A legal review of Comcast’s arguments has area law profes-

…gender discrimination is perpetuated, as women move up the corporate ladder, each time the employer factors in their prior payment history.

Philadelphia City Councilman Bill Greenlee.

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sors lining up on both sides. Temple calls Comcast’s move arrogant. Drexel’s Chapin Cimino calls it insidious, saying on phillyvoice.com, “any time the state tries to legislate against discrimination in ways that impact speech, it is Constitutionally suspect.”

Yet Rutgers-Camden law professor Stacy Hawkins, an employment law expert, tells PhillyMag that Comcast has a point and may point to a winning compromise: “Though the city tried to Continued on page 2 JAN. 22-29, 2017

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Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Continued from page 1 model the pay equity bill after a similar Massachusetts bill that was widely accepted, Hawkins argues that there’s a big difference between the two bills”.

Philadelphia calls for absolute prohibition to asking for wage information, Mass. doesn’t prohibit asking the question, but prohibits a company from basing its hiring decision on whether the prospective employee refused the request.

To some that may be a distinction without a difference, but it is the

very distinction that points to a political compromise and a way out for Kenney. While we find the goal of the Greenlee bill — to end gender discrimination in the workplace pay scale — is one worth fighting for without compromise. We fear that, given the winds blowing on the U.S. Supreme Court to identify broader corporate speech (see Citizens United), it is a compromise the mayor should take.

Upper Dublin Pulls Off Huge Upset Continued from page 12 he said. “We had Bailey Greenberg who knew how to get in the middle and handle the press. The court is so big. It is hard to trap on that court. I think we played a pretty flawless game with passing and spacing and tough defense.

Who knows what can happen this year? The league is loaded again.

There are so many good teams.

We just enjoy the great competition in this event and in our league and then again in the playoffs.”

McDonald took an hour off after his tough loss in the afternoon to scout some of his future Catholic League opponents.

One man who scouts for a living wasn’t scouting at all. Villanova coach Jay Wright and wife Patti stopped by in casual wear to watch their daughter play for Episcopal. The Churchmen dropped its game, but Wright enjoyed it. “A very nice event. Happy for the girls to play on a nice college floor with a lot of fans,” he said.

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for the Indiana Fever and is arguably the best women’s jump shooter in the country. She played in five of these events as a star for Germantown Academy and loves still being involved today. “For my name to be attached and to give out MVP awards to all the girls is a great thrill. I played in these games and they were always fun and challenging. The spirit and enthusiasm around the event is awesome. I love to give back. I’m one of three WNBA players to make it from the Playby-Play Classics, so I’m so happy and proud to be here. I hope we see a new wave of girls competing at the Division I level and have great careers. It sure was fun to watch them all play.”

Lucas was a good sport, too.

Even though her old team Germantown Academy, where she is an assistant coach, lost to Perkiomen Valley, she still came to center court to present the Maggie Lucas shirts to the winners.

Scouting and Coding at Cobbs Creek New partnership for environmental center and Boy Scouts opens new paths

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ne might not naturally put Scouting, environmental education and coding together, but the Cradle of Liberty Council – Boy Scouts of America have teamed with the Cobbs Creek Community Education Environmental Center (CCCEEC) for that, and other enriching offerings.

On Saturday, Jan. 14, a free two-day lesson in the area of Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) kicked off the partnership. The goal of the Southwest Philadelphia environmental center and the Wayne, Pa. based Scouting program is to create a Scouting hub in Philadelphia.

“It’s a perfect combination,” Daniel Templar, CEO of Liberty Council, said of the partnership.

“The CCCEEC offers a beautiful green space for indoor and outdoor learning, and we offer a program that provides STEM education, outdoor skills, community service projects and more to over 18,000 youth in the Greater Philadelphia region.”

“We are always looking for great partners like the CCCEEC to help us positively impact more families through Scouting,” he said.

There are currently about 3,000 Scouts in the city of Philadelphia. The Liberty Council is seeking to engage even more youths by creating partnerships with urban community and recreational centers.

For the kick-off weekend at Cobbs Creek earlier this month, about 40 youths — both Scouts and nonScouts — filed into the center at 700 Cobbs Creek Parkway on a Sunday morning for the second day of the lesson. One day earlier, they had learned about apps (mobile applications) and how they’re developed. On this day they would make their own.

Nearly as excited as the students was Alicia Burbage, executive director of the CCCEEC. “Since 1991, our goal has been to give the Philadelphia community a place to explore the sciences through hands on activities, research, training and more,” she

Kevin McLemore of Maple Glenn, Troop 542 and the Boy Scouts District STEM Committee helps Antoine Dantzler of Troop 133 program his app. Photo by Sarah J. Glover.

said. “Our new partnership with the Liberty Council will enable us to get young people in the Southwest Philadelphia community and beyond excited about science, technology and the outdoors.”

The developing of STEM as a nationally recognized curriculum grew out of studies showing that while the U.S. had historically been international leaders in these fields, fewer American students were showing interest in them, and teaching expertise around it was growing increasingly inadequate.

So, the Obama administration made STEM an educational priority for his administration and in 2009 launched an “Educate to Innovate” campaign.

While the Scouting first class at the Environmental Center covered STEM, other topics will be tackled at classes to be held every third Saturday of the month by the Scouts.

“It’s a very cool program,” said Templar following the weekend kick-off. “And I am so proud of our Scouts for the work they did this weekend.

And I’m so excited about this new partnership that we have between the Scouts and Cobbs Creek. It’s such a wonderful facility in a neighborhood that really needs Scouting.”

JAN. 22-29, 2017

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JEWELL WILLIAMS Sheriff on Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at

First District Plaza, 3801 Market Street, at 9:00 AM. (EST) Conditions of Sheriff’s Sale for JUDICIAL/FORECLOSURE SALE Ten percent of the highest bid for each property auctioned off shall be deposited in certified check, attorney’s check or money order with the Sheriff by each bidder when his bid is registered, provided that in no case shall less than Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00) be deposited, otherwise upon failure or refusal to make such deposit, the bidder shall lose all benefit of his bid and the property may be offered again and sold unless a second bid has been registered, then, the second highest bidder will take the property at the highest bid price.

Additionally, where there is active bidding, the highest bidder, and the second highest bidder, if any must post the entire amount of the cost of the distribution policy for the property at the time of sale by certified check, attorney’s check or money order with the Sheriff. The Sheriff reserves the right to reject any certified check, attorney’s check or money order that on its face has an expired use date and is presented for payment of the deposit.

The balance of the purchase money must be deposited in certified check, attorney’s check or money order together with a Deed poll for execution by the highest bidder to the Sheriff at his office within 30 days from the time of the sale. An extension of time for an additional 30 days may be granted at the discretion of the Sheriff upon receipt of written request from the buyer requesting the same, except when a second bidder has been duly registered. Also, if the first bidder does not complete settlement with the Sheriff within the thirty (30) day time limit and a second bid was registered at the sale, the second bidder shall be granted the same thirty (30) day time limit to make settlement with the Sheriff on his second bid. Thereafter, the Sheriff shall be at liberty to return the writ to court. A second bid must be registered on any property immediately after it is sold. The second bidder must present the same amount of deposit that the highest bidder delivers to the Sheriff at the sale. An extension of time under no circumstances will be granted or honored by the Sheriff whenever a second bid is registered on a property at the sale.

The first bid or opening bid on each property shall be set by the City of Philadelphia. In no event will the successful bidder be allowed to settle on the property unless all the Sheriff’s costs are paid notwithstanding the final bid.

The deposit by any bidder who fails to comply with the above conditions of sale shall be forfeited and the funds will be applied to the

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Sheriff’s cost, then to any municipal claims that the City of Philadelphia has on the property. Finally, if a balance still remains, a Sheriff’s Distribution Policy will be ordered and the money will be distributed accordingly.

No personal checks, drafts or promises to pay will be accepted in lieu of certified checks, attorney’s checks or money orders made payable to the Sheriff of Philadelphia County.

The Sheriff reserves the right to grant further extensions of time to settle and further reserves the right to refuse bids from bidders who have failed to enter deposits on their bids, failed to make settlement, or make fraudulent bids, or any other behavior which causes disruption of the Sheriff Sale. Said bidders shall be so refused for the sale in which said behavior occurred and for said further period of time as the Sheriff in his discretion shall determine.

The Sheriff will not acknowledge a deed poll to any individual or entity using an unregistered fictitious name and may, at his discretion, require proof of identity of the purchaser or the registration of fictitious names. The bid of an unregistered fictitious name shall be forfeited as if the bidder failed to meet the terms of sale.

All bidders are advised to remain at the sale until after the last property is sold. The Sheriff reserves the right to re-sell any property at any time before the end of the sale, upon the successful bidders’ failure to tender the required deposit. The Sheriff reserves the right to postpone or stay the sale of any property in which the attorney on the writ has not appeared and is not present at the sale.

Prospective purchasers are directed to the Web site of the Philadelphia Bureau of Revision of Taxes, (BRT) brtweb.phila. gov for a fuller description of the properties listed. Properties can be looked up by the BRT number – which should be cross checked with the address. Prospective purchasers are also directed to the Room 154 City Hall, 215-6861483 and to its website philadox. phila.gov and to its website at http://philadox.phila.gov where they can view the deed to each individual property and find the boundaries of the property.

PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DETERMINING THE NATURE, LOCATION, CONDITION AND BOUNDARIES OF THE PROPERTIES THEY SEEK TO PURCHASE. The BRT # refers to a unique number assigned by the City Bureau of Revision of Taxes to each property in the City for the purpose of assessing it for taxes. This number can be used to obtain descriptive information about the property from the BRT website. Effective Date: July 7, 2006 NOTICE OF SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION The Sheriff will file in his office, The Land Title Building, 100 South Broad Street, 5th Floor, a

Schedule of Distribution Thirty (30) Days from the date of the sale of Real Estate. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedule unless exceptions are filed thereto within ten (10) days thereafter.

The name first appearing in each notice is that of the defendant in the writ whose property is being sold. All Writs are Writs of Executions.

The letters C.P., Court of Common Pleas; O.C., Orphans’ Court; Q.S., Court of Quarter Sessions; C.C., County Court - indicate the Court out of which the writ of execution issues under which the sale is made: S. 1941. 223. means September Term, 1941. 223, the term and number of the docket entry; the figures following show the amount of debt; and the name following is that of the attorney issuing the writ.

Attention is called to the provisions of Act No.104, approved July 27, 1955, which requires owners of properties which are used, designed or intended to be used by three or more families, or of commercial establishments which contain one or more dwelling units, to deliver to the buyers of such properties a use registration permit at the time of settlement, under certain terms and conditions. Sheriff Sales are not subject to provisions of the said Act and the Sheriff will, therefore, not deliver use registration permits in connection with any sales conducted by him.

Very truly yours, JEWELL WILLIAMS Sheriff City and County of Philadelphia

PROPERTY Shytia HowardSmith C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 03079 $96,210.83 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-304 6660 Erdrick St 19135-2602 55th wd. 1088 Sq Ft OPA#552265700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY George M. Bradley C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01164 $100,005.64 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-305 2956 N 24th St 19132 38th wd.

1140 Sq Ft OPA#381005500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Nikole Fitzpatrick C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 04167 $94,952.49 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-306 5845 Rodman St 19143-1943 3rd wd. (formerly the 46th wd.)

990 Sq Ft OPA#032126500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Leroy J. Spence, Jr., in His Capacity as Heir of Clara Spence, Deceased; Maxcene Spence, in Her Capacity as Heir of Clara Spence, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Clara Spence, Deceased C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02236 $66,378.86 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-307 2261 N Van Pelt St 191324821 16th wd. 1526 Sq Ft OPA#162191100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jenel S. Odom C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02617 $98,492.20 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-308 542 Rising Sun Ave 19140 42nd wd. 1258 Sq Ft BRT#432231800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Isla Properties & Investments, LLC c/o Nelson Cuello, Managing Member Isla Properties and Investments, LLC C.P. November Term, 2010 No. 03304 $192,765.33 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1702-309 6215 Palethorp St a/k/a 6215 N Palethorp St 19120-1514 61st wd. 896 Sq Ft OPA#611040400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Dhafir Gilbert, in His Capacity as Heir of Anthony Johnson, Deceased; Maya Johnson, in Her Capacity as Heir of Anthony Johnson, Deceased; Courtney Gaskins a/k/a Courtney Bender, in Her Capacity as Heir of Stephanie Johnson, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Stephanie Johnson, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Anthony Johnson, Deceased C.P. May Term, 2012 No. 02918 $78,874.83 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-310 2618 S 65th St 19142-2813 40th

wd. 1236 Sq Ft OPA#406002700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Debrah Sterling C.P. November Term, 2010 No. 00722 $68,916.99 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-311 6138 Morton St 19144 59th wd.

2133 Sq Ft BRT#592201100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Marquitta V. Woods a/k/a Marquitta Woods C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 02468 $113,096.44 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1702-312 411 Shurs Ln 19128-3502 21st wd. 974 Sq Ft BRT#212043200; BRT#091N13-0237 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Scott P. Burke C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 02083 $110,970.20 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1702-313 9277 Angus Pl 19114-3411 57th wd. 1404 Sq Ft OPA#572197646 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Claudia Pinto C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 00572 $135,162.46 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-314 3030 Livingston St 19134 25th wd. 718 Sq Ft OPA#251324800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Colleen F. Dodds, Administratrix of the Estate of Lawrence Fitzpatrick, Deceased Mortgagor and Last Real Owner C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 000949 $68,327.58 Lauren Berschler Karl, Esq. 1702-315 2234 S 70th St 19142-1138 40th wd. 1170 Sq Ft OPA#403213000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Terrence Williams a/k/a Terrence L. Williams C.P. August Term, 2016 No. 03323 $77,951.87 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-316 5641 N 10th St 19141 49th wd.

1544 Sq Ft OPA#492171500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Raemarie Coleman, in Her Capacity as Administratrix and Heir of the Estate of Raymond Blocker a/k/a Raymond P. Blocker; Clarice Blocker, in Her Capacity as Heir of the Estate of Raymond Blocker a/k/a Raymond P. Blocker; Raymond Blocker, Jr., in His Capacity as Heir of the Estate of Raymond Blocker a/k/a Raymond P. Blocker; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Raymond Blocker, Deceased C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 04544 $115,426.12 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-317 3616 Decatur St 191363011 64th wd. 1500 Sq Ft OPA#642291200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Peter P. Prete, Jr.; Lori Prete C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 02303 $121,266.68 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP

1702-318 5623 Gainor Rd 191311330 52nd wd. 1368 Sq Ft OPA#522108500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Pashen Solomon C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 01474 $95,575.12 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-319 313 W Albanus St 191203828 42nd wd. 942 Sq Ft OPA#422146400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Renata Martello; Jose J. Fagundes a/k/a Jose Fagundes C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 00014 $76,607.84 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-321 2629 Reed St 19146-3803 36th wd. 1295 Sq Ft OPA#362112400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Michael McLish, in His Capacity as Heir of Byron S. McLish, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Byron S. McLish, Deceased C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 00318 $33,249.13 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-322 3441 Ella St 19134-1659 7th wd.

1140 Sq Ft OPA#073079600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jesse Lee Pierson C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 00257 $42,791.43 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-323 12240 Rambler Rd 191541712 66th wd. 1224 Sq Ft OPA#663211100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Patrick Hayden; Julia L. Hayden C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 03948 $169,162.33 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-324 5751 Woodcrest Ave 191312224 52nd wd. 1708 Sq Ft OPA#522156300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Alexis Harden a/k/a Alexis Thomas, in Her Capacity as Heir of Ida Harden a/k/a Ida Mae Harden, Deceased; Alexandria Harden a/k/a Alexandria Thomas, in Her Capacity as Heir of Ida Harden a/k/a Ida Mae Harden, Deceased; Fred Harden, in His Capacity as Heir of Ida Harden a/k/a Ida Mae Harden, Deceased C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 04336 $26,996.03 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-325 7820 Michener Ave 19150-1317 50th wd. (formerly the 42nd wd.)

1328 Sq Ft OPA#501118700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Charan Chase C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 00269 $64,220.80 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-326 4943 D St 19120 42nd wd.

1271 Sq Ft BRT#421477700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Shirley Evans C.P. August Term, 2016 No. 02988 $64,700.37 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather

www.Officeof Philadelphia Sheriff.com SHERIFF’S SALE OF Tuesday, February 7, 2017 1702-301 1565 Beverly Rd 10th wd. 1593 Sq Ft BRT#102169100 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Charles A.J. Halpin, III, Esquire as Personal Representative of Daryl M. Earley a/k/a Daryl Marshall Earley C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 00708 $144,338.47 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1702-302 614 Wises Mill Rd 21st wd.

5495 Sq Ft BRT#214064200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Charles A.J. Halpin, III, Esquire, Personal Representative of the Estate of Constance S. Wells, Deceased C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 02716 $184,016.47 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1702-303 359 E Wister St 19144 12th wd.

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Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1702-327 7018 Walker St 55th wd.

Beginning Point: Situate on the Northwesterly side of Walker St beginning at a point 225 ft Northeastwardly from the Northeasterly side of Tyson St OPA#552319300 IMPROVEMENTS: S/D W/D GAR 2 STY MASONRY John G. Beatty C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 03584 $185,534.18 Daniel J. Capecci 1702-328 5063 Whitaker Ave 19124 23rd wd. 1568 Sq Ft BRT#233084400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Jean R. Cantave C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00261 $97,076.12 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1702-329 6019 N 3rd St 19120-1805 61st wd. 1118 Sq Ft OPA#612390800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ping Cao C.P. August Term, 2016 No. 03317 $74,759.93 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-330 12039 Sewell Rd 19116 35th wd.

7500 Sq Ft BRT#58-2-587800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING William E. Egenolf C.P. May Term, 2009 No. 03805 $155,566.17 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1702-331 4412 Unruh Ave 19135-2736 55th wd. (formerly the 41st wd.)

1344 Sq Ft OPA#552150600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kathleen M. Carels C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 00576 $109,017.38 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-332 6220 N 3rd St 19120 61st wd.

1410 Sq Ft OPA#611056800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Dawn S. Banks C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 01220 $149,116.26 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-333 7221 Charles St 19135 41st wd.

3376 Sq Ft OPA#412242400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Mitchell J. Silva and Gail S. Silva C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02814 $73,551.24 Richard M. Squire & Associates, LLC 1702-334 5860 Stockton Rd 191381902 59th wd. 1210 Sq Ft OPA#591221400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Leonard Campbell C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 00013 $91,922.45 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-335 6010 Cobbs Creek Pkwy 19143 3rd wd. 2215 Sq Ft OPA#033162700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kenise L. Alkhatib C.P. June Term, 2012 No. 00135 $91,255.96 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-336 5860 Woodcrest Ave 191312232 52nd wd. 1534 Sq Ft

OPA#522148000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Dennis Greene C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 02540 $131,921.68 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-337 7139 Ditman St 19135 41st wd. 2034 Sq Ft OPA#412365900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Susanna Rydberg and Gregory A. Rydberg a/k/a Gregory Rydberg C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 00573 $121,411.09 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-338 3153 S 18th St a/k/a 3153 18th St 19145 26th wd. 1424 Sq Ft OPA#262075800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Marc A. Dinoia as Administrator of the Estate of John Dinoia a/k/a John DiNoia, Deceased C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 00339 $58,359.98 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-339 1850 Georges Ln 19131 52nd wd. 1108 Sq Ft OPA#521354900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kirt T. Flowers as Administrator of the Estate of Ella Flowers, Deceased C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00876 $137,706.51 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-340 7223 Cottage St 19135 41st wd. 2973.30 Sq Ft OPA#412-2949-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Abdelaziz Mohamed C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 01068 $158,572.25 Richard M. Squire & Associates, LLC 1702-341 3679 Belgrade St 19134 45th wd. 1003 Sq Ft OPA#451330265 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Guy Helder C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 02482 $183,689.39 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-342 2305 Oakmont St 19152 56th wd. 3449 Sq Ft OPA#561380400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Richard O. Falcon a/k/a Richard Falcon C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 03458 $69,327.95 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-343 8103 Fayette St 19150 50th wd. 1616 Sq Ft OPA#501040600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Harold E. Purnell C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 03058 $150,808.90 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-344 4213 Adams Ave 19124 23rd wd. 1034 Sq Ft OPA#234022200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kireema Sprowal C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 03502 $86,132.10 KML Law Group, P.C.

1702-345 3432 Princeton Ave 19149 55th wd. 1760 Sq Ft OPA#551388400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Bruce A. Lewis and Wendy J. Lewis C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 01619 $92,928.64 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-346 4844 Unruh Ave 19135 41st wd. 1160 Sq Ft OPA#871562900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Alexander J. Zivkovic C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00640 $151,502.27 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-347 8623 Gilbert St 191502703 50th wd. 1211 Sq Ft OPA#502139400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sharyn B. Holloman a/k/a Sharyn L. Barrett, in Her Capacity as Executrix and Devisee of the Estate of Anna E. Gibson; Thea Johnson, in Her Capacity as Devisee of the Estate of the Estate of Anna E. Gibson; Earl Lewis, in His Capacity as Devisee of the Estate of Anna E. Gibson C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 01338 $100,134.44 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-348 4019 Stirling St 19135 55th wd. 1154 Sq Ft OPA#552052200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ashik Ahmed C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 04073 $147,680.99 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-349 220 Delmar St 191284501 21st wd. 1368 Sq Ft OPA#212303675 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Matthew T. Giannone C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 00355 $189,555.71 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-350 1541 Morris St 191451533 36th wd. 1923 Sq Ft OPA#365387100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lagracia H. Jones a/k/a Lagracia D. Jones C.P. April Term, 2007 No. 02722 $134,028.53 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-351 1213 W Airdrie St 191403706 43rd wd. 1664 Sq Ft OPA#432211200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ramona Poole C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 03500 $89,621.54 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-352 1204 Mount Vernon St 191233203 14th wd. 1998 Sq Ft OPA#141266500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Vernon Williams; Judith Williams C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 02237 $208,155.15 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP

1702-353 1827 Strahle St 191522322 56th wd. 1210 Sq Ft OPA#562167200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Riji P. Rajan a/k/a Riji Rajan; Sophy Rajan C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 00249 $151,503.65 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-354 3421-23 Amber St a/k/a 3423 Amber St 19134 45th wd. 1558 Sq Ft OPA#452230900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tiffany Escobar C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 00033 $92,374.15 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-355 1307 N 61st St 19151 34th wd.

1360 Sq Ft OPA#342239300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sarah N. Curry C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 02493 $96,214.95 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-356 5113 Tulip St 19124-2223 62nd wd. 1350 Sq Ft OPA#622463100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Heather Busk; James Busk C.P. September Term, 2016 No. 00221 $69,632.67 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-357 3322 N Uber St 19140-4810 11th wd. (formerly the 38th wd.)

1298 Sq Ft OPA#112277400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Esther Sandy Mickeals C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 02596 $93,800.14 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-358 1217 Overington St 191243136 23rd wd. 1216 Sq Ft OPA#234079900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jeffrey Tabarez C.P. June Term, 2012 No. 00562 $55,003.46 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-359 2746 Pierce St 19145 36th wd.

968 Sq Ft OPA#364261400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Shamyra Gunn C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 02494 $66,055.54 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-360 8129 Pine Rd 19111-1821 63rd wd. 1470 Sq Ft OPA#631033300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Maryann Davis a/k/a Mary Anne Davis C.P. August Term, 2016 No. 02339 $59,427.13 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-361 3109 Hartville St 19134 7th wd.

668 Sq Ft OPA#071550500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Antonio Molina and Margarita Vega C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 01878 $67,615.70 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-362 4233 Chippendale St a/k/a 4233 Chippendale Ave 19136 65th wd. 1146 Sq Ft OPA#651125000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Elizabeth McDonough and Dennis McDonough, Jr. C.P. April Term,

2016 No. 03172 $75,877.76 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-363 2718 W York St a/k/a 2718 York St 19132 28th wd. 992 Sq Ft OPA#281246500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY The Unknown Heirs of Willie Reed, Deceased; Andrew Reed, Solely in his Capacity as Heir of Willie Reed, Deceased; Joseph Reed, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Wilie Reed, Deceased C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 03551 $29,985.08 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-364 2064 Kingston St 19134 45th wd. 1068 Sq Ft OPA#452138800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Chrisoula Filosoglou C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 03488 $25,520.83 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-365 2033 S Salford St 19143 40th wd. 1282 Sq Ft OPA#401076400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Maggie Adams Davis C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 01816 $62,190.43 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-366 4115 Whiting Rd 191542806 66th wd. 1296 Sq Ft OPA#662595100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Harry Serad C.P. May Term, 2015 No. 02251 $224,173.36 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-367 554 W Clapier St 19144 13th wd. 1562 Sq Ft OPA#133061300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Nicole M. Bruce C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02185 $86,084.50 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-368 1106 W Master St 19122 14th wd. 1224 Sq Ft OPA#141461900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY The Unknown Heirs of John H. Artis, Jr., Deceased; John Artis, III, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of John H. Artis, Jr., Deceased; Timothy Artis, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of John H. Artis, Jr., Deceased C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 02859 $133,360.55 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-369 7624 Burholme Ave 19111-2411 63rd wd. (formerly 35th wd.)

1176 Sq Ft OPA#631009800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gail Kingman Jones C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 00159 $245,653.18 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-370 422 E Mechanic St a/k/a 422 Mechanic St 19144 59th wd.

1920 Sq Ft OPA#592022000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Rasheta Padgett C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 01888 $80,100.13 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-371 7447 Ruskin Rd 19151-2925 34th wd. 1152 Sq Ft OPA#343166500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Doreen I. Forde a/k/a Doreen Forde;

Stanley Forde C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 00709 $61,633.27 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-372 4423 McKinley St 191353216 55th wd. 1056 Sq Ft OPA#552034800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Michael E. Davis a/k/a Michael Davis C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 00359 $135,994.09 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-373 524 W Eleanor St a/k/a 524 Eleanor St 19120 49th wd.

1152 Sq Ft OPA#491104100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gloria M. Underwood C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 02794 $101,696.08 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-374 10811 Proctor Rd 19116 5th wd. 873 Sq Ft OPA#582546200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Christina M. Rushton and George M. Wood C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 02959 $206,068.06 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-375 1337 N 56th St 19131-4225 4th wd. 1236 Sq Ft OPA#041345900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sean D. Bryce, as Trustee for Margaret A. Smith C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 04329 $36,549.99 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-376 6315 N Norwood St 19138-2529 17th wd. 1138 Sq Ft OPA# 172475800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Marina Polyachenko C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 02385 $71,131.48 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-377 420 Wellesley Rd 19119 9th wd.

1158 Sq Ft OPA#092034600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Mark Ford, as Co-Administrator of the Estate of James F. Ford, Deceased; Michelle Glover, as Co-Administrator of the Estate of James F. Ford, Deceased C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 00280 $119,032.66 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-378 525 E Brinton St 19144 59th wd.

2951 Sq Ft OPA#592173000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY The Unknown Heirs of Brenda Douglas, Deceased; Samantha Douglas-Moore, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Brenda Douglas, Deceased; Tracey Douglas-McLeod, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Brenda Douglas, Deceased C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 02088 $199,859.86 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-379 2535 S Clarion St 39th wd.

Beginning Point: Situate on the E side of Clarion St at the distance of 246 ft Southward from the S side of Porter St OPA#394448400 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Giulio Apadula C.P.

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October Term, 2014 No. 01854 $165,570.67 Daniel J. Capecci 1702-380 587.5 Rosalie St a/k/a 587 1/2 Rosalie St 19120 35th wd.

1020 Sq Ft OPA#352040300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Robert H. Davenport and Keisha Davenport a/k/a Keisha M. Davenport C.P. July Term, 2016 No. 01717 $49,239.09 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-381 5537 Crowson St 19144 12th wd. 1200 Sq Ft OPA#122216100 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Marice Rogers C.P. August Term, 2016 No. 04066 $65,309.64 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-382 2922 S 62nd St 19142 40th wd.

1190 Sq Ft OPA#402114000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Qualita Moore C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 00717 $80,761.02 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-383 262 E Cheltenham Ave 191201012 61st wd. 1296 Sq Ft OPA#611473700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Aileen Tyson C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00090 $183,861.66 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-384 4430 Hurley St 19120 42nd wd. 1158 Sq Ft OPA#421432100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Cheryl Y. Witherspoon C.P. September Term, 2009 No. 03355 $37,317.80 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-385 6140 Charles St 19135 55th wd. 1876 Sq Ft OPA#552219500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Debralee Gurba and Peter W. Gurba a/k/a Peter J. Gurba C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 02944 $54,323.61 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-386 517 N 56th St 19131 4th wd.

1175 Sq Ft OPA#041211700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Marion L. Attaway and Robert L. Attaway a/k/a Robert L. Attaway, Sr C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 02313 $46,302.94 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-387 2243 N 5th St a/k/a 2243 5th St 19133 19th wd. 728 Sq Ft OPA#191298700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sukhwinder Singh C.P. August Term, 2016 No. 00862 $73,985.59 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-388 5818 Alter St 46th wd.

1024 Sq Ft BRT#033128400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right,

Title, or Interest From or Under Bertha Washington, Deceased C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02099 $68,658.34 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1702-389 1223 W Thompson St a/k/a 1223 Thompson St 19122 14th wd.

1736 Sq Ft OPA#141455800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Stacy Gray, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Romas G. Gray, Deceased C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 02481 $150,292.88 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-390 3227 Tyson Ave 19149 55th wd.

1739 Sq Ft OPA#551341200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sharon Schmidt a/k/a Sharon K. Schmidt C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 02459 $96,652.09 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-391 2455 N 33rd St 19132 28th wd. 961 Sq Ft OPA#282241200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Heather D. Busk; James D. Busk; Damian M. Ciarmella a/k/a Damian Ciarmella C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 01779 $71,065.25 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-392 539 E Cheltenham Ave 19120 55th wd. 1739 Sq Ft OPA#352006400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Manuel A. Almonte C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 02132 $127,151.60 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-393 1517 E Berks St 19125 18th wd. 865 Sq Ft OPA#181208300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Michael Joseph Devine and Carolyn A. Flynn C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 03490 $31,863.43 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-394 1457 N Redfield St 19151 34th wd. 1331 Sq Ft OPA#342164400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY William T. Winston a/k/a William Winston C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02805 $42,740.06 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-395 1367 Dyre St 19124 62nd wd.

1462 Sq Ft OPA#621008800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Camilla Brown C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 02127 $115,282.13 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-396 2934 W Allegheny Ave 19132 38th wd. BRT#381351000 Eugenia Turner C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 00903 $82,784.95 Emmanuel J. Argentieri, Esquire 1702-397 143 S 2nd St a/k/a 121-55 Walnut St, Unit 503 19106 5th wd.

1790 Sq Ft OPA#888035222 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Barbara Caplan and Stanley Caplan a/k/a Stanley H. Caplan C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 03326 $754,179.51 KML Law Group, P.C.

1702-398 8113 Crispin St 19136 64th wd.

1950 Sq Ft OPA#642023700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Christopher Rodriguez C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 01846 $166,046.62 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-399 4419 Aberdale Rd 65th wd.

6000 Sq Ft BRT#652110500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING James S. Freeland and Mary E. Sternberger-Freeland C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00425 $139,901.35 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1702-401 444 N 4th St Unit 519 19123 5th wd. 873 Sq Ft OPA#888093370 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Yifei Liu C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 03912 $202,783.97 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-402 9819 Bonner St 19115 58th wd.

2562 Sq Ft OPA#581470400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Atef Jelassi C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 01611 $184,617.64 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-403 8818 Fairfield St 57th wd.

3668 Sq Ft BRT#571168200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Anthony Rivera C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 01804 $171,178.21 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1702-404 1124 Brill St 19124-1117 62nd wd. 2000 Sq Ft BRT#621034700 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GAR 2 STY MASONRY Martha C. Gans a/k/a Martha C. Alston-Gans and Gregory K. Gans C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 02024 $121,166.13 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1702-405 114 Diamond St 18th wd.

1337 Sq Ft BRT#183211300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Miguel Santiago C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 00465 $118,892.10 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1702-406 1825 McClellan St 48th wd.

658 Sq Ft BRT#481015500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Robert Rose C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00427 $87,079.10 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1702-407 3878 Kipling Pl 66th wd.

2918 Sq Ft BRT#662288000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING David Cleary and Patricia Cleary C.P. October Term, 2007 No. 03220 $152,759.31 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1702-408 6328 Gillespie St 55th wd.

1381 Sq Ft BRT#552429800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Carla Cantiello and Len Gradel C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 00404 $95,294.58 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC

1702-409 2811 N 24th St 19132 11th wd.

1087 Sq Ft OPA#111441800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Linda Lee Solomon C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 03378 $22,838.42 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-410 4113 Spring Garden St 19104 6th wd. 1112 Sq Ft OPA#061037100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Drusilla Grice, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Almeta Grice, Deceased; Sharon (Azizah) Grice, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Almeta Grice, Deceased; Joyce Reid, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Almeta Grice, Deceased C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 03017 $44,686.28 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-411 110 E Mayland St a/k/a 110 Mayland St 19144 59th wd.

1934 Sq Ft OPA#592123100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kaleena Davis C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 01961 $104,135.65 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1702-412 9573 James St, Unit A 19114 65th wd. BRT#888651461 IMPROVEMENTS: RES CONDO 2 STY MAS㤱㤱 Jorge Fagundes C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 00452 $195,787.49 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1702-413 546 E Godfrey Ave 191202121 35th wd. 1193 Sq Ft BRT#351092300 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY Fritzner Narcisse C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 02402 $125,515.94 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1702-414 801-803 Hartel Ave 19111 63rd wd. 5438 Sq Ft BRT#631222400 IMPROVEMENTS: DET 2 STY MASONRY Patrick J. Kiely and Loretta Kiely C.P. May Term, 2015 No. 01907 $294,013.91 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1702-415 1930 Berkshire St 191244619 23rd wd. 1396 Sq Ft BRT#232032300 IMPROVEMENTS: SEMI/DET 2 STY MASONRY Jermaine Williams C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 01822 $61,645.17 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1702-416 2102 S 64th St a/k/a 2102 64th St 19142 40th wd. 1600 Sq Ft OPA#401175300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Cedric Rivers and Pamela Rivers C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 03367 $72,107.36 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-417 6615 N Uber St 19138 10th wd.

1183 Sq Ft OPA#102022000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Pamela L. Weldon C.P. June Term, 2012 No. 03822 $82,551.85 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1702-418 2960 McKinley St 19149 62nd

wd. 991 Sq Ft BRT#621251500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Gloria A. Hyduck a/k/a Gloria Ann Hyduck and Timothy J. Hyduck C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02977 $163,929.73 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1702-419 479 Devereaux Ave 19111 35th wd. 1220 Sq Ft OPA#353005100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Luis Rafael Martinez C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02967 $111,586.41 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-420 6926 Grosbeak Pl 19142 40th wd. 1615 Sq Ft BRT#406588500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Everly Shirer C.P. October Term, 2012 No. 02452 $96,984.41 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1702-421 10202 E Keswick Rd 19114 66th wd. 2043 Sq Ft OPA#661058800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Anthony Covello, Jr. C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 00974 $152,255.27 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-422 4670 Mulberry St 19124 23rd wd. 2042 Sq Ft OPA#232309800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Patricia A. Hill, as Administratrix CTA of the Estate of Robert Williams, Deceased C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02397 $77,860.85 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-423 4707 Frankford Ave 19124 23rd wd. 1574.28 Sq Ft BRT#871112250 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Indrawatie Parmesardian and Tariq Adham C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 02356 $108,282.24 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1702-424 4622 Rising Sun Ave 19140 42nd wd. 1117 Sq Ft BRT#422350500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE The Unknown Heirs, Devisees and Executors to the Estate of Ana Keller C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 00241 $41,914.29 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1702-425 1327 S 29th St 19146 36th wd.

1128 Sq Ft OPA#362169300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Darryl Gunther; Juanita Moment C.P. January Term, 2013 No. 03627 $81,256.02 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1702-426 916 Cambria St 19140 37th wd.

887 Sq Ft BRT#372376000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Linda Rivers and Charles A. Rivers a/k/a Charles Rivers C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 02711 $32,638.38 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1702-427 3426 Vaux St 19129 38th wd.

1280 Sq Ft BRT#382224900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Maria E. Crespo a/k/a Maria Crespo C.P.

April Term, 2016 No. 01208 $150,662.28 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1702-428 8020-26 Lowber St 19150 50th wd. 13687 Sq Ft (land area); 2880 Sq Ft (improvement area) BRT#502050800 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: DET W/D GAR 2.5 STY STONE William B. Saunders, Jr. C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 02151 $227,128.72 Keri P. Ebeck, Esquire 1702-429 3 N Christopher Columbus Blvd, Unit PL267 5th wd. 750 Sq Ft (no land area) OPA#888061334 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL CONDOMINIUM UNIT Logan Baughn C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 002432 $18,553.66 Elliot H. Berton, Esquire - Benjamin F. Dill, Esquire 1702-430 933 E Gorgas Ln 19150 50th wd.

BRT#502418900 Geraldine Dodd C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 02526 $251,792.51 Michael F.J. Romano, Esquire 1702-431 6741 N Smedley St 19126 50th wd. BRT#101036800 Franklin D. Washington and Deloris M. Washington C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 00193 $118,413.22 Michael F.J. Romano, Esquire 1702-432 68 E Penn St 19144 12th wd.

BRT#121135200 Kimberly T. Daniel and Lindsey J. JohnsonDaniel C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 01001 $257,397.27 Emmanuel J. Argentieri, Esquire 1702-433 4219 Stirling St 191353111 55th wd. 1272.39 Sq Ft BRT#552056700; BRT#144N20-174 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Linda Sheehan, as Administratrix of the Estate of Edward B. Sheehan a/k/a Edward B. Sheehan, Sr., Deceased C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 01089 $94,191.76 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1702-434 2829 Welsh Rd 19152 57th wd.

1152 Sq Ft OPA#571046600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Robert Reinsel C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 03174 $139,498.06 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-435 1800 68th Ave 19126-2626 10th wd. 1780 Sq Ft OPA#101252100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Mary L. Diggs C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02601 $127,225.54 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-436 4613 Vista St 19136-3723 41st wd. 1260 Sq Ft OPA#412214300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Galyna Yevdokimyva C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 03432 $108,564.38 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-437 1934 Elston St 19138-2703 10th

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wd. 892 Sq Ft OPA#101329200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Geneva Ransom C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 00629 $97,279.95 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-438 822 Brighton St 191114127 53rd wd. 1551 Sq Ft OPA#532245800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gina Frederique; Kevin Compton C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 04335 $157,839.77 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-439 605 Robbins St 19111-5713 35th wd. 1374 Sq Ft OPA#353030800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Cynthia Zamichieli C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 00944 $131,388.52 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-440 768 Harshaw St 191461820 30th wd. 872 Sq Ft OPA#301405400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Yolanda Human Sutton, in Her Capacity as Administratrix of the Estate of Fred Sutton; Fred Brandon Sutton, in His Capacity as Heir of the Estate of Fred Sutton; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Fred Sutton, Deceased C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 01684 $263,575.41 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-441 315 W Manheim St a/k/a 315 Manheim St 19144-4121 12th wd. 1056 Sq Ft OPA#123080400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Edie Coleman, in Her Capacity as Heir of James Coleman a/k/a James G. Coleman a/k/a James G. Coleman, III, Deceased; David Coleman, in His Capacity as Heir of James Coleman a/k/a James G. Coleman a/k/a James G. Coleman, III, Deceased;Unknown Heirs, Sucessors, Assigns and All Person, Firms or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under James Coleman a/k/a James G. Coleman a/k/a James G. Coleman, III, Deceased C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 04315 $139,342.66 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-442 2503 S Alden St 191436119 40th wd. 845 Sq Ft OPA#402019300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Barbara McBride, in Her Capacity as Executrix of the Estate of Robin Davenport a/k/a Robin R. Davenport; Sheria Jones, in Her Capacity as Devisee of the Estate of Robin Davenport a/k/a Robin R. Davenport; Nakisha Boone a/k/a Nakisha M. Boone, in Her Capacity as Devisee of the Estate of Robin Davenport a/k/a Robin R. Davenport C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 01841 $61,337.60 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP

1702-443 2419 79th Ave 19150-1413 50th wd. (formerly the 42nd wd.)

1532 Sq Ft OPA#501457500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Bruce Michael Bailey a/k/a Bruce Bailey, in His Capacity as Administrator and Heir of the Estate of Courtney A. Bailey a/k/a Courtney Bailey; Maurice Bailey, in His Capacity as Heir of the Estate of Courtney A. Bailey a/k/a Courtney Bailey; Shawn Bailey, in Her Capacity as Heir of the Estate of Courtney A. Bailey a/k/a Courtney Bailey; Gary Bailey, in His Capacity as Heir of the Estate of Courtney A. Bailey a/k/a Courtney Bailey; Paulette P. Bailey, in Her Capacity as Heir of the Estate of Courtney A. Bailey a/k/a Courtney Bailey; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Courtney A. Bailey, Deceased C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 01168 $90,449.70 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-444 2737 N Garnett St a/k/a 2737 N Garnet St 19132 11th wd.

990 Sq Ft OPA#111228000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Stacy Jackson a/k/a Stacy A. Jackson C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 01482 $11,493.42 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-445 6125 Gardenia St 191441016 59th wd. 1280 Sq Ft OPA#592222200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Charlie M. Spann, Deceased C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 02026 $71,538.63 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-446 6214 Shelbourne St 191115634 35th wd. 1138 Sq Ft OPA#353198100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Marcus Fulton C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 01254 $95,169.12 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-447 4928 Princeton Ave 191352029 41st wd. 1440 Sq Ft OPA#412052500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Joseph P. Dugan C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 02347 $74,806.38 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-448 2634 S Sartain St 19148-4416 OPA#394220800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Nicholas J. Barna a/k/a Nicholas Barna; Kelli M. Barna C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 00472 $171,589.44 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-449 248 E Haines St 191445701 59th wd. 1894 Sq Ft OPA#591155200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL

PROPERTY Donnell Copeland C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 00702 $56,505.61 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-450 3247 Tyson Ave 191492013 55th wd. 1196 Sq Ft OPA#551342200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Thomas G. Maida, Jr., in His Capacity as Heir of Thelma Maida a/k/a Thelma H. Maida, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Thelma Maida a/k/a Thelma H. Maida, Deceased C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 01666 $130,022.82 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-451 8437 Williams Ave 191501920 50th wd. (formerly the 42nd wd.) 1141 Sq Ft OPA#502275100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lisa Wicks C.P. May Term, 2012 No. 01444 $176,806.07 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-452 605 Edison Ave B a/k/a 605 Edison Ave: Unit 605B 191161259 58th wd. 1040 Sq Ft OPA#888581350 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY David Poli C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 00809 $130,854.77 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-453 2235 Brighton St 19149 54th wd. 1801 Sq Ft OPA#542102400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Angela Rongione; Michael Spingler C.P. May Term, 2011 No. 01335 $162,734.08 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1702-454 4715 Tampa St 19120 42nd wd.

1917 Sq Ft OPA#421583600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Luz Rivera C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00541 $66,345.41 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1702-455 4211 Tudor St 19136 41st wd.

1460 Sq Ft OPA#412138200 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Craig R. Hechler; Joanne K. Hechler C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 00929 $115,188.82 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1702-456 3329 N Mascher St 19140 7th wd. 1008 Sq Ft OPA#072052200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Francisco Santiago C.P. February Term, 2013 No. 03335 $45,901.90 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1702-457 4769 N 2nd St 19120 42nd wd.

840 Sq Ft OPA#422393000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Carmelo Matias a/k/a Carmello Matias;

Ana Rosa Colon a/k/a Anna Rosa Colon C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01992 $6,933.24 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1702-458 1574 McKinley St 19149 54th wd. 1152 Sq Ft OPA#54-1075900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Michael Ferebee; Cassandra Ferebee C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 02881 $126,468.25 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1702-459 5938 N 11th St 19141 49th wd.

6720 Sq Ft OPA#493076300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Marquita McCarter C.P. January Term, 2012 No. 00714 $160,806.59 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1702-460 7616 Frontenac St 19111 56th wd. 3348 Sq Ft OPA#561153800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Karen Shaw; Eric P. Hanhauser C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 00741 $130,149.18 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1702-461 321 S Camac St 19107 5th wd.

1120 Sq Ft OPA#053140500 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Clark M. McCutcheon C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 02820 $823,563.60 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1702-462 1312 Narragansett St 19138 59th wd. 1260 Sq Ft OPA#591144100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jonathan Scott C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 01799 $33,080.73 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1702-463 4457 N 20th St 19141 13th wd. BRT#132228000 IVN Communications, LLC C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00007 $58,708.87 Emmanuel J. Argentieri, Esquire 1702-464 4147 Gilham St 19135 55th wd. 975 Sq Ft BRT#552135800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Deborah Peirce a/k/a Deborah Pierce C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 01400 $83,470.51 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1702-465 2653 S 68th St 19142-2724 40th wd. 1112 Sq Ft BRT#406094200 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Angela Keene C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00863 $51,518.95 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1702-466 4301 Disston St 19135-1710 55th wd. 2580 Sq Ft BRT#552188200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Mariglen Spahiu C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 01109 $142,049.14 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC

1702-467 1018 Tyson Ave 19111-4415 53rd wd. 1507 Sq Ft BRT#532220400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Henry Ramos C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 02505 $144,508.14 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1702-468 4018 Magee St 19135-2523 55th wd. 2128 Sq Ft OPA#552137300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Fatmatta N. Kamara C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 00207 $135,456.64 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-469 1908 Penfield St 19138 10th wd. 1106 Sq Ft OPA#101373700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Mark Powell Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Estelle L. Powell, Deceased C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 00286 $152,834.44 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-470 146-150 W Queen Ln 19144 12th wd. 3415 Sq Ft OPA#123117210 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Michael F. Coates C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 001265 $218,963.88 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-471 1643 N 61st St 19151 34th wd.

1350 Sq Ft OPA#342246200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Trena T. Clarke, Co-Administratrix of the Estate of Patricia L. Clarke, Deceased; Tanya T. Brown, Co-Administratrix of the Estate of Patricia L. Clarke, Deceased C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 00189 $140,162.05 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-472 5839 Ludlow St 19139 60th wd.

1304 Sq Ft OPA#604146400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tammi N. Washington C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 4487 $75,705.16 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-473 6011 Angora Terr 19143 40th wd. 1024 Sq Ft BRT#03-4023800 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Robin Dickerson a/k/a Robin R. Dickerson C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 01398 $39,645.13 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1702-474 10162 Ferndale St 19116 58th wd. 7500 Sq Ft OPA#582473700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Oluyemisi Owolana C.P. August Term, 2016 No. 03996 $250,931.85 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-475 6737 N 17th St 19126 15th wd.

1240 Sq Ft BRT#101047000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Daryl McKeever, as Known Heir and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Ruth McKeever a/k/a Ruth D. McKeever; Estate of Ruth McKeever a/k/a Ruth D. McKeever; Paulette McKeever, as Known Heir of Ruth McKeever a/k/a Ruth D. McKeever; Unknown Heirs, Successors,

Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Ruth McKeever a/k/a Ruth D. McKeever C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 03498 $58,815.43 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1702-476 6023 Summer St 19139 34th wd.

828 Sq Ft BRT#34-1027300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Ruth C. Tindall C.P. September Term, 2016 No. 01481 $47,590.89 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1702-477 3429 Cresson St 19129 38th wd.

2000 Sq Ft OPA#383118000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Anthony Cancelliere a/k/a Anthony Cancelliere, Jr. C.P. September Term, 2016 No. 02807 $94,039.92 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1702-478 6707 N 11th St 19126 61st wd.

13600 Sq Ft BRT#61-127N20-56 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Michael A. Brown; Twannetta M. Brown C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02602 $220,415.59 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1702-479 3463 Princeton Ave 19149 55th wd. 1554 Sq Ft BRT#138N15-0410 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Glenn Menow, Known Heir of Glenn Menow a/k/a Glenn R. Menow a/k/a Glenn R. Menow, Sr.; Marian Menow, Known Heir of Glenn Menow a/k/a Glenn R. Menow a/k/a Glenn R. Menow, Sr.; Marian C. Menow, Individually and as a Known Heir of Glenn Menow a/k/a Glenn R. Menow a/k/a Glenn R. Menow, Sr.; Raymond Menow, Known Heir of Glenn Menow a/k/a Glenn R. Menow a/k/a Glenn R. Menow, Sr.; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Glenn Menow a/k/a Glenn R. Menow a/k/a Glenn R. Menow, Sr. C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 03903 $223,275.26 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1702-480 3023 W Dauphin St 19132 28th wd. 1360 Sq Ft BRT#282299900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Aaron Horton, as Known Heir of Edward Richardson and in His Capacity as Administrator of the Estate of Edward Richardson; Donald Richardson, Known Heir of Edward Richardson; The Estate of Edward Richardson c/o Aaron Horton, Administrator; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Edward Richardson, Last Record Owner C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 03164 $61,382.32 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1702-481 3933 Elsinore St 19124 33rd wd.

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Pike St; Front: 16’4” Depth: 57’6” OPA#332217900 Quetsy Rodriguez C.P. June Term, 2012 No. 02743 $57,763.92 Lois M. Vitti, Esquire 1702-482 1426 W Sparks St 19141 1330 Sq Ft BRT#17-1-2682-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Marciana J. Burress C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 02795 $92,374.18 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1702-483 3505 Aldine St 19136 64th wd.

ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1504 Sq Ft BRT#642118900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Laura A. Kelly and Joseph C. Kelly, Jr. C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 01722 $175,133.74 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-484 4721 Oakland St 19124 23rd wd.

SEMI/DET 3 STY MASONRY; 2380 Sq Ft BRT#234237700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Stanley A. Pelli, Executor of the Estate of Anna Krucylak C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 00479 $134,476.90 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-485 1726 Bainbridge St, Unit A 19146 30th wd. ROW W/GAR 2.5 STY MASONRY; 1526 Sq Ft BRT#301058527 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Daryl Lawton and Charlene Falcone a/k/a Charlene Falcon a/k/a Charlene M. Hartenstine C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 00759 $189,655.36 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-486 225 Delmar St 19128 21st wd.

S/D W/GAR 3 STY MASONRY; 2442 Sq Ft BRT#212296040 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Ronald P. Immesberger, Executor of the Estate of Jean Immesberger, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. June Term, 2011 No. 02097 $349,158.50 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-487 4430 Unruh Ave 19135 55th wd.

1496 Sq Ft OPA#871579180 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: S/D OFF/STR 2 STY MASONRY Aiman M. Elgazzar and Madeline Elgazzar C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 00498 $64,067.91 Scott M. Klein, Esq. 1702-488 1536 E Walnut Ln 19138 10th wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1188 Sq Ft BRT#102150100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Lenora Bullard C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 01687 $97,903.82 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-489 2609 S 11th St 19148 39th wd.

1120 Sq Ft OPA#394186000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Janie Frost C.P. December Term, 2012 No. 00307 $230,326.76 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC

1702-490 4631 Melrose St 19137 45th wd.

2000 Sq Ft OPA#453446900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Elizabeth M. Miller C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 03395 $135,409.38 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-491 1010 Race St 19107 5th wd.

695 Sq Ft OPA#88-8071680 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Serge Hychko C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 03941 $206,352.13 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1702-492 9570 State Rd 41B 19114 65th wd. 1056 Sq Ft OPA#888651247 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Eric J. Williams C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 03096 $128,545.23 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-493 1103 Faulkrod St a/k/a 1103 Foulkrod St 19124 23rd wd.

2113 Sq Ft OPA#234099100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Charles Smith and Michele Smith C.P. September Term, 2016 No. 01142 $110,312.65 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-494 2524 N 29th St 19132 28th wd.

1302 Sq Ft OPA#282009100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Yvette Johnson C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 01782 $71,747.85 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1702-495 6226 Larchwood Ave 19143 3rd wd. 1074 Sq Ft OPA#032102900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jessica St. John C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01203 $115,816.90 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-496 1436 N Vodges St a/k/a 1436 N Vogdes St 19131 4th wd. 932 Sq Ft OPA#041323800 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Milton V. Vaughan, Jr. (deceased); Deborah M. Vaughan a/k/a Deborah Valentine C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 01232 $65,943.20 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1702-497 1112 Kenwyn St 19124 23rd wd. 2750 Sq Ft OPA#234172200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY William Branch C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 02798 $167,903.77 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-498 909 Afton St 19111 63rd wd. (formerly part of the 56th wd.)

3529 Sq Ft BRT#631194700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Joseph N. Terrey C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 01105 $213,074.03 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1702-499 616 Burnham Rd 19119 22nd wd. 3140 Sq Ft OPA#223070500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lorraine

Mason and John W. Mason C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 00876 $596,303.99 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-500 5009 Ogden St 19139-1642 44th wd. 1100 Sq Ft BRT#442023000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Thomas E. Murphy C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 01022 $62,049.69 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1702-501 3657 Old York Rd 19140 43rd wd. 1688 Sq Ft OPA#432160100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Veronica Ward C.P. December Term, 2012 No. 02289 $150,947.97 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-502 2134 Unruh St 19149-2315 54th wd. 2300.1 Sq Ft BRT#54-1149700; PRCL#132 N 16-190 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Ilham Sghyar and Touria Elkaeid C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 02533 $177,313.01 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1702-503 5417 Gainor Rd 19131 3125 Sq Ft BRT#52-2-1060-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Terri Paulhill C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 01327 $196,878.81 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1702-504 8840 Norwood Ave 19118 9th wd. 20299 Sq Ft (land area); 5325 Sq Ft (improvement area) BRT#091218840 Matthew B. Studner; Wendy A. Studner C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 1460 $795,040.13 Walter Weir, Jr., Esquire; Susan Verbonitz, Esquire; Jennifer Hiller Nimeroff, Esquire; Weir & Partners, LLP 1702-505 604 Walnut Ln 21st wd. Beginning Point: At a point on the Northwesterly side of Walnut Ln (70 ft wide) measured N 62 degrees 42 minutes 14 seconds E along the said Northwesterly side of Walnut Ln OPA#213085815 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Karen M. Browne C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 01721 $398,200.86 Richard J. Nalbandian, III 1702-506 190 W Lehigh Ave 19133 19th wd. 1350 Sq Ft OPA#871102250 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: STR/OFFô㤱 3 STY MASONRY Lovell A. BronsonDavis, III C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 004142 $313,942.58 Jennifer D. Gould, Esq.; Stark & Stark, PC 1702-507 2228 W Indiana Ave 19132 11th wd. 1005 Sq Ft BRT#11-1071000 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Mary L. McBride a/k/a Mary Lee McBride C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 03905 $59,496.24 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1702-508 4921 Castor Ave 19124 23rd wd. 4531 Sq Ft BRT#234192500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Dorothy

A. Nazeley C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02042 $174,146.61 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1702-509 4426 Marple St 19136 65th wd.

1147 Sq Ft BRT#651094100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Stacey A. Anderson a/k/a Stacey Anne Anderson C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 00117 $123,582.69 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1702-510 321 S 46th St 19143 60th wd.

2100 Sq Ft BRT#461165800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Gordana Kostich C.P. June Term, 2008 No. 03959 $715,599.11 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1702-511 2244 S Hemberger St 19145 48th wd. BRT#482243100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Violet Garnett C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 00662 $105,643.91 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1702-512 2533 S Sheridan St 19148 39th wd. 900 Sq Ft BRT#393149000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Lidia Riccobene, Administratrix of the Estate of Rocco A. Maniscalco, Deceased; Nadine M. Riccobene, Administratrix of the Estate of Rocco A. Maniscalco, Deceased C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 00209 $107,754.23 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1702-513 354 W Duval St 19144 59th wd.

3971 Sq Ft BRT#593110900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Olivia K. Myers C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 03426 $187,758.26 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1702-514 8436 Temple Rd 19150 50th wd.

1620 Sq Ft BRT#501079600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Barbara Jones, Known Heir of Eunice Harmon a/k/a W. Eunice Harmon; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Eunice Harmon a/k/a W. Eunice Harmon C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 02214 $79,600.64 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1702-515 227 Sparks St 19120 61st wd.

1050 Sq Ft BRT#611263700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Mirielle Charles C.P. August Term, 2016 No. 04301 $77,926.64 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1702-516 4559 Oakmont St 19136 65th wd. 1136 Sq Ft BRT#651082700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Fengbo Zhang C.P. July Term, 2016 No. 00497 $74,133.09 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire

1702-517 5648 Belmar Terr 19143 51st wd.

992 Sq Ft BRT#51-4106200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Genine Case a/k/a Genine D. Case C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 02927 $57,680.57 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1702-519 2524 Marston St 19132 28th wd. 1260 Sq Ft OPA#281089700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Henry M. West, Administrator of the Estate of Henry Davis, Jr., Deceased C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 02304 $58,090.48 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-520 1611 Chelten Ave 19124 17th wd. 1224 Sq Ft BRT#171334500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Sylvia L. Cobb, Sylvia L. Lewis, Trustee a/k/a Sylvia L. Cobb, Trustee; Yvonne Lewis a/k/a Yvonne Pierce, Record Owner and Known Heir of Sylvia l.

Cobb, Sylvia L. Lewis, Trustee a/k/a Sylvia L. Cobb, Trustee C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 03120 $86,805.19 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1702-521 5607 N Park Ave a/k/a 5607 Park Ave 19141 49th wd. 2368 Sq Ft OPA#493225800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Broderick E. Jones C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 01614 $70,965.99 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-522 4845 N 15th St 19141 13th wd.

1259 Sq Ft BRT#132050200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Curtis Mickeals, Known Heir of Susan Emma Mickel; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Susan Emma Mickel C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 02056 $66,370.76 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1702-523 543 N Paxon St a/k/a 543 Paxon St 19131 44th wd. 729 Sq Ft OPA#442257100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Anderson Briggs Thomas, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Huie R. Hampton, Deceased; Carrie Lee Briggs, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Huie R. Hampton, Deceased; Ethel Parker, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Huie R. Hampton, Deceased; Franklin Briggs, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Huie R. Hampton, Deceased; Millie Frank, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Huie R. Hampton, Deceased; Willene Shannon, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Huie R. Hampton, Deceased; Elijah Briggs, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Huie R. Hampton, Deceased; The Unknown Heirs of Huie R. Hampton, Deceased; Loretta Fulton, Solely in Her Capacity

as Heir of Huie R. Hampton, Deceased C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 00806 $51,489.52 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-524 3945 K St 19124 33rd wd.

1134 Sq Ft OPA#332323000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Susana Pacheco C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 00004 $72,849.34 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-525 906 S 57th St 19143 46th wd.

1256 Sq Ft OPA#463252500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Deborah A. Rustin, Individually and in Her Capacity as Heir of Delores A. Innacone, Deceased; Donna Innacone, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Delores A. Innacone, Deceased C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 00684 $39,126.29 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-526 722 E Westmoreland St 19134 31st wd. 748 Sq Ft OPA#331095400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lonnie H. Spearman, Jr. C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 03008 $74,317.72 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-527 5103 Brown St 19139 44th wd.

1350 Sq Ft OPA#441278600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Shirl I. Williams C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 02816 $39,856.55 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-528 2316 N Hancock St a/k/a 2316 Hancock St 19133 19th wd.

843 Sq Ft OPA#191095500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gail Shamberger C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 00364 $64,078.31 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-529 5208-5210 Baltimore Ave 51st wd. OPA#882925226 (5208 Baltimore Ave); OPA#882925231 IMPROVEMENTS: TWO ONE STORY COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS Kingsley Wright C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 2751 $124,325.32 Wendell K. Grimes 1702-530 6061 Callowhill St 19151 34th wd. 2450 Sq Ft OPA#341049300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Stacey L. Taylor, As Administrator of the Estate of Quinntoyia K. Taylor, Deceased C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 04008 $33,140.21 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-531 1845 E Albert St 19125 31st wd. 748 Sq Ft OPA#314205800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Neha Mistry C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 00367 $53,446.91 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-532 4036 Lawndale St 19124 33rd wd. 896 Sq Ft OPA#332259200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY The Unknown Heirs of Alice A. Wittmer, Deceased C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 01590 $50,755.44 KML Law Group, P.C.

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1702-533 2070 E Allegheny Ave 19134-3824 25th wd. 1040 Sq Ft BRT#252308200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Annamaria Foglia C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 03451 $64,071.36 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1702-534 3452 Princeton Ave 191491622 55th wd. 1760 Sq Ft BRT#551389400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE John F. Fenningham C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 03576 $114,321.12 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1702-535 124 E Allegheny Ave 19134-2207 33rd wd. 1380 Sq Ft BRT#071-2989-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Maximo A. Marte C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01614 $68,902.58 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1702-536 561 Martin St 19128-1620 21st wd. 3152.04 Sq Ft BRT#213179400; PRCL#94 N 16-202 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Jennifer D. Powers, As Administratrix of the Estate of Duane I. Large, Deceased C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 00794 $170,442.98 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1702-537 5414 Vine St 19139 4th wd.

2875 Sq Ft BRT#04-1-0303-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Lottie Mae Segars C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 01371 $98,766.10 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1702-538 7143 Rutland St 19149 54th wd.

1130 Sq Ft OPA#542178600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jerome Sackor; Naomi C. Sackor C.P. December Term, 2012 No. 00134 $97,775.35 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1702-539 5917 Chancellor St 19139 3rd wd. APT 2-4 UNITS 2 STY MASON; 1832 Sq Ft BRT#031073300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Bianca R. White C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02626 $99,354.96 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-540 4548 Loring St 19136-4018 41st wd. 1072 Sq Ft OPA#412174200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Andrea M. Difazio a/k/a Andrea M. Defazio C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 03270 $99,574.60 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-541 2114 Shields St 19142 40th wd. 812 Sq Ft OPA#403039300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Christina Harris a/k/a Christina C. Bladen C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02806 $48,928.06 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-542 2632 S 66th St 19142-2702 40th wd. 1012 Sq Ft OPA#406020900

IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kimberly Mackason C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 01612 $66,532.43 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-543 5639 Malcolm St 191434633 51st wd. 1038 Sq Ft OPA#513170100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Keisha R. Paul a/k/a Keisha Paul C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 03951 $76,960.75 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-544 735 E Locust Ave a/k/a 735 Locust Ave 191441311 12th wd. 1150 Sq Ft OPA#122074000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Deothia Stuart C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 01164 $82,576.86 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-545 3428 N 22nd St 191404720 11th wd. 1608 Sq Ft OPA#112311300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Susan E. Holmes a/k/a Susan Holmes C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 00357 $84,524.95 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-546 6013 Walnut St 19139 3rd wd. 1710 Sq Ft OPA#03-10573-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kenneth J. Barnes and Sadie Perez C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 03677 $55,769.61 Kristine M. Anthou 1702-547 8030 Ditman St Unit 27E 19136 65th wd. 0 Square Feet (Condo) OPA#888650927 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Harry R. Kenny a/k/a H. Ryan Kenny C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 01118 $59,186.87 Joseph R. Loverdi, Esquire 1702-548 3712 N 19th St 58th wd. 2660 Sq Ft BRT#131278700 IMPROVEMENTS: MULTI UNIT RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Robin Witts C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 1375 $84,846.02 Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby, LLP; Sarah A. Elia, Esq. 1702-549 3285 Morrell Ave 19114 66th wd. 2005 Sq Ft OPA#661134100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Joseph F. Schiano, III; Leigh J. Schiano C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 00025 $199,582.65 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1702-550 2955 N 26th St 191321202 38th wd. 1280 Sq Ft OPA#381142800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Willie Morris a/k/a Willie T. Morris C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 01399 $35,332.47 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-551 503 S 55th St 19143 46th wd.

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IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Antoinette M. Edwards C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 03448 $55,636.65 Joseph R. Loverdi, Esquire 1702-552 1101 N 41st St 19104 6th wd.

1800 Sq Ft BRT#88-1-8220-00 IMPROVEMENTS: 5 UNIT APARTMENT BUILDING Alice Properties, LP C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 01412 $168,831.15 Janet L. Gold, Esquire 1702-553 3810 Mechanicsville Rd 19154 66th wd. 2196 Sq Ft OPA#663059475 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Edward A. Discount C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 04117 $120,913.02 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-554 439 Roselyn St 19120 61st wd.

1200 Sq Ft OPA#612184300 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY William L. McDonald and Terri L. McDonald C.P. August Term, 2016 No. 03995 $10,124.40 plus interest in the amount of $161.70 from 8/27/16 Samantha J. Koopman, Esquire 1702-555 5602 N Sydenham St 191412320 17th wd. 1446 Sq Ft OPA#172102700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Octavia Danielson C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 00576 $127,395.49 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-556 1619 Solly Ave 19152 (Land) 4185.46 Sq Ft; (improvements) 2240 Sq Ft BRT#562072700 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING; 2-4 UNITS, 2 STORY Elena Sklyar C.P. September Term, 2011 No. 1612 $49,760.34 Dana S. Plon, Esquire 1702-557 2340 S Franklin St 191483821 39th wd. 1000 Sq Ft OPA#393226700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Melinda Brown C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 01930 $69,420.61 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-558 5046 Franklin St a/k/a 5046 N Franklin St 19120 49th wd.

1053 Sq Ft OPA#491244900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Darcia West a/k/a Darcia E. West C.P. September Term, 2016 No. 01830 $71,961.13 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-559 1701 N 59th St 19151-3906 4th wd. 1408 Sq Ft OPA#043308500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ronald Brinson, Jr. C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 00407 $76,586.38 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-560 3850 Woodhaven Rd, Apt 505 19154-2751 88th wd. 1133 Sq Ft OPA#888660299 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL

PROPERTY Joyce D. Rogers C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 02752 $141,153.24 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-561 47 E Durham St 191191821 22nd wd. 1144 Sq Ft OPA#222160900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Alton Kenan C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 04074 $137,498.92 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-562 7537 Malvern Ave 191512815 34th wd. 1120 Sq Ft OPA#343171700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kenya A. Lawhorn a/k/a Kenya Lawhorn C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 03573 $55,213.74 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-563 312 Mifflin St 19148-1821 39th wd. 1100 Sq Ft OPA#392000800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lisa Ann Ciaston, Known Heir of Michael Burke, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Michael Burke, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. June Term, 2012 No. 03168 $64,259.89 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-564 1739 N 53rd St 19131-3602 52nd wd. 1132 Sq Ft OPA#521331500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Joseph Moore, in His Capacity as Heir of Clarissa Moore, Deceased; Melinda Moore, in Her Capacity as Heir of Clarissa Moore, Deceased; Fredricka Moore, in Her Capacity as Heir of Clarissa Moore, Deceased; James Moore, in His Capacity as Heir of Clarissa Moore, Deceased; Patricia Moore, in Her Capacity as Heir of Ronald Moore, Deceased; Katrina Floyd, in Her Capacity as Heir of Ronald Moore, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Clarissa Moore, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Ronald Moore, Deceased C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 00601 $77,986.20 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-565 5500 Warrington Ave 191434721 51st wd. 1256 Sq Ft OPA#514058400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Nathaniel Lark C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 02222 $125,289.33 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-566 7108 Castor Ave 53rd wd.

25’x105’8-5/8” OPA#871239250 IMPROVEMENTS: MASONRY OFFICE BUILDING Mohammad Amir Chughtai C.P. July Term, 2016 No. 01736 $180,924.45 Jay E. Kivitz, Esq.

1702-567 1603 W Cayuga St 191401825 13th wd. 1664 Sq Ft OPA#132344300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Frances Gould C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 04193 $54,151.20 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-568 845 N 5th St 19123-2118 5th wd. 1906 Sq Ft OPA#056232500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sherri Kae Calkins C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02665 $311,778.75 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-569 12002 Medford Rd 191541833 66th wd. 1360 Sq Ft OPA#663231900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Delores Parker, in Her Capacity as Administratrix Cta and Devisee of the Estate of James N. Dennis a/k/a James Dennis C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 02800 $79,062.10 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1702-570 419 S Perth St 19147 5th wd.

1418 Sq Ft OPA#053105100 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 3 STY MASONRY Michael Wiegand C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02038 $102,777.19 Scott M. Klein, Esq. 1702-571 1827 E Cambria St 19134 25th wd. 1575 Sq Ft OPA#252097800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jasmine Haskins C.P. August Term, 2016 No. 02520 $67,416.28 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-572 1533 S Opal St 19146 36th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 920 Sq Ft BRT#363224200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Uriah O. Stewart a/k/a Uriah Stewart and Charlene Smith-Stewart C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 04999 $55,036.76 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-573 3276 E Thompson St 19134 6th wd. 982 Sq Ft BRT#451243600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Kathy Miller; Stephen Taylor C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 02661 $106,562.20 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1702-574 1814 E Atlantic St 19134 45th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 740 Sq Ft BRT#452127200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Michael Kuders and Amanda Kuders C.P. July Term, 2016 No. 01565 $49,131.21 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-575 123 E Mayland St 19144 22nd wd. 1900 Sq Ft BRT#592130100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Bernice S. Ford C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 03953 $95,269.06 Udren Law Offices, P.C.

1702-576 1500 Widener Pl 19141 17th wd. S/D CONV APT 2 STY MASONRY; 1600 Sq Ft BRT#171178500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Olivia Myers C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 00791 $131,636.23 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-577 12415 Sweetbriar Rd 19154 66th wd. APT 2-4 UNITS 2 STY MASON; 1360 Sq Ft BRT#663171700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING George E. Finan, III C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 00401 $134,588.95 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-578 2543 S Camac St 19148 39th wd. 780 Sq Ft OPA#394339300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Charles D. Manni a/k/a Charles Manni C.P. September Term, 2016 No. 02427 $168,315.93 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-579 7027 Rutland St 19149 54th wd.

ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1106 Sq Ft BRT#542175200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Steven Weinberg a/k/a Steven J. Weinberg C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 05388 $166,320.02 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-580 5814 Race St 19139 4th wd.

1050 Sq Ft OPA#04-2-056890 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jonathan Moore, as Administrator of the Estate of Deseidra Faye Jefferson a/k/a Faye Jefferson, deceased C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01988 $75,975.35 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-581 5137 Spruce St 19139-4122 60th wd. APT 2-4 UNTS 2 STY MASONRY; 2400 Sq Ft BRT#602104800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Sabrina Thigpen and Julius W. Thigpen C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 03024 $249,857.15 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-582 1246 S Bucknell St 19146 36th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1212 Sq Ft BRT#361361200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Nicole Knight C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 00575 $114,628.49 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-583 3360 Kayford Circle 19114 66th wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MAS㤱 㤱; 1560 Sq Ft BRT#661114600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Lawrence Bradford Evans, Sr., Known Surviving Heir of Patricia Patkus; Patricia Ann Sullivan, Known Surviving Heir of Patricia Patkus; Unknown Surviving Heirs of Patricia Patkus C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 02881 $178,724.41 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-584 1060 Welsh Rd 19115 63rd wd.

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DET W/GAR 2 STY FRAME; 4476 Sq Ft BRT#632036402 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Robin Gamburg a/k/a Robin Simmens C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 00460 $539,900.73 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-585 5526 Matthews a/k/a Matthew St 19138 12th wd. 1056 Sq Ft OPA#122287900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Pansy L. Murray, Deceased; Charles Murray, Known Heir of Pansy L. Murray, Deceased C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 02380 $38,222.60 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-586 4555 Fernhill Rd 19144 13th wd.

1171 Sq Ft OPA#133125900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Vaughn Moore, as Administrator of the Estate of Sandra Moore, Deceased C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 00127 $84,247.90 KML Law Group, P.C. 1702-587 501 N 63rd St 19151 34th wd.

STR/OFFô㤱 3 STY MASONRY; 3660 Sq Ft BRT#871545590 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Larry McDonald C.P. September Term, 2016 No. 02134 $145,910.51 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-588 3689 N Hereford Ln 19114 66th wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MAS㤱 㤱; 1260 Sq Ft BRT#661258300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING James F. Smith, Jr. and Jennifer A. Duffy C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 00075 $150,623.51 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-589 3229 Memphis St 19134 45th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1071 Sq Ft BRT#451404500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Pennington 189 Management, LLC C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 01317 $93,438.26 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-590 3536 Kyle Rd 19154 66th wd.

ROW B/GAR 1 STY MASONRY; 850 Sq. ft. BRT#662352400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Edith Bebb C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 02657 $155,585.12 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-591 5033 Schuyler St 19144 13th wd. S/D W DET GAR 3 STY MASON; 2763 Sq Ft BRT#133158300 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Anthony Wall C.P. July Term, 2008 No. 02738 $167,156.68 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-592 5242 Walton Ave 19143 46th wd.

ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1380 Sq Ft BRT#462071900 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Vir-

ginia Whitfield a/k/a Virginia W. Caldwell C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02285 $212,913.76 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-593 610 Gates St 19128 21st wd.

DET W/B GAR 2 STY FRAME; 2080 Sq Ft BRT#213298800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Catherine M. Gallagher and Michael G. Gallagher a/k/a Michael F. Gallagher C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 00033 $166,735.66 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-594 117 S 55th St 19139 60th wd.

APT 2-4 UNITS 2 STY MASON; 2418 Sq Ft BRT#603163800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Antiwone M. Sanders C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 01423 $116,941.00 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-595 2940 McKinley St 19149 62nd wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1278 Sq Ft BRT#621250500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Malcolm Clark a/k/a Malcolm E. Clark C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 00459 $100,921.90 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-596 7657 Brookhaven Rd 19151 34th wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1336 Sq Ft BRT#343219500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Dwayne Dunham C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 00681 $166,713.19 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-597 139 W Albanus St 19120 42nd wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1200 Sq Ft BRT#422140100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Londa Edwards C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 03547 $78,643.68 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-598 7231 Oakland St 19149 54th wd.

ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1242 Sq Ft BRT#542398900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Theresa McClellan, Known Surviving Heir of Theresa M. Diodoro and Unknown Surviving Heirs of Theresa M. Diodoro C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 04992 $152,428.34 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-599 10931 Templeton Dr 191544235 66th wd. 1296 Sq Ft BRT#662149500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE William F. Roland C.P. March Term, 2012 No. 00207 $62,257.37 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1702-600 4124 Decatur St 19136 65th wd.

2475 Sq Ft BRT#651209100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Lisa Y. Gonzalez a/k/a Lisa Gonzalez C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02568 $141,310.05 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1702-601 4333 N 17th St 19140-1839 13th wd. 1196 Sq Ft BRT#132140300

IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Beatrice V. Martin and Denfield D. Martin C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 02363 $6,279.27 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1702-602 842 Anchor St 19124 35th wd.

1044 Sq Ft OPA#351266700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Luis J. Esteves and Alma C. Esteves C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 03259 $45,712.15 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-603 230 Higbee St 19111 35th wd.

1296 Sq Ft OPA#352151900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sharon Holliday and Ruben Feagins C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 001252 $122,944.75 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-604 605 E Vernon Rd 19119 22nd wd. 7463 Sq Ft OPA#222039600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Dereck Jones a/k/a Derrick Jones; Yvette M. Yancy C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 01390 $200,237.33 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1702-605 2344 W Sergeant St 19132 16th wd. 922 Sq Ft OPA#162308100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Unknown Heirs and/or Administrators of the Estate of Steven R. Dodson C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 03950 $30,277.60 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1702-606 3030 Princeton Ave 19149 55th wd. (formerly the 35th wd.)

Southwesterly side of Princeton Ave; 255ft 5 in Southeastwardly from the Southeasterly side of Battersby St; Front: 16’3” Depth: 106’6” OPA#551378152 Ugur Danis and Denise Danis C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 00716 $148,756.07 Lois M. Vitti, Esquire 1702-607 7354 Rugby St 19138 10th wd.

1266.4 Sq Ft BRT#102455300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Patrick Paraison and Zetta Paraison C.P. August Term, 2016 No. 01051 $87,366.91 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire; James French, Esquire 1702-608 3922 N Glendale St 191245510 33rd wd. 1050 Sq Ft BRT#332429000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Marilyn Vazquez C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 00199 $70,228.34 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1702-609 1112 S Ruby St 19143 51st wd. 960 Sq Ft OPA#511062200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Alvina E. Miller C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 03013 $57,025.97 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-610 5317 W Thompson St 19131 44th wd. 1552 Sq Ft OPA#442133000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-

TIAL PROPERTY Richard Blackmon C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 01615 $48,799.44 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-611 344 N Simpson St 191391024 34th wd. 1120 Sq Ft BRT#343105800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Robert Briddell C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 00414 $152,179.74 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1702-612 4126 Farmdale Rd 19154 66th wd. 3356 Sq Ft OPA#662602800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Marybeth Shaffer, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Gerard M. Shaffer, deceased C.P. March Term, 2010 No. 02508 $174,531.73 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-613 4957 Rorer St 19120 42nd wd.

1613 Sq Ft OPA#421540500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Nadine Nance C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 01475 $69,077.16 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-614 3017 Disston St 19149-1902 55th wd. 1801 Sq Ft BRT#551308100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Alicia Biener a/k/a Alicia M. Wendowski and Philip M. Biener C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 03510 $101,293.04 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1702-615 565 Jamestown St 19128 21st wd. 3209 Sq Ft OPA#213124110 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gerald Spearing and Lanore Spearing C.P. July Term, 2009 No. 02426 $50,123.98 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-616 275 W Sheldon St 19120-3318 42nd wd. On N side of Sheldon St; Front: 14’ Depth: 65’ OPA#422204400 IMPROVEMENTS: SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE Brian D. Dennis C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 03536 $69,146.72 Stephen M. Hladik, Esq. 1702-617 1144 E Phil Ellena St 19150 50th wd. 1616 Sq Ft OPA#502354600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Stafford Fearon, Individually and t/a Moonlight Groceries and Patricia Mundy a/k/a Patricia N. Mundy C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 01145 $135,746.96 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-618 1254 Magee Ave 19111-4942 25th wd. On Southwesterly side of Magee Ave; Front: 18’2” Depth: 70’ OPA#531185900 IMPROVEMENTS: SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE Hilda Mattos C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 01769 $97,300.35 Stephen M. Hladik, Esq. 1702-619 6230 N Mascher St 19120 61st wd. 1800 Sq Ft OPA#611025200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Richard K.

Ohliger C.P. June Term, 2012 No. 3076 $37,937.71 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-620 1522 Overington St 19124 23rd wd. 1697 Sq Ft OPA#232117500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Alla Kheyfets and Sergey Ostrovskii C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 001262 $78,342.32 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-621 4602 Oakland St 19124 23rd wd. 1683 Sq Ft OPA#234227300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Manuel Oyola, Jr. C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 01211 $47,683.84 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-622 7404 Briar Rd 19138 50th wd.

1768 Sq Ft OPA#501336400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Catherine Cain a/k/a Catherine L. Cain C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02629 $179,562.79 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-623 240 S 61st St 19139 3rd wd. On W side of 61st St; Front: 16’ Depth: 77’ OPA#031179100 IMPROVEMENTS: SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE Stacey Lipscomb C.P. October Term, 2016 No. 02862 $64,852.87 Stephen M. Hladik, Esq. 1702-624 4627 N Camac St 49th wd. On E side of Camac St; Front: 15’2” Depth: 80’ OPA#491471100 IMPROVEMENTS: SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE Sandra K. Muhsin a/k/a Sandra Khadijah Muhsin C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 01890 $10,631.05 Stephen M. Hladik, Esq. 1702-625 6307 Elmhurst St 19111 53rd wd. 1460 Sq Ft OPA#531219900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lorraine A. Sproul C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 03768 $157,383.58 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-626 9310 Milnor St 65th wd. On Northwesterly side of Milnor St; Front: 25’ Depth: 100’ OPA#652426310 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE Nancy Hunt C.P. August Term, 2016 No. 02119 $194,983.77 Stephen M. Hladik, Esq. 1702-627 5406 Woodcrest Ave 19131 52nd wd. 3750 Sq Ft OPA#52213770 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Vincent Diggs C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 03260 $201,816.23 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-628 856 E Chelten Ave 19138 12th wd. ROW 3 STY MASONRY; 2264 Sq Ft BRT#122118500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Kurt Everett Munroe, Known Surviving Heir of George E. Munroe, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Tony Javan Munroe, Known Surviving Heir of George E. Munroe, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Unknown Surviving

Heirs of George E. Munroe, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 00528 $72,345.11 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1702-629 4731 Rosehill St 19120 42nd wd.

1813 Sq Ft OPA#421345100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gerald A. Beaubrun a/k/a Gerald Antoine Beaubrun and Marie Abellard Beaubrun a/k/a Marie A. Beaubrun a/k/a Marie A. Abellard-Beaubrun C.P. July Term, 2016 No. 01889 $96,659.55 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1702-631 5219 N 16th St 19141 17th wd.

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By HughE Dillon Earlier this month, University City’s Dim Sum House celebrated its grand opening. Guests attending the party enjoyed a buffet of delicious food tastings of Shanghai and Cantonese dim sum. A traditional lion dance known to bring luck was performed to the delight of the diners. This is the second restaurant opened by Jane G’s owner, Jane Guo.

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Alex Scott’s Impact Resonates at 11th Annual Ball From one glass of lemonade to millions in contributions

By HughE Dillon Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation hosted its 11th Annual Lemon Ball on Saturday, Jan. 14 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, 1201 Market Street. Lemon yellow dresses, ties and accessories were the fashion statement of the night. An extensive silent auction and a vibrant live auction raised over $840,000 for pediatric cancer research.

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Upper Dublin Pulls Off Huge Upset Major talents and teams in girls basketball showcased at Play-by-Play Classic

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he 16th Annual Girls Scholastic Playby-Play Classic — also known as the 2nd Annual Maggie Lucas Classic — was held Jan. 15 at Philadelphia University. The tourney featured 17 games, 550 participating girls, a half-court buzzer for the ages, and showcased the top players and teams in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. The event also featured a few knockout upsets. Gwynedd Mercy Academy (8-4) stunned Garnet Valley (11-1), while Upper Dublin (10-4) ended the event with a 12-point win over previously undefeated Archbishop Ryan (14-1). Nicole Kaiser, an Upper Dublin junior, played a huge role with 18 points, six rebounds and four assists in one of the best performances of the entire day.

“It feels great to win a huge game like this. We knew we were the underdog,” Kaiser said. “They were undefeated and play in the tough Catholic League. A win like this gives us great confidence.

I think we will start to see the [PIAA AAAAAA] playoffs differently because of this. We have played a tough schedule and lost some games. We thought we could win [today], but to play like this and hold

a team like that to 29 points is something we will build on for the rest of the year. It was the biggest win of our season.”

Coaches from Penn, Villanova, Princeton, Immaculata, Sciences, Rider, St. Joseph’s and others were there to see what has become, unofficially, the biggest one-day high school girls showcase event in the country.

“It’s just so much fun,” said Kaiser. “You really get to watch all the teams and players you know from the summer and [AAU] and the season. We meet together for a one-day event. And you can really measure how you stack up. We watched Cardinal O’Hara, Ursuline Delaware, Archbishop Wood, Shipley, all the top teams are playing. It’s a great way for girls’ basketball to get noticed.”

Shipley (13-4) continued its winning ways with a convincing win over Penn Wood, one of the most improved teams in the area. Sophomore Lauren Ross scored 12 points for the Gators. “It’s a great experience playing in the girl’s event. We always enjoy it. I think that our players go really hard in the Maggie Lucas Classic. There are a lot of people there all day watching, fans we never see, coaches

we never see. It’s a good showcase for girls’ basketball.”

Archbishop Wood (8-5) was the best team in the area last year, after upsetting Neumann-Goretti in the Catholic League championship at the Palestra and winning a state AAA title. Wood lost to maybe the best foe of the day in Ursuline (Del.) in a two-point battle on Sunday, but coach Mike McDonald

wasn’t very concerned. “We still feel we have a very good team,” he said. “It was a great game. That is a solid team. Our effort was there.”

McDonald recalled how his team beat Neumann-Goretti last year in the biggest game of the season, which ended the Saints two-year winning streak. “I think that once we got up, they couldn’t press us,” Continued on page 2

VILLANOVA ADDS GILLESPIE The day before Coach Jay Wright’s appearance at the classic, he added a new recruit to the Saints lineup. Collin Gillespie, a 20-point-anight scorer for Archbishop Wood announced he had earned a scholarship to the reigning national champions. He had no other major Division I offers and is the surprise signing of the year so far. Villanova may be in the market for a point guard or a back-up point guard based on Phil Booth’s health and Jalen Brunson’s possible decision to go pro next year, so it seems like an ideal move for both parties.

LOWER MERION BOYS MAKING A COMEBACK It’s rare to see Lower Merion with a losing record but, after a 4-5 start, the Aces have won four straight. The team still trails Conestoga and Penncrest in the Central league standings, a league in which they have won 15 of the last 20 championships. “There’s some good teams this year in the league. It’s very balanced,” said coach Gregg Downer.

Wins over Upper Darby, Harriton, and Ridley have instilled confidence in the team. The Aces were to play Carlisle in the 8th Annual Kobe Bryant Classic, a 6-game showcase featuring three girls and three boys games on Jan 21. “There’s a lot of basketball left,” said Downer. “We have had other teams that started poorly and still made the state tourArchbishop Wood defends against Ursuline at the Maggie Lucas Classic. Photo by Sarah J. Glover.

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nament. We have a lot of young pieces to our puzzle who I think realize this and are getting better every day. I like where we are headed.”

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While the student did not require medical attention, he sustained bruising due to a pre-existing medical condition characterized by chronic pain, Leone said.

Campus Safety Services is currently investigating surveillance footage to determine the suspect’s identity.

Meanwhile, in a separate incident, police arrested Daejon Workman, a 25-yearold homeless man, for an attack on transgender woman Ryannah Quigley. According to a police statement, Workman approached Quigley and two friends Friday evening on the 1300 block of Filbert Street. Police said Workman shouted homophobic and transphobic slurs and struck the victim. Quigley captured the conclusion of the incident on Facebook Live.

The suspect fled the area on foot before officers observed a male wearing the same clothes as the suspect Sunday morning at the Frankford Terminal.

Quigley was attending at the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Creating Change Conference, which was near the location of the incident.

In an email statement to PGN, Task Force Deputy Executive Director Russell Roybal said the organization worked with the City of Philadelphia to make sure the perpetrator was brought to justice.

“We provided immediate help to the person who was the victim of this cowardly attack,” Roybal said. “We are in touch with her and understand that she is surrounded by a supportive community.

There is an epidemic of violence against trans and gender-nonconforming women of color across the nation right now. Every single leader in Pennsylvania and beyond must step up and do more to help end this national tragedy.”

According to court dockets, Workman has previous arrests for robbery, assault and possession of marijuana.

In this case, he is being charged with simple assault and recklessly endangering another person. He is scheduled for early bail review 9:30 a.m. Jan. 27 in Room 1103 and for a status hearing 10 a.m. Feb. 23 in Room 404 of the Criminal Justice Center, 1301 Filbert St. n

in the box of things that are easier to do and have a greater possible impact.

You don’t have to go it alone. I encourage people to start an “affinity group,” a cluster of two to eight people you already know and trust who are dedicated to supporting each other. Whether you all work on different efforts and come together to replenish at a weekly potluck dinner, or whether you decide to join a group and work together to make sure you can get to the meetings and events, you’ll have this base to come home to in the long struggle ahead.

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Feeling scared, moving forward I’ve been an HIV journalist and activist since the pre-antiretroviral era, and I’m a Jewish queer and trans survivor of abuse and gender violence. I would say it’s been a rollercoaster of fear and panic since the election — but mostly the downhill-plunge part.

I’m also a white, middle-class, HIV-negative U.S. citizen with tremendous privilege and a good job. I live in a relatively amazing bubble of robust solidarity and safety in a place (New York City) that has vowed to resist the Trump agenda of deportation, registries and divisiveness and the expected deep and sweeping funding cuts

and redistribution of public resources.

Pulling together #ActivistBasics isn’t just a way for me to feel useful. It’s the result of me going through the very process I’ve just recommended — looking at my skills, resources, realities and passions to determine what will help me connect with my past, calm my breath in the present and get ready to face the future.

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--American Library Association’s GLBT Round Table “And Then I Danced is a fascinating page-turner that prompted my tears, laughter, envy, and astonishment--but most of all left me feeling very proud of what our community has accomplished and grateful to Mark for sharing his intimate memoir.

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Local performers rally for ‘Vagina Monologues’ benefit show

By Larry Nichols larry@epgn.com V-Day, a global activist movement to stop violence against women and girls, is presenting a special benefit performance of Eve Ensler’s groundbreaking play “The Vagina Monologues” Feb. 3 at the William Way LGBT Community Center.

The show’s director, Kathy Pacheco, said the event will feature many local female performing artists from the burlesque and drag communities, including Asha Lo, Tootsie Von, Da Saint, Shakeera Collins, Khaki Capri, JJ Van Name, Tiel Batters Guarino and Aida BummCake, to name a few.

“I do performance in Philadelphia myself,” Pacheco noted. “I’m a bio drag queen under the name of Kitty Devereaux. So I know a lot of bio drag queens, burlesquers and belly dancers. I originally started by asking my friends in that community, which I do have a lot of them in the show. After that, I put out audition notices on Theater Philly and other websites welcoming anybody else who wanted to be a part of the show.”

Pacheco said it was important for her to have women from across the various social and artistic communities involved with this production.

“I’m very much involved in the LGBT community in Philadelphia,” she said.

“The women in the show are all very

strong women, feminists and activists.

They all do their own things besides the burlesque and being drag queens. The bio drag queens are very important to me because drag itself is so dominated by men normally. So I really wanted them incorporated into it because we fight so hard to get recognized and get approval from the community that I thought it was so important to have them involved in it in some way, shape or form. This show is strongly about empowering each other and encouraging each other. There is no community that I have personally been in besides my community in Philadelphia that has been more true to those themes of the show.”

“The Vagina Monologues” was origi-

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The show has always had an important message, but it’s even more timely with the ascent of a certain reality-TV star, who has a history of objectifying women, to the White House.

Last weekend, millions of women took to the streets in protest of his views and policies, and Pacheco said there is no better time for a show like this to be seen.

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House. His stance on women, his cabinet’s views and their constant attacks on Planned Parenthood, LGBTQ people, people of color and people of lower income, they only prompt other individuals of his like mind to feel that it’s OK to attack us.”

Pacheco added that she and fellow local performers immediately felt the shift in attitudes toward women and minorities after the recent election.

“I have several female-artist friends in Philadelphia that have their male counterparts or other male performing artists walk them to their garages after their shows because they themselves have been verbally attacked in Center City, and this started happening mostly after he was elected,” she said. “One of my performers in the show was actually physically attacked in front of an elevator in a garage by Franky Bradley’s. I was at the demonstration on Saturday and it was beautiful. There were so many people there representing not just women but everyone. It is most important now to get the word out and get this show done.”

Pacheco said there is a silver lining to the controversy surrounding the election as the issues now in the spotlight are attracting renewed interest in “The Vagina Monologues.”

“This show is for women about women,” she said. “I do have males coming in volunteering to set up. Me

being of a Hispanic culture, I wanted to especially include women of color. I have trans women in this show. I’m trying to include everybody. That broadens the spectrum of viewers coming to see it as well. I know a lot of people are hopefully going to be interested in it.”

The performance at the William Way Center will benefit the Philadelphiabased Women in Transition, one of the oldest women’s service organizations operating in the United States. The show will also feature resources about other women’s service groups.

“They basically offer crisis intervention, needs assessment and counseling to women who are victims of domestic violence, which often includes women who are battered by their same-sex partners,” Pacheco said about the beneficiary. “They give counseling to women who are addicted to drugs and alcohol as well as survivors of sexual or child abuse. Ninety percent of the proceeds are going to Women in Transition. Planned Parenthood will also be available on site with information about their services.” n V-Day Philadelphia presents “The Vagina Monologues” 7-9 p.m. Feb. 3 at the William Way LGBT Community Center, 1315 Spruce St. For more information or tickets, call 215732-2220 or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ the-vagina-monologues-philadelphia-tickets-29434424155 or https://www.facebook.com/ events/1352981628065823/. For more information about Women in Transition visit www.helpwomen.org/wp/.

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Comedic duo debuts web series in Philly

By Gary Kramer PGN Contributor Kate Berlant and out comedian John Early (“Search Party”) are coming to Underground Arts Feb. 6 to perform a giddy and fun show of songs and stand-up, as well as debut their new web series, “555” (which will be available Jan. 31 on Vimeo).

The performers have been working together for about five years and created the five-episode web series with director Andrew DeYoung. In a recent phone interview, Early and Berlant explained the genesis of “555.”

“We had worked with Andy [DeYoung] in the past, and when we got into a position of extreme fame [laughs] and could do this series, we made it,” Early said.

“We had the common link of Hollywood, so we elevated those themes in the shorts. We didn’t want to see navel-gazing millennials. We’re tired of the ‘This is my life and these are my friends’ web series. So we came up with some of our oldest ideas for short films. So I play a ruthless pop star lip-synching to Kate’s voice, or she plays a harried single mother in a John Cassavetes film, or we’re actors.

“It was liberating to do our fantasy characters,” he added. “Kate and I are very ‘song and dance vaudevillians,’ and when you do stand-up, you curate and manicure a persona and how you present yourself. We feel we have these other parts we wanted to show.”

Berlant added, “We just wanted to do these separate shorts. There was no plan for them to have an afterlife. We didn’t make them in any strategic way.”

As such, the episodes are individual vignettes, not recurring characters with story arcs. The various roles allowed Berlant to do improvisation, which is her strength as a comedic performer.

“Seventy-five percent of the dialogue in the shorts was largely improvised,” she said. “We knew the characters and what was going to happen. We had a shorthand for working together.

We could orbit around a certain idea and let it naturally unfold.”

The humor in “555” ranges from wordplay and sight gags to satire and some pretty dark stuff. When asked if they have concerns about making viewers uncomfortable, the pair, well, laughed it off.

“I don’t think we set out to make people uncomfortable,” Early said. “But when we do these moodier shorts, we dare each other to be more and more sincere. There’s a weird level of codependence. When I’m checking Kate out, it make us squirm to play that [flirtation] sincerely, but it is extremely funny to us, and that gets squirmy for people.”

Berlant concurred: “The sincerity element is not typically involved in comedy. Our shorts do not fit neatly into any category. We think they are

funny, and we aim to generate laughter. Some folks might enjoy them but not laugh out loud.”

In keeping with the awkward spirit of “555,” Early and Berlant were asked about an embarrassing story in their lives.

“I pooped in my pants when I was 24 on the street of New York,” Early offered readily. “It was not deliberate. It was 9:30 a.m. and I was on the way to work with a weak stomach and a transit nightmare.”

Berlant countered with her own story of woe.

“When I was kid, I got one line on ‘Lizzie

Theater & Arts Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater The legendary international dance company performs Feb. 3-4 at Merriam Theater, 250 S. Broad St.; 215-790-5800.

Andre Watt’s 60Year Legacy The Philadelphia Orchestra performs Feb. 2-4 at Kimmel’s Verizon Hall, 260 S. Broad St.; 215-790-5847.

Bob Marley The comedian performs Feb. 1-4 at Helium Comedy Club, 2031 Sansom St.; 215-496-9001.

McGuire’ and I thought, There goes my career!

I was linked up to a seedy child agent and I did an audition that went so poorly that they called my mom and said, ‘It’s over.’ I was humiliated, but I bounced back pretty quick.”

“I would argue that you haven’t bounced back,” Early sassed, illustrating the duo’s comic timing.

And the performers’ humor does provide a bit of a salve in this world, even if acting doesn’t quite address the harder issues of, say, climate change, as one character observes in “555.” But the series may perhaps create social change.

Early commented, “I’m not out there scrubbing oil out of duck feathers but I am on stage and I try to justify what I do. We all value the joy of diversions in hellish times.”

Berlant offered, “Art can save us on a small, emotional scale, but creative self-expression is probably not the thing that’s going to help the most vulnerable population under Trump. It’s going to involve work outside of what you’re used to.”

“But I do believe that you can, absolutely, through the people you put on camera — if you’re inclusive — influence culture, and hopefully that inspires people,” Early countered. “I don’t know that our series does that in any way.

Hopefully it can seduce an isolated child whose parents voted for Trump, and they can move to the city.”

“Yes!” Berlant echoed. “Representation is the most important thing to take into consideration making art, and that’s creating real impact.” n John Early and Kate Berlant’s “555” is presented by Vimeo at 9 p.m. Feb. 6 at Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St. For tickets or more information, visit http://www.undergroundarts. org/event/1401996-john-early-kate-berlant-555philadelphia/.

Color Me Bearded The Bearded Ladies turn the Philadelphia Museum of Art into a queer playground in honor of Barbra Streisand and the 50th anniversary of her landmark television special “Color Me Barbra” Jan. 27-Feb. 10, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-7638100.

Constellations The Wilma Theater turns the boymeets-girl story on its head as playwright Nick Payne launches it into the quantum multiverse through Feb. 5, 265 S. Broad St.; 215-5467824.

Having Our Say Philadelphia Theatre Company presents the story of 103-year-old Sadie Delany and 101-year-old Bessie Delany, who personally welcome us into their home to share an endearing, true story Jan. 27-Feb.

19 at Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad St.; 215-985-0420.

Hidden History Exposed Photography enthusiasts Tracy Buchholz and Jason Giordano present an exhibit highlighting friendship, photography and one very cold winter through Feb. 24 at William Way LGBT Community Center, 1315 Spruce St.; 215732-2220.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Part Two Hedgerow Theatre presents the second installation of Douglas Adams’ radio play through Jan. 29, 64 Rose Valley Road, Media; www. hedgerowtheatre. org. #IMomSoHard Performers Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley bring their comedic show about motherhood to town 8 p.m.

Jan. 27 at Keswick Theatre, 291 N. Keswick Ave.; 215572-7650.

Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling The comedian performs 8 p.m.

Jan. 28 at the Rrazz Room at the Prince, 1412 Chestnut St.; 267-239-2941.

Jay Pharoah The comedian and actor seen on “Saturday Night Live” performs Feb. 2-4 at The Punchline Philly, 33 E. Laurel St.; 215-606-6555.

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LIVE … FROM NEW YORK: Out comedian and “Saturday Night Live” writer Julio Torres comes to Philly to deliver some laughs 8:30 p.m. Jan. 29 at Good Good Comedy Theater, 215 N. 11th St. For more information or tickets, visit www. goodgoodcomedy.com/juliotorres.

Art presents an installation and video projection by the Mumbai-based artist of a historic letter by Mahatma Gandhi to Adolf Hitler written weeks before the start of World War II through March 5, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-7638100.

Korea Now: Contemporary Art Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition of contemporary Korean art across all media through Feb. 23, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-763-8100.

Last of the Red Hot Lovers Walnut Street Theatre presents Neil Simon’s classic comedy about a man trying to find love in the 1960s through Feb. 5, 825 Walnut St.; 215-574-3550.

Laughter on the 23rd Floor Walnut Street Theatre presents the Neil Simon play that gives the

audience a peek into the writer’s room of a hit 1950s television show through March 5, 825 Walnut St.; 215-574-3550.

Lunar New Year Celebration International House Philadelphia hosts its annual celebration with a tasting of Chinese cuisine from Sang Kee Noodle House, followed by a live show in the Ibrahim Theater featuring traditional Chinese music, dance and martial-arts performances by the Philadelphia Chinese Performing Arts Troupe, 7 p.m. Jan. 27, 3701 Chestnut St.; 215-387-2275.

Michael Eric Dyson The New York Times opinion writer, MSNBC political analyst and author of “Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America” hosts a reading 7:30 p.m. Feb. 1 at Central Library, 1901 Vine St.; 215567-4341.

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Lady Bunny to bring ‘raunchy romp’ through New Hope

By Gary Kramer PGN Contributor

SURELY YOU ‘JEST’: Legendary drag icon Lady Bunny brings her new show, “Trans-Jester!,” to New Hope for the very first time, performing 7:30 p.m. Jan. 28 at The Rrazz Room, 385 W. Bridge St. For more information or tickets, call 888-596-1027.

Romeo & Juliet Media Theatre presents the classic Shakespeare tragedy through Feb. 19, 104 E. State St., Media; 610-891-0100.

Todd Glass The comedian performs through Jan. 29 at Helium Comedy Club, 2031 Sansom St.; 215-496-9001.

The Vagina Monologues A benefit production of Eve Ensler’s play, 7 p.m. Feb. 3 at William Way LGBT Community Center, 1315 Spruce St.; 215732-2220.

Music Who’s Bad: The Ultimate

Michael Jackson Tribute The tribute band performs 8 p.m.

Jan. 28 at Keswick Theatre, 291 N. Keswick Ave.; 215572-7650.

PGMC Goes to the Main Line Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus performs 3 p.m.

Jan. 29 at St. Luke Lutheran Church, 203 N. Valley Forge Road, Devon; 610688-0122.

ZOSO: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin The rock band performs 8 p.m.

Feb. 2 at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St.; 215222-1400.

Disco Biscuits The Philadelphia jam band performs 8 p.m. Feb. 2-4 at The Fillmore Philadelphia, 29 E. Allen St.; 215-6253681.

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Nightlife This Town Ain’t Pig Enough for the Two of Us Pig Iron Theater presents an evening of topnotch cabaret performers headlined by the one and only Martha Graham Cracker 8 p.m. Jan. 27 at The Trocadero Theatre, 1003 Arch St.; 215922-6888.

Baked Alaska A night of “highlarity” featuring performances by drag stars Aurora Whorealis, Lili St. Queer and Zsa Zsa St. James 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Jan. 27 at Tabu, 200 S. 12th St.; 215-9649675.

Bev’s FOXY Bitchfest!

Bev and Josh Schonewolf present a drag show featuring Joslyn Fox from “RuPaul’s Drag Race” with other regional drag stars 9 p.m. Jan. 28 at Tabu, 200 S. 12th St.; 215964-9675.

Outta Town Howl’s Moving Castle The anime film is screened 2 p.m.

Jan. 28 at the Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610917-1228.

Lady Bunny The drag artist performs 7:30 p.m. Jan. 28 at The Rrazz Room, 385 W. Bridge St., New Hope; 888-5961027.

Mothership The Led Zeppelin tribute band performs 8 p.m.

Jan. 28, 500 N. Market St., Wilmington, Del.; 302-994-1400.

Arthur The comedy film is screened 2 p.m.

Jan. 29 at the Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610917-1228.

The Hunger The David Bowie vampire flick is screened 10 p.m. Feb. 3 at the Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610917-1228. n

The irrepressible Lady Bunny will perform her hit show “Trans-Jester!” one night only, Jan. 28, at the Rrazz Room at the Raven in New Hope. The act is a mix of cabaret and comedy — “a dirty, raunchy, twisted romp with songs,” the chanteuse said in a recent phone interview, that asks, “What can we still laugh at?”

Lady Bunny mocks political correctness in her act, and mentions how a common phrase like, “Hey, you guys!” has been deemed sexist because it ignores women.

“Trans-Jester” focuses on gender pronouns such as “zir,” “ze” and “hir,” in part because Lady Bunny isn’t sure she has met one, “and I’ve been out of the closet since I was born!” she deadpanned.

Explaining further, the performer said she was “at the laundromat — talk about glamour!” and heard about a law on the local Fox News in New York where “employees who have transitioned at work are protected in cases where Will became Wilma. You’ve been living as a woman for a decade, and your boss is repeatedly harassing you and calling you ‘Will’ or ‘he.’ Fox is trying to spin it with the employer in mind. The way Fox framed it hints at how another type of person is thinking about [our community] and these gender terms.”

“Trans is one of the last taboos, and I’m glad that people are waking up to it and learning about what it is,” she added. “I can’t stand that the wedge has been driven between the drag and trans community. If you treat everyone with respect, you don’t have to worry about the labels. But that’s not going to happen.”

Taking a beat, Lady Bunny remarked, “I’d rather talk gender politics than [Trump] politics. I don’t think people want to hear about the news in a cabaret with a drag queen. I know I don’t want to hear it. I want to laugh.”

And audiences will laugh, hard, at the show’s raunchy energy and outrageous comedy.

“I’m a salty old kook who isn’t afraid to express herself on topics and new terms,” she warned. “If you don’t like dirty and raunchy humor, don’t come. If you don’t want to be challenged, don’t come. It’s not a lecture, but I will provoke thoughts, such as, What am I doing here? What is that horrible outfit? and, I used to like her wigs … ” she laughed.

Lady Bunny credits her act to working

with a co-writer, Beryl Mandelbaum, a fictitious Jewish retiree from Boca Raton she met on Facebook.

“We developed a writing relationship and wrote the show together.

She’s a genius, and knows when to pull back and add humor — and that keeps it fresh.”

Over the course of her career, which has included Wigstock and song parodies, such as her explicit (and hilarious) rendition of Katy Perry’s “Firework,” Lady Bunny has seen queer culture go mainstream.

Just as she waxes her legs, she waxes nostalgic about the early days.

“I came up in the world of nightclubs and maybe I was drunk and young and foolish and happy. I was exposed to Frankie Knuckles and Louie Vega and the DJs in New York and Baltimore were incredible. You would never tell the DJ what stupid Top-40 song you wanted. You’d ask him what the incredible song is you don’t know. He took you on a journey. Now you have Taylor Swift and Kelly Clarkson remixes in clubs — and that’s tired! I love my rights, but you can keep your straight culture! We used to have better taste. Straight DJs would see what records were breaking in the gay scene. I liked the voices.

They didn’t have to be young, they just had to sound good. The yearning you hear in soul and gospel — Patti LaBelle, and the struggle for a better world — that never stops, but it might intensify now.”

Rather than get political again, Lady Bunny mentions a side project she has coming out this month, an original dance track called “(For You) I’ll Wait.”

“It’s not comedy or parody — it’s meant to sound good, and make you dance and shake your ass, and feel good,” she said.

“I don’t think people are aware that I write music,” she added.

What Lady Bunny is of course known for is her wigs, her fabulous frocks and her inimitable style. So what advice does one of the most legendary performers have for budding drag queens?

“Try to find something you’re really about. Experiment as much as you like, don’t just bend in the wind to any current trend. If what you do takes off, you’re going to be doing a lot of it for a long time. Only you know what you can be.” n Lady Bunny performs 7:30 p.m. Jan. 28at the Rrazz Room at the Raven, 385 W. Bridge Street in New Hope. For tickets and information, call 888-596-1027 or visit www.TheRazzRoom.com.

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Baril: Fromage and funk in Rittenhouse Square

By Larry Nichols larry@epgn.com Located steps from Rittenhouse Square, Baril, 267 S. 19th St., is a neighborhood bistro specializing in French comfort food —which should be a slam dunk, given the neighborhood. And for a few bright moments, it was.

First, let’s give Baril a pat on the back for keeping it traditional and relaxed with a small and focused menu that leans in classical directions. It doesn’t chase every new and sometimes-pandering twist like many other menus attempt. At Baril, you’re getting classic French dishes served up by an attentive and friendly staff.

But while the vision is wellfleshed-out, the execution hit some bumps in the road.

Let’s start with the positives.

Baril’s fromage (cheese) game is on point and its steward really knows how to put together a lovely cheese course. It also served up a wonderful ginger carrot soup as an amuse-bouche, which was a frustrating tease because it was so excellent (buttery and complex with a nice smooth consistency) that we really wanted a gigantic bowl instead of the thimble-sized shot that we got.

The escargot ($12), while a tad overdone, was bathed in a delectable sweet garlic cream that elevated the dish.

The entreés were exquisite. The striped bass ($26) was perfectly seared, resting on a lovely fennel puree that added a nice heartiness to the dish and with a pleasant hint of vanilla sweetness. The lamb shank ($26) was insanely tender and juicy, with black len-

LAMB SHANK AT BARIL Photos: Scott A. Drake tils and a silky carrot puree that gave it a welcome contrast in textures and flavors. There was also a nicely prepared piece of sweetbread on the plate that added depth to the experience.

While there were hardly any flaws to the food, other things at Baril could use some tweaking. The service at times could be painfully slow, considering it was a weeknight and the restaurant was less than half full. Then the cozy and dim French-bistro vibe was thrown off by the music, which on the night we visited, was tuned to a radio channel specializing in up-tempo funk (which we love under the right circumstances). But the older couple two tables over didn’t seem to fully appreciate Rick James howling “Give It to Me Baby” or Janet Jackson asking, “What Have You Done For Me Lately?” at club volume while they were trying to eat their coq au vin.

Despite the upbeat music, the meal ended on a limp note with dessert in the form of brioche bread pudding ($8), which was soaked in a cream sauce that came across like ice cream. The dish was allowed to melt to room temperature, drowning out almost all of the texture and the hints of chocolate that the bread pudding had to offer.

Baril has enough talent in the kitchen to really go far. If it can streamline its service and find the right music for the aesthetic and menu, it will be on a roll. n

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Joseph Eckhardt: Shining a spotlight on PA’s silent-film history The film “Watermelon Woman” was a fictional tale about a filmmaker who becomes intrigued by a character actress she comes across in several old movies.

She comes to find that the actress was a lesbian and involved with the leading lady.

This week’s profile, Joseph Eckhardt, stumbled across a similar fantastical story but, in this case, it’s all real. And it’s magnificent.

Joseph P. Eckhardt holds the title of emeritus professor at Montgomery County Community College in Blue Bell. After retiring from full-time teaching, he began work on an in-depth study of American history painter William T. Trego. His biography of this nearly forgotten artist, “So Bravely and So Well: The Life and Art of William T. Trego,” was published in 2011. His first book, “The King of the Movies,” published in 1997, was a biography of Philadelphia film pioneer Siegmund Lubin, who founded Betzwood Studios, one of the first film studios in America.

Eckhardt’s most recent book was inspired by an actress featured in the “Toonerville Trolley” comedies he acquired for the Betzwood Film Archive at MCC. The book tells the story of Wilna Hervey, a 6-foot-3 300-pound heiress who played the role of The Powerful Katrinka in the “Toonerville Trolley” comedies of the early 1920s.

While filming on location in the Philadelphia suburbs, Hervey met Nan Mason, the daughter of her “Toonerville” co-star Dan Mason. The two women became close friends and ultimately life partners. Discovering that they had a mutual passion for art, after Hervey’s cinema work ended the pair moved to the famed artists’ colony at Woodstock, N.Y. The Big Girls, as they were known locally, carved out extraordinary lives for themselves as artists in a variety of mediums. They became known for their frequent and colorful parties, and their legendary “full-moon” soirées were held to raise money for local causes such as the Woodstock Library and the children’s health center. The two built a real-estate empire, dabbled as farmers and became friends with notable figures such as director Frank Capra, photographer Edward Weston and numerous artists of various mediums.

We have Professor Eckhardt to thank for unearthing and writing about these two pioneers in his heartwarming book “Living Large: The Unconventional Love Story of Wilna Hervey and Nan Mason.”

PGN: What is the first movie you remember?

JE: The first movie that I ever saw in a theater was “Singing in the Rain.” I was in third grade and my mother took me

and my sister to see it. It’s still one of my favorite movies all these years later.

What’s interesting is that it was a film about the transition from silent films to “talkies” and I think that instilled part of my interest in silent movies. Though even before that, I saw them on the old “Howdy Doody” show. It used to be one of the features of the show. They’d show silent films at fast speed and make fun of them, but I was entranced.

PGN: What kind of kid were you?

JE: I was a little nerd; actually I was more like a little adult. By the age of 4, my mother had taught me to write my name and recognize letters and words.

My grandfather was so impressed by it that he used to call me “The Little Professor.” And lo and behold, years later I became a big professor! I was the kid who loved to read books, who enjoyed going to school. And I was pretty well-behaved; in those days the rule of thumb was if you got smacked by the teacher in school you’d go home and get smacked for needing to be smacked.

be reluctant to do that today, but it worked.

PGN: How did you get into teaching?

JE: I always wanted to be a teacher. I think I was programmed from the time I was a little kid. Until the day she died, my aunt still called me The Little Professor. Also being the oldest — not just of my siblings but my cousins as well — I was often put in charge of organizing whatever we did. I went to school at Clarion State Teacher’s College with the intent on becoming a teacher. I have a friend who’s a psychotherapist and his line is, “We live the lives that we lived,” meaning that the things you were doing as kids are often the things we do as adults.

PGN: And what did you teach?

JE: I taught history and art history, mostly European. We used to joke we taught history from the cave man to the atom bomb.

PGN: What’s a fun family memory?

JE: I’m the oldest of four and we had a big extended family. I had an Italian grandfather so Christmas was always very festive. On the other side, I had 50 cousins so it was always a mob scene at my grandmother’s house, but a very enjoyable mob scene.

PGN: What was a first inkling that you might have been “different?”

JE: It’s funny because that’s just how I thought of it. It wasn’t a sexual thing, it was just a sense of difference. My parents took me to an amusement park when I was about 4 and took me to the carousel. All these years later I still remember this … My father kept trying to put me up on the horse, but I spied a little boat shaped like a beautiful swan with a seat inside and I made a beeline for that. I still can see the looks on my parents’ faces.

PGN: You’re a teacher now. Who was your favorite high-school teacher?

JE: There was a wonderful woman who taught drama and coached the plays, Marguerite Anderson. I usually played a nonessential character — in fact, in one show I was the corpse — but I remember she treated everyone as an adult.

She’d say, “You will do what you have to do and on opening night I won’t be anywhere near the theater.” It was terrifying and exhilarating at the same time because there was a sense of responsibility. There was an audience and when the curtain went up we had to deal with whatever happened. There was no adult supervision. I think most teachers would

PGN: [Laughs] As someone who is often mystified by the merits of modern art, how do you explain the proverbial blank canvas with a single dot?

JE: You know I wasn’t fond of modern art until I had to teach it. I did a lot of reading and museum visits and developed an appreciation for a lot of it.

There’s still some I have nothing but contempt for, but I got over my initial reluctance in order to teach it.

PGN: You taught from 1968-2007. That’s quite a span. I assume somewhere along that road you came out.

JE: Yes, I was married for 10 years … to a woman no less. It was a slow, strange process, but it was during those years that I emerged as who I really am.

Fortunately it wasn’t a problem. No one batted an eye at the school, except for one colleague who reacted badly; we were at a party and I introduced my partner and he had this wide-eyed look of surprise. The next day at school, I noticed that he was avoiding me. So I went out of my way to seek him out and finally I wore him down. It just became too time-consuming to avoid me any more and he got over it. My family also was fine with it. In fact, I think they enjoy my partner Brent’s company more than they do mine! He’s much more of a people person. We’ve been together for about 30 years now.

PGN: Congrats! How did you get involved with the Betzwood Studio?

JE: I’m from Western PA and we moved to this area in 1962, just before I went off to college. At the time, they were tearing down parts of the studio and it was in the papers. Years later, I heard they were going to write about the history of Montgomery County and I called the editor and asked who was going to write about the old movie studio because I wanted to learn more about it. She’d never heard of it and asked me to write something about it.

I thought, How hard can that be? And then found out. There wasn’t any information out there so I had to start from scratch.

A few years later, I had sliding cabinets full of over 10,000 items and I decided to write a book about it, “The King of the Movies.” I never planned it; it was something that reached out and grabbed me.

PGN: Give me the Reader’s Digest version.

JE: The studio was founded by Siegmund Lubin. His studio was in North Philadelphia, but like now, movie studios need open space so he bought a big estate in Montgomery County and built a studio by the river in a town called Betzwood.

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so to speak, even though it was 20 miles away from the main studio. They made several-hundred movies there between 1912-22: dramas, comedies, even disaster movies. They actually built a whole town and burned it down for a film. It was fascinating and I eventually opened an archive at Montgomery County Community College where I taught to preserve the memory of the studio. That led to a film festival, which is no longer running, which led me to Wilna Hervey and Nan Mason.

PGN: Do tell.

JE: Wilna Hervey was one of the actresses at Betzwood. She starred in what they called the “Toonerville Trolley” comedies. The premise was there were a bunch of country bumpkins living in the boondocks and their only means of transportation was this old ramshackle trolley, piloted by an eccentric old man. One of the characters was “The Powerful Katrinka.” She was a big girl who was very strong and absolutely clueless; she would do things like load up a wheelbarrow with rocks and then pick it up and carry it, all sorts of wonderful sight gags. I fell in love with the character and for years wondered about Wilna Hervey, the actress who played the role. She was 6-foot-3 and weighed about 300 pounds and was an absolute delight. She was perfect for the part: She was light on her feet and wore a totally clueless expression and one day I decided to see what happened to her. And the story began to unfold. I found out through the census that she’d been living in Woodstock, N.Y. But she was listed as a farmer and underneath was listed the name of another woman, Nan Mason: “house wife.” I thought, Oh my! This just got a lot more interesting. The farmer and her wife, back in 1920. Turns out they weren’t really farmers at all, it was just a passing fancy — they were artists. As the story unraveled, I knew I had to make a book out of it. I was very lucky in that they were packrats and saved everything: all of their letters and photographs, all of their artwork, letters written to them, thousands of papers all stuffed into the attic and garage. When they died, a local artist cleaned it all out and thankfully had the good sense to save all of it. He kept some and donated the rest to the Archives of American Art. PGN: It’s not going to be very much fun for the next generation of archivists since we’re all told to shred everything these days. There will be a digital trail of course, but that won’t be as much fun.

JE: I think about that often, and so much stuff is digitally manipulated, who’ll know if you’re looking at a real image or something Photoshopped?

PGN: Good point. You’ve written so much about films, how about a fun fact or two?

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JE: I think people don’t realize that Philadelphia had a very large, very active film industry in the very early days. There were thousands of films made here in the 1890s that were quite literally shown around the world. Silent films were easy to market overseas because all you had to do was change the inner titles. A lot of people who became famous first worked for the Lubin company. Marie Dressler filmed at the Betzwood Studio in 1915.

PGN: Who was Siegmund Lubin?

JE: He was America’s first movie mogul. He was a Jewish immigrant from Germany and he was an optician so when he came to America he traveled around the states selling eyeglasses. He was a marketing genius, very entrepreneurial.

Few people in those early days took movies seriously; they used them in vaudeville houses to chase the audience out! But he realized that it was going to change soon and that he could make a fortune from it.

One of his insights was that it could be used as a teaching method. He used to let the doctors from the various hospitals and universities come to his studio on Sundays and use the equipment for free to shoot teaching films. He was a visionary.

PGN: What are some of your other outside interests?

JE: I have an abiding interest in art. My second book, “So Bravely and So Well,” was about a seriously handicapped artist from North Wales, Pa., William T. Trego, and that led to the first-ever retrospective exhibit of his work at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown. I even have someone interested in making a movie based on the book.

PGN: What was your favorite cartoon as a kid?

JE: “Sylvester and Tweety.” There’s just something about that poor cat getting thwarted at every turn that I get a kick out of.

PGN: Celebrity encounter?

JE: I went to high school with Joe Namath but as a nerd in high school I wasn’t able to talk to any football stars.

PGN: Best conversation piece?

JE: Oh, my house is like a museum! I have an original movie projector from 1904 that’s in working condition. And I recently bought a painting by Nan Mason, one of the women I wrote about.

PGN: A favorite movie line or scene?

JE: Ha, so many of my favorite films are silent! It would have to be the end of “Sunset Boulevard,” where Gloria Swanson comes wide-eyed down the staircase and says, “Alright, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.” n For more information on Joseph Eckhardt’s work, visit https://mc3betzwood.wordpress.com.

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20. Start of the translation of a political slogan 23. Albert to Armand, in “The Birdcage” 24. “Are you calling me ___?”

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ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) meets 6-9 p.m. Mondays at St. Luke and The Epiphany Church, 330 S. 13th St.; 215-386-1981, www.actupphilly.org.

Delaware Valley Chapter, Americans United for Separation of Church and State seeks activists and supporters of church-state separation. Holds monthly meetings and events; www.dvau.org.

Equality Pennsylvania holds a volunteer night 5:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of the month, 1211 Chestnut St., Suite 605; 215-731-1447, www.equalitypa.org.

Green Party of Philadelphia holds general meetings 7 p.m. the fourth Thursday of the month, except August and December; 215-243-7103, www.gpop.org.

Liberty City LGBT Democratic Club meets seasonally; www.libertycity.org.

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Library Book Club meets to discuss a new book 7 p.m. the third Wednesday of the month at William Way. Men On Tap, an LGBT group that performs with choirs, organizations and at the Fringe Festival, rehearses 8 p.m.

Mondays at The Bike Stop, 206 S. Quince St.; dale@ magicalfantasies.com.

Philadelphia Freedom Band, an audition-free LGBT band that does concerts and parades, rehearses 7-9:30 p.m. Mondays; philadelphiafreedomband.com.

Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus rehearses 7-10 p.m.

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Philadelphia Voices of Pride, Philadelphia’s first mixed LGBT chorus, rehearses 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays at William Way; www.pvop.org.

Queer Writer’s Collective workshop and discussion group meets 3-5 p.m. the fourth Saturday of the month at William Way. Reading Queerly, open to all women and genderqueer/ trans people, meets 6:45 p.m. the first Thursday of the month at Giovanni’s Room, 345 S. 12th St.

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Gay Bridge Club non-beginners group meets Monday 2-5 p.m. at William Way; reservations required. Call 215-732-2220.

Gay-friendly Scrabble Club meets 5:30-10:30 p.m. at Abner’s Steaks, 38th and Chester streets; 215-382-0789.

Humboldt Society: Lesbian and Gay Naturalists meets 7:30 p.m. the second Thursday of the month at William Way; 215-985-1456, www.humboldtsociety.org.

Independence Squares LGBT square-dance club, modern Western square dancing hosts an open house and Tuesday classes in the fall at Lutheran Church, 2111 Sansom St.; philadances@gmail.com, www.independencesquares.org. Male Oenophile Group forming to discuss, appreciate and taste various wines. Will meet once a month to investigate the nuances and glories of the fermented grape; 267-230-6750.

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Brandywine Women’s Rugby Club meets for practice at p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at Greenfield Park, West Chester; www.brandywinerugby.org.

City of Brotherly Love Softball League serves the Philadelphia metropolitan area with games on Sundays, beginning in April, at the Dairy and Edgeley Fields in Fairmount Park; www.cblsl.org.

Frontrunners running club meets 9:30 a.m. Saturdays for a run and brunch at Lloyd Hall, No. 1 Boathouse Row; www.philadelphiafrontrunners.org.

Philadelphia Falcons Soccer Club, open to LGBT and allies, practices 8-10 p.m. Mondays and 2-4 p.m.

Saturdays; www.falcons-soccer.org.

Philadelphia Fins Swim Team, open to male and female swimmers, meets 7 p.m. Monday-Thursday at Friends Select School and 10:30 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays; www.philadelphia-fins.org.

Philadelphia Gay Bowling League meets 8 p.m.

Wednesdays September-April at South Bowl, 19 E. Oregon Ave.; 856-889-1434, philagaybowling@yahoo. com.

Greater Philadelphia Flag Football League plays 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays at FDR Park; www.phillyflagfootball.com Philadelphia Gryphons Rugby Football Club, open to players of all skill levels, meets 7:45 p.m. Thursdays at Columbus Square Park, 1200 Wharton St.; 215-913-7531, philadelphiagryphons.org, becomeagryphon@gmail.com.

Philadelphia Liberty Belles women’s semi-pro fulltackle football league holds fall tryouts; phillybelles.com.

Philadelphia Liberty Tennis Association plays yearround, all skill levels welcome; philadelphialibertytennis. com.

Philadelphia Firebirds women’s football team seeks players; www.philadelphiafirebirds.com.

Philadelphia Women’s Baseball League seeks players, all skill levels and ages. Practice is 7 p.m. Thursdays at Marian Anderson Recreation Center, 17th and Fitzwater streets, with games at 2:30 p.m. Sundays; 215-991-5995 (day), 301-919-1194 (evening), phillywomensbaseball. com.

Philly Gay Hockey Association Philadelphia Phury seeks players; 917-656-1936, phury@gayhockey.org.

Philly QCycle LGBT bicycling club promotes organized recreational riding for all levels in the Greater Philadelphia region; contact the organization via Facebook.

Rainbow Riders of the Delaware Valley motorcycle club meets regularly; 215-836-0440, www.groups.yahoo.com/ group/rainbowridersdv/.

Rainbow Rollers gay and lesbian bowling league meets 7:45 p.m. Tuesdays at Boulevard Lanes in Northeast Philadelphia; rainbowrollers.com.

Spartan Wrestling Club gay wrestling team meets 6:30-9 p.m. Mondays at the First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St.; 215-732-4545, www.phillyspartans.com.

Etc.

AIDS Law Project provides free legal assistance to people with HIV/AIDS and sponsors free monthly seminars on work and housing at 1211 Chestnut St., Suite 600; 215-587-9377, www.aidslawpa.org.

BiUnity, Philadelphia-area social and support network for bisexuals, their family members and friends; http:// biunity.org.

Delaware Valley Pink Pistols, for LGBT people dedicated to legal, safe and responsible use of firearms for self-defense, meets 1 p.m. the third Sunday of the month at The Gun Range, 542 N. Percy St.; 610-879-2364; www. pinkpistolsdelval.org.

Delaware Pride holds planning meetings 7 p.m. the first Thursday of the month at the United Church of Christ, 300 Main St., Newark; 302-265-3020, delawarepride.org.

Haverford College’s Sexuality and Gender Alliance holds open meetings 10-11 p.m. Mondays during the school year in the lounge in Jones Basement at Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Ave.; 610-896-4938.

Men and Women for Human Excellence support group meets from noon-2 p.m. the first and third Saturdays of the month at 26th Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue; 267273-3513, cmoore8300@yahoo.com.

Long Yang Club Philadelphia, social organization for gay Asians and their friends, holds monthly socials; www. longyangclub.org/philadelphia.

Our Night Out, a casual social networking party of LGBT professionals, friends and colleagues, meets in a different Philadelphia hot spot each month. To receive monthly event invitations, email OurNightOutPhilly@ gmail.com; more information on Facebook.

Philadelphia Bar Association Legal Advice offered 5-8 p.m. the third Wednesday of the month; 215-238-6333.

Philadelphia Prime Timers club for mature gay and bisexual men and their admirers meets regularly; primetimersofphiladelphia@yahoo.com.

Philadelphians MC Club, for leather men and women, meets 7:30 p.m. the first and third Monday of the month at The Pit at The Bike Stop, 201 S. Quince St.; philadelphiansmc.org.

Rainbow Amateur Radio Association ARRL-affiliated, weekly HF nets, quarterly newsletter; www.rara.org.

Silver Foxes, a social and educational group for gays and lesbians 50 and older, meets 3-5 p.m. the fourth Sunday of the month at William Way; 215-732-2220.

SNJ Queers meets monthly for queer/queer-friendly folks in South Jersey to mix and mingle; 856-375-3708, wmf69@comast.net.

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Community Bulletin Board Community centers

■ The Attic Youth Center 255 S. 16th St.; 215-545-4331, atticyouthcenter.org. For LGBT and questioning youth and their friends and allies. Groups meet and activities are held 4-7 p.m. Monday-Tuesday and 4-8:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday. Case management, HIV testing and smoking cessation are available Monday-Friday.

■ Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center at the University of Pennsylvania 3907 Spruce St., 215-898-5044, center@dolphin. upenn.edu. Regular hours: 10 a.m.-10 p.m. MondayThursday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday; noon-6 p.m. Saturday; noon-8 p.m. Sunday. Summer hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

■ ActionAIDS: 215-981-0088

■ Rainbow Room: Bucks County’s LGBTQ and Allies Youth Center Salem UCC Education Building, 181 E. Court St., Doylestown; 215-957-7981 ext.

9065, rainbowroom@ppbucks.org. Activities held 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays.

■ William Way Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center 1315 Spruce St.; 215-732-2220, www.waygay.org.

Hours: 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Friday, noon-5 p.m.

Saturdays and Sundays Peer counseling: 6-9 p.m.

Monday-Friday Library: noon-9 p.m. Monday-Friday, noon-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday Volunteers: New Orientation, first Wednesday of the month at 7:30 p.m.

Key numbers

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

■ Equality Pennsylvania: 215731-1447; www.equalitypa.org

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

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■ Equality Forum: 215-732-3378

■ AIDS Library: 215-985-4851 ■ 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 n The COLOURS Organization Inc.: 215-496-0330

■ LGBT Peer Counseling Services: 215-732-TALK ■ Mazzoni Center: 215-563-0652; Legal Services: 215-563-0657, 866-LGBT-LAW; Family & Community Medicine: 215-563-0658 ■ Office of LGBT Affairs — Director Nellie Fitzpatrick: 215-6860330; helen.fitzpatrick@phila.gov

■ Philadelphia Police Department liaison — Deputy Commissioner Kevin Bethel: 215-6863318 ■ Philadelphia Police Liaison Committee: 215-760-3686 (Rick Lombardo); 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)

■ Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (Philadelphia): 215-572-1833 ■ Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations: 215-686-4670

Health

Anonymous, free, confidential HIV testing Spanish/English counselors offer testing 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday at Congreso de Latinos Unidos, 216 W. Somerset St.; 215-763-8870.

ActionAIDS Provides a range of programs for people affected by HIV/ AIDS, including case management, prevention, testing and education services at 1216 Arch St.; 215-981-0088, www. actionaids.org.

GALAEI: A Queer Latin@ Social Justice Organization Free, anonymous HIV testing from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday at 1207 Chestnut St., fifth floor; noon-6 p.m.

Tuesdays at the Washington West Project, 1201 Locust St.; 215-851-1822 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 (walk-in) and 5-8 p.m. Thursdays (by appointment) at Health Center No. 2, 1720 S. Broad St.; 215685-1821.

HIV health insurance help Access to free medications and confidential HIV testing 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays at 13 S. MacDade Blvd., Suite

■ Gay and Lesbian Lawyers of Philadelphia Board meetings at 6:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month at 100 S. Broad St., Suite 1810; free referral service at 215-6279090, www.galloplaw.org.

■ Independence Business Alliance Greater Philadelphia’s LGBT Chamber of Commerce, providing networking, business development, marketing, educational and advocacy opportunities for LGBT and LGBT-friendly busi-

108, Collingdale; Medical Office Building, 722 Church Lane, Yeadon; and 630 S. 60th St.; 610-586-9077.

Mazzoni Center LGBTQ counseling and behavioral health services, HIV/ AIDS care and services, 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, as well as youth drop-in (ages 14-24) 5-7p.m. Wednesdays; 809 Locust St.; 215-563-0658.

Philadelphia FIGHT Comprehensive AIDS service organization providing primary care, consumer education, advocacy and research on potential treatments and vaccines; 1233 Locust St.; 215985-4448; www.fight.org.

Washington West Project of Mazzoni Center Free, rapid HIV testing. Walk-ins welcome 9 a.m.-9 pm.

Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

Sunday; 1201 Locust St.; 215-985-9206.

Professional groups nesses and professionals; 215557-0190, www.IndependenceBusinessAlliance.com.

■ National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Philadelphia chapter of NLGJA, open to professionals and students, meets for social and networking events; www.nlgja.org/ philly; philly@nlgja.org.

■ Philadelphia Gay Tourism Caucus Regional organization dedicated to promoting LGBT tourism to the Greater Philadelphia region, meetings every other month on the fourth Thursday (January, March, May, July, September and the third Thursday in November), open to the public; 215-8402039, www.philadelphiagaytourism.com.

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