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Scouts to judge: Deal is dead By Timothy Cwiek timothy@epgn.com Legal papers filed in federal court last week signaled the resumption of litigation in the matter of a local Boy Scouts council headquartered on public property without paying any rent. The papers, filed by attorneys for the BSA Cradle of Liberty Council, state that a tentative agreement to sell the property to the Scouts for $500,000 has fallen through, due to lack of support in City Council. “On Jan. 19, 2012, the parties recognized that because City Council was unwilling to approve the settlement agreement to which the City Solicitor and Mayor Michael Nutter had already approved, this case was unlikely to settle,” the filing states. The BSA council, headquartered at 231251 N. 22nd St., refuses to accept participants who are gay, atheist or agnostic. In 2008, the city tried to evict the council, but the dispute landed in federal court — where it’s been mired for almost four years. If the Scouts purchase the parcel, they would be on private property and would be able to set their own membership standards without violating local antibias laws. But the proposed sale sparked an outcry among LGBTs and their allies, despite a pledge from the Scouts to stop seeking about $960,000 in legal fees from the city. Critics said the deal would have paved the way for other discriminators to lease or purchase city property at a reduced rate. In June 2010, a federal jury ruled that city officials violated the Cradle’s constitutional rights by allegedly asking it to repudiate the national BSA’s antigay policy in order to avoid eviction.

The following month, attorneys for the city asked U.S. District Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter to set aside the jury verdict or, alternatively, to grant a new trial. The city’s motion has been pending for about 19 months, as both sides pursued an out-of-court settlement. Last month, the ACLU of Greater Philadelphia and Lambda Legal sent letters to city officials advocating a sale of the property through competitive bidding, as a way of ending the Scouts’ subsidy. Mark McDonald, a spokesperson for Nutter, had no comment on the letters, nor

on any other aspect of the dispute. “This matter is in litigation, and I am unable to comment,” he said. Mel Heifetz, a local businessman, has offered to purchase the property for up to $2 million and donate it to a nonprofit group that doesn’t discriminate. William H. Ewing, Heifetz’s attorney, expressed guarded optimism because City Solicitor Shelley R. Smith didn’t immediately reject Heifetz’s latest offer, sent Jan. 17. If Heifetz can purchase the property for $1 million, he’ll assume PAGE 2

Former Philly Archbishop dies By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com

BEATING THE WINTER BLUES: About 250 supporters of LGBT grantmaking agency Sapphire Fund turned out for the agency’s first annual Sapphire Ball Jan. 27 at the Franklin Institute. The event was the cornerstone of Sapphire Weekend, a series of fundraising events that replaced the former Blue Ball Weekend. The revamped ball featured a live band, dancing, food and drinks. Fundraising totals were not yet available. Photo: Scott A. Drake

New fair-housing rule to be implemented By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has taken one of the final steps in adopting new regulations to alleviate discrimination against LGBTs in housing and lending. HUD added the new rule to the Federal Register this week and it will be finalized within one month. U.S. Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity

MIXING IT UP: Keisha Slaughter (left) and J. Mason took the stage Jan. 27 at Tritone for MixTape, a quarterly fundraiser for a local transgender person’s gender-reassignment surgery, which this month raised about $300 for Sam Richman. While fundraising was on the slower side for this event, organizer Joe Ippolito noted that “moral support is just as important to folks struggling with this issue,” adding that there was plenty of support at the party. Photo: Scott A. Drake

Assistant Secretary John Trasviña will be in Philadelphia Feb. 3 to meet with community leaders for an LGBT Housing Roundtable at the William Way LGBT Community Center. They will discuss the new rule and other aspects of fair housing for the LGBT community. The regulations were first announced in January 2011 and were subject to a publiccomment period. “The purpose of this was to ensure that our core programs are open to all eligible

individuals,” Trasviña said on Monday. “And as a housing agency, it’s important not only that our own programs don’t involve discrimination, but that our policies and programs can serve as a model for equal housing opportunities.” Among the stipulations in the rule is a “general-access provision” that mandates HUD-assisted or -insured programs are available to applicants or owners regardless of actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity or PAGE 2

The sexual-abuse case against several former Archdiocesan priests saw a big development this week as one of the prosecution’s key witnesses died. Former Archbishop of Philadelphia Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua died in his sleep Tuesday night. The 88year-old served as archbishop from 1988-2003 and reportedly suffered from cancer and dementia. His tenure was tarnished by a number of priest sex-abuse BEVILACQUA scandals, including ADDRESSES last year’s sweeping THE SEX-ABUSE grand-jury investi- SCANDAL IN 2002. gation suggesting AP File Photo: PAGE 8

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responsibility for all of the Scouts’ legal fees assessed against the city up to Jan. 17, Ewing said. But Heifetz must have control over litigation directly involving those fees, Ewing added. Ewing also expressed hope that the city will take prompt steps to ensure that all of its tenants have signed leases containing comprehensive antibias provisions. In court papers, the Scouts have asserted that other city tenants allegedly have exclusionary membership policies that aren’t being scrutinized by city officials. The Scouts are represented by pro-bono attorneys at the Center City law firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP. To date, the firm is seeking $1,038,664.07 HOUSING from page 1

marital status. This provision extends to HUD’s rental-assistance and homeownership programs, including the Federal Housing Administration mortgage-insurance, community-development and publicand assisted-housing programs. The rule additionally clarifies the definition of “family” to prohibit discrimination based on actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity or marital status, and prohibits owners and operators of HUDassisted or -insured programs from asking about an applicant’s sexual orientation, gender identity or marital status to determine eligibility. Trasviña noted, however, that this does not prohibit an applicant from

in attorneys’ fees from the city — of which $75,089 allegedly has been incurred since July 2010, when both sides began settlement talks. On Jan. 27, Drinker Biddle attorneys filed an exhibit listing the time they’ve spent on post-trial litigation and on efforts to settle the case. The exhibit has entries such as “settlement issues...$697.50,” and “analyze settlement issues...$372.” John M. Byrne, a spokesperson for Drinker Biddle, declined to comment on whether anyone at the firm contacted City Council members to determine if a reducedrate property sale to the Scouts was plausible. In another exhibit, Drinker Biddle noted that $1,454.50 was deducted from the attorneys’ fees for time spent on media cover-

age. Advocates for the LGBT community say the city won’t be liable for any of the Scouts’ attorneys’ fees — including fees allegedly incurred trying to settle — if the city ultimately prevails in the case. Scouts spokesperson Kera Armstrong had no comment on whether the Scouts would meet with members of the LGBT community to explore other settlement options — without attorneys present, to minimize fees. Armstrong also declined to comment on the status of an appeal by a Life Scout who was ousted from the BSA council in 2003 after he came out. Almost nine years later, Greg Lattera’s reinstatement case is still pending, according to court records.

David M. Rosenblum, legal director of Mazzoni Center, said the center remains active in the Lattera matter. “Mazzoni Center is looking into Greg Lattera’s appeal for reinstatement to the Cradle of Liberty Council, which has been pending since 2003,” Rosenblum told PGN. Rosenblum declined additional comment. In court papers, the Scouts maintain they have a right to exclude gays from the property due to a 2000 Supreme Court decision permitting the Scouts to set their own membership standards. Advocates for the LGBT community, however, point to a 2010 Supreme Court decision reaffirming the right of governments to condition subsidies on compliance with antibias rules. ■

voluntarily disclosing that status. Finally, the regulations add actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity as classes protected from discrimination in FHA-insured mortgage financing. Trasviña noted that about one-third of homebuyers in the nation are served by FHA lenders, making this last element “critically important to America’s families.” The regulations apply to religious institutions that participate in HUD programs, Trasviña said. “Our HUD programs and housing policies must be open to all people irrespective of sexual orientation, gender identity or marital status,” he added. “This rule builds upon the other work this administration has

done to make sure there is equal access to housing programs.” Last year, HUD announced it would treat discrimination based on gender noncomformity as sex discrimination under the Fair Housing Act, and also undertook the firstever national study of housing discrimination against LGBTs. H U D S e c r e t a r y S h a u n D o n ova n announced the new regulations at the National Conference on LGBT Equality — Creating Change last weekend, and noted the changes reflect a push for LGBT equality throughout the federal government. “The Obama administration has viewed the fight for equality on behalf of the LGBT community as a priority, and I’m proud that

HUD has been a leader in that fight,” he said. “With this historic rule, the administration is saying you cannot use taxpayer dollars to prevent Americans from choosing where they want to live on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, ensuring that HUD’s housing programs are open not to some, not to most, but to all.” This month, all HUD staff, as well as other stakeholders involved in HUD-assisted or insured programs, will receive training and guidance on the new regulations. Trasviña also encouraged LGBTs who experience discrimination in the housing process to contact HUD. For more information, email lgbtfairhousing@hud.gov. ■

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WEEKEND OF WONDER: Sapphire Weekend kicked off in style with the second annual Stimulus Presents: Winter Wonderland Ball, held Jan. 27 at Voyeur. The event drew a crowd of about 350 who enjoyed performers that included drag, burlesque, modern dance and pole dancers, said Stimulus co-founders Morgan Levine and Amber Hikes. A portion of the proceeds from the cover charge benefited Sapphire Fund. Photo: Scott A. Drake NEWS

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Progressives, LGBTs to gather in Philly By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com Hundreds of progressive-minded people will converge in Philadelphia later this month for an annual meeting of the minds that will include attention to LGBT issues. The Pennsylvania Progressive Summit, organized by Keystone Progress, will be held from Feb. 10-12 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, marking the first time in the event’s three-year history that it will be held in the City of Brotherly Love. Included among the more than 60 workshops is “Winning LGBT Equality, One City at a Time,” at 10:30 a.m. Feb. 11. The panel will feature Equality Pennsylvania executive director Ted Martin and board member and Doylestown Borough Council member Marlene Pray. Martin said the panel will center on the successful effort undertaken by Equality Pennsylvania and other organizations to bring about local-level LGBT nondiscrimination ordinances. “We’ll be talking about creating equality locally,” he said. “There’s inactivity in Harrisburg, and in Washington as well, on LGBT issues, so we’re going to talk about how we’ve been able to move our issues forward through grassroots efforts and how that can apply to other progressive issues as well.” In addition to the LGBT-focused workshop, other topics that will be explored include urban poverty, environmental issues, nonprofit operations, best practices in protesting, immigration, health care,

redistricting and scores of others. State Sen. Daylin Leach (D-17th Dist.), who is spearheading Pennsylvania’s marriage-equality bill, will participate in a number of panels and events, including as emcee and stand-up participant in a comedy show that will feature political-themed humor. At 6:30 p.m. Feb. 10 at Arch Street United Methodist Church, candidates for Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane and Patrick Murphy, the former Pennsylvania Congressman who led the fight to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” will square off in a debate. Afterward, there will be a reception for the candidates at the Hampton Inn Convention Center at 8:30 p.m., with proceeds from the $100 admission price going to support Keystone Progress. In addition to the sea of workshops Saturday, participants can also hear from Democracy for America chair Jim Dean and Wisconsin state Sen. Jon Erpenbach, and take part in a march and rally in support of oil workers. The conference wraps up Sunday with morning panels followed by a closing session that will feature a debate with Auditor General candidates Eugene DePasquale and Devon Cade. Registration for the summit, including the comedy show, is $100, or $75 for Saturday’s sessions only and $50 for Sunday’s sessions only. Admission to the comedy show without summit registration is $50. For more information or to register, visit www.paprogressivesummit.org. ■

Elder program gets $35K grant By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com An initiative seeking to promote opportunities and equality for LGBT seniors recently got a big boost to its infrastructure. The LGBT Elder Initiative is the recipient of a $35,000 grant from the Philadelphia Foundation, the largest grant the group has received since its 2010 launch. The funding comes from the Foundation’s Oscar H. and E. Ida Iucker Memorial Fund and will “enable the Elder Initiative to help support and sustain the lives of LGBT older adults in Delaware Valley,” LGBTEI cochairs Heshie Zinman and Terri Clark said in a joint statement. Specifically, the funding will be used to support the creation of a strategic plan and the decision-making process surrounding which legal status, such as 501(c)(3), the organization should pursue. LGBTEI communications chair Ed Bomba said the organization has hired consulting firm Fairmount Ventures to spearhead the planning process and “to evaluate all of our options and help us determine what’s best to help us move forward and meet our mission.”

Since the initiative does not have an official legal distinction yet, it could not directly receive the funding from the Philadelphia Foundation, so the Center for Advocacy for the Rights and Interests of the Elderly stepped in as fiscal sponsor to accept the money. The new grant will be essential in helping the organization continue the important work it has already begun, Bomba said. “I think we’ve made a great impact in terms of bridging the gaps between the aging and LGBT organizations and those organizations and LGBT seniors to get LGBT seniors access to the care and services they need,” he said. The LGBTEI was founded by an assortment of volunteers from both the LGBT and aging-services communities and, in its yearand-a-half in operation, has led such efforts as a survey of local LGBT elders to evaluate their needs. The study revealed that seniors are most concerned about physical and emotional health care, as well as housing, case-management services and social networking. “The LGBTEI is working to assure that these concerns are met so that LGBT older adults can live vibrant, creative and mutually supportive lives,” Zinman said. ■

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News Briefing Siloam seeks demolition Siloam, the AIDS-services agency that wants to demolish an old Catholic church under its stewardship, filed a legal brief earlier this month asking for permission to demolish the structure without delay. But a neighborhood association that wants to preserve the church responded, calling approval for the demolition at this state of the litigation “premature.” Siloam wants to demolish the Church of the Assumption, 1133 Spring Garden St., because it allegedly is too expensive to maintain, and cannot be sold or rented due to its dilapidated condition. The church was designated as historic in 2009, partly because St. Katharine Drexel was baptized there in 1858. But in 2010, the city’s Historical Commission approved the church’s demolition because it poses a financial hardship for Siloam to maintain. The city’s Board of License and Inspection Review overturned the approval in 2011. Siloam is appealing the review board’s

decision in Common Pleas Court. In a Jan. 6 legal brief, Siloam asked Common Pleas Judge Idee C. Fox to promptly reinstate the Historical Commission’s approval for demolition. According to Siloam’s brief, the review board didn’t give deference to the Historical Commission when reviewing the matter. “The review board impermissibly invited and considered new evidence and substituted its judgment for that of the Historical Commission in violation of Pennsylvania law,” Siloam’s brief states. In a Jan. 16 reply brief, the Callowhill Neighborhood Association said it would be “premature” for Fox to approve the demolition until the review board issues its finding of fact and conclusions of law. The review board filed that document with the court on Jan. 25. The matter was pending at press time.

Woody’s suit settled The lawsuit of a man who was allegedly assaulted inside Woody’s Bar in 2008 has been settled for an undisclosed amount of money. Jeffrey B. Holden sued the popular LGBT bar at 202 S. 13th St. for more than $50,000, after allegedly having a glass object smashed into his face by an underage patron inside the bar. Shortly before a jury was scheduled to be empanelled, attorneys emerged from the chambers of Common Pleas Judge William

J. Manfredi and announced the settlement. The alleged assailant, Kenneth B. Shipman, wasn’t in the courtroom. But his attorney, Lee J. Janiczek, was satisfied with the settlement, adding that the parties have agreed not to disclose the settlement terms. John R. Evans, an attorney for Woody’s, had no comment. Holden’s attorney, Leanne L. Litwin, said: “We’re pleased with the result. This case has settled favorably.” Holden, who allegedly was disfigured in the assault, sued for compensatory and punitive damages, according to court papers. — Timothy Cwiek

GALAEI ‘V-Day’ party V-Day Philadelphia will launch the lead-up to its production of “The Vagina Monologues” with a fundraising party next week for the Gay and Lesbian Latino AIDS Education Initiative and Women Against Abuse. The Red and Pink Warriors Kick Off Party will be held 7-9 p.m. Feb. 9 at Ascend Lounge at Tavern on Camac, 243 S. Camac St. There is a $10 cover, and proceeds will benefit the two nonprofit organizations. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/events/204715989625091/. ■ — Jen Colletta S AT ET K G C IN TI RT A

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Philly teams up with SLDN for T-shirt contest By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com The leading proponent of the effort to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is calling on the public to help shape its 20th anniversary celebration, with the help of a Philadelphia social-media strategy firm. Servicemembers Legal Defense Network is staging an online design contest that allows supporters to craft and vote on the best logos for the agency’s commemorative anniversary T-shirts, a competition being sponsored by Philly’s Chatterblast Media. Submissions will be accepted through Feb. 13, and designers can enter an unlimited number of submissions. SLDN staff will choose five finalists, and voting will be open to Facebook supporters from Feb. 14-24. The winner and his or her design will be unveiled at SLDN’s annual dinner March 3 in Washington, D.C. SLDN sells T-shirts every year on its website, at agency events and Pride festivals throughout the year, but SLDN communications director Zeke Stokes said this year the organization decided to get its supporters more directly involved in that effort. “The SLDN National Dinner will kick off a year-long anniversary celebration that will culminate with us going into our 20th year in 2013, and we wanted to give supporters of SLDN and of full equality in the military the opportunity to be a part of that celebration,” he said. Chatterblast co-founder Matthew Ray said his company has long believed in SLDN’s work and cooperated with the group to stage the Philadelphia party to celebrate the end of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in September. “We have had friends at SLDN for a while and have always been supportive of their mission of taking care of servicemembers,” Ray said. “We felt strongly they have been one of the biggest allies in the attempt to repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’ We developed a great relationship with them and when they approached us with this idea, we were more than happy to help.” Chatterblast helped design the logistics of the contest and created and monitors its Facebook page. “We’re basically making sure the contest is running appropriately and taking the heavy lifting off of SLDN so they can just worry about their mission of protecting LGBTQ servicemembers,” Ray said. He added designers of all skill levels are encouraged to submit their ideas for consideration. Funds from the sales of the eventual winning T-shirt will benefit SLDN. For more information on the contest, visit www.facebook.com/sldnfb?sk=app_ 95936962634. ■

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Out author, theologian to detail queer theology in Gayborhood By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com The history and tenets of queer theology will be explored this weekend in Philadelphia by an author with a wealth of experience in both queer and theological circles. T h e R e v. D r. Patrick Cheng will present on his book, “Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology,” at 3 p.m. Feb. 11 at The Church of St. Luke and The Epiphany, 330 S. 13th St. THE REV. DR. Cheng, an openly PATRICK CHENG gay Metropolitan Community Church minister and a seminary professor at the Episcopal Divinity School in Massachusetts, said “Radical Love” stemmed from the presumption some people have that spirituality and an LGBT life are incompatible. “I felt very acutely the tensions between spirituality and sexuality where oftentimes LGBT people feel like spirituality is opposed to our community and vice versa,” Cheng said. “I wrote this because I believe that radical love is at the heart of both Christian theology and the LGBT experience.” Cheng defines “radical love” as the concept of challenging binaries, felt in both the queer and Christian worlds. “In Christianity, there’s the idea of Jesus crossing this gulf between divinity and humanity, which is the same kind of dynamic that separates male and female; things that seem diametrically opposed are brought together by a love that is so powerful and so radical that it can collapse or dissolve boundaries.” Considering the antigay stances that some Christian denominations practice, Cheng noted that his ideas are “more theoretical than practical.” However, if LGBT and Christian communities can begin to understand their root

commonalities, Cheng said, the chasm that sometimes separates these populations may become smaller. “If people can start to see that connection, I hope it could be a bridge between this gulf that exists,” he said. Cheng’s book traces the history and evolution of queer theology — a journey that he said includes the early stage where LGBTs worked to justify their inclusion in spiritual communities to the shift in which the population sought to free itself from oppression to the current academic-based approach that challenges gender constructions. Cheng went through his own journey to become an openly gay theologian. Raised a devout Roman Catholic, Cheng early on wanted to become a priest but abandoned that goal after realizing he was gay. He spent a number of years “secularized” and was a practicing attorney when his passion for theology was reignited. “I just woke up one day and realized that I didn’t know what I stood for anymore,” he said. “So I took a class at Union Seminary in New York City and that helped me fall back in love with theology, led to my ordination and my finishing my Ph.D. It was a moving away and then back that I had to go through to get here.” His messages, as well as his status as an openly gay minister, haven’t been wellreceived by all of his fellow theologians, yet he decided to “celebrate” any criticism, saving derogatory press clippings in which some religious leaders proffered that he needed a “reality check.” The resistance he faced has made him even more appreciative of religious communities and audiences that are open to his ideas, Cheng said. “A lot of mainstream folks, like the Episcopal Church, have been supportive, and that’s why I’m really excited to do the talk in Philly,” he said, noting that the event will have a wide applicability. The program is sponsored by the Philadelphia Theological Institute, as well as Episcopal Divinity School, The Church of St. Luke and The Epiphany and Grace Epiphany Church. ■

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Carl Minster and David Facciolo By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com Life and business partners Carl Minster and David Facciolo added another dimension to their relationship this month, as they were joined in a civil union just 10 days after Delaware’s new law went into effect. The Hon. Jan Jurden presided over the ceremony at the New Castle County Courthouse Jan. 11, the 20th anniversary of the couple’s first date. The pair was introduced through a mutual friend with whom Minster volunteered at the Lesbian and Gay Task Force. However, getting to the first date was a feat — as, for six months, each of them happened to be dating someone else whenever one would pursue the other. But after their first meetup at Last Drop Coffee, 13th and Pine streets, on Jan. 11, 1992, their relationship jumpstarted. Facciolo, 56, got his law degree in 1980 and, while Minster, 53, was working as a bank teller when the couple started dating, he decided to pursue his own career in law at Facciolo’s suggestion. In 1999, the couple opened their firm, Minster & Facciolo LLP, which now has two offices, in Philadelphia and Wilmington. Minster operates the local office, while

Facciolo works out of the Delaware location — which Minster said makes the fusion of their personal and business lives easier to handle. “It’s good that we have two separate offices,” Minster said. “We’re able to work where we’re not in each other’s faces all day. If we get mad at one another, we can just hang up the phone and calm down and call back.” Learning how to handle disagreements by focusing on the larger issues has been key to the longevity of their relationship, Minster said. “It’s constant work,” he said. “You’re going to fight and if you don’t, there’s something wrong. But you just have to remember tomorrow’s another day and always remember why you’re together: to take care of and love one another.” While Minster works in Philadelphia, the couple lives in Delaware, Facciolo’s home state, in part because of the pro-LGBT laws in the state, such as a lack of inheritance tax for same-sex partners, as well as the new civil-union law.

MINSTER (LEFT) AND FACCIOLO

Minster and Facciolo were joined in their union before about 30 of their close family members and friends, and celebrated afterward at the Union City Grill in Wilmington before setting off for a honeymoon in Palm Springs, Calif. “It was a very nice day,” Minster said. “The judge wrote a wonderful ceremony talking about our life together and how the court cases have evolved over the years to give us the rights we deserve. It was a really nice ceremony.” ■

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allegations against dozens of priests were mishandled or ignored under Bevilacqua. The grand jurors wrote that they “would like to hold Cardinal Bevilacqua accountable,” suggesting that “his knowing and deliberate actions during his tenure as Archbishop endangered thousands of children in the Philadelphia Archdiocese.” The investigation resulted in five arrests: three Archdiocesan priests and one lay teacher who were accused of sexually abusing young boys, as well as Monsignor William Lynn, Bevilacqua’s secretary for clergy, who is thought to be the first Catholic official in the nation charged for his role in allegedly covering up sex-abuse cases. In the past few months, prosecutors have been pressing for Bevilacqua to testify in the case, a move defense attorneys opposed. After a deposition at Bevilacqua’s residence in November, Judge Theresa Sarmina ruled him competent to testify, a finding she reaffirmed the day before his death. Jury selection begins Feb. 22 and testimony in the trial, expected to last several months, will begin March 26. As leader of the Philadelphia Catholic community, Bevilacqua repeatedly drew the ire of the LGBT community. He called homosexuality “an aberration” and a “moral evil,” and said celibate gay priests would be incompatible with priesthood and likely to commit sexual abuse. He also led the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference in opposition of pro-LGBT laws. ■

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National Black HIV/AIDS �� Awareness Day is Feb.�� 7 ��

Each February, America celebrates the invalutheir HIV status are much more likely to seek able contributions that the African-American the medical care they need, which dramatically community has made to the culture and history improves their health outcomes, and to take steps of our nation. Black History Month is a time to protect their sexual partners and prevent further infections. to study and reflect on the collective history of Beyond Feb. 7, Mazzoni Center has a numour community. It’s an important marker for a community that historically has been subject to ber of programs and prevention efforts targeted discrimination and prejudice, and has overcome to men of color. For young men ages 13-24 we great challenges on the road to equality. have a long-running monthly workshop series It is also important to acknowledge — formerly known as “Many Men, some of the struggles that still conMany Voices” — which we recently front us. Among the most significant re-launched as “H.Y.P.E.” (Helping challenges today is the alarming and Youth through Prevention Education). disproportionate rate of HIV infection H.Y.P.E. reaches out to young MSM among black Americans. While only of color and provides a safe space for representing 14 percent of the U.S. them to talk candidly and construcpopulation, blacks account for 44 pertively about identity, community and cent of all new HIV infections, accordindividual risk reduction. ing to the most recent information More than a dozen young people collected by the Centers for Disease each month participate in H.Y.P.E., which consists of three days of intenControl and Prevention in 2009. sive discussion-based workshops. We are the most disproportionately impacted racial/ethnic group across all We talk with them about the factors sub-populations (men, women, youth, that contribute to their risk, including social stigma and homophobia, men who have sex with men, known Abdul-Aliy racism, poverty and lack of access to as MSM) in the U.S. at all stages of the disease — from new infections to Muhammad health care. As one of our recent pardeaths. ticipants said, “There’s a lot of stigma around being a young black male, and Combating health disparities is at gay.” Our goal with H.Y.P.E. is not just to provide the core of Mazzoni Center’s mission. Our history as an organization is deeply interwoven positive, affirming messages for these youth, but with the history of the AIDS crisis. As the disto help create a sense of community, to educate ease has evolved, so has our approach to preand empower young men of color to take ownership of their health and their futures. vention, testing and treatment. We work closely with the CDC and the Health Department here For adult MSM of color, Mazzoni Center offers in Philadelphia to ensure that our approaches are The Real Impact Project, also known as TRIP. reflective of the latest data and are reaching the The program specifically targets black MSM as people who are at the greatest risk. well as black transwomen who have sex with In February 2012, it is safe to say that men of men, and is based on a social network strategy, which recognizes the importance of peer influcolor who have sex with men are our highest priority when it comes to fighting HIV/AIDS. We ence in impacting behavior. Through TRIP, we know that MSM represent more than half of new work to engage individual “recruiters” who will HIV infections in the U.S.; within that group, advocate for testing within their group of friends CDC and local data tell us that MSM of color are or social network. Our goal is to find people who infected at highly disproportionate rates. From have undiagnosed HIV infections, and link those July 1, 2010-June 30, 2011, Mazzoni Center individuals to resources and quality health care. tested nearly 5,500 individuals for HIV; about And for those who are negative and still engag2,800 of them identified as MSM and 1,100 were ing in risky behaviors, we provide them with a MSM of color. The overall positive rate for MSM referral to other prevention services to help them reduce their HIV/STD infection risk. was 2.98 percent but, when you break it down to TRIP recruitment meetings are held every secMSM of color, the rate was an alarming 4.75 percent. The situation is even more critical for young ond and fourth Wednesday of the month from MSM of color (aged 24 and under). This tells 7-8:30 p.m. at Washington West Project, 1201 us we have a serious public-health challenge we Locust St. We provide a program orientation need to address. and twice-monthly check-ins, making sure the February 7 is National Black HIV/AIDS recruiter/advocates have a space to talk about barriers and challenges within their particular Awareness Day, a national HIV testing and treatcommunities. ment community mobilization initiative, with In both of these programs, we’ve seen that organizers planning activities and events in thousands of locales around the U.S. Mazzoni Center creating a sense of community makes a differwill offer free rapid testing at our Washington ence. Particularly among the young MSM who West location, 1201 Locust St., from 9 a.m.-9 attend our H.Y.P.E. sessions, there is a hunger p.m. and at Community College of Philadelphia, for connection and belonging. It’s hard enough 17th and Spring Garden streets, from noon-6 being part of one minority community, but when you compound this with a second set of circump.m. on our mobile testing unit. We encourage stances — whether it be sexual orientation, geneveryone, but especially men of color, to get tested as a first step toward taking charge of their der identity or anything else — that places you PAGE 16 outside of the norm, the social health. Statistics tells us that people who know

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Creep of the Week

D’Anne Witkowski

Stacey Campfield

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Knowing your friends This week, Susan G. Komen for the Cure announced it would stop funding Planned Parenthood, a move critics have charged is politically motivated, not to mention short-sighted. The funding Komen gave to Planned Parenthood — reportedly $680,000 last year — provided low-income women with breast screening exams, a total of some 170,000 since 2005. According to Komen, the organization recently implemented a policy to halt funding for groups that are under investigation by local, state and federal authorities; last fall, Republican U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns of Florida launched an inquiry into Planned Parenthood to determine if public money was improperly spent on abortions, prompting Komen’s decision to defund. To be sure, Stearns is opposed to abortion rights, and has repeatedly voted to limit access to abortion, as well as to specifically defund Planned Parenthood. (Not surprisingly, he also voted against the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act and subsequent efforts to amend the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage.) It’s unclear if Komen adopted the policy specifically for Planned Parenthood, or if it had general concerns over misuse of funds by grantees. While the money that Komen gives to Planned Parenthood affiliates may not amount to much in the grand scheme — Koman had $350 million in revenue in fiscal year 2010 — the damage it has done to its brand will be hard to repair, if executives even want to. (For clarity, Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania does not receive funding from Susan G. Komen, and does not have a relationship with the organization.) Though it’s not universal, it’s certainly fair to say that the LGBT community is far more likely to support abortion rights than to oppose them — even if lesbians and bisexuals are less likely to need abortion services themselves. Likewise, those who support abortion rights are more likely to support LGBT causes. Which brings us back to Komen. Though research has not been definitive, lesbians have an increased risk of developing breast cancer. They are also less likely to be screened for breast cancer and less likely to have adequate health insurance. Though critics of Planned Parenthood often decry its abortion services, they rarely discuss the general women’s health services the organization provides — such as breast cancer screening and ob-gyn exams. It’s disheartening that an organization committed to women’s health would bow to right-wing pressure, instead of standing up and fighting on behalf of women. Perhaps abortion rights aren’t part of Komen’s mission, but women’s health sure as hell is. If Komen has truly bowed to right-wing pressure, shame on the organization for putting politics above women’s health. ■

There are a lot of things wrong with state Sen. Stacey Campfield (R-Tenn.). Mainly mouth things and brain things, as in the thoughts he has and the things he says out loud. Sadly, because he’s a state legislator, those things manifest themselves in actual legislation, like the bill he authored that would forbid sex-education classes to even mention anything other than heterosexuality. Because, as has been widely shown, if you say “gay” three times in a row, you become gay. Or maybe that’s Beetlejuice. It doesn’t matter. Campfield knows the best way to prevent homosexuality is to pretend it doesn’t exist. For reasons I don’t totally understand, Campfield was recently interviewed on Michelangelo Signorile’s SiriusXM radio show “OutQ.” I’m fairly certain Campfield’s reason for going on the program had something to do with a desire to increase the number of people who think he is terrible. In that case: success. Campfield made some really stunning antigay points. Like how antigay bullying “is the biggest lark out there.” In his opinion, gay kids don’t kill themselves because they’re bullied, they kill themselves because they’re gay. He said, “I think a lot of times these young teens and young children, they find it very hard on themselves and unfortunately some of them commit suicide.” He also complained that you can’t turn on a TV these days without something gay getting shoved down your throat. “Homosexuals represent about 2 to 3 percent of the population yet you look at television and plays and theaters, it’s 50 percent of the theaters, probably more than that, 50 percent of the theaters based on something about homosexuality,” he said. He is, of course, 100-percent mathematically accurate about TV, but he’s really low-balling that “plays and theaters” number. As for his gay gag-order bill, he stood up for it. “I just think there are situations where some kids may be sexually unsecure in themselves or sexually confused and don’t necessarily know clearly what direction they are,” he said. “If someone, a person of influence, says maybe you’re gay, maybe you should explore those things — maybe the child, who is young and

impressionable, says maybe I am gay.” Hmm ... A kid wondering whether or not he’s gay. The horror! But what if he actually is gay? Best he ignore it, I guess. And I don’t know what kinds of people “of influence” Campfield had in his life as a kid, but his idea that, say, teachers and guidance counselors are telling kids, “Hey, you might be a homo. Go try out some gay sex and get back to us,” is ludicrous. But Campfield isn’t a man who worries about seeming ridiculous. Or ignorant. You need look no further than his comments to Signorile about AIDS. “Most people realize that AIDS came from the homosexual community — it was one guy screwing a monkey, if I recall correctly, and then having sex with men,” Campfield said. “It was an airline pilot, if I recall.” And he may, in fact, recall, just like I recall hearing, that eating Pop Rocks and drinking Coke at the same time would cause my stomach to explode. He can recall all day long, but that doesn’t make the above comments factually accurate. But wait, there’s more. He also said, “My understanding is that it is virtually — not completely, but virtually — impossible to contract AIDS through heterosexual sex.” This man clearly has a lot of trouble with “understanding,” because that’s totally incorrect. Terrifyingly incorrect, actually. Like “something only a dumb shit says out loud” incorrect. Campfield is, to borrow his own words, the biggest lark out there. And the joke’s on us. ■ [Editor’s note: Campfield was asked to leave a restaurant shortly after the Sirius interview due to the comments he made.] D’Anne Witkowski is a Detroit-based freelance writer. When she’s not taking on the creeps of the world, she reviews rock ’n’ roll shows in Detroit with her twin sister.

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What is LGBT equality victory? taurant and demanded to see the manager. Over the last few months, this column has been chronicling the successes on the While waiting for the manager, I lectured the man on his homophobia and that I, as road to equality. They have come hard a customer, would not tolerate that. This and fast. Some are just at the beginning was all done very loudly so that each and stage: We have learned when you take on every person in that restaurant would hear the Catholic Church it backs down; when you set out to educate the people on marit. Why? riage equality then have a good political Because it was at that moment I knew strategy, it brings success. All what victory was. That man of this has not gone unnoticed just assumed that I agreed with by Republicans such as New his position and it was safe to Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, mention his view to a personal who appointed an openly stranger. How often do we hear someone say something homogay man to the New Jersey phobic and there is no chalSupreme Court. Or even the last three Republican presidential lenge? debates, where not one of the Victory in LGBT rights will come when people feel the need candidates brought up the “gay” to censure their homophobia, issue. And just think: It’s been knowing that it is not a popujust over a year since the repeal lar position. There may always of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was be homophobes, just like there signed into history. are racists and people who are This has led me to thinking about what is the benchmark of anti-Semitic or anti-Muslim. victory. Actually, that’s a quesdifference is that speaking Mark Segal The tion that has bothered me for publicly about your disdain for many years, and it took a fastgay people or joking about the LGBT community is still acceptable. food hamburger and fries to give me the Well, it wasn’t in that restaurant. The answer. manager came over and apologized and I On the road and not wanting to get off requested that the incident be put on his track, many of us just stop to grab a bite to personnel file. I know that man will never eat at the most convenient place possible, do that again, and I also know that each often a diner or fast-food outlet. and every person in that restaurant learned Last week, while I was sitting in one that day that there were consequences from of those places having a quiet lunch and hate speech. It is my belief that none of watching CNN, a story came on about the them would ever make that mistake again. grandson of mega-right-wing evangelist While we can legislate almost all forms Oral Roberts. The story outlined how difficult it was for him to come out and how of equality, real equality will not happen his grandfather really didn’t talk about it until we engage with our friends, relawith him, but at the end of the interview he tives and others. Our best tool to promote was proud to announce that he was soon to equality is not what I did, but rather if each and every LGBT person talks with their marry his partner. friends, relatives and coworkers. When we At that moment, from out of nowhere, do that, we become flesh and blood rather a maintenance man came over to me and than the story of Sodom and Gomorra they said, “He doesn’t know how to read. The have been taught. ■ Bible says Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.” Now I didn’t know this guy, and Mark Segal, PGN publisher, is the I don’t think he knew me. I hadn’t even nation’s most-award-winning commentaglanced at him before he spoke to me. Well, imagine my reaction. It was imme- tor in LGBT media. He can be reached at diate. I stood up in the middle of the resmark@epgn.com.

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Letters and Feedback In response to “NJ Senate committee passes marriage bill, Christie calls for referendum,” Jan. 27-Feb. 2: Thank you, Senate President Stephen Sweeney. It takes a sincere person to realize they made a mistake and take the necessary action to correct the issue. I am proud of you and have gained more respect for you. The strong position you presented last Tuesday is greatly appreciated. I also offer a big thank you to all the other senators who vote yes! Gov. Christie’s personal position on the matter should not negatively reflect on the lives of others. He must uphold the Supreme Court ruling

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Street Talk Should New Jersey hold a referendum on same-sex marriage? “No, that’s an issue for legislators. They’re more informed. It’s better to have experts decide such matters, because they Kevin Matthews understand student the legal Queen Village repercussions. With a referendum, you’d have some people voting in a biased manner. That would be unfortunate.”

“No. [Same-sex marriage] will never pass if it’s subjected to majority rule. Too many people are Stephanie Nielsen naive and restaurant manager self-centered. Queen Village They don’t accept diversity. It’s the government’s role to make sure same-sex couples have the right to marry.”

“Yes. I believe in people’s ability to make decisions that affect their lives. If people speak and the answer is Tanner Warner no, then so be financial analyst it. We have to Poplar section submit to the will of the people.”

“Yes, let the people decide, not the government. The government tries to get involved Adam Woods in people’s painter personal lives South Philadelphia too much. It’s not the government’s job to decide who should marry. That’s a community issue.”

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In response to “Nutter joins marriageequality mayors,” Jan. 27-Feb. 2:

high sales tax and we get nothing in return, and the state has no gender-identity-sexual orientation nondiscrimination and bare bones antibullying laws, yet Nutter has decided to spend valuable resources on something that not only does he not have a say on, but should not be prioritized over nondiscrimination/safe schools/LGBT health, etc. — JordanGwendolynDavis

Oh, so we’ve had more homicides than days this year (and some pretty twisted ones at that), the city is hemorrhaging jobs to New Jersey and Bucks, Delaware and Montgomery counties, we have a super-

Thank you, Mayor Nutter! You are a real friend and supporter to the LGBT community. This issue is at least as important if not more than all the other issues, as this is one that the elected officials can do some-

and create equality for all, something civil unions don’t do. If you are a registered Republican, I strongly urge you to write a letter to your representatives and the governor expressing your full support of equality! Thanks for reporting on this! — TomMcGrathJr

thing about. The position of this organization is spot-on! How can a mayor or other elected official be expected to create jobs? By raising taxes and spending the money on the creation of flash-in-the-pan, shortterm projects? Get real, people. — TomMcGrathJr I just had another thought. Why not take a few moments of time and print out a short letter to your own mayor, either thanking them for belonging or directly asking them why they are not a member to such an important organization for all the people? —TomMcGrathJr

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Read this Patient Information before you start taking COMPLERA and each time you get a reﬁll. There may be new information. This information does not take the place of talking to your healthcare provider about your medical condition or treatment. What is the most important information I should know about COMPLERA?

COMPLERA does not cure HIV infections or AIDS. � Always practice safer sex. � Use latex or polyurethane condoms to lower the chance of sexual contact with any body ﬂuids such as semen, vaginal secretions, or blood. � Never re-use or share needles.

Ask your healthcare provider if you have any questions about how to prevent passing COMPLERA can cause serious side effects, including: 1. Build-up of an acid in your blood (lactic acidosis). Lactic acidosis can happen in HIV to other people. some people who take COMPLERA or similar (nucleoside analogs) medicines. Lactic Who should not take COMPLERA? acidosis is a serious medical emergency that can lead to death. � Do not take COMPLERA if your HIV infection has been previously treated with Lactic acidosis can be hard to identify early, because the symptoms could seem like HIV medicines. symptoms of other health problems. Call your healthcare provider right away if you � Do not take COMPLERA if you are taking certain other medicines. For more get any of the following symptoms which could be signs of lactic acidosis: information about medicines that must not be taken with COMPLERA, see “What � feeling very weak or tired should I tell my healthcare provider before taking COMPLERA?” � have unusual (not normal) muscle pain � have trouble breathing What should I tell my healthcare provider before taking COMPLERA? � have stomach pain with Before you take COMPLERA, tell your healthcare provider if you: - nausea (feel sick to your stomach) � have liver problems, including hepatitis B or C virus infection - vomiting � have kidney problems � feel cold, especially in your arms and legs � have ever had a mental health problem � feel dizzy or lightheaded � have bone problems � have a fast or irregular heartbeat � are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known if COMPLERA can harm your unborn child Pregnancy Registry. There is a pregnancy registry for women who take antiviral medicines during pregnancy. Its purpose is to collect information about the health of you and your baby. Talk to your healthcare provider about how you can take part in this registry. Call your healthcare provider right away if you have any of the following symptoms � are breast-feeding or plan to breast-feed. The Centers for Disease Control and of liver problems: Prevention recommends that mothers with HIV not breastfeed because they can pass � your skin or the white part of your eyes turns yellow (jaundice). the HIV through their milk to the baby. It is not known if COMPLERA can pass through � dark “tea-colored” urine your breast milk and harm your baby. Talk to your healthcare provider about the best � light-colored bowel movements (stools) way to feed your baby. � loss of appetite for several days or longer Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription � nausea and nonprescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. � stomach pain 2. Severe liver problems. Severe liver problems can happen in people who take COMPLERA or similar medicines. In some cases these liver problems can lead to death. Your liver may become large (hepatomegaly) and you may develop fat in your liver (steatosis) when you take COMPLERA.

You may be more likely to get lactic acidosis or severe liver problems if you are COMPLERA may affect the way other medicines work, and other medicines may female, very overweight (obese), or have been taking COMPLERA or a similar affect how COMPLERA works, and may cause serious side effects. If you take certain medicines with COMPLERA, the amount of COMPLERA in your body may be too low and medicine containing nucleoside analogs for a long time. it may not work to help control your HIV infection. The HIV virus in your body may become 3. Worsening of Hepatitis B infection. If you also have hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection resistant to COMPLERA or other HIV medicines that are like it. and you stop taking COMPLERA, your HBV infection may become worse (flare-up). A “flare-up” is when your HBV infection suddenly returns in a worse way than before. Do not take COMPLERA if you also take these medicines: COMPLERA is not approved for the treatment of HBV, so you must discuss your HBV � COMPLERA provides a complete treatment for HIV infection. Do not take other HIV medicines with COMPLERA. therapy with your healthcare provider. � the anti-seizure medicines carbamazepine (CARBATROL®, EQUETRO®, TEGRETOL®, � Do not let your COMPLERA run out. Refill your prescription or talk to your healthcare TEGRETOL-XR®, TERIL®, EPITOL®), oxcarbazepine (TRILEPTAL®), phenobarbital provider before your COMPLERA is all gone. (LUMINAL®), phenytoin (DILANTIN®, DILANTIN-125®, PHENYTEK®) � Do not stop taking COMPLERA without first talking to your healthcare provider. ® ® � If you stop taking COMPLERA, your healthcare provider will need to check your health � the anti-tuberculosis medicines rifabutin (MYCOBUTIN ), rifampin (RIFATER , ® ® ® ® , RIMACTANE , RIFADIN ) and rifapentine (PRIFTIN ) RIFAMATE often and do regular blood tests to check your HBV infection. Tell your healthcare provider about any new or unusual symptoms you may have after you stop taking � a proton pump inhibitor medicine for certain stomach or intestinal problems, including esomeprazole (NEXIUM®, VIMOVO®), lansoprazole (PREVACID®), omeprazole COMPLERA. (PRILOSEC®), pantoprazole sodium (PROTONIX®), rabeprazole (ACIPHEX®) � more than 1 dose of the steroid medicine dexamethasone or dexamethasone sodium What is COMPLERA? COMPLERA is a prescription HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) medicine that: phosphate � is used to treat HIV-1 in adults who have never taken HIV medicines before. HIV is the � St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum) virus that causes AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome). If you are taking COMPLERA, you should not take: � contains 3 medicines, (rilpivirine, emtricitabine, tenofovir disoproxil fumarate) � other medicines that contain tenofovir (VIREAD®, TRUVADA®, ATRIPLA®) combined in one tablet. EMTRIVA and VIREAD are HIV-1 (human immunodeficiency � other medicines that contain emtricitabine or lamivudine (EMTRIVA®, COMBIVIR®, virus) nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) and EDURANT is an EPIVIR® or EPIVIR-HBV®, EPZICOM®, TRIZIVIR®) HIV-1 non-nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI). � rilpivirine (EDURANT™) It is not known if COMPLERA is safe and effective in children under the age of 18 years. � adefovir (HEPSERA®)

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Also tell your healthcare provider if you take: The most common side effects of COMPLERA include: � an antacid medicine that contains aluminum, magnesium hydroxide, or calcium � trouble sleeping (insomnia) carbonate. Take antacids at least 2 hours before or at least 4 hours after you take � abnormal dreams COMPLERA. � headache � a histamine-2 blocker medicine, including famotidine (PEPCID®), cimetidine � dizziness (TAGAMET®), nizatidine (AXID®), or ranitidine hydrochloride (ZANTAC®). Take these � diarrhea medicines at least 12 hours before or at least 4 hours after you take COMPLERA. � nausea � the antibiotic medicines clarithromycin (BIAXIN®), erythromycin (E-MYCIN®, ERYC®, � rash ERY-TAB®, PCE®, PEDIAZOLE®, ILOSONE®), and troleandomycin (TAO®) � tiredness ® � an antifungal medicine by mouth, including fluconazole (DIFLUCAN ), itraconazole ® ® ® (SPORANOX ), ketoconazole (NIZORAL ), posaconazole (NOXAFIL ), voriconazole � depression (VFEND®) Additional common side effects include: � methadone (DOLOPHINE®) � vomiting Ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist if you are not sure if your medicine is � stomach pain or discomfort � skin discoloration (small spots or freckles) one that is listed above. Know the medicines you take. Keep a list of your medicines and show it to your � pain healthcare provider and pharmacist when you get a new medicine. Your healthcare provider and your pharmacist can tell you if you can take these medicines with COMPLERA. Do not start any new medicines while you are taking COMPLERA without first talking with your healthcare provider or pharmacist. You can ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist for a list of medicines that can interact with COMPLERA. How should I take COMPLERA? � Stay under the care of your healthcare provider during treatment with COMPLERA. � Take COMPLERA exactly as your healthcare provider tells you to take it. � Always take COMPLERA with a meal. Taking COMPLERA with a meal is important to help get the right amount of medicine in your body. A protein drink does not replace a meal. � Do not change your dose or stop taking COMPLERA without first talking with your healthcare provider. See your healthcare provider regularly while taking COMPLERA. � If you miss a dose of COMPLERA within 12 hours of the time you usually take it, take your dose of COMPLERA with a meal as soon as possible. Then, take your next dose of COMPLERA at the regularly scheduled time. If you miss a dose of COMPLERA by more than 12 hours of the time you usually take it, wait and then take the next dose of COMPLERA at the regularly scheduled time. � Do not take more than your prescribed dose to make up for a missed dose. � When your COMPLERA supply starts to run low, get more from your healthcare provider or pharmacy. It is very important not to run out of COMPLERA. The amount of virus in your blood may increase if the medicine is stopped for even a short time. � If you take too much COMPLERA, contact your local poison control center or go to the nearest hospital emergency room right away. What are the possible side effects of COMPLERA? COMPLERA may cause the following serious side effects, including: � See “What is the most important information I should know about COMPLERA?” � New or worse kidney problems can happen in some people who take COMPLERA. If you have had kidney problems in the past or take other medicines that can cause kidney problems, your healthcare provider may need to do blood tests to check your kidneys during your treatment with COMPLERA. � Depression or mood changes. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you have any of the following symptoms: - feeling sad or hopeless - feeling anxious or restless - have thoughts of hurting yourself (suicide) or have tried to hurt yourself � Bone problems can happen in some people who take COMPLERA. Bone problems include bone pain, softening or thinning (which may lead to fractures). Your healthcare provider may need to do additional tests to check your bones. � Changes in body fat can happen in people taking HIV medicine. These changes may include increased amount of fat in the upper back and neck (“buffalo hump”), breast, and around the main part of your body (trunk). Loss of fat from the legs, arms and face may also happen. The cause and long term health effect of these conditions are not known. � Changes in your immune system (Immune Reconstitution Syndrome) can happen when you start taking HIV medicines. Your immune system may get stronger and begin to fight infections that have been hidden in your body for a long time. Tell your healthcare provider if you start having new symptoms after starting your HIV medicine.

Tell your healthcare provider if you have any side effect that bothers you or that does not go away. These are not all the possible side effects of COMPLERA. For more information, ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 (1-800-332-1088). How do I store COMPLERA? � Store COMPLERA at room temperature 77 °F (25 °C). � Keep COMPLERA in its original container and keep the container tightly closed. � Do not use COMPLERA if the seal over the bottle opening is broken or missing. Keep COMPLERA and all other medicines out of reach of children. General information about COMPLERA: Medicines are sometimes prescribed for purposes other than those listed in a Patient Information leaflet. Do not use COMPLERA for a condition for which it was not prescribed. Do not give COMPLERA to other people, even if they have the same symptoms you have. It may harm them. This leaflet summarizes the most important information about COMPLERA. If you would like more information, talk with your healthcare provider. You can ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist for information about COMPLERA that is written for health professionals. For more information, call (1-800-445-3235) or go to www.COMPLERA.com. What are the ingredients of COMPLERA? Active ingredients: emtricitabine, rilpivirine hydrochloride, and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate Inactive ingredients: pregelatinized starch, lactose monohydrate, microcrystalline cellulose, croscarmellose sodium, magnesium stearate, povidone, polysorbate 20. The tablet film coating contains polyethylene glycol, hypromellose, lactose monohydrate, triacetin, titanium dioxide, iron oxide red, FD&C Blue #2 aluminum lake, FD&C Yellow #6 aluminum lake. This Patient Information has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Manufactured and distributed by: Gilead Sciences, Inc. Foster City, CA 94404 Issued: August 2011 COMPLERA, the COMPLERA Logo, EMTRIVA, HEPSERA, TRUVADA, VIREAD, GILEAD, and the GILEAD Logo are trademarks of Gilead Sciences, Inc. or its related companies. ATRIPLA is a trademark of Bristol-Myers Squibb & Gilead Sciences, LLC. All other trademarks referenced herein are the property of their respective owners. © 2012 Gilead Sciences, Inc. All rights reserved. 202123-GS-000 02AUG2011 CON11823 1/12

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pressures and the sense of isolation can be overwhelming. This need for support and connection is also expressed by adult men of color who come to us through TRIP. Many of them talk about the stigma around homosexuality in their neighborhoods and communities, and the reluctance to talk about things like HIV. So a big part of our work is to help normalize these conversations, to open up a space for these men to have an honest dialogue, ask questions, share their stories and voice their fears, frustrations and victories. At Mazzoni Center, we recognize there are many factors that influence someone’s behavior, health and sense of self-identity. The reality is that, even in 2012, many MSM of color face an extra burden of racial discrimination, cultural barriers to health care and social stigma related to their sexual orientation or behavior. Through educating our community about the risks of HIV infection, engaging individuals to act as agents of positive change and empowering them to take control of their health and wellbeing, we can begin to address this health crisis that is threatening too many of our brothers (and sisters). National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is a good reminder of the work that needs to be done to reach these goals, not just on Feb. 7 but throughout the year. For a full list of locations offering free HIV testing on Feb. 7, go to www.nationalblackaidsday.org. To learn more about TRIP or how you can get involved, contact me at 215-563-0652 or amuhammad@mazzonicenter. org For more information about H.Y.P.E., contact Christopher Collins at ccollins@mazzonicenter.org. ■ Abdul-Aliy Muhammad is the community health recruitment coordinator at Mazzoni Center, the region’s only LGBT-specific health-care center.

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Performers bare their souls in new show By Larry Nichols larry@epgn.com

Quince Productions, known locally for bringing thought-provoking LGBT-inclusive theater to the stage, needs the audience to bring its latest show to life. “Overexposed: A Slightly Awkward Peep Show” revolves around three writer/performers — Jennifer MacMillan, R. Eric Thomas and Daniel Student — as they regale the audience with theatrical storytelling, finding common ground in their different backgrounds. “I think of it as a coming-of-age story for a slightly older group,” MacMillan said. “The two boys just turned 30 and I’m 28. When you think of coming of age, you usually think of teenagers. But we realize we’re dealing with big-life stuff like buying houses and relationships — questions about identity, sexuality and marriage. For me the piece is really about truthful, revealing, interesting stories that are specific and universal in their theme surrounding how people come of age with their bodies and their identities.” In the show, the three performers are exploring sexuality by playing themselves and telling stories about their experiences. “We wanted to show looking at sexuality in a mature way,“ Thomas said. “It started looking at sex and sexuality and what is our approach to sexual maturity for the rest of our lives. For each of us it’s really different. Jen is looking at a boyfriend to find or a house to find. Daniel is looking at what is the sexual role of the straight man. These are progressive ideas. I’m looking at what manhood means to the gay man and whether I can have male friends that I don’t sleep with. These are concerns that I never really had in my 20s, but now I’m starting to think about.” MacMillan said for her performance, she’s trying to put as much of

herself into her stories as possible. “I have an improv background,” she said. “I like to work from a place of personal truth. That’s the kind of improv I do and that’s the kind of theater that I’m interested in doing. I’m trying to strip away character as much as possible and I’m trying to be the most genuine version of myself, completely honest. I try to let go of the fact that this is going to be in front of an audience and, once they know something about me, they can’t un-know them. I’m holding my own feet to the fire on this one. Everything that I have written is true: They are my own personal thoughts, there’s crazy stuff about my family. So I think the comedy comes because I’m a really good underdog and I think the audience will like that. I think it’s funny to be the underdog and have all the cards stacked against you. The comedy comes from this deep need that borders on manic desperation to be a high-functioning person in the world.” Thomas said he is also drawing from deeply personal experiences for his stories. “It’s a story about a relationship of mine with a guy that failed,” he said. “I tell it in different ways, looking at it as my first adult relationship and what failed. It touches on a lot of different themes as varied office politics, racial identity and, at one point, I go on a tangent on how to cook fried chicken. The second story I tell is more straightforward. It’s about friendship. I live with a guy who is extremely attractive and my thought is we’re going to set up house and become boyfriends. And nothing happens. It’s a story about relationships, finding a platonic kinship and reaching a point where you learn how to actually be part of a relationship, as opposed to being a taker looking for love or sex.” Both performers said the stories told throughout the show’s run will be the same, but the discussions among the performers themselves and the inter-

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action with the audience will be different from show to show. “We’re telling the same stories, but we do keep it fresh,” Thomas said. “In between each story we do a take-off on ‘The View.’ We talk about what the individual just talked about. That will be different every night. We may talk about what happened that night before or something that hap-

pened in the past.” “We have these improvised conversations and interludes between stories,” MacMillan said. “We try to create thematic threads between the stories we’re telling so they won’t be completely disparate. My relationship to them is definitely one of camaraderie. I feel like our stories build nicely on each other’s backs, the way

a natural conversation would evolve. You was brilliant to have the audience help me could say something and then someone else write the ending. So I’m going to work that would say, ‘Oh yeah, right. That reminds in and see if the audience can help me at all me of this.’ Even though our pieces are on this journey to figure out what self-love solo pieces, they feel more like a dialogue is. They may not have any response for me. between friends. The nature of this kind of It’s improvisational. It’s a little bit dangerwork is that it’s revealing and honest and ous, but we want to encourage conversation.” gritty. You become very This all might sound like close in the process and heavy and profound musI think it’s going to show ings, but Thomas assured on stage.” us there’s a humorous MacMillan added that and lighthearted vibe to the participation of the audience is helping her “Overexposed.” “Jen is an extremely resolve one of her stories. funny comic actress,” he “There’s one piece I was said. “Daniel’s stories struggling to write, which are kind of shocking and is about learning to love funny. I can go from touchyourself,” she said. “I just didn’t have an ending. If ing and pathos to hilarit were a movie or a book, ity really quickly. That’s where I like to be. I don’t it would be easy to craft like to be overly serious. something the felt tidy We’re talking about things and complete, you know that people don’t talk — have an epiphany. But about, awkward things. It’s it’s not a movie. It’s honest and I don’t have the more fun to talk about it in a funny way that to just be answer. Working on this THOMAS IN CHARACTER downtrodden about it.” ■ piece, I thought, Oh my God. I’m really fucked. I Q u i n c e P ro d u c t i o n s p re s e n t s can’t end this piece because I don’t have the answer on how to love myself. So in “Overexposed: A Slightly Awkward Peep rehearsal, I went through the entire piece up Show,” Feb. 10-12 at Laurie Beechman to the point where I stop and said, ‘Help me Cabaret at the Arts Bank, 601 S. Broad St. write the ending. What happens?’ And they For more information, visit www.quincethought that was part of the piece and that it productions.com.

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Bia Vieira: Anthropology, philanthropy and Tupperware ... The motto of São Paulo, Brazil, is “Non ducor, duco,” which translates to “I am not led, I lead.” The same motto could be applied to this week’s profile, Bia Vieira. In 2008, Vieira was named the Philadelphia Foundation’s vice president for community impact, a job responsible for managing more than $20 million in grants awarded each year to hundreds of community nonprofit organizations. Prior to joining the Foundation, Vieira oversaw the 108-yearold Lutheran Settlement House, an agency that provides social services, education and advocacy programs to over 10,000 people each year. The longtime activist has worked in Latino, women’s and arts and culture programs since she arrived in the Philadelphia area. She currently sits on the board of the Homeless Assistance Fund Inc. and the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence. PGN: Tell me a little about yourself. BV: I’m originally from São Paulo, Brazil. I was born in the city but grew up in the interior with my grandparents. I’m the oldest with a younger sister and brother and a much younger brother my mother had with her second husband. PGN: Were you always a caretaker? BV: Yes. When I was 5, my father died and my mother went back to school. We moved in with my grandparents and the three of us kids were very tight-knit. PGN: What things would you do together? BV: Sing! In Brazil, music is a big part of the culture so there was a lot of singing and guitar playing and eating and talking. Every Sunday, my grandparents would have the entire family over for lunch — cousins and aunts and uncles. It was a great big wonderful mess. PGN: [Laughs.] So do you eat late at night? BV: Yes! I prefer to. PGN: What did you like to do as a kid? BV: Dance. I studied modern dance when I was young and my first dream was to be a dancer, but sadly I was not built for it. PGN: Tell me a little about São Paulo and the interior? BV: Well, São Paulo is a great big city with 20-million people. It’s the largest city in the southern hemisphere and the world’s seventh-largest city by population. It has so much to offer. It’s amazing but there’s also a stark contrast between the people who are poor and living on the streets and the people with extreme amounts of money. The interior is very different. It’s very rural, much more conservative and very Catholic.

PGN: How old were you when you left Brazil? BV: I was 17. We moved from São Paulo to upstate New York ... in January! I’d never seen the snow before and we didn’t speak English and it was tough. It’s a very insular place, which at that point was not very welcoming to anyone from the outside, especially a different country. They didn’t know what to do with us in school, so they put us in special-ed classes! This was before bilingual classes. Fortunately, I got through it and was able to come to Philadelphia and attend Temple University for both my undergrad and my master’s. PGN: What did you study? BV: For undergrad I studied anthropology, and I studied literature for my master’s. PGN: And what did you think you were going to do with anthropology? BV: [Laughs.] I know! I’ve actually been able to use both in my work. Anthropology is all about understanding how cultures work and how they organize and how different people are able to understand each other or sometimes not. Literature is all about stories and understanding their meaning. It’s also about language and how it is structured. So they both tie in to everything I do.

be supported 100 years later in an impactful and important way. Once you know the donor’s passion, there’s no end to the possibilities. PGN: With so many programs and funds being cut these days, there seems to be a growing mentality that people need to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. BV: I think there’s a myth, especially in the U.S., that anyone who’s made it has done it by themselves. I know for me, I came to the U.S. not speaking English and I know that I had help from a lot of people to get where I am today. Wherever or whatever success is for you, it’s important to remember that we all had people along the way who assisted us. Whether it was a family member or teacher or benefactor or a mentor, we all have someone who took a special interest in us and helped. You might think you made it on your own, but we all need help to get where we want to go. PGN: Any project or person that touched

PGN: What is your current title? BV: I’m the vice president for Philanthropic Services for the Philadelphia Foundation. It’s an amazing space to be in because it’s connecting organizations that are doing really amazing work in our area and helping support them financially or with technical assistance, and also connecting them with philanthropists who have certain interests they want to support. It’s a great privilege to be able to do it. PGN: What’s the oddest request you’ve had — à la Leona Helmsley, who left $12 million to care for her dog? BV: Luckily we’ve never had anything that extreme! But we do have some funds that are very old and their owners have long since passed. At the time when they set up the funds, things were very different. For instance, we have a fund that is to take care of horses that dates back to when horses were used primarily for transportation. It was designed to create water troughs on the streets for them to drink from. [Laughs.] That’s not something that we really need now. But what we were able to establish is that what the donor was interested in was twofold — making sure that transportation was readily accessible for everyone and animal care. So we can still help support those two causes, just not the same way they were supported in 1918! It’s very moving that there are ways that something someone cared about can still

peared. There was severe censorship too, but after a while, the resistance was able to shift the country, so I’ve seen what can happen when people fight back against oppression and violence on a national level, at a group level and, with these women, at the personal and community level. It’s inspiring. PGN: Tell me about coming out. BV: I came out a little later than most. But I have a great partner, Nina, and I also have a 19-year-old son who has been a wonderful supporter. PGN: How old was he when you came out? BV: It’s been about eight years, so I guess he was about 11. PGN: How did you know? BV: I’ve always worked closely with women. I think that being a Brazilian woman in the United States, there’s an exoticism of Latin women. We are expected to be sexy and flirtatious. I don’t understand men and never have, so flirting was the only way I knew how to communicate and I never really established any meaningful connections with men. I’ve just always connected better with women. Plus, they’re hot! PGN: What was the first women’s bar you ever went into? BV: It was Hepburns’. But I’d been going to women’s bars even before I came out.

you? BV: Before coming to the Philadelphia Foundation, I spent 20 years as an executive director of Lutheran Settlement House. We had a shelter for homeless moms and their kids. A lot of the moms came from abusive households and I was really moved by the resilience of those women and the passion of the people who worked with them. When I grew up in Brazil, there was a military dictatorship. It was a time when people were tortured or simply disap-

PGN: Have you been to Gay Pride in São Paulo? BV: Oh yes, it’s huge! I was there three years ago. The celebration has grown from 2,000 participants in 1997 to 4-million people in its last edition. In 2006, they made it to the Guinness Book of [World] Records for the world’s biggest Gay Pride celebration Photo: Suzi Nash and they’re expecting 4-5 million people for 2012. I’m going back in March. PGN: Who’s still back there? BV: My mom and my entire extended family. My mom hated living here in the States and immediately went back. [Laughs.] She just forgot to take us with her. PGN: So do people mix up Spanish and Portuguese all the time? PAGE 29

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RuPaul’s “Battle of the Seasons” was you want to learn more about the Bears, get amazing! So many great highlights, it’s there early for the club meeting in the basement at 7 p.m. hard to pick my favorite. For more information, see www.libertyI loved seeing all the veterans, but it bears.net. really came down to the new girls: Phi Phi O’Hara and Sharon Needles. Parties for “The Big Game” If I had to pick just one, I’d go Ever wonder why 99 percent with Sharon. She dressed up as a of ads refer to it as “The Big female hooker version of Freddy Game”? Is it like the Bloody Krueger complete with rhineMary legend? If you say it stone-studded finger knives and three times fast will a GoDaddy performed “Sweet Dreams” by girl appear and smother you Eurythmics. with her breasts or something? The moment of bliss came Screw the copyright lawyers: as Annie Lennox sang the line, Super Bowl, Super Bowl, Super “Hold your head up, keep your Bowl! head up,” at which point Sharon (Gasp! She appeared! I can’t did what any self-respectbreathe!) ing goth queen would do: She Jim Kiley- OK, fine then. Don’t miss opened up a hatbox, took out a Big Game,” the commersevered head and — wait for it Zufelt “The cials or the Madonna halftime — held it up. Genius! show (this game is so butch). Do you think the captain of You can catch all the fun starting at 6 p.m. a leather club and a rising drag superstar Feb. 5 at ICandy, 254 S. 12th St. They’ll could have a baby together? I. Love. Her. have drink specials, prizes and freebies, a buffet and trivia hosted by Salotta Tee. Bears in boxers Or you can watch it on a huge screen The Liberty Bears are back with a at The Big Game Event II, hosted by the Valentine Boxers Ball, 9 p.m. Feb. 4 on Greater Philadelphia Flag Football League, the third floor of The Bike Stop, 206 S. 6 p.m. Feb. 5 at the International House, Quince St. There will be a sexy bear and 3701 Chestnut St. They’ll have hot food, an boy contest and DJ Barney Philly will be spinning the tunes, all for just a $5 cover. If open bar, a silent auction, raffles and a VIP reception, and you get to watch the game on a humongous screen in the 350-seat Ibrahim Theater. Tickets to The Big Game Event II are $40 in advance, $50 at the door, $65 for VIP (includes private reception at 5 p.m. Move Forward Fitness with special food and cocktails), or $125 for a Host Committee ticket (includes all of the above plus acknowledgement in event • Lose Fat! materials). All proceeds benefit GPFFL and ActionAIDS, which are both 501(c)(3) • Gain Muscle! nonprofits, to help you get your tax deduc• Speed Metabolism! tion on, girl.

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space they were using had gotten way too small. Not that I’m complaining about pressing flesh with all those hot tattooed men and women. This means the third unofficial afterparty will be held from 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Feb. 10 at The Bike Stop, 206 S. Quince St. They’ll have drink specials, a kick-ass playlist, a complimentary photo booth to help you remember you were there and a very liberal dress code to help you show off your tattoos. See www.villainarts.com for more info on the convention, and find The Bike Stop on Facebook for more about the after-party. I ♥ Gear Party and Operation Tea Room Philadelphians MC has been raising money for charity for 38 years. This year, the group has decided to do something different by selecting one beneficiary to receive the funds from every event for the entire year. This year the recipient is “Operation Tea Room,” which will raise money to cover the renovation and upgrade of one of the second-floor restrooms at the William Way Community Center. You can help Philadelphians MC in this noble cause by attending the I ♥ Gear Party at 9 p.m. Feb. 11 on the third floor of The Bike Stop. There’s a dress code, which means a T-shirt and jeans will get you in, but you’re strongly encouraged to wear your favorite sport, motocross, military, leather, uniform, latex or rubber gear. Suggested donation of $5 gets you in, with music provided by New York City DJ Dave Huge, who was recently announced as a judge for the International Mr. Leather contest in May. There will also be lots of inappropriate collectible buttons available and of course yellow Jell-O shots. Won’t you help Philadelphians MC ensure that future LGBT generations have a warm, safe place to go to the bathroom? They can’t spell FLUSH without U. ■ Questions, comments or wondering how much caffeine he was drinking while writing the column this week? It was a lot, trust me. Contact Jim at barcrawlr@gmail.com.

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READY TO BE HEARD: Christina Aguilera and company are back for a new season of the hit vocal competition “The Voice,” which premieres after the Super Bowl Feb. 5, then settles into its regular day and time, 8 p.m. Feb. 6 on NBC. Photo: NBC/Art

FRESH FABULOUSNESS: Finally, an all-new episode of “Absolutely Fabulous” hits the airwaves following the continued misadventures of Eddie (Jennifer Saunders, left) and Patsy (Joanna Lumley), 10:30 p.m. Feb. 6 on Logo.

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BV: Yes, most people don’t even know that they’re different. They don’t realize that there are several languages spoken in South America. PGN: How many do you speak? BV: I speak Spanish, Portuguese and English, and can read and understand French and Italian. PGN: What was a language mishap as you were learning English? BV: When I first came here, I was asked to go to a Tupperware party. I thought it was a “top-wear” party, meaning that you wore tops only, and I thought, How progressive. Fortunately, I found out before I showed up at the door with no pants, but I have to say the party was quite boring. My way would have been more fun. PGN: Any famous relatives? BV: My mom kind of is: Her family started Frateschi Electric Trains. Frateschi is her maiden name. They are the only modeltrain manufacturer in South America. PGN: Time for some random questions. Do you remember the first English record you bought? BV: Oh yes, it was The Beatles’ “Revolver.” PGN: Which literary character most resembles you?

‘GLEE’ FOR GROWN-UPS: Yeah, we said it. “Smash” is a new musical drama celebrating the beauty and heartbreak of the Broadway theater as it follows a cross-section of dreamers and schemers who all have one common desire. The series centers on the process of creating a Broadway musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe, written by the successful songwriting duo of Tom (Tony Award-nominee Christian Borle, “Legally Blonde: The Musical”) and Julia (Emmy Award-winner Debra Messing, “Will & Grace”). The curtain goes up 10 p.m. Feb. 6 on NBC. Photo: NBC/Mark Seliger

BV: Well, I was named after Beatrice from “Dante’s Inferno.” She’s the person who helps Dante through purgatory and hell to get into heaven. I’ve always felt the name was a little bit of a burden to carry. It seemed I was given the mantle of caregiver from a very young age — taking care of my siblings, etc., which was great, and also had some not-so-great moments. PGN: And you’ve taken it on in your career too. BV: [Laughs.] I know, I can’t help myself! PGN: When was the last time you went ice skating? BV: Noooo. I don’t ice skate. It’s too cold. PGN: You founded the Philadelphia International Latino Film Festival and managed the Feminist Film Series at the Community Education Center and International House, so you’re obviously a film buff. What’s a favorite film? BV: I love “Il Postino,” the film about poet Pablo Neruda when he was in exile in Italy. It was a good depiction of what it was to be a Latin exile and also of the impact that he had on the little village where he stayed. It demonstrated the power of ideas. PGN: Favorite line from a film?

BV: There’s a movie called “Bye, Bye Brazil” about a small traveling circus, performing from small town to small town through the Brazilian backwaters. In one part of the movie, one of the performers throws confetti in the air to simulate snow. He has a line where he says something like, “Now that we have snow, we are finally a first-world country.” I thought the whole concept that there’s progress only in countries where it’s cold was fascinating — that tropical countries aren’t associated with being first-world. At a time when Brazil was under a lot of conflict and censorship, the movie was able to make political statements in a very subtle way. It was brilliantly done. PGN: What actor should play your life story? BV: I love Selma Hayek. She’s hot! PGN: What’s a Brazilian holiday tradition? BV: Well, the most famous holiday in Brazil is Carnaval. It’s a six-day party. We have various samba schools that compete in a giant parade and crowds follow huge vehicles decorated according to specific themes. It winds through the city streets with everyone dancing and singing. Because all of our holidays are in the summer, it’s all about exuberance and color and coming together. For Christmas, it’s not uncommon to have a picnic outside.

MADONNA’S TOUCHDOWN!: It looks like the people at the Super Bowl have finally unclenched the cheeks a bit years after “Nipplegate,” seeing as pop icon Madonna is the halftime performer this year. Catch all the action and drama live from Indianapolis 6:30 p.m. Feb. 5 on NBC.

PGN: Do you collect anything? BV: I’m kind of fascinated by angels, so I have a small collection of them, maybe about 15. PGN: That’s not bad, we won’t nominate you for “Hoarders” just yet. BV: [Laughs.] No! But what I really love to collect is fabric. I love the beautiful ways that fabric is dyed and used all over the world. From Guatemala to East Timor, every place has its own unique way of using it. PGN: What was a great travel experience? BV: Last August we went to New Orleans for Nina’s birthday and had an amazing time. From the people to the food, to exploring the city, to connecting with each other and finding community, it was awesome. We loved it there. PGN: Lastly, what’s new and exciting on your agenda? BV: I have a great project that I’m excited about working on: David Acosta and I are starting the Philadelphia Latino Film Festival. We are going to do a soft launch of the festival in May. It’s really going to be fun and inspiring, and I hope everyone will come. ■ To suggest a community member for “Family Portrait,” write to portraits05@aol.com.

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OUT & ABOUT The week ahead Fri. 02/03

Sat. 02/04

Solas The Celtic band performs 7 and 9:30 p.m. at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St.; 215222-1400.

PFP Ice Skating at Penn’s Landing Philadelphia Family Pride hosts ice skating from 3-5:30 p.m. at River Rink at Penn’s Landing, Columbus Boulevard and Market Street; RSVP to Stephan ie@phillyfamily pride .org.

Jay Mohr The comedian performs 9 p.m. at the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Music Box, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-3171000. My Bloody Valentine The 1981 slasher film is screened 9:45 p.m. at Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610917-0223.

Merkin Dream Cabaret Nueva Gabor hosts a one-night variety show 7 p.m. at Tabu, 200 S. 12th St.; 215-964-9675. Nick Carter The Backstreet Boy performs 7 p.m. at The

Trocadero Theater, 1003 Arch St.; 215-922-6888. Brad Zimmerman The comedian performs 8 p.m. at Sellersville Theater 1894, 24 W. Temple Ave., Sellersville; 215257-5808. Comedy Cabaret Series starring Chris Thomas, Timmy Hall and BPhlat The comedy begins 8 p.m. at World Cafe Live at the Queen, 500 N. Market St., Wilmington, Del.; 215-222-1400. Five Minute Follies presents The Marriage Equality Cabaret All proceeds go to Support the Struggle for

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Marriage Equality, 8-10 p.m. at The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St.; fiveminutefollies. com. Stephanie Miller’s Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour The comedian performs 8 p.m. at Merriam Theater, 250 S. Broad St.; 215-790-5800. The Yardbirds and Vanilla Fudge The classic-rock bands perform 8 p.m. at Keswick Theatre, 291 N. Keswick Ave., Glenside; 215572-7650. David Guetta The dance/house artist performs 10 p.m. at the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Event Center, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-317-1000.

THEY’LL ROCK YOUR LIGHTS OUT: They’re a little less glam than they used to be but still, ﬂamboyant U.K. rockers The Darkness are back in action after spending a few years dormant and they’re ready to storm the States, 8 p.m. Feb 7 at The Trocadero Theater, 1003 Arch St. For more information, call 215-922-6888.

Sun. 02/05

Tue. 02/07

Camille The romantic melodrama is screened 2 p.m. at Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610917-0223.

Unlabeled: The Acoustic/ Electric Open Mic for Up and Comers Sign up and play, 7 p.m. at World Cafe Live at the Queen, 500 N. Market St., Wilmington, Del.; 215-222-1400.

The Thin Blue Line The crime drama is screened 4:30 p.m. at Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610917-0223.

Mon. 02/06

The Darkness The rock band performs 8 p.m. at The Trocadero Theater, 1003 Arch St.; 215-9226888.

Groove Night Local musicians join forces to bring the R&B, soul, jazz and funk, 7 p.m. at World Cafe Live at the Queen, 500 N. Market St., Wilmington, Del.; 215-222-1400.

TuesGAY Nights Lyrics Lounge and DJ June Rodrigues hosts a weekly night of music and performers for the LGBT community at 8 p.m., 6527 Roosevelt Blvd.; 215-533-5888.

Wed. 02/08 4W5 Blues Jam Local musicians get down 7 p.m. at World Cafe Live at the Queen, 500 N. Market St., Wilmington, Del.; 215-222-1400. Bob Mould The alt-rock singer and guitarist reads from his latest book and performs 7:30 p.m. at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St.; 215-222-1400. Hotel California The Eagles tribute band performs 8 p.m. at Sellersville Theater 1894, 24 W. Temple Ave., Sellersville; 215257-5808.

Thu. 02/09 Pat Travers Band The rock band per-

forms 8 p.m. at Sellersville Theater 1894, 24 W. Temple Ave., Sellersville; 215-257-5808. Die Antwoord The South African electro-rap group performs 9 p.m. at The Trocadero Theater, 1003 Arch St.; 215-922-6888. Bob and Barbara’s Drag Show The outrageousness begins 11 p.m. at Bob and Barbara’s, 1509 South St.; 215545-4511.

Fri. 02/10 Javier Colon The singer and winner of season one of “The Voice” performs 8 p.m. at Keswick Theatre, 291 N. Keswick Ave., Glenside; 215572-7650.

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FANTASTIC FILM: Philadelphia Museum of Art presents “Ten Years,” a mid-career retrospective of the acclaimed out photographer Zoe Strauss. The exhibition is the ﬁrst critical assessment of her 10-year project to exhibit her photographs annually beneath a section of Interstate-95 in South Philadelphia, and is on display through April 22, 26th Street and the Parkway. For more information, visit www.zoestrauss.com or call 215-763-8100.

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Opening Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak Dance Company The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts presents the dance company that combines elements of fantasy and sideshow imagery, Feb. 9-11 at Zellerbach Theatre, 3680 Walnut St.; 215-898-3900. A Night at the Oscars Peter Nero and the Philly Pops perform Feb. 8-12 at Kimmel’s Verizon Hall, 260 S. Broad St.; 215-790-5800. Orchestral Spectacular The Philadelphia Orchestra performs Feb. 9-11 at Kimmel’s Verizon Hall, 260 S. Broad St.; 215-790-5800. Overexposed: A Slightly Awkward Peep Show Quince Productions presents a story about three people trying to figure out who they are in relation to their sexuality, Feb. 1012 at Laurie Beecham Cabaret at the Arts Bank, 601 S. Broad St.; www.quinceproductions.com.

Motherhood: The Musical Society Hill Playhouse, through Feb. 29, 507 S. Eighth St.; 215-923-0211. The Mousetrap Walnut Street Theatre, through March 4, 825 Walnut St.; 215-574-3550. Rent The hit musical about impoverished artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York City’s Lower East Side is on stage through Feb. 11 at Eagle Theatre, 208 Vine St., Hammonton, N.J.; 856-704-5012. The Scottsboro Boys The Philadelphia Theatre Company, through Feb. 19 at Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad St.; 215-985-0420. Time, Light, Chance The James Oliver Gallery, through March 2, 723 Chestnut St., fourth floor; www. jamesolivergallery.com. Van Gogh Up Close Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an

KEEP SHINING: Bob Mould, the gay alt-rock icon, singer, songwriter, DJ and guitarist, is coming back to the area read excerpts from his biography “Shine a Light” and performing solo acoustic songs 7:30 p.m. Feb. 8 at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. For more information, visit www.bobmould.com or call 215-222-1400.

Pushing Boundaries The Pennsylvania Ballet performs Feb. 9-12 at Merriam Theater, 250 S. Broad St.; 215-790-5800.

Continuing Collab: Four Decades of Giving Modern and Contemporary Design Philadelphia Museum of Art through fall, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215763-8100. Doing Time | Depth of Surface Philagrafika hosts an exhibition exploring the architecture and stories of Philadelphia’s historic Holmesburg Prison, through March 17 at The Galleries at Moore, 20th and the Parkway; 215-965-4027, thegalleriesatmoore.org. Member Artists’ Group Show Twenty-Two Gallery presents a grouping of 22 local artists’ work in a variety of media including oils, acrylics, sculpture, print work, mixed media and photography, through Feb. 11, 236 S. 22nd St.; 215-722-1911.

exhibition of works by Vincent van Gogh, through May 6, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-763-8100.

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Closing Arabian Nights The Philadelphia Orchestra performs through Feb. 4 at Kimmel’s Verizon Hall, 260 S. Broad St.; 215-790-5800. Body Awareness The Wilma Theater presets a heartwarming comedy about a lesbian couple dealing with issues of sexuality and identity, through Feb. 5, 265 S. Broad St.; 215-5467824. Green Chair Dance Group The Annenberg Center, through Feb. 4 at Zellerbach Theatre, 3680 Walnut St.; 215898-3900. Philadelphia Auto Show The Automobile Dealers Association of Greater Philadelphia presents the show through Feb. 5 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, 1101 Arch St.; www. phillyautoshow.com. Proof Walnut Street Theatre, through Feb. 5 at Independence Studio on 3, 825 Walnut St.; 215-574-3550. RAIN: A Tribute to The Beatles The internationally acclaimed Beatles tribute concert is performed through Feb. 5 at Kimmel’s Academy of Music, 240 S. Broad St.; 215-790-5800. ■

VALLEY OF THE DOLLS: The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts presents the Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak Dance Company performing its master work, “Oyster,” a fulllength Philadelphia premiere about a fantastic circus world of wandering street acrobats and other bizarre characters dressed in doll-like makeup, spiky blond wigs and tutus. The circus pulls into town Feb. 9-11 at Zellerbach Theatre, 3680 Walnut St. For more information or tickets, call 215898-3900.

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Community Bulletin Board Community centers

■ The Attic Youth Center: For LGBT and questioning youth and their friends and allies. Groups meet and activities are held 4-8 p.m. MondayFriday; case management, HIV testing and smoking cessation are available Monday-Friday. See the Youth section for more events. 255 S. 16th St.; 215-545-4331 ■ Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center at the University of Pennsylvania 3907 Spruce St.; 215-898-5044; center@dolphin.upenn.edu, Hours: 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday

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

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

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

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

Key numbers

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

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

■ AIDS Library: 215-985-4851

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

■ ACLU of Pennsylvania: 215592-1513 ■ AIDS Treatment Fact line: 1800-662-6080 ■ Barbara Gittings Gay and Lesbian Collection at the Independence Branch of the Philadelphia Free Library: 215-685-1633 ■ The COLOURS Organization Inc.: 112 N. Broad St., third floor; 215-496-0330 ■ Equality Pennsylvania: 215731-1447; www.equalitypa.org ■ Equality Forum: 215-732-3378

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

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AIDS Services In Asian Communities Provides HIV-related services to Asians and Pacific Islanders at 340 N. 12th St., Suite 205; 215-629-2300. www.asiac.org Gay and Lesbian Latino AIDS Education Initiative Free, anonymous HIV testing from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday at 1207 Chestnut St., fifth floor; 12-6 p.m. Tuesdays at the Washington West Project, 1201 Locust St. 215851-1822 or 866-222-3871. www.galaei.org. Spanish/English HIV treatment Free HIV/AIDS diagnosis and treatment for Philadelphia residents are available from 9 a.m.-noon Mondays and 5-8 p.m. Thursdays at Health Center No. 2, 1720 S. Broad St.; 215-685-1803. HIV health insurance help Access to free medications and confidential HIV testing

■ Greater Philadelphia Professional Network Networking group for area business professionals, self-employed and business owners meets monthly in a different location throughout the city, invites speakers on various topics, partners with other nonprofits and maintains a Web site where everyone is invited to sign up for e-mail notices for activities and events.; www.gppn.org.

■ Philadelphia Police Department liaison — Deputy Commissioner Stephen Johnson: 215-683-2840 ■ Philadelphia Police Liaison Committee: 267-216-6606; ppd. lgbt@gmail.com ■ Philly Pride Presents: 215875-9288 ■ SPARC — Statewide Pennsylvania Rights Coalition: 717-9209537 ■ Transgender Health Action Coalition: 215-732-1207 (staffed 3-6 p.m. Wednesdays and 6-9 p.m. Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays)

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

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

■ Gay and Lesbian Lawyers of Philadelphia GALLOP holds board meetings at 6:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month at 100 S. Broad St., Suite 1810; GALLOP also provides a free referral service; (215) 6279090; www.galloplaw.org.

■ Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Task Force: 215-772-2000

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

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

Professional groups ■ Independence Business Alliance Greater Philadelphia’s LGBT Chamber of Commerce, providing networking, business development, marketing, educational and advocacy opportunities for LGBT and LGBT-friendly businesses and professionals. Visit www.IndependenceBusinessAlliance.com for information about events, programs and membership; 215-557-0190; 1717 Arch St., Suite 3370. ■ National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association The Philadelphia chapter of NLGJA, open to professionals

and students, meets for social and networking events; www.nlgjaphiladephia.org. ■ Philadelphia Gay Tourism Caucus A regional organization dedicated to promoting gay and lesbian tourism to the Greater Philadelphia Region, holds meetings every other month on the fourth Thursday (January, March, May, July, September and the third Thursday in November), open to the public; P.O. Box 58143, Philadelphia, PA 19102; www.philadelphiagaytourism.com. ■ Philly OutGoing Professionals Social group for gay, lesbian and bisexual professionals meets for social and cultural activities; 856857-9283; popnews19@yahoo. com.

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Gay Married Men’s Association Meets 8 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesdays at the William Way Center; www.gammaphilly.com.

Evolutions A drop-in support group for anyone on the transgender spectrum meets 6-7 p.m. Thursdays at 21 S. 12th St, eighth ﬂoor; 215-563-0652 ext. 235.

Men of All Colors Together Meets 7:30 p.m. the third Friday of the month, September through June, at the William Way Center; 610-2776595; www.MACTPhila.org. Men’s Coming Out Group, N.J. Meets 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays at The Pride Center of New Jersey; njwarrior@aol.com. Men of Color United A discussion/support group for gay and bisexual men of color meets 6-8 p.m. every Wednesday at 112 N. Broad St., 11th ﬂoor; 215-496-0330. Men of Standard Provides a place for gay men of color 21 and older to share issues of concern. Meets 7-9 p.m. Thursdays at Camden AHEC, 514 Cooper St., Camden, N.J.; 856-963-2432. Philly Dads An association of gay and bisexual fathers supporting each other meets 7:30 p.m. the fourth Friday of the month at the William Way Center; 215-668-5239.

Parents/Families Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays/Bucks County Meets 7:30 p.m. the first Tuesday of the month at Penns Park United Methodist Church, 2394 Second Street Pike, Penns Park; 215-5988005. Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays/Chester County Meets 7 p.m. the first Tuesday of the month at the Unitarian Fellowship of West Chester, 501 S. High St.; 484354-2448. Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays/ Collingswood, N.J. Meets 6:30-9 p.m. the fourth Monday of the month at the Collingswood Public Library, 771 Haddon Ave.; 609-202-4622; pflagcollingswood@yahoo.com. Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays/ Philadelphia Meets 2-5 p.m. the third Sunday of the month at the LGBT Center at the University of Pennsylvania, 3907 Spruce St.; 215-572-1833. Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays/ Princeton, N.J. Meets 7:30 p.m. the second Monday of the month in the George Thomas Room at Trinity Church, 33 Mercer St.; 609- 683-5155. Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays/ Wilmington, Del. Meets 7-9 p.m. second Thursday of the month at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1502 W. 13th St.; 302-654-2995. Philadelphia Family Pride Advocacy, support and social network for LGBT families offers play groups, monthly kids and teen talk groups, activities and outings. Planning meetings held monthly; 215-600-2864; www. phillyfamilypride.org.

Mazzoni Center Family and Community Medicine Primary healthcare and specialized transgender services in a safe, professional, nonjudgemental environment, 809 Locust St.; 215563-0658. T-MAN People of color support group for transmen, FTMs, butches, studs, aggressives, bois, genderqueer and all female-born individuals with gender questions meets 7:309:30 p.m. Mondays, second ﬂoor, 1201 Locust St.; 215-834-9063; tmanphilly.com.

open discusson and monthly movie/ discussions, 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays, 112 N. Broad St. third ﬂoor; 215496-0330. Women Coming Out Support Group Women who consider themselves gay, lesbian, bisexual or questioning and are at any stage of the comingout process are welcome. Ages 18 and over. Meets third Thursday of every month, 7:30-9 p.m. at the Pride Center of NJ.

Youth 40 Acres of Change Discussion group for teen and young adults meets 6-8 p.m. Thursdays at The COLOURS Organization Inc., 112 N. Broad St., 11th ﬂoor; 215496-0330.

Transhealth Programming Committee Meets 5 p.m.the second and last Sundays of the month at the William Way Center.

You’re Not Alone A group for gay, lesbian and bisexual youth that meets during the school year; sponsored by AIDS Delaware, 100 W. 10th St., Suite 315, Wilmington. Call 800-810-6776 for more details.

Transhealth Information Project Sponsors a weekly drop-in center from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. MondayThursday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and 6:30-8:30 p.m. Fridays at 21 S. 12th St., 10th ﬂoor; 215-568-2221.

HAVEN For GLBT, intersex, questioning, queer and allied youth ages 14-20; meets 7-9 p.m. Wednesdays at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Lehigh Valley, 424 Center St., Bethlehem; 610-868-2153.

Transgender Health Action Coalition Peer trans health-advocacy organization; 215-732-1207; www. critpath.org/thac.

HiTOPS A safe-space support program for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth, meets 2:30-4:30 p.m. on the ﬁrst and third Saturdays at 21 Wiggins St., Princeton, N.J.; 609-683-5155; hitops.org.

WeXist FTM support group meets 6-8 p.m. second Friday of the month at the William Way Center; ﬁrst hour is open, second hour is for people assigned female at birth who have gender issues; 267-250-1548. Young, Trans, and Uniﬁed! Support group for transgender and questioning individuals ages 1323 meets from 7-8:30 p.m. every Thursday at The Attic Youth Center; 215-545-4331.

Women Hanging Out With Lesbians A group based in central Pennsylvania that organizes activities such as concerts, camping, golf, picnics, hikes, plays, game nights in nonsmoking environments; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ howlofpa. Lesbian Community of Delaware Valley Social group holds monthly meetings and activities for gay women of all ages in Delaware, Chester and Montgomery counties; P.O. Box 962, Phoenixville; http:// groups.yahoo.com/group/LCDV/; marichikogirl@yahoo.com. Lesbian Couples Dining Group of Montgomery County Meets monthly; 215-542-2899. Mt. Airy Lesbian Social Club For lesbians in the Philadelphia area ages 35-plus; www.meetup.com/ mtairylesbiansocial/. Queer Connections Social group for women in their 20s meets weekly; queerconnect@yahoo.com. Sistah 2 Sistah A social/support group for lesbian youth of color, ages 13-24. The group offers weekly social events,

Main Line Youth Alliance Meets from 7-9:30 p.m. Fridays at 106 W. Lancaster Ave., Wayne; 610688-1861; info@myaonline.org. Mountain Meadow For youth with GLBTQ parents. Monthly programs for ages 8-16, family programs and parent coffee groups. Residential program offered in August, 1315 Spruce St.; 215772-1107. Rainbow Room — Bucks County’s LGBTQ and Allies Youth Center For ages 14-21; meets 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays at Doylestown Planned Parenthood, The Atrium, Suite 2E, 301 S. Main St.; 215-957-7981; rainbowroom@ppbucks.org. Social X Change Social activity group for LGBT youth of color ages 13-23 meets 6-8:30 p.m. on Tuesdays at 112 N. Broad St., 11th floor; 215-496-0330. Space to be Proud, Open, and Together Open to all LGBTQ queer youth and allies, ages 14-21, the SPOT meets Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at Planned Parenthood of Chester County’s West Chester office, 8 S. Wayne St.; 610-692-1770. Young, Trans, and Unified A support group for transgender and questioning youth ages 12-23 meets 7:15 p.m. Thursdays at The Attic Youth Center. Youth Making a Difference For GLBTQ African-American and Latino youth ages 14-24. Meets 5-7 p.m. every Tuesday at Camden AHEC, 514 Cooper St.; 856-9632432.

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