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Community mourns loss of Jaci Adams

Sen. Casey poses for NoH8 By Angela Thomas angela@epgn.com Following the passage of California’s ban on same-sex marriage in 2008, the NoH8 photo campaign launched to organize and showcase LGBT supporters — and Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. Bob Casey (D) was among a group of lawmakers who took part in a NoH8 shoot. Casey and four other senators, as well as 15 Congressmembers, were featured in the Feb. 14 #NoH8onTheHill campaign, which adds legislative voices to the chorus of celebrities, athletes and LGBTs and allies who stand for LGBT rights and against bullying. This is the third incarnation of the #NoH8onTheHill; Pennsylvania Congressmembers Chaka Fattah (D) and Matt Cartwright (D) participated in the 2012 and 2013 sessions, respectively. Casey is no stranger to LGBT support: He backs the Employment Non-Discrimination Act; is the lead sponsor of the LGBT-inclusive anti-bullying Safe Schools Improvement Act; and last spring announced his support for same-sex marriage. “Everyone deserves equal rights, and I’m proud to support equality for all, no matter who they are or whom they love,” Casey said. “I’m proud to work with NoH8 in an effort to make discrimination and injustice history.” NoH8 founders Adam Bouska and Jeff Parshley said in a joint statement that the #NoH8onTheHill release was dedicated to LGBTs in Russia, who are facing increased antigay persecution from their government. “Today we show our gratitude for those in government who use their platform to speak out for the rights of all people.” For more information, www.noh8campaign. com. ■

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UNLICENSED LOVE: Bob (left) and Bill Sullivan applied for, and were denied, a marriage license Feb. 18 at Philadelphia City Hall. The couple applied for the document in Register of Wills Robert Donatucci’s office; staffers told the pair that, while Donatucci was personally sympathetic, his office would not issue licenses to same-sex couples until a court rules on Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriage. The Sullivans are legally married in Vermont and have been together for more than two decades. The action was organized by the Philadelphia chapter of Marriage Equality USA and had been rescheduled from Valentine’s Day because of last week’s snowstorm. Photo: Scott A. Drake

“Somebody like Jaci, they come along once in a lifetime. To me, she is a part of everything.” — Franny Price Pioneering LGBT and HIV/ AIDS activist Jaci Adams died Feb. 15 at the Keystone House in Wyndmoor from complications of cancer. She was 56. Plans for a memorial had not been finalized as of presstime. Adams spent decades advocating for policy changes, mentoring LGBT young people and using her own diverse experiences to press for social-justice reforms. Adams was born in Beckly, W. Va., and eventually moved to North Philadelphia, where she grew up in a rough environment with an abusive father. She spent years battling drug addiction and turned to prostitution and crime before pulling herself through to recovery. She grew into the activist career she is now known for following the murder of her friend, Nizah Morris.

“I feel like she has always been around, always a presence,” said AIDS Law Project executive director Ronda Goldfein. “When do you first notice something that is everywhere?” Adams was a founding member of the Temple University Community Advisory Board, sat on the planning committee for the PAGE 16 Philadelphia

Coming home: Meet the residents of JCAA By Angela Thomas and Jen Colletta angela@epgn.com, jen@epgn.com After years of planning, the John C. Anderson Apartments will celebrate its ribbon-cutting ceremony Feb. 24. The LGBTfriendly senior apartment building is home to 56 units, and is only the third of its kind in the nation — and the largest-ever LGBT building project that is fully publicly funded. While the project is historic in nature, it’s the stories of its inaugural residents that are even more remarkable. Here, we present some of their histories.

Elizabeth Coffey Williams “What does this project mean to me? It wasn’t just life-changing, it was kind of life-saving.” Colorful handmade quilts adorn Elizabeth Coffey Williams’ new JCAA residence, a testament to one of the many skills she honed during more than two decades living in the Midwest — an experience that came to an abrupt end in 2012, plunging her into homelessness. Coffey Williams, 65, a native of Brooklyn, grew up in Philadelphia and

then lived in New Orleans, San Francisco, New York City and Baltimore after being thrown out of her parents’ home when she told them she was transgender at age 18. “I graduated from high school, a National Merit Scholar, and that afternoon came out to my parents, thinking, How could they not know? I wasn’t very good at being anyone other than who I am,” she said. “But that afternoon I was homeless. Literally.” It took six years for her parents, who have since died, to welcome her back home, although she said her four younger siblings were wholly accepting. PAGE 17

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Officer pursues legal reimbursement from city By Timothy Cwiek timothy@epgn.com Michael A. Paige, a Philadelphia police officer who allegedly sexually assaulted another man while on duty, is determined to have his legal expenses paid by the city. But city officials are equally determined to avoid reimbursing Paige for any legal expenses incurred due to the incident. In 2007, Paige allegedly forced James Harris to perform oral sex on him — and digitally penetrated Harris’ anus — in a secluded area of Fairmount Park. But Paige insists he never had sexual contact with Harris. The officer says Harris was in the park after-hours, partially clothed and he took the young man aside to counsel him. Later, Harris gave authorities a Styrofoam cup with traces of his saliva mixed with Paige’s semen. Harris said he spit into the cup after Paige forcibly ejaculated into his mouth. But Paige says that during the counseling session, he told Harris he had prior sexual encounters with women in the park. Paige posited that Harris returned to the park after the counseling session and found one of his discarded condoms — which Harris then used to create the Styrofoamcup evidence. In November 2007, a Philadelphia judge cleared Paige of any criminal wrongdoing, and the officer returned to work the following year. But Harris sued Paige in federal court, and in 2012, a federal jury awarded him $165,000 in damages. Harris’ attorneys say Paige owes them about $400,000 in attorney’s fees. Paige’s attorneys say they’ve accumulated fees totaling about $73,000, according to court papers. Paige says he’s entitled to reimbursement from the city for his “reasonable” legal bills because he was acting within the scope of his employment during the incident. Paige also says he wasn’t guilty of willful misconduct — or any other wrongdoing that would disqualify him from reimbursement. But city attorneys vehemently deny that Paige was acting within the scope of his employment. They also say he was guilty of willful misconduct during the encounter. Both sides recently asked Common Pleas Judge Jacqueline F. Allen to rule in their favor, without holding a hearing. Allen, however, has reserved judgment until she holds a hearing, tentatively set for

March 14. In court papers, the city acknowledges that Common Pleas Judge Anthony J. DeFino cleared Paige of any criminal wrongdoing in 2007. But the city also notes that DeFino expressed an opinion that the two men had consensual sex. “Sexual relations by definition are not part of the scope of employment of a Philadelphia police officer,” states the city’s legal brief. But Paige’s attorneys say DeFino’s personal opinions aren’t relevant to the reimbursement dispute. “Nowhere can it be found that the trial judge said Officer Paige was acting outside the scope of his employment,” according to Paige’s legal brief. The city also argues that federal jurors evidently believed the two men had sex, since they awarded Harris $165,000 in damages. But Paige’s attorneys counter that jurors weren’t asked if the two men had sex. They say the $165,000 judgment resulted from jurors’ mistaken belief that Paige violated Harris’ constitutional rights when placing him inside his patrol car for counseling. “Paige reasonably believed his placing Harris in the police car was not only permitted by the city but also was an act within the scope of his office and duties,” state Paige’s legal brief. “The city has presented no evidence to the contrary.” Paige’s attorneys also point to a statement by U.S. District Judge Robert F. Kelly. “There is no issue but that [Paige] was acting as a police officer on this occasion,” Paige’s attorneys quote Kelly as stating. But the city counters that just because Paige was in uniform and carrying a gun during the incident doesn’t mean he was acting within the scope of his employment. “Paige, in uniform and with a gun, coerced James Harris to go with him to secluded locations,” states the city’s brief. “His power as a police officer made this sexual assault possible. That does not mean that these acts were in the scope of his employment.” Paige’s attorneys also argue that the city hasn’t presented any direct evidence that Paige and Harris had sex. The city, however, maintains that evidence presented in prior litigation is sufficient proof that sex took place. A hearing on the dispute is set for 10 a.m. March 14 in Courtroom in Room 480 of City Hall. Neither side had a comment for this story. ■

ALLIES IN ACTION: Equality Forum executive director Malcolm Lazin (center) welcomed Montgomery County Register of Wills D. Bruce Hanes (left) and Frank Schaefer to the Equality Ball Feb. 14 at Independence Visitor Center. The two guests of honor were presented with Equality Awards for their trailblazing work on behalf of the LGBT community. Hanes is being sued by the state for issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples last summer, and Schaefer was recently defrocked by the United Methodist Church for presiding over his gay son’s wedding and refusing to pledge to never officiate a same-sex wedding again. About 200 people turned out for the first-ever affair. Photo: Scott A. Drake

AIDS Law Project wins national honor By Angela Thomas angela@epgn.com The AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania celebrated 25 years of excellence in 2013 and greeted this year with another accomplishment. On Feb. 28, the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania will receive the Alexander D. Forger Award for Excellence in HIV Legal Services and Advocacy from the American Bar Association AIDS Coordinating Committee at the ABA’s HIV/AIDS Law & Practice Conference in Atlanta. AIDS Law Project executive director Ronda Goldfein said she was notified at the end of last year about the honor. “Last year marked our 25th anniversary, and as we were spending the year reflecting over our work over the last 25 years, we were really gratified to have all of that effort recognized,” she said. “We know we are doing a good job with the work we do within our community but to be recognized by such a big organization means a lot.” The award will come with a plaque — and a sense of pride.

“I think it shows that, beyond our little universe in Philadelphia, there is a recognition on a national level that what we do is really important work and that we are doing it well,” she said, noting that, while the organization’s work has evolved throughout the HIV/AIDS epidemic, its committed to empowering the community has remained. “Much of our work is about how are we helping people in a vulnerable and fragile time in their lives. We were helping people transition from a vital working person, to a sick person to their last days. Now, we are helping people build their futures — whether that future is going to a private boarding school or access to routine healthcare — we are having people think big.” Goldfein said she sees the organization continuing to play a pivotal role in the changing community. “I think that science and medicine have done a great job for people with HIV, and so the law needs to continue to do its part. Now that people have a possibility of a long and healthy future, we need to make sure rights are protected.” For more information, visit www.aidslawpa.org. ■

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A KEY MESSAGE: Allyson Robinson delivered the keynote address Feb. 15 at the Youth Action Conference at University of Pennsylvania, staged by Pennsylvania Student Equality Coalition. Robinson, a Pennsylvania native and the former executive director of Servicemembers Legal Defense Fund, was the first-ever trans person to helm a national LGBT organization. About 100 students attended the Saturdayevening banquet, which also included the presentation of awards to Gloria Casarez; the late Bayard Rustin, whose award was accepted by partner Walter Naegle; Kathy Padilla; and Pennsylvania students Issak Wolfe and Kasey Caron, both of whom fought their schools’ anti-transgender policies. This year’s conference had a special emphasis on transgender issues. Photo: Scott A. Drake

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Penn talk explores high-profile teen murder By Ray Simon PGN Contributor On Feb. 26, Gayle Salamon, an assistant professor in Princeton University’s Department of English and its program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, will give a public lecture on the killing of Lawrence King, a gender-nonconforming teenager who was murdered by a classmate. Salamon’s talk is entitled “‘If something wasn’t done soon’: The Murder of Larry King.” It is part of the Penn Humanities Forum’s year-long examination of violence and takes place in the Rainey Auditorium of the Penn Museum, 3260 South St. King, known to friends as Larry, was an effeminate 15-year-old boy at E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard, Calif. In the winter of 2008, he began wearing makeup and jewelry occasionally, causing consternation among his teachers. King’s classmates were divided. A few were supportive, most were confused, but Brandon McInerney was downright hostile. According to an uncorroborated rumor, King asked McInerney to be his Valentine, embarrassing him in front of his buddies. On Feb. 12, 2008, while the class was working in a computer lab, McInerney walked behind King and shot him twice in the back of the head at point-blank range. He died the following day. The horrific crime attracted a flurry of media attention, including a high-profile article in Newsweek, which portrayed the incident as a Valentine’s Day crush gone terribly wrong. “The focus of the article was on Larry’s behavior, and I found that particularly distressing, since it seemed like the focus really should be on Brandon’s behavior,” Salamon said. “There seemed to be a lot of homophobia in the initial article in the way the case was described.” Basically, the article blamed the victim, a consistent theme found in other media reports on the case. In summer 2011, after much legal wrangling, the criminal trial finally began. Salamon, who continued to follow the case, attended every day of the proceedings. The courtroom might seem like an odd place for a professor of English, but Salamon’s Ph.D. is in the field of rhetoric, so observing lawyers argue a case was not far-fetched. Salamon also has substantial training in philosophy and is interested in what philosophers refer to as embodiment, or the ways in which the human body becomes expressive and communicates meaning. Her 2010 book related to that topic, “Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality,” won a Lambda Literary Award. As lawyers and witnesses spoke, Salamon observed something curious about the language they used: By continuing to describe King as gay and his murder as the result

of his unwanted flirtations, they revealed a misunderstanding about what actually provoked McInerney’s violent behavior. “The language of gayness or homosexuality was really the only language people seem to have to label a boy who is feminine,” Salamon said. Instead, what Salamon discerned was a fundamental confusion between gender expression, how masculine or feminine a person is; and sexual orientation, or whether a person is gay or straight. “What got characterized as a story about sexual behavior actually wasn’t about sexual behavior at all, it was about gender expression. It was about Brandon being disturbed at how feminine Larry was and other people in the school reacting to how feminine Larry was.” That confusion had significant consequences for the trial. In effect, King became the aggressor; his behavior was scrutinized and McInerney was portrayed as a chaste teen defending himself from unwanted sexual advances. In reality, McInerney brought a loaded weapon to school, stared intently at King for 20 minutes, then calmly executed him in front of the entire class. Salamon noticed another odd feature of the trial. Although the lawyers and witnesses had adopted a “language of homosexuality,” that language embarrassed them to the point where words failed and they resorted to communicating by gesture. “There would be these times when they would be talking about something that was making everyone slightly uncomfortable, like discussing homosexuality or discussing Larry wearing lip gloss,” Salamon said. “And there would be these moments when the lawyers and the witnesses would stop talking and start acting things out with their bodies in the courtroom.” That those gestures were themselves harmful stereotypes only victimized King further, Salamon said. “One of the lawyers would do a swishy, stereotypical gay walk across the courtroom and then the witness would say, ‘No, no, it was more like this,’ and then the witness would do a kind of flaunting, over-thetop gesture.” Perhaps those antics help explain why the original trial ended in a hung jury. Despite the fact that McInerney eventually pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter, the feeling that adults let King down lingers. Commentators generally claim that if adults had prevented King from being so effeminate, he would not have provoked McInerney into killing him. Salamon’s observations reveal something more disturbing. Because of their almostunconscious fear and ignorance of gender and sexuality, the lawyers and teachers failed King in his death too. For more information about Salamon’s lecture, visit www.phf.upenn.edu. ■

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Association is holding a public forum “to shed light on stories that are not being told in mainstream media” about the effects of the ACA on the LGBT community Feb. 27. NLGJA Philadelphia Chapter president Eric Walter described the event as “publicinterest journalism.” “Even if you’re not gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender,” he said, “it’s important to know how health reform is working, or not working, for everyone.” Before the ACA, many in the LGBT community were disproportionately uninsured, but the new law includes several safeguards to make it easier for LGBT individuals to access appropriate health care. But there is still a long way to go before true equality is achieved, especially in mainstream reporting about the law. “The mission of NLGJA is to work with media outlets to ensure fair and accurate representation of LGBT people and topics,” Walter said. “The main idea behind the event is to take a look at media coverage of the Affordable Care Act. Are we seeing any coverage that includes LGBT stories? If it does, is it a fair and accurate representation? So we want to connect journalists with potential sources to help bring those stories to light.” The panelists include Trudy Lieberman, a health-care-reform reporter for the Columbia Journalism Review; Mazzoni Center medical director Dr. Robert J. Winn; and Trimpa Group director of research Katie Keith. A representative from the White House’s Office of Public Engagement is also tentatively set to speak. The moderator for the discussion is WHYY award-winning reporter and radio personality Malken Scott. WHYY will host the event at its main office at 150 N. Sixth St. from 7-9 p.m. The forum is free and open to the public, but those interested in attending are required to register online. For more information, visit www.nlgja.org/philly. ■

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Gayborhood Crime Watch The following incidents in the Midtown Village and Washington Square West areas were reported to the 6th Police District between Feb. 3-9. Information is courtesy of 6th District Capt. Brian Korn; Stacy Irving, senior director, Crime Prevention Service; Center City District; the Police Liaison Committee and Midtown Village Merchants Association. To report crime tips, visit www.phillypolice.com or call 215-686-TIPS (8477). Follow the 6th District on Twitter @PPDBrianKorn. INCIDENTS — At 1:30 a.m. Feb. 3, a woman was awakened by a male in her residence in the 300 block of South Fawn Street. The male fled and nothing was stolen. There was no forced entry. Central Detectives processed the scene for evidence. — At 12:20 a.m. Feb. 5, there was a report of a domestic assault inside the shelter at 315 S. Broad St. The suspect fled before police arrived, and an arrest warrant will be obtained by Central Detective Division. NON-SUMMARY ARRESTS — At 12:45 a.m. Feb. 3, 6th District Officer Hiller responded to a call of a theft inside the diner at 1101 Sansom St., and was directed to a male who left the premises. Upon investigation, the male was found to be in possession of two vials of crack. The 51-year-old suspect with a North Philadelphia address was charged with possession of narcotics. — At 7 p.m. Feb. 3, three males stole two iPhones from the Verizon store at 920 Walnut St. The suspects were described as black males in their 20s. The first had a light complexion and a tear-drop tattoo on his face, while the second was wearing a dark-blue hoodie and jeans, and the third was wearing a dark hoodie and jeans. At 3 p.m. Feb. 6, two black males in their 20s stole an iPhone from T-Mobile, 1140 Market St. The one was described as 5foot-8 with a beard and a birthmark over his right eye and was wearing a black bubble jacket, while the second was thin, had a beard and light complexion and was wear-

ing a blue jacket. At 6:30 p.m. Feb. 6, 6th District plainclothes Officers Seifert and Wenger arrested two males fitting these descriptions in the 1000 block Filbert Street after a lengthy foot pursuit. The 24- and 22-year-old suspects, both with Germantown addresses, were charged with these two thefts, as well as eight additional thefts and robberies from phone stores in Center City and South Philadelphia. — At 6:40 p.m. Feb. 4, Central Service Detail officers arrested a female outside 1300 Chestnut St. who was wanted on a warrant for failure to appear for court. The 31-year-old suspect with a Clayton address was charged with contempt of court. — On Feb. 7, the 6th District Narcotic Enforcement Team set up surveillance in the area of 920 Market St., and the officers observed an illegal narcotics transaction. The alleged seller, a 25-year-old female with a Port Richmond address, was charged with illegal narcotics sales, while a 32-year-old female with a Northeast Philadelphia address was charged with possession of illegal narcotics. — At 4:25 a.m. Feb. 8, 6th District Officer McGrath responded to an auto accident in the 1200 block of Walnut Street. A 46year-old operator with an Andorra address was arrested and charged with DUI. SUMMARY ARRESTS — At 5:45 p.m. Feb. 4, SEPTA police officers issued a citation for a summary offense outside 800 Market St. — At 10:50 a.m. Feb. 5, officers assigned to the Family Court Building, 34 S. 11th St., issued a citation for a summary offense. — On Feb. 6, 6th District officers issued citations for summary offenses at 3:45 a.m. outside 1300 Waverly St. and 3:35 p.m. outside 1300 Walnut St. — At 8:20 p.m. Feb. 7, 6th District officers issued a citation for a summary offense outside 201 S. 13th St. — At 2:20 a.m. Feb. 8, 6th District officers issued a citation for a summary offense outside 1300 Manning St. — At 2:55 a.m. Feb. 9, 6th District officers issued a citation for a summary offense outside 211 S. 13th St. ■

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News Briefing Gay man appeals trial denial Convicted killer William F. Smithson has appealed last month’s denial of a new murder trial. Smithson is convicted of the 2006 strangulation death of coworker Jason Shephard inside Smithson’s home. But Smithson’s advocates maintain there’s no direct evidence linking him to Shephard’s murder. They say Smithson’s first-degree murder conviction was due largely to homophobia and that police failed to investigate F. Bruce Covington, who was inside Smithson’s home when Shephard died. But authorities say Smithson administered the date-rape drug gamma hydroxybutyric acid, or GHB, to Shephard and tried to rape him prior to strangling him. Covington was convicted of drug-related charges stemming from the incident, but prosecutors say he wasn’t Shephard’s killer. In a prior interview, Smithson said he was heavily drugged by Covington and passed out while Shephard was still alive. Smithson requested a new trial, claiming his trial attorney failed to represent him effectively. But last month, Delaware County Common Pleas Judge Barry C. Dozor denied Smithson’s request, holding that his Smithson’s trial attorney adequately represented him. O n F e b. 1 2 , a t t o r n ey H e n r y F. DiBenedetto filed a notice of appeal on behalf of Smithson in the state Superior Court. DiBenedetto also filed a motion requesting that Smithson be declared a pauper for purposes of the appeal. Neither side had a comment for this story.

Former Scouts building still vacant Four months after the Boy Scouts of America Cradle of Liberty Council vacated a city facility on the Ben Franklin Parkway, there is still no official word on its future use. “When we have something to announce, we, of course, will,” said Mark McDonald, a spokesperson for Mayor Nutter, last week. Palma M. Rasmussen, a disability-rights advocate and LGBT ally, said Nutter should consult with community leaders before deciding to do with the building. “The people of Philadelphia should

know, and be aware of, the intentions of the Nutter administration,” Rasmussen said. “How can any governing body work if the people aren’t included?” McDonald had no comment on whether Nutter would consult with LGBT leaders prior to deciding the building’s future use. Suggestions for the building include converting it into an LGBT health clinic, a shelter for homeless LGBT youths or a community center for groups that promote nonviolent social change. Cradle occupied the building for about 85 years but vacated the premises last October as part of a legal settlement that also gave Cradle $825,000 in city tax dollars. For years, the city was criticized for allowing Cradle to occupy the building while the group refused to include LGBTs, atheists and agnostics in its programming.

Defrocked minister to preach in Philadelphia Frank Schaefer, a former Methodist minister who was defrocked last year after performing his son’s same-sex wedding will speak in Philadelphia this weekend. Schaefer, 52, will preach 11 a.m. Feb. 23 at the First United Methodist Church of Germantown, 6001 Germantown Ave. The public is invited to attend. Following the service, Schaefer will convene a question-and-answer session and a light lunch will be served. “I am looking forward to a time of celebration of recent strides toward LGBT equality, and to sharing some challenging ideas of how we as religious people can be change agents,” Schaefer told PGN. In a related matter, Schaefer said he was honored to receive an “Equality Award” from Equality Forum Feb. 14. “To receive this award means so much to me,” he said. “It is redemptive, in light of losing my 20-year career as a pastor and being found guilty of violating church law over an act of love for my gay son. It encourages me in my fight against bigotry and discrimination in organized religion.” — Timothy Cwiek

Pianist returns to center for fundraising show Acclaimed pianist Ching-Yun Hu will mark her fourth return engagement Feb. 22 at William Way LGBT Community Center, 1315 Spruce St. The Taiwanese-born classical musician will perform Scriabin, Grandos, Albeniz and Chopin. The concert begins at 8 p.m., with a VIP reception at 7 p.m. The event will raise funds for the center. “I’m thrilled with the partnership I’ve built with the William Way,” Hu said. “I love that the center has become a dedicated venue for classical music.” General admission is $25, and the VIP

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Orgs. to stage parenting session The American Fertility Association and the Fairfax Cryobank will host a free event called Growing Your Family: LGBTQ Options from noon-3 p.m. Feb. 22 at William Way LGBT Community Center, 1315 Spruce St. Prospective parents will be learn about making decisions on sperm donors, working with egg donors and surrogates, fertility preservation for the transgender community and legal rights and responsibilities involving LGBT parenting. The event is free but requires reservations. For more information or to reserve a spot, call 718-853-1411.

contest. “Project Runway” contestant Viktor Luna, who revealed his HIV-positive status on the show, will be the special guest. “HIV is not something to keep to yourself and HIV is nothing to be ashamed of; that is something that ActionAIDS is working on,” Byrne said. “We should all stand up and know our status and having brave people like Luna go on network TV and say, ‘I am HIV-positive’ is incredibly strong and powerful.” Organizers hope to raise $15,000, with fundraising going towards the general operation of the organization. ActionAIDS executive director Kevin Burns said the event is a win-win for attendees. “It will be a fabulous party in a wonderful venue with all of the very best people in Philly and, at the same time, you are helping to raise money for those living with HIV,” he said. For more information, visit http://actionaids.org/Glamsinotickets.

‘Glam’ up for ActionAIDS Community center hosts Mardi Gras party ActionAIDS will host Glamsino Royale, a casino-themed fundraiser, from 7-9 p.m. Feb. 27 at the Kimpton Hotel Palomar, 117 S. 17th St. The event is staged in conjunction with Kimpton’s ninth-annual Red Ribbon campaign, which raises money for HIV/AIDS groups across the country. ActionAIDS director of development Michael Byrne said the James Bond theme was inspired by a similar Red Ribbon party in Salt Lake City, from where Hotel Palomar’s new general manager hails. “When I think of casinos, I immediately think of James Bond and I thought of drag-queen Bond girls,” Byrne said. “Who doesn’t love a good Bond girl?” Tickets are $50 and will include five casino chips each. Chips can be used to play casino games and those who win will be dealt extra chips and entered into a raffle

The Old Pine Community Center will host its sixth-annual Mardi Gras Party and Silent Auction from 6:30-10:30 p.m. Feb. 28 at the center, 401 Lombard St. The party will generate fundraising for Old Pine’s programming, which includes outreach to youth, homeless and seniors, adult education and 12-step programs. The New Orleans-themed party will include a variety of cuisine, wine, beer, soft drinks and a silent auction. Tickets are $30 for adults and $10 for children. For more information or to order tickets, visit www.oldpinecommunitycenter.org or call 215-627-8110. ■ — Angela Thomas

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Here we are fresh off the holidays, and winter has made its presence known. There has been lots of information and tips for people to keep safe in cold weather but we also need to remember our pets during the winter months. Has your pet had his/her preventive-care exam (wellness exam) yet? Cold weather may worsen some medical conditions such as arthritis. Your pet should be examined by a veterinarian at least twice a year, and it’s as good a time as any to get him/her checked out to make sure (s)he is ready and as healthy as possible for cold weather. In this article we will review some of the winter-weather hazards that our pets face.

with diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease or hormonal imbalances (such as Cushing’s disease) may have a harder time regulating their body temperatures, and may be more susceptible to problems from temperature extremes. The same goes for very young and very old pets. If you need help determining your pet’s temperature limits, consult your veterinarian. Small, old or thin-coated dogs are especially susceptible to hypothermia and frostbite. These dogs can benefit from a winter wardrobe that includes boots, coats and sweaters. Dogs who spend much of their time outside need a well-insulated dog house or igloo. Blankets, hay and even a pet-safe heated mat can help your dog maintain a healthy body temperature in their dog Toxins house. And don’t overlook a pet’s Common winter chemicals need for fresh, unfrozen water like ice-melting salts, windshield-wiper fluids and anti— invest in a heated bowl so freeze can be deadly for cats and your cat’s or dog’s water doesn’t freeze. Outdoor cats should be dogs. Methanol and ethylene glycol, the toxic ingredients shelter and regular food Dr. David provided in windshield-wiper fluid and and water. At any time if you antifreeze, are dangerous to McCrork notice skin lesions, limping or other problems with a pet that pets; ethylene glycol can cause has been outside, please seek veterinary care permanent kidney damage, while ingestion as soon as possible. of methanol will usually result in lethargy, vomiting and seizures. Pets may be attracted Cold cars and warm engines to the sweet smell and taste of antifreeze, Cold cars in winter can be almost as and their bodies absorb the chemical rapidly. dangerous as hot cars in the summer. If Symptoms like vomiting and loss of coorthe temperature is below 40 degrees, then dination can appear within an hour. If you think your pet has consumed even the small- pets should not be allowed to remain in the car for more than just a few minutes. Also, est amount of antifreeze, take them to the never leave a pet in a car with the heater/ veterinarian immediately. defrosters running as they could overheat Ice-melting salts can stick to your pet’s paws; dogs and cats who walk on streets and and/or suffer from carbon-monoxide toxicity. sidewalks that have been “de-iced” can sufIn addition, outside cats and small wildlife fer from chapped, painful paws that often begin to hunt for warm places to curl up in require medications to treat. Licking their that gets them out of the weather. A parked paws also puts your pet at risk for consumcar with a warm engine is a perfect spot in ing the chemicals found in ice melts. Look the mind of a cold animal. Cats and kittens for pet-safe ice-melting products, and wash are killed or severely injured every year your pet’s feet with a warm cloth after they come in from outside. when a car’s engine is started up while they are still under the hood of the car. If you live Hypothermia and frostbite in a neighborhood with outdoor cats roamYour dog may love to romp in the snow, ing, it’s a good idea to open up the hood and but that doesn’t mean he/she is exempt from look inside, knock on the hood and listen the effects of cold weather. Just like people, for signs of life before getting into the car pets’ cold tolerance can vary from pet to or honk the horn a couple of times and wait pet based on their coat, body-fat stores, a few seconds before starting the engine. activity level and health status. Be aware of Even if you don’t have outside cats around, your pet’s tolerance for cold weather and it’s still a good idea to knock on the hood or adjust accordingly. You will probably need honk your horn just in case a squirrel or any to shorten your dog’s walks in very cold other small animal is hiding under the hood. weather to protect you both from weatherAs always, be sure to have proper identiassociated health risks. Arthritic and elderly fication on your pet at all times and report pets may have more difficulty walking on any lost pets as soon as possible to local vetsnow and ice, and may be more prone to erinarians, police and shelters. And always slipping and falling. Long-haired or thickremember that the winter will go fast and coated dogs tend to be more cold-tolerant, soon we will be worrying about heat-related concerns. ■ but are still at risk in cold weather. Shorthaired pets feel the cold faster because they Dr. David McCrork is an associate veterihave less insulation and short-legged pets narian at Society Hill Veterinary Hospital. may become cold faster because their belFor more information, visit www.societyhilllies and bodies are more likely to come into vets.com or call 215-627-5955. contact with snow-covered ground. Pets

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Gina Miller

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Loss of a leader Last weekend, the LGBT community lost one of its most vibrant spirits, Jaci Adams. Jaci has been described as an activist, as a mentor, as an advocate; all of those monikers point to one truth — Jaci was a leader. But Jaci wasn’t the type of leader with a fancy title or letters after her name or a big office. She didn’t become a leader for her own gratification; it was solely for the betterment of others — which made her a true leader. Her advocacy on behalf of the LGBT and HIV/AIDS communities was largely rooted in the struggles she’d faced in the past, about which she was fully transparent. That ownership made her wholly relatable to the innumerable people she counseled; and to talk to Jaci was to be counseled by her. She had lessons to share with everyone — with trans youth who experienced some of the same doubts she had; with police officers who couldn’t understand the challenges the LGBT community faces; with policymakers who needed a push. And her lessons weren’t demurely delivered: She was a frank talker. At Police Liaison Committee meetings, she wasn’t afraid to raise her voice, or when PGN ran a story that she felt wasn’t adequate, she wasn’t afraid to tell us. And we appreciated that because it led to teaching moments. Jaci had some harsh criticism of one particular story, but followed it up with her phone number, and a smile, so we knew our staff could call her at any time for informa-

tion or advice. And we took her up on that offer many times; she had eyes and ears on the community at all times and knew the ins and outs of many stories we were working on, especially relating to the trans community. But she didn’t just cull information tangentially; there were cases we covered when a transgender person was attacked, or even killed, and we would call Jaci and she would be sitting with the victim, or the victim’s friends. She was directly involved — when something bad happened, when something good happened — she was there, both on a personal level and a community level. And, as has been mentioned many times this week, perhaps her greatest strength was her ability to communicate, and communicate effectively, with people of all backgrounds, all experiences and all viewpoints. She didn’t let differences play a role when there was a goal to be achieved, a lesson that could have resounding results for the LGBT community. The lessons to be learned from Jaci are vast. She showed youth how, and why, to believe in themselves and their futures. She showed community members the value, and products, of giving back to your community. She showed community leaders how to effectively lead — by engaging directly, and genuinely, with their audiences. She showed each person she encountered how they could be their best. And that is the mark of a true leader. ■

Sound the alarm! Radical homosexuals are coming for your God-given rights! And they probably are armed with pie tins full of whipped cream and/or glitter. If you don’t want to take my word for it, then surely the words Gina Miller wrote for a Feb. 3 Renew America column will suffice: “The radical-homosexual movement’s goal is nothing less than the obliteration of the rights of those who oppose it.” Sounds scary. But what does it mean? Well, for one thing, it means that sometimes gays and their allies don’t play nice on the Internet. “I can’t tell you how many countless times these people have screeched and wailed at me in comments sections of my columns that homosexual ‘rights’ will never affect Christians or any others who oppose them,” she writes. “This is a damnable lie.” How dare “these people” sully the comments section, that oasis of reason for the polite and deferential? And damnable, huh? Wow. That’s pretty serious. I always thought that God was in charge of the whole “to damn or not to damn” thing. Perhaps Miller is doing some damning freelancer work. And no wonder she’s upset. She’s taken a position that is impossible to defend and doesn’t allow for any kind of nuance: “Homosexual ‘rights’ and the free exercise of religion cannot coexist,” she writes. “They are mutually exclusive, and one must give way to the other.” If that’s the case, then Miller’s team is in some serious trouble. Marriage equality has been on a tear across the nation and the expansion of rights to gay and lesbian couples doesn’t appear to be stopping any time soon. In fact, United States Attorney General Eric Holder just announced an expansion of rights for same-sex married couples at the federal level, covering things like testifying against each other in court, bankruptcy filings and police and firefighter spouses receiving death benefits. This news is apparently too much for

Miller to take. On her Facebook page, Miller posted a Fox News article Feb. 8 about the plan to treat married same-sex couples like, well, the legal spouses they are. Her comment: “This evil, purely EVIL, administration is working its hellish a** off to make sure that the United States becomes the Sodom and Gomorrah of the 21st century. How much MORE will we NOT escape the Lord’s wrath?!” One of her friends commented, “More like Sodomy & Gonorrhea,” to which she responds, “Yeah, that’s a prolific byproduct.” Get it? Butt sex and disease. Because that’s all gay people are, isn’t it? And apparently Miller and her friends are in junior high (though they no doubt oppose junior-high students ever learning anything factual about sex of any kind because God hates that almost as much as God hates fags). “We must not underestimate the determination of these people to force their will on the United States,” Miller writes in her column. “Their serial lies claiming that their ‘rights’ (which are a fallacy, since they possess the same rights as other Americans) will not interfere with the rights of others could not be further from the truth.” She is talking, of course, about the rights of others to discriminate against LGBT people. And she is apparently confused about what it means to have “the same rights as other Americans.” Because LGBT people simply don’t. The right to marry. The right to discrimination protection under the law. The right to jointly adopt children. These are but a small sampling of the inequalities that are a stark reality to the LGBT people facing them every day. Then again, if all Miller sees LGBT people as is “Sodomy & Gonorrhea,” well, no wonder she’s so terrified that we’re taking over. ■

“Homosexual ‘rights’ and the free exercise of religion cannot coexist,” Miller writes. “They are mutually exclusive, and one must give way to the other.”

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

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My swan song

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I bet that headline caught your attention. reality, no one knows where we are going. Well, that is what headlines are all about. On our return, it is expected that the So, usually swan songs means that building will be in the hands of the capable people are going somewhere and I am. building manager and our development After the three hardest, but most rewardpartner, Pennrose. We choose them since ing, years of my life helming what we they have a great record of management called at the beginning the “pie and are one of the largest on the in the sky” project, and what is East Coast. Aside from building now the LGBT-friendly John management, we have added to C. Anderson Affordable senior our mix community involvement, and our community apartments, I’ll be, for the most part, cutting my attachment partners have stepped forward to the project. We’ve taught with pride. William Way LGBT Community Center leads the the baby to walk, and now it’s way. They will be doing social time for it to run on its own. services in the building, along Translation: The building is with Mazzoni Center, which built and almost fully occupied. will be meeting the legal and We’ve done the heavy lifting. medical needs of the residents. We raised the $19.5 million, And, for those with HIV/AIDS, we found the developer, we ActionAIDS has filled that gap worked with HUD to make beautifully. We at dmhFund are “LGBT-friendly” a national Mark Segal proud that we share this incredlegal designation, we brought it ible asset to our community with in on budget and on time. And, most importantly, we did it with almost full those partners, and we feel it is our responsibility to step back and allow them to do community unity, something unheard of what they do best — serve our community. in other cities’ LGBT communities. To the As for me, well, I’ll still be here, workcommunity, you have my heartfelt gratitude. ing alongside my fellow PGN staffers and Now for what I advertised in that headworking on the next project or vision. But line, my swan song. Here’s where I explain one thing remains true: This time, I won’t that it might be a little misleading. You be afraid to think out of the box, and to decide. think big. We know that, with unity in the Next up for Jason and me is a real vacacommunity, all things are possible. tion. We’ll leave a few weeks after the ribIf you have any doubt, get to meet the bon-cutting. We actually started to plan most wondrous of people, the residents of that vacation in August and, at times, when the John C. Anderson Apartments. They will inspire you. ■ I was running on fumes, it was the light at the end of a very long tunnel. To assure Mark Segal, PGN publisher, is the nation’s that it’s a real vacation and that we, for the first time in three years, won’t be reachable most-award-winning commentator in LGBT media. He can be reached at mark@epgn. when a problem occurs (hey, you’re adults; com. figure it out) we’ve told different people that we’re going to various destinations. In

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What’s your favorite activity when you’re snowed in? “Movie and wine, nothing too intense. The movie has to be lighthearted to help stave off cabin fever. Something Jenna Collins low-stakes attorney like a Monty Queen Village Python movie and a glass of wine. Sauvignon Blanc is my wine of choice.”

“Playing the board game Pass the Pigs. It’s a dice game, pig figurines are the dice. You accumulate points, it’s Jordan Emerick good fun. sales manager And you can Chestnut Hill turn it into a drinking game, if need be.”

“Read a book. When I’m snowed in, it can get very boring. You feel cooped up. So I read a book that takes me to a different Edward McMurchy place. My teacher natural Society Hill inclination is to read a fiction book. It takes me down a path I haven’t been [to] before.”

“Creating a mosaic. I take an old candle jar and attach pieces of glass to it. I use purple, green and blue glass Kathryn Messina chips. I also speech pathologist use [sea] Society Hill shells or pieces of shells. When it’s all done, you can use [the mosaic] for bus tokens or put another candle inside.”

Andrea C. Anastasi

Coming out for the Olympics I absolutely love the Olympics. I can vividly recall watching the games as a kid and being filled with excitement and amazement at the extraordinary talent I witnessed. Though I have since come to terms with the fact that I probably never will realize my childhood dream of competing in the games, I am still a proud and enthusiastic fan. Unfortunately, my Olympics enthusiasm has been slightly tempered by the anti-LGBT track record of this year’s Winter Olympics host country, Russia. As has been widely reported, Russia is making a concerted effort to institutionalize antiLGBT bias within its borders and beyond. Just this month it

implemented a law prohibiting international same-sex couples from adopting Russian children, and last year it enacted legislation prohibiting Russians from publicly advocating for LGBT issues. Additionally, the country may consider another law that could potentially remove Russian children from the homes of samesex parents. In light of all of this, I watch the Olympics this year with both enthusiasm and heartache. So far, none of the openly LGBT athletes or delegation members in Sochi has been publicly subjected to the law. However, LGBT activists in St. Petersburg and in Sochi have been arrested while the games

have been in progress. Needless to say, the Russian anti-LGBT measures undoubtedly weigh heavily upon everyone’s minds during these Winter Olympics, including my own. As advocates and others have highlighted, they are entirely inconsistent with the spirit of the games, most especially Principle 6 of the International Olympics Committee Charter, which expresses that sport does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise. Moreover, the laws have created a great deal of divisiveness, which is also contrary to the Olympics ethos. As I have always understood, the Olympics are

intended to peacefully unite the international community in the mutual enjoyment of universal sport, not to further divide people and nations from one another. Instead, the controversy over the Russian laws has created a global controversy over the games themselves, with many calling for boycotts of the Winter Olympics this year. Though these demands have been dismissed, several world leaders, including President Obama, have been conspicuously absent from the games. On a more personal level, the controversy has sparked dissidence in my own life. Before these Winter Olympics began, I was confronted with the question of whether I would support these

games in the same way I had supported the previous Olympics. On the one hand, I am a former athlete and a dedicated sports fan; on the other, I am a member of the LGBT community and an aspiring LGBT advocate. So I was concerned that it would be hypocritical for me to celebrate the Olympics in Sochi at all, let alone to the extent that I had celebrated the games in the past. However, I considered that in prior instances I have attended weddings and proudly supported friends’ marriages while simultaneously opposing the Defense of Marriage Act and state bans of same-sex marriage. I have also proudly supported our troops while also PAGE 12

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opposing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and the ongoing war in Iraq. In addition, I faithfully watched the Olympics in Beijing though I disapproved of China’s well-known and deplorable human-rights abuses. Looking back, I do not think that my support for my friends, our troops and athletes evidence a deep-rooted cognitive dissonance. Rather, I think that support for particular individuals and occasions should not be equated with support for unjust laws, policies and actions because the two are distinct. Accordingly, I do not think that support for the athletes and competition in Sochi this year is at variance with opposition to Russia’s reprehensible treatment of LGBT individuals. As a result of these considerations, I ultimately decided to actively partake in this year’s Winter Olympics and have been devotedly following, watching and cheering on the athletes throughout the games. Even as I write this, I am listening to Olympics-themed music — not necessarily because I need another way to make my life all about the Olympics right now, but rather, because it inspires me in the same way that the Olympics inspires me to strive to reach new heights. At the end of the day, that is what all of this is really about. Hopefully, with the Olympics spotlight on Russia, we will all be inspired to strive to reach new heights for LGBT equality and realize that, as the Olympics come to a close, it’s not just a time to tally scores and count medals, but also to measure how far we have come and how far we have yet to go. ■ Andrea C. Anastasi is a J.D. Candidate and Law & Public Policy Scholar at Temple University Beasley School of Law.

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Know the system: long-term care What comes to mind when you think can call the Center for Advocacy for the about long-term care (LTC)? Chances Rights and Interests of the Elderly at 800are, you are imagining a nursing home 356-3606 or visit www.ltcombudsman. with endless games of bingo, bad food, org. But fears cannot be legislated away, wheelchairs, bed pans and less-than fourand laws addressing discrimination don’t star care. Maybe you know that LTC also guarantee a welcoming environment. refers to personal-care boarding homes 2. Know your options. Visit www. and assisted-living and continuing-care longtermcare.gov for helpful tips in plancommunities? These types of long-term care may bring to mind small, cookie-cut- ning for long-term care. Also, the LGBT ter apartments and fewer wheelchairs. Elder Initiative provides an LGBT Senior Resource Guide for Housing The trend in aging services is for increased emphasis on at www.lgbtei.org/p/hous“aging in place,” supporting ing_1html. The Resource older adults through home-care Guide identifies housing options in the Philadelphia services. This includes various adaptations so that a person area. Finally, the Pennsylvania can age healthily and safely Department of Health website contains reports from all longin their own home. But sometimes the level of care necesterm care facilities, including sary will only be available by resident surveys and a list of moving into a long-term care services provided. To access facility. this service, visit www.health. For almost every older adult, state.pa.us, click “Facilities, considering a long-term care Providers and Managed-Care Mimi Lewis Plans” and then find “Nursing facility is filled with stressful questions. What level of care Care Facilities.” will I need? How will I pay for this? Will my needs be met? Will I feel alone? For 3. Learn from others. An LGBTEI LGBT older adults, the anxiety is heightConversation, “Staying OUT in Longened by fears of discrimination, isolation Term Care,” will be held March 22. LTC and mistreatment. consumers, administrators and staff will In a study titled, “Stories from the discuss their experiences in the system. Field: LGBT Older Adults in Long-Term You will also hear about your rights in Care Facilities,” respondents shared their LTC. For more information about this fears of discrimination, neglect and abuse program, call the Elder Initiative at 267by staff in the LTC system. Some of the 546-3448 or email info@lgbtei.org. fears shared by LGBT elders include: Even if you are not an older adult conWill I be allowed to room with my partsidering a long-term care option, you can ner? still work for inclusive and welcoming Will my partner be granted health-care environments for members of our compower-of-attorney and/or visitation rights? munities in LTC. You can be an advocate, especially for those who might be hesiWill my gender identity and preferred name/pronoun be respected? tant to speak out against discrimination Will I feel comfortable being “out” in this and abuse. Tell the seniors in your life facility? about the Long-Term Care Ombudsman All of the survey participants expressed Program, which investigates and brings concern about being isolated from their complaints. They also work to maintain previous lives and whether other residents anonymity and prevent retaliation. would gossip or whisper about them. Whether seeking information for yourself or getting the information that you Current LTC resident and LGBT need in order to advocate for others, Elder Initiative board member Ada Bello understanding the long-term care system, advises that individuals considering longyour rights and your options better equips term care do “as much research as possible.” Bello suggests three important areas the entire LGBT community for successof research: ful aging at every age. ■

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Mimi Lewis is an MSW candidate at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice and a Hartford Fellow in Aging. She is also a volunteer with the LGBT Elder Initiative. The LGBTEI fosters and advocates for services, resources and institutions that are competent, culturally sensitive, inclusive and responsive to the needs of LGBT elders in the Delaware Valley and beyond. To comment on this article, suggest topics for future articles or for more information, visit www.lgbtei.org or call the LGBTEI at 267-546-3448 and watch for “Gettin’ On” each month in PGN.

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Renee Verker, forklift driver and founding member of Jewish Lesbian Women, died Feb. 10 of a heart attack. She was 65. Verker was born and raised in the Strawberry Mansion section of Philadelphia and graduated from George Washington High School in 1966. She later moved to Center City. Verker worked at Gamble and Huff’s Philadelphia International Records and later as a forklift driver for SmithKline Warehouse for 10 years. She had since retired. Verker’s daughter Keren said her mother was someone people always wanted to be around. “She was generous, loving and giving and she always said she trusted people,” said Keren. She said her mother became involved in Jewish Lesbian Women more than 30 years ago. Verker’s best friend, Joan Rhodes, was another of the group’s founding members. The pair met in 1980 at the former Sneakers bar. “I was there with my girlfriend and she was there with her girlfriend and she came over to see what I was drinking and, from that point on, we became friends,” Rhodes said. “She was a very real person and somebody that I could relate to. You meet a lot of people in life and she was someone I could completely relate to. We both had the same kind of values and interests, and she was a lot of fun. It was a great friendship from start to finish.” A few months into the friendship, the pair attended SisterSpace, from which Jewish Lesbian Women was eventually born.

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“A lot of Jewish women were there and there was a movement started with all the Jewish lesbians in Philly getting together and organizing and finding solidarity and mutual interests,” Rhodes said. “Who was going to support us more than us? We met in West Philadelphia — a couple-hundred women showed up. It was therapeutic.” Rhodes said Verker inspired fellow group members to follow their own dreams. “Right after we started, she told us all that her dream was to have a child, so I went with her and she received artificial insemination. She had a girl and several years after that, we all had children,” she said. “It was because of her and her empowerment and her courage that we were motivated to pursue our dreams like she did.” Verker lived life to the fullest and enjoyed playing poker and pursuing artistic endeavors; she was especially interested in fashion trends and furnishings. Rhodes said the pair had been through a lot together and that Verker will be remembered as a good friend to all. “We had been through death in each others’ lives, relationships breaking up, getting married, having children, completing college, getting jobs, career changes. We had been there for each other through it all.” In addition to Keren and Rhodes, Verker is survived by brother Michael, many friends and three cats. Donations can be made to the Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society in Verker’s name at www. phillypaws.org. ■

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scenarios that would happen on the street.” Casarez said Adams was also influential in helping pull together GALAEI’s TransHealth Information Project. Current GALAEI executive director Elicia Gonzales said Adams, whom she met in 2009, was determined to see that the community’s LGBT organizations were adequately addressing the needs of the trans community. “She came to me in an attempt to provide immediate support and, as I was a new director of an organization that at that time

never lost her humor, said LGBT Elder Initiative president Heshie Zinman. “Jaci was a beautiful woman,” he said. “When she spoke, she was loud and funny. She had a great sense of humor.” In addition to her formalized work, Adams was a constant source of support for the trans community, often working directly with young people to ensure they realized their potential. Director of SafeGuards LGBT Health Resource Center Brian Green said Adams served as a role model for the community. “Jaci was really an incredible person who touched the lives of so many people and I think she was looked up to by the trans community. Trans women looked up to her as a mother figure, an aunt, someone they could learn from,” he said. “Jaci had a way of really drawing you in. She would start talking to people, complimenting them, finding out things that would make people feel good and she would start conversations. She heightened awareness about trans folk, the importance of health and testing for HIV. She had a way of helping you let down your guard so you wanted to hear what she had to say.” Adams was a frequent face at LGBT community events and rallies, specifically those focused on trans issues. Last summer, she spoke at a rally in memory of Diamond ADAMS (CENTER) AT A POLICE LIAISON COMMITTEE CELEBRATION Williams, a transgender woman who was brutally murdered in North Philadelphia. “It was telling of her character that, even “Jaci had the perspective of ‘I had this was in a state of transition, she wanted to though she was sick and in a lot of pain, she awful life, I have overcome it and, if I could make sure GALAEI was reaching the trans found her way to the vigil for Diamond,” community,” Gonzales said. Gonzales said. “She got up there and do it, you can do it,’” Goldfein said. Last year, Adams was named one of preached about the importance of being Adams was born Dec. 12, one day before her good friend and city director of PGN’s Person of the Year runners-up and trans-inclusive and fighting violence against the trans commuLGBT affairs Gloria Casarez, who said the was also recognity. pair would often celebrate their birthdays nized with Philly Pride Presents’ Gonzales said together. Adams was one to “It was always very special to me,” she first-ever OutProud TransgenderAward not only “talk the said. talk, but walk the Casarez, the former executive director of at OutFest. The walk.” GALAEI, met Adams at a planning session award will now be While Adams for a memorial to honor Morris and went on presented annually did not like to draw to be impressed by Adams’ ability to con- in Adams’ name. Philly Pride attention to herself, nect with community members. her work speaks for “I was at GALAEI during that time and Presents executive itself, Casarez said. we shared a building with Philadelphia director Franny “Jaci was never FIGHT and she had a long relationship with Price, who also somebody to put them and worked with them at the time. I s e r v e d o n t h e her name on someprimarily knew her through the HIV/AIDS P o l i c e L i a i s o n thing, to say ‘I did world. I would see her with other GALAEI Committee with this.’ That is not clients and she was always outside engag- Adams, said she had a gift of reachh ow J a c i f u n c ing with folks,” she said. t i o n e d , bu t t h e One audience Adams was particularly ing people across imprint of her work adept at engaging with was the police all barriers. is obviously seen “Jaci was somecadets she would train through the Police all over the city. We Liaison Committee; she would rely on her o n e w h o c o u l d are in this age of own background to give the future officers communicate with Philly where things any person in our a realistic picture of smart policework. ADAMS PROUDLY SHOWING HER are looking brighter “She spent a good amount of time and community and MAZZONI CENTER AWARD IN 2013 and brighter for our energy working on police issues,” Casarez that was the woncommunity and Jaci derful thing about said. “She helped train every cadet class until recently. Police officers would come her,” Price said. “You knew she was from has been a big part of that.” “This wasn’t a job for her,” Gonzales up to her and say remembered her. That is the street and yet she could talk to you no important because she would put things out matter what class you were from. She was added about Adams’ community leadership. there in a way that was off-putting, maybe a leader not just for herself but for the com- “This was her blood, her life, something she knew she needed to do. The LGBT commudifferent than other sessions these officers munity as a whole.” Despite confronting serious systemic nity would not be what it is today without would have received. She was clear that it was important that they be presented with issues impacting the community, Adams Jaci Adams.” ■ JACI ADAMS from page 1

Trans-Health Conference and the planning committee for the Morris Home and was the longest-serving member of the Philadelphia Police LGBT Liaison Committee. Adams was also a long-time volunteer for groups like AIDS Law Project, Delaware Valley Legacy Fund, LGBT Elder Initiative and Philadelphia FIGHT, where she also worked for a time. Goldfein said Adams brought her background to her volunteer work as a way to inspire others.

“She heightened awareness about trans folk, the importance of health and testing for HIV. She had a way of helping you let down your guard so you wanted to hear what she had to say.” — Brian Green

“Jaci was someone who could communicate with any person in our community and that was the wonderful thing about her.” — Franny Price

“It was telling of her character that, even though she was sick and in a lot of pain, she found her way to the vigil for Diamond. She got up there and preached about the importance of being trans-inclusive and fighting violence against the trans community.” — Elicia Gonzales

“She spent a good amount of time and energy working on police issues. She helped train every cadet class until recently. She was clear that it was important that they be presented with scenarios that would happen on the street.” — Gloria Casarez

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After her coming-out, Coffey Williams stayed with her uncle and went on to earn a college degree in fabric design, although she jokingly admitted, “It was the ’60s and I was more interested

narcissistic, drug-abusing alcoholic with the morals of an alley cat.” Her husband “played the part well” and was good arm candy, she said, as long as she wore long sleeves to hide her bruises.

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in dancing in the streets of San Francisco.” It was during her years in Baltimore — a town she said at the time was like “Alice falling down a sleazy rabbit hole” — that she further explored her artistic interests and connected with the acting world. “I had 12 years of traditional Irish-Catholic parochial schooling, and suddenly here I was with all these incredible, artistic, marvelous, exciting, bohemian, freeliving people down by the docks in Baltimore with crazy hookers and foreign sailors. It was fabulous,” she said. “I met this renegade Baltimore arts-school fledgling filmmaker and we became friends.” That filmmaker was John Waters, and he enlisted Coffey Williams for a spot in “Pink Flamingos,” a 1972 film that went on to become an iconic LGBT classic and an underground hit. Coffey Williams appeared in three more Waters films. She moved back to Philadelphia and began working at Lickety Split on South Street, where “Pink Flamingos” fans would often visit during her shift. After leaving Lickety Split, Coffey Williams opened and operated her own construction company and began dating, and eventually married, a former boyfriend. “He promised me the whitepicket fence and, at that time, that’s where I was finding myself headed. But sometimes you have to be careful what you ask for,” she said. “He turned out to be a

“But I stayed.” She moved to the Midwest and spent 26 years there, going on to become a mother to a child conceived from one of her husband’s extramarital affairs. Despite the ongoing marital problems, Coffey Williams pursued her passion for quilting and became heavily involved in the area’s LGBT community — co-founding and facilitating an LGBT gender group, serving on the board of a performing-arts organization and an HIV/ AIDS organization and as artistic director of a folk festival, among other ventures. But, by the fall of 2012, conditions with her husband had finally reached a breaking point and she made the difficult decision to return to Philadelphia, selling her quilting machine to help fund the move. “I put everything in a truck and my family said, ‘Just come home,’ even though none of them really had room for me. But there was room to store my stuff and I stayed with my brother, and with my niece. I was sheltered but, after 26 years of a 12-bedroom house with three bathrooms, a big quilting studio, the dog, the kid, what I pretended was the great husband, I was in effect homeless again. I was that 18-year-old kid who was thrown out of my mother’s house. Again.” She learned about the JCAA plans after returning to the area and said the support of its backers, and the community at large, got her through the difficult transition back to Philadelphia. “There was Mark [Segal], there

was this home at William Way with Chris Bartlett who just welcomed me with open arms, there was Micah [Mahjoubian], Franny Price, Henri David — they all just welcomed me home. They said, ‘I promise you’ll be OK. Just hang in there, you’ll be OK. We’re not going to let you slip through the cracks. We can’t make it stop hurting, but we can stay with you until you’re OK.’” While Coffey Williams said she’s blessed to be close to her siblings and family, who helped her move into her new apartment, many LGBT elders are aging without family support and with histories of being confronted by homophobia. Projects like JCAA and the growing attention being placed on the LGBT senior community can help alleviate some of those demoralizing injustices, she said. “I have so much more to give, and so do many other people. And people are starting to recognize that, and respect what we tried to do for our community and what we still can do. Gratitude doesn’t even begin to express what I feel that I get to be part of this project. A year ago, I didn’t know if I was going to be living in a refrigerator box under a bridge; I had been thrown away like an old piece of garbage. So I’m sitting with my palms up, with an excited sense of surrender now about what will happen next.” Michael Palumbara When Michael Palumbara, 70, moved into JCAA Jan. 2, he had a lot to commemorate. The next day would mark 27 years since his HIV diagnosis — and the 23rd and 22nd years, respectively, that he was tobacco- and alcohol-free. And he was now free in a new way. Palumbara was born and raised in Peekskill, Westchester County, N.Y., but has lived in Philadelphia for more than 30 years. Palumbara, who described his environment growing up as “semi-country, semi-suburbs,” knew he was gay early in life but didn’t come out until he was in his his 20s. “I probably first realized that I was gay in my late teens but I didn’t do anything about it until I was 28-29,” he said. “It was pre-

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Stonewall, so you could still be institutionalized for being gay and, with my family, there were a lot of strongly negative feelings and expressions about people who were gay.” Palumbara, a registered nurse, was diagnosed as HIV-positive in 1987. He said the acceptance process was a long and difficult one, especially as he was losing his friends to the epidemic. “People were dying left and right. There was a point where I couldn’t answer the phone

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because, every time I did, it was someone to tell me that another friend had died so it was a very difficult time,” he said. “I used to keep a memorial list because I would forget the people who died. There were 104 names on it. You can’t process that many deaths, so someone helped me to let go of the list because they are gone and I am not and there was no point.” Palumbara said he drew strength and hope from the teachings of Louise Hayes, author of “The AIDS Book: Creating a Positive Approach” and had to remind himself “in every plague, not everyone got it and not everybody who got it, died.” “When the medical community uses the word ‘incurable,’ what they really mean is they don’t know how to cure. It isn’t really incurable. Nothing is incurable, but there are a lot of things they don’t know how to cure yet,” he said. “Rather than buying into the idea that I had to go home and die, I started to look into alternative and complementary therapies.” Palumbara, who previously

lived in Northeast Philadelphia, has neuropathy in his legs and said his new apartment has done wonders for his mobility. “Where I was living before, I had 11 stairs to climb to get in and 11 stairs to get out and that is where I was having a lot of trouble: stairs,” he said. “Here, you come in right off the street and there is an elevator. In the bathroom, there are all these grip bars, which make me feel safer.” Palumbara said JCAA is also in an ideal location, with everything in walking distance. However, the sense of community and proximity to like-minded neighbors was most appealing when he applied for a JCAA residence. “I liked the idea of being with other LGBT seniors because where I was living, there was only one person in the whole neighborhood who was gay and he was not a senior,” he said. “It was nice to talk with people and not have to explain to someone the histories.” Palumbara said he was fortunate to have several friends help him move into his new space last month. And he has already begun to expand his circle. “I feel very safe here and that means a lot. I have already begun to make good friends, so I know if I needed them, I could call one of those friends,” he said. “We are getting use out of the Community Room. We were playing Uno until a little after 1 a.m. It means a lot to me to have friends that are my age. When we talk about Stonewall, I don’t have to explain what it is.” Susan Silverman For Susan Silverman, the Feb. 24 ribbon-cutting ceremony for JCAA couldn’t come at a better time — it coincides with her 65th birthday. “Yes, you did this for me! Thank you, Mark,” Silverman joked. “It is incredible, wonderful. Up until now, my best birthday was my sweet 16 and I think this is going to top it.” JCAA is a reunion of sorts for Silverman and PGN publisher and Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld Fund president Mark Segal; the pair helmed Gay Liberation Front in New York, which was born out of the 1969 Stonewall Riots. At that time, she said she and her peers could never have imagined a project like JCAA coming to fruition. “We had no role models and in lots of different conversations, we would ask PAGE 19

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“I am a domestic at heart and baking keeps me in touch with my domestic side. That is where I am at my best.” When most of the city is still sleeping, Johnny Columbo is starting his morning. From then on, there are no breaks — but lots of sweet rewards. Columbo, 45, has a strict schedule to follow. He wakes at 4:30 a.m., feeds his white French bull dog, Simone, heads to the gym and is showered and out of the door of his Center City home by 7 a.m., just as the rest of Philadelphia is starting to stir. Columbo and longtime partner Michael Lewis are the founders of Philly Cupcake, the pink-and-blue palace nestled between 12th and Chestnut streets. The pair opened their doors in December 2009 and, within one hour, were completely sold out of products — setting the score for the coming years. Philly Cupcake has grown in many ways over the last five years, including in the size of its staff, which expanded quickly and now includes a chocolatier. The venue has also extended itself to trends, taking on a vegan cupcake menu, which is now sold at HipCityVeg. Columbo, a vegan himself, said it has been a blast to work with the plant-based restaurant. From 7-11 a.m., Columbo is at the store, looking over orders and inventory, talking with employees and putting in orders. From there, it is only a hop, skip and a jump from Philly Cupcake at 1132 Chestnut St. to his other business venture, Philly Vintage, at 111 S. 12th St. It is at Philly Vintage where Columbo’s passion really shines through. Opened two years after Philly Cupcake in December 2011, the vintage shop is like walking into a time machine. Columbo previously operated Forbidden Planet, opened in 1998 in Old City, but renamed it Philly Vintage when it moved to the Gayborhood. When you enter the shop, you’re greeted by clothing of all different materials and from various designers lining the racks and walls, while dazzling necklaces finished with decadent jewels glare through a glass display. “I just love it,” Columbo said. “These clothes all come with a story. It is like sitting in a library of fabric that has been turned into something that is really magical. One-hundred percent of these pieces made someone smile and pause at the same time. I am what you see here. I collect really fine things.” Columbo garners most of the pieces from loyal customers and from estate sales in places such as Beverly Hills. Columbo sits behind a desk and thumbs through several notebooks with customer information on them. He playfully and respectfully chats up customers as they enter the shop. “You will never get any bullshit here. I won’t just sell something to sell something,” he tells one person perusing the wares.

Originally, Columbo had a different life plan. He majored in clinical psychology — becoming an entrepreneur was never the intention. But, Columbo said he is able to use his former studies as a way to engage with his customers. “I think what psych gives you is a perspective on how to deal with everyone who approaches your product and try to reach them with an explanation of who you are,” he said. “People are so varied and their needs are so varied. My background has allowed me to work with a very diversified group of people because those who come through the store want instant gratification. They want to feel good and this is a feelgood place. It is like candy to them.” Columbo has created a name for himself with his two bustling Gayborhood businesses, the buildings for both of which are rented from Goldman Properties. But, the 12th Street corridor wasn’t always rife for

business. “When we got here it was just terrible. There were hustlers on every corner, people doing drugs, people shooting up right across the street. The businesses along here were boring. There was nothing here that brought theater to the street.” Philly Cupcake has served as a trendset-

know what to do with it. They would end up being disowned.’ My mother didn’t know she kept me in the closet but she would say things like that.” At 23, Columbo confided in a friend, a woman of color, who gave him some interesting insight. “She said, ‘What if you were black and gay?’ and I think the interesting thing is she gave me a perspective that, before you think your situation is worse, there are a lot of other people out there who can say that it is even worse,” he said. “We all just wanted to figure out who we were and we all wanted to be accepted. What she allowed me to do is she gave me the ability to see that there is hope and it is not all bad.” Once he came out to his mother, her perspective began to change, Columbo said. “My mom is really loving. She really wanted to understand what I was going through but at the same time she was so full of fear. She would be at work and it was all COLUMBO AT PHILLY VINTAGE hate talk about gays, and she would say it ter in the area. was hard for her to hear that until one day “We brought $30,000 cases to sell our she spoke up because she started looking at cupcakes in. It was unheard of,” he said. “It all my qualities, and who I slept with was was unheard of selling $3-$4 cupcakes. All never going to be any of her business.” the bakeries were laughing at us but, within Columbo said he fully embraced his own a month, they had our pricing.” sexuality after college and would escape to The business’ growth was a joint effort Philadelphia from his hometown to experibetween Columbo and Lewis, who have ence the LGBT culture and nightlife. been together for “People just six years. Columbo “These clothes all come didn’t care in said Lewis has been with a story. It is like sitting Philadelphia,” he a “gift from God.” said about his sex“Sometimes we in a library of fabric that uality. “I started keep them sepadown here has been turned into some- coming rate and sometimes in 1995 and the w e b l e e d t h e m thing that is really magical.” gay life was a lot together,” he said of fun. I was leavabout their business and personal lives. “Is ing my hometown, where I was hiding, and it difficult? Anything is difficult. What rela- then I would get here and it was a big city. tionship isn’t difficult? We work at it every It was magical because I was, for the first single day. We try not to take things per- time, in a world were there were people like sonal. At the end of the day, we are never me.” angry with each other. We Almost 20 years after discovering the have a lot of fun at home. But city and opening up his two businesses, during the day we are nice to Columbo’s ready to keep moving forward each other, mean to each other, — and outward. we hug each other, sometimes Philly Cupcake will be opening a new we don’t hug each other. But location in the Philadelphia Airport and that is the life cycle.” Philly Vintage is opening a second store in Columbo came out when April in West Hollywood. Philly Vintage he was 24. Having grown up will also start selling handmade, cold-proin Hummelstown, being gay cessed and organic soaps from Philadelphia wasn’t very welcomed. Soap Kitchen. “They didn’t like gays, Splitting his time between the two busiblack people, people who nesses has become good practice for the were overweight, people who e n t r e p r e n e u r, were different. That didn’t go who will now be over well in my town.” splitting his time Columbo, whose father in an even bigpassed away years ago and whose mother is ger way. still alive, grew up with two sisters and said “I will be his mother’s early comments fueled his fear b e c o m i n g a of coming out. bicoastal person “We were watching a movie called after all these ‘Making Love.’ When the male character, years.” ■ who was gay, was on screen, she said, ‘I COLUMBO’S DOG, could never have a gay child. I wouldn’t SIMONE

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what it would be like when we got older,” she said. “We would have these fantasies of having a retirement home called Gay-dy Shady Acres. It was a dream that this could happen. I just didn’t think I would be alive to see it.” Silverman came out at age 19. Although born in Brooklyn, she had been living in the Lower East Side when the Stonewall Riots happened. “I was politicized by the civil-rights and anti-war movements. I came out in a flurry of political activity with incredible support. It was an exciting, electric time,” she said. “My generation really was committed to making change.” Silverman, who worked as a social worker focusing on victims of child abuse and bereavement issues, joked that being LGBT runs in her family, with three bisexual relatives and one transgender relative. Family acceptance varied, she said. “My mother actually gave me her death blessing when I came out to her and said to me, ‘Now I won’t have to worry about my baby and now I can rest in peace because women will take care of my Susie.’ I just thought that was an astounding remark from someone of her generation,” she said. “My father wouldn’t speak to me for years. We had a wonderful reconciliation maybe 15 years before he died and became really close. My mom died when I was 22, so I am glad my father reconciled.” GLF involvement acted as a channel for Silverman and others to branch off. “Gay Liberation Front was a catalyst for a lot of other important groups that then grew out of it,” she said. “I went on to organize Radical Lesbians. We all went into directions that interested us and built on it.” Her background in community work could serve Silverman well at JCAA; she said she’s eager to help organize programming, such as poetry readings and women’s events, at the complex. Silverman’s best friend, Denise, also moved into the building, and the pair shared a moving truck. She said it was refreshing to move into a community of people who were waiting to welcome her. “I have enjoyed everyone I have met. I am friends with the people on my floor. We don’t have to be told to help each other out; it is a community and just a given.” ■

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Going Green A councilman and his legacy

riting one’s legacy is like writing a political campaign theme: they beg the reader to test whether the rhetoric meets reality. Bill Green’s campaign theme was “beholden to none, accountable to all.” At times, his stint on City Council was more like “beholden to one” (influential union boss Johnny “Doc” Dougherty) and accountable to none (a loner on City Council who, in the past year, seemed to disappear). According to the Daily News, Green missed 15 of 16 budget hearings in two months during 2013, leading him to retort, “The entire idea of waiting four hours and asking 15 minutes of questions is just not a good use of anybody’s time.” Unless of course that is what the taxpayers of Philadelphia are paying you to do. Councilman Bill Green’s departure for the School Reform Commission begs one question: What will be Bill Green’s legacy on City Council? The thing about legacy is that

the harder folks try to define it for themselves, the less it feels like the legacy that will emerge. And you have to give Bill Green credit. He has not wasted any words on legacy building: 1,167 words to be precise. Here’s our take on Bill Green and how he sees his legacy through his council website (which we have abridged to spare you, and trust us, you need to be spared). Bill Green website (in italics), our take follows: FISCAL DISCIPLINE �� Note to legacy writers: negative propositions don’t really work. No one can see the taxes you prevented today let alone years from now. �� This is the corollary to the negative proposition rule for legislators: introducing legislation that doesn’t pass does not make it into the legacy. But this may be the

part of Bill Green’s legislative legacy that actually sticks. But if it does it will be the move to reduce the net profits tax and that will be accomplished through the efforts of those who stayed on City Council to see it through, most notably Maria Quiñones-Sanchez. And it is a legacy worth fighting for. Zeroing out the net profits tax over the next five years and swapping increases in gross receipts tax each year for it, maintaining revenue neutrality, makes sense: it is easier to collect as it is much harder to hide gross receipts than profits and big box retailers headquartered out-of-state with stores in Philadelphia will pay more, as they should.

...the harder folks try to �� GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY �� The only legacies of the DROP

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program will be that it cost Franny Rizzo re-election to City Council and that City Council did not drop it when it had the chance. �� Be careful the legacy you ask for. While the assessment function was taken from the BRT, the appeals process was not. There are currently nearly 50,000 appeals in the pipeline, leading to a pissing contest between the chairman of the BRT, Russell Nigro, and the city’s finance director, Rob Dubow, to place blame. Bill Green may, indeed, get the legacy he wants on this one but it won’t happen anytime soon. �� FEB. 16-23, 2014

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APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGY We won’t deal with the specifics here as developing strategic plans and requiring electronic filing will never make it to the top of this councilman’s legacy. And as Point readers know, we are not fans of the city’s technology office. QUALITY OF LIFE The Green website lists here his work fighting library closures

(more the legacy of a Nutter blunder than anything else) and his work on the Zoning Code Commission (legacy up in the air). Fittingly he ends with his work releasing papers charting a new direction for Philadelphia’s public schools. Fitting because it is far more likely Bill Green’s legacy will be defined by what he does in the years to come leading the School Reform Commission than by anything he did in the last six years on City Council.

Lower Merion’s Ace �� would push everyone, and even when he was slacking you could push him and he would respond positively instead of thinking he was too good to listen to what his teammates had to say.” Stewart, whose favorite memories include three monumental games with Coatesville and its future NBA star Rip Hamilton, feels proud that Bryant donated money to build the beautiful Bryant gym, a state-of-the-art arena equipped with pictures of Bryant, Stewart and a whole litany of male and female stars from the past. “Seeing the gym now it’s more pride than anything,” he said. “I feel a part of the legacy that he left for being his teammate for three years. I am proud of him for giving back to the school and constantly doing things for these kids year in and year out. But to also see other ‘legends’ of LM basketball in years before him and after him speaks volumes for

this program.” He added, “Being a coach at LM for the past almost 10 years has helped me a lot in regards to my growth as a man and as someone these kids can look up to or count on whenever they need it. Us as men in this community or area have a responsibility to help kids grow as young adults, along with helping them with their basketball growth. That’s why I love this program because we are trying to teach these guys how to be responsible citizens and respectful and hardworking and not just focusing on what they need to do on the basketball court. A lot of very lasting brotherhoods have developed over the past 10 years with our kids that have graduated and moved on because we truly do treat each other like family and it’s good to see these guys succeed in life well beyond succeeding at LM and within its program.”

The Beauty He Began ��

by Sheila Simmons

Tim Spencer: A Tribute to Mantua by Cliff Hudson. This mural depicted the late Tim Spencer, who started the Anti-Grafﬁti Network. The mural has since been lost due to real estate development. Photo by: Jack Ramsdale/Mural Arts Program

With the Mural Arts Program celebrating 30 years since its inception, I thought this would be a good time to look at the network that gave birth to it and the man who led it — beginning with the mural depicting him, in the Mantua section of Philadelphia. But a search for the mural, featuring Tim Spencer donning his trademark African kente cloth scarf, netted no sight of it on a Saturday morning. At the former site of the mural, at 34th and Wallace streets, is a new building with a clean, artless wall. It strikes me as a metaphor for the way we whitewash the accomplishments of our urban predecessors, clearing the way for the new and the funded. The mural, painted over more than a year ago for development, according to a Mural Arts spokesperson, disappeared with little fanfare. However, the Rev. Larry Patrick noticed, because he occasionally would drive by the location to see the larger-than-life-size painting of his old friend, mentor and boss. “I would look up at him and just say, ‘Thank you,’” he says. Now pastor of Redeem Baptist Church, 31st and Arizona, Patrick says, “Many of us today are pretty good, stand-up citizens cause of what Tim poured into us. He was a genuine person, and he was a great leader. Not a good leader, a great leader.” Patrick recalls being in the community center room in 1983, when Spencer, dubbed by some the “Mayor of Mantua,” questioned then-mayoral-candidate W. Wilson Goode, “What are you going to do about the graffiti?” Patrick says Goode responded, “I’m going to find out from you what to do about the graffiti.” We have not escaped graffiti — in our neighborhoods, along thoroughfares, in Center City. Along 16th Street in Center City, a culprit echoed his mes-

sage on building after building for blocks. I hated the sight of it. But in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, graffiti was bad. In Spencer’s 1996 Philadelphia Daily News obituary, former chief of staff for Ed Rendell, David Cohen noted how one man whose property was spray-painted grew so frustrated he vowed to shoot the culprit. Goode formed the Anti-Graffiti Network and hired Spencer to run it. The effort resulted in prosecuting graffiti writers, and then forcing them to work off their punishment by painting over graffiti. Task Force workers developed relationships with the young writers, with more than 1,000 youth eventually given summer jobs to beautify the city. In 1984 Spencer made one of his most famous hires — Jane Golden, who stressed to Spencer that the youth he’d hire her to work with wanted to create murals. And so the early murals went up, 1,300 under Spencer’s directorship, before the Mural Arts Program became a stand-alone division. The program has come a long way, now boasting more than 5,000 murals across the city. But Barbara Daniel Cox, also from Mantua and who worked in City Hall during Spencer’s years there, recalled Spencer “tapped the young people so much, and motivated them to use their energy and hands for creative, positive art, and turned them away from art that was defacing people’s property.” She adds, “He had a commitment to Mantua, and the presence of the mural there reminded people that someone from our neighborhood can do good, positive things.” More change is coming to Mantua, with its recent designation as a federal “Promise Zone.” But through it all, I hope the Spencer mural returns, and that we can be reminded of the beauty he began.

FEB. 16-23, 2014

Liberty City Press is a collaborative publication effort of the Philadelphia Multicultural Media Network.

SHERIFF’S SALE Properties

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JEWELL WILLIAMS Sheriff on Tuesday, March 4, 2014 at First District Plaza, 3801 Market Street, at 10:00 AM. (EST) Conditions of Sheriff’s Sale for JUDICIAL/FORECLOSURE SALE

Ten percent of the highest bid for each property auctioned �� check, attorney’s check or money order with the Sheriff by each bidder when his bid is registered, provided that in no case shall less than Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00) be deposited, otherwise upon failure or refusal to make such deposit, �� of his bid and the property may be offered again and sold unless a second bid has been registered, then, the second highest bidder will take the property at the highest bid price. Additionally, where there is active bidding, the highest bidder, and the second highest bidder, if any must post the entire amount of the cost of the distribution policy for the property at �� attorney’s check or money order with the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be deposited in certi�� money order together with a Deed poll for execution by the highest �� within 30 days from the time of the sale. An extension of time for an additional 30 days may be granted at the discretion of the Sheriff upon receipt of written request from the buyer requesting the same, except when a second bidder has been duly �� does not complete settlement with the Sheriff within the thirty (30) day time limit and a second bid was registered at the sale, the second bidder shall be granted the same thirty (30) day time limit to make settlement with the Sheriff on his second bid. Thereafter, the Sheriff shall be at liberty to return the writ to court. A second bid must be registered on any property immediately after it is sold. The second bidder must present the same amount of deposit that the highest bidder delivers to the Sheriff at the sale. An extension of time under no circumstances will be granted or honored by the Sheriff whenever a second bid is registered on a property at the sale. �� each property shall be a sum suf��cluding advertising, all taxes, water rents and municipal claims due to the City of Philadelphia. If there is no other bid price above the opening bid price, the property shall be sold by the auctioneer to the attorney on the writ at that price. The deposit by any bidder who fails to comply with the above conditions of sale shall be forfeited and the funds will be applied to the Sheriff’s cost, then to any municipal claims that the City of Philadel-

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phia has on the property. Finally, if a balance still remains, a Sheriff’s Distribution Policy will be ordered and the money will be distributed accordingly. No personal checks, drafts or promises to pay will be accepted in �� checks or money orders made payable to the Sheriff of Philadelphia County. The Sheriff reserves the right to grant further extensions of time to settle and further reserves the right to refuse bids from bidders who have failed to enter deposits on their bids, failed to make settlement, or make fraudulent bids, or any other behavior which causes disruption of the Sheriff Sale. Said bidders shall be so refused for the sale in which said behavior occurred and for said further period of time as the Sheriff in his discretion shall determine. The Sheriff will not acknowledge a deed poll to any individual or entity using an unregistered �� discretion, require proof of identity of the purchaser or the registration �� be forfeited as if the bidder failed to meet the terms of sale. All bidders are advised to remain at the sale until after the last property is sold. The Sheriff reserves the right to re-sell any property at any time before the end of the sale, upon the successful bidders’ failure to tender the required deposit. The Sheriff reserves the right to postpone or stay the sale of any property in which the attorney on the writ has not appeared and is not present at the sale. Prospective purchasers are directed to the Web site of the Philadelphia Bureau of Revision of Taxes, (BRT) brtweb.phila. gov for a fuller description of the properties listed. Properties can be looked up by the BRT number – which should be cross checked with the address. Prospective purchasers are also directed to the Room 154 City Hall, 215-6861483 and to its website philadox. phila.gov and to its website at http://philadox.phila.gov where they can view the deed to each �� the boundaries of the property. PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DETERMINING THE NATURE, LOCATION, CONDITION AND BOUNDARIES OF THE PROPERTIES THEY SEEK TO PURCHASE. The BRT # refers to a unique number assigned by the City Bureau of Revision of Taxes to each property in the City for the purpose of assessing it for taxes. This number can be used to obtain descriptive information about the property from the BRT website. Effective Date: July 7, 2006

(30) Days from the date of the sale of Real Estate. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedule unless exceptions are �� thereafter. �� non-professional readers who do not understand the meaning of the �� defendant’s names, we make the following. EXPLANATION �� each notice is that of the defendant in the writ whose property is being sold. All Writs are Writs of Executions. The letters C.P., Court of Common Pleas; O.C., Orphans’ Court; Q.S., Court of Quarter Sessions; C.C., County Court - indicate the Court out of which the writ of execution issues under which the sale is made: S. 1941. 223. means September Term, 1941. 223, the term and number of the docket entry; the �� of debt; and the name following is that of the attorney issuing the writ. Attention is called to the provisions of Act No.104, approved July �� properties which are used, designed or intended to be used by three or more families, or of commercial establishments which contain one or more dwelling units, to deliver to the buyers of such properties a use registration permit at the time of settlement, under certain terms and conditions. Sheriff Sales are not subject to provisions of the said Act and the Sheriff will, therefore, not deliver use registration permits in connection with any sales conducted by him. Very truly yours, JEWELL WILLIAMS Sheriff City and County of Philadelphia

�� PROPERTY Vendredi Chea C.P. July Term, 2012 No. �� 1403-304 �� PROVEMENTS: RESIDEN�� heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Yvonne P. Galloway, deceased C.P. January Term, 2013 No. 03846 $70,132.39 Phelan Hallinan, �� 1403-305 �� PROVEMENTS: RESIDEN�� Elsayed, Kaltra Xhafaj C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 02267 $171,170.47 Phelan �� 1403-306 �� 4113 49th wd. 1890 Sq. Ft. OPA#493143900 IMPROVE�� $86,143.97 Phelan Hallinan, �� 1403-307 �� 4808 4th wd. 840 Sq. Ft. OPA#043020200 IMPROVE�� PROPERTY Nichole D. Holland C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 00827 $108,961.43 Phelan �� 1403-308 6231 Hazel Avenue 191431022 46th wd. 904.80 Sq. Ft. OPA#032113900 IMPROVE�� PROPERTY Yamina A. Whitaker C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 01396 $88,234.83 Phelan �� 1403-309 �� 19122-3721 18th wd. 1017 �� IMPROVEMENTS: RESI�� Constante C.P. March Term, �� 1403-310 �� PROPERTY James Varghese, Mary James C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 00028 $92,943.06 �� 1403-311 �� 19133-3834 7th wd. 728 Sq. Ft. OPA#071000400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN�� Santiago C.P. July Term, 2013 �� 1403-312 3163 Richmond Street 19134-

�� OPA#871116900 IMPROVE�� PROPERTY Eric Rosen, Salvatore A. Finazzo C.P. �� $199,242.00 Phelan Hallinan, �� 1403-313 8069 Williams Avenue �� PROPERTY Oscar McMickens, III, as sole owner C.P. December Term, 2010 No. 1617 $108,212.09 Scott A. Dietter�� Esq., Joel A. Ackerman, Esq., �� M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg �� 1403-314 �� as sole owner C.P. February Term, 2011 No. 3298 $194,628.71 Scott A. Dietter�� Esq., Joel A. Ackerman, Esq., �� M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg �� 1403-315 �� 19131 4th wd. 1434 Sq. Ft. �� Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: �� Jerilyn Timpson and Mike Timpson, her husband as tenants by the entirety C.P. November Term, 2011 No. 2663 �� Esq., Joel A. Ackerman, Esq., �� M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg �� 1403-316 �� OPA#662002900 IMPROVE�� PROPERTY David J. D’Alessandro C.P. June Term, �� 1403-317 �� PROPERTY Deborah Ann Garvey aka Deborah Garvey C.P. July Term, 2010 No. 02430 $169,774.39 Phelan �� 1403-318 4814-18 Griscom Street 19124 �� Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: �� Davila, as joint tenants C.P. November Term, 2011 No. 0966 $177,219.40 Scott A. Dietterick, Esq., Kimberly A. ��

Esq., Ralph M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg & Acker�� 1403-319 �� PROPERTY Gerald Dombecki, as sole owner C.P. Febru�� Esq., Joel A. Ackerman, Esq., �� M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg �� 1403-320 �� 4416 40th wd. 1232 Sq. Ft. OPA#273137200 IMPROVE�� PROPERTY Cicero Simmons, Joanne Simmons C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 02719 �� 1403-321 �� in her capacity as heir of �� her capacity as heir of Robert �� Dove aka Danielle PennellDove in her capacity as heir �� Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under �� C.P. July Term, 2012 No. �� 1403-322 �� PROPERTY Paul J. Azzinaro �� C.P. February Term, 2011 No. ��ner, Esq., Joel A. Ackerman, �� Ralph M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, �� 1403-323 1119 East Cheltenham Avenue �� sole owner C.P. April Term, �� Scott A. Dietterick, Esq., Kim�� Marin, Esq., Ralph M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg & Acker�� 1403-324 ��

NOTICE OF SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION �� Schedule of Distribution Thirty

www.Officeof Philadelphia Sheriff.com SHERIFF’S SALE OF Tuesday, March 4, 2014 1403-301 �� 4004 49th wd. 1168 Sq. Ft. OPA#492143900 IMPROVE�� 1403-302 3660 Chesterfield Road 191141806 66th wd. 9282 Sq. Ft. OPA#661039000 IMPROVE�� A. Orr C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 02420 $212,441.81 Phelan �� 1403-303 2808 Welsh Road A, aka 2808 ��

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�� successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest �� deceased. C.P. August Term, �� Martha E. Von Rosenstiel Esquire, Heather Riloff, Esquire 1403-325 234 Chelten Avenue 19120 �� depth OPA#611313000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN��ning C.P. July Term, 2013 No. �� 1403-326 2403 East Allegheny Ave �� 1-002300 IMPROVEMENTS: �� Cathleen M. Craven, dated May 10, 2006 and recorded September 26, 2006 in the office of the Recorder of Deeds in and for Philadelphia County �� December Term, 2012 No. 01228 $144,977.33 Martin S. Weisberg, Esquire 1403-327 1224 S 20th Street 36th wd. �� IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN�� Nguyen C.P. April Term, 2012 �� 1403-328 1813 East Clearfield Street �� vember 30, 2007 and recorded December 3, 2007 in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds in and for Philadelphia County �� July Term, 2012 No. 001628 ��berg, Esquire 1403-329 ��enue 31st wd. 2700 Sq. Ft. �� Elizabeth Tapan C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 1710 �� Esquire 1403-330 817 South 60th Street �� C.P. February Term, 2011 No. �� Dietterick, Esq., Kimberly A. �� Ralph M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, Gold�� 1403-331 �� Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS:

�� August Term, 2011 No. 2826 �� Esq., Joel A. Ackerman, Esq., �� M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg �� 1403-332 2167 East Dauphin Street �� Ft. OPA#313087400 IMPROVE�� PROPERTY Ayelet Johnson, �� C.P. March Term, 2012 No. �� 1403-333 �� PROPERTY Ashik Ahmed C.P. October Term, 2011 No. 04074 �� 1403-334 3324 Cottman Avenue 19149�� PROPERTY Farrah Rosen C.P. November Term, 2011 No. 00888 $129,707.12 Phelan Hal�� 1403-335 �� 1STORY MASONRY Idelphia R. Coates C.P. October Term, �� 1403-336 340 North 61st Street 19139�� OPA#341147900 IMPROVE�� PROPERTY Denise F. Clark C.P. March Term, 2012 No. 00206 $18,713.47 Phelan Hal�� 1403-337 �� PROPERTY Ruth Rotinsulu �� C.P. September Term, 2012 No. �� 1403-338 994 North Marshall Street 19123 14th wd. 28’x81’ �� Moyger, July 19, 2007 and recorded August 9, 2007 in the office of the recorder of deeds in and for Philadelphia County �� March Term, 2013 No. 003924 ��berg, Esquire 1403-339 2404 South Alder Street 19148-3626 39th wd. 714

��PROVEMENTS: RESIDEN�� $119,982.61 Phelan Hallinan, �� 1403-340 �� IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN�� Murphy and Karen G. Murphy. Title to said premises is vested in Robert Reed Murphy and Karen G. Murphy, his wife by deed from John J. Krupczak, �� office of the recorder of deeds in and for Philadelphia County �� 342. C.P. September Term, �� Martin S. Weisberg, Esquire 1403-341 �� PROPERTY Deobrah A. Kelly, Patrick M. Kelly C.P. February Term, 2009 No. 00162 �� 1403-342 �� Sq. Ft. OPA#342168100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESI�� Allen C.P. August Term, 2012 No. 02666 $87,664.29 Phelan �� 1403-343 �� 3913 66th wd. 1616.40 Sq. Ft. OPA#662074800 IMPROVE�� 1403-344 �� PROVEMENTS: RESIDEN�� DiSanto (mortgagor), John M. DiSanto (Real owner) C.P. October Term, 2009 No. 00967 $219,193.37 Mark J. Udren, Esq. 1403-345 �� 3-213300 IMPROVEMENTS: �� Jose Cancel aka Jose V.Cancel aka Jose Vincent Cancel C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 04233 ��fices, P.C. 1403-346 �� Carl Pray C.P. March Term, �� 1403-347 6239 Pine Street 19143 3rd ��

2-041100 IMPROVEMENTS: ��ING Carrie Middleton C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 01010 ��fices, P.C. 1403-348 �� Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: �� Gail Casile C.P. June Term, 2012 No. 01417 $190,333.77 Powers, Kirn, & Javardian, �� 1403-349 �� Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: �� 1403-350 �� PROPERTY David D. Gaeta C.P. May Term, 2012 No. 03177 $111,193.62 Phelan �� 1403-351 12039 Sewell Rd 19116 �� Egenolf C.P. May Term, 2009 �� J. Udren, Esq. 1403-352 364 Daly Street 191483307 39th wd. 700 Sq. Ft. �� PROPERTY Cynthia C. Cross aka Cynthia Cross C.P. �� 1403-353 1837 Sulis Street 19141-1020 �� ell C.P. November Term, 2010 �� 1403-354 �� PROPERTY Olena Malaydakh C.P. June Term, 2010 No. �� 1403-355 2031 South Croskey Street �� Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: �� September Term, 2012 No. �� Offices, P.C. 1403-356 616 Fountain Street 191282404 21st wd. 4128 Sq. Ft. ��

PROPERTY Vernal R. Vaden C.P. April Term, 2012 No. �� 1403-357 419 Knorr Street 19111�� PROPERTY Gennether Ferguson Allston, Joseph Raymond Allston C.P. October Term, 2012 No. 00280 $193,786.99 �� 1403-358 �� 19124-1234 62nd wd. 1001.87 Sq. Ft. OPA#622134400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN�� C.P. September Term, 2012 �� 1403-359 110 West Meade Street 191183810 9th wd. 1477 Sq. Ft. �� Donald aka David MacDonald, Celia Cruz C.P. June Term, �� 1403-360 1610 East Roumfort Road �� PROVEMENTS: RESIDEN�� Holliday C.P. September 2013 ��tha E. Von Rosenstiel Esquire, Heather Riloff, Esquire 1403-361 �� C.P. May Term, 2011 No. �� Offices, P.C. 1403-362 3904 Dugan Street 19124 �� PROPERTY Miguel A. Pizarro-Rosa C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 001682 $39,214.82 Amy Glass, Esquire 1403-363 247 West Fisher Avenue 19120 �� Wescott C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 000478 $73,481.84 Amy Glass, Esquire 1403-364 �� South Hobson Street 19142 �� PROPERTY Freddie M. Harris, Jr., as sole owner C.P. No�� Esq., Joel A. Ackerman, Esq., �� M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg ��

1403-365 �� PROPERTY Mary Munyantwali C.P. July Term, 2013 No. �� Esquire 1403-366 2316 East Cambria Street �� Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2STY MASONRY Jessica Santa aka Jessica N. Santa aka Jessica Natasha Santa C.P. �� Esquire 1403-367 4426 Marple Street 19136 �� Anderson C.P. July Term, 2013 �� Eisenberg, PC 1403-368 �� 19148 39th wd. 960 Sq. Ft. �� Screnci aka Rosa Marie Screnci and Carlo V. Screnci C.P. July Term, 2013 No. �� E. Von Rosenstiel Esquire, Heather Riloff, Esquire 1403-369 �� Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: �� Merlyn Horsford C.P. September Term, 2012 No. 03263 �� 1403-370 1427 Elbridge Street 19149�� Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: �� March Term, 2013 No. 02204 �� 1403-371 1968 West Sparks Street 19141 49th wd. 1470 Sq. Ft. �� Administratrix of the Estate �� C.P. July Term,2013 No. �� Esquire 1403-372 2648 South Felton Street 19142 40th wd. 976 Sq. Ft. �� Fortune and David Coletta C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 01838 �� PC 1403-373 1617 Wakeling Street 19124 ��

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PROPERTY Shaya Gross C.P. September 2013 No. 002094 $84,972.18 Amy Glass, Esquire 1403-374 6129-6131 Gillespie Street �� Kiter, Jr C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 002638 $190,333.93 Stern & Eisenberg, PC 1403-375 �� 30th wd. 1360 Sq. Ft. �� C.P. June Term, 2012 No. �� Eisenberg, PC 1403-376 �� PROVEMENTS: RESIDEN�� and Jake Houston, administrator of the estate of Sarah �� July Term, 2011 No. 001991 $78,716.93 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel Esquire, Heather Riloff, Esquire 1403-377 �� 62nd wd. 770.38 Sq. Ft. �� Paul C.P. September Term, �� Martha E. Von Rosenstiel Esquire, Heather Riloff, Esquire 1403-378 �� 40th wd. 1611.90 Sq. Ft. �� Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: �� Esq., Joel A. Ackerman, Esq., �� M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg �� 1403-379 �� STORY MASONRY Dennis T. Anthony aka Dennis Timothy Anthony C.P. December Term, 2011 No. 03328 $92,604.12 �� 1403-380 �� MENTS: PARKOMINIUM CONDOMINIUM Alan Stasson C.P. October Term, 2013 �� Gallagher Simpson Stapleton �� Elia, Esq. 1403-381 �� 1773-00 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STORY MASONRY

Israel Jimenez aka Israel Villafana C.P. September Term, 2012 No. 02660 $89,934.94 �� 1403-382 �� PROPERTY Norbert A. Navarro and Suzzie Navarro, as tenants by the entireties C.P. March Term, 2012 No. 00722 $81,311.31 Scott A. Dietterick, �� Esq., Joel A. Ackerman, Esq., �� M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg �� 1403-383 11029 Rennard Street 19116�� 1403-384 �� mund, Angela D. Sigmund C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 02717 �� 1403-385 3010 Salmon Street 19134 �� PROPERTY Joseph R. Monte, as sole owner C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 00012 $127,381.69 Scott A. Dietterick, Esq., Kim�� Marin, Esq., Ralph M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg & Acker�� 1403-386 �� PROPERTY Richard Rhodomoyer C.P. November Term, �� 1403-387 �� 19139 4th wd. 1018 Sq. Ft. �� to Mortgage IMPROVE�� PROPERTY Daniel Gwynn and �� January Term, 2012 No. 1440 �� Esq., Joel A. Ackerman, Esq., �� M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg �� 1403-388 �� C.P. December Term, 2011 No. 00034 $149,286.69 Phelan

�� 1403-389 �� IMPROVEMENTS: SEMI DET 2 STORY MASONRY Dana Nibblins C.P. December Term, 2009 No. 03180 $26,272.96 �� 1403-390 2800 North Ringgold Street 19132-1917 38th wd. 728.19 Sq. Ft. OPA#381020000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN�� Allen C.P. August Term, 2012 �� 1403-391 �� PROPERTY Francis Sadownic��cember Term, 2010 No. 0003 �� Esq., Joel A. Ackerman, Esq., �� M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg �� 1403-392 3630 Jasper Street 19134�� PROPERTY Aleksandr Stionov C.P. October Term, 2012 No. �� 1403-393 �� Finn C.P. July Term, 2013 No. �� 1403-394 �� PROPERTY Richard A. Christie, Marcia Dixon C.P. January Term, 2012 No. 03718 $38,333.06 Phelan Hallinan, �� 1403-395 2312 West Thompson Street 19121-4819 29th wd. 897.96 Sq. Ft. OPA#291036600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN�� $23,873.97 Phelan Hallinan, �� 1403-396 6623 Ditman Street 41st wd. �� DET GAR 2 STORY MASON David M. Garvin and Nancy Garvin C.P. September Term, �� 1403-397 �� 41st wd. Northeasterly side of Devereaux St 60 ft 0 in southeasterly side of Marsden St; front 20 ft 0 in; depth 20 ft �� to Mortgage Michael C. Smith

C.P. August Term, 2012 No. �� Vitti, Esq. 1403-398 �� Containing in front or breadth �� ft 6 inches and extending in length or depth northward �� east line thereof along the �� IMPROVEMENTS: SEMI DET 2 STY MASONRY Sonia Felix, Kenneth White and Al White, Jr. C.P. January Term, 2011 No. 03668 $91,387.87 Chandra M. Arkema, Esquire 1403-399 209 Robat Street 1100 Sq. �� IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STORY MASONRY Clara Stallworth C.P. October Term, �� 1403-400 1216 Kenwyn Street 62nd wd. �� 0117-00 IMPROVEMENTS: ��SONRY Charles J. Callahan, Jr. C.P. September Term, 2012 �� 1403-401 1211 South Edgewood Street 19143 3rd wd. 1024 Sq. Ft. �� PROPERTY Erica Kellam, an unmarried woman C.P. December Term, 2011 No. 2277 �� Esq., Joel A. Ackerman, Esq., �� M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg �� 1403-402 �� PROPERTY Alan Dean Stasson aka Alan Dean Stasson C.P. �� P.C. 1403-403 621 Fitzgerald Street 19148 39th wd. 904 Sq. Ft. �� PROPERTY Christopher Rosato C.P. February Term, 2009 No. 02981 $103,646.36 Scott A. Dietterick, Esq., Kim�� Marin, Esq., Ralph M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg & Acker�� 1403-404 1804 67th Avenue 19126 10th wd. 1680 Sq. Ft. �� less C.P. February Term, 2013 �� 1403-405 4810 A Street 19120 42nd wd. 1668.60 Sq. Ft.

�� PROPERTY Maria A. Cabrera C.P. June Term, 2013 No. �� Group, P.C. 1403-406 441 Parker Avenue 19128 21st wd. 7410 Sq. Ft. �� P.C. 1403-407 112 West Tabor Road 19120 42nd wd. 3617.87 Sq. Ft. �� PROPERTY Mark Mordukhayev C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 03833 $126,963.16 �� 1403-408 6034 North 11th Street 19141 49th wd. 1344.80 Sq. Ft. �� PROPERTY Zakiyyah Salahud-Din C.P. February Term, 2013 No. 02768 $102,221.28 �� 1403-409 �� PROPERTY Irina Peterson C.P. July Term, 2013 No. �� Group, P.C. 1403-410 2647 East Toronto Street �� PROPERTY Maureen P. McGovern C.P. October Term, 2009 No. 00644 $140,330.61 �� 1403-411 2121 Disston Street 19149 �� Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: �� Alex Nicolas, as sole owner C.P. April Term, 2013 No. �� Dietterick, Esq., Kimberly A. �� Esq., Ralph M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg & Acker�� 1403-412 �� 1808 40th wd. 1268 Sq. Ft. �� PROPERTY Tamika N. Heath and Donte M. Adams, as joint tenants with the right of survivorship. C.P. May Term, 2012 �� Dietterick, Esq., Kimberly A. �� Esq., Ralph M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg & Acker�� 1403-413 �� 40th wd. 1383.30 Sq. Ft.

�� PROPERTY Ebony Dunlap C.P. May Term, 2013 No. �� Group, P.C. 1403-414 �� 19143 27th wd. 1104 Sq. Ft. �� PROPERTY Reneta Palmer C.P. February Term, 2013 No. �� Group, P.C. 1403-415 �� 44th wd. 1769 Sq. Ft. �� PROPERTY The unknown heirs of Samson O. Adenaike, deceased, Christina Adenaike, solely in her capacity as heir of Samson O. Adenaike, deceased. David Adenaike, solely in his capacity as heir of Samson O. Adenaike, deceased. Emmanuel Adenaike, solely in his capacity as heir of Samson O. Adenaike, deceased. Israel Adenaike, solely in his capacity as heir of Samson O. Adenaike, deceased. Michael Adeniake, solely in his capacity as heir of Samson O. Adenaike, deceased, and Samuel Adenaike, solely in his capacity as heir of Samson O. Adenaike, deceased C.P. December Term, 2012 No. �� Group, P.C. 1403-416A �� 19146 36th wd. front 14 �� OPA#364268800 IMPROVE�� lino C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 001078 $236,370.21 Jerome R. �� 1403-416B �� 19148 39th wd. front 14 �� OPA#393220400 IMPROVE�� lino C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 001078 $236,370.21 Jerome R. �� 1403-416C �� 48th wd. front 14 ft; depth 46 ft OPA#481311200 IMPROVE�� lino C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 001078 $236,370.21 Jerome R. �� 1403-417A �� TENANT OFFICE TOWER ON A 16-ACRE SITE (MORE �� Philadelphia Pennsylvania). C.P. May Term, 2011 No. �� O’connor, Robert Dell’Osa, and Sarah Schlossberg

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1403-417B �� IMPROVEMENTS: FEE �� UNDERGROUND PARKING �� terest in 249 South 6th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); �� est in 249 South 6th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) C.P. May Term, 2011 No. �� O’connor, Robert Dell’Osa, and Sarah Schlossberg 1403-418A 1416 West Girard Avenue 47th wd. Southwest corner of Girard Avenue & Carlisle Street; front 20 ft; depth 114 ft 8 in IMPROVEMENTS: �� C.P. January Term, 2010 No. �� Group, PC 1403-418B 1920 West Diamond Street 32nd wd. South side of Diamond Street 210 ft east of 20th St; front 16 ft depth 100 ft IMPROVEMENTS: �� January Term, 2010 No. �� Group, PC 1403-418C �� Avenue 166 ft 6 in west of �� 74 ft IMPROVEMENTS: �� January Term, 2010 No. �� Group, PC 1403-418D 3211 West Oxford Street 32nd wd. North side of Oxford Street 81 ft 6 in west of Thirty-Second Street front 16 ft, depth 80 ft IMPROVE�� PROPERTY St. Charles Place, �� 1403-418E �� wd. West corner of Germantown Avenue & Tulpehocken �� PROPERTY St Charles Place, �� 1403-419 ��

�� PROPERTY Ramona A. Guizarri aka Ramona C Fermin C.P. October Term, 2006 No. �� 1403-420 604 Poquessing Avenue 19116�� PROPERTY Stacey Clarke aka Stacy Clarke C.P. May Term, �� 1403-421 901 East Phil Ellena Street �� PROPERTY Anthony Streater C.P. June Term, 2008 No. �� Group, P.C. 1403-422 �� PROPERTY Joseph Melleski and Michael Melleski C.P. June Term, 2012 No. 00778 �� P.C. 1403-423 663 Hermitage Street 19128 21st wd. 9000 Sq. Ft. �� ber Term, 2007 No. 02889 �� P.C. 1403-424 �� MENTS: APT 2-4 UNITS 2STY MASONR Efedua E. Okolo and Rosemary Okolo C.P. May Term, 2013 No. �� of Richard J. Weitzman, P.C. 1403-425 432 E Tulpehocken Street �� 3STY MASON Angela Coulter, Executrix of the estate of Fred Coulter, Jr. C.P. December Term, 2012 No. �� of Richard J. Weitzman, P.C. 1403-426 34 Ashmead Place South 19144 12th wd. 1288.8 Sq. Ft. �� November Term, 2012 No. �� Offices, P.C. 1403-427 ��

�� C.P. March Term, 2013 No. �� Offices, P.C. 1403-428 �� 0369-00 IMPROVEMENTS: �� Arlene Young C.P. April Term, �� 1403-429 7672 Woodcrest Avenue �� 2013 No. 01998 $173,018.99 �� 1403-430 �� PROPERTY John Prior and Dorothy Prior C.P. September �� Amy Glass, Esquire 1403-431 �� and Iyolo Mabila C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 001982 $116,082.84 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel Esquire, Heather Riloff, Esquire 1403-432 2201 Strahle Street, �� February Term, 2013 No. �� of Gregory Javardian 1403-433 6222 Gardenia Street 19144 22nd wd. 1360 Sq. Ft. �� son C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 01192 $44,348.84 Stern & Eisenberg, PC 1403-434 �� ling C.P. August Term, 2013 �� Eisenberg, PC 1403-435 �� Mortgage original principal amount $100,000.00 with an outstanding balance of �� diem IMPROVEMENTS: UN�� January Term, 2013 No. 03434 �� Esquire 1403-436 ��

PROPERTY Jasmine Navarro C.P. March Term, 2013 No. �� Group, P.C. 1403-437 �� individually and in her capacity as heir of Denise Carter, deceased C.P. June Term, 2012 �� 1403-438 437 East Montana Street �� PROPERTY Sandra D. Thomas as executrix of the estate of �� C.P. June Term, 2013 No. �� Group, P.C. 1403-439 1431 North Felton Street �� PROPERTY Joan Murray and Ira R. Murray III C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 02872 �� P.C. 1403-440 3323 Kip Street 19134 7th wd. �� IMPROVEMENTS: RESI�� Guzman and Providencia Guzman C.P. April Term, 2012 No. �� Group, P.C. 1403-441 �� PROPERTY Ricardo Johnson C.P. March Term, 2012 No. �� Group, P.C. 1403-442 3322 H Street 19134 33rd wd. �� IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN�� Shelton C.P. July Term, 2013 �� 1403-443 1146 East Price Street 19138 �� PROPERTY Joseph T. Patton C.P. July Term, 2013 No. �� Group, P.C. 1403-444 �� 66th wd. 1843.93 Sq. Ft. �� PROPERTY Michael Harold Franklin aka Michael H. Franklin C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 04364 $202,940.26 �� 1403-445 6401 Vine Street 19139 �� PROPERTY Dionne J. Johnson

C.P. October Term, 2013 No. �� Group, P.C. 1403-446 812 W Moyamensing Avenue �� OPA#393326200 IMPROVE�� PROPERTY KSM Investments, �� Weisgold 1403-447 6724 Rising Sun Avenue �� PROPERTY Vernon Grant C.P. August Term, 2013 No. �� Group, P.C. 1403-448 929 North 28th Street 191301231 29th wd. 893.26 Sq. Ft. OPA#292088700 IMPROVE�� PROPERTY John S Martin C.P. December Term, 2010 �� 1403-449 1436 Gilham Street 19111�� Darlene P Finch C.P. August Term, 2012 No. 01888 $40,312.27 Phelan Hallinan, �� 1403-450 4280 Paul Street 191244629 23rd wd. 2990 Sq. Ft. �� PROPERTY Rodney A. Fisher aka Rodney Fisher C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 00280 �� 1403-451 �� 4208 41st wd. 2000 Sq. Ft. OPA#411420800 IMPROVE�� PROPERTY Angelic Viera C.P. January Term, 2012 No. 00482 �� 1403-452 �� 19121-2614 32nd wd. 630 Sq. Ft. OPA#323179300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN�� Smalls C.P. December Term, �� 1403-453 11704 Joseph Kelly Terrace �� Sq. Ft. OPA#662000412 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN�� Martinez C.P. September Term, �� 1403-454 2601 Pennsylvania Avenue �� 88th wd. together with all right, title, and interest to a 0.747% undivided interest of, in, and to the common elements as more particularly set forth in the declaration

OPA#888072998 IMPROVEMENTS: CONDOMINIUM Taj Reid, Marsha Reid C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 03998 $216,817.76 Phelan Hallinan, �� 1403-455 1211 North Redfield Street �� PROVEMENTS: RESIDEN�� Smith aka Michael Smith C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 02609 �� 1403-456 6631 Dorel Street 19142-2618 �� OPA#406337700 IMPROVE�� Harris C.P. August Term, 2012 No. 01716 $44,461.71 Phelan �� 1403-457 �� OPA#342123300 IMPROVE�� PROPERTY Timothy Kennedy, in his capacity as heir of Thomasine Kennedy, deceased. Wayne Kennedy, in his capacity as heir of Thomasine Kennedy, deceased. Kenyetta Kennedy, in her capacity as heir of Thomasine Kennedy, deceased. Derrick Kennedy, in his capacity as heir of Thomasine Kennedy, deceased. Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Thomasine Kennedy, deceased. C.P. February Term, 2012 No. �� 1403-458 6112 Newtown Avenue 19111�� PROPERTY Michael G. Hoch, in his capacity as Executor of the estate of Deborah A. Canuso C.P. June Term, 2013 �� 1403-459 �� 2240 17th wd. 1376 Sq. Ft. �� PROPERTY Raymond T. �� March Term, 2009 No. 02130 �� 1403-460 �� 2946 12th wd. 108612.12 �� IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN�� V. Martina aka Reginald V. Martina, Jr. C.P. July Term, �� 1403-461 1119 Foster Street 19116�� PROPERTY Irina Godovannik C.P. October Term, 2011 No.

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�� 1403-462 1846 West Champlost Street 19141-1318 17th wd. 1414.66 �� IMPROVEMENTS: RESI�� 1403-463 324 Stevens Street 19111-6021 �� PROPERTY David W. Turner C.P. February Term, 2013 No. �� 1403-464 1919 Ruan Street 19124-4622 �� OPA#232029200 IMPROVE�� ballo C.P. July Term, 2012 �� 1403-465 �� Sq. Ft. OPA#331124800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESI�� Melendez C.P. August Term, �� 1403-466 7263 Mansfield Avenue 19138�� OPA#102360700 IMPROVE�� PROPERTY Henry Hodge, Jr aka Henry Hodge, Mildred J. Hodge C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 01980 $73,889.07 Phelan �� 1403-467 4909 Morris Street 19144�� OPA#133142400 IMPROVE�� her capacity as heir of Minnie �� heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under �� October Term, 2010 No. 01120 �� 1403-468 �� OPA#61-1-096400 IMPROVE�� PROPERTY Eugene E. Chung, ��tember Term, 2012 No. 02647 �� 1403-469 4608 Conshohocken Avenue �� PROPERTY Qunada R. Howie �� administratrix and heir of the ��ceased. Tanya D. Howie, in her

capacity as co-administratrix and heir of the estate of Robert �� Ann Nelson, in her capacity as co-administratrix and heir of �� deceased. Roschael Garfield, in her capacity as co-administratrix and heir of the estate �� Sabrina Howie in her capacity as co-administratrix and heir of �� deceased. Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest �� deceased. C.P. December Term, 2012 No. 01691 $43,893.94 �� 1403-470 �� 1706 34th wd. 864 Sq. Ft. OPA#441217400 IMPROVE�� PROPERTY Constantine G. Glyptis, Mirela Arghiropol C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 01428 $66,416.26 Phelan Hallinan, �� 1403-471 �� IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN�� Galson C.P. July Term, 2012 �� 1403-472 7349 Central Avenue 63rd wd. on the southeasterly side �� northeastwardly from the northeasterly side of Tucker St front �� 1062800 Karen C. Morrissey C.P. September Term, 2011 No. �� Vitti, Esq. 1403-473 1317 Snyder Avenue 19148�� Jr. C.P. January Term, 2012 �� Dietterick, Esq., Kimberly A. �� Esq., Ralph M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, �� 1403-474 3611 East Crown Avenue aka 3611 Crown Avenue East 19114 66th wd. 2266.88 Sq. Ft. �� PROPERTY Robert J. Hanna and Karen Hanna, husband and wife, as tenants by the entirety C.P. August Term, 2011 No. 0148 $140,813.48 Scott A. Dietterick, Esq., Kimberly A. �� Esq., Ralph M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, �� 1403-475 2804 Agate Street 19134��

�� PROPERTY Mark Fernandez C.P. February Term, 2013 No. 00472 $123,267.06 Phelan �� 1403-476 922 New Market Street 19123�� C.P. September Term, 2013 �� 1403-477 �� PROPERTY Erik Helverson, Alexis Conda C.P. February Term, 2012 No. 02697 �� 1403-478 �� PROPERTY Ingrid M. Ransom C.P. November Term, 2007 �� 1403-479 �� 1947 36th wd. 1188 Sq. Ft. OPA#363277000 IMPROVE�� PROPERTY Steven Jones C.P. February Term, 2010 No. �� 1403-480 1017 East Cliveden Street �� IMPROVEMENTS: RESI�� Hollomon, Velvet Hollomon C.P. March Term, 2012 No. �� 1403-481 �� PROPERTY Abigain Mercado Velez aka Abigan Mercado Velez , Haydee Mercado Velez C.P. September Term, 2013 �� 1403-482 �� 66th wd. 1614.60 Sq. Ft. OPA#661288063 IMPROVE�� PROPERTY Yuet-Ying Chan C.P. October Term, 2011 No. 04279 $149,961.10 Phelan �� 1403-483 1601 West Chelten Avenue 19126 17th wd. 1292.80 �� IMPROVEMENTS: RESI�� Foreman, heir of the estate of Willie Foreman, deceased. Al Dumas, solely in his capacity as heir of the estate of Willie �� Foreman Ringkamp, solely

in her capacity as heir of the estate of Willie Foreman, deceased. C.P. January Term, 2013 No. 03917 $92,726.86 �� 1403-484 4309 Teesdale Street 19136�� OPA#412100900 IMPROVE�� PROPERTY Michael J. Kinney aka Michael J. Kinney, Jr. C.P. February Term, 2013 No. �� 1403-485 2207 South Woodstock Street �� PROVEMENTS: RESIDEN�� Grier aka Regina M. Eaddy C.P. December Term, 2012 �� 1403-486 �� OPA#621410600 IMPROVE�� PROPERTY Yisaris QuilesAviles C.P. November Term, 2011 No. 03346 $148,998.34 �� 1403-487 6143 North Mascher Street 19120-1941 61st wd. 1139 Sq. Ft. OPA#611021400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESI�� Dancy C.P. June Term, 2013 �� 1403-488 4618 Melrose Street 19137�� PROPERTY Joseph Reis Sr., Colleen Moon C.P. June Term, 2009 No. 03323 $108,044.37 �� 1403-489 273 East Walnut Park Drive 19120-1038 61st wd. 1600 Sq. Ft. OPA#611366400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN�� Ingram aka Rashida N. Ingram C.P. February Term, 2013 No. 00023 $161,301.19 Phelan �� 1403-490 ��ant Avenue 19119-2414 9th wd. 3717.70 Sq. Ft. OPA#092003900 IMPROVE�� PROPERTY Deborah D. Garrett, in her capacity as Executrix and devisee of the estate of Florence G. Garrett. Craig M. Garrett in his capacity as devisee of the estate of Florence G. Garrett. C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 00146 $209,030.20 Phelan Hallinan, �� 1403-491 �� 2711 40th wd. 1360 Sq. Ft. OPA#406024200 IMPROVE�� PROPERTY Kenneth Flynn C.P. August Term, 2012 No. ��

1403-492 �� Sq. Ft. OPA#491120400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESI�� Ramos, in her capacity as adminstratrix and heir of the estate of Angelo Scott, Jr. Ana Marie Scott, in her capacity as heir of the estate of Angelo Scott, Jr, Angelo Scott, in his capacity as heir of the estate of Angelo Scott, Jr, Siaya Marie Scott, in her capacity as heir of the estate of Angelo Scott, Jr, Sharimar Marie Scott, in her capacity as heir of the estate of Angelo Scott, Jr. Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Angel Scott, deceased. C.P. March Term, 2012 No. 00748 $43,037.23 Phelan Hallinan, �� 1403-493 �� May Term, 2012 No. 01646 �� 1403-494 6244 Clearview Street 19138�� PROPERTY Jenae Sabir C.P. November Term, 2010 No. 02010 $73,911.82 Phelan Hal�� 1403-495 1883 Conlyn Street 17th wd. �� 1466-00 IMPROVEMENTS: �� STONE Kevin A. King C.P. �� 1403-496 4814 Knox Street 12th wd. �� GAR 2STORY MASONRY Michael Rouse C.P. May Term, �� 1403-497 �� IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STORY MASONRY Priscilla Hope nka Priscilla Downing C.P. December Term, 2011 No. 00916 $24,173.43 Milstead & �� 1403-498 �� C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 002692 $174,801.37 Amy Glass, Esquire 1403-499 ��

�� C.P. January Term, 2013 No. 002129 $60,004.08 Amy Glass, Esquire 1403-500 2831 North Taylor Street �� PROVEMENTS: RESIDEN�� A. Edwards, personal representative. Charles A. Edwards, personal representative of the �� Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under �� ery. C.P. May Term, 2012 No. �� Offices, P.C. 1403-501 1 Academy Circle, Unit 218 19146 30th wd. 0 Sq. Ft. �� biano C.P. April Term, 2013 �� 1403-502 �� 308400 IMPROVEMENTS: ��ING Melrose Robinson C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 02667 ��fices, P.C. 1403-503 �� land aka Alan McCausland, Teresa McCausland C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 00987 ��fices, P.C. 1403-504 �� 1021600 IMPROVEMENTS: �� Pullen Osagie aka Pullen A. Osagie C.P. October Term, �� 1403-505 4423 Marple Street 19136 �� C.P. September Term, 2013 �� 1403-506 141 West Champlost Ave 19120 61st wd. 1020.00 Sq. Ft. �� C.P. June Term, 2013 No. �� Offices, P.C. 1403-507 �� 22nd wd. 1188.96 Sq. Ft.

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�� February Term, 2013 No. �� Offices, P.C. 1403-508 �� C.P. April Term, 2013 No. �� Offices, P.C. 1403-509 312 Hoffnagle Street 19111 �� Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: �� Michaela M. Parrotti C.P. July Term, 2010 No. 01319 $42,892.68 Mark J. Udren, Esq. 1403-510 �� C.P. October Term, 2013 No. �� Offices, P.C. 1403-511 4830 A Street 19120 42nd wd. 1668.60 Sq. Ft. �� personal representative of the estate of Daisy Hall. Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Daisy Hall, deceased. Regina Patricia Hall, known heir of Daisy Hall, Fatima Charmaine Hall, known heir of Daisy Hall, �� heir of Daisy Hall, estate �� Thomas, personal representative C.P. March Term, 2013 �� 1403-512 �� MENTS: MIXED USE James McPeak and Joan McPeak C.P. November Term, 2012 �� Gallagher Simpson Stapleton �� Elia, Esq. 1403-513 641 West Allegheny Avenue 19133-2408 37th wd. 1280 Sq. ��PROVEMENTS: COMMERI�� July Term, 2011 No. 01790 �� & Spitzer P.A. 1403-514 �� Sq. Ft.; improvement 4674 �� Subject to Mortgage Costanzo Policino aka Gus Policino C.P. October Term, 2020 No.

03344 $303,688.30 Jennifer Popelack, Esquire 1403-515 �� PROPERTY Adam Mastone C.P. August Term, 2013 No. �� Group, P.C. 1403-516 �� PROPERTY Alfred P. Elko, Jr C.P. October Term, 2013 No. �� Group, P.C. 1403-517 �� PROPERTY Tanya R. Mapp C.P. August Term, 2013 No. �� Group, P.C. 1403-518 �� 62nd wd. 1343.92 Sq Ft �� Turnbull, Raquel Turnbull C.P. �� fices, P.C. 1403-519 �� Wanda Miller C.P. July Term, �� 1403-520 1603 West Godfrey Avenue 19141 17th wd. 1412 Sq. Ft. �� 2STY STONE Erron Smith C.P. September Term, 2012 No. �� Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-521 7321 Palmetto Street 19111 �� MASONRY Sean Alivera C.P. September Term, 2012 No. �� Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-522 349 East Albanus Street 19120 42nd wd. 1260 Sq. Ft. �� APT 2STY MASONRY Hertilyn Carthy C.P. April Term, �� McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-523 �� 62nd wd. 3320 Sq. Ft. �� Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: ��

R. Tatum C.P. November Term, �� McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-524 �� Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: ��ING; ROW 2STY MASONRY Robin D. Gaymon C.P. December Term, 2012 No. 01391 �� & Conway, P.C. 1403-525 2706 Earp Street 19146 36th wd. 784 Sq. Ft. �� SONRY Elizabeth Primamore �� September Term, 2013 No. 01207 $44,888.06 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-526 6726 Dorel Street 19142 40th �� PROPERTY Fatu F. Moses C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 004994 $87,188.08 Richard M. Squire �� 1403-527 8816 Ridge Avenue, Unit 7 19128 21st wd. 1632 Sq. ��PROVEMENTS: RESIDEN�� Medley and Sybil McKnightMedley, as tenants by the entirety C.P. July Term, 2011 No. 0600 $337,317.61 Scott A. Dietterick, Esq., Kimberly A. �� Esq., Ralph M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg & Acker�� 1403-528 6630 Doral Street 19142 40th wd. 1143.10 Sq. Ft. �� PROPERTY Frank N. Messina C.P. August Term, 2010 No. ��ner, Esq., Joel A. Ackerman, �� Ralph M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, �� 1403-529 �� 19120-3139 49th wd. 1170 ��PROVEMENTS: RESIDEN�� wife C.P. August Term, 2012 No. 1807 $82,640.04 Scott A. Dietterick, Esq., Kimberly A. �� Esq., Ralph M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg & Acker�� 1403-530 2630 South Muhlfeld Street aka 2630 South Muhlefeld ��

IMPROVEMENTS: RESI�� A. Stevens C.P. January Term, �� Scott A. Dietterick, Esq., Kim�� Marin, Esq., Ralph M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg & Acker�� 1403-531 �� 40th wd. 1232 Sq. Ft. �� PROPERTY Terrimah A. Delcham and Harold Delcham C.P. April Term, 2011 No. 1849 �� Esq., Joel A. Ackerman, Esq., �� M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg �� 1403-532 �� wd. land area 1800 Sq. Ft. �� Mortgage Subject to Rent �� 3STY FRAME Thomas Dawson and Christine E. Dawson C.P. September Term, 2013 �� Ebeck, Esquire 1403-533 6017 Agusta Street 19149 �� the right of survivorship C.P. October Term, 2011 No. 2890 $87,218.90 Scott A. Dietterick, �� Esq., Joel A. Ackerman, Esq., �� M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg �� 1403-534 �� and Rosetta R. Turner C.P. February Term, 2013 No. �� Group, P.C. 1403-535 3249 Saint Vincent Street �� Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: �� Margaret Fulmer C.P. November Term, 2012 No. 01363 �� 1403-536 330 East Gale Street 19120 42nd wd. 1140 Sq. Ft. �� Jr and Michele D. James C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 02663 $110,100.76 Stern & Eisenberg, PC 1403-537 ��

�� exander and Janie A. Alexander (deceased) C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 001786 $104,497.10 Stern & Eisenberg, PC 1403-538 4803 East Cheltenham Avenue �� PROPERTY Elizabeth Rodriguez C.P. August Term, 2013 �� Glass, Esquire 1403-539 2084 Clementine Street �� PROPERTY Michael Antonyuk and Marina Petcherskaia C.P. August Term, 2012 No. �� Esquire 1403-540 �� PROPERTY Victoria Hodge and Frank Murphy C.P. October Term, 2012 No. 4422 �� Esquire 1403-541 1004 East Dorset Street �� PROPERTY Melvin A. Alston, Sr. C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 000707 $148,200.96 Amy Glass, Esquire 1403-542 1634 West Toronto Street 19132 38th wd. land area 798 Sq. Ft.; improvement area 942 Sq. Ft. OPA#111094800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESI�� August Term, 2013 No. 00870 �� 1403-543 �� Sq. Ft. improvement area: �� IMPROVEMENTS: RESI�� ING Sean C. Williams C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 00941 $87,698.02 Robert J. Wilson, �� 1403-544 2431 North College Avenue 29th wd. 1200 Sq. Ft. �� C.P. February Term, 2013 No. �� of Gregory Javardian 1403-545 �� 2221 62nd wd. 990 Sq. Ft. �� Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: �� Keisha N. Northington C.P. December Term, 2012 No.

�� 1403-546 �� 3034 46th wd. 931.89 Sq. Ft. OPA#033178200 IMPROVE�� PROPERTY Jocelyn A. Charleston; Joseph G. Charleston, Jr. C.P. October Term, �� 1403-547 4262 Romain Street 19124�� PROPERTY Matilde Rosario C.P. October Term, 2012 No. �� 1403-548 Pennsport Mall - Unit C-17, 230 Moore Street 19148 front �� CONDOMINIUM UNIT �� 1403-549 2721 Elkhart Street 19134 �� Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: �� April Term, 2013 No. 1043 $90,937.24 Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & �� Esq. 1403-550 �� IMPROVEMENTS: CONDOMINIUM; RES CONDO 2STY FRAME Steven A. �� administrator of the estate of �� mortgagor and real owner C.P. �� berg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-551 2246 W Allegheny Avenue on the south side of Allegheny Avenue 19132 11th wd. front 16.00 ft x depth 62.00 ft, �� KAMAAC INVESTMENTS, INC C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 04211 $83,602.76 Justin �� 1403-552 1720 Wallace Street 19130 �� APT 3STY MASONRY Michael Suh C.P. February Term, �� McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-553 6920 East Wister Street �� 2STY MASONRY Antonia Simms C.P. May Term, 2012

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��Cabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-554 431 East Sharpnack Street �� 2STY MASONRY Jemal Scott C.P. January Term, 2009 No. 02643 $104,324.88 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-555A 917-41 N Taney Street aka �� 88th wd. 9213 Sq. Ft. �� WAREHOUSE Girard Com�� 2009 No. 1203 $494,127.22 Michael V. Phillips, Esquire 1403-555B 943 N Taney street 88th wd. �� IMPROVEMENTS: GARAGE NO COMMON AREA MASONRY Girard Commons, �� 1203 $494,127.22 Michael V. Phillips, Esquire 1403-556 730 East Upsal Street 19119 22nd wd. 1888 Sq. Ft. �� 2S MASONRY Pauline P. Grierson C.P. September Term, �� McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-557 �� 39th wd. 990 Sq. Ft. �� SONRY Ronald Scarpato C.P. September Term, 2013 No. �� Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-558 713 West Wingohocking Street 19140 49th wd. 1290 Sq. Ft. �� Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: �� SEMI DET 2STY MASONRY Dr. Ndubuisi O. Okoro and �� 2013 No. 01138 $43,827.03 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-559A �� Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: �� Partners X C.P. January Term, �� 1403-559B 908-910 Spruce Street, Unit 3 �� Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: �� Partners X C.P. January Term, ��

�� 1403-559C �� Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: �� Partners X C.P. January Term, �� 1403-559D 908-910 Spruce Street, Unit 6 �� Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: �� Partners, X C.P. January Term, �� 1403-559E 908-910 Spruce Street Unit 7 �� Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: �� Partners, X C.P. January Term, �� 1403-559F 908-910 Spruce Street, Unit 8 �� Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: �� Partners, X C.P. January Term, �� 1403-559G 908-910 Spruce Street Unit 9 �� Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: �� Partners, X C.P. January Term, �� 1403-559H 908-910 Spruce Street, Unit 11 �� Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: �� Partners, X C.P. January Term, �� 1403-559I 908-910 Spruce St, Unit 12 �� Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: �� Partners, X C.P. January Term, �� 1403-560 �� 1st wd. 1014 Sq. Ft. �� Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: �� ROW 2STY MASONRY Josephine H. Tuitt and Glen T. Prospere C.P. July Term, 2013 No. �� Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-561 �� Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS:

�� Francine Daniels C.P. April Term, 2009 No. 01368 �� & Conway, P.C. 1403-562 �� 19146 36th wd. 896 Sq. Ft. �� MASONRY Charles Grier C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 01917 $14,767.91 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-563 �� SONRY Edward N. Pereira C.P. April Term, 2012 No. 03830 �� & Conway, P.C. 1403-564 6342 North Opal Street �� Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: ��ING; ROW 2STY MASONRY �� known surviving heir of Myrtle �� Temple, known surviving heir �� mortgagor and real owner, �� deceased mortgagor and real �� known surviving heir of Myrtle �� and real owner and all unknown known surviving heirs of Myrtle �� and real owner. C.P. May Term, �� McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-565 6017 North American Street 19120 61st wd. 990 Sq. Ft. �� 2STY MASONRY Edward Wal�� No. 00062 $76,061.93 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-566 �� C.P. October Term, 2011 No. 00741 $98,308.07 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-567 2009 South Darien Street 19148 39th wd. 820 Sq. Ft. �� MASONRY Petruzza Mazzone and Anthony M. Mazzone C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 02322 $94,027.87 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-568 ��

�� 2STY MASONRY Property of John Mitchell aka Jack Mitchell, known surviving heir of Catherine G. Mitchell, deceased mortgagor and real �� known surviving heir of Catherine G. Mitchell, deceased ��an Mitchell known surviving heir of Catherine G. Mitchell, deceased mortgagor and real owner, James M. Mitchell aka Jim Mitchell known surviving heir of Catherine G. Mitchell, deceased mortgagor and real owner and unknown suriving heirs of Catherine G. Mitchell deceased mortgagor and real owner. C.P. November Term, �� McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-569 �� MASONRY David T. Sirgant aka David T. Sigrant C.P. May Term, 2010 No. 02322 $182,668.32 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-570 6118 Walton Avenue 19143 �� MASONRY Paula C. ChampHarris and Dontae Harris aka Dontae V. Harris C.P. February Term, 2013 No. 00947 �� & Conway, P.C. 1403-571 �� 19132 38th wd. 726 Sq. Ft. �� SONRY Geneva Church C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 02811 �� & Conway, P.C. 1403-572 �� 62nd wd. 1471 Sq. Ft. �� Wyeth C.P. February Term, 2013 No. 03276 $148,322.07 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-573 �� 19121 29th wd. 2700 Sq. Ft. �� STR 3 STY MASONRY Wanda D. Rucker aka Wanda Rucker C.P. September Term, 2013 No. �� Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-574 �� 41st wd. 1118 Sq. Ft. ��

MASONRY Jesus Cortez (mortgagor and real owner) and Carmen Acevevo (real owner) C.P. February Term, �� McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-575 3434 North 18th Street 19140 11th wd. 2200 Sq. Ft. �� MASONRY Kia Swinton C.P. September Term, 2013 No. �� Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-576 �� SONRY Renee Varquez C.P. September Term, 2013 No. �� Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-577 �� 19124 33rd wd. 1224 Sq. Ft. �� Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: �� MASONRY Sergey Musheyev and Edward Musheyev C.P. January Term, 2012 No. 02903 ��berg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-578 �� PROVEMENTS: CONDOMINIUM; RES CONDO 3STY MASONRY Keith A. Royal aka Keith Royal C.P. July Term, �� McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-579 4728 North 2nd Street 19120 42nd wd. 1120 Sq. Ft. �� MASONRY Carmen Vazquez C.P. May Term, 2013 No. �� Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-580 3088 Jasper Street 19134 �� MASONRY Frank N. Messina C.P. May Term, 2013 No. �� Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-581 �� 34th wd. 1260 Sq. Ft. �� McQueen and Calvin McQueen C.P. June Term, 2013 No. �� Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-582 ��

2STY MASONR Alexander V. Kostin C.P. March Term, 2012 No. 00801 $190,378.19 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-583 �� successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Eileen Horner, Eileen Horner, last record owner C.P. September Term, �� 1403-584 �� ESTATE Roderic Watson C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 01302 $86,601.16 Stern & Eisenberg, PC 1403-585 �� 0094-00 IMPROVEMENTS: ��ING Marie E. Gabriel C.P. �� fices, P.C. 1403-586 176 W Spencer St 19120�� Cong Truong, Nhu Q. Truong C.P. June Term, 2010 No. �� Offices, P.C. 1403-587 �� Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: ��ING Marjorie J. Fisher C.P. �� P.C. 1403-588 3917 North Franklin Street �� C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 01699 �� P.C. 1403-589 117 W Rosemar St 19120 42nd wd. 832 Sq. Ft. �� SONRY Rasheeda Jackson C.P. March Term, 2012 No. 00144 �� & Conway, P.C. 1403-590 6260 North 3rd Street 19120 61st wd. 1410 Sq. Ft. �� C.P. February Term, 2010 No. 02727 $120,902.30 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C.

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1403-591 2609 East Huntingdon Street �� Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: �� ROW 3 STY MASONRY Debra �� C.P. September Term, 2013 No. �� Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-592 �� 46th wd. 2944.23 Sq. Ft. �� SONRY Charlene McCulley C.P. October Term, 2006 No. 02703 $103,460.68 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-593 4634 Kendrick Street 19136 �� 2STY MASONRY Raishel C. Ganges-Yarde, adminstrator �� deceased mortgagor and real owner C.P. January Term, �� McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-594 6016 Washington Avenue 19143 46th wd. 1760 Sq. Ft. �� STY MASONRY Richard F. Nelson, Sr. administrator for the estate of Annette G. Nelson, deceased real owner and mortgagor C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 01169 $113,331.97 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-595 ��

�� 2STY MASONRY Ericka N. Solomon C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 01743 $101,412.02 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-596 �� ject to Mortgage IMPROVE�� DOMINIMUM 3 STORY MAS + OTHER Kathleen Chung aka �� and Eugene E. Chung C.P. November Term, 2010 No. 03349 $110,803.61 Federman �� 1403-597 3217 West Hilton Street �� Sq. Ft. OPA#382033300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESI�� J. Middleton C.P. July Term, �� 1403-598 �� in his capacity as Executor and devisee of Estate of Richard �� 1403-599 �� C.P. November Term, 2009 No. 00209 $86,113.67 Phelan Hal�� 1403-600 2040 Aikens Street 19142-

1217 40th wd. 938 Sq. Ft. �� PROPERTY Antelicia M. Scott C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 01448 $22,886.94 Phelan �� 1403-601 �� PROPERTY Alonzo Pickron C.P. August Term, 2013 No. �� 1403-602 �� PROPERTY James Szczur, Noel Szczur C.P. August Term, �� 1403-603 716 Fulton Street 191472817 3rd wd. 629.84 Sq. Ft. OPA#022208600 IMPROVE�� C.P. January Term, 2013 No. 01077 $240,260.01 Phelan �� 1403-604 2777 Pratt Street aka 2777�� PROPERTY Carmen J. PerezCastro, Dionisio J. Castro C.P. February Term, 2013 No. �� 1403-605 2443 East Clearfiled Street �� -

PROVEMENTS: RESIDEN�� Pizzaro C.P. June Term, 2012 No. 02626 $148,697.80 Phelan �� 1403-606 �� PROVEMENTS: RESIDEN�� Morse C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 04879 $63,046.49 Udren �� 1403-607 6130 Walnut Street 19139 3rd �� 1-070700 IMPROVEMENTS: ��ING Monique Ferguson C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 01992 ��fices, P.C. 1403-608 4414 Vista Street 19136 41st �� ING Tetyana Orinchay C.P. �� fices, P.C. 1403-609 �� 22nd wd. 1800 Sq. Ft. �� FRAME Shyvonne K. Taylor C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 01119 $294,830.44 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1403-610 �� 19132 38th wd. 990 Sq. Ft. �� MASONRY Walter H. Green C.P. August Term, 2010 No. �� Weisberg, & Conway, P.C.

1403-611 1274 South 24th Street 19146 36th wd. 1308 Sq. Ft. �� PROPERTY Robert Walker, as sole owner C.P. May Term, 2011 No. 0824 $63,044.06 Scott A. Dietterick, Esq., Kim�� Marin, Esq., Ralph M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg & Acker�� 1403-612 �� IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN�� Jones C.P. April Term, 2013 ��fices of Gregory Javardian 1403-613 �� IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN�� C.P. June Term, 2013 No. �� of Gregory Javardian 1403-614 �� C.P. February Term, 2013 No. �� 1403-615 1913 East Pike Street 19124�� PROPERTY Michael R. Hence, Regina M. Hence aka Regina M. O’Donnell C.P. February Term, 2011 No. 03386 $80,768.04 Phelan Hallinan, ��

1403-616 �� PROPERTY Property of Samuel Miletto and Charles A.J. Halpin, III, as administrator of �� deceased. C.P. February Term, 2013 No. 00983 $72,493.23 �� 1403-617 6211 North 16th Street 19141 17th wd. 1440 Sq. Ft. �� C.P. April Term, 2013 No. �� Group, P.C. 1403-618 �� C.P. June Term, 2013 No. �� Group, P.C. 1403-619 6116 Palmetto Street 19111 �� PROPERTY Manuel A. Roman Jr and Maxine Rosario C.P. August Term, 2011 No. 03302 �� P.C. 1403-620 �� 19141 17th wd. 1440 Sq Ft �� Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: �� Sylvia Pender, Administratrix of Virginia Evans, Deceased C.P. November Term, 2012 ��

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Young Professionals, Contemporary Art by HughE Dillon �� Friday night Jan. 31, The Barnes Young Professionals gathered to celebrate the Barnes’ newly commissioned works of art by contemporary artist Yinka Shonibare MBE. Guests enjoyed an open bar, snacks and DJ Royale spinning til 10 p.m.

1. Ryan Tadeo and Abigal Schnapf check out the art. 2.Heather Ruddock and Joanne Perez. 3. Jason Cevera and Rachel Luber-Cevera

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The Philadelphia Auto Show is back and bigger than ever. Event organizers say this year’s show is the biggest in its history, with over 40 brands and more than 700 cars on display. The goal of the event is to raise as many funds as possible for The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Approximately $425,000 was raised at the event and 4,000 people attended. This year all proceeds benefit the Division of Neonatology at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

1. Aimee Schwartzburt and Fred Dougherty. 2. Dennis M. Jackson and Sirlena Swift. 3. Denise Berry, Michael Perkins and Adrienne McKinney. 4. Ian Leonard, Lexie Norcross, Philly.com, Mark Segal, PGN, and Jason Villemez, associate producer, local media development at Comcast. 5. Jen Corsilli, AEG Live, Dafni D. Comerota, public relations, Kimmel Center, Anthony Tido and Leah Kaufman, Philly.com. 6. Michael Givens, Stacy McTighe, Stef McTighe and Ryan Wisely. Photos by HughE Dillon

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Lower Merion’s Ace

MARTIN LUTHER KING LED BY COLSON

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by Jeremy Treatman

ower Merion High School is known, sports-wise of course, as the alma mater of Kobe Bryant. The Aces are also known in basketball circles for winning the 1996, 2006 and 2013 PIAA AAAA championships and making it to the finals in 2005 and 2012. But are all the reasons for the success known? Kobe and Gregg Downer, the team’s head coach since 1992, are certainly the two main reasons for over 400 wins in that span. But having a staff of former players who have helped the team’s winning ways is a very underrated — and outside of the program — and a very unheralded part of the Aces’ experience. Former players like Doug Young, Blake Stabert, Chris Vernick and Guy Stewart have been on the staff for the

Guy Stewart went from being Kobe Bryant’s favorite teammate to a state champion assistant coach. Photo courtesy of Lower Merion High School Basketball.

team’s last four state championship game appearances. Therefore, all of them, including Downer, were disappointed to miss Bryant’s visit to the Ardmore school this year. Due to injury, the NBA all-star didn’t make the trip to Philadelphia this time when his Lakers team played the 76ers at the Wells Fargo Center. Usually Bryant makes a visit to the LM gym and mingles with all the coaches. Many of them also make the trip to Santa Barbara, Calif., to work his camp in the summers.

�� Instead, the Aces are planning this week on making a run in the state playoffs again. Winning 10 of their last 11 games highlights their 17-6 record. The team will open with a home District 1 AAAA game. Stewart recollected on his times as a senior with Bryant as a teammate on his 1995 team that lost in the PIAAA AAAA second round playoffs. Bryant, a junior that season, led the team to a title the next year, aided by Stewarts’s former teammates and buddies Dan Pangrazio, Jermaine Griffin and Brendan Pettit. Bryant has publicly said on more than one occasion that he loved playing with Stewart, a feisty 6-foot guard. “That’s an honor to hear such a thing. It was sweet to see all that hard work earn

Does it matter who is coaching you? In most cases, the answer is yes. Principal William Wade apparently made the right hire: bringing in Sean Colson as head coach prior to the 2012-2013 season was a major coup. “I really think our kids look up to Sean because of his basketball background and ability to teach and make them better. A lot of kids have recognized our success and want to play here.” Colson played briefly in the NBA with the Houston Rockets after a stellar career at the University of Rhode Island and Philadelphia’s Franklin Learning Lower Merion alumnus and Los Angeles Laker Kobe Bryant.

them the title the year after I left,” said Stewart, who has been a varsity assistant at the school since 2005. “Playing with Kobe was one of the craziest experiences ever. In my junior year (we had a tough season and it was Kobe’s sophomore year), I was beginning to realize that he could be a special player that would one day be in the NBA, and throughout my senior year I began to believe it more and more. But I never thought it would have happened so quickly. I thought it was going to take more time than it did, but to be honest I am not surprised because of how hard he works, his love for the game and his passion to always continue to get better and better. He rarely hung out because he was 24/7 basketball and to be so good and still work so hard, you just knew he would one day be in the NBA.” Stewart remembers the famous Bryant work ethic well. “I think my favorite part about playing with him was his passion and will to win,” he said. “When you get on the court with a guy like that you are willing to do whatever it takes to win basketball games and become successful and even in practice he

Center where he was a star point guard. “It was a dream come true to play in the NBA,” Colson said. “I thought about making the NBA since I started playing at 3 years old. I already knew Cuttino Mobley from prep school and college as well as from being friends in Philly growing up. It was a great experience in the league. Even though I didn’t play a long time I got to know Steve Francis, Hakeem Olajuwon, Moochie Norris, Maurice Taylor and Walt Williams, etc. I still am cool with those guys to this day.” What did Colson learn in the NBA that has helped him as a coach at Martin Luther King? “The biggest surprise was how good people were and the preparation those guys showed before games and practice as far as watching film and doing workouts before practice,” he said. “Guys in the NBA have big time work ethic. So I use my background to help guys with basketball and life situations and I give them tough love which sometimes they don’t understand. People who haven’t played at the level I have always give opinions on situations with me and my players that they really don’t understand even people who work at King. I just stay strong to my beliefs because I was raised tough and that’s how I teach my players to be so that they can get through any situation whether on the court or off. It’s not just about basketball or wins and losses. It’s about them being productive young men.” Hard to argue. King is 19-4 and a big threat to be the first Public League school to win in the AAAA state playoffs. “We’re excited. We have a really good team this year,” he said.

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messenger. Hardy said that getting “B-Boy Blues” was a hard sell to publishers 20 years ago, “B-Boy Blues,” the groundbreaking novel who didn’t think that gay black love stories written by James Earl Hardy, celebrates its were marketable. “I remember when I first wrote ‘B-Boy 20th anniversary this year, and locals can Blues’ and one of mark the milestone with the the constant lines I stage production of the same received from editors name Feb. 25 at the Painted who rejected it was, Bride Arts Center. ‘There’s no audience The play, like the book, has for black men falling won awards and acclaim as the in love,’” Hardy said. first gay hip-hop live story. It “Now, 20 years and six follows the lives of black gay sequels later, it’s clear men in New York City and that there is. And not focuses on the relationship all of those people are between Mitchell, an educated black and gay.” professional journalist, and Hardy said Raheim, a younger b-boy bike ACTOR AUNDRA GOODRUM

that the visibility of gays in the African- married because those things weren’t prevAmerican community and in the world as alent back then. The climate has definitely a whole has changed dramatically in the become more embracing but there is still a two decades since the novel was first pub- contingent that are hell-bent on erasing us lished. figuratively and literally, not only from his“Times are different for same-gender- tory but today.” loving people,” he said. Aundra Goodrum, “We are not only more who plays Mitchell, and visible but, because Reginald L. Barnes, who of legislation and due plays Mitchell’s friend to social media, many Gene, in the stage producmore of us are out. tion said the book resonated Twenty years ago you with people both then and certainly wouldn’t now, and the novel continhave public figures and ues to have a positive impact on audiences. celebrities casually “I’ve had many of my mentioning in interown friends and audience views that they have a partner or they are ACTOR REGINALD L. BARNES members who PAGE 22

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have seen the show tell me that they remember reading it before they came out, and it put a perspective on what they were going through and gave them hope and confidence,” Goodrum said. “When I was younger and I was reading the book, I remember the description of Gene and they called him an Arsenio Hall lookalike and people used to call me an Arsenio Hall lookalike when I was younger,” Barnes added. “And now he’s back on TV so it’s come fullcircle. Black gay culture is a lot more accepted now mediawise. With all the web content, people can see all facets of life. If this book were to come out in 2014, it wouldn’t be as groundbreaking. This novel was the first semblance of black gay urban culture that we saw written, and it affected all those boundaries. It was an amazing time but everything was so closeted. Everything had to be done in the dark and that is not the case now.” Goodrum added that, while things have gotten better for the representation of gays and lesbians in the African-American community, there is still a long way to go. “I think it’s still very much in its infancy of evolution,” he said. “Now we’re starting to see some gay hip-hop artists like Frank Ocean, who came out recently, and the ‘Same Love’ song was a huge hit. But there is still a lot of backlash that we are seeing. It’s something that some people are not comfortable talking about, rappers especially. I think it’ll take some time. Hip-hop is a very manly, bravado-filled culture and initially that is the antithesis of what people think of when they think of homosexuality. So it’ll take a few more years before hiphop will catch up with mainstream society on gay issues.” Hardy said that, even with the success of “B-Boy Blues” and its sequels, as well as the success of other gay black authors, the book industry is still resistant to publishing and promoting novels written from a gay black perspective. “Unfortunately there is still this idea amongst too many editors and publishers that black people don’t read and, if black people don’t read, certainly black gay people don’t read and, by extension, people who are not black and/or gay don’t want to read stories about black gay people,” Hardy said. “That has not stopped many black gay authors from publishing their own work. That’s the nature of the business, but marginalized voices are not seen as being valuable and commercial. I think this series proves that this is not the case but we’ve been treated as aberrations and that is unfortunate because there is so much talent in that literary pool that is not being nurtured and snatched up that could cross over.”

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Goodrum and Hardy both said that the “B-Boy Blues” story, in both stage and book form, appeal to diverse audiences. “While it does tend to attract a gay black male audience, it’s a love story,” Goodrum said. “It’s a Romeo and Juliet-type story that anyone can relate to, provided they have an open mind and can find the commonality. It’s a black gay love story that is relevant and timely. In typical portrayals of gay life, it’s white couples that are featured, whether it be on TV or film. I hope people take away the understanding that this is an important aspect of the community that has stories and values and wisdom it can share.” “One of the greatest blessings that I have received over the years is that people who are not black and/or gay and/or male have embraced the story,” Hardy added. “I think that has everything to do with the fact that, even if they never thought that they would read a book like ‘B-Boy’ or a see a play like it, they realize that our lives aren’t that much different. The things that Pooquie and Little Bit, Raheim and Mitchell go through as a couple is what all couples go through. Now that we’re marching towards seeing marriage equality and seeing more states coming to their senses, I think the audience and, by extension, the novel will grow.” Hardy added that he hopes the growth of “B-Boy Blues” will soon include more stage plays, bigger stages and eventually the big screen. “Given the response to ‘B-Boy,’ there is the possibility that the sequel titles will be coming to the stage,” he said. “My eyes are mainly on the prize of seeing ‘B-Boy’ go on Broadway and eventually a film version.” ■ “B-Boy Blues” comes to Philadelphia 7 p.m. at Painted Bride Arts Center, 230 Vine St. For more information or tickets, call 215-925-9914 or visit www.paintedbride. org.

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Maureen Nolan: Fusing her talents, on campus and on stage As I watched Ellen Page come out last week, I was somewhat surprised to see how nervous she was and what an emotional moment it was for her. In this day and age of modern families on TV, a president and first lady who vocally advocate for gay rights and celebrities jumping on the bandwagon to support our community, it’s easy to think everything’s copasetic and forget how difficult coming out can still be for young people. To get some youth perspective, I spoke to Maureen Nolan, president of Drexel’s Foundation of Undergraduates for Sexual Equality, otherwise known as FUSE. The president and a founding member of the group, Nolan was instrumental in helping create gender-neutral housing on campus and Drexel’s LGBT center. She has been a presenter at the Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference and she was nominated as Student Leader of the Year at Drexel. Selfdescribed as bossy and sassy, she’s the only person so far who has caused me to do a spit-take in the middle of the interview. PGN: So I hear you’re a Jersey girl. I’m originally from up north — Passaic — what part are you from? MN: A tiny town called Monroe, in Central Jersey. Yes, it does exist! People up north think of everything else as south and vice versa. PGN: [Laughs.] True. Tell me about the fam. MN: I am one of three. In the house right now it’s me, my mom, my mom’s fiancé and the twins, Emily and Patrick, who are 14. PGN: How old were you when the twins were born? MN: I was 8 and I loved it. I was all about the big-sister game. I used to come home from school and clap my hands over them to wake them so they could play with me. My mother wasn’t too thrilled about that. They’re super-great kids, smart and funny. PGN: What do the folks do? MN: My mom works in marketing for a New Jersey blood center. My dad died in a car crash when I was young. PGN: Yikes, what happened? MN: He was mildly epileptic from a highschool injury and one day he forgot to take his seizure meds and had an attack while he was behind the wheel. He drove into a lake or something. He was only about 42 at the time. PGN: Sorry to hear it. Were/are you close to your grandparents? MN: Both of my grandfathers passed away when I was relatively young. My maternal grandmother is very sassy, which is where

I think I get it from, and my dad’s mom is very funny but doesn’t know it. She went to the library because her computer was broken (it wasn’t — she’d unplugged the router) and she called me and said, “Maureen, the library is amazing! They have all my email contacts on the computers here!” I was like, “Grandma, you don’t understand the Internet. That’s Gmail that has all your contacts.” But she insisted, “No, my computer is broken but the library has all my information.” PGN: What were you like as a kid? MN: Very bossy! [Laughs.] I still am. Very loud too, and I liked to play by myself. I like to think that I was off crafting excellent stories and creating things, but that might not be true. It’s hard to remember. PGN:And what do you do now at Drexel? MN: My major is communication with a focus on corporate and public relations, and my minor is in television. I’m in my fifth year because I’ve been doing a co-op program where you do six months in a work environment and six months in class. It’s a neat program, I’m a big fan.

nerves, but people were very supportive. The only time I was heckled onstage was by a guy who was screaming at me from the back of the room. Something like, “Girls aren’t funny.” That didn’t upset me as much as the guy in the front row who tried to defend me by saying, “Hey man, she’s like 10 years old! Give her a break.” PGN: Aww. What was your first inkling that you were gay? MN: Well, the first time I knew I was not straight, because I identify more as bi or preferably queer, was in the fourth grade. All my friends were talking about boys and I remember saying, “I don’t really care about boys, I just want to be really good friends!” and wondering, How come my friends don’t seem as crazy about me as I am about them? It wasn’t until I got to high school that I realized, Oh wait, there’s a word for this. And the first time I kissed a girl, in 10th grade, I was like, OK, I get it, this is a thing now. We were just doing

PGN: And what do you want to be when you grow up? MN: That’s a good question. I wish I had a good answer for you, but every year it seems to change. Right now I’m looking to work in comedy. PGN: Huh? MN: [Laughs.] Yes. I’ve been working on stand-up comedy. I’m also really interested in LGBT advocacy. So I’m eventually hoping to find a way to pair those things. But in the short term, I’m looking to do event work. Gotta start paying off those college bills. PGN: My last boyfriend, many moons ago, was a stand-up comic. He plays Biff in all the “Back to the Future” movies. If I’d been straight I’d be doing well right now. MN: [Laughs.] Well, you really blew that, didn’t you! Just had to go for girls. PGN: Damn those breasts! So where have you done stand-up? MN: I tried it first when I was in London on a study-abroad program. I figured no one knew me, so what did I have to lose? It went OK and now I do it whenever I can, at different open mics. I haven’t done it for a while because I’m concentrating on all my college-y type stuff, but I’ll get back to it. PGN: What was the first time on stage like? MN: It was hilarious and terrible. It went OK, I think I drank a lot to compensate for

it for attention with our theater crew and afterwards she shrugged it off, but I turned bright red thinking, Oh man, I think I like to do this. PGN: And now you’re the president of FUSE. What made you first join them? MN: [Laughs.] I was tired of my friends, which is kind of rude, but you know how you make friends your freshman year and then start realizing, Hmm, I don’t really like these people ... They’re not that great.

So I found out about FUSE and I was really nervous and excited and asked my friend Tara to go with me. She wasn’t impressed but I fell in love immediately and said, “This is great. I’m coming here every week!” But the first six weeks nobody really talked to me — they thought I was a straight ally — but after they found out I was queer, I started getting invited to parties and stuff, and I’ve been there ever since. It really gave me a sense of community. PGN: As president of the organization, what are some of the things you’ve been doing with Drexel? MN: The biggest thing is helping us get the LGBT center. It was a real struggle. Me and three friends, one of whom is now my girlfriend, started a petition and worked with different administrators. We created a budget and had meetings and it felt like the administrators thought they were doing us a favor giving us lip service about the center. It boiled down to one meeting where I just snapped. I told them, “We’re doing you a favor creating this for the school! We don’t need the center, all four of us are good, but you have a lot of students who are in need of this and we’re helping you. And you’re acting like we’re a burden? You should be thanking us.” After that, things moved a little quicker and we got the center opened last October. It’s in a closet — I kid you not — but you have to start somewhere. Tatiana Diaz, who is a force to be reckoned with, has been helping us staff it with grad students. I’m hoping that it’ll grow and we’ll get a bigger and better location eventually.

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PGN: Are you the only LGBTQ organization at Drexel? MN: Yes. There are a few small specialty groups for grads but this is it for undergrads.

PGN: Sheesh, maybe we can appeal to some Drexel alumni to give you some funding. So I was surprised at how nervous Ellen Page was when she came out. I don’t know if it’s because most of the people coming out now, like Neal Patrick Harris, Anderson Cooper, are older and have had a longer time to process it or what it was. MN: I think there were a lot of factors. Take Jim Parsons, PAGE 36

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more enthusiasm than experience. All her “thinking” and “feeling” are really indications of her lack of knowledge and understanding. She also has all too few coping mechanisms for life’s harsh realities and this makes her agitation so highly amusing. Amy reluctantly finds a job at Adult World, a sex shop where the vibrators scare her and she wonders aloud — and

in front of a customer, no less — about “sticky video returns.” Her gullibility is evidenced when she believes her cute coworker Alex’s (Evan Peters) story about a customer’s dead wife. Her suburban naiveté is tested when she spies the transgender Rubia (Armando Riesco) through the glory hole while cleaning Adult World’s bathroom. And she’s drolly melodramatic when she compares riding the bus home at

night in Syracuse, N.Y., to being “like in Mogadishu.” “Adult World” is full of such funny moments that puncture privileged millennials like Amy. The film’s central storyline has Amy trying to ingratiate herself with her favorite poet, Rat Billings (John Cusack), who lives locally. To him, she is a manic sycophant and a first-class pain in the ass. Her forcefulness prompts the woefully bemused Rat to sarcastically remark, “You would be the type of muse I’d get!” Of course, Amy only hears the word “muse” and delights in it. Rat’s exchanges with his would-be protégé provide “Adult World” with its high comedy. One of the best bon mots Rat gives Amy is his advice to “fail better,” which she does. A scene of Amy dressed up as a cheap hooker, swigging a bottle of alcohol and begging him to “pick her like an exotic flower” is hilarious. Cusack marvelously shows such an appropriate weariness and exasperation in his role. It is as if he was channeling Bill Murray’s deadpan comic delivery. “Adult World” focuses on Amy’s hero worship of Rat. The candid points made about how celebrity is achieved, consumed and valued in society are exacting and relevant. Given the film’s jaundiced view of fame, and the unvarnished reality of Rat’s life, why Amy wants to ascend to this jaded poet’s level of mediocrity is perhaps the most telling thing about her. Coffey reinforces Amy’s blinkered view of life by showing little of the characters’ lives outside of Amy’s connection to them. When she temporarily moves in with Rubia, this odd couple bonds by having some honest conversations. Likewise, Amy’s friendship with Alex develops when they start hanging out. They grow closer until a romantic conflict arises between them. While the supporting characters may be a bit too kind-hearted towards Amy, they serve to offset Rat’s nastiness. If these roles are somewhat underdeveloped, this is a minor flaw; they provide support, however underdeveloped, in Amy’s narcissistic narrative. “Adult World” suggests — albeit in a formulaic way — that characters like Amy need to embrace their inner freak and become “marginalized others” like Rubia. The porn shop is an oddly safe space for Amy, who could realize her true self if she stopped writing bad poetry long enough and paid attention to other people, like Alex. These life lessons are nothing new, but the messages in “Adult World” resonate. A pair of scenes between Rat and a slightly wiser Amy are quite poignant because she is finally able to hear what he has been telling her all along. Coffey never overplays these critical moments. The sensitivity he gives them sharpens the emotions. Ultimately, “Adult World” finds great humor in Amy’s epic fail. Coming of age is painful, but it can also be hilarious. ■

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Out author explores theater’s racial politics By Larry Nichols larry@epgn.com Out director, producer, theater critic and playwright Warren Hoffman is pulling back the curtain on issues of race in the world of theater with his new book “The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical,” where he explores how perceptions of race have altered over time and how musicals dealt with those changes. Hoffman, who is currently the associate director of community programming for the Center of Jewish Life and Learning at Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and was formerly the senior director of programming for the Gershman Y, said the inspiration for his latest book came from his musical-theater geek background. “The genesis of this project began when I was a student of Angela Davis back in grad school,” he said. “I was taking a class on racial theory and was thinking about how these things were interwoven with musicals and a lightbulb went off. I was thinking about it ever since and here’s the book. I think one of the biggest reasons why I wrote the book is musicals are always about race and have these really important things to say about race and the times that they were created. But what’s interesting is that they rarely say those things very explicitly. So the book looks at shows like ‘Oklahoma,’ ‘A Chorus Line’ and

‘The Music M a n ,’ a n d people don’t think of those shows as being about race, but they are. My point is, people think of musicals as these frothy entertainments that don’t have much realworld value, but they do. They have WARREN HOFFMAN a lot to say about the world around us, particularly about race, and that is the point of the book.” Hoffman said that a big reason for theater addressing and simultaneously tiptoeing around the issue of race lies with shows walking the fine line between making a statement and entertaining the audience. “On one hand, it might seem too heavyhanded,” he said. “A musical is often thought to be about song and dance. It’s rarely used as a platform to teach a moral lesson. It’s why when Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote ‘You Have To Be Carefully Taught’ in ‘South

Pacific,’ it was such a big deal because in that case they were coming out and making a case about race. In other shows, it’s less explicitly talked about. There are shows like ‘West Side Story’ which are about race, but even with cases like that, the show at times literally danced around the topic and don’t really get into what was going on in the different time periods. The challenge is, it’s the form itself, which is light-hearted, has a hard time trying to engage with this heavy topic.” Hoffman said that, when it comes to modern theater, some strides have been made on the issue of race, but not enough. “There have been some good steps forward in terms of seeing more diversity in the world of musical theater featuring actors of color or being written by playwrights of color, which has been great,” he said. “But what I found disappointing is actually how white musical theater still is. The musical theater is an artform that supports a very white world view, even now. So there is still a lot of work that needs to be done in the field.” ■ “The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical” is in stores now. Warren Hoffman discusses his book 7 p.m. Feb. 26 at Headhouse Books, 619 S. Second St. For more information, call 215-923-9525 or visit www.warrenhoffman.com.

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STRIKING A (VOCAL) CHORD: “The Voice” returns for a sixth season with celebrity musicians and coaches Adam Levine, Shakira, Usher and Blake Shelton returning while Carson Daly continues to serve as host. Hopefuls on the vocal competition audition for a shot at fame and glory, 8 p.m. Feb. 24 on NBC. Photo: NBC/ Trae Patton

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Big Island Hawaii is the youngest of senses. Here you will find many locally the Hawaiian Islands. The climate on this owned shops (no big store chains here). island ranges from lush rain forests to volDine at Huggos fine dining in Historic canic deserts to snow-capped mountains to Kailua Village, an open-air restaurant susstunning black-sand beaches. You will need pended high over the ocean. Opened in 1969 as a casual dining spot for locals, many days on Big Island to get the full experience, so don’t rush — and don’t stay today Huggos is the premiere island restoo long in the hotel. taurant with fresh-caught seafood (I mean, You can choose to fly into two sides of like that morning) and live music at night. the island. On one side is the sunny Kona It is entirely possible that you will find district, accessible from Kona International owner Hugo Von Platen Luder (yes, Eric’s Airport to Kealakekua Bay. On this side of dad) on property. Be sure to try a traditional Hawaiian Pupu (appetizer) of fresh the island, you will find coffee farms, hissushi and sashimi. toric Hawaiian landmarks and several gayTour with Hawaii Forest & Trail, friendly hotels and businesses. There are which specializes in small-group tours of no active volcanoes on this side. Hawaii’s most special natural wonders. To see a great eruption, go to the Hawaii The full and half-day tours are worth every Volcanoes National Park on the rainy side penny and based on conversation, eduof the island, which is an easy drive from Kona, or fly directly into Hilo International cation and culture-based activities. The tours range from volcanoes to astronomy Airport. Hilo is the home of Kilauea volcano, one of the most active volcanoes on earth. It is the most popular visitor attraction in Hawaii and a sacred place for Native Hawaiians. Here are some must-dos on a visit to the surprisingly fun, astonishingly beautiful, sunny-side and totally gay-friendly Big Island: Chill out on the beach at the gayowned Lava Lava Beach Club. Life and business partners Eric Von Platen Luder and Scott Dodd have created one of the most scenic restaurants on earth. Here, half the fun is in the drink menu that includes SEEING THE SIGHTS VIA HAWAII FOREST & Gilligan’s Girl (a ginger drink), TRAIL TOURS Lotsa Booze (need I say more?) and the Huggos Mai Tai. on the mountain summit to tropical forStay in what might be the sexiest cottages in the Big Island with the biggest ests and waterfalls and hikes. The Kohala views — the beach cottages located next Zipline Kohala Canopy Adventure is not door to Lava Lava Beach Club. There are for the faint of heart and not your everyday only four and they are luxurious and hard zip-line tour. The tours feature suspension bridges through the treetops and up to come by. The outdoor showers, the to eight zip lines that take you through right-on-the-beach views and the special breathtaking views. The interpretative surprise at happy hour is well worth the guide staff take you onto private lands expense. It’s a real treat to stay in this rustic-luxury retreat along the ocean, with all exclusive to Hawaii Forest & Trail that the modern amenities. Check out www. include easy hikes to natural waterfalls lavalavabeachclub.com. and an education in plant life along the For those looking for luxury ameniway. Be ready to take lots of photos as ties that come with a full-service hotel, you will see natural beauty on ancient prostay at the Sheraton Kona Resort and tected lands that can only be described as Spa, located on the Keauhou Bay, which magical. Hawaii Forest & Trail includes means “the new era” or “new beginnings.” everything you need for your trip, from Looking for traditional Hawaiian culture? sunscreen to water and tours with lunches. Most mornings there is a complimentary Because each tour is for a small group or Historical Keauhou Land and Sea culture individual, reservations are a must. Small tour led by native Hawaiians. Departing groups also mean you can cover lots of from the Sheraton is the Kini Kini activities more quickly. It is best to plan Hawaiian Sailing Canoe. It is a one-hour two tours to experience the many varied tour on the water on an authentic Hawaiian activities during your trip. Hawaii Forest canoe. The Sheraton’s Rays on the Bay & Trail expert guides are locals and very restaurant overlooks Keauhou Bay, where gay-friendly. Be sure to try a locally grown manta rays descend each evening. Visit beef burger too. Visit www.hawaii-forest. com. ■ www.sheratonkona.com. Visit Historic Kailua Village. Once a Jeff Guaracino is the author of “Gay and fishing village and home to Hawaiian royalty, this seaside shopping and dining desLesbian Tourism: The Essential Guide for tination is a treat for your eyes and your Marketing.”

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OUT & ABOUT The week ahead Fri. 02/21 Loft23 presents The Game Loft The William Way LGBT Community Center hosts a game space geared towards gamers, 21-29, and is an opportunity to meet new people, play games and socialize outside of the bar/club scene, 6-8 p.m., 1315 Spruce St.; 215-732-2220. Buckcherry The rock band performs 8 p.m. at the Trocadero Theatre, 1003 Arch St.; 215922-6888. Superfreak! A Tribute to Rick James Universal Funk Order and Corey Osby perform

the songs of Rick James 8 p.m. at World Cafe Live at the Queen, 500 N. Market St., Wilmington, Del.; 302-994-1400. Rasputin’s Room Lil’ Steph presents a burlesque show 9 p.m.-1 a.m. at Ruba Club Studios, 416 Green St.; 215-6279831. MST3K: Secret Agent Super Dragon The Euro-spy film is screened and criticized by robots 9:45 p.m. at Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610917-0223. Stimulus: Red & Pink Affair The LGBTQ dance

party, 10 p.m.-3:30 a.m. at Voyeur Nightclub, 1221 St. James St.; 215-7355772.

Sat. 02/22 Raiders of the Lost Ark The action/ adventure film is screened 2 p.m. at Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610917-0223. Ladies Of Laughter featuring Chris Rich Comedians perform 8 p.m. at Sellersville Theatre 1894, 24 W. Temple Ave., 215-2575808. Peek-a-Boo Revue: Fatal Follies The burlesque group performs 9 p.m. at the Trocadero Theatre, 1003 Arch St.; 215922-6888.

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Ralphie May The comedian performs 9 p.m. at Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Music Box, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-317-1000.

Wed. 02/26 4W5 Blues Jam Local musicians get down, 7 p.m. at World Cafe Live at the Queen, 500 N. Market St., Wilmington, Del.; 302-994-1400.

Sun. 02/23 Chinatown The classic drama film is screened 2 p.m. at Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610917-0223.

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Mon. 02/24 Free Quizzo & Board Game Night Roll the dice, 7 p.m. at World Cafe Live at the Queen, 500 N. Market St., Wilmington, Del.; 302-994-1400. Philly Rising Showcase Local artists perform 7 p.m. at

SNOWSUIT AND TIE: Pop superstar Justin Timberlake’s “20/20 Experience World Tour” is set to heat up the cold days of winter when it makes a stop in Philadelphia 8 p.m. Feb. 25 at Wells Fargo Center, 3601 S. Broad St. For more information or tickets, call 215-389-9543.

World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St.; 215-222-1400. Flogging Molly The punk-rock band performs 7:30 p.m. at The Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St.; 800745-3000. War of the Roses The comedy/drama film is screened 8 p.m. at the Trocadero Theatre, 1003 Arch St.; 215922-6888.

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

Tue. 02/25 B-Boy Blues The gay hip-hop love story comes to life on stage 7 p.m. at Painted Bride Arts Center, 230

Vine St.; 215-9259914. Robin Thicke and Jessie J The pop singers perform 7:30 p.m. at Susquehanna Bank Center, 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden, N.J.; 856365-1300. Justin Timberlake The pop singer performs 8 p.m. at Wells Fargo Center, 3601 S. Broad St.; 215-389-9543.

Mike Doughty The alt-rock singer-songwriter performs 8 p.m. at World Cafe Live at the Queen, 500 N. Market St., Wilmington, Del.; 302-994-1400. The Burlesque Show The new event kicks off 9 p.m. at the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Music Box, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-3171000.

Fri. 02/28 The Pink Floyd Experience The music of the classic rock band is celebrated 8:30 p.m. at The Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St.; 800-7453000. ■

CALLING ALL THE GOOD GRRRLS: Canadian soul/pop singer Robin Thicke rides last year’s smash hit “Blurred Lines” for all it’s worth with opening act Jessie J in tow 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25 at Susquehanna Bank Center, 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden, N.J. For more information or tickets, call 856-365-1300.

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The Surrealists: Works from the Collection Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition of the museum’s unique collection of great masterpieces and lesserknown works of the movement through March 2, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-763-8100.

Opening Firebird and Cinderella The Philadelphia Orchestra performs Feb. 28-March 1 at Kimmel’s Verizon Hall, 260 S. Broad St.; 215-790-5800. Mamma Mia! The musical featuring the music of ABBA returns Feb. 25-March 2 at Kimmel’s Academy of Music, 240 S. Broad St.; 215790-5847.

That’s So Gay: Outing Early America The Library Company of Philadelphia presents the exhibition exploring gay culture through Oct. 17, 1314 Locust St.; 215-546-3181.

The Skivvies The comedy/pop duo of Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley perform Feb. 27-28 at the Rrazz Room, in The Ramada New Hope, 6426 Lower York Road, New Hope; 888-596-1027. Well The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts presents writer/performer Lisa Kron’s newest work about her mom Feb. 27-March 2 at Zellerbach Theatre, 3680 Walnut St.; 215-898-3900. Why Do Fools Fall in Love? Media Theatre presents a bachelorette party where four ladies reveal the details of their love lives Feb. 26-March 30, 104 E. State St., Media; 610-891-0100.

Continuing Be Alarmed: The Black Americana Epic The Leeway Foundation presents an exhibition of short films and mixedmedia work by out artist Tiona

Closing The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess The classic opera is performed through Feb. 23 at Kimmel’s Academy of Music, 240 S. Broad St.; 215-790-5847.

UN-BRIDAL-ED: “Mamma Mia!” the musical feel-good hit featuring the music of ABBA returns to Philadelphia Feb. 25-March 2 at Kimmel’s Academy of Music, 240 S. Broad St. For more information or tickets, call 215-790-5847. Photo: Kevin Thomas

McClodden through March 15 at Esther Klein Gallery at the Science Center in University City, 3600 Market St.; www. leeway.org. In a Relationship: Art, Science & Medicine The James A. Michener Art Museum hosts an exhibition of works by Richard E. Goldberg, M.D., joined by works from renowned sports photographer Howard Schatz and stained-glass artist Kenneth Leap through April 13, 138 S. Pine St., Doylestown; 215-340-9800. Live Cinema/Fiona Tan: Inventory Philadelphia Museum of Art presents a multi-projection installation inviting viewers to consider museum collections, as well as the human compulsion to capture the transience of time and lived experience, through March 23, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-7638100. Marc Newson: At Home Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition of furnishings by the influential designer through April 20, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-7638100.

A STRIPPED-DOWN PERFORMANCE: The Skivvies, the comedy/pop duo of Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley, will heat up in New Hope Feb. 27-28 at the Rrazz Room, in The Ramada New Hope, 6426 Lower York Road, New Hope. For more information, call 888-5961027.

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Michael Snow: Photo-Centric Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition of works from the experimental filmmaker through April 27, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-7638100.

Rasta Thomas’ Bad Boys of Dance The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts presents the highoctane dance company through Feb. 22 at Zellerbach Theatre, 3680 Walnut St.; 215-898-3900. Tribes Philadelphia Theatre Company presents the story of a deaf man and his family who talk a lot but hardly even listen through Feb. 23 at Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad St.; 215-9850420. ■

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Q Puzzle It’s pronounced “gay lick” Across

1. You can get a bang out of its head 5. “Stupid me!” 9. Tending to stick in one’s proboscis 13. Fruit ___ (gay district) 14. He took on a pair of bears 15. Golden Rule word 16. Start of a question from Leno’s “Jaywalking” 19. Comics outburst 20. Where Priscilla is queen 21. Vintage vehicle 22. Hard to penetrate 24. Disney’s middle name 26. More of the question

31. JFK info 32. Sissy 33. Son of Aga Khan 34. McKellen movie “Gods and ___” 37. Hannah of “Steel Magnolias” 40. Wishful words 44. Didn’t fast 45. End of the question 50. Way out 51. Anaïs the diarist 52. Amy chaser Ben 53. Ziegfeld, familiarly 54. Hollywood canine 56. You might see a polar bear there 57. Feels poorly 58. Answer to the question 61. Too-too 62. Navratilova’s winter home 63. Op-ed offering 64. Out

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who came out last year. He was doing an interview and just happened to mention his partner, unlike this case where she was standing in front of a whole room of people who pride themselves on being out activists. Imagine giving a speech on why coming out is important and you weren’t out yet. You could see what a big moment it was when people were standing and applauding. I guess I can see how that would be nerve-racking, but I’m glad she did it. I think it will be instrumental in a lot of different conversations happening. PGN: So what are some of the challenges young people face? MN: I think a lot depends on your identity. Not to play oppression Olympics but where you fall in the LGBTQIA umbrella can make it more difficult to come out. I think it would be harder to come out as, say, asexual than as gay. People know what gay is and can wrap their brains around it, but asexual and some of the other initials further down are harder. FUSE does a coming-out series every year and we discuss why it’s great and why it sucks, and it seems to me that kids are coming out younger every year. When I first started going, meetings were very hush-hush and you couldn’t talk to people outside of the group. Now I have kids telling me, “Yeah, I came out as a freshman in high school,” and I’m like, “Wow, that was not my experience at all.” But it can still be tricky depending on where you live and how you identify. PGN: And how did you come out? MN: I came out to my mom ... twice. The first time we were in the car and she

Down 1. Story of Greeks that busted some Trojans 2. Give up 3. Present adornment 4. Dashboard inits. 5. “___ Upon a Mattress” 6. Package appreciation cries 7. How quickly one comes 8. Restaurateur Toots 9. Woman who doesn’t date men 10. Facing peers 11. Like some dirty windshields 12. Toys that do tricks 17. Fateful day 18. Lone Star coll. 23. In bad shape 25. Rover’s restraint 27. “A League of

Their ___” 28. Monnier’s pair, on Lesbos 29. Hrs. in P-town and Key West 30. NNW’s opposite 35. Bard Broumas 36. Ilsa’s love 37. TV role for Gillian 38. Up for debate 39. Video store transactions 41. Workplaces 42. Umpire Dave 43. Boy who shoots off arrows 46. Big fight 47. Scat queen 48. Province of Spain 49. Top of the world 55. Hill builders 57. Snakes in the grass 59. Title for a brother 60. Life-beach connection

sort of processed it, though the first thing she said was, “But you don’t really play any sports,” and I said, “That’s true. I do not. But I still like girls.” But then I dated a boy for a while, so later still, when I started dating my current girlfriend, I had to re-come out to her. This time she said, “Are you sure you’re not just jaded because your last boyfriend was kind of a dick?” and I said, “No, he was definitely a dick and I am jaded, but that’s not what this is about.” But she’s been wonderful. She emails me articles about gay marriage and stuff. I told my sister when she was 10 and she said [in a little voice], “People should love who they love.” We were driving back from the mall and I was sobbing. My little brother was the same: “Yeah, I don’t really care who you love.”

PGN: I read that your hobbies are exploring the city and learning to cook. MN: Emphasis on learning. Honestly, if I can make an egg over-easy without breaking the yolk, I’ve accomplished something. My sister just visited me in November and I decided to bake a cake. Unfortunately, my oven is really old and you can’t read the temperature dial on it. I burned the cake so bad it actually caught on fire in the oven.

PGN: That’s great. I want to throw in some random questions. Do you play any instruments? MN: Not really, but I sing. I actually used to be in an a-capella group at Drexel called The Treble Makers. I was the president of that too. Because, you know, I’m bossy. I quit because it was my senior year and I thought, I ought to catch up on the homework I didn’t do the first three years. Now I’ll sing at open mics if I don’t feel like being funny.

PGN: What did you do for Valentine’s Day? MN: I went with my girlfriend Rebecca to see “The LEGO Movie” and it was amazing. It’s my favorite movie that I’ve seen all year and I’ve seen most of the Oscar-nominated films. She won a gift card from work — she works at an engineer firm — and we went to Chima. It was a great night.

PGN: Worst moment on stage? MN: I was in a play called “Curtains” and the guy playing my husband forgot to come on stage during an integral part of the show. It was a mystery so I had to kind of do both roles to get the information across. I walked off stage and he was just sitting in the wings with his girlfriend, oblivious. I yelled, “Are you kidding me? I was dying out there!”

PGN: What song do you put on repeat? MN: “Master of Art” by Laura Stevenson and the Cans and there’s a song from the Steel Pompei that I listen to over and over because it’s so upbeat.

PGN: Worst Valentine’s Day? MN: I’ve never really had a bad Valentine’s Day. I feel very lucky in that I always feel loved on Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t matter if I’m in a relationship or not. There are so many positive people in my life. I constantly feel loved. I’m very lucky. ■ To suggest a community member for Family Portrait, email portraits05@aol.com.

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12-step programs and support groups Al-Anon

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

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)

■ Acceptance meets 7:30 p.m. Fridays and

Mondays at Trinity Memorial Episcopal Church, 22nd and Spruce streets. ■ Community meets 8 p.m. Thursdays at Holy Communion Church, 2111 Sansom St. Gay and lesbian, but all are welcome. ■ GLBT Alcoholics Anonymous meets 7 p.m. Sundays and 8 p.m. Wednesdays at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 100 W. Windsor St., Reading; 610-374-7914. ■ Living Sober meets 8:30 p.m. Saturdays at William Way LGBT Community Center, 1315 Spruce St.; 215-732-2220. ■ No Other Way Out meets 11 a.m. Sundays at William Way. ■ Night Owl meets 11:30 p.m. daily at the William Way. ■ Sober and Gay meets 8:30 p.m. SundayFriday at William Way. ■ Young People’s AA meets 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays at St. Mark’s Church, 1625 Locust St.; 215-735-1416.

Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA)

■ Meets 7 p.m. Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday,

Friday and Saturday and 5:30 p.m. Thursday at William Way.

Mental-Health Support

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

health support group for LGBT people, meets 7 p.m. Wednesdays at St. Luke and The Epiphany Church, 330 S. 13th St.; 215627-0424. ■ Survivors of Suicide Inc. meets 7:30 p.m. the ﬁrst Tuesday of the month at 3535 Market St., Room 2037 and the second Wednesday at Paoli Memorial Hospital, 225 W. Lancaster Ave.; 215-545-2242, www. phillysos.tripod.com.

HIV/AIDS Mondays: ■ Positive Brothers, a self-help, support and empowerment group for sexual-minority men of color with HIV/AIDS meets 6-8 p.m. at 1207 Chestnut St., third floor; 215-8511975. Tuesdays: ■ A support group for HIV-positive men and women meets 1:30-3 p.m. at BEBASHI: Transition to Hope, 1217 Spring Garden St., first floor; 215-769-3561; bebashi.org. ■ Encuentros, a group for HIV-negative Latino men who have sex with men, meets 6 p.m. the first and third Tuesday of the month at 1201 Locust St.; 215-985-3382. ■ Feast Incarnate, a weekly ministry for people affected by HIV/AIDS, meets 5 p.m. at University Lutheran Church, 3637 Chestnut St.; 215-387-2885. ■ A support group for people recently diagnosed with HIV/AIDS meets 6:30-8 p.m. at Mazzoni Center, 21 S. 12th St.; 215563-0652 ext. 235.

Wednesdays: ■ Project Teach, a peer-education and empowerment program for people living with HIV/AIDS, meets 3-5 p.m. at Philadelphia FIGHT, 1233 Locust St.; ﬁght. org. Thursdays: ■ A support group for HIV-positive men and women meets 6-8 p.m. at BEBASHI: Transition to Hope; 215-769-3561. ■ Diversity, an HIV/AIDS support group for those infected or affected, meets from 7-9 p.m. at Arch Street United Methodist Church, 55 N. Broad St.; 215-848-4380, azaklad@craftech.com. Saturdays: ■ AIDS Delaware’s You’re Not Alone youth support group meets during the school year at varying times and locations; 800-8106776.

Debtors Anonymous

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

William Way Center.

Overeaters Anonymous (OA)

■ Open meetings 6 p.m. Tuesdays and 7 p.m.

Fridays at Hahnemann University Hospital, 245 N. 15th St.; 215-514-3065, www.oa.org. ■ Meets 11 a.m.-noon at William Way.

S.A.R.A.

■ Substance Abuse – Risk Assessment, day

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

Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous

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

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

Health

Alder Health Services provides LGBT health services on a sliding-fee scale; 100 N. Cameron St., Ste. 301 East, Harrisburg; 717233-7190 or 800-867-1550; www.alderhealth. org. Congreso de Latinos Unidos provides anonymous, free HIV testing with Spanish/English counselors, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday at 3439 N. Hutchinson St.; 215-763-8870 ext. 6000. HIV treatment: Free HIV/AIDS diagnosis and treatment for Philadelphia residents available 9 a.m.-noon Mondays and 5-8 p.m. Thursdays at Health Center No. 2, 1720 S. Broad St.; 215-685-1803. HIV health insurance help: Access to free medications and confidential HIV testing available at 13-19 MacDade Blvd., Suite 109, Collingdale, N.J., no appointment needed; 610-586-9077. Philadelphia FIGHT provides HIV primary care, on-site lab services, clinical trials, case management, mental-health services and support groups for people living with HIV regardless of insurance status or ability to pay, 1233 Locust St., fifth floor; 215-985-4448, www. fight.org.

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Community Bulletin Board Community centers

■ The Attic Youth Center 255 S. 16th St.; 215-545-4331, atticyouthcenter.org. For LGBT and questioning youth and their friends and allies. Groups meet and activities are held 4-7 p.m. Monday-Tuesday and 4-8:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday. Case management, HIV testing and smoking cessation are available Monday-Friday. ■ Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center at the University of Pennsylvania 3907 Spruce St., 215-898-5044, center@dolphin. upenn.edu. Regular hours: 10 a.m.-10 p.m. MondayThursday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday; noon-6 p.m. Saturday; noon-8 p.m. Sunday. Summer hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

■ ActionAIDS: 215-981-0088 ■ AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania: 215-587-9377 ■ AIDS Law Project of Southern New Jersey: 856-933-9500 ext. 221 ■ AIDS Library: 215-985-4851 ■ ACLU of Pennsylvania: 215592-1513 ■ AIDS Treatment Fact line: 800662-6080 ■ Barbara Gittings Gay and Lesbian Collection at the Independence Branch of the Philadelphia Free Library: 215-685-1633 ■ The COLOURS Organization, Inc.: 215-496-0330 ■ District Attorney LGBT Liaison: Helen “Nellie” Fitzpatrick, 215-6869980, helen.fitzpatrick@phila.gov ■ Equality Pennsylvania: 215-

■ Rainbow Room: Bucks County’s LGBTQ and Allies Youth Center Salem UCC Education Building, 181 E. Court St., Doylestown; 215-957-7981 ext. 9065, rainbowroom@ppbucks.org. Activities held 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays.

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

Key numbers 731-1447; www.equalitypa.org

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

■ Equality Forum: 215-732-3378

■ Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Task Force: 1-877-pride-2000

■ GALAEI: A Queer Latin@ Social Justice Organization: 215-8511822

■ Police Department liaison — Deputy Commissioner Kevin Bethel: 215-686-3318

■ LGBT Elder Initiative: 267-5463448; info@LGBTEI.org

■ Philadelphia Police Liaison Committee: 215-760-3686 (Rick Lombardo); ppd.lgbt@gmail.com

■ LGBT Peer Counseling Services: 215-732-TALK ■ Mayor’s Director of LGBT Affairs: Gloria Casarez, 215-6862194; Gloria.Casarez@phila.gov; ■ Mazzoni Center: 215-5630652;Legal Services: 215-5630657, 866-LGBT-LAW; Family & Community Medicine: 215-563-0658 ■ Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (Philadelphia): 215-572-1833

■ Philly Pride Presents: 215-8759288 ■ 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)

Health

Anonymous, free, conﬁdential HIV testing Spanish/English counselors offer testing 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday at Congreso de Latinos Unidos, 216 W. Somerset St.; 215763-8870. ActionAIDS Provides a range of programs for people affected by HIV/ AIDS, including case management, prevention, testing and education services at 1216 Arch St.; 215-981-0088, www. actionaids.org. GALAEI: A Queer Latin@ Social Justice Organization Free, anonymous HIV testing from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday at 1207 Chestnut St., fifth floor; noon-6 p.m. Tuesdays at the Washington West Project, 1201 Locust St.; 215-851-1822 or 866-222-3871, www.galaei.org. Spanish/English HIV treatment Free HIV/AIDS diagnosis and treatment for Philadelphia residents are available from 9 a.m.-noon Mondays (walk-in) and 5-8 p.m. Thursdays (by appointment) at Health Center No. 2, 1720 S. Broad St.; 215685-1821.

■ Gay and Lesbian Lawyers of Philadelphia Board meetings at 6:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month at 100 S. Broad St., Suite 1810; free referral service at 215-6279090, www.galloplaw.org. ■ Independence Business Alliance Greater Philadelphia’s LGBT Chamber of Commerce, providing networking, business development, marketing, educational and advocacy opportunities for LGBT and LGBT-friendly businesses and professionals; 215557-0190, www.Independence-

HIV health insurance help Access to free medications and confidential HIV testing 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays at 13 S. MacDade Blvd., Suite 108, Collingdale; Medical Office Building, 722 Church Lane, Yeadon; and 630 S. 60th St.; 610-586-9077. Mazzoni Center LGBTQ counseling and behavioral health services, HIV/ AIDS care and services, case management and support groups; 21 S. 12th St., eighth floor; 215-563-0652, www. mazzonicenter.org. Mazzoni Center Family & Community Medicine Comprehensive primary health care, preventive health services, gynecology, sexual-health services and chronic-disease management, including comprehensive HIV care, as well as youth drop-in (ages 14-24) 5-7p.m. Wednesdays; 809 Locust St.; 215-563-0658. Washington West Project of Mazzoni Center Free, anonymous HIV testing. Walk-ins welcome 9 a.m.-9 pm. Monday-Friday, 1-5 p.m. Saturday; 1201 Locust St.; 215-985-9206.

Professional groups BusinessAlliance.com. ■ National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Philadelphia chapter of NLGJA, open to professionals and students, meets for social and networking events; www.nlgja. org/philly; philly@nlgja.org. ■ Philadelphia Gay Tourism Caucus Regional organization dedicated

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

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