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Family Portrait: Nick Greiner has a very special father-daughter relationship PAGE 37

HONESTY • INTEGRITY • PROFESSIONALISM

The Senior Supplement relates thoughts on aging by our elders PAGES 16-21

Brian Sanders’ latest JUNK show is a performance event to die for PAGE 27

PA Supreme Court asked to consider what constitutes a parent

Subject of homophobic flier ponders legal action

By Adriana Fraser adriana@epgn.com The former husband of 181st District Democratic primary winner Malcolm Kenyatta is weighing legal action after a homophobic flier featuring the couple’s image was anonymously distributed on election day.

The flier, left on car winshields throughout the 181st District the morning of the May 15 primaries, displayed a red circular “No” symbol superimposed over Terrell Green with his former husband and the words: NORTH PHILLY and SAY NO!!!!!

Green and Kenyatta divorced in 2016.

“I don’t want to call anyone out without having proof, but I want whoever did this to be publically held responsible for spreading hate,” Green told PGN after denouncing the flier on Facebook.

Green, who recently began working at Mazzoni Center, said a lawyer advised him to file a discrimination complaint with the District Attorney’s Office. If an election complaint is filed, the Election Fraud Task Force accesses the complaint and acts in accordance with the statute, said a spokesperson for the D.A. The Election Fraud Task Force was created in 2014 to investigate and prosecute allegations of election-day criminal activity. The task force is part of the D.A.’s Special Investigations Unit and is staffed by assistant district attorneys and detectives.

Sheila Simmons, Kenyatta’s campaign manager, told PGN the candidate doesn’t plan to take legal action regarding the flier.

“At this time, Malcolm will not be going after those responsible for the flier. He’s more focused on preparing for the upcoming election in November,” Simmons said.

Green said he’s considering proposing a policy to City Council to protect people who are connected to public figures running for office.

“There’s no room for bigotry,” he said.

“We’re in the era of the ‘Time’s Up’ and the ‘Me Too’ movements. I have to stand up for myself.” n

By Timothy Cwiek timothy@epgn.com

MAZZONI METAMORPHOSIS: Decorations, wings and body paint brought to life the butterfly theme at Mazzoni Center’s fundraising gala “Metamorphosis” May 19 at the University of the Arts’ Dorrance Hamilton Hall. More than 300 guests attended. The gala pulled in $172,000, superseding the $152,000 raised at the last gala, which took place in 2016. Photo: Scott A. Drake

Mark Segal donates LGBT archives to Smithsonian

By Adriana Fraser adriana@epgn.com PGN publisher Mark Segal has donated nearly 50 years of historical LGBT artifacts and memorabilia to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

The collection, nearly two years in the making, documents Segal’s LGBT activism from Stonewall to today. Segal donated his personal papers to the Smithsonian on May 17 — approximately 17 cubic feet of journals, fliers, posters, letters and materials that chronicle political developments that cover the 1970s to the present.

Segal also donated artifacts from his personal collection, including the first state-issued Gay Pride Proclamation in 1975, a donation can he used during the 1970 Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day march and his marshal’s badge from that event.

“The significance of my work never really hit me until the ceremony. It’s amazing to know that my stuff is going to be near [Dorothy’s] ruby-red slippers,” Segal said at the donation ceremony May 17.

The collection will be displayed in the Archives Center.

Katherine Ott, the Smithsonian curator in charge of sorting and gathering Segal’s personal collection, said that few activists have played a part in both cultural and political areas of American history. Ott, who identifies as queer, said the materials Segal is donating are an insider’s guide to most of the big LGBT issues of the past 50 years. Materials from the National Museum of American History’s LGBTQ collections date back to the 19th century.

“It’s far easier to collect and talk about LGBT issues than it was even five or six years ago. This is almost the first opportunity to do this publicly because [the Smithsonian] has been doing it under the radar for decades and now we can do it more openly,” Ott said.

Franklin Robinson, archivist for the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, said that Segal’s collection is a key component to filling in the missing pieces of the earlier stages of the LGBT struggle.

“This collection fills a huge gap in our civil-rights collection in telling the story of LGBT individuals into the modern era,” Robinson said.

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A lesbian who claims she’s being unfairly denied parental status is asking the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to rule that an individual can be a parent even without adopting a child or having a biological relationship.

On May 15, during oral arguments in the case of C.G. vs. J.H., plaintiff’s attorney Tiffany L. Palmer told the state’s highest court that such a ruling would strengthen the rights of all children born via assisted conception, including children born into LGBT families.

The highly contentious dispute involves two women who lived together in Florida between 2001-12. In 2006, J.H. gave birth to J.W.H. with the help of an anonymous sperm donor. About six years later, J.H. relocated to Pennsylvania with the boy, and has since denied C.G. visitation rights.

In court papers, the women disagree on whether J.W.H. was born into an “intact family” headed by C.G. and J.H. Pennsylvania’s custody statute doesn’t define the term “parent.” Courts have limited the definition to a person who is biologically related to a child or who has adopted a child.

Since C.G. doesn’t fall into either category, two lower courts have denied her status as J.W.H.’s parent.

J.W.H. lives in Centre County. C.G. wants the ability to argue in Centre County Common Pleas Court that she’s his mother, maintaining it’s in the child’s best interest for her to share custody.

During oral arguments, Palmer told the court that J.W.H. was born into a family headed by C.G. and J.H. via assisted conception. “The child was born into a family and [C.G.] held out the child as her child after his birth.”

Palmer reiterated that a clarifying ruling from the justices would be particuPAGE 15 larly helpful to LGBT

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Salem UCC Education Building, 181 E. Court St., Doylestown; 215-957-7981 ext. 9065, rainbowroom@ppbucks.org.

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Health and HIV testing • Action Wellness: 1216 Arch St.; 215981-0088, actionwellness.org

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216 W. Somerset St.; 215-763-8870

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• Health Center No. 2, 1720 S. Broad

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1348 Bainbridge St.; 215-563-0652, mazzonicenter.org

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1201 Locust St.; 215985-9206

• Transgender Health Action Coalition: 215-732-1207

Other • Independence Branch Library Barbara Gittings Gay and Lesbian Collection: 215-685-1633 • Independence Business Alliance; 215-557-0190, IndependenceBusinessAlliance.com

• LGBT Peer Counseling Services: 215-732-TALK • PFLAG: Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (Philadelphia): 215-572-1833 • Philly Pride Presents: 215-875-9288

Hatboro passes equal-protection ordinance

By Adriana Fraser adriana@epgn.com The Hatboro Borough City Council passed a nondiscrimination ordinance May 21 that provides equal protections for its 7,400 residents.

Hatboro, a borough of Montgomery County, is one of 48 municipalities in Pennsylvania to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or both. In a straight partisan vote of 4-3, with the majority Democrats, the Hatboro council passed the Human Relations Ordinance.

The Hatboro Council passed the ordinance in 2010, but the then-Mayor Norman Hawkes, a Democrat, vetoed it. At that time, Hawkes told PGN that the decision was not personal in nature, but rather that he believed the state had more resources to handle discrimination complaints.

“I have no religious or moral issues with this ordinance; I just feel it could be much better handled on the state level than on the local level,” he said then. “I understand there’s not currently a provision to cover [sexual orientation and gender identity] at the state level, but I would like to see that enacted. I just think the state is more qualified than the local government to handle this.”

Eight years later, Pennsylvania still doesn’t have such a law.

Hatboro Council member Elle Anzinger reintroduced the ordinance in March at the suggestion of Hatboro’s current mayor, Nancy Guenst.

Guenst, also a Democrat, was the bill’s primary sponsor in 2010 when she was the Council vice president.

“Mayor Guenst was the one who originally put in a lot of the legwork back in 2010 when the ordinance first passed City Council,” Anzinger said. “When former Hatboro Mayor Hawkes vetoed the ordinance, they didn’t have the majority to overturn it. The LGBT community in Hatboro at the time was devastated. When Mayor Guenst was campaigning, she was passionate about reintroducing the nondiscrimination bill.”

After the ordinance passed, Guenst signed it into law. The legislation provides all persons, regardless of actual or perceived race, color, age, religious creed, ancestry, sex, national origin, physical abil-

ity, use of guide or support animals because of blindness, deafness or physical handicap of the user, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression in matters of employment, housing and commercial property and public accommodation.

Bethlehem to ban conversion therapy Bethlehem, in the Lehigh Valley, has introduced an ordinance protecting LGBT youth from conversion therapy.

Bethlehem City Councilman Bryan Callahan introduced the Appropriate Mental Health Services Ordinance at the Bethlehem City Council meeting May 21.

If passed, it would ban the practice of conversion therapy on minors within the city of Bethlehem, following similar provisions in Allentown, Reading, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Doylestown and State College.

“The ordinance is likely to get full support from Bethlehem City Council, as the council is comprised of seven Democrats,” Callahan said.

“Conversion therapy has been gaining a foothold on the right-wing areas of the country. I want to make sure that the practice doesn’t become widespread in the Lehigh Valley area.”

The William Institute at the UCLA School of Law issued a report in January stating that nearly 20,000 LGBT youth (ages 13-17) will receive conversion therapy from a licensed healthcare professional before they reach age 18 in the 41 states that do not ban the practice.

The ordinance is the first LGBT meaure to be introduced to Bethlehem City Council.

Adrian Shanker, executive director of the Bradbury Sullivan LGBT Community Center, worked with Councilman Callahan to introduce this ordinance. Callahan works for the public-school district in Lehigh Valley as a health and physical-education teacher and says he’s aware of the challenges LGBT students face.

Meanwhile, Bradbury Sullivan has been leading the effort to end conversion therapy in Lehigh Valley for more than a year, Shanker said.

“We worked in the cities of Allentown and Reading to pass the municipal bans last year and now we’re grateful to be working with the champion of the city, Bethlehem, to hopefully do the same.” n

“I understand there’s not currently a provision to cover [sexual orientation and gender identity] at the state level, but I would like to see that enacted. I just think the state is more qualified than the local government to handle this.”

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News Briefing Pride jewelry range to raise funds for LBGTQ causes The Lotasi Jewel Collection will feature a Pride pendant that will be sold to benefit members of the LGBTQ community.

One of the pieces is a rainbow bejeweled dog tag, available throughout the month of June. Costs range from $90-$100. All of the profits will go to the William Way LGBT Community Center.

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of Pennsylvania Bob Casey helped to introduce Segal during the donation ceremony.

The two became close friends after years of working together to fight for gay rights. Sen. Casey was instrumental in co-sponsoring the Hate Crimes Prevention Bill, a bill that would expand the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include and protect LGBTQ people. Segal, along with other prominent members of the

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Activist recognized for longtime philanthropy

The SBA named Equator Coffees & Teas its first-ever LGBT winner of the Small Business of the Year designation in 2016.

The Small Business Administration has returned access to LGBT resources to its website after pressure from both Congress and the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce.

Earlier this month, Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY) and House Small

Business Committee Ranking Member Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-NY) sent SBA Administrator Linda McMahon a letter pressing the agency on why it had deleted online resources that assisted LGBT entrepreneurs.

Last year, the Trump administration deleted all LGBT references from federal websites, including that of the SBA — a major reversal after years of collaboration with the community.

In 2012, the SBA signed a memorandum of understanding to work with what was then called the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. Three years later, the SBA and NGLCC jointly launched the LGBT Business Builder campaign to connect LGBT entrepreneurs to NGLCC and SBA resources, and to help them obtain federal contracts.

LGBT community in Philadelphia, sat in on a roundtable discussion hosted by Sen. Casey in 2016 where he discussed the bill, which has not his support of the Equality Act and anti-bullying legislation.

“This is a celebration of a great American story. It’s a story of struggle, but it’s also a story of triumph. It’s a celebration of tolerance and acceptance. We still have miles to travel — but there will be a continuing inspi-

ration that [his] work will provide.”

David Cohen, senior executive vice president of Comcast, introduced Segal by recalling that the two have been working together since the 1980s. Cohen spoke of how Segal’s influence changed the news coverage of the LGBT community on television, telling the story of how Segal and the Gay Raiders — a gay activist group — disrupted Walter Cronkite’s CBS Evening News broadcast.

“The Gay Raiders ran in front of the camera and held up a sign saying, “Gays Protest CBS Prejudice.”

“I don’t think that there’s anything that has changed the national news coverage for gay and lesbian civil rights as much as the change in Walter Cronkite’s attitude, which is 100 percent attributable to Mark,” Cohen said. “He is an important part of this civil-rights revolution.” n

Activist Mel Heifetz won the 2017 Philadelphia Award in recognition of promoting LGBT equality and helping LGBT causes in the city.

The Philadelphia Award is given each year to a citizen of the region who has acted and served on behalf of the best interests of the community.

SBA reinstates LGBT resources to website

Catch the softball block party The City of Brotherly Love Softball League hosts its Liberty Bell Classic softball tournament May 25-27 in various locations around the city. The event draws hundreds of players and their partners nationwide to compete in men’s and women’s recreational and competitive leagues.

The annual Memorial Day competition hosts a block party on Camac Street between Locust and Spruce streets May 25 to welcome visitors to Philadelphia and the Gayborhood.

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City Council postpones foster-care hearing Kenny stands by nondiscrimination pledge

By Timothy Cwiek timothy@epgn.com City Council hearings on alleged antiLGBT bias within foster-care agencies that contract with the city won’t take place before fall, said a spokesperson for the council member who introduced the resolution.

After published reports of anti-LGBT bias within two foster-care agencies that contract with the city’s Department of Human Services, City Council member Cindy Bass introduced a resolution that was adopted to hold public hearings on the issue. The hearings were expected to be held by Bass’ Committee on Public Health and Human Services ahead of the summer recess at the end of June.

But that schedule has been delayed due to extensive City Council hearings regarding Mayor Kenney’s proposed budget, said Layla Jones, a spokesperson for Bass. “City Council does not hold hearings in the summer, so we will likely schedule something for the fall,” said Jones.

On May 16, Catholic Social Services filed a federal lawsuit accusing the city’s Department of Human Services of religious discrimination for suspending its foster-care in March. At the time, city officials said CSS’ contract had to be suspended because CSS allegedly won’t place foster children with LGBT adults who are open about their status. The contract with CSS ends next month.

The CSS lawsuit won’t stop City Council’s hearings, Jones said. “There is a pending lawsuit against the city which may limit what information DHS can provide [during the public hearings] while that is ongoing,” she said. “However, Councilwoman Bass intends to push for a thorough review of all [28] DHS foster-care provider contracts to ensure compliance with the city’s anti-discrimination policies for protected classes. If any are found in violation, she believes their contract should be terminated immediately.”

Bethany Christian Services, another faith-based agency that allegedly won’t place foster children with LGBT adults, also had its DHS foster-care contract suspended. Bethany issued this statement May 21 regarding CSS’ lawsuit: “It is our hope that government and community organizations can work together in partnership to be part of the solution, offering services to vulnerable children and families.”

Before their contracts were suspended, CSS and Bethany received an aggregate amount of about $3 million annually in city funds for providing foster-care services to about 230 local children.

CSS’ lawsuit, Fulton v. Philadelphia, contains 16 counts against the city, alleging violations of federal, state and local laws. Specifically, the lawsuit alleges violations of antibias provisions within the city’s charter; violations of constitutional

guarantees of freedom of religion, equal protection, due process, freedom of speech and freedom of the press; breach of contract; and retaliation. The lawsuit, which is pending before U.S. District Judge Petrese B. Tucker, also cites extensive case law and statutory law to support its allegations.

“The City of Philadelphia has decided to cut off foster placements for [CSS] and prioritize political grandstanding over the needs of children,” the 40-page lawsuit states, in part.

CSS is represented by Becket, a D.C.based law firm specializing in religious-freedom cases. The named plaintiffs are three of CSS’ foster parents: Sharonell Fulton, Cecelia Paul and Toni Lynn SimmsBusch. The foster parents will be denied future opportunities to serve if CSS is forced to close its foster program, according to the suit. In its court filing, CSS said it supervises 100 foster homes and provides care through its city contract for 120 children on average per day. The city of Philadelphia has an estimated 5,000 children in foster care.

Kenneth A. Gavin, a spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, said in a statement that CSS has been providing foster services for more than a century. CSS “recognizes the vital importance of the foster-care program in our city and is proud to provide safe and nurturing foster environments to young people in need. CSS joined with Sharonell Fulton and other foster parents [May 16] in asking a Philadelphia court to end the City policy that is leaving foster homes sitting empty while the City is in a foster-care crisis. At this time, the City is threatening to stop allowing CSS to place children in foster homes on a permanent basis because of our deeply held religious beliefs.”

A spokesperson for Mayor Jim Kenney said that foster care must be provided without discrimination.

“While we can’t comment directly on the lawsuit — and while we are genuinely appreciative of the services that [CSS] provides on the City’s behalf to the City’s most vulnerable children and to the resource families that care for those children — those services must be provided in a nondiscriminatory manner. As [CSS] works on the City’s behalf, we cannot allow discrimination against qualified couples who are ready to take on this important role, simply because of who they are.”

Stephanie Haynes, executive director of Philadelphia Family Pride, declined to comment on the specifics of this lawsuit, but said: “As we all know, there is a big need for more adults to step forward and support children and youth in the care of DHS. In conjunction with the Mayor’s Office of LGBT Affairs, PFP has been supporting that effort through a series of very popular recruitment events aimed at encouraging LGBTQ adults to become resource parents, particularly for LGBTQ youth.” n

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Let’s talk about sex(ually transmitted infections), part 1 Spring is here. Philly Pride is less than one month away. In the next few months, local LGBTQ folks will flock to celebrations of all kinds, basking in the energy and vibrance of our community.

Along with this revelry comes the opportunity for new sexual encounters.

At times, this excitement also involves risky behavior, with more likely exposure to sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

There was a time these infections were routinely called STDs, or sexually transmitted diseases.

But the word “disease” brings with it stigma and fear and can lead to avoidance of testing.

There are many STIs out there — some more common in our Shanin community than others.

Chlamydia is the most common STI in our area, with nearly 20,000 cases reported in Philadelphia in 2016. Gonorrhea is up there too (nearly 7,000 cases were diagnosed in 2016).

Although still high, these infection rates have been fairly steady in recent years. But I want focus on an infection that is less common, but rapidly increasing in our area and nationally: syphilis.

Once believed to be nearly eliminated, syphilis is on the rise. The most recent data,

from 2016, revealed twice as many cases of early syphilis in Philadelphia as there were in 2011. Men who have sex with men (MSM) are disproportionately affected, as are people living with HIV. Caused by the treponema pallidum bacteria, syphilis is contracted through direct contact with a painless sore, or chancre, which occurs in the early (primary) stage of the infection (about three weeks after exposure) at the site where the bacteria entered the body.

Since the sores are painless, and often hidden in areas such as the mouth, vagina or rectum, many people pass the infection on to others before they know they have it. The Gross, even chancres usually heal within a D.O. few weeks, even without treatment, but that doesn’t mean the infection is gone. Left untreated, syphilis progresses to the secondary stage, often characterized by rashes on the palms/soles or other areas, or by a wart-like lesion in moist areas. Syphilis earned the nickname “The Great Imitator” because these and other signs and symptoms — fever, sore throat, swollen glands and even hair loss — are often vague, and many are commonly found in a long list of other mal-

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adies. The infection is easily transmitted during this stage but, again, the symptoms fade even without treatment. At that point, the infection may go into hiding (latent stage) for a while, with no obvious symptoms. In some cases, untreated syphilis can progress even decades later. At this tertiary stage, it affects critical organs, such as the eyes, bones, heart, brain and nervous system, and can even be fatal. If that isn’t bad enough, syphilis can make HIV transmission more likely. So, you see why we really need to get syphilis infection back under control.

Fortunately, syphilis can be diagnosed with a simple blood test and treated with one or more shots of penicillin (depending on the stage), or with other protocols for those allergic to penicillin. Even better, you can reduce your chances of contracting syphilis with a form of pre-exposure prophylaxis. Similar to PrEP for HIV, PrEP for syphilis involves a single daily ºdose of the antibiotic doxycycline. If you are a man (or transgender person) having unprotected sex with men, have ever had syphilis and are HIV positive, ask your medical provider about doxycycline PrEP. It isn’t 100-percent effective, and if you have a definite exposure, you may still need to be treated. If you are not on PrEP and have a possible exposure (condom breaks, unprotected sex with unknown/

new partner, etc.), you may be eligible for post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) within 24 hours. Anyone with possible symptoms should be tested, and anyone with a sexual partner who is diagnosed with syphilis should be tested and treated presumptively.

You should also be screened regularly if you are a man (or transgender person) having sex with men, living with HIV or otherwise at high risk. Anyone who is pregnant should also be screened, as syphilis can be passed on to unborn children.

Of course, some general recommendations still apply. Using latex condoms (or other latex barrier methods), and using them correctly every time you have any sexual contact, is still important in reducing the spread of this and other STIs. Make a point of seeing your healthcare provider and request testing on a regular basis if you are sexually active. Get treated when needed and be sure to follow directions about abstaining from sex for a period of time after treatment (typically seven days). n Shanin Gross, D.O., is assistant medical director at Mazzoni Center. She is also a clinical associate professor of family medicine at Jefferson University and serves as co-chair of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine’s LGBT Health group. To learn more about Mazzoni Center’s free and confidential walk-in HIV and STI testing, visit https://www.mazzonicenter.org/health-care/community-health/walk-hivand-std-testing.

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Nobody’s room

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How one person can drive change Montgomery County’s Hatboro City Council passed an ordinance this week that ensures residents are protected from discrimination based not only on their sexual and gender identities, but also on their race, physical ability, age and religion.

The same ordinance was introduced in 2010, but was vetoed by the thenmayor, a Democrat, who said he believed equal protections were a state matter.

The ordinance lay dormant for eight years. It was reintroduced in March, and then passed on May 21.

So what happened?

Nancy Guenst happened.

Ms. Guenst was elected mayor of Hatboro last November. Back in 2010, she sponsored the bill in her role as Borough Council vice president. Just a few months into her tenure as mayor, Guenst encouraged Council member Elle Anzinger to re-introduce the ordinance.

“When Mayor Guenst was campaigning, she was passionate about reintroducing the nondiscrimination bill,” Anzinger said.

While Pennsylvania lacks equal protections on a state level due to Republican obstructionism in Harrisburg, local communities are moving forward to create a momentum that, at some point, the state cannot ignore.

The numbers, on the surface, are not heartening: Only 48 municipalities in Pennsylvania out of 2,562 have equal protections. But at least three have passed in the last two months. The Human Rights Campaign is also now up and running with a multi-year project to help elect candidates from the local to the state level to pass nondiscrimination legislation.

“We’re not just here to win elections, we’re here to advance equality,” saidAllison Van Kuiken, Pennsylvania State Manager for the HRC. “It is not a given that a candidate is pro-equality.”

There are a few lessons here: A Democrat is not necessarily going to support equal protections. Nondiscrimination is really about equality, not special treatment. And Guenst shows that elected officials who live their values drive change that benefits everyone. n

The other day, after doing a talk at a local middle school’s “Rainbow Connection” group, I picked my wife up from work. Tired after our long days, we headed to the nearest sit-down eatery, a Denny’s. We had a lovely meal, one that in most cases I might recommend.

Before we ate, my wife went to use the restroom. She had to wash her hands of the various detritus she acquired working at a local garden center. Had we known then what we know now, she probably wouldn’t have used that bathroom, and we likely would have found someplace else to have our dinner.

You see, some 360 miles to the south of us, in the heart of Los Angeles, something was brewing in another Denny’s location.

Jazmina Saavedra, a conservative candidate in California’s House race in the 44th District, started to stream video on her phone. She also stated that she was carrying pepper spray.

With her phone attached to the business end of a “selfie stick,” she entered the Denny’s women’s room.

Inside the bathroom, a trans woman was in a closed stall. Saavedra entered the room and began to shout at the trans woman, calling her a “stupid guy.” She then waited outside the restroom, waiting for the trans woman to exit.

The manager of the Denny’s also entered the restroom and forced the trans woman to leave. When she exited, Saavedra ambushed the woman. Words were had, with the trans woman claiming that Saavedra had been stalking her previously.

“You’re just singling me out, lady, for no reason. And I seen you yesterday, following me,” said the unidentified trans woman.

“Next time use the men’s room — or nobody’s room,” retorted Saavedra.

The manager of the Denny’s escorted the trans woman off the premises. In a statement from the restaurant, she was not ejected due to her gender identity, but due to “drug paraphernalia on the floor” near her.

The statement also apologizes to the trans woman and other guests for the disrespectful actions of Saavedra, but one thing remains on my mind: The manager did not eject Saavedra for filming in the women’s room.

This particular Denny’s, located at 635 S. Vermont Ave. in downtown L.A., is not a stranger to controversy. In 2016, the same location was sued for asking black customers to prepay their meals. The restaurant opted to settle out of court rather than risk a court trial. They clearly have not learned their lesson about prejudice.

In spite of the corporate apology, we know now that this location seems perfectly fine with streaming in their restroom, and that the privacy of any person in that restroom — trans or otherwise — is at risk.

This incident is exactly what trans people fear. We enter a closed stall to use the restroom only to have another patron, brandishing their phone, call us out for somehow invading their privacy. It is nothing short of abhorrent behavior on Saavedra’s part, who claims she’s somehow the victim of a trans person using the facilities all women are allowed to use.

I find myself wondering, What would happen to me if I walked into a Denny’s women’s room with my phone at the end of a selfie stick, loudly proclaiming that I was going to film a patron inside it? I would expect to at least be asked to leave, if not end my night in handcuffs.

There are virtually no documented cases of trans people attacking anyone in a public restroom. Trans women are there for the same reasons as any other women.

In recent weeks, we’ve seen a number of cases of vigilantism and harassment akin to Saavedra’s, most notably Jennifer “BBQ Becky” Schulte calling police on a number of black people barbecuing in Oakland, Calif.; Holly Hylton, a Starbucks manager in Philadelphia who called police on a pair of black men minutes after they arrived; and Aaron Schlossberg, a lawyer who threatened to contact ICE on people at a Manhattan deli who were speaking Spanish to each other.

Yet while Schulte has been called out, Hylton lost her job and Schlossberg has been served with eviction over their actions, Saavedra is seemingly facing no backlash whatsoever. Indeed, she walks free today, even though she clearly broke the law by harassing this trans woman, filming in the restroom (a violation of California Penal Code, Section 632), and may have been stalking this trans woman prior to that evening.

Even though Saavedra faces more than an uphill battle as a conservative attempting to represent Compton and Lynwood, this incident should — in a just world — end her political career. Indeed, she should be spending some time in jail for her actions.

Over the last few years, as arguments about public accommodations for transgender people have heated up thanks to religious and political leaders looking for another group to scapegoat in the wake of marriage equality, we’ve seen many stories of people ejected from restrooms. The majority of these haven’t been trans women at all.

Trans or not, however, we can all face the actions of the next Jazmina Saavedra who decides to play vigilante — and none of us may be safe from being filmed in the women’s room at Denny’s. This is the true danger to one’s right to privacy. n Gwen Smith wishes people would learn to mind their own business for once. You can find her at www. gwensmith.com.

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The last couple of months have been name Zola — her reasoning being that filled with triumphs like last week’s cersince both Jason and I are writers, and the emony at the Smithsonian’s American dog is French ... Why not name her after History Museum in Washington, D.C. (see the French writer Emile Zola? article on page 1), and the pits: Jason’s For a few days we attempted to call her mother passing away.

Veronica. She seemed to recoil If you’re married, this could when we used that name, as in, pull you closer to each other, or “Hey, I don’t like it.” the opposite. For everything that Did I tell you she has attiis tossed our way, whether good tude? So after a week, Jason’s or bad, Jason and I become mother had her way, and she closer. was re-christened Zola, which Guess we’re lucky to have she took to instantly — a mirafound each other. And there cle. Soon after we told Jason’s always seems to be a twist that mom that she won the naming delights us. So with all that is war, she passed away. That’s the swirling about in our lives, who sad part of the story. would have thought that we For me, the cheerful part is would finally decided to adopt a that each time I call Zola and puppy? We did this about three hear her running across the months ago before the latest floor, I get to think of Mika, Mark Segal Jason’s mom, which always round of ups and downs. She’s a little French bulldog we brought brings a smile. And there are home when she was 12 weeks old. She’s lots of smiles, since she’s a very funny black with a little brindle and a white strip puppy. between her eyes down to the tip of her She likes to run across the floor and nose. suddenly stop — so she’ll slide. When The first thing you do when adopting a she wants attention, she’ll nudge you with puppy is name her. Jason insisted on the her nose by plowing into you. When she’s name Veronica. angry, or just wants to be noticed, she To this day, I have no idea why. In my zooms around the room. experience, it was too long a name, with But the funniest thing for Jason and me four syllables for a dog to get to know as is that she’s more stubborn than I am. She hers. Jason’s mother kept rooting for the makes our family complete. n

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— Eric Shore

Would you encourage a young female to join Scouts BSA? “Yes. I think there would be more opportunities for a girl Lesley Andricks nursing student in Scouting rather Lancaster than in Girl Scouts. There would be more opportunity for a girl to advance her skills and to become more well-rounded.

Scouts equip people better than Girl Scouts would.”

“No. I have a 10-yearold niece.

I would encourage her to join the Girl Barry Garchow Scouts. scientist It’s a won- Pennsport derful organization. My sister was a Girl Scout and she enjoyed it. The Girl Scouts have more activities that help young girls with personal development.”

“Yes. I’m all about freedom of choice.

As long as everyone is safe, I’m all for Lauren Miceli fashion designer whatever [group] Northern Liberties they choose to join. I understand the Scouts have a controversial history of excluding people. But we can all develop our mentality into a more modern approach.”

“It depends where the young lady would feel most comfortable. I wouldn’t Thomas Smith nudge DC her either Spring Garden way. I would ask her where she wants to go then totally support her decision.

People should be able to live their lives without having to apologize. Life is too short to be miserable.”

I pack a 9mm everywhere I go because of ignorant folks. It’s a shame our country has come to this but I will protect myself and my husband at any cost.

— Gregory Parker Cox Is Steinberg trying to downplay the incident? That’s what it appears to be. I will never understand people.

— Brian Warriner

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“Fun Home’s” dress rehearsal at the Arden Theatre

By A.D. Amorosi PGN Contributor In the theater, any all-day, all-night final rehearsal before previews would be fraught with emotion and wired energy. But for the cast and crew of the Arden’s “Fun Home” — a riveting, nonchronologically told musical with themes of hiding, discovery, coming out and tragically staying in — this particular Sunday was warmly hyperemotional, as it was Mother’s Day. “Fun Home” is about a dysfunctional family at odds with one of its members (played at three distinct ages by Kate Bove, Izzy Castaldi and Mary Tuomanen) and the first pangs of lesbian love. It includes a deeply closeted father (Ben Dibble),and a mother (Kim Carson) coolly turning a blind eye. The show is based on the autobiographical graphic novel by Pennsylvania artist Alison Bechdel. Terrence J. Nolen directs.

“This is my ‘sad dad’ season,” said Dibble with a laugh about having recently played fractured fathers in “Next to Normal” and “Noises Off.” Along with a fatherly focus in 2018, Dibble finds “Fun Home” in a league with some of the darker roles he’s played, such as Lee Harvey Oswald in Sondheim’s “Assassins,” which was also at the Arden.

Dibble arrived at the rehearsal after a morning with his wife, teacher-director Amy Dugas Brown, and their three kids at the zoo. Dibble said it occurred to him that he yells at his children more than he realized. “I pride myself as a guy who leaves the bleak behind when home, but there’s a lot of emotional weight to ‘Fun House.’”

During rehearsal, the heavy lifting of the play found Dibble going from an intellectually driven, fussy dad to a man who wonders aloud whether he’s still attractive to the younger men he has in his sights.

“This show sticks with me when I leave the stage. That’s probably because, not only is it a family snapshot of Bechdel’s real life in the 1970s and 1980s, it also makes you realize how different things are now.

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families, since they’re often formed through assisted conception and the state’s custody statute doesn’t address assisted-conception parentage.

“Same-sex couples are disproportionately affected because of the biological restrictions that they have,” Palmer said. “They have to turn to donors to conceive. For opposite-sex couples, it affects those few couples who face infertility issues or other medical conditions that cause them to turn to assisted reproduction.”

But Julia C. Rater, an attorney for J.H., argued that J.H. was a single parent when J.W.H. was born. She told the court that C.G. didn’t intend to be his parent or act like his parent. Rater also said Centre County Common Pleas Judge Pamela A. Ruest didn’t make an error of law when denying

My character created this complex world in order to hide from his truth.” Dibble said his character wouldn’t have to do that today.

“The funny thing was hearing my real-life daughter — who is 9 and understands what gay is — asking me, ‘Why couldn’t he just be ‘out?’ In her world and the rest of this post-’Will & Grace’ generation, that’s nothing to hide. That’s how it should be.”

Izzy Castaldi — “Medium Alison” — usually spends her mornings getting smoothies at Café Ole. But they spent Mother’s Day morning at American Mortals getting their blond hair dyed brown to match the locks of “Small Alison” and “adult Alison” before bounding into the Arden’s rehearsal. To Castaldi, “Medium Alison” is the pinnacle of young adulthood coming to terms with queerness, “that most critical point of right before, and right after,” said the recent theater grad, who identifies as queer.

“We see her struggling, then accepting and loving her sexuality — only to struggle with dealing with her parents, how they see her and especially her father’s existence.”

Much of Castaldi’s rehearsal and performance were about maintaining the childishness of the character (“Kids don’t have many inhibitions”), growing into the ease and comfortability of the older Alison (“a lesbian literary icon”) and dealing with a closeted dad (“How could two gay people in one family miss that in each other?”). The end result was to portray all that is at stake in the process of coming out, in the past and the present.

“No matter how much easier it is now, we still feel scared at what can go wrong. I even say that during the play: ‘Please God, don’t let me be a lesbian.’ ‘Fun Home’ is not dated — that’s my experience.”

Castaldi also has to portray how a young body feels when dealing with new sexual urges. They have to relate to their soon-to-be girlfriend Joan, “this awesome, confident” activist-lesbian. “And I have to do it all without overdoing it,” said Castaldi.

“Joan” is portrayed by theater newbie C.G. legal standing to seek shared custody of J.W.H. in 2016.

Several of the justices appeared sympathetic to Palmer’s arguments. Justice Kevin M. Dougherty said if C.G. were a man, she wouldn’t have been denied standing to seek custody of J.W.H. Justice Christine L. Donahue said Ruest may have used an incorrect legal analysis when denying C.G. a custody hearing.

Donahue said Ruest apparently focused too much on the time C.G. and J.W.H. were apart, rather than the time they spent together.

Justice David N. Wecht echoed Donahue’s concerns. “If the legal standards [applied by Ruest] were incorrect, it doesn’t matter how compelling your facts are,” Wecht told Rater. “It has to go back [to Ruest] to be tried on standing

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Jackie Soro, who moved from childhood education into acting. “I’m still processing that,” said Soro after a pre-rehearsal morning’s worth of laundry, weed-whacking and going to the co-op. “Hey, that’s not too gay,” she said with a laugh.

Soro concurred with Castaldi that the true tragedy of “Fun Home” is how Dibble’s dad character is eaten up and laid to waste by his reality, while “just generations later, we are comfortable and we are accepted. His daughter accepted her own truth, finding her queer identity, when that same knowledge killed him.” Of her own character, Soro said that “Joan is sweet, wry, observant and knowing; an activist, like me. She knew that Alison belonged in the gay-student union before she did,” she added Assistant director Jennie Eisenhower spent the pre-rehearsal moments of Mother’s Day with her daughter, her daughter’s father and her girlfriend for a brunch date at the Khyber.

No sooner had she arrived at the Arden Eisenhower began putting the understudies

through their paces.

“What’s interesting about ‘Fun Home’ is that it honors important memories, and every scene has the electric energy of that importance,” she said.

The all-white stage acts as a metaphorical blank page in Bechdel’s ever-present sketchbook. The sole splashes of color come down to the critical elements of her past: gold keys or a red Depression-era glass bowl her father gave her.

“Lesbian theater has come a long way since the neighbors in ‘Falsettos,’ and ‘Rent,’ said the Eisenhower, who identifies as bisexual. There are many stories about and for gay men, and so very few about lesbians.

“That’s why it’s so amazing — not only to have this groundbreaking musical before us, but to work with a cast of queer women — all of us talking about our stuff, our gay-lady power,” said Eisenhower.

“When you don’t see yourself reflected in art, it’s hard. ‘Fun Home’ really represents freedom and change.” n

on the correct legal standard.”

After the hearing, Palmer said she was “cautiously optimistic” that the justices would issue a ruling favorable to C.G. “This is an amazing opportunity for the justices to do something that will be very helpful to LGBT families in Pennsylvania,” Palmer told PGN. C.G., 58, is a registered nurse living in Boca Raton, Fla. She has two children from a previous marriage. After the hearing, C.G. told PGN she tried to avoid litigation.

“I never wanted this to happen. Going to court was the last thing I wanted to do,” she wrote in an email. “But [J.W.H.] should not be deprived of a relationship with either of his parents. What’s in the best interests for [J.W.H.] is what it’s all about for me. It’s in his best interest to have a relationship with both his parents, with his sisters, with his

grandparent. I’m his mother; he’s my son.

Why would I do this if I didn’t have his best interests at heart?”

C.G. said she intended to be J.W.H.’s mother. “I wanted to have this child. I wanted to have [J.W.H.]. We even talked about having one of my family members be a sperm donor, so that I could have a biological connection to the child.”

C.G. last saw J.W.H. in 2014.

“I have asked to visit. I send him packages every single month and have for five years.

It has been my only way to try to stay in contact. We had such a special and sweet bond for the nearly six years that I coparented him.”

J.H. and her attorneys had no comment for this story.

A ruling is expected within the next few months. n

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Rolling out the rainbow welcome mat: Supporting LGBT seniors

By Terri Clark, MPH All professionals who provide services to older adults work LGBT individuals, even if they do not realize it.

Likewise, seniors who attend senior centers or share housing communities, share that space with their LGBT peers.

Recent data from the national organization SAGE (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders) indicates that nearly 3-million LGBT adults over 50 live in the United States and that number is expected to double in the coming years.

How do the issues and concerns of aging that affect LGBT seniors differ from their heterosexual peers? LGBT seniors have spent a lifetime hiding their identity for fear of prejudice and discrimination.

Further, they lack traditional family-support networks, making them more reliant on aging services but less likely to access due to a lifetime of stigma and marginalization. After a lifetime facing stigma and keeping their sexual orientation and gender

identity concealed, many do not receive care that is sensitive to their needs and concerns, resulting in even further isolation and health problems down the line.

Having all been brought up in a society that privileges heterosexuality, we need to recognize that the bias this introduces is not automatically lost because we are in the aging-services field. Knowing about someone’s sexual orientation and gender identity is different from knowing about that person’s sex life. Sexuality, including sexual orientation and gender identity, is an integral part of everyone’s identity, LGBT or not.

Most human-services and healthcare providers receive no coursework, instruction or information on the needs of LGBT older adults. This intersection of lack of training and society’s pervasive heterosexism creates a circle of continued stigma.

According to the recent AARP survey, “Maintaining Dignity: understanding and responding to the challenges facing LGBT Americans,” most LGBT adults want providers who are specifically trained to meet client needs. They also want some providers or staff who are LGBT themselves.

A 2010 study called “Ready to Serve” found that staff training was key in building and understanding and addressing the unique needs of our LGBT older adults.

The goal of such training is to ensure that

the attitudes, actions, and practices of health and other care providers contribute to the creation of aging services that support the safety, inclusion and welfare of our LGBT older adults, their families and their caregivers. I have been training on LGBT inclusion and diversity for a long time and, for me, one of the joys of training is listening to the participants’ unique stories, experiences, thoughts and feelings.

I see trainings as opportunities for conversations that can create synergy, connection and community for us to continually learn about others and ourselves. For example, challenging assumptions of aging service providers who believe they can identify any LGBT adult who is accessing their services or that training is not needed because staff treat everyone the same.

When I think about trainings, I don’t see “cultural competence” as an end goal, but a commitment to ongoing engagement with LGBT-affirming behaviors, knowledge, attitudes and policies. According to the National Resource Center on LGBT Aging, SAGE’s award winning resource center, training needs to address the following: • Cultural Awareness: being knowledgeable about what LGBT older adults typically experience when accessing, or thinking about, accessing services.

• Cultural Humility: no matter how much we learn about or become aware of a culture, each individual is the expert on his or her own experience.

• Cultural Responsiveness: learning new patterns of behavior and effectively applying them individually and within the organization’s setting.

As a certified trainer with SAGE, I have had the opportunity over the years to provide training and technical assistance to a number of local and regional aging services providers. Providers can now work towards a SAGECare credential.

As advocates and practitioners, we must continue to support the existence of a culturally competent aging network. The array of trainings offered by SAGE are the beginning of the process of assuring culturally sensitive care and providing the same opportunities as their heterosexual peers to age in a safe and supportive environment. n Terri Clark, MPH, is Prevention Services Coordinator at Action Wellness in Philadelphia and a certified trainer with SAGE. She also is coauthor and editor for a teaching manual that includes over 50 lesson plans entitled “Orientation: Teaching about Identity, Attraction and Behavior.” For more information about training and/or SAGECARE credentials, visit SAGE’s website at www.Sageusa.org.

The Blank Canvas of LGBT Elder Care in Philadelphia Do you think one day you could be 55 years old?

How about 65? Do you think about what kind of life you can have at 75?

Before the 1800s, no country in the world thought of life expectancy beyond 40. But today, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans 65 and older will outnumber American children by 2035.

As advocates for elder LGBT rights, we must identify, and offer solutions for, the challenges that currently exist for LGBT older adults. While some experiences of aging are similar to those faced by nonLGBT people, there are unique barriers encountered

by LGBT older adults, particularly around the types of care available to them as they grow older.

Statistically, LGBT older adults are more likely to be single, childless and estranged from their biological families. Many have instead formed “families of choice” consisting of friends, neighbors and loved ones.

Families of choice can offer great camaraderie and support, though are often not equipped to provide the daily caregiving one may need in their later years.

Without support systems that enable aging independently, LGBT elders are more likely to rely on nursing homes or other institutional settings to provide long-term care.

In a recent study released by AARP, “Maintaining Dignity: A Survey of LGBT Adults Age 45 and Older,” LGBT people expressed significant fears about the treatment they would receive in longterm care settings.

Two-thirds of LGBT respondents expressed fear of being neglected in nursing homes. Sixty percent feared

being verbally or physically harassed in long-term care settings due to being LGBT. Fears of having to conceal one’s identity in order to access long-term care are very real for LGBT elders, especially for transgender older adults. In AARP’s study, 70 percent of transgender and gender expansive respondents anticipated having to hide their identity in order to access care. Many aspects of elder care, especially in nursing-home facilities, are both personal and private. They include activities such as bathing, dressing and grooming.

Improving the long-term care system for LGBT people is a top priority of the Elder LGBT Advocacy Committee, which includes members from the Mayor’s Commission on LGBT Affairs. The purpose of this committee is to improve and assure human rights, and to respect the dignity of Philadelphia’s LGBT elders.

The LGBT Elder Advisory Committee is chaired by Gigi Nikpour from Community Legal Services and Chris Bartlett of the William Way LGBT Community Center. Both are members of the Mayor’s Commission on LGBT Affairs and work closely with Amber Hikes, executive director of the Office of LGBT Affairs. The committee membership includes representatives from Action Wellness, the Center for Advocacy for the Rights and Interests of the Elderly (CARIE), Mazzoni Center, SAGE, SeniorLAW Center and the LGBT Elder Initiative, as well as LGBT elders, activists and advocates.

The committee aims to improve access for LGBT elders to healthcare and long-term care services. This

work includes educating residents in long-term care facilities about their rights as residents and the remedies available if they encounter discrimination from other residents or staff. The committee also pushes for legislative action to strengthen protections for LGBT residents.

Thom Duffy, who has been an activist since the early 1990s (as an artist, athlete, and an exhibition curator), is the secretary of the committee. He started working with the committee out of a passion for the human rights and care of LGBT elders. Duffy sees the Elder Advisory Committee as “a platform for diverse elders of all sexual orientations, gender identities, races, abilities, and influences to come together and share their contribution to improving care for LGBT elders of Philadelphia.”

The committee is seeking additional members to help in the push for an improved long-term care system for LGBT older adults. Committee members are also interested in hearing about the experiences of LGBT individuals who have engaged with the long-term care system. Anyone interested in getting involved, or willing to share their stories, can contact PhilaEldersAdvocacy@gmail.com. n If you or someone you know is currently in a long-term care setting and encountering anti-LGBT treatment, contact the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program at CARIE (215-545-5724) or Center in the Park (215-844-1829).

Written by the LGBT Elder Advisory Committee and commissioners of the Mayor’s Commission on LGBT Affairs.

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Taking a stand on behalf of LGBT elders

By Aaron Tax With all the noise in Washington, it may be easy to miss the Trump administration’s efforts to harm older LGBT older people: but make no mistake, there has been a dangerous assault on the rights of our LGBT pioneers.

The administration is working to chip away at hard-fought protections for the LGBT community, and it has sought to make our LGBT elders, and the LGBT community at large, virtually invisible.

Let’s start with an example. You’ve probably heard of a program called Meals on Wheels. It’s one of the many programs funded in-part by a federal law called the Older Americans Act (OAA). The OAA helps pay for many programs and services that allow older adults to age in place in their communities – programs like chore assistance, transportation assistance, legal assistance, home delivered meals, and meals at senior centers.

In order for the federal government to know if these programs are reaching the most vulnerable people, it conducts a survey every year (the National Survey of Older Americans Act Participants). Back in 2014, the Obama administration added

an LGBT question to the survey to be able to see if LGBT older adults were receiving the programs and services they need to remain independent. When the survey came to President Trump’s attention, the only change he proposed was to strip out the LGBT demographic question. SAGE, our allies, and LGBT older adults led the fight in pushing back, and in a partial victory, the administration retained the sexual orientation question, but left out transgender older adults.

That is just one example. In March of 2018, the administration again tried to make LGBT people invisible, by erasing the lesbian and bisexual women’s health pages from the website of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). SAGE, and other LGBT organizations, responded.

Right after Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Piggie Park, a BBQ joint in South Carolina, refused to serve a woman by the name of Anne Newman. Why? The owner said his religious beliefs compelled him to oppose any integration of races, and that being forced to open his doors and serve everyone violated his freedom of religion.

What happened? He lost. The court said religion couldn’t trump civil rights.

Now, in 2018, a similar case known as Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission has come before the Supreme Court. In the case, the Trump administration is trying to turn the clock back to the 1960s, using religion as a way to divide the country. In the case, the Trump administration is arguing that a baker’s religious beliefs create a constitutional right to refuse to sell a wedding cake to a same-sex couple. A ruling that gives businesses a license to discriminate based on religious preference would have especially devastating consequences for older LGBT people, as many elder care providers, including hospitals, have a religious affiliation. Earlier this year, the Trump administration also established the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division at the Department of Health & Human Services to shield medical providers who deny care based on religious or moral beliefs.

According to Dignity Denied, a policy report released by SAGE, the Movement Advancement Project (MAP), and Columbia Law School’s Public Rights/ Private Conscience Project, 85 percent of nonprofit continuing care retirement communities are religiously affiliated. If, like

the Piggie Park, these retirement communities seek to deny access to LGBT older adults, our elders will suffer greatly.

In advance of the Supreme Court ruling, SAGE recently launched its “Care Can’t Wait” campaign, which shines a spotlight on the millions of LGBT elders whose care and livelihoods would be threatened by a license to discriminate. The campaign asks care providers, people of faith, and all who believe in caring for our community members, to take a pledge to stand with LGBT elders in the face of religious discrimination. The pledge is online at sageusa.org/ carecantwait.

As we enter into Pride month, let’s all make sure our LGBT elders are part of this conversation. We need more, not less, attention to be paid to the challenges that LGBT older adults are facing. We must continue to call on the Trump administration to prioritize LGBT rights, particularly for our elders, because older adults refuse to be bullied and they refuse to be invisible. n Aaron Tax is director of advocacy at SAGE, the country’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBT older people. Learn more at sageusa.org.

Privilege: A license to be quiet?

By Joanne Carroll I have it made.

I could quite easily flop into a comfortable rocking chair on the front porch with a cup of coffee and a dog on my lap and enjoy retirement!

However, that would do two things to me. First, the inactivity would likely be the cause of my death. Secondly, my conscience would drive me to the brink of insanity.

You see, when I finally mustered up the courage to live authentically, I was able to have nearly zero struggles. The first reason was that I was white; the second was I was employable because of a nearly impeccable resume, and as a retired member of the Air Force, I had a pension and medical coverage.

Now fully retired, with my service pension and Social Security, I also have Medicare and Tricare for Life. I have a roof over my head and food in the cupboard and refrigerator. I have clothes to wear, a car to drive, and am in good health for a woman of 77 years.

So why should I not just go ahead and enjoy my senior years in all that comfort?

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Certainly, many would state that I have earned it. For me at least, the answer is simple. When so many others barely stay alive, I simply cannot sit quietly and ignore them simply because I am a woman of significant privilege.

Many in the transgender community face adversity daily. I will spare you the boring percentages, but their struggles are all about the issues that my privilege protects me from experiencing.

The transgender community faces homelessness, extreme poverty, low rates of health insurance, lack of access to quality health or senior care, malnutrition, unemployment and under-employment, denial of public accommodations, fear of police, suicide and murder. To learn more about the disparities that impact transgender communities, you can access the report from the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey at www.ustranssurvey.org.

The statistics and their message naturally cut across all age groups. However, seniors are particularly vulnerable because facilities are not culturally competent to serve their unique health needs or provide affirming senior care.

Transgender seniors oftentimes cannot speak because their lack of privilege keeps them in a cone of silence, so I have to speak for them.

Currently in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, it is acceptable to deny rights to housing, employment and public accommodation based on sexual orientation, gender identity and expression (SOGIE).

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We sorely need an amendment to the Human Rights Act of 1955. For the past 14 years, we have tried desperately to pass the “PA Fairness Act” which would add SOGIE protections to the Human Rights Act of 1955.

Fortunately, we have a governor in Tom Wolf who understands our plight. In a variety of ways through policy changes and executive orders, he has made things more bearable for some transgender Pennsylvanians. However, our full freedom and recognition as valued citizens of the Commonwealth can only come through the legislative process.

Without naming names, members exist within our legislature that insist that the Fairness Act is dead on arrival in spite of bipartisan support. If you are reading this, please pressure your legislator to support the Fairness Act. To find contact information for your legislators, visit www. palegis.us.

Legislation such as the PA Fairness Act is a vital step toward ensuring that Pennsylvanians of all sexual orientations and gender identities are able to grow older with access to housing, healthcare, and the care they need as they age. It is more than needed and it is the humane thing to do. n Joanne Carroll is the president of TransCentralPA, a nonprofit organization committed to providing advocacy and caring support for transgender individuals, their significant others, families, friends and allies. To learn more or to get involved, visit www.transcentralpa.org.

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Villages are helping neighbors to thrive, connect & engage

By Harriette Mishkin We’re getting older. We’re living longer. We’re still working.

We’re living alone.

We’re living independently. Our health is good, though some of us have chronic health challenges.

According to the Administration for Community Living, roughly 28 percent of noninstitutionalized older adults in the United States live alone. The proportion living alone increases with advanced age.

Among women age 75 and over, for example, almost half (45 percent) live by themselves.

Most of us have a strong preference for growing older in our own homes and communities, as opposed to in nursing homes or assisted-living facilities. Ensuring that older adults, especially those living alone, are supported and cared for allows us

to more successfully age in place in the neighborhoods we love.

The Village concept is an important support system as we age in our familiar communities. It was created 15 years ago in Boston to offer programs and services that build a sense of community and empower older adults to better control their own destinies as they choose to remain in their own homes.

Penn’s Village, a non-profit organization, was established in central Philadelphia more than 10 years go with the motto, Neighbors Helping Neighbors Thrive, Connect and Engage. It is built on the support system provided by neighbor volunteers and the mutual respect and friendship that often develop between them and the members.

John Erickson, a volunteer, describes the experience this way: “As a member and volunteer, I have experienced Penn’s Village as an always-welcoming community. Volunteering as a weekly visitor to homebound individuals continues to be an enriching experience, one that allows me to connect with and give back to my community. The varied Penn’s Village pro-

grams are both educational and an excellent opportunity to socialize and meet new friends.”

There are two other Villages serving neighborhoods in Philadelphia — East Falls Village, and the Northwest Village Network — with similar missions.

Villages offer programming with the goal of removing loneliness, isolation, and the high cost of socializing. Some recent Penn’s Village programs have included mobility, movement and wellness (exercise, dance, yoga, pain management, deciding on drug plans or Medicare supplements, flu shots), local history (Boathouse Row, Philadelphia mansions), help getting the most out of smart phones, a presentation on The Titanic, author discussions, and the newly formed Men’s Group and their discussions on current events, to name a few.

Our newest program offers an organizing model developed by one of our volunteers – the Silver Binder - for keeping written track of important papers and personal information in case of planned or medical emergencies. The Silver Binder is a three-ring binder that contains guidance

and blank forms for organizing the owner’s personal, financial, medical and endof-life information in one location. It is intended to be used by the owner as a reference guide and for use by others acting on behalf of the owner. It is also intended to be used after the passing of the owner to settle his/her estate and last wishes.

Because the healthcare journey can be complex and fragmented, Penn’s Village created a unique program called Health Pals, a program of trained volunteers who help Villagers navigate the healthcare system. Health Pals volunteers transport members to doctor’s appointments, attend appointments with members, take notes and assist them in asking relevant healthcare questions.

The financial impact of the Penn’s Village volunteers who provide a variety of one-on-one services to Villagers can be valued at $24.69 per hour. The social and emotional value are priceless. n Harriette Mishkin is co-chair of the Communications Committee and a member of Penn’s Village. She is founder and principal of Performance Concepts, a management-consulting firm.

Community HealthChoices: a major change on the horizon

By Kathy Cubit Community HealthChoices (CHC) is Pennsylvania’s new mandatory managed care program for individuals age 21 and over with Medicare and Medicaid coverage.

The program includes those who receive Medicaid-funded Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) – nursing home care or home and community-based services (HCBS).

CHC began in Southwestern Pennsylvania in January and is set to start in the Southeast’s five-county area on January 1, 2019. Nearly 128,000 individuals in Southeast Pennsylvania will transition to CHC. It is challenging to understand the differences and complexities of the Medicaid and Medicare programs.

Medicare is a federal health program administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for eligible people age 65 or older, or persons under 65 who qualify based on having a disability.

Medicaid is a jointly funded federal and state program administered by the state. It covers health care and other related benefits including Medicare out-of-pocket costs, nursing-home care, and HCBS for certain people with low income and limited assets.

How will CHC be different than what currently exists?

Pennsylvania’s current Medicaid system is “fee for service.” Providers are paid by the state for the services that consumers use.

Under CHC, the state will instead pay Managed Care Organizations (MCOs), or health insurance companies, to coordinate and pay for participants’ Medicaid services. Participants will choose from one of three CHCMCO plans being offered: AmeriHealth Caritas/Keystone First, PA Health & Wellness, or UPMC Community HealthChoices.

The transition from fee-for-service to CHC managed care represents a significant change. Consumers may not

understand their rights or how managed care works.

An Independent Enrollment Broker will help applicants understand plan choices and enroll in a plan. Each CHCMCO plan must offer the same physical health and LTSS benefits. However, Medicaid provider networks, Medicaid co-payments and Medicaid drug formularies may differ.

In addition, each CHC-MCO offers “value-added benefits” beyond what Medicaid currently provides.

If a consumer transitioning to CHC does not choose an MCO plan, they will be automatically enrolled in one. However, participants can change plans at any time. The LIFE (Living Independence for Elders) program will continue and is an alternative option for LTSS participants.

Are there changes to Medicare coverage?

About 95 percent of CHC participants will have both Medicare and Medicaid coverage. It is important to know that Medicare coverage will not change. Consumers cannot be forced to change their Medicare coverage, their primary care physician or other Medicare providers, even if their doctors or providers are not in the CHC-MCO plan’s network.

The CHC-MCO will cover the Medicare out-of-pocket costs that ACCESS now covers. Participants will need to show their doctors and providers their new CHC-MCO card in addition to their Medicare card.

What does CHC cover?

CHC covers Medicaid physical health benefits and LTSS. LTSS includes both nursing home residents and those who receive services such as adult daily living centers, personal assistance, and home delivered meals.

Unlike Medicare, for the most part, participants must use LTSS providers that are part of the CHC-MCO plan’s network.

What continuity of care is provided?

All Medicaid managed care programs must provide “continuity of care” to protect against interruptions in services or care received when transitioning into a new managed care plan. CHC-MCOs must allow participants to use the same providers and continue to receive any ongoing treatment for at least the first 60 days of enrollment into a CHC-MCO. This applies to both first-time enrollments as well as when a participant changes plans.

There are additional protections for nursing facility residents and those receiving HCBS Waivers at the time CHC starts in their area. Nursing-home residents whose care is paid by Medicaid will never be forced to leave the facility unless they choose to do so or become ineligible for Medicaid. Waiver participants using HCBS can continue with their current service plan and providers for the first 180 days after enrolling in CHC. How will people be notified?

Those transitioning to CHC will get multiple notices beginning with a flyer to be mailed in mid-July. It is important that consumers know they have rights including: • The right to change plans at any time; • The right to keep their Medicare coverage, doctors and providers.

• The right to file complaints, grievances and appeals.

The Center for Advocacy for the Rights and Interests of the Elderly (CARIE) is here to help now and in the future. We just posted An Advocate’s Guide to Community HealthChoices on our website at www. carie.org that provides detailed information about CHC. Call CARIE at (215) 545-5728 with any questions or problems. n Kathy Cubit is the director of advocacy initiatives at the Center for Advocacy for the Rights and Interests of the Elderly (CARIE). To learn more, visit www.carie.org.

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Transparency Trap Wolf should not let press under the kimono on Amazon HQ2 bid.

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t seems like every year there is some moral crisis raging across the Commonwealth, pitting the public’s right to know against some governmental or quasigovernmental entity. We at the Point have been in the middle of some of these heated battles, over the years.

In 2016 it was the Philadelphia Host Committee refusing to release the names of its donors, in response to a Freedom of Information request by a freelance reporter. Enter the lawyers. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the legal case “hinged on the fact that the city extended a $15 million line of credit to the host committee. … the committee’s attorney argued that federal election law supersedes

Pennsylvania's Right-to-Know Law.” In the case of the DNC Host Committee clearly the public had a right to know who made contributions to the Host Committee.

Not even our former Governor and, in this case, stonewaller-inchief, disputed the public’s ultimate right to the information. For Rendell, it was about the timing and its effect on their prospective fundraising and vendor negotiations. Make no mistake, Rendell is no dummy when it comes to these areas of expertise.

For Rendell, telling the world the identity of donors whom the Committee had already taken money from, and at what level they donated, would have limited his capacity to negotiate with — shall

we say lie to? — the fish that he had not yet boated. If Sprint came in for $250,000 at Stage 1, Rendell would have wanted AT&T to think they came in at $500,000 in order to triple, rather than double his money in the telecommunications sector fundraising. Transparency may be good for the public but not so good for the Committee and not for the nefarious reasons the media kneejerkingly arrives at when it comes to these issues.

Similarly, it wouldn’t have helped Rendell’s bargaining position with vendors if it was revealed through the FOIA request that his Host Committee is flush with cash as he is pleading poverty to carpenters and electricians. Poverty is a powerful negotiating tool but, at times, requires — shall we say it again? — lying.

The City of Philadelphia wanted Rendell to be in a position to lie to his fundraising prospects and vendors, because the more he raised and less he spent, the less exposure our taxpayers were open to.

when Philadelphia and Pittsburgh were two of the 20 potential sites selected from the 238 applications submitted last October.

But there’s a serious drawback to this sort of rah-rah economics.

It’s public knowledge that

… it was about the timing and its effect on their prospective fundraising and vendor negotiations.

Now once again the Inquirer Editorial Board is chirping about the lack of transparency in our city bid for Amazon’s second headquarters. Here’s how the Inky opiners see it: “That search — dubbed HQ2 — prompted a rush of Pennsylvania pride in January,

Pennsylvania offered more than $1 billion in new tax incentives to draw Amazon…But the public has not been allowed to examine those incentives in detail.

That’s because Gov. Wolf’s office and the state’s DepartContinued on page 2 A transparent Philadelphia would make it easier for competing cities to draw focus.

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Transparency Trap Continued from page 1 ment of Community and Economic Development, along with Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Allegheny County, have repeatedly refused to release the documents that describe the incentives.

Stop for a moment and consider what that means: Pennsylvania wants its taxpayers to put more than $1 billion on the line, but is keeping everything about that money a secret from them. …

The essential argument made by the state, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Allegheny County is that they are competing with 18 other potential locations spread across the country, which makes the tax incentive package a trade secret.

A spokesman for Wolf calls that a ‘temporary posture while

the process is ongoing,’ meaning we’ll get to see the details if the deal gets done.”

Governor Wolf, like former Governor Rendell, gets it. The Inky EdBoard does not.

Revealing the economic incentive package while Philadelphia is still in the competition is moronic. Why don’t we just tell our competitors to get out their pencils and see how they can put a better package than ours on the table? All of the outside-of-thebox tax initiatives, transportation and infrastructure improvements, housing and employment strategies, lets just hand them over to our competitors. As they tear them down piece-by-piece, we can pat ourselves on the back at what transparent losers we are.

Roseman Sparkles Continued from page 12 at the same place where I started though.”

After Kelly’s three years ended in a negative fashion and the team winning just 6 games, Roseman got his general manager job back. He hired Doug Pederson to coach and landed many key free agents who led the team to the Super Bowl win including then back-up quarterback Nick Foles.

He is most credited for stealing quarterback Carson Wentz by making two separate trades, and then trading Sam Bradford to give Wentz a chance to start in his first game of his career.

“We were very fortunate that the two worst teams in the league didn’t want a quarterback and we jumped up and got Carson. We

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just thought he was so mature and polished and professional and ready to lead the team to greatness. It happened faster than we were expecting, but you know what? All we are talking about now is how we do it [win the Super Bowl] again.”

Roseman said that he understands his position of being in the spotlight means his every move is scrutinized. “When things were bad, I heard all the people on sports talk radio and TV questioning me and it is hard. And I saw the articles saying I didn’t know what I was doing. Then, I would come home and my kids would say, ‘Why did you do that?’”

The Face of Activism For Asa Khalif it involves demands, sacrifices and peace

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ometimes being the face of activism lands you in places not previously envisioned, like on a meme.

A picture of Asa Khalif during a Black Lives Matter protest, where he appears to be pointing his bullhorn in the face of a Starbucks barista identified as Zack, took on a life of its own on social media.

Alongside the image, originally taken by Daily News photographer Michael Bryant for an April 19 story on a protest at the 18th and Spruce Starbucks, users offered their own captions, such as: “Excuse me, what is the wifi password?;” “Major in business they said/That’s how you get to be a CEO they said;” and “Sir this is a completely different situa …”.

Khalif admits that the use of the meme, whom his teen nephew alerted him of, brought a much needed round of laughter. It was a light moment in the otherwise tense, emotionally draining work that has become a calling for Khalif, the leader of the Black Lives Matter Pennsylvania and its newer incarnation, Coalition for Black Lives.

There was also some concern that it would give the impression that the arrests of the two men in the Starbucks was something of which to be made light.

But then being weighted down with thoughts of the most effective approaches and perspectives on his work is something that comes along with the territory for Khalif.

He had intended to become a lawyer, but his Pentecostal upbringing urged him on a mission of spreading God’s word in youth ministry on the streets. His activism started young. As a 13-year-old, he took on a corner store at 26th and Oxford streets for illegally selling cigarettes and alcohol, and followed that by protesting the death by a police officer of his cousin Brandon Tate-Brown.

“I thought I was standing up, reaffirming the principals of Christ. Others saw it as activism. So, it was the path that God put me on,” Khalif says.

And he notes that not every situation involves a bullhorn in someone’s face.

Activist Asa Khalif. Photo courtesy of Asa Khalif.

“I’ve also been meeting with the police commissioner, the mayor, council members. And I sat down at the table to discuss these things and work on issues. It depends on how the ancestors would move in that direction. Sometimes, it depends on what type of action a situation requires,” notes Khalif.

But it is his faith that sustains his work.

His work results in everything from death threats from those who object to his protests to charges from other activists that he is self-serving and an attentiongrabber.

“Prayer,” he says of his response to moments like those. “My Lord and savior Jesus Christ. He a constant and he keeps me. Especially in this type of work, which is always, most of the time, misunderstood. It can be a lonely road. Many activists have faced it — past and present. But he sustains me and keeps me going. He gives me peace and I know I have a family: a mother, father, aunties, all three of them revolutionary warriors; cousins — a tight-knit family. I come from a long line of ministers.” He adds, “and of course my supporters.”

Following a recent Tribune article that other activist groups were seeking to distance themselves from Khalif, he said, “I was extremely surprised by how many people, who never accepted my type of activism, reached out to me and were very supportive of me and said they had been praying for me.”

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JEWELL WILLIAMS Sheriff on Tuesday, June 5, 2018 at First District Plaza, 3801 Market Street, at 9:00 AM. (EST) Conditions of Sheriff’s Sale for JUDICIAL/FORECLOSURE SALE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

South Broad Street, 5th Floor, a Schedule of Distribution Thirty (30) Days from the date of the sale of Real Estate. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedule unless exceptions are filed thereto within ten (10) days thereafter.

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

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

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

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

RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lisa Held; Scott Alan Held C.P. July Term, 2016 No. 02895 $207,199.51 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-303

Charlene Parmenter a/k/a Charlene D. Parmenter C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 00722 $119,661.88 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-312 1937 Rowan St a/k/a 1937 W Rowan St 19140 13th wd.

1,395 Sq. Ft. OPA#131361100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Albert Baggett Solely in His Capacity as Heir of James Baggett, Deceased, George Baggett Solely in His Capacity as Heir of James Baggett, Deceased and The Unknown Heirs of James Baggett Deceased C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 03610 $91,548.56 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-313 300 Lyceum Ave 19128 21st wd. 1,513 Sq. Ft. OPA#211138000 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Matthew Monfredi C.P. May Term, 2017 No. 03410 $228,842.94 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1806-314 2213 S Bucknell St 19145 48th wd. 708 Sq. Ft. BRT#482295400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Cerrone Brown a/k/a Cherrone S. Brown and Yolanda Brown C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 03051 $86,557.87 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1806-315 6717 Cinnamon Dr 19128 21st wd. 1,920 Sq. Ft. OPA#212473731 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Andrew C. Stopani a/k/a Andrew Stopani C.P. December Term, 2016 No. 01918 $249,359.64 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-316 255 E Penn St 191445809 12th wd. 1,068 Sq. Ft. OPA#122002300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Andrea Sharpe Jones a/k/a Andrea S. Jones C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 02031 $83,868.33 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-317 3203 Brookdale Rd 191143517 57th wd. 1,584 Sq. Ft. OPA#572110500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY David Wilson, Jr; Kathleen Wilson C.P. April Term, 2017 No. 00866 $165,118.70 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-318 100 Parker Ave Unit 22 19128-4454 21st wd. 1,634 Sq. Ft. OPA#212338422 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gregory M. Lutzker; Heather Lutzker C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 03188 $303,899.78 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-319 4229 Devereaux Ave 19135 55th wd. 1,642

Sq. Ft. OPA#552028600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jamil Barnes and Ninja Barnes C.P. May Term, 2017 No. 02751 $114,643.26 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-320 6059 Lawndale St 19111 35th wd. 1,646 Sq. Ft. OPA#352324900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Niyah Smith-Walker and Sheldon Walker C.P. January Term, 2017 No. 02611 $162,539.40 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-321 2047 E Bellmore St 19134 25th wd. 750 Sq. Ft. OPA#252183100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Frenchola Holden C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 04023 $44,288.25 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-322 2957 N Camac St a/k/a 2957 Camac St 19133 37th wd.

1,451 Sq. Ft. OPA#372264600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Joella Frazier Davis Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Juarrannetta McNabb a/k/a Juarannetta McNabb Deceased C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 04915 $56,096.54 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-323 2531 S Sartain St 19148 39th wd. 672 Sq. Ft. OPA#394207300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Frederick Feuerborn a/k/a Fredrick Feuerborn C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 01653 $145,129.50 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-324 7421 Woolston Ave 191381223 10th wd. 1,224 Sq. Ft. OPA#102420900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Cassandra Gorham, in Her Capacity as Executrix and Devisee of The Estate of Terry L. Grainger a/k/a Terry Lee Grainger a/k/a Terry Grainger; Bryan Keith Burgess, in His Capacity as Devisee of The Estate of Terry L. Grainger a/k/a Terry Lee Grainger a/k/a Terry Grainger C.P. May Term, 2017 No. 02208 $43,226.09 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-325 4702 Meridian St 191363311 65th wd. 1,046 Sq. Ft. OPA#651154400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kilsung Kim C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 02939 $106,122.24 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-326 224 W. Penn St 19144 12th wd. Improvement Area: 1920 Sq. Ft.; Land Area: 3354 Sq. Ft. OPA#124016100 IMPROVEMENTS: SEMI/DET 3 STY MASONRY James M. Richardson & Nancy T. Carey Richardson C.P. December Term,

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SPECIAL NOTE: All Sheriff’s Sales are conducted pursuant to the orders of the Courts and Judges of the First Judicial District. Only properties that are subject to judgments issued by the First Judicial District are listed for sale. By law, the Sheriff’s Office cannot decide if a property can be listed for sale; only the District Courts can order a property to be sold at auction.

SHERIFF’S SALE OF Tuesday, June 5, 2018 1806-301 5116 Jackson St 191242119 62nd wd. 1,050 Sq. Ft. OPA#622395500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Alexis Perez C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 03215 $48,736.31 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-302 3601 N Hereford Ln 19114-1908 66th wd. 1,260 Sq. Ft. OPA#661253900 IMPROVEMENTS:

8423 Suffolk Pl 191531913 40th wd. 1,440 Sq. Ft. OPA#405186011 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Michael Blackson a/k/a Michael K. Blackson C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 02374 $111,786.44 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-304 1100 E Sharpnack St 19150-3109 50th wd. 1,110 Sq. Ft. OPA#502322700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sylvia Grier C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 01323 $154,305.24 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-305 5047 N 16th St 19141 17th wd.

1,376 Sq. Ft. OPA#172115500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Carmen Grant and Michael M. Grant C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 02162 $56,850.37 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-306 1934 W Spencer St 19141 17th wd. 1,320 Sq. Ft. BRT#171252800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Chad Williams C.P. July Term, 2016 No. 00089 $144,236.81 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, P.C., Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire, Heather Riloff, Esquire, Tyler J. Wilk, Esquire 1806-307 5420 Sylvester St 191241109 62nd wd. 1,104 Sq. Ft. OPA#621367800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ruth L. Miller; Jason A. Miller C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 03631 $76,234.86 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-308 5502 Wyalusing Ave 19131 34th wd. 1,248 Sq. Ft. BRT#041063600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING John E. Nelomes C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 01035 $60,356.78 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, P.C., Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire, Heather Riloff, Esquire, Tyler J. Wilk, Esquire 1806-310 1501 E Howell St a/k/a 1501 Howell St 19149 62nd wd.

2,696 Sq. Ft. OPA#621127500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Najmin Begum C.P. October Term, 2016 No. 02023 $111,092.80 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-311 5444 Catharine St a/k/a 5444 Catherine St 19143 46th wd.

1,503 Sq. Ft. OPA#463103000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Clarence Henderson and

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2017 No. 01109 $211,203.23 Brett L. Messinger, Ryan A. Gower & Paul J. Fanelli 1806-327 6057 Charles St 19135 62nd wd.

1,474 Sq. Ft. OPA#622304300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Charlita A Allen C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 02439 $116,683.58 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-328 7444 Sommers Rd 19138 50th wd. 1,904 Sq. Ft. OPA#501322400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Thomas E. Mapp, III as Administrator of The Estate of Thomas E. Mapp, Jr. a/k/a Thomas Mapp, Deceased C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 02502 $105,069.83 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-329 227 Daly St 19148 39th wd.

742 Sq. Ft. OPA#391094500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lynda Longo a/k/a Lynda Ouslati C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 01883 $107,266.25 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-330 1989 Church Ln 19141 17th wd.

1,664 Sq. Ft. OPA#171247000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Mia Owens C.P. September Term, 2017 No. 00144 $138,773.59 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-331 5014 F St 19124 23rd wd.

1,230 Sq. Ft. OPA#233057500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jacqueline Figueroa C.P. July Term, 2016 No. 01718 $86,912.33 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-332 1927 Haworth St 19124 62nd wd. 1,312 Sq. Ft. OPA#622031500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Olga Marrero and Maria Rodriguez C.P. April Term, 2017 No. 02249 $86,688.78 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-333 1826 W 68th Ave a/k/a 1826 68th Ave 19126 10th wd.

1,406 Sq. Ft. OPA#101253400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Florence Katie Thompson a/k/a Florence K. Thompson C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 02936 $93,901.20 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-334 5622 Carpenter St 191432804 46th wd. 1,152 Sq. Ft. OPA#463148400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Victoria Evans C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 03216 $13,169.08 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-335 870 N 19th St 15th wd. 1,815 Sq. Ft. land area; 2,448 Sq. Ft. improvement OPA#151056400 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 3 STY

MASONRY 870 N 19th Street LLC a/k/a 870 North 19 LLC a/k/a 870 N 19th LLC and Andre Dunn C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 00645 $499,836.93 Robert L. Saldutti, Esquire 1806-336 1221 N 53rd St 19131 44th wd.

1,155 Sq. Ft. OPA#442319400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lester Young and Shirley Young C.P. October Term, 2016 No. 01422 $74,506.97 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-337 161 N Dewey St 19139 34th wd.

943 Sq. Ft. OPA#341157400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Brandon Lucas C.P. August Term, 2016 No. 04458 $66,402.03 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-338 10935 Templeton Dr 19154 66th wd. 2,478 Sq. Ft. OPA#662149700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Edwin A. Vazquez Jr. and Christina L. Vazquez C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 03780 $239,285.07 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-339 4925 N 11th St 19141 49th wd.

1,900 Sq. Ft. OPA#491401100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Genevieve C. Edlow as Executrix of the Estate of Arthur Moultrie, Jr. Deceased C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 00014 $109,572.71 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-340 2339 College Ave a/k/a 2339 N College Ave 19121-4809 29th wd. 1,734 Sq. Ft. OPA#291029900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Herman Keese a/k/a Herman Keesse, Jr C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 02548 $18,745.64 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-341 5021 Rosehill St 19120 42nd wd.

1,104 Sq. Ft. OPA#421348800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Pablo Celedonio C.P. October Term, 2016 No. 03531 $69,963.36 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-342 4250 Neilson St 19124 33rd wd.

930 Sq. Ft. OPA#332524900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Vivian Camacho C.P. February Term, 2011 No. 01193 $100,681.96 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-343 5737 Hazel Ave 191431910 46th wd. 1,122 Sq. Ft. OPA#463017800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Uhuru A. Hamiter a/k/a Uhuru Hamiter C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 01440 $28,829.93 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP

1806-344 300 E Allens Ln 191191101 9th wd. 1,632 Sq. Ft. OPA#091007500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kim M. Jones C.P. May Term, 2012 No. 00030 $127,314.69 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-345 321 Stanwood St 19111 63rd wd. 1,727 Sq. Ft. OPA#631327600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Joseph M. Mckeever C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 03206 $55,139.93 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-346 2870 Normandy Dr 19154-1619 35th wd. 1,392 Sq. Ft. OPA#662493700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kyle A. Brown C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 03362 $180,878.97 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-347 3500 Tudor St 191363815 64th wd. 1,504 Sq. Ft. OPA#642129200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Eliezer Morales C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 01115 $116,730.23 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-348 3979 Rowena Dr 191142014 66th wd. 2,024 Sq. Ft. OPA#661288427 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Stephen Helverson C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 03243 $199,636.27 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-349 2164 Furley St 191382808 17th wd. 910 Sq. Ft. OPA#171112700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Damarcus Cannon, in His Capacity as Administrator and Heir of The Estate of Carrie Cannon a/k/a Carrie Lee Cannon; Maurice Cannon a/k/a Maurice S. Cannon, Jr., in His Capacity as Heir of The Estate of Carrie Cannon a/k/a Carrie Lee Cannon; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Carrie Cannon a/k/a Carrie Lee Cannon, Deceased C.P. May Term, 2017 No. 00690 $49,401.25 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-350 6317 Calvert St 62nd wd.

1,703 Sq. Ft. BRT#621524700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Amos Cherry, Jr C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 02482 $129,461.88 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC

1806-351 4147 N 9th St 191402203 43rd wd. 1,044 Sq. Ft. OPA#433389200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gloria E. Cuebas, in Her Capacity as Administratrix and Heir of The Estate of Milagros C. Morales; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Milagros C. Morales, Deceased; Favio Cuebas-Lara C.P. May Term, 2015 No. 00871 $49,522.40 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-352 5814 N Howard St 19120 61st wd. 1,240 Sq. Ft. OPA#612451000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Donald J. Young, Jr as Administrator of the Estate of Anna Strickland, Decease C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 02779 $46,369.09 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-353 6548 N 5th St 19126 61st wd. BRT#61-1104900 Cheryl Harris C.P. September Term, 2017 No. 00195 $147,347.26 Emmanuel J. Argentieri, Esquire 1806-354 4037 M St 19124 33rd wd.

1,125 Sq. Ft. OPA#332468800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Cung Nguyen and Hien Nguyen C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 02040 $70,768.27 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-355 5924 Penn St a/k/a 5924 N. Penn St 19149 62nd wd.

6,528 Sq. Ft. OPA#621489700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY The Unknown Heirs of Hubert J. Pardon Deceased, Sheena M. McDonald Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Hubert J. Pardon Deceased, Eric D. Pardon Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Hubert J. Pardon, Deceased and Bret H. Pardon Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Hubert J. Pardon, Deceased C.P. November Term, 2016 No. 01693 $95,736.48 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-356 3231 Almond St 19134 45th wd. 1,008 Sq. Ft. OPA#451278900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Grzegorz Zawieja, Executor of the Estate of Barbara Zawieja, deceased C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 02645 $109,176.01 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1806-357 456 Mechanic St a/k/a 456 E Mechanic St 191441120 59th wd. 1,086 Sq. Ft. OPA#592023100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY

Troy Grant C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 01884 $86,528.89 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-358 5103 Brown St 19139 44th wd. 1,350 Sq. Ft. OPA#441278600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Shirl I. Williams C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 02816 $39,856.55 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1806-359 963 Allengrove St 19124 23rd wd. 2,500 Sq. Ft. OPA#233044800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ana L. Vargas and Marcos O. Vargas C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 03162 $188,995.49 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-360 2626 S 17th St 19145 26th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1,188 Sq. Ft. BRT#262009400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Alfredo R. Florio C.P. August Term, 2016 No. 03151 $150,520.07 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC 1806-361 7020 Matthias St 19128 21st wd.

1,548 Sq. Ft. BRT#214148260 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Denise Wheeler and John Wheeler C.P. June Term, 2017 No. 00155 $297,813.54 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1806-362 2827 Holme Ave 19152 57th wd. S/D W/B GAR 1 STY MASONRY; 1,087 Sq. Ft. BRT#571028700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Michael Burke C.P. June Term, 2017 No. 01481 $169,594.19 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC 1806-363 6634 Souder St 19149 54th wd.

1,368 Sq. Ft. OPA#541215900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tracy Hua and Chi-Hung Mu C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 01746 $175,638.29 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-364 1749-1751 Bigler St 19145 26th wd. 1,280 Sq. Ft. OPA#262314100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Louis Pavoni C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 02829 $361,898.76 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1806-365 3647 Friar Rd 191542009 66th wd. 1,332 Sq. Ft. OPA#663392700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Robert B. Kirgin C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 02570 $127,984.37 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-366 5644 Osage Ave 19143 60th wd. 953 Sq. Ft. OPA#604117100 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS:

SHERIFF’S SALE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Walter D. Hall, a/k/a Walter Hall C.P. October Term, 2016 No. 01372 $103,817.48 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1806-367 8953 Fairfield St 19152 57th wd.

2,856 Sq. Ft. OPA#571178700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Chandy Abraham and Gracey Abraham a/k/a Gracy Abraham C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 03006 $204,582.17 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1806-368 4018 Magee St 19135 41st wd.

2,128 Sq. Ft. OPA#552137300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Fatmatta N. Kamara C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 00207 $135,456.64 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1806-369 2601 Pennsylvania Ave #321 19130-2321 88th wd. (formerly 15th wd.) 1,135 Sq. Ft. OPA#888072600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Stuart Barnes C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 01541 $321,930.30 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-370 504 E Penn St 19144 12th wd. 1,146 Sq. Ft. OPA#12-11404-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Andrea D. Elston C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 02101 $104,769.73 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1806-371 6542 Ogontz Ave 19126 10th wd.

1,696 Sq. Ft. OPA#102003900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Cinquetta Howard C.P. November Term, 2016 No. 00966 $160,447.21 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1806-372 3628 Prince Cir 19114 66th wd.

ROW B/GAR 2 STY MAS 05)&3; 1,368 Sq. Ft. BRT#661201100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Michael Linder, Known Surviving Heir of Vernon J. Linder, Diane Linder, Known Surviving Heir of Vernon J. Linder, United States of America c/o United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Unknown Surviving Heirs of Vernon J. Linder C.P. September Term, 2017 No. 03270 $135,741.88 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC 1806-373 13054 Townsend Rd Unit J-4 19154-1001 66th wd. 1,536 Sq. Ft. OPA#888660135 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lashawn Scott; Cheryl E. Yates, in Her Capacity as Co-Executrix and Devisee of The Estate of Elizabeth Thompson; Deborah L. Scott, in Her Capacity as Co-Executrix of The Estate of Elizabeth Thompson; Michael G. Thompson, in His Capacity

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as Devisee of The Estate of Elizabeth Thompson C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 00008 $97,451.12 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-374 2826 S Hutchinson St 19148 39th wd. ROW 1 STY MASONRY; 673 Sq. Ft. BRT#395243525 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Leonard Guerriero, Known Surviving Heir of Ruth Guerriero, Anthony Guerriero, Known Surviving Heir of Ruth Guerriero and Unknown Surviving Heirs of Ruth Guerriero C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 02680 $240,611.89 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC 1806-375 4732 Silverwood St 19128 21st wd. 1,522 Sq. Ft. OPA#211535400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Robert M. Murray, Jr C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 00973 $201,324.03 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1806-376 5259 N Franklin St 19120 49th wd. ROW CONV/ APT 2 STY MASON; 1,400 Sq. Ft. BRT#492122800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Danielle Collins C.P. September Term, 2017 No. 00061 $82,424.61 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC 1806-377 2240 Fitzwater St 30th wd.

1,088 Sq. Ft. BRT#302053900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Leon V. Hawes a/k/a Leon Hawes and Valerie Hawes C.P. November Term, 2013 No. 00140 $244,102.30 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1806-378 3852 Brown St 24th wd.

1,776 Sq. Ft. BRT#243066500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Charles Farley C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 02999 $43,935.88 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1806-379 3648 Newberry Rd 191542625 66th wd. 1,440 Sq. Ft. OPA#662526300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Patricia Deoud C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 03909 $173,567.94 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-380 3825 N Smedley St 38th wd.

1,553 Sq. Ft. BRT#13-11885-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Tanean A. Bethay C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 00410 $50,170.19 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1806-381 926 Afton St 191113208 63rd wd. 2,080 Sq. Ft. OPA#631193600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Abdul Aziz Ghafary a/k/a

Abdul A. Ghafary; Abdul Satar Ghafary C.P. March Term, 2017 No. 00599 $158,845.80 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-382 1530 Levick St 19149 54th wd.

3,690 Sq. Ft. OPA#541099200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Guy Villeneuve, a/k/a Guy J. Villeneuve C.P. September Term, 2017 No. 01332 $77,492.85 Cristina L. Connor, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1806-383 8030 Mars Pl 191531112 40th wd. 1,260 Sq. Ft. OPA#405890055 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Denise Hawkins C.P. September Term, 2012 No. 00675 $66,468.40 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-384 5250 Marwood Rd E 19120-3612 42nd wd. 1,498 Sq. Ft. BRT#421547200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE All Known and Unknown Heirs, Executors and Devisees of the Estate of Angela D. Bennett C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 03072 $42,338.76 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1806-385 7027 Wheeler St 191421700 40th wd. 1,012 Sq. Ft. OPA#406198400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Anthony Williams C.P. March Term, 2017 No. 00589 $72,734.43 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-386 1523 Wynsam St 191381627 10th wd. 1,156 Sq. Ft. OPA#102192900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Frank Brown, Jr. C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 02903 $139,488.94 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-387 707 S 52nd St 191432611 46th wd. 1,792 Sq. Ft. OPA#462143000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Nicole C. Mitchell, in Her Capacity as Administratrix and Heir of the Estate of Deborah Thomas a/k/a Deborah Celestine Thomas; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Deborah Thomas a/k/a Deborah Celestine Thomas, Deceased C.P. April Term, 2017 No. 04210 $89,293.64 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-388 5213 Arbor St 19120 42nd wd.

1,515 Sq. Ft. OPA#421391600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gisell James C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 04129 $105,190.37 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-389 91 E Duval St 19144 59th wd.

1,557 Sq. Ft. OPA#592162800 IMPROVEMENTS:

RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ivanette Carter; Charles A. Rivers C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 01454 $55,862.09 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1806-390 8509 Kendrick Pl 19111 63rd wd. 2,841 Sq. Ft. OPA#632269600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kevin Clark C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 03319 $208,207.13 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-391 5836 Windsor Ave 19143 3rd wd. 973 Sq. Ft. OPA#034096100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kevin S. Jones C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 00312 $73,097.98 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-392 6331 Ross St 19144 59th wd.

2,547 Sq. Ft. OPA#592274100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Daun U. Sandlin C.P. May Term, 2017 No. 04072 $51,274.70 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-393 6913 N 19th St 19126 10th wd. 3,490 Sq. Ft. OPA#101112500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Theresa Neal, Executrix of the Estate of Rita P. Granderson a/k/a Rita Granderson, Deceased C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 00630 $148,924.00 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1806-394 3136 Holly Rd 19154 66th wd. 2,880 Sq. Ft. OPA#663015400 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Anthony W. Estes, A/K/A Anthony Estes; Nancy Estes C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 02130 $174,970.43 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1806-395 2737 Plum St 19137 45th wd.

798 Sq. Ft. OPA#453081100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Isaac Gordon and Michael B. Tocydlowski C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 02778 $123,180.54 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-396 6441 N Smedley St 19126 17th wd. 1,310 Sq. Ft. OPA#172159500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lynette Shaw C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 03551 $141,130.23 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1806-397 5442 Discher St 19124 62nd wd. 1,137 Sq. Ft. OPA#621359800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Toyana L. Valentine a/k/a Toyana Valentine C.P.

December Term, 2017 No. 00314 $103,670.93 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-398 89 N. 46th St 6th wd. 1,854 Sq. Ft. BRT#06-1-005094 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Estate of Vivian Pierce, Deceased C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 00737 $51,670.05 Pressman & Doyle, LLC 1806-399 7030 Erdrick St 19135 55th wd.

2,295 Sq. Ft. OPA#552267600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Manuel R. Alvarez C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 02291 $138,144.56 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-400 1626 Loney St 19111 56th wd.

3,169 Sq. Ft. OPA#561550000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lawrence J. Bissinger C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 01621 $113,890.94 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-401 423 W Berks St 19122 18th wd. 1,550 Sq. Ft. OPA#183187300 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Richard Campbell, A/K/A Richard A. Campbell; Kristan Campbell C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 00243 $114,831.32 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1806-402 1247 Hellerman St 191115528 53rd wd. 1,224 Sq. Ft. OPA#531134000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Regina Roane; Kia Hailey C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 02768 $63,803.49 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-403 2513 S Juniper St 191484321 39th wd. 840 Sq. Ft. OPA#394462200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gloriann P. Marotta C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 00412 $39,668.51 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-404 737 Longshore Ave 53rd wd.

3,236 Sq. Ft. BRT#532176900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Daniel Bergkoetter C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01355 $154,749.16 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1806-405 1956 Devereaux Ave 19149 62nd wd. 1,706 Sq. Ft. OPA#621214800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Francine Fogle C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 01256 $102,420.05 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1806-406 421 Longshore Ave 191113912 35th wd. 1,472 Sq. Ft. OPA#353159600 IMPROVEMENTS:

RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Eunhee Hunter; John C. Hunter C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 04312 $154,212.93 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-407 3026 McKinley St 19149 62nd wd. 991 Sq. Ft. OPA#621253000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sherron M. McAfee C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 01731 $109,292.96 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-408 8849 E Roosevelt Blvd 19152 57th wd. 3,396 Sq. Ft. OPA#571162500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Frederick C. James C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 01556 $141,139.98 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-409 1804 Ashley St 19126 10th wd.

1,260 Sq. Ft. BRT#101356900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Nia S. Bennett a/k/a Nia Bennett C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 01660 $140,443.50 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1806-410 2520 S 76th St 19153 40th wd.

2,503 Sq. Ft. OPA#404160121 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Samuel K. Appiah C.P. January Term, 2017 No. 03086 $132,722.63 Cristina L. Connor, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1806-411 323 Rector St 19128 21st wd.

2,143 Sq. Ft. OPA#212060600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Thomas M. McGlaughlin, Jr.; Francince M. McGlaughlin C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 03762 $151,819.15 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1806-412 916 E Woodlawn Ave 19138 12th wd. 1,385 Sq. Ft. OPA#12-20889-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Narquita Steadman C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 02791 $93,134.03 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1806-413 1914 E Lippincott St 19134 25th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1,272 Sq. Ft. BRT#252272200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Karen McMullen C.P. May Term, 2012 No. 01769 $34,140.74 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC 1806-414 5371 Morse St 19131 52nd wd.

1,422 Sq. Ft. OPA#521075400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Dawn Nembhard; Owen A. Nembhard C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 02341 $79,688.36 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1806-415 2328 Benson St 56th wd.

3,116 Sq. Ft. BRT#562136500 IMPROVEMENTS:

RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Jammie M. Lyani C.P. October Term, 2016 No. 01533 $180,448.62 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1806-416 453 Leverington Ave 19128 21st wd. 2,244 Sq. Ft. OPA#212250400 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kurt C. Stine C.P. September Term, 2016 No. 02825 $162,333.94 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1806-417 1723 Wharton St 191463035 36th wd. 1,172 Sq. Ft. OPA#365338800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Dixie Lee Mickles C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 00087 $56,619.67 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-418 5754 Haddington St 19131 4th wd. 1,252 Sq. Ft. BRT#043224600 Olivia K. Myers C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 02754 $85,331.71 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1806-419 2524 N 29th St 19132 28th wd.

1,302 Sq. Ft. OPA#282009100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Yvette Johnson C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 01782 $71,747.85 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1806-420 238 Queen St, Unit 3 19147 2nd wd. 1,135 Sq. Ft. OPA#888020613 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Rochelle Segar C.P. July Term, 2016 No. 01077 $256,509.42 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1806-421 2746 Emerald St 19134 25th wd.

1,204 Sq. Ft. OPA#252503300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Geneva Jackson C.P. May Term, 2017 No. 03581 $36,441.76 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1806-422 2557 E. Dauphin St 19125 31st wd. Land: 1,120 Sq. Ft.; Improvement: 1,744 Sq. Ft. BRT#313096200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE The Known and Unknown Heir(s), Administrator(s), Executor(s) and Devisee(s) of the Estate of Andrew Dzialo, Deceased C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 002756 $16,709.10 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1806-423 514 Poplar St 19123 5th wd. 1,503 Sq. Ft. OPA#056161545 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Crystal Marie Stephens C.P. September Term, 2009 No. 01470 $213,384.96 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1806-424 519 Conarroe St 19128 21st

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wd. Improvement Area: 1,800 Sq. Ft.; Land Area: 3,829 Sq. Ft. OPA#213181600 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: DET CONV APT 2.5 STY STON Timothy M. Tracy C.P. September Term, 2017 No. 03241 $20,050.21 Brett L. Messinger, Ryan A. Gower, & Paul J. Fanelli 1806-425 1612 E Lewis St 19124 33rd wd.

1,200 Sq. Ft. OPA#332033100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Russetta Harris, Executrix of the Estate of Robert P. Holzer a/k/a Robert Holzer, deceased C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 04103 $24,502.74 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1806-426 7259 Mansfield Ave 19138 10th wd. Land; 1,526 Sq. Ft.; Improvement: 1,152 Sq. Ft.; Total: 2,678 Sq. Ft. OPA#102360500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Patrice Hollinger C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 00731 $161,142.42 Richard M. Squire & Associates, LLC 1806-427 604 Levick St 19111 35th wd.

1,733 Sq. Ft. BRT#353036700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Wilford O. Lane, Jr. a/k/a Wilford Lane C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 00344 $89,772.72 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1806-428 7531 Bingham St 19111 56th wd. 3,165 Sq. Ft. OPA#561022900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lorraine D. Russell C.P. August Term, 2016 No. 02992 $68,046.18 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1806-429 4815 Leiper St 19124 23rd wd.

2,056 Sq. Ft. BRT#234270900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Jeffery Christian, Administrator of the Estate of Sherry Miller C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 00494 $104,165.93 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1806-430 1829 E. Wishart St 19134 25th wd. 735 Sq. Ft. BRT#252297100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Benjamin Williamson a/k/a Benjamin Owens, Known Heir of Stella T. Tucker; Estate of Stella T. Tucker; Howard Tucker, Jr. Known Heir of Stella T. Tucker; James J. Owens, Personal Representative of The Estate of Stella T. Tucker; Monique Tucker, Known Heir of Stella T. Tucker; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Janie Tucker a/k/a Jannie L. Tucker-Johnson; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under

Stella T. Tucker C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 01130 $114,919.31 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1806-431 2635 S Watts St 191484334 39th wd. 630 Sq. Ft. BRT#394484300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Dante N. Coccia and Marla Coccia C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 01652 $108,653.88 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1806-432 5924 Weymouth St 19120 35th wd. Improvement Area: 1,266 Sq. Ft.; Land Area: 1,163 Sq. Ft. BRT#352225400 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY Olayinka Bell C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 01785 $111,345.20 Brett L. Messinger, Ryan A. Gower, & Paul J. Fanelli 1806-433 7528 Valley Ave 19128 21st wd. 3,517 Sq. Ft. OPA#21-41944-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Elaine Muffler C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 04205 $150,361.75 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1806-434 1439 Comly St 19149 54th wd.

BRT#54-1004800 Christopher Ray Rusi a/k/a Christopher R. Rusi, as believed Heir and/or Administrator to the Estate of Toye Rusi C.P. December Term, 2016 No. 00925 $56,346.19 Emmanuel J. Argentieri, Esquire 1806-435 2441 S Hutchinson St 19148 39th wd. 672 Sq. Ft. BRT#393468200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Joseph Scimeca C.P. January Term, 2018 No. 01441 $177,970.95 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1806-436 4609 Ditman St 19124 23rd wd. Improvement Area: 930 Sq. Ft.; Land Area: 1,035 Sq. Ft. OPA#232365200 IMPROVEMENTS: SEMI/DET 2 STY MASONRY Dashaun Riley C.P. October Term, 2016 No. 03563 $$63,879.66 Brett L. Messinger, Ryan A. Gower, & Paul J. Fanelli 1806-437 1054 Tyson Ave 35th wd.

1,170 Sq. Ft. BRT#532222200; PRCL#138-N-19-79 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Paul L. Pfeffer a/k/a Paul J. Pfeffer and Lena C. Pfeffer C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 00896 $122,121.52 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1806-438 7835 Gilbert St 19150 50th wd.

1,345 Sq. Ft. OPA#502128600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Shante F. Gregory C.P. April Term, 2017 No. 00349 $153,845.30 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-439 559 N. Paxon St 19131 44th wd. Improvement Area: 940 Sq. Ft.; Land Area: 729

SHERIFF’S SALE Sq. Ft. OPA#442257900 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Jeffrey Walker a/k/a Jeffrey L. Walker C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 03799 $61,409.16 Brett L. Messinger, Ryan A. Gower, & Paul J. Fanelli 1806-440 2836 Newberry Rd 19154 66th wd. 6,000 Sq. Ft. BRT#662522900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Mohamed Abouakil and Rachida Moulouad C.P. October Term, 2016 No. 03476 $235,830.35 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1806-441 6434 Paschall Ave 19142 40th wd. 1,314 Sq. Ft. OPA#401358700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Marcus Calhoun, Administrator of the Estate of Patricia Calhoun, a/k/a Patricia A. Calhoun, deceased C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02373 $33,340.70 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1806-442 3017 Germantown Ave 37th wd. Land Area: 4,311 Sq. Ft.; Improvement Area: 6,600 Sq. Ft. OPA#871552680 IMPROVEMENTS: STR/OFF "15 3 STY MASONRY S.A. 3017, Inc. C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 03055 $286,985.62 Phillip D. Berger, Esq., Berger Law Group, PC 1806-443 2657 S 69th St 19142 40th wd. 1,328 Sq. Ft. OPA#406130700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Robert W. Allen and Anjanette N. Allen C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 01043 $140,277.61 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1806-444 3049 Cedar St 19134 25th wd.

1,212 Sq. Ft. OPA#251424100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY James P. Trindle a/k/a James P. Tindle C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 01499 $77,382.38 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1806-445 3102 Capri Dr Unit 2 19145 26th wd. 1,471 Sq. Ft. OPA#888260202 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Vincent Ingui C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 02817 $364,623.04 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1806-446 972 Wagner Ave 19141 49th wd.

2,564 Sq. Ft. BRT#492010600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Bobbie Stevens and Glenn Stevens a/k/a Glen Stevens C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 00853 $36,062.68 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1806-447 649 E Westmoreland St 19134 33rd wd. 1,260 Sq. Ft. OPA#331104500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Christina Quintana C.P.

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September Term, 2017 No. 03579 $28,465.79 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1806-448 4716 Salmon St 19137 45th wd. 2,000 Sq. Ft. BRT#453276800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING John Daly a/k/a John Daly, V; John Daly a/k/a John Daly, VI C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02880 $102,972.88 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1806-449 3526 Welsh Rd 19136-2623 64th wd. 975 Sq. Ft. OPA#642308901 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Johanna Deluca C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 02809 $126,693.42 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-450 5942 Summer St 19139-1232 4th wd. 924 Sq. Ft. OPA#042150800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Barbara W. Stimpson, Deceased C.P. January Term, 2017 No. 00748 $62,213.44 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-451 1350 Fillmore St 19124 23rd wd.

1,373 Sq. Ft. OPA#234113200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Marie C. LaFortune C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 01617 $93,991.21 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-452 1820 N 76th St a/k/a 1820 76th St 19151 34th wd. 1,533 Sq. Ft. OPA#343313500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Anthony J. Brittingham and Lakisha K Hardy a/k/a Lakisha K Brittingham C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02036 $78,131.48 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-453 2080 E Victoria St 19134 45th wd. 724 Sq. Ft. OPA#452158500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lester M. Wilson Jr C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 03324 $50,438.50 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-454 4208 Saint Denis Dr 19114 65th wd. 1,630 Sq. Ft. OPA#652460500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Armand A. Capaldi C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 01972 $180,930.57 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-455 1710 Waterloo St 19122 18th wd. 643 Sq. Ft. OPA#183078300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY The Unknown Heirs of Samuel Lewis, Deceased, Tyrone Ferguson Solely and in His Capacity as Heir of Samuel Lewis, Deceased, Reginald Lewis Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Samuel Lewis,

Deceased and Sandra Scott Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Samuel Lewis, Deceased C.P. August Term, 2016 No. 04284 $190,844.53 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-456 12050 Abby Rd 66th wd.

4,001 Sq. Ft. OPA#662119013 IMPROVEMENTS: APT 2-4 UNITS 2 STORY MASON Konstantinos Polychronakis C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 02253 $124,954.67 $1,638.27 (interest from February 16, 2018, until sale, June 5, 2018 - $15.03 per diem) Jill M. Fein, Esquire, Hill Wallack LLP 1806-457 5127 Arbor St 19120 42nd wd.

1,500 Sq. Ft. OPA#421389000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Derrick Garner C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 02115 $70,517.36 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-458 1363 E Carey St 19124 33rd wd.

868 Sq. Ft. OPA#331248700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Rosa L. Williams C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 01180 $64,681.02 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-459 5832 Kemble Ave 19141 17th wd. 1,408 Sq. Ft. OPA#172329700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Robert W. Wright, Executor of the Estate of Gloria S. Bush a/k/a Gloria Bush, deceased C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 03175 $21,928.25 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1806-460 1305 S Carlisle St 19146 36th wd. 1,264 Sq. Ft. OPA#365018300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Rosetta Baker C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 02597 $80,795.05 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1806-461 6317 Elmhurst St 19111 53rd wd. 1,460 Sq. Ft. OPA#531220400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Cheryl D. Young C.P. September Term, 2016 No. 00141 $128,164.81 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1806-462 4200 I St 19124 33rd wd.

2,822 Sq. Ft. OPA#332153700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Michael P. Hines C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 02787 $72,584.16 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-463 610 E Wensley St 19134 33rd wd. 637 Sq. Ft. OPA#331128100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Landrush Inc. and David Schmeltzer C.P. January Term, 2018 No. 02096 $7,032.59 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-464 105 N 55th St 19139 4th wd.

878 Sq. Ft. OPA#041157500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Betty McDuffie C.P. September Term, 2016 No. 01883 $45,574.73 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-465 2823 Chatham St 19134 25th wd. 861 Sq. Ft. OPA#251398600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY John N. O’Boyle a/k/a John O’Boyle C.P. May Term, 2017 No. 03599 $65,795.76 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-466 324 Queen St #B 2nd wd.

0 Sq. Ft. BRT#888020475 IMPROVEMENTS: RES CONDO 3 STY MASONRY Stacy J. Brookstein and Keith M. Seriven C.P. June Term, 2017 No. 02593 $500,293.54 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1806-467 1808 Arnold St 35th wd.

2,531 Sq. Ft. BRT#562185900 IMPROVEMENTS: S/D W/B GAR 2 STY MASONRY Robert S. Sweet a/k/a Robert Sweet and Olena P. Sweet C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 02370 $199,953.02 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1806-468 215 Buckingham Pl 27th wd.

1,493 Sq. Ft. BRT#272136800 IMPROVEMENTS: S/D CONV APT 3 STY MASON Joseph S. Diaz a/k/a Joseph Sean Diaz, Evangelyn E. Diaz, Edgardo B Ebora and Evelyn B. Ebora C.P. May Term, 2015 No. 03341 $373,881.26 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1806-469 2156 E Washington Ln 50th wd.

1,616 Sq. Ft. BRT#501390300 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY Dorothy L. Nash C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 01093 $57,786.32 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1806-470 1534 Roselyn St 49th wd.

1,360 Sq. Ft. BRT#171216700 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GAR 2 STY MASONRY Alberta Royal C.P. February Term, 2017 No. 02898 $91,127.15 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1806-471 221 Lauriston St 191283720 21st wd. 1,120 Sq. Ft. OPA#213064805 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Daniel J. Prince C.P. June Term, 2017 No. 00093 $124,802.60 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-472 4235 N Darien St 19140 43rd wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1,038 Sq. Ft. BRT#433375700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Maryann Ewerth C.P. July Term, 2016 No. 01893 $27,382.73 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC 1806-473 6557 N 17th St 17th wd.

1,360 Sq. Ft. BRT#172202100 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GAR 2 STY MASONRY Regina

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Ellzy a/k/a Regina D. Ellzy C.P. April Term, 2017 No. 02743 $277,716.43 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1806-474 921 S 21st St 30th wd. 969 Sq. Ft. BRT#301423800 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW W/GAR 2.5 STY MASONRY Lee Luckman and Jim Lamb C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 03686 $702,246.68 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1806-475 5433 Sansom St 19139 60th wd. APT 2-4 UNITS 2 STY MASON; 2,016 Sq. Ft. BRT#603019100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Raven O’Joy Outterbridge a/k/a Raven O’Joy Leigertwood, Known Surviving Heir of Veno Leigertwood, N.L. (a minor), Known Surviving Heir of Veno Leigertwood and Unknown Surviving Heirs of Veno Leigertwood C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 02349 $112,011.02 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC 1806-476 930 E McPherson St a/k/a 930 McPherson St 50th wd. 2,611 Sq. Ft. BRT#502506400 IMPROVEMENTS: S/D W/B GAR 2 STY MASONRY Linda A. Coleman C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 02181 $228,404.62 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1806-477 1705 S 24th St 36th wd. 1,016 Sq. Ft. BRT#364139100 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY La Gracia Heneretta Jones a/k/a LaGracia Henrietta Jones a/k/a LaGracia H. Jones C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 00558 $185,153.88 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1806-478 1418 E Hunting Park Ave 19124 33rd wd.

APT 2-4 UNITS 2 STY MASON; 1,408 Sq. Ft. BRT#332073600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Dan Robert Costo, Known Surviving Heir of Doris R. Costo and Helen Marie HuverDiCamillo, Known Surviving Heir of Doris R. Costo, and Thomas Anthony Costo, Known Surviving Heir of Doris R. Costo and Unknown Surviving Heirs of Doris R. Costo C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 01714 $119,296.95 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC 1806-479 9610-14 Ditman St 65th wd. 16,000 Sq. Ft. BRT#652294505

IMPROVEMENTS: DET W/D GAR 3 STY FRAME Eleanor Larry C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 03802 $540,095.57 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1806-480 5217 Pentridge St 19143 51st wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1,162 Sq. Ft. BRT#511125300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Steven L. Thomas C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 205374 $49,455.12 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC 1806-481 544 N Creighton St 1,250 Sq. Ft. BRT#44-2269700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Christine E. Johnson, Deceased and Dorothy M. McCutcheon, Deceased C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 03804 $33,744.94 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1806-482 164 W Wyoming Ave 42nd wd.

1,073 Sq. Ft. BRT#422065000 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Joseph Hogue and Howard Hogue, Jr. C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 03373 $13,893.78 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1806-483 3531 Mercer St a/k/a 3532 E Thompson St 45th wd. 4,860 Sq. Ft. BRT#451250000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Eugene Jurkiewicz and Harriet Jurkiewicz C.P. September Term, 2017 No. 00058 $69,882.78 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1806-484 6219 Tackawanna St 19135 55th wd. 2,009 Sq. Ft. OPA#552251000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Shawn Barrett and Frances Sellecchia C.P. January Term, 2017 No. 02845 $118,359.16 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-485 1728 S 21st St 19145 36th wd.

1,056 Sq. Ft. OPA#363277100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Emily R. Peterson a/k/a Emily Peterson C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 02957 $192,439.64 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-486 6121 Reach St 19111 35th wd.

1,555 Sq. Ft. OPA#352246800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Cheryl L. Coulter a/k/a Cheryl L. Johnakin C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 02259 $53,688.22 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-487 5118 Folsom St 19139 44th wd. Land: 769 Sq. Ft.; Improvement: 1,000 Sq. Ft.; Total: 1,769 Sq. Ft. OPA#61-N-88; BRT#441257300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Carletta Palmer a/k/a Carletta Randolph a/k/a Carleta Randolph C.P. October Term, 2017 No.

03199 $25,748.97 Richard M. Squire & Associates, LLC 1806-488 6328 Farnsworth St a/k/a 6328 Farnsworth Ave 19149 62nd wd.

1,686 Sq. Ft. OPA#621528100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Roberto Montero and Rosy Segura C.P. April Term, 2017 No. 01928 $45,174.48 KML Law Group, P.C. 1806-489 3512 Joyce St 19134 45th wd.

727 Sq. Ft. BRT#452300400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Manuel Ramirez a/k/a Manuel A. Ramirez C.P. November Term, 2016 No. 00120 $41,559.96 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1806-490 6314 N Woodstock St 19138 17th wd. Land: 1,155 Sq. Ft.; Improvement: 1,158 Sq. Ft. BRT#172408300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Andre Jenkins C.P. September Term, 2017 No. 002196 $64,446.39 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1806-491 1324 Passmore St 19111 53rd wd. 1,140 Sq. Ft. OPA#531108100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tiffany S. Dawson C.P. November Term, 2016 No. 02537 $88,004.30 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1806-492 2225 Memphis St 19125 31st wd. 1,218 Sq. Ft. BRT#312019100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Christine Villanueva and Joseph Villanueva C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 01878 $237,738.50 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1806-493 6359 Reedland St 19142 40th wd. 1,140 Sq. Ft. OPA#402204800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Roshelle Fredrick C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 00771 $144,902.83 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1806-494 1144 E Phil Ellena St 19150 50th wd. 1,616 Sq. Ft. OPA#502354600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Stafford Fearon, Individually and t/a Moonlight Groceries and Patricia Mundy a/k/a Patricia N. Mundy C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 01145 $135,746.96 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1806-495 6717 Ditman St 41st wd.

1,720 Sq. Ft. BRT#412358400 IMPROVEMENTS: SEMI/DET 2 STY MASONRY Christine Wallace C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 02036 $71,072.13 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1806-496 5373 Gainor Rd 19131 52nd wd. 9,800 Sq. Ft. OPA#521166900 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS:

RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Raheem A. Bey; Ronald F. Clarke C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 02361 $298,998.18 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1806-497 2241 S. 15th St 26th wd.

1,920 Sq. Ft. BRT#261146500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Arthur C. Twyman, Jr C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 02767 $185,959.37 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1806-498 1111 Creswood Rd 58th wd.

13,110 Sq. Ft. BRT#581018100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Robert Frusco a/k/a Robert M. Frusco C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 01328 $322,963.10 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1806-499 1500 S Taylor St 19146 36th wd. 705 Sq. Ft. BRT#36-41882-15 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Shamina S. Upshur C.P. August Term, 2007 No. 03767 $79,906.91 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1806-500 115 E Courtland St 19120 42nd wd. 1,703 Sq. Ft. OPA#42-10261-00 IMPROVEMENTS: SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Alina Williams C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 02152 $35,279.28 Hladik, Onorato & Federman, LLP 1806-501 3875 L St 19124 33rd wd.

1,200 Sq. Ft. OPA#33-2-396400 IMPROVEMENTS: TWO STORY MASONRY ROW HOME Timothy J. Otto C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 00659 $102,918.77 Hladik, Onorato & Federman, LLP 1806-502 1321 N. Allison St 52nd wd.

Beginning Point: Situate on the East of Allison Street at the distance of One hundred forty-five feet Northward from the North side of Thompson Street OPA#041325400 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Allan H. Davenport, Sr C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 00860 $100,093.51 Patrick J. Wesner, Esquire 1806-503 7621 Elmwood Ave 14th wd.

2,145 Sq. Ft. BRT#404229500 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GAR 2 STY MASONRY Vincent William Bey C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 02586 $195,005.20 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1806-504 2426 S Iseminger St 19148 39th wd. 750 Sq. Ft. OPA#39-44113-00 IMPROVEMENTS: TWO STORY MASONRY ROW HOME Patrick K. Klein a/k/a Patrick Klein and Antoniette M. Klein a/k/a Antoniette Klein C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 03150 $183,364.10 Hladik, Onorato & Federman, LLP 1806-505 4346 Pearce St 19124 23rd wd.

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IMPROVEMENTS: SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Luis Olmo a/k/a Luis A. Olmo a/k/a Luis A. Olmo-Cruz a/k/a Luis A. Cruz C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 01110 $220,570.59 Hladik, Onorato & Federman, LLP 1806-506 2538 S Hicks St 191454604 26th wd. 1,040 Sq. Ft. OPA#261202300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Susan Cornaglia; Michael Cornaglia C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 00081 $125,974.72 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-507 5116 Master St 19131 44th wd.

2,904 Sq. Ft. OPA#44-2-1557-00 IMPROVEMENTS: SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Ryan E. Banks C.P. September Term, 2017 No. 03543 $96,889.89 Hladik, Onorato & Federman, LLP 1806-508 5760 N 7th St 191202210 61st wd. 1,164 Sq. Ft. OPA#612236000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Elizabeth Carasco C.P. April Term, 2017 No. 00347 $57,776.51 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-509 6005 N. Mascher St a/k/a 6005 Mascher St 19120 61st wd.

1,108 Sq. Ft. OPA#61-2-4460-00 IMPROVEMENTS: SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING The Estate of Cheryl I. Wheeler, Deceased by and through its Administratrix, Anora Grant C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 00398 $119,161.04 Hladik, Onorato & Federman, LLP 1806-510 1818 Daly St 19145-3716 26th wd. 940 Sq. Ft. OPA#262239100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Marie C. Weiner, in Her Capacity as Co-Administrator of The Estate of Anthony Perrupato a/k/a Anthony Perrupato, Jr; Phillip Jerome Weiner, in His Capacity as Co-Administrator of The Estate of Anthony Perrupato a/k/a Anthony Perrupato, Jr; Halley Perrupato, in Her Capacity as Heir of The Estate of Anthony Perrupato a/k/a Anthony Perrupato, Jr; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Anthony Perrupato a/k/a Anthony J. Perrupato, Jr, Deceased C.P. February Term, 2017 No. 07619 $102,440.45 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-511 519 S 56th St 19143 46th wd.

1,392 Sq. Ft. OPA#463211000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kyle Simmons, in His Capacity as Administrator of The Estate of May Simmons n/k/a May F. Harris a/k/a May Francis Harris; Cynthia Simmons, in Her

Capacity as Heir of The Estate of May Simmons n/k/a May F. Harris a/k/a May Francis Harris; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under May Simmons n/k/a May F. Harris a/k/a May Francis Harris, Deceased C.P. May Term, 2017 No. 01953 $43,819.80 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-512 7601 Crittenden St F-9, a/k/a 7601 Crittenden St Apt F9 19118 9th wd. 1,566 Sq. Ft. OPA#888200588 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Rosilyn M. Thomas a/k/a Rosilyn M. Thomas C.P. May Term, 2017 No. 04492 $34,445.98 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-513 6521 Marsden St 19135 41st wd. 1,050 Sq. Ft. BRT#411-2747-00; OPA#411274700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Eva Large C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 01131 $50,058.32 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1806-514 725 E Rittenhouse St 19144 59th wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1,122 Sq. Ft. BRT#591129200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Beverly Schaffer a/k/a Beverly A. Schaffer and Mary E. Lee C.P. January Term, 2012 No. 00670 $89,885.65 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC 1806-515 1915 Morse St 19121 32nd wd. 1,319 Sq. Ft. BRT#321-1229-10; OPA#321122910 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Emanuel Fundira a/k/a Emmanuel A. Fundira C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 01107 $99,531.01 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1806-516 111 W Sharpnack St 19119-4034 22nd wd. 2,688 Sq. Ft. OPA#223045200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jerome L. Rogers C.P. October Term, 2016 No. 04510 $235,139.39 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-517 7915 Rugby St 50th wd.

1,172 Sq. Ft. BRT#502096900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Chandra Andrews C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 02995 $109,458.12 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1806-518 9722 Hoff St 58th wd.

Beginning point: Situate on the Northwest side of Hoff Street (Fifty Six feet Wide) at the distance of Sixty Eight Feet, Eights of an inch Southwest From the Southwest Side of Bowler Street (Sixty Feet Wide) OPA#581409800 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Michael F.

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Guiliano and Joyce Guiliano C.P. May Term, 2017 No. 00791 $276,976.90 Patrick J. Wesner, Esquire 1806-519 1624 E Mohican St a/k/a 1624 Mohican St 19138 10th wd.

1,510 Sq. Ft. OPA#10-2-233900 IMPROVEMENTS: TWO STORY MASONRY ROW Aisha Morman C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 00788 $119,924.25 Hladik, Onorato & Federman, LLP 1806-520 5407 Irving St 60th wd. 1,530 Sq. Ft. BRT#603054600; PRCL#022S06-0236 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Gilbert A. Richardson C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 00693 $90,704.35 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1806-521 2635 S Daggett St 19142 40th wd. 992 Sq. Ft. OPA#406007600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Garrison F. Togba, Jr., in His Capacity as Heir of Martha D. Togba a/k/a Martha Dargbeh Togba, Deceased; Charles C. Togba, in His Capacity as Heir of Martha D. Togba a/k/a Martha Dargbeh Togba, Deceased; Josephine K. Zeon Togba, in Her Capacity as Heir of Martha D. Togba a/k/a Martha Dargbeh Togba, Deceased; Emmanuel N. Togba, in His Capacity as Heir of Martha D. Togba a/k/a Martha Dargbeh Togba, Deceased; Aloysius T. Togba, in Her Capacity as Heir of Martha D. Togba a/k/a Martha Dargbeh Togba, Deceased; Martita Korkorlie Togba, in Her Capacity as Heir of Martha D. Togba a/k/a Martha Dargbeh Togba, Deceased; Alvin K. Togba, in His Capacity as Heir of Martha D. Togba a/k/a Martha Dargbeh Togba, Deceased; J. Manneh Togba, in His Capacity as Heir of Martha D. Togba a/k/a Martha Dargbeh Togba, Deceased; Sue Williams Moore, in Her Capacity as Heir of Martha D. Togba a/k/a Martha Dargbeh Togba, Deceased; Morrison Jarnyenneh, in His Capacity as Heir of Garrison F. Togba, Sr., Deceased; Edith J. Nimely, in Her Capacity as Heir of Garrison F. Togba, Sr., Deceased; Unknown heirs,

successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Martha D. Togba a/k/a Martha Dargbeh Togba, Deceased; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Garrison F. Togba, Sr., Deceased C.P. September Term, 2016 No. 03588 $43,006.61 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-522 1776 Brill St 191241248 62nd wd. 1,140 Sq. Ft. OPA#622145700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tamika L. Rodney a/k/a Tamika Rodney; Tommy M. Rodney a/k/a Tommy Rodney C.P. February Term, 2017 No. 07608 $78,505.48 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-523 5058 N Franklin St 19120 49th wd. 1,021 Sq. Ft. OPA#49-12455-00 IMPROVEMENTS: TWO STORY, MASONRY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Byron Dukes C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 01095 $102,140.44 Hladik, Onorato & Federman, LLP 1806-524 141 W Sharpnack St 19119-4034 22nd wd. 2,688 Sq. Ft. OPA#223046700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sharon Ann Knox a/k/a Sharon A. Knox; James Kevin Knox C.P. June Term, 2017 No. 00501 $178,116.12 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1806-525 2245 Afton St 19152 56th wd. 5,375 Sq. Ft. OPA#561437800 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Thaera M Jonny; Ali Hadi C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 02671 $162,930.31 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1806-526 1411 Cliveden St 19150 10th wd.

1,978 Sq. Ft. BRT#102314700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Beverly Little, Administratrix of the Estate of Deonne R. New-Howard a/k/a Deonne New-Howard, Deceased and

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By HughE Dillon Despite the damp Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day weather, thousands of people, including hundreds of breast cancer survivors, gathered on the Ben Franklin Parkway for the annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. The 5k race and walk, has been held every Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day for the past 28 years to raise money for breast cancer research and to increase public awareness of the disease.

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Sparkling Like Diamonds at Temple More than $1 million raised at annual benefit

by HughE Dillon On May 12, the Temple University Hospital Auxiliary hosted the 65th annual Acres of Diamonds Gala at the Downtown Marriott Philadelphia. Philadelphia songstress Lauren Hart served as emcee and further entertainment was provided by Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan alum Michael McDonald. The event raised $1.4 million to support Temple University Hospital and the patients it serves.

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The Avenue of Dreams Fulfilled A milestone anniversary for Avenue of the Arts

By HughE Dillon Avenue of the Arts, Inc. celebrated 25 years of helping make the arts and cultural community along Broad Street viable. The event took place May 4 at the Doubletree Hotel at Broad & Locust Streets. A rooftop cocktail reception was followed by a light buffet and drinks on the hotelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mezzanine level with musical entertainment by John Jarboe of the Bearded Ladies Cabaret.

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hen we last saw Ray Somerville, the 6-foot-9-inch center from Shipley was walking off the court gingerly, still dealing with a sprained ankle and a future in flux, not to mention a loss to Westtown in the independent school state playoffs. Despite his size and potential, he only had a couple of college offers at the time, though one was La Salle. He wanted more. Now, he has more. In the past month, he has added 10 Division I offers to his list, including

Rhode Island, which was nationally ranked a year ago.

His play for Philly Pride AAU Club this past month has impressed coaches nationwide. Somerville turned heads most recently during the Philly Pride’s Showcase Event at Germantown Academy on May 12 and 13.

Philly Pride hosted six different games at Germantown academy between several AAU teams in the area. Philly Pride Under 17 team had three wins and the players, including Ray Somerville and Rahdir Hicks,

dominated the court.

Somerville was deemed the top player over the weekend. In all, 100s of top players representing the best off-season programs participated in a great showcase for Philadelphia talent.

“It’s all unbelievable,” Somerville said. “Getting seven offers in two weeks and a new school calling almost daily, it’s amazing. I have been working on my footwork and being able to guard different positions on the court, but I have been mostly working on my mental strength with

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a trainer, Jake Rauchbach, and making my mental game stronger. The main thing is that this extra year [He will be a fifth-year senior next year at Shipley] will help get to the level I want to get to. Before reclassifying, I doubt that I would even be a Division I player let alone have doubledigit offers.” He added: “Playing for Philly Pride is a very high level, and I had had the chance to play many of the top bigs in the nation and show I can play with them. This opportunity has given me a lot of confidence. I’m very excited by all of this."

Philly Pride’s Rahdir Hicks (#2) at the Big Shots tourney at Germantown Academy.

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“I wrote so many letters to so many teams,” Roseman said. “I had so many rejection letters come back to me, but it was OK. I still believed one day I would get there.” One day, he was asked by a NFL execu-

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“After being with the Jets shortly, the Eagles Joe Banner hired me and I started helping with everything. When Tom Heckert came in, I told him I could do scouting, data analysis, film work, contracts; and he let me do a bit of everything,” he said. “Eventually, I became the youngest GM in football at 34. It was pretty exciting,” Roseman, Banner, and coach Andy Reid then led the Birds to a great run while

building a legacy of the best football ever in this town: 5 NFC title games and one Super Bowl Appearance. Things went South at the end of Reid’s tenure and then again at the end of his successor Chip Kelly’s tenure. It was so bad for Roseman that he was demoted to a contract guy and put in another building for a year after 2014.

“But it was the best year I ever had,” he said. “I spent the year speaking to executives from sports franchises all over the country and picking their brains. I wanted to get back to being an executive. It was humbling, but a great experience. I never gave up. I will say I never expected to get my next chance back Continued on page 2

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But the nicest moment may have been Friday when Amile Jefferson became the second player in boys’ basketball program history to have his number retired. Jefferson, who starred at Duke and played in the most games of any player to wear their uniform, ended this season as a member of the Minnesota Timberwolves in the NBA. His high school coach Jason Polykoff, now the coach at Division III Earlham College, flew home for the ceremony. “I tell everyone the same thing when it comes to Amile,” Polykoff said. “He has the ‘it’ factor, that undefined quality that you can’t describe. All the great players have it. He’s always been that way. When he was in high school he rarely lost a drill in practice let alone a game. No one taught him that. He’s always had it. It made my job so much easier.”

Polykoff was proud to hear Jefferson address the student body, even though he never mentioned basketball in his speech. “I can’t describe how proud I am of Amile and what he’s accomplished on the court.

From seeing him lead Duke to a National Championship as a team captain, to earning an NBA contract. It just proves that great things happen to great people who work hard. And I believe it’s only the tip of the iceberg for Amile. He has a long career in front of him."

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Conversion therapy is child torture

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To the entire LGBT community: psychiatry put its hand in with aversion Let’s begin as a community to state the therapy, which uses the Pavlovian dog-like truth without putting lipstick on a pig. training to force us to be heterosexual with Personally, it sickens me when I see somea handful of horrific tortures. There’s the one from GLAAD or HRC on television electric-shock system, some connected to calling conversion therapy genetics, water treatment — “praying the gay away.” That hey, they had it before President is downright as truthful as a Bush — and then there were Donald Trump tweet, and might drugs of various types, some show how we attempt to soften of which stopped people from our message for consumption breathing before an antidote by the mainstream. Or, it might was administered. They lost a hide something very sad: our few on that one, but hey, better own attempt to not accept what dead than a fag. has been done to us as a collecNow comes conversion tive community for years — and therapy. But this one targets that, my friends, is torture. mostly children whose parents We use terms like hate are now trying to “save” them. crimes, pray away the gay …

Almost all the types of torture but much that has been done to I’ve listed above have been “cure” LGBT is sheer torture. used in some of these converMark Segal sion camps … and others. ABC And yes, I’m even talking about the water torture. So once again, News investigative reporter let’s go back in recent history to make the Brian Roberts did one of the best onepoints and hopefully get us back on the hour reports on this practice on “20/20.” right track, as we are literally fighting to It showed corporal punishment, imprisonsave children’s lives. ment and lots more.

For years, going back even before there I think you get the idea. It’s time to were lobotomies — oh yes, many lobotspeak out strongly. Say it loud, say it omies were performed on LGBT peoclearly: Conversion therapy is child torture. ple — society attempted to try and find n a way to “change” us, making us holy Mark Segal is the nation’s most-award-winning comheterosexuals. When threat of religion mentator in LGBT media. His memoir, “And Then and criminal justice began to fail, medical I Danced,” is available on Amazon.com, Barnes & science showed up with lobotomies. Then, Noble or at your favorite bookseller.

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What foreign land would you like to visit this summer?

"Calcutta, India.

There's such an amazing culture of spirituality there. I would find that very inspirational.

The symbols Ennis Carter and art that executive director I would see Gayborhood in that city would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience."

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It's so rich with history, and I'm a history buff.

North Africa has been a hub for world history for a long time.

Kitty Heite And I love project organizer MediterranWest Philadelphia ean food."

"Maldives.

It's a little island off the coast of Indonesia.

Surfing is great there.

I love to surf. It's spiritually Benjamin Russell healing. photographer Surfing calms Old City my head down. I can't think of a better place to do it than Maldives."

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Column: “Mark My Words: Obama made us cool; Conversion therapy is child torture; Glass half full of progress”

Transition the battlefield No matter how I put this, it feels like an understatement: We are living in increasingly frightening and dangerous times.

This is especially true for those of us who are transgender.

Sitting in a subcommittee right now in our House of Representatives is HR 2796, aka the Civil Rights Uniformity Act of 2017. I’ve written about this before.

It would do nothing less than void protections for transgender people under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”), the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Fair Housing Act and “any federal civil-rights law, and of any related ruling, regulation, guidance or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States.”

Not apparently interested in waiting for HR 2796 to pass or fail, the Department of Justice — under “beleaguered” Attorney General Jeff Sessions — has filed a legal brief in Zarda v. Altitude Express claiming that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 doesn’t cover sexual orientation.

While the brief doesn’t mention gender identity specifically, we can guess where Sessions’ DOJ might side. Oddly enough,

the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed its own brief, disagreeing with the DOJ. Meanwhile, a move by Congressmember Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.) to ban health care for transgender military personnel and their families failed to pass in the House of Representatives, in spite of a pair of odd speeches in support by Congressmembers Steve King (R-Iowa) and Louie Gohmert (R-Texas). King conflated transgender troops to slaves forcibly conscripted and castrated in the Ottoman Empire and suggested that trans folks would join to somehow “game the system” for surgical care. Gohmert tried to draw a comparison between money spent for transgender care and that used to defeat “radical Islam,” as if one would take away from the other.

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serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military,” Trump wrote. “Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail.”

This is all nonsense.

Military leaders responded with surprise, having apparently not been consulted on this policy. What’s more, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Joseph Dunford has stood in opposition, stating in a memo that there are “no modifications to the current policy until the president’s direction has been received by the Secretary of Defense and the secretary has issued implementation guidelines.”

To date, no such implementation guidelines have arrived.

Trump seems somehow unaware that there are already transgender troops in our military. While reported numbers have varied from as little as 250 to as many as 50,000, a study by the Rand Corporation in June 2016 estimated somewhere between 1,320 to 6,630 active-duty trans service members out of a total pool of 1.3-million service members. What’s more, this same

study noted that trans-related health care for these troops would cost somewhere between $2.4-$8.4 million per year. This is a drop in the bucket compared to current military spending.

It is also a fifth of spending that the military currently doles out for erectile dysfunction medications to all troops, trans or otherwise.

So we have a scattershot policy, dictated via social media without adequate consultation and not tethered in fact. Transgender troops are in no way bankrupting our armed forces, nor is there any evidence of them disrupting the service.

Now, plenty have said that Trump’s tweets were nothing more than a distraction, something to steal the spotlight from news of the health-care bill and its failure, the increasingly dysfunctional administration or the continuing Russia probe.

Maybe there is some truth to that, but I find myself considering that a distraction ceases to be a distraction when it is harming people.

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As Pride Month comes to a close and Independence Day approaches, freedom has been a hot topic. While the word itself often signifies a fundamental, innate tenet upon which this nation was born, recent times have shown just how fluid of a concept freedom is.

Two years ago, the LGBT community was celebrating marriage equality becoming the law of the land. Freedom to many at that time meant the ability to finally wed their partners, to join their names on legal documents, to create a family with fewer burdens. But just one year later, 49 people were gunned down at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando. The LGBT community was forced to re-examine the basic freedoms the incident threatened: the ability to be oneself, and associate as a community, without fear of violence or death. Weddings and legal paperwork took an immediate backseat.

That back-and-forth seems to have been a recurring theme throughout LGBT history; when one hard-fought victory is won, another can cripple the community. Harvey Milk was elected in a historic move for LGBT representation in government, only to be gunned down. AIDS funding would be boosted in one part of the country and lost in another. A trans woman of color would grace the cover of a national magazine

as record numbers of trans women of color become victims of violence. And LGBT rights flourish under a progressive president only to be quickly yanked back by his successor.

Freedom is a contextual concept, one that evolves with our progress and our pitfalls. In times of community successes, freedom may seem to be a finite, attainable goal, while in times of extreme crisis, the freedoms we once coveted may seem luxurious. What that dichotomy shows is that, while little is out of reach, little should be taken for granted.

Our country and community are at interesting pinnacles right now; we’ve experienced tremendous gains but also seen the work that has fallen by the wayside. As a country, we’ve rebounded from a crippling recession but many blue-collar workers are suffering the impacts of globalization. As a community, we’ve won marriage equality and many other rights, but our most marginalized — trans individuals, elders, youth — continue to face serious hardships.

Embracing our potential should be tempered by acknowledging the many gaps that need to be bridged — and the many more that need to be traversed as the concept of freedom continues its evolution. n

If you’re a school administrator, teacher was doing? Well, or even a whole school district and you under Obama, want to assert your right to discrimithe Education nate against some of your students FOR Department took REASONS, you’re in luck! The Education students’ comDepartment under Betsy DeVos ain’t plaints about gonna stop you. (Unless you’re against serious issues, white Christians probably.) well, seriously, This is especially true if you want to dis- and investigated criminate against transgender students. The whether such Education Department recently dropped complaints were cases in Ohio and elsewhere involving “symptomatic of transgender students being harassed and a broader problem, in part by examining at denied bathroom access, basically saying, least three years of past complaint data.”

“This isn’t our problem.”

In other words, if a student complains You’ll recall that under Obama, the that he or she was sexually assaulted at Education Department issued guidelines to school, the Education Department felt like schools about how to handle transgender they should probably find out if this was students so that their dignity is respected an isolated incident or a pattern of wider and their right to an education is not tramabuse. pled. But under Trump and DeVos, the Under DeVos’ leadership, however, Education Department ain’t care. they’re so busy trying to find ways to make Needless to say, those who support trans education into a for-profit enterprise that students are alarmed by the department’s they can’t be bothered with systemic civshrugging off the issue. Shannon Minter of il-rights abuses at school. Ugh. Civil rights the National Center for Lesbian Rights told don’t make anybody rich. the Washington Post, “They have just sent Of course, the department claims that a message to schools that it’s open season this whole “don’t-look-into-civil-rightson transgender students.” complaints-too-deeply” policy is to alleIn other words, it’s a pretty clear signal viate a troublesome backlog of cases. And that the Trump administration has zero while it’s true that a backlog of cases is a interest in hearing problem, their solusome transgender tion isn’t to hire the But it’s not just trans kid bitching about personnel needed having to pee in a to get these cases students DeVos wants bucket in the janiexamined. Their tor’s closet or some- to abandon. Civil rights solution is to simply thing. Suck it up, are such a drag, after all. stopIn looking. buttercup, as Trump a press release, supporters like to What do they do besides Sherrilyn Ifill, pressay right before they ident of the NAACP get in the way of privatiz- Legal Defense and head out to protest against Shakespeare. ing America’s education Educational Fund, But it’s not just said the Education trans students system so that rich ass- Department was DeVos wants to abdicating its holes can get richer? abandon. Civil “responsibility to rights are such a protect the rights drag, after all. What do they do besides get and dignity of our nation’s vulnerable chilin the way of privatizing America’s edudren during the most crucial years of their cation system so that rich assholes can get lives, threatening not only to stall progress richer? The Education Department’s Office on racial, gender and sexual-orientation of Civil Rights is so over crybaby civequality in schools, but to undo it altoil-rights wanters. gether.”

According to the Washington Post, the As is the plan, of course. MAGA ’til you head of the civil-rights office “has directed puke. n lawyers to narrow the scope of investigations into sexual assault and discriminatory D’Anne Witkowski is a poet, writer and comedian school-discipline policies.” living in Michigan with her wife and son. She has been writing about LGBT politics for over a decade. Follow What does this mean and how does it differ from what the Obama administration her on Twitter @MamaDWitkowski.

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Two LGBT organizations planning conventions in Philadelphia were represented at a local business luncheon Tuesday.

PHL Diversity hosted its 11th-annual Business Opportunity Luncheon for professionals to network and learn about new business initiatives for the city. Kim Reed of Reed Development Group moderated a panel with representatives from Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality, formerly known as the Gay & Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA), and the True Colors Fund.

GLMA Executive Director Hector Vargas and True Colors Fund Executive Director Gregory Lewis answered questions from Reed about their organizations.

GLMA will bring its 35th Annual Conference on LGBT Health Sept. 13-16 to the Doubletree Philadelphia City Center, 237 S. Broad St. During this conference,

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GLMA will educate health providers and others on the health needs of LGBT people and their families. Additionally, GLMA will report the latest research impacting LGBT health.

Vargas noted this is the first time the organization will host its conference here.

“Philadelphia is a great place for us,” he said. “There’s a very vibrant LGBT community here. There’s a health center that focuses on LGBT health — Mazzoni.

There’s a lot going on in the political and advocacy sphere around LGBT health both in Philadelphia and in Pennsylvania.”

Meanwhile, the True Colors Fund will bring its 40 to None Summit to the city in October. No location or exact dates had been finalized by presstime. During this two-day event, individuals addressing LGBT-youth homelessness across the country will meet up for sessions, performances, action-planning breakouts and networking opportunities.

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NORTHERN NETWORKING: City Fitness hosted ConnX Feb. 21 at WeWork at Schmidt’s Commons. The traveling monthly social brings together members and supporters of the Independence Business Alliance, the region’s LGBT chamber of commerce. Guests enjoyed beer and wine and food from SNAP Kitchen while they networked and explored the co-working space at WeWork. Photo: Courtesy of Independence Business Alliance OP-ED PGN

Conversion therapy is child torture To the entire LGBT community: psychiatry put its hand in with aversion Let’s begin as a community to state the therapy, which uses the Pavlovian dog-like truth without putting lipstick on a pig. training to force us to be heterosexual with Personally, it sickens me when I see somea handful of horrific tortures. There’s the one from GLAAD or HRC on television electric-shock system, some connected to calling conversion therapy genetics, water treatment — “praying the gay away.” That hey, they had it before President is downright as truthful as a Bush — and then there were Donald Trump tweet, and might drugs of various types, some show how we attempt to soften of which stopped people from our message for consumption breathing before an antidote by the mainstream. Or, it might was administered. They lost a hide something very sad: our few on that one, but hey, better own attempt to not accept what dead than a fag. has been done to us as a collecNow comes conversion tive community for years — and therapy. But this one targets that, my friends, is torture. mostly children whose parents We use terms like hate are now trying to “save” them. crimes, pray away the gay …

Almost all the types of torture but much that has been done to I’ve listed above have been “cure” LGBT is sheer torture. used in some of these converMark Segal sion camps … and others. ABC And yes, I’m even talking about the water torture. So once again, News investigative reporter let’s go back in recent history to make the Brian Roberts did one of the best onepoints and hopefully get us back on the hour reports on this practice on “20/20.” right track, as we are literally fighting to It showed corporal punishment, imprisonsave children’s lives. ment and lots more.

For years, going back even before there I think you get the idea. It’s time to were lobotomies — oh yes, many lobotspeak out strongly. Say it loud, say it omies were performed on LGBT peoclearly: Conversion therapy is child torture. ple — society attempted to try and find n a way to “change” us, making us holy Mark Segal is the nation’s most-award-winning comheterosexuals. When threat of religion mentator in LGBT media. His memoir, “And Then and criminal justice began to fail, medical I Danced,” is available on Amazon.com, Barnes & science showed up with lobotomies. Then, Noble or at your favorite bookseller.

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Street Talk What foreign land would you like to visit this summer?

"Calcutta, India.

There's such an amazing culture of spirituality there. I would find that very inspirational.

The symbols Ennis Carter and art that executive director I would see Gayborhood in that city would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience."

"Morocco.

It's so rich with history, and I'm a history buff.

North Africa has been a hub for world history for a long time.

Kitty Heite And I love project organizer MediterranWest Philadelphia ean food."

"Maldives.

It's a little island off the coast of Indonesia.

Surfing is great there.

I love to surf. It's spiritually Benjamin Russell healing. photographer Surfing calms Old City my head down. I can't think of a better place to do it than Maldives."

"The Amalfi Coast in Italy. It's gorgeous. The scenery takes your breath away. There's nothing not to love about it.

And it would Amanda Zullo be a relaxing attorney break from Queen Village my two toddlers and our recent Disney cruise in Alaska."

Transition the battlefield No matter how I put this, it feels like an understatement: We are living in increasingly frightening and dangerous times.

This is especially true for those of us who are transgender.

Sitting in a subcommittee right now in our House of Representatives is HR 2796, aka the Civil Rights Uniformity Act of 2017. I’ve written about this before.

It would do nothing less than void protections for transgender people under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”), the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Fair Housing Act and “any federal civil-rights law, and of any related ruling, regulation, guidance or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States.”

Not apparently interested in waiting for HR 2796 to pass or fail, the Department of Justice — under “beleaguered” Attorney General Jeff Sessions — has filed a legal brief in Zarda v. Altitude Express claiming that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 doesn’t cover sexual orientation.

While the brief doesn’t mention gender identity specifically, we can guess where Sessions’ DOJ might side. Oddly enough,

the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed its own brief, disagreeing with the DOJ. Meanwhile, a move by Congressmember Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.) to ban health care for transgender military personnel and their families failed to pass in the House of Representatives, in spite of a pair of odd speeches in support by Congressmembers Steve King (R-Iowa) and Louie Gohmert (R-Texas). King conflated transgender troops to slaves forcibly conscripted and castrated in the Ottoman Empire and suggested that trans folks would join to somehow “game the system” for surgical care. Gohmert tried to draw a comparison between money spent for transgender care and that used to defeat “radical Islam,” as if one would take away from the other.

While the Hartzler amendment failed, it apparently was not unnoticed by President Donald Trump, who took to Twitter for one of his now-infamous tweetstorm-cum-policy statements.

“After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to

serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military,” Trump wrote. “Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail.”

This is all nonsense.

Military leaders responded with surprise, having apparently not been consulted on this policy. What’s more, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Joseph Dunford has stood in opposition, stating in a memo that there are “no modifications to the current policy until the president’s direction has been received by the Secretary of Defense and the secretary has issued implementation guidelines.”

To date, no such implementation guidelines have arrived.

Trump seems somehow unaware that there are already transgender troops in our military. While reported numbers have varied from as little as 250 to as many as 50,000, a study by the Rand Corporation in June 2016 estimated somewhere between 1,320 to 6,630 active-duty trans service members out of a total pool of 1.3-million service members. What’s more, this same

study noted that trans-related health care for these troops would cost somewhere between $2.4-$8.4 million per year. This is a drop in the bucket compared to current military spending.

It is also a fifth of spending that the military currently doles out for erectile dysfunction medications to all troops, trans or otherwise.

So we have a scattershot policy, dictated via social media without adequate consultation and not tethered in fact. Transgender troops are in no way bankrupting our armed forces, nor is there any evidence of them disrupting the service.

Now, plenty have said that Trump’s tweets were nothing more than a distraction, something to steal the spotlight from news of the health-care bill and its failure, the increasingly dysfunctional administration or the continuing Russia probe.

Maybe there is some truth to that, but I find myself considering that a distraction ceases to be a distraction when it is harming people.

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By Timothy Cwiek timothy@epgn.com Under proposed guidance posted on its website April 28, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission will investigate LGBTQ-related antibias complaints, despite the lack of an LGBTQ-inclusive statewide antibias law.

The guidance notes that Pennsylvania’s antibias law covers sex discrimination, and multiple courts have ruled that anti-LGBTQ discrimination is a form of sex discrimination.

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FINAL BOW: At the April 29 “Shut Up & Dance” performance, longtime producing director Ian Hussey announced he was passing the baton for next year’s show to Alexandra Hughes. The annual Pennsylvania Ballet production raised more than $161,000 for MANNA, which provides nutritional meals to the ill. Nearly 1,400 people packed Forrest Theatre for the 25th-anniversary performance. Photo: Scott A. Drake

D.A. candidates address crime, corruption, community

By Jeremy Rodriguez jeremy@epgn.com The race for Philadelphia’s next district attorney is wide open.

Seven Democratic contenders will vie for the nomination May 16, with one Republican running unopposed.

The primary comes just weeks after current District Attorney Seth Williams was federally indicted on corruption and bribery charges.

PGN spoke with all of the candidates about their vision for the District Attorney’s Office, and how the local LGBT community can be incorporated into those plans.

Larry Krasner Throughout his candidacy for district attorney, Larry Krasner has spoken about resisting the Trump administration, ending mass incarceration and standing up for civil-rights. During his 30 years as an attorney, he stood up for organizations such as ACT UP, Black Lives Matter and other organizations relating to LGBT rights, disabled people and immigrants.

PGN: There have already been nine transgender women of color murdered across the nation this year. If elected, what will your office do to combat violence against transgender individuals in Philadelphia, specifically women of color?

LK: If and when there are incidents, I will have my supervisors and my prosecutors take those charges incredibly seriously. When I see violence involving a trans victim, to me, a red flag goes up immediately to see if this is a hate crime. I have been there when this Philadelphia Police Department wouldn’t take hate crimes seriously and, to me, that’s unacceptable.

You have to have a police department that treats everybody equally and cares about everybody’s issues and that doesn’t consider certain people to be less than human. I think by using the office as a bully pulpit, being as serious as possible about properly prosecuting these cases, working with the police commissioner to

According to documents PGN exclusively obtained, a state commission is investigating Rep. Brian Sims following scrutiny about his travel reimbursements and speaking fees.

PGN obtained a copy of an Ethics Complaint Form from a source whose identity we are withholding. The individual filed the complaint with the State Ethics Commission, contending Sims, the first LGBT person elected to the state legislature, violated the state Ethics Act. According to the Ethics Act, “No public official or public employee shall accept an honorarium.”

A March 31 letter from the Ethics Commission, signed by Executive Director Robert P. Caruso, that was given to PGN states: “The Investigative Division of the State Ethics Commission has initiated a full investigation in relation to the complaint” that the individual filed.

Caruso told PGN he was not permitted to comment on the investigation or the complaint.

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PGN: If elected, will you assist PGN in our ongoing efforts to settle all open-records litigation for access to Nizah Morris records?

LK: The short answer is yes. I am a great believer in providing information to the press. However, when you ask a candidate what will you do when you are in office and that candidate doesn’t have all of the information, you’re basically inviting a candidate to make promises that may or may not be appropriate.

Every bit of my instincts favors transparency but if I were to find something in the file that the mother or the father of Nizah Morris didn’t want revealed, then that is something I would have to look at. Assuming that the family of Nizah Morris wanted the information revealed and assuming the law permitted it, I would like there to be the maximum amount of transparency and I would like to assist in getting all information out PAGE 19 about that incident.

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NOT THEIR PRESIDENT: Hundreds protested in Center City Monday against restrictive policies and positions coming from the new Trump administration.

The “Not My Presidents’ Day” march and rally, planned to coincide with the annual federal holiday celebrating American presidents, included remarks from speakers about LGBT rights, health care, immigration, racial justice, women’s rights and more. Photo: Scott A. Drake

Philly Pride Presents confirmed to PGN the organization will reschedule its annual Pride Parade and Festival for the first time in its 29 years. Pride will now be held June 18 at Penn’s Landing so it does not conflict with the Washington D.C. National Pride March on June 11, the local event’s original date.

“It’s a decision that had to be made because even some people who work with us are going to go to D.C.,” said the organization’s executive director, Franny Price. “It was a decision that we never wanted to make but it was a decision to save the Philadelphia Pride Parade and Festival and OutFest. We did not want to cause a conflict [with] the community [members] who would want to go to the march.”

The National Pride March began as a Facebook event that grew to more than 31,000 confirmed guests and more than 109,000 guests designated as “interested.”

Price said out of the previous 28 Philadelphia Pride PAGE 13 events, 25 have been held during

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By Jeremy Rodriguez jeremy@epgn.com

By Timothy Cwiek timothy@epgn.com Under proposed guidance posted on its website April 28, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission will investigate LGBTQ-related antibias complaints, despite the lack of an LGBTQ-inclusive statewide antibias law.

The guidance notes that Pennsylvania’s antibias law covers sex discrimination, and multiple courts have ruled that anti-LGBTQ discrimination is a form of sex discrimination.

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FINAL BOW: At the April 29 “Shut Up & Dance” performance, longtime producing director Ian Hussey announced he was passing the baton for next year’s show to Alexandra Hughes. The annual Pennsylvania Ballet production raised more than $161,000 for MANNA, which provides nutritional meals to the ill. Nearly 1,400 people packed Forrest Theatre for the 25th-anniversary performance. Photo: Scott A. Drake

D.A. candidates address crime, corruption, community

By Jeremy Rodriguez jeremy@epgn.com The race for Philadelphia’s next district attorney is wide open.

Seven Democratic contenders will vie for the nomination May 16, with one Republican running unopposed.

The primary comes just weeks after current District Attorney Seth Williams was federally indicted on corruption and bribery charges.

PGN spoke with all of the candidates about their vision for the District Attorney’s Office, and how the local LGBT community can be incorporated into those plans.

Larry Krasner Throughout his candidacy for district attorney, Larry Krasner has spoken about resisting the Trump administration, ending mass incarceration and standing up for civil-rights. During his 30 years as an attorney, he stood up for organizations such as ACT UP, Black Lives Matter and other organizations relating to LGBT rights, disabled people and immigrants.

PGN: There have already been nine transgender women of color murdered across the nation this year. If elected, what will your office do to combat violence against transgender individuals in Philadelphia, specifically women of color?

LK: If and when there are incidents, I will have my supervisors and my prosecutors take those charges incredibly seriously. When I see violence involving a trans victim, to me, a red flag goes up immediately to see if this is a hate crime. I have been there when this Philadelphia Police Department wouldn’t take hate crimes seriously and, to me, that’s unacceptable.

You have to have a police department that treats everybody equally and cares about everybody’s issues and that doesn’t consider certain people to be less than human. I think by using the office as a bully pulpit, being as serious as possible about properly prosecuting these cases, working with the police commissioner to

According to documents PGN exclusively obtained, a state commission is investigating Rep. Brian Sims following scrutiny about his travel reimbursements and speaking fees.

PGN obtained a copy of an Ethics Complaint Form from a source whose identity we are withholding. The individual filed the complaint with the State Ethics Commission, contending Sims, the first LGBT person elected to the state legislature, violated the state Ethics Act. According to the Ethics Act, “No public official or public employee shall accept an honorarium.”

A March 31 letter from the Ethics Commission, signed by Executive Director Robert P. Caruso, that was given to PGN states: “The Investigative Division of the State Ethics Commission has initiated a full investigation in relation to the complaint” that the individual filed.

Caruso told PGN he was not permitted to comment on the investigation or the complaint.

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do police trainings around this issue or to make sure the trainings are adequate, I believe we could make a difference and make the situation better for trans people.

PGN: If elected, will you assist PGN in our ongoing efforts to settle all open-records litigation for access to Nizah Morris records?

LK: The short answer is yes. I am a great believer in providing information to the press. However, when you ask a candidate what will you do when you are in office and that candidate doesn’t have all of the information, you’re basically inviting a candidate to make promises that may or may not be appropriate.

Every bit of my instincts favors transparency but if I were to find something in the file that the mother or the father of Nizah Morris didn’t want revealed, then that is something I would have to look at. Assuming that the family of Nizah Morris wanted the information revealed and assuming the law permitted it, I would like there to be the maximum amount of transparency and I would like to assist in getting all information out PAGE 19 about that incident.

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A jury trial for the alleged murderer of trans woman Diamond Williams has been postponed until December.

Charles N. Sargent stands accused of stabbing Williams to death with a screwdriver, then dismembering her with an ax, depositing her body parts in a vacant lot in Strawberry Mansion in July 2013.

Sargent told police he acted in self-defense after Williams became violent during a sexual encounter. Advocates for Williams dispute that claim.

Sargent’s trial was scheduled to begin Feb. 27, but his standby attorney, J. Michael Farrell, recently was convicted of multiPAGE 13 ple felonies in

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REACHING FOR HEAVEN: Sanders and the performers in “Dancing Dead IPX.”

Photo: Ted Lieverman

Brian Sanders choreographs for the zombie apocalypse

By Gary L. Day PGN Contributor Over the past few years, Brian Sanders has established a reputation as one of the most creative and imaginative choreographers/performance artists in Philadelphia.

His imagery and designs are often startling, with always-provocative explorations up and down the spectrum of sexuality and gender expression.

Sanders tackles subject matter that pushes the boundaries of most people’s comfort zones. His new show, “Dancing Dead IPX,” is no different in this regard.

Sanders plays with the cultural fascination with all things zombie, presenting imagery both serious and delightful.

The show is billed as an “immersive performance experience.” Sanders places

his dancers and performers in the midst of the audience, while in other sections of the show the audience finds itself in the middle of the performance. Either way, the audience is up close and personal with the performance, making for, at times, a remarkably intimate experience.

The performance takes place in the Shiloh Baptist Church in South Philadelphia, a ramshackle Gothic-tinged space that has seen better days. Still, the church retains copious echoes of its glorious past. And, ironically, the space’s decay actually plays into the whole zombie-apocalypse motif, allowing the action to play out on an appropriate landscape.

The performance is divided into three sections: In the introductory segment, the audience is ushered into a large room with long, wooden dining tables and a

high-vaulted ceiling, reminiscent of a viking mead hall. After a while, performers come out and climb on top of the tables, with pairs of dancers going through choreographed motions of affectionate massage and lovemaking — the spirit of life, so to speak.

Part two involves the audience being escorted to a different room lined with scaffolding draped with plastic sheeting. The audience had to stand and peek through the draped plastic to watch the unfolding scenarios in the center of the room.

The final section took place in the church’s main sanctuary — certainly was the grandest space of all. The performers were made up as zombies and went through various scenarios illustrating what it’s like to be dead — or undead.

But the most fascinating aspect of the final section was the addition of the aerial component, eliciting a circus-like thrill of watching performers perform daring feats.

But there was also a poignant thematic effect. At times, it looked like these were the dead, striving to reach heaven — and not making it.

As usual, Sanders and his troupe JUNK provide a thrilling, thought-provoking and challenging experience, with some of the most provocative imagery and choreography to be found. Sanders proves that even the dead have much of value to say to the living; we just have to be willing to hear it. n Brian Sanders’ JUNK presents “Dancing Dead IPX” through June 2 at Shiloh Baptist Church, 2040 Christian St. For ticket information, visit dancingdeadipx.com.

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Rehoboth Beach, Delawhere?

By Fay Jacobs PGN Contributor Just two hours away from the Philadelphia area sits gay-gracious Rehoboth Beach — one square mile of cottages, grand mansions and sparkling sands.

Beach and boardwalk connect more than 75 eateries and gourmet restaurants (many gay-owned), including the pioneering Back Porch, which put out the welcome mat for a gay incursion back in 1979. Lodging includes upscale hotels, Victorian houses and beach-chic B&Bs and a whopping selection of rental cottages and condos.

Exceptional gay-owned and gay-friendly shops abound. There’s Elegant Slumming and Mod Cottage for hot home furnishings and accessories, with Rock Creek and MGT and Co., among many, for cool clothing. Gidget’s Gadgets has fun retro toys and gifts plus an astounding vinyl collection for sale. Shoppers hail from the metro D.C. area, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and beyond.

Stroll along Rehoboth Avenue, enhanced by a multi-million-dollar revitalization to satisfy aesthetic tastes, as the requisite hotdogs, salt-water taffy and funnel cakes satisfy seaside junk-food cravings. Double Dippers ice-cream shop and Snyder’s Candy can take care of your sweet tooth.

Summer mornings before hitting the beach, sip coffee at Lori’s Oy Vey Café in the courtyard at the CAMP Rehoboth

Community Center, the heart of the LGBTQ community in this resort town.

Whether you head to the state park at Gordon’s Pond, where leashed pooches are welcome, for the mostly, but not entirely, women’s beach, or the mostly male, but not entirely, Poodle Beach in downtown Rehoboth, bring a book from Browseabout — downtown Rehoboth’s legendary book store and gift shop. But be warned, it’s tough to read here at the beach — too much eye candy.

Sunbathers of all body types, ages and personalities generously co-mingle. Products of the “gayby boom” are ubiquitous.

If you’re up for a romantic meal, don’t miss The Blue Moon, Fable, Eden, Shorebreak or the Back Porch. If you can get to town by Thursday evening, Cafe Azafran hosts pianist John Flynn with cabaret bartender Holly Lane — she can sing like a French chanteuse while mixing a perfect Cosmo. Awesome!

There’s dancing in lots of places, notably Restaurant G, the Swell, Java Jukebox, The Pond and the soon-toopen Diego’s Hideaway, keeping up the traditions of the Double L Bar that held court on the way into Rehoboth for many years.

When gays descended in the ’80s, a backlash saw bumper stickers screaming “Keep Rehoboth a Family Town!”

Now, with the economically providential addition of gay businesses, plus diverse

neighborhoods and tourists, Rehoboth is comfortable being a family town for all kinds of families.

During summer Saturdays, you can walk from one art opening to another, at Gallery 50, Philip Morton Gallery or Ward Ellinger Gallery and more, winding up, cocktail in hand, with hundreds of gays and lesbians hanging out at Aqua, the patio at The Blue Moon, Rigbys or the backyard Biergarten at the Purple Parrot.

Despite four seasons of weather, Rehoboth is a year-round beach town.

Summer kicks off right now with Memorial Day festivities. Then come concerts in June, a huge July 4 celebration and the spectacular Sundance Auction and Dance Party for Labor Day weekend. Summer cedes to fall’s independent film and jazz festivals, wild holiday shopping (no sales tax!) and holiday dining, dancing and celebrations. Before you know it come three-day winter weekends, Valentine’s Day with restaurants gone wild, and the April Women’s FEST

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featuring national entertainers and hot dance parties.

The hometown crowd is a seamless blend of Delaware old-timers and a burgeoning kinship of LGBTQ weekenders, second-home revelers, retirees and day-trippers.

So now it’s summer. From pinball arcades and dolphin-watching to dazzling cuisine and a colossal gay sensibility, Rehoboth is the place to be. Spend some quality time here and you’ll never say “Delawhere?” again. n Fay Jacobs is an award-winning writer of five humorous and activist memoirs, including her latest “Fried & Convicted.” She is also touring with her one-woman show, “Aging Gracelessly: 50 Shades of Fay.”

How Poodle Beach was born

By Fay Jacobs PGN Contributor When thousands of guys, and plenty of women, congregate on Poodle Beach this Memorial Day weekend in Rehoboth, they may want to know the story behind that patch of sand.

The site is at the far south end of the boardwalk, starting, appropriately enough, around Queen Street.

But this iconic gay beach wasn’t the first place in the area where gay visitors gathered. Historians point to Carpenter Beach, across a small dune and up towards Dewey Beach, as the first gay beach in the Rehoboth area.

That sandy stretch sat in front of the former home of Louisa du Pont Carpenter, an aviatrix and a very independent gal.

Although Carpenter was married to a local businessman, she was rumored to enjoy the lesbian lifestyle.

One of her closest friends was Broadway and Hollywood legend Tallulah Bankhead, who often visited her and spent time, during the 1930s and ’40s with many of their male friends at the oceanfront Carpenter home.

Gay visitors continued to gather on that site through the ’50s, ’60s and early ’70s as hundreds of older men would sun

and socialize on what came to be called Carpenter Beach. They played chess, backgammon and volleyball, a comfortable distance away from the vacationing straight couples and families on Rehoboth Beach.

According to reports from those who were there, it was a very sophisticated gay scene and the tradition went on for years. As there were no gay bars in Rehoboth in those days (and even if there were, it was against the law to walk with a drink in your hand, so nobody could socialize), gay visitors spent time on Carpenter Beach followed by private house parties.

Through the years, Rehoboth came to be called The Nation’s Summer Capital, serving as a weekend getaway for Washington, D.C., legislators and government workers. A contingent of gay men and women weekended in Rehoboth as well.

With the hideous threat of exposure that often led to gay people being fired from their jobs and even being jailed, these vacationing closeted gays stayed to themselves on Carpenter Beach or at friends’ homes — throwing elegant dinner parties with shades drawn and discretion a must. During the work week, this crowd would make plans for parties and lodging, gathering in relative safety for weekends in Rehoboth.

The traditions continued almost unchanged

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through the 1960s and early ’70s. Louisa du Pont Carpenter was still around at her beach home much of the time, but died in the early ’70s after she crashed her single-engine plane trying to land at a local airport.

So that is the story behind Carpenter Beach. Why, then, when hoards of LGBT people descend on Rehoboth this Memorial Day weekend, won’t they be planting their rainbow flags on the sand in front of the old Carpenter mansion?

Local old-timers tell the story of two gay cousins back in 1982 who got fed up dragging their beach chairs and coolers the extra way

past the end of the Rehoboth boardwalk to sit on Carpenter Beach.

One day, they simply spread their blankets on the sand just past the boardwalk and invited their friends to join them. Soon, this growing collection of gays took a stand on the sand, holding their ground as the Rehoboth family crowd moved slightly north to accommodate them. Soon, most of the people who had been walking to Carpenter Beach stopped short to sun themselves on this new, more convenient stretch of sand.

For a few years after that, a group of old-timers still frequented Carpenter Beach, with their chess and backgammon games still going strong. But eventually the shift to Queen Street became permanent, and Poodle Beach was born.

But wait! Why is it called Poodle Beach?

Nobody really knows.

Whatever the truth, Poodle Beach is an iconic place in Rehoboth, waiting to host thousands of visitors this Memorial Day weekend for sun and sand along with Rehoboth’s equally iconic nightlife.

And while the LGBT crowd is joyously, openly out and about these days at the beach, history acknowledges that the community got its start along the shore thanks to Louisa du Pont Carpenter and her gay pals on the beach between her home and the Atlantic Ocean. n

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Porn star shows his artistic side in one-man burlesque show

By Larry Nichols larry@epgn.com Gay adult film star, writer and burlesque performer Chris Harder is bringing his oneman show, “Porn To Be A Star,” to Franky Bradley’s.

While the show is based on his own experiences in the gay porn industry, it’s not the tragic, tear-soaked, regret-filled story the public comes to expect from adult-film actors, Harder said.

“I wanted to write something besides the clichéd narrative that we already know about the porn industry: ‘I got into porn and it ruined my life. I got into porn and now I’m a sex addict,’ or ‘I love porn because I’m better than that and now I’m a better person for getting out of it.’”

Harder grew up in North Dakota before venturing to the bright lights of New York,

where he got into adult films and burlesque — which led us to wonder how those two radically different worlds collided.

“If I ever figure it out, I’m going to write a really good book,” Harder said. “I got into burlesque by accident. I was a go-go dancer about 10 years ago. I moved to New York to be a ‘serious actor.’ I started dancing and meeting all these crazy nightlife performance artists and burlesque performers, and it eventually kind of stuck. There’s a theatrical element to it. Honestly I feel like coming to New York is the same for everyone. You move there with some kind of idea of the person you want to become, and then all these different doors open for you. Writing ‘Porn To Be A Star’ helped me re-find my voice and also critique the porn industry and my own ego.”

Harder has performed the show across the country and internationally, and said it attracts more than fans of his adult film work.

“I have a mixed following of men and become YouTube stars or have a nightlife women and all kinds of sexual preferences,” career, not because the audience is neche said. “In a nutshell, it’s a satire of life in essarily porn fans but because people are the gay-porn industry.” attracted to being in the presWhen it comes to adult ence of someone who has film stars branching out a large following. I started and trying to launch projdoing children’s theater when ects outside the industry, I moved to New York, and Harder said the stigma is somehow wound up doing real. Yet, he added, there triple-X porn. There’s a hilarare more avenues available ity to it because I don’t think to pursue their interests I lost a part of myself in that outside adult films. process.” n “I don’t know if we have Chris Harder performs “Porn an example, except maybe To Be A Star” 8:30 p.m. June Stormy Daniels, where we 1 at Franky Bradley’s, 1320 see a porn star cross over Chancellor St. For more inforinto legit media,” he said. mation or tickets, call 215-735“I think now, because of 0735 or visit www.facebook.com/ social media, it’s possible events/1316859435126505 or for adult performers to Photo: David Ayllon www.harderburlesque.com.

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Suzi Nash

Nick Greiner: When a father-daughter relationship transitions Get your flags ironed and your beads polished, as Pride month is almost upon us. This year, Philly Pride is celebrating its 30th anniversary at Penn’s Landing.

More than 100 groups are participating, with Margaret Cho headlining the event. The calendar is packed, with awards, music, dance, vendors, food and much more.

One of the team helping put it all together behind the scenes is Nick Greiner, a Philly Pride board member and activist.

PGN: Were you presenting as male when younger?

NG: Female. This was in the ’80s, so I didn’t have a choice. “Trans man” wasn’t even a part of the vocabulary yet, especially not for me.

I went to Catholic school, so I had to wear a skirt everyday. Hated it.

PGN: I didn’t go to Catholic school but I didn’t like wearing skirts or dresses either. I can still count on one hand the times I was forced to wear a dress: my grandparents’ 50th anniversary, the Devon Horse Show and a neighbor’s Christmas party.

NG: I was in the Campfire Girls, which was the counterpart to the Boy Scouts, which merged into Campfire Boys & Girls. Everyone got to do all the activities, so I got to wear pants and play in the dirt. I built fires, I got into whittling, all sorts of things that were discouraged for girls. I looked forward to it all year; in fact, it was the only thing I looked forward to a lot of time. It got me through the year. I was later offered a position on staff, but by then I had moved to California and joined the Coast Guard.

PGN: Wow. NG: Yes, I was stationed on a couple of ships out there. I had a girlfriend and was identifying as lesbian. I was very butch, so I thought it made sense and it was what everyone presumed. In fact, when I came out to my mom, her reaction was, “We’re been waiting for you to finally tell us” and I responded, “Huh? I just figured it out myself!” Her second statement was, “So does this mean you can dress like a girl now?” I was like, “What do you mean?

I’m the butch part of the couple.”

PGN: And you were in the service at that time?

NG: Yes, I was a quartermaster and navigated ships. I loved it. I got to go more places and see more things than most people do in their whole careers: Japan, Alaska, Panama. It was during the time of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and I saw several female friends get kicked out for being gay. It was right before things clicked for me in terms of finding identity, and it really messed me up for a while. To me the Coast Guard was not fair. We had all these rules, and some of them were ridiculous. It was the first taste of things not being fair. So on one hand, it felt great to come out to myself, but then I couldn’t tell anyone for fear of losing my job. It was not

a joke — they were kicking people out for it. It was a stressful time.

PGN: When you joined the military back then, I understand that they would ask you right out, “Are you a homosexual?”

NG: They used to, but Clinton stopped that. I joined right at the start of DADT but I know friends who were asked. Technically I wouldn’t have lied, because I didn’t know myself. When I later left the Coast Guard, it was on a medical discharge. I was bummed because I loved it but on the other hand, it was getting hard to have an honest life.

PGN: Were you afraid of being outed as lesbian or trans?

NG: Lesbian! I was late to the trans party. I feel kind of stupid, but I was never exposed to it. I never even met a trans man until a couple of years ago. And after deciding to transition, I needed time to make peace with it. I was proud of being a dyke. I’d been one for 19 years, and it was a huge part of my identity that I’d be losing. I never wanted to be anything else, but I was almost 40 and I still felt disconnected from my body. In that respect, it’s been fantastic, but I do feel a little adrift sometimes; trying to figure where I fit in the community. People have been completely welcoming, it’s just now that I’m a man and I like women, “straight” is a culture and I didn’t grow up connecting with that. I’m so used to being on the outside that when people perceive me as heteronormative, it’s weird. It’s one of the reasons I always identify as a trans man. I still love a lesbian with a guitar.

very supportive. She realized that she liked me even better once I started transitioning.

I was a better kid to them. At that point, she was supportive of my dad, Sibil, as well, but there were limitations. Nothing bad, just navigating new dynamics in a previously established relationship. One time Sibil asked me, “Have you heard about this Michigan Women’s Festival?” It made the community seem harsh, not allowing trans women, but I was able to explain how many people have been boycotting it in solidarity, which made her feel better. After my stepmother passed, I think Sibil felt the freedom to be herself completely.

PGN: Wonderful.

NG: The transitioning for me was life-altering. Sibil realized that, and paid for my top surgery, which was an incredible gift. I’ve been working hand-to-mouth, and it would have taken me 10 years to save. I know she gets how important it was, but every day it’s a weight off my chest, to make a bad pun.

I thank her for the small things that make a

PGN: You grew up in Philly: Tell me a little about the fam.

NG: I grew up in Northeast Philly. My parents divorced when I was 10. My dad lived in Center City, which was awesome because it got us out of the NE bubble. My sister and I got to visit three weekends a month. Back to my sister, she teaches down in Virginia. When she was pregnant with her second child, her little one was talking to her belly and said, “We don’t know you yet, it could be a boy, it could be a girl and it could be transgender. We just don’t know yet!” How awesome are they?

She’s been supportive of both me and my dad as we transitioned.

PGN: You came out originally as lesbian. Did your dad come out as gay first?

NG: No, in the ’90’s she came out to me as a cross-dresser, which was the terminology we had at the time. It was something from her past, but we bonded over talking about it. She remarried and my stepmother was really good for her. She passed away a few years ago and that’s when Sibil truly came out. So we still have a straight man and a lesbian in the family, we just switched roles!

PGN: That’s funny. Who transitioned first?

NG: That would be me. My stepmother was

difference. I’m getting into fashion for the first time because I can wear suspenders and ties and they lay down properly. Little things.

PGN: What other things do you like to do?

NG: I have a group I co-facilitate with my friend Matty called “Coffee Talk.” We meet on the first and third Wednesdays each month at the William Way LGBT Community Center. I also write and I’m a bit of a true-crime addict, so I listen to a lot of podcasts.

PGN: Random queries: What’s the most money you’ve ever found on the ground?

NG: A hundred dollars. Blowing down the street. But another time I found $5 when I really needed it, and at that point in my life, it was worth more than the $100 was to me at a different time.

PGN: Favorite poem or poet?

NG: That’s a tough one. I used to do spoken word. I’m still heavily influenced by the Beats, so I’ll go with Allen Ginsberg.

PGN: What was your favorite or most harrowing moment in the Coast Guard?

NG: I was on the Bark Eagle, a square-rig sailing ship. It’s the only sailing vessel in any of the military branches. I was training to navigate ships, and my class and a bunch of other newbies had to bring it across the Atlantic. We hit a hurricane as we were coming through Bermuda, not far from the Triangle. I was clinging to the mast gathering the sail, which was whipping back at me with the wind and rain pounding me from all sides. And it was amazing! It was so much fun; a real adrenaline rush.

PGN: You work at Spruce Street Video. How has it survived and what was a wacky moment there?

NG: We have a large clientele of people who like to rent DVDs. Sometimes they’re older and aren’t computer savvy, or just prefer to come select their films here. We have a large collection of gay porn as well as mainstream films. The wackiest moment would probably be with the guy who came in after drinking around the corner. He was hitting on me really hard. He wasn’t an ass about it, but didn’t seem to pick up on any hints even though they were both verbal and explicit that I wasn’t interested. Finally I explained that I was trans and probably not able to do some of the things he had suggested.

That didn’t slow him down much. He finally asked if he could give me cash to look the other way so he could have sex in the store with someone else. I had to again tell him no.

PGN: What is your role with Pride?

NG: I’m on the board, but the day of, I’ll be in the trenches doing grunt work and putting out fires. There’s always something that goes wrong — but if we can keep it to a small fire, I’m happy. This should be a great year. n To suggest a community member for Family Portrait, email portraits05@aol.com.

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Da Vinci show by immigrants includes political portraits by gay Catalan artist

By Suzannah Cavanaugh PGN Contributor

Da Vinci Art Alliance’s newest exhibition showcases a gallery of work by eight immigrant artists exploring their connections to home.

“Where I Dwell; Memory, Place, and Home” includes painters, sculptors and photographers whose ethnicities represent South Philadelphia: Chinese, Iranian, Colombian, Chilean and Honduran. It is the fourth year that Da Vinci, under the direction of board president Linda Dubin Garfield, dedicates gallery space in May to an exhibition of immigrant artwork.

“South Philly is a community of immigrants and we want to reach out to them, make them feel comfortable coming in and feeling a part our group,” Garfield said. “Plus, it’s a hot topic and it feels right that we would want to have it.”

One of the featured artists is Jordi Sabate, a gay Catalan painter, illustrator and graphic designer, whose 2017 win at an art competition at the William Way LGBT Community Center connected him with Da Vinci board vice president David Acosta and earned him a spot in the exhibition.

Sabate, who emigrated to the United States in 2006 to be with his American partner, used his submission to consider his birthplace — Catalonia, the region in northern Spain recently in the news for quashed attempts to declare independence.

Sabate’s paintings, a series of seven acrylic portraits on canvas, imagine the abuse experienced by Catalans at the hands of Spanish police, press and social-media trolls.

“It’s called Catalanophobia,” Sabate said. “Now, the independent people [Catalans] posting on Facebook and Twitter, they get insults from Spanish nationalists.”

Sabate channeled the offense he felt as a Catalan into his project for Da Vinci, imagining the anonymous faces on the receiving end of the insults, and painting their portraits.

“Everybody from Catalonia [who saw the portraits] said, ‘You can see the sadness in their eyes.’ I was just doing it and it came from inside.”

Some of Sabate’s portraits speak to specific events. One man, a black, shirtless Catalan painted with a stoic expression, is

Sabate’s response to a survey he read in a Spanish newspaper.

“The survey asked, ‘Which would be worse: to be black, homosexual, or be Catalan?” Sabate said. “And one guy responded, ‘I am black, I am Catalan and I am homosexual, how does any of that make me a bad person?”

Though Sabate is now an American citizen, he said that producing political art, even in the States, makes him nervous.

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“I know that here I can do it, but maybe if I were there, it would be a problem. I was scared that people would write the gallery and say, ‘Don’t do this show, because they see us Catalans as a threat,’” Sabate said.

Sabate said, to his knowledge, Da Vinci has received no such threats. A group of nine Italian immigrants opened the gallery in the 1930s — and a flyer by the front door defines their brand as “a tolerant, safe and accepting space for artists of all orientations, creed and identity.”

Garfield said that “Where I Dwell” constitutes a response to anyone doubting the integral role immigrants play in America.

“The artists live here and they contribute to society and they’re creative and wonderful, so what are we complaining about?” n “Where I Dwell; Memory, Place and Home” runs through May 30 in Gallery 1 of Da Vinci Art Alliance, 704 Catharine St. All visits are free to the public. For more information, visit http://www.davinciartalliance.org/whereidwell/.

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Jean Shin: Collections Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition by contemporary artist Shin (American, born in South Korea in 1971) in which she transforms everyday objects into dynamic works about connection and belonging, through July 15, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-763-8100.

Keith Smith at Home Philadelphia Museum of Art presents five decades of the Rochester-based artist’s mixed-media photographs, prints and books, through July 8, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-763-8100.

Rachel Rose: Wil-o-Wisp/The Future Fields Commission Philadelphia Museum of Art presents contemporary video

installations that ruminate on our image-saturated culture and histories of the past, through Aug. 19, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-763-8100.

Speakeasy: An Original LGBTQ Play The story of a young man with super powers trying to find his way through life, May 25-26 at Asian Arts Initiative, 1219 Vine St.; 215-557-0455.

Tammy Pescatelli The comedian seen on “Dirty Sexy Funny” performs May 31-June 1 at Helium Comedy Club, 2031 Sansom St.; 215-496-9001.

Tell Me On A Sunday Walnut Street Theatre presents the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical where it’s the 1980s and a young English girl, full of energy and optimism, arrives in New York ready to find success and love, through June 10 at Independence Studio on 3, 825 Walnut St.; 215574-3550.

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STILL PLAYING ‘DEAD’: Dead and Company, the jam-rock band featuring former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, dive into the psychedelic hippie vibe with John Mayer when they perform 7 p.m. June 1 and 2 at BB&T Pavilion, 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden. For more information or tickets, call 856-365-1300. Photo: Danny Clinch

Music Khalid The R&B singer performs 8 p.m. May 25 at Festival Pier, 601 N. Columbus Blvd.; 215922-1011.

Summerland Tour 2018 Alternative rock bands Everclear, Marcy Playground and Local H perform 7 p.m. May 31 at Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St.; 215-627-1332.

Mastodon and Primus The hard-rock bands perform 7 p.m. May 30 at Festival Pier, 601 N. Columbus Blvd.; 215922-1011.

Nightlife Happy Bear The bear-themed happy hour runs 5-9 p.m. May 25 at Tabu, 200 S. 12th St.; 215964-9675.

Amateur Drag Attack Eleven amateur girls compete for glory 9 p.m.-1 a.m. May 25 at Tabu, 200 S. 12th St.; 215-964-9675.

Mimi Imfurst Presents Drag Diva Brunch Mimi Imfurst, Bev, Vinchelle, Sutton Fearce and special guests perform 11 a.m.-2 p.m. May 26 at Punch Line Philly, 33 E. Laurel St.; 215-606-6555.

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May 30 at Franky Bradley’s, 1320 Chancellor St.; 215-735-0735.

Saved by the ’90’s Party A party featuring DJs spinning everything from Third Eye Blind and the Spice Girls to the Backstreet Boys and Beastie Boys, 9 p.m. June 1 at the Trocadero Theatre, 1003 Arch St.; 215922-6888.

Outta Town John Fogerty and ZZ Top The classic rockers perform 8 p.m. May 25 at Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Event Center, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-317-1000.

Steve Aoki The EDM DJ performs 10 p.m.

May 25 at Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Premier Nightclub, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-317-1000.

Billy Gardell The comedian seen on “Mike & Molly” performs 9 p.m. May 26 at Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Music Box, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-317-1000.

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Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band The former Beatle performs 9 p.m. June 1 at Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Music Box, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-317-1000.

Sleepaway Camp The cult slasher film is screened 9:45 p.m. June 1 at the Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610917-1228.

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“(S)Extra: Bait & Switches” is a playful, provocative new exhibit by Heather Raquel Phillips, a local artist whose work focuses on kinksters, queers and people of color, whether cisgender or trans.

Phillips, a former Ms. Philadelphia Leather as well as a lecturer in Penn’s Fine Arts Department, said her work is about breaking down the barriers around social constructs, “representing underrepresented and marginalized identities.” The people depicted in this exhibit are friends. “(S)Extra” offers a generous sampling of Phillips’ recent work, including photography, videos and what she refers to as objects.

Viewers see examples of her “Flagging” series, comprised of pennants, and also her “Non-Binary History of Heels.” Much of the work was completed in the past few months, a fact that lends it an immediate feel.

As amusing and revelatory as those objects are, photography forms the foundation of Phillips’ artistic practice. Eight photos from her “SpeciMan” series are on view. They are extreme closeups focusing on body hair — a recurrent image in her work. In these photos, the lush whorls and thickets of hair appear to symbolize the unruliness of our animal nature.

Elsewhere in “(S)Extra,” body hair might be an object of disgust or sometimes a fetish. It can even be a potent symbol of female power, as in “ManAkin, The Matriarch.” This piece, which hangs on the gallery wall, is constructed from part of a dress and synthetic hair. In this object, a thick shock of dark hair twisted into a luxurious braid sprouts abundantly from the hot-pink pubic area. It’s an arresting image, beautiful and unsettling.

There are also several photographs from Phillips’ “Reclining Nude” series. These vivid, colorful images simultaneously refer to art history and pop culture. They also toy with ideas such as appearance, reality and looking, especially the male gaze.

In “The Shining (Homage to Scatman Crothers),” a feminine-looking person with a lush Afro is seen kneeling on top of a dark purple bedspread. Her body faces sideways and her head is slightly tilted, as if looking toward viewers. Her posture is neither seductive nor submissive. At first glance, she appears to be naked, but on

closer inspection it’s apparent that she’s wearing a “nude” body stocking. It’s just one of the “bait and switches” referred to in the exhibit’s subtitle. That photograph also nods towards Phillips’ videos.

Initially, she explained, she was wary of the medium of video. While working on her MFA, however, something clicked.

“My subjects were always in a state of performance,” she said. “So somebody challenged me: Why aren’t these moving pictures?”

SEXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITY #1 “(S)Extra” presents three responses to that initial challenge: “Hair Cycle,” “Sextra Curricular Activity” and “Thirst Trap.” They’re all interesting to watch, but “Thirst Trap,” which is projected in a large room and runs almost 35 minutes, is particularly intriguing. The video is surreal and nonlinear, but it still has a story of sorts, albeit one told primarily via images. What little sound there is comes out slightly out of sync, emphasizing the oddness.

“Thirst Trap” presents an off-kilter world inhabited by eccentric characters, including “adult babies,” a “human pup” and a jaunty fellow in a captain’s hat and yellow ascot. Recognizable locations around Philadelphia add to the feeling that we’re glimpsing an alternate reality, one that exists alongside the so-called straight world, albeit unknown to most.

What will viewers make of this video?

Phillips wisely leaves it open-ended, allowing people to form their own opinions.

“To me, that’s what art is for,” she said.

“It’s to expand someone’s mind on their own and let them figure out the questions they want to answer and throw up things from their subconscious mind that they want to connect with.” n “(S)Extra” is on display at the James Oliver Gallery, 723 Chestnut St., through June 16. It includes an artist’s talk on May 31. To learn more, visit www.heatheraquelphilllips.com.

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