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MontCo fires back at state By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com

DOWN THE DRAIN: Woody’s Bar took Stolichnaya off its shelves July 31 with the help of local community and civic leaders. Woody’s joins several-hundred LGBT and ally venues across the country that have removed the Russian brand in protest of Russia’s restrictive antigay policies, made more oppressive this summer with a new law that prohibits LGBT “propaganda.” Joining the action were City Councilman Jim Kenney (from left), Thom Cardwell, District Attorney Seth Williams, Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds-Brown, state Sen. Larry Farnese and Councilman Mark Squilla. Knock owner Bill Wood also sent over his venue’s stock of Stoli to be dumped. Photo: Scott A. Drake

Hearing delayed for murder suspect By Angela Thomas angela@epgn.com A hearing for a man accused of murdering a local transgender woman was postponed this week. Charles Sargent, 43, was scheduled to face a preliminary hearing Aug. 7 at the Criminal Justice Center. He is charged with murder, possession of an instrument of crime and abuse of corpse in connection to last month’s stabbing and dismemberment of Diamond Williams. In court Wednesday, Sargent’s attorney, J. Michael Farrell, requested a continuance for the preliminary hearing. Sargent, who is being held at CurranFromhold Correctional Facility, was not present.

Municipal Court Judge Teresa Carr Deni agreed to postpone the proceeding to Oct. 15. The hearing will take place at 9 a.m. in Room 306 of the Criminal Justice Center, 1301 Filbert St. Farrell did not respond to a request for comment. Sargent allegedly stabbed Williams, 31, in his Strawberry Mansion home after an argument. Williams was a sex worker, and Sargent reportedly brought her to his home for a sexual encounter. In 2007, Carr Deni was criticized over a ruling in which she reduced charges against a man accused of raping a sex worker at gunpoint and forcing her to have sex with a group of other men. Carr Deni dismissed the rape and sexualassault charges against the suspect but let stand “theft of services” charges. She was subsequently rebuked by the Philadelphia Bar Association for an “unforgivable miscarriage of justice.” Sargent is also charged with making terroristic threats for allegedly threatening to kill his girlfriend. ■

T h e wa i t i n g g a m e c o n t i n u e s i n Montgomery County. More than 80 marriage licenses have been issued to same-sex couples since MontCo Register of Wills D. Bruce Hanes announced last month that his pledge to uphold the constitution prevented him from denying such licenses. Last Friday, the county filed a formal response to the lawsuit filed earlier in the week in Commonwealth Court by the state Department of Health, which sought a writ of mandamus to compel Hanes to halt the distribution. MontCo Solicitor Ray McGarry held an Aug. 2 press conference detailing the county’s response to the suit, which was filed July 30 against Hanes. The county asked the court to dismiss the suit on a number of grounds. First, the county argued that the court lacks “subject-matter jurisdiction” to decide the issue, arguing instead that the state Supreme Court has governance over “general supervisory and administrative-authority” issues. The state Department of Health also lacks standing to bring a mandamus action against Hanes, the county said. Standing, the response explained, requires that “litigants must demonstrate that they are aggrieved PAGE 20 in order to proceed with

LOOKING FORWARD: A young boy was among the 100 demonstrators rallying for marriage equality Aug. 5 at the Norristown County Courthouse. The event was meant to thank Montgomery County Register of Wills D. Bruce Hanes, who is being sued by the state for issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The rally drew state lawmakers, religious leaders and LGBT and ally community members. Photo: Michael Albany Photography

Voter-ID enforcement halted By Angela Thomas angela@epgn.com Attorneys for the state last week agreed to delay the implementation of Pennsylvania’s voter-identification law until after the November election. The decision came at the end of a Commonwealth Court trial, in which opponents argued that the law marginalizes voters. The measure, which was supported by Republicans and criticized by Democrats as a method of suppressing the Democratic vote, was adopted last year. But a judge halted its implementation before last November’s election. The law requires voters to provide valid,

government-issued identification before they vote. On Aug. 1, the state attorney general’s office agreed to support a temporary injunction that would not mandate that voters provide photo identification in the Nov. 5 election. However, poll workers would still ask voters for proof of identification, an issue that Commonwealth Court Judge Bernard McGinley will rule on by Aug. 19, along with whether the injunction will apply solely to the upcoming election or be worded more indefinitely. Plaintiffs bringing the suit — the NAACP, the Pennsylvania League of Women Voters and the Homeless Advocacy Project — argued during the 12-day trial that the law PAGE 20 unduly impact minori-

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Philly lawyer honored for decades of work By Angela Thomas angela@epgn.com On June 27, The Legal Intelligencer honored a group of local lawyers with Lifetime Achievement Awards. Among that list was out Philadelphia labor and employment lawyer Deborah R. Willig, Esq., of Willig, Williams & Davidson. Willig, who is a founding member of her firm, graduated from Temple University School of Law in 1975. Willig pursued a law degree because of her passion for fighting for marginalized communities. “I think that our DEBORAH WILLIG country is based on a system of laws and I think the law helps level the playing field for people who are disenfranchised,” she said. Willig can add the Intelligencer’s Lifetime Achievement Award to a long list of other accolades in the last few decades, including this year’s inclusion as a top-rated lawyer by American Lawyer Media and MartindaleHubbell, and the Bob Kyler Ambassador of Hope Award from the City of Hope and the

Tri-State Labor & Management Council in 2012. She is also a member of the American Law Institute, a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and on the board of the Juvenile Law Center. Willig also served as the immediate past president of the French International School of Philadelphia. Willig served as the first female chancellor for the Philadelphia Bar Association in 1992. She said the playing field for female lawyers has changed since that time, although there is still work to be done. “Some things have changed dramatically and some have remained the same. Hiring and partnerships have changed, and the discrimination women suffered does not exist as strongly.” Willig launched her firm in 1979. “I am incredibly fortunate. I love what I do and who I do it with and who I do it for. Our practice combines the ability to help better the lives of working men and women to fight discrimination and promote diversity.” Willig said she is honored to have her work recognized by The Legal Intelligencer. “I am very honored and very humbled to be recognized. It is a pretty extraordinary group of people and collection of people to be a part of. It is incredibly wonderful to be recognized in this fashion,” she said. ■

’Burbs to serve up new volleyball tourney By Angela Thomas angela@epgn.com The first-ever Philadelphia Brotherly Love Classic, organized by the North America Gay Volleyball Association, will have LGBT volleyballers serving, setting and spiking Aug. 9-11 at Competitive Edge Sports, 320 S. Henderson Road in King of Prussia. About 300 players are expected from across the country, including Maryland, Washington, D.C., New Jersey and New York, with six teams from Philadelphia. Teams will compete in pool play from 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Aug. 10, and double elimination will begin at 8 a.m. Aug. 11. Event director Martha Leshire, based in New Orleans, has been involved with NAGVA for 20 years. The association has approximately 4,000 members and regularly hosts three-day tournaments. This event is the first spearheaded by NAGVA and under this name, Leshire said. She said the tournament was created to allow LGBT volleyballers to make connections throughout the sport, and is especially meant for those in areas without an established LGBT volleyball league. “The premise is friendship and we play a little volleyball,” she said. “I run other volleyball tournaments and wanted to start running events where they didn’t have them. We

went across the country picking cities that didn’t have events that should have them. We picked Philly, Fort Lauderdale, Nashville, Kansas and Hawaii.” Team Philadelphia chair Bob Szwajkos hopes the tournament brings momentum to organize a volleyball league in Philadelphia, especially in time for players to compete in the Gay Games in Cleveland next year. Leshire said players of all levels and genders were welcome to sign up to play in the tournament and noted that the tournaments usually draw participation from a diverse group including everyone from post-collegiate players to beginners, as well as both LGBT and straight players. “The higher divisions tend to be very competitive so it will drive ex-collegiate volleyball players in if it is close to their region,” Leshire said. “It is predominately a men’s classic, however we do have female teams as well. You don’t have to be gay to play; we’ve had straight individuals sign up just so they could play the sport.” While regstration is full, spectators are welcome to watch the tournament for free. There will be a registration party from 710 p.m. Aug. 9 at ICandy, 254 S. 12th St., and a seeding party from 7-10 p.m. Aug. 10 at Woody’s Bar, 202 S. 13th St. For more information on the tournament, visit www.love.phillyvolleyball.org. ■

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Next step in NJ marriage fight approaches By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com Advocates and opponents of marriage equality in the Garden State will return to the courtroom next week for the next chapter of the movement for marriage equality in New Jersey. Oral arguments begin Aug. 15 in Trenton in a case in which several same-sex couples are arguing that the state must offer full marriage equality, instead of its current civil-union system. The plaintiffs, who first filed suit in 2011, filed a motion last month requesting that a judge issue an immediate order allowing marriage equality, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s finding that a key provision of the federal ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, prompting next week’s proceeding. The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in 2006 that the state must treat same-sex couples equal to married couples, prompting the creation

of the civil-union system. But the plaintiffs argue that the SCOTUS finding further puts the civil-union system in violation of the 2006 ruling, as samesex couples in civil unions will continue to be denied federal benefits. The six same-sex couples serving as plaintiffs are represented by Garden State Equality and Lambda Legal. Last week, however, the state called on the court to allow a full trial, and urged the judge to give lengthy consideration to the issue. In a brief filed Aug. 2, the state attorney general’s office cautioned the judge to proceed slowly on the decision, as the full impact of the June ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act is not yet known, the motion said. The state argued that some federal agencies are weighing whether to grant federal benefits to same-sex married couples, and contended that those benefits could extend to same-sex couples joined in civil unions

in New Jersey. If not, the couples should sue the federal, not state, government, the attorneys argued. Shortly after the DOMA ruling, however, the Obama administration clarified that it would not consider civil unions or domestic partnerships on the same level as full marriage, in respect to federal benefits. The attorneys also argued that the plaintiffs’ summary-judgment motion is an attempt to “side-step the Supreme Court mandate concerning the need for a factual record,” which they said can only be achieved through a full trial. Garden State Equality executive director Troy Stevenson, however, said the decision should not be held off any longer. “There is no time for delay,” Stevenson said. “Civil unions are not now, and never will be, equal to marriage. And New Jersey’s couples deserve better than second-class status. The state must act.” ■

NIGHT OUT IN THE ’HOOD: Washington Square West residents, with four-legged friend in tow, checked out the offerings at National Night Out Aug. 7 at Kahn Park. The event, meant to mobilize residents in support of local-level crime prevention, featured representation by the LGBT Police Liaison Committee, which connects the LGBT and law-enforcement communities. The gathering also included tables from a number of community organizations, as well as food vendors and live music. Photo: Scott A. Drake

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Jonathan Steadman paces around his bench, ringing his bell and eagerly awaiting his next audience. “Free stories! Get them while they are hot, get them while they are buttered,” Steadman shouts outside Carpenters’ Hall in Old City. It is a slow morning for the openly gay actor and his shift just started, but he is optimistic and quickly draws in a couple from Maryland who has never been to Philadelphia before. Steadman has worked as a storyteller for Historic Philadelphia, Inc.’s Once Upon A Nation program for seven years. Once Upon A Nation features 10 different storytelling benches where actors tell stories of the nation’s history right where they happened. Stories are three-to-five minutes long and are told from Memorial Day Weekend through Labor Day. This year, Steadman, a Philadelphia native, has the privilege of telling stories about another fellow Philadelphian, Benjamin Franklin. Steadman’s love for the job developed from both his passion of meeting new people and performing. “It is everything that permeates my being,” he said. Steadman’s love of theater was sparked in 1997 after he graduated from high school and saw the movie version of “Oliver.” “They were acting, singing and dancing the whole time and I said, ‘I’m going to do that for the rest of my life,’” he said. Steadman, who considers himself a “stage” actor, came out at age 29. “I was dating one of my best friends at the time and she came out to me and I came out to her at the same time, so that was fun. But it was kind of scary because I didn’t know what my mother would think. When I told her, her exact words were, ‘I kind of knew that’ and then that made it easier for me,” he said. Steadman entered the theater world in college, studying first at Community College of Philadelphia and then Temple University, and ultimately went on to join Chicago’s famed improve group, The Second City. When the Once Upon a Nation auditions came up, Steadman said he won over the director with the retelling of a humorous, adventurous anecdote from his youth. “I am always crazy-nervous before an audition, so I had to tell a story about my life and I got in with this story: I was dating this young lady and I went to visit her and her family was not home, so we watched ‘Sleepy Hollow’ and once the movie was over, shirts were unbuttoning. I heard a key in the door and it is her mother, so she is doing everything she can to stall her mother, then her dad comes in and she is trying to keep

him away and her little brother comes in and busts through the door and up the stairs so she jumps outside to keep him from coming into her room,” Steadman said, recalling the story with an air of suspense that makes it unsurprising that his was a winning audition. “Her dad gets wind that somebody is upstairs and apparently he owns a sawed-off shotgun and I am not waiting to see if he has a gun in his hand or not. I jumped up, ran to the window, leap out the window and onto a tree. I was hanging there and she has two Doberman pinschers and they are barking

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and the branch collapses. They start chasing me and all of a sudden all my track experience came back to me and I started leaping through people’s fences in their yards.” Steadman quickly captured the director’s attention and, once he was cast, had to navigate how to engage people of all ages with historical stories. “First, I learn where the audience is from and if they are from somewhere like New York, I will sing ‘New York, New York’ to them. If they are from Oklahoma, I will sing ‘Oklahoma’ and be really cheesy just to engage them, and go into the story from there,” he said. “I tend to find ways to engage children and their parents are really helpful. I am extra-animated and I bribe them with little flags.” While Steadman spends his days talking about the city’s past, its present offerings are also vast, he said. “I like that it is accessible. I don’t drive because I am in a large city, so it being accessible is appreciated. There is a good theater community that I love and the arts scene is really good; the poetry and spokenword scene here is really fantastic.” The free Once Upon A Nation benches are open from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. TuesdaysSaturdays until Sept. 2. For more information, visit www.historicphiladelphia.org. ■

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NJ couple still recovering from Sandy By Angela Thomas angela@epgn.com Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc along the Eastern seaboard last fall, and countless families, including one gay couple from New Jersey, are continuing to pick up the pieces left by the historic storm. David Monaco, 33, and his partner, Florin Nikollaj, 35, met four years ago at Woody’s. After two years of dating, they moved

into their first house together in Westville, N.J., Nov. 30, 2011. “I really wasn’t looking for a home but one night I couldn’t sleep and started looking up houses and saw this one,” said Monaco, a restaurant director. “It was close to the waterfront and just seemed perfect, so I emailed the Realtor and said I would like to see the house. They told me it was booked solid for two weeks and would set me up with an appointment to see it, so without physically seeing the house, I made an offer by the photos I saw and they made a counter offer and moved up my appointment to see it.” Monaco and Nikollaj, a data recovery agent, undertook renovations shortly before they moved in.

But, when Hurricane Sandy came ashore in October, the house was hit hard, with more than 5 feet of water filling the basement and 2 feet on the first floor. The couple is now tasked with having the house raised 8 feet, 8 inches and rebuilding the foundation. The Federal Emergency Management Agency told the couple it could not offer assistance, as they had flood insurance, although Monaco noted they do not have contents coverage. Their insurance company will only cover $16,000 of the projected $95,000 that the project will cost. The couple also applied for two grants through ReNewJersey.org, but were turned down. “The state of New Jersey is only giving money to the nine most-impacted counties,” Monaco contended. “We also called Gov. Chris Christie’s office and the Commissioners’ Office to find out if they are going to open it up to more counties and, as of now, I keep getting the runaround.” In order to raise funds to help with repairs, the couple started an online fundraiser but have so far only generated $120. The couple has also raised $700 through other unique fundraising methods. “We’ve just been blasting it on Facebook and we went up to New York where they had a Hurricane Sandy relief concert in which Mariah Carey performed,” Monaco said. “We went there and we made business cards and passed them out to people.” The online fundraiser runs through the end of the month. For more information or to donate, visit http://gogetfunding.com/project/uplifting-experience-raise-the-house-hurricane-sandy. ■

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News Briefing PAC down to seven commissioners The city’s Police Advisory Commission has 12 vacant commissioner positions, including four alternate slots, officials said this week. The PAC, which investigates police-misconduct complaints, is supposed to have 19 commissioners and alternates, but it only has seven. Ed James and Mu’min Islam are the most recent commissioners to leave. Mayor Nutter has the responsibility of directly filling six vacancies. He is also tasked with filling another six vacancies from recommendations supplied by Philadelphia City Council. Mark McDonald, a spokesperson for the Nutter administration, had no comment on when Nutter will fill the vacancies. Chuck Volz, an openly gay commissioner, expressed hope that the vacancies would be filled shortly. “The PAC would be much more effective with a full complement of commissioners,” Volz said. PAC executive director Kelvyn Anderson agreed. “We’re aware that the process [of filling the vacancies] is in the works, and we look forward to welcoming new appointees to the commission as soon as it’s feasible,” Anderson said. One of the PAC’s high-profile cases involves Nizah Morris, a transgender woman who was found with a fatal head injury in 2002 after receiving a “courtesy ride” from police.

Jury trial set for Woody’s case Tyree Lawson, who says he’s permanently injured due to an assault at Woody’s Bar, will have his day in court. On Aug. 1, Common Pleas Judge Idee C. Fox ruled that Lawson’s case can be heard by a Philadelphia jury rather than a city arbitration panel. Lawson contends that he was assaulted by an unidentified bouncer at Woody’s in July 2012, during a melee on the second floor. The LGBT-oriented bar is located at 202 S. 13th St. Lawson allegedly sustained a permanent ankle injury, and he’s seeking in excess of $50,000 in damages, according to court records. Lawson’s attorney, William E. Averona, expressed gratitude for Fox’s ruling. “In my opinion, Mr. Lawson’s injuries exceed the arbitration limits,” Averona told PGN. “So we’re very grateful that Judge Fox has granted a jury trial for him.” Kevin L. Connors, an attorney for Woody’s, declined to comment. — Timothy Cwiek

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Collegiate unwelcome With college classes resuming in a few weeks, students across the nation are likely soaking up the last days of summer before heading off, or returning, to their college campuses. For many LGBT students, their college campus is a safe and affirming place, and a home away from home for youth who have faced intolerance from their families or others. For other students, however, their college campus — an environment generally thought of as a bastion of liberal acceptance where personal growth and freedom is valued — is another stronghold of homophobia. Take, for example, Grove City College in Grove City, about 50 miles north of Pittsburgh. The small, Christian liberalarts college just earned an unenviable title from the Princeton Review: the most LGBT-unfriendly college in the nation. The Review named 20 schools on the list, as well as 20 that are deemed the most LGBT-friendly, a lineup that included Pennsylvania’s Bryn Mawr College. The ratings are based on 126,000 surveys from students regarding the LGBT-friendliness of a college’s academics, student body, administration and other factors. While some have criticized the report methods as not being comprehensive enough, there is clearly a problem at Grove City. On its website, the college says it is founded upon two principles: faith and freedom. It goes on to say the college celebrates “both our diversity and our commonalities” and that its primary goal is to “provide a well-rounded curriculum that helps students see the broad intellectual landscape of ideas, people and events that have shaped, and continue to

shape, our world.” Sounds great. However, the college also notes proudly on its website that it is one of just a handful of schools in the nation that refuses federal student aid, so as to protect against “federal government oversight of our academic programs and finances.” Another red flag is a seeming total absence of words like “sexual orientation,” “gender identity” or “LGBT” anywhere on its website. A group of students founded an LGBT student group in 2011, but that organization appears to now be defunct. The school has also offered courses such as “Sociology of Deviant Behavior” that looks at the “sexually maladjusted.” While the college is a self-defined Christian institution, in 2013 it should be feasible to adhere to one’s faith tenets without marginalizing a sector of a community that surely has a presence on campus, no matter how shadowed. While students can choose to not attend LGBTunfriendly schools, some of these youth may be pressured into a Christian education by parents, and many may not yet be out, or may not yet themselves embrace and accept their orientation or identity. Simple actions like instating an LGBT-inclusive nondiscrimination policy, offering LGBT-specific counseling and resources or hosting out LGBT leaders on campus can mean a world of difference to LGBT or questioning students. Grove City cannot change its culture overnight, but if the university genuinely cares about providing well-rounded education that values “freedom,” it should want to move towards taking itself off the Princeton Review’s list. ■

I’m in a rather shitty Embassy Suites in San Diego using $12 wifi and typing this on my iPad. Why, you ask? Because I’m getting married tomorrow. To my wife of 10 years, in fact. Because in Michigan, where we live, our marriage is not recognized legally. So for the past decade, we’ve been considered total strangers in the eyes of the state. And now with Proposition 8 being overturned and a stake driven through the ugly black heart of the Defense of Marriage Act (and that’s all it was: an act, antigay righteous bullshit theater), we decided to go get ourselves legally wed at long last. Sadly, once we return to Michigan, our marriage will disappear (because marriage equality is magic! Now you see it, cross state lines and now you don’t). I won’t be able to be on my wife’s health-insurance plan, for example. And I still won’t be able to legally adopt my own son. Oh, excuse me, my wife’s son. Er, I mean, the son of the woman I share an address with, according to how the state of Michigan sees me. And they have no problem saying that to my face. Lest anyone think I’m being overly dramatic, I offer for proof the state’s response to a legal challenge to its discriminatory marriage and adoption laws. You see, April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse, a lesbian couple with three children, are suing the state because they want their kids to have two legal parents. But Michigan doesn’t allow adoptions by unmarried couples. And, of course, Michigan also won’t let these ladies get married. And so these ladies are suing Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder. In response to this lawsuit, the state denied “that both plaintiffs are parents of the minor children. Plaintiff DeBoer is the legal parent of R and Plaintiff Rowse is the legal parent of J and N.” In other words, step off, bitches, you aren’t a real family. I take this very personally. The state’s entire legal response to DeBoer and Rowse’s complaint shows an utmost disdain for them as mothers and

dismisses their very serious concerns as trivial and ridiculous at every turn. The couple points out that because Michigan doesn’t allow families like theirs to get married, and therefore denies them the right to adopt the children they are raising, “unmarried second parents seeking to adopt in Michigan are denied legal, emotional, financial, social, medical and other benefits. As such, plaintiffs identified herein are subjected to adverse treatment solely because the minor plaintiffs’ parents are an unmarried couple.” The state response: “To the extent a response is required, state defendants deny that plaintiffs have been subjected to adverse treatment.” Speaking as one of those “unmarried second parents,” I would like to state for the record: The fuck we’re not. I suspect that any parent would find it “adverse” at best to have the state dismiss their entire relationship with their child. What’s especially galling is that the state is claiming that the antigay-marriage ban passed by voters in 2004 is legit. “The Michigan Marriage Amendment fosters the state’s legitimate interest in promoting responsible natural procreation, which, in turn, promotes raising children in a home environment with both a mother and a father, giving the children the benefit of having a role model of both sexes,” the state’s response reads. In other words, the state of Michigan claims that playing nuclear-family police is their job, and only kids born in the penis+vagina fashion are worth protecting. That’s not pure Michigan, that’s pure discrimination. Shame on you, Gov. Snyder, for fighting against families like mine. For fighting against kids under the guise of “protecting” them when what kids really need protecting from is you and your policies. ■

Sadly, once we return to Michigan, our marriage will disappear (because marriage equality is magic! Now you see it, cross state lines and now you don’t).

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

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Street Talk What’s your opinion of the pope’s statement about not judging gay priests? “I think he’s doing it for a facade. He’s trying to put a happy face on a church that’s been wracked with turmoil. The Catholic George Davis Church entertainment marginalizes promoter North Philadelphia so many groups, including women, people of color, LGBTs and people of the third wave. But I am optimistic that this pope will be less bigoted than previous popes.”

“I’m not impressed with it at all. The Catholic Church is set in its ways. The pope is just saying that to get Shantel Haynes more people student to join the Queen Village church. Once LGBTs get there, they’ll be ostracized and alienated.”

“I think it’s great the pope seems to be softening up a bit. He’s in a position of power, so his words carry influence. Robert Mish He can software developer revolutionize Northern Liberties people’s opinions on the subject. After all, Jesus never said anything [that was] antigay. Why would the pope have to be antigay?”

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Do we have to forgive the ex-gays? When Alan Chambers, the president of Exodus “ex-gay” Ministries, publically apologized for the hurt he has caused LGBT people, I forgave him. There are few things more powerful to change attitudes about LGBT lives than religious leaders publically sharing their personal journeys toward understanding. No need to flagellate him for past wrongdoings; he’s here now. Let’s look forward. My fellow LGBT commentators haven’t been so eager to hand out forgiveness to anyone who asks for it. Look no further than the comments sections of LGBT media reports on the apology to see a litany of the psychological and spiritual torture that Chambers and his ilk have per-

petuated, however well-intended his apology. Their issue with Exodus wasn’t that they simply disagreed with the message, but that the message caused real harm, even death. In light of this, how could I have been so willing to let it all go and move on? The problem, if you want to call it that, is that I have never once doubted that my sexual orientation was perfectly fine in the eyes of my creator. Even when I faced discrimination at work and school, or worried that my family would never understand, or if being gay would doom me to a life of loneliness, I laid all my concerns at the feet of other people, not God. My spirituality only ever served to give me strength

and determination in a world of human frailty. I have no idea what it’s like to think that my very being, as Joel Osteen frequently puts it, isn’t “God’s best plan” — a new and improved way of saying God still thinks LGBT lives kinda suck. Now yet another Exodus leader, former vice president Randy Thomas, has apologized. The responses are just as damning as before: His apology is vague, or hollow, or means nothing until he actually does something to undo the damage. Some suggested that Thomas donate all the money he ever made from Exodus to PFLAG, or any other organization doing the clean-up work. This all makes sense to me on an intel-

lectual level. We throw words like “forgiveness” around the same way that we call anyone who manages to survive a calamity a “hero.” The power of those words is too easily diluted by sloppy, facile use. Here we have men who, correctly, acknowledged their mistakes. Good. This is important. But just how admirable is it to decide to do the right thing after you’ve been doing the wrong thing time after time? I truly don’t know. Both of these men have made declarations to keep providing support and ministry to people who choose to keep trying to be straight — or something along those lines. I’m not sure if that’s the accepted PAGE 23 terminology. Could it

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Gayborhood Crime Watch The following incidents in the Midtown Village and Washington Square West areas were reported to the 6th Police District between July 22-28. Information is courtesy of 6th District Capt. Brian Korn; Stacy Irving, senior director, Crime Prevention Service; Center City District; the Police Liaison Committee and Midtown Village Merchants Association. To report crime tips, visit www.phillypolice.com or call 215-686TIPS (8477). INCIDENTS — Between 10:30-11:05 a.m. July 22, someone cut the lock off a rear gate of a delivery truck that was parked outside 151 S. Broad St. and stole a hand truck and two boxes containing computer printers. — At 12:20 a.m. July 24, a man saw a male on a bicycle steal his own bike, which was secured to a pole outside 12th and Locust streets. The thief left behind the bike he was riding. The victim attempted to chase him but could not catch him. The suspect was described as a black male, bald, wearing a red shirt with a black backpack. Sixth District Officer Haberle attempted to lift fingerprints from the bicycle left behind. — Between 5-6 p.m. July 27, someone stole an iPod, cash and a gym bag from an unlocked 2000 Toyota that was parked in the 1300 block of Chestnut Street. — At 8:15 p.m. July 27, a male with his hand in his pocket, simulating a weapon, demanded the employee of the 7-11 at 932 Market St. give him money. The male fled west with some cash. He was described as black, between 40-60, 5-foot-5, 150 pounds, with a gray beard and wearing a blue track suit, sandals, black hat and glasses. — At 8:45 p.m. July 27, a man left the engine running of his 2004 Chevy while he made a delivery in the 1100 block of Spruce Street and someone stole the vehicle. No description of the suspect(s) was available. NON-SUMMARY ARRESTS — At 12:30 p.m. July 23, a complainant saw a male steal his bicycle that he had secured to a pole outside 111 S. 13th St. and run north on 13th Street. The victim gave chase. Center City District Officer Fegley saw the males running, ascertained what occurred and apprehended the suspect and recovered the bicycle. The 27-year-old homeless suspect was charged with theft. — On July 23, 6th District plainclothes Officers Ferrero and Hill set up surveillance in the area of Juniper and Walnut streets and at 1:35 p.m. observed a male steal a bicycle from outside 208 S. Juniper St. The 22-year-old suspect with a New York address was charged with theft. — At 9:40 p.m. July 24, Citywide Vice officers made a prostitution arrest in the1200 block of Spruce Street. — On July 25, 6th District plainclothes Officers Ferrero and Hill set up surveillance in the area of 11th and Market streets and at 10:20 a.m. observed a male steal a bicycle from outside 41 S. 11th St. The 28-year-old homeless suspect was charged with theft. — At 11:25 a.m. July 25, Center City District Officers Moore and Bates observed a male engage in an illegal narcotics transaction outside 10th and Market streets. The 50-year-old suspect with an Olney address was charged with illegal narcotics sales. — On July 26, 6th District plainclothes Officers Ferrero and Hill set up surveillance in the area of 11th and Chestnut streets and at 9:30 a.m. observed a male steal a bicycle from outside 1100 Chestnut St. The 46-year-old suspect with a South Philadelphia address was charged with theft. — On July 27, 6th District plainclothes Officers Ferrero and Hill set up surveillance in the area of 11th and Chestnut streets and at 11:40 a.m. observed a male steal a bicycle from outside 100 S. 11th St. The 31-year-old suspect with a West Philadelphia address was charged with theft. ■

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Media Trail US lawmakers want end to blood ban The Miami Herald reports that more than 80 members of Congress launched a renewed push to end a ban on blood donation by men who have engaged in gay sex. The lawmakers sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Aug. 2 requesting an update on the agency’s reevaluation of the policy. The effort was led by out Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), who said the “existing lifetime ban continues to perpetuate inaccurate stereotypes against gay and bisexual men, and fosters an atmosphere that promotes discrimination.” She was joined by 84 other lawmakers, including one

Republican, Sen. Mike Enzi (Wyo.). The ban was established in 1983 at the advent of the HIV-AIDS crisis. But lawmakers and others say there is no scientific evidence to support it. There have also been advances in blood-screening technology. The letter says progress in Health Department studies to support a policy change has been slow.

Bencomo hasn’t filed a lawsuit, saying he would rather settle the matter out of court. A former school official said he thinks Bencomo would still be teaching if the wedding photos weren’t published.

Catholic school fires gay teacher after wedding

AL.com reports an Alabama family court judge has approved a settlement allowing the children of a divorced woman to have overnight visits with their mother and her lesbian partner. The woman and her ex-husband divorced in Washington state in 2010, and a judge granted custody to her ex-husband. He moved to Mobile with the children, ages 5 and 10, for a job transfer, and Southern Poverty Law Center attorneys say his ex-wife also moved to Alabama to have regular visits with their children. Southern Poverty Law Center lawyers who represented the woman say they believe the ruling may be the first time an Alabama judge has allowed unrestricted visitation to unmarried partners.

According to the San Bernadino Sun, a gay teacher at a Catholic high school in Southern California lost his job after his wedding pictures were published in a local newspaper. Ken Bencomo, 45, was fired from St. Lucy’s Priory after marrying his partner of 10 years. Bencomo’s lawyer says officials were aware of Bencomo’s orientation for at least 10 of the 17 years he worked at the school. In a statement, St. Lucy’s said the school educates students in the tradition of the Catholic faith.

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Lawsuit challenging Va. gay-marriage ban filed Hampton Roads.com reports civil-liberties and gay-rights groups are challenging Virginia’s same-sex marriage ban in court. The ACLU of Virginia and Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit Aug. 1 in federal court. Two couples, one from Staunton and the other from Winchester, are plaintiffs. Virginia voters in 2006 approved a constitutional amendment prohibiting gay marriage and denying recognition of such marriages sanctioned by other states. Earlier this summer, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision of the federal Defense of Marriage Act that denied federal benefits to married gay couples. The justices also left intact a lower-court ruling overturning California’s gay-marriage ban. That decision was based on a legal technicality and did not address the law’s constitutionality. ■ — compiled by Larry Nichols

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International Second annual Pride in Uganda On Aug. 3, Uganda’s LGBT community stepped out of the shadows in red wigs and glittering stilettos. The country’s second gay Pride parade, held on a sandy beach in Entebbe, drew more than 100 people eager to tell the world that they are out, they are proud and they are not afraid to show it. Last year’s parade, the first-ever in Uganda, was broken up by police and several people were arrested. But the fact that they were able to pull it off at all has given the community newfound confidence, said activist Kelly Mukwano. “That success gave us confidence that we

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can do it,” Mukwano said. “We are getting more confident as time goes by.” Last Saturday’s march was sheltered in the leafy recesses of a botanical garden about 20 miles from Kampala. But this year, police were informed in advance and the authorities did not intervene. Some revelers said it is only a matter of time before they are able to march through the streets of the capital. Uganda has a grim track record when it comes to gay rights. The country grabbed headlines in 2009 with the introduction of a draconian antiLGBT bill, which proposed the death penalty for acts of so-called “aggravated homosexuality.” The bill has yet to be debated by parliament.

honor of one of the city’s biggest parties: the annual gay Pride celebration. The festivities centered on a colorful boat flotilla sailing through the city’s ancient canals, each with its own theme, pumping out dance music. Notable floats this year included one critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin and a boat organized by the Netherlands’ soccer association. Tolerance for homosexuality is a point of pride in Amsterdam, as the Netherlands became the first country to legalize gay marriage back in 2001.

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A New York-based human-rights group on Aug. 1 called for Jamaican police to conduct a full investigation into the mob killing of a transgender teenager. Dwayne Jones was found dead July 22 near the northern city of Montego Bay after being attacked by a crowd of people while attending a dance party in women’s cloth-

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ing. Authorities said the 16-year-old was stabbed multiple times and shot once. In a statement, Human Rights Watch said Jamaican authorities need to send an “unequivocal message that there will be zero tolerance for violence against LGBT people.” Justice Minister Mark Golding recently condemned the slaying, saying police “must spare no effort” in finding the killers. Activists say Jamaican gays, particularly those in poor communities, suffer frequent discrimination. An anti-sodomy law bans anal sex on the island and advocates for gays argue that the colonial-era statute fuels homophobia. A gay-rights activist is trying to challenge the constitutionality of the nearly 150-year-old law in a Jamaican court. Last year, a local gay-rights group, Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals & Gays, received 36 reports from adult gay males saying they were the victims of mob violence due to their sexual orientation. ■ — compiled by Larry Nichols

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their action.” Such grievances have previously been filed by the state attorney general, county district attorney or an individual with a personal stake, the suit contended, but not the Department of Health. It went on to state that mandamus is “appropriate only where the plaintiff has a clear legal right to compel the performance of a duty” and is “not proper to enforce a right which is doubtful.” The county further argues that the state does not adequately demonstrate that “its legal rights are clear and free from doubt,” a prerequisite for relief. The state also filed an application for expedited consideration, to attempt to move the issue quickly through the court. The county filed a separate motion last week in response to that request, calling expedition a “waste of the court’s time and resources.” The filing also noted that the state was slow to act after Hanes announced he would grant licenses to same-sex couples; it took the state more than a week to respond to Hanes’ action. “It is somewhat disingenuous on the part of the petitioner to ask this court to act with a sense of urgency that petitioner itself did not display when respondent announced his intention and began acting in conformity therewith,” the filing stated. It is unclear if the court will hold arguments on the issue or issue a ruling, and when either could occur. In the meantime, Hanes continues to issue licenses.

In response to some of the backlash he has faced, about 100 LGBTs and allies gathered for an impromptu rally Monday outside the Norristown County Courthouse to thank Hanes. Speakers included state Sen. Daylin Leach (D-17th Dist.), who has spearheaded a marriage-equality bill in the Senate for a number of sessions and recently presided over a number of marriage ceremonies of couples who were licensed in Montgomery County. “Bruce Hanes did exactly what the law commands,” Leach said in his remarks. “Bruce Hanes took an oath of office. The oath of office requires him to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America.” Also on the speakers’ list were state Reps. Mark Cohen (D-202nd Dist.), Madeline Dean (D-153rd Dist.), Matt Bradford (D70th Dist.) and Brendan Boyle (D-170th Dist.), and a number of same-sex couples who received their licenses from Hanes. Cohen read from an official House resolution he authored, backing Hanes and marriage equality. “We are already winning this battle,” he told the crowd about the recent developments in the marriage-equality movement in Pennsylvania. “When is same-sex marriage coming to Pennsylvania? It’s already here.” The event was organized over the weekend by Oreland residents Michelle Lockman and Julie Phillips. Hanes was not in attendance, but his office is located across the street from the courthouse. ■

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ties, low-income and elderly citizens, who are less likely than other groups to possess photo ID. Opponents have also argued that the law could prevent transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals whose physical presentation does not match their current photo ID cards from voting. Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson blocked the law in 2012; however, a decision was left open-ended on whether the law would be used this year.

It is unclear whether McGinley will rule on the overall constitutionality of the law. NAACP Philadelphia president J. Whyatt Mondesire said in a release last week that the delay of the law’s implementation is a positive development. “This was a good decision on behalf of the state lawyers,” he said. “If this is truly about the integrity of the vote, then the state should not rush to implement a law that could hamper free and unfettered participation in our democracy.” ■

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Playwrights premiere new works at GayFest By Larry Nichols larry@epgn.com Quince Productions is bringing back some of its favorite playwrights for the third annual GayFest, the city’s only LGBT theater festival, presented at various venues through Aug. 24. As in previous years, GayFest is presenting four stage plays aimed at LGBT audiences as well as hosting galas, parties, readings and other events during the course of the festival. Two of the shows featured this year are

Philadelphia premieres. “The New Century,” a comedy by Paul Rudnick, follows the story of a Long Island “supermom” to three LGBT children. “The Homosexuals” by Philip Dawkins examines the fears, doubts and hopes faced by gay men in the first decade of the 21st century. And two returning playwrights this year are world-premiering their plays at GayFest. Sarah Pappalardo is debuting “Cold,” which she first presented in a reading at last year’s festival. The story follows stoic butch Linda, who

is dealing with the strife of having to sell her once-legendary Chicago lesbian dive when the darkest days are intruded upon by her hard-drinking business partner, as well as a young transman and his lesbian ex-girlfriend. Pappalardo said the reaction from the audiences who attended the reading last year were very encouraging. “It was overwhelmingly positive,” she said. “We had an impromptu Q&A after the reading last year, and it was a very cool, engaged and diverse group of people of all ages from all over Philly. It spurred a dis-

cussion not only of the identity issues that are brought up in the play, but also gentrification. It seems like a lot of Philly residents had a lot to say about the similarities in the gentrification change in Chicago to Philadelphia. I learned a lot about it, so it was a really cool discussion and a great response to the play.” Pappalardo said there weren’t too many changes made to the story between the reading and the final stage version of “Cold.” “It made me realize the play reached certain people in ways I didn’t expect but

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I don’t think any changes were made to heighten the themes of the play. There was some refining of the characters. It wasn’t a major expansion of the play. It was more just taking from the readings some holes and a few weaknesses and tightening them up and refining the flow of the play.” Daniel Talbott, who has had plays performed at all of the previous editions of GayFest, is world-premiering “Someone Brought Me,” a drama he wrote specially for GayFest that deals with a gay couple trying to navigate life and love in the brutal and harsh near-future world. “They’re all about relationships,” Talbott said about the plays he has presented at GayFest. “This play is about the future and is more about politics, both emotional and sexual. Also it’s looking into the future about possibly where our country is going in a global way. It’s set in the future when the country is involved in an active world war. The government is not what we knew it to be. There are almost like ‘backyards’ for the rich. Whole cities have become a property. Natural resources are very depleted and there’s a 10-times-more-extreme separation between the wealthy and the poor than there is now. The wealthy have sectioned off part of where they live to us poor people. Poor people can’t travel between zones and they have to stay where they are. The wealthy can travel and do what they want to do. In this place and time, this couple has a very checkered background: One becomes incredibly successful, while one was successful before the war but isn’t after the war.” Talbott added that in this future world, the concept of marriage doesn’t mean what it does today. “At one point, one character says, ‘We’re married’ and the other guy goes, ‘Oh, that doesn’t exist anymore,’” he said. “In the future, all marriages will be eradicated. It’s more about property and ownership and wealth. It’s looking at the question, What is your actual hold on a human being? Is it marriage or is it something else? It’s more about emotional politics in a way. What is ownership for a couple? What is privatized and not privatized amongst couples? How

do you tackle that kind of exchange?” Talbott, who said he is already penning his contribution for next year’s GayFest, added he hopes to branch out into writing for other media besides theater. “I think I’m pretty lucky,” he said. “I make my living as a theater artist, which is rare. I produce, I direct, I write. I run a company. Hopefully I will keep working for myself and get to work with people that I love and create more often. I’m trying to work in TV and film as well. I just finished writing my first TV show. I hope to do all of that. I hope to be bicoastal this year, working in Los Angeles and New York. The goal is to keep expanding and continuing to work on different things and in all three mediums: theater, television and film. Theater is the heart of it so I’d like to go further with that.” Pappalardo said she intends to keep on writing but not to expect any new theater pieces from her at next year’s GayFest. “I’m working on a dark comedy about a cult that is currently in the days after their proposed apocalypse, but that has been put on the back burner due to a site that I just launched called Reductress, which is a satirical women’s magazine,” she said. “A lot of my playwriting has been put on the back burner because of that.” Pappalardo added that GayFest is important to LGBT writers, performers and audiences alike. “It’s the one place where you can see a lot of good queer art. Any space like that is so, so important because we don’t see enough of it. It means a lot to me to be a part of it and for my play to be a part of it. I’m just really excited to see some new work in the queer sphere. In Philly it’s super important to be able to come to one place and really enjoy a festival that means a lot more to people that don’t get to see queer art on a day-to-day basis.” ■ Quince Productions presents GayFest through Aug. 24. For a complete list and schedule of shows and events or to purchase tickets, visit www.quinceproductions.com or call 215-627-1088.

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working-class men and women seemingly in the midst of tender, romantic moments. According to Brassaï, however, the wateringhole was a seedy dive where pimps forced women into prostitution. In comparison, Cartier-Bresson’s vision is more humane and encompasses a wider range of subjects than that of his contemporary. Working in Spain shortly before its civil war, he captured gritty, moving images of the poor, and yet his beautiful 1933 image known as “Italy” portrays a nude man and woman with all the detail of a classical sculpture. C a r t i e rBresson’s surrealist roots never disappear entirely. In his 1937 photograph “Coronation of King George VI,” the artist turns his camera away from the ceremony and towards “LEE MILLER AND the spectators. FRIEND” BY MAN RAY The resulting image is just as unexpected and startling as his earlier work, “Allée du Prado,” where a pedestrian he had been following turned suddenly and met his gaze. Fortunately, the artist’s camera was at the ready, and he captured this “decisive moment,” as he called it. Another attractive feature of “French Twist” is the generous sampling of artwork by women, who were just as likely to be snapping photos as they were to be modeling for them. Ilse Bing’s photographs of Parisian street scenes convey the hustle and bustle of urban life, often just by showing a city sidewalk or an ad posted on the side of a building. Known as the “Queen of the Leica,” this GermanJewish émigré shot many photos in between assignments for fashion magazines and newspapers. Also noteworthy are the photographs of Dora Maar. Her images of street scenes are far from pedestrian. Somehow, with crystalline clarity, she captured images of breathtaking absurdity that epitomize the Surrealist project. In the photograph “L’Orangerie,” she achieves a striking effect simply by taking a straightforward image of an architectural detail and displaying it upside-down. The curious are encouraged to check it out for themselves. The Delaware Art Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday, and admission on Sundays is free. On Sept. 6, the sexy models of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School will lounge about in period costumes looking louche — just in case you’d like to whip out your sketchbook and draw them. For more information, visit http://www. delart.org/. ■

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364 days and counting ... The announcement for the closing ceremonies is expected very soon. To keep current on that and other announcements, the pair encouraged everyone to sign up for the news blasts at gg9cle. com/contact/ and follow them on Facebook. So far just about 10 percent of the anticipated 11,000 participants have registered. Nobbe says that’s about what they expected. “Our projections for attendance and where we should be in registration numbers are based on previous games,” he said. “Ten percent, a little under 10 percent, is pretty good. Of course we’d like to see more registered this summer.” If you are not registered yet, get online now (gg9cle.org) before the registration goes up $30 on Sept. 1. You can register for your competition later; there is no price break on that. If you’re just going for the hot athletes and want to be at the opening ceremonies, you need this initial registration as well. Think of it as having that saved money in Cleveland for a lunch or dinner. As for travel and lodging, Team Philadelphia gets a break because Cleveland is easily reachable in seven or eight hours of driving. This gives us a great opportunity to rally as many people as we can to participate one or more days. You could easily go for the weekends and still hit work in between. Those planning on staying for several days or the entire run of eight should get onto the website and check out the lodging options. When asked if the area was ready for 11,000 athletes plus friends, fans and others, both Nobbe and Smitherman were enthusiastic about the opportunities. “We have partnered with a number of hotels and we’re comfortable that everyone should be able to stay very close to where they compete,” Nobbe said. “Plus, there are dorms available, so there is that option. We got some great hotels and it is definitely not too early to book rooms.” So no one is going to have to stay in Youngstown and com-

mute, and you can even stay on a campus if you like. Both agreed that with only a year to go, there is still much to be done. The week leading into the games through the day after closing ceremonies, there are many opportunities to get involved. If you want to become a GG9 champion, you can promote the games with posters, fliers and outreach that organizers will assist with. Most of all, they are looking for volunteers. “We need a lot of help to do this. Volunteers are one of the ways people can get involved and be a part of this,” Smitherman said. “We are working out a way to let people have some way of volunteering in an area they want to. There will be some benefits, yes. For one, every volunteer gets a commemorative T-shirt. We haven’t set up other perks yet.” There will be a number of announcements in the very near future. Additional sponsor announcements and the closing ceremonies news are imminent. I asked if there was a vodka sponsor yet. They both answered with a long “nooo” and Nobbe added, “But you can be sure that we won’t get a Russian one. That’s a very hot subject here right now.” Perhaps even sooner than

those announcements, the gg9cle.com site is about to get a whole lot friendlier. “We’ve been getting feedback and input on the website so it is in the process of being reworked,” Nobbe said. “It is going to be much more userfriendly, more intuitive and have more information and updates. Watch for it the next week or so.” We will! Next column, there will be more about the eating, drinking, playing and shopping in Cleveland. Here’s a teaser: What well-known Food Network chef calls Cleveland home? Short stops • The first gay day at the Reading Phillies is Aug. 14. PGN has a bunch of free tickets! If you want to go, hit me up through email, my work phone or online. • The LGBT national volleyball tournament is Aug. 10-11 at Competitive Edge Sports, 320 S. Henderson Road, King of Prussia. ■ Countdown to Gay Games 9: 364 days. Send your information, questions and miscellaneous thoughts about vodka to scott@epgn.com.

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Think you’re busy? Try organizing a 10,000-person, eightday party, raise the money to pay for it and provide the location and entertainment — and you’re the only designated driver. One year from now, organizers in Cleveland/Akron present the opening ceremonies for Gay Games 9, and Northeast Ohio will be flooded with LGBTQA athletes from around the world. They are anticipating 10,000plus participants and thousands more spectators, who will eat, sleep, party and compete from Aug. 9-15, 2014. I enjoyed a great conversation with Tom Nobbe, executive director of the games, and events coordinator Rob Smitherman this past week, and I know these guys are busting one to make GG9 spectacular in every sense. For the month of August, as the Philly sports scene regroups for fall, I’ll be writing about the GG9 and the Cleveland area, so clip and save! Starting from the top, Nobbe said they recently completed the paperwork to hold the opening ceremonies at Progressive Field, home of the Cleveland Indians. “We’re having a year-out kickoff party at Progressive Stadium this year on Aug. 9 to promote the Gay Games,” Nobbe said. “It’s our gay night out and this starts the countdown right where the opening ceremonies are going to be.” Smitherman added that organizers are still working on booking entertainment for the opening. “We’ve talked to a number of people, but most are telling us that it’s too far out to make a commitment,” he said. “But there is still plenty of time to get entertainment lined up.” No names are being released as potential performers at this time. When asked about the closing ceremonies, the pair was enthusiastic, but cautious. “We have a great potential site for the closing ceremonies but we can’t say anything until we get all the details worked out on paper,” Nobbe said. “Once we do that, I think people will be excited for the closing location as well.”

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same issues she normally had a problem with, gender aside. It’s not the right class of person or they don’t have the right social standing. That is important to her. I think it’s really interesting and doesn’t put any false political message on it in my mind. It’s just how it is. It keeps the heart of all the characters as Oscar Wilde wanted them. The issue that he’s poking fun at, the fact that Lady Bracknell finds all the trivial things important and all the important things trivial, those haven’t changed.” This production is a first for Mauck, as she is making her first appearance in a Mauckingbird production, performing as Dr. Chasuble. “[Director] Peter [Reynolds] offered that part,” Mauck said about how she came to be cast in the show. “His number-one most brilliant side of directing he has is casting and he can pick the perfect people for the role. This is the first time we have done a show where I fit the role. I’m really glad that he asked me to do it. This is definitely a fun switch. My favorite part about the character is how seriously she takes herself in terms of book-learning. I don’t think she’s taken a lot of time to think about herself. She’s career-driven and thinks about the church and her duties there. It’s fun to play a character that is a little bit similar to myself. I work a lot and like working. It’s fun to see it in another person and think about what that means for you.” Mauck said Reynolds hasn’t decided what the next show will be, but the company will continue to put an LGBT stamp on the classics. “The number-one thing we are interested in doing is telling good stories,” she said. “The classic texts are obviously great stories that have been tried and tested. It’s a little bit of a higher bar for new works to meet that standard because they don’t have the longstanding tradition of being a great story.” Mauckingbird Theatre Company presents “The Importance of Being Earnest” through Aug. 25 at Off-Broad Street Theater, 1636 Sansom St. For more information or tickets, call 215-923-8909 or visit www.mauckingbird.org. ■

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Jay McCarroll: Wearing his heart on his sleeve “Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.” — Orson Welles We’ve been saying for ages that we were going to do an interview, and this week I finally got fellow Philadelphian, fashion auteur and “Project Runway” winner Jay McCarroll to sit down for an interview. PGN: So what was a nice Irish boy from Lehman, Pa., doing working in pornography? JM: Wow. You’re going to go right there, huh? OK, making a living. I wasn’t doing it myself, I worked for a live sex website and my job was in management, thankfully. [Laughs.] I wouldn’t want anything to come back and haunt me. My job was to monitor the chat that was happening, making sure people didn’t say anything too inappropriate or intervening if someone recognized the girls from high school or had any personal connection. Then I’d have to kick them off the site. PGN: It’s good to hear that there’s some oversight. JM: Oh yeah, the men would say terrible things to these girls, violent, terrible, awful things, so there were always two of us on each shift monitoring what was happening. We’d sit and watch eight hours of pornographic chat and kick off people accordingly. I then moved my way up through management but eventually decided that I was uncomfortable having everything in my house — dishes, furniture, etc. — paid for by porn. But no regrets, it was a very informative time in my life. I was helping people keep their jobs and I learned a lot about human nature; everyone wants to blame the women involved but they’re just supplying a service that multitudes of people utilize, so everyone needs to be under scrutiny, not just the girls. I mean can you blame someone for wanting to make $250 for 30 minutes of work? It’s hard to turn down when you need the funds. PGN: I think prostitution being illegal is the most ridiculous law in the land. But I digress. Let’s get back to you. JM: I agree. Anyway I was, and still am, the youngest of six kids. My father was a bricklayer. My brother and sister still run the concrete plant we grew up around. All my sisters were in the high-school band so my mother made all the uniforms. That’s where I got started. And to clarify, we’re still debating whether or not we’re Irish or Scottish. We always thought we were Scottish and then my sister looked us up on Ancerstry.com and found out we have some kind of Irish history happening. So we’re something -ish, but not sure which. I had a very small-town-America upbringing. They were just normal folks, they

didn’t drink or smoke or do anything fun. Well, my dad chewed tobacco, until the day he died. PGN: What was the best thing about small-town life? JM: Probably the safety aspect. We didn’t lock our doors, left the keys in the car, it was that kind of place, probably still is. We didn’t even have a traffic light, just stop signs, a post office and a general store. PGN: Who’s the funniest in the family? JM: My dad was funny. He was very much a character, outspoken and didn’t give a shit about what people thought. I definitely inherited some of that from him. His nickname was Butch! So here was the son of “Butch” McCarroll always in the front yard, twirling my sister’s color-guard flags or throwing batons and making costumes out of lame, it was crazy. PGN: Who was the biggest influence? JM: Well, with six kids, by the time they got to me my parents were over parenting. So my sisters pretty much raised me. They’d take me on trips to New York and Philadelphia — I went to a B-52s concert at age 10 — and listened to Pink Floyd and did all sorts of far-out things because of them. From day one, I’d always been creative and preferred crayons over footballs, and with them I was allowed to be myself. It wasn’t until I left my house that I realized that I was different. When I went to school, people were awful to me. [Laughs.] This is becoming a therapy session! PGN: When did you first start to think of yourself as a professional fashion designer? JM: I’m probably still trying to figure all that out. My family wanted me to be an architect but I wasn’t interested, I was fascinated with fabric and color and started making my own clothes in high school. Actually I started making things for myself around 8 or 10 so it seemed like the right path for me. I guess I felt like a professional when people started buying my things. I studied at London College of Fashion and after I graduated I moved back to London. I couldn’t find a job so I had my mother ship over my sewing machine and fabric and I started making clothes and sold them at Camden Market. PGN: How did you get hooked up with “Project Runway”? JM: I was working with a nonprofit in New York called Gen Art that works with fashion designers and photographers and other artists. I’d done a few international contests with them and they sent an email out letting people know about the auditions for the show. And as they say [using an accent], “The rest is history.”

PGN: So you won the first season. I didn’t know until now that you’d turned down the prize money? JM: I’m pretty sure, or I hope, that anyone in the same position would morally do the same thing I did. PGN: I think you overestimate the morals of most people. JM: For me, it wasn’t even a choice. I have zero regrets about it. It was the best decision I ever made and, nine years later, I’m still confident in my decision. Sure, $100,000 would be great, but I could have blown it in a weekend and then what? PGN: You’d be tied to them for perpetuity ... JM: Actually, I can’t discuss any details. Look at me, I’ve become so media savvy! PGN: [Laughs.] Understood, I guess people can Google it and see the speculations. What was your favorite challenge on the show?

You’d end up with a Duct-taped, cardboard and Mylar house. But if I had to pick, I’d probably say the dress I made for Banana Republic, inspired by the Chrysler Building in New York. PGN: I like the unconventional challenges. JM: They’re great. If in your real life you’re a designer who makes beautiful silk charmeuse gowns inspired by old Hollywood and then you’re given Reese’s peanut butter cups to work with, it really shows how creative you are. But I also like when the designers are given free rein. When someone is allowed to do a piece they’re passionate about that expresses who they are, it’s fabulous, because sometimes they go too far. When they had them design for male strippers last year — while it was good-eye candy — it was ridiculous. I felt for the designers. How are people in the industry going to take you seriously when you’ve been on a show designing rip-away clothes for Australian male strippers? It wasn’t a high point. PGN: You spent some time in Amsterdam, what was that like? JM: It was amazing. Crazy. I couldn’t do it now. I lived in an attic, with no bathroom or kitchen. I had to pee in a bucket and figure out how to store food without any refrigeration. It was weird but wonderful. Buying groceries, I shopped by the pictures. I bought everything with an orange on it because I at least knew it would be orange-flavored. Amsterdam is beautiful and romantic, sexy and dirty and sleazy and super free. Everyone was like, “Come on, have fun, eat cheese, smoke weed and have sex.” And once a week there’s an outdoor market that just sells fabric. It’s fabulous.

JM: My favorite part was actually the finale, because we finally got time to work on our pieces and got to do what we wanted to put out for the world to see. The rest of the challenges you had to whip something together and there were always stipulations on what or how you did it. You only had a day, so it was unfinished and you didn’t have a great selection of fabric choices. Can you imagine someone saying, “You have to build a house and you have 15 minutes to grab all the building materials”?

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PGN: Where else have you traveled? JM: I’ve been to Asia and all across the United States, which is its own planet.

PGN: Do you think having travel experience is important to a designer? JM: Yeah, well the world is so cross-pollinated these days. We’re becoming one big globalized society; we’re looking to “thirdworld” countries for their handcrafts and color pallets. There’s not much we have that’s original anymore, we’re just regurgitating everything PAGE 36

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British pub menu has a rugged charm By Larry Nichols larry@epgn.com Now that the birth of Prince George has ignited a fresh wave of Royal Anglo-mania, it seemed like the perfect time to visit Victoria Freehouse, 10 Front St. The British Pub certainly feels authentic from the moment you step inside, with its dimly lit interior and the type of everyman

atmosphere and classic décor that sets the tone for the knocking back of pints and watching soccer matches on ESPN. The food lends itself to those activities quite well, especially the starter and pub snacks. The Tikka pizza ($9) was unexpected with its thin crust and a layer of cheddar covering a spicy Indian-influenced sauce, but it was light, crispy and tasty.

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The Devils on Horseback, dates stuffed with Stilton and wrapped with bacon ($5), had a nice balance of sweetness and fatty richness. The Scotch egg ($6) was textbook perfection and the pickled deviled eggs ($3) could easily be the best in the city, with their lovely flavor and flawless texture inside and out. We fell in love with the curried cheese chips ($7), and added Victoria Freehouse to our very-short list of favorite places to get French fries in Philly. These chips were swimming in a spicy, cheesy sauce that we could not pull ourselves away from. But we could tell the chips by themselves would be equally as heavenly. We figured the chips were a good-enough indication and skipped the fish in favor of some of the heartier main-fare dishes. The beef stew ($15) definitely did not skimp on the beef, as that element easily outnumbered the mass of the stew and the potatoes by an impressive margin. The stew itself was pleasantly thick and homestyle in flavor and presentation. The banger and mash ($15) were great too, with the sausages sweet, robust and juicy. The potatoes where whipped into lovely submission and the onion gravy gave the whole dish a nice kick in the pants. Drool all you want over the latest branch in the Royal Family tree, but we’d rather lavish our energy and affections on British food and good times at Victoria Freehouse. ■

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IS THE WATER WARM ENOUGH?: Surfer girls ride the waves to drama and glory in the film “Blue Crush,” airing 9 p.m. Aug. 11 on Logo.

THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT: Rock group Paramore will be one of a number of acts performing on “Teen Choice 2013” awards show airing live from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, 8 p.m. Aug. 11 on Fox.

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Men’s books 1. “Passionate Attention of an Interesting Man” by Ethan Mordden (Magnus, $19.99 pb). 2. “Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh” by Thomas Glave (Akashic, $15.95 pb). 3. “Heaven of Words: Last Journals, 1956-1984” by Glenway Wescott, edited by Jerry Rosco (U. of Wisconsin, $24.95 pb). 4. “For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow Is Not Enough” by Keith Boykin (Magnus, $15.95 pb). 5. “Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls” by David Sedaris (Little, Brown, $27 hb, $12.99 ebook). Sedaris shows once again why his work has been called “hilarious, elegant, and surprisingly moving” by the Washington Post. 6. “Best Gay Stories 2013,” edited by Steve Berman (Lethe, $18 pb, $9.99 ebook). The sixth volume of “Best Gay Stories” explores the entirety of the diverse gay literary market. 7. “The Gallery” by John Horne Burns (New York Review, $18.95 pb). 8. “The Moon’s Deep Circle” by David Holly (Bold Strokes, $16.95 pb).

I WILL CUT A ... : The new cooking competition “Cutthroat Kitchen” hands four chefs each $25,000 and the opportunity to spend that money on helping themselves or sabotaging their competitors with chef and food expert Alton Brown hosting as the devilish provocateur, 10 p.m. Aug. 11 on the Food Network.

READY TO RACK!: “Double Divas” follows LiviRae owners and best friends Molly Hopkins, the “boob whisperer,” and Cynthia Richards, the “Thomas Edison” of custom lingerie, as they display their natural talent helping women with any and all intimate-apparel needs, 10 p.m. Aug. 13 on Lifetime. Photo: Scott Gries

Women’s and trans books 1. “Broken in Soft Places” by Fiona Zedde (Bold Strokes, $16.95 pb). 2. “Full Circle” by Skyy (Urban, $14.95 pb). 3. “Gender and Sexuality for Beginners” by Jaimee Garbacik (Steerforth, $16.99 pb). Examines the evolution of gender roles and definitions of sexual orientation in American society. 4. “Maxie Mainwaring, Lesbian Dilettante” by Monica Nolan (Kensington, $15 pb). 5. “The Lesbian Kama Sutra” by Kat Harding (Carlton, $14.95 hb). 6. “The Other Side of Paradise” by Staceyann Chin (Scribner, $16 pb). 7. “Freak of Nature” by Kelli Dunham (Topside, $14.95 pb). Philadephia’s own! 8. “How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir” by Amber Dawn (Arsenal Pulp, $15.95 pb). Men’s DVDs 1. “Wise Kids,” directed by Stephen Cone (2011, 95 min., $24.95). Gay teen Tim and his two best friends Laura and Brea spend their last summer before college grappling with their feelings about the fundamentalist Baptist beliefs of their families. 2. “White Frog,” directed by Quentin Lee (2012, 93 min., $24.95). When Nick’s big brother Chaz (Harry Shum, Jr. of “Glee”) passes away in a tragic accident, Chaz’s friends comfort young Nick as he gradu-

ally discovers the truth: Chaz was gay, not such a nice thing in a traditional Chinese family. 3. “Yossi, aka Yossi and Jagger 2,” directed by Eytan Fox (2012, 85 min., $27.95). The long-awaited sequel to “Yossi and Jagger,” about Yossi’s life after Jagger’s death. 4. “Mixed Kebab,” directed by Guy Lee Thys (2012, 86 min., $19.95). Happily filled with contradictions, tall, dark and handsome Bram lives a mysterious life in Antwerp that is very different from his conservative, religious upbringing. 5. “Arizona Sky,” directed by Jeff London (2008, 91 min., $14.95). When they were teens, Kyle and Jake had special feelings for each other, but small-town life was too inhibiting for them to express their emotions. 6. “I Want Your Love,” directed by Travis Mathews (71 min., $24.99). One man’s last weekend in the city he loves, San Francisco. 7. “A Portrait of James Dean: Joshua Tree, 1951,” directed by Matthew Mishory (2012, 93 min., $24.95). A fearless, intimate fictional portrait of Dean on the cusp of becoming both a great actor and an outsider icon. 8. “D’Agustino,” directed by Jorge Ameer (2012, 117 min., $29.95). Ian Dawson has recently inherited his grandmother’s island estate in Greece that provides the perfect break from his loveless marriage to Sylvia. Women’s and trans DVDs 1. “Gun Hill Road” directed by Rashaad Ernesto Green (2011, 88 min., $19.95). After three years in prison, macho Enrique returns to the Bronx to find his wife struggling to hide an emotional affair, and his teenage son exploring a sexual transformation well beyond Enrique’s grasp and understanding. 2. “Trans: The Movie,” directed by Chris Arnold (The Film Collaborative, $20). A moving and exceptionally well-researched documentary with a remarkable cast of characters from all walks of life who are willing to tell their stories in the hope that they might one day be able to live ordinary lives. 3. “Pariah,” directed by Dee Rees (2011, 87 min., $19.95). Follows a 17-year-old African-American butch lesbian torn between the demands of her conservative family and the comfort of community among her friends in the outside world. 4. “Romeos,” directed by Sabine Bernardi (2011, 94 min., $24.95). As a pre-op transgender man, Lukas is constantly finding himself trapped in uncomfortable, compromising positions. German with subtitles. 5. “Sometimes in Life,” directed by Anthony Vallone (2008, 85 min., $29.95). 6. “Imagine Me and You,” directed by Ol Parker (2005, 93 min., $14.95). 7. “Watermelon Woman,” directed by Cheryl Dunye (1997, 90 min., $19.95). Philadelphia’s own! ■

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OUT & ABOUT The week ahead Fri. 08/09 Jimmy Eat World The rock band performs 7:30 p.m. at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts, 5201 Parkside Ave.; 215546-7900. Burlesque-apades Beach Party Burlesque performers heat things up 8 p.m. at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St.; 215-222-1400. Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Stop The Music A free screening of the film starring The Village People, 8 p.m. at International House, 3701 Chestnut St.; 215387-5125.

Jeff Foxworthy The comedian performs 8 p.m. at Mark G. Etess Arena, 1000 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-449-5150. The Killers The rock group performs 8 p.m. at the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Event Center, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-3171000. Wayne Brady The comedian and TV personality performs 9 p.m. at the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Event Center, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-3171000.

Fright Night The 1980s vampire film is screened 9:45 p.m. at Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610917-0223.

Sat. 08/10 Blake Shelton The country singer performs 7 p.m. at Susquehanna Bank Center, 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden, N.J.; 856-365-1300. Darius Rucker The rock and country singer performs 8 p.m. at House of Blues, 801 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-3434000. Jay Leno The comedian performs 8 p.m. at the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Event Center, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-317-1000.

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Peter Frampton and B.B. King The legendary guitarists perform 8 p.m. at Mark G. Etess Arena, 1000 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-4495150. Soulidified Presents: Soulcial Studies: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill The classic R&B album is performed 9 p.m. at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St.; 215-222-1400. Day For Night

Sun. 08/11 The Francois Truffaut film is screened 2 p.m. at Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610917-0223. The Black Crowes The rock band performs 6 p.m. at the

BOYS TO MEN: Hit-making pop group the Backstreet Boys are back on the road with new music, performing 7 p.m. Aug. 16 at Susquehanna Bank Center, 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden, N.J. For more information or tickets, call 856-365-1300.

Mann Center for the Performing Arts, 5201 Parkside Ave.; 215-546-7900. Matchbox 20 and Goo Goo Dolls The rock bands perform 7 p.m. at Susquehanna Bank Center, 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden, N.J.; 856-365-1300.

Mon. 08/12 Free Quizzo and Board Game Night Roll the dice, 7 p.m. at World Cafe Live at the Queen, 500 N. Market St., Wilmington, Del.; 302-994-1400. First Person StorySlam Spoken-word artists perform 7:30 p.m. at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St.; 215-222-1400.

Tue. 08/13 Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z The singer and the rapper team up for a concert 8 p.m.,

Citizens Bank Park, 1 Citizens Bank Way; 267-570-4000. The Harvest: Spoken Soul Open Mic Local artists perform 8 p.m. at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St.; 215-222-1400.

Wed. 08/14 Carnival of Madness Tour The hard-rock bands Shinedown, Skillet, In This Moment, Sevendust and We As Human perform 5 p.m. at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts, 5201 Parkside Ave.; 215-5467900.

singer performs 8 p.m. at Keswick Theatre, 291 N. Keswick Ave.; 215-572-7650. The Burlesque Show The new event kicks off 9 p.m. at the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Music Box, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-317-1000.

Fri. 08/16 Backstreet Boys The pop group performs 7 p.m. at Susquehanna Bank

Center, 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden, N.J.; 856-3651300. American Idols Live Singers from the TV show perform 7:30 p.m. at Mark G. Etess Arena, 1000 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-449-5150. Carnival of Souls The 1962 horror film is screened 9:45 p.m. at Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610917-0223.

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

Thu. 08/15 Adam Ant The new-wave

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BIG TIME!: Superstar pop singer Justin Timberlake and rap mogul Jay-Z join (pictured) forces for a stadium tour, stopping in town 8 p.m. Aug. 13, Citizens Bank Park, 1 Citizens Bank Way. For more information or tickets, call 267570-4000.

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Opening Boys of Summer Boys in bathing suits will abound for the annual summer party benefitting PhillyGayCalendar.com at a number of venues, Aug. 9-11; 215-735-5772. BRT Broadway Collection Performers take on hits from Broadway classics like “Oliver,” “My Fair Lady” and “Wicked,” Aug. 15-25 at Bristol Riverside Theatre, 120 Radcliffe St., Bristol; 215785-0100. Jay Pharoah The comedian seen on “Saturday Night Live” performs Aug. 16-18 at Helium Comedy Club, 2031 Sansom St.; 215-4969001.

Continuing All Dressed Up: Fashions for Children and Their Families Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition of clothing from the late-18th through mid-20th centuries, comparing and contrasting adults’ apparel with children’s smaller styles, through Dec. 1, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-763-8100. Candy Coated Wonderland Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition by Philadelphia-based multimedia artist Candy Coated (formerly Candy Depew) reinterpreting children’s fancy dress costumes from the museum’s collection, through Nov. 17, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-763-8100. Design for the Modern Child Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition featuring some of the latest furniture, toys, tableware, wallpaper and textiles designed internationally in Australia, Asia, Europe, Great Britain and the United States,

along with classics from the museum’s design collection, through Oct. 14, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-763-8100. GayFest! The LGBT-focused theater festival from Quince Productions runs through Aug. 24 at venues throughout the city; 215-6271088. The Importance of Being Earnest Mauckingbird Theatre Company presents a gender-bending interpretation of the stage classic, through Aug. 25 at Off-Broad Street Theater, 1636 Sansom St.; 215-9238909. Private Lives/Public Spaces: Bringing Philadelphia’s LGBT History Out in the Open The William Way LGBT Community Center presents the first solo exhibition of LGBT history in a mainstream museum in Philadelphia, which features a glimpse into the John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archival Collection, through Oct. 25 at The Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent, 15 S. Seventh St.; 215-685-4830. Serpentine Academy of Natural Sciences hosts an exhibition of photography by Mark Laita of the world’s most deadly snakes, through Sept. 22, 19th Street and the Parkway; 215-299-1000. SPY: The Secret World of Espionage The Franklin Institute presents an exhibition of historical artifacts from the intelligence community, through Oct. 6, 20th Street and the Parkway; 215-448-1200. The Members Show InLiquid, the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center and Second State Press host a diverse exhibit of more than 200 pieces of their members’ work, through Aug. 24 at Crane Arts Building, 1400 N. American St.; 215-235-3405.

MAD MEN AND WOMEN: The Carnival of Madness Tour pulls into town featuring a crazy evening of hard-rock bands, including Shinedown, Skillet, In This Moment (pictured), Sevendust and We As Human, 5 p.m. Aug. 14 at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts, 5201 Parkside Ave. For more information or tickets, call 215-546-7900.

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The Two Noble Kinsmen The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre presents the story exploring the desperate path of two men driven out of home and country by an untimely war, through Aug. 18, 2111 Sansom St.; 215-496-8001. Witness: The Art of Jerry Pinkney Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition of drawings and watercolors by Jerry Pinkney, Sept. 22, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-763-8100.

Closing Aries Spears The comedian seen on “Mad TV” performs through Aug. 10 at Helium Comedy Club, 2031 Sansom St.; 215496-9001. Puppet Festival (r)Evolution Workshops and performances from America’s best puppeteers are presented through Aug. 10 at Swarthmore College, 500 College Ave., Swarthmore; 267-240-3679. Starting from Scratch: The Art of Etching from Dürer to Dine Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition of its finest etchings through Aug. 11, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-763-8100. ■

IDOL-IZED: The latest crop of Idol ﬁnalists brings it to the stage as part of “American Idols Live,” 7:30 p.m. Aug. 16 at Mark G. Etess Arena, 1000 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, N.J. For more information or tickets, call 609-449-5150.

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1. Slapped on the butt, e.g. 7. Took part in a bee 12. Foaming at the mouth 15. Frigid period of history 16. Make corny, as a joke 17. “We ___ Family” 18. Start of a quote from “Orange Is the New Black” 20. ACLU concern 21. Head turners? 22. Norse race 23. Actor Mapa 24. “___ Walked Into My Life” (“Mame”) 25. More of the quote 27. Bully 29. West African republic 30. MTF operation 31. Fat Man and Little Boy

36. “Give it ___!” 37. End of the quote 39. BBC sitcom 43. Soft seat 44. Baseball card stat 47. Boyfriend 48. Aft 50. Tiffany of “Orange Is the New Black,” who “reoriented” a lesbian 56. Wistful word 57. 2012 Ben Affleck movie 58. Screwup for Billy Bean 59. Reproduce nonheterosexually 60. Suffix with bear 61. “Orange Is the New Black,” for one 63. The daily grind 64. Bill of legend 65. Commit a foul a la Sue Wicks 66. Professional voyeur? 67. Cartoonist DiMassa 68. Leave the union

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else that’s happening in the world. I don’t know. For me, I think I have my own little aesthetic and I find things, wherever I am, that fit into it. PGN: So you won season seven of “Celebrity Fit Club”? JM: The weirdest experience of my adult life. Honestly it was a lot of fun, but it was super hard. PGN: What made it weird? JM: I lived with Kevin Federline and Bobby Brown! They both gave children to famous pop stars. It was weird being with people we all see on TV. I mean, I’d grown up watching Nicole Eggert on “Charles in Charge” and then I had to deal with her as an adult in real life and it was not the person that I thought it was going to be. But it was a good experience. We only filmed for about 30 hours a week, so I had plenty of time off where I just explored L.A. All my meals were delivered to me, my apartment was paid for, my travel was paid for, it was great and I got paid on top of it. Amazing. And I lost weight! PGN: Tell me what you’re doing locally. JM: I’ve been teaching at Philadelphia University and I’ve been named Fashion Ambassador for the Hamilton Mall in Mays Landing. I’m doing a monthly column called “Ask Jay” for the mall where people can send me questions about anything. Fashion-related ... I don’t think I’m advising people on finances or sexuality. People have asked me, “Why a mall?” and I say, “Why not?” Coming from smalltown America, the mall was my outlet for fashion. There was no Gucci store in Luzerne County. Going to Benetton or

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1. Company outings, sometimes 2. Want in the worst way 3. Emulates Socrates 4. Oil-carrying ship 5. They get laid only once 6. “Look at Me, I’m Sandra ___” 7. Gay-friendly prez portrayer on TV 8. Suds seller 9. Online letters 10. Filthy smackers 11. Rd. where they toll you so 12. Dietrich of “Blonde Venus” 13. Diana, to the Greeks 14. Going down 19. Red Book author 23. Spit it out confidently 25. Arrears 26. Eases up 28. The Clash’s “Rock the ___” 32. Areas for Dr. Callie

Torres 33. West of Hollywood 34. What you put in a stallion’s mouth 35. Army N.C.O. 38. Enjoy phone sex 39. Flings 40. Endures like a hairy guy? 41. Like one of Earhart’s trips? 42. Low-voiced lady 44. Make easier to bear 45. Used irons 46. Trendy 49. Apron, of a sort 51. Beginning to come? 52. Lucci’s Kane in “All My Children” 53. Burning desire 54. Almost ready for the tooth fairy 55. Directional ending 59. Minute opening 61. Not COD 62. Coins w. Abe images

The Gap was the ultimate. At 13, the King of Prussia Mall was the height of glamour. PGN: How about what drives you crazy about your students? JM: We’re in such close proximity to New York, and it amazes me when they don’t pay attention to Fashion Week there. It bugs the shit out of me. So if any of my students are reading this, get to New York for Fashion Week if you want to be on my good side! PGN: You went to Philadelphia University, right? JM: Yes, and that’s a good thing as a teacher because I know what they’re going through. I did the same program, took all the same classes and I realize that at that age you really don’t know anything. Everyone thinks, I’m going to go to New York right after graduating to be the next Michael Kors. Well, I went through all that and it’s not so easy. I try to keep them grounded. The business is not as glamorous and shiny as it seems from afar. It’s great, but be prepared for hard work. PGN: They say don’t judge a book by its cover, but you can tell so much by the way people choose to present themselves. JM: We speak through our clothes. And it’s interesting because it can transform a person as well. You can wear a specific kind of thing and you’re instantly classified with that group of people. Like, I’m not goth, I have no inking to be, but you dress me up like that and people would automatically assume that I’m part of that group or that I worship Satan or kill cats or skateboard or something. It’s insane. PGN: What’s a fashion trend that should never come back, anything from lederhosen to mustaches?

JM: I love lederhosen. I don’t know, I kind of like everything. I think there’s a reason why it happened and why it’ll happen again. I love neon, I love ugly sweaters, I love things in bad taste, I like glittery things, I like modern clothes and minimalist things, colorful things, classic things. Even mom jeans, which you think of as ugly, are making a comeback. But I don’t like pleated pants on men. It makes them look puffy.

JM: We go see his family in Maine once a year and we always have some kind of crazy adventure there. We go to the family reunion, which is two hours of humanity and fun in the woods of Mount Katahdin. We also went on a road trip to Texas in February and hit Nashville, Austin, New Orleans and a whole bunch of places in seven days. And we didn’t fight! Actually we don’t fight, just over dumb shit like dishes. We know each other.

PGN: Changing gears: Any pets? JM: Yeah, I have an orange tabby named Woody and a black pug named Vernon.

PGN: Before we wrap up, tell me about the fashion show you’re working on. JM: We’re doing a Battle of the Runways at Hamilton Mall. I’m emceeing the fashion show Aug. 15 with back-to-school fashions and we’ll also have a “Project Runway”-ish type of contest with people creating fashion from the Hamilton Mall shopping bags. It’s going to be fun. I’m actually hosting a number of events for them and designing a T-shirt exclusively for Hamilton Mall. They’ve been great, they even have my face on a billboard on the Blackhorse Pike! ■

PHN: Bad habit you’ve given up? JM: Oh, I still have them all. No wait, I stopped drinking soda in March. My life changed when they introduced Coke Zero. I had an unhealthy obsession with it, but I’ve kicked it now. It’s so yummy though. PHN: I didn’t ask you about coming out. JM: It was hard because of my father, Butch. I told my friends first when I was in high school. I told them one by one and no one cared. I twirled batons and designed clothes so it wasn’t a shock. Then I told my sisters in my 20s, they all knew. But I never told my father. He’d asked my sisters and they confirmed it but we never discussed it. It was really uncomfortable for me. I had a brother who was extremely typical heterosexual — football-playing, married with kids, all boys passing on the family name — and then there was me. My mother knows. Again, I don’t think it was a big surprise, I take my boyfriend home for holidays. We’ve been together for four years. Matt, he’s a hairstylist at Adolf Biecker salon. PGN: What’s an adventure you’ve had with Matt?

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Religion/Spirituality Arch Street United Methodist Church Services 8:30 and 11 a.m. at 55 N. Broad St., youth/adult Sunday school at 9:30 a.m.; 5:30 p.m. prayer service; 215-568-6250. Bethlehem-Judah Ministries Open and affirming congregation holds services 10 a.m. Sundays at 5091 N. Dupont Hwy., Suite D, Dover, Del.; 302-734-9350. BuxMont Unitarian Universalist Church Services 10:15 a.m. at 2040 Street Road, Warrington; 215-3430406. Calvary United Methodist Church Reconciling, welcoming and affirming church holds services 11 a.m. Sundays at 801 S. 48th St.; 215-724-1702. Central Baptist Church Welcoming and affirming church holds services at 10:45 a.m. Sundays, summer services 9:30 a.m, at 106 W. Lancaster Ave., Wayne; 610-688-0664. Chestnut Hill United Methodist Church Services 11 a.m. and Spirit at Play, an arts-based Sunday school for children, 9:30 a.m. at 8812 Germantown Ave.; 215-242-9321. Church of the Crucifixion Inclusive Episcopal community holds services 10 a.m. Sundays and 6 p.m. Fridays at 620 S. Eighth St.; 215-922-1128. Church of the Holy Trinity Inclusive church holds services 8:30 and 11 a.m. Sundays at 1904 Walnut St.; 215-567-1267. Dignity Jersey Shore An organization for sexual-minority Catholics meets the first Saturday of the month in Asbury Park. For time and location, call 732-502-0305. Dignity Metro NJ An organization for sexual-minority Catholics meets 4 p.m. the first and third Sundays of the month at St. George’s Episcopal Church, 550 Ridgewood Road, Maplewood; 973-509-0118. Dignity Philadelphia Holds Mass 7 p.m. Sundays at 330 S. 13th St.; 215-546-2093; dignityphila@aol.com. Drexel Hill Baptist Church Nonjudgmental Christian congregation affiliated with American Baptist Churches of the USA holds services 11 a.m. Sundays at 4400 State Road, Drexel Hill; 610-259-2356; www.dhbaptist.com. Emanuel Lutheran Church Reconciling in Christ congregation meets at 10:30 a.m. Sundays, summer services 9:30 a.m., New and Kirkpatrick streets, New Brunswick, N.J.; 732-545-2673; www.emmanuelnb.org. Evangelicals Concerned Lesbian and gay Christian counseling; 215-860-7445. First Baptist Church Welcoming and affirming church holds prayer services 10:30 a.m. Sundays and community worship 11:30 a.m. at 123 S. 17th St.; 215-563-3853. First Presbyterian Church of Lansdowne Welcoming church holds services at 10 a.m. Sundays at 140 N. Lansdowne Ave.; 610-622-0800; www.lansdownepresbyterianchurch.com.

Jersey; mccctl.com; 732-823-2193. Metropolitan Community Church of Philadelphia Holds services 1 p.m. Sundays at the University Lutheran Church of the Incarnation, 3637 Chestnut St.; 215-294-2020; www. mccphiladelphia.com. Old First Reformed Church Open and affirming United Church worships at 11 a.m., summer services at 10 a.m, at 151 N. Fourth St.; 215-922-4566; www. oldfirstucc.org. Penns Park United Methodist Church Welcoming and affirming church holds services 10 a.m. Sundays at 2394 Second Street Pike, Penns Park; 215-598-7601. Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral Progressive and affirming congregation holds services 10 a.m. Sundays with Holy Eucharist at 3723 Chestnut St.; 215-386-0234; www.philadelphiacathedral.org. Rainbow Buddhist Meditation Group Meets 5 p.m. Sundays at the William Way Center. Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting worships 11 a.m., summer services 10 a.m, Sundays at 1515 Cherry St.; 215-241-7000; cpmm@afsc.org. Resurrection Lutheran Church Holds services 10 a.m. Sundays at 620 Welsh Road, Horsham; 215-646-2597. Silverside Church Holds services 10 a.m. Sundays followed by a group discussion at 2800 Silverside Road, Wilmington, Del.; 302-478-5921; silversidechurch.org. St. Asaph’s Church Inclusive and progressive Episcopal church holds services 8 and 10 a.m. Sundays, summer services 9:15 a.m., at 27 Conshohocken State Road, Bala Cynwyd; 610-664-0966; www.saintasaphs.org. St. John’s Lutheran Church (ELCA) Reconciling in Christ congregation holds services 10:30 a.m. Sundays at 24 N. Ridge Ave., Ambler; 215-646-2451; www. stjohnsambler.org. St. Luke and The Epiphany Church Open and welcoming church holds fall liturgy 9 and 11 a.m. Sundays, summer sevices 10 a.m., at 330 S. 13th St.; 215-7321918; stlukeandtheepiphany.org. St. Mary of Grace Parish Inclusive church in the Catholic tradition celebrates Mass 6 p.m. Sundays in the Unitarian Universalist Church of Delaware County, 145 W. Rose Tree Road, Media; 610-566-1393; www. inclusivecatholics.org. St. Mary’s Church Diverse and inclusive Episcopal church celebrates the Eucharist 11 a.m. Sundays at 3916 Locust Walk; 215-386-3916; www. stmarysatpenn.org. St. Paul Episcopal Church Welcoming and inclusive church holds services 9:30 a.m. Sundays and 7 p.m. Tuesdays at 89 Pinewood Drive, Levittown; 215-6881796; www.stpaullevittown.org. Tabernacle United Church Open and affirming congregation holds services 10 a.m. Sundays at 3700 Chestnut St.; 215-386-4100; tabunited.org.

First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia A liberal, welcoming and diverse congregation that afﬁrms the dignity of all. Sunday services at 10 a.m., 2125 Chestnut St.; 215563-3980; www.ﬁrstuu-philly.org.

Trinity Memorial Episcopal Church Sunday worship with nursery care, 10:30 a.m; Fourth Thursday of the month contemporary worship with Communion at 7 p.m.; 2212 Spruce St.; 215-732-2515; trinityphiladelphia.org.

The First United Methodist Church of Germantown A sexual-minority-afﬁrming congregation holds services at 10 a.m., summer services 11 a.m., Sundays at 6001 Germantown Ave.; lunch follows; 215-438-3077. www.fumcog.org.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Delaware County Welcoming congregation holds services 9:15 and 11:15 a.m. Sundays, summer services 10:30 a.m., at 145 W. Rose Tree Road, Media. Interweave, a group for LGBT parishioners and allies, meets noon the ﬁrst Sunday of the month; 610-566-4853; www. uucdc.org.

Grace Epiphany Church A welcoming and diverse Episcopal congregation in Mt. Airy with services 9:30 a.m. Sundays at 224 E. Gowen Ave.; 215-248-2950. www.grace-epi.org. Holy Communion Lutheran Church ELCA Reconciling in Christ congregation worships Sundays at 9 a.m. at 2111 Sansom St. and 11 a.m. at 2110 Chestnut St. in the main sancturary; 215-567-3668; www.lc-hc.org. Imago Dei Metropolitan Community Church Sexual-minority congregation worships at 10:30 a.m. Sundays at 1223 Middletown Road (Route 352), Glen Mills; 610-358-1716; www.ImagoDeiMCC.org.

Unitarian Society of Germantown Welcoming congregation holds services 10:30 a.m. Sundays at 6511 Lincoln Drive; 215-844-1157; www.usguu.org. Unitarian Universalist Church of Cherry Hill Holds services 10:15 a.m. Interweave, a group of LGBT Unitarians and their allies, also meets at 401 N. Kings Highway, Cherry Hill, N.J.; 856-667-3618; uucch.org. Unitarian Universalist Church of the Restoration Welcoming congregation holds services 11 a.m. Sundays at 6900 Stenton Ave.; 215-247-2561; www.uurestoration.us.

Living Water United Church of Christ An open and afﬁrming congregation that meets for worship 11 a.m. on Sundays; 6250 Loretto Ave.; 267-388-6081; www.lwucc.org.

Unitarian Universalist Congregation, South Jersey Shore Holds services 10 a.m. Sundays in Galloway Township; 609-9659400; www.uucsjs.org.

Kol Tzedek Reconstructionist synagogue committed to creating a diverse and inclusive community meets at Calvary Center, 801 S. 48th St.; 215764-6364; www.kol-tzedek.org.

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Pottstown Holds services 10:30 a.m. at 1565 S. Keim St.; 610-327-2662. www.uupottstown.org.

Mainline Unitarian Church Holds services 10 a.m. Sundays at 816 S. Valley Forge Road, Devon; 610-688-8332; www.mluc.org. Maple Shade Congregational Church of the United Church of Christ Afﬁrming congregation open to all sexual orientations and gender identities holds services 10 a.m. Sundays at 45 N. Forklanding Road, Maple Shade, N.J.; 856-779-7739; mapleshadeucc.org. Metropolitan Community Church of Christ the Liberator Holds services 10:45 a.m. Sundays at the Pride Center of New

United Christian Church Open, afﬁrming and welcoming congregation holds services 10:15 a.m. Sundays, summer services 9:15 a.m., at 8525 New Falls Road, Levittown; 215-946-6800. Unity Fellowship Church of Philadelphia Diverse, afﬁrming LGBT congregation holds services 2 p.m. Sundays at 55 N. Broad St.; 215-240-6106. University Lutheran Church of the Incarnation Welcoming congregation holds services 10:30 a.m. Sundays at 3637 Chestnut St. preceded by “Adult Forum: Sundays” at 9:30; 215-387-2885; www.uniphila.org.

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Community Bulletin Board Community centers

■ The Attic Youth Center 255 S. 16th St.; 215-545-4331; atticyouthcenter.org. For LGBT and questioning youth and their friends and allies. Groups meet and activities are held 4-7 p.m. Monday-Tuesday and 48:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday. Case management, HIV testing and smoking cessation are available MondayFriday. See the Youth section for more events.

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

■ ActionAIDS: 215-981-0088 ■ AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania: 215-587-9377 ■ AIDS Law Project of Southern New Jersey: 856-933-9500 ext. 221 ■ AIDS Library: 215-985-4851 ■ ACLU of Pennsylvania: 215592-1513 ■ AIDS Treatment Fact line: 800662-6080 ■ Barbara Gittings Gay and Lesbian Collection at the Independence Branch of the Philadelphia Free Library: 215-685-1633 ■ The COLOURS Organization Inc.: 215-496-0330 ■ District Attorney LGBT Liaison: Helen “Nellie” Fitzpatrick, 215-686-

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

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

Key numbers 9980, helen.fitzpatrick@phila.gov ■ Equality Pennsylvania: 215731-1447; www.equalitypa.org ■ Equality Forum: 215-732-3378 ■ LGBT Peer Counseling Services: 215-732-TALK ■ Mayor’s Director of LGBT Affairs: Gloria Casarez, 215-6862194; Gloria.Casarez@phila.gov; Fax: 215-686-2555

■ Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations: 215-686-4670 ■ Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Task Force: 1-877-pride-2000 ■ Philadelphia Police Department liaison — Deputy Commissioner Kevin Bethel: 215-6863318 ■ Philadelphia Police Liaison Committee: 215-760-3686 (Rick Lombardo); ppd.lgbt@gmail.com ■ Philly Pride Presents: 215875-9288

■ Mazzoni Center: 215-563-0652; Legal Services: 215-563-0657, 866-LGBT-LAW; Family & Community Medicine: 215-563-0658

■ SPARC — Statewide Pennsylvania Rights Coalition: 717-9209537

■ Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (Philadelphia): 215-572-1833

■ Transgender Health Action Coalition: 215-732-1207 (staffed 3-6 p.m. Wednesdays and 6-9 p.m. Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays)

Health

Anonymous, free, conﬁdential HIV testing Spanish/English counselors offer testing 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday at Congreso de Latinos Unidos, 216 W. Somerset St.; 215763-8870. ActionAIDS Provides a range of programs for people affected by HIV/AIDS, including case management, prevention, testing and education services at 1216 Arch St.; 215-981-0088; www.actionaids.org. AIDS Services In Asian Communities Provides HIV-related services to Asians and Pacific Islanders at 1711 S. Broad St.; 215-629-2300; www.asiac.org. Gay and Lesbian Latino AIDS Education Initiative Free, anonymous HIV testing from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday at 1207 Chestnut St., fifth floor; noon-6 p.m. Tuesdays at the Washington West Project, 1201 Locust St.; 215-851-1822 or 866-222-3871; www.galaei. org. Spanish/English HIV treatment Free HIV/AIDS diagnosis and treatment for Philadelphia residents are available from 9 a.m.-noon Mondays (walk-in) and 5-8 p.m. Thursdays (by appoint-

■ Gay and Lesbian Lawyers of Philadelphia GALLOP holds board meetings at 6:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month at 100 S. Broad St., Suite 1810; GALLOP also provides a free referral service; 215-627-9090; www.galloplaw. org. ■ Greater Philadelphia Professional Network Networking group for area business professionals, selfemployed and business owners meets monthly in a different location throughout the city, invites speakers on various topics, partners with other nonprofits and maintains a website where everyone is invited to sign up for email notices for activities and

ment) at Health Center No. 2, 1720 S. Broad St.; 215-685-1821. HIV health insurance help Access to free medications and confidential HIV testing available 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays at 13 S. MacDade Blvd., Suite 108, Collingdale; Medical Office Building, 722 Church Lane, Yeadon; and 630 S. 60th St.; 610-586-9077. Mazzoni Center Free, anonymous HIV testing; HIV/AIDS care and treatment, case management and support groups; 21 S. 12th St., eighth floor; 215-563-0652; www.mazzonicenter.org. Mazzoni Center Family & Community Medicine Comprehensive primary health care, preventive health services, gynecology, sexual-health services and chronicdisease management, including comprehensive HIV care, 809 Locust St.; 215-563-0658. Washington West Project Free, anonymous HIV testing. Walk-ins welcome 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 9 a.m.-noon Friday; 1-5 p.m. Saturday; 1201 Locust St.; 215-985-9206.

Professional groups events; www.gppn.org; 215-9223377.

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

■ Independence Business Alliance Greater Philadelphia’s LGBT Chamber of Commerce, providing networking, business development, marketing, educational and advocacy opportunities for LGBT and LGBT-friendly businesses and professionals. Visit www.IndependenceBusinessAlliance.com for information about events, programs and membership; 215-557-0190; 1717 Arch St., Suite 3370.

■ Philadelphia Gay Tourism Caucus A regional organization dedicated to promoting gay and lesbian tourism to the Greater Philadelphia region holds meetings every other month on the fourth Thursday (January, March, May, July, September and the third Thursday in November), open to the public; P.O. Box 58143, Philadelphia, PA 19102; www. philadelphiagaytourism.com; 215-840-2039.

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