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By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican presidential contender, this week vetoed legislation that would have eased restrictions for changing gender markers on birth certificates.

The state’s current law mandates proof of gender-reassignment surgery before a birth certificate can be changed.

The New Jersey legislature in June approved a bill that would have required proof of clinical treatment for gender transition, but not surgery, in order for the gender marker to be updated. Nine other states plus Washington, D.C., have enacted similar laws.

The legislature passed a similar bill last year, but Christie also vetoed that measure.

“Gov. Christie has elected to allow his state’s birth-certificate laws to deteriorate despite the overwhelming majority of support from the legislature to modernize,” said Arli Christian, state policy counsel for National Center for Transgender Equality. “His veto keeps in place outdated, burdensome requirements that make it incredibly difficult for transgender people to get birth certificates that match who they are.”

Garden State Equality executive director Andrea Bowen called the surgery requirement “absurd and gruesome” but also “out of line with what the federal government does for U.S. passports and Social Security records and what New Jersey already does for its drivers’ licenses.”

Like the stipulations of the vetoed bill, those departments rely on verification from a medical professional.

“What the governor has done is nonsensical, cruel and, if you care at all about good government processes, illogical,” Bowen said. n

OUT FOR ONO: Hundreds turned out to Morgan’s Pier Aug. 6 for the monthly Our Night Out LGBT social, sponsored by Delaware Valley Legacy Fund. The Benjamin Franklin Bridge served as the picturesque backdrop for the outdoor event at the riverside restaurant and bar. The next ONO will be held Sept. 15 at Uptown Beer Garden. Photo: Scott A. Drake

New initiative to push for antibias law

By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com A coalition of local and national agencies launched this week to organize business support for legislation to ban LGBT discrimination in Pennsylvania.

PA Competes is a new effort spearheaded by Equality Pennsylvania, the state and national chapters of American Civil Liberties Union, American Unity Fund, Gill Action and Human Rights Campaign.

The campaign is designed to mobilize support from businesses large and small across the state in favor of adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the state’s nondiscrimination law.

“The bottom line is that in order to be prosperous, our state has to appeal to as large an audience as possible, in terms of customers and employees,” said PA Competes board president and Equality PA executive director Ted Martin, who noted that all 23 of the Fortune 500 companies located in Pennsylvania have already enacted LGBT-inclusive nondiscrimination policies. “They made that leap to say that they don’t discriminate a long time ago, long before the legislature, because they know this makes good business sense.

That’s the message PA Competes is trying to get across.”

The website includes information about the current state of LGBT nondiscrimination in Pennsylvania, including a review of the 34 municipalities that have enacted their own ordinances and statistics about the overwhelming public support for such measures. It lists the 31 businesses that signed on to support the campaign as it launched and encourages businesses and individuals to sign a pledge in support of amending the state law.

Martin said coalition partners will also work on the ground to get the message out.

“We’re going to focus on winning business support but also on working closely with Republicans so we can get as broad a coalition as possible of people looking to win nondiscrimination,” he said. “We’re going to have a large field presence and Equality PA will also be using our efforts and our work to move both the legislature and the public on this issue.”

LGBT-inclusive nondiscrimination legislation, led by state Rep. Dan Frankel (D-23rd Dist.) and state Sen. Larry Farnese (D-First Dist.), has long been stalled in both houses of the legislature. The bills’ reintroduction is expected shortly. n

LGBT advocates are blasting last week’s Commonwealth Court ruling that exempts SEPTA from Philadelphia’s antibias laws.

The city wants SEPTA to adhere to its LGBTinclusive antibias ordinance but SEPTA says it doesn’t have to because it’s a state agency.

In a 5-2 ruling last week, Commonwealth Court sided with SEPTA, claiming the state legislature only intended for SEPTA to be subjected to state antibias rules, which don’t have LGBT protections.

The contentious litigation has ensued for several years, and it’s expected to continue with another city appeal in state Supreme Court.

SEPTA has about 9,000 workers and more than 1 million riders daily in Philadelphia and four nearby counties.

The agency filed suit against the city in 2009, after trans woman Charlene Arcila complained to the city’s Human Relations Commission about SEPTA’s placement of gender stickers on its transpasses. Arcila died in April, and SEPTA no longer places gender markers on transpasses. But Arcila’s complaint remains held in abeyance, due to the possibility that monetary damPAGE 12

12 men arrested in sting near Rehoboth

By Timothy Cwiek timothy@epgn.com Twelve men were arrested by Delaware police last month at a gay-male cruising area about 3 miles northwest of Rehoboth Beach.

The arrests took place in a section of Cape Henlopen State Park known as Wolfe Neck, according to a statement issued by the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control.

The men were charged with violations such as criminal solicitation, offensive touching, lewdness, indecent exposure and loitering to engage in or solicit sex, according to the statement.

John F. Brady, an attorney for two of the men, said authorities are continuing to engage in undercover sting operations in the area.

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By Timothy Cwiek timothy@epgn.com Richard R. Laird, who murdered gay artist Anthony Milano in 1987, has lost his bid for a third trial.

On July 20, the state Supreme Court unanimously rejected Laird’s claim that his attorneys were deficient during his 2007 retrial.

Laird claimed his attorneys didn’t give jurors enough information about the effects of his father’s sexual abuse, along with other mental-health impairments that allegedly diminished his cognitive functioning.

In 2013, Bucks County Common Pleas Judge Rea B. Boylan rejected those claims, and last month the state Supreme Court upheld Boylan’s ruling.

In 1987, Laird and Frank R. Chester escorted Milano out of a Bucks County tavern and kidnapped him to a wooded area, where his throat was hacked out with a box cutter. Authorities called it an antigay hate crime, though there were no hate-crime protections in place at the time.

Both men were convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death.

Laird was granted a retrial in 2007, due to faulty jury instructions by the trial judge. Laird argued that while he participated in Milano’s murder, he acted with “diminished capacity,” thus reducing his moral culpability.

Laird claimed his cognitive abilities were diminished due to prior brain injuries, ongoing substance abuse, childhood sexual abuse, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder.

If Laird’s claims were accepted, he could have been released from prison due to time already served. But jurors re-convicted him of first-degree murder and re-sentenced him to death.

In his appeal to the state Supreme Court, Laird argued an expert on childhood sexual abuse should have testified about the effects of his father’s purported

sexual abuse.

But the court noted that Laird’s attorneys presented other mental-health experts who testified about the effects of the abuse.

“The experts who testified at the penalty hearing provided significant, detailed information concerning [Laird’s] unfortunate childhood, his mental-health impairments such as PTSD and ADHD, his longterm substance abuse and alcohol dependency and his brain damage stemming from serious head injuries,” the opinion stated. “The jury was also informed that these factors, combined with [Laird’s] heavy alcohol ingestion during the hours leading up to the crime, significantly affected [Laird’s] cognitive functioning.”

The court also rejected Laird’s claims that his attorneys failed to pursue a change of venue more vigorously, failed to object to prosecutorial misconduct and inadmissible witness testimony effectively and failed to cross-examine witnesses thoroughly.

The justices said any failings by Laird’s attorneys were minimal and “insufficient to undermine our confidence in the outcome of the sentencing hearing.”

Stephen B. Harris, chief of appeals for the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office, expressed agreement with the ruling.

“We’re pleased with the opinion,” Harris told PGN. “It was written by Justice [Thomas G.] Saylor, who’s now the chief justice of the court. He’s known as one of the most scholarly justices on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. I thought it was a particularly well-written opinion. If a petition for re-argument is filed on behalf of Mr. Laird, I feel it’s very unlikely it will be granted.”

Billy H. Nolas, an attorney for Laird, had no comment.

Laird, 51, remains on death row at a state prison in Franklin Township.

Chester, 46, remains on death row at a state prison in Graterford. His first-degree murder conviction also was overturned, and prosecutors must decide whether to re-try him. n

Hearing delayed in murder of trans woman A pre-trial conference scheduled this week for the man accused of stabbing a transgender woman to death this spring was delayed until next week.

Raheam Felton faces murder and possession of an instrument of crime charges in connection with the May 18 stabbing death of 21-year-old Londyn Chanel.

The pre-trial hearing slated for Aug. 11 was continued until Aug. 19, in Room 1105 of the Criminal Justice Center, 1301 Filbert St., because discovery — which is a review of the evidence in the case — was not yet

completed.

Felton and Chanel were staying with Felton’s partner and another roommate in an abandoned house in North Philadelphia.

Felton’s partner testified at a hearing last month that Felton stabbed Chanel when she attempted to tell her about unwanted advances Felton had allegedly made toward her.

Felton remains incarcerated at Curran Fromhold Correctional Facility. n — Jen Colletta

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Attic youth take on corporate internships

By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com

The Attic but having these classes in this professional context really resonated with them,” Rubinstein said. “It gave them the Five hardworking members of The Attic opportunity to reflect on what is professionYouth Center last week wrapped up a sum- alism and how can you best succeed in the mer internship that they say has made them professional world.”

Rahsaan Galloway, 20, a 2014 graduworkplace-ready.

The group spent the summer interning ate of the High School for Creative and at Independence Blue Cross, whose Pride Performing Arts and a culinary-arts student Committee worked with The Attic to orga- at Community College of Philadelphia, nize the program. The interns, who range worked in IBC’s treasury department.

His duties included inputting checks into in age from 18-23, each spent 35 hours per week, for 10 weeks, working in five sep- the company’s payment system, managing arate IBC departments: treasury, training, payments and distributing them throughout technology, marketing/sales and wellness/ the company’s departments.

Galloway said his biggest takeaway from community health.

About three months before the intern- the experience was the importance of every ships, which were paid positions, started, person on a team in a corporate environstaff at The Attic launched a “Step Up” ment.

“Everybody’s part is important,” he said. class for interested candidates, in which they coached them on professional devel- “In the whole process of putting money opment and other aspects particular to the into the system, everybody who worked on it — whether you were organizing things or internship. About 20 youth participated.

“We hoped it would be a competitive pro- doing more complicated work — nobody’s cess and it did end up being so, in a good job was any more important than the next way,” said Attic program coordinator Tara person’s.”

Rubinstein said that’s a lesson that she Rubinstein. “We wanted to see who would stick it out with the program, who would believes will continue to resonate with the show up most regularly and rise to the top. youth as they make their way through the A lot of them really came prepared having workforce.

“One of the things I felt as a mentor is that thought about the work from the previous week. We had them work on a networking it seems to me like they don’t even realize speech and I was really impressed to see yet all the things they have learned and that how much a few of the youth had thought when they go back to college or their next job, it’s going to become more and more evident how much they gained from this experience,” she said. “Even the relatively simple operations that they did were able to show them how each task in a professional setting plugs into the bigger picture. I think they’re going to keep seeing the benefits THE FIVE ATTIC YOUTH WHO INTERNED AT INDEPENDENCE BLUE of this internCROSS PRESENTED ON THEIR EXPERIENCES LAST WEEK TO ship experience THEIR SUPERVISORS AND OTHER IBC STAFF. Photo: Tara Rubinstein unfold.” about it in the intervening time period and the time they put into writing down changes and coming back ready to share their thoughts.”

At the end of the workshop, IBC staffers held two rounds of interviews before the final five were selected.

During their time with the company, the interns were able to sharpen technical and administrative skills, as well as learn about networking and personal branding through a professional-development course.

“We’ve done similar workshops here at

Galloway, who aspires to one day open his own business, such as a restaurant, said he’s eager for other youth to have access to internships such as these.

“I want to help other kids like myself get the opportunity to work in an environment like I did,” he said. “Whether it’s a corporate workplace or a more social-focused one, it’s an experience that brings out the best in people.”

Rubinstein said the IBC internships are expected to be available again next summer. n

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Out PR head out at Visit Philly

By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com The city’s tourism bureau recently eliminated a public-relations position that was held by a longtime out staffer who was involved with a number of LGBT initiatives.

Bruce Yelk was let go from his position as director of public relations at Visit Philly, effective July 31.

Yelk joined the agency in 2002 and held positions such as accounting assistant, human-resources director and director of LGBT initiatives before his most recent post. He said that, while he no longer held the LGBT title, he still helped lead LGBT initiatives. His most recent position involved LGBT-focused press pitches, trade-show and sponsorship plans and social-media work, among other duties.

Yelk was involved in launching the agency’s 2003 “Get Your History Straight and Your Nightlife Gay” campaign, an award-winning initiative that has since been used as a model for LGBT tourism efforts.

Vice president of communications Paula Butler said the move was part of a reorganizing effort.

“We have not eliminated any LGBT or gay-marketing initiative. Nothing,” she said. “All we have eliminated is the job of director of public relations in a reorganization we have done; we have had to change

our strategies because social media has become so much more important.”

Butler said the agency plans to hire a social-media/media-relations manager whose duties will include pitching LGBT stories to media outlets and social-media postings that will take in LGBT topics, she said.

LGBT marketing will be unaffected, Butler contended.

“The LGBT marketing is an interdepartmental effort here and there are about 10 people on that team,” she said. “They’re in advertising, web, social media, media relations, research; they’re all here and working on the LGBT market.”

Yelk noted a number of highlights from his tenure with the company, including the pioneering LGBT ad campaign, which included the first-ever LGBT-tourism television commercial for a U.S. destination.

“Being part of that initial launch team, when other cities weren’t doing any gay marketing at all and we released the first gay commercial, was really fun,” he said.

“And, personally for me, creating the second commercial with Miss Richfield when there were zero dollars for it was really an accomplishment. I’m really proud to have gotten that on the air when a lot of people were saying it couldn’t be done.”

This past year in particular included a number of accomplishments, Yelk added.

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long promotion of the Annual Reminders 50th-anniversary celebration.

“We got a huge amount of press on that,” he said, noting that, by the time of his departure, there had been about 2,200 media stories on LGBT Philadelphia in 2015.

Being prepared for the Annual Reminders and newsmakers like this summer’s Supreme Court ruling were integral to that effort, Yelk said.

“I’m really proud of how proactive we were in looking down the road and being ready. We rolled out an ad with two women holding hands at the Liberty Bell that had a video with it literally almost at the moment of the Supreme Court decision,” he said.

“We were really prepared and that ended up being a great social-media tactic and a huge media win; we ended up being cited for best practices in print and online stories for how businesses reacted to the ruling.

And we had the same approach with the Pennsylvania ruling; we saw the potential thing and were ready for it as soon as it happened, so I’m really proud we took those opportunities.”

Philadelphia also was just selected as the host of the 2017 Creating Change conference, a large-scale national LGBT convention.

“I’m really proud of my work this year,” Yelk said. “This was an amazing year for me. And it was a great 13 years overall.” n

By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com School is almost in session — and Pulse Events is showing its school spirit with a fundraising event later this month.

Pulse’s “Show Your College Pride” will be held 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Aug. 29 at Smokin’ Betty’s, 116 S. 11th St. Partygoers are encouraged to sport gear from their college — a shirt, hat or any other article bearing the school name or logo — and Pulse will donate all proceeds from the event to the LGBT groups at the three schools that attract the most supporters.

Pulse marketing coordinator Tracy Buchholz, a Temple grad, said organizers believe the party is the first of its kind to fundraise for local LGBT college groups.

“A lot of local schools have student-run programs for LGBTQ students that are doing amazing things so we thought it would be cool to both highlight those and be able to give back to them,” she said.

“It’s really a way for Pulse to say thank you to the amazing youth running these organizations on top of their studies and extracurricular activities and to show that we as an LGBTQ community appreciate the work they do. I think so often they can be

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forgotten, and really, they will be the future leaders of our LGBTQ community after they graduate. It’s never too early to show support for these students.”

Partiers don’t need to have graduated from a college to rep them, Buchholz noted.

She anticipated the party will draw a good mix, across gender and age lines, which supports another of the event’s intents.

“One of the cool things is that people from all different circles will be able to interact,” she said. “We have a lot of mentors in the community and the younger crowd often may not know how to interact with them. So if you have a student wearing a Penn shirt and an older person who went to Penn, that’s a great opportunity for people to interact and to start talking.”

Pulse has hosted successful fundraising events in the past, including for local animal charities, and Buchholz expects the timing of the party — near the start of the school year and before the Labor Day weekend exodus — to fuel support. If it’s a success, organizers plan to make it a biannual event.

On top of the fundraising component, Buchholz said, partygoers can enjoy music

by DJ KASH and Trish, drink specials until midnight and just a $5 cover.

“We have good music, a great, friendly crowd and it’s always an awesome vibe,” she said.

For more information, visit www.facebook.com/events/141669416167392/. Any student or alumni groups wishing to distribute information at the event can email Buchholz at tracy.buchholz@gmail.com. n

News Briefing Deadline extension granted in Morris case The state Office of Open Records has been granted a deadline extension to rule on PGN’s request for certified records pertaining to the Nizah Morris incident.

PGN wants the OOR to order the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office to provide the records. A decision was due on Aug. 10. But this week, the OOR requested a seven-day extension, which both sides agreed to.

The OOR decision is now due on or before Aug. 17.

Morris was a transgender woman found with a fatal head wound in 2002, shortly after she received a courtesy ride from Officer Elizabeth Skala. Her homicide remains unsolved.

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stop while she was assigned to handle Morris, who was intoxicated. PGN’s open-records request pertains to dispatch records for the traffic stop.

“Officer Skala’s vehicle stop is a major component of the Nizah Morris incident,” PGN told the OOR. “It affected the city’s response to Ms. Morris, and it played a significant role in the lack of a prompt criminal investigation. It’s in the public interest to have accountability and transparency in the Morris case, including full access to all dispatch records relating to Officer Skala’s vehicle stop.”

Marriages remain in limbo Almost two months after the U.S. Supreme Court established national marriage equality, the validity of about 100 same-sex marriage licenses issued in Montgomery County remains unsettled.

County officials have said they’re working hard to obtain validation of the licenses, which were issued by Register of Wills D. Bruce Hanes.

Hanes issued the licenses in 2013, before marriage equality was established in Pennsylvania Michael P. Clarke, an attorney for

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Hanes, couldn’t be reached for comment.

In prior interviews, Clarke said he hoped to have the situation resolved soon.

“We are in the final stages of wrapping this up,” Clarke said July 6. “I anticipate something in the next few weeks. I will update you at that time.”

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Gayborhood hosts surprise wedding proposal

By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com

big on this one means going simple. And I thought, Philadelphia. That’s where we first met, and what better place to get engaged than in a city that represents freedom, liberty and equality?”

While Bump is no longer in business, Mehta decided to propose outside the building; while she was planning an intimate moment, she wanted to make sure it was one they could remember — which is where Paparazzi Proposals came in.

The company was founded in 2011 by former paparazzi photographer James Ambler, who conceived of the business after realizing he had no photo coverage

A local couple recently returned to the Gayborhood spot where they met nearly 10 years ago — this time, accompanied by the “paparazzi.”

Amita Mehta proposed to Kristen Kemp July 15 at the corner of 13th and Locust streets, with the help of surprise-engagement company Paparazzi Proposals.

The Lambertville, N.J., residents met through mutual friends at the now-defunct Bump, which used to operate at that corner, during OutFest 2005.

“She was very high-energy and just beautiful, absolutely gorgeous. Even though she was wearing a hoodie,” Mehta joked.

Kemp said she was immediately attracted to Mehta’s confidence.

“She was incredibly confident and you could tell she just loved life,” she said. “I just saw so much positive energy.”

Mehta, 43, joked that she played “hard to get” at first but the pair dived into dating.

At the time, Mehta was living in Wilmington, Del., and Kemp in Reading. Mehta, who works in the financial-services industry, got a job offer the next year in New York City and moved there, while Kemp, 34, a teacher, followed in 2007 after KRISTEN KEMP (LEFT) AND AMITA MEHTA the school year ended.

Photo: Paparazzi Proposals But, both “country girls at heart,” they moved to Lambertville, across the bridge from New of his own proposal. The only surprise-engagement company that offers nationwide Hope, six years ago.

Mehta said the couple always shares a service — and which was featured on the kiss when they wake up, resists anger in 2013 season of entrepreneurial-reality show disagreements and tries to be one another’s “Shark Tank” — Paparazzi Proposals concheerleader in all situations, a sentiment nects proposers with local photographers who covertly capture the moment. The Kemp echoed.

“She supports me in each and every thing company also offers add-ons to up the wow that matters to me, everything I’m passion- factor and city-specific packages. ate about. And I give her the same support,” “In New York City, we have an option she said. “That’s the serious side, and on where you can rent out Times Square and the other side, we just have fun. She makes use a Jumbotron to put your proposal meslife fun; that same energy and passion I ini- sage on there,” said Paparazzi Proposals social-media manager Hilary Ribons. “It tially saw in her has never changed.”

While they didn’t have a formal discus- can be anything big like that to something sion about marriage, Mehta said that next low-key like getting engaged at home or on step seemed natural — and she began plan- a rooftop. It depends on what’s special and meaningful for the couple.” ning to pop the question.

“My personality is pretty big and Mehta contacted the company with her Kristen’s more simple and private,” she plan and they set a date, to coincide with said, noting she brainstormed a number Kemp’s incoming flight to Philadelphia of proposal possibilities, including pop- from a visit to Utah. Mehta purchased ping the question on stage at a concert of a special ringbox that contained a video Gavin DeGraw and Shania Twain, whose camera to carry the custom-designed ring song “Forever and Always” they consider she had made at Goldsmiths Jewelers in their own. “But I thought, you know what, Lambertville.

I want to make this about Kristen; going Mehta sent the photographer a picture of

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her and Kemp and he provided her a map of the intersection, designating where he would stand and where she should position herself.

She picked up Kemp from the airport after her red-eye flight and suggested breakfast in the city. Kemp said she wasn’t suspicious until she spotted Mehta hiding what looked like a box behind her back on the walk to 13th and Locust, but joked that Mehta, a Gemini, is often unpredictable so she didn’t focus on it.

The only hitch in the plan was the inclement weather — but Mehta said her worries about the rain evaporated when she approached the corner and saw the newly painted rainbow crosswalks at 13th and Locust streets, which she hadn’t known about.

“I was nervous but it was an excited type of nervous,” Mehta said. “I had practiced my little speech over and over but I was really emotional; normally, I’m practical and she’s more emotional, but I was really choked up and couldn’t even get the words out. But she was just smiling ear to ear.”

“I’ve known for years that she’s the person I want to spend the rest of my life with, so to see her down on one knee giving this gift of love and this promise that this is forever was just magical,” Kemp said. “My heart was beating so fast and I had this huge, stupid smile on my face.”

Kemp laughed that, while Mehta rehearsed the angle with the ringbox video camera — making for amusing footage of her proposing to planters at their home —

the angle was a little off that day.

“All you see is my stomach and from my nose down; despite working out consistently, the angle of my stomach is not all that flattering,” she laughed. “But that makes it all the more entertaining. And right after she showed me the ring, we kissed and miraculously the angle changed so we got this incredible footage.”

Kemp said she was thrilled to learn that the moment had also been captured

by Paparazzi Proposals. Kemp noted she spotted the photographer across the street during the proposal but figured he was a passerby.

“I thought maybe this was some smalltown tourist excited to see a gay proposal happening; I didn’t realize he was hired for us,” she laughed. “It’s amazing to have those pictures now. Looking at them, you can see how we’re both on cloud nine. I’m usually a little bashful with PDA, but there are so many pictures of us kissing because in that moment everything just felt so natural and that was all captured in those photos.”

The rain ended up being an afterthought, Mehta said.

“It rained on our parade but we loved it,” she said. “We were just two giddy girls in the rain.”

The couple spent the night at the Hilton celebrating their engagement.

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Resources for gay wedding planning Even though same-sex marriage is now legal nationwide, there are still some significant differences in wedding-planning for same-sex couples and heterosexual couples. From figuring out how to put unique spins on wedding traditions to finding LGBT-friendly vendors, same-sex couples may have more on their wedding to-do lists than other couples.

Here’s a quick guide for brides- and grooms-to-be of the online planning resources to help you walk through the planning process before you walk down the aisle.

GayWeddings.com Powered by Wedding Wire, this site offers a full list of local vendors, including venues, DJs, photographers, planners and officiants. It also highlights real weddings, and engagements, from couples across the country, from which couples in the planning phases can draw inspiration for their own unions (or just spend some time enjoying the love stories!). The site also offers a forum on which users can discuss a wide variety of wedding-planning topics.

EngaygedWeddings.com This is a great vendor-focused site, offering comprehensive lists of everything from photo-booth rental companies to jewelers to travel agents. The company’s site links to a Pinterest page chock-full of LGBT-specific wedding-inspiration ideas.

EquallyWed.com Equally Wed is a sleekly designed site with a companion print publication. Its blog format includes a good balance of marriage-equality news, examples of real weddings, expert advice on everything from fashion to travel and opinion pieces about the nuances of same-sex wedding planning. The diversity of features makes this a great companion site for all types of same-sex couples.

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D’Anne Witkowski

David Wells

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Wedded bliss This week marks PGN’s first Wedding Issue since marriage equality has come to our entire country.

The PGN staff always looks forward to putting together this bi-annual issue; hearing the love stories, seeing wedding photos and getting to share in the couples’ excitement is a treat for us. This edition, in particular, carried extra meaning.

Nearly all of the couples we interviewed mentioned this summer’s landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage across the country.

Some said they used it as the impetus for a proposal, others remarked that they didn’t think they would ever see national marriage equality in their lifetimes.

Regardless of their ages, genders or the length of their relationships, all of the couples featured in our Wedding Issue were in some way impacted by the ruling.

And these are couples who already lived in a state with marriage equality, which made us consider just how meaningful the decision must have been for couples who lived in the more-than dozen states that had yet to legalize marriage equality prior to the ruling.

Before last year, we Pennsylvanians had gotten used to the assumption that marriage equality was a long ways off in our state; it was a sobering yet, we thought, realistic assumption. Couples in places like Tennessee and Kentucky surely shared that deservedly pessimistic view.

We had our own landmark day May 20, 2014, when a judge overturned Pennsylvania’s ban on marriage equality, upending years of cynicism and doubt in an instant. As we can all attest, the moment was surreal, especially because for so long it had been unexpected.

That feeling has now been magnified on a national scale. Even as marriage ban after marriage ban began to fall, the notion of living in a country where a same-sex couple can legally marry in literally every corner of every state still didn’t seem within reach.

And, as many of the couples we spoke with attested to, the full meaning of marriage equality didn’t really start to sink in until it became an accessible reality. But that gap has been bridged and same-sex couples afforded access to a right that had so long been denied them.

The impacts of national marriage equality will likely still be unfurling for years to come — on societal, governmental and even familial levels — but it has clearly already had an immeasurable effect on same-sex couples themselves.

Some of the words we heard were joy, validation, confidence and optimism — all of which can only make our community and country stronger. n

Good news for lesbian, gay, bisexual, because of sextransgender, questioning and intersex kids ual crimes,” said who get arrested in Kentucky! Well, I Staver in a July mean, bad news to have been arrested, but 24 press release. at least there’s a policy that forbids the “David Wells must Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice be able to discuss personnel, including volunteers, from what the Bible says using “derogatory language in a manabout matters of ner that conveys bias towards or hatred sexuality with the of the LGBTQI community” and telling juveniles he is try“LGBTQI juveniles that they are abnoring to help.” mal, deviant, sinful or that they can or Yeah, because should change their sexual orientation or telling a kid, gender identity.”

“You’re in here because you’re a damaged When I first heard of this, I had to douperv” is Biblical healing. ble-check the state. Kentucky, really? Yes, Staver continues, in complete hysterKentucky! (My apologies to the Bluegrass ics, “To remove the Bible from a pastor’s State for doubting, but y’all do keep vothands is like removing a scalpel from a ing for Mitch McConnell.) surgeon’s hands. Without it, they cannot To anyone who volunteers to work with provide healing.” juvenile offenders, let me first say, Good Let me just say, “All the nopes.” for you! Too often, society writes these Any bozo can pick up a Bible and claim young people off as “bad kids” and once to be a pastor. Being a surgeon, however, a young person finds requires a medical him or herself in the which means Clearly, only a really ter- degree, system, it’s really a lot of training and hard to get out. And rible person would say, belief in science.

And let us not a lot of these kids are “You know what, I want forget how for so LGBT. According to The long LGBT people to work with juvenile Center for American have had the Bible offenders and I want to used against them Progress, “Though gay and transgender a weapon. Which tell the LGBT ones how as youth represent just is what Wells wants gross and sinful they 5-7 percent of the to do. His argument nation’s overall youth are as is my right as an is thus: “My right to population, they comhurt you trumps your pose 13-15 percent of American Christian.” right not to be hurt.” those currently in the Which is bullshit. By juvenile-justice system.” the time young people end up in the crim Clearly, only a really terrible person inal-justice system, they have already had would say, “You know what, I want to more than their fair share of hurt. Being work with juvenile offenders and I want an LGBT kid sadly means an additional to tell the LGBT ones how gross and sinlayer of pain.

So if Wells isn’t willing to sign a piece ful they are as is my right as an American Christian.” of paper that says, “I won’t use my posi Or so argues Baptist minister David tion of authority as a minister to further Wells, who, with the help of the gay-hatvictimize these kids,” then the DJJ is ing Liberty Council, is suing the DJJ within its rights to say GTFO. And good because they won’t let him gay-bash the riddance. n inmates with his “ministry.”

D’Anne Witkowski has been gay for pay According to Liberty Council’s Mat Staver, LGBT youth involved in the crim- since 2003. She’s a freelance writer and poet (believe it!). When she’s not taking on the inal-justice system are a bunch of sexcreeps of the world, she reviews rock and crimers anyway, so it’s totally unfair to roll shows in Detroit with her twin sister and Wells that he can’t call it like he sees it. teaches writing at the University of Michigan.

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I’ve spent a lot of time in airports in the apparent that this trend was also taking last few months, and I’ve noticed wonderhold on city streets as well. Every other ful phenomena: LGBT couples holding day or so I’d notice a couple holding hands hands. or showing some form of affection toward This comes, of course, on the heels of one another, especially in areas that had the debate and ruling by the U.S. Supreme gay businesses.

Court on marriage equality. That What I liked about this was landmark ruling gave LGBT couthat, while these weren’t politples a feeling of pride in themical statements, they still had selves and their emotions, which political overtones; non-LGBT in times past, many couples people witnessing this innowould check when they left the cent sharing of emotions had front doors of their homes. to take note and think about At airports and train stations, what it meant. In our commuyou’ll often see heterosexual nity, we’ve always understood couples walking arm in arm or, that equality is best achieved when picking up their partner, through education. giving a little peck (or more). But Somehow I believe that so many LGBT couples held that we’ll be seeing a lot more of natural emotion back, fearing this in the coming months and negative responses from passyears. ersby.

A little hand-holding and a But, now with their relationlittle kiss really can change the Mark Segal world. n ships legitimized by the nation’s top court, couples seem to be Mark Segal, PGN publisher, is the nation’s mostfeeling like they have the same opportunity to act on those emotions, which others award-winning commentator in LGBT media. You can follow him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ have felt free to do all along.

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ages will be awarded to her estate.

In its ruling, Commonwealth Court said that exposing SEPTA to complaints such as Arcila’s would be unduly burdensome.

“Spending [public] funds to ensure compliance with any potential number of different local anti-discrimination statutes would divert [the funds] away from SEPTA’s core mission of providing public transportation,” the court stated.

President Judge Dan Pellegrini and Judge Robert Simpson dissented.

Pellegrini characterized as “ludicrous” the majority’s assertion that compliance with the city’s antibias laws would be unduly burdensome for SEPTA. “[I]nstructing all of your employees to act in a fair and non-discriminatory manner should be instilled from the moment of employment,” Pellegrini opined. “This should not be considered to be a burden, but an opportunity for [SEPTA] to advance the public policy of the commonwealth.”

SEPTA issued a statement after the ruling noting that the city initiated seven separate discrimination complaints against the agency between July 2007-April 2009, which it sought to dismiss “because of SEPTA’s status as a commonwealth agency and its sovereign-immunity protections.

“The case concerned one governmental entity’s authority over another based upon the statutory scheme overlaying both of those governmental entities,” the statement continued. “The central question of the case was whether that statutory scheme authorized the city to apply the [city’s Fair Practice Ordinance] to SEPTA. SEPTA’s motion had nothing to do with protections afforded or not to the LGBTQ community.”

SEPTA continued that it “could not simply accede to the city’s FPO because SEPTA believed the legislature ensured that commonwealth agencies, like SEPTA, should not be subjected to the myriad of regulations any municipality may choose to impose. Thus, if SEPTA did not challenge the city’s authority under the FPO, then the city and the other over 200 municipalities could upset the legislative balance by imposing other requirements on how SEPTA achieves it public mission.

SEPTA desired only to maintain the balance of authority between municipalities — like the city — and SEPTA, established by the Pennsylvania legislature.

“SEPTA believes that the city overstepped those bounds by attempting to

apply the FPO to SEPTA. The court’s opinion rests squarely on these concerns of following the balance established by the legislature and enabling SEPTA to effectively deliver on its public-transportation mission.”

Leonore F. Carpenter, a law professor who specializes in LGBT issues, wasn’t impressed with SEPTA’s statement.

“In other words, SEPTA has thrown the LGBT community under the bus to consolidate its own power,” Carpenter said.

“Schmucks.”

Carpenter expressed particular concern for SEPTA’s LGBT customers.

“I’m very concerned about the public-accommodations ramifications of this,” she added. “We’re in court, in large part, because gender-variant riders were getting harassed, were getting thrown off buses, because someone questioned whether their transpasses really belonged to them. The only protections LGBT riders have are the protections that the city gives them. The Commonwealth Court demonstrates a cavalier attitude to the effect its ruling has on SEPTA’s LGBT riders.”

Rue Landau, executive director of the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations, also denounced the ruling.

“We’re in a time when across the country we’re expanding protections in the LGBTQ community, and the Commonwealth Court rendered a decision that would make it legal to discriminate against LGBT riders and employees of SEPTA. That’s shameful,” she said.

Ted Martin, executive director of Equality PA, expressed concern for SEPTA’s LGBT employees.

“The ruling demonstrates exactly why we need statewide nondiscrimination protections that include sexual orientation and gender identity,” Martin said. “SEPTA employees should be protected from discrimination whether they work at 30th Street, Ardmore or Chester. Everyone deserves to earn a living for themselves and their families.”

PCHR chair Thomas H. Earle said the city may file another appeal in state Supreme Court.

“For any public agency to think they can be immune from anti-discrimination laws in their operation is an affront to the entire community,” Earle said. “It’s always good to interpret and apply civil-rights laws as broadly as possible. The [PCHR] will fully explore next steps, including re-filing with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.” n

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“My advice to the LGBT community is to avoid public places such as Wolfe Neck when looking for love this summer,” Brady told PGN. “My understanding is there will be more stings. I will monitor the situation.”

Brady gave his perspective of the arrests, which he said occurred in mid-July.

“There were people complaining about men being at Wolfe Neck, loitering.

Apparently, it’s also on an Internet site where you can pick up people. So the park police decided to set up a sting operation.”

Brady expressed concern that some of the arrests resulted from entrapment.

“All 12 of the men are facing significant fines and possible prison time,” Brady added. “The most they were guilty of was suggestive language, to my understanding. Unfortunately, that could be enough evidence to convict. One or two may have touched their pants near their genitals, which could have been suggestive in nature. And one gentleman may have actually touched an undercover officer, perhaps on the shoulder.”

Brady hasn’t seen any evidence of sexual contact between the defendants, nor between the defendants and the undercover officers.

“To my knowledge, all were charged because of their interactions with the undercover police officers, and no sexual activity occurred with those police officers,” he said.

One of the defendants also was cited for not having his dog on a leash, Brady added.

The attorney said prior complaints from the public contributed to the arrests.

“Because these men were in a public open space where there had been previous complaints about lewd behavior, these arrests occurred,” Brady said. “The sting operation was a direct result of the public complaints.”

He said some of the defendants may be eligible for a diversionary program.

“Delaware law provides for a diversionary program that hopefully some of these gentlemen will be able to enter,” Brady continued. “Once successfully completed, their records can be expunged.”

He said authorities released the defendants’ names in a news release, but only one media outlet published them.

“This [sting] operation is a response to a serious and longstanding problem with lewd and indecent public behavior at Wolfe Neck,” said Parks and Recreation Natural Resources Police Chief Wayne Kline. “Such behavior will not be tolerated in a public area within a Delaware state park. Every arrest that we’ve made and may make as this enforcement-operation continues will reiterate that we are committed to eliminating this problem in a public area.” n

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Weddings

Karen and Sue Kirkhope

By Ryan Kasley PGN Contributor

Troy Bandel and Jun San Juan

By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com Upper Darby residents Troy Bandel and Jun San Juan wed in an intimate ceremony July 30 at the Allentown Rose Garden.

Bandel, 51, is a native of Indianapolis who’s lived in the Philadelphia area for 24 years, and San Juan, a native of the Philippines, has lived in the area for eight years.

The couple met online and knew that they had a connection after their first date at a Korean restaurant in Upper Darby.

“My very first impression when I saw him was how cute he was,” Bandel laughed, “but then through our conversation I saw how much more there was to him.”

“He just seemed so nice,” San Juan added. “We had a great time.”

Bandel said their relationship developed naturally from that point.

“It was almost like we had already met in a different time, to be honest,” he said. “I had never met anyone like him and I was just so comfortable right away. There was never this ‘get-toknow-you’ period or any fears or red

flags. Everything literally flowed perfectly. It was just like, Wow, this is supposed to be.”

San Juan jokingly brought marriage up, but the conversation eventually became more serious.

While there was not a formal proposal, Bandel did work in the element of surprise when getting their marriage license.

“We had been talking about it so I figured out where you apply for marriage licenses and we went downtown one day. We were walking around and I told him we had somewhere else to go.

He was trying to figure it out and we were walking closer to City Hall and he finally was like, ‘I know what they do here!’”

After getting their license, the couple contacted a non-denominational LGBTfriendly officiant, who suggested the Allentown Rose Garden for their venue.

“We didn’t want to do it in City Hall because that’s a bit too sterile so the rose garden was just a beautiful choice,” Bandel said. “It was a beautiful, outdoor private ceremony, just him and I. There were gazebos and a stream, and the whole thing was just beautiful.”

The couple said that the legal recognition hasn’t changed their relationship.

“It just seems normal,” Bandel said.

“We’re the same people we were the day before but the only difference is we’re married now.” n

Karen and Sue Kirkhope first met in college, more than two decades ago. With marriage equality now legal in Pennsylvania, the longtime couple decided to make it official and tie the knot.

Karen, 40, from Fairless Hills, is a psychologist for the state of New Jersey and works with adults with developmental disabilities. Sue, 41, from Johnstown, is a shipping/receiving clerk for Swemco.

They currently live in Morrisville.

Their first encounter took place after a Campus Crusade for Christ meeting at Indiana University of Pennsylvania during their junior year of college.

“A mutual friend from Campus Crusade invited us to go out together to dinner and a movie,” Karen said. “We played a lot of ping pong in the dorm lounge together from then on.”

Sue’s parents moved to Florida that summer, and Sue asked if Karen could come for a visit.

“We really connected that summer,” Karen said. “We were separated for a week while Sue helped her parents move and I remember missing her more than anyone else in my life.”

At the end of the summer, the couple decided to commit to each other.

“It wasn’t super-romantic,” Karen said. “I got a cheap ring and proposed inside our dorm room.”

After graduating, Karen and Sue got an

apartment and have lived together ever since.

While they had discussed marriage, they decided to wait until it was legal in the Keystone State.

“Sue had always wanted to get married but I said I wouldn’t do it until it was legal in the state that we live in,” said Karen. “I didn’t think it would actually happen in Pennsylvania, of all states.”

When same-sex marriage became legal in Pennsylvania last year, the couple was sitting on their couch and saw an alert pop up on their TV screen saver with the news.

“We both looked at each other and said, ‘What?’ and had to check our phones to see if we had misread the blurb,” Karen said. “Of course we hadn’t and we started planning for this year’s wedding the next day.”

The wedding was held June 27 at the Lutheran Church of the Resurrection in Yardley.

A reception followed at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Feasterville.

The day after the wedding, the couple left for their honeymoon, at a cabin outside Ashville, N.C. To this day, Karen and Sue say, they cherish the qualities that first attracted them to one another in college.

For Karen, it’s Sue’s charming naiveté.

“Sue still maintains this positive innocence in a sense,” said Karen. “It’s very cute. Even though we’ve been together for so long, it hasn’t lost its charm.”

For Sue, Karen’s outgoing personality continues to impress her.

“Her ability to connect with people translates to her connection with me, and now it’s easier for me to connect with other people too,” said Sue. “People can walk up to her and get her whole life story. It’s always impressed me.” n

Morgan Levine and Cameron Romer

By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com Timing was everything for Morgan Levine and Cameron Romer.

When the couple got engaged, marriage equality had not yet come to Pennsylvania, nor most other states. The Keystone State got on board in enough time for them to scrap their out-of-state plan. And, as icing on the wedding cake, the U.S. Supreme Court brought marriage equality to the entire nation the day before they tied the knot.

While the wedding date was picked long before the showdown in the top court, its confluence made the day even more special, Levine said.

“I don’t think the impact of it really hit me until the next day when I was able to look back and just see that there was something so extra special about the wedding,” she said. “It felt extra magical to know that we went from being engaged when it

was not legal at all in our state to, by the time we said ‘I do,’ it was legal across the United States.”

Levine, 30, and Romer, 34, have been together since 2010, having met at a party thrown by Stimulus Productions, of which Levine is a co-founder.

“I used to say she was ‘too cool for school’ when I met her. She had this attitude about her, just very cool; my first impression was very wrong,” Levine laughed.

Romer joked that her initial impression of Levine was also a little off.

“When I first met her, I thought she was this party, free spirit-type of person and then the second time I met her, I thought she was kind of nerdy. That’s definitely more accurate,” she said.

That “nerdiness” is one of the traits Romer came to most value in Levine.

“She’s one of the smartest people I’ve ever met,” Levine said. “But she doesn’t let it affect her personality; she’s still very social and just a very loving person who pushes me every day to think differently.”

Levine said she draws inspiration from Romer’s focus and positivity.

“Cameron is very grounded and grounding, and I really need that sometimes. And

she has a great energy. I would say 90 percent of the time she’s positive and the other 10 percent … well, that’s what you get for loving each other unconditionally,” Levine joked.

Romer works as a treatment court administrator for York County Probation, and Levine as a program associate at Mathematica Policy Research.

The couple got engaged in July 2013 during a trip to Delaware — unbeknownst to one another, they each planned to propose that weekend, though Romer went first.

“I beat her to the punch,” Romer laughed.

Levine said that while Romer had some difficulty finding the ring, she was still surprised.

“It was so awkward,” she laughed. “We were talking and walking along the beach and she just kept wanting to walk and it wasn’t even nice out. We got to this dune and she took out her bookbag and was going through it for like 10 minutes before she proposed.”

“The whole idea was lost in everything that was in my bag,” Romer laughed.

When they got back to their hotel, Levine gave Romer a necklace inscribed with their

initials, the date and “Marry me,” which Romer still wears.

While Levine said the pragmatic reasons for marrying — such as medical decision-making, highlighted by Romer’s type-one diabetes — were apparent, the emotional impact came over time.

“As we got into planning a wedding with each other’s families, it really unified us as a couple and I think solidified that we’re all family,” Levine said.

“I’m so glad we did a two-year engagement,” Romer added. “It was so important for us to have that time and really helped us to be relaxed and enjoying the time leading up to the wedding.”

While they had time to plan all the details, Mother Nature was out of their control and their outdoor ceremony at Riverdale Manor in Lancaster had to be moved inside.

“It rained the entire day, but it actually turned out that plan B was even better,” Levine said. “I got to wear heels, it wasn’t a million degrees. We still had a gazebo setting so it was somewhat of an outside element with the rain in the background. It was a beautiful day.” n

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A weekend beach trip proved to hold much more than rest and relaxation for Brooke Lutz and Kathleen Conlan.

The couple met in May 2014 in Provincetown, Mass., and earlier this summer got engaged at the New York City Pride Parade.

Lutz, 29, a native of Northeast Philadelphia and a former PGN advertising account executive, planned the P-Town trip to celebrate her birthday and other festivities, while Conlan, 34, a native of suburban Boston, booked the same hotel just the day before for a last-minute Memorial Day outing.

They met serendipitously outside the hotel as Lutz and her friends returned to their room after a night out on the town.

Lutz said she was immediately drawn to Conlan.

“She was a tall, stunningly beautiful red head — and she was carrying a box of alcohol,” Lutz laughed, referring to the box Conlan was using to carry her signature whiskey to an outdoor firepit. “She may have had me locked in even before we officially met, but the way she carried herself and her conversations all night sealed it for me.”

“The first night we met we stayed up the entire night talking with no pauses,” Conlan added. “I thought she was the most interesting and amazing person I’d ever met.”

They parted ways that weekend but embarked on a relationship over the 300mile distance, with frequent trips from Philadelphia to Boston and back again.

When they couldn’t see each other, they’d get creative with technology, having “FaceTime dates” or watching movies together on the phone.

“It was hard, but the distance showed us, even in the beginning, that the connection we had superseded the geographical inconveniences,” said Lutz, who closed the gap by moving to Massachusetts this summer.

“We overcame the odds by focusing on the relationship and how rare it is to find someone who intrigues you the way we intrigue each other. I’d travel the six hours from Philly to Boston daily to get to her if I had to.”

As their relationship developed, Lutz said she came to appreciate Conlan’s “humor, her heart and her multi-layered mind.”

“She’s unlike anyone I’ve ever met.

There’s a verve about her that impacts everyone she meets. It has certainly had an immeasurable impact on me,” she said.

Conlan counted among Lutz’s most valuable traits her creativity, intelligence,

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humor, complexity and free-spiritedness.

She said the pair has a shared sense of adventure — such as their willingness to drive more than 20 hours cross-country for a friend’s wedding, only to return a day later.

“She is the only other person I have known that is a free spirit in the same exact way that I am,” Conlan said. “She knows how to live in the moment, slow down and take in the beauty that surrounds you in that moment and also have appreciation for it.”

From navigating Boston during this past winter’s record snowfall to a romantic Valentine’s Day dinner in Philadelphia to spending time with Conlan’s niece and nephew, Conlan said the backdrop doesn’t have to be extraordinary for them to make lasting memories.

“In those days my heart has managed to steal moments in time that I will forever remember,” she said.

That willingness to find the beauty in any experience keeps their relationship refreshing, Lutz said.

“I always wanted someone who, if I was dropped off anywhere in the world with, we’d be OK. I found that person in Kat,” Lutz said. “I’m grateful that anywhere we go and whatever we do, we manage to truly enjoy ourselves.”

When they do encounter problems, Lutz said, they naturally strike a unique balance.

“She’s calm when I’m being crazy and in return I’m patient when she’s panicked,” Lutz said. “We take care of each other and I try to remember that even on the harder days she still makes me the happiest. We allow each other and ourselves to be our weirdest and wildest. We feed off each other’s peculiarities and it works.”

As their relationship solidified, Lutz noted — and as marriage equality began gaining steam — she began thinking more seriously about marriage.

“As the times have changed favorably toward LGBT rights, it has begun to mean much more,” she said. “And the thought of investing in Kat feels incredibly right to me.”

When they found themselves at the New York City Pride Parade just two days after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling in June, Conlan said the timing was perfect for a proposal.

“I couldn’t imagine spending another minute not being engaged to her,” Conlan said. “We had been discussing it and I knew she assumed I would never be the one to propose. I couldn’t wait to show her that I was sure she was the person I wanted to spend my life with.”

Lutz said she was shocked by the proposal, which, she added, had a perfect backdrop, amid the extra-festive Pride celebration.

“That day was both a public and private celebration for us,” she said.

The couple is planning the wedding for early 2018. n

By Ryan Kasley PGN Contributor Dr. Samuel L. Jacobs and William Thomas Kennedy IV plan to wed Oct. 3 in Brigantine, N.J. Jacobs, from the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia, works for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. Kennedy, from Belleville, is a Realtor. The couple currently lives in Collingswood, N.J. They met through a mutual friend a little over a year ago and said they quickly fell for one another.

“We have a friend who lived in Lancaster at the time. He had a little dinner party and asked me to come out there and join a bunch of the guys for dinner,” Jacobs said.

“I asked him, ‘Is there going to be anyone single there that I might be interested in?’”

Jacobs’ friend suggested Kennedy, but cautioned he wasn’t sure if the two would be a good match — though Jacobs said he was thankfully wrong.

“That evening we clicked,” said Jacobs.

“But he was living in Harrisburg and I was in Collingswood.”

They kept in touch and eventually had their first date at the Continental-Midtown in Philadelphia. Their next date took them

to Wildwood, N.J., for a beach weekend.

“We knew there was chemistry. We continued to communicate and see each other,” Jacobs said.

The informal proposal happened on their one-year anniversary, May 3, 2015.

“We were just laying in bed talking about how we wanted to proceed going forward,” Jacobs said. “I was actually on the phone with my attorney at one point and she said it would be a lot easier with things like a will if we were married.”

At that point, neither of them had popped the question to the other.

“I got off the phone and said to Bill, ‘You know she has a point. It might be better to get married.’ So Bill said, ‘OK. Will you marry me?’ And I said yes.”

Jacobs said he admires Kennedy’s big heart.

“He makes me very, very happy. He’s the most wonderful, big-hearted person you could meet,” said Jacobs. “He just goes out of his way to be there for me, and on top of him being the most caring person I’ve met, he is honest to a fault.

“He’s friggin’ hot too,” he laughed. “That doesn’t hurt at all.”

Kennedy said he loves that Jacobs is always there for him.

“I just fell in love with his heart. He will sit and listen and give me feedback and is there for me when I need him,” Kennedy said. “The night I met him, I knew I was going to marry him.” n

Rebecca Smith and Lindey Campagne

By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com Rebecca Smith hails from Georgia. Lindey Campagne comes from Ohio. They met in North Carolina. And they got engaged in Philadelphia.

The couple’s multistate romance began when they met as juniors at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. They became a couple a little over a year-and-a-half ago.

After graduation, Smith and Campagne, both 23, packed up and moved up north. Campagne is heading to optometry school in the fall, while Smith is applying for physician-assistant programs.

Both work as medical scribes in Aria’s emergency room and live in Northeast Philadelphia.

“We both made a commitment to each other,” Campagne said. “We decided to leave behind everything we had in North Carolina, leave our families where they are and just start a new life here with each other in Philadelphia.”

“We’ve made friends and built community through our work, but it’s really just the two of us,” Smith said.

The two of them, plus their dogs — a

2-year-old Siberian husky, Luna, who came with them from North Carolina, and a 1-yearold border collie, Elsie, whom they got this past fall as company for their first dog.

The couple said much of their time is spent working but they try to explore their new city when they can.

Around Christmas, they were eager to take in the city’s holiday offerings and got tickets to the Philly POPS! holiday show on Dec. 17. Campagne made Smith one of her favorite meals before they left and then presented her with an early Christmas gift.

“She’s an artist and was making me a painting for Christmas and she said, ‘Before we go, I finished your painting; do you want to see it?’” Smith said. “So I said yes and on the painting it said, ‘Will you marry me?’ I said yes of course.”

The proposal wasn’t a complete surprise, as they had talked about an engagement before and both wanted to wear engagement rings.

“I knew it was coming and had gotten her a ring just to be ready,” Smith laughed. “After she asked me, I said, ‘Oh, here’s your ring!’”

The couple is in the early stages of wedding planning. Campagne has family in Ohio, while Smith’s family is largely in New Jersey and Georgia. They decided to have the wedding in the state in which they met, North Carolina, on Wake Forest’s campus, officiated by one of their former professors. n

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Marriage: It’s legal, but are you ready?

The most immediate outcome of to a newfound right to marry and their national marriage equality was celebration new and exciting love. In our culture, among community members and allies. marriage has long been a grand gesture of The second outcome has been, well, marlove, sometimes impulsively entered into riage. Lots of marriage. (think Las Vegas chapels and Most of us can attest to the Elvis impersonators), but we influx in marriage proposals haven’t had the opportunity and ceremonies we’ve seen this to get in on this emotionally summer, which isn’t exactly the driven decision-making. So for worst thing to see an increase us, this is brand-new territory. in; displays of love and com How do you know when mitment are generally pretty you’re ready for marriage? heart-warming. But it does raise First, it takes 12-18 months the question, are all these couinto a relationship for your ples ready for marriage? brain chemistry to return to Certainly, many newly equilibrium. The first year or engaged or married same-sex so is marked by increased levcouples have been waiting els of oxytocin, appropriately years for the right to marry referred to as “the love drug.” their spouse and their rush to In other words, oxytocin makes the altar is easy to make sense Kristina Furia it difficult to see your partner of. My concern comes with clearly when your vision is the couples who may still be in the early mucked up by those lovey-dovey feelings. throws of passion and whose relationships It is a good precautionary measure to wait may not have progressed to the point of to consider marriage until the 1.5-two-year a forever commitment. They could be range, when you have evidence of continunknowingly acting upon feelings related ued satisfaction in your relationship after

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that natural high dissipates.

Next, when you do get to talking about marriage, ask yourself whether you are planning a wedding or an actual marriage.

For those of us who grew up envisioning our dream wedding, it is easy to become hyper-focused on the wedding day itself, without enough attention to what comes afterwards: the rest of your life as a married person. It is helpful to take a look at the conversations you and your partner have had about being married. Has one of you been more enthusiastic than the other, perhaps rushing your partner to set a date?

This is likely an indicator of a dissonance between the two of you that ought to be addressed before you say “I do.”

Have you asked yourself why you want to be married now? If the answer relates to the schedule you pre-established for your life, you could be getting married for the wrong reason. I’ve worked with couples who married when they did because one wanted to have children prior to a certain age. They rushed into marriage without knowing one another’s intricacies. You must know your partner fully, including

his or her needs in a relationship, for a successful marriage. And you must also know these things about yourself.

Marriage is meant to last a lifetime, so asking yourself and your partner the right questions (and understanding the answers) is essential for marriage readiness. If you find you don’t yet know those answers, it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t eventually marry the one you love; it simply means you should probably invest more time enjoying the pre-marital stage of your relationship, where you can continue to learn about one another and grow in your love before committing to forever. And if you really do intend on forever, you’ve got more than enough time to enjoy learning about the depths of your partner. n Kristina Furia is a psychotherapist specializing in issues and concerns of the LGBTQ community in addition to depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and other mental illnesses. Her private practice, Philadelphia LGBTQ Counseling, offers both individual and couples sessions (www.lgbtphillytherapy.com).

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a wedding photographer, Tara Beth Robertson

By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com The advent of iPhones has caused many Americans to style themselves amateur photographers nowadays. But, as Tara Beth Robertson can attest, there’s a lot more to being a professional photographer than a simple point and click.

“It’s really a full-time, seven-day-a-week, almost 24-hour-a-day job,” Robertson said.

That round-the-clock schedule includes photo editing, networking, promotions and, of course, the actual photography.

Robertson, 27, said the latter was always a big part of her life.

“My mom was always very into photography as a hobby. When my brother and I were kids, she was always taking photographs of us. We have an obscene amount of photos of us as kids,” she laughed.

Robertson, a native of Virginia who went to high school in West Chester, Pa., got her own start with the craft during a highschool photography class, where she got to learn her way around a dark room. She started out studying journalism at Cabrini College but ultimately earned a degree in photography from the University of the Arts in 2012.

“I thought I wanted to be a writer for Rolling Stone at first, but I was continuing to take photos and decided photography was it for me. I took the jump and put together a portfolio and applied to art school,” she said.

While at UArts, she completed a oneyear internship with local wedding photographer Christina Campbell.

Campbell later offered Robertson an assistant position, giving her a foot in the door to the wedding-photography industry — the crux of which meshes well with the root of her own passion for photography, she said.

“The concept of capturing a moment in time is so fascinating to me. That was my draw to photography from the beginning, that you could see something, take a photo and freeze it essentially to come back to years later and remember and relive that moment. That’s also what really drew me into wedding photography because that is such a huge moment for people. After the flowers are dead and the cake gone, the photographs are really everything you have left of that day.”

Campbell encouraged Robertson to start her own company, which she did in 2012.

Her first wedding couple was Katie and Megan MacTurk.

“I owe my entire career to them. They completely gave me this opportunity to jumpstart my career. We were friends before and they asked if I’d do their wedding and I said, ‘I haven’t done this by myself before’ and they were like, ‘No, no, we trust you. We have faith in you,’” Robertson said. “I’m so glad they took the chance on me because that first year they were my only wedding and by the next year

I had 17 weddings.”

Robertson has booked 20 weddings this year and already has eight scheduled for next year, with an expected boon during the height of wedding-planning season from December-March.

When couples contact Robertson for wedding inquiries, she may meet them in person for drinks or chat over FaceTime, though some have booked without even meeting her in person. She said getting to know your wedding photographer is always advisable.

“It’s always good to see if your personalities mix because that’s a big part of it; I’m the person who’s going to be with you all day long, so if you don’t like my personality that’s a problem. I’ve never had that happen, thankfully!”

Robertson spends an average eight-10 hours working on a wedding day, during which she, armed with her Canon 5D Mark III, amasses up to 4,000 pictures.

“Yeah … it’s a lot,” she laughed.

Within about two days, she does a “basic cull,” deleting any blurry or non-important images and selecting her favorites. Once she collects between 800-900, she uses software program Lightroom to edit the top 100 — “these are the ones that are definitely hang-up-worthy” — and posts them in a mini album on Facebook.

“I look at them as kind of a gift to the couple to hold them over until I’m finished with the rest of the photographs,” she said.

“I know if it was me I’d want to see them right away, so the mini album gives them something to look at and show their friends and family.”

The process wraps up about a month later when she presents the full 800-900 edited images to the couple.

Robertson said she tries to stay away from posed photos as much as possible.

“My style is emotional and intimate and

artistic. I try to really capture what makes these two people a couple. And I know sometimes photos can looked very staged and posed but I pride myself on being almost a hands-off photographer,” she said.

“I don’t like to pose people to look contrived or artificial. And it helps that I get to know the couples and form a relationship with them, learning who they are as people.

I think that connection comes out in my work because they become more comfortable and are able to be themselves.”

That she identifies as a lesbian likely helps her LGBT clients feel more comfortable, Robertson said.

“I’ve been told that some people worry that a straight photographer, even though he or she may not say anything, may be judging them. So I think that there is some level of comfort with my LGBT clients knowing that I’m not doing that,” she said.

“But I think I have the same connection across the board. The couples I attract are so sweet, open, fun; I’ve never had a bad experience with a client. I’ve been really lucky.”

Robert’s LGBT client base has increased dramatically with Pennsylvania legalizing marriage equality last year, followed by this summer’s Supreme Court ruling bringing same-sex marriage nationwide.

“I was getting clients from places like Texas who were traveling to Pennsylvania or Delaware to get married because it wasn’t legalized in their state and now they’re asking me to fly out to those states to photograph their wedding because now they don’t have to travel. So that’s awesome,” she said.

Robertson had a same-sex wedding already planned in Pennsylvania the day after the SCOTUS ruling.

“They were really fun and so excited and called themselves my first ‘national couple,’ which was so cute,” she said.

The connections she forges with her clients also help to cut down on the day-of stresses that invariably crop up, Robertson noted.

“That’s one of the toughest things about being a wedding photographer; there are so many things that can go wrong and you have to think 10 steps ahead of everyone — of the wedding coordinator, the couple,” she said. “But I tell the couple if I see them stressing when I get there that, if I am calm, everything’s OK. I do this every weekend and I’m pretty comfortable with any scenario so it’s nice to see them take a deep breath and realize that, if I’m not stressing out, they shouldn’t be.”

That calm is rooted in a healthy amount

of planning, organization and time management. While Robertson joked that such skills weren’t her forte in school, she’s developed a knack for prepping for deadlines.

“My whole job is one big project due on a certain date,” she said. “Google Calendar is my best friend and I love Post-Its.” Robertson devotes a few hours per day to sit at her computer and revisit where each project stands; in addition to weddings, she also does engagement shoots — which come free for each wedding couple — family sessions, baby photography and more.

Her week’s schedule often isn’t solidified until the last minute, which she enjoys. Last

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week, all she had on the immediate horizon was an Aug. 15 wedding, but by early this week, she had two engagement sessions, a family shoot and a baby session booked for the week.

“It really depends on the emails I get and the time I have. For weddings, I pretty much know what I’m going to be doing a year out, but other things come in randomly and I thrive off of that excitement of what I’m going to get week to week.”

Most of Robertson’s clients come from referrals and she also uses social media to build a following — which can be time-consuming.

“I get clients from Pinterest and Instagram who’ve seen wedding or engagement photos I’ve posted. Social media has completely changed the game but it’s one of those things where, if you don’t use it, you lose it. So it keeps me working and focused all the time on getting my work out there.

That’s one thing that I didn’t realize would be a big part of this job but it absolutely is.”

But, Robertson said, the job leaves little to complain about.

“I totally love it and the people I get to meet all the time. No wedding is the same and each week is different. I really can’t see myself doing anything else; I just want more of it. It’s my dream job, which is really nice to be able to say.” n For more information, visit tarabethphotography.com or follow her on Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.

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How condo king wants to change the way city does business

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e cannot understand why a fabulously successful Center City businessman would want to run for, let alone serve as, a City Council freshman member; but we’ll take Allan Domb at his word: he wants to give back to a city that has made him successful. While we were dismayed that his campaign theme centered around a tired political gimmick — “I’d donate my salary. I don’t want the money” — we are encouraged by a policy initiative he championed on the campaign trail: an aggressive common sense approach to collecting back taxes.

Domb believes we could get 30 or 35 percent [of delinquent taxes] up front.

First, the problem. An analysis by former LibCity Press writer, Patrick Kerkstra, for PhillyMag’s Citified blog lays it out in stark terms: “Nearly every indicator shows that the tax delinquency scourge was as bad or worse in April 2015 as it was the year before.

A Citified analysis of city tax data over that period shows that: • The total amount owed the city and School District of Philadelphia in unpaid taxes, penalties and interest increased from $512 million to $523 million.

• Philadelphia tax delinquents are a mind-boggling 740,734 years in arrears on their tax payments. That’s 3,257 more years worth of payments than were recorded in 2014.

• Of the nearly 100,000 delinquent property owners, 16,735 are in payment agreements. That’s just 279 more than last year.

• Long-term delinquents remain a huge problem. There are 9,049 properties in the city that haven’t paid taxes in 20 years or more. That’s just 10 fewer properties than met the same criteria last year.”

And along comes Allan Domb with an idea about how to reverse this trend; an idea that comes out of New York City and recently spelled out by PlanPhilly blog: “New York’s system is basically a sale of tax liens with outsourced collection, similar to what many other cities and counties do across the country, but with a few tweaks.

The process works like this: • Every year, the city identifies property-tax bills that amount to at least

$1,000 and are at least three years overdue.

• It sets aside liens on properties owned by senior citizens, disabled people, veterans, and active military personnel.

• It transfers the rest to a trust established by the city.

• The trust bundles the most valuable liens, sells them as securitized debt, and pays the city upfront.

• The trust then contracts with private debt collectors to “service” the liens for a percentage of the debt they collect.

• After the trust collects enough money to pay back the investors who bought the bundled liens, it delivers the surplus back to the city.

Domb believes we could get 30 or 35 percent up front. When you’re talking about over $500 million, that’s real money.

Now usually when someone comes up with a common sense approach to an age-old problem, it turns out to be not so common and less sense when one puts it under the magnifying glass. The thinking

being that if it was, indeed, so commonsensical it would have been done long ago.

Usually, we find the proverbial fly in the ointment. And that’s what is so compelling about Domb’s approach: no fly.

An aggressive approach to collecting delinquent taxes, typically through the contracting out of tax liens to a third party collection agency, usually runs up against two political forces: those who want to protect the poor from the collectors; and those who want to preserve the city’s right to control property for more comprehenContinued on page 2 AUG. 9-16, 2015

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A Domb Idea Continued from page 1 sive redevelopment strategies.

These forces, however, become somewhat muted under Domb’s proposal, as the trust which oversees the liens provides a backstop against heavy-handed collections and ad hoc sales undermining redevelopment strategies.

Just listen to Mark Levin, a lawyer for Regional Housing Legal Services, one of a group of advocates raising concerns

with the city’s recent tax lien sale.

Levin told PlanPhilly that “a tax lien sale trust might make sense.

If it’s another way of being held by a public body, albeit a different public body, it would alleviate some of the concerns.”

For Allan Domb to make a difference on City Council, it will take more than a gimmick, but a smart idea is a really good place to start.

Howard Finds Himself with Dream Job Continued from page 12 something I’m thinking about.

I love Villanova. I think my job right now is to be another voice for Coach Wright and his philosophies and messages. That’s what I am focusing on.”

He maintains great relations with his mentors, especially Flint, who he, along with many other former players and coaches, roasted at Flint’s recent 50th birthday party. He still cherishes what he learned under Giannini, and Chris Mack at Xavier University. “The experiences I got from these guys are what helped me to get here at Villanova,” he said. “Bruiser taught me how to be a professional, and be a wellrounded person and coach. John Giannini opened my eyes at La Salle. He is a tireless worker. We would come back from a long trip and he would be working out guys as soon as we got off the plane. He taught me the value of always being able to perform in every aspect of our profession and be involved in everything.

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Xavier, with his brilliant half offense and Pack Line defense. I spent the year trying to learn both and be another voice for him. I think he is a great coach. Xavier was my first taste of big-time college basketball. They marketed that team so well and there was so much excitement every day about that team. The community was so involved with the program, the alumni, and the administration. It was such a fun experience.”

Howard comes from a top lineage, too. Dad Maurice was a former star at St. Joseph’s Prep and Maryland, while his uncle and grandfather were well known basketball aficionados in the city.

He also played for the Sonny Hill League and feels strong attachment to his hometown. “I came from an era where people played in the leagues in Philadelphia and there were bragging [rights] and fierce competition. I came from a basketball family. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that growing up with my dad and uncle didn’t influence me. I owe it all to them.”

On Our Own Ground Selection from Philly’s BlackStar Film Festival shines light on Pennsylvaniaborn August Wilson

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he John S. and James L. Knight Foundation had a few points it wanted to make in sponsoring the BlackStar Film Festival, which took place July 31-Aug. 3 in Philadelphia and is hailed by Ebony magazine as “the black Sundance.”

“Black history is American history. Black stories are AmeriAugust Wilson. Photo courtesy: Black Star Film Festival. can stories,” the foundation stated ple know their works, and I want them to know the in a 2014 press release. “Black identity is not small, works of August Wilson.” narrow or one size fits all. Pittsburgh and PhiladelWe certainly know some of the actors quoted phia are two cities whose histories are inextricably in the feature-length documentary that chronicles, linked to the contributions and legacy of the black according to the festival’s website, “… Wilson’s diaspora.” influences, creative evolution, triumphs, struggles So, how appropriate that one of the 60 films and quest for cultural determinism …” Familiar featured at this year’s festival was “August Wilson: names are Viola Davis, Charles Dutton, Laurence The Ground on Which I Stand,” about the Tony and Fishburne, James Earl Jones and Phylicia Rashad.

Pulitzer award-winning playwright whose native And then there are names in the film that we don’t Pittsburgh was the setting of nine of his 10 plays. know, like Wilson’s sister, Freda Ellis and his widow Set in Pittsburgh’s African-American Hill Disand costume designer, Constanza Romero, who give trict, Wilson’s plays certainly recognize issues of wonderful insight into the personal life of Wilson, racism, social justice and discrimination, but the who died of liver cancer in 2005. brilliance of his writing has always been the simBlackStar Film Festvial’s selections hailed from plicity of its everyday language and familiarity of its more than four continents. August Wilson certainly ordinary black-America settings, like a jitney station stood firmly on the beauty of right where he was. or a café, or around the family piano.

“Never is it suggested that playwrights like DaMaori Karmael Holmes, the festival’s founder vid Mamet or Terrence McNally are limiting themand artistic director, stressed, “In this time where we selves to whiteness,” Wilson once said during a conare fighting to show the world that black lives mattroversial national debate on race and theatre. “The ter, we also want to be a festival which champions idea that we are trying to escape from the ghetto of and creates space for black stories.” black culture is insulting.”

“The Ground on Which I Stand” is the work of A worthy intent of BlackStar is to bring attenfilmmaker Sam Pollard, winner of multiple Emmy tion to quality films that are overlooked. So, if you and Peabody Awards as editor-producer on such haven’t seen this film about a gem from our own documentaries as “When the Levees Broke” and state, go to PBS.org and search for “The Ground on “Spike Lee Presents Mike Tyson.” In Pollard’s view, Which I Stand,” or watch directly at: http://bit.ly/ “[Wilson] stands head and shoulders with Edward LCPlink08151.

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JEWELL WILLIAMS Sheriff on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 at First District Plaza, 3801 Market Street, at 10:00 AM. (EST) Conditions of Sheriff’s Sale for JUDICIAL/FORECLOSURE SALE Ten percent of the highest bid for each property auctioned off shall be deposited in certified check, attorney’s check or money order with the Sheriff by each bidder when his bid is registered, provided that in no case shall less than Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00) be deposited, otherwise upon failure or refusal to make such deposit, the bidder shall lose all benefit of his bid and the property may be offered again and sold unless a second bid has been registered, then, the second highest bidder will take the property at the highest bid price.

Additionally, where there is active bidding, the highest bidder, and the second highest bidder, if any must post the entire amount of the cost of the distribution policy for the property at the time of sale by certified check, attorney’s check or money order with the Sheriff.

The balance of the purchase money must be deposited in certified check, attorney’s check or money order together with a Deed poll for execution by the highest bidder to the Sheriff at his office within 30 days from the time of the sale. An extension of time for an additional 30 days may be granted at the discretion of the Sheriff upon receipt of written request from the buyer requesting the same, except when a second bidder has been duly registered.

Also, if the first bidder does not complete settlement with the Sheriff within the thirty (30) day time limit and a second bid was registered at the sale, the second bidder shall be granted the same thirty (30) day time limit to make settlement with the Sheriff on his second bid.

Thereafter, the Sheriff shall be at liberty to return the writ to court.

A second bid must be registered on any property immediately after it is sold. The second bidder must present the same amount of deposit that the highest bidder delivers to the Sheriff at the sale. An extension of time under no circumstances will be granted or honored by the Sheriff whenever a second bid is registered on a property at the sale.

The first bid or opening bid on each property shall be a sum sufficient to pay all Sheriff’s costs including advertising, all taxes, water rents and municipal claims due to the City of Philadelphia. If there is no other bid price above the opening bid price, the property shall be sold by the auctioneer to the attorney on the writ at that price.

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

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the Sheriff’s cost, then to any municipal claims that the City of Philadelphia has on the property.

Finally, if a balance still remains, a Sheriff’s Distribution Policy will be ordered and the money will be distributed accordingly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Sheriff will file in his office, The Land Title Building, 100 South Broad Street, 5th Floor, a Schedule of Distribution Thirty (30) Days from the date of the sale of Real Estate. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedule unless exceptions are filed thereto within ten (10) days thereafter.

N.B. - For the benefit of our non-professional readers who do not understand the meaning of the letters and figures following the defendant’s names, we make the following.

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

The letters C.P., Court of Common Pleas; O.C., Orphans’ Court; Q.S., Court of Quarter Sessions; C.C., County Court indicate the Court out of which the writ of execution issues under which the sale is made: S. 1941.

223. means September Term, 1941.

223, the term and number of the docket entry; the figures following show the amount of debt; and the name following is that of the attorney issuing the writ.

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

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

Leodoro Rosario and Milagros Arias Santos C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 03191 $34,499.20 Richard J. Weitzman, Esq. 1509-303 5001 N Sydenham St 19141-2209 17th wd. 1600 Sq Ft BRT#172076900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Entrust Cama, FBO Janette Lee Curry, Ira and Bruce D. Ryan C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 03193 $48,293.62 KML Law Group, P.C. 1509-304 5307 Haverford Ave 19139 44th wd. 1800 Sq Ft; Beginning Point: Situate on the North side of Haverford Ave (80 feet wide) at the distance of 84 feet Westward from the West side 53rd Street (60 feet wide). OPA#441224100 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 3 STY MASONRY William M. Cobb C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 01911 $215,576.15 Richard J. Nalbandian, III 1509-305 2224 S Bucknell St 19145-3213 48th wd. 1134 Sq Ft BRT#482304100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Josette Murray C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 03355 $76,410.81 KML Law Group, P.C. 1509-306 2751 Pennsylvania Ave, Unit# B109 19130-1743 15th wd.

1325 Sq Ft; Together with all right, title and interest to a 0.747% undivided interest of, in and to the Common Elements, as more particularly set forth in the Declaration. OPA#888151733 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Joseph A. Canuso C.P. May Term, 2009 No. 01765 $235,861.76 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-307 6723 N 18th St 191262603 10th wd. 1336 Sq Ft OPA#101085200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Rainford Thomas C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 00160 $141,981.43 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-308 5026 Master St 191314523 44th wd. 2320 Sq Ft OPA#442155000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Carl R. Freeland C.P. August Term, 2010 No. 02267 $111,787.14 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-309 637 Rosalie St 19120 35th wd.

1116 Sq Ft BRT#352042900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Jabier Cruz C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 01127 $79,337.77 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire

1509-310 6141 Marsden St 19135 41st wd. 1260 Sq Ft BRT#411263600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Robin Duaime f/k/a Robin Whittington; Raymond McAteer; Richard McAteer, Ruth Fetouhi; Robert McAteer; Shirley Wichert and Thomas McAteer, Jr. in their Capacity as Heirs of Thomas McAteer, Sr, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Thomas McAteer, Deceased C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 02550 $62,072.90 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1509-311 2443 E Clearfield St 19134-4438 25th wd. 1530 Sq Ft OPA#251121700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Anthony Pizzaro C.P. June Term, 2012 No. 02626 $169,464.16 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-312 6615 Ditman St 191352714 41st wd. 1280 Sq Ft OPA#411243200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ahmed F. Sharawi C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 02128 $114,329.47 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-313 1804 73rd Ave 19126 10th wd.

1280 Sq Ft PRCL#101341300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lakeshia R. Jackson C.P. April Term, 2009 No. 02682 $138,749.68 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-314A 1319 Bainbridge St 19147-1826 2nd wd. 2589 Sq Ft OPA#023196105 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Clarke Real Estate Development, LLC and Donovan W. Clarke C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02259 $10,104,809.06 Bruce S. Luckman, Esquire 1509-314B 1321 Bainbridge St 19147-1826 2nd wd. 1974 Sq Ft OPA#023196205 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Clarke Real Estate Development, LLC and Donovan W. Clarke C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02259 $10,104,809.06 Bruce S. Luckman, Esquire 1509-314C 1323 Bainbridge St 19147-1826 2nd wd. 1155 Sq Ft OPA#023196305 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Clarke Real Estate Development, LLC and Donovan W. Clarke C.P.

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www.Officeof Philadelphia Sheriff.com SHERIFF’S SALE OF Tuesday, September 1, 2015 1509-301 185 W Loudon a/k/a Louden St 19120 42nd wd. 987.88 Sq Ft BRT#422092100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Elsa Rodriguez C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 02125 $70,469.68 KML Law Group, P.C. 1509-302 4571-73 Torresdale Ave 19124 23rd wd. 7700 Sq Ft +/- 7600 Sq Ft OPA#884507630 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL BUILDING

SHERIFF’S SALE March Term, 2015 No. 02259 $10,104,809.06 Bruce S. Luckman, Esquire 1509-314D 1325 Bainbridge St 19147-1826 2nd wd. 1155 Sq Ft OPA#023196405 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Clarke Real Estate Development, LLC and Donovan W. Clarke C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02259 $10,104,809.06 Bruce S. Luckman, Esquire 1509-314E 1327 Bainbridge St 19147-1826 2nd wd. 1155 Sq Ft OPA#023196505 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Clarke Real Estate Development, LLC and Donovan W. Clarke C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02259 $10,104,809.06 Bruce S. Luckman, Esquire 1509-314F 1329 Bainbridge St 19147-1826 2nd wd. 1155 Sq Ft OPA#023196605 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Clarke Real Estate Development, LLC and Donovan W. Clarke C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02259 $10,104,809.06 Bruce S. Luckman, Esquire 1509-314G 1331 Bainbridge St 19147-1826 2nd wd. 1155 Sq Ft OPA#023196705 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Clarke Real Estate Development, LLC and Donovan W. Clarke C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02259 $10,104,809.06 Bruce S. Luckman, Esquire 1509-314H 1333 Bainbridge St 19147-1826 2nd wd. 1155 Sq Ft OPA#023196805 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Clarke Real Estate Development, LLC and Donovan W. Clarke C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02259 $10,104,809.06 Bruce S. Luckman, Esquire 1509-314I 1337 Bainbridge St 19147-1826 2nd wd. 1155 Sq Ft OPA#023197005 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Clarke Real Estate Development, LLC and Donovan W. Clarke C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02259 $10,104,809.06 Bruce S. Luckman, Esquire 1509-314J 1318 Kater St 191471826 2nd wd. 1155 Sq Ft OPA#023184605 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Clarke Real Estate Development, LLC and Donovan W. Clarke C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02259 $10,104,809.06 Bruce S. Luckman, Esquire

SHERIFF’S SALE 1509-314K 1320 Kater St 191471826 2nd wd. 1155 Sq Ft OPA#023184705 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Clarke Real Estate Development, LLC and Donovan W. Clarke C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02259 $10,104,809.06 Bruce S. Luckman, Esquire 1509-314L 1322 Kater St 191471826 2nd wd. 1155 Sq Ft OPA#023184805 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Clarke Real Estate Development, LLC and Donovan W. Clarke C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02259 $10,104,809.06 Bruce S. Luckman, Esquire 1509-314M 1324 Kater St 191471826 2nd wd. 1155 Sq Ft OPA#023184905 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Clarke Real Estate Development, LLC and Donovan W. Clarke C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02259 $10,104,809.06 Bruce S. Luckman, Esquire 1509-314N 1326 Kater St 191471826 2nd wd. 1155 Sq Ft OPA#023185005 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Clarke Real Estate Development, LLC and Donovan W. Clarke C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02259 $10,104,809.06 Bruce S. Luckman, Esquire 1509-314O 1328 Kater St 191471826 2nd wd. 1155 Sq Ft OPA#023185105 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Clarke Real Estate Development, LLC and Donovan W. Clarke C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02259 $10,104,809.06 Bruce S. Luckman, Esquire 1509-314P 1330 Kater St 191471826 2nd wd. 1155 Sq Ft OPA#023185205 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Clarke Real Estate Development, LLC and Donovan W. Clarke C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02259 $10,104,809.06 Bruce S. Luckman, Esquire 1509-314Q 1332 Kater St 191471826 2nd wd. 1155 Sq Ft OPA#023185305 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Clarke Real Estate Development, LLC and Donovan W. Clarke C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02259 $10,104,809.06 Bruce S. Luckman, Esquire 1509-314R 1334 Kater St 191471826 2nd wd. 1155 Sq

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Ft OPA#023185405 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Clarke Real Estate Development, LLC and Donovan W. Clarke C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02259 $10,104,809.06 Bruce S. Luckman, Esquire 1509-314S 1336 Kater St 191471826 2nd wd. 1155 Sq Ft OPA#023185505 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Clarke Real Estate Development, LLC and Donovan W. Clarke C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02259 $10,104,809.06 Bruce S. Luckman, Esquire 1509-314T 1338 Kater St 191471826 2nd wd. 1930 Sq Ft OPA#023185605 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Clarke Real Estate Development, LLC and Donovan W. Clarke C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02259 $10,104,809.06 Bruce S. Luckman, Esquire 1509-314U 618 S. Clarion St 191471826 2nd wd. 565 Sq Ft OPA#023291100 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Clarke Real Estate Development, LLC and Donovan W. Clarke C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02259 $10,104,809.06 Bruce S. Luckman, Esquire 1509-315 2332 Gratz St, a/k/a 2332 N Gratz St 19132-4337 16th wd.

1134 Sq Ft OPA#162061000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Akeemi Croom; Mary Glasgow C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 03083 $76,720.16 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-316 2236 S 21st St 19145 48th wd.

1460 Sq Ft BRT#482143100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY An Tran C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 00730 $219,901.65 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1509-317 5801 Anderson St 19138 59th wd. 1332 Sq Ft BRT#591215500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Juanita Ward C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 002461 $52,949.83 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1509-318 4020 Unruh Ave 19135 55th wd. 1800 Sq Ft BRT#55-21489-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Alicia C. MacDonald C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 001013 $263,176.67 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1509-319 1823 Pennington Rd 19151 34th wd. 1120 Sq Ft BRT#343323100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Crystal Bryant Powell C.P.

June Term, 2013 No. 01132 $124,599.05 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1509-320 2159 Homer St 19138 10th wd.

1188 Sq Ft BRT#102140100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Naiphesa Hilliard C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 001486 $159,936.17 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1509-321 2044 S Hemberger St 19145 48th wd. 1052 Sq Ft BRT#482240200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Amina Mayazi-Saunders a/k/a Amina Saunders and Scott Sauders C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 02483 $80,905.75 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1509-322 3527 Vinton Rd 19154 66th wd. 1360 Sq Ft BRT#663130400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Timothy Andrew West (Mortgagor and Real Owner) C.P. April Term, 2010 No. 01343 $178,413.57 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1509-323 3107 C St 19134 7th wd.

784 Sq Ft BRT#071449800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Joseph E. Bennett a/k/a Joe Bennett and Mark C. Nuzzo a/k/a Mark Nuzzo C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 04245 $43,475.40 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1509-324 937 E Russell St 19134 33rd wd. 1176 Sq Ft BRT#33-11828-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Joseph E. Bennett a/k/a Joe Bennett and Mark C. Nuzzo a/k/a Mark Nuzzo C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 04090 $52,461.32 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1509-325 934 E Russell St 19134 33rd wd. 1176 Sq Ft BRT#33-11762-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Joseph E. Bennett a/k/a Joe Bennett and Mark C. Nuzzo a/k/a Mark Nuzzo C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 04246 $48,985.93 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1509-326 221 W Loudon St 19120 42nd wd. 1280 Sq Ft BRT#422093300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Ricardo Williams C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 04244 $55,741.61 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1509-327 4105 N 6th St 19140 43rd wd.

1164 Sq Ft BRT#433260900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY The Unknown Heirs of Vincente Ayala, Deceased C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 02803 $44,448.17 KML Law Group, P.C. 1509-328 5529 Malcolm St 19143 51st wd. 1140 Sq Ft BRT#513167700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY John H. Coston C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 03121 $90,292.68 KML Law Group, P.C. 1509-329 897 Granite St 19124 35th wd. Land Area: 1022 Sq Ft BRT#351139800 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GAR 2STY MASONRY Nate Simon C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 02114 $78,750.00 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1509-330 4516 Weymouth St 19120 42nd wd. Land Area: 800 Sq Ft BRT#421588000 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STORY MASONRY Mark E. Williams C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 02174 $65,600.00 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1509-331 940 Daly St 19148 39th wd. Land Area: 1040 Sq Ft BRT#393339100 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STORY MASONRY Natalie Trout C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 01716 $156,090.00 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1509-332 1812 E Thayer St 19134 45th wd. Land Area: 1299 Sq Ft BRT#452062400 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STORY MASONRY Raymond Vandegrift C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 02653 $52,800.00 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1509-333 1127 S 53rd St 19143 51st wd.

1152 Sq Ft BRT#511045900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Unknown Heirs of Juanita M. Jones, Deceased and Jerald Johnson, Sr. a/k/a Gerald Johnson, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Juanita M. Jones, Deceased C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 05463 $79,053.69 KML Law Group, P.C. 1509-334 351 Claremont Rd 19120 61st wd. Land Area: 1152 Sq Ft BRT#61-1-352100; PRCL#28N14-244 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GAR 2STY MASONRY Babs L. Parler C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 03614 $136,350.00 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1509-335 539 E Cheltenham Ave 19120 35th wd. Land Area: 1188 Sq Ft BRT#35-2-0064-00 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GAR 2STY MASONRY Manuel A. Almonte C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 02132 $91,248.00 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1509-336 340 Federal St 19147 2nd

wd. Lot of 1040 Sq Ft with multi-family improvement of 3120 Sq Ft BRT#02-12592-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Barry Glickstein C.P. May Term, 2008 No. 003759 $1,057,549.90 Anita J. Murray, Esquire; Eckert, Seamans, Cherin & Mellott, LLC 1509-337 3487 Weikel St 19134 45th wd. Land Area: 840 Sq Ft BRT#451436200 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Miguel Burgos C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 03354 $77,569.00 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1509-338 3331 Bleigh Ave 19136 64th wd. Land Area: 1188 Sq Ft BRT#642146900 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GAR 2 STORY MASONRY James Ewing a/k/a James E. Ewing and Pamela Lloyd a/k/a Pamela T. Lloyd C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 02198 $69,000.00 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1509-339 6532 Lansdowne Ave 19151 34th wd. 1582 Sq Ft BRT#344019500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Basil A. Scott and Janice V. Scott C.P. March Term, 2011 No. 03346 $147,137.94 KML Law Group, P.C. 1509-340 3615 Prince Cir 19114 66th wd. Land Area: 1368 Sq Ft BRT#661202700 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GARAGE 2 STORY MASONRY + OTHER William A. Farris and Lucinda Farris C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 00329 $128,000.00 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1509-341 2504 S 61st St 19142 40th wd. Land Area: 960 Sq Ft BRT#402063500 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Linda Jones, Shakir Muhammad and Linda Jones C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 003645 $63,920.00 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1509-342 7532 Woodcrest Ave 19151 34th wd. Land Area: 1266 Sq Ft BRT#34-3-1851-00 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GARAGE 2 STORY MASONRY Tajinder Singh, Known Heir of Tracey Smith, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Brittney Smith, Known Heir of Tracey Smith, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Tracey Smith C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 00806 $72,250.00 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1509-343 3633 Winona St 191291622 38th wd. 896 Sq Ft BRT#383102200 IMPROVEMENTS:

RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Donna Shaw C.P. September Term, 2011 No. 00940 $105,129.00 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1509-344 427 W Hansberry St 19144 12th wd. 2646 Sq Ft BRT#123107000 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Vitaliy Polyachenko C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 02315 $136,488.60 Scott A Dietterick, Esq, Kimberly A Bonner, Esq, Joel A Ackerman, Esq, Ashleigh Levy Marin, Esq, Jaime R Ackerman, Esq, Jana Fridfinnsdottir, Esq, Brian Nicholas Esq, Denise Carlon Esq, Roger Fay Esq, Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, LLC 1509-345 848 N Bambrey St 19130 15th wd. 820 Sq Ft BRT#151275800 Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Wendy Decou a/k/a Wendy S. Decou; Rolf F. Decou C.P. June Term, 2012 No. 3295 $195,656.67 Scott A Dietterick, Esq, Kimberly A Bonner, Esq, Joel A Ackerman, Esq, Ashleigh L Marin, Esq, Jaime R Ackerman, Esq, Jana Fridfinnsdottir, Esq, Brian Nicholas Esq, Denise Carlon Esq, Roger Fay Esq, Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, LLC 1509-346 5513 Regent St 19143-5332 51st wd. 1104 Sq Ft BRT#514141900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Arthur Denmark and Pauline Denmark, his wife C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 01853 $43,104.58 Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, LLC 1509-347 1411 E Cheltenham Ave 19124 62nd wd. 1234 Sq Ft BRT#621079900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gail Russell a/k/a Gail Russel Dames C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02120 $73,213.12 KML Law Group, P.C. 1509-348 1612 Benner St 19149 62nd wd.

1176 Sq Ft BRT#621145900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY James F. Hatcher C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 00943 $81,723.88 KML Law Group, P.C. 1509-349 3657 Old York Rd 19140 43rd wd. 1650 Sq Ft BRT#432160100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Veronica Ward C.P. December Term, 2012 No. 02289 $150,947.97 KML Law Group, P.C. 1509-350 409 Roselyn St a/k/a 409 Roselyn Ave 19120 61st wd.

1200 Sq Ft BRT#612185800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Owen Barrett C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 00196 $49,094.15 KML Law Group, P.C.

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1509-351 4644 Oakland St 19124 23rd wd. 1238 Sq Ft BRT#234229600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Mirielle DeJesus C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 02241 $102,670.39 KML Law Group, P.C. 1509-352 6605 Martins Mill Rd 19111 35th wd. 1750 Sq Ft BRT#353304500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Elizabeth Vera and Fernando L. Vera, Jr. C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 03446 $215,423.82 KML Law Group, P.C. 1509-353 8502 Lynnewood Rd 19150 50th wd. 1462 Sq Ft BRT#502032300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Zayd M. Hawkins C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 01389 $118,311.76 KML Law Group, P.C. 1509-354 1610 Hoffnagle St 191522213 56th wd. 1416 Sq Ft OPA#562102400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Karen Rosenberg C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 00343 $199,560.91 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-355 4311 Elsinore St 191244305 33rd wd. 720 Sq Ft OPA#332222200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Asghar Khan C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 00900 $107,294.40 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-356 5528 Hunter St 19131-3507 4th wd. 2520 Sq Ft OPA#041260500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Vincent Heath C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 01564 $88,021.04 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-357 5317 Laurens St 191444615 12th wd. 1880 Sq Ft OPA#124149600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Nicole Briscoe C.P. October Term, 2011 No. 03839 $159,612.77 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-358 6724 Limekiln Pike 19138-3130 10th wd. 1080 Sq Ft OPA#102065500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ardelia Coleman C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 01963 $16,038.01 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-359 733 W Fisher Ave 19120 49th wd. 1076 Sq Ft OPA#492049200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Mary Ann Boerner C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 01962 $24,233.75 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP

1509-360 7852 Saturn Pl 191531212 40th wd. 1296 Sq Ft OPA#405880500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Eleanor L. Gross C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 03945 $117,967.20 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-361 805 Red Lion Rd A1 19115-1403 58th wd. 1035 Sq Ft OPA#888580001 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Grigoriy Avshalumov C.P. July Term, 2010 No. 02810 $166,087.06 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-362 363 Stevens St 191116024 35th wd. 1054 Sq Ft OPA#352189100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Heather R. Muller a/k/a Heather Knuf, in Her Capacity as Administratrix Cta and Devisee of the Estate of Donna M. Muller a/k/a Donna Muller; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Ric Muller, Deceased C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 00728 $94,522.83 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-363 1503 N Redfield St 19151 34th wd. 840 Sq Ft BRT#342165200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Aliya S. Small C.P. December Term, 2008 No. 00510 $51,907.45 KML Law Group, P.C. 1509-364 4832 Longshore Ave 191352334 41st wd. 2625 Sq Ft BRT#871563410 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: ROW W-OFF/STR 2STY MASONRY Mu Ming Zheng and Mei Yun Lin C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 02833 $102,616.84 Brett L. Messinger 1509-365 4929 Pennway St 191243505 23rd wd. 1184 Sq Ft BRT#233106300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Miguel A. Concepcion C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 01259 $65,540.16 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1509-366 2635 S 68th St 191422724 40th wd. 1056 Sq Ft OPA#406093300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Anthony R. Williams C.P. December Term, 2011 No. 02954 $86,488.11 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-367 123 W Ashmead St 191443503 12th wd. 1462 Sq Ft OPA#123092100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Wanda Williams a/k/a Wanda

D. Williams C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 00556 $133,153.84 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-368 5917 Turner St 19151 34th wd.

1080 Sq Ft BRT#342104100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Carlos G. Bautista C.P. September Term, 2012 No. 003294 $75,789.92 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1509-369 4740 Wingate St 19136-2926 65th wd. 5928 Sq Ft BRT#882967690 IMPROVEMENTS: AUTO REPAIR SHOP MASONRY C&D Auto Works, Sean Dembeck and The United States of America c/o the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 03567 $240,000.00 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1509-370 1413 Jackson St 19145 26th wd.

1740 Sq Ft BRT#261007500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Robert Wilson and Theresa A. Wilson C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 02517 $202,002.69 KML Law Group, P.C. 1509-371 1222 Master St a/k/a 1222 W Master St 19122 14th wd.

1152 Sq Ft BRT#141464200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Karen E. Grant and Marguerite Grant C.P. January Term, 2006 No. 02670 $86,886.23 Law Offices of Gregory Javardian 1509-372 593 E Carver St, a/k/a 593 Carver St 19111 35th wd.

984 Sq Ft OPA#351249500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Timothy Clark; Christopher Clark C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 02227 $38,148.44 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-373 6856 Dicks Ave 191422516 40th wd. 992 Sq Ft OPA#406296300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lynda M. Wilson, in Her Capacity as Administratrix and Heir of the Estate of Florence M. Cupit a/k/a Florence May Cupit; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Florence M. Cupit a/k/a Florence May Cupit, Deceased C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 01179 $67,516.83 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-374 1936 Georgian Rd 19138 10th wd. 1650 Sq Ft BRT#101271200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Taneva C. Lineberger, Takora Ranita Lineberger, Tanya Shaleem Lineberger a/k/a Tanne Lineberger and Tanya Sydnor, Solely in Her Capacity as Executrix of the Estate of

Erma M. Lineberger, Deceased C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 02473 $112,076.96 KML Law Group, P.C. 1509-375 1349 Crease St 19125 18th wd. 1944 Sq Ft BRT#181050360 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Patricia Moebius C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 02783 $342,213.77 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1509-376 6819 Jackson St 19135 41st wd. 1350 Sq Ft BRT#412317200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Karen Steiner and David Steiner C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 00405 $180,992.85 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1509-377 5907 Carpenter St 19143 3rd wd. 2093 Sq Ft; Beginning Point: Situate on the northerly side of Carpenter Street at the distance of fifty-six feet, four inches westwardly from the westerly side of FiftyNinth Street OPA#033080800 IMPROVEMENTS: APT 2-4 UNITS 2STY MASONRY Leslie Bland C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 00938 $228,573.40 Richard J. Nalbandian, III 1509-378 891 Brooklyn St 19104 6th wd. 1416 Sq Ft OPA#062300000 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING John C. Emfinger, Jr. C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 878 $23,642.47 Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby, LLP, Sarah A. Elia, Esq. 1509-379 3210 N Etting St 19129 38th wd. 1291 Sq Ft BRT#381251900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Laura Williams C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 01767 $83,481.62 Law Offices of Gregory Javardian 1509-380 4820 Rising Sun Ave 19120 42nd wd. 2574 Sq Ft; ROW CONV/APT 2STY MASONRY BRT#882923676 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL MIXED USE MISC. DAY CARE MASONRY Gilberto Melendez, Jr. (Real Owner) and Marcos A. Rivas C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 03040 $127,083.22 Alicia M. Sandoval, Esquire 1509-381 3321 Guilford St 19136 64th wd. 1408 Sq Ft BRT#642094000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Alfred Facchiano and Susan Facchiano C.P. May Term, 2012 No. 00347 $98,102.47 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1509-382 221 N Farson St 19139 44th wd.

1200 Sq Ft BRT#441072300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Lolita M. Johnson C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 01813 $23,588.87 Stern & Eisenberg PC

1509-383 2617 S Franklin St 19148 39th wd. 900 Sq Ft BRT#393223100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE James Michael Dailey C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 00400 $67,145.53 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1509-384 6315 Crafton St 191492934 62nd wd. 1176 Sq Ft OPA#621544800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Angela J. Smith C.P. September Term, 2011 No. 01103 $123,952.45 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-385 531 Glenview St a/k/a 531 Glenview St Unit A a/k/a 531A Glenview St 19111-4306 35th wd. 908 Sq Ft OPA#353150710 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sandra Trevino; Wilfredo Trevino C.P. December Term, 2012 No. 03769 $153,377.26 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-386 11805 Millbrook Rd 19154-3710 66th wd. 1296 Sq Ft OPA#662235500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Raymond Marasheski C.P. June Term, 2012 No. 02227 $199,489.78 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-387 1911 E Wensley St 191342515 45th wd. 1276 Sq Ft OPA#452060100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Maria C. Torres; Carlos Andres Loaiza C.P. February Term, 2011 No. 02896 $77,335.00 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-388 619 Shawmont Ave 19128-3124 21st wd. 1836 Sq Ft OPA#214054400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Manjinder Pandher C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 02625 $217,852.24 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-389 517 W Clapier St 191444835 13th wd. 2303 Sq Ft OPA#133067300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Darrin Molletta a/k/a Darren Molletta C.P. September Term, 2008 No. 01316 $69,919.09 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-390 2324 S Croskey St 191453311 48th wd. 1120 Sq Ft OPA#482226500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tiffany E. Randolph C.P. June Term, 2012 No. 01828 $54,629.16 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-391 621 N 67th St 19151 34th wd.

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IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ahkiah Harmon and Stanley M. Harmon a/k/a Stanley M. Harmon, Jr. C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 00959 $87,034.55 KML Law Group, P.C. 1509-392 1926 Penfield St 191382715 10th wd. 1182 Sq Ft OPA#101374600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lakechia A. Adekunle a/k/a Lakechia Adekunle C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 01664 $99,862.55 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-393 34 N Edgewood St 191392322 34th wd. 1314 Sq Ft OPA#341101500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kozowali Nzinga a/k/a Kozowali Tra Nzinga C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 02657 $65,872.72 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-394 6517 N 5th St 19126 61st wd.

1743 Sq Ft BRT#611094100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jamar Daniels C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 01429 $158,212.99 KML Law Group, P.C. 1509-395 8139 Crispin St 191362613 64th wd. 1188 Sq Ft OPA#642025000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Priscilla C. Clarke; Osman Kanu C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 03922 $148,707.78 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-396 4545 Whitaker Ave 191204631 42nd wd. 1328 Sq Ft BRT#421559900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Jadeyah E. Williams a/k/a Jadeyah Williams C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 00126 $100,377.09 Law Offices of Gregory Javardian 1509-397 8435 Fayette St 191501914 50th wd. 1260 Sq Ft OPA#501049800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Leroy Griffin, in His Capacity as Heir of Emma Lue Maddox, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Emma Lue Maddox, Deceased C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 02781 $134,654.58 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-398 814 Moore St 19148 1st wd.

1272 Sq Ft BRT#012352300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Kien Ngoc Ly and Ooi Ha Chong C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 02265 $152,147.13 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire

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1509-399 834 E Russell St 19134 33rd wd. 1380 Sq Ft BRT#331174300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Joseph E. Bennett a/k/a Joe Bennett and Mark C. Nuzzo a/k/a Mark Nuzzo C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 02504 $49,333.71 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1509-400 1933 W Bristol St 19140 13th wd. 1230 Sq Ft BRT#131347300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Annie B. Fennell; Calvin Fennell, Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Annie B. Fennell; Barbara K. Atkinson, Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Annie B. Fennell; Estate of Annie B. Fennell C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 02473 $78,918.10 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1509-401 3107 Clifford St, a/k/a 3107 W Clifford St 191212516 32nd wd. 1880 Sq Ft BRT#324067200 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Robert Martin C.P. February Term, 2012 No. 2523 $38,800.91 Scott A Dietterick, Esq, Kimberly A Bonner, Esq, Joel A Ackerman, Esq, Ashleigh Levy Marin, Esq, Jaime R Ackerman, Esq, Jana Fridfinnsdottir, Esq, Brian Nicholas Esq, Denise Carlon Esq, Roger Fay Esq, Tia Dinh Esq, Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, LLC 1509-402 1015 E Rittenhouse St 19138 59th wd. 1609 Sq Ft BRT#591136100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Aisha Raye a/k/a Aisha N. Raye C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 01709 $164,459.57 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1509-403 6605 Blakemore St 19119 22nd wd. 2016 Sq Ft BRT#221287410 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Nana Y. Amoh, sole owner C.P. August Term, 2011 No. 4229 $119,549.61 Scott A Dietterick, Esq, Kimberly A Bonner, Esq, Joel A Ackerman, Esq, Ashleigh Levy Marin, Esq, Jaime R Ackerman, Esq, Jana Fridfinnsdottir, Esq, Brian Nicholas, Esq, Denise Carlon, Esq, Roger Fay, Esq, Tia Dinh, Esq. Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, LLC 1509-404 2641 Dickinson St a/k/a 2641 Dickinson St Unit 1 19146 36th wd. 1138 Sq Ft BRT#36-42433-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Lu Ai Feng a/k/a Lu Ai Fang

a/k/a Ai Feng Lu a/k/a Ai Fang Lu; Jia Yi Wang C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 01754 $67,180.60 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1509-405 727 Sherrie Rd 19115 63rd wd. 8450 Sq Ft BRT#632139200 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Edward Vescio, Jr. and Bernadette Vescio, husband and wife, as tenants by the entireties C.P. March Term, 2012 No. 1524 $277,476.75 Scott A Dietterick, Esq, Kimberly A Bonner, Esq, Joel A Ackerman, Esq, Ashleigh Levy Marin, Esq, Jaime R Ackerman, Esq, Jana Fridfinnsdottir, Esq, Brian Nicholas, Esq, Denise Carlon, Esq, Roger Fay, Esq, Tia Dinh, Esq. Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, LLC 1509-406 4844 A St 19120 42nd wd.

1668 Sq Ft OPA#421293300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Samnang Meas C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 02659 $57,778.99 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-407 5920 Malvern Ave 191313004 52nd wd. 1240 Sq Ft OPA#522116800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Aviszelema McKenzie C.P. September Term, 2009 No. 03204 $132,997.53 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-408 6142 Tackawanna St 19135-3416 55th wd. 1785 Sq Ft OPA#552239800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Bryan J. Galie C.P. August Term, 2012 No. 00036 $38,853.30 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-409 5413 Thomas Ave 191434103 51st wd. 1350 Sq Ft OPA#513081400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Stacey M. Wooden C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 00397 $30,101.01 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-410 727 Sherrie Rd 19115 63rd wd. 8450 Sq Ft BRT#632139200 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Edward Vescio, Jr. and Bernadette Vescio, husband and wife, as tenants by the entireties C.P. March Term, 2012 No. 1524 $277,476.75 Scott A Dietterick, Esq, Kimberly A Bonner, Esq, Joel A Ackerman, Esq, Ashleigh Levy Marin, Esq, Jaime R Ackerman, Esq, Jana Fridfinnsdottir, Esq, Brian Nicholas, Esq, Denise Carlon, Esq, Roger Fay, Esq, Tia Dinh, Esq, Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, LLC 1509-411 3922 Lankenau Ave 19131-2809 52nd wd. 2171

Sq Ft OPA#521427000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Fred T. Crawford a/k/a Fred Crawford a/k/a Frederick L. Crawford C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 03421 $27,924.03 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-412 525 W Roosevelt Blvd 19120-3703 49th wd. 1549 Sq Ft OPA#491079800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tiffany M. Silver, in Her Capacity as Co-Administratrix and Heir of the Estate of Bernard L. Brown; Monica Joyner, in Her Capacity as Co-Administratrix and Heir of the Estate of Bernard L. Brown; Terrance Brown, in His Capacity as Heir of the Estate of Bernard L. Brown; Anthony Silver, in His Capacity as Heir of the Estate of Bernard L. Brown; Darren Brown, in His Capacity as Heir of the Estate of Bernard Brown; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Bernard L. Brown, Deceased C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 03581 $54,689.59 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-413 12219 Thornton Rd 19154 66th wd. 8284 Sq Ft BRT#663142600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY John J. Kilbride, III and Michael R. Kilbride C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 02122 $157,493.23 KML Law Group, P.C. 1509-414 614-616 S Clarion St 19147 2nd wd. 861 Sq Ft OPA#023290900 IMPROVEMENTS: MIXED USE BUILDING Stephen Forman C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 947 $419,743.36 Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby, LLP, Sarah A. Elia, Esq. 1509-415 2801 Glenview St 19149 55th wd. 3871 Sq Ft BRT#551234300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Jody M. Chrzanowski and Michelle Chrzanowski C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 01058 $74,616.19 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1509-416 4000 Gypsy Ln Unit 322A1 19129 21st wd.

858 Sq Ft (no land area) BRT#888210197 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL CONDOMINIUM UNIT David H. O’Brien C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 004423 $10,452.35 Elliot H. Berton, EsquireBenjamin F. Dill, Esquire 1509-417 2749 S Marshall St 19148 39th wd. Land Area: 920 Sq Ft; Improvement Area: 1472 Sq Ft OPA#395169000 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE

- SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING Ortelin Zahairagunn f/k/a Ortelin L. Bowser C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 03504 $102,083.82 plus interest to date of sale Robert J. Wilson, Esq., Wilson Law Firm 1509-418 1 Wissahickon Ln a/k/a 6904 Wissahickon Ave 19119-3733 21st wd. 12257 Sq Ft BRT#213116045 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Delores Henderson C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 01571 $262,316.93 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1509-419 2002 McKean St 19145 48th wd. 811 Sq Ft BRT#481108100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Leonard J. Bentley C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 00160 $110,676.84 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1509-420 7447 N 21st St 19138 10th wd.

1740 Sq Ft BRT#101183200 Jorge Fagundes C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 00930 $113,746.83 Emmanuel J. Argentieri, Esquire 1509-421 7518 Chelwynde Ave 19153 40th wd. 2500 Sq Ft OPA#404321700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Kevin J. Godfrey and Michael J. Enright C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 002086 $19,946.29 Joseph R. Loverdi, Esquire 1509-422 10165 Haldeman Ave 19116 58th wd. 7920 Sq Ft OPA#582606400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Catherine L. Somers C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 01596 $204,276.04 Joseph R. Loverdi, Esquire 1509-423 2535 S 10th St 19148-4424 39th wd. 870 Sq Ft; Front: 15’4” Depth: 58’ OPA#393492800 IMPROVEMENTS: SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING Genevieve Martino C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 002882 $114,155.36 Jerome R. Balka, Esquire, Reger Rizzo Darnall LLP 1509-424 3141 Guilford St 19152 64th wd. 2225 Sq Ft OPA#641184000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Young S. Lee C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 4241 $176,795.31 Lauren Berschler Karl, Esq. 1509-425 2206 Lansing St 19152 56th wd.

2601 Sq Ft BRT#561474700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Richard Pipito Jr. and Roberta Pipito C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 01828 $196,970.26 KML Law Group, P.C. 1509-426 1533 W Butler St 19140 13th wd. 1199 Sq Ft BRT#131084400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Keith A. King C.P. June Term,

2013 No. 01874 $23,304.41 KML Law Group, P.C. 1509-427 2924 S 62nd St 19142 40th wd.

1200 Sq Ft BRT#402114100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Thu Thach C.P. August Term, 2010 No. 04543 $47,265.39 KML Law Group, P.C. 1509-428 1935 E Pike St 19124 45th wd.

1300.05 Sq Ft BRT#452219900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Ana R. Perez C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 02187 $70,225.71 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1509-429 7419 Fayette St 19138 50th wd.

1631.36 Sq Ft BRT#501025300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Theodore Williams, Jr. and Viola F. Williams C.P. January Term, 2013 No. 00986 $150,596.96 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1509-430 8744 Ditman St 19136 65th wd.

1600 Sq Ft BRT#652289700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Xue Wen Zhu and Jian Feng C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 002193 $70,324.36 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1509-431 4119 Barnett St 191353011 55th wd. Land Area: 1245 BRT#552066200 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GAR 2 STORY MASONRY Arthur W. Marnien C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 01291 $110,416.00 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1509-432 1245 S 13th St 19147-4502 2nd wd. Land Area: 1020 Sq Ft BRT#021608700 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW CONV/APT 3STY MASONRY Peter Kourahanis C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 03005 $92,500.00 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1509-433 4821 Germantown Ave 19144-3014 12th wd. Land Area: 8599.8 BRT#871299280 IMPROVEMENTS: STR/OFF+ APTS 2.5 STY MASON Edith Chapman C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 03564 $178,750.00 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1509-434 8415 Provident St 191501613 50th wd. 1448 Sq Ft OPA#501192000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Charles Wardlaw, Individually and in Capacity as Administrator of the Estate of Cynthia Wardlaw C.P. October Term, 2008 No. 00324 $117,926.23 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-435 4334 1/2 Boone St 191284901 21st wd. 6179 Sq Ft OPA#211264025 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Francis Piller C.P. March Term,

2012 No. 02897 $306,189.77 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-436 3523 Churchill Ln 19114 66th wd. 1768 Sq Ft OPA#661175400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Patricia Gispert a/k/a Patricia A. Gispert C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 02658 $173,293.22 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-437 1351 Farrington Rd 19151-2832 34th wd. 1600 Sq Ft OPA#343336600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Delroy R. Waite C.P. September Term, 2009 No. 01783 $136,902.06 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-438 822 Brighton St 191114127 53rd wd. 2680 Sq Ft OPA#532245800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gina Frederique; Kevin Compton C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 04335 $157,839.77 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-439 4525 Ashburner St 191362808 65th wd. 2800 Sq Ft BRT#652040813 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Edward L. Adams and Jennifer L. Renzi C.P. February Term, 2013 No. 01769 $129,279.76 Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, LLC 1509-440 426 E Wildey St 191254231 18th wd. 1200 Sq Ft OPA#181320100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Robert H. Gundaker, II, in His Capacity as Heir of Teuila Gundaker, Deceased; Harrison P. Gundaker, in His Capacity as Heir of Teuila Gundaker, Deceased; Robert H. Gundaker, in His Capacity as Heir of Teuila Gundaker, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Teuila Gundaker, Deceased C.P. September Term, 2012 No. 03361 $116,288.76 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-441 1915 McClellan St 191452024 48th wd. 652 Sq Ft BRT#481017000 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Christopher King C.P. November Term, 2011 No. 0269 $102,199.16 Scott A Dietterick, Esq, Kimberly A Bonner, Esq, Joel A Ackerman, Esq, Ashleigh Levy Marin, Esq, Jaime R Ackerman, Esq, Jana Fridfinnsdottir, Esq, Brian Nicholas, Esq, Denise Carlon, Esq, Roger Fay, Esq, Tia Dinh, Esq, Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, LLC 1509-442 1102 Haworth St, a/k/a 1102 Hayworth St 19124-2506 23rd

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1296 Sq Ft BRT#561167200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gui Zhen Zheng and Shi Jian Zheng C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 000405 $66,891.70 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1509-447 6230 Bingham St 191115755 35th wd. 6216 Sq Ft OPA#353268010 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Samuel K. Tigah; Esther Natogma C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 01548 $138,623.83 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-448 2507 S 7th St 19148-4601 39th wd. 798 Sq Ft OPA#393172600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Robert G. Swander, in His Capacity as Executor and Devisee of the Estate of Donald J. Ofano C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 02869 $135,004.74 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-450 5440 Harbison Ave 191241551 62nd wd. 1237 Sq Ft OPA#622471100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Teresa Wojtaszek C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 02497 $62,510.15 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-451 633 W Olney Ave 19120 61st wd. 2475 Sq Ft BRT#612009100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Anthony Cobb C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 002365 $113,433.38 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1509-452 1818 S 18th St 19145-2142 48th

wd. 1120 Sq Ft OPA#481256000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Peter Hartje C.P. November Term, 2013 No. 02247 $215,207.11 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-453 4417 McKinley St 191353216 55th wd. 1980 Sq Ft OPA#552034500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lisa M. Gallo C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 00126 $68,742.54 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-454 2100 S 72nd St 19142-1027 40th wd. 1600 Sq Ft BRT#403223300 IMPROVEMENTS: TWO STORY MASONRY DWELLING WITH GARAGE Roger V. Dickson and Rhonda Dickson C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 00996 $511,663.80 Bernstein-Burkley, PC 1509-455 3436 Old York Rd 19140 43rd wd. 1320 Sq Ft BRT#43-1140900 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Linda Farrell; Patricia A. Parker, Personal Representative of The Estate of Linda Farrell; Estate of Linda Farrell C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 01398 $52,548.58 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1509-456 6340 Marsden St 191353209 41st wd. 1282 Sq Ft OPA#411252000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Yischor D. Friedman C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 00149 $69,339.26 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-457 6910 Henley St 191193414 22nd wd. 3458 Sq Ft OPA#223256600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Roger Vaughn Ashodian C.P. December Term, 2007 No. 02971 $115,663.28 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-458 6143 Baynton, a/k/a 6143 Baynton St 19144-2036 59th wd. 2043 Sq Ft OPA#592194200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Nathaniel Wilkerson, Jr. C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 01430 $31,968.15 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-459 6322 Allman St 19142 40th wd.

968.75 Sq Ft BRT#401251000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Abioseh H. Kamara C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 03202 $45,300.12 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1509-460 1504 S 53rd St 19143 51st wd.

1248 Sq Ft BRT#512014100 IMPROVEMENTS:

RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Orville West C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 01553 $40,368.67 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1509-461 52 N 54th St 19139 4th wd.

948.75 Sq Ft BRT#041097200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Christian Diaz a/k/a Christian A. Diaz C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 00739 $56,787.80 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1509-462 1712 S 28th St 19145 36th wd. 990 Sq Ft BRT#36-43516-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Joseph Tookes a/k/a Joseph J. Tookes C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 02654 $122,483.02 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1509-463 3650 Richmond St 191346224 45th wd. 15257 Sq Ft BRT#884841300 Subject to Mortgage Joseph J. Ragsdale C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 003653 $451,658.36 Preston D. Jaquish 1509-464 8104 Terry St 191362622 64th wd. 1210.62 Sq Ft BRT#642028700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Mark Juszczuk and Patricia Juszczuk C.P. November Term, 2013 No. 01582 $59,273.35 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1509-465 6634 Boyer St 19119 22nd wd.

5200 Sq Ft BRT#221275700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Jamahl A. Simmons C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 02016 $233,005.02 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1509-466 2249 Brill St 19137 45th wd. (formerly 23rd wd.)

763 Sq Ft BRT#453383500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Michael J. Sabato C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 002200 $62,007.93 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1509-467 1314 N Allison St 19131 4th wd. 1575 Sq Ft BRT#041334800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Unknown Heirs, Executors and Devisees of the Estate of Phyllis Lindsay and Christopher Aiken C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 00418 $20,063.37 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1509-468 228 S 49th St 19139 60th wd. SEMI/DET 3 STY MASONRY; 1799 Sq Ft BRT#601091800 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Mary Ellen Jones a/k/a Mary E. Jones C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 00691 $177,012.38 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-469 1957 69th Ave 19138 10th wd.

ROW B/GAR 2STY MASONRY; 2028 Sq Ft BRT#101270100 IMPROVEMENTS:

RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Unknown Surviving Heirs of John J. Melton, Jr., Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Cynthia L. Melton, Known Surviving Heir of John J. Melton, Jr., Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Cleveland Melton, Known Surviving Heir of John J. Melton, Jr., Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Hattie R. McFadden, Known Surviving Heir of John J. Melton, Jr., Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 02199 $63,727.44 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-470 2541 W Gordon St 19132-4218 28th wd. 782.75 Sq Ft BRT#281-2233-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Moshe Kops C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 00156 $73,372.85 BARBARA A. FEIN, ESQUIRE 1509-471 2244 S 9th St 19148 39th wd.

965.56 Sq Ft BRT#393430500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Allen E. Windrim, III C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 0633 $182,429.46 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1509-472 2260 N Colorado St 19132-4329 16th wd. 679.69 Sq Ft BRT#161-1966-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Cecil Chin C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 01532 $74,807.12 BARBARA A. FEIN, ESQUIRE 1509-473 549 N Allison St 19131 4th wd. 949.35 Sq Ft BRT#04-1197200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Channa Jennings C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 02316 $66,243.80 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1509-474 2222 S 22nd St 19145 48th wd.

981.12 Sq Ft BRT#32S13-136; OPA#482205200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Gwendolyn Talford; Dierdra Williams C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 00871 $87,444.66 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1509-475 1820 E Airdrie St 191245608 45th wd. 1044 Sq Ft OPA#452204700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sean M. Williams C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 01463 $65,312.15 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-476 852 Carver St 19124-1010 35th wd. 1262 Sq Ft OPA#351239000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Robin Gamburg C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 00765 $41,809.67 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-477 226 N Robinson St 191391122 34th wd. 795 Sq Ft OPA#341185800

IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sharon Fortune C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 00475 $45,912.92 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-478 923 N St. Bernard St 19131 44th wd. ROW 2STY MASONRY; 825 Sq Ft BRT#442213800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Unknown Surviving Heirs of Willie Jeter, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Omar J. Jeter Known Surviving Heir of Willie Jeter, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Tracee J. Jeter Known Surviving Heirs of Willie Jeter, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 01434 $29,660.72 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-479 105 S 61st St 19139 3rd wd. (formerly part of the 46th wd.) ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1448 Sq Ft BRT#031169700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Odus Burrus, III C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 01529 $117,203.76 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-480 3137 Longshore Ave 19149-2023 55th wd. 1640 Sq Ft OPA#551277800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tommy Nguyen C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 00753 $161,140.70 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-481 2528 Cedar St 19125 31st wd. ROW 3 STY MASONRY; 868 Sq Ft BRT#312035600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING James Bidwell C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 01819 $214,496.37 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-482 5137 D St 19120 42nd wd.

ROW B/GAR 2STY MASONRY; 1662 Sq Ft BRT#421481900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Shawn Hill C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 01722 $178,100.37 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-483 4613 C St 19120 42nd wd. ROW B/GAR 2STY MASONRY; 1117 Sq Ft BRT#421366800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING All Unknown Surviving Heirs of Anne Sliney, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 02188 $24,809.99 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-484 6 E Johnson St 191441917 59th wd. 2814 Sq Ft OPA#884351000 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL PROPERTY Khoi N. Dang C.P. April Term, 2007 No. 03836 $118,500.64 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP

1509-485 5713 Dunlap St 19131 52nd wd. (formerly part of the 34th wd.) ROW B/ GAR 2STY MASONRY; 1365 Sq Ft BRT#043239800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Leon Cox, Kathy Graves and Sean Graves C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 00460 $77,512.92 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-486 7027 Limekiln Pike 19138-2022 10th wd. 1600 Sq Ft OPA#102059400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jemill C. Bantum a/k/a Jemill Bantum-Hawkins; Jonathan M. Phillips Bantum; Camill B. Phillips Bantum; Tiffany Bantum-Hawkins; Jemill C. Bantum in Trust for Tiffany Bantum-Hawkins, Jonathan M. Phillips Bantum, and Camill B Phillips Bantum C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 01828 $59,250.44 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-487 4043 Ormond St 19124 33rd wd. ROW B/GAR 2STY MASONRY; 975 Sq Ft BRT#332539100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Charmell D. Edwards a/k/a Charmell Edwards C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 00121 $55,827.82 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-488 6242 N Park Ave 19141 49th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1569 Sq Ft BRT#493241200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Addie S. Jones C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 04705 $82,066.72 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-489 1265 S 29th St 191463615 36th wd. 1020 Sq Ft OPA#362167900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Felicia Fulton, in Her Capacity as Administratrix and Heir of the Estate of Debra Whitaker; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Debra Whitaker, Deceased C.P. June Term, 2010 No. 00057 $92,494.26 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-490 5947 Kemble Ave 19138 17th wd. ROW B/GAR 2STY MASONRY; 1200 Sq Ft BRT#172323800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Herbert M. Byrd, Administrator of the Estate of Gertha Major, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 02666 $72,535.05 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-491 219 S Farragut St 19139 46th wd. APT 2-4 UNTS

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2STY MASONRY; 2062 Sq Ft BRT#461183200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Haneef Nelson C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 00467 $273,833.05 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-492 5333 Wingohocking Terr 19144 12th wd. SEMI/ DET 3STY STONE; 2274 Sq Ft BRT#122188000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Hristo Dimitrov C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 00457 $111,506.64 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-493 10912 Kirby Dr 19154 66th wd. S/D W B/G 2S MAS.+OTHER; 2901 Sq Ft BRT#662189300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Jonathan McDonnell and Jamie M. Miles C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 01639 $238,611.18 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-494 820 S Cecil St 19143 46th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1207 Sq Ft BRT#463277000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Rachelle Blow, Co-Executrix of the Estate of Leonora Clark, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Nancy Clark-Drake, Co-Executrix of the Estate of Leonora Clark, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Earl Clark, Known Surviving Heir of Leonora Clark, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Deborah Sykes, Known Surviving Heir of Leonora Clark, Deceased Owner and Real Owner; All Unknown Surviving Heirs of Leonora Clark, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; David Clark, Known Surviving Heir of Leonora Clark, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. October Term, 2012 No. 00730 $79,705.88 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-495 1622 N 30th St 19121 32nd wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1057 Sq Ft BRT#324190800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Unknown Surviving Heirs of Riley Saunders, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Michael Saunders, Known Surviving Heir of Riley Saunders, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 02300 $126,790.17 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-496 501-05 Locust Ave 19144 12th wd. SEMI/DET 3STY STONE; 12794 Sq Ft BRT#122070400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Wilhemenia Moore and Wayne E. Moore C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 02011 $328,779.98 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C.

1509-497 3713 Barner Pl 19114 66th wd. ROW B/GAR 1.5 STY MASONRY; 1513 Sq Ft BRT#661290007 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Fei Yun Liu and Min H. Zheng C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 02967 $264,563.74 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-498 131 S 50th St 19139 60th wd. ROW 3STY MASONRY; 1808 Sq Ft BRT#601100700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Sohrab Mahallati C.P. January Term, 2011 No. 03532 $231,084.52 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-499 5208 F St 19124 35th wd. ROW B/GAR 2STY MASONRY; 1200 Sq Ft BRT#351337100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Steven Otero C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 00346 $115,327.66 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-500 8034 Ryers Ave 19111 63rd wd. S/D W DET GAR 2STY MASONRY; 3999 Sq Ft BRT#631074000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Valeriy Dukhin and Kristina Dukhin C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 01853 $170,595.34 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-501 1106 Foulkrod St 19124 23rd wd. SEMI/DET 2.5 STY MASONRY; 2635 Sq Ft BRT#234092900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Lionel Jackson and Daneen Y. Jackson C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 01331 $209,611.80 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-502 6615 N 13th St 19126 61st wd.

S/D W DET GAR 3S STONE; 5990 Sq Ft BRT#611194000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Clarence Butler, Jr., CoAdministrator of the Estate of Elizabeth McCormick, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Sarah B. Johnson, Co-Administratrix of the Estate of Elizabeth McCormick, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 01262 $92,569.41 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-503 3629 N Bouvier St 19140 13th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 910 Sq Ft BRT#131231300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Kia D. Swinton C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 02317 $90,392.85 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-504 7657 Brookhaven Rd 19151 34th wd. ROW B/GAR 2STY MASONRY; 1293.60

Sq Ft BRT#343219500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Dwayne Dunham C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 00681 $166,713.19 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-505 5132 W Stiles St 19131 44th wd. ROW 2STY MASONRY; 1440 Sq Ft BRT#442099600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Ruth Harris C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 03411 $44,883.96 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-506 7707 Jason Pl 19153 40th wd. ROW B/GAR 2STY MASONRY; 1800 Sq Ft BRT#405852000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Samuel Lee Vaughan, Known Surviving Heir of Celestine Downes, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Christine A. Chambliss, Known Surviving Heir of Celestine Downes, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Unknown Surviving Heirs of Celestine Downes, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Cynthia V. Russell, Known Surviving Heir of Celestine Downes, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 02714 $48,348.36 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-507 246 Slocum St 19119 22nd wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1464 Sq Ft BRT#222045900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Anthony E. Haney and Lisa P. Haney C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 01967 $68,731.34 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-508 3219 Byberry Rd 19154 66th wd. ROW B/GAR 2STY MASONRY; 2000 Sq Ft BRT#663054800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Unknown Surviving Heirs of James P. McCauley, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Eileen McCauley, Known Surviving Heir of James P. McCauley, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 00514 $141,436.28 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1509-509 5663 Boyer St 19138 12th wd. 1708 Sq Ft; Front: 20.00’ft x Depth: 85.41’ft BRT#122254700 Geraldine Furler C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 00232 $24,289.59 Louis I. Lipsky, Esquire; Lipsky and Brandt 1509-510 4907 Penn St 19124 23rd wd. 2291 Sq Ft OPA#232424000 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Raymond S. Norton a/k/a Raymond Sherrod Norton C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 03509

$47,949.86 Brett A. Solomon, Michael C. Mazack 1509-511 6173 N 17th St 19141 17th wd.

1408 Sq Ft BRT#172193200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Reginald Ferguson C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 3509 $62,194.76 Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby, LLP, Sarah A. Elia, Esq. 1509-512 4514 Baltimore Ave, Apt 3F 19143 46th wd. 1096 Sq Ft; STR/Off Apartments 3 Story Masonry PRCL#461089000 Subject To Mortgage Property is subject to a first mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Shezaan H. Syed, United States of America c/o US Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania C.P. April Term, 2011 No. 00021 $218,315.96 Federman & Associates, LLC 1509-513 6936 Forrest Ave 19138 10th wd. (formerly part of the 50th wd.) 1500 Sq Ft; on the West side of Forrest Avenue (formerly 20th St) at the distance of 274 feet 6 inches Northwardly from the North side of 69th Avenue in the 10th Ward (formerly part of the 50th Ward) in the City of Philadelphia, County of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania. OPA#102517700 Clayton Logan C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 02842 $131,959.08 Hill Wallack, LLP 1509-514 4122 Comly St 19135 62nd wd. 2504 Sq Ft; sits on the Southwesterly side of Comly St (sixty feet wide) and the Southeasterly side of Tackawanna St (forty feet wide) in the sixty-second Ward of the City of Philadelphia.

OPA#622181300 Margaret M. Kurz C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 02462 $146,804.96 Hill Wallack, LLP 1509-515 8025 Williams Ave 19150 50th wd. 1387 Sq Ft BRT#50-22622-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY James Hilbert C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 01718 $90,987.17 Kristine M. Anthou, Esquire 1509-516 469 Flamingo St, Unit C 19128 21st wd. 4313 Sq Ft OPA#212-3648-40 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Todd Wagner C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 00825 $406,944.36 Kristine M. Anthou, Esquire 1509-517 125 W Mount Pleasant Ave 19119 9th wd. 3904.7 Sq Ft BRT#092001900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Zubair Abdusshaheed C.P. June Term, 2009 No. 04383 $575,309.59 Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, LLC 1509-518 1237 Gilham St 19111 53rd wd.

1221.75 Sq Ft BRT#531170900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jean J. Altidor C.P. September Term, 2012 No. 1366 $118,843.32 Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, LLC 1509-519 3437 Primrose Rd 191142619 57th wd. 2906.78 Sq Ft OPA#572132700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ginny McLaughlin-Hedstrom C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 02202 $186,363.23 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-520 6310 Guyer Ave 191423013 40th wd. 1435.20 Sq Ft OPA#402274135 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Melissa Migliazza-Hunt a/k/a Melissa Migliazza; Ondre Hunt C.P. September Term, 2012 No. 02496 $158,191.20 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-521 145 W Wyneva St 19144 12th wd. 1746 Sq Ft BRT#123030400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Earl Hammond and Irma Gardner Hammond C.P. May Term, 2012 No. 00337 $117,380.02 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1509-522 6509 W Jefferson St, a/k/a 6509-11 Jefferson St 19151-3310 34th wd. 1910 Sq Ft OPA#344046200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ove Sorensen C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 00340 $148,987.32 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-523 90 E Springer St 191192241 22nd wd. 1050.81 Sq Ft OPA#221191100 IMPROVEMENTS: 2 STORY MASONRY 7325 N 18th St, LLC C.P. November Term, 2011 No. 01962 $154,751.92 Norman M. Valz, Attorney at Law 1509-524 4130 Whiting Rd 191542807 66th wd. 1782.04 Sq Ft OPA#662589700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jenifer Santaniello a/k/a Jennifer Santaniello a/k/a Jennifer Reed a/k/a Jenifer Reed C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 00477 $158,231.70 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-525 2546 N Marston St 191323536 28th wd. 1050 Sq Ft OPA#281090800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Charlene Blagmon C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 00989 $43,157.09 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-526 6336 N 8th St 19126-3703 49th wd. 3895 Sq Ft; on the Northwesterly side

of 8th St at a distance of 176 feet Northeastwardly from the Northeasterly side of Chelten Ave; Front: Irregular x Depth: Irregular OPA#49213500 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE Cassandra Phillips C.P. September Term, 2014 03547 $209,828.19 Stephen M. Hladik, Esq. 1509-527 436 W Winona St, a/k/a 436 Winona St 19144-4508 12th wd.

2266 Sq Ft OPA#124061100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Chauncey Harlee a/k/a Chauncey Harllee C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 00042 $121,597.93 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-528 8235 Craig St 19136-2304 64th wd. 1979.25 Sq Ft OPA#64-20704-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Keith Rambo; Kathleen Rambo C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 01443 $140,305.57 Phelan Hallinan & Schmieg, LLP 1509-529 3607 Nanton Terr 191543026 66th wd. 2000 Sq Ft OPA#663449800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Raymond M. Moffatt C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 01436 $150,864.23 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-530 1922 Medary Ave 19141-1410 17th wd. 1455 Sq Ft; on the Southerly side of Medary Ave at a distance of 168 feet Westwardly from the Westerly side of Ogontz Avenue; Front: 15 ft x Depth: 97 ft OPA#171306500 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE Keith Chester C.P. January Term, 2015 03508 $98,874.34 Stephen M. Hladik, Esq. 1509-531 230 Higbee St 19111 35th wd.

1296 Sq Ft BRT#352151900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sharon Holliday and Ruben Feagins C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 001252 $122,944.75 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1509-532 730 N 37th St 19104 24th wd.

1137.60 Sq Ft OPA#243082300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY May Gray C.P. January Term, 2010 No. 02132 $73,722.27 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-533 1221 Gilham St 19111 53rd wd.

1221 Sq Ft BRT#531170100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Alla V. Kheyfets C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 01901 $75,909.10 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1509-534 6825 Roosevelt Blvd, a/k/a 6825 E. Roosevelt Blvd 19149 55th wd. 1759

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Sq Ft BRT#551526500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Derek Jackson C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 01843 $82,096.46 KML Law Group, P.C. 1509-535 5815 Akron St 19149 62nd wd.

1240 Sq Ft BRT#621440500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Alesia Brewer C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 03293 $92,755.49 KML Law Group, P.C. 1509-536 5128 N Carlisle St 19141 17th wd. 1617 Sq Ft BRT#172034900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Theresa Brumskill C.P. December Term, 2012 No. 03249 $83,179.42 KML Law Group, P.C. 1509-537 11884 Halstead St 19116 58th wd. 5953 Sq Ft BRT#582432500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY The Unknown Heirs of Domenic Donofrio, Deceased; Diana Maccain, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Domenic Donorfrio, Deceased; Lucia Padula, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Domenic Donofrio, Deceased C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 03445 $214,554.56 KML Law Group, P.C. 1509-538 4647 Pennhurst St 19124 42nd wd. 1365 Sq Ft BRT#421620100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kenneth A. McCall C.P. August Term, 2012 No. 01657 $49,015.17 KML Law Group, P.C. 1509-539 3833 Frankford Ave 19124-5634 45th wd. 2059 Sq Ft OPA#452269610

IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Richard P. Ritsky a/k/a Richard Ritsky C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 01178 $96,235.46 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-540 3118 Barnett St 191493101 55th wd. 1012 Sq Ft OPA#551008500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ernest Lawrence; Sophia Johnson C.P. September Term, 2012 No. 02960 $42,174.39 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-541 5202 Wakefield St 191442325 12th wd. 1004 Sq Ft OPA#121165500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Donald Currington; Frances G. Currington a/k/a Frances Currington a/k/a Frances N C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 02499 $91,580.98 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-542 238 S Hutchinson St 19107-5703 5th wd. 497 Sq Ft OPA#054247400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Scott E. Robinson C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 01546 $292,450.42 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-543 7012 Hegerman St 191351911 41st wd. 4125 Sq Ft OPA#412432400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY G. Michael Mifflin; Charlyn G. Mifflin C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 01008 $91,214.77 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-544 1508 Brown St 19130-

2906 15th wd. 1395 Sq Ft OPA#152234400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY James Edward Smith C.P. March Term, 2012 No. 03105 $314,819.62 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-545A 5024 Griscom St 19124-2624 62nd wd. 2205 Sq Ft BRT#621496400 Griscom St. LLC C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 001988 $329,196.67 Andrew J. Flame, Esquire 1509-545B 5026 Griscom St 19124-2624 62nd wd. 5754 Sq Ft BRT#621496500 Griscom St. LLC C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 001988 $329,196.67 Andrew J. Flame, Esquire 1509-546 1815 S Dover St 191451621 48th wd. 980 Sq Ft OPA#482373800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY James J. Gardler, in His Capacity as Executor of the Estate of Stacy A. Hughes a/k/a Stacy Hughes C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 02500 $166,493.60 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-547 2544 Sepviva St 19125 31st wd. 784 Sq Ft BRT#311224600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 02572 $79,611.90 Scott A. Dietterick, Esq., and/or Kathryn L. Mason, Esquire 1509-548A 4946 N Broad St 191412216 13th wd. 1640 Sq Ft BRT#871083350 SA Challenger C.P. October Term, 2012 No. 002588 $317,026.55 John P. Mitchell, Esquire 1509-548B 4944 N Broad St 19141-

2216 13th wd. 1653 Sq Ft BRT#871083300 SA Challenger C.P. October Term, 2012 No. 002588 $317,026.55 John P. Mitchell, Esquire 1509-549 835 Scattergood St 191241016 35th wd. 1038 Sq Ft OPA#351164000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Monica Harrison C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 01960 $146,223.62 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-550 5322 Large St 191241121 62nd wd. 1200 Sq Ft OPA#621331500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Michael Oneill a/k/a Michael D. O’Neill C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 00867 $70,903.55 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-551 6957 E Wister St 191381918 10th wd. 1440 Sq Ft OPA#102132700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Darrell Faison, in His Capacity as Executor and Trustee of the Estate of Marie Faison; The Marie Faison Testamentary Trust; Unknown Beneficiaries of the Marie Faison Testamentary Trust C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 02311 $93,419.45 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-552 6245 Tackawanna St 19135-3409 55th wd. 1994 Sq Ft OPA#552252300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Bernetta James; Regina Jeannie Jones C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 02449 $154,790.43 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP

1509-553 6510 Keystone St 19135 41st wd. 1817 Sq Ft OPA#411464000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Frances Crist C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 00592 $74,983.16 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1509-554 5918 Pine St 19143 3rd wd.

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Colonial Themed Party for Contemporary Luxury

by HughE Dillon Recently, the Post Brother Apartments latest project, Presidential City on City Avenue opened with an “inaugural party.” The newly renovated buildings were open to tours of staged units. Each have state-of-the-art appliances, floor-toceiling windows and three pools for residents to lounge by. A clubhouse will include a pool, sauna, waterside cabanas and more.

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by HughE Dillon Hundreds of people dressed in period costumes and enjoyed Jazz Age on the Delaware, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015 at the grand mansion of Glen Foerd. Many brought picnic baskets, while others purchased snacks and beverages on-site from Jamie Hollander Gourmet Foods and Catering. Guests enjoyed music and dancing with Drew Nugget & Midnight Society, The Red Hot Ramblers with Chelsea Reed, The Minsky Sisters, The Gin Canaries, Old City Sweethearts and Dandy Wellington. Proceeds from the event go to the restoration of Glen Foerd mansion.

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Celebrating 50 Years of Progress Early activists and current supporters of gay rights meet to celebrate an auspicious anniversary

by HughE Dillon The celebration of the 50th anniversary of the gay rights movement in Philadelphia was held at the National Constitution Center, 525 Arch St. The event coincided with their new exhibition: Speaking Out for Equality: The Constitution, Gay Rights, and the Supreme Court, which explores the gay rights movement through the constitutional “conversations� that have framed the struggle for equality.

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Howard Finds Himself with Dream Job Ashley Howard’s bumpy road from heartbreak to success

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illanova assistant men’s basketball coach, Ashley Howard was once a terrific Division I point guard for Drexel University who seemed destined for stardom entering his junior season in 2002-2003. “But I was diagnosed with a heart ailment,” he said.

“I was absolutely devastated. When you’re young and the thing you love most in your life is playing basketball, it is very difficult. I was lost when I first found out.”

Howard didn’t stay down long, though. His coach at the time, Bruiser Flint, who is still the coach at Drexel University, encouraged him to “stay positive” and asked him to become a student assistant coach with the program. He went from a sophomore team leader that scored 8.9 points with 4.9 assists a game to assisting his head coach any way he could. “Bru stepped up and helped me and encouraged me,” Howard said. “My situation taught me a lot, mainly not to take things for granted.

My basketball career ended in a snap of a finger. But it was a blessing in disguise. I got to start my coaching career earlier [than most people] and I turned a negative into a positive. I believe everything happens for a reason. I was able to channel all that energy I had for playing into coaching and helping others. I had to learn to take the attention off of myself and put it to helping the players on the team. Once I did that, I really appreciated my opportunity and what Bruiser Flint did for me. I’ll always be grateful to him.”

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with Flint, becoming a paid assistant for La Salle University and John Giannini for several years before returning to Drexel University. From there, he had a one-year stint at Xavier University in Cincinnati, and then an amazed Howard found that Jay Wright and Villanova University were reaching out to hire him for the 2013-2014 season. He has been there ever since. His recruiting, scouting, coaching, video preparation, academic advising, and life-teaching skills are reasons why Villanova University is arguably one of the top five basketball programs in the country right now.

“It is a privilege for me to be an assistant coach at Villanova,” he said. “I don’t take anything for granted. I am a kid who grew up between North Philadelphia and West Philadelphia, and I am an assistant coach at one of the best universities in the nation for a great coach like Jay Wright. I am well aware that not everyone gets an opportunity like this. I am a kid from Philadelphia who essentially is in a great spot in his hometown. This is a dream job for me. I’m very proud of where I have gotten to and very appreciative of all the people who mentored me and helped get me here.”

Villanova earned a number one seed in last year’s NCAA Tournament, but the season ended in a thud with a second straight upset loss in the first weekend of March Madness. Howard and fellow coaches, players, and Villanova fans are hoping that 2016 is the year the Wildcats break through as expected to the second and/or possibly third weekends. Howard will certainly get his share of the credit. It’s the Vil-

Former Drexel University basketball star Ashley Howard is an assistant basketball coach at Villanova University. Photo by Sarah J. Glover

lanova way. The Monsignor Bonner graduate played a part in helping land many recruits in the last two seasons, including Josh Hart, Phil Booth, and current heralded newcomers Jalen Brunson, Mikal Bridges, Tim Delaney, and Omari Spellman. Many consider this the best Villanova recruiting class in a decade.

I was able to channel all that energy I had for playing into coaching and helping others.

“Villanova is a special place,” Howard said.

“I think all the kids are similar in that they value education. They all want to be professional players but they care about the team more than anything and being good people. Villanova basketball is about being a part of something bigger than yourself. The kids like our family coaching atmosphere. They see Jay, me, Kyle [Neptune], Baker Dunleavy all working to-

gether and sharing together and they feed off that and want that relationship with one another.

As far as recruiting is concerned, I am proud to be part of this staff with some of these kids that are coming into the program. They are serious students. They come from great families and backgrounds, work hard in the classroom and are coachable and fit into our culture. And, yeah, they are really good players too. But I am just one part of it. We kind of gang recruit with all of us, and of course Coach Wright, taking major roles in recruiting. I think one of the things that make us special is that we all share responsibilities in the coaching staff. I think some places have one guy [for recruiting], one guy for [video], scouting you name it. At Villanova, we all share in these things and do them together. I think the kids liked seeing all of our faces at their [high school] games and [AAU events] and hearing from all of us throughout the [recruiting] process.”

For now, Howard is thrilled to be at Villanova. He hopes to one day be a head coach with his own team but is not focused on that for now. “One day I would love that, but it’s not Continued on page 2

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‘Out’ Gay, trans comedy vets take their stories to the stage

By Larry Nichols larry@epgn.com Out comedians Kevin Meaney and Julia Scotti are teaming up for “Big Pants and Hot Flashes!” a stand-up performance followed by a Q&A session, Aug. 15 at Act II Playhouse in Ambler.

Both comedians are comedy veterans who came out later in their careers, Meaney as gay and Scotti as transgender. Both bring those experiences in humorous detail to the stage.

“It’s a real special show because it’s got content and meaning,” Meaney said. “I think it’s a timely show. I love Julia and I love her story. We both came into our own later in life.

I think it really says something, this show, in a communal way.”

Scotti had stopped doing comedy around the time she came out as transgender and underwent sexual-reassignment surgery.

“I began the process in 1999 but I had my

gender reassignment in 2002,” she said. “I am ‘13 years old’ this year. I left teaching in 2007 and I have been doing standup since 2011. If you can believe it, in between I was a stock broker.”

Scotti added that transitioning after doing standup for so many years as a man brought out a range of reactions from her peers in the business when she decided to get back into comedy.

“I quit standup in 2000 to become a teacher. But from what I hear, when word got out as to what I was doing, there were all kinds of stories that I had lost my mind or that I had gone into an insane asylum. And nobody bothered to ask me,” she said. “So, you could say there was a reaction although I wasn’t around to witness it. For the most part, it has been a very welcoming experience coming back. There have been a few cases where a few people needed to see me again, which I understood, or just didn’t want to work with me at all, which I don’t under-

stand. Most of the people that I work with in the business were very, very welcoming and I really appreciated it because it was a fearful thing coming back.”

Meaney has never had a break from his comedy career, which began in 1980. Soon his distinctive voice and animated performance style found him appearing on TV shows like “The Tonight Show,” “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and “The Jay Thomas Show.”

Meaney said he was inspired to come out after landing a role in a Broadway show.

“The main reason I got the courage to do it was because I was in ‘Hairspray’ on Broadway,” he said. “I found this new family, aside from my own family, where I could totally be myself. Everybody in the cast and crew was gay. It was the gayest show ever, and I mean that in a great way. Mostly everybody was gay. I kept saying to myself, This is who I am and I’m hiding. I confided in one of the actors and we just became great friends.

After two years of being in the show, I just

decided it was time. The minute I told the first person, I was set free. It was a really big part of my life. So the question is, does Broadway make you gay? Yes, it does.”

After he came out, Meaney said, he discovered that his sexuality wasn’t the closely guarded secret he thought it was among his audience.

“They were the first ones to tell me that ‘we knew anyway,’” he said. “Even my old comedy friends said, ‘We should have told you a long time ago.’ Everybody seemed to know I was gay except me. Once you start talking about it on stage to people who don’t know you, it’s a lot of ‘who cares?’ because the younger generation really doesn’t care if you are gay or straight. It’s not a big thing to them so you have to make that funny and it has to become a story. That was my challenge.”

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My persona up there is similar to what it was before but the material is brand new and I’m constantly writing new stuff. The bottom line is whether or not I was funny. I think that was the big question. Is she funny? Is the audience going to like her? I didn’t concern myself with if they would embrace my identity because I felt that, if I could go out there and kill it every single time, everything else would fall into place. I never really exploited the fact that I was transgender. I emphasize the fact that I’m supposed to be labeled a transgender comedian but I’m really a comedian who happens to be transgender. I’m not speaking for Kevin but Kevin is a comedian first and he’s gay second. It’s not our entire identity.”

Scotti added the emergence of more transgender figures into mainstream culture is helping to make audiences more open to transgender performers.

“There’s a sizable number of trans comics around the country,” she said. “I’m not on an island here.

If you go to New York, there’s a community of them. Because of Caitlyn Jenner and Laverne Cox, people are becoming aware that we exist. I think once they get to know us, they become a lot more accepting. I don’t really even talk about it until I’m 15 or 20 minutes into my act, if I do at all. I don’t always talk about it. I do that because in order to work mainstream clubs, I have to be a mainstream act. I cannot just focus on that subject because it loses its luster after a few minutes.

My act is for everybody: straight, gay, cis, trans, anybody. They’ll get something out of my act.”

Meaney said he found lots of new material in his coming-out story.

“Comedy is like truth,” he said.

“There is so much comedy in truth.

Once I started talking about coming out to my wife and my family, I found humor in that. Where is my relationship now with my ex-wife and my daughter? It was a fun thing to play with on stage and having the audience accept it was a challenge and it took me a while to kind of figure out that road. It was still my style and brand of standup, which each of us eventually gets to. I discovered that and I liked it.” n Kevin Meaney and Julia Scotti perform as part of “Big Pants and Hot Flashes!” 8 p.m. Aug. 15 at Act II Playhouse, 56 E. Butler Ave., Ambler. For more information or tickets, call 215-654-0200 or visit www.kevinmeaney.com or www. juliascotti.com.

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Ellen Braun: Getting schooled on longtime State College staple Big-city snobs like myself have a tendency to think that a small-town gay bar would have an isolated crowd. But Ellen Braun from Chumley’s Bar soon dispelled me of that myth. Situated in the heart of State College, the bar gets an interesting mix of local and international students, teachers, residents and visiting conference-goers. In true bar fashion, we did this interview after closing hour, at 1 a.m. pGN: How would your parents describe you as a child?

EB: Shy. I was a big reader and I liked to play outside. My dad worked for a big company and we moved around a lot, so I grew up in the suburbs of a lot of big cities. pGN: Which did you spend the most time in?

EB: You know, we never stayed around long enough, so I don’t have a place that I’d call home except for where I am now. pGN: How do you think moving so often with no “roots,” so to speak, shaped who you are?

EB: I think it made me more sympathetic to people who were not … who are seen as being on the outskirts of certain social circles. pGN: Where did you go to high school?

EB: I went to Radnor. pGN: Any siblings?

EB: I have two brothers. I’m the oldest. pGN: What’s a fun memory with your siblings?

EB: We used to go to the shore every year. Ventnor. pGN: I only know it from the Monopoly game.

EB: We’d go to the boardwalk in Atlantic City too. It’s right near Ventnor. pGN: Did your mom work too?

EB: She was mostly a housewife but when I was in high school she started working for an insurance company. pGN: Where did you go after high school?

EB: I went to Penn State, then stayed here in State College. I was probably tired of moving all the time so I put down roots here, but since it’s a college town, it’s pretty transient so I still satisfy that need for newness and an ever-changing circle of friends. But I don’t have to pack up and leave every three or four years like before. And I do have a nice core group of friends who live here all the time.

pGN: That’s kind of neat the way you reversed the circumstances so that they stayed the same but different.

EB: I know, I like it myself. pGN: What was your major at Penn State?

EB: I studied English. pGN: What was your first job?

EB: I worked on a farm in Doylestown.

I picked strawberries and tomatoes and things like that. I babysat a lot when I was younger too but that was the first “real” job. pGN: Do you ever watch “CBS Sunday Morning”?

EB: [Laughs] No, I never get up in the morning! pGN: Ha. I don’t either but I DVR it. In fact, I was just watching it before you called and they were doing a piece about the plight of tomato pickers. How odd is that? They were saying that the tomato workers, especially in Florida where they grow 90 percent of winter tomatoes, had the worst conditions. They ran a piece of Edward R. Murrow’s 1960 piece “Harvest of Shame” and clips of Dan Rather talking about the same problem in 1995. Apparently, things didn’t get better until recently when one activist decided that, since trying to shame or boycott the tomato-farming companies wasn’t working, they’d go after retail stores like Acme and Target and shame them into only buying from companies with fair labor practices.

EB: Oh, really? That’s cool. Yeah, it really was tough. I was about 14 and it was hard work; you had to get up really early in the morning, which no one wants to do at 14. That was just a summer job for me but it was hot and the tomato plants were itchy. It hurts your back and you find squishy, rotten tomatoes all the time. I did a bunch of other jobs too, so it wasn’t just tomato-picking, but that was one of the worst ones. pGN: How did you navigate from produce-picker to English major to bar manager?

EB: Well, I was always really academically oriented but when I graduated from Penn State, I realized that I was too shy to become a teacher. I was horrified at the thought of being in front of a classroom. I figured I needed to learn how to be in front of people, so I got a job at a bar. I loved it and I’ve been doing it ever since. [Laughs] I’m not shy anymore! pGN: Yeah, dealing with the public will cure that pretty quickly.

EB: Yes, I’ve thought about going back

to school and getting certified as a teacher or something like that but I’m pretty happy with where I am. I bought a house and I get to be social and it’s an interesting place to work. I really love my job. pGN: Funny, the other thing on the Sunday morning show was an interview with Jon Stewart and he spoke about how he lives kind of like a bartender because it’s sort of like being out, but you don’t actually have to be out. You’re on the other side of the bar.

EB: Yeah, he’s so smart. And actually Jon Stewart was a bartender at a place near Trenton. I think it was called City Gardens. pGN: Do you play any instruments?

EB: No, but I love music. One of the things I’m excited about is that we’ve started having a lot more live music in the past few years. It really makes me happy to have that.

EB: It’s a gay bar. It’s a little unusual because it’s right on the main street instead of in a back alley or in a bad section of town like a lot of small-town gay bars were. It’s right in the center of town.

It’s really small. In State College, most bars cater to a football crowd or students or both. But Chumley’s is really different. As a gay bar we get more international students and adults who are either gay or open-minded and happy to be in a diverse crowd. It’s more grown-up than a lot of other local bars and more of a neighborhood bar. It’s very welcoming and friendly. pGN: There’s a hotel I stayed at in Spain that bills itself as “hetero-friendly.” It sounds like you have a similar vibe.

EB: Yes, I think as LGBT people are becoming more accepted, we have more and more of a mixed crowd. It’s kind of funny, as the community has become more mainstreamed and LGBT people are welcomed everywhere, we’ve had to fight to stay open. So we’ve had to diversify too. We’ve brought in music and other things to broaden our crowd. I was afraid that bringing new people in would drown us out and we’d lose our identity as a gay bar, but that hasn’t happened. In fact, it has had real benefits. This town can be very homogeneous and for many years we had a mostly young, white gay male clientele, a very narrow niche. We didn’t have many of the subcultures within the community, such as bears or radical faeries or even many women. Now it’s so much more interesting with a much more varied expression of the LGBT community. It’s still just as gay as ever but a lot more diverse.

pGN: That’s great. I think it’s the key to survival.

Photo: Suzi Nash EB: Yes, we get a lot of pGN: How long have you been at the people coming here from bar? all over for conferences and I love hearEB: I’ve been at Chumley’s for 22 years. ing about how other places are dealing with all the changes. I spoke to a pGN: Wow! Is this the same bar you woman from Denmark and she said, went to right after college?

“Oh, we don’t really have gay bars EB: No, that was a real dive bar. It was anymore. There are a few, but they’re really popular though. We served a lot of considered quaint relics from the past. shots and beers.

Homosexuality is so accepted that it’s unnecessary to have separate bars.” I pGN: Tell me a little about Chumley’s. spoke to a guy from paGE 34

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Tackling a myth-conception

WET AND WILD: Eric Blevins proudly shows off his silver medal in the 1-meter board diving competition at the FINA World Championships Aug. 12 in Kazan, Russia. Blevins was also scheduled to compete in the 3-meter competition on Thursday. The out New Jersey resident raised about a quarter of the travel costs through an online fundraising site over the past two months, but you can still contribute to the expenses.

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Jess Taylor is as big an advocate for women’s tackle football as you’ll find.

With the regular season and championship play for 2015 having just wrapped up, Taylor is already marketing the Philadelphia Firebirds for next year. The first priority?

Bulking up the team with 30 or more new players.

The biggest misconception around women’s tackle football is that everyone needs to be large, muscular and tough, she noted.

“Not so,” Taylor said. “We need women of all body sizes and types. Not everyone is built for blocking.”

In other words, if you’re agile and fast, you could be a running back or receiver.

And if you have talented legs, kickers are in demand.

Gay is our middle name.

Any body type you see in American football works here also. Taylor said that, as long as you have the heart, desire and drive to play, there’s a place for you on the team.

Typical tryouts include a 40-yard dash, some box drills and ball-handling skills, for starters. Tryouts will be every month beginning Aug. 16 at Kendrick Rec Center, 5822 Ridge Ave. The 2016 season begins in April.

Don’t play but want to be a part? There’s a place for you as well. The Firebirds are always looking for people to work the chains, help with stats and do videography.

Taylor said the team is like family.

“We travel to play,” Taylor said, “and between practices

and games, hanging out and fundraising, there’s a lot of bonding. These are goodhearted people all pulling together.”

For more information, visit philadelphiafirebirds.com.

Short stops • Reading Fightin’ Phils Gay Night is approaching. Watch local drag mom Sandy Beach throw out the first ball before the Aug. 17 game. A charter bus is going from Venture Inn for only $20 round trip and includes game ticket.

Other info at milb.com/index. jsp?sid=t522. n Fall approaches! What is your sport about to do? What are you about to do? Email scott@ epgn.com.

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Presidential politics, and gay-baiting, at center of ‘Enemies’

By Gary M. Kramer PGN Contributor The highly entertaining and extremely engaging documentary “Best of Enemies,” opening Aug. 14 at Ritz Theaters, presents the 10 famous televised debates between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley, Jr., during the 1968 presidential nominating conventions. Directors Morgan Neville (“20 Feet from Stardom”) and Robert Gordon show

how these compulsively watchable arguments “changed television forever.” They provide astute portraits of both men — the “great debater” Buckley and the “great talker” Vidal — to how evenly matched they were, and how much they despised one another. The film builds to that famous, heated moment where Buckley responds to Vidal’s calling him a “crypto-Nazi” by calling him a “queer.” It is breathtaking, even for folks who know or remember it happening.

Gordon spoke with PGN via phone and Neville participated in an email exchange to discuss their film and the two public intellectuals whose arguments make them the “Best of Enemies.”

PGN: What prompted you to use the Buckley-Vidal debates as the fulcrum for exploring the current state of affairs?

RG: I was raised with Buckley and Vidal in my consciousness. When I saw the debates in 2010, I was so struck by how contemporary they were, and how they anticipated the culture wars and articulated them so well.

MN: We were transfixed by the debates and the characters of Vidal and Buckley themselves. It felt

like a great drama being played by two intellectuals who understood how to play their characters. We intrinsically felt that these debates said something about news today and the role of commentary, but it wasn’t until we really got into working on the film that we realized just how deep this ran.

PGN: How did you come to and prepare to tell their stories?

MN: My first job after college was

working as a fact checker for Gore at The Nation magazine. I knew his work and I knew his temperament. He wasn’t easy to work for.

Buckley was someone I only knew as a TV fixture, almost a caricature. Each man created a formidable amount of words throughout their lives. Part of the fun of making the film was going down the rabbit hole into their oeuvres.

RG: In 2010, it didn’t occur to me that most of the public would be unfamiliar with Buckley and Vidal. Very few people under 40 are familiar with these guys. As we grasped that, we realized that the story needed a sense of history and context to place it, to explain them.

PGN: How did you strive to make “Best of Enemies” so even-handed, or is there a subtle favoritism?

RG: We’ve had people believe it goes both ways. Look at how these guys are engaging to try to change people’s minds. The notion of a public intellectual is anathema today. They are dueling in this verbal bloodsport to save the nation.

The film is a eulogy to public intellectuals.

MN: We decided from the start that we didn’t want to make a film about the arguments, as much as

make a film about how we argue.

It’s the meta-conversation that seemed most important. What does TV do to how to deal with people in a democracy? What role does it play in what brings us together and what divides us? We also wanted to portray a relationship, not a full biography of each man. At some level, we felt we had to empathize with each of them to understand that.

PGN: How much you think Vidal’s sexuality played into his celebrity and Buckley’s hatred?

RG: It wasn’t Gore being gay that unsettled Bill so much, it was the sense of someone who was his equal. There’s a hint in the film from Sam Tanenhaus, who says they each saw in the other an exaggerated version of their own anxious idea of themselves; they saw the worst of themselves in each other and felt people would see them that way.

MN: There was gay baiting in the debates by both men from the start. Vidal’s sexuality was in deep conflict with Buckley’s pre-Vatican II Catholicism. Vidal enjoyed this, though he embraced the radicalness of his moral ideas more than playing on his sexuality directly. Vidal did needle Buckley about his own sexuality. I think he did this not thinking about the politics or message of it, but rather because he thought it would rattle Buckley. And it did. Oddly, through his wife, Buckley became friendly with a large circle of gay New Yorkers. He was, by most accounts, a fairly tolerant person in his private life. Vidal had a special role as his bête noire.

PGN: Why do you think the two men were so good together? Was it because they brought out the worst in the other?

MN: For men who made their living often debating others, they only had this specific type of vituperative relationship with each other. At some level, I think they saw a distorted personal reflection of themselves in the other that intimidated them and made them lash out.

RG: There are qualities in each that are to be admired. One aspect of this is — and what attracted me — the-high minded on the low road. That’s what gets them. You think they’d stay out of name-calling, but that’s where they ended up. n

GOODBYE CRUEL GIRLS: Vulcan Lyrics presents “Heathers: The Musical” as a stage adaptation of the cult classic 1990s comedy about a clique of popular girls whose newest member, along with her rebel boyfriend, sets off a series of murders disguised as suicides, through Aug. 16 at Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut St. For more information or tickets, call 215-238-1555.

Theater & Arts Adventures in Photography Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition featuring diverse works including rare early pictures, major examples of the Pictorialist art movement by figures such as Peter Henry Emerson and George Seeley, through Aug. 20, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215763-8100.

Art Institute of Philadelphia Annual Fashion Show The annual fashion show featuring alum designer and Macy’s Fashion Incubator success Leah Delfiner of Pretty Pretty Rebel, as well as runway looks from at least 35 student designers, 7 p.m. Aug. 14 at Kimmel’s Perelman Theater, 300 S. Broad St.; 215-6702300.

The Damned: Don’t You Wish We Were Dead The documentary about the classic punk band is screened 7 p.m. Aug.

16 at Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St.; www. undergroundarts. com.

Defiant Archives The William Way LGBT Community Center presents a collection of archival and personal items with a focus on the history of transgender activism in Philadelphia, curated and collected by local trans community members, through Sept. 20, 1315 Spruce St.; 215-732-2220.

Discovering the Impressionists: Paul Durand-Ruel and the New Painting Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition of paintings revealing the stories of Monet, Renoir, Degas, Manet, Pissarro and their visionary art dealer and champion, Paul DurandRuel, through Sept.

13, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215763-8100.

GayFest!

Quince Productions presents its annual festival of LGBTthemed theater performances through

Aug. 22 at various locations; www. quinceproductions.

Genghis Khan: Bring the Legend to Life The Franklin Institute presents the story of one of the world’s greatest leaders through Jan. 3, 20th Street and the Parkway; www. fi.edu.

Herman Leonard: Jazz Portraits An exhibition of photographs from the master portrait photographer featuring jazz legends such as Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and many more from 1940-60, through Oct. 11 at Michener Art Museum, 138 S. Pine St., Doylestown; 215340-9800.

Into Dust: Traces of the Fragile in Contemporary Art Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition of the distinctions between the corporeal and transcendental, emergence and decay, belonging and displacement and life and death, through

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT PGN LISTINGS

Outta Town Sal Richards The actor and comedian performs 8 p.m. Aug. 14 at the Rrazz Room, in The Ramada New Hope, 6426 Lower York Road, New Hope; 888-5961027.

Strawberry Mansion Drive; 215-6859560.

Darius Rucker The country singer performs 8 p.m.

Aug. 15 at the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Festival Park, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-317-1000.

Chris Brown The hip-hop singer performs 7 p.m. Aug. 21 at Susquehanna Bank Center, 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden, N.J.; 609-365-1300.

The King & I The Oscar-winning film is screened 2 p.m. Aug. 16 at The Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610917-1228.

GOODBYE CRÜE(L) WORLD: Mötley Crüe — the band the set the high-water mark for straight guys parading around in spandex and eyeliner in the 1980s — is calling it a career with its farewell tour featuring opener and shock-rock legend Alice Cooper 7 p.m. Aug. 14 at Wells Fargo Center, 3601 S. Broad St. For more information or tickets, call 215-336-3600.

Oct. 25, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-763-8100.

Jena Friedman: American C*nt The comedian and producer for “The Daily Show” performs 8 p.m. Aug. 14 at the Trocadero Theatre, 1003 Arch St.; 215-922-6888.

Legendary: Inside the House Ballroom Scene The African American Museum in Philadelphia presents the premiere of the Philadelphia-based work of photographer Gerard Gaskin focusing on the culture of house balls of the AfricanAmerican and Latino gay, transgender and queer community through Aug. 16, 701 Arch St.; www.aampmuseum.org.

Northern Lights: Scandinavian Design Philadelphia

Museum of Art presents an exhibition surveying Scandinavian design from its triumphant showing at the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris to the present day, through Oct. 4, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-7638100.

Rage of Achilles Commonwealth Classic Theater Company presents a comic tragedy involving Greek and Trojan spies through Aug. 22 at URBN Center Annex at Drexel University, 3401 Filbert St.; 215895-2000.

Music Failure and Hum The alternative-rock bands perform 8:30 p.m. Aug. 14 at the Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St.; 215-627-1332.

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The Psychedelic Furs and The Church The new-wave bands perform 8 p.m.

Aug. 15 at Keswick Theatre, 291 N. Keswick Ave.; 215572-7650.

Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire The classic pop and funk bands perform 7:30 p.m. Aug. 15 at Susquehanna Bank Center, 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden, N.J.; 609-365-1300.

Coal Chamber and Fear Factory The metal bands perform 7 p.m. Aug. 15 at Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St.; www. undergroundarts. com.

Tokio Hotel The rock band performs 8 p.m. Aug. 16 at TLA, 334 South St.; 215-9221011.

Jimmy Buffet The singer performs 7 p.m. Aug. 20 at Susquehanna Bank Center, 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden, N.J.; 609-365-1300.

Stephanie Mills The R&B singer performs 7 p.m.

Aug. 20 at Dell Music Center, 2500

Nightlife Martha Graham Cracker Anniversary The drag performer celebrates 10 years of outrageous performances 8 p.m.

Aug. 13 at L’Etage, 624 S. Sixth St.; 215-592-0656.

Big Mouth: Gayborhood’s LipSync Tournament Lip-sync hopefuls compete for prizes 9 p.m. Aug. 14 at Tabu, 200 S. 12th St.; 215-964-9675.

The Eric Jaffe Show The entertainer performs highlights from the world-premiere musical of “The Pop Musical Diary of a Gay Man,” 7:30 p.m.

Aug. 21 at Tavern on Camac, 243 S. Camac St.; 215-5450900.

Willie Nelson and Friends The country singer performs 6 p.m.

Aug. 16 at the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Festival Park, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-317-1000.

Devil Doll The campy horror film is screened 9:45 p.m. Aug. 21 at The Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610-917-1228.

No Sex Please, We’re British The Hedgerow Theatre presents a comic farce about a happy couple whose lives are turned upside-down when mail-order pornography is mistakenly delivered to their home and place of business, through Aug. 23, 64 Rose Valley Road, Media; 610-5654211. n

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Heart-felt stories round out GayFest!

By Larry Nichols larry@epgn.com GayFest!, Quince Productions’ annual festival of LGBT theater productions and performances, continues to be the talk of the town as it brings intriguing stories to the stage through Aug. 22.

Rounding out this year’s productions are the lighthearted comedy “Mother Tongue” and the dramatic “From White Plains,” both directed by Quince artistic director Rich Rubin.

Rubin said these shows are in tune with the style of plays people have come to expect from the festival.

“They’re a little more of the type of ‘regular’ play that people are used to seeing,” he said. “’Mother Tongue’ and ‘From White Plains’ are just regular plays with actors and interesting characters in them. The other plays have them too but these have a more traditional framework.”

“From White Plains” follows an award-winning filmmaker who is compelled to engage in a social-media battle with the man who bullied his friend in high school, leading to the friend’s suicide.

“He feels that he needs to confront him and he can’t stop this drive to keep confronting him,” Rubin said about the play’s lead character. “He ultimately wants to be able to let go of the whole thing, but whether that is possible for him to do is another question.

I wouldn’t say it’s a play about bullying, but more about how bullying can affect a person for the rest of his life — both the bully and the bullied person. Ultimately, it’s a play about forgiveness and how to forgive actions that seem to be unforgivable.”

Letting go and moving on is also a theme in the comedy “Mother Tongue,” which follows the young lead character, Matt, who is trying to form

a relationship with 40-something Cale.

His mom, a stand-up comic with issues of her own, doesn’t help the situation much.

“It’s pretty much a comedy,” Rubin said. “Obviously, it has its tender moments but it’s a sexy, light comedy. Matt’s conflict is not unlike the conflict in ‘White Plains,’ which is the attempt to let go and move on in life. He’s got this guy he’s trying to get involved with who has something that had gone on in his past that is still affecting his present and their ability to form a relationship. You have his mother, who is a stand-up comic who can’t let go of the anger at her late ex-husband, Matt’s father,

and that’s what drives her comedy routine. What Matt discovers is maybe he’s got a few things from his past he’s got to let go of.”

Rubin said that GayFest!, now in its fifth year, has become an annual success as something the community eagerly awaits, both for the quality and quantity of the productions.

“There are fewer people these days saying ‘Gayfest?

What’s that?’” Rubin said.

“And there seems to be an anticipation of it each year.

So we’re in our fifth anniversary this year and I think it’s become less of an experiment and more of a tradition. n Quince Productions presents GayFest! through Aug. 22. For a complete list of shows, performances and venues, visit www.quinceproductions.com.

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By Larry Nichols larry@epgn.com With the papal visit looming and the likelihood that our transportation infrastructure as we know it is going to shut down on a level akin to a hurricane, blizzard and a zombie apocalypse hitting the city on the same weekend, we can’t blame anyone for wanting to get away from the city that week. But if that isn’t enough of an incentive, may we suggest the Mainland Inn, in Harleysville, as another reason to get away from Center City?

Reopened in January, this historic Montgomery County inn serves up imaginative dishes, locally sourced from the owners’ nearby farm. It is modern in its décor, without sacrificing that comfortably familiar country aesthetic.

Things got off to an interesting start with Mainland’s relish menu, a collection of small, chilled dishes of varying complexity. The pastrami egg ($4), a seasoned hard-boiled egg breaded with pastrami spices, delivered a nice textural contrast to go with the familiar flavors. With the green tomatoes and ham ($4), the petite cold and juicy tomatoes had a grape-like feel and the dish itself was refreshingly creamy and briny.

On to the hot dishes … The octopus stew ($15) was a pleasant surprise with a lovely and strong Indian influence in its spice profile, which included coriander, chick peas and tomatoes. The squid-ink cracker garnishing the dish was a nice touch. We’d happily buy a box if these

crackers were available.

On the entrée menu, the lamb ($36) was visually stunning, arranged with the eye of an artiste and featuring select and varying cuts of lamb, the part and style of which was subject to availability and how the chef chose to prepare it. The evening we went, it was shoulder, neck and belly.

Rounding out the dish were bright and flavorful garnishes of salsa verde, green onion and black olives.

Dessert was a similar feast for the eyes.

The creméux ($12) was a silky rhubarb curd topped with fresh strawberries, mascarpone and a delicate cloud of strawberry foam that seemed to dissipate as fast as we could keep consuming it. The intermingling of flavors made for the perfect summertime dessert.

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Colorado and when he came out to his coworkers their only reaction was, “OK, that’s cool … let’s get a beer.” They totally didn’t care. Not good or bad reaction, they just didn’t care. It’s interesting to hear how things are changing and evolving. No one cares much anymore, though I sense that a lot of older gay people miss the sense of community that once was part of the struggle when you’re a disenfranchised group.

PGN: I talk to a lot of people, both older and younger, about the fact that though there’s more freedom, there’s less and less to draw us together.

EB: Yeah, I like it the way things are now, in that they’re better, but I understand why people are sad to see the culture get watered down.

PGN: True, the dangers of assimilation.

But as I told a relative recently, it’s still cool being gay. We still have our own newspapers, film festivals, books, magazines, films, community centers and bars, etc.

EB: Yeah, it’s interesting to be a part of a culture where I feel like wherever I go there’s a good chance that I’m going to know someone. Maybe because I’m in this small niche, although it gets bigger all the time. We get a lot of people who may feel like outsiders, from redneck gay people to international customers who don’t always feel welcome in a college town. Jeez, the other day we had more people in here talking in foreign languages than people whose first language was English. It’s really diverse and everyone gets along. I’m really lucky to work here.

PGN: What was one of the moving stories you’ve heard?

EB: There was a guy from Saudi Arabia; I don’t think he knew he was gay or even knew what it meant when he first came here. He was a really smart kid and had a gay friend who brought him into the bar. Over the years, he got in touch with himself. He took women’s- and gay-studies classes, realized that he was gay and became a huge advocate. He moved back to Saudi Arabia and I think he thought he’d go back and change the world, only to find that his mother had arranged for him to get married. He managed to come back to the states for grad school and now he’s a civil-rights lawyer, but he had to leave his family behind. There’s a really nice kid from Taiwan who comes into the bar and when gay marriage passed, he wrote a beautiful note saying how happy he was to see it legalized in America and how happy he was to be here because back home in Taiwan it wasn’t accepted and his father had disowned him because of it. It was a really poignant moment to think what it would be like to be an international student here at this time and to be able to celebrate it with him. It was a happy and sad

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moment.

PGN: Since you bartend as well as manage the place, you must have heard your share of coming-out stories.

EB: Yes, right now it’s mostly all about marriage; every day there’s a new couple tying the knot. I’ve worked here for 22 years so I’ve known generations of people, like the two gay men who adopted a daughter; who’s a lesbian and now has a wife. It’s very moving. When I started working here, I never thought I’d see these changes. I love being right in the thick of things.

PGN: Have you had people stumble in not knowing it was a gay establishment?

EB: [Laughs] All the time! Especially during football season, when there are a lot of tourists in town. There’s a big rainbow sign out front, but they either don’t see it or don’t know what it means.

Inside, we’re a pretty neutral-looking bar, complete with a deer head (Pearl Buck) on the wall — though it’s usually covered with beads and earrings.

PGN: Early favorite artists?

EB: Bruce Springsteen and Joni Mitchell.

PGN: I often crave …

EB: Oysters.

PGN: I forgot, what was your coming-out story?

EB: I’m actually straight! I think I probably appear to be a lesbian; in fact, when I first applied for a job with the company that owns the complex, the HR director looked at me with my short hair and dress with no makeup and said, “I think I have just the place for you.” I came down and talked to my future boss and he said, “Have you ever been in a gay bar before?” I said no and he said, “Well, come in on a busy Saturday night and see how you feel.” I came in and saw a million people I knew and thought, This is going to be fine. Twenty-two years later and most people still think I’m a lesbian.

I’m totally comfortable with that. I do have a boyfriend and he’s comfortable hanging out here too, so is my whole family. My mom and brothers are regulars here.

PGN: Ha. I have the opposite problem.

I write for a gay newspaper, program for the LGBT film festival and I worked in a lesbian bar for 17 years and people still think I’m straight.

EB: It’s funny, I know a lot of gay women who have that problem. Even I would buy into the stereotype sometimes, thinking someone was gay or not by the way they looked, but I’ve stopped doing that and I’m glad. We all have a place at the table, especially here; we have the coolest place around. Come visit! n To suggest a community member for Family Portrait, email portraits05@aol. com.

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1. To the rear 6. Mary’s little pet 10. “___ and Clark” 14. It may slip over one’s head 15. Poet Khayyám 16. Sculptor Stebbins 17. Bold color choice by Frida?

19. Greek 20. Hrs. in Key West 21. “Village Voice” columnist Hentoff 22. First shot, for Amelie 24. More cut and dry 26. “Fiddle-___!”

(Scarlett) 27. Skip a syllable 29. Minute part 33. Sondheim musical 37. Matt, who once dressed as J.Lo 38. Sailors cruise on them 39. In a state, in southern states 41. Pound of verse 42. Word before “ass” 44. Like a tiny, limp member?

46. Novelist Miller 48. Queen in Kings 49. Went up 51. Truant Bueller 55. Kurtz of “More

Tales of the City” 58. Women’s patriotic org.

59. Mouth-to-mouth pro 60. Blades of grass, collectively 61. Active partner that you want to see?

64. Made a hole-inone, to Sheehan 65. Russian river 66. Ex of “The Donald” 67. Major or minor, to Bernstein 68. What you lie on with burning desire?

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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.; 302-750-4045.

BuxMont Unitarian Universalist Church Services 10:15 a.m. at 2040 Street Road, Warrington; 215-343-0406.

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.

Congregation Rodeph Shalom Shabbat services every Friday at 6 p.m. and Saturday at 10:45 a.m. at 615 N. Broad St. ; 215-627-6747.

Dignity Jersey Shore An organization for sexual-minority Catholics meets the first Saturday of the month in Asbury Park; 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.; 215563-3853.

First Baptist Church of Moorestown Welcoming and affirming congregation holds Bible study and discussion at 9 a.m. Sundays and worship services at 10 a.m.

Sundays at 19 W. Main St., Moorestown, N.J.; 856-235-1180; www. fbcmoorestown.org; info@fbcmoorestown.org.

First Presbyterian Church of Lansdowne Welcoming church holds services at 10 a.m. Sundays at 140 N. Lansdowne Ave.; 610-622-0800; www.lansdownepresbyterian-church. com.

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.; 215-563-3980, www.firstuu-philly.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, with lunch to follow, at 6001 Germantown Ave.; 215-438-3077, www.fumcog.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 9 a.m. Sundays at 2111 Sansom St. and 11 a.m. at 2110 Chestnut St. in the main sanctuary; 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.

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

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 Jersey; 732-823-2193, mccctl.com.

Metropolitan Community Church of Philadelphia 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 William Way. 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 Services 10 a.m. Sundays at 620 Welsh Road, Horsham; 215-6462597.

Silverside Church 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.; 215-732-1918, stlukeandtheepiphany.org.

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Community Bulletin Board Community centers

■ The Attic Youth Center 255 S. 16th St.; 215-545-4331; atticyouthcenter.org. For LGBT and questioning youth and their friends and allies.

Groups meet and activities are held 4-7 p.m. Monday-Tuesday and 4-8:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday. Case management, HIV testing and smoking cessation are available Monday-Friday.

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

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.

■ Barbara Gittings Gay and Lesbian Collection at the Independence Branch of the Philadelphia Free Library: 215-685-1633

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.

n The COLOURS Organization Inc.: 215-496-0330

Tabernacle United Church Open and affirming congregation holds services 10 a.m. Sundays at 3700 Chestnut St.; 215-386-4100, tabunited.org.

Trinity Memorial Episcopal Church Sunday worship with nursery care, 10:30 a.m. and fourth Thursday of the month contemporary worship with Communion at 7 p.m. at 2212 Spruce St.; 215-732-2515, trinityphiladelphia.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 12:30 p.m. the third Sunday of the month and holds a potluck brunch 12:30 p.m. the first Sunday of the month; 610-566-4853. www.uucdc.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 Services 10:15 a.m. Interweave, a group of LGBT Unitarians and their allies, meets at 401 N. Kings Highway, Cherry Hill, N.J.; 856-6673618, 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.

Unitarian Universalist Congregation, South Jersey Shore Services 10 a.m. Sundays in Galloway Township; 609-965-9400, www.uucsjs.org.

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

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 a.m.; 215387-2885, www.uniphila.org.

■ 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 ■ 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: Nellie Fitzpatrick, 215-6860330; helen.fitzpatrick@phila.gov; Fax: 215-686-2555

■ 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, 866LGBT-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)

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

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; 215-688-1796, www.stpaullevittown.org.

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church Welcoming and diverse congregation with numerous outreach and fellowship groups holds services at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sunday at Third and Pine streets; 215-925-5968; www.stpetersphila.org.

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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 appointment) at

■ 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; 215627-9090; www.galloplaw.org.

■ Greater Philadelphia Professional Network Networking group for area business professionals, self-employed and business owners meets monthly in a different location throughout the city, invites speakers on various topics, partners with other nonprofits and maintains a website where everyone is invited to sign up for email notices for activities and events; www.gppn.org; 215-922-3377.

Health Center No. 2, 1720 S. Broad St.; 215685-1821.

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

IndependenceBusinessAlliance. com for information about events, programs and membership; 215-557-0190; 1717 Arch St., Suite 3370.

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

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

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