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High court appears receptive to LGBT rights By Timothy Cwiek timothy@epgn.com

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AIDS Fund revamps structure to focus on individual, not agencies “We looked at the current environment and this is where we want to head moving forward.” By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com The Philadelphia AIDS Walk marks its 30th anniversary next month, with a new fundraising strategy in place that mirrors a change at the organization that stages the annual event. Proceeds from this year’s walk, on Oct. 16, will support organizer AIDS Fund’s revamped focus on emergency assistance for people with HIV/AIDS. Previously, HIV/AIDS organizations could put forth a team to raise funds earmarked for their agencies. The change in the fundraising structure is in line with the organization discontinuing its grantmaking for HIV/AIDS agencies in

the region. Instead, AIDS Fund executive director Robb Reichard told PGN, all efforts will be focused on providing emergency funds directly to people impacted by HIV/AIDS. “This is an unmet need in our community we want to address,” he said. “We looked at the current environment and this is where we want to head moving forward.” The organization is in the process of creating a committee that includes medical-case managers from several organizations to help develop policies and procedures for the fund distribution. “We want it to be flexible. That’s our goal,” Reichard said about what

types of emergencies people could use the funds for. “Typical things we’re hearing are things like assistance with rent or utilities. Also, there’s a huge need for people to get just $50 to get a state ID so they can access services. Unless you have a state-issued ID, you can’t get services, so for some people, $50 can change your life.” The emergency-fund plan will roll out in 2017. When asked about how the change will impact organizations that previously benefitted from their teams’ walk proceeds, Reichard referenced the evolving environment for HIV/AIDS agencies. “Here’s the reality: When the AIDS Walk started 30 years PAGE 13

All seven members of the state Supreme Court appeared supportive of LGBT rights during this week’s hearing on an antibias dispute involving SEPTA. The region’s mass-transit agency doesn’t want to be under the jurisdiction of the city’s Human Relations Commission, which enforces the city’s LGBT-inclusive antibias law. Instead, it claims that, as a state agency, it’s under the jurisdiction of state and federal civil-rights agencies, whose antibias law don’t extend to LGBTs. The city claims SEPTA is a major part of the city, and should comply with its

laws. The litigation has ensued for seven years. The city received a favorable ruling in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court but two unfavorable rulings in Commonwealth Court. During a 40-minute hearing Sept. 13, the high court appeared receptive to the city’s position. City attorney Richard G. Feder said SEPTA has 9,000 employees and 600,000 riders daily, all of whom deserve comprehensive antibias protections. He said SEPTA shouldn’t minimize its role in city affairs. “The city comes to a halt without SEPTA [running],” Feder said. Feder also noted the city’s vanguard role in protecting civil rights.

He said the city established its Human Relation Commission years before the state established its own. “The interests of the city would be tremendously damaged,” Feder said, if the court exempts SEPTA from the city’s antibias jurisdiction. Speaking on behalf of SEPTA, attorney Patrick M. Northen said: “The [state] General Assembly didn’t intend to subject SEPTA to local anti-discrimination ordinances.” If the court rules against SEPTA, Northen said, the city could interfere with SEPTA’s operations by ordering it to deploy sufficient resources in minority communities. But the just i c e s d i d n ’t PAGE 20

Hearing on LGBT antibias bills postponed The Senate State Government Committee has postponed a public hearing on the Pennsylvania Fairness Act and a separate bill to extend LGBT nondiscrimination protections in public accommodations. Gwenn Dando, executive director of the committee, said members have not yet selected a new date for the hearing, which had been set for Sept. 26 in Harrisburg. “We want to look at the testimony that’s already been given and see what holes need to be filled,” she told PGN this week. “We want to make sure we have good panels put together. We don’t want to repeat exactly what Labor and Industry did.” The Labor and Industry Committee held a hearing last month at which 18 people testified and more than 700 people sent written comments. Several times during the Labor and Industry hearing, committee chair Sen. Lisa Baker (R) reminded panelists not to discuss trans people’s access to restrooms and instead focus on employment. Because public accommodations include bathrooms, it’s likely the State Government

Committee hearing will include a fair amount of talk about the issue, particularly from conservative groups that oppose adding LGBT-nondiscrimination protections to the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act. When asked if the committee was worried about long and heated discussions about bathrooms, Dando said, “We haven’t brought up that concern yet.” She said the committee wants to figure out what focus the hearing should have, noting the Pennsylvania Fairness Act proposes protections in public accommodations as well as housing and employment. Dando said her boss — Sen. Mike Folmer (R), who chairs the State Government Committee — mainly has concerns about religious liberty. She said the committee has been conducting ongoing stakeholder needs assessments to make sure all viewpoints are represented by invited panelists. A Senate committee approved an LGBThousing antibias bill in June, and it awaits action from the full Senate. n — Paige Cooperstein

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News Briefing Deadlines issued in Farnese case Scheduling deadlines have been issued in the case of state Sen. Lawrence M. Farnese (D), who stands accused of bribing a colleague, Ellen Chapman. Defense attorneys have until Oct. 7 to file motions on behalf of Farnese and Chapman. The U.S. Department of Justice has until Nov. 8 to reply to defense motions. A joint trial for Farnese and Chapman is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Jan. 23 in Courtroom 12A of the U.S. Court House, 601 Market St., with U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe presiding. Farnese is accused of bribing Chapman — an Eighth Ward committeemember — in order to ensure his 2011 election as Democratic leader of the ward. Farnese allegedly diverted $6,000 in campaign funds to help pay the college tuition of Chapman’s daughter. Farnese and Chapman are charged with conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud and related offenses. But they deny the allegations. Both defendants remain free, pending the outcome of their trial. The Eighth Ward is a political subdivision largely in Center City west of Broad. It serves as a conduit to party leadership, and it’s a source of information during campaigns and elections.

Hospital denies HIV-bias allegations Attorneys for OSS Orthoepaedic Hospital in York last week denied allegations that a woman with HIV was prevented from using the facility’s therapeutic pool. “Bonnie Jones” contends in federal court that she was denied access to OSS’ pool in June 2015. She also claims a hospital worker divulged her serostatus to onlookers while denying her access. In court papers filed Sept. 6, OSS attorneys stated: “OSS specifically denies any implication that OSS denied [Jones] access to the aquatic therapy pool on the basis of a disability or for any reason. OSS denies

that it impermissibly disclosed [Jones’] HIV-related information.” Jones is seeking an unspecified amount in damages, along with other remedies. Last month, the hospital worker, Timothy Burch, also denied the allegations in a court filing. The case remains pending before U.S. District Judge Yvette Kane, based in Harrisburg. — Timothy Cwiek

N.J. theater to host Pride Night McCarter Theater Center is hosting an LGBT night for its current production. The theater’s Pride Night Party will take place 6 p.m. Sept. 22 at 91 University Place in Princeton, N.J. Before the show, guests can enjoy appetizers, an open bar, giveaways and guest appearances. The curtain for “Bathing in Moonlight” is at 7:30 p.m. The world-premiere show by Nilo Cruz centers on the relationship between a priest and a struggling Cuban-American family to whom he is ministering. The show runs through Oct. 9 For more information, visit www.mccarter.org.

Middlesex County prosecutors will have until the end of the month to decide whether to appeal to the state’s top court. Ravi was found guilty on all 15 charges he faced. He could have served up to 10 years in prison but a judge sentenced him to 30 days, 20 of which he had served.

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The Rainbow Chorale, an LGBT singing group based in Wilmington, has an open call for singers scheduled Sept. 19. Tenors, basses, sopranos and altos can audition starting at 6 p.m. at the Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1502 W. 13th St. Regular rehearsal follows at 7 p.m. Rehearsals take place every Monday with monthly scheduled sectionals. For voice placement, new members meet with artistic director Arreon Harley. The ability to read music is helpful, but not required. Non-singers are also invited to join as volunteers for logistical tasks. The choir’s next performance will be Sept. 24 at the 30th anniversary of AIDS Walk Delaware. For more information, visit www.therainbowchorale.org. n

LGBT journos to stage 2017 convention in Philly The NLGJA, an association for LGBT journalists, announced this week that its annual convention will take place at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel from Sept. 7-10, 2017. The city has hosted two other NLGJA conventions, in 2011 and 2002. “We’re already working to pull together terrific, diverse programming for the 2017 convention,” executive director Adam K. Pawlus said in a statement. Those interested in proposing a workshop can find more information and apply at www.nlgja.org/2017/submit-a-session-proposal. Registration for the Career

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Convictions tossed in Tyler Clementi case

The man who broadcast gay Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi’s embrace with another man — shortly before Clementi committed suicide — has had his convictions overturned. A New Jersey appellate court last Friday sided with Dharun Ravi, who in February requested the overturning of bias-intimidation and other charges he was convicted of in 2012. Prosecutors contended Ravi, Clementi’s roommate, set up a webcam to capture Clementi’s intimate moment with another man and encouraged other students to watch. Clementi committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge days later, on Sept. 22, 2010. Last week’s opinion was largely centered on a New Jersey Supreme Court finding released after Ravi’s convictions that amended the state’s definition of a bias charge to rely on the defendant’s state of mind rather than the victim’s, the latter of which the court said the prosecution relied heavily upon to prove its case. The court remanded the case to Superior Court, ordering a new trial.

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Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions forced volunteer lawyers to drop work in 1976 on the class-action suit alleging harassment of gay people by the Philadelphia Police Department, according to the National Lawyers Guild. The guild had enjoined 10 complaints of verbal harassment, entrapment and overnight detention without charges. Lawyers felt they would need at least 50 complaints to persuade the court that a pattern of civil-rights violations existed. Of the existing complaints, none involved the same police officer and none involved physical injury, lawyers’ fees or job loss. It would’ve been difficult to prove a pattern or make a case for damages, lawyers said. The Supreme Court decisions that made the lawyers guild ultimately drop the class-action suit included Aldinger v. Howard, which made it difficult to hold an employer responsible for civil-rights violations, and Hampton v. United States, which laid out the difference between police “enticement” and “entrapment.” The court had also upheld a Virginia law criminalizing sodomy.

The fifth-annual “Mr. Club” contest was organized to help raise money for Philadelphia Gay News to open a permanent office in Center City. The $3 cover for each attendee was earmarked for the paper. The contest was slated for Sept. 14, 1976, at the DCA Disco, 204 S. Camac St., near the current Tavern on Camac. All males over 21 were invited to compete. The winner received $125 in cash. He would also get an all-expense paid trip to Chicago over Thanksgiving weekend to compete for the national “Mr. Club” title and a free one-year Club Baths room pass. Drag entertainer Mr. Tiffany Jones, known as “the Texas tornado,” was expected to host the Philadelphia competition. Les Harrison’s Fabulous Fakes from Philadelphia’s BoomBoom Room were also scheduled to perform. The Camden Club Baths sponsored the event. n — compiled by Paige Cooperstein

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HISTORY IN MOTION: A sign dating to the 1920s used by the NAACP is among the many artifacts on display at the African American Museum of Philadelphia, which last weekend served as the backdrop for a discussion on the confluence of the LGBT-rights and racial-justice movements. The Queering Racial Justice Institute brought together more than 150 advocates and activists for a daylong discussion that featured a plenary address and break-out sessions. Spearheaded by the National LGBTQ Task Force, the event is a lead-up to the organization’s 2017 Creating Change conference, which will be held in Philadelphia. Photo: Scott A. Drake

By Jeremy Rodriguez PGN Contributor More than 150 activists gathered at the African American Museum last weekend for the Queering Racial Justice Institute, a daylong training on ending racial injustice and applying it to the LGBT movement. The National LGBTQ Task Force hosted the inaugural event as a precursor to Creating Change, an annual traveling national conference for LGBT equality, which will celebrate its 29th year in Philadelphia in January. During the first day of each Creating Change conference, the Task Force coordinates an event dedicated to racial justice. Russell Roybal, the organization’s deputy executive director, said the group wanted to host Queering Racial Justice as a way for the community to have additional dialogue about race issues. “Whenever we talk about race, there’s a propensity for it to be difficult because race in the United States is something that we try to sweep under the rug,” Roybal said. “But what we’re trying to do at Queering Racial Justice is to have those hard conversations so we can move forward.” During the opening plenary session, “Queer Freedom as Divestment from Whiteness,” Naomi Christine Leapheart of the United Church of Christ facilitated a discussion with queer leaders of color and white queer allies. This roundtable gave each participant a chance to describe what whiteness meant to them. Leapheart

believes whiteness is an “invisible way of ‘being’ in the United States” with non-white people falling in the “other” category. The three plenary participants echoed this statement. “I think the plenary participants did a good job at talking about whiteness as a material matter [with] access to power [and] access to benefits but also as an idea that takes root when we’re young and continues to grow,” Leapheart said. The participants also pointed out how whiteness can define queerness. Leapheart said she knows queer people of color who experience tension in queer spaces because they do not fit a “particular aesthetic” or a “particular way of living.” “[Whiteness] will continue to keep us too narrow in our focus if we’re not centering our perspectives on the lives of queer people of color; of differently abled queer people; of folks who don’t fit the sort of ‘normative’ way of aesthetic,” Leapheart said. “We will forget that there are trans women of color being killed; that there are queer youth of color being kicked out of their homes and engaging in sex work because there’s no other way to stay alive on the street. So I think the danger is that the queer movement will never be complete as long as we don’t center on the lives and perspectives of people of color.” Elyse Ambrose, 30, attended Queering Racial Justice and said she learned a new way of speaking and how her “voice is needed” in these spaces as a person of color. PAGE 20

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Local Boy Scouts council target of three lawsuits By Timothy Cwiek timothy@epgn.com The Boy Scouts of America Cradle of Liberty Council — the target of a lawsuit eight years ago because it refused to vacate a city-owned building — now finds itself the target of three lawsuits stemming from a fatal vehicular accident. Cradle oversees Scouting activities in Philadelphia, Montgomery and Delaware counties. Cradle allegedly failed to ensure the safety of a Scouting event in Northeast Philadelphia in 2013. After the event, a Scout leader lost control of his vehicle while driving home, resulting in the death of a local Boy Scout. In 2008, Cradle was sued by the city after it refused to vacate a city-owned building on the Ben Franklin Parkway due to its antigay membership policies. The protracted litigation, which eventually was transferred to federal court, ended in 2013 when Cradle left the building, in return for $825,000 from the city. The three lawsuits currently pending against Cradle stem from a Scouting event in Pennypack Park in October 2013, during which Scout leader Joseph F. Snyder allegedly became exhausted. The service-oriented event focused on cleaning up a polluted pond in the park. While driving home with four Boy Scouts as passengers, Snyder lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a parked vehicle. One of the passengers, Christopher Alvelo, was killed, and three others were seriously injured. Victims and surviving family members have filed suit, naming Cradle, the national BSA organization and Snyder among the defendants. The lawsuits allege that Scout officials failed to adhere to their own safety protocols when planning and conducting the clean-up project. One of Snyder’s surviving passengers, Nicholas Prendergast, filed suit in October, claiming Scout officials spent more time focusing on sexual-orientation issues than they did on safety issues. “It is clear that [Scout officials] don’t

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Kate Lynn Blatt, a trans woman who allegedly caused a disturbance at a Walmart store in St. Clair, has been convicted of harassment and disorderly conduct. Blatt, 35, vowed to challenge her convictions in Schuylkill County Common Pleas Court. On Sept. 7, Blatt had a 90-minute trial before Magisterial District Judge David A. Plachko. At its conclusion, Plachko declared Blatt guilty of both offenses. Blatt contended Plachko conducted the trial in a biased manner. “The judge was actually telling [prosecution] witnesses what to say,” Blatt told PGN. “I never saw anything like it in my life. He was so unprofessional.” Blatt added: “[Plachko] showed zero ability to understand or care about trans issues.” Plachko couldn’t be reached for comment. If Blatt’s convictions are upheld in Schuylkill County Common Pleas Court, she faces up to $600 in fines and six months in jail. As of press time, a court date hadn’t been scheduled. On May 28, Blatt was shopping for clothes at a Walmart in St. Clair. A store attendant allegedly denied Blatt access to a female fitting room. Blatt allegedly shoved the attendant. A disturbance ensued, and police were called. Bryce Lewis, a responding officer, cited Blatt for harassment because she allegedly

shoved the attendant. Lewis also cited Blatt for disorderly conduct because she allegedly used obscene language. Blatt denies shoving a store attendant. She also maintains that if she used obscene language, it was out of desperation because she was surrounded by hostile onlookers. “I may have been upset. But I was surrounded by people, and in fear for my life. If a woman being raped uses obscene language, would she be charged with disorderly conduct?” The witnesses who testified at Blatt’s trial included the store attendant Blatt allegedly shoved, a customer who says he saw Blatt shove the attendant and a Walmart manager. Blatt testified in her defense, stating that Lewis used male terminology when referring to her at Walmart, and that Lewis failed to investigate the incident thoroughly. Lewis couldn’t be reached for comment. Blatt commended her attorney, Stephen T. Carpenito, for diligently pursuing her defense. “I’m so grateful for Steve’s passion and skilled representation,” Blatt concluded. “He really went above and beyond the call of duty. He wasn’t intimidated at all by a hostile judge and a broken judicial system.” Lindsey Nowak, Blatt’s wife, witnessed much of the Walmart incident. But Nowak wasn’t given an opportunity to testify at Blatt’s trial, she said. “It was a monkey trial,” Nowak told PGN. “It was the most absurd thing I’ve ever seen. The judge was obviously biased in favor of the prosecution.” n

D.C. DINING: Democratic vice-presidential nominee Sen. Tim Kaine (left) and Human Rights Campaign president Chad Griffin waved to the packed crowd at HRC’s 20th-annual National Dinner in Washington, D.C. About 3,600 people attended the affair, held Sept. 10 at the D.C. Convention Center. Kaine delivered the evening’s keynote speech, in which he harshly criticized Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s statements that he’s an LGBT ally. He also detailed his own evolution on LGBT issues, acknowledging that he initially struggled with marriage equality because of his Catholic upbringing, yet pledging full support for LGBT issues. Photo: Patsy Lynch

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Big Brothers Big Sisters seeks LGBT volunteers at Boxers fundraiser By Paige Cooperstein paige@epgn.com As a student at the University of Delaware in the early 1980s, Renna Van Oot drove to the nearby offices of Big Brothers Big Sisters. “I thought, Gosh, I’m the youngest in the family. I’ve always wanted a little sister and I never had one,” she said. “It just seemed like a really neat way to volunteer.” But then she froze in the parking lot. Van Oot is a lesbian. She wondered if staffers at Big Brothers Big Sisters would ask her about it, and if they would feel comfortable having her work with children. “I hemmed and I hawed and I drove away,” Van Oot said. “I never went into the building. I think that perception — even though that was that many years ago — hasn’t changed a whole lot. I think most of us in the gay and lesbian community still have that little thing inside of us that’s like, They’re not going to want us.” Leaders at Big Brothers Big Sisters Independence Region, which covers Southeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, hope to change that in a big way with a new strategic plan that will include specific outreach to LGBT adult mentors and young kids, in addition to a fundraiser this month in the Gayborhood. Big Brothers Big Sisters Independence Region has had an LGBT CEO in the past.

Van Oot now works as chief operating officer for the Independence Region. New mentors like Clinton Drees, an openly gay man who has been a Big Brother in Philadelphia and Delaware, consider her a mentor. Drees is the Big Brothers Big Sisters representative behind the fundraiser set for Sept. 21 from 6-8 p.m. at Boxers, 1330 Walnut St. It’s part of a staff challenge to raise $35,000 to cover background checks and other staff expenses incurred when matching a mentor to a mentee. Drees started three months ago as a community-based match support specialist with the organization. The eight employee teams have raised just over $24,000 so far, Drees said, adding Boxers plans to donate 20 percent of its proceeds during the fundraiser. There will be a raffle, and guest bartenders will also collect tips for Big Brothers Big Sisters. “This will be the first time they reached out to the gay community for volunteers,” said Jay Nieves, assistant manager at Boxers. “At first, they were a little shy. But lately they’re realizing the parents are more than OK with it.” Nieves invited his friends from Stonewall Sports, an LGBT organization that arranges games of kickball and dodgeball among other things, to the event. He wanted them to hear about the work done by Big Brothers Big Sisters. “With Stonewall Sports, there are a lot of

young people who are looking to volunteer and want a way to get started,” he said. Marcus Allen, CEO of the Independence Region, said 68 percent of the Bigs in the area are Millennials, and he’d like to see that increase to 75 percent. He said Big Brothers Big Sisters has a huge need for mentors in West Philadelphia, North Philadelphia and the Lower Northeast, especially for those to work with African-American boys. Allen said African-American boys make up about 65 percent of the region’s waiting list, and they wait nearly twice as long for a mentor versus other kids. Van Oot said culling more volunteers from the LGBT community could help alleviate those needs. “There’s a whole group of volunteers there that are ready, willing, able and interested,” she said. “We need to reach out to them and let them know that they are wanted and that their volunteer service is needed.” Drees said the matching process is based on personality. He and his Little Brother, who have worked together for over a year in Philadelphia, have gone to Wizard World Comic Con in the city and spend time making drawings together. “My Little had an instance in school where he was being bullied,” Drees added. “Being able to talk through it with him was very meaningful for me. In some ways, it helped me. I was bullied in school for being too sensitive and being friends with girls.

Being able to help him is really affirming for me.” Van Oot is part of a committee of internal and external stakeholders that is evaluating how to better work with LGBT adults and kids. There may be opportunities for LGBT kids or those who are questioning their identities to request mentors with similar experiences. At Big Brothers Big Sisters of Delaware, officials worked with local school districts to place mentors in their GSA programs to work with the staff and kids. Out of that, some kids requested one-on-one mentors. Van Oot said that’s a model they’re exploring for the Independence Region. Allen said his staffers have met with officials from The Attic Youth Center. He said Big Brothers Big Sisters currently employs a rule that Littles must match with a Big of the same gender. The committee is reviewing how best to ensure transgender inclusion in the process. Allen said he would like some LGBT programming to begin by the end of next year. A former board member has been in talks with the Independence Region to fund an initiative for LGBT participants. “The things that stop nonprofits many times, or delay them from doing things, we don’t have those obstacles,” Allen said. “We’ve got the money, we’ve got the people, we’ve got the partners, we’ve got the motivation and momentum.” n

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Patriotism and pigskin The worlds of social justice and sporting are colliding, highlighting an arena in desperate need of education. San Francisco 49er Colin Kaepernick set off a national debate late last month after electing to sit and remain silent during the recitation of the National Anthem before a pre-season game. Kaepernick later said he can’t show pride in a country that systemically oppresses people of color, referencing recent issues of police brutality against black people. Since his personal protest, other athletes have made similar gestures, including Kaepernick’s teammate Eric Reid and members of the Seattle Seahawks, Kanas City Chiefs, Denver Broncos, L.A. Rams, New England Patriots and Miami Dolphins, as well as out women’s soccer player Megan Rapinoe. Nearly an entire football team and its coaches at Woodrow Wilson High School in Camden, N.J., knelt during the anthem at a game this past weekend. While many athletes have taken up the mantle, and are earning praise from racial-justice supporters, backlash against the protests may be even more fervent. In Alabama, a high-school football announcer allegedly suggested those who don’t stand for the National Anthem should be lined up and shot. A team of pre-teen football players in Texas received death threats after taking a knee during the anthem. After kneeling during the anthem, a highschool player in Ohio received threats of lynching.

Many opponents have also pledged to boycott teams whose players support the movement, or in some cases, the entire National Football League. This is the same league whose players have been accused of domestic abuse, DUI, dogfighting and even murder. Where were the righteously indignant choruses promising boycotts then? Instead of taking a stand against people who have committed crimes and an environment that has sanctioned such behaviors, opponents of this movement are instead pouring their energy into decrying people who are taking a stand for equality. The flag, the National Anthem, the Pledge of Allegiance and other symbols of American patriotism may represent different things to people. To many, such emblems stand for freedom and liberty — and celebrating those icons amid the current tenor of the country may seem contradictory. But the brilliant thing about America is that our people are free to belt out the National Anthem, but they’re also entitled to stay silent during such observations; taking such a deliberative action for American equality may even hold more patriotism than reciting words hammered into us from childhood, without even knowing the origin of them. Despite counter-protests, the demonstrations are fueling debate about racial equality among populations who need to have their eyes opened to their own privilege and to the realities of the restriction of American freedom. That’s a win in our book. n

Anthony Weiner is gross. The former This sordid story Congressman who resigned in disgrace about Weiner and after he was caught sharing photos of his Abedin and Abedin crotch on social media is at it again. And and Clinton is this time one of the crotch shots includes pretty much the clihis sleeping 4-year-old son in the bed next max of right-wing to him. While nobody is implying that tropes. A perfect Weiner has molested his son, this was still, storm, if you will. quite understandably, too much for his An especially vile wife, Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, to highlight from the bear. And so she’s separated from him. Atlas Shrugs com The logical conclusion? She’s a big ol’ ments illustrates lipstick lesbian hooking up with Hilldyke, this perfectly: “A Saudi closeted lesbian obviously. marrying a pervy Jew for a baby and power At least that’s the conclusion of the antiwhile sleeping with her boss and pushing gay and anti-Muslim right, who have for Islam on everyone. Gee what could go years been floating the idea that Abedin, a wrong?!” Muslim, and Clinton are not-so-secret lov Antigay? Check. Anti-Muslim? Check. ers. Anti-Semitic? Check. A little misogyny Pamela Geller is a particularly big fan thrown in for good measure? Check. of this Washington, D.C., slash-fiction Thankfully, little by little, being called plot. On her website Atlas Shrugs (get it? a lesbian is no longer the insult it once Because of how Ayn Rand is the lady verwas. And this is thanks, in part, to politision of Jesus), she has been posting about cal leaders like Clinton who have (finally) the Abedin-Clinton coupling since at least embraced LGBT Americans and are not as far back as 2007. afraid to stand by them. But “A Saudi closeted as the right loses the battle “Nothing has been confirmed,” Geller writes in a LGBT equality, it lesbian marrying against piece of brilliant commenis ramping up its anti-Musa pervy Jew for a lim hysteria. And, unfortary and hard-hitting journalism, “but this is as juicy tunately, Abedin is their baby and power as juicy gets in the sordid preferred target. Granted, the right has sex-scandal department. while sleeping pushing the idea that Who’d a thunk that Hillary with her boss and been Clinton is a lesbian ever could have out sex-scandaled the old hound dog? pushing Islam on since she dared to wear a headband in public. So it’s Ouch!” everyone. Gee And why does she care not really a surprise that about this so much? Well, they’re asserting the same what could go she hates the Clintons. And thing about Abedin, who she hates Muslims. In fact, wrong?!” has been working with Geller is obsessed with Clinton since forever. That Muslims. She’s the author of “Stop the both women have cheating husbands is just Islamization of America: A Practical Guide more “proof” of this theory, somehow. I to the Resistance,” published by World mean, why else would they stay with these Net Daily Books. No doubt this book is men unless, of course, they are power-hunthe only reason why America isn’t under gry lesbians? It’s a charge that many powerful women Sharia law today. In her Aug. 29 post titled “Huma & have had to contend with. For one thing, Hillary Need New Beard,” Geller argues it’s the greatest “insult” that can be thrown that Abedin only ever married Weiner in at a woman who dares to be “like a man,” order to cover up her relationship with i.e., who dares to assert control over her Clinton. Geller offers no evidence that this own life, be smart as fuck and smash the is true besides a bunch of whispers from shit out of the glass ceiling. n right-wing and unnamed sources. But we D’Anne Witkowski is a poet, writer and comeknow that in Right-Wing Land, the path to dian living in Michigan with her wife and son. fact is first wanting something to be true, She has been writing about LGBT politics for then believing something to be true, then more than a decade. Follow her on Twitter @ simply asserting that something is true. MamaDWitkowski.

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Broadway blunder in ‘Hamilton’ Last week, after a trip to Miami for become lovers — and it is impossible to say the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists this with any certainty — they would have Association’s annual conference, I had a taken extraordinary precautions. At the very couple of days on my calendar that were least, we can say that Hamilton developed blank and decided a break was in order. For something like an adolescent crush on his me a short break means just resting somefriend.” place where I can see something Now much of that has been new, veg out and read. written about by historians, and Since seeing “Hamilton” on LGBT historians have researched Broadway a few months back, I it a little more, but I’ve always bought the Ron Chernow biogdiscounted its possibility. As raphy it’s based on, but when it Chernow writes in the book, arrived I wasn’t sure when I’d “We’ll never know.” But that’s get the opportunity to read an what I appreciate; he doesn’t 832-page book. If you’ve read hide this possibility or discount my work, you know I love hisit as so many historians have tory and especially biographies. about historical figures. It’s why Since my research and writing I went on my crusade about von on Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Steuben and challenged any von Steuben, a contemporary of historian to refute my research. Alexander Hamilton’s, this book None has. What I’m getting at seemed a natural for me. is that “Hamilton” on Broadway But here’s the fun part: Before be great music and it Mark Segal might you even get past the first 100 might even get people into hispages, you read the following: tory, but it left this little fact out. “As in the case of John Laurens, there was History is important. LGBT history is such unabashed ardor in Hamilton’s relation- ignored for the most part. October is LGBT ship with the marquis that James T. Flexner History Month. It’s important that we know has wondered whether it progressed beyond our history, especially for LGBT youth so mere friendship.” they know that their lives can be fulfilled and as important as a von Steuben, or maybe Did Hamilton’s grandson mean much or little when he wrote, “There is a note of even a Hamilton. History gives us role modromance in their friendship, quite unusual els, and our youth need them of yesterday even in those days, and Lafayette, especially as well as those of today. We as a people are during his early sojourn in this country, was not a new invention. We are America, and on the closest terms with Hamilton”? some of us have helped make this a country. “Hamilton had certainly been exposed to n homosexuality as a boy, since many ‘sodomites’ were transported to the Caribbean Mark Segal is the nation’s most-award-winning along with thieves, pickpockets and others commentator in LGBT media. His recently pubdeemed undesirable,” the book continues. lished memoir, “And Then I Danced,” is available on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble or at “In all 13 colonies, sodomy had been a capyour favorite bookseller. ital offense, so if Hamilton and Laurens did

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Unseen on the silver screen Living in a time that’s supposedly beyond the “Transgender Tipping Point,” as Time magazine declared in May 2014, can be strange. While movies with transgender characters seem increasingly commonplace, the main roles are still given to non-transgender male actors who are somehow showing their compassion and speaking out for our marginalized community while taking jobs from actual transgender performers. In late 2013, “Dallas Buyer’s Club” hit the screens. The film is a story about AIDS patient Ron Woodroof smuggling drugs for himself and his friends through the eponymous Texas city. In it, actor Jared Leto plays Rayon, a fictional trans woman named for a fabric. She dies before the final reel, but not before helping to redeem the main character and keep the club going. Leto won an Academy Award for his portrayal. He accepted his award in white tux and full beard.

When criticized by transgender people about being a non-trans male in a trans role, he opted to defend it, claiming in a Huffington Post interview that actors being able to “play roles that are outside themselves” opens up the opportunity for trans people to play non-transgender roles. Not that this seems to be happening either. Two years later, Roland Emmerich’s film “Stonewall” hit theaters, with its clean white-kid protagonist and straightfriendly retelling of the Stonewall rebellion. It includes Jonny Beauchamp as Ray/ Ramona — a mash-up of Sylvia Rivera and other trans-identified people at the uprising — and Otoja Abit as Marsha P. Johnson. Unlike “Dallas Buyer’s Club,” “Stonewall” was not on anyone’s Oscars list and failed both critically and financially. Two months after “Stonewall,” “The Danish Girl” hit theaters. This told a strongly fictionalized account of the life of

Lili Elbe and her partner, Gerda Wegener. The film, veering from Elbe’s own biography and history, also presents its audience with a trans story that will be unfamiliar to most trans people, while fitting assumptions by the non-transgender that trans people are little more than hyper-feminine fetishists. In the wake of the success of “Dallas Buyer’s Club” — and the disappointments that were “Stonewall” and “The Danish Girl” — comes yet another “wretched transgender sidekick played by a non-transgender white male.” This time, it is Matt Bomer as a trans sex worker in Mark Ruffalo’s upcoming feature film “Anything.” The story, based on Timothy McNeil’s play of the same name, focuses on Early, a suicidal widower who meets Freda, a trans woman who shows up on his doorstep beaten and bloody. The story ends up being about their relationship in spite of their varied backgrounds.

As word spread about the film in trans circles, Ruffalo took to Twitter to defend the casting, pointing to work he did with Bomer on “The Normal Heart.” Yet actor Jen Richards noted that she was one transgender actress who did try out for the role, but was apparently not “trans enough” for the part. “I told them they shouldn’t have a cis man play a trans woman,” said Richards. “They didn’t care.” As the debate intensified, Ruffalo again spoke out about the move, saying on Twitter, “To the trans community: I hear you. It’s wrenching to see you in this pain. I am glad we are having this conversation. It’s time.” It’s well past time. In 1970, 46 years ago, “The Christine Jorgensen Story” hit the silver screen. It featured John Hansen as the title character. At the time, Jorgensen attempted to get a restraining order against PAGE 19

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ago, there was no other source of funding for these organizations,” he said. “Traditional service providers weren’t even willing to meet with people living with HIV, let alone provide services. The environment is so much different today, so we wanted to look at how we could have the greatest impact on the lives of people who live with HIV.” Reichard said the organization will consider requests from organizations that are in emergency situations and need funding, but the primary focus will be on the individuals, not the organizations. Organizers of this year’s walk have set a fundraising goal of $350,000. The walk campaign kicked off Sept. 14 in Rittenhouse Square. This year’s theme focused on “getting to zero.” “Zero new infections, zero stigma, zero deaths as a result of HIV,” Reichard explained. “This is a really achievable goal now, with the advent of PrEP, and with the knowledge that if we get people into care to the point of an undetectable viral load, they’re unlikely to pass HIV on to others. We’re really focusing on this path to zero, and our new funding strategy is a part of that.” A portion of the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on display at the walk and names of victims will be read, Reichard said, adding organizers plan to commemorate the 30th anniversary by looking ahead instead of to the past. “We are focused on ending this epidemic. That’s where we’re at in 2016; we’re looking towards the end of this,” he said. “While we are proud of the 30 years of history, we’re looking forward.” n

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Out MontCo judge awarded for diversity internship program By Paige Cooperstein paige@epgn.com In the last eight years, 80 law students have taken advantage of the diversity internship program in Montgomery County that connected at least one LGBT student to a full-time job after graduation. “The fact that we’re at least impacting some students is great,” said Judge Dan Clifford, the first openly gay official in the county. He considers the diversity internship for first-year law students as one of his crowning achievements. He started it while serving as one of the founding chairs of the Diversity Committee of the Montgomery Bar Association in 2008. The other founding chair was Judge Cheryl Austin. This month, Clifford was honored by the local bar association for his leadership on diversity initiatives within Montgomery County.

Clifford said he hoped his election and diversity work would serve as a path that other LGBT people could follow to run for public office or work in the legal field. While researching ways to increase diversity in legal jobs, Clifford and the Diversity Committee found that a strong internship program would increase retention of qualified professionals in Montgomery County. “The object of the program is to open [officials’] eyes a little to hiring from this diverse pool of talent, and it’s happening,” Clifford said. The application process for the paid internship starts in January. People who apply for the Philadelphia Diversity Law Group summer program are automatically considered for the Montgomery County diversity internship as well. For more information, visit www. pdlg.net. n

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Media Trail Small town fires gay police chief The Dothan Eagle reports the man who helped save the job of the openly gay police chief in a small South Carolina town now says he had to fire her because she wasn’t doing her job correctly. Latta Town Administrator Jarrett Taylor said Sept. 9 he had worked with Chief Crystal Moore for seven months to improve morale and have administrative tasks done properly. Moore and her lawyer didn’t immediately return messages. Moore wrote on her Facebook page she was shocked and angered, especially because she was recently diagnosed with a cancerous tumor on her thumb. Latta’s mayor had fired Moore in 2014. But Taylor released his recording of the mayor saying he would rather have a drunk watch his grandchildren than a gay person. The mayor was stripped of his power, and Moore was rehired.

Charlotte pastor keeps job after performing same-sex wedding According to the Charlotte Observer, a United Methodist Church pastor in Charlotte, N.C., will keep her job after performing a same-sex wedding at her church earlier this year. The Rev. Val Rosenquist also won’t face a church trial for performing the ceremony. Rosenquist married John Romano and Jim Wilborne in April. UMC rules forbid pastors from performing same-sex marriages. Clergy who violate the policy can lose their jobs, face a church trial and even lose their clergy credentials. The Western North Carolina Conference of the UMC said Sept. 6 that what is known as a “just resolution” had been reached in the case involving Rosenquist. Details of the resolution haven’t been released. Neither Rosenquist nor those who filed a complaint against her are allowed to discuss the resolution, which has been sealed until at least 2018. Days after the April 23 wedding, complaints were filed against Rosenquist with Bishop Larry Goodpaster, who was leader of the regional conference at the time. Amy Coles, assistant to the bishop, said

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there were “multiple complaints.” The bishop met with Rosenquist and those who filed complaints in looking for the “just resolution.” Coles confirmed that Rosenquist will continue as pastor of the First UMC of Charlotte. The denomination could convene a special conference in 2018 to consider future recommendations relating to same-sex marriage and the ordination of gay and lesbian clergy.

Lady Chablis, trans ‘Midnight’ star, dies in Savannah ABC News reports Lady Chablis, the transgender performer who became a celebrity for her role in the 1994 bestseller “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” has died in Savannah. Chablis’ sister, Cynthia Ponder, confirmed she died Sept. 8 at a Savannah hospital. She was 59. Author John Berendt chronicled an array of eccentric, real-life characters in “Midnight.” Berendt said Sept. 8 that Chablis was the most popular. He said “she had more to do with the book’s success than any other character.” Chablis, whose birth name was Benjamin Edward Knox, played herself

in the 1997 “Midnight” movie directed by Clint Eastwood. That same year she published an autobiography, “Hiding My Candy.” Cale Hall, co-owner of the Savannah nightclub where Chablis performed since 1988, said fans admired her “pure honesty.”

‘Eat Pray Love’ author in lesbian relationship The Washington Post reports “Eat Pray Love” author Elizabeth Gilbert, who split from her husband of nine years in July, says she’s in love with her best friend, a woman named Rayya Elias, who was recently diagnosed with incurable pancreatic and liver cancer. Gilbert said in a lengthy Facebook post Sept. 7 the terminal diagnosis uncovered her true feelings for her longtime friend, and those feelings led to Gilbert’s divorce from Jose Nunes, whom she described falling for at the end of her best-selling memoir. The posting was confirmed by Gilbert’s publicist, Jynne Martin. Gilbert says she is making her relationship with Elias public because such “truth and transparency” make her life easier and more ethical. n — compiled by Larry Nichols

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Gayborhood Crime Watch The following incidents in the Midtown Village and Washington Square West areas were reported to the Sixth Police District between Aug. 29-Sept. 4. Information is courtesy of Sixth District Crime Analyst Officer Robert Savino. To report crime tips, visit www.phillypolice.com or call 215-686-TIPS. INCIDENTS — Between 5 p.m. Sept. 2 and 9 a.m. Sept. 3, someone gained entry to the Primo’s Hoagies shop at 128 S. 11th St. without forced entry and removed the daily-deposits box from the premises. Central Detectives is investigating. — At 12:40 p.m. Sept. 4, a man entered the TD Bank, 111 S. 11th St., and handed the teller a demand note, announcing a robbery. The teller complied with the note and the suspect fled the bank with an undisclosed amount of money. A joint taskforce of FBI and Philadelphia Police are investigating.

The suspect was described as 5-foot-8, with a beard and wearing a blue Phillies hat, glasses, a white shirt, black cargo shorts and white and black sneakers. — There was one theft from a parked vehicle reported Aug. 29-Sept. 4: in the 1200 block of Locust Street. — There were three thefts of bicycles reported Aug. 29-Sept. 4: in the 1200 block of Chestnut Street, the 1100 block of Market Street and the 1100 block of Walnut Street. — There was one theft of a motor vehicle reported Aug. 29-Sept. 4: in the 1300 block of Locust Street. NON-SUMMARY ARRESTS — At 8:12 p.m. Aug. 31, Sixth District Officer Cash arrested a 44-year-old man on the 1200 block of Chestnut St. for failure to appear on a prior criminal offense. — At 3:26 a.m. Sept. 4, two men got into an argument on the 200 block of South 13th

Street. and one ended up getting stabbed in the stomach. Sixth District Officers Dilworth and Coupas observed the commotion and were able to arrest the suspect, 24. He was also found to have narcotics in his possession. The suspect is charged with attempted murder, assault and narcotics charges. SUMMARY ARRESTS — At 4:21 p.m. Aug. 30, an officer from the Center City District issued a summary citation to a 65-year-old man for drinking from an open container of alcohol in the 1100 block of Locust Street. — At 1:48 a.m. Sept. 1, Sixth District Officer Coupas issued a summary citation to a 21-year-old man for drinking from an open container of alcohol in the 1200 block of Locust Street. — At 1:17 a.m. Sept. 2, Sixth District Officer Coupas issued a summary citation to a

21-year-old man for drinking from an open container of alcohol in the 200 block of South Camac Street. — At 3:54 a.m. Sept. 3, Sixth District Officers Coupas and Dilworth arrested a 25-year-old man for disorderly conduct in the 1300 block of Walnut Street. — At 1:38 a.m. Sept. 4, Sixth District Officer Coupas issued a summary citation to a 24-year-old woman for drinking from an open container of alcohol in the 200 block of South 13th Street. — At 1:47 a.m. Sept. 4, Sixth District Officer Dilworth issued a summary citation to a 25-year-old woman for drinking from an open container of alcohol in the 200 block of South 13th Street. — At 2:08 a.m. Sept. 4, Sixth District Officer Coupas issued a summary citation to a 24-year-old woman for drinking from an open container of alcohol in the 200 block of South 13th Street. n

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HIV and older adults: Engaging aging services in HIV prevention Whenever I tell someone that older their peer group and may be less likely to adults are one of the fastest-growing age protect themselves. groups living with a diagnosis of HIV or • Elders may be less comfortable about disAIDS, I am met with a look of confusion cussing sexual matters with their partners, or shock. I know it is tough to envision and may be reluctant to raise the issue of Grandma, or even Ma, finding partners HIV or ask about previous sexual partners. and engaging in sexual behav• Pregnancy is no longer a coniors, but guess what, folks: Our cern; therefore, some heterosexelders are still sexually active ual couples may be less likely and are still susceptible to sexuto use a condom and to practice ally transmitted infections! The safer sex. AIDS Community Research • Age-related thinning and dryInstitute of America reports that ness of vaginal tissue may raise 69 percent of LGBT older adults older women’s risk for HIV were sexually active within the infection. last year. • Erectile-dysfunction medica A growing number of older tions are more readily available adults are living with HIV/ and may facilitate sex for older AIDS. According to the Office men who otherwise would not of HIV Planning, 32 percent of have been capable of vaginal or people living with HIV and 52 Katie Young anal intercourse. percent of people living with • Older people are sometimes AIDS in Philadelphia are over 50. apprehensive about discussing sexual hab It is clear nationwide that poverty is a its or drug use with their doctors. In addidriver of HIV infection; Action Wellness tion, it has been shown that doctors are less (formerly Action AIDS) reports that over likely to ask their older patients about these half of their Philadelphia clients over 50 issues. who were diagnosed between 2013-15 were from economically depressed neighbor To address some of these issues and hoods. The importance of early detection is provide outreach and education to this population, a Philadelphia HIV and Aging evident in this population. Unfortunately, Taskforce was convened for the first time in due to stigmas around HIV/AIDS and misconceptions about aging, many older adults early 2016. The group includes the LGBT Elder Initiative, Action Wellness, United do not know their status and are not being States Health and Human Services Region tested. III and Philadelphia Corporation for Aging. In addition to the risk factors faced by younger people, older people who are sexu- The Taskforce aims to increase awareness of the needs of older adults living with HIV, ally active face some unique issues: promote advocacy and prevention efforts and provide unity among agencies commit• Some believe HIV is not an issue for

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Edward Small, who owned the film rights, trying to avoid the film from becoming an exploitative “B movie.” Five years later, a trans actor was passed over for Chris Sarandon, who played Al Pacino’s trans lover in “Dog Day Afternoon.” Five years more, and Brian De Palma’s “Dressed to Kill” features a transgender murderer played by Michael Caine. There’s plenty more, such as 1982’s “The World According To Garp” and John Lithgow’s supporting-actor role as trans woman Roberta Muldooon, Ted Levine’s portrayal of killer Buffalo Bill in “The Silence of the Lambs,” Jaye Davidson’s trans portrayal in “The Crying Game,” Chris Williams in “The World’s Fastest Indian” and so on and so on. This notion of a transgender character — particularly as a “sympathetic” supporting character for the straight, white male main character — is ages old. That the character is typically played by a straight white male actor in favor of a trans woman — or for that matter, any woman — is even more played out. As an aside, I feel as if many of these — “Dallas Buyer’s Club,” “Anything,” “Stonewall” and earlier stories like “The

Crying Game” and others — are simply using “trans” as a way of presenting an exotic and “damaged” character to play against their “straight-man” main character. The transgender character is simply the sympathy character that helps our main character learn and grow the transgender Hooch to their Turner. Of course, these are not stories being made for transgender people. These are stories for non-transgender people to consume, and are made for them to feel as if they are redeemed by their acceptance of the trans character, as the star of the film is redeemed through his or her friendship with same. There are trans actors out there, and they are plenty competent. I already mentioned Richards, but she is only one of many. They aren’t getting these roles, however. They’re not seen as “trans enough,” which, judging from the characters we have seen, means that they’re not apparently masculine enough for the part. Indeed, these films are not made with transgender people nor for us; they’re not even really telling stories about us. These are fairy-tale versions of trans people. n Gwen Smith deliberately name-checked a Tom Hanks movie. You’ll find her at gwensmith.com.

ted to supporting this population. A goal of the Philadelphia HIV and Aging Taskforce is to empower all older adults to educate themselves and take charge of their sexual health. To that end, the Taskforce will be launching a citywide education campaign and screening opportunities for individuals and professionals. In recognition of National HIV/AIDS & Aging Awareness Day, which takes place annually Sept. 18, the Taskforce is coordinating a series of events to help service providers, long-term survivors, and all older adults and caregivers affected by HIV/ AIDS. These events include: The Graying of HIV and Working with Older Adults A training session was facilitated by Terri Clark of Action Wellness earlier this month to help prepare aging services providers to understand the dynamics of aging with HIV and to better serve older adults living with HIV/AIDS. NHAAD and Sexual Health for Older Adults On Sept. 21, the HIV and Aging Taskforce will conduct outreach at the Jefferson Hospital Geriatric Department, sharing information and resources with Jefferson Hospital patients and providers. Aging with HIV: Time to Talk About Sex!

The LGBT Elder Initiative will hold its NHAAD program from 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Sept. 24 at the Church of St. Luke and the Epiphany, 330 S. 13th St. This free workshop will explore issues related to HIV status disclosure and strategies for older adults to better communicate about HIV and sexual health. The Taskforce will also host a three-part webinar series this year focusing on the experiences of women aging with HIV/ AIDS. Specific topics that will be covered are maintaining wellness while living with HIV/AIDS, the role of faith communities and HIV and transgender health. To find an HIV testing site near you, visit Action Wellness (www.actionwellness.org). To learn more about upcoming Taskforce activities, contact Katie Young (kyoung@ pcaphl.org). n Katie Young, MSG, is a planner for policy and program development at Philadelphia Corporation for Aging. In addition, she is an adjunct instructor at two universities and serves on the Leadership Committee of GenPhilly. She received her master’s of science in gerontology from Virginia Commonwealth University. Katie has been working in the aging field since 1999 when she discovered her passion for the population while working in an assisted-living facility as a nursing assistant. Since earning her MSG, Katie has worked in a variety of settings, including higher education, assisted living and community programming.

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“White supremacy strikes a really hard blow on people of color every day,” Ambrose said. “White supremacy strikes a really hard blow on LGBTQ people within the movement every day, and I think there’s a way in which we have to act with that same level of force with which white supremacy tries to oppress us.”

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Meanwhile, Alice Goldberg, 24, said she’s aware of the privileges she has and said this is why she is dedicated to going to events like Queering Racial Justice. She said “it helps you grow as a person” to interact with different types of people. “It was eye-opening to see how many people were entirely embracing being themselves to

an extent that I have not experienced before en masse,” Goldberg said. “I loved the event for just being there to observe that. I’m a white cis woman and I feel like I try to fit into these boxes that culture puts us in but, at this event, nobody was doing that and it was incredible to watch that.” After being unaware of Creating Change

prior to Queering Racial Justice, Ambrose and Goldberg said they plan to attend the conference to learn more about racial injustice and LGBTQ issues. Creating Change will take place Jan. 18-22, 2017, at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown. Visit CreatingChange.org for more information and to register. n

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appear fazed by that scenario. Justice Max Baer said the state’s Human Relations Act encourages municipalities to adopt expansive antibias laws. And Justice David N. Wecht said city officials could even require that SEPTA stop having its trains’ shades up in Philadelphia. “SEPTA has no desire to discriminate against anyone, including the LGBT community,” Northen emphasized. But he also said “the city isn’t superior to SEPTA” and shouldn’t be telling SEPTA what to do. Northen said SEPTA’s main focus is transporting people, not getting entangled in civil-rights disputes. In closing, Northen said the city’s antibias law protects women who breastfeed in public. He said a nearby town might pass a law against public breastfeeding. In that scenario, SEPTA would be unduly

“SEPTA has no desire to discriminate against anyone, including the LGBT community,” Northen emphasized. But he also said “the city isn’t superior to SEPTA” and shouldn’t be telling SEPTA what to do. burdened when trying to navigate its way through conflicting laws. “We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it,” retorted Chief Justice Thomas G. Saylor, signaling an end to the proceeding. Outside the courtroom, Rue Landau, executive director of the city’s Human Relations Commission, was pleased with the hearing. “I’m very optimistic,” Landau told PGN. “I thought the hearing went extremely well. Mr. Feder made a very strong case on behalf of the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations’ position that SEPTA must be subject to our city’s anti-discrimination law.” Landau also expressed hope that the matter will be concluded shortly. “It’s been seven long years. We hope the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will decide this issue in the city’s favor, and not remand the case back to the lower court for further consideration.” A decision by the justices is expected within the next few months. n

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When Archbishop Charles J. Chaput was installed in Philadelphia in 2011, many friends of Seth Jacobson wrote the Catholic leader “loving letters about how they were struggling with their faith and asked him to be more compassionate.” “They got some pretty tough responses from him and one friend even cried,” Jacobson said, noting the feeling was familiar to him. He could remember crying himself to sleep at night as a child. He thought he would go to hell for being gay. Although Jacobson didn’t have an overly religious upbringing — his father is Jewish and his mother is Catholic — he was still aware of the Church’s teachings regarding LGBT people. It wasn’t until college at a religiously affiliated institution that he “got to know a beautiful part of the Church” through some nuns who were LGBT-affirming. To attempt to change the Church from the inside, Jacobson started a group called the LGBT Catholic Community of Philadelphia. Just under a dozen people attended the first meeting last week. Going forward, Jacobson expects to gather the last Thursday of each month in the offices of Emerge Wellness, 1518 Walnut St., Suite 303. “I tried to introduce an activist spirit beyond supporting each other,” Jacobson said. “When it comes to making any sort of change, we need to spark this discourse and action in our local communities.” The LGBT Catholic Community of Philadelphia will not host any religious services.

“We want to encourage folks to remain part of their parishes,” Jacobson said, “and come to this group to identify ways we can advocate for the changes we want to see.” He noted he would like to meet with leaders at Dignity Philadelphia, another LGBT Catholic group in the city, to see how the two organizations could complement each other. The work of fostering a more welcoming Catholic Church is especially difficult in Philadelphia, Jacobson said. The city is noted as one of the more conservative archdioceses in the country, and Chaput has issued more anti-LGBT guidance than most. This summer, the archbishop declared LGBT Catholics should not hold leadership positions in the Church. Jacobson said even Catholics who are not LGBT have expressed frustration with Chaput. “I don’t think there’s a local strong mechanism through which Catholics can express their frustration,” he said, noting he’d like the LGBT Catholic Community of Philadelphia to become “a forum through which more Catholics can come together and say, ‘I love my Church, but I don’t love the harm that’s being caused by this thing in particular.’” “I would like to see a counter-narrative really emerge,” Jacobson said. For more information, join the Facebook group “LGBT Catholic Community of Philadelphia.” n — Paige Cooperstein

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LGBT Muslim Retreat a hidden gem in Southeastern Pennsylvania Although the LGBT Muslim Retreat has operated for the last five years in the Philadelphia suburbs, it’s not widely known. Due to privacy concerns, its exact location is only shared with participants. But Shan C., a member of the planning committee for the 2016 retreat, extolled the virtues of LGBT Muslims forming connections with each other. “The most beneficial part is the sense of community you feel,” he said. “Once you’re there, there are so many interesting people to meet. It’s hard not to feel at home.” The Muslim Alliance for Gender and Sexual Diversity, a coalition that launched at the 2013 Creating Change conference, sponsors the retreat. A group of volunteers from across the country organizes the activities for the long weekend, which include prayer, workshops and social events like speed networking. The planning committee for the 2017 retreat hasn’t formed yet, Shan said. When it does, more information about the retreat and the application to attend will be available at www.lgbtmuslimretreat. com. Applications open a few months before the retreat, which usually takes place at the end of May. Costs vary from about $125-$750, depending on how long participants plan to be onsite and if they will stay with roommates, as a couple or have a single room. People can apply for scholarships based on financial need. About 70 people attend each year. The upcoming retreat may be the last time LGBT Muslims meet near Philadelphia. Shan said organizers are thinking of moving the retreat to the West Coast for a while, so people from that side of the country have an easier time attending. Shan happened to stumble upon the retreat while searching online and attended in 2014 and 2015. The recent University of Pennsylvania graduate said, “The most eye-opening part of the retreat was the un-gendered prayer and the ability of anybody to stand wherever they want and anybody can lead.” He said a workshop led by representatives of the El-Tawhid Juma Circle Mosque in Canada stuck with him. “They talked about organizing in the queer Muslim community,” Shan said. He also shared the sense of purpose he gets from practicing Islam and being in the company of others who do likewise. “When I was younger and looking for an identity for myself, it gave me an idea of something bigger than myself,” Shan said. “It provides me with peace.” n — Paige Cooperstein

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ichael Nutter caught running a slush fund? The same Michael Nutter who, in the final weeks of his days as mayor, received the Joan Markman Integrity Award; an award “presented to someone who demonstrates a strong commitment to integrity, diligence, and transparency on behalf of the City of Philadelphia.” That Michael Nutter? The same guy that the

called the news conference to discuss the findings of his office’s audit of the Mayor’s Fund for Philadelphia. He said the review revealed several questionable expenditures allegedly made by the fund’s former chairperson and Nutter’s onetime city representative, Desiree Peterkin-Bell. The Mayor’s Fund is an independent non-profit funded primarily by the Philadelphia Marathon and intended to better the city through

“This is the usual hatchet attack job by Butkovitz, timed to try to get some attention for himself …” Committee of Seventy called “[a] mayor [who] set the tone from the top, that members of the administration would meet the highest standards of integrity and ethical behavior.” Controller Butkovitz last month painted a somewhat, well, slushier picture in a press conference which laid Michael Nutter bare. As recounted by Phillymag: “Butkovitz

scholarships and city programs like My Brother’s Keeper and Philly Free Streets.” “[B]asically, they took $200,000 out of a $500,000 fund and had no rules for how they were to be spent.” “‘Instead of making grant awards, it appears the former chairperson used the reserves account as if it were a special slush fund,’ Butkovitz said. ‘Only five of the 21

sampled expenditures appeared to be grant-related.’ Butkovitz questioned several credit card purchases, including a $766 one-way flight from San Francisco to Philadelphia, $704 spent on 33 Uber rides in June of 2015, $333 spent on travel in Portland, Oregon, $52,000 in expenses at the Philadelphia Courtyard Mariott from September to October of 2015, and an $80 pair of shoes from Macy’s.” Michael Nutter, perhaps feeling newly liberated from any need for political temperance now that he is no longer mayor, lashed out at Butko: “This is the usual hatchet attack job by Butkovitz, timed to try to get some attention for himself while the FBI is diligently doing their job in other matters in Philadelphia. The controller is a liar, a snake and a hypocrite. There is no truth in what he says, every expenditure was proper and for an approved purpose and he never talked to either Desiree Peterkin-Bell or myself about any concerns, which is standard procedure, before releasing this slanderous, libelous and vicious bile from his mouth. He is a sad and sick person.”

City Controller Alan Butkovitz has leveled serious allegations about misspending funds. Photo courtesy of philadelphiacontroller.org

Peterkin-Bell, while sparing us references to snakes and bile, chose a different tack in her response to the Butko attack: “I was the only African-American female in the country to have served as the race director of a major marathon, and was proud to lead a team that worked tirelessly to improve the financial standing of the Marathon by securing a title sponsor. I find curious both the timing of the controller’s report on the heels of questions by the FBI about ‘[IBEW’s] support of [Mayor] Kenney’s

mayoral campaign,’ and the controller’s failure, contrary to his office’s own practice, to give me the opportunity to review the preliminary report or to correct its mistaken assumptions.” While Peterkin-Bell does rightly argue that she should have been given the opportunity to respond to the controller’s audit, her focus on race and the IBEW raid are misplaced at best, and offensive at worst. The fact that an African American woman ran the marathon that raised the Continued on page 2 S E P T. 1 1 - 1 8 , 2 0 1 6

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Say It Ain’t So Butko Continued from page 1 funds, from which that same African American allegedly misspent as her own personal slush fund, is by no means exculpatory. Questioning the timing of the audit as being related to an FBI raid of the mayor’s campaign office is just absurd. FBI raids in this town are becoming so common that Butko would never hold a press conference if held to this standard. When the right hand of the mayor is spending money on

Uber rides in Philly and shoes at Macy’s, how does this go unnoticed under the award-winning robust ethics regime of Michael Nutter? Where were Amy Kurland and the mayor’s Inspector General’s Office? Where were Joan Markman and her Chief Integrity Office? The answer seems to be that, when it comes to the integrity concerns of the chief, the chief integrity officer looked the other way.

New heights for little DJ 11-year-old outpaces adults in scoring big gigs By Sheila Simmons

LaSalle Recovers After Season Opening Loss Continued from page 12 form, but he doesn’t let outside expectations effect his players. Especially because this is one of the youngest teams La Salle has put on the field in years. “We never talk about wins and losses with the players,” he said. “We just want them to pursue a standard; we want them to be the best. We are not as experienced as some of the top teams we have had in years past. That doesn’t mean we can’t compete for titles. It just means that sophomores and juniors will have to play at high levels. I think we have a good offense and a good defense and really good special teams, too. We want the guys to play within themselves, play to our strengths, and be disciplined. I’m excited about our upcoming games.” According to the coach, top players include all-purpose running back Sy Madden, quarterback Tom LaMorte, receiver Troy Holland, two-way players Garrett Zobel and Chris Maloney, cornerback Tre McNeill, and middle linebacker Austin

Lemke. “Everyone goes through changes in high school football,” the coach said. “You have your top guys graduate and then next classes come in. It’s the way it is. Madden and Holland, before he got hurt, were very effective players for us last year. I wouldn’t say this is a new era for La Salle football but it’s definitely a newer team with a lot of fresh faces getting a chance to play.” Steinmetz said with the return of Gordon to offensive coordinator — he coached at Imhotep Charter last year — the Explorers will be airing it out again this season. “We are sending four guys out pretty much every play,” he said. “Brett is great at setting up our spread offense, with precision passing and good routes being run by receivers. We can definitely move the ball. I am keeping my defense. I call it a 4-2-5. We have returnees on defense and they played much, much better against Pennsbury against the run and pass.”

Dylan Curtis, also known as DJ D-ILL, spins tunes. Photo courtesy of Amos Curtis.

eejaying is a family affair of sorts for the Curtis family. There’s dad Amos, who fell into the craft, admittedly, “because I couldn’t rap”; there’s 19-year-old son Devon, who is away doing his sophomore year at Indiana University of Pennsylvania; and then there’s son Dylan, who is 11 years old. On the final weekend of Independence Blue Cross River Rink’s “Summerfest,” he’s showing the outdoor roller skating crowd and other visitors he’s a serious DJ and not just plucking away at video-game “DJ Hero.” With his headphones on and a computer propped over a pair of turntables, Dylan, a.k.a. DJ D-ILL smoothly blends a pop tune into the beginnings of Rihanna’s “Work.” He takes a quick look at Dad, who is bobbing his head approvingly to the transition of the beat. A woman nearby snaps a picture with her smartphone. “He’s awesome,” she comments. Interviewed the next day, Dylan offers, “I love music, I love the reaction of the crowd when they see me deejaying. I love to do parties.” His gigs over the past few months included Wawa Welcome America, events associated with the Democratic National Convention, and two performances at the White House, one of which was the Kids’ State Dinner. “It was nice,” Dylan reflects. “It was an honor to meet Michelle Obama.”

“She was very friendly and nice,” he adds. “I hope I have a chance to go back there again.” Of Dylan’s deejay pursuits, his father says, “I’m really not surprised because I feel like he’s been around it so long. He’s been picking it up between helping us carry bags. He just really got interested in it for himself in the last two years. Last year, when he went to the turntable [as opposed to the computer], he really got into it. And this summer, he knocked it out of the park.” Amos confesses, “Me and my son [Devon] feel like he’s had the greatest summer ever.” Asked what he wants to be when he grows up, Dylan, who previously attended Laboratory Charter School and now attends Haverford, says, “I want to be a tour DJ and a video DJ.” To that, Amos says, “Whatever he really wants to go out and do, he has my 100 percent support. But me, being a DJ all my life, it’s not the career I would have chosen for him. Like [all] fathers, I want my son to be a doctor or a lawyer, but if that’s the way it goes …” But at age 11, Dylan has plenty of time to think about his career choice. His next goal, according to Dad, is to play Power House, an annual concert sponsored by the radio station Power 99 FM. “I think it’s more for him to be in front of his peers, and in front of his own city,” he says. “That’s what’s on the top of his list.”

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First District Plaza, 3801 Market Street, at 9:00 AM. (EST) Conditions of Sheriff’s Sale for JUDICIAL/FORECLOSURE SALE Ten percent of the highest bid for each property auctioned off shall be deposited in certified check, attorney’s check or money order with the Sheriff by each bidder when his bid is registered, provided that in no case shall less than Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00) be deposited, otherwise upon failure or refusal to make such deposit, the bidder shall lose all benefit of his bid and the property may be offered again and sold unless a second bid has been registered, then, the second highest bidder will take the property at the highest bid price. Additionally, where there is active bidding, the highest bidder, and the second highest bidder, if any must post the entire amount of the cost of the distribution policy for the property at the time of sale by certified check, attorney’s check or money order with the Sheriff. The Sheriff reserves the right to reject any certified check, attorney’s check or money order that on its face has an expired use date and is presented for payment of the deposit. The balance of the purchase money must be deposited in certified check, attorney’s check or money order together with a Deed poll for execution by the highest bidder to the Sheriff at his office within 30 days from the time of the sale. An extension of time for an additional 30 days may be granted at the discretion of the Sheriff upon receipt of written request from the buyer requesting the same, except when a second bidder has been duly registered. Also, if the first bidder does not complete settlement with the Sheriff within the thirty (30) day time limit and a second bid was registered at the sale, the second bidder shall be granted the same thirty (30) day time limit to make settlement with the Sheriff on his second bid. Thereafter, the Sheriff shall be at liberty to return the writ to court. A second bid must be registered on any property immediately after it is sold. The second bidder must present the same amount of deposit that the highest bidder delivers to the Sheriff at the sale. An extension of time under no circumstances will be granted or honored by the Sheriff whenever a second bid is registered on a property at the sale. The first bid or opening bid on each property shall be set by the City of Philadelphia. In no event will the successful bidder be allowed to settle on the property unless all the Sheriff’s costs are paid notwithstanding the final bid. The deposit by any bidder who fails to comply with the above conditions of sale shall be forfeited and the funds will be applied to the

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Sheriff’s cost, then to any municipal claims that the City of Philadelphia has on the property. Finally, if a balance still remains, a Sheriff’s Distribution Policy will be ordered and the money will be distributed accordingly. No personal checks, drafts or promises to pay will be accepted in lieu of certified checks, attorney’s checks or money orders made payable to the Sheriff of Philadelphia County. The Sheriff reserves the right to grant further extensions of time to settle and further reserves the right to refuse bids from bidders who have failed to enter deposits on their bids, failed to make settlement, or make fraudulent bids, or any other behavior which causes disruption of the Sheriff Sale. Said bidders shall be so refused for the sale in which said behavior occurred and for said further period of time as the Sheriff in his discretion shall determine. The Sheriff will not acknowledge a deed poll to any individual or entity using an unregistered fictitious name and may, at his discretion, require proof of identity of the purchaser or the registration of fictitious names. The bid of an unregistered fictitious name shall be forfeited as if the bidder failed to meet the terms of sale. All bidders are advised to remain at the sale until after the last property is sold. The Sheriff reserves the right to re-sell any property at any time before the end of the sale, upon the successful bidders’ failure to tender the required deposit. The Sheriff reserves the right to postpone or stay the sale of any property in which the attorney on the writ has not appeared and is not present at the sale. Prospective purchasers are directed to the Web site of the Philadelphia Bureau of Revision of Taxes, (BRT) brtweb.phila. gov for a fuller description of the properties listed. Properties can be looked up by the BRT number – which should be cross checked with the address. Prospective purchasers are also directed to the Room 154 City Hall, 215-6861483 and to its website philadox. phila.gov and to its website at http://philadox.phila.gov where they can view the deed to each individual property and find the boundaries of the property. PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DETERMINING THE NATURE, LOCATION, CONDITION AND BOUNDARIES OF THE PROPERTIES THEY SEEK TO PURCHASE. The BRT # refers to a unique number assigned by the City Bureau of Revision of Taxes to each property in the City for the purpose of assessing it for taxes. This number can be used to obtain descriptive information about the property from the BRT website. Effective Date: July 7, 2006 NOTICE OF SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION The Sheriff will file in his office, The Land Title Building, 100 South Broad Street, 5th Floor, a

Schedule of Distribution Thirty (30) Days from the date of the sale of Real Estate. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedule unless exceptions are filed thereto within ten (10) days thereafter. The name first appearing in each notice is that of the defendant in the writ whose property is being sold. All Writs are Writs of Executions. The letters C.P., Court of Common Pleas; O.C., Orphans’ Court; Q.S., Court of Quarter Sessions; C.C., County Court - indicate the Court out of which the writ of execution issues under which the sale is made: S. 1941. 223. means September Term, 1941. 223, the term and number of the docket entry; the figures following show the amount of debt; and the name following is that of the attorney issuing the writ. Attention is called to the provisions of Act No.104, approved July 27, 1955, which requires owners of properties which are used, designed or intended to be used by three or more families, or of commercial establishments which contain one or more dwelling units, to deliver to the buyers of such properties a use registration permit at the time of settlement, under certain terms and conditions. Sheriff Sales are not subject to provisions of the said Act and the Sheriff will, therefore, not deliver use registration permits in connection with any sales conducted by him. Very truly yours, JEWELL WILLIAMS Sheriff City and County of Philadelphia

of Eleanor Sweeney a/k/a Eleanor B. Sweeney; Kathleen Elliott, Known Heir of Eleanor Sweeney a/k/a Eleanor B. Sweeney C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 05269 $66,002.51 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1610-301 4636 Wingate St 19136 65th wd. 3800 Sq Ft OPA#652031940 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Abel Fullman C.P. February Term, 2012 No. 02527 $133,212.69 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1610-302 1127 E Cheltenham Ave 19124 35th wd. 1251 Sq Ft OPA#352017500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kristol M. Sloan C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 03334 $66,090.78 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1610-303 270 W Nedro Ave 19120 61st wd. 1491 Sq Ft OPA#612085600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Derek A. Bennett a/k/a Derek Bennett C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02505 $56,836.26 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1610-304 3218 Birch Rd 19154 66th wd. 1900 Sq Ft OPA#663003500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Michael Burkett; Michael David C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 04140 $184,006.55 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1610-305 8112 Rugby St 19150 50th wd. 2585 Sq Ft OPA#502085400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Robyn M. Johnson a/k/a Robyn Johnson; Sarah D. Johnson a/k/a Sarah Johnson C.P. September Term, 2011 No. 01168 $240,122.56 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1610-306 8712 Glenloch St 19136 65th wd. 2537 Sq Ft OPA#652268500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Roy D. Andrews; Lisa Ballentine C.P. May Term, 2015 No. 01847 $157,553.15 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1610-307 4618 Solly Ave 19136 65th wd. 1200 Sq Ft OPA#652026500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Marcella VanceStrange C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 01609 $78,443.84 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1610-308 2024 S 5th St 19148 39th wd. 1560 Sq Ft OPA#392287200 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Yvonne Hu C.P. March Term, 2016 No.

02663 $68,134.22 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1610-309 7415 E Walnut Ln 19138 10th wd. 1815 Sq Ft OPA#10-12028-00 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Audrey V. Norfleet C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 02673 $145,230.75 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire 1610-310 2652 S Fairhill St 19148 39th wd. 725 Sq Ft BRT#39-23262-00 IMPROVEMENTS: TWO STORY MASONRY ROW HOME Maria Mastrando a/k/a Marie J. Mastrando a/k/a Marie Mastrando C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 00342 $246,680.38 Janet L. Gold, Esquire 1610-311 2655 S Franklin St 19148 39th wd. 653 Sq Ft BRT#39-32250-00 IMPROVEMENTS: TWO STORY MASONRY ROW OFFICE/STORE WITH DWELLING Maria Mastrando a/k/a Marie J. Mastrando a/k/a Marie Mastrando C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 00342 $246,680.38 Janet L. Gold, Esquire 1610-312 5955 Osage Ave 191431119 3rd wd. 884 Sq Ft BRT#032055100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Brian D. Sutton a/k/a Brian Sutton C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 01918 $49,425.61 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1610-313 3428 Helen St 19134 45th wd. 1092 Sq Ft BRT#452354000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Antonio Serrano, Jr. C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 04588 $65,607.93 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1610-314 491 Parlin St 19116 58th wd. 2736 Sq Ft BRT#582057000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Angel Flores Hernandez and Jheny B. Flores C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 00923 $215,566.39 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1610-315 12712 Minden Rd 19154 58th wd. 2242.12 Sq Ft BRT#663332200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING James Lankin C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 02953 $115,075.48 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1610-316 715 Brown St Unit A 19123 14th wd. Land Area: 0 Sq Ft being and designated as Unit No. 3, together with their proportionate undivided interest in the Common Elements (as defined in such Declaration) BRT#888140464 IMPROVE-

MENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Pierre Dee a/k/a Pierre Angell Dee a/k/a Pierre A. Dee and Cyril Vivek Addison C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 01917 $292,289.23 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1610-317 1328 N Hancock St 19122 18th wd. 2495 Sq Ft BRT#182083500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Sheridan L. Sostre C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 02403 $230,185.14 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1610-318 7817 Anita Dr 19111 56th wd. 3281 Sq Ft OPA#561097200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Shawn Daly and Zipporah Wambui Daly C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 03047 $72,408.75 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-319 2505 S 7th St 19148 39th wd. 798 Sq Ft BRT#39-3-1725-00 IMPROVEMENTS: TWO STORY MASONRY APT. CONVERTED ROW HOME Maria Mastrando a/k/a Marie J. Mastrando a/k/a Marie Mastrando C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 00342 $246,680.38 Janet L. Gold, Esquire 1610-320 3627 Almond St 19134 45th wd. 1918 Sq Ft OPA#451290100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Dawn Wikiera and John J. Wikiera C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 03600 $168,923.83 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-321 5953 Belden St 19149 53rd wd. 1777 Sq Ft OPA#531302200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Richard F. James C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 01560 $219,803.15 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-322 925 Granite St 191241730 35th wd. 1104 Sq Ft OPA#351141200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jean Mary Georges-Milord C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 00207 $77,319.12 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-323 1503 N Redfield St 19151 34th wd. 1420 Sq Ft OPA#342165200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Aliya S. Small C.P. December Term, 2008 No. 00510 $51,907.45 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-324 6357 Marsden St 19135 41st wd. 1095 Sq Ft OPA#411269500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Valeria Bondarenko C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 02467 $66,858.25 KML Law Group, P.C.

www.Officeof Philadelphia Sheriff.com SHERIFF’S SALE OF Tuesday, October 4, 2016 1602-528 303 Shawmont Ave, #2A6 a/k/a 303 Shawmont Ave, Apt. F a/k/a 303 E. Shawmont Ave, #2A6 19128 21st wd. BRT#888210585 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Estate of Eleanor Sweeney a/k/a Eleanor B. Sweeney, c/o Michael Sweeney a/k/a Michael A. Sweeney, Personal Representative; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns and All Persons, Firms or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Eleanor Sweeney a/k/a Eleanor B. Sweeney c/o Michael Sweeney a/k/a Michael A. Sweeney, Personal Representative of the Estate of Eleanor Sweeney a/k/a Eleanor B. Sweeney; Theresa M. Bach, Known Heir of Eleanor Sweeney a/k/a Eleanor B. Sweeney; Beth Ann C. Nichols, Known Heir

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1610-325 3064 Almond St 19134 25th wd. 790 Sq Ft OPA#251306400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Helene Damico C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 03636 $40,129.68 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-327 8250 Williams Ave 19150 50th wd. 1993 Sq Ft OPA#502247100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ernest Faltz, Believed Heir/Administrator of the Estate of Juanita Faltz; James Faltz, Jr., Believed Heir/Administrator of the Estate of Juanita Faltz; Deborah Faltz-Davis, Believed Heir/Administrator of the Estate of Juanita Faltz C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 03628 $124,468.07 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-328 1733 Johnston St 19145 26th wd. 1043 Sq Ft BRT#26-23029-00 Subject To Mortgage Yes-Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc., assignee of MERS as Nominee for One Reverse Mortgage, LLC in the original principal amount of $367,500.00 IMPROVEMENTS: TWO STORY MASONRY ROW HOME WITH GARAGE Maria Mastrando a/k/a Marie J. Mastrando a/k/a Marie Mastrando C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 00342 $246,680.38 Janet L. Gold, Esquire 1610-329 1431 S Etting St 19146 36th wd. 708 Sq Ft BRT#36-43038-00 IMPROVEMENTS: TWO STORY MASONRY ROW HOME Maria Mastrando a/k/a Marie J. Mastrando a/k/a Marie Mastrando C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 00342 $246,680.38 Janet L. Gold, Esquire 1610-331 3164 Tulip St 19134 25th wd. 1036 Sq Ft OPA#252377400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Edward S. Podlaszewski C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 01215 $82,184.57 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1610-332 637 Marlyn Rd 19151 34th wd. 1591 Sq Ft OPA#344260700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Deidra Viney as Executrix of the Estate of Michelle Shaw a/k/a Michelle D. Shaw, Deceased C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 04265 $79,672.52 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-333 11907 Millbrook Rd 191543701 66th wd. 1977 Sq Ft BRT#662236600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Robin M. Yocum a/k/a Robin M. Wilson a/k/a Robin Yocum C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 04094 $104,496.32 Stern & Eisenberg PC

1610-334 4737 Shelmire Ave a/k/a 4737 Shelmire St 19149 65th wd. 1051 Sq Ft OPA#651055200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jason Jordan C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 02302 $61,035.28 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-335 6310 Algard St 41st wd. 1370 Sq Ft BRT#552345700 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GAR 2 STORY MASONRY Patricia A. Erb, Co-Administrator of the Estate of John W. Erb, Sr. a/k/a John W. Erb, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; John William Erb, Jr., Co-Administrator of the Estate of John W. Erb, Sr. a/k/a John W. Erb, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 00437 $109,550.61 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-336 3714 Merrick Rd, Falls Ridge, Phase 11A 19129 38th wd. 3288 Sq Ft OPA#383310015 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lajuan Booker C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 02287 $142,733.03 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-337 4111 Farmdale Rd 19154 66th wd. 1836 Sq Ft BRT#662603500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Joseph A. Manley, Jr. a/k/a Joseph A. Manley C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02959 $99,147.13 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1610-338 5213 N 8th St 19120 49th wd. 1376 Sq Ft OPA#492126700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Mia L. McNeal C.P. August Term, 2012 No. 01650 $78,361.35 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-339 3142 Miller St 19134 25th wd. 860 Sq Ft BRT#251371600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Francis X. McCool C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 03175 $90,850.07 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1610-340 308 Princeton Ave 19111 35th wd. 5329 Sq Ft OPA#353170600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Juan C. Liz C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 02945 $194,984.54 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-341 4607 Emery St 19137 45th wd. 845 Sq Ft BRT#45-32938-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Daniel McAleer; Melissa Orfe C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 03606 $109,442.58 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1610-342 6228 Oakley St 35th wd. 1200 Sq Ft BRT#35-32132-00; PRCL# 138 N 13-240 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Angelic C. Walcott and The United States of America C.P.

March Term, 2015 No. 04254 $71,909.58 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1610-343 6915 E Wister St 19138 10th wd. 1440 Sq Ft BRT#102130600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING No Agent Properties, LLC C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 03181 $90,338.07 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1610-344 1939 S Warnock St 39th wd. Land Area: 672 Sq Ft BRT#394-1448-00 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Creed D. Burleson C.P. October Term, 2003 No. 000862 $55,929.84 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-345 423 Tree St 39th wd. Land Area: 672 Sq Ft BRT#392127400 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Nadine M. Riccobene, Administratrix of the Estate of Rocco Maniscalco a/k/a Rocco Maniscalco, Jr. and Lidia Riccobene, Administratrix of the Estate of Rocco Maniscalco a/k/a Rocco Maniscalco, Jr. C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 02700 $79,000.00 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-346 7308 Malvern Ave 191512209 34th wd. 1120 Sq Ft OPA#344078400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Nichelle Johnson C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 01731 $143,950.42 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-347 1937 Penfield St 10th wd. Land Area: 1092 Sq Ft BRT#101382000 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STORY MASONRY Robert Burton C.P. May Term, 2015 No. 02068 $153,710.78 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-348 185 W Spencer St 191201939 61st wd. 1,140 Sq Ft OPA#611220700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Mona Lisa Coleman; Robin D. PearsonColeman, in Her Capacity as Administratrix and Heir of the Estate of Joseph Coleman; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Joseph Coleman, Deceased C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 02867 $29,654.28 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-349 7134 Erdrick St 191351013 41st wd. 1290 Sq Ft OPA#412245400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lou Ann Feuerstein C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00874 $198,159.25 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-350 5602 Pine St 19143-1322 60th wd. 1664 Sq Ft

OPA#604099200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Breanna Campbell C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 00274 $80,502.56 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-351 524 Robbins St 191115740 35th wd. 1500 Sq Ft OPA#353021500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Malik Childs C.P. June Term, 2012 No. 02855 $145,651.99 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-352 58 E Walnut Ln 19144 59th wd. 1112 Sq Ft OPA#592056000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kristopher Way; Joycelyn Way C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 01837 $78,963.01 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-353 900 E Ontario St a/k/a 900-04 E Ontario St 19134-1311 33rd wd. 1608 Sq Ft OPA#331161500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kevin Butler; Sarah J. Butler C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 02202 $84,530.86 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-354 4919 N Camac St 191413503 49th wd. 1965 Sq Ft OPA#491477400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Alvin Forbes; Mary Forbes C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 00011 $58,439.99 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-355 224 E Phil Ellena St 19119-2222 22nd wd. 1776 Sq Ft OPA#22-1-1971-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Joseph Barbour; Veronica Barbour C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 03696 $137,759.92 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-356 1206 Sanger St 191241107 62nd wd. 1280 Sq Ft OPA#621048500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kenneth Mitchell a/k/a Kenneth Mitchell, Sr.; Susan Mitchell a/k/a Susan M. Mitchell C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 03058 $24,131.61 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-357 4408 Sherwood Rd 191311526 52nd wd. 1354 Sq Ft OPA#521194100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Erik Crumb C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 00586 $161,637.94 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-358 1322 S 29th St 191463618 36th wd. 1068 Sq Ft OPA#362173900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Beth Ann Dreger a/k/a Beth-Ann Murray, in Her Capacity as Administratrix

and Heir of the Estate of Joanne P. Dreger a/k/a Joanne Dreger; William Dreger, in His Capacity as Heir of the Estate of Joanne P. Dreger a/k/a Joanne Dreger; Jacquelyn Coen, in Her Capacity as Heir of the Estate of Joanne P. Dreger a/k/a Joanne Dreger; Michael McLaughlin, in his capacity as Heir of the Estate of Joanne P. Dreger a/k/a Joanne Dreger; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Joanne P. Dreger a/k/a Joanne Dreger, Deceased C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 00593 $9,084.05 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-359 834 Lawler St 58th wd. 3400 Sq Ft BRT#582094300 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Aleksey Mosendz and Nadiya Mosendz C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 00711 $50,538.43 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1610-360 12732 Knights Rd 19154 66th wd. 2196 Sq Ft BRT#66-3365936 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Charles A. Dabydeen; Shanaz Dabydeen a/k/a Shanaaz Dabydeen C.P. April Term, 2006 No. 00961 $49,892.49 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1610-361 344 E Church Ln 19144 22nd wd. 2122 Sq Ft BRT#122032600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Leah Tate a/k/a Lena Tate, Last Record Owner; Darlene Cerone Tate, Known Heir of Leah Tate a/k/a Lena Tate, Last Record Owner; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Leah Tate a/k/a Lena Tate, Last Record Owner C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 02919 $129,997.07 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1610-362 4547 Loring St 19136 41st wd. 975 Sq Ft BRT#412187000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Desiree Hebert a/k/a Desiree A. Hebert; Michael Sciortino C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00170 $134,347.44 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1610-363 2752 N 24th St 19132 28th wd. 1050 Sq Ft OPA#281007000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sharlene L. Brown a/k/a Sharlene L. Haywood a/k/a Sharlene L. Haywood-Brown C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01195 $44,058.69 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1610-364 1230 N Frazier St 19131 4th wd. 1191 Sq Ft

OPA#043077500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY John L. Price, III a/k/a John L. Price C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 01956 $5,720.41 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1610-365 3101 Princeton Ave 19149 55th wd. 1166 Sq Ft OPA#551389900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Mary Joy Santos C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 01084 $142,317.55 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-366 5901 Colgate St 19120 35th wd. 975 Sq Ft OPA#352275200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Edgardo J. Reyes a/k/a Edgardo Reyes C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 01077 $110,796.22 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-367 825 Glenview St 19111 53rd wd. 3610 Sq Ft OPA#532156800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Alayne Spence C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 01288 $217,495.39 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-368 4758 Marple St 19136 65th wd. 989 Sq Ft OPA#651101800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sam R. Higginson C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00382 $50,376.66 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-369 11812 Audubon Ave 19116 58th wd. 4127 Sq Ft OPA #582421520 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY David Pressman C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02625 $223,727.62 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-370 1740 N Peach St a/k/a 170 N Peach St 19131 52nd wd. 1219 Sq Ft OPA#521343500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Zerris Smith and Lennox A. Smith C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 03190 $60,168.63 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-371 2128 Pratt St 19124 62nd wd. 2193 Sq Ft OPA#622058400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Juan Carrion a/k/a Juan O. Carrion C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 01079 $87,496.49 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-372 6611 Yocum St 19142 40th wd. 880 Sq Ft OPA#403135800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kevin Darnell Seamon C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 01338 $34,846.81 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-373 5807 N 12th St 19141 49th wd. 1440 Sq Ft OPA#493124300 IMPROVE-

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MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tisha Carey C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 03313 $50,003.49 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-374 10043 Ferndale St 19116 58th wd. 2850 Sq Ft OPA#582479900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Vasyl Fedelesh C.P. March Term, 2012 No. 00444 $187,675.00 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-375 6617 Morris Park Rd 19131 34th wd. 1798 Sq Ft OPA#344108400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY David J. O’Lynn C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 03010 $187,877.66 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-376 6037 W Oxford St 19151 34th wd. 2382 Sq Ft OPA#342098000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Mary Keyes C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 03149 $174,518.97 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-377 9949 Bridle Rd 19115 58th wd. 3346 Sq Ft OPA#581234900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lourdes Lopez and Wilmar Lopez C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 02347 $260,941.22 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-378 227 Daly St 19148 39th wd. 742 Sq Ft OPA#391094500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lynda Longo a/k/a Lynda Ouslati C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 01883 $107,266.25 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-381 1861 E Clementine St 19134 25th wd. 777 Sq Ft OPA#252261900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Juan A. Morales C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02122 $62,326.37 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-382 7729 Dorcas St 19111 56th wd. 3703 Sq Ft OPA#561120300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Leon Jones, Jr. a/k/a Leon Jones C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 02113 $66,920.88 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-383 315 W Louden St a/k/a 315 W Loudon St 19120 42nd wd. 1948 Sq Ft OPA#422095400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Benjamin Bagyina C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 02210 $28,868.65 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-384 3841 J St 19124 33rd wd. 1472 Sq Ft improvement area; 1212 Sq Ft land area OPA#332240100 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: SINGLE FAMILY 3 BEDROOM RESIDENTIAL

BUILDING Lea B. Sargent C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 01603 $119,769.94 Michael P. Donohue, Esquire 1610-385 6335 Large St 44th wd. 1956.5 Sq Ft BRT#541191400 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GAR 2 STY MASONRY Saed Mohammed Jaber C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 02444 $132,861.74 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-386 1554 S 28th St 19146 36th wd. 1696 Sq Ft OPA#364348400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Albert Mastrando a/k/a Albert M. Mastrando; Anthony Mastrando C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 04078 $105,077.09 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1610-388 1326 E Airdrie St 19124 33rd wd. 1050 Sq Ft OPA#331237200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Christina C. Harris C.P. March Term, 2012 No. 01314 $68,048.65 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1610-389 243 S 57th St 19139 60th wd. 41600 Sq Ft OPA#604242700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ryburn E. Pitts C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 00446 $15,045.58 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1610-390 4319 Teesdale St 19136 41st wd. 1040 Sq Ft BRT#412101400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Susan Langan C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00256 $61,689.31 Meredith H. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1610-391 71 E Coulter St 191442217 12th wd. 1239 Sq Ft BRT#122022700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE William J. McKenney; Cheryl L. McKenney; Billy C. Harper; Dorothy F. Harper C.P. October Term, 2011 No. 3846 $103,273.54 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1610-392 1517 S 32nd St 19146 36th wd. 1020 Sq Ft BRT#364460100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Osman Barrie C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 03910 $85,389.25 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1610-393 4707 Frankford Ave 19124 23rd wd. 1574.28 Sq Ft BRT#871112250 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Indrawatie Permesardian and Tariq Adhain C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 02356 $108,282.24 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1610-394 2923 Aramingo Ave 19134 25th wd. 1346 Sq Ft

BRT#251454700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Kathleen McGovern C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 02693 $116,004.01 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1610-395 4227 Stirling St 191353111 55th wd. 1226 Sq Ft OPA#552057100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ryan P. Dunne a/k/a Ryan Dunne, in His Capacity as Administrator and Heir of the Estate of Vincent R. Dunne; John Meyer, in His Capacity as Heir of the Estate of Vincent R. Dunne; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Vincent R. Dunne, Deceased C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 01094 $108,959.34 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-396 4325 Devereaux St a/k/a 4325 Devereaux Ave 191353531 55th wd. 1774 Sq Ft OPA#552030300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Anne Marie Dieudonne Augustin C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 03461 $139,011.26 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-397 6512 N 8th St 191263719 49th wd. 2660 Sq Ft OPA#492136700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Barbara J. Mosley; Howard C. Mosley, Jr. C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 01819 $211,939.37 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-398 22 W Logan St 19144 12th wd. 2133 Sq Ft BRT#123039100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Alton S. Clarke C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00426 $57,469.05 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1610-399 176 W Spencer St 191201938 61st wd. 1140 Sq Ft OPA#612218400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sari T. Lam; Hiep Cong Truong; Nhu Q. Truong C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 01668 $79,750.65 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-400 6825 Roosevelt Blvd a/k/a 6825 E. Roosevelt Blvd 19149 55th wd. 1756 Sq Ft OPA#551526500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Derek Jackson C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 01843 $82,096.46 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-401 4741 Oakland St 19124 23rd wd. 1717 Sq Ft OPA#234238700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Diana R. Haynes and Keino S. Haynes C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02121 $89,552.26 KML Law Group, P.C.

1610-402 2004 Widener Pl 19138 17th wd. 1127 Sq Ft OPA#171187100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Walter C. Borum C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 01933 $75,342.98 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-403 8307 Rugby St 191502809 50th wd. 1159 Sq Ft OPA#502103600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ernest Trice C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 02688 $109,757.54 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-404 2315 S 11th St 19148 39th wd. 1024 Sq Ft OPA#394177700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Elizabeth Granato C.P. April Term, 2011 No. 01053 $47,772.98 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-405 5314 Spruce St 191394023 60th wd. 1400 Sq Ft OPA#603065300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Elsie S. Wise; Joseph Wise C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 02449 $43,166.64 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-406 3038 N Stillman St 191321305 38th wd. 932 Sq Ft OPA#381100300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Wilhelmina McKnight a/k/a Wilhemina McKnight C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 04235 $44,857.90 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-407 2015 Welsh Rd Apt 15 a/k/a 2015 Welsh Rd Apt A-15 19115 56th wd. 1250 Sq Ft OPA#888561328 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Agnieszka Wojnarska C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 01587 $140,003.95 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-408 330 N 53rd St 19139 44th wd. 1800 Sq Ft OPA#441361100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jade Powell C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 03194 $63,101.09 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-409 5917 Haverford Ave 19151 4th wd. 2434 Sq Ft BRT#043005300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Sondra Epps Graves a/k/a Sondra V. Graves a/k/a Sondra Valorie Graves C.P. April Term, 2010 No. 04618 $100,933.66 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1610-410 2649 S Bouvier St 19145 26th wd. 651 Sq Ft BRT#262051000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Carmelo Coppolino C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 02177 $72,143.22 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1610-411 3832 Gratz St 19140 13th wd. Improvement Area: 1332 Sq

Ft; Land Area: 1242 Sq Ft OPA#131267500 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Brian G. Nelson C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 01684 $44,936.08 Richard M. Squire & Associates, LLC 1610-412 4952 Wellington St 19135 65th wd. 1128 Sq Ft OPA#651014300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Anthony Black C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 00236 $51,001.66 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-413 5735 N 6th St 19120 61st wd. 1754 Sq Ft OPA#612284500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Vincent Dennis, Administrator of the Estate of Ben Bryant C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 01851 $57,407.89 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1610-414 227 E Albanus St 19120 42nd wd. 975 Sq Ft OPA#421153700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kadine McFarlane, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Delflora McFarlane, Deceased; The Unknown Heirs of Delflora McFarlane, Deceased; Janet McFarlane, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Delfora McFarlane, Deceased; Sandra McFarlane, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Delflora McFarlane, Deceased; Michael McFarlane, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Delflora McFarlane, Deceased; Patrick McFarlane, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Delflora McFarlane, Deceased; Troy McFarlane, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Delflora McFarlane, Deceased C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 03465 $29,013.16 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-415 543 E Chelten Ave 19144 59th wd. 2000 Sq Ft BRT#591006400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Jacob Stepansky and Irina Stepansky C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 00962 $138,734.93 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1610-416 3232 Emerald St 19134 45th wd. 1263 Sq Ft OPA#452333600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Pennington 189 Management, LLC C.P. August Term, 2012 No. 03282 $83,877.24 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-417 3220 Germantown Ave 19140 37th wd. 15’11” OPA#431147200 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW HOME Raymond Johnson C.P. November Term, 2010 No. 2939 $27,305.00 David I. Grunfeld, Esquire 1610-418 15043 Liberty Ln 19116 58th wd. 2449 Sq Ft

OPA#583085059 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Chris Druding and Donna M. Druding C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 03871 $182,017.92 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-419 3226 F St 19134 33rd wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 960 Sq Ft BRT#331284200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Roberta C. Hayward C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 01533 $29,886.67 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1610-420 5015 Roosevelt Blvd 19124 23rd wd. 3948 Sq Ft OPA#233023700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ronald Hinton C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 03415 $266,220.08 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-421 7324 Drexel Rd 19151 34th wd. 1476 Sq Ft OPA#344143900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Barbara J. Jones C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 00725 $122,102.44 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-422 2220 Cantrel St 19145 48th wd. 658 Sq Ft OPA#482085900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Percy A. Roland C.P. September Term, 2009 No. 03308 $53,766.60 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-423 7026 Marsden St 19135 41st wd. SEMI/DET 2 STY MASONRY; 1440 Sq Ft BRT#412375800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Stephanie Gradel and Melissa Gradel C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 00868 $71,476.50 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1610-424 8124 Williams Ave 191501222 50th wd. 2505 Sq Ft BRT#502244770 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Todd Greene C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 04264 $195,468.29 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1610-425 3408 Tilton St 19134 45th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 920 Sq Ft BRT#451201400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Mariellen Hanlin C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 03225 $51,486.57 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1610-426 51 N 63rd St 19139 1272 Sq Ft OPA#341264200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY The Unknown Heirs of Noel G. Walker, Deceased; Jean Walker, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Noel G. Walker, Deceased C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 01952 $86,502.45 KML Law Group, P.C.

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1610-427 5500 Litchfield St 19143 51st wd. 1439.37 Sq Ft BRT#513296900; PRCL#026S240188 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Willie Neal and Clara H. Neal C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 02235 $72,732.75 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1610-428 3532 Kensington Ave 19134-1539 33rd wd. 1450 Sq Ft BRT#331443700; PRCL#43N170-68 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Gregory Stanislaus C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 002127 $91,589.30 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1610-429 1726 Mifflin St 19145 48th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1472 Sq Ft BRT#481065400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Freda Purvis and Harvey Purvis C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 01590 $136,322.57 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1610-430 1736 N 61st St 19151 34th wd. 1455 Sq Ft OPA#342265100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Danielle L. White Robinson C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00367 $81,122.05 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-431 6916 Oakland St 19149 54th wd. 1626 Sq Ft OPA#542380200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jose B. Ferreira C.P. January Term, 2009 No. 02438 $195,173.36 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-433 720 E Phil Ellena St 191191531 22nd wd. 2052 Sq Ft OPA#221204500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Bruce A. McCall, Jr. C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 04383 $239,835.41 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-434 1215 Friendship St 191114203 53rd wd. 1703 Sq Ft OPA#532305900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Joyce Urquhart; Martha Urquhart C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 03093 $204,916.95 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-435 2926 Passmore St 191493032 55th wd. 896 Sq Ft OPA#551030100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Frank A. Felle, Jr. a/k/a Frank Anthony Felle, Jr., in His Capacity as Administrator and Heir of the Estate of Mary M. Farrell a/k/a Mary Margaret Farrell; Anthony Louis Felle a/k/a Anthony L. Felle, in His Capacity as Heir of the Estate of Mary M. Farrell a/k/a Mary Margaret Farrell; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns,

and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Mary M. Farrell a/k/a Mary Margaret Farrell, Deceased C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 01410 $35,495.14 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-436 5232 Sylvester St 191241816 62nd wd. 1180 Sq Ft OPA#621363400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Arcadio Hernandez C.P. July Term, 2006 No. 00533 $88,173.36 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-437 8429 Fayette St 191501914 50th wd. 1260 Sq Ft OPA#501049500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Nikakia M. Gallman a/k/a Nikakia Gallman; Lulu Mae Gallman C.P. December Term, 2008 No. 01007 $99,082.46 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-438 6826 Paschall St 19142 40th wd. 3773 Sq Ft OPA#403320900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Bethel Bates and Frederick Bates C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 01947 $27,423.60 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-440 512 E Roumfort Rd 19150 9th wd. 17290 Sq Ft OPA#091054300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Earl Morgan, Jr., Administrator of the Estate of Earl Morgan, Deceased; Elizabeth H. Watson, Individually and in Her Capacity as Heir of Sylvester Hopewell, Sr., Deceased; Sylvia Johnson, Individually and in Her Capacity as Heir of Sylvester Hopewell, Sr., Deceased; The Unknown Heirs of Sylvester Hopewell, Sr., Deceased; Irene Stallings, Individually and in Her Capacity as Heir of Sylvester Hopewell, Sr., Deceased; Bernard Hopewell, Individually and in His Capacity as Heir of Sylvester Hopewell, Sr., Deceased; Irvin Hopewell, Individually and in His Capacity as Heir of Sylvester Hopewell, Sr., Deceased; Sylvester Hopewell, Jr., Individually and in His Capacity as Heir of Sylvester Hopewell, Sr., Deceased C.P. September Term, 2012 No. 01016 $200,247.96 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-441 6635 N Fairhill St 191263020 61st wd. 1200 Sq Ft OPA#611115200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Claude Troupe, Jr. C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 03056 $106,003.99 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-442 207 W. Champlost St 19120 61st wd. Improvement Area:

1168 Sq Ft; Land Area: 1200 Sq Ft OPA#612167000 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Despina B. Delic & Marko D. Delic C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 00964 $140,126.41 Richard M. Squire & Associates, LLC 1610-444 9318 Academy Rd 19114 57th wd. 8580 Sq Ft OPA#572336300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Regina M. Zinnie and Edward W. Zinnie C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 02466 $212,820.37 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-445 416 Markle St 191283605 21st wd. 844 Sq Ft OPA#212022500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Frank W. Kennedy C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 03677 $47,686.79 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-446 4742 Rorer St 19120-4506 42nd wd. 1200 Sq Ft OPA#421521000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Xiomara Rodriguez; Israel Melendez C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 00034 $38,452.37 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-447 11808 Basile Rd 191542523 66th wd. 1380 Sq Ft OPA#662015300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY John Hannigan; Patricia A. Hannigan C.P. November Term, 2013 No. 01138 $160,331.18 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-448 1409 Betsy Ross Pl 191223304 20th wd. 1332 Sq Ft OPA#202268700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under LeRoy Hawkins, III, Deceased C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02751 $138,418.04 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-449 2110 S Lambert St 191453504 48th wd. 1316 Sq Ft OPA#481354300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Remona A. Gary C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 03781 $78,965.10 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-450 1201 W Somerville Ave 19141-2905 49th wd. 2800 Sq Ft OPA#49-3032200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sandra A. Baylor, in Her Capacity as Co-Administratrix and Heir of the Estate of Beatrice G. Roundtree a/k/a Beatrice Roundtree; Perditha Anderson, in Her Capacity as Co-Administratrix and Heir of the Estate of Beatrice G. Roundtree a/k/a Beatrice Roundtree; Dorothea Baylor,

in Her Capacity as Heir of the Estate of Beatrice G. Roundtree a/k/a Beatrice Roundtree; Yvette P.W. Mitchell, in Her Capacity as Heir of the Estate of Beatrice G. Roundtree a/k/a Beatrice Roundtree; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Beatrice G. Roundtree, Deceased; Betty Ann Harris, in Her Capacity as Heir of Normadine Poulson a/k/a Normadene Poulson, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Normadene Poulson, Deceased Heir of the Estate of Beatrice G. Roundtree; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Anna Baylor, Deceased Heir of the Estate of Beatrice G. Roundtree C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 00588 $161,898.20 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-451 141 E Walnut Ln 191442004 59th wd. 2068 Sq Ft OPA#592072000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Barbara Francois C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 00222 $131,793.78 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-452 1519B Stoney Ln 191154280 88th wd. 1664 Sq Ft OPA#888560740 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ashlee Marie Thompson a/k/a Ashlee Marie Hindman; John Thompson, Jr a/k/a John J. Thompson, Jr C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02793 $179,696.58 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-453 415 Leverington Ave 21st wd. BRT#212248300; PRCL#92N23-84 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Fred Maulucci a/k/a Fred Maulucci, Jr. C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 02385 $40,701.71 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1610-454 5013-15 Lancaster Ave 19131 52nd wd. 7460 Sq Ft BRT#884350885 IMPROVEMENTS: 3 STORY INDUSTRIAL FACTORY MASONRY BUILDING R&C USA Realty, Inc C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 05052 $110,793.32 Janet L. Gold, Esquire 1610-455 7247 Ogontz Ave 19138 50th wd. 1890 Sq Ft OPA#501306800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Veronica Jenkins C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01032 $118,309.23 KML Law Group, P.C.

1610-456 4215 Greenmount Rd 19154 4th wd. Improvement Area: 1296 Sq Ft; Land Area: 1759 Sq Ft OPA#662459800 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GAR 2 STY MAS㤱㤱 Carol A. Stewart C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 03925 $105,487.25 Richard M. Squire & Associates, LLC 1610-457 2233 Bonaffon St a/k/a 2233 S Bonaffon St 19142 40th wd. 931 Sq Ft OPA#403056500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Garrison F. Togba, Jr. and Frances Harvey Togba C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 00961 $59,107.95 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-458 1628 Packer Ave 19145 26th wd. 1559 Sq Ft OPA#261064300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Justin D. Kirkwood C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 04289 $278,686.08 Joseph R. Loverdi, Esquire 1610-459 231 E Hortter St 19119 22nd wd. 2250 Sq Ft OPA#221181300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Keith Collins C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 01296 $83,562.49 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-460 1533 W Butler St 19140 13th wd. 1200 Sq Ft OPA#131084400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Keith A. King C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 01874 $23,304.41 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-461 1539 Devereaux Ave 19149 54th wd. 1959 Sq Ft BRT#541066300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Leonard May a/k/a Len May and Lana May C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00852 $115,615.23 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1610-462 4200 I St 19124 33rd wd. 2822 Sq Ft OPA#332153700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Michael P. Hines C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 02787 $72,584.16 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-463 7606 Woodbine Ave 191512721 34th wd. 1558 Sq Ft BRT#343201400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Doretha A. Johnson and Ira L. Johnson C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 03180 $203,732.99 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1610-464 3242 Birch Rd 19154 66th wd. 1900 Sq Ft OPA#663004700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Christine Boyle C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 00452 $156,045.19 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-465 5839 Catharine St 19143 3rd wd. 1145 Sq Ft

OPA#032186400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY The Unknown Heirs of Louise Davis, Deceased; Riccardo Davis, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Louise Davis, Deceased C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 01024 $78,991.14 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-466 1542 S Newkirk St 191464425 36th wd. 1027 Sq Ft OPA#364369600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kristy Dalquist C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 02220 $88,224.29 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-467 4409 Comly St 191354013 55th wd. 1080 Sq Ft OPA#552006600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kathleen V. Rooney C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 03510 $51,646.30 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-468 1943 S Ithan St 19143 51st wd. 934 Sq Ft OPA#514226600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Marva Bryan, Executrix of the Estate of Mayleen Clarke a/k/a Mayleen K. Clarke, Deceased C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 00944 $20,651.44 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-469 4638 Naples St 19124 23rd wd. 1446 Sq Ft OPA#234213800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Pilar Cruz, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Carlos Nunez, Deceased C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 00464 $53,476.21 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-470 5046 Copley Rd 191444803 13th wd. 1290 Sq Ft OPA#133166400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Steven E. Sykes C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 02919 $59,237.68 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-471 1228 Ripley St BRT#631290300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Deborah A. Aponte C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 02069 $219,335.51 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1610-472 447 W Wingohocking St 42nd wd. 1116 Sq Ft BRT#422005700; PRCL#121N22-0012 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Milagros Perez C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 01347 $50,319.47 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1610-473 80 N 46th St BRT#061005144 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Hope Kearney C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 00622 $108,928.50 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC

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1610-474 529 Mountain St BRT#011359500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Leam Koung C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 04453 $55,321.97 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1610-475 2531 Grays Ferry Rd BRT#30-23-18000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Mary V. Green C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 04395 $243,687.60 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1610-476 6241 Farnsworth St BRT#621-5317-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Mondy Dorsainvil C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 03240 $42,558.32 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1610-477 3004 Magee Ave 19149 55th wd. 1623 Sq Ft OPA#551084700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Thomas P. Smith, Sr. and Theresa M. Smith a/k/a Theresa Smith C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00369 $160,267.21 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-478 4704 St Denis Dr BRT#652461552 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Stephen E. Jauregui and Katherine M. Tomlinson C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 02190 $237,737.54 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1610-479 220 E Walnut Park Dr 19120-1021 61st wd. 1296 Sq Ft OPA#61-1-3580-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Petrinia L. Perry C.P. February Term, 2009 No. 00416 $135,977.39 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-480 3446 Emerald St 191342011 45th wd. 903 Sq Ft OPA#452339000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Antonio Serrano, Jr. C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 02437 $55,388.77 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-481 4229 Glenview St 19135 41st wd. 1875 Sq Ft OPA#552171900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Cory L. Lewis; Michael K. Haldeman C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 02527 $117,458.87 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1610-482 6169 Grays Ave 19142 40th wd. 1920 Sq Ft OPA#402152000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lillian D. Galloway C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 00787 $97,742.01 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC

1610-483 4031 Meridian St 19136 65th wd. 2525 Sq Ft OPA#65-11586-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Susan M. Murphy C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 00042 $166,645.61 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1610-484 1300 Fillmore St 19124 23rd wd. 1521 Sq Ft OPA#234110700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Unknown heirs and/or administrators of the Estate of Donald C. Stambaugh C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 00271 $18,893.99 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1610-485 2249 N Vanpelt St a/k/a 2249 N Van Pelt St 19132 16th wd. 1120 Sq Ft OPA#162190500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Leonard M. Purnell C.P. April Term, 2011 No. 02701 $54,148.05 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1610-486 3718 Ronnald Dr 191543440 66th wd. 1254 Sq Ft OPA#662439200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sharon F. Bell C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 01324 $181,719.50 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-487 1943 W Spencer St a/k/a 1943 Spencer St 191411305 17th wd. 1230 Sq Ft OPA#171261200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Desmond G. Spencer C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 00936 $51,928.86 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-488 2433 E Indiana Ave 19134 25th wd. 1128 Sq Ft OPA#25-1094700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lynn Potter C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 01873 $149,431.08 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1610-489 2267 Friendship St 19149 54th wd. 1710 Sq Ft OPA#542126500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jose Sanchez, Jr. a/k/a Jose Sanchez; Gina Sanchez C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 01104 $183,138.18 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1610-490 6030 Philip St a/k/a 6030 N Philip St 19120 61st wd. 1088 Sq Ft OPA#612411400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Maria J. Fagundes; Jose Jorge Fagundes a/k/a Jose Fagundes C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 03463 $85,782.61 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC

1610-491 1005 Borbeck Ave 191112604 63rd wd. 1041 Sq Ft PRCL#631259600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Alyson M. Piper C.P. September Term, 2012 No. 03378 $124,767.18 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-492 3341 N 5th St 19140 19th wd. 1220 Sq Ft OPA#193128800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lawrence Richardson; United States of America; Tammy Richardson C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 02260 $78,543.49 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1610-493 1623 Fox Chase Rd 19152 56th wd. 4171 Sq Ft OPA#562-1788-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ioannis Arniotis a/k/a Ioannis Arniostis C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 02164 $236,933.22 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1610-494 1732 N 3rd St 19122-3005 18th wd. On Westerly side of 3rd St; Front: 16 ft Depth: 52 ft 6 in OPA#183138910 IMPROVEMENTS: SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE Steven H. Creamer C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 04339 $262,183.03 Stephen M. Hladik, Esq. 1610-495 1251 Gilham St 191115521 53rd wd. On NE side of Gilham St; Front: 18 ft 1.5 in Dept: 67 ft 6 in OPA#531171600 IMPROVEMENTS: SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE Juaqunia R. Holloman C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 02663 $96,630.89 Stephen M. Hladik, Esq. 1610-496 6336 N. 8th St 19126-3703 49th wd. On Northwesterly side of 8th St; Front: Irregular Depth: Irregular OPA#492134900 IMPROVEMENTS: SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE Cassandra Phillips C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 03547 $103,646.36 Stephen M. Hladik, Esq. 1610-497 4815 Tyson Ave 19135 41st wd. 2138 Sq Ft OPA#412045900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Peter Panteloglus C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 001477 $124,780.02 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1610-498 902 Bridge St 19124-1711 930 Sq Ft BRT#351147200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Stephanie Lundy C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 00232 $106,267.58 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1610-499 1813 S Ringgold St 19145 48th wd. 976 Sq Ft OPA#482319700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Paul Thorne, Individually and as

Managing Member of Elite Investment Properties, LLC C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 02991 $31,694.42 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1610-500 5021 Locust St 191394236 60th wd. 1560 Sq Ft BRT#602073400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Lionel Furman C.P. May Term, 2015 No. 01378 $56,444.97 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1610-501 6301 Allman St assessed as 6301-05 Allman St 19142 40th wd. 2540 Sq Ft OPA#401244600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY James A. Dill, III a/k/a James Dill C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 01723 $77,138.59 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1610-502 7264 N 21st St 191382102 10th wd. 1794 Sq Ft BRT#101188400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Troy R. Jackson, Personal Representative of the Estate of Mary L. Jackson, Deceased C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 01532 $33,123.24 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1610-503 7624 Wheeler St 19153 40th wd. 1620 Sq Ft OPA#404217202 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Patrice Joyner C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 03291 $105,939.34 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1610-504 1601 W Allegheny Ave 19132-1746 11th wd. 6500 Sq Ft OPA#11-2-0016-00 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL BUILDING Aaron A. Yelverton C.P. March Term, 2005 No. 1796 $22,597.03 Jennifer W. Levy-Tatum, Esquire; Binder & Canno, LLC 1610-505 739 S 60th St 19143 3rd wd. 1566 Sq Ft OPA#033197800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Donna Francis C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 02019 $71,614.85 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1610-506 413 S 43rd St 19104 27th wd. 2640 Sq Ft OPA#272109800 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Paul E. Spreng a/k/a Paul Spreng C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 03520 $158,584.08 Brett A. Solomon, Michael C. Mazack 1610-507 215 W Godfrey Ave 19120 61st wd. 1334 Sq Ft OPA#611291000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Hieu Phan C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02972 $161,031.19 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1610-508 1343 Kerbaugh St 191402018 43rd wd. 1260 Sq Ft

OPA#433022600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Shanna E. Worley C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 04624 $77,045.62 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-509 6442 Tulip St 19135-3325 41st wd. 1680 Sq Ft OPA#411431100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Felix Rodriguez C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 00598 $118,323.24 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-510 10217 Kilburn Rd 19114 66th wd. 1805 Sq Ft OPA#661155300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Brian Connelly and Ashley Stine C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 02298 $229,309.75 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-511 6007 Frontenac St 19149 53rd wd. 1512 Sq Ft OPA#531269700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lavonda Jenkins C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 00404 $115,134.76 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-512 2547 Cedar St 19125 31st wd. ROW 2STY MASONRY; 1320 Sq Ft BRT#312047400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING John Gallagher, Sr., as Parent and Natural Guardian of John James Gallagher, a minor and only surviving heir of Lisa Bernek, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; All Unknown Surviving Heirs of Lisa Bernek, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. February Term, 2013 No. 03320 $96,952.49 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1610-513 4016 Meridian St 19136 65th wd. 2666 Sq Ft OPA#651150100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Amy Maisey and Joseph P. Maisey a/k/a Joseph P. Maisey, Jr. C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 01471 $178,941.71 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-514 2616 S Colorado St 19145-4509 26th wd. 651 Sq Ft BRT#26-2039600 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Vincent J. Manno and Rita Manno C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 03370 $153,801.99 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-515 8209 Chelwynde Ave 19153 40th wd. 2197 Sq Ft OPA#405818304 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Qiana Barriner C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 01928 $92,657.01 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-516 6613 Rising Sun Ave 19111 35th wd. 0.286 acres OPA#882051375 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS:

TWO STORY STUCCO OFFICE BUILDING WITH APPROXIMATELY 14,250 SQ FT Allegheny Real Estate Associates, LLC C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 00923 $1,148,101.05 Steven H. Sailer, Esquire 1610-517 165 W Thelma St 191401624 42nd wd. 966 Sq Ft OPA#422045500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Bonnie L. Ings, in His Capacity as Heir of Alice J. Ings, Deceased; Linda Singleton, in Her Capacity as Heir of Alice J. Ings, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Alice J. Ings, Deceased C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 04414 $17,395.00 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-518 1959 Rowan St 13th wd. 1395 Sq Ft BRT#131362200 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW CONV/ APT 3 STY MASON Justin Reeves C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 00757 $92,801.40 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-519 435 S 43rd St 27th wd. 1536 Sq Ft BRT#272110800 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW CONV/APT 3 STY MASON Victorian Village, LLC C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 02131 $79,090.39 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-520 7034 Wheeler St 191421719 40th wd. 1110 Sq Ft BRT#406204700 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY Desiree Wheeler C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 01856 $82,830.74 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-521 319-321 S 3rd St 5th wd. 1968 Sq Ft BRT#051058010 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 3 STY MASONRY Lisa Colton a/k/a Lisa G. Colton C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 00357 $753,423.57 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-522 2105 Cobbs Creek Pkwy 19142-1028 40th wd. 1147 Sq Ft BRT#403230600 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Tracey K. Richardson C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 00683 $68,225.67 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-523 4148 Markland St 191245343 33rd wd. 990 Sq Ft BRT#332494700 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Dolores T. Johnson a/k/a Dolores Johnson and Richard Harley C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 00454 $69,102.60 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-524 5909 Belden St 191493704 53rd wd. 1648 Sq Ft BRT#531300000 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY Brandon

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Nguyen, Real Owner and Original Mortgagor and Kathy Nguyen C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 02872 $116,983.12 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-525 4435 Silverwood St 21st wd. 2635 Sq Ft BRT#211240610 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 3.5 STY STONE Eugene Syen a/k/a Eugene D. Syen C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 03735 $135,699.03 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-526 1172 E Sharpnack St 191503109 50th wd. 1706 Sq Ft BRT#502326400 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY Jeffrey L. Williams a/k/a Jeffrey Williams C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 00152 $116,692.07 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-527 1900 Lott St 58th wd. 7410 Sq Ft BRT#581044900 IMPROVEMENTS: DET W/D GAR 1 STY MASONRY Adel Etreih C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02781 $382,744.90 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-528 4743 A St 42nd wd. 2200 Sq Ft BRT#421298500 IMPROVEMENTS: S/D W/D GAR 2 STY MASONRY Michael E. Harrison and Patricia M. Harrison C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 00042 $99,359.91 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-529 7043 Vandike St 191351916 41st wd. 2000 Sq Ft BRT#412427500 IMPROVEMENTS: DET 2 STY MASONRY Sequiel Serrano C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 03647 $200,951.54 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-530 3734 Richmond St 45th wd. 1075 Sq Ft BRT#451156900 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Edward Grelis, Jr. a/k/a Edward Grelis C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 03407 $83,693.30 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-531 2347 79th Ave 191501405 50th wd. 3459 Sq Ft BRT#501457100 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY Mary R. Ellis a/k/a Mary Roberta Ellis C.P. May Term, 2015 No. 00260 $83,581.52 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-532 10213 Dedaker St 19116 2290 Sq Ft BRT#582521407 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL Vladislav Poberezhskiy C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 4486 $63,719.52 Dana S. Plon, Esquire; Sirlin Lesser & Benson, P.C. 1610-533 4559 N Hicks St 191401104 13th wd. 682 Sq Ft BRT#132075200 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Yaroslava Kunitski and Stepan Kunitski C.P.

August Term, 2015 No. 02641 $38,814.52 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-534 1515 E Pastorius St 19138 10th wd. 1558 Sq Ft BRT#102179100 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GAR 2 STY MASONRY Barbara Wiseman a/k/a Barbera Wiseman C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 03042 $50,079.43 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-535 4549 Teesdale St 41st wd. 1456 Sq Ft BRT#412107400 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY Kevin Thomas a/k/a Kevin Sean Thomas C.P. May Term, 2015 No. 01145 $107,674.32 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-536 5630 Arch St 19139 4th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1636 Sq Ft BRT#042024500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Cheryl Carson C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 00076 $97,582.77 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1610-537 5908 Agusta St 19149 53rd wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1086 Sq Ft BRT#531248500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Ivette Martell C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 03565 $77,271.26 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1610-538 3178 Chatham St 19134 25th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1290 Sq Ft BRT#251420200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Karen Flynn C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 03968 $109,007.64 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1610-539 4417 Riverview Ln #43 191291733 38th wd. BRT#888380147 IMPROVEMENTS: RES CONDO 2 STY MAS㤱㤱 Anita B. Cauthorn a/k/a Anita Barnes Cauthorn and Lawrence L. Yancey C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 04388 $338,294.42 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-540 239 S St. Bernard St 19139 6th wd. ROW CONV/APT 2 STY MASON; 2040 Sq Ft BRT#601095100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Timothy A. Tobin C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 03303 $98,442.27 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1610-541 5133 Catharine St 19143 46th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1410 Sq Ft BRT#462093700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Patrilla E. Askew-Harris C.P. January Term, 2011 No. 04872 $109,999.56 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1610-542 6735 N Smedley St 19126 10th wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1358 Sq Ft BRT#101036500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING James Davis C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 03467

$134,859.40 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1610-543 2138 Devereaux Ave 19149 62nd wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1,152 Sq. Ft. BRT#621220700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Zu Ting Shi C.P. August Term, 2016 No. 04400 $92,865.71 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1610-545 9326 Vandike St 19114 41st wd. 5000 Sq Ft BRT#652338100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING David Barberry, Known Heir of Helen V. Barberry; Gary Barberry, Known Heir of Helen V. Barberry; Lisa Barberry, Known Heir of Helen V. Barberry; Mark Barberry, Known Heir of Helen V. Barberry; Mickey Barberry, Known Heir of Helen V. Barberry; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Helen V. Barberry C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 00489 $353,525.01 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1610-546 2311 N Lambert St 19123 16th wd. 870 Sq Ft BRT#162165000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Marc David Baxter a/k/a Marc D. Baxter a/k/a Marc Baxter C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 02431 $42,324.63 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1610-547 113 W Thompson St 18th wd. 242 Sq Ft BRT#182159204 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 3 STY MASONRY Jose Juan Sanchez C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 01312 $56,119.22 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-548 1441 Devereaux Ave 54th wd. 1596 Sq Ft BRT#541062700 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GAR 2 STY MASONRY Shan Guang Zheng C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 03890 $99,611.62 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-549 267 S Ithan St 60th wd. 1040 Sq Ft BRT#604223500 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Kevin Robinson C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 02580 $137,110.87 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-550 1226 Haworth St 191242508 23rd wd. 1730 Sq Ft OPA#234164000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Nilda Natal C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 04661 $220,551.29 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-551 1219 S 53rd St 19143 51st wd. 1941 Sq Ft OPA#511223400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY The Unknown Heirs of Nathan Bowman, Deceased; Annette Bowman, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Nathan Bowman, Deceased; Yvonne

Smith, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Nathan Bowman, Deceased; Joseph Bowman, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Nathan Bowman, Deceased C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 04216 $134,217.48 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-552 3532 E Crown Ave 191141930 66th wd. 1260 Sq Ft OPA#661224500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Marilyn Seidman a/k/a Marilyn Ann Kaplan C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 02587 $113,472.45 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-553 3154 G St 19134 33rd wd. 816 Sq Ft OPA#331325100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gerald Shaffer C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 01843 $36,739.20 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-554 4624 Magee Ave 191352729 41st wd. 1344 Sq Ft OPA#411180300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Dawn Millman C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02931 $29,451.47 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-555 6760 Linmore Ave 191421807 40th wd. 1216 Sq Ft OPA#403185300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tiah Slanger C.P. December Term, 2011 No. 00458 $57,795.76 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-556 7257 Lawndale St 19111 53rd wd. 6325 Sq Ft OPA#532392700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Marie D. Hartnett and James P. Hartnett C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 01576 $217,166.77 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-557 1462 N Hobart St 191313817 4th wd. 972 Sq Ft OPA#043170200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Bertha Mae Taylor C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 02172 $39,799.96 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-558 1508 W Seybert St 19121 47th wd. 729 Sq Ft OPA#471077000 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lesley Nasir and Tarik Nasir C.P. August Term, 2008 No. 03061 $87,304.43 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-559 1240 Magee Ave 53rd wd. 1267 Sq Ft BRT#531185200 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GAR 2 STY MASONRY Pierre A. Beaudouin and Marie Joselyn Beaudouin C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 00761 $120,789.06 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-560 749 S 23rd St 30th wd. 1029 Sq Ft BRT#302149300 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW CONV/APT 3 STY MASON Silvana R. Masri C.P. November Term, 2014 No.

00516 $290,041.98 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-562 6326 Marsden St 19135 41st wd. 1283 Sq Ft BRT#411251300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Catalina Cruz; Wilson Alvarez a/k/a Wilson M. Alvarez, Individually, and as Known Heir of Catalina Cruz C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 01408 $42,176.67 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1610-563 1918 E Somerset St 25th wd. 753 Sq Ft BRT#252016500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Michael Kuders C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 03580 $68,160.65 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1610-564 3524 Welsh Rd 64th wd. 1170 Sq Ft BRT#642308801 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Marguerite S. Poore a/k/a Marguerite Poore C.P. May Term, 2015 No. 00501 $70,881.47 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1610-565 4703 N 3rd St 19120 42nd wd. 690 Sq Ft BRT#42-2-4291-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Carmen Sierra C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 02271 $42,433.31 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1610-566 2361 E Boston St 19125 31st wd. 778 Sq Ft BRT#3119N8-198; OPA#313184900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Elizabeth Murray a/k/a Elizabeth P. Murray; Thomas Rafter a/k/a Thomas J. Rafter C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 03332 $138,875.41 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1610-567 31 N Ruby St 44th wd. 943 Sq Ft BRT#441192200 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Stephanie Kirkley, Original Mortgagor; Maurice John Andre Kirkley, Real Owner; Tina Sabrina Kirkley, Real Owner C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 01304 $32,306.15 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-568 5819 N Park Ave 19141 49th wd. 2368 Sq Ft BRT#493229200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Addoniah Ali El a/k/a Laverne Harris El; Ruth Harris El C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 02342 $133,202.14 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1610-569 5545 Miriam Rd 191241715 35th wd. 1277 Sq Ft BRT#35-1414200 Subject To Mortgage Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Marie Angerville a/k/a Marie S. Angerville; Samuel Florent C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 03495 $93,533.59 Udren Law Offices, P.C.

1610-570 1714 N Wilton St 19131 52nd wd. 960 Sq Ft BRT#52-1312600 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Barbara Smith C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 01559 $96,153.36 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1610-571 6116 W Oxford St 19151 34th wd. 2674 Sq Ft OPA#342092300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Irene M. Merriweather Turner C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 02584 $128,716.32 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1610-572 1943 Georgian Rd 19138 10th wd. 1872 Sq Ft OPA#101273800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY John Neal and Louise L. Neal a/k/a Louise L. Neil C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 2345 $78,147.99 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1610-573 155 W Seymour St 191443660 12th wd. 1296 Sq Ft BRT#123057600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Donya D. Allen C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 03455 $145,680.84 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1610-574 5608 Walnut St 19139 60th wd. 2544 Sq Ft PRCL#604039400 Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: APT 2-4 UNITS 3 STORY MASONRY Westminster Properties, LLC; Michael Andruszka; Meredith Andruszka C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 01301 $81,122.34 Brett L. Messinger and Ryan A. Gower 1610-575 5718 Osage Ave 19143 60th wd. 0.021 acres PRCL#604118400 Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: SINGLE FAMILY HOME Millenium PMA, LLC C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 01850 $67,311.07 Brett L. Messinger and Ryan A. Gower 1610-576 1923 W Somerset St 19123 11th wd. 1094 Sq Ft PRCL#111032600 Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STORY MASONRY Estate of Cheryl Louise Russell a/k/a Cheryl Russell, Deceased; Carlisa A. Seth, in her capacity as personal representative of the Estate of Cheryl Louise Russell a/k/a Cheryl Russell, Deceased C.P. May Term, 2012 No. 01507 $50,089.60 Brett L. Messinger and Ryan A. Gower 1610-577 2744 Emerald St 19134 25th wd. 1128 Sq Ft PRCL#252503200 Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STORY MASONRY PMP Assets, LLC C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 04652 $49,719.41

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Brett L. Messinger and Ryan A. Gower 1610-578 1922 Page St 19150 32nd wd. 1014 Sq Ft PRCL#321160100 Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Sean Crump C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 01313 $45,794.17 Brett L. Messinger and Ryan A. Gower 1610-579 6141 N Fairhill St 19120 61st wd. 1600 Sq Ft OPA#611108700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Derrick Robinson C.P. February Term, 2011 No. 03556 $110,313.62 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-580 8030 Ditman St Unit 14 19136 65th wd. All that certain unit in the property known, named and identified in the Declaration Plan referred to herein as “Frankford Estates Condominium” a condominium located at 8030 Ditman Street, etc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which heretofore has been submitted to the provisions of the Unit Property Act of Pennsylvania, Act of July 3rd, 1963 P.L. 196 by the recording in the Office for the Recording of Deeds in and for the County of Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania of a Declaration dated June 22, 1979 and recorded June 26, 1979 in Deed Book DCC 1986 page 474 a Declaration Plan dated June 22, 1979 and recorded in Deed Book DCC 1936 page 508 being designated on such Declaration Plan and Declaration as Unit No. 14C as more fully described in such Declaration Plan and Declaration together with a proportionate undivided interest in the Common Elements to wit: Each and every unit Frankford Estates Condominium shall be possessed of and have appurtenant to it a percentenage interest in the Common Elements of the Condominium and the interest of this unit shall be .6344%; 650 Sq Ft BRT#888650914 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL Estate of Ann Berry C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 03147 $35,953.78 Hal A. Barrow, Esquire 1610-581 5413 Tennis Ave 191202922 42nd wd. 1098 Sq Ft BRT#422342600 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Carline Scutt C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 01964 $74,114.02 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-582 2019 Wilmot St 19124 23rd wd. 1080 Sq Ft OPA#23-2136500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kevin Granados C.P. January Term, 2013 No. 01055 $74,430.23 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1610-583 3636 Chesterfield Rd 19114 66th wd. 4517 Sq Ft

OPA#661037900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Timothy P. Thomas C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 01610 $212,343.20 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1610-584 3931 Brown St 19104-4803 24th wd. On N side of Brown St; Front: Irregular; Depth: Irregular OPA#243122900 IMPROVEMENTS: SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE Antonio Watson C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 00761 $69,631.15 Stephen M. Hladik, Esq. 1610-585 604 N 64th St 19151-3837 34th wd. 2500 Sq Ft BRT#344245100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Charles A.J. Halpin, III, Esq., Personal Representative of the Estate of Leroy Moody, Jr., Deceased C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 00201 $137,793.04 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1610-586 4474 Almond St 19137 45th wd. 1443 Sq Ft OPA#453194900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Patrick Roonan C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 01531 $163,384.18 Joseph R. Loverdi, Esquire 1610-587 7142 Tabor Ave 19111 53rd wd. 3163 Sq Ft OPA#532393800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Rebekah Ortiz; William J. Blaszczyk C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 01867 $155,367.50 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1610-589 625 Carver St 191201713 35th wd. 1046 Sq Ft OPA#351251100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Robert C. McConnell; Martin P. Pastelnick; Catherine M. Pastelnick C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02662 $52,350.54 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-590 484 E Penn St 19144 12th wd. 1126 Sq Ft BRT#121139400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Altermease Tucker C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02385 $39,497.51 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1610-591 4317 Disston St 19135 41st wd. 3164 Sq Ft BRT#552188900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Andrew Smith; Bernadette Webb n/k/a Bernadette Smith C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 03897 $161,134.41 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1610-592 9921 Bustleton Ave, H-10 19115 BRT#88-8580761 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING S. Kapustin a/k/a Sergey Kapustin C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01196 $89,091.74 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1610-593 6132 Gardenia St 191441017 59th wd. 1280 Sq Ft

OPA#592215600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tanya M. Coates a/k/a Tanya Coates a/k/a Ms. Tanya Coates C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 02349 $65,031.11 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-594 6116 Newtown Ave 191115909 35th wd. 1120 Sq Ft OPA#352208300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Terence Johnson; Alfreda Johnson C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00160 $84,471.25 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-596 4659 G St 19120-4607 42nd wd. 1500 Sq Ft OPA#421610600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Anibal Colon, Jr. C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00397 $67,306.17 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-597 6542 N Bouvier St 191263413 17th wd. 1246 Sq Ft OPA#172231900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Karen E. Mason a/k/a Karen Mason C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 00872 $133,740.81 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-598 7700 Thouron Ave 191502516 50th wd. 1260 Sq Ft OPA#502141800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Candace R. Pickett C.P. February Term, 2013 No. 02001 $86,269.87 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-599 1826 S 54th St 19143-5715 51st wd. 960 Sq Ft OPA#514160000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ernest M. Gibbs, in His Capacity as Heir of Gail L. Gibbs, Deceased; Terrance Gibbs, in His Capacity as Heir of Gail L. Gibbs, Deceased; Marcus Rogers, in His Capacity as Heir of Gail L. Gibbs, Deceased; Allison Harris a/k/a Allison Stern, in Her Capacity as Heir of Gail L. Gibbs, Deceased; Everette Rogers, in His Capacity as Heir of Gail L. Gibbs, Deceased; Nana A. Antiwaa-Bey, in Her Capacity as Heir of Dorothy Ervin-Miller a/k/a Dorothy M. Ervin-Miller, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Dorothy ErvinMiller, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Gail L. Gibbs, Deceased C.P. March Term, 2010 No. 02033 $105,424.80 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-600 1626 N 25th St 191212932 32nd wd. 1752 Sq Ft OPA#324085700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY American Heritage

Federal Credit Union C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 01742 $78,999.02 plus interest in the amount of $1,178.32 from 06/07/16 Michael V. Phillips, Esquire 1610-601 601 Watkins St 191481727 1st wd. 1312 Sq Ft OPA#012122200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY American Heritage Federal Credit Union C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 03494 $90,217.09 plus interest in the amount of $18,081.00 from 8/27/14 Michael V. Phillips, Esquire 1610-602 5925 N Front St 19120 61st wd. 1104 Sq Ft OPA#612478500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Stacey Blackston C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 04428 $43,346.17 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-603 8041 Mars Pl 19153 40th wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1260 Sq Ft BRT#405882647 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Greivin Escalante C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 00897 $241,951.26 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1610-604 1700 65th Ave a/ka/ 1700 W 65th Ave 19126-3412 17th wd. 1408 Sq Ft OPA#171350400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Eva V. Coffee C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 02570 $68,195.04 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-605 1603 Meribrook Ln 19151 34th wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1120 Sq Ft BRT#343360800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Toi R. Hutchins a/k/a Toi Rene Hutchins, in her capacity as Administratrix of the Estate of Myron B. Hutchins, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 00558 $143,727.77 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1610-606 7935 Thouron Ave 191502520 50th wd. 1400 Sq Ft OPA#502169600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Hetty R. West, in Her Capacity as Heir of Charles Mathis, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Charles Mathis, Deceased C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02584 $159,483.82 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-607 1918 73rd Ave 191382711 10th wd. 1228 Sq Ft OPA#101344600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lila Bradford C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 00417 $37,475.98 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP

1610-608 1854 Mohican St 191381206 10th wd. 1042 Sq Ft OPA#102241600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Thomas J. Green; Paula Y. Pruitt C.P. September Term, 2008 No. 01971 $68,861.08 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-609 6107 Ellsworth St 191432910 3rd wd. 1728 Sq Ft OPA#033137800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Elbert G. Rudasill C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02921 $88,566.52 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-610 1846 Widener Pl 191411336 17th wd. 1296 Sq Ft OPA#171186000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Witman Burress a/k/a Whitman Burress a/k/a Burress Whitman C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 03785 $57,979.27 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-611 2222 S Bonsall St 191453209 48th wd. 1120 Sq Ft OPA#482287900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under PRESTON L DIGGINS, Deceased C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 01450 $40,360.89 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-612 5826 Catherine St a/k/a 5826 Catharine St 191432418 3rd wd. 1242 Sq Ft OPA#033001400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Michelle Weems C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 02359 $39,335.25 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-613 7603 A Forrest Ave a/k/a 7603 Forrest Ave Unit A 191502203 50th wd. 1152 Sq Ft OPA#502218530 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Robin Blackwell C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 03321 $111,129.84 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-614 1424 Bleigh Ave 19111 56th wd. 1396 Sq Ft OPA#561294700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY William Whiteley C.P. May Term, 2015 No. 02243 $217,325.11 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-615 3519 Englewood St 191491613 55th wd. 1292 Sq Ft OPA#551506100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Stephen Long C.P. February Term, 2013 No. 02174 $183,676.53 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-616 908 S Fairhill St 191474016 2nd wd. 1233 Sq Ft OPA#021439600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL

PROPERTY David E. Sechy C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 04710 $247,135.02 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-617 318A Ripka St 19128 21st wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1216 Sq Ft BRT#211421830 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Unknown Surviving Heirs of Mario Adamoli; Carl J. Adamoli, Known Surviving Heir of Mario Adamoli; Susan M. Mellor, Known Surviving Heir of Mario Adamoli C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 03342 $162,981.60 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1610-618 300 E Allens Ln 191191101 9th wd. 1632 Sq Ft OPA#091007500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kim M. Jones C.P. May Term, 2012 No. 00030 $127,314.69 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-619 2955 N 7th St 191332402 37th wd. 1298 Sq Ft PRCL#372045800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Margarita Perez, in Her Capacity as Executrix and Devisee of the Estate of Jose Perez; Evelyn Andino, in Her Capacity as Devisee of the Estate of Jose Perez; Antonio Perez, in His Capacity as Devisee of the Estate of Jose Perez C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 02130 $55,890.00 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-620 5139 Charles St 191241425 62nd wd. 880 Sq Ft OPA#622288200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Marcus K. Fowlkes C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 02423 $60,174.39 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-621 552 Marwood Rd 19120 42nd wd. ROW W/DET GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1140 Sq Ft BRT#421222000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Ronald Fulton C.P. September Term, 2012 No. 03045 $139,898.78 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1610-622 5149 Brown St 191391527 44th wd. 1650 Sq Ft OPA#441280900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Brittany Danielle Hogans, in Her Capacity as Administratrix and Heir of the Estate of Nicole Y. Hogans; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Nicole Y. Hogans, Deceased C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 03447 $65,586.80 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-623 1950 Elston St 191382719 10th wd. 1200 Sq Ft OPA#101330000 IMPROVE-

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MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jamar Sutton a/k/a Jamar Wesley Sutton a/k/a Jamar W. Sutton; Ziani Richardson, in Her Capacity as Administratrix and Heir of the Estate of Shontate Richardson a/k/a Shontate M. Gans; Don Gans, in His Capacity as Heir of the Estate of Shontate Richardson a/k/a Shontate M. Gans; Jacquil Richardson, in His Capacity as Heir of the Estate of Shontate Richardson a/k/a Shontate M. Gans; Ja Donte Richardson, in His Capacity as Heir of the Estate of Shontate Richardson a/k/a Shontate M. Gans; Yasrell Richardson, in His Capacity as Heir of the Estate of Shontate Richardson a/k/a Shontate M. Gans; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Shontate Richardson, Deceased C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 02034 $135,573.08 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-624 2601 S Dewey St 19142 40th wd. ROW CONV/APT 2 STY MASONRY; 1542 Sq Ft BRT#402074400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Mohammad Shokrollah C.P. February Term, 2011 No. 00662 $109,414.70 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1610-625 1336 N 76th St 191512823 34th wd. 1120 Sq Ft OPA#343306600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Leonard B. Pesko, Individually and in His Capacity as Administrator of the Estate of Helen Pesko; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Helen Pesko, Deceased C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 02742 $79,064.95 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-626 7253 N 21st St 19138 10th wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1416 Sq Ft BRT#101177500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Rochelle K. Maxie, Known Surviving Heir of Rose L. Tilley; Unknown Surviving Heirs of Rose L. Tilley; George B. Robinson, Known Surviving Heir of Rose L. Tilley C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 01854 $156,877.85 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1610-627 9060 Verree Rd 19115 63rd wd. DET W/GAR 1.5 STY MAS OTHER; 1395 Sq Ft BRT#632262300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Philip Nace and Irma Rivera C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 03949 $215,164.92 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1610-628 1620 N 10th St 191222702 20th wd. 1224 Sq Ft

OPA#202186900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Regina Lewis, Deceased C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01955 $86,564.40 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-629 7953 Provident Rd 19150 50th wd. 1440 Sq Ft OPA#501189100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY The Unknown Heirs and/or Administrators of the Estate of Thomas Tarboro; The Unknown Heirs and/or Administrators of the Estate of Sara L. Boddie C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 05371 $111,233.41 KML Law Group, P.C. 1610-630 309-313 Arch St Unit 607 19106 5th wd. 972 Sq Ft OPA#888058772 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ann S. Boris; Vamsidhar Vurimindi C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 01609 $251,348.71 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-631 6436 Limekiln Pike 19138 17th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1406 Sq Ft BRT#172318300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Unknown Surviving Heirs of Eula Williams, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 01525 $155,777.26 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1610-632 710 Miller St 18th wd. Beginning Point: at a point on the SE side of Miller St (twenty feet wide) (not on city Plan) at the distance of one hundred thirteen feet ten inches Northeastwardly from the Northeast side of East Berks St OPA#181445525 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 3 STY MASONRY Greg Shensky C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 00271 $303,400.22 Richard J. Nalbandian, III 1610-633 470 W Clapier St 19144 13th wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1344 Sq Ft BRT#133057900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Steven J. Topieniak, Known Surviving Heir of Josephine Topieniak; David J. Topieniak, Sr., Known Surviving Heir of Josephine Topieniak; Unknown Surviving Heirs of Josephine Topieniak C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 02614 $53,018.01 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1610-634 1517 N Robinson St 19151 34th wd. 1440 Sq Ft OPA#342273400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Albert Mosley; Cynthia Mosley C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 03826

$63,868.77 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-635 6531 Tulip St 191352823 41st wd. 1046 Sq Ft OPA#411450500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Carvin Haggins; Teresa Haggins C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 03641 $115,501.78 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-636 6626 N 18th St 19141 10th wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1510 Sq Ft BRT#101093500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Geraldine Wright C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01592 $111,753.87 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1610-637 6720 Dorel St 19142-2607 40th wd. 1170 Sq Ft OPA#406350000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Rasheed J. Gilliard; Gioavonda L. Gilliard C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 00283 $131,471.98 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-638 155 W Sparks St a/k/a 155 Sparks St 19120-1944 61st wd. 1080 Sq Ft OPA#611267300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gustavo A. Colina; Luisa Barrantes Colina C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 02957 $95,842.95 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-639 3327 Fitler St 191142602 57th wd. 1770 Sq Ft OPA#572168819 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Samuel Turkson a/k/a Sam Trukson; Joyce Turkson C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 00014 $219,422.42 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-640 2008 E Tioga St 19134 45th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1411 Sq Ft BRT#452103400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Marquise Robinson a/k/a Marquise K. Robinson C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 00459 $78,697.75 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1610-641 7950 Algon Ave 191112827 56th wd. 1296 Sq Ft OPA#561127800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Melanie L. Musicant; Arnold G. Selig C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02371 $203,381.61 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-642 223 E Garrett St a/k/a 223 Garrett St 19119-2107 22nd wd. 1200 Sq Ft OPA#222015500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Timothy Wicks; Carlisa Wicks C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 03379 $81,622.54 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-643 238 E Comly St a/k/a 238 Comly St 19120-1105 35th wd. 1238 Sq Ft OPA#352138700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESI-

DENTIAL PROPERTY James Bullock, Jr.; Bonnie Bullock C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 01335 $101,738.32 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1610-644A 3246 Kensington Ave 19134 33rd wd. 2304 Sq Ft BRT#871544520 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL/ MIXED USE REAL ESTATE Robert M. Mitchell C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 03659 $23,198.31 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1610-644B 3248 Kensington Ave 19134 33rd wd. 2304 Sq Ft BRT#871544530 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL/ MIXED USE REAL ESTATE Robert M. Mitchell C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 03659 $23,198.31 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1610-645A 1030 Ellsworth St 26th wd. 5080 Sq Ft BRT#871502470 IMPROVEMENTS: MIXED USE Salvatore Dicara C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 1445 $128,375.94 Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby, LLP; Sarah A. Elia, Esq. 1610-645B 1028 Ellsworth St 26th wd. 5080 Sq Ft BRT#871502460 IMPROVEMENTS: MIXED USE Salvatore Dicara C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 1445 $128,375.94 Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby, LLP; Sarah A. Elia, Esq. 1610-646 101 N Van Pelt St 191031016 8th wd. 1010 Sq Ft BRT#083100800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Richard E. Henderson C.P. November Term, 2013 No. 00931 $312,181.43 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1610-647A 102 N 60th St 19136 34th wd. 1278 Sq Ft PRCL#341078100 Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: ROW/CONV/APT 2 STORY MASONRY Westminster Properties, LLC; Michael Andruszka; Meredith Andruszka C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 00414 $75,141.17 Brett L. Messinger and Ryan A. Gower 1610-647B 104 N 60th St 19136 34th wd. 1278 Sq Ft PRCL#341078200 Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: ROW/CONV/APT 2 STORY MASONRY Westminster Properties, LLC; Michael Andruszka; Meredith Andruszka C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 00414 $75,141.17 Brett L. Messinger and Ryan A. Gower 1610-648A 2115 W Hunting Park 19140 13th wd. APT BOARDING HOME MASONRY; 2938 Sq Ft BRT#881425610 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Stanley H. Taylor, co-executor of the estate of Mary Taylor,

deceased mortgagor and real owner; Tracy Y. Taylor, coexecutor of the estate of Mary Taylor, deceased mortgagor and real owner C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 00128 $160,459.75 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1610-648B 2113 W Hunting Park 19140 13th wd. APT BOARDING HOME MASONRY; 2887 Sq Ft BRT#881425600 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Stanley H. Taylor, co-executor of the estate of Mary Taylor, deceased mortgagor and real owner; Tracy Y. Taylor, coexecutor of the estate of Mary Taylor, deceased mortgagor and real owner C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 00128 $160,459.75 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1610-649A 2349 N Camac St 19133 37th wd. 1084 Sq Ft PRCL#371251000 Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STORY MASONRY Marc Baxter a/k/a Marc D. Baxter C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 02210 $32,322.54 Brett L. Messinger and Ryan A. Gower 1610-649B 4512 N 11th St 19140 49th wd. 1819 Sq Ft PRCL#491403900 Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: S/D CONV APT 3 STORY MASONRY Marc Baxter a/k/a Marc D. Baxter C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 02210 $61,490.16 Brett L. Messinger and Ryan A. Gower 1610-649C 1505 S Colorado St 19146 36th wd. 1176 Sq Ft PRCL#365217600 Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STORY MASONRY Marc Baxter a/k/a Marc D. Baxter C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 02210 $42,659.70 Brett L. Messinger and Ryan A. Gower 1610-650 1205 Delaire Landing Rd, Delaire Landing No. 1 Condominium, Unit 1-205 19114 65th wd. Together with all right, title and interest (1.838%) in and to the Common Elements as set forth and subject to the Declaration of Condominium, Code of Regulations, Plats and Plans and any and all amendments thereto. BRT#888650450 Estate of Bernice Samuels, Deceased; Lucille Turner, Executrix C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 02091 $7,961.19 Gilbert E. Toll 1610-651 623-25 Kater St 19147 2nd wd. ROW 3 STY MASONRY; 2352 Sq Ft BRT#023016410 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Michael W. Kwasnik C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 03012 $1,539,380.00 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1610-652A 2105-2109 Haines St a/k/a 2111-2131 Eastburn Ave 10th

wd. 2105-09 Haines St: 9709 Sq Ft; Land: 61,948 Sq Ft; Improvements: 67,846 Sq Ft OPA#775512100 Rowan Development, Inc C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 04827 $3821573.54 together with continuing interest at the rate of $514.42 per diem from and after August 12, 2015 through the date of sheriff ’s sale Daniel M. Pereira, Esquire; Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis LLP 1610-652B 2106-2116 Haines St 10th wd. 2106-2116 Haines St a/k/a 2111-2131 Eastburn Ave: Land: 61948 Sq Ft; Improvement: 67846 Sq Ft OPA#775512210 Rowan Development, Inc. C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 04827 $3821573.54 together with continuing interest at the rate of $514.42 per diem from and after August 12, 2015 through the date of sheriff ’s sale Daniel M. Pereira, Esquire; Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis LLP 1610-653A 2312 E Thompson St 19125 31st wd. 840 Sq Ft BRT#312123300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Carol J. Porter, Individually, and as known heir of James J. Porter a/k/a James J. Porter Jr.; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title or interest from or under James J. Porter a/k/a James J. Porter Jr. C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00851 $11,750.46 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1610-653B 2314 E Thompson St 19125 31st wd. 840 Sq Ft BRT#312123400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Carol J. Porter, Individually, and as known heir of James J. Porter a/k/a James J. Porter Jr.; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title or interest from or under James J. Porter a/k/a James J. Porter Jr. C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00851 $11,750.46 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1610-654A 8019 Rowland Ave 64th wd. 5,037 Sq Ft BRT#642006200 IMPROVEMENTS: DET W/D GAR 2 STY MASONRY Edward Balajewski and Margaret J. Rybas a/k/a Margaret Rybas C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 01832 $225,634.67 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1610-654B 8021 Rowland Ave 64th wd. 4,920 Sq Ft BRT#642006300 IMPROVEMENTS: VACANT LAND RESIDE < ACRE Edward Balajewski and Margaret J. Rybas a/k/a Margaret Rybas C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 01832 $225,634.67 Milstead & Associates, LLC

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Meeting the Challenge Thousands of backpacks and school supplies are distributed to foster youth by HughE Dillon The Valley Youth House Backpack Challenge 2016 concluded Aug. 30, after raising funds and collecting essential back-to-school items for foster youth in the Philadelphia area. The Backpack Challenge is now at the national level and has become so successful due to its strong partnerships, including those with the Philadelphia Department of Human Services, Five Below, iHeartRadio, and Valley Youth House. This year, nearly 7,000 backpacks filled with school supplies were collected. Before the backpacks were distributed, a ceremony hosted by Mina SayWhat from Power 99 thanked donors and featured Thaddeus Desmond. Desmond is a social worker for the Support Center for Child Advocates who recently spoke at the DNC at the request of Hillary Clinton. He shared his story about being in the foster care system before being adopted at age 6.

1. Volunteers at the Valley Youth House Backpack Challenge giveaway check in the guests at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. 2. Thaddeus Desmond speaks to guests. 3. DJ Royale entertained the guests during the afternoon ceremony. 4. Tom Harrington, Valley Youth House, Jerami Grant, Phila. 76ers, Valerie Johnson, Valley Youth House and Mina SayWhat, Power 99. 5. An impressive number of backpacks were collected and distributed. 6. Rosejulien entertains the crowd. Photos by HughE Dillon. S E P T. 1 1 - 1 8 , 2 0 1 6

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La Salle Recovers After Season Opening Loss Shaking up the usual routine proves effective By Jeremy Treatman

a Salle College High School football is all John Steinmetz knows. The second-year head coach has been on staff at La Salle for 34 years. “It’s a special place,” he said. “I live in the area. I went to La Salle. Most of my coaches are connected with La Salle. The kids are great. The facilities are great. It’s a great place to coach. You have kids here every year that just want to learn and get better and want to be coached. The support from the community and the students and fan base is great. There’s not much more I can ask for.” Steinmetz had to push his coaching skills to the limit earlier this month. His players were down after the loss to North Penn that opened the season. It was the first time in six years La Salle had dropped that game to the Knights. La Salle has also not

La Salle College High School quarterback Thomas LaMorte (#7) looks for a pass opening. Photo by Sarah J. Glover.

lost more than three games in a season during the last decade. Winning is the norm at La Salle. “North Penn beat us up pretty good,” said Steinmetz. “It made us realize as coaches that we had to go back to basics. We needed to be a sound defensive team and poised offensive team and we weren’t in that game. We did some of our offensive linemen a disservice by not rotating them and giving them help early in the game. They were exhausted early in the game and that hurt us. We had to make some changes.” Steinmetz, offensive coordinator Brett Gordon, fellow coaches Joe Wade, Paul Taylor and others devised a strategy of rotating offensive and defensive linemen for game two, Sept. 2, against Pennsbury. The results were positive. La Salle knocked off the Suburban One AAAA public school power, 28-0. Quarterback Tom LaMorte threw for four touchdowns. A fresher, crisper La Salle team looked more like the area juggernaut it has been for the past several decades. Plus, according to Steinmetz, La Salle could have tallied more points “if not for drops all over the field. We had some series where we didn’t play some linemen on both sides of the ball,” said Steinmetz. “I think it helped us. We are a very young team. We have a brand new offensive line. We are playing big powerful teams. We have lots of guys who can play, so it made sense to [make] this adjustment.” Overall, Steinmetz knows that coaching at La Salle is a pressure filled job. The Explorers are in contention for PIAA AAAA state titles and Catholic League championships every year. The team competes in a league that includes national powers St. Joseph’s Prep and schedules tough nonleague games such as North Penn, Pennsbury, and Malvern Prep. The coach knows eyes are on him and his guys need to perContinued on page 2

La Salle College High School football players line up to take on Pennsbury. Photo by Sarah J. Glover.

ST. JOSEPH’S PREP STUDENTS GO WITH THE TEAM TO CALI Simon Williams is too young to know LL Cool J’s jingle “Going Back To Cali.” But the Prep junior broadcaster not only got to make the trip to Los Angeles, California with the team; he also announced Prep’s 49-17 win over superpower Oaks Christian on its student station WSJP Sept. 2. “I was lucky enough to be one of four members of the school radio station along with our moderator, [Public Relations] Director Bill Avington to go to Mission Viejo High School as part of the Honor Bowl. It was an incredible experience that I will never forget,” said Williams. “The dominating win proved that this team has its eyes on a long post season run, in my opinion, and I will be thrilled to be announcing these games as a student.” Prep is ranked top 10 nationally in most polls and is LCP’s pre-season number one team in the area this year. One of the reasons is that the team has D’Andre Swift, one of the nation’s best senior running backs. Swift announced on Twitter he will attend the University of Georgia next year. He promptly went for four scores with 175 receiving yards and 121 rushing yards against the perennial California state power. “Spending the weekend in California was a very humbling learning experience for me. I was able to travel with three close friends [in Dan Avington ‘18, Greg Bradbury ‘17, and John Leuzzi ‘19, the other WSJP members who were on the trip] and do something I am passionate about for my school” said Williams. “I am extremely thankful for Mr. Bill Avington for being our adult leader with this project this weekend and year-round with our other club ventures. His unrivaled passion for us is special. I would also like to thank Fr. John Swope, S.J. ‘72, our president, and principal Mr. Jason Zazyczny ‘90 for having continual faith and supporting us, as well as the entire Prep community for tuning in each and every game and being the best fans around.”

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The Rev. Sean Lanigan Associate rector St. Peter’s Episcopal Church 313 Pine St. A rainbow sticker is one of the first things to greet congregants and visitors when they pass through the gates at St. Peter’s. The centuries-old church — it has been in continuous use since its first service in 1761 — prides itself on its storied history, but also its modern-day progressiveness, said associate rector the Rev. Sean Lanigan. The openly gay clergyman joined the staff at St. Peter’s in the fall of 2015, two years after his ordination. The Wisconsin native earned an undergraduate degree in art history from Brown University and went Rabbi Ari Lev Fornari Kol Tzedek 801 S. 48th St. Rabbi Ari Lev Fornari is hitting the ground running in his first few weeks as rabbi at West Philadelphia synagogue Kol Tzedek. Fornari, 34, took over the reigns of the Reconstructionist congregation from its founding rabbi, Lauren Grabelle Herrmann, who accepted a position in New York. Fornari comes to Philly from Boston, where he served as director of the BostonArea Jewish Education Program and as a prison chaplain. He is a native of New York who earned a bachelor’s in feminist, gender and sexAaron Skrypski Accounting warden Christ Church Second and Market streets Sept. 11, 2001, was a turning point for Aaron Skrypski. “I was in New York and I saw the second plane go into the building,” he recalled. “For a period of time everything was very scary. We were faced with so much death that, afterwards, it became this time where you had to just go and do what you loved.” What Skrypski loved was exploring theology. “I had always been fascinated by religion, philosophy, theology, spirituality,” said Skrypski, who was raised in a Methodist congregation in Grove City, Pa.

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Leading in Faith on to get a master’s of divinity from Yale as well as a diploma of Anglican Studies from the General Theological Seminary. He led a campus and youth ministry in Long Beach, Calif., before moving east for the St. Peter’s post. “I was excited about this church because it’s such a historic building — it looks like it could be a museum — but it’s such a lively place,” Lanigan said. “It’s full of people who are committed to the city and committed to sharing God’s love with our neighbors. Just the juxtaposition of the history and it being such a relevant, contemporary expression of faith was exciting to me.” Lanigan, 33, said the congregation is diverse, drawing in residents from the surrounding Society Hill, as well as visitors from other neighborhoods and even New Jersey and Delaware. It has a thriving LGBT population as well, he said. “Having an openly gay clergy person probably helps,” he laughed, “but St. Peter’s uality studies at Wesleyan University and a master’s of Jewish studies from Hebrew College. Fornari, who identifies as transgender, came out in college. “I chose Wesleyan because it seemed like it had a vibrant queer community,” he said. “Much of my formative queer identity came out in the context of playing for Wesleyan’s rugby team.” He first became acquainted with the term “transgender” around age 21. “My ears perked up when I heard the term, and it just resonated with me,” Fornari said. “It did lead to a larger struggle of integrating my own theology about who we are in the world and what it means to be created in the image of the divine. I found integrating my trans identity with my Judaism required study, mentorship and being in deep community. At that point, I moved to San Francisco and immersed myself in the queer and trans“So I applied to divinity school and got in. I thought I might want to be a journalist and write about how American religion was changing. I hadn’t thought of working for a church in a formal context, but I knew divinity school would push me in the right direction, and it did.” Skrypski earned a divinity degree from Yale University, where he was exposed to the teachings and traditions of the Episcopal Church, which he said he fell in love with. He went on to law school afterwards and in 2008 moved to Philadelphia, where he now works at a Center City law firm. Skrypski, 41, began attending services at Christ Church with a boyfriend several years ago; though that relationship didn’t last, his relationship with the church did. About four years ago, he decided to heighten his involvement in the historic Episcopal congregation. He was elected to the vestry, the church’s governing body, and, after about a year, the vestry elected him to the post of accounting warden.

has always been a welcoming place, and we’re growing in that way even more so.” Lanigan said the congregation and the city have welcomed him heartily, but in his previous position in California, he did face some pushback in the interfaith work he led. “In California, I faced challenges in terms of credibility,” he said. “There were groups who wouldn’t work with us because we were clearly LGBT-welcoming.” That has never been an issue for him in the Episcopal Church, he noted. Lanigan was raised Roman Catholic but, after coming out at 16, began exploring other faith communities. “It was a slow process because in many ways I loved it, but it was obviously not going to be a safe or good place for me to pursue what I felt like was my calling. It was a big struggle,” he said. In college, he was mentored by a female clergy member who urged him to pursue his passion for theological PAGE 25

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gender Jewish community as a way to help explore my own merging identities.” Fornari said he got several calls from friends when they heard the rabbi position at Kol Tzedek had opened up. “They said, ‘This job is for you.’ I felt really called to Kol Tzedek and the work of building a vibrant, progressive spiritual Jewish community where I could bring my full self. This is a dream job.” As rabbi, Fornari meets one on one with Kol Tzedek members, teaches, leads services, organizes holiday experiences, works with lay-led committees on synagogue programming and supervises the executive director and administrators. Fornari also represents Kol Tzedek on panel presentations, at action events and in lobbying events, as well as manages its membership in Philadelphians Organized to Witness, Power and Rebuild, one of the city’s largest interfaith coalitions. Fornari said he’s PAGE 25 The Episcopal leadership structure includes the rector, the vestry, the rector’s warden and the accounting warden. Skrypski is the first openly gay accounting warden at Christ Church, which was founded in 1695. Skrypski oversees the congregation’s finances and manages legal issues. The accounting warden is also sometimes referred to as the “people’s warden,” Skrypski explained. “If there’s a problem that has bubbled up through the congregation, my job is to raise that with the rector, the rector’s warden and the rest of the vestry,” he said. “It’s this dual role of working on legal and financial aspects and representing the congregation to the governing board and working with the rector on any issues the congregation may have.” It’s a congregation that draws from the neighboring community and also throughout the region. PAGE 25 Though the church is

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Whosoever Metropolitan Community Church has undergone many changes in its 45 years — from location to name to leadership — but has always provided a safe space for LGBT Christians. When it was founded in 1971, the church offered both a place to worship, and also to build community, said Pastor Jeffrey Jordan “In the founding years, there were very little options for LGBT individuals,” Jordan said. “There were no social and cultural events, no community center, no organizations and clubs. The only option was the bar. A lot of people chose to come to MCC because of their spirituality but, at the same time, a lot of others came for a place of activity, to get involved, to be an activist and to work for the betterment of the LGBT community.” Church members first began meeting in people’s homes and then moved into the First Unitarian Church at 21st and Chestnut streets. The congregation bought its own building in Fishtown, but it eventually had to move back to the Unitarian church. The congregation next moved to William Way LGBT Community Center and then to University Lutheran Church, where it operates now. “Even though we’re one of the oldest gay-affirming congregations, we’re still a young organization,” Jordan said. “Part of being young is becoming established, which is what we’ve done over the last 45 years.” Jordan joined the congregation in 1994 after a serendipitous Pride parade. “I was outed by the AME Church on the floor of the congregation in West Virginia, and my credentials were taken away for being gay,” he said. “While I was in college I worked in Philadelphia and at this point, and after this I came back to Philadelphia and it was the first time I ever saw a Pride parade. I saw the drag queens and the men in leather but then there was this small group, which was MCC, holding signs that said ‘God loves you.’ Even though they were small and didn’t have all matching clothes or this wonderful presentation, I stood on the sidelines and cried; I had just been outed and told by my church that I was an abomination and then there’s this church saying ‘God loves you.’ Within a year of that parade, I was pastor of the church.” Whosoever MCC now sees about 40 members at its 11 a.m. Sunday services and hosts regular social and community events. Upcoming programming includes a Friends and Family Worship Potluck Oct. 2, a Decades Dance Oct. 7 — with music and clothing from the 1970s to the present to celebrate its 45 years — and the Oct. 16 Patrons of Humanity Awards presentation, which it holds every five years. For more information, visit whosoevermccp.com.

When Sahar AliDeen travels to Cape Town in October, he hopes to track down Muhsin Hendricks for an interview. The South African imam is the first openly gay Islamic leader. AliDeen thought Hendricks would make a great first guest on the podcast he’s starting for OUTMuslim, a social-media community he created in 2013. He plans to release episodes, including interviews with Philadelphia-based LGBT Muslims in January or February. “I wanted to create something I didn’t have when I was younger,” said AliDeen, 26, who grew up in New York City and moved to Philadelphia for graduate school. “I’m trying to create visibility and role models. There are some out queer Muslims who are actors and doctors and all kinds of things.” When AliDeen was 12, he came out to his parents. He said he tried to use the Internet as a resource to connect with other LGBT Muslims, but he couldn’t find much. Since launching OUTMuslim on Facebook and Twitter, AliDeen has facilitated discussions around news articles. But he wanted to take the interactions to the real world. He incorporated OUTMuslim this month so he could apply for 501c3 status and start raising money for events. Through a private Facebook group, he has promoted gatherings for Ramadan and Eid this year. For those who would like to get involved

Rainbow Buddhist Meditation Group celebrates 15 years

Tommy Dorsey was a drug addict and drag queen in San Francisco in the 1960s when Zen Buddhist masters from Japan started arriving in the United States. Practicing Buddhism helped Dorsey get clean. After a while, Dorsey, who was gay, asked, “Is it OK for someone like me to take jukai?” He was referring to the formal commitment to Zen Buddhism. The master told him, “Of course.” “When I read that, I very much felt like he was asking that for me,” said Michael Palumbaro, who started the Rainbow Buddhist Meditation Group 15 years ago in Philadelphia. “I felt I would really like to follow in Issan’s footsteps.” Dorsey received the dharma name of Issan after his jukai. During the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, he would find LGBT people on the streets and care for them. Palumbaro was working for the former ActionAIDS in 1994 when he first read the book, “Street Zen,” about Dorsey’s life. Soon after Dorsey died, the large gay and lesbian Buddhist community in San Francisco opened a temple named Issan-ji in his honor. It’s part of the Hartford Street Zen Center, which is where Palumbaro took his jukai in 2000. — Jen Colletta Palumbaro received the dharma name

in the community, they should email info@ outmuslim.org. AliDeen, who goes by that name as an alias to protect his family from threats, uses a private Facebook group to offer discretion to Muslims who may not be out broadly. AliDeen said he hopes to eventually attach his real name to his advocacy efforts. He wants his parents to agree to the idea first. AliDeen said his mother became especially tuned into his activism this summer after a man pledged allegiance to the Islamic State while carrying out a mass shooting at Pulse, an LGBT nightclub in Orlando. “It sucks that Orlando had to happen to get people to pay attention,” he said. But he noted it led many Muslims to start conversations about LGBT people in their communities. “If they can’t deal with these things, mental illness can manifest.” He said he wrestled with his faith when he was younger, but he came to the conclusion that he couldn’t be an atheist because he doesn’t know enough about the universe. AliDeen found the Sufi practice of Islam suits him best. “It’s a mystical understanding of Islam,” he said. “It’s not about God watching every move you make and waiting to smite you. It’s an interpretation that God is a life force and we are all connected. It’s the idea of universal souls and the idea of being responsible and nurturing to every form of life.” n

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Daitoku, which means great virtue. He’s recognized as Venerable Daitoku, his title as a Zen Buddhist priest. But he goes simply by Daitoku. Daitoku started the Rainbow Buddhist Meditation Group with a woman in Philadelphia in 2001. He left briefly to live in a Buddhist monastery and returned to run the group with others until he eventually met Michael Quay three years ago. They had both moved into the John C. Anderson Apartments in the Gayborhood. Now the Rainbow Buddhist Meditation Group meets every Sunday from 3-4:30 p.m. at William Way LGBT Community Center, 1315 Spruce St. It’s free to attend,a and ne4 members are welcome. The meetings consist of meditation and discussing readings by various Buddhist masters. “Of all the religions on the planet, the most welcoming to LGBT people is Buddhism,” Daitoku said. “We don’t have these ‘Thou shalt nots.’ Our main practice is meditation and anybody can meditate.” “What we’re more concerned about with sexuality is that you’re being sexually responsible,” he added. “For example, if you know somebody has a partner, don’t have sex with them. You should also have protected sex. We want to live in ways that don’t hurt us and don’t hurt others.” n

In the 1970s, Philadelphia boasted a robust culture of LGBT religious groups. They were the first to have social events outside bars, said Michael Rocks, president of Dignity Philadelphia, a Catholic group. An interfaith New Year’s Eve celebration used to take place annually. Over time, other LGBT organizations sprung up to address social needs. While Jewish, Lutheran and Episcopalian congregations began welcoming LGBT people to their mainstream services, Catholics did not follow suit. Rocks said Dignity Philadelphia maintains a unique relevance because people may have fallen away from the church for a number of reasons — from its stance against women in leadership to the child sexual-abuse scandal — but they still want a spiritual home. While Dignity has seen declining attendance from several hundred in the early years to about 40 now, Rocks said a lot of new members are friends and family of LGBT people. “We’re a very progressive Catholic community,” he said, noting many find that refreshing, especially in the city. “In Philadelphia, we have an archbishop who’s very anti-LGBT,” Rocks added, referring to Charles J. Chaput. “He’s gone out of his way to issue guidance that’s very homophobic. We need to be able to challenge the institution. We need to say, ‘What you’re saying is not in keeping with the Gospel.’ “Even though Pope Francis seems to be a light, a possibility for dialogue, our local bishop completely ignored what the pope recommended American Catholics do,” Rocks added. “Here in Philadelphia, we’re not even given a chance.” Dignity opened its doors in Philadelphia 43 years ago and has had no formal connection to the Catholic Church. Rocks said Dignity’s 10 rotating clergy include ordained priests who left the Church to marry and womenpriests, who were ordained by bishops though not institutionally recognized. Mass takes place every Sunday at 7 p.m. at St. Luke and the Epiphany, 330 S. 13th St. This month’s activities also include a potluck Sept. 18 and a social Sept. 25. In addition to religious services, the congregation volunteers monthly at Broad Street Ministry, a nondenominational Christian church that provides meals and shelter to people living in poverty; organizes a Christmas party at Calcutta House for people affected by HIV/AIDS; and hosts fundraisers for other LGBT organizations. “We really want to become more visible,” Rocks said. For more information, visit www.dignityphila.org. n

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United Church of Christ in Montco partners with Qmunity Center to fill GSA gaps About six years ago, a United Church of Christ in Montgomery County took a vote to receive the “open and affirming” designation. It requires three years of study and prayer before the vote. Leaders at the Ascension United Church of Christ in West Norriton Township decided they wanted to do some tangible outreach to accompany the new designation. At the beginning of the year, they teamed up with the LGBT Qmunity Center in Norristown to form the Qmunity Alliance Q&A. It’s a group that meets at 6:30 p.m. on the first and third Tuesday of the month. Members gather at the church, 1700 W. Main St. in the Jeffersonville section of West Norriton. “It’s open to everybody, regardless of religion,” said Dwayne Mosier, pastor at Ascension. “It’s a support group for people that don’t have an organization at their high schools.” Mosier said a fair number of transgender people come to the meetings. There’s also a group for adult relatives of LGBT young people. “Most of these support groups are in Philadelphia,” he said. “We wanted to support our youth out here.” Mosier said the Mazzoni Center has supported the Qmunity Alliance, and he noted it’s been a reinvigorating experience to actively welcome LGBT people to the church. “It’s like God’s given us a new purpose for today,” he said. “We’re excited that we have new people coming into the church. Now we’re seeing a larger portion that’s part of the LGBT community. We’re an old church and it’s giving us a new life.” For more information, visit www.ascensionucc.org. n — Paige Cooperstein

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studies. “She opened my mind to what was possible. I felt like God was really important to me and I wanted my life to be about something meaningful, and she said, ‘Go to divinity school.’ Usually you’re endorsed by a group that says you’ll be a good priest or that you should go, but I just went myself; my path was unconventional.” That path took him to the Episcopal Church. “It was always this sense of wanting to commit my life to something that I felt had a lot of meaning, somewhere where I could be of service to people and ask big questions,” he said about his calling. “Sometimes church doesn’t do a very good job of asking the big questions but I try to. I had a big discussion about atheism with a 10-year-old girl the other day. It FORNARI from page 23

eager for Kol Tzedek to be a place of inclusive exploration, and to build upon the congregation’s strong foundation of community involvement. “My vision is that we are a dynamic place of community and connection where SKRYPSKI from page 23

frequented by tourists, Skrypski said, it’s home to a very tight-knit and dedicated group of congregants. “It’s beautiful and its history is fascinating and empowering, but the congregation we have is what really makes this such a great place,” he said. “If you picked this congregation up and just put us in a different building, we’d still be a functioning community.” That sense of community, he noted, has helped the church to have never missed a single service in its 321 years. For example, during one of last winter’s blizzards, congregants trekked in — Skrypski walked from Graduate Hospital — and all pitched in to clear the walkways around the church.

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was fun.” Lanigan manages all of the church’s Christian-education programs for adults and children, as well as handles outreach initiatives, such as its weekly food cupboard that feeds 180 families every Saturday. He also oversees the church’s new social-justice taskforce that will be examining education issues and manages St. Peter’s relationship with a church in Guatemala, in addition to his preaching and pastoral-care tasks. In the long term, he’s hoping to help the church further its work of raising awareness about its mission, and the wider vision of the Episcopal Church. “The Episcopal Church hasn’t had to do a lot of recruitment, but I think we’re moving into an era where we’re going to be doing more to show the community who we are,” he said. “Especially with younger folks, Christianity can look like

a terrible thing; if I were to look at the media, and I hadn’t been raised with a good experience, I’d be like, ‘I don’t want anything to do with that.’ There are portions of Christianity that are hateful and that LGBT people would not want to be a part of, but there are many communities that are as welcoming as ours and that’s something a lot of people don’t know.” Apart from supporting formal awareness-building initiatives, Lanigan said he tries to communicate the message of the Episcopal Church and St. Peter’s through his daily interactions. “We try to just be people of love in our daily lives — our jobs, our neighborhoods, our communities. We’re not a hardsell church; we just want to live our lives in ways that make people curious about the hope and the faith that we have in us.”

people can come and find the spiritual and personal resources they need to be their best selves,” he said. “We want people to connect with the wisdom of Jewish tradition and live a just and righteous life in the context of the larger Philadelphia community. I’m going to work to help build our

capacity for prayer and spirituality and bring people together to really nourish one another and, from that place, expand our social-justice work in the larger community.” n

“If it was just about the history, there would be no life here,” he said. “When you come on a Sunday and you see how warm the people are and the amount of activities we have here, it becomes less of a tourist site and the building — even though it’s beautiful — fades into the background. It’s more about this group of people trying to figure stuff out together, trying to wrestle with what it means to be a person of faith.” Neighborhood House, adjacent to the church, plays an integral role in inviting the community into the church. A resident theater company operates there, and thousands pass through the building’s doors each week for community and group meetings, events and performances. Neighborhood House and the church have hosted many LGBT functions, includ-

ing an LGBT interfaith service last year for Equality Forum. Skrypski said Christ Church has a vibrant LGBT congregation. Though he’s the first out accounting warden, there have been other LGBT vestry members, committee members and church leaders. “It’s an incredibly welcoming place and there’s been absolutely no friction at all,” he said about LGBT inclusion at Christ Church. “Our LGBT group is a large group and very diverse so we’re really lucky with that. I have a friend who was baptized here and married her wife in this church. That’s how it’s supposed to be, that’s what an organization like this is supposed to do. I’m proud to be a part of it.” n

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Day in the Life of ... a church-preservation

research associate, John Bright By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com

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“This isn’t a self-explanatory site,” John Bright said, while gesturing to the cavernous ceiling of the centuries-old Christ Church. As a research associate at Christ Church Preservation Trust, Bright is one of the people who helps explain the site’s storied history to the 250,000 visitors who pass through its gates and those of the nearby burial ground each year. The church, at Second and Market streets, was founded in 1695. Among its many claims to historic fame, Christ Church’s services were attended by Presidents George Washington and John Adams, Betsy Ross and Benjamin Franklin, among countless other significant figures in American history. About 12 percent of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution are buried on Christ Church property. “It’s like Facebook for the 18th century,” Bright laughed about tracing the interconnectedness of the nation’s early leaders through Christ Church. Bright, a native of the Lehigh Valley, wears many hats at Christ Church Preservation Trust, the 50-year-old secular nonprofit dedicated to preserving the church, its burial ground at Fifth and Arch streets and Neighborhood House, the 1911 structure adjacent to the church, the current incarnation of which was built in 1744. As his title suggests, Bright devotes part of his time to projects that involve bringing the church’s history to life, like the updating and revamping of its Guide Map, which was published earlier this year. Scouring the vast archival materials housed in the church’s basement — which includes everything from parish registers to meeting minutes of the vestry, much of which is also available online — Bright compiled a comprehensive catalogue of notable pew holders, locations within the site and ephemeral items of importance. “A site like this has so many levels of history,” he said. “It’s a cool place to be if you’re a history buff; you can sit where George Washington sat, where Ben Franklin sat and be in this beautiful building where all of the people who wrote our founding documents once were. People have this sort of secularly spiritual response to that often. We like to allow people to feel that if they’re inclined in that direction.”

Much of Bright’s work is devoted to giving tours of the site to walk-in tourists and scheduled school groups, as well as leading specialized programming. Though religion can often be a taboo subject, Bright said he has found that many of his tour participants are eager to objectively explore the role it played in the shaping of the country. “People often think that if you’re talking about religion, you have to be talking about religion in a religious way, in an evangelical way. It’s interesting for people to hear

how issues of religious belief and how the government responded to it are interwoven into our early history and how it got us to the government we have now. All of that is extremely important to understanding our country. It requires you to talk about religion, but you can talk about religion in an objective, historical and analytical way. And people are fascinated by that.” The expertise Bright brings to his tours is shaped in part by his robust religious education: He holds an undergraduate degree in anthropology and religion studies from Lehigh University as well as a master’s from Lutheran Theological Seminary. He has also done doctoral work at General Theological Seminary in Manhattan and at Temple University. That background has been key to his work in developing the church’s new programming on American religious history, rolling out next year, on which he has taken the lead. “Having our own programming like this will allow us to seek out groups and bring them here ourselves,” Bright said. “There are a lot of tour companies in the city we work with and they bring people in but when we start offering our own programming, it gives us a bit more pragmatic control over the number of visitors we have.” The initiative is in line with the Trust’s enhanced effort to more proactively engage with the public, Bright said. “There’s a vague business component to it, in that we have to raise the money to do what we do, but the primary turn

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we’re trying to make at the moment is into more of an educational institution,” he said. “Which we are in a real way already, but the changes we’re moving toward — working directly with schools, creating our own programming and bringing people here for that — are intended to make us on a regular basis more active in reaching out, as opposed to simply offering our history to people who are choosing to come.” Bright said Christ Church first caught his own attention several years ago when he was in the market for a new worship space. When walking down the street, he spotted a sign outside the church advertising an LGBT potluck after that day’s services. “I had literally already been to one church service that day but I thought, I’m church shopping at the moment so I might as well do two in one day,” he said. The potluck was at the home of a local couple, and another congregant offered him a ride there after the service. “Given I was completely new, the level of hospitality — ‘Come in my car, we’ll go together’ — left a very favorable impression on me, “ he said, noting that, once he joined the church, he was further impressed by the level of LGBT inclusion. Bright started working for the Trust several years after joining the congregation. “It is a complete non-issue,” he said about his sexuality. “It’s just not something we even talk about, except in the context

of when someone says, ‘How does it work there, being gay and Christian?’ That’s literally the only time. Everybody is just simply a member of the congregation. It doesn’t rise to the level of even being mentioned.” Christ Church’s status as an affirming, progressive congregation, set against the backdrop of its rich history, puts it in a unique position, Bright said. “We’re very much at the intersection of culture and history and religion here, by merit of what we are and by merit of what we do and by merit of how we do it,” he

said. Though Bright said he and other tour leaders stay away from engaging in political or religious debates with tour participants, he does enjoy the opportunity to open the minds of people who come into the tour with pre-conceived notions about the country’s religious history. “It’s not our job to engage in politics but instead to accurately tell American religious history, which does require doing turns away from ideas a lot of people really do have in their heads culturally,” he said. “I answer their questions in ways that let them know I hear them but that gives them the information — without antagonizing or turning them off to what I’m saying — that is enough of a little prick in the arm to where they may be like, ‘I never thought about it like that before.’ That’s the most difficult, most challenging and most fun thing — particularly when it works — that happens here.” n

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Interfaith coalition to launch By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com More than 40 faith leaders who work with LGBT communities have been invited to the start-up meeting for a new coalition later this month. The first meeting of the yet-to-benamed organization takes place Sept. 28 at Conversation Hall in City Hall. The Rev. Jeffrey Jordan of Whosoever Metropolitan Community Church is organizing the effort. “One of the biggest opponents of the LGBT community is the conservative rightwing faith community,” Jordan said. “A lot of times you will hear them talking about issues of equality and you hear people say, ‘The Church believes …’ Well maybe the Catholic Church or evangelical churches, but we are going to be a community of faith leaders who believe in equality for LGBT communities. We want to give voice to that side.” The group will include LGBT faith leaders and those who minister to LGBT communities, Jordan said.

Pastor Pamela Williams didn’t believe the news when she picked up a phone call from her girlfriend last month. “She said, ‘Get to the church now,’ and I said, ‘What? Why?’ She said, ‘It’s on fire,’” Williams recalled. “I was just in disbelief.” Calls continued to pour in Aug. 29 as Williams rushed to Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church in the 6400 block of Lansdowne Avenue. Williams is the pastor of Ark of Refuge Tabernacle, an LGBTaffirming congregation that has operated out of Good Shepherd for the last five years. “I screamed as I saw it,” Williams said about the fire, which gutted the 100-yearold church. “I saw the flames coming out of the building, which was fully engulfed. I was there when the roof caved in, and I watched the firemen break out those beautiful stained-glass windows. The effect it had on me was visceral; I just had to cry. That was like my second home. It’s where I went to feel comfortable, where I felt joy, felt the greatest connection not only to God but to

the people. It was just unimaginable.” The cause of the fire has not been made public. Williams said her congregation, one of several that shared space in the church, lost all of its possessions: musical instruments, a PA system, microphones, mic stands, books, materials for social dinners and more. “We’re still compiling the full list,” she said. Williams said the Rev. Katie Aikins, pastor of Tabernacle United at 3700 Chestnut St., offered the church’s space for Ark of Refuge services. The first service was held this past Sunday. “She reached out and opened her doors to us for a safe space for worship and programming and it’s been a wonderful experience,” Williams said. “We’re going to be there on a continual basis at 2 p.m. on Sundays, and going forward we’re going to maybe talk about making it permanent.” The congregation also hosts Bible study at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesdays. Williams, a lesbian, said her congregants come from all walks of life. “They are persons who come with a

Apart from advocating for LGBT equality, the coalition will also function to provide fellowship among colleagues and to provide an example of diversity in action. Jordan said the 40-plus invitees, more than half of whom have confirmed their attendance, represent many different faith communities: Christians, Buddhists, Jews and Muslims, among them. Director of LGBT Affairs Nellie Fitzpatrick and Rue Landau, director of the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations, will both be present, Jordan said. The initial meeting will focus on getting group members acquainted with one another, Jordan said. “It’ll be quite informal. Some of the people I know, some know each other but not the next person, so this will first of all be for everyone to get to know each other,” he said. “The second part will be to talk about the vision as we lay it out. It’s very much in the early stages.” For more information about the group, contact Jordan at 215-873-5719 or revjjordan@aol.com. n

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desire to worship Jesus the Christ. They come from varied backgrounds, different economic statuses, different races, some are heterosexual and some are same-gender-loving. But our focus is on radical inclusivity of Jesus Christ, where we include all persons who want to build a greater relationship with God through Jesus Christ,” she said. “People have said it’s a ‘gay church,’ and I have to correct them. We’re a church that affirms and respects all individuals. I am an unapologetic, AfricanAmerican lesbian woman and at the same time I am a baptized Christian and an anointed preacher. So my goal is to extend the invitation to all who would desire to come and worship with us.” Ark of Refuge has started a fundraising page to help build support after the fire. Proceeds may eventually go toward helping the congregation secure its own building, Williams said. The congregation also welcomes donations of musical equipment and other items to support its worship services and programming. For more information, visit https://www. gofundme.com/arkfire. n

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Pioneering queercore punk band Pansy Division is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a new album, “Quite Contrary,” and a tour that is coming through Philly Sept. 21 at Kung Fu Necktie. The first openly gay rock band was formed in San Francisco in 1991 by guitarist and singer Jon Ginoli and bassist and singer Chris Freeman. Their music quickly caught the attention of former labelmate Green Day, who took the band on tour during its own rise to fame. Freeman said Pansy Division’s sound has evolved over its 25 years from the indie punk-tinged rock of its early days. “As with any band, you’ve kind of got to create a space for your band to exist and usually that’s a narrow version of what you can be,” he said. “The easiest example I can point out would be The Beatles. They started out very simple, then after they were able to put that thread through the needle, they were able to expand. I think we’ve been able to expand quite a bit with our songs and our arrangements. The first album was done by session musicians that Jon knew: ‘Here’s the songs but we really don’t have a sound. We just know we’re just trying for this simplicity.’ Once we got some members in the

band that were permanent, they can assert their personalities through their music. So we’re more of a band. Around the ‘Absurd Pop Song Romance’ album in 1998, that’s where we started to say, ‘Now we sound like a band.’” Freeman said Pansy Division has definitely outgrown the punk label. “Punk as a genre had its moment and now it’s if you’re a punk band that’s cute,” he said. “What we were trying to do was stay in a musical vein that was not tapped at all. Both Jon and I were big power-pop fans, more so than punk. At the beginning, ‘punk’ had a more diverse meaning. If you look back at the very first punk bands, none of those bands sound the same. It’s only later that punk became this musical

straightjacket where, if you are going to be considered punk, you have to sound like this. That is something we tried to snap out of. Punk is sounding different than everything else, not similar to everything else. I think now it is an easy message for everyone to get, thanks to bands like Green Day and The Offspring. I’m not sure if it’s going to draw newer fans to us for the aspect of being a punk band. I think this new album is the least ‘punk’-sounding of our records. We wanted to go for a guitar-rock album. We’re just a guitar band.” Freeman added that the subjects the band sings about have definitely evolved from the sexually explicit and humorous lyrics Pansy Division was notorious for. “We’ve kind of looked at the topics we have covered. We were more

a joke band at first. We didn’t take ourselves serious because we didn’t know there was going to be an audience for this. We had no idea,” he said. “Over the years we thought, What would a Pansy Division fan want to hear? No, we’re not trying to second-guess ourselves but we’re also trying to eliminate things that are repetitious. Let’s not write songs about boys since we are in our 50s. We’ve already got a couple of big dick songs so we don’t need to tread that again. What does Pansy Division have to say anymore? What are we trying to do? What is unique to us still? That kind of search for things, trying to be musically relevant and entertaining to ourselves, and still have something to say, it’s hard to do. That’s why it’s fewer and farther between that we are able to put out albums. We just figure, Well, I don’t think we’re ready for another Pansy Division album yet. But now is the time and it’s the perfect timing. We had to do something for our 25th anniversary and Jon had a healthy batch of songs and the rest of us were able to supplement. So I think it worked out great.” One of the more notable songs on the new album is “Blame the Bible,” which, in typical Pansy Division fashion, takes aim at the antigay rhetoric and actions, as well as the hypocrisy, that seem to go hand in hand with some religions and right-leaning politics. “I think it might be one of PAGE 32

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our most overtly political songs,” Freeman said. “Normally we’re political with a small ‘p.’ By nature of our existence, it’s a political band. We were careful about this song in particular because it’s going to push some buttons. It’s one thing to come out of the closet as gay. It’s another thing to come out of the closet as atheist. That’s the closet that we opened on this album. It’s time to say how we feel about this. But as with anything we’ve done in the past, it’s easier to deliver a message when it’s done with humor. People get things a lot better when it is not being preached at them. We’ve tried never to be preachy in our songs. It’s either funny or self-revealing, so trying to make this funny is a big part of it. But there are going to be people that don’t think it is funny at all.” Pansy Division is widely regarded as a pioneering gay rock band, but Freeman said he and his bandmates don’t hear much about bands they have inspired or influenced over the years. In fact, Freeman said, more often than not, they hear the exact opposite. “I’ve heard more bands who have in the past said things disparaging about Pansy Division,” he said. “The biggest example would be Scissor Sisters, who were clamoring to open for us at Folsom Street Fair back in the day but then, as soon as they got popular, were quick to dismiss any connection they had to us. They basically said, ‘Oh, we don’t care about Pansy Division.’ Which I thought, Really? Did you have to say that? To go on record and say, ‘I don’t like that band,’ especially in light of having opened for us in the past … OK, well, where is your band now?” Freeman said when his band formed, the members couldn’t have imagined how much the industry would charge for openly gay artists, or how much of an impact the band would have on established gay artists. “I never would have envisioned this,” he said about the band’s success. “I think Jon had more of an idea that it could do something than I did. It was only later when it dawned on me that someone was listening

and this could do something. But to say that we would have gotten to this point, it was only in our dreams that we thought an artist can have a number-one hit and be out of the closet, like Sam Smith. That points to the advances that have been made in the music business. When we were on tour with Green Day we met so many closeted musicians. We met Melissa Etheridge and The Indigo Girls and Michael Stipe and later Rob Halford. They had seen us play and said, ‘God, you guys have balls.’ And we’d say ‘Girl, come out of the closet. It’s time.’ They’re like ‘Yeah, but … ’ And we’d say, ‘There is no but. We just broke down the door. We just sang about sucking cock to 8-year-olds.’ I think we broke that door down. You can gently go in there now and create your space. And not one of those artists who came out — not one of them — has had an adverse reaction. They all were fine. They all did well. In fact, you could say they did better. So that was something that we were happy to see.” n Pansy Division performs 8 p.m. Sept. 21 at Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St. For more information or tickets, call 215-291-4919 or visit www.pansydivision.com.

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Out singer brings his country ‘fire’ to Philly By Gary M. Kramer PGN Contributor Out and proud country singer/songwriter Ty Herndon swings into town to perform his hits at the Rrazz Room at the Prince Sept. 17. Herndon, who has a new album coming out Oct. 28 entitled “House on Fire,” chatted with PGN about his music and life.

PGN: What can audiences expect from your show at the Rrazz Room? TH: You’ll get to hear the hits and some new songs. I love the quaint rooms. I perform at a lot of fairs and festivals but I love to do an acoustic show. I love that you get a better sense of the song. PGN: Country music has changed since you cranked out hits in the 1990s. Can you talk about your place in the music industry these days? TH: I’m honored to be a “legacy” act — which made me feel really old! It means I earned my place in country music. I love where country is today. The difference is the larger audience. Some folks say country is the most popular, some folks say it’s the second-most popular. But the markets in Europe are bigger and XM Radio is playing the ’90s and early 2000s with the new stuff. Longevity is a good word for [my career]. PGN: You came out in 2014. What prompted that decision, and what’s the reaction you’ve had since then? TH: I was at a place in my life that I couldn’t live the way I was living anymore. I wanted my music and life to be more authentic. I wanted to walk down the street with my partner, and I wanted people to know more about me. Chely Wright [an openly gay country singer] was great and she counseled me. I was prepared not to have a career in country music because my life was more important. But that didn’t happen, I didn’t have that. I had some trolls on social media, but my fans were real loyal. I’m lucky Matt, my partner of seven years, loves country music. I don’t know if I’d be

with him if he didn’t. PGN: Do you think you could have come out sooner? TH: I’ve had a lot of ups and downs. And I’m happy in the place I have as an out and proud man, period. Being out and proud in country music is awesome. I get to do a lot more work for equality, and man up and show up for things that matter. And crowds at the shows are a real modern family. There are same-sex couples at my concerts. PGN: Do you feel pressure as a country singer to fit a certain mold or stereotype? TH: The great thing about coming out was that I am my own stereotype. I am still the same ol’ country boy, but you know more about me. My music has gotten better because I’ve gotten better and my music is more authentic because I’m more authentic. My new album is my first album that’s non-gender-specific. There is not a “he” or “she” on the album. My audience is so much broader; I want them to put their lives into the songs I’m singing. I didn’t do it intentionally but, eight songs in, my producer noticed it is gender-free. I have this lyric: “I know you’re going to be the death of me/but what a sweet, sweet way to go.” That’s for Matt. But I want my sister to be able to sing it to her husband. Country music is universal, and I want people to hear the songs and not think, He’s singing it to a girl/boy. PGN: Can you describe what your music means to you? TH: Music is a feeling. I write from my feelings and my experiences. My music reflects the mood of my day. If I can’t relate to it, it doesn’t make the record. It’s about keeping it real. PGN: You had some difficulties in your personal life that got some media attention. What observations do you have about where you were and where you are now? TH: I’ve had ups and downs and I’ve come out on the other side. My struggles with addiction and depression were because I was living life as a lie. When you live that way, you find ways to feel better, but those “feel betters” almost took my life. I’ve been clean and sober for a long time now, so I can be a bit of a teacher and preacher through song, and hopefully prevent someone going through that. PGN: What music might people be surprised to learn you like? TH: Oh wow! Eminem. I like modern rap. There’s a lot of passion in some of these guys. But I usually put on Faith Hill, Vince Gil and Bonnie Raitt. n

MISTER ‘SMITHS’: Out alt-rock icon Morrissey returns to sing his way through life’s heartbreaks 8 p.m. Sept. 22 at Tower Theater, 69th and Ludlow streets, Upper Darby. For more information or tickets, call 215-922-1011.

Theater & Arts The Bridges of Madison County Media Theatre presents the musical based on the best-selling novel through Oct. 23, 104 E. State St., Media; 610-8910100. Bruce Nauman: Contrapposto Studies, I-VII Philadelphia Museum of Art presents the premiere of new works by Bruce Nauman, which continue the artist’s exploration of video, sound and performance, Sept. 18-Jan. 8, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-7638100.

Carly Aquilino The comedian performs through Sept. 18 at Helium Comedy Club, 2031 Sansom St.; 215496-9001.

sculpture and architecture by artists from Africa through Sept. 25, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-7638100.

works from the museum’s collection to local neighborhoods through Nov. 1, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-763-8100.

Classical Splendor: Painted Furniture for a Grand Philadelphia House Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition of furniture designed in 1808 by Benjamin Henry Latrobe through Jan. 1, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-763-8100.

Everyday, Everynight The Seraphin Gallery presents a solo exhibition by James Inscho featuring abstract compositions through Sept. 18, 1108 Pine St.; 215-923-7000.

Look Again: Contemporary Perspectives on African Art Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition drawing from the Penn Museum’s esteemed African collections through Dec. 4, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-763-8100.

Creative Africa Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition of photography, fashion,

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How We Got On Azuka Theatre presents the Philadelphia premiere set in the 1980s about three teens dreaming of fame and fortune in the new hiphop scene Sept. 21-Oct. 9 at Louis Bluver Theatre at The Drake, 302 S. Hicks St.; 215-5631100. Inside Out Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition of large-scale, high-quality replicas of favorite

Love Jones: The Musical Chrisette Michele, Musiq Soulchild, Marsha Ambrosius and more join forces to tell the classic love story of Darius and Nina through Sept. 18 at Merriam Theater, 250 S. Broad St.; 215-893-1999. Plays of/for a Respirateur Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an

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Farm, Saliva, Crazy Town and more perform 8 p.m. Sept. 21 at the Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St.; 215627-1332. Gojira and Tesseract The progressive metal bands perform 8 p.m. Sept. 22 at the Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St.; 215627-1332.

BACK TO BROADWAY: The Rrazz Room at the Prince celebrates its first anniversary with Tony Awardwinning Broadway icon Betty Buckley, who will perform classics and new material in her new show “Story Songs!” at 3 and 7 p.m. Sept. 18 at 1412 Chestnut St. For more information or tickets, call 215-4224580.

installation by Joseph Kosuth that includes a selection of his work, along with a group of seminal works by Marcel Duchamp, through the fall, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215763-8100. Rizzo Philadelphia Theatre Company presents the drama following Frank Rizzo’s trajectory from beat cop to police commissioner to mayor of Philadelphia Sept. 23-Oct. 16 at Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad St.; 215985-0420. Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific Walnut Street Theatre presents the classic musical adapted from the Pulitzer Prizewinning novel through Oct. 23, 825 Walnut St.; 215-574-3550.

Music The Proclaimers The rock band performs 8 p.m. Sept. 16 at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St.; 215222-1400. Book of Love The synth-pop band celebrates its 30th anniversary 8 p.m. Sept. 17 at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St.; 215-222-1400. AC/DC The rock band performs 8 p.m. Sept. 20 at Wells Fargo Center, 3601 S. Broad St.; 215-389-9543. Tom Jones The singer performs 8 p.m. Sept. 20 at Tower Theater, 69th and Ludlow streets, Upper Darby; 215-922-1011. Make America Rock Again Tour Trapt, Alien Ant

Terry Bozzio The legendary drummer performs a drum clinic 8 p.m. Sept. 22 at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St.; 215222-1400. Morrissey The out singer performs 8 p.m. Sept. 22 at Tower Theater, 69th and Ludlow streets, Upper Darby; 215-922-1011. Lush The alt-rock band performs 8:30 p.m. Sept. 22 at Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St.; 215232-2100. Bad Boy Reunion Rap and R&B stars Puff Daddy, Lil’ Kim, Mase, Faith Evans, 112 and more perform 8 p.m. Sept. 23 at Wells Fargo Center, 3601 S. Broad St.; 215-3899543. Brian Wilson The Beach Boys songwriter and singer celebrates the 50th anniversary of “Pet Sounds” 8 p.m. Sept. 23 at Tower Theater, 69th and Ludlow streets, Upper Darby; 215-9221011.

Nightlife Rasputin’s Room: The International Extravaganza Lil’ Steph throws her monthly burlesque party 8 p.m. Sept. 16 at Franky Bradley’s, 1320 Chancellor St.; 215735-0735.

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Jocks vs. Nerds Part Deux DJ KRK and yearbook photos by Alexander John Photography highlight this theme night 9 p.m. Sept. 16 at Tabu, 200 S. 12th St.; 215-964-9675. Coco Montrese The “RuPaul’s Drag Race” all-star performs 9 p.m. Sept. 21 at ICandy, 254 S. 12th St.; 267-3243500. 2016 Philly Drag Awards A night of awards, performances and red-carpet glamor, 9 p.m.-midnight Sept. 22 at Voyeur Nightclub, 1221 St. James St.; 215-7355772.

Outta Town Wet Hot American Summer The comedy film is screened 9:45 p.m. Sept. 16 at Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610-917-1228. Ty Herndon The Grammynominated, multi-platinum country-music singer performs Sept. 16 at the Rrazz Room, 385 W. Bridge St., New Hope; 888-5961027. West Side Story The classic musical is screened 2 p.m. Sept. 18 at Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610-917-1228. n

ALEXANDRA RUSH AS EVA PERSON IN “EVITA” By Larry Nichols larry@epgn.com Cloak & Daggers Theatre Company is taking on Andrew Lloyd Weber’s most popular musical classic — with a goal of providing much more than just entertainment. The company presents “Evita” through Sept. 25 at Penn’s Landing Playhouse. All of the company’s shows generate funds for charities in the region; this show will benefit St. Christopher’s Foundation for Children. A holiday cabaret in December will benefit Variety, the Children’s Charity, and the 2017 lineup includes fundraising shows for the American Cancer Society and MANNA. “Evita” follows the life, times and struggles of Argentinian political leader and icon Eva Peron, the wife of president Luan Peron, from her rise to power, charitable works and eventual death. Out Philadelphia actor Alexandra Rush said she is honored to portray Peron, as it was a role that inspired her to overcome obstacles when she was young. “I was in an accident when I was 5 years old,” Rush said. “I wasn’t able to walk anymore and had to re-learn to walk again. My parents had a box of cassette tapes that were all musical theater. I listened to them because I couldn’t do much else. I would sit there and I would memorize every single one,” Rush said. “But the one that stuck out the most to me was ‘Evita’ because it had such a strong female lead character. [The character of Eva Peron] spoke to me. She knew what

she wanted and she got what she wanted. She did what she needed to and that inspired me to get back on my feet. It’s been a dream role since I was 5 years old.” While it is always a challenge to take on a popular and widely known role and make it your own, Rush said she’s more focused on getting up to speed for such a demanding role. “The dance for me is a big thing because I haven’t danced in 17 years,” she said. “It’s difficult but it’s an awesome challenge and I’m loving every minute of it.” Rush said Cloak & Daggers isn’t straying too far from the version of “Evita” audiences have grown to love, but they are going to try to put some of their own panache into the performance. “A lot of the aspects of our show are taken from all different productions we looked into,” she said. “Some of the choreography is inspired by one of the national tours and some of the choreography is inspired by some of the videos that we found. We’ve obviously taken our own spin on a bunch of it but I know we’re very much influenced by all the different versions of it that we have seen. It’s a different score. It’s mostly the revival but there are some parts of it that are different from the revival.” n Cloak & Daggers Theatre Company presents “Evita” through Sept. 25 at Penn’s Landing Playhouse, 211 S. Columbus Blvd. All net profits from the performances will be donated to St. Christopher’s Foundation for Children. For more information or tickets, call 855-448-7469 or visit www.cloakanddaggers. org or www.plplayhouse.com.

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Fringe performers keep it moving By Larry Nichols larry@epgn.com FringeArts Festival continues to roll on this month with a number of new shows and exhibitions from returning Fringe performers. The festival runs through Sept 24. Fringe favorite Brian Sanders’ JUNK is back with the premiere of “Carried Away,” a provocative acrobatic dance performance set in a New York-style loft. Clad in denim and leather, the dancers wind their way through underground scenes based on Sanders’ experiences as a younger man. Sanders said his works always have a personal edge to them but “Carried Away” is more overt about it than his previous shows. “The difference with this show and the personal-ness is that I’m really connecting the personal-ness,” Sanders said. “Everything I make is very personal but I never really set out to let the audience know about the personal-ness of it. I let it sort of reside in the archetypical realm.

story of my life came to mind. So I started telling that story on top of it. That imagery provokes a fantastic happiness. Both artists have an idyllic sense of beauty and gay romance.” While the show explores Sanders’ past, it also is meant to paint a present picture of living with HIV/AIDS. “There’s still this sense of shame and conflict and difficulty. There’s still conflict in acceptance. There’s still a layer of shame on top of all this beauty. The music is all stuff that tells a nostalgic and poetic story of my first 20 years of living with HIV. It’s all music that is poignant for one reason or another. So much of the piece now is very much about somehow I survived the last 30 years and why am I as an artist still here and all the Mapplethorpes and Sylvesters and these other artists not here and what do I do with that.” Another Fringe favorite brings together intense physicality with personal storytelling. Through an acrobatic duet between two women, Tangle Movement Arts’ new show, “Surface Tension,” tells the story of a

CARRIED AWAY Photo: Steve Belkowitz

SURFACE TENSION Photo: Michael Ermilio

With this piece I’m really telling a story that’s very true to me, but before that, I’m letting the audience know that this is my story.” To set the appropriate mood for the show, “Carried Away” features music from Sanders’ youth as the soundtrack and the erotic art of Tom of Finland and Robert Mapplethorpe as a backdrop. Sanders said those artists’ work inspired him to tell his story. “I started with Mapplethorpe and Tom of Finland and I’m like, ‘Why is this work so strangely beautiful and erotic and also pornographic and vulgar at the same time? How is that possible?’” Sanders said. “But then the pornographic, beautiful and vulgar

Tinder date that turns into a rocky relationship. Tangle founder and producer Lauren Rile Smith said the aerial circus-theater company is trying to add more narrative elements to its shows. “We have a really tight cast this year, a crew that I’m really excited about working with,” Smith said. “We decided to take an opportunity to try to tell our circus-theater storytelling in a way that emphasized more explicit storylines with theatrical monologues and use techniques from spoken word and non-traditional theater. That’s something that’s new for the Fringe Festival and I’m really excited to share it with the audience.” PAGE 39

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Alyssa Mutryn: Raising dollars, developing leaders at The Attic “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” — Winston Churchill This week’s profile, Alyssa Mutryn, does both by getting people to give. As director of development for The Attic Youth Center, Mutryn is responsible for making sure our LGBT youth get the services they need. We spoke to the Bethesda, Md., native to find out what motivates her to help our youth. PGN: When you think of “LGBT Philadelphia,” what’s the first thing that comes to mind? AM: [Laughs] Wow! Starting off with a huge question, Suzi. The first thing that popped in my head was the broad array of resources available here, from The Attic to Mazzoni Center to William Way. That and all the awesome people that make up the community. PGN: I noticed on your résumé that most of the work you’ve done has been geared toward services for women and children. What drew you to that line of work? AM: Well, I don’t think anyone grows up saying, “I want to be a director of development when I grow up.” I was a psychology and anthropology major first at Franklin and Marshall College. I took a class focused on the foster-care system and it really made me want to do something to help change that system. I grew up outside of Washington, D.C., and I think that had an impact on my interest in policy change. My parents read the paper to us first thing every morning — the Washington Post as well as other papers of interest — and I was influenced by that a lot. I got my master’s of social work at University of Pennsylvania and it was a combined degree for social work and public administration, I guess with a goal of working on policy. I learned a lot about child welfare and took classes focused on nonprofit management and administration. I always wanted to do something to help children and youth. PGN: What did the parents do? AM: My dad is a lawyer — he’s still practicing, outside of D.C. — and my mom is a teacher and also worked with education and nonprofits. PGN: So you’re a combination of both; I’d imagine the administrative, corporate side from your father and the child and education side from your mother. AM: Exactly! They were good role models. PGN: Do you have siblings? AM: Yes, I have a brother. He’s two years younger than me and married with three kids. PGN: How far from D.C. were you?

AM: Five or 10 minutes. We were right on the D.C. border so we were in the city all the time. We’d go for concerts, musicals — the whole family loves musicals, especially my father — and other events. We’d volunteer for different causes as well. I remember my parents taking us to a soup kitchen, and I was involved with a church group that did a lot of volunteer activities. But as much as I enjoyed D.C., I have to say I like Philly better. I moved here for grad school in 2001 and fell in love with the town. D.C. is very political; people are attached to their jobs and laser-focused on their careers. I love the community feel of Philadelphia. I love my job but don’t want to work 70 hours a week; you need to have balance. I think it benefits your work in the long run. PGN: What was a favorite family memory? AM: My parents were always on the go, even more so than I am and I feel like I’m always on the go. They love to travel so we’d go hiking every summer in the Adirondacks. My great uncle built a house up there generations ago and so each extended family would get a week there each summer. We’d go boating and fishing and tubing and rafting and hiking and it’s one of my favorite memories. I still try to go every summer.

never work alone. I work in partnership with the board and our executive director Carrie Jacobs, the rest of the staff and the awesome youth here who are instrumental in helping with fundraising. They give tours to donors, I’ve had youth help me write grants, they help with events and plan their own fundraisers. It’s a group effort. And hopefully we’ll be getting a second person to be on the development staff very soon. PGN: I heard you mention that you were looking for someone and everyone’s first reaction was, “You have the budget for that?” AM: I know! Why does everyone say that? Yes. And a development person is a great hire. It gives you another person to bring in more money for the organization. I’ve been here seven years and every month, every day there are things I can’t get to because this is such a deadline-driven job. I need to focus on applications that are pretty sure bets, but there are others that are a stretch that we could try with more help. New

PGN: I’m sure that sociability is good for your line of work. AM: Yes, I go to a lot of events with this job so it’s a good thing I enjoy it.

PGN: I stand corrected! So tell me a little bit about what a development director does. AM: At The Attic we’re a smaller nonprofit, though we’ve grown a lot over the years. I’m the person directly responsible for generating all of the funds to make the place operate: everything from paying the staff to keeping the building air conditioned to furniture to materials, everything. I’m currently a staff of one but development people

PGN: Yeah, and a lot of adults were afraid to work with LGBT youth at the time. It was pretty verboten. AM: I was in high school then so I don’t know … PGN: [Laughs] Don’t make me hurt you! AM: No! I just mean that I didn’t have this kind of resource either, there were no GSAs at the time. In fact, that’s one of the things I hear the most from donors when they tour the place: “I wish I’d had this when I was a teenager.” PGN: When did you come out? AM: It was when I was in grad school, 2001. At first I didn’t really have the language around it. I came out as lesbian or bisexual because I’d dated a guy in college. He’s awesome and we’re still friends. I dated both men and women and once I started learning about feminism and queer theory and stuff, it gave me the language to identify as queer. To me it’s more inclusive of gender presentations and identities and is a better fit for how I feel. PGN: When did you and Shay meet? AM: About four-and-a-half years ago, we’d both gone through breakups and Kate Hinchey — someone you’ve interviewed — convinced me to go to Sisters — RIP Sisters — one night. It was after Crystal Cheatham’s Soulforce event. I didn’t even know Kate that well but I went along. She knew Shay from Temple and had asked her to come too. We were introduced and started dating immediately.

PGN: That’s funny, one of my questions for you was going to be about the fact that I see you and your wife Shay everywhere. You two are always out and about! AM: I know! I definitely get that from my parents. Thank God Shay is like that too, we both hate sitting around. That’s part of the reason we’re married and get along so well. I think I’m more the extroverted one. My dad would always say, “The Mutryn family thrives at a cocktail hour” but Shay is very social as well. We just got back from visiting my cousins in Colorado.

PGN: I’m sure a lot of schmoozing comes with the territory. AM: [Laughs] I prefer to say making connections. A lot of people think that about development directors, but I feel like I like to be more genuine than just schmoozing.

ple showed up, it was clear that there was a need for it.

donors to reach out to, etc. I’m excited to have a new person to help us grow even further. PGN: Tell me a little history of The Attic. AM: It was started in 1993 by Carrie Jacobs when she was in graduate school. It was at a time when there weren’t many or any resources for LGBT youth. It was literally in the attic of a social-services organization and it was originally only supposed to be an eight-week support group but so many peo-

PGN: And now you’re married! AM: We are! I sometimes forget. Just last week I introduced Shay as my girlfriend to someone: “Oops, partner, I mean wife.” Whatever. Fortunately, she doesn’t care. PGN: Nice. And what’s your obsession with The Learning Channel? AM: [Laughs] You did do your homework! This is embarrassing. OK, so if I’m at home with the TV on in the background, it’s always turned to TLC. I think it’s interesting to see people who are different from the people I see every day. Samantha Guisti was my roommate PAGE 38

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for three years and she also likes TLC, so when they had the TLC Festival at Penn’s Landing our friend Bryan Buttler got us passes to interview people at the event. We ended up doing an interview with Kate Gosselin and all our friends went crazy because it was the last thing people expected from us! PGN: Switching back to more serious things, I read a piece you posted from someone speaking about reinventing philanthropy with an eye toward equity. What does that mean, and what is the Foundation Complex? AM: That’s a term coined by human-rights activist Ella Baker to describe the situation when you have a small and mostly homogeneous group of people who control the money, which is then distributed to nonprofits. Often they don’t really understand the needs of those who the money is intended for and will attach specific requirements that may or not be in the best interest. Whenever I’m talking to donors or foundation leaders, I try to stress the importance of giving unrestricted money and letting the organizations make the decisions since they know best how to meet the needs of the mission and the people they serve. Fortunately, we have some great donors and foundations that we work with who understand that we work as a partnership with our youth and why it’s important that they are empowered. I always try to inject social-justice values whenever I speak and they’ve been very receptive. PGN: What’s poverty porn? AM: That’s when an organization tries to exploit the condition of the people they’re trying to help to generate sympathy and donations for a cause. You’ve seen the ads where they make the people and/or animals look miserable to elicit a response from you. We work carefully to make sure that’s not happening. We stay away from terms like “at risk” to describe our youth because the kids who come here are awesome. They’re energetic and creative and social-justice-focused and want to create change in their communities and the world. Yes, some have experienced some difficult times — being abandoned by family or bullied, what have you — but that’s not who they are. I’ve had to have some conversations with funders about labels and intersectionality. They’re also not just queer kids, they have other identities that are important too. They’re black or Latino, trans or left-handed, we’re all not just one thing. I try to use language that’s affirming and uplifting and reflects the youths that come here. PGN: What’s motivating for you? AM: I’ve been here long enough to see people who came here as 16-year-olds now grow up to be young adults. Seeing kids who came here who were terribly shy, or without a home, not knowing what was next for them or what to focus on in school, now fully blossomed and in col-

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lege or working in the social-justice arena using skills they learned here is inspiring. They’re now role models and wonderful students and/or employees and good allaround people. It’s so cool. PGN: You work with youth, so what advice would you give your 19-year-old self? AM: Wow. Sometimes I think I’m still her. I definitely feel younger than I am, though I wouldn’t want to go back to being 19. I guess I’d tell her the typical things: to have confidence in herself, to be true to yourself and that things will happen when they should. PGN: Best birthday? AM: I’ve had a lot of good ones. My birthday is in January and a few years ago Shay took me to New York to go skating and we went to see “Avenue Q,” so that was really fun. We also had a party at Giorgio on Pine that was fun. PGN: You’re on death row. What do you want as your last meal? AM: Well, I’m really against the death penalty, so that would suck! But I’d want my favorite foods: sushi, pizza and Mexican food, not usually all together. PGN: Who’s your celebrity crush? AM: Lin-Manuel Maranda. We’re going to see “Hamilton” in November. Shay makes fun of me because I donated to some fundraiser he was a part of and I got a postcard of him that I keep on the refrigerator. PGN: I know people are always welcome to donate funds to The Attic but what are some non-monetary ways people can help? AM: We are always looking for volunteers, especially in our new kitchen. We’d love for people to bring food and cook a meal for the kids or use food from our pantry to create something. We serve dinner every day for anywhere from 30-50 people. PGN: Really? I can’t cook but I make a mean salad. AM: That’d be great! We have some food here from Philabundance and other sources. We also get regular donations from companies like the Oyster House and Giorgio on Pine and Dow Chemical, and a lot of other companies or restaurants will make one-time donations. Starbucks just did four-weeks’ worth. PGN: What else? AM: People can host fundraisers for us. We also do a lot of item collections like school supplies and backpacks for back to school. As we get into winter, coats, hats and gloves are needed. We love it when people get their companies to do toiletry or snackfood drives. There’s always something you can do! n To learn more about The Attic Youth Center, visit www.atticyouthcenter.org. To suggest a community member for Family Portrait, email portraits05@aol.com.

Q Puzzle Appropriate Bible Verse Across 1. Lorca’s lower 5. Kind of sheet 9. Come quickly 13. Rupert Everett’s “___ Life” 14. 2012 Ben Affleck movie 15. Penetrating reed 16. Verdi slave girl 17. One with a long tongue 18. Cutlass or 98, for short 19. Feeling of hitting rock bottom 20. Start of a movie in which actor Will played gay but did not feel free to do a film kiss 22. Where Hamlet told Ophelia to get herself 24. “___ Spartacus!” 25. It comes before sex and marriage 26. “Jailhouse Rock” singers? 30. Mary’s little pet 32. Since, to J. M. Barrie 34. Asian cuisine 35. Will Smith title role 36. More of the movie 37. Suffix for southeast 38. Guitarist Townshend

40. “A time to embrace and a time to refrain ___ embracing” (Ecclesiastes 3:5) 42. Stare at 43. Dickhead 45. Hathaway of “Brokeback Mountain” 47. Heston in a chariot 48. “War Requiem” composer Benjamin 51. End of the movie 55. Dr. of the rap world 56. Straight 57. Words in many disco names 58. Brought forth fruit 59. Undercover crack investigator 60. Alfred Douglas’ school 61. Got a little behind 62. You, to the Amish 63. Groups of games, to Navratilova 64. “Showboat” cap’n

Down 1. Beefcake muscles 2. Scrabble quintet of one-pointers 3. Actor son of Will 4. Chicken-king link 5. Poems of Samuel Butler, e.g.

6. Official substitute 7. “Omigosh!” 8. Cough med that can coldcock you 9. Where a welcome is trampled 10. Type of seaman 11. Straddled a stallion 12. Madonna’s “Dick Tracy” character 20. Sch. for Rev. Spahr 21. Looker’s leg 23. Snatch 26. The skinny 27. TV series in which 3-Down has done a film kiss 28. Dixie Chicks’ “Goodbye ___” 29. Triangle ratio 30. Drinks like a pussycat 31. “Losing My

Religion” extra Mapa 33. Dick of “Bewitched” 39. Use Cialis, e.g. 40. Over a very long time 41. Leaves behind 42. Neighbor of Minn. 44. Wilder’s “___ Town” 46. Anais who went both ways 48. Homophobe, for one 49. Screwed up 50. Hard up 51. Tickled pink 52. Cole Porter’s “Well, Did You ___” 53. Debussy’s daddy 54. Haul around 58. Drag queen’s stole, often

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Another change for Tangle includes a new locations for its show, which brings its spectacle closer to the city. “Our venue is in Old City this year instead of Kensington. We’ve loved our time in the northern part of the city but we also think that being so central to the festival is exciting.” Using Fringe to make its debut is “Wicked Gay Ways,” a new queer-erotic arts and literature online journal founded and curated by David Acosta and Susan DiPronio. Acosta said their premiere exhibition at CRUXSPACE will feature the works of photographers and artists from around the world. “The majority of the work is photography,” he said. “There are some artists working in collage and mixed media. Some of them have contributed literary pieces, so there will be some poetry.” Acosta said he wants the journal to be a forum for a diverse constituency of voices, but that it’s been somewhat difficult to find artists to reach that goal. “I really made a concerted effort to reach out to female artists and trans artists but I didn’t get a great response from those specific communities,” he said. “It is my hope that after the magazine launches and people read and see it, the word will get out and we’ll get a more diverse body of work in terms of representation of the many queer communities. But with that said, 90 percent of all of the artists featured are art-

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

■ William Way Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center 1315 Spruce St.; 215-732-2220, www.waygay.org. Hours: 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Friday, noon-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays Peer counseling: 6-9 p.m. Monday-Friday Library: noon-9 p.m. Monday-Friday, noon-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday Volunteers: New Orientation, first Wednesday of the month at 7:30 p.m.

HIV/AIDS Mondays: n Positive Brothers, a self-help, support and empowerment group for sexual-minority men of color with HIV/AIDS meets 6-8 p.m. at 1207 Chestnut St., third floor; 215-851-1975. Tuesdays: n A support group for HIV-positive men and women meets 1:30-3 p.m. at BEBASHI: Transition to Hope, 1217 Spring Garden St., first floor; 215-769-3561; bebashi.org. n Feast Incarnate, a weekly ministry for people affected by HIV/AIDS, meets 5 p.m. at University Lutheran Church, 3637 Chestnut St.; 215-387-2885. n A support group for people recently diagnosed with HIV/AIDS meets 6:30-8 p.m. at Mazzoni Center, 21 S. 12th St.; 215563-0652 ext. 235. Wednesdays:

n Project Teach, a peer-education and

empowerment program for people living with HIV/AIDS, meets 3-5 p.m. at Philadelphia FIGHT, 1233 Locust St.; fight. org.

Thursdays:

n A support group for HIV-positive men

and women meets 6-8 p.m. at BEBASHI: Transition to Hope; 215-769-3561. n Diversity, an HIV/AIDS support group for those infected or affected, meets from 5-7 p.m. at Arch Street United Methodist Church, 55 N. Broad St.; 267-549-3676, fowallace@yahoo.com. Saturdays:

n AIDS Delaware’s You’re Not Alone youth

support group meets during the school year at varying times and locations; 800-8106776.

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

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

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Debtors Anonymous

n Meets 7-8 p.m. Monday and Thursday at

the William Way Center.

Overeaters Anonymous (OA)

■ ActionAIDS: 215-981-0088

Key numbers

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

■ Equality Pennsylvania: 215731-1447; www.equalitypa.org

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

■ Equality Forum: 215-732-3378

■ AIDS Library: 215-985-4851 ■ ACLU of Pennsylvania: 215592-1513 ■ AIDS Treatment Fact line: 800662-6080 ■ Barbara Gittings Gay and Lesbian Collection at the Independence Branch of the Philadelphia Free Library: 215-685-1633 n The COLOURS Organization Inc.: 215-496-0330

■ LGBT Peer Counseling Services: 215-732-TALK ■ Mazzoni Center: 215-563-0652; Legal Services: 215-563-0657, 866-LGBT-LAW; Family & Community Medicine: 215-563-0658 ■ Office of LGBT Affairs — Director Nellie Fitzpatrick: 215-6860330; helen.fitzpatrick@phila.gov

■ 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 ■ SPARC — Statewide Pennsylvania Rights Coalition: 717-9209537 ■ Transgender Health Action Coalition: 215-732-1207 (staffed 3-6 p.m. Wednesdays and 6-9 p.m. Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays)

■ Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (Philadelphia): 215-572-1833 ■ Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations: 215-686-4670

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.; 215-763-8870. ActionAIDS Provides a range of programs for people affected by HIV/ AIDS, including case management, prevention, testing and education services at 1216 Arch St.; 215-981-0088, www. actionaids.org. GALAEI: A Queer Latin@ Social Justice Organization Free, anonymous HIV testing from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday at 1207 Chestnut St., fifth floor; noon-6 p.m. Tuesdays at the Washington West Project, 1201 Locust St.; 215-851-1822 or 866-222-3871, www.galaei.org. Spanish/English HIV treatment Free HIV/AIDS diagnosis and treatment for Philadelphia residents are available from 9 a.m.-noon Mondays (walk-in) and 5-8 p.m. Thursdays (by appointment) at Health Center No. 2, 1720 S. Broad St.; 215685-1821. HIV health insurance help Access to free medications and confidential HIV testing 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays at 13 S. MacDade Blvd., Suite

108, Collingdale; Medical Office Building, 722 Church Lane, Yeadon; and 630 S. 60th St.; 610-586-9077. Mazzoni Center LGBTQ counseling and behavioral health services, HIV/ AIDS care and services, case management and support groups; 21 S. 12th St., eighth floor; 215-563-0652, www. mazzonicenter.org. Mazzoni Center Family & Community Medicine Comprehensive primary health care, preventive health services, gynecology, sexual-health services and chronic-disease management, including comprehensive HIV care, as well as youth drop-in (ages 14-24) 5-7p.m. Wednesdays; 809 Locust St.; 215-563-0658. Philadelphia FIGHT Comprehensive AIDS service organization providing primary care, consumer education, advocacy and research on potential treatments and vaccines; 1233 Locust St.; 215985-4448; www.fight.org. Washington West Project of Mazzoni Center Free, rapid HIV testing. Walk-ins welcome 9 a.m.-9 pm. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Sunday; 1201 Locust St.; 215-985-9206.

n Open meetings 7 p.m. Fridays at

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

S.A.R.A.

n Substance Abuse – Risk Assessment, day

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

Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous

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

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

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

Professional groups nesses and professionals; 215557-0190, www.IndependenceBusinessAlliance.com. ■ National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Philadelphia chapter of NLGJA, open to professionals and students, meets for social and networking events; www.nlgja.org/ philly; philly@nlgja.org.

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

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