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Area priest accused of sex abuse By Jen Colletta PGN Staff Writer A Delaware man filed a lawsuit last week against a priest with the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, alleging the clergymember sexually assaulted him 30 years ago. The man, who is not named in the suit, charges that Monsignor Michael Flood, who is serving as pastor of St. Luke Evangelist Parish in Glenside, assaulted him when he was a student at St. John Neumann High School in South Philadelphia, where Flood taught in the late 1970s. According to a statement released by the Archdiocese this week, Flood denies the allegations. Flood, 70, was ordained in 1968 and has served at nearly a dozen parishes and schools in the city and suburbs since then. The Archdiocese has not yet launched its own investigation into the charges, as the complainant was not identified by name in the lawsuit, and also because the claims were filed in civil court. In its statement, the Archdiocese said Flood will stay on as pastor of St. Luke’s as the suit proceeds but will voluntarily refrain from unsupervised contact with minors. David Clohessy, national director of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, called the Archdiocese’s decision to allow Flood to remain at St. Luke’s “extraordinarily reckless” and said it “contradicts every claim by Catholic officials that they allegedly put children’s safety first.” “The prudent course of action is simple: Protect kids first by suspending Flood until more information becomes available,” Clohessy said. “The notion that an accused child molester will voluntarily stay away from kids is ludicrous.” Parishioners at St. Luke’s were informed of the suit during Mass last weekend by Flood himself, who asked them to pray with him for the man who filed the suit. Flood was joined by Monsignor Arthur Rodgers, vicar for Montgomery County, who attended the services to represent Cardinal Justin Rigali. Staff members from the Archdiocesan Victim Assistance Program were also on hand. ■ Jen Colletta can be reached at jen@epgn. com.
CVS CARES?: A CVS pharmacist told HIV/AIDS service organization Calcutta House last week that he could not fill the agency’s monthly prescription for more than 11,000 dosages of HIV/AIDS medications, which are dispensed to the organization’s clients, because Calcutta owed the pharmacy $217 in back payments, prompting a protest Sept. 24 outside the CVS at Broad Street and Girard Avenue by Calcutta supporters. Demonstrators also criticized the pharmacy for, among other concerns, its policy of locking up condoms in urban areas. Calcutta executive director Matt Teter said the organization notified all of its nearly 100 vendors, including CVS, in July that its payments would be delayed because the state budget impasse had tied up nearly all of its federal, state and city funding, but CVS did not respond. Teter said CVS has reached out to Calcutta this week about this issue and “having conversations about how they can be a better community partner.” Photo: Scott A. Drake
OutFest to recognize community orgs., leaders By Jen Colletta PGN Staff Writer The Gayborhood will be brimming with community organizations next weekend during the 19th-annual OutFest celebration, with two of the groups receiving special recognition for their longstanding commitment to the local LGBT community. The Gilbert Baker National OutProud Award will be presented to LGBT health clinic the Mazzoni Center, and the OutProud Award will be given to the William Way LGBT Community Center. Franny Price, executive director of Philly Pride Presents, which stages OutFest and Pride in June, said the organization selected Mazzoni for the national award because the clinic, celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, has risen to the forefront of LGBT See OUTFEST, Page 17
HURRAH FOR HEROES: About 250 members of the LGBT and ally community came together Sept. 25 at F.U.E.L. Gallery to honor its heroes at the Delaware Valley Legacy Fund’s annual HEROES party. The LGBT grantmaking organization honored this year’s heroes Gloria Casarez (left), the city’s director of LGBT affairs, along with AIDS Fund and PNC Wealth Management. PNC’s Dave Huting (left), vice president, senior portfolio manager, accepted the award for his agency, while Robb Reichard, executive director of AIDS Fund, took the honor on behalf of his organization. Photo: Scott A. Drake
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City moving on Scouts’ eviction By Timothy Cwiek PGN Writer-at-Large City officials are seeking the immediate eviction of a local Boy Scouts chapter from a city-owned building, though the Scouts maintain their federal anti-bias lawsuit should take precedence over the eviction action. In an Aug. 19 motion for summary judgment, city attorneys told Common Pleas Judge Mark I. Bernstein that no federal judge would allow the Cradle of Liberty Council to remain indefinitely in its headquarters, at 231-251 N. 22nd St., under the current arrangements. Thus, Bernstein shouldn’t postpone ruling on the city’s eviction request for fear of interfering with the Scouts’ federal case, city attorneys argued. If the judge grants the request and the Scouts refuse to vacate the building, the city would need to seek the assistance of the Sheriff’s Office to enforce the eviction, city attorneys say. The Scouts built the facility in question and have occupied it rent-free since 1928 under an ordinance enacted by Philadelphia City Council. But in 2007, Council terminated the arrangement because the Scouts’ antigay membership policy conflicts with the city’s gay-rights ordinance. In lieu of eviction, Council offered the Scouts the option of paying $200,000 annual rent — fair-market value — which the Scouts rejected as too expensive. City attorneys say the most the Scouts could get from a federal judge would be low-rent occupancy in an alternate citySee SCOUTS, Page 16
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Reading OKs gay bill By Jen Colletta PGN Staff Writer Reading took its place this week among the list of Pennsylvania municipalities that prohibit discrimination against residents based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The Reading City Council voted 6-1 on Sept. 28 to approve a nondiscrimination ordinance that extends protections to LGBT individuals in employment, credit, housing and public accommodations. Reading Mayor Thomas McMahon signed the bill into law that day, making Reading the 16th jurisdiction in the commonwealth to ban LGBT discrimination. Councilman Steve Fuhs was the only member to oppose the legislation. Councilwoman Maria Baez introduced and spearheaded the legislation, which she said was a response to the needs of her constituents. “I had a conversation about this with residents and then just got it rolling,” Baez said. “It’s a very important issue to me because a lot of people say that [being gay] is a way of life and something that people choose, but for me I don’t think this is about how you choose to live, it’s about people’s basic civil rights. I’m very glad that it was passed; it was a great accomplishment.” Ernie Schlegel, who lives in Baez’s district, was one of the residents who brought the issue to her, and he later worked closely with the rest of city council and area LGBT organizations, in addition to contacting Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission chair Steve Glassman. Glassman noted the vote was nearly two-and-a-half years in the making and said council’s adoption of the ordinance represents “a giant leap forward into the 21st century.” “It’s very exciting that Reading has caught up with other municipalities in Pennsylvania that have already recognized the importance of the LGBT community and its contributions throughout the state,” Glassman said. “With the Reading Council’s vote, another municipality stood up for basic fairness and equality for all of its citizens,” added Lynn Zeitlin, executive director of Equality Advocates Pennsylvania.
Schlegel said the bill was in danger of being tabled shortly before the vote, as there was some question among councilmembers about the law’s implications on the use of restrooms by transgender individuals, but he said Glassman addressed council and provided further education about the issue. Both Baez and Glassman said they saw little opposition from Reading residents to the legislation; Glassman said he hopes this signifies to the state legislature that Pennsylvania is ready for a statewide nondiscrimination law that is inclusive of the LGBT community. “We certainly hope that as our representatives see more and more local jurisdictions recognizing the value of protecting the rights of all Pennsylvanians, that House Bill 300 will move more rapidly through the legislature,” Glassman said. HB 300, which would ban sexual orientation and gender-identity discrimination in all Pennsylvania municipalities, is currently in the House Appropriations Committee. Zeitlin noted that Reading is the second jurisdiction in the state to pass an LGBT-inclusive nondiscrimination ordinance in the past three months — Allegheny County did so in July — which could provide added encouragement to the state legislature to follow suit. “We are hoping to leverage this exciting momentum toward equality into the passage of statewide nondiscrimination protections for all people,” she said. Schlegel, who collected 150 signatures of area residents on a petition he presented to council earlier this month, said he would have liked to have seen more LGBT residents take on a leadership role on the Reading bill. He added that advocacy from everyday LGBT individuals will be integral to the passage of the statewide ordinance. “The gay community has to get involved. We have to come out and show support,” he said. “If we don’t, it’s not going to happen. We should be going to Harrisburg and demanding this from our legislators, telling them that we need to get this passed, that we’re important.” ■ Jen Colletta can be reached at jen@epgn.com.
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News Briefing Regional Memorial celebration Walkers, runners to hit the to honor LGBT leader path for HIV/AIDS
Friends and colleagues of Larry Frankel are invited to a memorial celebration in his honor at 10:30 a.m. Oct. 10 at Independence Visitors Center, Sixth and Market streets. Frankel, the former longtime legislative director of the Pennsylvania American Civil Liberties Union, died last month in Washington, D.C. Autopsy results are still pending, but a close friend of Frankel said the medical examiner indicated his death was not suspicious and could have been the result of an asthma attack, heart attack or dehydration, or a combination of the three. Guests will be invited to share their memories of Frankel and light fare will be offered during the celebration, which will be held on the mezzanine level of the Visitors Center. There are entrances to an underground parking lot on Fifth and Sixth streets. Children are welcome, and guests are invited to add color to their outfits, which Frankel frequently did. Gifts can be made in Frankel’s name to American Civil Liberties Union, P.O. Box 40008, Philadelphia, PA 19106 or to The Fairmount Park Conservancy, 1617 John F. Kennedy Blvd., Suite 1670, Philadelphia, PA 19103.
By Jen Colletta PGN Staff Writer There are less than three weeks left to collect your donations, break in your jogging sneakers and stretch your muscles for the 23rd annual AIDS Walk/Run. This year’s event, on Oct. 18, will feature some traditions of years past, as well as some new introductions. Robb Reichard, president of AIDS Fund, which stages the annual fundraiser, said the “run” portion of this year’s event has been shortened — from 10 kilometers to about 5 — to make it “more accessible” to more people with a wider range of athletic abilities. The walk, which sets off from Eakins Oval, stretches about 12 kilometers, or 8.4 miles, along Kelly and Martin Luther King drives. Last year’s event drew about 15,000 participants and raised about $425,000 for area HIV/AIDS service organizations. Reichard said registration is already up this year, and that he doesn’t expect the tough economy to have too much of an impact on the fundraising. “I know that our walkers are hard-working and are committed to the epidemic, and I think they’ll work their hardest to get donations,” Reichard said. “They know that it’s been a hard year, so I think that’s going to make them work even extra hard.” Many walkers register as teams, and this year AIDS Walk will welcome a very large contingent — about 600 participants — from the freshman class at Drexel University. “They included the walk as part of one of the university’s ‘101’ classes in participation, and I think that’s a really great way for the students to do some fundraising, learn about the HIV/AIDS epidemic and make a difference here in our community,” Reichard said. Jack Mackenroth, an openly gay and HIV-positive former contestant on “Project Runway,” will also make an appearance. Mackenroth has been traveling the country for the past year promoting his “Living Positively by Design” campaign, which seeks to educate those with HIV and others about the importance of understanding the disease and facing it head-on with a positive outlook. “What I try to show people in the campaign mirrors how I’ve tried to live my life after my positive diagnosis,” Mackenroth said. “It’s important for HIV-positive people to get on a drug regimen that you decide on with your doctor that can keep the virus at an undetectable level, and there are a lot
TAKING IT TO THE STREETS: AIDS Fund executive director Robb Reichard addressed participants and passersby at an AIDS Walk kick-off event held in Rittenhouse Square Sept. 25 to raise awareness about the HIV/AIDS epidemic and generate interest in the 23rd annual walk, set for Oct. 18. During the event, AIDS Fund set up life-sized silhouettes throughout the park, each holding statistics about the disease and its impact globally, nationally and here in Philadelphia. To register for the AIDS Walk or to donate to the AIDS Fund, which distributes funding generated through the event to local HIV/AIDS service organizations, visit www.aidswalkphilly.org. Photo: Scott A. Drake
of things that you have to keep monitoring. For people who are newly diagnosed, they’re often lost and not prepared. But my message is really straightforward: You can have a successful and healthy life and still pursue all of your dreams and your goals.” In addition to heightening awareness about how to manage the disease, Mackenroth, who was diagnosed with HIV nearly 20 years ago, said he also hopes to use his campaign to encourage others with HIV/AIDS to be open about their diagnosis. “An HIV diagnosis is of course a very personal journey, and I know that everyone has circumstances either at their job or other extenuating circumstances, but I really think as comfortable as you are talking about it, you should do so,” he said. “Every time that you disclose your status to someone, you’re chipping away at that stigma. It’s kind of like how coming out as gay is. If people are as verbal, vocal and visible as they can be, it can help to fight the stigma.” While Mackenroth will be speaking out
largely to those who are living with HIV/ AIDS and their loved ones, the AIDS Walk is also meant to honor those who have lost their battle with the disease. Panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on display, and names of local HIV/AIDS victims will be read at the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum before the walk begins. Reichard said the walk also sheds light on the fact that HIV/AIDS is still claiming many lives; every nine-and-a-half minutes, someone in the country receives a positive HIV diagnosis, and the rate of infection in Philadelphia is five times the national average. “We still have this epidemic going on in our country and here in our own community, and I hope people keep that in mind,” he said. Participants can donate or register online at www.aidswalkphilly.org and can also register on site that morning. ■ Jen Colletta can be reached at jen@epgn. com.
Summit for LGBT business owners Local LGBT chamber of commerce Independence Business Alliance and the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce will host the first regional Supplier Diversity Summit, 11:30 a.m.4 p.m. Oct. 2 at PNC Bank Conference Center, 1600 Market St. The summit will provide workshops for LGBT-owned businesses about the importance of getting their LGBT certifications from the NGLCC, and will also host activities geared toward mainstream corporations to raise awareness about incorporating LGBT-certified businesses into their supplier-diversity programs. For information, visit www.Independe nceBusinessAlliance.com.
Youth invited to career, education fair The local nonprofit Educational Justice Coalition, which seeks to provide supportive, safe spaces for LGBT youth, is hosting a Youth Empowerment Fair from 4-8 p.m. Oct. 9 at the Atlantic Building, 10th floor, 260 S. Broad St. See NEWS BRIEFING, Page 17
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CENTRAL LEADERSHIP: About 70 representatives of LGBT community centers from around the nation, as well as from Israel and Canada, converged on the William Way LGBT Community Center Sept. 24-26 for umbrella organization CenterLink’s Third Annual Leadership Summit. More than half of the participants were center executive directors, with some 30 board members attending the conference, which featured networking events and seminars on marketing and board development, many of which were led by Philadelphia’s LGBT leaders. “We were able to use a lot of our local talent to help showcase our community,” said ’Dolph Ward Goldenburg (front row, left), executive director of William Way. “It was really a treat to host my colleagues from all over the world.” Photo: Scott A. Drake
HRC rates national, local companies on ‘equality’ By Jen Colletta PGN Staff Writer National LGBT organization Human Rights Campaign released the results of its annual Corporate Equality Index last month, and several local organizations received top marks. HRC rated 590 businesses, evaluating employment policies, benefits programs and workplace safety as related to LGBT employees. HRC invites companies featured in Fortune magazine’s 100 largest publicly traded businesses list and American Lawyer magazine’s slate of top 200 revenue-grossing law firms to participate. The average rating was 86, up three percentage points over last year. This year, 305 organizations received perfect scores — a 45-percent increase over last year and the largest number of companies to garner the top spot ever since HRC instituted the CEI in 2002. Locally, four companies, all law firms, received ratings of 100 in the CEI: Duane Morris; Ballard, Spahr; Morgan, Lewis & Bockius; and Pepper Hamilton. This is the first time that each of the organizations received perfect scores; last year, Ballard, Spahr and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius scored 80, while Pepper Hamilton came in at 90 and Duane Morris was at 95. HRC employs a list of criteria that companies must meet to raise their scores, and since the release of last year’s CEI, the first two firms extended their nondiscrimination policies to cover gender identity or expression and also incorporated issues of
gender identity into diversity training programs. Pepper Hamilton heightened its rating by implementing diversity training that addresses both sexual orientation and gender identity, and Duane Morris extended its health-insurance coverage to offer benefits specific to transgender individuals. Another local law firm, Drinker, Biddle & Reath, achieved a 95, but couldn’t hit the top mark because its diversity-training program doesn’t cover gender identity. John Byrne, communications director at the firm, said the organization is interested in expanding its training to include this. “This is something we’re definitely looking into, and we imagine that by next year’s survey, this will have been addressed,” he said. HRC rated firm Saul Ewing a 68. The company lost points for not employing a nondiscrimination policy or diversity training inclusive of gender identity, and for not providing dental, vision, COBRA or dependent benefits for same-sex partners. Candace Toll-Aaron, co-chair of Saul Ewing’s diversity committee, said that it was “very disheartening” for the company to receive this score two years running. Toll-Aaron recently took over the diversity committee and said she and other committee leaders are planning to press for the expansion of the company’s LGBT policies, many of which have yet to be formalized. “There’s a new leadership regime on the diversity committee that just crystallized at the firm, and we’ve made it a priority to address the needs and concerns of LGBT lawyers,” she said. “I can’t say what the
new policies will exactly look like, but we are in the process of updating our relevant firm policies. We really look forward to a much higher score next year.” Other local companies featured in the CEI include health-insurance corporation CIGNA, which scored a 95, the same as last year. CIGNA does not offer any insurance benefits specifically for transgender employees. Comcast Corporation also scored 95, up from last year’s rating of 80; since last year, the company has instituted a nondiscrimination policy inclusive of gender identity. Like CIGNA, Comcast does not offer benefits related to sex-reassignment surgeries. “We are always looking to ensure that our benefits are fair, competitive and sustainable,” said Comcast spokesperon John Demming. “As new issues or needs arise among our employees, or as we see them arising in the marketplace and with other employers, we are always reevaluating how we invest our benefit dollars.” HRC rated food supplier Aramark at 75; the company does not include gender identity in its diversity training or nondiscrimination policy, and also doesn’t offer transgender-specific benefits. Aramark spokesperson Nicole Kennedy said the company strives to be “a place where the best people want to work” and accordingly is “always looking to improve the workplace environment” for its 260,000 global employees. ■
Advocate.com reported President Obama included gay- and lesbian-led families when he issued a proclamation to acknowledge Sept. 28 as Family Day. “American families from every walk of life have taught us time and again that children raised in loving, caring homes have the ability to reject negative behaviors and reach their highest potential,” he wrote. “Whether children are raised by two parents, a single parent, grandparents, a same-sex couple, or a guardian, families encourage us to do our best and enable us to accomplish great things.” Obama also asked parents to be more diligent in talking to children about harmful behavior like drug and alcohol abuse.
Billboard featuring gay soldier vandalized NBC’s WLBT Channel 3 reported Sept. 25 that vandals shred a billboard in Memphis featuring a gay soldier. The billboard featured a Marine and read: “I’m gay and I protected your freedom.” It was part of a campaign for National Coming Out Day. Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center president Heidi Williams said she was appalled by such an act. “I know that they intended to silence us with hate. However, we are choosing to unite and come over that with a stronger voice, and a message that we are here — and we deserve equality as well as everyone else,” she said.
Gay man found not guilty of kidnapping Deseret News reported that a Salt Lake County jury acquitted David James “D.J.” Bell of kidnapping and burglary charges on Sept. 25, ending a bizarre case in which he and his partner were severely beaten after Bell brought two children from a loud drinking party next door to sleep at his house. An eight-person jury found Bell not guilty of the charges brought by his neighbor, Lulu Latu, who discovered her 2-yearold daughter and 4-year-old nephew in his home after a rowdy Fourth of July celebration concluded at her house in 2008. Relatives severely beat Bell and his partner, Daniel Fair. Bell’s defense attorneys maintained that the case was better understood as a hate crime against Bell and Fair. ■
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DVLF leader heads to Mazzoni By Jen Colletta PGN Staff Writer
which she said took a hit while the organization was under the direction of previous administrators. The execuShe said she thinks the organizative direction has regained a good deal of tor of LGBT trust from the local community grantmakand can now focus on other orgaing organizanizational goals, like expanded fundraising. tion Delaware “Now is the time to capitalize Valley Legacy on the regained trust and to move Fund will leave on to the next level,” Shein said. his post later “We want to be able to bring in this month to more dollars from corporate parttake a position nerships, and I don’t think we’ve with another MONASTERO done enough in the area of planned local LGBT group. giving and multiple-year pledges Perry Monastero, who has and really cultivating individual helmed DVLF for the past five donors to a different level of givyears, will step down Oct. 23 and, ing.” Shein believes Monastero’s the following week, start as the director of development and mar- work with DVLF and his strong keting for LGBT health clinic the ties to the local LGBT and philanthropic communities will make Mazzoni Center. Monastero said he hadn’t been him “well-poised” to work in these seeking a new position, but was areas. “In the five years he’s been at presented with the opportunity by Mazzoni executive director Nurit DVLF I’ve gotten to know him, Shein. and he’s a person of integrity “I really wasn’t looking for a who’s very capable, very thorjob, but Nurit spoke to me about ough and has really worked to get the position a bit ago and I was ini- to know the community and have tially interested and I gave it some the community get to know him,” more thought, and it seemed like a she said. “He is totally dedicated great opportunity,” he said. to the mission of raising funds for Mazzoni began searching for LGBT services in the Philadelphia someone to fill the position when region and has been able to forge current director of development personal and organization connecand marketing Darrell Young tions that are really astounding. announced that he would be relo- I thought he would be a wondercating to the West Coast. ful addition to Mazzoni as we are Monastero said, in describing a growing, mid-size organizathe position, Shein detailed the tion and need that level of expernew direction in which she was tise and that level of dedication. I hoping to take the Mazzoni Center really admire the work he’s done and how he could play a role in with DVLF and how he brought that progress. the organization to where it is “Nurit was telling me how she today.” wants to take the organization to Mark Mitchell, vice president the next level and wants to really of the board of directors at DVLF, build the organization beyond said that during his time there, what it’s already been able to Monastero heightened awareaccomplish,” Monastero said. “I ness among local residents about was excited for that opportunity. the importance of investing in the She’s not just resting on her lau- future of the community. rels but is thinking of how to make “He’s bridged the gap with the this organization bigger and better community as far as it comes to for the community, which I think education about grantmaking and is really exciting. I’m thrilled to scholarships and how important be able to work with Nurit and it is to work with and collaborate her entire team at the Mazzoni with other organizations,” Mitchell said. ■ Center.” Shein said Mazzoni has spent much of the past decade trying to Jen Colletta can be reached at “repair its community relations,” jen@epgn.com.
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Editorial On families and inequality President Obama proclaimed Monday, Sept. 28, Family Day, and included a reference to gay families in his formal proclamation. In the first paragraph, the proclamation stated: “Whether children are raised by two parents, a single parent, grandparents, a same-sex couple or a guardian, families encourage us to do our best and enable us to accomplish great things.” In stark contrast to this inclusion was a Sept. 29 ruling in which a federal court in Florida dismissed a lesbian’s lawsuit against Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital for barring her from seeing her partner after she suffered a brain aneurysm and fell into a coma in 2007. Lisa Pond died the following day. Despite having a medical power-of-attorney and being a resident of Washington state (certainly more gay-friendly than Florida), Janice Langbehn was not allowed to see Pond for eight hours, except for a brief five-minute visit while a priest performed last rights. The hospital also did not accept medical information from Langbehn or have any regard for her healthcare power-of-attorney. The couple’s three adopted children also weren’t permitted to see Pond. In addition, the Dade County medical examiner and State of Florida denied Langbehn’s request for a copy of Pond’s death certification. For its part, the hospital argued — and the court held — that it had no obligation to allow visitors, nor to provide families, healthcare surrogates or visitors access to patients in its trauma unit. A hospital spokesperson also denied allegations that gay and lesbian patients and their families were treated differently. “We have always believed and known that the staff at Jackson treats everyone equally, and that their main concern is the well-being of the patients in their care,” said Jennifer Piedra. Despite these assurances, it’s highly unlikely that an opposite-sex couple would have faced this opposition; in fact, heterosexual couples are rarely, if ever, asked for proof of marriage other than their word. And in this instance, it seems Langbehn and Pond had taken the “right” steps, those that same-sex couples are advised to take to secure their relationships: They had obtained a power of attorney, ensuring legal responsibility for each other — a step that many gay couples never take. The case highlights the difficulties same-sex couples face in the United States, where only a few states have marriage equality or civil unions — and how important achieving marriage equality is. ■
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Carrie Prejean Oh, Carrie Prejean. Give it up. There was a time I felt sorry for Miss Prejean. It sucked that when she was asked about gay marriage at the Miss USA pageant — by Perez Hilton, no less — she choked and sounded, well, kind of dumb. Prejean said, “Well, I think it’s great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. We live in a land that you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. And, you know what? In my country, in my family, I think that I believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that’s how I was raised and that’s how I think it should be, between a man and a woman.” She’s entitled to her opinion. And, last time I checked, Miss USA wasn’t in charge of marriage laws. As I understand Miss USA’s duties, she’s supposed to cry when she wins, hug people and not show her titties or her Miss V-A-G. So when folks like Hilton went apeshit, I thought they were being ridiculous and overly nasty. And it was partly due to this uproar that Prejean became the pretty pretty princess of the antigay right.
Creatures like Maggie Gallagher were more than happy to wipe the mascara off Prejean’s cheeks and protect her from the big, bad homos. So it’s not surprising that Prejean spoke at this year’s Values Voter Summit, a sort of antigay right orgy of political activism. Standing before a background emblazoned with the names and logos of rabidly antigay groups like the American Family Association and Family Research Council, Prejean milks it. “I always thought of pageants as doing better for the world,” she said. She saw Miss America winners as “women who were going to go out there and save the world.” You know, like Jesus in a bikini. “I knew ... as soon as I didn’t give the politically correct answer, that there was no way that I would be Miss USA,” she said. “But ... I am so proud of the stance that I took. I am so proud of the answer that I gave. And God chose me for that moment because he knew that I would not only be the one to stick up for him [as she said this, she pointed to the ceiling] and for the truth, but also he knew that I am strong enough to get through all of the junk that I have been through.”
And the crowd goes wild. Honey, you didn’t lose because you weren’t “politically correct.” No offense to anybody out there, but I think that I believe you can blame “opposite marriage.” Had you been on “American Idol,” maybe you would’ve scored points with Paula Abdul, who once made a video about her tumultuous “opposite” relationship with MC Skat Kat. But you were in the Miss USA pageant, and typically winners are people who can articulate a coherent thought. “I am not a hater of anyone. I’m not. This is not a matter of me hating any particular group. Or me being a bigot,” she said. “It’s just I was a woman who stood up for the truth.” That’s right. Carrie Prejean is basically the Rosa Parks of the antigay right. Do I smell a Sarah Palin running mate for 2012? ■ D’Anne Witkowski has been gay for pay since 2003. She’s a freelance writer and poet (believe it!). When she’s not taking on the creeps of the world, she reviews rock ’n’ roll shows in Detroit with her twin sister and teaches writing at the University of Michigan.
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OCT. 2 - 8, 2009
Mark My Words
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Mark Segal
Noting progress and acceptance The Jewish Exponent, the newspaper of the region’s Jewish community, recently changed its position on marriage announcements. Its board voted unanimously to reverse a more-than-decadeold rule against publishing same-sex engagement and marriage announcements in its pages. This is big news for numerous reasons. First, it became a cause for the man behind the campaign, Lee Rosenfield. His effort, which culminated in the last few weeks, was as professional of a campaign as we have seen in the LGBT community. Statewide organizations can learn from his effort. He drew support from our allies in the Jewish community, from conservative rabbis to former heads of Jewish teaching institutions and former members of the board. It was overwhelming and could not be ignored. Bart Blatstein, former board president, told me, “It was just time and the board understood that.” Since this newspaper represents and speaks to the Jewish community, this change will cause waves. And the staff at The Exponent is ready for the challenge.
Objections lead to education and that is what brings equality. Our real enemy is ignorance. ... Each year, the National Constitution Center holds an essay contest among high-school students nationwide, organized by Scholastic publications. You might remember them from the weekly newspaper you received in school. The contest selects one person in the U.S. to be inducted into our nation’s family tree at the center. This is a major honor, as there are only 100 individuals on the tree and it’s the signature exhibit at the center. This year’s contest was won by high-school senior Sammi Massey, of Bethesda, Md. She nominated Harvey Milk. Her essay was eloquent and spoke of his fight to bring equality to San Francisco in 1978. The NCC asked me to serve as keynote speaker for the ceremony, and I’m happy they did. It was a goose-bump moment. As I spoke and viewed the tree, my pride soared, knowing the up-and-coming generation is not only benefiting from our struggle for equality, beginning to notice and support it in vast numbers. Milk now joins Harry Hay as a representative of the LGBT community on the nation’s family tree. ■ Mark Segal is PGN publisher. He can be reached at mark@epgn.com.
Letters and Feedback In response to “House hearing on DADT expected soon,” Sept. 25-Oct. 1: Hearings “this winter or spring” means likely no vote until after the mid-term elections and at least another year-long delay in overturning this ridiculous law. That’s another year longer that LGBT servicemembers have to continue to lie, hide and deceive in order to serve. It’s another year that partners of LGBT servicemembers have to pretend they do not exist in order to support the servicemember they love. And, if we’re really lucky, the Democrats will lose their majority in one or both houses of Congress, so that there is no chance at all of seeing this law overturned any time soon. Thanks, Congress, for moving so swiftly on this civil-rights issue! Society has moved quite a bit since “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was
implemented back in the ’90s. LGBT servicemembers are now caught between two communities — a military community they have to deceive, and an LGBT community where it is no longer socially acceptable to be in the closet. Congress has effectively ostracized LGBT servicemembers from both communities by continuing to allow this ban to exist. — militaryvoter In response to “Exponent reverses gay-union ban,” Sept. 25-Oct. 1: I’m nominally Jewish, but not familiar with this group. But there is lots of progress: The head of the southern California interfaith council is a Jewish woman. And the Reform and Reconstructionist and some conservative temples do gay religious marriage ceremonies and accept
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gay pastors. My wife’s own temple, Reform, and the Rabbi mince few words re: the crazies of the fundamentalist Jews, the Orthodox, some who essentially called for the extermination of gay people. Which shows you that, regardless of religion, those who read the f...... Bible literally, rather than use the brain God gave them, are the problem. But I am only willing to go to one of the High Holiday services this year because the Rabbi has been conspicuous by his absence at the statehouse 7 miles away re: testifying on gay issues. Silence is not an option. And that applies to every gay person and everyone who believes that gay people are entitled to full acceptance as part of God’s creation. — SteveMD2
Could there be a homosexual agenda to a domestic-violence proclamation?
Clinton Albert law student Bella Vista
Diego Martinez student Center City
“No. It’s a very tenuous connection to make. It’s myopic and misguided to make that kind of link to something as innocuous as a domestic-violence proclamation. I don’t buy it. It sounds foolish to me.”
“No. I’m not a conspiracy theorist by nature. To my knowledge, gays don’t have a secret agenda like that. That’s a stretch. One thing doesn’t have any bearing on the other.”
Ari Winkleman student Center City
Aaron Wonnacott student Narberth
“Gays wouldn’t hijack the proclamation to push their own agenda. That’s too paranoid. But they would support it, just like everyone else, because domestic abuse affects everyone. But there wouldn’t be an ulterior motive.”
“Yes. A lot of people could legitimately see a proclamation that addresses same-sex domestic violence as another step on a slippery slope. It could bring a state one step closer to domesticpartnership rights — or same-sex marriage rights.”
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Richard O’Connor, the owner of a popular Rehoboth Beach bed and breakfast, died last month of liver failure. 253 S. 10th St. He was 55. First Floor O’Connor was a native of Montgomery Philadelphia County, born July 9, 1954, in Darby. He grew up in Lansdale, graduating in 1972 from Lansdale Catholic High School before earning his bachelor’s degree in communications from Temple University in 1976. After college, O’Connor worked at several area restaurants. Ed Gunts, his partner of 10 years, said O’Connor considered becoming a television weather reporter, but instead decided to use his exemplary communications skills to launch a successful sales career. In the late 1980s, O’Connor moved to Cambridge, Mass., landing a job as a sales consultant for Designtext, where he provided textiles to architects and designers in the Boston area. In 1998, he moved back to the Philadelphia area to take care of his mother, who was battling breast cancer. While in the area, he was hired as a sales consultant for Steelcase Design Partnership, an office-furPAGE 15 niture supplier.
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Gunts said O’Connor, the youngest of four siblings, cared for his ailing mother until her death and also stepped in as caretaker for his father when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. After his father died, O’Connor left the furniture industry and, in 2004, he and Gunts took over ownership of The Shore Inn in Rehoboth Beach, Del. Gunts said he was living in Baltimore and O’Connor in Philadelphia at the time, and their involvement at The Shore Inn brought them closer together and fulfilled a longtime goal of O’Connor’s. “Rehoboth was always somewhere equally distant from both of us where we could get away, and this was something that we were able to do together,” Gunts said. “He always loved the beach, so this was just a dream of his.” Although going from a sales consultant to a bed-and-breakfast owner may seem like a big leap, Gunts said the transition was natural for O’Connor. “It summed up all his talents. He was always very social, loved having parties and talking with people and showing them a good time. His whole life was about trying to make other people happy.” O’Connor served as both a manager and innkeeper for The Shore Inn, which caters to gay male travelers, but Gunts said he always went above and beyond his job description for their guests.
“He was kind of a one-person clearinghouse for information,” he said. “He would be the one to tell them where to go in town, what restaurants, what was happening at the bars and nightspots, what was worth checking out.” Gunts surmised that O’Connor may have picked up on the needs of his travelers through their own vacations, which took them to such locales as Palm Springs, Calif., Provincetown, R.I., and Key West, Fla. “He always put himself in the place of his guest,” Gunts said. “He wanted to give them that extra thing they couldn’t get at a Holiday Inn.” While many will remember O’Connor for his hospitality and generosity, his older brother, Gary, said few people know about what could be one of his most lasting legacies. Gary said O’Connor was working as the food and beverage manager for a hotel in Center City during the 1980 World Series, when the Phillies faced the Kansas City Royals, led by their star player, George Brett. “As luck would have it, the Royals were staying at Rick’s hotel,” Gary said. “On the eve of the first game, Rick arranged to send a case of beer to Brett’s room. I don’t know what effect it had, but Brett had a terrible series and the Phils went on to win their first-ever World Series.” O’Connor first learned of his liver disease in mid-August and entered hospice in Delaware earlier last month. Gunts and O’Connor’s other family members launched a Web page for friends to keep abreast of his condition, and in the past month, more than 1,000 visitors have viewed the site from throughout the country. In addition to Gunts and brother Gary, O’Connor is survived by another brother, Tom; a sister, Suzy; nine nieces and nephews and many friends. A memorial celebration will be held at 1 p.m. Oct. 3 at Rigby’s Bar & Grill, 404 Rehoboth Ave. in Rehoboth Beach. To view the memorial Web site, visit www.caringbridge.org/visit/ RickOConnor. ■ Jen Colletta can be reached at jen@epgn.com.
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First Halpin law scholarship awarded By Jen Colletta PGN Staff Writer
Temple University in 2005 with a a n d a l s o v o l u n t e e r s w i t h degree in political science. Villanova’s OUTLaw, its LGBT Bailey said becoming a lawyer alliance, said the field of law has The Delaware has been one of his aspirations thus far been an accepting one. He said he’s eager to continue V a l l e y since he was a child — among a series of other goals. his studies and enter the field as Legacy Fund “When I was a little kid, I wanted an openly gay attorney who, like announced the to be a singing-dancing-actor-law- Halpin, was proud of his orientafirst recipient of yer-astronaut. I think astronaut’s tion but did not allow it to overits Sean Halpin off the list, but the other ones I’m shadow his work or his other Memorial checking off slowly but surely,” he attributes. Scholarship last joked. “Since I applied for the scholarmonth, and the “I’ve always been one of those ship, I’ve run into so many people local student is eager to honor BAILEY people who likes to give advice who knew [Halpin] and who have when I think I know something that so many good things to say about the late openly can benefit someone else; I recog- him and his work, and I saw that, gay attorney as he traverses his own career path. nize now that people don’t always yes, he was an openly gay man DVLF selected Villanova care for that unsolicited advice, so and that was an important part of University second-year law stu- I figured I could go into an indus- who he was, but it’s not all there dent Dwight Anthony Bailey, 29, try where people who actually do was,” Bailey said. “And for me, for the $1,000 scholarship. want and need help and advice can sure I’m a black guy, but I’m not The scholarship fund was cre- come to me to get counsel,” he just a black guy. And, yes, I’m a ated about five years ago, shortly said. gay guy, but that’s just one part Bailey is set to earn his law of me and it’s not based on other after Halpin’s death, and DVLF and a coalition of Halpin’s fam- degree in 2011, and said that while people’s conceptions of who a gay ily and friends have raised more he’s not entirely sure which area of guy might be. He used his skills than $10,000 toward the fund, a law he’d like to practice, he is lean- to help the community but didn’t portion of which comes from the ing toward criminal prosecution allow himself to be strictly defined annual Gay Community Day at the after spending a summer working by his being gay, and that’s what I Phillies. want also.” ■ at the District Attorney’s Office. At the time of his death, Halpin, Bailey, who currently sits on the who sat on the boards of such orga- board of directors of the Gay and Jen Colletta can be reached at nizations as AIDS Law Project and Lesbian Lawyers of Philadelphia jen@epgn.com. Equality Advocates Pennsylvania, was a litigation partner with Reed Smith, LLP. Larry Felzer, a friend of Halpin, said he created the fund SERVICES: to “keep Sean’s name and memory Wednesdays Noontime alive,” adding there are few other Sundays 11a.m. resources for local LGBT law students. Contemporary Service: Last Sunday of month Perry Monastero, executive Breathing Room director of DVLF, said the organiWednesdays 7 p.m. zation received four applications 17TH & SANSOM STREETS and that the scholarship comPastor Jerry deJesus mittee, comprised of family and PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103 www.fbcphila1698.org friends of Halpin, saw promise in Bailey. “They had a tough decision to make, but they recommended at Rodeph Shalom Dwight, and I think he was just a A GLBT synagogue welcoming people of all gender and sexual identities since 1975 great choice,” Monastero said. JOIN US TWICE MONTHLY FOR SHABBAT SERVICES AT 8:00 PM Felzer, who sat on the commitCoffee, cake & conversation at the oneg following services tee, said Bailey’s work and volPlease join us for these events after the High Holy Day Season: unteer experiences, fused with his Friday, October 2, 8:00 PM. Beth Ahavah Shabbat Services, Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell officiating. Please join us academic accomplishments, made for services followed by a sumptuous oneg (social hour) following services. Saturday, October 3, 6:00 PM, Annual Decorate the Sukkah Party. Please join us at a member’s home him the ideal candidate for the in Roxborough for a joyous gathering in the sukkah. Bring a dessert to share. Call the scholarship. office for details and exact location. “Sean was a partner at a big law Sunday, October 18, 10:15 AM, Faces of Israel: Discussion Led by Film Maker, Amy Beth Oppenheimer. Faces firm but he did a lot of pro-bono of Israel is an exciting and interactive documentary. The film poses a series of questions on hot topics surrounding what it means to live in both a Jewish and democratic state. work, so the scholarship really It addresses questions through interviews with Israelis on topics such as Israel as a isn’t about the student taking the Jewish State, Role of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate, Civil Unions in Israel, Masorti and Reform same exact career path, but more Judaism in Israel, and Homo-sexuality and Same Sex Unions in Israel. Co-sponsored by Congregation Beth Ahavah and Rodeph Shalom. about if they’re willing to volunBeth Ahavah and Rodeph Shalom are affiliated in spirit and share a sacred home. In July teer and give back, and I think 2007 Beth Ahavah affiliated with Rodeph Shalom. Beth Ahavah retains its congregational Dwight absolutely will do that,” status within the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) and proudly offers its congregation he said. dual membership at both synagogues. 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rather than strict, traditional regularity in their rhythms. H.D.’s first published poems appeared in the journal Poetry in January 1913. H.D. was fascinated by ancient Greek culture, and she began to travel throughout Europe and saw Greece for the first time. Her poetry appeared in the English Review, the Transatlantic Review and the Egoist. She also began an intense but non-sexual relationship with novelist D.H. Lawrence, and her marriage became troubled. (Her novel “Bid Me to Live” is largely about this time.) She lived downstairs from her husband’s mistress, and was introduced to a friend of the Lawrences, Cecil Gray, who became the father of her daughter, Frances Perdita, named for H.D.’s first great love and lifelong friend, Frances Gregg, and for the lost daughter of Hermione in Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale.” The birth left H.D. very ill, but a woman named Bryher came to her rescue. Bryher, born Annie Winifred Ellerman, met H.D. on July 17, 1918, in Cornwall. She took the name Bryher from one of the fabled Scilly Isles, located to the west of Cornwall. A wealthy heir-
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By Jen Colletta PGN Staff Writer Gay? It’s OK! This is the message the morethan 30,000 students enrolled at Temple University, as well as the institution’s faculty, staff and administration, will see and hear repeatedly during the school’s National Coming Out Week festivities. Beginning Oct. 5, Temple will host a series of LGBT-related activities to demonstrate to those in the Temple community — individuals who are already out or those who are struggling with their sexual identity — that there are countless supportive people and organizations at the university. Temple has hosted activities in the past to recognize National Coming Out Day, Oct. 11, but Nu’Rodney Prad, a resident director at the school, said this year the university’s programming is much more extensive and formalized. “There was a group of administrators and we were discussing different diversity initiatives on campus, and we felt that it would be enlightening to have a whole National Coming Out Week series that would incorporate a lot of different programs throughout the week,” Prad said about the motivation for the event. “So then we went around to different areas of campus to pull together people to help facilitate this, like some of the resident directors and Residential Life staff, the different student activities and the HEART [Health Education Awareness Resource Team] Office.” Prad said students from Queer Student Union, Temple’s gaystraight alliance, have also taken on leadership roles in developing and promoting NCOW. On Monday and Tuesday, volunteers will canvas the campus handing out T-shirts, each of which represents a different color of the rainbow and bears the week’s motto. QSU will host a social and screening of the film “Milk” Monday night, and the next night organizers will stage “GLBTQ Portrayals in the Media: Fact or Fiction?” a discussion about such programs as “The L Word” and “Noah’s Arc.” LGBT and ally students will take the stage Wednesday for
“Come Out, Speak Out,” when they will be encouraged to tell their own coming-out stories and share challenges they’ve faced in any spoken-word format they choose. On Thursday, LGBT and ally students will be invited to a community-resources fair, where they can learn more about on-campus departments and student organizations as well as groups within the Philadelphia LGBT community. Then on Saturday, Temple is sponsoring a trip for students to attend a House Ball event in New Jersey. The week’s events will culminate with a rally from noon-12:30 p.m. Thursday at Temple’s Bell Tower, where participants will be encouraged to wear the NCOW Tshirts to promote visibility. “We’re not rallying for a specific cause but rather for awareness. We already have good visibility on campus, but we want to keep it going,” Prad said. “Student leaders will be wearing those shirts and taking the stage to represent
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SCOUTS From Page 1 owned building, but not the 22nd Street property. “No court can reverse the express terms of the 1928 ordinance to give the Scouts a property right that has already been terminated by the city,” city attorneys maintained in court papers. If a federal judge rules the Scouts have been discriminated against, there are alternate properties for them to occupy without giving them use of the 22nd Street building, city attorneys said. However, the Scouts contend it’s possible a federal judge will allow them to stay in the 22nd Street building under the current arrangements. In an Aug. 14 motion, counsel for the Scouts urged Bernstein to dismiss the eviction case and defer to U.S. District Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter, who’s deciding whether the city is discriminating against the chapter. “[The Scouts] seek an injunction [from Buckwalter] to prevent ejectment from the property and
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not simply access to any city real estate,” stated attorneys for the Scouts in court papers. The Scouts say the city is discriminating against them for exercising their constitutional right to association. The Scouts are citing a 2000 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that reaffirmed their right to set their own membership standards. But city attorneys argue the 2000 ruling doesn’t address whether municipalities must allow the Scouts to occupy city buildings without paying fair-market rent. In court papers, the Scouts’ attorneys called the city “stubborn” and “unreasonable” for not dropping the eviction action in state court. Bernstein has not yet ruled on the requests. In a related matter, city attorneys have asked Bernstein to schedule a trial on the back-rent issue: The city wants the Scouts to pay what’s due since June 2, 2008. The Scouts call the rent request
“punitive” and say the issue could be decided by Buckwalter when he rules on the discrimination suit. City attorneys responded by noting that while Buckwalter is expected to rule on the discrimination claim, he hasn’t promised to rule on the back-rent issue. If the city withdraws its eviction request in state court — and Buckwalter ultimately declines to rule on the back-rent issue — the city would need to file a new back-rent request in state court, city attorneys contend. Andrew Chirls, an LGBT attorney has been following the dispute, said he appreciates that city attorneys are trying to speed up the eviction. “I’m pleased that the court papers they’re filing indicate that they’re taking steps to move the case along and get it resolved,” Chirls said. ■ Timothy Cwiek can be reached at (215) 625-8501 ext. 208.
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OUTFEST From Page 1 health organizations throughout the country. “They’ve been serving the entire tristate area for 30 years and were actually the first organization to offer anonymous HIV testing at a Pride event, which was at OutFest in 1995,” Price said. “So we thought it’d be a perfect year to recognize all that they’ve done in the past 30 years.” Nurit Shein, executive director of the Mazzoni Center, welcomed the award, which was named after the man who conceived of the rainbow flag as the symbol for the LGBT community. “We’re very humbled and honored to receive this award,” Shein said. “In the same way that Gilbert Baker saw the diversity of our community, Mazzoni Center is about being there for every member of our community, every color of the rainbow. We are extremely proud to be serving this very diverse and wonderful community of Philadelphia.” The William Way Center is likewise celebrating an anniversary — its 35th. Price said Philly Pride Presents chose the center for the OutProud Award, which recognizes accomplishments on a local level, because it has been “the main gathering point” for LGBT individuals for the past several
decades, providing countless resources and programs designed to meet the needs of the city’s diverse LGBT population. ’Dolph Ward Goldenburg, executive director of the center, said the organization is “very excited to be honored by OutFest and Philly Pride Presents. It certainly is appropriate timewise; I think it’s always a good time to celebrate the center, but especially when we turn 35, it’s a great opportunity.” Set to receive the OutStanding Youth Award is Khalil Nelson, a high-school senior who has been an active member of The Attic Youth Center for the past few years.
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Carrie Jacobs, executive director of The Attic, said Nelson is the vice president of the agency’s Youth Planning Committee and also sits on the organization’s board of directors. “He’s been really active in our programming and has participated in The Attic as well as represented our youth,” Jacobs said. OutFest, the largest National Coming Out Day celebration in the world, will kick off at noon Oct. 11 and run until 7 p.m. For more information, visit www.phillypride.org. ■ Jen Colletta can be reached at jen@epgn.com.
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Come out for suicide prevention The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention will host “Walk to Prevent Suicide: 2009 Out of the Darkness” to raise awareness of and funds for suicide-prevention efforts, beginning at 10 a.m. Oct. 4 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy. Walkers can register until 11:45 p.m. the night before the walk at www.outofthedarkness.org. Check-in begins at 9 a.m. For more information, contact Pat at (215) 746-7256 or pgainey@afsp.org. ■ — Jen Colletta
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Acclaimed author brings NYC to Philly
Detour A departure from the ordinary By Larry Nichols PGN Staff Writer
In this day and age, it’s hard to picture anyone surviving in New York City on $400 a month. Even the homeless can’t pull off that feat. But thanks to Edmund White, we don’t have to imagine. The acclaimed 69-year-old author and critic transports readers to Manhattan during a tumultuous and vibrant time in its history in his latest memoir, “City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and ’70s.” Fans of his other memoirs, like 2005’s “My Lives” and 2001’s “The Flâneur,” or his autobiographical fictions “A Boy’s Own Story” and “The Farewell Symphony,” should delight in his equally candid and descriptive new book. White said he doesn’t have a preference between fiction and nonfiction when it comes to writing. “I write all these different categories of things that kind of overlap,” he said. “I think in writing a real autobiography like ‘City Boy’ or ‘My Lives,’ the pleasure is in imita-
tion. In other words, you’re trying to imitate something that really happened and you’re trying to get it right. You try to check your memories with other people’s and with the public record and history. But it’s not just external facts that you’re trying to capture. You’re trying to capture the real feelings you had at the time and not rewrite them in the light of what you feel now. All that is very different from writing fiction, where the primary purpose is to create a beautiful object that will have nice proportions and have a satisfying sense of form, and that will imitate life as we know it. They are very different enterprises.” White’s latest literary enterprise starts off with him ditching graduate school to follow his then-boyfriend to the Big Apple. After landing a job as a journalist, White, who had grown up in Chicago and gone to college in Michigan, soon discovered New York had a far more visible gay culture than any place he had seen before. “It was delightfully different,” he said. “The very first night I got to New York was July 19, 1962. The next night a friend of mine took me to a gay restaurant. I had never heard of such a thing. I had been to a gay bar, but the idea that gays would want to sit around and eat with each other and not just cruise and have sex with others seemed like a totally novel idea. I loved that idea of gay culture as opposed to gay sex. That was a brand-new idea to me.” Readers quickly discover the New York City of that era, while teeming with culture, wasn’t the outrageously expensive and sanitized tourist metropolis most know it to be today. “It’s a lot safer now than it used to be and it’s a lot less dowdy than it used to be,” White said. “But it is also less exciting and less creative. I suppose you win some and you lose some. It really was dangerous in the late 1960s and throughout the ’70s. My apartment was burgled three times and I was held up on the street in broad daylight in front of other people by a robber with a gun. Things like that would happen. Gays would be beat up all the time by kids who lived in the projects.” And those were the good ol’ days? White said that despite all of the recent changes New York City has undergone, there are still some extant pieces of the New York he wrote about in “City Boy” — even if their property values have skyrocketed. “There are places that survived. Julius, the gay bar, has survived this whole time. It’s in the West Village. I suppose a lot of the streets in the West Village, like Charles Street or Bank Street, haven’t changed that
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much. They have been tarted up a bit. That used to be a fairly average area in terms of real-estate value. Now it’s the most expensive area of New York.” “City Boy” is just as much an emotional picture of the times as it is physical. In the book, White recalls not feeling very moved in the early 1960s when a friend brought up the subject of patriotism; he didn’t feel that, as a gay man, he had a voice in the country’s political structure. “There’s a lot more power now,” he said. “For one thing, so many more people are out than they used to be. Even though we were a very small portion of the population, we’re a fairly well-organized minority group. I think that in the disputes over Proposition 8 in California, you can see that even though we didn’t win the first time around, we might well win this time. There have been quite a few elected gay officials on a local and national level. There are gay spokespeople in every domain. We were entirely invisible when I was coming out in the ’50s and ’60s. You could watch TV for a year and never hear anything about homosexuality mentioned. Now it’s a real aspect of American life.” White said he was present at the Stonewall riots, the event in 1969 that sparked the gay-rights movement. He admits that, at the time, he didn’t know or understand how big and far reaching that moment would be. “On some dim level, I did recognize that something significant had happened because something had happened to me, inside me, in my own feelings,” he said. “I, at that time, was in my hundredth year in therapy trying to go straight. And yet there was something in me that was very exhilarated by this sign of gay defiance and gay resistance to authority. We had never had anything like that before. My first instinct was to try to get everybody to be quiet and go home. I was this awful middle-class prig. But in spite of myself, I found myself really getting into it and really enjoying the rebellion of
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it all. It wasn’t one night. It went on for a whole weekend and I came back for the next installment.” The 1970s are also vividly recounted by White, who spent the “Me Decade” surrounded by the city’s growing gay scene of artists and writers, with all the requisite famous names and cultural icons. But it all wasn’t meant to last. White move to France in 1983 and, by the time he returned in 1990, AIDS had devastated the city’s gay arts scene. White, who is HIV-positive, said France handled the crisis differently. “In America, I was a member of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis,” he recalled. “I was one of the six founders of it, which started in 1981. We were so ghettoized that we really thought small. When we realized it was this terrible disease, the most we could think to do was to have a fundraiser at a disco. It was really quite contemptible how small we thought, and it was a sign of how alienated we were from the nation and the community that we didn’t turn to the government and ask for help on a large scale. In France in 1985, I sat in on the first meetings of the gay organization that was just beginning, AIDES, and there that group turned immediately to the Minister of Health and got a national budget and a national policy.” White added that, though it moved on a larger scale, France’s tactic was not necessarily more effective than New York’s. “The French were very reluctant to name the at-risk groups because they were worried about backlash against gays,” he said. “It meant that a lot of gays were under-worried or under-alarmed and that they didn’t pay attention to safesex practices. Nor was there very good information about it. In America, we were very scared and made a lot of fuss. We had fairly good results in certain communities but not all. For instance,
bisexual men weren’t really reached. A lot of working-class people were not really reached. I certainly got a different perspective in France: I can certainly see good points and bad points on each side.” Given the administration at the time, White doubts help would have been forthcoming from the government. “It’s true that Reagan almost never mentioned the word AIDS while he was in power. But the Secretary of Health was a liberal guy with some very good medical notions about how to handle the disease. Reagan was so much opposed to even acknowledging the disease existed that probably reaching out to the government wouldn’t have helped.” Meanwhile, White knows many who read “City Boy” are bound to be children of the Reagan era or later and have no first-hand knowledge of the 1960s or ’70s. But he hopes their interest in the era will make the book an enjoyable read. “It’s always fun to read about a glamorous earlier period that was really creative, where people were living on the cheap and by their wits,” he said. “All that is fun. When I was growing up, the model was the 1920s and we were all enthralled. Now I think young people are very interested in the 1970s as a kind of model for what it would be like to live free and live on the cheap. Of course, it’s almost impossible to live in a big city in America inexpensively. Then it was possible, and a lot of it does come down to economics. But still, it’s kind of amusing to read about an artistic world that was very vital but very small at that time.” ■ Edmund White hosts a reading at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 8 at Giovanni’s Room, 345 S. 12th St. For more information, visit www. edmundwhite.com or call (215) 923-2960. Larry Nichols can be reached at larry@epgn.com.
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By Larry Nichols PGN Staff Writer Dance Affiliates and the Annenberg Center will host an all-star tribute to the masters of tap dancing with its production of “Thank You Gregory,” named after the late, great dancer, singer and actor Gregory Hines, Oct. 610. The Annenberg shows will be especially unique for the touring live music, dance and multimedia production as they will be the only shows to feature Maurice Hines, Gregory’s openly gay brother and Broadway veteran. Both Gregory and Maurice started dancing at an early age and went on to have successful careers, together and individually, on the stage and screen as per-
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formers and choreographers, touring internationally and regularly appearing on shows like “The Tonight Show.” Gregory died in 2003 after a battle with liver cancer. In 2005, an early version of “Thank You, Gregory” debuted as a tribute to Hines’ career and a number of legendary tap performers that came before him. Maurice, 66, said he was aware of the show, which was written by Tony Waag and directed by Ann Marie De Angelo. But until now, he hadn’t had the opportunity to see it or perform in it until the producers started planning an updated version. “I knew they had done something a year ago around this,” he said. “I was in Amsterdam, at the time, choreographing. When they called me about this, because I had some free time, I said I would love to do it, especially since it honors my brother. One of the reasons why I did it was I had read an article about tap about a year or two ago. I forget what paper or what magazine it was, but they didn’t mention my brother’s name at all. I got extremely angry about it and wrote them a letter. So this opportunity came to where the tap world, including myself, could thank my brother. So it was a slam-dunk for me to do it because it fit in my schedule. I told them what I could do to fit in and they liked the idea of what I would do to pay tribute to Gregory.” Other tap legendswho get an homage in “Thank You, Gregory” include Fred Astaire, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, John Bubbles, Gene Kelly and the Nicholas Brothers, among others. Surprisingly enough, Sammy Davis Jr. isn’t mentioned. Davis was a huge influence on Gregory ,who, at times, seemed to follow in the versatile and legendary performer’s footsteps by excelling in the world of tap, television, movies and live performances. Maurice was also surprised that
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Davis isn’t honored in the show. “Sammy really started out as a tap dancer,” Maurice said. “Because of his versatility, they didn’t really focus on that, but he always tapped in most of his shows that I saw. He was a wonderful tap dancer with fast footwork. So I’m a little surprised at that, but I don’t even know the rundown of the show. I just know that I close the first act. I don’t know who they’re paying tribute to.” Maurice added the kind of versatility Davis and Gregory had and strived for is missing in the younger generation of entertainers. But as a choreographer, it’s a shortcoming he’s trying to fix. “When Gregory and I first started, he loved Sammy,” he said. “We both loved him but I was more into Nat King Cole, who I pay tribute to in my concerts. The kids today, they don’t really study long. I think it’s
their attention span. Gregory and I started at 5 and 3. So Gregory studied and continued to study up until he passed away. The kids today, I find — being a choreographer myself in different genres — they want it right now. I call it the McDonald’s way of learning to dance, which is fast food. I’m a little disappointed in that. Those of us who believe in study, we’ve lost a generation. So now we’re going to the younger ones and teaching what we know. The really young ones are learning right from the beginning.” “Thank You, Gregory: A Tribute to the Legends of Tap” runs Oct. 6-10 at Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Zellerbach Theatre, 3680 Walnut St. For information or tickets, visit www. danceaffiliates.org or call (215) 898-3900. ■ Larry Nichols can be reached at larry@epgn.com.
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Lovers and friends crossing sexual boundaries Dear Ms. Behavior: After three years of monogamy, my partner and I have admitted that we’re bored and have decided to open our relationship sexually. We’ve thought about it carefully and have created a list of guidelines to protect our relationship: no falling in love, no frequent sex with any one person, no unsafe sex, no rent boys and no secrets. We also have a clause that if either of us changes his mind, we go back to monogamy. We were feeling comfortable with this agreement and ready for new adventures (both together and separately) until we told our best friend Tom and he freaked out. He told us a dozen horror stories about his friends whose relationships ended after they became non-monogamous. Tom did succeed in scaring us. Do you think we should stick to the monogamous status quo? Or should we follow through with our plan to change things up? — Tired of Monogamy Dear Tired of Monogamy: Ignore Tom, who seems to want to impose his values on you. He doesn’t belong in the middle of your relationship. The good news is that while you and your boyfriend are both bored with your sex lives together, you’re in agreement about the solution. This is a far better scenario than it would be if one of you suddenly wanted to have sex with throngs of other men and the other wanted to keep things as they are. Your list of rules is sweet and speaks of your devotion and your desire not to harm your relationship. It’s funny, however, that you have a rule that demands that you don’t fall in love; if you repeatedly get naked with someone you actually like, love can be difficult to defend against, and by the time you’re ready to acknowledge the love, it’s usually too late to stop it. However, many couples who agree about non-monogamy do manage to get only their sexual
needs met outside their relationship and their primary love relationship is still their partner. In most ways it sounds like you two have planned out your departure from monogamy like good little Boy Scouts, including a trail of bread crumbs to find your way back to the campsite. Dear Ms. Behavior: My girlfriend and I are friends with another lesbian couple, Jen and Dana, who talk too much and in too much detail about their intimate sexual relationship. For instance, the first time we went out for dinner with them, Jen told us the detailed story about the first time they had sex, including how they touched each other
through their clothes without intending to “go all the way,” but then it got “so hot and wet” that they just had to “make love” even though they were on a public beach. Do I really need to envision this while I eat? Even worse, they post detailed updates on Facebook about their sex lives, including things like, “The sheets were so wet that we had to hang them outside after we finally got out of bed.” Do we really need to be barraged with information on their sex lives? How do we let them know that we just don’t care to hear it? Any advice would be great. — Not Repressed, Just Bored and Maybe a Little Disgusted
Dear Not Repressed, Just Bored and Maybe a Little Disgusted: Next time your friends tell you about their excessive moisture, just stick your fingers deep into your throat and make a retching noise. Vomiting sounds often work well to curtail inappropriate disclosure, especially at meals. Or you can try a totally different tact: Go out to dinner with them and make sure that you and your girlfriend both keep your hands under the table. Every so often, let out a slight moan and throw your head back. After a few moments of this, announce that you and your partner are currently fingering each others’ hot, slick vulvas. If that doesn’t work
to shock some sense back into your over-disclosing pals, initiate a discussion about how difficult it’s been to get your girlfriend’s tight ass ready to accept the 9inch vibrating butt rocket you just bought for her. If this strategy works, your friends will get your not-so-subtle hint and stop their inappropriate disclosure. However, if it fails, they’ll probably beg you to participate in their “hot, wet lovemaking.” ■ Meryl Cohn is the author of “‘Do What I Say’: Ms. Behavior’s Guide to Gay and Lesbian Etiquette.” E-mail her at MsBehavior@aol.com or visit www.msbehavior.com.
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Professional Portraits If you find yourself rocking out to three hot little 20-something lesbians at OutFest, you have Linda Lewis to thank. As booking agent extraordinaire, she is bringing a hot new group, Hunter Valentine, to entertain the folks next Sunday. The Canadian trio is so in demand, they just got signed with TommyBoy Records and toured as the opening act for Cyndi Lauper earlier this summer. PGN spoke with Lewis about her passion for music and dedication to promoting independent artists. PGN: Are you a Philly gal? LL: Yes, I was raised in Center City, Philadelphia, until I was about 10, then my mother got remarried and we moved to New Jersey.
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PGN: What was growing up in the city like? LL: It was fun. I lived right in the heart of things, on Clinton Street, right between Pine and Spruce. My biological father passed away, and my mother became a single parent, so when she had the chance to go to the suburbs, she went. She and my grandmother thought it would be best for two girls to grow up with grass and trees and open space. PGN: Siblings? LL: One, I have a younger sister. We didn’t get along growing up. She was the goody-two-shoes and I was the rebel. I’d be out marching and protesting with Jane Fonda and she was a homeeconomics major, cooking and hoping to meet a nice Jewish boy.
She’s very bright but we’re very different. PGN: Where did you go to school? LL: I went to University of Miami in Florida as a theater major. Ray Liotta was one of my classmates. At the time, though, I was just becoming aware of my sexuality and was more interested in partying than schoolwork. I was hanging out with a lot of the gay guys in the theater and they took me to my first gay club. I later transferred to Temple, where I graduated with a degree in theater and communications and with a minor in art history. PGN: What was your favorite role? LL: Well, I didn’t last long as an actor. I had one professor who quite bluntly said, “Is there something else you might rather do?” I said, ‘No, I can’t think of anything else.’ And he said, “Well, you should because you’re bloody awful!” Ray Liotta told me that my classmates enjoyed me when I did my little monologues on stage because I was so bad I was funny. I went into stage managing and directing from there. PGN: How did you get into the work you do now? LL: When I moved back to Philadelphia, I got work as a production stage manager for Philadelphia Theatre Company, but I’ve always had a huge passion for music. I started going to concerts at a very young age and started meeting people in the
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business. They all told me that because I loved music so much, I should get into it. I started reading up on the business end of things and worked part-time in the music industry. Then I fell in love with a band called Antigone Rising and it changed my life. I invested my own money in the band and took them on tour. I had Michelle Malone open up for them and they played a number of dates on the East Coast. I had a mentor who taught me what to do: I rented out the venues, booked radio interviews, handled the hospitality and paid the band. It can be a risky business, but I learned from my mistakes. Now I’m a full-time booking agent. My company is called Left of Center Productions and I also work with Creative Entertainment
Agency. I work with a lot of groups and artists of all kinds, not just in the LGBT community. With CEA, they were booking acts like Joe Piscopo and Tony Bennett and asked me to come on board to help start a department for smaller independent artists. They had an act called the Lesbians of Laughter, and since I was also gay, they thought I’d be good to help out. PGN: What’s the hardest thing about being a booker? LL: Organizing your day and finding time for things. There’s so much to do in so many areas. I’ll get a call from a group in London saying, “I’m coming to the States: Can you book me for an eight-day tour on the East Coast or Nashville?” All the
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artists have different needs and business is usually not their forte — which is how it should be; they should be concentrating on creating and performing — but there’s a lot to do. Since I work with a lot of rising artists, the money isn’t there yet either. Some of them may be well known within the indie community, but they haven’t gone mainstream yet. For example, I work with Anne McCue, who is amazing. She’s a singer-songwriter and one of the most kick-ass slide guitarists this side of Bonnie Rait, maybe even better. She’s very talented, but not a lot of people outside the business know about her yet. I don’t think people know how much the artists sacrifice for their music. They’re on the road over 200 days a year. I’ll have an artist arrive on my doorstep after driving 15 hours to do a gig and they’re appreciative that I let them sleep on my couch so they don’t have to pay for a hotel. They might make $200$300 from a gig, but by the time they pay all their expenses, they are not usually making anything themselves. For me, 10 percent of nothing is nothing — but I can’t help it, I’m just so into what I do. PGN: What about music gets you excited? LL: Hearing it live. My friends say, “You have all the CDs in the world; you don’t need to leave your house.” But there’s nothing like the live experience. My group Hunter Valentine is a lot of fun live. In addition to OutFest, I’m also hoping to have them at Tin Angel and at Triumph Brewery in New Hope. It’s really great that even though they are not gay venues, they are both clubs that are really open to hosting LGBT artists. And, of course, I really appreciate Franny Price and the folks at Philly Gay Pride for giving Hunter Valentine and so many new musicians a chance to perform. PGN: When did you come out? LL: Well, I decided to tell my mother when I was about 20.
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Having raised us for a time as a single mother, she thought at first that it was her fault, but I told her that she raised my sister Karen just the same and she wasn’t gay, so it had nothing to do with her. It was really sweet. She decided to go to the library and learn all she could about it. She went to one of the PFLAG meetings and asked me to go. She said, “You’re coming out, but I am too, as a mother of a gay child. I want to learn all I can so I can help you and be supportive.” At the time, I thought I was too cool for PFLAG, but my friends ganged up on me and said, “If your mother is that cool that she wants to do this, you’d better take your uncool self and go with her.” So I did. I was very lucky that she was so supportive. My sister has a hard time with it. I was popular in school and, in her mind, I wasted the fact that I was pretty and feminine and well liked by doing something she considered perverse. PGN: Relationships? LL: I tend to go for longterm ones. I was in two relationships that lasted seven years and I was with my last partner for almost 18 years. Unfortunately, my partner was in the closet and told me from the beginning that she would be, so for 18 years we kept it hidden. Not from my family and friends, but from everyone else. I worked at a car dealership for those 18 years and they all thought I was straight. She worked at a major opera company and they didn’t know anything about us, her family didn’t know — it was crazy. When I got back into the music biz, I started to come out again and that’s when we broke up. I came home one night and told her that the Lesbians of Laughter might be getting a TV show. She started crying and said, “That would be cruel of you, because if you come out then people will know about me. How can you be so selfish?” That was the beginning of the end. She’s with a man now and no one has a clue that she was in a relationship with a woman for
18 years. PGN: Do you represent people other than musicians? LL: Oh yes, I have Katherine Brooks on my roster. She’s the director of the film “Loving Annabelle.” She’s on everyone’s list of hottest lesbians! She started out doing reality television and helped make it what it is today. “The Osbornes” was her first gig, then she worked on Jessica Simpson’s show “The Newlyweds” and also “The Real World.” Right now, she’s working on a film about Julie Krone, the female jockey who is known as one of the greatest horse jockeys of all times, called “The Boys’ Club.” PGN: What can the community do to support our artists? LL: We really need to get out there and support the people who support us. The other company I work with, CEA, is the only mainstream company that has a division devoted to LGBT artists. We have to make it worth their while to do so. If you are in college, have your school reach out to me to book people you want to see. When you go to a concert, buy the CDs there: Don’t wait until later and order it online. When you buy it online with a mainstream seller, they take a big cut from the artists. Buying a T-shirt or CD directly from the artist might pay for their gas home or a new mic cord. Have a house concert. Get 10 friends to pay $20 each and have the artist perform right in your house. Find ways to support out musicians and artists. I hope that the readers of PGN will get more involved in the movement and think of LGBT artists when there’s a gig opening or when a new artist is coming to your town. It’s all about the music. ■ To suggest a community member for “Professional Portraits,” write to: Professional Portraits, 505 S. Fourth St., Philadelphia, PA 19147 or portraits05@aol. com.
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1. “New York Times Magazine” editor Adam 5. Jane of the cloth 10. Drag queen ___ Pool 14. Penetrating question? 15. “Same here!” 16. About Uranus? 17. With 19-Across, Kelly played a lesbian in this movie 19. See 17-Across 20. Makes a hole bigger 21. Morales of “La Bamba” 22. 911 respondents 23. What Joan of Arc was maid of 25. Terse oral refusal 27. Old theater letters 28. Recently out “Witness” star Kelly 32. Female flyer 35. Farewell to 50 million Frenchmen 37. Waste time 38. Boy who shoots off arrows 40. With 63-Across, Kelly plays a nun in this movie 42. Rheinland rejection 43. Wharf fare 45. Erect 47. Wintry mo. 48. Kelly played a closeted Army colonel on this TV show 50. Roll-call vote 52. “Sodomy” musical 53. Impressionist Mary 57. Author Rednour 59. Regarding 62. Texas teammate 63. See 40-Across 64. Kelly played an attorney in this movie 66. Vinick portrayer on “The West Wing” 67. Keep an ___ the ground 68. Robert of “The Brady Bunch” 69. Nosegay 70. Watch word? 71. How some take it
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Guitarist gets ‘lucky’ on solo album By Larry Nichols PGN Staff Writer Guitarist John Lilley has proven that it’s never too late to strike out on your own. The openly gay guitarist is best known for his work with rock band The Hooters, who rose to fame in the early 1980s in the U.S. and exported that success to Europe in the early ’90s before taking a break in 1995. The group reformed in 2001 and still performs to large audiences internationally. “We played to 130,000 people,” Lilley said of a recent festival date in Germany. “We’ll go over there and we’ll play clubs to 2,000 or 3,000 people.” There weren’t too many out members of mainstream rock bands back in the 1980s, but Lilley said his sexuality was never a big deal to him or the other band members. “Everyone that knew me knew that I was gay,” he said. “To me, it’s like so what now, who cares?
I’m totally out. I just celebrated 30 years with my partner, Bob Lohrmann. It’s not an issue to me.” Over the last three years, between commitments with The Hooters, Lilley found time to record and produce his first solo e ff o r t , “ A L u c k y Kind of Guy,” in his West Chester studio. It’s more of a rootsrock record than anything he’s done with The Hooters (recall “And We Danced”?) and puts Lilley in the spotlight for the first time in his musical career as he sings and plays guitar, mandolin, piano, harmonica and a number of other instruments. “I really tried to make it my own, and I never sang with The Hooters,” he said. “Using my voice is a whole new thing even for me. I had nothing to say and, all of the sudden, I turned 50 and things kind of change. This is what my life is about and I have to sing about it.” One of the things the now-55year-old guitarist has to sing about is how lucky he feels about his life, hence the title. “I’ve had a lot of really good things come to me in my life,” he said. “It’s just being in the right place at the right time and having the things that you want to happen somehow manifest. Making this record is a cathartic thing for me. It’s kind of a culmination of things that I’ve experienced in my life. I just realized I am a lucky kind of guy and I wrote this song. And that’s what I feel like I am.” Lilley will celebrate the release of “A Lucky Kind of Guy” with his first-ever show as a frontman and bandleader — though the show will be on a smaller scale than what he’s used to with The Hooters. “I love doing that,” he said of his upcoming small-club dates. “It’s like having people in my living room. I’m going slow. I’m just doing local shows in the Philadelphia area and waiting for the radio to kick in. I want to do small and intimate shows. We’ll see what happens. It’s a brave new
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world now in the music business. You can make up all your own rules.” But his show won’t be the only one he performs this month. He’ll also be performing with The Hooters on a bill that includes Hall & Oates and Todd Rundgren at a special “Last Call” concert Oct. 23 at the Spectrum. Lilley is no stranger to the soon-to-be-demolished venue and has fond memories of performing there. “We did a Thanksgiving concert that was broadcast on MTV and simulcast with MMR,” he said. “That was pretty exciting. In 2001, Pierre Robert, a very dear friend, invited us to play at his 20th-anniversary concert for MMR. We hadn’t played together in a number of years and I thought it was over. It got The Hooters back together. [The Spectrum is] a Philly institution.” “A Lucky Kind of Guy” is due out Oct. 6. Lilley performs with his band at 9 p.m. Oct. 3 at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. For more information, visit www. johnlilley.com or call (215) 2221400. ■ Larry Nichols can be reached at larry@epgn.com.
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Best-sellers Information is courtesy of Giovanni’s Room, 345 S. 12th St.; (215) 923-2960; www.giovannisroom.com. Ten-percent off most hardcover in-store sales. Books LESBIAN INTEREST 1. “The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir,” by Staceyann Chin (Scribner, $24 hb). A brave and fiercely candid memoir about growing up in Jamaica by performer, activist and writer Chin. 2. “Annie on My Mind,” by Nancy Garden (Farrar Straus Giroux, 263 pp., $8 pb). This groundbreaking book, first published in 1982, is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and who, despite pressures from family and school that threaten their relationship, promise to be true to each other and their feelings. 3. “Breaking the Ice,” by Kim Baldwin (Bold Strokes Press, 243 pp., $16.95 pb). Bryson Faulkner embraces the challenge of living in the far north of Alaska. The only thing she misses is having a special woman in her life. Karla Edwards seeks answers and adventure. The two find all that and more when they meet each other during Karla’s trip to Alaska. 4. “The Sealed Letter,” by Emma Donoghue (Mariner Books, 396 pp., $14.95 pb). Based on a scandalous divorce case that gripped England in 1864, “The Sealed Letter” is a riveting, provocative drama of friends, lovers and divorce, Victorian-style. 5. “On Dangerous Ground,” by D.L. Line (Bold Strokes Press, 320 pp., $16.95 pb). FBI agent Terri McKinnon always knows the right thing to do — until she meets Dr. Jennifer Rosenberg. Terri is drawn to the unconventional Rosenberg and the attraction appears mutual, but the rules are clear — this woman is offlimits. Will McKinnon find herself on dangerous ground? 6. “Point of Ignition,” by Erin Dutton (Bold Strokes Press, $16.95 pb). Arson investigation is not exactly what firefighter Kate Chambers signed up for. But she doesn’t have a choice when an injury forces her off the engine and into the office. Her first case, a fire at a downtown bar, is a clear-cut instance of insurance fraud, or so she thinks.
7. “Hungry For It,” by Fiona Zedde (Kensington, 300 pp., $15 pb). Zedde takes readers on a sensual journey through the heady nightlife of Miami in this scorchingly sexy novel. 8. “Deepest Desire,” by Anne Shade (Freedom of Love Press, $11.95 pb). The last thing Lynette Folsom is looking for is love, especially with a closeted female. Then she meets Eve Monroe, whose refreshing honesty and natural sexiness has her wondering if love behind closed doors really can work. 9. “Survive the Dawn,” by Kate Sweeney (Intaglio Publications, 243 pp., $16.95 pb). With the serum now in her bloodstream, Dr. Alex Taylor must find a suitable laboratory to continue her work to help the woman — well, vampire — she loves, Sebastian. Alex becomes a reluctant comrade to this sexy vampire, and together they find a way for Sebastian and her world to survive the dawn. GAY INTEREST 1. “Alphabetical List of Would Be Princes,” by Fred Shelley (Lulu, 201 pp., $16 pb). An inventive tale about wanting to hold on and learning to let go, looking for love and allowing love to find you, figuring out the rules and knowing when to break them. 2. “Murder On Camac,” by Joseph DeMarco (Lethe, 396 pp., $18 pb). Gunned down in the street, author Helmut Brandt’s life ebbs away and puts a chain of events in motion, placing P.I. Marco Fontana on a collision course with the church and local community. 3. “A Boy Less Ordinary: The Hayden Chronicles,” by Fred Shelley (Fred Shelley, 278 pp., $15 pb). The book is based on freelance columns — titled “Six Degrees of Hayden Shelley” — that Shelley has written for various publications on the East Coast. The column, which debuted in 1999 in The Virginia Gayzette, recounts the trials and misadventures of Hayden, a young gay man. 4. “Dreamboy: My Life as a QVC Host and Other Greatest Hits,” by Dale Guy Madison (Damn Good Man Productions, 327 pp., $19.95 hb). The vintage “album” of Madison’s life is set See BEST-SELLERS, Page 29
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Temple revisits ‘Laramie Project’ By Jen Colletta PGN Staff Writer
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It’s been nearly 11 years since Matthew Shepard, an openly gay college student from Laramie, Wyo., was beaten, tied to a fence and left to die, and the groundbreaking play that immortalized his death will be resurrected in a new form at theaters around the country next week. “The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later — An Epilogue” will be performed in more than 100 venues on Oct.12 — the 11th anniversary of Shepard’s death — including Temple University’s Tomlinson Theater, 1301 Norris St. Moises Kauffman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project set out for Laramie just a month after Shepard’s death in 1998 to talk to townspeople and those involved in the case and, over the next year, compiled hundreds of interviews for “The Laramie Project.” Ten years after their work started, Tectonic members again visited Laramie to examine how Shepard’s murder has shaped the town and collected another set of interviews for the epilogue. Charles Bethea, executive director of Temple’s Baptist Temple — a refurbished church on the campus opening this spring that will host a variety of arts and entertainment events — said he learned of the epilogue project while he was at a conference last January and later got the chance to watch the Tectonic team perform a reading of the then-partially completed script. “I went to a reading and had a discussion with Moises and other cast members and it just seemed like they were developing a really unique idea,” Bethea said.
“It became apparent to everyone who heard this that this was going to be a very significant work.” Bethea said that when he learned of Tectonic’s intent to have the piece performed on the same day at theaters across the country, he contacted Temple’s theater department to assess the feasibility of bringing the work to the school. The department and the Baptist Temple have spent the last few months collaborating on the effort. Ed Sobel, formerly of the Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago, is directing Temple’s production of the epilogue, which will be performed by five undergraduate and five graduate students. Included in the epilogue is an interview with Judy Shepard, the victim’s mother, and one of his killers, who is serving two consecutive life sentences, as well as with figures included in the original play and several new townspeople. “What’s most striking is the cumulative impact of the play. It gives a portrait of the entire community,” Sobel said. “What one comes away with is this sense of how this community has chosen to deal with this cataclysmic event. In a way, the piece is larger than just Matthew’s murder. It has to do with the stories that we tell ourselves when something this large happens, something that has had repercussions, of course for the gay community but also for the national social and political scenes. It demonstrates how deeply a tragedy can penetrate and the degree to which we all incorporate our own sense of this tragedy into our lives.” Sobel noted that while the play reveals some positive shifts in the culture following Shepard’s
death — such as the defeat of a same-sex-marriage ban in Wyoming — it also demonstrates that some of the homophobia that motivated Shepard’s murder still exists in the town, which he said reflects the varying attitudes toward LGBT individuals across the country. “Part of what this piece is doing is presenting different viewpoints on the question of if and how things have changed,” Sobel said. “The original work had such a national impact and people have seen themselves and their lives reflected in this community that was portrayed, so this goes far beyond Laramie. Has there been progress in the country in the past 10 years? Some people will say yes and others will say no or not enough. This piece is about furthering that dialogue.” Sobel said the audience does not need to have seen the first work in order to appreciate the messages projected in the followup piece. “If someone is familiar with the original play, then there’s a lot they can gain from this revisitation, but what is particularly remarkable is that they’ve managed to make a piece that stands on its own. Some of the cast members have not had a lot of experience with the original project, and they have found this piece to be very moving and insightful.” “The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later — An Epilogue” will be performed at 6:30 and 9 p.m. Oct. 12 at Temple. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the theater’s box office between 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday or by calling (215) 204-1334 or visiting www.temple.edu/sct/theater. ■ Jen Colletta can be reached at jen@epgn.com.
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BEST-SELLERS From Page 27 against the tunes of The Supremes and filled with lessons on love, self-determination and surviving the trenches of the entertainment industry. 5. “Mama Dearest,” by E. Lynn Harris (Karen Hunter, 400 pp., $25.99 hb). Taking readers on a wild, passion-filled tour of the entertainment world, the late Harris delivers sensual thrills and electric plot twists — with one unforgettable woman of radiant star power, sexual magnetism and unapologetic ambition at the heart of the action. 6. “Dancer From the Dance,” by Andrew Holleran (Harper Perennial, 256 pp., $13 pb). The classic novel of 1970s New York City. 7. “Blind Fall,” by Christopher Rice (Pocket Books, 302 pp., $15 pb). New York Times best-selling author Rice delivers the gripping story of an Iraqi War vet seeking redemption and revenge when a fellow Marine is murdered. 8. “Born Round,” by Frank Bruni (Penguin Press, 368 pp., $25.95 hb). The New York Times restaurant critic’s heartbreaking and hilarious account of how he learned to love food just enough after decades of struggling with his outsize appetite. 9. “The Meaning of Matthew: My Son’s Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed” by Judy Shepard (Hudson Street Press, 273 pp., $25.95 hb). Matthew Shepard’s mother shares the story of her son’s death and the choice she made to become an international gay-rights activist. DVDs GAY MEN 1. “Gods of Football: The Making of the 2009 Calendar,” directed by Grant Carroll (2009, 80 min., $24.95). Australia’s hottest footballers (rugby players) naked for a cause! 2. “Newcastle,” directed by Dan Castle (2008, 107 min., $24.95). A coming-of-age tale combining gorgeous Australian surfing beaches with the energy, music and rebellion of teen culture. 3. “Noah’s Arc: Jumping the Broom,” directed by Patrik-Ian Polk (2008, 101 min., $24.95). “Noah’s Arc” is back, and you’re invited to the big wedding! 4. “Milk,” directed by Gus Van Sant (2008, 121 min., $19.95). A riveting biopic about slain gayrights activist Harvey Milk. 5. “Polymath,” directed by Fred
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Taylor (2009, 75 min., $29.99). A documentary on the life, musings and sexual escapades of local writer Samuel Delany. 6. “Shelter,” directed by Jonah Markowitz (2007, 88 min., $24.95). When Zach, an aspiring artist fresh out of high school, is forced to skip out on college and forsake his dreams, surfing becomes his only solace. 7. “Paris Is Burning,” directed by Jennie Livingston (DVD release 2005, 71 min., $29.95). Filmmaker Jennie Livingston shows New York clubs where gay men enter “voguing” contests. 8. “The DL Chronicles,” directed by Quincy Leanear and Deondray Gossett (2007, 132 min., $24.95). Tells the stories of men of color who, by consequence and by choice, live sexually duplicitous and secret lifestyles. LESBIAN 1. “She Likes Girls 4: 8 Great Lesbian Short Films,” by various directors (2008, 98 min., $24.95). Tomboys and tough girls abound. 2. “Lesbian Sex & Sexuality,” directed by Katherine Linton (2007, 158 min., $29.95). Takes viewers on an uncharted and provocative journey where lesbian sexuality and desire isn’t whispered, but celebrated. 3. “The Gymnast,” directed by Ned Farr (2006, 98 min., $24.95). Winner of 28 awards, this is a visually stunning film about hope, second chances and finding the courage to defy gravity. 4. “Steam,” directed by Kyle Schickner (2009, 120 min, $24.95). This new drama unfolds the story of three amazing and very different women whose paths cross in a steam room. 5. “Stranger Inside,” directed by Cheryl Dunye (2001, 96 min., $9.95). Dunye is the author and director of “Watermelon Woman.” 6. “The Guitar,” directed by Amy Redford (2008, 93 min., $26.95). A captivating portrait of a woman’s self-empowerment (including a tryst with the pizzadelivery girl). 7. “Drifting Flowers,” directed by Zero Chou (2008, 99 min., $24.95). Chou weaves three poetic tales as the lesbians in “Drifting Flowers” seek their true identity. 8. “Chained Girls and Daughters of Lesbos,” directed by Joseph P. Mawra (1965, 61 min., $9.95 DVD). An outrageous exposé of the lesbian and gay scene of the 1960s. ■
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BREED FOR ME: As season four gets underway, gay couple Scotty (Luke MacFarlane, left) and Kevin (Matthew Rhys) discuss the possibility and challenge of parenthood on “Brothers & Sisters,” 10 p.m. Oct. 4 on ABC. Photo: Randy Holmes
worth watching: FRIDAY Medium There’s a “slain revengeseeking stripper” in this episode, so why not? 9 p.m. on CBS. SATURDAY Making His Band Musicians and singers (including a transgender contestant) compete for a spot in P. Diddy’s touring band. 9 p.m. on MTV. Saturday Night Live Ryan Reynolds hosts and Lady Gaga performs. 11:30 p.m. on NBC.
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SUNDAY The Amazing Race The gay team, brothers Sam and Dan, are still in this race. 8 p.m. on CBS. Desperate Housewives The ladies of Wisteria Lane scheme. 9 p.m. on ABC. Family Guy Lois finds out she’s Jewish, so you know Peter is going to do something inappropriate as a result. 9 p.m. on Fox. Brothers & Sisters Gay couple Kevin and Scotty
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discuss becoming parents. 10 p.m. on ABC. MONDAY Dancing with the Stars The stars boogie through week three. 8 p.m. on ABC. House Bisexual-ish 13 got fired last week. Does that mean she is off the show? 8 p.m. on Fox. Gossip Girl Hillary Duff and Tyra Banks guest star. 9 p.m. on the CW. Gimme Sugar: Miami Another rerun of the show featuring lesbian club runners in Miami. 10 p.m. on Logo. TUESDAY Hell’s Kitchen Gordon Ramsay yells some more and weeds out contestants. 8 p.m. on Fox. Dancing with the Stars Round three continues. 9 p.m. on ABC. Melrose Place Jane returns. 9 p.m. on the CW. So You Think You Can Dance? Watch contestants go for it. 9 p.m. on Fox. Flipping Out Gay house-flipper Jeff Lewis. 10 p.m. on Bravo. WEDNESDAY America’s Next Top Model
Shorter models compete for runway glory this season. 8 p.m. on the CW. The New Adventures of Old Christine Out comedian Wanda Sykes stars as Christine’s pal and business associate Barb. 8 p.m. on CBS. So You Think You Can Dance? More dancing, less stars. 8 p.m. on Fox. Glee Girls vs. boys in a mashup showdown this week. 9 p.m. on Fox. Law & Order: SVU The crime drama returns. 9 p.m. on NBC. Modern Family This sitcom features a gay couple with an adopted daughter in its cast of characters. 9 p.m. on ABC. Top Chef The cooking-competition reality show with a few queer competitors in Las Vegas. 10 p.m. on Bravo. THURSDAY Survivor: Samoa Strangers, some of them evil, compete for a chance to claim the million-dollar prize. 8 p.m. on CBS. Grey’s Anatomy The gay-friendly medical drama continues. 9 p.m. on ABC.
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Queer TV you can always see: As the World Turns Will Mason and Noah keep going? MondayFriday, 2 p.m. on CBS. One Life to Live Look for Kyle and Fish. Monday-Friday, 2 p.m. on ABC. Ellen Monday-Friday, 3 p.m. on NBC. The Rachel Maddow Show Monday-Friday, 9 p.m. on MSNBC.
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Diversions Your guide to arts and entertainment
Theater
Obie-winning production based on Lorenzo Pisoni’s vagabond life as the youngest member of San Francisco’s Pickle Family Circus, through Oct. 25 at Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad St.; (215) 985-0420.
Billy Crystal: 700 Sundays Crystal’s autobiographical Tony-winning blockbuster deals with his youth, growing up in the jazz world of Manhattan, his teenage years and, finally, adulthood, through Oct. 11 at The Merriam Theater Menopause The Musical 250 S. Broad St.; (215) The hit musical about “the 790-5847. change” returns, through Oct. 4 at Kimmel’s Defending the Perelman Theater, 240 Caveman S. Broad St.; (215) 790The longest-running solo show in Broadway history 5847. returns through Nov. 7 at Kimmel’s Innovation Studio, 240 S. Broad St.; (215) 790-5847.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The Walnut Street Theater presents the story of two suave and shameless con men with two very different styles, through Oct. 25, 825 Walnut St.; (215) 574-3550. Haunted Poe Brat Productions presents a theatrical take on a Halloween tradition, the haunted house, with an immersive, multi-sensory experience devoted to the 200th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s birth, through Nov. 1 at Haunted Poe Warehouse, 38 Jackson St.; (800) 8383006. The History Boys The Arden Theatre Co. presents the acclaimed drama chronicling the final school year of eight clever young British students in pursuit of sex, sport and admission into Oxford or Cambridge, through Nov. 1, 40 N. Second St.; (215) 922-1122. Humor Abuse Philadelphia Theater Company presents the
Nathan The Wise People’s Light & Theatre Company kicks off its 35th-anniversary season with the American premiere of a story celebrating our differences as well as our shared humanity set in 1192 Jerusalem, where Jews, Christians and Muslims live side by side, through Oct. 11, 39 Conestoga Road, Malvern; (610) 647-1900. Two By Sue Reading Company Players perform Susan E. Sneeringer’s “Purgatory” at 8 p.m. Oct. 3 and 3 p.m. Oct. 4, and “Blonde Bombshell” at 8 p.m. Oct. 2, at Reading Community Theatre, 403 N. 11th St., Reading; (610) 375-9106.
Music classical
Bronfman, Bartók and Brahms The Philadelphia Orchestra presents an evening of powerful concertos at 8 p.m. Oct. 2-3 at Kimmel’s Verizon Hall, 240 S. Broad St.; (215) 790-5847. Paco Peña The Kimmel Center presents the flamenco guitarist, composer, dramatist and musical
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3025 Walnut St.; (215) 222-1400.
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Blink-182 and Fall Out Boy The rock bands perform at 8 p.m. Oct. 3 at the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa Event Center, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J.; (609) 3171000.
The Art of Japanese Craft: 1875 to the Present The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition surveying the rich diversity of 20thcentury Japanese craft, through Oct. 18, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy.; (215) 763-8100.
George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic The legendary funk group performs at 8 p.m. Oct. 3 at the Liacouras Center, 1776 N. Broad St.; (215) 204-2400. Maxwell The hit R&B singer performs at 8 p.m. Oct. 3 at the Wachovia Spectrum, 3601 S. Broad St.; (215) 336-2000. Out singer/songwriter Brandi Carlile celebrates the release of her new album, “Give Up the Ghost,” with a performance at 8 p.m. Oct. 6 at Keswick Theatre, 291 N. Keswick Ave., Glenside. Produced by Grammy-winner Rick Rubin, the album features several guest appearances, including Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls and Benmont Tech of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. For tickets, call (215) 572-7650.
mentor, at 3 p.m. Oct. 3 at Kimmel’s Verizon Hall, 240 S. Broad St.; (215) 790-5847. Broadway Showstoppers: Revivals Peter Nero and the Philly Pops perform a show that’s now the Broadway event of the season, Oct. 4-10 at Kimmel’s Verizon Hall, 240 S. Broad St.; (215) 790-5847. Beyond the Score: Truly Miraculous? The Philadelphia Orchestra presents the highly successful multimedia concert series developed by the Chicago Symphony, at 7 p.m. Oct. 6 at Kimmel’s Verizon Hall, 240 S. Broad St.;
(215) 790-5847. Symphonie Fantastique The Philadelphia Orchestra presents a hallucinogenic depiction of an opium trip using some of the most brilliant images and colors in the entire symphonic repertoire, at 8 p.m. Oct. 8 and 10 at Kimmel’s Verizon Hall, 240 S. Broad St.; (215) 790-5847.
Music other
World Cafe Live’s AllDay Fifth Anniversary Celebration Out singer-songwriter Christine Havrilla performs with other local talents starting at 1 p.m. Oct. 2 at World Cafe Live,
Pink The international pop star performs at 8 p.m. Oct. 3 at the Wachovia Center, 3601 S. Broad St.; (215) 336-2000. The John Lilley Band The out singer-songwriter performs with his band at 9 p.m. Oct. 3 at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St.; (215) 222-1400. Gossip The punk band with the out singer and drummer performs at 8 p.m. Oct. 4 at TLA, 334 South St.; (215) 922-1011. Manic Street Preachers The rock band performs at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 6 at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St.; (215) 222-1400. The Psychedelic Furs & Happy Mondays The classic alt-rock bands perform at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 7 at Trocadero Theatre, 1003 Arch St.; (215) 922-
Exhibits
Art and Allegory Edge Gallery presents an exhibition featuring Virginia artist Harkrader, Philadelphia artist Salvador DiQuinzio and Canadian artist Ray Mantella through Oct. 25, 72 N. Second St.; (215) 413-7072. Common Ground: Eight Philadelphia Photographers in the 1960s and 1970s The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition examining a critical period for the art of photography and for the Philadelphia art scene, through Jan. 31, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy.; (215) 763-8100. Diana: A Celebration The National Constitution Center presents an exhibition exploring Diana’s childhood, her engagement to Prince Charles, their royal wedding and Diana’s life and work as a global humanitarian, through Dec. 31, 525 Arch St.; (866) 917-1787. Embracing the Uncarved Wood: Sculptural Reliefs from Shandong, China Leonard Pearlstein Gallery presents an exhibition of 18 large wood reliefs that combine traditional Chinese carving methods
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with very untraditional subject matter drawn from contemporary and international art sources, through Oct. 21 at Nesbitt Hall, 3215 Market St.; (215) 895-2548.
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exhibition of paintings by Paul Davis Jones, through Oct. 3, 265 S. 10th St.; (215) 627-6250.
Opera
Madama Butterfly The Opera Company of Philadelphia presents the most popular work in all of the operatic canon, sung in Italian with English translations, Oct. 9-18 at Kimmel’s Academy of Music, 240 S. Broad St.; (215) 790-5847.
Dance
Kun-Yang Lin Workshop New York City-based visual artist Jeff Sable leads a workshop exploring tai-chi movement, voice and improvisation, from 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Oct. 4 at Chi Movement Arts Center, 1316 S. Ninth St.; (267) 687-3739.
A Home For Ghosts ArtStar Gallery hosts an exhibition of works from artist Kurt Halsey, through Nov. 1, 623 N. Second St.; (215) 238-1557. Frankenstein and The Curse of Frankenstein Peaks of Faith: The classic horror films Buddhist Art of the are screened at 2 p.m. Himalayas Oct. 4 at The Colonial The Philadelphia Museum Theatre, 227 Bridge St., of Art presents an Phoenixville; (610) 917exhibition encompassing 0223. nearly a millennium of art from across the Himalayan region, through Fall 2009, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy.; (215) 763-8100.
Film
Ragas and Rajas: Musical Imagery of Courtly India The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents a diverse selection of paintings and sculptures from across the subcontinent, through Feb. 28, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy.; (215) 763-8100. Shopping in Paris: French Fashion 18501925 The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition exploring the American experience abroad between 1850 and 1925, through Oct. 25, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy.; (215) 763-8100. Surfacing AxD Gallery presents an
Observe and Report The 2008 comedy is screened at 8 p.m. Oct. 5 at Trocadero Theatre, 1003 Arch St.; (215) 9225483. Beyond Dracula: Modern Vampire Films Bryn Mawr Film Institute presents a course examining the figure of the vampire in a variety of movie incarnations, beginning with the prototype, Dracula, in Werner Herzog’s haunting and atmospheric “Nosferatu” and continuing with more recent films, offering diverse takes on the creature, Oct. 7-28, 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr; (610) 527-9898.
Books
Leonard Gontarek The award-winning poet hosts a reading at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 5 at Central Library, 1901 Vine St.; (215) 686-5322. Gerald Elias The author of “Devil’s Trill,” a crime novel set in the classical music world, hosts a reading at 7 p.m. Oct. 7 at Robin’s Books and Moonstone Arts
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Center, 110a S. 13th St.; (215) 735-9600. Edmund White The author of “City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and ’70s” hosts a reading at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 8 at Giovanni’s Room, 345 S. 12th St.; (215) 923-2960. Michael Curtis The author of “Orientalism and Islam: European Thinkers on Oriental Despotism in the Middle East and India” hosts a reading at 7 p.m. Oct. 8 at Robin’s Books and Moonstone Arts Center, 110a S. 13th St.; (215) 735-9600.
Cabaret
Lucky Star — Madonna at 50 Melissa Young performs her Madonna tribute show at 9 p.m. Oct. 3 at Harlans at The Nevermore, 6426 Lower York Road, New Hope; (215) 862-5225.
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Christopher Titus The comedian performs Oct. 2-3 at Helium Comedy Club, 2031 Sansom St.; (215) 4969001.
TWISTED MISTER: Quince Productions hosts a special performance of “Mister, Mister” for LGBT audiences and friends, with pre-show reception and post-show discussion, at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 8 at Walnut Street Theater’s Studio 5, 825 Walnut St. The black comedy about murder, fame and a not-so-innocent childhood, written by Nobel Prize-winner Günter Grass (author of “The Tin Drum“), follows the misadventures of Bollin (Robert Cutler), an obsessively methodical murderer who kills by series, moving from one discrete group to another. For more information, call (215) 627-1088. Photo: John Donges
David Sedaris The humorist performs at 7 p.m. Oct. 4 at Keswick Theatre, 291 N. Keswick Ave., Glenside; (215) 5727650. Jewpocalypse Now “A Stand-Up Revolution” Comedian Rus Gutin performs at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4 at Helium Comedy Club,
2031 Sansom St.; (215) 496-9001. Philadelphia Fashion Week At least 15 runway shows give fashionistas an inside peek into what’s in style for holiday 2009 and spring 2010, 4-10 p.m. Oct. 8 at 23rd Street Armory, 22 S. 23rd St.; (215) 564-1488. ■
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Meeting Place A community bulletin board of activities, facilities and organizations
Community centers ■ The Attic Youth Center: For LGBT and questioning youth and their friends and allies. Groups meet and activities are held from 4-8 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays; case management, HIV testing and smoking cessation are available Monday through Friday. See the Youth section for more events. 255 S. 16th St.; (215) 545-4331 ■ Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center at the University of Pennsylvania 3907 Spruce St.; (215) 898-5044; center@dolphin.upenn.edu, Summer hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday. ■ Rainbow Room — Bucks County’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning and Allies Youth Center: 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays: Doylestown Planned Parenthood, The Atrium, Suite 2E, 301 S. Main St., Doylestown; (215) 348-0558 ext. 65; rainbowroom@ppbucks.org. ■ William Way Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center: 1315 Spruce St.; (215) 732-2220; www.waygay.org. Peer counseling: Monday through Friday, 6-9 p.m. Library hours: Mondays 3-9 p.m., Tuesdays 3-6 p.m., Wednesdays 3-9 p.m., Thursdays 3-9 p.m., Fridays 3-9 p.m., Saturdays noon-6 p.m., Sundays noon-6 p.m. Volunteers: New Orientation: First Wednesday of the month at 7:30 p.m.; Volunteer Velada, third Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m.
Health Anonymous, free, confidential HIV testing Spanish/English counselors offer testing 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday at Congreso de Latinos Unidos, 166 W. Lehigh Ave.; (215) 763-8870 ext. 6000. AIDS Services In Asian Communities Provides HIV-related services to Asians and Pacific Islanders at 340 N. 12th St., suite 205; (2215) 536-2424. Gay and Lesbian Latino AIDS Education Initiative Free, anonymous HIV testing from 9:30 a.m.4:30 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and 9:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursdays at 1207 Chestnut St., fifth floor; (215) 851-1822 or (866) 222-3871. Spanish/English. HIV testing Free, anonymous testing and counseling is offered from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday and by appointment at AIDS Resource,
Key numbers ■ AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania: (215) 587-9377 ■ AIDS Law Project of Southern New Jersey: (856) 933-9500 ext. 221 ■ AIDS Library: (215) 985-4851
520 W. Fourth St., suite 2A, Williamsport; (570) 322-8448. HIV treatment Free HIV/AIDS diagnosis and treatment for Philadelphia residents are available from 9 a.m.noon Mondays and 5-8 p.m. Thursdays at Health Center No. 2, 1720 S. Broad St.; (215) 685-1803. HIV health insurance help Access to free medications, confidential HIV testing available at 17 MacDade Blvd., suite 108, Collingdale; Medical Office Building, 722 Church Lane, Yeadon; and 630 S. 60th St.; (610) 586-9077. Mazzoni Center Free, anonymous HIV testing; HIV/AIDS care and treatment, case management and support groups; 1201 Chestnut St.; (215) 563-0652. www.mazzonicenter.org. Washington West Project Free, anonymous HIV testing. Walk-ins welcome 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Friday and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday; 1201 Locust St.; (215) 985-9206.
Gloria Casarez, (215) 686-2194; Gloria. Casarez@phila.gov; Fax: (215) 686-2555 ■ Mazzoni Center: (215) 563-0652; www. mazzonicenter.org ■ Mazzoni Center Family and Community Medicine: (215) 563-0658
■ ACLU of Pennsylvania: (215) 5921513
■ Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (Philadelphia): (215) 572-1833
■ AIDS Treatment hot line: (215) 5452212
■ Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations: (215) 686-4670
■ Barbara Gittings Gay and Lesbian Collection at the Independence Branch of the Philadelphia Free Library: (215) 685-1633
■ Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Task Force: (215) 772-2000
■ The COLOURS Organization Inc. 112 N. Broad St., 11th floor; (215) 4960330. ■ Equality Advocates Pennsylvania: (215) 731-1447; (866) LGBTLAW ■ Equality Forum: (215) 732-3378 ■ Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Peer Counseling Services: (215) 732-TALK ■ Mayor’s liaison to LGBT communities:
Professional groups ■ Gay and Lesbian Lawyers of Philadelphia GALLOP holds board meetings at 6:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month at 100 S. Broad St., Suite 1810; GALLOP also provides a free referral service; (215) 627-9090; www.galloplaw.org. ■ Greater Philadelphia Professional Network Networking group for area business professionals, self-employed and business owners meets monthly in a different location throughout the city, invites speakers on various topics, partners with other nonprofits and maintains a Web site where everyone is invited to sign up for e-mail notices for activities and events.; www.gppn.org. ■ Independence Business Alliance Greater Philadelphia’s LGBT Chamber of Commerce, providing networking, business development, marketing, educational and advocacy opportunities for LGBT and LGBT-friendly businesses and professionals. Visit www. IndependenceBusinessAlliance.com for information about events, programs and membership; (215) 557-0190; 1717 Arch St., Suite 3370. ■ National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association The Philadelphia chapter of NLGJA, open to professionals and students, meets for social and networking events; www.nlgjaphiladephia.org.
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12-step programs and support groups
Gay Al-Anon meets at 8 p.m. Fridays at St. Andrew’s Church, 50 York St., Lambertville, N.J.; (215) 986-1029.
Branch of the the Free Library, 18 S. Seventh St.; (215) 685-1633. ■ A support group for HIV-positive men and women meets from 1:30-3 p.m. at BEBASHI — Transition to Hope, 1217 Spring Garden St., first floor; (215) 769-3561. ■ Encuentros Positivos, a group for HIV-positive Latino men who have sex with men, meets on first and third Tuesday of the month at 1205 Chestnut St.; (215) 985-3382. ■ “Feast Incarnate,” a weekly ministry for people affected by HIV/AIDS, begins at 5 p.m. at University Lutheran Church, 3637 Chestnut St. Bible study follows at 6 p.m.; (215) 387-2885. ■ A support group for people recently diagnosed with HIV/AIDS will meet from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the Mazzoni Center. ■ Youth Outreach Adolescent Community Awareness Program’s Voice It Sistah, a support group for HIV-positive women, meets at 11 a.m. every first and third Tuesday at YOACAP, 1207 Chestnut St., Suite 315; (215) 851-1898.
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
Wednesdays:
Adult Children of Alcoholics
Meets at 7 p.m. Tuesdays at the William Way Center. ■ Rainbow Adult Children of Alcoholics and Alcoholics Anonymous meet at 7 p.m. Saturdays at Limestone Presbyterian Church, 3201 Limestone Road, Wilmington, Del.; (302) 4569129. ■
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Acceptance meets at 7:30 p.m. on Fridays at Episcopal Church, 22nd and Spruce streets. ■ Beginnings meets at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesdays at 1201 Locust St.; (215) 563-0663 ext. 282. ■ Community meets at 8 p.m. on Thursdays at Holy Communion Church, 2111 Sansom St. Gay and lesbian but all are welcome. ■ GLBT Alcoholics Anonymous meets at 7 p.m. on Sundays and 8 p.m. on Wednesdays at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 100 W. Windsor St., Reading; (484) 529-9504. ■ Living In Sobriety meets at 10 a.m. Mondays through Fridays and 11 a.m. Sundays at the William Way Center. ■ Night Owl meets at 11:30 p.m. Sunday through Saturday at the William Way Center. ■ Philadelphia Gay & Lesbian Beginners meets at 7:30 p.m. Mondays at Trinity Episcopal Church, 2212 Spruce St. ■ Sober and Gay meets at 8:30 p.m. Sunday through Friday at the William Way Center. ■ Stepping Stone meets at 2:30 p.m. Mondays at the Mazzoni Center. ■ Ties That Bind Us is a12-step Alcoholics Anonymous meeting for the BDSM, leather and alternative sexuality community. Meetings are held from 7:30-9 p.m. in South Philadelphia. For location, call (800) 581-7883. ■ Way Gay Young Peoples meets at 5:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday at the William Way Center. ■
Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA)
Meets at 7 p.m. on Sundays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at the William Way Center.
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■ Philadelphia Gay Tourism Caucus A regional organization dedicated to promoting gay and lesbian tourism to the Greater Philadelphia Region, holds meetings every other month on the fourth Thursday (January, March, May, July, September and the third Thursday in November), open to the public; P.O. Box 58143, Philadelphia, PA 19102; www.philadelphiagaytourism.com. ■ Philly OutGoing Professionals Social group for gay, lesbian and bisexual professionals meets for social and cultural activities; (856) 857-9283; popnews19@yahoo.com.
Emotional Support
Healing After Loss has monthly activities in South Jersey and surrounding area; www.lsn. southjersey.com. ■ Pink and Blues is a free depression and bipolar support group for sexual minorities and meets at 7 p.m. Wednesdays at St. Luke and The Epiphany Church, 330 S. 13th St.; (215) 627-0424. ■ Pink and Blues Main Line, a peer-run mental health support group, meets 6 p.m. Thursdays at Bryn Mawr Consumer Center, 1001 W. Lancaster Ave.; (610) 527-1511. ■ Survivors of Suicide Inc. meets at 7:30 p.m. on first Tuesday of the month at 3535 Market St., Room 2037; (215) 545-2242; www.phillysos. tripod.com. ■ Survivors of Suicide Inc., Chester County meets at 7:30 p.m. on second Wednesday of the month at Paoli Memorial Hospital, Willistown Room, Medical Office Building; (215) 545-2242; www. phillysos.tripod.com. ■
A support group for HIV-positive women will meet from 9:30-11:30 a.m. at the Arch Street United Methodist Church, 55 N. Broad St.; (215) 387-6055. ■ AIDS Services in Asian Communities’ weekly volunteer work group will meet from 6-8 p.m. at 340 N. 12th St., Suite 205; (215) 563-2424. ■ Project Teach, a peer-education and empowerment program for people living with HIV/AIDS, will meet from 3-5 p.m. at Philadelphia Fight, 1233 Locust St. ■ Positive Effect, for HIV-positive people 18 and over, meets from 5-7 p.m. at Camden AHEC, 514 Cooper St., Camden, N.J.; (856) 963-2432. ■
Thursdays:
A support group for HIV-positive men and women will meet from 6-8 p.m. at BEBASHI — Transition to Hope, 1217 Spring Garden St.; (215) 769-3561. ■ Diversity, an HIV/AIDS support group for all infected or affected, meets from 7-9 p.m. at Arch Street United Methodist Church, 55. N. Broad St.; call Zak, (215) 848-4380, or Paul, (215) 307-0347. ■
Saturdays:
AIDS Delaware’s You’re Not Alone youth support group meets at 11 a.m. at AIDS Delaware, 100 W. 10th St., Suite 315, Wilmington; a social session will follow at 12:30 p.m.; (302) 652-6776. ■
Narcotics Anonymous (NA)
Meetings are at 2 p.m. Sunday through Saturday and at 5:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the William Way Center. ■
Overeaters Anonymous (OA)
Open meeting, Tuesdays, beginners meet at 5:30 p.m., regular meeting at 6 p.m. at Hahnemann University Hospital, 245 N. 15th St., third floor, room 3208; call Troy, (215) 514-3065. ■
S.A.R.A.
Substance Abuse – Risk Assessment; day and evening hours; (215) 563-0663 ext. 282. ■
Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous
Mondays, 7 p.m. at the William Way Center. Mondays, 7:30 p.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church, 20 N. Route 9, Marmora, N.J.; (609) 675-1998. ■ Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. at All Saints Church, 18 Olive Ave., Rehoboth Beach, Del.; (302) 5423279. ■ Fridays, 7:30 p.m. at the Ocean View Lodge, Metropolitan Community Church, 521 Glade Road, Rehoboth Beach, Del.; (302) 945-5982. ■ Saturdays, 8:30 p.m. at the William Way Center. ■ ■
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Strength In Numbers Visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ SINPhiladelphia.
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Mondays:
Positive Brothers, a support group for men of color living with HIV/AIDS, meets from 6-8 p.m. at 112 N. Broad St., 11th floor; (215) 496-0330.
■ Safe space to meet and discuss substance abuse problems with office in William Way Center; (215) 340-9995.
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Tuesdays:
■ AIDS Services in Asian Community offers safer-sex and HIV/AIDS information at 10 a.m. on second Tuesday of the month at the Independence
Smoking Cessation
FreshOUT!, Mazzoni Center’s free quitsmoking program, hosts individual sessions, classes and support groups and offers Nicotine Replacement Therapy (patches, gum and lozenges); (215) 563-0652 ext. 228 or e-mail quitsmoking@mazzonienter.org. ■
■ Philadelphia Police Department liaison — Chief Inspector James Tiano: (215) 685-3655
Send submissions to pgn@epgn.com or fax (215) 925-6437 PGN Meeting Place, 505 S. Fourth St., Philadelphia, PA 19147
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■ SPARC — Statewide Pennsylvania Rights Coalition: (717) 920-9537 ■ Transgender Health Action Coalition: (215) 732-1207 (staffed 3-6 p.m. Wednesdays, and 6-9 p.m. Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays)
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New home sales tick up, disappoint analysts By Alan Zibel The Associated Press The housing market is making a comeback, but it’s not impressing anybody. New-home sales rose a tepid .7 percent last month, missing Wall Street expectations. Builders are seeing a drop-off in foot traffic because homebuyers are running out of time to take advantage of a federal tax credit of up to $8,000 for first-time owners. The new-home sales-report tallies sales contracts signed in August, rather than final purchases. And to qualify for the credit, both the construction and the sales transaction must be completed by the end of November. One of the nation’s largest builders, KB Home, eased back on its promotions for the tax credit last month and saw sales decline.
“Not huge, but we did see a softening,” said Jeff Mezger, president of the Los Angelesbased company. Nationwide, new-home sales inched up to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 429,000, the Commerce Department said last Friday. That compares with July’s reading of 426,000, which was revised down from 433,000. Economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters had expected a pace of 440,000. While August was the fifthstraight monthly increase and the strongest report in almost a year, sales were 4.3-percent lower than the same month last year. Sales have risen 30 percent from the bottom in January, but are off about 70 percent from the peak of four years ago. “From a builder’s perspective, the market for selling new homes
is still brutal, despite the pickup in sales in recent months,” wrote Patrick Newport, an economist with IHS Global Insight. The report was the secondstraight disappointing sign for the U.S. housing market, which is struggling to emerge from the most severe bust in generations. Last Thursday, the National Association of Realtors said sales of previously occupied homes, which make up the bulk of the market, dipped 2.7 percent in August. While August’s housing reports have been disappointing, “we believe both remain on an upward trend,” wrote David Resler, chief economist with Nomura Securities. Sales of lower-priced properties are surging, pulling down the median new-home price to $195,200, off 11.7 percent from
$221,000 a year earlier and 9.5 percent below July’s level of $215,600. That was the largest monthly drop on records dating to 1963. There were 262,000 new homes for sale at the end of August, down more than 3 percent from July and the lowest in nearly 17 years. At the current sales pace, that represents 7.3 months of supply — the smallest amount since early 2007. The decline means builders have scaled back construction to the point where supply and demand are coming into balance. Still, it’s taking more than a year to sell the homes on the market. “No one ever said that the homebuilders were breaking out the bubbly and party hats and doing the cha-cha around town,” wrote Jennifer Lee, economist
with BMO Capital Markets. Sales varied dramatically around the country. The best performance was in the West, where sales rose more than 12 percent, and the worst was in the Northeast, where sales sank more than 16 percent. They were unchanged in the South, and down nearly 6 percent in the Midwest. Meanwhile, KB Home posted a smaller third-quarter loss of $66 million last Friday as new-home orders increased and the builder cut costs. Though the results missed analysts’ expectations, KB Home said its new orders jumped 62 percent in the third quarter from the year before, with every region showing annual growth. And fewer homebuyers backed out. The company’s cancellation rate dropped to 27 percent during the quarter, compared with 51 percent a year ago. ■
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