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Community, city leaders meet to address racism By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com Two weeks before a historic city hearing on racism in the LGBT community, several-dozen community members gathered for an open exchange on the issue. The Oct. 13 meeting at the African American Museum was labeled “productive,” “problematic” and a “good start” by different participants. The event capped several weeks of debate and protests regarding allegations of discriminatory practices at Gayborhood bars, a racist video of ICandy’s owner and opposing reactions to city leaders’ treatment of the issue. Community members used an easel to track ideas and questions for city leaders — who were asked to wait until the second half of the meeting to enter — about such issues as responses to police harassment and city contributions to community organizations. Alonda Talley, 30, attended and said she was glad to see community members working

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MEETING OF THE MINDS: About 40 people participated in a discussion regarding racism in the LGBT community Oct. 13. Held at the African American Museum, the event allowed community members and leaders of local organizations to tackle the issue before invited city representatives like Philadelphia Human Relations Commission executive director Rue Landau and Office of LGBT Affairs director Nellie Fitzpatrick joined. Photo: Scott A. Drake

together to address the issue. “We as black and brown people have to stop attacking each other,” she said. “We’re not going to get anywhere if we’re attacking each other.” Director of LGBT Affairs Nellie Fitzpatrick, executive director of Philadelphia Human

Relations Commission Rue Landau and other city representatives took part in the second half of the meeting. Fitzpatrick has been the target of protests by the Black & Brown Workers Collective and other groups that have called PAGE 12 on her to step

The application process for the city’s new Commission on LGBT Affairs opened Monday. Among its responsibilities, the Commission will advise Mayor Jim Kenney’s administration on ways to increase LGBT community access to government resources; share information with the community on relevant government efforts; address community needs with relevant city agencies and work to develop plans to meet those needs; and maintain dialogue with LGBT community organizations and individuals. The volunteer members will be appointed following an application process overseen by the Office of Diversity & Inclusion, the Office of Public Engagement and the Office of the Mayor. The application form is available at http://ow.ly/mstN305kFQO and must be completed by Nov. 4. The online application asks six open-ended questions about the applicant’s interest in serving on the commission, issues facing the local LGBT community and goals for their participation in the commission. The only limit on eligibility is that applicants cannot be city employees; they can hold other city appointments. Director of LGBT Affairs Nellie Fitzpatrick told PGN this week that the commission has been in the works since earlier this year and is not a result of the recent discussions about racism in the LGBT community. “The commission has been a part of the plan of this administration since the mayor took office. I certainly have not been quiet about the fact that something like this needs to be established,” she said. “Folks have been working hard to establish this commission; we’ve been working with the Law Department for months to draft up and create the executive order which will create the commission, as well as finding the best ways PAGE 18 to make sure that folks are able to apply.”

Philly gets perfect HRC score, five years running By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com

RUNNING START: Runners led the way in the 30th-annual AIDS Walk/Run Philly 5K Oct. 16, which set off from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. About 10,000 people participated, raising more than $250,000. This year organizer AIDS Fund will use the money for its emergency fund for people affected by HIV/AIDS, whereas fundraising in previous years was also generated for local HIV/AIDS organizations. The theme of this year’s event was “Getting to Zero,” referring to new diagnoses, deaths and stigma related to HIV/AIDS. Photo: Jeffrey Holder

Philadelphia has again achieved a perfect score in the Human Rights Campaign’s Municipal Equality Index. The national LGBT-rights organization releases the report each fall, ranking cities across the country based on the LGBT-inclusiveness of their municipal policies and programs. This year, Philadelphia is one of 60 municipalities to receive a perfect 100. When the MEI launched in 2012, the City of Brotherly Love was among just 11 municipalities to achieve the top score; at that time, HRC employed a different type of ranking that included bonus points, and Philadelphia was the only city in the nation to achieve a perfect baseline score before bonus points. “Philadelphia has been a leader in advancing LGBTQ rights at a local level, a fact reflected in its membership in this exceptional group of municipalities earning perfect scores every year since the

inception of our Municipal Equality Index,” HRC president Chad Griffin said in a statement. “For the past five years, Philadelphia has stood up for its LGBTQ residents and municipal workers time and time again, serving as an inspiring example to other municipal, state and the federal governments on how to ensure full equality for all.” Philadelphia was one of 22 cities to achieve a 100 despite being situated in a state that does not offer LGBT-inclusive nondiscrimination protections. Eighty-seven cities in such states scored above 55, the nationwide average. In Pennsylvania, the average score was 70. Philadelphia was the only city in the state to receive a 100; next in line was Allentown with a 95. The majority of the other cities all scored above the national average: Pittsburgh (93), New Hope (80), State College (72), Harrisburg (68), Reading (66) and Wilkes-Barre (62). “Municipalities in Pennsylvania lead the way on equality for LGBT people in our PAGE 18

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Self-defense among claims by gay-bashing defendant By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com One of three people implicated in a 2014 gay-bashing incident in Philadelphia is claiming self-defense. In an Oct. 4 filing, Phillip Williams said any injuries or damages suffered by Andrew Haught and Zachary Hesse were “sustained while [Williams] was in the process of defending himself from the real and perceived threat of bodily injury arising from the action of plaintiffs and their friends.” Haught and Hesse were walking by themselves Sept. 11, 2014, near 16th and Chancellor streets when they encountered Williams, Kevin Harrigan, Kathryn Knott and a group of their friends. According to prosecutors, Harrigan made a derogatory comment about Haught and Hesse being a couple and then shoved Hesse, prompting Hesse to shove Harrigan back, who they say then punched Hesse multiple times. Prosecutors say Williams

News Briefing Trial scheduled for defendant in Keisha Jenkins murder Just after the one-year anniversary of the shooting death of transgender woman Keisha Jenkins in Logan, a trial date was set for the man accused in the incident. Pedro Redding, 25, heads to trial July 17 with Judge Diana L. Anhalt presiding, according to court documents. He faces charges of murder, conspiracy and related offenses. A trial-readiness conference is scheduled for Oct. 25. Redding remains in custody at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility. He was denied bail. According to Philadelphia police, Redding was among a group of several individuals who assaulted Jenkins, 22, at 13th and Wingohocking streets around 2:30 a.m. Oct. 6, 2015. Jenkins was shot twice in the back during the altercation. Police do not believe Redding was the shooter. No further arrests have been made. Police said the motive was robbery and that evidence didn’t suggest Jenkins was targeted for being transgender.

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“bum rushed” Haught after someone in the group exclaimed that Haught hit one of the females in the group. Haught was left with extensive facial fractures, including a broken jaw that was wired shut for eight weeks. Witnesses said the group used antigay slurs during the incident. This month’s filing comes in the civil lawsuit Haught and Hesse filed against the three. The couple is seeking at least $500,000. Williams and Harrigan pleaded guilty to criminal charges and received probation and community service, while Knott took her case to court and was found guilty of four misdemeanor charges, for which she served five months in prison. Democrat Hillary Clinton. U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, known as the first gay parent elected to Congress, met dozens at Candida’s, an LGBT bar that has operated for four decades. “It was great to visit with members of the LGBT community in Allentown,” he told PGN, noting he talked about the importance of electing Clinton, and other Democrats like Katie McGinty, for the equality movement. “Pennsylvania is a huge and politically diverse state,” Polis said. “It’s going to be extremely close in the presidential as well as the Senate race.” Polis co-authored the Equality Act, which would extend federal nondiscrimination protections to the LGBT community. He said Clinton has expressed her commitment to ensuring the law would reach the president’s desk. Polis said Clinton has engaged several LGBT surrogates to keep the community at the forefront of the election. Annise Parker, the former mayor of Houston and a lesbian, recently spoke in North Carolina. Barney Frank, a former Congressman from Massachusetts, visited Colorado. — Paige Cooperstein

Deadline set in Morris case Under a deadline set by Commonwealth Court, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office has until Nov. 2 to file its appellant’s brief in a dispute with PGN involving Nizah Morris records Morris was an African-American trans woman found with a fatal head injury in 2002, shortly after entering a police vehicle in the Gayborhood for a “courtesy ride.”

In addition to a self-defense claim, Williams also suggested in his filing that any injuries the couple sustained were “caused or contributed to by conditions or persons over whom [Williams] had no control and for which [Williams] is not responsible.” All injuries were the “result of intervening and superseding acts of others,” Williams’ attorney, Eamon Merrigan, wrote. Williams also argued for coverage under the Sudden Emergency Doctrine, as he was “faced with a sudden emergency and in consideration of the circumstances surrounding that emergency responsibly reasonably.” Williams further contended that any PGN is seeking a certified copy of computer-aided dispatch records for a traffic stop initiated by Officer Elizabeth Skala. Inexplicably, Skala initiated the traffic stop while assigned to Morris, who was intoxicated. In June, a Philadelphia judge ruled that the D.A.’s Office certified its dispatch records for Skala’s traffic stop in a February 2015 affidavit. However, the D.A.’s Office is appealing the ruling in Commonwealth Court. After the D.A.’s Office files its appellant’s brief, PGN has 30 days to file a reply brief.

City issues correction in police dispute City attorney Elise M. Bruhl last month corrected a misstatement she made during oral arguments in a federal case involving a police dispute. Philadelphia Detective Kenneth Rossiter claims he was unfairly fired in 2011 due to anti-union bias. He’s suing the city for an unspecified amount in monetary damages. Last month, during oral arguments at the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, Bruhl said the local police union has 16,500 members. But on Sept. 28, Bruhl sent a letter to the court, stating the local police union actually has 6,500 active-duty members. Rossiter, who’s investigated several LGBT-related homicides, contends that city officials violated his constitutional rights when firing him. But city officials say Rossiter was properly fired due to overtime abuses. An independent arbitrator eventually reinstated Rossiter with full back pay and benefits. n

recovery the plaintiffs are entitled to is “based upon the acts and omissions of the co-defendants, Kevin Harrigan and Kathryn Knott, who are solely responsible for the plaintiffs’ injuries and damages.” Discovery is moving forward for both sides. Attorneys for the plaintiffs recently filed a subpoena for the District Attorney’s entire investigative file, “including all written statements, recorded interviews, police paperwork and any and all other documents” pertaining to the incident, as well as all exhibits, documents and materials pertaining to Knott’s criminal trial. Williams’ attorney is pursuing a subpoena for Haught’s billing, radiology and medical records from Hahnemann University Hospital dating from Sept. 11, 2009, to the present. A settlement conference in the case is tentatively scheduled for Sept. 4, 2017, and, if no agreement is reached, the case is slated for trial Dec. 4, 2017. n

Obituary Gloria Prusakowski, 62 Longtime Mazzoni Center employee Gloria Prusakowski died suddenly Oct. 9 at age 62. Prusakowski, who studied accounting at Community College of Philadelphia, joined Mazzoni in 2001 as its first fiscal personnel. In a statement, CEO Nurit Shein called Prusakowski “loyal, supportive, engaged [and] hard-working,” the consummate employee who volunteered for Mazzoni Center events and went above and beyond her job duties. “Through her generosity of spirit, her kindness and her willingness to listen, she made an impact on many of us here at Mazzoni and out in the community, in ways large and small,” Shein said. Outside of her work, Prusakowski, a resident of Drexel Hill, was an HIV/AIDS activist and ACT UP member. She enjoyed outdoor activities like visiting the Jersey Shore, beekeeping and gardening as well as spending time with her family, sons Elijah and Austin, daughterin-law Kenyetta and grandson Amari. She was predeceased by longtime partner John Bell. A memorial service will be held from 1-3:30 p.m. Oct. 22 at Cavanagh Patterson Family Funeral Home, 43 E. Baltimore Ave., in Media. Loved ones will be invited to speak about Prusakowski starting at 2:45 p.m. Memorial donations can be made to ACT Up (www.actupphilly.org/donate), John Bell Health Center (https://54724.thankyou4caring.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=298) and Mazzoni Center (www.mazzonicenter.org/donate-now). n

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HAUNTING HAPPENINGS: Rebecca Kotcher (from left), David Roberts, Sharron Cooks and Quincy Greene got into the Halloween spirit a little early at Out4STEM’s “Boos and Brains” Oct. 18 at the Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Guests explored the biology of LGBT identity, shared coming-out stories and prepped for All Hallow’s Eve by decorating masks. Out4STEM leaders will also be involved in the sixth-annual QSpot Religion & Sexuality Panel, which will be held 6-9 p.m. Oct. 22 at William Way LGBT Community Center, 1315 Spruce St. Photo: Scott A. Drake

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Chelsea Clinton on high-stakes election By PGN Staff Chelsea Clinton took a break from addressing female and millennial voters Oct. 14 in Pittsburgh for a phone call with PGN. She talked about her time in Pennsylvania — an increasingly important swing state in the race that pits her mother, Democrat Hillary Clinton, against Republican Donald Trump. Below is a transcript of her conversation with PGN. It has been lightly edited for brevity. PGN: LGBT issues took center stage at the Democratic National Convention with nearly every speaker mentioning them, including you saying LGBT rights are human rights. But in the debates so far, LGBT rights haven’t received attention. Do you think the last debate [held after press time] will address them more directly? CC: I’m grateful that my mom talked about marriage equality in terms of what’s at stake for the next Supreme Court appointment. I certainly hope that the Senate will do its CHELSEA CLINTON job and give Judge AT THE DNC [Merrick] Garland Photo: Scott A. Drake a full and fair hearing so that we can have a fully seated court. But, certainly, thinking about what the next president will likely have before her, it will be the chance and the responsibility to nominate three, maybe even four, new justices to the bench. I have been surprised that LGBT rights and human rights more broadly — I mean, reproductive rights, voting rights, so many of our rights that have been under assault at the state level and local level — haven’t featured more broadly in the debates. I was quite surprised that even in the vice-presidential debate, given Gov. Pence’s regressive record in Indiana, that LGBT rights and civil and human rights did not come up. I am grateful — as an American who strongly believes that LGBT rights are human rights and therefore all of us have a stake in achieving full equality under the law — that my mom talked about the need to protect marriage equality in the last debate; in the context of the potential nominees that Donald Trump has floated as almost uniformly being against marriage equality. But I certainly agree that we need to pay more attention to LGBT rights. PGN: In your Pennsylvania travels, what has your engagement been like with LGBT residents and organizations? CC: The event I did this morning here in Pittsburgh was focused on women’s issues. But I got a question from a young woman who stood up and said, “I need to ask a

question on behalf of my gay younger brother. What is your mom going to do to ensure that he can be and love whoever he wants to be and love in our country?” And a woman came up to me afterwards — she was a bisexual woman — and she said, “I just want to thank you for your personal and your family’s support of me.” Even in public events, thankfully, people are standing up and drawing attention and sharing stories and testimonials about what’s at stake in this election for themselves, for their families and for their country. I do think this is the most consequential election of my lifetime. I think everything I care most about, which I now very much see through the prism of being a parent, is at risk and is at stake. That includes LGBT rights. My son is 3-and-a-half [months]. My daughter’s 2. I have no idea who they’re going to grow up and discover themselves to be. But I want them to own whoever they are and know that they will be equally valued, and hopefully by the time they’re a little bit older, equally loved and respected in our country. I feel very strongly about this as a mom. PGN: If your mom and Tim Kaine are elected, what is their plan to begin tackling the many LGBT points that are written into the latest Democratic Party Platform? CC: I think the contrast could not be clearer between the Democratic and the Republican party platforms. It’s something that I spoke about in Philadelphia at the HRC luncheon [in July] with how horrified I was and I remain about the Republican Party Platform’s embrace of conversion therapy, which I think is just child abuse by another name. I know that my mother strongly agrees with that. We have to make conversion therapy illegal. We have to finally pass the Equality Act. We have to continue the march toward an AIDS-free generation, particularly given the deeply worrying demographic trend of rising HIV rates among certain demographics across our country, including young LGBT men of color … We have a lot of work that we have to do. If we listen to our scientific community — and I’m a big believer in listening to our scientific community — we have to be investing more in research because the scientists are saying we’re reaching inflection points on an AIDS vaccine. We’re reaching inflection points on really understanding how to ensure that PrEP can be most effective. We have to make those investments. Then we have to make sure that people can afford the medicine that is needed to protect against getting HIV or ensure that HIV can be a chronic disease and not a death sentence. We have a lot of work to do. I know my mom’s the only person who understands the work that we have to do. PGN: Does your mom foresee any difficulty in terms of working with Congress to get some of these goals accomplished PAGE 7 given how vitriolic this

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Lincoln redevelopment near completion By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com A Gayborhood building that was vacant for more than a decade will soon be open for business. Luxury-apartment complex Twelve22 is slated to begin receiving residents at the beginning of 2017. The 44-unit building at 1222 Locust St. is the culmination of a more-than two-year redevelopment of the Lincoln Apartments, which was shuttered by a fire in July 2006. The crumbling building was long considered a blemish for the bustling Gayborhood, and frequently attracted squatters and crime. “This will take a building that had people hanging out on the stoop, an eyesore of a building, and bring it to life,” said Jon Thomas, chief operating officer of Philadelphia Residential Development Corporation. The property came onto PRDC’s radar around 2012, Thomas said. “When we got into the building, the city was literally about to go in and start demolishing within 30 days,” he said. “Our company has always been into revitalizing older buildings. We were turned onto this property through an affiliate and as soon as we walked in, we knew it was for us. The uglier, the better.” PRDC worked with Venco Building Group and structural engineers to shore up the build-

ing and went ahead with the sale, which was completed in 2014. Since then, the redevelopment team gave the building, whose roof had collapsed, a complete overhaul, though the façade, which dates to the 1800s, was preserved. “It’s definitely a unique building,” Thomas said. “It’s not brandnew construction, so there’s some character we saved in the building.” The first floor will feature a lobby and business center, with residences on the second through sixth floors, the latter of which will feature penthouses. There will be a rooftop deck accessible to all residents. “We’re 90 percent on floors two and three, and within two months we’ll be there on four and five. Six, with the penthouses, will be the last one and then we turn it over,” Thomas said. Monthly rent will be about $1,300 for the studios, $1,500$2,300 for the one-bedroom units, $2,200-$3,000 for the two bedrooms and higher for penthouses. Prospective residents and community members are invited to an open house at Twelve22 from noon-4 p.m. Oct. 29. Guests can tour the two completed model units and enjoy cocktails and light snacks. “We thought it was a good way to show what we’re capable of doing in that building and what the other units will look like when they’re finished,” Thomas said. n

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Out performance artist, single mom to keynote Philly Family Pride conference By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com Artist, author and activist Staceyann Chin is giving voice to her unique path to parenthood in “MotherStruck!” The one-woman show traces Chin’s efforts to have a child as a single lesbian, and the unique experiences she and her daughter have since faced. Chin will share her story with local audiences when she keynotes Philadelphia Family Pride’s annual conference later this month. We spoke with Chin in advance of the conference about her work, her views on LGBT parenting and her Living Room protests — YouTube sessions she and her daughter produce about the everyday impact of social-justice issues. PGN: How much has your life changed since your daughter was born? SC: I can’t even tell you. Ask any parent. To date, I can’t remember any shift that has been as life-changing and meaningful. It’s everything all at once. It’s the most wonderful thing, the most challenging thing, the worst thing, the most surreal thing, the craziest thing. It’s the thing you’ve always wanted but it’s also the thing you never knew you always wanted. PGN: Has “MotherStruck!” helped you deal with the challenges of motherhood? SC: I don’t know if work helps me to deal with the challenges. My work is always a place for me to deconstruct my life, to make sense of it, if you will. But the thing most parents tell you is that, as soon as you make sense of one thing, it’s shifting. I hear people with dogs talk about [them as their] babies. But once the dog is trained to go outside, your life is pretty much similar the rest of the dog’s life until it starts having CHELSEA from page 5

election cycle has become? CC: I think what someone has done is a good indication of what they will be able to do. It always, I think, is a little surprising when I talk about my mom’s strong record of being able to find common ground when it does exist, and sometimes to help create it, even from just a small speck of hope; [like] when she worked with Tom DeLay [former Republican whip] to reform the adoption and foster-care system and Lindsey Graham [Republican senator from South Carolina] to expand the VA system to include our reservists and National Guard members who serve our country overseas. I think that my mom’s ability to find that

health concerns. But I feel like I’m on some wonderful, amazing adult playground with a kid where, as soon as we master the swing, the playground morphs into an entirely different terrain. You’re like, “OK, we got the slide down now and then, oh my God, the monkey bars.” And then that grows into a giant Ferris wheel that’s going the wrong way. PGN: Your daughter is 5 now? SC: She’ll tell you she’s 4 and three-quarters.

PGN: I saw some of the Living Room protests both of you participated in; how challenging is it for you to explain some of these big social concepts to her? SC: I don’t think they’re big concepts. When you think of the concept of consent, kids deal with consent every day. Can a stranger pick me up? Can they grab my arm? The issue with Trump about him grabbing women in their most private parts without permission and they let him because he’s a star and he feels he’s a powerful man … I imagine one day my daughter will find herself in a space where someone wants to

common ground will enable her to make progress in some of the areas where, certainly, there was already progress being made, looking at criminal-justice reform, immigration reform. But hopefully, in areas like research funding, which conventionally hasn’t been particularly partisan, we can make real progress there. We can’t ever cede ground on issues that really relate to our core values as a country. I would argue that full LGBT equality has to be in that core. I’m hopeful that she will be able to make progress in some areas quickly, and I am hopeful that, as our next president, she’ll be able to continue to make a strong case on behalf of our real American and real family values and make prog-

touch her in a way that doesn’t feel comfortable to her. I think the groundwork in giving her the confidence and the awareness and the power to say no to such a person begins now. I want her to be a person who cares about the environment, who is kind to her friends, who knows how to chart boundaries around her body, to be able to participate in a partnership that requires compromise. All those things begin at birth. PGN: Why do you think organizations like Philadelphia Family Pride are important to both parents and kids? SC: I think that groups that are not represented in mainstream narratives — in media and books and the way people talk about who we are as a species, whether that’s in church or whether it’s just in community spaces we share — need spaces where their specific concerns can be foregrounded. I think [LGBT family organizations] are so important because this is where we start to teach ourselves that what we are doing is beautiful, is wonderful and is just as much a cause for celebration as any heterosexual couple starting a family or being in a family. They say that 50 percent of kids born to millennials are born outside of marriage, which means we are redefining what family is. But that’s what this is about: marching our species toward a more progressive way of being, a more progressive way of living. These families have always existed but they’ve been hidden, silenced, marginalized, erased or bullied and it’s time we all come out of the closet. n The seventh-annual Family Matters Conference is Oct. 29 at University of the Sciences. For more information, visit www.philadelphiafamilypride. org. For more information on Staceyann Chin and “MotherStruck!” visit www.motherstruck.com.

ress toward full LGBT equality as well. PGN: Your mother has actively courted the LGBT community in her campaign. Why did she want to write the op-ed for PGN outlining her positions? CC: She was grateful to have the chance to write the op-ed. I think she was the first majorparty presidential candidate to ever write an op-ed for an LGBT newspaper. I know she believes it’s really important that she’s not the only [one] as the future marches forward. She was grateful to have had the chance. It never occurred to her to not write it when she was given the opportunity. PGN: How important is

the Philadelphia area in the upcoming election? Analysts have referred to the suburbs in the region as a bellwether. CC: Pennsylvania, clearly, writ large is hugely important … I also was raised — this now might seem an old-fashioned belief — that every vote really matters, which is why we’ve had such a focus in my mom’s campaign over the last few months of registering people to vote up until the voter registration deadline ... We’re continuing to make the case about what’s really at stake in this election. I firmly believe if we keep talking about what’s at stake that we will win on Nov. 8. We certainly have to keep making that case in Philadelphia and elsewhere across the state. n

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Anti-bullying claims at risk for dismissal By Timothy Cwiek timothy@epgn.com Attorneys for the Pennsauken School District are requesting the dismissal of anti-bullying claims filed on behalf of a former student and his grandmother. “D.V.,” who has autism, was a student at the district for several years before his grandmother pulled him out, citing pervasive antigay bullying within the district. Before D.V. was pulled, his uncle, Thomas Vandergrift, urged district officials to provide a proper education for his nephew. District officials allegedly retaliated by calling the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services and reporting Vandergrift as a suspected child molester. DYFS ultimately determined that the reports against Vandergrift were unfounded. Vandergrift, D.V. and D.V.’s grandmother filed suit in 2012, alleging violations of state and federal laws by district officials. But Vandergrift’s claims remain held in abeyance, until the

claims of D.V. and his grandmother are adjudicated. In recent court papers, district officials claimed that Vandergrift admitted he inappropriately touched his nephew and, thus, district officials acted reasonably when reporting him as a suspected child molester. District officials claimed that D.V. and his grandmother didn’t suffer due to the unfounded reports. The district also denied that D.V. suffered pervasive antigay bullying, stating school personnel responded appropriately to allegations of such conduct. For his part, Vandergrift emphatically denies ever stating that he inappropriately touched his nephew. D.V. also denies that Vandergrift ever inappropriately touched him. District officials urged U.S. Magistrate Judge Joel Schneider to dismiss the claims of D.V. and his grandmother. In a lengthy reply brief, attorneys for D.V. and his grandmother stated that D.V. suffered severe and pervasive antigay bullying while he was a student

at the district. According to the brief, D.V. was called “queer,” “gay” or “homo” on a routine basis, had his lunch money taken from him by classmates, and occasionally returned home with bruises caused by his bulliers. “There is sufficient evidence that the bullying was based upon a protected characteristic and severe or pervasive,” the brief stated. Attorneys also contended in the brief that a school psychologist openly admitted that antigay bullying among sixth-graders is common within the district. “Her attitude was so out of date that at a meeting when she insisted that it was not a big deal, the then-superintendent yelled at her to leave the meeting,” according to the brief. Additionally, the attorneys wrote in the brief that D.V. and his grandmother suffered greatly due to the unfounded reports that Vandergrift molested D.V. “It is common sense that reporting a close family member to DYFS as having inappropriate sexual contact with

OUT OWLS: Temple University graduates shared their experiences on and off campus during a National Coming Out Week panel discussion Oct. 11. Panelists included Kemar Jewel (from left), Stephanie Hill, Tracy Buchholz, Lauren Zumpano and Lisa Nwankwo, and the discussion was moderated by residential life assistant director and NCOW co-chair Steve Dexter, who organized the event. Photo: Stacey Salter Moore/SSM Photography

a minor would have adverse impact upon a family member. [District officials] knew that the report would have that adverse impact and, in fact, there is sufficient evidence for a reasonable jury to infer that they made the report to bring about that adverse impact.” The attorneys urged Schneider to allow the case to reach a jury.

“The unwarranted reporting [of Vandergrift] to the authorities constituted retaliation against [D.V. and his grandmother] and there is sufficient evidence from which a jury could infer retaliatory intent,” they wrote. As of presstime, the district’s request for dismissal remained pending before Schneider. n

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SAPPHIRE CELEBRATION: Whosoever Metropolitan Community Church celebrated its 45th anniversary Oct. 9 with the awarding of Patron of Humanity honorees at its weekly worship. Honorees included PGN photographer and art director Scott A. Drake, LGBTQ Home for Hope director Deja Lynn Alvarez and counselor Mary Douglas-Bailey. A fourth surprise recipient was Whosoever MCC churchmember John Speer (left) with Rev. Jeffrey Jordan-Picket. The two came directly from the AIDS Walk held prior to the service. The congregation earlier this month hosted a potluck picnic and a decades dance, also in celebration of the milestone. Photo: Scott A. Drake

Government wants gay inmate’s federal suit tossed By Timothy Cwiek timothy@epgn.com The U.S. Department of Justice last month urged the dismissal of Kenneth J. Houck Jr.’s lawsuit against the federal Bureau of Prisons. Houck, who’s openly gay, was brutally assaulted in 2011 at the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia, while reading an LGBT novel in his cell. Houck’s right leg was fractured in multiple places, and he continues to walk with a limp. Other conditions stemming from the assault include hammer-toe syndrome, neuropathy, burning, bruising and swelling, according to court papers. Last year, Houck filed suit against the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, seeking more than $1 million in damages. According to Houck’s complaint, which he amended in August, he was targeted for assault due to his sexual orientation. Prison officials also exhibited antigay bias when allegedly failing to provide proper follow-up care and protection. Houck alleges that authorities violated several of his constitutional rights, including his right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment. Specifically, Houck contends that when prison authorities in Colorado asked why he was assaulted, Houck disclosed his sexual orientation. The disclosure resulted in additional animosity from prison staff and ostracism among fellow inmates, according to Houck’s suit. Moreover, Houck was denied necessary medical treatment on a timely basis, allegedly due to antigay bias. Prison authorities allegedly retaliated against Houck when he complained of mistreatment by placing him in solitary confine-

ment. They also spread untruths about Houck, placing him at risk for additional assaults, according to Houck’s suit. Additionally, prison authorities only allowed Houck to work as a “sidewalk sweeper” earning about $5.25 a month, rather than working in more lucrative positions earning up to $300 monthly, according to Houck’s suit. Last month, the Justice Department replied to Houck’s amended complaint by urging its dismissal. The department said defending against Houck’s numerous claims would be unduly burdensome. “Consulting with all of [the] defendants, many of whom likely no longer work for the Bureau of Prisons in Colorado, or even for the federal government at all, represents a significant burden for the defense,” states the department’s 11-page reply brief. The reply also states that prison authorities didn’t violate any of Houck’s federal or state rights. “[Houck] simply speculates that the allegedly inadequate medical treatment he received, as well as the fact that he was not given the job he wanted, were due to discrimination and bias,” according to the filing. Additionally, the government’s filing notes that Houck hasn’t obtained the input of a medical expert to support his medical-negligence claims, which is required under Colorado law. As of presstime, the case remained under review by U.S. Magistrate Judge Kathleen M. Tafoya. Prison authorities had no comment for this story. Houck, 41, is imprisoned for transporting child pornography. His scheduled release date is June 23, 2018, according to court records. n

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D’Anne Witkowski

Larry Klayman

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Surveying the landscape PGN has long been committed to providing the local LGBT community the news it needs — but also the news it wants. In that spirit, we recently launched a Reader Survey to gauge our readers’ opinions on what they hope to see in their community newspaper. We are encouraging our readers to share their honest thoughts. If you completely love a weekly or monthly column, tell us. If you absolutely hate another feature, tell us. We want the good, the bad and the in-between. What our readers like and dislike about content, as well as the issues important to them, truly matters to us. We will use this information as we put together our editorial calendar for 2017, evaluate our column list, brainstorm long-form story ideas and explore how we can do a better job of covering the issues our community cares about, and engaging with all members of our diverse community. Unlike a certain orange-hued presidential candidate, we at PGN do not by any means think we know everything. We do our best to keep our finger on the pulse of the community, but we also trust our readers to keep us abreast

of issues and events and to tell us when we’re falling short. This feedback truly matters. Having our readers actively involved and engaged in our work has helped us to adequately and accurately report on our community in our 40 years in operation. The local LGBT community is an ever-evolving entity — and covering that process and the many people involved in it is a daily challenge for us. But it’s a challenge we’ve been striving to meet for the last four decades. To help us continue to move forward, visit www.surveymonkey.com/r/ PGNReaderSurvey or see pages 13-14 of this week’s issue for the paper version of the survey (which can be mailed to 505 S. Fourth St., Phila., PA 19147). Feel free to answer as many or as few questions as you like. The survey will be open until Dec. 7. In addition to the opportunity to make your voice heard, all entrants who provide an email address will also be entered for a chance to win a $100 Visa gift card. As always, we at PGN are grateful for our readers’ continued support. n

Hey, have you heard the one about Hillary Clinton? Yeah, she’s a lesbian. I know what you’re thinking: That joke was poorly constructed and executed and was not funny at all. And you’re right! Because it is NOT A JOKE. But don’t take my word for it. Just ask Larry Klayman, who made a name for himself representing women who claimed to have had affairs with Bill Clinton. He lays it all out in an insightful piece posted to World Net Daily titled, “Hillary’s Biggest Lie?” Before you dismiss Klayman as an antigay bigot, know that he means no ill will. “Let me make one thing clear,” he begins. “I totally respect a person’s right to live his or her life as he or she may choose, so long as no one is hurt as a result. And, that goes for someone’s sexual preference, even though homosexuality is not endorsed in the Bible, and it is not my ‘cup of tea.’” See? He’s “totally” a respectful guy even if he doesn’t like “tea.” He says that gays and lesbians “are generally very nice and kind, and they have a right to be treated equally, not discriminated against. They should be frankly left alone to be what they want to be. That’s called ‘freedom.’” Not sure why he puts “freedom” in quotes, but we’ll take what we can get! So far, Klayman’s looking pretty fly for a right guy. Since he’s being so “nice,” I can “totally” trust him and can’t wait to hear what he has to say. “In today’s world, it is no longer a social stigma to be gay or lesbian, and as a result, the Supreme Court has even ruled that they constitutionally are to be accorded the right to marry each other,” he continues. “As a result, I have much less respect for those gays and lesbians who continue to live in the closet and hide their lifestyle.” Ah, I see. Apparently Klayman used to have some level of “respect” for closet cases, but now he doesn’t because the Gay Good Life is legal and discrimination is a thing of the past. Thank you, Mr. Klayman! I’m sure gays and lesbians everywhere will hustle forthrightly out of the closet into your waiting and loving arms. But wait, there’s more: “Case in point,

one Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has apparently lied about her sexual preference for decades to help pave the way for her presidential candidacy.” The rest of his column is full of rehashed rumors and accusations that have been following Clinton for years (and yet somehow, after decades in the public eye, there exists no evidence that she is a lesbian. So I guess she’s a Ninja lesbian). Klayman then writes, “[G]ays, lesbians and transgenders have to wonder why Hillary would call Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump a ‘racist’ against people of an alternative lifestyle, and then continue to lie about her own sexuality.” I’m not totally sure what he means here, but apparently he thinks that black and brown people are “of an alternative lifestyle,” which makes sense since he’s white. And he apparently also thinks that LGBT people are going to buy his concern that Clinton isn’t a true champion of their rights since she’s “ashamed” to be one of them. WND readers, however, bought it hook, line and sinker. The comments section is awash with people who think that Klayman is drinking the left’s Kool-Aid to dare say “nice” things about LGBT people. They apparently believe him to be sincere. I, however, do not. There are also many claims in the comment pit that President Obama is gay and that Michelle Obama is a “tranny.” It’s no wonder that WND readers have no problem believing Hillary Clinton is a lesbian. They just think that Klayman should have been “meaner” about it. Klayman and these deplorables truly deserve each other. n

I’m not totally sure what he means here, but apparently he thinks that black and brown people are “of an alternative lifestyle,” which makes sense since he’s white.

D’Anne Witkowski is a poet, writer and comedian living in Michigan with her wife and son. She has been writing about LGBT politics for over a decade. Follow her on Twitter @ MamaDWitkowski.

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You must vote for Hillary You have no choice but to vote for have to do with the election in our country? Hillary Clinton. Your very life depends on Donald Trump has been endorsed by the it. very evangelicals who support this leg This is LGBT History Month and we’re islation. To date, it was only the Obama also at the close of a very contentious pres- administration that has kept this from idential campaign, an interesting converbecoming law. If Donald Trump were to be gence. elected, do we want to take the One thing we as a community chance? We’re not playing with learned from the AIDS epithe lives of our LGBT commudemic was to organize, since we nity. were fighting for our lives. We And how about here in have a new generation that does the United States? Trump’s not know what that time was vice-presidential running mate like, what that statement meant believes in conversion therapy. or how it shadows this election. Conversion therapy — and let’s The LGBT community of not mince words here — is the the 1980s was in sheer shock. torture and imprisonment of Gay men were dying and no LGBT youth. It’s just the latest one seemed to care. Some term of aversion therapy. Still not enough? officials went so far as to sug When the Pulse Nightclub gest we should quarantine gay was the target of what looks like men. Some religious people terrorism, Trump at first suggested AIDS was a mesMark Segal antigay sage from God. Scientists were would not mention the word unsure what to do. Why? The “LGBT.” Instead, he said he Centers for Disease Control and National would not allow Muslims into our country. Institutes of Health did not feel they should The fact that the man who did this was a act quickly in a time of a major-health Muslim was all he cared about — as well as making a few campaign points. He did issue since they received silence from not care about our lives. Trump then said elected officials, namely President Ronald he’d stop terrorists from coming into this Reagan. Even Reagan’s Surgeon General, country to do what they did at Pulse … C. Everett Koop, admitted years later he felt guilt for the many lives lost due to their What about the antigay terrorists who are Americans? Oh, he’s standing on a stage inaction. In times of crisis, a president can with them, shaking their hands and acceptmake all the difference. What about today? We’re still fighting ing their endorsements. AIDS and funds need to be spent to find a Vote like your lives depend on it. They cure. Apart from the epidemic, LGBT lives do. n are at stake in other areas. Mark Segal is the nation’s most-award-winning Take, for example, Uganda. The country commentator in LGBT media. His recently pubkeeps attempting to pass legislation that lished memoir, “And Then I Danced,” is availwould make homosexuality a crime punable on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble or at your favorite bookseller. ishable by the death penalty. What does it

Mark My Words

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Joanne Grossi

More than one year after marriage equality became the law of the land nationwide, President Obama, Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell and my colleagues and I at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services continue to seize opportunities to improve the health and well-being of LGBTQ Americans. We do so because the sad reality is that LGBTQ people still face discrimination in many areas of life, including health care. This discrimination worsens the very-real health disparities that LGBTQ people face, such as higher rates of depression, smoking, HIV and experiences of violence. The Obama administration has made historic advancements for the LGBTQ community, and as we celebrate that progress, we know there is still more to do. We’ve proudly required all hospitals receiving Medicare or Medicaid funds (nearly every hospital in America) to allow visitation rights for LGBT patients, funded the first national resource center for older LGBT

Street Talk Should Donald Trump drop out of the race? "Personally, I'd like Trump off the public stage. He's an embarrassment to our political system. He's also Michael Bazis embarrassing shop owner our country Manayunk in front of the rest of the world. But for Hillary, it's a good thing that Trump is staying in the race. She'll easily defeat him."

"Yes. He advocated on behalf of sexual assault. He also advocated for the marginalization of entire Tiffany Bunch groups of actor people. Most South Philadelphia recently, he advocated for the incarceration of Hillary Clinton, which implies dictatorship. So he must go."

"Yes, he should drop out. He's a terrible person. Everything that comes out of his mouth is horrendous. I want him out of public view."

"No. He should just stay in the race and ride it out. He's going to lose. Hillary is going to win. Personally, I don't care James Robertson for either Realtor candidate Girard Estate but I can live with Hillary Clinton being president at this point."

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Continued progress on Pennsylvania’s LGBTQ health in 2017 individuals and released the nation’s first comprehensive National HIV/AIDS Strategy, among many other initiatives. But when I’m asked about the most important thing we’ve done for LGBTQ health, the answer is always the same: the Affordable Care Act. You may know some of the law’s benefits — like financial help to help eligible consumers afford health insurance, certain recommended preventive care like cancer and HIV/STI screenings without cost sharing and coverage for preexisting medical conditions. But many do not realize just how much the law offers for LGBTQ Pennsylvanians. Why? Because LGBTQ people are more likely than their straight, cisgender peers to be uninsured. In fact, because of the Affordable Care Act, the uninsured rate for low- and middle-income LGBT people dropped from 34 percent in 2013 to 26 percent in 2014. For LGB people, the uninsured rate was nearly cut in half from 2013-

15. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, more LGBTQ people have health insurance than ever before. And even more have the opportunity to get covered by visiting HealthCare. gov beginning on Nov. 1. But that’s not the only thing that the law offers for LGBTQ communities. In May, my colleagues at the HHS Office for Civil Rights spelled out significant new nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people under the Affordable Care Act. The new rules mean that all LGBTQ people — whether lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, gender-nonconforming or intersex — are protected from discrimination just for being who they are. These protections apply in every state and mean that: • Health-insurance plans sold through HealthCare.gov can no longer have categorical exclusions for services related to gender transition.

• A hospital or clinic that receives federal funds cannot turn you away because you are transgender or in a same-sex relationship. • You have the right to be placed in a hospital room or ward based on your gender identity. • You should not face harassment from a health-care provider, such as a doctor or nurse intentionally refusing to use your correct name and pronoun. This means that even more LGBTQ people have the opportunity for more meaningful health-insurance coverage starting Jan. 1. If you face this or any other type of discrimination, we urge you to file a complaint with the regional Office for Civil Rights at www.hhs.gov/ocr. We know more can be done to improve LGBTQ health and we will continue to build upon the strides we have already made together. But now we need your help to PAGE 17 make these protections

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Day in the Life of ...

PERSONALITIES PGN

an educator and entrepreneur, Lee Carson

By Paige Cooperstein paige@epgn.com Graduate students trickled into a Center City building used by Temple University on a recent Saturday morning. They plugged in their laptops and opened packages of yogurt. Lee Carson, a licensed social worker and trainer on various topics that help nonprofit organizations better serve their clients, in which he often frames his training and teaching through an intersectional framework. He stood at the front of the room, ready to talk to his class about social work-assessment questions. He said if professionals do not ask the right questions, they would likely have blind spots in their treatment plans. They could end up focusing on a client’s anger, “but really the anger comes from trauma,” Carson said, “and so without treating the trauma, it’s not going to have that much of an impact on the anger.” Carson showed portions of the VICE News series “Last Chance High,” and the students discussed Cortez Shields, who said he enjoyed fighting in school. A counselor later takes Shields to visit his father in jail. The class discussed contracting, a method social workers use to have clients help determine a plan of intervention for certain behavior. “All behavior has context,” Carson said several times during his class. He advised having short-term goals that reward clients as they progress instead of withholding positive reinforcement until the end of a planned intervention. “What I like about [teaching] is that I feel like I get to kind of mold them a little bit, you know, because they’re kind of early in the program,” Carson told PGN. “I have a very client-centered approach that I really RACISM from page 1

down, contending she has not taken enough action to address racism. “We’re clear about what our position is: for Nellie Fitzpatrick to resign,” BBWC member Shani Akilah told PGN this week. “We feel she doesn’t reflect the needs of the community, doesn’t reflect the legacy of that office.” BBWC member Abdul-Aliy Muhammad took issue with Fitzpatrick’s being involved in the meeting. “Black & Brown Workers Collective has been talking about how black and brown people are most impacted by racism and systemic oppression in the Gayborhood, so why is a white ally featured in this conversation? They moved Nellie to the end of the meeting to answer questions, and none of the questions were answered to our satisfaction.” BBWC representatives questioned Fitzpatrick on why she had not reached out to them directly in the past few months.

encourage them to think about.” His students like him in return; Carson has a “Rate My Professor” webpage full of glowing remarks like “gives good feedback,” “hilarious” and “caring.” After his Temple class, Carson rushes to the Northwest Regional Center of the Community College of Philadelphia, where he teaches an introductory-level course on helping skills. The Saturday before OutFest, he also attended the Philly Trans* March and the Indigo Ball, at which The COLOURS Organization was honored as Community Partner of the Year. During the week, Carson splits his time among serving as interim executive director of COLOURS, director of training for The Ladipo Group and attending to clients on Talkspace, an online therapy platform. “I have like five part-time jobs,” Carson joked, “and people are like, ‘Lee, how do you do all that?’” Carson came to human services thanks to a chance encounter in the 1990s with a classmate who talked about a health-science program at the State University of New York at Brockport, near where he grew up in Rochester. Carson began focusing on chemical-dependency counseling and later worked at the MOCHA Center for LGBT communities of color. He remembered feeling surprised that a small city like Rochester would have such a focused organization. After a few years, Carson wanted to branch out. He went back to school for his master’s degree in social work. He decided to move to Philadelphia after graduating in 2004. “I just wanted to be in a bigger city that would afford me more opportunity,” Carson said. “I’d been in Rochester all my life.” He landed a job as a research associate at the Philadelphia Health Management Corporation, now called the Public Health Management Corporation. Carson also took

on a role at Mazzoni Center as a fee-forservice therapist in the Open Door counseling program and saw clients in person after he became a licensed social worker in Pennsylvania in 2006. He got involved in the LGBT scene right away, leading the Black Gay Men’s Leadership Council. Because Carson has always juggled multiple tasks, he felt like a good fit to help shepherd COLOURS through its leadership transition. Former executive director Mark Wilson left the organization in the spring. Carson said he’s focused on supporting the staff and partnering with other community organizations. COLOURS is looking for a new building and also evaluating ways to find funders beyond the AIDS Activities Coordinating Office. “Quite honestly, [for] the needs of our clients, I feel like we do a disservice to some degree if we don’t have behavioral-health services in our organizations,” Carson said. “HIV is not the only thing that our clients are dealing with.” He mentioned the need for services related to housing, employment, emotional wellness and substance abuse. Carson also plans to rejuvenate The Crystal Ball, an annual fundraiser. This year it takes place 6 p.m. Nov. 26 in Dorrance Hall at The University of the Arts, Broad and Pine streets. For more information, search “The Crystal BALL 2016” on Facebook. In the rare moments when Carson’s not working, he likes to watch documentaries and spend time with his partner. He said

people know him for his chili parties and dips. When he travels, he likes to go on tropical vacations in the winter with his partner and went to Europe for the first time this past summer (Greece and Ukraine). He also likes to take the occasional trip to Delaware for some tax-free shopping or to Rochester to visit his family. At 43, he is the oldest of four siblings. He likes to spend time with his six nieces and nephews. “I really enjoy being an uncle,” Carson

“I apologized I did not reach out to Shani in the last few months. I have been in contact with other community members as well as other folks who were involved with BBWC at its beginning point in February,” Fitzpatrick said. “I have been working on the other side in government to link folks who have had those experiences [of discrimination] with the Philadelphia Human Relations Commission, which handles those complaints. But I made sure Shani has my personal cell phone number and we shook hands. I truly hope she will be willing to talk to me, as well as everyone in BBWC. I am here and always willing to sit down and talk, at any time, to anyone.” Muhammad said the organization is standing by its calls for Fitzpatrick to step down. “We’re still calling for Nellie’s resignation and we still have not gotten a response from the city government on the list of demands we served to Nellie and the mayor at the flag-raising ceremony,” Muhammad

said, referencing a protest the organization and others led during the Oct. 9 LGBT History Month event. “We will continue to demand Nellie resign and organize around that until that happens.” A representative from the Mayor’s Office did not respond to a request for comment about Mayor Jim Kenney’s response to the demand list by presstime. Talley said she was concerned that the calls for Fitzpatrick’s resignation are distracting from her work on behalf of trans women of color. “We should be looking at the issues of trans women of color being killed, things like the unsolved murder of Stacey Blahnik that is now a cold case,” she said. “Nellie is trying to help us with these things. She has been a great, great provider for [LGBT shelter] Home for Hope. Every time we finally have somebody who’s willing to stand up for the trans community, is someone going to come around and try to knock that down? That’s the biggest thing I’m

worried about.” One of the BBWC’s other concerns was whether black and brown therapists will be available for free to community members who testify to their experiences of racism during the Oct. 25 Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations hearing on the issue. “Racism is known as an acknowledged form of trauma for people and people on the receiving end at the city need to move accordingly,” Akilah said. Landau confirmed to PGN Wednesday that black and brown therapists will be accessible for no cost at the hearing. The hearing starts at 6 p.m. Oct. 25 at Liberty Resources, 112 N. Eighth St., Suite 600. To keep the hearing within the two-hour limit PCHR uses for its public hearings, people will be given up to three minutes to speak. Interested community members can notify PCHR ahead of time of their intent to speak by emailing PAGE 17

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Johns Committee: A 1950s ‘witch hunt’ for LGBTs By Christiana Lilly South Florida Gay News For many people, their memories of their college years are filled with football games, parties and cramming for exams. For others, it’s horrific flashbacks of being stalked on campus, hours of interrogation and questioning, if everyone they interacted with was an investigator. For students and teachers at some of the top universities in the state, this is a part of their history, the harassment of the Johns Committee. “The Johns Committee left us a legacy of intolerance,” said Jim Schnur, the special collections librarian at University of South Florida-St. Petersburg. “It was just how abhorrent they were, how many lives they attempted to destroy.” It was 1956 when the state formed the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, or better known as the Johns Committee, as it was headed by Sen. Charley Johns, a Democrat from Starke, Fla., who had also served as governor for a year-and-a-half. The country was in the midst of the Red Scare, and the committee was out to find civil-rights activists and integrationists, namely settings its sights on the NAACP. Soon, however, the committee decided to go after a target that wasn’t so strongly represented: LGBT people. Art Copleston was one of them. Growing up moving from city to city in Florida, he graduated high school in 1950 and joined the Air Force. After serving nearly four years, he used the G.I. Bill to attend the University of Florida; his first day of school was on his 25th birthday in 1957. He had plans to study industrial management and move ahead in life. However, the Johns Committee tried its best to knock him down. Copleston was “a disastrous closet case” and only told a select few friends at his school that he was gay, knowing they were too. “I had no money and the family had no money and I had to get a source of income and I knew I was gay. I had to hide it because, at the time, you didn’t dare mention that to anyone,” he said. During a summer semester, he was hanging out with some gay friends at a bar across the street, The Burger House, when a friend leaned in to whisper in his ear. “One of the gay guys whispered to me that there was a guy

sitting at the bar watching me,” he recalled. “My tipster said, ‘I hear that there is some sort of a gay investigation going on by possibly the state officials and maybe this guy is from that group.’” Copleston said the man was John Tileston, a police officer with the university. The very next day, the same friend told him he had been pulled from class and interrogated. Being proudly out, he said he was excited to stand up to investigators. A few weeks later, it was Copleston’s turn. He was pulled out of class and met by officers in standard Johns Committee uniforms: light blue with a match-

helped him with college tuition, Copleston said. “I never knew where one of the investigators was going to suddenly appear in my daily life. It could be walking down a sidewalk, in a classroom, outside my dorm door, at any time in the day or night. I never knew when they were going to be there watching me,” he said. “That was one of the most debilitating things that came out of this for me. It was exhausting as well as terrifying.” Copleston said his friends didn’t socialize on campus, out of fear of being seen together. To keep any semblance of a social life, they would escape to Daytona Beach

ART COPLESTON IN 1957 AND 2014 ing hat, a holster with a pistol and knee-high, shiny black boots. Copleston was thrown in a squad car and taken to an interrogation room in the administration building with covered windows, a table with three wooden chairs, a light bulb dangling from the ceiling and a tape recorder. This was years before Miranda Rights, and he had no legal representation. For hours, Tileston questioned Copleston about his homosexuality and whom he knew to be gay. He said he refused to give them the answers they wanted. After the interrogation, Copleston noticed that his mail was taking longer to get to him and discovered it was being intercepted by the committee. Later, he learned his roommate was actually an informant planted by the Johns Committee; one night after a party, the roommate undressed in their dorm and touched himself, coming onto Copleston and asking if he had ever been with a man before. When asked about it later, he proudly admitted he was getting paid by the committee, which

or Jacksonville for the weekend. Even so, he was interrogated two or three more times, he said, including being pulled out of class while he was taking his accounting final exam. “It was the same crap every time,” he said. “I want people to know what happened.” Despite the fear and stress, Copleston graduated from the University of Florida with honors and a 3.8 GPA. He immediately left the state. It wasn’t just students who were targeted; it’s believed 15 professors at the university were also targeted, including Professor Sigismond Diettrich, who served as the esteemed chairman of the geography department. He was called to a hotel in Gainesville for an interrogation, where he discovered a colleague told the committee that Diettrich tapped his foot in the bathroom sometimes, and he believed it was to encourage sexual advances from men. After the interrogation, Diettrich was so embarrassed and ashamed that he took 85 aspirin pills and attempted to jump out

the window of his office building. He didn’t go through with the suicide attempt, but resigned from the university. “I have lost all I had, all I lived for in my proud vanity,” he said, according to Schnur’s thesis. “If I’ll have to leave my beloved Florida … I shall go forth in humility.” The committee also set its sights beyond Gainesville, interrogating students and professors at Florida State University and University of South Florida. Oddly enough, it was the committee itself that would be its own downfall. In 1964, the committee published “Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida,” nicknamed “the purple pamphlet” for its coloring, with the intention of warning the public about the dangers of gays. Instead, people were outraged with the content and photos of the pamphlet (http://www. miaminewtimes.com/news/florida-legislature-once-published-anti-gay-pamphlet-full-of-softcoreporn-7707547) — photos of a man receiving fellatio in a bathroom stall, a man tied up with rope while wearing a G-string and a glossary of “homosexual terms and deviate acts” such as “fairy,” “butch,” “69,” “71” and more. In the pamphlet, the committee claimed that 60,000 Floridians were “active homosexuals” with “an insatiable appetite for sexual activities and find special gratification in the recruitment to their ranks of youth.” Finally, the goal was to “keep their hands off our children.” Reacting to the public outcry that taxpayer money was used to create “state-sponsored pornography,” the committee was not given funding to continue its witch hunt. “[Johns] asked fellow lawmakers to ‘close the office, lock up the records and save the taxpayers of Florida the remainder of the $155,000 appropriation,’” according to John Howard, author of “Carryin’ on in the Lesbian and Gay South.” “Claiming that the FLIC operated exclusively under the ‘executive session’ provision of the 1885 constitution, the legislature sealed all public records of this agency from inspection until Dec. 31, 2028.” For nearly three decades, the Johns Committee was buried in history, committee members’ names still remaining on some school buildings to this day. But in 1991, Schnur, the special-collections librarian, would be instru-

mental in unearthing the truth. A graduate student at the time, he was working on a thesis on Florida history when he came across the Johns Committee. He requested records on the committee, but discovered 30,000 pages of them were sealed for decades due to an archaic amendment in Florida’s 1885 constitution. “Long story short, after some battles that took place where a lot of us were very involved, the records were finally opened in July 1993,” Schnur said. “They were heavily redacted, and they damaged the original documents, they mutilated the original documents. My thesis came out in 1995 and I wrote basically the first institutional history of the Johns Committee.” Poring over the documents, Schnur read transcripts of interviews, with investigators asking students and teachers “intimate, humiliating questions.” He said the investigators were especially interested when they were interrogating someone about lesbian relationships. However, they didn’t seem concerned when straight men admitting to having thoughts of pedophilia or had touched young children. “Instead of making a copy and making up the copy but preserving the originals, they destroyed [records],” Schnur said. “The state of Florida was put into a tough predicament because the state had destroyed people’s lives. There were lots of lists of names.” Four years after Schnur completed his thesis, Allyson Beutke DeVito was a student at the University of Florida and was assigned a documentary project. Her professor encouraged her to research Virgil Hawkins, the first African-American to be admitted to the university’s law school after a Supreme Court battle; he withdrew his application in exchange for a court order to desegregate the university’s colleges. As Beutke DeVito looked into Hawkins’ history, she discovered he was forced to travel to Miami and wait for hours in a hot, humid basement to be questioned by the Johns Committee. While compiling data, she came across Schnur’s master’s thesis and produced “Behind Closed Doors” over the next year. In her documentary, Beutke DeVito interviews those terrorized by the committee, and attempted to reach out to those on the committee PAGE 17

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‘The Wizard of Oz’ in the LGBT community By Ryan Bunch PGN Contributor Nobody seems to know quite how or why “The Wizard of Oz” became such an enduring part of LGBT community and culture. It is, of course, common knowledge that Judy Garland is a gay icon — beloved and worshiped by gay men of a certain age and class — but what else explains the ubiquitous references to “Oz” in drag performances and in the names of bars and businesses catering to the community? Movie quotes appear on an array of LGBT-themed merchandise, from postcards of Dorothy enticing us to visit San Francisco to Glinda T-shirts impelling us to “Come out, come out, wherever you are.” It would be a mistake to confine a discussion of “The Wizard of Oz” to a certain class of gay men, but in seeking a point of origin, there is a dominant narrative of queer history in which “Oz” and Garland were important parts of a mostly white, middle-class, urban gay male subculture by the 1950s. Garland spent much of the decade on popular concert tours, and it was also during this time that “The Wizard of Oz” began to be shown on television on an annual basis. The origin of the expression “Friend of Dorothy,” which became a code phrase used by gay men to identify themselves to each other, is lost to history — it may have predated this era, and may not even refer to Garland’s role in the movie, but the belief that it does is widespread (another possibility is it refers to Dorothy Parker, who was also a friend to gays). According to “Oz” scholar Dee Michel, who is writing a book on “Oz” and gay men, there are certain beliefs about the film and the LGBT community that persist in spite of a lack of clear historical evidence. “These beliefs,” he said, “overlap and

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reinforce each other and have become part of gay folklore, increasing our sense of history and reinforcing gay identity.” Much of what we do know about “Oz” and its significance in LGBT culture in the 1950s and ’60s is from later accounts. Some disparaging remarks about gay men attending Garland concerts were printed in reviews in the late 1960s. Other print references to “Oz” as an underground culture shared by gay men seem to show up in the 1970s and ’80s, looking back and attempting to explain the appeal of the film. These explanations often identify gay men and others with a girl from a small community who is misunderstood by her family, who is whisked away to a place where she becomes friends with characters who seem like they could be gay men (especially the Cowardly Lion, who refers to himself as a “sissy” and “dandy lion”). The story became a metaphor for the real-life dreams and experiences of gay men who left middle America for the gay communities of New York City and San Francisco, analogized to Oz or the Emerald City. There is also the unique place occupied by Garland among gay icons. While many divas are admired for their strength, with Garland this strength is mixed with her obvious vulnerability. Garland’s struggles seemed to mirror those of gay men at the time, and she was admired for rising above her problems in performance, although as she noted herself, she was never able to get over the rainbow in her life off the stage or screen. Both Garland’s image as a diva and the movie’s camp style, which provided an ironic way of looking at the dominant culture, are thought to contribute to the queer appeal of “Oz.” Whatever its origins, as the late 1960s ushered in the era of LGBT liberation, this mythology came out of the shadows and

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became a contested part of the narrative of queer history. For some, it has never been a coincidence that the Stonewall Riots erupted the night after Garland’s funeral on June 27, 1969. The suggestion that her death contributed to the tension that led to the rebellion has spread widely but also been much called into question. There is some doubt as to whether the participants in the riots — drag queens, hustlers and underage patrons among those who frequented the bar — would have been

Garland fans at all. Nevertheless, gay folklore and films continue to tell the story, quite possibly imposing the perspective of white, cisgender gay male historians on an event that was largely the work of queer and trans people of color. At the same time, the symbolism of Garland’s death at the beginning of the modern LGBT-rights movement does have some potency. Her passing represented the passing also of the era of secrecy and assimilation to the beginning of liberation. Camp and diva worship, which had been secret codes of the closet, became public symbols of pride and identity. Ten years later, at the 1979 March on Washington, according to Michael Bronski, lesbian singer Holly Near ended her set with “Over the Rainbow,” calling it the gay national anthem. Today there is a lingering sense that FLORIDA from page 15

itself. She made contact with Johns’ son, who postponed the interview until finally canceling. She also discovered communication between the university’s president during the witch hunt, J. Wayne Reitz, and Johns; he happily allowed him on campus. Today, the student union is named after Reitz. “We would eat lunch at the Reitz Union,” she said of her days as a student. “You realize all the things that kind of happened during that time period. It was definitely not something that I had expected to find when I first read about Virgil Hawkins.” In 2011, another documentary was made on the Johns Committee, this time at the University of Central Florida. After this past summer’s attack at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, which killed 49 people, the film was revived and broadcast on more than 100 PBS stations across the country (http:// today.ucf.edu/undefined-55/). Today, Copleston lives in Palm Springs, Calif., and volunteers for the Democratic Party. He has done a few speaking engage-

the Garland/“Oz” obsession is a generational one, even an embarrassing stereotype. Contemporary examples, however, suggest that “Oz” continues to be embraced by wide constituencies in the community. Rufus Wainwright has spent much of the last several years recreating Garland’s legendary Carnegie Hall performance, Patti LaBelle continues to sing her own empowering version of “Over the Rainbow” at LGBT events and Toddrick Hall’s “Straight Outta Oz” explores his experiences as a young, queer man of color through identification with various situations from the story. “The Wiz,” a Broadway musical produced by a black gay man and adapted as a film starring Diana Ross, occupies an important place in both black and gay culture. Artist-activist Gilbert Baker, a native of Kansas who made his own way to San Francisco, has denied having “Over the Rainbow” in mind when he designed the rainbow flag in 1978, but the association sticks for many people. LGBT choruses sing “Over the Rainbow” at community and political events where rainbow flags are flying. After the suicide deaths of several young people in the fall of 2010, including Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi, crowds gathered for a vigil in New York’s Washington Square Park, waving rainbow-colored glow sticks while openly gay Broadway star Cheyenne Jackson led them in singing “Over the Rainbow.” In moments such as this, a song and symbol that arose as the coded dreams of a marginalized group half a century ago have become symbols of visibility and community, tracking the emergence of LGBT people from the shadows to the public square in an ongoing and widening appeal for acceptance and compassion. n Ryan Bunch is a musical-theater scholar and “Oz” enthusiast. He recently co-chaired the 2016 National Convention of the International Wizard of Oz Club in Philadelphia.

ments about the Johns Committee, and most of his audiences are surprised to learn about its activities. “This was allowed to happen. This was a clear representation of mass thinking throughout this society during the ’50s. Homosexuality in the ’50s was really an aberration,” Copleston said. “We were considered really different and really sick, sick people. People need to know that this went on, that this happened.” It’s been so buried, in fact, that the University of Florida’s alumni magazine named Johns to its list of distinguished alumni in 2005 (he was quickly removed when the Alumni Association was told of his legacy). “It definitely has taught me to know your history, to question the past, to look at things with a critical eye,” said Beutke DeVito, who is now a faculty lecturer at the University of Kentucky. n Christiana Lilly is a freelance journalist who contributes regularly to South Florida Gay News. She has won multiple awards for her coverage, including stories on conversion therapy and youth homelessness.

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Philly Free Streets Day A look back and plan for moving forward By Dave Kyu This article first appeared in the Philadelphia Citizen. It has been edited for size.

he day was beautiful, the crowds joyous, and the air infinitely more breathable in Philadelphia — at least on South Street, on September 24th, during the city’s first-ever (not counting the Pope) Philly Free Streets Day. Open Streets PHL, an advocacy group

created on the good vibes of the Pope visit, immediately declared the car-free event a success. The Mayor’s Office of Transit & Infrastructure Systems, the city office that coordinated the barricades and trash bins, is waiting to complete its evaluation before comment. “Event setup began around 3 a.m., and a lot of cars were towed,” said Kise, owner of South Street’s Neighborhood Books. “I’m

There was room for improvement, but of plenty of good fun at the first Philly Free Streets Day. Photo courtesy of @OpenStreetsPHL.

sure residents weren’t happy.” Indeed, the city apologized for a handful of mistaken tows, assuring refunds. A resident, picking up her towed vehicle, noted, “I am disappointed that such a lovely event is now tarnished to the residents that live here.” Closing a street in such a dense urban neighborhood is a nuisance to the locals, and closing more streets is even more disruptive to neighbors…Although it was just one street, there was a palpable energy of happiness and excitement. “It’s really not the number of streets,” says attendee Lisa Drago. “It’s the energy and community, and it was so beautiful.” FOR NEXT TIME: The city says it started posting No Parking flyers on Thursday and was finished by 8 p.m. Friday. Towing began 3 a.m. Saturday. It’s not like Free Streets Day snuck up on them. Next time, let’s give residents more notice. FLOW OF (NON-AUTO) TRAFFIC Big crowds certainly poured out for Free Streets, creating a convivial and energetic atmosphere. But there was a drawback: On the east end of South Street, bikers were visibly frustrated as they tried to navigate the crowd. Although activities were wisely located on side streets, to leave South Street open as a thoroughfare, there still wasn’t enough space to handle the crowds. South Street is not a particularly wide street—imagine the difference if

the event was on Columbus Boulevard. But also, Philadelphia Free Streets, for better or worse, wasn’t geared toward any single audience the way the Ciclovia in Bogota, Colombia, or the CicLAvia in Los Angeles, are aimed at cyclists. Somehow, runners got the message, though: Groups like the Philly Distance Runners organized runs at 8 a.m., taking advantage of cleared roads, before the crowds came to clog up the event.

“It’s really not the number of streets. It’s the energy and community, and it was so beautiful.” FOR NEXT TIME: There are a few ways to handle different types of traffic. One is to separate them entirely—give bicyclists and runners their own ‘adult swim’ time, earlier in the day. In addition to offering these go-getters the experience they want, it also sets the expectation that accelerated transport will not be available all day. Or manufacture more space for the event, either by targeting our larger streets (Columbus, Broad Street, or American Street come to mind), or by closing two streets, one for east traffic and one for west. Continued on page 2 O C T. 1 6 - 2 3 , 2 0 1 6

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Philly Free Streets Day Continued from page 1 BIG BUSINESS One of the city’s stated goals for Philly Free Streets was to help residents “explore the communities and businesses along the route.”…So how did businesses fare at Philly Free Streets? The results are mixed. Food and drink venues like Ants Pants Cafe, and Little Spoon, reported lots of new faces. Neighborhood Books took advantage of the event by hosting a sidewalk sale. Stores like Repo Records and Image on South reported no change in business, or even a drop in sales. Even worse, at least two businesses I spoke to were caught off guard by the event. Most promising were the businesses that saw no benefit, but still support more Free Streets. Although Philadelphia’s Magic

Gardens cited lower attendance during the event, you couldn’t tell from their enthusiasm. “It felt so positive and was such a happy celebration,” said Emily Smith, executive director of Magic Gardens. “Honestly, I was sad I didn’t get a chance to rent an Indego and participate—it was really inspiring!” FOR NEXT TIME: Frankly, the “boon for business” pitching of a civic-minded event like Free Streets feels wrong, and places undue pressure on the event. This pitch needs to shift from guaranteed dollars to guaranteed exposure, with an emphasis on building community. For Free Streets to occur two to three times a year, we need businesses to be on board.

Del-Val Charter Football Looking Good Continued from page 12 The Frankford game was played at the Germantown Supersite. “The biggest thing I’m proud of, is that our kids have to overcome a lot of adversity,” he said. “They don’t care if they have to get on a bus and go to a practice field, or if that field isn’t available to go somewhere else. We don’t have a field. We don’t have a locker room. We change into our uniforms wherever we can. We were very grateful for the chance to play on [The Comcast Network] but generally kids in the Public Leagues and Charter schools don’t get recognized much, and it bothers me and it bothers our kids. They would like to get recognition for their hard

work. These kids never act like anything is bothering them … they just work hard in the classroom and on the field. They don’t lose their drive or fun to play football.” Gore loves the fact that he can coach at Imhotep and Del-Val in the first place. Under the rules laid out by the School District of Philadelphia he is not eligible to coach. “You have to be a member of the teacher’s union to coach in Philadelphia,” he said. “I think the charter schools get an advantage [in] that someone from the outside can be brought in to touch a kid’s life as a coach. Not just me, but there’s lots of new people that can be part of the coaching pool.”

Beyond the Music Exhibit examines full life of Teddy Pendergrass by Sheila Simmons

also hopes they recognize the fullness of his life after he Teddy Pendergrass that she knew the injury, and that it serve as an inspiration to others. was not the sultry soul music star of “People … think after this type of injury, there’s Philadelphia International Records or no love,” she said. “What I wanted to do is encourage passionate lead for Harold Melvin & the people. If you see someone in a wheelchair, you can Blue Notes. He was a humble man who recaptured approach them. Their mind is not paralyzed. Respect his life from tragedy and died wanting to help oththem and treat them like human beings.” ers who also suffered spinal cord injuries. The two were married, Joan says, after two “I had the best four years of Teddy’s life,” says years of dating that involved long commutes from Joan Pendergrass, his widow, in a Sunday mornher home in Boston ing phone interview where she worked from Boston, where for New Balance she now lives. athletic shoes. At “He was kind,” home in Montgomshe says. “We were ery County, her able to be a package, husband worked to be soul mates who on plans for the respect each other, “Teddy Pendergrass and I stayed with Academy,” which him to the end.” he envisioned as Now through a partnership with Oct. 29, a travelTemple University ing exhibit at the to “educate people African American with spinal cord inMuseum in Philajury, to give them delphia illustrates the opportunity to the various phases be productive memof Pendergrass’s life bers of society.” and career, titled “I After her husAm Who I Am.” An band’s death, Joan opening reception says, “I was so takes place Friday, Joan Pendergrass pictured with her husband Teddy Pendergrass. Photo courtesy of Joan Pendergrass. very angry for a Oct. 28, with a spelong time, to where I wasn’t taking care of myself. I cial screening of “Close the Door” Sat., Oct. 29, folgained weight,” reaching 240 pounds. lowed by a discussion. Now at 140 pounds, she says, “I’m in a good The exhibit will include artwork, photographs, place.” Working on her husband’s legacy helps guide memorabilia, interviews, concert excerpts, and items her. “It is important to dig deep inside of you,” she Teddy used to exercise and maneuver about after his says, “tie up your strings and keep going.” injury. His music career was halted for a while when Tickets for the Oct. 28 reception, 7 p.m. - 10 a car accident left him paralyzed below the chest. p.m. are $100. Tickets for the Oct. 29 screening He later suffered a bout of colon cancer and died in are $10. Proceeds will benefit the Teddy & Joan 2010, at the age of 59, of respiratory failure. Pendergrass Foundation and Magee Rehabilitation While Joan Pendergrass hopes fans appreciate Hospital. memories of her husband’s music and career, she

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JEWELL WILLIAMS Sheriff on Tuesday, November 1, 2016 at

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

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

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

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1611-332 2920 N 24th St 19132 38th wd. 1140 Sq Ft OPA#381003700 Residential Property Shemika S. Roberts C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 03568 $39,409.51 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-333 5609 N 4th St 19120 61st wd. 938 Sq Ft OPA#612369700 Subject to Mortgage Residential Property Jeffrey B. Williams C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 00009 $34,258.09 Brett A. Solomon, Michael C. Mazack 1611-334 743 S 52nd St 19143 51st wd. 960 Sq Ft OPA#511032300 Residential Property Blanche E. Young C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02093 $75,638.74 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-335 311 N 61st St a/k/a 311-13 N 61st St 19139 34th wd. 3190 Sq Ft OPA#341132800 Residential Property Barbara Keel C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 01036 $38,421.25 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-336 4670 Mulberry St 19124 23rd wd. 2042 Sq Ft OPA#232309800 Residential Property Robert Williams C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02397 $77,860.85 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-338 2011 Carpenter St 19146 30th wd. 1120 Sq Ft OPA#301235300 Residential Property Angela M. Baylock C.P. July Term, 2009 No. 00918 $333,753.28 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-339 1229 Parrish St 191231814 14th wd. 1263 Sq Ft OPA#141383110 Residential Property Claybourne Watkins, in His Capacity as Heir of Jocelyn Click, Deceased; Tashanda Watkins, in Her Capacity as Heir of Jocelyn Click, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Jocelyn Click, Deceased C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 00931 $205,163.09 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-340 1350 Brill St 19124 62nd wd. 1774 Sq Ft OPA#621036900 Residential Property Christopher O. Denis C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 02337 $74,244.45 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-341 4134 Whiting Rd 191542807 66th wd. 1296 Sq Ft OPA#662589900 Residential Property Mary Hamilton C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 00198 $115,541.42 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-342 1165 Atwood Rd 19151 34th wd. 1240 Sq Ft OPA#344328400 Residential Property Nakia M. Feribee C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 03464 $75,363.68 KML Law Group, P.C.

1611-343 5931 N 10th St 191413711 49th wd. 2538 Sq Ft OPA#492173600 Residential Property Alan T. Hampton a/k/a Alan Hampton; Francine M. Hampton a/k/a Francine Hampton C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 01163 $84,795.89 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-344 6845 Germantown Ave 191192113 22nd wd. 3495 Sq Ft OPA#222186910 Residential Property H. Gregory Moore a/k/a Gregory H. Moore; Margaret Ann Funderburg C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 01688 $363,910.16 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-345 1123 S 26th St 191463934 36th wd. 1068 Sq Ft OPA#361392400 Residential Property Gary Lee; Angela Myers C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 01550 $63,084.06 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-346 2106 Eastburn Ave 191382612 10th wd. 1280 Sq Ft OPA #102113400 Residential Property Renee Bailey, in Her Capacity as Administratrix of the Estate of Gwendolyn D. Curry; William Curry, in His Capacity as Heir of the Estate of Gwendolyn Curry; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Gwendolyn D. Curry Estate, Deceased C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 04224 $71,127.79 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-347 227 Benner St 19111-5901 35th wd. 1120 Sq Ft OPA#352163100 Residential Property Bulent Sarikaya; Marjorie Sarikaya C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 00671 $113,242.18 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-348 5847 Penn St a/k/a 5847 N Penn St 19149-3417 62nd wd. 1340 Sq Ft OPA#621493300 Residential Property John G. Kinkaid C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 04170 $115,272.82 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-349 666 Hendrix St 19116 35th wd. 1105 Sq Ft OPA#582329300 Subject to Mortgage Residential Property Vadim Petlakh C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 00942 $195,744.67 Brett A. Solomon, Michael C. Mazack 1611-350 1549 66th Ave 191262766 10th wd. 1584 Sq Ft OPA#101220800 Residential Property Gwendolyn Merriweather C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02405 $145,868.40 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-351 2436 S 4th St a/k/a 2436 S 4th St 19148-3905 39th wd. 1314 Sq Ft OPA#392261900

Residential Property Thomas E. Vargas a/k/a Thomas Vargas C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 01579 $79,618.85 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-352 1512 E Duval St 19138 10th wd. 2250 Sq Ft OPA#102286000 Residential Property The Unknown Heirs of Sterly Singleton, Deceased; Marcine Mclemore a/k/a Marcine Singleton, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Sterly Singleton, Deceased C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 03219 $196,994.72 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-353 614 Strahle St Premises A 19111 63rd wd. 3488 Sq Ft OPA#631406205 Residential Property Andrea Daly and Stephen R. Daly C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 03940 $210,742.77 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-354 1736 W Juniata St 19140 13th wd. 1324 Sq Ft BRT#131316600 Residential Real Estate Christopher R. Nichols C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 02149 $86,278.48 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1611-355 4512 Locust St 19139 46th wd. 1488 Sq Ft BRT#461008500 Residential Real Estate Tamika Ingleton C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 02604 $323,982.47 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1611-356 1859 N 52nd St 191313310 52nd wd. 1548 Sq Ft OPA#521291800 Residential Property Kia D. Alston, in Her Capacity as Executrix and Devisee of the Estate of Charles A. Alston C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 04545 $89,989.34 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-357 5727 N Mascher St 19120 61st wd. 1530 Sq Ft BRT#612439300 Residential Dwelling Atiya Toliver C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 01386 $94,358.40 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1611-358 1920 74th Ave 10th wd. Beginning Point: Southerly side of 74th Ave N (60 ft wide) at the distance of 222 ft 4-1/4 inches measured along the Southerly side of 74th Ave Northeastwardly from the Easterly side of Andrews Ave OPA#101385700 ROW 2 STY MASONRY John Tabourn and Kenia Tabourn C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00878 $146,943.95 Richard J. Nalbandian, III 1611-359 7368 Wheeler St 191531421 40th wd. 1024 Sq Ft OPA#404214900 Residential Property Vernina Leslie Johnson C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 03413 $114,355.85 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-360 2604 S 70th St 19142 40th wd. 1157 Sq Ft OPA#406140600 Residential Property Curtis M. Brown, II as Executor of the Estate of Curtis Brown, Deceased

C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 01314 $78,157.63 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-361 1231 Stirling St 191115837 53rd wd. 1376 Sq Ft OPA#531055600 Residential Property Nichelle N. Haley a/k/a Michelle N. Haley; James K. Haley C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 02578 $130,359.72 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-362 2009 McKean St 19145 48th wd. 1376 Sq Ft OPA#481099200 Residential Property Gail Smith, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Lillian L. Herron, Deceased; the Unknown Heirs of Lillian L. Herron, Deceased C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 03696 $90,142.24 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-364 3438 Shelmire Ave a/k/a St 19136 64th wd. 1604 Sq Ft OPA#642171100 Residential Property Patrick Cunningham and Diane M. Cunningham C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 04846 $199,170.92 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-365 1914 S 13th St 191482203 39th wd. 1280 Sq Ft OPA#394432700 Residential Property Frank Passio, Jr. C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 03269 $189,953.32 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-366 614 Edgemore Rd 19151 34th wd. 1679 Sq Ft OPA#344388800 Residential Property Kathleen A. Revels C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 01844 $95,905.01 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-367 5405 Norfolk St 19143 46th wd. 1260 Sq Ft OPA#463121500 Residential Property Jawara E. Jones a/k/a Jawara Jones; Linda R. Jones C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01857 $62,021.35 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1611-368 4319 E Roosevelt Blvd 19124 23rd wd. 1768 Sq Ft OPA#23-3020000 Residential Property John Varghese a/k/a Varghese John; Julie Varghese C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 02533 $79,591.51 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1611-369 2428 Memphis St 19125 31st wd. 870 Sq Ft OPA#312007300 Residential Property Catherine DeCarles a/k/a Catherine Decarles a/k/a Catherine De Charles C.P. November Term, 2013 No. 02062 $129,772.63 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1611-370 6835 Walker St 19135 55th wd. 1808 Sq Ft OPA#552336600 Residential Property Barbara Frongello C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 03987 $117,272.25 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC

1611-371 3114 Fairfield St 19136 57th wd. 1603 Sq Ft OPA#572044800 Residential Property Linda English C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 01584 $167,676.44 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-372 428 N Redfield St 19151 4th wd. 1260 Sq Ft OPA#042255100 Residential Property Arthur Sheffield C.P. April Term, 2012 No. 02286 $46,310.12 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-373 7112 Valley Ave 19128 21st wd. 3826 Sq Ft OPA#214182900 Residential Property Joan D. Shupp C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 02539 $178,535.67 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1611-374 1860 N Taylor St 19121 32nd wd. 942 Sq Ft OPA#322169800 Residential Property Atiya J. Toliver C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02658 $41,716.30 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1611-375 1927 Poplar St, Unit B 19130 29th wd. 1314 Sq Ft OPA#888290557 Residential Property Ella Repik C.P. March Term, 2012 No. 02336 $306,657.12 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1611-377 2538 S Hicks St 191454604 26th wd. 1008 Sq Ft OPA#261202300 Residential Property Susan Cornaglia; Michael Cornaglia C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 00081 $125,974.72 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-378 2917 Tulip St 19134 25th wd. 1733 Sq Ft OPA#252354300 Residential Property Tracy Hua and Chi Hung Mu C.P. September Term, 2012 No. 00420 $77,902.37 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-379 3430 Eden St 19114 57th wd. 3380 Sq Ft OPA#572162813 Residential Property Jimmie Rice C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02097 $183,034.39 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-380 2017 N Marston St 19121 32nd wd. 725 Sq Ft OPA#323190300 Residential Property Carrie Hamilton C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 04140 $37,973.09 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-381 5330 Wakefield St 191442312 12th wd. 2555 Sq Ft OPA#122141600 Residential Property Nina S. Moore a/k/a Nina Moore C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00168 $138,670.09 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-382 5844 Lansdowne Ave 19131 4th wd. ROW CONV/APT 2 STY MASONRY; 1212 Sq Ft BRT#043184200 Residential Dwelling George Gordon C.P.

June Term, 2009 No. 02400 $107,940.41 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1611-383 6640 Lansdowne Ave 191513627 34th wd. 1248 Sq Ft OPA#344023600 Residential Property Joseph J. Welcome C.P. May Term, 2012 No. 01473 $130,150.08 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-384 5711 N 17th a/k/a 5711 N 17th St 19141-1714 17th wd. 1760 Sq Ft OPA#172187100 Residential Property Charles W. Crisden; Kenya R. Williams C.P. March Term, 2010 No. 03519 $152,080.86 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-385 7252 Mansfield Ave 10th wd. 2145.99 Sq Ft BRT#102356300; PRCL#108N21-150 Residential Dwelling Christina J. Lee C.P. May Term, 2010 No. 03339 $190,924.12 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1611-386 865 E Price St a/k/a Price St 19138 59th wd. 1641 Sq Ft OPA#591087100 Residential Property Lydia Gordy C.P. January Term, 2013 No. 03626 $58,568.50 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1611-387 9324 Jamison Ave, Apt B 19115 1718 Sq Ft OPA#888560352 Subject to Mortgage Residential Lisa James, Believed Heir and/ or Administrator of the Estate of Robert Chattin; Nicky Kruase, Believed Heir and/ or Administrator of the Estate of Robert Chattin; Robert J. Chattin, Believed Heir and/ or Administrator of the Estate of Robert Chattin; Unknown Heir(s)/Administrator(s) of the Estate of Robert Chattin C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 02344 $142,414.45 Michael J. Shavel, Esquire 1611-388 924 E Hortter St 19150 50th wd. 2318 Sq Ft (land area); 1556 Sq Ft (improvement area) BRT#502336900 Subject to Mortgage S/D W/B GAR 2 STY MASONRY Estate of Geraldine E. Howard C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 04410 $254,548.86 Keri P. Ebeck, Esquire 1611-389 3850 Woodhaven Ave, #208 19154 66th wd. RES CONDO 2 STY MAS+OTHER; 1133 Sq Ft BRT#888660270 Residential Dwelling Eric Cohen C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 01676 $112,347.62 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1611-390 161 Carson St 19127 21st wd. ROW 2.5 STY STONE; 1807 Sq Ft BRT#211158900 Residential Dwelling Valerie Coyle C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 01304 $233,215.34 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1611-391 6302 Trotter St 19111 53rd wd. 1460 Sq Ft OPA#531231300 Residential Property Michael S. Stephens, Jr., Administra-

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tor of the Estate of Lisa D. Stevens a/k/a Lisa Stevens a/k/a Lisa D. Bey, Deceased C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 002363 $54,938.59 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1611-392 8025 Moro St 64th wd. 2112 Sq Ft BRT#642055324 APT 2-4 UNITS 2 STORY MASON Frank Pingitore, Jr. C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 00716 $122,335.58 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1611-393 3131 N 28th St 19132 38th wd. 726 Sq Ft OPA#381258500 Residential Property Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Robert T. Ensley, Deceased C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 000510 $37,159.78 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1611-394 3111 Tasker St 19145 36th wd. 990 Sq Ft OPA#364251200 Residential Property John F. Williams, III and Janiel M. Ruffin C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 02278 $84,138.11 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1611-395 722 E Clearfield St 19134 33rd wd. 965 Sq Ft BRT#331004200 Residential Dwelling Kevin F. Smith C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 01152 $28,604.35 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1611-396 5801 Anderson St 19138 59th wd. 1825 Sq Ft OPA#591215500 Residential Property Juanita Ward C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 002461 $52,949.83 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1611-397 4610 Richmond St 19137 45th wd. 3924 Sq Ft OPA#453309400 Residential Property Damien Wilson C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 03515 $137,356.90 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1611-398 1749-1751 Bigler St 19145 26th wd. 1280 Sq Ft OPA#262314100 Residential Property Louis Pavoni C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 002829 $361,898.76 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1611-399 4554 Shelmire Ave BRT#412226300 Residential Dwelling Patrick Breslin and Christina Miletto a/k/a Christina Breslin C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 00246 $98,877.91 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1611-400 580 Martin St 19128 21st wd. 1590 Sq Ft BRT#213174700 Residential Dwelling Thomas E. Van Fossen, Jr. and Ashley L. Narewski C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 00560 $208,649.97

Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1611-401 3870 Fairdale Rd 191543436 66th wd. 800 Sq Ft OPA#662564900 Residential Property Sherry L. Carruth a/k/a Sherry Carruth; Kenneth A. Carruth a/k/a Kenneth Carruth C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 03390 $169,524.72 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-402 1955 Medary Ave 191411435 17th wd. 1302 Sq Ft OPA#171319100 Residential Property Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Steven A. Ray a/k/a Steven Ray, Deceased C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 03087 $88,250.48 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-403 2217 Sears St 19146-4226 36th wd. 784 Sq Ft OPA#361308500 Residential Property Dowell Smallwood, Jr. C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 02207 $46,414.61 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-404 3946 Dungan St 19124 33rd wd. 1230 Sq Ft OPA#332409100 Residential Property Jason Robinson C.P. February Term, 2011 No. 02742 $139,498.67 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1611-405 4340 M St 19124 33rd wd. 1440 Sq Ft BRT#332466100 Residential Real Estate Lissette E. Claudio a/k/a Lissette Claudio and Luis E. Cruz C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 03095 $92,470.24 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1611-406 5908 Master St 191514425 34th wd. 1913 Sq Ft BRT#342020400 Residential Real Estate Elizabeth Cunningham C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 02764 $59,199.20 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1611-407 700 W Champlost Ave 19120 61st wd. 1491 Sq Ft OPA#612148800 Residential Property Roxanne Morre, CoAdministrator of the Estate of Theodore V. Haines; Theodore V. Haines (deceased); Sylvia Bryant-Outtara, Co-Administrator of the Estate of Theodore Haines C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 00813 $89,437.85 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1611-408 7516 Rugby St 19150 10th wd. 1425 Sq Ft OPA#102460600 Residential Property Stephanie J. Burgess C.P. March Term, 2012 No. 02577 $95,275.38 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1611-409 5366 Charles St 19124 62nd wd. 1200 Sq Ft OPA#622280400 Residential Property Rickey Evans C.P. November Term, 2015

No. 03656 $86,212.04 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1611-410 1428 S 28th St 19146-3703 36th wd. 800 Sq Ft BRT#364344200 Residential Real Estate Karen Cole a/k/a Karen S. Cole C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 02122 $56,529.37 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1611-411 5618 Baltimore Ave 19143 51st wd. 1600 Sq Ft OPA#513056700 Residential Property Danatta Streeter C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 02405 $119,909.96 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-412 2540 W Cheltenham Ave 19150 46th wd. 3584 Sq Ft BRT#882970545 Residential Real Estate Brenton Walker and Marjorie Y. Walker C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 02995 $123,294.45 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1611-413 6305 Trotter St 19111 53rd wd. 2088 Sq Ft OPA#531236200 Residential Property Andrenor Richard f/k/a Andrenor Mondelus; Brunette Richard f/k/a Brunette Mondelus C.P. April Term, 2012 No. 01580 $56,918.02 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1611-414 2510 S 63rd St 19142 40th wd. 756 Sq Ft OPA#402127700 Residential Property Dante Bundick C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02186 $45,219.62 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-415 1738 Georges Ln 19131 52nd wd. (formerly part of the 35th wd.) 2250 Sq Ft BRT#521353300 Residential Real Estate Phillip Louis Tramel, Jr. a/k/a Phillip L. Tramel, Jr. C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 04455 $20,615.20 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1611-416 3924 Wallace St 191041814 24th wd. 734 Sq Ft OPA#242216500 Residential Property William A. Brownlee a/k/a William Brownlee, Sr.; Leante Brownlee C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 03203 $83,089.03 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-418 1731 S Dover St 19145 36th wd. 1120 Sq Ft OPA#364385200 Residential Property Chrisden Norman C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 01689 $154,657.02 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1611-419 4215 Roosevelt Blvd a/k/a 4215 E Roosevelt Blvd 19124 23rd wd. 1728 Sq Ft OPA#233018800 Residential Property Julie Varghese; John Varghese C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 02373 $71,332.68 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1611-420 3670 Academy Rd 19154 66th wd. 1800 Sq Ft OPA#663354600 Residential Property Julia B. Sleweon C.P. February Term,

2016 No. 00155 $218,601.20 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1611-421 5910 Turner St 19151 34th wd. 1070 Sq Ft OPA#34-2-101800 Residential Property Teeosha Vann, Administrator of the Estate of Karen R. Vann, Deceased C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 0666 $107,725.26 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1611-422 4533 Ditman St 19124 23rd wd. 1489 Sq Ft BRT#232362500 Residential Real Estate Rachel Corrinne Tucker, Administratrix of the Estate of Geraldine Tucker C.P. May Term, 2015 No. 01673 $29,810.65 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1611-423 4927 N 5th St 19120 42nd wd. 2095 Sq Ft BRT#422502400 Residential Real Estate Angelica Rivera, Solely as Administratrix of the Estate of Lourdes G. Rey a/k/a Lourdes Rey a/k/a L.G. Rey C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 01423 $59,557.11 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1611-424 2570 E Elkhart St 25th wd. 583 Sq Ft BRT#25-1-1023-00 Residential Dwelling Heirs and Devisees of George Rutley a/k/a George J. Rutley, Deceased C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 03805 $63,328.54 Pressman & Doyle, LLC 1611-425 1318 Glenview St 19111 53rd wd. 2859 Sq Ft OPA#532151510 Residential Property Matt Williams C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02044 $222,517.57 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1611-426 3342 Hope St 19133 7th wd. 918 Sq Ft OPA#072024800 Residential Property Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Manual Mancha a/k/a Manuel M. Mancha a/k/a Manuel M. Caraballo, deceased; Nancy Velez, Administratrix of the Estate of Rosa M. Mancha a/k/a Rosita Mancha, deceased C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 02825 $19,444.98 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1611-427 5031 Duffield St 19124 62nd wd. 1889 Sq Ft OPA#622245500 Residential Property The Unknown Heirs of John E. Gregorich, Deceased; Melissa Gregorich, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of John E. Gregorich, Deceased C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02616 $144,006.82 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-428 447 N Gross St 19151 34th wd. 1470 Sq Ft OPA#343058600 Residential Property Diane Miller C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 03453 $93,580.33 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-429 265 E Duval St 19144 59th wd. 1909 Sq Ft OPA#592169100 Residential Property Patina Kent C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 02083 $90,008.60 KML Law Group, P.C.

1611-430 144 E Wellens St 19120 42nd wd. 2228 Sq Ft OPA#421187800 Residential Property Juan Moses Cartagena, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Maria M. Santiago, Deceased; Marialina Cartagena, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Maria M. Santiago, Deceased C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 02164 $86,606.28 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-431 7047 Lincoln Dr 19119 22nd wd. S/D W/D GAR 2.5 STY MASON; 1803 Sq Ft BRT#223271900 Residential Dwelling Catherine I. Godboldte C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 01458 $262,100.56 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1611-432 8011 Fairview St 19136 64th wd. 2000 Sq Ft OPA#642016100 Residential Property Joseph Bittner C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 04178 $180,190.95 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-433 1304 N 53rd St 19131 44th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1745 Sq Ft BRT#442335700 Residential Dwelling Vernee M. Watson C.P. April Term, 2010 No. 03243 $92,971.45 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1611-434 225 W Zeralda St 19144 13th wd. 1152 Sq Ft OPA#133024600 Residential Property Polly Carmichael C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02191 $161,813.93 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-435 640 Shawmont Ave 19128 21st wd. DET 2 STY STONE; 1592 Sq Ft BRT#214056800 Residential Dwelling Michael Jara and Erika Wuchina C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 03859 $174,216.96 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1611-436 992 Carver St 19124 35th wd. 968 Sq Ft OPA#351246200 Residential Property Simon M. Rakhman C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02360 $44,763.19 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1611-437 4610 Sansom St 19139 60th wd. 2520 Sq Ft OPA#601032100 Residential Property Or’Telin Zahairagunn a/k/a Or’Telin Bowser C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 03688 $288,611.57 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1611-439 4611 Ditman St 19124 23rd wd. 1035 Sq Ft OPA#232365300 Residential Property Iris Molina C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 05058 $52,943.02 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-440 6225 Greene St 19144 59th wd. 2600 Sq Ft OPA#593167400 Residential Property Vera E. Brooker C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 04782 $229,914.54 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-441 9713 Berea St 191141723 66th wd. 2600 Sq Ft OPA#661012616 Residential

Property Lawrence V. Herman C.P. December Term, 2011 No. 01545 $174,610.50 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-442 189 W Thelma St 19140 42nd wd. 798 Sq Ft OPA#422046700 Residential Property Yanice Rodriguez-Diaz C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 02539 $58,659.03 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-443 1411 E Weaver St 191502223 50th wd. 1188 Sq Ft OPA#501470300 Residential Property Joanna Johnson a/ka/ Joanna Young C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 00740 $47,698.92 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-444 135 W Pomona St 19144 59th wd. 1173 Sq Ft OPA#593100300 Residential Property Maureen J. Mcleod C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 03497 $111,353.49 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-445 4518 Robbins Ave a/k/a 4518 Robbins St 19135 41st wd. 1228 Sq Ft OPA#411166100 Residential Property Christopher Ginaldi C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 03178 $87,817.00 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-446 9971 Bridle Rd 191151302 58th wd. 1170 Sq Ft OPA#581236000 Residential Property Brian F. Dolan; Laura M. Dolan C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 00965 $194,554.66 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-447 9123 Ryerson Rd 191143403 57th wd. 1404 Sq Ft OPA#572197213 Residential Property Charles T. Sines; Sarah C. Sines a/k/a Sara C. Sines C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 00303 $50,720.46 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-448 3980 Rowena Dr 19114 66th wd. 3130 Sq Ft OPA#661288231 Residential Property Michael L. Pietrowski C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 02593 $196,330.06 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-449 4557 N 13th St 19140 49th wd. 1288 Sq Ft OPA#491497600 Residential Property Roland Vargas, Jr. C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 03351 $85,512.88 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-450 433 W Abbottsford Ave 19144 13th wd. 2953 Sq Ft OPA#133041700 Residential Property Janis R. Buckner, as Administratrix of the Estate of Jessie R. Richberg, Deceased C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 00341 $47,893.57 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-451 615 Brighton St 191114020 53rd wd. 1304 Sq Ft OPA#532256500 Residential Property Moliere Joseph C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 03212 $212,995.55 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP

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1611-452 3229 Disston St 19149 55th wd. 1104 Sq Ft OPA#551314200 Residential Property Joseph P. Bingham C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 03591 $16,030.29 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-453 1029 Camas Dr 191154507 63rd wd. 1576 Sq Ft OPA#632087600 Residential Property Darrell W. Tindall C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 00172 $232,959.46 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-454 2727 S 71st St 191532401 40th wd. 960 Sq Ft OPA#406168800 Residential Property Celeste Mapp C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 00268 $79,627.38 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-455 391 Parlin Pl 19116 58th wd. 2748 Sq Ft BRT#582046800 Subject to Mortgage Residential Dwelling Frederick Jannotti C.P. May Term, 2010 No. 01933 $174,494.26 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1611-456 4221 N 3rd St 19140-2609 7th wd. 960 Sq Ft OPA#072118000 Residential Property Carlos M. Santos C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 03225 $29,358.04 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-457 1017 W Huntingdon St 19133-1621 37th wd. 2192 Sq Ft OPA#871552330 Residential Property Alexander Barnes C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 00939 $90,993.03 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-458 5405 Thomas Ave 191434103 51st wd. 1320 Sq Ft OPA#513081000 Residential Property Beverly Dance f/k/a Beverly Berry C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 01094 $95,486.89 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-459 1614 Ellsworth St 19146 36th wd. 1280 Sq Ft OPA#365273900 Residential Property The Unknown Heirs of Eugene Hewlett, Deceased; Nichola Hewlett, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Eugene Hewlett, Deceased C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 03127 $211,319.62 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-460 131 N Robinson St 19139 34th wd. 927 Sq Ft BRT#341168300 Residential Property Stephen A. Chapman a/k/a Stephen Chapman C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 03003 $63,797.26 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-461 2858 Cedar St 19134 25th wd. 971 Sq Ft OPA#251433600 Residential Property Jeffrey Campbell a/k/a Jeffrey M. Campbell; Donna Smith C.P. May Term, 2015 No. 01961 $44,319.65 KML Law Group, P.C.

1611-462 6515 N Gratz St 50th wd. 1440 Sq Ft BRT#172291800 ROW B/ GAR 2 STY MASONRY Valerie M. Jennings a/k/a Valarie Rich C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 00361 $119,381.64 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1611-463 262 W Queen Ln 191444008 12th wd. 1744 Sq Ft OPA#123119700 Residential Property Deborah Daniel; Patricia Daniel C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 03685 $84,141.91 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-464 4802 Knorr St 41st wd. 3375 Sq Ft BRT#412014500 SEMI/DET 2 STY MASONRY Margaretta D. Allen and Robert W. Allen C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 01140 $146,397.02 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1611-465 409 W Delphine St a/k/a 409 Delphine St 191203205 42nd wd. 1044 Sq Ft OPA#422270400 Residential Property Donna Randolph, Individually and in Her Capacity as Administratrix and Heir of the Estate of Raymond Randolph; Bryant Randolph, in His Capacity as Heir of the Estate of Raymond Randolph; Raymond Randolph, Jr., in His Capacity as Heir of the Estate of Raymond Randolph; Steven Randolph, in His Capacity as Heir of the Estate of Raymond Randolph; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Raymond Randolph, Deceased; Debra Brown a/k/a Deborah Brown, in Her Capacity as Heir of Harlington Randolph, Deceased; Charles Randolph, in His Capacity as Heir of Harlington Randolph, Deceased; Dennis Randolph, in His Capacity as Heir of Harlington Randolph, Deceased; Glenn Randolph, in His Capacity as Heir of Harlington Randolph, Deceased; Deidre Carter a/k/a Diedre Carter in Her Capacity as Heir of Harlington Randolph, Deceased; Linda Randolph, in Her Capacity as Heir of Harlington Randolph, Deceased; Roxanne Randolph, in Her Capacity as Heir of Harlington Randolph, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Harlington Randolph, Deceased C.P. March Term, 2012 No. 01560 $41,817.66 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-466 8011-8013 Rowland Ave 63rd wd. 10109 Sq Ft BRT#642006000 DET W/D GAR 2.5 STY STONE Safaa Deeb C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 00424 $274,598.65 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1611-467 4044 Higbee St 62nd wd. On Southwesterly side of Higbee

St; Front: 15’4.25” Depth: 65’ OPA#622199500 Single Family Residence Eleonora Yakubova C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 00386 $66,191.95 Stephen M. Hladik, Esq. 1611-468 2015 Pratt St 62nd wd. 2000 Sq Ft BRT#622069000 SEMI/ DET 2 STY MASONRY Joseph Ellis a/k/a Joseph M. Ellis C.P. May Term, 2015 No. 00269 $141,913.17 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1611-469 539 E Hermitage St a/k/a 539 Hermitage St 19128 21st wd. 7056 Sq Ft OPA#213284400 Residential Property Gerald J. McKenna C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 04722 $225,467.81 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1611-470 5847 Ellsworth St 19143 3rd wd. 1022 Sq Ft OPA#033132400 Residential Property Robert Lewis, Administrator of the Estate of Darlene Jean RansomeLewis a/k/a Darlene Yon a/k/a Darlene J. Yon a/k/a Darlene Jean Ransome-Lewis C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 02901 $28,679.33 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1611-471 8636 Bayard St 50th wd. 1435 Sq Ft BRT#501208500 ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY Theola Thompson and Thomas Thompson C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 02777 $183,511.71 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1611-472 5106 Newhall St 19144-4020 12th wd. On Southwesterly side of Newhall St; Front: Irregular, Depth: Irregular OPA#123220700 Single Family Residence Trafena L. Twine a/k/a Trafena Twine C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 01063 $142,029.56 Stephen M. Hladik, Esq. 1611-473 1824 Pennington Rd 34th wd. 2296 Sq Ft BRT#343332700 ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY Jacqueline F. Fennal and Jeanine Fennal C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 02238 $202,385.85 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1611-474 4147 Levick St 19135-3035 55th wd. On NE side of Levick St; Front: Irregular, Depth: Irregular OPA#552079300 Single Family Residence Abdul Khan a/k/a Abdul A. Khan C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 01875 $75,909.16 Stephen M. Hladik, Esq. 1611-475 5939 Castor Ave 54th wd. 1828 Sq Ft BRT#541154900 ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY Victoria Burrus and Lorenzo Huguly C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 03060 $71,756.74 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1611-476 5332 Walton Ave BRT#462086500 Residential Dwelling Dante Griffin C.P.

March Term, 2015 No. 02568 $112,035.23 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1611-477 2202 E Washington Ln 19138 50th wd. 1650 Sq Ft BRT#501391100 Residential Real Estate Mack H. Sanders, Jr. and Lynda Sanders C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 01882 $165,415.43 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1611-478 2200-28 Arch St, Unit 906 and Parking Space No. 184 19103 8th wd. Land Area: 1310 Sq Ft; 0.00600% undivided interested of, and to the Common Elements BRT#88-8-1115-02 Residential Dwelling John T. Bruccoliere C.P. June Term, 2011 No. 001937 $480,209.02 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1611-479 2417 N 23rd St 19132 16th wd. 1016 Sq Ft BRT#162223200 Residential Real Estate Marla Winder-Burke, Administratrix of the Estate of Juanita Highsmith C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 00420 $27,557.91 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1611-480 4143 Orchard St 23rd wd. 1050 Sq Ft BRT#232255400 ROW CONV/APT 2 STY MASON AGMS, LLC C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 00017 $76,881.66 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1611-481 4609 N Broad St 19140 49th wd. 2200 Sq Ft BRT#491541300 Residential Real Estate Jamahl Simmons C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 01442 $138,123.05 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1611-482 1100 E Sharpnack St 191503109 50th wd. 2989 Sq Ft BRT#502322700 Residential Real Estate Sylvia Grier C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 02373 $148,964.73 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1611-483 2514 S Bellford St a/k/a 2514 Bellford St a/k/a 2514 S Bellford St BRT#40-41459-00 Residential Dwelling Christina C. Bladen C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 02634 $71,502.21 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1611-484 918 E Rittenhouse St 19138 59th wd. 2765 Sq Ft OPA#591113500 Residential Property The Unknown Heirs of Josephine Willis, Deceased and Carolyn Willis, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Josephine Willis, Deceased C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 02435 $149,545.65 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-485 6038 Shisler St 19149 53rd wd. 1415 Sq Ft OPA#531280200 Residential Property Shalina Redding C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 00176 $129,558.59 KML Law Group, P.C.

1611-486 225 W Nedro Ave 19120 61st wd. 992 Sq Ft OPA#612101200 Residential Property Rochelle Alverest and Gregory T. Alverest C.P. October Term, 2011 No. 02642 $43,282.93 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-487 2328 W Thompson St 19121 29th wd. 1080 Sq Ft OPA#291037400 Residential Property Tammi Miller C.P. May Term, 2009 No. 04270 $68,854.81 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-488 4640 Reach St 19120 42nd wd. 1206 Sq Ft OPA#421596900 Residential Property Rashi J. Freeman C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 03995 $75,061.76 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-489 1907 Page St 19121 32nd wd. 900 Sq Ft OPA#321163600 Residential Property Eric Butler C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 00943 $41,898.86 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-490 3026 W Lehigh Ave 19132 28th wd. 2218 Sq Ft OPA#282380800 Residential Property Gordon T. Thomas C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 00482 $72,528.39 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-491 5214 Lebanon Ave 191312307 52nd wd. 1168 Sq Ft OPA#521132500 Residential Property Deborah I. Ocasio Smith, in Her Capacity as Heir of Pearline Jones, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Pearline Jones, Deceased C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 00171 $141,957.62 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-492 1418 W Allegheny Ave 19132-1708 11th wd. 2613 Sq Ft OPA#111128600 Residential Property Rosalind Mccrea a/k/a Rosalind McCrea C.P. December Term, 2011 No. 00890 $85,290.55 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-493 1200 E Price St 191381913 59th wd. 1484 Sq Ft OPA#591074100 Residential Property Garry L. Lassiter C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 00036 $155,419.44 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-494 5301 Euclid St 191313210 52nd wd. 1440 Sq Ft OPA#521081900 Residential Property Veronica H. Walker C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 00153 $79,455.58 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-495 219 W Coulter St 19114 15th wd. 2000 Sq Ft OPA#124042100; OPA#124041905 Residential Property Antonio Zachary a/k/a Antonio W. Zachary; Joann Zachary a/k/a Jo Ann Zachary C.P. December Term, 2015 No.

00405 $266,932.28 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-496 3641 Canby Dr 19154 66th wd. 1332 Sq Ft OPA#663390900 Residential Property Jeffrey Dugan; Marianne Dugan C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 01065 $189,911.80 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-497 7446 Henslow Pl 19153 40th wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1360 Sq Ft BRT#406661201 Residential Dwelling Patricia GalloStenman, Executrix of the Estate of John E. Gallo C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 01087 $106,824.45 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1611-498 1332 W Cambria St 19132 37th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1264 Sq Ft BRT#372381300 Residential Dwelling Unknown Surviving Heirs of John E. Woodley; Joni Dixon, Known Surviving Heir of John E. Woodley; Sherri Woodley, Known Surviving Heir of John E. Woodley C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02768 $31,478.79 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1611-499 8417 Provident Rd 19150 50th wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1164 Sq Ft BRT#501192100 Residential Dwelling Odette Scutt and Pierre D. Scutt C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 01110 $105,681.27 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1611-500 8129 Brous Ave 19152 64th wd. S/D W/B GAR 1 STY MASONRY; 1025 Sq Ft BRT#641076400 Residential Dwelling Joseph C. Murray C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 01964 $159,736.87 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1611-501 9942 Wingtip Rd 19115 58th wd. S/D W/B GAR 2 STY MAS+OTH; 1498 Sq Ft BRT#581400300 Residential Dwelling Robyn Barbara Shadoe C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 04102 $155,894.90 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1611-502 5151 Wyalusing Ave 19139 44th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1416 Sq Ft BRT#442070600 Residential Dwelling Craig M. Overton C.P. August Term, 2011 No. 03397 $53,480.55 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1611-503 431 E Woodlawn St 19144 12th wd. S/D W/D GAR 2.5 STY STONE; 1794 Sq Ft BRT#122095900 Residential Dwelling Colin M. McNally and Sylvia A. McNally C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 00570 $177,403.25 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1611-505 6636 N 17th St 19126 10th wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1352 Sq Ft BRT#101050900 Residential

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Dwelling Stanley Bowman, Jr. C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02821 $60,723.37 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1611-506 2734 Haworth St 191372132 45th wd. 1279 Sq Ft BRT#45-3136400 Residential Dwelling Thomas Bowers, Jr. and Margaret M. Bowers C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 04134 $97,122.82 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1611-507 1827 N 33rd St 191212428 32nd wd. 1847 Sq Ft BRT#323340000 Residential Dwelling Gwendolyn J. Faulkner a/k/a Gwendolyn Faulkner C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02188 $92,554.21 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1611-508 5935 Latona St 191433027 3rd wd. 1624 Sq Ft BRT#033166300 Residential Dwelling Janet Dixon Hilliard C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 03577 $61,135.88 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1611-509 4241 Whiting Rd 66th wd. 2933 Sq Ft BRT#662600400 Residential Dwelling Hal Feuer C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 00045 $192,319.68 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1611-510 5416 Harbison Ave 62nd wd. 1237 Sq Ft BRT#622469900 Residential Dwelling Charles A.J. Halpin, III, Esquire, Personal Representative of the Estate of Mary Elizabeth Lally a/k/a Mary Elizabeth Schmidt a/k/a Mary Elizabeth Schmidt Lally C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00854 $73,783.17 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1611-511 4807 Kingsessing Ave 46th wd. 2000 Sq Ft BRT#461142700 Residential Dwelling Leticia Clark, Personal Representative of the Estate of Christine Black, Deceased C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 02594 $207,554.27 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1611-512 3510 Trevi Ct 26th wd. 3053 Sq Ft BRT#262381200 Residential Dwelling Joseph Conti and Michelle Conti C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 01989 $473,289.78 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1611-513 5343 Lesher St 191241243 62nd wd. 1030 Sq Ft OPA#622232700 Residential Property Hector Melendez C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 03450 $57,610.31 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-514 544 N 56th St 191314862 4th wd. 1396 Sq Ft OPA#043045600 Residential Property Mable B. Lewis C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 01663 $20,567.48 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-515 614 N 57th St 191314806 4th wd. 1292 Sq Ft OPA#043096000 Residential

Property Michael B. Kelly C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02569 $56,367.79 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-517 3919 Haverford Ave 191041807 24th wd. 1680 Sq Ft OPA#242207610 Residential Property George Black C.P. September Term, 2012 No. 00350 $111,525.64 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-518 5234 Pennway St 19124 23rd wd. 1568 Sq Ft OPA#233103900 Residential Property Waleska Williams C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 03408 $76,503.17 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-519 1216 W Master St 19122 14th wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1360 Sq Ft BRT#141463900 Residential Dwelling Lorraine C. Bowers C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 03341 $97,109.84 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1611-521 4815 Knorr St 19135 41st wd. 2112 Sq Ft OPA#412022100 Residential Property Joseph Swietlik, Jr. C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 03048 $101,776.99 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1611-522 1205 S 13th St 19147 2nd wd. 1638 Sq Ft OPA#021606700 Residential Property Dreu McNeil C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 00493 $230,041.94 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1611-524 1515 Manton St 19146 36th wd. 700 Sq Ft OPA#365302900 Residential Property Candace M. Long C.P. February Term, 2013 No. 02765 $229,371.99 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-525 3400 Richmond St 19134 45th wd. 2016 Sq Ft OPA#871570320 Residential Property Donald N. Perry C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 03941 $94,189.54 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1611-526 6411 Garman St 19142 40th wd. 1223 Sq Ft OPA#406260000 Residential Property Khalifa S. Donzo C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 03237 $60,771.94 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1611-527 4805 Rosalie St 19135 41st wd. 900 Sq Ft OPA#411087100 Residential Property Timothy E. Siler C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 00040 $65,445.90 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1611-528 7134 Dicks Ave 19153 40th wd. 1205 Sq Ft OPA#404-3349-00 Residential Property Jennifer Cummings C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 01391 $143,493.46 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1611-529 3523 Lansing St 19136 64th wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY

MASONRY; 1204 Sq Ft BRT#642256814 Residential Dwelling Patrick Heckroth C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 03894 $143,024.62 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1611-530 2248 S Bucknell St 19145 48th wd. 1134 Sq Ft OPA#482305300 Residential Property Dina M. Boyd C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 01396 $76,988.81 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1611-531 11138 Templeton Dr 19154 66th wd. 1254 Sq Ft OPA#662144000 Residential Property Charles Walsh C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 04599 $190,870.76 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1611-532 6915 Sylvester St 19149 54th wd. APT 2-4 UNITS 2 STY MASON; 1716 Sq Ft BRT#542372300 Residential Dwelling Dan Gui Li and Zhi Ren Li C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 01079 $193,721.38 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1611-533 5838 Lansdowne Ave 19131 4th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1260 Sq Ft BRT#043183900 Residential Dwelling Donald Maurer C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 00617 $64,179.92 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1611-534 29 Carpenter Ln 19119 22nd wd. SEMI/DET 2.5 STY STONE; 2668 Sq Ft BRT#223113600 Residential Dwelling Lillian Green C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02338 $159,021.25 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1611-535 4155 Cambridge St 19104 6th wd. 1287 Sq Ft BRT#062164500 ROW 3 STY MASONRY Estate of John Norcum C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02000 $1,436,247.82 Janet L. Gold, Esquire 1611-536 1914 E Lippincott St 19134 25th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1272 Sq Ft BRT#252272200 Residential Dwelling Karen McMullen C.P. May Term, 2012 No. 01769 $34,140.74 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1611-537 5031 N Marvine St 19141 49th wd. SEMI/DET 2 STY MASONRY; 1600 Sq Ft BRT#491428200 Residential Dwelling Gloria Watson, Administratrix of the Estate of Arlena L. Watson C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 00403 $51,483.39 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1611-538 3732 17th St 19140 13th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1504 Sq Ft BRT#131225500 Residential Dwelling Terri Broughton and Calvin Jones C.P. August Term, 2009 No. 00774 $42,669.61 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C.

1611-539 2125 W Chew Ave 19138 17th wd. (formerly part of the 42nd wd.) ROW W/DET GAR 2 STY MAS; 1572 Sq Ft BRT#171106600 Residential Dwelling Ewan Ewers C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 03357 $82,891.33 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1611-540 4037 Brown St 19104 6th wd. 1440 Sq Ft BRT#062002200 ROW CONV/APT 3 STY MASON Estate of John Norcum C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02000 $1,436,247.82 Janet L. Gold, Esquire 1611-541 2934 Tulip St 19134 25th wd. 946 Sq Ft OPA#252367500 Residential Property Pennington 189 Management, LLC C.P. September Term, 2012 No. 03409 $72,056.63 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-542 2520 S 67th St 40th wd. OPA#406059900 2 STORY BRICK ROW HOME Estate of John O’Hara, Deceased C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 00899 $60,440.82 Jeffrey S. Wilson, Esquire 1611-543 824 N Union St 19141 24th wd. Situate on the Westerly side of Union St at the distance of 34’4” Northwardly from the Northerly Side of Reno St OPA#243154200 ROW 2 STY MASONRY Gerald Crittenton C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 01066 $32,478.39 Richard J. Nalbandian, III 1611-544 825 N 41st St 19104 6th wd. 1630 Sq Ft BRT#062244200 ROW CONV/APT 3 STY MASON Estate of John Norcum C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02000 $1,436,247.82 Janet L. Gold, Esquire 1611-545 821 N 41st St 19104 6th wd. 1640 Sq Ft BRT#062244000 ROW CONV/APT 3 STY MASON Estate of John Norcum C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02000 $1,436,247.82 Janet L. Gold, Esquire 1611-546 819 N 41st St 19104 6th wd. 1543 Sq Ft BRT#062243900 ROW CONV/APT 3 STY MASON Estate of John Norcum C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02000 $1,436,247.82 Janet L. Gold, Esquire 1611-547 2416 S Jessup St 19148 39th wd. BRT#394199680 Lot or piece of ground with the buildings and improvements Anna Cardullo C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 03528 $158,916.06 Melanie E. Tunaitis, Esquire 1611-548 2008 N Broad St 32nd wd. 7968 Sq Ft OPA#882566000 Commercial Building Vince N. Baker C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 02953 $358,164.51 plus interest and fees Michael A. Bowman 1611-549 811 N 41st St 19104 6th wd. 1856 Sq Ft BRT#062243500

S/D CONV APT 3 STY MASON Estate of John Norcum C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02000 $1,436,247.82 Janet L. Gold, Esquire 1611-550 725 Federal St 19147 2nd wd. ROW 3 STY MASONRY; 2019 Sq Ft BRT#021242000 Subject to Mortgage Residential Dwelling Catherine M. Masci C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02915 $217,432.95 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1611-551 5352 Westford Rd 19120 42nd wd. 2145 Sq Ft BRT#421399100 Residential Dwelling Isaac Roman C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01366 $106,191.95 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1611-552 807 N 41st St 19104 6th wd. 2417 Sq Ft BRT#062243300 S/D Conv Apt 3 Sty Mason Estate of John Norcum C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02000 $1,436,247.82 Janet L. Gold, Esquire 1611-553 805 N 41st St 19104 6th wd. 2417 Sq Ft BRT#062243200 ROW CONV/APT 3 STY MASON Estate of John Norcum C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02000 $1,436,247.82 Janet L. Gold, Esquire 1611-554 804 N 41st St 19104 6th wd. 1813 Sq Ft BRT#062251700 ROW CONV/APT 3 STY MASON Estate of John Norcum C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02000 $1,436,247.82 Janet L. Gold, Esquire 1611-555 802 N 41st St 19104 6th wd. 1813 Sq Ft BRT#062251600 ROW CONV/APT 3 STY MASON Estate of John Norcum C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02000 $1,436,247.82 Janet L. Gold, Esquire 1611-556 1322 Robbins St 19111 53rd wd. 1254 Sq Ft BRT#531040800 Residential Dwelling Omayra Sanchez and Andres Sanchez C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00258 $87,977.08 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1611-557 800 N 41st St 19104 6th wd. 1890 Sq Ft BRT#062251500 ROW CONV/APT 3 STY MASON Estate of John Norcum C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02000 $1,436,247.82 Janet L. Gold, Esquire 1611-558 3517 Jasper St 45th wd. 1072 Sq Ft BRT#452367400 Subject to Mortgage Residential Dwelling Albert M. Lostracco; Heidi S. Lostracco; Robert Feather; Nancy Feather C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 01341 $46,376.82 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1611-559 6019 Angora Terr 19143 3rd wd. 1024 Sq Ft OPA#034024200 Residential Property Monique

S. Tucker C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 01725 $107,013.26 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-560 13085R Bustleton Ave Unit 606B Hazel Lane Condo’s 19116 58th wd. 867 Sq Ft OPA#888581709 Residential Property James Alexander C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 02527 $159,846.31 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-561 8029 Castor Ave 19152 56th wd. Front: 15’, Depth: 57’ OPA#882926915 1 story, 1000 Sq Ft commercial structure Gelt Properties, LLC s/b/m to Gelt Financial Corporation C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 03568 $296,477.32 Thomas D. Bielli, Esq.; Cory P. Stephenson, Esq.; Bielli & Klauder, LLC 1611-562 300 W Byberry Rd, Unit 301 19116 58th wd. 960 Sq Ft and a 1.8% undivided interest in the common elements, as more fully described in the Declaration of Condominium of the Stonebridge Condominium dated 10/24/1989 and recorded on 10/25/1989 in Deed Book FHS 1471 page 317. OPA#888582305; PRCL#153N-23-51 Subject to Mortgage Residential Condominium Patricia E. Paulus C.P. February Term, 2012 No. 03681 $9,977.13 Glenn M. Ross, Esquire 1611-563 1321 N Hobart St 19131 52nd wd. (formerly 34th wd.) Front: 15’, Depth: 57’ OPA#043159400 2 STY ROW HOME, 855 Sq Ft; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING Da Sky LTD a/k/a Dasky, LTD C.P. September Term, 2011 No. 00479 $371,936.48 Thomas D. Bielli, Esq.; Cory P. Stephenson, Esq.; Bielli & Klauder, LLC 1611-564 1313 N Hobart St 19131 4th wd. Front: 15’, Depth: 57’ OPA#043159000 2 STY ROW HOME, 855 Sq Ft; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING Da Sky LTD a/k/a Dasky LTD C.P. September Term, 2011 No. 00477 $371,936.48 Thomas D. Bielli, Esq.; Cory P. Stephenson, Esq.; Bielli & Klauder, LLC 1611-565 1916 Chandler St 191113525 56th wd. 1260 Sq Ft OPA#561503300 Residential Property Tamika M. CorbinRoman C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 04246 $192,052.49 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-566 7111 Walker St 19135 41st wd. 1612 Sq Ft OPA#412274000 Residential Property John P. Maule, Jr. C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 04162 $104,175.77 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1611-567 2821 N 23rd St 19132 11th wd. 1410 Sq Ft BRT#111373501 Residential Dwelling Louise Barrow C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 04463 $38,453.62 Udren Law Offices, P.C.

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1611-568 1416 N Felton St 19151 34th wd. 810 Sq Ft BRT#342343000 Subject To Mortgage Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC Residential Dwelling Shatee Cooks a/k/a Shalee Cooks C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 02046 $55,623.03 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1611-569 5504 Upland St 19143 51st wd. 899 Sq Ft BRT#51-4254700 Residential Dwelling Willie L. Wiggins C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 00300 $55,410.92 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1611-570 5108-10 E Roosevelt Blvd 19124 35th wd. 6500 Sq Ft BRT#35-1028400 Residential Dwelling Wilton J. Francois a/k/a Wilton Jean Francois C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02427 $459,148.00 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1611-571 856 S Front St 19147 2nd wd. 720 Sq Ft BRT#02-2-120300 Subject To Mortgage West Coast Servicing Residential Dwelling David D. Morgan; Gina D. Morgan C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 03612 $161,062.47 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1611-572 2737 Earp St 19146 36th wd. 700 Sq Ft BRT#362104000 Subject To Mortgage Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc. Residential Dwelling Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under William L. Dawkins C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 04697 $55,031.75 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1611-573 2511 S Hobson St 19142 40th wd. 1112 Sq Ft OPA#40-6-080400 Residential Property Tamika Y. Paul C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 04169 $75,153.22 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1611-574 2254 Faunce St 19152 56th wd. 1876 Sq Ft OPA#561397220 Residential Property Carlos A. Cartagena, Jr. and Elizabeth M. Cartagena C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 00669 $213,818.57 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1611-575 29 Pelham Rd 19119 22nd wd. 16077 Sq Ft OPA#223098000 Residential Property Freda L. Williams C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 002943 $479,362.29 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1611-576 2628 S 80th St a/k/a 2628 80th St 19153 40th wd. 1621 Sq Ft OPA#405937400 Residential Property Maurice Bah C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01161 $123,229.69 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-577 5449 Morse St 19131 52nd wd. 1224 Sq Ft OPA#522027800 Residential Property Anthony L. Walker as Executor of the Estate of Mary M. Nedab, Deceased C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 01011 $129,194.64 KML Law Group, P.C.

1611-578 5634 Rodman St 19143 46th wd. 930 Sq Ft OPA#463032400 Residential Property Darell A. Looney, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Mark H.C. Looney, Deceased C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 03466 $129,044.40 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-579 3232 Cottman Ave 19149 55th wd. 1591 Sq Ft OPA#551512200 Residential Property Scott Holiday C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02934 $134,403.08 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-580 6035 Charles St 191354402 62nd wd. 1200 Sq Ft OPA#622303200 Residential Property Pablo R. Valle; Elisandra Malave Valle C.P. September Term, 2008 No. 04745 $98,095.35 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-581 2003 Ridley St 19138 10th wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1188 Sq Ft BRT#102354800 Residential Dwelling Nathaniel Tyrone Mitchell C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 00813 $54,852.73 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1611-582 5151 Parrish St 19139 44th wd. 1494 Sq Ft OPA#442007600 Residential Property Iona Gill; James Gill, Jr.; James Parker Gill C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 00947 $59,132.71 Richard M. Squire & Associates, LLC 1611-583 540 W Wyoming Ave 19140 49th wd. 1678 Sq Ft OPA#491050300 Residential Property Kim Y. Hall C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 00143 $80,322.03 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-584 6618 Ogontz Ave 19126 10th wd. 1696 Sq Ft BRT#102005100 Residential Dwelling Shlomarr Faison a/k/a Shlomarr D. Faison C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 02136 $160,073.84 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1611-585 6731 Leeds St 191513019 34th wd. 1440 Sq Ft OPA#344039300 Residential Property Deborah M. Baker C.P. December Term, 2011 No. 02745 $124,972.50 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-586 419 Lemonte St 19128 21st wd. 1953 Sq Ft OPA#212316002 Residential Property Lauren Oswald C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 02102 $225,025.75 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-587 2061 Martha St 19125 31st wd. 688 Sq Ft BRT#311185000 Residential Dwelling Estate of Helen Marie Ceasar a/k/a Helen M. Ceasar c/o Franci Graf a/k/a Francis P. Graf; Francis Graf, Administrator of the Estate of Helen Marie Ceasar a/k/a Helen M. Ceasar; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns and All Persons, Firms or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest

From or Under Helen Marie Ceasar C.P. May Term, 2015 No. 02431 $113,941.09 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1611-588 725 E Rittenhouse St 19144 59th wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1122 Sq Ft BRT#591129200 Residential Dwelling Mary E. Lee and Beverly Schaffer, Executrix of the Estate of Idella Kitchen, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. January Term, 2012 No. 00670 $89,885.65 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1611-589 2012 Larry St 19142 40th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 900 Sq Ft BRT#403196700 Residential Dwelling Carolyn Chapman and William H. Chapman C.P. November Term, 2010 No. 04337 $43,866.69 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1611-590 1330 N Allison St 19131 34th wd. 1575 Sq Ft OPA#041335600 Residential Dwelling Estate of Eva Mae Byrd a/k/a Eva M. Byrd; Patricia Wilkins, Known Heir of Eva Mae Byrd a/k/a Eva M. Byrd; Phyllis M. Carmack a/k/a Phyllis A. Carmac, As Known Heir and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Eva Mae Byrd a/k/a Eva M. Byrd; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Eva M. Byrd a/k/a Eva Mae Byrd; Wayne Byrd, Known Heir of Eva Mae Byrd a/k/a Eva M. Byrd C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 02324 $69,139.98 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1611-591 5135 Charles St 191241425 62nd wd. 880 Sq Ft OPA#622288000 Residential Property Karanjit Singh C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01629 $43,076.46 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-592 6122 N 17th St 19141 17th wd. 2576 Sq Ft OPA#172207300 Subject To Mortgage Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC Residential Dwelling Tahira Harris, as Known Heir of Crystal Jeanette Dash a/k/a Crystal Harris a/k/a Wafiyyah D. Muhammad; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Crystal Jeanette Dash a/k/a Crystal Harris a/k/a Wafiyyah D. Muhammad C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 01596 $84,499.02 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1611-593 843 N 66th St 19151-3331 34th wd. 1260 Sq Ft OPA#344358900 Residential Property Angela M. Robinson C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 00884 $130,651.93 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-594 10906 Carey Pl 19154 66th wd. Land: 2021 Sq Ft; Improvement: 1360 Sq Ft; Total: 3381 Sq Ft OPA#662082600 Residential Property Estate of

Eugene W. Mayer, Deceased and all known and unknown individuals, heirs, successors, assigns, business entities, non-profit entities, and/or charitable entities having and/or claiming any right, title, and/or interest therein, therefrom and/ or thereunder; Christina Mayer, Individually and as Executrix of the Estate of Eugene Mayer, Deceased C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 05061 $253,635.41 Richard M. Squire & Associates, LLC 1611-595 7023 Cottage St 191351801 55th wd. 1440 Sq Ft OPA#552421400 Residential Property Brian Gallo; Colleen McNally C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 00484 $150,577.48 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-596 1346 Westbury Dr 19151 34th wd. 1600 Sq Ft BRT#343-288800 Residential Dwelling Je Nene Elmandorf; Timothy Felder; Marie Clark, Individually and as Known Heir of Marie Clark C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 02383 $216,537.19 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1611-597 6910 Henley St 191193414 22nd wd. 2125 Sq Ft OPA#223256600 Residential Property Roger Vaughn Ashodian C.P. December Term, 2007 No. 02971 $115,663.28 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-598 3433 Emerald St 45th wd. 1097 Sq Ft BRT#452323200 Residential Dwelling John Glassmire, Personal Representative of the Estate of Patricia Ann Glassmire, Deceased C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 01060 $29,498.45 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1611-599 224 E Comly St a/k/a 224 Comly St 19120-1105 35th wd. 1238 Sq Ft OPA#352138000 Residential Property Eric Hutson C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 01629 $145,361.59 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-600 351 S 47th St 46th wd. in Garden Court Condominiums located at 4617-4643 Pine St; Front: irregular, Depth: irregular OPA#888461022 Single Family Residence William Kline, III and William Kline, Jr. C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 02962 $12,026.11 Stephen M. Hladik, Esq. 1611-601 8525 Michener Ave 191501601 50th wd. 1166 Sq Ft OPA#501158700 Residential Property James T. Warner C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 04143 $105,982.22 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-602 8616 Sagamore Rd 19128 21st wd. 6600 Sq Ft OPA#214263900 Residential Dwelling John J. Lynch and John C. Lynch C.P.

December Term, 2015 No. 01170 $212,826.29 Joseph R. Loverdi, Esquire 1611-603 3226 Birch Rd 191541721 66th wd. 1360 Sq Ft OPA#663003900 Residential Property John Knauf, in His Capacity as Heir of John M. Knauf, Sr. Deceased; Margaret Knauf, in Her Capacity as Heir of John M. Knauf, Sr., Deceased; Susan Knauf, in Her Capacity as Heir of John M. Knauf, Sr., Deceased; Joan Knauf, in Her Capacity as Heir of John M. Knauf, Sr., Deceased; Victoria Agnos, in Her Capacity as Heir of John M. Knauf, Sr., Deceased; Christine M. Knauf, in Her Capacity as Heir of John M. Knauf, Sr., Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under John M. Knauf, Sr., Deceased C.P. May Term, 2015 No. 00331 $250,916.73 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-604 1026 Knorr St 19111 53rd wd. 2937 Sq Ft OPA#532118200 Residential Property Roxanne Stuart, as Executrix of the Estate of Phyllis Feldman, Deceased C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 01865 $90,491.05 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-605 3180 Aramingo Ave 19134 25th wd. 1117 Sq Ft BRT#251483300 Residential Real Estate Susan Smith C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 03182 $89,136.28 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1611-606 1738 Tustin St 19152 56th wd. Improvement Area: 2233 Sq Ft; Land Area: 1304 Sq Ft OPA#562229700 S/D W/B GAR 2 STY MASONRY Harvey Theis C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 00721 $184,806.97 Richard M. Squire & Associates, LLC 1611-607 5038 Cottage St 19124 62nd wd. 996 Sq Ft OPA#622376000 Subject to Mortgage Residential Property Kathleen L. Coyle-Haas a/k/a Kathleen Haas C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 02385 $48,329.52 Brett A. Solomon, Michael C. Mazack 1611-608 3053 N Judson St 11th wd. Beginning Point: Situate on the East side of Judson St at the distance of 370 feet and 9 inches Northward from the North side of Indiana Ave BRT#111420700 ROW 2 STY MASONRY Lang K. Moss C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 04712 $25,475.29 Richard J. Nalbandian, III 1611-609 1918 Montrose St 191462629 30th wd. 1590 Sq Ft OPA#301219500 Residential Property Martha Leatherberry a/k/a Martha Bowen-Letherberry, Individually and in Her

Capacity as Co-Administratrix Cta of the Estate and Devisee of the Estate of Henry Welch; Doila Welch a/k/a Doila A. Welch, Individually and in Her Capacity as Co-Administratrix Cta of the Estate and Devisee of the Estate of Henry Welch; Janette Welch a/k/a Janet Jennifer Welch, Individually and in Her Capacity as Devisee of the Estate of Henry Welch; Gilbert Welch a/k/a Gilbert Leopold Percival Welch, Individually and in His Capacity as Devisee of the Estate of Henry Welch C.P. May Term, 2010 No. 03329 $47,944.03 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-610 713 S Alden St 19143 46th wd. 981 Sq Ft OPA#463253800 Residential Property Elizabeth Goodwin, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Deborah Goodwin, Deceased; Marcia Goodwin, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Deborah Goodwin, Deceased; Felicia Dawson, Individually and as Administrator for the Estate of Deborah Goodwin C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 01735 $44,444.69 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-611 926-928 Race St Unit 8C 19107 5th wd. 1482 Sq Ft OPA#888038175 Residential Property Keith Lam; Louis B. Luk; Li He Ren C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 00357 $430,550.50 KML Law Group, P.C. 1611-612 6485 Ardleigh St 19119 22nd wd. 4016 Sq Ft BRT#221301700 Residential Dwelling Bruce Chandler, Known Heir of Margaret A. Chandler; Linda Simon a/k/a Linda Denise Chandler, Known Heir of Margaret A. Chandler C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 00037 $162,144.45 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1611-613 6021 Webster St 19143 46th wd. 1695 Sq Ft BRT#033019100 Residential Dwelling Estate of Duretta Hall; Nicole J. Lee, Personal Representative of the Estate of Duretta Hall; Walter Hawthorne, Known Heir of Duretta Hall C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 01286 $81,036.40 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1611-615 1400 S Vodges St 191435304 51st wd. 1316 Sq Ft OPA#514014300 Residential Property Albert G. Alemu; Fantu Bekele C.P. December Term, 2011 No. 00120 $64,253.16 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-616 3344 Lansing St 19136 64th wd. 1088 Sq Ft OPA#642246800 Residential Property Sarah J. Davidson C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 00811 $148,782.73 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-617 2516 N 33rd St 191322806 28th wd. 1410 Sq Ft OPA#282250600 Residential Property Yvette Dudley C.P.

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June Term, 2016 No. 00015 $57,637.81 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-618 126 Krams Ave 19127 21st wd. 1742 Sq Ft BRT#211388100 Subject to Mortgage Residential Dwelling Caroline Casey; Richard J. Casey, Jr. C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 02133 $206,534.98 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1611-619 11849 B Academy Rd Unit #C3 a/k/a 11849 Academy Rd Unit #C3 19154-2601 66th wd. 1326 Sq Ft OPA#888660428 Residential Property Lisa Hagan a/k/a Lisa Veigle-Hagan C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02420 $66,088.64 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-620 6727 Egret Pl 191423314 40th wd. 1480 Sq Ft PRCL#406572600 Residential Property John H. Norman, Sr. C.P. August Term, 2009 No. 00813 $260,059.55 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-621 2217 S 9th St 39th wd. On E Side of 9th St; Front: 15 ft Depth: 65 ft OPA#393414500 Commercial Mary L. Brunetti C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 01097 $129,590.38 Stephen M. Hladik, Esq. 1611-622 3428 N 16th St 191404905 11th wd. 1100 Sq Ft OPA#112205400 Residential Property Linda Rivers; Charles A. Rivers C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 02549 $39,648.43 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP

1611-623 621 E Brinton St a/k/a 621 Brinton St 191381003 22nd wd. 1166 Sq Ft OPA#221010000 Residential Property Gail D. Luchey, in Her Capacity as Executrix and Devisee of the Estate of Carl Washington a/k/a Carl E. Washington C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 00402 $77,812.38 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-624 448 S 55th St 191431431 60th wd. 1339 Sq Ft OPA#604203600 Residential Property Kenneth Withers C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 04662 $76,098.07 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-625 9877 Garvey Dr 191142115 65th wd. 1806 Sq Ft OPA#652476800 Residential Property Stephen G. Baptista C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 02783 $188,193.36 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-626 2946 Aramingo Ave 191344303 25th wd. 1152 Sq Ft OPA#251472900 Residential Property Edwin Fernandez C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01623 $89,261.39 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-627 4053 Higbee St 191354422 62nd wd. 1073 Sq Ft OPA#622205500 Residential Property Naeemah West C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01625 $86,846.62 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-628 7316 Ogontz Ave 19138-

1306 50th wd. 2084 Sq Ft OPA#501298500 Residential Property Kevin Alsbrooks C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 00481 $233,408.88 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-629 6705 Ogontz 10th wd. on E side of Ogontz Ave; Front: Irregular, Depth: Irregular OPA#871075600 Commercial Melvia Miller C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 03785 $210,769.92 Stephen M. Hladik, Esq. 1611-630 4325 Pilling St 191243945 23rd wd. 1320 Sq Ft OPA#234242800 Residential Property Juanita Colon C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 01919 $68,942.72 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-631 1509 W 65th Ave 191263516 17th wd. 1428 Sq Ft OPA#171358300 Residential Property Thomas Mclean, III, In His Capacity as Executor and Devisee of the Estate of Evelyn Mclean; Kenneth Mclean, in His Capacity as Devisee of the Estate of Evelyn Mclean C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 01809 $43,994.00 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-632 1114 S Wilton St 191434207 51st wd. 1470 Sq Ft OPA#511211400 Residential Property Grant L. Palmer C.P. February Term, 2009 No. 02439 $95,175.61 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-633 1420 N 12th St 19122 20th wd. 1224 Sq Ft OPA#202263700 Subject to Mortgage Residential

Property Ward S. Tilghman and Crystal Tilghman Weston C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 02012 $66,893.73 Brett A. Solomon, Michael C. Mazack 1611-634 7827 Temple Rd 19150 50th wd. 938 Sq Ft BRT#501090800 Residential Real Estate Renee Curtis C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 00936 $73,486.24 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1611-636 1312 Barringer St 19119 22nd wd. 2807 Sq Ft BRT#221024900 Residential Dwelling Jeanne Guyton-Bell a/k/a Jeanue Guyton Bell, Individually and as Known Heir of James R. Bell C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 00762 $177,864.67 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1611-637 2646 Braddock St 191251406 31st wd. 1300 Sq Ft BRT#311089900 Residential Real Estate Maria Viray and Romeo Viray C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 02233 $120,431.55 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1611-638 5926 Malta St 19120 35th wd. 942 Sq Ft BRT#352281800 Residential Real Estate Nicole Daniels C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 01546 $88,681.68 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1611-639 1601 Spring Garden St, Unit 200 19130 8th wd. 960 Sq Ft and a .7212% undivided interest in the common elements, as more fully described in the Declaration of Condominium of The Colonnade Historic Condominium recorded in the City of Philadelphia

Department of Records dated 12/29/1992 and recorded on 12/31/1992 Deed Book VCS 218 page 336 OPA#888086176 Subject to Mortgage Residential Condominium William J. Boyle C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 073809 $6,811.43 plus interest and costs Glenn M. Ross, Esquire 1611-640 2351 77th Ave 19150 50th wd. 1920 Sq Ft BRT#50-1-4261-00 Subject To Mortgage Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC Residential Dwelling Ramona Martin; Robert Martin C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 01030 $137,373.27 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1611-641 3810-26 Kensington Ave 33rd wd. 5523 Sq Ft BRT#882966995 Subject to Mortgage Auto Repair Shop Masonry Robert M. Papucki C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02781 $71,754.11 plus $11.80 per day after 8/5/2016 Laurence A. Mester; Mester & Schwartz, P.C. 1611-642 2237 N 10th St 19133 37th wd. 1876 Sq Ft, more or less BRT#37-1155300 Karen Schullere C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 001214 $52,200.41 Jenifer G. Fowler, Esquire 1611-643A 3445 N Howard St 19140 7th wd. (formerly part of the 33rd wd.) 900 Sq Ft BRT#072037400 Residential Real Estate Jennifer Liz Aponte C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 003770 $84,773.73 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1611-643B 3447 N Howard St 19140 7th wd. (formerly part of

the 33rd wd.) 1200 Sq Ft BRT#072037500 Residential Real Estate Jennifer Liz Aponte C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 003770 $84,773.73 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1611-644A 1 Academy Cir #206 191465235 30th wd. 620 Sq Ft OPA#888300550 Residential Property Vipin Mahajan C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 00530 $252,542.81 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-644B 1 Academy Cir #P49 191465235 30th wd. 620 Sq Ft OPA#888301238 Residential Property Vipin Mahajan C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 00530 $252,542.81 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1611-645A 4700 Richmond 19137-2217 45th wd. on Northwesterly side of Richmond St; Front: 19’8-1/2” Depth: 65’9” OPA#882937150 Subject to Mortgage Commercial Theresa O’Brien a/k/a Theresa Lynn Scarborough C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 02618 $213,876.93 Stephen M. Hladik, Esq. 1611-645B 4450 Garden 19137-2014 45th wd. on NW side of Garden St; Front: 16’2” Depth: 70’ OPA#453330100 Commercial Theresa O’Brien a/k/a Theresa Lynn Scarborough C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 02618 $213,876.93 Stephen M. Hladik, Esq.

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Presidential Living By HughE Dillon On Tuesday, Oct. 11, the Presidential City apartment complex celebrated the opening of their new leasing gallery with an art exhibit and raffle. Charles Edwards and Serena Saunders were the featured artists and showed their latest works. Guests enjoyed specialty cocktails & hors d’oeuvres. The leasing gallery features impressive state-of-the-art interactive tablets, 3D renderings/models and holographic displays for prospective residents and visitors so they are able to fully imagine the Presidential City living experience. 1. Hayley Schneider, Liz Castleberry and Nel Roch. 2. A guest peruses artist Serena Saunders work. 3. Charles Wesley, Edwards, Amber Miller and Shavar Simmons. Photos by HughE Dillon.

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Princesses and Pirates PA Ballet highlights their season at annual gala By HughE Dillon The Pennsylvania Ballet held their annual gala on Friday, Oct. 7 at the Union League on Broad Street. The Princesses and Pirates themed event celebrated two of this seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ballets, Cinderella and the company premiere of Le Corsaire. The black tie event started with a cocktail party before guests enjoyed dinner and entertainment in the Lincoln Room, which included a preview dance from Le Corsaire.

1. Charles Askegard, Pennsylvania Ballet., Alexandra Noll, Young Friends chair, David Gray, Pennsylvania Ballet and his wife Kyra Nichols. 2. Elizabeth McLean, Reverand Susan Richards, Brad Richards, Laura Fredricks and Dr. Pam Charles. 3. Kristin & David Touchstone, Rick and Flo Celender. 4. PA Ballet dancers perform a section from Le Corsaire. 5. Chris Blume, Jeff Lennox, Alice Honeybone, Cameron Luo, and Joe McHugh. 6. Angel Corella (l) with Gala vice-chairs Brad Richards and David Schellenberg. Photos by HughE Dillon.

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Old City Fall Festival Rainy start didn’t dampen anyone’s spirits By HughE Dillon The Old City Festival brought sunny energy to — what started as a gloomy rainy day — their annual fall neighborhood celebration. The day got off to a slow start, but when the rain subsided people came out in droves. There was a lot of fun to be had, including a fashion show, artists creating works in the open and a festival stage. Performers from the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts performed throughout the crowd, Philly musicians cranked out tunes all afternoon and, of course, there was plenty of food and wares to purchase.

1. 11-year-old DJ D-ILL. 2. Old City Volunteers at the information table. 3. Chef Chris Younge, Emily Yetter and Nicole Young. 4. Festivalgoers write their dreams for the future on a blackboard. 5. Jeff Guaracino, Welcome Philadelphia, Betsy Oliphant and Job Itzkowitz, Old City District. 6. Josh Szuzypiorski and Alicia Farrow, Shibe Sports. Photos by HughE Dillon.

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Del-Val Charter Football Looking Good Coach Gore notes benefits of charter school programs By Jeremy Treatman

roy Gore, who played at Lincoln High School, is a lifelong proponent of Public League football. But the third-year DelVal Charter football coach has also become a fan of the charter schools. “I still love Public League football and know there are a lot of good people, teachers, coaches, [and] kids involved but I think the opportunities our kids are getting in charters are something that can’t be taken lightly.” Gore said that educational opportunities are the foremost concern of kids and their parents, and that those iniatives are improved upon in the now 20 year old charter school system. He explained how the football program is likewise improved. “I helped start the program at Imhotep Charter,” said Gore, who is a fire chief in the city. “I’m not saying that the coaches in the Public League aren’t doing this, but we made a decision to take care of those kids for twelve months

of the year. We follow them. We advise them. We give them a plan. We help them with workouts, in the weight room. We stay on top of them. It’s a big commitment, but that’s how I feel as a coach and a mentor, and that’s what I think is best for the players, too. Our kids give a big commitment to the classroom and to the football team, and that says a lot.” Gore’s team is 5-2 following a 22-16 win on Oct. 8 over Frankford, that was aired live on the Comcast Network. He thinks his team has a solid chance to win a Public League Patriot Division and a berth in the PIAA AAA playoffs. Imhotep, the first Public League team to win a state title, has moved from AAA to AAAA. Simon Gratz, last year’s AAA champs, are now in AAAA. The field is wide open for Del-Val to grab a league and district 12 title. “We have a chance for all that,” Gore said. “We have to execute better and cut down on mistakes. We

are a team that is more talented than in the past two years, but not necessarily better yet. Every week, I see them improving and I am trying to get them in, what I call, football mental shape. The offensive line has to learn that they have to keep blocking, and plan to manage a game by helping us use the clock to grind out a game. In our last couple of games, we have been overly aggressive. Our linebackers and defenders are making too many over pursuits and don’t have their legs in the right places, and we [give up big plays] or make too many penalties. We will just get better every game. I see that we are getting there.” Top players on the team this year are college prospects Sheir-Ron Whittaker, Zamir Davis, Kyree Wade-McLeod, Maurice McCray, Shaheed Ross and Fritz-Kelly Edmond. All of these players have offers or interest from Division I-A schools. Gore is overall very impressed with his players. Catholic League schools generally don’t have home fields and practice on site. Public schools have their own fields and stadiums. Charter schools have neither. Gore said it’s an adventure to have a consistent practice site and games are usually at one of the city’s supersites. Continued on page 2

DEL-VAL HOOPS CHANGE News is all around at the Olney area school. Basketball coach Jason Harrigan who led the school to a District 12 AAA state title and a state berth in 2016 took the vacant job at Cardinal O’Hara High School in Springfield, Delaware County. “Taking over at O’Hara is very exciting,” he said. “I’ve received a lot of support, which is very encouraging. I think the opportunity will be challenging, which will make me a better coach. I can’t wait to start preparing for what should be my toughest challenge as a coach. I hope to make O’Hara one of the premier programs in the area.” That won’t be easy. The Lions are a Catholic League member, where Neumann Goretti, Archbishop Carroll, Roman Catholic and Archbishop Wood are members. It won’t be an easy task to win even one game in this league. “It’s a challenge that I am excited about. No one gave Del-Val a chance to beat Neumann or Imhotep last year, but we pulled it off. As for Del-Val, the school will always be in my heart. Words can’t describe how much I will miss coaching there. The experience has made me a better coach and better man. Neumann and Roman are national programs that compete at an elite level. I Del-Val Charter School’s Basim Rutledge (#15) blocks. Photo by Sarah J. Glover.

Del-Val Charter School’s Dashawn Bosell (#6) hands off the ball. Photo by Sarah J. Glover.

know that we have a lot of work to do at Cardinal O’Hara before we get there, but I am looking forward to this challenge.”

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FEST IN FILM: (clockwise from top left) Joe Seo from “Spa Night,” James Baldwin (in sunglasses, center) from “I Am Not Your Negro,” Cynthia Nixon and Jennifer Ehle in “A Quiet Passion,” Sarah Paulson and Mark Duplass in “Blue Jay,” Kacey Mottet Klein (left) and Corentin Fila in “Being 17” and Garrett Clayton from “King Cobra”

LGBT titles, actors get top billing at Philly Film Festival By Gary M. Kramer PGN Contributor The 25th Philadelphia Film Festival unspools Oct. 20-30 at various Center City theaters. This year’s festival gives audiences a sneak peak of several films coming out this or early next year, as well as a chance to see some that likely won’t screen outside of the festival circuit. For queer moviegoers, there are a dozen-plus titles of interest. “King Cobra” is gay filmmaker Justin Kelly’s juicy true-crime story set in the gayporn world and partially in Luzerne, Pa. Sean Paul Lockhart (Garrett Clayton) is first seen auditioning for producer Stephen (Christian Slater) on a casting couch. He’s sexy and adorable and it’s clear Sean knows what Stephen wants — because he gives it to him. Stephen, in return, sets Sean up in his house, lavishing gifts on this young man renamed Brent Corrigan, whom he desires — and hopes to make the whole world desire. And before long, they do; Stephen’s videos of Sean sell like hotcakes. Rival porn producer Joe (James Franco) and his Viper video star/lover Harlow (Keegan Allen) want Brent’s value, seizing a chance when a scandal derails Brent’s career. “King Cobra” wisely never judges the characters, presenting them as flawed, but humanizing them in the process. This is writer/direc-

tor Justin Kelly’s strength, and he gets a fantastic turn from Slater as Stephen. A scene in which he explains why he desires young flesh is especially revealing. Clayton also impresses as the sexy Sean/Brent, making him appropriately charming, seductive and insouciant. If folks miss “King Cobra” at the festival, it opens Oct. 28 at the Roxy. The Philadelphia Film Festival also offers moviegoers their first chance to see “Moonlight,” Barry Jenkins’ extraordinary film adaptation of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play, “In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue.” “Moonlight” shrewdly investigates what it means to be black and gay and in a world that revolves in and around drug culture. The film’s protagonist, Chiron, is seen at three periods in his life: as a 9-year-old nicknamed Little (Alex Hibbert); a teenager who goes by his given name, Chiron (Ashton Sanders); and then as an adult renamed Black (Trevante Rhodes). Seeing the shy, confused child and the haunted teen transform into the adult Black, who still grapples with his sexuality and deciding who he is, is remarkable and revelatory. All three of the actors playing this one character are indelible in the role, relying on body language — since Chiron is often silent — to convey tremendous emotion and reveal so much about the character. Another film with an African-American

theme is director Raoul Peck’s rousing, provocative documentary “I Am Not Your Negro.” Both a tone poem and a clarion call, this urgent, cogent film features James Baldwin and is based on his writings (read by Samuel L. Jackson). Peck uses interviews, archival footage, film and television clips, as well as striking photographs, to reflect on the way African-Americans are oppressed in America. Baldwin considers school integration, the teachers and “heroes” he had in his youth, playwright Lorraine Hansberry and the lives and murders of Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X to show how they impacted his own intellectual development and activism. Scenes of Baldwin on “The Dick Cavett Show” or lecturing at Cambridge feature his eloquent and blistering remarks about inequality and white privilege. There is also a section in the film addressing Baldwin being identified as a “dangerous individual” in the eyes of the FBI both for his writings and for being a homosexual. Peck makes the expected connection to the Black Lives Matter movement in “I Am Not Your Negro,” showing images from Ferguson and of Trayvon Martin, and yet these illustrations only magnify the importance of Baldwin’s powerful, forceful words. “Spa Night” is another highlight at this year’s festival. This quietly powerful drama,

written and directed by Andrew Ahn, introduces David (Joe Seo) in a Korean spa in L.A., where he tells his father, Jin (Youn Ho Cho), “I can’t breathe.” The stifling hothouse atmosphere of both the spa and David’s family life is palpable throughout this intense, absorbing film. “Spa Night” meticulously examines the expectations parents have for their children. When Jin loses the family restaurant, his wife, Soyoung (Haerry Kim), takes a waitressing job. David is pressured to go to college, and his poker face masks his discomfort and his sexual anxiety. When the shy, closeted David takes a job at the spa, and witnesses various naked male guests behaving inappropriately, his complicit behavior slowly moves him toward independence. Ahn’s film benefits immensely from Seo’s extraordinary performance. The actor conveys pent-up emotion, shame and desire, with just the slightest expression and body language. “Spa Night” is a minor masterpiece. Don’t miss it. “Being 17” is gay director André Téchiné’s sensitive, perceptive drama about two French youth in the Pyrenees grappling with samesex desires. Damien (Kacey Mottet Klein) is a good student who lives with his mother, Marianne (Sandrine Kiberlain), the local doctor. His classmate Thomas PAGE 24

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(Corentin Fila) lives on a farm in the nearby mountains. The boys are often fighting each other in school. Eventually, they are forced to tolerate one another when Thomas comes to live with Damien and Marianne. Téchiné scrutinizes his young characters as their anger masks their desire, and blossoms into what may be love. “Being 17” is leisurely paced and features an elliptical narrative, but this tender film is infused with a romantic sensibility that delicately captures the romance between these two tough teenagers. For folks who miss “Being 17,” it opens at the Ritz Nov. 11. Also from France is “Staying Vertical,” gay filmmaker Alain Guiraudie’s follow-up to his erotic hit “Stranger by the Lake.” However, this title was not available for preview. “Frantz,” by gay French filmmaker François Ozon, is a bit of a departure for the enfante terrible in that it is a black and white costume drama, set in 1919 Germany. A remake of the Ernst Lubitsch drama “Broken Lullaby,” this handsome romantic melodrama has Anna (Paula Beer) mourning her fiancé Frantz (Anton von Lucke), who was killed in the war. One day, she spies Adrien (Pierre Niney) at Frantz’s grave, and he soon reveals his relationship to the dead man. Could that homoerotic vibe (seen in flashbacks) between Adrien and Frantz be the connection? It would spoil some of the pleasures of “Frantz” to reveal more, but this well-acted and beautifully filmed period piece does challenge expectations. And that does not make it any less satisfying. Another handsomely mounted period piece screening at the festival is “A Quiet Passion,” by gay filmmaker Terence Davies. This gorgeously lit biopic stars out actor Cynthia Nixon as poet Emily Dickinson, and reams of the poet’s verse is spoken throughout this talky drama. First seen at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, where she rebels against religion, Dickinson returns home, to Amherst, where she tells her father (Keith Carradine) that she wants to write (and publish) poetry. These

are her initial expressions of independence, and throughout “A Quiet Passion,” Dickinson and her tart-tongued friend Vryling Buffam (a scene-stealing Catherine Bailey) take pains to assert themselves as they consider social mores and issues of love and marriage, religion and death, truth and experience. Davies, who penned the screenplay, concentrates on episodic mini-dramas such as Emily’s arguments with her brother Austin (Duncan Duff) over his extramarital affair, or her prolonged ill health. Despite the filmmaker’s noble efforts, “A Quiet Passion” is more stuffy than vibrant as a portrait, and Nixon is rather starchy as the poetess. The American independent film “Blue Jay,” co-starring out actor Sarah Paulson and Mark Duplass (who wrote the script), is an outstanding two-hander. Jim (Duplass) and Amanda (Paulson) meet in a supermarket 20 years after they were high-school sweethearts. Their initially awkward conversation soon shifts into the old rhythms they had as youth, and the film crackles as these ex-lovers, who know each other well, reminisce in Jim’s late mother’s house. As some amusing role-playing segues into romantic dancing, the mood shifts to a more serious conversation that eventually packs a dramatic wallop. “Blue Jay,” shot in lovely black and white, is a small, intimate and quietly powerful film. Moreover, the way Paulson delivers some of her speeches — like one about her love for greyhounds or a confession she makes to Jim about her present life — are wistful and heartbreaking. Lastly, two lesbian features screening at the fest were unavailable for preview. “First Girl I Loved” is writer/director Kerem Sanga’s romantic drama about a highschool teen’s crush on a popular girl, and “The Handmaiden,” by celebrated South Korean director Chan-wook Park, is a stylish-looking adaptation of Sarah Waters’ novel “Fingersmith” that has had tongues wagging since its debut at Cannes. n For more information about the Philadelphia Film Festival, visit http://filmadelphia.org/festival/.

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‘New queer cinema’ icon explores industry in Philly area By Gary M. Kramer PGN Contributor Celebrated film critic, professor and author B. Ruby Rich — she coined the term “new queer cinema” — visits the Philadelphia area for three events this month. At 7 p.m. Oct. 24 at Swarthmore College, Rich will present a talk entitled, “The Public and the Private: Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming.” In a recent phone interview, Rich explained her interest in how society is consuming cinema via Netflix and Amazon Prime and on personal devices. “This [trend] has created a move to individual filmmaking, characters, narratives and plots,” she said. “We are watching in isolation.” In her talk, Rich will trace a “move towards individualism, which was not part of the original impetus of queer cinema” and that was illustrated by films like “Go Fish” and “Swoon” — key titles in the New Queer Cinema movement that were made by and for the LGBT community. She indicated that the films that were part of the New Queer Cinema movement stemmed from a group of filmmakers who were responding to the inequality of LGBT people in society. Back in the 1980s and early ’90s, the reaction to the AIDS epidemic and its lack of prevention, coupled with the oppressive government (Reagan, Bush, Thatcher) and the availability of the camcorder and “cheap rent” — which allowed filmmakers the ability to afford to live and work and experiment — created powerful films about LGBT life, like the aforementioned “Go Fish,” or Gregg Araki’s “The Living End” and Todd Haynes’ “Poison.” In contrast, today’s digital era has led, Rich observed, “to an increase in quantity, but not in a new movement,” adding: “We’re in a fraught political moment where we could really use some kickass queer filmmaking.” She continued to describe how medical advances (like PrEP) and same-sex marriage are allowing queer folks to feel “more protected in their lives,” adding ruefully, “A lot has shifted, radically, but there is still inequality of our society. The energy that has gone into addressing trans issues is where you find momentum and outcries against discrimination.” One cinematic voice she acknowledged as groundbreaking is trans filmmaker Silas Howard, who co-directed “By Hook or By Crook” with Harry Dodge. Rich is expecting to screen clips from Howard’s short films, “The Golden Age of Hustlers” and “Sticks & Stones,” which features transgender performer Bambi Lake, at her Swarthmore presentation. At 7 p.m. Oct. 25 at International House,

Rich will screen two documentaries: the feature “Ovarian Psycos” and the short “Fisherman without a Sea.” “Ovarian Psycos” is the name of a feminist, women-of-color and women-identified collective. This warm documentary about rebellious spirits profiles several members of this bicycle brigade in East L.A. who have been victims of abuse and/ or empowered by their commitment to their community. Directors Joanna Sokolowski and Kate Trumbull-LaValle show the backlash and difficulties the Ovarian Psycos experience, as well as their family-like bond. What is best about this film is how it illustrates the power these women feel when they have control in their lives, families and society, rather than being victims of sexual and/or physical violence and discrimination. “Fishermen without a Sea,” by Lucas Bonetti, was shot a year-and-a-half ago in Brazil, and concerns the contamination of Guanabara Bay leading up to the Olympics in Rio this past summer. The filmmakers are all graduates of the interdisciplinary social-documentation program Rich teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she is a professor of film and digital media. Rich wants people to see these fascinating documentaries, which she feels are two of the best films to have come out of the program. “For documentary, these films [speak] to a point I make when I teach, which is that documentaries should be legible to their subjects. There’s a trend to do more stylized, less-journalistic style of documentary that treats factual material as a canvas to write an essay. This moves away from ‘indexicality.’ For me, and as someone who teaches documentary, people who make docs have to have a connection with their subjects, and not see them as materials they take and play with. One thing I like to think about is: What makes works legible to the people you made it about and with? The subjects of a film should recognize themselves in it.” The last program Rich is doing in the area is teaching “Master Class: Criticism that Matters” at the Scribe Video Center Oct. 26. As a former film critic for the “Chicago Reader” and the current editor of the journal “Film Quarterly,” Rich is hosting a workshop that she said “talks about the nature and responsibility of film criticism,” and “looks to find new voices and ‘reform’ film criticism to get it out of the fanboy and the ‘auteurist’ cinephile straightjacket.” n For more information about B. Ruby Rich’s Swarthmore event, visit http://ow.ly/ MKwN3059nzD; her Interntaional House event, visit http://ow.ly/9B6P3059nH5; and her Scribe Video Center master class, visit http:// ow.ly/gbiD3059nLR.

Theater & Arts Anthony Bourdain The chef and TV personality hosts a new live show and Q&A 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26 at Kimmel’s Academy of Music, 250 S. Broad St.; 215-790-5800. The Birds Curio Theatre Company presents a stage adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s short horror story through Oct. 29 at Calvary Center for Culture and Community, 4740 Baltimore Ave.; 215-525-1350. The Bridges of Madison County Media Theatre presents the musical based on the best-selling novel through Oct. 23, 104 E. State St., Media; 610-891-0100. Bruce Nauman: Contrapposto Studies, I through VII Philadelphia Museum of Art presents the premiere of a new work by Bruce Nauman, which continues the artist’s exploration of video, sound and performance, through Jan. 8, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-7638100. Cinderella The Pennsylvania Ballet performs the classic fairy tale through Oct. 23 at Kimmel’s Academy of Music, 250 S. Broad St.; 215-7905800. Classical Splendor: Painted Furniture for a Grand Philadelphia House Philadelphia Museum of

Art presents an exhibition of furniture designed in 1808 by Benjamin Henry Latrobe through Jan. 1, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-763-8100. Fortune Feimster The out comedian seen on “Chelsea Lately” performs Oct. 21-22 at The Punch Line Philly, 33 E. Laurel St.; 215-606-6555. Henry Rollins The spoken-word artist performs 8 p.m. Oct. 22-23 at the Trocadero Theatre, 1003 Arch St.; 215-922-6888. Inside Out Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition of large-scale, highquality replicas of favorite works from the museum’s collection to local neighborhoods through Nov. 1; 215-763-8100. Kathleen Madigan The comedian performs 8 p.m. Oct. 27 at Keswick Theatre, 291 Keswick Ave.; 215572-7650. Live and Life Will Give You Pictures: Masterworks of French Photography, 1890-1950 The Barnes Foundation presents vintage prints of nearly 200 classic images by French photographers and photographers working extensively in France through Jan. 9 at the Roberts Gallery, 2025 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy.; 215-2787000.

HITTING THE WIG TIME: Australian pop singer and songwriter Sia is storming though North America on her “Nostalgic For the Present Tour,” which touches down in Philadelphia 8 p.m. Oct. 21 at Wells Fargo Center, 3601 S. Broad St. For more information or tickets, call 215-3899543.

Look Again: Contemporary Perspectives on African Art Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition drawing from the Penn Museum’s esteemed African collections through Dec. 4, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-763-8100. The Other Place Walnut Street Theatre’s Independence Studio on 3 presents Broadway’s new thriller about a neurologist whose life is becoming unhinged through Oct. 30, 825 Walnut St.; 215574-3550. Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910–1950 Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition of Mexican masterpieces by Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro

Siqueiros, Frida Kahlo, Rufino Tamayo and many others Oct. 25-Jan. 8, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215763-8100. Plays of/for a Respirateur Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an installation by Joseph Kosuth that includes a selection of his work, along with a group of seminal works by Marcel Duchamp, through Oct. 30, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-7638100. The Rocky Horror Picture Show 40th-Anniversary Film Screening Party “Brad Majors” himself, Barry Bostwick, hosts a screening of the iconic cult film 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21 at Keswick Theatre, 291 Keswick Ave.; 215572-7650. Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific Walnut Street

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A RIPPED RECITAL: Out string quartet Well-Strung channels pop favorites through a classical lens when the group performs 9 p.m. Oct. 28 at the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Music Box, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J. For more information or tickets, call 609-317-1000.

Theatre presents the classic musical adapted from the Pulitzer Prizewinning novel through Oct. 23, 825 Walnut St.; 215-574-3550.

Foreigner: The Hits Unplugged The classic-rock band performs 8 p.m. Oct. 22 at Keswick Theatre, 291 Keswick Ave.; 215-572-7650.

Steve Martin & Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life The stage and screen stars tell stories, sing songs and tell a few jokes Oct. 2829 at Kimmel’s Academy of Music, 250 S. Broad St.; 215790-5800.

Tricky The trip-hop artist performs 8:30 p.m. Oct. 27 at Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St.; 215-928-4004.

The Thing The classic scifi/horror film is screened 8 p.m. Oct. 24 at the Trocadero Theatre, 1003 Arch St.; 215-922-6888.

Music Die Antwoord The electro-rap duo performs 8 p.m. Oct. 22 at the Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St.; 215627-1332.

Nightlife Rasputin’s Room: The International Extravaganza Lil’ Steph throws her monthly burlesque party 8 p.m. Oct. 21 at Franky Bradley’s, 1320 Chancellor St.; 215-735-0735. SEE You in HELL: Make America Great Again! BEV hosts the election-themed drag show featuring Aurora Whorealis, Mistor Fahrenheit, Astala Vista and Sutton Fearce 9 p.m.midnight Oct. 21 at Tabu, 200 S.

12th St.; 215-9649675. Third-Annual Halloween Underwear Party Get ready to party in your skivvies 9 p.m. Oct. 26 at The Bike Stop, 206 S. Quince St.; 215627-1662. Happy Bear: Haunted The bears get dressed up for Halloween 5-9 p.m. Oct. 28 at Tabu, 200 S. 12th St.; 215-964-9675.

Outta Town Chicago and Earth Wind & Fire The pop/R&B bands perform 8 p.m. Oct. 21 at the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Event Center,

Dito van Reigersberg, the acclaimed Philadelphia actor and performer best know for his alter-ego drag star Martha Graham Cracker, is trying on a new drag persona with Arden Theatre Company’s production of Matthew Lopez’s “The Legend of Georgia McBride.” The music-filled comedy follows Casey, a young, down-on-his-luck Elvis impersonator who is losing his job and finds out his wife is expecting their first child. His club brings in a drag act, Miss Tracy Mills, who gives Casey the opportunity to become a drag performer. Van Reigersberg, who plays Miss

1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-317-1000. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit The animated film is screened 5 p.m. Oct. 22 at the Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610-917-1228. Elvis Costello The rock singer performs 8 p.m. Oct. 22 at the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Event Center, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-317-1000. The Rocky Horror Picture Show The cult classic is screened 10 p.m. Oct. 22 at the Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610917-1228. n

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Tracy Mills, said taking on the new drag persona was an intriguing undertaking. “It was an interesting challenge of working on a different kind of drag queen,” he said. “Martha Graham Cracker is a singing drag queen. She works with a band and she’s now 11 years old, which is terrifying. But I was interested in the other kind of drag queen, Tracy Mills. She’s Southern. She’s a lip-syncing drag queen, which is a different art all together. The play is very funny and it also has a real heart underneath it and all that drew me to it. With Pig Iron [Theater Company] and Martha, I’m often making my own work and that has its own challenges. There’s this other challenge when you get this playwright’s script in your hand and you’re like, How do I bring myself to this thing that has already been created?

I really appreciate where you’re reading through a script and try to decode what the clues are that can lead you to the correct embodiment of the role as envisioned by the playwright.” Even though Martha Graham Cracker and Miss Tracy Mills are different kinds of performers, van Reigersberg said they do have some similarities. “Both characters have big hearts and are sometimes bossy, but in a loving way,” he said. “Tracy Mills becomes this entrepreneur/leader. She picks this bar that’s down and out and turns it around and people start coming to see the drag show. It’s a rags-to-riches story.” Martha Graham Cracker’s popularity around Philly might add a degree of difficulty to performing as Miss Tracy Mills, van Reigersberg said, though he’s doing his best to distinguish Tracy from Martha. “That’s always the hope,” he said about audiences leaving behind their notions of Martha. “[Tracy] looks quite different from Martha. She has a different personality and a different way of handling herself. Of course, some parts of Martha might bleed into it but I’m trying to forge something different with this character.” Among the differences, van Reigersberg will have to shave the body hair audiences have come to associate with Martha. “Martha is going to look a little more plucked than usual. But that’s OK. She can handle it. Hair will grow back. I had to shave my torso for ‘Hedwig’ and it grew back so I’m not scared. But it will be weird to be shaven that much.” Miss Tracy Mills isn’t pushing Martha Graham Cracker out of the picture in Philly during the show’s two-month run. Van Reigersberg said Martha will still perform her monthly shows. “We’ve been able to schedule around the play,” he said. “For the next two months, we’ve changed the night the show falls on so I can do all of it. I’ll be doing my regular L’Etage gig just on a different night in October and November, then we’ll be back to our usual schedule in December.” n Arden Theatre Company presents “The Legend of Georgia McBride” through Nov. 27 at the Arcadia Stage, 40 N. Second St. For more information or tickets, call 215-9221122 or visit www.ardentheatre.org.

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Bob Snyder: Growing ‘Q’munity in the ’burbs “Darkness falls across the land/ The Bingo hour is close at hand Creatures crawling in search of blood/ Will terrorize Westover Country Club.” Yes, folks, Halloween is almost here, that high holy holiday for our community. There are plenty of things to do: the Henri David Ball, several versions of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”(including a screening at the Keswick with Barry Bostwick, the original Brad Majors!) and, one of my favorites, Boo at the Zoo (c’mon, toddlers in little penguin costumes? Too cute!). But Philadelphia isn’t the only place to get your zombie on. If you live in the ’burbs, the LGBT Qmunity Center of Montgomery County is having its first-ever Halloween Bingo fundraiser and it’s guaranteed to be a scream — an evening loaded with tricks and treats, Bingo and a fabulous Masqueerade costume contest all for a good cause! And did I mention there are prizes? We spoke to organizer Bob Snyder about the fright night and what’s happening in MontCo for the LGBT community. PGN: I understand that you are a Montgomery County native? BS: I am, I grew up here. I actually grew up not too awfully far from Tim Johnson, who you interviewed recently. PGN: Oh wow, small world! Which city did you grow up in? BS: Worcester. PGN: Ha. I don’t think I ever quite pronounce that correctly! BS: [Laughs] It depends on what part of the country you’re in. PGN: I was reading up on Montgomery County and found some surprising facts. Apparently it was recently voted one of the top-10 places to raise a family in the country and is ranked as the 51st-wealthiest county in the country. BS: Oh yeah, you wouldn’t ordinarily think it — most people associate us with Norristown, which doesn’t scream wealth — but if you knew certain areas we cover, you’d believe it. PGN: Yeah, MontCo covers a lot of territory, from Norristown to Valley Forge and even to parts of Bryn Mawr and Ardmore. BS: Yup, yup. PGN: Tell me a little about the fam. BS: My parents are both retired; Mom was a school-bus driver, Dad was a master draughtsman. I had a sister who passed away about 20 years ago. PGN: Sorry to hear that. Did Mom drive for your school? BS: No, she drove for the next district over.

PGN: What school did you go to? BS: I went to a small school in Eagleville, Methacton High School. I was a good kid, I was on the diving team, straight As, church on Sundays, all that. People used to laugh at us when they came to our school to play football because our field backed right up to a cornfield. PGN: So jumping back, what was a first sign you were gay? BS: I didn’t come out of the closet or act on it much until I was in my mid-30s. But I did meet someone when I was younger at a job and I don’t know how to put it but I always felt there was something there. But he moved out of the area and we lost touch. Then in the summer of 2000, I found out that he was back in Pennsylvania and invited him over … and he never left! The rest is history. PGN: Tell me a little more about him. BS: His name is Mark Supplee and he was my first (and forever) love. Red hair and blue eyes ... perfect! In 2003, we bought a house in Norristown. We were married about two years ago when it became legal in Pennsylvania. His professional roots are also in the service and retail industry. Mark is a floral designer at Petals in King of Prussia. PGN: That’s great! What’s been the biggest challenge? BS: We have an old Victorian house that we bought that we’re slowly trying to put together. We’ve been here 10 years and there’s always still more to do. PGN: The worst disaster during rehab? BS: Oh, they almost blew up the house. We had a company install the furnace and they put it in wrong; if they’d tried to fire it up that day, the gas lines would have exploded. We had to have a second company come in to fix it so we were without heat for about 10 days during one of the coldest snaps that winter. PGN: Eeek. So how did you first get involved with the LGBT Qmunity Center? BS: My husband and I were told about the center by a couple of friends so we went and decided to get involved with the core group. I have a lot of ties with the local community because I used to tend bar right in the area. We had a big karaoke night at one of the bars you mentioned in Tim’s column, the Blue Sky Café. That’s where a lot of the LGBT community relocated after the Lark Bar in Bridgeport closed. PGN: Ah! That’s what it was called. For the life of me, I couldn’t remember the name. I have a lot of fond memories from that bar. BS: Oh yeah, the Lark was there forever and ever.

PGN: In fact, I think the last time I really tied one on was at the Lark! BS: Was it at the closing party? PGN: Sadly, no. I think it was on a Monday night at karaoke with Penny. Apparently I sang TLC’s “No Scrubs” with great enthusiasm the entire way home. BS: Penny! When the Lark closed, Penny came with me to Blue Sky and did karaoke on Wednesday nights for a couple of years. PGN: She’s great. I hosted karaoke at Sisters for 17 years but if I went anywhere else to do karaoke for fun, Penny at the Lark was my first choice. BS: I was in Sisters a few times, not as often as I’d like because I was working most nights on weekends, but it was nice. Unfortunately, no more Sisters now either. That’s such a problem. To a degree, those bars were not only a place to go for fun, they were our community centers in

April and it was a real success; we had about 300 people show up. And now we have another one coming up on Oct. 29, which we expect to be even bigger! We’re expecting about 400 people. It’s really cool because we see a lot of faces that we haven’t seen since in quite some time. PGN: That’ll be great. Did I read that the Lark bar does a reunion party? BS: Well, nothing formal. Two or three of the old bartenders do a reunion party at their house each summer. They’ve been doing that since the bar closed. One of them is actually the president of our board. PGN: What’s the nicest or most fulfilling thing you’ve had someone say or do to/for you as a bartender? BS: There are so many things that happened over the years. I’ve received concert tickets, back-stage passes and help with things like car repairs. Compliments on my cocktails and attentive service are probably the most fulfilling! PGN: What was a fun or favorite and also the worst memory from the Lark? BS: I wasn’t a regular bartender — I did mostly special events when they needed extra help — but we went there a lot. The most fun was whenever they did a drag show. They had some very talented performers. The worst was when we were watching the building being torn down. Someone filmed it and I have a link to it on my [Facebook] page. Even the Lark sign with the bird on it, which hung in front, was torn down. I don’t know where it is now. But I do have some items to keep for posterity, which is pretty cool.

PGN: Now you’re at Blue Sky? BS: No, they unfortunately also closed during the recession. On the Photo: Suzi Nash weekends, I bartend at many ways too. Everybody knew what Rivercrest Golf Club near was happening because they went and Phoenixville and during the week I work found out about it at the bars. It became a at a company called 1&1 Internet, which noticeable gap, especially in Montgomery County where there are no exclusively gay is a global tech company. bars anymore. There’s a real vacuum here. PGN: So I can come to you when I get PGN: Agreed, just to have your own place that spinning wheel of death? BS: [Laughs] Well I’m in sales, but on my to meet or have meetings is important. own I’m a little bit of a tech head so I might BS: Exactly, so we decided to have a be able to help some. Or help you find the fundraiser to build our own community latest thing to help you. center. We did our first Gay Bingo in PAGE 30

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PGN: OK, so what’s the tech trend coming down the pipeline? BS: More data collection, which is kind of cool because it lets you know about all sorts of new things based on your preferences and makes things connected, like it can pull dates from your emails and put them right into your calendar. It’ll become more and more automatic. PGN: Hmmm, cool and scary at the same time. BS: Ha. I say cool. We’re also going to see flexible phones too, ones you can almost bend in half or roll up and put in your pocket. PGN: Any other hobbies? BS: If we have the time or energy, we like to go out to eat. We have a little Pomeranian named Zachary. He’s right here, sitting and listening to every word right now. PGN: Hey, I just recalled something. Isn’t Montgomery County the one where the county clerk got national attention when he decided to start issuing same-sex marriage licenses even before it was legal? BS: Yes, D. Bruce Hanes. We live about five blocks from the county courthouse. We found out that he was starting to approve licenses and our neighbors from across the street decided to go right away and get married. A couple of weeks later, they pulled the licenses back. We decided to wait until it got sorted out and then got ours. PGN: What are some of the challenges LGBT people face in the ’burbs that are different than folks in a major city like Philadelphia? What is a need that the Qmunity Center of Montgomery County serves? BS: Well, major cities like Philadelphia and New York have well-established LGBT resources providing counseling, medical services, programs for LGBT youth and seniors, etc. In a lot of rural or suburban areas, you have to travel to a major city or more urban area to get access to those resources. It’s time for us to expand the network and connectivity of resources beyond Philadelphia to the surrounding counties and communities. Our goal with the LGBT Qmunity Center of Montgomery County is to make services like these available more locally. PGN: What are some of the benefits of the Qmunity Center? BS: The Qmunity Center is now in its second year of existence. We are just beginning to launch programming including a monthly book club and senior programming, aka “The Betty White Club.” Future programs will include youth programming/ events and also HIV awareness/testing/ PrEP outreach. We’ve been doing events like the Halloween Bingo on Oct. 29 to fund our programming and get a permanent location for the Qmunity Center. The fundraisers are fun and give our community a

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place to gather together and also increase awareness of LGBT needs in the county. So far, we’ve done events like Gay Bingo at Westover Country Club, Painting with a Purpose and a recent Beef ’n’ Beer event at the Bridgeport Firehouse. The Bridgeport Firehouse also welcomes all LGBT people to their Social Club Room. They’re great; folks are encouraged to stop in, enjoy a favorite beverage and meet new friends! PGN: What were some of your favorite center events and what’s coming up this (and next) year, aside from the Halloween event? BS: My favorite event over the last year was our first Gay Bingo that was held in April. It was our first major fundraiser for the center, and it was a huge success. I have a long-time background in the service and event industry, so it’s very fulfilling to plan and execute successful events such as this. Our next two Bingo events will be Masqueerade Bingo Oct. 29 and Holly-Gay Bingo Dec. 10. Both events will be held at Westover Country Club. There are also two more Bingo events scheduled for February and April 2017. Other upcoming events in the planning stages will be a Qmunity Summer Picnic and others to be announced soon. PGN: Best Halloween costume? BS: Probably Dracula. But I’ve worn a number of costumes over the years and had some big parties. Back in 1999, some friends and I had a party that we billed as the last Halloween party of the century and did it big. We had a band and a full bar; people were leaving other parties to come to ours. It was a lot of fun. I still have a lot of Halloween decorations left over that I’ll be pulling out for Bingo soon. PGN: What’s your zodiac sign and what things about you fit with it? BS: I am a Capricorn, born on Jan. 1! I am a Cap through and through. I usually work six or seven days a week and I am a perfectionistic, persevering workaholic. [Laughs] You can’t keep a good goat down! PGN: Why should someone move to MontCo? BS: MontCo is a great place to live. There is a lot to do here, and it’s not too far from Philly, the shore or the Poconos! PGN: Who is your ideal drinking buddy (dead, fictional or living)? BS: A few cocktails with Joan Rivers would be awesome. Can we talk? PGN: I think we just did! n For more information on the LGBT Qmunity Center of Montgomery County, visit www.lgbtqmunity.org. Doors for Masqueerade Bingo open at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 29, with the games starting at 7p.m. at 401 S. Schuylkill Ave. in Jeffersonville. To suggest a community member for Family Portrait, email portraits05@aol.com.

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40. Kind of 41. Scent for a fem 42. What straight guys did with their eyes in the shower room 43. Fall in 46. Doesn’t come out 47. Alternate sp. 48. Honey holder 50. Rubber ___ 51. Lucky charm 55. Computer part 56. Family group 58. City in the Osmonds’ home state 60. Things to connect 61. Goes to seed 65. Hot time for Bertrand Delanoe 66. End of the definition

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The LGBT community loves to travel in fall. You can usually find terrific travel deals coming off the summer high season, and then there is Halloween! Of course, our community loves to dress up and party. There are iconic Halloween events close to home and around the country for Halloween fans, voyeurs and devotees. Key West’s legendary Fantasy Fest this year has a theme that once again doesn’t disappoint: “Political Voodoo and Ballot Box Barbarians.” In Fort Lauderdale, Wilton Manor’s Halloween block party is themed “Political Nightmare.” Halloween in New Orleans is a weekend of authentically haunted events under a theme of “Pirates Revenge: The Curse of Jean Lafitte.” Closer to home there is the “Happy Hour Halloween Pub Crawl” in Baltimore. Wanna dance? “Matinee Halloween” in New York City kicks off the Big Apple’s big gay weekend with an all-night dance party. A should-notmiss parade is the 43rd-annual Village Halloween Parade. While most events are drinking parties with outlandish costume creativity, California offers a different take. The West Hollywood Halloween Carnival will bring 500,000 people to the streets of WeHo for a traditional Halloween street party. There are lots of great nearby hotels. But for the true horror fans it is all about “Halloween Horror Nights” at nearby Universal Studios Hollywood. The annual fright event transforms the family-friendly theme park based on the top film and television series into a three-dimensional world of terror after dark. This is, after all, a TV and movie studio, so no surprise that what sets this trip apart is the film- and television-production-quality

mazes, frightful scare zones and a “Terror Tram” experience. This year’s slate of mazes includes: American Horror Story; The Exorcist: The Possession of Regan MacNeil; Freddy vs. Jason: Dream Battle; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Blood Brother; Halloween: Hell Comes to Haddonfield; Krampus: The Christmas Devil; The Walking Dead; and Eli Roth Presents Terror Tram. One of the best visual attractions is the doomed airliner. Universal’s most popular rides and attractions are open too, including Transformers: The Ride-3D; Jurassic Park–In the Dark, The Simpsons Ride and Revenge of the Mummy: The Ride. An insider’s tip: Tickets to the theme park and “Halloween Horror Nights” are sold separately. For the best value and to avoid some of the midday crunch, try the new after-2 p.m. Day/Night Combo ticket so you can hit the park’s popular daytime attractions, then step into the mazes and attractions located throughout the park for the “Halloween Horror Nights” for one admission price. The downside for most theme parks is the lines and Universal Studios Hollywood is no exception. If you want to fully experience “Halloween Horror Nights,” you should purchase the Front of Line Ticket. It is almost an essential way to see the park because it gives you one-time priority access to all the mazes, attractions and the new Terror Tram. You can also splurge on the VIP Experience, which gives special access to the park and other perks — though this seems more like an unnecessary luxury compared to the Front of Line Ticket. n Jeff Guaracino is the author of “Handbook of LGBT Tourism & Hospitality: A Guide For Business Practice.”

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Mental-Health Support

n Pink and Blues, a free peer-run mental-

health support group for LGBT people, meets 7 p.m. Wednesdays at St. Luke and The Epiphany Church, 330 S. 13th St.; 215627-0424. n Survivors of Suicide Inc. meets 7:30 p.m. the first Tuesday of the month at 3535 Market St., Room 2037 and the second Wednesday at Paoli Memorial Hospital, 225 W. Lancaster Ave.; 215-545-2242, www. phillysos.tripod.com.

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

n Project Teach, a peer-education and

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

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

n AIDS Delaware’s You’re Not Alone youth

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

Debtors Anonymous

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

William Way Center.

Community centers

■ The Attic Youth Center 255 S. 16th St.; 215-545-4331, atticyouthcenter.org. For LGBT and questioning youth and their friends and allies. Groups meet and activities are held 4-7 p.m. Monday-Tuesday and 4-8:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday. Case management, HIV testing and smoking cessation are available Monday-Friday. ■ Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center at the University of Pennsylvania 3907 Spruce St., 215-898-5044, center@dolphin. upenn.edu. Regular hours: 10 a.m.-10 p.m. MondayThursday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday; noon-6 p.m. Saturday; noon-8 p.m. Sunday. Summer hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

■ ActionAIDS: 215-981-0088

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

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

Key numbers

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

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

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

■ Equality Forum: 215-732-3378

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

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

■ Philadelphia Police Department liaison — Deputy Commissioner Kevin Bethel: 215-6863318 ■ Philadelphia Police Liaison Committee: 215-760-3686 (Rick Lombardo); ppd.lgbt@gmail.com ■ Philly Pride Presents: 215875-9288 ■ SPARC — Statewide Pennsylvania Rights Coalition: 717-9209537 ■ Transgender Health Action Coalition: 215-732-1207 (staffed 3-6 p.m. Wednesdays and 6-9 p.m. Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays)

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

Health

Anonymous, free, confidential HIV testing Spanish/English counselors offer testing 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday at Congreso de Latinos Unidos, 216 W. Somerset St.; 215-763-8870. ActionAIDS Provides a range of programs for people affected by HIV/ AIDS, including case management, prevention, testing and education services at 1216 Arch St.; 215-981-0088, www. actionaids.org. GALAEI: A Queer Latin@ Social Justice Organization Free, anonymous HIV testing from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday at 1207 Chestnut St., fifth floor; noon-6 p.m. Tuesdays at the Washington West Project, 1201 Locust St.; 215-851-1822 or 866-222-3871, www.galaei.org. Spanish/English HIV treatment Free HIV/AIDS diagnosis and treatment for Philadelphia residents are available from 9 a.m.-noon Mondays (walk-in) and 5-8 p.m. Thursdays (by appointment) at Health Center No. 2, 1720 S. Broad St.; 215685-1821. HIV health insurance help Access to free medications and confidential HIV testing 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays at 13 S. MacDade Blvd., Suite

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

Overeaters Anonymous (OA)

n Open meetings 7 p.m. Fridays at

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

S.A.R.A.

n Substance Abuse – Risk Assessment, day

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

Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

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