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the pride ISSUE NUMBER 23, VOLUME 2 10.07 — 10.20.2016

History is being made and Hillary Clinton personally invites you to be part of it LOCAL BUSINESS ⚫ 4

Frontiers Magazine closes, parent company is bankrupt REMEMBRANCE ⚫ 5

Karen Ocamb’s Farewell to Frontiers, Once LA’s LGBT Champ NEWS ⚫ 16

Scholars and stars rub elbows at Point Foundation Honors Fundraiser NEWS ⚫ 18

Raising HIV awareness among Latinos isn’t as easy as all that

the pride WEST HOLLYWOOD NEW MAYOR FOR WEHO, LAUREN MEISTER ⚫ 11

POLITICS KAREN OCAMB ON 2016 PRESIDENTIAL RACE ⚫ 12

LOS ANGELES

How a Donut Shop in Los Angeles sparked a 1959 LGBT riot

special issue

THE LOS ANGELES LGBT NEWSPAPER

WWW.THEPRIDELA.COM

MONUMENTAL HIV STILL EPIDEMIC WORLDWIDE ⚫ 7

ISSUE 17, VOLUME 2 JULY 15 — 28, 2016

THE LOS ANGELES LGBT NEWSPAPER

OUTBREAK ⚫ 3

Federal Court reinstates case that challenges anti-trans laws

GAY PRIDE ⚫ 19

⚫ The Los Angeles public high school at Santee has opened the school district’s first gender-neutral bathroom

YOUTH LEADERS: MILLENNIALS WHO CARE ABOUT THE PAST ⚫ 22

⚫ Westboro Baptist Church, the anti-gay group protested the school’s new gender-neutral bathroom, using megaphones to denounce the students.

ANTHONY SULLIVAN: AFTER A 41 YEAR FIGHT HIS DAY HAS ARRIVED ⚫ 6

PRIDE BEGINS ⚫ 16

2016 LA PRIDE ISSUE NUMBER 11, VOLUME 2 JUNE 4 — JUNE 18, 2016

⚫ Donald Trump heads to Cleveland this week for the G.O.P. convention to accept the nomination of a party that has embraced extremism

Pride celebrations takes center stage in Los Angeles

⚫ Efforts to quell controversy, including concessions have failed while board members face legal pressure to remain silent

⚫ Christopher Street West’s board of directors continues to face widening criticism over their handling of transgender, dyke and financial issues

⚫ Republicans have declared the LGBT community an enemy of the people, vowing to reverse marriage equality and other gains

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MOVIES: 04.08.2016 WAR AND ETHICS BY “EYE IN THE SKY” ⚫ 16

UNDERSTANDING “RELIGIOUS FREEDOM” & WHY YOU CARE ⚫ 10

BREAKING SOUTH CAROLINA RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

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| SEP 23 — OCT 6, 2016

ISSUE NUMBER 7, VOLUME 2 1 APRIL 8 — APRIL 21, 2016

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ISSUE NUMBER 19, VOLUME 2 08.12 — 08.25.2016

LOS ANGELES

| AUGUST 12 — 25, 2016

ONE YEAR THE LOS ANGELES LGBT NEWSPAPER

WWW.THEPRIDELA.COM

MUSIC REVIEW THE KIDS IN GROOVE ⚫ 18

STD PREVENTION ⚫ 3

WWW.THEPRIDELA.COM

One City One Pride events: Celebrate Pride with 40 days INTO THE STREETS: THE RALLYING CRY OF EARLY LGBTQ RIGHTS GROUPS (OUT of events OF THE CLOSET AND INTO THE STREETS) IS THE THEME OF ONE CITY, ONE PRIDE, 6/22 - 6/30

ON CIVIL RIGHTS THERE’S NO QUESTION, HILLARY CLINTON.

Republicans adopt extreme anti-gay, xenophobic platform

Transgender bathroom battle comes to Los Angeles

THE LOS ANGELES LGBT NEWSPAPER

WWW.THEPRIDELA.COM

Quiet SCOTUS inaction substantially affects transgender rights

Israel ⚫ 12

After Orlando, police shootings and tragic events in Dallas...

NEWS ⚫ 16

LOS ANGELES

TERRORISM ⚫ 6

CRIME ⚫ 8

Stonewall Dems to Honor Garcetti, Prang, Eger, TRANSFORM CALIFORNIA: LOS ANGELES MAYOR ERIC GARCETTI SIGNED A Wishon, Rosendahl PLEDGE TO WORK TOWARD IMPROVING THE LIVES OF TRANSGENDER PEOPLE (P 19).

WWW.THEPRIDELA.COM

THE LOS ANGELES LGBT NEWSPAPER

Everything old is new again in STD prevention as Syphilis soars and gonorrhea evolves

THE LOS ANGELES LGBT NEWSPAPER

OBITUARY ⚫ 14

Bill Rosendahl service attended by hundreds of friends and family

WE’VE EARNED OUR STRIPES

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ISSUE NUMBER 9, VOLUME 2 1 MAY 20 — JUNE 3, 2016

After antigay terror attack in Bangladesh nowhere to turn

Murdered at Echo Park sober living home stuns A.A. community

GOVERNMENT ⚫ 19

ACCEPTANCE: KAREN OCAMB ON ‘FAMILY IS STILL FAMILY’ ⚫ 7

LA PRIDE ⚫ 5

MENINGITIS ⚫ 6

LA bans non-essential official business travel to NC & MS

PRIDE: LA PRIDE CONTROVERSY MISSTEPS ⚫18

Despite some concessions, LA Pride board finds itself in spotlight

Read this factual primer on Invasive Meningococcal Disease

COMMUNITY ⚫ 18

Hollywood’s power players gather to strategize on anti-LGBT laws

PEOPLE: 05.20.2016 MEET MICHAELA

MENDOHLSON ⚫ 23

Meningitis outbreak intensifies, 56 cases statewide, 23 in SoCal

FEDERAL ⚫ 8

YOUR LEGACY: FEATURING SOME OF LA’S LGBTQ PIONEERS ⚫ 28

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MOVIES “LAST MAN STANDING” AT OUTFEST ⚫ 18

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NEWS JIMMY CHOO ⚫ 10

EQUALITY ⚫ 4

West Hollywood City Attorney explains quiet on Ian Owens lawsuit

AGING MOVEMENT ⚫ 5

Frontline gen. in fight against AIDS enters golden years, now what?

GOVERNMENT ⚫ 11

Anti-gay laws draw CA gov biz travel bans to Hateland states nationwide

NEWS ⚫ 11

A look at LGBTQ community as targets of recent acts of terror

NEWS ⚫ 7

L.A. man said to kill son for being gay, prosecutors say

NEWS NORTH CAROLINA ⚫ 14

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EQCA withdraws endorsements for six Dems who reject equality

WEHO LAWSUIT ⚫ 8

OUTRAGE IN MISSISSIPPI:

AS RELIGIOUS LIBERY BILLS CONTINUE TO SPREAD LGBT ADVOCATES HAVE TAKEN TO THE STREETS, THE COURTS AND THE BOARDROOM.

NEWS ⚫ 12

Fighting to make gun violence and LGBT rights top issues after Orlando

Everything you need to know about anti-LGBTQ religious freedom bills

⚫ Religious Freedom bills appear unconstitutional

but they are not. They highlight the need for a federal bill to protect LGBT citizens.

END PAGE ⚫ 19

Out Magazine takes a infuriating right turn to Trumplandia

⚫ A flood of anti-LGBT bills being pushed in 2016 by anti-equality activists around the country. There are nearly 200 anti-LGBT bills in 34 states.

Remember the condom?

CARLOS MORENO of The Wall Las Memorias Project enjoys DTLA Proud see page 18

TREATMENT RESISTANT GONORRHEA AND A SURGE IN SYPHILIS BEG THE QUESTION, PG 3.

the pride the pride the pride the pride ISSUE NUMBER 20, VOLUME 2 08.26 — 09.09.2016

WWW.THEPRIDELA.COM PRIDE ⚫ 4

Can the board of Christopher Street West Save itself and LA Pride?

| AUG 26 — SEP 9, 2016

BUSINESS GAY BUSINESSES ARE HOT IN THE DESERT⚫ 14

LOS ANGELES

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BOOKS Q&A WITH TIM MILLER, “CHRISTADORA” ⚫ 22

TRANS YOUTH EARLY USE OF PUBERTY BLOCKING DRUGS ⚫ 12

EVERYDAY ⚫ 33

AT THE FORE ⚫ 14

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LA PRIDE, VOLUME 2

MILLENNIAL PIONEERS MEET THE NEXT LGBTQI GENERATION ⚫ 22

WWW.THEPRIDELA.COM

PREP: 05.06.2016 WEST HOLLYWOOD

PREP: LOS ANGELES COUNTY PROMOTES PREP ⚫ 23

PROMOTES PREP ⚫ 23

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THE LOS ANGELES LGBT NEWSPAPER

POLITICS KAREN OCAMB ON 2016 PRESIDENTIAL RACE ⚫ 7

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ISSUE NUMBER 8, VOLUME 2 1 MAY 6 — MAY 20, 2016

LOS ANGELES

OBITUARY ⚫ 6

MOVIES: 04.08.2016 WAR AND ETHICS BY “EYE IN THE SKY” ⚫ 16

UNDERSTANDING “RELIGIOUS FREEDOM” & WHY YOU CARE ⚫ 10

BREAKING SOUTH CAROLINA RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

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LOS ANGELES

LEGAL ⚫ 8

SOBRIETY ⚫ 19

NEWS ⚫ 10

NEWS ⚫ 20

In Florence Foster Jenking, Meryl Streep hits a high note NEXT ISSUE

UPCOMING: DALE GREEN, 85, AND TAKASHI NAKAYA, 53, OF TOYOHASHI, JAPAN, MARRY AT THE WEST L.A. VETERANS ADMINISTRATION HOSPITAL. THEIR STORY WILL MOVE YOU.

GAY PRIDE ⚫ 19

GOVERNMENT ⚫ 11

“Evolution” brings “Gay Coachella” as LA Pride comes to West Hollywood

Anti-gay laws draw CA gov biz travel bans to Hateland states nationwide

WASHINGTON ⚫ 16

FILM REVIEW ⚫ 56

Hobby Lobby case makes an ugly, disruptive return in trans rights case

WEHO LAWSUIT ⚫ 8

West Hollywood City Attorney explains quiet on Ian Owens lawsuit

D.O.J. says North Carolina bathroom law violates civil Rights

There’s a Sober way to enjoy LA Pride but all are welcome

THE LOS ANGELES LGBT NEWSPAPER

Bill Rosendahl service attended by hundreds of friends and family

LEGAL ⚫ 8

FUNDRAISING ⚫ 54

WWW.THEPRIDELA.COM

OBITUARY ⚫ 14

Donald Trump: a terrifying triumph and what it could mean for California

AIDS/Life Cycle raises more than 16 million dollars, rolls into WeHo

Jury: Gay Manager discriminated against straight employees

THE LOS ANGELES LGBT NEWSPAPER

ELECTIONS ⚫ 7

FEDERAL ⚫ 18

Federal judge may have just ended anti-trans pee controversy

Mark Thompson, 63, pioneer in LGBT journalism, dies

Witness history as Dale Green and Takashi Nakaya get married

YEARS OF AIDS CITY ONE PRIDE: LAONE PRIDE 06.03-17.201635 LOS ANGELES HAS BEEN CELEBRATE PRIDE

THE LOS ANGELES LGBT NEWSPAPER

NEWS ⚫ 7

“Last Man Standing” remembers their names at 2016 OutFest

Hearing in the works for federal ‘religious freedom’ PRIDE: 2016 SEES THE FESTIVAL SET TO BECOME A N INT’L MUSIC FESTIVAL WHILE THE bill refuse LGBT MARCH REMAINS UNCHANGED. PHOTO: LA PRIDE 2015

L.A. man said to kill son for being gay, prosecutors say

Celebrate Pride and celebrate our journey

L.A. Pride pivots to ‘millennials” and roils the LGBT Community

Everything you need to know about anti-LGBTQ religious freedom bills

⚫ There are so many remarkable fighters who made it possible for all of us to enjoy LA Pride, knowing with certainty that our civil rights are intact.

⚫ The Pride LA presents a special issue dedicated to the work of a few of Los Angeles’ groundbreaking activists, new and old. And there are many more.

⚫ Legacy LGBT community members express outrage over a decision they say changes the nature of the event and ignores history.

⚫ West Hollywood City Council member suggests Christopher Street West needs more supervision and is making decisions by fiat.

OUTRAGE IN MISSISSIPPI:

AS RELIGIOUS LIBERY BILLS CONTINUE TO SPREAD LGBT ADVOCATES HAVE TAKEN TO THE STREETS, THE COURTS AND THE BOARDROOM.

⚫ Religious Freedom bills appear unconstitutional

but they are not. They highlight the need for a federal bill to protect LGBT citizens.

⚫ A flood of anti-LGBT bills being pushed in 2016 by anti-equality activists around the country. There are nearly 200 anti-LGBT bills in 34 states.

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MOVIES: 04.22.2016 RE-READING “THE JUNGLE BOOK” ⚫ 20

WEST HOLLYWOOD NEW MAYOR FOR WEHO, LAUREN MEISTER ⚫ 11

WWW.THEPRIDELA.COM

POLITICS KAREN OCAMB ON 2016 PRESIDENTIAL RACE ⚫ 12

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LOS ANGELES

THE LOS ANGELES LGBT NEWSPAPER

LA PRIDE: 03.25.2016 INDIA’S CROWN PRINCE TO JOIN AHF IN PARADE ⚫ 11

BOOKS THE GENIUS OF A CERTAIN DRAG LEGEND⚫ 14

WWW.THEPRIDELA.COM

THE SUPREMES OBAMA’S CHOICE NOT ALWAYS AN ALLY ⚫ 6

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THE LOS ANGELES LGBT NEWSPAPER

GOVERNMENT ⚫ 19

ELECTION ⚫ 4

LA bans non-essential official business travel to NC & MS

Los Angeles Log Cabin leader seeks a seat in Sacramento HEALTHCARE ⚫ 8

NEWS ⚫ 16

CELEBRATION OF WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP AWARDS SUE DUNLAP, PRES. AND CEO OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES; KAY BUCK, CEO COALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING (CAST): KAREN OCAMB, VETERAN LGBT JOURNALIST; CATHY J. REBACK, PH.D., SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST, FRIENDS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND MAXINE TATLONGHARI, PRES. AND CEO, VANITY GIRL HOLLYWOOD.

Stonewall Dems to Honor Garcetti, Prang, Eger, TRANSFORM CALIFORNIA: LOS ANGELES MAYOR ERIC GARCETTI SIGNED A Wishon, Rosendahl PLEDGE TO WORK TOWARD IMPROVING THE LIVES OF TRANSGENDER PEOPLE (P 19).

For California’s Terminally ill end of suffering is now in sight

Transgender bathroom battle comes to Los Angeles

Religious freedom bills threaten LGBT equality, Hollywood takes aim

⚫ The Los Angeles public high school at Santee has opened the school district’s first gender-neutral bathroom

⚫ Westboro Baptist Church, the anti-gay group protested the school’s new gender-neutral bathroom, using megaphones to denounce the students.

WWW.THEPRIDELA.COM

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THE LOS ANGELES LGBT NEWSPAPER

⚫ At the 1000 people strong Human Rights Campaign’s annual Los Angeles gala a prescient focus was on demanding that Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal veto the state’s antigay “Religious Freedom Restoration Act.”

⚫ More than 300 businesses, including The Walt Disney Co. and Marvel Studios, Delta Airlines and Coca Cola, have signed a pledge decrying a tactic widely seen a license to discriminate against LGBT people.

NEW IN TOWN 2.12.2016 ROBERT WILLIAMS

SHARES HIS STORY ⚫ 19

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LOS ANGELES

THE LOS ANGELES LGBT NEWSPAPER

LEGAL ⚫ 6

HEALTH ⚫ 7

APLA Opens New Health Center in Long Beach

Student badges provoke some anti-gay hate, kindness ADDICTION ⚫ 8

COURTS ⚫ 9

Harm reduction is focus of Federal health funding

12 years for ‘crime of passion’ in grizzly West Hollywood murder POLITICS ⚫ 10

PEOPLE ⚫ 19

Bravo! for TV’s first married gay couple reality stars

THE PRIDE LA IS DISTRIBUTED DOOR TO DOOR IN WEHO AND HOLLYWOOD AND IS AVAILABLE AT KEY LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT LOS ANGELES

California bill will make public wash-rooms gender-neutral

FIRST AMENDMENT ⚫ 6

HONORS ⚫ 12

Journalist Karen Ocamb receives Women In Leadership Award

Hollywood’s power players gather to strategize on anti-LGBT laws

THE PRIDE LA IS DISTRIBUTED DOOR TO DOOR IN WEHO AND HOLLYWOOD AND IS AVAILABLE AT KEY LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT LOS ANGELES

Mark Morales energizes LA’s LGBT business social network

Battling the California Conversion Therapy industry

Federal Court reinstates case that challenges anti-trans laws

MOVIES 3.11.2016 CUPS AND WITCHES ⚫ 15 & 16

LGBT BUSINESS ⚫ 13

TALKING POINT ⚫ 10

FEDERAL ⚫ 8

COMMUNITY ⚫ 18

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ENDORSEMENT ⚫ 3

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MOVIES: 04.22.2016 RE-READING “THE JUNGLE

LOS ANGELES

| OCT. 7 — OCT. 20, 2016

FAMED OUT GAY COP: SGT. MITCH GROBESON (L) IN A 1993 PRESS PHOTO WITH FORMER LAPD CHIEF DARYL GATES (R). (FROM SGTMITCH.COM)

REPORTED BY KAREN OCAMB

Out Former LAPD Sargent charged with spousal abuse

⚫ Sgt. Mitch Grobeson, who had fought lengthy legal battles with the LAPD over its treatment of gay officers, was charged Tuesday with pointing a handgun at his husband during an argument in their West Hollywood home.

⚫ Grobeson faces one felony count of assault with a firearm and a count of criminal threats, according to Deputy District Attorney Jessica Kronstadt. If convicted, Grobeson faces up to 14 years in state prison.

Sanders and Trump win big in New Hampshire primary

THE PRIDE EXPANDS: LOS ANGELES’ ONLY LGBT NEWSPAPER IS ROLLING OUT NEWSPAPER VENDING BOXES LIKE THIS ONE ON ROBERTSON.

Clinton and Sanders evolved slowly on marriage equality

⚫ Hillary Clinton long maintained that gay marriage was a local issue best left to the states, a position she maintained until well into the debates leading up to the Windsor decision, voicing full throated support in 2013.

⚫ Bernie Sanders, though he opposed passage of the Defense of Marriage act in 1994, did not embrace marriage equality until it became law in Vermont, proclaiming Civil Unions sufficient.

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PRESIDENCY 2016

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THE PRIDE ENDORSES HILLARY CLINTON

⚫ BY HILLARY CLINTON

History is being made and you are part of it

With unprecedented endorsements by every major newspaper in America, by magazines like The Atlantic which had not endorsed in a century, by many of her own antagonists and every living President... how do we resist? The Pride LA endorses Hillary Clinton for President. Why? She makes her own best case here.

More than half a century ago, at Independence Hall, participants at the first Annual Reminder march picketed, chanted and sang. They did this to show their fellow Philadelphians that the LGBT community lacked fundamental civil rights.

In the decades since those protests, our country has come a long way. Marriage equality is the law of the land. This year, the last state law prohibiting same-sex couples from adopting was finally struck down. And President Obama signed an executive order protecting federal workers from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. We should celebrate that progress.

But the simple truth is that even now, in 2016, there are still too many states in America where LGBT people can be fired or evicted from their home because of who they are or who they love. Pennsylvania is one of them.

Here, you can get married on Sunday and fired on Monday, just for being gay or transgender.

That goes against everything we stand for as a country.

THE FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS AN ALLY OF THE LGBT COMMUNITY AND PROMISES TO CONTINUE TO OPEN DOORS TO EQUALITY FOR LGBT PEOPLE.

We need to act on the federal level to take on discrimination in all its forms.

That’s what I’ll do as President — with your help.

But first, we have to win this election. Donald Trump must not be elected president. He would rip away so much of the progress we’ve made. He would appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn marriage equality and rescind many of President Obama’s executive orders — including those protecting LGBT people.

It’s not just Trump’s policies that reveal the kind of president he would be.

So does his choice of running mate.

Mike Pence is one of the most anti-LGBT public officials in America. As governor of Indiana, Pence supported a bill that legalized discrimination against LGBT people. As a member of Congress, he voted against expanding the definition of hate crimes to include sexual orientation and gender identity. He opposed the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” saying doing so would be “social experimentation.” And he’s said that homosexuality would bring about “societal collapse.”

That’s why the stakes in this election are so high.

If I’m fortunate enough to be elected president, I’ll protect the progress we’ve fought so hard to achieve — and

I’ll keep fighting until every American can live free from discrimination and prejudice.

That means working to pass the Equality Act. It would finally provide LGBT people full federal nondiscrimination protections in housing, employment and so much more. I know that differences of opinion on LGBT equality still exist in the hearts of some Americans, but they should not exist under our laws. As president, I’ll be your partner in bringing about the vision of the inclusive nation that advocates, activists and allies have been seeking for decades.

I also believe we must address the ongoing issue of violence against the LGBT community. LGBT people are now more likely than any other group to be the target of a hate crime. America saw the effects of hate in Orlando, with the attack on the Pulse nightclub — the deadliest mass shooting by a single person in our history. The danger is compounded for LGBT people of color, who face intersectional pressures and dangers, particularly transgender people of color. Last year, more than 20 transgender women were killed in America. Recently, three were murdered right here in Philadelphia.

We need to stop the violence and save LGBT lives. We need to collect

more data around gender identity and sexual orientation in hate crimes, so we can stop them in a smarter, more effective way. And we need to finally pass common-sense reforms to address the gun violence epidemic. Along with the vast majority of Americans, I believe that we can protect the rights of law-abiding gun owners while still making sure that guns don’t fall into the wrong hands.

Finally, we need to continue our fight to achieve our goal of an AIDSfree generation. HIV and AIDS still disproportionately impact gay and bisexual men, communities of color, transgender people and young people.

We need to increase research, expand the use of effective prevention medications like PrEP, cap out-of-pocket drug costs and reform outdated HIV-criminalization laws.

Like many, I’ve lost friends and loved ones to AIDS. We owe it to them — the people we love and miss, and the people whose names we’ll never know — to continue this fight.

As First Lady and Senator, I fought to significantly expand funding for AIDS research. As Secretary of State, I changed the rules so that State Department employees in same-sex relationships were treated the same as their colleagues and so that transgender Americans could obtain passports that reflected their true gender identity. So these fights aren’t new to me.

And as president, I’ll keep fighting for LGBT rights, because — as I told the world in one of the most important speeches I gave as Secretary — they are human rights. And I won’t quit until all our laws reflect that basic reality.

Philadelphia Gay News (PGN) reached out to the Democratic and Republican candidates for president, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, to discuss LGBT issues in advance of next month’s election. Clinton provided PGN this exclusive op-ed detailing her LGBT-rights record and her goals for future LGBT-equality efforts. Their offer —and ours — remains open for Trump.

This is the first time a major-party presidential candidate has written an op-ed for an LGBT newspaper.

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10.07 — 10.20.2016

LOS ANGELES

CLOSURE OF AN INSTITUTION

⚫ BY JEFF TAYLOR

Frontiers Magazine closes, parent company is bankrupt The 35 year-old magazine has been through many hands in recent years. Could it survive yet again?

Multimedia Platforms Worldwide (MMPW), the publisher of Frontiers Magazine in Los Angeles, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, October 4, 2016, in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida. MMPW claimed to be the first LGBT media company to “go public.”

The move comes just less than two weeks after its largest creditor, White Winston Select Asset Funds, filed a lawsuit against them in the Suffolk County Civil Court of Massachusetts, which had led to the seizure of assets and cash on hand from MMPW. A preliminary injunction and restraining order effectively shuttered the company.

Multimedia Platforms Worldwide states in its bankruptcy petition that its estimated assets are less than $50,000, with estimated liabilities exceeding $1 million, possibly as much as $10 million.

The Chapter 11 filing lifts the restraining order and allows MMPW to collect receivables and pay creditors. As no staff remains it is unclear what this may mean for the publications.

MMPW had billed itself as the “world’s largest LGBT media conglomerate,” publishing Frontiers, Florida Agenda, Next (formerly Guy Magazine) and WiRLD Maps (formerly Fun Maps).

Last year the company went public, selling penny shares.

White Winston Select Asset Funds says MMPW obtained the $1.75 million loan through “fraudulent” and “negligent” misrepresentations. The terms of the loan required repayment in full, plus interest within one year from the July offering date.

Multimedia Platforms failed to deposit sufficient funds into an account meant to secure the loan, and failed to make the first payment on the loan, due September 1, South Florida Gay

FRONTIERS MAGAZINE HAS A STORIED HISTORY IN LOS ANGELES. MICHAEL TURNER, THE FORMER PUBLISHER, IS ATTEMPTING TO RESCUE THE PRODUCT, BUT FACES A STEEP UPHILL CLIMB.

News (SFGN) reports. A representative of White Winston flew to Los Angeles to discuss the failed payment but was stood up for 7 days.

While publisher and CEO Bobby Blair was talking up MMPW’s many accomplishments some ten months ago, including going public, raising over $3 million for development and expansion and their many recent acquisitions, it is clear that they were never financially stable.

A 10-K SEC filing dated June 30 showed that, “during the six months ended June 30, 2016, the Company recognized net revenue of $1,459,168 and a net loss of $4,698,798 and had negative working capital of $5,518,237.”

SFGN reports that in the company’s last SEC-8 quarterly filing, MMPW had received another infusion of capital in July exceeding one million dollars.

Blair at that time had been removed as CEO, and named Chairman of the Board.

“For the record, I was re-appointed CEO last week as I became informed all this was happening by management,” Blair told SFGN. “The last 4 months I

have not been involved or included in any day-to-day business or involved in this now disputed credit facility.”

Blair has claimed in emails since circulated on social media to have retained counsel to “fight” the seizure, saying “new management signed a horrible deal that I have now to fix.” That counsel, apparently, led to the decision to file bankruptcy.

Norman Kent, publisher of SFGN, says Multimedia Platforms was underfunded from the start. “They were living on loans and the loans were called in,” he said.

Blair acquired New Frontiers Media Holdings, LLC. in September 2015 from Michael Turner, who stayed on as publisher.

Turner acquired Frontiers out of bankruptcy for $361,000 in December 2013, from previous publisher David Stern.

Stern said in an email to The Pride L.A. that when he filed Chapter 11 it was the only way to keep the publication alive. He stated that he was promised “until the 11th hour” by Turner that he would be kept on as publisher,

which did not happen.

“David Stern was considered for a position in Frontiers Media, but unfortunately he was not ultimately offered a job,” Turner told The Pride L.A. “It’s unfortunate, the situation with Multimedia Platforms, however I believe that Frontiers Media will survive as a publication to serve the community that it does, the LGBT community in Southern California,” he added.

Meanwhile, a host of LGBT publications are reportedly thriving.

“Over the past few decades, many LGBT newspapers and magazines have come and gone, but very frequently the closings and mergers have had more to do with business decisions rather than the health of the market,” Tracy Baim, publisher and executive editor at Chicago’s Windy City Media Group, told The Advocate. “LGBT regional newspapers that are innovating and that are run professionally are doing well in the changing media landscape.”

Dallas Voice publisher Leo Cusimano agrees, saying, “I think there are some intrinsic problems with that specific business model they had.”

“The Pride LA,” says Troy Masters, publisher and editor, “is a success. We made a profit in our first year and have survived the start-up phase, which is generally the hardest part of any enterprise. We are a member of the very strong National Gay Media Association and our representation by Rivendell Media is critical to our success. I am proud of what this paper has accomplished in its first year,” he said.

Many have noted a move to the middle, away from hyperlocal, LGBT reporting and an attempt to make the magazines more attractive to a mainstream, non-LGBT audience as well.

“Circulation in overall LGBT media is up more than 13 percent year over year, and advertising in LGBT media is also up in 2016,” says a prepared statement from the National Gay Media Association, a trade association representing 12 U.S. markets. “LGBT regional print media continue to be a proven way to reach the LGBT community across the U.S.” As The Advocate notes, none of the Multimedia Platforms properties were members of the association.

10.07 — 10.20.2016

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Farewell, Frontiers, Once LA’s Voice for LGBT Civil Rights Wednesday, Sept. 28, will forever stick in my memory as the day a once proud LA LGBT institution sputtered to an ignoble end.

All day my phone rang and my email was jammed with questions, the most prominent of which was basically: do you feel gratified and vindicated after having been fired and treated so shabbily by the owners of Frontiers?

No. Actually, I feel sad.

The shuttering of Frontiers Magazine and its accompanying website, if the initial reports are true, symbolize the end of an era where being of service to LGBT people was the driving force, the heart and soul of a mission to recognize and report on the diverse span and development of a community of outsiders who loved, fought and needed each other.

The late AIDS activist Michael Callen used to say that the very concept of a “gay community” was “a useful fiction.”

That seemed never more true than during the 1970s as many gay men dove head-first into wild, hedonistic pleasure — as a birthright of the sex-

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ual liberation movement. That’s what Frontiers publisher Bob Craig told me when we first met in late 1988.

But AIDS changed everything.

It was Frontiers’ purpose to do its part in informing the frightened com-

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munity—from what was happening in the medical and scientific front, to political efforts for and against us, to the protests of ACT UP/LA and Queer Nation to the exploding artistic response from people like Paul Monette, Tim Miller, Michael Kearns and Jim Pickett, and Marlon Riggs and Essex Hemphill.

As I wrote in Windy City Times’ publisher Tracy Baim’s book “Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers in America,” Frontiers was founded in 1982 by Greg Carmack and Jerry Hyde to give Los Angeles gay culture and advocacy a voice. In 1983, the pair asked Mark Hundahl, the heterosexual owner of Probe (popular gay disco), for a $5,000 investment, which he gave in exchange for two years of advertising.

The same year businessman Bob Craig came on board and became publisher. A later clash prompted Hundahl to move his advertising to Edge, where he met sales associate David Stern, with whom he later became partners.

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CA law takes on reparative therapy biz Simply put: this is huge. For decades, parents of LGBT youth, as well as youth deemed “troubled” and unruly, have been snookered by con artists spinning religious lingo into sending their children to “camps” that will “fix” the kid.

The for-profit “troubled teen” industry is a billion dollar shake down that has lead to emotional and psychological child abuse, and sometimes death, as it did with 16 year old Aaron Bacon (pictured above) in 1994.

The industry is regulated in some states, but not as comprehensively as California after Gov. Jerry Brown signed SB 524, out State Sen. Ricardo Lara’s important bill, sponsored by the Los Angeles LGBT Center and Survivors of Institutional Abuse (SIA). This bill allows no exemption for religious-based businesses. In this post-Hobby Lobby era in which the religious right is going hog-wild trying to squeeze in religious exceptions for everything but breathing, the bill may face a “parental-rights” legal or initiative challenge in the future.

Good luck with that. In 2012, Brown signed SB 1172, banning the practice of so-called “conversion therapy.” In an email to the San Francisco Chronicle, Brown said: “This bill bans non-scientific ‘therapies’ that have driven young people to depression and suicide.

These practices have no basis in science or medicine and they will now be relegated to the dustbin of quackery.”

Last year, the U.S. government issued a report condemned the practice as junk science, as well.

Nonetheless, unconscionable “troubled teen” camp promoters use “reparative therapy” as bait for fundamentalist religious families and if something goes wrong, or if their abusive methods are exposed—they simply pick up stakes and move to another location, perhaps under a

different name to avoid the law, upset parents or creditors. Now that’s against the law in California.

“Today, Governor Jerry Brown became a hero to thousands of endangered youth—especially LGBT youth—when he signed a landmark bill that will save them from harm and even death,” Los Angeles LGBT Center CEO Lorri L. Jean said in a press release. “These programs can no longer shut down in one California city, after reports of abuse surface, and open in another California town to continue their abuse under a new name. No longer can these programs—many of which claim to be Christian-based—hide behind their cross, asserting religious exemption to continue torturing LGBT youth they claim they can ‘cure.’ Now, thanks to the actions of our state legislature and our governor, LGBT youth—and youth throughout the state—are protected from the abuses of this industry.”

“Today is a victory for the protection of our children,” Lara said.

“Many facilities or camps that claim to help children are causing irreparable harm. With this bill we will provide oversight for these facilities to ensure that no child is the victim of psychological or physical abuse at the hands of adults they are told to trust.”

This is not a new effort—nor is it limited to California. SIA reports the deaths of more than 300 people—often young people who commit suicide—who are linked to these programs and the U.S. Government Accountability Office reported that in just one year (2005), 1,619 program employees—in 33 states—were involved in incidents of abuse.

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AB 1887 bans non-essential, state-funded travel by California state employees to North Carolina, Mississippi and other states that enact discriminatory laws after June, 2015.

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“Today, the Governor signed AB 1887 which bans state funded travel to states that discriminate against LGBT people,” said Low. “The Golden State has always been a leader in protecting civil rights and preventing discrimination. I’m very pleased that Governor Brown joined our coalition today to stand up and say we will fight back against the discriminatory policies passed in states like North Carolina and Mississippi. California has said clearly, our taxpayer dollars will not help fund bigotry and hatred.

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room for discrimination of any kind in California, and AB 1887 ensures that discrimination will not be tolerated beyond our borders.”

“California has become the first state in the country to pass a law through its legislature banning travel to states with laws that discriminate against LGBT people,” said Rick Zbur, executive director of Equality California. “This new law will put the force of the world’s sixth largest economy behind a strong message that bigotry against LGBT people is costly. It provides a strong disincentive to states that may be considering adopting anti-LGBT laws similar to North Carolina’s HB 2.”

“We are thrilled that Governor Brown signed this important bill preventing taxpayer funds from going to states that authorize discrimination,” said Geoff Kors, government policy director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights. “California is sending a powerful message to states that are considering passing anti-LGBT laws.”

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Slamming changes made to foster LGBT inclusion in the U.S. military during the Obama administration, Donald Trump pledged Monday to “get away from political correctness” when asked about openly transgender military service and women serving in combat roles.

The candidate made the comments n Herndon, Va., alongside Tony Perkins, president of the anti-LGBT Family Research Council, in the same forum where he raised eyebrows for suggesting veterans who kill themselves after suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder did so because they couldn’t handle the pressures of war.

After an audience member asked Trump what he’d do about women in combat and openly transgender troops,

comparing their inclusion in the military to political correctness, he replied, “We’re going to get away from political correctness, and we are going to have to do that.”

Trump compared movement toward greater inclusion in the armed forces to opposition to “the whole concept of profiling” in law enforcement. The candidate has defended the controversial practice of racial profiling, including after the terrorist acts last month in Minnesota, New Jersey and New York.

“I mentioned the other day profiling,” Trump said. “Everyone goes, ‘Oh, profiling, profiling!’ Well, profiling, in Israel they’re doing it and they’re doing it well, and we may have to do that and we have to do other things. But you’re right. We have a politically correct mil-

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Trump says it, Pence denies it LGBT politicos are rightly exasperated or fuming after Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate between Democratic nominee Tim Kaine and Republican nominee Mike Pence. After all, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump and the rest of America would not even know who Pence is if it were not for his proud moment signing the horribly anti-LGBT “religious liberty” bill surrounded by religious anti-LGBT promoters.

But Hillary Clinton’s VP pick only mentioned LGBT rights once—during the head-scratching debate over Russia, even though Kaine had invited a married lesbian couple from Virginia to sit among his prized coterie guests— guests he could have pointed to as an illustration of the progress the Democratic ticket says they repre-

sent.

The New York Times noticed.

“Mr. Pence’s most controversial moment as a national figure — and the biggest stumble of his political career — came after he signed a law in Indiana that critics had warned would allow businesses to discriminate against gay men and lesbians. Facing an enormous backlash, Mr. Pence first defended the law and then walked it back.

The episode seemed likely to tarnish him as a national figure in a lasting way,” The Times reported.

“But neither Mr. Kaine nor the debate moderator, Elaine Quijano of CBS News, raised the issueTuesday night. The lone mention of gay rights came when Mr. Kaine noted that Mr. Putin ‘persecutes L.G.B.T. folks and journalists.’ Mr. Pence DENY, DENY continued on p. 14

itary and it’s more and more politically correct every day, and a lot of the great people in this room don’t even understand how it’s possible to do that.”

Trump asserted confusion over why the military is moving forward with greater inclusion is the result of “intelligence, not ignorance,” saying the changes U.S. troops have to endure in the name of political correctness are “ridiculous.”

In June, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced after a nearly yearlong review the U.S. military would end its ban on transgender people serving in the U.S. armed forces “effective immediately.” The announcement came months after the Pentagon announced it would begin to allow women to serve in combat roles.

While Trump stopped short of committing himself to reverse those changes, he said he’d allow senior military officials — and noting a recommendation from a lawmaker in the audience, even low ranking troops — to review the changes and take guidance on appropriate policy.

“I will say I would leave many of the decisions of some of the things you mentioned to the generals, the admirals, the people on top, and we get some — the congressman just mentioned to me, and I think it’s true, 100 percent — you get your top enlisted people in that and you have discussions with top enlisted people who know it better than probably anybody. But we get our military people to come back and make recommendations to me, and I will follow those recommendations.”

One of Trump’s leading military advisers, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, has already suggested he would advise Trump to roll back the changes. On the first night of the Republican National Convention, Flynn in apparent criticism of transgender military service criticized the preoccupation of U.S. troops with “trivial matters about what words to use, what terminology is politically correct and what bathroom door to open up.”

“My God, my God, war is not about bathrooms, war is not about political correctness or words that are meaningless,” Flynn said.

Trump’s deference to military leaders conceivably could lead to a rein-

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COLUM MCSWIGGAN

LA County’s District Attorney has charged Calum McSwiggan with felony vandalism charges and falsely claiming he was beaten and attacked by three men in West Hollywood last June.

In the fake police report, he claimed that damaged done to a Lexus occurred as he was beaten by three men.

He has now been charged with vandalizing that vehicle and for claiming to have been beaten by gay bashers.

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ministration could undo that.

Matthew Thorn, executive director of the LGBT military group OutServe-SLDN, said greater inclusion in the armed forces, including transgender service, isn’t a matter of being politically correct but instead preserving “the foundation of our freedoms.”

“Our service members and veterans have risked and continue to risk their lives for the fundamental rights that our democracy is built on, the freedoms that allow Mr. Trump to even stand before an audience and make absurdity out of our armed forces and veterans,” Thorn said. “Transgender service members and veterans have earned the same respect and honor as any other soldier, airman, sailor or Marine and

McSwiggan, who is British, is known for his online personality and videos.

Some news outlets have offensively referred to him as a gay activist.

The DA said original charges were dismissed Thursday to make way for a newly filed felony case.

On Monday, the 26-year-old McSwiggan maintained his innocence and pleaded not guilty to one felony count of vandalism over $400 damage and a misdemeanor count for filing a false police report.

A preliminary hearing will be held Nov. 7 at the Los Angeles County Superior Court.

McSwiggan had claimed to have suffered several broken teeth in the “attack” outside the popular bar, The Abbey.

Officials say his wounds were self-inflicted; he is thought to have used a pay phone inside the sheriff’s station to inflict damage to his own head.

On Facebook, he posted a pathetic picture of himself taken from his hospital bed.

He faces a maximum sentence of up to three years and six months in county jail if convicted.

The case continues to be investigated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, West Hollywood Station.

Mr. Trump should be mindful that the leadership of the Pentagon has agreed, everyone who is able to serve should be allowed to serve regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.”

Thorn said belittling transgender military service members and veterans afflicted with post-traumatic stress disorder is consistent with his criticism of a Gold Star family as well as “disgusting and vile and unbecoming of any individual who would want to hold the highest office in our government.”

“It is very difficult to imagine after today how Mr. Trump can proclaim his love and support for our military and veterans when in the same breath he can willfully admonish those who serve and protect this country with honor and their lives,” Thorn said.

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Hundahl and Stern created IN Los Angeles Magazine in 1997 as a kind of “sister” publication to Frontiers. “Frontiers would be more like Newsweek, while IN would be the gay People,” David Stern told me for Baim’s book.

I came to LA from New York in late 1983 but my only real connection to the LGBT community was through my 12 Step program, participating in APLA’s AIDS Walks, taking care of my friends with AIDS and helping create the City of West Hollywood.

In late 1988, John Heilman, who I knew from the cityhood battle, recruited me to do a WeHo cable show “Out and About: Lesbian and Gay West Hollywood,” with co-host Burt Burlant. It was there that I met Bob Craig and Frontiers news editor Aslan Brooke. Wanting to do more for my community than be a care provider for my friends dying of AIDS and as a former producer for CBS News, I asked Bob if I could write for Frontiers.

My first piece was “Ten Days That Shook the FDA” about ACT UP’s massive demonstration for parallel tracking and compassionate release of new AIDS drugs, and the simultaneous hunger strike by AIDS activists Wayne Karr and Lou Lance at the triangle patch of green on Santa Monica and Crescent Heights in West Hollywood.

It turned out that Wayne was also a 12-Stepper so we became close, though we both respectfully fell into our assigned roles of reporter and subject when I was doing a story.

It was like that as I freelanced for Frontiers and other gay publications such as the Bay Area Reporter and Update and the San Diego Gay and Lesbian Times. I reported on the checkbook activists who formed ANGLE in 1989 and created the first-ever gay voting bloc in 1992 for Bill Clinton.

And I learned from pioneers Jim Kepner, Harry Hay, Morris Kight, Paul Monette, Jackie Goldberg, and Dr. Virginia Uribe, who had come to trust my pledge to try to be fair and accurate in my reporting.

It was a privilege to know and bear witness to their soul-sourced commitment to our people.

After Bob Craig died, the ownership of Frontiers and who would controlled the publication came into question.

Things had not always been financially rosy.

One time I walked into the office and found a blank-faced man sitting by the door. He turned out to be a “keeper,” meaning he kept checks as they came in to pay off a substantial debt Bob Craig owed the government.

Of course I saw that as a “story” but was talked out of writing it because the debt was almost paid off and dinging Frontiers’ reputation would not help Bob regain his footing.

I still quibble with myself over that decision but finally think I made the right one for the community.

By 2002, I was ready to go back into mainstream journalism—but Mark Hundahl convinced me to work for him and

LOS ANGELES David Stern at IN. When I came on board, the publications started to swap missions – IN became more of a newsmagazine while Frontiers became more “lifestyle.” But community service was always a core value.

When then-West Hollywood Mayor John Duran held a series of town halls to publicize the crystal meth crisis, we started publishing a regular column to help people struggling with the addiction.

My heart overflowed when I would get emails from gay men who said that column helped save their lives.

In 2007, Mark and David bought Frontiers and we restored that brand to a position as a political powerhouse with front cover interviews with LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and later, Mayor Eric Garcetti, a cover Garcetti says he keeps in a desk drawer at work.

There were many machinations as the Mark and David tried to keep Frontiers alive and relevant. And even more moves when Mark died and David filed for bankruptcy, eventually selling to Michael Turner.

I gave Michael some ideas about using my old broadcast expertise for the new website—ideas he liked but never tried. Soon thereafter, he sold Frontiers to Bobby Blair, an investor from Florida.

When I was fired by Peter Jackson, who explained they were going in a different direction and news would no longer be a part of the new “lifestyle” publication, I argued that Vanity Fair and other glossy magazines still reported news on their website—and this was a critical election year!

But he didn’t seem to grasp that even their targeted audience of young people would care about that. So I took the “high road,” not wanting to get into what I really thought was going on.

Besides, as a 12 Stepper, I can’t afford feelings of vengeance.

But when Bobby Blair—who had never even deigned to meet me—told Press Pass Q that I was let go to make room for millennials, I got angry—not just for myself, but for all the rest of us who have contributed to the movement and have been tossed aside.

I also think Blair’s apparent arrogance blinded him to the fact that millennials, like the rest of us, want good, solid information about what’s happening in the world from an LGBT perspective so they can make informed decisions.

And a lot of them like history, too.

Such disrespect for the next generation.

I worked hard to turn that anger into a sigh.

The screen of my laptop is covered with photos I pulled to share—some of the history I covered while writing for Frontiers.

But this one of the late Paul Monette with Sir Ian McKellen sticks with me.

It makes me appreciate the quiet moments in life. How better to respond to your own imminent end than by sharing a laugh with a friend? I will go on.

Frontiers may be revived and go on.

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Nikkei Japanese mother and transgender son break through stigma of traditional shame The coming out process can be devastating for LGBT youth with many having to choose between the freedom of authenticity or the invisible slavery of the closet, chained to parental and religious expectations of living a life bound by societal norms.

Often overshadowed or ignored, however, is the coming out process for the loving parents who also must deal with internalized expectations and face possible societal rejection.It’s a process that involves not just the neighbor next door but centuries of ancestors who would be dishonored with the slightest deviation from tradition.

Such is the pressure faced by LGBT Asian Pacific Islander youth and their families. And to make the coming out process even more difficult, while Japanese youth can now look up to Star Trek actor and social media hero George Takei, there are no role models for Nikkei Japanese parents.

Marsha Aizumi and her 28 year old, married transgender son Aiden are determined to help. They have co-written a book, Two Spirits, One Heart, teach LGBT diversity to charter school teachers and Aizumi is bringing an Asian face to PFLAG through a new API chapter she founded in the San Gabriel Val-

leywww.sangabrielvalleyapipflag.com “When kids come out, they can bring their parents to our meeting to see other parents who look like them and speak their language,” Aizumi says, noting that there also parents who speak Chinese and Korean at the meetings, as well.

Many API communities have great language barriers for their English-speaking children to explain who they really are to their parents. “There are often no words to convey gay, lesbian, transgender, except those that are negative.”

Aizumi has also organized her sec-

ond Okaeri gathering October 14-15 at the Japanese American National Museum, which is co-sponsoring the event, held at 100 N Central Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012.

The first Okaeri event was held in 2014 and, because it was so needed, over 200 people from the ages of 8 to 80 came from as far away as Canada, New York and Hawaii to participate.

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longing for education and understanding. Aizumi understands the need.

“During World War II, my family was placed in concentration camps, even though they were American citizens,” Aizumi says. “I feel that Nikkei families try to live in a way that they do not bring negative attention to themselves.

They know what happened when that was the case during the war. We studied hard to get good grades, we were taught to only do things that would be bring honor and pride to our families— because it wasn’t just us that we were representing, it was all our family. And I think in some way, it was also a matter of safety.”

Aizumi says she was confused, hurt and lost in shame and fear of dishonor when her beloved child told her the truth.

“The Asian culture is steeped in honor, saving face and strong family ties,” she says. “When Aiden first came out, I was so ashamed that I went in the closet. I could hear the voices of my family both living and dead saying that I was bringing dishonor to our whole family and our whole family name by being the mother who had a lesbian daughter,

LOS ANGELES then later, a transgender son. And since there were no visible faces and voices in the Nikkei community, this only verified my feelings that I was a bad mother.”

But Aizumi found the courage to buck tradition and seek outside help, even though there were no Asian faces at the PFLAG meeting she attended.

“Today I believe that I bring the greatest honor to our family by being out and visible as a parent. And more and more parents are coming out to publicly love and support their LGBTQ children,” she says.

“I think the main thing our API PFLAG group does is provide visibility and voice to our community. We show that being LGBTQ does not make you a bad person or lessen your chances for success,” she says. “We talk about how being LGBTQ is not a choice—but we, as parents, have a choice to stand by our children or not. Many parents are so afraid for their children and we show them that they can have a wonderful life, because all we truly want is that our children to be happy. They cannot be happy if they are living in the closet and can’t live as their true selves.”

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Unless either Trump or Clinton is asked about Pence’s exercise of “religious liberties” during the next town-hall style presidential debate onSunday, Oct. 9, at Washington University in St. Louis. The debate will be moderated by ABC’s Martha Raddatz and out CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, who Trump has complained doesn’t treat him nicely.

You can submit a question for the debate here.

The other exchange that was the closest to an LGBT moment—at least one many LGBTs could laugh and snort at—was a very non-Christian euphemism from Gov. Pence.

During perhaps the most profound of moments as the candidates discussed their Catholic and evangelical faiths and abortion rights, Kaine challenged Trump’s leadership ability due to the real estate developer’s racist statements on Mexican immigrants.

This is from the annotated transcript: KAINE: When Donald Trump says women should be punished or Mexicans are rapists and criminals…

PENCE: I’m telling you…

KAINE: … or John McCain is not a hero, he is showing you who he is.

PENCE: Senator, you’ve whipped out that Mexican thing again. He — look…

KAINE: Can you defend it?

PENCE: There are criminal aliens in this country, Tim, who have come into this country illegally who are perpetrating violence and taking American lives.

KAINE: You want to — you want to use a big broad brush against Mexicans on that?

PENCE: He also said and many of them are good people. You keep leaving that out of your quote. And if you want me to go there, I’ll go there.

“That Mexican thing” lit up Twitter and promoted the creation of www.thatMexicanthing.com that redirects to Clinton’s website.

But many Latinos didn’t find the comment funny at all. “#ThatMexicanThing where my mom has worked as a housekeeper for 25 yrs because her dream is to see her family’s dreams come true.#VPDebate, wrote Gabe Ortiz, @TUSK81.” #thatmexicanthing where we work hard, play by the rules & continue to be discriminated. While .@realDonaldTrump cheats the system#VPDebate,” wrote Juan Altamirano @ altamirajuan.

“That Mexican THING?!” WE ARE PEOPLE. WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS

MIKE PENCE#VPdebate,” Tweeted Emmy Ruiz, @emmyruiz, who identifies herself as a “lucky immigrant kid.”

But let’s go back to that comment from pence about how Kaine left out that Trump said (in his June 2015 campaign announcement speech) that “many of them are good people.” In fact, as Pence well knows, that’s not true.

“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best,” Trump said. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

The pundits immediately claimed Pence won the debate because of his style, his calm demeanor. Politico quoted celebrity executive speech coach Ruth Sherman saying: “My aha moment: Pence has studied Ronald Reagan from a performance standpoint. … Everyone thinks substance is the most important thing in these debates. Style is actually more important. These are, in essence, performances. … Mike Pence wins on style.”

But media folks have been waking up from their sleepy fawning over Trump and are now starting to really do some fact-checking. Factcheck. org had a field day, citing mistakes made by both candidates but pointing out the frequency of Pence’s outright lies (though not calling them “lies”). For instance: “Pence said, ‘The Trump Foundation is a private family foundation and they give virtually every cent to charitable causes.’ But that’s far from true,”FactCheck.org concluded.

And this is precisely why Kaine won the debate. Why the Republican establishment may be giddy over Pence’s calm, practiced Reaganesque presentation and evangelicals are thrilled he “went there” on partial-birth abortion, the supposedly deeply Christian governor also proved to be very Machiavellian– that the political end justifies the means, and the end is winning and the means is lying.

And while Kaine is getting pummeled by pundits for his constant, aggressive interruptions, he used his time to quote Trump directly and challenge Pence to defend him— which Pence couldn’t or wouldn’t do, or he would lie. That enabled the Clinton campaign do immediately put out side-by-side comparison between Kaine/Pence and what Trump/Pence really said.

So while the night might have gone to Pence for style, day two is all about fact-checking and raising questions about why voters would want a president who they couldn’t trust to tell the truth, especially DENY, DENY continued on p. 15

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about Russia and national security issues.

But for women and LGBT people worried about what would happen if Trump/ Pence won, the exchange on abortion rights proved illuminating.

Kaine: And I worked with Jesuit missionaries in Honduras, now nearly 35 years ago, and they were the heroes of my life. I try to practice my religion in a very devout way and follow the teachings of my church in my own personal life. But I don’t believe in this nation, a First Amendment nation, where we don’t raise any religion over the other, and we allow people to worship as they please, that the doctrines of any one religion should be mandated for everyone….. That was a real struggle. But I think it is really, really important that those of us who have deep faith lives don’t feel that we could just substitute our own views for everybody else in society, regardless of their views.

Pence: “I would tell you that for me the sanctity of life proceeds out of the belief that — that ancient principle that — where God says before you were formed in the womb, I knew you, and so for my first time in public life, I sought to stand with great compassion for the sanctity of life. The state of Indiana has also sought to make sure that we expand alternatives in health care counseling for women, non-abortion alternatives. I’m also very pleased at the REPARATIVE continued from p. 6

grams,” said Jodi Hobbs, president of SIA. “Too many kids have died or killed themselves because of what they experienced.

Those who survive often suffer life-long trauma. Thank you, Governor Brown, for signing this legislation to protect youth from institutional abuse and to bring justice to those who are abusing our youth, our most vulnerable. Now, we’re going to take our efforts to a national level with the federal legislation that Congressman Adam Schiff has put forward. We are going to protect the youth across the United States.”

Rep. Adam Schiff (D- CA 28th District) is following up, as well, and joined Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL 27th District), the

fact we’re well on our way in Indiana to becoming the most pro-adoption state in America. I think if you’re going to be pro-life, you should — you should be proadoption….. So for me, my faith informs my life. I try and spend a little time on my knees every day. But it all for me begins with cherishing the dignity, the worth, the value of every human life.”

Kaine and Clinton are both deeply religious but they support a woman right to make her own reproductive choices. “Governor, why don’t you trust women to make this choice for themselves? We can encourage people to support life. Of course we can. But why don’t you trust women?

Why doesn’t Donald Trump trust women to make this choice for themselves?” Kaine asked, in an important question that will surely reverberate with women.

“Because there is — a society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable, the aged, the infirm, the disabled, and the unborn. I believe it with all my heart. And I couldn’t be more proud to be standing with a prolife candidate in Donald Trump,” Pence replied.

Expect Trump to be asked if he is as pro-life as his running mate. His answer to that in the next debate may overshadow his answer, if he gives one, to why he apparently feels it’s OK for him to not pay taxes.

And that’s why last night’s VP debate mattered – and why Kaine won in the end. proud mother of a transgender son, the Center, SIA and Mental Health America at a Capitol Hill news conference last July in announcing HR 3060, the Stop Child Abuse in Residential Treatment Programs for Teens Act. “Too often, these young people are sent away to these institutions where they are often abused, denied food and water, sexually assaulted, and sometimes sent away simply for being LGBT,” said the Center’s Director of Policy & Community Building Dave Garcia. “This legislation will protect these young people just as they would in any group home throughout the state of California. No child should be abused at the hands of adults, and no religion should be used as an excuse to abuse a young person.”

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Scholars and stars rub elbows at Point Foundation Honors LGBTQ youth often face enormous educational hurdles. Some examples are: an inability to feel they fit in or that they are safe from bullying; they are often immersed in poverty; frequently they lack family support; suffer resulting depression, etc. Sometimes all that’s needed to turn things around is a little help from some friends.

That’s why The Point Foundation (Point), the nation’s largest scholarship-granting organization for LGBTQ “students of merit,” and more than 400 friends gathered last weekend to celebrate at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Hollywood celebrities, scholarship recipients, local advocates and activists, politicians and

friends of the LGBTQ community all came together at Point Honors Red Carpet gala event, raising more than $500,000.

At the gala, Robin Roberts, anchor of “Good Morning America,” received the Point Courage Award, which recognizes an individual who advocates for the future of the LGBTQ community and that investing in today’s potential will produce a brighter tomorrow.

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denied an opportunity to be everything they can be; especially because of who they are. These scholars – they’re truly courageous for living their truth.” Michael Lombardo, producer and broadcast executive, received the Point Impact Award, which is presented to an individual making a significant impact on improving the LGBTQ community Molly Shannon, star of the comedy-drama “Other People,” presented Lombardo with the award. In his acceptance speech, Lombardo said, “Point inculcates in its scholars a clear mission to give back. Moreover, without that circle, we stop growing. This award not only honors me and my family: it honors a long line of gay men and women who came before me, paving the way and lending me a hand.”

Comedian Cameron Esposito hosted the inspiring evening, with a performance by Our Lady J, as well as an ensemble performance by India Carney, Jennifer Foster, James Harper, Mario Jose, and Lydia Luce. Celebrity attendees included Cas Anvar, William Belli, Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Hayden Byerly, Steve Cederquist, Suzanne Cryer,

LOS ANGELES Jack Falahee, Wendi McLendon-Covey, John Savage, Jason Stuart, Matt Walsh, and Morgan Walsh. Also attending were past Point honorees, Adam Shankman, Neal Baer, and Pete Nowalk.

“The encouragement and support for LGBTQ students from everyone who attended and made Point Honors Los Angeles a great success, will allow our scholars to complete their degree, face the world head on, and help make our communities, our nation and the world a better place,” said Jorge Valencia, Executive Director and CEO of Point Foundation.

Point Foundation has invested more than $18 million since 2001 assisting in the education and support of Point Scholars. The Foundation promotes change through scholarship funding, mentorship, leadership development and community service training.

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POSITIVE THOUGHTS NO BLAME, NO SHAME

⚫ BY ORIOL R. GUTIERREZ, JR.

TALK IT OUT

Raising HIV awareness among Latinos I graduated college in 1992, the same year I tested HIV positive. Sometime in the late ’90s, I reconnected with a college friend. He was actually a friend with benefits, so I was quite happy when he tracked me down, which wasn’t that easy back then, at least compared with today.

He invited me to a nice dinner in Chelsea, which was becoming the happening place in New York City for LGBTs. (Hell’s Kitchen now has that distinction.) His intentions seemed to be more than two friends catching up.

It turns out, I wasn’t off the mark. He had recently broken up with a boyfriend.

We were all smiles by dessert, but then he became awkwardly silent. “I have to ask you,” he said, “are you HIV positive?” I said yes. He said, “I knew it!” I said, “What do you mean you knew it?” He said, “Well, come on, we both know what I mean.” Then I became furiously silent.

Finally I asked, “Because I’m a slut?”

Breaking the tension with a smile and a squeeze of my hand, he looked me in the eyes and said, “That’s why I tracked you down!” We laughed and moved on, but between his hypochondria and my HIV it was clear that we weren’t going to be a couple.

Instead, we became close friends with some minor benefits along the way as he became more educated about the virus. We’re still good friends, but those benefits expired a while ago, which is just fine. Although I’ve long since forgiven him, I often use this memory as

a touchstone.

Even with such a wealth of affection between us, my dear friend couldn’t see past his assumptions. His sexual appetite was no different than mine I eventually confirmed, but nonetheless, as a white gay man, he assumed that I, as a Latino gay man, was naturally more sexual than him.

And there it is, this double-edged sword of a myth. Just as black men have to contend with the myth of their endowments, Latinos have to counter the myth of our libidos. I admit the Don Juan persona can come in handy on occasion, but the price over time for using it is quite high.

Case in point: When citing these statistics — if current trends in U.S. HIV rates continue, 1 in 2 black men who have sex with men (MSM) and 1 in 4 Latino MSM will get HIV in their lifetimes — what often follows is a train of thought among too many people that blames and shames.

Studies show that MSM of color aren’t more sexual or taking more risks than white MSM, and lack of access to health care explains only part of those stats. Another factor is that the sexual networks of many MSM of color only include other MSM of color. There is a measure of choice in that fact.

However, prejudice from white MSM, no matter how benign, is also at work.

That is an uncomfortable truth, but it’s not too difficult to see just by browsing posts on dating apps and sites that clearly rule out certain racial or ethnic identities. Such sweeping categorical rejections are all too common.

I know many of you are saying to yourselves, “I like what I like.” I agree, in general. I, too, like what I like. That said, if I don’t find myself attracted to someone, I still take a moment to question why that is. I encourage you to do the same. You may be missing out by sticking to your predetermined likes.

Of course, no matter what our back-

grounds are, we are all responsible for own behaviors. Part of taking responsibility is becoming knowledgeable, which is what annual awareness days are supposed to support. This column in particular is in support of National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD), which is Oct. 15.

This is the first year that “Latinx” is in the official NLAAD title, replacing “Latino.” Latinx (pronounced “Lateen-ex”) is a gender-neutral alternative to Latino and Latina. The Latino Commission on AIDS coordinates the NLAAD campaign, but groups across the country conduct local NLAAD events.

According to the NLAAD website, since the awareness day was established in 2003, there are now about 450 partners that organize more than 150 related events nationwide. To find an event near you, please go to nlaad. org or Twitter @nlaad or Facebook @ OfficialNLAAD for more information.

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Cooper Donuts Revolution, 1959

It was a torrent of doughnuts and coffee that kicked off the LGBT-rights movement.

Sure, the Stonewall Riots of 1969 in New York City get all the glory, but ten years earlier there was a small, nearly forgotten uprising to which the movement’s roots can also be traced: Cooper Donuts in Los Angeles.

Like their New York counterparts, the Los Angeles Police Department often targeted LGBT people through entrapment, intimidation, and violence. Police specifically targeted

trans people, arresting those whose perceived gender did not match their driver’s license. Several gay bars, in an attempt to remain inconspicuous and avoid police raids, banned or discouraged transgender people from entering. However, Cooper’s Donuts, which opened in 1959 in the Skid Row neighborhood, was welcoming to the transgender community. The shop served policemen during the day and, as the patrols dwindled in the evening, opened its doors to trans people and those barred from other establishments.

One evening, two police officers asked for ID cards from some customers at the shop — a typical way for them to harass LGBT people. Those who were picked out of the crowd, including John Rechy, an accomplished gay author who has written about the uprising, were “two hustlers, two queens and a young man just cruising.”

Something snapped in one of them; enough was enough. He objected to the car being packed with five people

and fought back, leading the customers at the donut shop to flood into the streets, throwing coffee cups, trash, spoons, donuts, anything they could get their hands on. “[The officers] fled into their car,” Rechy writes, “called backups and soon the street was bustling with dis-

obedience. Gay people danced about the cars.”

The officers returned with reinforcements, Main Street was closed, and history was made. However, the importance of the Cooper’s Donuts up-

rising was not recognized until much later.

Mark Thompson, a social historian who lived in the same neighborhood as Rechy, writes of the event’s importance: “I would not describe it as a riot but more like an isolated patch of local social unrest that had lasting repercussions. I think less in its day, more as a lesson for us today. L.A. is such a huge, sprawling city (even back then) so what happened in one district probably did not register elsewhere — especially when issues of class and race are factored in.”

Not too much is known about the uprising at Cooper’s Donuts, and as time passes, fewer of the storytellers of the time are around to share their experiences. But it is important to remember that the fight for LGBT rights was not limited to one city and one event. The Cooper’s Donuts uprising, like the Compton Cafeteria riots, the Dewey’s sit-ins, and the Independence Hall protests, helped pave the way for Stonewall and for all the victories the community has seen since.

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