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Russia fomenting discord over guns, gays, race Source: Butina part of effort to undermine American democracy

by federal prosecutors, a D.C. grand jury on July 17 indicted Maria Butina on charges of criminal conspiracy and illegally acting as a foreign agent within the U.S. A U.S. District Court judge the following day ordered her held without bond after prosecutors said she had moved out of her D.C. apartment and was at risk for leaving the country.

An FBI affidavit filed in court in support of a criminal complaint against Butina said an FBI investigation revealed that she was working in the U.S. at the direction of an unnamed “Russian official” and that the two sought to build “back channel” lines of communication with American politicians.

“These lines could be used by the

By LOU CHIBBARO JR. lchibbaro@washblade.com A 29-year-old Russian woman living in D.C. who was indicted last week for allegedly engaging in a conspiracy to clandestinely act as a Russian agent is part of a longstanding effort by Moscow to foment discord in the U.S. by exploiting divisive issues such as guns, LGBT rights, and racial bias, according to a source close to the investigation into the woman’s activities.

After hearing evidence presented

A source tells the Blade that indicted Russian MARIA BUTINA was part of a Russian plan to divide Americans over guns, gays and race.

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McConnell wants to confirm these anti-LGBT judges Senators to skip August recess to vote on Trump picks

By CHRIS JOHNSON cjohnson@washblade.com

The Senate may soon confirm these nominees who are hostile to LGBT rights. From left: HOWARD NIELSON, THOMAS ALVIN FARR, DAVID PORTER, MATTHEW KACSMARYK and MARK NORRIS.

With August fast approaching, U.S. Senators would customarily leave Washington for their annual break, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is holding them in session for votes on President Trump’s judicial nominees — many of whom would likely threaten LGBT rights if confirmed.

The Washington Blade has highlighted five nominees that could come up for a vote and that the LGBT legal group Lambda Legal and

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other progressive groups have identified as hostile to LGBT rights.

Each of these nominees could receive a vote at the same time the Senate considers the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, whom Trump has named for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court and whom LGBT groups oppose because he came from a list of potential picks created by the anti-LGBT Heritage Foundation.

Trump named many of these picks as long as a year ago, but they have languished in the Senate as a result of opposition from civil rights groups over their records and views against LGBT rights.

Here’s background on the five nominees and their anti-LGBT records: CONTINUES ON PAGE 14

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Emma Gonzalez, other Parkland survivors on bus tour protesting guns.

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Comings & Goings Lazar re-elected to Democratic State Committee

By PETER ROSENSTEIN The Comings & Goings column is about sharing the professional successes of our community. We want to recognize those landing new jobs, new clients for their business, joining boards of organizations and other achievements. Please share your successes with us at comingsandgoings@washblade.com.

Congratulations to John E. Lazar for his reelection as Ward 2 Committeeman to the D.C. Democratic State Committee. Lazar’s full-time career is as a non-profit executive who has a demonstrated ability in planning and implementing programs that align employee development and productivity with organizational goals. He is currently director of development for the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.

JOHN E. LAZAR Prior to that John has worked for a wide variety of PHOTO COURTESY OF LAZAR organizations, including Global Impact, The American Cancer Society and the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office.

He is also a pastor having worked for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, N.Y. He attended the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception and earned his bachelor’s from Saint John’s University and his master’s from Brooklyn College.

Congratulations also to Michael Rogers and his business partner John Byrne, owners of RawStory Media. They recently announced the acquisition of two new websites — AlterNet.org, a pioneer in MICHAEL ROGERS progressive online journalism, and The New Civil PHOTO COURTESY OF ROGERS Rights Movement a website focused on politics, civil liberties and the LGBT community.

Rogers spent 15 years as a fundraiser for LGBT organizations, including Harvey Milk High School, the National LGBTQ Task Force and Greenpeace. In 2004, he started a news website focused on the exposure of anti-gay politicians living in the closet. His work was featured in the documentary “Outrage.” In 2008, he founded Netroots Connect. Byrne’s experience includes founding a newspaper at Oberlin College and then doing a stint as an intern at the Boston Globe. He launched RawStory in 2004. Byrne JOHN BYRNE founded Prevention 305, an organization promoting PHOTO COURTESY OF BYRNE the use of HIV prevention drugs that assists clients in Miami-Dade with a focus on at-risk youth of color and transgender women.

Congratulations also to Lamont Akins, named interim director of the D.C. Mayor’s Office of Community Affairs. Akins joined the Bowser administration in January 2015. He manages and provides guidance to the 10 constituent engagement offices reporting to him helping them to implement the Mayor’s Fresh Start vision for constituent engagement and outreach in all eight LAMONT AKINS Wards of the District.

PHOTO COURTESY OF AKINS Prior to joining the Bowser administration, he served as director of constituent service for Council member Anita Bonds. He has also served as a program manager in the D.C. Department of Employment Services. Before joining D.C. government he worked in Housing and Community Development for AARP, Fairfax County and the Dallas Housing Authority.

Akins has served two terms as an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner for ANC 4D01 in the Brightwood Park neighborhood. He earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, and has a master’s degree in community development from Delta State University.

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Del. governor signs conversion therapy ban into law Widely discredited practice called ‘child abuse’

By BLAKE CHAMBERS DOVER, Del. — Gov. John Carney signed SB 65 into law on Monday, making Delaware the 15th state to ban the practice of conversion therapy in addition to Washington, D.C. Delaware House of Representative member Debra Heffernan, Delaware state Sen. Harris McDowell and Lisa Goodman of Equality Delaware gave speeches at the signing.

Delaware joins New York, Hawaii and Rhode Island among others in banning conversion therapy statewide.

Gov. JOHN CARNEY signed SB 65 into law on Monday.

“It doesn’t take a particularly strong moral compass to see that conversion therapy deserves to be unequivocally and universally condemned,” said Sen. McDowell in his speech. “Conversion therapy is child abuse quite simply. It always has been, always will be.”

McDowell also said that SB 65 will save lives and prevent further abuse within the state of Delaware. McDowell hopes that it will aid in getting rid of the practice of conversion therapy across the nation.

“Being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender is part of a natural spectrum of human identity, and it’s not a disease, disorder, illness, deficiency or shortcoming,” said Rep. Heffernan in her speech. “It is simply who that person is. The idea that you can convert someone through therapy sessions has long been discredited and rejected by all mainstream medical and mental health organizations.”

Heffernan described conversion therapy as pseudo-science and child endangerment. She mentioned that the practice can pose major health risks to LGBT youth, as well as a sense of shame, guilt, stress, anger and hopelessness.

She also pointed out the harms of conversion therapy can last well into adulthood.

“Until today, one of the risks that such young people faced was being forced to endure so-called conversion therapy,” said Goodman in her speech. “According to a 2015 CDC survey, LGB teens are already at triple the risk of non-LGB teens for considering suicide, and at more than triple the risk for attempting it. Other studies have shown that trans youth are similarly at risk, maybe even higher at risk.”

Goodman echoed Heffernan’s statement on the health risks associated with conversion therapy, saying that the American Psychological Association states that the practice can cause depression, anxiety, substance abuse and suicidal thoughts. Goodman acknowledged Joe Cozza, whom she described as the one who “really got the ball rolling” on SB 65.

Cozza thanked Sen. McDowell and Rep. Heffernan, saying that he wouldn’t have been able to do it without their support for this bill along with the advocacy groups and their work. In his speech, Cozza said the LGBT community carries “invisible scars” from being closeted and those scars are bigger and run deeper for those who have been through conversion therapy.

Sarah McBride, National Press Secretary of the Human Rights Campaign and native Delawarean also attended the signing of SB 65. She said the bill would ensure that youth for generations in Delaware will be protected from conversion therapy. McBride described SB 65 as a critical step toward ensuring that Delaware is a state for all young people as well as communicating clearly that Delaware welcomes love and affirms the dignity of all young people.

In a recent report by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law, it was determined that roughly 20,000 LGBTQ minors will still be subjected to conversion therapy by a licensed healthcare professional in states without protections if state officials do not act.

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New LGBT ventures in Virginia Beach, Shenandoah Former D.C. resident launches community center in Staunton

By GRACE PERRY The long, slow trend of Virginia gradually becoming a more LGBT-friendly state continues as gay residents are in the midst of starting two new organizations dedicated to increasing protections and providing resources for queer people in the Old Dominion.

Michael Berlucchi is a proud Virginia Beach native and has spent the majority of his life in the city. Even though according to Berlucchi, who’s gay, Virginia Beach has “historically been a leader” in the LGBT fight for equality, last winter, Virginia legislation regarding nondiscrimination in housing and public employment died in subcommittee. This failed legislation triggered the creation of Virginia Beach for Fairness, a new coalition effort to support LGBT equality.

“We know that if that legislation had the opportunity for an up-or-down vote on the floor of the House of Delegates, it would pass with overwhelming bipartisan support,” Berlucchi says. “(So) it was very discouraging to see it die a procedural death in the subcommittee.”

Berlucchi co-founded the coalition alongside Tracey Swinarsky, a transgender advocate and veteran, and Kathy Hinson, a public servant and mother of three.

Berlucchi says the coalition rests on the fundamental belief that ensuring protections for the LGBT community necessitates the involvement of the Virginia Legislature and public awareness of the issues facing queer Virginians.

“I believe confidently that the people of Virginia Beach support protections for LGBT Virginians and I also believe that most people think the protections already exist and they’re surprised to find out that they don’t,” Berlucchi says. “So we just decided it was time to raise some awareness about that.”

Berlucchi also lists bipartisanship as a cornerstone to their coalition, citing Republicans’ central role in passing protective legislation. “[Virginia Beach] has a tremendous, incredible history of supporting LGBT Virginians, and we’re really proud and grateful that Republicans participate in that,” Berlucchi says, arguing LGBT rights are not — nor should be — “a partisan issue.”

He says that’s even more important considering how polarized the country is in general these days.

“In this particular political environment that’s so heated and so charged and so polarized, we’re making every effort to present ourselves as a relief to that,” Berlucchi says. “We want to work with

KATHY HINSON, co-founder of Virginia Beach for Fairness speaks at Neptune Park last week along with co-founders TRACEY SWINARSKY (left) and MICHAEL BERLUCCHI. PHOTO COURTESY VIRGINIA BEACH FOR FAIRNESS

CHRISTOPHER WOOD is co-founder of the new Shenandoah LGBTQ Center in Staunton, Va. He’s seen here giving an on-camera interview with Channel 29 about his new venture.

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everyone in a collaborative fashion to pass commonsense legislation that the majority of Virginians and certainly the people of Virginia Beach support.”

About 240 miles away in Virginia’s rural Shenandoah Valley, another push for LGBT rights is underway.

Entrepreneur Christopher Wood, a former Washington Blade employee, has placed LGBT rights and advocacy at the center of his career. A gay man himself, he continuously looks for spaces where the LGBT community has been rendered voiceless. One such space he

noticed was the tech industry, so in 2012, he co-founded the LGBT Technology Partnership & Institute (LGBT Tech), which seeks to empower community members through technology and find ways that technology can provide solutions for queer individuals in need. Both Wood and Berlucchi said their new ventures are too new to have annual operating budget estimates yet.

Like any good entrepreneur, Wood was running LGBT Tech from the upstairs of his house before moving to a permanent location in Staunton, Va.,

in the Shenandoah Valley last March.

Wood says one of his goals in setting up the LGBT Tech headquarters in Staunton was to better understand the broader Shenandoah Valley community and find where resources were needed.

“I’m hearing stories about youth or older LGBT individuals who don’t feel accepted by society … or accepted here and their only way out is to no longer live,” Wood says. “That’s when I have a problem. And that really was the drive for me to plant the flag and say ‘enough is enough.’ The valley needs resources; our community is screaming, begging, yelling for the resources.”

Thus came the Shenandoah LGBTQ Center.

Since putting the center’s logo on the front door of LGBT Tech, Wood says the community reaction has exceeded expectations.

“We’ve had hundreds and hundreds — possibly thousands — of touch points at this moment,” Wood says. “The response has been overwhelming in such a good way.”

The community response is exactly what Wood was hoping for; he says he always intended the center to be not only community focused but also community led. He never intended it to be a one-man operation.

“My entire vision for this is that it’s a community-led effort,” Wood says. “I’m only one person with one experience … I knew if I planted that flag and asked the community to rally that … it would bring the right people out to start and launch something that was needed here in the valley that didn’t exist before. … I really hope that there are leaders that emerge out of this that are willing and able to take the reins.”

Wood hopes that five years from now the center has a strong connection with the entire Shenandoah Valley community beyond Staunton alone, providing a plethora of resources from health care to education to legal services for the queer people in the area. However, he also hopes to see the Shenandoah LGBTQ Center inspire other rural communities across the country.

“I really want to push the boundary of what it looks like for a rural LGBTQ community center,” Wood says. “[I hope to] show other rural LGBTQ centers how they can serve and reach their clients in the best way possible.”

VIRGINIA BEACH FOR FAIRNESS COMMUNITY MEETING Wednesday, Aug. 1 7 p.m.

Meyera E. Oberndorf Central Library 4100 Virginia Beach Boulevard, Virginia Beach, Va. virginiabeachforfairness.org SHENANDOAH LGBTQ CENTER COMMUNITY LISTENING SESSION Saturday, Aug. 4 2-4 p.m.

LGBT Tech HQ 32 N. Augusta St., Staunton Va. shenlgbtqcenter.org

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California resolution seeks to celebrate intersex community Protecting infants from early surgical interventions

By GRACE PERRY Over the past several decades, the intersex community has been working to pass legislation that would protect intersex infants from early surgical interventions, and right now, a step toward acknowledgement is on the horizon with California’s SCR-110.

In February, interACT, Equality California and Sen. Scott Wiener introduced SCR110 — a resolution to acknowledge and celebrate intersex people.

The term “intersex” identifies an individual who is born with any of several variations in sex characteristics (including chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones or genitals) that do not fit medically rigid definitions of “male” or “female.” Intersex variations are not uncommon and occur in about 1.7 percent of the population. One in 2000 children have visible differences at birth, putting them at risk for early cosmetic surgical intervention. Intersex children born with genitalia that a doctor considers outside of typical male/female appearance frequently receive medically unnecessary surgeries to “normalize” their genitals, such as surgeries that reduce an “abnormally” sized clitoris.

The intersex community argues these surgeries violate a child’s basic and inherent right to bodily autonomy, and activists advocate for the deferral of any such surgeries until a child can make a consenting decision on their own.

Hans Lindahl is the communications director for interACT, a nonprofit advocating for the rights of children born with intersex traits. As the sole member of the organization based in California, she’s been a key figure in the fight to pass SCR-110.

“This is something that the intersex community has been pushing for for probably 25 years,” Lindahl said. “This [SCR-110] is the furthest that legislation has ever come.”

Sen. Wiener represents District 11 in the California State Senate, which includes all of San Francisco and parts of San Mateo County. Elected in November 2016, the 48-year-old Democratic representative has made LGBT+ issues a cornerstone of his time in office, exemplified by resolution SCR-110.

“Sen. Wiener has been just incredible,” Lindahl said. “He’s really been a champion for our community.”

During the 2017 legislative cycle, Wiener worked alongside intersex advocacy groups to pass SB 179: California’s Gender Recognition Act. This process helped expose previously unaddressed challenges facing the intersex community

and bring them to the forefront.

In a statement, Wiener said SCR-110 further recognizes that intersex people are “not an aberration to be corrected, but rather an important part of California’s diversity worthy of celebration.”

The resolution passed the full Senate in May and the Assembly health committee in June, meaning it has only two hurdles left before full passage — one before the Assembly judiciary committee and one before the full Assembly. Both hearings are expected to take place in August.

The opposition to SCR-110 has been spearheaded primarily by a small subset of urologists and medical groups that continue to promote such operations because they benefit both monetarily and “from being the authority and maintaining the status quo,” according to Lindahl.

These urologists and medical professionals have maintained one issue in particular as the cornerstone of their opposition: congenital adrenal hypoplasia (CAH), an intersex variation that affects stress hormones and can trigger an adrenal crisis. Given this risk, it is one of the only intersex variations that necessitates any kind of medical intervention, usually in the form of steroids to replace low hormones.

Intersex advocates have no issue with medically necessary intervention as it relates to managing imbalances of stress hormones caused by CAH. However, CAH can also affect sex hormones and testosterone levels in particular, which frequently results in larger than average clitorises and consequent surgeries.

To ensure they can continue “normalizing” clitorises in infants with CAH, medical professionals are arguing that CAH is not in fact an intersex variation; therefore, it is not the subject of the resolution after all. Also, opposition claims that 90 percent of the subjects of such surgeries are patients with CAH, meaning they are trying to exempt 90 percent of all possible individuals at risk and null this almost completely.

Laurence Baskin, Chief of Pediatric Urology at University of California San Francisco (UCSF), testified at the California State Assembly, saying: “these [infants with CAH] are children who have congenital abnormalities like a cleft palate…we’re restoring normal anatomy.” He further asserted about their gender identities: “90 percent of the time, it’s a girl.”

However, UCSF’s own website lists CAH as an intersex variation, and activists and proponents of SCR-110 like Lindahl ask, “but what about the other 10 percent?”

Even if 90 percent of the time, “it’s a girl,” that means 10 percent of the time, an infant’s genitals are permanently surgically altered to fit a gender identity other than their own. Furthermore, Lindahl said these operations also impact

HANS LINDAHL, communications director for interACT, (center) at the Assembly Health committee hearing in May. PHOTO BY ER DE GREY

the 90 percent of individuals who do grow up to identify as girls.

“Doctors are telling children that their most sensitive parts need to be fixed, setting them up for feelings of shame and stigma, regardless of their gender identity,” Lindahl said. “Doctors are telling them their bodies are shameful and that they need to obey to feel ‘normal.’”

Beyond medical professionals, the CARES Foundation — a nonprofit working to support families and individuals impacted by CAH — has also been a vocal opponent of the resolution.

“We believe that limiting early surgical access has the potential to create negative outcomes for those in our community, so we are opposed to all legislation that broadly bans surgical options, as surgical decisions should be made between healthcare providers and families, not legislators,” said Dina Matos, executive director of CARES. “We believe that CAH is a unique, life-threatening, endocrine condition and should be looked at as such, not under an umbrella of other, unrelated conditions that result in genital atypia.”

Kimberly Zieselman, executive director of interACT, said SCR-110 is not a ban on surgeries like CARES is asserting.

“SCR-110 is not a ban and will not prevent surgery,” Zieselman said. “It is simply acknowledging the intersex community and our right to bodily autonomy and if passed will indicate strong support by the California Legislature for protecting intersex kids.”

Jonathan Leggette, an intersex activist based in Washington State, wrote a testimony for one of the hearings in the hopes of “personifying” the resolution and “bringing it to reality and giving it an actual story.”

Part of his testimony reads: “At 6, doctors operated on me without explaining anything to me, just leaving me to wake up, bandages around my genital areas and a pain I will never forget.

I had never had the chance to be told the truth, to be given the chance to decide for myself how my body feels to me. My body was owned by the surgeons before I had a chance to lay claim to it. Learning that I could have lived a life that allows me to make decisions for MY self around MY health and wellbeing is something I wish every future intersex child may have.”

For Leggette, his voice and story are his contributions to this fight.

“I don’t have the legal background, I’m not a lawyer, I’m not anything like that.”

Leggette said. “But I’m someone who has experienced this and has a story and has my voice.”

Leggette said he hopes both his testimony and the resolution will help bring awareness to these surgeries that are “happening every single day all over the U.S.” “This isn’t something that’s happening to people you don’t know. It’s happening to people in your community, and you’re not removed from it,” Leggette said.

“You’re a part of it.”

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Emma González is Marching for Our Lives Bi student, other Parkland survivors on bus tour to protest gun violence

By KAREN OCAMB LOS ANGELES — The student survivors of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., did not need any more evidence that gun violence hits close to home. But gun violence persists: on Tuesday, July 17, Ayub Ali, the 61-year-old owner of Aunt Molly’s Food Store in North Lauderdale, was shot and killed during a robbery. Ali, a native of Bangladesh, leaves his wife Farhana and their four children, two of whom, a son and daughter, survived the Parkland shootings last February.

The tragic news broke as a group of student survivors were in Los Angeles as part of their national summer bus tour, March For Our Lives: Road to Change, organized to educate young people about gun violence, the obstructionist lobbying campaigns of the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the power of a voter-savvy youth movement to change what has heretofore been an intractable deadly scourge.

The 20-state tour is complimented by a separate tour— with a number of LGBT activists—visiting every congressional district in Florida. The students are intentionally hitting areas with strong NRA supporters to engage in civil dialogue and debate over gun safety and register young people to vote.

While the nation mourned with the families after each mass shooting, especially the massacre of 20 six- and seven-year-old kids and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Dec. 2012, the Valentine’s Day shooting galvanized the grieving students upon learning that the 19-year old accused killer with homophobic and white supremacist views legally purchased the AR-15 style semi-automatic rifle he used to indiscriminately massacre 17 students and staff and injure 17 others.

Three days after the shooting, the angry, devastated Marjory Stoneman Douglas students held a nationally televised rally outside of Broward County Federal Courthouse where they called out the NRA and the politicians who take NRA money.

“They say that tougher gun laws do not decrease gun violence: We call BS!” fumed Emma Gonzalez. “They say a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun: We call BS!” The video of Gonzalez’s impassioned remarks went viral and now “We Call BS!” is on a T-shirt, part of the “merch” funding the tour, along with public donations at their website. “We Call BS!” is also part of the campaign to register youth to vote.

The tour hit Los Angeles County with

EMMA GONZÁLEZ is among the Parkland shooting survivors traveling the country this summer to register young voters and to protest gun violence.

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a stop in Palmdale on July 17, then two days in LA, before heading to Irvine and Huntington Beach in Orange County on Saturday. Sunday, they head up to Oakland. Their trip through the middle of the country in June included a June 24 stop at the Twin Cities Pride Festival in Loring Park, Minnesota and a visit to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation three days later.

Interesting in its coincidental timing apart from the tour—three murdered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School coaches were honored Wednesday night at the ESPY Awards in LA broadcast live on ABC. Aaron Feis, 37, Assistant Football Coach and security guard, used his body as a shield. Scott Beigel, 35, a geography teacher and cross-country coach, ushered students to safety in his classroom. Chris Hixon, 49, the school’s athletic director, wrestling coach and Navy veteran, died trying to disarm the shooter.

At some stops, the activists meet with local officials and leaders and hold community events and town halls, partnering with local organizations to share the platform with local activists or survivors.

In LA, the students first met July 19 with Mayor Eric Garcetti, who joined his new Student Advisory Council on Gun Violence in Schools & Communities in announcing that LA will join the March For Our Lives youth in becoming the first U.S. city to hold a voter registration drive on public high school and community college campuses on Sept. 25.

“Young people in Los Angeles and across America are showing incredible

leadership in confronting gun violence,” Garcetti said. “I am inspired by their commitment to improving our country and the democratic process, and proud that L.A. will lead in making it easier for our youth to register, vote, and have their say in the future direction of our country.”

The plan is a result of a partnership between March For Our Lives, Garcetti, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, the LA Community College District and the LA Unified School District (LAUSD). They called for similar actions across California.

“Youth are leading the charge of civic engagement in California and we now have more than 166,000 total 16 and 17 year-olds who have pre-registered to vote,” said Padilla. “But we are looking forward to getting to 200,000 by the Midterms and with the leadership of Mayor Garcetti and his new citywide initiative, I have no doubt we will.”

“Mayor Garcetti and the City of Los Angeles are raising the bar for elected officials around the country,” said a March For Our Lives spokesperson.

“Everybody deserves to be heard in our political system, especially students. By committing resources to a communitywide voter registration day on September 25, the Los Angeles Public School system and the Los Angeles Community College District are making it easier for millions of students to make their choice clear at the ballot box. It’s on all of us to ensure those eligible to vote have an opportunity to do so.”

After the announcement, Garcetti moderated a roundtable with members

of March For Our Lives, members of the Student Advisory Group on Gun Violence in Schools & Communities, and Captain Mark Kelly, co-founder of Americans for Responsible Solutions, a gun violence prevention organization created with his wife, former Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords, a victim of wanton gun violence while meeting at a shopping mall with constituents.

A new analysis by TargetSmart, a data firm that works on behalf of Democrats, indicates an eight percentage point jump in voter registration among voters between the ages of 18-29 in Florida after the shooting. “In the two and a half months after the shooting, young voters made up 34.22 percent of all new voter registrations in Florida,” the McClatchy News Service reported July 19.

March for Our Lives movement leader David Hogg, applauded the news, tweeting: “The young people will win,” also congratulating the March For Our Lives AZ (Arizona) for their “AMAZING work!”

“A new generation of political leaders emerged in the aftermath of the Parkland tragedy,” TargetSmart CEO Tom Bonier said in a statement. “We witnessed their ability to organize in Florida and across the country as massive crowds took to the streets for the March for Our Lives, and now we’re seeing a quantifiable impact from that organizing. It remains to be seen how many of these younger registrants will cast a ballot in November, but they are poised to have a louder voice than ever in these critical midterm elections.”

But the NRA also had a record month of fundraising after the Parkland shooting, McClatchy reports.

The NRA was a hot topic at the March For Our Lives town hall meeting at the California African American Museum Thursday night. When asked much of the audience raised their hands as having led or participated in the March 24 walkouts in Los Angeles as part of a March For Our Lives massive national protest.

Their message: Text ‘CHANGE’ to 97779 to join March For Our Lives.

March For Our Lives strategist and former MSD student Matt Deitsch adroitly dismantled the NRA argument that “a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun.” They’re just trying to sell you two guns—that’s what they do. They sell guns, he said. “Don’t buy the sales pitch.”

The NRA, Deitsch said, “cares more about gun rights than human rights.”

He also lampooned loud-mouthed NRA member Ted Nugent who recently called the student survivors “liars,” “poor, mushy-brained children,” and “soulless,” according to Vox, and says gun-free zones “are where the most innocent lives are lost.” Nugent apparently banned guns at his Virginia concert Tuesday citing concerns about the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting.

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Cuba approves new constitution with marriage equality

Hundreds of LGBTI activists marched through the streets of Tel Aviv last week to protest the surrogacy bill’s passage.

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Protests as Israel passes anti-gay surrogacy bill Activists have sharply criticized the passage of a bill in the Israeli Knesset that prevents gay couples from using surrogates.

The bill passed on July 18 by a 59-52 vote.

Media reports indicate the bill allows lesbian couples to use surrogates, but it does not include men who are in same-sex relationships. A Wider Bridge, a U.S.-based organization that says it is “dedicating to supporting LGBTQ communities in Israel,” said gay couples and single men could face up to three years in prison if they try to use a surrogate in Israel.

Hundreds of LGBTI activists marched through the streets of Tel Aviv last week to protest the bill’s passage. Businesses authorized their employees to participate in a strike against the measure that took place on Sunday.

The Aguda, the Israeli National LGBT Task Force, is supporting the strike.

“The LGBTQ community in Israel is calling you to join our protest,” it wrote on its Facebook page. “In Israel today, lesbian women cannot register their children to (sic) school, transgenders are stabbed on the streets. LGBTQ teens are running into homophobia every day in schools.”

“The Knesset...has recently passed laws that threaten equality and basic human rights,” it adds. “We cannot sit quietly anymore and continue living life like this.”

A Wider Bridge Executive Director Tyler Gregory in his group’s statement described the bill’s passage as a “worrisome development.”

“LGBTQ people in Israel face mounting odds, something made clearer after the Knesset’s passage of the discriminatory legislation last night, despite fierce opposition from Israel’s LGBTQ communities and allies, and words of support from the prime minister,” he said. “The ability of the ultra-orthodox parties within the government to force a vote on anti-gay legislation is yet another instance of the Israeli government highlighting its support of LGBTQ rights abroad while harming LGBTQ people at home by prioritizing coalition politics over people’s lives.”

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Cuban lawmakers this week unanimously approved a new constitution that would extend marriage rights to same-sex couples.

The vote took place after Mariela Castro — the daughter of former Cuban President Raúl Castro who directs the country’s National Center for Sexual Education (CENESEX) — and other members of the Cuban National Assembly spoke in favor of a proposed amendment that would define marriage as a “voluntary union into which two people who are legally eligible can enter.”

Activists who work independently of CENESEX in recent years launched campaigns in support of marriage rights for same-sex couples on the Communist island. Five Evangelical church groups last month publicly expressed their opposition to nuptials for gays and lesbians.

Cuba would become the first Caribbean country to extend marriage rights to samesex couples if the new constitution is approved in a referendum that is expected to take place later this year.

Sunday’s vote took place nearly six decades after gay men were among those who were sent to labor camps, known by the Spanish acronym UMAP, following the 1959 revolution that brought Mariela Castro’s uncle, Fidel Castro, to power.

The Cuban government until 1993 forcibly quarantined people with HIV/AIDS in staterun sanitaria. Fidel Castro in 2010 apologized for the work camps during an interview with a Mexican newspaper.

Cuba since 2008 has offered free sex-reassignment surgeries through its national health care system, although only a few dozen people have been able to receive them.

Mariela Castro, who is a member of the National Assembly, and CENESEX since that year have organized a series of events across the country each year that commemorate the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.

A three-judge panel in Havana last October granted Violeta Cardoso custody of her late daughter’s three young children who she is raising with her partner of 32 years, Isabel Pacheco. The ruling is believed to be the first time the Cuban government has legally recognized a same-sex couple.

Independent LGBTI activists with whom the Washington Blade regularly speak say they continue to face discrimination and even arrest if they publicly criticize the Cuban government.

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Trans Puerto Ricans can change gender on birth certificates Transgender people in Puerto Rico are now able to change the gender marker on their birth certificates.

A federal judge in March ruled the U.S. commonwealth’s previous policy — a 2005 decree from the Puerto Rico Supreme Court that said trans people could not amend the gender marker on their birth certificates — was unconstitutional.

The ruling took effect on July 17. Local media reports indicate several trans Puerto Ricans have already changed the gender marker on their birth certificates.

“They can change their gender on (their) birth certificates after years of struggle,” tweeted Pedro Julio Serrano, founder of Puerto Rico Para Tod@s, a Puerto Rican LGBT advocacy group, on July 18.

Lambda Legal in April 2017 filed a lawsuit against the previous policy on behalf of Puerto Rico Para Tod@s and three trans Puerto Ricans.

Daniela Arroyo-González, who is one of the plaintiffs, in a Lambda Legal press release said it “is a huge relief to finally have an accurate birth certificate that is a true reflection of who I am.” She added the new policy “makes me feel safer and like my country finally recognizes me.”

“Birth certificates are more than a piece paper,” said Lambda Legal Staff Attorney Omar González-Pagan. “For transgender people, it’s a life-changing and essential tool to access necessary services, travel, work and live with safety and dignity.”

“We are pleased to see the Puerto Rican government comply with their constitutional duty to respect the privacy, dignity, and liberty of transgender Puerto Ricans,” added González-Pagan.

The new birth certificate policy took effect nearly 10 months after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico.

Local advocates and service providers have told the Blade that trans Puerto Ricans who were living in shelters after Maria faced discrimination because of their gender identity. A lack of adequate housing, employment and access to health care remain serious problems for many trans Puerto Ricans as they try to recover from the hurricane.

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Russian Federation to penetrate the U.S. national decision-making apparatus to advance the agenda of the Russian Federation,” the affidavit states.

A source close to the investigation, who spoke to the Washington Blade on condition of not being identified, said investigators believe Butina’s actions were part of an ongoing Russian effort to undermine the U.S. political system and American democracy.

“Investigators were looking at activities in certain ways that ran along social fault lines in the United States, guns being one of them, gay rights being another, and racial equality being another,” the source said.

“So a lot of the activities, not all, but a lot of the activities that have been reported out in various channels had talked about the NRA, the antigay efforts that Putin encouraged in Russia and how that was part of the appeal to the Evangelicals and religious

conservatives,” said the source.

Although prosecutors have said Butina appeared to target conservative U.S. organizations such as the National Rifle Association and the National Prayer Breakfast held in Washington, the source said her efforts were consistent with the overall plan by Moscow to exploit the anti-LGBT and anti-black sentiment of far-right groups to heighten divisions and strife in U.S. politics.

Another source who spoke on condition of not being identified is a law enforcement expert familiar with federal investigations into Russian intrusion in U.S. politics. The source had no direct knowledge of a specific instance in which Russian agents in the U.S. attempted to get involved in an LGBT-related issue, but said that would be consistent with the tactics they use.

“That wouldn’t surprise me because that’s really what they do,” said the source. “They go into areas that have sort of some level of sensitivity in this country

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or others,” the source said. “They do it all over the world. And then they pump

it full of disinformation to incite people emotionally about the topic.”

HHS used ‘leftover’ Ryan White funds for refugee program Officials say action won’t cut funding for AIDS work

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Media reports earlier this month that the Trump administration was planning to transfer millions of dollars in funds from the Ryan White AIDS program to help pay for the resettlement of thousands of refugee children, some of whom were separated from their parents, were misleading, according to a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The spokesperson, Elizabeth Senerchia, told the Washington Blade that last year HHS notified Congress that it intended to transfer “leftover” funds in fiscal year 2016 from the Ryan White program to HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement.

“These funds were unused and unobligated and had no impact on operation of the Ryan White program or future scheduled distribution of funds for recipients for FY 2018,” Senerchia said.

Carl Schmid, deputy executive director of the AIDS Institute, a national AIDS advocacy organization, said he agreed that the transfer of unused funds would not impact any of the Ryan White program’s funding for medical care and other services for people with HIV who are uninsured or underinsured and cannot afford to pay for life-saving HIV medication.

“Someone made a big deal out of a not so big story,” Schmid said.

He said news of the transfer of the unused funds, which alarmed some AIDS

‘Someone made a big deal out of a not so big story,’ said CARL SCHMID, deputy executive director of the AIDS Institute.

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activists until the full details became known, bring to light a longstanding problem associated with the Ryan White program that can’t be blamed on the federal government. Schmid and officials with other AIDS organizations have long expressed concern that cities and states that apply for and are allocated millions of dollars in funds from the Ryan White program sometimes are unable to spend all of the funds within a given fiscal year, even though the funds are needed to provide local AIDS-related services.

Activists have said the inability to spend the funds is sometimes due to

bureaucratic problems within state and city health departments or other agencies in charge of state and local AIDS programs.

In the past, HHS has said unspent funds could be allocated for other programs within the department.

“HHS routinely and proactively discusses funding options for all its programs within the authority granted to us by the Congress,” Senerchia told the Blade in a statement. “HHS has limited authority to shift funding between accounts or between programs whose funding levels are specified in law,” she said. “In FY 2017, this authority was used to

increase funding for the Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) program.”

Politico, one of the first media outlets to report that HHS planned to transfer Ryan White funds for the refugee children program, did not initially report that the money was from unspent funds allocated in 2016. It reported that the funds to be transferred totaled $17 million.

Senerchia said HHS would not disclose the amount of the transferred funds. She also said that HHS has a policy of not disclosing which cities and states fail to spend their full allotment of Ryan White Funds.

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Mark Norris, nominated for a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Tennessee Nominated by Trump in July 2017, Norris has served for 17 years as a member of the Tennessee Senate, where he has supported anti-LGBT legislation and shepherded it through as Senate majority leader.

Among the anti-LGBT bills Norris supported and are now law are measures prohibiting Tennessee municipalities from enacting pro-LGBT ordinances and enabling mental health counselors to refuse to treat LGBT patients out of religious objections.

Norris as majority leader also last year moved through legislation now pending before the House that would bar the government from taking “discriminatory action” against a business based on its internal policies. The measure would bar cities from refusing to contract with companies that have no policies against anti-LGBT discrimination.

After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2015 in favor of same-sex marriage nationwide, Norris challenged the legitimacy of the decision.

In September 2016, Norris was among 53 Republican legislators who filed a motion to intervene in a custody dispute case between two lesbian parents. The lawmakers argued the lesbian parent who wasn’t the birth mother didn’t have rights to her child because the Obergefell decision didn’t apply to family law.

In the final year of the Obama administration, Norris was a critic of guidance requiring schools to allow transgender students to use the bathroom consistent with their gender identity, pledging in a statement to “make sure that nothing will be done to give this ‘guidance’ any effect.” Trump has since repealed the guidance.

But Norris’ record isn’t just marked by anti-LGBT views. The lawmaker has pushed forward other initiatives criticized by civil rights groups. Among those measures are anti-Muslim legislation, English-only driver’s education, measures restricting abortion rights, legislation enhancing criminal penalties on undocumented immigrants and a voter ID law seen to block minorities from accessing the polls.

Howard Nielson, nominated for a seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah Howard Nielson made defense of California’s Proposition 8 in court — and the argument that U.S. Chief Judge Vaughn Walker’s ruling against the measure should be invalidated because the judge didn’t disclose he’s gay — a distinctive part of his legal career.

Nominated by Trump in September 2017, Nielson is a partner at the D.C.-based

Cooper & Kirk, PLLC and represented the defendants in Hollingsworth v. Perry, who sought to uphold the measure banning same-sex marriage in California they placed on the ballot in 2008. The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately rejected their claims on the basis they didn’t have standing in court, restoring marriage equality to California.

But before that ruling, Nielson filed a motion seeking to vacate Walker’s ruling against Proposition 8 on the basis that he was in same-sex relationship and didn’t disclose that as he adjudicated the case.

“Chief Judge Walker thus had a duty to disclose not only the facts concerning his relationship, but also his marriage intentions, for the parties (and the public) were entitled to know whether his waivable conflict was actually a non-waivable conflict mandating his disqualification,” Nielson wrote.

Nielson’s attempt to invalidate Walker’s ruling was rejected by U.S. District Judge James Ware, who sided with pro-gay rights groups in maintaining Walker’s sexual orientation shouldn’t invalidate his decision.

In his argument in favor of Proposition 8 on its merits, Nielson suggested being gay is a choice by pointing out there is debate about how sexual orientation is defined and disputed the effect of discrimination on gay people, including increased rates of depression and suicide.

Nielson has also faced criticism for being part of the screening committee at the U.S. Justice Department during the Bush administration, which was found to have taken political affiliation into account for hiring practices. He also worked at the Office of Legal Counsel, which justified the use of torture. Nielson has also been an attorney for the National Rifle Association.

David Porter, nominated for a seat on the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals Nominated by Trump in 2018, Porter could be one of the first nominees McConnell brings up for a vote because circuit court nominees will likely be a high priority.

Porter — a partner at the Pittsburghbased Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney — has an anti-LGBT record that has raised concerns as a result of his association with groups and politicians who’ve expressed anti-LGBT views.

Porter leads the Lawyers Chapter of the Pittsburgh Federalist Society, a conservative legal group that argues for strict interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. In 2009, Porter co-founded the Pennsylvania Judicial Network, a group that opposed the confirmation of now U.S. Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, with former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, who has expressed notoriously anti-LGBT views.

Also of concern to LGBT groups is Porter’s opposition to the Affordable Care Act. In a 2012 article, Porter argued if the U.S. Supreme Court were to uphold Obamacare under the Commerce Clause, it would “break the Framers’ structural design.”

The process by which the Senate has advanced Porter has also raised concern.

The Third Seat was open during the Obama administration, but wasn’t filled because the Senate didn’t take action after Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) refused to turn in his “blue slip” for the nominee Obama selected. The Senate has traditionally used the “blue slip” process to give deference to home state senators in the judicial nomination process.

Now, during the Trump administration, the other senator from Pennsylvania, Bob Casey (D), has refused to hand in his “blue slip” for Porter. Instead of his respecting Casey’s wishes to hold on the nominees as was done with Toomey, Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has proceeded with the Porter nomination and gave him a hearing. The committee reported Porter out favorably to the Senate floor, where he awaits a confirmation vote.

Thomas Alvin Farr, nominated for a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Farr has faced criticism from LGBT groups because of the larger progressive coalition’s concern over his defense of policies seen to target minority groups, such as a North Carolina gerrymandering law seen to block black voters from being heard in the political process.

A shareholder in the Raleigh office of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart PC, Farr unsuccessfully represented the Republican-led North Carolina Legislature in defense of the state’s redistricting after the 2010 Census. The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals concluded the state engaged in gerrymandering and sought to “target African-Americans with almost surgical precision.”

Farr defended a company when a supervisor said that “women with children should be at home and not employed in the workplace.” In 1998, he defended Avis against charges it was refusing to rent cars to black customers under the same conditions afforded to white customers. A staff attorney at the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Farr has also sought to undermine unionization efforts.

As legal counsel for the 1990 campaign of the late Sen. Jesse Helms, Farr faced scrutiny over efforts to intimidate black voters by distributing flyers in their neighborhoods falsely telling them they could be prosecuted for voting. Farr denied being part of the effort, but a Justice Department attorney familiar with the effort insisted he was involved.

The seat to which Farr was nominated has been open since 2005 — making it the oldest judicial vacancy in the country — and represents a 30 percent AfricanAmerican district.

Former President Obama nominated for the seat former North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Patricia Timmons-Goodson,

who’s black, but U.S. Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) blocked the nomination as part of the “blue slip” process. Farr, who’s white, was initially nominated by former President George W. Bush and Trump renominated him in July 2017.

Matthew Kacsmaryk, nominated for a seat on the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Texas Nominated by Trump in September 2017, Kacsmaryk has rejected LGBT rights as deputy general counsel to the First Liberty Institute, which advocates for enabling anti-LGBT discrimination in the name of “religious freedom.”

Kacsmaryk has defined the LGBT rights struggle as a “clash of absolutes” between “religious liberty and sexual liberty,” opposing advancements in LGBT rights on many fronts at the federal and state level.

In response to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in favor of same-sex marriage nationwide, Kacsmaryk said the ruling found an “unwritten” right under the Fourteenth Amendment that was “a secret knowledge so cleverly concealed in the nineteenth century amendment that it took almost 150 years to find.”

When Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis refused to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Kacsmaryk defended her, comparing her actions to that of “pacifistic Quakers” who refused fight in war and“Jewish butchers” who follow kosher dietary laws.

After the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled in 2015 the prohibition on sex discrimination applies to cases of anti-gay discrimination, Kacsmaryk told The World, an outlet that reports on religious freedom, the decision was the latest in efforts to undermine marriage law.

“Traditionally and legally, we define sex according to chromosomes...That’s typically how we define sex,” Kacsmaryk said. “That’s how we ordered our marriage laws and made certain presumptions of paternity in the family code. All of that is cast into disarray if you declare sex irrelevant to marriage.”

When the Obama administration issued a rule interpreting the prohibition of sex discrimination under the Affordable Care Act to apply to transgender people, Kacsmaryk opposed the regulation and called it “radical selfdefinition and sex-actualization.”

Kacsmaryk also endorsed the sweeping Mississippi “religious freedom” law known as HB 1523, which enables businesses and individuals to refuse service to LGBT people and medical practitioners to deny transition-related care to transgender patients.

Editor’s Note: The Blade relied on research from Alliance for Justice as well as other sources for the basis of this reporting.

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Dementia risk lower for older LGB people CHICAGO — Dementia rates for older LGB people are slightly lower than rates for the general population, U.S. News & World Report reports citing a HealthDay News article on a study presented last weekend at the Alzheimer’s Association annual meeting in Chicago.

The study included about 3,700 LGB adults 60 and older. Over a follow-up period of nine years, the dementia rate was 7.4 percent whereas it’s about 10 percent among Americans overall age 65 and older.

High rates of depression, high blood pressure, stroke and heart disease among sexual minorities may contribute to their dementia risk, researchers said, according to HealthDay. “Encouraging people to access health care services and make healthy lifestyle changes can have a positive impact on both LGBT and non-LGBT communities,” said Sam Fazio, director of quality care and psychosocial research for the Alzheimer’s Association, according to the HealthDay News article.

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Those numbers are based on 77,000 condomless anal sex acts reported in the PARTNER2 study of mixed-HIV-status gay male couples and another 12,000 from a study called Opposites Attract.

According to an agency press release, having reviewed the evidence from these studies, Anthony S. Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in an address he gave in a July 22 preconference meeting in Amsterdam, concluded “that the body of scientific evidence to date has established that there is effectively no risk of sexual transmission of HIV when the partner living with HIV has a durably undetectable viral load, validating the U=U (Undetectable=Untransmittable) message of HIV treatment as prevention.”

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RICHARD J. ROSENDALL is a writer and activist.

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Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), a member of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, believes that coastline erosion and silt deposits from rivers contribute to rises in sea level. Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Wagner claims that global warming is caused by body heat and the earth moving closer to the sun. Let us say gently that the earth’s orbit is more stable than Mr. Wagner’s.

Alas, these examples illustrate a problem that affects far more than just politicians: too many of us would rather cling to ill-informed notions than pull out our smartphones and look things up.

Even creators of fantasy do their re-

search. Black Panther director Ryan Coogler and his design team, for example, drew inspiration from real cultures across Africa in fleshing out the imaginary Wakanda. If you are less in touch with reality than a Marvel superhero movie, you may have a problem.

Speaking in Johannesburg on July 17 in commemoration of Nelson Mandela’s centennial, former president Barack Obama said, “[For democracy] to work, we have to actually believe in an objective reality.... Without facts, there is no basis for cooperation.... Unfortunately, too much of politics today seems to reject the very concept of objective truth. People just make stuff up.” Obama did not mention his successor; he didn’t have to.

The substitution of partisan spin for investigative journalism on cable news is a big part of the problem. As a journalism tutor once said, “If someone says it’s raining and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the fucking window and find out which is true.”

Our aim should not figuratively be to tattoo “Stupid” on anyone’s forehead, nor to pull our punches in public debates, but to end the destructiveness that results from continually giving free, unfiltered media to demagogues who appeal to our lowest impulses. A nation of ignorant trolls will produce nothing resembling greatness in E DIT OR IA L C A R T OON

competition with other nations.

Our push-back should not be solely about current policy disputes, but the founding principles without which America exists in name only. They begin with the holding that all of us are created equal.

The threat we face was summarized on July 16 by Bree Newsome, who climbed a flagpole on the South Carolina statehouse grounds in 2015 to remove the Confederate flag: “White racists in US have shown time and again they’d rather burn the republic to the ground than have racial equality in America.... The commitment to white supremacy is stronger than commitment to western democracy.” Sadly, yes. Racism and know-nothingism poison the public square that we all must share.

It makes no sense to demonize black athletes for kneeling in protest against racist law enforcement, while praising or excusing our president’s supine behavior in Helsinki. Peaceful protest is a timehonored tradition here. Siding with a foreign despot against America is not.

Effective policymaking depends not just on facts but on sound reasoning and goodwill, which are lacking in Trumpland.

To understand the embrace of President Seven Deadly Sins by white evangelicals, we need to recognize the flights of unreason that sustain their besieged worldview. For them, Trump is God’s tool, just as the Bible is a weapon.

Consider members of First Baptist Church in Luverne, Ala., interviewed by Stephanie McCrummen in The Washington Post on July 21. Sunday school teacher Sheila Butler says that Christians are faced with “annihilation.” “Obama was acting at the behest of the Islamic nation.” Christ’s call to welcome the stranger means the “legal immigrant stranger.”

Slavery’s evils are overstated, because “Slaves ... got housing. They got fed. They got medical care.”

Regarding the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opened earlier this year in Montgomery and features 800 steel monoliths hanging in a powerful evocation of lynching, Ms. Butler says it promotes violence because it will stir “feelings of revenge” in young black men. Does she also think memorials to our war dead promote violence? What about crucifixes?

I hardly know how to react to the Post article, except to note that these paranoid people vote. For the stolen children, for our stolen country, so must we.

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Noose tightens around Trump’s White House

Democrats must unite to stop this madness in November

PETER ROSENSTEIN is a D.C.-based LGBT rights and Democratic Party activist. He writes regularly for the Blade.

The noose around the White House is slowly tightening and President Trump will be left hanging in the wind. It’s like two forces are pulling on the ends of the rope. One is Vladimir Putin who clearly has something he is holding over Trump’s head; the other is Special Counsel Robert Mueller who is getting closer to a series of indictments that will most likely include at least one of Trump’s children, some of his campaign staff, and maybe even Trump himself.

In the meantime the country continues to reel from the actions of this deranged president and his administration, some of whom are enablers and others like Dan Coats, director of National Intelligence (DNI) and James Mattis, secretary of defense, trying desperately to hold on to

some form of sanity.

I was never a fan of Coats (R-Ind.) when he was a senator but you had to laugh with, or cry for him, when during a recent interview with Andrea Mitchell he was blindsided by the president. As the highest-ranking member of the nation’s intelligence community he was telling Mitchell about not knowing all that Trump was doing but actually making excuses for him. Then the president’s communications lackey Sarah Huckabee-Sanders tweeted Trump had asked John Bolton to extend an invitation for Putin to visit the White House. When Mitchell interrupted the interview to tell Coats his response was “Say that again?” and he laughed.

“Vladimir Putin, coming to the…” Mitchell reiterated.” “Did I hear you, did I hear you?” Coats said. “Yeah, yeah,” Mitchell answered. “OK,” Coats said, “That’s going to be special.” This has to be classic.

Now we find Moscow claiming all sorts of agreements were reached in Helsinki

by Trump and Putin, some on Syria totally contradicting stated U.S. foreign policy. Any question as to whether the Republican Congress would have the guts to stand up to Trump were quickly answered with a resounding no. It is clear Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ken.) and Speaker Ryan (R-Wisc.) don’t have the stomach or the guts to stand up to the

despot in the White House.

Trying to change the topic, McConnell chastised Democrats for wanting to hold up the latest Supreme Court nominee suggesting voters wouldn’t stand for that. This from the man who wouldn’t hold a hearing on President Obama’s nominee to the court. But in fact the voters stood for it then and didn’t punish the Senate for that in 2016. In a juxtaposition of interests voters can still hold the Senate responsible for that in 2018 if Democrats and independents come out in record numbers and tell McConnell they will no longer accept his outrageous hypocrisy.

My fear is Democrats will once again fight among ourselves and by their votes for a third party or not voting at all will display a huge lack of understanding of how the Congress works. They will fight over labels like Democratic Socialist, moderate, progressive and liberal. Some have called for a vote against Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez in New York because she labels herself a Democratic Socialist and stands with Bernie Sanders. This would be like cutting off your nose to spite your face. In reality there is only one vote of hers that is crucial and that’s her vote for a Democratic Speaker of the House, which she has committed to do. Beyond that as a freshman member of Congress

she will have zero impact; similar to the impact Bernie Sanders had when he was in the House.

We need to unite every segment of the broad tent that has always been the Democratic Party. I remember when Rep. Bella Abzug (D-N.Y.) was called a communist and people said she shouldn’t be elected.

Then she formed an amazing friendship with Speaker Tip O’Neill who named her a whip in her third term in the House.

It is time to educate our electorate on how the Congress works. We must begin that in middle school or before if we are now talking about letting 16 year olds vote. Like it or not there are only two parties with the chance to control the Congress, Democrats or Republicans.

The party that controls each house, the Senate and the House of Representatives, gets to name committee chairs and appoint committee members. By having the votes they set the agenda and determine which bills come to the floor. For those who want to see the Congress resume its place as an equal and independent branch of government that means Democrats need at least 51 senators and 218 representatives. That will give them control of both houses of Congress and the ability to stop Trump from inflicting more damage on the nation and the world.

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An urgent appeal: Watch Hannah Gadsby’s ‘Nanette’ Queer comedian delivers surprising take on array of topics

BROCK THOMPSON is a D.C.-based freelance writer. He writes regularly for the Blade.

This is one last appeal to people out there — please watch Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette.” You’ve probably heard about it by now. It’s been making the rounds. And to be completely honest with you, though I’ve written this column for a few years now, for sure I’m no theater critic. But I wanted to try with “Nanette” in hopes that you might give it a try, too.

If you have Netflix, it might already be in your queue somewhere. And it’s easy to push off until later, or dismiss altogether.

A ‘masc-of-center’ lesbian from Tasmania with mild autism does stand up. See? It’s sort of hard to sell. Beyond that, it has all the hallmarks of a gay comedy special – a lone microphone on a stage, a comedian wearing all black, and large doses of selfdeprecating gay humor. And that’s it. Or at least the first half of it. And then roughly halfway in, it turns on its head.

The first half is what you could call a normal comedy show with the standard formula — a set up and a punchline, or as Gadsby describes it — a “question with a surprise answer.” Then there’s what comedians call the ‘callback.’ Essentially circling back to a story or a joke told earlier, looping it all together.

The audience loves it because they feel involved, in on the joke. Some of my favorite shows mastered the callback, like “30 Rock” and “Seinfeld.” Callbacks tie things together and the audience gets to pat themselves on the back for paying attention. And there’s a lot to circle back to while watching “Nanette” — Vincent Van Gogh, Gadsby’s mom, cubism, people that from a distance mistake her

for a man.

But then there’s the second half of “Nanette.” For queer comedians, the coming out story is easy fodder for jokes. This is how I did it, this is how it went down. This is the funny thing that my mom said in response. But what happened after the coming out? What is mom saying now about it all? We’re reminded that a story has a beginning, a middle and an end.

Gadsby warns us not to seal things off into jokes, to finish the story. Humor is hugely important, maybe even more so to queer kids. And queer kids are taught early on to recognize and defuse tension. And it’s sometimes wondered why gays are so funny and sharp. We’re given tension in the form of bullies, uncomfortable questions about ourselves we’re not ready to answer, scores of awkward encounters.

Humor can deflect, defuse, distract, to dust hurt off our shoulders. But Gadsby’s tired of self-deprecating humor, asking us if we “understand what self-deprecation means when it comes from somebody who already exists in the margins? It’s not humility, it’s humiliation.”

There’s a real need, as Gadsby says, to tell a story properly. And that goes for her, her story, and all sorts of stories, from Van Gogh to Pablo Picasso. Granted, I had no idea Picasso was such a complicated, troubling figure. We all knew that Picasso was a womanizer, but that was almost dismissed as the eccentric trappings of an artist cultivating a reputation.

Up until now, anyway.

There’s a lot more callback left in “Nanette.” And it’s not mine to tell but maybe mine to encourage others to hear. If we are to have honest conversations in this #MeToo time, “Nanette” almost takes the Me Too Movement to the next inevitable level. The story is valuable and important, but once we hear the story, we the audience become a player.

Setups. Punchlines. Stories. Humor is all well and good. But she notes “laughter is not our medicine. . .stories are our cure.” That’s the surprise answer. And the audience didn’t know we were being set up the entire time.

Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette” is currently available on Netflix.

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By MARIAH COOPER MCOOPER@WASHBLADE.COM Don’t worry about leaving your pet at home while you enjoy the summer activities. There are plenty of spots that welcome four-legged friends while you grab a drink, a bite to eat or even check out a Nationals game.

Larry’s Lounge (1840 14th St., N.W.) invites dogs and their owners to its dogfriendly patio and daily happy hour deals from open-7 p.m. For more information, follow @LarrysLoungeDC on Twitter.

Silver hosts Pups on the Patio every Thursday from 4-6:30 p.m. at its Cathedral Commons location (3404 Wisconsin Ave., N.W.) and its Bethesda location (7150 Woodmont Ave., Bethesda, Md.). Owners can enjoy happy hour specials and will be allowed to have their dogs on the patio. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to a local animal charity. For more details, visit eatatsilver.com/upcoming-events.

Denizens Brewing Co. (1115 East West Hwy, Silver Spring, Md.) has a 200-seat patio that welcomes furry friends. Happy hour specials all day on Monday and from 4-6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Owners can taste test 65 different craft beers with their pooches by their side. For details, visit denizenbrewingco.com.

Republic (6939 Laurel Ave., Takoma Park, Md.) holds a Yappy Hour the last Sunday of every month from 3-5 p.m. through October. The bar offers Salty Dog cocktails for owners and doggy treats for four-legged pets. Owners can also enjoy $4 mini beers, $8 select cocktails, spritzers and select glasses of wine. For more information, visit republictakoma.com.

Wonderland Ballroom (1101 Kenyon St., N.W.) has an enclosed outdoor patio to keep adventurous dogs inside while their owners enjoy local beers. Drink specials are $2 off drafts and rail drinks for happy hour every day from 4:30-7 p.m.

Midlands (3333 Georgia Ave., N.W.) is an outdoor beer hall with rows of picnic tables ideal for dogs to mingle while their owners have a drink. Happy hour specials are Monday-Thursday from 4-7 p.m. with a buy-one-get-one-free special on local drafts and spirits. For more details, visit midlandsdc.com.

Copperwood Tavern (4021 Campbell Ave., Arlington, Va) offers a happy hour

selection for both owners and fourlegged friend. Owners can choose from 24 draft beers, 30 whiskeys and a large wine selection. The dog-friendly patio is equipped with custom copper dog bowls and house-baked dog treats. Happy hour is Monday through Friday from 4-7 p.m. with $1 off all beers and glasses of wine. For more information, visit copperwoodtavern.com.

Wet Dog Tavern (2100 Vermont Ave., N.W.) was inspired by the owners’ golden retriever. The venue offers plenty of space and activities for dogs to play.

There will also be a Happy Hour on Aug. 12 from 2-5 p.m. benefitting the Humane Rescue Alliance. People without pets are also welcome to stop by and check out the Adoption Van. For more details, visit wetdogtaverndc.com.

Pet owners can also bring their pooches along for special festivities this summer.

Wags N’Whiskers, a community event for animal lovers and their pets, takes place at the Village at Shirlington (2700 S Quincy St., Arlington, Va.) on Saturday, Aug. 25 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The event will feature more than 65 exhibitors featuring pet services, accessories, onsite adoption and more. Other activities include getting a professional photo of your pet for $5, live music and children’s activities such as face painting, balloon art, strolling entertainment and more.

Admission is free. For more details, visit villageatshirlington.com.

Have fun at the ball game with your dog at Nationals Park to watch the Nationals take on the Chicago Cubs on Friday, Sept.

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by Budweiser allows owners to bring their dogs to watch the game in its pet-friendly Outfield Reserved section. Human tickets are $32 and dog tickets are $10. Proceeds from the dog tickets benefit the Humane Rescue Alliance. For more information, visit mlb.com/nationals.

Humans aren’t the only species that enjoy a sweet treat in the heat. These bakeries offer plenty of desserts for furry friends.

Dogma Bakery (2772 S Arlington Mill Dr., Arlington, Va) has fresh baked dog treats and ice cream to give your dog a sweet treat. Treats are free of salt,

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There’s no shortage of options for D.C. dog owners who want to spoil their pet.

preservatives and sugar. They also offer grooming services to give your dog a makeover. For more details, visit dogma bakery.com.

The Dairy Godmother (2310 Mt Vernon Ave., Alexandria, Va.) sells puppy pops mixed with plain yogurt and peanut butter. The shop offers two flavors, pumpkin and banana. Squirrel, a baked dog treat, made from spent barley malt, eggs, vegetable and wheat flour. Owners can pick up their own dessert with frozen custard available in a multiple of flavors. Dogs are not allowed inside the store. For more information, visit thedairygodmother.com.

Doggie Style (1825 18th St., N.W.) is a one-stop shop for pet treats, supplies and grooming services. The spa offers services such as baths, haircuts, blowouts and brushing. Celebrate your dog’s birthday with custom birthday cakes.

The cakes are available in peanut butter, banana and Carob, a dog-safe chocolate substitute. Cakes range from $16-22. The “barkery” also sells other hand-made

treats daily. For a full list of services, visit doggistylebakery.com.

When you do need someone to take care of your dog, they will be in good hands for training, grooming and boarding at these locations.

City Dogs (1832 18th St., N.W.) offers everything from boarding and grooming services to a daycare with social skills training.

Visit city-dogs.com for more information.

All Dogs Club (5115 Berwyn Rd., College Park, Md.) provides daycare services, canine college and pajama parties for pups. Daycare has plenty of fun for dogs with a indoor and outdoor facilities, a castle playground and an agility course. Dogs can also have splash and beach parties in the mini pool and sand box. Canine college offers training courses from beginner to advanced. Pajama parties are All Dogs Club’s version of a boarding kennel. Dogs can dress up in cozy pajamas, listen to calming music before bedtime and have the option of sleeping in a crate or outside one. For pricing and more details, visit alldogsclub.com.

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SCOTTY BOWERS was in high demand as a Hollywood escort in the ‘40s and ‘50s.

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Corroborating Scotty Salacious vintage Hollywood sex claims of 2012 book explored in new doc

By JOHN PAUL KING

Scotty Bowers’s name had long been floating around as a sort of urban legend from Hollywood’s golden age when, in 2012, his memoir “Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars” was published.

In the book (co-written by Lionel Friedberg), he claimed to have spent four decades providing sexual services to many of the movie factory’s most famous stars, either personally or by connecting them to other attractive young men or women in

his stable of sex workers from whom he says he never took a penny for himself; he just liked “making people happy.”

The reaction from most readers was skepticism. Most of the people outed

by Bowers were long dead, unable to comment on his claims; on top of that, he never kept written records of any transactions — they were all kept in his head to protect his clients’ privacy.

Without such proof, it was reasoned, why should he be believed?

For director Matt Tyrnauer — whose documentary “Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood” hits theaters July 27 — the question is not “why” so much as “why not?” (In Washington, Landmark E Street has it slated for an Aug. 17 opening).

Tyrnauer spent two years filming with Bowers, now in his 90s, and says, without hesitation, “There’s no question in my mind that he is telling the truth.”

“I found literally hundreds of instances

of corroboration that prove Scotty did what he said he did and was where he said he was,” he says. “I’ve seen interviews with people who were sex workers at the gas station during that period, who confirmed in person, on camera, everything that Scotty claims; there are letters from the period in which he’s mentioned, testimony from trustworthy people who knew him at the time, the list CONTINUES ON PAGE 32

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C HE RY L HE AD How long have you been out and who was the hardest person to tell?

I came out after moving to D.C. I came out under stress (the breakup of my relationship) so it was all hard, but I had to tell my mother and sisters in order to save my life. I needed their support. I got varying reactions, mostly supportive. I think many of us are on a journey of self love and being willing (and able) to be your true self is the first step of the journey.

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By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO joeyd@washblade.com A planned terrorist attack on a Detroit auto show, a murky Alabama missingperson case that quickly turns to murder, the dreams of two young people during WWII, LGBT people sharing their memories of the queer bar scene — these are just a few of the themes in the books of local author Cheryl Head.

Head, a Detroit native, will be at OutWrite, D.C.’s LGBT literary festival, next weekend (Aug. 3-5) on a Saturday panel called “The Road Before Us: Black Queer Lit in the Post-Obama Age,” dedicated to a discussion of “how our writing is impacted by the current political and social climate.” It’s at the Reeves Center (2000 14th St., N.W.).

OutWrite kicks off Friday, Aug. 3 with “Laughing Out Loud” at Ten Tigers Parlour (3813 Georgia Ave., N.W.) with an evening of literary comedy with Michelle Tea. Tickets are $15.

She’s also slated to be a guest on the next “Ask Rayceen Show” on Wednesday, Aug. 1 at the HRC Center (1640 Rhode Island Ave., N.W.) at 6 p.m. to promote OutWrite. Both are free to attend. Rayceen details at askrayceen.com and OutWrite info at thedccenter.org/outwrite.

Head writes full time and has been writing fiction for 10 years. Her titles include “Our Happy Hours: LGBT Voices from the Gay Bars,” “Long Way Home: a World War II Novel,” “Bury Me When I’m Dead” (a Lambda Literary Awards finalist) and “Wake Me When It’s Over.”

“Story is the core of all media, of all creative endeavors,” Head says.

“Whether you’re a sculptor, filmmaker, singer or architect, there’s an idea you want to convey — one that is written in your head, heart or on paper.”

She came to Washington 25 years ago to work in public broadcasting and is mom to AJ Head, a local singer/songwriter and event manager.

Head is single and lives on Capitol Hill. She enjoys golf, travel, old movies, cooking, yoga and the beach in her free time.

Who’s your LGBT hero?

I have many, however, I usually point to heroines who are most like me — a black woman who writes. So there is Octavia Butler and Audre Lorde. I also greatly admired Texas Congresswoman, Barbara Jordan. A current LGBTQ hero is Emma Gonzalez.

What’s Washington’s best nightspot, past or present?

Tracks was a huge space, but compartmentalized enough that you could have a variety of experiences.

On women’s night, I would relish in the energy of literally thousands of women. It was a mind-boggling experience.

Describe your dream wedding.

Me in off-white; her in off-white. Small, dignified ceremony followed by a raucous, booty-shaking dance party. I’ve been married before. The hard work comes later in acting on the words and the vows. But the day should be remembered for the fun, laughter and celebration.

What non-LGBT issue are you most passionate about?

I’m angry about the indiscriminate shooting of unarmed black people by police officers. I grew up in an era where the police were part of our community.

We were taught in school to respect the men and women who “protect and serve.”

Now I think too many members of police forces around the U.S. fear the people they’re supposed to serve. You can’t protect people if you fear them.

What historical outcome would you change?

The 2016 presidential election.

What’s been the most memorable pop culture moment of your lifetime?

It hasn’t happened yet. It would be a conversation with Oprah about my books.

On what do you insist?

Logic, empathy and humor.

What was your last Facebook post or Tweet?

A couple of photos of friends and me at a play in New York City on my birthday.

If your life were a book, what would the title be?

“It Was a Long Time Coming” If science discovered a way to change sexual orientation, what would you do?

I would advocate for policies that would make the change process affordable, private and de-stigmatized for those who would wished to take advantage of it.

What do you believe in beyond the physical world?

I believe in a spiritual stream in the universe where we all swim. A higher power that connects us all and is impacted by our thoughts, words and deeds.

What’s your advice for LGBT movement leaders?

Continue to build strong relationships with allies. Make your organizations, including the leadership, as diverse as possible. Pay attention to the cycles that are inherent to change movements. Sometimes it is as important to plan and wait as it is to act.

What would you walk across hot coals for?

A woman who adores me. Or chocolate in the absence of my first choice.

What LGBT stereotype annoys you most?

That we are always over-the-top flamboyant.

What’s your favorite LGBT movie?

“Desert Hearts” and “Boys in the Band.” I think it’s because I saw both films in my formative years of coming out and trying to understand what being gay meant. I also find the documentary “Paris is Burning” very poignant.

What’s the most overrated social custom?

Shaking hands. It used to be a covenant.

Now I believe there is so much greed and self-interest in the world that the symbolism of the handshake means nothing.

What trophy or prize do you most covet?

The MacArthur Genius Grant.

What do you wish you’d known at 18?

That my voice was already important.

I knew I was good at storytelling and I was presented with many opportunities to tell my stories. But at 18, I didn’t have enough confidence to shine.

Why Washington?

I came here to work. I appreciated this city a lot more before I lived here. I know it’s one of the most important cities in the world, but like America, it has not lived up to its promise.

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By KATHI WOLFE Are you turned on by secretly perusing the dictionary? Do you drool with desire over the smell of library books? Probably not, in our Grindr, YouTube, Internet meme age. You likely don’t think reading is sexy or transgressive. But you will after dipping into “The Unpunished Vice” by Edmund White.

The word iconic is an overused cliche.

Yet, there’s no other way to describe White, 78, our most eminent queer writer. The number of literary prizes he’s received is mind-boggling. This year alone, White, a memoirist, essayist and novelist, was awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Career Achievement in American Fiction and the Lambda Literary Foundation’s Visionary Award.

But White, growing up in the Midwest in the 1940s and 1950s, didn’t start out as an esteemed openly queer man of letters and literary activist. (White was a founder of the 1980s queer writers group The Violet Quill.) When White grew up, homosexuality was illegal and considered sinful or, at best, a sickness.

If you were caught having queer sex, you were arrested. You wouldn’t have thought about leaving the closet or meeting folks who were out. This wasn’t good for White, who liked boys.

In “The Unpunished Vice,” an essay collection that blends memoir and literary criticism, White vividly evokes how reading has informed and nourished his life and work.

You couldn’t make up White’s life if you tried. When he was 12, his mother gave him a biography of Nijinsky, the queer Russian ballet dancer. “Was it just that he was an iconic artist ... and she wanted to stoke my artistic fires?” White wonders, “Or was it innocent compliance with a sissy steak I’d already manifested?”

When he was a child, words were magical and sometimes sexual for White.

His mother was a psychologist. During an era when no one spoke and rarely wrote of sex, especially queer sex, White eagerly looked up “penis,” “intercourse” and “homosexuality” in his mother’s medical dictionary. These words “were exciting just because they appeared in print,” he writes.

As a teenager, White was a Buddhist.

He embraced Buddhism so he could “root out” his desires for boys. At his boarding school in Michigan, White was disappointed when he met a boy from Thailand who’d been a Buddhist monk for a year. He’d never meditated he told White, and the older monks had only wanted to play cards and feel up boys. It was a time, White writes, when “the three most heinous things in America were

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heroin, communism and homosexuality.”

White spent one summer at Walloon Lake in Michigan. His father made him do yard work for a month. Loading a wheelbarrow with pine needles on a hill would, his father believed, cure him of being gay. White got through it by reading “Death in Venice” by Thomas Mann, a tale of a man’s infatuation with a 10-year-old boy. White read it secretly at night in his bedroom. “Teenagers ... are particularly prone to the seductive power of dark narratives,” he writes.

White’s longing for travel and the queer writer’s life writer has been amply satisfied.

He’s lived in Paris, traveled to Istanbul and written 28 books. His works range from “A Boy’s Own Story,” one of the first novels about coming out, to “The Farewell Symphony,” a seminal novel about a lover dying of AIDS to biographies of Genet and Proust.

“The Unpunished Vice” gives us engaging glimpses into White’s reading and writing life. He and his husband, the writer Michael Carroll, are an amusing couple. Carroll, 25 years younger, can’t stand opera and ballet — the culture White adores. Most moving, is the essay on White’s recovery from a 2014 heart attack, during which he has torrid dreams about silent film star Valentino, but no interest in his life-long passion of reading.

A few of the essays on writers such as the piece on “Anna Karenina” are a drag. They read like lectures. (White recently retired from teaching at Princeton.) And while White’s stories about his writer friends are fun (who knew Joyce Carol Oates dances in the corridors at Princeton?), the name dropping’s a bit much.

But don’t be put off by this. “The Unpunished Vice,” is a good, sexy read.

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Alan Cumming: Legal Immigrant Jul 28. Kennedy Center. kennedy-center.org.

Alan Cumming is many things to many people—renaissance man, style icon, social activist, bon viveur—but to himself he is a story-teller and provocateur for hire. Legal Immigrant is a cabaret of songs and stories about his life and loves in his adopted homeland.

Capital Fringe Through July 29 various locations. capitalfringe.org.

Capital Fringe Festival is just around the corner in a new neighborhood and with over 400+ individual performances on 11 stages. Audiences will have the chance to engage, contemplate or just let loose with an exciting month of music, art, theatre and dance.

The Color Purple Jul 31-Aug 26. Kennedy Center. kennedy-center.org.

2016 Tony Award® winner for Best Musical Revival! With a soul-raising score of jazz, gospel, ragtime, and blues, this joyous American classic has conquered Broadway in an all-new “ravishingly reconceived production that is a glory to behold” (The New York Times).

Expressing Humanity: Historical, Spiritual & Symbolic Thru Sep 1. Zenith Gallery. zenithgallery.com.

Have you ever wondered how nature is transformed to fine art? Look no further than our three innovative artists, Bernie Houston, Hubert Jackson and Ibou N’Diaye, who use wood in various ways. These artists reflect the Zenith culture of ingenuity, through high-quality work and strong visions that are meaningful, joyful and extremely well executed. Basically, they stand the test of time while reflecting our current society.

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THEATRE Damned If You Do. Thru Jul 29. Woolly Mammoth. woollymammoth.net.

Irish Twist on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Thru Aug 12. Quotidian Theatre Company at Old Round House Theater. quotidiantheatre.org.

Leonard Bernstein’s Candide in Concert. Jul 28. The Pirates of Penzance. Jul 28-Aug 17. H.M.S. Pinafore. Thru Aug 19. Olney Theatre. olneytheatre.org.

The Color Purple. Jul 31-Aug 26.

Hamilton. Thru Sep 7. Kennedy Center. kennedy-center.org.

The Secrets of the Universe (and Other Songs). Thru Jul 29. JCCNV at New School. jccnv.org.

DANCE Energizers Creative Arts Camp Concert 2018. Aug 2-Aug 3. Dance Place. danceplace.org.

GMU Center for the Arts 2018-2019 Season: Dance Series. Thru Sep 1.

GMU Center for the Arts. cfa.gmu.edu.

National Dance Day. Jul 28. Kennedy Center. kennedy-center.org.

Prakriti Dance. Jul 28-Jul 29. Dance Place. danceplace.org.

Camp Newseum Nights. Jul 27.

Newseum. newseum.org.

Jazz in the Garden: Incendio. Jul 27.

National Gallery of Art. nga.gov.

Live from the Lawn: The Chuck Brown Band. Aug 1. Strathmore. strathmore.org.

NSO Bernstein at 100 A Celebration with The Choral Arts Society of Washington. Jul 27. NSO The Best of Wagner’s Ring. Jul 28. NSO at Wolf Trap. kennedy-center.org.

Sizzlin’ Summer with Mark G. Meadows and The Movement: Dance Party!. Jul 27. Sizzlin’ Summer with Christopher Mueller: Songs I Heard. Jul 28. Sizzlin’ Summer with Ines Nassara and Chris Urquiaga: Isn’t She Lovely?. Jul 28. Sizzlin’ Summer with Ines Nassara and Chris Urquiaga: Isn’t She Lovely?.

Jul 31. Sizzlin’ Summer with Maria Rizzo: Let Me Entertain You. Aug 1. Sizzlin’ Summer: Revenge of the Understudies. Aug 2. Signature Theatre. sigtheatre.org.

Speedy Tolliver Tribute: Old Time Bluegrass. Jul 27. Veronneau Recording Live at Lubber Run. Jul 28.

DC Highlife Stars at Lubber Run. Jul 29. Arlington Cultural Affairs at Lubber Run. arlingtonarts.org.

Summer Concert Series: O’Malley’s March. Jul 28. BlackRock. blackrockcenter.org.

Summer Concerts on the Lawn: Cheick Hamala Diabate. Aug 2.

Library of Congress. Lone Piñon. Aug 1. Homegrown: Lone Piñon. Aug 1.

Library of Congress North Lawn. loc.gov.

WMPA Chamber Concert - Violin and Piano. Jul 29. Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic Association at The Lyceum. wmpamusic.org.

Yanni Live at The Acropolis 25th Anniversary Tour. Jul 29. Wolf Trap. wolftrap.org.

MUSEUMS Dumbarton Oaks. Outside/IN: Martha Jackson Jarvis at Dumbarton Oaks.

Thru Aug 19. doaks.org.

Folger Shakespeare Library. Form & Function: The Genius of the Book. Thru Sep 23. folger.edu.

Kreeger Museum. Second Nature: Portuguese Contemporary Art from the EDP Foundation Collection.

Thru Jul 31. Reinstallation of the Permanent Collection. Thru Dec 31. kreegermuseum.org.

Library of Congress. Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I. Thru Jan 1. Baseball

Americana. Thru Jun 29. loc.gov.

National Archives. Remembering Vietnam. Thru Jan 6. archivesfoundation.org.

National Gallery of Art. Water, Wind, and Waves: Marine Paintings from the Dutch Golden Age. Thru Nov 25.

Exhibition: Sense of Humor. Thru Jan 6. nga.gov.

National Geographic. National Geographic: Exploration Starts Here.

Thru Jan 1. Titanic: The Untold Story.

Thru Jan 6. nglive.org.

National Museum of Women in the Arts. Heavy Metal—Women to Watch 2018. Thru Sep 16. Bound to Amaze: Inside a Book-Collecting Career. Thru Nov 25. nmwa.org.

Smithsonian Anacostia Museum.

CM 50th Anniversary Program: Block Watch. Thru Feb 28. A Right to the City.

Thru Apr 20. anacostia.si.edu.

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian. One Year: 1968, An American Odyssey. Thru May 19.

Daguerreotypes: Five Decades of Collecting. Thru Jun 2. npg.si.edu.

GALLERIES African American Civil War Memorial and Museum. 20th Anniversary Celebration: Hubert Jackson & Curtis Woody. Thru Sep 30. zenithgallery.com.

DC Arts Center (DCAC). Judging Me Judging You. Thru Aug 12. dcartscenter.org.

District Architecture Center. 2018 Professional Awards of the Potomac Chapter, ASLA. Thru Aug 31. Beyond Practice: Watercolors by David Cox, FAIA. Thru Aug 31. aiadac.com.

Dupont Underground. 20/20: Double Vision. Thru Aug 28. dupontunderground.org.

Gallery Underground.

VACATION! Art Exhibit. Thru Jul 27. arlingtonartistsalliance.org.

Glen Echo Park. Recovery Through Creativity. Thru Jul 28. Time Out: Paintings and Photography by Patrick and Lisa Sieg. Thru Jul 29. Silver Linings: Stories in Silver. Thru Jul 29.

Art Walk in the Park: First Friday of every month thru September. Thru Sep 7. glenechopark.org.

Goethe-Institut. 1968: A Time of Uproar in Europe and the US. Thru Aug 24. goethe.de.

Hill Center. Hill Center Galleries Regional Juried Exhibition. Thru Sep 22. hillcenterdc.org.

Korean Cultural Center DC. City, Unfamiliar Landscape: Works by Three Korean Contemporary Artists. Thru Jul 30. koreaculturedc.org.

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Supremely satisfying New reissue of classic album features group’s final performances with Florence Ballard

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By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO joeyd@washblade.com It’s been a particularly rich several years for Supremes fans as Universal (previously under the now-defunct Hip-O-Select imprint) continues its series of classic album “expanded editions” from Motown’s leading ladies.

The latest — perhaps the series’ best, although that’s a tough call — is the deluxe reissue of “The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland: Expanded Edition,” ( out of four) a two-CD digipak that features the original album in both stereo and mono mixes, 12 alternate takes/extended mixes and a jaw-droppingly pristine recording of the group’s 1967 engagement at the famous Copacabana nightclub in New York where just a few years earlier, they’d recorded their legendary “At the Copa” album (itself reissued in deluxe format in 2012).

The album — named for Motown’s main songwriting team — features the Supremes’ no. 1 hits “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” and “Love is Here and Now You’re Gone” as well as a cover of Martha and the Vandellas’ hit “(Love is Like a) Heat Wave” (interesting, though the girls don’t capture the Vandellas’ fire; it illustrates beautifully how different the two groups were) and “Going Down for the Third Time,” one of the Supremes’ best deep album cuts (it was later the B-side to “Reflections” and sounds like it could have been a smash itself).

The 1967 Copa recordings are notable on several counts. One, they’re the final group appearances of founding member Florence Ballard who was officially ousted from the group soon thereafter and replaced by Cindy Birdsong. Two, while bootlegs have circulated of these shows among fans in recent years, they’ve either been very hard to come by and/or available only with distorted audio. Everything’s cleaned up just so on the new album and we get the pleasure of hearing Ballard and fellow Supreme Mary Wilson’s backing vocals surprisingly high in the mix (we hear them much more prominently than we do on the accompanying studio recordings although, even there, they’re prominent).

The Supremes in their last few years with Diana Ross (she left in 1970) were a mixed bag. There were still hits (although not nearly as many) in the post-Ballard era (“Love Child,” their joint albums with the Temptations), but it was never quite the same. Birdsong did an admirable job with big heels to fill (her singing was lovely) but she could never hope to

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match Ballard’s sassy persona and brassy Lawyer of the Year, Board Certified, Writer/Author/Lecturer, vocals. There’s a reason characters Class Action Chairman, Reasonable adjustable fees, inspired by Ballard — played by Jennifer Practicing in Maryland, Virginia and DC, Holliday and and Jennifer Hudson in the 4 Progressive Lawyers on Staff, Published Feminist on Staff, stage and screen versions of “Dreamgirls” — are the ones everybody remembers.

Former Senate and House of Representatives Aid, Art Collector The second disc here, with the Copa material, gives us the chance to hear Ballard on classic Supremes live material, especially a mash-up of “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” 1310 L Street, NW, Suite 800 “Second Hand Rose” and “Mame” we’d Washington, DC 20005 previously only known from the group’s 1968 “Live at London’s Talk of the Town” album with Birdsong (itself, admittedly, a gem).

Culled from the best takes from two shows, we also get an alternate version of “Put On a Happy Face” (a different take than the one on the Supremes 2000 box set),” an uber-rare live version of “My Favorite Things” (recorded on the Supremes’ Christmas album) and a blistering live version of their 1967 No. 1 hit “The Happening.”

Thanks to these wonderful reissues, we now have a much better picture of the Supremes’ true stage act throughout the ‘60s.

For decades, all we had were the original “At the Copa” and “Talk of the Town” albums (both heavily edited), but it’s now possible to truly feel what the Supremes classic lineup was like live between the “Copa” reissue album, this 1967 Copa show on the new release and the bonus disc of the 2012 equally grand rerelease of the “I Hear a Symphony” album Breathe is a licensed residential program offeringA D V E R T I S I N G which features a previously unreleased (and trauma-informed care treating substance PROOFof #1the Supremes ISSUEinnovative DATE: 180720 SALES REPRESENTATIVE: complete!) live performance at the Roostertail in Detroit. use,REVIEW eating disorders and AD FOR COPY AND DESIGN ACCURACY. Revisionscomplex must be submitted withintrauma 24 hours of the datesymptoms of proof. Proof will be considered final and will be submitted for publication if revision is not submitted within 24 hours of It’s all dated in the most deliciously the date of proof. Revisions will not be accepted after 12:01 pm wednesday, the week of publication.Brown naff pitts REVISIONS in West Hollywood, CA. omnimedia llc (dba the washington blade) is not responsible for the content and/or design of your ad. Advertiser is endearing way, a breath ofREDESIGN fresh air in responsible for any legal liability arising out of or relating to the advertisement, and/or any material to which users can link through the advertisement. Advertiser represents that its advertisement will not violate any criminal laws or TEXT REVISIONS any rgihts of third parties, including, but not limited to, such violations as infringement or misapporpriation of any our exceedingly jaded and ironic era. The copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, music, image, or other proprietary or propety right, false advertising, unfair IMAGE/LOGO REVISIONS competition, defamation, invasion of privacy or rights of celebrity, violation of anti-discrimination law or regulation, cheesy, Vegas-y string section, the reprises or any other right of any person or entity. Advertiser agrees to idemnify brown naff pitts omnimedia llc (dba the ADVERTISER SIGNATURE NO REVISIONS washington blade) and to hold brown naff pitts omnimedia llc (dba the washington blade) harmless from any and all By signing this proof you are agreeing to your contr that are nothing more than a retread of liability, loss, damages, claims, or causes of action, including reasonable legal fees and expenses that may be incurred washington blade newspaper. This includes but is n by brown naff pitts omnimedia llc, arising out of or related to advertiser’s breach of any of the foregoing representations payment and insertion schedule. and warranties. the last several bars of music, the canned stage patter — it just all works the same way you never get tired of “Carol Burnett Show” reruns or other classic relics of the Lesbian and Gay Owned + Operated era. It’s just a bit raw too — Ross’s lead vocals sound a tad weathered by constant I nsu ra nce A cce p te d touring. There’s a gritty topcoat on the otherwise wonderfully syrupy vocals we hear her offer on the studio material here.

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SATURDAY, JULY 28 TODAY GAMMA support group meets tonight from 7:30-9:30 p.m. at Luther Place Memorial Church (1226 Vermont Ave., N.W.). Since 1978, GAMMA has provided a safe, nonjudgmental space for gay or bi men who are now or who have been in relationships with women to share and discuss their experiences. For more information, visit gammaindc.org.

D.C. Eagle (3701 Benning Rd., N.E.) hosts its weekly WOOF! Happy Hour tonight starting at 5 p.m. for guests 21 and over. The bar will serve free pizza at

The D.C. Center hosts its monthly Volunteer with Food & Friends event today from 10 a.m.-noon (219 Riggs Rd., N.E.). Food & Friends prepares and delivers meals and groceries to people living with HIV, cancer and other debilitating illnesses.

Those interested in volunteering can drop by and help prepare meals and get them ready for delivery. Up to 10 volunteers are needed. To register for the event, visit thedccenter.org/events.

World-renowned actor and singer Alan Cumming takes the stage at the Kennedy Center (2700 F St., N.W.) tonight at 8 p.m. accompanied by D.C.’s Gay Men’s Chorus.

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‘The Color Purple’ is in residence at the Kennedy Center July 31-Aug. 26.

Salsa night at the Wharf is Aug. 4 The Wharf (735 Water St., S.W.) hosts salsa night Saturday, Aug. 4 from 7-9 p.m. as part of its summer Saturday Night Dancing series.

The event includes live music and professional dancers to help guests learn the moves. Waterfront Beer and Wine Garden at Cantina Bambina will be open.

No previous salsa experience necessary. The event is free and open to the public.

For more information, look for the event on Facebook or visit wharfdc.com.

The Scottish-American will perform “Legal Immigrant,” a cabaret of songs and stories about his 10 years as a U.S. citizen and what it means to be an immigrant.

Tickets range from $29-349 and can be purchased at kennedy-center.org.

DISTRIKT of Columbia hosts its BM 2018 Fundraiser tonight from 8 p.m.-4 a.m. at D.C. nightclub Flash (645 Florida Ave., N.W.). DISTRIKT is a nonprofit dedicated to building diverse community through the arts, and tonight guests can support the organization over music and an open bar. Tickets are $12-15 and can be purchased at ticketfly.com. The event is only for guests 21 and older.

SUNDAY, JULY 29 Mind Your Body yoga studio hosts Twilight Outdoor Glow Yoga tonight at 7 p.m. at Crystal City Shops by the fountains (1750 Crystal Shops, Arlington, Va.). No prior experience necessary. The event is free and open to the public. To reserve a spot, visit mindyourbodyoasis. com or call 703-567-1290.

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Tom Goss comes home Gay singer/songwriter Tom Goss takes the stage at the new MilkBoy ArtHouse in College Park (7416 Baltimore Ave., College Park, Md.) Saturday, Aug. 4 at 8 p.m. with special guests Emily Henry and Hayley Fahey, two D.C. singer/songwriters.

As a former D.C. resident himself, Goss is a long-time local favorite. Known for hits like “Illuminate the Dark” and “Son of a Preacher Man,” he has toured the country over a decade-long career. At his upcoming College Park performance, he plans to both play fan favorites and premiere new songs to be released later this year.

Tickets range from $10-15 and can be purchased at milkboyarthouse.ticketfly. com. The event is limited to guests 18 and older. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.

MONDAY, JULY 30 Coffee & Conversation for Older LGBT Adults meets today at 10 a.m. at the D.C. Center (2000 14th St., N.W.). Guests can stop by and enjoy a complimentary cup of coffee over conversation with fellow LGBT community members. For more information, email david@thedccenter.org.

TUESDAY, JULY 31 “The Color Purple” takes the stage tonight at 8 p.m. at the Kennedy Center (2700 F St., N.W.). Based on the Pulitzer Prizewinning novel by Alice Walker, this American classic tells the story of a young woman’s journey to love and triumph in the American

South. Winner of the 2016 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival, the show gives exciting nuance to Walker’s original story. The performance is recommended for ages 10 and up. Tickets range from $69-149 and can be purchased at kennedy-center.org.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1 The Tom Davoren Social Bridge Club meets tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Dignity Center (721 8th St., S.E.) for social bridge.

No reservations or partners required.

Newcomers welcome. Call 301-345-1571 for more information.

BOOKMEN D.C., a men’s gay literature group, meets tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Tenleytown Library (4450 Wisconsin Ave., N.W.). The group will discuss “In Search of Duende,” a collection of works by the famous gay Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca. All are welcome.

For more information, visit bookmendc. blogspot.com.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 2 The Library of Congress (10 First St., S.E.) presents “Back to the Future” tonight at 8:30 p.m. as part of its Summer Movies on the Lawn series. The 1985 classic follows the story of high-school student Marty McFly who is accidentally sent 30 years into the past by his friend and maverick scientist Doc Brown. Admission is free and the film is family friendly. To register for the event, visit eventbrite.com.

Canal Park (200 M St., S.E.) screens this year’s acclaimed blockbuster “Black Panther” tonight at 7 p.m. This Marvel comic film captured the attention of audiences across the country, quickly becoming the highest-grossing solo superhero film in history. Admission is free. For more information, search for the event on Facebook.

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ALAN CUMMING says his cabaret show is, ‘mostly me chatting on and singing and at the end I’m joined by lots of other homosexuals and we sing some more. It’s a fun time.’

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Cumming’s cabaret Tony winner comes to Kennedy Center one night only

By PATRICK FOLLIARD Scottish-born, out actor Alan Cumming describes his immigration experience as privileged. He came to the U.S. for an acting gig and his first home was the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverley Hills. In his new cabaret “Legal Immigrant,” playing at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall for one night only on Saturday, he talks and sings about the immigration experience, becoming an American citizen, aging and various other tidbits including his scrotum.

The cabaret’s setlist includes terrific show tunes from Kander & Ebb’s “The Singer,” Stephen Sondheim’s “Old Friends” and “Not A Day Goes By” from “Merrily We Roll Along,” then “Losing My Mind” from “Follies.” He’s also covering songs associated with female greats like Pink, Edith Piaf, Adele, Marlene Dietrich and Peggy Lee, and sings a Disney Princess medley without irony. Also, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington will join him for a few songs.

Cumming calls it “a true old-fashioned cabaret, a smorgasbord of genres, styles and tales; laughter, tears and, of course, provocation.”

A timely piece indeed, Cumming, 53, says the recent vilification of immigrants is disturbing.

“The idea that you’re not going to get health care, education or justice unless you have money is wrong. The idea that immigrants are cast as criminals is upsetting. There’s a lot of racism surrounding it. As a privileged male, I can’t imagine how it is for a trans person or person of color entering the country.

America is so big we can’t expect everyone to feel the same. Racism has always been here and some of us foolishly thought it might go away when Obama was elected.

But it was in fact just bubbling beneath surface. And Trump gave it license to

explode. I believe things will get better again. I think we’re experiencing the last hurrah of old bigoted white people running the country.”

Cumming, who won a Tony Award for playing the master of ceremonies in the Broadway revival of “Cabaret,” loves selecting the music for his own performances.

“I sing whatever I want. Mash up songs together and sing songs you might know but sing them in a different way. I like that a lot.”

He describes performing at the Kennedy Center as an honor. And adds that it’s the perfect time and D.C. is the perfect place to perform his show.

Cumming invites gay choruses from the various city where he plays.

“Most of the show it’s just me and four musicians. All of sudden a hundered people walk on the stage and sing the last couple of songs. There’s big impact. Change of sound. I love it. I’m bringing LGBT people on stage. That’s a potent message.”

Based in New York City, Cumming also has a home in Scotland near where he grew up. He feels very connected to his homeland and wishes he could spend more time there, but he’s usually working, he says.

Aside from his cabaret performances, Cumming is busy filming the second season of TV’s “Instinct.” Cumming stars as openly gay former CIA operative Dr. Dylan Reinhart who is lured back to his old life when the NYPD needs his help to stop a serial killer. It’s the first network drama with a gay leading character.

“You wonder why it took so long?

My friends from England are surprised to hear that it’s a first. To find a gay character on a BBC drama wouldn’t be a big deal. I like the way the show’s written.

My character’s sexuality isn’t the main focus of the storylines.”

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Weekend rides range from 20-60 miles with shorter weekday rides after work offered throughout their season.

This week in the Washington Blade All Star series, we meet two LGBT cyclists, both originally from Long Island, who are thriving on two wheels.

Billy Candela didn’t play team sports growing up but enjoyed mountain biking and riding the trails near his house. After graduating from Rochester Institute of Technology, he lived in Honolulu for three years before arriving in D.C. in 2009.

A dislike for the Metro led to Candela cycling to work every day, rain or shine, all year long. His job as a creative director at NPR affords him a locker and a shower after his rides. Looking for more social activities, he found the OutRiders on Meetup.

“I needed some balance in my life and joining the OutRiders has helped me to A D V E R T I be SIN G Pdisciplined R O O F in pursuing things I more enjoy,” Candela says. “It has given me a social connection and a better sense of community.”

Being in the group has ramped up his cycling and he recently stepped into the role of a ride leader for the OutRiders.

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“I led my first ride this season and mapped out the route in advance. D.C. is so great for cycling and the different routes open up the city in a different way,” Candela says. “Exploring on a bike makes the city seem smaller and more accessible. That’s exciting.”

Candela also does yoga with Stonewall Yoga and has found that his social circle has become more entwined. He has also

been a part of the OutRiders contingent in the urban cycling adventure, the 50 States Ride.

“Biking is a community in itself,” Candela says. “Most people put their bikes away after October, but I will still be out on the trails, exploring on my own.”

After graduating from West Point, Marjorie Rudinsky served as a commissioned Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. She was stationed in both Germany and the United States and resigned her commission in 1999 because of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

“I couldn’t live under the policy with my integrity intact. It felt like I wasn’t being true to myself,” Rudinsky says.

“The values and principles of West Point become a part of who you are and you live the honor code.”

She went on to graduate from the New Hampshire School of Law and came to D.C. in 2008 to work in the federal government. A lifelong athlete, Rudinsky grew up playing soccer, softball, tennis and basketball. She was on the varsity teams at West Point in soccer and softball.

After arriving in Washington, she stayed active on her own with running and CrossFit before finding the OutRiders on Meetup.

“It has been a fantastic experience with great people who are friendly, helpful and fun,” Rudinsky says. “The ride leaders are dedicated and offer details to help people understand if the ride is something they can complete.”

Rudinsky also points to the meal stops the riders share together as a great opportunity for fellowship, especially if it’s in rural areas of Maryland.

“The fact that this organization offers cycling to the LGBT community is incredible. Wearing our OutRiders gear at events like the Cider Ride or even in restaurants in outlying areas, raises our visibility,” Rudinsky says. “Having an LGBT niche is great and all of us riding together fosters the collegiality of the group.”

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Marital sabotage Outside crush, crystal meth plague long-time gay couple

MICHAEL RADKOWSKY, Psy.D. is a licensed psychologist who works with gay individuals and couples in Washington. He can be found online at michaelradkowsky.com. All identifying information has been changed for reasons of confidentiality. Have a question?

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MICHAEL — My husband Tom is threatening to leave me for cheating.

We have an open relationship and I was under the impression that you cannot cheat in an open relationship.

Especially as I have always told him when I hook up with someone, as we agreed to do. However, he says it’s a different story if I’m in love with someone else.

That’s a big exaggeration. Usually my hookups are just physical. Recently, though, there is this guy I’ve been spending a lot of time with and I do have a crush on him. But I certainly wouldn’t leave my marriage for him. He’s adorable but he’s 22 and I’m 47.

I think Tom is bent out of shape because he’s 58 and worried I’m not feeling it for him lately. Well he’s right, I’m not. But that’s not because of his age. It’s because he is strung out on crystal meth half the time and that’s really starting to bug me.

I could point fingers about who is really ignoring our relationship, but why bother? Tom knows I don’t like his getting high but refuses to cut back or stop.

Anyhow, Tom keeps insisting I love this twink even though I tell him he’s being an idiot. I don’t want to lose my marriage, even with Tom’s crystal meth use. We’ve been together for years, share a love of traveling the world and have made a beautiful home.

But Tom is really being an irrational jerk about this. How do I get him to see that his concerns are all in his head?

MICHAEL REPLIES: If you want to improve your marriage, the question you ask is far too small.

Why are the two of you married? To share a love of travel and a beautiful home?

Because you have a long history together?

These aren’t enough to make a strong marriage. You also need a commitment

to be loving, honest and willing to collaborate on navigating the ups and downs of life. But from all that you write, it doesn’t sound like either of you is putting any effort into your marriage.

So the question is: What sort of shape do you expect your marriage to be in, when you’ve put yourself in the position of having a romantic attachment for another guy you’re having sex with and your husband is checked out on crystal meth half the time?

Marriages aren’t self-sustaining and they aren’t indestructible. They do not thrive under any and all circumstances, no matter what you dump on them.

If you want a husband who is interested in being with you, you have to start being a husband worth staying with. While I am writing this to you, it also applies to Tom, of course. But you only have power over your own behavior.

This means, first of all, developing some standards for yourself. What does it mean to you to be a loving husband, respectful to your spouse and devoted to your marriage? I’m hoping you will have some ideas that will raise your behavior up a few notches from where you describe yourself currently.

The other crucial step to becoming a better husband: consistently keeping an eye on your behavior and confronting yourself to do better when you let yourself down. That’s how you keep yourself on the straight and narrow, so to speak.

Can you trust yourself to start doing this and keep doing this? Making excuses for yourself or justifying your bad behavior because Tom behaves badly, will surely keep the two of you swimming in the same cesspool you’re now in.

The giant wild card here is Tom’s drug use. Obviously, anyone regularly using mind-altering drugs isn’t thinking too clearly and certainly isn’t inclined to take himself on about how he’s contributing to his own misery.

So even if you change your behavior, your marriage may stay pretty awful if Tom continues using crystal meth.

Evidently you want to stay with Tom whether he keeps using or not. I’m hopeful you’ll have a greater possibility of influencing Tom to take a look at his own behavior if you are doing your best as a husband in this marriage.

But there are no guarantees. Your best shot, once you’ve started to clean up your own act, might be to suggest he check out a Narcotics Anonymous meeting as a first step toward reconsidering his drug use.

If my reply is to be of any use to you, I must be blunt: You and Tom each have hard work ahead if you are to have a decent marriage.

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goes on and on.”

One example is shown in the film, when Bowers takes the director to the home of one of his still-living associates from the old days. This now-elderly former hustler gleefully attests to the veracity of Scotty’s claims and pulls out an old book given to him by actor Charles Laughton. Inscribed within is a personal note, signed by Laughton, containing explicit language that leaves little doubt as to the nature of their relationship.

There was more, Tyrnauer says, that was not on camera.

“He produced an index card which is tantamount to the ‘little black book’ that everyone asks about. Scotty didn’t keep a little black book, but this index card contained about a dozen names of clients, with addresses and phone numbers. Among those names was the designer Bill Blass, and there was another name of someone who was still alive who I called and confirmed that he had worked with Scotty.”

Bowers ran this operation loosely from the mid-‘40s to the mid-‘80s. It’s perhaps corroborating in some fashion that for some of the A-listers mentioned, this is not the first time their sexuality has been questioned. Spencer Tracy was married and had a family but also had a decadeslong relationship with his frequent costar Katharine Hepburn, who has been posthumously outed by various sources, including a 2006 book by gay biographer William J. Mann. Hepburn and Tracy were two of Bowers’ clients, the “Scotty” movie claims. Bowers claims to have had sex with J. Edgar Hoover — no newbie on the gay speculation list — and arranged liaisons for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the movie claims.

One of the strongest arguments for Bowers’s believability is Bowers himself.

Even in his 90s, he’s still full of vitality.

Imagine his stamina at 30, coupled with the good looks on display in the pictures from his youth, and it’s easy to think that movie stars would want to have sex with him. His personality is also a likely factor.

Exceedingly personable and still sharp, in the film he serves as his own best character witness.

It’s not just how he comes off on camera, Tyrnauer says. “What you see is what you get with Scotty. There is no masquerading or pretense. He is who he is, utterly charming.”

Even setting aside Tyrnauer’s own discoveries, there’s no shortage of information supporting Bowers’s tale.

Plenty of people with long connections to Hollywood history have been willing to vouch, on the record, for its accuracy. Yet many still doubt.

Says Tyrnauer, “I don’t blame them, why not question? But why wouldn’t it be true? What I’m getting at in the film, is

SCOTTY BOWERS today at his home in Los Angeles.

that these Hollywood myths propagated by the studios are mysteriously enduring, but I don’t think it’s outlandish to think that movie stars had complex sex lives.

Why shouldn’t they? Why should we pearl clutch and claim that they didn’t?”

It’s here that Tyrnauer gets passionate.

“There seems to be a propensity to straight wash Hollywood history. It’s OK to talk about Cary Grant’s romances and his many wives, as long as it’s hetero, but the minute it becomes about his lifelong romance with Randolph Scott, the minute it becomes queer history, it’s suddenly a problem. What’s that about? Why is that permissible? And why should we say that it’s irrelevant?”

He goes on, “I think that Hollywood is one of the biggest stories of the 20th century. Hollywood was the myth factory that set the tone for our point of view about what life is and what life should be. Understanding it is important and part of that comes from recognizing how prominent people involved in the Hollywood story had to navigate sexuality off-screen.”

Tyrnauer says even in liberal Hollywood, the overall cultural taboo of gay sex in the’40s and ‘50s has to be considered.

“It wasn’t cool to be gay, then,” he says. “These people were vulnerable to ruination if their sexuality was revealed.

And there were many people out there who were determined to reveal it, including the LAPD vice squad, which was rabid and fascistic in its persecution of queer people, and was ready to extort movie stars, to collude with the press to shame them and destroy their lives. These stories are all of a piece, and Scotty’s story touches them.”

It’s for this reason that “Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood” spends less time rehashing tales that can be found in Bowers’ book and more time exploring the context in which they took place.

It’s also why the film focuses mostly on Scotty himself. Though he doesn’t identify as gay — he sees himself as what we would now call “fluid,” is married to a woman and was even at the height of his exploits — he is presented as a seminal figure in the queer history of American

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culture, a kind of sexual pioneer. Far from being a shady hustler selling a bill of goods for a little attention and a taste of late-life fame, in Tyrnauer’s film he can be seen as a hero.

It’s in this role that he garnered the honor of being presented a key to the City of West Hollywood on July 25.

“It’s very fitting for Scotty to be honored by the city of West Hollywood,” Tyrnauer says. “He helped build the city as a key figure in the LGBTQ community for decades, who was trusted and revered by many men and women who were, decades ago, victims of repression, marginalization and violence at the hands of the vice squad and other oppressive forces.”

For some, though, the reason for the presentation is best expressed in the words of WeHo Mayor Pro Tempore John D’Amico, who commented, “It’s been said with a wink that Scotty Bowers helped put the ‘wood’ in Hollywood.”

For Scotty, who “just wanted to make people happy,” that’s probably the best reason of all.

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I look at the style of homes, their prices and the amenities they offer and, whether I am in the North, South, East, West, or in America’s heartland, I can’t help but compare them to what the D.C. metropolitan area has to offer. Since many areas still rely on real estate advertising magazines, I pick one up and leaf through it over lunch, imagining myself living there.

As I grow older, thoughts of winding down creep into my head and I wonder whether the place where I am at the time will allow for a comfortable retirement.

Many of my friends are investing in areas that are popular among travelers, buying homes that will produce income from renting year-round, seasonally, or as local laws permit, as an Airbnb, until they are ready to make the move permanently.

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