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An Elephant Never Elects. In last week’s Loose Lips column (“Grand Old Project”), Will Sommer examined the D.C. GOP’s chances at gaining at least one seat on the D.C. Council in 2016. What he found: Prospects are bleak.

“Just being ‘a Republican’ isn’t enough of a difference to be meaningful to DC voters, even if we aren’t The TransformaTion of happy with the agenda-less dominance of the majority party,” richardlayman wrote. “It’s JUNE 10 –16, 2015 tough to be successful, but for Republicans D.C.’s longest muniCito be successful running for Council, they pal park from a have to have a stellar urban-appropriate heroin den to a green space on the verge agenda. Catania proved in a special elecof a breakthrough was the subject of last tion, running against the old guard, that week’s cover by Sarah Anne Hughes a non-Democrat could have a chance.” (“Stream of Consciousness,” May 29).

Just Wondering zeroed in on the regular practice of Democrats registering “Parks and People... this is real work, as Independents to run for one of the and Steve’s vision around how these set-aside at-large seats: “If Congresnatural spaces are essential for our sional Republicans want to overturn emotional and mental health is right DC laws, why don’t they look at the on point,” said Hawah about Washington Parks & People and its execelection laws and candidate requireutive director, Steve Coleman. “It’s ments? Voters, including many Deminspiring to see how much great work ocrats, are insulted by these phony ‘incan be done when our heart’s are in the dependents.’” 7r3y3r added, “And For tickets, artists, and complete schedule visit DCJAZZFEST.ORG how about these political parties pay for right place.” Referencing the group’s their exclusive primary elections instead co-founder, Josephine Butler, A friend of joe butler commented, “i cherish the of the costs being footed by the public. If PLATINUM SPONSORS good news, the unusual photos, and the fact the Democrats only want registered Demothat Joe Butler keeps blessing Steve with her crats to vote in their primary, then they can smile. May she rest in peace and a long life to pay for it. Same for Republicans and any other The DC Jazz Festival®, a 501(c)(3) non-profit service organization, is sponsored in part with major grants from the Government of the District of Columbia, Muriel Steve Coleman and his people. Much love to all.” party.” Because any comments section would be Bowser, Mayor; and, in part, by major grants the National Endowment for the Arts A friend may have had love for Washington City incomplete without name-calling, star commenters and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. ©2015 DC Jazz Festival. All rights reserved. noodlez and Typical DC BS got into a lighthearted arPaper last week, but Defender of Meridian Hill Park did not, accusing us of “white racism” and “blackwashing gument about “Redumblicans” and “Dumocrats.” To our history” for referring to Malcolm X Park by that moniker, as knowledge, D.C. voters have yet to elect a Redumblican or —Sarah Anne Hughes opposed to its federal name, Meridian Hill Park. Denise WitDumocrat to the Council. kor was puzzled: “The writer should know the Park goes by two different names. Meridian Hill is the Federal Name. The ognize it… There is a lot more on this issue that goes farther Want to see your name in bold on this page? Send letters, gripes, clarifications, or praise to mail@washingtoncitypaper.com City moved to change it to Malcom X but the Feds do not rec- back than my 35 years in the District.”

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They’re Here, They’re Not Queer, Get Used To It

The D.C. Council doesn’t have any out gay members. Does it matter?

By Will Sommer

Darrow Montgomery/File

Jim Graham says the D.C. Council still needs gay members.

On Jan. 2, the District government got a new mayor, a new attorney general, and three new councilmembers. It also got a lot less gay.

The D.C. Council lost its first openly gay member, David Catania, who gave up his seat to run unsuccessfully for mayor. Gone too was Jim Graham, the longtime Ward 1 councilmember ousted in a primary.

For the first time in 18 years, the Council doesn’t have any out members in a city where an estimated 10 percent of the population identifies as LGBTQ. Perhaps surprisingly, though, the District’s LGBTQ community doesn’t really mind. Blame it on the long list of gay goals already accomplished in the District or the straight ally councilmembers, but most of the people LL talked to weren’t particularly incensed about the lack of representation on the dais.

“The gay councilmembers were never our go-to people on gay issues,” says Bob Summersgill, a former president of the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance.

Instead, activists list some of the Council’s straight members as their most critical allies on gay-friendly legislation. There’s Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans, who pushed for a repeal of the District’s sodomy statute in the early 1990s, a position he says inspired people to call him “the first gay councilmember.”

For LGBTQ advocates, committee assignments matter more than sexual orientation, especially the chairmanship of the Council’s judiciary and public safety committee.

That made then At-Large Councilmember Phil Mendelson critical as activists pushed for gay marriage in 2009.

“We didn’t have to persuade him of our strategy on marriage equality,” says Rick Rosend-

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Not that straight councilmembers have much choice if they want to stay in office, thanks to gay-friendly voters. The District’s gay marriage bill passed with opposition from only two out of the thirteen councilmembers.

One of them was Marion Barry, who before his death last year was looking for a gay wedding to officiate.

Before every election, the GLAA ranks politicians on a scale of negative-ten to plus-ten, but almost no one gets a bad score for actually holding anti-gay positions. Instead, it’s usually because their effusive survey answers weren’t long enough.

Other, more structural elements of the District’s government make it easier for LGBTQ activists to succeed even without gay councilmembers in the Wilson Building. For example, the Council’s small size and unicameral legislature, as compared to huge state legislatures, makes it easier for activists to pressure and lobby the baker’s dozen of pols who vote on bills.

“Fortunately, there are enough LGBT vot-

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ers to keep their feet in the fire if something comes up,” says Earl Fowlkes, the president of the LGBTQ-focused Gertrude Stein Democratic Club.

Activists point to a few decades of major post-Home Rule accomplishments for the District’s LGBTQ community: the 1989 hate crime law, the sodomy repeal in 1993, and the District’s first gay marriage in 2010. With those issues out of the way, the focus is now on less flashy fights, like better HIV response and housing for homeless LGBTQ youth.

Rosendall, for example, is worried about LGBTQ jurors being removed from cases during jury selection.

“They’re largely little items that don’t make any news, but help set the tone,” Summersgill says.

Graham, now organizing gay strip club shows in his post-Council life, doesn’t buy the idea that gay councilmembers don’t make a difference.

“Anybody who says it doesn’t matter is just pure balderdash,” Graham says. “Ask Harvey Milk.”

Graham blames the idea that the LGBTQ community doesn’t need its own councilmember in part on people who wanted him ousted last year. Without a gay member of the Council, Graham says, the community lacks someone with personal experience of their issues.

“Again and again I found myself trying to speak on behalf of Latinos, because I had so many in my district,” Graham says of his time representing Ward 1. “But it wasn’t the same.”

Next on the agenda for the gay community at the Wilson Building will be legislation from Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen aimed at legalizing surrogacy agreements in the District. With them, LGBTQ couples can more easily become parents; without, couples who make an agreement with a surrogate mother lack legal protection. When the bill was introduced in January, all of the Council’s then-members signed on.

The near-total success of LGBTQ campaigning in the District means that the main issues facing gay residents—education and affordable housing—are shared citywide.

“LGBTQ people face the same challenges that any other District resident would face,” says Courtney Snowden, an openly gay former at-large candidate who’s now Bowser’s deputy mayor for greater economic opportunity.

It’s hard to imagine the Council’s gay drought continuing for long. But Fowlkes can wait.

“It would be nice to have one just for the symbolism,” Fowlkes says. “But in reality we have people elected to public office who really have our interests at heart.”

For Rosendall, the number of out councilmembers belies the community’s power in the Wilson Building.

“Having a seat at the table isn’t just being one of 13 councilmembers,” Rosendall says.

“It’s being respected, being consulted, having your concerns be taken seriously, and having a respected voice. It has to be more than just CP having a person there.”

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Right of Way

For the many activist organizations dedicated to LGBTQ justice in D.C., the last two decades have seen some astounding victories. But they haven’t always come easily: Federal lawmakers and national organizations time and again have tried to stymie progress in the city. Below is a walk-through of the landmark bills that have shaped gay rights in D.C. and the ways Congress and out-of-District busybodies have tried to thwart them.

—Morgan Baskin

District of Columbia Criminal Code Right Conversion Therapy for Minors to Privacy Amendment Act of 1993 Prohibition Amendment Act of 2014

Impact: Revises D.C.’s criminal code to allow sodomy between consenting adults The story: A reform bill that aimed to decriminalize “consensual, non-commercial sex acts,” including sodomy, was introduced to the D.C. Council in 1993. Leaders from the Human Rights Campaign Fund, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and the Campaign for Military Service asked D.C. to delay sending the bill to Congress for approval in the wake of a fight over gays in the military, according to the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance. The city declined to delay sending the bill, and Republicans in Congress did not support an override bill drafted by Sen. Jesse Helms. The law against sodomy was completely repealed in 1995.

Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act of 2009

Impact: Grants same-sex couples full legal marital rights and allows same-sex couples to marry in D.C. The story: In 1992, the Council passed a domestic partnership law that Congress blocked D.C. from implementing until 2002.

The passage of marriage equality in D.C. somehow went smoother. Despite threats from the National Organization for Marriage, federal lawmakers did not block a bill introduced by Councilmember David Catania, and it was signed into law in 2009.

Tomorrow’s history today: This was the week Virginia tried to lure D.C. United away from the city.

“Three years into this work,

we are growing, we are Thriving.”

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Trans activist Ruby Corado on the third anniversary of her LGBTQ nonprofit, Casa Ruby. Mayor Muriel Bowser was on hand to congratulate Corado at a celebration Tuesday, the Washington Blade reported.

Impact: Imposes fines on mental healthcare providers who perform so-called conversion therapy on minors The story: Conservative groups lobbied Congress to overturn the bill, and Christopher Doyle, president of the“ex-gay” organization Voice of the Voiceless, threatened to sue the city. The threats turned out to be empty, and the law was enacted in March, making D.C. the third jurisdiction in the U.S. to ban the practice.

Human Rights Amendment Act of 2015

Impact: Overturns religious educational institutions’ exemption from D.C.’s gay nondiscrimination law The story: Leaders from Heritage Action for America, the Family Research Council and the National Organization for Marriage, the Catholic University of America, the Archdiocese of Washington, and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops argued that the bill violates religious freedoms granted under the First Amendment.

Missouri Rep. Vicky Hartzler agreed and introduced a disapproval resolution, saying in a statement, “No faith-based school should be forced to endorse, fund, or sponsor groups that do not share their beliefs.” The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, however, declined to pursue the resolution, and the law was enacted May 2.

duponT cIrcle, May 28. By darrow MonTgoMery

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SAVAGELOVE I’m a 35-year-old divorced man. I’ve been on plenty of dates since my marriage ended, but I invariably get asked this question on or before date #2: “Why did you get divorced?” This is where everything goes to shit. I’m honest: “We got divorced because I cheated on my wife. A lot.” This usually catches my date off guard because I’m “not the kind of guy I’d have thought could do that.” But I can hardly get past date #2 after this, because this information is “too much to handle.” Sometimes my dates will admit to having cheated too. Not even other cheaters are interested in seeing me again. I was a good husband and father for seven years. But after four sexless years of marriage, I strayed. Crying myself to sleep every night took its toll, and I self-medicated with casual sex with attractive women. Two years and 20 women later, I got caught. I don’t hide the facts; I own my mistakes. I’ve grown and learned from my mistakes. But it’s hard for most women to see past “cheater.” In my mind, anything less than complete honesty would validate the belief that I’m still a lying cheat. But complete honesty is kicking my ass and ruining potential relationships.

—Forthright About Cheating, Then Silence I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt, FACTS, and assume that mistreatment, neglect, and stress didn’t extinguish your wife’s libido. (You weren’t shitty to your wife, right?

You were helping with the kids, right?) I’m also going to assume that you made a goodfaith effort to address the sexless state of your marriage before you began self-medicating with all those beautiful women. (You sought counseling and got medical checkups, right?)

And I’m going to allow for the possibility that your wife may have married you under false pretenses, i.e., she wasn’t into sex or you or both, but she wanted marriage and kids and figured you would do. (I’m going to allow for that because that shit happens.)

These favorable assumptions—of the kind typically extended to persons seeking advice in a format like this—don’t exonerate you of

You might be happier, but you won’t be happily-everafter happier because no one ever is. all responsibility for cheating on your wife.

But if they’re accurate, FACTS, they do put your cheating in a particular guilt-mitigating context.

And that’s what you need to do when you answer that question about why your marriage ended: Put your cheating in context. Most people intuitively understand that wedding vows aren’t sexual suicide pacts and are capable of feeling sympathy for those who find themselves in sexless marriages. But instead of emphasizing the context in which you cheated— the emotional dynamics of your marriage, those long sexless years—you’re emphasizing the breakdick pace at which you cheated and the quality of the pussy you landed.

“I cheated! A lot! With 20 beautiful women!” is one telling of the truth, FACTS, but it’s not the most flattering telling of the truth (for you) or the most comforting telling of the truth (for your date). Instead of saying, “I cheated with 20 women, all of them babes.

I banged the living shit out of each and every one of them!” which makes you sound more boastful than remorseful, try saying some-

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thing like this: “After four sexless years of marriage, I strayed. It was the wrong thing to do, but I was desperate. The cheating ended my marriage, which obviously needed to end, but it’s not something I ever want to do again.” Omit the detail about the number of women you cheated with while emphasizing your determination to avoid making the same mistake in your next committed relationship.

Tell your date that you are looking for a strong sexual connection (and other things) with someone you can communicate with about sex (and other things). Because you’re not a —Dan Savage cheater—not anymore.

I’m a 36-year-old heterosexual female who has been reading you for the better part of 20 years.

That’s why when my formerly lovely husband descended into a hellish depression that turned our 10-year marriage into a loveless, sexless, miserable thing that I didn’t recognize, I knew what I had to do. I couldn’t get out for various financial, personal, and practical reasons, so I began an emotionally fulfilling, sanity-saving affair with a married man in the same situation. My emotional and sexual needs are getting met for the first time in years.

The problem is that when we are together, my mind goes to how much I wish we could both chuck our marriages and be together all of the time, and I feel more miserable in my marriage because I can’t help comparing the two men in my life. Do you have any advice for keeping from mentally going to “happily ever after” when you are trying to stay balanced in marriage-saving-affair land?

—Secret Affair Necessary Escape An affair doesn’t come bundled with the same crap that a marriage does, SANE, so your time with Happy Affair Man isn’t burdened by mental and/or physical health crises, just as it’s not roughed up by ever-festering conflicts about money or chores or kids or all of the above. So let’s say you left Depressed Husband Man for Happy Affair Man, and he left his wife for you. How long would it be before you and

Second Husband Man were facing down some similar crap or brand-new crap? Probably not long. You might be happier, but you won’t be happily-ever-after happier because no one ever is. The subject is moot, of course, if you’re not in a position to end your marriage and Happy —Dan Affair Man isn’t either.

I have been in a gay relationship for almost six years, and we are getting married in September. We are both predominantly tops, so we’ve been having threesomes for the majority of the time we’ve been together. About eight months ago, we had a threesome with someone who has since become a good friend. I have developed a strong bond with our third. My fiancé is not an overly affectionate person, and while I’ve had issues with that in the past and overlooked it, these past months have shown me how much I long for physical affection. My fiancé is threatened by the two of us showing affection. I reassure him as best I can, but nothing I say makes him feel less threatened by my wanting to have alone time with our third. I do not want to give up the bond I have with our third, and I have zero intention of leaving my fiancé. If we could help him get more comfortable, it could be a perfect situation for everyone, with all of our needs being met.

—Sincerely Perplexed Lad In Triad Seeing as your third sounds like a better match for you than your fiancé in several important ways—bottom to your top, more physically affectionate—I’m wondering why you wouldn’t want to dump the fiancé to run off with your third. Your fiancé is probably wondering the same thing. Unless your fiancé is willing to enter into a polyamorous triad, SPLIT, you’ll probably have to pick one or the other. And seeing as how you employ “we” in your last sentence—in reference to you and the third, not you and the fiancé—it sounds like you’ve —Dan already made your choice.

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Gear Prudence: What’s the deal with people taking Bikeshare bikes on the Metro? This seems totally against the point of Bikeshare, and I can’t figure out why anyone would do it. Am I just not —Surely Unusual, But getting something?

Why Agonize Yourself?

Dear SUBWAY: It’s masochism. It’s for the pleasure of the pain of dragging the beefy bike down a crowded escalator, fending off the death stares of the passengers you accidentally bump into as you wheel it across the platform, shoving your bike into a car so crowded it can barely manage even a few more bikeless passengers, and then finally, when you arrive at your destination, awkwardly wedging it and yourself through the faregate and hoisting the weighty ride up a broken escalator, trudge by trudge. It’s fifty shades of multimodalism.

GP surmises that there could be other motivations of a less psychological nature. Perhaps the station nearest the Metro was full of bikes, and the riders, pressed for time to make an appointment across town, decided they would cope with the travails of a cumbersome onboarding process in the hopes of finding an open station nearer their destination. It’s probably not the best choice, but it’s theoretically understandable.

Or maybe the rider has business two miles away from a Metro station in part of the region that has yet to install Bikeshare. Rather than walk or wait for a bus, the Bikeshare/ Metro combo might be seen as more practical, despite the higher cost. Or maybe the rider has just developed an unhealthy attachment to that particular bike. Maybe he gave it a cool nickname, like Big Red, and a backstory (“It just loves trains”). Or perhaps the larcenous rider is absconding with it to Gaithersburg, so he can try to sell it on Craigslist a few months later.

But in all likelihood, when you see a Bikeshare bike on the Metro it’s a case of “you’re doing it wrong” by someone unfamiliar with how the system works. A Bikeshare bike is meant for point-to-point short trips from one dock to another one. Taking the bike on a train (or a bus or leaving it outside of a restaurant) is a costly way to misuse the system, since usage charges begin to accrue after the bike has been out for 30 minutes. If your destination is too far away to comfortably ride, dock it and pick up a new bike when you get where you’re going. A daily Bikeshare membership doesn’t just give you access to one bike for the whole day, but rather the entire system of bikes.

Take advantage of that.

Ultimately, there’s a Bikeshare binary: Either you’re riding it or it’s docked. Anything —GP else misses the point.

Gear Prudence is Brian McEntee, who tweets @sharrowsDC. Got a question about bicycling?

Email gearprudence@washcp.com.

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The good news? Streetcars will carry bikes. The not so good news?

Tracks are built for streetcars, not bikes. You can avoid falling and tire damage by always crossing streetcar tracks at a right angle.

Before you ride, consider using the safer alternate routes on G and I Streets rather than riding along streetcar tracks.

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ISSue In an era of rapid change, D.C.’s queer history is more relevant than ever.

Swallow Your PrIDe How a homegrown show of solidarity became a commercialized, one-size-fits-all party weekend

By Christina Cauterucci They call it gay Christmas, but it feels more like New Year’s Eve. Stroll—or inch, more like it—down 17th Street next Saturday, and you’ll encounter all the unbridled joy of a kid’s first trip to Disneyland, all the see-and-be-seen plumage of a second-rate fashion week, and all the drunken mayhem of a Cinco de Mayo bar crawl.

Like Christmas, though, Capital Pride seems to start earlier, stray further from its historic roots, and grow more co-opted by corporations every year. It’s endured criticism for being too white, too male, too bland, too outrageous, too trendy, too old-school.

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the trap of conflicting expectations and inflated ambition. Like so many gay political activists, to become one of the largest events on the D.C. social calendar, Pride has had to fall in line with moneymakers, straight allies, and mainstream culture, sometimes at the expense of the very people it should represent: D.C. queers.

But in a city that has some of the most comprehensive queer and trans rights and protections in the country, where white gay men are a hypervisible demographic and you’re nearly as likely to find queers hanging out at Dacha or Red Derby as you are at Town or Phase 1, it can seem that while we’re here and queer, everyone’s already used to it.

“We are more integrated into the community than ever before, and that’s posed certain challenges for… gay businesses and

gay-centered organizations,” says Washington Blade columnist Mark Lee. “There’s always a point of reference and a framework of community that’s important, but it’s very different even than it was 10 years ago.”

This year, on its 40th anniversary, Capital Pride could use an occasion to soul-search, if not have a full-on midlife crisis.

Today’s Pride originated in the Stonewall riots of June 1969, when New York queers fought back against a police raid of a gay bar in the Village. Starting in 1970, to celebrate the anniversary of what’s widely considered to be the genesis of the gay liberation movement, gays have marched down Christopher Street every last weekend of June in a show of power and visibility.

D.C. followed suit on Father’s Day of 1975 when Deacon Maccubbin, founder of Lambda Rising, a prominent gay bookstore in Dupont from 1974 to 2010, held a block party on 20th Street NW between R and S streets. A couple thousand people showed up to first annual D.C. Pride celebration, which hosted booths for local nonprofits and attracted more than one D.C. Council candidate. (Once Marion Barry took the mayorship in 1979, he showed up every year he held the office and sometimes spoke onstage.) By 1980, the event had gotten too big for Maccubbin to manage on the street in front of his store, so he handed it over to a new coalition

called the P Street Festival Committee.

For 15 years, what was then called Gay Pride took place on the lawns in front of the Francis School at N and 23rd streets NW. “It was a small little party, sort of a hometown outdoor picnic thing,” says Lee. Community organizations handed out literature, and there was always a band or two—Lee remembers one performance from new-wave act Dead or Alive, of “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” fame. A come-as-you-are march started at Malcolm X Park and continued on Columbia Road and Connecticut Avenue to the Francis School festival.

Some years, Gay Pride attracted crowds of 25,000 or so, but attendance would wax and wane with community interest; in a decade and a half, not much changed to recharge locals’ excitement about the event. The P Street Festival Committee had money troubles and weathered allegations of exclusivity, and after its 1990 dissolution, Gay Pride suffered a few years of rain and even sharper drops in attendance.

1995 marked a turning point for the celebration. One in Ten, the organization behind the Reel Affirmations LGBTQ film festival, took over Pride and the $50,000 the event had left in the bank. “All of a sudden, One in Ten had this opportunity: The community was maturing and growing in size.

Our collective identity was much stronger— we had finally beat back the [D.C. anti-]sod-

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“We are more integrated into the community than ever before, and that’s posed certain challenges.” omy law. The community was politically recognized, and a lot of people were very much a part of the local political culture. There were a lot more gay businesses in those days, too,” says Lee, who was brought on to coordinate the 1995 event. With an expansive vision for a blowout that would make the entire city take notice, One in Ten brought the festival downtown. That year, Lee says, 100,000 people showed up to Freedom Plaza for the renamed Lesbian and Gay Freedom Festival, headlined by the recently reunited Village People.

“We pulled it out of our ass,” Lee says.

“We didn’t know what we were doing, and we got such a late start.” By the time they got around to finding tents for the vendors and organizations, which lined five blocks on Pennsylvania Avenue, everything within a couple-hundred-mile radius had been booked—so they shipped them in on trucks from Canada. Keith Clark, then head of One in Ten and founder of Universal Gear, took

out a second mortgage on his house to cover the costs until donations at the festival could be used to pay the bills.

That year, the march ran from the old Francis School location to Freedom Plaza. As people turned from 14th Street on to Pennsylvania and saw the new scope of the festival, tears flowed. “It was sort of a moment of graduation for the community,” Lee says. “In a way, it was sort of a moment of affirmation and a coming of age of the gay community in Washington.”

Since then, the Sunday festival has moved further down Pennsylvania to its current location between 3rd and 7th streets, with the Capitol building as a backdrop. WhitmanWalker took the reins for several years, then invited other nonprofits onboard, then spun Capital Pride off as its own independent nonprofit. What was once a same-day march for any interested Pridegoer is now a three-hour Saturday parade with highly organized registration, glitzy floats, and crowd control.

The old homegrown celebration of community leaders and gay-owned businesses now includes multinational corporations, hosts year-round events, and draws revelers from up and down the Eastern seaboard.

Though Pride has grown bigger and broader, and its audience has gotten more diverse, it’s not immune to the biases of society at large, nor from the racist and misogynist legacy of gay movements of yore, which forefronted the voices of white, wealthy cismen.

Each Memorial Day Weekend since 1991, DC Black Pride has staged its own program of events. Born from an annual regional celebration at the Club House, a popular D.C. black gay club that closed in 1990 after several staff members died of AIDS, DCBP was started by Welmore Cook, Theodore Kirkland, and Ernest Hopkins to educate their peers on HIV/AIDS prevention and provide a once-a-year safe space for mid-Atlantic and Southern black queers, many of whom were not out in their communities. The first iteration, held on Banneker Field, raised money for HIV/AIDS organizations that served

black neighborhoods. “This was before government provided money [for AIDS treatment], so when someone got sick, you basically passed the hat around,” says Earl Fowlkes, president of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club and president and CEO of the D.C.-based Center for Black Equity.

Having additional, black-centered Pride festivities served several purposes in D.C.: First, black gays often faced racial discrimination in white gay bars, and the mainstream Gay Pride event was not always a welcoming space for people of color. And Gay Pride was too big and public for closeted black queers who grew up in the city and had family close by—as opposed to many white gays, who moved to D.C. as adults—or attended churches that rejected queer members.

(Fowlkes says some churches are still major hubs of homophobia.) “If I had a dollar for everyone who came to DC Black Pride and told me they weren’t out when they went back home, I’d be a rich man,” Fowlkes says.

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have gotten better at discouraging racist behavior and being explicitly inclusive, DCBP maintains its import. Just as a major selling point of any Capital Pride event is the rare chance to be surrounded by thousands of fellow queers, DCBP is a rare majority-black, majority-queer event, where attendees can celebrate their whole selves without prioritizing one aspect of their identity over another.

DCBP provides a platform for issues specifically concerning black queers, too—a disproportionate number of victims of gay-bashing are black transwomen, and since many leaders of the DC Ferguson movement are queer, DCBP has been a place to speak out on police brutality against people of color.

“I think the community Prides around the country really need to make a greater effort to be inclusive,” Fowlkes says. “Even in Black Pride, for many years, it was mostly male-dominated.” To better fulfill D.C. queers’ needs, a bevy of specialized Prides, each held on separate weekends, have popped up: There’s Youth Pride, which was founded in 1997; Latino Pride, which started in 2007; and Trans Pride, also founded in 2007. Bi- and pansexual people have also felt excluded or invisible in the mainstream Pride proceedings.

Inclusion is important, but there’s value in leaning into our differences; spaces focused on different identities within the LGBTQ world are critical to that goal. Fowlkes remembers growing up in Philadelphia and seeing parades celebrating the city’s ethnic groups: Pulaski Day for the Polish, Colum-

bus Day for the Italians, St. Patrick’s Day for the Irish. “Why do you have all these parades? Because you all march together on the Fourth of July,” he says. “You can bring more to the plate if you’re secure, you’re proud of who you are. [Specialized Prides have] been a gateway for many people to be involved in the greater LGBT experience.”

One of the greatest criticisms of Capital Pride is its neglect of queer women and trans people. The Pride parade in particular is heavily weighted toward cisdudes. For years, the weekend’s big-ass opening party, co-sponsored by Brightest Young Things— the outlet that’s repeatedly run a “Guide for Straight Guys Getting Laid at Gay Pride”— has featured performers that are almost all cis gay men, drag queens, or straight women. (And for years, in accordance with our history, queer women have made their own spaces unsanctioned by Capital Pride proper.) 2013’s opening party, titled “Spandex,” was promoted with a close-up rendering of a superhero’s codpiece and included a special room for bears and otters—as if subcommunities of gay men were worthy of more individual attention than lesbians and queer women at large. (This year’s lineup, which includes Frenchie Davis, Mundy, and DJ Ca$$idy, looks a lot better.) The women’s parties that do exist often hinge on the same gender norms progressive queers are working to dismantle: wet T-shirt contests, pink and purple posters, and thin, hyper-feminine go-go dancers in bikinis.

There used to be an alternative. D.C. holds a proud honor in queer history: On April 24, 1993, it was the location of the first U.S. Dyke March. Organized by the New Yorkbased Lesbian Avengers in conjunction with the next day’s gigantic gay rights rally on the Mall, the 20,000-person march from Dupont Circle to the White House and the Mall was said to be the largest lesbian demonstration in the history of the world. Video footage shows dykes marching with “AIDS Cure Now” and “Support Lesbian Political Prisoners” signs, holding off traffic with locked hands (the march was unpermitted), and spray-painting “Fuck Your Gender” onto a brick sidewalk. There were drumlines, dykes on bikes—both gas- and pedal-powered— and an Avenger-led fire-eating show in front of the White House. Queer women shouted “We’re dykes! We’re out! We’re out for power!” while queer men lining the streets held signs that read “Cocksuckers for Muffdivers.” And there were breasts. Lots of breasts.

(It’s legal for women to go topless in D.C., but few take off their push-ups or pasties at today’s Capital Pride parade.)

The Dyke March tradition continued in D.C. for more than a decade. Prominent trans and butch activist Leslie Feinberg spoke at 2005’s event, whose theme, “Thinking Outside the Boxes,” was meant to broaden the definition of “dyke” and acknowledge the growing number of nonbinary ways queer people name their genders and identities. Feinberg’s address recalled the diversity of the Stonewall rioters—they were

black, white, Latin@, trans, cis, homeless, wealthy, lesbian, gay, bi, you name it—and called for marchers to stand in solidarity with Iraqis against American occupation: “In order to wage the broadest, most diverse struggle against capitalism and its wars for global empire, we have to unite to fight against all forms of oppression.”

In other words, the Dyke March was to today’s Capital Pride parade as an upsidedown pink triangle is to a rainbow: It was unapologetically political, anti-assimilationist, and rooted in the reclamation of historical oppression. Its purpose was empowering queers, not creating a comfortable, one-sizefits-all spectacle. It wasn’t conducive to cutesy slogans and stickers that straight people could wear, too.

This first Dyke March spawned others around the country, including prominent marches in New York, San Francisco, and Chicago that still draw thousands each year.

But D.C.’s Dyke March eventually sputtered out. “We endure many indignities in the name of solidarity, and showing up for D.C.’s annual Dyke March is one of my favorites,” read a post on the New Gay, a now-defunct local queer blog, in 2008, one of the last years of the D.C. Dyke March. “It’s smallish, underorganized, unfunded, and there’s nothing like boldly declaring to the [very gay] residents of Dupont Circle, ‘We’re Here, We’re Queer, Get Used To It!’” This April, Lisa Ramsden, who does logistics work for Greenpeace USA, rounded up a circle of friends and acquaintances

DefY anD DemanD Although the reality in the streets can be very different, many consider D.C. one of the best cities in the U.S. on paper for transgender rights and protections. Often led by transgender and gender-nonconforming people of color, the community’s hard-fought victories over the past three decades have helped trans people overcome unequal access to healthcare, poverty, barriers to employment, and harassment by police. —Deb Greenspan

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2000

Earline Budd wins a landmark lawsuit against the Kalorama Road Skating Rink after they take issue with her non-“gender appropriate” dress. As a result, the rink eliminates its dress code.

Transgender woman Tyra Hunter is seriously injured in a car accident and dies due to negligence on the part of the first responders and healthcare workers who attend to her. According to accounts, she is taunted, ridiculed, and refused timely care because of her transgender identity. This case helps galvanize the trans community.

Activists and researchers conduct the first D.C. Trans Needs Assessment, finding hard evidence of what many already know—that trans individuals face serious challenges and discrimination when trying to access social services, obtain employment, and live healthy, productive lives. Nearly half of respondents lack health insurance and 25 percent are HIV positive (that’s about 10 times the current rate for all D.C. residents).

1994 Activists Dee Curry, Jessica Xavier, and Jean Robinson-Bey form Transgenders Against Discrimination and Defamation. With the addition of Budd, Toni Collins, and Rhonda Stewart, this group will later become Transgender Health Empowerment (T.H.E.). These women of color, along with Ruby Corado, form a nucleus of trans activism in the years to come.

1999 Earline Budd files a complaint against the D.C. Department of Corrections for a policy that forbids entrance to visitors in “opposite gender clothing.” The DOC ultimately repeals this policy as a result.

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2005 The Coalition to Clarify the Human Rights Act (later the DC Trans Coalition or DCTC) is founded to lobby for legal protections. The Human Rights Clarification Amendment Act

of 2005 passes, codifying “sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.” This small wording tweak makes D.C.’s human rights law one of the most inclusive in the nation and provides a lynchpin for major reforms: The D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles, the Metropolitan Police Department, D.C. homeless shelters, and others implement key non-discrimination policies over the next several years.

2008 Move Along, a study by the Alliance for a Safe & Diverse DC, finds an overwhelming majority of trans people targeted during anti-prostitution policing are discriminated against during arrest and lockup. The report recommends an end to Prostitution Free Zones to alleviate the policing and abuse of Latin@s, transgender people, and sex workers.

Photos by Bob Dardano courtesy of the Rainbow History Project

Clockwise from top left: Whitman-Walker’s booth at Gay Pride 1991; drag performers and dancers from Ziegfeld’s in the 1992 parade; Dykes on Bikes lead the 1994 parade.

2009 As a result of a year-long pressure campaign that includes protests at D.C.’s DOC downtown office, an avalanche of public comments, and other direct activism by the DCTC, the Department of Corrections adopts a policy that allows for limited selfdetermination in jail housing and ensures trans-sensitive medical care.

2010 Transgender discrimination lurks even in the plumbing code. After a legislative fix, and as a result of a DCTC pressure campaign, the D.C. Office of Human Rights begins enforcing regulations mandating gender-neutral single-occupancy bathrooms.

2011 Over a six-month period, at least 20 transgender women and gender non-conforming individuals are assaulted or killed in D.C. Activists demand a way of tracking violence against transgender individuals and mandatory MPD training on trans rights. Chief of Police Cathy Lanier asks the Anti-Defamation League to lead a task force to investigate MPD’s handling of LGBTQ hate crimes.

2012 In response to the violence and discrimination faced by the transgender community, the Office of Human Rights launches its Trans Respect advertising campaign featuring D.C. residents.

2013 The JaParker Deoni Jones Birth Certificate Amendment Act is introduced by David Catania and passed by the D.C. Council, removing onerous requirements for changing legal names and birth certificate gender markers.

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Washington D.C.’s Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking bans health insurance discrimination on the basis of gender identity or expression, making D.C. the third jurisdiction in the U.S. to do so.

2014 The MPD-commissioned Hate Crimes Assessment Task Force findings are released along with recommendations to restructure the MPD’s Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit, increase transparency and communication with

to try and give the Dyke March a fresh, intentional restart. “We wanted it to be an alternative to the male-centric Pride events,” she says. “Unpermitted, unsponsored, not connected to Capital Pride.” In the parade, there are usually so few contingents of queer women that when one walks or rolls by, a different cheer erupts in the crowd for the novelty factor.

But after a few meetings and discussions about the march’s mission, Ramsden and her cohort abandoned the plan. They wanted to make it as inclusive and purpose-driven as possible, and someone suggested that since not many of them were born and bred in D.C., they might not know what D.C. wants and needs. Rather than slap something halfassed together in time for this year’s Pride,

they decided to give themselves another year to plan. “It will definitely happen in 2016,” Ramsden says.

Since the early days of D.C.’s Pride celebrations and gay rights demonstrations, there have been respectability politics at play.

Frank Kameny, D.C.’s best-known LGBTQ hero, who was fired from his Army job for being gay, bravely led a 1965 White House protest populated by queer men and women in business suits and dresses. A 1980 Washingtonian article describes a Pride festival with a few leather daddies and drag queens, but just as prominent was the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club booth, which housed “people in golf shirts, selling chilled Perrier and handing out Ted Kennedy fliers.”

the LGBTQ community, establish officer training procedures, and improve the collection of hate crime data. Additional input from the community demands (and ultimately secures) a repeal of Prostitution Free Zones.

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Patti Shaw, who had been harassed and jailed with men despite “proper” I.D., wins a longrunning case against the MPD and U.S. Marshals. As part of the settlement, MPD agrees to change how gender is reported in the police department identification system, which determines where trans people are detained during processing and the gender of officers who can search them.

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Mayor Vince Gray announces that all health insurance policies regulated by D.C. (Medicaid, D.C. employee, and D.C. health insurance exchange policies) will be required to cover transition-related medical expenses, including gender-affirming surgeries.

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2015 A coalition of Casa Ruby, the DC Center, DCTC, Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance, Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence, HIPS, and Rainbow Response Coalition release a community report card on MPD progress toward meeting the HCATF recommendations.

They find that although interactions have improved with the Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit, there is limited progress on other fronts.

LGBTQ competency training has begun for all MPD officers, but there are concerns that “insufficient time has been allocated to train on a significant amount of material.”

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The proliferation of corporations can make Capital Pride feel more like a generic rainbow circus than a celebration of queer D.C. Though gays are no longer labeled perverts in the media and coming-out campaigns have helped heteros see that queers come in every disposition, dress, and lifestyle, today’s Capital Pride is nearly as watered down for mainstream consumption as that first protest. Starting in 1995, when the Pride festival moved downtown and cost $250,000 to produce, corporate sponsors have both underwritten the event and been active participants. They roll down the parade route in giant billboards on wheels, give out branded pens and coozies at the festival, and plaster P Street with gay-themed ads you’ll never see anywhere else or at any other time of year. The gays have buying power, and now that it’s not okay to be anti-gay in the public sphere, big business wants that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Ramsden brought a “Happy Pride, Fuck

Corporate Sponsorship” sign to the parade last year. “It seems like the point of Pride now is to give corporations a chance to show how gay-friendly they are,” she says. “The Lockheed Martin delegation in the parade floored me. It’s an evil entity making money off of wars.”

In 2013, a group of protesters dubbed the Booty Brigadiers and dressed in glitter and pirate gear blocked the parade route of the Lockheed Martin, Wells Fargo, and Citibank crews. “It seems to me that there is kind of a gay elite that is represented in Pride,” says Emma Cleveland, one of the protest organizers. “It’s incongruous that a bank currently foreclosing on queers is celebrating queerness, and gay business owners actively opposing a raise in minimum wage… but those voices are heard loud and clear, because they can buy floats.”

“Those banks are still kicking people out of their homes, when it’s really difficult for queer people in some areas, especially trans people and people of color, to have access to steady and living-wage sources of income,” says co-organizer Kit Wagner. (Without federal employment protections, in 31 states,

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employees can be fired just for being queer or trans.) Wells Fargo also invests in private prisons that have been accused of abusing transgender inmates.

Then again, Lockheed Martin has shown a fair amount of support for gays. In 2013, the military contractor stopped its donations to the Boy Scouts of America over the organization’s anti-gay policies. Chipotle, whose Pride Parade contingent has handed out free-burrito vouchers that read “Homo Estas”—forcing us to out ourselves to Chipotle cashiers in the most adorable way—has done the same.

“The biggest ally to the LGBT community at this point in its history is the business community, and they’re driving our progress,” says Lee. “They’ve demonstrated that they want to be part of our community and they want our business. We should happily be willing to share the cost of producing our events with them.”

But the proliferance of corporations can make Capital Pride feel more like a generic rainbow circus than a celebration of actual queer people who live in the D.C. area.

Chipotle sent the same burrito-as-mechanical bull float to several U.S. cities, includ-

ing D.C., for multiple years. Who does this commercial interlude in the parade benefit but Chipotle? What are we clapping for when the float goes by—the company’s burrito profits?

As queers become ever more accepted into mainstream society, we should use our newfound political and economic clout to demand equity for the least privileged among us, not abandon those still marginalized in our quest for a bigger, badder party. If Bank of America wants a Capital Pride sponsorship slot, let it fund a shelter for homeless trans youth first.

“People don’t understand how costly these things are—they think these things just magically happen,” Lee says. “Someone’s got to pay the bills.” Still, I’d gladly forgo the fancy sound systems and celebrity appearances for a more homegrown celebration less beholden to companies with dubious ethical underpinnings.

And then there’s the straight folk. St. Patrick’s Day lets everyone wear orange and green and play Irish for 24 hours. Pride lets straight folks join in all the grander parts of gaydom—the disco-house music, the simmering sexuality, the feel-good moments of

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political victory—without requiring that they take a hard look at the continued oppression of queer and trans people, or how it reinforces their own privilege. Rich straight couples wave from their comfortable balconies on P Street, wearing rainbow beads and gawking at done-up drag queens. Do they know that 2015 has seen what some are calling an “epidemic” of murders of trans women in the U.S.? Or that 40 percent of the country’s homeless youth identify as LGBTQ? Have they called on Congress to pass employment protections for queer people? Maybe not, but hey, they got burrito coupons!

Capital Pride has centered the role of straight allies in its festivities, too. Last year’s parade grand marshal was former Minnesota Vikings punter (and straight man) Chris Kluwe. In 2013, it was actress (and straight woman) Lynda Carter. This year’s Pride festival headliners are Carly Rae Jepsen and

When Fortune 500 companies reap the benefits of our show of pride in the face of oppression, when straight allies become inte-

gral to one of our precious few queer-majority spaces, what has Pride become?

“The first Gay Pride was a riot,” goes a popular radical queer slogan. Celebration and self-love, of course, are political in their own right, and essential to our communities’ well-being. We have the right to be more than a set of rights and disprivileges. We need frivolity and fun. We need to dance and fuck and throw confetti, to let our guts unclench and just laugh in an environment that affirms the core of who we are. But today’s Pride threatens to turn ahistorical, divorced from the context of ongoing battles for queer liberation in favor of a bland street fair that suits the least common denominator of the gay experience.

While measures to advance gay and trans rights have sped through the D.C. Council in the past decade and leather chaps no longer shock many squares, our Pride has been slow to change. “If you asked me in 2015 if we’ll be [having the same kind of Pride] in 2035,” Lee says, “I’d say I doubt it, and maybe even I hope not.” To remain relevant in a city whose queers might brave the bros at a sports pub on Thursday and follow Grindr to the gay disco on Fri-

day—and who count themselves as members of all manner of other social movements—Pride must firmly ground itself in its history and push mainstream culture to embrace an even broader diversity of identities and lifestyles. If we’re not making some people uncomfortable, including some in our own ranks, we’re missing the point.

The best argument I’ve heard for the continued importance of Pride is this: Every year, it’s some baby gay’s first. It’s even more critical, then, that we don’t grow complacent. There are lessons to be learned from the trials of the reproductive rights movement, which is struggling to ignite passion in a generation that, raised under Roe v. Wade, takes abortion rights for granted. Many early leaders of gay liberation died during the AIDS crisis; even more are aging out of the movement. If we don’t recapture Pride’s politics, irreverence, and commercial independence now, we may lose our chance. “Going to Pride is like being on a college campus,” Fowlkes says.

“There’s always a freshman class.” They’ll enjoy the keggers, yes, but they deserve a CP worthy education.

Darrow Montgomery

We need to dance and fuck and throw confetti... But today’s Pride threatens to turn ahistorical.

the members of En Vogue, none of whom identify as queer. Ditto 2014’s Karmin and Rita Ora. What does it mean when the most prominent honors of a celebration for LGBTQ people go to those who aren’t queer?

Are the contributions of straight people to our culture and political equity more important than our own?

“So many straight people come out to the parade, which is great, because a show of numbers is great for visibility, and we need allies,” says Ramsden. “But at that point, we become a spectacle… And it seems like half the people marching are straight.” Capital Pride doesn’t keep demographic records, but between the national corporate delegations (some of which, granted, include a fair number of queer employees) and local churches and businesses that march to show off their gay-friendly chops, audience members can spend much of the supposed gaypride parade cheering straight people for their support.

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rIDIng In StreetCarS wIth BoYS When Walt Whitman loved Washington and a Confederate soldier named Pete

By Selena Simmons-Duffin

Courtesy of the Bayley/Whitman Collection, Ohio Wesleyan University Libraries

When I think of the history of gay D.C., I think of Walt Whitman. Walt loved Washington. Imagine him at 43, a towering 6 feet tall, heavyset and bearded, prematurely gray. He left his Brooklyn home in search of his brother, George Washington Whitman. George was fighting for the Union in the Civil War, and Walt read in the paper that he’d been injured at the Battle of Fredericksburg. Walt found him; he’d gotten only a scratch on his cheek.

But the sight of all the other, more seriously injured soldiers brought back from the battlefield moved Whitman. On the spot, he abandoned Brooklyn for good and decided to

move to the capital.

Bearing the bandages, water and sponge, Straight and swift to my wounded I go This is from his poem “The Wound-Dresser.” Whitman quickly became a familiar figure to the thousands of wounded set up in dozens of makeshift hospitals around D.C. On, on I go!—(open doors of time! open hospital doors!)

The crush’d head I dress, (poor crazed hand, tear not the bandage away;) The neck of the cavalry-man, with the bullet through and through, I examine; Hard the breathing rattles, quite glazed already the eye, yet life struggles hard It was brutal work. When he wasn’t in the hospitals, he used his connections (like

“I put my hand on his knee—we understood.”

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some guy named Ralph Waldo Emerson) to get part-time work for the government as a clerk. (He lost one job because of Leaves of Grass, already a well-known and somewhat notorious book by this point.) Connections also helped him find housing and meals. With the wages he earned, he bought treats like tobacco and candy for the soldiers he tended. He spoke to them and comforted them and wrote down their messages to loved ones at home.

(Many a soldier’s loving arms about this neck have cross’d and rested, Many a soldier’s kiss dwells on these bearded lips.)

It is, in fact, an excerpt of “The WoundDresser” that is carved above the escalators rising out of the Q Street entrance to the Dupont Circle Metro station. It’s a fitting memorial to the Gray Poet’s connection to our city, and in it, there echo memories of the care and treatment for the gay men lost in the early years of the AIDS epidemic. It reads: Thus in silence in dreams’ projections, Returning, resuming, I thread my way through the hospitals; The hurt and wounded I pacify with soothing hand, I sit by the restless all the dark night—some are so young; Some suffer so much—I recall the experience sweet and sad...

Walt loved Washington, and Walt also loved Pete. This part of the story begins after he’d lived here two years. It was a stormy winter’s night in 1865. The poet boarded a horsedrawn streetcar (back when D.C.’s streetcars were a mode of transportation, not an overhyped money pit).

Walt was the only passenger, sitting alone on the silk and velvet bench, with curtained windows lit by an oil lamp. He wore a blanket around his shoulders. The conductor, a young Irishman, came back to talk with him.

“He seemed like an old sea captain,” the conductor would say later. “Something in him drew me that way… I went into the car. We

were familiar at once—I put my hand on his knee—we understood. He did not get out at the end of the trip—in fact [he] went all the way back with me.”

That young man was Peter Doyle. He was 21 when they met, curly-haired and handsome, a slim 5 foot 8 to Whitman’s 6 feet. Ironically, for all of Whitman’s love of the Union and all his help for Union soldiers, here was a man who’d fought for the Confederacy. (Perhaps Whitman didn’t care: “was one side so brave? the other was equally brave,” he writes in “The Wound-Dresser.”) In any case, from that rainy night, Doyle and the old poet were inseparable for the next several years.

Whitman would jump on Doyle’s streetcar after his workday at the Treasury Department and ride it down to the Washington Navy Yard. A friend wrote that Whitman would sit out front with Doyle in the open air, and the two would barely speak because, the friend suggested, Doyle was as uneducated as he was good-looking. After dropping off the streetcar, the pair would go to Georgetown’s Union Hotel. “Like as not I would go to sleep—lay my head on my hands on the table,” Doyle said. “Walt would sit there, wait, watch, keep me undisturbed—would wake me up when the hour of closing came.”

They would also go on long walks together, often across the Potomac to Doyle’s hometown of Alexandria. Whitman would recite Shakespeare, or sing or hum, or “shout into the woods,” Doyle said. It was “the biggest sort of ” friendship, and it would last nearly 30 years.

“From my experience at Washington I should say that honesty is the prevailing atmosphere,” Whitman told a companion and biographer at the end of his life. When someone laughed, he continued—and this, too, is etched in stone in our city, at Freedom Plaza: “I went to Washington as everybody goes there prepared to see everything done with some furtive intention, but I was disappointCP ed—pleasantly disappointed.”

humane aSYlum For LGBTQ immigrants in D.C., waiting is the hardest part.

By Ryan Little If you drove past the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s headquarters last Wednesday, you might have noticed a few rainbow flags, hand-lettered signs, and a colorful cadre of protesters. With only a glimpse to digest it, the various slogans for transgender rights, queer detainees, and im-

migration equality might have looked incongruous, even disorganized. That’s the trouble with intersectional politics—they don’t boil down, they just overlap.

That also explains why several local organizations banded together for #BreakTheCage, a protest to demand the end of detention for undocumented LGBTQ individuals. Leaders from groups like United We

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Recent immigrant Dmitrii Chizhevsky was shot in the eye at an LGBTQ party in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Dream’s Queer Undocumented Immigrant Project, Trans Women of Color Collective, and Casa Ruby share a larger goal: humane treatment of LGBTQ immigrants by the state, regardless of immigration status.

Achieving that end is complicated. Immigration laws are set at a federal level, but local communities feel their impact. “It all depends on your level of access [to resources],” says Lourdes Ashley Hunter, TWOCC’s national director and the DC Center’s chief communications officer. “Many asylum seekers come with little to no money and

have limited access to housing or healthcare.” If asylum seekers don’t speak English, that puts another barrier between them and the few resources available.

Take 28-year-old Eckington resident Dmitrii Chizhevsky. “The DC Center helps me not starve,” he says. He’s gratefully taken advantage of the nonprofit’s monthly Center Global meetings for immigrants and the free gift cards to Trader Joe’s they offer.

The Center also helped in his search to find an immigration lawyer.

In November of 2013, the young activist was shot in the eye and beaten while attending a weekly LGBTQ social called the Rainbow Tea Party at LaSky community center in St. Petersburg, Russia. It wasn’t a political rally, just a friendly gathering. In response to his internationally publicized attack and an increasingly anti-gay Russia, he

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founded the organization Stop Hate in January of 2014. The group went to gay clubs in St. Petersburg and surveyed hundreds of patrons about their feelings toward activism; they found a majority were interested in doing something for LGBTQ rights but just didn’t know where to start.

Despite Chizhevsky’s initial desire to stay and work for justice, it quickly became clear that the police wouldn’t seriously investigate his attack, and “the men who attacked me were still out on the streets.” With too high of a profile to avoid further danger, Chizhevsky resigned from the leadership of Stop Hate and made his way to America in late 2014, arriving in New York and traveling down to D.C. He still keeps in contact with Russian activists over Skype, but for now, he’s focusing on establishing his life in the District.

Other asylum seekers face further complications. If they are transgender—especially a woman of color—they are particularly vulnerable. Even in an increasingly welcoming D.C., four out of five transgender residents have been verbally or physically assaulted, according to a 2012 study by the DC Trans Coalition. Nearly half of trans individuals in D.C. have been denied or fired from jobs they were qualified for, about a quarter have experienced homelessness, and nearly three quarters have at some point turned to sex work for income (about half of those felt it was their only option). For transgender asylum seekers without a work permit, the numbers are even higher.

“Without resources, people are forced to resort to survival tactics,” says Hunter. “If they stay in a shelter or on a park bench, transwomen of color may end up

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trying to defend themselves against acts of violence. They’re often placed in the wrong gender housing facility, where they’re even more vulnerable to rape or violence.” Violence makes police contact more likely, and if an asylum seeker is accused of a crime, even for self-defense or survival, she may end up in a detention center, where the situation for LGBTQ immigrants quickly gets worse.

Organizations like Casa Ruby, a bilingual nonprofit that provides housing and access to legal counsel for gender nonconforming youth and adults, and the DC Center’s asylee-focused Center Global program aim to prevent that. As an employee of the DC Center and a Casa Ruby volunteer, Hunter knows the triumphs and limitations of both. For LGBTQ immigrants, Center Global provides “limited financial assistance, food assistance, Metro cards, access to pro bono lawyers, advocates to minimize language barriers, volunteer housing on a temporary basis, and access to government services,” says Hunter. It’s a pivotal resource for many new arrivals in D.C. In January of this year, Chizhevsky officially filed for asylum, noting that if he’d stayed in Russia, “I would probably have been attacked again.” After filing, the wait begins. One-hundred-eighty days of waiting, in fact, before an applicant is allowed a work visa. “You give up everything to start a new life, and then you just have to wait,” Chizhevsky says.

“I think the government has a hard time justifying 180 days for humanitarian refugees to remain without a work permit,” says Catalina Velasquez, who has worked as a policy analyst and communications consultant for several local organizations, including the D.C. Office of Latino Affairs, QUIP, and TWOCC. Velasquez believes the USCIS, which handles what’s known as the 180-day Asylum Employment Authorization Document Clock, wants to discourage asylum claims based on economic hardship.

Of course, the policy applies equally to victims of serious humanitarian abuse, who often leave everything behind when fleeing their country—a dilemma the USCIS compounds with its EAD Clock but doesn’t appear to address otherwise.

How does anyone live for half a year in one of America’s most expensive cities without working—especially when police contact could lead to detention or deportation?

“In Canada and Australia… asylees are given time to learn the language of the country, they’re given resources, housing, and food, but in the United States that’s not the case,” says Velasquez, an immigrant from Colombia. “We’re left to fend for ourselves.

When you’re an immigrant with no safety net, and on top of that you’re told that for 180 days you’re not allowed to work, it’s definitely counterintuitive.” Without a work permit, says Velasquez, asylees may turn to “survival sex work or criminal activities, or they die.”

NGOs offer some relief, but the burden

also falls on local government. Though its actions have been far from sufficient, D.C. has taken a few steps to meet these needs.

The OLA, for example, offers grants to healthcare organizations that have historically served Latino residents, offers access to language-learning classes, works with Casa Ruby to provide contraception and food for homeless and undocumented LGBTQ people in D.C., and helps immigrants find lowcost legal services or payment plans. It’s more than many states offer.

In April, Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the “Cities United for Immigration Action” brief, urging immediate implementation of President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, which would include deportation relief for certain immigrants with longstanding ties to America.

Unlike those in many states, the D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles doesn’t ask for immigration status when providing drivers’ licenses. Obtaining a form of ID and access to transportation is a huge concern for job seekers. However, resources for non-English speakers are only available on a branchby-branch basis at the DMV; “monolingual, culturally ignorant employees” may tell applicants to “put a request in for a meeting a year from now,” Velasquez says, “because no one can talk to you.”

For LGBTQ immigrants, the situation is made more difficult by having to officially come out to the U.S. government in order to seek asylum, “despite being persecuted by the government in their home countries,” Velasquez says. “It can be traumatic to come out again.” If the immigrant takes too long to come out in America, or if he can’t learn English or find an advocate to speak for him fast enough, and it takes longer than a year to complete all the necessary paperwork to file for asylum, he is no longer eligible to become an asylee.

Chizhevsky is currently engaged to marry his American boyfriend this summer.

That may make his LGBTQ persecution claim stronger or strengthen his case, but a wedding won’t be easy to fund, considering he isn’t eligible for a work permit until July. The DC Center has helped by hosting a fundraiser and will provide some of the food for the event.

Of course, the DC Center can’t grant asylum—which can take anywhere from a few months to several years and is never guaranteed—so Chizhevsky is left hoping his case will prevail while living with the constant possibility of deportation. Until his work authorization materializes, he’ll have to live hand-to-mouth, often relying on the generosity of others and community resources like DC Center.

Hunter says local governments need to provide asylees with “unfettered access to healthcare, food, and shelter” while their cases are being resolved, especially while they wait for a work permit. “They need to understand the needs of children to be with family, and they need to put pressure on the federal government,” she says.

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America doesn’t legally recognize LGBTQ asylum seekers’ family bonds unless those relationships are recognized in the country of origin. Spouses and children (who may or may not be adopted) aren’t given any preferential treatment in the immigration process if the country they’re fleeing never legally acknowledged them.

Without healthcare access (the ACA doesn’t cover undocumented immigrants or asylum seekers), rape survivors have no access to abortion. Trans people have no access to hormone therapy. Survivors of violent hate crimes—like Chizhevsky, who had several eye surgeries in St. Petersburg—have no access to physical or psychological followup treatments.

Local governments are one possible bridge for potential asylees. Amid D.C.’s constantly rising cost of living, the city could allocate more funds for healthcare that doesn’t discriminate based on immigration status, temporary housing opportunities (also a serious need for low-income citizens), and easy access to food. Providing for basic needs while asylum seekers adjust to a new country, navigate convoluted immigration bureaucracy, wait for work permits, and learn a new language would not only better the lives of the many immigrants already living here, but also reduce survival-motivated crime overall and potentially put a dent in the homelessness problem that currently plagues the CP city’s residents.

BlaDe runner Longtime Washington Blade reporter Lou Chibbaro Jr. talks LGBTQ media coverage in the District.

By Emily Q. Hazzard The day before we spoke, Lou Chibbaro Jr. warned me he might be late for our meeting. He would be spending that morning in a District courtroom where the woman accused of stabbing David Messerschmitt to death would enter her guilty plea. The case had a bizarre twist: The woman allegedly posed as a man to rob Messerschmidt, who had responded to a Craigslist ad asking to meet for sex. “Lesbian Posing As Gay Man Killed Closeted Married Lawyer During Fake Hookup” went the headline on Queerty, but Chibbaro’s reporting on the story carried his signature, even tone.

“It was sad,” he told me, recounting the murdered man’s wife sobbing in the courtroom.

Chibbaro has spent four decades covering stories like this—as well as LGBTQ civil rights, the AIDS epidemic, and local issues—for and about

D.C.’s gay community.

We sat down recently in the Blade’s 14th Street NW office to discuss areas where the mainstream media falls short on covering LGBTQ stories, why D.C. still needs a gay newspaper, and the stories that have stuck with him through decades of reporting.

The interview has been condensed and reordered for clarity.

You’re coming from the [David] Messerschmidt hearing, where the accused entered her guilty plea. What’s the draw of that story for you? Why are you covering that for the Blade?

Because it essentially amounted to a gay pickup murder. It’s this situation I’ve covered for many years. This was unique in that it was a woman accused of it. It’s the first known time ever.

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What a bizarre case.

That’s right. The MO is something that’s sadly victimized gay men, mostly, for many years. A lot of the gay rights organizations have put out alerts and warnings over the years for people to be careful. The main scheme is that you meet somebody and trick them into having them invite you home. The motive often is robbery…

In this particular case it was sad because he was married and his wife was in the courtroom crying as the prosecutor had to outline what exactly happened and the gory details of the stabbing.

So it was very sad.

Do you think D.C. still needs a gay newspaper?

I think it does because the mainstream press, as we often call them, aren’t focused solely on on the LGBT community. I think [coverage has] gotten a lot better by many of them. The Washington Post, of course, has a [large] news staff when they want to direct their coverage to something specifically. If it’s a gay breaking story—for example, the same-sex marriage issue and the pending Supreme Court decision that we’re all waiting for in June—they can devote a dozen reporters. I’m a little jealous because we have nowhere near those resources, but in fairness I think the coverage has gotten better, although they still don’t focus on stuff that we often report on that happens to the community.

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Are there places where the mainstream media consistently falls short in reporting on the LGBTQ community?

I think again that’s changing quite a bit now.

In some cases we’ve criticized the Post because for years and years they often would not report that somebody involved in something was even gay because there might have been a concern of “outing” even if the people were out. That’s changing, though, I think, in recent years. I’m guessing they have a good amount of gay reporters now, and they’re in touch with the community and know which buttons to push to get coverage.

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Are there places where you’re concerned gay Washingtonians are still getting squeezed out?

D.C. is, as a lot of the activists will say, ahead of many other places, certainly [ahead of] the socalled red states. The places you hear where certainly more needs to be done is with the transgender community. Transgender activists say that even though they’re protected by law under the D.C. Human Rights Act, there are still areas of discrimination and some police harassment.

Police have changed quite a bit but there are still some vestiges of discrimination. The main thing is it’s hard to find employment for some transgender people and some, because of that, have to resort to survival things like sex work and that leads to victimization and crimes on the street.

We’ve been reporting that there are now at least two homes for homeless LGBT people—particularly for transgender people—that have recently opened, where the people who operate them are sensitive to the special needs of that population.

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We [currently] have no openly gay councilmembers. What do you think about that?

There’s two arguments on that: One is that virtually everyone on the Council is very, very supportive of LGBT rights and [the winning candidates] ran on that when they ran, but still it’s thought that it’s good to have somebody at the table from the community itself. So there is some concern that there is a lack of LGBT people on the Council for the first time now in 18 years, I believe it is. That’s offset a little bit, the supporters say, by Mayor Bowser, who has appointed possibly a record number of LGBT people to high-level positions in her administration, including the first that we know of in Washington—an out lesbian deputy mayor and two [gay] heads of cabinet-level offices… [But] I don’t think anyone is fearful that the tone of the whole city Council is going to go negative, because that’s not the case.

What next for gay rights locally?

I think locally again the transgender stuff is on the agenda. One thing that you can do is go on GLAA.org’s website—they have a list of a number of pending bills that impact the LGBT community, but they’re not solely for the LGBT community. It has to do with things like adoption reforms to better accommodate gay couples who adopt children, and there’s the technicalities of artificial insemination. I was astonished to learn that in D.C. it’s still illegal in certain aspects for couples, not only gay couples, but... for some technical reason it’s not fully legal in D.C. These are sort of issues that go beyond just gayonly issues, but they impact the community, so those are the kinds of things on the agenda.

That’s shocking to hear, because I always assume that because D.C. is so progressive in other ways, that seems like such a strange, regressive policy.

That’s right. And there are things that recently passed that affected the transgender communi-

ty and we’ve been reporting them, about allowing a birth certificate to be legally changed— when someone transitions their gender, a birth certificate is needed because it’s different gender than what you are and you run into all sorts of problems.

What are some stories that have really stuck with you in your years of reporting?

There’s such a wide range of them. One was a case of a murder of a gay man, it was sort of a pickup murder. But it just so happened (this was more of an unusual one) that the accused person had some ties to the gay community— he was a stripper, actually, at one of the clubs.

He confessed to the murder in a private group of people, one of whom was a young man who wound up in jail for unrelated reasons. He was not implicated in the murder, but he had a drug problem and he had [committed] petty robberies to support a drug habit and so forth. A year after the murder, when [police] were still investigating, he called me from jail, amazingly, and said, “I overheard this guy say this. What should I do?”

I talked about it with the [Blade] editors, [and we decided] we’ll do what we always do, we’ll do a story on it, and if we do a story on this, we have to call the police and the prosecutors for comment. So we did, and that led to the [suspect’s] arrest, and this person was to be the star witness… He was out of jail and he was living with his grandmother or something in southern Virginia. [The court] paid his way to D.C. and put him up in a hotel. The next thing we learned from the police is he was found dead in the hotel room. And it appears to be an overdose of drugs, you know he was put through the mill by the defense—“Did you really see this?” you know—on cross-examination. He went through a very emotional situation. But he was a hero in coming forward. They got a [manslaughter] conviction [for the murder].

CP That [story] impacted me. It still does.

get organIzeD The nation’s first coalition of black LGBTQ individuals was born in D.C.

By Sarah Anne Hughes In 1978, almost a decade after his coming out began, Gilberto Gerald saw an ad in a D.C. newspaper about a meeting for black gays.

Gerald, a Pratt Institute graduate with an architecture degree, was already involved with the Metropolitan Community Church of Washington D.C., a faith community and

LGBTQ organization established in 1971. But around that time, he became interested in politics, specifically the mayoral race between incumbent Walter Washington, outspoken civil rights activist Marion Barry, and D.C. Council Chairman Sterling Tucker.

While Barry had courted the gay community, Gerald was concerned that, in a majority black city, the voices of black gays and lesbians were not being heard. The face of the gay

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community was white, Gerald says, “which was problematic for those of us who knew that just wasn’t the case.”

That concern was shared by ABilly S. Jones, who ran ads in D.C. and Baltimore newspapers that led to the founding of local coalitions for black LGBTQ individuals and eventually the National Coalition of Black Gays (later the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays), the first organizations of their kind.

“There’s a need for inclusion for black gays at inception stages,” Jones said at a 1978 forum broadcast on WPFW and archived by the Rainbow History Project. “We are feeling that, if there is a sincerity there of having blacks as part of existing gay organizations, there’s a need to include black gays at the beginning of projects.”

NCBLG’s founders—Gerald, Jones, Delores Berry, Darlene Garner, Jon Gee, Louis Hughes, and Renee McCoy—also saw the need to adopt an agenda bigger than LGBTQspecific issues.

“We could not divorce racism and sexism and classism from homophobia,” Gerald says.

“I could be recruited into an LGBT organization to focus on a particular agenda, but if that door that I helped prop open so that a whole bunch of folks can go in is now closed because I’m black, what have I accomplished?”

The group made its first major accomplishment in 1979, during the first March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, when it organized the National Conference of Third World Lesbians and Gays. “The conference was unique in its high level of feminism, radicalism, class consciousness, internationalism, and exhilarating vigor,” Robert Crisman of the Freedom Socialist Party wrote. “The racial, ethnic, national, and political diversity represented was exemplar.” The next year, NCBLG met in Philadelphia to officially incorporate, as Jones recalled to Blacklight in 2009, with chapters in nine cities.

By the spring of 1983, Gerald had been elected the executive director of NCBLG, which was a paid position for the first time. During an April meeting of the national board at Gerald’s Shaw home, the coalition voted to endorse the 20th anniversary commemoration of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, “though we had heard there was some resistance, some unresponsiveness on behalf of the march organizers to LGBT organizations and LGBT concerns.” D.C. Del. Walter Fauntroy, one of the organizers, had been quoted as comparing LGBTQ rights to “penguin rights.”

After it became clear in August that the march would not feature an LGBTQ speaker and NCBLG wouldn’t be included in the program (and would be placed near the end of the march), Gerald organized a sit-in at Fauntroy’s office. “I told them a Mack truck was headed their way… God, I wouldn’t do that today,” he says with a laugh. Capitol Police arrested the four activists who attended; Gerald got a call from Fauntroy and civil rights activists like Joseph Lowery, Benjamin Hooks, Virginia Apuzzo, and Coretta Scott King.

“I was on the phone with people I totally admired now lecturing them about civil

rights,” he recalls.

Gerald was able to secure the demands of national LGBTQ groups (lesbian poet Audre Lorde spoke and LGBTQ marchers were not placed at the end), and while he wasn’t able to secure an endorsement for federal gay civil rights legislation from the march itself, King agreed to give it her personal stamp of approval, and did so at what’s now known as the Wilson Building.

While this may have been the group’s most high-profile victory, Gerald also points to the coalition’s 1986 conference on HIV/AIDS at the D.C. convention center. “People came from all over the country trying to do something in the black community around HIV and AIDS at a time when it wasn’t fully recognized this was an issue,” he says.

On the same day as the conference, Gerald scheduled a lunchtime meeting between Surgeon General C. Everett Koop and LGBTQ leaders of color ahead of the release of Kopp’s “Understanding AIDS,” a brochure mailed to every American household.

“It was one of the few and early times when there was national press coverage about HIV in the black community,” he says. The meeting sparked the creation of the National Minority AIDS Council, an organization Gerald co-founded that endures to this day.

But the period during which Gerald worked with NCBLG was a “very tumultuous time, a time of great challenge,” he says. There were rivalries and boundary disputes between national LGBTQ groups.

Weary from the war between different organizations, Gerald left the coalition in 1986, and it disbanded a few years later, after relocating its headquarters to Detroit. In addition to shaky financials, Gerald believes the coalition suffered from a lack of strategy. It was founded in a pre-HIV era, with a focus on both men and women, he says. “HIV/AIDS changed it, and I don’t think it made the shift,” says Gerald, who’s run his own LGBTQ consulting firm since 1991.

In 2010, the group’s founders met to organize a legacy project to “recapture and share the histories and the stories of black LGBT people in order to strengthen and inform broader movements for social justice and change.”

What exists now is a website of recollections, photos, videos, and digitized issues of Black/ Out, the coalition’s magazine.

“We lost so many people, and there were so many things that were happening that were so important in that period culturally,” Gerald says of preserving the coalition’s legacy. “It was a time when it was risky for many people to be out, because it was not safe.”

Now watching from the sidelines, Gerald sees the generation that benefited from NCBLG’s work pushing forward a cultural revolution (“The generation that came after thought marriage was more important,” he says, adding that he’s a beneficiary). But he sees the need for more organizing, especially by LGBTQ people of color.

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Just a few blocks away, 1905 has also attracted a notably gay crowd without ever calling itself a gay bar. Co-owner Tony Lucca is straight, but he did grow up in Provincetown, Mass., “a gay mecca of the Northeast,” he says. When he moved to D.C., he happened to move in with a gay roommate. “So, that was kind of how some of my original friendship group grew,” he says. “It was kind of widely known that I’m gay-friendly and the restaurant’s gay-friendly and open to everyone.”

Plus, the roof deck has helped the restaurant position itself as an alternative to Nellie’s Sports Bar up the street.

Lucca says 1905 has hosted about 10 wedding receptions or ceremonies over the years. “I’d say A mural of Elizabeth seven of the 10 were gay couples.

Taylor has helped lure a It’s just been one of those things gay crowd to Dacha that’s just happened.”

Beer Garden.

The same was true of Mr. Henry’s on Capitol Hill, which was founded in 1966 by a gay man named Henry Yaffe. “He did not open Mr. Henry’s as a gay bar, nor did he ever call it a gay bar,” says current co-owner Mary Quillian Helms, whose father took over the place in 1971.

(Yaffe did, however, own a gay bar at one point named Victoria Station on 14th Street NW. He called it his “dancing parlor for boys,” according to Quillian Helms.) And while Mr. Henry’s was not labeled as a gay bar, Yaffe did welcome everyone—not just as patrons, but as staff.

“Mr. Henry’s had gay employees back in a time when gays had a hard time finding work,” Quillian Helms says. He also welcomed other groups that were discriminated against at the time, including black people and deaf people.

While the tradition of diverse hiring continues today, Mr. Henry’s still does not label itself a gay bar. “It has gotten a reputation over the years as a gay bar because gays are comfortable there,” Quillian Helms says.

In other instances, not-specifically-gay bars have gained a following among queer people because of regular gay-targeted events there.

DJ and party host Shea Van Horn Shaw, home to a significant gay population, is another factor (who has DJed Washington City Paper events) was among the first in D.C. to regularly bring gay parties to non-gay venin its appeal, Chekaldin suggests.

Just as importantly, Dacha has gone above and beyond to ues. In 2008, Van Horn and fellow DJ Matt Bailer launched embrace its gay customer base. You’ll see it on the bar’s Fa- a monthly gay dance party called Mixtape. “Not just altercebook page, with occasional photos of shirtless men or posts native music, but alternative space was really important to like “Sunday Funday @Dacha! Best place in DC to plan a us,” Van Horn says. Their first event took place at a nowgayby!” The beer garden will also have double-decker bus in closed Eritrean restaurant called Dahlak at 18th and U streets the Capital Pride parade and plans to decorate its outdoor pa- NW. The parties continue to rotate locations, including plac-

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Dacha Beer Garden never set out to be a gay bar. The owners were simply looking to open a neighborhood spot in Shaw where you could get a boot full of hefeweizen and sit at picnic tables in the sun.

But sometime in the middle of last summer, Elizabeth Taylor’s gaze from a mural painted on the beer garden’s wall began to attract more and more gay patrons, says co-owner Dmitri Chekaldin. While the demographics shift throughout the week, now, he guesses that as many as 75 to 90 percent of the crowd is gay on Sundays, a particularly popular day. “This is the gay pick-up spot in D.C.,” I overheard one patron tell his friend on a recent Sunday.

Throughout D.C., there are several bars that, like Dacha, don’t specifically label themselves as “gay bars” but are widely frequented by LGBTQ residents. Places like 1905 Bistro & Bar, the Black Cat, and Mr. Henry’s, to name a few, have never advertised themselves as gay hubs, but that hasn’t stopped them from building—and embracing—gay followings. The rise of such gay straight bars is the product of an ever more accepting culture, especially in D.C., which boasts some of the most comprehensive queer rights legislation in the country. It’s also creating an even fuzzier notion of what it means to be a gay bar and what the role of such places should be.

It doesn’t hurt that the owners of Dacha, Chekaldin and Ilya Alter, are gay, but Chekaldin doesn’t think that’s the main reason the place has become a gay destination. He mostly credits the mural of a young Taylor, who was chosen to grace the wall as a nod to the gay community. (The actress raised awareness and money for HIV/AIDS treatment at the nearby Whitman-Walker health center on 14th Street NW, which is named in her honor.) The beer garden’s location in

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es like DC9, Rock & Roll Hotel, the Howard Theatre, and 9:30 Club. “It was kind of key that it needed to be a non-gay bar,” Van Horn says. “When you stepped in, all expectations went away.”

Initially, there were some cultural sensitivity issues. At one of the first events at Rock & Roll Hotel in 2009, one gay man went into the women’s restroom. At a lot of gay clubs, restrooms are unisex, or the women’s room doesn’t really get used, so a guy might go in without any fuss. But at Rock & Roll Hotel, it was grounds for immediate ejection. Afterwards, Van Horn had a meeting with the venue to talk about their differing expectations and how to create a safe and comfortable space.

They resolved the issue for future events with clear notes on the restroom doors.

John Marble, who co-edits the gay vertical of Brightest Young Things’ site, says the success of Mixtape inspired a series of others gay events in non-gay bars. And comfort levels with these events have helped build the gay clientele at these non-gay bars, like DC9, Dodge City, and the Black Cat, even when there’s not a party going on. As a result, the line between what’s a gay bar and what’s not continues to blur.

The Welcoming Committee, a national organization with 3,000 members in D.C., takes an even more deliberate approach by organizing LGBTQ takeovers of traditionally straight-oriented venues. The group hosts outings to baseball games and the opera, but it is particularly known for its monthly Guerilla Queer Bar parties at places like Redline Gastropub, Little Miss Whiskey’s Golden Dollar, and Sign of the Whale.

Jay Schwartz, the Boston-based marketing and communications coordinator for the Welcoming Committee, says the distinction between gay and straight bars is less clear in D.C. than in other cities where the group has a presence (except maybe New York). That can make finding places to host GQB slightly more difficult. Schwartz says the group considered Tropicalia and Flash only to have people tell them they were “pretty gay already.”

“It is a good problem,” he says. “We’re running out of spots to take over. Maybe that’s the endgame.”

Just as so-called straight bars are becoming more gay, gay bars are, in some cases, becoming more straight. Nellie’s Sports Bar owner Doug Schantz says that the bar does bring in more straight patrons than it used to, although he says it’s always attracted a diverse crowd from the neighborhood.

“I just think it’s a reflection of the number of people that live around Nellie’s,” he says of the demographic changes. When Schantz first opened the gay sports bar at 9th and U streets NW in 2007, “it was just a lot more conducive to the pioneering spirit of the

gayborhoods,” he says, “and I think that last bastion is done.”

Schantz also recognizes that his younger gay patrons grew up seeing gay shows on TV, knowing gay people, and experiencing gay culture in a much more mainstream way. So, it’s natural for them to bring both gay and straight friends to a place like Nellie’s. “The older set that never got to experience that kind of lifestyle doesn’t understand that,” Schantz says.

Marble says most gay people are welcoming of straight people in gay bars, but there’s still a debate over whether they should be (especially when it comes to rowdy straight women in bachelorette parties). Some people feel the gay bar is a kind of a sacred space, and too many straight people can change the vibe and community feeling. Ultimately, there has to be a balance, Marble says. He likens it to his own experience in lesbian spaces: “I love going to lesbian dance parties and lesbian bars… But, I also know that when I go to lesbian dance parties and lesbian bars, I kind of keep my head down and recognize that this isn’t my space. I’m a guest here.”

In a city and country that’s rapidly progressing in its embrace of gay rights and culture, gay bars look a lot different from the hush-hush establishments of only a couple decades ago. (Phase 1 on Barracks Row, one of the nation’s oldest lesbian bars, has a barrier just beyond the front door to protect patrons from flying objects that homophobes used to hurl inside.) Now, Schantz says opening a gay bar isn’t so different from opening an Italian restaurant or a cafe focused around artists. Sure, it has a theme, but everyone is going to enjoy it.

Which raises the question: What is the role of the gay bar now, and how necessary is that label?

“The whole identification of yourself as just a gay bar is so passé. Why? What’s the purpose of doing that?” asks Dacha’s Chekaldin. “Back in the day, maybe that was important, but nowadays, all of the laws, all of the openness, all of the society changes, this is becoming obsolete as a concept.”

But others still say there’s a vital role for the gay bar that declares itself as such. If anything, Marble says, the city could use more, especially in neighborhoods outside the Dupont-to-Shaw corridor. He notes that the gay bar has transitioned from a necessary refuge to more of an optional gathering place—but having that option is still necessary.

“The feeling used to be that we have to go to these places, and now the feeling is ‘You know, tonight, I want to go to this place,’” Marble says. “And I think that still serves a CP really valuable function.”

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Underserved Police, alleging the Park at Fourteenth tried to cover up an assault, shut the club down.

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The Dish: The Taylor Egg Roll Where to Get It: Taylor Gourmet, multiple locations; taylorgourmet.com Price: $4.99 for two What It Is: These egg rolls are stuffed with mozzarella, sharp provolone, hot capicola,

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Genoa salami, roasted red peppers, pepperoncini, and red onions. The ingredients are wrapped in egg roll paper and deep-fried.

They’re served with a side of marinara sauce.

What It Tastes Like: The Taylor Roll is seriously spicy, cheesy, and greasy. The capicola and pepperoncini give the dish a spicy heat.

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The mozzarella and provolone melt together in the deep fryer. And the juices from the meat and cheese squirt out of the egg roll on first bite.

The Story: What do Philadelphians stuff inside their egg rolls? All the fixings for a cheesesteak, of course. When Casey Patten, co-owner of Taylor Gourmet, revamped his sandwich shop chain’s menu earlier this spring, he decided to play around with a hoagie egg roll. It’s listed as a side and might very well beat out another Taylor favorite: the deep-fried risotto balls. Think of the Taylor Roll as a hoagie snack. “I wanted something cheesy and fried and with everything you would find inside a regular cold cut,” Patten says.

How to Eat It: “This is probably the 3:30 a.m. order,” Patten says. Just be patient and come armed with napkins. The egg roll is served straight from the fryer, so an overeager eater risks a burnt tongue and a few —Tim Ebner splattered grease stains.

The best cocktail you’re not ordering

What: Black Jack Iced Tea with Fernet Branca, Byrrh, Grand Marnier, Cocchi di Torino, Cocchi Americano, lemon, lime, and sugar Where: Black Jack, 1612 14th St. NW Price: $12 What You Should Be Drinking Bar Manager E. Jay Apaga set out to put a drink on Black Jack’s menu that was a throwback to the sugar bombs college kids sip. He settled on a Long Island iced tea, despite his own disclaimer: “If you’re 30 plus and still drinking Long Islands, the more power to you, because they are the grossest thing.” Apaga’s variation replaces the firewater of basic booze with trendy apéritifs and digestifs. The drink has become a favorite among bartenders who recognize ingredients like Fernet Branca and Byrrh, but not so much among regular patrons. “When someone does order it, I point to them and yell, ‘Adventurous!’” Apaga says. He gives props to those willing to drink a pint glass full of the unfamiliar alcohol orgy.

Why You Should be Drinking It The result of Fernet Branca, two Cocchi products, Grand Marnier, Byrrh, citrus, and sugar coming together is a sobriety-busting sip that tastes of apricot and mint despite the absence of those ingredients. It’s a magic trick that takes the Long Island iced tea out of the bachelorette party realm. Byrrh, a spunky red wine-based French apéritif, helps please the palate. Apaga says its heyday was in 1930s France—that’s why you can spot Byrrh posters plastering the walls in the final 30 minutes of Saving Private Ryan. The apéritif, which was only reintroduced to the United States in 2012, has become a bartender plaything because of its unique root beer or Dr. Pepper flavor. Apaga concedes a Long Island iced tea has never been the marker of a good bar, but this version might make an exception.

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“Tilling Phase” At 4800 Rhode Island Avenue, Hyattsville, to June 20

By Kriston Capps It was the day the goldfish died. Late in May 2008, the D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs shuttered a sculpture show in an unused warehouse on 14th Street NW; the building’s owners hadn’t acquired the proper permits to host people inside. During the week and a half or so that the show was open, “Here & Now” showcased exper-

imental, unmonumental sculpture and rough-edged art, including one installation featuring goldfish, many of which didn’t make it out alive.

Here today, gone tomorrow. The warehouse space, once the Church of the Rapture and, before that, an auto showroom, is now Room & Board. Transformer, the nonprofit art incubator that organized the show, still calls Logan Circle home, but today, a guerrilla sculpture exhibition on 14th Street would be unthinkable, absent some sort of luxe millennial branding campaign.

“Here & Now” stands up as a classic in D.C. gallery histo-

ry and a bellwether of change on 14th Street. But that was then.

“Tilling Phase,” a pop-up exhibition curated by local artist Amy Hughes Braden, is right here and right now—or right there, in Hyattsville, anyway. Like the Transformer show, this group exhibition is a survey of casualist artworks, mostly installation, that doubles as a statement on where art in the city is heading.

“Tilling Phase” stars a roster of up-and-coming District artists. For “150805-scrap pile (theaster gates),” Patrick McDonough salvaged renovation materials from his house and stacked them in a sculpture-ish configuration 69 inches high, the same height as Theaster Gates, a Chicago artist and the pope of social-practice art. Becca Kallem, one of the hardest-working creators in D.C., assembled her own mini-show of shapes and squiggles, including “Painting Strands,” a string of old paintings hanging on a thread like pennant flags. Kallem’s careful array of grids (and one Red Cross piece in particular) brings to mind Kazimir Malevich’s legendary PetroBecca Kallem’s work grad installation of Suprematist in “Tilling Phase” paintings in 1915 (“Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings 0.10”).

“Tilling Phase” runs long on new names worth knowing, including Chanel Compton, Joseph Orzal, and Rodrigo Carazas Portal.

Site matters in this site-specific show. “Tilling Phase” occupies two floors and a greenhouse of a former florist shop, a spacious stand-alone structure that wouldn’t fit along any of the D.C. commercial corridors where galleries usually operate.

Art Works Now, a nonprofit devoted to art and education, will soon share the space with a Pizzeria Paradiso. (Change is coming for Hyattsville, too.) Amy Hughes Braden works for Art Works Now, and she’s included in “Tilling Phase” a piece by washingtoncitypaper.com june 5, 2015 37

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Rikki Moses, a teenage artist who is autistic and a participant in the program.

Informal art rules here, and the space itself is so raw that it’s hard to tell where a discrete work ends and general disorder begins. “Fun in the Sun,” an installation by Aaron Hughes, is a piece of beach towel cut to fit a rectangular slot in the wall’s wood paneling. The piece reads like a painting; the jury’s out on whether an electrical outlet dangling from the paneling is an accidental component of the installation, or just that much more ambient fun.

Aaron Hughes, who is Amy Hughes Braden’s brother, has several other works in the show. So does Alex Braden, her husband. She’s also selected her own work for the show, too.

In a more formal setting, this kind of lowercase-n nepotism might raise eyebrows, but the show feels so DIY and communal that it’s hard to get worked up about it. Also, Amy’s family makes good work.

“Nickel Ride (Why Don’t You Do Right)” by Alex Braden is one of the standouts of this show. The piece is a metal drum with a few loose bolts attached to the top. Inside is a speaker playing just the bass from Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly; outside is a speaker playing Peggy Lee standards, including “Why Don’t You Do Right” and “The Nickel Ride.” When K-Dot’s bass kicks in, the barrel

erupts in noise. The savage din is a metaphor for the policedepartment practice that is alleged to have killed Freddie Gray in Baltimore. (Brutal “rough rides” or “nickel rides” happen when police throw bound suspects into vans without seatbelts or any other constraints.) While lord only knows what’s happening inside Braden’s metal drum, the jazz tunes trill away, blissfully unaware that anything is wrong.

“Y2K 2.0,” a video installation by Flower Boyz, is one of the missteps of the show, a barely rewarmed Nam June Paik. The line between minimalist and pointless is a thin one, but an untitled composition by Kunj—featuring twigs, a half-empty water jug, and a candle—is on the wrong side of it. Then there are the handful of stellar departures from the unmonumental theme. A pair of photos by Chandi Kelley (“Gold Leaf ” and “Aureate”) look far too fine to show beside so many mutts from the wrong side of the tracks. Kelley’s photos work in this context— they shine, they excel—because they evoke the myth of the Golden Bough, which is the key to the underworld in The Aeneid. Marissa Long’s “Forever Melon,” another photo print, also conflates death and life, mineral and animal, the sacred and the profane.

If Long and Kelley’s photos convey poetic grace, Aaron Hughes is the goat-lord chuckling in Hades. His barely-there

gestures include “Oscar,” a stand-up circulating fan doing its thing in a small broom closet while Tchaikovsky plays.

Hughes, whose garbage-art sculptures are also currently on view at Nomunomu, a house venue in LeDroit Park, seems to be working with whatever’s at hand and throwing ideas out to see what sticks. Like a Crass record, this work is gritty, pacifist, flippant, anti-capitalist, and naïve. His sculptures badly need editing, but their enthusiasm is contagious.

Casualism in the vein of Hughes’ works has a bad name in the art world. Sharon Butler, a painter and critic who may deserve credit for coining the term, describes casualist painting as “passive-aggressive” and “incomplete” in a “studied” manner. She was writing about paintings that sell for thousands of dollars in top-tier New York galleries; the same can’t be said for unmonumental works by young D.C. artists. I wonder if they turn to casualist strategies less by choice and more by circumstance.

Or maybe it’s imitation. Whatever the reason, it’s out there, and Amy Hughes Braden has tapped a diverse selection of young artists to make the case that it’s relevant, even urgent, in D.C. It’s mostly convincing. There’s another case that “Tilling Phase” makes with conviction: Today’s most interesting work is happening outside city limits.

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One of the first organizations of its kind, the Academy of Washington, a social group and support network for drag performers, was founded in D.C. in 1961. And the city’s drag scene is as diverse as it is old—partygoers can expect opulent, glamorous renditions of Tina Turner classics at the Howard Theatre one night and a raunchy, dark free-for-all at the Black Cat’s Backstage the next. Here’s a taste of the queens and kings that make up today’s —Morgan Baskin D.C. drag monarchy.

THE DIVA QUEEN

Who: Shi-Queeta Lee Wear: Pearls, bedazzled dresses Music: Diana Ross, Mary J. Blige, Tina Turner Herstory: The first drag performer to host a show at Howard Theatre since the ’60s, Shi-Queeta Lee got into pageantry 18 years ago through a gay softball league. “Everyone on the team had done it before,” Lee says. “I won the contest and said to myself, ‘You can make this much money by putting on pumps and a dress for less than three minutes? Hell yeah, I can do this.’”

THE GOOFY KING

Who: Sebastian Katz What: Katz describes his performance as a “wacky, tacky, elbowdancing-banana-man party.”

Wear: “I don’t feel like Sebastian until I hear [my] fanny pack click.”

History: Katz says he grew up pretending to be Pee-wee Herman and lip-syncing to Weird Al songs. “It should have been a sign then,” he says. He started to dress up for Rocky Horror Picture Show screenings, but his real interest in drag was sparked when fellow D.C. drag king Rick Shaw brought him to a DC Kings show at Apex in 2011.

The next year, Katz joined the Kings, and he and Shaw perform songs like “Gangnam Style” as a wacky drag-bro duo.

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THE GOTH QUEEN

Who: Donna Slash Wear: “My events have no dress code, no preferred body type, and no rules except that people should not be assholes to one another,” Slash says. She describes her look as “sloppy drunk sleaze metal groupie” or “’80s porn star in a heavy metal video.”

Music: Hole, Marilyn Manson, Veruca Salt, Republica Herstory: Disappointed by the lack of diversity in gay nightlife, Slash started DJing and hosting GAY/BASH dance parties at the Black Cat, where she used to hang out as a teenager. “I would rather listen to rock ’n’ roll while throwing back whiskey and beer, and the gay clubs don’t cater to those apparently niche interests,” says Slash, who’s inspired by late drag queen Divine and Rocky Horror’s Dr. FrankN-Furter. “I was a goth drama kid who just wanted to wear wigs and play with makeup. And get attention, of course.”

THE GLAM QUEEN

Who: Heidi Glüm What: Glüm calls her look “glamorous, expensive, old Hollywood.”

Wear: “If there’s anything I can’t perform without, it’s a great corset,” Glüm says. “I also would cease to exist without a very high pair of Louboutins on my feet.”

Herstory: Glüm got hooked on the drag scene after watching friend Veruca la’Piranha perform at “a dingy bar in Brooklyn.” At the time, Glüm was working in clubs, hosting events for legendary party people Susanne Bartsch and Kenny Kenny. “I wanted to take things to the next level,” she says. “I was drawn to the power of the stage.”

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for these sardonic, dystopian visions of the graves we’re digging for ourselves. Washington Stage Guild has sweated hard in recent years to try to blow the dust off of George Bernard Shaw’s predictions of a technologically wondrous, politically realigned future, written in the 1920s. But those plays haven’t aged nearly as well as Fritz Lang’s landmark futuristic film Metropolis from the same era.

It’s no surprise that Zombie, which O’Hara started working on in 2012, has a more con-

By Chris Klimek In Zombie: The American , a gnarly, stained-toothed takedown of American exceptionalism, the 2064 presidential election is locked in an undead heat.

It’s been a rough half-century for the Land of the Free. Climate change, referred to more biblically here as The Flood, has spurred a “great migration from the east to the middle.” Our former colonial master, Britain, came to our rescue; in a weird show of gratitude, we have Anglicized our political titles and customs. Thus our first openly gay commander-in-chief is addressed as “Lord President” Valentine; he wears tight gold trousers but dons the crown only for formal occasions.

The imminent threat of a second Civil War and a brewing coup d’état has forced this embattled LPOTUS to welcome armed peacekeepers from an ascendant and united Africa, which turns out to like pushing around weaker nations as much as his own once did.

“Raise the terror alert to Pink Polka Dot,” he commands gravely. Valentine’s hawkish Lady Secretary of State—Sarah Marshall, hunched over to recall Tricky Dick Nixon—urges him to go further still and unleash the unthinkable: The Zombie Option.

In playwright Robert O’Hara’s frenzied scenario, zombies in the basement stand in not-so-subtly for skeletons in the national closet—the closet of a country stolen from one people and built up via the slave labor of another. Misha Kachman’s Oval Office set, complete with a throne outfitted with 10 drawers, rises like the silver lid of a dinner tray to show us the White House bowels.

There, a trio of “zekes,” their chewed flesh glistening (there’s no credit in the program for the excellent makeup effects, strangely), snarl and writhe while continuing, hilariously, to observe parliamentary procedure. Judging from their clothes (by Ivania Stack, who designed all the costumes), they might have been down there since the White House was rebuilt after the 1814 fire.

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Zombie gnashes its way through O’Hara’s frenzied, hilarious script. temporary, um, bite. Lines like “You are no longer my ride-or-die gentleman!” probably won’t mean anything to audiences in 90 years either, but they sure do land now. When Marshall refers to Valentine and his Asian-American First Gentleman (James Seol) as “the perfect Benetton ad,” the reference feels a little dated, but maybe it’ll orbit back into relevance again in 49 years. Language is funny that way.

O’Hara is a resident playwright at Woolly, which premiered his plays Antebellum and Bootycandy in 2009 and 2011, respectively. The latter featured Zombie cast members Sean Meehan, who brings a nervy conviction to the role of Valentine, and Jessica Frances Dukes, who is better as an undead who hisses “We’re not vegetarians!” when offered a clone to snack on than she is in a vague second role as a scheming Chief Justice. In the latter part, she’s in cahoots with Tim Getman, also double-cast as a presidential candidate governor and the “Zombie Speaker of Zombies.” The conspiracy subplot involving their human characters is the play’s most undernourished aspect. It also demands that they and Thomas Keegan, who’s very good as a rebellious military commander, remove and reapply their

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tile is all but unrecognizable from his part as a bad-boy author in Signature Theatre’s terrific Sex with Strangers last fall. That drama managed a rare perfect landing, but Zombie just goes bigger, louder, and more explicit in its indictment of grotesque jingoism when it finally runs out of narrative steam. But hey: When a play is this invested in characters who want to eat your braaaaaaaains, you can only judge it so harshly for bashing you over the head.

Head-bashing is the opposite of what 30-year-old British playwright Lucy Kirkwood’s incisive 2012 comedy NSFW does.

Like O’Hara, she’s a satirist, but where he swings a chainsaw, she reaches for her scalpel.

NSFW isn’t about sexism in the workplace, but rather about workplaces in an industry that knowingly, deliberately propagates sexism, while claiming it’s simply giving its customers what they demand. The industry is magazine publishing, specifically the subset of publications that cater separately to women and men: Maxim, and its raunchier (and recently cancelled) British counterparts Loaded and Nuts, but also Cosmopolitan and Shape. Kirkwood poses the provocative

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elaborate gore makeup two or three times per show. They deserve hazard pay.

More rewarding is Woolly regular Dawn Ursula’s imperious turn as the United Africa’s Secretary General, a leader who can inflect the word “motherfucker” more ways than Samuel L. Jackson, and who isn’t going to stand by when an African peacekeeper gets stoned to death in the once-again-wild American West.

She offers up a new-but-in-fact-quite-old definition of “WMD” 99 years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act: White Men Did it. Meanwhile, Seol’s First Gentleman creates a potential security breach by misbehaving with a clone White House butler. (The clones in O’Hara’s world sometimes seem to possess free will and other times don’t. They’re like humans in that way.)

In the role of that clone butler, Luigi Sot-

question of which set of reductively gendered publications treats women worse. And because she’s a clever writer, she asks it without putting it in the mouth of one of her characters. (The men in her scenario outnumber the women four to two, but whaddayagonnado?)

Besides bringing a laserlike acuity to its setting and subject, NSFW is also the most formally daring play in D.C. (Bethesda, technically) since Anne Washburn’s mindbending Mr. Burns premiered at Woolly Mammoth three summers ago. Out of respect for that, I’ll keep my summation of it coy.

Most of NSFW is set in the London offices of Doghouse magazine, whose smart-butsmarmy editor, Aidan (a never-better James Whalen), encourages ambition among his overqualified staff by urging them—with seeming guilelessness—to “live in the space between the tits.”

Doghouse is in a bind: It turns out the amateur topless model who “won” its “Local Lovely” contest is underage. (Tony Cisek’s sleek set includes a wall of framed Doghouse covers on top of a floor-to-ceiling Union Jack, so if pneumatic breasts offend thy gaze, beware.) Aidan invites the girl’s aggrieved father (Todd Scofield, a genius at playing unsophisticated men) to come to London—first class, naturally, and on the magazine’s tab— so he can try to dissuade the man from taking Doghouse to court.

Laura C. Harris—late of Forum Theatre’s sublime Passion Play—does strong, closely observed work as the only female Doghouse staffer we meet, while remaining largely silent throughout the tense meeting. Even the question of whether she is in the room voluntarily is interesting, and unanswered.

She confides in Aidan that, while she might prefer to work elsewhere, she can’t afford to do another unpaid internship. So she lies to her women’s group about where her paychecks come from and goes to the bank grateful to have them. And yet Kirkwood hasn’t missed that while these publications are hostile to women en masse, when it comes to their own employees, they dole out the exploitation rather more equitably. Danny Gavigan and Brandon McCoy are both very funny as two middle-rung Doghouse staffers—vastly different in their behavior with respect to women—who animate this idea in believable ways. And Deborah Hazlett has an appealingly complicated performance, though to disclose the nature of her role would be telling.

The cast put on British accents from various localities—actors love accents—though the play could be set in New York with alterations only to the slang. (The program includes a glossary.) Studio Theatre will import Kirkwood’s Chimerica, the 2014 Laurence Olivier Award winner for Best New Play, later this year. That one embraces geopolitics.

If Kirkwood nails that like she’s nailed publishing and sexual politics, it’ll be the hottest CP ticket in town.

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No regular patron of the arts wants to be told they Don’t Get It. That’s a confession best left to the transgressor. So I’m fine freely admitting that, despite entering with a mind ready to conquer new planes of reality, I was flummoxed and a little angered by Jarry Inside Out, Spooky Action’s new biography of early 19th-century French surrealist Alfred Jarry. The playwright, Spooky Action artistic director Richard Henrich, clearly harbors a deep, enduring affection for his subject, hav-

none. That’s the character in a nutshell. As played by Ryan Sellers, the artist comes off as an insufferable ass who thinks in riddles, talks to an owl and his own reflection, and amasses just enough followers and lovers to keep himself floating along until his death at 34. Given how Jarry soon insists everyone start calling him “Ubu,” it’s a wonder there weren’t more people after his head sooner.

Death is where Henrich’s play opens: Drawing on Jarry’s theory that the brain can continue working after the body has ceased, the show allows its hero to wander through his formative life experiences as though stumbling through Wonderland. (A giant loopy set adorned with Jarry’s designs is the impressive work of Giorgos Tsappas.) Jarry commands an army inside his head as he braves the un-

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Don’t chalk up my anger at the finished product to an insufficient understanding of Jarry.

It’s because I don’t like to be told, in dozens of different ways by eight actors, some puppets, and a fake owl, why I Don’t Get Him. This is not to say I didn’t appreciate the play on several levels (see? I can get deep!).

Lord knows the drama world needs more experimental biographies over cradle-to-grave snoozefests, particularly when the subject demands it, and Jarry certainly does. An early pioneer of absurdist theater and literature, Jarry liked referring to himself in the plural, used nonsensical labels for everything else, and excelled at mocking the rigid structures of polite society. In his most famous work, the play Ubu Roi, a crass, pudgy dingdong of a character screams obscenities at the audience.

Ubu provoked a riot in Paris, as depicted in an early scene in Jarry. But the truly telling moment comes before that, when a smirking Jarry deliberately mispronounces “ladies and gentlemen,” pauses for a laugh, and receives

certain lands of his imagination and his past, which blend together in ways both intriguing (he watches his own reflection seduce one of his lovers) and Capital-S Symbolic (puppets of Genghis Khan and Marco Polo quest for the Fountain of Youth). Very little of the dialogue makes sense. A strong supporting cast plays multiple roles, shepherded on and off the stage in lightning fashion so that director Catherine Tripp can jump to the next wild Jarryvision. A toothpick seems significant.

Not only does the play deserve a befuddled reaction, but Jarry himself surely wouldn’t have accepted any other. During the climax, as a manifestation of the artist’s subconscious played by Ian LeValley tossed seminal volumes of philosophy and Shakespeare into a latrine and then rubbed his body in fake poop, the woman next to me made a sound of disgust. What higher praise could there be for Ubu? Come and Get It while the shit —Andrew Lapin still stinks.

1810 16th St. NW. $25–$35. (202) 248-0301. spookyaction.org.

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FilmShort SubjectS Healed witH a Kiss

Aloft doesn’t improve much on college-level psychobabble.

Aloft Directed by Claudia Llosa Watching Aloft is like being lectured by a boorish and melodramatic professor. It condescends to the audience, withholds and then reveals vital information to hide its intellectual emptiness, and displays a crippling contempt for humanity that will break you if you stay with it long enough. Riddled with trite symbolism and a vague indie aesthetic, the film’s more compelling moments are only the result of cheap narrative tricks. It isn’t shy about letting you know how little it thinks of you.

In the first English-language film from Peruvian director Claudia Llosa, Jennifer Connelly plays Nana, a single mother to two boys, one of whom is suffering from an unnamed lifethreatening disease. After taking him to visit a mysterious healer known only as The Architect, Nana discovers that she has healing powers and begins to hone her craft. Llosa makes frequent cuts between this past and the present, in which Jannia (Mélanie Laurent), a journalist with shadowy motives, asks Nana’s grown son Ivan (Cillian Murphy) for help in tracking down his estranged mother, who lives with her followers somewhere near the Arctic Circle.

To the small degree that Aloft remains tolerable, it is due to the performances of the terrific cast. Connelly and, in particular, Murphy are far better than the story they serve.

While Hollywood never quite figured out what to do with Connelly, especially as she has aged out of her ingénue roles, her piercing emerald eyes and dreamy delivery make her a snug fit for the role of a working-mother-turned mystic. As her grown son, Murphy matches her quiet intensity for much of the film, but when he explodes in the film’s emotional climax, it’s captivating.

Most viewers will have lost interest by then. The film works best as a visual meditation on nature and human connection (the cinematography by Nicolas Bolduc is mesmerizing), but Llosa insists on making Aloft a mystery, and the narrative machinations force the film’s dream-like momentum to a grinding halt before it gets going. Here’s the problem: Llosa juxtaposes the two timelines to hint at a childhood trauma that caused the rift between mother and son, but as soon as that trauma is revealed, the film is over. We spend two hours watching vaguely drawn, aimless characters reaching for a conclusion whose meaning we can’t possibly grasp until we’re leaving the theater.

This cheap narrative structure isn’t just boring—it’s puerile. Llosa reveals a frustratingly narrow view of humanity and reduces its characters to mere props. Is a person’s entire inner life the result of a single traumatic event? Aloft

One bewildering, unfunny love triangle does not a romantic comedy make. seems to think so. This reductive psychobabble would not be out of place in a Psych 101 class (or perhaps Ordinary People), but a film for adults has to do better: Unlike a college student listening to an awful lecture, you can always walk out of a movie, and Aloft will tempt —Noah Gittell you to do just that.

Aloft opens June 5 at E Street Cinema.

Bungle gym Results Directed by Andrew Bujalski The last line of Results is a defensive “I’m not a douchebag.” This is hardly even a hint of a spoiler, though—in this Andrew Bujalski joint, equal-opportunity douchebaggery abounds.

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But Bujalski seems to revel in the hard-tolike. Some film writers and fans have called his movies “natural” or “realistic”; indeed, Bujalski’s the one who casually coined the term “mumblecore” a decade ago to describe his style and the similar works of young filmmakers like the Duplass brothers. If mumblecore, of which Results is a more polished and starstudded example, reflects reality to those who embrace it, let’s just say they might want to get new friends.

Results shares little in common with Bujalski’s earlier films, like 2002’s Funny Ha Ha, whose script was dominated by “like”s, “uh”s, and ennui. (Actually, ennui floods this one, too.) But the film’s most obvious commonality to Bujalski’s repertoire is its collection of dicks, perhaps most succinctly summed in a stranger’s remark after she sees Austin-based personal trainers Kat (Cobie Smulders) and Trevor (Guy Pearce, allowed to be Austra-

lian for once) bickering: “You really do sound married.” That’s not meant as a compliment.

From the beginning, we know that Kat is a caustic woman, the kind of trainer who spies a client with a cupcake and outruns that client’s SUV so she can not only foodshame her in front of her child, but add that she’s behind on her payments. When Kat arrives at the gym, more fury: Trevor has assigned an odd, schlumpy walk-in, Danny (Kevin Corrigan), to another trainer. Kat blows up. Trevor fights back—a bit more maturely—but even though he’s the gym’s founder, it’s apparent that he’s pushed around by his employee.

Danny is aimless in both his fitness goals and his life, telling Trevor he wants to be able to “take a punch” and later wandering around a palatial, museum-cold house alone. He’s freshly divorced and new money, apparently rich enough to toss around Benjamins whenever he wants company or someone to make his TV setup work. Kat, naturally, persuades Trevor to let her be Danny’s trainer. Danny, naturally, falls for Kat. Maybe that’s because one of the first exercises they work on is squats. Kat shows him how to “lead with his butt” and asks questions like “Can you see my form? How everything’s tight?” Another day, they get a little loose together, but she freaks and belittles Danny when he makes a big romantic gesture. “How fucking stupid are you?” she screams before shoving him. He might ask his smartass object of affection the same.

There’s a lot of stupidity in Results. Kat’s lead-him-on thing takes the proverbial cupcake, but Trevor and Danny have their own forehead-smacking moments. (One of the very, very few funny scenes involves the “O” face of a real-estate agent Trevor briefly tangos with.) You might also question the point of a montage showing Danny and Trevor separately working out, which reveals nothing besides Pearce’s exceptional strength.

The script also breezes over the details that bring about important plot turns—so if you’re puzzled afterward, particularly about Trevor’s eventual partners in his business expansion, no, you didn’t miss anything.

Primarily, Results is about lonely, lonely people. Danny, Trevor, and Kat are all shown wallowing in melancholy in their downtime, especially Kat, who mopes while overhearing her roommate having sex in one scene, and soon shuffles out of frame. Curiously, the film ends up telling the story of a love triangle, though why both dudes would be attracted to a woman whose pores ooze more anger than sweat is an unanswered mystery. After a film spends 105 minutes trafficking in awkwardness, rage, arbitrary developments, and misguided behavior, you can’t just tack a fun song at the end and call it a romantic comedy.

—Tricia Olszewski Results opens June 5 at E Street Cinema.

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CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

Rock

WHERE I BELONG: FINDING MYSELF UNDER A BIG TOP

Friday 9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Calexico, Gaby Moreno. 9:30 p.m. $25. 930.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Jesse Marchant. 7 p.m. $10. dcnine.com.

Jazz merriweaTHer poST pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Capital Jazz Fest. 7:30 p.m. $52.50–$205. merriweathermusic.com.

TwinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. The Brazil Project. 9 p.m. & 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

During Capital Pride, you’ll see fit and flexible people baring all kinds of skin, whether you’re at a dance party or on the parade route. And this year, a team of aerialists from Sweet Spot Aerial Productions celebrates Pride with an emotional coming-out story that takes place in midair. In Where I Belong: Finding Myself Under a Big Top, a man comes to in the afterlife surrounded by the sinners he once thought should go straight to hell. But as he explores his new space, where circus performers freely roam, he begins to question those previous thoughts and expectations about gender, hatred, and love.

Soon enough, he ends up in a circus, performing with the people he’d previously slandered as he begins to explore the ins and outs of queer identity. That’s hard enough to do with two feet on the ground. The performance runs June 5 to June 6 at Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE. $29.99. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org. —Caroline Jones

Fillmore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Kidz Bop Kids. 7 p.m. $20. fillmoresilverspring.com.

HowarD THeaTre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

The Smithereens. 8 p.m. $25. thehowardtheatre.com. ioTa Club & CaFé 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington.

(703) 522-8340. The Beanstalk Library, Lost Gloves, Spirit Plots. 9 p.m. $12. iotaclubandcafe.com. roCk & roll HoTel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-ROCK. Refused. 9 p.m. $35. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

TropiCalia 2001 14th St. NW. (202) 629-4535.

Bachaco, Empresarios. 7 p.m. $10. tropicaliadc.com. u STreeT muSiC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. JEFF the Brotherhood. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

Funk & R&B amp by STraTHmore 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Raul Midon. 8 p.m. $30–$35. ampbystrathmore.com. beTHeSDa blueS anD Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Mary Wilson. 8 p.m. $40. bethesdabluesjazz.com. blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Irma Thomas. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $60. bluesalley.com.

ElEctRonic u STreeT muSiC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Victor Calderone, Pentamon. 10:30 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

WoRld birCHmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Ottmar Liebert, Luna Negra. 7:30 p.m. $35. birchmere.com.

caBaREt mexiCan CulTural inSTiTuTe 2829 16th St. NW. (202) 728-1628. Latino Music Fever. 8 p.m. $16–$35. instituteofmexicodc.org.

saturday Rock

blaCk CaT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Wire, Julian Lynch. 9 p.m. $20. blackcatdc.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. CRUISR, Suburban Living. 8 p.m. $10. dcnine.com. eCHoSTage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Tame Impala, Kuroma. 5:30 p.m. $48.60. echostage.com.

THe HamilTon 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Start Making Sense. 8:30 p.m. $18–$23. thehamiltondc.com. ioTa Club & CaFé 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington.

(703) 522-8340. Lindsay Buckingham Palace. 9 p.m. $10. iotaclubandcafe.com. warner THeaTre 513 13th St. NW. (202) 783-4000.

Dawes. 8 p.m. $21.50–$34. warnertheatre.com.

Funk & R&B amp by STraTHmore 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Raul Midon. 8 p.m. $30–$35. ampbystrathmore.com.

THIS J U N E AT BLUES ALLEY! CELEBRATING 50 YEARS IN OUR NATION’S CAPITAL June 11-14 June 25-28

Roberta Gambarini

Joyce Moreno

(Jazz Vocals)

June 5-7

Irma Thomas

“Soul Queen of New Orleans”

(Classic R&B)

BLUES ALLEY

(Brazilian Guitarist/Vocalist)

June 16-21

Terence Blanchard E-Collective (Trumpet)

July 2-3

Eric Felten Jazz Orchestra “The Big Band Sound of WWII”

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arTiSpHere 1101 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 8751100. Stooges Brass Band, Black Masala, DJ Crown Vic. 8 p.m. $15. artisphere.com. blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Irma Thomas. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $60. bluesalley.com.

ElEctRonic pyramiD aTlanTiC arT CenTer 8230 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring. (301) 608-9101. Queering Sound.

7:30 p.m. $10. pyramidatlanticartcenter.org. u STreeT muSiC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Ryan Hemsworth, Tommy Kruise. 10 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

Jazz merriweaTHer poST pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Capital Jazz Fest. 12 p.m. $52.50–$205. merriweathermusic.com.

sunday Rock

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Vaccines, Little May. 7 p.m. $30. 930.com. blaCk CaT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490.

Algiers. 7:30 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com.

Funk & R&B blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Irma Thomas. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $60. bluesalley.com. wolF Trap Filene CenTer 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Allen Toussaint, Rebirth Brass Band, Pine Leaf Boys. 2 p.m. $30. wolftrap.org.

TwinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. The Brazil Project. 9 p.m. & 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

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merriweaTHer poST pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Capital Jazz Fest. 12 p.m. $52.50–$205. merriweathermusic.com.

JiFFy lube live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Lady Antebellum, Sam Hunt, Hunter Hayes, Cam, Logan Mize, Mo Pitney, Sam Grow. 4 p.m. $30.75–$60.50. livenation.com.

Folk birCHmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. The Seldom Scene, Shannon Whitworth & Barrett Smith. 7:30 p.m. $25. birchmere.com.

zoo bar 3000 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 2324225. Mike Flaherty’s Dixieland Direct Jazz Band. 7:30 p.m. Free. zoobardc.com.

Hip-Hop HowarD THeaTre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Geto Boys. 8 p.m. $25. thehowardtheatre.com.

CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

“BOAT BURNING: MUSIC FOR 70 GUITARS”

Inspired by the avant-garde guitar orchestras of Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca, guitarist and composer Andras Fekete decided in 2011 to present a massive, annual guitar ensemble benefit as a way for local musicians to work together toward a positive goal. His second such event in D.C. is called “Boat Burning: Music for 70 Guitars.” Fekete now leads a seven-piece math-rock act called Boat Burning and it, along with dozens of local musicians and student performers from School Without Walls, will raise funds for music programs at the School Without Walls campuses in Northwest and Randle Highlands Elementary School in Southeast. Unlike most concerts, only a few musicians will be onstage—the majority of the guitarists will surround the audience on each wall. Participants, mostly rock and experimental artists, will include Luke Stewart from Laughing Man, plus members of the Caribbean, Harness Flux, Jack on Fire, Mittenfields, Tereu Tereu, Plums, and Tone. Chatham said he was inspired to create a multi-guitar symphony after hearing the Ramones; Fekete says his ensemble’s wave of sound will be similarly noisy and fun. Eschew earplugs at your own risk. The performance begins at 8 p.m. at the School Without Walls at Francis-Ste—Steve Kiviat vens, 2425 N St. NW. $10. (202) 724-4841. swwfs.org.

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feat. ED HELMS, IAN RIGGS, JACOB TILOVE

OTTMAR LIEBERT & Luna Negra 6 THE SELDOM SCENE 5

w/SHANNON WHITWORTH & BARRETT SMITH

NILS LOFGREN (Acoustic) 10 THEMANHATTANTRANSFER 12 BILL KIRCHEN & TOO MUCH FUN and THE NIGHTHAWKS with BILLY PRICE C 13 BILLY JOE SHAVER M M 14 STEPHANE WREMBEL’S DJANGO-A-GO-GO REED 15 ELIZABETH COOK FOEHL 8&9

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MARK O’CONNOR ‘American Classics’

“Where the Beautiful People go to get

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GRAHAM PARKER & THE RUMOUR GM 20 JEFFMAJORS Pete 21 MADELEINE PEYROUXTRIO Molinari An Evening 23 MARC COHN with Love 24 TREVOR HALL Mike Karen 25 MASON JENNINGS Jonas 26 MAYSA 27 PIECES OF A DREAM Sam 28 BRANDY CLARK Grow 29 THERIPPINGTONS feat. RUSSFREEMAN Grayson 30 LOS LONELY BOYS Capps Gregg July 1 AMERICA Cagno Angela 3 BILAL Johnson 6 STEPHEN STILLS ‘The Bluegrass 9 ROBERT EARL KEEN Sessions’ 10 JASON D. WILLIAMS The & DALE WATSON Lonestars 19

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Patrick Alban & Noche Latina Latin & World Beats

Fri: Johnny Rawls Mississippi Blues

Madam’s House Party On The Second Floor-Featuring DJ India 10:00pm

Sat: Ursula Ricks Project Deep Throated Blues From Baltimore

Saturday Opening Act: Rico Amero Soulful Blues 7:00pm - 9:00pm Madam’s House Party On The Second Floor-Featuring DJ India 10:00pm

Sun: Stacy Brooks Down Home Blues

Mon: One Nite Stand Reggae, Funk & R&B Tue: TheR&B Johnny Artis Band & Rock & Roll Wed: The Human Country Jukebox Band featuring JACK GREGORI from the

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CITY LIGHTS: SUNDAY

“OUR VOICES” The Our City Festival was created in 2008 as the Our City Film Festival, a showcase of movies centered around D.C. history and culture. This year, the weekend-long event has expanded with literary events and a variety of local music performances by Ethiopian bands, house-music makers, and go-go groups. The “Our Voices” event, curated by the Free Minds Book Club and Chris Ousley of the band Bumper Jacksons, features formerly incarcerated teen poets, their poet mentor Bomani Armah, and a band led by drummer Kenny “Kwick” Gross of the Chuck Brown Band, along with bassist Daniel Bennett and keyboardist Marcus Young. Armah has worked with the poets on their phrasing and delivery, while Gross has created raw, bounce beat go-go rhythms that the participants determined would work best as an accompaniment. Expect personal verses about childhood in D.C., life as young people in adult prisons, plus tales of violence, addiction, poverty and, perhaps, dreams of a better tomorrow. The performance begins at 3 p.m. at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. Free, registration required. (202) —Steve Kiviat 681-1151. ourcityfilmfestival.com.

Monday Rock

birCHmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Nils Lofgren. 7:30 p.m. $49.50. birchmere.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. White Lung, Obliterations, Big Mouth. 8:30 p.m. $12. dcnine.com. roCk & roll HoTel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-ROCK. Nothing, Merchandise, Cloakroom. 8 p.m. $15–$17. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

ElEctRonic 9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. SBTRKT. 7 p.m. $35. 930.com.

ComeT ping pong 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. Wildhoney, The Spook School, Mercury Girls, Expert Alterations. 9 p.m. $12. cometpingpong.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. DMA’s. 9 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

HowarD THeaTre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Mago de Oz. 8 p.m. $40. thehowardtheatre.com. merriweaTHer poST pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Florence and the Machine, Empress Of. 8 p.m. $45–$65. merriweathermusic.com. roCk & roll HoTel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-ROCK. Mono. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

Jazz

Wednesday

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Albare. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com.

Rock

tuesday Rock

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Paul Weller.

7 p.m. $40. 930.com. birCHmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Nils Lofgren. 7:30 p.m. $49.50. birchmere.com. blaCk CaT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Ed Schrader’s Music Beat. 7:30 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com.

blaCk CaT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. UkeHunt. 7:30 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com. merriweaTHer poST pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Mumford and Sons, The Maccabees. 7 p.m. $55. merriweathermusic.com.

Funk & R&B verizon CenTer 601 F St. NW. (202) 628-3200. New Kids On the Block, TLC, Nelly. 7 p.m. $29.50–$105. verizoncenter.com.

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ElEctRonic eCHoSTage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Flume. 8 p.m. $30. echostage.com.

Jazz

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JUN 6

RIGHT ROUND

JUN 7

ALGIERS

JUN 9 JUN 10

80S ALT POP DANCE PARTY

ED SCHRADER’S MUSIC BEAT

UKE-HUNT(SPIKE SLAWSON OF ME FIRST & THE GIMME GIMMES)

JUN 11 UNTIL THE RIBBON BREAKS JUN 12

BABE RAINBOW

JUN 16

THE HELIO SEQUENCE

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Rock

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Coliseum. 8:30 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com.

birCHmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. The Manhattan Transfer. 7:30 p.m. $59.50. birchmere.com.

eCHoSTage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Belle & Sebastian. 7 p.m. $53.70. echostage.com.

boHemian CavernS 2001 11th St. NW. (202) 2990800. Braxton Cook Meets Butcher Brown. 7:30 p.m. & 9:30 p.m. $20–$25. bohemiancaverns.com.

JiFFy lube live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Lana Del Rey, Grimes. 7:30 p.m. $25–$79.50. livenation.com.

THe HamilTon 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

John Scofield Uberjam Band. 7:30 p.m. $28–$38. thehamiltondc.com. manSion aT STraTHmore 10701 Rockville Pike, Rockville. (301) 581-5100. Rochelle Rice. 7:30 p.m. $17. strathmore.org. mr. Henry’S 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Capitol Hill Jazz Jam with Herb Scott. 8 p.m.

Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

TwinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Jeff Weintraub. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

WoRld Fillmore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Franco de Vita. 8 p.m. $55. fillmoresilverspring.com. roCk & roll HoTel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-ROCK. The Very Best. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

roCk & roll HoTel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-ROCK. Coliseum, Child Bite. 8 p.m. $10–$12. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

ElEctRonic 9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. A-Trak, Araabmuzik, Ape Drums. 8 p.m. $25. 930.com. Atrak, AraabMuzik, Ape Drums. 8 p.m. $25. 930.com. u STreeT muSiC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Lemaitre. 8 p.m. $12. ustreetmusichall.com.

Jazz aTlaS perForming arTS CenTer 1333 H St. NE. (202) 399-7993. Brad Linde’s Big Ol’ Ensemble. 8 p.m. $20–$28. atlasarts.org. blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Roberta Gambarini, The Cyrus Chestnut Trio. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com. boHemian CavernS 2001 11th St. NW. (202) 2990800. Gretchen Parlato, Lionel Loueke. 7:30 p.m. & 9:30 p.m. $28–$33. bohemiancaverns.com.

BOOTY REX

JUN 13

JUN 21

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Now that summer is finally here, there is a temptation to transition to seasonally appropriate music. Maybe you prefer the Beach Boys or surf pop, or maybe you’re looking for a tune that’ll define the period of the year when pool parties, barbecues, and lazy beach days are the big draws. For a subset of music fans, the real advantage of the summer is comfortable, loose-fitting clothing that we can wear to small, crowded rock shows, which always get too hot, anyway. No matter the time of year, Vancouver’s White Lung raises the temperature wherever the band plays. Vocalist Mish Way sneers her way through relentless punk songs, her voice full of fury, while guitarist Kenneth William shreds through one melodic riff after another. Ten years ago, Canada was known for “pop collectives” that had more members than songs. Emerging bands like Toronto’s Metz and White Lung help the nation shed indie’s broad appeal and throttle the inner punk in all of us. White Lung performs with Obliterations and Big Mouth at 8:30 p.m. at DC9, 1940 9th St. NW. $12. (202) —Alan Zilberman 483-5000. dcnine.com.

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(a love STory) Three couples, determined to love each other as much as they can, face obstacles and challenge the assumptions about love presented in movies and music, in this new work by Kelly Lusk.

Source Theatre. 1835 14th St. NW. To June 28. $20.

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THe blooD QuilT Katori Hall, author of The Mountaintop, presents the world premiere of this story about four sisters who come together to create a quilt in honor of their deceased mother. When the talk turns to inheritance, they must decide whether to strengthen their family bonds or pull away from each other once and for all. Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To June 7. $45-$110. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org. blue STraggler This dark drama revolves around an astrophysicist and chocolatier who separate amidst great tragedy. Can the scientist find the right formula to bring the lovers back together or are they destined to stay apart forever? Rebecca Bossen’s play explores the limits humans will go to for love and whether love can tear the universe apart. Source Theatre. 1835 14th St. NW. To June 28. $20. (202) 204-7800. sourcedc.org.

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CabareT Wesley Taylor stars as the Emcee in this classic musical set at a Berlin nightclub during the Nazis rise to power. An American journalist and a nightclub singer begin a tumultuous affair but the political changes forces an end to their carefree way of life. Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To June 28. $29-$95. (703) 820-9771. signature-theatre.org.

THe gooD CounSelor Alex Levy directs this production of Kathryn Levy’s new play about an attorney who defends a mother accused of killing her three-week old child and is forced to reconcile his own relationship with her in the process. 1st Stage. 1524 Spring Hill Road, McLean. To June 21. $18-$25. (703) 854-1856.

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Jarry inSiDe ouT The life of French author Alfred Jarry, whose work inspired the Surrealist artists and the Theater of the Absurd movement, is chronicled in this biographic play written by Richard Henrich.

Spooky Action Theater. 1810 16th St. NW. To June 21. $10-$35. (301) 920-1414. spookyaction.org.

JumperS For goalpoSTS An amateur pub soccer team tries to succeed even though the players and their town have seen better days in the U.S. premiere of this play by Tom Wells. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To June 21. $20-$78. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org. laS polaCaS: THe JewiSH girlS oF buenoS aireS This somber new musical tells the story of thousands Polish-Jewish women who were lured into prostitution by a slave trading organization in early 1900s Argentina from the perspective of Rachela, a young woman whose dreams disappear under these horrific circumstances. GALA Hispanic Theatre. 3333 14th St. NW. To June 28. $20-$50. (202) 234-7174. galatheatre.org.

THe leTTerS Travel back in time to Stalin’s Soviet Union in this tense play about the censorship of artists in an authoritarian state. John Vreeke directs John W. Lowell’s script. MetroStage. 1201 N. Royal St., Alexandria. To June 7. $50-$55. (703) 548-9044. metrostage.org.

THe maDwoman oF CHailloT WSC Avant Bard presents a new translation of Jean Giraudoux’s play about four women who come together with a group of street friends to overthrow radical capitalists.

Gunston Arts Center, Theatre Two. 2700 South Lang St., Arlington. To June 28. $10-$35. (703) 998-4555. americancentury.org. mary-kaTe olSen iS in love The Olsen Twins might be 27-year-old Grace’s only friends and they just might save her life in this funny play about sad people from Mallery Avidon. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To June 21. $20-$35. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org. newSieS Newspaper delivery boys stand up to a powerful publisher in this lively, dance-filled musical.

National Theatre. 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. To June 21. $48-$108. (202) 628-6161. nationaltheatre.org. nSFw Explore the world of glossy magazines and discover how women are exploited by both men’s and women’s lifestyle publications in Lucy Kirkwood’s biting comedy. Round House Theatre Bethesda. 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. To June 21. $10-$50.

(240) 644-1100. roundhousetheatre.org. oCCupieD TerriTorieS Mollye Maxner’s play draws inspiration from Euripides’ The Trojan Women and examines how the history of war impacts our bodies, spirits, and relationships with each other. Anacostia Playhouse. 2020 Shannon Place SE. To July 5. $20-$35.

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CITY LIGHTS: TUESDAY

“REP YA HOOD: THE UNTOLD STORIES OF D.C.’S NEIGHBORHOODS” There’s a difference between being supremely in love with your D.C. neighborhood and just being a good neighbor. In the case of one crop of high schoolers, true neighborhood know-how can lead to an onstage gig at the Kennedy Center. “Rep Ya Hood” is a battle of the words that gets creative hopefuls to spit out rhymes for a chance to earn college scholarships. Poets and rappers from Tenleytown to Trinidad tell the stories of where they come from, who they are, and how their lives are shaped by D.C.’s neighborhoods. The talented teens come together through the work of Words Beats & Life, a 15-year-old hip-hop education and activism collective. Whether you rep Bloomingdale or Congress Heights, get to know D.C. a little bit better through the words of this city’s actual brightest young things. The performance begins at 6 p.m. at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, 2700 F St. —Jordan-Marie Smith NW. Free. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

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THe olDeST proFeSSion Rainbow Theatre Project presents Paula Vogel’s play about Reagan-era retirees who must consider the effects of their profession as they grow older. Flashpoint Mead Theatre Lab. 916 G St. NW. To June 8. $35. (202) 315-1306. culturaldc.org.

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poTTeD poTTer Two super fans send up a parody of the Harry Potter universe in this 70-minute performance. Those sitting in the premium seats can join the action in a live Quidditch match. Lansburgh Theatre.

450 7th St. NW. To June 21. $39.95-$99.95. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org.

TaleS oF THe allergiST’S wiFe An Upper West Side professional luncher finds herself in the midst of a midlife crisis when she unexpectedly reunites with a mysterious childhood friend. Charles Busch’s lively comedy explores what happens when her happy, obligation-free life is upset and how her family responds.

Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To July 5. $30-$65. (202) 518-9400. theaterj.org.

THe priCe Two estranged brothers reunite in a tiny New York apartment in order to clean out their late father’s belongings in this lesser-known work by Arthur Miller. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To June 21. $22-$65. (301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org.

TarTuFFe Moliere’s indictment of religion and its associated hypocrisy comes to Sidney Harman Hall in a co-production with Berkeley Repertory Theatre and South Coast Repertory Theatre. Sidney Harman Hall.

610 F St. NW. To July 5. $20-$110. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org.

roSenCranTz anD guilDenSTern are DeaD Aaron Posner directs Tom Stoppard’s take on the fate of Hamlet, as assessed and told by his two old friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Folger Elizabethan Theatre. 201 E. Capitol St. SE. To June 21. $37-$75. (202) 544-7077. folger.edu.

THe worD anD THe waSTelanD In Timothy Guillot’s play terrorist has just committed the most violent attack on U.S. soil since 9/11 and while he’s in custody, he requests to write poetry. The FBI initially allows it and searches for messages in the man’s work and his decision to have a young woman perform his work.

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a Tale oF Two CiTieS Synetic company member Alex Mills stars as drag queen who finds a baby on the street and entertains it by performing the Dickens classic in its entirety in this lively comedy directed by Serge Seiden. Synetic Theater at Crystal City. 1800 South Bell St., Arlington. To June 21. $10-$50. (800) 494-8497. synetictheater.org.

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our Town The company adds its traditional commedia dell’arte twist to Thornton Wilder’s classic play about love and life in a small town. Originally presented last year as part of Arena Stage’s Kogod Cradle Series, Faction of Fools now presents a fully staged, extended adaptation. Faction of Fools at Gallaudet University’s Elstad Auditorium. 800 Florida Ave. NE. To June 21. $12-$25. factionoffools.org.

stand-up, sketches, and movement pieces and makes its regional debut at Forum. Forum Theatre at Silver Spring Black Box Theatre. 8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. To June 13. $30-$35. (240) 644-1390. forum-theatre.org.

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Ruthless exploitation, child labor, robber-baron capitalism, and salvation via union organization: On the face of it, Newsies reeks far too much of socialism to be a typical Disney production. But two decades after releasing the movie musical about a group of energetic, newspaper-brandishing young men in jaunty newsboy caps, the cartoon conglomerate doubled down and brought the production to the stage. Loosely based on the 1899 summer strike against Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst’s New York newspapers, the 1992 movie featuring urchins with a penchant for song-and-dance routines and exaggerated New York accents was one of the lowest-grossing Disney releases ever, bringing in only $3 million. Young star Christian Bale later called it a mistake, to the outrage of devoted fans, but the film had an underrated charm and turned into a cult classic. When retooled for the stage, the Broadway show became a hit, winning Tony Awards for best score and choreography before launching a national tour, proving that a plucky, athletic, determined core of dancing newsboys fighting an evil capitalist overlord while singing catchy tunes and leaping about the stage in unison remains a successful formula. The musical runs June 9 to June 21 at the National Theatre, 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. —Emily Walz $48–$203. (202) 628-6161. thenationaldc.org.

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CHapTer 3 A psychic agrees to help n inSiDiouS: a teenage girl rid herself of the evil spirits that have taken over her body but finds that fighting spirits is harder than it appears. Leigh Whannell directs the third film in this horror series. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) la Sapienza A distracted writer takes off for n Italy in the hopes of completing his book. As he

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“UNCIVIL UNION: COMEDY FOR EQUALITY”

If you’re angling to get people to support your cause, the best way to get their attention is to make them laugh. The Ally Coalition, which aims to raise money for gay rights causes and awareness of LGBTQ issues by partnering with entertainers and their fans, should draw plenty of eyeballs with its latest D.C. comedy show. As part of the Capital Pride celebrations, the Ally Coalition welcomes Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock alumna Rachel Dratch to the Howard Theatre, where she’ll emcee a night of comedy, songs, and stories from comedians like Bridget Everett, a dildo-wielding cabaret performer from New York, and Chelsea Shorte, a local queer comic known for her dead-on impression of Muriel Bowser. The night’s big draw is political comedian W. Kamau Bell, who’ll rush to the Howard after an earlier free show at the Kennedy Center. Don’t bother waiting in line for free tickets at that show. See him in Shaw and donate your laughs and dollars to a good cause. W. Kamau Bell performs with Rachel Dratch, Bridget Everett, and Chelsea Shorte at 8 p.m. at the Howard Theatre, 620 T St. NW. $34. (202) 803-2899.

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LIVE IN DC? You can invest in Bluebird Bakery for as little as $100

funding. Over the course of a 30-day period, Bluebird is seeking to raise $300,000 in startup capital from 300 to 500 District residents who can invest as little as $100 or as much as $100,000 each. What separates this from Kickstarter, Indiegogo and GoFundMe is that Bluebird allows investors to buy equity in the new business — not just receive perks. If Bluebird meets its fundraising goal and hits its financial projections, investors could earn back their money in the first two years.

Wellings and Arango are able to raise money while operating out of Prequel, a restaurant pop-up complex in Penn Quarter that gives burgeoning new businesses without a storefront the chance to test their products and engage with customers.

Bluebird is an Old World-style boulangerie-patisserie featuring a vast array of artisanal pastries and daily bread service on par with the country’s finest producers. It’s at Prequel’s historic 918 F Street NW storefront where Wellings and Arango are able to bake decadent croissants, tortas, tea cakes, macarons and the hard-to-find-yet-totally-worth-the-hunt kouign-amann.

Wellings and Arango are charting a new path where Washingtonians can participate in the restaurant scene fully, by getting a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into the business and an opportunity to benefit financially from a successful, local business. So why should people invest with Bluebird?

“To invest back into their own city,” Wellings said. “Bluebird provides quality foods and a quality environment that will help not only the culinary landscape, but the local business landscape of D.C. grow.”

Wellings and Arango make all of their pastries by hand. These butter croissants alone, made with fine ingredients, represent two days worth of work for the Bluebird pastry chefs. These and other pastries are available at their pop-up at 918 F Street, which will remain open throughout their fundraising campaign.

The food scene in Washington continues to grow rapidly, with well-known chefs planting a flag in the District and local chefs making big waves with their first and second restaurants. A city once known only for politics, D.C. has become a culinary capital, with many attributing that transformation to an engaged group of dedicated foodies across the city. One new business is embracing D.C.’s passionate gastro-

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Bluebird Bakery, by acclaimed pastry chefs Tom Wellings (Fiola Mare, Restaurant Eve, Maestro) and Camila Arango (Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Adour, Maestro), is a bakery startup that just became the first of its kind authorized by the D.C. government to allow investment-based crowd-

The first 50 Washington City Paper readers who use promo code WCPBluebird when making their investment will also receive their choice of a free pastry at Bluebird’s pop-up at 918 F Street NW.

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