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Volume 21 / Issue 3
NEWS 6 EQUALITY HEADS SOUTH
Justin Snow
8 THE FOURTH CIRCUIT STATES
GROUND GAME
John Riley
SCENE 12 GLAA AWARDS
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BUSINESS 14 MAN OF THE MOMENT
John F. Stanton
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FEATURE 22 THE 2014 NEXT GENERATION AWARDS
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54 LAST WORD
Equality Heads South
Legal challenges and organizational advocacy make the Bible Belt the new
front line for LGBT efforts
Arkansas Capitol Dome
by Justin Snow
M
ARRIAGE EQUALITY
arrived in the American
South shortly after 10 a.m.
on Saturday. That was
when Kristin Seaton, 27, and Jennifer
Rambo, 26, became the rst same-sex
couple to be legally married in Arkansas
after a judge found the states same-sex
marriage ban unconstitutional one day
prior. The Carroll County Courthouse
in Eureka Springs was the only one open
Saturday, May 10, and issued 15 marriag-
es licenses to same-sex couples that day.
On Monday, hundreds more same-sex
couples lined up outside the Little Rock
Courthouse as Pulaski County, the states
most populous county, began issuing
marriage licenses to same-sex couples,
according to the Associated Press.
Arkansas Attorney General Dustin
McDaniel, a Democrat, has said he will
appeal the decision, despite his support
for same-sex marriage. And while the
state has asked the Arkansas Supreme
Court to put same-sex marriages on hold
as the case is appealed a course of
action that has been taken in similar
cases in Utah and Michigan the legal-
ization of same-sex marriage in Arkan-
sas marks a watershed moment for the
marriage-equality movement.
The South has long been considered
the nal frontier for LGBT rights, as
states in every other region of the coun-
try have moved on same-sex marriages,
gay adoption and workplace protections.
And while federal judges have struck
down same-sex marriage bans in Virgin-
ia, Texas and elsewhere, marriage licens-
es have not been issued to same-sex
couples while those cases are appealed.
But when Pulaski County Circuit Court
Judge Christopher Piazza declined to
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stay his decision last week nding a 1997
state law and a constitutional amend-
ment approved by voters in 2004 den-
ing marriage as between a man and a
woman in violation of the U.S. Constitu-
tion, it marked the arrival of marriage
equality in the Bible Belt.
With nearly 70 marriage cases now
making their way through the courts, and
ve federal appellate courts now hearing
arguments and soon to rule, [the] decision
out of Arkansas underscores that all of
America is ready for the freedom to marry,
said Evan Wolfson, founder and president
of Freedom to Marry, in a statement.
Arkansas is one of three states being
targeted by a multi-million dollar effort
to bring LGBT-equality to the South.
Announced by the Human Rights Cam-
paign last month, Project One America
will spend $8.5 million over the next
three years in Arkansas, Mississippi and
Alabama, and devote a staff of 20 people
to those three states. Each of those states
has a same-sex marriage ban enshrined
in its constitution, and each lacks nondis-
crimination protections for LGBT people
at the state or local level in employment,
housing or public accommodations.
Right now, this country is deeply
divided into two Americas one where
LGBT equality is nearly a reality and the
other where LGBT people lack the most
fundamental measures of equal citizen-
ship, HRC President Chad Grifn, who
is a native of Arkansas, said in a state-
ment. Project One America is an unpar-
alleled effort to close that gap, and it
opens up a bold, new chapter in the LGBT
civil rights movement of this generation.
In this grand struggle for equality, we
cant write off anyone, anywhere.
The campaign will cater to Southern
culture, with a focus on changing hearts
and minds, advancing enduring legal
protections and building more inclusive
institutions for LGBT people from the
church pew to the workplace. According
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rights donors held earlier this month,
focused on building the road to equality
in the heartland.
As resources and dollars pour into the
South, with lawsuits challenging same-
sex marriage bans led in every Southern
state, advocates have no illusions about
the challenges ahead. Church attendance
is at its highest rates in the nation in
some Southern states and Republicans
dominate state legislatures. Even Demo-
crats arent always allies to the cause, nor
vulnerable because of their opposition to
LGBT rights. Despite his partys national
platform, Democratic South Carolina
gubernatorial candidate and state Sen.
Vincent Sheheen is opposed to same-sex
marriage. Nevertheless, he has received
support from the Democratic Gover-
nors Association and likely 2016 presi-
dential candidate Maryland Gov. Martin
OMalley, who signed marriage-equality
legislation into law.
Were not undertaking this work
because it will lead to quick, easy or
sweeping victories, stated Griffin.
Were doing it because it is difcult.
Folks in these three states shouldnt have
to wait a single day longer for one, fully
equal, America.
Last month, Mississippi lawmak-
to HRC, the campaign is the largest ever
orchestrated to bring LGBT equality to
the American South.
The opportunities for progress
couldnt be clearer, and the need couldnt
be greater, said Brad Clark, who will
lead the campaign and comes equipped
with a background of successfully work-
ing on LGBT issues in Colorado and
Iowa. Mississippi has the single highest
percentage of gay and lesbian couples
raising children of any state in the coun-
try, for instance, but these parents are
making do without essential legal protec-
tions or inclusion in their community.
The effort by HRC complements work
being done by other organizations and
donors. In February, Freedom to Marry
announced the launch of Southerners for
the Freedom to Marry a $1 million cam-
paign to build support for same-sex mar-
riage across the South. Teaming up with
LGBT groups in Georgia, Alabama, Flor-
ida, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma,
Kentucky and Tennessee, the coalition
seeks to give voice to marriage-equality
supporters, including clergy and conser-
vatives. Moreover, Gill Actions Political
Outgiving 5.0 conference, an invitation-
only conference targeting major LGBT-
ers approved a religious freedom bill
that opponents warn could lead to state-
sanctioned LGBT discrimination. The bill
was similar to one vetoed by Arizona
Republican Gov. Jan Brewer in Febru-
ary. While such setbacks are anticipated,
there remain reasons to be hopeful. A
Washington Post/ABC News poll released
in March found 50 percent of Southern-
ers support same-sex marriage, with 42
percent opposed, compared to a national
average of 59 percent in favor and 34
percent opposed. Southerners views on
these issues are moving, albeit at a slower
rate than other regions of the country.
In his ruling last week, Arkansas
Judge Piazza took note of the 1967 U.S.
Supreme Court case that declared bans
on interracial marriage unconstitutional,
Loving v. Virginia, as he struck down a
present-day ban prohibiting loving cou-
ples from marrying. It has been over
forty years since Mildred Loving was
given the right to marry the person of her
choice. The hatred and fears have long
since vanished and she and her husband
lived full lives together; so it will be for
the same-sex couples, Piazza wrote. It
is time to let that beacon of freedom
shine brighter on all our brothers and
sisters. We will be stronger for it. l
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The Fourth Circuit
States Ground Game
Beyond the courtroom, LGBT residents and allies strive to
win over hearts and minds on marriage equality
by John Riley
T
HE HEADS OF FOUR STATE-
wide LGBT-rights organiza-
tions that could be affected by
a ruling in the Virginia case
of Bostic v. Schaefer, in which oral argu-
ments are being heard by the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, held a
conference call Monday outlining how
they are preparing to deal with a ruling
that could overturn existing prohibitions
on same-sex marriage.
James Parrish, executive director of
Equality Virginia; Chris Sgro, executive
director of Equality North Carolina; Ryan
Wilson, executive director of South Caro-
lina Equality; and Kay Flaminio, executive
director of Fairness West Virginia, ex-
pressed their hopes that the Fourth Cir-
cuit would rule in a way that either over-
turns bans on same-sex marriage or paves
the way for future cases that could result
in such actions.
When the Bostic case was rst ar-
gued in the Eastern District of Virginia
in February, U.S. District Judge Arenda
L. Wright Allen ruled that Virginias Mar-
hsall-Newman Amendment, a constitu-
tional amendment banning the recogni-
tion of any form of same-sex relationship
in the commonwealth, was unconstitu-
tional. Advocates of marriage equality are
cautiously optimistic that the Fourth Cir-
cuit will uphold Allens ruling.
With Bostic v. Schaefer being heard
before the Fourth Circuit Court of Ap-
peals, Virginia and other Southern states
have never been closer to gaining mar-
riage equality for lesbian and gay couples,
Parrish said. The most recent polls in
Virginia show that a majority of Virgin-
ians are in favor of the freedom to marry,
and with the majority of our courts strik-
ing down marriage bans in states across
the country, we are hopeful that trend will
continue with the Fourth Circuits ruling.
Asked about possible rulings that
could be issued by the Fourth Circuit,
Sgro said that Equality North Carolina
has been talking with legal experts to try
and prepare for a wide variety of rulings
that might impact North Carolina. Sgro
said any impact would depend on the
size and scope of the ruling, which could
range from overturning all marriage bans
in states under the jurisdiction of the
Fourth Circuit, to providing legal prec-
edent for states such as North Carolina to
mount their own challenges to their mar-
riage bans.
Flaminio said her organization was
looking closely at the Bostic cases prog-
ress, but also noted that, unlike the other
three states, West Virginia has no consti-
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Bostic, the state organizations have been
holding their own events to drum up sup-
port for marriage equality. With the assis-
tance of their local state LGBT organiza-
tions, same-sex couples and their allies
in Virginia, South Carolina and West Vir-
ginia are hosting CookOUTs for Equal-
ity, social events to honor those married
same-sex couples whose relationships
are not legally recognized. Parrish not-
ed that the events are not fundraisers,
as some critics have suggested, but are
rather aimed at changing hearts and
minds on the issue of marriage equality
by bringing attention to same-sex couples
and their families.
In Virginia, several couples who host-
ed cookouts last year are doing so again.
But against the backdrop of the Bostic
case this year, some have hope that this
will be the last year such events are nec-
essary. According to Equality Virginia,
about 50 couples throughout the com-
monwealth are participating.
tutional amendment banning same-sex
marriage, thereby requiring a separate
lawsuit specically aimed at overturning
West Virginias statutory ban. Flaminio
also acknowledged that marriage equal-
ity only enjoys support from about a third
of the states population. As a result, Fair-
ness West Virginia has focused the bulk
of its efforts on passing nondiscrimina-
tion protections for LGBT individuals,
which enjoy support from 68 percent of
West Virginians.
Our position is that if LGBT couples
are allowed to get married in West Vir-
giniathen they will need to be protect-
ed from discrimination in employment,
housing and accommodations, Flaminio
said.
While Equality Virginia and allied
pro-LGBT groups, including People of
Faith for Equality in Virginia (POFEV),
organized demonstrations outside of the
Court of Appeals on Tuesday, May 13, to
mark the rst day of oral arguments in
Jen Shearin and Julie Naff, of Annan-
dale, plan to host an event, as they did in
2013. Last year they held a pool party and
barbecue in June for family and friends,
and took donations for Equality Virginia.
This year, the couple has invited neigh-
bors and local politicians, including Vir-
ginia congressional candidates, to a May
18 party.
Shearin says Virginias prohibition on
recognizing their marriage has resulted
in challenges that opposite-sex married
couples dont face. For instance, when the
couple wanted to adopt their two sons,
now 2 and 4, they had to temporarily rent
out their house and Virginia and establish
residency in the District of Columbia to
ensure they would be able to legally adopt
both children and be listed as the parents
on their birth certicates.
Even though the family moved back
to Virginia after the adoptions were nal-
ized, Shearin says she and Naff have en-
countered difculties when ling taxes,
as Virginia requires them to le as single
individuals, whereas the federal govern-
ment, as well as the District of Columbia
and Delaware, where they own proper-
ties, allow them to le as married.
To quote our accountants in D.C., we
are their most complex clients, says
Shearin.
Peter Goldin, a Richmond resident
and board chair of Equality Virginia,
hosted a cookout with his husband, Brian
Hollis, last year. This year, his Reston,
Va., parents, are holding their own May
17 cookout. The hosts are expecting fam-
ily, friends, neighbors, at least one other
Equality Virginia board member, the Gay
Mens Chorus of Washington, and three
local politicians Sen. Janet Howell (D-
Arlington, Fairfax counties), Del. Ken
Plum (D-Fairfax Co.) and Del. Mark Sick-
les (D-Fairfax Co.) to attend.
Goldin says he and Hollis have also
encountered obstacles from Virginias re-
fusal to recognize their marriage. When
Hollis had to go to the hospital for a se-
vere migraine headache, for example,
Goldin was not allowed to speak for him
because he was not considered Holliss
spouse. Virginias prohibition on same-
sex marriage, Goldin says, handicaps
the couple in many different ways.
I think people dont realize what a
struggle it is, because a lot of their rights
and privileges are taken for granted,
Goldin says. Most people know the sur-
face issue. But few people understand
just what that means or how deep the
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Man of the Moment
Chamber honoree Moran shares some perspective on the LGBT community
and nancial security
Moran
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n April 25, the Capital Area
Gay and Lesbian Chamber of
Commerce (aka The Cham-
ber) held its annual awards
dinner and gala at Washingtons presti-
gious Mayower Renaissance Hotel. The
dinner showcases LGBT business lead-
ers throughout the Washington region,
paying special tribute to those whose
contributions to the local community
made a particularly positive impact.
Among the outstanding members of
the community honored at the gala was
William J. Moran Jr., CRPC, senior vice
president and wealth management advi-
sor for global nancial services rm Mer-
rill Lynch & Co. Moran received The
Chambers Business Leadership award
for his work as a leader in the LGBT
community.
This is a great honor, said Moran,
who indicated that the award was a
pleasant surprise. Im very fortunate
to be the face of a great rm like Merrill
Lynch. I want to acknowledge the many
people making our quality service to the
community happen.
A longtime sponsor of Chamber
events and activities, Moran feels that its
important for business leaders such as
himself to have skin in the game when
it comes to being a visible member of the
community, contributing time, money,
or other resources. He is an ardent sup-
porter of the mission of The Chamber as
it presents an opportunity for leaders to
get together to discuss the needs of the
LGBT community and work to provide
solutions to any problems.
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Involvement is important in all com-
munities, but especially in ours, he said.
It gives us the opportunity to come
together when we see a particular need
or area in which we can improve. The
LGBT community tends to be a little
more philanthropic than many other
groups.
Moran said anyone can nd a par-
ticular passion to which they can apply
their own special talents. Morans own
memberships have included terms on the
boards of Food & Friends and the Gay
Mens Chorus of Washington, D.C.
Moran began his career with Merrill
Lynch in 1986 in New York, moving to
Washington in 1990. As the leader of Mer-
rill Lynchs Gay and Lesbian Financial
Services team, he is actively engaged with
members of the LGBT community devel-
oping investment strategies designed to
meet their own distinctive needs and
provide nancially secure futures.
Merrill Lynch is a highly gay-friendly
company. It was one of the rst Wall
Street rms to offer domestic-partner
benets, and has been very supportive of
the LGBT community for many years,
he said.
Speaking of the need for long-term
nancial planning, Moran indicated that
one area where many people fall short
is in not taking the time to sit down and
actually do it.
Many people spend more time plan-
ning a two-week vacation to Europe than
they do organizing their nances, he
observed. Putting off creating a nan-
cial strategy is not a good idea. Planning
should start as soon as possible. A savvy
investor should enlist the services of a
competent nancial planner, along with
an attorney and a tax professional, to
design a plan for nancial security.
All the horses should be pulling
the sleigh in the same direction. Thats
why its important to have a team that is
focused on your needs and that can work
together.
For further information on William Moran
and the services he provides, please visit
http://bit.ly/R8ulvP.
The Chamber Means Business. For more
information visit caglcc.org or facebook.
com/CAGLCC. On Twitter, follow @
DCLGBTBIZ
John F. Stanton, a CAGLCC member, is
the president of SRP & Associates Inc., a
strategic marketing and public relations
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WEEKLY EVENTS
ANDROMEDA TRANSCULTURAL HEALTH
offers free HIV testing, 9-5 p.m., and HIV
services (by appointment). 202-291-4707 or
andromedatransculturalhealth.org.
BRAZILIAN GLBT GROUP, including others
interested in Brazilian culture, meets. For location/
time, email braziliangaygroup@yahoo.com.
DC AQUATICS CLUB (DCAC) practice session at
Marie Reed Aquatic Center, 2200 Champlain St.
NW. 8-9:30 a.m. swimdcac.org.
DC FRONT RUNNERS running/walking/social
club welcomes all levels for exercise in a fun and
supportive environment, socializing afterward.
Meet 9:30 a.m., 23rd & P Streets NW, for a walk; or
10 a.m. for fun run. dcfrontrunners.org.
DIGNITY NORTHERN VIRGINIA sponsors Mass
for LGBT community, family and friends. 6:30 p.m.,
Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill, 3606 Seminary
Road, Alexandria. All welcome. dignitynova.org.
DC SENTINELS basketball team meets at Turkey
Thicket Recreation Center, 1100 Michigan Ave. NE,
2-4 p.m. For players of all levels, gay or straight.
teamdcbasketball.org.
SUNDAY, MAY 18
WEEKLY EVENTS
LGBT-inclusive ALL SOULS MEMORIAL
EPISCOPAL CHURCH celebrates Low Mass at 8:30
a.m., High Mass at 11 a.m. 2300 Cathedral Ave. NW.
202-232-4244, allsoulsdc.org.
DIGNITY WASHINGTON offers Roman Catholic
Mass for the LGBT community. 6 p.m., St.
Margarets Church, 1820 Connecticut Ave. NW. All
welcome. Sign interpreted. dignitynova.org.
FRIENDS MEETING OF WASHINGTON meets for
worship, 10:30 a.m., 2111 Florida Ave. NW, Quaker
House Living Room (next to Meeting House on
Decatur Place), 2nd oor. Special welcome to
lesbians and gays. Handicapped accessible from
Phelps Place gate. Hearing assistance. quakersdc.org.
INSTITUTE FOR SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT,
God-centered new age church & learning center.
Sunday Services and Workshops event. 5419 Sherier
Place NW. isd-dc.org.
LUTHERAN CHURCH OF REFORMATION invites
all to Sunday worship at 8:30 or 11 a.m. Childcare is
available at both services. Welcoming LGBT people for
25 years. 212 East Capitol St. NE. reformationdc.org
METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH OF
NORTHERN VIRGINIA services at 11 a.m., led by
Rev. Onetta Brooks. Childrens Sunday School, 11
a.m. 10383 Democracy Lane, Fairfax. 703-691-0930,
mccnova.com.
RIVERSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH, a Christ-centered,
interracial, welcoming-and-afrming church, offers
service at 10 a.m. 680 I St. SW. 202-554-4330,
riverside-dc.org.
SCANDALS RUGBY screens The Rugby Player
documentary of Mark Bingham, Alice Hoagland. 7
and 9 p.m. Navy Memorial, 701 Pennsylvania Ave.
NW. $15, ow.ly/vBbHm. dcscandals.org.
WEEKLY EVENTS
BET MISHPACHAH, founded by members of the
GLBT community, holds Friday night Shabbat
services followed by oneg social hour. 8-9:30 p.m.
Services in DCJCC Community Room, 1529 16th St.
NW. betmish.org.
GAY DISTRICT holds facilitated discussion for
GBTQ men, 18-35, rst and third Fridays. 8:30 p.m.
The DC Center, 1318 U St. NW. 202-682-2245,
gaydistrict.org.
HIV TESTING at Whitman-Walker Health,
Elizabeth Taylor Medical Center, 1701 14th St. NW,
9 a.m.-5 p.m. 202-745-7000, whitman-walker.org.
PROJECT STRIPES hosts LGBT-afrming social
group for ages 11-24. 4-6 p.m. 1419 Columbia Road
NW. Tamara, 202-319-0422, layc-dc.org.
SMYALS REC NIGHT provides a social
atmosphere for GLBT and questioning youth,
featuring dance parties, vogue nights, movies and
games. catherine.chu@smyal.org.
SATURDAY, MAY 17
Annual CAPITAL TRANSPRIDE celebration,
10 a.m.-4 p.m. National City Christian Church, 5
Thomas Circle NW. $10 donation, includes lunch.
Register at capitalpride.org/transpride.
CHRYSALIS arts & culture group and Adventuring
outdoors group co-sponsor tour of July 1864
Confederate Raid on Washington sites. Bring
beverages, lunch, sunscreen, bug spray, about $8/
fees. Carpool 9 a.m., Grosvenor-Strathmore Metro.
Craig, 202-462-0535. adventuring.org.
ADVENTURING outdoors group bikes
intermediate-to-advanced 47 roundtrip miles,
Columbia Island Marina to Fort Washington. Bring
helmet, beverages, lunch, $2 fee. Start 9 a.m. from
marina, GW Parkway southbound. Jerry, 703-920-
6871. adventuring.org.
BURGUNDY CRESCENT gay volunteer
organization helps with National Park Service
planting at Tidal Basin, and with Lost Dog
& Cat Foundation at Falls Church PetSmart.
burgundycrescent.org.
THURSDAY, MAY 15
WEEKLY EVENTS
METROHEALTH CENTER offers free, rapid HIV
testing. Appointment needed. 1012 14th St. NW,
Suite 700. 202-638-0750.
DC LAMBDA SQUARES gay and lesbian square-
dancing group features mainstream through
advanced square dancing at the National City
Christian Church, 5 Thomas Circle NW, 7-9:30 p.m.
Casual dress. 301-257-0517, dclambdasquares.org.
The DULLES TRIANGLES Northern Virginia social
group meets for happy hour at Sheraton in Reston,
11810 Sunrise Valley Drive, second-oor bar, 7-9
p.m. All welcome. dullestriangles.com.
HIV TESTING at Whitman-Walker Health. The
Elizabeth Taylor Medical Center, 1701 14th St. NW,
9 a.m.-5 p.m. At the Max Robinson Center, 2301
MLK Jr. Ave. SE, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Call 202-745-
7000. Visit whitman-walker.org.
IDENTITY offers free and condential HIV testing
in Gaithersburg, 414 East Diamond Ave., and in
Takoma Park, 7676 New Hampshire Ave., Suite 411.
Walk-ins 2-6 p.m. For appointments other hours,
call Gaithersburg, 301-300-9978, or Takoma Park,
301-422-2398.
WOMENS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE for young
LBTQ women, 13-21, interested in leadership
development. 5-6:30 p.m. SMYAL Youth Center, 410
7th St. SE. 202-567-3163, catherine.chu@smyal.org.
US HELPING US hosts a Narcotics Anonymous
Meeting, 6:30-7:30 p.m., 3636 Georgia Ave. NW.
The group is independent of UHU. 202-446-1100.
FRIDAY, MAY 16
Next Generation Leadership Foundation holds
NEXT GENERATION AWARDS RECEPTION.
6:30-8:30 p.m. Beacon Bar & Grill, 1615 Rhode
Island Ave. NW. $20. nglf.org.
D.C.-area organizers/Kimpton Hotels host A
NIGHT OUT FOR THE TREVOR PROJECT
fundraiser. 7-9:30 p.m. Hotel Palomar, 2121 P St.
NW. $100 advance, $125 door. Limited $75 youth
tickets. thetrevorproject.org.
Metro Weeklys Community Calendar highlights important events in
the D.C.-area LGBT community, from alternative social events to
volunteer opportunities. Event information should be sent by email to
calendar@MetroWeekly.com. Deadline for inclusion is noon
of the Friday before Thursdays publication. Questions about
the calendar may be directed to the Metro Weekly ofce at
202-638-6830 or the calendar email address.
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Man of the Moment
UNITARIAN CHURCH OF ARLINGTON, an
LGBTQ welcoming-and-afrming congregation,
offers services at 10 a.m. Virginia Rainbow UU
Ministry. 4444 Arlington Blvd. uucava.org.
UNIVERSALIST NATIONAL MEMORIAL
CHURCH, a welcoming and inclusive church. GLBT
Interweave social/service group meets monthly.
Services at 11 a.m., Romanesque sanctuary. 1810 16th
St. NW. 202-387-3411, universalist.org.
MONDAY, MAY 19
Volunteer meeting for 8th Annual DC LATINO
PRIDE. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Empoderate Youth Center,
3055 Mount Pleasant St. NW. RSVP: Jesus Chavez,
jchavez@latinoglbthistory.org, 202-670-5547.
WEEKLY EVENTS
DC SCANDALS RUGBY holds practice, 6:30-
8:30 p.m. Garrison Elementary, 1200 S St. NW.
dcscandals.wordpress.com.
NOVASALUD offers free HIV testing. 5-7 p.m. 2049
N. 15th St., Suite 200, Arlington. Appointments:
703-789-4467.
The DC Center hosts COFFEE DROP-IN FOR THE
SENIOR LGBT COMMUNITY. 10 a.m.-noon. 2000
14th St. NW. 202-682-2245, thedccenter.org.
KARING WITH INDIVIDUALITY (K.I.) SERVICES,
3333 Duke St., Alexandria, offers free rapid HIV
testing and counseling, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. 703-823-4401.
WASHINGTON WETSKINS Water Polo Team
practices 7-9 p.m. Takoma Aquatic Center, 300
Van Buren St. NW. Newcomers with at least basic
swimming ability always welcome. Tom, 703-299-
0504, secretary@wetskins.org, wetskins.org.
Whitman-Walker Health HIV/AIDS SUPPORT
GROUP for newly diagnosed individuals, meets 7
marketplace
p.m. Registration required. 202-939-7671, hivsupport@whitman-walker.org.
TUESDAY, MAY 20
WEEKLY EVENTS
ASIANS AND FRIENDS weekly dinner in Dupont/Logan Circle area, 6:30 p.m.
afwash@aol.com, afwashington.net.
THE GAY MENS HEALTH COLLABORATIVE offers free HIV/STI screening
every 2nd and 4th Tuesday. 5-6:30 p.m. Rainbow Tuesday LGBT Clinic, Alexandria
Health Department, 4480 King St. 703-321-2511, james.leslie@inova.org.
HIV TESTING at Whitman-Walker Health. D.C.: Elizabeth Taylor Medical
Center, 1701 14th St. NW, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. At the Max Robinson Center, 2301
MLK Jr. Ave. SE, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. For an appointment call 202-745-7000. Visit
whitman-walker.org.
THE HIV WORKING GROUP of THE DC CENTER hosts Packing Party,
where volunteers assemble safe-sex kits of condoms and lube. 7 p.m., Green
Lantern, 1335 Green Court NW. thedccenter.org.
SUPPORT GROUP FOR LGBTQ YOUTH ages 13-21 meets at SMYAL, 410 7th
St. SE, 5-6:30 p.m. Cathy Chu, 202-567-3163, catherine.chu@smyal.org.
US HELPING US hosts a support group for black gay men 40 and older. 7-9
p.m., 3636 Georgia Ave. NW. 202-446-1100.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 21
THE TOM DAVOREN SOCIAL BRIDGE CLUB meets for Social Bridge. No
reservation or partner needed. All welcome. 7:30 p.m. Dignity Center, 721 8th St.
SE. 301-345-1571.
CAPITAL PRIDE 2014 HEROES GALA. 7-10 p.m. Artisphere, 1101 Wilson Blvd.,
Arlington. $60. capitalpride.org/heroes.
WEEKLY EVENTS
NOVASALUD offers free HIV testing. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. 2049 N. 15th St., Suite 200,
Arlington. Appointments: 703-789-4467.
AD LIB, a group for freestyle conversation, meets about 7:45 p.m., covered-patio
area of Cosi, 1647 20th St. NW. All welcome. Jamie, 703-892-8567.
HIV TESTING at Whitman-Walker Health. D.C.: Elizabeth Taylor Medical
Center, 1701 14th St. NW, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. At the Max Robinson Center, 2301 MLK
Jr. Ave. SE, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. 202-745-7000, whitman-walker.org.
PRIME TIMERS OF DC, social club for mature gay men, hosts weekly happy
hour/dinner. 6:30 p.m., Windows Bar above Dupont Italian Kitchen, 1637 17th
St. NW. Carl, 703-573-8316. l
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The
2014
Awards
Honoring
Sarah McBride, Hassan Naveed, Desiree Raught and Carl Streed Jr.
By Will OBryan, John Riley, Doug Rule and Justin Snow
Photography by Julian Vankim
W
ITH SPRING FINALLY HAVING TAKEN HOLD IN THE NATIONS CAPITAL, ITS A
wonderful time to celebrate growth and potential. Youd be hard-pressed to find four
individuals to better embody that sort of hope and optimism than the four being
recognized as the Next Generation Leadership Foundations 2014 honorees.
These four amazing young people are Sarah McBride, Hassan Naveed, Desiree
Raught and Carl Streed Jr. All younger than 30, each has already accomplished much. Keeping in the
nature of the award, each is expected to do so much more. These stars have only begun their ascension.
The seasons themes of transformation and growth are also reflected in the award itself. When the
first cohort of young, LGBT leaders was honored, in 2009, the Metro Weekly Next Generation Awards
were an expression of the magazine alone. Now in their sixth year, the awards are the jewels in the Next
Generation Leadership Foundations crown. While Metro Weekly remains an enthusiastic supporter
of the annual awards, they now belong to this new foundation, launched in 2013 by Metro Weeklys
former co-publisher and editor-in-chief, Sean Bugg. As the president and executive director of this new
foundation, Bugg has made a full-time commitment to supporting LGBT leaders at the start of their
careers. Now, beyond the annual awards, NGLF will be hosting 20 young people for a mid-June week in
Washington. These dynamic youths will be given access to the halls of power on Capitol Hill, meet LGBT
leaders in areas of commerce and community, and enjoy an unprecedented opportunity to engage with
one another as they begin to stitch together those professional networks that will intersect their lives for
decades to come. They will be the cohort to launch this leadership camp, set to be an annual offering.
In the meantime, the following profiles will provide at least a bit of insight into four promising LGBT
leaders youll want to keep an eye on as they journey forward toward a brighter future for the whole of
the community.
The sixth annual Next Generation Awards, presented by Metro Weekly, will be held Friday, May 16, at
Beacon Bar & Grill, at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are available for a $20 tax-deductible donation at NGLF.org.
S
ARAH MCBRIDE ALWAYS KNEW SHE WAS
different.
Ive known that Im transgender as long
as I can remember, she says. Growing up as
the youngest child with two older brothers in
Wilmington, Del., McBride says it wasnt until
when she was about 8 years old that a poorly
executed transgender storyline in a 90s sitcom put a name on
what made her so.
I remember asking my mom what transgender meant,
McBride says. And I remember asking her, Is this possible that
someone is born a boy and can change to be a woman? And I
remember my mom saying yes, and explaining what transgender
meant. It was the rst time in my life that I knew there were
other people like me. It was the rst time in my life that I knew
there was something I could do about it. In that same moment
of incredible hope of what could be, there was also an incredible
amount of sadness and fear with what the future had in store. I
remember looking at my mom and thinking, Oh, my God, Im
going to have to tell you this someday. Youre going to be very
upset and this is going to be really disappointing for everyone.
But Im going to have to tell everyone this.
Although in that moment McBride came to better under-
stand herself, her life as a precocious political activist pushed
her deeper into the closet. When she was just 13 she began vol-
unteering for various Democratic candidates in the First State,
including campaigns for Attorney General Beau Biden and Gov.
Jack Markell. I was having this success as a political activist in
our states Democratic Party, and that seemed like such a privi-
lege and such an opportunity that I didnt want to give up my
male privilege, she says. I thought that if I gave that up I would
destroy all these professional aspirations that I had, dreams of
working in politics in Delaware.
But in the fall of 2011, life became unbearable for McBride.
A junior at American University, known as Tim, McBride was
elected student body president. McBride made gender-neutral
housing a priority of her presidency, with a campaign entitled
Live True to You. The issue became one of the drivers of her
coming to terms with her identity. Sitting in the ofce of the
director of the universitys housing and dining programs, he
asked McBride a simple question: Why are you doing this?
There were three answers, and I only gave two, McBride
says. One was its the right thing to do for students. The next
was I have always been passionate about LGBT issues, my oldest
brother is gay and these issues mean a lot to me. And then the
third was that Im transgender. It was the rst time I gave an
answer that was just glaringly incomplete. That was a watershed
moment for me, being confronted so starkly with where I was
and where I wanted to be and who I actually was.
After conding in a friend whose positive reaction McBride
credits with giving her the condence to push forward, McBride
came out to her family on Christmas Day in 2011. Their
response to my coming out was surprise, confusion, sadness
but at the same time love and support and embrace, McBride
says. For parents and friends it feels like this person you know
is dying. But they came very quickly to see that they werent los-
ing a son, they were gaining a daughter and that I was still very
much the person I had always been. That quickly sunk in. And
theyve been fabulous.
After telling other family and friends, including Delaware Gov.
Jack Markell, over a fourth-month period, McBride was con-
templating how to come out to the broader American University
community. Not wanting the second half of her term as president
to be overshadowed by her transitioning, she waited until it was
nearly nished. She decided on a Facebook note, and within an
hour the editor of the student newspaper walked into her ofce.
He wanted to know two things. Should the paper be using
her new name, Sarah, and female pronouns? Absolutely. And
would she consider condensing her Facebook post as an op/ed
for the next days issue?
I remember walking into the student newspaper ofce after
Id posted this online, so word had already gotten out. I remem-
ber everyone just sort of staring at me. No one knew what to do
as I walked back into the editors ofce to condense my Face-
book post. But when I came out of there everyone had big smiles
on their faces and people gave me hugs, she recalls. It really
was nothing but love and support.
In a time that has seen high-prole journalists like Katie
Couric and Piers Morgan face criticism for how theyve con-
ducted interviews with transgender celebrities, McBride says
the students at The Eagle acted exactly how we want the media
to be when covering trans issues. The publication of McBrides
coming-out story also thrust her into the spotlight, gaining head-
lines in national publications and a speaking spot, along with
her brother, at the HRC National Dinner last October. She went
on to internships at the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund and the
White House, where she became one of the rst out transgender
interns. She also served on the board of Equality Delaware and
helped pass same-sex marriage legislation and gender-identity
protections during the same year. Now 23, McBride works on
LGBT issues for the Center for American Progress.
McBride says she is unsure what the future holds for her, but
politics seems like a safe bet. She still considers Delaware home
and loves talking to people about the issues. As she witnessed
rsthand during her work with Equality Delaware lobbying state
lawmakers, putting a face to an issue goes a long way to helping
people do the right thing.
I enjoy telling my story, talking about transgender issues,
transgender identities in a way where people can read them and
relate to those stories, she says. If it can make people view
transgender people as people rst, then I think thats a mission
accomplished. Justin Snow
Sarah McBride
The Next Generation Awards 2014
H
ASSAN NAVEED HAS ALWAYS BEEN ON THE
go, whether in terms of geography or activism.
Since graduating high school, the Califor-
nia native has done stints as a community or-
ganizer and radio reporter in Santa Barbara,
as a labor and political organizer in Oakland
and San Francisco, and with a D.C. public re-
lations rm focused on civil rights. This summer, he leaves D.C.
to pursue a masters degree in public administration at New York
Universitys Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
Naveed has also made a name for himself locally with his
involvement in Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV),
a program of The DC Center for the LGBT Community, which
works to respond to and prevent hate crimes, particularly against
members of the LGBT community. And last year, he was honored
by Capital Pride with the Engendered Spirit award for his GLOV
advocacy on behalf of the transgender community.
GLOV has a community partner in New York City, the An-
ti-Violence Project, that weve engaged with. Theyve said, Oh,
youre coming to New York City? Wed like to get you on some
volunteer projects, he jokes. I cant sit still.
Naveeds involvement with GLOV goes back to 2010 and his
rst weeks after making the move from the West Coast. He met
The DC Centers Executive Director David Mariner, who then
introduced him to several local activists. Soon after, Naveed
joined GLOV, later becoming the groups secretary and then one
of its co-chairs. Hes also a board member with D.C.s Casa Ruby,
which provides services to members of the citys transgender and
immigrant communities.
Drawing back on my life, I had two of my really close friends
who were victims of hate crimes in college, the 28-year-old says
when asked of why he chose to join GLOV. To see how the in-
cidents impacted their lives, and to realize the lack of resources
that were available to them, in that space, as being folks who
were LGBT and also from communities of color, really made me
realize that hate exists in all forms whether its discrimination
or something that is violent. And from then on, I made a com-
mitment to mitigate that hate to the best of my ability, not just
for the LGBT community, but all communities that are under-
represented.
Closer to home, Naveed and his family have been targets of
hateful comments or other forms of bigotry, particularly right
after 9/11.
I was leaving a grocery store. A lady pulled me aside, grabbed
me and began yelling at me, he recounts. She kept going at me,
saying, You Muslims come into this country. It wasnt violence,
but the impact that it had on me psychologically really made me
feel like What did I do wrong? I did nothing wrong.
To see even my own family members and friends who were
impacted by we can call it discrimination verbal attacks on
folks, all the way to the fact that someone was pulled out of a cab
in New York City and beaten up, a family friend, really made me
see this issue as something I wanted to work on across lines, on
LGBT issues, across lines of color, Naveed continues. And its
something I grew passionate about. When I came to D.C., I knew
I wanted to do something along the lines of antiviolence work.
During Naveeds tenure at GLOV, the organization undertook
several initiatives, including attempts to better track violent inci-
dents where anti-LGBT bias may have played a role, and improv-
ing relations between the LGBT community and the Metropoli-
tan Police Department (MPD). GLOV also recently launched a
hotline with Helping Individual People Survive (HIPS) to con-
nect victims of violence to support services.
My primary goal in GLOV was to make it an organization
that people can look to for assistance, and also as an advocacy
unit for all those communities in the city, he says.
Earlier this year, GLOV and six other community partners
The DC Center, Casa Ruby, Rainbow Response, the Gay and
Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA), the DC Trans Coalition and
HIPS joined to draft a response to a report issued by the Anti-
Defamation Leagues Hate Crimes Assessment Task Force that
examined the relationship between MPD and the LGBT commu-
nity. The task force had intervened to serve as a mediator at the
request of MPD Chief Cathy Lanier following years of strained
relations between the police and the LGBT community.
Naveed counts the task force and its recommendations, the
majority of which were agreed to by both the community groups
and Lanier, as a major accomplishment for the organization, but
also as a potential building block for his successors.
Were nally engaging with the Police Department for the
rst time, directly, ever, and really building a plan thats going to
improve relations, he promises. Were denitely in a forward
trajectory. Its going to get better.
Naveed is also quick to offer praise to fellow D.C. activists,
particularly Jeri Hughes, Casa Rubys Ruby Corado, Jason Terry
of the DC Trans Coalition, and his GLOV peers for their contri-
butions to the antiviolence movement. And he hopes to even-
tually return to the District, which he now sees as his adopted
hometown.
I might be physically gone from D.C., but I love this city a
lot, he says. And, damn it, Ive put my heart and soul into this
city. Ive poured myself dry. And I will be working on that plan
with MPD in the years to come, because its something thats
been truly a passion of mine. So I will be involved in D.C. in some
capacity, even though it will be different from the way it was be-
fore. John Riley
Hassan Naveed
I
TS NOT EVERY DAY YOU HEAR GREAT THINGS
about D.C. Public Schools. But its not every day you
hear from Desiree Raught.
Theres so much good going on in D.C. Public
Schools that people dont realize, says Raught. A 10th
grade English teacher at D.C.s McKinley Tech High
School, Raught cites the school systems general com-
mitment to reform, to new initiatives and to innovative think-
ing. But shes most heartened by the signicant strides made
on behalf of DCPSs LGBT students. If youre LGBT in our
community, Raught asserts, D.C. is the most welcoming place
Ive ever known.
And the welcoming environment for gays at DCPS is largely
the result of advocacy by Raught. Several years ago, Raught
worked with the Districts Ofce of Youth Engagement to
develop an ofcial plan to create a safe and inclusive school
community. She describes this as a 12-page document that
outlines all the reform and all the support structures that DCPS
is putting in place across schools all over the District to sup-
port [Gay-Straight Alliances], to support LGBT students. Since
then, the Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) that Raught started at
McKinley at the behest of one of her students has grown from
having four members to 80 well over 10 percent of the student
body, with most identifying as straight allies. Raught has also
invited representatives from LGBT organizations to speak to
her students as part of her work as McKinleys LGBT Liaison.
Nearly 20 schools within DCPS now have such LGBT Liaisons,
who work with fellow teachers and administrators to create a
culture of acceptance.
I didnt have the best high school experience, says Raught,
who grew up in Richmond. I want to do what I can to make
sure that every child I teach learns what he or she needs to learn,
and that nothing gets in the way of that. Its precisely because
of her leadership role in helping better D.C. Public Schools by
fostering a safer, more inclusive environment, particularly for
LGBT students, that Raught is being recognized with a 2014
Next Generation Award.
That someone considers me a leader of the next generation,
it makes me kind of shy, the 28-year-old Raught says. I think its
a true testament as to just how lucky I am to be able to say that
Im an LGBT educator, one with great support from my school
leaders [and] from central ofce. I think it means so much in
terms of where our community is going and where our nation
is heading, especially when you talk about the education eld.
Raught has been a champion of education basically since she
started school. Growing up I just had a really unstable family
and home life, she shares. Her mother went to jail when she
was in sixth grade and her father kicked her out of the family
trailer in 10th grade, so she moved among relatives homes, and
even spent much of high school living with friends. But unlike
many others in such a demoralized, nomadic state, Raught never
considered dropping out of school.
School was the one thing that I could count on to always
be there, she explains. Its the place where I got most of my
positive reinforcement. Where, if I ever were to hear anything
positive about myself, it was usually from my teachers.
Thats a large part of why I do what I do, because the
school system was there for me growing up, she continues.
Still, Raught, who is happily partnered and living in D.C., has
never really considered teaching in her native Virginia. I love
Virginia, I love the beautiful state that it is, she says. But with-
out marriage equality and with few supportive LGBT policies
in schools, she adds, I couldnt teach in a place that wouldnt
accept me and my students.
She certainly doesnt have to worry about that at McKinley.
In her classroom Raught has a Born This Way ag My
students know that Im obsessed with Lady Gaga on the wall
behind what she calls her GSA Resource Station, a safe space
for students to study or read books donated by LGBT organiza-
tions. McKinley also now has an LGBT Resource Center in its
library as Raught says, With LGBT-friendly books! Where
else can you get that in a public school? Its not happening all
over the place.
High school can be a particular kind of hell for students and
teachers alike, and DCPS has long been beset with challenges.
Ive been teaching for seven years, and it is easy to get discour-
aged, Raught concedes, though shes quick to add she has no
intention of quitting, either teaching or DCPS. Because, ulti-
mately, she continues to see more hope than discouragement.
For example, while DCPS is generally still struggling to boost
overall student academic achievement, Raughts students have
been making signicant progress on standardized tests. Though
its impossible to attribute such success to any one factor alone,
a warmer, more collegial classroom must play at least some part.
Fostering a safe, inclusive space where students are cel-
ebrated and where they feel safe to be who the are, as Raught
puts it, encourages them to ask questions, to let their guard
down and to really learn. Doug Rule
Desiree Raught
S
CANNING DR. CARL STREED JR.S RSU-
m is a bit like looking at Lake Michigan,
on whose shores his Illinois hometown
sits. Both are vast, impressive and life-
sustaining. But before the 28-year-old was
at his current post, practicing medicine at
the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Cen-
ter, he was a boy on a bridge. A boy who brought himself to
that bridge to jump.
Fifteen years ago in summer, I was hanging off the edge
of a bridge thinking when I would let go, because I had a very
difcult time growing up at that point, Streed shared with an
audience on Hopkins medical campus in April 2013 as part of
The Stoop Storytelling Series. It was around that time that
I recognized that I was gay, was homosexual. I grew up in a
town called Zion, which was very religious....
So, 15 years ago, I was hanging off a bridge. I didnt know
where to go at that point. To this day, I still cant gure out
what possessed me to actually crawl back over the railing. But
I did. And I came up with a very solid plan of how to get out
of my town: Im going to do very good in school. Im going
to get into a really good college, and then Im never going to
look back.
Two out of three aint bad.
Streed did very well in school, got into the University of
Chicago, then the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. But he
does look back. Indeed, he returns to Zion regularly, where
his parents are fully aware and accepting of his sexual orien-
tation and of his anc, Chad.
He called my anc his other son, Streed says of Carl
Sr., who goes by the name Butch, is a Vietnam veteran, was
in a motorcycle gang and worked as a lumberjack. Its full
acceptance. Its a complete 180 from anything he was or any-
thing I expected. My mom was always very quietly accepting.
I didnt have to convince her.
It would be hard for Streeds parents not to be proud of
their son, the doctor. Returning to that rsum, its replete
with honors. Theres the mention of Streed as an honoree
at the White House Celebration of the Next Generation of
LGBT Leaders. Or the James Slayton Leadership National
Award for Leadership Excellence from the American Medi-
cal Student Association. And so on. Theres plenty for his par-
ents to be proud of. Actually, theres so much that an entire
community can take pride in one of its members being so
dedicated, so accomplished and so caring. As Streed sets his
mind to the coming years of his career, the LGBT community
may be collectively condent that hell make great strides in
bringing some cultural competency to the eld.
I still hate doctors, were the worst, he deadpans,
though remembering some genuinely dismissive treatment
he once received from a doctor who seemingly equated gay
with HIV. Im still frustrated with the care I received, but
I have become a little bit more sympathetic to recognizing
a pattern and immediately jumping to a diagnosis. I dont
think its right, but I see that as something that kind of
happens in training. I come up against resistance like, We
treat everybody the same. But our cultural competency
is lacking when we jump to assumptions, jump to diagno-
ses. Overall, Id give us a grade of passing. Its hard to
improve, but were improving. I think the amount of insti-
tutional inertia within the medical community is enormous.
The inertia is ridiculous.
In the meantime, Streed still has his daily responsibilities,
managed down to the minute with the help of Google Cal-
endar. Perhaps not a medical prognosis, but Creed guesses
that if that online organizer were to cease, he would die. In
all seriousness, though, death is a regular part of Streeds job.
Day to day changes from week to week, but Im pres-
ently working in the medical intensive care unit, he explains.
Every so often I need to pronounce someone dead. I did that
yesterday. Its reassuring that I still get choked up having to
tell the family about that. I dread the day I ever become so
callous that I dont care when somebody passes.
Helping stave off callousness is the aforementioned Chad,
whom he met during a brief night out in Chicago, stopping at
Sidetrack where he once worked as security for a drink.
As Streed recalls, Chad wooed him with discussion of the
Affordable Care Act. And while theyve not yet set the date,
the couple, both coming from two-child homes, have already
discussed children and seem to have settled on someday
adopting two.
As for that child hanging from bridge, contemplating an
end to it all, one wonders what message the 28-year-old Dr.
Streed might have for him and other young people struggling.
Id say, Dont let them win. Dont let the people bringing
you down succeed. Just by moving forward, youre already
doing a lot more than they have. It gets better as long as you
keep working hard. Will OBryan
Carl Streed Jr.
Earl D. Fowlkes Jr.
President/CEO
Center for Black Equity Inc.
As president and CEO of the CBE,
Fowlkes oversees the only black
LGBT international organization in
the world, with organizational and
individual membership in Canada,
the U.K., Ghana, Uganda, Guyana,
Suriname, Jamaica, Trinidad, Bar-
bados, Kenya, South Africa, Brazil
and Zimbabwe. He also serves on
seven nonprot boards of directors
and as chair of the D.C. Mayors
GLBT Advisory Committee.
Dan Hewitt
Vice President
Media Relations and
Event Management
Entertainment Software
Association (ESA)
At the ESA, Dan Hewitt serves as
an on-the-record spokesman in
top-tier print and electronic media.
Since he began at the ESA in 2004,
he has been responsible for devel-
oping and executing communica-
tions strategies that educate key
audiences about the industry, its
goals, and its consumers.
Hoai B. Huynh
Principal for International
Development
Energy, Environment and
Transportation Group
ICF International
At ICF International, Hoai B.
Huynh oversees programs and
strategies in the developing-country
context. He has worked extensively
in developing countries, particu-
larly working with USAID, World
Bank, and other clients and partners
on climate change, environmental,
water and energy programs.
Selection Panel
The Next Generation Awardees are chosen from a pool of community nominations by
a panel of Washington-area LGBT leaders from the worlds of arts, activism, business
and politics. The 2014 Next Generation Selection Panel members are:
Hilary B. Rosen
Managing Director
SKDKnickerbocker
Hilary B. Rosen is a well-known
Washington strategist who effec-
tively navigates the intersection
of communications, media, and
politics. Her name has appeared
regularly on inuential year-end
power lists including Entertainment
Weeklys Annual Power List, The
Hollywood Reporters Power 50
Women, and National Journals
Washingtons Powerful Insiders.
Ernesto Santalla
Founder/President
Studio Santalla Inc.
Board Chair/President
Capital Area Gay and
Lesbian Chamber of Commerce
Born in Cuba, Ernesto Santal-
la has been in Washington since
1984 when he received a degree
in architecture from Cornell Uni-
versity. His Studio Santalla special-
izes in architectural design and is
the parent company for Graphic SS,
Ernesto Santalla Photography and
Ernesto Santalla Home. l
(Pictured L-R) Fowlkes, Rosen,
Hewitt and Santalla
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God and Monsters
Godzilla redenes the blockbuster as art-house cinema
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HEN, IN 1954, GODZILLA FIRST STOMPED ONTO THE SCENE (AND INTO OUR HEARTS), IT WAS as
a harbinger of absolute mayhem, a dinosaur-like creature born out of nuclear weapons testing that apparently
had a violent aversion to Japanese architecture. The lm became instantly iconic for both its cautionary
message and rampant destruction. Over the years and many sequels later Godzilla transformed into a kind of hero, a
savior who protected Japan (while still harboring a resentment toward its buildings) from other, more fearsome creatures.
The reboot of Godzilla (HHHHH), helmed by newcomer Gareth Edwards, plays off the monsters heritage as a...
well, god. Godzillas the alpha-predator, the tip-top of the food chain. Hes the worlds protector designate. The lm is
haunting and beautiful and strange, not at all what you expect from a typical summer blockbuster. It strives to be more
than the sum of its relentlessly movie-homaging parts.
But therein lies the problem Godzilla might be a little too art-house for its own good. Yes, there are profoundly
stupid moments particularly a convenient needle in a haystack moment in Honolulu and the script frequently
borders on the eye-rolling. The arrogance of man is thinking nature is in our control and not the other way around,
says one character before proclaiming, like a WWE Ringmaster, LET THEM FIGHT! The warring parties are, of
course, Godzilla and a Massive Unidentied Terrestrial Organism, or MUTO, in this case a ferocious, EMP-producing
monstrosity that looks as though The Predator had mated with the Chrysler Building eagles.
Godzilla, happily, looks (and sounds) just like the old Godzilla without the man in the rubber suit aspect. (The
effects are, in fact, breathtaking. See it in 3D, as Edwards has a real gift for using 3D as a visual enhancer.) And the cast
is relatively high-end: Bryan Cranston, Juliette Binoche, Ken Watanabe, David Strathairn, Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-
Ass), further reinforcing the movies art-house allure.
For a summer action blockbuster, Godzilla is oddly lacking in excitement for much of its two-hour running time. More
than once, it leaves you impatient and bored, as Edwards revs up some good old-fashioned monster mashing and then
abruptly cuts to the aftermath. Its like having sex withheld. Yet the paucity of traditional destruction sequences turns
out to be a shrewd move, as were more than ready for it by the time the magnicent climax rolls around. Call it Godzilla
Interruptus. Randy Shulman
Godzilla is rated PG-13 and opens Friday at area theaters.
SPOTLIGHT
CHRIS BOTTI
The Washington Performing Arts Society presents
another concert by Grammy award-winning jazz/
pop trumpeter Botti, the best-selling American jazz
instrumental artist, acclaimed for collaborations with
Sting, Burt Bacharach and the Boston Pops Orchestra.
Thursday, May 22, at 8 p.m. Kennedy Center Concert
Hall. Tickets are $25 to $85. Call 202-833-9800 or
visit kennedy-center.org or wpas.org.
JOHN WATERS
The famous Baltimore lmmaker returns for another
night of his This Filthy World standup, which
explores his origins and inuences as the king of
trash culture and his experiences along the way of
becoming a success in the mainstream. Friday, May
16, at 7:30 p.m. The Birchmere, 3701 Mount Vernon
Ave., Alexandria. Tickets are $45. Call 703-549-7500
or visit birchmere.com.
KYLE ABRAHAM/ABRAHAM.IN.MOTION
The distinguished black, gay choreographer Kyle
Abraham returns for an annual show presented by
Dance Place, this time with Live! The Realest MC, a
new darkly humorous ensemble work investigating
gender roles in the black community, the quest for
acceptance in the world of hip-hop celebrity and
our overall emotionless emoticon culture all by
setting the characters of Pinocchio in an industrial
dystopia. Abraham, according to Out Magazine, the
best and brightest creative talent to emerge in New
York City in the age of Obama. Saturday, May
17, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, May 18, at 4 p.m. Ira
Aldridge Theater at Howard University, 2455 6th
St. NW. Tickets are $30. Call 202-269-1600 or visit
danceplace.org.
LAURA BENANTI WITH
GAY MENS CHORUS OF WASHINGTON
Laura Benanti felt like a 45-year-old gay man in a
little girls body growing up in northern New Jersey
passionate about show tunes and standards. This
weekend the Tony-winning Broadway star (Gypsy,
Into The Woods, The Sound of Music) performs with
the Gay Mens Chorus of Washington in a special
Kennedy Center concert, A Gay Mans Guide to
Broadway. Since I am an honorary 45-year-old gay
man, she jokes to Metro Weekly, who better than
me to accompany them? In fact, just 34 years old,
Benantis ties to the chorus extend beyond mere song
and dance. My late uncle Bob was one of the original
members of the chorus, she explains, and the last
time I sang with them [a decade ago] he was alive. So
its a very meaningful event to me. I love these guys.
Sunday, May 18, at 4 p.m. Kennedy Center Concert
Hall. Tickets are $25 to $78. Call 202-467-4600 or
visit kennedy-center.org or gmcw.org.

LORDE, NAS AT PREAKNESS INFIELDFEST
Before the 139th running of the Preakness Stakes
comes performances, organized by IMP Productions,
headlined by Lorde and rapper Nas. Also on the
bill: Glenn Morrison, Frank Walker, Switchfoot, Eli
Young Band, Sundy Best and Go Go Gadjet. Saturday,
May 17. Starting at 8 a.m. yes, thats a.m. Pimlico
Race Course, 5201 Park Heights Ave., Baltimore.
Tickets are $60 to $100. Call 877-206-8042, ext. 300,
or visit preakness.com.
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Writer/director Jon Favreau plays a chef who
leaves his job at a prominent restaurant in L.A. to
launch a food truck with Soa Vergara and John
Doing It Together
Robyn and Royksopp now collaborate as if they were one band
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lyric, says Torbjorn Brundtland of Royksopp. The moody Norwegian
electronic duos latest collaboration with Swedish pop star Robyn is a
forthcoming EP named after its rst single, Do It Again. But in case youre won-
dering, the three artists, including Royksopps Svein Berge, are not having sex.
I think if we were having sex we wouldnt have written songs about it,
Robyn teases. We would just sit and YouTube it, volleys back Brundtland in
a recent joint phone interview, which then provokes Robyn to add the kicker,
put it out and make a new career.
Instead, the three have decided to continue with their proven successful
careers in pop music and both Robyn and Royksopp are working on new
material separately. But collaboratively, theyve decided to approach new
work as if they were one band. Previously, the two acts had simply collabo-
rated on tracks for each others albums: The Girl and The Robot, credited
as Royksopp featuring Robyn and included on the duos 2009 album Junior;
and None of Dem, credited as Robyn featuring Royksopp and included on
Robyns 2010 Body Talk. They were going to continue that one-off style of col-
laboration, but realized what they had started writing would work better as its
own project. For us, Robyn says, its really just been about wanting to make
more music together, because we really enjoyed this from when we started
out. And then from that we became friends. Weve toured a lot together. It
feels very naturally to us.
Robyn + Royksopp will tour this summer, including a stop at Wolf Trap
on Thursday, Aug. 21. It will be a show in three stages, says Brundtland,
explaining that its not just your typical concert with two headliners per-
forming separate acts back-to-back. We will perform some things that are
exclusively Royskopp, and some things that are exclusively Robyn, and then it
will come together as a [Robyn + Royksopp] collaboration on stage, to be the
climax of the show. Doug Rule

Robyn + Royksopp perform Thursday, Aug. 21, at 8 p.m., at the Filene Center
at Wolf Trap, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. Tickets are $30 to $55.
Call 202-877-WOLFTRAP or visit wolftrap.org.
Do It Again drops Tuesday, May 27.
Compiled by Doug Rule
Leguizamo in the comedy Chef, which also features
Bobby Cannavale, Scarlett Johansson, Oliver Platt and
Robert Downey Jr. Opens Friday, May 16. Landmarks
Bethesda Row Cinema, 7235 Woodmont Ave. Call 301-
652-7273 or visit landmarktheatres.com.
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS RIOT
Keegan Theatre, in repertory with Things You
Shouldnt Say Past Midnight (see separate entry),
presents the world premiere of Rosemary
Jenkinsons latest one-man tour-de-force, this time a
biting comedy about a poor Irishman who dreams of
becoming a professional golfer and practices amid
the nighttime ghts between Protestant and Catholic
youth that still plague Belfast every summer. Just
as with Jenkinsons one-man-plays Basra Boy and
Cuchullain, Keegan taps Abigail Isaac to direct Joss
Sticklin. Opens Friday, May 16, at 8 p.m. To June 5.
Andrew Keegan Theatre (formerly Church Street
Theater), 1742 Church St. NW. Tickets are $30. Call
703-892-0202 or visit keegantheatre.com.
HENRY IV PARTS I AND II
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The Shakespeare Theatre Company presents Henry
IV Parts 1 and Part II in repertory, meaning the
plays can be seen on separate nights but still in order
a unique opportunity to follow not only Henrys
history, but also the way in which Shakespeare darkly
and interestingly evolves his characters. Edward Gero
as Henry IV, Stacy Keach as Falstaff and Matthew
Amendt as Hal carry both plays, and even with a big
cast (in which many play multiple roles across the
two productions) and despite an overarching plot
that the uninitiated may nd obtuse, most will nd
the drama unfolding among the three men eminently
accessible. Especially so, given the strong vision of
director Michael Kahn. Tightly sprung, perfectly
pitched and paced, Kahns productions are the bloody
steaks and tannic reds of the theater: rich, gratifying
and offering an energy that endures long after the
evening has ended. In rep to June 8. Sidney Harman
Hall, Harman Center for the Arts, 610 F St. NW.
Tickets are $20 to $110 for one play, with discounts
available for combined purchase. Call 202-547-1122
or visit shakespearetheatre.org. (Kate Wingeld)
LIVING OUT
Abel Lopez directs a GALA Hispanic Theatre
production of Lisa Loomers funny, touching play
Living Out, performed in its original English, with
Spanish surtitles. The show explores the relationship
between a lawyer and her Salvadoran nanny,
both mothers struggling to make better lives for
their children and struggling to deal with their
differences wrought by race, class and immigration
status. Closes this Sunday, May 18. GALA Theatre at
Tivoli Square, 3333 14th St. NW. Tickets are $38 to
$42. Call 202-234-7174 or visit galatheatre.org.
SMOKEY JOES CAF
One of the earliest and longest-running revues in
Broadway history, Smokey Joes Caf focuses on the
rock and R&B tunes written by Jerry Leiber and Mike
Stoller, from Hound Dog to Stand By Me. Randy
Johnson returns to Arena Stage after One Night with
Janis Joplin to direct a new take on the show, beefed
up with a more urban feel and more relationships
and of course the local vocal repower of Helen
Hayes Award winners E. Faye Butler and Nova Y.
Payton. Theyre really so impeccable that rehearsal
is a joy, Tony-winning LGBT pop singer-songwriter
Levi Kreis tells Metro Weekly, adding that during
rehearsals, I literally am giggling like a child,
because I cant believe whats coming out of their
faces! To June 8. The Mead Center for American
Theater, 1101 6th St. SW. Tickets are $75 to $120. Call
202-488-3300 or visit arenastage.org.
THE RULEBREAKER REP:
BLOODY POETRY, CHARM
Taffety Punk Theater Company, whose tagline is We
Will Rock You and styles itself as a sort of theatrical
rock band, presents two plays in repertory that focus
on 19th century literary giants: Howard Brentons
Bloody Poetry, about the meeting two centuries ago
between Percy Shelley and Lord Byron and their
respective lovers who are also half-sisters Mary
Shelley and Claire Clairmont; and Kathleen Cahills
Charm, about Margaret Fuller, a writer who wrote
whats considered the rst major feminist work
in the U.S. and in the process upended the male-
dominated literary world. To May 31. Capitol Hill
Arts Workshop, 545 7th St. SE. Tickets are $15. Call
202-547-6839 or visit chaw.org or taffetypunk.com.
THE THOUSANDTH NIGHT
MetroStage offers Carol Wolfs unconventional spin
on the Arabian Nights in repertory with another
show performed by a solitary actor, Glen Bergers
Underneath The Lintel (see separate listing). Marcus
Kyd stars as Guy de Bonheur in this comedic drama
set in occupied France in 1943, about a French actor
accused of subversive behavior who tries to redeem
himself. Closes this Sunday, May 18. MetroStage,
1201 North Royal St., Alexandria. Tickets are $50,
or $88 for both shows. Call 800-494-8497 or visit
metrostage.org.
THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
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The actor-driven Fiasco Theater has been celebrated
in its home base of New York for its inventive,
stripped-down way of reimagining and re-telling
Shakespeare, particularly the Bards weaker plays.
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The focus is on the acting, not the staging. As
co-directors of a new production of The Two
Gentlemen of Verona at Folger Theatre, Jessie
Austrian and Ben Steinfeld managed to cast a team of
actors with great comic timing and sensibility who
also have an abundance of good looks and charisma,
such that youre willing to suspend disbelief and
escape reality, taking an improbable journey with
them far more willingly and for much longer of
time than makes sense. Because, ultimately, you
can try hard to understand or even justify The Two
Gentlemen of Verona through contemporary
allusions or modern sensibilities about love and
friendship. But to inverse and twist a famous
mathematical metaphor, you just cant circle this
broken square. Its pretty much a dog of a play. To
May 28. Folger Theatre, 201 East Capitol St. SE.
Tickets are $40 to $72. Call 202-544-7077 or visit
folger.edu. (Doug Rule)
THINGS YOU SHOULDNT SAY PAST MIDNIGHT
Staged in repertory with A Midsummer Nights Riot
(see separate entry), Keegan Theatre presents Peter
Ackermans loud, boisterous screwball bedroom
comedy following three pairs of lovers trying to
enjoy a night of romance but getting tripped up by
racial slurs and meddling strangers to say nothing
of a lack of communication and honesty. Colin Smith
directs Caroline Wolfson, Allison Corke, Michael
Innocenti, Peter Finnegan, Kevin Hasser and
Timothy Hayes Lynch in this production of a play
that Entertainment Weekly called a boisterously
naughty romp. To June 7. Andrew Keegan Theatre
(formerly Church Street Theater), 1742 Church St.
NW. Tickets are $30. Call 703-892-0202 or visit
keegantheatre.com.
THREE MEN IN A BOAT
Movement-focused stage company Synetic Theater
is best known for its wordless Silent Shakespeare
series, but its plays are not always text-less. Case in
point: Three Men in A Boat (to say nothing of the dog),
a new play by renowned area theater director Derek
Goldman based on Jerome K. Jeromes century-old
travelogue about three young men suffering from a
severe case of overwork. These three musketeers
set out on a boating trip with a dutiful terrier,
nding misadventures along the way. Tim Getman,
Tom Story, Rob Jansen and Alex Mills star in this
production featuring original choreography by
Synetics Irina Tsikurishvili. To June 8. Theater
at Crystal City, 1800 South Bell St., Arlington.
Tickets are $45 to $55. Call 800-494-8497 or visit
synetictheater.org.
MUSIC
10,000 MANIACS
In a couple months, Natalie Merchant will perform
at Lincoln Theatre. But next weekend the alt-
rock band that gave her her start appears at the
Birchmere, on tour fronted by Jenn Grinels. The
band tours in support of last years Music from the
Motion Picture, the groups rst new studio set in 14
years, which featured vocalist Mary Ramsey. Friday,
May 23, at 7:30 p.m. The Birchmere, 3701 Mount
Vernon Ave., Alexandria. Tickets are $39.50. Call
703-549-7500 or visit birchmere.com.
ARTURO SANDOVAL
A protg of the legendary jazz master Dizzy
Gillespie, the Cuban-born Sandoval was granted
political asylum in the U.S. decades ago. Hes revered
as one of the worlds best jazz trumpeters and
ugelhorn players, as well as a renowned pianist and
composer. Friday, May 16, through Sunday, May 18,
at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Blues Alley, 1073 Wisconsin
Ave. NW. Tickets are $45, plus $10 minimum
purchase. Call 202-337-4141 or visit bluesalley.com.
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Studio Theatre offers Mike Bartletts play poking at sex, identity
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No, there are no physical roosters in the play, Studios David Muse
conrms, but the metaphor of cockghting was a big inspiration. In fact, Brit-
ish playwright Mike Bartlett pokes a little fun with the various meanings of the
word cock in his play of that name to also include the British term cock-
up, or, as Muse puts it, something thats gotten all screwed up.
The play also pokes at labels of sexual orientation. [It] wrestles with some
controversies around the notion of bisexuality, says Muse, focusing on a man,
John trying to gure out who he is after he falls in love with a woman while
hes on a break from a seven-year relationship with another man. Hes really
caught between these two futures that he can imagine for himself, and hes
paralyzed, Muse says. Sometimes you feel frustrated with him, sometimes
you identify with him, because thats a very recognizable struggle.
First staged in London in 2009, Muse has long wanted to direct Cock, which
is staged in such a way as to be reminiscent of a cockghting arena with four
actors standing in as roosters, and no furniture, props or scenery to speak of.
Its trying to investigate how competitive people can get when it comes to sex
and love, Muse says. It does it with just a great showmans pleasure of what
theater can do and how fun it could be.
Muse, who has been Studios artistic director for four years, rst introduced
D.C. to the work of Bartlett with last years short, sharp, black comedy Contrac-
tions. He promises much more Bartlett to come.
Its difcult to overstate what a big deal Mike Bartlett is in the world of
U.K. theater, Muse says. Hes really at the vanguard of a group of particu-
larly talented young playwrights that have burst onto the scene in the last ve
years. Doug Rule

Cock runs to June 22 at Studio Theatre, 1501 14th St. NW.
Call 202-332-3300 or visit studiotheatre.org.
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BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Jack Everly leads the BSO and a cast of singers
in a SuperPops program titled All That Jazz: A
Symphonic Celebration of Kander and Ebb,
featuring showstoppers from Cabaret, Chicago, New
York, New York, Kiss of the Spider Woman. Thursday,
May 15, at 8 p.m. Music Center at Strathmore, 5301
Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. Also Friday, May
16, and Saturday, May 17, at 8 p.m.; and Sunday, May
18, at 3 p.m. Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, 1212
Cathedral St., Baltimore. Tickets are $29 to $84. Call
410-783-8000 or visit bsomusic.org.
BOHEMIAN CAVERNS JAZZ ORCHESTRA
Every Monday night the 17-piece jazz orchestra
performs a variety of music from the big band
repertoire including pieces by Duke Ellington,
Count Basie, Billy Strayhorn and Maria Schneider,
plus originals from band members at its namesake
venue. Founded by baritone saxophonist Brad Linde
and club owner Omrao Brown, features some of
D.C.s best jazz musicians, including Linde and
trumpeter Joe Herrera, who co-direct. Performances
at 8 and 10 p.m. every Monday night. Bohemian
Caverns, 2001 11th St. NW. Tickets are $10. Call 202-
299-0800 or visit bohemiancaverns.com.
GREAT NOISE ENSEMBLE
Since composer and conductor Armando Bayolo
founded it in 2005, the Great Noise Ensemble has
become one of the most important and adventurous
ensembles in D.C. focused on contemporary classical
music. The group nishes its season at the Atlas
Performing Arts Center with a program of works by
American composers of diverse backgrounds who
make rhythmic music inspired by science, math, the
natural environment or dance: Viet Cuong, Kirsten
Volness, Andy Akilho, Roger Zare, Roberto Sierra
and Mason Bates. Friday, May 23, at 8 p.m. Atlas
Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE. Tickets are
$28.50 in advance or $31.50 day of. Call 202-399-7993
or visit atlasarts.org or greatnoiseensemble.com.
MARY LOU WILLIAMS
WOMEN IN JAZZ FESTIVAL
The 19th edition of the Mary Lou Williams Women
in Jazz Festival, named after the late legendary
jazz pianist/composer, features two evenings
of performances by some of contemporary jazzs
leading women, including lesbian singer-songwriter
Toshi Reagon, drummer Allison Miller, clarinetist
and saxophone player Anat Cohen and Rene Marie,
who will perform selections from her tribute set
Evil Little Me: A Tribute to Eartha Kitt. Friday, May
23, and Saturday, May 24, at 7 p.m. Kennedy Center
Terrace Theater. Tickets are $38 for each nights
performance. Call 202-467-4600 or visit kennedy-
center.org.
NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC
Piotr Gajewski leads the philharmonic and violinist
Sarah Chang in a performance of Vivaldis The Four
Seasons. Also on the bill is Strausss Metamorphosen,
written in the closing days of World War II as an
elegy for the destruction of Munich. Saturday, May
17, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, May 18, at 3 p.m. Music
Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North
Bethesda. Tickets are $29 to $70. Call 301-581-5100
or visit strathmore.org.
PANDA BEAR
Known as a founding member in the Baltimore-
originating experimental electronic band Animal
Collective, Panda Bear, nee Noah Benjamin Lennox,
tours in support of the forthcoming set Panda Bear
Meets the Grim Reaper. Friday, May 16. Doors at 8
p.m. Nightclub 9:30, 815 V St. NW. Tickets are $25.
Call 202-265-0930 or visit 930.com. Also visit 930.
com/friends to sign up for the clubs Friends With
Benets rewards program offering exclusive deals
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Drag Becomes Him
Rick Hammerly doesnt ham it up in The Threepenny Opera
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Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera.
If Bea Arthur could do it, then I gured I could fudge my way through
it, says Rick Hammerly, who dons tight-tting clothes and properly placed pad-
ding to portray the female role in Signature Theatres new production of the Kurt
Weill-Bertolt Brecht musical. Hammerly, who won a Helen Hayes Award a decade
ago playing the title role in Signatures Hedwig and the Angry Inch, beat out a pool
of real women to land the role. Felicia Curry and I were called in for the same role
this was so bizarre! he marvels. Either you want a little short black woman, or
you want an old white guy.
Of course, Hammerly, in his 40s, isnt exactly old. And hes playing the role
pretty legit. Im not playing it, wink-wink, a guy in drag, he explains. If I play
it for laughs, I dont get as many. Hamming it up just doesnt provoke laughter
here as it would elsewhere. Trust me, if it were a Charles Busch show, he says,
I would be all over the place. But it really has to be contained in order to work
for this.
In addition to his longstanding acting work, Hammerly is increasingly busy
with freelance directing work, such as assisting on Driving Miss Daisy this fall at
Fords Theatre. Hes also gaining increasing recognition for his edgling theater
company Factory 449, a collective of fellow stage veterans he assembled ve years
ago as an avenue to do edgier work. I sat down the other night to watch some TV,
he says, and I had to turn it off because I felt guilty, because there was other stuff
I needed to do.
Hammerly doesnt even have idle time in The Threepenny Opera. He plays
a minor male role in the rst act before spending roughly 50 minutes applying
makeup for his second act entrance as Lucy. He also has to insert the padding to
round out Lucys look.
This is the rst costume where someones built me an ass, he says. Ive
needed one for years! Doug Rule
The Threepenny Opera runs to June 9 at Signature Theatre, 4200 Campbell Ave.,
Arlington. Tickets are $40 to $95. Call 703-820-9771 or visit signature-theatre.org.
Walking as One
The Brighter Days dog-walking
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paws stays Whit McLure from swift completion of
her appointed rounds. While few people live and
die by their snail mail these days, anyone with a
dog will sooner or later require a reliable dog walker.
McLure is a member of the forward-thinking Brighter Days
Collective, which is just as passionate about economic equality
as it is the welfare of its clawed clients.
The business was started to create alternatives to the typical
top-down business model, says McLure, who splits ownership
of the company, nearly a decade old, with each of her co-work-
ers. The 10 of us function as a collective. Each of us manage our
own routes. We split up the businesss administrative tasks, like
taxes and advertising, as a collective. Our hiring process is a col-
lective: We get together and [interview] the person as a group.
Its important that we have chemistry.
As the so-called freelance economy lls in the gap left by
disappearing, traditional, full-time jobs, the freelancers them-
selves are too often clobbered under the interests and abuses of
corporate employers who see cheap labor in the place of people.
Our most vulnerable generation is often vaunted for their great
creative prowess, but 70,000 Instagram followers wont get you
a seat on the Circulator without a dollar.
Brighter Days, then, merits coverage for providing a fair sal-
ary and generous benets to a group of young Washingtonians
with a bevy of extra-ofce creative and community initiatives.
McLure also works for Beet Street Gardens, which builds
community plots throughout Northeast D.C., and likes to indulge
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The other Brighter Days members have similarly packed
rsums, which is why they get by with a little help from each
other. Each is given six weeks of paid vacation a year and the
assurance that their fellow walkers will ll in for each other
when needed.
A lot of us come from backgrounds of having other activi-
ties bands, jobs, creative ventures. [Our structure allows us] to
offer people gainful and dignied employment and contribute
to the community, to do the things theyre passionate about
support themselves. Whats really cool about this model is that
it works.
If youre already itching to pull a Lester Burnham at your
accounting rm, it wont help you to hear that Brighter Days has
offered its employee/owners transgender-inclusive health care
options since before the signing of the Affordable Care Act.
They are environmentally minded, too, using bikes or shoes
to get from neighborhood to neighborhood. They regularly
donate money to small, local organizations such as HIPS (Help-
ing Individual People Survive) and Radix farms, which subsi-
dizes CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) boxes for quali-
fying low-income households.
We prefer to donate to organizations that are smaller so
that the money will actually help them more, explains McLure.
Weve also created a training manual for other people to set up
a [collective business.] They can see what pieces of our model
might help them, see theres autonomy and space within a col-
lective model for people to speak up and have a say in whats
benecial to themselves and everyone else.
Of course, no mission statement is a replacement for know-
ing ones way around an extendo-leash. The Louisville, Ky.-born
McLure is a familiar, St. Francis-like presence in Adams Morgan
for her beaming smile and enduring unappability at the center
of an ever-growing hurricane of leashed, happy dogs.
The tight-knit nature and self-managed routes of Brighter
Days means that, with the exception of vacation days, the same
dog or puppy will get the same walker every day. This kind
of trust and comfort goes a long way toward keeping Bowser
happy, healthy and trainable.
Daily human or canine social contact is a necessity for dogs,
and that interaction becomes much less stressful for them when
constantly accompanied by a familiar, friendly face. The good
people of Brighter Days are united by business, but were gath-
ered by shared passion.
A lot of us grew up with animals, shares McLure. Thats
what really drew me to the business. Ive had a lot of puppies join
my route and its really fascinating to see this pet develop and to
have a hand in it being a friendly, fun companion for people to
have in their homes and share their lives with.
Brighter Days offers packages for walking one or two dogs.
The standard visit is 30 minutes, which includes a walk of
20-to-25 minutes. Dog-sitting packages include three-to-four
walks per day, plus meals and meds, with overnight and non-
overnight supervision options. Cat feedings are free after a cus-
tomer has already paid for dog sitting, and other cat services and
sitting arrangements are available.
For more exotic companions, the ever-amenable folks at
Brighter Days offer Get in touch with us, and well see what we
can do.
For more information about Brighter Days, visit brighterdayscol-
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drive to nd my best friend ever. Nubian was quiet next to all his
brothers and sisters. While everyone yapped away, Nubian just laid
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9 1/2
Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any
drink, 5-9pm Multiple
TVs showing movies,
shows, sports Expanded
craft beer selection No
cover
ANNIES/ANNIES
UPSTAIRS
4@4 Happy Hour,
4pm-7pm $4 Small
Plates, $4 Stella Artois,
$4 House Wines, $4
Stolichnaya Cocktails, $4
Manhattans and Vodka
Martinis
FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Crazy Hour, 4-7pm
Karaoke, 9pm
GREEN LANTERN
Shirtless Men Drink Free,
10-11pm
JR.S
$3 Rail Vodka Highballs,
$2 JR.s drafts, 8pm to
close Top Pop Night
NELLIES SPORTS BAR
Beat The Clock Happy
Hour $2 (5-6pm), $3
(6-7pm), $4 (7-8pm)
Buckets of Beer $15
Drag Bingo
NUMBER NINE
drink, 5-9pm No Cover
ZIEGFELDS/SECRETS
All male, nude dancers
Shirtless Thursday DJ
Tim E in Secrets 9pm
Cover 21+
FRI., 05.16.14
9 1/2
Open at 5pm Happy
Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink,
5-9pm Friday Night
Videos with resident
LISTINGS
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ESPITE WORKING IN AN INDUSTRY WHERE BEING
outgoing is crucial to earning big tips, Maryland native
Shannon insists she struggles at times with shyness.
Easygoing, generous and friendly, but also unltered and
brutally honest, by her own admission, this bartender at
The Bank Shot Bar & Grill in Laurel, Md., offers a sympathetic
ear to her customers, dispensing comfort and advice to the
sad, and ashes of her sarcastic sense of humor to the more
lighthearted. A former basketball player in high school and
during her years at Coppin State University, Shannon likes to
go to the gym to stay t, watch movies and read. Shed like
to travel more, particularly to big cities like New York, and one
day hopes to open and manage a bar of her own.
Whats on your nightstand?
My cellphone, my wallet. A sculpture with a face with a hand underneath
it, blowing a kiss. I think thats cool. Some books. Right now Im reading
Machiavellis The Prince.
Whats in the nightstand drawer?
Tums, for after a long night of drinking. Gum. A ashlight. Nothing crazy. I
keep it simple.
DC BEAR CRUE
@Town Bear Happy
Hour, 6-11pm $3 Rail,
$3 Draft, $3 Bud Bottles
Free Pizza, 7pm Hosted
by Charger Stone No
cover before 9:30pm 21+
FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Crazy Hour, 4-7pm
Karaoke, 9pm
DJ Shea Van Horn VJ
Expanded craft beer
selection No cover
ANNIES
4@4 Happy Hour, 4-7pm
$4 Small Plates, $4 Stella
Artois, $4 House Wines,
$4 Stolichnaya Cocktails,
$4 Manhattans and Vodka
Martinis Upstairs open
5-11pm
JR.S
Buy 1, Get 1,
11pm-midnight Happy
Hour: 2-for-1, 4-9pm $5
Coronas, $8 Vodka Red
Bulls, 9pm-close
NELLIES SPORTS BAR
DJ Matt Bailer Videos,
Dancing Beat The Clock
Happy Hour $2 (5-6pm),
$3 (6-7pm), $4 (7-8pm)
Buckets of Beer $15
t
bartenders
COVERBOY
EDITION
NUMBER NINE
Open 5pm Happy Hour:
2 for 1 on any drink, 5-9pm
No Cover
PHASE 1
DJ Styalo Dancing
$5 cover
PWS SPORTS BAR
9855 Washington Blvd. N
Laurel, Md.
301-498-4840
Drag Show in lounge
Half-price burgers and
fries
TOWN
Drag Show starts at
10:30pm Hosted by
Lena Lett and featuring
Tatianna, Shi-Queeta-
Lee, Jessica Spaulding
Deverreoux and Banaka
Doors open at 10pm For
those 21 and over, $5 from
10-11pm and $10 after
11pm For those 18-20,
$10 all night 18+
ZIEGFELDS/SECRETS
Ladies of Illusion with
host Kristina Kelly, 9pm
Cover 21+
SAT., 05.17.14
9 1/2
Open at 5pm Happy
Interview by John Riley // Photography by Julian Vankim
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5-9pm $5 Absolut &
Titos, $3 Miller Lite after
9pm Expanded craft
beer selection No cover
FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Diner Brunch, 10am-3pm
Crazy Hour, 4-7pm
Karaoke and/or live
entertainment, 9pm
JR.S
$4 Coors, $5 Vodka
highballs, $7 Vodka Red
Bulls
NELLIES
Guest DJs Zing Zang
Bloody Marys, Nellie Beer,
House Rail Drinks and
Mimosas, $4, 11am-5pm
Buckets of Beer, $15
NUMBER NINE
Doors 5pm Happy Hour:
No Cover

PHASE 1
Dancing, 9pm-close
PWS SPORTS BAR
Laurel, Md.
301-498-4840
Karaoke in the lounge
Charity Bingo with Cash
Prizes 3rd Sat. of Every
Month
TOWN
Ben DeLaCreme from
RuPauls Drag Race
Dirty Pop with DJ Drew
G Drag Show starts
at 10:30pm DJ Wess
Hosted by Lena Lett
and featuring Tatianna,
Shi-Queeta-Lee, Jessica
Spaulding Deverreoux
and Banaka $8 from
10-11pm and $12 after
11pm 21+
Whats your favorite movie of all time?
Pretty Woman. Its a great movie. I like the
ending, where he comes back and rescues her.
What are your three favorite TV shows
of all time?
Roseanne, Scandal and Sex in the City.
If you could have one superpower, what
would it be and why?
To be able to read minds. Im curious about what
people are thinking when they stare off into the
distance.
Pick 3 people, living or dead, who you would
like to spend the day with, and what
would you do?
Madonna, Pink and my mom. We would just hang
out, drinking and listening to great music.
So which Sex and the City character does
each one play in this scenario?
Madonna would be Samantha. I would be a
healthy mix of all of them. I dont think any one of
us would be Charlotte or Miranda too tame.
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ZIEGFELDS/SECRETS
All nude male dancers,
9pm Ladies of Illusion
with host Ella Fitzgerald,
9pm DJ Steve
Henderson in Secrets DJ
Spyke in Ziegfelds Doors
8pm Cover 21+
SUN., 05.18.14
9 1/2
drink, 5-9pm Multiple
TVs showing movies,
shows, sports Expanded
craft beer selection No
cover
FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Champagne Brunch
Buffet, 10am-3pm
Crazy Hour, 4-8pm
Drag Show hosted by
Destiny B. Childs featuring
performances by a rotating
cast, 9pm No cover
Karaoke follows show
JR.S
Sunday Funday Liquid
Brunch Doors open at
1pm $2 Coors Lights &
$3 Skyy (all favors), all
day and night
NELLIES
Drag Brunch, hosted by
Shi-Queeta-Lee, 11am-3pm
$20 Brunch Buffet
House Rail Drinks, Zing
Zang Bloody Marys, Nellie
Beer and Mimosas, $4,
11am-close Buckets of
Beer, $15
NUMBER NINE
Pop Goes the World with
Wes Della Volla at 9:30
pm Happy Hour: 2 for
1 on any drink, 5-9pm
No Cover
ZIEGFELDS/SECRETS
Decades of Dance DJ
Tim-e in Secrets Doors
8pm Cover 21+
MON., 05.19.14
9 1/2
Open at 5pm Happy
5-9pm Multiple TVs
showing movies, shows,
sports Expanded craft
ANNIES
4@4 Happy Hour, 4-7pm
$4 Small Plates, $4 Stella
Artois, $4 House Wines,
$4 Stolichnaya Cocktails,
$4 Manhattans and Vodka
Martinis
FREDDIES
Crazy Hour, 4-7pm
Karaoke, 9pm
JR.S
Happy Hour: 2-for-1, 4-9pm
Showtunes Songs &
Singalongs, 9pm-close
DJ Jamez $3 Drafts
NELLIES SPORTS BAR
Hour $2 (5-6pm), $3
(6-7pm), $4 (7-8pm)
Buckets of Beer $15
Poker Texas Holdem, 8pm
NUMBER NINE
No Cover
PWS SPORTS BAR
Laurel, Md.
301-498-4840
Buzztime Trivia
competition 75 cents off
bottles and drafts
TUES., 05.20.14
9 1/2
Open at 5pm Happy
5-9pm Multiple TVs
showing movies, shows,
sports Expanded craft
ANNIES
Happy Hour, 4-7pm $4
Stella Artois, $4 House
Wines, $4 Stolichnaya
Cocktails, $4 Manhattans
and Vodka Martinis
FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Crazy Hour, 4-7pm
Karaoke, 9pm
JR.S
Underground (Indie Pop/
Alt/Brit Rock), 9pm-close
DJ Wes Della Volla
2-for-1, all day and night
NELLIES SPORTS BAR
Hour $2 (5-6pm), $3
(6-7pm), $4 (7-8pm)
Buckets of Beer $15
Karaoke
NUMBER NINE
No Cover
PWS SPORTS BAR
Laurel, Md.
301-498-4840
75 cents off bottles and
drafts Movie Night
WED., 05.21.14
9 1/2
Habibi: A Gay Middle
Eastern Party, 9pm Open
at 5pm Happy Hour: 2
for 1 on any drink, 5-9pm
Multiple TVs showing
movies, shows, sports
Expanded craft beer
selection No cover
Whats your greatest fear?
Spiders.
Roller coasters: wooden or steel?
Neither. I hate roller coasters. I used to like them
as a kid, but the older Ive gotten,
they freak me out.
What turns you on?
Condent people.
What turns you off?
A nasty disposition.
Whats your idea of a romantic getaway?
Bright lights, big city. A night in New York. Loud
music, being around people having a good time.
Being able to get lost in the situation.
Whats the strangest place youve
ever had sex?
Do I really have to tell you that? My moms not
going to be reading this, I hope. The bathroom at
the supermarket. Mind you, I was 19.
Dene good in bed.
Aggressive, fearless.
Can men fake it? Should they?
Im sure they can. It doesnt apply to me Im a
gold-star lesbian. Should they? I have before,
so sure.
Name two people you dont ever want to
picture having sex.
Julia Child and any man.
Whats your favorite late-night eats?
Pizza. With cheese, mushrooms and green
peppers.
Whats the best tip you ever got?
The best experience I had behind the bar was
when this couple came in, spent two to three
hours drinking and stiffed me. Some random guy
noticed how they were treating me, went to the
ATM, withdrew $100 and gave it to me.
When you go to a bar, what do you order?
A shot of Fireball and a Woodchuck hard cider.
Youre stranded on a desert island with one
person. Who do you pick?
Im going to go back to my girl Madonna. Id
denitely be entertained. Shes a genius, so Id
learn a lot. And Id denitely be in shape.
What annoys you?
Ignorant people.
What pleases you?
Good friends, good people. One thing about my
friends is we always have each others backs. We
know when theres a friend emergency. I cant
say anything negative about my close friends.
Whats the worst thing a friend
could do to you?
Lie. Lying is a betrayal. If you give it to me
straight, youll get more respect from me.
Who is your greatest inuence or hero?
My mom and dad. Theyll have been married 37
years on June 3. They know how to have a good
time and enjoy each others company. Theyre
hardworking, successful people.
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Whats your favorite cocktail to make?
Margaritas. I always squeeze fresh limes, and I
add a little bit of orange juice. A little extra tequila
never hurt.
If you could change one thing about your
body, what would it be?
The scar on my nose.
Whats your theme song?
Jump by Madonna.
You become master of the world. Whats
your rst act?
I would demand that people be kind to one
another.
What are you most grateful for?
My family.
What would you die for?
Truth.
Whats your motto?
Live and let live. l
ANNIES
Happy Hour, 4-7pm $4
Stella Artois, $4 House
Wines, $4 Stolichnaya
Cocktails, $4 Manhattans
and Vodka Martinis
FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Crazy Hour, 4-7pm Drag
Bingo, 8pm Karaoke,
10pm
GREEN LANTERN
Happy Hour Prices,
4pm-Close
JR.S
Trivia with MC Jay
Ray, 8pm The Queen,
10-11pm $2 JRs Drafts
& $4 Vodka ($2 with
College I.D./JRs Team
Shirt)
NELLIES SPORTS BAR
Hour $2 (5-6pm), $3
(6-7pm), $4 (7-8pm)
Half-Price Burger Night
Buckets of Beer $15
SmartAss Trivia, 8pm
NUMBER NINE
No Cover
PWS SPORTS BAR
Laurel, Md.
301-498-4840
Free Pool 75 cents off
Bottles and Drafts
ZIEGFELDS/SECRETS
New Meat Wednesday
DJ Don T 9pm Cover
21+ l
scene
Duplex Diner
Thursday, May 8
PHOTOGRAPHY BY
CHRISTOPHER CUNETTO
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with your
smartphone
for bonus scene
pics online!
A
FTER ELIMINATION,
there was denitely
an outpouring, says
fan-favorite Ben DeLaCreme
of her elimination from this
seasons RuPauls Drag
Race. I have heard several
sources say my elimination
was one of the more
controversial.
You may not be able to
watch her on the show,
but this Saturday, D.C.-
area residents can see her
perform in person at Town.
Not being in Americas
living rooms every week
has actually made the
Seattle residents star burn
brighter.
We lm over the
summer, so Ive had
months to come to
terms with this, says
DeLaCreme. But having
people freak out has been
this amazing reection of
vindication. Theres part
of me that feels like this
reaction is everything
I couldve hoped for.
What I wanted from this
experience was to show my
work to people and have
them want more.
The enthusiastic show-
queen has not totally
planned out his set list yet,
but conrms it will likely
include new music from
a live show that debuts
in New York May 21, and
describes the experience
of reconciling his male
persona, Ben, with its now
famous feminine side.
While that challenge has
been personal, DeLaCreme
also enjoys challenging
her audiences notions of
gender and performance.
She combines her Art
Institute of Chicago
degree with her years in
Seattles punky, intellectual
burlesque scene to create
a queen with some
unexpected substance.
Shes goofy and
bubbly and upbeat, but
thats the sugar that makes
the medicine go down. I
developed this [act] ready
for a mass market. The
public at large is a little less
progressive than many drag
queens, but drag is such
a shiny, pretty thing that
people want to reach out and
touch it. That forces them to
come in contact with things
like gender transgression and
questions of what gender
even means.
As DeLaCremes career
continues to motor on
after Drag Race, it is clear
that there is one challenge
DeLaCreme wont be
missing that of a stern,
in-person reading by RuPaul
herself.
She has this insane
kind of power and aura
about her that feels godly in
an ancient Greek way, like
she could use it for good
or evil. Shes not a force of
good or evil, shes just a
force.
BenDeLaCreme performs
Saturday, May 17, at Town
Danceboutique, 2009 8th
St. NW. Doors open at 10
p.m. Cover charge is $8
before 11 p.m., $12 after.
21 and older. For more
information, call 202-234-
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Let me tell you something, if we were playing the Vikings right now,
Id probably have three sacks the rst game. Since February and my big announcement, this has been a whole [lot of]
speculation of the rst openly gay football player, but you know what? Its not about that.
Its about playing football.
MICHAEL SAM, speaking to press after becoming the rst out gay player to be drafted to the National Football League. He will
play for the St. Louis Rams.
(ESPN)
Im sorry but that

Michael Sam is no bueno
for doing that on national tv. Man U got little kids lookin at the draft. I cant believe ESPN even allowed that to happen.
DERRICK WARD, former NFL running back, commenting on Twitter about Sams reaction to learning hed been drafted. After
receiving the call, Sam kissed his boyfriend, Vito Cammisano, which was televised.
(Twitter/ESPN)

This is dedicated to everyone who believes in a future of peace and freedom.

We are unity and we are unstoppable.
CONCHITA WURST, the gender-non-conforming Austrian winner of the Eurovision 2014 song contest,
upon sealing the top spot May 10 in Copenhagen.
(The Daily Mail, U.K.)
I am just in shock, I think. You go from being so private and hidden to such a public display of commitment.
Its just so nice.
SUSAN BARR, of Dallas, who married Shelly Butler, in Little Rock, Ark., May 12, following a circuit court judges ruling that the
states marriage ban was unconstitutional. With about 200 couples marrying Monday, Barr and Butler, who arrived
late Sunday night from Texas, were allowed to move to the head of the line in light of Barrs muscular
dystrophy, for which she requires a wheelchair.
(USA Today)
Anytime the phone rings, we get nervous.

This is not just some trafc case, this is about our lives.
Were not getting any younger. But we try not to think about the lawsuit all the time; it cant be the focus of our lives.
TIM BOSTIC, of Bostic v. Rainey, the case challenging Virginias marriage ban, arguments for which were heard Monday
in Richmond in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Bostic, who is 48, has been with
his partner, Tony London, 54, for nearly 25.
(Richmond Times-Dispatch)

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