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Sanders, Clinton atodds over DOMA history

By CHRIS [email protected]

After a triumphant stretch in which shesoared at the rst Democratic debate andwithstood a GOP assault at the Benghazihearings, Democratic presidential frontrunnerHillary Clinton found herself playing defenseagain, this time taking criticism over the 1996Defense of Marriage Act.

The ap began when Clinton, duringan interview with Rachel Maddow,characterized DOMA as a “defensive”

move to thwart a threatened constitutionalamendment that would have bannedsame-sex marriage.

“And there had to be some way to stopthat,” Clinton said. “There wasn’t a rationalargument because I was in on some of thosediscussions on both ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’and on DOMA, where both the president,his advisers and occasionally I would chimein and talk about, ‘You can’t be serious. Youcan’t be serious. But they were.”

When Clinton called DOMA “a line that wasdrawn that was to prevent going further,”Maddow asked if she would call it a defensiveaction. Clinton apparently liked the term,

Houston voters to decide fate of pro-LGBT ordinance


Following a high-prole campaign that has grabbed national headlines, alleyes will be on Houston next week for a vote on a pro-LGBT non-discriminationordinance — and the outcome may set the stage for enacting similar protectionsacross the country.

The Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, which will go before voters on Tuesday asProposition 1, would prohibit discrimination in several categories, including sexual

orientation and gender identity, in the areas of employment, services, contractingpractices, housing and public accommodations.

Matt McTighe, executive director of Freedom for All Americans, is among thesupporters of the campaign to pass the ordinance and said his organization’spriority “is ensuring the strongest possible turnout of voters in Houston.”

“We’ve been on the ground providing communications and digital strategy, eldorganizing, and nancial support in collaboration with our partners at HoustonUnites,” McTighe said. “A victory for nondiscrimination protections in Houstonwould reaffi rm that people of all backgrounds are valued and welcome in America’sbiggest, most business-friendly cities.”

The weeks leading up the vote have been contentious as opponents of theordinance have aired anti-trans ads stoking fears about transgender people usingthe restroom consistent with their gender identity. Proponents of HERO have

repudiated that assertion by insisting untoward behavior in public restroomswould still be punishable under the law.

As reported by ThinkProgress, Bob McNair, owner of the Houston Texans football

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DANNY’S DEFENSE

Pintauro stands bycontroversial commentson oral HIV transmission.

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SEEKING ANSWERS

Sen. Franken asks FBIto probe rash of transmurders in 2015.

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FAIRFAX FIGHT

Adam Ebbin on why votersshould pay attentionto school board race.

HILLARY CLINTON said DOMA wasa ‘defensive’ measure, an assertiondisputed by many activists.

WASHINGTON BLADE FILE PHOTO BY MICHAEL KEY

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News from mayoral appointee,new schools offi cial and Penn alumnus

By PETER ROSENSTEIN

This column highlights the accomplishments of D.C.-area LGBTprofessionals. To share your good news with the community, email us at

[email protected] T. Carney shared exciting news with us.Carney, a Blade freelance writer, was recentlyelected to a two-year term on the SteeringCommittee for PennGALA (the Lesbian GayBisexual Transgender Alumni Association of theUniversity of Pennsylvania). PennGALA connectsand represents LGBT Penn alumni and supportsthe needs of students.

Carney graduated cum laude in 1984 with abachelor’s degree in economics from the WhartonSchool, with a concentration in management anda bachelor’s in urban studies from the College ofArts and Sciences. He is a produced playwrightand published author and holds an MFA in theatrefrom Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Carney has held seniorleadership positions at a number of Washington non-prots, including theWashington Project for the Arts, the Advocacy Institute, the World ResourcesInstitute and, most recently, AIDS United. He serves as a judge for the MentorCapital Network Annual Business Plan Collaboration. He and his husbandBrian K. Long, a senior internal auditor for the State Department FederalCredit Union, live in Wheaton, Md., with their cats.

David Franco has been nominated to the D.C.Zoning Commission by Mayor Bowser. Francois a native Washingtonian and successful LGBTbusinessman and developer. Recently Jack Evans,Ward 2 Council member, asked Council ChairPhil Mendelson to hold a conrmation hearingfor Franco. Mendelson has so far declined todo so, citing concerns with Franco’s work as adeveloper. But Mendelson has previously votedfor developers to serve on the commission, raisingquestions about whether he is holding up thenomination for other reasons, including a disputewith the mayor. Franco is more than qualied toserve and Mendelson should schedule a hearingas soon as possible on his nomination.

Travis Wright was recently appointed deputychief of early childhood education by ChancellorKaya Henderson at D.C. Public Schools. Travis

graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Universityof Tennessee, Knoxville with a bachelor’s inCollege Scholars- Summa Cum Laude in 1998. Imet him in 1999 where he worked for a year as ateacher at the Gage-Eckington Elementary School.We had long conversations about how diffi cult itwas for a rst-year teacher in a class with manyspecial education students and no support fromthe administration. Travis committed himself tomaking things better here in D.C. for all children.He attended Harvard and earned his master’s ofeducation emphasizing human development and psychology and wenton to earn his doctorate of education there in June 2006. His dissertation

was titled, “Making It vs. Satisfaction: Well-Being and the Lives of WomenRaising Young Children in Poverty.”Travis took a leave from his position at the University of Wisconsin-

Madison where he is assistant professor of Early Childhood Education.DCPS, our children and their parents, are lucky to have Travis Wright backin D.C.

ELECTION PREVIEW

College Park race, Fairfax ght draw attentionSlate backed by anti-LGBT group eyes takeover of school board

By LOU CHIBBARO [email protected]

Gay attorney Patrick Wojahn, a City Council member in College Park, Md., who’s running for

mayor of his city, is one of six openly gay candidates on the ballot on Nov. 3 for various elective

offi ces in the D.C.-area suburbs of Maryland and Virginia.Although there are no LGBT candidates running for any of the 12 seats on the Fairfax CountySchool Board up for election on Tuesday, LGBT activists in Fairfax are campaigning hard forthe re-election of eight LGBT-supportive incumbents.

Activists say the eight incumbents and two other board members who are not seekingre-election were instrumental in the approval over the past year of two important LGBT-supportive school policy initiatives.

Five of the eight LGBT-supportive incumbents and four other LGBT-supportive candidateson the ballot are being challenged by a slate of candidates backed by the anti-LGBT TraditionalValues Coalition. The aim of the TVC, according to its leader Andrea Lafferty, is a majoritytakeover of the school board and a reversal of the LGBT-supportive measures approved bythe current board.

“It will likely come down to who gets more of their voters out, and that is why it is vital thatour community and our allies take these races seriously,” said Fairfax gay activist Joshua Israel.

In College Park, Wojahn is being challenged by fellow Council member Denise Mitchell. Withboth candidates popular in their respective districts, most political observers are saying it’shard to predict who will emerge as the winner.

Supporters of the two say each would make history if they win. Wojahn would becomeCollege Park’s rst openly gay mayor and Mitchell would become the city’s rst African-American woman to become mayor.

Also running in College Park is gay Council member P.J. Brenan, who’s vying for re-electionto a second term. Brenan, who holds a master’s degree in business administration fromthe University of Maryland and works for the federal government, is being challenged bybusinessman and former Army satellite communications technician Daniel Blasberg Jr.

LGBT activists in Takoma Park, Md., meanwhile, have been extending their best wishes toa popular gay offi cial who isn’t on the ballot this year. Takoma Park Mayor Bruce Williams,who’s completing his fourth term in offi ce, is retiring, a development that will result in theprogressive city no longer having an openly gay elected offi cial for the rst time in 22 years.

Williams holds the distinction of being the rst openly gay elected offi cial in Maryland, D.C.and Virginia. He rst won election in 1993 to the Takoma Park City Council four years beforeDavid Catania became D.C.’s rst out gay Council member in 1997.

Another Maryland contest involving a gay elected offi cial outside the D.C. metro area isalso attracting attention. Gay two-term Mayor Jim Ireton of the Eastern Shore city of Salisburysurprised the city’s political establishment in September when he announced he would run fora seat on the City Council rather than seek re-election as mayor.

Ireton is running against local businessman Roger Mazzullo for the 4th District Council seatin a race whose outcome is uncertain.

Back across the Potomac River in Virginia, gay State Sen. Adam Ebbin (D-Alexandria) and gayState Del. Mark Sickles (D-Fairfax) are considered strong favorites to win re-election on Tuesday.

Gay rights attorney and talk show host Mark Levine is running unopposed for an open State

Delegate seat representing Alexandria after winning a hotly contested Democratic primary in June.Rounding out the ‘gay’ ticket in Northern Virginia is Alexandria City Council member PaulSmedberg, an out gay Democrat who is running for a fth three-year term. Smedberg is oneof 11 candidates – ve incumbents and six challengers — running for six at-large City Councilseats under Alexandria’s electoral system. Most political observers expect Smedberg to beamong the six top vote-getters to enable him to retain his seat.

In the Fairfax School Board election, LGBT activists and their allies are also campaigningfor two pro-LGBT candidates running in districts with open seats and for an LGBT-supportivecandidate running against one of the two incumbents not supportive on LGBT issues. Theother non-supportive incumbent is running unopposed.

The pro-LGBT incumbents seeking re-election to the board’s three at-large seats are RyanMcElveen, Ilryong Moon and Ted Velkoff, all of whom are Democrats. The LGBT-supportiveincumbents running for re-election to their district seats include Megan McLaughlin (Braddock

District), Janie Strauss (Dranesville District), Pay Hynes (Hunter Mill District), Tamara DerenakKaufax (Lee District), Karen Corbett Sanders (Mount Vernon District) and Sandy Evans (MasonDistrict). Each is running as a Democrat.

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Former childactor-turned-AIDS-activisthonored in D.C.

By LOU CHIBBARO [email protected]

Former child star Danny Pintauro says

he’s been unfairly criticized by some AIDSactivists for saying he thinks he becameinfected with HIV through oral sex, andthat his decision to raise the subjecthas drawn needed attention to HIVprevention efforts.

In an interview with the WashingtonBlade, Pintauro says he never made adenitive statement that he was certain thatoral sex was the means through which hebecame infected more than 12 years ago.

“Everybody has their own version ofthe truth. And I’ve since said a couple ofthings about how I’m not 100 percentsure,” he said, recalling that he has longreected on his intimate relations with amale partner through whom he believeshe became infected.

“You never know,” he said, adding, “Ispent the last 12 years sort of trying togure out what happened that day, andthat’s my best guess.”

Pintauro, 39, is well known for hisportrayal of Jonathan Bower on ABC’s1980s sitcom hit, “Who’s The Boss?”He made national headlines when hedisclosed just over a month ago on Oprah

Winfrey’s “Where Are They Now” showthat he was HIV positive and had beenaddicted to crystal meth.

He has since announced he plans totour the country to generate a renewedphase of AIDS activism and to deliver toyoung people his personal message onhow he overcame his struggle with crystalmeth abuse and how staying away fromthe drug scene can help people avoid HIV.

Last Saturday, Oct. 24, D.C.’s Whitman-Walker Health presented Pintauro with itsannual Courage Award for a person with HIV

“who has shown remarkable courage andleadership in the ght against the disease.”Whitman-Walker Executive Director

Don Blanchon presented the award toPintauro and Atlanta AIDS and women’srights activist Dazon Dixon Diallo at theconclusion of the organization’s Walkto End HIV, which drew close to 5,000participants and was expected to raisemore than $600,000 for Whitman-Walker’s local AIDS programs.

Pintauro and Diallo were among thosewho led the annual Walk to End HIV throughthe streets of downtown Washington.

“When you come out today and yousee 5,000 people of all walks of life, thediversity of this great area, you see anexpression of hope,” said Blanchonminutes before he presented Pintauro

and Diallo with the Courage Awards.The public response to Pintauro’s

disclosure on the Oprah program thathe was HIV positive appeared to beoverwhelmingly supportive.

But his comment less than a weeklater on “The View” that he thought hebecame infected through oral sex drewimmediate criticism from a number ofAIDS activist bloggers. Among otherthings, they pointed out that no caseof oral transmission of HIV has beenscientically conrmed.

Experts on HIV transmission, including

researchers with the U.S. Centers forDisease Control and Prevention, havesaid transmission through oral sex istheoretically possible but diffi cult if notimpossible to conrm because virtuallyall of the data they have is based onpersonal reporting of sexual practices bypeople infected with HIV.

“Receiving fellatio, giving or receivingcunnilingus, and giving or receivinganilingus carry little to no risk,” the CDCsays in a statement on its website. “Thehighest oral sex risk is to individuals

performing fellatio on an HIV-infectedman, with ejaculation in the mouth,” theCDC statement says.

The statement adds, “Even though oralsex carries a lower risk of HIV transmissionthan other sexual activities, the risk is notzero. It is d iffi cult to measure the exactrisk because people who practice oralsex may also practice other forms of sexduring the same encounter.”

Dr. Raymond Martins, Whitman-Walker’s senior director of clinicaltraining and the organization’s formerchief medical offi cer, said his view basedon the voluminous data and scienticstudies on HIV transmission that he’sseen is that transmission through oralsex is “extremely unlikely.”

According to Martins, some studies

based on patient interviews show thatthe chance of becoming infected with HIVby performing oral sex is less than one inevery 10,000 acts.

He notes that the anatomy of themouth, unlike the anal canal, has athicker lining of protective cells, makingit much harder for the virus to get closeenough to either blood in the mouth orwhite blood cells in the mouth where thevirus could enter.

“And then at the same time, the salivais protective,” he said. “It doesn’t allowHIV to be as viable.”

Added Martins: “In the anal canal thelining is very thin and so it tears easilyand so a lot of times HIV comes in directcontact with blood or with the white bloodcells that are directly below the surface.”

Martins and CDC experts have saiddue to the easier transmission throughthe anal canal, people engaging in analintercourse should always use a condomfor protection.

Pintauro has said since coming out asHIV positive that he may have had soresin his mouth due to his abuse of crystal

meth, which can cause mouth ulcers, andthat could have facilitated his becominginfected through oral sex.

Martins said the studies showing thatthe risk of infection from oral sex withsomeone who is HIV positive is less thanone in 10,000 must have included peoplewho have had abrasions in their mouths.

“It seems not to increase the riskdramatically if at all,” he said, even whenejaculation occurs in the mouth.

Pintauro, while not disputing datashowing oral transmission is unlikely,points to the CDC statement saying oraltransmission is possible.

“Yeah — the chances are incredibly slim,I admit that,” he told the Blade. “But you’dbe surprised about the number of peoplewho contacted me in the last week and a

half saying that that’s the same way thatthey believe they’ve contracted it,” he said.

“And you have to remember that I’mthrowing meth into the picture. So any ofthese statistics are going to change or anyof the chances are going to be differentwhen you put in that factor that I’ve beendoing that for God knows how manyhours,” he said.

Asked if he was surprised by thecriticism over his statement about oraltransmission, Pintauro said he was not.

“You can’t go into doing somethinglike this and expect to get 100 percent

in support,” he said. “But I was a littlesurprised because the backlash wascoming from the people that I wanted tobecome – these AIDS activists mostly.”

“And I was surprised because I didn’texpect that the negativity would come fromwithin the community,” he said. “I thoughtif anything it would come from outside thecommunity where stigma is based.”

He said he was also taken aback whensome of the AIDS activist critics accused himof being uniformed on HIV transmissionand the scientic data on HIV.

“And I’m saying, now wait a minute.Why don’t you go and look at the CDC’swebsite and look at the fact that they saythat it is possible all be it very diffi cult,”said Pintauro. “I feel like you’re the onewho’s uniformed, right?”

Added Pintauro: “But the idea is sortof to get past that and get to the biggerissues and get to the broader topics thatwe need to focus on. And let’s get there.It’s time to skip that and talk about takingbetter care of each other.”

Pintauro came out as gay in 1997, adevelopment that also drew widespreadcoverage in the entertainment media.Last year he and his partner, Will Tabares,were married.

Visit washingtonblade.com for a completetranscript of the interview with Pintauro.

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DANNY PINTAURO says he’s been unfairlycriticized by AIDS activists for saying hebecame infected with HIV through oral sex.

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Pintauro defends comments on oral sex HIV transmission


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Dems seek to lift Social Security penaltyA group of 121 members of Congress — led by gay Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) in the

House and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in the Senate — are calling on the SocialSecurity Administration to lift penalties on gay couples who were over-payed benetsfollowing the historic rulings from the Supreme Court on marriage.

In a letter dated Oct. 26, the lawmaker — all Democrats — call on Social SecurityAdministration Acting Commissioner Carolyn Colvin and U.S. Attorney General LorettaLynch to take action to administer benets “fairly to all individuals.”

“We are concerned to hear that, for some time after the Supreme Court’s Windsordecision, SSA continued to issue benets to Supplemental Security Income recipients

in same-sex marriages as though these individuals were single, and that for some

SSI recipients, SSA is still doing so,” the letter says. “Because benets for unmarriedindividuals are higher than those for married individuals, SSA’s failure to update itspolicies resulted in overpayments.”

According to the letter, the Social Security Administration sent out overpaymentnotices to recollect the money even though “they were overpayed due to SSA’s delayedimplementation of the law.”

The letter calls on the Obama administration to “issue a blanket waiver for recoveryof overpayment” so that couples who inadvertently continued to receive higher benetsafter the Supreme Court’s decisions against the Defense of Marriage Act would be ableto keep that money automatically.

The lawmakers ask the Social Security Administration to respond by Nov. 18 withinformation on how the agency is identifying affected recipients and efforts to updateits systems so benets are administered fairly.

As the letter notes, litigation led by Justice in Aging and the New England-basedGay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders known as Held v. Colvin seeks to compel theadministration to drop the penalty on these overpayments. A district court dismissedthe lawsuit on the basis that administrative remedies aren’t yet exhausted, but thelitigation is on appeal before the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

No Republicans signed the letter. Warren’s offi ce didn’t respond to a request forcomment on whether any of the organizers engaged in any Republican outreach.

William “B.J.” Jarrett, a Social Security spokesperson, said the agency cannot commenton the letter as a result of pending litigation.

“Social Security is committed to treating all Americans fairly, with dignity and respect,” Jarrett said. “We cannot comment as this issue is the subject of active litigation. ActingCommissioner Colvin will respond to the letter from the members of Congress at theappropriate time.”

The Justice Department didn’t immediately respond to the Washington Blade’srequest to comment on the letter.

CHRIS JOHNSON

Calif. sets process for inmate gender reassignment

California has instituted a new review process for transgender inmates seekinggender reassignment surgery that advocates are hailing as “historic” and a potentialmodel for the nation.

The policy, established this week by the California Correctional Health Care Services,sets a formal process for transgender people seeking taxpayer-funded genderreassignment surgery — a procedure endorsed by major medical and psychologicalorganizations.

Kris Hayashi, executive director of Transgender Law Center, commended the changein a statement and said other states should look to the policy for guidance.

“By adopting this groundbreaking policy, California has set a model for the rest ofthe country and ensured transgender people in prison can access life-saving care whenthey need it,” Hayashi said.

The change was enacted after lawsuits led by the Oakland-based Transgender LawCenter on behalf of Michelle Norsworthy, a transgender inmate who’s on parole andwas incarcerated for second-degree murder at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, Calif.,and Shiloh Quine, another transgender inmate serving time at the same facility for rst-degree murder, kidnapping and robbery.

Norsworthy, who was initially granted gender reassignment surgery as a result ofcourt order, but later denied the procedure after the state appealed the decision, wasamong those commending the change in a statement.

“I suffered for decades as my identity, my medical needs, and my very humanitywere denied by the people and system responsible for my care,” Norsworthy said. “Iam beyond proud to have been part of the movement to make this policy happen, andI know it will change and save the lives of so many women still ghting for survival inmen’s prisons.”

Flor Bermudez, the Transgender Law Center’s detention project director, credited herorganization’s lawsuit with bringing the change into effect.

“We are thrilled that our work with Michelle and Shiloh brought about this historicchange in California prison policy, and Transgender Law Center looks forward to workingwith the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to ensure transgenderpeople in prison aren’t denied medical care, commissary items, or safe housing justbecause of who they are,” Bermudez said.

But Bermudez added more work is needed to ensure humane treatment oftransgender prisoners within the California corrections system.

“There are absolutely some details, such as compliance with the Prison RapeElimination Act and the qualications of the experts making the assessment, whichrequire more work and consideration, and we hope to continue that discussion withCDCR,” she said.

CHRIS JOHNSON

Intersex person suesover passport denial

Lambda Legal on Monday leda federal lawsuit against the StateDepartment on behalf of an intersexperson who was denied a passportbecause they do not identify as maleor female.

The lawsuit notes that Dana AlixZzyym, a resident of Fort Collins,Colo., who is the associate director ofthe U.S. affi liate of the OrganizationIntersex International, applied for apassport in September 2014 in orderto travel to Mexico City this week foran international conference that willfocus on intersex-specic issues.

Those who are applying for apassport for the rst time mustsubmit a copy of their birth certicate.

The State Department in a Sept.24, 2014, letter to Zzyym stated itdenied the application because it was“unable to fulll your request to listyour sex as ‘X,’ even though doctorsat the U.S. Department of VeteransAffairs conrmed the gender listed onthe birth certicate as “unknown.” TheState Department said Zzyym could receive a passport with a male or femalegender marker or withdraw the application.

Zzyym on Dec. 19, 2014, provided additional documentation to the ColoradoPassport Agency for the State Department to prove their intersex identity. Thissecond application was denied 10 days later.

Zzyym on Feb. 26 requested that the State Department reconsider its decision.An April 10 letter said this petition had been denied.

The lawsuit names Secretary of State John Kerry and Sherman Portell,director of the Colorado Agency for the State Department, as defendants. It

further alleges the State Department violated the Fifth Amendment of the U.S.Constitution and the Administrative Prodecure Act by denying Zzyym a passportthat accurately reects their gender.

“When I was a child, I had no say in what was done to me in order to makeme ‘t’ in some acceptable category,” said Zzyym in a press release that LambdaLegal released on Monday. “I continue to suffer the consequences of thosedecisions today. But, as an adult, I can take a stand. I am not male, I am notfemale, I am intersex, and I shouldn’t have to choose a gender marker for myoffi cial U.S. identity document that isn’t me.”

The State Department on Monday declined to comment on Zzyym’s lawsuit.Lambda Legal in its press release notes Australia, India, Malta, Nepal and New

Zealand are among the countries that issue passports without female or malegender markers. The International Civil Aviation Organization, a U.N. agency that

sets standards for documents used for international travel, recognizes the “X”gender marker.Lambda Legal announced its lawsuit on Intersex Awareness Day, which is

designed to raise awareness of intersex issues around the world.CHRIS JOHNSON

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The State Department rejected apassport application from DANA ALIXZZYYM.

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi(D-Calif.) addressed last week the recordnumber of transgender murders this year,saying the violence is “heartbreaking”and “it’s important to listen to the peoplemost affected by it.”

Pelosi made the remarks during herweekly news conference at the U.S.Capitol in response to a question fromthe Washington Blade on what should bedone about the spike in anti-trans violencefollowing the recent death of Zella Ziona,whose murder many are counting as the21st transgender murder in 2015.

“We can pass a law, we can help to breakdown barriers in people’s minds,” Pelosisaid. “Now we have to get to their hearts,but it is heartbreaking to hear of violenceagainst anyone, but the vulnerability ofour transgender community.”

The California Democrat referencedthe Matthew Shepard & James Byrd Jr.Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which shesaid passed over objections when shewas speaker in 2009 with a prohibitionagainst bias-motivated violence based ongender identity.

“At that time, there had been someresistance — I don’t know where — but

people would say to me, ‘You can pass thishate crimes bill in a second if you didn’tinclude transgender,’” Pelosi said. “And Isaid, ‘Well, I’m never going to pass it in amillion years if we don’t include transgenderbecause it’s important for it to be inclusive,and transgender people are probably themost in need of a hate crimes bill.’”

It should be noted Pelosi in 2007 madea different decision with the EmploymentNon-Discrimination Act, bringing tothe oor a bill without gender identityprotections when former Rep. Barney

Frank said only a gay-only version of thelegislation would pass the House. Frankand Pelosi later committed to trans-inclusive legislation.

Pelosi said she recently had meetingswith the LGBT community — one inWashington State, one in San Francisco —on a number of issues and took note ofthe introduction in July of the Equality Act,legislation she co-sponsors that wouldamend federal civil rights laws to includeLGBT people.

“We want to listen specically to thetransgender community to hear whatsome of their suggestions might be as wego forward, as we see this sadness,” Pelosisaid. “But we always want to listen to thepeople who are most affected by it.”

Making the point legislation “macro-

ly” should be inclusive, Pelosi added toenforce the law “we have to listen to thecommunity, because they’re, sadly, onthe front line of this.”

White House Deputy Principal PressSecretary Eric Schultz echoed the dismayover the recent transgender killingswhen asked by the Washington Bladeabout whether the spike in transgendermurders amounts to a national crisis.

“I saw the heart-wrenching report outof Baltimore that you mentioned, and Ithink it’s fair to say that the thoughts andprayers of those of us at the White Houseare with the family,” Schultz said.

But Schultz said he doesn’t have any new

initiative to unveil that would confrontthe spike in violence at a national level.

“I don’t have sort of new legislativeor offi cial rev iews to announce today,”Schultz said. “Obviously, the president’srecord on this is well-known.”

The offi cials made the comments oneday after Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) madea public a letter seeking answers fromthe Justice Department and the FBI onreporting and monitoring of transgendermurders and the extent to which thefederal government is working with local

authorities on the issue.Pelosi endorsed the letter in a responseto a follow-up question, saying in responseto whether she thinks its contents are agood idea, “Sure. Always. Yes.”

Schultz said he couldn’t respond to theletter directly because he’s not aware ofit, but added Obama broadly believesmaking information public is a good thing.

“I will say generally speaking thepresident has been very strong in hisadvocacy in increased transparency andincreased data,” Schultz said. “I knowthat’s something we worked very hard onboth at the Justice Department in termsof the law enforcement arena, but alsoat other areas of the administration. So,generally speaking, the president believesthe more information, the better.”

Franken seeks answersIn his letter dated Oct. 21, Franken calls

on U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch andFBI Director James Comey to take action.

“I write to express serious concernabout the alarming number of homicidesand violent crimes targeting transgenderand gender nonconforming people,”Franken wrote. “I strongly urge the U.S.Department of Justice to work with stateand local authorities in the investigationand prosecution of these incidents, and toredouble its efforts to ensure the accuratereporting of all bias-motivated crimes.”

Franken noted the Ziona case in hisletter. The Washington Blade reportedinvestigators believe she may have beenshot after she approached the suspect inpublic and embarrassed him in front ofhis friends. A prosecutor told the Bladesubsequently that Ziona and the suspectwere romantically involved.

Taking note that police and somemedia reports misidentied Ziona asmale, Franken said federal law doesn’trequire state or local authorities to reportincidents of anti-trans violence. Thesenator calls for an update on the JusticeDepartment’s work on tracking bias-motivated crime, saying underreportinganti-trans violence “obscures the threatsmany of our citizens endure every day.”

“I applaud the Department of Justice andthe FBI for their enforcement efforts to date,

as well as the Department’s work to trainfederal, state, and local law enforcementoffi cers to respond appropriately and

effectively to reports of bias-motivatedviolence,” Franken said. “However, accuratedata on the frequency and severity of attacksis needed in order to direct prevention andenforcement efforts to the jurisdictionsmost in need of assistance.”

The senator also called on the JusticeDepartment to work closely with localauthorities to investigate and prosecutehate crimes against transgender peopleas prescribed by the federal hate crimeslaw signed by President Obama in 2009.

“There are indications that distrust in lawenforcement among LGBT communities,and inaccurate or disrespectful reportingregarding transgender victims, havebeen barriers to investigations,” Frankenwrites. “The Department should developa model policy for law enforcementagencies on interactions with LGBT andgender nonconforming individuals andguidance on public communicationsregarding crimes against members of thetransgender community.”

Michael Silverman, executive directorof the New York-based TransgenderLegal Defense & Education Fund,applauded Franken in a statement tothe Washington Blade for calling on theObama administration to take action.

“Measures must be put in place to trackanti-transgender hate crimes at the stateand local level,”Silverman said. “We urgeimplementation of a model policy to helplaw enforcement treat transgender peoplewith the dignity and respect they deserve,

and to communicate with the publicappropriately about transgender peoplewhen they are the victims of hate crimes.”

Michael Sam weighsin on Houston ordinance

The rst openly gay player to be drafted into the NFL has endorsed a measurethat aims to prohibit anti-LGBT discrimination in Houston and is set to come

before city voters on Nov. 3.Michael Sam, a Galveston, Texas, native who gained national attention afterbeing drafted into the NFL, announced last week his support for the HoustonEqual Rights Ordinance, or HERO, in a fundraising email from HRC.

“I know rst-hand what it feels like to be unwelcome – to live an open andauthentic life in a place where you can be ostracized or even discriminated againstfor simply being yourself,” Sam says. “That’s why as a Texas native I was thrilledwhen Houston passed the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) last year...andequally disappointed when opponents petitioned for its repeal this year. Now it’son the ballot and it’s up to all of us to protect Houstonians from discrimination.”

Anti-trans forces are airing fear-mongering advertisements about transgenderpeople in the restrooms aimed at encouraging voters to reject the measure, alsoknown as Proposition 1.

“I’ve seen what the opposition is doing and it’s revolting — launching ugly adsinsinuating LGBT people pose a danger to the community,” Sam says. “They’re out infull force, trying to scare fair-minded Texans into voting against their LGBT neighbors.”

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Michael Hammer onLGBT rights, ForeignService, Benghazi

By MICHAEL K. [email protected]

SANTIAGO, Chile — U.S. Ambassadorto Chile Michael Hammer told theWashington Blade during an interviewlast week that the U.S. continues to showglobal leadership in the promotion ofLGBT rights.

Hammer noted during an Oct. 22interview at the U.S. Embassy in Santiagothat six openly gay ambassadorscurrently represent the country overseasin the Dominican Republic, Spain andAndorra, Denmark, Vietnam, Australiaand the Organization for Security andCooperation in Europe.

“This is a giant leap forward in terms ofmaking a statement that LGBT folks are

just as qualied and just as able to bewonderful representatives of the UnitedStates,” Hammer told the Blade.

Hammer conceded that U.S.Ambassador to the Dominican Republic

James “Wally” Brewster “initially facedsome pretty ugly reactions” from CardinalNicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez ofthe Archdiocese of Santo Domingo andothers in the predominantly RomanCatholic country.

“The United States stands rst onimportant values, equal rights beingamong them,” Hammer told the Blade.

Hammer also noted the StateDepartment’s efforts to “ensure” same-sex partners have equal rights withinthe Foreign Service. He declined tospecically comment on the decision tono longer offer domestic partner benetsto unmarried gay couples.

“The State Department’s been workinghard to get to the appropriate place,”said Hammer, responding to the Blade’s

question about the aforementionedbenets. “In doing so we’re providingleadership and by having openly gayambassadors serving makes it very clearwhere the United States stands. The factwe have very successful ambassadors inthis group is again further validation thatit’s not only the right thing to do, but thesmart thing to do.”

Chile’s leadership‘remarkable’

Hammer, 51, grew up in Honduras,Colombia, Venezuela, El Salvador and Brazil.

He joined the Foreign Service in 1988and has been posted to Iceland, Norway,Denmark and Bolivia. Hammer was theState Department’s Assistant Secretary

for Public Affairs from March 2012through August 2013.

President Obama in June 2013nominated Hammer to become the nextU.S. ambassador to Chile.

Hammer described Chile’s leadershipon global LGBT issues to the Blade as“quite remarkable.”

Chile co-sponsored a resolution againstanti-LGBT violence and discrimination thatthe U.N. Human Rights Council ratiedin September 2014. The South Americancountry, along with the U.S., in August co-

hosted the rst-ever LGBT-specic U.N.Security Council meeting that focused onthe Islamic State’s persecution of Syrian andIraqi men accused of committing sodomy.

Chile last November became therst Latin American country to join theGlobal Equality Fund, a public-privatepartnership designed to promote LGBTrights around the world that the StateDepartment manages with the U.S.Agency for International Development.Special U.S. Envoy for the Human Rightsof LGBTI Persons Randy Berry in June

traveled to Santiago where he met withChilean advocates and embassy staffers.“Before I arrived (in Chile) I heard a lot

about a very conservative society (that is)predominantly Catholic,” Hammer toldthe Blade. “In terms of the issue of LGBTrights and equality they were much moreprogressive than I anticipated them being.”

Hammer spoke with the Blade on thesame day Chile’s law that allows same-sexcouples to enter into civil unions took effect.

“We’re marking that historic moment,”he said. “That’s not to say that it hasn’tbeen a very long struggle.”

Hammer told the Blade that the March2012 murder of Daniel Zamudio — whowas attacked by a group of self-describedneo-Nazis in a Santiago park because hewas gay — “galvanized” Chilean LGBT rights

advocates and the country’s politicians.Then-President Sebastián Piñera in the

summer of 2012 signed an LGBT-inclusivehate crimes and anti-discrimination bill— known as the Zamudio Law — thathad languished in the Chilean Congressfor seven years. A measure that wouldallow trans people in the South Americancountry to legally change their name andsex without sex-reassignment surgeryremains in front of lawmakers.

President Michelle Bachelet publiclysupports both the trans rights bill andmarriage rights for same-sex couples.Labor Minister Javier Blanco and Chile’sAmbassador to the U.N. Cristián BarrosMelet marched alongside Hammer in

Santiago’s annual Pride march that tookplace one day after the U.S. SupremeCourt ruled in the Obergefell case thatsame-sex couples have the right to marrythroughout the United States.

“There was euphoria there and a lot oflove I have to say for the United Statesamong the people that were there,”Hammer told the Blade.

Hammer nevertheless said the Chileangovernment acknowledges LGBT Chileanscontinue to face inequality and discrimination.

“They have obviously, with the civil

unions, made a very important step,”he said. “They have work to do...thegovernment talks about the need forwork to be done.”

The embassy in August gave FundaciónIguales, a Chilean LGBT advocacy group, a$22,782 grant to support what Hammerdescribed as “civil society efforts toprotect the rights of transgender people.”

Hammer told the Blade that thefeedback he receives from Chileans aboutthe embassy’s work in support of LGBTrights has been “overwhelmingly” positive.He conceded some of the comments onthe embassy’s Facebook are nevertheless“just uncomfortable to read.”

“No institution or political party orgroup has come and protested to us asan embassy or to me as an ambassador,”

said Hammer. “Publicly it’s been more aquestion of supporting and applaudingour support for this effort.”

Hammer was among the offi cials whoattended an annual thanksgiving Massknown as “Te Deum” on Sept. 18 thatcoincides with Chile’s Independence Day.

Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati, the archbishopof Santiago, presided over the annualevent that took place roughly a weekafter a Chilean newspaper published aseries of private emails between him andhis predecessor, Cardinal Francisco JavierErrázuriz, that show they conspired toblock a gay man’s nomination to a papalsex abuse commission.

Juan Carlos Cruz, a U.S. citizen living

in Philadelphia, is among the hundredsof people who Rev. Fernando Karadimasexually abused over more than threedecades at a Santiago church. Hammernoted that Ezzati issued a “mea culpa”during the Mass over the way “some ofthe things were reported” in relation tothe leaked emails.

“It’s not an issue we’ve become involvedin,” Hammer told the Blade. “We follow itin a sense because you also learn fromthe reaction of people to these emails...it’s one of outrage generally.”

The Blade interviewed Hammer asformer Secretary of State Hillary Clintontestied before the House BenghaziCommittee about the 2012 attack thatleft then-U.S. Ambassador to Libya ChrisStevens and three other Americans dead.

“Anytime something like this happensyou get shaken by it,” said Hammer, whoworked with Clinton at the time the attackagainst the U.S. Consulate in Benghazitook place. “There’s a great deal of hurtassociated with that.”

“Everybody that I know of, and certainlythat serves as an ambassador takes veryseriously their responsibilities to keeptheir people and Americans safe,” headded. “Yet on occasion we have to bedoing work that, again, is dangerous. Weunderstand that risk.”

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The Chilean Presidential Palace in Santiago, Chile.

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U.S. ambassador to Chile praises gay colleagues

U.S. Ambassador to Chile MICHAEL HAMMER at the U.S. Embassy in Santiago, Chile.

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calling DOMA a “defensive action.”“The culture rapidly changed so that

now what was totally anathema topolitical forces — they have ceded, theyno longer are ghting except on a locallevel and rear guard action,” Clintonadded. “And with the U.S. Supreme Courtdecision, it’s settled.”

Clinton’s chief rival for the Democraticnomination, Sen. Bernard Sanders, duringhis remarks Saturday at the Jefferson-

Jackson dinner in Des Moines, Iowa, madea veiled criticism of Clinton over DOMA.

Sanders recalled being a member ofthe U.S. House at the time and amongthe 57 lawmakers in the Republican-controlled chamber to vote againstDOMA, which was signed into law byPresident Bill Clinton.

“That was not a political, easy vote,”Sanders said. “Now today, some are

trying to rewrite history by saying theyvoted for one anti-gay law to stopsomething worse. That’s not the case.There was a small minority in the Houseopposed to discrimination against ourgay brothers and sisters, and I am proudthat I was one of those members.”

In his prepared remarks, Sanders wassupposed to say, “Not everybody heldthat position in 1996,” but he droppedthat line in favor of saying he was proudto vote against DOMA.

The Vermont senator also identied

gay people as among the minorities hewouldn’t throw under the bus if electedpresident — another possible referenceto Clinton and her lack of support formarriage equality until 2013.

“I will not abandon any segment ofAmerican society – whether you’re gay orblack or Latino or poor or working class –

just because it is politically expedient at agiven time,” Sanders said.

Sanders wasn’t the only one upsetwith Clinton’s recollections of the DOMAght. A number of gay rights activiststook to Twitter to say Clinton engaged inhistoric revisionism during her interviewwith Maddow. Many of those activistsalso tempered their objections by sayingClinton is generally doing right on LGBTrights during her campaign.

David Mixner, a gay rights activist whoonce supported Bill Clinton before thetwo had a falling out over “Don’t Ask,Don’t Tell,” urged LGBT people to rejectthe explanation of DOMA offered by theDemocratic presidential candidate.

“The LGBT community should NEVERallow any politician to revise our nobleand courageous history for politicalpurposes,” Mixner tweeted.

Hilary Rosen, a lesbian Democraticactivist in D.C. and Clinton supporter,said Sanders was right in his criticism

during the Jefferson-Jackson dinner onSaturday that Clinton is revising historyto explain DOMA.

She tweeted, “@BernieSanders is right.Note to my friends Bill and #Hillary:Pls stop saying DOMA was to preventsomething worse. It wasnt, I was there.”

The notion DOMA was passed to stoppassage of a Federal Marriage Amendmenthas been disputed by Hillary Clintonsupporter and former Human RightsCampaign chief Elizabeth Birch, who wrotean op-ed saying “there was no real threat”of a constitutional measure in 1996.

Brian Fallon, a Hillary Clintonspokesperson, said Bill and Hillary Clintonthink DOMA was a “discriminatory” law.

“Whatever the context that led to thepassage of DOMA nearly two decadesago, Hillary Clinton believes the law

was discriminatory and both she andPresident Clinton urged that it beoverturned,” Fallon said. “As president,Hillary Clinton will continue to ght tosecure full and equal rights for LGBTAmericans who, despite all our progress,can still get married on a Saturday andred on a Monday just because of whothey are and who they love.”

The notion that DOMA was signedinto law to stave off a U.S. constitutionalamendment has been articulated beforeby Hillary Clinton during an interview lastyear on National Public Radio. Bill Clintonoffered that rationale for DOMA in 2009during Netroots Nation when confrontedby LGBT activist Lane Hudson.

“We were attempting at the time, ina very reactionary Congress, to headoff an attempt to send a constitutionalamendment banning gay marriage to thestates,” Bill Clinton said. “And if you lookat the 11 referenda much later — in 2004,in the election — which the Republicansput on the ballot to try to get the basevote for President Bush up, I think it’sobvious that something had to be doneto try to keep the Republican Congressfrom presenting that.”

Nowhere in Bill Clinton’s 1996 signingstatement of DOMA does he say anythingexplicit about him agreeing to the legislation

to stop a Federal Marriage Amendment.Instead, the former president talkedabout a state’s right to set its own policyon same-sex marriage, urged passage ofthe Employment Non-Discrimination Actand maintained DOMA shouldn’t “providean excuse for discrimination, violence orintimidation against any person on thebasis of sexual orientation.”

At least one prominent Democratcame to Clinton’s defense this week.Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) told theWashington Blade she believes theaccount offered by Clinton that DOMAhelped stop passage of a FederalMarriage Amendment is correct.

“Well, as I recall, it was a very uglytime,” Mikulski said, recalling that nowDemocratic presidential candidate Clintonwas at the time in the White House as therst lady. “I agree with Sen. Clinton.”

After saying she didn’t want to get intothe debate, Mikulski offered an account

of the Senate vote in 1996 that squareswith Clinton’s narrative.

“What I believe [is] it was an uglytime, we took an action that was limitedand had a lot of problems with it, but itdid stop a constitutional amendment,”Mikulski said. “Now, we’re in a newday, there’s a new energy, there’s newlegislation and I think we’re moving to avery good place.”

Asked by the Blade whether her “yes”vote on DOMA in 1996 was informed bya fear of a constitutional amendment,

Mikulski cited two reasons for the vote.“I was concerned about two things:I was worried about the constitutionalamendment and real religiousexemptions had not yet been workedout,” she said. “There were a lot of phonyones oating around.”

The clash over DOMA highlightsa surprising new trend: Democraticpresidential candidates ghting to seewho can be more LGBT-friendly. Politicalobservers say this election marks therst time — at least to this degree —mainstream Democratic hopefuls havecriticized one another on LGBT rights ina high-prole capacity.

Larry Sabato, a political scientist at theUniversity of Virginia, said he couldn’timmediately recall Democratic snipingon LGBT rights occurring in earlier races.

“Whatever the case, this is signicantbecause LGBT rights, including marriageequality, are now such a fundamental partof the Democratic platform that candidatesargue about which one is most fervent insupport,” Sabato said. “It’s inconceivablethat someone could win the Democraticnomination without being enthusiasticabout gay rights. This is a massive seachange even from most of the rst decadeof the 21st century, and a completetransformation from the 20th century.”

To be fair, Democratic presidentialcandidates have differentiatedthemselves on LGBT rights in the past.In 2008, Clinton supported repeal of onlySection 3 of DOMA while then-candidateBarack Obama wanted to repeal all of it.

In 2007, the slew of candidatesseeking the Democratic nominationoffered differing views in a Logo forummoderated by the Human RightsCampaign. U.S. Sen. John Edwards wentfurther than most candidates by sayinghe would look for unilateral action toundo “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

But none of those candidates publiclyattacked others at a high-prole eventlike the Jefferson-Jackson dinner.

Dan Pinello, who’s gay and a politicalscientist at the John Jay College ofCriminal Justice, said Sanders’ attack onClinton for not supporting gay rights in atimely manner is “unprecedented.”

“In caucuses and primaries, candidates

compete over their party’s base,”Pinello said. “Since LGBT voters supportDemocratic presidential nomineesover their Republican rivals about 75percent of the time, Sanders is trying toposition himself closer to that base in theprimary/caucus process — just as Clintonhas attacked Sanders over his failure tosupport gun-reform legislation, in thehope of wooing NRA opponents to herside. So it’s political tit for tat.”

In the past, Democrats have also beenuncomfortable attacking Republicans for

opposing LGBT rights as the GOP hasused them to its advantage as a wedgeissue, although that changed as well. In2012, Obama took Republican nomineeMitt Romney to task for his support of aU.S. constitutional amendment banningsame-sex marriage.

Nowadays on the Republican side,some contenders like Rick Santorum,Mike Huckabee and Bobby Jindalcontinue to pledge anti-LGBT policyinitiatives; others like Jeb Bush and JohnKasich continue to oppose same-sexmarriage, but say it’s time to move onafter the recent LGBT victories.

Pinello said squabbles over LGBT rightsin the Democratic Party are good for theLGBT community.

“Any public airing of favorable positionson LGBT policy issues ultimately benetsour community. The more such coverage,the better,” Pinello said. “The closet dooris ung open just a bit wider each time,which is always a good thing.”

Sabato also said LGBT people stand tobenet from the attention to LGBT rightsamong Democratic presidential candidates.

“Despite the public’s cynicism aboutcandidate promises, studies haveshown that those elected try and usuallysucceed in following through on theirmost emphasized pledges,” Sabato said.

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team had initially pledged $10,000to defeat the ordinance, but is nowrescinding that commitment after seeingthe actions of the anti-LGBT campaignknown as Campaign for Houston.

Polls have shown the ordinancehas strong support. High-proleendorsements in recent days have comefrom Housing & Urban DevelopmentSecretary Julian Castro as well as the rstopenly gay National Football Leaguedraft pick Michael Sam. An endorsementwas sought from gay icon Beyonce, butshe has yet to weigh in on the measure.

According to the Houston Chronicle,the pro-LGBT Houston Unites hasraised almost $3 million to pass HEROsince August and 75 percent of donorsare Houston residents. The anti-LGBTCampaign for Houston, on the otherhand, reportedly listed 45 contributions

and raised more than $62,000.The ordinance in Houston isn’t

the only contest of interest to LGBTvoters on Election Day — even though it’san off-year election.

• In Virginia, Democrats are one seat shyof taking control of the state Senate. OnTuesday, the party stands a shot of winningthe majority, which would mean the partywould control both chambers of thelegislature and the governor’s mansion.Under the leadership of Virginia Gov. TerryMcAuliffe, LGBT advocates are hopeful for

that outcome to push forward long soughtpro-LGBT legislation in the state, includingstatewide non-discrimination protections.

• In Mississippi, Joce Pritchett, whowas one of the plaintiffs in the marriageequality lawsuit in the state, is running tobecome state auditor. Her victory wouldmake her the rst openly LGBT personelected to statewide offi ce in the South.

• In Salt Lake City, lesbian candidate JackieBiskupski is challenging incumbent pro-LGBT Mayor Ralph Becker. If Biskupski issuccessful, she’ll be the chief executive ofthe city at the heart of the Mormon Church,which has an anti-gay reputation for its rolein opposing marriage equality.

• Other openly gay candidates seekingthe offi ce of mayor this election are GinnyDeerin in Charleston, S.C.; Ginny Foatin Palm Springs, Calif..; and Ken Siver inSoutheld, Mich.

• In Columbus, Ohio, Shannon Hardin,who’s gay, is seeking an at-large seat onthe city council after being appointed tothe position last year. In Houston, openlygay Lane Lewis, chair of the Harris CountyDemocratic Party, is seeking an at-largeseat on the city council.

• Also in Salt Lake City, Derek Kitchen,the named plaintiff in the lawsuit thatbrought marriage equality to Utah, isseeking a seat on the city council. In

Indianapolis, openly gay small businessowner Zach Adamson is also running forre-election to the city council.

• In another race in Utah, Sophia Hawes-Tingey, a transgender software engineer andNavy veteran, is challenging an incumbentfor a seat on the Midvale City Council. Hervictory would make her the rst openlytransgender elected offi cial in Utah.

• Although the governor’s race inKentucky doesn’t have a unique LGBTrelevance in and of itself, the anti-gay

National Organization for Marriage hasendorsed Republicans Matt Bevin forgovernor and Whitney Westereld forattorney general. The candidates areseeking to defeat Democratic incumbentsGov. Steve Beshear and Attorney JackConway. Beshear has been a target ofRowan County Clerk Kim Davis in herefforts to enforce a “no licenses” policyin her offi ce following the U.S. SupremeCourt decision in favor of nationwidesame-sex marriage.

Dedication of Kameny memorial set for Veterans Day

A soon-to-be-installed memorial headstone honoring gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny will be dedicated on Nov. 11 atCongressional Cemetery as part of a Veterans Day service for LGBT veterans, according to an announcement by the D.C.Center for the LGBT Community, which is sponsoring the event.

In addition to honoring Kameny and his role as a World War II combat veteran, the observance will honor the late VietnamWar veteran Leonard Matlovich. Through Kameny’s assistance, Matlovich in 1975 became the rst active duty military servicemember to challenge the military’s ban on gays.

Matlovich’s decision to come out as gay following Kameny’s coaching is credited with launching the rst formal ght againstthe longstanding ban on LGBT service members.

The Kameny headstone will be installed along with a footstone bearing the expression Kameny coined in 1968, “Gay isGood,” at a site located just behind the memorial headstone and gravesite for Matlovich, which was installed at the time ofMatlovich’s death in 1988.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs gave nal approval of the memorial marker headstone for Kameny earlier thismonth and was expected to deliver the stone to Congressional Cemetery the rst week of November. The event marks the endof four years of disagreements and lawsuits over Kameny’s estate, his remains and how to honor the gay pioneer.

Michael Bedwell, a longtime friend of both Kameny and Matlovich who is helping to organize the event, noted that Kamenyserved in the 58th Armored Infantry Battalion, 8th Armored Division, 9th Army in Germany before he was honorably dischargedfrom the service in 1946.

The Nov. 11 dedication event at Congressional Cemetery is part of an annual Veterans Day tribute to LGBT veterans that theD.C. Center’s military project has organized in recent years.

Among those scheduled to speak at the event is Gordon O. Tanner, the openly gay General Counsel for the U.S. Departmentof the Air Force. Tanner, an attorney who also serves as the Air Force’s chef legal and ethics offi cial, is a retired Air Force colonelwho had been assigned to the Judge Advocate General Corps Reserves.

“Held in honor of the LGBT men and women who have served the U.S. as soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, and coastguardsmen, this year’s event will be held on Nov. 11, 2015 at 11:00 a.m., the D.C. Center announcement says.

LOU CHIBBARO JR.

Academy drag group disbands after 54-year run The Academy of Washington, D.C.’s oldest continuously operating LGBT organization known for its extravaganza drag

pageants, including its annual Miss Gaye America and Mr. and Miss Gaye USA contests, announced on Tuesday that its boardhas voted to disband the group.

“As many of you have been aware, the Academy of Washington has been on life support for several years,” three of thegroup’s board members said in an email message addressed to Academy members and friends.

“We are unable to get contestants for contests such as Miss Gaye America (DC), Mr. and Miss Gaye USA (DC), and Zodiac,”the email says. “The audience is not there either for us. For the last two functions, we have lost money on the event and haveoperated at a loss of the 2015 calendar year,” it says.

Board member and treasurer Frank Taylor told the Washington Blade that Academy offi cials attribute diminishing interestin the group’s events, in part, to the changing interests of the LGBT community’s younger generation, whose preoccupationwith social media and the Internet may have made them less likely to pay an admission fee for a drag event.

Taylor said the Academy’s longstanding role in making drag shows a popular part gay culture in Washington may ironicallyhave been a factor in the group’s demise.

“The lack of attendance for our events may be because there are many more avenues for drag shows,” he said. “Now, everygay bar has a drag show.”

Mark Meinke, former president of D.C. Rainbow History Proj ect, said the Academy was founded in the summer of 1961 byAlan Kress and was operated since 1973 by Carl Rizzi, who was known by his drag name Mame Dennis.

Rizzi died in February. Taylor said the Academy recently held a celebration of life ceremony in Rizzi’s honor.The email message sent to members this week says the vote by the board of directors to disband the group included an

offi cial resolution to dissolve the group’s co rporate entity. Doing resulted in the cancellation of all its Washington functions.LOU CHIBBARO JR.

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FreeState Legal seeksrecognition of same-sex parents

In a case that impacts thousands of children in Maryland born into familiesheaded by same-sex couples, Baltimore-based FreeState Legal has askedMaryland’s Court of Appeals to review a decision by lower courts denying legalparentage to a person who raised a child from birth with their same-sex spouse.In the case of Conover v. Conover, FreeState Legal represents Michael Conover, atransgender man. Before Conover’s gender transition, he and his female partnerhad a child by articial insemination o f his partner. They married after marriageequality was legally recognized for same-sex couples, but the lower courts haverefused to recognize Conover’s parentage of their child. As a result, Conover hasbeen unable to see his child for more than two years.

“This heartbreaking case is about whether Maryland courts will give equalprotection to the parent-child relationships of children born to same-sex couples,

and whether marriages between same-sex couples are truly equal underMaryland law,” said FreeState Legal’s deputy director and managing attorney, JerWelter, who represents Michael Conover, in a statement. “For marriage equalityto have real meaning, the families formed by same-sex married couples musthave the same legal protection as the families formed by opposite-sex couples.”

Before his gender transition, Michael Conover was in a committed same-sexrelationship for nearly a decade with Brittany Eckel. In 2009, before marriageequality for same-sex couples was recognized in Maryland, Conover and Eckeldecided to have a child together by articial insemination. They chose ananonymous sperm donor on the basis of physical resemblance to Conover,and when Eckel gave birth to their son Jaxon, the child was given Conover’s lastname. A few months later, Conover and Eckel married in nearby WashingtonD.C., where marriage between same-sex couples had become legally recognized.

They parented Jaxon together for the rst two years of his life, but later brokeup. In their divorce case, Conover asked the court for visitation with their son,but Eckel claimed that they had no children together. The trial court ruled thatConover is a legal stranger to Jaxon because he lacks a biological or adoptiverelationship to the child. In August, Maryland’s intermediate appeals court, theCourt of Special Appeals, upheld the trial court’s decision.

“Not being able to be with my son, to lead him, and watch him grow is a painthat I wish no one else would have to experience,” said Conove r. “Little kids don’tunderstand genetics; they understand a parent’s nurturing love. My love for mychild is never going to go away.”

“The effect of the lower courts’ ruling here is to deny a child a relationshipwith one of the only two parents he has ever known,” said Welte r. “We hope thatthe court will hear this case and recognize that marriage equality has changedthe landscape in Maryland, and will give the Conovers’ legal marriage the sameeffect as the marriage of any other opposite-sex couple.”

The Court of Appeals is expected to decide whether to hear the case in thenext two months.

Frederick Center youth services fair on tap

The Frederick Center has run an LGBTQ weekly youth group since 2012that has serviced hundreds in Central Maryland. Now the Center is looking foradditional volunteers who are parents, allies or LGBTQ adults over age 18 towork with and help LGBTQ youth in Central Maryland. Such services includebeing youth group chaperones, serving on the youth group topics team, youthhomelessness project, the emergency crisis phone tree and more.

To attract volunteers, a fair has been scheduled for Nov. 5 from 6:30-8 p.m. atGrace UCC, 25 E 2nd St. in Frederick. Pizza and beverages will be served.

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Grant secured for HIV, aging study

PITTSBURGH — The University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Healthhas launched a study to nd ways of promoting health among aging gay andbisexual men, who make up about two-thirds of the people aging with HIV, thePittsburgh Business Times reports.

A three-year $2.1 million National Institutes of Health grant is funding theresearch. Researchers will be looking at protective factors, called resiliencies,which are helping keep some men with HIV healthy and ways these practicesmay be useful to other men, the article said.

The project will regularly survey 1,850 HIV-positive and -negative men who areparticipating in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study, which i s an ongoing researchstudy that has enrolled thousands of men in Baltimore, Chicago, Pittsburgh andLos Angeles over the past 30 years. The Pitt Men’s Study is the Pittsburgh arm ofthe study, which is being led by Ron Stall, director of the Center for LGBT HealthResearch at Pitt, the Times reports.

LGBT-specic teen drug resource released

WASHINGTON — A new publication called “Preventing Substance AbuseAmong LGBTQ Teens” has been released as a partnership from the HumanRights Campaign and Partnership for Drug-Free Kids.

It’s the rst product from the HRC Foundation, the educational arm of theorganization, and the Partnership, a national non-prot that works to reduce

substance abuse among adolescents. The booklet explores what it calls “unique”challenges faced by LGBT youth such as bullying and family rejection that cancontribute to drug use.

The resources are designed to promote understanding and provide practicalguidance on protecting LGBT youth, along with reducing their risk of drug andalcohol abuse through better family support, safer schools and more caringadults in communities.

The booklet advises that parents and caregivers discuss their concerns andexpectations about substance use with teens, focusing on health risks and askteens to share their perspectives, sexual orientation and gender identity shouldbe affi rmed and supported, biase s should be confronted and policy makersshould fund research into substance abuse prevention. The publication can befound at hrc.org/teensubstanceabuse.

LGB stress levels examined in new report

LONDON — Gay and bi men and straight women have lower stress reactivitythan straight men a new doctoral study has found according to MedicalXPress.

When exposed to performance-related stressors, gay and bisexual men reactin a way comparable to straight women who seem to have lower stress responsesthan straight men whereas stress hormone levels are higher in lesbians and biwomen who have a similar prole to straight men, according to a study from theUniversity of Montreal’s Department of Psychiatry.

The study, published in the journal Biological Psychiatry, compared stressreactivity levels of LGB individuals with straight individuals.

Cortisol, a hormone secreted under stress, places the organism in a stateof alert and harnesses the necessary energy to deal with danger. Over time,however, cortisol-induced reactions can have a signicant impact on overallhealth. “By looking at certain criteria of psychological well-being, and cortisoland blood samples, we were able to determine the biological proles of theparticipants and whether mental and physical health differs between LGB andheterosexual individuals,” MedicalXPress quoted the researchers as having said.

LGB and heterosexual participants from the Montreal area visited a laboratoryon two occasions. The research team recruited 87 men and women whoseaverage age was 25 years. To measure cortisol levels, saliva samples werecollected from the participants following exposure to a stressor. Participantsalso completed psychological questionnaires and provided blood samples.

The results suggest a link between stress reactivity and sexual orientation,which had never been demonstrated before using cortisol samples.

According to the researcher, gay and bisexual men may show greaterresilience, i.e., a better ability to cope with life’s hardships and to bounce backafter a diffi cult event.

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Carbs 101Knowing when to eat whatwill help you optimize results

Whether it comes from the coldweather blues, holiday parties orSunday night football, we tend toconsume on average 150 to 200more calories a day between the

months of October and Februarythen we do any other time of year.A big way we can all mitigate

this trend is through a properunderstanding of our tnessfrenemies — carbs.

If you need a refresher course,understand rst that there are twocategories — simple and complex.

Simple carbohydrates, oftenreferred to as “bad” carbs, are made up of basic sugars that are easy to digestand provide very little nutritional value to the body. Simple carbs, generally, tendto be lower in ber and higher in sugar. When it comes to simple carbs we tend

to get a little confused on what’s a good simple carbohydrate and what’s a badsimple carbohydrate. For example, most fruits and vegetables are simple carbs just like that of cookies, cakes and pies.

What’s the difference? Our body processes these simple sugars differently.For instance, the ber in fruits and veggies changes the way the body breaksdown the sugar and slows down their digestion, making them a bit more like acomplex carb and as result, providing you with a sustained source of energy andkey vitamins and nutrients that you need to stay healthy. On the other hand,simple sugars like soda, candy, white rice, bread and pasta are quickly absorbedand provide a quick energy boost and then a crash. These types of simple carbscontain little to no nutritional value.

So what’s my advice on eating simple sugars? I don’t think anyone shoulddeprive themselves of the “bad” simple sugars like candy, cookies, etc. Food ismeant to be enjoyed and therefore, my suggestion is eating these simple carbsright before you workout so that you can either burn them off or use them as asource of energy during the workout. Generally, I nd we tend to eat our “bad”simple carbs in the evening and therefore, I suggest ipping the script. Eat your“bad” carbs in the morning or earlier in the day when you are more active so youcan burn them off.

Complex carbs, often referred to as “good” carbs, are made of sugars thatare denser and take the body more time to break down. They generally havesomething called a lower glycemic load, which just means you will get smalleramounts of sugar released at a more consistent rate, providing a sustainedsource of energy instead of the boost and crush you get from simple sugars. Inaddition, almost all complex carbohydrates are packed with essential vitaminssuch as vitamins A,B,C and K, that keep us healthy and strong. Examples ofcomplex carbs include kale, asparagus, broccoli, whole grains, beans and apples.

The more complex carbs we eat, the better we feel. I recommend having at leastthree large servings of complex carbs per day. It would be even better if one ofthose servings came as a late evening snack. Because they are so dense, complexcarbs tend to keep us satiated and away from reaching for the sweets at night.

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