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made for a 1962 gay rights protest he organized outside the White House. The sign, still attached to its original wood stick handle, states, Homosexuals Ask for the Right to the Pursuit of Happiness. At the other end of the cofn stood a portrait of Kameny painted by local gay artist Don Patron. Norton, a leader of the black civil rights movement, said Kamenys acts of deance and raw, pure undiluted courage during the decades he fought oppression against LGBT people put him in a place similar to that of black civil rights legend Rosa Parks. Norton noted that Kameny began his ght for equality and justice for LGBT people shortly after he was red for being gay from his job as an astronomer with the U.S. government in the late 1950s. Frank Kameny no more set out to sacrice his livelihood when he refused to deny his sexual orientation to federal authorities than Rosa Parks intended to give up her work as a seamstress when she refused to move to the back of the bus, Norton said. Rosa Parks got tired of suppressing her full identity and her full dignity. So did Frank Kameny, said Norton, adding, There is a special place in our country for people like Frank Kameny. The phrase he coined, Gay is Good, is every bit as signicant as Black is Beautiful. Kameny died in his home Oct. 11 at the age of 86. Organizers of his memorial said a larger community memorial celebration
of his life will take place Nov. 15 at a location to be announced. He was a great man who made it possible for me to be who I am, said Rick Wood, a D.C. gay activist who said Kameny helped him organize the citys rst gay youth group 25 years ago. When I heard of Franks passing I was heartbroken but also grateful for the fearless and brave life that he led, said Catania. Were all better off for having had Frank walk this earth. He changed minds and opened hearts to acceptance and tolerance in Washington and all over the world. Graham, who said he got to know Kameny during Grahams tenure as director of the Whitman-Walker Clinic, called Kameny an extraordinary gure on the Washington scene for half a century. It is not possible to overstate the contribution that has been made by Frank Kameny for human rights, for gay and lesbian people and for everybody because, in point of fact, he was concerned about everybody, Graham said. Rick Rosendall, vice president of the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance and a friend and colleague of Kamenys for more than 20 years, read from a chapter Kameny wrote for a book about the early homophile movement that was published during Kamenys early years of activism. Kamenys message in the book chapter was intended for a gay audience. Its time to open the closet door and let in the fresh air and the sunshine, Rosendall
quoted Kameny as saying. It is time to doff and discard the secrecy, the disguise and the camouage. It is time to hold up your heads and to look the world squarely in the eye as the homosexuals that you are, condent of your equality, condent in the knowledge that as objects of prejudice and victims of discrimination, you are right and they are wrong, and condent of the rightness of what you are and the goodness of what you do. It is time to live your homosexuality fully, joyously, openly and proudly, assured that morally, socially, physically, psychologically, emotionally, and in every other way gay is good. Joining the contingent of gay military pallbearers were four members of the D.C. Police Departments Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit, who served as pallbearers at the conclusion of the ceremony. With participants and well-wishers lining the steps and plaza outside the Carnegie Library, the GLLU members and two of the gay military veterans carried Kamenys cofn to a hearse on the street Kamenys friends and activist colleagues said they arranged for Kamenys body to be cremated, based on Kamenys expressed wishes, shortly after his death on Oct. 11. An urn bearing his ashes had been placed in the cofn for the ceremony. Witeck said he and others close to Kameny had yet to decide on a burial site or other resting place for Kamenys ashes. One place under consideration, Witeck said, is D.C.s Congressional Cemetery.
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supporter of LGBT rights. Forrest, who had been endorsed by the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, was vying to become the rst openly LGBT Republican to win election to a state legislature. He created a stir when he and his campaign accused the Howell campaign of using gay baiting tactics to discourage Republican voters from supporting him. His campaign identied a Democratic Party volunteer who admitted to a Forrest campaign worker that she told voters that Forrest was gay and would likely promote a gay agenda for the states public schools. Howell said the party volunteer was not part of her campaign and was dismissed from her role as a party canvasser when Howell learned of the allegation. Gay Democrats backing Howell complained that the Forrest campaign and the Victory Fund were unfairly linking Howell to the gay baiting claim.
Terry Mansberger, chair of the Virginia Democratic Partys LGBT Caucus, expressed concern that the Victory Funds support of Forrest was hurting LGBT rights efforts in the state because a win for Forrest and just one other Republican would lead to a GOP takeover of the State Senate. LGBT Democratic activists pointed out that a solid majority of Senate Democrats support LGBT rights. They noted that most Senate Republicans and Republican candidates seeking Senate seats strongly oppose LGBT rights initiatives and, in some cases, have advocated for anti-gay laws, including a bill to prohibit gays from adopting children. With the apparent loss of two other Democratic seats, Republicans were poised to win control of the Senate independently of Forrests race. Republicans control the House of Delegates. Ebbin has said his efforts to push LGBT supportive bills and block anti-gay measures would be in jeopardy if the State Senate ips from Democratic to Republican
control in the 2012 legislative session. In another Virginia electoral contest, gay candidate Michael Sutphin appears to have won his race for a seat on the Blacksburg, Va., Town Council by a solid margin. With results in for nine out of the towns 10 precincts as of early Wednesday morning, Sutphin came in second place in a race where ve candidates were competing for three seats up for election. Sutphin is poised to become the rst known openly gay candidate to win election to public ofce in a part of the state outside Northern Virginia, which is a D.C. suburb. In a hotly contested race on the other side of the country, gay former San Francisco Supervisor Bevan Dufty was in seventh place in his bid to become San Franciscos rst out gay mayor. In a mayoral contest with 16 candidates, Dufty won just 4.7 percent of the rst choice vote and was trailing far behind frontrunner Ed Lee, the incumbent mayor, who had 31.4 percent of the rst choice vote.
Under San Franciscos ranked choice voting system, voters cast ballots for their rst, second and third choice for mayor. If no candidate received at least 51 percent of the vote, the candidate with the least number of votes is eliminated and the city counts the second choice votes of that candidate. The process is repeated until a candidate obtains a 51 percent majority. Second place candidate John Avalos had 18.7 percent of rst choice votes and third place candidate, City Attorney Dennis Herrera, had 11.3 percent of the rst choice vote. Herrera, a strong supporter of LGBT rights, had been considered Duftys strongest competitor for LGBT votes. Dufty has said he expected the vote count to go to at least one or more rounds before someone emerged as the winner. He said he had a good shot at winning in a second or later round of vote counting. But observers say Lee remains the strong favorite to win a later round due to his strong showing in the rst choice vote.
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The following incidents were investigated by D.C. Metropolitan Polices Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit.
On Nov. 6 in the 1500 block of 17th St., N.W., a woman reported that she got into a verbal argument with the establishments bouncer after trying to take a beer outside. After a heated argument, the woman was barred. On Nov. 7 in the 1500 block of Ogden St., N.W., two complainants reported that while on the elevator at the listed location, the elevator stopped on the second oor, at which time they were met by two males who appeared to be getting on the elevator. One of the men held the elevator door open but neither of the two suspects entered the elevator. One suspect brandished a knife as the elevator closed. The suspects ed the scene. On Nov. 5 in the 5000 block of Just St. N.E., two complainants reported that a suspect came home intoxicated while they were trying to watch TV. One complainant asked the suspect to stop and move out of the way and he refused and continued to dance. The suspect became angry and pulled out a box cutter and threatened to kill the complainants. One of the complainants and the suspect reside together and in the past were involved in an intimate relationship. The suspect was arrested on scene. On Nov. 2 the GLLU was contacted in reference to resources available for bullied youth. A caller was provided information about resources available from law enforcement as well as local government and non-prot organizations. On Oct. 31 in the 3400 block of 22nd Street, S.E., a detective reported that a suspect assaulted a complainant due to an ongoing domestic dispute. The suspect struck the complainant about the body and when she fell to the ground the suspect continued assaulting her by kicking her. The suspect also threatened to kill the woman and her family members. The suspect ed the scene. The victim was transported to a local hospital for medical treatment. An assault report was taken.
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Thomas Warren Wadlow died Oct. 28 at Washington Hospital Center from complications of pneumonia and heart disease, according to his partner of 20 years, Malek Zaarour. He was 86. Wadlow, who was gay, was born May 12, 1925 to Floyd and Eleanor Wadlow in Detroit. He had three sisters, Virginia, Suzanne and Colette. Wadlow attended seminary in New York but left to join the U.S. Navy during World War II. After the war, he attended the University of Arizona in Tucson studying political science and French. He then moved to San Francisco where he lived for 18 years working as an archivist at the Federal Records Centers. He was previously married to Pauline Pappas, an opera singer, with whom he had seven children Thomas, Monica, Lauren, Valerie, Lisa, Paul and Maria. The marriage ended in divorce. Wadlow moved to Washington in 1972 to be chief of records disposition for the National Archives. Among his accomplishments was the organization of old federal court records dating to the 18th century and a handbook on cataloging government archives that is used around the world. He enjoyed collecting art, traveling and listening to classical music. Plans are being made for a Mass and memorial service but no details were available at press time.
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legislative session where we fully expect the opponents of equality to redouble their efforts to take away the rights of loving, committed gay and lesbian couples, Price said. One Iowa will be there to stand up for marriage equality at every turn, and we are excited to work with the fair-minded Senate majority to ensure that freedom and equality remains in the heart of the heartland. In the wake of the election, national LGBT groups praised Mathis win and said her victory means voters were able to reject anti-gay attacks and elect a fairminded candidate. Evan Wolfson, president of Freedom to Marry, called the election of the Democratic candidate a tremendous victory for the state of Iowa. The voters rebuffed the anti-gay attacks that sought to make undoing the freedom to marry a critical factor in the race, and instead elected a candidate who supports the freedom to marry for all Iowa families, Wolfson said. Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, also praised the win in a statement. The marriage issue is settled, voters clearly care about issues directly affecting their everyday lives, Solmonese said. Todays election serves as a message that its time to get on with the peoples business. Both anti-gay and pro-LGBT national groups had a role in producing the election results. On the anti-gay side, the National Organization for Marriage launched an independent expenditure campaign in favor of Golding and distributed mailers highlighting both candidates positions on marriage. Golding also accepted an endorsement from the anti-gay Family Research Council. According to a statement, HRC endorsed Mathis and placed ve fulltime eld organizers in the district during the nal weeks of the campaign. These organizers performed campaign duties for the state Democratic Party and mobilized residents in the district to volunteer and vote in the special election.
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believes her accepting the appointment would benet the cause of ghting AIDS. By lending us your energy, compassion and star power to serve as our Special Envoy for Global AIDS Awareness, your words will encourage Americans in joining you to make their voices heard in our campaign to achieve an AIDS-free generation, Clinton said in the letter. In a statement released Tuesday, DeGeneres said shes honored to accept the post. The ght against AIDS is something that has always been close to my heart, she said. And Im happy that I can use my platform to educate people and spread
hope. Now, if youll excuse me, I have to go look up what envoy means. In her speech, Clinton discussed U.S. plans going forward to ght AIDS on the international front through the U.S. programs started during the Bush administration and continued by Obama called the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR. When President George W. Bush proposed the program in 2003 he called for Congress to approve $30 billion for international AIDS assistance for mostly developing countries in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean over a ve-year period. Clinton noted that when the program started, only 50,000 people in Sub-Saharan Africa were receiving life-saving antiretroviral medication and other AIDSrelated drugs. Now, more than 5 million people receive such drugs as well as an additional one million people in other parts of the world through PEPFAR and the United Nations initiated Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, Clinton said. She said the goal of the Obama administration is to bring about an AIDSfree generation across the globe. Now, by an AIDS-free generation, I mean one where, rst, virtually no children are born with the virus; second, as these children become teenagers and adults, they are at far lower risk of becoming
infected than they would be today thanks to a wide range of prevention tools, she said. And third, if they do acquire HIV, they have access to treatment that helps prevent them from developing AIDS and passing the virus on to others. Among other things, Clinton said PEPFAR would fund programs in Africa and other locations that promote voluntary medical male circumcision, which she said studies show has lowered the risk of female-to-male transmission of HIV by 60 percent. Clinton did not mention in her speech specic budget gures the Obama administration has proposed for funding PEPFAR in scal year 2012 and beyond or the amount of funds the U.S. plans to contribute to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Some U.S. and international AIDS organizations have criticized the Obama administration for not expanding the funding for the two entities as much as the president promised he would at the time he took ofce in January 2009. Clinton noted in her NIH speech that while budget constraints are always a concern during the current economic environment, the U.S. has contributed far more than any other country to international AIDS relief programs, both through PEPFAR and the Global Fund.
For children who are struggling with understanding their sexual orientation or gender identity, the teen years can be particularly challenging, Biden said. And, of course, kids are not always kind to each other during these times, especially when one of them is different. As an English teacher, Biden said she has students write about themselves in journals and through these entries knows the pain and anxiety felt by LGBT students who are bullied. She said this harassment makes it almost impossible for students to concentrate on their school work. Biden said no child should be
subjected to the kind of bullying that would lead them to commit suicide and no parent should suffer that horric loss. In addition to Dont Ask, Dont Tell repeal and passing hate crimes legislation, Biden touted the work the Obama administration has done for LGBT youth, such as holding a White House summit on bullying and issuing guidance to schools to combat student harassment and support gay-straight alliances. This progress is important, but there is still more to do, Biden said. At this critical time for education in our country, we need to ensure that our schools are producing
the next generation of American leaders and heroes. We must insure that our classrooms are safer for all students to learn, grow, and thrive. Bidens speech was well received by those in attendance at the convention. An estimated 300 attendees from across the country took part in events after participating Thursday in a lobby day on Capitol Hill. Jody Huckaby, PFLAGs executive director, said Bidens message connected the dots between acceptance and support and positive mental health and education outcomes. Spending so many years in the classroom, [she] really recognizes when shes got a student who is LGBT or thinks that they might be that when the family is accepting theres a much, much higher likelihood that theyre going to have a positive education outcome, Huckaby said. Rustin Furlow, a gay 21-year-old from Lubbock, Texas, said he thought Bidens speech was inspirational and he related to her remarks about student harassment. Growing up I experienced bullying, Furlow said. Just to hear someone of that caliber mention bullying it made me feel like people are hearing that do understand the problem. It was nice to hear someone acknowledge that it is a problem, and were trying to do something to x it.
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for forming a homosexual rights group. When Kameny and others sat down at the start of that meeting, held at the Hay Adams Hotel on Aug. 1, 1961, Kameny quickly discovered the gathering had been inltrated by Louis Fouchette, the head of the Perversion Section of the D.C. Police Departments Morals Division. Fouchette was identied, exposed, and left the meeting, Rainbow History Project reports in one of its papers on the Mattachine Society of Washington. Kameny told the Blade years later that he and others attending the August 1961 meeting viewed Fouchettes visit, and the fact that he learned of plans to form a gay group before it even held its rst meeting, as a chilling reminder of the work that lay ahead for the group. In part because Mattachines organizers knew that discovery by authorities, including police, of someones status as a gay person would almost certainly lead to the loss of their job, the group adopted a bylaw making it mandatory that all members except Kameny use a pseudonym to identify themselves publicly. The pseudonyms would also be used on Mattachines membership list. Among those complying with this requirement were Mattachine members Nichols, who later went on to become an accomplished author, journalist and out gay activist; Robert King; Lilli Vincenz, Paul Kuntzler, Eva Freund; Ron Balin; and Jon Swanson, according to Rainbow Historys reports on the group. Each of them played a key role in Mattachine Society of Washingtons groundbreaking work, including the groups rst-ever homosexual rights protest demonstrations in the 1960s at the White House, Pentagon, Civil Service Commission and other government buildings. Kuntzler later co-founded the D.C. Gay Activist Alliance, which later became the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance, and the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, two of D.C.s leading LGBT advocacy organizations that continue to operate today. Back in 1961, Kameny chose to use his real name in connection with the Mattachine Society of Washington because he already suffered what he believed to be the irreversible consequences surrounding his ring in 1958 from his job as a civilian astronomer at the U.S. Army Map Service after authorities discovered he was gay. He knew he was essentially blacklisted for life in his profession as an astronomer, where, at the time, everybody knew each other in that profession, said author and Kameny biographer David Carter. So he had nothing to lose. Carter, who interviewed Kameny extensively during the past several years, said Kameny told him he chose to be one of the few out gays at the time following his unsuccessful but highly acclaimed appeal of his ring to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Kameny wrote his own brief to the high court as a document known as a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, which asked the court to take on his case. In 1961, the Supreme Court denied his petition and upheld a lower court decision that refused to back a Kameny lawsuit seeking to force the U.S. Civil Service Commission to overturn his ring. The lawsuit and his petition to the Supreme Court marked the rst known time a gay person had challenged the U.S. government policy of refusing to hire and automatically ring gay people from federal government employment in any capacity or position. Kamenys 61-page Supreme Court petition, which is now part of the Kameny Papers collection at the Library of Congress, is viewed today by historians as the rst comprehensive gay rights manifesto in the United States. Carter, who is writing Kamenys biography, said the Supreme Court petition became the founding principles used by Mattachine Society of Washington to carry out its work calling for equality and non-discrimination for homosexuals in employment and a wide range of other areas.
understanding of homosexuals, with most agreeing with the then prevailing view by psychiatric professionals that homosexuality was a mental disorder. The Mattachine name was rst adopted in 1950 by pioneering gay rights activist Harry Hay, the lead founder that year in Los Angeles of the rst such group. Hay said he took the name from a French medieval and renaissance
group known as Socit Mattachine, which operated within the royal court as court-jester type gures wearing masks to conceal their identity. In some cases the Mattachines were believed to have been given liberty to speak frankly to the ruling monarch on matters that others were forbidden to discuss.
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One year from now, American voters will return to the polls to elect their next president. It seems like just yesterday that Barack Obama took the stage in Chicagos Grant Park after handily defeating John McCain to win the White House. Obamas victory represented a historic and iconic moment. And, for the rst time, LGBT Americans were along for the ride in a meaningful way. Indeed, one of the Obama administrations rst acts was to post an LGBT section to the ofcial White House website almost immediately upon Obama taking the oath of ofce. Since then, Obama has mostly honored his promises and commitments to LGBT voters and his support has grown from the symbolic (White House website upgrades) to the bold (refusing to defend DOMA). Three years later, the 2012 campaign is already well underway, with fundraisers, GOP debates, wildly swinging polls and scandals of the week playing out. Sadly, as Obama and his administration have rolled out pro-LGBT advances and as Obama himself slowly inches toward an inevitable embrace of marriage equality his GOP counterparts have moved backward. From Michele Bachmanns twisted endorsement of reparative therapy to Herman Cains schizophrenic views on marriage to Mitt Romneys laughable ip-ops on our issues, the GOP still doesnt get it. Just three years after Sen. John McCain granted an interview to the Blade a rst for a Republican presidential nominee and spoke movingly of his gay role models, the GOP hopefuls aspire to roll back the clock and reinstate Dont Ask, Dont Tell and push for a federal ban on same-sex marriage. This isnt progress; its pandering to the lowest common denominator, something the GOP has turned into a sick art form.
Peter Rosenstein is a D.C.-based LGBT rights and Democratic Party activist. He writes regularly for the Blade.
Less than one year from today, the 2012 elections will take place. It is crucial for us to judge candidates and parties to determine whether they are on the right side of history. Today the Republican Party and the majority of its candidates are proving they are on the wrong side. The only candidate for the Republican presidential nomination who dares support civil unions, Jon Huntsman, is at 1 percent in recent polls. Juxtapose this with the picture of LGBT civil rights leader Frank Kameny lying in state at the old Carnegie Library. The may-
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Its hard to say what the rst thing that pops in someones head is when they hear Meshell Ndegeocellos name the John Mellencamp duet (Wild Night)? Her rap on Madonnas Id Rather Be Your Lover? Her endless soundtrack contributions? Or maybe her own memorable songs like If Thats Your Boyfriend (He Wasnt Last Night) or Leviticus: Faggot? Regardless, Ndegeocello has established an adventuresome, restless musical persona that gives listeners the impression shes out at inner city music clubs into the wee hours every night in hot pursuit of something to sate her seemingly endless sonic wanderlust. But in reality the 43-year-old D.C.-area native is living happily in upstate New York with her wife of ve years, Alison Riley, and their son who turned 2 this week. Her new album Weather dropped this week and is earning raves. She left Thursday for a mini-tour that will bring her to the Birchmere in Alexandria, Va., Tuesday (its sold out) and also to Philadelphia and the Hiro Ballroom in New York. In January, shell resume with dates in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Minneapolis. This is her rst date at the Birchmere since October 2001. Shes a very unique and gifted artist, says Michael Jaworek, who booked her at the Birchmere. Her jazz CD Jamia always knocks me out. (Its a pretty gay month there Kate Clinton, Chaka Khan and Four Bitchin Babes are slated for coming weeks.)
IF YOUR LIFE WERE A BOOK, WHAT WOULD THE TITLE BE? Throwing Spaghetti at a Wall: My Life as a Writer IF SCIENCE DISCOVERED A WAY TO CHANGE SEXUAL ORIENTATION, WHAT WOULD YOU DO? No way. And miss the off-chance that Ricky Martin might need a step-father for his children?! WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IN BEYOND THE PHYSICAL WORLD? Is there an afterlife? I hope, but who honestly knows? Im Christian (I go to Foundry UMC), but am increasingly agnostic the more I learn about the actual origins of the church. But Ive seen enough things in my life that I cant quite explain, and while I have doubts, Im willing to let God have the benet of my doubts. And yeah, I see a book about this in my future. WHATS YOUR ADVICE FOR LGBT MOVEMENT LEADERS? Dont despair, whatever setbacks come our way. Were going to win this. WHAT WOULD YOU WALK ACROSS HOT COALS FOR? Publishing books is akin to walking across hot coals. Its not something you do overnight or over a month, but over years. It is a struggle. But it is oh so totally worth it. WHAT LGBT STEREOTYPE ANNOYS YOU MOST? That all of us have toy dogs like pugs and coddle them like children. Some of us actually have cats that we coddle like children. WHATS YOUR FAVORITE LGBT MOVIE? Billy Wilders Some Like It Hot. WHATS THE MOST OVERRATED SOCIAL CUSTOM? Tipping. It would be nice if service were included in the price, just like in Europe. WHAT TROPHY OR PRIZE DO YOU MOST COVET? The National Book Award, of course! (Thats like winning the Oscar for Best Picture.) WHAT DO YOU WISH YOUD KNOWN AT 18? That its OK to come out. That people will still love you and accept you for who you are. WHY WASHINGTON? I came here for grad school and fell in love with the city in a week. Its a great place to have a career, the gay community is sizable and integrated into the larger society, and we have so much culture much of it free. For us history dorks, it is ground zero.
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U.S. premiere of German play gets tight Studio production
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When the rotten tooth of a newly arrived Asian immigrant employed at a Chinese restaurant in a European city can land in the steamy soup of a sleepy ight attendant who has stopped by for a late bite after completing an 18 hour ight home from South America, there is little question that the world has become an increasingly interconnected place. With The Golden Dragon, Germanys most-produced playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig makes the concept of globalization relatable by overlapping the tough lives of economic refugees with those who live (sometimes literally) on top of them but never really see them. While a lot of what Schimmelpfennig portrays is very comic, hes also not afraid to reveal the seamier side of a shrinking planet whose people meet on a less-than-even playing eld. At 80 minutes, this funny/disturbing work is centered on the lives of those who live and toil in one particular urban building. Through deftly drawn, quick paced, surprising scenes, various stories unfold. On the rst oor theres a Chinese/ Thai/Vietnamese restaurant (the Golden Dragon). In its tiny kitchen ve Asians busily turn out various dishes whose ingredients ginger, chicken, button mushrooms, etc. they mechanically pronounce aloud. Occasionally the youngest among them howls in pain from a horrendous toothache. Because hes an undocumented worker with no money, a dentist is out of the question. Instead, the kitchens male elder addresses the problem with a pair of red-handled pliers. In the apartments above the Golden Dragon other dramas play out: A straight couples marriage hits the rocks hard; an old man mourns the loss of his youth and virility; a young couple deals with an unwanted pregnancy; and a creepy shopkeeper tragically shares his Asian sex slave. For this tight and well executed Studio Theatre production (the plays U.S. premiere), gay director Serge Seiden brings together an especially diverse cast of three men and two women who cross age, race and gender to play 16 characters. Using a few props (including woks and spatulas) and minimal costumes (paper hats and hand bags), they adroitly move and switch roles through the plays many brief-but-often-intense scenes. The phenomenal pacing and precise staging isnt easy, but for press matinee the talented ensemble was denitely on point, working together as if the show were much further into its ve-week run. Local favorite Sarah Marshall (whos gay) effectively plays a wide range of characters from maternal old cook to sleazy middleaged man. Also featured are Amir Darvish (well known for playing the late gay rock star Freddie Mercury in an acclaimed offBroadway one-man show), Joseph Anthony Foronda, KK Moggie and Chris Myers. The design team is terric too. Michael Giannittis lighting ingeniously alters Debra Booths gray blank slate set. At one point, he recreates that specic lighting found on a transatlantic ight when most passengers are still asleep and someone opens their window shade, allowing a stream of glaring morning sun to enter the cabin; and later he captures the nocturnal glow of the street lamp seen from a darkened apartment. Though set in Europe, Schimmelpfennigs play is, of course, entirely relevant here too. His writing and Seidens ne production are both thought provoking and not easily forgotten.
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Mark Ward always knew he wanted to be out professionally. The Cirque Du Soleil vet plays the ringmaster in the companys latest show Quidam, which comes to the Verizon Center next week. Ward says coming out is an individual choice that each person should make for himself. He joined Cirque du Soleil as a performer in 1993. Not wanting to keep aspects of his life hidden, Ward let the company know that he wanted to be out. He says that there was never an issue with the hiring managers and that the company was supportive from the start. He says he always wanted to lead an authentic life. I think that its an individual journey, so I couldnt say that its good or bad [to come out], he says. I just know that as far as people gay and lesbian people accepting themselves, thats a personal journey. My time may not be your time. If I saw someone and I felt like, Oh you shouldnt be in the closet, you shouldnt be hiding yourself, I think thats wrong of me because I got in that persons shoes. I like to support that person, try to give them the tools they would need to come out and not be hidden or behind the veil, of course, but I think thats an individual journey, I really do. Since joining Cirque, Ward has performed in about 6,500 Cirque shows, without missing a single performance. For me, the challenging thing is also the thing that has kept me around for this amount of time, he says. I have to be in constant communication with the audience and I have to be adaptable ... what works in Milwaukee, when I come to D.C., may not get the same responses. I have to be open to the public and the information they are feeding me. So I have to have a keen sense of awareness. That keeps me focused. In Quidam, Ward plays ringleader John, guiding the audience through the performances that tell the story of Zo, a young girl searching for something more to her life. Her parents, distant and apathetic, ignore her. To her, life has lost meaning. Seeking to ll the void of her existence, she slides into an imaginary world the world of Quidam where she meets characters who encourage her to free her soul. The international cast of Quidam features 52 acrobats, musicians, singers and characters. This being his rst time to Washington, Ward is looking forward to catching up with local friends and exploring Washington. Im rst hoping to go out and eat at some really cool places ... and Ill probably just run myself ragged trying to see everything. Quidam is at the Verizon Center from Nov. 16-20 for eight performances. Tickets start at $35. Visit cirquedusoleil. com for information.
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By BRIAN T. CARNEY
Somehow, director Clint Eastwood and gay screenwriter Dustin Lance Black have managed to turn the life of J. Edgar Hoover, one of the most fascinating and controversial gures in American history, into a leaden and heavy-handed movie. Despite some ne performances, this muddled biopic of the founder and longterm director of the FBI fails to bring Hoover and his inner circle to credible cinematic life. J. Edgar traces the personal and professional life of Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio) from his days as an ambitious young agent (the Palmer raids of 1919) to his death in 1972. Hoover is anked by sidekick Clyde Tolson (Arnie Hammer), his longtime male companion and No. 2 man at the FBI, and his devoted secretary, Helen Gandy (Naomi Watts). Both Tolson and Gandy are carefully courted by Hoover and remain loyal to him despite 50 years of emotional abuse and manipulation and increasingly ruthless and bizarre behavior in ofce. In one of the strongest scenes (visually and dramatically), Hoover proposes to Gandy on their third date. He takes her to the Library of Congress where he has helped to develop a new card catalogue system. As he runs through the stack in search of the volume she has requested, he tells her of his vision for bringing new scientic methods (like ngerprinting and handwriting analysis) to the eld of criminology. She is smitten by his charisma and his passion for justice, yet wary of his lack of concern for individual privacy. She rebuffs his awkward advance and rejects his sudden proposal of marriage, yet accepts his offer to become his personal secretary. He seems relieved. DiCaprio and Watts play the scene with great sensitivity and unexpected charm and Eastwood directs with a lively pace and visual style that is lacking from the rest of the movie. Gandy returns the favor by arranging the rst private meeting between Hoover and Tolson. Hoover is reviewing applicants for his new Bureau, insisting that his agents conform to the highest standards of personal decorum and professional zeal. Although Tolson shows neither of those qualities, Hoover decides to interview him after Gandy mentions that the recruit shows no particular interest in women. Tolson is hired on the spot and soon accepts Hoovers proposal to become his No. 2 man at the FBI. Tolson also becomes the No. 1 man in Hoovers life. In Eastwood and Blacks telling of the story, their relationship remains emotionally intense yet physically chaste. At Tolsons insistence, the two men eat lunch and dinner together every day (except when Hoover is capriciously punishing Tolson), yet they share only one kiss. This kiss comes after a bloody ght, sparked by Hoovers confession that he has been seeing a Hollywood starlet. A frustrated Tolson lashes out at Hoover, pins him to the ground and kisses him. Hoover breaks away and makes it clear that their physical relationship will never go any further. They will hold hands and even share the occasional breakfast, but thats the limit. Blacks writing in this ght scene draws on every Hollywood clich in the book the coded banter between the two men (they have some bitchy things to say about Lucy Ricardo), the glass smashed against the wall, Hoovers anguished shouts of dont leave me! to a retreating Tolson, and Hoovers whispered declaration of love after Tolson has left the room. DiCaprio and Hammer invest the scene with great conviction, but even Hollywood veteran Eastwood is unable to do much with this melodramatic and almost laughable mess.
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The Sound of Music, Olney Theatre Center. 301-924-3400. olneytheatre.org. Flamenco Algaraba, GALA Hispanic Theatre. 202-234-7174. galatheatre.org. Luisa Fernanda (Zarzuela in Chamber Version), Teatro de la Luna, Gunston Theatre Two. 703-548-3092. teatrodelaluna.org. Christoph Eschenbach, NSO, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org.
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T H U, NO V 17 MART H A S T E WA RT IN T E R VIE W A N D P RESEN TATION DAR CONSTITUTION HALL. 202-633-3030. RESIDENTASSOCIATES.ORG In an exclusive for The Smithsonian Associates, Martha Stewart discusses her inspirations and offers a presentation on entertaining in the home, followed by a book signing. T UE , NO V 15 NY FESTIVAL OF SONG: MANNING THE CANON: SONGS OF GAY LIFE CLARICE SMITH. 301-405-ARTS. CLARICESMITHCENTER.UMD.EDU NYFOS returns to the Center with a bold new program, Manning the Canon: Songs of Gay Life, that explores the quintessential moments of a gay mans experience. The concerts ve musical chapters evoke gay life in contemporary America through works by Porter, Bernstein, Blitzstein and more, interspersed with two intermezzos featuring canonic composers of the past. AN DY WAR H O L 1 6 M M F IL M S E R IE S N O V E MB E R 1 2 - D E C E M B E R 2 4 N AT I O NAL G A L L E RY OF A RT. 2 0 2 - 7 3 7 - 4 2 1 5 . N GA . GOV. Films by Warhol (in the original 16 mm format) are presented in association with the National Gallerys exhibition Warhol: Headlines. This week 13 Most Beautiful ... Songs for Andy Warhols Screen Tests, John and Ivy and Soap Opera. WAS H I NG T O N N AT IO N A L O P E R A : L U C IA DI L A MMERMOOR T H RU S AT, NO V 1 9 KE N NE DY CE N T E R . 2 0 2 - 4 6 7 - 4 6 0 0 . K E N N EDY- CEN TER. ORG. In this psychologically gripping opera, Lucia relinquishes her sanity, killing her bridegroom and nally taking her own life in one of operas most horrifying and musically gorgeous scenes.
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a.m. Mixtape is a dance party for queer music lovers and their pals that features DJs Shea Van Horn and Matt Bailer playing an eclectic mix of electro, alt-pop, indie rock, house, disco, new wave and anything else danceable. There is a $10 cover for this all ages event. Washington National Opera presents Lucia di Lammermoor at the Kennedy Center (2700 F St., N.W.) tonight at 7 p.m. Lucia tells the story of a woman who loses her sanity, kills her bridegroom and succumbs to madness. Tickets range from $25 to $300 and can be purchased online at kennedy-center.org. Laurel Mill Playhouse (508 Main St.) in Laurel presents In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) tonight at 8 p.m. Next Room tells the story of Dr. Givings, who has invented a device for treating hysteria in women the vibrator. Tickets range from $10 to $13. For more information, visit laurelmillplayhouse.org.
and diverse communities. The Fridge (516 1/2 8th St., S.E.) is hosting a curators talk with Luna George and Alex Goldstein for its current exhibit, Above the Radar II, which will be on display through Dec. 3. The exhibit features more than 100 pieces by more than 140 artists, specically, grafti and street artists. For more information, visit thefridgedc.com. D.C.s Different Drummers is putting on its second annual DCDD Does Drag Too! fundraiser tonight at Omega D.C. (2122 P St., N.W.) at 7 p.m. There is a suggested donation of $5 at the door. For more information, visit dcdd.org. The D.C. Kings present a Thankful king show tonight at Phase 1 hosted by Rock and Ken Vegas. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show begins and 10. Theres a $10 cover for this 21-and-older event. For more information, visit dckings.com.
The National Center for Transgender Equality is celebrating its eighth anniversary tonight with an event at The Mayower Renaissance (1127 Connecticut Ave., N.W.) from 7 to 9 p.m. in the State Ballroom. Shaun Donovan, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will be the keynote speaker and Brian Bond, former Deputy Director of the White House Ofce of the Public Liaison and Donna Cartwright, founding NCTE board member and co-president of Pride at Work will be honored. Tickets are $125 and can be purchased online at transequality.org. Join Burgundy Crescent Volunteers to help pack safer sex kits from 7 to 9 p.m. tonight at FUK!Ts packing location, Green Lantern, 1335 Green Ct., N.W. Nellies (900 U St., N.W.) hosts its weekly Glee watch party tonight at 8 p.m. on the deck in the pub room.
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