Metro Weekly - 08-04-16 - Pixie's Perfect Vintage

AUGUST 4, 2016
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CONTENTS
REPUBLICAN REBELS
Could conservative voters defecting from Trump
swing the election in Hillary Clintons favor?
By John Riley
PERFECT VINTAGE
For 19 years, Pixie Windsor has turned knickknacks

into items people crave at Miss Pixies Furnishings &
Whatnot. Just like her store, shes a one-of-a-kind.
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Volume 23 Issue 14
Interview by Doug Rule

Photography by Todd Franson
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KLEPTOMANIACS
The Avalanches return with an example of plunder

at its best, while MSTRKRFT are stuck in the past
By Sean Maunier
SPOTLIGHT: POLITICAL MASTERSTROKES p.7 OUT ON THE TOWN p.9

BORN AGAIN: KIRSTEN WYATT p.10 THE FEED: REPUBLICAN REBELS p.15
THE FEED: OUT AT THE GAMES p.18 COMMUNITY: HITTING THE LANES p.21
COVER STORY: PERFECT VINTAGE p.24 DOGGONE DEALS: DOG DAYS SIDEWALK SALE
GALLERY: DAVID AMOROSO p.31 GAMES: WE HAPPY FEW p.32
MUSIC: THE AVALANCHES AND MSTRKRFT p.34 NIGHTLIFE p.37
LISTINGS p.39 SCENE: DUPLEX DINER p.44 LAST WORD p.46
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The bitches who make this shit... #masthead

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AUGUST 4, 2016 METROWEEKLY
Spotlight
1st to the 45th...Pantaloon to Pantsuit by Timothy Johnson
Political Masterstrokes
Touchstone Gallery presents works that touch on nearly every issue critical to this years election
F ARTISTS ARE THE ANTENNA OF THE MASSES, THIS

exhibition reveals much about our present moment, says
Jayme McLellan. As curator of Touchstone Gallerys new
Art as Politics exhibition, McLellan selected 127 works from
more than 90 artists from around the country that highlight
pressing social issues or current political events. Racism and
#BlackLivesMatter, immigration and border walls, womens
rights and rape, gun violence and climate change are among
those topics explored in the timely national exhibition.
The show includes works in various sizes and in all
media, including paintings, quilts, video installations and
glass and wood sculptures or every possible everything,
as Touchstone director Ksenia Grishkova puts it. Were
very thrilled about the quality of work this year, Grishkova
says. How it really represents what is happening right now.

You walk in and you feel kind of submerged in all the issues.
Some of the pieces depict political figures, such as Timothy
Johnsons 1st to the 45th, an oil painting of Hillary Clinton
dressed up as George Washington. Theres also Michael
Langs Think About It, a window display with mannequins
wearing a t-shirt espousing a pro-marriage equality statement from designer Kenneth Cole.
As a whole, the exhibition can produce anxiety some
is downright hard to look at but there is also beauty in
there, and hope, adds McLellan, founder of the D.C. gallery,
Civilian Art Projects. The show paints a picture of what it
means to be in this melting pot of America right now. For
better or worse, this is our shared reality. Doug Rule
The opening reception for Art as Politics is Friday, Aug. 5, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. featuring desserts by
Moorenkos Ice Cream. The exhibit runs to Aug. 25 at Touchstone Gallery, 901 New York Ave. NW.
Call 202-347-2787 or visit touchstonegallery.com.
Spotlight
PHILLIP PHILLIPS (L) AND
MATT NATHANSON
Phillip Phillips, one of the last American

Idol winners responsible for the franchises best-selling coronation song,
2012s Home and indie-folk/pop singer-songwriter Matt Nathanson co-headline an outdoor show at Wolf Trap.
Opening is A Great Big World, the sentimental pop duo of Ian Axel and Chad King
best known for Say Something the
dramatic hit song from 2013 featuring
Christina Aguilera. Wednesday, Aug. 10,
at 7 p.m. The Filene Center at Wolf Trap,
1551 Trap Road, Vienna. Tickets are $32 to
$55. Call 877-WOLFTRAP or visit
wolftrap.org.
FORDS THEATRES
HISTORY ON FOOT
A Local actor offers the guided tour Investigation: Detective

McDevitt, portraying Detective
James McDevitt, a D.C. police officer patrolling a half-block from
Fords Theatre the night President
Lincoln was shot. Written by
Richard Hellesen and directed by
Mark Ramont, the 1.6-mile walking
tour revisits and reexamines the
sites and clues from the investigation into the assassination. Tours
are offered approximately three
evenings a week at 6:45 p.m. Fords
Theatre, 511 10th St. NW. Tickets
are $17. Call 202-397-7328 or visit
fords.org.
THE GO-GOS
They got the beat but only for

one last time. Thats right, after
38 years, the all-female hitmaking
band from the 80s is calling it quits.
Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin,
Charlotte Caffey, and Gina Schock
offer a farewell tour along with Best
Coast and Kaya Stewart as opening
acts and handpicked torchbearers.
Friday, Aug. 5, at 8 p.m. Warner
Theatre, 513 13th St. NW. Tickets
are $38 to $486. Call 202-783-4000
or visit warnertheatredc.com.
MARGOT SCHULMAN
Out On The Town
JELLYS LAST JAM
Signature Theatre kicks off its new season with a celebration of the music and life of jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton.
Washington native Mark G Meadows stars as Morton, leading a cast that also includes, among others, Tony Award
winner Cleavant Derricks (Dreamgirls), Felicia Boswell (Motown The Musical), and Signature star Nova Y. Payton.
Matthew Gardiner directs the musical featuring a book by George C. Wolfe and lyrics by Susan Birkenhead. Now in previews. Opening Wednesday, Aug. 10, at 7:30 p.m., with the Pride performance set for Friday, Aug. 26. Runs to Sept. 11 in
Signatures Max Theatre, 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. Call 703-820-9771 or visit signature-theatre.org.
Compiled by Doug Rule
FILM
DONT THINK TWICE
A bittersweet comedy about a fictional improv comedy troupe toiling in semi-obscurity in Manhattan.
Mike Birbiglias latest examination
of the rigors of performing live
comedy follows 2012s critically acclaimed Sleepwalk With Me,
and features Keegan-Michael Key
of Comedy Centrals Key & Peele
as one of the six members of the
Commune led by Birbiglia. Lena
Dunham and Ben Stiller make
cameo appearances playing themself. Opens Friday, Aug. 5. Area theaters. Visit fandango.com.
NINE LIVES
Kevin Spacey plays a man transformed into a cats in a new comedy from Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in
Black). Jennifer Garner, who has had
no viable career since Alias, plays
Spaceys estranged human wife and
Christopher Walken, clearly game
for anything at this stage in life, the
pet shop owner who forces Spacey
to reconcile with his family or else

stay feline forever. This is what our
great actors come to. Considering
Sonnenfeld is known for enduringly
funny works like Men in Black, to
see him fall this low is somewhat
sad. Our guess is that Nine Lives will
be thrown out with the kitty litter.
Opens Friday, Aug. 5. Area theaters.
Visit fandango.com.
SUICIDE SQUAD
The DC Comics anti-hero team hits

the big screen in David Ayers adaptation. Supervillains are recruited
for the namesake squad to undertake black ops missions to save the
world from a powerful threat. What
else is new? Viola Davis stars as
the government official in charge of
the squad, whose members include
Will Smith, Margot Robbie, and Jay
Hernandez. With Jared Leto as The
Joker. Opens Friday, Aug. 5. Area
theaters. Visit fandango.com.
STAGE
HAND TO GOD
Avenue Q sounds like childs play

compared to Robert Askins come-
dy focused on teens of a Christian

puppetry ministry in a small Texas
town. Touted as a blasphemous and
ruthless comedy about sex, sinners
and sock puppets, Joanie Schultz
directs a production led by Liam
Forde as a foul-mouthed, demonically possessed puppet. With Susan
Rome, Caitlin Collins, Ryan McBride
and Tim Getman. Extended to Aug.
28. Studio Theatre, 14th & P Streets
NW. Call 202-332-3300 or visit studiotheatre.org.
THE LONESOME WEST
A dark Irish comedy from Martin

McDonagh, the writer/director of
the Oscar-winning film In Bruges
as well as Behanding in Spokane,
closes out Keegans record-breaking nineteenth season. Mark A.
Rhea directs this tale of rivalry
between two brothers, portrayed
by Matthew J. Keenan and Bradley
Foster Smith, set in the tiny Irish
backwater of Leenane. In previews
starting Saturday, Aug. 6, at 8 p.m.
Runs to Aug. 27. Keegan Theatre,
1742 Church St. NW. Tickets are
$35 to $45. Call 202-265-3768 or
visitkeegantheatre.com.
THE MIKADO, THE PIRATES OF

PENZANCE
Chicagos
The
Hypocrites
Repertory take on some of the silliest roles ever written for musical
theater, performing two of Gilbert
& Sullivans best-loved comic operettas. Presented promenade style,
with some seats on stage with the
actors, Sean Graney directs the tales
of scurvy pirates, modern MajorGenerals, and star-crossed lovers.
To Aug. 21. Theatre Lab at Olney
Theatre Center, 2001 Olney-Sandy
Spring Road, Olney, Md. Tickets are
$30 to $55. Call 301-924-3400 or
visit olneytheatre.org.
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Andrew Lloyd Webbers long-running musical is touted to be bigger

and better than ever before in a
new touring production overseen
by Matthew Bourne and Cameron
Mackintosh and featuring new choreography and sets. The chandelier
is still a centerpiece, and the score
hasnt changed a note. To Aug. 20.
Kennedy Center Opera House.
Tickets are $25 to $149.
MUSIC
DIZZIE GILLESPIE AFRO-CUBAN
EXPERIENCE
John Lee, the longtime bassist

for Dizzie Gillespie, leads a group
paying tribute to the co-founder
of Afro-Cuban jazz and performing his Latin-influenced compositions and others Gillespie loved
to play. The band is comprised of
trumpeter Freddie Hendrix, saxophonist Sharel Cassity, Brazilian
pianist and vocalist Abelita Mateus,
former Gillespie drummer Tommy
Campbell, and percussionist Roger
Squitero. Sunday, Aug. 7. Doors at
6 p.m. The Howard Theatre, 620
T St. NW. Tickets are $30 to $60.
Call 202-588-5595 or visit thehowardtheatre.com.
GREG MOONEY
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ARTS

JAZZ IN THE GARDEN SERIES
(L to R) Chaz Pofahl as Jim Bakker and Wyatt as Tammy Faye Bakker
BORN AGAIN
Kirsten Wyatt plays late pro-gay televangelist Tammy Faye

in Arenas Born For This
HE THING I LOVE ABOUT TAMMY, SAYS KIRSTEN WYATT, IS THAT HER

heart was true. Despite all her outrageousness and her makeup and her clothes and
just sort of the way that she was, she was never disingenuous. She really did believe
that God is for everyone, no matter who you are.
Unlike most other prominent Christian conservatives, televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker
Messner had an accepting view of homosexuality, even appearing in gay pride parades in
the years before her death in 2007. She was the first person on Christian television to
interview someone with AIDS, Wyatt says. That was in 1985, a time when the Reagan
Administration had yet to publicly recognize the disease. Tammy and her then-husband
Jim Bakker were also the first to integrate Christian television in the 80s, which is why
they feature in the musical Born For This: The BeBe Winans Story, now having its world
premiere at Arena Stage.
There would be no BeBe and CeCe without Jim Bakker, Wyatt, who plays Tammy in
the show. Jim is the one who put them together as a duo. The Winans were teenagers
when they moved away from Detroit to join the Bakkers Praise The Lord network in North
Carolina as the only African-American PTL Singers. [The Bakkers] really understood the
responsibility that went along with it, Wyatt says. They spent a lot of time protecting BeBe
and CeCe, to the point they became like parents to them.
The inspirational musical doesnt go into detail about Tammy Fayes pro-gay stances,
since those mostly took shape after the Winans had left PTL and became Grammy-winning
recording artists in their own right. But it does convey the tolerance at heart. Its about
family and what family means, Wyatt says. We have our blood family and then we have
the family that we create. I love the fact that Jim and Tammy and BeBe and CeCe in no other
circumstance would ever probably be together, but they became a family because of it.
A West Virginia native, the New York-based Wyatt says Tammy Faye is one of her favorite roles shes yet played on stage, right up there with Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls and
Agnes Gooch in Mame. And she couldnt have had a better cast with which to make her D.C.
debut: Our cast consists of gay, straight, black, white. Its been a really incredible experience and really wonderful group of people. Doug Rule
Free concerts featuring locally and

nationally recognized musicians are
on tap every Friday through Labor
Day amidst the gallerys collection
of large-scale sculptural works.
Next performances in the series
are: Jazz drummer Harold Summey
and Creative Love Happening on
Friday, Aug. 5, and jazz saxophonist
Paul Carr Friday, Aug. 12, from 5
p.m. to 8:30 p.m. National Gallery of
Art Sculpture Garden, between 7th
and 9th Streets NW. Call 202-2893360 or visit nga.gov.
SUMMER SPIRIT FESTIVAL
Billed as a one-stop shop for a soulful good time, this years Summer
Spirit Festival expands to two days,
with neo-soul veteran Erykah Badu
headlining Day One, Saturday, Aug.
6, and Jill Scott Day Two, Sunday,
Aug. 7. Prince-inspired funk-popstress Janelle Monae, jazz sensation Gregory Porter, and powerhouse soul vocalist Leela James are
also part of the Saturday lineup,
with The Roots, Kindred the Family
Soul, The Chuck Brown Band and
Raheem DeVaughn, and West
Feltons project The CrossRhodes
on Sunday. Performances begin at
2 p.m. both days. Merriweather
Post Pavilion, 10475 Little Patuxent
Parkway, Columbia, Md. Tickets
are $52 to $250. Call 800-551-SEAT
or visit merriweathermusic.com.
THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE

WITH YO-YO MA
One of the greatest cellists of all

time leads this eclectic, multicultural collective of performers from
Eurasia equally adept at crossing
musical and cultural boundaries.
Thursday, Aug. 11, at 8 p.m. The
Filene Center at Wolf Trap, 1551
Trap Road, Vienna. Tickets are $30
to $80. Call 877-WOLFTRAP or
visit wolftrap.org.
TOM GOSS
Born For This runs to Aug. 28 at Arena Stages Kreeger Theater, 1101 6th St. SW.
Call 202-488-3300 or visit arenastage.org.
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More contemporary pop with a blistering edge than standard folk with
heartstrings, What Doesnt Break is
plume. Through Jan. 8. National

Portrait Gallery, 8th and F Streets.
NW. Call 202-633-8300 or visit npg.
si.edu.
ETC.
HUMP! FILM FESTIVAL ENCORE
EVERYTHING EVERYTHING
The title track to Get to Heaven nods to one of the art-rock British bands obvious influences, the Talking Heads. Everything Everythings third set, produced by Stuart Price
(Madonna, Pet Shop Boys), also finds quirky vocalist Jonathan Higgs and his cohorts
channeling other influences, from Midnight Oil to the Beatles, Nirvana to Timbaland.
The result can be jarringly bizarre, skirting the edges of taste and tunefulness, but mostly
its an intriguing experimental blend that commands attention especially with some
provocative and politically charged lyrics added to the mix. The perfect soundtrack for
deeply weird times, as a New York Observer critic aptly put it. Doors at 7 p.m. Monday,
Aug. 8. U Street Music Hall, 1115A U St. NW. Tickets are $18. Call 202-588-1880 or visit
ustreetmusichall.com.
a sonic departure from what were
used to hearing from the sweet,
sensitive singer-songwriter and guitarist. Producer Marr Zimm amps
up the sound, but Goss digs deeper
lyrically on his just-released sixth
album, written as the troubadour
moved from D.C. to L.A. Ive spent
years releasing songs that projected the person I want to be, while
neglecting the other person that
sometimes shows up in front of
me, Goss says. This record speaks
to my greatest failures and regrets,
it acknowledges the darkest and
least lovable side of me, and then
embraces it, loving it all the same.
A national tour kicks off Sunday,
Aug. 7, at 7:30 p.m. IOTA Club and
Caf, 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington.
Tickets are $12. Call 703-522-8340
or visit tomgossmusic.net.
EXHIBITS
FUN-DERFUL
Humorous, fun art from local artists is the focus of an exhibit that
has inspired a mini-FUN-raiser,
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titled Can You Spare A Square?

with additional artworks, made on
small squares, donated by artists
to benefit the gallery and available
for purchase. Opening reception
Friday, Aug. 5, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
On display through Aug. 28. Del
Ray Artisans Gallery, 2704 Mount
Vernon Ave. Alexandria. Call
703-731-8802 or visit thedelrayartisans.org.
LAURA BERMAN: EBB AND FLOW
Inspired by the vast landscape of

nothingness that is the very middle of Kansas, the prints in this
series reflect the slow and dramatic connections between enormous
spaces on and beyond our earth.
Everything is related and nothing is
identical in these coalescing prints
of patterns and bold colors, also
informed by the artists hometown
of Barcelona, Spain. Through Aug.
14. Long View Gallery, 1234 9th
St. NW. Call 202-232-4788 or visit
longviewgallery.com.
THE OUTWIN 2016: AMERICAN

PORTRAITURE TODAY
Every three years the Smithsonians

National Portrait Gallery presents
finalists of the Outwin Boochever
Portrait Competition, named for a
late volunteer and benefactor. The
portraits are works drawn from
all over America, mostly featuring
unheralded, everyday citizens and
generally presented in innovative
ways through various media, from
standard photography to three-dimensional installation. This years
winner is a stunning, slightly surreal painting of a young AfricanAmerican girl by Amy Sherald of
Baltimore. Among the 43 finalists,
more than a half-dozen are LGBTthemed, including: Jess T. Dugan
of St. Louis and her masculine
self-portrait; a print of two transgender teenagers in love by Evan
Baden of Oregon; an oil painting
focused on a recently married, older
gay couple by Paul Oxborough of
Minnesota; and a flamboyant, patriotic painting by D.C.s Tim Doud
featuring his spouse, cultural theorist Edward Ingebretsen, in full
Dan Savages festival is a sex-positive,

rough-around-the-edges
assortment of homemade pornongraphy gay, straight, fetish, you
name it that is less erotic than it is
avant garde. Think of watching people pound, probe, lick and stick each
other, but to hipper music. While
its definitely not soft-core, its also
far from erotic. The 22 short films
on display are sometimes funny, frequently bizarre, occasionally clever,
with the quality varying considerably. There are a few standouts buried deep within the festival, including Lets Try to Fuck, a dead-on parody of 1950s educational films. Its
balls-out hilarious. The strangest
film of the bunch is The Collector, in
which a very unusual man shows off
his even more unusual assortment
of semen-filled jars culled from various sources. Saturday, Aug. 6, at
6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. Black Cat, 1811
14th St. NW. Tickets are $20. Call
202-667-4490 or visit blackcatdc.
com. (Randy Shulman)
OUTWRITE: LGBT BOOK

FESTIVAL
The DC Center presents its 5th

annual OutWrite: LGBT Book
Fair this weekend, with readings
and workshops happening all day
Saturday, Aug. 6. The festival kicks
off Friday, Aug. 5, at 7 p.m., with the
launch of Love Unites Us: Winning
the Freedom to Marry in America,
edited by Kevin M. Cathcart and
Leslie J. Gabel-Brett, including a
panel discussion about the direction of future LGBT activism
post-marriage equality and a wine
and cheese reception. In addition to
exhibitors throughout the weekend,
other highlights include readings
and discussions on topics ranging
from Queer Journalists to science
fiction and fantasy writing to Queer
Brown Voices and Fuego y Hielo.
Journalists Gregg Shapiro, Wayne
Hoffman, Rashod Ollison, and Tim
Murphy are among those who
will be reading from their works,
and there will be workshops on
self-publishing for trans authors,
writing for multimedia, and a Black
Writers Forum. Deacon Maccubbin
Young Writer Award winners will
also read from their works, and
theres an afternoon OutWrite Open
Mic hosted by Regie Cabico. The DC
Center for the LGBT Community,
2000 14th St. NW. Call 202-6822245 or visit thedccenter.org for
more details and a full schedule. l
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REPUBLICAN REBELS
Could conservative voters defecting from Trump swing the election

in Hillary Clintons favor? By John Riley
ITH THREE MONTHS UNTIL ELECTION DAY, JOE SWARTZ, A

32-year-old gay conservative, is doing the unthinkable: Supporting Hillary
Clinton for president. Im part of an organization called Republicans for
Hillary. And we have been lambasted significantly by many Republicans about what
terrible turncoats we are, how much we need to change our affiliation, and My God,
Trump is not great, but the alternative is Hillary, says Swartz. And I say, Exactly.
The alternative is Hillary.
Imagine how low the bar of your candidates has to be, he continues, that people
who have been on your side for 10, 20 years, people who have gone out and volunteered for Republican campaigns, are now voting for Hillary Clinton, someone they
naturally loathed, because she has a modicum of normalcy.
Its a dramatic turnaround from 2015, when Swartz was confident Republicans
would take back the White House. We were gearing up to the idea that this is the
end of eight years of Democratic rule, he says. It was really ours to lose.
But then Donald Trump started winning primaries, and everything changed. After
Trump had cemented his victory, Clinton became the only viable option for Swartz.
At one point, he had considered voting for Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson.
And, technically, he could do so with a clear conscience, because Swartz resides in
Democratic-leaning Maryland a shoe-in to give its electoral votes to Clinton. But
his focus has been on stopping Trump above all else, because Trump is thin-skinned,
lacking in conservative principles, and someone who goes out of his way to offend
various groups of people.
For me, the focus is really on #NeverTrump, says Swartz. Anything and everything that must be done that keeps him out of office is necessary for us to do.
Swartz could be written off as a disgruntled Republican who cant accept the
result of the primaries, but as Trump becomes the figurehead of the GOP, several
prominent Republicans and fiscal conservatives have begun to distance themselves
from the party. And that means weighing the possibility of supporting Clinton for the
presidency.
On Monday, Sally Bradshaw, a top advisor to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and a
Facts in the Wake of

the DNC
The number of national surveys

(all of them) conducted after
the convention showing Clinton
ahead of Trump
68.4%
Hillary Clintons chances of

winning the election, based
on FiveThirtyEights model
combining various polls (at the
time of writing)
31.6%
Trumps chances of winning

an 18.5% drop since July 30
The number of Republicans

Trump has refused to endorse
in their reelection races (Paul
Ryan and John McCain)
The number of Republican

congresspeople who have
announced they will vote for
Clinton in November (Rep.
Richard Hanna)
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lifelong Republican, announced she was officially switching
her party affiliation to independent, and refusing to vote for
Trump. Bradshaw told CNN in an email that, if the race was
close in Florida, she would be casting her ballot for Clinton.
I have worked to elect
Republicans to national and statewide offices for the last 30 years.
I have never voted for a Democrat
for president, and I consider
myself a conservative, a supporter
of limited government, gun rights,
free enterprise, equality of opportunity. I am pro-life. There are no
other candidates who were serious contenders for the nomination
that I would not have supported,
Bradshaw said.
But, she added, we are at a
crossroads and have nominated a
total narcissist a misogynist a
bigot. This is a time when country
has to take priority over political
parties. Donald Trump cannot be
elected president.
On Tuesday, Congressman
Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.) became
the first Republican member of
Congress to come out in support
of Clintons candidacy. Hannas
defection was not completely
shocking he supports womens
access to abortion and birth control and was one of the first members of Congress from either party
to support same-sex marriage in
2012. But the news that he was
openly backing the opposite partys candidate caused a firestorm in
political circles.
For me, it is not enough to
simply denounce [Trumps] comments: He is unfit to serve our
party and cannot lead this country, Hanna said in an op-ed in
The Post-Standard. Our response
to the publics anger and the need
to rebuild requires complex solutions, experience, knowledge and
balance. Not bumper sticker slogans that pander to our disappointment, fear and hate.
Jimmy LaSalvia, the former
co-founder of the LGBT conservative group GOProud, is another Hillary convert. Whats
motivating him and many others to look at Clinton is the
realization that the Republican Party is based on an untenable coalition of interest groups that have hamstrung party
leaders, leaving the GOP vulnerable in national elections.
For years, many of us were unhappy Republicans, he
says. The culturally modern conservatives who embrace
our multicultural reality have been frustrated with the
Republican Party. Youd go to Republican events, and there

was always this push-and-pull between the culturally modern and the intolerant wing. In recent years, its just gotten
worse. And this Trump candidacy is the climax of that.
Trumps actions on the campaign trail and his vision for the
GOP have forced LaSalvia to shed
his partisan loyalty and leave the
Republican Party. Its made the
unthinkable voting for Hillary
Clinton a reality.
Hillary Clinton has been the
enemy my entire adult life, he
says. I never thought Id vote for a
Clinton, but theres just no choice
here. And even for people who
arent ready to admit theyre for
Hillary, more and more people will
start to consider her, even if theyd
never considered voting Democrat
before.
If LaSalvia is correct, and many
other Republicans are considering
supporting Clinton, why havent
more denounced Trump or publicly refused to support him? He
attributes it to the nature of politics
and self-preservation.
In our political system, being a
team player for your party is the
most important thing, LaSalvia
says. Its why our system is broken, because people have been
putting their party above their
country. When being a team player
is the number-one priority above
policy or whats best for the country, then demonstrating disloyalty
to the team is the hardest to do.
For many people, especially
people who work in politics and
public affairs, that could pose a risk
to their careers, he adds. Thats
not a small thing.... And its not just
risking backlash on Facebook.
Another Republican risking
their political career is Yale Scott,
a George W. Bush appointee who
worked in the White House and
the State Department. Hes as
Republican as they come, something all but ensured by growing
up in Oklahoma. But now, the
36-year-old is supporting Clinton, fundraising for her, and
volunteering at campaign events.
I definitely still align myself with a strong faith and
being fiscally conservative, but this election is so important
because Donald Trump is dangerous for our country, says
Scott. I feel like hes a loose cannon. And hes all over the
map: One day, hell say something, and the next day, hell
totally contradict himself, but spin it politically.
Last year, he
was confident
Republicans
would take back
the White House.
We were gearing
up to the idea
that this is the end
of eight years of
Democratic rule,
says Swartz. It
was really ours
to lose. And
then Donald
Trump started
winning
primaries, and
everything
changed.
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However, Scott insists he chose to support Clinton
long before Trump won the GOP nomination. Hes
excited about her selection of Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine,
who once served as a missionary to Honduras, as a running mate particularly because hes able to reclaim
religious voters and his down-to-earth nature helps
humanize the Clinton campaign. On a personal note,
he also supports Clintons promise to appoint Supreme
Court justices who will uphold the courts recent marriage equality decisions a stark contrast to Trump,
who vowed to appoint judges who would overturn them.
I have a lot of family and friends who say, Yeah, but
that will never happen, says Scott, who married his
partner last September. And I say, Actually, it could.
Both Scott and LaSalvia believe the election will
come down to politically moderate women, even some
who identify primarily as Republicans. Many may tell
pollsters, and even their husbands, that they are voting
against Clinton, but will do the opposite once inside the
privacy of the voting booth, Scott says. But he worries
that their votes may be offset by an equal number of
well-educated or well-off voters, particularly in large
urban areas, who will opt for Trump.
I think its two-sided, says Scott. Theres a lot of
people who say they arent going to support Trump.
Theyll just say they arent going to vote at all, or theyre
going to write in a candidate. But at the end of the day,
theyre going to vote for Trump. And thats what scares
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OUT AT THE GAMES
This years Olympics will be the most queer-friendly ever, but LGBT participation
stretches back almost a century By Rhuaridh Marr
EING AN OUT ATHLETE AT THE OLYMPICS IS

an important opportunity to live my truth while competing at the highest level in sport.
Michelle Heyman represents the culmination of decades
of progress on LGBT issues. A member of the Australian
Womens National Soccer Team, she will represent her
country at the 2016 Rio Olympics not only as a proud Aussie,
but as an openly lesbian women on an international stage
in front of millions of viewers. That Heyman and forty-two
other athletes feel comfortable enough to be out and proud
is a testament to how far the sporting world has come. As
Heyman herself told ThinkProgress: Everyone has the
right to be themselves and they shouldnt have to hide. We
need to accept, understand, and celebrate that everyone and
every athlete is different.
The USA alone is sending seven LGBT athletes to Rio
all women including basketball player Seimone Augustus,
rugby star Kelly Griffin, and kayaker Ashley Nee. Host
nation Brazil has four out athletes as part of its delegation,
while other nations with LGBT athletes include Great
Britain, India, Sweden, Germany, Canada, and New Zealand,
covering sports from soccer to discus to swimming to equestrian. It all helps to make the 2016 Olympic Games the most
inclusive in history even if LGBT athletes comprise less
than 0.4 percent of the total number in Rio.
The sports world is far more evolved on LGBTQ issues
than we give it credit for, Outsports.coms Cyd Zeigler told
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ThinkProgress. While there may still be issues in some

front offices, the athletes and fans have been ready, willing
and able to accept and welcome gay teammates and colleagues for many years.
Of course, while LGBT athletes have competed openly
for a number of years, queer participation in the Olympics
stretches back almost a century. By The Queer Story Files
estimates, 255 LGBT people have competed in the Olympics,
with the first confirmed athlete being Otto Peltzer of
Germany, way back in 1928.
At the Amsterdam Olympics, Peltzer was the world
record holder for the 800- and 1,500-meters, and favored to
take home the gold. An injury playing handball shattered his
dreams, forcing him to wait until 1932 in Los Angeles to try
again. Fate again struck a cruel blow, as the German team
found themselves with the wrong shoes for the Californias
Olympic tracks. As Nazism ensnared Germany, homosexuality became a serious crime, and Peltzer was arrested
in 1935 and interrogated by the Gestapo for homosexual
offences with youths he was accused of having sex with
younger runners. He was released in 1936 only on the condition that he end his sporting career, denying the opportunity to compete in that years Berlin Olympics. Rearrested
in 1937, he fled to Denmark, before returning to Germany
in 1941 after he was told that charges against him had been
dropped. That transpired to be a lie, and Peltzer was sent
to KZ Mauthausen, a brutal forced labor concentration
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camp known as Mordhausen the Murder Houses. He
survived until it was liberated in 1945, but with his sexuality
still criminal in Germany, Peltzer eventually moved to India,
where he coached upcoming athletes. He was memorialized
in 2000 by the German Athletic Association, with the Otto
Peltzer Medal, given to outstanding athletes.
Four years after Peltzer made history as the first known
gay male to compete in the Olympics, an American would
achieve a similar feat for lesbian women. Mildred Babe
Didrikson is an American sporting legend, a woman who
blurred boundaries and achieved incredible success in a
number of different sports. In Los Angeles in 1932, Didrikson
won two gold medals for the 80 meter hurdles and javelin,
and a silver medal for the high jump. Post-Olympics, she
carved out a lucrative career in golf, competing in the Los
Angeles Open a mens tournament, and the first woman
to do so and becoming the biggest female golfing star
of the 40s and 50s, winning 48 professional tours (41 in
the LPGA) and numerous awards. She was named Woman
Athlete of the 20th Century by the Associated Press in 1999.
Though married, in her later years she formed an intimate
relationship with fellow golfer Betty Dodd, who moved in
with Didrikson and her husband.
In the years that followed Peltzer and Didrikson, countless other LGBT athletes would compete albeit in silence.
Caitlyn Jenner, then Bruce, took home the decathlon gold at
the 1976 Olympics. Greg Louganis attained four golds and a
silver (and a stack of gold medals from other events) during
his diving career. He wouldnt disclose either his sexuality
or his HIV status until 1995, after he had retired. I had

every expectation that if I went public with the fact that Im
gay, no one would want to hire me and Id lose my house,
he said in a press conference at the time.
The first athlete to compete openly at any games was
U.S. equestrian star Robert Dover, who attended every
Olympics between 1984 and 2004, and took home four
bronze medals. Dover came out during the 1988 Seoul
Olympics, and currently holds the record for the most
number of games attended by an LGBT athlete. In 1988 I
came out publicly in Seoul at the Olympics as an openly gay
athlete, he told Eurodressage in 2013. I have never looked
back from that moment.
Dovers openness paved the way for this years Olympics
to be the most open and inclusive in its history. Despite
a lack of openly trans athletes who were only this year
cleared to compete in the Olympics LGBT representation
is stronger than ever. And athletes themselves are more
comfortable than ever participating openly. I have heard
not one peep about LGBT athletes fearful about going to
Rio, Cyd Zeigler told The Advocate.
Its a stark contrast even to just eight years ago, when
being gay at the Olympics was still controversial. When
Australian diver Matthew Mitcham won gold for the 10
meter dive, he rushed into the crowd to embrace his partner,
prompting NBC to cut to a different camera feed.
[NBC] showed stories about everyone elses families,
Greg Louganis told USA Today. But just eight years ago,
a major network was uncomfortable with a gay couple. l
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Community
HITTING THE LANES
Whether novice or veteran, the Capital Area Rainbowlers Association

likely has a league for you
ACE UP YOUR SHOES AND POLISH YOUR BALLS THE CAPITAL AREA RAINbowlers Association (CARA) is seeking new members from D.C.s LGBT community.
And whether youre an experienced hand or you dont know the difference between a
strike and a spare, theres room for you in any one of CARAs nine weekly bowling leagues.
Youll pick up the basics of the game your first night, says CARAs Robert Treadway. All
of our members are open to teaching others.
Each league meets weekly at a designated bowling alley, either in D.C. or in Northern
Virginia. Membership fees range from $15 to $20 per league. CARA also holds special tournaments throughout the year, with occasional skill enhancement clinics to improve bowling
techniques. Leagues are also a great way to socialize and make new friends. Says Treadway:
Ive met some of my best friends through CARA. John Riley
The Capital Area Rainbowlers Association (CARA) has nine bowling leagues that meet
every week, with sites in Annandale, Alexandria, Falls Church, Chantilly, and the District of
Columbia. For meeting times and details on each league, visit carabowling.org.
THURSDAY, August 4
GAMMA, a confidential support
group for men who are gay,

bisexual, questioning and who
are married or involved with
a woman, meets in Frederick,
Md., on the first Thursday of
every month. GAMMA also
offers additional meetings
in Northern Virginia and
Washington. 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Grace United Church of Christ,
25 E. 2nd St., Frederick, Md.
For more information or to
RSVP, visit GAMMAinDC.org
or meetup.com/GAMMAinDC.
The DC Center hosts a meeting on SOLUTIONS FOR

WELLNESS PLANNING. 6:307:30 p.m. 2000 14th St. NW,
Suite 105. For more information, visit thedccenter.org.
through advanced square

dancing at the National City
Christian Church, 5 Thomas
Circle NW, 7-9:30 p.m. Casual
dress. 301-257-0517, dclambdasquares.org.
Weekly Events
The DULLES TRIANGLES

Northern Virginia social
group meets for happy hour
at Sheraton in Reston, 11810
Sunrise Valley Drive, second-floor bar, 7-9 p.m. All welcome. dullestriangles.com.
DC AQUATICS CLUB (DCAC)

practice session at Takoma
Aquatic Center, 300 Van Buren St.
NW. 7:30-9 p.m. swimdcac.org.
DC LAMBDA SQUARES gay
and lesbian square-dancing

group features mainstream
HIV TESTING at Whitman-
Walker Health. At the Elizabeth
Taylor Medical Center, 1701

14th St. NW, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. At
the Max Robinson Center, 2301
MLK Jr. Ave. SE, 9 a.m.-4:30
p.m. For an appointment call
202-745-7000. Visit whitman-walker.org.
IDENTITY offers free and

confidential HIV testing
in Gaithersburg, 414 East
Diamond Ave., and in Takoma
Park, 7676 New Hampshire
Ave., Suite 411. Walk-ins 2-6
p.m. For appointments other
hours, call Gaithersburg, 301300-9978, or Takoma Park,
301-422-2398.
SMYAL offers free HIV Testing,
3-5 p.m., by appointment and
walk-in, for youth 21 and
younger. 202-567-3155 or testing@smyal.org.
US HELPING US hosts a
Narcotics Anonymous Meeting,

6:30-7:30 p.m., 3636 Georgia
Ave. NW. The group is independent of UHU. 202-4461100.
WOMENS LEADERSHIP
INSTITUTE for young LBTQ
women, 13-21, interested in

leadership development. 5-6:30
p.m. SMYAL Youth Center, 410
7th St. SE. 202-567-3163, catherine.chu@smyal.org.
FRIDAY, August 5
GAY DISTRICT, a group for
GBTQQI men between the ages

of 18-35, meets on the first and
third Fridays of each month.
8:30-9:30 p.m. 2000 14th St.
21
NW, Suite 105. For more information, visit gaydistrict.org.
LGB PSYCHOTHERAPY GROUP
for adults in Montgomery County

offers a safe space to explore
coming out and issues of identity.
10-11:30 a.m. 16220 S. Frederick
Rd., Suite 512, Gaithersburg, Md.
For more information, visit thedccenter.org.
METRO DC PFLAG hosts a
Perspective Workshop at The DC

Center. 2-5 p.m. 2000 14th St. NW,
Suite 105. For more information,
visit thedccenter.org.
NOVA LGBTQ HAPPY HOUR

SOCIAL invites LGBTQ peo-
ple from all over to meet for a

social gathering. 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Pinzimini Lounge, The Westin
Arlington Gateway, 801 N Glebe
Rd, Arlington, Va. Ballston Metro
is two blocks away. Free. For more
information, visit meetup.com/
novaglp.
The DC Center hosts a meeting of

its TRANS DISCUSSION GROUP
focusing on issues important to
transgender people and those
who identify outside of the gender
binary. 7-9 p.m. 2000 14th St. NW,
visit thedccenter.org.
Weekly Events
ANDROMEDA TRANSCULTURAL
HEALTH offers free HIV testing,
9-5 p.m., and HIV services (by

appointment). 202-291-4707,
andromedatransculturalhealth.org.
practice session at Hains Point,

927 Ohio Dr. SW. 6:30-8 p.m. Visit
swimdcac.org.
METROHEALTH CENTER
offers free, rapid HIV testing.

Appointment needed. 1012 14th St.
NW, Suite 700. 202-638-0750.
PROJECT STRIPES hosts LGBT-
affirming social group for ages

11-24. 4-6 p.m. 1419 Columbia Road
NW. Contact Tamara, 202-3190422, layc-dc.org.
SMYALS REC NIGHT provides a

social atmosphere for GLBT and
questioning youth, featuring dance
parties, vogue nights, movies and
games. More info, catherine.chu@
smyal.org.
SATURDAY, August 6
ADVENTURING outdoors
group hikes 9 strenuous miles
with 1200 feet of elevation
gain on Appalachian Trail
around Humpback Rocks near
Waynesboro, Va. Bring plenty of
beverages, lunch, sturdy boots, bug
spray, sunscreen, and about $20
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Weekly Events
MONDAY, August 8
LGBT-inclusive ALL SOULS
Weekly Events
Weekly Events
celebrates Low Mass at 8:30

a.m., High Mass at 11 a.m. 2300
Cathedral Ave. NW. 202-232-4244,
allsoulsdc.org.

927 Ohio Dr. SW. 7-8:30 p.m. Visit
swimdcac.org.
BET MISHPACHAH, founded by
DC SCANDALS RUGBY holds
for fees, plus funds for dinner on

way home at nearby Wintergreen
Ski Resort. Carpool at 8:30 a.m.
from East Falls Church Metro Kiss
& Ride lot. Craig, 202-462-0535.
adventuring.org.
members of the LGBT community,

holds Saturday morning Shabbat
services, 10 a.m., followed by
Kiddush luncheon. Services in
DCJCC Community Room, 1529
16th St. NW. betmish.org.
BRAZILIAN GLBT GROUP, including others interested in Brazilian

culture, meets. For location/time,
email braziliangaygroup@yahoo.
com.
practice session at Hains Point, 972

Ohio Dr., SW. 8:30-10 a.m. Visit
swimdcac.org.
DC FRONT RUNNERS running/
walking/social club welcomes all

levels for exercise in a fun and supportive environment, socializing
afterward. Meet 9:30 a.m., 23rd &
P Streets NW, for a walk; or 10 a.m.
for fun run. dcfrontrunners.org.
DC SENTINELS basketball
team meets at Turkey Thicket

Recreation Center, 1100 Michigan
Ave. NE, 2-4 p.m. For players of all
levels, gay or straight. teamdcbasketball.org.
DIGNITYUSA sponsors Mass for
LGBT community, family and

friends. 6:30 p.m., Immanuel
Church-on-the-Hill, 3606 Seminary
Road, Alexandria. All welcome. For
more info, visit dignitynova.org.
GAY LANGUAGE CLUB discusses

critical languages and foreign languages. 7 p.m. Nellies, 900 U St.
NW. RSVP preferred. brendandarcy@gmail.com.
IDENTITY offers free and confidential HIV testing in Takoma
Park, 7676 New Hampshire Ave.,
Suite 411. Walk-ins 12-3 p.m. For
appointments other hours, call 301422-2398.
SUNDAY, August 7
CHRYSALIS arts & culture group
visits National Geographic Society

Museum to see exhibition on The
Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander
the Great. Adults $15, seniors/
students/military $12. All welcome.
Meet at 12 p.m. at NatGeo Box
office at 1145 17th St. NW, near
Farragut North Metro Station.
Lunch in the neighborhood follows. Craig, 202-462-0535. craighowell1@verizon.net.
MEMORIAL EPISCOPAL CHURCH

972 Ohio Dr., SW. 9:30-11 a.m. Visit
swimdcac.org.
DIGNITYUSA offers Roman
Catholic Mass for the LGBT

community. 6 p.m., St. Margarets
Church, 1820 Connecticut Ave. NW.
All welcome. Sign interpreted. For
more info, visit dignitynova.org.
FRIENDS MEETING OF
WASHINGTON meets for worship,
10:30 a.m., 2111 Florida Ave. NW,

Quaker House Living Room (next
to Meeting House on Decatur
Place), 2nd floor. Special welcome
to lesbians and gays. Handicapped
accessible from Phelps Place gate.
Hearing assistance. quakersdc.org.
HSV-2 SOCIAL AND SUPPORT

GROUP for gay men living in the
DC metro area. This group will be

meeting once a month. For information on location and time, visit
H2gether.com.
INSTITUTE FOR SPIRITUAL

DEVELOPMENT, God-centered new
age church & learning center. Sunday

Services and Workshops event. 5419
Sherier Place NW. isd-dc.org.
LUTHERAN CHURCH OF
REFORMATION invites all to
Sunday worship at 8:30 or 11 a.m.

Childcare is available at both services. Welcoming LGBT people for
25 years. 212 East Capitol St. NE.
reformationdc.org.
METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY
CHURCH OF WASHINGTON, D.C.
services at 9 a.m. (ASL interpreted) and 11 a.m. Childrens Sunday

School at 11 a.m. 474 Ridge St. NW.
202-638-7373, mccdc.com.
RIVERSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH,
a Christ-centered, interracial,
welcoming-and-affirming church,
offers service at 10 a.m. 680 I St.
SW. 202-554-4330, riversidedc.org.
UNITARIAN CHURCH OF
ARLINGTON, an LGBTQ welcom-
ing-and-affirming congregation,
offers services at 10 a.m. Virginia
Rainbow UU Ministry. 4444
Arlington Blvd. uucava.org.
UNIVERSALIST NATIONAL
MEMORIAL CHURCH, a welcom-
ing and inclusive church. GLBT

Interweave social/service group
meets monthly. Services at 11 a.m.,
Romanesque sanctuary. 1810 16th St.
NW. 202-387-3411, universalist.org.
practice, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Garrison

Elementary, 1200 S St. NW. dcscandals.wordpress.com.
GETEQUAL meets 6:30-8 p.m. at

Quaker House, 2111 Florida Ave.
NW. getequal.wdc@gmail.com.
HIV Testing at WHITMANWALKER HEALTH. At the
Elizabeth Taylor Medical Center,
1701 14th St. NW, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. At
the Max Robinson Center, 2301
MLK Jr. Ave. SE, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
For an appointment call 202-7457000. Visit whitman-walker.org.
NOVASALUD offers free HIV test-
ing. 5-7 p.m. 2049 N. 15th St., Suite

200, Arlington. Appointments: 703789-4467.
SMYAL offers free HIV Testing, 3-5

p.m., by appointment and walk-in,
for youth 21 and younger. Youth
Center, 410 7th St. SE. 202-5673155 or testing@smyal.org.
The DC Center hosts COFFEE
DROP-IN FOR THE SENIOR LGBT

COMMUNITY. 10 a.m.-noon. 2000
14th St. NW. 202-682-2245, thedccenter.org.
US HELPING US hosts a black gay

mens evening affinity group. 3636
Georgia Ave. NW. 202-446-1100.
WASHINGTON WETSKINS
WATER POLO TEAM practices 7-9
p.m. Takoma Aquatic Center, 300

Van Buren St. NW. Newcomers
with at least basic swimming ability
always welcome. Tom, 703-2990504, secretary@wetskins.org,
wetskins.org.
WHITMAN-WALKER HEALTH
HIV/AIDS Support Group for

newly diagnosed individuals,
meets 7 p.m. Registration required.
202-939-7671, hivsupport@whitman-walker.org.
TUESDAY, August 9
The DC Center holds a meeting of
its COMING OUT DISCUSSION
GROUP for those navigating issues
associated with coming out and
personal identity. 7-8:30 p.m. 2000
14th St. NW, Suite 105. For more
information, visit thedccenter.org.
Weekly Events
ASIANS AND FRIENDS weekly
dinner in Dupont/Logan Circle

area, 6:30 p.m. afwash@aol.com,
afwashington.net.
practice session at Takoma Aquatic

Center, 300 Van Buren St. NW.
7:30-9 p.m. swimdcac.org.
DC FRONT RUNNERS running/
walking/social club serving greater D.C.s LGBT community and

allies hosts an evening run/walk.
dcfrontrunners.org.
THE GAY MENS HEALTH

COLLABORATIVE offers free
HIV testing and STI screening

and treatment every Tuesday.
5-6:30 p.m. Rainbow Tuesday
LGBT Clinic, Alexandria Health
Department, 4480 King St. 703746-4986 or text 571-214-9617.
james.leslie@inova.org.
OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS
LGBT focused meeting every

Tuesday, 7 p.m. St. Georges
Episcopal Church, 915 Oakland
Ave., Arlington, just steps from
Virginia Square Metro. For
more info. call Dick, 703-5211999. Handicapped accessible.
Newcomers welcome. liveandletliveoa@gmail.com.
SUPPORT GROUP FOR LGBTQ

YOUTH ages 13-21 meets at
SMYAL, 410 7th St. SE, 5-6:30 p.m.

Cathy Chu, 202-567-3163, catherine.chu@smyal.org.
US HELPING US hosts a support
group for black gay men 40 and

older. 7-9 p.m., 3636 Georgia Ave.
NW. 202-446-1100.
Whitman-Walker Healths GAY
MENS HEALTH AND WELLNESS/

STD CLINIC opens at 6 p.m., 1701
14th St. NW. Patients are seen on

walk-in basis. No-cost screening
for HIV, syphilis, gonorrhea and
chlamydia. Hepatitis and herpes
testing available for fee. whitman-walker.org.
WEDNESDAY, August 10
BIG GAY BOOK GROUP meets to
discuss Immaculate Blue by Paul
Russell. 7 p.m. Trio Restaurant,
1537 17th St. NW, near the Dupont
Circle Metro Station on the Red
Line. All welcome. For more information, visit biggaybookgroup.
com or email biggaybookgroup@
hotmail.com.
RAINBOW RESPONSE, a coalition
dedicated to combating LGBTQ
intimate partner violence, holds its
monthly meeting at The DC Center
on the second Wednesday of every
month. 6-8 p.m. 2000 14th St. NW,

visit rainbowresponse.org.
St. NW, Suite 105. For more information, visit thedccenter.org.
THE LAMBDA BRIDGE CLUB will
HIV TESTING at Whitman-Walker

Health. At the Elizabeth Taylor
Medical Center, 1701 14th St. NW,
9 a.m.-5 p.m. At the Max Robinson
Center, 2301 MLK Jr. Ave. SE, 9
a.m.-4:30 p.m. For an appointment
call 202-745-7000. Visit whitman-walker.org.
meet for Duplicate Bridge. 7:30

p.m. Dignity Center 721 8th St. SE
(across from Marine Barracks). No
reservation needed. Call 202-8410279 if you need a partner.
Weekly Events
AD LIB, a group for freestyle con-
JOB CLUB, a weekly support program for job entrants and seekers,
meets at The DC Center. 6-7:30 p.m.
2000 14th St. NW, Suite 105. For
more info, www.centercareers.org.
METROHEALTH CENTER offers
PRIME TIMERS OF DC, social club

for mature gay men, hosts weekly
happy hour/dinner. 6:30 p.m.,
Windows Bar above Dupont Italian
Kitchen, 1637 17th St. NW. Carl,
703-573-8316. l
versation, meets about 6:30-6 p.m.,

Steam, 17th and R NW. All welcome. For more information, call
Fausto Fernandez, 703-732-5174.

927 Ohio Dr. SW. 7-8:30 p.m. Visit
swimdcac.org.
DC SCANDALS RUGBY holds
practice, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Garrison

Elementary, 1200 S St. NW. dcscandals.wordpress.com.
FREEDOM FROM SMOKING, a

group for LGBT people looking
to quit cigarettes and tobacco use,
holds a weekly support meeting at
The DC Center. 7-8 p.m. 2000 14th
free, rapid HIV testing. No

appointment needed. 11 a.m.-7 p.m.
1012 14th St. NW, Suite 700. 202638-0750.
Submit your community event for

consideration at least 10 days prior
to the Thursday publication you
would like it to appear. Email to
calendar@metroweekly.com.
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Perfect
For 19 years, Pixie Windsor has turned
knickknacks into items people crave at
Miss Pixies Furnishings & Whatnot. Just
like her store, shes a one-of-a-kind.
Interview by Doug Rule
Photography by Todd Franson
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Vintage
25
IXIE WINDSOR WAS

eager to make her mark
in Washingtons museum
world. She was fresh out
of college with a degree in
art history. But reality hit
her hard and the dream
quickly evaporated. I was
disappointed right away,
Windsor says, noting that
the the museums offers
were less than generous. Well put you on minimum wage for a
couple of years, and you can be a docent or something.
Windsor instead opted for the higher wages of the restaurant
industry. After years bouncing around several of the citys fine
dining establishments, she stumbled upon her true calling: owning a vintage retail shop.
The Smithsonians loss was the citys gain. Since moving to its
current location in 2008, Miss Pixies Furnishings & Whatnot,
filled with eccentric antiques and accoutrements, has brought
character to 14th Street, which, increasingly, seems to be a harbinger for corporate furniture stores (Lazyboy!?) that seem more
suited to bland, boilerplate malls far outside the city walls.
A gregarious fixture, Windsor has become a leading booster
for the Mid City neighborhood that has 14th Street as its main
artery. She is currently working with other area business leaders
to create a Mid City Business Improvement District that should
help make the neighborhood a little more cohesive, as well
as assist with the areas increasing maintenance, security and
marketing needs.
A Mid City BID would take the lead in promotions, including
the neighborhoods annual Dog Days Sidewalk Sale, held this
Saturday and Sunday, August 6 and 7. We always do 20 percent-off on everything, says Windsor. I dont normally haggle
at the store, so everybody sees it as, Oh, I finally get a discount
there!
This year, the store will host a first-ever Kickoff Party Friday
night, Aug. 5, where other area merchants will give a sneak peek
at their Dog Days offerings while food establishments from Cork
to Rice to Bens Chili Bowl will donate food and drink. The band
Laissez Foure will also play live throughout the evening.
Windsor increasingly sees Miss Pixies as more than just a
store. She frequently refers to it as a de-facto community center, as a venue for arts-focused events all part of her goal to
help foster stronger bonds among patrons and neighbors.
I guess its the Eastern Shore hostess side of me, she says.
Seeing that people are comfortable in the space, theyre comfortable with the people around them.
METRO WEEKLY: You grew up on the Eastern Shore.
PIXIE WINDSOR: I did. I grew up outside of a little town called
Cambridge, Maryland. I grew up on a farm with dairy and cows

and pigs and all that. Out in the middle of nowhere.
MW: Did you help out on the farm?
WINDSOR: I had my chores I had to go collect the eggs. I
had to bring the cows in. I grew up in a big family, brothers and sisters. About an hour ride into town to go to school
it was pretty remote. I couldnt wait to get into the city.
MW: When did you move to D.C.?
WINDSOR: When I was 25 and now Im 56. Ive been here for
a while. When I left my hometown, I lived between Ocean City
and Rehoboth a lot. Thats when the Renegade and the Boat
House and all the fun little bars were down there. That kept
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me from going to college as much as I should have. I worked in

restaurants and had a lot of fun.
MW: You continued working in restaurants after moving to D.C.
What inspired the switch to opening a store?
WINDSOR: I was in the restaurant business until I opened the
store here in 97. I loved restaurants. It was fun. I liked the people
I met. Back when the city was inexpensive to live, it was really
great money. But it was too much partying, too much socializing,
no stability at all.
I used to shop a lot at Madame Adam, a little shop around
the corner from my co-op in Adams Morgan. I loved all of his
vintage stuff. One day I walked in and he said, Im closing. The
universe kind of handed it to me. Hes like, Heres my landlords
phone number. Here are the auctions you should go to. Here are
the hours you should keep. It all happened literally overnight.
I stayed in the restaurant business for six months and ran the
shop, and then decided, I can actually make some money at
this. I had the shop, and I was the only one that ran it. I had
friends help me do deliveries and help me work if I needed it, but
it was a tiny shop. It was only 500 square feet, so I didnt really
need much help, as opposed to now where I have 14 employees
and 4,000 square feet.
MW: Why did you decide to name the store Miss Pixies?
WINDSOR: A bunch of my friends from the restaurant business
said, Oh my God, youve got the weirdest name in the world.
Just use your name. It sounds Southern, it sounds silly. People
dont ever forget that name. Its an easy name to remember. So
thats what we did.
MW: Is Pixie a family name?
WINDSOR: No. My grandparents didnt always get along, because
my mother was from New York City, and my fathers people
were from the Eastern Shore. When I was born they named me
after my fathers mother and after my mothers mother. They
named me Irene Emily, but then they gave me the neutral first
name Pixie so that they werent showing favoritism to either
side. I was apparently a really adorable, cute little baby. I wasnt
very much of an Irene or an Emily.
MW: Did you grow up surrounded by tchotchkes and knickknacks?
WINDSOR: The house I grew up in was a very simple farmhouse.
My mom was not all about decorating or anything. She was about
getting all of us kids to school and back safely, and helping my
father on the farm.
MW: So where did you get your eccentric sense of style?
WINDSOR: My great aunt, who lived just down the road. She
was a very eccentric woman. She bought everything at auctions,
and she had really amazing taste. She was very Auntie Mame.
She always had really wild furniture. If we wanted a doll house,
shed buy an antique one with antique furniture. She drove an
old woodie wagon and used only Fiestaware. Thats really where
I got it from. I was completely fascinated by all of that. I thought
it was just amazing. My mom was very Marlo Furniture if you
could go somewhere and get furniture cheap, thats where my
mother would get it. My aunt was completely the opposite.
MW: When did you start to realize you were bisexual?
WINDSOR: The first time I ever had a crush on anybody, it was on
a girl in fifth grade, and when she moved away I was devastated.
I had no idea. I just remember it being far worse than when my
dog died. I was like, This is the most horrible thing. Ill never
see her again. I didnt really put two and two together, that it
wasnt just a best friend thing. I had boy crushes and girl crushes.
I thought everyone else did, too. The last years of high school, I
realized, Oh, not everyone is like this. When I went away to
college, I had my first real serious girlfriend. I went to Salisbury
University it used to be a phys ed teachers college, so there

were a million lesbians there. It was a lot of fun, it was close to
the beach. Thats where I had my first serious, serious girlfriend.
I was like, Maybe I should tell my family about this. My father
had passed away already, and he would not have understood it
at all. My mother and I were always very, very close, but I found
it really difficult to talk to her about it.
One day, she was taking me to the bus in town, so I could
go and spend the weekend with my girlfriend. I said, Theres
something I need to tell you. She said, If its about this girl
youre going to visit, I already know. Its fine, I just dont really want to talk about it. I remember my stepfather was very
unhappy about it. He was Marine Corps, very Republican, very
uptight, and he thought it was awful and was very mad with
me. My siblings were all confused because they thought I was
boy-crazy in high school. They said, You have to make up your
mind: Are you going to like boys or are you going to like girls? I
replied, I dont think I have to make up my mind. To this day,
they say, We dont know whats going on with her. Thats fine.
MW: Are you in a relationship now?
WINDSOR: No, I havent been in a relationship for a couple of
years. Since Ive had the store, thats kind of been my relationship, and its my social outlet. Thats where Ive met all my
friends. I had a couple serious girlfriends and one not-at-all-serious boyfriend I was such a guy about it. I was like, No, not
love, not that serious. Lets just go out a lot. I was never in any
very serious relationships with men at all all the very strong,
emotional ones were always with women. Im just a pain in the
ass, and I like my alone time, and so that usually doesnt work.
MW: Does work tend to consume your life?
WINDSOR: Yes, Im always doing something thats related to work.
In the summertime, though, thats my favorite time of the year.
Mostly Im at the beach, in Rehoboth. Even though I go to the
lesbian beach and go to the lesbian bars, I kind of just want to be
alone. Its time to clear my head. Its fun to go out with my friends
and family, we have a good time, but my life is so hectic the rest
of the year that summer is a really important time for me. I dont
care that its 98 degrees out, I love summertime, and thats when
I take time off. In the summertime at the store I probably only
work three days. I would say the rest of the year I work seven.
MW: How long have you had Miss Pixies By the Sea in Rehoboth?
WINDSOR: This is our third year on Baltimore Avenue, right
across from the Blue Moon. Its a lot of fun. Not busy like the
D.C. store at all. People are down there to eat, drink and go to the
beach. But we do okay.
I hardly work there I work Sundays and Mondays, 10 to 2.
Thats a pretty easy schedule. Then I have two full-time people
that work down there, that live there. Theyre wonderful.
MW: Walk me through a typical working week for you.
WINDSOR: My super-busy time and the most exciting part of my
week are Tuesdays and Wednesdays, which are my auction days.
I get up early. On Tuesday I go to Weschlers Auction downtown. Im usually done by about noon, then we take everything
back to the store, unload it, we price it, try to get it on the website
right away, and then Im answering messages and taking care of
other details. Im usually there until seven or eight at night. Then
the very next day I go to another auction thats on the Eastern
Shore, so I have to get up at five in the morning. I drive there in
a big truck, and then do that auction, which is often outside, so
its either really hot or really cold.
The store is very busy those two days as well. Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday are just action packed. The rest of
the days I can kind of hide. When its not summertime, I usually
My siblings were all confused

because they thought I was
boy-crazy in high school. They
said, YOU HAVE TO MAKE UP
YOUR MIND: ARE YOU GOING
TO LIKE BOYS OR ARE YOU
GOING TO LIKE GIRLS?
work all weekend. Monday and Friday are kind of my days off.
MW: Do you get tired of the Bay Bridge, the travel back and forth?
WINDSOR: Not really. I do go over the Bay Bridge at least two
days a week. I time it so Im not really stuck in traffic. When

we were little, if we were going over the Bay Bridge, it either
meant we were going to the circus or a play or something big.
The bridge still represents escape. Its always been a symbol of,
Okay, now Im here, now things are going to be different.
MW: How has being online changed your business?
WINDSOR: We dont sell online per se. People dont say, Oh, I
saw the green chair. Ring me up. Its not Amazon or anything at
all. Ive had people tell me they call it furniture porn. We used
to update the site on Thursday mornings, and everybody at their
office, wherever they would be, would say, Oh my god, look at
this chair, look at this table, blah, blah, blah, and they would
all get in trouble at work for being online looking at my stuff,
instead of doing whatever they were supposed to do.
If somebody sees something online, well hold it until the
end of the business day for them to come in and check it out.
Otherwise, were pretty strict in the store: we hold things for two
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nothing thats going to make me quit my job anytime soon.
MW: Have you had the opposite experience, where youve paid way
I buy pretty much what I like,

but Im influenced by whats
going on. MY CLIENTS LIKE FUN,
FUNCTIONAL STUFF. NOBODY
HAS ANY TIME TO REPAIR
OR FIX UP ANYTHING.
hours. Things move really fast, some are in there sometimes for
10 minutes. We bring them in, we put a price tag on it, and its
gone. Sometimes things are in there for six months and then we
have to mark it down. But the website has really changed it. To
be honest, I dont do Facebook or Instagram or all that stuff. My
young, smart assistants do it. I have a big rule: youre not allowed
to have your phone at work, which apparently is a terrifying thing
to tell anyone these days. But they can have their phone if theyre
Instagramming pictures from the store. So all my employees
Instagram pictures or tweet out different stuff and post stuff all
the time. Thats been really big. I know very little about all that. I
shake my head and say yes when somebody comments about it.
MW: Is everything that you sell your decision?
WINDSOR: I do most of the buying at both of the auctions. I have
an assistant. Recently, I hired Glynn Romero, who used to own
Millennium Decorative Arts on U Street, to be my manager. Hes
amazing, amazing, amazing. Very rarely do I miss any auctions,
but if Im out sick or something like that, he goes and does a
great job. I like to feel like I know every single thing in the store
and where I bought it, but its not possible, theres too much
stuff. Richard Windborn goes to the Eastern Shore auction with
me every week, and he buys outdoor furniture and old signs or
mason jars and things like that.
MW: Anything stick out as a most incredible find among all the
things youve bought for your business?
WINDSOR: I have filled my house literally floor to ceiling with
artwork that I love that I bought. And I do have the luxury of
rotating it out when I get a little bored with it, or find something I like better. I have a big collection of oil paintings by a
Greek painter. A number of people have told me, Oh my God,
his stuff is so valuable! But only in Greece. Im like, Theres
no economy in Greece, so that doesnt mean anything to me.
I also got a print that I took to get framed, and the framer said,
This isnt just a van Gogh lithograph. This was actually printed
through Theo van Goghs gallery, because there was a little
seal mark on it. I havent moved that. Thats in my closet. I have
some artwork that Ive paid literally $5 for, and then sold for
like $2,000. Ive had a few of those. No big million dollar sales
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too much for something?

WINDSOR:[Laughs.] Oh God, yes I have. Not too often, because I
really do buy on the lower-end of the scale. I love tiki and bamboo
stuff, and I used to spend a lot of money on it, and nobody buys it.
I sell a little bit of it at the beach. I bought this great leather couch,
and it was so amazing, and I knew the designer and nobody
cared. Sometimes they do, but those customers are few and far
between. I try to at least get out of it what I put into it, and sometimes Im like, Okay, I paid 700 dollars for this. Im just going to
sell it for 200 dollars and try not to do this again. So that happens.
As Ive been in it longer, it happens much, much less.
MW: How do you know if something is a good thing to buy?
WINDSOR: The big thing I have to do is remember that tastes
change. When I first started, I think it was when Friends was on,
and everybody loved the art deco stuff that was on that show.
Ive never liked art deco, but I would buy it and it would sell.
Mid-century modern stuff Id say 10 years ago it had to be
absolutely pristine without a scratch, and now the more beatup it is the better. I have to keep ahead of the design shows and
design magazines and other people that do what I do, and just
see what works. Im not always right. Weve certainly had some
duds, but not very many.
People always need glassware in this town. Everybody always
needs cheap artwork thats good. I buy pretty much what I like,
but Im influenced by whats going on. My clients like fun, functional stuff. Nobody has time to repair or fix up anything. I dont
have anybody coming in saying, I really want to work on a dresser, so sell me something cheap. They want it ready to go. So that
I do. We make it easy for them. We have a big crazy glittery van,
painted pink with like 30,000 rhinestones on it. We have really
cute delivery boys. I shouldnt call them delivery boys, theyre
delivery men. They all know each other from CrossFit classes, so
theyre these big hunky guys. Ive had people say, Oh my god, will
they deliver my shopping bags? Yeah, for 35 dollars they will.
MW: Do you miss the old 14th Street?
WINDSOR: [Laughs.] No. There are things that I miss about the
old 14th Street I miss Pulp and all the really cute tiny little
stores. It was a real sense of community. But we had people try
to break into the store. I actually put up a sign that said, No kids
under 18. We had little kids coming in trying to steal the cookies.
We just had so many weird things when we first opened. We had
shoplifting, we had a lot of crime issues. Now we have a lot of
annoying wealthy kids.
Its changed a lot. Its good for me and good for business.
When I first opened on 14th Street, my rent was $6,000 a month,
which I thought was astronomical, but it was a huge space. Now
its much, much more than that, which is crazy. Im not sitting
around making money hand-over-fist at all. Im happy that the
economy has bumped up and people spend more money, because
I need to make a lot more money to make ends meet. Im happy
about 14th Street being cleaned up. Im sad to see its filling up
with some corporate stuff. Theres a J Crew for Men going in
where the old Mens Parties sex club used to be. When I first
opened there, that place was very active.
Its nice to have a lot of restaurants. We used to have to order carry-out pizza. There wasnt any place to eat. Thats changed. Its very
vibrant, its exciting, its very young people and their dogs and
their kids in strollers. The neighborhood, 14th Street, has always
been so supportive they stand behind me whenever theres an
issue or something. Everyone has been super-nice and helpful. Its
a great neighborhood. Its just pretty dense and very expensive.
MW: So the cost of doing business has skyrocketed, but your busi-
ness is doing okay?

WINDSOR: The numbers have gone up as well, so thats good.
My landlord on 14th Street, he and his family own the property.
Theyve been super-wonderful to me. They could have kicked
me out and brought in a restaurant and got so much more
money. They gave me a tiny, little three-percent rent increase for
my new lease, which Im signing in six months. They started out
as a small business, so theyve been really helpful to me. I plan to
be around for at least another five years. Then after that, I dont
know what Ill do. Im definitely not going anywhere, knock on
wood, barring any unforeseen events.
MW: Have you thought about opening another store?
WINDSOR: No, no, no, no. I just feel very strongly about focusing
on the D.C. store. Well probably do more events. Were trying
to find out about even doing private parties, I dont know, do
Ladies Night and things like that, maybe once a month, to fill the
coffers in a whole different way. I have a big movie projector, a
big screen in this place, and so doing movie nights, or a gay and
lesbian film festival, stuff like that. Its a fun, comfortable space.
People really enjoy it. I dont care sometimes if people dont buy
anything. I think its really wonderful. Id like it to be everyones
little happy place. Thats really what I think the future holds. Im
also involved in the Fringe Festival they let me do a little movie
series this spring, and weve done a couple pop-up stores for them
we just furnish the Fringe events when they have them.
If I could ever bring back a T-dance I think its kind of a
generational thing. When I was growing up, for years I never
missed a T-dance. To drink and dance in the middle of the day
was the craziest idea to me, and I thought it was fantastic. But I
think people do that now all the time.

So my focus for the next five years, will be just really squeezing all I can out of the space, so I hopefully have some money left
at the end of it to sit around and do nothing for a while.
MW: Do you ever wish youd had kids?
WINDSOR: No! I come from a really big family. I like kids. I
love my nieces and my nephew, but after a day Im completely
exhausted and I have no idea how people parent, because its just
too overwhelming for me.
MW: Is your staff a surrogate family for you?
WINDSOR: We have a great staff. I try to take good care of my
staff. I try to pay them as well as I possibly can. I used to say its
my second family, but its kind of my first family. I have a lot of
good loyal people that have stayed there for a long time, who
love retail and who love our customers. I think its important
to have a good staff that is responsive. If I promise you something, if anything goes wrong, I try to go above and beyond to
make sure that you are happy. That makes me happy, that keeps
everybody happy. We just try to keep it all working all the way
around. l
Miss Pixies, located at 1626 14th St. NW, will hold the Dog Days
Kickoff on Friday, Aug. 5, from 6 to 8 p.m. Call 202-232-8171 or
visit misspixies.com.
Miss Pixies By The Sea is at 40 Baltimore Ave. in Rehoboth Beach,
Del. Call 302-226-8171 or visit bythesea.misspixies.com.
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a way to generate
some excitement at
the store and boost
sales a little bit in a
slow month, says Grace Proctor
Allison of Home Rule. The Dog
Days Sidewalk Sale was first
started in 2000 by Allisons boss,
Greg Link. The first event featured just six businesses spread
across a couple of blocks on 14th
Street. Now, Dog Days produces
some of the biggest sales of the
year for seventy merchants up
and down 14th no mean feat
in the Washington summer heat.
The annual event, which takes
place this Saturday and Sunday,
has also become far more than
just a sale: its now a full-on
neighborhood festival.
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the neighborhood and the small
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ferent things they offer, says
Diane Gross, who has organized
Dog Days for the past five years.
One of the first restaurants on
what has become D.C.s trendiest restaurant row, Gross Cork
Wine Bar will open early and
offer a happy hour menu all day
long this weekend. Meanwhile,
Cork Market will offer a wine
sale and special wine tastings,
plus lemonade, sandwiches and
baked goods on the sidewalk.
There will also be other events
including a photobooth, balloon twisting and face-painting
throughout the wider Mid

City area, extending north past
U Street, south to Logan Circle,
and east to the newly transformed 8th Street area of North
Shaw.
Current Boutique and Salt &
Sundry will join Miss Pixies in
offering 20% off everything
or, nearly everything, in the case
of Logan Hardware. Meanwhile,
U Street punk-inspired apparel-maker Rosies and Rockers will
offer 30% off all its wares, while
boutique Urban Essentials has at
least 10% off its contemporary
furnishings.
Home Rule will do what its

done for sixteen years: Fill its
sidewalk with racks and tables
featuring clearance or seasonal products, all marked down
half price. There are people
I only see once a year during
Dog Days, Allison says. Thats
when they come, because they
know theres going to be some
great stuff out there. Doug
Rule
The 17th Annual Mid City Dog
Days Sidewalk Sale is Saturday,
Aug. 6, and Sunday, Aug. 7. Visit
facebook.com/MidCityDogDays
for full details of participants and
promotions.
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Gallery
David Amoroso
Acrylic on Canvas, clockwise from left: Arbol de Mi Vida - 36x48 - 1997, Frida with Callas - 36x48 - 2015,
Fabuloso - 36x48 - 2015, Luchador de la Muerte - 36x48 - 2010
David currently has work at ChimMaya Gallery in Los Angeles and The Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, plus ongoing
work at El Tamarindo and Miss Pixies in Washington, D.C.
amorosoart.wixsite.com/davidamoroso
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Games
Joy Ride
We Happy Few offers an intriguing, if imperfect glimpse into

a dystopian alternate reality By Rhuaridh Marr
E HAPPY FEW IS BOTH A VICTIM AND PRODUCT OF OUR CYNICAL

modern world. Drawing inspiration from countless dystopian sources
1984, Brazil, Brave New World, BioShock, A Clockwork Orange, and V for
Vendetta, to name but a few its set in an alternate reality 1960s, on the island city
of Wellington Wells. In this timeline, Britain failed to stop the Nazis invading, but
Wellington Wells successfully repelled them thanks to some unspoken, horrific means.
The horrors of those post-war years resulted in dictatorial control of the populace,
who forget their atrocities thanks to Joy, a hyper-antidepressant that not only suppresses all negative thoughts, but transforms surroundings from bleak and austere into
colorful and beautiful. Joy is a wonder drug, designed to make everything better for
everyone. The comparisons with contemporary society and our addiction to pills as
a cure-all for every malady are numerous.
Perhaps predictably, Joy has a darker side. Anyone found not taking it is labelled
a Downer, and either forcibly given the drug or ejected from the center of the city
to the wastelands on the outskirts of the island. The local constabulary (or Bobbies)
will enforce Joy with brutal efficiency, but so too will the residents themselves. Stop
taking your Joy, and murderous mobs will quickly descend to ensure the status quo is
maintained. Talk about side effects.
Its here I should mention that We Happy Few is not a finished game. It is a preview,
an alpha test of a product thats roughly fifty percent complete. Developer Compulsion
Games known for 2013s Contrast has released it in early access in order to gain
valuable feedback. A tiny studio, We Happy Few seems an impossibly large task, given
its grand aims, beautiful presentation, rich art style and a trailer at this years E3 which
left many buzzing about the next BioShock. However, We Happy Few is not the next
BioShock it was never intended to be. It has always been, and likely will remain, a
survival game. Its here that small development team plus lofty goals meet practical
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reality: procedurally-generated survival

games, where the world is created randomly around you, are relatively low-impact for smaller studios to make. And, for
the most part, Compulsion has gotten the
basic building blocks right.
Players start the game as Arthur
Hastings, a clerk in an office dedicated
to censoring old newspapers. Mentions
of the war Wellington Wells fought to
repel? Heavens no. Stories about old
ladies winning vegetable growing contests? Absolutely! After reading an article
about his brother, presumed killed, Arthur
starts to remember the past. Players are
faced with an immediate choice: take Joy
to forget, or throw it away and continue to
remember (hint: choosing the former is an
immediate game over). The darker surface
underneath Joys glossy sheen becomes
immediately apparent: Without the drug,
Arthur notices the dilapidated appearance
of the office, the stacks of work that are
piling up, the missing coworkers whove
spent too long on vacation. At a birthday party for another worker, Arthur is
told to hit a pinata the player smacks it,
causing a shower of blood to appear. The
unwitting, drug-filled workers start tucking into the innards of what transpires to
be a dead rat. The now coherent Arthur
retches (understandably) and is labelled a
Downer. A short chase ensues, hes beaten
around the head by Bobbies, and thats it.
There will be no more story until the final
version of the game lands in 2017, alongside two other playable

characters, each with their own backstories and motivations for
stopping their Joy intake. For the moment, players only have
the basic elements of the game to enjoy and, at least in their
current state, its a mixed bag.
First, the most obvious thing about We Happy Few: the art
direction. It is gorgeous. Retrofuturistic Wellington Wells, with
its Mod-inspired clothing, 60s architecture and design, classic
sci-fi weaponry and security devices, and quaint, Little England
feel is a wonderful place to roam around. We Happy Few excels
at evoking the atmosphere of this horrible, drug-addled world.
Strong lighting effects, unique character designs and numerous small details abound, while audio is pretty rich, including
Arthurs nervous voice and the chattering and yelling of other
residents, but especially Uncle Jack, the mysterious television
figure piped into homes and streets. Its also an incredibly
creepy place, from the fog piped into certain areas, to the white
masks residents wear to enhance how happy they look, to the
constant sense that the players are one misstep away from being
discovered as a Downer.
Unfortunately, its not perfect. Random generation means
that too often players will see the same assets repeated, particularly in the starting area of Garden District, where Arthur wakes
up after hes been knocked unconscious. Decrepit, bombed, or
burned-down houses start to blend into one another, the same
tree appears countless times, the Wastrels Downers whove
survived so long in the outskirts that theyve gone insane are
too repetitive and its easy to get lost, as the generation sticks to a
grid layout (the very opposite of which youll find in most English
towns), meaning that every corner looks the same as the last.
However, you wont have time to think too much about
this, as your main goals are to escape Wellington Wells and,
above all else, survive. While theres no story, per se, there is an
abundance of lore-building present in this version of the game,
as well as notes, journals and newspaper clippings scattered
throughout the world. Certain characters and areas will offer
quests, which inevitably require finding an item and returning to
the original area. This means lots and lots and lots of scavenging.
We Happy Few delights in having players comb through every
post box, closet, trash can, pile of rubble, and body of someone
youve just knocked out. Theres a crafting system present, and
an almost overwhelming variety of objects can be constructed to
help Arthur survive, advance, and fight back against anyone he
annoys along the way.
Simultaneously, youll also be micro-managing Arthurs
needs, like a dystopian The Sims. However, perhaps Arthur
shouldnt be quite as concerned with escaping Wellington Wells
as he should be with the rate at which he gets hungry, thirsty, or
tired. These stats deplete far too quickly and in just a couple of
hours (in-game, mere minutes in the real world), Arthur can go
from perfectly healthy to dying of thirst. Or hunger. Or exhaustion. Or food poisoning, because all he could find to eat was some
rotten mushrooms and didnt have any Nexamide pills to cure
his sickness. Or any other concoction of woes that We Happy
Few throws at Arthur, such as severe bleeding after too many
blows, the plague (caught from really sick Wastrels), or various
other maladies. Perhaps its a good thing that the games default
permadeath setting can be switched off.
Its not helped by an interface that borders on the obtuse, in
particular the inventory system, where youll spend a lot of your
time crafting items for Arthur and selecting the food, water and
weapons he needs. Its a hot mess at the moment, with objects
not easily distinguishable from one another. Need a bandage in a
hurry? Good luck finding it before you succumb to your wounds,

or are beaten senseless by another horde the janky AI, which can
strike without notice, or ignore you completely, doesnt help here.
But there is also a lot that We Happy Few gets right. Once
youve gotten past the survival hump and made it into the Joypopping center of town, it becomes a different game, as youre
forced to use caution, stealth, and old-fashioned good manners
to convince the locals that youre as drugged up and carefree
as they are. Running is bad, entering houses is bad, not saying
hello to old ladies is bad (theyll start screaming for Bobbies).
Wouldnt it just be easier to take a Joy and not have to worry
about fitting in? Sure, theres the side effects, the withdrawals,
and potentially fatal overdoses, but you wont arouse quite as
much suspicion. This is also where the overbearing survival
aspects lend an extra hand to storytelling: if youre dying of
thirst, youll drink from a tap, and there youll find that Joy is
in the water supply Wellington Wells residents are being
drugged even without their knowledge. Its one of countless
smaller details that add to our understanding of Arthurs world.
I just wish that taking Joy had a greater effect unlike the rat/
pinata intro, popping a pill in the main game just adds a rosy
sheen and a rainbow to the sky. The streets dont glisten and
burned out buildings still look burned out. Its one of numerous
areas the game could be improved.
However, as it stands, We Happy Few does exactly what it
says on the tin: it offers a preview of the full game. Compulsion
has already promised that fixes are on the way for the extreme
hunger/thirst/exhaustion depletion, quest markers that dont
update, pathetic durability of some weapons, and more. In the
future, therell be greater variety in its world generation, more
world-building, better quest and compass interfaces to help you
navigate, and more varied dialogue from characters.
With a while until the full game is released, theres a lot to be
excited about. Sure, at its core We Happy Few is another survival
game, but Compulsion is doing its best to ensure that everything
around that is compelling, detailed, and narratively rich. What
happened that forced Wellington Wells to develop Joy? Who
is Uncle Jack? What happened to those on mainland Britain?
These are all questions I cant wait to find answers to, and with
more refined gameplay and less extreme survival elements, We
Happy Few could easily become one of the better examples of the
survival genre. Is it worth your $30 just now? No. Give it another
few updates before you dip your toe in, as too much right now
just doesnt work. Is it something that should be on your radar?
Absolutely. Now excuse me. I need to go take my Joy. l
We Happy Few is available on PC and Xbox One in early access
previews.
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Music
The Avalanches
Kleptomaniacs
The Avalanches return with an example of plunder at its best, while

MSTRKRFT are stuck in the past By Sean Maunier
T SOUNDS ALMOST LIKE A JOKE A GENRE BUILT ON SAMPLING AND

rearranging other peoples music. The Avalanches have marked themselves as
masters of this style, which goes by the slightly cringe-worthy moniker plunderphonics, a catch-all term for the process of creating sound collages with a mix of
original and creatively borrowed material. Sixteen years after Since I Left You, their
celebrated debut, the Australian groups second album, Wildflower (HHHHH), marks
a long-awaited foray back into their distinct brand of electronica, stitching old, mostly-forgotten sounds into something entirely new.
Wildflower is a sprawling, ambitious work 21 tracks that clock in at just under
an hour. With so much material spread over such a lengthy runtime, the album was
bound to defy easy categorization. Combining styles as diverse as disco, hip hop, and
electronica, Wildflower is an almost unbelievably eclectic mix of elements. Underneath
the apparent chaos, the attention to detail might be the most impressive thing about
Wildflower. Every beat and vocal sample seems deliberately chosen and placed, and as
a result each track feels suitably distinct.
The Avalanches joyfully walk the line between tribute and plunder, bouncing from
samples of Six Boys in Trouble to crackly voiceovers to a choral cover of The Beatles
Come Together on The Noisy Eater. Their kleptomaniacal approach to creating
music results in some truly inspired moments, such as the albums lead single, the
infectious calypso-hip hop mashup Frankie Sinatra. At times the almost manic
switching between styles and elements is dizzying, but the transitions are handled so
flawlessly that they are never overpowering. Grainy vocal samples ground tracks like
Because Im Me and the title track Wildflower and build on the albums ever-present sense of warmth and nostalgia. While nostalgia always runs the risk of becoming
overly sappy, The Avalanches deliver it here with a wink and a nod, having too much
fun with their material to be accused of sentimentalism.
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If there is any kind of unifying theme

to Wildflower, it might be The Avalanches
enthusiasm for sampling and incorporating
as many styles and influences into their
work as possible. Occasionally, this works
against the album, which is so crowded
with guest appearances that the listener
cant help but wonder if they were really
necessary. At its core though, Wildflower
more than justifies the loyal following the
band has accumulated since their debut
in 2000. Above all, Wildflower sounds like
a band in its element, gleefully stitching
together carefully chosen bits and pieces of
other works into a bright, dazzling record
that is enjoyable from start to finish, and a
sound that is undeniably their own.
IF YOU WERE ASKED to imagine an
amalgamation of electronica, industrial
rock, noise and dance punk, something
like MSTRKRFT would probably come to
mind. Their newest release, OPERATOR
(HHHHH), continues the duos experiment in industrial dance music, with
a sound best suited to dingy nightclubs
and warehouse raves. The glitchy, discordant rhythms coursing throughout
feel like a throwback to the mid-2000s,
though this time around the chaotic energy is dialled back slightly. On a casual
listen, OPERATOR is oddly captivating
at points, coursing between the synthy
Death in the Gulf Stream, and the heavy,
intense beats of Morning of the Hunt.
The more downtempo track Playing

With Itself is a welcome break, but
at nearly six minutes in length, it
starts to drag on. OPERATOR also
marks a turn into noise that is most
clearly audible on Go on Without
Me, a harsh and aggressive track
that owes much to its guest vocalist
Jacob Bannon of Converge. These
tracks stand out as markers of what
might have been, reminders that
MSTRKRFT is capable of more than
the basic dance beats that suffuse the
rest of the album.
Behind all the raucous energy, its hard to know what exactly MSTRKRFT is striving for on
OPERATOR. There is a noticeable
shift towards a heavier, less electronic sound, but past this novelty, the
album does little more than meander
from one dance number to another,
rarely striving for much more than
that. With Jesse F. Keeler also making up half of the dance punk
band Death From Above 1979, comparisons are almost inevitable, and perhaps a little unfair. But where DFA has received
praise for its intensity and uniqueness, MSTRKRFT seems
to have done little more than fall back on the sound that has
worked for them in the past.
MSTRKRFT
Its hard to fault MSTRKRFT for relying on the gritty, industrial aesthetic that they helped to define, but OPERATOR ultimately misses all its marks too intense for casual listening and
too familiar to really stand out from similar works. The album
does feature some satisfying moments, but its small handful of
high points are not enough to redeem it. l
Both Wildflower and OPERATOR are available on iTunes, Amazon and Spotify.
NightLife
Photography by
Ward Morrison
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Scene
DrinksDragDJsEtc...
Thursday
August 4
9 1/2
Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any
drink, 5-9pm Multiple
TVs showing movies,
shows, sports Expanded
craft beer selection
Music videos featuring
DJ Wess
COBALT/30 DEGREES
Happy Hour: Tops Down $6
Top Shelf, Bottoms Up $3
Rail, $3 Bud Light, 4-9pm
$3 Rail Drinks, 10pm-midnight, $5 Red Bull and
Frozen Virgin Drinks
Locker Room Thursday
Nights DJs Sean Morris
and MadScience Best
Package Contest at midnight, hosted by BaNaka &
Kristina Kelly $200 Cash
Prize Doors open 10pm,
21+ $5 Cover or free

with college ID
DC EAGLE
Doors open at 5pm Strip
Down Thursdays Happy
Hour starts with shirtless
men drink $2 rail and
domestic, 5-8pm Men
down to their underwear
drink $1 rail and domestic,
10pm-12am DJ Theo
Storm starts spinning,
9pm-1am No Cover
21+
FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Crazy Hour, 4-7pm
Karaoke, 8pm
GREEN LANTERN
Happy Hour, 4-9pm
Ladies Drink Free Power
Hour, 4-5pm Shirtless
Thursday, 10-11pm DJs
BacK2bACk
Duplex Diners 18th Anniversary Party - Friday, July 29
Photography by Ward Morrison
See and purchase more photos from this event at www.metroweekly.com/scene
JR.S
All You Can Drink for $15,
5-8pm $3 Rail Vodka
Highballs, $2 JR.s drafts,
8pm-close Flashback:
Music videos from 19752005 with DJ Jason Royce,
8pm-12am
SOMEPLACE ELSE BAR

& GRILL
1637 R St. NW
Happy Hour, 4-7pm $1
PBR, $2 Yuengling, $3 Rail,
$5 Appetizers Extended
Happy Hour, 7-9pm, with
only $1 increase in price
NELLIES SPORTS BAR

Beat the Clock Happy Hour
$2 (5-6pm), $3 (6-7pm),
$4 (7-8pm) Buckets of
Beer $15 Drag Bingo
THE HOUSE NIGHTCLUB

Throbbing Thursdays
Diverse group of all male,
all nude dancers Doors
open 9pm Shows all
night until close, starting at
9pm $5 Domestic Beer,
$6 Imports $12 cover
For Table Reservations, call
202-487-6646
NUMBER NINE
drink, 5-9pm No Cover
SHAWS TAVERN
Miller Lite, $4 Blue Moon,
$5 Rails and House Wines
& Half-Priced Pizzas $4
Corona and $4 Heineken
start at 5pm
TOWN PATIO
Open 6pm Happy Hour
all night, $4 drinks and
draughts 21+
TRADE
1410 14th St. NW
Doors open 5pm Huge
Happy Hour: Any drink
normally served in a cock-
tail glass served in a huge

glass for the same price,
5-10pm Beer and wine
only $4
ZIEGFELDS/SECRETS
All male, nude dancers
Shirtless Thursday DJ
9pm Cover 21+
Friday
August 5
9 1/2
Open at 5pm Happy
Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink,
5-9pm Friday Night
Videos with resident DJ
Shea Van Horn VJ
Expanded craft beer selection No Cover
COBALT/30 DEGREES
All You Can Drink Happy
Hour $15 Rail and
Domestic, $21 Call &
Imports, 6-9pm Guys
Night Out Free Rail
Vodka, 11pm-Midnight, $6
Belvedere Vodka Drinks all
night DJ MadScience
upstairs DJ Keenan Orr
downstairs $10 cover
10pm-1am, $5 after 1am
21+
DC EAGLE
Doors open at 5pm
Happy Hour, 5-8pm
$2 Bud and Bud Light
Draughts, $3 Domestic
Bottles, $4 Rail and Import
Bottle Beer, $6 Call MidAtlantic Kennel Korps on
Club Bar Trainers and
Puppy Mosh, 9pm-1am
No Cover 21+
FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Crazy Hour, 4-7pm
Karaoke, 8pm
GREEN LANTERN
Smirnoff, all flavors, all
night long Otter Den DC
presents Otter Crossing,
9pm-close $5 Cover
after 10pm
39
JR.S
Happy Hour: 2-for-1, 4-9pm
$2 Skyy Highballs and
$2 Drafts, 10pm-midnight
Pop and Dance Music
Videos with DJ Darryl
Strickland $5 Coronas,
$8 Vodka Red Bulls,
9pm-close
NELLIES SPORTS BAR
DJ Matt Bailer Videos,
Dancing Beat the Clock
Happy Hour $2 (5-6pm),
$3 (6-7pm), $4 (7-8pm)
Buckets of Beer $15
NUMBER NINE
Open 5pm Happy Hour:
2 for 1 on any drink, 5-9pm
No Cover Friday Night
Piano with Chris, 7:30pm
Friday Night Videos with
Chord, 9:30pm
SHAWS TAVERN
& Half-Priced Pizzas
Summer Olympics Opening
Night Ceremonies Watch
Party $6 Caipirinhas
40
SOMEPLACE ELSE BAR

& GRILL
1637 R St. NW
ZIEGFELDS/SECRETS
All male, nude dancers,
hosted by LaTroya Nicole
Ladies of Ziegfelds,
9pm Rotating Hosts
DJ in Secrets VJ Tre in
Ziegfelds Cover 21+
TOWN
Patio open 6pm DC Bear
Crue Happy Hour, 6-11pm
$3 Rail, $3 Draft, $3 Bud
Bottles Free Pizza, 7pm
No cover before 9:30pm
21+ Drag Show starts
at 10:30pm Hosted by
Lena Lett and featuring
Miss Tatianna, ShiQueeta-Lee, Riley Knoxx
and BaNaka DJ Wess
upstairs, DJs BacK2bACk
downstairs following the
show GoGo Boys after
11pm Doors open at
10pm For those 21 and
over, $12 For those
18-20, $15 Club: 18+
Patio: 21+
Saturday
August 6
TRADE
Doors open 5pm Huge
normally served in a
cocktail glass served in a
huge glass for the same
price, 5-10pm Beer and
wine only $4 DJ Jeff
Prior, 10pm
9 1/2
drink, 3-9pm $5 Absolut
& Titos, $3 Miller Lite
after 9pm Expanded craft
beer selection No Cover
Music videos featuring
various DJs
COBALT/30 DEGREES
Drag Yourself to Brunch at
Level One, 11am-2pm and
2-4pm Featuring Kristina
Kelly and the Ladies of
Illusion Bottomless
Mimosas and Bloody
Marys Happy Hour:
Tops Down $6 Top Shelf,
Bottoms Up $3 Rail, $3 Bud
Light, 4-9pm Doors open
10pm $5 Cover 21+
DC EAGLE
Doors open at 8pm
Happy Hour, 8-10pm
Draughts, $3 Domestic
Bottles, $4 Rail and Import
Bottle Beer, $6 Call
Mr. DC Eagle on Club
Bar $2 Draughts and
Jello Shooters 21+
Joe Whitaker presents
DILF DC by MAN UPP
heating UPP August like no
other! DJ Max Bruce of
Los Angeles and DJ Gino
Santos of NYC Presale
Tickets, $25, via eventbrite.
com
FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Drag Queen Broadway
Brunch, 10am-3pm
Starring Freddies
Broadway Babes Crazy
Hour, 4-7pm Freddies
Follies Drag Show, 8-10pm,
hosted by Miss Destiny B.
Childs No Cover
GREEN LANTERN
Bacardi, all flavors, all
night long REWIND:
Request Line, an 80s
and 90s Dance Party,
9pm-close Featuring
DJ Darryl Strickland
No Cover
JR.S
$4 Coors, $5 Vodka
Highballs, $7 Vodka Red
Bulls
NELLIES SPORTS BAR
Guest DJs Zing Zang
Bloody Marys, Nellie Beer,
House Rail Drinks and
Mimosas, $4, 11am-5pm
Buckets of Beer, $15
NUMBER NINE
Doors open 2pm Happy
Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink,
3-9pm $5 Absolut and $5
Bulleit Bourbon
SHAWS TAVERN
Bottomless Mimosas,
10am-3pm The Magic
of Kourash Taie, 4-6pm
& Half-Priced Pizzas
SOMEPLACE ELSE BAR
& GRILL
1637 R St. NW
TOWN
Patio open 2pm DC
Rawhides host Town &
Country: Two-Step, Line
Dancing, Waltz and West
Coast Swing, $5 Cover to
stay all night Doors open
6:30pm, Lessons 7-8pm,
Open dance 8-10:50pm
CIRCUS with DJ Kidd
Madonny Special performances by The Strong
Men, The Bearded Lady,
The Sword Swallower,
The Contortionist, The
Stilt Walkers, and The
Insane DJ Show Drag
Show starts at 10:30pm
Hosted by Lena Lett and
featuring Miss Tatianna,
Shi-Queeta-Lee, Riley
Knoxx and BaNaka
Doors open 10pm $12
Cover 21+
TRADE
Doors open 2pm Huge
normally served in a cocktail glass served in a huge
only $4
ZIEGFELDS/SECRETS
Men of Secrets, 9pm
Guest dancers Ladies
of Illusion with host Ella
Fitzgerald Doors at 9 pm,
first show at 11:30 pm
DJs Doors open 9pm
Cover 21+
Sunday
August 7
9 1/2
TVs showing movies,
No Cover
COBALT/30 DEGREES
Homowood Karaoke,
hosted by Robert Bise,
10pm-close 21+
DC EAGLE
Doors open at 12pm
Draughts all day and night,
$3 Domestic Bottles, $4
Rail and Import Bottle
Beer, $6 Call The DC
Eagle hosts Sunday BBQ,
4-8pm only $10 DILF

by MAN UPP host Cigar
and Pipe Social, 4-8pm
No Cover 21+
FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Champagne Brunch Buffet,
10am-3pm Crazy Hour,
4-7pm Freddies Zodiac
Monthly Contest, hosted by
Regina Jozet Adams, 8pm
Karaoke, 10pm-1am
GREEN LANTERN
Happy Hour, 4-9pm
Bears Can Party, 6-10pm
Featuring DJ Jeff Eletto
No Cover Mamas Trailer
Park Karaoke downstairs,
9:30pm-close
JR.S
Sunday Funday Liquid
Brunch Doors open at
1pm $2 Coors Lights and
$3 Skyy (all flavors), all day
and night
NELLIES SPORTS BAR
Drag Brunch, hosted by
Shi-Queeta-Lee, 11am-3pm
$20 Brunch Buffet
House Rail Drinks, Zing
Zang Bloody Marys, Nellie
Beer and Mimosas, $4,
11am-close Buckets of
Beer, $15
NUMBER NINE
Pop Goes the World with
Wes Della Volla at 9:30pm
Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on
any drink, 3-9pm No
Cover
SHAWS TAVERN
Brunch with Bottomless
Mimosas, 10am-3pm
Sunday Funday Karaoke,
2nd Floor, 3-7pm $5 Stoli
Cocktails Happy Hour,
5-7pm $3 Miller Lite, $4
Blue Moon, $5 Rails and
House Wines & Half-Priced
Pizzas
SOMEPLACE ELSE BAR
& GRILL
1637 R St. NW
THE HOUSE NIGHTCLUB
Rock Hard Sundays
Diverse group of all male,
all nude dancers Doors
open 9pm Shows all
night until close, starting at
9pm $5 Domestic Beer,
$6 Imports $12 cover
For Table Reservations, call
202-487-6646
Happy Hour
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TOWN PATIO
Open 2pm Cornhole,
Giant Jenga, and Flip-cup
inside Town
TRADE
Doors open 2pm Huge
only $4
ZIEGFELDS/SECRETS
Decades of Dance DJ
Tim-e in Secrets Doors
9pm Cover 21+
Monday
August 8
9 1/2
TVs showing movies,
No Cover
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COBALT/30 DEGREES
Monday Nights A Drag,
hosted by Kristina Kelly
Doors open at 10pm
Showtime at 11:30pm
$3 Skyy Cocktails, $8 Skyy
and Red Bull $8 Long
Islands No Cover, 18+
DC EAGLE
Doors open at 5pm
Happy Hour, 5-8pm
Endless Happy Hour prices
to anyone in a DC Eagle
T-Shirt Free Pool All
Night and Day $1 Bud
and Bud Light Draughts, $3
Domestic Bottles, $4 Rail
and Import Bottle Beer, $6
Call No Cover 21+
FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Crazy Hour, 4-7pm
Singles Night Karaoke,
8pm
GREEN LANTERN
Happy Hour all night
long Puppy-Oke: Open
Mic Night Karaoke,
9:30pm-close
JR.S
Happy Hour: 2-for-1, 4-9pm
Showtunes Songs &
Singalongs, 9pm-close
DJ James $3 Draft Pints,
8pm-midnight
NELLIES SPORTS BAR
$2 (5-6pm), $3 (6-7pm),
Beer $15 Texas Holdem
Poker, 8pm Dart Boards
NUMBER NINE
SHAWS TAVERN
and Half-Priced Pizzas
Shaw Nuff Trivia with
Jeremy, 7:30pm
SOMEPLACE ELSE BAR
& GRILL
1637 R St. NW
TRADE
Doors open 5pm Huge
only $4
Tuesday
August 9
9 1/2
TVs showing movies,
No Cover
COBALT/30 DEGREES
DJ Honey Happy Hour:
Tops Down $6 Top Shelf,
Bottoms Up $3 Rail, $3 Bud
Light, 4-9pm SIN Service
Industry Night, 10pm-close
$1 Rail Drinks all night
FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Crazy Hour, 4-7pm
Karaoke, 8pm
GREEN LANTERN
Happy Hour all night long,
4pm-close
JR.S
Birdie LaCage Show,
10:30pm Underground
(Indie Pop/Alt/Brit Rock),
9pm-close DJ Wes
Della Volla 2-for-1,
5pm-midnight
NELLIES SPORTS BAR
$2 (5-6pm), $3 (6-7pm),
Beer $15 Karaoke and
Drag Bingo
NUMBER NINE
After 9pm, $3 Absolut,
Bulleit & Stella
SHAWS TAVERN
Half Priced Burgers &
Pizzas, 5pm-close $5
House Wines & Sam
Adams Drafts, 5pm-close
SOMEPLACE ELSE BAR

& GRILL
1637 R St. NW
TOWN PATIO
Open 6pm Yappy Hour
Bring Your Dogs $4
Drinks and Draughts
TRADE
Doors open 5pm Huge
only $4
Wednesday
August 10
9 1/2
TVs showing movies,
No Cover
COBALT/30 DEGREES
Wednesday Night Karaoke,
hosted by Miss India
Larelle Houston, 10pm-2am
$4 Stoli and Stoli Flavors
and Miller Lite all night
No Cover 21+
NELLIES SPORTS BAR

SmartAss Trivia Night, 8pm
and 9pm Prizes include
bar tabs and tickets to
shows at the 9:30 Club
$15 Buckets of Beer for
SmartAss Teams only
Bring a new team member
and each get a free $10
Dinner
FREDDIES BEACH BAR

Crazy Hour, 4-7pm $6
Burgers Drag Bingo
Night, hosted by Ms.
Regina Jozet Adams, 8pm
Bingo prizes Karaoke,
10pm-1am
NUMBER NINE
GREEN LANTERN
Happy Hour all night long,
4pm-close
JR.S
Buy 1, Get 1 Free, 4-9pm
Trivia with MC Jay Ray,
8pm The Feud: Drag
Trivia, hosted by BaNaka,
10-11pm, with a $200 prize
$2 JR.s Drafts and $4
Vodka ($2 with College ID
or JR.s Team Shirt)
SHAWS TAVERN
and Half-Priced Pizzas
Piano Bar Second Floor,
8pm-close
SOMEPLACE ELSE BAR
& GRILL
1637 R St. NW
TOWN PATIO
Open 6pm $4 drinks
and draughts, 6-9pm
Nashville Wednesdays:
Pop-Country music and line
dancing, with line dancing
lessons from DC Rawhides
every other week
TRADE
Doors open 5pm Huge
only $4
ZIEGFELDS/SECRETS
Shirtless Night, 10-11pm,
12-12:30am Military
Night, no cover with
military ID DJ Don T. in
Secrets 9pm Cover
21+ l
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44
LastWord.
People say the queerest things
Proud to marry Brian and Joe at my House.

Couldnt be happier.
Vice President JOE BIDEN, in a tweet announcing that he had officiated the wedding of two White House staffers Brian
Mosteller and Joe Mahshie at his residence. His wife, Dr. Jill Biden, tweeted Love is love! following the ceremony.
Throughout her career,

Clinton has fought to combat HIV and AIDS
and the stigma and pain that accompany it.
An excerpt from a factsheet on HILLARY CLINTON s campaign website, detailing her plans to help create an AIDS-free generation. Clintons proposals include expanding access to PrEP for gay and bisexual men and increase investment into HIV and
AIDS research. We have made progress, but so much work remains, it continues. Hillary Clinton believes
we have to tackle this work together.
Its absolutely
offensive to me.
Seattle council member LORENA GONZALEZ , speaking to KIRO-TV about the practice of conversion therapy, which aims to cure
people of homosexuality. Gonzalez sponsored an ordinance that would ban the practice, which the council has unanimously
approved. Instead of providing these children...the support that they need, she continued, there are people out there who
[convince them] that their same-sex orientationcan be cured.
Is it because I was born female that so many people insist

having my shirt off is me being topless?
AYDIAN DOWLING, in an Instagram post, commenting on the number of people who tell him to put a shirt on. The trans model
and activist noted that cisgender men can go topless without issue, but once transmen who work their ass off to afford top surgery start posting shirtless photos its now seen as too much or topless.
They are teaching this to children to children! that

everyone can choose their gender.
POPE FRANCIS, in a private meeting with Polish bishops, the AP reports. Francis reportedly called teaching children about
gender identity terribly, and said we are living in a moment of annihilation of man.
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