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Welcome
GREETINGS!
On behalf of the Board of Directors of
DENIS LARGERON | PHOTOGRAPHIE

the Capital Pride Alliance, our staff and
volunteers, I want to welcome you to the 41st
celebration of Pride in the Nations Capital!
As we begin this wonderful event, we are

mindful that a few weeks from now will
mark one year since the U.S. Supreme Courts
monumental decision in Obergefell v. Hodges.
That ruling represented a substantial change
that many of us thought would never be
possible. However, as significant as that case
was and there is no denying its importance
it represents one step on the path toward
equality and acceptance, but not the ultimate
achievement of those goals for members of BERNIE DELIA
the LGBT community. PRESIDENT
OF THE
Friends and allies rightly rejoiced with us in BOARD OF
that victory. However, the reaction from our DIRECTORS
opponents to this critical expansion of our CAPITAL PRIDE
rights was predicted, predictable, and swift. And, it has been a sobering reminder thatALLIANCE
while we have made great strides during the past five decades, we still have much left
to do on a number of fronts.
Our hard work has been the magic that has gotten us this far and will continue
to propel us into the future. If the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, then we are
compelled to be ever watchful for any encroachments on our hard-fought victories.
For example, the so-called religious freedom legislation that has popped up around
the country is simply one way for opponents to attempt to eviscerate our guarantee to
equal treatment under the U.S. Constitution. It has been exceptionally gratifying to see
those who have leapt to our defense and helped push back on these efforts to legalize
discrimination. Indeed, those ranks have included many in the business community
who also serve as partners and sponsors of Capital Pride.
In addition to insuring that we do not lose any ground, our tasks simultaneously include
achieving federal and state civil rights protections; helping to solve the problems facing
LGBT youth; securing rights for members of the transgender community; easing the
difficulties faced by LGBT asylum seekers; and bettering the lives of our sisters and
brothers around the world in countries and places where they have not yet benefitted
from the blessings of a more tolerant, open, and accepting society. These labors may
seem insurmountable, but we have come so far together, and that strength in unity
and purpose will bring us ever closer to our aspirations and objectives to assure that
our lives are lived in freedom from prejudice and intolerance.
Have a wonderful Capital Pride and continue to Make Magic Happen throughout the year!
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Table Of Contents
Forty First Capital Pride On Stage
2 2014 Capital Pride Sponsors 58 Festival Entertainment
6 Masthead | Contributors 60 Festival Headliners
8 Table of Contents
Welcome To Pride Make Magic Happen

20 Living An Out Life
7 Bernie Delia, President, Capital Pride By Joey DiGuglielmo
9 Ryan Bos, Executive Director 49 Rural America To Gayborhood
And Back Again
By James Hurley
11 A Message from the
President of the United States 84 Not-So-Golden Age For Gays
By Doug Rule
13 Mayor Vincent Gray 90 Out In Our Own Voices
Collected By Michelle Mobley
16 Elected Voices
On The Record 95 Collect, Preserve & Share
By: Anne McDonough and Vincent E. Slatt
18 Capital Pride Board and Staff 101 PLAY BALL
19 2014 Capital Pride ProductionTeam DC Hosts the Gay World Series
By Wayne Williams
Pride Information 102 Serious Sports

A Photo Review
28 Events Calander 116 Pride Around The World
Collected By Ryan Bos & Al Pellenberg
62 Pride Heroes and Honorees
123 From Russia With Love
34 Pride Parade Contingents By Kris van der Veen
68 2016 Partipants 132 Frank Kameny House

By Rebecca Miller
130 Concert Stage Headliners 135 Now We Are QUEER
By Katy Ray and E. Sansing
132 Featured Performers
139 ProFIles In Art
134 Concert Stage Line Up By Doug Rule
135 Dupont and Monument Stages 144 Almost Forty

By Ryan Bos
136 Parade Grand Marshal
146 Parade Route
148 Festival Map
150 Survival Guide
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Welcome
June 2016
The accomplishments and progress

made toward social justice and equality
for the LGBTA community have been the
result of the hard work and dedication of
many individuals over the course of many
decades. It is because of this commitment
to equality that we come together annually
to make our voices heard while sharing
our stories of success. The current political
environment reminds us that not only is
there a great deal of work to do, but how
necessary it is to reflect, reinvigorate,
rejoice, and move forward with Pride.
For 2016, we chose the theme Make
Magic Happen, because we feel it speaks
to the power we have as a community to
effect change that strengthens the LBGTA
movement locally, regionally, and nationally. RYAN BOS
The desire to be a part of this change is EXECUTIVE
a spark that inspires us to avidly pursue DIRECTOR
equality at every level and work to preserve the victories that we have secured.
Countless hours have been spent organizing a great 2016 Celebration of Pride in the
Nations Capital, as well as a calendar full of events and activities in support of the
LGBTA community throughout the year. From the annual Pride Reveal, Outdoor Movie
Nights, and Capital Trans Pride, to our Heroes Gala, Music in the Night, and Opening
Night Party, not to mention the Parade, Festival and Concert, there is something
for everyone during the annual celebration of Pride in the Nations Capital and the
remainder of the year. We are fortunate to have so many outstanding organizations
in the national capital region, many of whom are Pride Partners, to help Make Magic
Happen.
Thank you to our volunteer production teams, staff, board, and hundreds of on-site
volunteers who spend their time and energy to make Pride in the Nations Capital
the best it can be. Thanks also to our amazing sponsors, who every year step up
to help support this inspiring celebration. This is a testament to the growth and
progress of our business community, whose members support their LGBT employees
and customers.
We here at the Capital Pride Alliance acknowledge that we not only have pride in
June, but we Have Pride 365. You are encouraged to share what you have pride in by
visiting www.havepride365.org, a website that we have recently launched, and tell
your stories via photos on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. It is important that we
share with each other the many positive accomplishments of the LGBTA community.
As you celebrate this June and through the rest of the year, we encourage you to post,
tweet, and share your stories with #havepride365 #dcpride and #makemagichappen.
Together lets Make MAGIC Happen!

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Elected Voices
ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON
US Congresswoman
PHI MENDELSON
On The Record
DC Council-Chair
SHELIA ALEXANDER
Office of LGBTQ Affairs-Chair
The progress our country is making on It is a pleasure to extend a warm welcome Welcome to the 41st anniversary of Capital
LGBT equality reflects the American to everyone taking part in the 2016 Pride, which is celebrating Make Magic
understanding that discrimination in any Celebration of Pride in the Nations Capital. Happen. The Mayors Office of LGBTQ
form should never be tolerated. Bolstered The District led the way in support for Affairs, is working to make magic happen
by recent victories in the Supreme Court, marriage equalityhaving done so through every day, whether its finding a home for
we are committed to growing the LBGT proactive legislative actionand I am a young person whos been displaced as
equality movement here in the District of gratified that the nation has now moved a result their sexual orientation, gender
Columbia and across the nation until total to the position we adopted seven years identity or expression, or working with the
victory is won. ago. We have also been a leader among Metropolitan Police Department to keep
the states with our human rights laws. But LGBT residents safe and respected. Mayor
the fight against bigotry is not over. I will Bowsers administration has prioritized
continue to be a fierce advocate for LGBTA safety, housing, and a pathway to the
rights. Happy Pride! middle class for LGBTQ residents. We are
committed to overcoming barriers that
REA CAREY DAVID GROSSO stand in the way of many LGBTQ people
National LGBTQ Task Force-Ex Director DC Council and their ability to live a life free from
discrimination. On behalf of the District of
Columbia, one of the nations largest LGBTQ
communities and the best jurisdiction for
protecting the civil and human rights of
LGBTQ identified residents, we wish you a
happy and safe Capital Pride!
As we celebrate Capital Pride this year, we Welcome to Capital Pride! While the rest of
can all reflect on howworking ever more the country has taken some steps back, the
closely togetherwe have made some of District of Columbia is striving to maintain
what once seemed impossible, possible in our status as an LGBTQ leader. This year
terms of advancing freedom, justice, equality weve passed a law requiring LGBTQ cultural
and equity. Of course as we celebrate progress, competency training for medical providers,
we also need to save some energy for the which will be particularly beneficial to our
fight ahead. The opponents of equality are transgender residents. We passed a youth
prepared to do anythingeven manipulate suicide prevention bill that has become a
faithas an excuse to legitimize and legalize national model. And we are going to ensure
discrimination against others. We wont let that our government employees do not
them win. In the work that lies ahead of us, have to travel to places that condone active
we have the opportunity to be extraordinary. discrimination. Im excited to celebrate our
If we do this right, we can make this next accomplishments with you, and celebrate
era of the LGBTQ movement our most the LGBTQ communitys contributions
dynamic, powerful, and inclusive moment for toward a greater quality of life in the
leadership and transformation yet. District of Columbia.
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5K RUN & WALK JUNE 10, 2016, 7 PM WASHINGTON, DC
Get your Pride weekend off to a running start! The DC Front Runners Pride Run, an
official event of Capital Pride, is a fun 5K run & walk, celebrating community and friendly
competition. The chip-timed race is followed by a Finish Line Party sponsored by
JRs, featuring beer for race participants, a live DJ, entertainment, awards for the races top
OFFICIAL
performers & random prize drawings. Funds raised support SMYAL, a DC Center youth EVENT
literary scholarship, and Capital Pride. Line up with friends and make magic happen!
PRESENTING SPONSOR FINISH LINE PARTY PREMIER SPONSOR CHARITY PARTNERS

Capital Pride
Board of Directors and Staff
PRIDE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

TOP ROW
Bernie Delia (President) Justin White (Treasurer) Raymond Panas (Secretary),Michelle Benecke, Jesse Bonales, Kyle Collins, Daniel Frantti,
BOTTOM ROW:
Scott Jackson, Vince Micone, Mary Paradise, Vince Rodriquez, Ashley Smith, Collin Stewart, Thomas Wieczorek, Robert York
NOT PRESENT
Ken Dean (Vice President), Jessie Washington
PRIDE STAFF
TOP ROW:
Mike Alexander, Development Director
Peter Morgan, Marketing Director
MIDDLE ROW:
Rob Corbett, Operations Director
Ncole Barnes, Financial Director
Devin Hansen, Special Projects Administrator
FRONT ROW:
Ryan Bos, Executive Director
NOT PRESENT
Al Pellenberg, Art Director
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Capital Pride
Production Team 2015
2016 PRODUCERS PARADE FLOAT 2016 PRIDE

ACCESSIBILITY Siobhan Fisher PRODUCTION TEAM
Michael Creason John Marc Marilyn Akindo Amanda Gamage Courtney Ramsey
BEVERAGE GARDENS Jami Vallesteros Free Akins Michael Garcia Jack Rayburn
Matt Gillette SAFETY & SECURITY PJ Albert Michael Graham Gregory Robertson
CAPITAL TRANS PRIDE Lindsay Imon Rose Aruta Kurt Graves Anna-Alexandra Rojo
Holly Goldmann Bryan Pruitt Chris Avery Kevih Hawkins Ryan Rosado
Bianca Rey ACCOMMODATIONS Destiny B. Childs Anthony D. Hinnant Lyn Royster
JaeLee Waldschmidt Joshua Beeson Julian Baker William Hopfer Holly Russell
ENTERTAINMENT VOLUNTEERS Christopher Barth Aaron Howard Jonan Sayo
Jerry Houston Chelsea Bland Gregory Bates DAngela Howard Bernie Schwartz
Vernon Wall James Leslie Blake Bommelje Bill Huff Allen Sexton
FESTIVAL Hua Boonyapisomparn Joi Jenkens Mikelle Smith
Joey Allen Ophelia Bottoms Sean Johnson Kirk Sobell
Aaron Fishbach Imani Brown Todd Jones Jay Soriano
HEROES GALA PRODUCTION PARTNERS Sarah Bryce Terry Klugh Jose Soriano
Jonathon Sorge Brightest Young Things Alec Buckley Denis Largeron Taylor Sprague
HOSPITALITY/VIP Center Faith Craig Cassey Deonte Leach Stuart Symington
Megan Eimerman-Wallace Cobalt Joseline Castillo Angela Love Nicholas Taylor
Matt Kuder DC Bike Party Ron Crognale Jonathan Marcwille Melvin Thomas
LOGISTICS DC Front Runners Will Cruttenden Abigayle Marks Andre Thomas
Jennifer Hall Distrkt C Brian Davis Ashley McKinley Brock Thompson
MUSIC IN THE NIGHT DJ Chord Yadiell Deautriell Randy Meck Alan Thompson
Will Cruttenden LURe David Delewski Kathy Neal Octavia Thompson
James McBride Mayors Office of LGBT Affairs Tom Donohue Caleb Nixon Natalie Thompson
Joshua Morgan TAGG Magazine Maurice Douglas Tavis Northam Diamond Thompson
OPERATIONS The Cherry Fund Robert Duncan Charlotte Oliver Octavia Thompson
Alan Thompson The Welcoming Committee Teal Dye Keenan Orr Mild Vachananda
PARADE Whitman-Walker Health Leah Edwards Daniel Ostick Shawn West
David Arwood Wunder Garten Richard Edwards Cole Pates-Clift David Williams
Rick Deus Story District Siobhan Fisher Matthew Peschke Ryan Williams
J. Clarence Flanders Chad Phillips Christopher Wingert
Christine Forbes Nina Ramirez Anthony Wisenwski
Edmund Wong
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Heroes Gala
HEROES GALA PRESENTED BY HILTON & HOSTED BY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON, D.C.
Music sensation Jeffery Austin will perform and dazzle at this elegant evening honoring Capital Pride Heroes, Engendered Spirits, and
others who have made significant contributions to the LGBTA community in the national capital region. The event will take place in the
historic Carnegie Library, where youll be wined and dined, and perhaps encounter a magical surprise or two.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 7PM - 11PM
CARNEGIE LIBRARY 801 K ST NW
Metro: Green/YellowMt. Vernon Square/7th Street/Convention Center
For information on the 2016 Honorees, go to page # here in the Pride Guide.
capitalpride.org/gala #capitalprideheroes
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DC BIKE PARTY PRIDE RIDE
WITH CAPITAL PRIDE ALLIANCE
FREE EVENT Enjoy a spellbinding bike ride through the enchanted streets
of DC. The Capital Pride theme this year is Make MAGIC
Happen, so deck yourself and your bike out in your favorite
outrageous magical costumewe know you have one! As
the ride ends, the after-party begins.
FRIDAY, JUNE 3 ,7PM

DUPONT CIRCLE
ASSEMBLE, 8PM PRIDE RIDE BEGINS
Metro RedDupont Circle
After Party: Hosted by Wunder Garten in
NoMa, 1005 First Street NE
DC Bike Party Metro: RedNoMa/Gallaudet U

capitalpride.org/events/bikeparty
#capitalpridebikeparty
VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION
PRESENTED BY HOTEL PALOMAR
FREE EVENT Mandatory orientation for all volunteers supporting the
community during the 2016 Celebration of Pride in the
Nations Capital, specifically the Pride Parade and Pride
Festival. Food, beverages, and fun will be provided to keep
up the energy for an amazing week.
NEW VOLUNTEERS ARE WELCOME TO REGISTER AT THIS EVENT.
SATURDAY, JUNE 4 11AM-1:30PM
HOTEL PALOMAR 2121 P ST NW
Metro: RedDupont Circle
capitalpride.org/volunteer
#capitalpridevolunteer
Volunteer Orientation
THE WELCOMING COMMITTEE PRIDE CRAWL
TICKETED The second-ever U Street Bar Crawl is not just any crawl. Its
the official Capital Pride Bar Crawl! That means its going to
be twice the size of last year, and a total LGBTQ takeover as
the city is crawling with folks in town for Pride Week. Expect
amazing drink specials, swag, and brand-new friends as
you hop from bar to bar.
Buy tickets in advance for Early Bird discount.
SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 2PM
SUDHOUSE 1340 U ST NW
Metro: Green/YellowU Street/African-American Civil War Memorial/Cardozo
capitalpride.org/events/crawl
#capitalpridescrawl
Pride Crawl
OUT/SPOKEN
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH STORY DISTRICT.
TICKETED Story District returns to the 9:30 Club with Capital Pride
Alliance to present its sixth annual Pride show: Out/Spoken:
Queer, Questioning, Bold, and Proud. Enjoy eight hilarious
and heartfelt true stories about LGBTQ life from the best
storytellers in townonce dubbed the gold standard in
storytelling by the Washington Post. Save on fees when
you purchase in person at the 9:30 Club Box Office.
SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 6PM

9:30 CLUB 815 V ST., NW
Out/Spoken Metro: Green/YellowU Street/African-American Civil War Memorial/Cardozo

Capitalpride.org/events/outspoken
#capitalprideoutspoken
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CAPITAL PRIDE WOMENS KICK-OFF
TICKETED CELEBRATION PRESENTED BY MAUTNER
PROJECT OF WHITMAN-WALKER, HOSTED BY
TAGG MAGAZINE AND LURe
Celebrate the queer women of D.C. as well as 26 amazing
years of the Mautner Project of Whitman-Walker Health!
This years party will be Capital Prides Womens Kick-Off
Party with co-hosts Tagg Magazine and Ladies of LURe!
This not-to-be-missed, all-night dance party takes place on
the Warner Theater stage, and includes featured cocktails,
inviting food, and a majestic backdrop.
SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 8PM - 1AM
Womens Kick Off a
WARNER THEATER 513 13TH ST NW
Metro: Red/Orange/Silver/Blue LinesMetro Center
capitalpride.org/events/womenskickoff
#capitalpridewomenskickoff
SUMMER POP-OFF &

COVER VOLUNTEER KICK-OFF WITH DJ CHORD.
Make your summer playlist pop with a night of music
dedicated to all the best sounds of 2016. DJ Chord knows
all about spinning magic with eclectic style, so hang on
and let loose! Capital Pride volunteers who attended the
volunteer orientation will enjoy this night with free entry
courtesy of Town.

TOWN DANCEBOUTIQUE 2009 8TH ST NW
Metro: Green/YellowU Street/African-American Civil War Memorial/Cardozo
Summer Pop-Off & Volunteer Kick Off

KICK OFF PRIDE WEEK WITH DCS PREMIER PARTY!
JUNE 4 TH ONLY AT TOWN DANCEBOUTIQUE.
capitalpride.org/events/popoff
#capitalpridepopoff
SUNDAY FUNDAY PRIDE DRAG BRUNCH

PRESENTED BY TORTILLA COAST
A cocktail or two at brunch is always civilized, but toss
in some legendary drag hosts, and mix it up with the
amazing flavors of Tortilla Coasts food and beverages,
and youll have the best Sunday Funday ever!
SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 12PM - 3PM

TORTILLA COAST 1460 P ST NW
capitalpride.org/events/dragbrunch
#capitalpridedragbunch
Sunday Fun Day Brunch

THE LAVENDER SCARE: A CONVERSATION WITH
DAVID JOHNSON AND JOSH HOWARD
FREE EVENT The Historical Society, Capital Pride, and the Newseum are proud to bring
David Johnson and Josh Howard to Washington, D.C., to recount the stories
behind the book and documentary, and the important national impact
this local story had long before the Stonewall riots. The presentation will
also feature unseen clips from the documentary, which will be released
this fall. The session is moderated by Lou Chibbaro, Jr., a Washington Blade
reporter who has focused on the LGBT civil rights movement and the LGBT
community for more than 30 years.
SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 2:30PM 4:30PM
NEWSEUM 555 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW
Metro: Green LineArchives/Navy Memorial/Penn Quarter
Capitalpride.org/event/
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DRAG BALL
DONATION IN PARTNERSHIP WITH STONEWALL KICKBALL
RuPauls Drag Race has nothing on this annual tradition!
When the beautiful gurls of Stonewall Kickball don drag,
theyll bring you an all-out kickball battle where there is
sure to be a weave snatched. Grab your best heels, maybe
a new wig, and meet us at Stead Park for an afternoon you
wont soon forget.
SUNDAY, JUNE 5, GATE: 3PM, GAME: 4PM

STEAD FIELD 1625 P ST NW
capitalpride.org/events/dragball
DragBall #capitalpridedragball
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TICKETED
Hosted by: Joshua Morgan

Janet Aldrich
Shayna Blass
Michael Mainwaring
Farrell Parker
Jobari Parker
Nova Payton
Grant Saunders
Musis In The Night Special Guests:

Kyle Dean Massey
Wesley Taylor
MUSIC IN THE NIGHT PRESENTED BY THE HAMILTON LIVE

Enjoy an engaging night of musical theater, magnificent libations, and good vibrations. Back by popular demand for a fifth year
in a row, the illustrious Joshua Morgan returns from Broadway as host and performer, and shines a spotlight on our local musical
theater talent with special guest performers.
MONDAY, JUNE 6, 8PM - 11PM (DOORS OPEN AT 6:30PM)
THE HAMILTON LIVE 600 14TH ST NW
Metro: Blue/Orange/Red/SilverMetro Center
capitalpride.org/music
#capitalpridemusic
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33rd CAPITAL PRIDE INTERFAITH SERVICE IN
PARTNERSHIP WITH CENTER FAITH.
FREE EVENT The 33rd Annual Pride Interfaith Service will address the
theme of Celebrating the Magic of Faith and Pride. Featured
speakers include Rev. Lesli Watson Malachi, Director of
People for the American Ways African American Ministers In
Action; Rev. Orion Foxood, Elder, Romano Celtic Traditional
Craft, Faery Seership, and Southern Folk Magic; and, Rev.
Katrina Messenger, Minister, Shaman and Founder of
Reflections Mystery School. Plus, the Interfaith Community
Choir will be led by Rev. Darryl LC Moch, Inner Light, Inc.
InterFaith Service for

TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 7:30PM 8:30PM
COVENANT BAPTIST UCC 3845 S. CAPITOL ST SW
capitalpride.org/events/interfaith
#capitalprideinterfaith
WOMENS NIGHT OF EXPRESSION (SPOKEN WORD)

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BUSBOYS AND POETS
TICKETED Exchanging stories can be powerful and thats what tonight
is all about. The mic will be open for two hours to women-
identified folks of all backgrounds to share their stories through
words. Therell also be DJ, a live band, music, burlesque, and
the host Shelly Bell. This event is very popular, and therefore
a FULL-STORE event. All gender identities welcome and
encouraged to share their words on the mic.
TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 8PM 11PM

BUSBOYS AND POETS 1025 5TH ST NW
Metro: Green/YellowMt. Vernon Square/7th Street/Convention Center
Women Night of Expression capitalpride.org/event/womenexpress

#capitalpridewomenexpress
MENS SEATED SPEED DATING

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PROFESSIONALS IN THE CITY
TICKETED Bringing intimacy and romance back to the art of fast-track
dating, youll date for approximately one hour, meeting
intriguing members of the same sex as you spend a few sweet
minutes with each new acquaintance. All gay, bisexual,
transgender, and queer men are invited.
TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 7PM - 9PM

FINN AND PORTER 900 10TH ST NW
Metro: Red/Blue/OrangeMetro Center
capitalpride.org/event/mendate
#capitalpridemendate
GayMensSeated Speed Dating
COMMUNITY CHECK- IN
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
FREE EVENT THE MAYORS OFFICE OF LGBT AFFAIRS
With an introduction by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, this
dynamic group discussion between community members and
local leaders will cover topics that range from current issues
and events in the national capital region, to national and
international affairs. Be prepared for thoughtful and thought-
provoking exchanges.

WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 400 I ST SW
Community Check-In
Metro: GreenWaterfront
capitalpride.org/event/conversation
#capitalprideconversation
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WOMENS SEATED SPEED DATING
REGISTRATION IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PROFESSIONALS IN THE CITY
All lesbians, bisexual, transgender, and queer women are
invited, for a night of speed dating where guests have the
opportunity to meet new people in an intimate and romantic
setting!

FINN AND PORTER 900 10TH ST NW
Metro: Red/Blue/OrangeMetro Center
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CATCH ME: A MAGIC DUEL PRIDE EDITION
After years of successfully plying their trade around the world,
TICKETED acclaimed magicians Brian Curry and Mark Phillips have
decided this town isnt big enough for both of them. In Catch
Me, these two sleight-of-hand masters battle live, on stage
for the title of Washington DCs Favorite Magician. During
the show, the audience will select various styles of magic the
contestants must perform. Audience members then cast their
votes for Washington DCs Favorite Magician, and award
the coveted Golden Wand
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 8:00PM - 10:00PM
Hocus Pocus
CAPITAL HILTON 1001 16th ST NW
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ROOFTOP POOL PARTY AND RALLY PRESENTED BY

TICKETED VIDA/PENTHOUSE POOL CLUB & LOUNGE
Tonight is the night for bewitchmentby the stunning views of
the city under the stars and a dip in the rooftop pool, while
connecting with friends, or making new ones. Capital Pride
Alliance volunteers, donors, and supporters love this event.
Drop by and dip in.
THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 7PM 10PM

VIDA/PENTHOUSE POOL AT THE YARDS 1212 4TH ST SE
Metro: GreenNavy Yard/Ballpark
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Rooftop Pool Party and Rally

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DC FRONT RUNNERS PRIDE RUN 5K

WITH CAPITAL PRIDE ALLIANCE
REGISTRATION
Run for a cause and show your pride as you Make MAGIC
Happen! This chip-timed 5K race will be followed by a Finish
Line Party sponsored by JRs Bar. The race raises funds for
SMYAL, which supports and empowers lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, and questioning youth in the Washington, DC,
metropolitan area, and a new DC Center youth literary
scholarship.
FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 7PM

CONGRESSIONAL CEMETERY 1801 E ST., SE
Pride Run 5K
Metro: Blue/Orange/SilverPotomac Ave
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TICKETED
HEX Opening Party

HEXTHE ABRACADABULOUS OPENING PARTY: CAPITAL PRIDE AND BYT
One of the most exciting music and dance parties of the year. Located in the fun and funky NoMa neighborhood,
youll experience the best DJs, fantastic drinks, and the Opening Partys enthusiastic following. Hex is not to be missed!
FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 9PM
UNION MARKET 1309 5TH ST NE
Metro: RedNoMa/Gallaudet U
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FREE EVENT
Pride Parade
PRIDE PARADE PRESENTED BY MARRIOTT
Join tens of thousands of people to watch the Capital Pride Parade presented by Marriott Rewards! This landmark event is one
of Washington, DCs, favorite parades with nearly 200 contingentsfloats, vehicles, walkers, entertainmentconsisting of local
businesses, Capital Pride Heroes and Engendered Spirit honorees, politicians, community groups, drag queens, and much more. This
years Capital Pride theme is Make Magic Happen, so dress accordingly! Floats will be decorated theme-appropriately and judged
by local celebrities and leaders. The members of the national capital region community are always extremely creative with Pride theme
dcor and costumes, so come out to see how they will Make Magic Happen.
The annual Pride Parade steps off at 22nd & P Streets, NW, and travels 1.5 miles through Dupont Circle and 17th Street, passes by the
Logan Circle neighborhood and ends along the 14th Street corridor at S Street. For a Parade map, see page 146. A sign language
interpreter will be available at the 15th and P Streets reviewing stand. JUNE 11, 2016
PRESENTING SPONSOR DUPONT & LOGAN CIRCLE NEIGHBORHOODS
AUTOMOBILE REVIEW STAND
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CRACK OF NOON PARADE DAY PRIDE BRUNCH
PRESENTED BY URBANA-KIMPTON HOTEL PALOMAR
TICKETED Enjoy a delicious gourmet buffet and complimentary
mimosas and bellinis. Attendees will dine and hobnob with
our Grand Marshal Leslie Jordan and other special guests,
including you. Dont forget you will have access to view the
Pride Parade right outside..
SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 12:00PM

URBANAKIMPTON HOTEL PALOMAR 2121 P ST NW
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Crack of Noon Brunch

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YOUTH DANCE
Come out and bust a move at Capital Prides Youth Dance!
FREE EVENT Snacks and drinks will be provided to rejuvenate you from
your day of parading in the sun, and youll be all set for
some fancy footwork! Open to all folks ages 24 and under
who are proud to be LGBTQ+.
SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 6PM 10PM

NATIONAL CITY CHRISTIAN CHURCH 5 THOMAS CIRCLE NW
Metro: Blue/Orange/SilverMcPherson Square
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QUEER FEAR
W H Y T H E L G B T B AT T L E I S FA R F R O M W O N
So that guy wants to go home and put a dress on?

Decades ago, the average American might have asked such a question about a gay man. Gays were as unknown and
peculiarqueeras transgender people are today. Today, the typical non-LGBT American feels bewildered when shown
footage of a bald, bearded man and told hes transgender, having been born a woman.
No, that guy is a man, Andy Garcia of the Equality Federation responds to perplexed straight participants in focus groups.
Thats a trans man. This is who youre asking to use the womens room.
If nothing else, growing transphobia and fear over bathrooms, whipped up by anti-gay politicians especially in conservative
parts of the country, are all the evidence one needs that full equality, much less acceptance, has not been realized for LGBT
Americans even with the right to marry now guaranteed nationally. Sure, on the face of it, the fear over bathroom access
however unjust and unfoundedmay appear to be strictly a problem for transgender people. But it is one that affects
everyone else in the movement, whether gay, lesbian, or bisexual.
Curiously, the current debates over bathroom bills do betray progress. For the first time, Garcia adds about his LGBT
advocacy groups experience with focus groups, were hearing people say, I dont really care if youre gay or not, but this
trans thing, I dont really get it. Yet if marriage equality, and the broader understanding and acceptance of gays and
lesbians that undergirded it, marked one step, or even two steps, forward, the entire LGBT movement has been dealt a
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the foreignmotivates discrimination and persecution all
around the world. And it inevitably affects all of us, toonot
just by compelling more immigrants to seek refuge in America,
but also, fascinatingly, disturbingly, by impelling American
conservatives to export their brand of anti-LGBT hostilities
elsewhere.
When it comes right down to it,fear of the queer is fundamentally

a fear of queer sexa reality that has contributed to various
societal problems, as well as one that has occasionally
complicated the movements path toward greater acceptance.
Gay men especially have so internalized this sense of fear that
we reflexively keep our sexuality under wraps when in mixed
companyrefraining, at least traditionally, from much in the
way of public displays of same-sex affection. This fitting-in
behavior is something that has become known as coveringa
term coined by New York University law professor Kenji Yoshino
and most recently adopted by Michelangelo Signorile. The
provocative liberal journalist was ahead of his time nearly three
decades ago when he embraced the concept of outing gay and
lesbian public officials and celebrities. In his most recent book,
Its Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia
and Winning True Equality, Signorile argues that LGBT people
have reached a point of acceptance in American society that
goes beyond the value we once derived from covering. He argues
that we should be showing and celebrating our differences
instead, not censoring ourselves or letting the media sanitize
our lives. Whether Signorile is once again ahead of his time,
the present reality is that being open and honest about queer
sexualityun-covering, as it wereis still no walk in the park.
Our identity as mere sexual beings still threatens far too many
people.
Yet the outing effort proved that theres real power in greater
exposure and visibility. The sight of more people living openly
and in their truth eventually defuses the apparent threat and
helps increase acceptance. So, the more familiar we all become
with trans people, the less they can be used as bogeymen, or
By Doug Rule as a distraction from the real issuethe real threat to us all.
Prohibiting trans people from using the bathroom [of the
NC Gov. Patrick McCrory Signed The Notorious Bathroom Bill
gender] they identify withthat was not the end game,
Garcia explains of anti-LGBT conservatives. Thats the strategy
big setback due to conservatives silver bulletthat is, as that theyre using. The end game for them is to completely gut
Garcia explains it, the fact that people dont understand LGBT non-discrimination protections.
transgender people at all, and are afraid of them, and will
vote against all protections. What follows is an overview of some key developments affecting
LGBT peopleas well as a dozen calls for actionin three broad
Gay and trans people share similar strugglesacceptance areas: U.S. Politics; International Affairs and Immigration; and
of non-straight sexual orientation and non-binary gender Health and Well-Being.
identity are distinct but related issues. More importantly, we
share similar challengesincluding the same unenlightened U.S. POLITICS
foe. The opposition views us all the same, Garcia continues.
They just view [it] as, if youre gay, you might as well be In hindsight, its clear that the honeymoon following the
trans. If youre a lesbian and you dont want to be with a legalization of same-sex marriage lasted too long for some
man, you might as well be a man. Theyve always blurred leaders in the movement, obviously caught unawares by the
that. brewing conservative backlash. Perhaps LGBT activists should
not have honeymooned at all last June.
In other words, its the same old homophobic song and
dance, just in a new identity key. Now as ever, fear is a To be sure, the Supreme Courts ruling making marriage
powerful motivator. Fearof the queer, of the different, of equality the law of the land was something worth celebrating.
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It stands as the greatest victory the LGBT movement has these are bans on gay-to-straight conversion therapy,
yet achieved. Yet marriage wasnt the goal for many in which have gone into effect in four states and D.C.yet
the movementand it certainly remains a luxury issue anti-LGBT politicians have so far managed to prevent such
compared to more pressing matters, from employment to bans proposed in other states, including Colorado, and are
housing, health care to safety and security. And the reality is, expected to stand in the way of a national ban introduced
its still possible to fire or discriminate against LGBT people in by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S.
26 states (as of April)not just Mississippi, North Carolina, Senate. Also of note are legal challenges supporting the
and the others that have been in the news with recent anti- Obama Administrations position that protections granted
LGBT legislation. Queer people are still getting fired, harassed, by Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in
denied service, bullied, beaten up, even murdered. Although schools, extend to transgender studentsmeaning, among
doing better than ever before, the U.S. can do better still by other things, they should be granted access to the schools
its LGBT citizens. bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity.
Yet additional gains wont come quickly and are likely to be Taking Action
hard-fought. Anti-LGBT politicians have been itching for a
new fight since long before the case of Obergefell v. Hodges 1. Continue the Push for Nondiscrimination BillsIncluding
forced them to concede on marriage equality. In fact, you may the Federal Equality Act
remember a test shot they fired in the post-marriage anti- In poll after poll, according to Garcia, the public generally
LGBT battle, one focused on making it legal to discriminate agrees with notions that landlords and businesses shouldnt
against LGBT people. It hit exactly three months before the be allowed to deny housing, service or work to LGBT people.
country became mirthfully distracted by the Supremes. On Yet all of those types of discrimination remain possible
March 26, 2015, Indianas Governor Mike Pence signed into in more than half the states. With anti-LGBT politicians
law the first so-called religious freedom bill allowing effectively standing guard to prevent further protections,
businesses in the state to refuse to serve gay people and its hard to imagine imminent progress at the state level.
same-sex couples based on religious grounds. Then, last Of course, its never been an easy row to hoe at the federal
November, conservatives experimented with another new levelyet the proposed Equality Act may be more important
line of LGBT attack, this time over a broad anti-discrimination now than ever, since its passage could supersede all these
ordinance in Houston. They cried trans wolf in womens state laws, according to Anthony Winer of the Mitchell
bathrooms and made that the sole focus of an aggressive Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota. In terms of a
campaign that ultimately swayed voters in Texass largest political takeaway, he told Metro Weekly in April, the real
cityand Americas sixth largestwho had been expected lesson is, we need a federal employment nondiscrimination
to vote yes on the measure. act.
Though it certainly seemed to take some groups, most 2. Engaging More Voters; Supporting Better Candidates
notably the Human Rights Campaign, by surprise, Garcia for Elections
explains that the bathroom scare tactic has been brewing The likelihood of seeing more LGBT-friendly legislators
for years now. It first reared its head when legislators in states, in the most conservative statesnot to mention in
including New York and Wisconsin, wanted to add protections Congressis all-but impossible in the near-term, due
for gender identity to previously passed nondiscrimination to extensive gerrymandering and increased voting
laws offering protections for sexual orientation. Thats when restrictions effectively suppressing more liberal-leaning
we started to see pushback, Garcia explains. Thats when voters. Yet we know one thing for certain: Well never
we started to see people say, Well, what if Im an employer win if we never try. One encouraging effort is the Moral
and someone tries transitioning on the job?... Or, I own a Monday movement in North Carolina. LGBT activists have
business, I dont know that I want to be forced to let trans joined other progressives in that state to engage more
people use my bathroom and scare other customers. voters and recruit more candidates to run for office. Lets
work on getting better folks elected. Every progressive
So it wasnt a surprise, he continues. I think what was a cause would hope that that happens, Garcia says, before
surprise was just how effective it really proved to be this acknowledging that we cant pin all of our hopes on
year. As a result, well no doubt see a lot more bathroom that.
bills to come and with them, more hysteria over gender-
nonconforming people. Ultimately, though, its hard to 3. Outreach to Republicans and Anti-LGBT Politicians
predict what will come next, and to what effect. What the Getting more pro-LGBT progressives to become politicians
opposition has been doing for the past two or three years, should be seen as only one among multiple tactics that,
Garcia explains, has been throwing stuff at the wall to see pursued in tandem, may achieve a better, gayer political
what sticks. And then revising their strategy, their playbook, tomorrow. Another is an irrefutable truth given our
accordingly. bipartisan system of government: What weve learned
is that we have to work with Republicans, Garcia says.
Of course, while these discriminatory tactics get the lions There are plenty of them who are supportive, if for no
share of publicity, there are plenty of other LGBT-related other reason than the bottom line: They want to attract
activities taking place in domestic politics. Foremost among corporations, they want to attract younger talent.
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North Carolina resident at a rally in support of the anti-LGBT law
4. Improving Education about Trans People example. And yet Russia isnt the worst offender, at least
Houston proved we have a problem, but North Carolina and not officially. Competing for that crown are 10 countries,
more recently Pennsylvania, where a nondiscrimination including Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Nigeria, in which same-sex
bill went down the womens bathroom drain, confirmed it: relations are legally punishable by death. Another contender
Transphobia has become a key to keeping us from making is Indonesia, where last year a religious court recommended
any more legislative gains, even setting us back. Obviously, the ultimate punishment for those who commit crimes of
the antidote lies in greater awareness and education. I would homosexualitythough that fatwa isnt official law.
say, Garcia says, that the real story is that weve got to start
educating, both inside the LGBT community and the public at But arguably the most outrageous anti-LGBT development
large, about transgender folks.... Weve got to start showing in recent years on the international scene doesnt stem from
trans people in the context of their lives, that theyre loved, just one country, but rather from one religion. And no, its
that people support them, that they have friends. not Islam. Certainly, declarations encouraging honor killings
and other acts of violence against LGBT peoples in the name
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS AND IMMIGRATION of Islam are unconscionable. Yet just as infuriating to most
LGBT Americansespecially those whose struggle to come
The movement for greater LGBT rightsand especially out was complicated by religionis the fact that similar calls
marriage equalitymarches ever onward in many places and crackdowns on LGBT people in various countries have
around the world. Some of the countries making great strides been issued in the name of Christianityeven in the name of
may surprise you, such as Colombia. Although the conservative America.
Catholic country is still far from being a bastion of peace and
acceptance for its LGBT citizens, just this April Colombias Faced with decreasing support in the United States, Christian
highest court proclaimed marriage equality the law of the missionaries have taken their talents to Africa, [exporting their]
land, putting it in good company with its Latin American Western brand of hatred, Jon Green wrote in an Americablog
neighbors Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. essay last year at the time of President Obamas historic visit
to Kenya (where, to his credit, the president did criticize the
Of course, in recent years some conservative countries countrys stance against LGBT rights). In fact, many anti-LGBT
have bucked the trend by becoming more hostile and religious conservatives have been emboldened by anti-gay
homophobicRussia being the most dramatic and tragic laws and attitudes theyve encountered on the continent.

Theyre trying to do what they couldnt accomplish here in that are in place in those countries will not protect them.
the United States, explains Matthew Corso of Center Global, In fact, LGBT asylum seekers in the U.S. are often further in
a program of the DC Center for the LGBT Community. Trying a bind, unable to turn to fellow expats or diaspora groups,
and succeeding. Theyre spreading their American brand of because those groups are often just as homophobic if not
hatred and homophobic ideals especially in countries of sub- even more so than was their home country.
Saharan Africa, including Uganda, Nigeria, and Cameroon.
Theyre organized there, Corso says. Theyre using their Taking Action
church dollars that they raised through their congregations
to influence policy and public measures. Let that sink in for 1. American LGBT Organizations Should Partner More with
a second and surely youll come to the same conclusion as Overseas Counterparts
Corso: Its completely outrageous. Especially since theyre all More LGBT Americans should think of themselves as
classified as nonprofit organizations. So much for the public global citizens, aware of and engaged in whats going on
good. elsewhere. And more domestic LGBT organizations should
become active on the global human rights scene. Sharing
These homophobic religious information and good practices
zealots are proselytizing for Jesus could be mutually beneficial for
and casting homosexuals as of both American nonprofits and
the Devilstirring up queer fear nascent advocacy organizations
and loathing and encouraging in developing countriesyet
stronger enforcement of existing only if handled in a culturally
anti-LGBT laws as well as creation respectful and sensitive manner.
of new, more stringent policies. Whats happening here in the
Remember the kill the gays United States is not the same
bill in Uganda a few years ago? thing thats happening in other
A couple of virulently anti-gay countries, Corso explains,
American ministers advanced and we cant just take all of
this bill, and other prominent our great organizing work that
American fundamentalists have weve done and transplant it in
continued to whip up anti-gay another country.
fervor in the country. The Anti-
Homosexuality Act, passed in 2. Advocate for U.S. Immigration
2014, included some draconian Policy Reform
anti-LGBT measures, but it The United States is in dire need
mercifully stopped shortthanks of comprehensive immigration
to international donor pressure reform, yet the whole issue
of calling for death to gays. seems to have become a bit too
charged and polarizing for reasoned debate or consensus.
If these far-right American activists are as anti-immigrant as Short of a total overhaul, some specific policy changes
they are anti-gay, theyre not exactly helping that situation, should take precedence. Among these: Allowing immigrants
at least not back home: More LGBT and progressive-minded more than just one year to file for asylum, which, as Corso
Ugandans have been seeking refuge in more tolerant explains, is a very extensive, complicated, long, drawn-
countries such as the U.S. As only one example, Center Global out process even under the best, most expedited of
has seen an increase in recent years in the number of people circumstances; and reforming Border Patrol policies and
seeking asylum from sub-Saharan Africa, including Uganda. practices to reduce what the ACLU and other organizations
have described as widespread and deplorable detention
Actually, the all-volunteer organization has been seeing conditions.
increasing numbers of immigrants from all over, now helping Make Magic Happen
3. Advocate for More Local Support for Asylum Seekers
as many as six or seven a monthdouble the number from
only a year agoand over 120 since the program started nearly Asylum seekers are not typical immigrants and they
four years ago. Corso, who works by day in communications deserve more support than the averageand more than
at the United States Agency for International Development, they currently receive. As Corso explains, asylum seekers
helped found Center Global partly to raise awareness of global have often been persecuted, some of them have been
human rights issues among D.C.s LGBT community. But the tortured. [It can be] really hard for them to focus on healing
primary focus is helping LGBT asylum seekers and refugees from that experience, and then having to deal with all
as they go through the arduous immigration process and of the day-to-day survival things. Asylum seekers are
adjust to a new life as strangers in a strange land. Asylum not able to access any local government services, so that
seekers who are coming herethey honestly would prefer to theyre entirely reliant on community-based services.
live in their home country, Corso explains. [But] physically, Corso suggests local governments, including D.C., should
they cannot live in that country because they fear for their offer funding for providers offering legal or health services
own [lives]. And state institutions and the other systems for these immigrants.
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4. Advocate for More Scrutiny of Americans Anti-LGBT have access to those choices without fear of criminalization
Efforts Overseas or retribution or violence.
An increasing number of organizations are working to
monitor and counter anti-LGBT activity around the world Of course, sex work is illegal in D.C., just as it is everywhere in
including the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which has the U.S. outside of Nevada. But other jurisdictions around the
been keeping particular watch on the Rockford, Ill.-based country are considering decriminalization of what has been
World Congress of Families. This convening organization, called the worlds oldest profession, with the D.C. Council
according to SPLC, is one of the key driving forces behind expected to do so in the near future. Amnesty International
the U.S. religious rights global export of homophobia and and an increasing number of national LGBT organizations
sexism, and it features as member partners the anti-gay have endorsed the idea, including the National LGBTQ Task
conservative groups youve no doubt heard offrom the Force, the National Center for Lesbian Rights and the National
Family Research Council to the National Organization for Center for Transgender Equality. Shawn Jain, communications
Marriage. Another newer, notable watchdog effort, with director at Whitman-Walker Health, says D.C.s largest LGBT
a more activist approach, is known as KYNship, which health organization is closely studying the issue [to be] fully
stands for Know Thy Neighbors, a collaborative project of prepared when the D.C. Council takes up the ideabut has
two social justice organizations, the think tank no position on the issue for now.
Political Research Associates and the LGBT-
Meanwhile, Jinadasa, speaking for HIPS,
focused Soulforce. The KYNship Campaign
says: We find that decriminalization is
for Transnational Solidarity aims to
really paramount to creating a safer
inspire everyday citizens to call-out
space for sex workers, particularly
and confront head-on anti-LGBT
LGBT sex workers, particularly trans
fundamentalist leaders both here in
women of color, in the District.
the U.S. and abroad.
[Sex work] is a job that does not
hurt anyone else. And [it] has the
HEALTH AND WELL-BEING potential for exploitation within
the interaction, just like there is
Theres still this misconception out potential for exploitation in nearly
there that gay people are well-off, or all work environments. As it stands
better off than the general population, now, she adds, sex workers are one of
says Daniel Bruner, senior director of the primary targets of criminalization
policy at Whitman-Walker Health. In fact, and police harassment and brutality.
recent statistics from community surveys by
the Williams Institute find that LGBT people are A lot of people want to sweep sex workers under
slightly less likely to be thriving across a range of measuresthe rug unless theyre willing to change their behavior,
of wealth and health than the general population. The gap Jinadasa says, noting that many people, at least historically,
is most pronounced among couples with children: Nearly 25 approach gay people the same way. A lot of folks are willing
percent of children living with a male same-sex couple and to help them if theyre more respectable or willing to change,
just over 19 percent of children living with a female same- or be a certain way in public. But sex workers should be
sex couple are in poverty, compared to just over 12 percent of
invitedas they areto take part in community discussions
children living with different-sex couples. Furthermore, same-
ranging from violence and neighborhood policing to sex
sex couples raising children experience disproportionate and health care. HIV/AIDS strategy, time and time again,
levels of food insecurity, and are approximately twice as likely
according to Jinadasa, excludes sex workers despite sex
to receive food stamps as different-sex couples with children.
workers being a primary potential for education, as they see
a large percentage of folk[s] who might need sexual health
Sasanka Jinadasa has a good vantage point from which to education. The community, she adds, would be better off
seeOFFICIAL
THE the needs of the
GUIDE TO most marginalized
CAPITAL PRIDE 2016 in our community. really starting to think about sex workers as ambassadors
Jinadasa is a manager at the harm-reduction community- for sexual health and reproductive justice.
based agency known as HIPS. Through a daytime drop-in
center, an overnight outreach program and a 24/7 hotline, Speaking of HIV, any discussion about sex and health in our
HIPS, Jinadasa explains, focuses on supporting people community will inevitably turn to the epidemic, initially
who live and work on the streets, particularly sex workers tagged the gay disease when it ravaged our community
and drug users, and the communities they come from. first more than three decades ago. These days, the talk is as
LGBT people, according to Jinadasa, are disproportionately likely to focus on promising prevention techniques such as
represented in sex work, just the same way LGBT youth are PrEP, as it is on the dogged persistence of the virus among
disproportionately represented among the homeless. To gay and bi men, as well as trans women. The HIV epidemic
get on their feet, or to get ahead, many consider sex work. is still largely centered around gay men, Whitman-Walker
Some people really feel empowered by sex work, Jinadasa Healths Jain says. Nevertheless, the exciting thing about
says, and some people would rather be doing something where were at now in terms of HIV is, with prevention, we
else. But either way, sex workers and trans women deserve to have more to say than just condoms, which is what we had
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SMOKE & MIRRORS CAPITAL PRIDES OFFICIAL AFTER
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forefront of the LGBTA community.
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R E S I S TA N C E
RESILIENCE AND RESISTANCE IN THE SOUTH

When the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in harmless and seemingly served only as a state-based
Obergefell v. Hodges and marriage equality became the echo of the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act
law of the land, many people both inside and outside of (RFRA) that had been introduced in 1993 by stalwart liberal
the LGBT rights movement began to ask what was next. senators Chuck Schumer and Ted Kennedy and passed
Some even went so far as to proclaim that the goals of with almost unanimous support in Congress.
the movement were mostly met, and began to encourage
donors, volunteers, and activists to look to other causes. However, as we quickly learned, the Georgia bill was
As we prepare to celebrate the one-year anniversary of actually the latest strategy by religious extremists to
that ruling and the 47th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, push back against LGBT rights on the state level. At that
it should now be clear to all that despite significant gains, point, some 20 states had enacted some form of RFRA.
there is still much for us to do across the country to ensure Many had done this in the 1990s, but the number of bills
that all people are treated equally under the law regardless introduced was increasing and several that had seemed
of their sexual orientation and gender identity. benign at passage were being amended to specifically
target the LGBT community for discrimination. In 2014,
In 2015, groups such as HRC and Equality Federation Arizona became the cautionary tale when Governor Jan
tracked over 100 anti-LGBT bills that had been introduced Brewer was forced to veto the legislation when the NFL
in state legislatures around the country. In 2016 that threatened to move the Super Bowl out of the state.
number nearly doubled and the number of states where
these laws were debated grew from 29 to 34. While our Here in Georgia we quickly organized in opposition and
movement has become quite adept at fighting these bills, on one extremely long day at the State Capitol over 150
legislation signed into law in states such as North Carolina people sat for hours waiting for a House hearing on this
and Mississippi prove we are still a community under bill. The number of people at that hearing was the talk
attack. of the Capitol. This drew so much attention that both the
Republican governor, Nathan Deal, and his Democratic
Our battle in Georgia actually began in 2014 when the challenger made brief appearances to see what was going
first of dozens of so-called religious freedom bills was on. Out lesbian state representative Simone Bell made a
introduced. On the surface the bill seemed relatively passionate speech imploring her colleagues to realize that
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Georgia Unites leadership delivers boxes of petitions to the State Capitol
does a disservice to the number of faith traditions and
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denominations that have embraced the LGBT community
over the past 30 years.
For every press conference in which Southern Baptists

spoke of their fears in a changing secular world, there was
a counter press conference with a rainbow coalition of
Jews, Presbyterians, Methodists, Unitarian-Universalists,
and liberal Baptists talking about how their faith compels
them to love all and to do no harm in the name of religion.
Rabbi Joshua Heller summed up this sentiment when he
encouraged the legislature to reject this type of legislation
by stating: Not in my name. Not in our name. Not in Gods
name!
Despite the claims of the bills supporters that discrimination

was not a part of their intent, when language was eventually
added to the bill stating that the government has a compelling
interest in protecting individuals against discrimination on
any grounds prohibited by federal, state and local laws the
bill was quickly tabled by the bills sponsors. In making the
motion to table the bill, one exasperated House member
stated that the nondiscrimination provisions would gut the
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intent of the bill. Days later the controversies of Indianas

RFRA bill made the national news and there was no
additional movement on the Georgia bill.
The national movement to enact various forms of religious

exemptions spread like wildfire in the weeks and months
BY JEFF GRAHAM, following the Obergefell ruling. Kentucky county clerk Kim
Georgia Equality Executive Director & Equality Federation Board Co-Chair Davis put a face on the movement when she went to jail
rather than issue marriage licenses. Alabama Chief Justice
this legislation was about more than a piece of cake and Roy Moore urged judges throughout his state to refuse to
had discrimination as its sole intent. implement the ruling and elected officials in the South took
to the airwaves to condemn the decision as an attack on
Over the next few weeks, Georgia-based corporations family values.
such as Delta Air Lines, Coca-Cola, UPS, and Home
Depot all made statements expressing concern about the Not everyone, however, was jumping on the anti-LGBT
legislation, and it died without further action. bandwagon. Here in Georgia, not only did all 159 counties
issue marriage licenses the day of the Obergefell ruling,
Unfortunately for Georgia and the rest of the South, the our governor and attorney general (both conservative
latest fight over LGBT rights was just beginning. At the Republicans) made public statements that the state would
start of the 2015 legislative session, twin RFRA bills were follow the law. Our governor even went so far as to declare
introduced in the state House and Senate. Southern Baptists a special enrollment period so that gay and lesbian state
held prayer vigils and wrote editorials in an effort to paint employees could enroll their spouses in the state benefits
these bills as harmless on the one hand and necessary plan. This was done specifically to benefit those whose
to protect people of faith from government overreach on marriages prior to that ruling had not been recognized by
the other. When pressed, it became increasingly clear the state.
that the overreach they were concerned about were
local ordinances such as the one in Atlanta that prohibited Georgia voters also rejected the use of religion to
LGBT discrimination in employment, housing, and public discriminate when a special election in a staunchly
accommodations. Republican district in suburban Atlanta was won by a
Democrat who ran his campaign as a statement against
In 2015, we worked tirelessly to engage and mobilize RFRA legislation out of concerns that it would harm his out
faith communities against these bills. We knew from a lesbian mother.
2011 survey of Georgias LGBT community that two-thirds
of LGBT Georgians see themselves as people of faith. When legislatures convened in 2016, flurries of bills aimed
To cede the mantel of faith to religious conservatives is at creating religious exemptions to various laws were
not only dangerous from a political perspective, it also introduced in Georgia and around the country. There was
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Mike Griffin, Georgia Right To Life Legislative Director Jeff Graham, Georgia Equality, Executive Director
also an increase in the number of bills introduced that Southern Poverty Law Center, and the NAACP became
specifically targeted transgender people. Emboldened vocal in their opposition and began to make comparisons
with the belief that the public would support them, backers to similar arguments made over the decades to stigmatize
of these bills dropped any pretense that the intent of this and deny legal equality for women, immigrants, and people
legislation was anything other than backlash against the of color.
social and political gains made of the LGBT community.
Georgia is only one of five states without a state civil
One Georgia bill was modeled after the federal First rights law, so we redoubled our efforts and began to argue
Amendment Defense Act, a piece of reactionary that not only should these discriminatory bills not pass,
legislation hastily crafted and introduced in Congress after but Georgias elected leaders needed to pass civil rights
the Obergefell decision. It clearly stated that no one should legislation that would protect all people from discrimination,
be forced to recognize same-sex couples as married including the LGBT community. A bipartisan group of
or provide services to individuals engaging in sexual leaders introduced the Georgia Public Accommodations
relationships outside of the confines of a marriage between Civil Rights Act, and 17 Republicans joined the entire
one man and one woman. In response to hysterical claims House Democratic Caucus in cosponsoring the Fair
that pastors were about to be jailed and churches would Employment Protections Act, which would add sexual
lose their tax-exempt status, another bill was crafted to orientation and gender identity to the list of protections
ensure that no clergy would have to perform, nor would offered to state employees.
places of worship have to host, a same-sex wedding if it
violated the views of the congregation. When the extremist rhetoric of the national presidential
campaign came to Georgia, the pressure was too much for
In response, hundreds of Jewish and Christian clergy and our conservative legislature and a bill did eventual pass and
faith leaders began to mobilize against these bills. Over head to the governors desk. This was only accomplished
550 businesses of all sizes signed a public pledge stating through a series of legislative shenanigans that limited
their view that a good business climate was dependent public debate and scrutiny with canceled hearings and the
upon ensuring that diversity in all its forms, including sexual introduction of substitute legislative language less than an
orientation and gender identity, was respected under state hour before a floor vote. However, even in that climate, a
law. Well-respected civil rights organizations such as the total of twelve Republicans voted against the final bill.
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the
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When it became clear that some version of a religious

exemption bill would head to the governors desk, tens of
thousands of Georgians began to speak publicly against
the bill. In a period of just over four days, 75,000 emails
were generated by Georgians and hand-delivered to the
governor urging him to veto the legislation. Editorial boards
from newspapers throughout the state expressed concern
about what the legislation would do to our reputation.
Dozens of celebrities, film companies, and professional
sports teams spoke against it.
Less than a week after the legislature passed the bill, the
governor issued a very public veto. At the press conference,
Governor Dealhimself a devout Baptistsaid of his
decision, We do not have to discriminate against anyone
to protect the faith-based community in Georgia.
But the resistance and resilience has not been limited to

Georgia.
When North Carolinas governor called a special session

to pass the infamous HB 2, not only did the economic
backlash and public ridicule dominate national media, but
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Democrats moved to force the governor to appoint the
head of the LGBT rights group Equality North Carolina,
Chris Sgro, to the legislature to fill the term of a House
Democrat who had died shortly before the start of the
regular legislative session. And on the first day of that
session, petitions were delivered to the Capitol from some
190,000 North Carolinians demanding that the bill be
repealed.
Elsewhere, the ongoing efforts of Equality Florida have led

to the passage of local ordinances that now protect over
50 percent of the population against discrimination based
on sexual orientation and gender identity. And advocates
from both local and national organizations were able to
put pressure on legislators and governors in Tennessee,
Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Virginia that prevented dozens
of harmful bills from becoming law.
This year as we celebrate Pride, let us also celebrate

the hard-won victories in some of the most conservative
regions of the country. Yes, there are still 29 states that fail
to protect people against discrimination based on sexual
orientation and 33 states that have no protections for
transgender individuals. Due to the gridlock in Congress,
there is no clear path forward for passage of the federal
Equality Act. However, activists around the country remain
determined to continue the hard work of changing hearts
and minds and educating the public on the reality of the
lives of LGBT people and our families.
That is the work that led to the celebration of the marriage

decision a year ago and it is the work that we lead us to the
day when no one has to fear losing their job, being denied
housing, or being turned away from a business because of
who they are and whom they love.
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Capital Pride HeroesCapital Pride Heroes are dedicated individuals whose body of work has had a
positive, significant, and lasting impact on the LGBTA community.
Bishop Allyson Abrams

Bishop Abrams adopted Detroit, Michigan as her hometown, but she was born

and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. She established deep roots in Detroit, where
she raised her three college-aged children and served as an elected official on the
Oak Park School Board, seminary adjunct professor, Vice President of a local NAACP,
Detroit Public Schools police chaplain, and numerous other clergy community
capacities. She became the youngest female called to pastor a historic Black Baptist
Church in Detroit where she served for over five years as Senior Pastor.Bishop Abrams
was consecrated bishop in April 2012 and serves as presiding bishop of Pneuma
Christian Fellowship. One Sunday morning during worship at her Detroit parish,
Bishop Abrams disclosed that she married the woman she loved and proclaimed
her authenticity as an LGBT bishop. Due to her proclaimed status, BishopAbrams
later resigned her position as senior pastor of her Detroit church to walk in her
authenticity. After much discrimination, hatred, and heterosexual bullying, Bishop
Abrams relocated to the Washington, DC area and founded a radically inclusive
ministry that celebrates all of Gods children. Empowerment Liberation Cathedral
was founded in May 2014.
Bishop Abrams graduated from Howard University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering. She then attended
Miles College Law School for two years before accepting her call to ministry.She received a Master of Divinity in 2000 from United
Theological Seminary, and her Doctor of Ministry from United Seminary in 2005.Bishop Abrams is the author of three books.
Bishop Abrams has served the Washington, D.C metropolitan community in numerous ways. By founding Empowerment Liberation
Cathedral, she has re-opened the doors of the church for many in the LGBT community who have been wounded by the mainstream
church. As part of her social justice advocacy she has served on numerous boards, taught about spirituality and sexuality, and
spoken about diversity and inclusion, and championed marriage equality nationwide.
Bishop Abrams has spoken for Black Pride, NBJC, The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Summit, Anne Arundel Community
College, and others. Bishop Abrams and Empowerment Liberation Cathedral have been acknowledged as being a voice for the
voiceless. Bishop Abrams is married to Bishop Emeritus Diana Williams and they have 3 adult children.
Kathleen Matthews
Kathleen Matthews is a true progressive and has been lifelong advocate for equality
and human rights in her community and throughout her career as a journalist,
business executive, and most recently as a candidate for U.S. Congress. Growing up in
the San Francisco Bay Area, she graduated from Stanford University in 1975 and moved
to Washington, D.C. to start her career as a journalist. For 25 years, Kathleen was a
reporter and news anchor at WJLA-TV where she covered education, women in the
workplace, and the fight for LBGT equality, including the first Pride Day celebrations.
In 2006, she went to work for Marriott International as Executive Vice President for
Global Communications and Public Affairs, and it is her work as a business leader that
makes her a true Hero. While at Marriott, Kathleen fought for equality around the
globe and developed partnerships to train and mentor women and disadvantaged
youth for hotel careers in Rwanda, Haiti, India, and around the United States. She was
an outspoken advocate for LGBT recognition and equality. She served on Marriotts
Global Diversity and Inclusion Council where she led Marriotts efforts to join amicus
briefs to repeal DOMA and support marriage equality. Under her leadership, Marriott
lobbied for passage of ENDA, immigration equality, and other anti-discrimination legislation. These efforts enabled Marriott
International to score a 100 percent on the HRCs Corporate Equality Index. In her 2016 campaign for U.S. Congress in Maryland, she
was an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ rights, including expanding transgender Americans protections through a federal Equality
Act that mirrors Marylands version. She believes that LGBTQ discrimination is an international human rights issue and the U.S.
should incorporate that principle into our foreign policy and diplomacy. Kathleen and her husband Chris have three grown children:
Michael, Thomas, and Caroline. They live in Chevy Chase, Maryland. She is active in her community and on national issues, and has
served on many boards including Fords Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Suited for Change, and the Black Student Fund.
Capital Pride Heroes
Capital Pride Heroes are dedicated individuals whose body of work has had a
positive, significant, and lasting impact on the LGBTA community.
Rayceen Pendarvis
Beyond Beyond being a staple of the DC-areas Black LGBTA community, Rayceen Pendarvis
is known in many circles, transcending geography, ethnicity, color, orientation, and

generation. Rayceen was part of the inaugural DC Black Pride, has been emcee of multiple
pride festivals and events, was an activist early in the fight against HIV/AIDS, and served
as an openly gay elected ANC Commissioner at a time when such a thing was unheard of.
In addition to providing a safe space for LGBTA people to connect, Rayceen uses The Ask
Rayceen Show as a monthly forum for discussions about issues impacting LGBTA people.
Rayceen is the Queen of the Shameless Plug due to more than self-promotion; the show
is a vehicle for LGBTA businesses and organizations to gain attention. Rayceen may enjoy
being in the spotlight, but it is always generously shared with others. The Ask Rayceen
Show itself is a labor of love, for which the host not only receives no financial gain, but
incurs various costs and expenses. Rayceen uses the show and other Team Rayceen events
as platforms for fostering understanding for marginalized people and educating the
community, while also showcasing local talent and highlighting the work of non-profit
organizations.
Along with hosting duties, performances, and work with various organizations, Rayceen has advised, counseled, and comforted countless
people. For years, Rayceen has hosted and made appearances at events to help bring them needed attention, often without compensation.
Over decades of service to our community, Rayceen, a lifelong Washingtonian, has earned the moniker The Goddess of DC.
Rayceen Pendarvis, Team Rayceen, and The Ask Rayceen Show are on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
Peter D. Rosenstein
Peter was born and educated in New York, taught public school in Harlem, and
worked as an aide to Rep. Bella Abzug (D-NY). He was Coordinator of Local

Government for the NYC Mayors Office and executive director of the White House
Conference on Handicapped Individuals/Implementation Unit in the Carter
administration. Afterwards, he spent 35 years as CEO of national associations in
the healthcare and education areas. Peter left the association field last year and
opened PDR & Associates a consulting firm. He has lived in D.C. since 1978 and for
decades has been a prominent community and LGBT rights activist in D.C. and
Rehoboth Beach where he also has a home.
Peter worked with and inspired generations of activists in D.C. Hes smart,
committed and professional, working within the government to bring about
change for D.C.s LGBT community. He has a long commitment to racial justice
and womens rights and brought those lessons to bear on D.C.s LGBT rights
struggle, playing a lead and integral role in bringing marriage equality to the
city years before the Supreme Court ruled in favor of such rights nationwide.
Hes been active for years in local and national political campaigns and is a generous supporter of the arts in the city. Peter
is tireless, devoting countless hours to local charitable groups like Whitman-Walker Health and ARTS in ACTION, while
working as a columnist on LGBT topics for the Washington Blade, and writing for the Huffington Post and Georgetown
Dish. Peter is passionate, generous and devoted to the city and especially to its LGBT residents. Peter has a long record
supporting the LGBT community, including advocating for LGBT issues while working as the issues chair or co-chair for a
string of D.C. mayors and mayoral candidates.
Peters accomplishments include: President/founder ARTS in ACTION; former Community Board Member, Whitman-
Walker Health; founding board member, Media Matters; former Vice-chair UDC Board of Trustees; founding member and
president, Campaign for All D.C. Families, which led fight for marriage equality; Issues chair, Jarvis for Mayor, 1990; Co-chair
Issues Committee, Schwartz for Mayor, 1994; Issues co-chair, Anthony Williams for Mayor, 1998 and 2002; Issues chair,
Fenty for Mayor, 2006; Member, Obama 2008 National LGBT Steering Committee; Finance committee member, Hillary for
America 2016.
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Capital Pride
Special Awards
The Bill Miles Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service acknowledges exemplary contributions to the annual Capital Pride celebration.
Chelsa Bland
Chelsea Bland is a young worker and proud union member working to leave
PHOTO BY: JASON ROE

her mark on the labor movement. She is a strong advocate for LGBTQ rights and
for supporting spaces of intersectionality within the labor movement. With
her union, the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU)
Local 2, she serves as the LGBTQ committee chair. Through this committee she
is committed to creating awareness, educating union members about the
challenges facing LGBTQ folks on the job, and sharing the role unions can play
in ensuring workplaces are safe, accessible, and inclusive. In her community
service work with OPEIU Local 2, she was part of a team that received the 2014
Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO Thomas M. Bradley Community
Services Award.
Chelsea also serves as the volunteer co-producer for the Capital Pride Alliance.
She has volunteered with the organization since 2012, and stepped into the
volunteer co-producer role in 2015. With Capital Pride, she enjoys meeting new
volunteers, connecting with other producers on their projects, and the hustle and bustle of being a part of one of the largest
pride celebrations in the country. Chelsea loves Capital Prides Have Pride 365 campaign that focuses on sharing what the
community has pride in each and every day.
During her day job she works as a communications specialist at the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE).
She assists AFGE members with media outreach, captures organization events through photos, and trains AFGE members on
storytelling. She is also a union steward, representing the hardworking staff at AFGE.
Beyond the daytime job, union activism, and Capital Pride, Chelsea is also a freelance photographer. She enjoys capturing
personal portraits, social justice events, and sunsets. Some of her work has been featured in Tagg Magazine.
Chelsea was born in North Carolina and raised in Maryland. She earned a degree in broadcast journalism at the University of
Maryland (Go Terps!) and currently resides in Arlington,VA.
Michael Creason
Michael Creason is a Nationally Certified Sign Language Interpreter and is thrilled

to be receiving the Bill Miles Award. Michael began his involvement with the Deaf
community beginning with his studies of American Sign Language in 2005. In
2009 he received his first certification. Michael works full time as a sign language
interpreter. In 2012, he volunteered with Capital Pride for the first time and has
been involved ever since.
In 2013, Michael assumed his current position as Producer of Accessibility for the
Capital Pride Alliance. Michael not only coordinates services for all Capital Pride
Alliance events, but he also donates many hours of interpreting services himself
at these events. Since he began his role, Capital Pride has expanded its services to
include individuals with disabilities.
In addition, Capital Pride now provides interpreting services for many LGBT
organizations around the DC area including Youth Pride, DC Leather Pride, and the
Cherry Fund. It is Michaels sincere pleasure to receive this award and thanks the members of the Capital Pride Alliance Board
and Executive team for their unwavering support and commitment to back him in his goal to make Capital Pride the most
accessible celebration in the country.
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Capital Trans Pride
Engendered Spirits
Engendered Spirits are those individuals who have made significant contributions to the transgender community.
Julius Agers
Julius Agers is a Two-Spirited and Transgender Advocate who is currently living in
Washington D.C. Throughout his life he has dedicated himself to volunteerism

and civil service with a focus on improving the health and well-being of the LGBT
community. Before moving to Washington D.C. he was a volunteer in Minneapolis
for several organizations, including The Aliveness Project HIV Community Center
and The Minnesota Aids Project (MAP). He participated in The Honor Project a
groundbreaking harm-reduction and needs assessment study of Two-Spirited and
LGBT people of American Indian heritage developed by the Indigenous Peoples Task
Force along with The University of Washington. Julius also worked on a variety of
political campaigns in Minnesota to help elect Pro-Equality candidates to public
office. After moving to D.C. he worked on the 2008 election campaign where he
focused on volunteer recruitment and political organizing to support President
Barack Obama. Julius later served as Vice-President of Political Affairs for The
Gertrude Stein Democratic Club. Passionate about the rights of all District residents,
Julius is a stalwart advocate for full voting representation in Congress and full
control over local affairs. He currently works at the D.C. Fire and EMS Department (Office of The Fire Chief) and serves on Mayor
Bowsers LGBTQ Advisory Committee.
Jeri Hughes
Since her arrest for the crime of being transgender in 1983, Jeri Hughes has been
an outspoken advocate for all human rights. Although the focus of her fight has
centered around the struggles faced by the transgender community, she has
extended her efforts to embrace the LGBT community and basic human rights
in entirety. Ms. Hughes was among the first to promote direct action within the
community to expand the existing domestic partnership laws into full blown
marriage equality. She actively participated in the fight to repeal DADT.
Ms. Hughes initiated and filed the complaint against the DC Department of
Corrections with the Office of Human Rights, while simultaneously engaging the
collective LGBT community to participate, resulting in shift of DOC policy respecting
the rights and dignity of transgender prisoners. Ms. Hughes participated with the
effort to reform policy within the Metropolitan Police Department, resulting in a
new General Order respecting gender identity and expression.
Working completely alone in 2009, Ms. Hughes initiated the effort to reform the
discriminatory employment practices targeting the transgender community. Her efforts, again, engaged the entire community
to participate, resulting in open discussion and the creation of a Transgender Cohort within the Project Empowerment
program. She continues in this effort, and is currently employed as a Workforce Development Specialist at the American Job
Center Headquarters. Jeri never fails to support the community and individual trans people who come across her path when
she is in a position to assist them. She regularly uses her network to connect trans people to employment opportunities
whenever she can.
Over the years, Ms. Hughes has volunteered and worked for several organizations including Helping Individual Prostitutes
Survive (HIPS), the Anacostia Watershed Society (AWS), Transgender Health Empowerment (THE), the National Center for
Transgender Equality (NCTE), and the International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE). She is a long time and active
member of the Gertude Stein Democratic Club and the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance. (GLLA). She also volunteers her
time at the DC Center co-facilitating the Center Careers Program where she uses her professional skills to assist LGBT job
seekers and help connect them to available resources in the District.
Ms. Hughes lives in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
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As Charlie Puth gears up to release his debut album Nine Derulo, Stevie Wonder, Trainor, Trey Songz, and Fergie, among
Track Mind, its worth looking back at the extraordinary ride others. Entertainment Weekly called him the next big thing
this multi-talented vocalist, musician, producer, and versatile in music, while Forbes predicted Puth would become a
songwriter has been on ever since he arrived in Los Angeles global superstar. Puth said, I played for 7,000 people in the
as an aspiring artist in July 2014. In short order, Puth signed Philippines, and they knew every single word to all of the
with Atlantic Records and co-wrote, co-produced, and was songs, even the ones that havent come out yet.
featured on Wiz Khalifas Furious 7 ballad See You Againa Puth first fell in love with music growing up by the shore in
smash that topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 12 weeks, Rumson, New Jersey. He credits his supportive parents for
tying the record for the longest run at No. 1 for a rap song, his early music education, citing his idol James Taylor as his
and became No. 1 in over 100 countries, while its video racked primary influence. My mom would put headphones on her
up more than a billion YouTube views. He followed that belly and play his records to me while she was pregnant, he
up with the British chart-topper Marvin Gaye, featuring says. Puth played piano throughout his childhood and began
Meghan Trainor, which gave Puth another platinum record studying jazz at the age of 10. As a high-school student, he
and his second Top 40 hit in the U.S. He made the morning spent his Saturdays commuting into New York City to study
talk show and late-night TV rounds, hit the road opening classical and jazz at the Manhattan School of Music in Harlem.
for Trainor on her U.S. tour, and ended 2015 with an array of He began writing his own songs and eventually posting them
accolades, including two Teen Choice Awards, a Hollywood on YouTube, along with covers.
Film Award, two American Music Award, MTV Video Music
Award, and MTV Europe Award nominations, plus a Golden Puths most fervent wish is that his fans will be as inspired by
Globe nomination for Best Original Song. As if that werent his story as he is by theirs. Ive gotten some pretty powerful
enough, Puth received an impressive three GRAMMY messages from fans, Puth said. People go through some crazy
nominations including the coveted Song of the Year category shit in this world, and they need some sort of soundtrack to go
that specifically recognizes songwriters. along with their lives because sometimes its really hard. Its
Along the way, Puth wrote and produced songs for an array kind of nice to have a comforting voice or an uplifting melody
of A-list pop and urban artists, including Lil Wayne, Jason to help you get to wherever youre going.
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Meghan Trainor
ForMeghan Trainor, it started withAll About That Bass.A producerRicky Reed[Jason Derulo, Pitbull, Twenty One Pilots]
bona fide cultural phenomenon,All About That Bassspent for the track. Thank You is executive produced by Meghan
eight weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Its Trainor and Ricky Reed.
influence continued long after its release, scoring Top Hot
100 Song and Top Digital Song at the 2015Billboard Music The premiere ofNOcame just weeks afterMeghan won the
Awards as well as the 2015 ASCAP Pop Music Award for Best New Artist award at the 2016 GRAMMYAwards. At the
Most Performed Song. The breakout hit was nominated iHeartRadio Music Awards where she performed,Meghanwas
for Song of the Year and Record of the Year at the 2015 nominated for Female Artist of the Year and Best Collaboration
GRAMMY Awards. In addition, Trainor received three forLike Im Gonna Lose YouwithJohn Legend.
American Music Awards nominations and three Teen
Choice Awards nominations. An explosive performer, she Meghan continues to break records, make history, inspire
headlined the MTrain Tour to packed venues across the U.S. countless fans, and change the landscape of pop music and
during the summer of 2015. culture. She began 2016 by winning Favorite Album for her
chart-dominating full-length debut, Title [Epic Records], at
Heralding one of 2016s most eagerly awaited the 2016 Peoples Choice Awards. Last year, Title not only
releases,Meghan Trainors brand new singleNOrecently debuted at #1 on theBillboardTop 200, but it became thefirst
made its world premiere. It is the first release from #1 full-length debut from a female solo artist in five years.It
Trainors second full-length album, Thank You [Epic wasone of only seven albums to sell over a million copies in
Records]. NO shows a different side of the singer 2015.It also yielded four inescapable Top 10BillboardHot 100
altogether, illuminating the expanse and confidence smashes: All About That Bass,Lips Are Movin,Dear Future
inherent in her powerhouse voice while showing Husband, and Like Im Gonna Lose You [featuring John
off her songwriting prowess. Strutting between a Legend].Titlewas the fifth most-streamed album globally in
nineties-style hip-hop bounce and an untouchable and 2015 and currently has over900 millionstreams worldwide.
unshakable chorus, its a feisty, fiery, and fun anthem Trainor also has over 2 billion video views on VEVO.
thatll get everybody singing,NO. She teamed up with
Melanie Martinez Alex Newell
Melanie Martinez wants to tell you a story. Its fictional, but Alex Newells voice makes the heart swell: its a clean,
its also about her, in a way thats somewhat exaggerated undiluted instrument of joy that soars with the history of
and darker than reality. The tale traces through Martinezs classic dance music and the freshness of modern pop.
debut album Cry Baby, a collection of pop songs that draw At the age of two, Newell strolled onstage at a state fairs
inspiration from folk and hip-hop and follow a character talent show, grabbed the microphone and started singing a
who learns to be more comfortable with who she is. The hymn called Victory is Mine. He later developed a passion
journey of the character, whom Martinez dubbed Cry Baby, for musical theater, joining his first production at the age
mirrors the musicians own. of 13he starred as Snowbell the Cat in a local production
of Stuart Little. At 17, he won a guest starring role on Glee
Martinez began writing songs and playing guitar at 14. as Wade Unique Adams, a male-to-female transgender
She was influenced both by her dads predilection for old- character. It was a groundbreaking piece of television acting,
school hip-hop and her own interest in folk songwriters and Newell was eventually promoted to recurring cast
like Regina Spektor and Feist. After appearing on The Voice, member and then main cast member.
Martinez signed with Atlantic and headed into the studio
to begin writing songs. During an early session, after asking Newell signed a deal with Atlantic Records in 2013. He worked
her producer to play some toy sounds, she came up with with Rather Be stars Clean Bandit on their empowering
Dollhouse, the origin of the story. Pity Party, which track Stronger, guested on the Knocks dazzling dance
Martinez made with Kara Dioguardi and CJ Baran, revisits single Collect My Love, and issued a magnetic cover of
Lesley Gores 1965 classic Its My Party. The single, a Sigmas Nobody to Love.
buoyant pop number that draws in ambient trip-hop beats
Newells playful yet potent approach to disco-injected
and string augmentation, is a cathartic release. The visuals
dance-pop is on full display on his upcoming debut EP, which
for the album go hand-in-hand with Martinezs narrative
received a little help from some famous new friends. Funk-
themes. She took a lot of the accompanying photos and
guitar god Nile Rodgers (Chic, Daft Punk), songwriting legend
directed the colorful video for Pity Party.
Diane Warren (Whitney Houston, Celine Dion) and live
production maestro DJ Cassidy all contributed to Newells
Cry Baby debuted at #5 on the Top Albums Chart, #6 on the
first major-label outing, which precedes a debut album and
Billboard 200, and #1 on the Billboard Current Alternative
previews the exuberant attitude Newell wants to bestow
Album chart.
upon mainstream music
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Naomi Smalls BobTheDrag Queen

Naomi Smalls is a seven-foot glamazon inspired by 90s Christopher Caldwell, better known by the stage identity
supermodels, pop culture, and fashion. Her name hails Bob the Drag Queen, is best known for competing on
from the edginess of Naomi Campbell coupled with the the eighth season of Logo TVs extremely popular series
freshness of Biggie Smalls. As a fashion-obsessed teenager RuPauls Drag Race.
who followed Thierry Mugler, Jean Paul Gaultier, and V
magazine, Naomi entered her first drag competition at 340 After performing for several years in clubs around New
Nightclub. After several months of attempts she finally won York City, she began posting videos of her performances
the competition, gaining the confidence that she could go to YouTube. One of his most popular YouTube videos is the
further with her drag. tutorial How To Make A Shirt Into A Dress. She is a proud
New York City native.
Born Davis Heppenstall in Redlands, California, Naomi has
had to travel to Los Angeles or Riverside to perform, due to This funny girl describes herself as hilarious, beautiful,
the lack of a drag scene at home. She describes herself as talented and humble. And well she might toot her own
bubbly but very chill, and treats everyone as shed want to horn, having perfected her comedic chops hosting drag
be treated. She has an enormous family of 11 brothers and shows six nights a week in Manhattan.
sisters, so she learned early how to cope with teasing and
shade-throwing! She is a finalist for Season 8 of RuPauls Drag Race.
Although she may be young, Naomi is a force to be reckoned

with. Ultra tall and slim, with a keen eye for fashion, she has
a body and heart manufactured for the runway.
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DC Cowboys
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Leslie Jordan is one of the most consistently recognizable of Hollywoods most prestigious, message-minded films of
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stardom has provided one of the quirkier, more varied great notices for his off-Broadway musical theater debut in
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Anywhere you go, there are certain unwritten rules
about how to behave movie theaters, churches,
pretty much any public space. But with the LGBT
community so integrated now, theres more crossover
action than ever with straights going to gay bars and
vice versa. We checked with several local club owners
and entertainers to survey the lay of the land.
Dustin Schaad, who has performed drag as BaNaka for 14 years,
says hes seen an uptick in the number of bachelorette parties
at Town Danceboutique and welcomes them as long as they
conduct themselves appropriately.
As a business person, I welcome the business, Schaad says. I
just let them know up front that we have a few rules. I always
joke with the bachelorettes and tell them, Your pussy has no
power here.This is not a zoo. Its not a giant play space to bounce
around. This is a safe spot for gay people to come and unwind
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and relax. Were all here to have a good time, just dont act crazy.
Jon Parks, manager of Ziegfelds/Secrets, says bachelorette and
straight female birthday parties are an every weekend thing
there. Because of the male nude dancers upstairs at Secrets
and the fact that there are no straight venues for male nude
dancers in the region the gay and straight clientele interact
all the time there.
I would say its about half and half when it comes to problems,
he says. Some [straight people] come in and act perfectly well.
Others come in and act like they own the damn club. They dont
care about the rules, theyre loud and obnoxious and sometimes
come in ridiculously drunk before they even get here because
theyve been drinking in the limousineIm telling you, they can
be rowdy. By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO, Washington Blade
He says it would be disingenuous of gay bar owners and

patrons, though, not to welcome straights. He also says that gay Lombardi says one of the first things she changed at the Phase
customers can cause trouble in equal numbers. upon becoming manager was a previous rule that all men in
the bar had to have a female escort. I knew I wouldnt have
Any bar, theres going to be problems sometimes, Parks says.
appreciated a business that said all gays must have a straight
I have a few people who complain about there being so many
escort or any other variance of that discrimination, she says.
women, but its a business bottom line. Youre serving people
and so everyone should be welcome. We fought too damn long Collin Ranney, who performs widely in the area as Birdie LaCage,
and hard I marched against Anita Bryant in 1975, my ass is old says one of the most common annoyances is straight women
but we fought for this so now that we have so many rights, who take it upon themselves to join drag queens in their
we cant say, Oh, youre not welcome here. I dont buy that routines.
game. We just need everyone to respect the rules of the club.
Dont ever get up to dance on a box or stage unless invited,
Although it seems to be mostly a straight-women-at-gay-bars Ranney says. Just because these rules are unwritten doesnt
phenomenon, former Phase 1 manager Angela Lombardi says mean they dont exist. To the ladies and gentlemen of the hetero
over a decade of working there, she remembers having to persuasion: tip the drag queens, especially if youre in the front.
kick out several creepy dudes who were acting 100 percent Dont linger at the bar, youre in the damn way. And dont stand
inappropriately. on the dance floor. We need all the space to flit, flaunt, and grind.
Yes, there absolutely is etiquette for straight visitors Ranney says that sometimes maintaining or regaining
but I really think most of the rules are the same for straights as control is as simple as looking to the friends of the perpetrator
gays at the end of the day, Lombardi says. Like, dont be a creep. for help.
If someone isnt into you, dont hit on them and be annoying. If
its a straight dude in a dyke bar, his advances are mostly likely I made it clear to her nearby friends that I hadnt invited her
very unwelcome. But the same rule would apply to any patron up, Ranney says of one aspiring straight dancer in April. They
annoying another patron. came and got her down.
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Parks acknowledges other difficulties with large groups of And what about outside the club setting?
straight women. We had to stop taking reservations, he says,
because wed set up these tables for 20 girls. Theyd come Demetri Moshoyannis, a former Washington resident who now
in and Ella [Fitzgerald] usually acknowledges them at the lives in San Francisco and is general manager of the Folsom Street
beginning of the show, but that usually doesnt keep them Fair BDSM event, says although there are inevitably problems
entertained for very long. Shell interact with them, theyll watch anytime the public is involved, overall straight Folsom patrons
a number or two, but then they want to go upstairs where the are mostly respectful and often BDSM enthusiasts themselves.
men are. Theyre only interested in the drag show to be seen and We have people of all gender expressions and sexual
acknowledged. orientations who come to gawk, he says.But Folsom Street Fair
Schaad says the situation has improved over the last few years is the ultimate newcomer experience because there is so much
as hes gotten more up front about the ground rules. He also sexual expression on display. People can come and look without
says its helpful to remind them to pace themselves. commitment to see what they might enjoy back at home. So
looking in and of itself isnt a bad thing. The vast majority of
Its a marathon, not a sprint, he says.I tell them you dont have straight people who do come to Folsom are not there to gawk.
to have all your cosmos or martinis at once. Theyre in attendance to participate fully. If we do have a couple
of trouble makers, they are asked to leave by security.
Ranney also sees signs of improvement.
He says about 80 percent of Folsom patrons are LGBT. Organizers
I think with RuPauls Drag Race bringing drag to the forefront, and patrons have a great relationship with the approximately
many people have a better understanding and appreciation 20 percent of straight attendees, he says.
for drag and what its about. Most people, gays alike, dont
understand the skill it takes to not only create or put together a Were lucky, Moshoyannis says. We have a large, welcoming
look, but to bring it to life as well. and diverse community who can play together for at least one
day of the year on the streets of San Francisco.
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A C T I V I S M

A DOCUMENTARY CASE FOR LGBT RIGHTS BY G. MARTIN MOELLER, JR.
An internal memorandum issued by FBI director J. Edgar arenas, and to educate the media and the public about the
Hoover on June 20, 1951, bore a startling subject line: Sex legacy of animus aimed at sexual minoritiesanimus that
Deviates in Government Service. While the term sex ended careers, ruined reputations, and destroyed lives. The
deviates might seem sensationalistic, at the time it was societys mission may be summed up in two words: Archive
a widely used euphemism for homosexuals. The memo, Activism.
addressed to nearly 50 agents by name along with an
unspecified number of supervisors, established procedures Todays Mattachine Society is a successor to two previous
for recording and disseminating allegations of homosexuality groups of the same name. The first was founded in 1950 in
against government employees. Each Supervisor, the memo Los Angeles by Henry Harry Hay, Jr., a British-born actor and
stated, will be held personally responsible to underline civil rights activist. Hay supposedly named the organization
in green pencil the names of any individuals mentioned in after the Socit Mattachine, a medieval French troupe of
any report, letter, memorandum, newspaper article or other masked playersan allusion to the ways in which modern
communication who are alleged to be sex deviates. A few gay men and lesbians routinely masked their sexual
years later, on April 27, 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower identity in public. Unfortunately, infighting and ongoing
issued Executive Order 10450, which effectively banned debates about the organizations mission led to its demise
homosexuals from federal employment because they within a decade.
allegedly posed a risk to national security.
In 1957, Franklin E. Frank Kameny, a civilian astronomer with
The Hoover memo is among the numerous government the U.S. Army Map Service, was fired after his superiors found
documents that have been uncovered by the Mattachine out that he was gay. Prior to that, the vast majority of people
Society of Washington, DC, a non-profit organization who were fired due to their sexuality had gone quietly,
founded in 2011 that conducts archival research and fearing that any resistance would further damage their
educational programs aimed at exposing the often-vicious reputations. Kameny, by contrast, chose to fight his dismissal.
history of anti-LGBT discrimination. It is important to note He filed a legal appeal that eventually made its way to the
that the society is not digging up musty old documents for U.S. Supreme Court. Although the appeal was unsuccessful,
purely academic purposes. Rather, the group is using these the visibility of the case marked an important milestone in
documents to support fights in the legislative and judicial the nascent fight for LGBT rights.
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In 1961, Kameny co-founded the Mattachine Society of jurists, and legislators. The organization has received valuable
Washington, DC, with John R. Jack Nichols, Jr., a writer and assistance from the prominent law firm of McDermott
son of an FBI agent. Initially conceived as a chapter of the Will & Emery. [The firm] sent out a notice to its staff
national organization based in Los Angeles, the D.C. group saying volunteer if interested, said Francis, and 16 people
was established as a legally independent entity following stepped forward. Asked about the sexual orientations of
the original societys dissolution. Kameny went on to use the the volunteers, all of whom are working on a pro bono basis,
organization as a platform for his tireless advocacy of civil Francis replied, No one really knows or cares who among the
rights for LGBT people. His efforts contributed to the U.S. Civil 16 lawyers are gay or straight.
Service Commissions 1975 decision to lift the ban on gays
and lesbians in government employment. In 2009, Kameny The first priority for Francis and his colleagues was to find out
even received a formal apology from the Army Map Service as much as they could about the federal governments ban
for his dismissal more than a half-century earlier. on LGBT employees and the damage that the ban had caused
to individuals lives and careers. We did a deep dive into the
In 2006, the Library of Congress acquired Kamenys papers National Archives in College Park [Maryland] and in D.C. We
and related memorabilia, numbering more than 70,000 saw the attorneys at the Civil Service Commission and the
items. Charles Francis, a long-time Washingtonian with a OPM [Office of Personnel Management] for decades putting
background in public affairs and consulting, assisted Kameny up resistance to any liberalization of government policies
in preparing for the transfer of documents to the library. By against homosexuals. They encouraged the Department of
the time of Kamenys death in 2011 at the age of 86, the Justice to prosecute any [such] cases. One of the documents
Mattachine Society of Washington, DC, was long defunct. that Francis unearthed was a 1966 memo issued by Civil
Inspired by the experience of sorting through Kamenys Service Commission chairman John W. Macy, Jr., in which
extraordinary papers, however, Francis had a vision for he wrote that one of the main reasons for the ban on
resurrecting the society under a new mission. homosexuals in federal employment was the revulsion of
their fellow employees who would have to sit alongside a
We decided that the legacy of this organization was so noble known pervert.
and so powerful, that we would re-launch it and repurpose
it, Francis said. We want to see what we call the evidentiary With the help of the lawyers at McDermott Will & Emery,
history that gave us the bad old daysthe memos, the the Mattachine Society turned all of that research into an
letters, the emails. We want to find the smoking guns in the amicus briefa document filed in an appellate court by
vaults of the government that labeled us sex deviants, that a non-litigantin the case of Obergefell v. Hodges, which
got us fired, that ruined us. resulted in the 5-4 Supreme Court decision that legalized
same-sex marriage nationwide in 2015. The brief, dubbed the
The new Mattachine Society of Washington, DC, is using that Animus Amicus by the Washington Post, traced the culture
evidentiary history to aid in the writing of informational of prejudice and hatred that had shaped the governments
briefs and educational papers aimed at the legal community, treatment of LGBT people over the decades. The document
MEMBERS OF THE MATTATTCHINE SOCIETY PICKET WASHINGTON DC circa 1965
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FRANK KAMENY (LEFT) AND CHARLES FRANCIS. COURTESY OF CHARLES FRANCIS BARBARA GITTINGS ON THE PICKET LINE circa 1965
argued that governmental bans on marriage equality were to vote. The commissions report to the Rust College board
an outgrowth of that history of animus, and that such resulted in the dismissal of the colleges president.
prohibitions were just as outdated and unjust as the long-
abolished ban on federal employment of gay men and Some of the Mattachine Societys research initiatives involve
lesbians. much more recent events. In partnership with the College
of William and Mary, the society has launched an effort to
The Mattachine Society is building on the success of its role mine libraries throughout the state of Virginia for relevant
in the Obergefell case by digging more deeply into the often- documents. This led to the discovery of documents relating
precarious roles of LGBT people in government. Francis visited to a ban on alcohol sales to known homosexuals in the
the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museumbetter statea law that was on the books until 1991. In that year,
known as the LBJ Presidential Libraryin Austin, Texas, where a Ramada Inn refused to host a reception for William and
he was given access to the files of Johnsons secretary, Mildred Marys Gay & Lesbian Alumni organization (GALA) for fear of
Stegall. Stegalls records included documents relating to the running afoul of the law. GALA sued and won the case.
arrest of Walter Jenkins, a longtime aide to the president,
who was caught having sex with another man in a public Francis and his colleagues are also venturing into archives of
restroom at a Washington YMCA. The arrest occurred just a non-governmental organizations to illuminate other forms
few weeks before the 1964 election, and the administration, of LGBT discrimination and abuse, including discredited
worried about the potential impact on Johnsons campaign, techniques aimed at turning gay men and lesbians straight.
forced Jenkins to resign. Johnsons opponent, Republican We are now putting together the evidentiary history to
Barry Goldwater, pounced on the scandalhis campaign support efforts across the country to ban conversion therapy,
printed bumper stickers bearing sly references to Jenkins Francis noted. I would add that the American Psychological
arrestbut the public seemed to shrug it off, and Johnson Association has granted us access to their archives here in
won in a landslide. Washington and at Cornell University. We will be looking at
psychologists who were wrong and recanted, and those who
Another research project of the Mattachine Society has were wrong and never recanted.
exposed an incident at the historically black Rust College
in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964. That The new Mattachine Society of Washington, DC, has achieved
year, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, a state- a great deal in just five years, and yet Francis feels that the
funded anti-desegregation group, launched an investigation group has only just begun to uncover documents that will tell
into homosexuals and oddballs among the college faculty. the difficult stories of LGBT history, while perhaps helping to
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Capital Pride turns 41 this year. Against the odds, weve professional counselor and psychotherapist, and for the
made it to middle age! By most measures, the LGBTQ last ten years Ive worked at the intersection of HIV, mental
movement for civil rights and inclusion has progressed health, and substance abuse, as a therapist, manager and
more rapidly than most other civil rights movements in program director. Ive loved working with clients and staff,
history. Marriage equality, military inclusion, and the and I see this new role as a natural next step in continuing to
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This progress didnt happen by magic. It happened because productivity; its about doing. Yes, its a time to look back, take
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forefathers and mothersmany of them gone way too discern the path forward and re-commit to the great work
soon, and many, thankfully, still around to keep teaching ahead. As a community weve come a long way and yet there
us. That so many of us have the opportunity to make it to is still so very much to do.
middle age (myself includedsigh) is in no small part due
to their incredible efforts. I stand on their shoulders in my We need to make sure that the transgender community
new role as Director of Community Relations at Whitman- continues to be lifted up and that the recent backlash is
Walker Health. And I have big shoes to fill. Justin Goforth, halted. We need to ensure that queer youth grow up in a sex-
my predecessor, served as an excellent community builder positive and gender-inclusive world. We need to prepare the
and ambassador in his many roles at Whitman-Walker way for LGBTQ seniors and ensure that there are systems to
over the years. I hope I can do the same. support them. And, perhaps most urgently, we need to bring
biomedical HIV prevention like pre-exposure prophylaxis
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of interviews, broadcasts, musical
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recordings that were saved over the
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the local LGBT community, including
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RADIO FOR AND BY THE GAY COMMUNITY BY THE RAINBOW HISTORY PROJECT been able to identify who this woman
Bruce Pennington, Producer of WGTB-FMs gay radio show. Image courtsey of The Rainbow History Project was. Googling different spellings of
The D.C.-based Friends radio program was one of the her name has been unsuccessful, but perhaps one of her
earliest and longest-running gay-themed radio shows in contemporaries will access her recordings from their home
the country.Friends, which aired from 1973 to 1982, was the computer and give us the missing puzzle pieces. The most
key public forum in D.C. to hear the voices of the emerging exciting thing about Friends radio and the digital age is all
gay presence. With an hour of programming each week, of the new tools that help us leverage community memory
episodes covered progressive issues that our community to write our history, said the RHPs director of archiving,
still discusses today: gays in the federal government, gay Vincent Slatt.
parenting, policing, racial discrimination, and misogyny.
This is our heritage and we want it to be told the way
Friends was radio for and by the gay community and it really was, said Cassandra Ake, RHPs director of
it welcomed well-known figures like Frank Kameny, Eva communications. Our archiving efforts on this project are
Freund, Divine, and many more. Friends radio, hosted giving us a way forward on future large collections, such
on WGTB-FM, was unafraid to tackle topics of interest as Cheryl Spectors two decades of video from local LGBT
to the gay and lesbian community, often in the face of events. Were so excited by the wealth of material here,
considerable opposition. Frank discussions of gay rights but we can only complete our projects with your help.
and political change led to Spiro Agnews dubbing the
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and the eventual closing down of that radio station and a opportunities, please contact: vincent@rainbowhistory.
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Every generation has its passions, Ramos confirmed that, Sometimes it is just the little things
that make a difference, and if thats all I can do, then I feel it
its focus, its soundtrack, and has is worth it.
its causes. Youth have a great home in DC, said Brant Miller, program
manager at the DC Center for the LGBT Community.
My activism started on a November evening in State College, Although there are still many challenges, there are also
Pennsylvania. Friends had invited me to a dinner party, but many opportunities to celebrate our milestones and our
it was a college dinner party, which meant pizza, Boones progress, not just at Pride, but all year long.
Farm, and board games. The evening did not go as planned. Miller pointed out that youth are becoming more involved
When we arrived at the house, which was filled with friends and engaged in volunteering for outreach and educational
of friends, we learned that one of the housemates had been initiatives, determined to continue the progress of the LGBTQ
taken to the hospital a few hours prior to our arrival. They movement.
werent entirely sure what was wrong with himwhether
it was just the flu or if their friend from New York City was Like so many others, my involvements and interests have
suffering from the gay cancer with the relatively new changed over the years, from working closely with the
name, AIDS. Matthew Shepard Foundation in the early 1990s to raise
awareness about youth issues in our schools, to the problem
Although I had never met him, the night was filled with of LGBT teen homelessness in America for the documentary
stories of this handsome and lively guy from New York who OUT in the Cold, and currently profiling how gays and lesbians
everyone loved. He was out and proud, something I wasnt at are building their families through the foster adoption
the time. He could make friends quickly, and was popular in system for the Huffington Post.
this large college community.
As the years pass, and with each cause that I get involved
As the night progressed and it got late, most of us decided to with, I see one thing that is consistent, and that is the power
stay at the house until the morning. I was given his room to of those who care and dare to make a change in someone
sleep in. As I lay on his bed, on the very sheets he had been elses life.
on just a few hours before, my mind raced about how this
great guy had gotten so sick, so fast. The truth was that I was Lamar Trowers, age 21 and a volunteer at the DC Center,
a little scared just being on his bedthere was so much we explained that he just wanted to give back. So many people
didnt know at the time, not only about the disease, but how have helped me, and I wanted to find a way to return the
it was transmitted. generosity in any way that I can, and to help others. Trowers
is an asylum-seeker from Jamaica and his life has been
The next morning brought the news that he had not made it changed by the resources and other volunteers at the DC
through the night. He was gone. But my life was just starting. Center.
Quickly I became more involved in what was happening to
gay men everywhere as a generation was being destroyed by Volunteering not only helps develop critical skills for young
a mysterious killer. AIDS became the spark that lit the fire in people, but educates them about the world around them,
many youth of the 1980s to become activists and volunteers. and more importantly connects the hands, head, and heart.
While the causes may have changed, the passions remain My friends have faced a lot of bullying and harassment,
that inspire youth to be involved in their communities and to and when people you are close to are deeply affected for
make a change in the world around them, or in the individual no reason, you want to get involved and make a difference,
next to them. said Dorian Gomez, a 22-year-old straight volunteer who
dedicates her free time to the queer community. Ive always
The LGBT movement is the biggest social cause of my thought it is important to be active, and not just Facebook
lifetime, and being able to be a part of it and making a active, but really do things that matter.
difference, even a small difference, is important to me, said
Ricardo Ramos, a 23-year-old from Mexico who now lives Gomez believes that we have made great progress, but
in the United States. When I started attending college in worries that mainstream society thinks the fight is over. She
Florida, I became involved with the campus [LGBT] group, noted that, Marriage is just one step in equality. Society
then got active in the NoH8 Campaign. There were a lot of thinks we got marriage, so everything is ok, but its not. There
young people there and a lot of enthusiasm to continue to are still places where LGBT people are harassed on the streets
get involved and stay active in helping to create change. or even in the bathroomjust look at what is happening to
Ramos acknowledges those who have fought for his freedom trans people. It is frustrating and there is still work to be
in the past, and he has resolved to continue the progress. done.
He also has become a volunteer for GLAAD and at a recent Ramos is also concerned about the treatment of trans
event met a trans man who was feeling awkward, shy, and and bisexual individuals. We are supposed to be the LGBT
out-of-place. Determined to put him at ease, Ramos struck community, but it seems like there is still a stigma to being
up a conversation, introduced him to more volunteers, and bisexual, like it is a phase or stage that people are going
refused to leave his side until he had a smile on his face. through. And the fact that there is still not full inclusion of
I N V O LV E M E N T
THE POWER OF YOUTH MAKING A DIFFERENCE By Eric Criswell

trans people shows that there is still progress to be made. Gomez agrees that there should be more involvement, not
Even though things are getting better, we can do more. Its just with youth, but with everyone. She also realizes that it
funny, weve been fighting for all these years for our rights, is usually hard to get people engaged unless an issue affects
but we are also fighting with each other. them on a personal level. My involvement really started with
my dad. We had a relative who died of AIDS in the early 1990s,
Trowers, who volunteers on the support desk for the DC and it devastated my family. My dad was always a cyclist, so
Center, loves the work he does, but has been surprised by the he began raising money and doing the AIDS LifeCycle. When
number of people who need help. There are so many people I was old enough, he suggested that it might be something I
of all ages who are dealing with violence or have been kicked
out of their homes, or are abusing themselves with drugs or would enjoy; now its something we do every year.
alcohol. The work is never really done, and Trowers wish is Many of us use this time of year to celebrate the victories
to inspire others to get involved and help make a difference. and advances we have made in recent years, but it is also a
While it is true that many of my generation, and those before, time to reflect on where we have come from as a community
have become less involved in volunteering as life, family, and as individuals. There are still causes to fight for and
careers, and commitments have ebbed and flowed into our opportunities to change lives dramatically by giving, no
hours and days, there is hope in the generations that follow. matter how much, some of our time and attention; whether
you are young, or young at heart.
Miller knows that DC Pride is a great time to raise awareness
about opportunities for youth to be involved, and capitalizes Ramos summed it up best: What I hope to get out of
on the unique positioning of being between Virginia and volunteering is to learn and become more familiar with
Maryland and pulling from a wide variety of backgrounds LGBTQ history and meet people and leave a mark or make a
and communities. The Center has been fortunate to have difference in any way, shape, or form that I can, even if its just
groups of youth that organize and help us throughout the a smile to make someones day better.
year, but each year Pride helps us get the word out about our
services, needs, and opportunities to help, he said.
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people who are sex workers and others.
And there are real challenges there to
realizing PrEPs promise for everybody.
PrEP is becoming a core part of discussion

between an HIV-negative gay man and
his doctorand thats just one aspect of
care that a doctor should know to give
when attending to a gay patient. And
soon enough in D.C., LGBT-competent
doctors will. Earlier this year, the D.C.
Council passed a bill, signed into law by
Mayor Muriel Bowser, requiring that all
licensed, certified and registered health
care professionals in the District receive
specific training in the health challenges
and needs of LGBT people.
Even with so many advances in LGBT

equality in recent years, Bruner says, far
too many of our patients, particularly
those who are trans, come to us with
horror stories about mis-gendering,
gawking, offensive remarks, and other
forms of dehumanizing maltreatment
by health care professionals who should
know better.
Taking Action
1. Push for a More Holistic Approach to Serving the Marginalized

for 30 years. We have PrEP, which is not only great because Were always trying to find the next thing that will solve
its very effective, but also it can be an entree point for folks a communitys issues, according to HIPSs Jinadasa. The
who were not getting care. [It can be] a way for them to get thing is, these communities are so marginalized and have so
health care for other issues they may have, whether it be much thats taken from themthey need it all. They need
depression, whether it be high cholesterol, whether it be just radical rethinking of the way that we support a community.
getting a regular check-up, or just getting tested regularly. We cant just give someone a job and expect them to get on
Some have suggested that the rise in use of PrEP, in which their feet and move out. We cant just give someone housing
HIV negative patients take the antiviral drug Truvada daily and expect them to figure out how to survive. We need all of
to act as a preventive, has been followed with a rise in rates those things, and we really need tostart thinking of people
of other sexually transmitted infections, or STIsa result as whole human beings, not just disproportionate, disjointed
of some users relaxing other safer-sex practices. Yet Jain parts that we can fix individually. And sex work and drug use
essentially refutes that. are parts of that for a lot of folks in our community.
Nationally its been more or less stable, as far as I know, in 2. Decriminalize Sex Work; Consider Sex Workers Health Affiliates
terms of syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhea, Jain says. There Decriminalization, according to Jinadasa, is something that
may have been small increaseswhether or not theyre makes sense on the public level. I think its something that
related to PrEP is debatable, I think, but I dont believe we makes sense on a rights-based level. I think it makes sense on a
have seen an increase in STIs here. As a condition of going labor level. I think it makes sense from a racial justice and LGBT
on PrEP, users get re-tested every three months for HIV, and justice level. I think that if we can all come together to really
some also tack on tests for STIs at the same time, meaning think about whats best for D.C., decriminalization is a natural
that many PrEP users are getting tested more regularly and response to a lot of those calls for justice in our community. And
more often than they did before they started the regimen. sex workers should be tapped for their insights and outreach,
Some small increase in STI rates could be explained by that. particularly when it comes to sexual health and HIV/AIDS.
Yet PrEP is not as widely used as it ultimately needs to be. 3. PrEP to Improve Health, Doctor-Patient Relations
Thats one of the real challenges, says Whitman-Walkers From conversations Ive had with our doctors and nurse
Daniel Bruner, making inroads [beyond] the middle practitioners, says Jain, the ability for a gay man to go
class, professional class, more educated people with good to his doctor and talk about his sex life in an open and
insurance. The epidemic is particularly still virulent among nonjudgmental setting is incredibly powerful, and I think
young gay and bisexual men of color, transgender women, it enables a connection to be had between the doctor and
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patient that is really important [and]
helpful. The challenge is to get PrEP in
wider use, especially among young men
of color and sex workers.
4. Advocate for DCs Cultural Competency

Law as a Model for the Country
A coalition of health care providers
and advocates, including Whitman-
Walker Health, helped ensure passage
in the D.C. Council of the LGBTQ Cultural
Competency Continuing Education
Amendment Act of 2016, the first of its
kind in the nation. This coalition and
others should help tout this bill as a
model for other jurisdictions around
the country to adopt, in addition to
assisting the Department of Health in
developing the curricula and ensuring
proper implementation.
CONCLUSION
Despite the persistence and widespread

fear-mongering of conservatives, the
LGBT movement has made great strides
over the past few decades. Once, not
long ago, gays and lesbians were hardly
ever seen in publicand then only in a High School bullying remains a serious issue for LGBT youth
negative lightand our sexual practices, including sodomy, North Carolinians by a Raleigh TV station, 56 percent of
were illegal, even in the privacy of ones own home. Now, respondents said that they agree with the provision of
we regularly see LGBT people out and proud, in positions of the anti-LGBT law requiring transgender individuals to
power and held in popular esteem. We can legally wed our use the bathroom of their birth; the alternative does pose
beloved as well as serve and fight for our country openly a security risk for women and children, they agreed with
and honestly. And although not without some difficulty, for anti-LGBT legislators. The good news, as far as it goes, is
the most part we can adopt children and raise a family with that only 38 percent of respondents supported the law,
minimal complications if we so choose. with 50 percent opposed. And 52 percent said that gay,
lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals should be
Yet serious problems remain, beyond our detractors efforts protected against discrimination.
to demonize and discriminate against us, which helps fuel a
sense of rage that can easily lead to bullying and brutality More good news, if you take the long view: Aside from
as well as provoke thoughts of suicide, especially among The Crying Game, Boys Dont Cry and Chaz Bono in the
LGBT youth. Other specific issues that need to be addressed 1990s, transgender people didnt truly enter the public
include the large percentage of D.C.s LGBT youth who are consciousness until just a few years ago. By comparison,
homeless, and a long-term/assisted care industry so biased it took at least a decade after the AIDS epidemic had
towards the straight, traditional family that the prospect of thrust gay men into the spotlight before people started
having to live there, according to Daniel Bruner of Whitman- coming around to accepting us. Its hard to say if this is
Walker Health, is pretty scaryeven here. tracking differently from L and G acceptance, says Andy
Garcia of the Equality Federation, but the T is coming
If nothing else, aside from the need to counter anti-LGBT along. Were on a trajectory towards people gaining that
conservatives, here and overseas, and whenever and familiarity, and were seeing a real pushback to it. Its an
wherever possible, a key takeaway should be that we need issue that is on a lot of peoples minds, and theyre talking
to get to know better our transgender brothers and sisters. about it. And as much as trans people are really hurting
Despite what some politicians are saying, theyre hardly right now, I think ultimately theyre growing pains.
perverted predators, ready to pounce on unsuspecting And I hope that were moving on the path to greater
women trying to pee in peace. In fact, as Sasanka Jinadasa understanding. But that remains to be seen.
of HIPS explains, trans women are the ones who are
most likely to be sexually or physically assaulted on the
streets or in public spaces. Nonetheless, in an April poll of
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THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF THE CHANGING DC LESBIAN SCENE
Washington, D.C., has always been a city of new and old, of Hung Jury, JoAnnas, The Hill Haven, and more recently, Chaos.
history and relevancy. While most people know D.C. for its Nevertheless, the bar scene is not for everyone.
monuments and politicians, it has also been one of the fastest Before the internet, people in the community connected with
growing and most quickly gentrifying cities in the nation, with each other through print media. On top of long-standing
a majority of the recent influx coming from millennials. The publications like the Washington Blade and Metro Weekly, D.C.
dichotomy that this has provided has been glaringly obvious has been home to grassroots publications like Off Our Backs
among queer women and the ever-changing lesbian social and Blacklight. As more women found positive representations
scene. of themselves in the written word, womens bookstores grew
in popularity. Establishments such as Lammas and Sister Space
Recently, I got a chance to speak with Dr. Bonnie Morris of provided a safe haven for women to discuss issues important
the Rainbow History Project. Morris is a professor of womens to them, like custody battles or sexual assault.
studies at both Georgetown and George Washington
universities. She has been part of D.C.s lesbian community for As the community came together, womens discussions also
many decades and is the author of The Bar Notebooks and The started at places like the Gay Womens Alternative or the
Disappearing L, and recently gave a presentation at the Library Thursday night discussion group at the Washington Area
of Congress called Lost Lesbian Spaces. Womens Center. That thing rocked, exclaimed Morris, who
went to the group for 18 years.Women talked about everything
Though many younger women are unaware of it, D.C. has going on in their lives. Sex, their parents, getting out of the
played a large role in lesbian history. Throughout that history, military, and racism. It was totally racially diverse. There were
women in Washington have found new and creative ways to women with disabilities who talked about having sex, there
connect. were women who were very devout and conflicted, and then
One obvious way to meet women in the community has been women who practiced Wicca. There were women who talked
through the bar scene. This past year, we saw the closing of about the backlash against female athletes. It was just terrific.
Phase 1, the longest continuously running lesbian bar in the As we came together, another evolution occurred in the
nation. However, long before that, D.C. has been home to womens music scene. It all started here with Olivia Records.
lesbian or lesbian-friendly places like Tracks, The Other Side, The
Make Magic Happen
An enormous contributor to the queer womens and trans
communities has been the D.C. Kings, a diverse group of
individuals who did male impersonation. The D.C. Kings started
at Chaos and created a culture of kinging that lasted for more
than a decade. Even though founder Ken Vegas retired the D.C.
Kings last year, kinging still remains incredibly relevant to the
scene with Pretty Boi Drag and events like F*CK BRUNCH.
Over the last decade, as more womens spaces and venues
closed down, there has been an emergence of womens nights
at various venues. While the Ladies of LURe and BARE have had
a monthly party at Cobalt for the last seven years, there have
been the recent additions of GlittHER and the Coven. Although
these parties have been a great way to socialize, it can still be
frustrating not to have a womens-only space to go any night of
the week. Even as turnout at community events continues to be
an ongoing issue, these monthly parties pull in a consistently
large crowd.
I spoke with friends Katie Adams and Emillie DeBoissiere about
the way lesbians have started connecting in the last few years.
So much socializing happens online through Instagram and
Snapchat, and most dating now happens through apps like
Tinder or Bumble. Bumble was started by women who left
Tinder, explains Adams, The nice thing is that in order to
chat, the woman must initiate the conversation. Though this
might cause issues with genderqueer folks and it still leaves
the opportunity to be harassed by other women, it does seem
to help create a safe space for women to meet, date, or create
friendships.
DeBoissiere, speaking specifically about the D.C. lesbian scene,
explains that these days, it is all about how far you can cast
your social net. Women meet and start friend groups and then
BY JADE SALAZAR, Tagg Magazine work on expanding those circles. These days, its all about
The women who founded Olivia were part of a household of trying to be as socially relevant in as many groups as possible.
The scene is all about bringing the online connections to the
radical feminists called the Furies Collective, explained Morris.
Olivia Records, which would later become the foundation womens parties. That is how a lot of people date now, they
for the Olivia cruise line, was started as a way to hear more meet up at the parties. They come with their friends and you
womens voices in music. The womens music scene continued come with yours and the party provides a space to get to know
to thrive and grow into groups like Sweet Honey in The Rock each other.
and music festivals like D.C.s Sisterfire. Though our community still has plenty of issues to solve,
As the scene became more radical and political, women started especially when you take into account intersectionality
to meet each other through rallies, dyke marches, and other the concept that oppressive attitudes and institutions are
forms of political activism. D.C. was home to four major marches interconnectedin recent years, we seem to have gotten to
for LGBTQ rights and visibility from 1979 to 2000, as well as a place where we can take a step back, breathe, and reflect.
pride festivals and candlelight vigils. Lesbian activism was also Though many people have talked about the mainstreaming of
seen in collectives like the Lesbian Avengers, who famously ate gay culture and how that is especially detrimental to womens
fire in front of the White House. And, in recent years, activism spaces, I have witnessed older women stepping out of the
focused largely around issues such as Dont Ask, Dont Tell activist roles to settle down and just live, while the younger
and gay marriage. generation does not seem to be filled with the same fire that
brought so many women together and powered so many
Changing attitudes in society have been mirrored within the movements. But even though the terrain is quickly changing,
queer womens community. For example, Morris said, it was a I do not think we have seen the death of an active lesbian
significant shift when women started taking selfies in bars. I community. As we grow and change and assimilate, there will
remember being shocked because before, you were not allowed always be a need for queer women to connect with each other
to bring cameras into these bars because everyone thought you not only to date, but to share life experiences, grow confidence
were CIA or FBI. She recalled the change happening in 2001 in our identities, and continue to remind ourselves that we
when women were allowed to take pictures in Chaos. Before come from centuries of history, struggle, perseverance, and
that, patrons had to check their bags and cameras at the door. community.
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General LGBTA Organizations / Faith-Based Organizations and 7 p.m.; the Capitol Stage Concert and Sunset Dance Party will
continue on the Capitol Stage until 9:30 p.m. The United States
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Information Booth / Dupont Dance Tent and Beverage Garden hundreds of performances from local and national entertainers,
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Sports Village / Health and Wellness / Political The Family Area and Kids Fun Zone has been expanded and moved
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Travel & Leisure / Family Area / Capitol Stage enjoy the inflatable water slide, moon bounce, and other fun family
activities.
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The festival is family friendly. must be consumed inside the fenced area; absolutely no beverages
However, due to large crowds (including water) may be taken into or outside of the fenced area.
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request PETS STAY AT HOME. Live street performers, cashless beverage garden payments, new
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preloaded wristband that you can use at the bar by tapping your
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PRIDE IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL 2016

VICE PRESIDENTIAL SPONSORS

Cover Photo: TMD Enterprises

Printed in the USA on recycled stock by:

ROEBUCK & SON, INC.

6 Make Magic Happen

DENIS LARGERON | PHOTOGRAPHIE

As we begin this wonderful event, we are

THE OFFICIAL GUIDE TO CAPITAL PRIDE 2016 7

6 Masthead | Contributors 60 Festival Headliners

Welcome To Pride Make Magic Happen

Pride Information 102 Serious Sports

68 2016 Partipants 132 Frank Kameny House

135 Dupont and Monument Stages 144 Almost Forty

The accomplishments and progress

DENIS LARGERON | PHOTOGRAPHIE

THE OFFICIAL GUIDE TO CAPITAL PRIDE 2016 9

PRESENTING SPONSOR FINISH LINE PARTY PREMIER SPONSOR CHARITY PARTNERS

PRIDE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Make Magic Happen

2016 PRODUCERS PARADE FLOAT 2016 PRIDE

REDEFINE HOW YOU TRAVEL

Travel downtown to downtown

Amtrak is a registered service mark of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation.

Make Magic Happen 27

FRIDAY, JUNE 3 ,7PM

DC Bike Party Metro: RedNoMa/Gallaudet U

SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 6PM

Out/Spoken Metro: Green/YellowU Street/African-American Civil War Memorial/Cardozo

Make Magic Happen

NEIGHBOURS wItH BENEfItS

explore The benefiTs aT mtl.org/blog

SUMMER POP-OFF &

SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 10PM - 3AM

Summer Pop-Off & Volunteer Kick Off

SUNDAY FUNDAY PRIDE DRAG BRUNCH

SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 12PM - 3PM

Sunday Fun Day Brunch

Make Magic Happen

SUNDAY, JUNE 5, GATE: 3PM, GAME: 4PM

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Delhaize America Is Proud to Stand

THE OFFICIAL GUIDE TO CAPITAL PRIDE 2016 31

Hosted by: Joshua Morgan

Musis In The Night Special Guests:

MUSIC IN THE NIGHT PRESENTED BY THE HAMILTON LIVE

Make Magic Happen

InterFaith Service for

WOMENS NIGHT OF EXPRESSION (SPOKEN WORD)

TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 8PM 11PM

Women Night of Expression capitalpride.org/event/womenexpress

MENS SEATED SPEED DATING

TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 7PM - 9PM

GayMensSeated Speed Dating

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 6PM - 8PM

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 7PM - 9PM

WomensSeated Speed Datng

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 8:00PM - 10:00PM

ROOFTOP POOL PARTY AND RALLY PRESENTED BY

THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 7PM 10PM

Rooftop Pool Party and Rally

DC FRONT RUNNERS PRIDE RUN 5K

FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 7PM