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PATRICK WOJAHN
LO CA L N E W S Y E A R I N RE V I E W
transgender.
OHR said the testing consisted of
sending 200 made up cover letters
and resumes prepared by OHR to 38
employers that advertised 50 individual
job openings. One set of cover letters
and resumes were written to give
the impression the applicant was a
transgender person, with the other set
portraying the applicant as cisgender.
Details of the study along with its
nding are compiled in a 28-page report
called Qualied and Transgender: A
Report on Results of Resume Testing for
Employment Discrimination Based on
Gender Identity.
JAMYRA GALLMON
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EPISCOPAL, PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCHES TAKE STEP
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LAWMAKERS INTRODUCE
EQUALITY ACT
After failing to pass the Employment
Non-Discrimination Act since 1994,
lawmakers raised the bar this year
for LGBT federal non-discrimination
protections by introducing the Equality
Act. The legislation, introduced by Rep.
David Cicilline (D-R.I.) in the U.S. House
and Sen. Je Merkley (D-Ore.) in the
Senate, would expand the Civil Rights
Act and Fair Housing Act to include
protections based on sexual orientation,
R ECORD NUMBER OF
ANTI-TRANS MURDERS
A record number of at least 21
transgender people were killed in the
United States this year, raising concerns
about the dangers transgender people
continue to face.
Many of the transgender people
murdered were women of color. One
of the victims Zella Ziona, 21, was shot
multiple times in the head and body
behind a shopping center in Gaithersburg,
Md., allegedly by her boyfriend Rico
Hector LeBlond.
Another victim, 66-year-old K.C.
Haggard, was killed in Fresno, Calif., after
someone driving a vehicle beckoned her
over and shot her dead.
In response to the violence, members
of Congress formed a nine-member
bipartisan Transgender Equality Task
Force. Chairing the group is Rep.
Mike Honda, who has a transgender
granddaughter.
The task force kicked o with a
congressional forum in which transgender
advocates testied about the need for
greater police sensitivity to transgender
issues, data collection on transgender
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JOLTS LGBT MOVEMENT
Following
a
years-long
string
of victories, the LGBT community
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Neither a federal appeals court, nor the
Supreme Court, would lift the order upon
her request for a stay pending appeal.
But Davis continued to deny licenses.
One of the plainti same-sex couples
came to her oce seeking a marriage
license, but she refused to give one
to them, citing Gods authority. U.S.
District Judge David Bunning found her in
contempt of court and placed her in jail
for several days.
Upon her release, she appeared at
a rally with former Arkansas Gov. Mike
Huckabee and other supporters who
celebrated her deance. The anti-LGBT
Family Research Council awarded Davis
its Cost of Discipleship award during the
annual Values Voter Summit in D.C.
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C AITLYN JENNER
COMES OUT AS TRANS
Amid rising transgender visibility,
TV personality and Olympic decathlon
gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner publicly
transitioned and became the most highprole transgender gure in the country.
For months, media reports and
paparazzi photos raised questions about
whether Jenner was transitioning. Jenner
conrmed that was her intent during an
interview with ABCs Diane Sawyer as
she maintained male pronouns and her
former name, Bruce Jenner.
Jenner revealed herself under her new
name in a cover spread for Vanity Fair,
which was captioned Call Me Caitlyn.
Upon receipt of the Arthur Ashe Courage
Award at ESPNs annual ESPYS dinner,
Jenner said she could take the ridicule
aimed at her, but transgender youth may
not be as strong.
She also began to star in the reality TV
series I Am Cait, which focused on her
transition and placed her among other
rising transgender stars like Laverne Cox
of Orange Is the New Black and Jamie
Clayton of Sense8.
Although Jenner has sought to draw
attention to issues facing the transgender
community, she remains controversial
because shes a Republican, is seen as
too auent to represent transgender
people and made controversial remarks
for which she later apologized about
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VLADIMIR PUTIN
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L GBT ADVOCATES
CRITICIZE TPP DEAL
Advocates in 2015 sharply criticized a
controversial trade agreement between
the U.S. and 11 Pacic Rim countries
because it does not include LGBT-specic
protections.
Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan,
Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru,
Singapore, the U.S. and Vietnam would
join the Trans-Pacic Partnership if the
countries ratify it.
Consensual same-sex sexual relations
remain illegal in Brunei, Malaysia and
Singapore.
Brunei in 2014 began to implement
a new legal code based on Sharia
law that punishes those convicted of
homosexuality by stoning them to death.
Malaysias highest court in February
upheld former Deputy Prime Minister
Anwar Ibrahims conviction under the
countrys anti-sodomy law.
TPP fails the test for important LGBT
concerns, said Pride at Work Executive
Director Jerame Davis in November after
the text of the trade agreement was
released.
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R USSIA CONTINUES
LGBT CRACKDOWN
The Kremlin in 2015 continued its
crackdown on LGBT rights.
A judge in January convicted the
founder of a website for LGBT youth of
violating the countrys law that bans the
promotion of so-called gay propaganda
to minors.
A U.N. budget committee in March
overwhelmingly rejected a resolution
sponsored by Russia that sought to
overturn Secretary-General Ban Kimoons decision to extend spousal
benets to gay U.N. personnel who are
legally married.
Two Russian lawmakers in October
introduced a bill that critics contend
would eectively ban gays and lesbians
from coming out. A Russian newspaper
last month reported U.S. ocials ordered
a prominent LGBT rights advocate to
discredit Kremlin ocials.
The newspaper based its report on a
fake letter between Special U.S. Envoy
for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons
Randy Berry and Nikolai Alexeyev.
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Cuban President Ral Castro, in May
organized a series of events in Cuba to
commemorate the International Day
Against Homophobia and Transphobia.
Hundreds of advocates from across Latin
America gathered in the Honduran capital
of Tegucigalpa for a conference the Gay
and Lesbian Victory Fund co-sponsored.
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President
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DAVID GERARD won the Mr. Mid-Atlantic Leather 2015 title on Jan. 18.; SHANGELA of RuPauls Drag Race performed at Town Danceboutique on Feb.
25.; an LGBT contingent marched in the Saint Patricks Day Parade for the rst time on March 15.; marriage equality advocates rallied in front of the
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the sixth annual 17th Street Festival brought bands, performers and booths to Kameny Way on Sept. 12.; the 29th annual High Heel Race brought
costumed competitors and thousands of spectators to 17th Street on Oct. 27.; a wreath-laying ceremony was held for LGBT veterans at Congressional
Cemetery on Nov. 11.; the Gay Mens Chorus of Washington held its holiday show, ReWrapped, at Lincoln Theatre over two weekends in December.
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Set the motherfucker on re! That recent call by a Donald Trump rally-goer
concerning a black protester, with another
attendee yelling Sieg heil, illustrates the
viciousness fueling Trumps presidential
campaign. If you take this lightly, Google
lynching. It is not just that what happened
in Europe in the last century could happen
here; what happened here could happen
again. Trumps incitements, and those of his
rivals, do not just pander to intolerance, they
spray gasoline on the re.
Hate-spewing demagogues were not the
years only newsmakers, but they produced
its most dangerous legacy. The demons they
unleashed cannot easily be tamed. But the
haters cannot win the general election unless the rest of us allow it. Before we head
ing that our struggle is not about personalities. We should resist pointless arguments
like whether she deserved Glamours Woman of the Year award. Alas, those who hurl
men in dresses slurs got an assist from
Jenner, who used the expression herself. A
private intervention by experienced trans
activists might be in order.
In healthcare, CDC data show that pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) taken daily reduces
sexually transmitted HIV infection risk by more
than 90 percent. But CDC also reports a nearly
87 percent increase in new HIV infections
among black and Latino gay and bisexual
youth. At-risk populations must be informed
about and provided this life-saving treatment.
LGBT cultural visibility continued with
lms like Carol and The Danish Girl, and with
the Broadway triumph of Fun Home, based
on the graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel.
Jennifer Hudson made I Still Love You, a
beautiful music video with an interracial gay
theme. The Gay Mens Chorus of Washington made an historic trip to Cuba.
President Obamas even-tempered persistence led to diplomatic breakthroughs on
blocking Iranian nuclear weapons, combating climate change, and resuming diplomatic relations with Cuba. Irish voters strongly
approved marriage equality, rejecting admonitions by the Catholic Church. Free and
Equal, a United Nations campaign for LGBT
equality, highlighted the cost of homophobia and transphobia. LGBT people from Colombia to Uganda continued to face violent
repression.
On Veterans Day, LGBT veterans and
other activists dedicated Frank Kamenys
memorial stone in Congressional Cemetery,
four years after the gay rights pioneers
death. Also honoring the past was a rejuvenated Mattachine Society of Washington,
originally founded by Kameny, now led by
Charles Francis and dedicated to archive
activism. (Note: I am the groups secretary.)
One of its 2015 discoveries was a document
in the Reagan presidential library showing that Nancy Reagan refused to help
her friend Rock Hudson get admitted to a
French hospital when he was dying of AIDS
in 1985. Gathering and preserving evidence
is as crucial in documenting our past as in
moving forward, as with the D.C.-area needs
assessment study released in November by
the DC Trans Coalition.
Like African Americans, women, immigrants, and religious minorities before us,
LGBT people have faced a backlash ever
since we rst stood up for ourselves. Organizations come and go, and the focus of our
eorts changes; but the work of democracy
continues.
Copyright 2015 by Richard J. Rosendall.
All rights reserved.
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Lobby a religious exemption from the contraceptive coverage mandate of the Aordable Health Care Actraised the specter of a
religious exemption from anti-discrimination
laws. But the majority decision attempted to
quell those concerns and did not provide businesses with a free pass to out anti-discrimination laws in the name of religion.
More recently, when the Supreme Court
held in Obergefell that same-sex couples
have an equal protection right to marry, local
government ocialslike the now infamous
county clerk, Kim Davishad to enforce that
right regardless of whether it was consistent
with their personal religious beliefs.
Schools that receive federal money should
likewise be required to enforce Title IXs nondiscrimination mandate regardless of their
religious tenets.
And, if you ask me, discrimination is not a
Christian tenet.
ADELE KIMMEL is senior attorney at Public
Justice. She is a national expert on school
bullying litigation and spearheaded Public
Justices Anti-Bullying Campaign.
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ADAM IMMERWAHR
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
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Theater J has a new artistic director. Adam Immerwahr started last month
from the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, N.J., where he lived for about
10 years.
He arrives at an interesting juncture for the famed Jewish Community
Center theater, which drew heavy media attention last year about this time
when long-time artistic director Ari Roth was red (the ocial reason given
was insubordination; he claimed artistic censorship; hes now busy at his
new company Mosaic).
Immerwahr says the proceedings were not a major concern for him.
I wasnt here so I dont have much to say about it, says the 33-yearold Swarthmore, Pa., native. There was an extensive search process
which gave me ample opportunity to ask questions. I feel condent that
all involved are eager to see Theater J remain a bold, imaginative, political,
personal and joyful theater that engages with some of the most pressing
issues of our time.
Immerwahrs priorities are, that we be a theater of joy and delight placing
artistic excellence above all else. He also says hes utterly elated to join the
theater.
Immerwahr is looking for an apartment in the Dupont or Logan areas. Hes
in Capitol Hill for now. Hes single and enjoys cooking and bike riding in his
free time.
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Silver Spring.
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TODAY
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SATURDAY, JAN. 2
Burgundy Crescent, a gay volunteer
organization, volunteers for Food and
Friends (219 Riggs Rd., N.E.) today from
8-10 a.m. Volunteers will chop vegetables
and pack groceries. Donuts and coee
will be provided To volunteer, email
jonathan@burgundycrescent.org.
For
more details, visit burgundycrescent.org.
SUNDAY, JAN. 3
Perrys (1811 Columbia Rd., N.W.) hosts
its weekly Sunday Drag Brunch today
from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. The cost is $24.95
for an all-you-can-eat buet. For more
details, visit perrysadamsmorgan.com.
MONDAY, JAN 4
TUESDAY, JAN. 5
Freed Bodyworks (1337 Pennsylvania
Ave., N.W.) hosts Unicorn HoofCamp:
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 6
Bookmen D.C., an informal mens gay
literature group, discusses Tennessee
Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, a
biography of Williams, by John Lahr at the
Cleveland Park Library (3310 Connecticut
Ave., N.W.) tonight at 7:30 p.m. All are
welcome. For details, visit bookmendc.
blogspot.com.
Touchstone Gallery (901 New York
Ave., N.W.) hosts a preview for its new
gallery exhibit Before They Are Gone
by Leslie Johnson from 11 a.m.-6 p.m..
The exhibit is a mixed media installation
with more than 2,500 ceramic art pieces
that represent the number of African
elephants killed each month. The exhibit
runs in Gallery C through Jan. 31. For more
information, visit touchstonegallery.com.
THURSDAY, JAN. 7
Northern Virginia Pride hosts Pride
on the Rocks at Marble and Rye (2501
Columbia Pike., Arlington, Va.) today at 6
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Marble and Rye gift certicates for prizes.
Happy hour specials will include $5 house
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YIR: EVENTS
Scarlets Bake Sale returns Feb. 7, one of many perennial D.C. gay events.
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The
Equality
Virginia
Commonwealth Dinner is April 16 in
Richmond. Details at equalityvirginia.org.
The Victory Fund National
Champagne Brunch is April 17 in
Houston. No word yet on a D.C. version.
Details at victoryfund.org.
Dining Out for Life, a Food & Friends
benet, is usually around the third
week in April. No details for 2016 yet
announced. Look for more information
soon at foodandfriends.org.
The Gay & Lesbian Activists Alliance
has its 45th anniversary reception and
annual Distinguished Service Awards April
21 at the second oor event space at Policy
Restaurant and Lounge (1904 14th St., N.W.).
Look for an announcement soon at glaa.org.
Cherry is April 21-24 at various
locations. Details at cherryfund.org.
Gay Day at the Zoo is usually in early
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YIR: BOOKS
Among the years best books are the harrowing A HISTORY OF LONELINESS for ction and Dead Wake, a
heart-pounding true story of the sinking of the Lusitania.
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THEATRE
Bad Jews
Thru Jan 17. Studio Theatre.
202-332-3300. studiotheatre.org.
Joshua Harmons savage comedy about family, faith, and legacy follows three
cousins and their verbal battle royale over a family heirloom.
The New York Opera Societys Viennese New Year Concert will include two
performances by ballroom dancers Rudeger Homm and Ekaterina Kanevskaya,
as well as excerpts from the operettas Die Fledermaus and the Merry Widow.
Jerusalem 3D
Thru Mar 31. National Geographic.
202-857-7000. nglive.org.
The exhibition looks at the emergence of gay rights movement in the District
among the social movements of that period. Featured are several photos of gay
rights protests held at the White House and other local sites. Also on view are
copies of early mimeographed issues of DCs rst gay paper, The Gay Blade (now
the Washington Blade), founded in 1969 and an early newspaper dispenser box.
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MUSEUMS
National Gallery of Art. The Serial
Impulse at Gemini G.E.L. Thru Feb 7.
Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture
of the Hellenistic World. Thru Mar 20.
Celebrating Photography at the National
Gallery of Art: Recent Gifts. Thru Mar 27.
Louise Bourgeois: No Exit. Thru May 15.
202-737-4215. nga.gov.
National Archives. Spirited Republic:
Alcohol in American History. Thru Jan 10.
202-357-5000. archivesfoundation.org.
Museum of Women in the Arts. Free
January Community Day & Makerspace.
Jan 3. Esther Bubley Up Front. Thru Jan
17. Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft,
and Design, Midcentury and Today. Thru
Feb 28. Womanimal: Zine Art by Caroline
Paquita. Thru May 13. 202-783-5000.
nmwa.org.
Kreeger Museum. Lament: Emilie
Brzezinski. Thru Nov 19. 202-337-3050.
kreegermuseum.org.
Prince Georges African American
Museum. Now: A Photographic Survey
of Prince Georges County, Maryland.
Thru Jan 31. 301-809-0440. pgaamcc.org.
National Geographic. Indiana Jones and
the Adventure of Archaeology. Thru Jan
3. Pristine Seas: The Oceans Last Wild
Places. Thru Mar 27. Photo Ark. Thru Apr
11. 202-857-7000. nglive.org.
Sandy Spring Museum. Resident Artists
Open House. Jan 2. 301-774-0022.
sandyspringmuseum.org.
GALLERIES
Strathmore. The 82nd Annual Exhibition
of Fine Art in Miniature. Thru Jan 3.
Joseph Craig English A Lifetime of
AND MORE...
Inside Signature with MaryJoanna
Grisso and Sean Ewing. Jan 7. Signature
Theatre. 703-820-9771. sigtheatre.org.
Literary Evening: A Conversation
with Greg Marzullo. Jan 5. Arts
Club of Washington. 202-331-7282.
artsclubofwashington.org.
Twentieth Annual Iranian Film
Festival: Tales. Jan 2. The Night It
Rained, or the Epic of the Gorgan
Village Boy. Jan 2. Risk of Acid Rain. Jan
3. National Gallery of Art. 202-737-4215.
nga.gov.
Political Animals in the Voting Booth:
The Science Behind Illogical Choices:
Evening Program with Book Signing.
Jan 6. A Brief History of Creation:
Science and the Search for the Origin
of Life: Evening Program. Jan 7. The
Smithsonian Associates.
Ripley Center. 202-633-3030.
smithsonianassociates.org.
Thursdays at La Luna (In Spanish). Jan
7. Teatro de la Luna at Casa de la Luna.
703-548-3092. teatrodelaluna.org.
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YIR: THEATER
JEFFERSON FARBER shows o his wares in Arenas hit Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.
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dynasty.
The Book of Mormons Mark Evans
played the familys square-jawed prodigal
scion at odds with his mother ercely
ambitious mother (Christine Sherrill) and
closeted gay uncle (Lawrence Redmond).
Gala Hispanic Theatre mounted a searing,
modern-feeling of out playwright Federico
Garca Lorcas Yerma helmed by out
Spanish director Jos Luis Arellano Garca.
Mabel del Pozo passionately assayed the
title character, a childless Andalusian peasant
raging against the oppression of a loveless
marriage and repressivesociety. Handsome
out actor Eric Robledo played Juan, the cold
husband that Yermas father chose for her.
This year introduced the ambitious
and successful Womens Voices Theater
Festival, designed to spotlight the scope
of new plays being written by women and
the range of professional theater being
produced in the area with more than 50 local
professional companies presenting at least
one world premiere of a play by a female
playwright throughout September and
October. Shakespeare Theatre Company
contributed Salom (more royal strife!),
adapted and gorgeously staged Yal Farber.
Farber drew on ancient biblical and pagan
texts, as well as Oscar Wildes landmark
mystery play to create her provocative,
exceedingly watchable piece.
Olney Theatre Centers oering was the
dramedy Bad Dog by out playwright and
TV writer Jennifer Hoppe-House. Out actor
Holly Twyford played awed but likable Molly
Drexler, a writer who after 10 years clean and
sober falls o the wagon and drives her Prius
into the home she shares with her wife. When
her fairly dysfunctional family gathers with
suggestions on how Molly might x herself,
things go from bad to worse. Imagine that.
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YIR: FILM
Director TODD HAYNES and star CATE BLANCHETT on the set of Carol.
TOM HARDY as gangster twins Reggie (gay) and Ronnie (straight) Kray in
Legend.
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YIR: MUSIC
Kamasi Washingtons The Epic is one of the best albums of the year nothing short of a modern jazz/funk
masterpiece.
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YIR: SPORTIN IN DC
The new year is shaping up to be huge for the Washington Scandals Rugby Team. In May they had to
Nashville for the Bingham Cup.
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