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ACLU honors Marsha Trump-inspired hate Botzer with lifetime crimes achievement award
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by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer The ACLU has honored veteran Transgender activist Marsha Botzer with its William O. Douglas Award for lifetime
achievement. Named for the late Supreme Court Justice and famous civil libertarian, the award was presented at the ACLU’s November 12 see MARSHA BOTZER page 7
Harry Reid’s blistering farewell to the Senate
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by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer Harry Reid, veteran senator from Nevada and Democratic minority leader, is retiring from the US Senate after more than 30 years. Having secured the election of a hand-
picked successor, Catherine Cortez Masto, Reid seems determined to exit the national stage in a blaze of outrage at President-elect Donald Trump. In a pair of speeches – on November 11 see HARRY REID page 13
Danni Askini of Gender Justice League – Photo courtesy of danniaskini.com
by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer Dealing with a President Trump will be hard enough, but in the wake of his election, many marginalized communities have
been hit with a spike in hate crimes perpetrated by Trump’s supporters. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) reports that in the week followsee HATE CRIMES page 7
Trump: Marriage equality is “settled” – Why that’s not good enough
Trump during his “60 Minutes” interview – Photo courtesy of fortune.com
by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer Marriage equality is a “settled” issue, Donald Trump said on CBS’s “60 Minutes “on November 13, and he would not want his Supreme Court ap-
pointees to overturn it. Asked by reporter Leslie Stahl whether the justices he appointed would be opposed to the high court’s Obergefell ruling, which legalized same-sex marriage in 2015, see MARRIAGE page 14
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SOSea and Mac S. McGregor offer FREE self-defense training at Neighbours Dec. 7 by Shaun Knittel SGN Associate Editor Anti-LGBTQ and anti-Muslim attacks were on the rise in 2015 and if early numbers from 2016 have anything to say about it, those attacks will have increased for the second year in a row, making 2016 a year with a record number of crimes against LGBTQ and Muslim Seattleites. These numbers reflect attacks that have happened during a black Democratic president’s administration in a city that elected a Gay mayor who has a near perfect record for civil rights. So it should be easy to understand why some folks in Seattle – particularly LGBTQ, Muslim, and immigrant – feel that if those were the numbers when we supposedly “have it good” then what will life under a Donald Trump administration look like? I think we all already know the answer to that question. And while nobody can truly say what the number of attacks will be or from whom exactly the attacks will come from, we can say that they will indeed happen. The best way to protect yourself from attack is to have a plan, attend training on how to defend yourself, and continue to look at ways to keep yourself and those you love safe. Whether or not the issue is active shooter, physical assault or sexual violence, you need to know how to fight back, at least enough to save your life and get away in a country that has violent tendencies. America is a violent nation whether we want to admit it or not. Members of the LGBTQ and other marginalized communities know this better than anybody.
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Social Outreach Seattle (SOSea), the organization that I am founder and president of, has offered self-defense classes to the LGBTQ community and our allies since 2013. We tailor each training session to match a specific threat, but overall, each class will give participants the basic level knowledge of how to get out and stay alive. “The best way to win a fight is to not get into one,” Mac S. McGregor, the martial arts and self-defense expert who teaches each SOSea self-defense class says. But Mac, a Transgender activist and martial arts world champion, also admits that there are times when no matter what you do, you can find yourself in trouble. That is when training counts. When faced with danger people will refer to what they know – things they have been taught or answers to scenarios they have gone over in their head again and again. Basically, you go into autopilot and your body reacts by doing the things you have been trained to do in situations that require specific results. Fight or flight comes to mind. Donald Trump awoke a certain type of racist that might have still existed in America, but a bigot that had been hushed. Whether it was his intention or not, these hateful folks are feeling emboldened by his win and are starting to come out of the shadows. It is not a ridiculous thing to think that this makes LGBTQ and other marginalized people open for attack. Hate crimes, or bias crimes as they are known here in Seattle, are a specific type of attack. They are usually verbal, less reasonable (i.e. why the attacker specifically chose their victim aside from color of skin
or perceived sexual orientation, which in turn makes it harder for a victim to reconcile), and can often lead to the victim or victims suffering from PTSD. SOSea has scheduled a special self-defense class for December 7 at Neighbours Nightclub (1509 Broadway) (6 p.m. doors, 6:30-8 p.m. class), for all ages and is all-inclusive (LGBTQIA) to address hate crimes and how to deal with them physically, legally, and even how to possibly avoid them. Additionally, SOSea will also help attendees understand what they can do if they see someone harassing others or assaulting others, to either stop the situation, be a good witness, and/or comfort the victim in the aftermath. This is important stuff and, although the classes might seem a bit “in your face” because they design the scenarios and situations to be as real as possible, the knowledge that you can gain from these trainings could very well one day save your life. The classes are all about community and recovering safety that is taken away by our fear of what might happen to us at the hands of bigots are predators. It is important to SOSea that people learn not to live in fear, but to live in knowledge instead. To see what you can expect from a SOSea self-defense class take a look at these videos on YouTube: https://www. yout ub e. com /wat ch? v=VSHyJ TOL _ GA&t=35s, https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=ZShQrZvMaZo, and https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=GJSCBB_X8eU. To RSVP for the class, or to get more information about the class, go to the official Facebook page: https://www.facebook. com/events/1502550879760501/.
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Sen. Patty Murray now #3 in Democratic leadership by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer Washington Sen. Patty Murray has been elected assistant Democratic leader in the US Senate, moving her up to the number three position in her party’s leadership team. In the November 15 Democratic caucus election, Chuck Schumer of New York was – as expected – elected minority leader, succeeding retiring leader Harry Reid. Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin was re-elected minority whip. Murray, who hinted she might challenge Durbin for the number two spot, moved up to assistant leader from her previous post as Democratic conference secretary, a position she’s held since 2006. “We have a tough road ahead of us with Republicans in control of Congress and a new Republican president who campaigned on dividing our country and rolling back all of the progress we’ve made over the past eight years,” Murray said in a statement. Senate Democrats, she said, will work with Republicans if they’re willing “to move our country in the right direction” but will fight “tooth and nail – if they try to di-
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Bill of Rights Dinner. “For 35 years Marsha Botzer has been a leading pioneer in working for the civil rights of transgender people. And her wideranging work as an activist, psychotherapist, and educator has contributed significantly to the advancement of equal rights for LGBT people in Washington,” the ACLU said on its website. Botzer founded the Ingersoll Gender Center, named for 19th century freethinker Robert Ingersoll, in 1977, at a time of great stress for Seattle’s LGBT community. Seattle had passed a fair housing ordinance protecting the city’s growing LGBT community in 1975 – one of the first such laws in the country – but it was under attack by reactionary forces led by Seattle police officers David Estes and Dennis Falk. They led an initiative campaign to repeal the pro-
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ing the election they received 315 reports of Trump-inspired hate crimes. More than 200 of them occurred within 72 hours of Trump’s election. According to SPLC, this is more than they normally receive in a six-month period. Specific crimes ranged from physical assaults to vandalism to threatening notes left on cars. Crimes targeting the LGBT community have increased by 5% since the election. Crimes targeting AfricanAmericans and Jews have increased by 8%. Hate crimes against Latinos have so far remained constant. While there have been many reports of crimes against Muslims, including several incidents in which white men spouting pro-Trump slogans tried to pull off Muslim women’s hijabs or headscarves, SPLC did not offer statistics covering that community. Although only 8% of Seattle voters cast their ballots for Trump, we have not been immune from the nationwide surge in
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vide our country, hurt our constituents, or drag us backwards.” Murray’s conference secretary position will be replaced by a new Policy and Communications Committee with Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan as chair and number four in the leadership. The Democrats also created new leadership positions for Bernie Sanders – he’s now in charge of outreach – and Elizabeth Warren. To balance Sanders and Warren, conservative Democrats Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Mark Warner of Virginia got minor leadership posts. The Senate’s only open Lesbian, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, also secured a leadership spot. “We’ll unite our caucus and speak to the blue-collar worker in West Virginia and Michigan as well as the people who live along the coasts,” Schumer said after the November 15 leadership meeting. “We can unite the disparate factions of our party and country. Our whole leadership team is emblematic of that. Our team is ideologically and geographically diverse.” On the Republican side, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Spokane was re-elected to the number four position in her caucus as House GOP conference chairwoman.
LGBT law, but Seattle voters rejected them in 1978. In 1993, Botzer was a founding member of Hands Off Washington, a forerunner of Equal Rights Washington (ERW). Hands Off was formed to help defeat a proposal by an Oregon-based group to require Washington state officials to “discourage homosexuality” and other supposedly “immoral behaviors.” In 1997, Botzer joined Hands Off and other activists to propose a statewide ballot initiative guaranteeing the rights of LGBT Washingtonians. It was during that campaign, Botzer told SGN, that she experienced the defining moment of her long career in activism. “For me, there was one moment that defined my experience,” she said. “It was the 1990s at a Saturday meeting of Hands Off Washington. The board voted to include transgender in the statewide initiative even though they were told that including the trans piece would cause the initiative to lose. “For me that was the moment I really felt that the L, G, B, and T were joined in
one movement.” The statewide initiative was, in fact, voted down, with LGBT rights not protected at the statewide level until 2006, but Botzer did not waste time mourning the loss. In 1999, she was the principal author of a measure that added gender identity to Seattle’s nondiscrimination ordinances. While working on legislation and policy issues, Botzer also found the time to serve on the Seattle LGBT Commission, on the board of the Seattle LGBT Community Center, and for two terms as co-chair of NGLTF. In 2004 she joined with the ACLU and other activists to found Equal Rights Washington. The group was a key player in lobbying for the 2006 LGBT civil rights bill, later domestic partnership legislation, and ultimately marriage rights for same-sex couples. Again this year, Botzer, ERW, and the ACLU joined to fight I-1515, which would have denied Trans people access to genderappropriate restrooms.
Botzer told SGN she understands the challenges still ahead for Trans people, but she still appreciates how quickly many people’s attitudes have changed. “Around gender and identity, our core human identity – that it’s diversity, not pathology – a great many people have come to understand that deeply in a short time,” she said. “Conversely, by not understanding that, it’s possible to demonize trans people like gay and lesbian people used to be demonized.” Botzer said the awards dinner itself was an uplifting experience. “There were a lot of people who are not usually around in our activist circles, but they were with us,” she smiled. “The loudest cheer of the evening was for trans inclusion. When I called for unity they stood up, cheered, raised their fists… “And four and even five cheers to the ACLU for demonstrating support for trans issues.”
Trump-inspired hate crimes. According to Danni Askini, her organization, Gender Justice League, “has received a huge rash of anti-Trans/pro-Trump phone calls and emails.” “We are having to change our phone number because of it,” she added. Marsha Botzer of Ingersoll Center reported similar experiences. Ingersoll members reported “trans or gender-nonconforming people being yelled at from cars. Things like ‘Trump won, you should die,’ that sort of thing,” Botzer told SGN. Not surprisingly, others reported feeling fear when they saw groups of people in Trump hats or other Trump gear, Botzer reported. “Everyone is scared,” she added. Washington CAN! (Community Action Network) – a local activist organization that works in low-income communities – also reported “dozens” of voicemail messages from self-identified Trump supporters, all of them hateful and some of them actually threatening. At least one swastika was found spraypainted in the Capitol Hill area within days of the election. It was soon painted over by a local business owner, however. The busi-
ness owner told The Stranger that the next night he and his girlfriend were harassed by five men yelling pro-Trump slogans. Askini told SGN that people should prepare now for future trouble under a Trump administration. “We are recommending that people change their government-issued ID as soon as possible,” Askini said, “as we expect serious changes in federal identification law, as the Trump administration attempts to crack down on undocumented people. “We are also recommending that people consider other measures – such as safety planning with friends, and attending selfdefense classes. “We are working with Q-Law to put on a name/gender-marker change clinic and have raised funds to help offset the cost of changing these things,” Askini concluded. According to NBC News, confirmed hate crimes nationwide included the following: • The words “Trump Nation, Whites Only” scrawled on the walls of the Episcopal Church of Our Savior in Silver Spring, Maryland. The church offers weekly Spanish-language services. • A Muslim woman attending the University of Michigan told police a white
male demanded she remove her hijab or he would “set her on fire with a lighter.” Police are investigating. • A swastika and the word “Trump” were spray-painted on the walls of a residence hall at SUNY Geneseo. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered state police to open a multi-agency hate crimes investigation. • In Philadelphia, police are searching for the man who painted “Trump Rules” and “Black Bitch” onto the hood of a woman’s van. • Grafitti found on the walls of St. David’s Episcopal Church in Indiana included a swastika, “Heil Trump,” and “Fag Church.” The church performs same-sex weddings. • “Colored” and “Whites Only” signs were placed above drinking fountains at First Coast High School in Jacksonville, Florida, a district spokeswoman confirmed to NBC News. • “Make America White Again” was scrawled across the wall of a softball field in Wellsville, New York, only hours after the election. Police are investigating.
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Brad Evans and Hercules Gomez of the Seattle soccer team discuss Trump, gay fans, and Mexican food ahead of the Western Conference Finals by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer Although we’re knee deep in football season – the Seattle Seahawks and Washington Huskies are both posting winning seasons, thus far – the bigger news in sports around these parts is the Seattle Sounders FC advancing to the Western Conference Finals, putting them a step away from playing for the championship, the MLS Cup. The team struggled in the first half of the season but finished strongly to secure a spot in the conference finals by beating FC Dallas in aggregate scoring, which allows the team with the most goals combined of a two-game series to move ahead. The Sounders face a similar challenge when they host the Colorado Rapids at CenturyLink Field on November 22 and then meet them again in Denver on November 27, with the winner going to the championship game. You might recall Seattle Sounders team captain Brad Evans spoke to the SGN this summer, just before the club-sponsored Pride Day in late June. And while the men are busy practicing for the upcoming matches this week, Evans and his teammate, forward Hercules Gomez, took time off the field to answer some questions ahead of the finals. (Tickets for the November 22 match at 7 p.m. PST are available at soundersfc. com. And if you can’t attend, Fox Sports 1 (FS1), KIRO 97.3 FM, and El Rey 1360 AM will be broadcasting the action live.) Via email, here is what Brad Evans and Hercules Gomez shared with the SGN. Albert Rodriguez: Via Twitter, you replied to Donald Trump’s Cinco de Mayo post earlier this year by saying “I’ll play soccer for free if I can smash your face in that bowl.” Now that he’s been elected as our new president, would you still want to do it? Brad Evans: Of course I would. Ultimately my views don’t align with his views, and that’s how I look at the election process. I never would have thought it would be possible to have someone like Donald Trump in office, but even while I voted Democratic, I think changes need to happen on both sides. We could sit here and talk about it for hours, but I think, ultimately, the only thing we can do is proceed as diplomatically as possible. Reverting back to being negative and resenting the outcome isn’t going to get us to where we want to be. In saying that, is it a hard pill to swallow? Absolutely. But like we spoke about last time we talked, in discussing the tragedy in Orlando at Pulse, with Seattle Pride weekend coming up, I think I said that we all still have to go out, we still have to celebrate and be proud. Just because something happens, no matter how terrible, we can’t let it affect us to the point of just hiding and not speaking our minds. So that applies in this situation, too. We have to go out and fight for what we believe is right, in a respectable manner, and move forward. There is always time to change peoples’ minds and open them to new ideas, and I think that is evidenced by Trump’s first meeting with President Obama, where it seemed to open some thought processes in Trump’s mind. Albert Rodriguez: What are your plans for the upcoming holidays? Where or how will you spend Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve? Brad Evans: Well, I was supposed to go home for Thanksgiving, but obviously
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that had to change. We’re always smart enough to buy our holiday travel tickets on Southwest every year, just in case a playoff run happens. We really haven’t made any solid offseason plans yet, because we don’t know exactly when we’ll be available. Usually we go somewhere for Christmas with our families, but we haven’t set any plans yet. We’re considering driving down to Southern California and renting a place for a couple weeks – take the dog and see family. Albert Rodriguez: As team captain, how are you preparing your team mentally for their biggest matches of the year, thus far? Brad Evans: I think just through my experience, whether that’s vocally letting the
to be very in tune with looking after dogs. Coto has had some issues, so he can’t just go to the park and chase around a ball for an hour, because he won’t be able to walk for the next week. He’s not geriatric or anything, but he requires some special handling, like being lifted up to go in and out of the car – he can’t jump. He can’t chase after a ball. So a knowledgeable person, someone who will really notice the care that Coto needs is ideal. There’s actually a guy on the team, Matt Bursano, who does dogsitting on the side. He’s been doing that this whole year and he is awesome with Coto and Coto loves him, too. So, Matt Bursano is my go-to for dog-sitting. Albert Rodriguez: We talked about
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guys know what to expect or whether it’s just coming in every day and helping keep the same exact attitude that got us here in the first place. There’s no reason to switch up anything now. With these two weeks of training, we’re not going to learn anything new. The only thing we can do is keep our engines running clean and ready to go. The regular season was an extremely long tournament to make it to this point. We advanced out of that tournament, basically, and now we’re in position to make a run in the playoffs, which is ultimately just another tournament. As we all know, anybody can win on tournament day. So the preparation is just making sure that we’re giving ourselves the best chance and knowing that we’re a good team and we have to play like it. Albert Rodriguez: What’s your reaction to gay male fans having a crush on you? Does that creep you out, or flatter you? Brad Evans: It’s flattering, of course. There’s no being creeped out at all. If I’m their cup of tea, I’m their cup of tea. Albert Rodriguez: How is your dog Coto doing, and what kind of person would be your ideal dog-sitter? Brad Evans: Coto is awesome. He continues to run the streets of Kirkland. He gets noticed far more often than I do. Somebody actually commented on a photo I posted recently, ‘Oh, I think I saw Coto walking around Kirkland yesterday,’ and I’m like, ‘Yeah, but somebody was walking him, too!’ But, no, it’s just Coto that people notice. There’s always something going on with him, so the ideal person watching him has
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food last time, so now let’s talk clothes. What’s your go-to outfit for a dinner date with your wife? Brad Evans: I kind of go in phases when it comes to clothes – sometimes I care, sometimes I don’t care. Lately I’ve just been having Becky go out and shop for me, and that’s been working out pretty well. But it’s Seattle – you can wear a North Face jacket to a nice dinner and it’s not out of place. So for me, maybe a nice pair of jeans, my Converse, a cool shirt. In this climate you need to layer, too. Becky does a lot of shopping at AllSaints for me, and there’s a store in downtown Kirkland called Asher Goods that’s a little more outdoorsy. Albert Rodriguez: If you weren’t a professional soccer player, what do you think you’d be doing right now? Brad Evans: That’s a good question, because I honestly have no idea. And that part of my life is coming up, actually. I left school early for the draft, so I don’t have my degree yet, so I think first and foremost I’d be sure to go back to school and get my degree. I had been working on doing so in social sciences with an emphasis on multicultural education. I don’t see myself becoming a teacher, but I do see myself as bringing people together and being a communicator. I’m really open for anything when it comes to post-career. Albert Rodriguez: Have you found any good Mexican food restaurants in Seattle? Hercules Gomez: There is one place that I like a lot. It’s called El Fogón. I like their carne asada tacos and tortas, and the tostadas de tinga is good. They’ve got some
things that I really enjoy. Albert Rodriguez: If we offered to buy you a drink at a bar, what would you order? Hercules Gomez: It depends on the night. I enjoy a good beer, a good pint, but I’m a whiskey guy, so probably a good whiskey would do. If you see me at a bar, just remember I’m a whiskey guy. Albert Rodriguez: Was it a boyhood dream for you to play professional soccer? Hercules Gomez: It wasn’t really a boyhood dream, but once I started getting a lot of attention as a player in my teens, I started to realize that maybe one day I could actually make a living out of the sport. Once I got more of a taste of the high-level competition, it fed the hunger of, “Wow, this is something tangible.” At that point, it started really becoming more of a dream and a goal, and the dream kept getting bigger all the time. First I wanted to play MLS [Major League Soccer], then play on the national team, then play in a World Cup – all these other dreams started sprouting up. Albert Rodriguez: What do you like most about living in the Seattle area? Hercules Gomez: That’s a tough question! I guess I really like that there are all four seasons here. When I was living down south, in Mexico, I didn’t get to experience the different seasons. In Seattle, you get a much better sense of that. Summers here are incredible, and while we don’t get a lot of snow in the winter, we have the mountains nearby and you can get away there. My wife and I don’t mind the rain, either; it’s been a good change for us. Seattle just, overall, has a good vibe to it – a good, diverse vibe. Albert Rodriguez: Were you aware that the Seattle Sounders were so involved with and connected to the local LGBT community? Hercules Gomez: Yes, I was. It’s awesome. Listen, the best thing we can be is kind to each other, regardless of any of our perceived differences, whether race, gender, sexual preference, religious beliefs, whatever. We’re all in this together and the only way we can move forward is by working together. Tolerance is a big factor in that. Albert Rodriguez: What does Seattle have to do to beat Colorado in the conference finals? Hercules Gomez: Other than the simple answer of scoring more goals than they do, we just have to continue doing what we’ve been doing. We’re a very strong team at home, so we have to continue playing to those strengths and take care of business at home on Tuesday so that we put ourselves in the best position possible to go into Colorado. The way to do that is to play with the intensity and fire and offensive element of surprise that we’ve been doing. Colorado is a very good team. They narrowly missed out on the Supporter’s Shield [award for the best regular-season record in the MLS], so we know that it’s going to be a battle. It’s not going to be easy, but we have something special going, and sometimes on a playoff run, being hot is as important as being good. Albert Rodriguez: Can you describe Brad Evans in one word? Hercules Gomez: Random – but in the good way. With Brad, you never know exactly what he’s going to do or say. A majority of the time he’s going to be goofy or funny, but he’s got so many layers to him.
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Arnaldo Inocentes receives lifetime achievement award for promoting culture and arts by Shaun Knittel SGN Associate Editor Receiving any kind of award or recognition for the work you have done is an honor. But receiving recognition from the community of folks you belong to, and whom you promote, is an even bigger honor. Filipino American, Arnaldo Inocentes, creator of Seattle’s iconic cabaret superstar Arnaldo! Drag Chanteuse, received such an award November 5, at the Filipino Community Center, when he was given the FCS Lifetime Achievement Award for promoting culture and arts. Inocentes received the award in front of many supporters at the center, including family and his longtime partner Steve McFarlane. Aside from being a talented female illusionist and cabaret singer, Inocentes is a tremendously talented public speaker who weaves the heartfelt with the nuts and bolts of an issue or topic effortlessly. At the November 5 awards ceremony, Inocentes did not disappoint. After thanking the Board of the Filipino Community of Seattle and members of the Filipino American community of Seattle for recognizing and appreciating his work, he admitted that, “When I found out about this award, I had to stop and ask ... sigurado ba kayo? (Are you sure?)” “I also want to thank my family and loved ones both here and in the Philippines and also thank you to my chosen family and friends for believing and supporting me,” Inocentes continued. “Here tonight are my mom, Auntie Glory, my cousin Bengie, my sister Valli and my partner Steve.” “In 1987, my three brothers and I migrated to Seattle to join mom and dad to live in Kirkland,” he said. “When my friends in Manila found out that I was moving to the US, some of them said that I will never be successful because I will always be looked at as a second class citizen because I am not white and I am Gay.” “Well, I guess they’re wrong,” Inocentes said, which was met with cheers and applause. “Times have also changed and thank goodness for that – although we as a civilized society still have a lot of work to do.” “In 1989, I joined the Seattle Men’s Chorus upon the suggestion of my cousin Bengie Santos – my mentor and role model – and I was also encouraged by my aunt, Gloria Santos, to join,” he recalled. “I remember Auntie Glory when I told her I got accepted in the chorus, she said “Sige, sumali ka – akong bahala at kausapin ko si mommy mo.” (Go ahead and join. I will
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continued from cover and again on November 15 – Reid ripped into Trump and his chosen advisors. Trump is a “sexual predator who lost the popular vote and fueled his campaign with bigotry and hate,” Reid said on the Senate floor November 11. Reid added that he fears for Latinos, African-Americans, LGBT people, Muslims, and young girls under President Trump. “We as a nation must find a way to move forward without consigning those who Trump has threatened to the shadows. Their fear is entirely rational, because Donald Trump has talked openly about doing terrible things to them,” Reid said. “Every news piece that breathlessly obsesses over inauguration preparations
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my shows making my repertoire truly global – singing in French, Spanish and sometimes Portuguese, Turkish and Japanese as well.” “Many ask why I do this,” he said. “Certainly not for fame and fortune, because I obviously have neither. I do it because I love to sing and to perform. I do it because, in my own small way, I want to leave a world where diversity is truly celebrated and embraced. I do it for my nephews and nieces and for the next generation who may grow up to be ‘different.’” “And I do it,” borrowing from his Arnaldo! Drag Chanteuse motto, Inocentes explained, “to open hearts and minds through music one cabaret at a time.” “Everywhere I perform, I stand in front of my audience as a proud Gay FilipinoAmerican from Seattle,” he said. “Whether I am onstage at Benaroya Hall, a small jazz venue in Paris, a museum in Tulsa, a chic club in San Francisco, the Village in New York, a posh theatre in Manila, an outof-the-way club in Renton or in beautiful Puerto Vallarta, if just one person in my audience will start to open his or her mind after one of my performances and rethink their biases, then I know I did my job.” After thanking the FCS community and board again for the honor, he said, “Let’s continue as a community to build bridges and not walls.” Inocentes has received several other accolades including 2005 Fellow, International Cabaret Conference at Yale University; 2008 New York Cabaret Bistro Award Winner; 2010 Top 10 Cabaret Acts in the Bay Area, Jazz and Cocktails, (SF Bay Times); and the 2014 GAWD MUSIKA award for “Most Innovative Concert Artist” in Manila, Philippines. Inocentes has exemplified community service in both the LGBTQ and cabaret communities. From June 2012 to present, Inocentes has served as the Pride ASIA co-executive director with founder Aleksa Manila. Additionally, in 2006 Inocentes became the founder and artistic director of the Pacific Northwest Cabaret Association. Seattle Gay News would like to join the chorus of voices expressing congratulations to a jewel of our community, Arnaldo Inocentes, for receiving this well-earned honor. For more information about Arnaldo Inocentes’ drag and cabaret character (including booking and show schedule information) visit Arnaldo! Drag Chanteuse at www.dragchanteuse.com.
talk to your mom.)” “At that time, I just got my first full time job in Seattle and as a new immigrant, mom was concerned I will get distracted and not be focused on my new job,” Inocentes explained. “I share this story because often, it takes just one – or in this case – two people to believe in you so you can find the courage to move forward and grab opportunities as they come along,” he said. “Needless to say the Seattle Men’s Chorus changed my life and is a big reason why I am here today in front of you as it literally helped me find my voice musically and socio-politically.” “When I decided to perform in cabarets and do drag as a solo artist in 1995, I knew that it was a major challenge – it was like swimming upstream because at that time, homophobia was much more commonplace and drag was not as mainstream as it is to-
day,” Inocentes said, reminding people that the freedoms and acceptance we enjoy today, was not the same yesterday. “One of the best advice I received was from then artistic director of the Seattle Men’s Chorus, Dennis Coleman: He said ‘Arnaldo, people will say what they want to say. You don’t have control over that.’ That advice set me free.” Inocentes told the audience that he worked hard, took voice lessons, attended workshops, acted in plays, joined a dance class, and more. “I continued to speak my truth through song and studied the music of Rodgers and Hart, Sondheim, Gershwin, Ella, Rosemary, Eartha, Judy and other materials of great singers and composers of the American Songbook, jazz and musical theatre,” he said. “I also performed Filipino songs in
compounds their fear by normalizing a man who has threatened to tear families apart, who has bragged about sexually assaulting women, and who has directed crowds of thousands to intimidate reporters and assault African-Americans. Their fear is legitimate, and we must refuse to let it fall through the cracks between the fluff pieces… “Winning the electoral college does not absolve Trump of the grave sins he committed against millions of Americans. Donald Trump may not possess the capacity to assuage those fears, but he owes it to this nation to try,” Reid added. “If Trump wants to roll back the tide of hate he unleashed, he has a tremendous amount of work to do, and he must begin immediately.” Reid returned to the Senate floor November 15 to respond to Trump’s appointment of Breitbart CEO and notorious white nationalist Steve Bannon as his chief strategist.
“I have been in politics for five decades, and I have not seen anything like what we are seeing today in America,” Reid said. “The man who lost the popular vote by two million votes is now the presidentelect. Let me repeat that: the man who lost the popular vote by two million votes or more is now the president-elect. “His election sparked a wave of hate crimes across the nation. This is a simple statement of fact… “Outside this Senate chamber, workers can be heard hammering away on the platform for the inauguration ceremony. It will take several months to do it, but it will be done right. “In 65 days, Donald Trump will step onto that platform. For four years, he will wield the loudest and most powerful microphone in the world. “But even as those workers hammer away on Trump’s platform, and even as we as lead-
ers accept the results of this election, we must also give voice to those who are afraid.” Reid then recounted stories from personal friends and acquaintances who had been harassed by Trump supporters in the wake of the election, some of them Muslims, all of them people of color. “If Trump is serious about seeking unity, the first thing he should do is rescind his appointment of Steve Bannon,” Reid concluded. “Rescind it. Don’t do it. Think about this. Don’t do it. As long as a champion of racial division is a step away from the Oval Office, it will be impossible to take Trump’s efforts to heal the nation seriously. “So I say to Donald Trump: take responsibility. Rise to the dignity of the office – president of the United States – instead of hiding behind your Twitter account. “And show America that racism, bullying, and bigotry have no place in the White House or in America.”
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Log Cabin Republicans cozy up to Donald Trump by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer Nothing succeeds like success, the old saying goes. No surprise then that the Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) – a Republican LGBT group – are cozying up to Donald Trump. Two weeks before election day, LCR sent out a press release saying they would not endorse Trump, but nevertheless praising him as “perhaps the most pro-LGBT presidential nominee in the history of the Republican Party.” That’s a low bar, but LCR’s assessment of Trump is based solely on the fact that at one event he proclaimed that “the gays love me!” and at another waved a rainbow flag. In fact, Trump’s VP pick, Mike Pence, is a notorious homophobe, as are many of his closest advisors. Last year, as governor of Indiana, Pence sponsored a so-called “Religious Freedom Restoration Act” (RFRA), which allowed businesses to turn away LGBT customers and insurance providers to deny coverage to LGBT clients. Pence’s RFRA serves as a model for
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continued from cover Trump replied “It’s irrelevant. Because it was already settled. It’s law. It was settled in the Supreme Court. I mean it’s done.” While that sounds good, the fact is that Trump said during his presidential campaign that he would, indeed, appoint judges who would overturn Obergefell. “I’m a traditional guy,” he explained. Even if he has evolved and now recognizes the right of Lesbian and Gay couples to marry, the right to marriage by itself does not guarantee full equality to Lesbian
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proposed federal legislation that would codify the GOP’s anti-LGBT policies – the First Amendment Defense Act, which Trump supports. The GOP then adopted what even LCR characterized as “the most anti-LGBT platform in the party’s history.” The worst platform in the GOP’s long
anti-LGBT history didn’t prevent LCR from tying itself to the Trump campaign, however. According to a fundraising pitch sent out November 15 by LCR boss Gregory T. Angelo, he has “been in regular communication with the Trump Transition Team, the group tasked with organizing personnel and policy for our president-elect.”
and Gay couples. Trump supports the so-called “First Amendment Defense Act” (FADA), a Republican-backed federal bill that would undermine same-sex marriages, even if they remain legal. FADA provides that the federal government “shall not take any discriminatory action against a person, wholly or partially on the basis that such person believes or acts in accordance with a religious belief or moral conviction that marriage is or should be recognized as the union of one man and one woman, or that sexual relations are properly reserved to such a marriage.” The bill defines “person” to include for-
profit companies, and “discriminatory action” to include “revocation of tax-exempt status, grants, loans, benefits, or employment.” In other words, FADA would blast a huge hole in the 14th Amendment equal protection and due process clauses that, according to the Supreme Court, protect same-sex couples. Simply on the basis of a claimed “religious belief or moral conviction,” anyone – including businesses that provide public accommodations – could deny services. Presumably that could include hospitals, insurance providers, judges, county clerks, or even a doctor who might refuse to treat one partner of a same-sex couple.
In fact, LCR says its ties to Trump should convince LGBT voters to turn away from “the Left” and join the homocons. “LGBT advocacy organizations on the Left have staff in the hundreds. Budgets in the millions,” Angelo said in his press statement. “And yet, they don’t have a single point of contact in the incoming Trump administration. Log Cabin Republicans does. “Think about that,” Angelo continued. “While LGBT liberals were breathlessly lamenting this fact to the New York Times, Log Cabin Republicans was quietly working behind-the-scenes to ensure the advances in LGBT freedom we have made thus far remain secure and continue in a Trump administration.” LCR was evidently so successful in securing the “advances in LGBT freedom” – all of them made under Democratic administrations and over the opposition of the GOP – that their party adopted “the most anti-LGBT platform in the party’s history” and their president-elect surrounded himself with a squadron of homophobes. Good job, guys.
And they could do so simply on their own say-so, without any oversight whatsoever, just on the assertion that their religious convictions were involved. No marriage – same-sex or opposite-sex – is sustainable if the couple can’t access the same goods and services that are available to everyone else. Even if Trump really does believe that the right for Lesbian and Gay couples to marry is settled law, as he told “60 Minutes”, that’s still not enough to give samesex couples real equality with their opposite-sex neighbors.
Coup in Trumpland by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer The new Leader’s closest advisors held secret meetings at which they agreed to purge former friends. The Leader’s son-in-law intervened to get rid of the man who sent his father to prison 10 years earlier. All that man’s allies also disappeared. The Leader’s Number Two fired a long list of his boss’s advisors. The Leader’s security team was also fired. One of them subsequently went on national TV to denounce what he called “a Stalinesque purge.” An admiral working as the country’s security chief told the press that a hostile foreign power had intervened in the country’s politics to get the Leader elected. Meanwhile, friendly countries complained that their diplomats couldn’t even find out how to get in touch with the Leader. The Leader himself was holed up in a secure tower and communicated with the outside world only through his Twitter account. He failed to appear for a scheduled briefing by top military officials. Where is this happening? North Korea? Syria? Iran? Nope. In Trumpland. The first inklings that something was amiss in the Trump transition team came November 11, when VP-elect Mike Pence replaced New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as team leader. By November 15, all Christie’s allies on the transition team were also gone. While no one knows for sure what
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prompted the upheaval, Trump’s son-inlaw, Jared Kushner, was said to be the driving force behind the purge. In 2004, Christie, then a US attorney, prosecuted Kushner’s father for tax evasion, witness tampering, and illegal campaign contributions. Christie insisted on sending Daddy Kushner to prison. Sonny Kushner reportedly used his influence with his father-in-law to keep Christie off the GOP ticket, and then deposed him
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from his post on the transition team. Two of Trump’s national security advisors who were Christie allies were also fired – former Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan and Matthew Freedman, a lobbyist who consults with corporations and foreign governments. On November 15, Mike Pence signed a formal memo putting him in charge of the Trump transition team and he immediately began removing what Fox News described
as “a litany of lobbyists” who’d been assembled by Christie. The chaos in Trump’s inner circle disrupted government plans for an orderly transition to a Trump administration. Trump and his team no-showed for a scheduled briefing at the Pentagon, the Washington Examiner reported. The same happened at the Department of Energy and the Department of Transportation. Justice Department officials are still waiting to hear from the Trump team. So are foreign governments. According to the New York Times, diplomats, who previously expressed alarm over the possibility of a Trump victory, now say they have no idea whom to contact in order to speak with the President-elect, or how to contact them. NSA Director Admiral Michael Rogers, meanwhile, told The Week that a hostile foreign government had hacked Democratic Party emails and released the information in order to influence the US election. “There shouldn’t be any doubts in anybody’s mind: This was not something that was done casually, this was not something that was done by chance, this was not a target that was selected purely arbitrarily,” Rogers said. “This was a conscious effort by a nation-state to attempt to achieve a specific effect.” Trump himself denied – via his trusty Twitter account – that anything was amiss. “The failing @nytimes story is so totally wrong on transition,” he tweeted. “It is going so smoothly. Also I have spoken to many foreign leaders.”
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North Carolina governor: There were voting irregularities. I lost! by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer North Carolina’s anti-LGBT governor, Pat McCrory, having lost his bid for re-election, charged that there were “irregularities” in the vote count, but state election officials replied that there was “no evidence” of any issues. McCrory was the architect of draconian legislation repealing local LGBT rights ordinances and barring Trans people from gender-appropriate restrooms. The ensuing boycott of North Carolina by businesses and sports leagues cost the state an estimated $500 million in lost business activity. McCrory’s Democratic opponent, Attorney General Roy Cooper, leads by about 5,000 votes. McCrory’s campaign team questioned the validity of about 90,000 votes from Durham County that were tabulated late on Election Day and swung the election toward Cooper. In addition, McCrory claimed, thousands of other votes were hand-counted rather than being counted mechanically as usual. There was “malfeasance” in handling the Durham County votes, McCrory charged. North Carolina elections officials disagreed, however. Durham County Board of Elections Chairman Bill Brian said on November 15 that officials have seen no evidence supporting McCrory’s challenge to the disputed ballots. “We have seen no evidence to that effect,” Brian told a November 15 press conference. “[McCrory’s attorney] may have some, but we have seen no evidence to that effect.” Thomas Stark, general counsel for the state Republican Party, filed a formal protest November 11 contending that Durham County officials had to manually enter the
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votes after they were unable to upload data from ballot tabulators, and that this may have compromised the ballots. Like all county elections boards, the Durham County Board of Elections is made up of two Republicans — including Brian — and a Democrat. The governor appoints members of the State Board of Elections, which appoints members of county
elections boards like Durham’s. After an initial hearing on the charges involving Durham County voting, McCrory filed allegations of fraud in another 11 counties on November 16, claiming that all fraud allegations must be investigated before the results of the election are certified. Cooper campaign spokesman Ford Porter said there’s no evidence behind the al-
legations. “It is absolutely shameful that Gov. McCrory would make these unfounded claims,” Porter said. “This is the worst kind of misinformation campaign meant to undermine the results of an election the governor has lost.”
HIV added to list of carcinogens have been listed as “reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen.” Cobalt is a naturally occurring element used to make metal alloys and other metal compounds. It is used in military and industrial equipment and rechargeable batteries. The addition of these seven new carcinogens brings the cumulative total up to 248 listings. Appearing on the DHHS list indicates a cancer hazard but does not necessarily imply the substance or virus will cause cancer, the DHHS said.
by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer The US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) said on November 10 that it was adding HIV to its list of carcinogens. The virus was one of seven new cancer-causing agents listed. The DHHS list identifies factors, including chemicals, viruses, and environmental factors like X-rays and ultraviolet radiation, and divides them into two categories: those known to be human carcinogens and those “reasonably anticipated” to be carcinogens. Five viruses, which have been linked to more than 20 different types of cancer, are being added to the “known carcinogens” category. These include HIV-1, human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1), Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV), and two herpes viruses – Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and Kaposi sarcoma–associated herpesvirus (KSHV). Since there are no vaccines available for these five viruses, prevention strategies are
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AHF: CDC at fault for skyrocketing STD rates; shift from “unprotected” to “condomless” sex to blame NPR reports, “The number of people infected with three major sexually transmitted diseases is at an all-time high, according to a CDC report released Wednesday (October 19, 2016).” In April, AHF criticized the CDC for requesting far less prevention funding for its 2017 budget and asked CDC to develop a new national STD prevention campaign. LOS ANGELES (October 21, 2016) – In response to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report released Wednesday (October 19, 2016), “Reported STDs at Unprecedented High in the U.S.,” AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) today criticized the organization and called out the CDC’s own policies – chief among them, the CDC’s sanctioning of the widespread abandonment of the condom culture for STD and HIV prevention – as a primary catalyst for skyrocketing STD rates, particularly among young people. According to an NPR article, “The number of people infected with three major sexually transmitted diseases is at an all-time high, according to a CDC report released Wednesday.” NPR also noted, “… the increase in reported cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis is hitting teenagers and young adults hardest.” New York Magazine also reported, “…
The majority of cases of gonorrhea and syphilis were among gay and bisexual men. The CDC noted the increases could be due in part to the erosion of STD-prevention systems: More than half of state and local STD programs have experienced budget cuts. But it’s also possible that improvements in the treatment and prevention of HIV have led people to believe they don’t need condoms.” “Given the CDC’s shift away from promoting condom usage and cuts in STD prevention funding, it is no real surprise that STDs are skyrocketing around the country, particularly among young people and men who have sex with men,” said AHF President Michael Weinstein. “Sadly, it also appears that individual and organizational complacency has set in regarding condoms, which remain the best way to prevent most STDs. We call for additional urgently needed funding for STD prevention and for the CDC to really step up and develop an innovative, aggressive national STD prevention campaign.” In April of this year (which was observed as STD Awareness Month) and following announcements from domestic and international health agencies that revealed that rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) had continued to rise annually, particularly among young people and gay men, AHF sharply criticized the CDC for requesting far less prevention funding for its 2017 budget. AHF also asked CDC to
develop a new national STD prevention campaign. At the time, AHF noted that syphilis was hitting rates not seen since before the start of the HIV epidemic. In addition, the spread of drug-resistant strains of infections including gonorrhea and syphilis threatens the efficacy of medicines commonly used for treatment. The CDC requested less overall funding for 2017 for HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and tuberculosis (TB) than it did for 2016. For STIs, the CDC’s funding request has remained stagnant, while the HIV/AIDS Prevention and Research funding request is $10 million lower than the previous year. While the CDC did request more funding for 2017 than the agency actually received in 2016, enacted funding has consistently fallen short of requested funding. AHF: CDC should prioritize condom use, place STDs at forefront of national public health agenda Regarding the abandonment of the condom culture in the US: advocates from AHF note that in just a one month period between December 2013 and January 2014 – and with little public review – the CDC changed its longstanding prevention wording regarding condom use from using the phrase “unprotected sex” to describe sex without a condom or some form of barrier protection to now
using the phrase “condomless sex” – a move that may suggest to some that condomless sex is protected. A further indication of the erosion of the condom culture came in February of this year, when the CDC released a plan to prevent 185,000 new HIV infections – and failed to even mention condoms as a potential tool in that effort. AHF’s Wellness Centers provide free testing for sexually transmitted diseases, including chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, and HIV. To find the nearest location for STD screening and treatment, visit http:// www.freestdcheck.org. AHF’s Seattle Healthcare Center is located at 1016 E Pike St, 2nd Floor. The Center is open Mon, Wed & Fri – 8:30am-5:30pm. To make an appointment, call 206-302-2020. AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization, currently provides medical care and/or services to over 629,000 individuals in 37 countries worldwide in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean, the Asia/Pacific Region and Eastern Europe. To learn more about AHF, please visit our website: www. aidshealth.org, find us on Facebook: www. facebook.com/aidshealth and follow us on Twitter: @aidshealthcare and Instagram: @aidshealthcare Courtesy of AIDS Healthcare Foundation
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