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Briefs
by A.D. Seibel
October 1, 2012. The Jamaica Forum for Lesbians,
All-sexuals & Gays (J-Flag) announces the closure of
Jamaica’s only drop-in center, for homeless LGBT youth.
J-Flag managed the center with another organization the
Jamaica Aids Support (JAS). Maurice Tomilson, a lawyer
and prominent LGBT rights advocate told GSN that the
organizations have struggled for years to manage the
huge influx of homeless LGBT youth and have repeatedly
sought government assistance to no avail. Jamaica is
well known for its high levels of homophobia with many
youth taking to the streets and sex work after being
rejected by their families and communities.
October 1, 2012. Manhattan Family Court Judge Gloria
Sosa-Lintner awards custody of a six-year-old girl to
her adoptive mother, real estate attorney Allison Scollar,
over the objections of her biological mother, television
producer Brook Altman, after a bitter legal battle. Sosa-
Lintner ruled that Scollar, “is indeed the more responsible
parent looking out for the child’s best interests, not her
own,” while Altman, “behaved more as a friend or older
sister than a responsible parent. Altman is the biological
parent; this does not give her automatic priority over
the adoptive parent.” Sosa-Lintner’s ruling makes it a
first for same-sex couples in New York.
October 2, 2012. Paul Ramscar introduces his Pink
Dollar app, a smartphone application that seeks to
put members of the LGBT community in Hong Kong
in touch with LGBT friendly businesses in the socially
conservative metropolis. Ramscar believes that the
software will also help breakdown cultural barriers in
the city where homosexuality was just decriminalized
only 20 years ago. Over 100 companies ranging from
restaurants, to gyms, to real estate agents will participate
in the Pink Dollar with users rating the businesses
‘friendliness’ from light pink to hot pink. As Ramscar
states, “Where money flows, it can influence policy.”
October 2, 2012. Bruce Springsteen has been an
advocate for the LGBT community for several years but
the singer/song writer has amped it up by staring in a
new media push called The Four 2012, which is focused
on passing same-sex marriage ballots measures in Maine,
Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington. Founder of The
Four 2012, Brian Ellner, stated that the media push is
essential because, “We have never won one of these
votes of the people. This is really a moment to make a
statement.”
October 3, 2012. Although two of the four openly
gay members of Congress are leaving their seats, this
election year promises some awesome potential
changes as there is a record number of LGBT people
vying to win seats in Congress. There are a total of eight
openly LGBT candidates running as party nominees for
the House of Representatives, the most ever including
two who are incumbents who are favored in their
races- Democrat Jared Polis of Colorado, and David
Cicilline of Rhode Island. This also includes the openly
gay Republican, Richard Tisei of Massachusetts. The only
long shot of the group is probably, Idaho State Senator,
Nicole Lefavour, the first openly LGBT legislator ever in
her state, is running against incumbent, Republican Mike
Simpson, who won re-election in 2010 with 69% of the
vote.
October 5, 2012. Featherweight boxer, Orlando Cruz,
comes out as a proud gay man. As Cruz stated during
an Associated Press interview, “I don’t want to hide any
of my identities. I want people to look at me for the
human being that I am. I am a professional sportsman
that always brings his best to the ring. I want for people
to continue to see me for my boxing skills, my character,
my sportsmanship. But I also want kids who suffer from
bullying to know that you can be whoever you want to
be in life, including a professional boxer, that anything
is possible and that who your are or whom you love
should not be an impediment to achieving anything in
life.”
October 5, 2012. GLAAD announces that the number
of LGBT characters in scripted broadcast network TV
is at an all time high as well as on cable television. The
17th annual, “Where We Are
on TV” report found that 4.4%
of actors appearing regularly
on prime-time network
dramas and comedy series
during the 2012-13 season
will portray LGBT characters,
up from the 2.9% in 2011.
ABC has the highest amount
with 5.2% of their regular
characters identified as LGBT.
FOX came in second with
5.1% and CBS was nominated
as the most improved having
come up 2.8% from last year’s
0.7%. However, HBO’s “True
Blood” series remains the
most inclusive cable show with, count’em six, six LGBT
characters.
October 5, 2012. California’s recent ban on ‘Ex-gay’
therapy for minors already has two lawsuits seeking
to overturn the legislation. The Christian legal group,
Liberty Counsel filed a civil rights suit in federal court
naming two So-Cal boys, ages 14 and 15 who have
been undergoing ‘reparative therapy’ with psychologist,
Joseph Nicolosi. The suite claims the ban violates the
boys right to free speech and freedom of religion by
denying them the chance to be cured of “unwanted
same-sex attraction.” The Pacific Justice Institute filed
the second suit in Sacramento on behalf of a psychiatrist
and a marriage and family therapist and another man
who claims that ‘reparative therapy’ helped him. The
ban was signed in to law by Governor Jerry Brown who
stated that ‘ex-gay’ therapies, “have no basis in science
or medicine and they will now be relegated to the dust
bin of quackery.”
October 11, 2012. Continuing with the WTF this
month, organizers of the Anoka city Halloween parade
decline to allow Justin’s Gift, an LGBT teen suicide
prevention youth group, from walking the parade
because the parade was ‘full.’ Justin’s Gift was formed
after a string of gay teen suicides in the area, including
gay teenager Justin Aaberg who killed himself after
being the victim of anti-gay bullying. A petition was
started on the website, change.org to allow the group
to walk the parade. In the mean time, Justin’s Gift plans
to hold a Halloween dance as an alternative activity for
the students who had planned to be in the parade.
October 17, 2012. The India Times on-line reports that
there might be an “erotically charged” scene in recently
released “SkyFall” between a Javier Bardem’s bad guy
character, Silva and Daniel Craig’s James Bond. That
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is all.
October 18, 2012. Grundy County Deputy Clerk of
Court, Brigitte Van Nice of Iowa, is arrested at work
and charged with two counts of forgery and one count
of perjury for falsely officiating a wedding for two men
from Florida, even though she had not met the men and
they had not traveled to the state for the ceremony.
Investigators discovered the false certificate after one
of the men contacted an attorney in Florida for a
divorce. Van Nice came in contact with the men after
they searched the Internet for states to get a marriage
document in. The couple was unaware that you had
to be present in the state that you’re married in. Van
Nice is accused of filing a false document and forging the
signatures of the witnesses of the non-existent ceremony.
Van Nice charged the men $150 for her efforts.
October 18, 2012. A Gallup survey determines that
3.4% of American adults identify as LGBT. The survey,
considered one of the largest of its kind, interviewed
more than 121,000 people. Demographer, Gary Gates
of the UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute stated,
“Contemporary media often think of LGBT people
as disproportionately white, male, urban and pretty
wealthy. But this data reveals that the relative to the
general population, the LGBT population has a larger
proportion of nonwhite people who are clearly not
overly wealthy.” According to the survey, 4.6% of African
Americans identify as LGBT, 4% of Hispanics, 4.3% of
Asians, and 3.2% of whites. Unfortunately, the survey
failed to take into account the LGBT people who did
not want to acknowledge their sexual orientation during
the interviews.
October 21, 2012. Rep. Jan Pauls, a Democrat who
wrote the Kansas ban against same-sex marriage fears
for her safety this election year because as she states,
“They’re trying to intimidate and bully people who don’t
agree with them.” Of course, Pauls is speaking of the
nefarious gays in her district. Pauls has a 21 year history
of being a social conservative and casting several votes
against equal rights legislation for the LGBT community.
Pauls even compared herself to Gabby Giffords and
that her friends worry that she too will be shot, but
by a marauding homosexual gunman. Pauls has run
uncontested for over 20 years until August when, gasp,
an openly gay man ran against her, she won by eight votes.
This November she has a 20-year-old challenger, Dakota
Bass, who switched parties just so he could run against
her. So lets put Pauls in our prayers and hope that she
looses this year so that she may be spared from the fear
of the omnipotent GAY AGENDA [insert maniacal gay
laughter here].
October 23, 2012. Bill and Melinda Gates drop half
a million dollars on the gay marriage campaign in
Washington. Bill and Melinda donated 250,000K each
on the campaign that will be decided on Washington’s
November 6th ballot. That brings the total cash raised
in support of same-sex marriage to almost a 11 million
dollars. Washington voters will be asked to either
approve or reject gay marriage under Referendum 74.
October 23, 2012. The Illinois Dept. of Public Health
is no longer allowed to require applicants, who wish to
change their gender markers on the birth certificate,
to have genital reassignment surgery. There is still a
requirement to have some form of sexual reassignment
procedure, but the specifics of the required procedures
are left up to the individual’s physician. The policy change
comes as a result of a settlement reached in July in a
class action legal challenge involving three transgender
individuals who filed suit in 2010 after they were denied
corrected birth certificates from the IDPH because they
did not undergo genital surgery.
October 24, 2012. Helena residents pack the room at
a Helena City Commission administrative meeting to
discuss a proposed ordinance to prohibit discrimination
based on sexual orientation. The ordinance is heading
for a formal public hearing as the commissioners spent
the evening tying up loose ends. The commissioners, led
by Mayor Jim Smith, directed City Attorney Jeff Hindoien
to draw up a completed
draft that include the new
changes by the next city
commission administrative
meeting by October 31.
The commission will likely
address the ordinance by
December 3, and, if it moves
forward, have a public
hearing on December 17.
The ordinance was almost
dead a couple of weeks
ago when the MT Dept. of
Labor and Industry stated
that a federal ruling opened
the door of the MT Human
Rights Bureau to complaints
of discrimination based on
sexual orientation which
would have rendered
the ordinance seemingly
unnecessary. However,
the chief of the Human
Rights Bureau indicated last
week that the fates of such
complaints are in limbo.
October 24, 2012.
According to ABC.com
Chaz Bono is voted off
“Dancing with the Stars.”
Bono danced the tango
to the theme from “The
Phantom of the Opera,”
but still only received 19 points, the lowest score of the
evening. Oh well.
October 25, 2012. The two groups who represent
the LGBT community in the military, Servicemembers
Legal Defense Network and OutServe, are planning to
merge and have chosen Allyson Robinson to lead the
new organization. Robinson is a trans woman and an
Army veteran, having graduated from the U.S. Military
Academy in 1994. She also commanded a patriot missile
unit in Europe and the Middle East before resigning her
commission in 1999 to become a Christian minister.
Robinson’s selection for the post highlights that even
though DADT has been repealed they still feel that
work needs to be done, specifically the inclusion of
transgender military personnel and DOMA, which
prevents same-sex couples from receiving the same
benefits as of couples. Stated Robinson, “We cannot
stop until we reach the day when all qualified Americans
who wish to wear the uniform of our armed forces have
the opportunity to do so with honor and integrity and
without fear of discrimination or harassment-whether
they are gay, bisexual or transgender.”
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FOuntaIn OF
YOuth
by Ron Blake
Most of us exercise to maintain a youthful appearance or to feel younger than
our age. Get in a healthy mindset by turning back the clock and looking at all
the old memories. Retrieve those boxes of nostalgia from your elementary
school days. Life was so simple and so much fun when you were reading
comic books by flashlight on top of the bunk bed. It was also full of wellness
and promise for the future.
In a recent survey in Reader’s Digest, older adults said they would worry
much less about so many things in life if they had the chance to go back
and do it again. They looked at all those problems that were allegedly such
problems when they were in their prime adult working years. They now
realize it all wasn’t worth the additional stress they put upon themselves.
You are only a memory away from that youthful vigor and wellness. Get out
an old painting you did when you were in 2nd grade. Dust off the snowman
sculpture you created in art class when you were 9 years old. Look at the
class picture from 1980 and imagine being back in a time when all that
mattered was the baseball game at the next recess.
Find your Peter Pan moment and use it to create your current foundation
for healthiness and happiness. I will share a poem I wrote in the fall of 1978
in Mrs. McCollough’s 4th grade class at Foreman Elementary back in Hobart,
Indiana. It reminds me of all that was good back then…and still can be now.
What is Orange?
Orange is a firecracker glowing at night.
Orange is the sunset sparkling so bright.
Orange is the flame after a rocket ship.
Orange is the pumpkin that can hop and skip.
Orange is the car painted so beautiful.
Orange is your hair on your skull.
Orange is the leaves that fall off trees.
Orange is the stripes on cougars, tigers, and bees.
Orange is a rainbow so bright and clear.
Orange is the paint you smudge and smear.
It’s 3:15PM and the bell is about to ring; I’ve got to go now. My friends Rick
and Dave already have their jackets and homework in hand and are lining up
at the door. The crisp autumn air and the afternoon possibilities await our
arrival outside. Life is really good!
This wellness article is brought to you by that guy with diamond dreams.
That guy with his hat of hope is Ron Blake and he can be found wishing upon
a star at rblake5551@hotmail.com.
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s I s s y
SPaceShIP
breakS It dOWn
rYan MurPhY:
When caMP and
cOMMercIal cOllIde
by Sissy Spaceship
Camp is defined by www.dictionary.com as the following:
“Something that provides sophisticated, knowing
amusement, as by virtue of its being artlessly mannered
or stylized, self-consciously artificial and extravagant,
or teasingly ingenuous and sentimental.” In the 1960s
and 70s, the face of camp in the mainstream was Paul
Lynde, and occasionally, Liberace. In the 1980s and 90s,
that mantle was snatched up by John Waters. Today, the
legacy of camp has infiltrated the mainstream thanks
to Ryan Murphy, the writer/director/producer, who is
responsible for such television programs as “Nip/Tuck,”
and “Glee,” and such cinematic disasters as “Running
With Scissors” and “Eat/Pray/Love.” His is a story
worth explicating, because it says so much about the
attention span of our society, and how camp can collide
with popular culture in spectacular ways, and crash and
burn just as tremendously.
I have always believed that Ryan Murphy was
hatched from a glittery space egg, or was discovered
like a foundling, under a coke-strewn table at Studio
54. However, Murphy, creator of some of the most
gay-friendly and groundbreaking television in our time,
was actually hatched in not-so-fabulous Indianapolis.
He was born relatively normal, and attended Catholic
school, which seems to be a breeding ground for most
ambassadors of Camp. His mother, a former beauty
queen, forced her children to hang out with nuns, and
often included them on family vacations. As a child,
Ryan recalled sleeping in a single bed with a nun in a
hotel room in Florida. Thus, it is not surprising that he
turned out to be a homosexual.
Murphy started his career as a journalist, and
eventually worked at Entertainment Weekly, a magazine
that has proven to be a gay incubator. He began
writing scripts in his free time, and his first completed
film project (rejected by none other than Steven
Spielberg himself) was titled “Why Can’t I Be Audrey
Hepburn?”-- Which I believe is the inner bumper
sticker of most gay men.
In 1998, Murphy earned a production deal at the
fledgling WB Network, home of “Dawson’s Creek” and
“Buffy The Vampire Slayer.” His show, “Popular,” was
a perfect fit—a snarky, outrageous depiction of high
school. It lasted for one season, mostly because the
teenaged girls that tuned in to watch James Van Der
Beek could not grasp irony. Murphy parlayed the good
notices from “Popular” to get a shot to develop a show
on another young network, FX. Ryan came up with
“Nip/Tuck,” and television was never the same again.
“Nip/Tuck” was the first of its kind—compelling
enough to hook the soap opera lover, but delivered
with an arched brow, filtered through a surrealistic,
outrageous lens. There was nothing else like it on
television. The story of two plastic surgeons (who
were in all actuality, the first mainstream “bromance”),
“Nip/Tuck” featured outré storylines, but was somehow
believable, and compulsively watchable. Every episode
was structured around some sort of freakshow plastic
surgery disaster, and the two hot male plastic surgeons
photo by Gage Skidmore
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would interrogate each new patient at the start of
the episode with “Tell me what you don’t like about
yourself.” For self-loathing gays, this was catharsis; for
self-confident gays, this was fabulous. The first few
seasons were absolutely brilliant, and “Nip/Tuck” was
in all actuality the first mainstream show to successfully
deal with plots that included transgender characters.
(Willam Belli, probably the finest contestant to ever
compete on “Rupaul’s Drag Race” featured in a string
of unforgettable episodes about gay bashing.)
Sexuality was over the top on “Nip/Tuck,” but
unfortunately, so was the tone. The charm of the show
was the absence of soul, but it proved to be its undoing,
as well. We just stopped caring about the characters.
There were no heart-warming episodes, because the
heart had been surgically removed. When success
hit Ryan Murphy, his singular vision was derailed as
the money started coming in. “Nip/Tuck” was nearly
unwatchable by the time the show re-jiggered and
relocated the surgeons to California. It ended with a
kinky whisper. (During the early 2000s, queer show
runners had a renaissance: Alan Ball brought us “Six
Feet Under,” and Marc Cherry brought us “Desperate
Housewives,” two shows that successfully married
camp, outrageous behavior, soap opera, and heart.
Murphy could never quite get that combination right.)
During the heyday of “Nip/Tuck,” Murphy bought
the rights to the cinematic adaptation of “Running
With Scissors,” the superb queer memoir written by
Augusten Burroughs. Ryan stacked the movie with a
stellar cast—Gwyneth Paltrow, Jill Clayburgh, Annette
Bening, and Alec Baldwin—but the end result was a
resounding disappointment. Murphy seemed invested
in the subversive themes of the book and in the
minutiae of props from the 1970s, but he lost the depth
and resonance entirely. At times, the film seemed to
have been directed by a dirty minded grade school boy.
When the movie tanked, Ryan went back to his
television roots, and came up with a doozy: “Glee.”
Murphy merged camp and the zeniths of top 40
pop culture, and came up with a show that is striking
in its originality, and utterly ballsy in its progressive
nature. “Glee” is essentially a musical/drama/comedy
hybrid, and at its best, it is better than anything else
on television, but unfortunately, it can also be an utter
train-wreck. The show unleashed the brilliant Chris
Colfer upon the world, an openly gay young actor
portraying an openly gay high school student, and Jane
Lynch, the massively underrated lesbian character
actress, devouring each scene as a genderless, evil
shrew. “Glee” was the first of Murphy’s shows to have
a soul—the scenes between Colfer and Mike O’Malley,
who plays Colfer’s awesomely accepting father, always
make me cry.
Colfer won an Emmy for Best Supporting Actor,
and he took pains to thank all of the bullied gay kids
in his acceptance speech; Lynch, predictably won
Best Supporting Actress, and she gets extra credit
for wearing bejeweled track pants on the red carpet.
“Glee” is essentially about Broadway babies, an unlikely
group to root for, but somehow the outcast, teenaged
glee club became a cultural touchstone. It was a huge
commercial hit—it landed on the cover of Rolling Stone,
and sold millions upon millions of i-Tunes downloads.
It also introduced the Murphy trademark of providing
a halfway house for A-list divas looking to rehab their
image. Gwyneth, Kate Hudson, Lindsay Lohan and
Ricky Martin have all provided delicious guest starring
performances, especially Gwyneth, who finally lived up
to her gay-icon potential.
One awesome side effect of “Glee” was the
introduction of show tune standards to young
teenagers—I never in my wildest dreams thought a
mainstream show could contain homages to “Cabaret,”
“West Side Story,” “Funny Girl,” “Les Miserables,”
“Rent,” and “Wicked.” There was an entire episode
devoted to the “Rocky Horror Picture Show.” There
was talk of scissoring, and an episode narrated by
Dame Helen Mirren, providing the interior monologue
of a character with a developmental disability. Most
fabulously of all, the gay characters were not saints and
martyrs; they were complicated, and sometimes sinister,
but not in the traditional Hollywood predatory way.
Murphy’s distractions started in Season 2—“Glee”
went awry when Murphy got some Hollywood power
back, and moved on to other projects. The show was
derailed by the orphaned writing staff, who engaged in
the worst kind of after-school special treacle. Entire
plot threads were forgotten; characters would change
personality traits in the middle of an episode, and most
unforgivably, the show became predictable.
Ryan’s distraction at the time was “Eat/Pray/Love,”
the adaptation of another beloved book—the movie
managed to make Julia Roberts appear even more uninteresting
and self-involved than she is in real life. It
tanked.
Murphy, however, was unstoppable—“The Glee
Project” began airing in 2010—here was the reality
show version of the casting couch. Murphy’s only role
on the show was that of judge—real life kids competed
week after week for a guest starring role on “Glee,” and
I’ll be damned if it isn’t one of the best reality shows on
television. There was no camp here, just earnestness
and choreography. Murphy could not ruin it, because
it was not his show—his comments as a judge revealed
just how bitchy and distracted he is in real life. It is
telling that the winners of both seasons were hot,
straight young men, as Murphy had the ultimate say.
But thank god for Murphy’s obsession with man
candy—“American Horror Story” began airing on FX,
and was full of male nudity. Dylan McDermott, crying,
naked and masturbating in front of an open window:
does it get any better than that? Airing on FX, “AHS”
was an immediate sensation—Murphy fully unleashed,
finally. It was not only campy, it was filthy and cluttered
with sexual fetishes. I adore it. When working in a
specific genre, in this case horror, Murphy is at his
best. There is no real world, everything is unbelievable
and audacious, and it’s okay. Jessica Lange continued
Murphy’s hot streak with diva re-invention, and Connie
Britton proved that she was willing to do ANYTHING,
and us gay men got to fall in love with her all over again,
as we were still broken hearted after the cancellation
of the hunktastic “Friday Night Lights.” “AHS” is
twisted and dark and fantastic, mostly because it is selfcontained—each
season is essentially a mini-series, and
meticulously plotted beforehand. Sex with ghosts and
sex with strangers in gimp suits, as well as gay men
flipping houses: These are a few of our favorite things.
Even my straight Republican sister adores the show—I
pray that Murphy doesn’t fuck up Season 2.
I tuned into Murphy’s most recent offering, the gaythemed
sitcom “The New Normal.” While it is well
intentioned, it has been focus grouped to death. It’s
offensive to me because it is so inoffensive. I want it to
succeed, but not enough to carve out the DVR space.
Because I am a Bitter Betty, I asked my friend Laramie,
who has the same issues with “Glee” as I do, for a
much kinder perspective. According to Laramie: “”The
New Normal’” successfully showcases a married gay
male couple—albeit a gay, upper class couple—as they
begin the long journey toward parenthood. As a newly
married gay man myself, one of the things I most love
about the show is the feeling of legitimacy my husband
and I experience by watching a couple, similar to us in
many ways, fight the same battles we fight, laugh like
we laugh, and kiss like we kiss. There’s a lot of reason
to celebrate Murphy’s newest series, despite some
freshman year flaws.”
For me, a glimmer of hope arrived last week with
the Season 4 premiere of “Glee,” which was actually
much, much better than any of Season 3. Let’s
hope Murphy can sustain the magic. If not, I beg the
television gods to let him take over “True Blood,” or
“Dexter,” or “Dallas,” all shows within his skill sets—
the supernatural, the deviant, the soap opera. Unleash
that man on cable television, and he’s magic.
Ultimately, Ryan Murphy represents the best
and worst of gay male culture—he excels at camp,
at showmanship, at razzle dazzle, at music, at the
objectification of the male body. He fails miserably
when he attempts to preach, when he defaults to shock
for the sake of shock alone, and when his attention
span is diverted.
Murphy has done so much for television, and for
the visibility of the queer lifestyle in mainstream media.
Here’s hoping that he finds another nun to be near him
at all times and keep him on track.
Out Words 7

The friNge oN
The ouTskirTs
VacaTioN
By J. Steven
Shortly after writing and submitting my last column
Ben and I left Montana to spend two weeks of absolute
bliss camping and hiking in the Canadian Rockies.
To anyone who had been to those mountains, mere
mention of them evokes images of miles and miles
of rugged, jagged peaks so magnificent and numerous
it seems as though the gods took all the best peaks
from around the world and pressed them all together
along the border of Alberta and British Columbia. To
anyone who has not seen them it is very difficult to
describe them without sounding redundant, maudlin
and semi-illiterate with gross abuse of hyperventilating
superlatives.
Undoubtedly my instant, intense love-at-firstsight
response to the Canadian Rockies was partly
due to being in that unreal and unrealistic state of
being called vacation. Ben and I camped every night
in our tent, cooked our dinners and breakfasts on a
Coleman stove in the open air, and ate lunch as we
hiked on as many days as we could have. We both love
hiking as much as we love anything, so the time up
north was spent entirely doing nothing but providing
for our most basic needs of food and water to do only
that which we dearly love to do.
Were it possible, we could joyfully live that way
for the rest of our lives – or at least for as long as our
bodies have enough vigor to hike in the mountains.
The unreality of that fantasy, of course, is that we were
spending money we had previously earned and saved
and were not doing anything to replace it. I have often
believed I could have been happier if I was living in a
different time or place far, far away; but while we were
in the Canadian Rockies there was no other time or
place in the entire universe I could have preferred.
I was high on life and there was no other life more
worthwhile than my own.
When we drove south out of Banff toward
Waterton National Park to spend our last night in
Canada, I felt a nearly overwhelming sense of grief.
At that point I realized that if it was possible I not
only could live a life of camping and hiking every
day, some deep part of me seriously wanted that as
a permanent lifestyle. We camped two nights in the
Lewis and Clark National Forest and got in one last
hike up to the border of the Bob Marshall Wilderness
before heading home, but the closer we got to home,
the less grief I felt and the more I began to think about
being back home and taking care of things there.
At the time I’m writing this column Ben and I
have been home for nearly a month and I still think of
those mountains every day. They were truly beautiful
and during quiet moments my mind quickly and easily
brings back the peaks, valleys, glaciers, creeks, rivers,
and high mountain lakes as well as the trails we hiked
to see them all. But while the mountain ranges up
north have more picturesque peaks than ours have
here, I can look out the studio windows every day
right from home and gaze upon mountains I love even
more deeply than I love the glitter and glitz of the
Canadian Rockies. Ben and I would both go back to
Canada in a hasty moment to explore deeper and
farther, but I am a part of these Montana mountains
and they are part of me. And not only that, all the
people we love and who love us are close by us here.
Ben and I are finished with our summer landscape
work and are back into the pottery studio full time
again, leading our monastic lifestyle of providing for
our most basic needs by feeding ourselves with the
fruit of our labors in the garden so we can do the
work we both love so dearly, but which also sustains
us and our lifestyle through the winter.
It doesn’t take much thinking to know I couldn’t
be happy trading this lifestyle for any other. Sometimes
a happy, albeit inevitably temporary, moment tricks me
into forgetting how good our life is. There are issues
that get me down – politics, irrational and intolerant
neighbors, national screamers – but none of them has
anything to do with or even any real effect on my
personal lifestyle, which is the only thing I have that
is truly my own. Yes, on occasion I have an unrealistic
view of almost anyplace else being better than where
I’m at because of some beautiful vignette which my
imagination allows me, in a moment of frustration, to
believe shows the entire life of a place, but I know
perfectly well, when I allow myself to think it through,
that every other place on this earth has problems
of its own. Perhaps someday, then, I’ll learn to stop
complaining and wishing away everything I love for
something unreal, unrealistic and a long way from the
only place I can honestly call home.
Check out more from J. Steven at http://beyondthecrux.
blogspot.com
Out Words 8

ask lamBda legal
Blood
doNaTioNs
by Scott Schoettes, HIV Project Director for
Lambda Legal
Q; : I’m a gay man and have wanted to donate
blood for some time. I heard the policy banning
blood donations from men who have sex with men
may be changing, is that true?
A: Since 1983, gay men have been banned from
donating blood – the actual policy says that if
you are a man and have had sex with another
man since 1977, you are not allowed to give.
While intended to minimize transmission of HIV
through a blood transfusion, this discriminatory
policy is not supported by medical science.
Earlier this year, the Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) asked for comments
on a pilot study to assess alternative policies
that would allow some gay and bisexual men
to donate blood. In the pilot program, men
who have sex with men (MSM) would be able
to donate blood after a five-year or one-year
waiting period after their last sexual encounter
with a man. Lambda Legal and a number of other
HIV and LGBT advocacy organizations recently
submitted comments to HHS about how to
improve the pilot program because it does not
adequately differentiate between lower and
higher risk sexual behaviors and its proposal of
a five-year or one-year deferral period isn’t in
line with current medical science.
Regardless of sexual orientation, the risk of
acquiring a sexually transmitted infection like
HIV varies based upon the frequency and type
of sexual behavior, as well as an individual’s safesex
practices. Therefore, screening questions
should identify those who are at low risk for
HIV and other sexually transmitted infections—
including MSM who are in monogamous
relationships or those who consistently practice
safer sex— and allow them to donate blood.
In addition, Lambda Legal strongly suggests
that the waiting period for all donors whose
behavior is considered higher risk be consistent
with—and not significantly longer than—the
“window” period of a blood bank’s testing
method. For some HIV tests, the window period
for HIV detection can be as short as three
weeks, while other HIV tests have a window
period of about three months. For all available
HIV testing, however, the waiting period would
be considerably shorter than the one-year or
five-year delays currently proposed. Deferral
periods that are four to fifteen times the length
of the relevant window period will continue to
unnecessarily restrict the available blood supply
by turning away donors based on stereotypes
instead of science.
While no changes have yet been made to the
blood donation policy, we are hopeful that HHS
will adopt new policies based on current medical
knowledge and testing technology, instead of
unjustified discriminatory stereotypes about
gay and bisexual men.
If you have any questions, or feel you have been
discriminated against because of your gender,
sexual orientation, or HIV status, contact Lambda
Legal’s Help Desk at 1-866-542-8336, or see
http://lambdalegal.org/help
Out Words 9

KIsMIF
Keep It Simple Make It Fun AA meeting for gay
lesbian transgender queer intersex and friends every
Monday 7 - p.m. at UCC 405 University Avenue.
Contact Randy at 406- 542-4744
Gay Men’s Chorus
Meeting every Monday 7 - 9 p.m. at The Center,
127 N. Higgins Ave., Suite 202 - Contact Gary at
406-370-9876
Gay Men’s Task Force
406-829-8075
Imperial Sovereign court of the State of
Montana
Call Rosalinda de la Luna at 406-499-0078 or visit:
http://www.iscsm.org
keep It Simple al-anon Family Group
LGBT and friends meeting every Thursday 5:30 -
6:30 p.m. at 1st Methodist Church, 300 E. Main, alley
entrance, classroom 3. Contact Randy at 406- 542-
4744
living Forward Group: Men Who are living With
hIV
Meet Wednesday evenings 7 - 9 p.m. Call Andrew
Laue at 406-327-9445
Open aid alliance
406-543-4770
Open aid alliance housing assistance
Program
Short-term and long-term housing assistance is
available for HIV+ individuals living in Western MT.
Call Annette or Jordan at 543-4770.
Missoula city health department
406-258-4745
Missoula PFlaG
pflagmissoula@gmail.com or 406-240-2881.
Officer nicole Pifari
LGBTI Liaison Officer Missoula Police Department
435 Ryman Street • Missoula, MT 59802
(406) 552-6300 (main)
Outfield alliance
A Coalition of LGBTI faculty, graduate students, staff
and their supporters at the University of Montana.
Email caseycharles@umontana.edu or call 406-243-
2762
Transgender support Group
Contact the Clinical Psychology Center at (406)-
243-2367 and ask for Nick or Leslie.
youth Forward
youthforward@ncbimissoula.org
u of M lambda alliance
406-243-5922
university congregational church
405 University Avenue, Missoula
http://www.uccmsla.org • 406-543-6952
commuNiTy resourcesMissoula
Montana
bozeman GlbtIQ resource center
www.BozemanRC.org, 406-600-3608,
info@BozemanRC.org
Butte Men’s support Group
Last Monday of the month 406-491-1378 or 406-490-
6125
Butte AIDs support services
Meets 2nd Wednesday of each month at Blaine
Center BASS office. Call Rick 406-491-1378 or 406-
490-6125. www.buttebassonline.org
Flathead Valley Gay alliance
www.flatheadvalleygayalliance.org • 406-794-FVGA
Flathead Valley PFlaG
Call Robert Blair @ (406) 890-0173
Gallatin Valley human rights task Force
www.EmbraceDiversity.org
Glacier unitarian universalists Fellowship
www.glacieruu.org • 406-755-9255
hamilton PFlaG
Monthly Chapter Meetings. Every 4th Thursday @
7 P.M. Contact Terry at 406-363-7656 for more
information.
hIV Positive Support Group - butte
For information call 406-491-1378 or 406-490-6125
for time and location.
hIV Positive Support Group - helena
Meets monthly-Call Greg at 596-2013 for more info
lewis & clark aIdS Project
530 S. Harris • Helena • 406-447-6030
Metropolitan community church
1220 17th Street South • Great Falls
406-771-1070 • www. mccmontana.org
Rev. Gina L. Hartung, Pastor
Sunday Worship: 10:30 a.m.
E-mail: bishman59401@hotmail.com
Montana department of Public health &
human Services
www.dphhs.state.mt.us/hpsd
Open hands Foundation - Great Falls
www.openhandsfoundation.org • 406-868-8382
PFlaG Great Falls/Golden triangle
Meets on the 3rd Tue. of each month at the MCC
Church located at 1220 17th St. So. (406) 868-1064.
QSa - MSu
www.montana.edu/qsa •406-994-4636
Seeker’s harbor Faith community
Billings
www.seekersharbor.org • 406-661-1584
S.h.O.u.t aIdS (Students helping Others
understand teen aids) meets every Thursday
in BILLINGS at the yap office at 4pm ages 15-24. Any
questions contact Dustin (406)-591-0169
Yellowstone aIdS Project housing
assistance Program
Becky Taylor • beckyt@yapmt.org
Victorian – hIV testing
406- 245-4293
Yellowstone city-county health
department
406-247-3376
Yellowstone aids Project
406-245-2029
Pacific northwest &
national resources
advocates for Youth
www.advocatesforyouth.org
AEGIs: AIDs Education Global
Information Systems
www.endAIDSnow.org
Gay Men’s health crisis
www.gmhc.org
human rights campaign
www.hrc.org
Out Spokane
www.outspokane.com
Pacific northwest Gay rodeo association
www.pacificnwgra.org
Pride Foundation
www.pridefoundation.org
Wyoming rural aIdS Prevention Project
www.wrapp.net
Do you have LGBTI resources you want listed?
Email us by the 20th of each month for the next
issue!
Serving the
LGBTIQ
Community
Since 1998
The Western
Montana
CommunityCenter
Weekly Events
Thursday
7 p.m. -
Gay Men Together, A safe and affirming place for gay &
bisexual men to meet.
Friday (except 1st Fridays)
6:30 p.m.
Womyn’s Night for persons who identify as women, twospirit,
or gender non-conforming & are interested in
spending time with other womyn.

Recurring Events Around
Montana
Center Board Meeting, 3 rd Wednesday,
6 p.m. at the Center [Missoula]
christian lGbtI Support Group meets on the 4th Wednesday of the month
7p.m. at the Center [Missoula]
lGbtI community Potluck, 3 rd Saturday every month, 7 p.m. at the University
Congregational Church - Fireside Room (405 University Avenue) [Missoula]
PFlaG Missoula / Five Valleys meeting, 3 rd Saturday every month prior to
potluck at the University Congregational Church, call 406-721-5013 or 406-541-0163
for more information. [Missoula]
hIV+ Monthly dinner, 3 rd Tuesday of every month, 6:30 p.m. at the University
Congregational Church, call Mike or Annette at 543-4770 [Missoula]
Gay & lesbian aa Meeting, every Monday 7 to 8:30 p.m., call Randy at 406-
726-3525 [Missoula]
keep It Simple / al-anon Family Group LGBT and friends meeting
every Thursday 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. at 1st Methodist Church, 300 E. Main, alley entrance,
classroom 3. Contact Randy at 406-726-3525 [Missoula]
university of Montana laMbda alliance General Meetings, every
Tuesday, 7 p.m. at the UC (Room 330), call 406-243-5922 for more information.
[Missoula]
living Forward Group: Men Who are living With hIV, every
Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m., call Andrew Laue, LCSW for more information at 406-
327-9445. [Missoula]
hot Springs, Montana, a Gay & bisexual Men’s Support Group
meets on Sunday evenings at 6 p.m.. Call 741-2810 for directions and information.
[Missoula]
youth Forward meets the every Tuesday at the NCBI Office from 5:30-7:30pm
Capitol City Gay Men meet every Thursday at 7pm. Location: 80 East
Lawrence Street, Room 105, Helena MT 59601. For more information visit www.
capitalcitygaymen.org [Helena]
Women’s coffee and chat meets on Thursdays at 7 p.m. Location: Fireside
Coffee House 1446 Euclid Ave, [Helena]
Women’s Potluck, 1st Wednesday of the month at 6:30pm. Location changes.
Contact Sandy at 406-442-0200. [Helena]
Glbt Open aa Meeting Every Thursday 7:30 p.m.
1417 13 St. West. Call Duane Nez at 406-861-8478 [Billings]
Cancer Patient support Group Every Other Friday: 12 p.m. 2835 Fort
Missoula Rd., Ste. 301, Call Joni or Susie at 406-721-1118 E-mail joni@drjudyschmidt.
com [Missoula]
Billings AIDspirit Meeting 2nd Tuesday of the month at Holy Rosary Church,
521 Custer at 7:00 p.m. [Billings]
billings PFlaG Meeting 2nd Wednesday of the month held at the UCC
Church in Conference office located at 2016 Alderson at 7:00 p.m [Billings]
Client Advisory Board Meeting 4th Monday of the Month at YAP at 6:00
PM [Billings]
POZ night Monthly opportunity for socializing and fun! For more information
contact the Client Action Body at cab@yapmt.org or staff at (406) 245-2029. [Billings]
community night at Julian’s bar happens the last Saturday of the month. [Butte]
QSa General Forum Meetings Every Monday In the Strand Union Building
room 276 at 7 p.m. [Bozeman]
JavaQ coffee Social - 7 p.m., every first, third, and fifth Thursday at International
Coffee Traders, 720 S 10th Ave. [Bozeman]
the bozeman resource center bi-weekly meetings. At International Coffee
Traders, 720 S 10th Ave, the 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month. Contact John at
600-3608 or at info@bozemanrc.org [Bozeman]
bozeman PFlaG Meeting 2nd Thursday of the month. Check out:
bozemanpflag.com for more information. [Bozeman]
bozeman hIV/aIdS Support Group meets the 1st Monday of each month.
Call Greg at 406-596-2013 for time and location. [Bozeman]
Poz affected Pot luck occurs on the 3rd Sunday of each month in
BOZEMAN. Contact AIDS Outreach at 406-551-1016 for details.[Bozeman]
Flathead Valley Gay alliance monthly meeting, 1st Tuesday of the month at 7
p.m. in the Flathead Count Library basement. [Kalispell]
Flathead Valley PFlaG 4th Tuesday of every month at the Flathead Valley United
Christ of Christ. Call Roger Blair (406) 890-0173 [Kalispell]
Pride committee meeting every Sunday – Call Dee or DJ at 756-0050 for time
and location – volunteers needed [Kalispell]
eVentS:
Friday, November 2: The Western Montana
Community Center hosts, the Trans-Lives Art
Exhibit for First Friday at 127 N. Higgins Ave, Suite
202, Missoula, MT. 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Free.
Saturday, November 3: I.S.C.S.M hosts Investiture
Drag Show, “Let the Ride Begin” at The Broadway Inn,
1609 W. Broadway St., Missoula, MT. Tis the time that
we get the honor to introduce the Imperial Family
of Reign 18 of the I.S.C.S.M. and officially let the ride
of this year begin. So come out for a fun night of
Drag entertainment followed by dancing with music
provided by DJ Tigerlilly. Cover is 18-20 $10, 21+ $5.
Door at 9:00 p.m. Show at 10:00 p.m. Protocol for
open performances 9:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Tuesday, November 6: Election Night! The Missoula
County Democrats will be hosting a Chili Feed at
the Union Club Bar, 208 E. Main St, in Missoula, MT
at 7:00 p.m. So get your feed on and watch your
local favorites and federal mainstays duke it out on
prime time. No cover.
Friday, November 9: The Fish Stix-Settle Down!
The Fish Stix are returning to Billings and The Loft.
Stop down and enjoy your favorite entertainers
including Jennifer Jett, Lana Caine, Falesha Savage,
Domonique Divamoore, and Erica Joy as they tear
up the dance floor. Doors at 8:00 p.m, show at 9:00
p.m. $10 cover. The Loft Night Club, 1123 1st Ave.
N, Billings, MT.
Saturday, November 10: Night two of the Fish Stix,
“We Run the Night.” Find all those girls bringing
Billings to its knees a second night in a row with
the likes of Domonique, Erica, Jennifer, Falesha, and
Lana. Doors at 8:00 p.m., show at 9:00 p.m. The
Loft Night Club, 1123 1st Ave. N, Billings, MT.
Tuesday, November 13: Pride Foundation hosts a
Scholarship Application Training at the UM. Learn
how to craft a stellar scholarship application at
this one-hour training during the Lambda Alliance
meeting. High school seniors and non-UM students
pursuing post-secondary education are welcome
join. Meet in room 326 in the U.C. Center at 7:00
p.m. 32 Campus Drive, Missoula, MT. Contact Caitlin
at Caitlin@pridefoundation.org for more info.
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, November 15-17:
The Broads are back with an all-new show. And
literally “back” this time, as writer-directors Katie
Goodman and Soren Kisiel are in New York with
Katie’s solo show running at several venues across
Manhattan including in the NY Comedy Festival
with the likes of Robin Williams and, well, everyone
you’ve ever heard of. If you haven’t seen ‘em, Broad
Comedy is Bozeman’s loveable and provocative
women’s musical satire and sketch comedy show.
See them at The Emerson Center, in Bozeman, MT.
All shows start at 8:00 p.m..
Friday, November 16: MontanaTDOR hosts the 4th
Annual Transgender Day of Recognition in Missoula,
MT. This year’s event is to feature many new aspects
and is fully inclusive of all gender identities. Events
include a Trans-Lives Art Exhibit, Tabling at the UC,
several workshops, a panel discussion, and candle
light vigil. Please check for times and locations on
MontanaTDOR’s Facebook events page at www.
facebook.com/Montanatdor.
Saturday, November 17: The Western Montana
Community Center hosts “A Very Merry Time”
Twelfth Annual Holiday Soiree at Caras Nursery
and Landscape, 2727 3rd St. W. in Missoula, MT. 6:00
p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Each year in November, Caras
Nursery is kind enough to allow WMCC to take
over their space for a night to raise funds for the
Center. A portion of all proceeds from holiday
ornaments and decorations is donated back to
the Center if purchased during the evening. Board
Members, volunteers and staff are usually on hand
to provide entertainment and social interaction.
Thursday, November 22. Lambda Alliance will be
hosting its 2nd Annual Queergiving for those who
will be in Missoula, MT over Thanksgiving. This
will be a potluck style dinner and all are welcome.
Please contact Lambda Alliance for location and
time at umlambda@gmail.com.
Sunday, November 23: The WMCC will be hosting its
first Black & White Planning Committee meeting at
3:00 p.m. at 127 N. Higgins, Suite 202 in Missoula, MT.
Our annual Black & White Ball and Black & White
After Hours Party serve collectively as the Center’s
annual fundraiser and help the Center to provide its
space, resources, OutWords and one of the largest
LGBTQQI lending libraries in the state. For more
info please check it out www.gaymontana.org.
Friday, November 30. Join AIDS Outreach of Bozeman
for the Second Annual Red Ribbon Ball. This charity
event, which coincides with World Aids Day 2012, will
take place in the Emerson Cultural Center Ballroom
at 111 S. Grand Ave, Bozeman, MT, from 7:00 p.m. to
11:00 p.m. Funds raised from the event will support
the mission of AIDS Outreach throughout the year.
Please visit www.aidsoutreachmt.org for ticket prices
and sponsor information.

A very merry time
The 12th Annual Holiday Soiree
Saturday, November 17
Caraas Nursery
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Proceeds benefit :