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photo by Mike Robinson<br />
JANUARY<br />
Vol. 2, No. 1, 2003<br />
© 2003 <strong>Out</strong> and <strong>About</strong> <strong>Nashville</strong>, Inc.<br />
by Jerry Jones<br />
O&AN Publisher<br />
Metro Council members will consider<br />
whether or not to include <strong>sexual</strong> <strong>orientation</strong><br />
and disabilities in the Metropolitan Code<br />
Fair Employment and Housing Practices at<br />
it’s January 21st meeting.<br />
It will be the third and final reading of the<br />
proposed <strong>ordinance</strong>, which passed by voice<br />
vote on the first reading and 26-2 with two<br />
abstentions and nine council members<br />
absent or out of the chamber on the second<br />
reading.<br />
SEE PAGE 16<br />
If approved, an employer,<br />
employment agency, or labor<br />
organization may not deny<br />
employment or discriminate on<br />
the basis of <strong>sexual</strong> <strong>orientation</strong><br />
or disability within the area of<br />
the Metropolitan Government.<br />
"I was very pleased that 26<br />
council members voted for the<br />
bill on second reading," said<br />
Council-at-large member Chris<br />
Ferrell, who also co-sponsored<br />
the bill with Eileen Beehan. "If<br />
they all vote for it again on<br />
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Comic book character<br />
comes out of the saddle<br />
Everything old is new again<br />
The monthly newspaper serving the GLBT <strong>Nashville</strong> community<br />
SEE PAGE 23<br />
Moving On<br />
Meet Blake - gay trucker,<br />
Desert Storm veteran<br />
third reading we will have<br />
Relations Commission to inves-<br />
enough votes to adopt the bill."<br />
tigate complaints involving<br />
Ferrell said he had been<br />
housing and employment if they<br />
approached by a number of<br />
are discriminated against<br />
people in the GLBT communi-<br />
because of <strong>sexual</strong> <strong>orientation</strong> or<br />
Ferrell<br />
ty who asked that he pursue<br />
the bill.<br />
Derryberrry<br />
disability. However, beyond that,<br />
little could be done. It would<br />
Tucker<br />
"A number of people in the GLBT com- require a state law to send such a matter<br />
munity asked me to pursue doing this before through the court system. The Human<br />
the end of my term next summer," he Relations Commission is scheduled to discuss<br />
explained. "Eileen Beehan and I decided this<br />
was a good time to bring it to the council<br />
the proposal at its January 6th meeting.<br />
Beenhan<br />
and put the bill together."<br />
The act would allow the Metro Human<br />
continued on page 2<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong> pride committee<br />
restructures organization<br />
by Brent Meredith<br />
O&AN Managing Editor<br />
www.outandaboutnashville.com<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong> <strong>considers</strong> <strong>sexual</strong> <strong>orientation</strong> <strong>ordinance</strong><br />
Derryberry, Tucker vote no, cite religious concerns<br />
Teresa Weidner in the workshop.<br />
Enter to win a room redesign compliments of<br />
Changing Spaces and <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>About</strong> <strong>Nashville</strong>.<br />
See pg. 4 for complete details.<br />
by Brent Meredith<br />
O&AN Managing Editor<br />
Change is good. Without change life gets stale,<br />
predictable and just down right boring. Local<br />
redesign expert Teresa Truitt Weidner specializes<br />
in change. Weidner's company, Changing Spaces,<br />
can give your home a fresh new look using your<br />
existing furniture and accessories, and they can<br />
do it in just one day.<br />
Weidner founded Changing Space a year and a<br />
half ago, after a successful career in the travel<br />
industry. She has always had a passion for decorating,<br />
but didn't actively pursue her dream until<br />
she was laid off from American Express travel.<br />
Weidner quickly decided it was time to follow her<br />
dream and took a redesign class in Chicago,<br />
where she gained her professional status as a<br />
redesigner.<br />
Weidner attributes much of her current creative<br />
flare to her many experiences while traveling the<br />
globe. "I stayed in the travel industry for 16 years<br />
because of the benefits of seeing every country<br />
that I wanted to," said Weidner. "It enabled me to<br />
experience all types of cultures and design across<br />
the world."<br />
Diversity and flexibility are major factors in<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong> Pride continues to<br />
experience many changes.<br />
OPEN (Our Pride Encompasses<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>), the organization<br />
responsible for planning the<br />
events, is no exception. To<br />
effectively provide the type of<br />
event a city the size of <strong>Nashville</strong><br />
deserves, the non-profit group's<br />
board of directors has completely<br />
restructured, with the first results<br />
being a new name and logo.<br />
Effective Jan. 1, the organization<br />
will operate under the name<br />
"<strong>Nashville</strong> Pride, Inc." "Our old<br />
name was good and served a<br />
valuable purpose," said <strong>Nashville</strong><br />
Pride president Pam Wheeler. "It<br />
demonstrated the group's open<br />
door policy."<br />
Wheeler continued by saying<br />
that the open door policy will<br />
always stay with the organization,<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong> Pride’s new logo.<br />
but the group felt the new name<br />
would be more recognizable for<br />
community members and potential<br />
sponsors. "We wanted our<br />
name to clearly define who we<br />
are and what we do. We looked at<br />
pride committees across the<br />
country and the trend was to<br />
incorporate the name of the city<br />
or region into the name of the<br />
organization."<br />
Once the board chose a new<br />
name they began the process of<br />
picking a new logo. To gain a<br />
continued on page 4 continued on page 15
2 • OUT & ABOUT NASHVILLE • JANUARY, 2003<br />
O&AN<br />
NEWS<br />
Proposed <strong>ordinance</strong> continued from page 1<br />
Against moral beliefs<br />
Two council members, Tony<br />
Derryberry and Carolyn Baldwin Tucker,<br />
have expressed opposition, with one condemning<br />
homo<strong>sexual</strong>ity. Seven council<br />
members have signed on as sponsors of<br />
the bill, including Eileen Beeham, Chris<br />
Ferrell, Ginger Hauser, Lawrence Hall,<br />
Jr., Melvin Black, Edward Whitmore and<br />
Ludye Wallace.<br />
"It’s just one more step to condoning<br />
what we got out there now," said<br />
Councilman Tony Derryberry, as quoted<br />
in an article that appeared in the<br />
Tennessean.<br />
Derryberry, who represents the 13th<br />
council district, also said homo<strong>sexual</strong>ity<br />
is against his moral beliefs.<br />
Carolyn Baldwin Tucker, an at-largecouncilmember<br />
said she voted against<br />
the proposal because she felt the city<br />
would be moving in unchartered territory<br />
"The federal government has not chosen<br />
to address this issue, and neither has<br />
the state," Tucker said.<br />
A bill before Congress, the<br />
Employment Non-Discrimination Act,<br />
would address issues related to <strong>sexual</strong><br />
<strong>orientation</strong> but not those directly related<br />
to fair housing.<br />
Marty Sewell, a local city planner and<br />
vice president of <strong>Nashville</strong> Pride, said<br />
there were more than 200 cities that have<br />
already adopted similar laws.<br />
"There are more than 40 federal agencies<br />
that include <strong>sexual</strong> <strong>orientation</strong> in<br />
their non-discrimination policy including<br />
the United States Postal Service and the<br />
Executive Office of the President,"<br />
Sewell said. "There are more than 200<br />
cities and local governments that have<br />
this language in non-discrimination policies<br />
and 23 states."<br />
Sewell stressed the importance of<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong> adding the clause to show it<br />
values all of its citizens.<br />
"Research now shows that high tech<br />
jobs and creative people (gay and<br />
straight) seek places that, among other<br />
things, promote tolerance toward GLBT<br />
people. This <strong>ordinance</strong> is one step down<br />
a long path for <strong>Nashville</strong> to show those<br />
who may want to move here that our city<br />
doesn’t stand for discrimination of any<br />
kind. It sends the message that in<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, we value the talents and contributions<br />
of all of our citizens. It’s an<br />
opportunity for our city leaders to show<br />
that we’re a progressive, forward thinking<br />
city that continues to move beyond<br />
just being the town where they filmed<br />
Hee Haw."<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong> would join Maryville,<br />
Tennessee as the only city in Tennessee<br />
that offers such protection. It would also<br />
join a host of local companies that offer<br />
such protection, including Vanderbilt<br />
Medical Center, Vanderbilt University,<br />
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store,<br />
Bridgestone-Firestone, Bass, Berry &<br />
Sims, PLC, Dollar General Corporation,<br />
Middle Tennessee State University,<br />
Northern Telecom, Volunteer State<br />
Community College and Austin Peay<br />
State University.<br />
Keeping with the spirit of the law<br />
Carlton Cornett, who ran in the recent<br />
5th district Congressional race but lost to<br />
Jim Cooper, said he was at a loss as to<br />
why people would raise objections to the<br />
proposal.<br />
"All people need to be treated equally<br />
and fairly," he said. "The proposed<br />
changes to the current law seem to be<br />
keeping in with the spirit of that law."<br />
Tracey McCartney, Executive Director<br />
of the Tennessee Fair Housing Council,<br />
echoed Cornett’s comments. The Council<br />
is a private, non-profit organization<br />
whose mission is to fight housing discrimination<br />
through public education and<br />
enforcement.<br />
"The addition of <strong>sexual</strong> <strong>orientation</strong><br />
will send a message that <strong>Nashville</strong> is<br />
willing to go above and beyond state and<br />
federal law," she said. "It would tell<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>’s GLBT community that the<br />
city stands for fairness and believes that<br />
ability to pay rent or perform job duties<br />
are far more important criteria than<br />
someone’s <strong>sexual</strong> <strong>orientation</strong>."<br />
If implemented, McCartney said her<br />
agency could investigate a complaint, but<br />
could not make official findings of discrimination<br />
or order any kind of relief.<br />
"If we find the complaint meritorious<br />
we could represent the complainant in an<br />
official proceeding," she said. "That<br />
process would be before the Metro<br />
Human Rights Commission."<br />
While no factual numbers exist for<br />
this type of discrimination in housing,<br />
McCartney said her agency receives several<br />
complaints a year.<br />
"I know we get three or four calls a<br />
year from people inquiring about<br />
whether they have any way to pursue a<br />
complaint like this, and unfortunately<br />
we’ve always had to tell them that no law<br />
covers <strong>sexual</strong> <strong>orientation</strong>," she explained.<br />
"And I always get asked about it when<br />
I’m training apartment managers, real<br />
estate agents and others in the housing<br />
industry."<br />
McCartney said this type of discrimination<br />
was difficult to track, because<br />
much of it goes unreported.<br />
"My staff attorney was telling me the<br />
other day that she figures a lot of this<br />
kind of discrimination goes unreported,"<br />
she said. "Word has spread through the<br />
gay community that there’s no law under<br />
which one can pursue a complaint." �<br />
Council member map and<br />
contact information<br />
VICE MAYOR<br />
Howard Gentry, Jr.<br />
hgentry@metro.nashville.org<br />
3502 Geneva Circle<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37209<br />
H: (615) 320-6080<br />
W: (615) 880-3357<br />
COUNCIL MEMBERS<br />
AT LARGE<br />
Chris Ferrell<br />
cferrell@metro.nashville.org<br />
905 Tower Place<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37204<br />
H: (615) 297-7286<br />
W: (615) 846-2222<br />
Leo Waters<br />
lwaters@metro.nashville.org<br />
518 Monroe Street<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37208<br />
W: (615) 749-8375<br />
H: (615) 255-7325<br />
David Briley<br />
dbriley@metro.nashville.org<br />
1902 Boscobel Street<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37206<br />
W: (615) 259-9344<br />
H: (615) 228-9837<br />
Carolyn Baldwin Tucker<br />
ctucker@metro.nashville.org<br />
1521 Naples Avenue<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37207<br />
H: (615) 868-4060<br />
COUNCIL MEMBERS<br />
(1) Brenda Gilmore<br />
bgilmore@metro.nashville.org<br />
3009 Vista Valley Court<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37218<br />
H: (615) 876-3665<br />
(2) Melvin Black<br />
mblack@metro.nashville.org<br />
747 Work Drive<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37207<br />
H: (615) 876-6340<br />
(3) Ron Nollner<br />
rnollner@metro.nashville.org<br />
604 Vanoke Drive<br />
Madison, TN 37115<br />
H: (615) 865-4533<br />
(4) Don Majors<br />
dmajors@metro.nashville.org<br />
3313 Leondale Terrace<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37207<br />
H: (615) 228-7779<br />
(5) Lawrence Hall<br />
lhall@metro.nashville.org<br />
704 Laurent Street<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37206<br />
H: (615) 227-1180<br />
(6) Eileen Beehan<br />
ebeehan@metro.nashville.org<br />
614 Fatherland Street<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37206<br />
H: (615) 259-4290<br />
(7) Earl Campbell<br />
ecampbell@metro.nashville.org<br />
1931 Valley Park Drive<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37216<br />
W: (615) 749-8342<br />
H: (615) 227-5458<br />
(8) Lawrence Hart<br />
lhart@metro.nashville.org<br />
1023 Maplewood Lane<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37216<br />
W: (615) 226-2600<br />
H: (615) 262-8894<br />
(9) James Dillard<br />
jdillard@metro.nashville.org<br />
1550 Hudson Road<br />
Madison, TN 37115<br />
W: (615) 749-8344<br />
H: (615) 868-8898<br />
(10) Bettye Balthrop<br />
bbalthrop@metro.nashville.org<br />
111 Asbee Court<br />
Goodlettsville, TN 37072<br />
H: (615) 859-1433<br />
(11) Feller Brown<br />
fbrown@metro.nashville.org<br />
516 Keeton Avenue<br />
Old Hickory, TN 37138<br />
W: (615) 868-1223<br />
H: (615) 847-3958<br />
(12) Phil Ponder<br />
pponder@metro.nashville.org<br />
4120 Andrew Jackson Parkway<br />
Hermitage, TN 37076<br />
H: (615) 883-5149<br />
(13) Tony Derryberry<br />
tderryberry@metro.nashville.org<br />
518 Dunailie Drive<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37217<br />
H: (615) 366-7555<br />
(14) James Bruce Stanley<br />
bstanley@metro.nashville.org<br />
3211 Downey Meade Court<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37214<br />
H: (615) 889-6697<br />
(15) J.B. Loring<br />
jloring@metro.nashville.org<br />
3231 Knobview Drive<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37214<br />
H: (615) 885-0780<br />
(16) Amanda McClendon<br />
amcclendon@metro.nashville.org<br />
3105 Wingate Avenue<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37211<br />
H: (615) 333-8917<br />
(17) Ronnie Greer<br />
rgreer@metro.nashville.org<br />
2038 Elliott Avenue<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37204<br />
H: (615) 385-2893<br />
(18) Ginger Hausser<br />
ghausser@metro.nashville.org<br />
521 Chesterfield Avenue<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37212<br />
H:(615) 783-0106<br />
(19) Ludye Wallace<br />
lwallace@metro.nashville.org<br />
P.O. Box 22907<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37202<br />
H: (615) 742-0033<br />
(20) Morris B. Haddox<br />
mhaddox@metro.nashville.org<br />
1508 Charlotte Avenue<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37203<br />
H: (615) 329-0758<br />
(21) Edward Whitmore<br />
ewhitmore@metro.nashville.org<br />
3613 Batavia Street<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37209<br />
H: (615) 321-0795<br />
(22) Norma Hand<br />
nhand@metro.nashville.org<br />
6327 Columbia Avenue<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37209<br />
H: (615) 356-5317<br />
(23) Bob Bogen<br />
bbogen@metro.nashville.org<br />
6755 Pennywell Drive<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37205<br />
H: (615) 356-3150<br />
(24) John Summers<br />
jsummers@metro.nashville.org<br />
5000 Wyoming Avenue<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37209<br />
H: (615) 386-9660<br />
(25) Jim Shulman<br />
jshulman@metro.nashville.org<br />
3516 Hampton Avenue<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37215<br />
H: (615) 292-4344<br />
(26) Michelle Arriola<br />
marriola@metro.nashville.org<br />
225 Elysian Fields Road<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37211<br />
H: (615) 833-8533<br />
(27) Janis Sontany<br />
jsontany@metro.nashville.org<br />
188 Chilton Street<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37211<br />
H: (615) 331-7616<br />
(28) Jason Alexander<br />
Jason.Alexander@fisi.cendant.com<br />
4408 Dowdy Drive<br />
Antioch, TN 37013<br />
H: (615) 832-1052<br />
(29) Saletta Holloway<br />
sholloway@metro.nashville.org<br />
3025 Anderson Road<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37217<br />
H: (615) 367-1754<br />
(30) Michael Kerstetter<br />
mkerstetter@metro.nashville.org<br />
233 Clipper Court<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, Tennessee 37211<br />
H: (615) 834-1305<br />
(31) Don Knoch<br />
dknoch@metro.nashville.org<br />
1600 Crosswind Place<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37211<br />
H: (615) 834-9402<br />
(32) Craig A. Jenkins<br />
cjenkins@metro.nashville.org<br />
373 Barrywood Drive<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37211<br />
W: (615) 749-8367<br />
H: (615) 331-8320<br />
(33) Ron Turner<br />
rturner@metro.nashville.org<br />
3615 Wilbur Place<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37215<br />
W: (615) 444-2562 x1178<br />
H: (615) 383-9037<br />
(34) Lynn Williams<br />
lwilliams@metro.nashville.org<br />
4020 Dorcas Drive<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37215<br />
H: (615) 385-3859<br />
(35) Charlie Tygard<br />
ctygard@metro.nashville.org<br />
P. O. Box 210945<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37221<br />
W: (615) 865-0003<br />
H: (615) 646-3295
P.O. Box 330818<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37203<br />
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OUT & ABOUT NASHVILLE • JANUARY, 2003 • 3<br />
O&AN<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
GLBT community called to action in support of Metro<br />
Ordinance to ban discrimination based on <strong>sexual</strong> <strong>orientation</strong><br />
Metro Council members will<br />
consider one third and final reading<br />
an <strong>ordinance</strong> that will prohibit<br />
discrimination based on <strong>sexual</strong><br />
<strong>orientation</strong> and disability for<br />
employment and fair housing.<br />
The proposal faces stiff opposition<br />
on January 21st, especially<br />
with Council Members Tony<br />
Derryberry and Carolyn Baldwin<br />
Tucker. Derryberry in particular<br />
has lashed out at the GLBT community,<br />
saying publicly that<br />
homo<strong>sexual</strong>ity was against his<br />
moral beliefs and implying in<br />
To the Editor:<br />
In your November issue you<br />
did a story on the new gay bowling<br />
league RAINBOWlers. The<br />
article did not correctly report the<br />
facts on this league.<br />
The following is the correct<br />
information your reporter needed<br />
to make the article<br />
accurate:<br />
The RAINBOWlers bowling<br />
league was formed on Sept. 10,<br />
2002. The gay bowling community<br />
felt a need for a week night<br />
gay bowling league in <strong>Nashville</strong><br />
even though the city all ready had<br />
two gay weekend leagues. The<br />
organizational efforts of Dale<br />
Phillips, Jim Myers, Ben Brady,<br />
and Rich Beswick were able to<br />
locate a bowling house willing to<br />
accommodate a new gay league.<br />
Melrose Lanes in <strong>Nashville</strong> has<br />
welcomed the RAINBOWlers<br />
league with open arms. Managers<br />
of the establishment where very<br />
excited and went to the length of<br />
moving an existing league to the<br />
lower lever just so they could<br />
host the RAINBOWlers, not the<br />
fact it was closer to the bar as<br />
first printed in the original article.<br />
Also reporting Music City<br />
Rollers II, which used to bowl at<br />
Pla-more Lanes, became the<br />
RAINBOWLers was incorrect.<br />
Music City Rollers II dissolved<br />
in the summer of 2002.<br />
The RAINBOWlers have 61<br />
bowlers including substitutes.<br />
From that number nine of those<br />
other statements that by endorsing<br />
this proposal <strong>Nashville</strong> would<br />
turn into sin city. Tucker said the<br />
religious community would have<br />
concerns pulling out a certain<br />
class and putting them into a protected<br />
class.<br />
That’s quite a statement coming<br />
from an African American<br />
female, who has no doubt faced<br />
discrimination herself and is in a<br />
protected class. Homo<strong>sexual</strong>s are<br />
not seeking a different class status,<br />
they just wanted to be treated<br />
fairly, and have equal ground to<br />
Letter to the Editor<br />
Setting the record straight<br />
bowlers bowl more than one gay<br />
league. For a first year new<br />
league this is quite an accomplishment<br />
to have this many people<br />
participate.<br />
The RAINBOWlers are looking<br />
forward to many years of<br />
serving the community with a<br />
safe, friendly, accepting, and<br />
OPEN family atmosphere something<br />
bowlers in past years at<br />
other establishments where not<br />
accustom to. �<br />
Richard A Beswick<br />
2002-2003 RAINBOWlers<br />
Secretary<br />
Letter policy<br />
Letters to the Editor are<br />
welcome and encouraged.<br />
Letters must be signed.<br />
Unsigned letters will not<br />
be published. O&AN<br />
reserves the right to edit<br />
for clarity. Send letters to:<br />
Editor@outandaboutnashville.com.<br />
stand upon. It is sad that society<br />
needs laws to govern such fairness,<br />
but that is how our society<br />
and government work.<br />
It’s disturbing that elected officials<br />
would make these types of<br />
statements. Obviously Derryberry<br />
or Tucker do not represent the<br />
views of all of their constitutes.<br />
Derryberry’s remarks parallel<br />
those of the comments Senator<br />
Trent Lott recently made suggestion<br />
this country would be better<br />
off with segregation. To suggest<br />
that <strong>Nashville</strong> would be better off<br />
without homo<strong>sexual</strong>s is an insult<br />
and should not be tolerated from<br />
an elected official.<br />
This newspaper encourages our<br />
readers to study the proposal, and<br />
make their voice known. We’ve<br />
published a council map of the<br />
city, along with names, phone<br />
numbers and email addresses of<br />
all of the council members. Take<br />
ten minutes to let your voice be<br />
known on this issue. �<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong> <strong>considers</strong><br />
<strong>sexual</strong> <strong>orientation</strong> <strong>ordinance</strong><br />
ORDINANCE NO. BL2002-1274<br />
An <strong>ordinance</strong> amending Title 11, Chapter 11.20 of the Metropolitan<br />
Code, Fair Employment and Housing Practices.<br />
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF<br />
THE METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF NASHVILLE AND<br />
DAVIDSON COUNTY:<br />
Section 1. That the codification of Title 11 of the Code of<br />
The Metropolitan Government of <strong>Nashville</strong> and Davidson County,<br />
Fair Employment and Housing, be and the same is hereby amended as<br />
follows:<br />
A. By amending Sections 11.20.010, 11.20.030, 11.20.040,<br />
11.20.050, 11.20.060, 11.20.070, 11.20.080, and 11.20.090 by deleting<br />
the word "sex" wherein it appears in the aforementioned sections,<br />
and substituting in lieu thereof the word "gender".<br />
B. By amending Sections 11.20.010, 11.20.030, 11.20.040,<br />
11.20.050, 11.20.060, 11.20.070, 11.20.080, and 11.20.090 by adding<br />
after the phrase "national origin" and before the phrase "or gender",<br />
wherein they appear in the aforementioned sections, the phrase ",<br />
<strong>sexual</strong> <strong>orientation</strong>, disability".<br />
Section 2. That this Ordinance shall take effect from and after its<br />
adoption, the welfare of The Metropolitan Government of <strong>Nashville</strong><br />
and Davidson County requiring it.<br />
Sponsored by: Eileen Beehan, Chris Ferrell, Ginger Hauser,<br />
Lawrence Hall, Jr., Melvin Black, Edward Whitmore, Ludye Wallace
4 • OUT & ABOUT NASHVILLE • JANUARY, 2003<br />
O&AN BUSINESS<br />
Changing Spaces room redesign contest<br />
by Brent Meredith<br />
O&AN Managing Editor<br />
Enter to win a room redesign compliments of Changing Spaces and <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>About</strong> <strong>Nashville</strong><br />
Now that you are familiar with the kinds<br />
of services Teresa Weidner and Changing<br />
Spaces provide, we’re going to give it<br />
away! It doesn’t get any cheaper than this<br />
folks.<br />
To enter, simply fill out the <strong>Out</strong> &<br />
<strong>About</strong> <strong>Nashville</strong> subscription form in this<br />
issue (pg.19) and mail it in. You will automatically<br />
be entered in the room redesign<br />
contest, and you will receive a free sub-<br />
Changing Spaces - continued from page 1<br />
how Weidner runs her business. She has<br />
worked in most every type of home. From<br />
modest houses to million-dollar properties,<br />
from New York to Tampa, and from<br />
Bordeaux to Brentwood, Weidner has left<br />
her mark on home interiors across the<br />
country. "I have met and worked with<br />
most every walk of life, and I enjoy meeting<br />
people of all backgrounds," says<br />
Weidner.<br />
Weidner and her crew thrive on taking<br />
existing, lifeless pieces and arranging<br />
them in exciting, creative ways. Changing<br />
Spaces can accommodate most any style.<br />
Weidner says her specialty is making a<br />
space feel comfortable and inviting, and<br />
that she leans toward warm and cozy.<br />
Changing Spaces initial consultation<br />
takes about an hour and costs<br />
$50. Weidner usually spends the hour<br />
getting to know a client's preferences,<br />
style and how much they use a particular<br />
space. She will then determine a<br />
price for the space factoring in how<br />
much furniture moving is involved<br />
and the overall size of the room(s)<br />
being redesigned. Weidner will also<br />
determine if the homeowner wants to<br />
get involved or if she needs to bring<br />
additional staff, which will add to the<br />
total cost. After the redesign, Weidner<br />
will usually leave a list of items the<br />
client can purchase over time to add<br />
to their new room. In addition to room<br />
scription to <strong>Nashville</strong>’s most popular<br />
GLBT newspaper. Now that truly is a winwin<br />
situation. If you already have a free<br />
subscription, fill out the form again and<br />
check the appropriate box (we’ve thought<br />
of everything). We’re sorry but we can’t<br />
accept e-mail entries.<br />
Entries will be gathered through January<br />
and February editions of <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>About</strong><br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>. All entries must be postmarked<br />
by Feb. 28. Four finalists will be selected<br />
from a drawing. Changing Spaces and <strong>Out</strong><br />
& <strong>About</strong> <strong>Nashville</strong> will visit each home<br />
redesign, Changing Spaces offers home<br />
staging and preparation for sale and holiday<br />
decorating services. As Weidner is an<br />
avid house boater, Changing Spaces also<br />
specializes in houseboat décor.<br />
Weidner is a member of the Interior<br />
Design Society as well as an Interior<br />
Redesign Industry Specialist. Both are<br />
professional organizations committed to<br />
providing the best interior design services<br />
in the country. Members of these organizations<br />
are frequently featured on HGTV<br />
(Home and Garden Television) conducting<br />
makeovers with before and after scenarios.<br />
Weidner believes her associations<br />
with these professional organizations are<br />
Muse Haven Art Gallery<br />
& Creative <strong>Out</strong>let<br />
Friday Nights, 6 - 10 PM<br />
Bring Your Own Drinks/Fun Eats<br />
Come Be Creative at Muse Haven.<br />
and take several before pictures. Changing<br />
Spaces will then evaluate the before photos<br />
to determine which room has the most<br />
need and the best redesign potential.<br />
Changing Spaces will select a winner and<br />
will do a makeover feature on the winner’s<br />
home. A feature story that will appear in<br />
<strong>Out</strong> and <strong>About</strong> <strong>Nashville</strong> will be done on<br />
the winning makeover.<br />
Here’s the legal part. Only one entry per<br />
household. Translation. . . No ballot stuffing<br />
please. This is Tennessee not Florida.<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>About</strong> <strong>Nashville</strong>, Inc., reserves the<br />
Meredith named O&AN managing editor<br />
Brent Meredith, art/entertainment editor<br />
of <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>About</strong> <strong>Nashville</strong>, has been named<br />
managing editor of the monthly publication.<br />
He replaces Jon Coomer, who will concentrate<br />
his efforts towards a new role as copy<br />
editor.<br />
Meredith, a 1998 graduate of Austin Peay<br />
State University, has a B.S. degree in public<br />
relations and radio/TV<br />
and will be responsible<br />
for the day-to-day editorial<br />
operations of the newspaper.<br />
0Meredith has<br />
worked with Audio<br />
Media Magazine and<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong> Post magazine.<br />
Meredith<br />
Providing coverage for the arts area will<br />
be Christopher Hamblin, who has been<br />
named associate arts editor. F. Daniel Kent<br />
will provide coverage of the entertainment<br />
scene as associate entertainment editor. See<br />
"Extended coverage" article for more details<br />
on the new arts and entertainment sections.<br />
"Recent reader feedback indicates a need<br />
important because of the continuing<br />
education they offer in the trends of the<br />
industry as well as camaraderie they<br />
build between redesigners across the<br />
United States and Canada.<br />
Weidner attributes a recent boom in<br />
business to local media attention and a<br />
sluggish economy. "The majority of my<br />
business was through referrals until last<br />
August. I started doing some advertising<br />
and was featured on Talk of the<br />
Town. Now business is really booming,"<br />
said Weidner. "People are realizing that<br />
with little to no cost creative placement<br />
of furniture and accessories can make<br />
them love their things all over again." �<br />
better-than-a-bar-club<br />
The Factory @ Franklin • Franklin,TN • 615.500.3651<br />
www.musehaven.com • e-mail: musehavenartgal@aol.com<br />
right to terminate the contest at any time or<br />
disqualify any entry without notice, so play<br />
fair. Only official entry forms as published<br />
in <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>About</strong> <strong>Nashville</strong> will be accepted,<br />
no reproductions. The makeover will be<br />
scheduled at a time convenient for<br />
Changing Spaces. The makeover includes<br />
consulting and advice but does not include<br />
materials (paint, fabric, etc. will not be<br />
furnished).<br />
C’mon, what have you got to<br />
lose…besides the clutter? �<br />
for more in depth coverage of the local arts<br />
and entertainment scene, and this move will<br />
help us move in that direction," Meredith<br />
said.<br />
You can reach Brent Meredith by writing<br />
him at editor@outandaboutnashville.com. �<br />
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OUT & ABOUT NASHVILLE • JANUARY, 2003 • 5<br />
O&AN BUSINESS<br />
O&AN to begin offering expanded arts/entertainment coverage<br />
‘Bucy's Books’ will premiere in February<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>About</strong> <strong>Nashville</strong> will<br />
begin offering expanded<br />
arts/entertainment coverage with<br />
the appointment of two new associate<br />
editors and a book reviewer.<br />
F. Daniel Kent will provide<br />
extensive entertainment coverage<br />
as associate entertainment editor;<br />
Christopher Hamblin will provides<br />
arts coverage as associate arts editor;<br />
and Curt Bucy will review a<br />
new book each month and provide<br />
insight on the contents and the<br />
writer in his new feature, Bucy's<br />
Books.<br />
Kent is a resident of <strong>Nashville</strong><br />
who moved to Tennessee from the<br />
Gulf coast in 1996. Kent is an avid<br />
freelance writer, photographer and<br />
artist who has been featured regularly<br />
in a number of local and<br />
nationally distributed print and<br />
online publications. His sharp wit,<br />
determined<br />
attitude, and<br />
creative disposition<br />
have<br />
served him<br />
well in the<br />
nearly 10<br />
years that he<br />
has been con-<br />
Kent<br />
tributing to small and large press<br />
alike. Though Kent enjoys writing<br />
a great deal, he feels that his true<br />
calling is photography, which he is<br />
currently pursuing as a career. He<br />
could be seen often over the past<br />
two years as the Official<br />
Campaign Photographer of the<br />
Cornett For Congress 2002<br />
Campaign for which he took more<br />
than 3,000 photos over the course<br />
of the campaign. He can be seen<br />
now photographing theatre events<br />
at the historic Gas Lite Lounge in<br />
downtown <strong>Nashville</strong>. He enjoys<br />
devouring any tidbits of information<br />
that he can get his hands on<br />
no matter how small and spending<br />
large amounts of his spare time<br />
researching news stories on<br />
Internet news feeds or arguing<br />
politics with his friends. Kent is<br />
also the Managing Editor for<br />
GoColors.com. He can be reached<br />
by e-mail at Daniel@outandaboutnashville.com.<br />
Hamblin is very excited to be<br />
the newest addition to O&AN.<br />
Although new to <strong>Nashville</strong>,<br />
Hamblin has very busy getting<br />
involved in the community. He<br />
has played piano at several community<br />
events, started his fulltime<br />
job at Borders West End,<br />
and appeared as the Barber in the<br />
Boiler Room Theatre production<br />
of "Man of La Mancha." He loves<br />
music and theater<br />
of all kinds<br />
and hopes to<br />
bring a unique<br />
perspective to<br />
the community.<br />
Some of his<br />
Hamblin<br />
favorites include Sunday in the<br />
Park with George, Adam Guettel,<br />
Sandi Patty, Jesus Christ<br />
Superstar, Bette Midler, and John<br />
Bucchino.<br />
A new feature to premier in<br />
February will be "Bucy's Books."<br />
Bucy, who grew up in Paris,<br />
Tenn., has a degree in music from<br />
Murray State University. An avid<br />
reader, he lives in <strong>Nashville</strong> with<br />
his partner Clayton and their<br />
three dogs and two cats. �
6 • OUT & ABOUT NASHVILLE • JANUARY, 2003<br />
O&AN<br />
NEWS<br />
Cracker Barrel reverses policy, adds <strong>sexual</strong> <strong>orientation</strong> to non-discrimination policy<br />
by Jerry Jones<br />
O&AN Publisher<br />
Cracker Barrel Old Country<br />
Store's board of directors has<br />
relented to shareholder pressure<br />
and changed the company's nondiscrimination<br />
policy to include<br />
<strong>sexual</strong> <strong>orientation</strong>.<br />
The board of directors of CBRL<br />
Group, Inc., the parent company<br />
of Cracker Barrel Old Country<br />
Stores and Logan's Roadhouse,<br />
voted unanimously at its<br />
November shareholder meeting<br />
to change the non-discrimination<br />
policy. The company had recommended<br />
that shareholders vote<br />
against the resolution, because<br />
they felt it was redundant,<br />
according to Julie Davis, corporate<br />
communications director for<br />
Cracker Barrel Old Country<br />
Store.<br />
"But that's one of the things<br />
that makes this a great company,"<br />
she said. "The board took the<br />
shareholders recommendation<br />
and have added <strong>sexual</strong> <strong>orientation</strong><br />
to our non-discrimination policy."<br />
The move by shareholders was<br />
brought about by a long campaign<br />
by New York City<br />
Employees Retirement System,<br />
which had proposed such a<br />
change at nine previous annual<br />
meetings of the shareholders.<br />
More than 50,000 employees<br />
are employed by Cracker Barrel<br />
Old Country Store at 467 locations<br />
in 41 states. There are 88<br />
company-owned and 12 franchised<br />
Logan's Roadhouse restaurants.<br />
It was in 1991 that the<br />
Lebanon, Tenn. based company<br />
drew national attention when it<br />
instituted what appeared to be a<br />
company policy to dismiss<br />
employees "whose <strong>sexual</strong> preferences<br />
fail to demonstrate normal<br />
hetero<strong>sexual</strong> values which have<br />
been the foundation of families in<br />
our society." The company's discrimination<br />
touched off a wave of<br />
protests and boycotts at Cracker<br />
Barrel restaurants.<br />
"That was an unauthorized<br />
memo that went out from a vice<br />
president," Davis said. "It was<br />
never an official policy and we<br />
quickly reversed the memo."<br />
Cracker Barrel later revoked the<br />
apparent policy, which it once<br />
described as a "well-intentioned<br />
overreaction to the perceived values<br />
of our customers," but not<br />
photos by F. Daniel Kent<br />
Employees of CBRL corporation, which<br />
owns Cracker Barrel Old Country Store<br />
and Logan's Roadhouse, now have more<br />
protection against discrimination since<br />
the company added <strong>sexual</strong> <strong>orientation</strong><br />
to it's non-discrimination policies.<br />
before the termination of some 11<br />
employees, according to information<br />
provided by the Human<br />
Rights Campaign (HRC).<br />
"Yes, people were fired," Davis<br />
explained. "But they were offered<br />
their positions back. Unfortunately<br />
they had some unreasonable<br />
demands that we could not at that<br />
time meet."<br />
Davis said the company firmly<br />
believes they have a strong commitment<br />
to treating their employees<br />
with respect and non-discrimination.<br />
"Our mission statement means<br />
pleasing people," she said. "And<br />
that means all people. We are<br />
committed to making that happen."<br />
Kim Mills, HRC education<br />
director, agrees that the company<br />
has made great strides in the last<br />
10 years and applauded the decision<br />
to add <strong>sexual</strong> <strong>orientation</strong> to<br />
the discrimination policy.<br />
"Cracker Barrel has undergone<br />
important cultural changes in the<br />
last 10 years," Mills said. "But<br />
until now has resisted rewriting its<br />
non-discrimination policy. This<br />
long-awaited change is a watershed<br />
and we welcome it." �
OUT & ABOUT NASHVILLE • JANUARY, 2003 • 7<br />
Not just transportation... More a way of life.<br />
2350 Franklin Road • <strong>Nashville</strong>, TN 37204<br />
615-385-1900 • www.thoroughbred.com
8 • OUT & ABOUT NASHVILLE • JANUARY, 2003<br />
O&AN<br />
NIGHT LIFE<br />
Rhonda Barnes and N.E.D. winding up a<br />
night at the Connection.<br />
<strong>Out</strong> on<br />
the Town<br />
Photos by Mike Robinson<br />
Pat, Michelle and Benjamin in sheik<br />
attire for a birthday party at the Cabaret.<br />
Danielle Chase (right) emcees Chris<br />
Wagner’s birthday party at the Cabaret.<br />
Penny Kostal catches the Spirit during<br />
Gospel Night at the Chute.<br />
left to right, Ashley, David, Damon, Miranda and Jim at<br />
the Kids Fighting AIDS benefit at the Gaslight Lounge.<br />
Clyde and Dwain at the Connection.<br />
Josh Finn and Ching Dennison at the Connection.<br />
(Right) Wayne Chandler<br />
and Larry Stephenson<br />
getting an early start<br />
on their 14th anniversary<br />
celebration at the<br />
Connection.<br />
Jeremy and Steven<br />
enjoying Alternative<br />
Tuesday at <strong>Nashville</strong><br />
Nightlife.<br />
Graham Griffith, Demelza Rabbitt and Daniel Creech<br />
at Tribe.
Too Hot Tuesdays with<br />
the Exotic Duo<br />
For Information<br />
Call 885-5201<br />
Doors Open at 9 p.m.<br />
Dancing with<br />
D.J. Russell<br />
Karaoke with<br />
Yankee Bill<br />
Located at 2620 Music valley Drive<br />
next to Cock of the Walk<br />
NASHVILLE<br />
NIGHT LIFE<br />
Show Times:<br />
11 p.m. & 1 a.m.<br />
OUT & ABOUT NASHVILLE • JANUARY, 2003 • 9<br />
Racquel Scott<br />
&<br />
Regine Phillips<br />
Tuesday, Jan. 7th<br />
Austria Andrews & Secret Dupree<br />
Tuesday, Jan. 14th<br />
Tamisha Iman & Angel Electra<br />
Tuesday, Jan. 21st<br />
Nightlife’s Miss Capricorn<br />
Zodiac Pageant with guest<br />
Hurricane Summers<br />
Tuesday, Jan. 28th<br />
Big, Bold & Beautiful Show<br />
Kitty Litter, Josephyn Edwards<br />
& Desereé DeMurray
10 • OUT & ABOUT NASHVILLE • JANUARY, 2003<br />
O&AN<br />
NEWS<br />
‘O’ What a Bare Christmas’ gives plenty<br />
by Mike Robinson<br />
O&AN Photo Editor<br />
Raising more than $8,000 in cash and<br />
toys, The Chute Complex and Fred West<br />
have provided for many children that may<br />
not have been fortunate enough to receive<br />
much for Christmas.<br />
The fourth annual "Children with AIDS<br />
and other Diseases Benefit" was held in<br />
December with Fred West organizing the<br />
festivities titled "O What a Bare<br />
Christmas."<br />
All proceeds benefited local organizations<br />
that deal directly with sick children.<br />
Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, General<br />
Hospital, Comprehensive Care Center, and<br />
the Domestic Violence Center all benefited<br />
equally from the contributions.<br />
The night was all about fun. A toy presented<br />
at the door would gain entrance,<br />
and as you made your way to the country<br />
bar, a silent auction was being held, and<br />
had many contributors who donated special<br />
items for bidding.<br />
In the show bar, there were performances<br />
by many, including the Chute cast regulars,<br />
The many faces of Freeda O’Lay as she entertains the troops during the Children<br />
Fighting AIDS benefit at the Chute.<br />
- photos by Mike Robinson<br />
MVP, and a very special appearance<br />
by Freeda O’Lay, a local performer<br />
very dear to West.<br />
Kimmie Satin emceed and kept<br />
the party moving with a drawing for<br />
prizes done intermittently throughout<br />
the show. The crowd was standing<br />
room only at times, with many wanting<br />
a glimpse of Miss O’Lay as she<br />
strutted her stuff on the runway,<br />
which she does only once a year for<br />
this benefit.<br />
Working with many vendors and<br />
individuals before, during, and after<br />
the benefit, West was able to secure<br />
a lot of donations and organize an<br />
event that was once again very successful.<br />
After the tallies were totaled<br />
that night, many local children were<br />
left with anything but a bare<br />
Christmas. �
OUT & ABOUT NASHVILLE • JANUARY, 2003 • 11<br />
4th Annual C.W.A.'s & Other Diseases Benefit<br />
O' What a BARE CHRISTMAS<br />
Dear Friends and Patrons,<br />
On behalf of The Chute Complex and myself, I would like to sincerely thank you for<br />
making this year's Children with AIDS & Other Disease “O’ What a Bare Christmas”<br />
benefit a total success.With your help through time, money, donated items and contributions,<br />
you have made and will continue to make a valuable impact on the children's needs with<br />
our community.<br />
This year, with your generous support we have raised an estimated $8000 in cash and<br />
toys combined. The cash raised will be used to purchase additional toys to be distributed<br />
at local hospitals.<br />
Again, I would like to THANK YOU for all the support, and I want you to know that<br />
you have made a difference in the lives of many children in our community.<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Fred R. West
12 • OUT & ABOUT NASHVILLE • JANUARY, 2003<br />
O&AN<br />
NEWS<br />
Music City Bears bring joy to needy kids<br />
by Mike Robinson<br />
O&AN Photo Editor<br />
In what used to be the old MTA bus<br />
garage, the Metro Police Department’s<br />
Domestic Violence Division now resides.<br />
At various times they will provide a<br />
temporary stop for those encountering<br />
domestic troubles, whether it’s to talk to an<br />
officer or possibly file charges against an<br />
abusive spouse. The building houses a unit<br />
of officers, detectives, and counselors, that<br />
help those in need to seek protection, and<br />
if needed, help in finding a safe haven.<br />
The ones who suffer the most are the<br />
children. With a smiling face always ready<br />
to help, the staff always try to put the kids<br />
at ease. Sometimes it takes a special touch<br />
such as a teddy bear to help a child in a<br />
bad predicament feel like they are safe.<br />
The Music City Bears, <strong>Nashville</strong>’s only<br />
organized bear group contributed a multitude<br />
of stuffed bears to the department to<br />
distribute to those children that come<br />
through the doors and are in need of a special<br />
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With bags of bears in tow, like a<br />
preemptive Santa outing, Roger<br />
Stone, and Michael Ezsole-Fields,<br />
presented Lt. Rita Brockmann-Baker<br />
and Sgt. Anna Marie, with stuffed<br />
animals they have collected throughout<br />
the holiday season.<br />
"We are trying to make this something<br />
we do on a regular basis,"<br />
explained Stone. "We would like to<br />
do this every three months for the<br />
kids because the need is overwhelming.<br />
Sometimes these kids don’t have<br />
anything to make them smile, and we<br />
hope we can help do that if nothing<br />
else."<br />
The Music City Bears make several<br />
charitable contributions during the<br />
year, but this one is especially gratifying<br />
for them as they help a lot of<br />
kids in tough times.<br />
For anyone interested in contributing<br />
toys to the Metro Domestic<br />
Violence Division please contact Lt.<br />
Baker at 615-880-3000. �
5 Questions<br />
with Jerry Jones<br />
Born and raised in Miami, Pam<br />
has called <strong>Nashville</strong> her home for<br />
the past 10 years. She has worked<br />
tirelessly on the Pride committee<br />
as the festival coordinator for<br />
OPEN (Our Pride Encompasses<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>) during the organization's<br />
first two years. This is her<br />
second term as OPEN's president.<br />
For the past several months<br />
OPEN's board has been in a strategic<br />
planning mode preparing the<br />
organization for the 2003 events<br />
and the future in general. OPEN<br />
recently changed its name to<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong> Pride. See related story<br />
on page one.<br />
1. How did you get involved<br />
with <strong>Nashville</strong> Pride?<br />
Three years ago, I attended the<br />
first organizational meeting of<br />
OPEN because I wanted to become<br />
proactive in the community. I had<br />
attended and enjoyed a few of<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>'s Pride Festivals and<br />
thought it would be interesting work.<br />
2. Last year's Pride Festival<br />
has been called by many as "one<br />
of the best." What does this year<br />
hold?<br />
Last year's pride festival was a<br />
great accomplishment for<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong> Pride. The turnout let us<br />
know that Nashvillians are going to<br />
support the Festival, so the community<br />
should expect an even bigger<br />
celebration this year. We will<br />
produce another event filled Pride<br />
week, a longer parade, a motivating<br />
rally and a bigger festival with<br />
more vendors, organizations, activities,<br />
and more headlining entertainment.<br />
There will be something<br />
for everyone.<br />
3. It takes a lot of time and<br />
energy to keep people motivated<br />
and involved in volunteer projects.<br />
As a community leader what<br />
do you think is the best motivator<br />
to get people involved and<br />
stay involved?<br />
I think you have to find out the<br />
needs and expectations of your volunteers<br />
and work hard to meet<br />
them. We also have to give people<br />
the opportunity to make a difference<br />
in the organization; I know<br />
we try to do that. We welcome help<br />
at any level and wouldn't survive<br />
without the countless number of<br />
volunteers we see throughout the<br />
year.<br />
4. Where do you see the<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong> GLBT community five<br />
years from now?<br />
Ideally, we would be a more<br />
cohesive group that sends a strong<br />
OUT & ABOUT NASHVILLE • JANUARY, 2003 • 13<br />
Wheeler steers<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong> Pride<br />
with honor<br />
message to greater <strong>Nashville</strong> that<br />
we are a loud voice on all issues<br />
that affect our city. We should be<br />
stronger contenders and advocates<br />
for equality, understanding, and<br />
compassion.<br />
5. What is your favorite holiday<br />
memory?<br />
Some of my favorite holiday<br />
memories revolve around the 4th<br />
of July celebrations my childhood<br />
neighborhood used to throw. The<br />
entire block gathered in the street<br />
for food, games, and entertainment<br />
(basically a mini-Pride Festival,<br />
except for all those straight people).<br />
The day started with a potluck<br />
lunch and then the boys and girls<br />
would challenge each other to tugof-war,<br />
sack races, and egg tosses.<br />
After dark we'd light fireworks and<br />
then end the day in the pool. It was<br />
a wonderful way to spend the 4th. �<br />
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Gay/Straight Alliance formed at the University School of <strong>Nashville</strong><br />
by Thomas Blackburn<br />
O&AN Contributing Writer<br />
BUSINESS<br />
A Gay/Straight Alliance is nothing new at the school. In<br />
the past, a club has been attempted, but the minimal<br />
amount of support from the students made this a difficult<br />
task. This year, a group of seniors got together and decided<br />
that it was time for the school to be aware of LGBT<br />
issues. The group got a faculty sponsor and then<br />
approached the administration, which was very supportive.<br />
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The faculty and administration have given nothing but<br />
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plethora of posters and an announcement at a high school<br />
assembly introduced the idea and the first meeting, but all<br />
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The group now meets weekly on Thursdays during<br />
lunch and is going strong with about 15 to 20 regular<br />
members from all grades. The original seniors are looked<br />
to as the leaders, but most discussions and topics are left<br />
to the group to bring up, which provides a comfortable<br />
dynamic. The group hopes to maintain a presence in the<br />
school and will continue to publicize throughout the year.<br />
For now, the student group is focusing on trying to promote<br />
a tolerant atmosphere. Most discussions are focused<br />
on experiences and incidents at school. Arrangements are<br />
being made for a speaker from Planned Parenthood to<br />
come speak on confronting negative attitudes and give students<br />
pointers on what should be done in those situations.<br />
In the future, possible speakers include a member of<br />
LAMBDA at Vanderbilt University to give a first-person<br />
account of what high school was like for them, or an<br />
activist with the Human Rights Campaign to speak on<br />
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Name Change continued from page 1<br />
fresh perspective, <strong>Nashville</strong> Pride<br />
looked outside of the organization<br />
and hired a freelance artist<br />
to design the logo.<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong> Pride's board<br />
changed the name and logo to<br />
better reflect the organization's<br />
new mission and goals that<br />
evolved during the process of<br />
developing a nearly completed<br />
strategic plan. Last September<br />
board members participated in a<br />
daylong retreat where they<br />
defined new goals and established<br />
a clearer mission statement.<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong> Pride vice president<br />
Marty Sewell led the retreat and<br />
guided the board through the<br />
planning process. "We've developed<br />
a plan that will enable<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong> Pride events to continue<br />
to grow," says Sewell. " We<br />
set out to discover what the<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong> community wanted in<br />
a pride celebration, and our new<br />
plan lays the organizational foundation<br />
for us to continue to<br />
understand those needs and then<br />
search for ways we can meet<br />
those needs efficiently."<br />
Wheeler said the group's new<br />
organizational efforts have<br />
already paid off. "We've all<br />
worked very hard to keep the<br />
momentum of last year's festival<br />
going. Deciding on a new name<br />
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"We discovered that we could be much more<br />
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Sewell backed up Wheeler's statements, but<br />
remarked that the group's new structure and<br />
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<strong>Nashville</strong> Pride to recruit more volunteers and<br />
then be able to put those volunteers to work.<br />
"The backbone of our organization is its volunteers,"<br />
said Sewell. "If we can't give an<br />
eager volunteer something to work on when<br />
they first approach us, then we stand the<br />
chance of losing them."<br />
Wheeler says plans for <strong>Nashville</strong> Pride<br />
OUT & ABOUT NASHVILLE • JANUARY, 2003 • 15<br />
O&AN<br />
NEWS<br />
2003 are already underway. The festival,<br />
parade and rally are tentatively scheduled for<br />
Saturday, June 7 at Centennial Park, the site<br />
of the 2002 events that drew a record 5,500<br />
people. <strong>Nashville</strong> Pride encourages anyone<br />
wanting to participate in the planning of the<br />
festival to visit their Web site,<br />
www.nashvillepride.org for contact information<br />
as well as meeting times and locations. �
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16 • OUT & ABOUT NASHVILLE • JANUARY, 2003<br />
O&AN<br />
LIVING<br />
Rawhide Kid: In the saddle again<br />
by F. Daniel Kent<br />
O&AN Associate Entertainment Editor<br />
Marvel Comics Group, the creators of such comic book<br />
icons as the X-Men and Spider-Man, will unveil the<br />
newest gay comic book character in February. Only, this<br />
time the comic book company has gone a different route<br />
than normal.<br />
Instead of choosing one of the more visible brightly colored<br />
super hero characters, writer Ron Zimmerman has<br />
selected a character from the comic book giant's old wild<br />
western characters and dusted him off: The Rawhide Kid.<br />
"It's a classic Western, like (the movie) 'Shane,' but with<br />
a gay twist," said Zimmerman. While the story has "a<br />
comedic slant," Zimmerman said he hopes the 21st century<br />
kid is "an empowering character that the gay community<br />
would be able to embrace."<br />
"I certainly believe there is a market for gay comics in<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>," says Mark Furhman, vice president of the<br />
Great Escape. "As long as it doesn’t focus solely on the<br />
<strong>sexual</strong> aspect, I have never heard a negative reaction."<br />
There are already a wide variety of queer characters in<br />
Baja Burrito - go fishing<br />
By Michael John<br />
O&AN Food Critic<br />
Seems like all I do is rave<br />
about food. I seldom encounter a<br />
food that I don't like. My hours<br />
on the treadmill each week frequently<br />
seem in vain, but then I<br />
remember that wonderful croissant<br />
I had the day before and I<br />
Mark Beverman, manager of Baja Burrito.<br />
run faster.<br />
With that said, I have another<br />
marvelous place that is worth the<br />
pain and suffering at the gym -<br />
Baja Burrito.<br />
The cozy restaurant on<br />
Thompson Lane near 100 Oaks is<br />
a favorite for a quick burrito or<br />
loaded taco salad with all the fixings.<br />
The process is easy: step up<br />
to the counter and order, specify<br />
chicken, beef or vegetarian, and<br />
follow your burrito or salad as<br />
you yea or nay the ingredients.<br />
It's a wonderful system full of<br />
salsa, guacamole, cheese and<br />
cilantro, just to name a few.<br />
The burritos and salads are<br />
great, but the absolute best are the<br />
fish tacos. What can I say about<br />
the lovely tacos...hmmm...they are<br />
simply fabulous (You know I had<br />
to use the gayest word in the dictionary,<br />
didn't you?). Deep fried<br />
comic books today including the Midnighter and Apollo<br />
from the comic book "The Authority" who get married in<br />
their comic and adopt a child. "Superman" works with a<br />
lesbian Metropolis Police Force inspector. And this year, a<br />
major gay character called Northstar joined the "X-Men"<br />
team, thrilling gay fans who say they feel a special kinship<br />
with outcast characters who must hide their true self and<br />
find alternative families.<br />
The Rawhide Kid was originally introduced back in the<br />
1950s and was always presented as well groomed and<br />
fashionably dressed (he wore a tight fitting leather outfit<br />
with white gloves and a beaver skin leather hat), but very<br />
shy with girls. Marvel is touting this as the first ever openly<br />
gay title character.<br />
The updated Rawhide Kid's comic series called<br />
"Rawhide Kid: Slap Leather" will premiere in Marvel<br />
Comics' Max line for adults in February, but don't expect<br />
to see a "coming out" scene in the series. Sources from<br />
Marvel say that it will be apparent which side of the bread<br />
the Kid likes his butter on from the very first time that he<br />
is seen, but will never come right out and say it. The<br />
comic is described as having a very lighthearted "Will &<br />
fish (not sure what kind, maybe a<br />
whitefish) is placed in a corn tortilla<br />
with cabbage, red onion,<br />
cilantro and a special tartar sauce.<br />
A basket of three is about $5.<br />
Add the chips and drink combo<br />
for another buck or so and there's<br />
your meal. Not that healthy, but I<br />
will eat a basket knowing full<br />
well that I will have to run an<br />
extra mile or two the next day. I<br />
accept the hardship that the exercise<br />
will cause - the fish tacos are<br />
worth it!<br />
I do have one complaint about<br />
Baja. The liquid from the chicken<br />
that is scooped in the burritos can<br />
cause sogginess. You have to eat<br />
the burritos there, and quickly. If<br />
you try to take the food home, the<br />
liquid will completely soak<br />
through the flour tortilla. You can<br />
ask the worker to be careful and<br />
drain as much of the juice before<br />
scooping, but they don't always<br />
understand...English, that is. I<br />
have resorted to having the salad.<br />
I can deal with the extra juice at<br />
the bottom of the salad plate.<br />
That's easier than learning<br />
Spanish. I should expand my<br />
knowledge of other languages,<br />
but at Baja all you have to do is<br />
point and either shake or nod<br />
your head as your scoot down the<br />
line. It's the American way.<br />
Go to Baja Burrito and get anything.<br />
It's all good. �<br />
Grace" humor which<br />
plays on inside jokes<br />
with the reader. At<br />
one point in the story<br />
the Kid comments on<br />
the Lone Ranger: "I<br />
think that mask and<br />
the powder blue outfit<br />
are fantastic. I can<br />
certainly see why the<br />
Indian follows him<br />
around."<br />
Marvel is planning<br />
six issues of the<br />
Rawhide Kid<br />
series. After looking<br />
at the response to<br />
those issues they will<br />
decide whether to<br />
continue production<br />
The Rawhide Kid<br />
and whether they would<br />
be interested in more series with gay title character. �<br />
Meet Your Neighbor<br />
By F. Daniel Kent<br />
O&AN Associate Entertainment Editor<br />
Hattie Swite<br />
1. What part of Middle Tennessee do you live in? Berry Hill<br />
2. How long have you lived here? One month<br />
3. What is your favorite thing about <strong>Nashville</strong>/Middle<br />
Tennessee: Centennial Park<br />
4. Are you single or dating? Dating<br />
5. What is your favorite hangout? Home<br />
6. What is your favorite TV Show?<br />
Survivor<br />
7. Any community involvement? I try not to<br />
Swite<br />
8. What is the one thing you wish the<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong> GLBT community had: Non-discrimination rights<br />
Mikel James Pierson<br />
1. What part of Middle Tennessee do you live in? West <strong>Nashville</strong><br />
2. How long have you lived here? Four years<br />
3. What is your favorite thing about<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>/Middle Tennessee: The<br />
Job market<br />
4. Are you single or dating? Single and<br />
hating it.<br />
5. What is your favorite hangout? Home<br />
6. What is your favorite TV Show?<br />
Pierson<br />
Gilmour Girls<br />
7. Any community involvement? I didn’t know <strong>Nashville</strong><br />
had one.<br />
8. What is the one thing you wish the <strong>Nashville</strong> GLBT<br />
community had: A community
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left to right: Dennis DiTraglia and<br />
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18 • OUT & ABOUT NASHVILLE • JANUARY, 2003<br />
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Regine Phillips sets sights on Chicago<br />
May maintain small presence at <strong>Nashville</strong> Nightlife<br />
by Mike Robinson<br />
O&AN Photo Editor<br />
One of <strong>Nashville</strong>’s premier nightclub entertainers,<br />
Regine Phillips, is leaving <strong>Nashville</strong> for the Windy City.<br />
The female impersonator known in her shows at the<br />
Connection and <strong>Nashville</strong> Nightlife as "The Oriental<br />
Goddess," is packing her bags and moving to Chicago in<br />
mid-January to begin performing at the Baton.<br />
Her flamboyant stage costumes, or lack thereof, and her<br />
commanding presence on stage, have catapulted her into<br />
the spotlight as one of the most popular entertainers in the<br />
Middle Tennessee gay community.<br />
Her career started in the early 90’s, when bolstered on a<br />
dare by some of her friends, she took advantage of a talent<br />
night at a place called The Fantasy Club in Pensacola,<br />
Florida. After her initial debut, she was hooked.<br />
" I didn’t have anyone to help me," said Regine. "I started<br />
asking the girls in the cast at the club for help and they<br />
just ignored me. So I<br />
did it myself. I didn’t<br />
even know how to put<br />
makeup on. But I<br />
remember the first song<br />
I ever lip-synced, it was<br />
Escapade, by Janet<br />
Jackson, and Paula<br />
Abdul’s Cold Hearted,<br />
that’s how Regine<br />
Phillips was born!"<br />
Crafting a style all<br />
her own, she entered her<br />
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on her career at the<br />
Connection.<br />
raw talent in the making, and asked her to work in his new<br />
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Choosing a Good Psychotherapist<br />
by Barbara Sanders<br />
O&AN Contributor<br />
Why might it be difficult to find a good therapist for<br />
yourself? It can be much like asking how to find a suitable<br />
partner. Unfortunately, sometimes it is hit or miss,<br />
trial and error. After all, you are choosing a very special<br />
person to help you with an intense exploration of and<br />
understanding about your life. No wonder it is no small<br />
task.<br />
Choosing a therapist (or a partner) does not follow a<br />
specific recipe. If there were such a blueprint, we would<br />
all run out and buy such a wondrous plan. But, life is not<br />
like that. At least with a therapist, there are credentialing,<br />
licensing and screening organizations to weed out some of<br />
the bad from the good. But not all therapists fall into one<br />
of the categories that get licensed. Most everyone has<br />
heard of someone who has had a bad therapeutic experience.<br />
I once had a difficult experience with a therapist and<br />
you would think that a therapist, like myself, would be<br />
able to select a therapist wisely! Unfortunately, therapists<br />
are also human and there is never a guarantee as to who is<br />
the best type of therapist to help any specific person.<br />
Although there is no scientific matchmaking service available,<br />
there are some sensible methods that can guide you<br />
in your search.<br />
1. Ask around. Ask friends, family, trusted people whom<br />
they might suggest for you. Realize, however, that a therapist<br />
who has so expertly helped your best friend may or<br />
may not be a good match for you. Some people work best<br />
with talkers, directive therapists who guide and instruct -<br />
much like a teacher or mentor would. Others might prefer<br />
a less directive therapist who does not talk so much but<br />
who is able to consolidate a wide range of information<br />
and provide extremely valuable insights and suggestions.<br />
Most importantly, find a therapist who has good "boundaries"<br />
and who believes that confidentiality is sacred. Only<br />
then can you feel safe enough to explore unconscious terrain.<br />
2. Interview therapists. By phone or in person. Some<br />
therapists are happy to answer questions about themselves<br />
and some are not. There is no right or wrong way for a<br />
therapist to behave in this regard, but you can get a feel<br />
for the therapist by talking with them before deciding to<br />
set aside time, funds and energy to work with this specific<br />
person. Meeting with a therapist is important because<br />
there are so many variables that influence us (whether we<br />
are conscious of them or not). It might be informative to<br />
just sit with a potential therapist, talk, listen, and notice<br />
how you feel while you<br />
are with that person, or<br />
afterward when you<br />
think about the session<br />
and the therapist.<br />
3. If it seems important<br />
to you, ask the<br />
potential therapist about<br />
his or her values, therapeutic<br />
framework, and/or<br />
spirituality. You want to<br />
pick someone who<br />
seems open to and nonjudgmental<br />
about your<br />
Barbara Sanders, LCSW<br />
beliefs. Go ahead and<br />
shop around before you decide. The tone of voice, types of<br />
mannerisms, the age of the therapist, or even the body<br />
type sometimes influence how you will work with a therapist.<br />
Therapy is not always enjoyable and it is helpful to<br />
believe that when you get into some dark places, you have<br />
an advocate and a support who is traveling with you on<br />
this journey, not someone from whom you need to run.<br />
4. Couples therapy. When looking for a couples therapist,<br />
each person needs to agree on the therapist. After<br />
meeting with the therapist, talk with each other about your<br />
experience. Usually one person is more<br />
interested in therapy than the other, so<br />
make sure that the more reluctant partner<br />
feels a connection with the therapist<br />
5. Male, female, gay, bi or straight.<br />
Some people believe that you have to share<br />
certain characteristics with your therapist<br />
in order to fully believe he or she can<br />
understand you and your issues. This may<br />
be true for people grappling with issues<br />
like addictions, <strong>sexual</strong>ity conflicts, <strong>sexual</strong><br />
abuse, and other life problems. However,<br />
you may want to also look at other factors<br />
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that can influence the therapist's ability to help you.<br />
Factors like type of training or educational background of<br />
the therapist, years of experience, the geographical setting<br />
of the office, and the fee may also be important.<br />
If you are part of the LBGT community, realize that<br />
some therapists can be homophobic (without knowing that<br />
they are). As scary and outdated as it seems, some therapists<br />
still try to guide people toward a hetero<strong>sexual</strong><br />
lifestyle, even if this is not the client's goal. Once in therapy,<br />
if you feel like a therapist is not being sensitive to your<br />
needs and your goals, or if you feel like he or she has<br />
some hidden agenda, stop the process and talk about your<br />
concerns. The therapist's reaction to these concerns can<br />
point toward his or her ability to deal with conflict which<br />
will always occur in a good therapeutic relationship. If you<br />
are not satisfied with the reaction, you can terminate the<br />
relationship, ask for a referral, or seek advice from others<br />
about how to handle the situation.<br />
All in all, selecting a good therapist is very important to<br />
your health and well being. Treat the process of finding an<br />
excellent therapist with respect and care, and chances are<br />
you will find a therapist who can help you develop a happier<br />
and more satisfying life.<br />
Barbara Sanders, LCSW, is a psychotherapist in private<br />
practice in <strong>Nashville</strong>. Feel free to call on her if you have<br />
any questions or concerns: (615)327-0756. �<br />
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OUT & ABOUT NASHVILLE • JANUARY, 2003 • 21<br />
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OPINION<br />
What's Wrong With You? New Year evolution<br />
by Christy M. Ikner<br />
O&AN Contributor<br />
Aaahhh, the smell of potential, a fresh<br />
start, a "do-over," if you will. No, it's<br />
not a freshly, out woman; it's an<br />
unprecedented, new calendar being<br />
unwrapped from its static grip of cellophane.<br />
One clear piece of cling wrap is<br />
all that stands in your way of being<br />
somebody different, of you changing<br />
your life this coming year, of learning<br />
how to scuba dive or play the piano,<br />
right? Wrong, Lesbo! The only thing<br />
that stands in your way of making<br />
changes in your life is you and the bad<br />
habits that you need to break. And I'm<br />
not talking about New Year's<br />
Resolutions. Resolutions don't work. I'm<br />
talking about a New Year's Evolution.<br />
What's the difference?<br />
Let's start with the fact that Evolution<br />
doesn't happen at midnight on New<br />
Year's Eve while you're wearing a stupid<br />
hat and most likely marinating in champagne,<br />
blowing a cardboard horn that<br />
falls apart by the next hour due to the<br />
sloshed, slobbery spit spewing from<br />
your drunken pie hole. That would be a<br />
resolution.<br />
Evolution isn't something that you<br />
feel you should do based on the skinny<br />
models, who secretly you want to bang,<br />
and the pressures of media advertisements,<br />
press, radio and film. That would<br />
be a resolution.<br />
Evolution isn't the same promise to<br />
stop doing whatever it is that you're still<br />
doing that you have made to yourself,<br />
your partner and peers since you turned<br />
17. That would be a resolution.<br />
I will be the first to admit that I love<br />
the idea of a quick fix. I'm a huge advocate<br />
of instant gratification, and I wish<br />
there was a pill that I could take to lose<br />
weight, quit smoking, drink less and<br />
exercise more. But there isn't. And it<br />
isn't that I'm being discriminated against<br />
because I'm gay (nice try though). It's<br />
because such a thing doesn't exist, and<br />
if I want to make any of these changes<br />
in my life then I have to get off of my<br />
woman lovin' ass and do some work. I<br />
have to decide that I want to be somebody<br />
different, somebody better.<br />
I can't begin to describe how sick I<br />
am of ladies and lesbos clinging to<br />
stereotypes and using them as excuses<br />
to stay stuck where they are, being<br />
somebody they're tired of being, simply<br />
because they are different, they are gay.<br />
Give me break, what's wrong with you?<br />
Yes, there are stereotypes. Yes, statistically<br />
lesbian households bring in less<br />
money than hetero households. But stop<br />
the whining! If you want to make more<br />
money...go to school, get some training,<br />
demand more, make a job change. You<br />
can do all of these without having to<br />
wear pumps or fitted skirts. You don't<br />
have to be afraid to attack the stereotypes<br />
and make a difference. We can't<br />
all be Melissa or Ellen, but the L & L's<br />
can cry out, work hard and make a difference.<br />
I realize that some of us live in<br />
states where we can be discriminated<br />
against in the workplace because of <strong>sexual</strong>ity.<br />
I live in Tennessee. It doesn't get<br />
much more conservative than that. But I<br />
refuse to act out of fear or fall in step<br />
with the masses wearing a hetero mask<br />
pretending to be somebody I'm not.<br />
The difference between resolution and<br />
evolution is simple. Resolutions are<br />
grand intentions with at best a 60-day<br />
shelf life. Evolution is the baby-step that<br />
is built upon little by little yet has the<br />
potential to make great strides in<br />
change. Evolution is small steady steps<br />
of change that will affect your life and<br />
all of those who you interact with.<br />
You want community? Get out to the<br />
gay bars, bookstores, and volunteer at the<br />
community center. We outies don't have your<br />
address, or the time, to come to your home<br />
to have tea and read The Advocate with you.<br />
Get off your ass and make a difference.<br />
You want to have a real lasting relationship<br />
instead of one-night stands or crazy stuffthrowing<br />
women in your life? Get out of the<br />
chat rooms and meet somebody face to face.<br />
This world is filled with nut-jobs and most<br />
of them have an address on the web. What<br />
you need is to meet somebody who has<br />
strengths to make up for your failures, who<br />
is the opposite of you but with the same values.<br />
Take some risks and ask somebody in<br />
person to spend some time with you. Get off<br />
your ass and make a difference.<br />
You want to feel better...sexier? Go to the<br />
gym, get rid of the mullet, and for god sakes<br />
read a fashion magazine. Just because you're<br />
a lesbo doesn't mean that you have to continue<br />
to dress in the flavor from the decade of<br />
when you came out. If it was the 70s, get rid<br />
of the polyester and Buster Brown shoes. The<br />
80s, spiky hair and vests are out. Get off<br />
your ass and make a difference.<br />
I say all of that to say this. This year,<br />
decide to make a difference. If all you do is<br />
pay attention to the news and vote accordingly,<br />
it will make a difference. Ladies and<br />
Lesbos we are truly a minority, and nobody<br />
will make it better for us but us. So I beg<br />
you to start small, take the baby steps, and<br />
seek the change while learning to love and<br />
know yourself and make a difference in your<br />
family, home and community. As we look at<br />
this New Year, it is filled with as much<br />
potential as the last 20 have been. But it has<br />
to be tapped into from your risk-taking,<br />
woman-lovin', evolution-making ass.<br />
Happy New Year! �<br />
PENNY HARRINGTON<br />
R. TODD BOULDIN<br />
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O&AN<br />
OPINION<br />
Make a list and get ready for a fab New Year<br />
by Drew Plant<br />
O&AN Contributing Writer<br />
A former boss had a lot of idiosyncrasies,<br />
most of which annoyed<br />
me. After all, he was a retired military<br />
man and couldn’t understand<br />
why all of us civilians were so<br />
damned undisciplined. He wondered<br />
aloud about that every day.<br />
But old Hugo had one habit that I<br />
just loved. Upon arriving home<br />
from work, he would change into<br />
more casual attire (I see a cardigan)<br />
and go out and raise a flag on a<br />
flagpole in front of his home.<br />
Actually, it was some conglomeration<br />
of flags, including Old Glory,<br />
some family crest and maybe something<br />
a ship raises when it is at rest.<br />
In any case, this ceremony signaled<br />
that it was cocktail time in Hugo’s<br />
household.<br />
Well, I may not throw up a flagpole<br />
in front of my house, but I do<br />
plan to start having an official<br />
cocktail hour. A time when my<br />
friends know they can come by for<br />
an apple martini or a glass of wine<br />
or maybe just a good, stout Diet<br />
Coke. We’ll have nuts and other<br />
nibbly things while we talk dirty<br />
about celebrities, run down our<br />
bosses or husbands or clients, and<br />
generally accomplish relaxation.<br />
In this grand, New Year, I also<br />
plan for many of my ongoing<br />
evening cocktail salons to languidly<br />
turn in to dinner. That means I’ll<br />
have to grocery shop on a regular<br />
basis – which I hate more than<br />
cleaning toilets – but I will surely<br />
rise to the occasion. I’ll keep more<br />
take-out menus on hand too, for<br />
those nights when the lettuce or the<br />
host are just too wilted to cook.<br />
Still, other of my evenings will<br />
see the guests drift out and me drift<br />
into fuzzy slippers. I’ll pop in an<br />
old movie or, better yet, curl up<br />
with a good book. Just me and my<br />
Drew Plant is an Atlantabased<br />
writer and a<br />
native Tennessean.<br />
hubby Bill and some quiet time. I<br />
am re-staking my claim on old<br />
movies and good, solid books and<br />
trashy entertainment magazines.<br />
I’m also going to use more quiet<br />
evenings and weekends to meander<br />
through my writing tasks. Instead of<br />
dashing off half-thought-out notes,<br />
I’m going to take the time to ensure<br />
I’ve really said what I need to to<br />
that individual. Likewise, I want to<br />
drift into anticipated columns and<br />
other assignments, instead of waiting<br />
for deadlines.<br />
After a decade of talking about it,<br />
I finally started my book – the<br />
Great American Gay Gothic Novel<br />
– while I was at the beach this year,<br />
and I fully intend to stick with it.<br />
There is much dirt to dish and the<br />
process is cathartic.<br />
For no reason at all, I am going<br />
to plop down occasionally and<br />
commit to paper whatever it is I like about<br />
someone I really like. Why they are fun to be<br />
around. Why I imagine them to be particularly<br />
gracious or giving or healing.<br />
I’m not going to just think about these<br />
things, I’m going to write them down. And<br />
just to keep me honest, I’m going to call one<br />
or two of these admired souls and tell them I<br />
am thinking about them and just how grand<br />
they are, in my humble opinion.<br />
I plan to make some specific invitations to<br />
people; I want them to come visit me in the<br />
comfy nest I am feathering. (If the renovation<br />
is ever complete and if the contractor will<br />
ever leave!) We’ll pick dates, plan their trips<br />
and introduce them to other fine friends over<br />
dinner while they are visiting.<br />
I want to see Paul and Michael from<br />
Pasadena. Fabio from L.A. Mom. Larry from<br />
New Jersey. Jim from Nebraska. Mom again.<br />
My Nashvegas sister – with or without her<br />
precious progeny. Cheryl from Washington.<br />
Mom again. Jay from Soap Opera Digest. My<br />
new in-laws from Long Island. (Yes, I married<br />
a Yankee!) And Jeff from Dallas; preferably<br />
without one of his tragic next-husband<br />
candidates.<br />
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Early spring will find me putting out bulbs<br />
and sprucing up the yard. I’ll be sick of working<br />
on the inside of my new-old house by<br />
then, so I plan to start doing more fun, frivolous<br />
and colorful planting.<br />
A tropical trip is in my near-term plans too.<br />
I’m not sure where I’m going or if I’ll let my<br />
partner go with me, but the sun, sand and sea<br />
are calling me and there has just got to be one<br />
of my credit cards that will hold a few nights<br />
of tropical drinks, seafood and karaoke.<br />
I hope you’ve given some thought to new<br />
vices and new resolve for the New Year. After<br />
all, there’s no better place and time to start<br />
than here and now. Best yet, there are no<br />
rules and there are no limits. �<br />
Drew Plant, an Atlanta-based writer, is<br />
taking the phone off the hook and logging off<br />
the computer a little bit more in 2003. He is a<br />
native Tennessean and visits his much older<br />
sister in <strong>Nashville</strong> frequently. Sometimes he<br />
even warns her first. Drew can be reached at<br />
AtlantaWriter@mindspring.com. Write and<br />
tell him what you’re going to accomplish in<br />
the new year. Copyright 2002, Drew Plant.<br />
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Blake is a guy who lives in <strong>Nashville</strong> with a career does<br />
not immediately identify as the stereotypical gay male.<br />
He is a transportation specialist - a truck driver.<br />
"Its difficult for some to realize, possibly to admit, that<br />
there are gay men and women doing jobs that one would<br />
consider out of the gay realm," Blake explained. "We get<br />
stereotyped a lot by society as a whole. As much as we<br />
think people accept us as individuals, we are still often<br />
bunched together in this big gay consciousness of what<br />
gay is perceived to be – the ones who do the weak jobs."<br />
There are multitudes of gay men who are truck drivers,<br />
cops, firemen, farmers, and in all branches of the military.<br />
And there are as many gay women who are ballerinas,<br />
models and actresses.<br />
Blake realized at an early age that he was gay, but like<br />
so many, tried to live the straight life. After getting married<br />
and joining the Navy, all in the same week in 1990,<br />
he realized that the first part was a big mistake. As soon<br />
as he joined the Navy, the Gulf War started. He enjoyed<br />
his military experience but not the marriage. After four<br />
years in the Navy, and now a Desert Storm Vet, he got out,<br />
and proceeded to quickly get a divorce.<br />
It was then that he began realizing a life that had eluded<br />
him so far, one where he could be himself and lead a<br />
happy life. Blake hit the highway. He got his commercial<br />
driver’s license, and set out to see America with a new set<br />
of eyes.<br />
Some people at his work know about his <strong>sexual</strong> <strong>orientation</strong>,<br />
yet his family does not.<br />
" I doubt that they would believe me anyways. I’ve been<br />
driving trucks on and off for almost nine years now, and I<br />
have yet to be accused of being gay," he explained. "I’m a<br />
pretty normal, laid back guy that doesn’t expect much<br />
from anyone, and I’m not out to impress anyone. The only<br />
person you need to impress is yourself, and no one else."<br />
Life on the road isn’t for everyone Blake advises.<br />
"I don’t recommend truck driving unless the person has<br />
a desire to travel and see the country and get paid a lot to<br />
do it," he said. "I mean this type of work ain’t for everyone.<br />
It’s hard to have a relationship with anyone when you<br />
are gone all the time."<br />
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"I enjoy living<br />
here in <strong>Nashville</strong>,<br />
I’ve met a lot of very<br />
nice people and<br />
made some good<br />
friends that I would<br />
do anything for, he<br />
said."<br />
Asked if he had<br />
any advice for<br />
younger gays, Blake<br />
said, "The only<br />
advice that I could<br />
give to younger gays<br />
is that you don’t<br />
have to act gay or do<br />
or be anything gay<br />
to be gay. Be yourself,<br />
then people will<br />
see you for what and<br />
FEATURE<br />
Blue collar profile Truck driver, Desert Storm Veteran, says ‘be who you are’<br />
Amy and Wendy at the Connection.<br />
Carno Farris at the Lipstick Lounge.<br />
<strong>Out</strong> on<br />
the Town<br />
Photos by Mike Robinson<br />
(left to right) Rachell Willhite, Abby Rubenfeld and Degroff<br />
at the T.Vals Holiday Banquet.<br />
Blake takes a break from a<br />
long haul overnight drive.<br />
who you really are, and not someone or something your<br />
not." �<br />
(left to right) Erin, Wendy, Christa and Kat clubbing at the<br />
Connection.<br />
Alex singing during the Sunday<br />
Gospel Show at The Chute.
24 • OUT & ABOUT NASHVILLE • JANUARY, 2003<br />
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MUSIC<br />
She's a Broadway diva, soulful singer, and R&B success<br />
Find out why crossover artist Heather Headley deserves a listen<br />
by Christopher Hamblin<br />
O&AN Associate Arts Editor<br />
Say what you will about Britney, the dirty little Miss<br />
Aguilera, or Justin T., but don't say that Disney doesn't<br />
nurture great talent. Since beginning her Broadway<br />
career as Nala in the Disney production of "The Lion<br />
King," Heather Headley has been nothing but music's<br />
golden child. Disney asked her to audition for Elton<br />
John's "Aida," gave her the title role, and then sat back<br />
and watched as she won a Tony award.<br />
Now, we can all sit back and watch her climb Disneyfree<br />
up the dance charts with her new single "He is."<br />
Headley's debut solo album, "This Is Who I Am," hit the<br />
streets back in October and features such producing<br />
Ron and Theresa at the Chute.<br />
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Left: Jamee<br />
and Rhonda<br />
at the Chute.<br />
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talents as Jimmy Jam<br />
and Terry Lewis, Shep<br />
Crawford, and Dallas<br />
Austin, the lot of<br />
which have worked<br />
with Whitney, Janet,<br />
Toni, and TLC. The<br />
album has slowly but<br />
surely been getting<br />
noticed and played<br />
all over the nation<br />
(even here in Faith<br />
Hill-ville). Says Luther Vandross, "Heather. . . in a word,<br />
WOW!"<br />
Heather co-wrote some of the songs on this album,<br />
Left: Scott and<br />
Dennis at The<br />
Nuthouse.<br />
but authors incredible emotion and musicality in every<br />
line. When selecting songs for the album, Heather used<br />
one criterion: "My brain has to connect with my heart<br />
and my voice," she says. "It's a simple test; I know in 12<br />
bars if I can sing the song or not."<br />
This is who she is. There's a new diva in town y'all,<br />
and her name is Heather Headley.<br />
The "He is" video is aired on BET, and you can catch<br />
it being played by DJ Ron at TRIBE. You also can hear<br />
Heather's music at www.heatherheadley.com.<br />
(Editor's note) On Saturday, Jan. 14, Miss Jospehyn<br />
Edwards will be performing "He is" during the second<br />
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OUT & ABOUT NASHVILLE • JANUARY, 2003 • 25<br />
People's Branch Theatre Offers Variety in 2003 Season<br />
by Christopher Hamblin<br />
O&AN Associate Arts Editor<br />
Interpretation-it's a tricky thing. One has to be careful<br />
with someone else's work, especially when that someone<br />
is Samuel Beckett. That's what the People's Branch<br />
Theatre found out in mid-November when the Samuel<br />
Beckett Estate requested that PBT close its production<br />
of "Waiting for Godot." Brian Niece, PBT Artistic<br />
Director, cast two women in the lead male roles.<br />
Although the characters remained men, the estate<br />
claimed that PBT was in breach of Beckett's instruction<br />
that there should be no change of sex in the characters,<br />
and it would therefore have to close. The young theater<br />
is now facing approximately $10,000 in debt thanks to<br />
the premature departure of "Waiting for Godot." But,<br />
the show must and will go on.<br />
Integrity intact, PBT is continuing the 2003 season<br />
with "27 Wagons Full of Cotton," a rarely performed<br />
one-act by Tennessee Williams based on his short story.<br />
This production is part of the "Tennessee Williams<br />
Revealed" series, a collaboration between local professional<br />
theater groups. Niece will be directing and says<br />
this play was chosen to compliment the surrounding<br />
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you're not even sure which is which," said Neice. This<br />
seems to parallel PBT's outlook. Niece also believes the<br />
following PBT production, an adaptation of Alan<br />
Lightman's novel "Einstein's Dreams," will offer even<br />
more variety.<br />
"27 Wagons Full of Cotton"<br />
tells the somewhat odd story of<br />
an aging southern couple.<br />
"27 Wagons Full of Cotton" tells the somewhat odd<br />
story of an aging southern couple. The abusive husband<br />
burns down the ginning equipment of the neighboring<br />
plantation in order to gain business. The owner of the<br />
plantation pays a visit, figures out what happened and<br />
takes advantage of the man's wife. In the end we see a<br />
torn and battered woman. "We are left with a vision of a<br />
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soul who wants to find a way out of abuse, a symbol of<br />
all aspects of the human American spirit - a willingness<br />
to go on in the face of abuse," explained Neice.<br />
Niece expressed PBT's dedication to enriching the life<br />
of the greater <strong>Nashville</strong> area and its artistic community<br />
by making the word "community" a verb. "We want to<br />
use the safe haven of the theater to do the dangerous<br />
work of facing ourselves," Niece commented.<br />
The "Tennessee Williams Revealed" series began with<br />
Tennessee Rep's "Streetcar" and will continue with<br />
Mockingbird's "Glass Menagerie" and <strong>Nashville</strong> Ballet's<br />
"Night of the Iguana." A copy of "27 Wagons" is available<br />
at <strong>Nashville</strong> Public Library. A discussion with PBT<br />
about the play will be held on Jan. 13 at Davis-Kidd<br />
Booksellers.<br />
No doubt that PBT's contribution will be edgy, relevant<br />
and thought provoking. �<br />
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O&AN<br />
by Big Daddy Darrell<br />
O&AN contributor<br />
LIVING<br />
Big Daddy shows you how to cook in the new year right<br />
Hello and welcome to a New Year of cooking with Big<br />
Daddy. With a New Year usually comes a new resolution<br />
and if yours is dieting then I have some great recipes just<br />
for you.<br />
Baked Chicken<br />
4 skinless breast (boneless)<br />
1/2 cup shredded carrots<br />
2 slices onion<br />
1 stalk celery (chopped)<br />
salt and pepper<br />
1 pkg. wild rice<br />
1 tbs. corn starch<br />
Prepare rice per directions (set aside)<br />
Salt and pepper breasts, place in baking dish and add<br />
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by Pamela DeGroff<br />
O&AN Contributing Writer<br />
Discrimination is<br />
a word our community<br />
is all too familiar<br />
with. Many of us in<br />
the GLBT family<br />
have had to deal with<br />
harassment on the<br />
job, and sometimes<br />
even the loss of our<br />
employment. Some<br />
DeGroff<br />
have had to deal with<br />
unfair housing practices, which sounds<br />
more like something out of the 1960s civil<br />
rights era.<br />
Still others have experienced problems<br />
with what is known as public accommodation,<br />
or the right to be in a public place<br />
without facing hostility.<br />
Space doesn't permit a discussion of<br />
hate crimes, parental rights, partner benefits,<br />
or persecution from our religious<br />
institutions. We're all familiar, too familiar,<br />
with all of the above.<br />
There are still those in the gay/lesbian<br />
world who feel that the Transgender part<br />
of GLBT doesn't share the same concerns<br />
as the rest of the community. They couldn't<br />
be more wrong.<br />
Two events recently, one public and the<br />
other private, help to illustrate different<br />
levels of experience within the transgender<br />
community.<br />
On Nov. 20 members of <strong>Nashville</strong>'s<br />
Tennessee Vals conducted a Day of<br />
Remembrance service at the Unity Church<br />
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tender. In a cup take 1/3 cup water and 1 tbs. corn starch<br />
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1/2 cup cranberries (frozen or fresh)<br />
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An example of transgender discrimination<br />
on Franklin Road. Nationwide, this was<br />
the fourth annual commemoration of<br />
Transgender victims of hate crimes, but it<br />
was the first time the T.Vals participated.<br />
The service was low-key, even somber<br />
at times. There were presentations of statistics<br />
detailing the extent of violence<br />
against TG people, dating back to the<br />
1970s. There was a candle lighting ceremony<br />
as well as live music. Perhaps the<br />
most emotional part of the evening, however,<br />
was the reading of the names of local<br />
individuals who died as a result of transrelated<br />
violence. Of the nine names mentioned,<br />
two died of suicide, and two were<br />
non-trans people who were either associated<br />
or thought to be associated with transgender<br />
individuals.<br />
Channel 4 sent a reporter and cameraman<br />
to cover the service, and they were<br />
respectful enough not to film anyone who<br />
might not wish to be "outed" during the<br />
service. Although the reporter was highly<br />
professional and did ask intelligent questions<br />
of those she did interview, the final<br />
story as aired later left something to be<br />
desired because of the inclusion of one<br />
very slanted point of view. More on this<br />
later, perhaps.<br />
The aforementioned private incident<br />
involves a Transgender individual who has<br />
faced medical discrimination from one of<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong>'s hospitals. Because this particular<br />
incident might have certain legal ramifications,<br />
the names of the medical facility<br />
or medical personnel involved cannot be<br />
used. Bridgette, the 40-something trans<br />
person involved, has written a detailed<br />
account of the situation, has consulted an<br />
attorney, and has even approached<br />
Equality Tennessee for their input.<br />
What should have been a routine examination<br />
turned into an extremely embarrassing<br />
and stressful situation. As with<br />
most cross dressers, Bridgette shaves her<br />
entire body. The nurse who took<br />
Bridgette's blood pressure and administered<br />
an EKG made note of this fact, but<br />
went beyond mere curiosity to ask some<br />
extremely pointed, personal questions, and<br />
then proceed to tell the rest of the nursing<br />
staff in the office about what she perceived<br />
as a threat.<br />
Upon leaving the office, Bridgette was<br />
subjected to stares, rude comments, and<br />
even laughter by the assembled nursing<br />
staff. "Apparently, the nurses approached<br />
the doctor and complained about me as a<br />
possible risk," Bridgette said.<br />
"Together...the doctor and his staff decided<br />
I shouldn't be a patient of his any<br />
longer."<br />
Being a person with diabetes, Bridgette<br />
is extremely concerned about the possibility<br />
of not having the availability of medical<br />
treatment over the holiday season<br />
should the need arise. She was finally able<br />
to reach the doctor by phone a few days<br />
later to explain her situation and to assert<br />
that she is not a risk to the staff. She<br />
knows that their main concern was that<br />
she might be HIV positive.<br />
"I felt compelled to explain that I am<br />
transgendered," she said. "He replied that<br />
there is '...no such thing.' He said he<br />
doesn't understand these sort of things,<br />
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and does not wish to have contact with<br />
these issues."<br />
Through her attorney, Bridgette learned<br />
that the medical facility in question takes<br />
the official view that a "doctor has the<br />
right to decline a patient based on criteria<br />
he or she deems germane." She was further<br />
informed that the facility's legal<br />
department "took an aggressive stance<br />
against my claim and threatened me with a<br />
lawsuit."<br />
The only concession offered was a cancellation<br />
of account balances owed to both<br />
the facility and the doctor in question.<br />
Bridgette has had further negative experiences<br />
with this same hospital. Her elderly<br />
father was treated in a very unethical<br />
manner by the facility's ER right before<br />
his death. "Over the past year, I have<br />
heard first-hand accounts from the indigent<br />
poor, blacks, Hispanics and may<br />
other minorities outlining the same pattern<br />
of indifferent behavior," she said. "They<br />
have a developing history of callousness<br />
and detachment with all sorts of minorities,<br />
be it gender, <strong>sexual</strong> preference, economic,<br />
or ethnic."<br />
For the female to male segment of the<br />
Transgender community, medical indifference<br />
is nothing new. T-Men, as they preferred<br />
to be known, experience harsh<br />
treatment at almost every turn when dealing<br />
with the medical establishment. The<br />
effects of testosterone on T-Men make<br />
many so passable they're never even given<br />
a second glance. But since the cost of sur-<br />
continued on next page
O&AN<br />
M.I. T.O.P. T.E.N.<br />
Music I Treasure or Prefer<br />
to Listen to Enjoy Nonstop<br />
Kenneth DeGraff<br />
(College Student/O&AN <strong>Nashville</strong> Reader)<br />
1. Josh Rouse - Home<br />
2. Paul McCartney and Wings - London Town<br />
3. Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin<br />
4. Pet Shop Boys - Behavior<br />
5. Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports<br />
6. Lambchop - Nixon<br />
7. Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees<br />
8. Mavericks - Music for All Occasions<br />
9. Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach -<br />
Painted From Memory<br />
10. The Strokes - Is This It?<br />
gery is so high, many only have what<br />
is commonly called "top surgery", or<br />
a radical mastectomy. This suffices<br />
for many until there is a need to visit<br />
the gynecologist's office. It's here<br />
that many are turned away, or have to<br />
experience frustration after frustration<br />
in finding a sympathetic doctor.<br />
The commonality for all of us -<br />
gay, lesbian, bi<strong>sexual</strong>, or transgender<br />
- is that we will all experience discrimination<br />
in one form or another<br />
eventually. Ill treatment in the areas<br />
of employment, housing, and public<br />
accommodation is bad enough, but<br />
to be denied basic medical care is<br />
something that shouldn't happen,<br />
MUSIC<br />
transgender discrimination - continued from previous page<br />
especially when we pay our insurance<br />
premiums, and especially now,<br />
in the so-called 21st Century.<br />
I wish I could conclude this with a<br />
solution, but I can't. These problems<br />
are real, are ongoing, and often lifethreatening.<br />
At the very least, we<br />
need to put aside our perceived differences<br />
within our community, and<br />
realize that we really do have power<br />
in numbers, power with our economics,<br />
and the power to work within the<br />
system. We have to work together,<br />
and we have to vote for those who<br />
are our allies.<br />
Thank you for your time. �<br />
OUT & ABOUT NASHVILLE • JANUARY, 2003 • 27<br />
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1. Clairee<br />
6. Cherry Coke<br />
8. Texas<br />
10. PMS<br />
13. Lloyd Beecher<br />
16. Drum<br />
17. Southern Hair<br />
18. Dolly Parton<br />
21. Eatenton<br />
24. Pork and Beans<br />
27. Desoto<br />
29. Judy<br />
30. high<br />
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Crossword Puzzel Answers<br />
31. nine<br />
32. Brookshires<br />
34. Kevin<br />
35. kidney<br />
38. KPPD<br />
43. Dylan McDermott<br />
44. Blush<br />
46. Spud Jones<br />
47. eighties<br />
48. Chinquapin<br />
50. luggage<br />
51. diabetes<br />
DOWN<br />
1. crossbow<br />
2. snake<br />
3. VCR<br />
4. armadillo<br />
5. Herbert Ross<br />
7. Golden Globe<br />
9. Sam<br />
11. Robert Harling<br />
12. July<br />
14. radio station<br />
15. Orange Juice<br />
19. Ouiser<br />
20. Rhett<br />
22. Owen Jenkins<br />
23. stuck pig<br />
25. Olympia Dukakis<br />
26. Christmas<br />
28. Steve<br />
32. Bunny<br />
33. Piggly Wiggly<br />
36. accessorize<br />
37. Halloween<br />
39. pigeons<br />
40. hospital<br />
41. toast<br />
42. rolls<br />
45. lawyer<br />
49. pink<br />
Crossword Puzzle<br />
Ode to Steel Magnolias<br />
ACROSS<br />
1. Whose nephew comes out as being gay<br />
6. Drink served to Annelle at the wedding<br />
(2 words)<br />
8. M’lynn says “she can run to and back”<br />
to this state<br />
10. Reason for Truvy throwing the radio<br />
against the wall<br />
13. Clairee’s dead husbands name (2<br />
words)<br />
16. He is “a boil on the butt of humanity”<br />
17. Magazine Annelle wants back issues<br />
of (2 words)<br />
18. Plays owner of Truvy’s Hair Salon (2<br />
words)<br />
21. Last name of Sally Fields character<br />
24. Drum eats this with every meal (3<br />
words)<br />
27. Middle name of Annelle<br />
29. Annelle replaces this girl at Truvy’s<br />
30. “Are you _____ Clairee?”<br />
31. Number of Bridesmaids at the wedding<br />
32. Store that Clairee and Ouiser go on a<br />
shopping spree<br />
34. First name of the actor who plays<br />
Sammy<br />
35. Shelby has this donated from M’lynn<br />
38. Call letters of the radio station<br />
43. Groom who is currently on “The<br />
Practice” (2 words)<br />
44. Colors at Shelby’s Wedding _____ &<br />
Bashful<br />
46. Offshore oil rigger played by Sam<br />
Sheppard (2 words)<br />
47. Decade the movie came out<br />
48. City that serves as the setting<br />
50. Clariee loves Weezer more than this<br />
“her _____”<br />
51. Ailment that Shelby suffers with<br />
by Danny Norris<br />
O&AN Crossword Editor<br />
DOWN<br />
1. Weapon used to rid pigeons by Drum<br />
2. Aunt Fern cannot make a cake out of<br />
this one animal<br />
3. Jackson says it is worth getting married<br />
for<br />
4. Animal that the grooms cake reflects<br />
5. Director (2 words)<br />
7. Award won by Roberts for Supporting<br />
Actress (2 words)<br />
9. First name of the actor who plays<br />
Parton’s husband<br />
11. Magnolias writer (2 words)<br />
12. Month of Jack Jrs Birthday<br />
14. Clarice buys one of these (2 words)<br />
15. Remedy Drink given to Shelby when<br />
she faints (2 words)<br />
19. Nickname for Louisa<br />
20. Ouiser’s St Bernard’s name<br />
22. “Can of Worms” opened for Ouiser at<br />
the xmas party (2 words)<br />
23. Looks like something bled all over<br />
Shelby’s hands (2 words)<br />
25. Actress who plays the widow (2<br />
words)<br />
26. Holiday Shelby announces her pregnancy<br />
28. “All gay men are named Mark, Rick,<br />
or _____”<br />
32. Suit worn by Sammy in the last scene<br />
33. Grocery Store of preference (2 words)<br />
36. What separates us from the animals is<br />
our ability to _____<br />
37. Holiday that Shelby goes into a coma<br />
39. Kind of bothersome birds in the trees<br />
40. Shelby works here<br />
41. Drum quote “Serve him on _____”<br />
42. Annelle stuffs these in her purse<br />
45. Profession of Jackson<br />
49. Color of dress that Shelby is buried in
y Susan Gates<br />
O&AN Sports Editor<br />
A small but growing group of<br />
runners and walkers get together<br />
each Saturday (weather permitting)<br />
to exercise and socialize.<br />
They are the Music City<br />
FrontRunners/FrontWalkers, affiliated<br />
with the international Front<br />
Runners organization of GLBT<br />
running/walking clubs. Started by<br />
Chris Harris two years ago, they<br />
now boast 15 or so regulars.<br />
More than half of these regulars<br />
are walkers.<br />
Harris was a Front Runners<br />
member in Cincinnati before<br />
moving to <strong>Nashville</strong> a few years<br />
ago. In Cincinnati they do<br />
runs/walks three or four days a<br />
week and have a much larger<br />
membership. Harris saw a need<br />
for an alternative to the bar scene<br />
and began recruiting friends to<br />
run with him. Thus was born the<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong> chapter.<br />
This local chapter is becoming<br />
more active in the community as<br />
well. They participated as a group<br />
in the Boulevard Bolt. They staff<br />
an informal water station outside<br />
Harris’s home during the Country<br />
Music Marathon each year.<br />
International Front Runners who<br />
are in town for that marathon are<br />
invited to a potluck dinner afterwards.<br />
The organization has also<br />
sponsored a run for the past two<br />
years to coincide with <strong>Nashville</strong>’s<br />
PrideFest, the Pride Run at<br />
Shelby Bottoms.<br />
Several members are participate<br />
in marathons and other longdistance<br />
runs around the area.<br />
The group does a lot of local runs<br />
together. Harris has attempted<br />
one marathon and finished in an<br />
admirable 5.5 hours. He says Ben<br />
Smallheer is the best runner in<br />
the group though.<br />
Smallheer started running<br />
when he was an apartment complex<br />
manager. He lived and<br />
worked in the same complex and<br />
found running was a way to get<br />
away from it all for a while. He<br />
got into the FrontRunners when<br />
Harris saw his AOL profile that<br />
said he was a runner. Harris contacted<br />
Smallheer and asked if he<br />
wanted a running buddy. He is<br />
now a regular with the group<br />
when work permits.<br />
Smallheer and Harris participated<br />
in the Flying Pig Marathon<br />
in Cincinnati this year together.<br />
This was Smallheer’s third<br />
marathon. His best time has been<br />
3 hours 45 minutes. His first<br />
marathon he learned about from<br />
an advertising flyer and decided<br />
to do it on a whim. It took six<br />
months to get into form and he<br />
ran the inaugural Music City<br />
Marathon.<br />
Smallheer and Harris both<br />
agree: the <strong>Nashville</strong> chapter of<br />
the Front Runners has a great<br />
group of people. Everyone goes<br />
at their own pace, walking or running.<br />
There are two routes every<br />
week: 3- and 5-miles. Everyone<br />
meets for coffee afterwards.<br />
Runs/walks start from the Arts<br />
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Park at 9 a.m. on Saturdays.<br />
Contact Chris<br />
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for more information<br />
or visit their<br />
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30 • OUT & ABOUT NASHVILLE • JANUARY, 2003<br />
O&AN<br />
by Susan Gates<br />
O&AN Sports Editor<br />
SPORTS<br />
National Women’s Football League changes name<br />
Dispute with NFL forces move to avoid confusion<br />
The National Women’s Football<br />
League is now known as the<br />
National Women’s Football<br />
Association after a dispute with<br />
the National Football League.<br />
The NFL had no beef with the<br />
fledgling NWFL. Prior to the<br />
2002 season, they even sent best<br />
wishes. That all ended when the<br />
women’s league made it to the<br />
sports betting scene at the end of<br />
the 2002 season however. Then<br />
the boys got nasty. Seems the<br />
NFL couldn’t take any chance<br />
that gamblers might mistake the<br />
NWFL with their league when<br />
placing bets.<br />
Start the New Year off<br />
right by hitting the gym<br />
OK, the New Year is here. You’ve<br />
decided that it is time to do something<br />
about that body of yours. What to do?<br />
Hit the gym, of course. But it’s been a<br />
while since you were last in a gym. Or<br />
maybe this is your first foray into this<br />
arena. You have a green light from<br />
your doctor to exercise, but now<br />
what?<br />
Here’s a general program that will<br />
get you in and out of the gym in a reasonable<br />
amount of time and give you<br />
a good foundation to build on. Before<br />
we dive into the program itself, let’s<br />
cover some basic<br />
rules:<br />
• Before every<br />
workout make<br />
sure you warm<br />
up and do a little<br />
light stretching.<br />
• Lower the weights slower than you<br />
lift them, but not super slow.<br />
• Your last repetition of an exercise<br />
should be fairly tough to complete. If<br />
you can’t reach your target number of<br />
repetitions, use less weight. If you<br />
reach your target number and feel like<br />
you could knock out one or two more<br />
reps, then add weight.<br />
• Don’t train the same body part<br />
two days in a row. Don’t train a muscle<br />
that’s still sore from a previous<br />
workout.<br />
And now the program... This is a<br />
full body training program. That<br />
means you’ll hit all the major muscle<br />
groups in one workout. Perform this<br />
program two or three times a week<br />
and remember the rule about not<br />
training when you’re still sore.<br />
1. Squats (or leg press)<br />
2. Pull-down (or pull-ups)<br />
3. Hamstring curls (or straight leg<br />
deadlifts)<br />
4. Dumbbell bench press<br />
5. Bicep curls<br />
6. Overhead dumbbell press<br />
7. Ab exercise of your choice<br />
8. Lying tricep extension with EZcurl<br />
bar<br />
Do the exercises in the order listed<br />
and start off easy. It will take a few<br />
sessions for your body to adjust to this<br />
new activity. Perform one or two sets<br />
per exercise. Rest 60 to 90 seconds<br />
between sets. Use a weight that allows<br />
you to complete 10 to 12 repetitions<br />
per set.<br />
Your last rep of a set should be difficult<br />
to perform but not to the point<br />
of muscular failure. You should feel<br />
that you could knock out one more<br />
rep if you really had to. When you can<br />
comfortably complete 12 repetitions at<br />
a given weight for your sets, increase<br />
the weight at your next workout.<br />
Spend a few weeks with this program.<br />
It’ll get you off to a good start.<br />
Next month we’ll look at how to take<br />
your training to the next level. Until<br />
then, here’s to your health. �<br />
Three days after the NWFL<br />
first appeared on a Las Vegas betting<br />
line, the big, bad NFL began<br />
sending threatening letters to the<br />
NWFL offices. Three demands<br />
were made: the name of the<br />
championship game had to be<br />
changed (it was called the<br />
SupHer Bowl), two of the team<br />
logos had to be changed, and the<br />
George Lamons and<br />
Jason Allen at<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong> Nightlife.<br />
name of the league had to<br />
change.<br />
NWFL founder Catherine<br />
Masters agreed to the first two<br />
demands but held her ground on<br />
changing the league name initially.<br />
The NFL is a bit too much to<br />
fight however, and the league’s<br />
official name change was<br />
announced Nov. 26. The name<br />
The <strong>Nashville</strong> Storms Group is looking for a<br />
few good people. They have gotten so big, so<br />
fast, that founder Jon Hageman II can’t do it<br />
all anymore. He is turning over operation of<br />
the Storms Group to a newly formed board of<br />
directors, officers, and commissioners.<br />
Hageman remains as chairman of the Board of<br />
Directors and will continue to be heavily<br />
involved in the group’s activities and direction.<br />
There are other motivations for making this<br />
change. The Storms Group will be incorporating<br />
in 2003. They will be creating articles of<br />
incorporation, by-laws, and other organizational<br />
documents and procedures to support their<br />
application for non-profit status. This is a big<br />
step for the group and requires more time and<br />
resources than Hageman had available to<br />
accomplish.<br />
Debbie Russell and Ron Veasey will be<br />
coming on as vice chairman and president,<br />
respectively. Cennie Guree brings her experience<br />
with other non-profit groups to the Board<br />
of Directors and the officer board as secretary<br />
for each. John Brown comes on as treasurer,<br />
with Traci Jackson filling the vice treasurer<br />
slot.<br />
There are two member-at-large positions<br />
open on the Board of Directors. Hageman<br />
change is minor but apparently<br />
acceptable to the NFL. The<br />
National Women’s Football<br />
Association takes the field in the<br />
spring of 2003. For more information,<br />
see their Web site at<br />
http://www.nwflcentral.com �<br />
-photo by Mike Robinson<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong> Storms reorganize, name board of<br />
directors, new officers take positions<br />
notes that these positions might not necessarily<br />
go to Storms members. He suggests it may be<br />
best to tap some outside experience and perspective<br />
to make the group stronger.<br />
The last rung of the newly formed organizational<br />
ladder will be commissioners and/or<br />
chairs for individual committees. Committees<br />
are Volleyball, Softball, Bowling, Explorers,<br />
View, Community Affairs, Media/PR, Web<br />
Services, and Corporate Fund-raising. Darrin<br />
Sylvera and Julie Griffin take on the Bowling<br />
committee, Susan Gates brings her varied contacts<br />
with the larger community to the<br />
Community Affairs committee, and Ron<br />
Veasey brings his experience with other fundraising<br />
efforts to the Corporate Fund-raising<br />
committee.<br />
Hageman and Veasey want to fill all remaining<br />
positions by the next meeting in mid-<br />
January. Storms members are encouraged to<br />
nominate people they feel would be beneficial<br />
to the organization in any of the open positions.<br />
Interested parties may also nominate<br />
themselves by contacting Hageman or Veasey<br />
either through the Storms Web site at<br />
http://www.nashvillestorms.com or via e-mail<br />
at stormsgroup@yahoo.com �
Saturday night trio league provides new option<br />
for those not interested in long bowling league season<br />
by Susan Gates<br />
O&AN Sports Editor<br />
Bowlers in Music City have a<br />
new option for those not interested<br />
in the usual long season. The<br />
Saturday Night Trio League<br />
bowled this fall at Pla-Mor lanes<br />
on, well, Saturday nights.<br />
What is a “trio” league?<br />
Teams are made up of three people,<br />
rather than the usual four.<br />
What’s nice about that is individuals<br />
can get involved more easily<br />
than in a regular league.<br />
Additionally a team can have a<br />
four-person roster, but only three<br />
bowl on any given league night.<br />
This means a team can have a<br />
substitute but that person can<br />
only sub for that one team. This<br />
is an official league, with individuals<br />
registered with ABC and<br />
WIBC just like in other leagues.<br />
The Trio League was not a gay<br />
league, as are Tuesday night’s<br />
Rainbowlers and Sunday afternoon’s<br />
Music City Rollers.<br />
The second annual Walk for<br />
Women will be held March 15.<br />
Sponsored by the <strong>Nashville</strong><br />
chapter of the National<br />
Association of Women<br />
Business Owners (NAWBO)<br />
and coached by Jill Flatt of<br />
Fleet Feet Sports in Brentwood,<br />
the walk benefits the Women’s<br />
Resource Center, a non-profit<br />
organization promoting the<br />
economic equality of womenowned<br />
businesses by providing<br />
Corrections<br />
& clarifications<br />
First a correction to a<br />
November issue story: The<br />
Rainbowlers is not Music<br />
City Rollers II reincarnated;<br />
it is an entirely new<br />
league. Next a possible<br />
misconception addressed:<br />
Pla-Mor Lanes does not<br />
and never has been unwelcoming<br />
to gay bowlers or<br />
leagues. Other lanes<br />
around town do discriminate;<br />
Pla-Mor is not one of<br />
them. �<br />
League organizers estimate the<br />
fall season league to be 50-50<br />
gay-straight and the atmosphere<br />
was comfortable for everyone<br />
involved. The <strong>Nashville</strong> Storms<br />
were instrumental in providing<br />
this bowling option on Saturday<br />
nights. There were three Storms<br />
teams in the league, which<br />
helped to seed it so Pla-Mor<br />
The <strong>Nashville</strong> Storms<br />
were instrumental in<br />
providing this bowling<br />
option on Saturday<br />
nights.<br />
would hold the time slot. Two<br />
Storms members also served as<br />
officers, Darrin Sylvera, president,<br />
and Jane Poole, secretary.<br />
The high men’s and women’s<br />
bowlers were Darrin Sylvera and<br />
Julie Griffin respectively. Julie is<br />
a late bloomer, starting bowling<br />
only eight years ago. Her personal<br />
best is a 248 game. She started<br />
league bowling on a team in<br />
Gallatin that included her sister<br />
and brother-in-law. When asked<br />
how she got this good this fast,<br />
she modestly says, “I’m not that<br />
good, just that lucky.”<br />
Sometimes lucky is better than<br />
good.<br />
Darrin Sylvera has bowled<br />
since he was 11 or 12. He<br />
remembers his mom driving him<br />
to the bowling alley when he was<br />
a kid. His first job was in an<br />
alley also; he worked his way<br />
through college that way. College<br />
was at Southeast Louisiana<br />
University, where he was a member<br />
of the bowling team. Asked<br />
what he liked most about that<br />
college game, he said it was the<br />
pressure. The coach and the<br />
entire team stood around the<br />
approach as he bowled. The college<br />
game is quite different from<br />
Second annual Walk for Women to be held March 15<br />
education, technical assistance,<br />
counseling, and training.<br />
Last year 97 women and one<br />
man raised more than $37,000<br />
in this event, walking or running<br />
13.1 miles in less than<br />
four hours. Most of these participants<br />
had never exercised<br />
before committing to this<br />
event, and the average age of<br />
the participants was 50.<br />
Participants are asked to<br />
commit to training and raising<br />
Music City Rollers Leauge Standings<br />
As of Week 13 W-L<br />
The Substitutes 60-31<br />
Up Your Alley 59-32<br />
Bullpins 57-34<br />
Libido 55-36<br />
Betty's Boys 54-37<br />
The Bitter End 53-38<br />
Team 2 52-39<br />
Gutter Balls 50-41<br />
Pinbusters VIII 47-44<br />
Spare Me 45-46<br />
No More Drama 45-46<br />
Stormers 40-51<br />
Bumper Boys 38-53<br />
Cruncked Up 33-58<br />
Web Slingers 33-58<br />
a minimum of $250 in donations<br />
or pledges. In exchange<br />
for training, walking/running,<br />
and fund-raising, each participant<br />
receives a training program,<br />
one-on-one attention,<br />
and 10 percent discount at<br />
Fleet Feet Sports in<br />
Brentwood. In addition, free<br />
seminars are available on foot<br />
care, shoe fitting, nutrition, and<br />
event readiness. A long-sleeved<br />
T-shirt and a training log are<br />
Bowling league standings<br />
OUT & ABOUT NASHVILLE • JANUARY, 2003 • 31<br />
the individual game<br />
of league play. The<br />
coach can actually<br />
sub in the middle of<br />
a frame, taking a<br />
bowler out if another<br />
is better at picking<br />
up a certain<br />
spare for instance.<br />
Darrin’s personal<br />
best is a 297.<br />
The fall season is<br />
over, but the league<br />
will be reformed as<br />
a Storms league, the<br />
Saturday Nite<br />
Storms Classic. The<br />
spring season is also<br />
a 15-week season. It may or may<br />
not be a trio league, depending<br />
on interest and participation.<br />
Non-Storms members are welcomed<br />
and encouraged to participate.<br />
New teams and individuals are<br />
being accepted for the spring 15week<br />
season, which starts Jan. 4<br />
with a kick-off/sign-up party at<br />
also part of the benefits.<br />
Participants train together on<br />
Saturdays through March 8. It’s<br />
not too late to sign up. There<br />
are 70 women and two men<br />
registered for the 2003 walk.<br />
Register online at<br />
http://www.WalkForWomen200<br />
3.com or contact Jill Flatt at<br />
(615) 373-1123 or the Women’s<br />
Resource Center at (615)<br />
248-3474 if you’d like to get<br />
involved. �<br />
Vacancy Team 5-16<br />
Rainbowlers League Standings<br />
As of Week 14 W-L<br />
K-9 Designs Ect 66-32<br />
3 Heads & A Ho 63-35<br />
EZ Pick-up 61-37<br />
Sly Bois 58-40<br />
3 Chicks & A Peck 57-41<br />
Sisters with Balls 54-44<br />
Queer Factors 52-46<br />
Board of Directors 47-51<br />
Alli Boys 46-52<br />
Gasliters 42-56<br />
Kirby Pool Service 38-60<br />
Testosterollers 35-63<br />
Bitches of the World 35-63<br />
Spare Change 32-66<br />
Darrin Sylven and Julie Griffin are the<br />
high bowlers for the Saturday Night Trio<br />
League.<br />
6:30 p.m. Contact Darrin<br />
Sylvera, president, and he’ll fix<br />
you up with a slot. If you want to<br />
bowl at the kick-off/sign-up<br />
party, call Darrin at 885-8103 to<br />
guarantee lane availability. The<br />
full season starts Jan. 11. �
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Dates to Remember in January<br />
A Gospel Gathering<br />
With Your Hostess Tammy Bay Faker<br />
January 5th at 8 p.m.<br />
Conductors Club Night & Beer Bust<br />
Friday, January 10th, 10:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.<br />
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