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SF PRIDE: John Nechman
will ride in SF Parade Page 5
in the pride guide
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PRIDE
MORE MARRIAGE: Same-sex nuptials
continue in New Platz. Page 7
NO FAGGOTS: Michael St Patrick
balked at playmg a stereotype. Page 14
When Gertrude
and Alice did Dallas
In her cookbook. Ahce B
Toldas wntes about the
llme she and Gertrude
Stein visited the Hockaday
School m Dallas.
The world's most famous
lesbian couple visited the
Hockaday School in Dallas
By BINNIE FISHER
On a cold evening in March of 1935, a crowd
had gathered to greet the plane that brought
Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas from Chicago
to Dallas.
By all accounts, Stein was dchghted to sec
what she considered to be so many well·w1shcrs.
It is not known whether anyone informed her
that the CTO\\ d, mostly \\omen, had actually con·
vened on r umors that <Aarke Gable was to have
arrived on the same flight.
Just shy of 70 years later, the fact that the
world's most famous lesbian couple once came to
Ilallns goes virtually unobserved.
In 'The Alice R. Toklas Cookbook.' written
nfler Gertrude died m 1946. Alice notes that the
couple pondered from their apartment at 27 rue
rte Flcurus in Paris whether or not to accept
offers that had come from America for Stein to
speak there Gertrude had wondered whether she
would find the food to her liking.
The mv1tations had come following the 1933
publication of ''The Autobiography of Ahce B.
'J'oklas," which Gertrude penned. Some literature
enthusiasts were intrigued by the idea of somt>one
\\T1ting someone else's autobiography and
Please see VISIT on Page 17
eclipse
John Geddes Lawrence and Tyron Gamer scored a landmark victory for gay
rights last year when the nation's highest court agreed w.'~ their challenge to a
Texas law bannmg 'deviant sexual intercourse (Photo by David J. Pbdh!O'AP)
One year after
Lawrence vs. Texas
Supreme Court's sodomy ruling
fueled same-sex marriage fight
By RYAN LEE
The day after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled m 1986 that It
was constitutional for states to prohibit sodom) between con·
sent mg adults, Evan Wolfson began \\eanng a pm m the hapc
of a pink triangle
'Wolfson, a gay lawyer "ho 1 now the executt\ e dLreCtor of
Freedom to Marry a coal1t10n \\orking to attam marnage
equality for same-sex couple' VO\\ed to wear the pin eacH day
until gay Americans were no longer considered cruninals b} the
federal courts.
Please see SODOMY RUUNG on Page 8
local life
Polrce Sgt. Tommy Bennett's
last Pride Parade rolls through
Montrose this Saturday.
Jimmy James brings his
one-man, many women show
to Houston next weekend.
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Houston's John Nechman will ride in SF Pride Parade
Nechman is honored
in SF parade as
a Grand Marshal
By JOSEF MOLNAR
Gay Houston attorney John Nechman
will ride on a Pride Parade float this week·
end, but that float won't be traveling down
Westheimer.
Nechman, chair of Immigration
Equality, an organization that has been
named a Grand Marshal in the San
Francisco Pride Parade, will ride on that
group's float
Nechman, of Nechman. Simoneaux and
Frye, specializes in 1mmigration issues as
they afft!ct ga>: lesbian and transgender
incl1vidual and couples. He said he is
excited that his organization is being hon·
ored m a parade that has hosted gay, les·
bian, bisexual and transgender leaders
from uround the world.
"When you think of the San Francisco
Pride Parade, you think of Harvey Milk
and the great leaders from our communi·
ty," he said. ''.And one of the first floats out
will he ours'. What an incredible honor"
San Francisco's parade will also be cele·
bratmg the city's recent same-sex mar·
riage succe es. Marriages sanctioned by
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom have
horrified conservatives and galvanized the
gay and lesbian community.
Nechman said the community is riding
a wave of successes that began with last
year's landmark Lawrence v. Texas case in
which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down
anti·sodomy laws across the United States.
"There is such a euphoria there,"
Nechman said. "People are so uplifted that
they accomplished this and they've shown
Amenca that gay people could get married
and the sky would not fall. Last year
Houston was in the spotlight, and this year
it's San Francisco, so I think this will be
their biggest parade ever."
About 20 Houston members of the
organization will join Nechman and more
than 200 supporters and members from
around the nation as the Immigration
Equality float winds its way through San
Francisco's Marltet distrtct. Belinda Ryan,
the organization's San Francisco chapter
coordinatm~ said the group relied on sym·
bolism for 1ts float.
"The float will he a gray boat with a flu·
orescent pink State of Liberty m it bound
with chains." she said. "The chains are
meant to show that liberty is bound for
GLBT bi-national couples."
In addition to supporters, many long·
term couples affoctcd by U.S. immigration
policies will march carrying signs which
read "United By Love, Divided By Law"
Ryan said the slogan points to federal
Plmse fain Us For Praise and Worship at our Sunday Moming Scn•ice
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Look for our Float in the Gay Pride
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Just call for time and location.
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Houston attorney John Neclvnan 1s president of an
organization that has been selected as a grand mar·
shal m the San Francisco Pride Parade. (Photo by
Dalton DeHart)
laws which allow straight people to enter
marriages with citizens of other countnb
for reasons other than love but leave out
gay and lesbian couples.
''A straight American can go online and
get a mail order bride and get her a green
can!," she said. "and yet we can't even
sponsor our partners of 25 years."
This year repre ents the organization's
first year as Immigration Equalit); after
changing us name from the Lesbian and
Gay Immigration Rights Task Force.
Nechman said the fight for immigration
equality goes hand in hand with the fight for
U.S. citizens to be legally married. He added
that the immigration equality b•sue, e pecial·
ly in highly diverse cities such as Houston
Resu
and San Francisco. is one of the biggest chal·
1, ngcs fr1.cing gay and lesbian people.
"This is one of the most incredible
times to he able to speak on issues relating
to the gay and lesbian commumt};" he said.
''.And we are happy to have this opportuni·
ty to pomt to the immigration issues of bi·
national couples."
Immigration Equality has pushed
Congress to consider the Permanent Partners
Immigration Act, a bill that would allow ga)'
and lesbian people with partners from other
countries to spom.or them as residents The
bill currently has llO sponsors in the House of
Repre,cntatives and 13 in the Senate.
By putting the spotlight on Immigration
Equalit}; Ryan said, the group has gained
an additional forum for its issues. Some of
the marchers will engage in outreach and
carry green canls containing information
about the group and resources for bi·
national couples.
Unfortunately, she said, many bi-nation·
al couples with one undocumented or illegal
partner are unable to represent them·
selves in the equality struggle becall~e it
may expose them to scrutiny.
"This is a brtlliant thing for us to have,
because so many of u · couples live under
the radar screen. and don't want our pre,.
ence to be known," Ryan said. "For us to he
acknowledged has gh·en us a sense of hope
that our community will rally around us.
Raising awareness like this during the
Pride Parade can only do us good."
Pride
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Judge's ruling sparks more gay marriages in N.Y.
NEW PAL'f"/., N.Y. (AP) Ninell>en more gay couples ,....-----=:::-------,
walked the aisle Saturday in anothC'r round of samf!sex
weddmgs a regular evC"nt hC're that has bC"come
part celrbration, part political statement. This
Hudson Valley village became a focal point of the
national gay marriage debate when l\layor ,Jason
\\est wet! more than two dozen same-sex couples Feb.
27. But even after the spotlight moved on, a series of
ministers ha\e married more than 160 gay couple . A
pink Victorian bed and breakfast has become a sort of
same-sex marriage mill on alternatmg Saturdays,
and organuers have no plans to quit. "We're bas1cal·
ly Just not going to stop until everyone's equal protection
under the law is recognized." said Charles
Clement, an organizer and c0-0wner of the Lefevre
Hou e bed and breakfast. State officials have said
same-sex ceremonies violated state law. Gay marriage
advocates were encouragt>d last week when the cnm·
inal charges agamst West were dismissed by a town
judge on constitutional grounds. District Attorney
Donald Williams is appealing that ruling.
Village of New Paltz Trustee .kilia Walsh
mames Md1elle Wood (left) 33, cll1d
Sherrelle Wolfe. 23, while Wood's son
Jacob Z watches. (Photo by Keith
Ferris/AP)
Specialists discharged from
U.S. military for being gay
SAN'l'A BAIUlARA. Calif. Newly available
data shows that a number of mbsion-critical
specialists have been discharged from the
U.S. military in the last scV!'ral years, accord·
Ing to the Center for the Study of Sexual
Minorities in the !\hlitar): a research unit of
the Unim'Sity of Ci1hfornia, Santa Barbara.
The military rli.sc·hargcd gay men anrl Jes·
bians servmg 111 161 different occupational
specialties bctwCC'n 19'.JI! anrl 2003, the data
showed. rtC'rnnling to the center. Under the
government's "Uon"t Ask, Don't Tell" policy,
gays can only sc'l'Ve in the military if they
keep their sexual orientation a secret 'lbosc
d1SCharged mcluded 49 nuclear. biological
and chemical "arfare specialists; 90 nuclear
pov;er engineers, fl2 missile guidance and
control operators, 150 rocket. rmssilc and
other artillery specialists; and 340 infantry·
men, the center statL'<I in a Pil'SS n>lcasc.
Among those dis,:hargcd also were nearly 50
lrllb'lll ts d!smlsscd smcc 2001, the center stat·
ed. 'The new data suggest that 'Don't Ask.
Don't Tell' has undermined every area of the
military," renter director Aarnn Belkin said
In the news rl'lP:iSC. "Wt• have lost valuable
talent from almost every base anrl every occu·
pational pcciahty."
Gay Ky. men who were
parenting quadruplets split
LEXINCT0:-1. K}( (Al'J The gay men who
were pan>ntmg quadruplets and another
baby have separated amid allegations of
domestic; violence, according to court
records. Michael Meehan had filed a petition
seeking a domestic violence order against h IS
former partner, Thomas Dysarz. Fll)ette
County Family Court Judge Kim Hmmell
n>Jected the request earlier this month, say·
tng there was "111suffic1ent evidence" to support
an order placing restrictions on Dysarz's
mteraction with !\.lcehan. '!"he Lexmgton
mC"n made heaclhnC"s in 2002 when they
became pam1ts to the three boys and one gni
who \\ere the b10logical children of ML>ehru1
and a surrogate mother, Brooke Venty of
N1cholasville A boy who was D~'5al'Z's biological
wn was born 111 January with the
same surrogate mother. Court records show
scparat addresses for the men
N.H. parents suing over teacher's
remarks that two boys are gay
HARN!:>'TEAD, N.H. (APJ - The parent~ of
two seventh.grade boys are suing the school
distrk1 after a teacher allegedly called the
boys gay lovers. The suit alleges teacher
\\iUiam Sheehan referred to the bo~·s as gay
lovers twice in class and told the girlfriend of
one of the boys why he thought the boy was
ga;: Further; the parents allege the school
prinnpal, Stephen O'Neil, tried to get the girl
to change her story about the conversation
with the teacher: 'Ibc parenb, Stephen and
Uawn Call and Nathan and Julie Chene~~ say
O'Neil and the school superintendent didn't
do anything tu the teacher after receiving
complaints. '!be teacher's lawyer say~ the
school offered to have the teacher apologize
in class. but the parents wanted a larger,
multi-class assembly for the apology. Lawyer
Steven Sack~ called the mcident a lapse tn
Judgment. ll said Sheehan made one remark
"111 jest." But lbter Firstcnbcrger, who 1s
rcpre enting the parents, said the teacher
made comments several times and harmed
the boys emotionally
Gay marriage opponents succeed
in effort to put issue on Mont. ballot
HELENA (Al'J Supporters of an mitiatlve
to ban gay marnages say they have gathered
enough stgnaturcs to get the measures on the
Novemher hallot. '!be Montana Family
Fmmdation said it collet1ed a record number
of signatures for a constitutional mitiative to
ban gay marnage m Montana. The fo1111da·
tlon said it gathered Just over 70,00) petition
signatures in favor of Constitutional
Initiative 96. '!be group needed to collect
41,020 signatures, mcluding signature~ from
10 percent of the registered voters tn 28 of the
state's fi6 counties. Foundation president Rep.
,Jeff Laszloffy (RI.aurdJ said ~upport for the
proJ>OSL'll rnnstitut1onal ban has hccn overwhelming.
If the pmposed amC"ndment dears
!Is fill.'.11 legal hunUc<;, the measm-c can be
passed by a imple majont}' of voters at the
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pie sense that trad1t1onal marnagcs and In t1·
tut1ons need to be protected," Lnszloffy said
''Petitions ar-c coming from everywhere"
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Sodomy ruling let gays 'dream bigger'
SODOMY RULING continued from Page 1
Sodomy laws were rarely enforced in the
years after the 1986 ruling a Georgia case
known as Bowers v. Hardwick - but as long
as the Supreme Court classified gay sex as
crim1nal behavior, gay men and lesbians con·
tmued to be derued the full rights of citJZen
ship, said Greg Nevins, a senior staff attor·
ney for the Lambda Defense & Educauon
Fund, a gay legal group.
"\\1ten you can be criminalized, it's
hard to make an argument for other
nghts," he said.
But on June 26, 2003, the Supreme Court
reversed itself by striking down all
remaining sodomy laws m its rulmg in
Lawrence v. Texas, a decision that signaled
"a sea change in the prevailing attitude
concerning our nghts," Nevins said.
The 6-3 ruling allowed Wolfson to final·
ly remove his pink triangle pin, and the
ma1ortty opinion used strong words to
describe the mistake the court made 17
years earlier
"Bowers was not correct when it was
decided, and it is not correct today,"
Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the 6-3
majority in Lawrence. "It ought not
remain bmdmg precedent
''Its continuance as precedent demeans
the lives of homosexual persons,"
Kennedy wrote.
Pride and prejudice
Adding to the emotional power of the
Lawrence ruling was the fact that it wa~
announced just days before many cities
across the country celebrated Gay Pride
weekend.
'"The timing of it was really special,"
said Donna Narducci, executive director of
the Atlanta Pride Co=ittee.
Wolfson said Lawrence was a momentous
win, but gay men and lesbians must not
assume the fight for equal rights is over.
"Other landmark rulings remind us
that court decJSlons are not self~nacting,"
Wolfson said.
After the Lawrence decision was
announced, Wolfson said he replaced his
pink triangle with a symbol of gay citi·
zens' next big legal fight: a Freedom to
Marry pin.
Sodomy law challenged
\\1ten John Lawrence was arrested in
hJS Houston apartment in 1998 after being
caught engaged in consensual sex with
Tyron Garner, he couldn't believe what
was happening, Lawrence told Southern
Voice in an interview this week.
Lawrence said he didn't know sodomy
was still a aime m Te.xas, and thought
enforcement of such laws ended in the 1960s.
Harris County sheriff's deputies
entered Lawrence's home on Sept. 17.1998.
respondmg to a false report that a man in
the apartment had a gun and was disruptive
Upon entermg the house and finding
Garner and Lawrence having sex, the
deputies arrested both men for violating
the state sodomy law, \lihlch prohibited
Tyrone Gamer (left) and Jom l.awrence arrive at the courthouse with one of their attorneys, Mitchell Katine
(nght), to face charges of homosexual conduct under Texas' sodomy law on Nov 20. 1998. More than four
years later. the US Supreme Court overturned their conviction and ruled as unconstitutional state sodomy
la~ (AP Photo/David J. Plullip)
"deviate sexual intercourse with another
individual of the same sex."
Oral and anal sex were both classlfied
as "deviant sexual intercourse" by the
Texas statute.
After being arrested, convicted of
sodomy and forced to pay $200 fines,
Garner and Lawrence secured legal help
from gay attorneys who were eager to chal·
lenge the state's sodomy law and were
waiting on the right case to do so.
l\fitchell Katine, a gay Houston attorney
who represented Lawrence and Garner
along with Lambda Legal. said this week that
the case represented a "perfect storm" with
which to challenge the sodomy law, since that
was the only crime the defendants were
accused of committing.
"It wa~ one charge, which made the case
very clear and less likely to be sidetracked
by some other factor," Katine said. ''That,
and the underlying facts of the case were
so compelling to anyone who looked at
them is what made this the right case."
But even "the right case" to challenge
the state's sodomy law faced a difficult bat·
tie in the Texas courts, and Katine said he
was not confident they would win, a feel·
ing he shared with Lawrence and Garner.
Garner and Lawrence were found guilty
of committing sodomy by a Harris County
judge on Dec. 22, 1996, a ruling that was overturned
by a three-judge panel of the Texas
Court of Appeals on June 5. 200J.
But almost a year later, on March 15,
2001, the full court of appeals reversed the
three-judge panel's decision - upholding
Garner and Lawrence's convictions and
the state's sodomy law
After the Texas Court of Criminal
Appeals the state's highest court on
criminal matters - refused to hear an
appeal on behalf of the two men in April
2002, Katine and lawyers with Lamhda
Legal filed an appeal with the U.S
Supreme Court.
Road to 'greater freedom'
'"The first true high point was when we
got word from the Supreme Court that they
were ordenng the state of Texas to fl.le a
reply to our petition," Katine remembers.
"That's when I thought they mlght hear
our case, that's when I got excited."
In December 2002 the Supreme Court
agreed to hear the case. and attorneys
from the state of Texas and Lambda Legal
gave oral arguments on March 26, 200.'3.
The Texas law was unconstitutional
and should be overturned for two primary
reasons, Paul Smith, a gay attorney affili·
ated with Lambda Legal, told the high
court. The statute violated gay men and
lesbians' due process and right to privacy,
and it violated the equal protection clause
of the 14th amendment because it singled
out sodomy committed by same-sex cou·
pies and not heterosexual couples.
Charles Rosenthal, the Harris County
district attorney, argued that his state has
an interest in upholding "moral standards
for its people," and that "marriage and
family" and promoting the birth of chil·
dren were all issues that justified the
state's interest in keeping homosexual
sodomy illegal.
"During the oral arguments the justices
clearly indicated that they thought the law
was ridiculous," Katine said.
Three months after oral arguments, the
JU.slices announced they sided with
Lawrence and Garner in a decision whose
wording Katine described as •·remarkable."
uwhen homosexual conduct is made
criminal by the law of the state, that dee·
laration in and of itself is an invitation
to subject homosexual persons to dis·
crimination both in the puhlic and in the
private spheres." the majority opinion
said. '"The offense, to be sure, is but a ...
misdemeanor, a minor offense in the
Texas legal system.
''Still, it remains a criminal offense
with all that imports for the dignity of the
persons charged," the court said. The
majority in I.awrence focused much of its
opinion on the right of every American to
have qautonomy of self that includes free.
dom of thought, belief, expression, and
certain intimate conduct."
"The petitioners are entitled to respect
for their private lives," wrote Kennedy, who
wasjolned by Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth
Bader Ginsburg, John Paul Stevens and
David Souter, with Sandra Day O'Connor
concurring. "The state cannot demean their
existence or control their destiny by making
private> sexual conduct a crime."
Limited impact?
The Lawrence decision thrilled gay
attorneys and activists, energizing Pride
festivals around the country last year.
But the ruling also energized opponents
of gay rights.
Instead of expanding freedom, the
maJority in I.awrence created a right to
engage in sodomy essentially out of thin
air, said Rena Lindevaldsen, semor litiga·
tion counsel for the conservative Liberty
Counsel, a Florida-based conservative
counterpoint to Lambda Legal.
But Lindcvaldsen downplayed the rul·
ing's impact on other gay nghts cases.
"I think it was more of a moral loss for
the country than a legal loss,"
Lindevaldsen said.
Fueling the marriage fight
Both supporters and opponents of the
Lawrence ruling cite the case as a factor
that helped fuel the year.long, ongoing
national discussion on gay rights, particu·
larly the right to marry.
Backlash over the sodomy ruling
helped build support for the Federal
Marriage Amendment, a proposal to
change the Constitution to ban any legal
recognition for gay couples that could see a
vote in the U.S. Senate next month.
Introduced on May 23, 2003. in the U.S.
House of Representatives. the FMA had
only 25 co-sponsors during its first month,
but gained 50 more in the month following
the Supreme Court's sodomy ruling.
When the Massachusetts Supreme
Judicial Court announced in November
that the state's ban on same·sex marriages
was unconstitutional, Lawrence was the
first legal case referenced by the justices.
"Even if Lawrence doesn't directly
stand for marriage, it talks about people's
autonomy in making choices."
Nevins and Wolfson said the
Massachusetts court relied far more on the
state constitution than on the recent
sodomy case, meaning a pro-gay marriage
ruling likely would have occurred even if
Lawrence was not a reality.
But Wolfson said the argument for gay
marriage 1s made stronger by the
I.awrence ruling.
"The language and logic of Lawrence
clearly gives us wind in our sails in ending
marriage inequality," Wolfson said.
Katine agreed. "I believe Lawrence will
be the foundation for the ultimate
Suprrmc Court marriage case," he said.
As people wait to see how bmad an impact
I-1wrence has m the legal arena, the ACI .U's
Cooper said the decision "created a whole
new v:orld" for gays and lcsbums, who are
now "dreaming much bigger."
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Thank you, Sgt. Bennett
The last Pride Parade passes by on Saturday
for Sgt. Tommy Bennett, who will retire soon.
By BINNIE RSHER
As the last Houston Pride Parade float
rounds the corner from Westheimer onto
Whitney Saturda;· night, the organizers
will say "Goodbye" an old friend and a
parade fixture for the last 15 years.
Sgt. Tommy Bennett, the Houston
Police Department representative who
has helped coordinate security for the
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lower Westheimer beiween
Woodhead and Whitney
8:45 p.m. Saturday
event since 1988, will turn in his badge
and gun before next year's parade. He's
retiring from the force.
"We're definitely going to miss him,"
said Nick Brines, president of Pride
Committee Houston. "He has been phenomenal."
Bennett has been involved with Pride
and other parades in the city since joming
the Special Operations detail in 19118.
"Probably since the early 1990s, I've
been the one coordinating it," Bennett
said. "It's one of the biggest parades in
Houston."
He said he appreciates the fact that
the Pride Committee seems to know what
tt's doing when it comes to planning a
parade.
"It always seems to be well organ·
1zed," he said.
Bennett joined the Houston Police
Force in 1966 and left for a few years to
work with a friend who had started a
business. But, police work was his pas·
sion. He decided his place was somewhere
on Houston's blue line.
"It's been a good place to work" he
said. "I've enjoyed it."
During his time on the force, he has
watched Houston change.
"It's grown by leaps and bounds," he
said.
Bennett said since joining Special
Operations, he's enjoyed the variety of
coordinating various events in the city.
He may not have realized at first that it
would mean becoming involved with the
city's Gay Pride festivities, but he said he
ha~ grown to enjoy it.
"It's been a lot of fun," he said. "I per·
sonally enjoy gomg out there."
Brines said Bennett's involvement
HOUSTON VOICE
JUNE 25, 2004
PAGE 10
ft Sgt. Tommy Bennett
Age: 60
Born Housto. Texas
Graruated: Milby High School m Housto~
Status: Mam:'<!
Kids: lr.e son
Tidbit E JIYS his •uraJ property on weekends
with Pr1dt be ms long before parad
m ht
• He ,tl\rnys docs thmgs hkc takl mem
brr~ of th Pridt Committee drivmg
arou11d the neighborhood," Brlnrs ~aid
01" thosr tot.rs, hC' said, Bennett talks
logistic<; with committee members.
On parade da}~ Bnnr said n nnett
al\foys shows up at bnmch for committee
members and volunteers
"Hr gives us a little pep talk," Brmes
said
Bennett goes over last-minute con·
cerns with the group and lets them know
that he can usually be found near the
assembly area during the parade if he's
needed.
"He's done a great job reeling In the
protestors and putting them in a little
protest area," nrines said. "He helps us
out with illegal vendors also."
nennett said he tries to keep protes·
tors in one area, and he warns parade
participants not to engage them.
"We usually have some demonstrators,
but nothing has really gotten out of
hand," Bennett said. He warns parade
participants, "Have your parade and
don't get in a shouting match with them."
His observation is that the demonstra·
tors usually stick around for a few floats,
then lose interest and drift away.
Bennett said he appreciates the fact
that the Houston Pride Committee runs a
clean parade. While he said he wants participants
to have fun, there are some dangers
that he constantly works to point out.
Throwing give-away items, like beads,
from floats is more dangerous than it
appears to be. He said his worst night·
mare is that a child will run out to grab
an item and get injured by a vehicle. With
more than 150,000 people converging on
Montrose on parade night, he said, "Our
biggest challenge is traffic control."
Bennett said he's found parade partic·
ipants to be cooperative and Pride
Committee members to be serious about
helping him make the event safe for
everyone involved.
"The folks are super nice to me, and I
treat them with respect," he said.
Brines concurred. "He's comfortable
and cool with us," he said.
When he leaves the force, Bennett
said, he looks forward to spending time
on rnral property he owns.
"I"ve got a few cows out there," he
said. "If I get the chance, I might do a lit
tie hunting."
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editorial
Rocky Mountain rhetoric
won't fly for Coors
Coors Brewing Co. has long struggled to distance
itself from the family owners, but now Pete Coors
is running for Senate on the backs of gay customers.
By MUBARAK DAHIR
0 PARAPHRASE AN ADAGE,
you can't have your mug of
beer and drink it, too.
But that's exactly what
members of the Coors fami·
ly, namesakes of the Coors
Brewing Company in
Golden, Colo., are trying to get away with
among gay customers of their company.
Pete Coors, a former chair of the
Coors Brewing Co., is now a Republican
candidate for the U.S. Senate from
Colorado.
Pete Coors has also become an out·
spoken supporter of a federal constitu·
tional amendment to ban same-sex
marriage.
Political analysts watching the U.S.
senate race in Colorado say Pete Coors
took the strong stand that he did - not
just against same-sex marriage, but fully
in favor of an amendment to enshrine the
ban in the Constitution to appeal to
conservat:ves who make up a substantial
base of his candidaC}:
Pete Coors' anti-gay stance on the
Federal Marriage Amendment re-ignited
calls from many gay leaders for us to stop
buying Coors beer at gay bars.
Furthermore, a large number of Coors
family members - who profit directly
from the Coors Brewing Co. are board
members of a private institution, the
Castle Rock Foundation, which gives
away millions of dollars to conservative,
anti-gay organizations.
This fact, and its consequences, is
even more important for us to consider
than Pete Coors' anti-gay position on the
Federal Marriage Amendment.
The castle Rock Foundation was
founded in 199.3 with a $36.5 million
endowment from the Adolph Coors
Foundation. Since then, it has given away
m1ll1ons of dollars of grants to often conservative,
anti-gay groups.
According to the group's Web site,
four out of five of the board members of
the Castle Rock Foundation are members
of the Coors famil}: Pete Coors is the vice
president.
\\'here did Pete Coors and the other
Coors family members on the board of
the Ca.>tle Rock Foundation get their
money and power? Through the Coors
Brewing Co.
AND YET, THE COORS BREWING CO.
and the Coors family have gone on a public
relations blitz to distance themselves
from each other. In a nutshell. they each
claim to be independent of one another.
and thus not responsible for the others'
actions or stands on gay rights.
In fact, in early June, the Coors
Brewing Co. issued a letter stating that
Pete Coors' position on the Federal
Marriage Amendment does not reflect
the corporate values of the Coors
Brewing Co. The letter stated that the
company does not endorse dlscrirnina·
tion against gay, lesbian, bisexual or
transgender people.
In addition, the Coors Brewing Co.
started running full-page ads m gay
newspapers and magazines around the
country. In the ads. humorously head·
lined "Straight talk from Coors," the com·
pany goes to some length to describe the
positive changes within the company in
the past couple of decades with respect to
how it treats gay employees.
Most notably, the change is reflected
in the company's nondiscrimination poll·
cy, as well as the fact that the company
offers health benefits to partners of gay
employees.
The Coors Brewing Co. has a long
and tortured history on gay issues, dat·
HOUSTON VOICE
JUNE 25. 2004
PAGE 12
ing back to the early 1970s, when 1t used
to require prospective employees to submit
to a lie detector test. One of the
questions on the test was whether or not
the hopeful employee was a homosexual.
Outrage over that practice prompted
former San Francisco supervisor Harvey
Milk to kick-off a boycott of the Coors
Brewing Co. in 1974. In 1995, much of the
steam of the boycott evaporated when the
beer maker instituted its much-friendlier
policies toward gay employees.
The company even hired Mary
Cheney, Dick Cheney's famously lesbian
daughter, to handle gay outreach.
IRONICALLY, AS FORMER CHAIR m·
the Coors Brewing Co., Pete Coors has
taken much of the credit for advancing
the company's positions on gay employees.
He even claims to have gone out per·
sonally to gay bars to promote his beer
and his company's more enlightened
outlook.
Pete Coors' opponent in the senate
race is making much of that history, in
an attempt to tarnish Pete Coors with the
state's much-coveted right-wing voters.
So Pete Coors is trying to live down his
past, thus embracing the Federal
Marriage Amendment with such gusto.
So on the one hand we have the Coors
Brewing Co. chatting up gays and
extolling the virtues of its corporate poli·
cies toward us. He}; that Pete Coors guy,
he can do whatever he wants as a private
citizen, the company seems to be saying;
you have to evaluate us independently, on
our own policies.
On the other hand, you have Pete
Coors, courting conservative voters, say·
ing he doesn't want homos to get mar·
ried. And all that stuff about the Coors
Brewing Co. being gay-friendly? Well,
he's his own candidate, he seems to be
saying to the right-wingers. You can't
judge me based on a company policy. I'm
an independent entity.
The doubletalk by both Pete Coors and
the Coors Brewing Co. on this issue
would make even old-time Soviet polit·
buro members proud.
Before you buy another Coors beer.
you may want to a~k yourself: Which side
of his mouth would Pete Coors drink this
out of?
6'f.. Wlir.11< Off ~ editor of the E~
Gay News. a paper affiliated
With tlus publication, and
can be reached at
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STEPHEN FALLON
Despite new oral tests and rapid results,
HIV testing is still a horrible experience
full of fear and shame. As well it should be.
Why it's 01< to
.hate HIV tests
OLD-TIME HIV TESTERS LIKE ME TELL
war stories about the bad old days. Back
then getting a test meant scheduling an
appointment weeks in advance, driving to
some musty facility far awa}: getting
grilled by overworked counselors. anrl
ringing the clinic's phones for weeks try
ing to pick up lab results that were almost
always late. lost, or unavailable.
The c days, with the Centers for
D1 ca c Control & Prevention pushing to
I ft MORE INFO
HIV National Testing Day
June 27
To fmd a testmg site:
wwwluvtest.org
get all at-risk people tested, it's a whole
different scene. But the experience of
going through HIV testing is still pretty
horrible, just as it should be.
The government has managed to shake
free a bit of mom:!}; so now most testing
sites have enough staff members to han·
die walk-ins. The tests have improved, too.
Alarming false-positive results, once com·
mon, only occur m 0.0000005 percent of
tests, and the Western Blot rules out even
those few mistakes.
The newer tests have also shortened
the "window period," that lag time when a
recently infected person might get a false
HIV-negative test result. Generali}: a test
conducted three to four weeks after taking
a risk gives you good idea of your status,
while a test conducted at least three
oint ANGELA MOFFin
I am happi~ single with no plans to marry,
and I see issues more important to black gays.
Why should I care about same-sex marriage?
Picl<ing sides on
AS A SAMECENIJEH·WVING WOMAN OF
Alhcan dC$Ct'nt, who is proud of ID}' African
heritage and unapologetic about my sexual
orientation, I fincl Umt sometimes these two
categories of 1clenhty clash.
If ever there were an issue that so pow
erfully probed the intersection of the mul·
ttple 11lent1til'S of race class, gender and
sexual ortcntat10n, it has hl'l'll the recent
controversy over same·5CX marriage.
When the issue of same-sex marnagc
dominated the media, m~ reaction has
been that this IS not my IS UC This IS a
fight prlmarily Jed by ga}: upper-class
'' hite men The massrs of black people
arc forced to negotiate ba 1c survival
needs before we can addre s the issue of
gay marriage. Hov. dare they attempt to
equate gay rights v. ith c1v1l rights
I was happily s11i:;! with no Intentions
of marrymg m the foreseeable future.
!I lore importanth; as a conscious African
c.lear that combating black racism is a categoril'allv
cliff Prent anunal than combating
homophobia, 1 was deeply offended at the
attempti•d equation of the two stniggles.
I WAS BOHN BLACK I CHOOSE TO BE
lesbian 'Vly beautiful black skin IS an
immutable charactenshc, O\er which 1
had no control J\ly Sl'XUal or1mtatlon 1s a
sexual prefcrenct, v. hich 1 may elect to
months after your last risk behavior
approaches 100-percent accuracy.
EVEN BETIER, THESE DAYS YOU CAN
customize your HIV testing experience.
Scared of needles? A special oral swab
is just as reliable as a blood draw test, and
available at most clinics.
Can't wait weeks for results? Last
year's new rapid test yields very accurate
results from a finger prick in just 20-40
mmutes. Some clinics even offer this test
in an oral form.
While convenience and technology have
lowered some barriers to testing, there's still
no escaping the gut-churning anxiety that
an HIV test triggers. Don't let any cheerful
slogans convince you that testing isn't scary
During the time it takes you to drive to
your rapid test appointment, or to wait for
your standard HIV test results, you will
almost certainly feel each of these emotions:
Scared. Even though medications have
helped positive people live longer, HIV is
still a serious condition. People living
with HIV suffer a vanety of ills caused by
the virus and the meds that fight it.
Atlments include fatigue, diarrhea,
nausea, high cholesterol, depression, vomiting,
loss of sex drive, liver problem>.
nerve problems, muscle loss, fat loss or fat
build up in strange places, and more.
Worse yet, nearly 17,000 people still die
each year of AIDS related conditions in the
United States.
Ashamed: We spent the 19ROs and
1990s educating ignorant politicians and
mmistcrs that HIV is not "God'sjudg-conceal
when 1t suits me.
Racism attempts to posit that I am an inf(}
rior human being. Homophobia seeks to posit
that I am an immoral human being.
I was elected in March co-president of a
New York-based political club of gay people
of color that had recently signed on to
co-sponsor a news conference where black
LGBT leaders would affirm their support
for same-sex marnage, despite polls that
found the overwhelming majority of black
Americans were opposed
On the mght of my election, I fully
intended to assert some reason not to
attend that ne\\ s conference. Our guest
speaker for the evening wa' Phil Reed, the
only openly gay male on the New York
City Council and an African American
He had been expected to talk about his
run for Manhattan borough president, but
as one of the lead sponsors of the 1mm1
ncnt ne\\ s conference, he opted to speak
primarily on same-sex marriagr
He asked us on what side of history do
\\e, as LGBT people of color, want to be on
the 1ssue"of same-sex marriage. That
question gave me pause
SIX DAYS LATEH. ON A SLNDAY
afternoon, I ''as standing on the steps of
City Hall at the ne\\S conference. Among
the pcakers, the on who had the great
est 1mpac.1 upon mr did not hme a mar.
quee name Regrettably, I don't remrm·
b<'r h r name
She \\as a butch-looking lesbian accom
JUNE 25. 2004 13
ment." It's just a stupid virus that will
invade anyone if the opportunity is there.
While there's no moral shame in
becoming HIV infected, most everyone
feels hugely embarrassed when they think
they might have caught HI\'.
Angry: Your mind will faithfully replay
sames of every risky fling or impulsive night
of 1IDprotected sex you've had since your last
test. If you fear that one of these encounters
might have infected you, you'll quickly con·
elude that the sex wasn't worth the possible
outcome. You might become angry with the
other guy for coercing you into risky sex. or
mad at yourself for allowing it.
SO WHY WOULD ANYONE PUT HIMSELF
through that experience of HIV testing?
The enemy is invisible and persistent. HI\'
sneaks in when we let our guard down.
It's easy to discount your own per,onal
risk of infection, or the seriousness of
HIV disease that could await you. That is.
it's eas) until the cold rertainty of a lab
result hangs over your head, and you find
yourself whirling through the abyss of
horrible emotions I JUst described.
HIV testing is supJJO'ed to be horrifying. In
the old movie 'i\ League of Their Ov.n," Tom
Hanks played an lrasc1ble baseball coaclt
\\bcn a player whined that the game was too
hard. Hanks ~napped back, "It'" supposed to
be hard. It's the hard that makes it good"
~ Stephen Fallon. Ph.D. runs a Florida-based
~ consulting firm and can be reached at
sfallon@skills4.org
panied by her femme-looking lover, who
10\'ingly stroked her back as she
addre,sed the crowd. She introduced her·
self and her "wife," which drew a cheer. I
was nearly moved to tears.
Later I heard a radio commentary by
noted ci\·iJ rights attorney Connie Rice on
the suhject of same-sex marriage. She
argued that black Americans, rather than
demand a monopoly on the term "civil
rights," should take pride that oppressed
peoples all O\Cr the world look upon our
civil right tn1gglcs as a model to be
emulated. What an empowering way to
approach the subJrct
I nov. embrace the growmg trend to
u terms such as "black c.i\'il right " or
"black Cl\ 11 rights truggle, o a~ to
acknowledge the umquenes of the
struggle for equal nghtc; by black
American , but to concede the pomt that
Afncan Amencans do not hme a monopol}
on "civil nghts."
I have undergone a tran formation on
the lSSlte of ame· ex marnage While I
am till not inclined to equate the ,trugg!e
for gay rights \\1th the trugglf for black
c1vtl nghts, I no longer take the position
that samEKCx marriage 1s not my l'"'ue
I
-- --
~ Angela J. Moffitt IS an attorney MllCj IO
~ New York and co-presulcnt of the Out
Peop e of Color Pol tical Action Club and a board
member of Black Pride NYC, Inc. She can be
reached at amof!itt@earthlmk.net
14 JUNE 25. 2004 www houstonvoice.com HOUSTON VOICE
on the record
"What's the difference if you're going to
hell for one thing, and I'm going for another?
I'll see you there."
Michael St. Patrick, who plays a gay
police officer on HBO's "Six Feet Under;"
explaining why he has no qualms playing a
gay man despite his own deep religious beliefs
(Genre Magazine. July/August issue)
"I was not going to play a faggot. I talked
to [series creator] Alan Ball to make sure it
wasn't going to be stereotypical bullshit.
The way I feel about gay men being portrayed
'that way' is the same way I feel
about seemg black men portrayed as gang·
sters, thugs and rapists."
Jfichael St. Patrick. on his reservations
about playing gay cop Keith Charles on "Six
Feet Under" (Genre Magazine, July/August
issue)
"This debate is not about preserving the sanctity of marriage - it is about preserving
a Republican White House and Senate."
Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vemwnth, at a Senate ,Judiciary Committee hearing on
Tuesda}: June 22, on whether to amend the US. Constitution to ban gay marriagf' and possi
bly civil unions (IVew York Times, June 23)
"The government is not underline
not - changing the Marriage Act. That will
remain as an option only for heterosexual
couples."
.Yew Zealand Prime .lfinister Helen Clark,
defending legislation that would grant gay
couples the same legal rights as married het·
erosexual couples (Associated Press. June 20)
"I really think it's the gay thing. All of
these supposedly heterosexual fashion edi·
tors at GQ and Esquire say Orlando Bloom
or David Beckham is the best·dressed man.
But what they're really saying is that they
fancy them because all they're wearing is
jeans and a T-shirt. I don't think they hate
me because I'm gay. I think they hate me
because I'm not beautiful "
LlJud-dressing British comedian Graham
Norton. whose talk show is now on Comedy
Central, on being named GQ's "norst Dressed
Man Hfor two years in a row (Associated
Press, June 22)
"It's so important that children have parents or family that love them. There are a
lot of adopted children who have loving parents, and it comes in different ways with
different people in different states."
Sen. Trent Lott (R-Jfiss.). the former Senate majority leader; on whether gay men
should be allou·ed to adopt and raise children (New York Times Magazine. ,June 20)
"Parents who are thinking about taking their children to see 'Shrek 2,' may wish to
consider the following: The movie features a male-to·female transgender (in transition)
as an evil bartender. The character has five o'clock shadow, wears a dress and has
female breasts. It is clear that he is a she-male."
An alert posted by the Traditional Values Coalition warning of transgenderism m
"Shrek 2 "; TVC also references Pinocchio's admission m the movie that he wears
women's underpants. and a wolf
"dressed in Grandma's clothing"
(u·u·w.traditionalualues.org)
~1n entertainment. as in real life.
there are all kinds of people who make
up our neighborhoods and communi·
ties. It is great that children and their
parents can enjoy a wide variety of
characters, including those who don't
fit into rigid sex-role stereotypes."
Riki Wilchins, executive director of
GenderPAC. which aduocates in favor of
tran..wender rights and against gender
stereotypes. reacting to the TVC alert on
"Shrek 2" (Press release. Juni' 22)
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!cover story
Visit to Dallas is chronicled in Toklas' cookbook
VISIT, continued from Page 1
writing it in the way that Gertrude did.
Among those many invitations to speak
was one from Dallas, from Miss Ela
Hockaday, the founder and headmistress of
the Hockaday School, to this day among
the most prestigiou and elite girl's schools
in the Southwest. Miss Hockaday invited
the couple to stay at her cottage on the
edge of the school campus.
Very little written history ·remains
today regarding the visit. Most of what
does appear in print is in the cookbook.
"It was a fresh new world," Alice wrote.
"Gertrude Stein became attached to the
young students, to Miss Hockaday and the
life in Miss Hockaday's home and on the
campus."
Gertrude was taken whh Miss
Hockaday's culinary abilities. Alice noted.
"Miss Hockaday explained that all good
Texas food was Virginian."
Alice was in heaven when she walked
into Miss Hockaday's kitchen "~fiss
Hockaday's kitchen was the most beautiful
one I have ever seen, all old coppers on the
stove and on the walls, with a huge copper
hood over the stove Everything else was
modern white enamel "
At one meal. Miss Hockaday served
cornbread sticks. something that neither
of the visitors had ever tasted before.
'"The only recipe I carried away with me
was for cornstkks, not knowing in my
ignorance that a special iron was required
in which to bake them," Alice wrote.
In the cookbook, Alice makes an interesting
note about specific restaurants,
allowing for some reading between the
lines. "In Columbus. Ohio, there was a
small restaurant.. the cooks were women
and the owner was a woman and it was
managed by women. The cooking was
beyond compare, neither fluffy nor emasculated
as women\ cook mg can be, but succulent
and savour;: I.ater, at fort Worth,
there was a similar restaurant to which
~hss Ella Hockadav introduced us."
After spending a few days m Dallas,
Gertrude accepted an impromptu invitation
to speak in Austin.
An editor's note In the Daily Texan, the
campus newspaper at the University of
Texas noted on March 22, "Gertrude Stein
arrived m Austin unexpectedly last night.
Because of the widespread controversy
over the works of Miss Stein and the
author herself, The Daily Texan sent two
reporters to mterview her. The exclusive
tntcrview was granted, and the personal
observation of the reporters follow."
The frmale reporter jotted down what
she called "short gatherings,'" that went
omething like this, "Miss Stein regret·
ted that she did not know about the rodeo
and fat stork show in Fort Worth She
agrees that the girls in Dallas are good
looking.'"
The male reporter noted, "We imposed
upon her at a late hour Ia~t night. She was
cheerful and eager to answer our quP.stions.
to throw a little light on the peN>on
they call Stein. She did just that; perhaps a
little more."
He described her this way, "Dressed in a
mannish blouse, a tweed skirt, a peculiar
but attractive vest affair, and comfortable
looking shoes. Miss Stein appeared much
more of the woman than do the pictures
that currently circulate. She strokes her
close cropped hair with a continuous back
to front movement.''
Stein complained to him that too many
people were living in the twentieth century
but thinking in the nineteenth centl.l.I):
The reporter quoted her: "Why, the fact
was evident up at Hockaday (where she
stayed in Dallas). The girls of from fourteen
to seventeen understood perfect!;; but
their teachers did not."
As for Alice, the reporter noted, "Miss
Alice B. Toklas, Miss Stein's traveling
companion whose title is not "secretan•"
according to the author, was pres1 nt
This lady who walked in on Miss Stein
twenty-five years ago and has been w.•h
her ever since, has absorbed much of the
charm possessed by the most famous of
the pair."
The male reporter was a student at the
time, but his name would later become a
household word in America: Walter
Cronkite.
From Austin, the pair headed west and
eventual!;; they sailed for France. Amon!(
the many gift!; in their stateroom was a
cast iron pan for baking cornbread sticks
from Miss Ela Hockada;:
"It was my pride and delight in Paris,
where it was certainly unique," Alice
wrote in the cookbook. "What did the
Germans, when they took it in 1944, expect
to do with it? And what are they doing "\\;th
it now?"
enre horrible list
Scratch Kerry and Carson
Kressley says Dish.
Page 23
GAY HOUSTON NIGHTLIFE, ARTS & CULTURE www.houstonvoice.com JUNE 25, 2004
A man of
many faces
Jimmy James brings his one-man,
several women show to Houston.
By JOHNNY HOOKS
IMMY JAMES LAUGHED
hysterically when asked what his
favonte curse word is. "No one's ever
asked me that!" James was on the
phone in New York, his adopted
hometown as he prepared to return to
Houston for two weekends at 1415
Cahfornia. For those not in the know, or too young to have
seen him live, a little history is in order.
A child of the 1970's, Jame~ loved to escape into the
...,orld of variety television. Sonny & Cher, Flip Wil ·on and
Carol Burnette were JUSt somv of the shows that mfluenced
and inspired him
Even as a toddler he was alway singmg. dancing and
dressing up in his mother s clothes. His remarkable ability
for vocal mmucry became apparent at a young age.
His first imitation was the distinctive voice of Cher, a
longtime idol of his. With dedicated practice on his own,
James discovered that he could also accurately imitatv the
unmlStakable voices of Eartha Kitt, Hilllv Holiday,
Patsy Cline. Bette Davis, Judy Garland, Barbra
Streisand and many others.
Usmg his o'lvn face as a canvas, he realized that like
his voice, his looks could also be transformed.
Noticing similantlcs m his facial structure with
that of the late screen legend Marilyn Monroe he
set out to re-create her trademark look and breathy
\ocal presence.
The results of his efforts were spectacular. The
"resurrected" Marilyn was an mstant hit at the
drag-shows and dance clubs where he performed.
Through a steady stream of appearances on shows
such.as Donahue. Sall~~ Geraldo, Joan Rivers,
Entertainment Tonight CNN-and Showtimc, he
gamed national and mternat1onal exposure His
Please see JAMES on Page 22
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pitched a fit backstage at Capital Pride in D.C. Page 23
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JOHNNY HOOl<S
Sydney, Australia proved Pride
could rock under the stars,
and Houston makes it happen.
Thanks to the queers down under
WELCOME TO HOVO ON THE GOGO,
your new guide to everything hip, happening.
cool and queer in Houston Gay
and Lesbian Nightlife.
Houston Pride returns!
CLEARLY THE LAST WEEK OF JUNE
belongs to our community, culminating
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Astrogin at 7:30 p.m. Chances is located at
1100 Westheimer at Waugh. 713-523-7217.
Starfiall
AFTER THE PARADE. CONTINUE THE
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GO, starring DJ Warren Gluck of NYC on
the turntables and recording artist Pat
Hodges singing her Billboard top 10 club
ONLY nighttime Gay Pride
Parade! Sydney Australia, we
thank you. Sydney had the
good sense to stage its parade
at night, when cool breezes
encourage buff men and
womyn to doff their shirts
HoVo on the
hits "Love Revolution" and
"You Make Me Feel G-0·0
D ... 10 p.m.-4 a.m .. Club GO.
2001 Commerce at Chartres.
Cost is $25 in advance.
www.pndehouston.org. go-go
and skirb and when drag kings and
qUt·•ns don't melt under the noon-day sun
So, what to do this weekend?
rm, OFrlClAL PRIDE EVENTS RUN
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Jimmy James: Marilyn only did Marilyn for a decade
JAMES. continued from Page 18
one man shou, ' Marilyn and Vo1cts"
which he W!'Ote and produced, was
a ...,orld\nde sm.:sh and toured for
s ~ ral years
LA E}e..,;orks used a stunnmg unag
of his Marilyn m ful. page ads that ran
worldwide The Lampa1gn was featured
m the 20-)ear anmveNan issue of
Interview Magazine By the mid-1990 s.
James began to pursue a career as a
recordmg artist m N w York City by
usmg his own soulful \Oice.
James took time out to chat with the
Houston V01ce prior to his sure-to sell-out
shows m Houston
Houston Voice: HelloJ1mmy, ..,;elcome
back to Houst.on'
Jimmy Jame~: Thank ;ou
Ho Vo: Just for the kids at home, let's
do a little background. You were born In
Texas correct?
JJ: Born m Laredo and raised m San
Antonio ...
Ho Vo: From Texas to Times Square
nght?
JJ: Yeah, (laughs).
Ho Vo: You ve been perform mg vocal
unpersonauons for hou long now?
JJ: Since I was kid !'t'ally, I can't real
ly put a date on it, but I have been aprofcs·
s.onal performer smce 1983.
Ho Vo: Your photo scrapbook IS amaz·
ing! Boy George, George Burn~. Eartha
Kitt, Elton John .. the llst is endless.
Y.'hat's it hke performing for someone you
impersonate, sa; Eartha Kitt?
JJ: She has a great sense of humor,
she loved it! It's such an honor, you
know some of the people I do are dead. I
performed for her, and have been an
opening act for her, which was a total
thrill! She has a great sense of camp,
really a great lad}:
Ho Vo: Who's your favorite performer
to impersonate?
JJ: Everybody asks me that and it's so
hard to choose a favorite, because every
person I impersonate I am a big fan of? I
could say Cher, Eartha. Judy, Barbra ..
Ho Vo: You just named the four horse-
Jmey James as Manlyn posed with George Bums
Jinvny James as Judy. Marilyn & Bette Davis with supermodel Linda Evangelista on a billboard m Times Square
women of my Apocalyp,e!
JJ: Ahhh, well I always get nervous
whrn I do Barbra. The expectation is so
high. If I have an off ni;':ht due to my
vocal cords. weather. fatigue or whatever.
it's tough. Please God give me a voice to
do this tonight!
Ho Vo: Tell me about this show.
JJ: Well its called "Divas R 4-Ever."
This is the sell-out show I produced for
Provincetown last year. I loved the show
so much, I didn't want to return top.
Town and write a new show. I wanted to
share this one, which is a culmination of
all my years. Although I retired from
dresssing up as Marilyn Monroe.
Ho Vo: Wait ... you no longer do Marilyn
Monroe, your signature performance?
JJ: I no longer dress up as her. I don't
dress up at all during the show
Ho Vo: You wear your Jimmy James
androgynous look?
JJ; I paint my face but I don't dress in
drag because I want the voices to be the
star of the show! I needed to separate that
entity, the drag. from the vocals because
the vocals are my ~trength.
Ho Vo: I've never been comfortable
callmg you a drag queen because you
actually have the pipes to back it up!
JJ: I have nothing against bc.ing in
drag! This show is simply about the voic·
es. Getting in drag just ... gets in the way.
O\cr the yrars, and remember I'm talk·
mg 20 plus, drag blocked my wa}: and I
wanted to volve Lots of Jl(rformers want
to e\olve. I mean how many }ears can you
do Marilyn? Marilyn only did Marilyn for
a decade or o I did her for O\ er 13 years'
Ho Vo: Well you have also added current
singers to your show, Macy Gray
and Norah Jones. Do you consciously
consider who you pay tribute to or is it
more organic'
JJ: Well, I just love them. I start to play a
CD at home, then again and again. Then I
realize, you knou: I could add this to the act.
I am the ultimate fan of all the performers I
unpersonate. I'm selfish. I had Boy George
in my Divas show for years, even when he
was out of fashion, because I love him.
Ho Vo: Being a survivor in the music
scene for such a long time. what do you
think of Gay TV: "QE4SG," "Will and
Grace," "Boy Meets Boy." etc?
JJ: I think it's great! I think we'll
probably go through a faze where TV
explores us (gays and lesbians) and then
(the TV public) realizes we're the same
crazy, mixed up, wonderful people, that
straights are.
HoVo:Any TV plans for you?
JJ: ~ly biggest plans involve breaking
into Las Vegas. I am looking to have a real
Junmy .James show in Vegas. I will say
this about the cultural acceptance of
shows like "Queer Eye," three years ago, I
was considered "too edgy" for Vegas.
HoVo:You were?
JJ: Yes .. that no one would want to
sec someone who could really sing, with·
out the drag attitude That was thought to
be a hard sell. Now though, a Las Vegas
producer is traveling to Houston to see my
show and hopefully, it's gonna happen!
Ho Vo: \';'hat about your thoughts on
Gay Marriage?
JJ: It's not just about having a spou e,
C) MORE INFO
Jimmy James
8:30p.m.
July 2. 3, 9 & IO
1415 Bar & Gnll
1415 Gahfom1a St.
713-522-7066
the topic is bigger than what people are
making it. It's about political rights as
well, citizenship.
Straight people refer to their marriages
as sacred. Well. what about
Jennifer Lopez, Elizabeth Taylor or
Roseanne Barr? Don't tell me it will
never last. Straights hold the key to it
will never last!
HoVo: A couple of fun questions,
before we go. from the Proust
Questionnaire: What's your motto•
J J : ~ly motto? Well l guess after livmg
m NYC I learned. after mcetmg so many
different people, you can't define people
and put them in a box. You can't say- Gays
as a whole arc this way: Jews as a whole
are this way: Hispanics on the whole are
this way. Biggest lesson I've learned.
HoVo: What's your most treasured
posscss10n?
JJ: It would have to be my photo·
graphs. That's the most special fl> me
Ho Vo: And finall): Ms. James, what 1s
your favorttr curse word•
JJ: That s so funny! This 1s what I say
ALL the time· ~'***mg hell! However way
you spell that!
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dish There's a Fine Line Between Telling the Truth and Talking Trash
Quibbling with Genre's 'most horrible' roster while
singer Sophie B. Hawkins quibbles at pride event.
Reworl<ing 'the list'
THE 15 MOST HORRIBLE; LIST .. IN
the June 1sst: of the ga~ glossy GENRE
1s supposed to Ix l ~ 1s ues and people
that re causmg the most harm to gay
mrn But som( of the en•ries Just don't
ma1tc sensE
TOM CRUISE IS on thC' list for Slllng
people who say he's gay. Ho\\ 2003.
Prrsumpllve De -nocrallc pres1dcnt1al
nominee JOHN KERRY is on the list for
not impportmg gay marrtagc Evrn if
Kerry was Satan, his view of marriage
would still br morr mclus1vc than
GEORGE W BUSH, who also made
the list
Supreme Court Justice ANTONIN
SCALIA 1s also on the hst for writmg the
dissenting op in Ion in Lawrence v. Tcxns,
the case that last year struck do\\11 the
nat ion's remaining sodomy laws.
The '"Queer Eye' wardrobe depart·
mcnt" 1s on the list for the way CARSON
KRESSLEY dresses. In fact, Carson is a
big boy and dresses himself, no matter
how badly.
Also on the list is "mothers of closeted
celebrities." Huh?
IF THE LIST WERE UP TO US. WE'D
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POPE JOHN PAUL II, lesbian MARY
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OPRAH WINFREY
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DAVID GEST· Look what that man
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50 CENT: Why are they still playing
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both kinds.
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After performing
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Lover," Hawkins Sophie B. Hawkins
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die finger at the crowd and organizers
backstage.
A Hawkins spokesperson didn't
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air your dirty laundry in public.
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Maybe we need to add Hawkins to the
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TO THE GUY WHO HASN'T
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Houston's Stonewall took place June 16, 1977
Anita Bryant came to
town and galvanized and
empowered the gay
community in Houston
By BINNIE FISHER
If God m h1 infinite wisdom had not
rnated Amta Bryant, then gay activist
Hay Hill said, "We would have had to
mventhcr."
Hill contends that it was the former
runner-up Miss Amerka who galvanized
and empowered a gay and lesbian commumty
that did not exist before she traveled
to Houston on June 16, 1977 to smg ton
bunch of lawyers.
Bryant had evoked the ire of gay
men and lesbians nationwide when she
fought against a proposal in 1\Iiami,
Florida to add sexual orientation to the
city\ list of protected minorities in hirmg
and housing,
Bryant orgamzed a group called, "Save
Our Children" to fight the proposal.
At the time, she was quoted as saying,
"What these people (gays) really want. hid
dr'll bC'hmd ob cure legal phrases, is the
legal right to propose to our children that
there 1s an acccptahle alternate way of life."
Fighting the gay rights movement
bcramc her mission. "l w1ll Iead such a
cn1sade to stop it as this country has not
seen bC'forc."
She was right about that.
In Houston m June of 1977, word got
out that Bryant would be the featurrd
cntcrtamment at a convention of the
Texas State Bar Association.
A handful of activists (Houston only
had n handful then> decided there should
be a response
Nationwide, protests were bC'ing staged
v.hcrever Bryant went !\lore than that, smcc
he v.as the spokesperson for Florida orange
JUlet'. boycotts of orange jmcc from Flonda
v. ere bcmg c;tarted evrrywhc n•
A day without orange JU ice 1s llk a
da} without c;unshmc," Bryant would a}
v.llh a smllc m commen al to promot
th produ t
\ t1H ts tn Hr uston w re domg
"!''It the} could to fan the fl m of
tr oran •r 1u1cc bovcott and '' h n
B nt wa to appear in Hou ton m
n H.iy lhll aid It "a ec1 led
th r wot Id b an orgamz :I prot t
'\ ls \Hr brn• •ma and tr ' o:'d
be 111 pnad. tlie polir
mL com erncd A pohc rep
w n• I to knO\\ how many prot !er~
xix-rt d
'imc no•hmg on th1 ~ca had 1' n
r mzed heforc, Hlll aid h thought
h hould estlmate con natlrnly. The
number he came up v.1th w 'iOO
r~m c rvatlve may hav been an
Former Miss America Anita Bryant m 1977
prompted the biggest gay and lesbian protest
ever 111 Houston.
Gay activists
across the country
wore buttons that procl.
11med. 'No more orange
1111ce from the un-shme state.
understatrment. Whrn 1t was all said
and donC', Hill said, "The figure that
wac; published at the time ''as 12 000, so
I'll go with that"
ThL plan \\ t march from a bar at
~cGowan and Brazos past the H)att
Regem y, "here Bryant w s perform mg, to
C II\ Hall for a ralh
As th cro\\d v.ellcd, 1t became
ob\ lou hit the numb r ~oo w ~
md d CC'nservat1ve Pohre ordrred
march r to tick to the •1de\\alkc; on
either 1de thr street
' thL •ay !1011 ts had brought flowl
a 1<1 they w n pa mg out field flov.cr;
ll >Ilg t1' Wa}'" lhll said
At •h II}'. •t on column went do\\ n
Smllh a 1d another down LoUishma, so
th t proh. tor weuld file on both 1de~ of
the hole
'1\t the H}att, some began marchmg
.iround the bu.ldir"'," Hill said 'i\mta
'What these people (gays)
really want. hidden behind
obscure legal phrases, is
the legal right to
propose to our children that
there is an acceptable
alternate way of life.'
- Anita Bryant
Although no one tn Houston threw a
pie at Anita Bryant hke the one she
deaned off her face I" Des Mame~
Iowa gay men and lesbians staged a
protest agamst her.
AS BIG AS TEXAS
v. as perform mg tn th \tmm Th \
couldn t hrar t r Sil' bcc.iu c we wen
chantm • c udly."
At on pumt II ill aid a grm p of
AC'Ll law) rs walked out f th conv n
11 1 m irpurt of the prote~tors
When the ro.1p had nade the r view
kno\\ n I the Hyatt the marchers contm
ued tov.ard clov.ntmrn for the rall) One of
the spc akt was Ha\ Hill
"l had never seen that many queers m
one place before," he ~aid.
Hill rememb~rs that he told the pro
testors "Look around because none of
}OU have seen th15 many of u 111 one
place before Look around r J see how
beautiful Wl' are
H£ felt 1t appropn t gr. thanks \\ h re
thanks were due~ mg ' I want to thank
Amta Brvant for bnngir u togt>ther."
On the wa} bac.k from Cit) Hall, Hill
s 1d. the mood was exuberant
"The tnp down h d been angry," he
recalled 'J\ll that anger had diss1pa•cd.
Com mg back, everyone was man entirely
different mmd ct "
Glancmg at the side of the street,
Hill said he saw a pair of blue I g> and
blue arms wrapped around an enormous
bouqu"t of flower~ The lrgs and
arms belonged to a female police officer
who had hem handed flowrrs by the
hundreds of protestors walking away
from the rallv.
Hill ~aid he asked her if she was havmg
a good time. She replied, ''Yes sir. I'm
having the bC'st time of my life. n
June 16, 19i7 v.as a turning point,
Hill said. "That v.as the night we
became a community. The mght Amta
came to Houston, unless you were
there, it's hard to get a grip on what
that meant to us.
The day before Anita Bryant crune to
Houston, Hill said, there was a handful of
organizing ga) activists. A dav later he
said, 'There were hundreds."
Br; ant emerged from th 1970 in
financial trouble and m rum a an
entertamer. In recrnt ~ears, Hill said
h1 thoughts tov.ard her ha\e softened
"We really ought to ra1s fund and
take care of her,'' he said "ShE' brought
us together."
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2004 Pride Parade Grand Marshals are ready to roll
Grand Marshals for the
2004 Houston Pride
Parade have contributed
beyond measure
By JOSEF MOLNAR
The Grand Mar hats for H m~•on's
Pr1d Parad r.ath( d recently to be offi
cull} mtroduced and to receive the medals
th y will \\ear on Parade night.
This year's marshals, nommated durmg
the fall and selected m open l'!ect1ons dur
mg tv;o \\ePk1>nd5 at the begmr11ng of thr
}ear mclud attorne) Jerry Simoneaux.
lontrosr Cl me spokesix rson Sonna
Alton PFLAG actlVISIS Sue and Jim Null
ar.J the Lesbian and G.iy Rights Lobby of
Texas (LGRL)
"La t year \\hen v;e honored the past
marshals, I got a rhance to talk to some of
them," said Jack Valmsk1, toordlnator for
the Pnde Committee Houston. "Its interesting
how many of them considered It
such an mcred1ble honor. evrn years later."
Jerry Simoneaux this year's male
Grand Marshal, is not waiting until his
moment passrs to appreciate the honor.
"I never even considered the possibility
of winning," he said. "'What a humbling
experience it is that people took time from
their days to thmk that much of me"
Simoneaux's lncreasing presence as an
openly gay lawyer and advocate for mar
nage equality for same-sex and transgender
couples has not gone unnoticed.
"I do what I love nnd people know I'm
an ad\ocate for these causes," he said
As the pre51dent of the Stone\\all Law
Association of Greater Houston, Simoneaux
has pressed for the further integration of
gay and transgender people m the law profe
s1on. He and his law partner, John
Nechman, recently broke ground by makmg
their firm the first in the nation to name a
transgender partner, Phyllis Randolph Frye.
No\\~ the law firm is poised to handle not
only alternate family issues and immigration
matters imolving gay and lesbian
clients but also transgender cases.
S<moneaux and his life partner,
AS BIG AS TEXAS
The 2004 Grand Marshals include (from left) Jerry Simoneaux: Sonna Alton. Randall Ellis representing the Lesbian and Gay Rights Lobby of Texas and Sue and
Jim Null (Photo by Dalton DeHart)
Chnstopher Bown. have worked tirelessly
to stage Events such as the annual
Alternative Family Law Seminar and this
year's marnage equality demonstration.
Recent!}; Simoneaux was selected by the
Texas Bar Association to head Its sc.-ctlon
on Sexual Orientation and Gend!'r
Identtficat1on Issue~. which includes il'gal
issue related to the communltv.
This year's female Grand Marshal,
Sonna Alton, said that for an individual to
be smgled-out by their peers is a tremen·
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