Arts & Entertainment
Best of Gay D.C. XIII: People
Winners from the Blade’s readers poll
To see the winners of the Washington Blade’s Best of Gay D.C. readers poll in other categories, clickĀ here.
Best Singer or Band
Frankie & Betty
Runner-up: Wicked Jezabel
Frankie & Betty are a queer acoustic rock duo comprised of Rachel Bauchman (vocals/bass/guitar) and Jessie Strick (lead guitar). Since forming in 2011, theyāve played numerous events, including Roanoke Pride, Phasefest several times and more. They have shows planned at Tree house Lounge on Monday night and the Rock and Roll Hotel on Thursday. Look them up on Facebook to stay current. (JD)
Local Heroine
Ruby Corado
Runner-up: Ashliana Rowe
Long-time LGBT advocate Ruby Corado is the visionary behind Casa Ruby, a local bilingual, multicultural LGBT organization that works to create āsuccess life storiesā among LGBT, gender queer and gender non-conforming residents in need. The recently wed Corado is a former Capital Pride Hero and has received many accolades for her work. (JD)
Casa Ruby
2822 Georgia Ave., N.W.
202-355-5155
Local Hero
Sgt. Matthew Mahl
Runner-up: Ed Bailey
Sgt. Matthew Mahl, who oversees six officers as part of the Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit of the D.C. Metro Police Department, says itās ābeen a good year.ā
āI donāt want to say crime is up, but we have been busier,ā the 35-year-old Havana, Ohio, native says. āWe have our hands in a lot of stuff.ā
Mahl, a cop for 15 years and in Washington since 2001, joined the MPD in 2004 and the GLLU in 2012, having spent his entire previous career on patrol duty. He was forced out on the job during a 2007 incident in which his locker was vandalized but says thatās the only bad experience heās ever had on the force.
Although initially hesitant to join the GLLU, he says overall itās been a great experience and he enjoys helping his fellow officers learn āthe sensitivities and needs of the LGBT community.ā (JD)
Best Drag King
Avery Austin
Runner-up: Sebastian Katz
Anna Wimpelberg works by day as an HIV researcher at Whitman-Walker Health but her drag alter ego Avery Austin was born about 11 years ago when the 36-year-old New Orleans native and lesbian saw a drag show in Boston, her then-home.
A veteran of various high school and college theater productions, she says she recognized āimmediately that it was something I would love to do.ā She continued during an eight-year stint in Austin, Texas, and joined the D.C. Kings when she came to Washington about three years ago. She calls herself Ā āthe theater nerd of the groupā and guesses she performs with them at Phase 1 and occasional other venues about four or five times per year, often recreating songs sheās seen on āGlee!ā
Find more information on the Kings at dckings.com. (JD)
Best Realtor
Mark Rutstein
1606 17th St. N.W.
202-498-1198
Runner-up: Ray Gernhart
Best DJ
DJ Rosie
Runner-up: Shea Van Horn
DJ Rosie Hicks has been spinning for about 13 years and spins regularly at the Hippo in her hometown Baltimore and also at LURe at Cobalt, Phase 1 and other area events in addition to a day job teaching special education.
Known for a mix of hip-hop, R&B, pop and more, she says she just all-around loves music. She also won this award in 2012.
āI love making people happy out there,ā the Baltimore native says. āThe whole point of coming out to a bar or club to hear a DJ is to let go of worries and cares and enjoy it.ā
Look her up on Facebook to stay current with her events. (JD)
Best Drag Queen
BaāNaka
Runner-up: Heidi Glum
A flip-flop of last yearās results when Glum won, BaāNaka (Dustin Michael Schaad) is on top again this year adding to her 2012, 2011 and 2010 prizes (a Blade record) in this category.
BaāNaka, who now does drag full-time and has positioned herself as the go-to gal for everything from hosting local Family Feud nights to getting you ready (for a fee of course!) for Miss Adams Morgan two weeks ago, she is widely known in the community for her outspoken Facebook comments, elaborate Disney routines (her Ursula is legendary) and consistent A-game delivery. And although it hasnāt happened yet, sheās our best local hope for āRuPaulās Drag Race.ā (JD)
Hottest Stripper or Go-go Dancer
Steve Pena
Runner-up: Christian Lezzil
Steve Pena got into dancing through his husband, Brent Everett, with whom he also runs a popular porn site (brenteverett.com). Heās nonchalant about the work, which he does everyĀ FridayĀ night at Town when heās in Washington and monthly at Latin Night at Cobalt.
āItās a way to have fun, stay in touch with friends and fans and meet future models for our website,ā the San Diego-born, Texas-reared Pena says.
In the region for about a year and a half, Pena, in an e-mail from Amsterdam where heās traveling, says he appreciates the support.
āI have the best and most loyal friends, fans and followers out there.ā (JD)
Best Burlesque Dancer
Private Tails
Runner-up: Glam Gamz
Private Tails (aka Ashliana Rowe) has been performing burlesque since 2005 and has drawn influence from classic burlesque, hip-hop, Broadway and more for what she calls āthe art of the tease.ā
As producer of Private Tease Productions, a monthly variety show she uses as an outlet for young performers she mentors, she says she āenjoys the creative process of developing new numbers and looks forward to the opportunity to whip up a fresh new performance.ā
Although she has several titles under her belt, this is a new category for Best Of and sheās the inaugural winner.
Her next performance is at Phase 1 on Halloween. Keep up with her on Facebook or at privatetails.com. (JD)
Best Business Person
DC Allen
Runner Up: Ray Gernhart
Businessman DC Allen has been credited with setting the pace for local gay-owned businesses to support the broader LGBT community.
Allen along with his husband Ken Flick owns the Crew Club, a D.C. health club and sauna that caters to gay men.
Last year Allen, 58, presented the D.C. Center for the LGBT Community with a $25,000Ā check to help the Center pay for renovation costs for its new space in the cityās Reeves Center municipal building at 14th and U streets, N.W.
āWe decided it was important for the center to be there for all of us in the community,ā Allen says.
Since opening the Crew Club at 1321 14th St., N.W., in the early 1990s, Allen has supported a number of local LGBT organizations and causes, including the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance, which presented Allen with its Distinguished Service Award in 1998.
Under Allenās direction, the Crew Club has also supported Whitman-Walker Health and Us Helping Us, two local community health organizations that provide services to the LGBT community, including AIDS education and prevention services.
In addition to providing financial support for the two groups, Allen has arranged for staff members of the groups to provide HIV testing on the Crew Clubās premises. The Crew Club also serves as a major distribution point for HIV prevention literature and free condoms.
The Capital Area Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce recently named Allen Business Leader of the Year. (LC)
Best Massage
Che Young
Runner-up: Eddie Weingart
Relax the stress away with a massage by Che Young. Young provides deep tissue, Swedish, clinical and massage therapy. The Alexandra-based pro can be reached at 703-627-9090 or visit massagetherapy.com. (MC)
Best Visual Artist
Denis Largeron
1621 T St., N.W., Apt. 201
202-420-1030
Runner-up: Amy Martin
Best Personal Trainer
Gerard Burley
Runner-up: Bucky Mitchell
Gerard Burley shares fitness tips via his biweekly column in the Blade. He also makes appearances on Fox 5 and is known for his SweatDC fitness party. Find him via Facebook for regular updates and inspirational fitness-related posts.
(Editorās note: Bucky Mitchell also writes a biweekly column in the Blade.)
Best TV Personality
Chuck Bell, NBC4
Runner-up: Wendy Rieger
Best Actor
Mickey Daniel DaGuiso
Runner-up: Will Gartshore
Mickey Daniel DaGuiso grew up in the D.C. suburbs. He attended Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria, mostly for the music program, and graduated from the University of Virginia where he majored in anthropology and philosophy.
Throughout school, he was involved in band (saxophone, piano) and chorus. It wasnāt until after college that DaGuiso started doing musicals. āIt began as sort of a whim,ā he says, āand then I was instantly hooked.ā
Among the local companies where heās worked, his favorites are Keegan Theatre (āMan of La Manchaā and āRentā) and Landless Theatre where he played Kebab in āPerez Hilton Saves the Universeā and the lead in āSpidermusical,ā a spoof of Broadwayās āSpiderman,ā and many other roles. He has also served as musical director and accompanist for assorted Landless productions.
āKeegan is such a friendly, supportive community yet the creativity and work involved is just superior. Landless is the most enjoyable both on stage and backstage, efficient and creative with time and space, with vision and little ego.ā
Currently DaGuiso is taking a year away from theater to travel the world. (He responded to these interview questions via email from India where heās embarking on a six-month walkabout.) While traveling heās trying his hand at playwriting.
āI’m keeping it very open-ended so just reading a lot, taking down inspiration whenever it comes and doing a daily writing practice. I do plan on continuing with acting in D.C. when I get back. But who knows what the future holds? I’m like the wind.ā (PF)
Best Actress
MaryBeth Wise
Runner-up: Holly Twyford
MaryBeth Wise likens acting to a never-ending education. Currently sheās taking a class for experienced actors at Studio Theatre.
āI feel that itās a good way to flex my muscles when Iām not working,ā she says. āAnd I get to do scenes that Iāve always wanted to do by my favorite playwrights like Pinter, Beckett and Chekhov.
Wise advises young actors to see as much theater as possible. āThe more you absorb, the better off youāll be. The more youāll have available in experience and imagination. After all, what else do we have?ā
Typically cast as women of substance, Wiseās more memorable roles include Anne Sullivan in Olney Theatreās āThe Miracle Worker,ā a New York psychiatrist in Studio Theatreās āFrozen,ā a newly out lesbian in āBody Awarenessā at Theater J, and most recently the stalwart wife and mother married to Mitchell HĆ©bert in Round Houseās āHow to Write a New Book for the Bible,ā a part that called for her to age from 40 to 80 on a dime.
Offstage, Wiseās partner is local actor Sarah Marshall. The talented pair got to know each other while working on Woolly Mammothās production of Paula Vogelās āThe Mineola Twinsā in 2003. āIt was a great time,ā Wise says. āAnd the show was a lot fun. I played a man in the first act and a woman in the second.ā
Wise grew up in Miami. She started acting while an undergraduate at Barry University. Initially she came to Washington to attend Catholic University where she earned a masterās in acting.
āThe D.C. theater scene is one of the best in the country,ā Wise says. āWe have a variety of theaters doing interesting, cutting-edge work. Our audiences can handle thought-provoking theater. And the actors are supportive. Itās great.ā (PF)
Best Hill Staffer
Kat Skiles
Runner-up: Kenneth Dowling
As Hill staffers go, Kat Skiles has moved to the top. In July, she became digital director and senior adviser to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). It’s the Utah native’s second consecutive year winning this award. (CJ)
Best Straight Ally
Leigh Ann Hendricks
Runner-up: Brett Johnson
Leigh Ann Hendricks made a big change five years ago to manage Level One (in the basement of Cobalt) after 17 years just down the street at Annieās Paramount Steakhouse.
Managing a staff of about 35 ā 90-95 percent of whom, she estimates, are LGBT ā she says was a logical change and one she made with no hard feelings toward Annieās. Having grown up with a gay best friend, she says it simply never occurred to her to treat gay people any differently. She was also inspired by the example of Annieās namesake, the late Annie Kaylor, whom she worked with for years.
āShe was like our second mother,ā Hendricks says. āHer attitude was, āThey either like my gay friends or they donāt like me,ā and thatās been mine as well.ā (JD)
Level One
1639 R St. N.W.
202-745-0025
BestĀ Bartender
Dusty Martinez (Town Patio/Number 9)
Runner-up: Angela Lombardi (Phase 1)
Baltimore native Dusty Martinez has been in the food and beverage industry for a decade and recently completed an in-house internship at the W Hotel. He recently moved from serving customers at Number 9 to operating the new Town Patio, and he is also the owner and director of D&D Cocktails, a private bartending company serving the D.C. area.
Dusty Martinez
202-765-7550
danddcocktails.squarespace.com
Best Rehoboth Bartender
Holly Lane, CafƩ Azafran
Runner-up: Matt Urban, Blue Moon
Holly Lane has lived in more places than most people have visited: Martinique, Greece, Bahamas, Paris, Chicago, Switzerland, the list goes on.
Sheās a native Washingtonian who trained in dance at the Washington School of Ballet and later at a modern dance school in Bethesda. After school ā and a stint in Chicago with her then-husband ā Laneās travels began in earnest. She left her husband and moved to the Bahamas at age 23 to dance at the Paradise Island resort. A Club Med gig led to more travel and finally a trip to Paris, where she auditioned for a dancing job and stayed for 15 years.
āIt was nice to have a place to decorate,ā says Lane, sipping a coffee on an unseasonably warm October day in Rehoboth Beach, Del. āI rented a furnished apartment and gradually replaced everything with my own finds at the Paris flea markets.ā
After years of working as a professional dancer, it was in Paris at age 30 that Lane discovered she could also sing. She landed a job in a musical production and then at the Hollywood Savoy in the ā80s, where the wait staff also served as the entertainment, singing and dancing for customers during dinner.
āIt was a great place to learn,ā she says.
Despite the excitement and adventure of living and working abroad, Lane said a voice kept telling her it was time to go home and so in 1995, she returned to D.C.
āIām glad I did all the things I did when I did them,ā she says. āI just found my passport and realized I havenāt been abroad since 2007.ā
After the death of a boyfriend, Lane went to visit her parents at their home in Rehoboth Beach, which theyāve owned since 1977 and stayed. Sheās lived full time in the popular beach resort town since 2000 and spent about 10 years in a jazz band performing around the state. Her parents, now 93, still live there. Lane says her father sold the family home in D.C. through a real estate ad in the Washington Blade a few years ago and relocated full-time to Rehoboth.
In summer of 2010, the owner of CafĆ© Azafran was opening a new location in Rehoboth and offered Lane a bartending job. Sheās worked there since. You can find her tending bar Thursday-Sunday evenings but Thursday is the night when sheās joined by fellow Rehoboth entertainer John Flynn, who plays the keyboard while Lane sings into her wireless headset while making drinks.
āI enjoy multi-tasking,ā she says.
CafƩ Azafran attracts a mixed crowd and Lane treats customers like they are guests in her home rather than patrons at a bar. She always finds room at the large granite bar for another stool and makes sure to introduce newcomers to the rest of the crowd.
Lane, 62, is āhappily singleā and lives with her dog JuJuBee, a ācheagle,ā a Chihuahua and Beagle mix. In addition to her duties at Azafran, Lane sings at private parties and functions. (KN)
CafƩ Azafran
18 Baltimore Ave.
302-227-8100
Most Committed Activist
David Mariner
Runner-up: Josh Deese
In Washington since 1997, David Mariner, a Corning, N.Y., native, started volunteering at the DC Center in 2008 and became its first full-time executive director a year later.
Under his leadership, the once-fledgling Center has begun to flourish and now has a broad activity schedule and is a hub for LGBT-themed events such as the OutWrite LGBT Book Festival, Reel Affirmations and much more.
āWorking at the DC LGBT Center has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life,ā Mariner says. āI am so proud of the work we do in the community and am profoundly grateful to the staff and the many volunteers and supporters who make this work possible.ā (JD)
The DC Center
2000 14th St., N.W. No. 105
202-682-2245
Best Gay Politician
David Catania
Runner-up: Tammy Baldwin
Best Trans Advocate
Thomas Coughlin (see Queery)
Runner-up: Ruby Corado
Best Amateur Athlete
Matt Simeon
Runner-up: Eddie Valentine
Matt Simeon, who currently plays for the Washington Generals, has been a member of the D.C. Gay Flag Football League since 2010. Simeon was also named most valuable player of the league for the 2014 spring season. (MC)
BestĀ Stylist
Michael Hodges
Runner-up: Barry Smythers
Michael Hodges has been sharpening his techniques in the Washington area for 25 years and is the owner and master Stylist of Logan 14. With a keen eye for current trends in menās hair cuts and womenās styling, Michael and his team are making a powerful impact in the Logan Circle area. (SMH)
Michael Hodges
1314 B 14th St., N.W
202-506-6868
Best Clergy
Rev. David Lett
This is Father Lettās second consecutive win in this category. He also won the best drag queen prize as Lena Lett in 2001 and 2002. (JD)
Runner-up: Rev. Kirsten Blom-Westbrook
Best Republican Advocate
Ted Olson
Runner-up: Sen. Susan Collins
Best First Responder
Justin Markiewicz
Runner-up: Kate Fitzgerald
Officer Justin Markiewicz has been serving as a part-time member of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Departmentās Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit since 2010. Markiewicz hails from Delaware and came to the District to attend Catholic University. After graduation he attended the police academy and was assigned to the 6th District. (MC)
Celebrity News
HRC releases āQueer Renaissance Syllabusā
BeyoncĆ©ās hit album inspired curriculum
In a move aimed at celebrating the beauty, brilliance and resilience of the LGBTQ community, the Human Rights Campaign unveiled the “Queer Renaissance Syllabus” that BeyoncĆ©ās āRenaissanceā album inspired.
Curated by Justin Calhoun, Leslie Hall and Chauna Lawson of the HRC’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities Program, the syllabus includes a variety of academic articles, essays, films and other media rooted in Black queer and feminist studies. Each piece is directly inspired by the tracks on BeyoncĆ©’s Billboard 200-topping dance album, “Renaissance.”
BeyoncĆ©’s album “Renaissance” stands as a cultural milestone, celebrating the Black queer roots of dance music while shedding light on overlooked Black queer artists. Inspired by her late-Uncle Johnny, the album not only garnered critical acclaim but also shed light on the often marginalized contributions of Black queer artists. Winning four Grammys and yielding chart-topping hits like āBreak My Soulā and āCuff It,ā the album sparked discussions about economic impact and cultural representation.
Amid its success, legislative challenges arose, with Florida and Texas enacting bans on DEI initiatives in public colleges. Recognizing the album’s transformative potential, HRC developed the “Queer Renaissance Syllabus” to leverage its impact for education and activism.
Tailored for educators, youth-serving professionals, DEI practitioners, higher education leaders and admirers of BeyoncĆ©’s artistry, the syllabus aims to encourage meaningful discussions, enrich lesson plans, and explore innovative ways to honor the vibrancy and significance of LGBTQ individuals and their culture.
With six themes anchoring the syllabus, ranging from “intersectionality and inclusivity” to “social justice and activism,” it provides a comprehensive exploration of various facets of LGBTQ experiences and expressions. Fan-favorite tracks from the album are paired with scholarly readings, offering insights into empowerment, self-acceptance and the transformative power of artistic expression. The syllabus also reinforces HRCās efforts to highlight, amplify and re-center Black and queer voices.
By providing links to articles, books, podcasts and interviews, each associated with a song from the album, it celebrates the rich cultural heritage and contributions of the Black queer community.
The concluding section of the syllabus includes BeyoncĆ©’s tribute to OāShea Sibley, a young Black queer person who was murdered in Brooklyn, N.Y., last July while voguing to āRenaissanceā songs at a gas station. HRC also includes a statement that condemns hate crimes.
Movies
Neo-noir āFemmeā offers sexy, intense revenge fantasy
A work of real and thrilling cinematic vision
They say ārevenge is sweet,ā and it must be true. Why else would so many of our popular stories, dating all the way back to āMedeaā and beyond, be focused on the idea of getting āevenā with the people who have done us wrong?
Itās a concept with obvious appeal for anyone who has felt unjustly used by the world ā or, more accurately, by the people in it ā but that has particular resonance, perhaps, for modern queer audiences, long used to being relegated to the status of āvictimā in the narratives we see on our screens. In āFemmeā ā the new UK indie thriller helmed by first-time feature directors Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping, now in limited theatrical release and expanding wider over the next two weeks ā it provides the irresistible hook for a gripping tale of calculated vengeance in the face of anti-queer violence. Like the best of such stories, however, itās as much a cautionary tale as it is a wish-fulfillment fantasy.
Set in London, it centers on Jules (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett), aka Aphrodite Banks, a popular drag performer in the cityās queer club scene who, after a performance one night, steps out in full costume to buy a pack of cigarettes and becomes the victim of a traumatic āgay bashingā incident at the hands of a young man goaded to violence by a thuggish gang of friends. Months later, though heās recovered from his physical injuries, he is still deeply affected by the inner scars that linger. Robbed of the confidence that allowed him to perform, heās withdrawn into a reclusive life, until concern from his friends and housemates prompts him to finally venture out into the world for a night of cruising at a gay sauna ā where he encounters his bully doing the same thing.
Unrecognizable and anonymously masculine out of his drag persona, Jules finds himself beginning a dangerous and duplicitous game in which he plans to āoutā his former attacker ā whose name, as he learns, is Preston (George MacKay) ā in the most humiliating way possible. As his scheme begins to play out, however, he encounters an obstacle: in getting to know the closeted Preston, he is surprised to discover not only empathy for someone living their life in terrified camouflage, but a mutual attraction that develops despite the horrific history between them.
Framed as a self-described āneo-noirā story, a designation that implies a certain flavor of moral ambiguity as much as it does a tense and shadowy tale of intrigue or a psychologically complex tone, itās a movie that relies heavily on style in order to sell its conceptual premise. Realistically, we might question the boldness that permits our protagonist to enact such a potentially hazardous scheme, but in the context of its genre trappings we are lulled into accepting it. And while most of us are likely ājadedā enough to question the possibility of tenderness between its two leading characters, the accepted conceits of the film noir form are enough to sell it to us ā or at least allow us to grapple with it alongside Jules, whose righteously Machiavellian master plan is threatened by the feelings he ācatchesā in spite of himself.
That, of course, is part of the whole point. āFemme,ā though it establishes itself by virtue of its very title as a testament to the struggle to āpassā for straight in a world that places a value judgment on perceived adherence to a strict norm for gender and sexuality, hinges on the idea that such things arenāt quite as clear-cut as we want to make them. Despite the black-and-white certainty we cling to when it comes to the subject of abusive or toxic relationships, thereās an emotional component that can only be ignored or dismissed at our peril, and even our most resolute intentions can be undermined by the shades of gray we discover in our hearts.
Freeman and Ng ā who also wrote the screenplay, adapting their own BAFTA-nominated short film from 2021 (starring Harris Dickinson and Paapa Essiedu) into a feature-length expansion ā seem bent on challenging our snap judgments, on forcing us to sympathize with our oppressors by showing us the ways in which they, too, are prevented from living a fully authentic life by the expectations of their cultural environment. Even more challenging for many modern audiences, perhaps, may be the unavoidable observation that, in enacting his plan of revenge, Jules crosses the line between being a victim and being a victimizer ā a fine point that may trigger uncomfortable implications in a social environment that has become marked by divisive moral constructs and hardline ethical posturing.
Before we scare you off with discussion of high-concept themes and āculture warā rhetoric, however, itās crucial to bring up the elements that lift āFemmeā above and beyond the level of so many such narrative films and makes it a somewhat unexpectedly potent piece of cinematic storytelling ā and all of them have to do with the skill and intention behind it.
As to the former, the movieās first-time directors manage a remarkable debut, steeping their film in moody, genre-appropriate visuals and murky morality. They pave a path beyond the easy assessments proscribed for us by conventional thinking, and force us to follow our sympathies into a disquieting confrontation between what we āknowā as right and what we feel as true; at the same time, they push back against any natural sentimentality we might have about the situation, stressing the toxicity of the relationship in the middle of their film, the ironically-reversed insincerity of its dynamic ā and, perhaps most importantly, the reality of the defining circumstances around it. While we might find ourselves longing for a happier resolution than the one we expect, the film makes no pretense that these two men might overcome the deep denial and traumatic associations ā not to mention the calculated lack of honesty on the side of its de facto protagonist, to achieve some kind of āhappy endingā between themselves. Nevertheless, we hope for it, in spite of ourselves.
That delicate dynamic works largely because of the movieās lead actors. Both Stewart-Jarrett (āCandymanā) and MacKay (āPrideā, ā1917ā) deliver fully invested, utterly relatable performances, finding the emotional truth behind their interactions with as much palpable authenticity as they bring to the chemistry between them. They force us to abandon our preconceived ideas about each character by finding the human presence behind them, and it makes the storyās final outcome feel as heartbreaking as it does inevitable.
As for intention, āFemmeā ā which premiered at last yearās Berlin International Film Festival and went on to gather acclaim across the international film fest circuit ā might be a little hard to take for the easily triggered, we wonāt deny it. Still, itās a work of real and thrilling cinematic vision that goes beyond easy morality to highlight the tragedy that comes from being forced to live behind a mask for the sake of societal acceptance. Itās also exciting, smart, and unexpectedly sexy ā all of which make it a highly- recommended addition to your watchlist.
Out & About
Trans Day of Visibility is here and hereās how to celebrate
Howard County LGBTQIA Commission to host Columbia event
Howard County LGBTQIA Commission will host its inaugural event celebrating Trans Day of Visibility on Sunday, March 31 at 4 p.m. at Busboys and Poets in Columbia, Md.
The purpose of this inaugural event is to create a welcoming and inclusive space that celebrates and amplifies the voices of the trans community and its allies, highlights the joy and resilience of trans and non-binary individuals everywhere, and elevates their voices and shares their diverse experiences.
This event is free and more details are available on Eventbrite.Ā
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