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Jonnie Stephenson Holiday Partyis December 16th

The 7th Annual

Jonnie Stephenson

Foundation Holiday

In the name of the

Jonnie Stephenson

Foundation TeddyParty will be

held on Decem-ber 16th at 4

p.m., hosted by

his former part-

ner Marty Karp

at Simon Says

Bar, 428 Walnut

Street.

There will be comp-

limentary refresh-

ments and once againprizes valued at more

than $1,000.00 will be

raffled off throughout

the evening.

For every unwrapped

new toy one brings, a

raffle ticket will be

given to him or her by

our Naughty Santa.

What better way to

share this season than

by helping a local needy

child open a gift this

holiday.

Bears will be

donated to OnBroadway Bar,

877 Broadway.

Stop by to On

Broadway and

bring a Teddy

Bear in the name

of the Jonnie

Stephenson Found-

ation.

Once again, TheJonnie Stephenson

Foundation wishes

everyone a Happy and

Healthy Holiday.

The Diamond Palace,

a multi-level night club

in Cincinnati had its

Grand Opening the

first weekend in De-cember.

The club will be open

seven days a week.

Located at 435 Elm

Street downtown, (op-

posite the Convention

Center) the Diamond

Palace has a huge park-

ing garage and parking

lot.

Join The Stars of The

Diamond Palace Every

Friday and Saturday.

Aaliyah Milian Mirage

Love Nikki Dimon,

Giovanni Lives, Mykul

Jay Valentine plus Jes-

sica Dimon!

There are Vip Roomsand if you would like to

have your Holiday

party at The Diamond

Palace Nightclub Mes-

sage ClubDiamond-

[email protected] fo r

more information. Or

message General Man-

ager Craig Donahoe.

513-721-4688.

The club currently

has two levels, a third

is planned to open next

summer.

Columbus Ian James,

FreedomOhio co-

founder, applauded the

U.S. Supreme Court for

deciding to review theconstitutionality of the

federal so-called De-

fense of Marriage Act.

We are confident the

U.S. Supreme Court

will look at the federal

law and rule the true

defense of marriage is

to let a loving couple

commit to a lifetime oflove and family secu-

rity, James said. Still,

we are mindful that this

case does nothing to

overturn Ohios DOMAlaw or Ohios 2004

Marriage Ban Amend-

ment so we will con-

tinue to collect signa-

tures, and engage vot-

ers so Ohio couples will

have the Freedom To

Marry.

The U.S. Supreme

Court will also hear a

case filed to reverse the

U.S. Court of Appeals

(Ninth Circuit) decision

to overturn CaliforniasProposition 8 that

clears the way for

same-gender marriages

in The Golden State.

The Ninth Circuit rul-

ing, left alone, would

have cleared a proce-

dural hurdle to once

again allow same gen-

der couples to marry inCalifornia.

The U.S. Supreme

Court has a golden op-

portunity to affirm mar-

riage equality, civil

rights and family secu-

rity in California,

James said. We are

confident we are on the

right side of history.

The court will rule by

June, about the time we

will decide whether to

Supreme Court to review

Defense of Marriage Act

New nightclub opens

The Diamond Palace

Happy Holidays!!

to our faithfulreaders!

See Supremes, Page 2, Col. 6

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Contents GLBT News, 2012

Page 2GLBT NEWS December 2012 Print Edition

Always be yourself, from Billy Elliot

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responsibility for content, accuracy or validity of Advertising.Vol. 16, December 2012 Print Edition,

Publisher/EditorWorley Rodehaver; Associate EditorMichael X. ChanakTransportationJoe Wilks

Contributors Tedd Good and Nate Wessel

Greater Cincinnati GLBT News

Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease, only love can do that. Martin Luther King

This publication is dedicated to those

Paul

DelphMatthew

Shepard

who have or have died from AIDS or Hate Crimes

MAP ublications, 1727 Highland, Cincinnati, OH 45202, 513-241-7539

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What you have missed? If you have not been to our website or if you are not on our

e.mailer list here are some of the stories you have missed duringthe last three weeks in our Weekly Editions!

! GOP VP nominee upholds hate of Gays!Marriage equality holds Cincinnati rally

! Parents and coming out!What happens to DOMA if Romney wins?

!Mayor Bloomberg endorses Obama! 14 GLBT staff on Obama team

Send your e.mail address [email protected] join our e.mailerhttp://www.glbtnewscincinnati.com

ISQCCBE

(The Court)By Brooklyn

Steele-Tate

Happy Holidays

ISQCCBEHappy Holidays

from the ISQCCBE!

W e are having a

tremendous month of

Real pol itic 101By Tedd Good

As the results of the

2012 Presidential Ele-

ction are dissected , It

went 76 percent for

Obama. 7.5 percent of

the winning Coalition isfrom this community.

This is 4.5 million vote.

Obama had to carry

to carry Ohio.

We helped make this

happen. For the longembattled LGBT com-

munity in Greater Cin-

cinnati, the win has

become a part of an

awesome history. We

have moved more than

31 years from irrele-

vance to victory , defeat

and Renaissance.

The environment has

become more compli-

cated. Our equality is

only as secure as the

coalition that we are a

part of. We have to take

stands on issues beyond

narrow interests.

Electoral reform,

legislative procedurereform, fiscal policy ,

health care and entitle-

ments demand our

attention and input.

Welcome to theLGBT Blue State

is clear that

the LGBT

vote is a

power play-

er in the

O b a m a

Coalition. The New

York Times on 11/15/

12 ran the best analysis

to date.

Exit polls indicate

five percent of the elec-

torate self identified

being LGBT. If about

120 million votes werecast, six million are us!

This is as many votes

combined for Ohio and

Hawaii . We are talking

about 18 electoral

votes! LGBT voters

that many

votes .

Here the

E l e c t o r a l

C o l l e g e

impact is 31.

While this large

number is spread thro-

ughout the 50 states.

NYT reported that

LGBT support was

crucial in carrying Ohio

and Florida. That is a

direct impact of 47

electoral votes onObamas victory of 332

in the Electoral Col-

lege. National analysts

considered that it was

crucial for Obama tocarry Hamilton County

It is our goal to record the positive contributions GLBT people make to their community and the local community at large.While AIDS and Hate CRIMES are certainly not positive things, we seek to draw the positive from the negative. We holdup Paul Delph and Matthew Shepard and their families as models of how human beings should or could react to each otherand how families should support loved ones whose lives are not in the box right wing religious zealots want them in. Delph,a multi-talented Cincinnatian, died of AIDS in 1996. His mother shut down her business to care for him. Shepard died in1998, victim of a hate Crime and his mother worked for years to get passed a national Hate Crimes Bill, which is now law.

Ohio and Virginia to get

With new power comes

greater responsibility.

f u n d -

r a i s i n g

for our

d e s i g -

n a t e d

charities.

Here are

December 1 was

W orld AIDS Day and

we hosted a benefit at

Below Zero for Cara-

cole House. It was full

of drag, belly dancersand music.

On December 7 we

were at Old Street to

kickoff the Everlasting

Flame W eekend.

December 8 we were

at Rosies Tavern and

701 and December 9 w e

were hitting up

Shooters to finish outthe Everlasting Flame

weekend.

. All the money raised

that weekend will help

us purchase gift cards

the events

bring the Freedom to

Marry and Religious

Freedom amendment to

Ohio voters as soon as

November, 2013. Weare 4-0 following voters

standing-up for mar-

riage equality in Maine,

Maryland, Minnesota

and Washington state.

Its time for more vic-

tories.

For more informa-

tion: Dennis Willard614.209.8945

[email protected]

Do you own

a business?You can advertiseweekly in GLBT

See Page 8

Supremesfrom Page 1

to give to the residents

at Caracole House.

December 14 we areback at Shooters for the

Big Bob and Tamika

Christmas Show.

Showtime 11:30 p.m.

and on Saturday Dec-

someone that special

kiss!

The ISQCCBE want sto wish everyone a safe

and HAPPY Holiday

season. If dur ing your

holiday giving you

want to donate some

extra cash t o one of our

local charities, please

visit our website and

make a donation. Our

community needs

YOU!!

ember 15

we will be

traveling

a r o u n d

the city

visiting all

our fav-

orite bars

and bartenders. To

finish out the weekend

on Sunday December

16 we will be at The

Cabaret to host our

Ugly Sweater Game Show.Finally on Saturday

December 22 Shanice

McCoy Patton will be

putt ing on her Christ-

mas Show at C&D

Lounge. Come out and

see if she is going to be

naughty or nice!

On December 31 we

are going to be atShooters and Old

Street passing out

champagne to all our

friends and loved ones

so stop in and give


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GLBT NewsPage 3December, 2012 Print Edition

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PFLAGBy Michael Cotrell

president

PFLAG wants its

friends and familiesto have a happy

holidayI t s t h e h o l i d a y

s e a s o n a n d w e a t

PFLAG are always

Realize th at your

fam ilies reaction to

y ou m a y n o t b eb e c a u s e y ou a r e

LGBT but s imply

b e c a u s e o f t h e

s t r e s s o f t h e

holiday season.

kind to you.

If it is to o difficu lt to

atten d a family gat-h eringt h e n m a k e y ou r o wn

s p e c i a l h o l i d a y w i t h

friends a nd loved on es.

If you are trans-gender

b e g e n t l e w i t h y o u r

fam ilies p ronou n slips. Let

them kn ow you know how

difficu lt it is.

If you are t he friends or

f a m i l y m e m b e r o f someon e who is Gay.

Set up support for your-

se lf . You are not a lone .

Have a resource such as

a local PFLAG Chapter to

call on.

Take your t ime ! Ac -

ceptance may not come

i n s t a n t l y b u t b e h o n e s t

abou t your feelings.Dont be nervous abou t

u sing th e correct Again it

s a fe a n d h a p p y .

The fol-lowing are

t i p s t o h e l p y o u

m a k e i t t h r o u g h

the holiday season

w h e n y ou a r evisiting family.

If you are Gay,

Lesbian , B isexua l

or Transgender.

Do not assu me you

know how someone

will react to n ews of

your sexual orien-

t a t i o n o r g e n d e r

identity.

looking

to make

s u r e

o u rf r i e n d s

a n d

f a m -

ilies ar e

coming

out is a

cont in-

u o u sprocess

you

w i l l

c o m e

out many t imes in

m a n y d i f f e r e n t

s i tua t ions .

Remember your

p a r e n t s n e ed t o

t i m e t o a c k n o w l -edge tha t they have

a LGBT chi ld . I t

t o o k y o u t i m e t o

come to te rms an d

n o w i t i s y o u r

fam ilies tu rn .

Let you r fam ilies

ju d g e m e n t s b e

theirs to work on as

l o n g a s t h e y a r e

Remember tha t

SeePFLAG, Page 7, Col. 4


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NateBy Nate Wessel

Post-Gay?

Ive been driftingaway a bit. It might be

the steady boyfriend, it

in high school was all

in my head.

It was me every dayworking up more and

more nerve to bemight be the

development

of other

interests. But

I think most

of all, its a distance.

Im removed.

I first got involved inthe Gay Community

right out of high school.

I wasnt bullied. OK,

maybe I was, but I

never would have

called it that at the time.

It didnt bother me.

Never did. My conflict

of it. How Gay am I?

How tight can these

pants get before Imself-conscious of my

body and why the hell

should I be self-con-

scious anyway?

These and the like

were daily internal

struggles just a few

years ago. Lately

theyre just gone. Im

out, totally and fully.Im living the dream!

If I want to wear

something or say some-

thing, theres nothing

and no one stopping me

like there was before.

Theres not an internal

conflict, and so theres

not that burning itch toimprove myself, to get

over the issue myself

and to drag society

along with me. I cant

myself. I

was afraid.

Not really

of what

p e o p l e

was becoming. I was

changing radically. I seeit now in milestones;

friends and clothes and

interests coming and

going, each a different

phase of my ever-

changing self. I was

coming out in so many

ways, and that scared

me. Every single day

was a struggle to be a

little more of whatever

I was feeling. Sex and

gender were a huge part

would say, but of who I

fight the oppressive

power when there isnt

one.But maybe its not a

permanent drift. Maybe

Ill fall back. The child

pulls away from family

as he goes off to

college, anxious to get

away, but eventually

goes back to those

ultimately loving arms

with the benefit ofperspective, with a

deeper love and under-

standing.

Ill come back. I

must. Right? They say

that when you no longer

need PFLAG is when

PFLAG needs you.

Anti-Gay bi ll heads for passage

GLBT NewsYour weeklynews source

Tony Perkins haspraised Ugandas presi-

dent for leading his

nation with the Kill

The Gays bill, and

called Uganda a mod-

ern example of a nation

prospered by God.

American liberals are

upset that Ugandan

President is leading hisnation in repentance

afraid of a modern ex-

ample of a nation pros-

pered by God?

Uganda has taken up

its infamous Kill The

Gays bill again, despite

warnings from the in-

ternational community,

and despite likely with-

holding of foreign aid

by some nations, in-

cluding Great Britain.

President Obama andSecretary of State

Clinton have yet to

weigh in on this latest

round.

Some are claiming

the death penalty has

been removed from the

Kill The Gays bill, but

this is the third time the

mainstream media hasreported this fact in

as many years. In other

words, claiming the

death penalty has been

removed is a regular

tactic for Ugandas

politicians.

The mainstream me-

dia has never ever re-

ported that the death

penalty has been added

back in, yet they have

no problem repeatedly

reporting that it has

again been removed.

Perkins is the head of

the Southern Poverty

Law Center-vertified

anti-Gay hate group,Family Research Coun-

cil.

This summer, Perkins

used the shooting at his

Washington, D.C.

headquarters, where a

security guard was shot

in the arm, to claim vic-

tim status.

Ho, Ho, Ho!!

Give me a call,

metaphorical PFLAG. I

need to know Im

needed.


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As the countdown

approaches to the years

end, its time to remem-

ber the GLBT high-

lights in films, televi-

sion, theater and music

with the free 2012

GLBT Showbiz Quiz,

compiled by entertain-

ment journalist andauthor Ed Karvoski Jr.

During which 2012

award ceremony did

J.C. Penney commer-

cials debut with Ellen

DeGeneres as spokes-

person? What song did

Ricky Martin sing as

guest star on an episodeof the third season of

Glee? On which

television program did

President Barack

Obama first publicly

express his support for

same-sex marriage?

The 20-question quiz

with multiple-choice

answers is availableonline. Test your trivia

skill now or save the

quiz for a New Years

Eve party game.

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Remembering 2012

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not only monthly religious news but

the news of the day.

We also know all our readers are

not Christian so we are sending a

message of peace and happiness to

all our readers from our writers and

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(Rust y Locket) the

sovereign leader of the

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those 32 new extra

chairs for the GLBT

Center would be shrunkwrap! Alas.

The given delivery

window was 8 a.m. 5

pm. oh my Goose

just can t do 8

a.m....who can I assign

that task to? Then it

struck me, our part-time

super of the local

Hoffner Park (adjacent

to the Center) and

current president of the

Northside College

Hill Kiwanis Club.

Bless Ron he lives

a few doors up from the

Center and is an early

riser 6 am. Ron

signed up for the earlyslot until Goose could

stretch her wings. By

the time I arrived at the

Center 9:30 a.m.

Ron was there no

phone call from the

delivery folks and

after the elixir of life

a cup of coffee or three

Ron left to hisappointed chores.

My daughter Matt

Goedde (red Matt) and

friend Crimy aka

August Garofoli landed

at the Center before

noon they had some

business in the area toattend. Of course, the

iately recognize one of

them, Gilbert Parker

a lovely straight man,mid 40s that uses the

whatever way you

celebrate it! Before I

forget, many thanks tothe GLBT News that

throughout the year has

helped me personally

and the GLBT Center

of Cincinnati by pro-

moting various events

for us! Also, to the old

timers who read my

columns you make a

gurl blush.

is very imp ortan t to

b e i n a s a f e e n -

vironment. Have a

place to go i f the

s i tua t ion becomes

h ostile. You r well-

be ing i s the mos t

i m p o r t a n t ! F o rm o r e t i p s o r i n -

forma t ion contac t

you r loca l PFLAG

Chapter .

A hard person...

s t r a i g h t

boy deliv-

ery boy ap-

pears with

these huge

boxes of

wrapped chairs re-

quiring partial as-

sembly. Each of theseven boxes contained

four chairs, plus we

were shorted a box. I

tried to enlist my

younger friends into

service of the Gooseto

get the boxes open but

alas, not much was

accomplished in 20

minutes by the time

they left. Goose was

weary and I went home

and took a nap. It was

all too much, but I did

send a text to the

volunteer queen, Han-

nah Smith gurl, good

luck tonight there is

no space.Back to the Center by

5:30 p.m., Goose

refreshed, I find two

men near the entrance

of our Center. I immed-

computers

sometimes

s t a n d i n g

with his

b u d d y .

Seems the

buddy thought I was the

police - which is sort

of funny because Idont know many

people in Cincinnati

that wear a sunbonnet

and are packin. But, I

said to Gilbert - I need

a man to meet my

needs. And he spoke

the magic words - I

can help. Within

minutes, he and Han-

nah Smith, who ap-

peared began three

hours of non-stop work

of assembly. I was

thankful and my OCD

was under control for

the moment.

The last box of chairs

I waited for the next dayhas yet to arrive. But,

if any luck at all,

whenever they show up

Goose will have help!

Happy Holidays in

PFLAGfrom Page 3

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