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Northern Kentucky PRIDEParty in the Park October 3rd

Patti Herrmann

By Patti HerrmannPresident, NKY PRIDE

NKY PRIDE is preparingfor the first PRIDE Celebra-tion in NorthernKentucky and isexcited to an-nounce what’sgoing on PRIDEWeekend. October 1st theCincinnati Redswill host PRIDENight at theStadium..GoReds! October 2ndwill be PrePRIDE Parties atall NorthernKentucky Bars,details to beannounced. October 3rd from 11 a.m.to 7 p.m. will be the NKYPRIDE Party in the Park andfrom 7 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. therewill be PRIDE closing partiesat all the NKY bars. TBA Party in the Park will be ajam filled day of diversecelebration and entertainment. KIDS Zone: Falcon Theatregroup will be performing forthe kids, at the Goebel ParkPlayground. We will havegames for kids and parentswith prizes for best races andvarious games.Our speakers are fantasticranging from a rep from the

City of Covington and ShawnMasters our first openly Gaycity commission member. Chris Hartman, director of

Louisville’s Fair-ness Campaign,will be keynotespeaker. I, along withthe NKY PRIDECommittee, willbe conducting anAwards cer-emony presentingawards to ourleaders in thecommunity. Our Entertain-ment for the dayis growing by theminute. Enguard Cin-cinnati will be

performing their MarchingFlag Routine Cincinnati Men’s ChorusEnsemble Group will warmour hearts with music that’sgot meaning. The Gay Rainbow Band willperform and is proud to bepart of NKY PRIDE. TruckStop Biff plays a widevariety of music and his starsinger Mike Owens can whalea tune. He will make youdance. DJ Julie Jamison will bewith us all day, is handling allof our sound equipment and

See NKY PRIDE, Page 3, Col. 1

—GLBT NEWS September, 2010

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Vol. 13, No. 9, September, 2010Contents © GLBT News, 2010

Publisher/Editor—Worley Rodehaver

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

PaulDelph

MatthewShepard

It is our goal to record the positive contributions GLBT people make to their community and the localcommunity at large. While AIDS and Hate CRIMES are certainly not positive things, we seek to draw thepositive from the negative. We hold up Paul Delph and Matthew Shepard and their families as models of howhuman beings should or could react to each other and how families should support loved ones whose livesare not in the box right wing religious zealots want them in. Delph, a multi-talented Cincinnatian, died of AIDSin 1996. His mother shut down her business to care for him. Shepard died in 1998, victim of a hate Crime andhis mother worked for years to get passed a national Hate Crimes Bill, which is now law.

who have or have died from AIDS or Hate Crimes

is published monthly in Cincinnati, [email protected]

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NKY Pride Party in the Park Pride committeePatti Herrmann-presidentMelissa Entwhisle-secretaryDiane Gamble-treasurer/RosiesCarl Fox- Crazy Fox/logistics

Lonell Dunhoft-merchandiseLori Morgan-mediaMickie McKerman-mediaKiersten Siepel-volunteer coordinatorKen Stratman-booth coordinatorAngel Minton-Yadda ClubMykey Hess -701 BarCheryl Eagleson/advisorCountless volunteers...

NKY PRIDEcommittee

FreeWeekly UPDATESend e.mailinformation

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PRIDE—PRIDE—PRIDE—PRIDEBy Worley Rodehaver

Yes, there are four PRIDEs in theheadline because we have fourPRIDE events in Greater Cincinnatithis year. Two of the PRIDE events havealready taken place and two arecoming up. On September 10th the Gay andLesbian Community Center is hostingits 14th annual PRIDE Night at KingsIsland, an event chaired by RustyLockett. Then, on October 3rd, a NorthernKentucky group will host its first Partyin the Park, (our front page story) ledby Patti Herrmann, who headedefforts to hold Greater Cincinnati’sfirst PRIDE Parade and Festival. In early August, Cincinnati’s PRIDEFestival was held downtown, afterhaving been in Northside for nineyears. It was hosted by the GayChamber of Commerce. In mid-August, Dan Wells, a North-side resident, led efforts to hold a day-long PRIDE event in Northside. The downtown event featured a

parade and a festival on FountainSquare followed by a banquet anddance. In Northside there were fourmain venues (inside on a hot Augustday) and featured a style show andentertainment. Entertainment and rides will befeatured at the Kings island event. In Kentucky there will be speakers,games and entertainment as well asbooths providing information aboutcommunity organizations. Competition? Too much PRIDE?Not really. Somebody said we shouldbe PROUD every day. Well, most ofus are but these events give us fourtimes to show Greater Cincinnati wereally do have PRIDE! There is nothing wrong with that!

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will be spinning tunes throughout theday, Julie is rated one of the best DJsin Greater Cincinnati. Cheryl Eagelson –a legendary,visionary, realistic community leaderwill be our MC for the day. We have many female imperson-ators who will be perform ing theirone hit wonders. TBA The event is shaping up nicely andI’m pleased with the community’ssupport and leadership. The City ofCovington has been wonderful to workwith and very understanding of ourgrass rooting organization’s needs.Kim Blank. director of MainstrasseVillage Board has lended a hand andher expertise with all the variousfestivals in Mainstrasse to our group . Wertheim’s Restaurant will behosting the Official Beer Garden andFood Court, and will have TV’savailable to watch the Bengal’s game.Sal, the owner will be donating part ofthe proceeds back to NKY PRIDE forour Grant and Scholarship Awards atNKY Pride 2011. We will have a variety of informa-tion booths, churches, merchandiseetc. We have close to 20 boothsconfirmed. So, e.mail [email protected] forregistration and volunteer formsTODAY. Become a fan or read ourmission statement on The OfficialNKY PRIDE face book page. We willbe posting updates about the event(s). Philadelphia Street will be blockedoff for the day but there is plenty ofparking in the Mainstrasse Car ParkLot across from Frisch’s on 5th street. We want to invite the entire commu-nity to this event to experience thismemorable day. (Editor’s Note: Patti Herrmannwas president of the Greater Cincin-nati Collation from 1995-1999. Shewas the chair of the first GLBTPRIDE Celebration and Parade onFountain Square, received a Procla-mation from Mayor Bobby Stern.She was a board member of: AVOC1985, Stonewall, S.H.A.R.E., Cincin-nati representative for the March onWashington, AIDS Candle LightVisual March/Washington DC,Volunteer/ Names Project / SanFrancisco, Gay Games Volunteer,Women Of the Year-Gay Beat 1990.She has been an AIDS Walk volun-teer for 19 years.

Tracy Walker

VICKI D’SALLE is an accom-plished pianist and vocalist whoseforte is New Orleans jazz, blues,ballads and boogie woogie. Vicki hasperformed numerous times in the pastfor SCC Conference, Cincinnati PrideFestival and in concert and nightclubsettings in the U.S. and Europe. HerCD, “My Heart’s In New Orleans” isavailable at www.cdbaby.com. VisitVicki on the web at www.vicki-dsalle.com

Chris Hartman is the first director ofLouisville’s Fairness Campaign,founded to work for Lesbian, Gay,Bisexual and Transgender equal rights. He formerly served as Philadephiadirector of the Democratic NationalCommittee’s open-air grassrootsfundraising campaign for the 2004Presidential Election, and as Congress-man John Yarmuth’s (KY-3) 2008campaign press secretary. Hartman was an AmeriCorpsVISTA in St. Louis, toured the nationperforming Shakespeare and foundedand produced two long-form improvi-sation troupes. He holds a Master’sDegree in Drama from WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis.

Chris Hartman

Appearig atParty in the Park

Vicki D’ Salle

For more than a decade TracyWalker has been at the forefront ofCincinnati’s independent music scene.You first became familiar with her asTracy with the belting alto in the groupAin’t Helen. The breakup of the banddid anything but stop Tracy’smomentum. In 1998 she released herfirst solo recording, NAKED to ravereviews. After time for bothintrospection and observation shereleased her second disc, All ThisTime. She partnered with Bob James’soundman David Kuhn to co-producethis collection. This full-bodiedarrangement of tunes includes thework of Blessid Union of Souls’drummer Eddie Hedges.

NKY PRIDE—from Page 1

—GLBT NEWS September, 2010

Mother SaysBy Michael Chanak

Once upon a time there was asounder of pigs who lived in a sty. Itwasn’t the smallest of sties or the

Suffer the pig

largest of sties. It was amedium sized sty, althoughsome claimed it far larger. I am one of the pigswho lives in this sty.These pigs are fairlysmart but like all pigs we fight forscraps of food. Some of my pigsisters and brothers had loudersqueals, and some had longer tails butall were most certainly pigs. Pigs, it seems live to eat. We will doanything to broker attention whenfresh swill is slopped into the trough.So, it is in the pig world. All us pigs

wanted to be first to the feedingtrough. One pig just before mealtime, felt itwas ignored because its curly tail wassomehow different than the other pigs.

This pig doesn’t under-stand the difference,after all a tail is on thefar end of a pig. Butonce the squealingstarted about the food

distribution every pig heard about itthroughout the medium sized sty. Then, one pig decided it was timefor the entire sty to move elsewhere,which seemed to this intelligent sow awise decision. But, of course, somepigs found change distressing and theytoo began to scream so that everyother pig in the land heard the greatcommotion. Another sow sister decided thatmaybe two or three sties might donicely and began to grunt and snortthroughout the sty. Since all pigs canfly, one flew over the river, andanother landed on the fountain, andone just didn’t want to try her wings.But, then another sister pig could notreckon how the multiple sties would besupplied. There may not be enoughswill to split among the sties. Howwould all hear the cry of “sooey” atmealtime? Whatever is a pig to do? While all the pigs were stirred upwith the various dramas of the farm-yard, a wolf waited and watched forthe precise moment, and no one gotfed, but the wolf.

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Lexington, KY — Kentucky EqualityFederation has expressed outragetoward the Cabinet for Health andFamily Services for discriminatingagainst a Gay male attempting toremove his sister’s children fromfoster care. Jeffrey Thompson of Louisville,Kentucky was visited by a socialworker who assumed he was Gay.According to Thompson, the socialworker never actually asked him. The most disturbing item on thereport is the social worker stating:“The relationship and roles of theadults (Thompson and his partner)are fraught with the possibility of long-term illness/disability and domesticviolence.” “This is absolutely outrageous,”stated Kentucky Equality FederationFounder and Public Advocate JordanPalmer. “The Cabinet is apparentlyassuming the couple will contractHIV/AIDS. This is a clear bias againstthe LGBTI community. The Cabinet

Cabinet discriminatesagainst Gay man

also pointed out that one of the adultsnot being a relative was also a causefor concern (Thompson’s partner)....well, in foster placement, theyare surrounded by strangers. I thinkthe Gay and Lesbian community herein Kentucky is getting pretty sick ofbeing discriminated against because ofhomophobia.” Palmer also added that the Ken-tucky Supreme Court has ruled onsame-sex second parent adoption, soThompson’s partner should not be afactor. Thompson and his partner have beentogether since April 29, 2008,” addedChairman Richard Jones.” Also,Thompson reports that neither he norhis partner have any health problems,and have never fought. Jones said, The actions of theCabinet are a direct result of biasagainst our community. I cannotbelieve the Commonwealth wouldrather have these children in fostercare instead of their Uncle Jeffrey.The ‘Overall Assessment’ stated in thereport is completely unacceptable, and

See Cabinet, Page 7, Col. 2

—GLBT News September, 2010

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a table beneath a cross, listeningintently to the proceedings. On the fimnal day James Jones, themoderator of the judicial commission,stood and declared Spahr guilty ofmost of the charges. “We determinethat you are hereby censured byrebuke,” Jones said. “You are en-joined to avoid such offenses in thefuture.” Spahr, who has short gray hair anddeep blue eyes, slumped in her chair.Her supporters, including several ofthe couples she had married, brokedown. During the church trial, Bibles werethumbed, the Presbyterian Book ofOrder was often consulted andinterpretations clashed. The prosecutor, JoAn Blackstone, aformer lawyer with a white braidencircling her head, argued that Spahrhad defied the Book of Order, whichdefines marriage as “civil contractbetween a woman and a man.”Blackstone said that more study, notecclesiastical disobedience,” was theright path. “Our church is simply notready at this time to make changeabout the way it defines marriage,”Blackstone said in her closing argu-ment. A member of the panel, the Rev. TedCrouch, suggested that might take toolong. “Presbyterians love to formcommittees and study things,” he said,and the audience laughed.

Pastor cesuredfor marrying Gays

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At the September 14 meeting,PFLAG will celebrate the 25thanniversary of the Cincinnati chapter.

Roger Courtney, a DJ at the Dock,was killed in a one-car accident afterhe drove his vehicle into a building on

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= The Northside - College HillKiwanis will conduct free hearing testsat the Center in Northside from 10a.m. to 2 p.m on September 18th. Other activities are also planned inadjacent Hoffner Park that dayassociated with the second annual“Let’s Make a Difference Day.”

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An After Glow Party begins at 11p.m. and concludes at 2 a.m. the nightof the Kings Island PRIDE Night The cost is $10 a head if you are notbooking a room at The Kings IslandResort & Conference Center. If you book a room at the KingsIsland Resort the cost of the “AfterGlow” party is waived. The coveronly includes the entrance to theevent. DJs for QNation.FM willafford the music mix.

After Glow Party followsKings Islamd event

The Kings Island Resort & Confer-ence center has extended an offer forroom at the cost of $79 for the night,a savings of at least $15/room. Youmust contact the hotel directly: http://www.kingsislandresort.com forbooking. Kings Island Resort &Conference Center is located at:5691 Kings Island Drive, Mason.

The Kings Island Resort & Confer-ence Center offers a free shuttlebetween the amusement park and theirfacility. The phone number for theresort is 513-398-0115.

assumes they will contract a deadlydisease because of their sexualorientation.” Jeffrey Thompson stated: “I thinkthat the cabinet didn’t recommendplacement because of the fact thatMichael and I are homosexuals. I thinkthe cabinet believes that homosexualswill contract a disease or have domes-tic violence in their lives, which has ledthem to say there is “concern” anddeny placement.” Thompson continued: “I woulddescribe the demeanor of the socialworker to be very assuming; he willdraw his own conclusions withoutseeing or hearing the facts. He is veryunhelpful and rude at times.” Several Kentucky Equality Federa-tion Committee members specialize inchild placement and adoption, andhave been working with Thompsonalong with Chairman Richard Jones. Kentucky Equality Federation callson Inspector General Mary R. Begley,the Office of the Ombudsman, andCabinet for Health and Family Ser-vices Secretary Janie Miller to investi-gate the matter immediately. Federation Founder and PublicAdvocate Jordan Palmer also sent acopy of the report to Kerri Richardsonin the Governor’s CommunicationsOffice about this issue. “Mr. Thompson is ready and willingto cooperate with the Cabinet andmake any reasonable changes, inaddition to attending child caringclasses,” added Jones. “However, the basis for the denial ofplacement is itself discriminatory.” Louisville based Jeff Johnson,Kentucky Equality Federation’sRegional Director for the BluegrassRegion has also been briefed about thecase and will also maintain contactwith Jeffrey Thompson and hispartner.

Cabinet—from Page 5

Merisa Bowers is presenting a freeDomestic Parntership Seminar onSaturday, October 2 at the Center inNorthside. It is designed to be a wholisticinformational and educational seminar

DomesticPartnershipSeminar Oct. 2

for individuals interested in making themost out of their domestic partnership.I will be doing a piece on the status ofGLBT civil rights laws and cases, afinancial planner will be discussingfinancial strategies for domesticpartners and our life coaches andmassage therapist will be addressingthe connection between mind, bodyand a happy, healthy relationship. This event is scheduled at 9:30 a.m. For information call513-338-1830 or e.mail [email protected]

2010 “Treasures of Northside”House Tour will be Sunday, October 3,noon to 5p.m. It features 11 homes and St. Boni-face which will have a music concertin conjunction with the tour. A number of the homes wereminutes away from being condemnedwere it not for the ingenuity and sweatlabor of their new owners. Advanced tickets ($15) are avail-able September 20th until midnight ofSeptember 25. They can be purchased

online http://www.north-side.net/housetour/, or in person at allbranches of the North Side Bank andTrust, Building Value on Spring GroveAvenue, Shake It Records and TaylorJameson Hair Design on HamiltonAvenue during business hours. Day of event tickets ($18) will besold at McKie Center from 11:30 -3:30. New this year will be shuttle vans,not buses, complete with Northside“Ambassadors” to provide uniqueinformation about Northside and thehouse tour.

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