GLBT News Sept Pride Night at Kings Island Sept 9, 2011

GLBT News—September, 2011

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This is the 15th year forKings Island PRIDE, spon-sored by the Gay and Les-bian Community Center.Last year the event abouttied the all time recordattendance at around 3,500. The Center has reducedoperating costs in itsNorthside building to savemoney, so the board canmeet a goal of moving to anew location and toincrease efficiency. Phone costs were cut byeliminating the hot line

Kings Island PRIDE event goal—raise funds for new community centerwhich had virtually noutilization. Elimination ofpaying for web designsaved over $6,000 a year. The center board does,however, continue tosupport local organizationssuch as GLSEN and HRCand made contributions toCincy and NKY PRIDE. The Center has two CDsset aside for the buildingproject - the total of theseis just shy of 40K. Thisdoes NOT include the AllSaints Chapel trust to be

used for a building for theGLBT Community whichhas about 20K in it. Board members havelooked at a number ofneighborhoods fromdowntown, OTR, to the“Ludlow strip.” The boarddoesn’t think it has enough

money to outright purchasea building but is discussingrenting a larger space thatis accessible, has a goodflow of traffic, etc. You can help by going toKings Island and havingfun September 9th, 6 p.m.to midnight

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Someone sent me an articlelast week about the gradual andinevitable end of the GLBTcommunity.

NateBy Nate Wessel

Assimilation? experience that so many of usare fighting for a chance at. YetI find myself less celebratinghis freedom than mourning afragment of my community.

I agreed withit’s logic andwas made sad.It’s basic pre-mise was that aswe becomemore accepted,we have incommon less shared exper-ience and therefore sense ofidentity. In case you haven’tseen it yet, that’s starting tohappen around here. I have a Gay friend who grewup with a Gay mother. Hedoesn’t see what the big dealis about his Gay identity. Whathe’s had is exactly that sort of

What does itmean for ourcommunity whenpeople don’t feelqueer enough tobe invested in it’sinstitutions? Gaybars close,PRIDE festivities

begin to feel like St. Patrick’sDay, activist organizations seeless volunteers and the com-munity starts to unravel anddisperse. We become assim-ilated. And that’s all great in it’s waybecause it means that our workis done. We’ve reached thepoint where we don’t need our

community to fall back on aftera hard day in the straight world.But we also lose many of thenice things like a sense ofpride, purpose, and a kinshipwith others. “Family” loses it’smeaning when you’re onlytalking about distant cousins. Many younger people won’tunderstand my anxiety. Forthem, Gay is just another partof their identity among many.For me it’s a source of fiercepride. I hope more people getthe option of choosing, but I’msad to think that drag showsand Gay bars could be on theirway out because they are soessential to my experience ofwhat it means to be Gay.

Perhaps the future will bemuch better.

Center Volunteer NateWessel was elected to theBoard of the GreaterCincinnati Gay andLesbian Center as adirector. Nate is well known inthe local communityhaving served as a formerofficer of the Out onCampus (now UCAlliance), and GLSEN(Gay Lesbian Straight

Wessel nowon Center board

Education Network). AtGLSEN, Nate serves bothas the volunteer co-ordinator and a boardmember. He has volun-teered for the Center fornearly three years,including a role as Co-Volunteer Coordinator forthe last PRIDE sponsoredby The Center in 2009 inNorthside. Beyond his roleas a “front desk volunteer”Nate is also know for hisurban activism, please seehis web site: www.cincy-map.org.

Currently, more than26,000 copies of hisimproved transmit map arein circulation. Natepromises more maps are“on the way!” He is a student at theUniversity of Cincinnati, isin his fourth year in theCollege of DesignArchitecture and Planning.He works as a bikemechanic at the UC BikeKitchen. Nate’s election tothe Center Boardhappened at the groupsAugust 17 meeting.

By Sam Robinson The Gay & LesbianCommunity Center ofGreater Cincinnati offersits space on HamiltonAvenue for use by othercommunity groups. The updated space is

outfitted with four com-puter workstations,television and DVD playerand comes complete withfree broadband wirelessinternet service. It isconfigured to seat up to 12. Limited additional

Gay/Lesbian Community Center offers free private meeting spaceseating can be accommo-dated. Guests are asked toe.mail center presidentRusty Lockett ([email protected]) forbookings. Once booked,the center will make

provisions to open theroom and then lockup. Forrecurring meetings, groupsmay designate one of theirown members to become atrained volunteer of thecenter. Their trained volun-teer can then handleopening and closing forthat group. A fun, easy, oneevening session with

volunteer coordinator TobyMartino is all that’srequired. When not booked formeetings, the Gay &Lesbian CommunityCenter of Greater Cincin-nati is open to the publicMonday through Fridayfrom 6 to 9 p.m. and onSaturdays from noon until

4 p.m. Serving the communitysince 1993, the center islocated at 4119 HamiltonAvenue in Northside and isonline at www.cincy-glbt.com. For more information orto book meeting space,e.mail [email protected] and counting

We are nearing our 550th issue ofGreater Cincinnati GLBT News. Much has changed since the time webegan in 1996. Back then it seemed likeeveryone was in the closet—though thatwas not really true. Our local community has lost some butgained more as people started acceptingGLBT people more and more. Our role as a newspaper was and is totell the community’s story and we do thisby distributing papers “all over the place”.

We leave copies at Gay and Straight-owned businesses, churches and institu-tions so not only GLBT citizens butanybody can pick up a copy and see whatis happening in our community. We love doing this! It is not really a jobbut a pleasure to serve our community andits many citizens and leaders. Of course, as a paper, we report both thegood and the bad but we mostly enjoyletting you know about the good things inour community. Worley


By Carl Fox On June 1. 1990. myhusband Gregory JamesLandrum and I opened

became my businesspartner and insisted that webring Rosie’s out. Weconsidered Rosies to be an“evervhody” bar. Wewanted to bring a widerange of people togetherand that is what we did! Atfirst we were not verywelcomed by the cityleaders and to many in thecommunity we were the“Fag” bar. Much to my surprise, thebusiness grew dramaticallyby bringing it out, and wenever looked back. Severalof the customers from theold bar stayed and becameregulars even to this day! Sadly. Billy died inFebruary of 1995. but hislegacy of helping to bring aGay community alive inNorthern Kentuckycontinued on. We were not the first Gayowned business in Coving-ton, or the Main Strasse.Patty Hermann owned aprint shop on Main Streetand was a rock for peoplelike me. She was, andcontinues to be, fearless! Shelly DeeFelice wasalso a welcomed ally,straight but never narrow. Iliterally cried on hershoulders many times anddo not believe we wouldhave survived without herhelp and support. We faceda lot of hate back then:threats, assaults, harass-ment. You name it. wefaced it. Many in ourcommunity thought wewere nuts running anopenly Gay owned bar inNorthern Kentucky. Until

then they were only inCincinnati. Many of thecustomers from the old bar,and neighbors too,remarked that we were thefirst openly homosexualpeople they had come toknow. As we showed ourneighbors and the otherbars and restaurants whatthe Gay community couldcontribute to the area, theybegan to welcome us too. In 1998 I had completedthe renovations of the bar,and for many reasons, notthe least of which was thedeath of my husband Gregand my best friend andsecond business partnerBilly, I sold Rosie’s toDiane Gamble, who hascontinued to maintain andimprove the business. Since then, my husband.Terry L. Bond. Jr. (who Imet at Rosie’s in 1996) andI. started to see Gay andprogressive folks buy upthe run down houses in thearea and fix them up; thechanges we had hoped forhad begun. Then in 2003the Covington city com-mission held hearings thatoverwhelmingly supportedequal rights for all andpassed an expandedHuman Rights Ordinancethat included sexualorientation. It became thefirst city in the NKY areato pass such a law, and thefirst I have lived in to pro-tect my rights BY LAW!

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Rosies Tavernin the MainStrasse ofCovington. It was aboarded upwreck of aplace then,Fox

going by the name ofElmer and Marty’s Tavern.The day we closed on thetavern Greg was admittedto Jewish Hospital with fullblown AIDS, leaving me tooperate the business for thefirst two months as he gotbetter. The clientele duringthose first days consistedof a number of goodpeople. but also includedthe heads of the NKYbranch of the KKK and theNeo-Nazi movement! Oneby one the hateful patronswere bared or drifted off toother places. At the start. Greg wouldnot allow us to be “out”due to his loss of a pre-vious job with DigitalComputers where he hadbeen open about hissexuality. For the first two years,Rosie’s struggled tosurvive and its future wasin serious doubt. Greg andI had always seen thepotential of the area, un-fortunately he did not liveto see it blossom. On July22, 1992, Greg died ofAIDS. My friend BillBolvard. first Emperor ofThe I.S.Q.C.C.B.E..

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By John Maddux The 2011 PRIDE Cele-bration left a great deal to

Cincinnati PRIDE 2011—what a jokebios requested by thePRIDE committee nevermade it into the localmedia. The entire situationinvolving the PRIDEMarshals was embarrass-ing, poorly planned andpitifully implemented. My second complaint isthat like last year (I sup-posed in an attempt to linknecessary PRIDE daypermits to those already inhand for the formerEquinox Ball) PRIDE wasonce again held during oneof the hottest months of theyear. Move it back toJUNE. Not that JUNEpromises perfect weather,but it portends far less hotand humid weather thanJuly. I’ve spoken to anumber of older (andyounger) people whodecided not to attend theparade because the heatindex was just too threaten-ing. Back to June with theparade—the monthhistorically associated withthe birth of the modern dayGLBTQ movement,anyway. And while I’m onthe subject of PRIDEplanning…why weren’t theplanning meetings publi-cized? In fact, why wasthere such poor publicityfor the entire PRIDE event?I can’t remember how many

be desired.I’ve beenattendingPRIDEparades,picnics,festivals andother events

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since 1985 and 2011’srendition had to be one ofthe poorest excuses for aGLBTQ celebration I’veever witnessed. My first concern is:Where were the PRIDEMarshals? Megan Neal andRusty Lockett weredesignated as the Marshalsthis year. The GrandMarshals of any parade aresupposed to lead off theparade and ride in the firstcar, I didn’t see Megananywhere (of course shecould have been lostamong all the corporationsthat marched!) and Rustywas relegated to the lasthalf of the parade and eventhen wasn’t acknowledgedas one of the Marshals. The only manner bywhich either got anyrecognition was becauseMichael Chanak provideda bio for each Marshal tothe GLBT News. Seri-ously? The last minute

people told me they hadalready seen posters forPRIDE Night at KingsIsland, but hadn’t seen athing about the PRIDEevents in July. It makes nosense—an event to be heldin September is betterpublicized than one inJuly. Third…seriously, thatwas a parade: A fewblocks on Sunday after-noon when virtually noone else (other than thoseexpressly there for theparade) are downtown? Itseemed more like a paradeof corporate sponsors andpoliticians than a celebra-tion of our GLBTQcommunity. I understandwhy we like to trot out allthe big time corporations,but I’m not especiallyinterested in watching asoap company, an airline,a department store and afew banks marching in ourparade. Our money isgreen and spends as wellas straight dough, so whychampion businesses thatare mainly interested ingreasing their ownpockets? I don’t regardtheir participation asespecially daring on theirpart—nothing specialabout wanting the green.And the politicians who

participated were nearlytripping over one anotherin an attempt to pass outtheir campaign literature.Of course the bars werewell represented, as wasthe drag queen element ofour community—and that’sgood—but I grew weary ofone corporation afteranother, with far too manyten minute gaps betweenparade entrants. Is suchpoor execution necessarywhen the parade is onlytravelling a few blocks in astraight line? And why didGLSEN, in this era ofrising gas prices and con-cerns about the environ-ment, rent a large yellowschool bus to haul one kidwith his head poking out ofone of the windows—whatwas that all about? Hardlyseems environmentallyresponsible to me. A few more finalcomplaints: Where werethe food vendors; youknow, the ones that sellhotdogs and hamburgers?Are we supposed to onlygrease the coffers ofdowntown eateries? HasPRIDE become an event tolink us with the affluent ofCincinnati? And how aboutsome local representationwith all the trinket sellers?

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I find it hard to believewe can only find vendorsfrom out of town. That’seither poor planning by thePRIDE committee, or a sadreflection on GLBTQbusinesses in greaterCincinnati. All in all it was a bore. Itwould have been just asfun to watch TV newshighlights of the PRIDEParades from other cities. Ihope some serious changesare made for 2012. John Maddux is apublished writer includinga collection of Gay/Lesbian themed essays. He teaches composi-tion and rhetoric at theUniversity of Cincinnati. He has been involved

with political activismsince the 1960s, withattention focused on theGay/Lesbian liberationmovement and has servedin many organizationsinvolved in Gay/Lesbianrights including theGreater Cincinnati Gay/Lesbian Coalition, TheGay/Lesbian Alliance ofOhio, Out Front TV,Alternating Currents radioprogram, Gay/LesbianMarch Activists, ACTUP,The GLBTQ CommunityCenter, Stonewall Cincin-nati, and UC FacultyQueers. He has beenarrested several times forcivil disobedience resultingfrom his involvement withGLBTQ issues, the CivilRights marches, anti-

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day in August was evident.Temperature was in themid 80s, not the mid toupper 90s. While HoffnerPark is by no means huge –it easily accommodated the

folks drifting to the GLBTCenter next door for freefood and drink. (Thankyou Rusty Lockett foroffering pizzas and a freecommunity proper spread.Some of us girls do like toeat!) I was surprised to see somany old timers that Ioffered a light reading thatthe crypt of the nearbySpring Grove cemeteryopened. This commentgets to the kind of“PRIDE” some of us oldtimers enjoyed when wewere young, less commer-cial, and more personal andtalked to “each other faceto face.” My own Goose predic-tion is Dan Wells and

Company is on tosomething – it will groweach year – and in time,the flat spots of the firstNorthside in 2010 will beforgotten. I think eventhough I advocated forthe Center to leave thePRIDE business I do getthe comment when folkssay, “oh Northside was somuch more about neigh-borhood.” Three PRIDES or moreis just fine, each had adistinct favor and venue,and Goose says pick one,or as I do – pick all.Another joy was meetingBrandon and LindsayFrimming. Brandon runshttp://www.frimbot.com/and if you search on

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!!!NorthsidersPRIDE and Iwanted togive a“Gooseshout out.” Recall,this was the 2nd year forthis “neighborhoodPRIDE” by Dan Wells andhis team. NorthsidersPRIDE is the replacementevent for Northside losingthe “big PRIDE” for the“entire community” in2009. Yet, the beauty of that

some 300folks whocame andwent from 5pm to 9 pm. The pacewas kick

back and casual, in manyways less commercial thanPRIDE in downtown. Infact, about ten groupsseemed to have taken uptheir offer of free space fornon-profits. In this day, Ithink a “solid offer.” Mix of good music andeasy conservation with

Northside – you will findthe great pictures he took.

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partner is listed as thebeneficiary to avoid estatetaxes.3. The current Federalexclusion is $5M, but iscurrently scheduled to dropto $1M in 2013.4. Ohio has our area’s mostdomestic partner-friendlyestate tax. The Ohio uni-fied exclusion is currently$338,333 for 2011 and2012. However, starting in2013 the entire estate taxhas been repealed.5. Indiana and Kentuckyinheritance taxes areunfortunately not friendlyto domestic partners. Inboth states, the amount ofthe exclusion depends onyour relation to yourbeneficiaries. For domes-tic partners, the Kentuckyexclusion is a meager$500. In Indiana, it is aminiscule $100! If you livein either state, it is criticalthat you meet with an

attorney who understandsthe implications fordomestic partners and canassist you with estateplanning. To illustrate the differ-ences in state estate tax forour area, let’s assume thatyou have a Net Estatebefore exclusion of$200,000, and that you willleave the entire estate toyour domestic partner. Thetax by state would be:Ohio $0Indiana $5,220Kentucky $22,890 There are various waysto structure your estate tominimize the tax. Planningwith a qualified tax andlegal professional is abso-lutely essential to protect-ing your loved ones andpreserving your wealth fortheir benefit. Next issue we willdiscuss inheriting retire-ment plans.

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Speaker for the Septem-ber 13 PFLAG Meetingwill be Eric Smoot whospent 30 years with theCincinnati Police Depart-ment. His topic is “How totalk to children about hatecrimes”. PFLAG will soon be

How to talk to children about hate crimessending out their annualmembership appeal. Yoursupport is critical so theycan continue their distri-bution of literature atmeetings and other events,publishing their newsletter,supporting the nationalorganization and of coursetheir scholarship program. There are membershipforms in the newsletter andon their website. Any duespaid now cover member-ship through September30, 2012. The Summer 2011 news-letter is now on the websitehttp://pflagcinci.org/ andfeatures their 2011 schol-arship winners. It alsoincludes several othergreat articles.

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