Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
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CONTENTS
HOLLY JOLLY
THE CALLING
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Volume 23 Issue 29
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SECOND CHANCE
Editorial Editor-in-Chief Randy Shulman Art Director Todd Franson Managing Editor Rhuaridh Marr Senior Editor John Riley Contributing Editor Doug Rule
Senior Photographers Ward Morrison, Julian Vankim Contributing Illustrator Scott G. Brooks Contributing Writers Gordon Ashenhurst,
Sean Bugg, Frank Carber, Fallon Forbush, Sean Maunier, Troy Petenbrink, Kate Wingfield Webmaster David Uy Production Assistant Julian Vankim
Sales & Marketing Publisher Randy Shulman National Advertising Representative Rivendell Media Co. 212-242-6863 Distribution Manager Dennis Havrilla
Patron Saint Essex Hemphill Cover Photography Todd Franson
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Spotlight
MetroCooking DC
Food Show
In addition to hundreds of specialty food vendors exhibiting their wares, theres a whole smorgasbord of activities on
tap, including a RAMW Grand Tasting Pavilion with samples
from local restaurants, a separate area offering beer, wine and
spirits samplings, a BBQ Bash culinary classes by chefs from
LAcademie de Cuisine, entertaining workshops and book
signings.
Saturday, Dec. 3, and Sunday, Dec. 4, starting at 10 a.m. each day. Walter E. Washington Convention Center,
801 Mt. Vernon Place NW. Tickets are $21.50 to $200. Call 202-249-3000 or visit metrocookingdc.com.
DECEMBER 01, 2016 METROWEEKLY
Spotlight
ARLINGTON DRAFTHOUSE
CHRISTMAS MOVIE FESTIVAL
SILVER BELLES
EMMYLOU HARRIS
Spotlight
DIANA ROSS WITH NSO POPS
TAME.
PUSHING DEAD
As part of its monthly Xtra film series, Reel Affirmations presents Tom E. Browns Pushing Dead, starring Danny Glover
and James Roday. It offers a modern-day look at health struggles for those living with HIV. Hosted by Rayceen Pendarvis
of the Ask Rayceen Show, the event includes a post-show catered cocktail reception as well as a discussion with the director
moderated by Metro Weekly editor Randy Shulman. Friday, Dec. 2, at 7 p.m. HRC Equality Center, 1640 Rhode Island Ave.
NW. Tickets are $12, or $25 for VIP seating as well as the post-show reception with open bar and light fare. Call 800-7774723 or visit reelaffirmations.org.
FILM
CHAPLINS THE KID
HOLIDAY INN
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STAGE
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
AMERICAN HERO
THEATRICAL
GREETINGS
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BLACK NATIVITY
PHOTO CREDIT
Two French aristocrats challenge each other to seduce unsuspecting innocents in Christopher
Hamptons bracing drama of control and betrayal drawn from the
novel by Choderlos de Laclos. Hana
S. Sharif directs a production starring Suzzanne Douglas and Brent
Harris that offers a sneak peek into
Center Stages Pearlstone Theatre,
in the final stages of a year-long
renovation. In previews starting
Saturday, Nov. 26. Runs to Dec. 23.
700 North Calvert St., Baltimore.
Tickets are $20 to $64. Call 410332-0033 or visit centerstage.org.
THE CHRISTIANS
MUSIC
BALTIMORE SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
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HOLLY JOLLY
Musgraves
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BOSTON BRASS
CECILY
DAR WILLIAMS
DC DIFFERENT DRUMMERS
DRAGONETTE
GLORIA REUBEN
MEGAN HILTY
PAPERHAUS
VERONNEAU
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CONNECTIONS:
CONTEMPORARY CRAFT AT THE
RENWICK
YUMMM!
THE
HISTORY,
FANTASY AND FUTURE OF FOOD
CHAISE LOUNGE
The D.C.-based band has been a staple at hip bars around the area, along with more
august venues such as the Kennedy Center. After performing with Natalie Cole and Dizzy
Gillespie, Chaise Lounge, featuring vocalist Marilyn Older, performs swing standards as
well as original tunes all on a Swinging Holiday theme. Wednesday, Dec. 7, at 8 p.m.
and 10 p.m. Blues Alley, 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Tickets are $22.50, plus $10 minimum
purchase. Call 202-337-4141 or visit bluesalley.com.
al grooves. Next stop, another free
Millennium Stage concert. Sunday,
Dec. 4, at 6 p.m. Kennedy Center
Theater Lab. Free. Call 202-4674600 or visit kennedy-center.org.
WNOS DOMINGO-CAFRITZ
YOUNG ARTISTS
DANCE
THE WASHINGTON BALLET:
THE NUTCRACKER
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READINGS AND
LECTURES
KEVIN FEDARKO, PETE MCBRIDE
EXHIBITS
CNN POLITICS CAMPAIGN 2016:
LIKE, SHARE, ELECT
Community
COMMUNITY WORLD AIDS
DAY OBSERVATION to com-
The DC ANTI-VIOLENCE
PROJECT (DC AVP), the group
Budd
FILLING A VOID
THURSDAY, December 1
WORLD AIDS DAY
AIDS Healthcare Foundation
and Black, Gifted and Whole
present #POZART: A WORLD
FRIDAY, December 2
GAY DISTRICT, a group for
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SATURDAY, December 3
ADVENTURING outdoors group
Dahl (R) with fellow volunteers at the Annual Rock Creek Extreme Clean-up
VOLUNTEER SPIRIT
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FIRST CONGREGATIONAL
UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
FRIENDS MEETING OF
WASHINGTON meets for worship,
SUNDAY, December 4
Weekly Events
LGBT-inclusive ALL SOULS
CONGREGATIONAL TEMPLE
UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST for
LUTHERAN CHURCH OF
REFORMATION invites all to
METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY
CHURCH OF NORTHERN
VIRGINIA services at 11 a.m., led
METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY
CHURCH OF WASHINGTON, D.C.
WEDNESDAY, December 7
a Christ-centered, interracial,
welcoming-and-affirming church,
offers service at 10 a.m. 680 I St.
SW. 202-554-4330, riversidedc.org.
GLBT fellowship, offers gospel worship, 8:30 a.m., and traditional worship, 11 a.m. 5 Thomas Circle NW.
202-232-0323, nationalcitycc.org.
UNITARIAN CHURCH OF
ARLINGTON, an LGBTQ welcom-
ing-and-affirming congregation,
offers services at 10 a.m. Virginia
Rainbow UU Ministry. 4444
Arlington Blvd. uucava.org.
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST
CHURCH OF SILVER SPRING
UNIVERSALIST NATIONAL
MEMORIAL CHURCH, a welcom-
MONDAY, December 5
The DC Center hosts a
VOLUNTEER NIGHT for community members to lend a hand with
various duties, including cleaning,
keeping safe-sex kit inventory, and
sorting through book donations.
Pizza provided. 6:30-8:30 p.m.
2000 14th St. NW, Suite 105. For
more information, visit thedccenter.org.
TUESDAY, December 6
THE HIV WORKING GROUP of
THE DC CENTER hosts a Packing
Weekly Events
AD LIB, a group for freestyle con-
ANDROMEDA TRANSCULTURAL
HEALTH offers free HIV testing,
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The Calling
Ron Simmons has led Us Helping Us for a quarter of a century. Now hes handing the keys
to the next generation. On World AIDS Day, he reflects on a lifetime of activism during
an epidemic, and raising up the black, gay community.
Interview by John Riley Photography by Todd Franson
CALL IT FATE. CALL IT CIRCUMSTANCE.
not the work. Five years after the accident and one year after
testing positive for HIV, at the time considered a death sentence
Simmons heard about a meditation support group for black
gay men who were HIV-positive. Though initially resistant, he
attended the meeting and fell in love with Us Helping Us focus
on holistic health for HIV-positive people and its various support groups.
What made Us Helping Us unique was that we told people
you could live with HIV, and we were the only black group doing
it, he says.
Simmons dove into Us Helping Us programs, even becoming
moderator of a support group. In 1992, he was approached by the
organizations founder, who asked him to become the executive
director. It was a job he would hold for 24 years, until announcing his retirement earlier in 2016.
Through grants, Simmons has managed to obtain funding for
Us Helping Us operational and programming needs, continuing
to work even while he was battling pneumocystis pneumonia
and tuberculosis on two separate occasions. His commitment to
the organization has been unwavering. On the brink of departing
an organization hes steered for almost a quarter of a century,
Simmons reflects on the changing landscape of HIV/AIDS
activism, and the adaptations necessary for nonprofits to stay
relevant.
The bigger problem is that the media is now saying AIDS is
over, HIV is over, says Simmons. They know that AIDS doesnt
kill you because they can see on the streets that people are not
dying. In the old days, you could see people walking around with
Karposis lesions. You knew people who were in wheelchairs but
were walking last week. You dont see that anymore. Now, they
take their pill, they go to the gym, they get just as buff, just as
gorgeous as always.
You feared HIV because theres no treatment, its going
to kill you. Once they have a treatment for it, then it becomes
a whole different thing. Because theyve got a pill for it now.
One pill a day if youre positive, one pill a day if youre negative.
Theyre working on injectables, where they give you an injection
and you stay negative for three months. So why do we need support groups? Why do we need all of this AIDS infrastructure if
thats where were going?
METRO WEEKLY: Where did you grow up?
RON SIMMONS: I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, in
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came up with T4T and these other drugs and they werent really
working. Nothing was really working until protease inhibitors
came out in 96.
MW: When were you finally diagnosed as HIV-positive?
SIMMONS: 1990.
MW: How did it feel to learn you were positive?
SIMMONS: By then, it was a decade into this disease. I knew my
friends who had died, we knew by then it was sexually transmitted, and I knew that I came of age in New York after Stonewall.
I did it all. I went to the orgies, I cruised the pads of Christopher
Street, I went to the bath houses, I went to the Continental Bath
House. Frankly, I wasnt surprised that I was positive. Because,
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killing you. It was exhausting looking back at it, but it was fulfilling to wake up in the morning. Because its like, Yes, I know
yesterday I didnt feel well, but Ill be damned, Im going to do
this thing today. You had the motivation.
Again, it was almost unheard of to have HIV positive, black,
gay men a population that was so marginalized and stigmatized because of their race, their sexuality and their disease
actually build an institution, where you got a staff, you got
resources, and people look to you. I mean, thats the fun part. I
would hope that the new person also looks at it that way. Dont
just come to maintain, but to take it further.
MW: Do you expect the incoming presidential administration to cut
back on HIV funding?
SIMMONS: I really dont know what the next administration
is going to do. I wouldnt be surprised if they did, but then I
wouldnt be surprised if they didnt, because I think theres a difference between Donald Trump versus the people he put around
him. The people hes putting around him will probably want to
cut it. Im not sure Donald Trump cares either way.
MW: If federal funding for HIV/AIDS prevention and research
does get cut, where does that put nonprofits like Us Helping Us?
SIMMONS: In a very challenging position. Some of them, to be
honest, probably will not make it through. The challenge will
have to be, and weve been doing this at Us Helping Us, is theyve
got to move away from HIV funding, because its drying up.
MW: If people cant afford their drugs, do you expect to see a resurgence in AIDS like we saw during the Reagan era?
SIMMONS: I do not think the country will allow that to happen.
Because basically, I dont think that the people will allow him to
get rid of Obamacare. In fact, if you listen to him now hes talking
about, Well, [were] possibly going to keep... I think they may
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Gallery
Frederick Nunley
Handmade Quilts
orangeexplainsitall.blogspot.com
DECEMBER 01, 2016 METROWEEKLY
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MAGNUS HASTINGS
Music
Merry Melodies
Old holiday staples return, emerging artists try their
hand at the Christmas album, and drag queens
spread seasonal cheer By Sean Maunier
Alaska
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TERESA WOOD
Stage
Withering Garden
Shakespeare Theatre offers an uneven revival of The Secret Garden,
which is still unequivocally Daisy Eagans show By Doug Rule
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SCOTT SUCHMAN
The Secret Garden runs to Dec. 31 at Sidney Harman Hall, Harman Center for the Arts, 610 F St. NW.
Tickets are $44 to $123. Call 202-547-1122 or visit shakespearetheatre.org.
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Games
Second Chance
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NightLife
Photography by
Ward Morrison
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Scene
DrinksDragDJsEtc...
Thursday,
December 1
9 1/2
Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any
drink, 5-9pm Multiple
TVs showing movies,
shows, sports Expanded
craft beer selection
Music videos featuring
DJ Wess
COBALT/30 DEGREES
Happy Hour: Tops Down $6
Top Shelf, Bottoms Up $3
Rail, $3 Bud Light, 4-9pm
Locker Room Thursday
Nights $3 Rail Drinks,
10pm-midnight, $5 Red
Bull and Frozen Virgin
Drinks DJs Sean Morris
and MadScience Best
Package Contest at midnight, hosted by BaNaka &
Kristina Kelly $200 Cash
Prize Doors open 10pm,
$4 (7-8pm) Buckets of
Beer $15 Drag Bingo
NUMBER NINE
Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any
drink, 5-9pm No Cover
SHAWS TAVERN
Happy Hour, 4-7pm $3
Miller Lite, $4 Blue Moon,
$5 Rails and House Wines
& Half-Priced Pizzas $4
Corona and $4 Heineken,
5pm-close
SOMEPLACE ELSE BAR
& GRILL
1637 R St. NW
Happy Hour, 4-7pm $1
PBR, $2 Yuengling, $3 Rail,
$5 Appetizers Extended
Happy Hour, 7-9pm, with
only $1 increase in price
TRADE
1410 14th St. NW
Doors open 5pm Huge
Happy Hour: Any drink
normally served in a cocktail glass served in a huge
Friday,
December 2
9 1/2
Open at 5pm Happy
Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink,
5-9pm Friday Night
Videos with Sean, 9:30pm
Expanded craft beer
selection No Cover
COBALT/30 DEGREES
All You Can Drink Happy
Hour $15 Rail and
Domestic, $21 Call &
Imports, 6-9pm Guys
Night Out $6 Grey Goose
all night Two 30-minute open bars featuring
$3 (6-7pm), $4 (7-8pm)
Buckets of Beer $15
NUMBER NINE
Open 5pm Happy Hour:
2 for 1 on any drink, 5-9pm
No Cover Friday Night
Piano with Chris, 7:30pm
SHAWS TAVERN
Happy Hour, 4-7pm $3
Miller Lite, $4 Blue Moon,
$5 Rails and House Wines
& Half-Priced Pizzas Luke
James Shaffer singing live,
8pm Live Magic! 8-10pm
GREEN LANTERN
Happy Hour, 4-9pm $5
Smirnoff, all flavors, all
night long Otter Den DC
presents Otter Crossing,
9pm-close $5 after 10pm
TOWN
Patio open 6pm DC Bear
Crue Happy Hour, 6-11pm
$3 Rail, $3 Draft, $3 Bud
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Saturday,
December 3
9 1/2
Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any
drink, 3-9pm $5 Absolut
& Titos, $3 Miller Lite
after 9pm Expanded craft
beer selection No Cover
Music videos featuring
various DJs
COBALT/30 DEGREES
Drag Yourself to Brunch at
Level One, 11am-2pm and
2-4pm Featuring Kristina
Kelly and the Ladies of
Illusion Bottomless
Mimosas and Bloody
Marys Happy Hour:
Tops Down $6 Top Shelf,
Bottoms Up $3 Rail, $3
Bud Light, 4-9pm Rumba
Latina: Latin Night Dance
Party, 10pm-close Doors
open 10pm $5 Cover
21+
DC EAGLE
Doors open at 8pm
Happy Hour, 8-10pm
$2 off everything DC
Leather Pride presents
Winter Solstice, 8-10pm on
Club Bar Joe Whitaker
presents FuKR where
men and music play,
9pm-3am PrePare to
SHAWS TAVERN
Bottomless Mimosas,
10am-3pm Happy Hour,
5-7pm $3 Miller Lite, $4
Blue Moon, $5 Rails and
House Wines & Half-Priced
Pizzas
SOMEPLACE ELSE BAR
& GRILL
1637 R St. NW
Happy Hour, 4-7pm $1
PBR, $2 Yuengling, $3 Rail,
$5 Appetizers Extended
Happy Hour, 7-9pm, with
only $1 increase in price
TOWN
Patio open 2pm DC
Rawhides host Town &
Country: Two-Step, Line
Dancing, Waltz and West
Coast Swing, $5 Cover to
stay all night Doors open
6:30pm, Lessons 7-8pm,
Open dance 8-10:30pm
Britneys Birthday,
11pm-close Featuring
DJ Wess spinning and
Britney performances from
BaNaka and The Firm
Drag Show starts at
10:30pm Hosted by Lena
Lett and featuring Miss
Tatianna, Shi-Queeta-Lee,
Riley Knoxx and BaNaka
GoGo Boys after 11pm
Doors open 10pm $12
Cover 21+
TRADE
Doors open 2pm Huge
Happy Hour: Any drink
normally served in a cocktail glass served in a huge
glass for the same price,
2-10pm Beer and wine
only $4
ZIEGFELDS/SECRETS
Men of Secrets, 9pm
Guest dancers Ladies
of Illusion Drag Show
with host Ella Fitzgerald
Doors at 9pm, Shows
at 11:30pm and 1:30am
DJ Don T. in Secrets
Cover 21+
Sunday,
December 4
9 1/2
Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any
drink, 3-9pm Multiple
TVs showing movies,
shows, sports Expanded
craft beer selection
No Cover
COBALT/30 DEGREES
Happy Hour: Tops Down $6
Top Shelf, Bottoms Up $3
Rail, $3 Bud Light, 4-9pm
Homowood Karaoke,
hosted by Robert Bise,
10pm-close 21+
DC EAGLE
Doors open at 12pm
Happy Hour, 12-6pm $2
off everything $2 Bud
and Bud Lite Draughts all
day and all night DC
Eagle Pizza Party free
slice of pizza with each
drink while supplies last
No Cover 21+
FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Champagne Brunch Buffet,
10am-3pm Crazy Hour,
4-7pm Freddies Zodiac
Monthly Contest, hosted by
Regina Jozet Adams, 8pm
Karaoke, 10pm-1am
GREEN LANTERN
Happy Hour, 4-9pm
Bears Can Party, featuring
DJ Jeff Eletto, upstairs,
6-10pm No Cover
Mamas Trailer Park
Karaoke downstairs,
9:30pm-close
NELLIES SPORTS BAR
Drag Brunch, hosted by
Shi-Queeta-Lee, 11am-3pm
$20 Brunch Buffet
House Rail Drinks, Zing
Zang Bloody Marys, Nellie
Beer and Mimosas, $4,
11am-close Buckets of
Beer, $15
NUMBER NINE
Pop Goes the World with
Wes Della Volla at 9:30pm
Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on
any drink, 3-9pm No
Cover
SHAWS TAVERN
Happy Hour, 5-7pm
$3 Miller Lite, $4 Blue
Moon, $5 Rails and House
Wines & Half-Priced
Pizzas Football Specials,
1pm-close
SOMEPLACE ELSE BAR
& GRILL
1637 R St. NW
Happy Hour, 4-7pm $1
PBR, $2 Yuengling, $3 Rail,
$5 Appetizers Extended
Happy Hour, 7-9pm, with
only $1 increase in price
TRADE
Doors open 2pm Huge
Happy Hour: Any drink
normally served in a cocktail glass served in a huge
glass for the same price,
2-10pm Beer and wine
only $4
ZIEGFELDS/SECRETS
All male, nude dancers
Decades of Dance DJ
Tim-e in Secrets Doors
9pm Cover 21+
Monday,
December 5
9 1/2
Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any
drink, 5-9pm Multiple
TVs showing movies,
shows, sports Expanded
craft beer selection
No Cover
COBALT/30 DEGREES
Happy Hour: Tops Down $6
Top Shelf, Bottoms Up $3
Rail, $3 Bud Light, 4-9pm
Monday Nights A Drag,
hosted by Kristina Kelly
Doors open at 10pm
Showtime at 11:30pm
$3 Skyy Cocktails, $8 Skyy
and Red Bull $8 Long
Islands No Cover, 18+
DC EAGLE
Doors open at 8pm
Happy Hour, 8-10pm $2
off everything Endless
Happy Hour prices to anyone in a DC Eagle T-Shirt
Free Ballin Mondays: Free
Pool All Night and Day
$1 Bud and Bud Light
Draughts all night No
Cover 21+
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TRADE
Doors open 5pm Huge
Happy Hour: Any drink
normally served in a cocktail glass served in a huge
glass for the same price,
5-10pm Beer and wine
only $4
Tuesday,
December 6
9 1/2
Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any
drink, 5-9pm Multiple
TVs showing movies,
shows, sports Expanded
craft beer selection
No Cover
COBALT/30 DEGREES
DJ Honey Happy Hour:
Tops Down $6 Top Shelf,
Bottoms Up $3 Rail, $3 Bud
Light, 4-9pm SIN Service
Industry Night, 10pm-close
$1 Rail Drinks all night
FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Crazy Hour, 4-7pm
Karaoke, 8pm
GREEN LANTERN
Happy Hour all night long,
4pm-close
Wednesday,
December 7
9 1/2
Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any
drink, 5-9pm Multiple
TVs showing movies,
shows, sports Expanded
craft beer selection
No Cover
COBALT/30 DEGREES
Happy Hour: Tops Down $6
Top Shelf, Bottoms Up $3
Rail, $3 Bud Light, 4-9pm
$4 Stoli and Stoli Flavors
and Miller Lite all night
No Cover 21+
FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Crazy Hour, 4-7pm $6
Burgers Drag Bingo
Night, hosted by Ms.
Regina Jozet Adams, 8pm
Bingo prizes Karaoke,
10pm-1am
GREEN LANTERN
Happy Hour all night long,
4pm-close
NELLIES SPORTS BAR
SmartAss Trivia Night, 8pm
and 9pm Prizes include
bar tabs and tickets to
shows at the 9:30 Club
$15 Buckets of Beer for
ZIEGFELDS/SECRETS
All male, nude dancers
Shirtless Night, 10-11pm,
12-12:30am Military
Night, no cover with
military ID DJ Don
T. in Secrets 9pm
Cover 21+
Thursday,
December 8
9 1/2
Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any
drink, 5-9pm Multiple
TVs showing movies,
shows, sports Expanded
craft beer selection
Music videos featuring
DJ Wess
COBALT/30 DEGREES
Happy Hour: Tops Down $6
Top Shelf, Bottoms Up $3
Rail, $3 Bud Light, 4-9pm
Locker Room Thursday
Nights $3 Rail Drinks,
10pm-midnight, $5 Red
Bull and Frozen Virgin
Drinks DJs Sean Morris
and MadScience Best
Package Contest at midnight, hosted by BaNaka &
Kristina Kelly $200 Cash
Prize Doors open 10pm,
21+ $5 Cover or free
with college ID
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DC EAGLE
Doors open at 8pm
Strip Down Thursdays
Happy Hour Shirtless
guys drink $2 off all
drinks, 8-10pm Jock or
underwear gets $2 off all
drinks, 10pm-midnight
Highwaymen TNT hosts
Hot Jock Contest, 11:30pm
Prizes include cash and
tickets totaling over $250
No Cover 21+
FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Crazy Hour, 4-7pm
Karaoke, 8pm
GREEN LANTERN
Happy Hour, 4-9pm
Ladies Drink Free Power
Hour, 4-5pm Shirtless
Thursday, 10-11pm DJs
BacK2bACk
NELLIES SPORTS BAR
Open at 5pm Beat the
Clock Happy Hour $2
(5-6pm), $3 (6-7pm), $4
(7-8pm) Buckets of Beer
$15 Drag Bingo
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NUMBER NINE
Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any
drink, 5-9pm No Cover
SHAWS TAVERN
Happy Hour, 4-7pm $3
Miller Lite, $4 Blue Moon,
$5 Rails and House Wines
& Half-Priced Pizzas $
Heineken and Coronas,
5pm-close
TRADE
1410 14th St. NW
Doors open 5pm Huge
Happy Hour: Any drink
normally served in a cocktail glass served in a huge
glass for the same price,
5-10pm Beer and wine
only $4
ZIEGFELDS/SECRETS
All male, nude dancers
Shirtless Thursday DJ
9pm Cover 21+ l
Scene
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LastWord.
People say the queerest things
when we knew Hillary was gonna win and she didnt because some of us just
Its sort of like the electiondropped
all thought about having her as president.
Its like if we dropped our thoughts and care
about the AIDS epidemic, then more lives will
leave this planet.
Singer PATTI LABELLE, speaking with The Huffington Post about the importance of keeping focused on the issue of
HIV/AIDS and working to eradicate the virus. To raise awareness of the disease, LaBelle is performing in the
AIDS Healthcare Foundations Keep the Promise concert.
character and for me as an actor, it was very challenging. But I feel I have
In my first play, I played a gay arrived
to a very special place as an actor.
I didnt have any inhibitions about it.
Actor PRATEIK BABBAR, telling the Indo-Asian News Service about his experience playing a gay character on stage.
Babbar says hed love to play a gay character in a film, so long as the script was well-written.
Texas House Speaker JOE STRAUS (R-San Antonio), telling the Austin American-Statesman that a bill restricting transgender peoples ability to access restrooms matching their gender identity is not high on his priority list. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick,
who presides over the state Senate, has already said that passing such a bill is one of his
top concerns for the 2017 legislative session.
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