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The Trump administration is pushing back against criticism over its vote at the United
Nations against a resolution repudiating the death penalty, saying the move wasnt about
the application of the punishment to same-sex relationships.
A White House National Security Council spokesperson said Tuesday the vote against
the measure is consistent with other U.S. votes at the United Nations against the death Gay Utah couple among
penalty resolution in previous administrations.
The United States unequivocally condemns the application of the death penalty for
victims of Las Vegas shooting
homosexuality, blasphemy, adultery and apostasy, the spokesperson said. As in years
past, we voted against this resolution because of broader concerns with the resolutions A Utah gay couple attending the country music festival in Las Vegas where
approach to condemning the death penalty in all circumstances. the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history took place was among the
The NSC spokesperson referred the Blades additional inquiries to the U.S. mission at victims of the tragedy, according to a local media report in Salt Lake City.
the United Nations, which didnt immediately respond to a request for comment. Cameron Robinson, a 28-year-old Cedar City, Utah, resident who worked
As reported by the Washington Blade, the resolutioncondemns use of the death penalty in Las Vegas, was among the 59 people killed in the attack, CBS aliate KUTV
for those found guilty of committing consensual same-sex sexual acts. The resolution reported. His sister, Meghan Ervin, is quoted as saying Robinson was struck in
passed by a 27-13 vote margin. The United States joined Saudi Arabia and others in voting the neck during the shooting.
against the measure. Robinson worked as a legal records specialist for Las Vegas, according to the
But the measure also broadly condemns the death penalty which is practiced in Las Vegas Review Journal. Robinson went to Basic High School and held degrees
the United States, unlike many other developed countries as unfairly used against from Nevada State College and Western International University.
marginalized groups. The multi-faceted resolution calls on countries to adopt protocol His boyfriend, Robert Eardley, was also present at the shooting and was
aimed at abolishing the death penalty, welcomes countries that have placed a moratorium wounded after taking shrapnel in his back, but is expected to survive, according
on the punishment and condemns its use against the underaged, the mentally ill or to KUTV.
pregnant women. Eardley was quoted by local aliate FOX 13 as saying Robinson was an
An LGBT Republican group maintains characterizing the resolution as a measure against amazing, determined, hard working man that spent his life always striving to
the death penalty for gays is o base. be better.
Gregory Angelo, president of Log Cabin Republicans, said he spoke with U.S. staers He was so kind and sweet and caring, Eardley said. He was quiet and shy
at the United Nations who informed him U.S. votes against resolutions repudiating the but once you got to know him he was goofy and fun and so enjoyable. His family
death penalty are nothing new. and friends meant the world to him. His loss will leave a scar on us all. He will be
The gist of the resolutions is in opposition to domestic interests and even United States missed greatly.
law when it comes to application of death penalty in all 50 states, and the United States A GoFundMe page has been established to pay for Robinsons funeral
has consistently voted against this resolution, Angelo said. expenses. As of Tuesday evening, the page had raised more than $16,000.
Angelo cited additional U.S. votes against similar resolutions repudiating the death Today we lost an amazing friend, son, brother, uncle, cousin, coworker and
penalty: One in 2007 under the George W. Bush administration as well as two votes during boyfriend to the senseless, horrible tragedy of the Las Vegas shooting. the page
the Obama administration one in 2010, another in 2014. says. He was full of life and love and so much passion. He loved his family,
As evidence previous administrations have taken similar positions, Angelo pointed to a friends and everyone he came in contact with.
news item from 2014 during the Obama administration referencing a U.S. vote against a According to the page, Robinson enjoying cooking, entertaining, running
resolution calling for a moratorium on the death penalty marathons, traveling, going camping, boating and being outdoors.
The only dierence in the most recent resolution, Angelo said, was a reference to a new Between his love to cook and amazing dance moves there was always good
U.N. secretary generals report saying the death penalty is used to target gays, people times, the page says. He was such a caring, giving and loving man. Cameron,
suspected of being gay and those in same-sex relationships. you will be greatly missed. We love you so much!
This was not a standalone resolution on whether or not the United Nations and its CHRIS JOHNSON
members supported use of the death penalty against gay individuals, Angelo said.
CHRIS JOHNSON
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& Russian Cultural City of West Hollywood
California 1984
Festival
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OCT. 15
AIDS Walk Los Angeles, @ 8:30 AM
at Los Angeles City Hall (200 North
Spring Street). In its 31st year, AIDS
Walk Los Angeles has drawn hundreds
of thousands of supporters to walk, and
millions more to donate, raising more
than $82 million to combat HIV and AIDS.
The funds raised at the event remain a
vital lifeline that sustains APLA Healths
prevention, care, and advocacy programs
AIDS Walk Los Angeles will take the streets of Downtown L.A. on Oct 15 and tens of thousands are expected to help raise millions for APLA.
for the thousands of men, women, and
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families aected by the disease in Los
Angeles County. Proceeds also benet
E-mail calendar items to perform. Its glam and glitz as the agency Broadway). Your favorite queens from more than 20 other HIV/AIDS service
tmasters@losangelesblade.com draws top donors to help fund it LGBTQ RuPauls Drag Race are here to WERQ organizations that are able to participate
two weeks prior to your event. Space is
limited so priority is given to LGBT-specic scholars program. Visit Point Foundation at your world in the Ocial World Tour and raise funds through the Community
events or those with LGBT participants.
Recurring events must be pointfoundation.org for more details. presented by Voss Events in collaboration Coalition Initiative (CCI). Visit la.aidswalk.
re-submitted each time. with World of Wonder and VH1! For tickets net for details.
OCT. 10 call (213) 489-1667. Hosted by Michelle
Get Out and Bowl, @ 10:30 AM til 12:30 Visage with sickening performances OCT. 17
OCT. 7 PM at Pickwick Bowling (921 W. Riverside and group productions including Alyssa 2017 National LGBT Real Estate
Back in Circulation: West Hollywood, Dr., Burbank) Join the Centers Senior Edwards, Detox, Kim Chi, Latrice Royale, Conference, @ 6:00 PM at Riviera Palm
@ 7:30 PM at Heidi Ducker Dance Theatre Bowling Team and knock em over. Its a Peppermint, Shangela, Valentina and Springs (1600 N Indian Canyon Dr, Palm
(625 North San Vicente Boulevard). Artistic terric way to mix and mingle, get out of Violet Chachki. Tickets at WerqTheWorld. Springs). The National LGBT Real Estate
Director Heidi Duckler is once again joined by the apartment and have a great time with com or 1.888.885.VOSS Conference unites over 700 LGBT and
her core company dancers, Raymond Ejiofor, new friends. RSVP is required. Call 323- allied industry leaders for three power
Lenin Fernandez, Jillian Meyers and Kiel 860-5830 or email seniors@lalgbtcenter. OCT. 14 packed days of learning and networking
Moton, visual designer, Mimi Haddon, and org. Lane and shoe rental: $4.75. AIDS/LifeCycle 2018 Kicko, @ 7:15 with the best in the business. Featuring
composer, percussionist and multimedia AM at Lake Balboa Park - Kite Field (6300 keynotes by U.S. Congressman Mark
artist, Andrea Centazzo, to collaborate on OCT. 11 Balboa Blvd, Van Nuys, CA) On June 3-9, Takano, LGBT & Aids Activist Cleve Jones,
the series. The West Hollywood Library National Coming Out Day, @ 7:00 PM 2018 thousands of volunteers and cyclists Million Dollar Listing LA star Madison
includes long expanses of oor-to-ceiling at West Hollywood City Council Chambers of all backgrounds and tness levels will Hildebrand, HSF Holdings CEO Gino
glass windows that look out over the major (625 North San Vicente Blvd). The City of ride 545 miles down the California Coast Blefari, BHGRE President & CEO Sherry
Los Angeles thoroughfare, San Vicente West Hollywood Lesbian Speakers Series, in the most challenging journey of their Chris, Engel & Vlkers North America
Boulevard, and across to the iconic, Pacic LA LGBT Center and June Mazer Archives lives. And on October 14th, we celebrate CEO Anthony Hitt, and Placester Chief
Design Center. Ducklers choreography will present a very special evening for National the Kicko of the training season in Los Marketing Strategist Seth Price
focus on the vast windows of the library as Coming Out Day in conjunction with The Angeles with two fully-supported and
symbolic thresholds for sharing information, Lesbian Culture Club. Rally for the creation free ride options. Come nd out why OCT. 19
as well as containers of public space. The of lesbian spaces and places with comedy, so many others RIDE with LOVE so that OUTOBERFEST, @ 7:00 PM at Cathedral
event is free of charge. music, pathos, spoken word and more others can LIVE and what AIDS/LifeCycle of Saint Vibiana (214 South Main Street)
The Point Foundation Awards, @ featuring special guests: Dana Goldberg, is all about at the Kicko Ride! For more An LGBTQ Mixer & Screening presents an
8:00 PM at Beverly Hilton Hotel (9876 Sabrina Jalees, Tara Jepsen, Ali Liebegott, information call (866) 245-3424 or email early Halloween with Outfests Emerging
Wilshire Blvd). Point Foundation will honor Bridget McManus, Michelle Tea,Mo info@aidslifecycle.org. Leaders Council. Join us for an evening of
Wanda Sykes, Wilson Cruz and Jill Soloway. Welchand hosted by Lesbian Culture Clubs North County Pride by The Beach, @ mixing & mingling at the Hollywood oces
Comedian Wanda Sykes will receive Point very own Anna La Chocha! Free Admission! 11 AM at City of Oceanside Civic Center of our gracious host Netix, then kick back
Legend Award; Actor Wilson Cruz will receive (300 North Coast Highway, Oceanside). with a screening of ghoul-turned-gay pride
Point Courage Award; Writer, Director, OCT. 13 A fun day of LGBT Pride on the beach in icon The Babadook (sorry, Pennywise
and Producer Jill Soloway will receive RuPauls Drag Race: Werq The World, Oceanside. Its worth the scenic drive and couldnt make it). Strong BabaLEWKS are
Point Impact Award; Adam Lambert will @ 8:00 PM at Globe Theatre (740 S. while you are at it you will enjoy some encouraged. Tickets are $25.
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Exploring the mystery of AUT Harlem Quartet
On June 6, 1992, a body was pulled out of Anti-Violence Project. Dedicating her nal The Heart of
the Hudson River onto a West Village pier. days on the job to the pursuit of long-overdue Robin Hood
Bystanders quickly recognized it as that of justice, Cruz is shown re-examining the les
Marsha P. Johnson, a well-known gure in the and evidence surrounding Johnsons untimely
neighborhood and one of the most visible death. She interviews the late icons family
and colorful personalities in the ongoing and friends such as longtime roommate
movement for gay and transgender rights. Randy Wicker, who reported Marsha missing
Born in New Jersey as Malcolm Michaels nearly a week before her body was found. She
in 1945, Johnson had moved to New York at pores through old news clippings and footage,
18, where she became a xture in the drag tracks down retired law enforcement ocials,
balls and street life of the Village. By 1969 and petitions for autopsy reports long hidden
Joe Morton in
she was a regular at the Stonewall Inn, and in police storerooms.
Turn Me Loose
she was a key participant in the landmark Like Frances previous lm, How to
A Play About
riots that began there when police raided Survive a Plague, this movie is not merely Activist and
the bar in the early morning hours of June a chronicle of events; rather, in following Comic Genius
28 that year. Popular legend has maintained Cruz search for truth and justice, it Dick Gregory
that she was the rst, or one of the rst, to evokes the spirit of activism that Marsha
ght back though she herself disputed that embodied. The investigation into her
claim, stating that she had arrived well after death becomes a springboard into not
the conict had already started. Regardless only a retrospective of the struggle for
of the details, its undeniable that she was rights and recognition that dened her
central to the events of that night and the own life and times, but into an indictment
nights that followed, and that she emerged of our cultures relationship with violence
as a leader in the Gay Liberation Movement against its marginalized populations and
that sprung out of them. in particular, transgender women.
NOV 10-11
Consequently, at the time of her death, Part of the backdrop of the contemporary OCT 15
the local LGBTQ community responded segments is the 2016 trial of James Dixon for FEATURING: Harlem Quarte
t Kyle Riabko:
Richard Rodgers
with surprise and outrage when the police, the murder of Islan Nettles, a transgender
OCT 8 OCT 20-29
P ia n o : Reimagined
B iss, Feathers of Fire
without any substantial investigation, woman from Harlem whom he had beaten an
Jonath
ocially declared her drowning a suicide to death after friends teased him for irting pi c NOV 28 - DEC 17
OCT 12-14 A Persian E
despite insistence from friends and witnesses with her. The highly-publicized case provides
D an ce The Heart of
Dorra n ce NOV 2-4
that she had been a victim of foul play. a somber observation of how things have
O V 12 Robin Hood
This still-unresolved controversy lies at changed since Marshas nearly-anonymous OCT 13 - N L.A. Dance
the center of lmmaker David Frances death, yet also how much they have not. Turn M e Lo os e Project
new documentary, The Death and Life Dixons defense that he had been humiliated Feathers of Fire:
of Marsha P. Johnson, a lm whose title by being fooled has eerie parallels to A Persian Epic
both misleads and tells you exactly what stories told by Marsha herself about tricks
you are about to see. who became enraged after discovering her
Rather than presenting a straightforward true gender (even after being repeatedly CONNECT WITH US:
prole of the beloved LGBTQ activist, Frances forewarned), and is a common refrain echoed 310.746.4000 | TheWallis.org
lm instead focuses its attention on a less in similar cases before and since.
famous heroine Victoria Cruz, a case worker
on the verge of retirement from New Yorks CONTINUES AT LOSANGELESBLADE.COM
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When walking into the Kirk Douglas thats not the reason Big Night lacks bite.
Theatre to see Big Night, the new play Rather, in an age when our ubiquitous
currently enjoying its world premiere run media instantaneously serves us too-
there, one might be forgiven for thinking they soon jokes about the freshest tragedies,
are about to see a stage adaptation of the his transgressive inappropriateness has
fondly remembered 1996 Stanley Tucci lm lost the power to shock. Perhaps that is
of the same name about two brothers on the part of the point the playwright is trying to
opening night of their new Italian restaurant. make; but even so, it robs this piece of the
The title wont be the only thing that giddy, taboo-breaking joy elicited by the
seems familiar. best of his work.
Anyone whos followed the career of The dialogue of the opening section
Paul Rudnick, the playwright responsible of the play conjures memories of the
for this comedy about a gay actor and the zany comedies of Hollywoods Silver Age,
whirlwind of chaos that surrounds him on and begs for the same kind of stylized,
the evening of the Academy Awards, will breakneck delivery that makes such lms
recognize recurring themes from much of a delight. Director Walter Bobbie grounds
his earlier work which includes Jerey, his actors in contemporary realism, which
The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, and obscures some of the best jokes.
the screenplay for In And Out as they In addition, some of the references
resurface throughout it. peppered throughout seem calculated
Set in a swanky suite at an unnamed hotel merely to root the action in the here-
Paul Rudnicks latest play, Big Night is set in Hollywood.
in Beverly Hills, Big Night opens as Mike, and-now; some of the characters are
Oscar-nominated for a breakthrough lm PHOTO COURTESY OF BIG NIGHT PRODUCERS underwritten, existing only to represent a
role, prepares for the ceremony with his point of view; and, most frustratingly, the
agent, Cary. The pressures of the evening fodder for an entire play on their own, but humor crosses the line. sheer number of ideas introduced by the
are soon increased with the arrival of two Rudnick throws them all, and more, into It should come as no surprise that play ultimately serves to dilute the power
visitors Eddie, his transgender nephew, the mix. Not only that, but he populates this playwright would skirt controversy. of its strongest points.
who wants him to use his acceptance the play with a collection of familiar After all, he rst came to prominence by Despite such criticisms, Big Night is
speech to make a political statement; and cultural stereotypes variations of what daring to use AIDS as a source of comedy still an enjoyable experience. It oers a
Esther, his oh-so-glamorous mother, who some might call the liberal elite and with Jerey, a choice that provoked host of excellent performances (Golden
has chosen the occasion to make a startling proceeds to lampoon them all. considerable outrage when the play made Globe winner Wendie Malick is a standout
revelation about herself. To cap it all o, It might seem that this combination of its debut in 1993. The developments that as Esther as are Mac Jenkins as the
his partner Austin, meant to be at his side elements would make the formula for a hijack the comedic action of this latest uber-gay agent, Cary, and Kecia Lewis as
on the red carpet, is nowhere to be found fast-paced, farcical confection. So it does, work have the potential to do the same; a Pulitzer-winning feminist author who
and hasnt been heard from all day. up to a point but Rudnick has other plans without giving too much away, Big Night joins the proceedings), and even if the
Its a perfect storm of stress for the nervous up his sleeve, and no sooner has he set pits its characters against another sort writing is not his best, Rudnick is still one
nominee and yet, its only the beginning. everything in place for a screwball comedy of epidemic, one that infects the entire of the most gifted comedic playwrights
The premise of Rudnicks piece when he introduces a twist that takes culture and seems just as unfunny today of our time, and the number of sure-re
is deliciously promising, ripe with Big Night on a hairpin turn into deadly as HIV did back then. laughs he serves are a reminder of why he
possibilities for the kind of arch satire serious territory. The problem is that now, in 2017, has invited comparison to that wittiest of
the playwright has woven into his brand. Not to worry though, Rudnick uses Rudnicks deliberate button-pushing social satirists, Oscar Wilde.
The politics of Hollywood, the volatility of comedy to explore some of our modern almost feels like the well-rehearsed trick Big Night, one presumes, is a work-in-
radical activism, the inuence of social eras most disturbing corners, and though of a seasoned pro instead of the bold progress. It will likely go on from here to a series
media, the near-religious fervor of The the observations he makes in the process approach of an audacious upstart. It of runs in other cities, and undergo changes as
Gays with popular entertainment each are mostly astute, there are bound doesnt help that he recycles motifs he has it does. In its current form, it doesnt quite work
of these subjects by themselves could be to be audience members who think his used in much of his previous work, but but that doesnt mean it cant.
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