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LinQ is published monthly 859.253.3233
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and Lesbian Services Organi- Please call ahead for ap-
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Services Organization is to COMMITTEE
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ton GLSO is founded upon newsletter are solely those
the core values of fun, in- Tommy Brodbeck, of the contributor and do
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Someone asked me why we eel» community but also straight peo- each other to be individuals and time you criticize someone be*
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simple. It is because itisin the Bi» eluded). Iheard different accents opinion or talent or style. And, as ber... THAT is their normal and
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cometh before the fall.” and seniors and everything in be» with that is the oddball these days. normal as you are to yours. Until
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PRIDE Festival so amazing was couples. I saw pet lovers. I saw celebrations and you usually only
just observing all of the things parents and children and tod» saw gay people, and sometimes Send comments or suggestions to .
going on around me. [love to see dlers. I saw drunk people and I not very many. Now PRIDE has HelenahandbasketKY@gmail.com.
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‘ International Court Council. third most successful fundrais’ be proud and in turn, hopes that
' ing total in the 31 years of Ken- Lexington is proud of it as well.
; So while the International Couni tucky court history. Their reign It continues to remain a strong,
‘ cil provides overarching struci donated out over $36,000 to the viable and important part of the
I ture and guidance, the local chaps charities named above. And since Lexington LGBT community. Af-
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i funds and awareness ofimportant Imperial Court of Kentucky has jewelry fade, the bigger and more
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‘ The Imperial Court of Kentucky lars to charitable organizations. pact made on many people’slives
through its numerous fundrais- THAT’S A LOT OF DRAG! that will create a lasting legacy in
ing events (typically around 50 our community.
events each year), donate to 10- Reign 32 has started its fundraisi
cal and regional charitable or? ing and community representae Look for announcements regard?
ganizations, including AIDS Vol- tion as well. The Reigning Mons ing Reign 32 events here in LinQ,
[ unteers of Lexington, Moveable archs, His Most Imperial Majesty, or check out the Imperial Court
Feast Lexington, Lexington Fair~ Emperor 32 Patrick Thompson, on Facebook (group name Imper
ness, JustFund KY, the GLSO, the and Her Most Imperial Majesty, rial Court of Kentucky) or online
local chapter of PFLAG, and both Regent Empress 32 JD. Vaughn, at www.imperialcourtkentucky.
‘ UK and EKU LGBT student assoi hosteda Pride Day Show at Cross? org. Membership and/or voluni
E ciations. Many of these organiza- ings, and then J.D. performed lat~ teers are always welcome and
‘ tions rely on the direct support er to a large crowd at the evening encouraged.
: from the ICK for its operational drag show at the very success?
and dayito-day expenses. ful Lexington Pride Festival. Pat- Next month’s article: Events up-
1 rick and J.D., and members ofthe dates and “how can I become in?
The Court just ended Reign 31 in Court, also represented the ICK in volved in the ICK?”
June and His Imperial Majesty, the July 4th Parade in Lexington.
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ferent non-profit organization is chosen to receive the proceeds from the annual event. This year’s non-profit j
is Moveable Feast Lexington. Moveable Feast Lexington prepares and delivers hot, freshly cooked meals, five ‘
days a week, to people living with AIDS/HIV-related illnesses as well as individuals who are patients of Hos-
pice ofthe Bluegrass. 2010’s inaugural event raised over $10,000 for Grace Orphanage in Haiti, the 2011 event I
brought in $15,000 for Mission Lexington, and last year’s event brought in $8,000 for Faith Pharmacy. '3
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this year a “Wall of Wine.” {
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Donate items for the Silent Auction or a $25 and up valued bottle ofwine for the “Wall ofWine”! ,
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Pride center. This should be an excellent meeting if you’ve ever had legal ques-
’ tions along these lines.
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els have been married since 2009. that I could think of,” she says. ing they don’t really affect them.
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beyond. For Bosworth and Nev? expect or how to react, but when performing a massage while the
els, marriage was the logical and I found out what it was, [just felt ruling was taking place.She didn’t
necessary step to finalize their this overwhelming flood of emo- have access to any form of media,
commitment to one another, and tion.” so she relied on Bosworth to tell
ifthey had to travel 1,000 miles to her the outcome.
do it—so be it. Bosworth believes that many
people in the LGBT community, “I knew Heather would know to
Bosworth, who works for UK, was including their supporters, some» text me. I just happened to look
at work when she heard the news times have a tendency to distance at my phone and read, ‘DOMA was
about DOMA. “I had every social themselves emotionally from poi struck down.’ I wanted to cry, but
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client. I was just so happy. I didn’t gay marriage to speak their mind time soon. “Theoretically we’ve
think in my lifetime that I would on the subject. Williams thinks the hardest part been engaged for six years now,”
see this.” about not being a legally recog- jokes Flynn. And, they plan to stay
Ronald Williams and Brian Flynn, nized couple is the lack of pro» “engaged” until Kentucky legalir
Over the years they have con- ownersofseveralshopsinVictori- tections in the case of medical es samersex marriages.
templated moving to a state that an Square, have been in a domes- emergencies. He was recently ad?
allows same~sex marriage. Bos- tic partnership for years. While mitted to the hospital for about Ernesto Scorsone, Fayette Cir-
worth feels that they are more at» they have no immediate plans to one week. “l hate to think about cuit Court Judge (who as of now
tracted to the more liberal states get married, they think the DOMA Brian not being able to visit me in is the only openly gay member of
that legalized same-sex marriage decisions are a positive move for the hospital when I needed him the Kentucky General Assembly)
early on. However, she thinks the nation as awhole. most, or vice versa.” thinks the Edith Windsor case
that this sends a strong message will be remembered for years to c
to more conservative states, such “It’s a great step forward,” says Williams described a situation come as a “groundbreaking rule v‘
as Kentucky, that they are “fall? Flynn, who equates the DOMA concerning another couple they ing” in LGBT history. 6
ing behind.” She feels like the tide ruling with Brown vs. The Board know, in which one partner died
has shifted and that the Supreme of Education, which was the and the deceased partner’s fame “The recognition that basic due
Court’s decision would create the landmark Supreme Court case in ily took possession of the cou- process and equal protection
momentum necessary to affect which state laws requiring sepa» ple’s property, leaving the living principles serve to protect LGBT
nationwide change. rate public schools for white and partner with nothing. “It’s scary Americans when it comes to mar'
black students were deemed un- to think about,” says Williams. riage will pave the way for fair
Both Nevels and Bosworth think constitutional. treatment on many fronts. 2013
Kentucky will be one of the last Still, while they are optimistic has become a watershed year in
states to recognize same»sex “I think we should celebrate this, concerning the cultural signili- all of our lives.”
marriage. However, the overtum- I think it’s a victory. That said, cance of the ruling, he and Flynn
ing of DOMA will make it easier we’re not there yet. There’s plen- don’t have plans on traveling to
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dated August, 1948, in the Newark shower, Joan tells me what hapr charge of “deliberate disobedie and had two children, staying 8
Ohio Advocate. pened in 1948 in Newark. Two ence” was notacrime. Not know— years before the fragile fix gave
years earlier she had befriended ing what to do with her they held way under the weight of truth. "
“Miss Joan Dixon, 18 has been a woman named Maxine. One day her for thirty days in the localjail.
sentenced to 1 year in Marysville she kissed Joan who didn’t know When the time was up she walked The 705 awakened her spiritually.
Reformatory for carrying on im- words like “lesbian” or “homo- out the door. Uncertain where She met Pat while in seminary,
moral relations with someone of sexual,” only that it felt good and she belonged, an officer offered earning her Master of Divinity,
her own sex.” she fell in love. With a picture of to drive her back to Maxine’s. and planning to be ordained in
Maxine on the family piano, and Together they moved to Cleve~ the Methodist church until their
New Joan is 83, lies in a hospi— calling her “my sweetheart”, she land looking for more tolerance. new policy said “celibacy in sin
tal bed, post-op hip surgery. Her spent most of her time at Maxi Joan supported them both but gleness and fidelity in marriage.”
partner, Pat, 73, ever present by ine’s. But an uncle was attracted soon realized Maxine was an al- Later, the UCC church, inclu'
her side. to Maxine and convinced Joan’s coholic, and the abusive episodes sive and proactive in LGBT jus
mother her child was in grave left her walking the streets with a tice, welcomed and ordained her
I had gone to see them to write moral danger and she should butcher knife in suicidal despair. where she served in churches in
about Joan’s experience of being be committed to an institution Leaving the woman, and crippled Ohio and Florida until three years
jailed for being gay. It was like where shock treatments were by shame and secrecy, she had a ago.
her to move past the trauma and the common gay protocol. Fore series of short monogamous re—
shame to happier memories of tunately, they had no money for lationshipveach one a little bet? Last week they watched in Joan’s I
what it was like to work all day that option, but she did go to the ter than the last. room, cheering as the Supreme ,
in the factory and hit the wom- police, swearing out a warrant Court ruled in favor of marriage 'j
en’s bars, dance hard, throw back for her daughter’s arrest. In the 405, 50s, 60s, into the 705 equality. What that means to couV
some beers and lay down the gay bars were raided, but she hid, plesin Kentuckyisnotyetclearbut
femmes. Her favorite times were Joan knew there was something avoiding arrest. The churches the decision does shout, “Listen
the dancing--blonde,white shirt, afoot; she tried to stay out of proclaimed gays were going to up, country, human fights have
, and all butch. I laughed. “Dance sight by walking in back alleys, hell; psychology called homosex nothing to do with the plumbing
with me.” Pat put some music on, but police officers in a patrol car uality a disease, and families dis? of our beloveds.” I watch as Pat
but instead ofa slow dance it was caught and handcuffed her. The owned their own. In the sixties, patiently feeds Joan, and negoti»
a jitterbug! Moments later she judge tried to put her in juvenile certain she was a reject, a crimir ates for her needs with staff. For
went down on the carpet when facilities, but she was 18 and too nal, a sinner and mentally ill, she awhile they said they were “sis~
we missed a twirl. old. The Marysville Reformatory and her partner found a psychia- ters”. I thought it brave of her to
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mean lesser care if they were together for 38 years, defining the tended, long nights in the hospi- the bone will still be here, seeing
known to be gay. Instead, it has word commitment we all say we tal with their own taking turns to one another, surrounded by
been an important step in their long for. Most of us think of it in keeping watch, a safe floor laid in friends with rides, covered dish:
journey to respect and equality. I terms of moving in and not sleep- a place they will be coming home es and weed whackers. DOMA’s
hear Joan call Pat’s name for cer: ing around, unaware that the true to, a call with a laugh on board, better, but in the end it probably
tainty and clarity; now and then essence of “happily ever after” is a child reassured, a cold beer 10- doesn’t matter to love.
the secretlanguage oflovers mure back there in that rehab center gether when it’s over.
mured, calling her back when the room where one somewhat wear If you want to comment, or are
meds cloud and confuse. ry old woman gently soothes the Pat and Joan show us love is big- thinking you would like your sto’
other to sleep. Old friends nearby ger than all the “gay” craziness— ry considered for this column,
I leave them and move out under in the hall, distantly aware their the immaturities of our cultures, email me at sandy@glso.org, or
the evening sky toward my car. turn in the bed is coming, know religions, laws, our ignorance text 85974753272.
From being locked up for being without saying this same circle and crueltyfiThese come, and
gay, to a love witnessed and writ: of committed buddies mean that they will fall away around us; but
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When Audrey came out in 7th tivation that drives me to be part parents through what may very ever before, it is only natural that
grade to her father and me, we of our local PFLAG chapter. well be one of the loneliest, most more and more families are being
had no one, not even a support challenging chapters in theirlives impacted. That’s why it is vital
group that we could turn to. We Because i never want any fam- * when their loved one identii that we have the opportunity to
want