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The newsletter of Reading Pride Celebration serving the Greater Reading Pride area with the latest GLBT news, announcements and more summer 2012 No,4
A note from your New Queen Whitley Nycole DeAire

By: Richard Todd Wagner

This past May 15th, Reading Pride Celebration held its second Miss Reading Pride Celebration Pageant at the Abraham Lincoln Wyndham Historic Hotel in downtown Reading. The cohosts for the night were the first Miss Reading pride 2011, Precious Caliente "Justin Mason" and Eric Brown. This event was a fantastic event. I would love to thank everyone who helped out. There were so many I cannot mention here, but did on facebook. A huge thank you to Kimberly Kalbach, my co-chair and director, and Joe DiCindio, my head judge for the pageant. Precious Caliente opened the show with a great performance which included the contestants and started the first category (presentation/couture) for the night. The contestants for the evening were Roberta Baker, Whitley Nycole DeAire, Bianca DeMoner, and Angie St. John LaMour. There was some great entertainment for the night with local dance group, Latin Flair, and drag performers,Lana Davis, Sofanda Cox, Joey Josephs, and Visa D Kline Lancasters Countys Miss. Lancaster PA.

By: Whitley Nycole DeAire So the results were in and we were all called back to the stage to find out who won which categories and who would be the next Miss Reading Pride Celebration 2012. So, are MC for the evening was Eric Brown and he started with the Talent Winner Miss Roberta Baker, then onto Male Interview Winner Miss Roberta Baker, Photogenic Winner Whitley Nycole DeAire' , Evening Gown Miss Roberta Baker, Couture Winner Whitley Nycole DeAire'. With most of the categories out of the way it was time to announce the other placement winners. Your 3rd Runner up is Miss Angie St. John Lamour. Your 2nd Runner up is Bianca Demonet. (Continued on page 3)

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Much to Celebrate
Looking back over the past year, it was quite an eventful year for the LGBT community. Nationally we added Washington Maryland and New York and even though Washington and Maryland are subject to referendums in November the State,

tide is turning. We had the first sitting President, Barack Obama coming out in support of same sex marriage. Locally the Mayor of Reading signed on to a national list of Mayors supporting same sex marriage. It was a banner year for celebrities coming out of the closet. I have lived through enough history to fill a book,

The Vietnam War, the assassinations of JFK, Martin Luther King Jr. and RFK. I never believed I would see the day I would be married to my husband, but I am. I now know I will see marriage Equality in America. But we must not become complacent, we must continue to come out, to be visible to stand up and be heard. Dont leave it to someone else. Dont let us be pulled apart by fighting and bickering within our own community, let us instead go forward with one goal that of full Equality for all members and aspects of the LGBT community. Remember it is through visibility that we bring understanding and acceptance. And it is through unity that we bring victory and Equality. We dont want to better than our straight brothers and sisters, we want to be their equals. Let us celebrate our victories and our Pride in who we are, and let us go forth and spread the message that full Equality is not for some but as guaranteed under the constitution is for all. Have a great Pride and lets see what we have to celebrate at next years Reading Pride Celebration 2013. BE HEARD SPEAK OUT
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A note from your New Queen Whitley Nycole DeAire continued

There were two of us left, and we were called to the front of the stage to find out the winner. That is when I looked at my sister Roberta Baker and said, "Good Lord doesn't this feel just like being in the Miss Universe Pageant"? In an instant it was all over when Eric Brown announced the Winner of Miss Reading Pride Celebration 2012 is.........Whitley Nycole DeAire' and your 1st Runner Up is Miss Roberta Baker. During the crowning everything seemed to go in slow motion for me being crowned and the tears of joy were flowing in full force. That's when it hit me that I must have won On Stage Question, which I have never won before and was in

shock. I have been truly touched by winning this title, not only for myself but for the community in Reading, PA where I truly feel like I am at home with family and true friends. After the pageant I packed up my outfits and headed back to Lancaster, PA and slept for four hours before I had to prepare for Lancaster PA Pride day. That was my first actual appearance as Miss Reading Pride Celebration 2012. On June 23rd I was in a benefit show to raise money for Central PA Pride. On this evening Miss Central PA Pride 2012 Jade DeVere, Mr Central PA Pride 2012 Big Daddy, Miss Lancaster PA Pride 2012 Visa D'Kline, Mr Lancaster PA Pride 2012 AC Cortez and I bonded together to make a pack to help each other in raising money for each of our PRIDES. We all plan to have a very busy year helping each other in many events, so you will not only have me, but four other great entertainers that will support our community. I look forward to seeing you all on July 15th at Reading Pride Celebration Day. Thank you for your love and support, Miss Reading Pride Celebration 2012 Whitley Nycole DeAire'

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By: Barbara Peronteau

On Friday, June 1 of this year President Barack Obama declared June as Gay Pride month. He did that last year too. Pride month spills into July as well. This year Reading Pride is Sunday, July 15 at Centre Park. Reading Pride is in July because any town, not just Reading, doesnt want its pride day to fall on the same pride day as a neighboring city or town. This way Reading, Lancaster, Harrisburg, and Allentown can have separate pride days without I remember in the early competing with one another. Being proud about being 80s hearing about a LGBT is not about magazine called competition, its about mutual Tapestry. celebration. Thats where I want to go with this Pride and Celebration. If you dont know this about me yet, I am a transgender woman. There have been times when I have had to reign in my enthusiasm for myself. Sometimes I question if I am too out, loud, and proud and then, you know, have to hold ((( back. Sometimes I have the excitement and

I am out, loud and proud and look forward to the celebrations because for too many years I was closeted. It felt as if I were kept in a small dark room with very little room to move. The locks that were used to keep me there were shame, guilt, humiliation, bigotry, fear of violence, and the restrictive norms of a homophobic and heterosexist world. I internalized this. I was aware of my own transphobia, which means I hated myself. One day there was a panel of us on the Phil Donahue Show. Im not alone! I didnt know what transgender was. I have never heard the word. Not that I heard it that day either. Some may ask if I was living in the dark ages. Yes, I was.

I remember in the early 80s hearing about a magazine called Tapestry. It was by us, for us and about us. Well, where do I get this Tapestry? Most likely you can buy it at the gay book store or possibly at the adult book store. Really?! Not Waldens or Daltons? No. The gay book store in Philly or the adult book store maybe. Does that give a clue where we were back then? (Continued Page 8)

Reading Pride almost giddiness of the newly evangelized. Ill shout it from the roof tops! Im me! Im free!

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RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUALITY

By Fr. Dewayne Messenger

This is the third year that All Souls Church has participated in this important event. As the pastor, I want to offer many thanks to those individuals who have worked so hard on this years Reading Pride Celebration. Thank you for your dedication. Thank you for giving hours and hours of your time. Thank you for your commitment to further the cause of the GLBT community. Thank you for being both the standard bearer and the lightning rod. Each year, it is no doubt a daunting task to plan, coordinate, and implement this celebration. Lord knows the GLBT community has LOTS of opinions and thus there is no doubt tension and strife may rear its ugly head. No doubt there are some in our very own GLBT community who, because of personal vendettas, who would rather see Reading Pride go under rather than help it succeed. All Souls on the other hand stands committed, shoulder to shoulder, with Reading Pride. We share similar goals and similar dreams. We too want to create a space where GLBT folks can gather without fear and without prejudice. We want to be a place where ones whole identity, whether that be gay, straight, bisexual, or transgendered is not only embraced but recognized as part of Gods great and wonderful diversity. If you are celebrating with us at Reading Pride, and you want to find a church that will welcome you all of you, I hope you will consider celebrating who you are with us. Look us up; well have a booth at Reading Pride. Come check out our worship. Among kindred spirits (gay, straight and in-between) you will be welcomed to receive all the blessings God seeks to impart.

By: Barbara Peronteau It was thought by ordinary folk that being trans was some sort of sexual fetish and that presenting as female was some sort of compulsion or addiction. That we got something out of it. Like wearing a dress was the same as snuffing a line. Being transgender is when the outer physical birth sex doesnt line up with the inner subconscious sex. This is one of those times that you cannot change your mind. And so, at some point we become who we are. I am a transgender woman. I have been described as transgender femme. Ill proudly own that I am proud of my femininity. As Julia Serano, a trans woman herself, puts it in her book, Whipping Girl, there are a
The Crowning of Miss. Reading Pride 2012 (Continued from page 1) Category awards were handed out this night as well. Roberta Baker won "interview", "talent", and "evening gown". Whitley Nycole DeAire won "photogenic", and "couture/presentation". Whitley also won the category of "on stage question which was not given out as an award but did factor in, in winning the title. We'd also like to give an honorable mention to Bianca DeMonet, who was one point away from winning evening gown. Her gown and her were stunning. In 3rd runner up \ for the title of Miss Reading Pride Celebration was Angie St.John LaMour. 2nd runner up was Bianca DeMonet. Then there were two, Miss Roberta Baker and Miss Whitley Nycole DeAire. You could cut the tension with a knife. Who would it be? Then the announcement was made. Congratulations to the new Miss Reading Pride Celebration 2012, Whitley

number of personality traits that I find attractive in women: passion, creativity, sense of humor, and self-confidence. And it has been my experience that trans women have these qualities in full force. I find trans women hot because we are anything but docile or demure. In order to survive as a trans woman, you must be, by definition, impervious, unflinching, and tenacious. (p.278) In a trans womans eyes, I see someone who understands that, in a culture thats seemingly fueled on male homophobic hysteria, choosing to be female and openly expressing ones femininity is not a sign of frivolousness, weakness, or passivity, it is a fucking badge of courage. (p.280) Oh Yes! Now Im giddy again. Im out, loud, and proud! And Im ready to celebrate! See you at Reading Pride!!

Nycole DeAire! Whitley broke down in tears. I enjoy doing this event, it is my baby. When I came up with this idea. I never knew how hard, and how determined this drag queens, these Ladies" would work so hard for it. I said at one point to my coChair that you would think they were fighting over a crown made of diamonds and gold. I am so proud of all the ladies that tried out this year and I look forward to next year.

Whats cooking in the Kitchen with Robert Bailey

SPAGHETTI PASTA SALAD

# RAW PASTA BROKE INTO QUARTER PIECES 6 CLOVES FRESH GARLIC MINCED TEASPOON CUMIN TEASPOON GARLIC GRANUALES TEASPOON BLACK PEPPER TEASPOON SALT 1 TABLESPOON ITALIAN SEASONING 1 TABLESPOON SUGAR CUP GRATED PARMESAN CHEESE CUP WHITE VINEGAR

CUP CANOLA OIL CUP MAYONAISE Cook spaghetti till ala dente, rinse and chill. Mince fresh garlic fine and set aside. Whisk canola oil and white vinegar together till well blended. Then add garlic, and all other dry ingredients, mixing well. Then blend in mayonnaise till smooth. In large bowl toss pasta with dressing until wet. Cover and refrigerate.

ITALIAN STYLE PASTA SALAD QUANTITY INGREDIENTS

1# Pasta (Any type that suits you) 8 Ounces Diced, Fresh Tomatoes 4 Ounces Diced, Sweet Hot Peppers 4 Cloves Minced Fresh Garlic, Fine 1 Cup Fresh Basil, Julienned 1/3 Cup White Vinegar 1/3 Cup Virgin Olive Oil 1/2 Teaspoon Salt 1/8 Teaspoon Black Pepper 2 Cups Mayonnaise 1/4 # Provolone Cheese Diced Small 1/4 # Capicola Ham Diced Small

Cook pasta and rinse & chill. Combine in a medium bowl vinegar, oil, salt, & pepper. Whisk until well blended (like garlic vinaigrette). Then whisk in the mayonnaise until creamy. This makes this dressing a Creamy Vinaigrette. Place in a large bowl the chilled pasta, tomatoes, sweet hot peppers, ham, cheese, & basil. Toss until well combined. Then top with Creamy Vinaigrette and combine thoroughly. Taste and make any seasoning adjustments that you feel are needed. Then chill overnight.

Fruited yogurt jello

Quantity ingredient 1 pk. jello your choice family size box 1 vanilla yogurt 16 ounces 1 8oz. cool whip 1 can fruit youre choice 16 ounces First drain and reserve liquid from fruit (delmonte), youll use this in place of and/or in combination with cold water for jello. It gives it a flavor boost. Make jello as directed with the exception of using the fruit juice for cold water. Refrigerate until slightly firm. Then combine in yogurt till well blended. Then fold in your cool whip until well combined. The next step is totally up to you. If you are using fruit segments or slices, you may want to arrange them on top of your jello mix. If you are using diced fruit or fruit cocktail just fold it in carefully, not to deflate the cool whip. Chill overnight. Take out when ready to serve, enjoy.

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Letter from the New Editor I want to take this time and wish Brenna a fast recover her and her other half are missed at Reading Pride. This is my first time taken a crack at doing this newsletter, so if its not what it is cracked up to be I am sorry, but I think I did a heck of a job on it. Please feel free to e-mail me with any comments on it or concerns at rt524wagner@gmail.com. I am also reaching out looking for people to help write article for us. We need someone who is able to help Reading Pride Celebration write request for grants. Any help our gay community can give us is greatly appreciated.

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