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<strong>THE</strong>CONTENTS<br />
FEATURES<br />
14 WE ARE <strong>THE</strong> WORLD<br />
LA PRIDE BIDS ON WORLDPRIDE 2025<br />
16 <strong>THE</strong> FUTURE OF HIV/AIDS<br />
MEN’S HEALTH FOUNDATION’S<br />
ANTHONY MILLS MD<br />
20 ANNETTE BENING: I’M PROUD<br />
OF MY TRANSGENDER SON!<br />
FOUR-TIME OSCAR NOMINEE SPEAKS OUT<br />
24 CHOSEN FAMILIES<br />
LIKE BIRDS OF A FEA<strong>THE</strong>R<br />
28 HOLIDAYS SURVIVAL GUIDE<br />
COPING WITH END-OF-YEAR STRESSORS<br />
30 A PLACE OF HEALING<br />
<strong>THE</strong> LU<strong>THE</strong>RAN CHURCH OF <strong>THE</strong> MASTER<br />
32 <strong>THE</strong> GOOD <strong>FIGHT</strong><br />
GREYSON CHANCE COMES OF AGE<br />
36 NOT JUST A PHASE<br />
LA-BASED SINGER/SONGWRITER FAZE<br />
40 EXPLORING QUEER KINSHIP<br />
ROBERT ANDY COOMBS: PALM SPRINGS<br />
MUSEUM OF ART<br />
DEPARTMENTS<br />
08 <strong>THE</strong> TALK<br />
10 <strong>THE</strong> STATE<br />
12 <strong>THE</strong> CITY<br />
18 <strong>THE</strong> ROSTOW REPORT<br />
22 <strong>THE</strong> TRANSACTION<br />
26 <strong>THE</strong> SHARE<br />
39 <strong>THE</strong> PLACE<br />
42 <strong>THE</strong> ART<br />
44 <strong>THE</strong> CALENDAR<br />
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ON <strong>THE</strong> COVER<br />
& ON THIS PAGE<br />
RAY MARTINEZ<br />
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ERNESTO CASILLAS<br />
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<strong>THE</strong>EDITOR<br />
At the beginning of this month, on<br />
Sunday, December 1, lights turned<br />
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pylons at Los Angeles International<br />
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“Los Angeles County has the<br />
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FAMILIES<br />
Like birds of a feather—where everyone can<br />
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BY VICTOR MELAMED | PHOTO BY DUSTI CUNNINGHAM<br />
Four best friends, all working<br />
in the visual arts field, have<br />
proven that sometimes<br />
choosing your own family<br />
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network—a place where<br />
everyone can shine and be<br />
their authentic selves.<br />
RAY MARTINEZ<br />
Raymond Martinez, film maker and<br />
visual artist, Ivan Nuñez, makeup artist,<br />
Ernesto Casillas, makeup artist, and<br />
Tony Medina, hair dresser and vintage<br />
fashionista all met through mutual<br />
friends around seven years ago.<br />
“After getting to know everyone more<br />
in depth we realized that we had a lot of<br />
things in common—especially a passion<br />
for art. We all became family,” say Ray<br />
Martinez in an interview with <strong>THE</strong> <strong>FIGHT</strong>.<br />
Martinez is a film creator and visual<br />
artist from Los Angeles. Being a life<br />
long horror fan has highly influenced<br />
his work in many ways, he tells <strong>THE</strong><br />
<strong>FIGHT</strong>. He’s inspired mainly by a lot<br />
of 70’s and 80s horror slasher films,<br />
especially from Darrio Argento. The use<br />
of bright colors and hues of reds, blues,<br />
and pinks, are also a staple in his work.<br />
As a film creator he loves challenging<br />
himself to work on projects outside his<br />
comfort zone.<br />
IG: https://instagram.com/rayyymartinez<br />
IVAN NUÑEZ<br />
Ivan Nuñez, a first generation<br />
Mexican American, says his make up interest<br />
“began as a teen playing with my<br />
moms make up and wanting to emulate<br />
her style; drawing and painting the<br />
faces of magazine high fashion models<br />
on canvas became my pastime… this<br />
“I REMEMBER LOOKING<br />
AT EVERYONE AND<br />
FEELING LIKE … ‘THIS<br />
IS WHERE I BELONG’<br />
AMONG FRIENDS<br />
AND ARTISTS AND AN<br />
ENTIRE COMMUNITY<br />
THAT CELEBRATES<br />
EACH O<strong>THE</strong>R.”<br />
hobby ultimately led into what’s been<br />
a lucrative and rewarding journey into<br />
the professional Los Angeles beauty<br />
industry. Make up is my passion and I<br />
live it everyday.”<br />
Nuñez, says his all-time favorite<br />
memory of being together happened<br />
“one night at club Puteria…. the group<br />
and all our friends came out (no pun intended<br />
) dressed up, ready for absolute<br />
debauchery, and I remember looking<br />
at everyone and feeling like … ‘this is<br />
where I belong’ among friends and<br />
artists and an entire community that<br />
celebrates each other.”<br />
IG: https://instagram.com/shablamgela<br />
ERNESTO CASILLAS<br />
Born and raised in Los Angeles,<br />
Ernesto Casillas is an Emmy winning<br />
makeup artist with a decade of experience<br />
under his belt working with celebrities,<br />
mostly women of color.<br />
“I first met Ivan through Myspace<br />
over ten years ago, and I had the biggest<br />
crush on him,” he reveals. “I used<br />
to chat with him online, but I was too<br />
shy to actually ask him out. We stopped<br />
talking once Myspace died out, but a<br />
few years later we met each other at<br />
this party Evita when it used to be in<br />
Hollywood, and we became best friends<br />
almost instantly.”<br />
“I’ve met most of my queer friends<br />
through social media, and that’s one of<br />
the positive things that has come out<br />
of this social media era,” says Casillas.<br />
“The ability to connect with other queer<br />
people, no matter how far or close they<br />
are. It’s amazing.”<br />
IG: https://instagram.com/ernestocasillas<br />
TONY MEDINA<br />
Tony Medina, professionally known by<br />
his business name “His Vintage Touch”,<br />
describes himself as a “Mama’s Boy.”<br />
A native Angeleno, Medina considers<br />
himself “a vintage fashionista, that<br />
not only dresses in vintage fashion,<br />
but has made it a part of my art form…<br />
I’m a working hairdresser, specializing<br />
in vintage glamour. I’ve brought<br />
my vintage touch to stars like Lil Kim,<br />
Zendaya, Amber Rose, Paris Hilton,<br />
Cardi B, and I am best know my work<br />
on the modern queen of vintage glamour,<br />
Dita Von Teese.”<br />
Medina says the friends featured in<br />
this article are “a tight knitted group of<br />
Latinx artists in LA that collectively have<br />
became my tribe.”<br />
“When we are all here in LA, I try<br />
to have everyone over for food and<br />
drinks,” reveals Medina. “We all catch<br />
up, have a few drinks, talk about our<br />
travels, new projects, talk a little shit,<br />
and roast each other! These are my<br />
FAVORITE memories with my sisters!”<br />
IG: https://instagram.com/hisvintagetouch<br />
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HOLiDAYS<br />
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Coping with prejudice,<br />
discrimination and<br />
end-of-year stressors<br />
BY JAMES GUAY, LMFT<br />
Holiday experiences are so<br />
wide and varied that they can<br />
conjure up a diverse array of<br />
thoughts, feelings and memories.<br />
For some, they’re the best time of<br />
the year and for others it’s a continual<br />
reminder of what’s missing. As <strong>LGBTQ</strong><br />
people, we face additional challenges.<br />
So how do we learn to move from<br />
merely surviving the Holidays to thriving<br />
in the present moment?<br />
Holiday Blues—including loneliness,<br />
disappointment, grief, stress, and sadness—hits<br />
people of all genders, sexual<br />
orientations, ages, races, bodies and<br />
differing abilities.<br />
Frequent holiday stressors are: too<br />
many or too few holiday commitments;<br />
financial strains of gift giving & extra<br />
expenses; grief from breakups and lost<br />
loved ones; family estrangement; family<br />
drama; travel stress; and less daylight &<br />
colder weather.<br />
When we’re expected to be happier<br />
and are around people who have an<br />
extra step in their stockings, it can highlight<br />
that we’re not in sync and increase<br />
our holiday blues. When we’d rather not<br />
celebrate THAT holiday or feel inundated<br />
with constant reminders, it can<br />
increase our holiday blues.<br />
Typical advice for coping with the<br />
holidays include: get organized; budget;<br />
don’t overcommit; take breaks; pace<br />
yourself; don’t bring up politics/religion<br />
at family events; remember what it’s all<br />
about; and be grateful.<br />
And while those might be helpful<br />
reminders, what do we do when we’re just<br />
not into it or worse, experiencing holidayrelated<br />
rejection, abandonment or trauma?<br />
While there’s greater acceptance of<br />
us overall in society<br />
there are still far<br />
too many families<br />
that are intolerant<br />
or even hostile toward<br />
their <strong>LGBTQ</strong><br />
relatives. Given that<br />
we usually don’t have<br />
<strong>LGBTQ</strong> parents, we often<br />
miss out on the validation,<br />
support and instruction<br />
on how to cope with a<br />
homophobic, biphobic, and<br />
transphobic society…especially in<br />
the Trump era of decreasing protections<br />
and increasing hate.<br />
How do we cope with prejudice and<br />
discrimination in addition to the other<br />
end-of-year holiday stressors?<br />
First, let’s be honest with ourselves.<br />
Let’s admit that this is actually happening,<br />
if not to ourselves, to others within<br />
our community. We don’t need to gloss<br />
over things. That can be a form of gas<br />
lighting where we know something is<br />
very wrong but others around us ignore<br />
or question our reality. When we resist<br />
or minimize the facts of the present moment,<br />
this often leads to stuckness and<br />
voluntary entrapment.<br />
Let’s also recognize that not all families<br />
are alike. Blood is not always<br />
thicker than water in many of<br />
our lived experiences. While<br />
some of us have rockstar families<br />
who vote with us, march at<br />
Pride and welcome our chosen<br />
family, others of us face continual<br />
and repeated assaults to our very<br />
being-ness. Family estrangement is<br />
real, and strong boundaries including<br />
no contact can be exactly what’s needed<br />
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EXPLORING<br />
QUEER KINSHIP<br />
Photographs by disabled, queer artist and activist<br />
Robert Andy Coombs at the Palm Springs Museum of Art<br />
The “Touching History: Stonewall<br />
50” exhibition at the Palm<br />
Springs Museum of Art—running<br />
through March 19, 2020—features,<br />
among others, photographs by<br />
disabled, queer artist and activist Robert<br />
Andy Coombs.<br />
Bringing together an intergenerational<br />
group of contemporary artists working in photography<br />
and collage, the exhibition explores<br />
queer kinship, care, and community through<br />
the immediacy and intimacy of touch.”<br />
Self-described as, “Ballsy, charming,<br />
devastatingly handsome, homosexual,<br />
yooper, disabled, artist, activist,” Coombs<br />
is currently working towards his Masters<br />
in Fine Art Photography at Yale University.<br />
Grateful to be a part of the historic exhibition,<br />
Coombs says: “I am just glad that I<br />
can get the topic of disability and sexuality<br />
out to the masses, and more specifically, to<br />
have the opportunity to show that there are<br />
disabled queers out here. We need to be<br />
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About the inclusion of Coombs work,<br />
“Touching History: Stonewall 50” curator<br />
David Evans Franz says, “Robert’s work<br />
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sex-positive imagery of disabled people, as<br />
well as the collaborative process in which<br />
they are produced.”<br />
More about the Touching History:<br />
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More about Robert Andy Coombs at<br />
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