* In the City Paper this week, Kim Chi Ha writes about the regulatory spotlight on Ziegfeld’s/Secrets, the lone SW gay club to survive the construction of Nationals Park. Post-baseball, the D.C. government has kept a close eye on the strip joint:

The club’s regulatory troubles were exacerbated by an ABRA investigation in December, in which two investigators “observed five to six nude male performers, standing on individual pedestals, each performing a sexual act on themselves (masturbation),” in apparent violation of D.C. Code, according to an agency report, which includes a grainy photo of one performer touching himself. Patrons were also observed “rubbing and massaging the performers about the body (not the genital area) and the performers did the same to the patrons,” the report notes.

* In Maryland, Dana Beyer is running for office in the hopes of becoming the “first out transgender person to win election to a state legislature.”

* Dear Prudence tackles sperm donation etiquette.

* Carmen Rios offers up “a big fuck you” to street harassers. That happens to be the phrase that I generally employ when harassed on the street. Similarly satisfying possible responses welcomed in the comments.

* Figleaf rejects the idea that”sufficient” progress has been made toward gender equality: “I happen to believe, correctly, that there’s been incredible progress, sure. But sufficient? . . . Just as something’s either legal or it’s not, you’re either equal or your not. And I think ‘sufficiently’ in this case means ‘closer to my comfort level” rather than ‘closer to equal.’”

* Sexist internal business: On Twitter, I now answer to @amandahess. “@” me!

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