Gay We Weekend | Out the Veyard

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• CASE STUDY: "GAY" W
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• MORE W G OUT SUPPORT OF GAY MARRIAGE
• NATIVE AMERIN WEMAKER TARA GOMEZ IS MAKG HISTORYCHEERSCOURTY ADRIAN TIEMENSTARA GOMEZ IS THE FIRST NATIVE AMERIN WEMAKER THE U.S. AND IS PRODUCG A RANGE OF ACCLAIMED W ON CHUMASH LAND SANTA BARBARA.VICTORIA JAMUPDATED MAR. 12, 2020 10:40AM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 12, 2020 4:47AM EDT FOR THE LAST 15,000 YEARS, MEMBERS OF THE CHUMASH INDIAN TRIBE HAVE LIVED CALIFORNIA ON LAND THEY BELIEVED WAS GIVEN TO THEM BY THE GODS. THEIR ORIGAL TERRORY RAN OM MALIBU TO MONTEREY UNTIL SETTLERS CRAMMED THEM ONTO A SLIVER OF PROPERTY, A 127-ACRE RERVATN NEAR SANTA BARBARA.TODAY, THE AREA IS MORE WELL-KNOWN FOR S W RATHER THAN THE HISTORY OF THE CHUMASH PEOPLE, BUT THAT MIGHT SOON CHANGE. TARA GOMEZ IS A SPIRED WOMAN WH A VIVAC CHUCKLE THAT OFTEN PEPPERS HER SENTENC. HER FATHER WAS A CHUMASH TRIBAL ELR AND HER MOTHER IS OM THE PUEBLO TRIBE ARIZONA. SHE IS THE ONLY CERTIFIED NATIVE AMERIN WEMAKER THE UNTRY AND PRODUC W WH HER TRIBE AT THEIR CAMP 4 VEYARDS. IN 2010, THE CHUMASH BOUGHT A 1,400-ACRE PLOT KNOWN AS CAMP 4 FOR AN UNDISCLOSED PRICE TO BUILD HOG FOR THEIR GROWG TRIBE. IT WAS PURCHASED OM LATE ACTOR, VTNER AND HOTELIER FS PARKER, AND CLUD A 256-ACRE VEYARD. THE MONEY TO PURCHASE THE VEYARD ME OM REVENUE BUILT OM THE TRIBE’S CHUMASH CASO RORT, WHICH HAS ALSO HELPED ENHANCE THE LIV OF THEIR TRIBAL MEMBERS AND FAI BY PROVIDG JOBS, QUALY HEALTH RE AND EXCELLENT TNAL BENEFS. “I AM A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THIS STORY,” GOMEZ EXPLAED TO ME. “WH THE FANCIAL SUPPORT OF MY TRIBE, I WAS ABLE TO GO OFF TO LLEGE AND GET MY GREE ENOLOGY.” COURTY Ká W THE V PRODUCE QUALY U AND A NUMBER OF BRANDS, CLUDG KUN AND RAILSBACK FRèR, ALL BUY U OM CAMP 4. THE CHUMASH TRIBAL ELRS REALIZED THAT ADDN TO BUILDG HOG ON THE LAND, THEY ULD OPERATE A PROFABLE GRAPE-GROWG BS.THAT’S WHEN GOMEZ ASKED THE TRIBE TO ALLOW HER TO GIVE BACK. THE CHUMASH HAD ALREADY FUND HER TN AT CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSY OF FRNO. THE TRIBE IS ONE OF THE FEW SOVEREIGN NATNS THE WORLD THAT FANC HIGHER TN FOR ALL S TERTED MEMBERS, PLACG STRONG BELIEF THEIR YOUTH. GOMEZ WENT ON TO BEE THE ENOLOGIST/LAB MANAGER AT J. LOHR VEYARDS & W AND THEN SPENT TWO YEARS HIGH UP THE PYRENE MOUNTAS CATALONIA, LEARNG TRADNAL STYL OF WEMAKG. SHE LATER STUDIED WH WEMAKERS THROUGHOUT SPA, FRANCE AND GERMANY. WHEN HER TRIBE PURCHASED CAMP 4, SHE REALIZED SHE ULD SPEARHEAD THE PROJECT, BRG REVENUE FOR HER PEOPLE AND PERHAPS CREATE A NEW NARRATIVE.THE WE BRAND THEY STARTED, Ká, WHICH TRANSLAT TO “OUR VALLEY OAK” THE CHUMASH NATIVE LANGUAGE OF SAMALA, HAD S FIRST VTAGE 2013. IT’S ONLY BEEN A FEW YEARS, BUT ALREADY GOMEZ HAS STACKED UP AN IMPRSIVE AMOUNT OF POTS, MEDALS AND BUZZ AROUND THE PROJECT. AT THE SAME TIME, GOMEZ AND HER TRIBE HAVE HAD TO FACE ENORMO CHALLENG.“IT’S SACRED LAND TO ; ’S VERY MEANGFUL,” SHE TOLD ME. “BUT UNFORTUNATELY, YEAH, WE HAVE TO BUY BACK.” EVEN HEAVIER IS THE PHBACK OM THE MUNY. IN 2019, A JUDGE VALIDATED THE CISN TO MAKE CAMP 4 PART OF THE CHUMASH RERVATN. KENH KAHN, TRIBAL CHAIRMAN FOR THE SANTA YNEZ BAND OF CHUMASH INDIANS, SAID A STATEMENT TO A LOL TV STATN, “CAMP 4 HAS ALWAYS BEEN HISTORIC TRIBAL LAND, AND THE TRIBE WILL NTUE TO FIGHT TO ENSURE AQUATE HOG FOR S MEMBERS.” THERE WERE MANY OBSTACL ALONG THE NEARLY -LONG JOURNEY OF PLACG CAMP 4 TO THEIR LAND TST, CLUDG LAWSUS FILED BY LOL OPPOSN GROUPS.   ADVERTISEMENT HOWEVER, A HISTORIC MOMENT ON DECEMBER 17, 2019, THE U.S. SENATE VOTED TO PASS THE NATNAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATN ACT, WHICH CLUD LANGUAGE DIRECTG THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERR TO TAKE CAMP 4 TO FERAL TST FOR THE SANTA YNEZ BAND OF CHUMASH INDIANS. ON DECEMBER 20, 2019, PRINT TMP SIGNED THE BILL. AS I DROVE AROUND CAMP 4 WH GOMEZ, SHE POTED TO SWATHS OF EMPTY LAND WHERE WILD BUFFALO ROAM AND WHERE THE TRIBE HOP TO BUILD HOM. “IT’S STILL GOG TO TAKE A NUMBER OF YEARS BEFORE THIS LAND REALLY FEELS LIKE OURS. AGA.” GOMEZ LEAV THE BURECRACY TO THE ELRS AND FOC STEAD ON THE GRAP. “WE WERE ALWAYS TGHT TO RPECT THE LAND GROWG UP, TO BE BALANCE. I E OUT HERE BEFORE THE PICK THE MORNG AND SAY MY PRAYERS EVERY DAY. HIGH UP ON THAT HILL, I PRAY THAT EVERYONE HAS A GOOD HARVT.” WHEN WE DRIVE BY A PILE OF STICKY GRAPE STEMS SHE REMARKS THAT GROWG GRAP IS A PARTNERSHIP WH MOTHER EARTH. “WE CREATED A POST PROGRAM. EVERYTHG I TAKE OM THE EARTH IS GIVEN BACK.” WH Ká, THE BT W ARE AN HOMAGE TO ELEMENTS OF THIS PLA. T’AYA, WHICH MEANS ABALONE SHELL SAMALA, IS A WAXY AND OILY DREAM OF MARSANNE AND ROSANNE. SPE’Y (MEANG “FLOWER”) IS A CHEERFUL BLEND OF GRENACHE, CARIGNAN, AND SYRAH, AND KALAS (“BREATHE”) IS A SLEEK HOMAGE TO THE RIGHT-BANK BORX WH MERLOT AND CABER FRANC DOMATG.GOMEZ ALSO HAS A SI PROJECT WH HER CATALAN PARTNER, MIREIA TARIBó. “WE ARE A TEAM OF TWO WEMAKERS, WIFE AND WIFE.” AS AN HOMAGE TO TARIBó’S NATIVE LANGUAGE AND WHERE THEY MET, THE LABEL IS LLED CAMS 2 DREAMS (THE PATH TO OUR DREAMS). WHILE Ká IS A REFLECTN OF HER TRIBE’S LAND AND STORY, CAMS 2 DREAMS IS ALL HER OWN. WH KA, SHE REMARKS “HOW MANY TRIBAL MEMBERS ARE THERE NOW? [I HAVE] 120 BOSS!” SHE’S NOT JOKG, ALL OF THE VOTG MEMBERS OF THE TRIBE GET A SAY ON HOW THE WE IS MA.  ADVERTISEMENT COURTY Ká W FOR HER OWN PROJECT, THE W ARE MUCH MORE SVAGE—SHE ONLY NATIVE YEAST TO FERMENT THE WE. AND SHE FOC ON VARIETI THAT SPOKE TO HER DURG HER TRAVELS, LIKE GRüNER VELTLER AND SYRAH. GOMEZ MENTNS THAT HER FAVORE REGN IS CôTE-RôTIE AND WHILE TASTG HER LEATHERY AND GAMEY SYRAH ’S EVINT THAT SHE IS A TE DISCIPLE OF THE NORTHERN RHôNE. GOMEZ ADMS THAT SHE HAS FACED CRICISM AND HAS BEEN NSTANTLY QUTNED. AFTER “G BACK OM THE PYRENE, I KNEW YOU ULD PICK A B EARLIER AND STILL HAVE RIPENS BUT PEOPLE WOULD ALWAYS ASK, ‘ARE YOU SURE?’ AND Y! I WAS SURE, AND THEY REALIZED I WAS RIGHT.” THERE ARE FEW FEMALE WEMAKERS WORKG TODAY, EVEN FEWER OF LOR, AND PRACTILLY NONE THAT ARE OPENLY GAY. WHEN I ASKED GOMEZ IF SHE HAD EVER EXPERIENCED EQUALY, SHE LGHED, “OH YEAH! IT’S KD OF, LIKE, EVERYWHERE. IT’S TOUGH THE WE DTRY, IS MALE-DOMATED. EVEN LLEGE, I WAS ONLY ONE OF TWO WOMEN TO GRADUATE OM THE ENOLOGY PROGRAM. I’VE ALWAYS FACED [EQUALY] AND ALT WH , WHICH IS WHY I DON’T WANT TO BE LIKE THAT. I’VE ALWAYS FELT THAT I AM EQUAL TO YOU, WE ARE ALL THIS TOGETHER, WE ARE ALL ON THIS TEAM AND WE ALL E TOGETHER TO HELP EACH OTHER.”THE WE WORLD IS DOMATED BY MALE AND WHE WEMAKERS. HOWEVER, THE DIGENO PEOPLE OF THE LAND ARE, PERHAPS, MORE EVOLVED. IN MANY NATIVE AMERIN TRIB, WOMEN ARE SEEN AS EQUALS TO MEN, AND CHUMASH WOMEN ULD SERVE EQUALLY AS CHIEFS AND PRITS. GOMEZ ECHO THIS, “THE WOMEN ARE VERY POWERFUL THE NATIVE MUNY.” ADVERTISEMENT DAVID W. MACHACEK AND MELISSA M. WILX WRE SEXUALY AND THE WORLD’S RELIGNS “WHEN SPANISH EXPLORER JUAN CABRILLO FIRST ENUNTERED THE CHUMASH OF THE SOUTH COAST OF CALIFORNIA, HE AND HIS MEN WERE GREETED WARMLY AND HOSPABLY—IMAGE THEIR SURPRISE AT BEG WELED BY THE SOVEREIGN LEAR OF A POWERFUL NATN—A WOMAN.” PERHAPS THE LAST HURDLE FOR GOMEZ AND HER TRIBE IS THE LONG OUTDATED BUT UNFORTUNATELY STILL PRENT STEREOTYPE OF THE “DNK INDIAN.” THE SHAMEFUL LLECTN OF STIGMAS AND MYTHS SURROUNDG ALHOLISM AND NATIVE AMERINS OM THE RACIST IOLOGY THAT FUELED LONIALISM. TO SET THE RERD STRAIGHT, NATIVE AMERINS AREN’T GEILLY MORE SCEPTIBLE TO ALHOLISM. THE ISSUE OF ADDICTN THE DIGENO MUNY IS A SOCIAL ONE, NOT GEIC. TO BAT ADDICTN THEIR TRIBE, THE CHUMASH ARE HELPG THEIR YOUTH THROUGH TN AND EMPOWERG THEM TO BEE SELF-STAG. THE CAMP 4 VEYARDS ARE A CCIAL PIECE THIS PUZZLE, PROVIDG JOBS, REVENUE AND A LEGACY FOR THEIR PEOPLE.GOMEZ IGNOR THE MYTHS AND REERAT HOW SERLY HER PEOPLE TAKE THEIR SACRED RUALS. “AT OUR POW WOWS, THERE IS NO ALHOL ALLOWED. EVERYTHG THAT VOLV PRAYER AND SPIRUALY IS KEPT SEPARATE. WE MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE MDFUL.”  WHEN I ASKED HER HOW THE ELRS FELT ABOUT BEG PRODUCERS OF ALHOL, ALBE THE FORM OF WE, SHE SISTED THEY DIDN’T SEE THAT WAY. INSTEAD, IS “ANOTHER WAY TO SHARE OUR STORY OF OUR CHUMASH TRIBE.”GOMEZ’S STORY AS THIS UNTRY’S FIRST DIGENO WEMAKER IS EVINCE OF HOW EMPOWERG ONE PERSON A MUNY N LIFT UP THE WHOLE VILLAGE. VICTORIA JAM
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CASE STUDY: "GAY" W

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NATIVE AMERIN WEMAKER TARA GOMEZ IS MAKG HISTORYCHEERSCOURTY ADRIAN TIEMENSTARA GOMEZ IS THE FIRST NATIVE AMERIN WEMAKER THE U.S. AND IS PRODUCG A RANGE OF ACCLAIMED W ON CHUMASH LAND SANTA BARBARA.VICTORIA JAMUPDATED MAR. 12, 2020 10:40AM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 12, 2020 4:47AM EDT FOR THE LAST 15,000 YEARS, MEMBERS OF THE CHUMASH INDIAN TRIBE HAVE LIVED CALIFORNIA ON LAND THEY BELIEVED WAS GIVEN TO THEM BY THE GODS. THEIR ORIGAL TERRORY RAN OM MALIBU TO MONTEREY UNTIL SETTLERS CRAMMED THEM ONTO A SLIVER OF PROPERTY, A 127-ACRE RERVATN NEAR SANTA BARBARA.TODAY, THE AREA IS MORE WELL-KNOWN FOR S W RATHER THAN THE HISTORY OF THE CHUMASH PEOPLE, BUT THAT MIGHT SOON CHANGE. TARA GOMEZ IS A SPIRED WOMAN WH A VIVAC CHUCKLE THAT OFTEN PEPPERS HER SENTENC. HER FATHER WAS A CHUMASH TRIBAL ELR AND HER MOTHER IS OM THE PUEBLO TRIBE ARIZONA. SHE IS THE ONLY CERTIFIED NATIVE AMERIN WEMAKER THE UNTRY AND PRODUC W WH HER TRIBE AT THEIR CAMP 4 VEYARDS. IN 2010, THE CHUMASH BOUGHT A 1,400-ACRE PLOT KNOWN AS CAMP 4 FOR AN UNDISCLOSED PRICE TO BUILD HOG FOR THEIR GROWG TRIBE. IT WAS PURCHASED OM LATE ACTOR, VTNER AND HOTELIER FS PARKER, AND CLUD A 256-ACRE VEYARD. THE MONEY TO PURCHASE THE VEYARD ME OM REVENUE BUILT OM THE TRIBE’S CHUMASH CASO RORT, WHICH HAS ALSO HELPED ENHANCE THE LIV OF THEIR TRIBAL MEMBERS AND FAI BY PROVIDG JOBS, QUALY HEALTH RE AND EXCELLENT TNAL BENEFS. “I AM A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THIS STORY,” GOMEZ EXPLAED TO ME. “WH THE FANCIAL SUPPORT OF MY TRIBE, I WAS ABLE TO GO OFF TO LLEGE AND GET MY GREE ENOLOGY.” COURTY Ká W THE V PRODUCE QUALY U AND A NUMBER OF BRANDS, CLUDG KUN AND RAILSBACK FRèR, ALL BUY U OM CAMP 4. THE CHUMASH TRIBAL ELRS REALIZED THAT ADDN TO BUILDG HOG ON THE LAND, THEY ULD OPERATE A PROFABLE GRAPE-GROWG BS.THAT’S WHEN GOMEZ ASKED THE TRIBE TO ALLOW HER TO GIVE BACK. THE CHUMASH HAD ALREADY FUND HER TN AT CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSY OF FRNO. THE TRIBE IS ONE OF THE FEW SOVEREIGN NATNS THE WORLD THAT FANC HIGHER TN FOR ALL S TERTED MEMBERS, PLACG STRONG BELIEF THEIR YOUTH. GOMEZ WENT ON TO BEE THE ENOLOGIST/LAB MANAGER AT J. LOHR VEYARDS & W AND THEN SPENT TWO YEARS HIGH UP THE PYRENE MOUNTAS CATALONIA, LEARNG TRADNAL STYL OF WEMAKG. SHE LATER STUDIED WH WEMAKERS THROUGHOUT SPA, FRANCE AND GERMANY. WHEN HER TRIBE PURCHASED CAMP 4, SHE REALIZED SHE ULD SPEARHEAD THE PROJECT, BRG REVENUE FOR HER PEOPLE AND PERHAPS CREATE A NEW NARRATIVE.THE WE BRAND THEY STARTED, Ká, WHICH TRANSLAT TO “OUR VALLEY OAK” THE CHUMASH NATIVE LANGUAGE OF SAMALA, HAD S FIRST VTAGE 2013. IT’S ONLY BEEN A FEW YEARS, BUT ALREADY GOMEZ HAS STACKED UP AN IMPRSIVE AMOUNT OF POTS, MEDALS AND BUZZ AROUND THE PROJECT. AT THE SAME TIME, GOMEZ AND HER TRIBE HAVE HAD TO FACE ENORMO CHALLENG.“IT’S SACRED LAND TO ; ’S VERY MEANGFUL,” SHE TOLD ME. “BUT UNFORTUNATELY, YEAH, WE HAVE TO BUY BACK.” EVEN HEAVIER IS THE PHBACK OM THE MUNY. IN 2019, A JUDGE VALIDATED THE CISN TO MAKE CAMP 4 PART OF THE CHUMASH RERVATN. KENH KAHN, TRIBAL CHAIRMAN FOR THE SANTA YNEZ BAND OF CHUMASH INDIANS, SAID A STATEMENT TO A LOL TV STATN, “CAMP 4 HAS ALWAYS BEEN HISTORIC TRIBAL LAND, AND THE TRIBE WILL NTUE TO FIGHT TO ENSURE AQUATE HOG FOR S MEMBERS.” THERE WERE MANY OBSTACL ALONG THE NEARLY -LONG JOURNEY OF PLACG CAMP 4 TO THEIR LAND TST, CLUDG LAWSUS FILED BY LOL OPPOSN GROUPS.   ADVERTISEMENT HOWEVER, A HISTORIC MOMENT ON DECEMBER 17, 2019, THE U.S. SENATE VOTED TO PASS THE NATNAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATN ACT, WHICH CLUD LANGUAGE DIRECTG THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERR TO TAKE CAMP 4 TO FERAL TST FOR THE SANTA YNEZ BAND OF CHUMASH INDIANS. ON DECEMBER 20, 2019, PRINT TMP SIGNED THE BILL. AS I DROVE AROUND CAMP 4 WH GOMEZ, SHE POTED TO SWATHS OF EMPTY LAND WHERE WILD BUFFALO ROAM AND WHERE THE TRIBE HOP TO BUILD HOM. “IT’S STILL GOG TO TAKE A NUMBER OF YEARS BEFORE THIS LAND REALLY FEELS LIKE OURS. AGA.” GOMEZ LEAV THE BURECRACY TO THE ELRS AND FOC STEAD ON THE GRAP. “WE WERE ALWAYS TGHT TO RPECT THE LAND GROWG UP, TO BE BALANCE. I E OUT HERE BEFORE THE PICK THE MORNG AND SAY MY PRAYERS EVERY DAY. HIGH UP ON THAT HILL, I PRAY THAT EVERYONE HAS A GOOD HARVT.” WHEN WE DRIVE BY A PILE OF STICKY GRAPE STEMS SHE REMARKS THAT GROWG GRAP IS A PARTNERSHIP WH MOTHER EARTH. “WE CREATED A POST PROGRAM. EVERYTHG I TAKE OM THE EARTH IS GIVEN BACK.” WH Ká, THE BT W ARE AN HOMAGE TO ELEMENTS OF THIS PLA. T’AYA, WHICH MEANS ABALONE SHELL SAMALA, IS A WAXY AND OILY DREAM OF MARSANNE AND ROSANNE. SPE’Y (MEANG “FLOWER”) IS A CHEERFUL BLEND OF GRENACHE, CARIGNAN, AND SYRAH, AND KALAS (“BREATHE”) IS A SLEEK HOMAGE TO THE RIGHT-BANK BORX WH MERLOT AND CABER FRANC DOMATG.GOMEZ ALSO HAS A SI PROJECT WH HER CATALAN PARTNER, MIREIA TARIBó. “WE ARE A TEAM OF TWO WEMAKERS, WIFE AND WIFE.” AS AN HOMAGE TO TARIBó’S NATIVE LANGUAGE AND WHERE THEY MET, THE LABEL IS LLED CAMS 2 DREAMS (THE PATH TO OUR DREAMS). WHILE Ká IS A REFLECTN OF HER TRIBE’S LAND AND STORY, CAMS 2 DREAMS IS ALL HER OWN. WH KA, SHE REMARKS “HOW MANY TRIBAL MEMBERS ARE THERE NOW? [I HAVE] 120 BOSS!” SHE’S NOT JOKG, ALL OF THE VOTG MEMBERS OF THE TRIBE GET A SAY ON HOW THE WE IS MA.  ADVERTISEMENT COURTY Ká W FOR HER OWN PROJECT, THE W ARE MUCH MORE SVAGE—SHE ONLY NATIVE YEAST TO FERMENT THE WE. AND SHE FOC ON VARIETI THAT SPOKE TO HER DURG HER TRAVELS, LIKE GRüNER VELTLER AND SYRAH. GOMEZ MENTNS THAT HER FAVORE REGN IS CôTE-RôTIE AND WHILE TASTG HER LEATHERY AND GAMEY SYRAH ’S EVINT THAT SHE IS A TE DISCIPLE OF THE NORTHERN RHôNE. GOMEZ ADMS THAT SHE HAS FACED CRICISM AND HAS BEEN NSTANTLY QUTNED. AFTER “G BACK OM THE PYRENE, I KNEW YOU ULD PICK A B EARLIER AND STILL HAVE RIPENS BUT PEOPLE WOULD ALWAYS ASK, ‘ARE YOU SURE?’ AND Y! I WAS SURE, AND THEY REALIZED I WAS RIGHT.” THERE ARE FEW FEMALE WEMAKERS WORKG TODAY, EVEN FEWER OF LOR, AND PRACTILLY NONE THAT ARE OPENLY GAY. WHEN I ASKED GOMEZ IF SHE HAD EVER EXPERIENCED EQUALY, SHE LGHED, “OH YEAH! IT’S KD OF, LIKE, EVERYWHERE. IT’S TOUGH THE WE DTRY, IS MALE-DOMATED. EVEN LLEGE, I WAS ONLY ONE OF TWO WOMEN TO GRADUATE OM THE ENOLOGY PROGRAM. I’VE ALWAYS FACED [EQUALY] AND ALT WH , WHICH IS WHY I DON’T WANT TO BE LIKE THAT. I’VE ALWAYS FELT THAT I AM EQUAL TO YOU, WE ARE ALL THIS TOGETHER, WE ARE ALL ON THIS TEAM AND WE ALL E TOGETHER TO HELP EACH OTHER.”THE WE WORLD IS DOMATED BY MALE AND WHE WEMAKERS. HOWEVER, THE DIGENO PEOPLE OF THE LAND ARE, PERHAPS, MORE EVOLVED. IN MANY NATIVE AMERIN TRIB, WOMEN ARE SEEN AS EQUALS TO MEN, AND CHUMASH WOMEN ULD SERVE EQUALLY AS CHIEFS AND PRITS. GOMEZ ECHO THIS, “THE WOMEN ARE VERY POWERFUL THE NATIVE MUNY.” ADVERTISEMENT DAVID W. MACHACEK AND MELISSA M. WILX WRE SEXUALY AND THE WORLD’S RELIGNS “WHEN SPANISH EXPLORER JUAN CABRILLO FIRST ENUNTERED THE CHUMASH OF THE SOUTH COAST OF CALIFORNIA, HE AND HIS MEN WERE GREETED WARMLY AND HOSPABLY—IMAGE THEIR SURPRISE AT BEG WELED BY THE SOVEREIGN LEAR OF A POWERFUL NATN—A WOMAN.” PERHAPS THE LAST HURDLE FOR GOMEZ AND HER TRIBE IS THE LONG OUTDATED BUT UNFORTUNATELY STILL PRENT STEREOTYPE OF THE “DNK INDIAN.” THE SHAMEFUL LLECTN OF STIGMAS AND MYTHS SURROUNDG ALHOLISM AND NATIVE AMERINS OM THE RACIST IOLOGY THAT FUELED LONIALISM. TO SET THE RERD STRAIGHT, NATIVE AMERINS AREN’T GEILLY MORE SCEPTIBLE TO ALHOLISM. THE ISSUE OF ADDICTN THE DIGENO MUNY IS A SOCIAL ONE, NOT GEIC. TO BAT ADDICTN THEIR TRIBE, THE CHUMASH ARE HELPG THEIR YOUTH THROUGH TN AND EMPOWERG THEM TO BEE SELF-STAG. THE CAMP 4 VEYARDS ARE A CCIAL PIECE THIS PUZZLE, PROVIDG JOBS, REVENUE AND A LEGACY FOR THEIR PEOPLE.GOMEZ IGNOR THE MYTHS AND REERAT HOW SERLY HER PEOPLE TAKE THEIR SACRED RUALS. “AT OUR POW WOWS, THERE IS NO ALHOL ALLOWED. EVERYTHG THAT VOLV PRAYER AND SPIRUALY IS KEPT SEPARATE. WE MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE MDFUL.”  WHEN I ASKED HER HOW THE ELRS FELT ABOUT BEG PRODUCERS OF ALHOL, ALBE THE FORM OF WE, SHE SISTED THEY DIDN’T SEE THAT WAY. INSTEAD, IS “ANOTHER WAY TO SHARE OUR STORY OF OUR CHUMASH TRIBE.”GOMEZ’S STORY AS THIS UNTRY’S FIRST DIGENO WEMAKER IS EVINCE OF HOW EMPOWERG ONE PERSON A MUNY N LIFT UP THE WHOLE VILLAGE. VICTORIA JAM

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“I glazed over my homosexualy for years, but then I had an out gay tastg room manager and he started outg me to people. ”Courty of Josh DelongonJosh DelongonSommelier and -founr of Endls Wt Spirs“I remember brgg a we textbook to a dg class and readg about the cs of Bejolais stead of whatever else we were learng that day, ” says gay Filipo-Canadian sommelier Josh Delongon, reflectg on the wdg trajectory that led to his current rol as -founr of spirs pany Endls Wt and manager of Blackwell's W and Spirs San Francis. ” Whether he’s guidg folks toward unexpected purchas at the shop or, more famoly, makg hilar—not to mentn super rmative—vios on Instagram as @sommeligay, Delongon is on a missn to queer the we world jt about every way possible.

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”“In the world of stereotypil ‘gay’ jobs, pleasure-centric reers like drag queens, fashn signers, or mm curators, we never name the sommelier, the flavor analogue of such exampl, ” m Delongon. Or go on a kayakg adventure or take an LGBTQIA+ history tour nearby Itha, named by The Advote as one of the “10 Bt Ci for Gays and Lbians to Live. For sleepg, there are no shortage of LGBTQIA-owned and queer-iendly acmodatns cludg the Inns of Aurora, The Chalet of Canandaigua Bed & Breakfast, Benn Conger Inn, and Juniper Hill Bed & a veyard Sonoma County, CaliforniaWh over 400 weri, you’ll need lots of weekends Sonoma County to see and drk all, but the summertime Gay We Weekend giv you a great first taste of the area’s legendary chardonnay, pot noir, svignon blanc, and more.

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You n’t make for Gay We Weekend, Out the Veyard sponsors several other events throughout the year like Pk Sonoma Saturday (held late October for 2021), an all-day tastg of the area’s bt rosés. Base yourself LGBTQIA-welg Bloomgton (which The Advote lled the fourth gayt cy Ameri) and take your pick of opulent and historic acmodatns like the Showers Inn, Wampler Hoe Boutique Hotel, and Grant Street Inn; have bison burgers wh garlic i at FARMbloomgton or creative vegetarian dish like pto portobello at The Owlery; and explore exhibs on sexualy, relatnships, and well-beg at the world-renowned Ksey Instute.