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OUT: Hillel
provides
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now a board member of the
Atlanta chapter of Parents,
Families and Friends of
Lesbians and Gays is her
biggest supporter.
They walked together in
the Atlanta Pride Parade
Sunday.
Though Brandino said
she is happy now, she strug
gled between her high school
sophomore and senior years
with her decision to come
out.
Her core group of friends
diminished, and she didn’t
seek support from the
school’s gay student organi
zation because “if you went
there, you were gay,” she
said.
“Looking back, it was a
stupid decision because
everyone there was in the
same boat,” she said. “At the
beginning of my senior year,
I decided I was going to be
happy. If I was comfortable,
other people were going to
be comfortable.”
A Jewish Lesbian
Brandino said coming out
at college is easier than in
high school because college
students are more mature
and respectful of differences.
She has found a safe
space at Hillel, a University
Jewish student center, where
she is the director of engage
ment.
“It’s ‘come how you are,’”
Brandino said. “Most of my
Jewish friends are really
accepting. I feel they’re more
open-minded.”
She said the Bible’s vers
es against homosexuality
don’t change her views.
“I think people use the
Bible, the Torah, to back up
arguments about homosex
uality, but there’s so many
other lines about stoning
people, you shouldn't eat
shellfish, that you can’t pick
out one line and say we’re
going to carry this over thou
sands of years and say this is
how we should make our
laws,” she said.
With more people coming
out, more people know
someone who is gay, she
said. And it might make a
difference in legislative set
tings. Those who pass laws
might consider gay people
they know instead of a
general group of people
when they consider extend
ing marriage rights.
Brandino met her girl
friend of eight months at a
University rugby practice.
She didn’t know at first if
her girlfriend was gay. A
friend found out for her.
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▲ Amanda Brandino came out to her friends and
family in high school. However, she said coming
out in college may be easier for some students.
They go on dates. They
take turns paying.
“I wouldn’t say one of us
is the boy and one of us is
the girl," Brandino said. “It
just works.”
She said she probably has
it easier than a gay guy.
“Boys have more pressure
to be manly and macho and
be on the football team. You
can be gay in those things
too, but I think most gay
boys don’t fit into that mold.
A lot of straight boys don’t
too,” she said.
On the other hand, girls
can play soccer or softball,
she said, and people just
think they enjoy sports.
Plus, lesbian relationships
are more acceptable to guys
than gay ones, she said.
After being hit on down
town once, she told the
Casanova she had a girl
friend.
“He said, ‘You should
totally make out and I’ll
watch,’” she said. “I don’t
think any boy would say or
admit that boys kissing is
attractive.”
Downtown, Brandino
may be attractive because of
her sexuality. But at the hair
salon, she worries it may be
a different story.
“I could be sitting, get
ting my hair cut and the
lady asks, ‘Do you have a
boyfriend?”’ Brandino said.
“I want to say, ‘No, I have a
girlfriend,’ but I’m afraid my
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hair is going to come out
terrible if she has some
homophobic agenda. I have
to always decide: is this a
safe place for me to be
myself?”
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After Brandino gradu
ates, she plans to attend
graduate school for either
speech pathology or audiol
ogy.
And she wants to get
married, but she doesn’t
think she would move to
another state if same-sex
marriage were not legal yet
in Georgia.
“I don’t think I would
move to have a piece of
paper,” she said. “But it
would definitely be some
thing that was missing until
I was able to do it.”
She wants to have chil
dren too. She’s not opposed
to either giving birth or
adopting.
If she could rewind histo
ry to the day she first told
someone she was gay,
Brandino said it would be
easier overall not to tell.
But she wouldn’t change
her decision.
“I think now that that’s
part of my identity, I
wouldn’t choose anything
else,” she said. “I think the
country is moving more
toward acceptance. I’d like
to think that.”
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NEWS
FAKE: Fines, fees up ID cost
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here for fake IDs because we’ve been
able to get rid of all of them through
pretrial diversion," he said.
Through the pretrial diversion pro
gram, first-time fake ID offenders can
pay S3O a month for up to six months
of probation and serve community ser
vice hours on top of a S3OO fee all to
keep charges off their records.
An individual’s eligibility for the
program is left to the discretion of the
judge and prosecutor, but people with
out criminal histories facing minor
charges almost always get in the pro
gram.
“I’ve never seen a pretrial applica
tion be rejected, but I suppose some
cases in which it could be rejected is if
somebody was very rude with the offi
cer and the officer noted in the report
that this person was belligerent,” Jones
said. “They figure people coming here
to Athens, usually away from home for
the first time, 18, 19, they’re gonna do
stupid things and get into trouble and
they shouldn’t have a mark on their
record for the rest of their lives.”
Sophomore and Red & Black sports
writer Chris D’Aniello was one of those
people who slipped up after coming to
Athens. He and a friend were arrested
and charged with underage possession
of alcohol and possession of a fake ID
on March 5.
D’Aniello officially entered the pre
trial program Monday.
D’Aniello acknowledges he did
something dumb. Still, he said he
couldn’t help but feel like the victim of
a system where police are willing to
search detained individuals’ wallets
without warrants, and when they find
what could be a fake ID, slap people
with extra charges.
In fact, since 2007 police have arrest
ed and charged 29 people with nothing
but possession of a fake ID. Add 70
fake ID charges coupled with traffic
violations, and about one fifth of the
453 fake ID arrests during that time
aren’t even related to alcohol.
“It’s a joke system. It just chums
stuff in and out,” D’Aniello said.
Jones explained fake ID charges
don’t often hold up in court because of
procedural issues with the way police
obtain IDs.
Although he had never seen a fake
ID case make its way in front of a
judge, Jones said that if it happened,
“There would be a pretty good shot at
getting it at least reduced or thrown
out.”
Unlike fake ID charges, most traffic
violations don’t require a person to see
the inside of a jail cell.
But because those nearly 100 people
were charged with possessing a fake
ID. they got to go down to the county
jail, pay hundreds of dollars in bail
bonds, often thousands in lawyers fees
and, for many of them, hundreds of
dollars more to enter the pretrial pro
gram.
But the cost isn’t only monetary.
Probationers are not allowed in any
place focused on selling alcohol. If
caught in a bar or liquor store, the
offenders could be kicked out of pre
trial, forfeiting the fees paid for the
program and forcing them to face the
charges they were originally trying to
divert.
Even getting caught in bar restau
rants such as Copper Creek or bar
music venues such as the 40 Watt can
end the person’s eligibility for the pre-
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trial program.
Luckily for D’Aniello. he has been
able to avoid the bars and liquor stores
and deal with the nearly $3,000 in costs
he has accrued related to his March
arrest.
“It hasn’t killed me. My parents
helped me out and then I worked over
the summer,” he said. “I basically
worked over the summer four days a
week and didn’t make anything from
it."
Although this money may be a lot
for the individuals arrested, the fines
don’t account for much of Athens-
Clarke County’s budget.
For fiscal year 2010, total revenue
came in at about $174 million. About
two percent of that revenue came from
fines and forfeitures, and only a small
fraction of that amount came from
fake ID arrests.
“You’re talking about pretty narrow
slices,” said David Mustard, an associ
ate economics professor specializing in
crime.“‘l don’t think that’s a big reve
nue generator for the county.”
Still, Mustard pointed out business
es such as law firms and bail bond
companies can make a good living off
the arrests, with fake ID charges alone
generating hundreds of thousands of
dollars in lawyers fees annually.
“Lawyers are always gonna go where
there's some market for their fees,” he
said. “If you have lots of arrests then
you can sustain a business or two or
three.”
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