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CPS Wraps up School Year with Queer Prom Full Scholarship Available VOL 32, NO. 35 MAY 17, 2017 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com PARTY TIME! ‘PARTS’ TIME CPS wraps up school year with Queer Prom Nightclub personality Amanda Lepore on her new book, Doll Parts. From Queer Prom 2017. STORY ON PAGE 11 Photo by David Nguyen 17 Photo by Vern Hester JESS O’CONNELL Tamara CHICAGO GeNDER SOcietY RICHARD E. GraNT DNC hires first Trans movie makes local premiere Group marks 30 years. Movie/theater actor is in Lyric Former CGS President Olivia Connors (left) and lesbian CEO. at Chicago Latino Film Fest. President Nicole Richmond. Photo from Richmond Opera’s My Fair Lady. Photo from The Washington Blade 7 Cast/crew8 photo by Jerry Nunn 20 19 8 PR photo 16 @windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com Full scholarship available for transgender veterans to learn coding { SEE PAGE 9 FOR MORE DETAILS 2 May 17, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES PRIDE ACTION TANK presents SUMMIT ON OUR POSSIBILITIES MAY 23-25 MAY 23 SPONSORS OPENING RECEPTION LEAD SPONSOR FREE AND OPEN TO ALL Lambda Legal Hosted at Affinity Community Services HOST SPONSORS 2850 S. 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Hunt | [email protected] #OUTAGING WINDY CITY TIMES May 17, 2017 3 NEWS State abortion bill passes; column 4 DCFS director signs pro-LGBTQ policy 6 DNC has first lesbian CEO 7 Chicago Gender Society turns 30 8 Gay alderman needs guards after threats 10 CPS prom photos 11 VIEWPOINTS: Sukie; letter 12 ENTERTAINMENT/EVENTS Queer Black choreographer J’Sun Howard 13 HUMAN INDEX FIRST GALA // DOWNLOAD THIS ISSUE AND BROWSE THE ARCHIVES AT Theater reviews 14 www.WindyCityTimes.com Richard E. Grant interview 16 Amanda Lepore on her book 17 NIGHTSPOTS 18 VOL 32, NO. 35 MAY 17, 2017 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com Trans-centered film at Chicago Latino Film Fest 20 Classifieds 22 PARTY TIME! Calendar Q 22 ‘PARTS’ TIME CPS wraps up school year with Queer Prom Nightclub personality Amanda Lepore on her new book, Doll Parts. From Queer Prom 2017. SToRy on PAgE 11 Photo by David Nguyen 17 Photo by Vern Hester JESS o’ConnEll TAMARA ChICAgo gEndER SoCIETy RIChARd E. gRAnT DNC hires first Trans movie makes local premiere Group marks 30 years. Movie/theater actor is in Lyric Former CGS President Olivia Connors (left) and lesbian CEO. at Chicago Latino Film Fest. President Nicole Richmond. Photo from Richmond Opera’s My Fair Lady. Photo from The Washington Blade 7 Cast/crew8 photo by Jerry Nunn 20 19 8 PR photo 16 TEN @windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com Full scholarship available ABOVE: WCT reviews the production Paradise Blue. XUBERANT for transgender veterans to learn coding { SEE PAGE 9 FOR MORE DETAILS Photo by Lara Goetsch YRS online exclusives at www.WindyCityTimes.com MODEL BEHAVIOR Chicago House held its annual spring brunch and fashion show (left). Photo by Ed Negron ‘MAy’ I? Gala Co-Chairs Human First 2017 Honoree Duane M. DesParte + John C. Schneider Fred Eychaner Anne Kaplan Celebrate Ten Years and our Robert Kohl + Clark Pelle honoree with a very special Laura Ricke s + Brooke Skinner Ricke s performance by Dionne Warwick , Michael + Cari Sacks dance to Maggie Speaks and THE SOUND OF MUSIC Nan Schaffer + Karen Dixon Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus Artistic more at The Geraghty Chicago Director Jimmy Morehead talks about the group’s upcoming shows. CENTERONHALSTED.ORG/XTRAVAGALA #RISEWITHUS THAT’S SHOW BIZ Find out the latest about John Waters, Robin Roberts and Frank Ocean. The Legal Council for Health Justice held its annual May Ball. plus Photo by Carrie Maxwell SPARCINC.COM DESIGN: DAILY BREAKING NEWS 4 May 17, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES Reproductive-rights Open To Thinking measure heads GUEST COLUMN to Rauner’s desk BY RAMON GARDENHIRE BY Matt SIMONETTE Congress pulled the plug on our friends, A measure ensuring that access to legal abortions remains viable in Illinois should Roe v. Wade be co-workers, neighbors and loved ones overturned, on May 10, passed the Illinois State Seven years ago, I sat with my friend Kali Trump’s plan, the American Health Care Act Senate and is headed for the desk of Gov. Bruce in his Brooklyn apartment and watched, in (AHCA), couldn’t be more different than its Rauner, who has said he would veto the legisla- amazement and a little bit of shock, as Con- predecessor, the ACA. If passed, the hast- tion. gress enacted into law the Affordable Care ily assembled AHCA would kick 24 million The bill, HB 40, was passed in the Senate in a Act (ACA). On that day, I knew that decades Americans off insurance, allow insurance 33-22 vote. Besides ensuring that a “trigger law” of work from thousands of people toward companies to not cover pre-existing condi- that would again make abortion illegal again in making healthcare accessible to all—not just tions again, cut $880 billion out of Medicaid, the event of a Supreme Court reversal does not to the wealthy, the able-bodied, the people and far worse. come to pass, the legislation also frees up Medic- in power—was worth it. Meanwhile, America already has a health- aid funds to pay for abortions. I watched a livestream of a very different care plan that helps more than 24 million It is that latter component that has been the vote in the U.S. House recently with my col- Americans and over 1.2 million Illinoisans sticking-point with Rauner. His office said the leagues at the AIDS Foundation of Chicago. thrive, including 12,000 people living with Medicaid aspect was “controversial,” so he there- HIV in Illinois! The ACA guarantees things fore would not sign it. Rauner reportedly offered like health insurance coverage for cancer to sign if the bill’s chief sponsor in the House, “If passed, the hastily screenings and flu shots, access to high- state Rep. Sara Feigenholtz (D-Chicago) would quality marketplace plans (and financial as- drop the provision, but she refused. The bill was assembled AHCA would kick sistance to purchase insurance coverage), sponsored in the Senate by state Sen. Heather 24 million Americans off and perhaps most importantly, an incredible Steans (D-Chicago). insurance, allow insurance opening of the doors to better public health Rauner’s opponents and reproductive-rights through the expansion of Medicaid. advocates cried foul on Rauner, claiming that Gov. Bruce Rauner. companies to not cover pre- Despite an outpouring of resistance from he was reneging on campaign promises that he Photo from official website existing conditions again, constituents around the country and in Il- would not govern as a social conservative. Terry linois, the U.S. House, including all seven Cosgrove, CEO of the pro-choice organization Per- cut $880 billion out of options,” said Feigenholtz in a statement. “The Illinois House Republicans, pulled the plug sonal PAC, released a 2014 questionnaire wherein Medicaid, and far worse. on the American people. Several of those Il- Rauner, then a gubernatorial candidate, indicated burden of giving millions of women in Illinois these fair and equal rights now rests squarely on linois House Republicans broke promises they his pro-choice leanings. made to their constituents when they voted “I applaud Sen. Heather Steans and my col- the shoulders of Bruce Rauner.” She added, “After repeated threats from the My feelings couldn’t have been more dif- for the AHCA, saying they would preserve leagues in the Senate for standing up for wom- ferent than they were seven years ago. It’s care for vulnerable Illinoisans while voting en’s rights today. Illinois took another important White House and President Trump’s remarks to strip abortion rights away from women, this leg- depressing and maddening to think that the to dismantle the system that provides that step towards healthcare equality for all women hard work and victories America has made lifesaving care. Shame on them! who deserve access to all reproductive health islation was necessary to safeguard a woman’s right to make decisions that affect her personal over healthcare inequity could be lost for We now turn our attention to the Senate. health in Illinois.” good if the Republican agenda led by Presi- We must make them hear the voices and see HB 40 passed in the House on April 25 with a dent Donald Trump succeeds. I immediately the faces of the 1.2 million Illinoisans who Chuck Hyde vote of 62-55. thought of my late uncle, who died last year rely on the healthcare access that the ACA from AIDS-related complications in Texas be- and Medicaid provide. We will not allow this memorial May 21 cause the state wouldn’t expand Medicaid—a bill to become law. Together, we will save our A memorial for former Sidetrack manager Madigan, others call clear foreshadowing of efforts of Republicans care! Chuck Hyde will be held Sunday, May 21, 1-5 to undermine the health of millions.
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