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Primary endorsements See WiG’s endorsements for key Sept. 14 Tom Nelson Democratic primary races on pages 6 and 7. for Lt. Gov. THE VOICE OF PROGRESS FOR WISCONSIN’S LGBT COMMUNITY August 26, 2010 | Vol. 1, No. 21 Suit seeks to overturn registry By Louis Weisberg istry and it went into effect in Staff writer August 2009. A Christian-right group is As of the beginning of suing to overturn Wisconsin’s August, 1,541 couples had domestic partner registry on signed up. the grounds that it violates “A reasonable person the state’s constitutional ban observing this registry would on same-sex marriage or easily conclude that it is anything “substantially simi- intended to mirror marriage,” lar” to marriage. Julaine Appling, president of Wisconsin Family Action Wisconsin Family Action, said filed suit in Dane County in a statement. “It borrows Circuit Court Aug. 20, con- the requirements and eligibil- tending that the registry cre- ity standards for marriage, ates a legal status that is even to the point of requiring substantially similar to that that the price of the registry of marriage. The WFA also certificate be the same as for was behind the 2006 voter a marriage license.” referendum that resulted in But Katie Belanger, the constitutional ban. executive director of Fair Gov. Jim Doyle proposed Wisconsin, countered that the registry as a means of the registry’s 43 benefits do granting same-sex couples not compare in scope with basic legal rights, including the 200 rights that come with the right to visit each other marriage under state law. in hospitals, make end-of- “These are the most basic, life decisions and inherit critical things that couples each other’s property. The need to have to take care of Democratic-controlled one another,” she said. Legislature approved the reg- The current lawsuit is the second filed by WFA against the registry. In July 2009, the group tried but ultimately This failed to take its case directly AT THE NET to the Supreme Court, forc- Tom Springstroh and Dino Mujakovic enjoy open play following the Milwaukee Gay Volleyball Asso- issue ing WFA to re-file at the ciation’s regular league play Aug. 22 at Beulah Brinton Community Center, 2555 S. Bay St. in Bay inside and online at circuit court level. View. The league numbers 18 teams and 130 players. Outdoor league play continues through Sep- wisconsingazette.com Republican Attorney tember. The season closes with a league tournament Oct. 3. The league moves indoors in Novem- General J.B. Van Hollen ber. For information about joining the league, go to milwaukeegayvolleyball.com. News Registry page 18 PHOTO: DAN ZAIT Z WiGWAG ��4 Wisconsin Gaze............5 Regional Gaze ��8 Editorial �� 10 Prop 8 stay prolongs engagements National Gaze �� 14 By Lisa Neff But a three-judge panel of case, Perry v. Schwarzenegger. in August, in a widely antici- Immediately after Walker Features Staff writer the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of The case challenges pated ruling, U.S. District issued his decision, Prop 8 WiGOUT �� 25 After a federal district Appeals silenced their wed- Proposition 8, a ballot ques- Court Judge Vaughn Walker proponents, who defended Art Gaze �� 26 court judge lifted his stay ding bells by reinstating the tion approved by a majority of declared Prop 8 unconsti- the measure in court after Interview �� 30 on same-sex marriages in stay Aug. 16. The good news voters in 2008 that amended tutional because it violates Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger On the Town �� 33 California, couples were pre- for same-sex couples is the the California Constitution the equal protection and due and Attorney General Jerry Community Events.... 34 pared to legally exchange appeals court set a fast-track to prohibit same-sex couples process rights of gay and les- Brown refused to participate vows Aug. 18. schedule for reviewing the from legally marrying. Early bian citizens. Prop 8 page 12 2 W ISCO N SI N G AZ E TT E . COM | August 26, 2010 During the month of August, Peabody's is offering 25% off of all Hickory Chair purchases and one hour free design consultations. WE HAVE ARRIVED!VISIT US IN OUR NEW SHOWROOM. EXPERIENCE THE INTRIGUE. 8655 N. Deerwood Drive Brown Deer, WI 53209 414.962.4550 peabodysinteriors.com W ISCO N SI N G AZ E TT E . COM | August 26, 2010 3 4 W ISCO N SI N G AZ E TT E . COM | August 26, 2010 LGBT news with a twist WiGWAG By Lisa Neff & Louis Weisberg BIAS IN SHOREWOOD Coulter of legitimiz- president. Gibbs told the Hill N.C., where she and filmmaker If you’re thinking of hiring a ing sodomy. newspaper, “I hear these people Rod Murphy plan to make a docu- wedding planner for your same- saying (Obama’s) like George Bush. mentary together about the city’s sex commitment ceremony, don’t GINGRICH Those people ought to be drug Miss Gay Latina transgender beau- bother contacting Sharon at GOES tested. I mean, it’s crazy.” ty pageant. Elegant Affairs. The Shorewood- TO THE FAIR based company would never con- Newt Gingrich went to the Iowa NO ANGEL ON TRIAL sider working with a same-sex State Fair recently to sell copies of German pop singer Nadja couple due to “religious beliefs,” his comically-titled new book, “To Benaissa, a member of the girl she told WiG. We didn’t bother Save America: Stopping Obama’s band No Angels, went on trial asking what religion she follows, Secular-Socialist Machine,” and to in mid-August for allegedly caus- but we were wondering where denounce judges who denounce ing bodily harm. The prosecution Sharon draws the line with her unconstitutional campaigns to contends that Benaissa engaged in beliefs. For instance, would she continue prohibitions against mar- P H OTO : C O U RT E S Y unprotected sex despite knowing hire a gay florist or dress designer? riage for gays and lesbians. The Paul Reubens claims he she’s HIV-positive. She transmitted Or would she refuse to do busi- former U.S. house speaker and can’t do anything with his the virus to a man, for which she ness with them, too? probable 2012 presidential candi- left hand – not anything! told the press she is “sorry from date said the Iowa justices who my heart.” cleared the way for gays to marry were “dictatorial” and urged their On THE OTHER HAND THROWING IN ouster. Perhaps Gingrich, who’s Paul Reubens aka Pee-wee THE HatE TOWEL on his third wife, thinks he’s an Herman told Playboy that an Perennially embattled radio authority on marriage. He cheated expert witness could have exon- talk show host Laura Schlessinger on the first two while they were erated him of 1991 charges that announced she will not renew the seriously ill. he was masturbating at a porn the- contract for her program, which P H OTO : C O U RT E S Y ater. Police reports said Reubens ends in December. She told CNN’s Vivien Leigh in Scarlett’s BIG, Fat GAY was masturbating with his left “Larry King Live” that she wants legendary green dress. WEDDING hand and he’s totally right-handed, to “regain my First Amendment Art Smith, 50, who is Oprah Reubens explained. rights.” Schlessinger said she was Winfrey’s former chef and co- “We had ready an expert from fed up with the fallout over her GOWN WITH owner of the Table Fifty-Two the Masters and Johnson Institute use of the “N” word during a THE WIND? restaurant in Chicago, wed artist who was going to testify that in recent broadcast in which she The Harry Ransom Center at Jesus Salgueiro, 49, before more 30 years of research on masturba- used it 11 times in five minutes. the University of Texas-Austin is than 400 guests at Smith’s Art and tion the institute had never found raising $30,000 to repair five of Soul restaurant on Capitol Hill one person who masturbated with PRIDE AND patIENT the gowns Vivien Leigh wore as in Washington Aug. 21. The lavish his or her nondominant hand,” Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, one of Scarlett O’Hara in the film “Gone P H OTO : C O U RT E S Y gala included a nine-tiered wed- Reubens said. three defendants on trial for con- with the Wind.” “GWTW” fans She’s no Judy Garland. ding cake, a 10-man chorus and 14 He also told Playboy that he spiring to provide excessive drugs would likely recognize all five, but guest chefs. The diverse guest list turned to the late philanthropist to Anna Nicole Smith, noted in especially the green curtain gown LEAVE JUDY included Fox News broadcaster Doris Duke to help him hide out a personal journal that he and that symbolized Scarlett’s “I will OUT OF THIS Chris Wallace, former NFL line- from the press after his arrest. Smith partied during a gay Pride survive” will. The dresses are in Right-wing diva Ann Coulter man Warren Sapp and Chicago She put him up at her New Jersey parade. The journal entries were rough shape after more than 60 has been dropped as a keynote drag queen Chilli Pepper. estate in the cottage recently introduced as evidence in the Los years, so the center decided to speaker for WorldNetDaily’s vacated by Imelda Marcos. Angeles trial of Kapoor, who wrote conduct a fundraising drive. Will “Taking America Back National of blurring the lines between doc- it reveal just how much the public Conference” because of her plans HELP wantED? tor and patient and worried, “Can gives a damn? to address a gay Republican event WiGWag is guessing there will she ruin me?” Drugs, no doubt, called “Homocon” in New York be no federal stimulus money used ruined Smith’s life, who died of an City Sept.

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