PAGE 32 WINDY CITY THE VOICE OF CHICAGO’S GAY, LESBIAN, BI AND TRANS COMMUNITY SINCE 1985 nate berkus (center) on his March 19, 2014 new reality vol 29, no. 25 show TIMESwww.WindyCityMediaGroup.com LGBTs react to Vatican poll by Chuck Colbert same-sex couples (35 percent). olic organization, hostility and condemnation point to singer anne But at the parish level, only 11 percent viewed their suffering—feelings of rejection and ostracism experi- steele sets Recently released survey results from thousands of US parish as hostile or condemning of marriage equality, enced by many LGBTs. Catholics show widespread rejection of church teach- with 13 percent saying their parish held similar views “One of the saddest things the survey revealed is sights on ing on contraception, sexual morality, gay relation- of same-sex couples. A smaller number of respondents, how many people feel pain due to church teaching chicago ships and divorce. And while these results, coinciding three and four percent respectively, said their faith about relationships and families,” she said, referring page 26 with any number of findings from public opinion poll- communities were condemning or hostile of marriage to the nearly three-quarters of respondents who said ing are not new, what is new and noteworthy is an equality and same-sex couples. couples are aware when their relationships are not ac- attitudinal gap of decreasing animosity to LGBTs from Sure enough, findings on marriage equality for same cepted by the church and the nearly 70 percent who the hierarchy down to the grassroots. sex couples are strikingly at odds with hierarchical said these couples feel marginalized. For example, as the geography of the institutional leaders, who often vociferously oppose legal gay wed- “These numbers are tragic and heart-breaking. It in- entity became more local—from diocesan to parish to lock. At the same time, however, support for marriage dicates a deep pastoral crisis in our Church, and is a small faith community level—attitudes toward LGBTs equality for same-sex couples is “extremely important” good indication of why we see so many people leaving were viewed to be less hostile and condemning, ac- for 47 percent or respondents and “very important” for the Church,” Duddy-Burke said in press statement. cording to the survey. another 26 percent among the laity. In all, a whop- “The evidence continues to mount about the huge When respondents were asked to gauge attitudes at ping 73 percent or respondents strongly favor mar- gaping chasm between the attitudes, beliefs, and diocese, parish, or small faith community levels, more riage equality. than one-third (37 percent) viewed their dioceses Nonetheless, for Marianne Duddy-Burke, executive Turn to page 4 as hostile and condemning of marriage equality and director of DignityUSA, the nation’s oldest LGBT Cath- SPRING THEATER

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NVRLND’s ROYAL “QUEEN OF HEARTS” Show #565 Find Nightspots on www.WindyCityQueercast.com 4 March 19, 2014 WINDY CITY TIMES VATICAN from cover leader who can show compassion, inclusion, XVI and John Paul II, who are resisting Pope sensitivity, and love to the entire community.” Francis’ call for a pastoral approach,” Gramick “The [Holy] Spirit is moving amongst the explained. “In the future, we can reasonably practices of ordinary Catholics and the stance people and a leader who will listen to their expect even greater acceptance from Catholics and actions of our church leaders,” she added hopes will be critically important moving for- in the pew, but welcome by pastors and bish- during a recent telephone interview. “The cred- ward,” said Fitzgerald, referring to the 73-per- ops will be slower to come by. ibility of the hierarchy has eroded very quickly cent favorability response for marriage equality “New Ways Ministry continues to urge LGBT and has policy implications as well as pastoral in survey results. Catholics, their families, and allies to tell their implications.” “Chicago Catholics want leaders who will stories to Church leaders because personal con-

work with them in creating a church where tact is the basis for conversion of heart.” Survey’s genesis and purpose dialogue, consultation, and consensus are val- For her part, Lesbian feminist theologian In November, 15 U.S. Catholic church reform ued,” he explained. “Catholics want a leader Mary E. Hunt, Ph.D., co-founder and director of organizations responded to the Pope Francis’ who will move church teachings and pastoral the Silver Springs, Maryland-based Women’s Al- call for bishops globally to survey Catholics on care into the 21st century and be relevant to liance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (WATER), family issues, including same-sex couples and the ordinary lives of Catholics. The next leader offered a more sobering assessment. families. in the Chicago Archdiocese will need to be able The survey data make clear that same-sex The online questionnaire was completed by to respond to a serious yearning for a better, loving people and their families find scant wel- more that 16,000 Catholics in English and more inclusive church.” come and plenty of rejection in most parishes,” Spanish. Nearly 40 years old, Call To Action is a na- said, pointing to “One [Maryland] parish I Analyzed independently by Dr. Peter J. Fa- tional organization of Catholics working to know” that” “had sign up times after Masses gan, M.Div., PhD., from the Department of transform the Catholic Church, with an aim of to oppose a same-sex marriage referendum Psychology and Behavioral Sciences at Johns “to educate, inspire, and activate Catholics to with no opportunity for the other side to speak Hopkins School of Medicine, located Baltimore, Jim Fitzgerald, executive director of Call To act for justice and build inclusive communities much less gather support.” Maryland, the survey results highlight seven Action. Photo from organization through a lens of anti-racism and anti-oppres- For Hunt, real hope lies outside the insti- core issues of concern, including pastoral care; sion principles,” according to its mission state- tutional church. “It is only because of Digni- pedagogical and evangelism challenges; sepa- has alienated and who will be a source of wel- ment. tyUSA, women-church groups, and other pro- rated, divorced and remarried Catholics; same- coming and healing for the church of Chicago.” gressive Eucharistic communities that LBGTIQ sex marriage; women in the Church, sexual Voicing similar sentiments, gay-rights and National reaction Catholics have any reliable links to their tradi- abuse scandals, skepticism and hope, accord- Catholic activist Rick Garcia said, “This survey Just as Chicago LGBTs weighed in on survey tion,” she said. ing to a press release. confirms what those of us who are practicing results, theologians and LGBTs active in minis- “My view is that those groups, rather than In all, 53 percent of survey respondents Catholics know. There is a great divide between try offered their perspectives. the hierarchical church, are the carriers of the self-identified as weekly Mass-goers, which is the bishops of our Church and the people of Francis DeBernardo, executive director of Gospel in our time. Perhaps the hierarchy will higher Mass attendance than the overall U.S. the Church. American Catholics overwhelmingly New Ways Ministry, sounded a positive chord one day learn from them,” Hunt added. “In the Catholic average of 31 percent in 2011. support gay and lesbian people’s civil rights, in his assessment. meantime, I urge people to engage in sacra- The Midwest US Census region had the larg- same-sex couples, and those who are divorced “This news is hopeful in a number of ways,” ment and solidarity where their lives are re- est number (32 percent) of respondents even and remarried. This survey should be a wake-up he said referring to the survey. “First, the sheer spected and their loves are taken seriously.” though Midwest accounts for just 22 percent of call to our bishops who are largely out of touch volume of the laity’s response means that bish- the nation’s Catholic population. with their flock.” ops cannot ignore such obvious empirical evi- European, Asian bishops’ survey reports In December 2013, a short summary of the “It is noteworthy,” he added, “that the Vati- dence. Second, the fact that these responses Unlike their counterparts in Germany, Swit- quantitative data and a document containing can has asked for Catholic’s opinions on this are coming from people who are concerned zerland and Japan, U.S. bishops have not re- each and every written comment and response issue and while some countries’ bishops have enough about the future of Catholicism to re- ported survey results. was sent to Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, Gen- taken that seriously the American hierarchy spond to the questions means that bishops will Japanese and German bishops, moreover, eral Secretary of the Synod on the Bishops and has largely turned a blind eye to the Vatican’s have to pay attention to these results. Third, were blunt in their publicized comments. the Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz, President of desire to know the mind of the faithful. This is a number of European bishops have already As the German bishops’ 18-page report put it: the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. unfortunate. But, I hope that this pontificate noted that these results are opening their eyes “The church’s statements on premarital sexual The survey analysis was delivered to the U.S. will continue to engage Catholics in the pews to realities they did not know existed.” relations, on homosexuality, on those divorced cardinals attending a recent consistory, or as- and challenge the bishops to be responsive to Nevertheless, DeBernardo voiced “caution and remarried and on birth control ... are virtu- sembly of cardinals and pontiff in Rome, in them and their needs.” about becoming too optimistic that sweeping ally never accepted, or are expressly rejected in preparation for the Synod on the Family in Oc- For his part, Joe Murray of the Rainbow Sash change is right around the corner.” As he ex- the vast majority of cases.” tober 2014, and to Cardinal Baldisseri. Movement, voiced concern that “the plight of plained, “Change in the church is evolutionary, German Catholics are about 30 percent of the The report is available in full, online: www. LGBT families with children is not lost in the not revolutionary.” overall population, which is 82 million. mycatholicfamily.org shuffle.” Altogether, “The best part of this survey is Equally pointed, Japan’s bishops, in a 15-

“It is my hope that every attempt be made to that it has set up an example of dialogue,” page report, said, “Contemporary [Japanese] Local reaction include individual LGBT families in the upcom- said DeBernardo. “I think that example will Catholics are either indifferent to or are un- In Chicago, Catholic gay-rights activists and ing synod’s discussion about them,” he added. be emulated by bishops and pastors who may aware of the teachings of the Church. church reform leaders voiced a variety of views Murray went further in his survey-assessment have previously been fearful of opening such a The number of Japanese Catholics is small— on the survey results, which some believe thoughts. In his view, Archbishop Wilton D. discussion.” only .35 percent of the population, which is ought to influence Pope Francis as he considers Gregory of Atlanta ought to be the pope’s New Ways Ministry’s co-founder Sister Jean- 127.6 million. a new spiritual leader for the local archdiocese, choice to replace Cardinal Francis George. nine Gramick also welcomed the survey’s find- DignityUSA, Call to Action, and WATER were which is the nation’s third largest. “We are witnessing a paradigm shift in the ings. among the 15 sponsoring groups for the survey. Chris Pett, a former president of Dignity/ Church,” Murray said, referring to Pope Francis’ “The survey results confirm the mission of ©Copyright. Chuck Colbert. All rights re- Chicago, said, “While the results of this survey emphasis on “love over the Church’s authority New Ways Ministry as one of justice and rec- served. are disturbing, those of us in the LGBT Catho- as the law giver.” onciliation of LGBT Catholics with the wider lic community are not surprised at the depth For that reason, Murray said, Gregory would Church,” she said, “giv[ing] us hope to con- of alienation and lack of pastoral concern for be a suitable successor. tinue our work.” those the institutional Church continues to “Gregory is a progressive and tends to pre- “The major challenge for us is the U.S. hi- marginalize and disrespect. fer dialogue over authoritarianism,” explained erarchy, mostly appointees of Popes Benedict “The responses reflect a pervasive experience Murray. “My experience with Gregory, when he of a church hierarchy that holds on to its ec- was in Chicago, was on the whole positive. clesial power—under the guise of its teaching “Whoever is George’s replacement, he will authority and its perceived mission to preserve have a different mindset with the focus on love NYC, Boston mayors the truth as they see it—without any real ex- and outreach which will be reflective of Pope perience of people’s lives, their challenges and Francis’.” their desire to come closer to a God who ex- George, 77, is now two years past the boycott parades tends unconditional love to all. church’s mandatory retirement age for prelates. “As Pope Francis considers his appointment A former Chicago seminarian, Gregory, who Hundreds of thousands of people attended parade because organizers are excluding gay of a new archbishop of Chicago, we trust that is African-American, served as president of the St. Patrick’s Day parades in New York City and groups, according to the Associated Press. he will choose a leader who is bound less by US Conference of Catholic Bishops from 2001- Boston. However, the leaders of those cities Before the event, Walsh said in an email he the demands of orthodoxy and more by the 2004, was Bishop of Belleville, Ill., from 1993 were missing. was disappointed he wouldn’t participate Gospel imperatives of love, healing and the ac- to 2004, and auxiliary bishop of Chicago from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did not because parade plans prevent all Boston ceptance of all who seek God and a spiritual 1983 to 1993. march in the nation’s largest St. Patrick’s Day residents from participating fully. Walsh and home in the church. The executive director of the Chicago-based parade, skipping one of his city’s signature U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch tried to broker a “Since Francis was elected pope and as he Call to Action said survey results point to celebrations because the event organizers deal that would have allowed a gay group to quickly raised his voice calling the church to church reform. refuse to let participants carry pro-gay signs, march, but the negotiations broke down. accountability to its true mission, our hope has “Once again, Catholics made clear their needs according to LGBTQ Nation. de Blasio became In addition, Irish brewer Guinness did not been that the calculus for selecting bishops and hopes for a just and inclusive Church,” the first mayor in decades to sit out the tra- participate in New York City’s St. Patrick’s will change and that Francis will raise up true said, Jim Fitzgerald, adding, “These significant ditional march along Fifth Avenue. In the Day parade this year, Reuters noted. Sam shepherds. Chicago represents a significant ap- survey findings must lead to substantial chang- parade, groups such as colleges or firefighter Adams brewer Boston Beer Co and Heineken pointment with national implications. Now is es for the good of the church we love.” groups that march can identify themselves; dropped their sponsorship of parades in Bos- the time for Francis to live up to his own ex- Asked about what the survey suggests about however, LGBT groups cannot. ton and New York, respectively, over the is- pectations and appoint an archbishop who ac- the next local spiritual leader, he said, “Like Boston Mayor Martin Walsh did not par- sue of equality. tually understands the pain of those the church all Catholics, Chicago Catholics want a pastoral ticipate in the city’s annual St. Patrick’s Day WINDY CITY TIMES March 19, 2014 5 In a statement, Human Rights Campaign Military report faults (HRC) Vice President for Government Affairs Al- Tenn. judge orders transgender ban lison Herwitt said, “Our military, like employers A commission that former U.S. Surgeon Gen- across the United States, is best served by en- injunction on marriage eral Dr. Joycelyn Elders co-chairs has released suring every qualified and talented individual a report concluding that the Pentagon’s ban can serve, without regard to gender identity.” By Lisa Keen cuit states, such as Tennessee. on transgender military service is not based on Keen News Service The lead plaintiffs, Drs. Valeria Tanco and sound medical reasoning, according to the As- Father arrested in Sophy Jesty, are both professors of veterinary sociated Press. In an important but narrow ruling, a U.S. dis- medicine who married in 2011, while living The Palm Center, a research initiative of the lesbian couple’s trict court judge in Nashville issued a prelimi- in New York. Other plaintiffs include Sergeant Department of Political Science at San Francis- nary injunction March 14, barring the state of First Class Ijpe DeKoe and Thomas Kostura mar- co State University, sponsored the commission. murder In Texas, James Larry Cosby, 46, has been Tennessee from denying recognition of mar- ried while living in New York, and John Espejo In one of the first and most detailed assess- charged with two counts of tampering with riage licenses obtained by three same-sex cou- and Matthew Mansell, who married in Califor- ments of the basis and impact of the current evidence in connection with the death of his ples in other states. nia. policy, the Transgender Military Service Com- daughter, Britney Cosby, and her girlfriend The order applies only to these three couples Trauger’s ordered noted that each couple, mission examined all medical and psychologi- Crystal Jackson, both 24, according to a Huff- and only while their lawsuit challenging the “When they interact with Tennessee officials or cal aspects of transgender military service, and ington Post article. state’s refusal to recognize marriage licenses fill out official forms to identify themselves as found inaccuracies in the Pentagon’s rationale The Galveston County Sheriff’s Office told lo- obtained by same-sex couples else is pend- married, they brace themselves for degrading for the policy, which remains in effect despite cal ABC affiliate KTRK that the alleged murders ing, said Shannon Minter, legal director for experiences that often occur because of Ten- the nullification of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” of both women appear to have taken place in the National Center for Lesbian Rights. But it nessee’s refusal to recognize their marriages.” Among the findings are that: James Cosby’s home. Britney Cosby reportedly represents yet another important victory for The Tennessean newspaper reported that the —Eliminating the ban would advance numer- died from blunt force trauma, while Crystal marriage equality, and another advance in a state’s attorney general is expected to defend ous military interests, including enabling com- Jackson was shot. Southern state. the state’s ban; there is no word yet on if the manders to better care for their service mem- Earlier in the week, James Cosby spoke to NCLR and long-time lesbian legal activist state will attempt to challenge Trauger’s very bers; and KTRK in regard to his daughter’s death. “You Abby Rubenfeld filed the lawsuit, Tanco v. Ten- limited order. —Medical conditions related to transgender can’t really put something like this into words,” nessee, on behalf of four couples last October. ©2014 Keen News Service. All rights re- identity are the only gender-related conditions he said at the time. (One couple subsequently dropped out of the served. requiring discharge irrespective of fitness for Jackson was reportedly a mother to a 5-year- lawsuit.) It challenges both the state consti- duty. old girl. tutional language and statutory laws that ban recognition of the marriages of same-sex cou- ples. Like so many other lawsuits filed in more than two dozen states around the country, the Tennessee lawsuit argues that the bans violate the couples’ rights to due process and equal protection under the U.S. Constitution. Judge Aleta Trauger (a Clinton appointee) said in the order she issued that “all signs in- dicate that, in the eyes of the United States Constitution, the plaintiffs’ marriages will be placed on an equal footing with those of heterosexual couples and that proscriptions against same-sex marriage will soon become a footnote in the annals of American history.” Trauger also noted that other pending law- suits in other states may well determine the ultimate outcome of the Tanco challenge. Minter pointed out that the lawsuit which just concluded a two-week trial in Detroit, for instance, could be appealed to the Sixth Cir- cuit U.S. Court of Appeals relatively soon and potentially deciding the law for other Sixth Cir-

Gay couples to get ACA coverage By Matt Simonette

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on March 14 announced that, beginning in 2015, all insurance companies offering cov- erage to opposite-sex couples in the Health In- surance Marketplace will have to offer the same coverage to same-sex couples. “Today, we are clarifying that, starting next year, if an insurance company offers coverage to opposite-sex spouses, it cannot choose to deny that coverage to same-sex spouses,” wrote Matthew Heinz, MD, director of Provider & LGBT Outreach, on HHS’ blog. “In other words, in- surance companies will not be permitted to discriminate against married same-sex couples when offering coverage. This will further en- hance access to health care for all Americans, including those with same-sex spouses.” The rule applies whether or not the state the couple resides in recognizes their marriage, and follows a lawsuit brought by an Ohio cou- ple, married in New York, who was denied fam- ily coverage through the Marketplace because Ohio does not recognize gay marriage, Bloom- berg reported. In January, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina cancelled the policies of about 20 couples who had already purchased couples policies through the Marketplace, ac- cording to the [Raleigh] News & Observer. 6 March 19, 2014 WINDY CITY TIMES Pro-marriage equality GOP rep. taking heat in bitter primary By KATE SOSIN Emanuel’s own stance on marriage equality and politicking, not on his sexuality. “I didn’t go to Springfield just to play de- “Now who’s stereotyping?” Proft said. “If you fense and take votes that were just safe and dance, you’re gay? I don’t think so.” easy,” state Rep. Ron Sandack said after he an- Proft says he is funneling between $150,000- nounced support for marriage equality last May. 200,000 into the Sandack primary. Cue the firefight. A committee disclosure reflects that Proft’s Sandack’s vote for marriage equality has PAC has already spent more than $106,000 on taken center stage in an ugly primary runoff the race, including more than $53,000 in cable against Republican opponent Keith Matune, a advertisements. When PAC contributions ex- local teacher and school board member. The ceed $100,000 in rep. races, campaign spend- campaign has embroiled the 81st District, ing caps are lifted. which encompasses parts of Downers Grove, Also named in the Matune/ Sandack effort Woodridge, Darien, Westmont, Bolingbrook and has been Dick Uihlein, owner of Uline, Inc., Naperville. which donated $1.5 million to Proft’s PAC in State Rep. Ron Sandack. Photo by Kate Sosin Sandack was one of just three House Repub- January, according to Illinois State Board of licans to vote for marriage equality. He voted Elections filings. Uline Inc distributes near WCT attacks use of groups to send divisive, hate-filled mailings against civil unions as a state senator in 2010. Chicago, among other locations, according to such as these,” Baim added. “But they are us- Sandack told Windy City Times that he had a its website. Uihlein could not immediately be copyrighted photos ing our image to sell a product, hate, and we change of heart following that vote. reached at his corporate offices, but Proft said did not give them permission. We ask that they “It became pretty clear to me that there’s in anti-gay campaign immediately stop using copyrighted photos.” always been a fundamental difference between Windy City Times newspaper is demanding The literature also attacks Sandack for receiv- a state or secular civil license and a religious that groups mailing bigoted, anti-gay attack ing donations from gay groups and individuals. ceremony,” he said. “So this became for me fliers against state Rep. Ron Sandack immedi- Sandack was one of three House Republica- about fundamental fairness, equality and free- ately stop using its copyrighted photos. tions among the 61 reps voting for marriage dom. This was a pro-family bill to me and that’s Literature sent by the Illinois Family Action equality in Illinois last fall. He represents the my conversion, my thought process.” and the Liberty Principles PACs both use the 81st District in the southwest suburbs. But not everyone in his district had the same same image of Sandack at a marriage equality Windy City Times is also pursuing other op- evolution. Read the rally in 2013, taken by Windy City Times staff tions, including possible legal action, to stop A barrage of mailings criticizing Sandack’s photographer Kate Sosin. The Liberty Principles the unauthorized use of its images. vote on equal marriage have hit area residents, March 18 primary PAC also sent literature out in favor of San- More details on the funding behind these and some are calling the mailings homophobic. dack’s opponent, Keith Matune, who has criti- attacks can be found at http://www.allvoices. The mailers come from Illinois Family Action, election results cized Sandack’s support of same-sex marriage. com/contributed-news/16686957-matunes- a political arm of the Illinois Family Institute “Conservatives claim to respect property lies-about-criminal-history-put-wls-host- and Liberty Principles PAC. rights,” said Tracy Baim, publisher of Windy dan-proft-in-ugly-light and http://www. Both groups aim to tie Sandack to Gay Lib- online at City Times. windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Pro-marriage- eration Network founder Andy Thayer, who Re- “Our Constitution protects the rights of these equality-GOP-rep-taking-heat-in-bitter-prima- publicans have depicted as a radical activist. www.WindyCity ry/46612.htm. The mailers use a copyrighted Windy City Times image, reprinted without permission, that MediaGroup.com. surely backfire,” said Equality Illinois CEO shows Sandack standing next to Thayer at a Outing threat no Bernard Cherkasov in a statement March 11. rally in his district. laughing matter “No one likes to be threatened or ridiculed, Sandack stood next to Thayer at the rally be- whether individually or as an institution, and cause he spoke after him to a crowd of same- By Matt Simonette with its commentary this publication surely sex marriage supporters. He also spoke to a has injected more cynicism and distrust in- A purportedly satiric article threatening to contingent of protesters opposed to the bill stead of raising awareness about their con- out five city council members unless they re- moments before. Sandack is believed to be the cerns. Such comments as were contained in spond to the demands of Chicago taxi drivers only state rep. to appear in person at a string the article are simply not funny and are not has sparked objections from gay-rights advo- of rallies held around the Chicago area last fall that Uihlein is like other donors to his PAC. to be excused.” cates and community members. in regards to marriage equality. “They want to see candidates who are com- The Illinois Transportation Trade Associa- The article, which the taxi-related trade But Dan Proft, a WLS radio talk show host mitted to the economic liberty policy agenda tion concurred. “The ITTA and our affiliated publication The Chicago Dispatcher pub- and head of the Liberty Principles PAC, said win elections, simple as that,” Proft said. taxi companies unequivocally condemn the lished March 6, said that the newspaper “has that Sandack’s appearance next to Thayer rais- Matune has also been tackling criticisms over piece that ran in today’s Chicago Dispatch- learned that five of the city’s 50 aldermen es important questions about his associations allegations that he tried to cover-up his arrest er and the hateful message it sends,” ITTA are closeted homosexuals. In the next issue and further clouds his credibility. record. Matune wrote on his Daily Herald can- spokesperson Angela Benander told CBS2 … we will disclose their names unless our Proft takes issue with characterizations of didate questionnaire that he had never been March 11. “This misguided attempt at parody demands are met. We did not want it to come his mailings as anti-gay. arrested. But multiple media reported that Ma- has no place in this discussion and demon- to this but our city government has been al- One of his mailers criticizes Sandack’s switch tune had been arrested in May 1991 on Virginia strates an extreme lack of judgment or sensi- lowing unfair competition in violation of the on the same-sex marriage issue, alongside warrant for passing a bad check and again in tivity. This shameful editorial certainly does law.” a picture of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in Indiana for public indecency the following not represent the beliefs of our association, Among the demands listed in the article, dance leotard. It reads, “Now we know where year. According to the Chicago Tribune, Matune the thousands of hardworking employees in which Dispatcher publisher George Lutfallah Ron Sandack learned to dance.” accused Sandack of threatening to release in- the transportation industry nor those of our wrote, are enforcing existing taxicab ordi- Lucy Lloyd lives in the district has strongly formation about his arrest. Sandack denied the valued customers.” nances; banning ride-sharing permanently; criticized the mailings and Keith Matune on her allegations of threatening Matune. and “requiring all rideshare drivers to go to ChicagoNow.com blog. She said she feels the Proft defends Matune as a veteran award- the DMV.” The article also makes jokes about marriage issue was on any easy one for the dis- winning teacher and school board member. Ma- Groups prepare female drivers: “Taxi driving is a male-dom- trict, but a lot of her neighbors felt the mailers tune did not respond to a request to comment. inated profession and it should remain that for Advocacy Day went too far, she said. Sandack told Windy City Times in his candi- way. The last place for a woman is behind The Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health, “People are pretty disgusted,” she said. date interview that as for the marriage issue, the wheel.” ACLU of Illinois and Chicago Abortion Fund “They think it’s horrible.” he polled his district and found that 54 percent The Dispatcher publishes many satiric ar- are hosting an Advocacy Day (April 3) to But Proft contends that his mailings target favored it. ticles—other topics include “Cabdriver Ac- raise awareness and ask for a repeal of the “If people want to vote for someone who Sandack over his changing stance on the issue, cidently Picks Up Black Man” and “Leaning parental notification of abortion law in Il- said, ‘these are my positions, and they’re un- not on his support for same-sex marriage. He Tower of Niles to be Straightened”—but the linois. flinching, and I’ll never change my mind,’ that’s says he is not homophobic, nothing that his outing article is not clearly labeled as satire. Advocacy Day 2014 will focus on amplify- certainly one representative,” Sandack said. “I PAC has backed candidates who support civil Officials from Equality Illinois did not find ing the stories of youth while encouraging changed my mind. I listened to the people of unions and same-sex marriage. the issues Lutfallah portrayed to be a matter intergenerational conversations around sex, the 81st [District]. I didn’t just listen to Re- “My mail pieces have very little to do with for comedy. sexuality, pregnancy, abortion and the ways marriage everything to do with trust,” Proft publican Primary voters.” “If the publication thought such a com- people can work together to create safe said. Windy City Times Publisher Tracy Baim is de- mentary would further the cause in the taxi spaces for these conversations. Asked whether the reference to Emanuel manding that any of its images used without drivers’ ongoing dispute with the city, it will Email [email protected] or call 312-427- dancing might be seen as a play on anti-gay permission be removed from any fliers, bro- 4460, ext. 236. assumptions, Proft said the mailer referred to chures or websites. WINDY CITY TIMES March 19, 2014 7 Longtime activist Greg Gravemier passes away By Matt Simonette

Greg Gravemier, 60, a longtime human-rights activist, passed away March 15 in Sterling, Va. The cause of his death has not yet been deter- mined, according to his partner of 37 years, Leland Roth. A native of Linton, Ind., Gravemier was espe- cially active in progressive causes in Decatur, Ill., where he lived for a number of years. He was an early member of the Gay and Lesbian Association of Decatur (GLAD), and stepped in as that organization’s second president in 1993. He also served on the Decatur Human Relations Commission, among many local or- ganizations. Gravemier had been editor of a newspaper in Casey, Ill., so he was especially savvy about utilizing local media in his activism work, said D.J. Boos. Photo courtesy of Brooke Benjamin Rick Garcia, now of The Civil Rights Agenda, who frequently worked on LGBT causes along- PASSAGES Donnaliegh R. Christie. He is survived by Aunt side Gravemier. Judy (Richard) Tipton and Chuck (Pat) De Garcia remembered GLAD’s contribution to Greg Gravemier. Photo courtesy of Leland Young. a statewide initiative called, “Equality Begins Roth D.J. Boos D.J. was the beloved uncle of Jamie E. Yager, D.J. Boos (Danny W. Boos, Jr.)—formerly of at Home” in 1999. “You would think that they Kimber K. and Keenan J. Boos-Harless, Maxine He understood where the power was, and how Beaverton, Mich., and 1997 Mr. Chicago Leath- would have just organized a rally in Decatur, and Jessie Christie, and the late Brandon Boos. to get things done, just by being a regular Cen- er—passed away unexpectedly March 14. He but instead they bought five billboards,” said He was the dearest friend of many in Chi- tral Illinois kind of guy.” was 48. Garcia. “Under his leadership, they had great cago’s LGBT community, for whom he often do- In May 2012, Gravemier wrote a letter to In 1989, after serving in the U.S. Marine visibility almost overnight.” nated his expertise and service at fundraising GLAD’s member newsletter, looking back on his Corps, D.J. moved to Chicago, where he em- Gravemier was an early winner of Equality Il- events. and Roth’s time in Decatur and the people they barked upon a long bartending stint at Bucks linois’ Freedom Award in 1998, back when the He will be deeply missed by all. met there: “Once in a while we corner a friend and Touche, which lead to a career as a super- organization was known as the Illinois Federa- The visitation took place March 16 at Herder- or two and tell them some of the many expe- visor at Service Is Us staffing, serving many tion for Human Rights. He and Roth moved to gen-Brieske Funeral Home, 1356 W. Wellington riences we had in Decatur. We will always be high-end catering clients. Virginia in 2001, where Gravemier worked for a Ave. grateful to the Decatur community, both gay He loved and was deeply loved by his second printing business. The final disposition will occur in Beaverton. and straight, for how they treated us during family and friends in Chicago. D.J. was also the Garcia said that Gravemier “stepped up to In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in our Decatur tenure.” beloved son of Jamie L. Boos of Beaverton. the plate and organized in the heart of the his name to Test Positive Aware Network (www. “He touched a lot of lives,” said Roth of his In addition, he was the devoted eldest sib- Heartland. It’s one thing to do that in Boys- tpan.com; 773-989-9400). partner. “I’m very proud of him.” ling of Melissa L. Yager, Christine K. Boos and town and another thing to do that in Decatur.

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Dissertation Fellowships in Lesbian and Gay Local cinema to Studies (at the University of Chicago), the run Focus on Family Jean Paul Ohadi Scholarship, the Joseph Harry Endowed Scholarship (Northern Illinois documentary University) and the U. Chicago School of Law By Matt Simonette Stonewall Scholarship. See CampusPride.org/Scholarships. A downtown theater is currently scheduled for a one-night showing of a film that the Colorado Springs, Colo.-based anti-gay group Jackson County Focus on the Family is sponsoring. issues first Sean Strub at Center on Halsted. Photo by Tracy Baim The film, titled Irreplaceable, is a docu- mentary lamenting the loss of so-called same-sex “traditional” families. While the film’s online trailer and promotional materials have no marriage licenses Strub reflects on past and anti-gay content, the connection with Fo- By Matt Simonette cus on the Family is highlighted. The film is scheduled to be broadcast nationally May 6 Downstate Jackson County is the most recent present AIDS activism at several theaters, among them the Show- addition to the growing list of Illinois coun- Place ICON Theatre, 1011 S. Delano Ct. E. ties allowing marriage equality ahead of the By Matt Simonette The respect for the action has increased over ICON General Manager Gene Hobbs was not previously planned June 1 start date. the years, he said, adding that the Church at aware of the event and said that it would Jackson County Clerk Larry Reinhardt told For writer and activist Sean Strub, the early the time was trying to interfere in New York have been arranged through one of the the- the Southern Illinoisan that Attorney Gen- days of AIDS activism were about “getting state’s sex education rules as well as dis- ater’s bookers, NCM Fathom, which special- eral Lisa Madigan’s affirming the right of people together and building communities.” couraging condom use. “[The demonstration] izes in alternate entertainment events for county clerk’s to issue same-sex marriage Though those years were stressful and difficult, helped in a period of peak Catholic influence in movies theaters. Among NCM Fathom’s other licenses spurred his decision. activists “showed the best face of what the American politics and society,” said Strub, who offerings are the popular Metropolitan Opera “We were only three months away from broader community was about.” was raised in a Catholic family. Live broadcasts. (the legislation’s original) implementation,” Strub, who founded both the Sero Project The influence of AIDS activist groups began Representatives from NCM Fathom, based Reinhardt said. “I didn’t think it was worth and Poz Magazine, visited Center on Halsted, to dwindle in the mid-1990s, moving to what in Centennial, Colo., did not immediately re- the chance to open us up for a lawsuit.” 3656 N. Halsted St., on March 12 to read from Strub called a “benefactor-victim” paradigm of turn a request for comment. Joe Powers and Duane Cole, who have and discuss his memoir, “Body Counts: A Mem- advocacy. But numerous issues still face per- The Southern Poverty Law Center says on been together for 33 years, were the first gay oir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival.” sons with HIV, among them draconian notifica- its website that, “No one has spread the an- couple to receive their marriage license. They He wrote the book because he was concerned tion laws that can find individuals persecuted ti-gay gospel as widely, or with as much po- were also the first couple to get a civil union that the history of AIDS activism in the 1980’s and incarcerated for not telling sexual partners litical impact, as James Dobson, the former in Jackson County back in June 2011. and 1990’s was being forgotten. Strub also said when they are HIV-positive. About two-thirds child development professor and spanking “It was important because we have waited that while activists can rightly point to failed of the states, including Illinois, have such enthusiast who founded Focus on the Family so long,” Cole told the Southern Illinoisan. responses from institutions such as the gov- laws. in 1977.” The organization heavily lobbied “We never believed this day would come. It ernment, media and healthcare industry, “We Strub said the laws create “a new viral un- for gay-marriage bans. has been a very slow process.” haven’t looked as critically at our own com- derclass” but admitted they had support from Wayne Besen, founder of the Chicago- After Judge Sharon Coleman declared Illi- munity’s responses.” many in the gay community—a recent survey based organization Truth Wins Out, said that nois’ gay marriage ban unconstitutional Feb. The people involved with AIDS activism from said that 79% of young gay men favor such Focus on the Family’s pro-family message 21, she ordered that marriages for same-sex that era represented disparate backgrounds and laws. is “based on a paradigm of family that is couples could begin immediately in Cook interests. In June 1983, many advocates who “Every person with HIV in the U.S. is one dis- a complete fraud. They are trying to imply County. Some other Illinois counties fol- had gathered for a health conference in Denver gruntled partner away from a courtroom,” said they’re all about a biblical idea of marriage. lowed suit and began issuing licenses as well compiled a manifesto, the Denver Principles. Strub, noting the irony that such laws privilege The biblical idea of marriage is that women in subsequent weeks. Other county authori- “The existing delivery structure didn’t serve not knowing your status—the only way to be were property—if we had someone living in ties have said they want to wait until June 1, queer people at all, let alone people with AIDS. innocent of not disclosing being positive is a ‘biblical’ marriage in Chicago, we’d call the which was the planned effective date of the It was the first time in the history of humanity not knowing it at all. “They are horrific public cops on them. This movie will appeal to a Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act, when people with a disease gathered to have health policy … There is zero evidence that few older Americans in their base, and won’t for fear of complicating divorce and probate a voice in their case,” Strub noted, adding they work. It’s become, ‘Take the test and risk that such a strategy was also revolutionary for go much further than that.” litigation with the early start date. arrest.’” patients with other diseases. “The principles The announcement for the film is at http:// Madigan said March 4 that by not offer- Strub was asked where the gay community were not original—they were codifications of bit.ly/1oUo5BU. ing licenses to gay couples, counties might would be had the AIDS epidemic not happened. what were in women’s movement.” be opening themselves up to lawsuits, and He answered that he was not sure, but looked Women’s roles in AIDS activism are often added that her office would likely intervene at how AIDS activism paved the way for other overlooked, Strub said. Many women, many of LGBT scholarship on behalf of the couples. victories in the community. them lesbians, acted as caregivers for persons Prior to the 1980s, coming out was large- with AIDS. Also, female activists very often database launches ly the province of either wealthy men whose Campus Pride has announced the launch of schooled their white male compatriots, who HBHC seeks money and privilege could shield them from the National LGBT Scholarship Database in until the epidemic had rarely had a time when many indignities visited upon disenfranchised partnership with Point Foundation, accord- applicants for the system had failed them, in confronting in- ing to a press release. stitutions against whom they had no voice. communities, or, conversely, members of those disenfranchised communities, who had little to The new online dynamic database is free advisory board “It was women who were teaching about Howard Brown Health Center (HBHC) is lose. and provides LGBT and ally students with the racism and sexism and supercharging the ac- seeking new applicants for its Community “We created a movement that has enabled a largest, most comprehensive source of LGBT tivism. … One of ACT UP’s first actions was Advisory Board (CAB), an organization that vastly greater range of people to come out of scholarship and funding resources in the na- shutting down the New York Stock Exchange. I provides feedback on HBHC’s community the closet,” Strub said. “That ended up drag- tion. can tell you that if ACT UP had been started by health programs. ging the movement towards middle class val- Site visitors can view available scholar- people of color and women, the New York Stock The board will meet once a month, and CAB ues like marriage and military service and quite ships by national designation, on a state-by- Exchange probably would not have been their will have between seven and 15 members. frankly away from the epidemic.” state basis or student type (undergraduate, first focus,” he added. To apply, visit howardbrown.org/applica- Strub called current seroconversion rates graduate, athlete, etc.), among other factors. One of ACT UP New York’s most famous ac- tion and download the application form. among gay men, especially younger gay men, For example, in Illinois, options include tions, which it undertook alongside Women’s The form can be submitted in person at any “astonishing and terrifying.” He said that, if the Acorn Equality Fund Scholarship, the Health Action Coalition (WHAM!), was their HBHC location, or emailed to Andie Baker at the rates continue unabated over the next sev- Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of disruption of a mass being given at St. Pat- [email protected] . eral years, half of all gay men who are now of LGBT Concerns (based at the University of rick’s Cathedral in December 1989. Strub took The application deadline has been extend- college-age will be HIV-positive by the time Illinois at Chicago), the James C. Hormel part in that demonstration, which resulted in ed to March 31. 111 arrests. they reach age 50. 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BB: And so this year, we’ll be adding six addi- In the time he has headed the Chicago Public tional sites. New media was a breakout success Library (CPL), openly gay Commissioner Brian pilot, as it was modeled in other cities across Bannon has made quite a few changes. the U.S. We thought this was a great idea to Among the implementations is the YOUMedia use this model for teen services. program, which provides teens across Chicago WCT: I’m just curious. Which is trickier: with digital learning experiences. It was these securing the funding, or budgeting/allocat- changes that resulted in CPL being recently ing the funding when you get it? named the top library system in the country— BB: It’s never hard to spend funding. and the third-best in the world, ahead of such [Laughs] As for allocating, we’re going through locations as Singapore and London. a strategic planning process right now [regard- Windy City Times recently spoke with Bannon ing] investments. I would say that all those in his office at the Harold Washington Library pieces have those moments of being tricky. I about the changes, budgeting and other issues. think the challenge is to have a strong vision (CPL Director of Marketing Ruth Lednicer sat in for what we want to achieve, and how we want on the conversation.) success to look. It makes it a little easier for Windy City Times: Congratulations on the those pieces to line up. number-one national ranking. How did you RL: I’d say we’ve been really good that, when find out about it? we secure the funding, we’ve gotten the bud- CPL Commissioner Brian Bannon. Photo courtesy of Ruth Lednicer Brian Bannon: It was a group of German re- geting in line so what you’re looking for match- searchers that was interested in the role librar- es up with what you need to spend. our investments there, and I’d like to increase there’s something tangible when you’re in a ies play in supporting the competitiveness of WCT: I’m going to ask you something them even more. Also, we’re looking at being room with another 500 people listening to a a “knowledge city.” So they selected 31 cities I asked you about last time [in October even more strategic with teens. Supreme Court justice like Sonia Sotomayor about a year prior to the study coming out. I 2012]—and you said to ask you again in a Another area that we’re looking to put more talking about her book. That’s the kind of com- had forgotten about it, but they visited Chi- year. If you had an unlimited budget, what resources in (but we want to have a better vi- munity-strengthening program we do all over cago. would you do? sion before doing so) is supporting workforce the city. They visited a lot of cities around the world, BB: I may have said this before. There’s this and the city’s economic vitality. The library We have a partnership with Steppenwolf The- and put together a complicated rubric. So they quote from Marissa Mayer, who is now the CEO plays a role in basic computer access so more ater Company that involved bringing a full play put together this assessment, and they met of Yahoo!: “Creativity loves constraints.” So I’m people can find employment. One of the things that had insight about violence. We think the with library directors, including myself. They almost throwing that back at you, as I prefer I’d like to look into is how we can be even library plays a part in bringing people together did rankings and codings, things like that. The to live and work in an environment that has stronger in that early entry point for people and having them exchange ideas. We think study came out in late December [2013]. Once constraints. I have never lived in an environ- who want to get the skills to get a job. someone with an active brain is going to be Ruth saw it we reached out to them and got a ment without constraints. What I’ve found is WCT: How are you helping people on the more active in helping to improve the city. All copy of the study—and word got around. that having constraints around a budget spurs other end: seniors, particularly retired indi- ages benefit from that. One of the [items] they looked at was the innovation and creative thinking. viduals? WCT: Could you briefly talk about the Mak- long-term role that the Chicago public has WCT: But having more funds would provide BB: One of the things we’re looking at is er Lab? played in social media—and Ruth is actually more options. providing basic access. We want to support BB: Sure. The Maker Lab is a pilot program our social-media department. [All laugh.] Ap- BB: Yes—having more funds. The thing is, I learning from zero to however long you live. that is stretching on longer than we though it parently, we’re a standout leader in that way: think we’re doing a lot of those things. As we The other area is how we can have libraries would [laughs]—but that’s not a bad thing. It Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr. look at our priorities, one of them is definitely strengthen our communities in general. It’s was a pilot to look at advanced manufacturing. Here are a couple other examples they gave. youth. Then there’s the work with very young a little squishier, but some examples include It involves designing objects in 3-D and creat- They looked at the services we provide in a children and their parents; we’ve increased the programs we have in the Winter Garden— ing them on the spot. Right now, 3-D print- knowledge economy. One involves the digital- ing is available—but most people can’t afford media work we’re doing with teens, and anoth- them. We just want people to learn this tech- er is the Maker Lab, as an example of a creative nology. It’s like fabrication before your eyes. space. They didn’t find other cities that were We’ve had roughly 30,000 people walk making those kinds of investments. through the space, and about 4,000 have com- WCT: Could you talk a bit about the new pleted a class. But what’s even more interesting media work? I understand CPL did some- is that this is a demographic you don’t see in thing with the mayor [on Feb. 20]. the other Makers spaces in the city. It’s about BB: [Bannon and Lednicer nod.] The program 50-percent women, and it’s a much broader age was piloted in 2009, and the Pearson and Ma- range. One of the things we have experienced cArthur foundations came to us and funded it. is community-building; people help each other It was a very successful pilot that turned into in the labs. We think it’s kind of a cool role for something we really wanted to do. We didn’t a library to play. have a big citywide initiative for teens and adults—until new media came, which has not only informed how we want to work with teens LGBT caucus throughout the city. Last year was a big year for us because we panels at hired our first batch of librarians who special- ize in teen services. As part of the 2014 budget, MPSA conference the mayor was really interested in the success of new media, and so we had a half-million April 3-6 The Midwest Political Science Association dollars to our budget for these librarians. We (MPSA) will hold its 72nd annual confer- were able to leverage that in our discussions ence April 3-6 at the Palmer House Hilton, with MacArthur to come back and do a sustain- Brian Bannon and Gerber/Hart Library President Carrie Barnett. Photo by Tracy Baim 17 E. Monroe St. ability grant, which is an addition $2 million There will be several LGBT-related caucus over three years. So the private investment is panels at the event. Among them are “Test- allowing us to spread this work around many CPL’s Bannon at Gerber/Hart event ing Backlash: The Influence of Political In- more neighborhoods. Brian Bannon, the commissioner of the Chicago Public Library, was the special guest speaker stitutions on Public Attitudes Toward Gay WCT: When you say you’re working with at “Nerd Talk,” a fireside chat to benefit Gerber/Hart Library. The event was held at the home Rights,” “Putting the LGBT in International neighborhoods, are there any particular of Derek Truesdale, a Gerber/Hart board member, and his partner, Michael Gisondi. Human Rights,” “Why are the Kids Alright?: ones you’re prioritizing? About two dozen people attended the event. Bannon, who is gay, spoke at length about “The The Origins of Young People’s Liberalism on BB: Yes. Over the last two years, we added Future of Libraries,” including the goals of CPL. He gave ideas for how niche libraries such as Gay Rights” and “Coming Out For LGBT Is- four additional new media sites. They’re in Gerber Hart, the city’s LGBT library and archives, can innovate for the future. sues: Issue Selection in Congressional Elec- Humboldt Park... Gerber/Hart Library President Carrie Barnett also addressed the audience, discussing the tions.” Ruth Lednicer: Thurgood Marshall on the board’s desire to better serve the current and future needs of the LGBT community. See www.mpsanet.org. South Side, [Rudy] Lozano branch in Pilsen, A video of the event can be seen with the online version of this article. Richard M. Daley in west Humboldt Park, and WINDY CITY TIMES March 19, 2014 15 There is nothing typical about Johnny Begale. He grew up the middle child of three in Niles, Ill., and attended Notre Dame High School for Boys. Begale got his undergraduate degree in accounting from Illinois Weseylan University and, from there, was confused with what he wanted to do. He tried working in the private sector GAY in the but found that work unfulfilling. His mother became ill with recurrent uterine cancer and had to help out as an accountant at his family LIFE business, Paulina Meat Market. Family is important to Begale and he stayed on with the meat market, learning the trade of a butcher and finally settling into his role as manager of Paulina’s sausage kitchen. (Yes—he Johnny Begale manages sausage.) Text By JOE FRANCO pHOTOS FROM BEGALE

Age 26 Neighborhood Roscoe Village Job title Manager at Paulina Meat Market; and founder of Equality America, a nonprofit group Begale, still pushing himself, started selling wristbands for Equality America, an organization originally Relationship status started to raise awareness for marriage equality. Its Facebook page now has nearly 2,000 fans and plays host Single to Begale’s own vlog posts. “I wanted to give others some insight on what it means to be gay. I wanted to help others who, like me, struggled with their sexuality,” said Begale. Hobbies As for his future, Begale wants to “Fishing, volleyball, beach going, continue to see his non-profit organization grilling, gymming it up, traveling, grow and continue to reach out to those hanging with my family and friends, meeting and getting to know new who are confused or those who need to people, learning new things” hear and see a face associated with being gay that, like him, was confused and Favorite actor and actress scared and completely unaware of what it James Franco and Zooey Deschanel meant to be gay. Eventually, Begale sees Dream vacation destination himself stepping into the public arena Egypt and serving others as a Chicago alderman or as a Congressman. Begale said, “I want Favorite movie to be involved. I love to serve others. It’s I Love You, Man what it’s all about, isn’t it?” For more information on Paulina Meat Market, visit www.paulinameatmarket. com. For more information on Equality America, visit www.equalityamerica.net or “like” Equality America on Facebook. Begale (second from left) with fellow members of Equality America. 16 March 19, 2014 WINDY CITY TIMES VIEWPOINT WINDY CITY people are women. with kids in heterosexual couples and other TIMES sharon j. Where do they live? Washington, D.C., tops LGBT African-American couples without kids: VOL. 29, No. 25, March 19, 2014 the charts with the highest percentage of they are less likely to have completed college, The combined forces of Windy City Times, lettman- Black LGBT individuals and couples, most likely less likely to have health insurance, and report founded Sept. 1985, and Outlines newspaper, hicks thanks to the high number of African-Ameri- lower median household incomes. founded May 1987. cans who live in the District of Columbia. The Family is the epicenter of the Black com- PUBLISHER & EXECUTIVE EDITOR Williams Institute report finds that Black LGBT munity. For Black LGBT people, this rings just Tracy Baim individuals live, for the most part, where other as true. But the sad reality, according to LGBT African-Americans—not other members of the Families of Color: Fact at a Glance, is that 32 ASSISTANT PUBLISHER Terri Klinsky LGBT community—live. More than a quarter of percent of children being raised by Black male MANAGING EDITOR Andrew Davis The state of Black all Black LGBT individuals live in Georgia, New gay couples live in poverty, compared to 13 BUSINESS MANAGER Ripley Caine DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA Jean Albright York, Maryland, and North Carolina. percent of children being raised by married ART DIRECTOR Kirk Williamson LGBT people and If some of these places strike you as less heterosexual Black parents and just 7 percent SENIOR REPORTER Matt Simonette than gay-friendly, just consider that the top 10 being raised by married heterosexual white Senior Account Executives Terri Klinsky, their families states where Black LGBT couples live include parents. Kirk Williamson, Amy Matheny, Chris Cheuvront, Gretchen Blickensderfer Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, The statistics are worse if we look at our While the America we live in today is more PROMOTIONAL SUPPORT Scott Duff North Carolina and Alabama. Black sisters. Existing gender disparities in NATIONAL SALES Rivendell Media, 212-242-6863 tolerant and accepting than decades and cen- Discriminatory state policies may help ex- income are exacerbated in two-female house- SENIOR WRITERS Bob Roehr, Rex Wockner, Marie turies past, we still have a long and arduous J. Kuda, David Byrne, Tony Peregrin, Lisa Keen, plain why Black LGBT people are struggling holds. For example, the median income of a road ahead. Despite false claims that we live in Yasmin Nair, Erica Demarest, Kate Sosin more than their white LGBT or heterosexual same-sex African-American couple is $59,200 a “post-racial” society, African-Americans still THEATER EDITOR Scott C. Morgan Black counterparts. More LGBT African-Amer- compared to $61,000 for a heterosexual Af- CINEMA WRITER Richard Knight, Jr. face prejudice and systemic racism regularly. icans (15 percent) are unemployed than the rican-American couple. There is a far greater BOOKS WRITER Yasmin Nair LGBT people still combat discrimination and SPORTS WRITER Ross Forman general population of African-Americans (12 difference between the median incomes for are denied access to basic protections. When ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WRITERS percent). When you compound two historically Black gay households and Black lesbian house- you exist at these intersectional identities, Mary Shen Barnidge, Steve Warren, Lawrence marginalized identities—Black and LGBT—the holds—a difference of more than $20,000. (It Ferber, Mel Ferrand, Jerry Nunn, Jonathan simply trying to provide for yourself and your blow of discrimination strikes this community is even higher—close to $30,000—when you Abarbanel family becomes a battlefield. COLUMNISTS/WRITERS: Yvonne Zipter, Jorjet twofold. compare average household incomes between At the National Black Justice Coalition, we Harper, Meghan Streit, Charlsie Dewey, Carrie Likewise, the Williams Institute reports gay and lesbian households.) have been fighting for over a decade to help Maxwell, Billy Masters, Sarah Toce, Dana Rudolph, that fewer individual LGBT African-Ameri- Perhaps even more interesting, African- Sally Parsons, Melissa Wasserman, Jamie Anne LGBT African-Americans live fully empowered, cans have completed college than non-LGBT American females in same-sex couples are Royce, Matthew C. Clark, Joe Franco, Francesca authentic lives. We know that Black LGBT peo- Royster, Nick Patricca African-Americans—17 percent compared three times more likely to enter the military ple can struggle to find acceptance not only in SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHERS Mel Ferrand, Hal Baim, to 25 percent. 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A ‘ROSE’ BY ANY OTHER NAME From front: Sydney Charles is the title character and Harmony France is Ruth in the theatrical production Dessa Rose. See page 18. THEATER DISH BOOKS ‘Myth’ understanding. Ora exam. ‘Days’ of our lives. Page 19 Page 34 Page 31 Photo from American Myth Photo of sushi at Ora Photo of cover of by Johnny Knight by Meghan Streit The Days of Anna Madrigal

SCOTTISH PLAY SCOTT ductions to help bring it to Chi- cago (Matheny is also host Talking with the out of Windy City Queercast and a senior account manager for director of ‘Cicada’ Windy City Media Group). By SCOTT C. MORGAN the theater by lending production support to “The play itself immersive performance experiences that cele- has a lot of meat Born and raised in Mississippi, out writer/di- brate a desire for human connection (sponsors in terms of ac- rector/actor/designer Jerre Dye has gone on to of Hear/Tell include Chez Moi, d.luke design, tors really being live and work in many cities including Los An- Speedpro Imaging and Windy City Media Group, able to kind of geles, New York, Chicago and Memphis—where which publishes Windy City Times). grab it with both he was the artistic director of the Tennessee- “I was really drawn to, when I first heard fists and say based Voices of the South Theatre Company for [Cicada] aloud, not just the poetry of it, but something,” said eight years. the world that it created felt so inviting and Dye, eager to But ultimately Dye feels it is his artistic des- the characters felt so real and profound,” see how Chicago tiny to end up in Chicago. said Route 66 Associate Artistic Director Erica actors and audi- “Chicago is the most electric theater com- Weiss, who not only directed the Cicada read- ences respond munity there is,” said Dye, offering up reasons ing, but is also in charge of its fully realized to his brand why he and partner Scott Duff, an actor and staging. “It was a story and a play that I had of heightened founding artistic associate of About Face The- not ever seen before in Chicago, certainly, and Southern poetry atre, relocated back to the Windy City. “I’ve I think that it really brings the spirit of the and drama. “It’s been a bit of a vagabond my whole life, and South to the stage, but not in a way that makes big and beautiful I have to say nowhere is theater more kind of those of us who are not from that world feel Cicada director Jerre Dye. Photo courtesy of Em Hall and elegant at wildly diverse in style and content as Chicago.” alienated from it. It’s a very welcoming and the same time.” Since Dye has been back, he’s already shown inviting play.” that sound during the summer months is just Route 66 The- off some of his multitalented abilities by de- Dye describes Cicada as a “family story, es- ever-present.” atre Company’s Chicago premiere of Jerre signing sets for About Face Theatre’s remount sentially about letting go of what’s no longer Dye has worked with director Weiss on mak- Dye’s Cicada from April 9 through May 25 at of We Three Lizas this past December. Soon necessary.” The play largely focuses on the ing revisions and tightening the script for Ci- the Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lin- Dye’s skills as a playwright will be on display lives of an artistically sensitive 17-year-old cada’s second major production. He’s also im- coln Ave. Preview performances are at 8 p.m. with the regional premiere of his drama Cicada, boy named Ace and his mother, Lily, who both mensely impressed with the stellar cast that Wednesday through Friday, April 9-11, with a 2011 winner of the Bryan Family Foundation try to dig their way out of the past in rural Weiss has assembled, which includes Steppen- an official 8 p.m. press opening April 12. Award for Dramatic Literature from the Fellow- Mississippi. wolf Theatre ensemble member Robert Breuler, Regular run performances are 8 p.m. Thurs- ship of Southern Writers. “[The family home] is kind of being re- Aaron Kirby (Luna Gale) and particularly out days through Fridays, 4 and 8 p.m. Saturdays After Cicada received a warm reception last claimed by the world around it, so to speak,” actor Amy Matheny, who plays the mother and 4 p.m. Sundays. fall as part of a reading series presented by Dye said, adding that there is also a “chorus Lily, which Dye describes as “quite an operatic Tickets are $30 for previews and $35 dur- Route 66 Theatre Company, the organization of family ghosts who live in and inhabit the role—lots of highs and lots of lows.” ing the regular run. Student tickets are $20, fast-tracked the play to appear as part of its house—not ghosts in the classical ‘woo-woo’ Matheny, whose credits include Enron with with discounts available for groups of 10 first official subscription season. Route 66 The- sense, but ghosts as almost like real, fleshy, TimeLine Theatre and Float with About Face or more. Call 773-404-7336, or visit www. atre Company stages Dye’s Cicada at the Green- present people in their lives.” Theatre, is a longtime friend of Dye. Matheny greenhousetheater.org, www.route66th- house Theater Center April 9 through May 25, Dye also says the play’s insect title is some- caught Cicada at its Memphis world premiere eatre.org or www.cicadatheplay.com. with support from Hear/Tell Productions, a new thing of a symbolic metaphor for Cicada, though and worked closely with Dye and Here/Tell Pro- company committed to exploring new voices in he stresses that “if you’re from the South … 18 March 19, 2014 WINDY CITY TIMES THEATER REVIEW Elmore vows to marry. Amid the violence and despair of the Pittsburgh ghetto, however, King Hedley II the only choices left to wives and mothers are Playwright: August Wilson whether to embrace the suffering of these so- At: Congo Square Theatre Company cial outcasts or to distance themselves from at the Athenaeum, 2936 N. Southport Ave. angry rebels doomed to untimely destruction. Tickets: 773-935-6875; Audiences looking for another ripped-from- www.athenaeumtheatre.org; $35 the-headlines docudrama will not find it here, Runs through: April 6 though. The woes of these disenfranchised citizens may be exacerbated by poverty and BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE racism inviting extreme solutions, but Wilson’s overriding tone is that of classical tragedy— August Wilson’s 10-play cycle is best ap- manifested most noticeably in the self-styled proached as you would a 19th-century novel— shaman named Canewell, but called “Stool Pi- that is, a multigenerational saga written to be geon” by his peers, who erects a shrine to the consumed, chapter by chapter, like a PBS mini- community’s recently deceased matriarch in series. If this mandates increasing amounts of the alley next to King’s vain attempt at sowing expository baggage for each successive epi- a garden in the barren soil. sode, be assured that playgoers arriving with The language likewise resounds with operatic comprehensive recall of the characters’ histo- grandeur but—far from overwhelming us in the ries are rare, so it’s perfectly acceptable to ig- Athenaeum’s tiny third-floor studio—the close nore allusions to past events and focus on the quarters serve to lend the dramatic action an story under immediate scrutiny. urgency that propels us to our crisis at what Our play, set in the 1980s, not only tracks the feels like breathtaking haste, despite a running further adventures of the neighbors introduced time of nearly three hours. Some of this may be by Wilson in his 1940s-era Seven Guitars, but credited to director Daniel Bryant’s deft utili- shares that earlier work’s structure, its action zation of overlapping dialogue, but more than focusing on two men—one with his destiny mere orchestration is the Congo Square actors’ ahead of him and another with it behind him. facility for creating spoken-word symphonies Two secrets also play a part in their fates—the from the music of Wilson’s prose to render us first concerning the lineage of ex-convict King spellbound right up to the final explosive end- Hedley, and the second turning on the mur- ing. Ghost Bike. Photo by Justin Barbin der of a husband whose widow aging-gambler

THEATER REVIEW raphy facilitating swift changes in the subter- ranean landscape, making for a few moments of THEATER REVIEW Ghost Bike opening-night lag. A playbill insert acquaint- Playwright: Laura Jacqmin ing us with the myriad phantoms we encounter Dessa Rose At: Buzz22 Chicago at the would also expedite our orientation to each Composer: Stephen Flaherty; Greenhouse, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. new locale. The lesson underlying all religious Book and lyrics: Lynn Ahrens Tickets: 773-404-7336; myth, however—that we are powerless to con- At: Bailiwick Chicago Theater at Richard www.greenhousetheater.org; $20 trol our fates—is never eclipsed by the theatri- Christiansen Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave. Runs through: April 6 cal legerdemain. When Eddie finally speeds Ora Tickets: 773-871-3000 or on her way back to the light, our elation is www.bailiwickchicago.com; $40 BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE as manifest as our epiphany upon sighting the Runs through: April 5 sidewalk shrine erected to his memory (coinci- Most adults have learned to accept death as dentally, called a “ghost bike”). BY SCOTT C. MORGAN a sad inevitability, but for young people first confronting it, the sudden disappearance of a The Bailiwick Chicago collective of artists loved one—forever—calls into question the or- have proven to be especially prescient by der of the entire cosmos. A playwright writing producing Dessa Rose. about this experience must understand its cat- This 2005 off-Broadway musical by com- aclysmic proportions, and the despair too often poser Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn exacerbated by parents and peers demanding a Ahrens focuses on the title runaway slave premature cessation to its unsettling repercus- CRITICS’ PICKS and an abandoned white Southern woman in sions. the Deep South circa 1847. Though not the Laura Jacqmin acknowledges her heroine’s Into the Woods, The Hypocrites and Chicago-area premiere of the show (Highland crisis of faith by allowing the bereaved Ora, af- Mercury Theater Chicago, extended Park’s defunct Apple Tree Theatre produced ter fleeing a squad of oppressive therapists, to through April 5. Director Geoff Button’s it in 2005), Bailiwick Chicago’s Dessa Rose embark on a journey through the realm of the approach to Stephen Sondheim and James arrives hot on the heels of the Best Picture dead, equipped only with her bicycle, a magic Lapine’s 1987 fairy-tale musical mash-up Academy Award-win by the film 12 Years a GPS device and a few talismans associated is one that emphasizes imaginative play- Slave. It also bowed in the same week that with the deceased friend (significantly named time in a nursery with a talented cast tak- Flaherty and Ahrens’ latest musical, Rocky Eddie) who long ago taught her to ride the ing on multiple roles. SCM (based upon the 1976 film), opened on velocipedal wind. Since an adolescent’s grief Rose and the Rime, The House Theatre Broadway. Sydney Charles in Dessa Rose. Photo by encompasses the entire universe, a panoply of of Chicago at Chopin Theatre, through So with its weighty subject matter and the Tyler Core necrodeities—Greek, Hindu, Buddhist, Norse— March 23. Want the best fairy tales? Go to great track record of the show’s writers be- are recruited to assist the teenaged crusader The House. You won’t see the final twist hind other acclaimed musicals like Ragtime, determined to restore her comrade to the liv- coming in this tale of a town beset by Once on This Island and Lucky Stiff, Dessa Children,” in which Dessa Rose tells her new- ing, whatever the sacrifice. endless winter (not Chicago). The meta- Rose unfortunately comes off as a second- born the sad history of 11 siblings in her Oh, but Buzz22 Chicago—the ensemble that theatrical means charm rather than dis- tier work. family. Charles also plays off well opposite conjured a Dungeons-and-Dragons fantasy tract, and there’s a great witch! JA The problem is largely with Flaherty and Harmony France’s strong take on Ruth, who kingdom in the Steppenwolf Garage for Qui The Roper, Den Theatre, through April Ahrens’ adaptation of Sherley Anne Williams’ blossoms with daring once she abandons her Nguyen’s She Kills Monsters in 2012—doesn’t 13. Grave-robbers target Lincoln’s Tomb novel as their source material. There are color prejudices and starts to work with the stop at allegorical hypotheses. Instead, John in Will Dunne’s stranger-than-fiction heist some jolting shifts in the show’s episodic many runaway slaves who find a refuge at her Wilson’s scenic design configures the Green- play, directed by Ron Wells with a comedic structure, and Flaherty and Ahrens don’t suc- remote plantation. house’s upstairs auditorium into a labyrinth drollery as dark as Honest Abe’s stovepipe ceed at making what is compelling on the Watching Charles’ Dessa Rose and France’s of curtained and ramped paths for George Ba- hat. MSB page into an easily unfolding drama on stage Ruth make the journey from initially seeth- jalia and Molly Fitzmaurice’s dazzling array of Seminar, Haven Theatre Company at (the final dramatic confrontation and resolu- ing distrust to sharing respect for each other wheeled vehicles—neon-hued BMXes, baroque Theater Wit, through April 13. Four stu- tion are also let downs). is fulfilling as they bravely challenge societal modified Huffies, inline skates, rolling walk- dents and a teacher wrestle with their Yet director Lili-Anne Brown and her hard- constraints. ers, kick-scooters—conveying the underworld destinies in the world of professional writ- working cast do make the most of what ele- Jayson “JC” Brooks is great in the sup- denizens on their assigned activities. Izumi In- ing until they accidentally stumble across ments are good in the show. Brown’s decision porting role of the runaway slave Nathan aba’s costumes and Jeff Glass’ lighting likewise the secret to happiness and success. MSB to have the ensemble begin and end Dessa who cooks up a daring get-rich scheme to evoke a multicultural pantheon ranging from Rose in modern dress for the number “We Are help his friends gain freedom, while David the, literally, two-faced Hel and the scaveng- —By Abarbanel, Barnidge Descended” is a wonderful framing device to Schlumpf has fun playing the dual roles of ing Datsue-ba to a band of Lethewater-swilling and Morgan remind audiences that we’re still very con- Ruth’s ne’er-do-well gambler husband the slackers and a roiling river of malcontents fer- nected to the stain of slavery in America. obsessive author Adam Nehemiah. ried by a weary Charon. There are also some great central perfor- So take in Dessa Rose for its solid perfor- This is a staggering load of tech-spec to pack mances in Dessa Rose to be treasured. mances and its cultural timeliness. Just be into 90 minutes, even with Matt Deitchman’s Sydney Charles in the title role wrenches aware that it’s a less-than-best work by writ- original score and Nathan Drackett’s choreog- all the emotion out her Act I closer “Twelve ers who have done better in the past. WINDY CITY TIMES March 19, 2014 19 SPOTLIGHT

American Idol alums and husband-and-wife team Ace Young (season five top 10) and Diana DeGarmo (season three runner-up) co-star in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, that Bible-inspired pastiche musical full of incessantly catchy earworm tunes. Tony winner Andy Blankenbuehler (In the Heights) directs and choreo- American Myth. Photo by Johnny Knight graphs this brand new North American tour. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat continues through Sunday, March 30, at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, 151 W. Randolph St. Per- designer Grant Sabin takes inspiration from an formances are at 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays (also Sunday, March 23), 2 and 8 p.m. American Myth arts-and-crafts bungalow for his handsome set, Playwright: Christina Gorman Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays (also Wed., March 26). Tickets are $15-$112; call 800-775-2000 or adorned with stained-glass windows. At: American Blues Theater at visit www.broadwayinchicago.com. Photo of Ace Young and Diana DeGarmo in Joseph and the To my credit, I’ve never claimed I worked the Greenhouse, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by Daniel Swalec with John Carradine. Tickets: 773-404-7336; www.americanbluestheater.com; $29-$39 Runs through: April 6

BY JONATHAN ABARBANEL

Did I actually work with John Carradine in sum- mer stock when I was 19, or did I only pull the curtain while he played Dracula? Professor Douglas Graham is an award-win- ning historian and author noted for impeccable scholarship and brilliant lectures, with a wait- ing list for his classes. He also was an Eagle Scout, a collegiate track star and a Vietnam vet-turned-war protestor, but these things THE SONG THE might be fabrications. They have nothing to do WORLD KNOWS. A WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL with his professional stature and cannot ad- THE STORY vance his career, so why make them up? Author Christina Gorman asks this very question after IT DOESN’T. first exposing Graham through investigative reporter Peter Finnerty, a rising young journal- ist as driven as Graham to uncover historical truths and falsehoods, for he was Graham’s star pupil. This world premiere is written with high in- telligence and stage crackle, but it never re- ally explains “why,” a question that applies to Finnerty as much as Graham. Finnerty doesn’t seem so craven a careerist that he would de- Created by and Starring stroy Graham to advance himself, but he does. “HILARIOUS! BEYOND BRILLIANT. Dee Snider Yet Graham’s fibs have nothing to do with what, THIS SHOW WILL GO DOWN LIKE BUTTA’!” or how, he taught Finnerty. Alas, the scenes of Entertainment Weekly/CRITIC’S PICK them together chiefly are innocuous flashbacks A WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL that neither reveal their once-close relation- ship nor why it apparently fell apart. Finnerty’s THEY DELIVERED THE PAPERS, older, wiser editor guides him through his first UNTIL THEY MADE THE HEADLINES... DISCOVER big story, but it’s never clear why it is a big story. (The play positions it as national news.) WHAT REALLY HAPPENED The result is that American Myth is smart and “ BETWEEN RAGS AND RICHES. engaging but lacks a satisfactory conclusion. SPECTACULAR The closest thing to an explanation lurks ON EVERY COUNT.” in Graham’s fixation on founding father John –NEWSWEEK Adams (our second president), whose talents and personality made his leadership inevi- table but unpopular. The play draws parallels 2012 ® that are fairly obvious, with Graham seemingly TONY AWARD compelled to be popular as well as a leader WINNER! in his field. To its credit, the play also virtu- BEST SCORE ally requires its audience to examine the ways BEST CHOREOGRAPHY in which we exaggerate or embellish our own lives and accomplishments. Under veteran director Steve Scott, each ac- tor makes a great deal more of his/her role than exists on the page, especially Terry Ham- ilton, who breathes life and nuance into the © Disney two-dimensional role of the college dean. Mick Weber is marvelous as Graham, with a pointed blend of insouciance and seriousness. He’s matched by an appealing newcomer to Chica- go, Jordan Brodess, as the humorless Finnerty. Brodess very much is up to Chicago standards. Steve Key as Finnerty’s editor brings some charm to the small role, and Cheryl Graeff is all quiet strength as Graham’s wife, Lanie. Scenic 20 March 19, 2014 WINDY CITY TIMES

What is STRIBILD? • Worsening of hepatitis B (HBV) What should I tell my STRIBILD is a prescription medicine used as infection. If you also have HBV healthcare provider before a complete single-tablet regimen to treat HIV-1 in STRIBILD is a prescription medicine and stop taking STRIBILD, your taking STRIBILD? adults who have never taken HIV-1 medicines used to treat HIV-1 in adults who hepatitis may suddenly get worse. have never taken HIV-1 medicines Do not stop taking STRIBILD • All your health problems. Be before. STRIBILD does not cure HIV-1 or AIDS. before. It combines 4 medicines into without fi rst talking to your sure to tell your healthcare provider 1 pill to be taken once a day with healthcare provider, as they will if you have or had any kidney, bone, food. STRIBILD is a complete need to monitor your health. or liver problems, including hepatitis single-tablet regimen and should not STRIBILD is not approved for the virus infection. be used with other HIV-1 medicines. treatment of HBV. • All the medicines you take, STRIBILD does not cure HIV-1 including prescription and I started my infection or AIDS. To control HIV-1 Who should not take STRIBILD? nonprescription medicines, vitamins, infection and decrease HIV-related Do not take STRIBILD if you: and herbal supplements. STRIBILD illnesses you must keep taking may affect the way other medicines personal revolution STRIBILD. Ask your healthcare • Take a medicine that contains: work, and other medicines may provider if you have questions about alfuzosin, dihydroergotamine, affect how STRIBILD works. Keep how to reduce the risk of passing ergotamine, methylergonovine, a list of all your medicines and HIV-1 to others. Always practice cisapride, lovastatin, simvastatin, show it to your healthcare provider Talk to your healthcare provider safer sex and use condoms to lower pimozide, sildenafi l when used for and pharmacist. Do not start any ® about starting treatment. the chance of sexual contact with lung problems (Revatio ), triazolam, new medicines while taking body fl uids. Never reuse or share oral midazolam, rifampin or the herb STRIBILD without fi rst talking needles or other items that have St. John’s wort. with your healthcare provider. STRIBILD is a complete HIV-1 body fl uids on them. • For a list of brand names for these • If you take hormone-based medicines, please see the Brief birth control (pills, patches, rings, treatment in 1 pill, once a day. IMPORTANT SAFETY Summary on the following pages. shots, etc). INFORMATION • Take any other medicines to • If you take antacids. Take treat HIV-1 infection, or the antacids at least 2 hours Ask if it’s right for you. What is the most important ® medicine adefovir (Hepsera ). before or after you take information I should know STRIBILD. about STRIBILD? What are the other possible side effects of STRIBILD? • If you are pregnant STRIBILD can cause serious or plan to become side effects: Serious side effects of STRIBILD pregnant. It is not • Build-up of an acid in your may also include: known if STRIBILD can harm your blood (lactic acidosis), which is • New or worse kidney problems, a serious medical emergency. unborn baby. Tell your including kidney failure. Your healthcare provider Symptoms of lactic acidosis include healthcare provider should do feeling very weak or tired, unusual if you become pregnant regular blood and urine tests to while taking STRIBILD. (not normal) muscle pain, trouble check your kidneys before and breathing, stomach pain with during treatment with STRIBILD. • If you are breastfeeding nausea or vomiting, feeling cold If you develop kidney problems, (nursing) or plan to especially in your arms and legs, your healthcare provider may tell breastfeed. Do not feeling dizzy or lightheaded, and/or you to stop taking STRIBILD. breastfeed. HIV-1 can a fast or irregular heartbeat. be passed to the baby • Bone problems, including bone • Serious liver problems. The liver in breast milk. Also, pain or bones getting soft or thin, some medicines in may become large (hepatomegaly) which may lead to fractures. Your and fatty (steatosis). Symptoms of STRIBILD can pass healthcare provider may do tests to into breast milk, and it liver problems include your skin or check your bones. the white part of your eyes turns is not known if this can yellow (jaundice), dark “tea-colored” • Changes in body fat can happen harm the baby. urine, light-colored bowel movements in people taking HIV-1 medicines. You are encouraged to report (stools), loss of appetite for several • Changes in your immune system. negative side effects of days or longer, nausea, and/or Your immune system may get prescription drugs to the FDA. stomach pain. stronger and begin to fi ght Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch, • You may be more likely to get infections. Tell your healthcare or call 1-800-FDA-1088. lactic acidosis or serious liver provider if you have any new problems if you are female, very symptoms after you start taking Please see Brief Summary of overweight (obese), or have been STRIBILD. full Prescribing Information with taking STRIBILD for a long time. In The most common side effects important warnings on the some cases, these serious conditions of STRIBILD include nausea and following pages. have led to death. Call your healthcare diarrhea. Tell your healthcare provider provider right away if you have any if you have any side effects that symptoms of these conditions. bother you or don’t go away.

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What is STRIBILD? • Worsening of hepatitis B (HBV) What should I tell my STRIBILD is a prescription medicine used as infection. If you also have HBV healthcare provider before a complete single-tablet regimen to treat HIV-1 in STRIBILD is a prescription medicine and stop taking STRIBILD, your taking STRIBILD? adults who have never taken HIV-1 medicines used to treat HIV-1 in adults who hepatitis may suddenly get worse. have never taken HIV-1 medicines Do not stop taking STRIBILD • All your health problems. Be before. STRIBILD does not cure HIV-1 or AIDS. before. It combines 4 medicines into without fi rst talking to your sure to tell your healthcare provider 1 pill to be taken once a day with healthcare provider, as they will if you have or had any kidney, bone, food. STRIBILD is a complete need to monitor your health. or liver problems, including hepatitis single-tablet regimen and should not STRIBILD is not approved for the virus infection. be used with other HIV-1 medicines. treatment of HBV. • All the medicines you take, STRIBILD does not cure HIV-1 including prescription and I started my infection or AIDS. To control HIV-1 Who should not take STRIBILD? nonprescription medicines, vitamins, infection and decrease HIV-related Do not take STRIBILD if you: and herbal supplements. STRIBILD illnesses you must keep taking may affect the way other medicines personal revolution STRIBILD. Ask your healthcare • Take a medicine that contains: work, and other medicines may provider if you have questions about alfuzosin, dihydroergotamine, affect how STRIBILD works. Keep how to reduce the risk of passing ergotamine, methylergonovine, a list of all your medicines and HIV-1 to others. Always practice cisapride, lovastatin, simvastatin, show it to your healthcare provider Talk to your healthcare provider safer sex and use condoms to lower pimozide, sildenafi l when used for and pharmacist. Do not start any ® about starting treatment. the chance of sexual contact with lung problems (Revatio ), triazolam, new medicines while taking body fl uids. Never reuse or share oral midazolam, rifampin or the herb STRIBILD without fi rst talking needles or other items that have St. John’s wort. with your healthcare provider. STRIBILD is a complete HIV-1 body fl uids on them. • For a list of brand names for these • If you take hormone-based medicines, please see the Brief birth control (pills, patches, rings, treatment in 1 pill, once a day. IMPORTANT SAFETY Summary on the following pages. shots, etc). INFORMATION • Take any other medicines to • If you take antacids. Take treat HIV-1 infection, or the antacids at least 2 hours Ask if it’s right for you. What is the most important ® medicine adefovir (Hepsera ). before or after you take information I should know STRIBILD. about STRIBILD? What are the other possible side effects of STRIBILD? • If you are pregnant STRIBILD can cause serious or plan to become side effects: Serious side effects of STRIBILD pregnant. It is not • Build-up of an acid in your may also include: known if STRIBILD can harm your blood (lactic acidosis), which is • New or worse kidney problems, a serious medical emergency. unborn baby. Tell your including kidney failure. Your healthcare provider Symptoms of lactic acidosis include healthcare provider should do feeling very weak or tired, unusual if you become pregnant regular blood and urine tests to while taking STRIBILD. (not normal) muscle pain, trouble check your kidneys before and breathing, stomach pain with during treatment with STRIBILD. • If you are breastfeeding nausea or vomiting, feeling cold If you develop kidney problems, (nursing) or plan to especially in your arms and legs, your healthcare provider may tell breastfeed. Do not feeling dizzy or lightheaded, and/or you to stop taking STRIBILD. breastfeed. HIV-1 can a fast or irregular heartbeat. be passed to the baby • Bone problems, including bone • Serious liver problems. The liver in breast milk. Also, pain or bones getting soft or thin, some medicines in may become large (hepatomegaly) which may lead to fractures. Your and fatty (steatosis). Symptoms of STRIBILD can pass healthcare provider may do tests to into breast milk, and it liver problems include your skin or check your bones. the white part of your eyes turns is not known if this can yellow (jaundice), dark “tea-colored” • Changes in body fat can happen harm the baby. urine, light-colored bowel movements in people taking HIV-1 medicines. You are encouraged to report (stools), loss of appetite for several • Changes in your immune system. negative side effects of days or longer, nausea, and/or Your immune system may get prescription drugs to the FDA. stomach pain. stronger and begin to fi ght Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch, • You may be more likely to get infections. Tell your healthcare or call 1-800-FDA-1088. lactic acidosis or serious liver provider if you have any new problems if you are female, very symptoms after you start taking Please see Brief Summary of overweight (obese), or have been STRIBILD. full Prescribing Information with taking STRIBILD for a long time. In The most common side effects important warnings on the some cases, these serious conditions of STRIBILD include nausea and following pages. have led to death. Call your healthcare diarrhea. Tell your healthcare provider provider right away if you have any if you have any side effects that symptoms of these conditions. bother you or don’t go away.

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Patient Information • Do not stop taking STRIBILD without fi rst talking to your The most common side effects of STRIBILD include: - digoxin (Lanoxin®) STRIBILDTM (STRY-bild) healthcare provider • Nausea - disopyramide (Norpace®) (elvitegravir 150 mg/cobicistat 150 mg/emtricitabine 200 mg/ • If you stop taking STRIBILD, your healthcare provider will need to • Diarrhea - estazolam tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 300 mg) tablets check your health often and do blood tests regularly for several months to check your HBV infection. Tell your healthcare provider Tell your healthcare provider if you have any side effect that - ethosuximide (Zarontin®) Brief summary of full Prescribing Information. For more information, bothers you or that does not go away. please see the full Prescribing Information, including Patient Information. about any new or unusual symptoms you may have after you - ecainide (Tambocor®) stop taking STRIBILD • These are not all the possible side effects of STRIBILD. For more - fl urazepam information, ask your healthcare provider. What is STRIBILD? - uticasone (Flovent®, Flonase®, Flovent® Diskus, Who should not take STRIBILD? • Call your healthcare provider for medical advice about side effects. Flovent® HFA, Veramyst®) • STRIBILD is a prescription medicine used to treat HIV-1 in adults who You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088. have never taken HIV-1 medicines before. STRIBILD is a complete Do not take STRIBILD if you also take a medicine that contains: - itraconazole (Sporanox®) ® regimen and should not be used with other HIV-1 medicines. • adefovir (Hepsera ) What should I tell my healthcare provider before taking STRIBILD? - ketoconazole (Nizoral®) • STRIBILD does not cure HIV-1 or AIDS. You must stay on • alfuzosin hydrochloride (Uroxatral®) Tell your healthcare provider about all your medical conditions, - lidocaine (Xylocaine®) continuous HIV-1 therapy to control HIV-1 infection and decrease • cisapride (Propulsid®, Propulsid Quicksolv®) HIV-related illnesses. including: - mexiletine • ergot-containing medicines, including: dihydroergotamine ® • Ask your healthcare provider about how to prevent passing • If you have or had any kidney, bone, or liver problems, including - oxcarbazepine (Trileptal ) mesylate (D.H.E. 45®, Migranal®), ergotamine tartrate (Cafergot®, hepatitis B infection HIV-1 to others. Do not share or reuse needles, injection ® ® ® ® - perphenazine equipment, or personal items that can have blood or body uids Migergot , Ergostat , Medihaler Ergotamine , Wigraine , ® ® ® • If you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known if ® on them. Do not have sex without protection. Always practice safer Wigrettes ), and methylergonovine maleate (Ergotrate , Methergine ) STRIBILD can harm your unborn baby. Tell your healthcare provider - phenobarbital (Luminal ) sex by using a latex or polyurethane condom to lower the chance of • lovastatin (Advicor®, Altoprev®, Mevacor®) if you become pregnant while taking STRIBILD. - phenytoin (Dilantin®, Phenytek®) sexual contact with semen, vaginal secretions, or blood. • oral midazolam – There is a pregnancy registry for women who take antiviral - propafenone (Rythmol®) ® medicines during pregnancy. The purpose of this registry is to ® What is the most important information I should know • pimozide (Orap ) collect information about the health of you and your baby. Talk - quinidine (Neudexta ) about STRIBILD? • rifampin (Rifadin®, Rifamate®, Rifater®, Rimactane®) with your healthcare provider about how you can take part in - rifabutin (Mycobutin®) this registry. ® STRIBILD can cause serious side effects, including: • sildenafi l (Revatio®), when used for treating lung problems - rifapentine (Priftin ) 1. Build-up of lactic acid in your blood (lactic acidosis). Lactic ® ® ® • If you are breastfeeding (nursing) or plan to breastfeed. Do not - risperidone (Risperdal®, Risperdal Consta®) • simvastatin (Simcor , Vytorin , Zocor ) breastfeed if you take STRIBILD. acidosis can happen in some people who take STRIBILD or similar ® (nucleoside analogs) medicines. Lactic acidosis is a serious • triazolam (Halcion®) - salmeterol (Serevent ) or salmeterol when taken in combination - You should not breastfeed if you have HIV-1 because of the risk of with uticasone (Advair Diskus®, Advair HFA®) medical emergency that can lead to death. Lactic acidosis can • the herb St. John’s wort passing HIV-1 to your baby. be hard to identify early, because the symptoms could seem - sildenafi l (Viagra®), tadalafi l (Cialis®) or vardenafi l (Levitra®, - Two of the medicines in STRIBILD can pass to your baby in your like symptoms of other health problems. Call your healthcare Do not take STRIBILD if you also take any other HIV-1 Staxyn®), for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED). If you get breast milk. It is not known if the other medicines in STRIBILD can provider right away if you get any of the following symptoms medicines, including: dizzy or faint (low blood pressure), have vision changes or have pass into your breast milk. which could be signs of lactic acidosis: • Other medicines that contain tenofovir (Atripla®, Complera®, an erection that last longer than 4 hours, call your healthcare ® ® - Talk with your healthcare provider about the best way to feed provider or get medical help right away. • feel very weak or tired Viread , Truvada ) your baby. - tadalafi l (Adcirca®), for the treatment of pulmonary arterial • have unusual (not normal) muscle pain • Other medicines that contain emtricitabine, lamivudine, or ritonavir (Combivir®, Emtriva®, Epivir® or Epivir-HBV®, Epzicom®, Kaletra®, Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, hypertension • have trouble breathing ® ® Norvir , Trizivir ) including prescription and nonprescription medicines, vitamins, - telithromycin (Ketek®) • have stomach pain with nausea or vomiting and herbal supplements: STRIBILD is not for use in people who are less than 18 years old. - thioridazine • feel cold, especially in your arms and legs • STRIBILD may affect the way other medicines work, and other medicines may affect how STRIBILD works. - voriconazole (Vfend®) • feel dizzy or lightheaded What are the possible side effects of STRIBILD? • Be sure to tell your healthcare provider if you take any of the - warfarin (Coumadin®, Jantoven®) • have a fast or irregular heartbeat STRIBILD may cause the following serious side effects: following medicines: - zolpidem (Ambien®, Edlular®, Intermezzo®, Zolpimist®) 2. Severe liver problems. Severe liver problems can happen in • See “What is the most important information I should know - Hormone-based birth control (pills, patches, rings, shots, etc) people who take STRIBILD. In some cases, these liver problems about STRIBILD?” Know the medicines you take. Keep a list of all your medicines and - Antacid medicines that contains aluminum, magnesium show it to your healthcare provider and pharmacist when you get a can lead to death. Your liver may become large (hepatomegaly) and • New or worse kidney problems, including kidney failure. Your you may develop fat in your liver (steatosis). Call your healthcare hydroxide, or calcium carbonate. Take antacids at least 2 hours new medicine. Do not start any new medicines while you are taking healthcare provider should do blood and urine tests to check your before or after you take STRIBILD STRIBILD without fi rst talking with your healthcare provider. provider right away if you get any of the following symptoms kidneys before you start and while you are taking STRIBILD. Your of liver problems: healthcare provider may tell you to stop taking STRIBILD if you - Medicines to treat depression, organ transplant rejection, or high Keep STRIBILD and all medicines out of reach of children. • your skin or the white part of your eyes turns yellow (jaundice) develop new or worse kidney problems. blood pressure This Brief Summary summarizes the most important information ® ® • dark “tea-colored” urine • Bone problems can happen in some people who take STRIBILD. - amiodarone (Cordarone , Pacerone ) about STRIBILD. If you would like more information, talk with your Bone problems include bone pain, softening or thinning (which may - atorvastatin (Lipitor®, Caduet®) healthcare provider. You can also ask your healthcare provider or • light-colored bowel movements (stools) pharmacist for information about STRIBILD that is written for health lead to fractures). Your healthcare provider may need to do tests to ® ® • loss of appetite for several days or longer check your bones. - bepridil hydrochloric (Vascor , Bepadin ) professionals, or call 1-800-445-3235 or go to www.STRIBILD.com. ® • nausea • Changes in body fat can happen in people who take HIV-1 - bosentan (Tracleer ) Issued: August 2012 • stomach pain medicine. These changes may include increased amount of fat - buspirone in the upper back and neck (“buffalo hump”), breast, and around - carbamazepine (Carbatrol®, Epitol®, Equetro®, Tegreto®) You may be more likely to get lactic acidosis or severe liver the middle of your body (trunk). Loss of fat from the legs, arms problems if you are female, very overweight (obese), or have and face may also happen. The exact cause and long-term health - clarithromycin (Biaxin®, Prevpac®) been taking STRIBILD for a long time. effects of these conditions are not known. - clonazepam (Klonopin®) 3. Worsening of Hepatitis B infection. If you have hepatitis B virus • Changes in your immune system (Immune Reconstitution - clorazepate (Gen-xene®, Tranxene®) (HBV) infection and take STRIBILD, your HBV may get worse Syndrome) can happen when you start taking HIV-1 medicines. Your COMPLERA, EMTRIVA, GILEAD, the GILEAD Logo, GSI, HEPSERA, STRIBILD, the STRIBILD Logo, (fl are-up) if you stop taking STRIBILD. A “fl are-up” is when your immune system may get stronger and begin to fi ght infections that - colchicine (Colcrys®) TRUVADA, and VIREAD are trademarks of Gilead Sciences, Inc., or its related companies. ATRIPLA HBV infection suddenly returns in a worse way than before. is a trademark of Bristol-Myers Squibb & Gilead Sciences, LLC. All other marks referenced herein have been hidden in your body for a long time. Tell your healthcare - medicines that contain dexamethasone are the property of their respective owners. • Do not run out of STRIBILD. Refi ll your prescription or talk provider right away if you start having any new symptoms after ® to your healthcare provider before your STRIBILD is all gone starting your HIV-1 medicine. - diazepam (Valium ) © 2013 Gilead Sciences, Inc. All rights reserved. STBC0036 06/13

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Patient Information • Do not stop taking STRIBILD without fi rst talking to your The most common side effects of STRIBILD include: - digoxin (Lanoxin®) STRIBILDTM (STRY-bild) healthcare provider • Nausea - disopyramide (Norpace®) (elvitegravir 150 mg/cobicistat 150 mg/emtricitabine 200 mg/ • If you stop taking STRIBILD, your healthcare provider will need to • Diarrhea - estazolam tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 300 mg) tablets check your health often and do blood tests regularly for several months to check your HBV infection. Tell your healthcare provider Tell your healthcare provider if you have any side effect that - ethosuximide (Zarontin®) Brief summary of full Prescribing Information. For more information, bothers you or that does not go away. please see the full Prescribing Information, including Patient Information. about any new or unusual symptoms you may have after you - ecainide (Tambocor®) stop taking STRIBILD • These are not all the possible side effects of STRIBILD. For more - fl urazepam information, ask your healthcare provider. What is STRIBILD? - uticasone (Flovent®, Flonase®, Flovent® Diskus, Who should not take STRIBILD? • Call your healthcare provider for medical advice about side effects. Flovent® HFA, Veramyst®) • STRIBILD is a prescription medicine used to treat HIV-1 in adults who You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088. have never taken HIV-1 medicines before. STRIBILD is a complete Do not take STRIBILD if you also take a medicine that contains: - itraconazole (Sporanox®) ® regimen and should not be used with other HIV-1 medicines. • adefovir (Hepsera ) What should I tell my healthcare provider before taking STRIBILD? - ketoconazole (Nizoral®) • STRIBILD does not cure HIV-1 or AIDS. You must stay on • alfuzosin hydrochloride (Uroxatral®) Tell your healthcare provider about all your medical conditions, - lidocaine (Xylocaine®) continuous HIV-1 therapy to control HIV-1 infection and decrease • cisapride (Propulsid®, Propulsid Quicksolv®) HIV-related illnesses. including: - mexiletine • ergot-containing medicines, including: dihydroergotamine ® • Ask your healthcare provider about how to prevent passing • If you have or had any kidney, bone, or liver problems, including - oxcarbazepine (Trileptal ) mesylate (D.H.E. 45®, Migranal®), ergotamine tartrate (Cafergot®, hepatitis B infection HIV-1 to others. Do not share or reuse needles, injection ® ® ® ® - perphenazine equipment, or personal items that can have blood or body uids Migergot , Ergostat , Medihaler Ergotamine , Wigraine , ® ® ® • If you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known if ® on them. Do not have sex without protection. Always practice safer Wigrettes ), and methylergonovine maleate (Ergotrate , Methergine ) STRIBILD can harm your unborn baby. Tell your healthcare provider - phenobarbital (Luminal ) sex by using a latex or polyurethane condom to lower the chance of • lovastatin (Advicor®, Altoprev®, Mevacor®) if you become pregnant while taking STRIBILD. - phenytoin (Dilantin®, Phenytek®) sexual contact with semen, vaginal secretions, or blood. • oral midazolam – There is a pregnancy registry for women who take antiviral - propafenone (Rythmol®) ® medicines during pregnancy. The purpose of this registry is to ® What is the most important information I should know • pimozide (Orap ) collect information about the health of you and your baby. Talk - quinidine (Neudexta ) about STRIBILD? • rifampin (Rifadin®, Rifamate®, Rifater®, Rimactane®) with your healthcare provider about how you can take part in - rifabutin (Mycobutin®) this registry. ® STRIBILD can cause serious side effects, including: • sildenafi l (Revatio®), when used for treating lung problems - rifapentine (Priftin ) 1. Build-up of lactic acid in your blood (lactic acidosis). Lactic ® ® ® • If you are breastfeeding (nursing) or plan to breastfeed. Do not - risperidone (Risperdal®, Risperdal Consta®) • simvastatin (Simcor , Vytorin , Zocor ) breastfeed if you take STRIBILD. acidosis can happen in some people who take STRIBILD or similar ® (nucleoside analogs) medicines. Lactic acidosis is a serious • triazolam (Halcion®) - salmeterol (Serevent ) or salmeterol when taken in combination - You should not breastfeed if you have HIV-1 because of the risk of with uticasone (Advair Diskus®, Advair HFA®) medical emergency that can lead to death. 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10043_pdiqdp_WindyCityTImes_Winston_fi.indd 3-4 6/14/13 9:20 AM Windy City TImes PALIO Date: 06.7.13 • Client: Gilead • Product: Stribild • File Name: 10043_pgiqdp_journal_ad_WindyCityTimes_Winston.indd Windy City TImes BS Page 1 PALIO Date: 06.7.13 • Client: Gilead • Product: Stribild • File Name: 10043_pgiqdp_journal_ad_WindyCityTimes_Winston.indd BS Page 2 Trim: 10.25” x 13.5” • Bleed: N/A • Live: N/A Winston Trim: 10.25” x 13.5” • Bleed: N/A • Live: N/A Winston 24 March 19, 2014 WINDY CITY TIMES SPRING THEATER SPECIAL Spring ain’t coming— so go see a show! By Jonathan Abarbanel director, Ilesa Duncan, for a new play about a woman on the run who checks into a cheap Someplace there is a disco stuck in the ‘70s Iowa motel where she meets the locals, who that plays nothing but “It’s Raining Men” and just may want to know more about her than “I Like the Nightlife,” and that disco is peopled she is willing to tell. Step Up Productions at with unadventurous souls. They live in a city the Athenaeum, through April 13. where the local theaters dare not present a new Folk Bound—This first production by a play, because their audiences only want to see brand-new theater company incorporates music shows they know, or which come with an ad- and dance in the tale of a young woman on a vance reputation from New York. quest through a world made up of folk stories. Fortunately for us, Chicago—with all its As Daniel Burnham said, “Make no small plans.” problems—is not that city of tired disco and Anne Walaszek is the author, with music by tired theater and uninspired people. Here, we Pamela Maurer (aka Baby Money) and chore- thrive on the new, the unknown: the world- ography by Annaleah Tubbin. Presented by premiere play, which is why nearly half of all the Duplicity Ensemble at Zoo Studios, March shows produced by our local theaters are new 28-April 19 works. As we move toward summer (I’m skip- The Haunting of Hill House—Novelist and ping spring; I’m not sure we will have one), short story writer Shirley Jackson may be relied here are a dozen world premieres worthy of at- upon for a good creep-out, and one imagines tention. this new stage adaptation will keep all the The Roper. Photo by Joe Mazza/Brave Lux The Roper—The Den offers a curious ca- chills and thrills intact. Adapted and directed per about an 1870s conspiracy to steal the by Paul Edwards at City Lit Theater, this runs bling adult daughters as she waits for her of sorts, as two stars fall in and out of love entombed body of Abraham Lincoln and hold March 28-May 11. (NOTE: From April 25 it will bankruptcy to come through. It’s billed as a and relationship while their careers overlap it for ransom. Author Will Dunne presents his run in repertory with another world-premiere comedy about the modern family and will have through seven movies over 18 years. And it’s tale with comic grotesquery more than outright adaptation, Confederates in the Attic, from a fine cast directed by Amy Morton, whose long a Hollywood musical, too, with book by Ronan ghoulishness, but only you can say whether Tony Horwitz’s non-fiction book.) career has made her one of the best actors and Mara and music and lyrics by Jon Steinhagen, or not Will Dunne is well-done. Continuing L’Imbecile—Cut! Slash! Stab! Crunch! It’s a directors in town. Steppenwolf Theatre Com- both members of the Signal Ensemble and both through April 13. swashbuckling new work by Aaron Adair based pany, previews April 3, runs April 12-June 8 authors of tested mettle. At Signal, May 1-June Folk’s and Hope’s Just-So Stories—Straw- on Verdi’s opera, Rigoletto, with a gender- Principal Principle—The Chicago Pub- 7 dog Theatre offers a new adaptation of several bending twist or so, they promise. Of course, lic Schools served as inspiration for Joe Zar- The White Snake—Think Chinese legend, of Rudyard Kipling’s stories for children, but Verdi and his collaborator, Piave, took the story row’s new play, co-produced by two companies think slinky and mysterious costumes and the adapters say that their version is suitable from Victor Hugo, who receives no credit in this which value important social content in their lighting and music, think sensuality, and think for adults. We wonder if it will stir up accusa- new version. L’Imbecile will be sliced and diced work, Stage Left Theatre Company and Theatre Tony-winning adapter and director Mary Zim- tions of racism as The Jungle Book did at the by Babes with Blades at Rivendell Theatre; it Seven of Chicago. At Theater Wit, April 18-May merman (The Arabian Nights, Metamorphoses) Goodman Theatre last season. It runs Monday previews April 5 and runs April 12-May 10. 18 back in her element. The Goodman Theatre pre- and Tuesday nights only, through April 27. The Way West—Mona Mansour’s new play In the Garden: A Darwinian Love Story— views May 3 and runs it May 12-June 8. Darlin’—An interesting Chicago writer, Josh- concerns a mom who shares death-defying Creationists stay away, or else arrive with open The Passions of Emma Goldman—Red ua Rollins, teams with an interesting Chicago tales of pioneer crossings with her two squab- minds (which probably isn’t possible or you Emma, the late 19th-early 20th-century anar- wouldn’t be creationists in the first place). No, chist, socialist and ardent campaigner for re- Sara Gmitter’s new play isn’t about Evolution, productive rights and free love, was arrested exactly, but it is about Charles Darwin in love. and deported, but no one could stop or silence His wife, apparently, was a woman of strong re- her. She’s brought to life in a one-woman show ligious faith which sets up a dynamic of evolu- written and performed by Jeff Award-winning tion vs. salvation for the young couple. Jessica veteran Rosalind Alexander, with Dennis Zacek Thebus directs for Lookingglass Theatre at the directing. ShPIel (sic) is presenting at Stage Get-rich-quick schemes fuel this Water Tower Pumping Station; previews April 773, May 16-June 1, and then at the Skokie musical inspired by two brothers’ 16, runs April 26-June 15. Theatre, June 4-22. pursuit of the American dream The Next Thing—It’s a Hollywood love story

Ten member theaters will perform 10-min- NOW Partners for ute previews of their upcoming spring shows. PLAYING cancer theater Participating theatres include 20% Theatre Company, AstonRep Theatre, Mondisa Monde event named Productions, The Rum & Coke Collective, The oad Collaboraction has announced its network Plagiarists, Fury Theatre, Piccolo Theatre, Cor of community partners who are supporting Res Theatre, Three Cat Productions and Or- R “This is Not a Cure for Cancer,” the company’s ganic Theater Company. upcoming world-premiere live theater event Early-bird tickets are $10 each; visit attacking cancer, its treatment and the way the Greenhouse Theater Center’s web- how people live. site or http://www.tix.com/Event. STEPHEN SONDHEIM The partners include The American Cancer asp?Event=627997. Smusic and lyrics by Society, Gilda’s Club Chicago, The Heart- book by JOHN WEIDMAN wood Foundation, Mary Andrus Art Therapy, GARY GRIFFIN the Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task ‘Out at Raven’ on directed by JONATHAN TUNICK Force, Merz Apothecary, the Ovarian Cancer orchestrations by Symptom Awareness Organization, Rainbow March 21 Raven Theatre invites listeners for “Out at Hospice and Palliative Care, and A Silver Lin- Raven”—a free wine-and-cheese reception ing Foundation. just before a performance of Good Boys and Performances of “This is Not a Cure for Can- True—on Friday, March 21. cer” are Sundays through March 30 at 3 p.m. Good Boys and True is a contemporary play at Collaboraction, on the third floor of the by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, set in 1989. In Flat Iron Arts Building, 1579 N. Milwaukee this era before “sexting” became common, a Ave. salacious video makes the rounds of an elite Visit collaboraction.org or call 312-226- Washington, D.C., boys’ prep school. The star 9633. quarterback, who has some confusion around his own sexual orientation, is the prime sus- TheatrePros.com pect. “Out at Raven” will take place 7-8 p.m., preview April 6 preceding the performance at 8 pm. Tickets TheatrePros.com will hold a mass spring- to the play are $36 general, $31 for seniors theater preview Sunday, April 6, at Green- and $15 for students. Call 773-338-2177 or house Theater, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave., at 8 visit www.RavenTheatre.com. p.m. PRODUCTION MAJOR 2013/14 SPONSOR SEASON SUPPORTERS WINDY CITY TIMES March 19, 2014 25

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MARCH 11 – MAY 3 Anne Steele. Publicity photo RavenTheatre.com RAVEN or 773.338.2177 THEATRE MUSIC Anne Steele sets WorlD PrEMiErE! her sights on Chicago 26 singers of Bella Voce Performing scores by Eric Whitacre WCT: In your opinion, what is one common Nan Giordano Artistic Director BY SARAH TOCE To celebrate the life of Kevin Flynn misconception about marriage? Chicago has New York City’s Anne Steele on AS: I do not understand why people consider Don’T Miss our gala cElEBraTion ! loan for two coveted nights only—April 11- marriage as the end to the fun in a relation- also in honor of Kevin Flynn on the 12, at the Chicago cabaret club Davenport’s, ship. Our lives are far from boring and we look Pritzker Pavilion stage after the Saturday, March 29 performance 1383 N. Milwaukee Ave. The catchy pop (with forward to many more adventures together. call 312.922.1332 for more details a flare of Broadway baby) singer is expanding WCT: In addition to becoming a wife, you’ve her wings from her hometown Manhattan to also become a mom to Kelli’s children. Has MarcH 28 & 29 @ 7:30 the Windy City just in time for spring and, boy, the adjustment affected your work/home/ is she ready to fly! life balance? TicKETs sTarT @ $15 Off-stage has been very eventful for the new- AS: Yes, of course having children now has Harris Theater at Millennium Park ly married mom of four. Her relationship with had an impact on balancing other parts of my Box Office 312.334.7777 r Family Vacations co-founder Kelli Carpenter life. However, it is one of the most rewarding harristheaterchicago.org took a turn into Doubleville as the duo tied the things that I have done. We work as a team ESCAPE ORDINARY 205 East Randolph Drive experience extraordinary knot June 1, 2013, in a private ceremony at in parenting and in the home, so we both feel their Chestnut Ridge home in New York. With supported in our day-to-day lives. so many new beginnings ever-present, one can WCT: Have any tips to share with other only imagine the possibilities. modern moms out there? Windy City Times: Anne, you will be mak- AS: Don’t sweat the small stuff. Enjoy the ing your Chicago debut at Davenport’s on time with your children as it goes by way too April 11-12. Why did it take you this long to quickly! visit our Windy City? We’re excited to have WCT: For those who have not had the op- you! portunity to see you perform in person, how Anne Steele: Chicago has always been one of might you describe your sound? my favorite cities. I grew up in the Midwest AS: As a cross between a Kelly Clarkson and and always loved that Chicago is a big city but Sara Bareilles, with a hint of Barbra Streisand has a Midwestern heart. So far I have focused WCT: If you could choose one person, liv- my career in the New York City area because it ing or dead, to duet with, who would it be? is my home and [I’ve] built a substantial fol- AS: Whitney Houston. She helped shape the lowing there. I felt like it was time to branch singer that I am [today] and is well-represent- About Face Theatre and Silk Road Rising co-present out and begin to grow audiences in other cities ed in my show. throughout the U.S. WCT: What would you sing? A One-Hijra Stand WCT: Musical director Nate Buccieri will AS: Anything she wants! It could be the BRAHMAN/I: Up Comedy Show join you on the piano. What can the audi- phone book and that would work for me. ence expect to hear from both you and Nate? WCT: Have a Chicago story to share with Written by Aditi Brennan Kapil Tickets at AS: Nate has been my musical director and us? silkroadrising.org March 27 through April 27 partner for many years. We have a wonderful AS: Not yet! I hope to have plenty after the aboutfacetheare.com Directed by Andrew Volkoff rapport on stage. He makes me feel comfort- show. able enough to explore all styles of music Visit www.davenportspianobar.com to pur- knowing he is there backing me up. You can chase tickets to see Anne Steele in concert expect to hear music ranging from Broadway to at Davenport’s Piano Bar and Cabaret on Pop to Standards - all tied together with stories April 11 at 8 p.m. and April 12 at 10:30 p.m. of my life and growing up in the Midwest then moving to NYC and my coming out experience. WCT: Speaking of stories, what will you be Queen + sharing at Davenport’s? AS: The stories will be relevant and touch- Adam Lambert ing to each person attending the show. I think in Chicago June 19 they need to come see the show for some good Queen + Adam Lambert will launch a North laughs and amazing music. American summer tour sat the United Center in WCT: Congratulations on your wedding to a Chicago on Thursday, June 19. wonderful gal, Kelli Carpenter! How is mar- Brian May, Roger Taylor + Adam Lambert will ried life treating you? come together for the first time in New York, AS: Married life is better than I ever thought Los Angeles, Toronto, Dallas, Las Vegas, Mon- it could be. We have a wonderful balance be- treal and other cities. tween family and career. We both have many Tickets will be on sale beginning Friday, similar interests such as travel and cooking, March 14 through the Live Nation mobile app but are different enough in our personalities and at LiveNation.com. that we provide a perfect balance in our re- lationship. Mostly, we have a ton of fun to- gether! WINDY CITY TIMES March 19, 2014 27 SPRING THEATER SPECIAL In like a lion: Activism dominates spring theater season BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE Neil Simon’s autobiographical Lost in Yonkers (May 2-June 8, 847-673-6300) and Timeline It wasn’t that old-time religion that drew re- brings us Juno, the 1959 musical adaptation cord audiences to side-by-side plays about of J.M. Synge’s Juno and the Paycock (April Joan of Arc—The Lark and Saint Joan—dur- 23-July 27; 773-281-8463). Also, Fox Valley ing our subarctic winter (the latter outselling Rep resurrects Cheaper by the Dozen, Frank even the popular Pygmalion for ShawChicago), Gilbreth’s nostalgic memoir of his 12 children but her status as western culture’s first female (March 27-May 18; 630-584-6342). war veteran. How else to account for the abun- The show to mark on your calendars NOW, dance of warrior heroes dominating the spring however, is the long-awaited remount of Hit schedules? The Wall!, sponsored by the Chicago Com- These include the gamer-turned-bomber in mercial Collective and reuniting most of the the recently closed Leveling Up at Steppen- original artists that made Ike Holter’s close-up- wolf (cross your fingers for a summer remount and-sweaty panorama of the Stonewall Riots a at Theater on the Lake), as well as currently runaway success inaugurating Steppenwolf’s running productions of American Myth (Ameri- Garage Rep in 2012 (April 30-June 29; 773- can Blues at the Greenhouse through April 6; 404-7336). If you see only one show before 773-404-7336), Ithaka (Infusion at the Chopin Memorial Day, make it this one. Daniel Cantor and Charin Alvarez in Water by the Spoonful. Photo by Michael Brosilow through April 13; 773-278-1500), Rites and Sacrifices (Idle Muse’s update of Euripedes at the Flatiron, through March 23; 773-340-9438) and Three Soldiers (Red Theatre at the Den through March 23, www.thedentheatre.com). Upcoming sagas of men-in-arms include Henry V at Chicago Shakespeare (April 29-June 15, 312-595-5600) and Water by the Spoonful at Court (through April 6; 773-753-4472). This doesn’t mean that the Home Front gets short shrift. Lynn Nottage’s Ruined enjoys its first post-premiere Chicago revival under the auspices of Eclipse Theatre (April 21-May 25; 773-935-6875), while Remy Bumppo’s Our Class (April 7-May 11; 773-404-7336) offers a glimpse of social upheaval preceding World War II as troubling as that following a revolution in Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden at Vic- tory Gardens (June 13-July 13; 773-871-3000). However distant the threat of hostile inva- sion may seem from Promethean’s steampunk- trimmed Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (subtitled “Waiting For Hamlet” and run- ning April 18-May 24; 773-935-6875), Inter- robang’s Ibsen-in-Berlin Doll’s House Project (May 8-June 8; 773-935-6875) or Redtwist’s Look Back in Anger (May 24-June 15; 773- 728-7529), its repercussions are manifest. Marching bands can’t drown out domestic is- sues, though—Teatro Vista’s A View from the Bridge explores the plight of assimilating im- migrants—no different today in than in 1959 when Arthur Miller wrote of Italians in Red 525,600 MINUTES Hook—while Will Dunne’s The Roper continues SPEND 150 OF THEM WITH US... IT WILL BE LIFE CHANGING. at The Den through April 13 (www.thedenthe- atre.com), touches upon anti-Irish prejudice in America. You don’t have to be a foreigner to feel alien- ated: Shattered Globe’s Mill Fire documents Sally Nemeth’s account of Alabama factory- worker widows (April 24-June 7; 773-975- 8150), Raven Theatre’s Vieux Carré brings us Tennessee Williams’ group portrait of boarding- house residents in New Orleans (May 6-June 28; 773-338-2177) and Writers Theatre’s Dance of Death, Strindberg’s observations on a marriage in decay (April 9-July 20, 847-242-6000), but look for the season to be dominated by individ- ual anomie. The protagonist of Congo Square’s King Hedley II is an ex-convict (through April 6; 773-935-6875), that of House Theatre’s Dorian a vain youth (April 14-May 28; 773- 278-1500) and that of the Babes With Blades’ L’Imbecile—based on a Victor Hugo story sharing roots with Verdi’s Rigoletto—a jester to a cruel monarch (April 12-May 10; 773-904- 0391). For those wanting to celebrate with some- JUST 4 WEEKS! NOW PLAYING THRU APRIL 6 thing more sunshiny, the Dead Writers Theatre Collective presents Michael Bloom’s page-to- stage transfer of Jane Austen’s Emma (April PARAMOUNT THEATRE 23 EAST GALENA BOULEVARD, AURORA tickets or 23-May 25; 773-327-5252), Northlight presents 630.896.6666 PARAMOUNTAURORA.COM 28 March 19, 2014 WINDY CITY TIMES looks like a prep school football team cap- Mamma Mia!, Cadillac Palace Theatre, May tain and a girl from a different school stirs up 13 to 18. The gay plot point in this jukebox controversy over issues of class and sexuality musical that grafts the pop hits of ABBA to ‘14 LGBT spring in Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s 2007 drama that Catherine Johnson’s flimsy script comes at the previous debuted at Steppenwolf Theatre. A end to help provide an all-too-tidy conclusion special “Out at Raven” reception for the LGBT to this globally successful smash hit. www. theater preview community is at 7 p.m. Friday, March 21. www. broadwayinchicago.com raventheatre.com M. Butterfly, Court Theatre, May 8 through BY SCOTT C. MORGAN missing memories when a childhood friend re- Dorian, The House Theatre of Chicago at June 8. Court Theatre artistic director Charles appears with claims of being sexually abused Chopin Theatre, April 4 through May 18. Ben Newell helms a revival of David Henry Hwang’s There’s a wealth of offerings when it comes to by his own father. Kimberly Senior directs the Lobpries and Tommy Rapley’s acclaimed dance- 1988 Tony Award-winning drama about a LGBT theater this spring. There are a plethora Chicago premiere of this acclaimed work. www. drama adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s famous novel French diplomat who falls in love with a Pe- of world and Chicago premieres, plus a number nexttheatre.org about inner wickedness and outer beauty is re- king Opera singer who is also a communist spy. of returning favorites for you to catch if you’ve A Place in the Woods, The Fine Print The- vived in a production featuring out company www.courttheatre.org missed them the previous times they’ve played atre at The Alley Stage of Profiles Theatre, April member Patrick Andrews. www.thehousethe- Caged Dames, Hell in a Handbag Produc- the Windy City. All shows in Chicago unless 5 through May 4. This world premiere drama atre.com tions at Mary’s Attic, May 28 through July 13. otherwise noted. by Erik Gernand involves a gay man in Chica- Hit the Wall, Chicago Commercial Collec- Chicago’s celebrated camp theater company re- go who must return to his rural hometown of tive and The Inconvenience at Greenhouse vives its 2006 musical comedy heavily inspired New and new-to-Chicago: Hunter, Ind., when he’s faced with his aging Theater Center, April 22 through June 29. Ike by the 1950s film noir drama Caged about a Cock, Profiles Theatre, The Main Stage, now mother’s growing dementia. www.thefineprint- Holter’s acclaimed 2012 drama with music that housewife who must face down a butch and through April 6. A woman sexually lures away a theatre.org re-imagines what the seminal 1969 Stonewall sadistic prison matron when she gets wrongly man who was previously part of a troubled gay Cicada, Route 66 Theatre Company at Green- Riots might have been like returns in a pro- thrown into prison. www.handbagproductions. couple, causing the jilted partner to retaliate house Theater Center, April 9 through May 25. duction featuring many members of its original org in Mike Bartlett’s hit London and off-Broadway A domineering mother and her artistic son cast. www.chicagocommercialcollective.com or comedy. www.profilestheatre.org are at the center of Jerre Dye’s coming-of-age www.greenhousetheater.org Concerts: Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New ghost story involving a small southern family, Cabaret, Citadel Theatre, Lake Forest, April Windy City Gay Chorus and Aria: The com- England, Theater Wit, now through April 27. soon to receive its Chicago premiere. www.rou- 25 through May 25. Gay author Christopher bined ensembles of Windy City Performing Arts A romantic triangle involving jealous lesbian te66theatre.org Isherwood’s Berlin Stories inspired this musical perform It Gets Better: The Concert, inspired academics is complicated by the shuttering of Buyer and Cellar, Broadway Playhouse at by songwriters John Kander and Fred Ebb about by the LGBT anti-bullying youth movement co- a dated natural history museum in the Chicago Water Tower Place, May 6 through June 15. a bisexual U.S. writer who falls under the spell created by advice columnist Dan Savage and premiere of Madeleine George’s 2011 comedy. Direct from off-Broadway, Michael Urie (Ugly of a cabaret singer and other fleshy pleasures his husband, Terry Miller. The concert features www.theaterwit.org Betty) stars in Jonathan Tolins’ acclaimed one- of Weimar Republic Berlin in the early 1930s. the premiere of the song “You Are Beautiful” Road Show, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, man show imagining what it might be like to Somehow, Citadel Theatre obtained the rights (“Vwy Prekrassny”) by artistic director Paul now through May 4. This 2009 off-Broadway be an out-of-work gay actor finding employ- to this Tony-winning musical just as it is being Caldwell and Sean Ivory, written in support of musical by out composer Stephen Sondheim ment working in the mall built into the base- revived again on Broadway in Joe Masteroff’s Russia’s oppressed LGBT community. Perfor-

Far left: 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche. Photo by Dixie Sheridan. Left: Cock at Profiles Theatre. Photo by Michael Brosilow. Right: Fawzia Mirza stars in Brahman/i. Photo by Joe Mazza/Brave Lux

revised 1998 version. www.citadeltheatre.org mances are at 5 and 8 p.m. Saturday, March 22, and playwright John Weidman is actually the ment of Barbra Streisand’s Malibu home. www. At the Flash, Pride Films and Plays rehearsal at Ebenezer Lutheran Church, 1650 W. Foster final version of their show Bounce that played broadwayinchicago.com space, 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 29. This one-man Ave. Tickets are $15 and $10 for students and the Goodman Theatre in a critically dismissed Gay Play Weekend, Pride Films and Plays at show that Sean Chandler and its star, David seniors; visit www.windycitysings.org for more 2003 production. Like Bounce, Road Show is the Center on Halsted’s Hoover-Leppen The- Leeper, co-wrote looks at different decades of information. based upon on the talented and conniving atre, May 9 to 11. The finalists of this year’s gay life and activism in a bar known as The Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus: The few years of real-life Mizner brothers, one of whom briefly Great Gay Play Contest receive staged readings Flash. It returns for a one-night-only fundrais- new Broadway musicals (like Kinky Boots and had a happy gay relationship in Florida. www. before the ultimate winner is announced. Fi- ing performance before it heads off to Ireland The Book of Mormon) and significant reviv- chicagoshakes.com nalist plays include The View UpStairs by Max to be a part of the Dublin Gay Theatre Fest. als (like Pippin) are the source materials for Brahman/i: A One-Hijra Stand Up Comedy Vernon, Michelangelo and Tommaso by James www.pridefilmsandplays.com the concert Bouncing Off the Walls: Broadway Show, About Face Theatre and Silk Road Rising Rosenfield, Who Killed Joan Crawford? by Mi- The Wizard of Oz, Cadillac Palace Theatre, Our Way. Performances are at three locations: at Historic Chicago Temple, March 27 through chael Leeds, The Book of Andy by Michael J. April 30 through May 11. No, there aren’t any North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, April 27. Fawzia Mirza stars in the title role of Mejia and Gentle Passage by Paul Elliottt. www. overt gay characters or plot lines in this great 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie, at 8 p.m. Saturday, the Chicago premiere of Aditi Brennan Kapil’s pridefilmsandplays.com American fairy tale, but the classic 1939 MGM May 17; Harris Theater for Music and Dance, play that explores the history, mythology and film version is culturally significant to the LGBT 205 E. Randolph Drive, at 8 p.m. Saturday, May high school existence behind an Indian inter- Classics and revivals: community in oh so many ways. This national 31; and North Central College’s Wentz Concert sex person, or “hijra.” www.aboutfacetheatre. Gypsy, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, now tour is based upon the recent London version Hall, 171 E. Chicago Ave., Naperville, at 8 p.m. com or www.silkroadrising.org through March 23. Out director Gary Griffin that includes new songs thrown in by compos- Sunday, June 1. Tickets vary by venue, so visit Songs from an Unmade Bed, Pride Films takes on this classic 1959 Broadway musical by er Andrew Lloyd Webber. www.broadwayinchi- www.cgmc.org for more information. and Plays at Apollo Theater Studio, March 29 out playwright Arthur Laurents, composer Jule cago.com Artemis Singers: Chicago’s Lesbian Femi- through April 27. Lyricist Mark Campbell col- Styne and out lyricist Stephen Sondheim. See 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche, Chicago Com- nist Chorus celebrates the eve of the statewide laborated with 18 different composers for this why the role of Madame Rose is often consid- mercial Collective and The New Colony at availability of same-sex marriage licenses in Il- 18-number song cycle about the experiences ered on par with King Lear when Tony nominee Chopin Theatre, May 1 through June 8. Evan linois with A Feminist Mosaic Concert & Dance of gay men living in a major metropolitan city. Louise Pitre (Mamma Mia) plays the ultimate Linder and Andrew Hobgood’s Eisenhower Era- at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 31, at Broadway United Though the original 2005 off-Broadway produc- “stage mother from hell” in this highly my- set comedy returns after a critically acclaimed Methodist Church, 3338 N. Broadway. Tickets tion only featured one performer, Pride Films thologized story about the childhood and rise off-Broadway run. See what happens when five are $15-$20 and $10 for seniors or kids and are and Plays has engaged three ensemble mem- to fame of burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee. www. women who comprise the leadership of the Su- available by visiting www.artemissingers.org. bers for this Chicago premiere. www.pridefilm- chicagoshakes.com san B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Ger- Tony Tunes!: Pride Films and Plays’ fund- sandplays.com Rent, Paramount Theatre, now through April trude Stein cope with a nuclear holocaust in raising concert features non-Equity Jeff nomi- Happy Endings, Second Thought Theatre 6. This Aurora-based theater that has been the midst of their annual summer quiche break- nees and winners performing songs from Tony Company at Stage 773, April 3 through May 4. producing Broadway-caliber work closes out fast. www.chicagocommercialcollective.com or Award-winning musicals at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Matt Tassell’s world-premiere drama concerns a its season with a new production of the late www.thenewcolony.org June 3, at Sidetrack, 3349 N. Halsted St. Tick- young gay man named Eddie who is faced with Jonathan Larson’s 1996 Pulitzer Prize-winning Vieux Carre, Raven Theatre, May 6 through ets are $20. Visit www.pridefilmsandplays.com a dilemma when his ill straight friend, Stella, musical Rent. Jeff Award-winning out director June 28. This semi-autobiographical drama by for more information. confesses that she’s in love with him. www. Jim Corti stages this La Boheme-inspired story Tennessee Williams premiered on Broadway in Note: Scott C. Morgan is a member of Windy secondthoughttheatrecompany.com of love, friendship and loss among of group of 1977 and concerns a newly transplanted writer City Performing Arts and has also previously The Great God Pan, Next Theatre, Evan- bohemian New Yorkers in the age of HIV/AIDS. facing poverty and his burgeoning homosexu- performed with the Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus. ston, April 3 through May 11. Playwright Amy www.paramountaurora.com ality in 1930s New Orleans. www.raventheatre. Herzog is behind this mysterious drama or a Good Boys and True, Raven Theatre, now com. young man who must contemplate disturbing through May 3. A sex video involving what WINDY CITY TIMES March 19, 2014 29 SPRING DANCE SPECIAL Keith Elliott leaves behind a legacy of philanthropy By Lauren Warnecke cabaret club and events space in Scottsdale. The degree also gives him the chops to back up his In May 2010, Keith Elliott took a job at the Ruth “street cred.” Page Center for the Performing Arts. As he rides his motorcycle off into the Arizona Longtime director and master teacher Larry sunset, what does Keith Elliott want Windy City Long had recently passed away, the Ruth Page Times readers to know? “Thank them all, for endowments had changed and much of the orga- one! Continue to stay involved and committed nization was in shambles. Elliott was brought on to things you feel are important. ... The effect with no real job description, other than to help is big by staying involved. So stay the course, get “The Page” back in order. He quickly got to baby!” work, taking over managing the theater, which —Save the date: Dance for Life Chicago was dirty, underutilized and outdated. Thinking 2014 will be Saturday, Aug. 16, including ap- outside the box is how Elliott got the space back pearances by local dance companies Giordano in order, plus a number of grant initiates afford- Dance Chicago, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, ing him some updated equipment. The space is The Joffrey Ballet and River North Dance Chi- now clean, organized, and (most importantly) cago. The program will feature world premieres booked, nearly every weekend through 2016. by Randy Duncan and Harrison McEldowney & “We are a destination now,” he said in a recent Jeremy Plummer. Gala reception is 5 p.m. at the conversation with Windy City Times. Essentially, Hilton Chicago Grand Ballroom, with 8 p.m. per- this is what Keith Elliott does, and has been do- formance at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt ing for nearly 30 years. University. Look for ticket information this May. In the summer of 1990, Keith Elliott the danc- danceforlifechicago.com Local dance legends Keith Elliott (right) and Randy Duncan. Photo from Anthony Guerrero er used a layoff from Joseph Holmes Chicago Dance Theater to brainstorm about a dance show to benefit organizations committed to HIV/ AIDS. “I didn’t want to sit around over the sum- mer,” he said. With the help of co-founder Todd Keich, the show opened the follow year to sold- out audiences, and now, 23 years later, Dance for Get tickets for this sizzlinG Life remains one of the most successful events of its kind. More than just a one-night dance gala for HIV/AIDS awareness, Dance for Life has initi- Broadway smash hit! ated, hosted and supported numerous additional events throughout the years, including “Chicago Takes Off,” a Burlesque show now called “The “90 MINuTES Of GOOd, KINKy fuN.” Tease,” which premiered March 1. “It’s Dance for –The New York Times Life with less clothing!” Elliott said. Additional satellite programs are getting youth involved in philanthropy. The recent Next Gen- eration at Wheeling High School is one such example, raising $16,000 in one day. It was a particularly special event, marking not only the widespread impact of the movement, but also the last Dance for Life event of Elliott’s tenure in Chicago. A friend and colleague pitched the idea to him last November to open a nightclub in Scottsdale, Ariz. Hesitant at first, Elliott eventually decided to take a leap of faith and bring his entrepre- neurial spirit and talent for performing arts man- agement and philanthropy to a new city. “What other time am I going to do this? I might as well! Chicago has afforded me so many amazing opportunities to be active in the community. I was able to do so much; I now want to continue that somewhere else as well. The theater com- munity is really big [in Scottsdale]; there’s just nowhere for them to perform.” What will happen to Dance for Life? “I’m still staying connected,” said Elliott, and the philan- thropic empire that has raised millions of dollars for AIDS-service organizations is strong. General Manager Anthony Guerrero will take on many enus of Elliott’s former responsibilities. “I just hope iN one day we don’t have to do it,” said Elliott. In the meantime, he has every confidence that he’s leaving the organization in good hands. Surely a man with such a talent for non-profit V Fur management and philanthropy in the arts has By Dav iD ives scores of degrees in arts management. Thirty NOw THrOuGH APrIL 13 directed By JOaNie sCHULTZ years after the fact, Elliott applied old credits from an unfinished education degree, his life ex- perience and a few recent algebra courses to the University Without Walls program at Northeast- ern Illinois University, where he just graduated with a BA in arts management. He claims to have 312.443.3800 | GoodmanTheatre.org learned organization through his dad, volun- 312.443.3820 or GoodmanTheatre.org/Groups for groups of 10+ teerism through his mom, and the rest through careful observation of what others were doing. Upon arriving in Chicago many years ago, he got involved early and often in causes about which he is passionate. “I guess I was just wide-eyed enough to see what the pieces were,” he said. KIMPTON CHICAGO HOTELS THE MELTING POT The degree is likely to come in handy as Elliott Major Corporate Sponsor Corporate Sponsor Partner Exclusive Airline of Preferred Hotel Promotional Partner embarks on the next phase of his life: opening a for Venus in Fur for Venus in Fur Goodman Theatre 30 March 19, 2014 WINDY CITY TIMES loved: the cranky old sourpuss paired with the endearing child whose optimism redeems the codger. The arc of this friendship gives the film somewhere to go as the mystery element is re- KNIGHT vealed too quickly, is not particularly satisfying AT and is too pat. (It involves Philip Baker Hall, as the bee’s elder statesmen.) THE But Bateman, who I’ve noted before, is one MOVIES of those actors whose immense warmth can’t be concealed no matter how disagreeable the character (Sandra Bullock has this same effect on audiences) and he manages (along with those funny actors—though Janney should have been kept around much longer) to keep By the fraying edges in Bad Words forgivable. Richard Knight Jr. Briefly noted: Jim Broadbent is surely one of England’s greatest character actors. Broadbent, who first broke through in film in 1991’s En- From left: Rohan Chand and Jason Bateman in Bad Words. Photo from Focus Features Bad Words; chanted April, has essayed dozens of notable characters since. (He is probably most memo- Europe seeing as many productions of Mozart’s and causes one young man to realize his true rable as the club owner/ringmaster in Moulin “Don Giovanni” as he can while engaging in sexuality. The Goethe-Institut co-sponsors the Le Week-End; Rouge.) Broadbent adds to his growing gallery a lot of gay sex with rent boys and porn stars screening. of wonderful characters in Le Week-End with along the way. The film is presented as a docu- The series concludes Wed., March 26, with a film notes Nick Burrows, a philosophy professor at a Uni- mentary though it’s pretty clear that many of 6:30 p.m. screening of the 2004 biopic/musical versity in Birmingham who heads to Paris with the set pieces were staged. The film is a quasi- De-Lovely about the gay composer Cole Porter. The list of dreadful things that Guy Trilby does Meg (played by the always welcome Lindsay Auntie Mame with the man lecturing his tricks It stars Kevin Kline as Cole and Ashley Judd in the black comedy Bad Words in pursuit of Duncan), his still-luscious wife, so the couple on the importance of art and literature. Screens as his mostly understanding wife. The screen- the championship of a kids’ national spelling can celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary Saturday, March 22 at 9:15 and Wed., March 26, ings will take place at Claudia Cassidy Theater bee is very long, indeed. in the city where they honeymooned. at 8:15 p.m. within the Chicago Culrural Center, 73 E. Wash- The first, to begin with, is his gall in enter- From the start, things do not go well. Then The other film with major queer themes is ington St. The Queer Film Society (of which ing the bee. Trilby, a 40-year-old with either they do. Then they don’t again. And on and off Jan Hrebejk’s Honeymoon, the fest’s closing- I’m president), the Legacy Project, Reeling a genius IQ or a photographic memory, has the marriage merry-go-round goes on for the night feature from the Czech Republic. The Film Festival and Affinity Community Services found a loophole in the rules (he never gradu- rest of this life-changing weekend that reaf- movie centers on the wedding weekend of a are presenting the series in partnership with ated high school) that allows him to enter the firms not only a lot for this complicated couple very photogenic couple (the groom is a heavy- the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and contest. After winning at the local level, he but a lot for the audience who will recognize set dead ringer for Michael Fassbender) attend- Special Events. Windy City Times, ChicagoPride heads to the finals, where his intimidating be- in their all-too-human frailties, fantasies and ed by family and close friends. The festivities and the Reader are media sponsors. The screen- havior toward the other contestants (most of foibles many of our own. It’s not often that we are interrupted by the arrival of a mysterious ings are free. www.queerfilmsociety.org it while on stage, towering over his pint-sized get a film centered on characters more than 60 stranger who wants the bride to know exact- —The Rainbow Alliance of the Unitarian competitors) is utterly appalling. The mystery years old (a breath of fresh air in itself)—and ly what kind of man she’s marrying. It’s not Church of Evanston, 1330 Ridge Ave., pres- is why Trilby is even on stage with a bunch of certainly not a romantic comedy. Le Week-End the usual closeted gay thing one expects and ents the 2009 lesbian romantic drama Hannah preteens. is not quite a comedy (even though there are makes for a very compelling movie. The movie Free, from director Wendy Jo Carlton, on Fri- Without the mystery as a relief from the Bad many humorous moments) but it is very roman- screens twice—Sunday, March 30, at 3 p.m. day, March 21, at 7 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30.) Santa behavior or the fact that Trilby is played tic and director Roger Michell utilizes the Paris and Thursday, April 3, at 6 p.m. Hrebejk will Sharon Gless stars in the film, which is based by the enormously likeable Jason Bateman, the locations as a lush point/counterpoint to all attend the latter screening. Complete festival on Claudia Allen’s award-winning play that was movie wouldn’t have a chance of redeeming the nitpicking and ruminating that these two information at www.siskelfilmcenter.org shot locally and featuring many familiar Chi- itself (and forget about a lot of Trilby’s jaw- wonderful actors engage in as Nick and Lindsay —Cinema Q IV, the fourth annual LGBT- cago actors. Windy City Times Publisher/Execu- dropping audacity). But with those factors wander about the City of Lights in this insight- themed movie series, continues tonight with tive Editor Tracy Baim produced the film and in place, it holds—hilariously so—for a long ful little movie. the delightful German gay themed coming- will be part of a panel discussion following the time. It doesn’t hurt that Bateman—making of-age dramedy Summer Storm, about a sum- screening that will also feature editor/producer his directorial debut and working from a script Film notes: mer camp for rowing teams. The arrival of the Sharon Zurek as well as actors Taylor Miller and by first-time writer Andrew Dodge—surrounds —The 17th Annual European Union Film Queer Strokes—the gay rowing team from Maureen Gallagher. http://ucevanston.org/ himself with comic actors with crack timing Festival, the yearly series celebrating the best Berlin shakes up the discipline of the camp who make even the film’s weakest moments of the EU, has been going on at the Gene Siskel sizzle. (Kathryn Hahn as an insecure, love hun- Film Center, 164 N. State St., since the begin- struggling with the bad effects of her long- gry journalist, Allison Janney as the head of ning of the month. The fest is always a great term relationship on her comedy career, and the bee, Rachael Harris as the seriously pissed- place to be the first in Chicago to see a slew her best friend Liv (Zak), whose Instagram off mom of another contestant, Beth Grant as of great indie flavored movies—including the obsession is interfering with her OkCupid a speechless pageant official and Steve Witting occasional queer-themed one as well. Though goals. as a proctor are standouts.) the fest has already screened the riveting What The series guest stars Cowgirl Up favorite The heart of the film is the growing relation- Now? Remind Me, the Portuguese docudrama Marnie Alton, Kate Black Spence (from tello’s ship between Trilby and Chaitainya (Rohan and Run & Jump, an Irish entry starring Will The Throwaways), Jim Bennett, Amy Thomp- Chand), a perky 10-year-old Indian contestant Forte, there are a few more on the horizon son and other Chicago actors. with no friends who swats away the verbal worth noting. New episodes will be released every Sun- brickbats like so many flies and whose inno- The first of these is Angela Christlieb’s Naked day starting March 16. See www.tellofilms. cence doesn’t seem too affected by Trilby’s at- Opera from Luxembourg, in which a middle- com. tempts at corrupting him. The relationship is a aged man with a chronic illness decides to in- variation of one that the movies have always dulge his passion for opera by traveling around Fourth season of ‘Thrones’ starts April 6 The Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning Game of Thrones returns for its 10-episode fourth season Sunday, April 6 (9-10 p.m. ET/ PT), exclusively on HBO, followed by other episodes on subsequent Sundays at the same tellofilms’ #Hashtag time. Based on George R.R. Martin’s best-sell- explores lesbian ing fantasy book series, the hit series is an love online epic story of treachery and nobility set on tellofilms, which calls itslef the “HBO of the continent of Westeros. The series stars lesbian content,” is presenting #Hashtag, a Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Nikolaj Coster- new Web series about the online lives and Waldau, Kit Harington, Emilia Clarke, Natalie loves of a pair of lesbian twentysomethings. Dormer, Maisie Williams, Jack Gleeson, Iain #Hashtag stars/writers Caitlin Bergh and Glen and Diana Rigg, among many others. Laura Zak, both formerly of Chicago and The season (based on the first three epi- presently of the West Coast. sodes) continues with plot twists, such as #Hashtag follows Skylar (Bergh), who’s the death of a major character, and certain themes, including pansexuality. Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan in Le Week-End. Photo from Music Box Films WINDY CITY TIMES March 19, 2014 31 ties of obstacles that homeless youth face.” dollar are being accepted through Kickstarter Kelly added, “We hope to build momentum (www.kickstarter.com/projects/kirstenan- for local community support and national poli- danne/the-homestretch-feature-documentary) cy change. Our two-year Impact Campaign will until March 28. include a series of local events and screenings Find out more about The Homestretch with city-wide partners and include a Capi- online at www.kartemquin.com/films/the- tol Hill screening in September and national homestretch. screenings and events across the country.” For details on the 2014 Chicago LGBTQ The MacArthur Foundation, the Sundance In- Homeless Youth Summit, hosted by Windy stitute, Chicken & Egg Pictures, The Chicago City Times May 2-5, see http://chicagosum- Community Trust, Polk Bros. Foundation and mit.lgbthomelessness.com. Pierce Family Foundation have, in part, funded the film. Public donations for as little as one

and Craigslist; current events such as the Chick-Fil-A boycott; and his use of slang specific to the present time, like “throwing shade” and “chillax,” ground the book in the reality of the 2010s. Moving, poignant and funny, The Days of Anna Madrigal is a celebration of a life fully lived. Kasey in The Homestretch. Image courtesy of Kartemquin Films For readers who have loved Maupin’s sto- ries, especially Anna Madrigal’s journey, I MOVIES would highly recommend this book. April 7 comedy Chicago homeless event to benefit LGBT program teens featured in The event “Don’t Tell My Mother!” will take place Monday, April 7, at Laugh Factory Chi- cago, 3175 N. Broadway, at 8 p.m. ‘The Homestretch’ IMPACT, the LGBT health and development program at Northwestern University, will By Sarah Toce being homeless, he is proud to be self-taught. benefit from the event. He recently passed his GED and was accepted BOOK REVIEW This evening will feature stories from Los There are certain things most U.S. teenagers into the Year Up Chicago Program where he has Angeles actress Jen Kober (The Mindy Proj- don’t have to worry about: the privacy to take an internship in telecommunications. He is a The Days of ect, Curb Your Enthusiasm) and creator/host a shower; where their next meal will come poet, rapper and entrepreneur. Nikki Levy, as well as local Chicago talent from; where they will find a quiet spot to study At the start of the story, Anthony asks, “How Anna Madrigal Fawzia Mirza (Kam Kardashian), Lisa Cordil- for an exam; what address they can use to put are you going to make your story better? How by Armistead Maupin eone (Easy Abby) and singer JC Brooks (JC down on a job application so that they can are you going to write the next chapter in your $26.99; Harper; 270 pages Brooks & The Uptown Sound). The Joans will afford to survive; and where they are going life?” These two pointed questions take on a by CARRIE MAXWELL perform. to safely sleep that night. For three teens de- whole new meaning when put into the context Tickets are $30 (general admission) and picted in The Homestretch (Kartemquin Films, of The Homestretch. In his final Tales of the City novel, Armistead $50 (VIP, which includes the 6:45 p.m. VIP 83 minutes), these scenarios are anything but A poignant project four years in the making, Maupin’s The Days of Anna Madrigal returns reception and reserved seating). See http:// fiction—in fact, it’s their entire lives. The Homestretch offers a rare glimpse into the to the colorful characters that have delight- donttellmymother.com/tickets/. Throughout the film, Kasey, Roque and An- Chicago Public School System, The Night Minis- ed readers for more than 25 years. thony brave Chicago winters, the pressures of try’s “Crib” Emergency Shelter and Teen Living The book begins with the now-fragile and high school and life alone on the streets in an Programs. Chicago-based co-directors/produc- bawdy 92-year-old transgender matriarch ‘One Hit Wonders’ effort to build a brighter future than anything ers Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly bravely go Anna Madrigal, who is determined to “leave at Black Ensemble they have ever known. Issues of self-worth, beyond the exterior of the issues involved in like a lady” and weaves in the stories of her trust, abandonment and the stigma that comes homelessness and into a world of fear-based young caretaker Jake Greenleaf, former ten- May 18-June 29 with homelessness are played out on the big society where nothing is promised and your life ant Brian Hawkins and his daughter Shawna Black Ensemble Theater Founder and CEO screen for a compassionate story arc that is is earned. As Kasey so earnestly puts it in the as well as Mary Ann Singleton and Michael Jackie Taylor have announced that the both tragically surreal and 100-percent honest. film, “I got to do better for myself. I can’t be Tolliver. This eclectic bunch composes Anna’s world-premiere musical One Hit Wonders, by According to the Forty to None campaign, out here like this.” logical family that has expanded to include Black Ensemble Theater Associate Director there are more than 19,000 children, youth “Our goal was to not look at the just the ‘sit- Jake’s boyfriend, Amos; Brian’s new wife, Rueben D. Echoles and Dawn Bless, will run and unaccompanied youth registered in the uation’ of being homeless. We wanted to break Wren; and Michael’s much younger husband, May 18-June 29 at the Black Ensemble The- Chicago Public Schools. There is an estimat- the negative stereotypes of what people think Ben. ater Cultural Center, 4450 N. Clark St. ed 1.6 million young people struggling with of as homeless youth—we didn’t want to rein- For the uninitiated Tales of the City read- This musical spans some of the world’s homelessness each year. It is estimated that 40 force the misconception that these kids are all ers, Maupin gives just enough background on biggest hits of the ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s. percent of homeless youth are LGBT. While The drug addicts sleeping under the bridge,” Kelly each of the characters while also moving the Songs will include “I Will Survive,” “It’s Rain- Homestretch is not specifically gay in its reck- said. “We see many people and organizations story forward. ing Men,” “Kung Fu Fight,” “Doin Da Butt,” oning, it is a universal story that affects the that do incredible work in supporting these The flashbacks to the Depression-era “Ooh Child,” “Funkytown,” “Ice Ice Baby” LGBT and straight communities just the same. youth—but they are incredibly underfunded Winnemucca, Nev.—when Anna was still and “Macarena,” among many others. Born and raised on the South Side of Chi- and cannot keep up with the rising numbers Andy and living at the Blue Moon, a whore- Tickets are $55-$65 each; see www.black- cago, Kasey spent more than a year bouncing of this crisis.” house run by his mother—are especially ensemble.org or call 773-769-4451. around between friends, family members, and As if anything was stable to begin with, the gripping and the best part of the book. It sleeping on the street, ultimately dropping out transition from graduation into the real world is there that readers discover how and why of high school her senior year. We meet Kasey is a shock to the students at the center of this Anna chose her name following her transi- GayCo holding in the film as she just enters a new transitional film. Their semi-skewed high school reality tion. ‘Fives of March’ home and is re-enrolled in school. Kasey is seemed to offer a miniscule amount of securi- Maupin’s ability to weave concurring sto- a poet, a painter and is shown as a tremen- ty—hot water, friendship, structure—but they ries are on full display here. While Michael, soon find out the adjustments necessary to fundraiser dous source of support for her huge network Ben Jake, Amos, Shawna and Mary Ann are Chicago sketch comedy mainstay GayCo make it in a high-functioning technologically- of friends. off to Burning Man, Brian and Wren take Productions is holding its annual “Fives of driven society. Due to immigration complications, Roque was Anna back to Winnemucca so Anna can at- March” fundraiser throughout the month. forced to separate from his family and fend for Kelly’s hope for the film is to bring a greater tend to unfinished business. The company asks for any and all donations himself on and off, beginning his sophomore awareness to the issues involving homeless Learning about the ins and outs of the that include the number five: $5, $25, $105, year of high school. With an unstable family youth. Burning Man experience was a revelation. etc. All donations are tax-deductible since and housing situation, Roque spent several “The number-one obstacle that homeless Each of the characters had specific reasons GayCo is a 501(c)(3) organization. years bouncing around. One of his teachers in- youth advocates and social service organiza- for the journey and it was interesting to find In support of the fundraiser, GayCo will be troduced him to Shakespeare and acting and tions face in getting more support is getting out the different neighborhoods that are cre- performing in several variety shows across he became inspired to finish high school and the general public to overcome negative ste- ated out of nothing in the Black Rock Desert the city throughout March, creating all-new go to college. reotypes of homeless youth,” Kelly said. “The of Nevada. video and satirical online content and even Anthony spent his childhood in the Depart- film will bring a human face to this crisis and Maupin’s use of everyday places like Trader holding an all-you-can-drink live fundraiser ment of Children and Family Services (DCFS) through the surprising journeys of these three Joe’s, Costco and locales specific to the Bay at The Waterhouse, 3407 N. Paulina Ave., on and went out on his own at the age of 14. Af- kids—kids who have tremendous potential—it Area; Internet sites like Facebook, Twitter March 29. Visit www.gayco.com. ter years of jumping from school to school and will build empathy and awareness of the reali- 32 March 19, 2014 WINDY CITY TIMES TELEVISION Nate Berkus ‘Builds’ a new reality show Neighborhood Council had to say, but it was a balancing act for me, but one that I was re- ally happy to be involved with because it’s de- sign. It’s what I love. It wasn’t my talk show. I wasn’t trying to make a chicken. WCT: [Laughs] Well, I think you have done a great job. How did the designers get a spot on the show? NB: The designers and home builders [who] comprise the 12 contestants were absolutely, unequivocally booked on their design talent alone. The fact that we got very lucky and have some really varied, extremely competitive people competing on this show was really a by-product. by Jerry Nunn First, they had to be able to design within an inch of their life because we wanted week after Making over homes comes naturally to design- week the audience to be able to see absolute ers like Nate Berkus, although on NBC’s Ameri- cover of a magazine worthy makeovers and the can Dream Builders it’s a whole new ball game. highest possible level of inspiration. So you The reality-competition show has 12 contes- can’t cast for character if you really have to be tants fighting for the chance to win best de- focused on the results and what the design will signer after an elimination each week. In the be week after week when we complete these final episode the last two designers will battle two full renovations. it out with two Southern California homes to WCT: Do we get into the personal lives to see who wins. know which ones are LGBT designers? Executive producer and host Nate Berkus NB: Eddie. No, I’m just kidding. There really serves as judge, along with former NFL player/ isn’t a tremendous amount of time to dive into architect Eddie George and interior designer their personal lives. Obviously, when you take Monica Pederson. 12 people who are consummate professionals, Back in 2002 Berkus began on The Oprah who are very established in their fields, and Winfrey Show, rocketing to worldwide success you put them in a competition setting with not with a line of home products, two best-selling a lot of time, and they’re divided into teams books and his own talk show. His Chicago- which are not necessarily their choosing, you based design firm, Nate Berkus Associates, was get a lot of the interpersonal dynamic between founded in 1995. He is quickly gaining a back- the designers and competitors on the show. ground in executive producing with this project In terms of personal life, each hour of this From left: Monica Pederson, Nate Berkus and Eddie George on American Dream Builders. and past ones like the movie The Help. show is so packed. It’s the most ambitious Publicity photo courtesy of NBC In addition, his fabric collection, Calico Cor- design show that’s ever been done with two ners, launched this past January. full-scale renovations per hour. So you do defi- NB: You know, it’s not personal. ings, sat in my hotel and then flew back to We called the out, loud and proud Nate nitely get to know the characters, and we cer- MP: Yes. New York. Berkus, as well as Pederson, to deconstruct the tainly want people to know them, be rooting NB: You’re judging what they were able to WCT: I don’t blame you. This winter was builders. for them, and connect with them if they have do and what they were able to accomplish. I the worst. Windy City Times: Hi, Nate. How do you something in common or they just connect think Eddie was very focused on how they were NB: It was awful. I’ll be back this summer manage juggling judging, hosting and exec- with their taste. But this show is really not functioning as a team in the beginning of the for sure. utive-producing American Dream Builders? about delving into their personal lives. competition. WCT: You should be our grand marshal for Nate Berkus: Well, what you do is you make WCT: How do you put aside your feelings I was very focused on what design ideas I Gay Pride. sure that you’re working with people you think and judge them on what they have done? had seen before anywhere. From the very first NB: We can talk about that. Maybe if Monica are the best in the business because no one NB: We don’t. We fought the three of us the week of the show, my advice to them was if I’ve agrees to be on the float... can possibly do all of those things. So for me, whole time. seen it before or if it’s some trick or tip that MP: I will be there cheering you on. as the executive producer I was involved in the WCT: Really? means the audience has seen it. NB: I get to pick your outfit. concept of this show long before any cameras NB: Yeah, of course. I mean design is very So what I’m looking for is die hard creativity. MP: Please do. I look like a drag queen. I’d were turned on. subjective. There’s not one way to do anything, If you cop out and do something just because be good! That involved the casting and the location but I think all three of us brought a different it’s the easy way out and it’s something that American Dream Builders tears down walls scouting; reviewing people’s portfolios; [and] perspective to the show. There are many times everyone is familiar with, you’re not going to on NBC beginning March 23. Keep up with talking about the different design challenges that Eddie and I didn’t agree, many times that win, from my perspective. You have come in Nate’s dream at www.nateberkus.com. and the architectural styles that we moved Monica and I went sort of head to head. every week and show me stuff that I’ve never through. Also, [there was] using my relation- I think it’s about our authentic opinion and seen before. ships to make sure that the designers had fan- wanting them to succeed because they were MP: There are things that I personally may tastic vendors that would give them access to picked to be a part of this competition and love because it’s my taste or Nate or Eddie may Internat’l Vintage vintage, antiques, salvaged and fine contem- because they’re all fantastic designers. I wasn’t love, but there also some just really good de- porary art and all the things that they need or looking to be mean or to be demeaning or sign principles. We looked at that furniture lay- Poster Fair that they’re used to working with. negative. out, where are your draperies mounted, what’s A host is a host, and I hope I did okay. To be a judge, you’re inherently judgmental. March 28-30 the color scale? These are all basic things The International Vintage Poster Fair, WCT: I thought you did great with that job And that’s fair, right Monica? We were laughing that when you hire a designer, you know that the world’s oldest and largest sale and especially. sometimes, like, “How do you like that?” And they’re going to deliver. exposition of original vintage posters, re- NB: As judge I got to work with Eddie and Monica’s like, “How do you not? What’s wrong These are some of the big challenges that turns to Chicago March 28-30 at the Chi- Monica. All three of us have very different sort with you?” do-it-yourselfers have. So we also looked at it cago Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph St. of perspectives and opinions. I think that that We really, I think, were very just straightfor- really from okay are they bringing those high Thousands of posters, dated from the was something that became very interesting ward about how we truly felt about everything end design principles to the table? If they’re 1890s-1980s, will be on display and avail- through the course of the show. that they did. not, then that’s a problem. able for purchase throughout the weekend. WCT: There are some twists, with the Monica Pederson: We wanted everybody to NB: Some of them tried to fight, but we Exhibitors from Belgium, France, Great Neighborhood Council being added into the do their best. As designers, we know that they didn’t let them get through. Britain, Switzerland and the United States mix. were working outside of their comfort zone. MP: It’s not a food show, so it’s not like Nate, will be at the event. Styles include the NB: We built that into the show where each It’s not the way they normally work in the Eddie, and I can sit there and go, “This is deli- popular Art Deco and Modernism posters week they got to pick which of the two homes real world of design. They’re really good, and cious, America.” They’re going to see it, so we as well as classic Art Nouveau, Victorian they preferred. Eddie, Monica and I had to send they’re able to deliver. So I think we were very have to reflect what other people are thinking. images and more. someone home from the losing team. So that fair. I walked away feeling really good about it. WCT: When are you coming back to visit us The cost is $15 for a weekend pass (Sat- actually made judging sometimes more diffi- If I was in their shoes, I would have been ap- in Chicago, Nate? urday and Sunday only), and $35 for the cult, sometimes it made it easier. preciative of the constructive criticism. NB: I’m back and forth all the time. My de- March 28 evening preview benefit. Email WCT: What did you think of the Neighbor- NB: Me, too. sign firm’s still based there. I came in, like, a [email protected] or visit www.poster- hood Council overall? WCT: How do you know when you are being week ago and had the worst weather in the fair.com. NB: We didn’t always agree with what the too harsh? history of the world, cancelled my office meet- WINDY CITY TIMES March 19, 2014 33 BOOK REVIEW Many of these pieces are so rich you’ll want a “closet baptism.” Father Bill had set the to revisit them again to find new thoughts to time for late in the day so it wouldn’t occur Off the Rocks, nibble on. Enjoy! at a regular mass where the other parishioners Many of the submissions you’ll find in these would know. Vol. 17 pages were penned by writers from the Chicago Theall eventually confronted Father Bill: edited by Allison Fradkin area, but this volume also includes authors “Connor doesn’t need to prove himself worthy $13; NewTown Writers based in other parts of the country, as well as of the Church. The Church needs to prove itself Press; 159 pages in Turkey. The NewTown Writers mission is to worthy of him.” Yet, it did not. She and Jill by SALLY PARSONS foster queer literature and provide the local, finally left the Catholic Church in search of a national, and international queer community religious community that would embrace their I always look forward to reviewing the annual with opportunities to”… speak up and speak family. She remained tormented, though, and volume of this anthology series, put out by out, and to be heard loud and queer.” Volume was brutally honest with herself. “Why can’t I Chicago’s NewTown Writers Press. This year’s 17 of Off the Rocks succeeds admirably. It is make peace with it [the decision to leave her theme: subtext. We all recognize what that dedicated to writer, performer and Chicagoan faith]? Why do I want to go back?” A part of is, right? Maybe, maybe not, hidden under the Cookie Crumbles. her, she knew, “… still believes that a church surface as it is. As the Press puts it, subtext is that accepts gay people isn’t much of a church “reading between, behind, beneath and beyond at all.” the lines.” And whose subtext are we looking BOOK REVIEW Theall knew she needed to stand up for her for—the author’s, the characters’ or our very son and put to bed her shame of long stand- own? Whatever: This collection of 28 short sto- Teaching the ing. Part of her struggle in putting her story to ries and poems provides a delightful potpourri paper was the fear that, in order to be a good of sad, sweet, funny, and reflective glimpses Cat to Sit mother, she might have to be a bad daughter into the lives of an assortment of folks. by Michelle Theall and risk losing the love of her parents for good. For example: the couple having a romp in $24.99; Gallery Books; 273 Additionally, there was the strain caused by her apples. Or Gabriel, distraught over his lover’s pages confronted her abuser. She told her parents she mother’s inability to fully accept Jill as Theall’s suicide in 1961 Seattle, who summons his by SALLY PARSONS was gay. While Theall herself wrestled with all partner and Connor’s mom. “cousins” to witness his despair. Or the snide this, her parents, too, began a long and painful Theall finally realized she was betraying her- cocktail party attendee anxious to leave with What is it about a memoir that is often so com- journey to process and accept their daughter’s self by remaining silent about the hypocrisy his lover. Or Brady, the gay Mormon, who makes pelling? An account of a real person’s life jour- sexuality and chosen lifestyle. she experienced in her parish. She contacted a a surprising request of Lucas, his straight friend ney, recounted with considerable writing talent Theall then entered a new period in her life. reporter and thus began her journey that even- since childhood. Or overweight Gabriella, sweet and courage, can convey more punch (because She quit her job and moved to Boulder, Colo., tually resulted in this memoir. She also made on Meredith in their high school homeroom. Or it is real? contemporary and therefore more rel- where she met her partner Jill. They adopted a final stand with her mother about accepting Oscar and Warren nearing the end of their life evant?) than a well-crafted fiction tale. Connor and, their son nearly four, began the her family with Jill and Connor. together, filled with the richness of fairytales. Theall’s memoir is a prime example. She steps that would lead to his baptism into the If you like to enfold yourself for a brief time One of the joys of an anthology, aside from writes about her struggle for acceptance of her Catholic faith. Theall thought she had her bases in the lives of others who struggle against prej- the diversity of perspectives, is that you can chosen family (partner Jill and their son Con- covered, checking with the baptismal director udice and for self-acceptance, and who tackle dip in for a short delectable, and jump out nor) by the Catholic Church and by her own par- in her parish, who assured her the fact Connor all of this with clarity, humor, and great hon- again at the end of a piece without the gnaw- ents. An award-winning professional writer, she had two mommies was not an issue. Father Bill esty, you will find this book worthwhile. ing guilt that you’ve stranded new friends in records her story with skill and humor. Since started waffling, however. “We want our son to Michelle Theall teaches writing and photog- the middle of some dilemma. And then you much of her truth has its roots in her child- know God,” Theall told him. “How can that be raphy. She won a GLAAD Media Award nomi- look forward to another dip, as time allows. hood, she interweaves chapters of growing up a bad thing?” nation in 2011 for an essay that inspired this in Bible-Belt Texas with chapters After the baptism, Theall was shocked to memoir. She founded Women’s Adventure mag- that focus on her adult struggles. learn from another lesbian mom that the event azine. Theall lives with her partner, their son, She is painfully honest in doing so. wasn’t what she thought. Instead, it had been and three dogs in Boulder. Theall was raised in a small nuclear family consisting of her sister Kathy and her parents, all faithful, practic- ing Catholics. She was a lonely child and found purpose in running on the track team at school until she was kicked out of the Fellowship of CIVIL UNIONS & WEDDINGS Christian Athletes and outed for be- ing gay (before she knew she was). AT THE KEITH HOUSE Rationalizing about her daughter wanting to compete in sports, her mom told her dad that Michelle wasn’t that good and if she lost enough times, maybe she’d lose interest. To which Theall replied, “Nice. My own mother wants me to lose.” As a young adult, Theall struggled to identify her sexuality. She ex- perimented by dating men until she was certain the hetero life was not for her. Violated by a neighbor as a child, she read a self-help book and attended a support group for survi- vors of childhood sexual abuse. She

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$36 general, $31 seniors, $15 students. me/OfVrR2 C.R.U.’s FB Page: http:// 7:00pm Raven Theatre, 6157 N. Clark St., www.facebook.com/thepvcru 6:30pm Chicago 773-338-2177 http://www.raven - 8:30pm Project VIDA 4045 W 26th theatre.com Street http://www.facebook.com/ CALENDAR The Snow Ball: A Benefit for MidTangent events/1394516904146864/ Productions’ Snow White & the Seven Brought to you by the Drag Queens Come support the upcoming Wed., March 26 combined efforts of production and meet the cast and have Cinema Q IV Film Series: De-Lovely a fabulous fairy tale of an evening with (2004) The Queer Film Society fourth drinks, prizes, and performances. $10 at annual series celebrating outstanding the door gets you two top shelf cocktails LGBT movies. De-Lovely (2004): Anything Wed., March 19 Thursday, March 20 and an evening of magic, music and spe- goes in this vibrant, sophisticated musi- Affinity Forty Plus Meeting Includes but is LGBTQ Happy Hour with Jewish United cial surprises. Performances from Debbie cal biopic that frankly examines the life not limited to individuals who identify as Fund’s Young Leadership Division Cock- Fox, Sari Greenberg and a preview of our and complicated marriage of the legend- lesbian, bisexual, or transgender women tails and learn more about the Jewish upcoming show by Katerina Papadatos and ary gay songwriter Cole Porter. 6:30pm who are at least 40 years of age. Led by United Fund’s Young Leadership Division. the cast. 7:30pm - 10:30pm Hydrate GLESS IS MORE Chicago Cultural Center 78 E. Washington Glynis Morris. Activities defined by partici- $12 advance / $15 door. Includes one Nightclub 3458 N Halsted St., http:// St. http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/ pants. Meets on the 4th Wednesday of the drink ticket. 6:00pm - 8:00pm Sidetrack wwwmidtangentproductions.com Friday, March 21 en/depts/dca/supp_info/cinema_q.html month. 7:00pm Affinity Community Ser- 3349 N Halsted St http://www.juf.org/ Elton John: The Million Dollar Piano Cap- vices 1424 E. 53rd St., Suite 306 http:// yld/lgbtq.aspx Sharon Gless (left) tured live from Elton’s residency at The www.affinity95.org Lesbians Who Tech (and friends) March, Saturday, March 22 Frontrunners/ Frontwalkers Chicago Fun and Maureen Gallagher Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Baton’s 45th Anniversary Celebrate 45 Chicago Happy Hour Lesbians Who Tech Run/Walk A club for lesbians, gay men, the epic concert experience features all years of glamour at The Baton with special is global community of over 3,000 queer co-star in Hannah Free, bisexuals, transexuals and friends who of Elton’s greatest hits. List of locations shows all night. Kickoff of a big anniver- women in and around tech. Whether you which will be shown at are interested in running and walking online. 7:00pm Various Illinois movie sary weekend. 6:00pm - 2:00am Baton work at a tech company, have a techni- together along Chicago’s great open lake- Evanston’s Unitarian theaters http://www.fathomevents.com/ Show Lounge 436 N Clark St., http:// cal job or are just obsessed with ev- front, meeting twice weekly, on Saturdays Church. event/million-dollar-piano/more-info/ www.thebatonshowlounge.com ery new app that comes out. Get geeky at 9am and Tuesdays at 6:30pm 9:00am Photo by Hal Baim theater-locations Cinema Q IV Film Series: Summer Storm with techy folks just like you. Enjoy Totem Pole in Lincoln Park https://www. (2004) Free film series celebrates fourth tasty adult beverages, Land gigs, make facebook.com/groups/52950773133/ year with 10th anniversary screenings of new friends andconnections 6:00pm - Thursday, March 27 Chicago Flower & Garden Show: Do Green. Brahman/i: A One-Hijra Stand Up Comedy four LGBT movies. Summer Storm (2004): 8:30pm Downtown Bar and Lounge 440 Do Good. Educational seminars, hands- Show About Face Theatre and Silk Road Teams from all across Germany converge N State https://www.facebook.com/ service projects, book group, film group. on floral and produce workshops, how-to Rising present the Chicago premiere by on a quiet camping ground for an annual events/655163644540302/ 10:30am - 12:00pm Ethical Humanist instructional classes, wonderful cooking Aditi Brennan Kapil, directed by AFT Ar- rowing competition - including the defi- Congregation Or Chadash Explores “Ju- Society of Chicago 7574 N. Lincoln Ave. demonstrations with leading chefs, mar- tistic Director Andrew Volkoff, with Fawzia antly gay team from Berlin whose arrival daism with a Queer Perspective” Skokie , IL 60077 http://www.ethicalhu- ketplace where. Through March 23. Pre- Mirza in the title role. Provocative play threatens to shake up the world of the Free seven-session course, “Hidur Kes- man.org sented by Mariano’s. 10:00am - 10:00pm masquerading as a stand-up comedy rou- closeted Tobi. 6:30pm Chicago Cultural het: Strengthening the Rainbow-Judaism Scott Duff hosts LGBT radio talk show Navy Pier 600 E Grand Ave http://www. tine, an Indian intersex person, or hijra, Center 78 E. Washington St. http://www. with a Queer Perspective,” on Thursdays LGBT-specific talk show “Out Chicago” on chicagoflower.com explores history, mythology, gender roles. cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/dca/ through May 8 (excluding the week of politics, entertainment, celebrity gossip Windy City Performing Arts’ Spring Con- Through April 27. Start times to come. supp_info/cinema_q.html Passover). 7:00pm - 9:00pm Congrega- 11:00am - 1:00pm WCPT 820 AM cert: It Gets Better, The Concert Inspir- 12:00pm Silk Road Rising, Pierce Hall Smash Out Cancer Drag Show RU Proud tion Or Chadash at Emanuel Congregation Gay & Lesbian Wedding Expo Feature ing music and stories presented to remind at the Historic Chicago Temple Building, and Alpha Phi Omega. Hosted by Vic- 5959 N Sheridan Rd., http://www.orcha- garden wedding giveaway. RSVPs are re- us all that we are not alone, we are beau- 77 W. Washington St., 312-857-1234 ext. toria Vandekamp, a Roosevelt student. dash.org quested to attend this event by the Rain- tiful just the way we are, and that life 201 http://www.silkroadrising.org Tick- Doors open at 6pm. 7:00pm Congress Newtown Writers Chicago’s premiere homo- bow Wedding Network. 1:00pm - 4:00pm will-and does get better. Tickets online ets: http://aboutfacetheatre.com Lounge, Roosevelt University, Chicago phile (LGBT) writing workshop. More info: Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza 350 W. and at door. Seniors $15, or Students and Dangerously Explicit: Painting the Gay https://www.facebook.com/events/63970 Barry Frauman, [email protected] Mart Center Dr. Tickets: http://www. Children $10 will be available only at the Male Experience David Getsy of the 5402749295/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_ or by phone. 7:30pm Contact for loca- SameLoveSameRights.com door. First show 5pm. 8:00pm Ebene- School of the Art Institute of Chicago type=regular tion 773-528-3637 Holly Near Holly Near inspirea people to zer Lutheran Church 1650 W Foster Ave., chats with scholars Jim Vopat and Kate Music for Langston Hughes Poems Chicago celebratw the human spirit. Celebrating 40 http://windycitysings.org Pollasch-Thames about the work of Eti- Pianist/Composer Stuart Mindeman cre- Friday, March 21 creative years of music, acting, songwrit- So You Think You Can Drag: Finals All enne, Roger Brown, and others. 5:30 PM ates music inspired by jazz, soul music, Hannah Free screening Hannah and Rachel ing, humanitarian work, and singing doe the winners from the preliminary SYTYCD Reception 6:30 PM Program $20, $15 for West African and Caribbean musical styles grew up in the same small Midwest town, peace, justice, and feminism. $26 general, competitions compete this night for the members (Includes open bar reception) and the stories of the poems themselves. where traditional gender expectations $24 members 7:00pm Old Town School big win. Bring friends to vote for you be- 5:30pm - 9:00pm Chicago History Mu- $10. 7:00pm eta Creative Arts Founda- eventually challenge their deep love for of Folk Music 4544 N Lincoln Ave http:// cause the audience has a say in who is the seum 1601 N Clark http://www.chicago- tion 7558 S. South Chicago Ave., http:// one another. Following the film will be www.hollynear.com Tickets: http://www. winner. Don’t miss out on this epic event history.org/planavisit/upcomingevents/ www.charlesheathpresents.com a panel discussion with editor/producer oldtownschool.org/concerts/2014/03-23- of the closing of season 2 where up to 8 out-at-chm Tickets: http://www.chicago- Achy Obejas, Megan Bayless, editors Im- Sharon Zurek, actors Taylor Miller and 2014-holly-near-7pm/ girls will be competing. 8:00pm - 3:00am history.org/planavisit/upcomingevents/ migrant Voices Anthology of short fic- Maureen Gallagher and producer Tracy Club Krave 13126 S Western Ave., Blue out-at-chm tion by immigrants 7:30pm Women & Baim. Admission is $10 donation. Tickets Tuesday, March 25 Island, Ill., 60406 http://www.clubkrave. Former President Jimmy Carter Signing his Children First Bookstore 5233 N Clark St online or by phone. 7:00pm Unitarian Frontrunners/ Frontwalkers Chicago A com new book, A Call To Action: Women, Reli- http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com Church, 1330 Ridge Ave., Evanston 847- club for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, gion, Violence, and Power, a book about Renee Fleming and Jonas Kaufmann 864-1330 http://www.hannahfree.com transexuals and friends who are interested women’s rights. Tickets are required. A Lyric’s annual Subscriber Appreciation Tickets: http://ucevanston.org Sunday, March 23 in running and walking together along Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago Meet- purchase of A Call to Action from Women Concert conducted by Lyric Music Direc- Out at Raven Free wine & cheese recep- Chicago’s great open lakefront, meeting ing every Sunday from 10:30 to noon, & Children First for $30.60 comes with a tor Sir Andrew Davis includes selections tion just before a performance of GOOD twice weekly, on Saturdays at 9am and featuring a speaker on a variety of topics- free ticket to the book signing. Pre-order by Verdi, Massenet, Gounod, and others. BOYS AND TRUE. . Long bfore “sexting” Tuesdays at 6:30pm. 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late March and is a book about women’s rights. ‘Queer Queens of In the president’s travels around the world, he Against Me! Qomedy’ at Mayne has noted many abuses against women and performing girls, as well as the religious beliefs that are Stage on April 13 sometimes used to justify those abuses. The in Palatine April 4 The all-lesbian revue “Queer Queens of Qom- president is the author of numerous other Against Me!—a band headed by trans Chi- edy” tour will stop at Mayne Stage, 1328 W. books, most recently the controversial Pales- cago singer Laura Jane Grace—is touring to Morse Ave., on April 13 at 7:30 p.m. tine: Peace Not Apartheid. support the CD Transgender Dysphoria Blues, The headliners will be Jennie McNulty, Sandra which was released Jan. 21. Valls and Poppy Champlin. Among the cities on the North America tour Tickets are $25-$25; see www.MayneStage. Dustin Lance Black are Austin, Texas (SXSW festival; Denver; Van- com and www.QueerQueensOfQomedy.com. couver; Indianapolis; Asheville, N.C.; and Las at Elmhurst Vegas. The band will perform in Palatine, Ill., on May 8 on April 4. Jimmy Carter Openly gay and Oscar-winning screenwriter See www.againstme.net. coming to Dustin Lance Black (Milk) will be at Elmhurst College’s Frick Center Thursday, May 8, at 7 Andersonville on p.m. Katy Perry adds In addition to Milk, Black’s credits also in- second show at March 27 clude the movie J. Edgar and the play 8, which Former President Jimmy Carter is coming to Poppy Champlin. Photo from Champlin portrays the closing arguments in the federal United Center Chicago to promote his new book, A Call to Ac- trial that led to the overturning of California’s Katy Perry will now also perform Aug. 8 at tion: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power, on a free ticket to the book-signing. The book Proposition 8 and the establishment of mar- Chicago’s United Center, following the sold-out Thursday, March 27, 6-8 p.m. publishes on March 25; the price including tax riage equality in the nation’s largest state.. Aug. 7 show in the same venue. Women & Children First Bookstore is hosting is $30.60. Call 773-769-9299 or go to www. Visit http://public.elmhurst.edu/cultural_ The shows are part of the Prismatic world the event at the Swedish American Museum, womenandchildrenfirst.com for more informa- events. tour. Part of the tour will be with lesbian musi- 5211 N. Clark St. The event will be a signing tion or to pre-order a book and secure your cal duo Tegan and Sara (although the Chicago only. ticket. shows will feature Capital Cities instead). Tickets are required. A purchase of A Call to Carter’s A Call to Action is being published in See www.KatyPerry.com and www.Ticketmas- Action from Women & Children First comes with ter.com. WINDY CITY TIMES March 19, 2014 37 BILLY MASTERS

“She’s a choreographer, she’s not a direc- list: Rosie O’Donnell! After reading rumors that tor. I’m sorry, but there’s a difference. ... I she was a contender, Rosie had her agents call love Susan and I love her work, but I resent CNN. Their response? “We’re not interested; we choreographers-turned-directors and NOT direct- were never interested.” Says O’Donnell, “It was ing.”—Patti LuPone shares her opinion on Su- never true, but I would have loved it.” How- san Stroman, “director” of the upcoming Bul- ever, given her interest, I hear she is actually lets Over Broadway. This may also explain why now being considered. Patti isn’t playing Helen Sinclair! The Broadway smash Motown: The Musical I don’t want to alarm anyone, but I have just will soon open in London’s West End, and it learned about a catastrophe of international could have an interesting cast member. The proportions: We are in the midst of an acute original Queen of Motown, Miss Ross, has let it shortage of clowns. Yes, clowns. Believe it or be known that she would be interested in ap- pearing in the show—playing HERSELF! Bear in mind the musical covers the early years of The Supremes, when Diane was teenager embarking on an affair with Berry Gordy. Not a problem to Miss Ross—after all, she also successfully campaigned to star in The Wiz! Many outlets are reporting there was a diva smackdown last week. And if there’s anything we enjoy more than a rumor, it’s one that in- volves divas smacking each other. And it hap- pened at the White House! Aretha Franklin and Patti LaBelle were celebrating “Women of Soul.” Aretha entered through a crowd of peo- ple. On the video, LaBelle reaches out to greet her and appears to be dismissively shoved. Of course, there’s two times you don’t get in

Aretha’s way—when she’s headed to a stage r a v i s S e d l T F l y e r d s i g n

or an all-you-can-eat buffet! Patti’s lucky she b y didn’t lose an arm. Frank Ocean proved that sometimes it’s eas- ier to give back the money than deliver. The singer signed a contract with Chipotle to record a cover of “Pure Imagination” for an ad cam- paign and they paid him half his fee. Problem Diana Ross is trying to turn back time, Billy is, Frank never delivered the song. He claims at 3349 N. Halsted SidetrackChicago.com says. Photo by Jerry Nunn he was deceived—that he was told the song CherryBar & MainBar would be used for a PSA to promote respon- Open 3pm. No Cover. sible farming, and that he would be given final not, becoming a clown is a less appealing ca- approval (two points which allegedly do not reer option than it once was. Perhaps because appear in the contract). When Chipotle filed we now have reality shows—as was evident breach of contract suit, he sent them back a ‘Hannah Free’ while watching the finale of The Bachelor. Juan check for $212,500.00 (which is the amount he Pablo has worked overtime to earn the title of had been paid) with the notation “FUCK OFF.” showing March 21 the most hated bachelor ever. Well, that says it all! The Rainbow Alliance of the Unitarian Here’s what you probably don’t know— Our “Ask Billy” question comes from Gary in Church of Evanston (UCE), 1330 Ridge Ave., throughout this process, Juan Pablo had no Austin: “I read that Jake Gyllenhaal was filming will present Hannah Free on Friday, March 21, idea he was the most hated man in Bachelor a nude scene and photos are circulating. What at 7 p.m. history ... and that takes some doing after is the movie and do you think you could track Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for a dessert and Jake Pavelka. But since he loves to samba, down the photos?” coffee salon. Following the film will be a he assumed that after the show wrapped, he’d I’m almost insulted—insulted that you panel discussion. Admission is a $10 dona- smoothly segue over to Dancing with the Stars. would think I didn’t already have the photos! tion. In fact, he was told as much by the producers. The film in question is called Everest, and it’s Members of the panel are editor/producer He and Nikki planned to move to Los Angeles about climbing Mount Everest. Now why people Sharon Zurek, actors Taylor Miller and Mau- and continue on the road to stardom. However, climbing a mountain covered in snow would reen Gallagher, and producer Tracy Baim. in light of some questionable comments about be running around naked is anyone’s guess— UCE is a “welcoming congregation” within Holly Near. Photo by Donna Korones gay people, producers at DWTS realized that maybe it’s a dream sequence. It certainly would the Unitarian Universalist Association. As a Juan Pablo was box-office poison and made a be a dream come true for me after being disap- welcoming congregation, UCE pledges to ad- Alt-rock singer Ferrick will perform Sunday, last-minute decision to dump him. This is what pointed by Jake one too many times. Sure, he’s dress the needs of LGBT people at every level June 22, at 7 p.m. (Tickets are $26-$28.) he meant when he said plans for the future were teased us with his sexy Santa dance in Jarhead of congregational life, and celebrate the Upcoming acts/events include the Chicago up in the air. He said he got some information and riding bareback in Prince of Persia. We even lives and loves of all people in the spirit of Reel global dance party (March 28), Hugh two weeks earlier from the production team settled for his stunt double in the Brokeback the first principle of Unitarian Universalism. Masekela (March 28), John Cale (April 17), and everything “changed drastically.” Speaking Mountain nude scenes. Finally, Jake is showing The Rainbow Alliance carries out the goals of Joni Mitchell’s Blue: A Celebration (May 4) of drastic changes, he most certainly planned all—or is he??? The photos are fascinating not UCE’s welcoming congregation. and Suzanne Vega (May 15), among many to propose to Nikki on live television. But once only for what they show, but what they don’t. Tickets are on sale; visit ucevanston.org or others. Nanci Griffith’s shows, originally slat- ABC cut him loose, he decided to stop play- Sure, Jake is almost completely nude. But he call 847-864-1330. ed for April 5-6, have been postponed. ing ball. Being as gracious as ever, the moment is wearing what is known in the business as a See www.OldTownSchool.org. “After The Final Rose” was over, Juan Pablo and “cock sock” over his nether regions. But unlike Near, Ferrick, Nikki stormed out of the studio. He nixed all most of these devices, this one seems larger Matt Goss exit interviews, including a trip to NYC to ap- than usual. In fact, it appears to be more of a Honey at Old Town pear on Good Morning America the next day. A flap attached with some flesh-colored adhesive out with ‘I Do’ rose by any other name... tape. Oh, and the flap is black. Strangely, the School of Music British crooner Matt Goss has released an The guessing game as to who will replace photos have been wiped from the web—except Singers Holly Near and Melissa Ferrick are EP featuring “I Do,” which he has described Piers Morgan has already begun, and the first for the ones on BillyMasters.com. among the upcoming acts at Old Town School as “the perfect proposal song that is as in- person to toss his name in the ring was the When I’m off to climb ev’ry mountain, it’s of Music, 4544 N. Lincoln Ave. clusive as it is romantic.” guy he replaced. Larry King let it be known definitely time to end yet another column. Near will be in concert with pianist John Other tracks include “Mustang,” “Lovely that he’s ready and willing to return to work— Like Jake, this column was slightly longer than Buccino and Emma’s Revolution on Sunday, Las Vegas,” and “There’s Nothing Like This,” if someone would just remind him what that usual. So let us quickly remind you to check March 23, at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. (Tickets are all of which will appear on Goss’ full-length job was! The popular choice within CNN for a out www.BillyMasters.com—the site that often $24-$26.) Her newest CD is Peace Becomes album, Life You Imagine, in the spring. replacement is Anderson Cooper. Also on the requires extra oxygen at its peaks! If you have You. His weekly performance of Matt Goss Live short list is Anthony Bourdain, who I’m told a question for me, send it along to Billy@Bil- Sweet Honey in the Rock, as part of its at Caesars Palace has been called the “hot- is incredibly popular. Ann Curry is being con- lyMasters.com and I promise to get back to you “Forty & Fierce 40th Anniversary Tour,” will test show in Vegas” by the Los Angeles Times sidered, as is Joy Behar—she formerly of HLN before Juan Pablo turns up on So You Think be in concert Saturday, April 12, at 4 p.m. and was recently extended through June. and Al-Jazeera. But the most interesting name You Can Dance! Until next time, remember, one and 8 p.m. Admission is $43-$45. See www.iammattgoss.com. to surface is someone who wasn’t on anyone’s man’s filth is another man’s bible. 38 March 19, 2014 WINDY CITY TIMES and solutions for women and girls throughout metropolitan Chicago. Sochi event A networking reception will take place 11 March 19 a.m.-12 p.m. The luncheon and keynote ad- The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) dress will take place 12-1:30 p.m. Learning Community will present “Sports, Sex- Visit www.cfw.org/luncheon. uality and International Politics: Sochi 2014” on Wed., March 19, at the Richard J. Daley Li- brary, 801 S. Morgan St., at 12 p.m. Chicago Force QB The event will feature Cai O’Connell and Brit- out with music video tany James, who were interpreters at the 2014 Chicago Force quarterback Sami Grisafe has Olympic and Paralympic Games; they will dis- released a video for her song “Carousel.” cuss their behind-the-scenes accounts of the Grisafe is an out award-winning singer-song- games. Associate Professor of Slavic and Baltic writer and all-star athlete whose music em- Languages and Literatures Colleen McQuillen bodies a folk-rock style. This past fall, Grisafe, will also be at the event. an equality advocate, headlined the Rock the Lunch will be served. RSVP at [email protected]. March concert with her new song, “Brand New edu. Fairy Tale,” at the March on Springfield for Mar- riage Equality. Grisafe is on tour promoting her second al- MLS to introduce bum, Atlantis, and the new feature documen- pro-gay initiative tary, The Tackle Girls: One Team, One Mission, At the inaugural Out in Law summit, an LGBT which stars Grisafe and features her original initiative for senior leaders in the legal profes- music. sion, New York Attorney General Eric Schneider- The video is at http://youtu. Jason Collins. Photo by Ross Forman man announced Major League Soccer’s (MLS’) be/6pKLSHIONk0. decision to introduce new measures to protect Billie Jean King. gay players from discrimination and harass- Nets sign Collins for ment, according to OutLeadership.org. AAC, CGHA start Todd Sears—founder of Out Leadership, the Billie Jean King spring hockey season remainder of season organization behind the summit—said, “The to speak at CFW The Athletic Alliance of Chicago (AAC) and The NBA’s Brooklyn Nets signed center Ja- ‘Don’t Cross the Line’ initiative will ensure the Chicago Gay Hockey Association has start- son Collins for the remainder of the season on greater protection for current and future gay annual luncheon ed its eight-week spring season. March 15, according to ESPN.com. players from harassment and discrimination. Activist/tennis icon Billie Jean King will be Teams play Sunday nights at Center on Hal- Sources said that the internal expectation all The Attorney General has a long and distin- the keynote speaker at th Chicago Foundation sted, 3656 N. Halsted St., 6 p.m.-8 p.m., with along was that Collins would be a Net for the guished record as an advocate of LGBT equality for Women’s (CFW’s) 29th Annual Luncheon on each team playing twice a night. rest of the season, from the moment he signed and we applaud him and MLS for taking an ac- Sept. 18 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago, 151 E. There will still be two levels of play offered: his first 10-day deal. tive stance on this issue. Wacker Dr. recreational and competitive. They are accept- Collins is averaging 9.8 minutes per game “Their leadership demonstrates an under- The luncheon will celebrate the achieve- ing team and individual registrations. off the bench in eight appearances since his standing that business and the legal commu- ments of women and girls by bringing together See http://chicagogayhockey. historic debut against the Los Angeles Lakers nity can work together to advance equality. 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