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Howard Brown Loses Key Trans Youth Grant LYNDA CARTER TALKS WITH WCT WINDY CITY THE VOICE OF CHICAGO’S GAY, LESBIAN, BI AND TRANS COMMUNITY SINCE 1985 PAGE 29 OCT. 26, 2011 TIMES VOL 27, NO. 3 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com Howard Brown loses key trans youth grant GAY man RE-ENLISTS BY YASMIN NAIR AND KATE SOSIN needs of transgender women of color between the ages TYRA was coordinated by Matty Rosado who was also PAGE 6 of 16 and 24. lead facilitator for TWISTA. The non-renewal of the TWIS- Howard Brown Health Center (HBHC) recently lost fund- The news came to HBHC sometime in early Septem- TA grant meant that a significant portion of Rosado’s sal- ing for transfeminine youth when the U.S. Centers for ber, but was not made public until now, when Windy City ary would be lost. The CDPH grant for TYRA, which needs Disease Control decided not to refund its TWISTA (Trans- Times noticed that the program was not listed among to be renewed at the end of every year (BYC has had it Women Informing Sister TransWomen on AIDS) program. other Chicago grantees on the CDC website. for about six years), is not a certainty. This meant that The grant that made this program possible was a five- It appears that TYRA (Trans Youth and Resource Ad- Rosado stood to lose her full-time position and was faced year one, and came with approximately $1.6 million in vocacy), a program at the Broadway Youth Center for only with a possible half-time position, drawn from TYRA funds. transgender youth ages 13-24 that was partially funded funds, until Dec. 31. TWISTA is described on the HBHC website as “HIV in- through TWISTA funds, is also threatened. TYRA was Rosado, however, had been approached by Children’s tervention program designed to confront some of the funded through a Chicago Department of Public Health Memorial Life Skills program, a group-based HIV-inter- many risk factors that make young transgender women of grant, according to Lara Brooks, manager of the Broad- vention program directed towards young transgender color susceptible to infection with HIV” and a “peer led way Youth Center, where both grants were primarily lo- Turn to page 12 6-session group-based intervention” that addressed the cated. LANGBEHN RECEIVES MEDAL PAGE 4 Major movie mania DEPAUL ATHLETE COMES OUT PAGE 42 MELISSA MANCHESTER page 18 page 30 INTERVIEW PAGE 28 This week’s issue spotlights two LGBT-themed movies on opposite ends of the emotional spectrum. We Were Here (left) documents the AIDS crisis in San Francisco while Jamie and Jessie Are Not Together is a locally made lesbian movie about romance. Read more about We Were Here on page 18; read a review of “Jamie” on page 30 and an interview with three of the film’s actors on page 31. Left photo from the We Were Here documentary; right photo from Wendy Jo Carlton 2 Oct. 26, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES WINDY CITY TIMES this week in Oct. 26, 2011 NEWS WINDY CITY TIMES Gay profile: Lincoln; Langbehn Reports on education, sex Gay man re-enlists; families party ENTERTAINMENT/EVENTS Campaign controversy 4 Scottish Play Scott: Bernstein LGBT council; transgender panel 5 Talking with ‘Mary Poppins’ Gays join Occupy Chicago 6 Book reviews 3 Ugandan pro-LGBT activist 7 Melissa Manchester interview 21 Woman alleges police attack 8 Lynda Carter talks with WCT 25 NU benefits; AIJ/LAGBAC 9 Knight: ‘Jamie,’ ‘Martha’ 26 10 HBHC grant; ruling ‘Jamie’ actresses discuss movie 28 10 ICAH profile; Ferry Travel: Key West 29 Viewpoints: Berry, Dilbeck 11 Billy Masters 30 Gay in the Life 12 31 AIDS @ 30 13 32 14 OUTLINES 41 Real estate; classifieds Photos on cover (left, from top): Lynda Carter15 PR photo; photo from Lee Reinhart’s re-enlistment 16 Calendar Q by Hal Baim; photo of Janice Langbehn and PresidentSports: Obama DePaul from the student White House; Anthony Alfano pic by Ross Forman; Melissa Manchester PR photo 38 40 LYNDA CARTER TALKS WITH WCT WINDY CITY THE VOICE OF CHICAGO’S GAY, LESBIAN, 42 BI AND TRANS COMMUNITY SINCE 1985 PAGE 29 OCT. 26, 2011 TIMES VOL 27, NO. 3 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com Howard Brown loses key trans youth grant GAY MAN RE-ENLISTS BY YASMIN NAIR AND KATE SOSIN needs of transgender women of color between the ages TYRA was coordinated by Matty Rosado who was also PAGE 6 of 16 and 24. lead facilitator for TWISTA. The non-renewal of the TWIS- Howard Brown Health Center (HBHC) recently lost fund- The news came to HBHC sometime in early Septem- TA grant meant that a significant portion of Rosado’s sal- ing for transfeminine youth when the U.S. Centers for ber, but was not made public until now, when Windy City ary would be lost. The CDPH grant for TYRA, which needs Disease Control decided not to refund its TWISTA (Trans- Times noticed that the program was not listed among to be renewed at the end of every year (BYC has had it Women Informing Sister TransWomen on AIDS) program. other Chicago grantees on the CDC website. for about six years), is not a certainty. This meant that The grant that made this program possible was a five- It appears that TYRA (Trans Youth and Resource Ad- Rosado stood to lose her full-time position and was faced year one, and came with approximately $1.6 million in vocacy), a program at the Broadway Youth Center for only with a possible half-time position, drawn from TYRA funds. transgender youth ages 13-24 that was partially funded funds, until Dec. 31. TWISTA is described on the HBHC website as “HIV in- through TWISTA funds, is also threatened. TYRA was Rosado, however, had been approached by Children’s funded through a Chicago Department of Public Health Memorial Life Skills program, a group-baDOWNLOADsed HIV-inter- THIS! tervention program designed to confront some of the many risk factors that make young transgender women of grant, according to Lara Brooks, manager of the Broad- vention program directed towards young transgender color susceptible to infection with HIV” and a “peer led way Youth Center, where both grants were primarily lo- Turn to page 12 6-session group-based intervention” that addressed the cated. LANGBEHN RECEIVES MEDAL PAGE 4 Major movie mania Go to www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com DEPAUL ATHLETE COMES OUT PAGE 42 to download complete issues of Windy City Times and Nightspots. MELISSA MANCHESTER page 16 page 30 INTERVIEW PAGE 28 This week’s issue spotlights two LGBT-themed movies on opposite ends of the emotional spectrum. We Were Here (left) documents the AIDS crisis in San Francisco while Jamie and Jessie Are Not Together is a locally made lesbian movie about romance. Read more about We Were Here on page 16; read a review of “Jamie” on page 30 and an interview with three of the film’s actors on page 31. Left photo from the We Were Here documentary; right photo from Wendy Jo Carlton Then click on any ad and be taken directly to the advertiser’s Web site! online exclusives at TAKE A QUEER www.WindyCityMediaGroup LOOK AT CHICAGO DOLBY SYSTEM .com Bent Nights looks at concerts by Foster the In 1906 police arrested Julius Duc for dressing in women’s clothing in public. At the People and Thomas Dolby (left). station, a Daily News photographer snapped a series of photographs that remained unpublished until now. 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