THE VOICE OF CHICAGO’S GAY, LESBIAN, BI AND TRANS COMMUNITY SINCE 1985 Mar. 18, 2009 • vol 24 no 25 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com Disability: A Queer Issue Tutu in Chicago by YASMIN NAIR page 9 A new support group for LGBTQ people living with disabilities has recently begun meeting at Access Living, and its founders are eager to spread the word about it in the community. Access Living is a non-residential center for independent living, aimed at providing resourc- es for people with disabilities. In March 2007, it moved into a brand-new building at 115 W. Chicago, a project that has earned praise for be- ing green and for providing universal access. The organization is not queer-defined, but, as Susan Nussbaum put it, “Its main mission has always David been the rights of people with disabilities. A part of that includes peer interaction and sup- Daniels page 16 port and strength in identity through meeting, working and socializing with people with like oppression.” According to Nussbaum, Access Living had long been aware that there was a significant LG- BTQ community within the disability community. The organization is allied with Broadway Youth 40 Center (part of Howard Brown Center), which ca- ters to youth living in stressful circumstances like poverty and homelessness. Joe Hollendoner, and Fabulous director of the program, and other staff at the Center saw many queer youth living with disabil- Red Stars ities, and realized that they felt “ill-equipped to page 6 address it,” Nussbaum said. & WCT page 22 Over the spring and summer of 2008, Nuss- baum, Hollendoner and others began informal The female performers at the venue known as The Baton Show Lounge, 436 N. Clark, have been entertaining celebrities and everyday folk alike for four decades. Read more about this Turn to page 8 club and its remarkable owner/founder, Jim Flint, on page 6. Photo by Kirk Williamson

March 11, 2009 #983 Congressman candid on LGBT topics nightspots by JOHN FENOGLIO a swath of the west-central part of the state your district make your job more difficult? n that includes cities such as Sterling, Rock Island PH: Look, they’re good people. I think when pick it up With so many big problems in our country, a lot and Springfield. you talk about issues to people instead of Wearin’ No Bra Happy St. Patty’s from Phoenix and Nightspots magazine! of politicians would find themselves between Windy City Times: Congressman Hare, tell preaching to them, you talk about fairness; they take it home inSIDE 40 years and still twirling Fasten your seatbelts and at The Baton Show prepare for Chicago Takes Lounge. Off. page 7 page 28 a rock and a hard place if they chose to rally me a little about the diversity of the people get it. They’re fair-minded, decent people. They behind hot-button social issues, like equitable in Illinois’ 17th District. don’t always agree with me, but that’s part of rights for LGBT people. Jumping on the transgen- Phil Hare: It’s a very diverse district; huge, the business and that’s OK. der bandwagon often makes them more nervous. too. We have a lot of industry and agriculture, WCT: Discuss some of the mainstream agen- Not so in southern Illinois. Meet U.S. Congress- although not nearly as much as we used to. It’s da items that are most important to you in man Philip Hare. He’s a straight shooter when it pretty socially conservative in some areas, too, the 111th Congress. comes to supporting the entire gay community, particularly in southern parts of the district but, PH: I would say the economy, healthcare and saying, “It’s about equality, stupid.” Congress- ya know, they’re good people. education. There are so many issues, but those www.WindyCityQueercast.com man Hare—a lifelong Democrat, husband and WCT: With respect to LGBT legislative is- father of two—represents Illinois’ 17th District, sues, does that conservative element within Turn to page 4

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NEWS National roundup 4 MARCH [27.28.29] 2009 Phil Hare on LGBT issues 4 Baton marks 40 6 Gender/sexuality town hall 7 Queer disability group 8 Tutu visits Chicago 9 Quotes 9 GALA preview [MARCH 27] benefiting After School Matters Monroe’s view; letters 10 C. Nathan Harris (above) moderated a town hall hosted by the University of Friday, March 27 • 6-9pm Illinois at Chicago’s Gender & Sexuality $80 advance | $100 door ENTERTAINMENT Center. Read more on page 7. Measure for Measure 11 Purchase tickets online www.chicagomodernism.net or call 954-563-6747 Theater reviews 12 Photo by Yasmin Nair David Daniels interview 16 MARCH 28.29 [SHOW & SALE] Entertainment news 16 Knight at the Movies 17 Saturday 10am - 7pm | Sunday Noon - 5pm Weekend Admission $10 Estelle/Solange at HOB 18 ‘Diva Brunch’ at The Spot 18 Over 50 noted decorative and fine arts exhibitors Billy Masters 20 presenting all design movements of the 20th Century. Gay ‘Survivor’ ousted 21 1422 N. Kingsbury, Chicago 60622 2 blocks south of North Avenue, 1 block west of Halsted OUTLINES Calendar 18 Real estate; classifieds 19 Red Stars partner with WCT 22 dolphin promotions, inc. Theo Ubique’s Evita (above) is one of chicago | 708.366.2710 www.chicagomodernism.net florida | 954.563.6747 the productions reviewed this week. See For show information: 708.366.2710 dolphinfairs.com page 12.

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ROUNDUP promise and was a light for many around him.” BY ANDREW DAVIS We have 2 million homes either in foreclosure The Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund has an- or awaiting foreclosure. My sister lost her eye nounced that St. Louis, Mo., is getting its The Army discharged at least 11 soldiers when she was a kid, and I know how expensive first gay alderman, according to the St. Louis in January for violating the military’s “Don’t that was for my parents. And, if we don’t invest Post-Dispatch. Shane Cohn—who, at 28, will Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, according to Advocate. in education we will pay a huge price down the be the second-youngest member of the alder- com. These were the last to be discharged during road. We’ve got to stop the hemorrhaging of manic board—won his primary March 3. “Shane the watch of the Bush administration. Recently, job losses. We’ve got to get people to be able is part of a new generation of leaders who insist both the Philippines and Argentina announced to stay in their homes and negotiate a descent, on being open and honest about themselves,” they were allowing openly gay men and women prolonged rate so they can stay where they are. said Chuck Wolfe, president of the Victory Fund, Congressman Phil Hare. to serve in the military. And, we can’t have 50 million people without which supports gay candidates across the coun- Aid for AIDS, one of California’s oldest healthcare. To me, I’ve always viewed health- try and endorsed Cohn. “It’s the economy, stupid?” From my perspec- continuously operating AIDS service organi- care as a fundamental right, not a privilege. The 2010 census will not count same-sex tive it is equality, stupid. You can’t say to zations has merged with Serra Ancillary Care Every person ought to have it. marriages or ask individuals about their sexu- people, “Everybody but you.” I say to conser- Corporation (doing business as The Serra Proj- WCT: So then, with all this already on your , according to PressTelegram.com. vatives, to people in my caucus, to people on ect), a 21-year-old non-profit that also helps al orientation plate, why get behind such sensitive social Same-sex couples who live together will have to the other side of the aisle—they’re so worried, HIV/AIDS-impacted families, according to an and political issues, like LGBT rights? categorize themselves as “unmarried partners,” politically, that their voters will take it out on Aid for AIDS press release. The merged organi- PH: I will tell you: When Matthew Shepard’s as they did in 2000 before two states—currently them—is it the right thing to do or are you zation—which will continue to maintain both mom came and spoke at our caucus on the only Connecticut and Massachusetts—allowed just here to get re-elected? If they’re just here operating names under the corporate umbrella hate-crimes bill, she had the police chief—the gay marriage. to get re-elected, they could take easy votes name of Serra Ancillary Care Corporation—will one that found Matthew—talk to us. He said all day long. They say these are tough votes. have an annual budget of $8.1 million. Veteran activists Robin Tyler and Andy Thay- that the only place on Matthew’s face there What’s tough about them? What is tough about The national office of Parents, Families and er have called for “Day of Decision” actions wasn’t blood was where the tears were com- the night that the California Supreme Court re- telling somebody who is transgender that you Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) has re- ing down. To me, I can’t tolerate racism and leases its decision regarding Proposition 8. want to include them so that they are never ported that it has received at least 75 inqui- bigotry or people being discriminated for any Volunteers for the effort are being coordinated discriminated against in the workplace? ries about starting new chapters across the reason. To me this is about people, all people through the new Web site, www.DayofDecision. WCT: What’s your position on gay marriage country since Election Day 2008, according to in this country. Nobody gets left behind. I tell org. “By organizing now, we are also sending a versus civil unions? an organizational press release. The organiza- people—the conservatives, too—that if you message to the Court that people are watching PH: I support civil unions. I just want to tion, which already has almost 500 chapters and believe in this constitution where everybody’s what they do, and that if it’s a bad decision, our see people afforded the same opportunities. affiliates across the nation, is working with local treated equally, then let’s treat them equally. community will not go softly into the night,” I would hope that my niece and her partner allies who have expressed interest in bringing WCT: What’s on your radar, in terms of leg- said Thayer, co-founder of Chicago’s Gay Libera- would be afforded the same benefits as a mar- PFLAG to their communities in states such as islation regarding the LGBT community? tion Network. ried couple. Mississippi, California and Utah. PH: I want to see the transgender people In Pennsylvania, Harlow Cuadra has been WCT: But you don’t support gay marriage? The Point Foundation—the nation’s largest added back into the ENDA [Employment Non- found guilty of the murder of gay-porn rival PH: I don’t support a constitutional amend- scholarship-granting organization for LGBT Discrimination Act]. I want to be sure that we Bryan Kocis, according to Advocate.com. Cuadra ment defining what marriage is. The other side students of merit—will bestow its Courage, strengthen hate-crimes laws. You know, my now faces the death penalty for the crime, in always wants to amend the Constitution when Inspiration and Legend Awards upon Ugly Betty niece and her partner have a baby and they which Kocis was stabbed 28 times and the vic- they don’t get their way. This Constitution is creator Silvio Horta; the Point Inspiration Award love that child. And when you see the happi- tim’s home was set on fire. Cuadra’s ex-lover/ fine the way it is. upon PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP; and the in- ness there, I don’t know why we get so wor- business partner Joseph Kerekes pled guilty last WCT: Have you ever experienced any po- augural Point Legend Award upon screenwriter, ried about whether or not gays, lesbians and December for his role in the killing. litical backlash for supporting gay issues? novelist and director, Arthur Laurents April 27 in transgender ought to be able to adopt. I see In Washington, D.C., PH: No, not yet. I expect to. I am who I am New York City. All My Children’s Susan Lucci and gay restaurant owner my niece, who’s a wonderful young woman, and and I’m not going to change. I’ll listen to both Cameron Mathison will co-host the event. Eric Hirshfield busted a would-be burglar she’s a firefighter, and she and her partner have when he noticed a hatch on his eatery’s rooftop sides of an issue, but these are fundamental to President Barack Obama has signed an ex- a baby and it’s a beautiful child and I think it’s was open, MetroWeekly.com reported. Hirshfield me, human rights issues. I believe God created ecutive order creating the White House Coun- awesome. called police, who tracked down the perp. “[The everybody equally. I know one thing: When cil on Women and Girls, according to a White WCT: You’re saying your niece has a female hatch] hasn’t been used since a drag queen Christ was living he hung around lepers, pros- House press release. The missions of the council partner? dropped down through it during our 10th an- titutes, tax collectors, thieves; if it was good will be to provide a federal response to the chal- PH: Yes. I have a lot of nieces and nephews niversary,” Hirshfield said. enough for him, it ought to be good enough lenges confronted by women and girls, and to but I don’t see her as my lesbian niece. She’s for all of us. ensure that all Cabinet and Cabinet-level agen- A public meeting in West Bend, Wis., about my niece. … It’s wonderful to see how happy because the crowd WCT: What’s next for you? Any other po- cies consider how their policies and programs LGBT books was postponed they are, and they’re great parents and this kid at City Hall was too large, WISN.com reported. litical aspirations? impact women and families. is so lucky to have them for parents. It’s this Ginny Maziarka filed a complaint against the li- PH: No. We’ve been hammered politically In Pennsylvania, a rainbow flag belonging fear, like fear of the unknown; that’s what it brary over a link on the library Web site titled here with Burris and the former governor, and I to Mary Shafer and her longtime partner Shelly is. People don’t understand it. I don’t claim “Out the of Closet,” which includes nearly 50 think that hasn’t helped us. I’d like to see this Sickbert was stolen and then returned after to understand it. I just say my niece is happy books written for young adults about LGBT is- state back up on its feet, not just economically the thief or thieves had drawn a black “X” on and people have a right to happiness. And I sues. Maziarka claimed that she wants a section but also politically. You know, Illinois has been it, slashed it and urinated on it, according to don’t know why it’s made out to be such a big of books with opposing viewpoints. the joke for a lot of people, but this is a won- PhillyBurbs.com. Shafer is calling the act a hate deal; ya know, the religious people who get so In Georgia, derful state with good people. Blagojevich, for crime, and added that she and Sickbert are not a jury has convicted Natasha De- fanatical over this stuff. all of his talk, was an absolute idiot, and that intimidated by what happened. mery of murdering her partner, Alisha Florine WCT: Let’s talk about [ENDA]. It sounds , according to the Atlanta Journal- is the nicest thing I can say about him. I think Point Foundation—the country’s largest Lea, in 2006 like you’re for a trans-inclusive ENDA. What Constitution. Demery was sentenced to life plus he’s hurt this state, not just economically, but scholarship-granting organization for LGBT stu- do you say to social conservatives and your five years, and will be eligible for parole in 30 politically. I want us back on track. dents of merit—will partner with Jeffrey Fashion own constituents who oppose a trans-inclu- years. Read the entire interview with Congressman Cares to create a scholarship in the memory sive ENDA? Phil Hare at www.WindyCityMediaGroup. of Lawrence King, the 15-year-old Californian PH: I say, “Be not afraid.” The underlying com. who was killed last year allegedly because of his purpose to all of this is equality. Remember sexual orientation, PR Newswire reported. Point when Bill Clinton was president and he said,

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Donahue proceeded cago intricately tied to the city’s history. to feature the Baton—Flint as well as his per- Established in the era of Stonewall, a survivor formers—on his talk show at least a half-dozen of the 1980s HIV scourge and the immense pres- times. The Baton has also been featured on sures of gentrification, the Baton celebrates its shows by Oprah, Maury Povich and Sally Jesse fortieth anniversary this week with new shows Raphael, among many others. and appearances by old performers who have Celebrity visitors to the Baton include Chris Hannah Free is the story of an independent spirit and the woman she calls home. used the space to hone the art of “female im- Farley (who tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade personation.” Returning performers include Kelly It stars Sharon Gless (Cagney and Lacey, Queer As Folk). Jim Flint to dance with him), Janet Jackson and Lauren, Chanel Dupree and Cezanne, representa- Madonna, who Flint said nobody recognized: At tives of each decade that the Baton—one of the the time she was filming A League of Their Own oldest venues of its type nationwide—has been : and had black hair. House Parties in business. Though much of Chicago’s gay nightlife has featuring food, drinks, and some of the cast and crew. Flint is a native of Peoria, Ill. After a four-year since moved north to Lakeview, the Baton retains Win Hannah Free autographed prizes, be the first to see the Hannah Free trailer, stint in the Navy—during which he was a drum its original address. The clientele, Flint said, is and much more! Contact the hosts listed for full details, address and party major and, yes, twirled a baton—he returned to diverse: up to 70 percent straight on weekends themes, including screening of classic Sharon Gless TV characters. Illinois. While working in an intensive care unit and more gay customers on Sundays, by his in a Waukegan hospital, Flint visited Chicago count. Part of the pleasure of the business, he and, as he told Windy City Times, “fell in love” The goals of these House Parties are to raise visibility and finishing funds for the said, is in welcoming “a different clientele every with the city. film. The film will debut Summer 2009. night.” The Baton hosts a lot of bachelorette Professing to a history of bartending experi- parties, a “favorite tradition,” according the its ence he didn’t have, Flint persuaded the owner Web site, “to celebrate the bride’s last night of of the Annex bar to give him a job. Flint also Hosts: Kat Fitzgerald/Labrys Chicago freedom.” worked at the Normandy Bar on North Rush Flint described the clientele of the Baton as Street and at Sam’s before opening the Baton. “everyday people from Chicago,” and, with these Thursday, March 19 Located at 436 N. Clark, Flint said that is was a everyday people, he has been recognized for “very shady neighborhood” in which he estab- his contributions to civic life: The Chicago City Part of the “4 Women Only” tour. Featuring Christine Kent, lished his business in March 1969. Council established a Jim Flint Day on July 25, Veronica May, Jess Godwin & Jess Yoakum. $25 cover, with But it was also, he said, a “gay mecca” of 2001, by a vote of 15-0. Profiled at length in sorts, with a clustering of gay bars and gay life portion going to Hannah Free. last year’s Out and Proud documentary on WTTW, in high density. It was also the kind of neighbor- 7 p.m., Velvet Rope, 728 Lake St., Oak Park Flint is a longtime community activist who is hood where one could get away with Flint’s style involved in Democratic Party politics, various of advertising: He recalled putting on a dress gay-rights issues and athletics. He is one of the and a pair of roller skates, and twirling his baton Hosts: Katie Jacobson, David Strzepek + Stewed Tomatoes founding members of the Windy City Athletic As- to stop traffic on Clark Street, hoping to divert sociation, an LGBT sports league. business into what was then called the Baton At 68, Flint displays no interest in slowing Friday, March 20 Club. down. “It’s just too much fun,” he said. The concept that would eventually come to 7-10 p.m., N. Washtenaw (1/2blk north of Logan), Chicago Perhaps Flint’s most lasting contribution—as define the Baton—nightly performances of “fe- well as his most high-profile one—is his es- RSVP: [email protected] or [email protected] male impersonation”—did not coincide with tablishment of the Miss Continental pageantry its founding. After an underwhelming opening, system, a nationwide competitive circuit for with only a few customers each night for the “female impersonators.” When Flint established Hosts: Diane Dodin & Claire Davies first few weeks, Flint had to devise something to Miss Continental in 1980, many high-profile drag set the bar apart from others. “I asked three of circuits prohibited contestants from taking hor- my friends to dress up” as women, he said. He mones or having surgery, creating a de facto pro- Saturday, March 21 did, too, and together they “packed the place.” hibition for many transwomen. Miss Continental 6-9 p.m., Austin area, Chicago. RSVP to [email protected] It never went back to being simply a bar, has no such ban. though Flint did change the space to better ac- The pageantry system has since expanded to commodate performance—at first, performers include a Mr. Continental, Miss Continental Plus stood on a stage cobbled together with beer Host: Karen Giocondi and Miss Continental Elite. cases and plywood. The Baton gained national The Baton will celebrate its 40th anniversary attention—and continues to hold it, really; with special events March 18-22; see www. Saturday, March 21 Flint’s roster of celebrity visitors who constantly thebatonshowlounge.com. 2-5 p.m., Scot’s Bar, 1829 W. Montrose, Chicago attend shows is impressive—when Chicago Sun- RSVP to [email protected] or call 773-583-4965 Times columnist Irv Kupcinet brought Phil Do- PIZZERIA - VINO - FRIENDS Host: Susan Martin Sunday, March 22 Noon-3 p.m., North Side, Chicago. RSVP: [email protected]

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GREENVIEW - RED LINE JARVIS EL STOP Mar. 18, 2009 7 a staff member at UIC, pointed out that this UIC’s center could meant that Midwestern scholars would not Frat comes out have to move to either coast to find support for against Kansas hosts town hall research on gender and sexuality. Jacob Mueller by Yasmin Nair suggested setting up a satellite office on the church west campus, which is where the medical cam- BY Yasmin Nair The Gender and Sexuality Center (GSC; formerly pus is located (the east campus houses mostly the Office of GLBT Concerns) at the University of liberal arts schools). Mueller pointed out that The Westboro Baptist Church, headed by the no- Illinois-Chicago (UIC) hosted a town hall March LGBTQ students and faculty were to be found toriously anti-gay and right-wing Fred Phelps, 12 to discuss its future directions and the search outside the liberal arts. made its way to the University of Chicago cam- for a new director. The previous director, Patrick Not everyone felt that the town hall was mov- pus March 9. Finnessey, left in November and Liz Thomson ing in new directions. One participant pointed According to published reports, including one was appointed interim director. Thomson has out that despite Thomson’s assertion at the start in the Chicago Maroon, the University of Chi- been keen to engage the larger LGBTQ commu- that the discussion would be fluid, it was in fact cago’s student paper, over 100 counterdemon- nity with the mission of GSC. falling too easily into neatly categorized topics strators met them. The church—picketing Thomson spoke with Windy City Times about like “outreach” and “research.” This participant the school’s connection with President Barack her reasons for opening the event to the pub- also took issue with the setting and the format Obama, whom the congregants view as the lic. According to her, “[GSC has] a responsibility, of the town hall, where a white man (Harris) Antichrist—was there to protest outside the since we are a state institution, and given UIC’s led attendees, and which took place in a lecture Chicago Theological Seminary. According to the Great Cities program … we have a commitment hall that was not conducive to a participatory Maroon, the church was also met by Alpha Delta and dedication to the urban area we are housed discussion. Phi fraternity brothers who stripped off bath- in.” While faculty, alumni and students are cer- C. Nathan Harris. Photo by Yasmin Nair The space was certainly a negative factor for robes to reveal themselves in their underwear, tainly GSC’s primary constituency, Thomson felt many, who felt that the lecture room precluded and loudly played songs like “I’m Coming Out” strongly that Chicago LGBTQ community people actual conversations. Thomson acknowledged and “It’s Raining Men.” Subsequently, a video and organizations are also stakeholders in the initiated by Pride (the UIC GLBT organization), the limitations of the room and said that efforts of the fraternity’s counterdemonstration, which future of GSC. and GSC’s Lunch and Learn events. Many of the would be made to have the next such meeting included rolling down a giant banner that read Approximately 30 people attended the town issues raised had to do with logistics, such as elsewhere. Despite her wish to have the wider “Straight Huggin’, NO Tolerance for Intolerance” hall, in Lecture Room 140, in the Behavioral Sci- insufficient publicity for GSC events. Chicago LGBTQ community participate, only two has become popular on the Web. It can be seen ences Building. C. Nathan Harris, GSC advisory The question of resources for GSC was a fre- attendees—Hector Salgado of Project Vida and on YouTube, and is titled “Frat Boys vs Westboro board member, moderated the event. Harris said quent topic. Several felt that it was severely a co-worker—were from a community organiza- Baptist Church.” that the goal of the town hall was to consider understaffed, with the brunt of the work falling tion. Thomson told Windy City Times that the Windy City Times made several attempts to what worked best at GSC as well as what needed on Thomson and Villada and that this has its location at UIC might have to do with the lack of get in touch with the chapter’s president, Jacob improvement, how it functioned in relation to consequences. When either or both need to at- community members present and that the idea Marshall, for details, but did not communicate the campus and what a renewed GSC might look tend meetings on campus, the Resource Center of having the town hall at Center on Halsted, with him before the newspaper’s deadline. like. Not all attendees gave their full names, and has to remain closed. 3656 N. Halsted, had been floated as a possibil- a few did not identify themselves. The discussion turned to the question of the ity. But the concern there was that UIC students WSGA Irish dinner Asked to begin with what worked about GSC, degree to which GSC should be engaged with would not be inclined to make it to a North side nearly every attendee praised Thomson and Vis- academic research. Currently, it does not host location. “We could do something at a variety of in Wheaton iting Coordinator Moises Villada for their work. visiting scholars or faculty research, and some community areas,” she said. Meanwhile, the plan The West Suburban Gay Association (WSGA) There was a great deal of praise for the Rain- audience members suggested that GSC could be- is to continue “having smaller conversations will hold an Irish dinner at Muldoon’s, 133 W. bow Resource Center, a room that serves as come a research center on the lines of CLAGS culminating in a job search” for a new director. Front, Wheaton, Friday, March 20, at 7:30 p.m. a safe meeting place as well as a library. But (Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies), housed GSC is inviting everyone to participate in a For more information, see www.wsga.com. many, like Justin, felt that the center was also in the Graduate Center of the City University of public survey, through March 27, at www.uic. underutilized and untapped. Asked about what New York or the Beatrice Bain Research Group at edu/depts/quic/gsc. Contact Liz Thomson at was useful, several spoke about the activities the University of California, Berkeley. Francesca, [email protected] or 312-413-8619.

SPEAKING OUT DOWN SOUTH Thursday, March 26 The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust is sponsor the of Out presenting at CHM. Additional support provided UBSThe andPauls The Foundation. by series is presented in Halsted. on Center the with partnership Cocktail Hour 5:30 p.m. Program 6:30 p.m. After-party at Cocktail, 3359 N. Halsted Street 8:00 p.m.

Experience the stories of African American gays and lesbians from the South through an evening of oral history. E. Patrick Johnson and Sharon Bridgeforth will highlight the deep historical and cultural connections between Chicago and the South with discussion and performance.

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Call 312.642.4600 or order online at www.chicagohistory.org/outatchm. Discover the long and storied history of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people through OUT AT CHM. 8 Mar. 18, 2009 remains unrivaled,” noting he has was there in School alliance the beginning for organizations like Open Hand, DISABILITY from cover NAMES Project and the AIDS Walk. “He remains conversations about how to go about creating holds ‘spring the go-to guy when you need something done.” a support group that would address the partic- Damski, a 1991 inductee of the Chicago Gay ular needs of queers with disabilities. Among break’ party and Lesbian Hall of Fame, wrote for many publi- the discussants was Tim Jones-Yelvington, who BY PAUL MARINKOVICH cations, including Windy City Times. He passed had been in contact with Nussbaum since his away in 1997. days as a student at DePaul University. The Illinois Safe School Alliance (The Alliance) In the fall of 2005, Spectrum, DePaul’s LG- hosted a spring break party March 11 at Side- Common Threads BTQA student organization, asked Nussbaum to track, 3349 N. Halsted, to raise funds for Illinois’ do a workshop on the intersections of sexuality LGBT youth for the Day of Silence—the nation’s gala March 23 and disability; she and Jones-Yelvington, then largest student-led leadership program against Gail Simmons (of Top Chef) will host a glob- a member of the group, met there and began anti-gay and anti-gender violence in schools. al celebration of food at the Common Threads having conversations about what they both According to the organization’s Web site, “The World Festival, which will take place Monday, saw as a necessary support group. They began Alliance’s mission is to promote safety, sup- March 23, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, talking about the possible needs of the group, port and healthy development for LGBTQ youth 220 E. Chicago, at 6 p.m. membership limits and publicity flyers. Tim Jones-Yelvington. in Illinois schools and communities, through Celebrity chefs will include Table 52’s Art Jones-Yelvington, who volunteers with Ac- advocacy, education, youth organizing and re- Smith (a co-founder of Common Threads with his cess Living, is not himself disabled, but he had anticipate and how did the reality mesh with search.” partner, Jesus Salgueiro) and Tru’s Gale Gand. been thinking about the complications facing his perceptions of what it might be? What are The 2009 Day of Silence will be held on April The after-party will take place at The James queer people with disabilities; much of his re- the issues faced by queers with disabilities in 17. For information on how to become involved, Hotel, 55 E. Ontario, with a special musical flection was informed by both his studies and particular? visit www.illinoissafeschool.org. guest. Last year’s guest was R&B singer John life as an activist: “My own commitment as a He said that the conversations raised “is- Legend. Tickets are $250-$500. See www.Com- queer activist has been around intersections sues of vulnerability and violence for folks who AFC receives monThreads.com. of sexuality with other systems of oppression, don’t have access to full independent living queer politics and issues of race and class and and might face violence from caregivers and $4.2M HUD grant Suicide talk at gender and gender identity. I realized disabil- family.” While there is no hard data available AIDS Foundation of Chicago’s (AFC’s) new Sup- ity issues were frequently silent in that conver- yet, Yelvington-Jones suspected that these portive Housing for Health Partnership has re- Center March 24 sation.” Jones-Yelvington also saw the shared issues are compounded for queer people. Ad- ceived a renewable, two-year $4.2 million grant The Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity histories between queers and people with dis- ditional issues might involve cultural and so- from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Institute (SOGI) will partner with the American abilities, in terms of past biomedical interven- cial questions. One participant wondered about Development (HUD), according to an organiza- Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) to tions onto their bodies. how to come out to a religious family. Others tion press release. present current research and clinical perspec- Indeed, while people might be familiar with spoke about what Yelvington-Jones described The grant is part of nearly $1.6 billion in tives on suicide in the LGBT community Tuesday, Nazi attempts to eliminate people with dis- as “really awful encounters with paramedical grants that HUD has awarded to approximately March 24, 7-9 p.m., in the Hoover-Leppen The- abilities, they may be less familiar with the stuff … there were people who had a lot of 6,300 homeless assistance projects through its ater at Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted. more quotidian ways in which people with dis- accidents and series of hospitalizations where Continuum of Care programs, and will provide E-mail [email protected] or visit abilities have been negatively treated. LGBTQs, the treatment was not what it ought to be.” rental subsidies for 195 units of supportive per- www.centeronhalsted.org. who still see attempts at “correction” by, for Will the group take on a social-activism func- manent housing in Chicago. instance, parents who send their children to tion? Will it be primarily a support group where “We are very grateful and excited for this won- LGBT elders forum “ex-gay camps,” can understand, at least par- people can freely discuss their issues? Will it derful opportunity, and look forward to increas- tially, what it means to live in a society that seek to provide resources? Yelvington-Jones ing our ability to assist homeless people in our at Center March 25 views them as inherently wrong. Governmental said that the structure of the group is entirely city find a safe and secure home in which to care On Wed., March 25, 12-2 p.m., Center on Hal- recognition of the needs of people with dis- up to its members: “I went in with the sense for themselves and their loved ones,” AFC Presi- sted, 3656 N. Halsted, will host a critical op- abilities has been slow. The Rehabilitation Act, that I’m a facilitator, and I’ll do what I can dent/CEO Mark Ishaug said in the statement. portunity to for LGBT elders to speak out and to which protected the civil rights of people of to help people connect with each other.” Ac- be heard by the Chicago Department of Senior disabilities, was passed in 1973. But it was cording to him, the group will also eventually Activist to receive Services. not until the Americans with Disabilities Act, decide how it wants its leadership structure to The Chicago Task Force on LGBT Aging or- which passed relatively recently, in 1990, that look. Damski Award ganized the forum, and the Center on Halsted people with disabilities gained a law that en- For now, Access Living is focused on con- Activist Dean Ogren will receive the 11th An- SAGE Advisory Council is moderating it. Lunch is sures their equal access to employment oppor- tinuing to get the word out and building the nual Jon-Henri Damski Award Sunday, March 29, provided by AARP. Also, take note: This critical tunities and public accommodations. membership in the support group. The only 2-4 p.m., at Sidetrack, 3349 N. Halsted. community input will be used as testimony at Jones-Yelvington is, at least for now, the fa- requirements are that people be in the age The award will be presented two days shy of this year’s public hearings and provided to the cilitator of the queer disability support group, range of 18-30, and that they be both LGBTQ what would have been Damski’s 72nd birthday. Obama White House. and is keenly aware of this complicated history and disabled. The group meets the last Mon- Damski’s good friend, Lori Cannon—a veteran RSVPs are strongly encouraged by Monday, and “mindful that the experiences of able-bod- day of every month, 6-7:30 p.m., at 115 W. AIDS community activist and service provider March 23. E-mail sworthington@centeronhal- ied people and disabled people are not part of Chicago. Contact Susan Nussbaum at snuss- who conceived the idea for the award—said in a sted.org or call 773-472-6469, ext. 160. the same oppression.” The group had its first [email protected], 312-640-2170 (TTY) statement that “Dean is a presence and stalwart meeting in January. What did Yelvington-Jones or 312-640-2121. of the AIDS, gay and leather community that Deborah A. Wednesday, March 25 7:30 p.m. Murphy Book Release Party S.L. Wisenberg CPA The Adventures of Cancer Bitch 773-404-8401 Friday, March 27 7:30 p.m. Rachel Shteir Have your 2155 W. Roscoe Gypsy: The Art of the Tease premiums 1 South increased Accounting 5233 N. Clark recently? 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When I was (first) on TV, it was equal protection under the law to the African- before Will & Grace, it was before Ellen came Americans. It was then that President Johnson out. And not one person ever asked me. Times and the Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, have changed just in my lifetime. To walk down extending equal protection under the law in all the street in Manhattan and see 20-year-old areas of the country. That’s what we need to- guys holding hands or young, cute lesbians. day. That’s what we’re calling upon the leaders ... I think ‘Wow.’ There has been tremendous of Congress and Barack Obama to do.” — Gay Nobel Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu was the featured speaker at the Chicago Bar progress made. Just in my lifetime.” — Rosie activist Cleve Jones, a cohort of Harvey Milk, on Association’s Interfaith Dinner March 10 at The Standard Club, 320 S. Plymouth. Among the O’Donnell to The Associated Press, Feb. 25. The Rachel Maddow Show Feb. 23, after “Milk” special guests were Chicago’s first lady, Maggie Daley (pictured above with Tutu), and Cook won two Academy Awards. County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez. Photo by Kat Fitzgerald (www.MysticImagesPhotography. “This (anti-gay hate crimes) is one of com) the reasons we have a federal hate crimes law, for that very reason. Clinton continued: “Specifically, with respect You know, sometimes in to HIV/AIDS, we have made a very big treatment some conservative areas We’ve settled WORLD commitment, as some of you know, through our they don’t prosecute hate for fractions for program called PEPFAR. And it is an important crimes, so we have on the equality. And I Davis Andrew by Photo part of the American approach toward trying books a law that allows ROUNDUP to deal with the HIV/AIDS pandemic. But we the federal government think that by Rex Wockner haven’t done enough on prevention, and we to prosecute those if your that is going haven’t done enough on outreach or testing. local DA refuses to, effec- to end We’re beginning to, and under our administra- Hillary Clinton will tively. So you might want —Cleve Jones fight for gay tion we will do much more. And I can only hope to report it to your federal that we all live long enough—certainly I hope attorney general for your rights worldwide I live long enough; I think you all will—to see area if you feel threatened and the local au- “The NAACP’s mission is to help create Meeting with young people at the European the end to this kind of discriminatory treatment, thorities are not investigating or don’t seem to a society where all Americans have equal Parliament in Brussels on March 6, U.S. Secre- and recognition that human rights are the in- care. You can turn to the federal government protection and opportunity under the law. Our tary of State Hillary Clinton promised to fight for alienable right of every person no matter who for investigation of potential hate crimes. ... Mission Statement calls for the ‘equality of gay rights on the world stage. that person loves, and that’s what we should be (T)here is a federal recourse for that. That’s rights of all persons.’ Prop. 8 strips same-sex At a question-and-answer session, Clinton trying to achieve.” the very reason we did it. [He is then informed couples of a fundamental freedom, as defined called on Maxim Anmeghichean, programs direc- by Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus Presi- by the California State Supreme Court. In so tor for the European Region of the International Colombian gay dent Daniel Graney that gays are not included doing, it poses a serious threat to all Ameri- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex As- in federal hate-crime law.] Oh, it didn’t pass? cans. Prop. 8 is a discriminatory, unprecedent- sociation, after commenting on his “I Love Hil- leader murdered OK. So we still need to pass it? OK. So we’ll ed change to the California Constitution that, lary” T-shirt. Well-known Colombian gay activist Álvaro try to pass that one for you, too. But that’s if allowed to stand, would undermine the very Anmeghichean said: “My name is Max. I am Miguel Rivera Linares, 41, was killed March 6 in why we need it. And of course Obama supports purpose of a constitution and courts—assur- from Moldova, and I am a gay rights activist. In his apartment in Cali. that, our Congress supports that, our Senate ing equal protection and opportunity for all seven countries in the world homosexuals are He suffered a fatal blow to the head and was supports that. I thought we did pass it, so we and safeguarding minorities from the tyranny sentenced to death and many more to prison. found tied to his bed and gagged. The apart- will try to get that. But that’s exactly why we of the majority.” — National Association for A lot of gay men around the world die because ment had been trashed but there were no signs need it though, because in some of the ar- the Advancement of Colored People President of the HIV/AIDS policies that the Bush admin- of forced entry and nothing was stolen. eas where gays and lesbians do feel terrorized Todd Jealous in a Feb. 23 statement. istration had that did not allow to spend money Rivera received national attention when he every day, the local authorities are in league on prevention for men who have sex with men. fought a 2001 mandate by the Revolutionary with the forces of hate. And this would, when “I felt very violated (when I was How do you see the foreign policy of the United Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas that we pass it—thanks for pointing that out— outed in a 1981 palimony suit). I felt States changing in the coming years in the field all residents of a FARC-controlled sector of the give you recourse to go to the federal govern- blackmailed. And yet I want to tell the truth. of human rights and in particular sexual rights eastern state of Meta take an HIV test or leave ment to investigate hate crimes in your area.” I argued with my publicist and my lawyer for and gay and lesbian rights?” the area within a week. — Openly gay freshman U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, two days so I could do that press conference. Clinton responded: “Human rights is and will Thereafter, he received death threats and was D-Colo., addressing the First Biennial Statewide They didn’t want me to do it, but I was insis- always be one of the pillars of our foreign policy. followed on the streets and harassed at work. Conference of the Texas Stonewall Democratic tent. I did the right thing. It’s better to tell And in particular, the persecution and discrimi- He eventually left Meta, his home state, as a Caucus on March 1 in Austin. A recording of the the truth. Within 24 hours I lost all my future nation against gays and lesbians is something result. address was provided by the Dallas Voice. Audio: income. I was just getting ready to leave the that we take very seriously. It is terribly unfor- Leading Latino-issues blogger Andrés Duque tinyurl.com/dee5t7 game. And I had all these wonderful contracts tunate, as you just recited, that, you know, right called Rivera’s death “a tremendous loss to the happening.” — Tennis legend Billie Jean King now in unfortunately many places in the world international human rights movement.” “We should absolutely be holding to Tennis.com, Feb. 16. violence against gays and lesbians, certainly Read more world news online at www. our elected officials, including President discrimination and prejudice, are not just occur- WindyCityMediaGroup.com. Obama, to their commitments to support those “I think it’s (the economic meltdown) ring but condoned and protected. And we would three pieces of legislation.” — Gay U.S. Rep. the best thing that’s happened to this country. hope that over the next few years we could have —Assistance: Bill Kelley Jared Polis, D-Colo., to the gay newspaper Dal- People have to stop looking to material things some influence in trying to change those atti- las Voice, in regard to passage of the Employ- to find happiness.” — Lesbian comedian San- tudes.” ment Non-Discrimination Act, repeal of “Don’t dra Bernhard to the gay newspaper Dallas Voice, Ask, Don’t Tell” and the addition of domestic Feb. 20. partner benefits for federal employees, Feb. 20. “[T]he Republicans have dissolved into “I think that for too long, we have a querulous lot of nags and naysayers without accepted this failed strategy of allowing our a voice, a direction or a clue. ... And who has rights to be debated state by state, county by surfaced as their saviors? Bobby Jindal, Mi- county, city by city. We’ve settled for compro- chael Steele and Rush Limbaugh—the axis of mises for far too long. We’ve settled for frac- drivel.” — New York Times columnist Charles M. tions of equality. And I think that that is going Blow, March 7. to end. And that we’re now going to insist on full equality, equal protection under the law in all areas governed by civil law in all 50 states. And I hope people see this film (Milk) and are —Assistance: Bill Kelley inspired by what we did in San Francisco in 10 Mar. 18, 2009

VIEWPOINTS VOL. 24, No. 25, Mar. 18, 2009 The combined forces of Windy City Times, In September 2005 activists Keith Boykin and ual abuse or not knowing how to have healthy founded Sept. 1985, and Outlines newspaper, founded May 1987. Jasmyne Cannick kicked off a five-part series, social relationships with men. REV. “Outing Black Pastors,” on their respective Web The poster boy for African-American ex-gay PUBLISHER & Executive EDITOR IRENE sites. They queried publicly if prominent pastors ministries, gospel megastar Pastor Donnie Mc- Tracy Baim in the Black community—like Bishops T.D. Jakes Clurkin, feels similarly to Jakes, stating he was MONROE and Eddie Long, who constantly rail against LG- once sexually abused by an uncle—an act that Assistant Publisher Terri Klinsky MANAGING Editor Andrew Davis BTQ people—were actually struggling with their he said brought about his proclivity to same-sex Business manager Cynthia Holmes own sexual orientation. attraction. Director of New Media Jean Albright But Black ministers living on the down low “There’s a group that says, ‘God made us this ART DIRECTOR Kirk Williamson (DL) is not a new phenomenon in the African- way,’ but then there’s another group that knows account managerS: Amy Matheny, Kirk Bishop T. D. Jakes’ Williamson, Cynthia Holmes American community. Naming it publicly, how- God didn’t make them that way. Love is pulling Promotions director Cynthia Holmes sexuality back ever, is. you one way and lust is pulling you another, and NIGHTSPOTS MANAGING Editor Kirk Williamson J.L. King—who became the country’s poster your relationship with Jesus is tearing you,” he National Sales Rivendell Media, 212-242-6863 in the spotlight boy by exposing the behavior in his best-seller, said. TheatER Editor Scott C. Morgan Cinema WRITER Richard Knight, Jr. On The Down Low: A Journey into the Lives of Bishop T. D. Jakes told the Dallas Voice he When preachers pontificate too much from on BOOKS WRITER Yasmin Nair “Straight” Black Men Who Sleep with Men— would never hire a sexually active gay person SENIOR WRITERS Bob Roehr, Rex Wockner, Marie High about the sins of homosexual sex, the cau- stated, not surprisingly, that many of his part- to his ministry, but that’s hard to believe. Why? J. Kuda, David Byrne, Cathy Seabaugh, Tony tionary tale is to be careful of what you say, ners were church-going men. “There are gospel Because there are two types of gay masculinities Peregrin because your words invariable will come back to ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WRITERS conventions throughout the nation for churches. in the Black church. One expresses itself fairly bite you, as we have seen with fallen evangelical Mary Shen Barnidge, Jim Edminster, Steve Warren, There is one for ushers, Sunday school depart- openly in the choir with the choirmaster, who Lawrence Ferber, Mel Ferrand, Catey Sullivan, star the Rev. Ted Haggard. ments, music departments and ministers. ... is, not surprisingly, gay. Bishop Jakes’s a former Zachary Whittenburg, Jonathan Abarbanel For Bishop T. D. Jakes, the internationally These events allow men to meet men and to choirmaster. Columnists/Writers: Yvonne Zipter, Susie known African-American evangelical star dubbed Day, Jorjet Harper, Lee Lynch, Steve Starr, Joe have sex while away from their hometowns. The other conceals itself within a homosocial as the Black Billy Graham, his rantings against Rice, Dan Woog, Marie-Jo Proulx, Lisa Keen, Chris Many midnight concerts turn into affairs where community of DL male clerics that finds camara- Crain, Charlsie Dewey, Michael Knipp, Karen Dixon, homosexuality have come back to bite him in brothers are cruising each other. I’ve been there, derie at Black pastors’ conferences or at all-male Mark Corece, Sabine Neidhardt, Sam Worley, Billy the form of his oldest son’s recent arrest. seen it and done it,” King states in his book. conferences like T.D. Jakes’s upcoming March Masters, John Fenoglio On Jan. 3, Jermaine Jakes was arrested in a PHOTOGRAPHERS Kat Fitzgerald, Mel Ferrand, Many African-American men on the DL say 6-8 “Manifest.” These clerics are intentionally sex sting for openly soliciting gay sex from an Steve Becker, Steve Starr there are two salient features that contribute exploiting their ecclesiastical authority by using ARTISTS/CARTOONISTS Alison Bechdel, Mikeoart undercover vice detective in a public park just a to this subculture—white gay culture and the anti-gay rhetoric and the bible as their cover- CIRCULATION few blocks from his father’s church, The Potter’s Black Church. DL men deliberately segregate up. Circulation director Jean Albright House, a 30,000-member megachurch in Dallas, themselves from both Black and white gay cul- “To date, I have not seen scriptural authority Distribution: Ashina, Allan, Crystal, Dan, John, Texas. Sue and Victor tures as an alternative Black masculinity that that allows me to stand on behalf of God and say The arrest warrant affidavit filed by Dallas po- only wants to have sex and socialize with other I now pronounce you husband and husband, and lice detectives on Jermaine Jakes stated the fol- Black men. But class is a factor here, too. While wife and wife. This is an issue the government is lowing: many gay African-American men have the eco- undecided about. The Bible is not,” Bishop Jakes “Suspect Jakes walked directly over to where nomic mobility to reside outside of the Black told USA Today. Detective X was, and stood next to Detective community and are likely to intermingle with Many African-American brothers have said that X with his penis exposed through his unzipped the dominant gay culture, most DL men don’t. T.D. Jakes is a little too “swishy and sweet” to pants. ... Suspect Jakes committed the offense “They’ve created a community of their own, a not question his sexuality. But Jermaine Jakes is of indecent exposure by exposing his erect pe- Copyright 2009 Lambda Publications Inc./Windy City Media cultural party where whites aren’t invited. Label- unapologetically and unabashedly gay. Some in Group; All rights reserved. Reprint by permission only. nis in a public place with his intent to gratify ing yourself as DL is a way to disassociate from the African-American community say Jakes is in- Back issues available for $3 per issue (postage included). or arouse the sexual desire of himself. Suspect Return postage must accompany all manuscripts, drawings, everything white and upper class... And that is tentionally flamboyant and sexually reckless to Jakes was reckless about whether another was and photographs submitted if they are to be returned, and a way for DL men to assert some power,” George publicly deride and embarrass his homophobic no responsibility may be assumed for unsolicited materials. present who would be offended or alarmed by All rights to letters, art and photographs sent to Windy Ayala, director of education for AIDS Project Los dad. his actions.” City Times will be treated as unconditionally assigned Angeles, told the Times in the 2003 article. But there are others in the community who say for publication purposes and as such, subject to editing While Bishop Jakes is tight-lipped on the topic and comment. 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FREEZE FRAME Sideshow Theatre Company’s Everything Freezes (above) is one of the productions reviewed this week. See page 14. MOVIES TV OPERA ‘Clean’ girls. Duhm and gloom. Bach in Chicago. Page 17. Page 22. Page 16.

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off the baroque era, there are also romantic and Measure for modern concerts to go to. The CSO hosts conductor Jaap van Zweden (a Measure replacement for Semyon Bychkov) for perfor- BY SCOTT C. MORGAN mances of Brahms’ Symphony No. 4 and Wage- naar’s Cyrano de Bergerac. Also on the bill is In terms of composer anniversaries, 2009 is a the out and exquisitely dressed French pianist crowded year. Jean-Yves Thibaudet performing Liszt’s Piano It’s the 350th anniversary of Henry Purcell’s Concerto No. 2. Performances are 8 p.m. March birth, the 250th anniversary of George Frideric 19 and 21, 1:30 p.m. March 20, at Symphony Handel’s death, the 200th anniversary of Joseph Center. ($21-$199). Haydn’s death and the 200th anniversary of Fe- The visiting London Symphony Orchestra goes lix Mendelssohn’s birth. Russian with an all-Prokofiev concert conduct- If that’s too many anniversaries for you to ed by its newly appointed principal conductor, mark, Chicago’s Music of the Baroque has just Valery Gergiev. Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony the program for you. In just one sitting, you and Symphony No. 5 are featured, while pianist can hear pieces from all four composers in the Vladimir Feltsman performs the Piano Concerto concert “Celebrate!” No. 2. Catch this at 3 p.m. March 22 at Sym- This composer anniversary confluence luckily phony Center. ($36-$199) fits into most of Music of the Baroque’s mis- sion to champion early music. (Mendelssohn Opera matters is only romantic in the bunch.) On the bill are Opera purists in New York had their knickers Handel’s Coronation Anthem No. 1 (from Zadok in a twist at the Metropolitan Opera’s new pro- the Priest), Haydn’s Mass in B-flat Major, Men- duction of Bellini’s 1831 piece La Sonnambula delssohn’s Symphony No. 4 in A Major and the (The Sleepwalker). From the way opera bloggers King Oberon birthday sequence from Purcell’s were carrying on, it’s as if they wanted to take The Fairy Queen (go for this segment, alone). Chicago director Mary Zimmerman out into the Jane Glover conducts two performances of La Sonnambula. Photo by Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera street to be shot for her conceptual approach to Celebrate! The first is at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, this antiquated melodrama. March 29, at First United Methodist Church, 516 At the urging of star French soprano Natalie Bach festival in early April with a series of two Art, 220 E. Chicago ($25). Call 312-397-4010 or Church, Evanston ($38-$60), then at 7:30 p.m. Dessay, Zimmerman found a way to set La Son- Bach to Bach concerts. visit www.mcachicago.org. March 30 at Millennium Park’s Harris Theater for nambula away from its typically quaint Swiss vil- Many of the CSO’s outstanding soloists are fea- This surreal drama by Claudio Valdes Kuri fea- Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph ($30-$75). lage. Instead, the opera takes place in a modern tured, like flutists Jennifer Gunn and Mathieu tures lots of opera to tell the tale of castrati Call 312-551-1414 or visit www.baroque.org. New York studio where an opera company is re- Dufour, violinist Robert Chen, oboist Eugene (boys who were castrated before puberty to pre- Even more baroque music is available in the hearsing a production of La Sonnambula. Izotov, trumpeter Christopher Martin and harp- serve the soprano range of their voices). Many next few weeks. Out countertenor David Daniels The production also stars Peruvian tenor Juan sichordist Stephen Alltop. went on to become operatic superstars of the makes his only Chicago-area appearance this Diego Florez as the title character’s jealous lover The seven Bach to Bach concerts alternate Baroque age, but at what price? Presented in season in a recital of Bach and Handel music and is conducted by Evelino Pido. between April 1-7 at Symphony Center, 220 S. Spanish with English subtitles. with the English Concert chamber orchestra Audiences around the world will get a chance Michigan ($17-$199). Call 312-294-3000 or visit The MCA is also sponsoring a discussion with under conductor Harry Bicket’s direction at the to see if Zimmerman’s concept works when www.cso.org. Kuri and Chicago Opera Theater general director Harris Theater at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 29 the Metropolitan Opera transmits a live high- Another baroque-influenced piece arrives from Brian Dickie, “The Baroque is Now.” Beatriz Mar- (see interview in this issue). definition simulcast to movie theaters around Mexico City when Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes gain, cultural attaché for the Consulate of Mex- The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) gets in the world at noon, March 21. Visit www.fath- performs Monsters and Prodigies: The History of ico, facilitates the free discussion at 2 p.m. on even more baroque action, but not with any of omevents.com for theater locations and ticket the Castrati at 7:30 p.m. March 20 and 21 and 3 Saturday, March 21. Reservations are required. the anniversary boys. Acclaimed Israeli conduc- prices. p.m. March 22 at the Museum of Contemporary If all this talk of the castrati is turning you tor and violinist Pinchas Zukerman leads a mini- 12 Mar. 18, 2009 THEATER REVIEW drama finally brings the terror and complexity of one of the world’s most intractable conflicts The Arab-Israeli down to its horrific, everyday essence. Meals became not acts of nourishment but reminders Cookbook of deprivation and death in a place where “the Playwright: Robin Soans body of the church bell ringer was lying next to At: Theatre Mir at the Chicago the statue of St. Jerome.” Department of Cultural Affairs Unfortunately, that powerful distillation is an Storefront, 66 E. Randolph anomaly in Soans’ piece. We hear a lot about food Telephone: 312-742-8497, $23, and a lot about the war—but Soans rambles in $18 seniors, $15 students his attempts to link the two. As a result, Theatre Runs through: April 5 Mir’s production of The Arab Israeli Cookbook is more earnest lecturing than dramatically satisfy- BY CATEY SULLIVAN ing. The cluttered mosaic of a story is the result of For millenia, Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity Soans conducted (with original directors Rima remained an oasis of peace in the midst of one Brihi and Tim Roseman) throughout the West of the globe’s most violently enduring battle- Bank and the Gaza Strip. The trio asked about fields. But in 2002, it became yet another site food—the preparation and consumption of be- of carnage as part of the ongoing war between loved, culturally significant dishes—as a way to Palestinians and Israelis over the disputed West get people to open up about far more difficult The Arab-Israeli Cookbook. Photo by John W. Sisson, Jr. Bank territories. For those who sought refuge in subjects. the church while tanks gathered outside, grass Part of the problem lies in the sheer number of soup became a sole, inadequate sustenance for voices. A young Arab medical student exits and Also hampering the proceedings are dimly lit, devoted wife. Stephen Loch and Julian Martinez close to 40 days. re-enters as a gay Australian expat, exits again slo-mo background scenes. Foreground action are utterly, humorously in synch as a gay couple That tragedy-imbued “recipe”—a few chopped and re-enters as a cook in a hummus shop. A loses power when its competing with someone engaged in an elaborate stir-fry. blades of grass stirred into boiling water—is de- woman who plays an Orthodox Christian in one coring cucumbers in the background. But despite the cast’s best efforts, The Arab- livered with bitterness and understated rage to- scene shows up—in essentially the same cos- There are some fine performances in the en- Israeli Cookbook doesn’t justify its two-hour run ward the end of The Arab-Israeli Cookbook. De- tume—as a Jewish matron in the next. Director semble: Mark Richard and Susaan Jamshidi cre- time. When Soans finally offers a full context to scribing the starvation diet of those who sought Rob Chambers fails to differentiate the charac- ate a moving portrait of a bus driver whose route the elaborate culinary discussion, it’s too late refuge in the church, Robin Soans’ quasi-docu- ters cleanly, and the result is confusing. is a frequent target for suicide bombers and his and too little.

(false) modesty, “My story’s quite usual—local tary—and plays his own guitar, augmenting the THEATER REVIEW girl makes good, weds famous man?’” Instead of efforts of the hard-working three-piece orches- Evita the patrician ice princess often cast as the in- tra and seven-member ensemble. ternational gold-digger, director Fred Anzevino You can’t get farther “off-Loop” than Rogers Playwright: music by Andrew Lloyd has chosen Maggie Portman, whose firm jaw and Park—on the North Side, anyway—but those Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice sturdy physique convey, with a seductiveness at seeking an adventurous night out would do well At: Theo Ubique at the No Exit Café, once steely and vulnerable, the roots of her per- to take advantage of Theo Ubique’s package of a 6970 N. Glenwood sona’s tenacious ambitions. In the role of Peron, $20 pre-show dinner and shuttle service to the Phone: 773-347-1109; $30 Jeremy Trager mutes his familiar mannerisms to free parking lot. Where downtown can you have Runs through: April 19 project machismo befitting the cultural expec- an aproned server pour wine at your table only tations of a South American military dictator, minutes before stepping into the spotlight and BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE while Chris Damiano, also playing against type warbling a “Night of a Thousand Stars” to send as the sardonic Ché, dispenses ringside commen- chills up your spine? Andrew Lloyd Webber wasn’t always the Lib- erace of musical comedy, you know. His early works were conceived for the smallest of ven- FREE ues—recording studios. It was the popularity of 5A44?0A:8=60CC74 his then-innovative blend of pop and classical 5D==84BCB7>F8=C>F= motifs that spurred Broadway to inflate them PARKING into the elephant ballets we now associate with their composer (who eventually fell prey to his ³C746>>3C8<4B0A4102:´ Ç:?@:8>FKI@9LE< own press, but that’s a Faustian fable for an- other time). C741A8C8B7BC0642>;4CC8 K?<8LK?FIF=K?< A Bronx Tale, through March 22. Chazz Palminteri’s compelling one-man autobiographi- )''/KFEP8N8I;žN@EE9F<@E> cal show is bookended by murders he witnessed at ages 9 and 17. In between, the Oscar- nominated actor paints a vivid, engrossing tale, capturing the characters and adventures of a Mob-filled neighborhood with the skill of a documentarian. CS Adapted by A>18=70F3>= Curtains, Drury Lane Oak Brook, March 19 through May 17. Any diehard musical-comedy Starring fan should head out immediately to Oakbrook Terrace to see this regional premiere. Why? It’s Directed by ?0CA8280 one of the final collaborations between composer John Kander and the late lyricist Fred Ebb 9>7=C8;;8=64A :0;4<14A (Cabaret, Chicago, Kiss of the Spider Woman). SCM The Shape of a Girl, Pegasus Players, through April 12. Joan MacLeod’s wise one-woman Free parking valid only with purchase of full-price tickets. Limit one free parking voucher per order. This ad tale of a girl bully seems snapped from YouTube and Proviso East HS. Alice Wedoff’s work MUST be presented at the box office at time of performance to redeem parking voucher. Parking voucher rings true as 15-year-old Braidie, who observes and enables violence. JA valid only at Valet parking associated with the Royal George Theater. Regular parking restrictions apply, and Xanadu, Drury Lane Water Tower Place, through March 29. The winter of our discontent parking is subject to availability. Free parking not available for Saturday or Sunday matinee performances. proved too much for this relentlessly cheerful camp-fantasy, but you still have a week or so Valid only for patrons attending a performance of Don’t Dress for Dinner. Offer expires March 31. to revel in the magic before hunkering down to a grim and spartan year ahead. MSB 4GC4=343C7A>D67<0A27 —By Abarbanel, Barnidge, Morgan and Sullivan K?<IFP8C><K?<8KI< Tickets call*()$0//$0'''orK@:B

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This notion of lis- names of the all-American, middle-class charac- tening in gives an extra zing to Linder’s fairly ters and their discussions of royal primogeniture. conventional play questioning the extremes of Even more confusing will be its juxtaposition of trying to fit in and showing the sometimes rac- story-theatre whimsy and heightened eloquence ist, sexist and class-consciousness of the fra- recalling Yeats at his most fulsome, along with ternity members (Linder does shake things up cutesy regional stereotypes and adult actors by starting the show in the middle and jumping playing infants. We also get testimonials deliv- back to the beginning.) ered over the fourth wall to the audience, satiri- In addition to Hobgood’s concept, FRAT’s cal jabs at the media and fashions in indie films, 18-member cast really does its part to keep the too many instant flashbacks (that’s when some- show entertaining. Though some actors aren’t as one announces an occurrence, immediately after “on” as they should be (I noticed Gary Tiede- which we are shown the circumstances leading mann marking time in between his lines as the up to it), a long list of tabloid-fare obituaries, FRAT. Photo courtesy of The New Colony thuggish Jerry), the majority do an amazing job and a protracted “dumb-show” prologue where of being in the moment. the actors dance to muzak while setting up their THEATER REVIEW the Greek system. When the comedy is called for, James Asmus, stage. So does Evan Linder’s world-premiere play FRAT Josh Odor, Tara Sissom and Michael Gonring all To be sure, there’s nothing wrong with play- FRAT have anything really new to say that you don’t consistently get laughs for their gross-out hu- wrights updating a classic to their own times Playwright: Evan Linder already know (or assume to know)? Probably mor, spacey idiocy or sarcasm. and locales. Neither is there any fault in darkly At: The New Colony at not, but Linder’s work carries a powerful ring On the dramatic side, strong work comes from romanticist contemplations on mortality. Nor in Dank Haus, 4740 N. Western of authenticity. (He was a former officer in a Quinn White and Henry Riggs as the co-pledges studies of troubled families (whether geared to Phone: 800-838-3006; $20 fraternity himself.) Todd and Ross. Nick Lake and Tony Kaehny also adult sensibilities, or as an after-school special Runs through: April 4 What makes FRAT fun is the unconventional prove to be menacing with their flashes of an- for juvenile audiences). Nor in speculating on way that The New Colony stages Linder’s comic ger. the prevalence of supernatural phenomena in BY SCOTT C. MORGAN drama. FRAT plays in a recreation room at the Meg Johns and Thea Lux’s respective takes on everyday life—did I mention the ghost of Le- Dank Haus, the Lincoln Square institution for the loose girlfriends Sara Catherine and Natalie ontes’ dead son acting as liaison between this College fraternity hazing (both real and imag- German culture. are so good that you wish more of the play was world and the next? And while it’s not impos- ined) has been the inspiration for a multitude There, director Andrew Hobgood creates the centered on them. sible for all these themes to be featured in a of entertainment genres. TV movies of the week, atmosphere of a college keg party. Before the FRAT may not have too many new things to say single text, without a unifying concept to tie gross-out film comedies and even gay porn have play begins, you’re encouraged to drink beer, eat about fraternities, but The New Colony’s semi- them together, the resulting narrative resembles all fetishized the secretive initiation rituals of pizza and mingle with the cast of “college stu- environmental staging certainly makes it much nothing so much as a patchwork of developmen- more of happening show. And if you have a fra- tal sketches. ternity fetish, by all means go. The Sideshow Theatre Company navigates its dramatic milieu with refreshing aplomb, gra- CULTURE CLUB ciously assisting us during moments of potential THEATER REVIEW disorientation. (When two actors assume differ- WORLD PREMIERE ent roles than in previous scenes, they explain, Everything Freezes “you haven’t met us yet.”) And Lisi Stoessel’s Playwright: Jonathan L. Green scenic design reflects a Sesame Street resource- OLD GLORY and Walt McGough fulness (employing the increasingly popular BY BRETT NEVEU DIRECTED BY WILLIAM BROWN At: Sideshow Theatre Company objects-hung-from-the-ceiling motif). But un- NOW PLAYING AT 325 TUDOR COURT, GLENCOE at Chicago Dramatists, 1105 W. Chicago til the authors make up their minds as to what Phone: 312-261-0130; $15 story they want to tell, all we are left with is a “HAUNTING, Runs through: April 5 rainy-day romp in an overly cluttered attic. INTIMATE AND INTENSELY MOVING.” BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE

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When Rebecca Gilman’s Blue Surge orig- inally debuted at the Goodman Theatre, many blue-hairs were shocked at the full- frontal male nudity and the gritty tale of two cops who arrest and then later try to help two prostitutes. Well, Blue Surge is back again in Chicago, courtesy of Eclipse Theatre Company, which is presenting the regional premiere of Gilman’s revised edi- tion. Blue Surge plays 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, and 3 p.m. Sundays March 20-May 3 at the Greenhouse The- ater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln. Tickets are $20-$25; call 773-404-7336 or visit www. eclipsetheatre.com. Photo of Laura Coover and Kevin Scott by Scott Cooper Mar. 18, 2009 15 THEATER REVIEW Menzie & Michael do Playing with Fire ‘Broadway Our Way’ Playwright: Barbara Fields After Dark Award Winners Beckie Menzie At: Bohemian Theatre Ensemble, and Tom Michael celebrate the songs of the 7016 N. Glenwood Great White Way in their new show “Broadway Phone: 866-811-4111; $16-$20 Our Way.” Runs through: April 11 “Broadway Our Way” will have a limited run of four performances at Davenport’s, 1383 N. BY JONATHAN ABARBANEL Milwaukee, Saturdays in April at 8 p.m. There is a $18 cover charge and two-drink mini- Victor Frankenstein cobbles together a human- mum. Reservations are highly recommended; oid but not a human being: His Creature has no call 773-278-1830. navel. Also, like Bush’s plan for Iraq, Franken- stein lacks an exit strategy. The Creature is fully grown and sentient but without any life memory Sing-Along Xanadu or exposure to even the most primitive sensory at Music Box stimuli—those of the fetus in the womb. On Hell in a Handbag Productions and Dick that first night, “I heard, saw, smelled all at O’Day will present Sing-Along Xanadu— once. Fear overwhelmed me,” the Creature tells ”Celebrate the NEON!”—Friday, March 20, at his creator, years later. The good doctor doesn’t 11:30 p.m-2 a.m. at Music Box Theatre, 3733 even provide food, but provokes the Creature to N. Southport. instinctive fear and anger. The Creature flees to During the film, on-screen lyrics will ap- a life of terror and violence—both given and pear so attendees can sing along and running received—that inevitably rebounds on Franken- commentary will be provided by members of stein himself. Vowing to kill his creation, Victor Camp Midnight. Tickets are $12; see www. tracks the Creature for years to an Arctic waste- Playing with Fire. Photo by Brandon Dahlquist dickoday.com, www.handbagproductions.org land for a final confrontation. or www.ticketweb.com. Feverish and gangrenous, Victor looks as aw- kenstein, retaining (unlike most movie versions) markably well-matched. Atmospheric costumes ful as the patchwork Creature, both battered by the original late-18th-century time period as the (courtesy of Michelle Julazadeh) and make-up the years. He’s astonished to find the Creature is Age of Reason not so gently became the Age of (by Sam Umstead) do a lot, but it’s their physical Benefit concert for articulate and literate, and that he has mastered Science. Just when you think there’s only talk, work—movement, ratchet-like voice, the total abstract reasoning. The Creature longs for death Joel Hall Dancers Fields—and this closet-sized but effective Boho “plastique”—which is impressive and effective, “Flavors,” a benefit concert for the Joel to end his own emotional and physical suffering, production—surprises viewers with a vigorous especially by Cox, who shoulders the larger load. Hall Dancers & Center, will take place Friday, but first he forces Victor to confront the con- physical scene including—yes, it’s alive!—the The distinction between Clayton Stamper and April 3, at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, April 4, sequences of his actions and to understand— zip-zap moment of animation. Add the rich text Buck Zachary is much sharper as the handsome at 8 p.m. at The Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. better than he has before—exactly what defines and action several remarkable performances, and but obsessed young Victor and the worn, self- Southport. humanity. “Love me, and I will be once again you have a dark and stormy night out that is absorbed old scientist, respectively. Again, the Among the scheduled performers are Chica- virtuous,” the Creature pleads as a child to a thought-provoking, surprisingly moving and sat- burden is on the older character, who undergoes go Tap Theatre, Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre, parent. But dour Victor is incapable of loving isfying. One ends up feeling the pain of both the the greatest emotional journey, and Zachary and Glenn Leslie, Jump Rhythm Jazz Project and anyone, including himself. man and the “machine.” Cox feed each other well. Peter Marston Sullivan the Joel Hall Dancers. Barbara Fields’ long-established play is a won- Two actors each portray Frankenstein and the is the capable director. Scenic designer Stephen Tickets are $15-$25; see www.TicketMaster. derful, compassionate, complex, literate and Creature. Adam Kander and Kevin Cox as the M. Genovese provides spare ice floes with a few com, or call 773-935-6860 or 773-293-0900. theatrical take on Mary Shelley’s classic Fran- Creature—young and old, respectively—are re- hidden surprises.

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Photo by Todd Rosenberg. MILLIONDOLLARQUARTETLIVE.COM 16 Mar. 18, 2009 I should’ve been singing in the voice that is the It was a learning tool for concerts; it wasn’t that OPERA most natural to me. I’m my own favorite singer and I constantly lis- WCT: Speaking of that voice, if I had to se- ten to myself on CD. Even then, that’s not what David Daniels lect one adjective to describe it, it would be I meant. “haunting”—and I mean that in the best pos- WCT: Happy birthday, by the way. Got any sible way. big plans? has a Handel DD: Oh, I know; I didn’t think you meant DD: Yeah. I’m newly partnered after being “scary.” [Interviewer laughs.] “Haunting” is single for three years. We have just hit it off. on things much better than “scary.” [Laughs] That’s a He’s having 18 people over to my loft here in BY ANDREW DAVIS great word. Atlanta, and he’s making a big birthday brunch WCT: Would you say that Handel is your fa- for me. World-famous out countertenor David Daniels vorite composer? Tickets to the March 29 concert are $30- is known for his superlative artistry, magnetic DD: Well, he’s certainly up there, and it’s a $110; call 312-334-7777 or visit www.har- stage presence and a voice of singular warmth good thing I love him because [his work] is the ristheaterchicago.org. and surpassing beauty, which have helped him bulk of my operatic repertoire. I don’t think I redefine his voice category for the modern pub- could choose someone over him in all areas—as lic. He has performed in Chicago, most notably a composer, as a songwriter and as a dramatist. at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in the title role He’s just a genius in all areas. Entertainment of Giulio Cesare in the acclaimed David McVicar WCT: And do you have a favorite venue? production. David Daniels. Photo by Bernard Benant DD: I have venues I love to sing in; Carnegie news Daniels will return to sing March 29 at the Hall is certainly up there. I’ve never sung in Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Ran- Harris Theatre, although I’ve heard nice things The video for British singer Pete Doherty’s dolph, with The English Concert, directed by have been one since the ‘70s. WCT: So you can’t get behind the Chicago about it from friends. To me, the two best acous- (note: pronounced “Dock-er-ty’s”) new song, Harry Bicket. The down-to-earth Daniels will no tics are Carnegie and the Musikverein in Vienna “Last of the English Roses,” ends with a kiss- doubt dazzle with his interpretations of Bach Cubs at all? DD: No, I really can’t—except for the time [Austria]. And I love singing at the Lyric and I ing scene between two men, according to and Handel pieces. He talked with Windy City love singing at the Met [New York City’s Metro- AceShowbiz.com. “Roses” is part of Doherty’s Times the day before his 43rd birthday and dis- Dusty Baker was their manager because he played for the Braves. politan Opera]. The fact that they’re so [large], debut solo studio album, Grace/Wastelands. cussed being a countertenor, coming out—and and yet you can sing softly and be heard is A report claiming that American Idol judge the Chicago Cubs. WCT: Now, on to music: I was doing some research, and there seems to be a controversy amazing. Randy Jackson dined with season 8 finalist Windy City Times: Now, did you freak out WCT: Do you ever read your reviews, or do Adam Lambert in Hollywood the night be- when you found out that an Andrew Davis about countertenor vs. falsetto. Now, you’re a true countertenor, correct? you not care? fore Lambert’s Feb. 25 semifinal performance would be interviewing you? [Note: Sir Andrew DD: I used to read them all the time; I would of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” has been Davis is the music director of Lyric Opera of DD: Well, I’m a true countertenor [the highest male adult singing voice] because that’s what I be at the newsstand before it opened. This was denied by Jackson’s publicist, according to Chicago.] at the beginning of my career, and everybody Entertainment Weekly. The publicist said, David Daniels: [Laughs] No, I didn’t, but it is call myself. [Laughs] There’s so much back-and- forth about that, and everybody’s an expert. To loves you at [that time]. Then the newness “Randy did not have dinner with Adam Lam- funny, isn’t it? wears off, and people can be picky. Now I’m at bert. He ran into him as he was leaving the WCT: We have a couple of things in com- be perfectly honest with you, I just want to sing wonderful music. I don’t get caught up in labels. the place where I will actually will read [some], restaurant.” mon, with one of them being we’re both big and even if they’re negative they won’t send me Heathers—the 1988 black-comedy movie sports fans. I call myself a countertenor because that’s the most generic way of calling myself. off the edge like they used to. But I really don’t that starred Christian Slater, Winona Ryder DD: Oh, that’s unusual to hear. I’m a big sports see the purpose; I really concern myself with and Shannen Doherty—is about to become nut. I follow all sports, with the exception of WCT: And you switched to that voice from tenor. singing well and being consistent, as well as a musical, according to Reuters. Andy Fick- ice hockey—I just don’t get it—but if I had continuing to grow and learn to be a complete man, director of the movie Race to Witch to choose one, it’d be baseball, even though DD: Yeah, I did. Now that I look back, the reality of it was that I tried to force my body artist and singer. Mountain and the musical Reefer Madness, is I’ve never played it. I have played basketball, I’ll tell you one thing I don’t do: I stay off working on the musical with “Reefer” partner though. And I’m a big Atlanta Braves fan, and I to sing tenor when I should’ve been a counter- tenor all along. It was just finally realizing how the Internet. I’ll read a newspaper critique but Kevin Murphy. In a recent reading, actress I’ll never go on the Internet to see what fans Kristen Bell (TV’s Veronica Mars and the voi- write. That would just devastate me. I’m too ceover in Gossip Girl) played the lead. thin-skinned to read all that. Sometimes things Attorney Howard K. Stern and doctors can get too personal, and I can’t go there. Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich I think I have a confidence about what I do, have been charged with conspiracy, among mixed up with insecurities about what I do other things, in the February 2007 death of [laughs], and that can be a lethal combination. entertainer Anna Nicole Smith, Reuters re- But since I turned 40, I feel like I’ve just hit a ported. Stern was also Smith’s longtime com- different level of confidence and of being more panion. Smith died at age 39 of an accidental at ease with my life and career. I think that prescription-drug overdose shortly after the comes with age and experience. birth of her daughter and the death of her WCT: You’ve been out in public for a while. son. You came out in 1999, correct? Ashton Kutcher got into a heated Twit- DD: Well, it came out in a New Yorker interview ter argument over using the word “gay” in ‘99-2000. [Coming out] was not a conscious as an insult (“That’s so gay”), according to decision; this writer had followed me for a good Advocate.com. After another user asked him six months so he knew my home life. He didn’t to “stop being so gay,” Kutcher responded, give me a chance: He said he was going to talk “can we just get clear, calling some one ‘gay’ about it, and I said, “Why not?” Then the doors or ‘fag’ is as derogatory as calling someone opened but I never had a problem talking about [the N-word]. U look like an idiot when you my life with anyone. I was out since the time I do it.” was negative 2. The world premiere of Pedro—a film WCT: Is there a role you role you haven’t about the life of former Real World resi- done that you’re dying to tackle? dent Pedro Zamora—will run on MTV April DD: There may be, but I don’t know. There are 1. Written by Dustin Lance Black, the Os- a lot of Handel titles I haven’t done yet, and car winning screenwriter of Milk, the film I’m certainly not intimate with all of them. Then portrays the true story of Pedro Zamora, an again, Orlando from Handel was one of those openly gay, Cuban-American, HIV-positive roles I wanted to take on, and it ended up being AIDS educator who became famous for his an absolute mistake to sing it. [Laughs] Now, activism, testimony before Congress and the I’m a little more choosy. TV show. WCT: I saw in an interview where you say The remake of the movie Fame will fea- you listen to yourself a lot... ture a gay character, just like the original DD: Yeah, I know which interview you read: It did, according to BGay.com. In the 1980 film, was that crazy [1999] Parterre Box interview. Paul McCrane played gay teen Montgomery; I read that for the first time about two weeks in the new version, Paul McGill plays Kevin, a ago. I looked at my boyfriend and said, “Scott— gay student who reportedly has a significant God, I was a cocky shit when I was that age.” role. [Laughs] We grow up and change, don’t we? I After 33 years at the New York Post, col- have a confidence, but it comes out in my sing- umnist Liz Smith, 86, has published her ing and performing. I was wowed when I read last column, according to the Dallas Voice. that. Her editor, Col Allan, said the current finan- You know what? I don’t listen to myself that cial crisis forced Smith’s termination; the much anyone, but back then I did. But the state- gossip maven was making $125,000 a year. ments didn’t [reflect] that I learn from listening. Mar. 18, 2009 17 connection. At one point the family’s little boy is shown sporting red lipstick and pedaling a tri- cycle through the congregation of gay hustlers KNIGHT who go right on giving head to their customers as the kid goes by. AT In Mendoza’s nightmarish setting its always THE hot, steamy and noisy, and the camera often shoots from on high. Everyone seems like rats MOVIES in a filthy, dark maze—especially when a goat wanders into the theatre, momentarily inter- rupting the sex acts taking place. You can feel the heat and smell the garbage and bad food in the place and—like the teenage son who has impregnated his girlfriend—you long for escape. Sunshine Cleaning. The realistic but tragic solution the son comes seem to let go of her involvement with her now- spirit of empowerment embodied in these mov- up with, revealed at the fade-out, simply adds married high school sweetheart, a police detec- ies. And like them, it takes the time to let us into a large apostrophe to Mendoza’s insightful film. tive (Steve Zahn, a wonder as always). It’s Rose the lives of even its most minor characters. Even The movie plays exclusively at Landmark Century Sunshine Cleaning, who follows up on the detective’s idea for her to with such a familiar story arc, the characters in Centre Cinema; www.landmarktheatres.com. start the business when she needs money to en- Sunshine Cleaning—both dead and alive—leave Serbis, roll her troubled young son in private school but behind vivid memories when the movie’s over. Department of shameless self-promotion: At- it’s her sister Norah, the ne’er do well, who is tention all you roller disco/leg warmer/Olivia Sing-Along Xanadu haunted by the crime scenes and can’t separate In the Filipino language, the word Serbis means Newton-John/Gene Kelly/Michael Beck/Muse- By Richard Knight, Jr. herself emotionally from them. “service,” and that’s what the hustlers do to the loving queens! My alter ego, Dick O’Day, is host- Though Rose’s story will tug at the heart- male customers, cruising them in the rundown ing yet another edition of Camp Midnight, the The team that produced the outsized indie hit strings, it was the screwed-up Norah who reso- movie theatre owned by the Pineda family in film series dedicated to presenting “the best Little Miss Sunshine has returned with another nated most with me. Norah is funny and brash Brillante Mendoza’s enthralling film of the same of the worst.” I’m once again teaming up with offbeat character study, Sunshine Cleaning. The but reveals enormous compassion when faced title. The Pinedas, a ragtag bunch ruled with an David Cerda and his crew of Handbag Produc- film stars the currently red-hot Amy Adams and with the prospect of cleaning up the “crime iron fist by the matriarch “Nanay Flor” (the mar- tion players and the Music Box for a return en- the versatile Emily Blunt (star of the lesbian ro- scenes,” which are more often than not the velous Gina Pareno), are down to their last mov- gagement of Sing-Along Xanadu. The 1980 flick mance My Summer of Love and hysterically fun- aftermath of suicides. One crime scene in par- ie theatre and it’s not much of a legacy. Beat- is one of the most fabulously hideous musical ny in The Devil Wears Prada). Adams and Blunt ticular haunts Norah and she tracks down the up and rundown—and showing a succession of car wrecks in cinema history. We’ll have a jam play Rose and Norah, two sisters who tentatively daughter (Mary Lynn Rajskub) of the victim, who squalid porn films—the movies are an excuse for packed pre-show, complete with contests, sur- start a business cleaning up after violent crime thinks for a brief moment that Norah is inter- the hustlers and their clientele to rendezvous on prise performances, prizes (including a pair of scenes as a way to climb out of their unsatis- ested in romance. the second-floor balcony, just below the family’s tickets for Xanadu the Musical, now playing at fied lives. Rose and Norah themselves are both haunted living quarters. Drury Lane Water Tower Place) and more begin- The picture, based on a first-time script by Me- by their own crime scene—the one they stepped Set in the Filipino city of Angeles, Mendoza’s ning at Midnight followed by the movie which gan Holley and directed by Christine Jeffs (who into as little girls involving their mother. Like the film shows us a vivid portrait of a family seem- will feature easy to follow along lyrics on the also helmed the biopic Sylvia), has an unhur- sisters in Crimes of the Heart this incident has ingly involved in only its own problems, infect- screen. Tickets, which include a interactive audi- ried pace and the same sort of gentle-but-tough overshadowed their lives and set their relation- ed by the filth and enervation around them. The ence guide, are $12. www.musicboxtheatre.com quality of other female-centered pictures like ship in stone—seemingly implacable Rose has seedy environment has crept into the soul of the Check out my archived reviews at www. Friends with Money and Housekeeping. It’s nice- become adept at picking up after emotionally family; everyone seems tainted on some level by windycitytimes.com or www.knightatthemov- ly observed, the characters feel true to life (Hol- messy Norah, but both are ticking time bombs. the ever-present sex acts around them, although ies.com. Readers can leave feedback at the ley has a telling eye) and the performances are Alan Arkin plays their eccentric father (a more they pointedly ignore them and don’t make the latter Web site. uniformly excellent. But somehow the picture benign version of the character he played in Lit- never quite catches hold; it never really sinks tle Miss Sunshine), who has passed his gambler’s “ in. This may have to do with the over-familiarity instinct for the sell onto his grandson. SUPERB, UTTERLY COMPELLING, Though Sunshine Cleaning lacks the dramatic of the leading arc of the story which follows GRITTY YET TENDER.” Rose, a typical struggling young single working punch of Alice Doesn’t Live Her Anymore, the - KEVIN THOMAS, LOS ANGELES TIMES mother. She’s the earnest sister, the hard worker sweet daffiness of Waitress, the slapstick wacki- who has taken some hard knocks and who can’t ness of In Her Shoes or the magic, ethereal qual- ity of Housekeeping, it shares the same feminine

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Cake Chicago presents Vest Fest: wear women and music with Artemis Sing- 5233 N. Clark 773-769-9299 www. labryschicago.com/4_women_only.htm your favorite vest. Queer artistry for ers, Aria: Windy City Performing Arts womenandchildrenfirst.com the general public through live mu- Women’s Ensemble, Lakeside Pride Mu- Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce Thursday, March 19 sic for the last two years. $5. Spoken sic Ensemble and Jazz Harpist Rashida Mix ‘n Mingle networking event 6 - 9 Change Seminar Brad Lamm, author of word by Jenn P. 9:30 p.m. , music Black. $15/$10 Info or RSVP: Tom p.m. $20/$30 Wild Pug 4810 N. Broad- How To Change Someone You Love, on by Ripley Caine 10:30 p.m., Ian WIl- Ballentine, Director Community and way 773-303-0167 www.glchamber. recovery, treatment options, interven- son 11:15 p.m. Red Line Tap 7006 N. Cultural Programs, tballentine@center- org/ THE WHEEL DEAL tion for loved ones addicted to alcohol, Glenwood, behind the Heartland Cafe onhalsted.org, or 773-472-6469 X245 Sharon Bridgforth, Lambda Award win- Windy City Rollers will rumble at the UIC 773-274-5463 Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted St. ning RedBone Press author, will read drugs and other behavioral crisis. 6:30 Pavilion, 525 S. Racine. p.m. Center on Halsted www.change- Center on Halsted Human First 2009 www.centeronhalsted.org from her performance text, Delta Dandi someoneyoulove.com/ Gala, Honorees State Rep. Sara Feigen- on Black American experience through Photo by Kat Fitzgerald (MysticImagesPhotography.com) Hairspray 1960s Baltimore in this inter- holtz, State Rep.Greg Harris, Mr. Jo- Tuesday, March 24 a soul’s journey through the middle national award winning musical, $38 seph Loundy, The Night Ministry. Black Actor Slash Model and Nervous But Ex- passage, the Jim Crow south and jook- to $58, 7:30 p.m, Genesee Theatre Box tie optional. $300, 6:30 cocktails 7:30 cited (from Ann Arbor) Space, 1245 ing blues. $5. Center on Halsted, 3656 Office,203 N. Genesee St., Waukegan p.m. wards and program, Hyatt Re- Chicago Ave., Evanston N. Halsted. 773-472-6469 x 237 www. 47-263-6300 www.jamtheatricals.com gency Chicago 151 E. Wacker Dr. ,www. Building A Global Community benefit centeronhalsted.org. Labrys Chicago Presents 4 Women Only centeronhalsted.org/HF09.HTML for service trip to South Africa for chil- “The Trio” special concert with Veron- Hopefest: A concert to benefit the Chi- dren and families’ education, health Thursday, March 26 Wed.-Thurs., March 25-26 ica May, Jess Yoakum, Christine Kent, cago Coalition for the Homeless., $30 and spiritual needs. Bands donating Asians and Friends junior league (Gay Jess Godwin $25. Velvet Rope 728 Lake advance, $40, 7 p.m. Park West, 322 their talent. 8 p.m. $10. Elbo Room Yakuza) hosts Mahjong (Learn and St, Oak Park www.labryschicago.com/ W. Armitage Ave., 312-435-4548 www. 2871 N. Lincoln 773-549-5549 play!) before Wild Pug’s Gaysian eve- news.htm chicagohomeless.org Doin’ It: Sex, Disability and Videotape ning, 7-9 p.m. Wild Pug, 4810 N. Outdanced Presents Stardust @ Berlin. Sappho’s Salon: A Provocative Night Screening 6 p.m. Jane Addams Hull- Broadway RoshamBro LIVE All the way Kay (Dirty of Lesbian Diversions 7:30 p.m. Co- House Museum 800 S. Halsted, 312- Sharon Bridgforth, Lambda Award win- Girls) 954 W Belmont Ave www.ber- sponsored by Early 2 Bed and The Les- 413-5353 ning RedBone Press, author of Delta linchicago.com 773-348-4975 bian Community Care Project . $7-$10 Gerber/Hart Library presents Gabriel Ev- Dandi on Black American experience T-Mic, hosted by Jamie Bantry. Third includes food and wine Women & Chil- elyn, a senior at DePaul University on through a soul’s journey through the Thursday of the month. 6:30 p.m. Cen- dren First Bookstore 5233 N. Clark 773- “Brotherly Bigotry: Battling Homopho- middle passage, and the Jim Crow ter on Halsted 3656 N Halsted 769-9299 www.womenandchildrenfirst. bia in the Family” as part of Gerber/ south, will join E. Patrick Johnson at com Hart’s The Cutting Edge: Young Schol- OUT at CHM, Chicago History Museum, Friday, March 20 Hannah Free party for the Chicago- ars Share Their Work lecture series. Ho- Speaking Out Downsouth 5:30 p.m. Elizabeth Flock author Sleepwalking produced feature film starring Sharon mophobia within the family unit. 7 www.chicagohistory.org/ in Daylight 7:30 p.m. Women & Chil- Gless (Cagney and Lacey, Queer as p.m. Gerber/Hart Library,1127 West dren First Bookstore 5233 N. Clark Folk), coming out in September. 2 to Granville Ave. 773-381-8030 Friday, March 27 773-769-9299 www.womenandchil- 5 p.m. Scot’s 1825 W. Montrose. info@ Sapphic Adventures (previously Chicago 6th Annual Chicago Modernism Show drenfirst.com HannahFree.com Lesbian Brunch Group) Spring Mixer 6 and Sale through March 29. Sixty na- Jessica Halem: Solar-Powered. A night Steadfast Love: Holy Relationships p.m. Whiskey Blues, 172 W Adams St. tional and international dealers present of luminous comedy with Jessica and a Wilderness God. For all sexual www.meetup.com/sapphicadventures all 20th Century design movements. Halem, Marlene Moore, Cameron Es- orientations and gender identities, Suicide in the LGBT Community. The Preview tix $80 advance/$100 door. SHARON IS CARIN’ posito and Tamale, 8 p.m. $20 reserved embracing spirituality and sexual- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Admission $10 for all weekend. 1422 center seating, one drink. $15 reg tick- ity. 10 a.m.- 4 p.m., Broadway United Institute and the American Foundation N. Kingsbury. www.chicagomodernism. Writer Sharon Bridgforth will be at Center Methodist Church, 3338 N. Broadway for Suicide Prevention present current et, $10 Student/Senior. Center on Hal- net or 954-563-6747 on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted, and the Chicago St. $30/$25 Jacki 773-655-4357 or research and clinical perspectives on SNL’s Julia Sweeney in The Jill and Julia sted, 3656 N. Halsted 773-472-6469 History Museum, 1601 N. Clark. Pepe’s Group LGBT Meetup in the [email protected] for in- suicide in the LGBT community. 7 - 9 Show with Jill Sobule $25 - $30, 7:30 southwest suburbs 7 p.m. - 11 p.m. formation, registration. www.holyrela- p.m. Free. Hoover-Leppen Theater, p.m. Lakeshore Theater 3175 N. 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“One time I was fast asleep on the couch and I songs you remember fondly, walked down mem- just feel Paul and his gentle touch on my shoulder ory lane, and leave with a smile on your face. going, ‘Hey, Jase, wake up. It’s time to wake up, The Flamingo must be smiling too—the siblings’ buddy. Wake up.’ And I slowly open my eyes, and six-month contract has been extended to two Paul is standing there with his dick out. And he years! That gives me plenty of time to go back just gives me this weird, mischievous smile and and see it again. Bottom line—go see this show. walked out of the room.”—Jason Segal talks You’ll have a GREAT time!! about working with Paul Rudd on “I Love You Man.” Seems like someone is a Method actor. 7 17 I spent last weekend in Vegas and one of the 9 highlights was going to Donny & Marie’s show 2 at the fabulous Flamingo Casino and Resort. I am incredibly partial to this casino because it’s 15 perfectly sized, perfectly situated, perfectly laid 10 8 1 out, and perfectly kept up. The showroom is re-

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45 47 46 58 43 44 Sexy Paul Rudd knows how to show man-love. 53 57 Didya watch the Siegfried and Roy farewell on 49 51 20/20? I talked to some people who were there 24 48 36 and they are utterly convinced that Roy was only 21 50 23 25 31 on stage for the final bow. If you watch the tape, both men are in hooded capes and masks. The al- leged “Roy” hobbles out, as if it is a superhuman 32 30 29 55 effort. Even the Siegfried doesn’t move much. At 22 52 the end of the trick, Roy briefly (and discretely) 38 27 37 40 56 35 walks to the side of the stage, momentarily ob- 39 28 26 structed by the curtain. Then he comes out for 20 42 41 the bow, takes off the mask, and it’s Roy. So,

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Turn to page 21 Mar. 18, 2009 21 BILLY from page 20 If they’re dating, they must be gay...right? They were dating months ago—there’s a photo Mommie Dearest would not include him in her of them together at a Halloween party that stage act! He’s smarter than he looks... started the rumors. I’m told it was never any- Tom Brady and his new wife, Gisele Bund- thing serious. They’re both currently single. chen, were spotted getting facials in Beverly When I can squeeze in a few naked celebs Hills. Who cares, right? Well, once they got and a quick “Ask Billy” question, it’s definitely home, Tom took some time to wander out onto time to end yet another column. I didn’t even his balcony shirtless—in full view of the pa- get to tell you about Pamela Anderson’s de- parazzi. Pics on BillyMasters.com. formed nipple popping out at the Vivienne Even hotter are some nude photos that ar- Westwood fashion show in Paris, or Britney rived in my inbox of Rick Schroder. In the 1994 stopping a concert to exclaim, “My pussy is made-for-TV flick Texas, there was a skinny- hanging out!” I’ll post those as extras on www. dipping scene where Schroder exposes his lit- BillyMasters.com—the site that caters to ev- tle Ricky. Someone sent us the enhanced stills eryone! If you’ve got a question, feel free to which are mighty hot indeed. Check ‘em out at send it along to [email protected] and I BillyMasters.com. promise to get back to you before Cat and Jen’s Our “Ask Billy” question is from Tyler in Bal- kids appear in the all lesbian version of “Lace”! timore: “I heard that Matt Dallas and Jonathan Until next time, remember, one man’s filth is Bennett are dating. Is this true? Are they both another man’s bible. gay?”

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Carli Lloyd, who scored the game-winning goal on promotions targeting Chicago’s lesbian and Spencer Duhm (pronounced “doom”) 19, the I was gay. In one scene, she was fishing [to in the gold medal match of the Beijing Olym- gay community. youngest and only openly gay contestant on find out if I was gay] because she suspected pics in August, as well as US Women’s National The Red Stars kick off the inaugural 2009 Survivor: Tocantins, was the fifth contestant I was gay, but only because I wouldn’t get real Team members Lindsay Tarpley, Megan Rapi- Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS) season on voted out. close at night and snuggle like most people [do, noe, Marian Dalmy, and local Illinois product April 4 on the road against Saint Louis Ath- “I didn’t see it coming at all; it all changed mainly to stay warm]. But that was just because Ella Masar. letica at Ralph Korte Stadium on the campus that last day. The [immunity] challenge put the I don’t do that when I sleep.” The 20,000-member Illinois Women’s Soccer of Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. target on me, then I got the target off me, then Duhm would not comment about his personal League (IWSL) has also signed on as a partner Following a second road game against the [ultimately] it was back to me,” Duhm said less life, though Internet reports link him with for- with the Red Stars. Washington Freedom April 11, the Red Stars than 24 hours after his torch was extinguished mer Survivor winner Todd Herzog. will play their historic home-opener at TOYOTA by Jeff Probst on the CBS reality-TV show. “My personal life is going real well, though I’d PARK in Bridgeview, Ill., on Sunday, April 19 “It was very disappointing,” he said. “Being rather not comment on it. Yeah, I’m good,” he CMSA softball against Sky Blue FC. The intimate, soccer- a fan [of the show], you think, ‘Man, I couldn’t said. specific stadium is also home to the Chicago even save myself past three tribal councils; So should we read between the lines? sign-ups Fire men’s soccer team, and just a short drive that’s pretty pathetic.’ But it’s OK, though I nev- “Yeah; I don’t know; I keep that private,” he southwest of downtown Chicago. March 21 & 28 er would have guessed that a challenge would said. The Chicago Metropolitan Sports Association Season tickets, starting at only $120 for 10 have put a target on my back. Duhm is back at school now at the Univer- (CMSA) is holding softball sign-up parties over regular season games plus two bonus games, “Overall, it was an incredible experience. Had sity of Florida—and anxiously awaiting the start the next two weeks. are on sale now. Call (866) WPS-2009 or log it lasted [only] three days, it [still] would have of the Major League Baseball season that will Returning players and teams can sign up Sat- on to www.chicagoredstars.com to reserve your a dream come true. So 15 days is amazing. And I hopefully include, he said, another playoff run urday, March 21, at Hamburger Mary’s, 5400 N. seats. still got the whole experience—just a condensed for his beloved Chicago Cubs. Clark, 4:30-6:30 p.m. New players can sign up “This initiative is an important part of our version.” “I expected [Survivor] to be as hard as it was. Saturday, March 28, at Spin Nightclub, 800 W. overall plan to welcome all Chicagoans to Also on what proved to be Duhm’s final epi- You can’t really prepare yourself for how your Belmont, 4:30-6:30 p.m. watch amazing women athletes compete,” said sode, he revealed in an on-camera interview that body is going to react to hunger and exhaus- Online registration is open at ChicagoMSA. 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That [chal- bers; membership is $20 annually. “Women’s sports have always had a very episode because it was such a non-issue when lenge] was terribly difficult, by far the hardest dedicated following among the lesbian and gay we were out there,” Duhm said. “There was only one I had out there. community,” said Windy City Times Publisher one interview that I did [about being gay.] In “I’m just waiting for my Cubbies to start. They Tracy Baim. “However, some teams have shied Survivor, people try to find little things to sepa- made some really strange off-season transac- Proud to Run away from promoting this partnership, leaving rate you from the group and target you. I didn’t tions. I’m not sure they got any better [dur- their fans feeling unwelcome at the gates. We June 27 want that little thing to be being gay. ing the off-season]; in fact, I think they got Frontrunners/Frontwalkers Chicago is gearing are proud to partner with the Red Stars on this “Sidney was the only one who suspected that worse.” up for the organization’s signature event, Proud historic opening season of WPS. As a lifelong To Run. The 2009 Proud To Run—the 28th an- soccer player, I am excited about watching nual event—will take place at Montrose Harbor terrific soccer right here in Chicago this sum- Saturday, June 27. It includes both a 5K and mer.” 10K race as well as a 2-mile fun walk. The Red Stars play a 10-game home sched- The 2008 Proud To Run had a record break- ule, with 9 of those 10 matches taking place ing 1100 participants and donated a total of on Saturdays and Sundays. 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