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Find Nightspots on www.WindyCityQueercast.com 4 Feb. 12, 2014 WINDY CITY TIMES Holder pushes for more recognition of gay couples Cultural Q’s By Lisa Keen by FRANCESCA ROYSTER Keen News Service U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told a Human In Memory of Jose E. Munoz: Rights Campaign (HRC) audience in New York on Feb. 8 that, beginning Feb. 10, he “will— Making Queer Future for the first time in history—formally instruct all Justice Department employees to give law- “Queerness is a longing that propels Rebecca lived down the street from us, ful same-sex marriages full and equal recogni- us onward, beyond romances of nega- in a sprawling avocado green house made tion, to the greatest extent possible under the tive and toiling in the world. Queerness of stucco with Spanish style wrought iron law.” But there have been some mixed assess- is that thing that lets us feel that the railings. She had a big laugh, and long ments of how big this news really is. world is not enough, that indeed some- skinny legs, and hair that would often Holder said his new policy is a response to thing is missing.” – Jose Munoz, Cruising twist out of their braids, in their kinky the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling last June in Utopia might. She often smelled of oranges. U.S. v. Windsor. Many of the federal govern- One day, Rebecca and I were walk- ment’s agencies have issued new regulations On Dec. 3, 2013, queer theory critic and ing through the vacant lot that led to in response to that ruling, striking down the visionary thinker Jose Esteban Munoz an old abandoned railroad line that was key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act passed away in New York City, at age 46. across from our houses. If you got in far (DOMA). Young. enough, the houses and the everyday- Holder said the new policy would have “im- Munoz was already the kind of academ- ness of our street became invisible. You portant, real-world implications for same-sex ic that many aspire to be—the author could find old wooden tracks. There were married couples that interact with the criminal of two highly influential books on queer tall pines, and when I heard country mu- justice system.” Specifically, he noted same- theory, race and performance studies: sic, something that my family mocked, sex spouses would now have the same rights as but I secretly loved, spouses in heterosexual marriages not to testi- I would think of the fy against their spouse in a civil or criminal tri- field, with its Queen al. Same-sex couples will be able to file bank- “I remember feeling this desire Anne’s Lace, and ruptcy jointly. Federal prisoners with same-sex soughing pines. Some- spouses will be eligible for visits from their for the world to be something times I would hear the spouses, escorted trips to attend their spouse’s Attorney General Eric Holder. fiddles and the lonely funeral. And public safety officers with same- different, this feeling that I in slide of a slide guitar, sex spouses will receive the same benefits as decision, the 20 judges participating in the fact belonged to another time.” when I was out there, their heterosexually married peers. decision ruled unanimously “there is no valid alone, and I would lis- The mainstream media reportedly the news governmental basis for DOMA.” By then, Holder ten for the birds, too, widely. HRC President Chad Griffin called it a had already advised the courts that the DOJ and squint my eyes so “landmark announcement” that “will change would not defend DOMA, and House Speaker that the sun refracted the lives of countless committed gay and les- John Boehner decided not to appeal the deci- Disidentifications: Queers of Color and through my lashes, like the start of a bian couples for the better” and has “more pro- sion. the Performance of Politics and Cruis- Mountain Dew commercial. Normally, found” effects in the long-term. “It seems like Holder is spinning it as his ing Utopia: The Them and There of Queer (especially when I was with other Black Jon Davidson, legal director for Lambda Le- agency, DoJ, coming on board with respect for Futurity, among other powerful articles people), I’d keep this movie of another gal, says the announcement is “quite signifi- our married couples and adopting a place of and edited books. He was a professor life in check, staying in the now. But cant.” celebration rule,” said Buseck. “I didn’t im- and former chair of the Department of with Rebecca that day, with the rhythm “It instructs all government attorneys to mediately see it as a big deal that DoJ was Performance Studies at The Tisch School of our steps, I let myself keep daydream- respect all marriages of same-sex couples, re- somehow officially coming on board with the of the Arts, a great teacher and admired ing, dream melding into right now, and I gardless of the laws of their state of residence general trend post-Windsor. But perhaps I am colleague. could hear that music. to argue for recognition of their marriages for not giving them enough credit.” I had the chance to meet Munoz a few We were walking along, where the all purposes,” says Davidson. In his other remarks Feb. 8, Holder told the times when he was on campus to share plants got wilder, the bushes a little But Gary Buseck, legal director of Gay & HRC fundraiser audience in New York City,that his work. I appreciated his quiet focus, more entangled, and sometimes our Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, says the “sub- he thinks the struggle for LGBT civil rights has his eye for the weird, the grotesque, the hands would hit together, just briefly, stance” of the announcement was less impres- reached “a new frontier in the fight for civil vulnerable in queer performance. In my letting them swing back again. There sive. Many of the benefits touted as part of the rights.” own writing, I have looked especially to was shade, and a deep smell of green new policy were already in place “and the other “This is no time to rest on our laurels,” said his work Disidentifications as a way of things both growing and dying, and then items are good but certainly not far-reaching.” Holder. “This is no time to back down, to give pinpointing the queer contrarity that I a breeze and the chill of my own drying While there is important “symbolism” in the up, or to give in to the unjust and unequal hungered for in the music I listened to, sweat. announcement, said Buseck, “bankruptcy was status quo. Neither tradition nor fear of change the performers I watched, even in my We entered an open space, framed a done deal several years ago; and the other can absolve us of the obligation we share to own life and my own family. In his book by the trees and briars. It looked like items are good but certainly not far-reaching.” combat discrimination in all its forms. And, de- Cruising Utopia, I found articulated the someone had tried to chop down one of In June 2011, the largest federal bankruptcy spite everything that’s been achieved, each of spirit that keeps me writing and teach- the pines, and there were other signs of court in the United States ruled in re Balas that us has much more work to do.” ing: the desire for an elsewhere that is people, too. Our chatter stopped. There, DOMA violates the equal protection guarantee ©2014 Keen News Service. All rights re- both critical and hopeful. That spirit I just to the rear of an old campfire, was of the U.S. Constitution. In a strongly worded served. hear in Michael Jackson’s performance of a pile of tattered pages, some dried out “Ben,” his love song to a rat, in the writ- and faded in the sun, some still holding ing of Audre Lorde and James Baldwin, the pooled wetness of last night’s rain. in the critical sass of my students who Rebecca ran ahead of me, and whooped ISU LGBTQA alumni Justice Conference always steps ahead of me, in the activist excitedly. spirit of the folks who recently fought “Playboys!” event Feb. 20 Feb. 21-22 in Elgin to keep the Broadway Youth Project suc- The Playboys, as it turned out, offered Illinois State University’s LGBTQA Alumni The Justice Conference—an annual event cessfully alive and visible to the youth few surprises about the future. But it Network will hold its first event, an after- that focuses on creating dialogue and action who need it most. was the walk itself, the searching, that I work mixer, 5-7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 20, at around justice-related issues like human traf- I remember feeling this desire for the think I held onto, that propelled me into Replay, 3439 N. Halsted St. ficking, slavery, poverty, HIV/AIDS and hu- world to be something different, this my own queer future. The event will feature a cash bar and free man rights—will take place Feb. 21-22. feeling that I in fact belonged to an- Thank you, Jose, for taking the space appetizers. Judson University’s Marjorie Thulin Perfor- other time. Not just another family—I of academic writing to dream on paper, The goal of the newly established group is mance Hall of the Alice and Edward Thomp- felt very much like my family was mine, to walk with us, hands not quite touch- to bring together alums not only to recon- son Center, 1151 N. State St., Elgin, will host but that I was waiting for my adult self, ing, as we continue our search. nect them to the university but also to each a simulcast event. The main event will be in and for a world to catch up with me. For other. Los Angeles. people who saw things like I did. For more information about the ISU LGBTQA The main simulcast event will pair inter- Alumni Network, visit the group’s Facebook nationally acclaimed speakers, including Dr. page at www.facebook.com/IllinoisStateLG- Bernice King and Jim Wallis, with musical Francesca Royster is a Professor of English at DePaul University, where she BTAAlumni. and other performing artists, including Josh teaches courses on Shakespeare, Popular Culture, gender, race, sexuality and Garrels, Micah Bournes and Jars of Clay. performance. Her books include Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Ec- Registration ($25) is open at www.thejusti- centric Acts in the Post-Soul Era (University of Michigan Press, 2013) and Be- ceconference.com. coming Cleopatra: The Shifting Image of an Icon (Palgrave, 2003). WINDY CITY TIMES Feb. 12, 2014 5 Report analyzes hindrance of LGBT workers of color By Melissa Wasserman sprinkled throughout the report. “We really tried to look at the big picture and Defining the American bargain as the prom- the lifecycle in many ways,” said Goldberg of ise that people who work hard are judged and the most recent report. “I think the report hits rewarded based on their contributions and on all these different pieces and it accumulates capabilities regardless of who their identity, and builds over the course of a lifetime.” appearance and origin, “A Broken Bargain for According to the report, LGBT people are LGBT Workers of Color” examines how the bar- more racially and ethnically diverse than the gain is broken for LGBT workers of color as they U.S. population as a whole and as many as one- face challenges linked to their race, ethnicity third of LGBT people are people of color. Refer- and sexual orientation. encing a 2012 Gallup poll, 33 percent of LGBT “This report was really a unique and ground- respondents identified themselves as people breaking opportunity to look at that experi- of color, compared to 27 percent of non-LGBT ence and to highlight some of the challenges respondents. In all, the findings estimated and also to come up with some really on-the- that there are 5.4 million LGBT workers in the ground solutions as to what we can do to help United States, of which 1.8 million are people LGBT workers of color and LGBT people of color of color. in this country,” said Naomi Goldberg, policy MAP authored the report with Center for specialist with Movement Advancement Proj- American Progress, Freedom to Work, Human ect (MAP) and author of “A Broken Bargain for Rights Campaign and National Black Justice LGBT Workers of Color.” Coalition. The report was developed in partner- MAP’s overall mission is to “provide indepen- ship with ColorOfChange, The Leadership Con- dent and rigorous research, insight and analysis ference Education Fund, League of United Latin that help speed full equality for LGBT people.” American Citizens, MALDEF, National Action Network, National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance, Out & Equal Workplace Advocates and Service Employees International Union. “When you look at the cover of the report, I think it’s really incredible to see this diverse group of organizations that have come to- gether and highlighted the experiences of LGBT workers of color as a key issue,” said Goldberg. “I think for me that’s what makes this report very unique. I just think when you look at the As published in the report, while Title VII 18 percent of Latino LGBT workers are out to diversity of organizations that is really power- of the Civil Rights Act prohibits employment- everyone at work. ful.” related discrimination on the basis of race and “I think our hope with the report initially Pointing out that unsafe feelings can begin ethnicity, there is no federal law that explic- was that it would really help guide the con- for youth in schools, the report lists one of itly protects LGBT workers from discrimination versation around workplace issues and just the key barriers to education for LGBT youth and harassment. This means a worker of color, bring new people to the table,” Goldberg said. of color is that schools often fail to provide a who experiences discrimination because he or “I think moving forward the hope is that this safe learning environment free from bullying, she is gay or lesbian, can be legally fired under report will be where people within the LGBT harassment and violence. According to data, federal law. movement will go to make sure that they’re in- more than 50 percent of African-American, According to the text, LGBT employees of cluding the perspective of people of color in Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander and multiracial color may face “double discrimination” if they their work and the corollary to that that people LGBT students said they experienced verbal ha- come out at work and as displayed in a bar in communities of color can use this report to rassment at school in the past year because of graph with information from Human Rights make sure they’re being inclusive of LGBT peo- their race or ethnicity. Reducing bullying and Campaign Foundation’s “Degrees of Equality: ple in their work as well.” making schools safer for all students will create A National Study Examining Workplace Climate To read “A Broken Bargain for LGBT Work- Naomi Goldberg. Photo from Goldberg better, more equal educational experiences and for LGBT Employees,” 29 percent of white LGBT ers of Color,” visit www.lgbtmap.org/work- outcomes for LGBT youth of color. workers, 25 percent of black LGBT workers and ers-of-color. “We really tried to focus on LGBT youth of color and we know LGBT youth generally are Goldberg, a Chicago resident, leads MAP’s LGBT coming out much earlier, so issues around high movement research analyses and conducts re- school and even junior high are sort of growing search in support of MAP’s public policy work. in billions and I think being sure that obtain- INTERNATIONAL “For me personally, I was just struck by the ing an education in a place that’s safe and sup- accumulation of challenges that LGBT work- portive is crucial,” said Goldberg. ers generally and LGBT workers of color face,” For most Americans, Goldberg said, insecuri- KENNEL CLUB Goldberg said. ties are increased in terms of good jobs and the MAP previously released “A Broken Bargain: lack of good jobs resulting from the economy’s DOG SHOW Discrimination, Fewer Benefits and More Taxes current state. 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IKC_WINDYCITY_PRINT_2014_2.indd 1 1/28/14 4:54 PM 6 Feb. 12, 2014 WINDY CITY TIMES Equality Illinois gala celebrates 2013, looks to future By Matt Simonette try,” adding that, “its essence is that which most unlocks people’s potential.” Equality Illinois celebrated the LGBT communi- Kirk, who is only one of a few Republicans ty’s victories of the past year at its 2014 gala, in Congress to be supportive of LGBT rights, held at the Chicago Hilton Feb. 8. said of his stroke, “It made me a much more But while organizers, honorees and cel- sympathetic person.” Above: Col. Jennifer Pritzker and Art Johnston give a toast. ebrants—about 1,400 people were in atten- Chicago Urban League President and CEO An- Right: EI Board Chair Dalila Fridi. Photos on this page by dance—spent much of the evening looking drea Zopp also accepted a Freedom Award on Kat Fitzgerald, www.mysticimagesphotography.com back on winning gay marriage for Illinois, they behalf of her organization. State Farm Insur- also outlined issues that will require work from ance was presented with the Business Leader- activists and philanthropists in the year ahead. ship Award. Among those goals were defending the Reli- Gov. Pat Quinn took to the stage to thank gious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act from SB10’s chief sponsors—state Rep. Greg Harris efforts to both repeal and weaken it, focusing and Sen. Heather Steans. He said that the day more on securing stable and reliable funding to SB10 passed the House was “a special day for treat HIV/AIDS as well as a federal ENDA bill the nation and a special day for our state,” and that protects transgender citizens, said state thanked Harris and Steans, who joined him on- Rep. Sara Feigenholtz. stage, for “leading the charge” on the bill. “Clearly our vision to educate has to contin- Mayor Rahm Emanuel spoke just after the ue,” she added, asking attendees to remember procession of politicians. “If you want to be a that many state legislators put their re-elec- city and a state that looks forward, you can’t Above, left to right: Rep. Sara Feigenholtz, Sec. of State Jesse White, Rep. Kelly Cassidy. tions at risk by voting for gay marriage. have laws on the books that are backward look- Equality Illinois co-founder Art Johnston re- ing,” he said. flected on how the predominant goals of the Feigenholtz paid tribute to state Rep. Naomi gay-rights movement had shifted over the Jakobsson, who cast one of the deciding votes years. One of the first protests he attended on SB10 after she left the bedside of her son, with his partner, Jose Pena, was an appearance who was in hospice. by anti-gay activist Anita Bryant at the Medi- “She didn’t just hope and pray that they’d nah Temple in 1977. have enough votes to pass the bill,” Feigen- The gay community in the 1970s “was de- holtz said, thanking Jakobsson for her “self- manding not to be treated as a bunch of child lessness and profound commitment to fami- molesters,” Johnston said, adding that the fo- lies.” Jakobsson was not at the gala. Left: State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez and Laura Ricketts. Right: Mayor Rahm Emanuel (center). cus then shifted in the 1980s and 1990s as the Among other elected officials and candidates AIDS epidemic ravaged the community. Finally, also in attendance were: U.S. Rep. Mike Quig- in the early 2000s, marriage became a priority. ley; U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider; Illinois Comp- “That ignited our enemies even more,” John- troller Judy Baar Topinka; Lieutenant Governor ston said. “Many of our enemies were casting candidate Paul Vallas; Secretary of State Jesse stones in every direction, using religion to White; current-state Senator and State Trea- cloak their victory but we did it.” surer candidate Mike Frerichs; current-Lieuten- Johnston was joined on stage by Col. Jenni- ant Governor and State Comptroller candidate fer Pritzker, the gala’s chairperson, and called Sheila Simon; current-state Representative and for a toast “to equal marriage and full equal- State Treasurer candidate Tom Cross; and Cook ity” that would be “so loud that Anita Bryant County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. would hear it in her orange grove in Florida.” Also there were state officeholders: Rep. Also appearing onstage with Johnston were Kelly Cassidy; Rep. Ann Williams; Rep. Ed. Sul- Left: U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (left, with Mark Cozzi and Bernard Cherkasov, EI CEO) receives the activists/philanthropists Dr. Nan Schaffer and livan, Jr.; Rep. Stephanie Kifowit; Rep. Lou Equality Illinois’ Freedom Award. Right: Gov. Pat Quinn. Karen Dixon. Lang; Rep. Scott Drury; Rep. Christian Mitchell; “Look what happens when we play well to- Rep. Rob Martwick; Rep. Mike Smiddy; Illinois gether in the sandbox,” said Dixon of the Senate President John Cullerton; Sen. Don Har- marriage victory. Schaffer and Dixon issued a mon; Sen. Dave Koehler; and state representa- $50,000 matching challenge to attendees do- tive candidate Melanie “Mel” Ferrand. nating additional money that night. And more: Chicago Ald. Tom Tunney, Ald. At the event, the work of the Illinois Unites Harry Osterman, Ald. James Cappleman, Ald. for Marriage campaign, and its coalition part- Joe Moore and Ald. Deb Mell; Springfield Ald. ners, was acknowledged, along with the March Cory Jobe; Metropolitan Water Reclamation on Springfield for Marriage Equality, as part of District (MWRD) Commissioner candidate Jo- the widespread effort needed to pass SB10 in sina Morita; MWRD Commissioner Debra Shore; Illinois. MWRD Commissioner Patrick Daley Thompson; Above: Filmmaker Lana Wachowski was winner of MWRD candidate Tim Bradford; MWRD Com- Bernard an Equality Illinois’ Freedom Award. After a missioner Maria Spyropoulos; Chicago Human Cherkasov. glowing introduction from board member Joan Rights Department Commissioner Mona Norie- Right: Rep. Ducayet, Wachowski joked that Ducayet had ga; Consul General of Israel Roey Gilad; 19th Christian forgot to mention her lesbian-themed thriller Police District Commander Elias Voulgaris; Cook Mitchell Bound. County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown; Cook Wachowski and her brother Andy, who is her County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez; Cook filmmaking partner, have been notoriously re- County Assessor and Cook County Democratic Sportswriter Christina Kahrl (right) and clusive, but Lana has recently been open about Party Chairman Joseph Berrios; Cook County her fiance Charley Sheri Wanamaker. being transgender. She said that her hairdress- Commissioner Bridget Gainer; Cook County er, responsible for her trademark red dread- Commisioner candidate Luis Arroyo, Jr; Illinois locks, told her that she needed to “come out Department of Human Rights Director Rocco for real” that evening, and tell the audience Clapps; Illinois Department of Employment that she was “just as ‘natural’ as anybody else.” Security Director Jay Rowell; and Lake County She added, “Fear is not something I let rule my Board Chairman Aaron Lawlor. life, but gratitude is.” On the judicial side, Judge John Simon; can- U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk was given Equality Illi- didate James Crowley; candidate Judy Rice; nois’ Freedom Award. Shortly before the gala Judge Alfred Swanson; Judge Kate Moreland; began he spoke with reporters about his sup- Judge Cynthia Cobbs; candidate Patricia Sheah- port for marriage equality. an; candidate Diana Rosario; candidate Kristal Kirk said that, during his time convalescing Rivers; candidate Carolyn Joan Gallegher; and following his 2012 stroke, he spent a great deal candidate William Raines. Left to right: MWRD Comm. Debra Shore, Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka, Ald. Tom Tunney. of time reflecting on “the future of the coun- WINDY CITY TIMES Feb. 12, 2014 7 PASSAGES Shea Gallery. Artists such as Christo, Andy Warhol, Donald Judd, Brice Marden, Ellsworth Gordon Locksley Kelly and Robert Rauschenberg all came for Gordon Allen Locksley—a private art deal- the opening night party of their exhibitions er and collector of contemporary art—passed at the gallery. away quietly in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Feb. In the 1970s, Locksley and his business 1 after a brief illness, according to Legacy. partner left Minneapolis immediately for com. He was 83. Rome, and never returned to live in the city. Locksley was born in Chicago on Aug. 27, He moved to Cannes, France, and Paris; he 1930, to William and Sheila Locksley. His returned to the United States in 1994 and grandparents came from Poland before World settled in Palm Springs, Calif. In 1998, Mr. War II. Locksley met Wayne Boeck and they moved Locksley fondly remembered meeting many to Fort Lauderdale, Fla. They lived in a high who came through Chicago, most notably So- rise on the beach and married when same-sex phie Tucker. He met and became friends with marriages became legal in the United States. Jimmy Epenstein, who was a famous interior He was very active with the Museum of Art designer in Chicago. Fort Lauderdale, loaning contemporary works In 1954 in Minneapolis, he met George of art for a private collector exhibition, Shea, who was an associate professor in “With You I Want to Live,” in 2010. Japanese language and literature at the Uni- Kraeer-Fairchild Funeral Home made the versity of Minnesota. They started the Red arrangements. At Locksley’s request, there Carpet Beauty Salon and Red Carpet Beauty will be no memorial service, but his ashes College, and later launched the Locksley will be scattered in Palm Springs. State reps. Kelly Cassidy and Greg Harris at the meeting. Photo by Matt Simonette have an ally in Stoli.” Owner Art Johnston told Windy City Times Facebook that he thought the community actions against co-founder at 48th Ward Committee Stoli cast light on anti-LGBT sentiment in Rus- sia. Elmhurst on March 6 “I think the ban was astonishingly successful Chris Hughes, the openly gay co-founder of looks to primaries in that it called attention to a horrible situa- Facebook, will be at Elmhurst College’s Frick By Matt Simonette mon. Candidates for Metropolitan Water Recla- tion,” Johnston said. “Stoli took the time to Center Thursday, March 6, at 7 p.m. mation District (MWRD) Commissioner included look at the problem and come up with a re- According to the college’s website, “by the Members of the 48th Ward Democratic Commit- Josina Morita (who is the first Asian-American sponse.” age of 25, Hughes had helped to create two tee met Feb 9 at St. Andrew Greek Orthodox to be slated by the Cook County Democrat Sidetrack banned Stoli in July after the pas- of history’s most successful startups: Face- Church, 5649 N. Sheridan Rd., to discuss candi- Party), Frank Avila, Timothy Bradford, Brendan sage of harsh anti-propaganda laws in Russia, book and the social media machine that made dates on the March 18 primary ballot and look Houlihan and Adam Miguest. which activists feared would lead to widespread Barack Obama president.” Hughes married Sean back at last year’s marriage equality votes. MWRD Commissioner Debra Shore, who is violence against LGBT citizens and visitors. Eldridge in 2012. Committeeman Carol Ronen led the meeting openly lesbian, also addressed the forum to Other local bars launching bans last summer The appearance is part of the school’s Roland and introduced the speakers. discuss the agency’s current work. She passed included The Call, 1547 W. Bryn Mawr Ave.; Quest Lecture Series. Visit http://public.elm- State Reps. Greg Harris and Kelly Cassidy dis- around a vial of phosphorous crystals that had Elixir Lounge, 3452 N. Halsted Ave.; Halsted’s hurst.edu/cultural_events. cussed the passage of the Religious Freedom been extracted from treated sewage, and dis- Bar and Grill, 3441 N. Halsted St.; Hydrate, and Marriage Fairness Act in 2013, and said cussed how MWRD is trying to function as a 3458 N. Halsted Ave.; Replay, 3449 N. Halsted many of its roots could be traced to political resource recovery Agency. St.; and Parlour, 6341 N. Clark St. activity in the 48th Ward, which Harris called “Instead of sending this nutrient down to a part of the city “that’s always valued equal the Gulf of Mexico, where it helps to create the rights for everyone.” Dead Zone, we’re going to turn it into some- “There is not a single LGBT accomplishment thing that has value,” Shore said. “This is go- [in Illinois] that doesn’t have roots in this ing to get mixed into commercial fertilizer, put neighborhood,” Cassidy said, adding that local on farm fields, and when it rains, it’s not going residents sent about 5,000 emails to legislators to run off and create nutrient pollution. We’re and many “came and stood out in the rain at going to create, or produce, about 10-15,000 the March on Springfield.” tons a year of phosphorous … and the com- Among others, Cassidy and Harris thanked pany that invented this process wants to pay Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, us $400 a ton. This at a time when the world who also attended the meeting, for her sup- is exhausting phosphate reserves in Florida and port. Morocco, we’ll be able to produce something “You hung in there with us when a lot of here in the Midwest that can be used in the folks were ready to throw in the towel,” Cas- Midwest.” sidy said. Shore gave her endorsement to Avila, Brad- Preckwinkle spoke mainly about the health ford and Morita: “It’s a diverse slate, a qualified care and the jail systems in Cook County. She slate, and I urge you to support them because first discussed the departure of Cook County they will work with me to help change this hospitals CEO Dr. Ram Raju, who is moving to agency. New York City’s public health system. She said Among those also speaking at the forum to that Raju “put us in the right direction” and discuss local issues were Ald. Harry Osterman “leaves a good team in place” as the health and Cook County Commissioner Bridget Gainer. system begins to engage patients covered un- der the Affordable Care Act. Preckwinkle added that many patients whose care would previ- Stoli returns ously been left uncompensated will hopefully to Sidetrack Top 40? Disco? Swing? Rock? Showtunes? What do you now be covered. By Matt Simonette want your wedding to sound like? With star vocal talent, She also discussed her concern that of over- a state of the art sound system and a DJ/Turntablist, crowding in Cook County jails, largely because Stolichnaya Vodka has returned to the shelves 90 percent of its occupants are persons await- of Boystown nightspot Sidetrack, 3349 N. Hal- The Becca Kaufman Orchestra offers an energetic, ing trial who cannot afford bail. sted St., after having been banned thereand “If you or I were arrested, we’d put the bail versatile live music experience like no other. Whether it’s other local bars since last summer. on a credit card or a family member would In a statement posted on the bar’s Facebook a solo pianist or a 20-piece orchestra, help,” Preckwinkle said, adding that too many page Feb. 6, Sidetrack’s owners said the deci- BKO will make sure your wedding sounds like you! prisoners don’t have that option, and their sion to reverse the ban came about because families are then often left unsupported. of Stoli’s recent donations to pro-LGBT causes. “It costs about $143 a day to keep some- “Stoli has pledged $150,000 as their first do- body in jail,” Preckwinkle said. “That’s about nation to the Russia Freedom Fund (the same $50,000 a year, which is about the yearly cost fund Sidetrack & gay bars across America are Visit www.beccakaufmanorchestra.com and www.BeatMixMusic.com of an Ivy League education.” supporting in tomorrow’s [Feb. 7] Uprising of A number of candidates in the March 18 Love event),” the statement said. “This, com- or call 847.892.4150 to hear the sounds of your next event. primary also spoke at the forum, among them bined with Stoli’s $300,000 donation to sup- candidate for state treasurer (and current state port the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Leadership Sen.) Mike Frerichs and candidate for state LAB program have demonstrated to us that we comptroller (and current Lt. Gov.) Sheila Si- 8 Feb. 12, 2014 WINDY CITY TIMES MUNAR from cover

“David leaves AFC, where he practically grew up, in excellent shape, and Howard Brown will benefit tremendously from his expertise and leadership,” Peller said. “It’s an exciting change for him and really outstanding for How- ard Brown, the LGBT community and, ultimate- ly, it’s a good thing nationally.” Peller’s words echo the respect accorded to Munar over the years, for his work and creden- tials. His appointment at Howard Brown comes at a crucial juncture for the organization, which has frequently been rocked by scandals in its 40-year history. Most recently, it almost closed after a series of controversies centered around finances, which eventually resulted in its losing the prestigious MACS AIDS research grant. Like every other healthcare organization, the agency is poised at the brink of an un- precedented era of changes in its field, with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Controversial on all sides, the ACA pres- ents uncharted territory and has so far been a landscape of complicated new procedures and regulations, daunting even to long-time pro- fessionals. For that reason, Munar’s appointment is es- pecially significant, given his experience with healthcare reform. Peller describes him as “a giant in the healthcare reform field; David has a really tremendous understanding of the From left: David Munar (second from left) with, from left, U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley, Wanda Sykes, Michael Feinstein and WGN entertainment changes that are happening with Medicaid, the reporter Dean Richards at the AIDS Run & Walk in 2012. Photo by Ross Forman transformation to managed care, and the na- tional trends that are taking place.” improved, but it’s about making sure that care that many of the commercial plans were not the ACA will require organizations to take on Addressing his own history with AIDS orga- is high quality and compassionate and non- covering single tablet regimen so formulated a larger number of administrative positions, nizing and policies, and his decision to move judgmental and meeting their unique needs. medication, where three drugs are formulated so that patients can be guided through the to Howard Brown, Munar spoke of the personal Having insurance will not necessarily mean into one, they were not covering them at all process. Will that be true for Howard Brown? and career matters that formed his decision. that people’s health is going to improve. We or in some cases covering them at 50 percent DM: Your question about the complexity of In one sense, his taking over of Howard Brown have ample experience with people who are co-insurance, which means that the insurance the ACA is much bigger than Howard Brown. I is a cyclical event: 20 years ago, he received mistreated in public healthcare systems be- recipient is paying 50 percent for most single think anybody who needs healthcare services his diagnosis with HIV there, when it was still cause of their sexual orientation or their gen- tablet regimens in HIV, that’s $6,000 per year, or is insured is going to have the same set of located on George Street. der or their race; they won’t come back to care of the deductible on top of a co-pay, on top of questions: What is the coverage to meet my Windy City Times interviewed Munar and Al- and their healthcare suffers. This is why the a premium. healthcare needs today and tomorrow? What’s den at the offices of PCI Inc., a communica- work of Howard Brown and our ally organiza- WCT: NYC instituted an LGBT cultural the best value? tions firm, Feb. 6. A representative from PCI tions is so important; we have to be part of competency requirement for all healthcare Duke Alden: As an agency, we have a really was present during the interview. PCI resigned the system. providers in 2011. Howard Brown has been great supportive network of case managers that from its position as HBHC’s communication WCT: At a trans health forum held in March around since 1974, but hasn’t actively pur- have already been acting as navigators for our handler during the tenure of Jamal Edwards, 2013, several healthcare organizations and sued such an active policy to improve care patients to answer questions about the ACA. but has since returned. What follows are ex- activists spoke about the implications of for LGBT people everywhere, not just at its DM: [Laughs] Funded by the AFC. cerpts from the session; video excerpts are the ACA for the trans community in particu- locations, and trans people in particular DA: Right! That exists not only to keep peo- available with the online version of this story, lar. When asked what the ACA might do to have felt discrimination and stigma at area ple adhered with their insurance but to keep and on the Windy City Times YouTube channel. for specific trans needs, such as hormone hospitals and agencies. Advertising itself them adhered to their care. We have a network The answers and questions have been edited therapy and surgery, the response from pro- as one of the places to give culturally com- for keeping the opaque ACA as clear as possible for clarity and space. fessionals seemed to be: unfortunately, not petent care actually gives Howard Brown a for our patients. Windy City Times: You’ve been with AFC a lot. What can Howard Brown do to advocate certain amount of power and actually leaves It’s really a fact of life that even with the since 1991. What made you decide to take for better trans healthcare? trans people more vulnerable, if you’re not ACA, we’re going to be seeing a portion of the this job? DM: Trying to figure out how to maximize engaged in actively training other organiza- population that won’t have healthcare, whether David Munar: I’m excited about this oppor- these tools for affordable care, for our folks, tions. What can and will Howard Brown do they be trans or whether they be experiencing tunity. My work in HIV since I joined AFC has our transgender men and women, is going to to improve care provision for LGBT people HIV or other issues. The charity care that clin- been around health and inequality. And now be so important. I don’t believe the ACA is go- across the city? ics like Howard Brown provides—we’ve become there is such a huge opportunity with the Af- ing to meet all of our needs and it’s our duty to DM: It’s my understanding that there is a even more important because every dollar that fordable Care Act (ACA), for us to expand and try to maximize those opportunities and advo- nurse whose job is to work with healthcare goes into our bottom line, whether we’re bill- improve health, by expanding access to health cate for solutions. I think you’re right: we are workers around LGBT culturally competent care. ing Blue Cross, Blue Shield, Sigma or Medicaid, insurance. That work is exciting, and will re- going to face some challenges with the ACA, I think that’s important. I think we have to goes to help support our charity patients. quire us to be deliberate in reaching popula- for good transgender health. I think we have pursue this issue in multiple ways. Training is DM: One of the biggest gaps with the ACA is tions that are medically underserved, and How- some better opportunities on the Medicaid side very important and we should continue to do that it’s not extending these benefits to the ard Brown is a critical partner in that work. Its to make sure that individuals have access to that, but I’m also personally cautious about undocumented [immigrants]. The charity care longtime experience in working with the LGBT, hormone therapy, have access to some of the an over-reliance on training. We see this a lot is going to be a lifeline for people who are un- the greater Lakeview and North Side commu- behavioral health needs like counseling, psy- with HIV. Folks come to us saying we want to documented so they can enjoy good healthcare nity is an opportunity to help the whole system chiatry as well as good internal medicine, fam- be culturally competent in HIV, and we want coverage. Community-based healthcare clinics to improve its delivery of care to our commu- ily practice, women’s health; but we are going AFC to come and talk to our case managers are going to be the frontline for them. nity and our allies. I want to leverage what I’ve to struggle, I believe, particularly in the com- about that for an hour. Well, guess what, in WCT: The Lesbian Community Care Project learned in the AIDS fight to help the 16,000 mercial marketplace side of the ACA. an hour, we can only explain the difference be- (LCCP) used to be more service-oriented and patients that we have at Howard Brown. The ACA is really going to help people whose tween HIV and AIDS. now they do more training. What will LCCP’s I also think that Howard Brown and AFC and income is 138 percent of poverty or below, if It’s gratifying that health systems want to role be in the structure of Howard Brown, many historical AIDS organizations will be they’re legal U.S. residents who have access to provide their workers a baseline of information, moving forward? under new pressures to realign their business Medicaid. Medicaid is going to be the insurance but at a certain point, we also know that people DA: We’re very aware that 25 percent of our models with the ACA. And it’s a real opportu- provider for low-income people so we’re going with HIV are going to get better care from an patient population is female, 5 percent is les- nity to ask: How do we maximize the ACA? How to have some opportunities there to meet the expert on HIV. The same is probably true with bian. The question is how do we continue to do we reach people who are vulnerable because medical needs for low-income people. People transgender health. We have to make sure that provide culturally competent resources for our of their sexual orientation and their gender above that level are going to have access to we’re working with providers who have demon- lesbian population while also expanding wom- identity, because of their income, race, ethnic- an array of commercial insurance products and strated a commitment to that population and en’s health. ity, their diagnoses, or their trauma? it’s complex. are really on the cutting edge of competent, The ACA makes economically viable our abil- WCT: As for the ACA, what is that going to WCT: But [commercial plans] are not re- state-of-the-art trans healthcare. We’ve got ity to pursue certain aspects of female services mean for an agency like Howard Brown? quired to cover certain types of healthcare to lobby, and fight on the policy front, make we weren’t able to afford, so we’re in very seri- DM: The ACA means that many of our unin- options for trans people. sure that the payer sources have the require- ous conversations about what the full breadth sured patients will receive insurance for the DM : They do have to meet some federal stan- ments are feeling the pressure to respond to and width of our women’s services will look first time. That means that their ability to af- dards, but they’re pretty broad. We’ve already the needs of our community. like. ford a comprehensive integrated care should be encountered this in HIV. For example, we found WCT: Given its complexity, it seems like WCT: Does the ACA require community WINDY CITY TIMES Feb. 12, 2014 9 health organizations to work more collab- hard to find a space where we can check all controversial for a number of years. The last people are harmed by racism and xenophobia. oratively? those boxes. two CEOs had close ties to the board, and One of my dear friends died in 1986, of HIV/ DM: Yes, but not in the way that you would The board is going to give David a lot of those relations have been criticized as un- AIDS, he was 27 or 28 years old. assume. There’s nothing in the ACA that man- maneuverable room to make sure that mission healthy for the organization. Moving for- Everyone knew him as Luis, but it was only dates collaboration. The whole healthcare sys- remains stable. Just prior to David’s hire, we ward, what will shift significantly to prevent when his sister came from Mexico for his fu- tem in the U.S. is very dynamic and chang- wrapped up a BYC Task Force group, that in- such controversial decisions? neral that we found out that his real name had ing rapidly. Now there’s going to be a lot of cluded not just BYC and Howard Brown but our DA: What has changed is that we made a never been Luis: he had to assume a different competition, and that’s good for consumers. partners like Night Ministry. We got together commitment to the community 18 months ago identity so that he could get charity care. He If we’re going to be a destination for care, and asked, “What do we do to make sure we’re that we would go through a very deliberate didn’t survive and died a very lonely, sad … we’re going to have to provide better customer sustainable?” The one thing that everyone professionally led and national process [Kittle- and had too short a life. services, better high-quality services. We can agreed to is that the mission has to be alive man and Associates conducted the search] to I also believe that social justice is enabled partner with hospitals and specialty practices to perpetuity. find a leader like we have in David. David’s by strong institutions. The LGBT community and provide a total continuum of care, through DM: Wherever BYC goes, those decisions have understanding of Chicago dynamics is impor- deserves community-based institutions. I’m the lifespan, which is good for our mission, our to be aligned with the needs of the clients. At tant because it’s a city that you really need thrilled that we’ve crossed the barrier to mar- patients, our community. the end of the day, we could find the perfect to understand really well to operate well in. riage equality, but there’s no equality without We are anticipating that there’s going to be space but if it’s not geographically accessible What changed is our approach to hiring. We did health, there’s none. If you’re sick and you’re a decline in availability of public and private or safe for our clients, it’s not going to work. everything to make sure we did it right. This out of the system, guess what, you’re not grants for healthcare services. Increasing the DA: We really thought we had found that process was structured. We are very ready, as equal. We’re not done. We mustered so much dependence or the utilization of insurance space about six months ago. And we did a a board, to step back and put the organization energy to Springfield and saw a well-deserved revenue for models of care, that are provided walk through to see what a client would face wholly in the hands of an executive like David. victory and we should celebrate, but we can’t by Howard Brown and our partners, is putting to transport themselves through that area, and DM: I had an incredible, incredible board at for a moment believe that the lives of LGBTQ pressure on every health organization, wheth- it’s just too much. So we’re still searching. AFC and through that have worked on matters people have been forever improved. Not with- er those dealing with LGBT health, or HIV, or WCT: Howard Brown has a long history of like board recruitment, engagement; it’s expe- out racial justice, ethnic justice, economic jus- other specialized resources. Last year, the state research, but in recent years its research rience that I hope to bring to Howard Brown tice and assistance for the poor. Too many of cut a program to help low-income women get profile has dwindled, especially with the to make sure that the board is utilized for our folks are in those conditions [of need], and mammograms by about 50 percent. So that loss of the MACS [Multicenter AIDS Cohort high-level strategy, and to fulfill its fiduciary they deserve for our community to be rallying sector has been scrambling to figure out, how Study] grant. What changes does Howard responsibilities like fundraising and fiscal man- for them too. That’s at my core. do we continue to get mammograms for low- Brown envision in terms of either reincor- agement. —With additional reporting by Tracy Baim income women? porating that level of research or a different WCT: But there has been a lack of transpar- This trend is beginning. In the five- or 10- sort? ency both internally and externally, along year window, we may have fewer grant oppor- DM: That’s something the institution is going with a recent series of dismissals. Were HBHC: By tunities for the kind of services that we need to have to really discuss internally. I’m inter- those attached to your entrance as CEO? Did the numbers to provide the community. We have to be more ested in knowing what the providers’ perspec- you have anything to do with them? Information Supplied by Howard Brown innovative in maximizing insurance. The sector tives might be, in terms of gaps in research and DM: Speaking from my experience still run- Demographics (July 1, 2012-June 30, 2013) is really changing. There are good things about needs for our patients. I guess I’m not exactly ning AFC: it’s just good practice to not talk sure what research opportunities we should be that. We should all feel pressure to provide about personnel issues, to maintain the bond —Number of Unduplicated Patients pursuing but I do know that the opportuni- better customer service and quality for our pa- of confidentiality. Throughout All Services: 13,173 tients. The dark side of this is that big hospital ties there will lie in us providing high-quality That said, I’m excited to meet many of the Breakdown by Patient Gender: systems may have more power in the market- competent care and improving patient reten- people I’ve not met through my vetting pro- Female: 23.4% place, and may put community-based organiza- tion. If we can reach more of the medically cess. I’m going to dedicate the first part of my Intersex: 2% tions that have historically been serving vul- underserved population, then we can augment term to meeting and learning from the great Male: 62.4% nerable populations in a vulnerable position. our services with research opportunities. All people at Howard Brown. I will be learning Transgender F-M: 5.3% What that means is that organizations serv- research starts with a good question, such as: because my skill set is in particular areas and Transgender M-F: 8.4% ing communities of color, LGBT, people with Why is it that this segment has higher rates of there are some areas I’ll be learning about. Undisclosed .3% HIV, people who are in and out of prison— smoking? Why are there high rates of heart dis- I’m not afraid of smart people. I thrive on ease in this other demographic? We’re trying to those organizations may go away. Where are people who are committed and who bring their —Patient Orientation Mix those people going to find healthcare and improve medication adherence for this group, big brains to the work. I know a lot of people Bisexual: 7.6% social service providers who are kind to them and why is that not working? on the HIV side but a lot I’ve not met yet, Gay: 48.1% and that are serving them? This is my biggest WCT: What made you take this job, given including the retail side [the Brown Elephant Heterosexual: 26% concern. We’ve got to make sure that nonprof- the difference between the rocky history of stores]. Lesbian: 5% its and organizations serving those populations Howard Brown, which has earned a lot of dis- WCT: What would you describe as your vi- Queer: 5.9% survive this transformation. Because the lives trust in the community, and your own much sion for Howard Brown in light of both the Undisclosed: 5.7% of our communities depend not just on having better reputation? What were the significant changes in healthcare and its history? Unsure: 1.7% insurance, but on having high-quality, cultur- factors that made you think the organization DM: One is to meet the highest standards of a ally competent care. can move forward? community-based healthcare clinic. Right now, —Patient Race WCT: What is going on with the Broadway DM: I was really impressed by the people. I we have a designation of a Federally Qualified American Indian/Native Amer: .4% Youth Center, and what are Howard Brown’s got to talk to some of the physician assistants, Health Center Look-Alike, so we have all the Asian: 3.1% plans for its future? our doctors, folks in different positions includ- requirements and none of the financial incen- Black/African-American: 18.8% DM: I breathed a sigh of relief when I found ing on the board, and saw the dedication and tives. [Laughs] Hispanic: 15.8% that the zoning appeal board had granted spe- commitment and the values that I share. That Not only is it important for the operation to Multi-race: 4.2% cial-use license for the location at Wellington was phenomenal. I also know so many people be a full grant-earning FQHC, but it’s a stamp White/Caucasion: 56.5% [church]. I’m relieved that we can continue that received their care at HB, and some of of approval. It’s when the federal government Plus smaller numbers of other races that work at that location. My short-term pri- them were dissatisfied with their care at How- says it’s thoroughly assessed your strategies ard Brown. But, to a person, there was an aspi- ority is to make sure that we comply with all in the community and determined that you’re —Patient Payer Mix of our zoning requirements, that we’re good ration that Howard Brown should be a stronger, meeting all those standards; that is an im- Commercial Insurance Mix: 40% neighbors and that we serve our young people more viable organization. So that’s exciting to portant, important goal of mine. It’s a part of Medicaid: 11% who rely on BYC. Long-term, I have no clue if be part of that mission. Even when there was maturing the organization and demonstrating Medicare: 12% that location is optimal for the young people. disappointment, people felt it because they that we can provide good care. Self-Pay: 2% My commitment to the population is complete. thought the organization had not lived up to Part of that mission is earning accreditation Sliding Scale: 35% We have to serve the LGBT population across its full potential. as a patient-centered medical home, which is the lifespan and we know that there is a crisis From my policy lens, there are tremendous another way of demonstrating the quality of for LGBT young people who are struggling with opportunities for Howard Brown to rise to the services that we provide. And work is already homelessness and unemployment and trauma. occasion to become a stronger destination for underway on that. LGBT caucus WCT: Our understanding is that the current good quality care. Our community needs it; I’m The organization also has to meet the highest location is not suitable, and that it’s almost concerned that if we don’t lean in to the chal- standards of non-profit operations. Rebuilding panels at MPSA run as a temporary structure. And there have lenges and support Howard Brown, we could the financial stability of the organization, so confab April 3-6 been questions about Howard Brown’s com- lose this investment of 40 years. we can make it more nimble and more respon- The Midwest Political Science Asso- mitment to the program. WCT: What did you have to do to satisfy sive to community needs, requires a business ciation (MPSA) will hold its 72nd annual DA: I don’t disagree that the Wellington lo- yourself? What convinced you that the ship plan. The financial health of the organization conference April 3-6 at the Palmer House cation is not great. We’ve consulted with real- could be righted? is an enormous goal because as we find gaps in Hilton, 17 E. Monroe St. estate experts throughout the entire North and DM: I see a lot of potential. I know that we our community we should be doing more on, There will be several LGBT-related cau- West side, and the challenge has been with real have to build and have some struggles finan- we’re going to need the ability to respond, and cus panels at the event. Among them are estate and cost. We have incredible partnership cially. I saw that the board really leaned into you can’t do that if you’re struggling to make “Testing Backlash: The Influence of Politi- with Wellington Avenue Church of Christ, but the work of the organization. As a CEO you payroll. cal Institutions on Public Attitudes Toward we have been looking actively for months to don’t want the board to be that involved in the WCT: What is it like for you on a personal Gay Rights,” “Putting the LGBT in Interna- find the kind of location that meets a litany of day to day, you want the board to govern but and political level, as an HIV-positive Lati- tional Human Rights,” “Why are the Kids criteria. It has to be close to transportation, in this case it was a necessity. In the last 18 no, gay man who has been working on HIV/ Alright?: The Origins of Young People’s it has to have a specific kind of zoning, it has months, it was a real test for the board. I think AIDS for so long, to take on this position? Liberalism on Gay Rights” and “Coming to have certain kinds of plumbing because we it was really healthy, for them to contend with DM: It’s all intertwined. At AFC, all my iden- Out For LGBT Issues: Issue Selection in need showers, it needs kitchen functionality the needs of the patients. tities can coexist without having to hide any Congressional Elections.” and gas lines, it has to have certain types of WCT: The relations between the board and part of my identity. It’s at the core of why I be- See www.mpsanet.org. allowances for medical care: it’s really, really the leadership of the organization have been lieve so passionately in social justice: so many 10 Feb. 12, 2014 WINDY CITY TIMES

Ilio and Dorfman with William Kelley (second from left) and Chen Ooi at the Dorman-Ilio wedding reception.

Ron Dorfman (left) and Ken Ilio at their January wedding reception. Photo by Hal Baim Journalist Ron Dorfman dies Longtime journalist and gay advocate Ron Dor- lapsed Catholic,” but was quickly won over. fman, who, along with his partner of 20 years The wedding took place four days after U.S. were among the first same-sex couples legally District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman is- married in Illinois, died Feb. 10. Dorfman had sued her first ruling in a class action brought heart disease, and his was among the mar- by Lambda Legal and the ACLU with pro-bono riages the courts allowed early due to medical counsel from Kirkland & Ellis and Miller Shak- reasons. man & Beem. In that ruling, Judge Coleman Dorfman and Ken Ilio were married in Decem- ordered Cook County Clerk David Orr to issue ber and held a wedding reception for family marriage licenses immediately to Dorfman and and friends Jan. 10. The wedding was featured Ilio and another couple (Elvie Jordan and Chal- in the Feb. 5 Windy City Times marriage guide, lis Gibbs) facing a life-threatening illness be- where Dorfman wrote about his own thoughts fore the scheduled June 1 start date of legal McHenry County Rep. Cassidy on the event. same-sex marriage in Illinois. Dorfman and Ilio met at the AIDS Founda- That was what Orr wanted to do in the first College to host introduces tion of Chicago’s “Not Just Song & Dance” gala place, so there were no disgruntled parties in in 1994, and ended up living the rest of their the case, and an underlying class action con- Pride conference gun-registration lives together. tinues that may strike down the June 1 date Pride, the LGBTQA club at McHenry County College (MCC), will host its first conference, measure They were seated at the same table, danced for all same-sex couples in Illinois regardless State Rep. Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago) has a few times, found each other interesting, and of health issues. Pride: The Changing Perception of the LGBTQ Community, on Saturday, April 12, at the col- introduced a bill requiring the registration of after dinner Dorfman drove Ilio to his home in Dorfman was a retired writer and editor firearms in the State of Illinois. East Lakeview. Neither had anything to write whose work has occasionally appeared in Windy lege at 8:30 a.m.-4:15 p.m. The conference will be held in conjunction with the annual “We’ve dealt for too long with gun violence with, so Dorfman said he would contact their City Times, and Ilio, after a career in basic bio- in our neighborhoods, most often perpetrat- table host on Monday to get Ilio’s phone num- medical research, is now teaching high school drag show on Friday, April 11, which starts at 7 p.m. ed by individuals who acquired the firearm ber and make a date. biology and pursuing extracurricular interests through illicit means,” Cassidy said in a press “That was a Saturday night,” Dorfman told in photography and Filipino cookery. Dorfman Pre-registration for the drag show and con- ference will be available starting in March: release. “According to a University of Chicago the 90 guests assembled at Phil Stefani’s, 437 also was co-founder of the Chicago Journalism Crime Lab Report, 45 percent of firearms used N. Rush. “Early Sunday afternoon, my phone Review, and later worked at labor and other the drag show and conference $25, confer- ence $20. On-site registration will be $25 for in crimes in our state were purchased legally rang.” Ilio, a speed reader, had only a first publications. in Illinois and then illegally transferred. Reg- name and a numberless street address to go The couple had registered as domestic part- the conference, and $35 for the drag show and conference. A continental breakfast and istration creates a safeguard against these on, but went methodically through the White ners in Cook County shortly after County Clerk transfers and significantly hinders the ability Pages until he found a Ron on Sheridan Road. Orr instituted that program in 2003, but never lunch will be provided. There will be three sessions during the day for criminals to acquire firearms.” “Fortunately,” Dorfman said, “I was in the D’s bothered to file for Illinois civil union status. HB 4715, the Firearms Registration Act, and not the W’s.” The pair have rarely been “It would have made no material or meaningful with a variety of speakers discussing LGBTQ issues. The plenary speakers will be Chicken would require registration of firearms upon apart since. difference to us,” Dorfman had said, “because purchase, and for firearms owned at the time Dorfman, 73, and Ilio, 57, were married Dec. we’ve really been ‘married’ for 20 years. But Lips, a gay couple from Denver who present motivational ideas in a humorous manner. of passage. The registration process would 13 in the chapel at Northwestern Memorial with legal marriage, I know that Ken will have include a background check, and transfer to Hospital, where Dorfman was being prepared the spousal benefits of federal law for Social They will also do two sessions during the day. Speaker will include MCC faculty and staff as an individual without complying with regis- for major heart surgery. Security, inheritance, taxes, and all the other tration would be a Class 2 felony. The ceremony was officiated by hospital rights that surviving partners have to support well as speakers from Equality Illinois, PFLAG chaplain Barbara Zeman, a priest who initially their households. 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Age 31 Neighborhood Logan Square Tami Engelman was a two-year varsity football player in high school, and even earned the team’s Rookie of the Year award in 1999. Relationship status She also was a two-year varsity track athlete, competing in the shot put and discus, and she took fourth-place in the state tournament in the shot put Single after being ranked 28th. Job title At Western Michigan University, Engelman competed in the shot put, discus, hammer and indoor weight throw—and she was a national qualifier in the Health and wellness program manager indoor weight throw as a junior. She was a nine-time medal winner and 2004 team tri-captain. “I am the oldest of four, the only girl and the only athlete among my siblings,” said Engelman, who moved to Chicago in 2010. “After high school, I went Nickname on to compete in track and field, [but] felt like my football career was unfinished. I missed [the] competition. I was coaching high school track and field Tam Tam and it just didn’t fill the void of personally competing.” Hobbies Engelman joined the Chicago Force women’s tackle football team years ago and is set for her fifth season with the red and black attack in the spring. She Traveling—in 2013, she went to sports uniform No. 91 and primarily plays offensive line, with some downs on the defensive line. Austin, Finland, San Diego (twice) “The bonds you build on a football team are like none other,” Engelman said. “It takes a special chemistry to compete as one unit and that chemistry you and Hawaii. have with your teammates and coaches truly become a second family. Overcoming obstacles “Winning a national championship [with the Rupturing her Achilles tendon during Force in 2013], in the fashion our team did, will a 2012 game. “The injury itself always be a highlight.” was not as painful as most people Engelman praised Force coach John Konecki, describe, but the surgery and recovery saying, “He had more confidence in my ability was excruciating. I also pride myself to be a dominate player than I did when I on being a very independent person first joined the team. With his tough love and and during the first month of recovery phenomenal coaching, I feel like I am finally I had to rely on a lot of people, understanding my potential on the field.” especially my girlfriend at the time. Off the field, Engelman manages a fitness Realizing that I am not superwoman center for a corporate building, which was a tough life lesson. The personal involves membership enrollment, creation growth I had during this dark time and implementation of fitness and wellness was amazing.” programs, and personal training. She has been at the facility for about five years.

Left: With Force teammate Brandy Hatcher at Spin. Right: Engelman’s pets Diablo and Rascal.

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Dancers: Ricardo Santos & Lucas Segovia I Photo by: Christopher Duggan 12 Feb. 12, 2014 WINDY CITY TIMES VIEWPOINT WINDY CITY throughout his career, elevating their status in homosexuality, Florida’s Constitution Review TIMES REV. popular cinema,” Brian Klonoski wrote in “Why Committee, in a six-to-two vote, rejected add- VOL. 29, No. 20, Feb. 12, 2014 Phillip Seymour Hoffman was an LGBT hero.” ing LGBTQ sexual orientation as a criterion for The combined forces of Windy City Times, IRENE “When I play somebody gay, I never think of protection in the state constitution. founded Sept. 1985, and Outlines newspaper, MONROE it as ‘I’m playing a gay character,’” Hoffman said In 1999, when Hoffman portrayed Freddie founded May 1987. in a 2005 interview with Out magazine. “It’s Miles in The Talented Mr. Ripley and Rusty, a PUBLISHER & EXECUTIVE EDITOR interesting to play all the different aspects of flamboyant diva drag queen in the film Flaw- Tracy Baim the character. There’s something else about the less, there still wasn’t much acceptance of or character that’s pulling me there that I identify protection for LGBTQ Americans. As a-matter of ASSISTANT PUBLISHER Terri Klinsky with. With Flawless, it’s not that he was gay—I fact, discrimination against us, if intended to MANAGING EDITOR Andrew Davis Hoffman kept found it more interesting that he thought he be on the down-low, couldn’t stay in the closet BUSINESS MANAGER Ripley Caine DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA Jean Albright was a woman. With Capote, it’s the story that because of the social stature of one particular ART DIRECTOR Kirk Williamson LGBTQ presence he had as an artist. And in Boogie Nights, he person doing it. SENIOR REPORTER Matt Simonette An October 1999 issue of the Washington Senior Account Executives Terri Klinsky, Times reported George W. Bush ensuring his Kirk Williamson, Amy Matheny, Chris Cheuvront, in movies Gretchen Blickensderfer homophobic and religiously conservative base PROMOTIONAL SUPPORT Scott Duff Phillip Seymour Hoffman was inarguably one of that if elected president he would not “know- NATIONAL SALES Rivendell Media, 212-242-6863 SENIOR WRITERS Bob Roehr, Rex Wockner, Marie the finest stage and screen actors of his gener- ingly” appoint any LGBTQ persons as ambas- sadors or department heads in his administra- J. Kuda, David Byrne, Tony Peregrin, Lisa Keen, ation. His dramatic and untimely death due to Yasmin Nair, Erica Demarest, Kate Sosin an apparent accidental heroin overdose leaves tion. THEATER EDITOR Scott C. Morgan his fans not only shocked by how he died (a And in the Texas case Littleton v. Prange that CINEMA WRITER Richard Knight, Jr. BOOKS WRITER Yasmin Nair hypodermic needle in his arm), but also leaves same year, the Fourth Court of Appeals ruled that a post-operative transgender woman re- SPORTS WRITER Ross Forman us shocked in how his death now leaves us with ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WRITERS an everlasting insatiable desire for more per- mains legally male, and that her marriage to a Mary Shen Barnidge, Steve Warren, Lawrence formances by him. biological male was invalid. Ferber, Mel Ferrand, Jerry Nunn, Jonathan Abarbanel As a consummate performer, Hoffman’s body By 2005, when Capote was all the rage, a major change had occurred in terms of some COLUMNISTS/WRITERS: Yvonne Zipter, Jorjet of work adds up to more than 50 films in an Harper, Meghan Streit, Charlsie Dewey, Carrie acting career than began in 1991 with the LGBTQ civil rights. Massachusetts had become Maxwell, Billy Masters, Sarah Toce, Dana Rudolph, little-known independently produced black- the first state to legalize same-sex marriages Sally Parsons, Melissa Wasserman, Jamie Anne Royce, Matthew C. Clark, Joe Franco, Francesca and-white film Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole. in 2003; also that year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that anti-sodomy laws were unconstitu- Royster, Nick Patricca As a character actor, Hoffman portrayed a wide SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHERS Mel Ferrand, Hal Baim, range of eccentric and motley characters, from tional. And in 2005, the American Psychiatric Emmanuel Garcia, Tim Carroll, Ed Negron, Susan his recent 2012 Broadway performance of Willy was so completely stunted I don’t even think Association voted at its annual convention to Mattes Loman—the protagonist in Arthur Miller’s he knew his attractions were of a gay nature.” support government-recognized same-sex mar- CIRCULATION Death of a Salesman, winning him a third Tony Long before Hoffman’s 2005 biopic Capote riages. In addition, American Medical Associa- CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Jean Albright won him the Oscar for best actor, he played tion (AMA) President Edward Hill, MD, to the DISTRIBUTION: Ashina, Allan, Dan, John, Renee, Award nomination for Best Actor in a Play—to Sue and Victor his beginning years in 1992 in small roles in gay characters before there wasn’t any real sig- surprise of everyone, gave a keynote address to WEB HOSTING: LoveYourWebsite.com (lead Leap of Faith and Scent of a Woman. nificant sea change in attitude and acceptance the delegates of the Gay and Lesbian Medical programmer: Martie Marro) As a thespian who never shied away from of LGBTQ people as full citizens. Association (GLMA) acknowledging past anti- challenging or controversial roles, what’s not For example, in 1997, the year Hoffman por- LGBTQ and unfair treatment of GLMA members Copyright 2014 Lambda Publications Inc./Windy City Media mentioned much or lauded in Hoffman’s rep- trayed Scotty—a gay boom operator in love and LGBTQ physicians by the AMA. Group; All rights reserved. Reprint by permission only. 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Not known to be publicly out Just the year before, 1996, President Bill In reflecting on Hoffman’s short time with us, City Times will be treated as unconditionally assigned Clinton signed into law the Defense of Mar- he may not have been a public advocate for for publication purposes and as such, subject to editing on LGBTQ rights like his straight colleagues in and comment. The opinions expressed by the columnists, the business such as Alec Baldwin, Tom Hanks riage Act (DOMA), legally defining marriage as LGBTQ rights, but I can’t help but think that cartoonists, letter writers, and commentators are their own the union between one man and one woman. his many gay-themed roles and movies indeed and do not necessarily reflect the position ofWindy City and Robin Williams, to name a few, Hoffman, in Times. 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DANCIN’ FEATS nity and the queer demographic could be besties if they want- ed to. Kyle Abraham: This trip to Chicago will be the first time Abraham is present- ‘The Radio Show, ing his work here, but it’s not his first visit to the Windy City. A tour with David Dor- hip-hop and pizza fman Dance brought By Lauren Warnecke Dance for The Radio Show and, most recently, him here once (or a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant”—a twice) before, and Growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1980s-influ- five-year, $625,000 unrestricted grant awarded while here he em- enced New York City-based choreographer Kyle to exceptional creative individuals. Although barked on a tour of Abraham’s life in more ways than one. The Radio Show comes from a deeply personal Chicago-style pizza From Pittsburgh, Abraham moved to New York place, Abraham’s work addresses themes that parlors. Of Giordano’s, to attend SUNY-Purchase for college as a dance affect and speak to us all—themes such as Pizzeria Uno and Lou major and lived in a plethora of cities before voice, identity, community and urban Ameri- Malnati’s, the best moving back to NYC for graduate school at the cana. pizza, according to prestigious Tisch School of the Arts (NYU). He At some point, according to Abraham, na- Kyle Abraham, comes is now firmly planted in Brooklyn, but never tional and urban cultures became two differ- from Lou’s. Next on denies Pittsburgh as the place from where he ent things. When and how this shift occurred is his list? A tour of comes. unclear, as is the commercialization of modern- Kyle Abraham. Photo by Steven Schreiber restaurants owned by Talking with Windy City Times, Abraham re- day hip-hop. The current form is unfamiliar to chefs who appeared called listening to soul music on his local radio him, and yet Abraham still simply said, “I am on Top Chef. This guy station, and on family road trips from Pitts- hip-hop.” As a child of the late 1970s, he feels one foot firmly planted in the hip-hop culture is a genius in more burgh to Detroit. He cited classic soul music close to the B-boy culture and doesn’t neces- from which he rose, and one foot in the Queer ways than one. as the voice of his community, and a source sarily identify with the current commodity hip- community. To him, hip-hop often exudes an Kyle Abraham and Abraham.In.Motion of communication within his family. The sud- hop has become. Why did it change? “People archetype of what a black man in America is present The Radio Show Feb. 20-23 at the den closing of the radio station coincided with realized you can make money off of it,” he “supposed” to be. Masculinity is a miscon- Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chi- his father developing Alzheimer’s disease and said. Growing up, there was no such thing as strued perception that supersedes sexual orien- cago Ave. Tickets are $28; stop by the MCA aphasia (loss of ability to speak), creating a hip-hop class. Hip-hop is often the thing that tation, and it is assumed that the stereotypical Box Office, call 312-397-4010 or visit www. multifaceted loss in his life. As his father’s drives Abraham as a contemporary dance maker Man (capital M) pervades hip-hop. mcachicago.org. A limited quantity of $10 ability to communicate deteriorated so, too, and roots his choreographic aesthetic, yet he What, then, is hip-hop supposed to be? student tickets is available. One free muse- had the voice of a community whose memory has no formal training. “Hip-hop is a social commentary. hip-hop is um admission is granted with an MCA Stage was steeped in its music. In addition to the engagement at the MCA, fun, and love, and unity and freedom,” Abra- ticket stub, valid up to seven days after the These are the two events that form the inspi- Abraham will speak on a panel titled “B-Boys, ham said. performance. ration for Abraham’s The Radio Show, which is B-Men: Moving with/in our Masculinities” as So hip-hop, according to Abraham, is an The B-Real Festival hosted by the Dance stopping at the Museum of Contemporary Art part of an international hip-hop festival The embracing community that allows anyone of Center of Columbia College Chicago takes (MCA) Feb. 20-23. The once-struggling young Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago is any race, creed, or orientation into its fold. place Feb. 17-March 1. All B-Real events are choreographer is now living a Cinderella story hosting. The line-up includes France’s Compag- Hip-hop is a source of empowerment that was free and open to the public. Call 312-869- that includes esteemed accolades such as the nie Kafig and Philadelphia’s Raphael Xavier plus something urban kids could pour their emo- 8330 for more information. Performances Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award (2012), a Princess special events, dance jams and discussion ses- tions into; it was a place to express anger and for Compagnie Käfig andR aphael Xavier are Grace Award in choreography (2010), a 2010 sions. The topic of masculinity is often associ- frustration in a healthy way. When put in this ticketed; see http://colum.edu/dance_cen- Bessie Award for Outstanding Performance in ated with hip-hop, but Abraham’s identity has light, it would seem that the hip-hop commu- ter. 14 Feb. 12, 2014 WINDY CITY TIMES THEATER REVIEW rely instead on third-person narration and one helluva’ lot of subtext, those unspoken feelings Plainsong and motives which people telegraph by body Playwright: Eric Schmiedl from language, tone, intention and, sometimes, ac- Kent Haruf’s novel tions. Actors and directors have to find ways to At: Signal Ensemble Theatre, communicate subtext to an audience to weave 1802 W. Berenice Ave. an emotional tapestry. If the subtext is not Tickets: 1-773-698-7389; fully delved, the play may seem flat and inert www.signalensemble.com; $20 or at least not deeply involving, and this is Runs through: March 8 the problem with Signal Ensemble’s Plainsong. I sense a young director, or at least a relatively BY JONATHAN ABARBANEL inexperienced one, who may not have tackled such an introspective work before. Also, Sig- Playwright Eric Schmiedl has adapted two nal’s ensemble rehearsal process may lead them best-selling sequential novels by Kent Haruf, to feel they are conveying more to the audi- Plainsong and Eventide, for the Denver Center ence than they are. Theatre Company, both set in Holt, a fictional The key figures are 17-and-pregnant Victo- Colorado small town east of the Rockies. The ria Roubideaux (Elizabeth Stenholt), reclusive stage versions were hailed by critics and audi- middle-aged bachelor ranchers Harold and Ray- ences, and I saw the world premiere of Even- mond McPherson (Vincent Lonergan, Jon Stein- tide in 2010 and was moved and impressed. hagen) who take her in, high school history I wanted to be moved and impressed seeing teacher Tom Guthrie (Joseph Stearns) and his Plainsong for the first time, in its regional deeply depressed wife, Ella (Erin Myers), who premiere at Signal Ensemble, but something is is leaving him and their two young sons. Basi- lacking in the production. Indeed, the script cally, a conventional nuclear family is melting itself seemed lacking, especially compared to down and an unconventional one—not based the power I’d felt in Eventide. on blood—is forming. Much is seen through How to explain? Holt, CO is supposed to be the eyes of Victoria and the instinctively com- a windswept one-doctor town where solitude passionate Guthrie boys, all three tormented and isolation are par for the course amidst the by the high school bully (Randy Galvan). Re- spread-out ranches and farms. The local folks, peatedly, unspoken heroism is in conflict with some from a nearby reservation, are stolid to ignorance and selfishness as the kids acquire the max, reticent by nature, not given to effu- tools for self-preservation. Crime and Punishment. Photo by Emily Schwartz sive—or even clear—expressions of feelings. If It’s a good, universal story and the Signal En- they run into emotional problems, there’s little semble production may deepen as it continues. sympathy and less recourse in a community Still, little things get in the way. The McPher- THEATER REVIEW So do the ends justify the means—even when where everyone knows everyone’s business. son brothers, for example, sound like New Eng- the ends go no further than intentions? Ed As stage adapter, Schmiedl can’t make up land farmers rather than Colorado ranchers. Crime and Porter makes a suitably squirrely Raskolnikov, dialog not found in Haruf’s novels. He must while Jack McCabe and Maureen Yasko together Punishment exhibit protean virtuosity playing the eight Playwright: adapted by Marilyn auxiliary characters needed for the flashbacks sessed with familiar domestic issues—Career Campbell and Curt Columbus from THEATER REVIEW engineering our existential hero’s downfall, or marriage? The love of a good man or the the novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky even as they point him the way to redemp- The How and pursuit of elusive fame? Rule the world or At: Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company tion for his vanity. Playgoers still chafing under rock the cradle?—sometimes smell of com- at Angel Island, 731 W. Sheridan Rd. recollections of scholarly labors devoted to this the Why mercial compromise, they also provide a Tickets: 773-871-0442; Playwright: Sarah Treem cumbersome classic will welcome Mary-Arrchie safety net for opportunities hitherto closed www.maryarrchie.com; $25 At: Timeline Theatre Company at Theatre’s articulate condensation, under the to any but single-X-chromosome British ac- Runs through: March 16 Baird Hall, 615 W. Wellington St. expert direction of Richard Cotovsky, of its tors. Tickets: 773-281-8463; source material into a suspense-filled proce- One of these is the chewy repartee Breem BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE www.timelinetheatre.com; $35-$48 dural of duration no lengthier than that of your has penned in explication of genuinely revo- Runs through: April 6 average seminar. lutionary manifestos for the dream team of If your professors instilled in you an abiding Janet Ulrich Brooks and Elizabeth Ledo to fear of Russian literature, it helps to view Mari- BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE volley with an ease rendering the arcane jar- lyn Campbell and Curt Columbus’ 100-minute gon immediately comprehensible to the most adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel as CRITICS’ PICKS There was a time, not so long ago, when slackerly quiz-dodger. Keira Fromm wisely an episode of Columbo (the TV series, for you intergenerational confrontations between keeps her direction muted, as does Collette youngsters): At the outset, we learn that an women were assumed to be based almost Pollard and Alison Siple the scenic and cos- ax-murderer has killed two people. The unem- From White Plains, Broken Nose The- exclusively in their conflicting attractions as atre at the Greenhouse, through Feb. tume design (although Rachel’s Lolita-grun- ployed tutor who applies to the police for the sexual partners or Broadway headliners. By ge garb seems excessively adolescent for a return of property from the deceased’s estate 23. Teenage bullying inflicts irreparable contrast, the divas under scrutiny in Sarah damage on both its victims and perpetra- braniac in her late 20s). In the end, how- reveals his culpability—to us—but will the in- Treem’s two-character play are hard-boiled ever, whatever femme reassurance may have vestigating officer find the evidence to convict tors—nobody argues that—but Michael eggheads with drop-dead impressive cre- Perlman’s smart play shows us how to sur- been necessary to bring Zelda and Rachel’s him, or will he confess to his crime? dentials, but their preoccupations—plus ça stories the recognition they deserve is more Inspector Porfiry’s job is no everyday third- vive it. MSB change—are still overwhelmingly rooted in The Golden Dragon, Sideshow The- than redeemed by the discoveries ushered in degree interrogation, since Rodyon Raskol- estrogenic imperatives. thereby. nikov must first be persuaded that he has, in atre at Victory Gardens Theater, through Literally, in this case—both Zelda Kahn fact, committed a crime. His plan, see, was Feb. 23. Unconventional casting choices and Rachel Hardeman are evolutionary bi- to rob the neighborhood loan shark and use highlight the Chicago premiere of Roland ologists, you see, their high-profile research the stolen money to help a young prostitute Schimmelpfennig’s multi-thread European focused on the significance of menstruation whose earnings support her mother and sisters drama set in an around a popular pan- as a factor in the progress of human repro- following the death of their dissolute father. Asian restaurant with horrible secrets that duction. This mandates much clinical discus- Spurred by a fantasy of himself as a liberator get uncovered. SCM sion of gynecological mechanics (playgoers like Napoleon, in the sweltering heat of a St. Old Jews Telling Jokes, Royal George squeamish about “lady parts” are hereby Petersburg summer, Raskolnikov’s inexperience Theater, through March 30. The jokes warned), but since our society continues to at felonious assault causes him to bungle his may date from before the tablets on the deem wholly intellectual women unaccept- mission, slaying not only his chosen target, mount, but gevalt!—what we need this able, a large portion of their conversation is but an innocent bystander unfortunate enough winter is a good laugh, and the cast of dedicated to swapping confidences regarding to interrupt him in mid-deed, after which he this comedy revue are ready to see that their own hormonal dispositions. These are flees with only a small sum to show for his ef- we get it. MSB not restricted to their own confessions, but forts. Port Authority, Writers Theatre, also encompass enough cross-fire accusa- What inspired Dostoyevsky to write his 1865 through Feb. 16. Exquisite acting, and tions, regrets, family secrets, gender-linked novel was the concept—coming at the end of commonplace speech elevated to poetry, (in fiction, anyway) physical impairments the Romantic movement, but decades before infuse this tender and introspective piece and other “a-ha” moments to satisfy audi- Nietzsche coined “übermensch” as the defini- about three Irishmen of different genera- ences looking for old-fashioned cat-fights. tive term for its persona—of the “superior” tions who bare their rueful souls about the Well, if female scientists didn’t dominate man that Raskolnikov fancies himself to be, an women who got away. JA the study of wimmin-got-sex, that would extraordinary individual whose altruistic mo- leave the job to their male counterparts tives transcend the rules that govern society’s —By Abarbanel, Barnidge (whose record in the field is less than cred- less gifted citizens. “What if the two kinds and Morgan ible, however lofty its intentions). Likewise, [get mixed up]?” asks Porfiry, and with that if plays portraying smart, liberated, ambi- Elizabeth Ledo in The How and the Why. question, our perpetrator’s resolve begins to tious, modern women as earth moms ob- Photo by Lara Goetsch crumble. WINDY CITY TIMES Feb. 12, 2014 15 SPOTLIGHT Sons of the Prophet. Photo by Michael Brosilow

Legendary composer, pianist and band leader Duke Ellington died in 1974 before he complet- THEATER REVIEW Sons of the Prophet focuses on two gay ed his jazz-opera hybrid Queenie Pie. Yet that hasn’t stopped the work from being performed in brothers from a Lebanese-American Christian reconstructed versions with other Ellington music attached. Chicago Opera Theater is the latest Sons of the family in Scranton, Pa. Joseph (Tyler Ravelson) company to present Queenie Pie in a shared production with Long Beach Opera. Queenie Pie is is a runner with Olympic aspirations, although a 1930s piece about a beauty rivalry between two women that tackles issues of prejudice and Prophet he’s forced to scramble for health insurance class divisions within the African-American community. Queenie Pie is performed four times Playwright: Stephen Karam by seeking employment with a disgraced pub- between Feb. 15 and March 2 at Millennium Park’s Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. At: American Theater lisher named Gloria (a wonderfully and annoy- Randolph. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 15, 23 and March 5, with a 3 p.m. Sunday matinee Company, 1909 W. Byron St. ingly eccentric performance by Natalie West). Feb. 23. Tickets are $45-$125; call 312-334-7777 or visit www.chicagooperatheater.org. Photo Tickets: 773-409-4125 or Younger brother Charles (Michael Weingand) is courtesy of Long Beach Opera. www.atcweb.org; $38-$43 obsessive about geography, and he was born Runs through: March 9 missing one ear, which proves fascinating to ic and tragic circumstances on his characters, sets, to the casting of minor characters so viv- anyone who hears about his many surgeries to BY SCOTT C. MORGAN that doesn’t mean that he’s averse to making idly and hilariously played by Carin Silkaitis construct a new one. Sons of the Prophet extremely funny, too. This and Marilynn Bogetich. Joseph and Charles are thrown into an unen- Stephen Karam’s 2011 drama Sons of the push and pull between the comic and tragic is Sons of the Prophet also gives actor Tyler viable public grieving process when a mascot Prophet can be labeled a “gay play” merely by just one of the many wonderful things about Ravelson a glorious chance to show his great prank by a local high school football player the fact that it contains a few gay characters. Sons of the Prophet, which keeps you laughing dramatic skills in a leading role rather than a (Tony Santiago) leads to the death of their But this award-winning play doesn’t limit itself even as it highlights a number of frightening supporting one. Ravelson gives a polished and father. They suddenly find themselves taking with the topics of coming out or relationships aspects of everyone’s inevitable death. emotionally contained performance that shows care of their religiously fanatic Uncle Bill (Will that drive so many “gay plays” of the past. American Theater Company’s Chicago pre- Joseph struggling to maintain a positive fa- Zahrn), whose health is rapidly declining. And Instead, Sons of the Prophet merely presents miere of Sons of the Prophet is a masterful çade, even as his hopes and dreams rapidly fall despite the goading of publisher Gloria and an its main gay characters as people who hap- one under the direction of artistic director PJ apart. ambitious and manipulative TV reporter named pen to be gay, facing challenges with either Paparelli (who also realized acclaimed produc- So call Sons of the Prophet a “gay play” if you Timothy (Greg Matthew Anderson), Joseph and congenital or recently onset health issues, and tions of Karam’s other works like Speech and must—but it’s really a universal one about the Charles resist the push to exploit their personal of the mortality of themselves and their loved Debate and columbinus). Every detail of the human condition. tragedies as a way to bolster their finances. ones. production is fine tuned, from the chilly and Although Karam imposes a number of dramat- depressed look of William Boles wood-paneled

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PALIO Date: 8.7.13 • Client: Gilead • Product: Complera • File Name: 9731_pgitvd_standard_updtd_ant_WindyCityTimes.indd PALIO Date: 8.7.13 • Client: Gilead • Product: Complera • File Name: 9731_pgitvd_standard_updtd_ant_WindyCityTimes.indd BS page 1 • Trim: 10.25” x 13.5” Windy City Times BS page 2 • Trim: 10.25” x 13.5” Windy City Times 20 Feb. 12, 2014 WINDY CITY TIMES WCT: As an award-winning composer, vo- calist and trumpeter, what fuels your cre- ‘Joyful’ jazz maven ativity? JT: Life fuels my creativity when I write. World events, my experiences/personal life and Jeannie Tanner talks those of my family and friends, always seem to end up as melodies or lyrics in my music. And when I sing or play trumpet and I’m improvis- ing, the spontaneity of the creative moment traveling, newest CD makes me feel like I can fly. Seriously—it may sound trite, but it’s really true. There’s no drug By Sarah Toce all about the spirit of Christmas. The lyrics are: that can do that on a consistent basis, with- “A little cheer, joy and kindness, mixed with out those nasty side effects, like premature Her musical style is a force to be reckoned with season’s greetings; spending time with family, death. Hey, not to be morbid, but in my busi- and she approximates her odds well. With a sprinkled with good tidings. Laughter is the ness, “sex, drugs and rock n’ roll” is, well, not miniscule amount of force, her melodic voice spice to add, for this recipe of love—a drink a cliché. I think because we’re all searching for cuts through the proverbial thickness sur- that will always warm your heart, it’s Christ- the next high if there’s not a healthy release, it rounding humanity as a whole and dives into mas, in a Cup.” can lead to dangerous choices. I’ve always cho- a new environment waiting to be nourished. WCT: In what ways is the music different sen music, and although I’ve gone down many Chicagoan Jeannie Tanner—who has been with on this CD than your previous ones? difficult roads chasing my dreams, I’m doing her life partner for almost seven years—has JT: Well, this CD features a new drummer, okay these days. her work cut out for her because now that fans Darren Scorza. Darlene DuFay, my good friend WCT: Are you at times more inspired to know what they can expect, they want more, and longtime drummer—who is amazing, and write, play or sing? Or is it a good mixture and more, and more … and she might just give she played drums on my last four albums— of all three for you? it to them. decided to relocate out of Chicago and focus JT: Well, because I perform three to four Windy City Times: Congratulations on your on her photography, so Darren has become my nights a week and sometimes more, I hope new CD, Joyful Season! What can your dedi- main drummer. We’ve been working together I can pull it together to be inspired for each cated fans expect from this release? for about a year now. He brings a different kind show. Some nights are better than others, but I Jeannie Tanner: Thank you so much. This new of energy to my music, which I love. always give 150 percent. I perform a lot of solo Jeannie Tanner. Photo courtesy of Tanner album is evergreen, so it will be great for next This album also features an orchestral ar- shows where I play piano and sing, and those year’s holiday season as well, and the next, and rangement by [pianist] Lisa McQueen of my are the hardest because it’s just you for four or so on. [I wrote] five original songs on Joyful original song, “You’re My Gift Forever.” Lisa even five hours. Season, along with new arrangements of tradi- wrote the film score for the movie Scrooge Bam! That’s how we roll! WCT: Your music has been selected by ma- I live for collaboration, so it’s a real gift tional holiday favorites. All of the songs have and Marley that was filmed and released here when I can perform with my band—whether been signed for television and film projects by in Chicago in 2012. And finally, this proj- jor television studios and has been Grammy- considered. Have you had the “pinch me” it’s duo, trio or with my quartet. And, when it Heavy Hitters Music in L.A. ect was literally recorded live in about four comes to writing, sometimes I’m truly inspired, Four of the five songs I wrote are songs all hours, and then mixed/mastered—with graph- moment yet? JT: I’ve been incredibly blessed to have but there are times when I’ve been given a job about the holidays, and the New Year, that ics designed—in a week. Everyone had such or I’m writing for a specific idea/theme for a don’t really mention specific holidays, so they tight schedules, so we finally found a day and had, and continue to have, so many wonder- ful opportunities. Being a full-time musician show and I just have to do it. Creative inspira- are songs of the season—about love, etc… Al- just did it. It was recorded two weeks before tion is wonderful and, thankfully, most of the though the first track, “Christmas in a Cup,” is Thanksgiving and released on Thanksgiving. is amazing, and just recently, yes, I had to “pinch myself,” when I found out that I had time there is a good mixture of being inspired been nominated for a Chicago Music Award in to write, play and sing. the category of Best Female Vocalist; the cer- WCT: When you’re having one of those emony is Feb. 23. Not to mention the VH1 show down-in-the-dumps days, what music do you CULTURE CLUB turn on to make yourself feel better? Single Ladies, produced by Queen Latifah, has been using one of my R&B tunes, “Feel With My JT: Even though I perform and write mainly Heart Again.” Jazz-Pop these days [a mixture of jazz, pop, WCT: The Jeannie Tanner Quartet sounds R&B and Latin rhythms], I still listen to a lot like a close-knit family. Can you share with of pop radio—along with NPR. If I really need us a story or two from the road? to get myself going, I like Pink, Adele, Justin JT: Well, “What happens in the band stays Timberlake, and a lot of Train’s music. I also in the band…” We are a very tight group and put on a little Maroon 5 or Jamiroquai. Some- I’ve had some really wonderful times on and times “Glory Box” by Portishead does the trick, off the stage with this talented group of musi- and I’ll probably lose my “Jazz license,” but cians. We bond on so many different levels, but hey, good music, is good music. I have several especially in dealing with the various venues French CDs that I really love when I need a and club owners—things can get kind of crazy pick me up with tunes like “Assedic” by Les out there. If you don’t trust that you have each Escrocs and anything by Paris Combo. I have other’s backs, it can be tough. We just laugh a very eclectic musical tastes, but good music, lot, and because we love performing and creat- no matter what genre, can be a great pick-me ing music together, it’s all good and it makes up. for good songwriting material. WCT: Who are some of your favorite musi- WCT: In what ways have you accomplished cians? your goals? JT: In the jazz world, I’ve always been a fan JT: I am a working, full-time musician. That of Herbie Hancock. He’s an icon—a great piano really is living the dream. I have songs that player and composer—and it was awesome have been used in television and film, and I’ve in 2008, that his CD River: The Joni Letters recorded, produced and released nine CDs in [music of Joni Mitchell] picked up the Grammy the last 15 years, that include 90 percent of award for Album of the Year. “   ! “HIGHLY my original music. Those albums are on iTunes I also really admire the innovation of bassist Hugely compelling... RECOMMENDED! and CD Baby with worldwide distribution. My and vocalist extraordinaire Esperanza Spauld- Dagger-sharp direction and thrillingly intimate” music has been played on the radio, TV, and ing. Justin Timberlake is one of my favorite pop – Chicago Tribune by Kimberly Senior.” musicians, because he is so multitalented. He – Chicago Sun-Times on videos all over the world. I’ve performed in front of thousands of people including at writes, arranges, produces, sings [and] dances, the Taste of Chicago, singing the National An- and he’s an amazing dramatic and comedic ac- tor. I also love Harry Connick Jr. and Alicia Keys HEDDA “Delectably them for the Cubs, Sox and Bulls and at various ferocious.” clubs. And, I’ve shared the stage and recorded for the same reasons as Justin. I’m also a huge fan of Sarah McLachlan. I love her lyrics. I still GABLER –Time Out Chicago with some of the world’s best musicians. Pretty cool. enjoy Peter Gabriel, and I seriously adore the BY HENRIK IBSEN harmonies of the Civil Wars. Love the talented TRANSLATED BY NICHOLAS RUDALL WCT: In what ways do you still have a long DIRECTED BY KIMBERLY SENIOR Cyndi Lauper—so gutsy with “Kinky Boots,” PICTURED: KATE FRY. PHOTO BY MICHAEL BROSILOW. way to go? JT: I would really love to compose music for and, I still enjoy what Bonnie Raitt and Dolly NOW PLAYING film scores. I wrote a score for an independent Parton bring to the party, because they’re such at 325 Tudor Court, Glencoe gifted writers, singers and musicians. Minutes from Chicago on the Edens or Metra short a few years ago that debuted at the Sun- dance Film Festival, but nothing ever happened Catch Jeannie Tanner with the Jeannie FOR TICKETS: WRITERSTHEATRE.ORG | 847-242-6000 with it after that. So, I’ve still got a long way Tanner Quartet on Friday, Feb. 14, and Sat- 2013/14 SEASON SPONSOR CORPORATE SPONSOR to go in fulfilling that dream. I also want other urday, Feb. 15, at Pete Miller’s in Evanston. well-known singers to sing my original songs. The band will play 8 p.m.-12 a.m. Visit www. I would love to tour the world performing my petemillers.com for more information. music. I was hoping to perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival this summer. So, as my mom used to say, “We’ll see.” WINDY CITY TIMES Feb. 12, 2014 21 own personal coming-out moments? CD: Don’t hesitate—create. Put your work CD: When I came out, I was living in Philly out in the world. We need it. Lesbian filmmaker at the time. I had no one to turn to in my Catch Cheryl Dunye on Thursday, Feb. 13, personal circle so I looked in the phone book 5:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m. at Gallery 400 (Lec- Cheryl Dunye courting and called the L/G hotline. They told me about ture Room, 400 S. Peoria St.) and on Friday, a weekly youth group meeting. The rest in his- Feb. 14, beginning at 7 p.m. at Center on tory ... or herstory. Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted St., with discus- Chicago on V-Day WCT: What advice might you relay to young sion following. LGBT filmmakers of color? By Sarah Toce

Cheryl Dunye has mastered the art of story- Lorde at Aragon telling in a multitude of viewpoints pertain- ing to the Queer spectrum as it pertains to the March 18 New Zealand singer Lorde—who has risen Matt Gold. African-American lifestyle within the rainbow. to fame thanks to her single “Royals”—will Dunye received her BA from Temple University perform at the Aragon Ballroom, 1106 W. and her MFA from Rutgers University’s Mason Lawrence Ave., on March 18. Gross School of the Arts, but it was the school “Royals” [Lava/Republic Records] remained of life that most impacted the Liberia native. at number one for nine weeks, topping the Self-dubbed “director, screenwriter, filmmak- charts in an additional 45 countries and er, creative consultant, and educator,” Dunye selling 7.5 million copies across the globe. is taking her talk to the streets of Chicago this Lorde—also known as Ella Maria Lani Yelich- Valentine’s Day to tell her stories of love, loss, Out singer O’Connor—is officially the youngest artist to discovery and redemption. She participated in top the chart since 1987. (She’s 17.) an email Q&A with Windy City Times. Matt Gold in Her follow-up single is “Team.” Windy City Times: The Watermelon Woman See Lorde.co.nz. Chicago Feb. 12 is historically noted as being the first Afri- Openly gay singer Matt Gold will perform can-American lesbian feature film, and you at Uncommon Ground, 1401 W. Devon Ave., wrote, directed and starred in it. What was Stolen violin on Wed., Feb. 12, at 9 p.m. the best part of that experience for you as a Gold—who hails from the Midwest—made filmmaker and visionary? found in attic a name for himself playing original composi- Cheryl Dunye: For me, the best was and con- Tips led police to a Milwaukee home where tions at college campuses and small venues tinues to be my ability to build community they recovered a nearly 300-year-old violin before releasing his first album, Drown Be- with my work: from cast to crew to audience. worth millions that was stolen from an or- fore You Swim, in 2012. WCT: There appeared to be a fair amount of chestra concertmaster, according to CNN. The album’s first single, “Ordinary,” investigative reporting on your part in The The Stradivarius violin, known as the “ex- reached #13 on the FMQB Adult Contempo- Watermelon Woman. Why was this real-life Lipinski,” was found in a suitcase in the attic rary radio-play charts. story so intriguing to you? of the home. The violin, appraised at $5 mil- Gold spent the early part of 2013 in Los CD: I am intrigued by the courage and resil- lion, was stolen Jan. 27 from Frank Almond, Angeles recording a new album with Gram- Cheryl Dunye. ience in the lives of marginalized people, in the orchestra’s concertmaster. my-winning engineer David Bianco and re- particular women of color. It was important to An anonymous source offered $100,000 for nowned drummer Kenny Aronoff producing. bring Fae’s life to light so that folks could see, WCT: Are there parts of Black lesbian life the safe return of the violin. The album will be available for review in connect and empower themselves by knowing that have not been relayed on film yet that early 2014. that their existence has value. you hope to showcase? See www.MattGold.net. WCT: In addition to The Watermelon Wom- CD: I can’t answer this question. an, you’ve helmed Stranger Inside, The Owl WCT: Why do you feel it is it taking so long and Mommy is Coming. What messages do to tell the collective stories we all live as you hope the audience will leave with when a community? Is it lack of interest, lack of they walk out of the theater after seeing funding? your films? CD: Both. But it looks like folks have turned CD: I want audiences to be intrigued, enter- their creative energies to collectively work it Chicago Shakespeare kicks off its tained and become better informed about the out on the small screen by creating web se- ”-Chicago Sun-Times world. More importantly, I want them to be- ries, YouTube [videos], and a host of other new Sondheim double bill—one of the most anticipated come change agents in their lives and the lives media storytelling programs and applications. “entertainment highlights of 2014 of others. Life is to short not to. WCT: You currently serve on the board WCT: Is there a specific Chicago-based au- of directors for the Queer Cultural Center dience “feel” when you showcase your work (QCC). Can you tell us a little bit about this in the Windy City? community resource? CD: I guess it’s a Windy City “We love and CD: The QCC continues to be a huge support support your work and come back again” that I for both emerging and established Queer art- hope to receive on my visit. ists through our skill building workshops and WCT: What are you most looking forward to community based events, which includes the with your visit to Chicago in February? National Queer Arts Festival, a month-long fes- CD: Investors and collaborators for future tival of queer arts every June. This year we are projects [will be there]. I am in development looking for work about the body. Check it out. on a new feature, launching a screenwriting It has been around since 1993 and keeps get- A MUSICAL FABLE contest, and have started a nonprofit media ting bigger and better every year. book by think tank called CLEVER. WCT: Who/what aided you most in your ARTHUR LAURENTS music by JULE STYNE lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM directed by GARY GRIFFIN

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PRODUCTION MAJOR 2013/14 SPONSORS SEASON SUPPORTERS 22 Feb. 12, 2014 WINDY CITY TIMES at the end of World War II. Clooney plays the head of the group who assembles this crew of he-man misfits—they’re the antithesis of the hypermasculine WWII GI—who share a com- KNIGHT mon love of art and a passion for recovering it. AT The team heads toward Germany as the war is closing down—still fraught with dangers—to THE try and figure out where the Nazis have taken MOVIES these precious artifacts. They are pretty much left to their own devices—sent into mortal danger without so much as a by-your-leave—a gaffe that never gets satisfactorily explained (especially in light of a few of them meeting their demise along the way for no good rea- By son). Richard The group are portrayed by actors that movie Knight Jr. audiences love—Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Bob Balaban, The Artist’s Jean Du- jardin, and Hugh Bonneville from Downton Ab- Reaching for bey. This will help keep audiences happy, but neither the script nor logic do these actors any the Moon; The favors and none are given much to do. Cate Blanchett is also on hand as a suspected Nazi sympathizer who worked at the Louvre during Monuments Men the war, knows a lot more than she is telling, and who most likely won’t be able to resist tell- When Lucy Barreto met U.S. poet Elizabeth ing all when dreamy Damon goes to work on Bishop and her Brazilian landscape architect her. lover Carlota “Lota” de Macedo Soares at a cock- Clooney tries combining the tense WWII tail party at their shared home—Soares’ estate Matt Damon (left) and George Clooney in The Monuments Men. Photo from Sony Pictures thrillers The Guns of Navarone and The Dirty Samambaia—in the lush countryside outside of Dozen, the peppy feel of The Great Escape, Rio in 1959, she never forgot the encounter. If Stalag 17, TV’s Hogan’s Heroes (echoed in Al- this power couple—portrayed by Miranda Otto But Elizabeth’s heavy drinking, emotional All of his movies—even the comedies—sag exandre Desplat’s score), and parts of Water- and Gloria Pires, respectively—were anything distance and jaundiced view of life (“The art of under the heavy weight of his good but heavy- loo Bridge and other ill-fated WWII romances in real life like the duo portrayed in Reaching losing isn’t hard to master” is a line from her handed intentions. Clooney’s latest, The Monu- in the Damon-Blanchett scenes. But none of for the Moon, it’s no wonder. most famous poem) gradually erode the walls ments Men—which unlike his other pictures, these parts equals any real kind of whole, and Decades later Barreto read Rare and Com- of the paradise Lota has worked so hard to is scaled on a large canvas—suffers from this seems beyond him as a director. In 1964 John monplace Flowers, author Carmen Oliveira’s construct. “You can’t expect someone who was same problem. In addition to overstating its Frankenheimer made The Train, a great movie Portuguese-language chronicle of their lives; raised in a desert to swim like a fish,” Elizabeth message, it also veers wildly in tone, never on the same subject that has a very simple thinking back to that memorable cocktail par- tries explaining to the frustrated Lota who finding its footing. It’s a fidgety movie that through line: Burt Lancaster is ordered to stop ty, she immediately purchased the film rights, retorts, “Oh, what a pretty turn of phrase!” because of its star wattage, great subject mat- a Nazi train containing stolen art from reach- convinced Bishop and Soares’s story would Eventually these factors as well as Lota’s ter and shoehorned-in random jaunty moments ing its destination. Period. Watching Lancaster make a great movie. Barreto had a director in distractions—a baby girl adopted with Mary; sometimes entertains but never really satisfies. do just that—and only that—remains a nail- mind—her son Bruno, renowned for Dona Flor the political unrest in Brazil; and especially The movie is based on the true story of a biting classic of pure tension and ingenuity 50 and Her Two Husbands, the Oscar-nominated the huge amount of time spent overseeing her group of art experts who tracked down ir- years later. Clooney might want to take a look Four Days in September and Bossa Nova (which design for what would become Rio’s massive replaceable art treasures stolen by the Nazis at The Train before helming his next movie. starred his then-wife, Amy Irving). Although it bayside esplanade, Flamengo Park—take their took several years to convince Bruno to come toll on the lovers. When Elizabeth returns to onboard—and to raise the money for this un- New York for a teaching post a reversal sets in ‘On the Red Carpet’ email to the appropriate committee at either abashed lesbian romance (which was funded in with Lota, the emotional titan, becoming the [email protected] or marching- large part by Brazilian culture organizations)— weaker of the pair, setting the stage for a bit- March 2 at [email protected]. the result was well worth it. tersweet conclusion. Baretto has chosen to tell the story of Eliza- Reaching for the Moon, an award-winning Park West beth and Lota, mostly set in the country gran- staple on the LGBT film festival rounds last “On the Red Carpet”—Center on Halsted’s David Hyde Pierce deur of Samambaia and in the stylish locales of year (including Reeling) has arrived on DVD annual Academy Awards viewing party—will to teach class the upper echelon of Rio society in the 1950s, from Wolfe Releasing just in time to make this take place Sunday, March 2, at 6 p.m. at the using the familiar tropes of the traditional Hol- a perfect Valentine’s Day gift for those with Park West, 322 W. Armitage Ave. in Wisconsin lywood romantic drama and ignoring the gener- a bent for tragic romances. http://www.reach- Tickets are $40 (“Paparazzi” level), $75 Ten Chimneys Foundation reports that Tony al perceptions of Bishop’s life and work—in the ingforthemoonmovie.com/ (“Spotlight”) and $125 (“Celebrity”). Ce- and Emmy Award winner David Hyde Pierce same way that filmmakers ignored the reality lebrity tickets come with premiere booth will serve as the master teacher for the 2014 of Billie Holiday’s life and turned it into a star Of related interest: It wouldn’t be Valentine’s seating, VIP champagne service, four drink Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program. turn for Diana Ross in Lady Sings the Blues. Day without at least a few film-related events tickets, tableside cocktail service and a buf- During July 13-20, 10 of the nation’s top This simplistic approach seems to have put surrounding the lover’s holiday. These include fet dinner. regional theater actors will join Pierce for an off a majority of reviewers of the movie. Per- the time-travel romantic drama A Winter’s Tale See https://community.centeronhalsted. intensive weeklong master class and immer- haps reducing the complexities of the relation- starring Colin Farrell (in theaters this weekend org/otrc. sion experience at Ten Chimneys, the estate ship, the individual personalities of the women but not screened in time for WCT deadlines) of Broadway legends Alfred Lunt and Lynn and their creative processes has irked these and a return engagement of Casablanca at the Fontanne, in Genesee Depot, Wis. film critics, or maybe they just need something Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Ave., Lakeside Pride Past master teachers include Lynn Red- edgier—who knows? I think Baretto’s movie, which is scheduled for a matinee screening searching grave, Olympia Dukakis, Joel Grey and Alan which is sensual and emotionally intense, ben- on Sunday, Feb. 15 at 2 p.m., complete with Alda. efits from this traditional approach and I don’t romantic pre-show sing-a-long music from the for band directors think audiences who love to revel in this kind Music Box organist. Lakeside Pride Music Ensembles (www. of movie will mind it, either. No matter: Even For those snuggling at home, Austenland, lakesidepride.org)—Chicago’s family of in- Ballerina postpones if you’re not a fan of Baretto’s traditional take, the romantic comedy with Kerri Russell as an strumental ensembles for the LGBT com- ‘Restless Creature’ the movie offers tremendous parts for Otto obsessed single gal who goes to an English munity—is conducting two music director Following hip surgery that took place just (from The Lord of the Rings trilogy) and Pires country manor dedicated to all things Jane searches for the Lakeside Pride Freedom one week after the Aug. 14, 2013 world pre- (a telenova star in Brazil), who both turn in Austen in search of her own Mr. Darcy, is out Marching Band and the shhh…OUT! Lakeside miere of Restless Creature, Wendy Whelan, in multilayered performances. on DVD and Blu-ray from Lionsgate. Jennifer Pride Jazz Ensemble. consultation with her doctors, has concluded When the two first meet, the skittish and Coolidge, Jane Seymour and a raft of British Christina Zurcher, the current Lakeside that her body needs more time to heal and self-deprecating Elizabeth is distinctly at actors (including some hot beefcake) add to Pride Freedom Marching Band leader, will be that she must postpone her spring 2014 odds with the stylish, larger-than-life Lota, the fun of this fizzy little comedy. completing 10 years of service as music di- (March 16-April 11) inaugural U.S. tour of an avowed sensualist with a fiery personality. rector this year. After five years as shhh… the work. Elizabeth has come from Manhattan to visit her George Clooney is a great big movie star who OUT! Lakeside Pride Jazz Ensemble music Whelan was scheduled to perform Restless college chum Mary (Tracy Middendorf), whose has tried six times to direct great little mov- director, Omar Fong-Bances decided to step Creature at the Harris Theater for Music and dalliance with Lota wanes when Elizabeth, ies. He always chooses very interesting subject down from his leadership role in January. Dance on Thursday, March 20. Rescheduled with her delicate beauty, comes on the scene. matter and though well intentioned, well-acted Potential candidates may submit their ap- dates will be announced at a later time. Once Lota catches a glimpse of the fragility and sometimes visually well-done (Good Night plications using the information published All current ticket holders for the Harris The- behind the flinty mask, she falls completely and Good Luck comes to mind), I haven’t want- on LakesidePride.org under the “About Us” ater presentation of Restless Creature will be for Elizabeth, dedicating her life—and her vast ed to see a single one of these movies a sec- section of the website. contacted by a Harris Theater Box Office rep- resources—to making her happy (starting with ond time. Clooney means well but he does not Applications should be submitted no resentative. the construction of a dream of a writing stu- seem to trust an audience to get the message later than Friday, March 7. Interested can- dio). And so, the relationship blossoms. he wants to impart unless it is spelled out in didates may direct general questions via CAPITAL LETTERS. WINDY CITY TIMES Feb. 12, 2014 23 MOVIES Director Giuraudie dishes on erotic French film thriller By Gary M. Kramer think what I was more interested in was about “how to look, and how things look,” and one Writer/director Alain Guiraudie’s film Stranger of the questions I was interested in answer- by the Lake depicts a love triangle that devel- ing was, “How do you show naked men on the ops at a cruising area as Franck (Pierre Deadon- beach? How do you film them when you are op- champs) befriends Henri (Patrick d’Assumcao), posite them?” So it was really more a question but lusts after Michel (Christophe Paou). Even of how to show things, and how people saw though Franck spies Michel drowning his boy- things than voyeurism itself. Going back to the friend, Ramiere (Francois-Renaud Labarthe), example of shooting naked men on the beach, he can’t resist coupling up with the murdering when you and just looking directly at them, if hunk. They share many explicit encounters be- they have their legs spread out, their sexual fore things turn ominous. organs are going to appear large in the image. Guiraudie’s film is atmospheric and guaran- So I thought I could move the camera slightly Stranger by the Lake. teed to get tongues (along with other body off to the side, but in the end, we decided it parts) wagging. In a recent meeting, the film- was better to do it in this very frontal way. maker spoke (with the assistance of a transla- WCT: Why was that? denly, it can seem very disturbing, very threat- AG: I think what’s very interesting is that it tor) to me about creating his seductive, erotic AG: Because that’s how it is! I did it that ening and even very oppressive. posits to very different approaches to what is thriller. way, because I’ve gone to these kinds of nude WCT: You deliberately show viewers the love and what is desire. Windy City Times: Given that the entire beaches. That’s the way it is—you look directly murder through the trees—why did you On the one hand, you have the relationship film is shot on the nude beach, in the water, at them, and that’s what you see. This is really a make it unambiguous? between Franck and Michel, and it’s something and in the woods, and that the all-male cast film where nothing is hidden. There were some AG: I wanted the viewer to know exactly the very sexual, and the desire is all consuming and is mostly naked, can you discuss what you things need to be hidden but nothing about same information that Franck knew. I wanted that’s the primary aspect of that relationship. spent on costumes and locations? the body needs to be hidden. The other thing the audience to be with him, and I didn’t want But then you have the relationship between Alain Guiraudie: [Laughs, answers in English] I was interested in doing—and I don’t know if viewers to get involved on a psychological Franck and Henri. Again, it’s a relationship The beach was free. The costumes were 1,500 it is linked to voyeurism—was addressing the level with Franck trying to determine “Should that’s more disturbing. It’s less clear what it euros—expensive! whole question of point of view and how we he tell the police, should he not tell the po- is about. It’s certainly friendship, but you can WCT: Your film is very much about voyeur- look at things. And [there’s the question of] lice?” I didn’t want it to be a psychological also say that it’s a love relationship between ism and the male gaze. The naked men on how are the ways we look at things received by film in that respect, so it was really obvious for Franck and Henri, too. the beach look at us, the viewer. There is the object that we are looking at. What I also me to let the audience know. The main thrust The way I deal with desire in the film is that a scene in which Franck spies on a murder. thought was interesting was to play with the of the plot is here’s Franck, and he’s caught I really began to like this idea of the spiral There are also the men in the woods looking idea that you can oftentimes have the same between desire and the ethical questions, the quality of desire, and it is this circular move- at other guys having sex. Can you talk about look, and one day, that look from one point of moral questions—”Should I turn this guy into ment that goes between Franck and Michel and this visual theme? view can seem very benevolent, very inviting, the police because he just killed someone?” Franck and Henri and they way they all interact WCT: Can you talk about the love triangle AG: I think the theme of voyeurism wasn’t re- and very loving, but the next day, you can be Turn to page 28 ally something that was predominant for me. I looking at the same image or view and, sud- between Henri, Franck and Michel?

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www.keithhousechicago.com /windycitymediagroup 1900 S. Prairie Avenue Phone: 312.907.7909 Chicago IL 60616-1321 [email protected] 24 Feb. 12, 2014 WINDY CITY TIMES culture, told by the media, told by all this in- full. I think that struck me so much because ternalized stigma and shame that I shouldn’t I was becoming desensitized to the violence Janet Mock gets write about these experiences. that was happening. So, being able to sit there and hold my- The first keynote I ever gave was right after self accountable to my truth was healing to Paige’s death. That was at [University of South- ‘Real’ about trans me. Now, I can talk about these issues, and I ern California]. I had a whole speech prepared, don’t have the same sense of fear about them. and I had to change it. This was the com- They’re still painful memories of course. The mencement speech for a lavender ceremony. trauma doesn’t go away, but it’s easier because It’s supposed to be celebratory, and I’m sup- identity, Piers Morgan now I don’t feel like someone’s going to come posed to give them something, and I couldn’t. out and say, “Look at this! I found out this CeCe [McDonald] was going on at that time. BY KATE SOSIN about you.” Paige’s death happened. And Brandy Martell WCT: It’s all out there now. had just died. That was my awakening. Those “I have to tell you something,” Janet Mock JM: Yeah, it’s all out there now, and I think three incidents, happening within months of says to her boyfriend, Aaron, at the start of her that people have a fuller portrait of me than each other, was too much for me. It really new memoir, Redefining Realness. the media. From this experience [with Piers sharpened my political consciousness. I think Mock is sitting on Aaron’s bed in an apart- Morgan], we see that the media will warp that trans women of color had not had voices, ment in New York City, a pillow between her things a little bit. Things become not even and the only time people had heard about us legs, avoiding his eyes. She is about reveal her about who I am. is when we are gone. For me, it was like, “I’m trans identity, but before she does the chapter WCT: I want to go back a little bit to your alive, I’m here. How can I be of most use?” My ends, and the reader is flung back into Mock’s decision to come out in Marie Claire in 2011. mission became very clear for me. childhood. It was very important for a lot of people to WCT: This brings us back to the Piers Mor- She has to tell you something. see a successful woman come out as trans. gan interviews. How do you feel after the Mock’s memoir, released Feb. 4 (Atria Books/ Did you anticipate the outpouring of sup- second interview? Simon & Schuster), is the story of a trans port from trans people? JM: I think it’s a huge commentary on what woman coming of age in the 1990s and navi- JM: You know, it’s so interesting—when allyship is. I think it’s something we’ve had gating the circumstances that require so many you’re in the middle, you don’t really know. I huge problems with, specifically in the trans trans women to meet life with an extra dose feel like I’m in a similar moment right now. All community, people who say that they think of resilience: poverty, family drug addiction, this stuff is going on around me, and I don’t re- they know things, but they don’t want to lis- childhood sexual abuse, sex work and discrimi- ally feel like I have reflections. It never hits me ten. And then when they’re criticized and cor- nation. But the story is far more complicated until some young girl or some young trans per- rected, they vilify the marginalized who are than the tragic and mundane portraits histori- son comes up to me and tells me, “This story saying, “No, this is our lives.” cally produced about trans women of color. The meant this to me.” Or, “This enabled me to tell For me, my goal was to discuss this book memoir follows Mock’s upbringing in Hawaii my story and reveal myself.” And I’m like, “Oh which was a landmark book, which then got and Oakland, Calif. as she struggles to make my God.” Or someone’s coming to me in tears, lost in a lot of discussion. I hope I held my- sense of her unchanging identity as a girl, de- and I’m like, “What?!” That’s not something I self in a way that showed people that I have spite being assigned male at birth. ing a writer would have been too soon for me. ... I think that’s another book, most likely. can take on yet. It feels very similar with the something to say. Hopefully that will lead them Redefining Realness has been hailed as an book. I can’t believe that I’ve written a book to the book. But the media warping of me as, urgently needed and revolutionary contribu- I think that my journey to writing started with reading. I think I touch on that a little that a girl can be able to access and read and I don’t know, deceiving him in some way … tion to LGBT literature, an affirmation to queer then have reflection and be like, “Oh my God, or making it into book sales. The first time I youth of color not typically reflected in books bit, how I romanticize books because my moth- er loved books, and then in that sense when this is me. This is my life.” actually have something, which is my life’s and media. And it is accessible enough to edu- WCT: You have some Chicago connections. journey and work, it’s centered around him and cate the unfamiliar. It is littered with expla- she took me to the library in the seventh grade, and I first had access to free books. I got to In your acknowledgements you thank Jen this interaction. Now, everyone wants to talk nations, definitions, facts and statistics about Richards and Angelica Ross, two Chicago about him. That is the problem. I am spending transgender lives. dream of my possible self through other writ- ers… trans activists. What is your connection to my time as a young trans women of color talk- But Redefining Realness stands on its own them, and what role did they play in your ing about a white, cis, hetero man with lots of beyond the hype of Mock’s identity or the mul- WCT: The book is accessible to all audi- ences, but for a lot of people, this is going process with the book? privilege and voice. titude of hardships therein. Mock, a former JM: We all met on Twitter. We live in dif- But my biggest teaching moment here is that staff editor for People.com, has produced a to be the first book they feel reflected in. Who did you write this book for? ferent cities, and they became my community. the community stepped out and spoke up and crafted memoir. They became my sisters. I think that when I showed their love for me. That has been over- Mock found herself at the center of contro- JM: That’s so funny. This is an argument me and my editor had ‘cause my thing was, “I’m talk about exceptionalism and all these notions whelming. versy recently following an interview on the that separate you from community, and I think WCT: In light of this and the interview book with CNN’s Piers Morgan. Morgan refer- writing this book for trans girls who didn’t have representation..” that that’s what kind of happened, especially with Katie Couric and Laverne Cox, do you enced Mock’s childhood by referring to her when I was working at People and I wasn’t re- think there is something that trans people as a “boy,” despite the fact that Mock writes So, first and foremost, my audience was young trans women. That’s who I wrote it ally open about being trans. When I opened up need to strategize on changing the conver- that she always identified as a girl. Mock and about being trans, I became connected to all sations in mainstream media? other transgender activists accused Morgan of wrote it for. I think when I was growing up, I didn’t have time to look for a definition. I these sisters around the country, who I started JM: It’s just the way our stories have been sensationalizing her story in the interview. The doing Google Hangouts with. told since 1952 with Christine Jorgensen. You dispute between Mock and Morgan blew up on didn’t have the resources to do that. I think if I would have had access to words, I would have When I went to Chicago, I remember I met can’t just change American media culture. It’s Twitter, prompting a second interview between up with Angelica and Jen for the first time. I not like Katie talks to Piers and then Barbara the two and raising questions about transgen- been more politically conscious. WCT: Did you feel responsible for repre- think that was in late 2011. They just became Walters talks to Katie. This is what we do. If der coverage in the mainstream media. my sisters because you don’t have to explain as we don’t blatantly that she was a boy and her Windy City Times caught up with the writer senting the broad trans community in this book? much, for me at least, about the experience to name was “this,” then you may not know that to talk about her story, the Chicagoans who a trans woman. I feel like there’s a sense that she is trans. The only way that we can do that supported her in writing it and the Piers Mor- JM: Yes, that is a real struggle, but I think for me it is always centering what my work you can be fuller because you’re not necessar- is by putting that consistently out there. gan interview that has everyone talking. This ily educating. They became constants in my I think this is the first time that we’ve had a interview has been edited for length and clar- is around. I center around trans women, and if you want to get more specific, it is around life. As I became more and more public, they voice and come back said that that’s not okay. I ity. became my confidants. They helped shape me. think that social media is key here, that it was Windy City Times: So, I do want to talk young trans women, poor trans women and trans women of color. So that is a very specific They were my counsel. That’s what Angelica a movement of people. I was at my book party. about the Piers Morgan interview, but I am and Jen are for me. They’re part of that circle I didn’t watch it live. I saw it on Twitter, and I more interested in talking about the book experience. That’s what I wanted this book to be at its of sisterhood. watched the reaction, and I was like, “Whoa.” first. WCT: You are connected to Chicago in an- They were talking back. That was powerful to Janet Mock: Yeah, there’s where I want to core. And so to really talk about being someone who does not have a single identity lens—like other way. You were so outspoken about say that, “No, we’re not going to take this any- be. I’m tired of centering this conversation Paige Clay, a Chicago transgender woman more. This is not a one way conversation. This around him. We’re still centering this conversa- there’s so many different facets to my story— we talk about poverty, sexual abuse, sex work, who was murdered in 2012. Why did her is a dialogue. We’re going to talk back to you.” tion around a white, cis (short for “cisgender,” story move you? WCT: What is next for you now that the a word to describe people who are not trans), drug addiction with my parents, and then the context of being a trans girl, and race and class JM: I was having the realization of intersec- book is out? hetero man. I think that they have enough tionality in my life. You see the numbers and JM: I think right now it’s centering the con- conversations centered around them. I would and all of that. What you hear with writing, is that the more specific you get, the more uni- the statistics—like trans women of color are versation around [the book] and the issues much rather center my work around what it’s most susceptible to violence and all of this that are there. I think it’s continuing to make usually centered around, which is trans women. versal it becomes. So, I didn’t feel like I need- ed to speak for every trans person out there horrific stuff. sure that it’s accessible to people. I did this WCT: I feel like I get so much of your life But when you saw this girl. I think there was story-giving campaign where I linked people story from this book, but I don’t know how because I can’t. WCT: Did you learn anything important humanity in the little details that [Windy City who could give money to people who requested you became a writer. When does that inter- Times] did publish about where she worked books because [some] people came to me and est start? about yourself in writing the book? JM: It was a validation of my identity as a and who she was. You never saw portraits like said, “I really can’t afford books…” Eighteen JM: Memoir, if it’s done well, it’s supposed to that of trans women. There were never obitu- dollars is a lot for some people. So for me, be a reflection. So for me, a lot of the experi- writer. It was more healing than I think learn- ing anything from myself. Everyone talks about aries like that. That’s part of having sensitive it’s about making sure that this gets into the ences in the book are long-time ago reflections, journalists, not just trying to be tolerant, but hands of those that I wrote it for. almost 10-15 years. So for me, I now have a it being a cathartic process. That’s what it was. I really had to sit with myself in silence and having journalists who see trans women—spe- More information is available at http:// fully holistic lens … so, for me, to reflect on cifically those whose bodies are inactive—see- janetmock.com/events. my college years, when I really discovered be- solitude and write these experiences I was told that I shouldn’t write about, told by our ing them as human beings with lives that are WINDY CITY TIMES Feb. 12, 2014 25 posted a photo of himself at the bar. directed by Michael Rohrbraugh and executive Thomas Bach, the president of the Interna- produced by Chris Svoboda. Set to the music of Spotlight isn’t just tional Olympic Committee (IOC), made a strong King Arivel, the PSA shows a rugby team tor- statement against “any form of discrimination” turing a gay couple, representing the climate and in favor of tolerance during the opening for LGBT people not just in Russia, but other on athletics at ceremony. Viewers worldwide heard the state- parts of the world, too. ment; NBC viewers in the U.S. did not, because The Russia Freedom Fund, Athlete Ally and the network edited it out, it was reported by CoPilot joined the Fair Games Project to help Winter Olympics Deadspin.com. put together the PSA—and the video was The Internet also has been abuzz, since the viewed more than 235,000 times since its start of the Games, from LGBT supporters with launch on Feb. 6. By Ross Forman a catchy parody of Pharrell Williams’ “Happy.” To view the PSA, view www.youtube.com/

Producer Tony Mono offered a gay makeover watch?v=G5Dv9uLRLJs. The lasting legacy of the 2014 Winter Olympics with “Sochi,” a tune that slaps at Russia’s anti- The gay spotlight also shined during the in Sochi, Russia, likely will much more than gay laws and the Winter Olympics. opening ceremony when the Russian pop duo who won gold, who had to settle for silver, To view, visit www.youtube.com/ t.A.T.u. performed “Not Gonna Get Us,” a song and who might have been thrilled to grab the watch?v=SYdWTulWx0o#t=29. about two schoolgirls in love. t.A.T.u. is known bronze. The efforts of athletes from around the Another noteworthy Internet sighting since for their pseudo-lesbian act, including lesbian world will be reported about, talked about, dis- the start of the Games in Sochi is the new, kissing, and more. sected, analyzed, scrutinized, and more. powerful, direct PSA written, co-produced and But the aspects of these Games that do not award medals will, likely, be the memories of these 22nd Winter Olympics. After the first few days of competition in Sochi, the hot topics College football player have been terrorism, safety, gay rights … and toilets. Still, the LGBT community had bragging Sam says he’s gay rights early in the games when Ireen Wust, an out bisexual speedskater from the Netherlands, Michael Sam, an All-American defensive of breaking down barriers for not only LGBT won a gold medal in the women’s 3,000 me- lineman from Missouri Tigers and the Associ- athletes who dream of playing professional ters event, defeating the defending champion ated Press’ SEC Defensive Player of the Year, sports, but all LGBT people, young and old, from Czech Republic. Wust, who has won three said that he is gay in interviews with ESPN’s who seek to live openly, honestly and safely Olympic gold medals in three Olympic Games “Outside the Lines” and the New York Times in their neighborhoods and communities. (2006 and 2010 also) in speedskating, came Ireen Wust. Twitter pic on Feb. 9, according to ESPN. The NFL said in a statement, “We admire out in 2009. Sam stated publicly what his teammates Michael Sam’s honesty and courage. Michael Wust is one of seven out LGBT competitors and coaches at Mizzou have known since Au- is a football player. Any player with ability the Russians can put their hatred and intol- in Sochi—all women—according to Outsports. gust: “I am an openly, proud gay man.” and determination can succeed in the NFL. erance. The Greek national team donned their com. The others are Belle Brockhoff (Austra- Sam is eligible for the NFL draft in May. As- We look forward to welcoming and support- expected blue and white—with the addition of lian snowboarder), Anatasia Bucsis (Canadian suming that he is drafted, Sam could become ing Michael Sam in 2014.” colorful rainbow gloves, showing their solidar- speed skater), Daniela Iraschko-Stolz (Austrian the first openly gay player in the history of Chicago Metropolitan Sports Association ity with their gay and lesbian fellow athletes. ski jumper), Barbara Jezersek (Slovenian cross the NFL. (CMSA) head Brian Kupersmit said, “As for- The rainbow, representing diversity in colors, crountry skier), Cheryl Maas (Dutch snowboard- mer commissioner of flag football and cur- is the official symbol of the gay and lesbian er), and Sanna van Kerhof (Dutch short track rent president of CMSA, this is the biggest movement.” speedskater). step forward for LGBT athletes I’ve ever seen. But a clarification came quickly. The Greek- Maas had a bold, colorful message, no doubt The impact of his coming out will not only worn gloves were, instead, a representation of aimed at Russia’s anti-gay propaganda laws. start a discussion, but will result in the nfl the Olympic colors, including black, which is After her second run in the slopestyle event, having to accept its first opening gay player. not part of the gay pride rainbow. The colorful she showed her gloved hand—covered in rain- The country will be watching how the NFL gloves are for sale in Russia. bows and unicorns. handles this as will all athletes—gay and Minutes after Greek entered the stadium in Meanwhile, Brockhoff, 21, told the Austra- straight.” Sochi, the U.S. contingent arrived, dressed in lian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that she is Sam joins a growing list of notable ath- white pants and loud blue jackets, featuring concerned about hate crimes targeting Russia’s letes who have come out recently, including stars, stripes, the Olympic rings, a bold USA, LGBT communities. Jason Collins, Robbie Rogers, Brittney Gri- and more. Online comments, including a slew “I’ve seen many documentaries about Rus- ner, Orlando Cruz, Megan Rapinoe, Lori Lind- from the fashion-conscious LGBT community, sia and some of the violence towards the LGBT sey and Tom Daley, HRC noted. immediately bashed maker Ralph Lauren, stat- community and it’s sickening and it’s sad,” she —Andrew Davis and Ross Forman ing the patriotic outfits were among the worst said told ABC. “It’s Putin’s country and he can of all nations. do what he likes with the country, but what I’m Also during the opening ceremony, the worried about is the safety of the LGBT com- Gay bowling tourney spectacle featured an embarrassing hiccup munity. when one of five snowflakes failed to open, as “Obviously, there’s a lot of violence, tortur- March 7-9 in planned, into the Olympic rings, forcing orga- ing—torturing to death almost—and I’m hop- nizers to jettison a fireworks display and dis- Chicago ing to see change after these Games.” The 2014 Second City Open Chicago rupting one of the most symbolic moments in Austria’s Iraschko-Stolz told the Associated (SCOTCH) Bowling Tournament will take the opening ceremony. State-run broadcaster Press that protests against Russia’s law ban- place March 7-9 in Chicago. Rossiya 1 substituted a shot from a rehearsal ning homosexual propaganda aren’t worth it Registration and bowling will take place at with the rings unfolding successfully into its because “no one cares.” Waveland Bowl, 3700 N. Western Ave. There live broadcast. Iraschko-Stolz, who married partner Isabel Michael Sam. will be doubles and team events. The glitch turned into a promotional tool for Stolz last year, said, “I don’t think it’s a good There will be other events, such as the Principle 6, the campaign launched last month idea to make protests here, no one cares. I opening-night party at The North End, 3733 in support of the sixth principle of the Olympic know Russia will go and make the right steps Raised in the small town of Hitchcock, N. Halsted St., on March 7 at 9-11 p.m.; and Charter that says any form of discrimination in the future and we should give them time.” Texas, Sam said he grew up uncertain about the banquet/awards presentation at Spin “is incompatible with belonging to the Olympic The opening ceremony, on Feb. 7, seemed what his sexual orientation was. Sam added Nightclub, 800 W. Belmont Ave., on March 9, Movement.” to be led by a rainbow tribute to gay rights. that he told his Missouri teammates last 6:30-8 p.m. Principle 6 posted a photo of the rings, in- Greece was the first country to march into the August, before the start of the team’s 12-2 The entry fee is $99, plus a nominal pro- cluding a rainbow-colored fifth ring, with the Games during the annual parade of nations season. cessing fee. There will also be a senior hand- tag line, “Fifth ring finally comes out!” because it was the birthplace of the Olympic In a statement, Human Rights Campaign icap division with an entry fee of $10. (If The Principle 6 campaign has been ever- Games. The Greek delegation wore sky blue (HRC) President Chad Griffin said, “Trailblaz- entries are mailed—to SCOTCH Bowling Tour- present in Sochi, promoting its cause, which pants and jackets, and gloves with five differ- ers like Michael are tearing down barriers to nament, 2328 W. Farwell Ave., #3W, Chicago, states: Any form of discrimination with regard ent colored fingers. So speculation ran wildly, equality almost daily, and I sincerely believe Ill., 60645—they must be postmarked by to a country or a person on grounds of race, and quickly, that it was that team’s silent sup- that the young person who will go on to be- Feb. 28.) The host hotel is the Best Western religion, politics, gender or otherwise is incom- port for gay rights. come the first openly LGBT president of the Plus Hawthorne Terrace, 3434 N. Broadway. patible with belonging to the Olympic Move- In fact, Gregory Pappas, on Mykonos.com, United States watches today’s news some- SCOTCH is backed by the non-profit Chica- ment. wrote: “Kudos to the Greek Winter Olym- where in this country and is inspired.” go Metropolitan Sports Association (CMSA), Hudson Taylor, the staunch, straight LGBT pic team for showing their Russian hosts the “Michael Sam has made a historic and so donations are also tax write-offs. ally, was in Sochi, promoting the Principle 6 proverbial middle finger with a bright, color- courageous decision to live his authentic The tournament organizers are also looking campaign. While at the Games, Taylor visited ful response to the Russian bigotry towards truth for the world to see,” said Sharon for sponsors. Levels include silver ($125), Mayank, one of the only LGBT-friendly bars in gays and lesbians. The team that enters the Lettman-Hicks, executive director and CEO gold ($250) and platinum ($500). the area of Sochi, he wrote on Facebook. “It stadium first—out of respect for its country’s of the National Black Justice Coalition, in See http://scotch.chicagomsa.org or email was amazing to meet the community personally role in creating the Olympics—showed where a statement. “Sam continues the tradition [email protected]. affected by these anti-gay laws.” Taylor also 26 Feb. 12, 2014 WINDY CITY TIMES theDISH WEEKLY DINING GUIDE IN Tanta BY ANDREW DAVIS

For those looking for something tasty and dif- ferent, the Peruvian restaurant Tanta (118 W. Grand Ave.; www.TantaChicago.com) offers both. The restaurant boasts an impressive back- ground. It comes from the mind of esteemed chef Gaston Acurio, who is responsible for more than 30 eateries around the globe. Tanta has a bright, slick atmosphere with a cuisine that truly reflects what Peru is about— down to its influences from other countries, including Japan and Spain. The dinner menu is divided into several sec- tions, including tiraditos (raw fish, similar to sushi), cebiches, anticuchos (Peruvian skew- Left to right: Pobre niguri nikei, jalea, and los picarones at Tanta. Photos by Andrew Davis ers), causitas (potatoes and aji) and niguris nikei. These are smaller bites—but just be- with whipped Peruvian potatoes. sive—and a half chicken ($23) will last you a of Peru. I tried el choclo loco, a tasty concoc- cause they’re smaller doesn’t mean the restau- Larger dishes are also in abundance. A menu couple days. tion that packs a wallop. rant skimps on the flavor. section entitled “Peruvian Family Traditions” Desserts sinfully top off the meal. I favored The only possible drawback to Tanta is that My friend and I tried the cebiche tasting (a includes such items as arroz criollo (Peruvian “los picarones,” warm pumpkin and sweet- it’s in River North, which many will see re- “flight” of clasico, mixto and nikei—the latter rice with seafood mixto); “From the Coast” potato fritters accompanied with spiced chan- flected in the price and aforementioned slick- a combination of ahi tuna, avocado, cucumber has items such as jalea and pescado frito; and caca syrup. However, my friend was all over ness. The food is amazing, the venue is fes- and tamarind), and they were all impressive. “From the Earth” has quinoa solterito (quinoa “la tapioca de coco,” with combines pineapple tive, and the staff (including hostess Maitte, We also dived into the niguris nikei, selecting salad, lima-bean hummus, rocoto, yogurt) and compote, pineapple sorbet, vanilla crunch host Almond, server Favio and manager Tomy) the pobre option (skirt steak, quail egg, chal- pastel de choclo (corn cake, mushrooms and and coconut foam. (Other selections that look is attractive and friendly; however, price-wise, aca and ponzu); it turned out to be my favorite choclo saute). The jalea ($24) is a knockout, equally tasty include pie de limon and el queso this might be a venue for special occasions, part of the meal, which says a lot. However, a sizeable combination of Peruvian-style fried helado.) as cocktails run $12 each and main dishes run the clasica causito wasn’t far behind—a savory seafood, yucca, avocado chalaca and cebiche Don’t forget the savory drinks, by the way— up to $32. However, I highly recommend this mix of crab, avocado, egg and huancaina along sauce. The pollo a la brasa is similarly impres- especially the pisco sour, which is a specialty place—and do plan on returning.

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administration, plus individual successes in LAKE from page 23 WCT seeks music, legal, professional and academic ca- nominations for 30 reers and much more. with each other—the circular motion—which Individuals, organizations, co-workers, etc. really became evident during the editing pro- Under 30 Awards can nominate a person by emailing Andrew@ cess. CHICAGO—Windy City Times is seeking to WindyCityMediaGroup.com or faxed to An- WCT: How did you work with your actors? recognize 30 more outstanding LGBT indi- drew Davis’ attention to 773-871-7609. Self- AG: I think a large part of the work was actu- viduals (and allies) for its annual 30 Under nominations are welcome. ally done during the casting process. Because 30 Awards. The nomination should be 100 words or what was important there was to find two ac- Nominees should be 30 years or under as of fewer, and should state what achievements tors that would work together well as a couple. June 30, 2014, and should have made some or contributions the nominee has made. When they actually did come together, a lot of substantial contributions to the LGBT com- Nominators should include their own names that work had been done in advance by casting munity, whether in the fields of entertain- and contact information as well as the con- them. I think we would then take the script ment, politics, health, activism, academics, tact information and the age of the nominee. and discuss it, and discuss the scenes; with sports or other areas. Note: Following the policy instituted in the sex scenes, there was much more intense The deadline to nominate individuals is Fri- 2005, individuals can only win once. Those discussion. day, April 18. have won the award since that year are ineli- WCT: What can you say about filming the Windy City Times Managing Editor Andrew gible for this year’s awards. sex scenes, which are pretty explicit? Davis coordinates the awards program for the Windy City Times, AIDS Foundation of Chi- AG: We had a lot of discussions, and did a lot paper. Hundreds of people have been hon- cago, Center on Halsted and Chicago House of rehearsing. It was really exploring where I Alain Guiraudie. ored by the paper in the more than 10 years are sponsoring the event. could take them, and how far they were willing since the awards were established. Most Honorees will be notified in May and recog- to go in the scene. What I wanted to do was in the “choreography” as it were, that because we honorees have gone on to great success in nized at a free ceremony Thursday, June 26, the characters that the actors were portraying, did so much preliminary work, when the time their careers and educations, including work- at the Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted St. I wanted them to invest something of them- actually came to shoot it, it went very, very ing for the Obama presidential campaign and selves. I didn’t want to stuff them into a pre- easily. designed mold of what these characters were ©2013 Gary M. Kramer going to be. And through the rehearsal process stranger by the Lake opens at the Music and with talking to them, about the sex scenes Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Ave., on Feb. in particular, we worked on the positions, and 21. WINDY CITY TIMES Feb. 12, 2014 29 BILLY MASTERS

“Right now—what me and my wife like to call nally, in a sense, hitting bottom.” When Jenny it—I’m very fappy. I am very fat and very hap- McCarthy again tried to get Vargas to say what py.”—Channing Tatum tells Ellen DeGeneres finally clicked for her, Walters interjected, “It all about his enormous weight gain during his was public at that point.” Elizabeth started to downtime. How he constantly goes from being explain, “No it wasn’t,” but Babs wasn’t having gigantic to ripped within an inch of his life is it. As if categorically putting the subject to indeed an unsolved mystery. The most simple rest, Walters firmly stated, “But it was. We all answer is that he’s only 33. knew.” Well, I guess she knew! Of course, after Whilst continuing with my endless convales- the fact, Walters apologized for appearing to cence in Boston, one day I noted the absence pounce on poor Vargas like a post-menopausal of any mail. Although the day in question was puma. And I’m sure she, too, is welcome back snowy, it wasn’t unbearable. I called the lo- any time. cal post office and discovered that they were As if the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman open—however, couriers had a “snow day.” All wasn’t tragic enough, the National Enquirer I could think of was, “Neither snow nor rain nor has upped the stakes by reporting that the heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers friend who discovered his body was also his from the swift completion of their appointed male lover! Writer David Bar Katz has now filed rounds.” Whatever happened to that? Yet an- a $50-million lawsuit against the Enquirer, other indication that we’re raising a generation claiming that the “exclusive interview” he al- (or two) of wussies who shriek at the first fall- legedly gave the publication was a complete ing flake. The mailman throughout my child- fabrication. The tabloid quotes Katz as admit- hood walked his route daily without complaint. ting that the two were lovers, that he had seen Hoffman use heroin in the past, and that he witnessed the actor freebasing cocaine hours before his death. Katz has no recollection of ever meeting the writers credited with the interview and says he “unquestionably has not spoken to them or anyone else from the Enquirer’since Hoffman’s death.” Stay tuned. In an interview that most definitely did take place, Elijah Blue Allman has gone public about his contentious relationship with his famous mom, Cher. Although he describes the usual issues we all have with our mothers, things reached a boiling point when he announced his engagement to Angie King. Apparently, Cher’s reaction was silence. Given her non-reaction, Elijah decided to elope. “I wasn’t going to wait for anyone’s approval and congratulations just like I’ve never waited for any of that my whole life.” He is quick to add that he has heard from other members of his family, including Cher’s mom, Georgia Holt. Elijah claims to have been Dan Savage’s Orchid show Channing Tatum describes himself as iced out of Cher’s life, including not getting “fappy,” according to Billy. invited to her traditional Christmas celebra- porn fest in in Glencoe tion. He tweeted, “Me and my fiancee we’re not Chicago Feb. 15 Feb. 15-March 16 invited to the Malibu house for Christmas.” It Gay activist Dan Savage—known as the The Orchid Show will take place at the Chi- It’s entirely possible he eventually dropped should be noted that since the couple married writer of internationally syndicated relation- cago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake Cook Rd., dead on his appointed rounds, but that’s show- Dec. 1, 2013, she was no longer his fiancee at ship/sex advice column Savage Love and as Glencoe, from Saturday, Feb. 15, through biz. Instead of sharing this bon mot with the Christmas—she was his wife. You know I’m a the co-creator of the It Gets Better Project— Sunday, March 16. person on the phone, I simply headed down to stickler for details. is taking the HUMP! Festival (which features Among other things, there will be classes, the post office to drop off some outgoing mail. Cheyenne Jackson announced some happy amateur porn) on the road. hula dances (Feb. 15-16), a weekend market- Imagine my surprise when I returned home to news this week: He’s engaged. His current fi- The festival started in 2005; this year, the place and a rare-book exhibition. find a package waiting on my doorstep—from ance is sometime actor Jason Landau—alleg- 18 shorts consist of Savage’s personal favor- See www.ChicagoBotanic.org. UPS! Apparently a little snow ain’t stopping edly the recipient of that jerk-off video that ites, mixed with some of the most popular them. can be found on BillyMasters.com. Many have audience picks from throughout the years. Rosie O’Donnell didn’t need snow, rain or noted that this engagement comes six months The HUMP! Tour begins Saturday, Feb. 15, James Franco at dark of night to avoid going on The View. She after his divorce from hubby Monte Lapka (who in Chicago at the Music Box Theater with had more than a few other reasons. But a plea Cheyenne had been with for 13 years). But, as Savage hosting. For an overview of each NU School of from the producers of The Fosters (an ABC they say, the heart wants what the heart wants. film and the full list of tour dates, check out Family show on which she is a regular guest Could it be that the boytoy of a certain su- Law Feb. 19 www.humptour.com. The Poetry Foundation and the Chicago star) and a bit of finessing from her publicist perstar is more interested in boys with toys of Humanities Festival will present “James Cindi Berger got O’D to drop by the gabfest their own? So say people close to the mover Franco and Frank Bidart: Off the Shelf” at for the first time since her abrupt departure and shaker who tell me that his jaunts to un- Bowie tribute to Thorne Auditorium, Northwestern University seven years ago. Although everyone was on derground gay sex clubs are surfacing faster School of Law, 375 E. Chicago Ave., on Wed., her best behavior, things did get tense when than Punxsutawney Phil—who saw his shadow, benefit Crib Feb. 19, at 8 p.m. the subject turned to the molestation allega- and not a ghost. You don’t have to be a rocket Stardust The David Bowie Tribute Band will Poetry Foundation president Robert Polito tions against Woody Allen. Barbara Walters scientist to figure this one out. In fact, I’m perform Friday, Feb. 14, at 8 p.m. at the Un- will moderate a discussion on film and po- had already come out Team Woody, and Ro was told that the little woman with big assets was derground Lounge, 954 W. Newport Ave. etry with Bidart and Franco. The program will clearly Team Mia. Rosie diplomatically added, the first to know—and doesn’t seem to care. Now in its 16th year of production, Star- focus on Franco’s short film Herbert White, “I could have said something even worse, but When groundhogs are gossip-worthy, it’s dust features vocalist, Lair Scott, as Ziggy which is based on Bidart’s poem of the same I was editing. It’s my first time back; I’m afraid time to end yet another column. And what 2000 and includes Tooth_Eye, Alex James title. I’ll be exiled.” Walters was quick to quip, “You holiday comes after Groundhog Day? Why, and Ross Markers. Appearing along with Tickets are $10–$15; visit www.chica- will never be exiled from this show”—a varia- Billy Masters’ Birthday, naturally. And like the Stardust will be Queer Fest America comix gohumanities.org or call 312-494-9509. tion on her typical, “You’re welcome back any groundhog, Billy is going to attempt to avoid Darren Marshall and Kate Cullen as well as See www.poetryfoundation.org/programs/ time” speech. the cold weather by retreating south—to the Matt Duhaime from the band Moxie Motive, event/3087. And yet, that wasn’t the most awkward mo- Billy Masters Beach House in Fort Lauderdale. Psycho Sister, Spizzarri, Tutu and the Pirates ment on The View last week. The real drama was But even with the sun, the surf, the sand, and and a solo performance by Tooth_Eye. Feb. 6, when Elizabeth Vargas was on to discuss the sex, I’ll still be updating www.BillyMasters. Queer Fest America is sponsoring the her issues with alcohol. When asked when she com—take that, US Postal Service! If you want 21-and-over event. The cover charge is $5; realized she had a problem, she said it was on to send me a birthday greeting (or perhaps ask proceeds will benefit The Crib, a homeless a day when she was unable to work on 20/20. a question), drop a note to Billy@BillyMasters. youth shelter. At that point, Barbara Walters awoke from her com and I promise to get back to you before slumber and blurted out, “Well, we knew. You my mailman delivers a big package. So, until know, I’m very fond of Elizabeth and very proud next time, remember, one man’s filth is another of her. We knew. But that’s not the same as fi- man’s bible. 30 Feb. 12, 2014 WINDY CITY TIMES ing on my feet, and we can go about getting at Fallon Fox set for first each [on our feet].” Fox knows the importance of this fight—to Fallon avenge the loss in her last fight. Fox. MMA fight in Chicago “I’ve had losses in jiu-jitsu and submission fighting over the years. But, that [October] By Ross Forman looks like more of a striker. loss in MMA hit me hard, especially with ev- “She’s got some decent skills in that area and erything that was surrounding me,” Fox said. Fallon Fox is getting back into the cage—and she’s got a lot of wind. She looks tough, and “I needed to take a break for a few months she’s fighting in Chicago for the first time in that is encouraging because I want this to be and get my head screwed back on correctly. her pro career. a good fight from a game opponent,” Fox said. Now I’m back, and more determined than ever. Fox, the first openly transgender fighter in “I don’t believe I’ve ever met her in person. I learned a lot from my loss, both in technique mixed martial-arts (MMA) history, is on the But, her acceptance of this fight is encourag- and mentally. This fight will be an opportunity card of XFO 50, set for Friday, March 21, at the ing. It goes to show that there are other female to come back and get back on track.” UIC Pavilion (525 S. Racine Ave.). The event fighters out there who understand that I’m not This is Fox’s first XFO fight. is billed as the “Biggest Night in XFO History” some uber strong out of physical range mon- “They have a history of putting on really and the action starts at 6 p.m. ster. Other female fighters realize they have a exiting matches with incredible fighters,” Fox “I am so incredibly excited [to get] back very real chance of defeating me.” said. “As mentioned, it is their 10th anniver- in the cage, especially since this will be XFO After all, Fox lost her last fight—against is 1-0 after defeating Breea Gilbert by submis- sary show. It’s been a long time coming. But, MMA’s 10th-anniversary show,” Fox said. Ashlee Evans-Smith on Oct. 12, in Coral Gables, sion 3:23 into the first-round of their late Au- finally I have been selected to fight for them “There’s going to be lots of great fights on this Fla. gust fight. … it’s a dream come true.” card, including many of my teammates from “I’m so eager to respectfully touch gloves Fox’s record is 3-1. Fox’s Twitter is @FallonFox and her offi- the Chicagoland area fighting also, or cheering with her and give the crowd a show,” Fox said. Fox said her strategy is to take Bassett to the cial Facebook fan page is “Fallon Fox.” For me on.” Fox certainly will have the home-field advan- ground, “and put her in my world.” But, if that ticket information, go to www.xfomma.com. Fox is fighting Heather Bassett, who Fox said tage. Bassett hails from Fond Du Lac, Wis., and doesn’t happen, “I’m totally comfortable stay-

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