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The Issue of Kenny’S Gender/Sexuality Delicately May/June 2009 olour lives Madison’s LGBT&XYZ Magazine THE MISSUE usic National Women’s Music Festival How Madison became home to a national treasure PianoFondue For most of my adut life MY CAREER HAS TOO OFTEN BEEN Dueling Pianos’ Chris Lange on mixing his passion and career AFFECTED BY MY SEXUAL ORIENTATION +Marriage in Iowa and mostly without my Tamara Packard on what our realization TRETor understanding FURE neighboring state did right — OURLIVESMADISON.COM >> Forums, User Directory, Event Calendar, Guides and Group Listings Mark Gladue 239-5593 Jane Schmidt 217-1427 Brandon Grosse realty group 577-9860 “Forward Realty Group was invaluable in assisting selling my home. The sale of my home of over 30 years was emotional, but made much easier by the professionalism of the Forward Realty Group.” —Client Testimonial lake, luxury & first time specialists www.forwardrealtygroup.com [email protected] our lives Featured olNov./Dec. ‘08 THE Botox® Cosmetic Dermal Fillers Restylane® • Perlane® • Juvederm™ • Radiesse® Laser RACHEL skin resurfacing • discoloration removal • hair removal Acne Treatments LipoDissolve™ Medical Grade Chemical Peels MADDOW Microdermabrasion SHOWweekdays 5pm Just off Fish Hatchery Road 2 miles south of the Beltline 2 MAY / JUNE 2009 MAY / JUNE 2009 3 contents our lives Features MAY / JUNE 2009 ol Madison’s LGBT&XYZ Magazine Patrick Farabaugh Publisher / Editor-in-Chief Nikki Baumblatt Senior Consulting Editor Virginia Harrison Deputy Editor Jessica Horn Photo Editor Daña Alder 18 Look What Love 23 National Women’s 26 From Serene to Surreal Copy Editor Has Given Me Music Festival Emily Mills uncovers the Contributing Writers scope of musicans from Tara Ayres In her own words, Tret Fure Jane Weldon chronicles how Amber Ault tells how she built a career for Madison became the home to our community on the Max Camp Madison music scene Tret Fure herself in folk music this 35-year mission Emily Mills Kathleen Nichols Jimmy Owen 14 Tamara Packard Departments Bonnie Raimy Dick Wagner Jane Welton 6 Editor’s Letter Why Madison? Jaime Zimmerman Contributing Photographers 7 Contributors The faces behind our pages Roberto Amezcua Francesca DiMarco Community Paul Baker Prindle Advertising Consultants 9 Our People Meet the owners of Plan B Nikki Baumblatt 10 Our Stages StageQ’s Queer Shorts 4 and Four Seasons Theater’s Andy Abrams Jimmy Owen National Advertising Sales 11 Our Pages The Sweet In-Between and The King of the Screwups Rivendell Media Inc. Cris Derrick 12 Our Athletes What Gay Hockey means to Max Camp Administrative Assistant Matt Jelinek 14 Our Entrepreneurs PianoFondue’s Chris Lange Business Manager 16 Our Calendar GSAFE Celebration of Leadership, PrideFest and more… Distribution Jazzi Gaafe Susie Gaafe Quality of Life Marcus Ortelee 28 Our Issues Jimmy Owen tells the truth about telling lies Mary Sykes Cory Moll 30 Our Rights Tamara Packard on Iowa’s historic marriage equality ruling Webmaster 32 Our Health Amber Ault keeps up the pace with with FrontRunners ©2009 All Rights Reserved. May/June 2009 Volume 2, Issue 6 23 Our Apparel Bonnie Raimy starts thinking about shorts Life in the Middle Publishing, LLC Patrick Farabaugh & Joseph Patane, 34 Our Money Jaime Zimmerman’s practical tips for reducing debt Publishers. 215 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd., 36 Our Plates Kathleen Nichols samples the Middle East at the Dardanelles Box 1202, Madison, WI 53703 Any reproduction of OL: Our Lives Magazine in 38 Our Beginnings Adam Nelson celebrates a personal milestone part or in full without the written permission of the publisher is strictly prohibited. OL: Our Lives Magazine shall not be held responsible for any claims made by our advertisers. Submission of Our History photographs or other images to OL: Our Lives Magazine may be published without providing 22 Before Christopher St. image credit. Appearance of any person, business Richard Wagner looks back at the early or organization within photographs, advertise- Cover Photo by work of the New Harvest Foundation. ments, or editorial content neither implies nor infers any indication of their sexual orientation. Jessica Horn Share your story ideas with us. Consider contributing to Our Lives. Tell us your interests at: OURLIVESMADISON.COM 4 Made on a Mac MAY / JUNE 2009 MAY / JUNE 2009 5 editor contributors To contact all OURLIVESMADISON.COM users, visit their profiles at: Madison: A Safe Space www.ourlivesmadison.com/user/username Editor’s note: This was originally written for and published in Spectrum Magazine, a project of the Madison Area Diversity Roundtable, and produced by Madison Magazine. There was a time when Paul Baker Prindle’s main artistic As I travel through life, when I look at my parents I can see reflections of inspirations were the JC Penny catalog and his Grandma’s them in myself. I can see how an odd smile I sometimes make is something collection of evening wear. Since then, his tastes have broadened I take from my father, how my mother’s willingness to sacrifice has become and his work has grown to include photography, installation, 608.257.0945 one of the most honest ways I’ve grown to understand love. We all have role printmaking and sculpture. His current project, photographing hbslawfirm.com models that help shape our own identities and how we see the world. We adopt gay meeting places, has taken this life designs from the people who show us a path, and until the need presents Brooklyn-based artist across the itself, we follow that path often unknowingly right in our role models’ footsteps. globe from Will Rogers Park in L.A. Effectively Representing the For anyone, change can be terrifying. When we come to a fork in our path and to Hampstead Heath in London. Community for Over 25 Years! a decision needs to be made, logic would tell us to safely look at a map to lower the risk of the Baker Prindle’s work is included in unknown before we choose which direction to continue. But what if there isn’t a map to look at? Spectacular Spectacular, a one-night- A business is an individual, or This is what happens when I fall in love. I know it is love because of the emotion I feel—it defies only group exhibition May 1st group of individuals, focused on logic. It is a combination of emotion, intense interpersonal and sexual attraction that makes me at 1414 S. Park St. in Madison. our lives OUR PEOPLE deeply attach my feelings to another man. It is finding the courage to listen to my emotions—despite His work can be viewed at ourlivesmadison.com providing a product or service ol user paulbakerprindle having little cultural history to guide me—and journey on an unmarked path that makes me gay. paulbakerprindle.com. to others in exchange for fair If you have ever tried to imagine what a queer person’s life is like, consider this: Imagine an compensation. Businesses emotion so strong that accepting it will marginalize you. Think about the weight of the potential Emily Mills is a freelance writer, musician and occasional show have a life span, just like the loss involved in identifying as the only minority who cannot assume that their family’s love is organizer who has been living in Madison since ‘00. She currently unconditional. And now, consider what force would still move someone to walk this path. It is sings and plays drums in two local bands (Little Red Wolf, The individuals who run them. easy to see why the LGBT community holds personal truth as a paramount value. When you Shabelles), is the co-organizer of the micro- Hurley, Burish & Staton, S.C. prepare yourself for the potential to lose everything for the chance to live out who you are, the cinema group Wis-Kino, and writes for quest for authenticity is uncompromising and raised to new standards. offers both business clients and dane101.com, Isthmus, 77 Square, and anyone else who will have her. She keeps active individual clients a full range of Self-acceptance for anyone requires understanding how you fit through road and mountain biking and has advice and assistance through into your environment, what you contribute to your community. high hopes of mixing her love of those sports the growth and change that with her love of writing and travel. She also organized and produced last summer’s “Hot everyone experiences. Necessity is the mother of invention. Life rarely creates a solution before a problem requires one. Mess” drag and burlesque show at the Majestic Without a map to follow, a queer person often has to attempt a multitude of directions to discover and is looking forward to working which is the most natural. Self-acceptance for anyone requires understanding how you fit into your Pam Mache, DVM our lives MUSIC FEATURE with the Asana Softball World environment, what you contribute to your community. The interpersonal distance gay people travel ourlivesmadison.com Tom Bach, DVM Practice Areas Series on the next installment of that shapes us into cultural pioneers who are able to open doors and revitalize communities. Think of an ol user Emily production, coming this September! Kristi Crass, DVM • Domestic Partnership Agreements economically depressed neighborhood like the near-east side of Madison once was. It is the gays, • Estate Planning the lesbians, the bohemians and the artists who are the first to recognize potential, move in and Jane Weldon bring it back to life. LGBT people have often been able to find solutions to issues ahead of other is the producer of the National Women’s Music Festival. • Business + Personal Services communities because for us the need is often greater. We have a need to create safe spaces that Although her career is in the business of health care, she has always 3518 Monroe Street • Mediation celebrate diversity and support open minds—our culture is still being written.
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