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Moose gets Taking the pledges high on Billie at ONYX club night Rae Martin’s at Touché. ‘Opiates.’ page 16 page 10 Find Nightspots on www.WindyCityQueercast.com 4 Oct. 5, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES back” on DADT repeal. ONLINE AT Without being specific, the president gave high praise for the Human Rights Campaign WINDYCITYMEDIAGROUP.COM Obama keynote president Joe Solmonese, who will leave his po- NATIONAL NEWS sition in March. “What he has accomplished at the helm of this speaker at HRC’s organization has been remarkable,” said Presi- dent Obama. Solmonese delivered what will almost cer- national dinner tainly be his last speech before a national LGBT audience. Both he and President Obama termed the movement’s responsibility now as “stand- —Matthew Shepard ing by” the administration in its fight to repair Fdn. in online contest the economy by helping pass his American Jobs Act, and only a subtle hint at the help with re- —Pelosi (left), others election. push to protect LGBT President Obama said he would “continue to binational couples fight alongside you—and I don’t just mean in your role, by the way, as advocates for equality.” —Moab, Utah holds “You’re also moms and dads who care about first-ever gay- the schools your children go to. You’re also stu- pride festival dents figuring out how to pay for college. You’re also folks who are worried about the economy and whether or not your partner or husband of whom could end up being the President of the or wife will be able to find a job. And you’re United States—being silent when an American Americans who want this country to succeed soldier is booed.” That was a reference to an and prosper, and who are tired of the gridlock incident during the nationally televised debate and the vicious partisanship, and are sick of the on Fox News Sept. 22, when several audience Washington games. Those are your fights, too, members loudly booed after an active duty sol- HRC.” dier in Iraq identified himself as gay and—via a Without naming them as his potential Repub- YouTube video—asked whether the candidates lican rivals in the 2012 presidential race, Obama would defend the repeal of DADT. chastised “a stage full of political leaders—one “We don’t believe in that,” said Obama. “We don’t believe in standing silent when that happens. We don’t believe in them being silent Remarks by the since. You want to be commander-in-chief? You President Obama at the HRC dinner. Picture by Judy G. Rolfe Photography president at the can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States, even HRC dinner when it’s not politically convenient.” By Lisa Keen THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much. It ©2011 by Keen News Service. All rights re- He identified six things in all that his adminis- Keen News Service is great to be back. (Applause.) I see a lot served. tration has accomplished for the LGBT commu- of friends in the house. I appreciate the nity—repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT); Before going out to dinner with the First Lady chance to join you tonight. I also took a passing expanded hate-crimes legislation; insti- to celebrate their 19th wedding anniversary, trip out to California last week, where I tuting a policy requiring hospitals receiving fed- President Obama dropped by the Human Rights held some productive bilateral talks with HRC searching for eral support allow visitation by same-sex part- Campaign’s annual national dinner to vow that your leader, Lady Gaga. (Laughter.) She ners; lifting the ban on travel by people with new president he will “keep up the fight” to repeal the Defense was wearing 16-inch heels. (Laughter.) She The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) an- HIV to this country; adopting the “first compre- of Marriage Act (DOMA), to pass the Employment was eight feet tall. (Laughter.) It was a nounced the beginning of the search hensive national strategy to fight HIV;” and “no Non-Discrimination Act and to stop bullying little intimidating. process that will culminate in the ap- longer defending DOMA in the courts.” against LGBT youth. Now, I don’t want to give a long speech. pointment of a new president for the or- “I believe the law runs counter to the Consti- The 17-minute appearance on Oct. 1 in Wash- Cyndi Lauper is in the house. I can’t com- ganization early next year, according to a tution, and it’s time for it to end once and for ington, D.C., was greeted by the standing- pete with that. (Applause.) But I wanted to press release. all,” said the president. “It should join ‘Don’t room-only crowd of about 3,000 with frequent come here tonight, first of all, to person- HRC’s board of directors has retained ex- Ask, Don’t Tell” in the history books.” applause and standing ovations—none bigger ally thank Joe for his outstanding years of ecutive-recruitment firm Russell Reynolds He promised to do more things, with the than when he reminded the audience that his leadership at HRC. (Applause.) What he has Associates to assist in the search. The new community’s help, including to support a bill administration helped repeal the federal law accomplished at the helm of this organiza- president will be called upon to champion in Congress to repeal DOMA as well as “an in- banning openly gay people from the military. tion has been remarkable, and I want to federal and state legislative efforts aimed clusive employment non-discrimination bill” to Another 1,500 appeared to be viewing HRC’s live thank all of you for the support that you’ve at full equality; to continue to build the help young people who are being bullied, and to webstream of the speech. shown this organization and for your com- hallmark programs of the HRC Foundation ensure that Congress does not “turn the clock mitment to a simple idea: Every single such as Welcoming Schools, the Corporate American—gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual, Equality Index and the Healthcare Equal- transgender—every single American de- ity Index; and to serve as a voice that serves to be treated equally in the eyes of inspires LGBT people and our allies across the law and in the eyes of our society. It’s the country. a pretty simple proposition. (Applause.) With the assistance of stakeholders, the Now, I don’t have to tell you that we have board will develop a job profile that high- a ways to go in that struggle. I don’t have lights the various skill sets required of a to tell you how many are still denied their new president. The final job profile will be basic rights—Americans who are still made posted publicly at http://www.hrc.org. to feel like second-class citizens, who have “The entire HRC board understands the to live a lie to keep their jobs, or who are importance of this search to our commu- afraid to walk the street, or down the hall nity, to our continued progress as a move- at school. Many of you have devoted your ment and to our organization,” said HRC lives to the cause of equality. So you know board Co-Chair Rebecca Tillet. “That’s why what we have to do; we’ve got more work we will run a process that is inclusive and ahead of us. respects the importance of diversity in the But we can also be proud of the progress candidate pool,” added HRC Foundation we’ve made these past two and a half years. Co-Chair Andy Linsky. Think about it. (Applause.) Two years ago, It is the board’s intent to have a can- I stood at this podium, in this room, be- didate identified by the time the current fore many of you, and I made a pledge. I president’s contract expires at the end said I would never counsel patience; that of March 2012. Consistent with the best it wasn’t right to tell you to be patient any practices of executive searches, important more than it was right for others to tell safeguards will be put in place to protect African Americans to be patient in the fight the confidentiality of prospective candi- for equal rights a half century ago. dates. Read the full remarks at http://www. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and actress Sarah Jessica Parker at the HRC national windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/ dinner. Photo by B. Proud news/ARTICLE.php?AID=34035. WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 5, 2011 5

decision by the Ninth Circuit denies more than Census Bureau Court refrains from 14,000 discharged gay and lesbian service- ruling on DADT members an important means of obtaining jus- releases new figures The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in tice for the wrong perpetuated against them San Francisco refused Sept. 29 to rule on the under the ban, and leaves open the possibility constitutionality of the military’s “Don’t Ask, of future violations of servicemembers’ rights.” on same-sex couples Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy that has been re- Servicemembers Legal Defense Network Ex- BY ERICA DEMAREST fering civil unions. pealed, according to the Sacramento Bee. ecutive Director Aubrey Sarvis said, “This deci- Currently, 52 percent of all of Illinois’ same- The court ruled that the issue was a moot sion from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals The U.S. Census Bureau released Sept. 27 new sex households are male (12,068), while 48 per- point since lesbian, gay and bisexual U.S. resi- was not unexpected, but we do regret that statistics on same-sex couple households in the cent identify as female (10,981). dents can now enlist and serve in the military. the court did not uphold Judge Phillips’ ruling United States. Revised estimates suggest there State-by-state comparisons are available at “We cannot say with virtual certainty that that ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ was unconstitution- are about 646,000 same-sex couple homes, a www.census.gov, but city-level and countywide the Congress that passed the Repeal Act—or al. Notwithstanding today’s decision, the Log drop from the 900,000 originally reported ear- data is not open to the public. a future Congress whose composition, agenda, Cabin case, like the Cook case before it, played lier this year. “The information, once we get below the state and circumstances we cannot know—will re- a major role in persuading policy makers to “We started reviewing the data… and it be- level, could be very, very problematic in terms enact don’t ask, don’t tell,” the judges said. repeal DADT.” came apparent that these numbers did not look of [confidentiality],” O’Connell said. “There may The gay-rights organization Log Cabin Re- Jon Davidson, legal director at Lambda consistent with the American Community Sur- be some small cities where if the number was publicans filed the lawsuit seven years ago to Legal, said in a separate statement, “We are vey,” said Martin O’Connell, chief of the U.S. published, one could readily identify that gay challenge DADT. deeply disappointed that the Ninth Circuit Census Bureau’s Fertility and Family Statistics couple with the child. The last thing we’d want Log Cabin issued a statement expressing chose to erase the factual findings and le- Branch. “It took about two months to figure out to do when publishing census data is possibly its disappointment with the court’s decision. gal conclusions reached after years of litiga- what exactly was the problem, and we found [it] pinpoint or identify a person.” Executive Director R. Clarke Cooper said, “The tion and a lengthy trial that thousands upon was the form.” For more information, including comprehen- ruling in Log Cabin Republicans v. United States thousands of lesbian, gay and bisexual service Two forms were used to collect 2010 census sive statics, reports and maps, http://visit www. is the reason why Congress finally acted to end members’ constitutional rights were violated data. The first, a one-page document delivered census.gov. this failed and unconstitutional policy. This for 18 years by Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” by mail, was straightforward with questions Designer Stone kitchen and bath outlet KITCHENS VANITIES FAUCETS TILE PRODUCTS

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James Buchanan: “I am now solitary and alone, having no com- “The volunteer guides who we train to share panion in the house with me,” Buchanan wrote. the history of James Buchanan’s life and times “I have gone a wooing to several gentlemen, are directed to take a neutral stance regarding America’s first but have not succeeded with any one of them. I [his] sexual preference,” Clarke said. feel that it is not good for man to be alone; and But Clarke said he wouldn’t object if a volun- should not be astonished to find myself mar- teer offered a personal opinion that Buchanan gay president? ried to some old maid who can nurse me when I was gay, if asked by a visitor. am sick provide good dinners for me when I am “When you have 50 minutes to take people By Timothy Cwiek well, and not expect from me any very ardent or through a nine-room house, there’s only so Exclusively for Windy City times romantic affection.” much you can discuss,” Clarke said. “But if the National Gay History Project Loewen said their relationship—though inter- question is raised, the guide may express a per- rupted due to foreign-service obligations—end- sonal opinion.” More than 150 years before America elected its ed only with King’s death in 1853. Loewen said many historians rate Buchanan as first Black president, Barack Obama, it most like- In the late 1990s, Loewen visited Wheatland, one of the worst U.S. presidents. Buchanan was ly had its first gay president, James Buchanan the mansion in Lancaster, Pa., where Buchanan part of the pro-slavery wing of the Democratic (1791-1868). spent his later years. Party, and corruption plagued his administra- Buchanan, a Democrat from Lancaster County, Loewen said he asked a staffer at Wheatland if tion. Pa., was the 15th president of the United States, Buchanan was gay, and the reply was: “He most But Loewen said those flaws shouldn’t dis- and a lifelong bachelor. He served as president definitely was not.” courage members of the LGBT community from from 1857-61, tumultuous years leading up to Loewen said the staffer pointed to a portrait acknowledging Buchanan’s status as a gay man. the Civil War. of Ann Coleman, the daughter of a wealthy iron “Lots of gay people have been exemplary,” he Historian James W. Loewen has done extensive maker, whom Buchanan was engaged to briefly said. “Let’s look at Walt Whitman. For my money, research into Buchanan’s personal life, and he’s 1819—shortly before she committed suicide. he’s the best poet in the history of the country. convinced Buchanan was gay. However, Loewen scoffed at the staffer’s sug- But we also have to acknowledge the failures. If Loewen is the author of the acclaimed book gestion that the brief engagement to Coleman we only admit that really great people are gay, Lies Across America, which examines how histor- proved Buchanan was heterosexual. what kind of history is that? And how is that ical sites inaccurately portray figures and events Loewen said Buchanan showed little interest believable? It’s ridiculous. We have to tell it like in America’s past. in Coleman, appeared more interested in her it was.” “I’m sure that Buchanan was gay,” Loewen fortune, and possibly contributed to her suicide As a heterosexual male, Loewen added, he has said. “There is clear evidence that he was gay. due to his emotional detachment. no hidden agenda in outing Buchanan. President James Buchanan. And since I haven’t seen any evidence that he Patrick Clarke, the director of Wheatland, said “I’m not gay,” Loewen said. “I don’t run was heterosexual, I don’t believe he was bisexu- the staff now takes a neutral stance on Buchan- around trying to find gay folks or Black folks un- al.” colleagues to view the men as a couple. an’s sexual or affectional preference. derneath every rock, but I’m not going to ignore According to Loewen, Buchanan shared a For example, Aaron Brown, a prominent Demo- “There’s no solid proof that Buchanan was het- clear evidence.” residence with William Rufus King, a Democratic crat, writing to Mrs. James K. Polk, referred to erosexual, nor is there solid proof that he was Timothy Cwiek holds a bachelor of art de- senator from Alabama, for several years in Wash- King as Buchanan’s “better half,” “his wife” and homosexual,” Clarke said. “If we ever come up gree in U.S. history from West Chester Uni- ington, D.C. “Aunt Fancy … rigged out in her best clothes.” with a smoking gun that proves it one way or versity. He has written for Philadelphia Gay Loewen said contemporary records indicate In 1844, when King was appointed minister to the other, I would definitely encourage our staff News since the late 1970s and written free- the two men were inseparable, and wags would France, he wrote Buchanan, “I am selfish enough to share it with the public.” lance articles for numerous publications on refer to them as “the Siamese twins.” to hope you will not be able to procure an as- However, he said Ann Coleman’s portrait no topics such as the Lincoln assassination, the Loewen also said Buchanan was “fairly open” sociate who will cause you to feel no regret at longer is displayed at Wheatland. Kennedy family, the shootings at Kent State about his relationship with King, causing some our separation.” The tours focus mainly on the mansion’s décor University, first ladies and the macrobiotic and activities that took place there during the movement in America. later years of Buchanan’s life, he added.

GAY HISTORY Buchanan, also a lifelong bachelor, is believed WhatTheWorld MONTH PROFILES by some historians to be the nation’s first gay president. William Rufus King: “They certainly didn’t have the word ‘gay’ First gay U.S. back then,” said Paul F. Boller Jr., professor Is Watching emeritus of history at Texas Christian Universi- vice president? ty and author of several books on presidential By LOU CHIBBARO JR. politics, including the book “Presidential Cam- Exclusively for Windy City times paigns: From George Washington to George W. National Gay History Project Bush.” As a moderate Democrat, King became an 47th William Rufus DeVane King, the 13th United early supporter of Andrew Jackson’s quest to States vice president, has the distinction of become president, the Senate biography says. having served in that office for less time than It quotes an unnamed critic of King as describ- Chicago any other vice president. ing him as a “tall, prim, wig-topped medioc- He died of tuberculosis on April 18, 1853, rity,” noting that King wore a wig “long after just 25 days after being sworn into office on such coverings had gone out of fashion.” International March 24, 1853, according an official biogra- Read King’s entire profile online at http:// phy of King prepared by the Office of the His- www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com. torian of the U.S. Senate. Film Festival Other historians have speculated that King holds yet another distinction—the likely status of being the first gay U.S. vice president and possibly one of the first gay members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. King (1786-1853) served in the House of Representatives from North Carolina for six years beginning in 1811 and later served in OCT. 6–20, 2011 the Senate from the newly created state of Alabama from 1819-44, when he became U.S. AMC RIVER EAST 21 minister to France. He returned to the Senate four years later, in CHICAGOFILMFESTIVAL.COM 1848, where he served until December 1852, when he resigned after winning election in No- PRESENTING PREMIERE HEADQUARTERS vember 1852 as vice president on the ticket of PARTNER PARTNERS HOTEL Franklin Pierce. A lifelong bachelor, King lived for 15 years in the home of future U.S. president James Buchanan while the two served in the Senate. William Rufus King. WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 5, 2011 7

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The Inaugural William R. Johnson Guestship

In 1972, Bill Johnson, Elmhurst College Class of 1968, became the first openly gay person in modern history to gain ordination to the mainstream Christian ministry. The vice president of the Council for Health and Human Service Ministries of the United Church of Christ, he has worked tirelessly for four decades on behalf of the rights and dignity of all people and, in particular, of LGBT people of faith and their loved ones. Elmhurst College is proud to continue its tradition of engagement of LGBT issues with the inaugural William R. Johnson Guestship. Elmhurst College is affiliated with the United Church of Christ.

Inaugural Conversation Christian Theology and the LGBT Person Reverend Dr. William Reverend Dr. Alice Hunt R. Johnson President Vice President for Chicago Theological Member Relations, Seminary Council for Health and Human Service Ministries, Dr. S. Alan Ray United Church of Christ President Elmhurst College Dr. Riess Potterveld President Pacific School of Religion Berkeley, California

Tuesday, October 11, 7:30 p.m. The Frick Center, Founders Lounge

Vito Russo: Celluloid Activist and Gay Hero Michael Schiavi

Michael Schiavi is the author of Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo, a biography of the prominent AIDS activist who was one of the LGBT community’s significant cultural figures in the 1970s and ’80s. An associate professor of English at the New York Institute of Technology, Dr. Schiavi will speak about Russo’s life and impact on the LGBT community.

The William R. Johnson Guestship Lecture Wednesday, October 12, 4:00 p.m. The Frick Center, Founders Lounge

This lecture is free and open to 190 Prospect Avenue the public. Questions? Call Elmhurst, Illinois 60126 (630) 617-3390 or go to www.elmhurst.edu www.elmhurst.edu/events facebook.com/ElmCol 8 Oct. 5, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES that gender nonconformity in and of itself is Trans-health not a disorder and their strong affirmation that Survey: Society is health insurance needs to cover medically necessary transition-related care like hormone therapy group’s new and surgery,” Keisling said. Transgender advocates have criticized the SOC ‘dramatically’ more in the past, arguing that the old standards were standards too strict and paternalistic. As more people come out as transgender, many of care of whom no longer identify simply as “men” or accepting of “women,” activists have increasingly argued that BY KATE SOSIN transgender people should have more control The World Professional Association for Transgen- over their transitions. Under old rule, some trans- gays and lesbians der Health (WPATH) released its new “Standards gender patients viewed their doctors and thera- of Care” (SOC) for transgender people, the first pists as gatekeepers waiting to be convinced of by Dana Rudolph percent of those over 70. update to the document in a decade. the need for access to desired medical care. Keen News Service This age-based difference, said Smith, is “the The much-anticipated 7th Edition of SOC was Last year, Howard Brown Health Center intro- strongest factor” explaining the trend towards released at the group’s conference in Atlanta, duced its Trans Hormones: Informed Consent Americans are becoming “dramatically” more ac- greater acceptance. Ga., on Sept. 25. program. That program, which allows transgender cepting of gay men and lesbians, according to a Smith noted, however, that there is a “sharp Transgender advocates have praised the new people to access hormones after just a few con- new report from a respected, long-running social polarization” of public opinion on gay issues— version, stating that it gives transgender pa- sultations, has been held up as a model for other survey. And, as suggested by other recent sur- unlike most political issues, where the majority tients more power in making decisions about health providers. veys, this latest report indicates younger gen- of people fall into the middle. their bodies and fewer rules about what gender The WPATH revisions follow that trend towards erations are driving that trend, both in terms While 44 percent of the people in 2010 said transition should look like. an “informed consent” model, where patients of supporting basic civil liberties and accepting same-sex sexual relations were “always wrong” “The previous versions of the SOC were always may not need months to years of therapy or prove marriage equality. and 41 percent said they were “not wrong at perceived to be about the things that a trans per- they have lived for a year as their desired gender The latest findings come from “Public Atti- all,” only 3 percent took the middle position of son must do to satisfy clinicians, this version is before accessing gender-affirming treatment. tudes toward Homosexuality,” a report released “almost always wrong” and 8 percent the middle much more clearly about every aspect of what Lisa Mottet, transgender civil rights director for September 28 and based on the 2010 General position of “wrong only sometimes.” (The re- clinicians ought to do in order to properly serve the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, said she Social Survey (GSS). The survey is conducted by mainder did not know or did not answer.) their clients,” said Christine Burns, a committee has yet to find a significant problem in the revi- NORC (formerly the National Opinion Research This polarization has existed since the survey member of SOC International Advisory, in a press sions. Center), a social science research center at the began. In 1973, 70 percent of people said it statement. “That is a truly radical reversal ... one “These standards are a great improvement,” University of Chicago. was “always wrong” and 11 percent said it was that serves both parties very well.” she said. The GSS is the most widely used source of in- “not wrong at all,” but only 7 percent each took The SOC is the standard document used by A full copy of the report and news release is formation about social trends, with the excep- the middle positions of “almost always wrong” healthcare providers regarding transgender care. available at http://www.wpath.org/index.cfm. tion of the U.S. Census, says NORC. It began or “wrong only sometimes.” Consequently, changes to the documents can in 1972 and is also one of the longest-running Still, Smith said, “despite the polarization, have a significant impact on transgender people polls to ask about marriage equality, having first there is a strong trend towards acceptance.” in the United States and beyond. posed the question in 1988. Several other recent polls have also found a The latest SOC revision provides more informa- Forty-six percent of the 2,000 adults surveyed generation gap, and a slight majority overall tion on transgender children. WPATH also said in 2010 supported marriage for same-sex cou- now in favor of marriage equality. A CNN poll the 120-page document further de-pathologizes in April found 51 percent of the 824 adults sur- gender-variant people. veyed supported same-sex marriage, with 47 “More than any other version, 2011 revisions percent opposed. Among those under age 50, 60 also recognize that gender nonconformity in and percent supported it, versus 42 percent of those of itself is not a disorder and that many people over 50. live comfortable lives without having to seek A Gallup poll of 1,018 adults in May found 53 therapy or medical interventions for gender con- percent overall supported marriage equality, but fusion or unhappiness,” the statement reads. 70 percent of those 18 to 34 years of age did so, In its 7th edition, the SOC has also come out versus 39 percent of those over 55. against “reparative therapy” as a way to change An ABC/Washington Post poll of 1,001 adults the gender identities of transgender people. The in July found 51 percent supported allowing revisions also emphasize cultural competency same-sex marriages, with 45 percent opposed. and the need for doctors to become advocates to Poll results released in September by the As- transgender people in healthcare and in society. sociated Press and the National Constitution Mara Keisling, executive director of the Nation- Center showed 53 percent of the 1,000 adults al Center for Transgender Equality, said that the surveyed supported marriage equality, with 44 revisions are a step in the right direction. percent opposed. “Among the most significant features in the Only a Quinnipac University poll of 2,311 new Standards of Care include the recognition Mara Keisling. registered voters in July found more people op- Tom W. Smith. Photo courtesy of the Univer- posed to marriage for same-sex couples than sity of Chicago in favor. Forty-eight percent opposed and 46 despite a diagnosis of Gender Identity Disorder percent favored. But Quinnipac asked its ques- Feds update by prison medical staff, according to GLAD. ples, and 40 percent opposed. This support is up tion specific to each state: “Would you support “BOP’s freeze frame policy trapped transgen- from only 11 percent in 1998, compared to the or oppose a law in your state that would allow transgender der prisoners in despair, leading often to de- 68 percent who opposed it then. same-sex couples to get married?” pression, suicide attempts, and in many cases, Attitudes towards sexual relations between Smith said the small differences between the prison guidelines BY KATE SOSIN serious self-harm, as was the case with Van- two same-sex adults have also changed signifi- GSS results and those of the other polls (most of essa,” said Jennifer L. Levi, transgender rights cantly. In 1973, 70 percent of those surveyed which showed a small majority in favor of mar- In a settlement with a transgender inmate who project director for GLAD in a news release. said such relations were “always wrong.” This riage equality) could be attributed to a variety sued for the right to transition behind bars, A federal judge ruled in favor of Adams in rose to a high of 75 percent in 1987 and 1988. of factors, including the specific wording of the the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FOB) has ended June and sent the case to mediation for the But in 2010, it fell to 44 percent. question and the quality of the sample. its policy of “freezing” gender-specific medical two sides to settle. In a separate NORC report based on the GSS, “The differences are small enough that there’s care upon entry. In May, BOP issued a new memorandum released in August, support for allowing an “ad- no real issue,” he said. “All are showing about The Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defend- which stated that gender identity “treatment mitted homosexual” to speak in one’s communi- the same level of support.” ers (GLAD) announced the win on Sept. 30. options will not be precluded solely due to ty grew from 62 percent to 86 percent between Those surveys that have been conducted re- According to GLAD, the old “freeze frame” level of services received, or lack of services, 1973 and 2010. Support for allowing that person peatedly, he said, all show “the trend is in the policy dictated that people diagnosed with prior to incarceration.” to teach at a college or university rose from 48 same direction” towards increased acceptance of Gender Identity Disorder receive hormone The memo states that widely accepted prac- percent to 84 percent in the same time period. homosexuality in general and of marriage rights therapy and other gender-affirming care that tices for treating transgender patients should And support for having a book in favor of homo- for same-sex couples. they received prior to incarceration. However, be used by prison medical and mental health sexuality in a public library rose from 54 percent In addition, although some polls found great- people who entered prisons not on hormones staff. to 78 percent between 1973 and 2010. er acceptance among women and Democrats, would not necessarily have access to them for A recent survey by the National Gay and The data reveals a “large generation gap,” said versus men and Republicans, Smith said “the transition during their incarceration. Lesbian Task Force and the National Center for Tom W. Smith, director of the GSS and author of strongest factor” explaining the change over Vanessa Adams, who was detained in Florida Transgender Equality, showed that 17 percent the report. Among people under 30 years old, time is the generational difference. and has since been moved to North Carolina, of transgender people in jails and prisons re- 64 percent supported marriage equality. Among The greater support among younger age sued BOP in February 2009 after she was de- ported having been denied hormones behind those over 70 years old, only 27 percent did. groups, he said, “is an engine that will continue nied hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Ad- bars. In addition, 12 percent reported being Also, only 32 percent of those under 30 felt to drive change in the future.” ams had not received HRT before her incarcer- denied routine medical care. sexual relations between same-sex adults was ©2011 by Keen News Service. All rights re- ation and was consequently denied treatment “always” or “almost always” wrong, versus 69 served. WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 5, 2011 9 ELECTIONS ‘12 when it comes from an actual sitting judge. So that would certainly be something that I would like to do if I were elected. WCT: You are a member of the Lesbian and Gay attorney Gay Bar Association of Chicago, and the association asks candidates what they see as a deprivation of rights for LGBT people under the law. So I’d like to ask you, how would you running for answer that question yourself? JE: I think where problems have arisen is not necessarily overt prejudice or bias against LGBT people. The prejudice and bias now are much 8th Subcircuit more subtle. And I think it’s motivated now by By KATE SOSIN WCT: And why are you eying the 8th Subcir- a lack of understanding. So if there is a depri- cuit in particular? vation of rights, it is in and of itself a subtle After eight years, openly gay city attorney John JE: Well, I think it’s easier to run in a subcir- issue because it’s not as obvious, and you have Ehrlich has announced that he is back for more. cuit than it is countywide. Also, I hope that I to look more carefully to find it. But I think it’s Ehrlich, who lost his election for judge in the am going to be able to get a lot of support from there. I think it’s something the judiciary has 8th Judicial Subcircuit in 2003, is throwing his the community because the subcircuit includes to work at. I think that judges need to be more hat into the race a second time. Andersonville, Lakeview and the South Loop, sensitized to understand where people are com- The Northwestern University School of Law where a lot of LGBT [people] live. ing from, including members of the LGBT com- grad boasts a history of HIV/AIDS activism with WCT: You have said that you learned a lot munity and their stories. the AIDS Living Remembrance Project (a now- by running the first time. What did you learn WCT: Aside from LGBT issues, what does the defunct organization) as well as a list of major from your last campaign? judiciary need to be focused on right now? court cases for the city of Chicago in his role as JE: One is that I’m not really a politician. I’m a JE: I think there’s been an overall change in head of the city’s torts division. lawyer, so for me to run as a politician is some- mood, not only in the country but certainly in the state of Illinois, and it seems like the judi- Windy City Times caught up with Ehrlich to what difficult. I’ve had to recognize that if you John Ehrlich. Photo courtesy of Ehrlich find out what he has learned since his last run; want to be a judge, you have to do a certain bit ciary has been put upon. I think the only way what biases he sees in the judiciary against of politicking to get there. That doesn’t diminish to combat that is for the judiciary to be more change … is what they call “cautionary in- LGBT people; and where he thinks the judiciary me as a lawyer. I’m just doing something else to involved in the community, whether that means structions.” They have them in New York and could improve. get to the goal that I would like to achieve. going out to schools and talking to young kids California where they not just say that you can’t Windy City Times: So John, you work for the Secondly, there is so much that is not under about the judicial system and what courts do. allow bias, prejudice and sympathy to… come city currently. your control. I feel much more freedom this time Having a more visible presence in the commu- into play in how you make your decision. But in John Ehrlich: Currently, my position is deputy around. I’m having a great time so far because nity and not just something that, “Oh here’s this those two states, for instance, they have an ad- corporation council. I’m deputy of the Torts I’m not letting all the other things that I can’t building where a bunch of judges sit and nobody ditional sentence that they add where they de- Division, which means I am head of the group control bother me or worry me. really knows what they do.” So I think the judi- fine bias and prejudice so that it includes things that defends in all personal injury and wrongful- WCT: The landscape has changed for the ciary needs to promote itself more in society. like sex, sexual orientation, race, religion, etcet- death cases. So [it could be] anything from the LGBT community since your last run. WCT: What is the first thing you want peo- era so that people are explicitly told what that simpler cases—like someone tripping and fall- JE: At least for our community, things are very ple to know about you in this race? means. I think that’s something we should also ing on a sidewalk—all the way up to much more different because obviously we now have a do- JE: I want people to know that I’m a very have in Illinois. complicated cases, such as representing our mestic partner law. I think there are some things hard worker, that I take every job that I have WCT: Would a judge really be able to affect physicians in medical malpractice cases. We rep- that need to be changed in the Pattern Jury In- extremely seriously. The other thing is I hope those changes directly? resent the police department in all police pur- structions because they don’t properly reflect that people would realize in my job I’ve been JE: Well, anybody could write a letter to the suits. It’s a whole big range of cases from pretty those changes in the law. entrusted with some of the largest litigation in Supreme Court. I think it has a bit more potency small to quite large. And the other thing that I would like to the city’s history.

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The Charities said that language in the civil Center on Halsted Judge denies union act allowed the charities to send civil union couples and unmarried people to other stay in Catholic foster care agencies. receives $1.6M for Attorneys for the state argued that the Charities ruling charities had no right to contracts in the first BY KATE SOSIN place, and that it would be illegal for the state HIV prevention to offer contracts that violated civil union law. A Sangamon County judge has denied a stay in The ACLU intervened in the case on behalf of a lesbian couple that wanted to adopt as well BY KATE SOSIN announcement. his ruling against Catholic Charities over state as child wards of the state. The project will serve young men ages 13-29, foster care contracts, a spokesperson from the The charities and the ACLU faced over per- The Center on Halsted and CALOR have both been Richardson said. American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Illi- ceived discrimination against both sides. awarded more than $1.6 million dollars each by CALOR will use the money to implement a nois confirmed. However, Schmidt declined to hear arguments the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention variety of intervention programs, including the Catholic Charities of Peoria, Belleville, related to anti-gay discrimination or religious (CDC) to expand services for African American “MPowerment” model, “Comprehensive Risk Springfield and Joliet were denied $30 mil- freedom in August. and Latino gay and bisexual men. Counseling Services” and “Choosing Life: Em- lion state foster care contracts because they Harvey Grossman, legal director of the ACLU The Center on Halsted announced the awards powerment! Action! Results!” refused to place children with single parents of Illinois, said that it likely that discrimina- Sept. 30. “This grant comes to CALOR at a time when and same-sex couples, despite new civil union tion arguments will be heard during appeals. The Center grant, aimed at HIV prevention and the incidence of HIV and other sexually trans- law. This circuit court judge [Schmidt] was very totaling $1,665,590, will be distributed over the mitted diseases city-wide are on the rise among The charities sued the state for the right to narrow,” Grossman said. “We expect these is- course of five years and provide services for ap- youth” said Rosa E. Martínez Colón, assistant the contracts, but Judge John Schmidt ruled in sues will come into play and be fully argued.” proximately 1,400 young queer men. director of CALOR in press statement. August that the charities did have not have a Among those issues, said Grossman, is the The CALOR grant, also to be disbursed over Both awards are part of a $55 million program property right to the contracts. Schmidt declined to stay his ruling in what harm he believes would come to LGBT youth in is expected to be the first round of appeals foster care if agencies discriminated against from the charities. LGBT parents. Grossman also argued that po- The Charities have 30 days to file an appeal tential parents might be discouraged from the with the 4th District Appellate Court. foster care system if an agency turns them The dispute came to a head in June, when away for being LGBT. the Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and “It is as if there were two separate places to Civil Union Act went into effect and conferred get a driver’s license,” Grossman said. “One for the same legal rights to same-sex couples in straights, and one for gays.” civil unions as married couples.

Stage-collapse survivor files suit BY KATE SOSIN Center on Halsted CEO Modesto “Tico” Valle. Photo by Steven Chaitman Alisha Brennon has filed suit for tens of millions of dollars for the death of her wife Chris- tina Santiago, the well-known LGBT health five years for prevention services, will serve to combat HIV/AIDS in among gay, bisexual and advocate who died in the Indiana State Fair 3,000 queer men of color. transgender youth of color. Thirty-four organiza- collapse in August. “HIV and AIDS is still a life-threatening epi- tions received awards nationwide. The suit could challenge to Indiana’s lack of demic—especially in the African-American and The CDC estimates that between 2006-2009, same-sex partner recognition. Latino communities which are facing increasing the number of new HIV infections among young “It’s like building a house,” said Kenneth J. rates of infection,” said Modesto “Tico” Valle, Black MSMs (men who sleep with men) increased Allen, a personal injury attorney represent- CEO of the center, in a press statement. “Thanks 48 percent. ing Brennon. “That would create precedent… to this grant, we can empower members of our I think we’ve got a good shot at moving the community most adversely affected by HIV and equality ball forward.” AIDS.” Komen to honor Brennon and Santiago had a civil union in Brian Richardson, a spokesperson for the Cen- Rep. Harris Oct. 13 Illinois a month before the catastrophe. How- ter, said that the grant could result in four or The Chicagoland Area Affiliate of Susan G. Ko- ever, it remains unclear how their relationship five new hires for his organization. men for the Cure® has announced the inaugural will be interpreted in Indiana, where same-sex The Center will use the grant towards start- class of Pink Tie Guys, chaired by Richard M. partner recognition does not exist. ing the “Mpowerment Project,” a program used Daley, now of counsel to the firm Katten Muchin Allen has also filed similar suits on behalf of nationally to combat HIV among young gay and Rosenman LLP. another lesbian widow, Beth Urschel whose bisexual men. That project will be administered Alisha Brennon. Photo by Tracy Baim This group of “KoMEN” will be honored for wife, Tammy VanDamm, also died in the col- collaboratively between the Center, Affinity making a difference in the fight against breast lapse. He said the two cases will tackle LGBT Community Services, Chicago House and the Chi- ing it towards a flock of pigeons,” Allen said. cancer. The men were nominated by the com- discrimination in the state. cago Black Gay Men’s Caucus. “It’s important that their lives be valued for munity and selected by the Komen Chicagoland “I don’t believe in Indiana we could ever rely “United, we can help reach and empower more what they were.” Board of Directors to serve as inaugural mem- on the legislature to do that,” Allen said. individuals, which will in turn save lives,” said Allen, who identifies as heterosexual, said bers of the Pink Tie Guys. Windy City Times reported in early Septem- Rev. Stan Sloan, CEO of Chicago House, in the the lawsuits are the first round of fire against The Pink Tie Guys will be honored ber that Brennon intended to file suit for “a same-sex partner discrimination in Indiana. at Tribune Media Group’s Pink Tie substantial amount.” Allen has been in conversations with Lamb- Gala Thursday, Oct. 13, at the Tri- Allen confirmed that amount is $60 million da Legal about the lawsuit, the organization bune Tower, 435 N. Michigan Ave., in damages against a laundry list of defendants confirmed. Visit GlobalPharmacyDirect.net 6-10 p.m. that includes state fair officials and companies Camilla Taylor, marriage project director at for your prescription drug needs Among those being honored is Il- involved in the concert production. Among Lambda Legal would not comment on whether Save up to 80% or more on all meds linois state Rep. Greg Harris. 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The suit claims that Indiana torts law, ing same-sex partners in wrongful death suits, Questions? Call or email Chicago President/General Manager which caps damages the state must award for even in states that don’t legally recognize 1-866-744-3835 or Larry Wert; and Stephen Bonner, single incidents at $5 million, is unconstitu- them. [email protected] CEO/president of Cancer Treatment tional. “It certainly is an effort to get legal re- Leading the effort in low-cost Rx drugs ensuring Centers of America. “It’s like taking a bowl of crumbs and throw- spect,” she said. the highest quality and safety standards. See http://www.komenchicago.org. WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 5, 2011 11 Activist Susan Anderson dies By Tracy Baim board of the Oak Park and River Forest Chamber of Commerce, to name just a few of her orga- West Suburban lesbian activist Susan Anderson nizations. Her list of involvement in Berwyn is died suddenly earlier this week at age 62. A even longer. Susan worked tirelessly to join-up cause of death has not been reported. members of the LGBT community across so many A resident of Berwyn, Anderson was a critical lines, which can too often divide us. She worked leader in LGBT efforts in both Berwyn and Oak diligently on gender, racial and ethnic equity Park. She was former co-chair of the Oak Park within the organizations she was passionate Area Lesbian and Gay Association (OPALGA) and about, supported programs for LGBTQ youth, an active member of Berwyn United Neighbor- and brought keen insights to every situation. hood Gay and Lesbian Organization (BUNGALO). She was not shy about pulling you aside to of- She was a research scientist with the Univer- fer constructive feedback, always with an eye sity of Illinois-Chicago, and that work included towards helping us achieve at the highest level. political research. Her interest in politics was Quite simply, Susan stepped up. She gave more wide-ranging—from local to state and national. of herself to others on a daily basis and lead by Anderson ran unsuccessfully for 6th Ward al- example. She will be sorely missed by all.” derman in Berwyn in 2009. According to Ted Former Oak Park Village President Joanne Tra- Korbos of BUNGALO, Anderson was active in In- pani knew Anderson for many years. “Susan was dependent Voters of Berwyn (IVB) and was part a good friend and a very special woman. She of its slate in the elections. Anderson was also made the west suburban LGBT community a little better because of all that she did,” Trapani said. A celebration of her life is being planned. Susan Anderson (lower right) at the OPALGA Gala in 2002. Photo by Israel Wright

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a former president of the All Berwyn Committee and was the moderator for several candidates’ forums hosted by the All Berwyn Committee during the 2000s. As part of her work with OPALGA, she also co- chaired and volunteered for its OPAL-Gala for several years. Anderson was also involved in the Oak Park Chamber of Commerce, and she was a supporter and volunteer for the efforts to bring the Gay Games to Chicago in 2006, because one of the event’s “villages” was located in Oak Park. “Susan was one of the most positive people I have ever met in my life,” said Korbos. “She was smart and bright and could talk to anyone. I also thought she was a very good politician and candidate. She had an ease about her. I am going to miss her greatly.” “This is a deep loss for our community and for Berwyn,” said Debra Shore, a commissioner of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District. 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Darryl Stephens, Ryan Harrison, Liz Pazik, Mary Gearen, Bob Kessler and “Susan was very active in the Berwyn/Oak Park CCPA alum Amanda Batterson Area and served as co-chair of the Oak Park Area Lesbian and Gay Association, co-chair of our annual Oak Park Area Leadership Gala, and is the (800) 982-ARTS (2787) | ticketmaster.com current board president for Visit Oak Park, the TICKETS $15, $20 AND $25 local tourism bureau,” Johnson said. Auditorium Theatre Box Ofﬁ ce, 50 E. Congress Pkwy., Chicago He added, “She also served previously on the 12 Oct. 5, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES would enable LGBT citizens and permanent Unzueta pointed out that prosecutorial discre- residents to sponsor their same-sex partners tion was complicated for undocumented immi- LGBTQ forum for immigration. He said that “UAFA will be an grants. As an example, she said that drinking important part of CIR.” Both legislators talked under the influence was, under normal condi- about the importance of recognizing a broader tions, a misdemeanor but without a driver’s addresses key definition of family that would recognize LGBTQ license— which undocumented people cannot relationships. get— it becomes an aggravated felony, making Kevin Goodwin took the floor to describe the someone ineligible for prosecutorial discretion: struggle facing him and his Indonesian partner, “Someone who’s a citizen is not treated the immigration issues who is applying for asylum. same way.” A audience member asked about access to by Yasmin Nair On the issue of asylum on the grounds of sexual orientation, a key problem has been the lawyers which is difficult or impossible for most The Chicago-based LGBTQ Immigrant Rights Or- one-year deadline (from the time of arrival) by people picked up by ICE. Panelists acknowledged ganization hosted a town hall forum to discuss which LGBTQ individuals must apply. Many im- the problem. Another raised the issue of the immigrant issues Sept. 27 at the Adler School of migrants miss the deadline simply because they continuing emphasis on family and relationships Professional Psychology. don’t know about it in the first place. Gutierrez as a strategy, evident in the lobbying around Mona Noriega, commissioner of human rela- said that a new proposed version of CIR would immigration reform, and wondered about whom tions for the City of Chicago, was the modera- eliminate the deadline. that left out. Unzueta and Wences acknowledged tor and took online questions (as the event was The Department of Homeland Security and ICE that expanding definitions of family was not streamed live online) as well as inquiries from detained 400,000 this past year and amongst enough but that it was an issue of strategizing the floor. Panel presenters included U.S. Reps. them are LGBTQ immigrants who have been re- how to “navigate the options we have, which are Luis Gutierrez, D-Chicago, 4th District; and Mike porting instances of sexual harassment and as- very limited.” Tsao said that emphasizing family Quigley, D-Chicago, 5th District. sault and discrimination on the basis of their was a way to engage the conservative religious Other panelists included Karen Zwick, super- sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Quig- community. vising attorney for the LGBT Rights Initiative at ley spoke of the attempt to get the General The LGBTQ Immigrant Rights Coalition is com- the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC); Accounting Office to investigate such charges. posed of several local organizations, includ- Fred Tsao, policy director of the Illinois Coali- In April, NIJC released a mass civil-rights coming Amigas Latinas, ALMA, IYJL, Congregation tion for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR); plaint about the “abuse and mistreatment” of Or Chadash, ICIRR and NIJC; Julio Rodriguez Reyna Wences, co-founder of the Immigrant thirteen immigrant detainees in the custody of of ALMA asked all concerned organizations to Youth Justice League (IYJL); and Tania Unzu- the DHS. Gutierrez said, “We don’t need legisla- consider joining. While this was billed as the tion to keep a prison safe.” first forum to bring together the issues of im- eta, advocacy coordinator for the Association of Congressman Mike Quigley. Photo by Erica Following the legislators’ departure, the re- migration and LGBTQ issues, there have in fact Latino Men for Action (ALMA). Unzueta is also a Demarest co-founder of IYJL. maining panelists took questions. Wences, been three others in previous years, hosted by speaking about the asylum issue, said that “we the former Chicago LGBTQ Immigrants Alliance. Both lawmakers left an hour after the start of conditions for LGBTQ immigrants; and asylum on have to be very careful about categories, by [Disclosure: This reporter was part of that al- the forum, while the remaining panelists stayed the basis of sexual orientation. making and reinforcing categories we are leav- liance.] This was, however, the first to include to take questions from the audience in the room. As to the issue of prosecutorial discretion, ing out LGBT people” who do not fit the official lawmakers. The panel addressed four issues particularly rel- Gutierrez said that it provided “an opportunity requirements. evant to the LGBTQ immigrant community: pros- to show the strength of the movement.” Both ecutorial discretion, as outlined in an Aug. 18 he and Zwick emphasized that the memo did Obama administration memorandum that lists not mean that immigrants no longer faced the discourse and activism has always embraced 19 factors, including age at entry and a lack of possibility of being picked up by Immigration Professor discusses it. She also emphasized that abolition “works a criminal record that enforcement authorities and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Zwick said the prison industrial simultaneously at all scales of analysis and ac- take into account when considering immigration benefits “should not be overstated.” tion” and that a group did not have to be as and deportation cases; same-sex binational cou- Gutierrez talked about the Uniting American complex at UIC explicitly anti-PIC in its mission as CR to claim ples and the Defense of Marriage Act; detention Families Act (UAFA), proposed legislation which by Yasmin Nair it as a motivating part of its work. As an example, she pointed to harm reduc- Ruth Wilson Gilmore was in Chicago to de- tion strategies engaged by some grassroots liver a lecture, “Beyond the Prison Industrial organizations; while not explicitly anti-prison Complex: The World We Want Is the World We strategies, they focus on working with vulner- Need.” The Sept. 26 event, which drew more able populations to negotiate the constant than 200 attendees, was held at the Student threat of imprisonment. Center East on the campus of the University of Presenting ways to combat the prolifera- Illinois at Chicago. tion of prisons, Gilmore spoke of the work of Gilmore, a professor at the Graduate Center resistance in local communities in California of the City University of New York, is also a and elsewhere where prisons are offered as a widely acclaimed anti-prison activist and her stimulus to economically strapped areas. She 2007 book Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Cri- said that an emphasis on prisons—95 percent sis, and Opposition in Globalizing California of which are publicly funded—as economic al- is frequently referenced as a standard text on ternatives inevitably resulted in a depletion of what is known as the prison industrial complex resources to essentials like housing and educa- (PIC), a term used to describe the prolifera- tion. tion of links between prisons, legislators and The audience spanned students, faculty and industry. Anti-prison activists see the prison prison activists. The event came on the heels industrial complex as instrumental in creat- of the Sept. 21 execution of Troy Davis, which ing a profit-motivated system that encourages had been intensely followed by anti-death- higher rates of incarceration. penalty and anti-prison groups, and comments Gilmore is also a founding member of Critical and questions during and after the lecture Resistance (CR), an organization that focuses made it was clear that this was still a charged on prison abolition; her lecture capped a se- moment for the audience. ries of CR-led events on prison abolition work In the question-and-answer session, she amongst local activists. was asked what to do in the case of criminals Prison abolition work in Chicago is signifi- and responded, “We have to think about what cantly LGBTQ-led, and this was evident in the makes things happen.” Referring to Lawrence number of LGBTQ activists who participated Brewer, who was executed for the racially mo- in the various events, including the lecture, tivated murder of James Byrd Jr., on the same over the weekend. They included Owen Daniel- day as Troy Davis, she pointed out that, by all McCarter, of the Transformative Justice Law accounts, “he became a racist in prison.” Project, Joey Mogul of the People’s Law Office Explicitly positioning abolition work as an and Beth Richie, who introduced Gilmore to end to prisons, as opposed to prison reform, the audience. A forthcoming piece in Windy she said that “rather than more humane pun- www.legacyprojectchicago.org/Luncheon_Tickets.html City Times will further explore LGBTQ connec- ishment, the point is how do we become more tions to the prison abolition movement. humane.” Pointing to the U.S. investment in Defining abolition, Gilmore said, “[Aboli- the PIC, she said that “[o]ne in four people tionists] try to describe the problem and our locked up on the planet are locked up here” solutions to it in such a way that prison can- and that ending the PIC would require a sys- not be thought as a normal future condition temic change in how we conceive of crime and for any society.” punishment: “The [United States] is addicted Gilmore pointed out that abolition was not to prisons. To recover from addiction, you only a new concept, and that radical civil rights have to change everything.”

WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 5, 2011 13 the “Ally of the Year” award. Natalie Erickson, of the youth committee. Alliance youth leaders were on hand to talk Attendees were treated to an elaborate Alliance brunch honors Quinn, about their experience working with the Alli- brunch. The event wrapped up with a silent auc- ance. tion. Kraft and Evanston senior “It’s so great to know that I can help kids More pics are online at http://www.Windy- just like me by working with the Alliance,” said CityMediaGroup.com. BY KATE SOSIN of the Year Award.” Milliken has been active with the Alliance for two years and helped to Nearly 250 Illinois Safe Schools Alliance sup- create the organization’s “Achieving Change” porters filled downtown steakhouse ZED451 for toolkit for LGBTQ youth in schools. the organization’s annual brunch fundraiser and “Most of the stories we hear about LGBTQ celebration Oct. 2. youth are sad stories,” Milliken said. She said The event drew prominent LGBT community her work on youth issues showed her that leaders, politicians and young people in support change is possible. of the organization, which works for and with The Alliance also awarded Illinois Gov. Pat LGBTQ-identified youth throughout the state. Quinn with its “Advocate of the Year Award” for signing the civil-unions bill in law in June and for signing the state’s anti-bullying protections last year. Purple Heart recipient and 8th Illinois District Congressional candidate Tammy Duck- worth accepted the award in on behalf of the governor. In her acceptance, Duckworth, who is married to a man, said she wants to see the Defense of Marriage Act repealed. “Frankly, my marriage doesn’t need to be defended,” Duckworth said. “If you want to defend my marriage, pass a law that makes my husband put the toilet seat down.” In addition, Kraft Foods was recognized with Dillin Dee and Anna Rangos. Photo by Kat Fitzgerald

Illinois Safe Schools Alliance Executive Direc- tor Shannon Sullivan. Photo by Kat Fitzgerald KENDALL Coincidentally, a year after a string of highly- publicized teen gay suicides drew that nation’s attention to anti-gay taunting, event speakers focused on the alliance’s work to combat bullying. COLLEGE “An institution in which we assume everyone is safe, namely schools, can sometimes be the CHICAGO’S NUMBER most perilous,” said John Cepek, who co-chaired the event. The brunch honored Evanston Township High School senior Emma Milliken with the “Activist

Gay Chicago stops print publication Gay Chicago issued a press release Sept. 29 announcing it will cease publication of its print newspaper. However, it will continue to produce online news and entertainment. Ralph Paul Gernhardt founded the publication in 1976; he passed away in 2006. ONECULINARY PROGRAM “It is with great sadness that we have come to this point in our publication’s history,” said Craig Gernhardt, Gay Chicago’s OPEN HOUSE publisher and Ralph-Paul’s son. Saturday, October 15 Ralph Paul Gernhardt was inducted into 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Chicago’s Gay & Lesbian Hall of Fame in See for yourself why Kendall is number one and learn about all of our programs in Chicago Michelin 2004. Gay Chicago Magazine was inducted Business, Culinary Arts, Education and Hospitality Management at an upcoming Guide Restaurants in 1991. open house. recently ranked “Continuing print operations became • Adult Learner Sessions: Manage work and life demands while earning your degree Kendall College the more and more difficult in the past few through combined online and weekend programs. number one Chicago years with dwindling ad revenues and ris- • Live Demonstrations: See our culinary students in action, as well as presentations program for preparing ing print and operating costs. We just can’t by hospitality management and business students. students for culinary sustain our old model anymore,” said Craig • Tours + Tips: Take a guided tour of campus, and have the opportunity to ask ques- arts careers. Gernhardt. “It’s time to turn toward a new tions about Financial Aid, Academic Advising, Career Services, Housing and more! direction.” (ORC International-2011 Survey) Refreshments served throughout the event. Bring your friends and family! Corrections DiscoverKendallCollege.com There was incorrect info listed for Darcy 800.639.7753 Leslie in the Sept. 28 issue in the “Gay in the Life” section. Leslie is 25, lives in the Avondale area, is single and is a lesbian. Windy City Times For additional details, including ORC International’s Research Report, please visit Kendall.edu/about/kendall-ranked-first. Find information on costs, occupation types, completion rates and median loan debt for these programs at kendall.edu/programdata. 900 N. North Branch regrets the errors. Chicago, IL 60642 14 Oct. 5, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES a GAYin the Owner of Early to Bed LIFE Searah Deysach Text and PHOTOS BY KATE SOSIN

It has been a decade since Searah Deysach quit her job, applied for a stack of credit cards and opened Chicago’s first feminist sex-toy shop on just $13,000. Early to Bed celebrated its 10th anniversary with a party Sept. 24. (Its true anniversary was actually Sept. 8.) Over the years, the small peri- winkle shop has become a staple in city’s queer community and beyond. Despite Deysach’s initial doubts, it looks like the store is here to stay. “I don’t even understand how I was able to do it,” said Deysach, who jokes that she sometimes for- gets she is running a business and not a non-profit. Ten years ago, Deysach was a grad student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was not sure what she wanted to do with her life, but she knew she wanted a queer and female-positive sex toy store to shop at. “This industry has been so tacky, if not offensive,” she said. Have your “I didn’t want some guy eating nachos behind the counter to help me pick out a strap-on.” premiums Deysach anticipated that feminist toy shops like Babeland in Seattle and New York and Good Vibrations in San Francisco would eventually increased make their way to Chicago. When none did, she scraped together enough money to open her own shop at Sheridan and Foster. She has been there ever since. recently? When the shop first opened, people did not know what to make of it, Deysach said. Some, seeing the name “Early to Bed,” appeared at the store looking for mattresses and linens. Others who came through the door See me: spent ten minutes looking before asking if it was still a vitamin shop. A European traveler showed up one the stats night thinking he had found a hostel stay in. Charles T. Rhodes, Over the years, these odd requests petered out as Early to Bed built a reputation as a feminist sex toy Name shop. The shop also became a community mainstay as Deysach donated time, products and space to LGBT and Agent Searah Deysach 2472 N. Clark feminist causes. “I definitely knew from the beginning that I didn’t want to be just a retail store,” she said. Zodiac sign State Farm773.281.0890 Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Among the vibrators and lube for sale, one can also find local queer zines and information about LGBT- (not in NJ) Cancer friendly healthcare in the city. State Farm Indemnity Company (NJ) The business has also grown to serve men who may want Home Offices: Bloomington, Illinois Neighborhood sex-positive products but are turned off by traditional sex-toy Rogers Park marketing. Sunday, Oct. 9 In time, Deysach wants to develop a website for young peo- Relationship status 1-4p.m. ple to provide information about sexual health, toys and safety. Jane Lynch Taken It may not be a formula for monetary success (Deysach’s girl- friend jokes she is allergic to making money), but Early to Bed’s Happy Endings Favorite place to eat in (only ticketed role—as a community space first and business second—ap- Chicago customers who have pears to be working. purchased a book “While watching Star Trek in The shop is surviving despite the poor economy and increas- will be allowed) my living room” ing competition from online sellers like Amazon.com. Perhaps most significantly, Early to Bed has had just 19 employees Wed., Oct. 12 Hobbies since it opened, and most who work there do so for years at a 7:30 p.m. “Answering questions about time. Rachel Shteir myself” Among those who are still excited about the job, is Deysach The Steal herself. “I always like going to work,” she said. Pets “Old, sad rabbit” 5233 N. Clark Best thing about Chicago (773) 769-9299 “Pretty much everything” Worst thing about Chicago “My sister doesn’t live here.” [email protected] www.womenandchildrenfirst.com Website Parking Available www.early2bed.com Wheelchair Accessible WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 5, 2011 15

1000s at Chicago AIDS Walk Close to 5,000 people joined together Oct. 1 for the 2011 AIDS Run & Walk Chicago. There was a new route and new start time, as supporters gathered at Columbia and Balbo streets in downtown Chicago. The cold weather did not deter the estimated 93 community teams, 38 corporate teams, 64 open teams, 17 college teams and three high school teams. Loyola University had more than 400 marchers. The run and walk raised an estimated $500,000 for the cause. Dean Richards and Erin McElroy from WGN TV were MCs, and several politicians also addressed the crowds. There were many musicians and other entertainers to keep the crowd enthusiastic before, during and after the run and walk. The event benefits AIDS Foundation of Chicago and their agency partners. AFC Executive Director and CEO David Munar thanked everyone for their support of this annual event. U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley, state Rep. Greg Harris, Ald. Robert Fioretti were among the politicians attending. See http://www.aidschicago.org.

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A special series in partnership with the AIDS Foundation of Chicago Jerry Pritikin: History through the camera’s lens By Steven Chaitman factual liberty that screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (who consulted Pritikin) took with his Technically, Jerry Pritikin lives in a small high- Oscar-winning script for Milk, the biopic of San rise apartment in River North for independent Francisco’s famous openly gay politician Harvey seniors. But anyone who’s been inside and seen Milk, whom Pritikin knew well. his living room walls (or what little of them re- On an evening in early June 1977, Pritkin mains visible) would likely call it nothing short snapped what would become famous pictures of a one-bedroom museum. of Milk. That day, voters in Miami, following Lining every vertical surface of Pritkin’s apart- the lead of singer Anita Bryant, repealed a law ment are various framed photographs, years of that had banned employment discrimination on amassed signage and the stories that go with the basis of sexual orientation. As the workday all of them. This “exhibit” brings to life the rise ended in San Francisco, frustrated LGBT citi- of San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood as the zens gathered at the Castro in protest. Pritikin Western capital of the LGBT rights movement in instinctually grabbed his camera and took the the 1970s, that vibrant, exciting and challeng- iconic shots of Milk, bullhorn in hand, rallying ing time in the movement’s young history. the gay community out the bars and into the As curator of this particular gallery, Pritkin streets. spares no detail—with emphasis on the humor- But these photographs do more than help to ous asides. He also makes note of every slight tell an important historical narrative; they help to tell Pritikin’s own personal narrative as well. And despite the abundance of evidence to the contrary, that story starts with an important detail: “I’m really not a photographer,” Pritkin said. “I know nothing about photography and I can still say that today.” In fact, Pritikin, 74, isn’t an anything—at Pritikin photographed in 2007. The shirt on his knee reads: ‘Anita Bryant’s husband is a Homo least not professionally. And that’s intentional. Sapien!’ and he his holding a newspaper that used his now-famous photo of Harvey Milk with a In 1964, Pritkin left his native Chicago and con- bullhorn and sign behind him that read: ‘Save Our Rights.’ Photo of Pritikin by Hal Baim vinced his then-lover to move to San Francisco. “I left Chicago so I could be myself,” he said. And he didn’t. In the nearly 50 years since, “So much happened to me because I smoked “I didn’t know San Francisco was necessarily Pritkin could loosely be considered any of the dope,” Pritikin said with a sly grin. “Ninety per- gay, but I knew it wasn’t Chicago.” following: freelance photographer and sports cent of my photographs were taken when I was Pritikin had lived in San Francisco for a few editor for one of San Francisco’s first LGBT news- stoned.” months in 1960 working for a jewelry store, but papers, The Gazette (for which he was never Drugs aside, photography would be the one fled when the store gave him an ultimatum to paid), marketer and promoter for local bars and constant throughout Pritikin’s life. He has album relocate to Southern California. Returning four the San Francisco production of Bleacher Bums, upon album of photos and newspaper clippings, years later, he found a job at another jewelry gay softball player, pithy t-shirt designer, Hall some that simply capture the budding flamboy- store where after a year’s work he took a vaca- of Fame Chicago Cubs fan, and pot smoker—the ance in San Francisco in the ’60s and ’70s and tion. When he returned, he found the store had lattermost of which Pritkin has since retired others that show off his politically charged hu- changed ownership and no job waited for him. from (too expensive) but might have also been mor; his most treasured is a picture of actress “After that I decided to never work hard for at least partly responsible for many if not all Jane Fonda wearing his “Anita Bryant’s husband anyone ever again,” he said. other “jobs” on the list. is a Homo Sapien!” t-shirt.

Championship 1978 Oil Can Harry’s Oilers: At Least three players, and most of their championship cheerleaders (brown shirts) and owner Dan Harvey Milk wearing Pritikin’s ‘End Ford’ t- Turner (part owner and team sponsor—far left facing in green shirt) of the San Francisco gay disco, died from AIDS complications, as well as shirt in 1978. Photo courtesy Jerry Pritikin many of the team’s fans. Photo courtesy Jerry Pritikin (pictured front, third from left) WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 5, 2011 17

tached to it. Next to these photos, written in hand, were the words, “If you have these markings go your doctor at once—you have gay cancer.” Pritikin said he regrets not having his camera on him that day. “I thought, ‘How ridiculous, how could there be gay cancer? Cancer’s not exclusive,’” he said. “But in short period of time a lot of people started showing up with these markings.” Among them was a young man named Jay Platt, one of Pritikin’s closest friends who would succumb to AIDS after contracting HIV around 1982. It turned out both were Jewish, grew up in Chicago and attended the same high school, though Platt was many years younger. “Jay was the opposite of me. He was into leather and wild things and I guess I was a— well, a cute boy,” Pritikin said. Pritikin describes Platt in measurements alone: 6’4” and 300 pounds. But after a four- or five-year battle with AIDS, Pritikin said most frankly that, “it looked like he was coming out of Auschwitz.” The unlikely pair met through a friend on Thanksgiving 1973. Platt hosted the dinner. He was a gourmet cook who Pritikin said “had fin- gers in many different kinds of businesses,” not the least of which was selling weed. Platt quickly became Pritikin’s friend, dealer and sometimes- Pritikin and his friend Jay Platt. Jay is in the cowboy hat. They’re at a gay softball game in San business partner. Pritikin would write captions Francisco, 1976. Photo courtesy Jerry Pritikin Pritikin in the bleachers as the Bleacher for his catalogs and later help Platt’s friend, bar Preacher. Photo by Lee Balterman, used with owner Al Hanken, with promotions for both his permission bars: The Round Up and The End Up. of the Chicago Cubs. Days later he discovered “last hurrah” of sorts. And after the Cubs stopped It was Hanken who put together and spon- an ad in the paper looking for actors for a San letting him in for free, he could no longer afford Most of all, Pritikin has a taste for the oxymo- sored the softball team that Pritikin would join Francisco production of the play. He called the to go. He now lives mostly off Social Security ronic, namely the juxtaposition of words and after much convincing from Platt. Pritikin was producer and was hired to do publicity for the and a settlement or two from when people mis- images that have a humorous relationship to 38 years old and had never played organized show. used his photos. one another. He’s less a photographer than a sports. He would play four seasons with the Also starting in June 1981 was the Major “I could sell these things,” he said, looking capturer of that happenstance, a camera always team, which in 1978 won the right to represent League Baseball strike. With local sports writ- around his living room, “but I don’t.” nearby should an oxymoron find him, such as San Francisco in the Gay Softball World Series in ers starved for material, Pritikin wrote to them An apartment with walls good for hanging a street sign that read “End Ford” during the New York, but was disqualified by a mid-season about the play and they ran articles featuring it photos appears to be more than enough. Jimmy Carter vs. Gerald Ford election campaign rule capping the number of straight players. in the sports section. Performances soon sold of 1976. Naturally, that one inevitably led to an- Pritikin stayed in touch with teammates, but out every night, enough to the point where the other Pritikin t-shirt. only a few years later that would mean visiting play moved to a 350-seat theater. Pritikin used But Pritikin’s photos, as much as they reveal them in the hospital. his yearly summer trip back to Chicago to see his about him and his story, obscure—intentionally “I was in my 40s already and here I thought I parents (and the Cubs) to gather signage and all or not—one chapter in particular, and perhaps was too old to play softball,” Pritikin said. “The he could to transform the theater’s lobby into one of the most influential chapters of all. majority of these people who were dying were in “Wrigleyville West.” It takes a long time to find the photo that their 20s or 30s.” Bleacher Bums was only supposed to run six might spur Pritikin to tell that story. It hangs Pritikin estimated 10-20 percent of those who weeks but went on for a year and a half. But the wall outside his bedroom: a team photo of played in the gay softball league with him de- more than a successful business endeavor, it was one of the gay softball teams he played for in veloped AIDS. The Gazette obituary page even- a successful distraction. the ’70s. tually reached three pages. “For me (the play) was an escape, blinders The nation’s first gay-sponsored softball In 1981, Pritikin had a medical mishap that from the fact that I was seeing so many peo- league started in San Francisco, where the he believes might have saved his life. The wound ple I know or people I didn’t know but used to league grew so prominent and competitive that from a hernia operation became infected in the see (die of AIDS),” he said. “But when people straight players wanted to join, and in 1978— hospital and reopened during the course of the stopped showing up you asked ‘did he die of the year he and Milk were murdered—Mayor next year, coinciding almost exactly with the AIDS?’ Even if you moved with good health to George Moscone threw the first pitch at the outbreak of HIV. another city, everyone would think that because opening game, a game Pritikin (a pitcher) start- When he was in the hospital, Pritikin visited you’re not around anymore you must’ve gotten ed with more than 2,000 people in attendance. Platt and other ballplayers who were housed to- AIDS.” A baseball fan since the age of eight, that gether in the same ward. Fortunately for Platt, In 1984, baseball delivered again. The Cubs game is one of the memories that Pritikin holds his family was there to take care of him up until pennant hopes led Pritikin to spend a lot of time most dear, but this team photo reminds him of his death. back in Chicago where he eventually dubbed something else entirely. He points to a few dif- “I know that Jay’s parents, when they came, himself the “Bleacher Preacher,” giving sermons ferent teammates; these young men would later and his sister, went so far out of their way to and displaying his 10 commandments. He also die of AIDS. help Jay and whoever Jay associated with … coined another of his iconic phrases: “How Do Pritikin recalls in the very early ’80s when they were open,” Pritikin said. You Spell Belief? C-U-B-S.” He spent the entire The Gazette ran one of its first-ever obituaries. Pritikin said that a photographer friend of season in the bleachers in 1985 and in 1987. A young Jewish doctor had died of “hepatitis.” his named of Guy Cory was less fortunate. Cory, Harry Caray dubbed Pritikin the No. 1 Cubs Fan. Eventually more and more obituaries were print- Pritikin and several others had put on an “anti- That same year, he relocated back to Chicago ed and they all read the same. Anita Bryant” show in 1978. When Cory died of permanently. “You never heard of anyone being written AIDS, his parents were so ashamed that their “Everyone who owed me IOUs in San Francisco up in the gay newspaper dying,” Pritikin said. son died of “gay cancer” that they burned all his was dead,” he said. “Robert Hillsborough was murdered (brutally negatives. To this day, Pritikin has passionately followed stabbed to death in 1977 because he was gay), With friends and acquaintances getting sick the course of AIDS and is still devastated to read he was a young gay guy, but it seemed like a lot and dying, Pritikin buried himself in a new busi- about people dying from it. of people were starting to get sick and die.” ness venture. While stoned and watching televi- “Here we are 30 years after the beginning and One day in town, Pritikin came across a sign sion in 1981, he came across a PBS recording there’s still people dying,” he said. “That gets made of poster board with a series of Polaroid of the play Bleacher Bums, which originated in me madder than anything else.” Pritkin in his apartment, 2011. Photo by pictures showing legions and purple dots at- Chicago in 1977 based on the aptly named fans More recently, Pritikin has played in the Chi- cago gay softball Senior Cup as a self-proclaimed Steven Chaitman 18 Oct. 5, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES

The July 2011 DIFFA Chef’s Table fundraiser. Photos by Tim Carroll Chicago’s DIFFArent approach to HIV/AIDS By Julia Borcherts Mart in her family’s showroom (which was called to them. It was really that simple.” those buying a $250 ticket. We were looking for Design Institute America at the time and is now Rather than to make direct appeals to design- corporate funds. And so now a lot more of the Over the last quarter-century, DIFFA/Chicago has Pauline Grace), remembers feeling concerned ers, firms and clients for cash, DIFFA/Chicago major contract manufacturers and design firms granted nearly $2 million to HIV/AIDS-related and frustrated but not knowing how she could members began arranging social and industry have a very strong footprint on the gala.” charities across the area, developed a fellowship help. networking events to raise funds. McGregor agreed and believes that the larger with Northwestern University, created an exu- “It was my clients, it was my friends,” she “Somebody had a connection to Dave Jemi- scope has contributed to the event’s success. berant annual gala which draws design industry said, “but you just didn’t know what to do. You lo—he owns the Green Mill,” said Winzeler. “But “It’s really more of a national event because of heavy hitters from across the country, begun an sort of felt helpless because if they weren’t talk- back then, he also had a little jazz club down- all of these manufacturers that come in to at- auxiliary board to groom the next generation for ing about it, how could you help? stairs on Franklin Street right at Chicago [The tend Neocon,” she said. “So we have the heavy creative fundraising and established a program “People didn’t let you come to the hospital to High Hat] and he offered to host something. It hitters from the design industry.” to be able to fund its grantees in perpetuity. see them; people didn’t want you to call them. was one of our first fundraisers and we had a DIFFA/Chicago’s other major annual fundrais- But Executive Committee Secretary-Treasurer They sort of all went underground. And so you handful of people there. And I remember that ing event—which also generates about $400,000 and Communications Director Kim Winzeler still felt very disconnected from people that you we were all sitting around and drinking a glass annually—is Dining by Design, an event created remembers the first official grant awarded in the were pretty close to. You never got a chance to of wine and just like that, we started raising by DIFFA National which has been shared with a late 1980s. say goodbye to a lot of people because it was so money! It wasn’t a lot, we probably raised a few of the larger DIFFA chapters across the coun- “Open Hand, which of course is Vital Bridg- closeted. And I remember feeling like, ‘We have thousand dollars. But then we just started to try, including Chicago. Each November, local and es now, was just starting at Ann Sather’s and to do something.’ And so when I heard about gain momentum and then we got Holly Hunt on national designers—many from the contract in- my friend Cheryl was packing food,” said Win- this group, I remember thinking, ‘Well, I can do board.” dustry but also many from the residential, retail zeler, who joined DIFFA/Chicago shortly after it this. This is something that we can do collec- Both Winzeler and former DIFFA/Chicago Exec- and fashion arenas, including Tiffany and Ralph formed in the mid-’80s. “They were doing meals tively that maybe will impact—maybe it’s too utive Committee Chair Jennifer McGregor—who Lauren—create three-dimensional dining instal- on wheels for people that didn’t have anybody late for our friends, but there’s certainly other stepped down in July to transition to the DIFFA lations at the Merchandise Mart which become take care of them. We actually gave them their people that are out there that are going to need National board—agree that attracting the sup- the centerpieces for several fundraising events first thousand-dollar grant. And I still remember help.’” port of world-renowned, Chicago-based furniture at different price points. thinking, ‘Wow—that’s not a lot of money but Around this time—1985 and ’86—the Nation- showroom and design studio owner Hunt marked “It’s spread out over three days,” said Win- they could do a lot with a thousand dollars.’” al Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases a turning point for DIFFA/Chicago. zeler. “They have the cocktail party; then they At the time, DIFFA/Chicago was a way for con- reported that one million Americans had con- “It was just a real grassroots group who had a have the Table Hop and Taste. And then we have cerned people in the industry—residential and tracted the virus but there were no antiretro- dinner in Holly Hunt’s back yard,” said McGregor, our DIFFA gala where you actually dine in those contract designers, showroom owners, Merchan- viral drugs available and years of government who came to DIFFA/Chicago after that time, in environments, which I think is really inspiring.” dise Mart employees and clients—to try to help indifference had resulted in a lack of funding for the late ’90s, and first served as development And the different events at various pricing lev- in any way they could to respond an epidemic support systems for people diagnosed with the chair. “And that was the first gala.” els—which range from $10 for an open-house that no one understood. disease. “It was up on the North Shore and she [Hunt] walk-through to $500 for the dinner party— “People nowadays, they grew up in an envi- “The social services weren’t there,” Winzeler set up a tent that covered her tennis courts,” helps DIFFA/Chicago to make the weekend ac- ronment where AIDS has always been in their said. “People didn’t know how to treat it—you said Winzeler. “It was a big-ticket item, proba- cessible to more people. vocabulary,” said Winzeler. “And back then, that couldn’t treat it. They didn’t know what to do. bly $200-$250 a person, and we had maybe 300 “Table Hop and Taste is like $35 and you get was just not it. For a long time, we didn’t even You just sort of went in the hospital or you people—all these design people and people who to come on a Saturday afternoon,” said Winzeler, know what it was called. Obviously, we were had pneumonia and then the next thing is, you hired designers. It was a whole design industry “and you get to taste great food and have great noticing that we were losing a lot of our busi- died.” party and we raised a lot of money.” wine pairings and look at great environments.” ness professionals and friends to this horrible So the early members of DIFFA/Chicago—even The galas, which have become DIFFA/Chi- Events such as these have caused DIFFA/Chi- disease, but nobody really knew what was going before they aligned themselves with DIFFA Na- cago’s signature annual event, are now held in cago to become a powerhouse within the na- on. They didn’t know what caused it but at that tional in New York—began to look for ways to large downtown venues and timed to occur in tional organization. point, it seemed to be affecting more of the gay help behind the scenes. June, the night before Neocon (the Merchandise “But we work very independently from DIFFA community than it did anybody else. “We knew that there was just a need out Mart’s annual design expo) begins, a move that National,” said McGregor. “They support us with “And there was sort of a stigma—a certain there,” Winzeler said. “So we started to get in- has enabled DIFFA/Chicago to generate about relationships and national sponsors and per- cloud of silence about getting sick. I mean, volved and see if we could raise money—it was $400,000 per year from this fundraiser alone. haps underwriters for different events. They may people didn’t talk about it; they didn’t want really to help people that we knew that were And the tone of the parties has evolved over the have a relationship with, say, Benjamin Moore people to know. You could walk through the alone or they didn’t have a support system. We years. or Ralph Lauren, so they’ll bring sponsors to us Merchandise Mart and you could see people that didn’t really even know how we were going to “We used to throw the most elaborate, flam- for big events. They’ve been a wonderful support you thought, ‘Oh, there’s something wrong,’ but fund it, how we were going to distribute the boyant themed parties,” said Winzeler, “and but for the most part, we really do everything on you really didn’t talk about it—nobody wanted money. because it was mostly designers, people went our own.” to. And then all of a sudden, you would just “There were so many grassroots organizations way over the top in terms of the way that they That includes granting more than $2 million hear that, ‘Oh, so-and-so just died’ and you’d be [such as Open Hand] that were starting and dressed. It was just a very upbeat kind of thing. since the late ’80s to direct-support providers like, ‘What? I didn’t know that he was sick.’ But somebody would say, ‘Oh, I know you’re raising “Now, it still is that but—it’s the same and yet including Howard Brown Health Care, Chicago then you realized that you hadn’t seen them for money for AIDS—we’re looking for money.’ And it’s transformed. One of our goals was always to House, Children’s Memorial Hospital, the AIDS awhile. And you’d just be like, ‘Oh my God, all I think that’s sort of how it started. There was go out into the world—into the business com- Legal Counsel of Chicago, Horizon Hospice, the these people are dying.’” one group that was trying to raise money and we munity, into the philanthropic community—and Center on Halsted and others across the Chicago Winzeler, who was working at the Merchandise were trying to raise money and then we gave it get larger dollars and larger donors than just area. There are currently 26 agencies receiving WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 5, 2011 19

DIFFA dollars. One of the things that makes actually the sponsors and our long-time givers DIFFA unique is that the grants do not need to and supporters of DIFFA. So at this reception— be allocated to a specific program or resource which used to be at the Mart in someone’s show- Vezino in marathon, or clinical trial within the benefiting agency— room but we actually now have it at the Chase the charity can use the money to pay operating Auditorium where we can hold up to 300 peo- expenses or develop educational outreach pro- ple—we fill up the auditorium and it’s more of a running to fight AIDS grams or any other area that they see fit. formal event, kind of like the Academy Awards. “The grants are unrestricted,” said Winzeler. “And it’s not just the local rep—it’s the VP By Ross Forman “So they can use it any way they want as long as of sales or the CEO. They come in for this pro- they meet the criteria of the whole granting program to get to know the grantees. And they hear Patrick Vezino is set to run the annual Chicago cess. We have a fairly detailed way that we do all these wonderful stories about where their Marathon on Sunday morning, Oct. 9, marking our grants—all of their funding gets looked at, money goes. It’s become more of a celebration, his fourth marathon. His best time to date is all of their grant proposals get looked through something that people really look forward to. 4:17 and his goal this year is, well, one minute with a fine-toothed comb. And then we get to And then we have a reception with red-velvet better: 4:16. do site visits.” cupcakes and champagne. It’s really closed the Vezino, 41, lives in Chicago’s Uptown neigh- DIFFA/Chicago also created a unique program transactional loop.” borhood and is a partner in the law firm Baker in 1991—a DIFFA/Chicago Fellowship which was Winzeler agreed that this approach has helped & Enright. Originally from Tucson, Ariz., he has established at Northwestern Memorial Hospital to enhance the community spirit so central to been living in Chicago since 1992 when he to fund HIV/AIDS research, patient care and DIFFA/Chicago’s mission. “It really sort of com- moved here to attend law school at DePaul. education. pletes that circle of why you get involved in Nicknamed Patty, he is training for the mara- “Every year, Northwestern names a DIFFA Fel- DIFFA,” she said. “And I think that that’s unique thon with the Team To End AIDS (T2), the en- low to do their work in a field that’s related to to our organization, that we are able to have durance-training program run by the AIDS Foun- HIV and AIDS, which is solely funded by DIFFA/ that kind of interaction between donors and re- dation of Chicago (AFC). This training program Chicago,” said McGregor. cipients.” annually raises more than $500,000 to coordi- The amount awarded in the fellowship has In keeping with its community-building ini- nate and provide care to those living with HIV been reduced in recent years due to the eco- tiative, DIFFA/Chicago also hosts networking and AIDS as well as advocate at the state and nomic downturn, but DIFFA/Chicago has been events for its grant recipients so that these ser- federal level. able to maintain its commitment to that and to vice providers can discuss ways to partner up “While running the marathon is a life-chang- the breadth of other organizations to which they and share resources to avoid duplicating efforts. ing experience, knowing that I am helping grant by employing a savvy money management But as the face of HIV/AIDS changes, DIFFA/ friends and others impacted with a life-chang- strategy. Chicago plans to look at the best ways to con- ing disease is what keeps me running after Patrick Vezino. Photo by Ross Forman “We created an endowment within the last five tinue to serve the community, including a com- 20-plus miles and will help me finish the mara- years that will help us remain financially viable prehensive study that DIFFA National is working thon,” Vezino said. “One of my best friends is Vezino is the pace-group leader for the Tegla and benefit the organizations in perpetuity—a on to determine the directions the organization HIV-positive and has been for [more than] 12 Loroupe group, which started rather small, he sustainable longevity strategic plan that was will take in the future. years. He, as well as other friends, uses some of admits, but has grown to more than 15 runners. put in place before the recession so that we “With all of these wonderful advancements the services that money raised through [T2 for “We have so much fun running and manage can continue to give and continue to work op- and anti-retro-drug therapy and we hear that a AFC] provide, and I know what a huge impact it to motivate each other to keep going when our erationally,” said McGregor. “And so we are the vaccine is imminent—what happens to DIFFA?,” has on their day to day lives. feet and legs have other ideas,” Vezino said, most financially viable chapter of DIFFA, which said McGregor, who will be part of that team in “Knowing that I am helping others is very laughing. “As a group of 14 men and one wom- is wonderful. her new role with DIFFA National. “What hap- emotional. I remember crossing the finish line of an, we naturally admire the other hot [male] “But we also have maintained our sponsorship pens to the aid when we do find a cure? Do my first Chicago Marathon with other members runners along the lakefront. We were trying to base through the midst of a recession, although we remain steadfast to HIV and AIDS? Do we of my training group with tears streaming down devise a system whereby we could communicate we obviously have seen it dip to a certain de- branch out in other ways that continue to help my face and being elated that we had reached to one another when a hot guy was running to- gree.” the community? a personal goal, but had helped so many people ward us without shouting it out. Zak George and Giving levels may have dipped, but between “It’s a tough one because we have constitu- through our efforts. That is part of the reason I Bill Marsland came up with the idea of yelling the gala, the Dining by Design events and the ents that will be living with this disease, albeit returned to the training program this year.” out Goo, which is a product we use to boost our fundraising done by the organization’s new Aux- healthily, but they will be living with this for Vezino ran his first marathon in 2005. energy along the run. It has been an effective iliary Board—made up of the next generation the rest of their lives, another 50 years or more,” “Training with T2 is a wonderful experience, means of alerting each other to someone who is of design professionals—DIFFA/Chicago raised McGregor said. “So they still need our support thanks to the excellent coaching staff and en- visually appealing, which helps on the run. just shy of a million dollars in 2010. And when whether there is a cure or not—especially as it couraging fellow runners; and it’s great to raise “The training certainly isn’t all serious busi- McGregor became the executive committee chair relates to legal advocacy, to food and nutrition money for a wonderful cause,” Vezino said. “I ness en route to the starting-line.” in 2000, she began tracking the giving history and housing. would never run 10-plus miles on my own, but Vezino said his favorite memory this season of DIFFA/Chicago’s donors so that they could “It’s a very highly emotionally charged con- the [training] group always encourages me and was listening to fellow runners Peter Ruger and be paired with a benefiting organization at the versation. It’s very split; it’s very mixed. But I makes the run fun and interesting.” Emily Thies singing songs from Glee on the 20- DIFFA/Chicago grant awards ceremony each year will tell you that here in Chicago, we will remain In return, he added, “I hope to encourage mile training run to motivate the group to keep in February. where we are.” fellow runners to finish the marathon and raise going along the dreaded cement corridor be- “We match up the 26 grants to the top 26 See www.diffachicago.org for upcoming com- awareness for the program and those living with tween Oak Street Beach and North Avenue. sponsors,” said McGregor. “At our ceremony, it’s munity, gala and Auxiliary Board events. HIV.” Next stop for Vezino and T2: the starting-line. not the board that’s handing out the checks; it’s

HIV conferences over the past year and a half. visited Dr. Ogola’s hospice in Nairobi, reported: Viread loses its VOICE First tenofovir gel used vaginally was shown to Dr. Margaret Ogola dies “The beauty and order in this hospital and the By Enid Vázquez reduce infections in women by 42% in the CA- happy little faces was very striking. Margaret’s Dr. Margaret Ogola, renowned Kenyan author and PRISA 004 study. Then the iPrEx study showed care for these children was giving them a sur- There was disappointing news last week on HIV medical director of Cottolengo HIV and AIDS an HIV reduction of 42% to 93% in men and vival rate unparalleled, I believe, anywhere. Her prevention. The VOICE study looking at HIV pre- Hospice, passed away Sept. 22. At the World transgender women with the use of a daily Tru- motherly love and her extraordinary medical ex- vention in women discontinued the use of te- Congress of Families II in Geneva (1999), Dr. vada tablet. Later, the Partners study showed a cellence, combined with her vocation to defend nofovir pills (brand name Viread). However, a Ogola received the WCF Familias Award for Hu- reduction in HIV with either Viread or Truvada every single life were quite overwhelming. What combination of tenofovir with another HIV med- manitarian Service. pills in serodiscordant couples (where one part- a beautiful woman!” ication, emtricitabine (together under the brand A pediatrician based in Nairobi, Dr. Ogola was ner is positive and the other is uninfected), name Truvada), will continue to be studied, as the author of two highly acclaimed novels about and the TDF2 study showed a 63% reduction well as a tenofovir gel used vaginally. the lives of four generations of Kenyan women in acquiring HIV with Truvada pills in men and According to the National Institute of Allergy in a rapidly changing world—The River And The women. and Infectious Disease (NIAID), an interim re- Source and I Swear By Apollo. Begun in September 2009, the VOICE study, view showed that “the study will be unable to Besides her service at the Cottolengo Hospice, or MTN-003, involves more than 5,000 HIV-un- show a difference in effect between tenofovir Dr. Ogola was vice president of Family Life Coun- infected women in South Africa, Uganda, and tablets and placebo [inactive] tablets.” seling in Kenya, which works to improve the Zimbabwe. The 1,000 women given tenofovir VOICE (Vaginal and Oral Interventions to Con- condition of Kenyan women. From 1998 to 2002, tablets will stop participating in the study and trol the Epidemic) is looking at the concept of she was national executive director of the Com- in Windy City Times runs through will be given information on where to continue PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis, or prevention), mission for Health and Family Life of the Kenya December, and past articles receiving HIV testing and counseling as well as the use of HIV medications in uninfected people Episcopal Conference. other medical and support services. are available on to see if they work for prevention as well as Christine Vollmer, a member of the World Con- From Positively Aware, reprinted with permission. www.windycitymediagroup.com treatment. Successes with PrEP have dominated gress of Families Management Committee, who under the AIDS button. 20 Oct. 5, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES WINDY CITY VIEWPOINTs TIMES humiliated, were escorted off the flight. While their peck on the lips should be a non-is- Hailey immediately tweeted: “We were es- sue -for passengers and Southwest- the elephant VOL. 26 No. 52, Oct. 5, 2011 REV. The combined forces of Windy City Times, corted off the plane for getting upset about the that weighed Flight 2274 down was homopho- founded Sept. 1985, and Outlines newspaper, IRENE issue. @SouthwestAir endorses homophobic em- bia. founded May 1987. MONROE ployees. No one made her accountable.” “No matter how quietly homophobia is whis- Southwest thought their action was justified. pered, it doesn’t make it any less loud,” Hailey’s PUBLISHER & EXECUTIVE EDITOR Several passengers on Flight 2274 complained statement said. “You can’t whisper hate. We ask Tracy Baim that their display of affection with each other this airline to teach their employees to not dis- ASSISTANT PUBLISHER Terri Klinsky was objectionably inappropriate, “characterizing criminate against any couple, ever, regardless of MANAGING EDITOR Andrew Davis the behavior as excessive.” And Hailey tweeted their own beliefs.” BUSINESS MANAGER Meghan Streit Flying that a “Flt. attendant said that it was a ‘family’ Southwest would say that they don’t discrimi- DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA Jean Albright airline and kissing was not ok.” nate. As a matter of fact, Southwest Airlines ART DIRECTOR Kirk Williamson SENIOR ACCOUNT MANAGERS: Terri Klinsky, Amy With all the brouhaha about Hailey’s and boast that it is the official airlines for several of Matheny, Kirk Williamson, Dave Ouano, Kirk Smid while gay Grey’s “excessive” and “inappropriate” smack- our national lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, PROMOTIONAL SUPPORT Cynthia Holmes ing, of course, we all now want to know what and queer (LGBTQ) organizations. NIGHTSPOTS MANAGING EDITOR Kirk Williamson Southwest Airlines has issues. kind of kiss was it to bring national attention to “At Southwest Airlines, we take pride in our NATIONAL SALES Rivendell Media, 212-242-6863 SENIOR WRITERS Kate Sosin, Bob Roehr, Rex Those issues, on any given day or flight, with it. What category of kissing theirs falls in the outreach and commitment to the GLBT commu- Wockner, Marie J. Kuda, David Byrne, Tony Per- its customers appear arbitrary. science of kissing called philematology? nity. We have community partnerships with a egrin, Lisa Keen, Yasmin Nair, Erica Demarest For example, little did Billie Joe Armstrong, The Romans created three categories of kiss- variety of local and national organizations who THEATER EDITOR Scott C. Morgan lead guitarist for the punk-rock band Green Day, ing: 1) “Osculum,” a kiss on the cheek, 2) “Ba- are dedicated to GLBT causes and initiatives. As CINEMA WRITER Richard Knight, Jr. BOOKS WRITER Yasmin Nair know that flying while wearing “saggy pants” sium,” a kiss on the lips, and 3) “Savolium,” a an example, we are the official airline of the Gay ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WRITERS can get you evicted off Southwest Airlines. This deep kiss. & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), Mary Shen Barnidge, Steve Warren, Lawrence past Labor Day weekend, on Sept. 1, Armstrong “We want to make it clear we were not mak- the Gay-Straight Alliance Network (GSA), and Ferber, Mel Ferrand, Jerry Nunn, Alicia Wilson, was booted. Armstrong, in disbelief, queried, ing out or creating any kind of spectacle of our- the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Com- Jonathan Abarbanel COLUMNISTS/WRITERS: Yvonne Zipter, Jorjet “Don’t you have better things to do than worry selves, it was one modest kiss,” Hailey’s written merce (NGLCC). We look forward to welcoming Harper, Lee Lynch, Tully Satre, Lisa Keen, Charlsie about that?” The response from the flight atten- statement said. “We are responsible adult wom- you onboard soon, “ stated on its website. Dewey, Michael Knipp, Lisa Klein, Joe Erbentraut, dant was curt and pointed: “Pull your pants up en who walk through the world with dignity. We However, while you can do LGBTQ sensitivity Carrie Maxwell, Billy Masters, Chuck Colbert, or you’re getting off the plane.” were simply being affectionate like any normal trainings and alter laws in this country to do the Micki Leventhal, Sarah Toce, Dana Rudolph, Sally Parsons, Emmanuel Garcia Another example: Little did film director Kevin couple.” right thing toward a disenfranchised segment SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHERS Kat Fitzgerald, Mel Smith know that flying while being oversized How could “one modest kiss”—a Category 2, of the population, we cannot always alter the Ferrand, Hal Baim, Steve Starr, Emmanuel Garcia, could also have penalties. In February 2010, at best, on the Romans scale—cause such a hearts and attitudes of its citizens. For some of Dave Ouano, Tim Carroll Smith was removed from his Southwest seat be- brouhaha? the passengers as well as Southwest’s fight crew, CIRCULATION cause he was deemed too obese to fly safely, According to Southwest, their action was non- seeing two people of the same gender kissing is CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Jean Albright DISTRIBUTION: Ashina, Allan, Dan, John, Renee, although he was able to put both armrests down discriminatory and had everything to do with seen as a signed decree by the airlines sanction- Sue and Victor in accordance with airline policy. customer satisfaction. ing sexual depravity. 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SCOTTISH PLAY SCOTT O’Connor is also cast as Madame Rose in a forthcoming U.K. regional production of the classic Jule Styne/Arthur Laurents/Sondheim musical Gypsy. A Chicago Follies “That’s three Sondheims in a row,” O’Connor BY SCOTT C. MORGAN the Rainbow), the U.K. (a major 1990s Mack and said, happy to be tackling a character very dif- Mabel revival) and the U.S. (the musical Chi- ferent from the showy leading ladies she often It’s quite a feat that Chicago Shakespeare The- cago). However, O’Connor is most widely known portrays. ater (CST) could proceed with its first-ever for her appearances in high-profile films like Baz “[Phyllis] is quite dry and stoic and con- production of Stephen Sondheim and James Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! (as the shady Nini tained,” O’Connor said. “And frustrated on the Goldman’s landmark 1971 Broadway musical Fol- Legs In The Air) and the Cole Porter bio-pic De- inside, but you would never see it—there’s such lies—especially since a Broadway revival of the Lovely (as a brassy Ethel Merman). a haughty veneer there with this woman.” same show is also currently playing in a differ- Barrett has had small roles in films like Long- O’Connor is also up for the challenge of Phyl- ent staging at the Marquis Theatre in New York. time Companion and The Producers (as the lis’ iconic Follies songs “Could I Leave You?” and Typically, when a classic musical receives a leather-harnessed set designer in the “Keep the big follies dance number “The Story of Lucy first-class Broadway revival, the rights to the it Gay” number). Musical theater aficionados and Jessie.” property get restricted or pulled from major re- will remember Barrett, however, from his many “I’ve always been a dancer, but I’m no spring gional theaters. However, the Broadway Follies 1990s historical musical recordings on the EMI chicken,” O’Connor said about choreographer revival actually started out as a limited engage- label (Brigadoon, The Busby Berkeley Album), Alex Sanchez’s tricky choreography for the latter ment starring such Broadway luminaries like plus televised stage tapings as Fred Graham/Pe- number. “I’ve always loved dancing and it’s very Bernadette Peters, Elaine Paige and Jan Maxwell truchio in London revival of Kiss Me, Kate from Brent Barrett. Photo courtesy of Chicago difficult to give it up as you grow older, even earlier this year at the Kennedy Center in Wash- the 2000s and his ever-popular appearance as Shakespeare Theater when it hurts.” the dancing Baron alongside Michael Jeter in Both Barrett and O’Connor said they’re grate- ington, D.C. Thanks to glowing reviews, the D.C. Barrett and O’Connor respectively play the the Grand Hotel song “We’ll Take a Glass Togeth- ful to Griffin for casting them in CST’s Follies, production made the leap to Broadway for an- moneyed husband-and-wife roles of Benja- er” from the 1990 Tony Awards. Barrett was also and added they’re getting along with the com- other critically rapturous reception. min and Phyllis Rogers Stone. The duo offset widely acclaimed when he co-starred alongside pany of largely Chicago-area actors. So now the Tony Award-winning CST is em- the musical’s other unhappily married couple country star Reba McEntire in a hit Broadway With all the emphasis on CST’s Follies being phasizing that its Follies staged by director Gary of failing businessman Buddy Palmer (Petkoff) revival of Annie Get Your Gun. one to celebrate Chicago-area musical theater Griffin is going to be a distinctly Windy City pro- and his dwelling-on-the-past wife, Sally Dur- Barrett and O’Connor are appearing together talent, I thought I’d point out that both Barrett duction as part of the company’s 25th-anniver- rant (Moniz). These four characters used to be in their first regional production in Chicago, and and O’Connor can sort of claim to be “Windy City sary season. CST’s Follies comes complete with a friends back in the early 1940s when the women they’re both appreciating the chance to sink actors” since they are veterans of the hit 1996 cast of more than 40 onstage musicians and lo- were showgirls in the Ziegfeld-like “Weismann their teeth into such rewarding, albeit challeng- Broadway stage revival of the musical Chicago cal actors like Susan Moniz, Robert Petkoff, Hol- Follies,” and now the reunion has conjured up ing, material with Follies. (Barrett on tour and on Broadway; O’Connor in lis Resnik and Mike Nussbaum. However, Chicago memories of their younger selves (physically and “I don’t know if people know what to expect Australia, the U.K. and on Broadway). Shakespeare’s Follies isn’t without its own talent ghostly depicted on stage by other actors). when they come to see Follies,” Barrett said, “If you put it that way, I guess we are ‘from from Broadway and London’s West End. “You get to a certain age you look back on adding that many people are familiar with fa- Chicago,’ too,” O’Connor said with a laugh. In addition to Griffin’s directing credits in New your life and you examine the choices that you mous songs from the show like “Broadway Follies continues in previews before its offi- York (The Color Purple, The Apple Tree) and Lon- made,” Barrett said about his character’s “in- Baby,” “Losing My Mind” and “I’m Still Here,” cial press opening Wed., Oct. 12. Performances don (Pacific Overtures), the cast of CST’s Follies credibly toxic” marriage to Phyllis and his re- but are less so with the story. continue through Nov. 6 at Chicago Shakespeare features Broadway and West End theater veter- kindled love for Sally. “[Ben] was focused and “It’s a little difficult to explain other than it’s Theater at Navy Pier, 800 E. Grand Ave. Tickets ans Brent Barrett and Caroline O’Connor. very direct on his career, and all of a sudden he’s a Follies reunion at a Broadway theater that is are $44-$75; call 312-595-5600 or visit http:// Though born in England, O’Connor was raised 53 and he’s thinking, ‘Is that all there is?’” about to be torn down,” Barrett said. “Every- www.chicagoshakes.com/follies for more infor- in Australia and initially trained to be a bal- O’Connor is relishing the chance portray an- one comes, some kicking and screaming, to be mation. lerina before she became a convert to theater other complex Sondheim character like Phyl- confronted by their past and having to come to and film. O’Connor has major theater credits in lis, especially after recently appearing as Mrs. Turn to page 26 terms with where they are now.” Australia (the 2005 Judy Garland drama End of Lovett in the Paris premiere of Sweeney Todd. 22 Oct. 5, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES DOUBLE REVIEW members who intelligently invest themselves in THEATER REVIEW their roles. (There are only a few groans when Mourning all the incestuous Electra and Oedipal complexes Becky Shaw briefly turn physical.) Playwright: Gina Gionfriddo Becomes Electra I would have liked Kelsey Brennan’s Lavinia Playwright: Eugene O’Neill At: Red Orchid Theatre, 1531 N. Wells St. to be more tightly wound and spiteful, perhaps (adapted by Gordon Edelstein) Phone: 312-943-8722;$25-$30 showing more of an off-kilter obsession so her At: Remy Bumppo Theatre Company Runs through: Nov. 6 later Act III “normality” could stand out more at Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln than just a color palate shift in Samantha C. Phone: 773-404-7336; $40-$55 BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE Jones’ lush period costumes. Otherwise, Bren- Runs through: Oct. 30 nan’s Lavinia proves to be a very capable sparring Folk wisdom holds that every cripple eventu- partner to Annabel Armour as the passionate and ally finds his/her crutch and vice-versa. The murderous Mannon mother Christine. Slater family of North Carolina’s history is a The Amish Project With such hatred among the Mannon women, chronicle of the pragmatically hard-hearted Playwright: Jessica Dickey the men in the production don’t get to shine as protecting the interests of the generously At: American Theater Company, 1909 W. Byron much. Yet there are still solid performances from weak-willed. The latest case study is Miss Su- Phone: 773-409-4125; $35-$40 the likes of Nick Sandys, Scott Stangland and Da- sanna Slater and her foster brother, Max—the Becky Shaw. Photo by Michael Brosilow Runs through: Oct. 23 vid Darlow. latter of whom dispenses tough-love solace to Mourning’s three-hour running time may scare the former as she mourns the death of her fa- BY SCOTT C. MORGAN off some audiences, but the end result more than ther and her mother’s prompt appropriation of slept with her half-sibling. The problem is not lives up to the drama’s passionate promise. a ne’er-do-well lover. Six months later, Susan- filial pain of, literally, mythical proportions, Revenge luridly rips the New England Mannon The Amish Project is just little over an hour by na is married to a husband whose compulsive however, but that the sufferers refuse to heal, family apart in Eugene O’Neill’s Civil War-era contrast, but it proves to be a massive acting and nurturing extends to introducing an insecure the better to enjoy their therapyspeak-fueled updating of Aeschylus’ classic Greek Orestia tril- emotional workout for Sadieh Rifai, who portrays female co-worker—the Becky Shaw giving the crises. It finally falls to the clan matriarch, ogy called Mourning Becomes Electra, now being characters ranging from non-Amish residents to play its title—to bachelor Max. When this whose physical disability—multiple sclero- presented by Remy Bumppo Theatre Company via the shooter himself. stranger turns out to combine the vulnerabil- sis—has narrowed her priorities, to set things Gordon Edelstein’s condensed adaptation. Director P.J. Paparelli masterfully directs Mines ity of a wilting flower with the obstinacy of a to rights. On the emotional flipside is a speedy rush by an throughout the glossy bare field-inspired set creeping vine, the question of what to do with This is enough interpersonal dynamic to fuel Amish religious community to offer forgiveness designed by William Boles. Though some might this needy stray forces them all to examine the a half-dozen plays, but Gionfriddo appears un- to a murderer and his widow following the real- find all the character shifts to be initially confus- motives for their behavior. decided as to which one she wanted to write. life 2006 school hostage/shootings that left five ing, each one soon becomes distinctly developed The play’s external action may be set in New On one level, our story is a screwball tragedy girls dead in Nickel Mines, Pa. (Jessica Dickey’s through Rifai’s dramatic delineations (lighting England, specifically the Boston-Providence in the Beth Henley mode. On another, it’s an largely fictionalized one-woman drama The Amish designer Jesse Klug also greatly helps). hub near Brown University, but Gina Gion- exploration of self-styled victims and their Project based on the incident is now locally pre- The one major pitfall with The Amish Project is friddo’s universe is steeped in deep-south enablers, and on a third, a portrait of a psy- miering at American Theater Company). Dickey’s decision to offer her imagined dialogue gothic as thick as Spanish moss. In addition chological parasite preying on the credulously Remy Bumppo’s new artistic director Timothy in place of conversations from real people. Those to the late Mr. Slater perhaps having engaged co-dependent. Under Damon Kiely’s likewise Douglas shows his ambition for the company by expecting researched docudramas in the vein of in a homosexual relationship with his business ambivalent direction, a cast of Red Orchid mounting the monumental Mourning as his first The Laramie Project or works by Anna Deavere partner, Max’s deceased mother was aban- stalwarts, led by the redoubtable Lance Baker production. O’Neill’s drama is filled with operat- Smith might feel cheated by Dickey’s mixture of doned by his drunken-jailbird father—a fate and Jennifer Engstrom, endow their nebulous ically-sized emotion, which could feel oversized so much fiction with real-life tragic facts. How- Susanna fears the widow Slater’s choice of par- personae with great gobs of panache, but can- in a 130-seat Greenhouse Theater Center space. ever, the message of forgiveness still wields its amour will resurrect, her foreboding possibly not rescue a premise that promises more than Luckily, Douglas largely finds the right balance contemplative power to an overall good effect. engendered by guilt over having once, herself, it ultimately delivers. for this great American drama with strong cast

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Created and Performed by CARRIE FISHER now playing! october 4 –16 800-775-2000 • 24 Oct. 5, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES THEATER REVIEW their current project—a series of murals com- missioned to decorate a fashionable Manhattan CULTURE CLUB Red restaurant—encompass the topics associated Playwright: John Logan with this dynamic: the old vs. the new, selfless At: Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn St. aestheticism vs. commercial compromise, Apol- “From the PHENOMENALLY SUCCESSFUL Phone: 312-443-3800;$25-$84 lonian contemplation vs. Dionysic volatility, God Runs through: Oct. 30 pop composer STEPHEN SCHWARTZ" vs. Mammon. For playgoers unaware of the price paid by -Chicago Tribune BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE Rothko toward the preservation of his legacy, there is a certain satisfaction to be found in “Why is it so difficult to capture artists on simply watching these craftsmen at work. The stage?” asks a note in the Goodman’s playbill. magnitude of the monuments under way lend The answer should be obvious: artists at work— their mission an undeniable grandeur, and the be they painters, sculptors, or writers (musicians intensity they bring to their industry—vividly less so)—don’t make for lively outside observa- conveyed during a scene where a snippet of agi- tion. Even the participants, themselves, some- tato opera spurs them on as they quickly prime- times grow bored with their solitude, relieving coat a canvas—commands our attention. Robert the introspective silence with background music Falls’ direction of his two actors captures the A MUSICAL SCRAPBOOK and frequent rest breaks. John Logan depicts ebb and flow of the verité scenario unfolding music & lyrics by book by the compositional process with an eye to visual with deceptively prosaic leisureliness. STEPHEN SCHWARTZ DAVID STERN stimulus, but what really imposes urgency on The myth of creators coming to worship their the proceedings is our knowledge that one of own creations is a literary convention dating Playing September 16 - October 23 its characters will commit real-life suicide soon from antiquity, and in any other vie de bohéme 847.673.6300 OR NORTHLIGHT.ORG after the dramatic narrative ends. romance, Rothko’s likening his paintings to chil- Oh, yes, the prospect of imminent death does dren sent out into the world to wander among focus the mind. If we didn’t know that the strangers would come off as sentimental affec- larger-than-life personality dominating the ac- tation, and his misanthropic rejection of the tion as he dominates his young assistant was mercurial pop artists as upstart newcomers dis- Mark Rothko, one of the foremost representa- missed as dyspeptic crankiness, lovable—or not. tives of the abstract expressionist movement Logan, however, renders his protagonist a hero of the late 20th century, we could be left with well past the flush of youth, but still steadfast just another teacher-pupil/father-son homily of ethical creed, whatever the sacrifice. “What (cf. Old Wicked Songs). Certainly, the conten- do you see?” he challenges us. What’s your an- tious banter between the master and his hired swer? help as they go about the tasks associated with

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‘Rocky Horror’ CRITICS’ PICKS at Underscore The Count of Monte Cristo, Lifeline The- Underscore Theatre Company, a new mu- atre, through Oct. 30. The author of The sical theatre company dedicated to explor- Three Musketeers knows how to spin an ac- ing the use of music in theatre through tion/intrigue yarn for the ages—haven’t we original work and re-imagined productions always cheered the wronged hero seeking of established plays, has announced the retribution? Lifeline Theatre’s adaptation first annual fundraiser performance of The delivers all of the excitement and suspense THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO Rocky Horror Show. A world premiere adaptation of the legendary classic by Alexandre Dumas in half the time. MSB The Rocky Horror Show will perform Spunk, Court Theatre, through Oct. 9. A Thursday–Sunday through October 30, 2011 Thursday through Saturday Oct. 20-30 at 8 welcome blast of hot Southern blues and Call 773-761-4477 or visit www.lifelinetheatre.com p.m. with midnight shows on Saturdays and New York zoot suit-foppery comes from this a Sunday performance on Oct. 30. musically rich and very entertaining stag- The production will run at the Under- ing of George C. Wolfe’s adaptation of three ground Lounge, 952 W. Newport Ave. There tales by Harlem Renaissance chronicler Zora is a suggested donation of $18-25 for tick- Neale Hurston. SCM ets, which can be purchased at the door. Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Drury Lane Theatre Oakbrook, through Oct. 9. It’s simple: This is the best Nilo Cruz’s ‘Father’ Sweeney Todd you ever are likely to see. Greg Edelman and Liz McCartney are Swee- Oct. 14-Nov. 19 ney and Mrs. Lovett. The ensemble, band Urban Theater Company will present and designs are astonishing. JA the Midwest premiere of the family drama Violet, Bailiwick Chicago at Mercury The- Beauty of the Father, by openly gay play- atre, through Oct. 16. This is an involving wright Nilo Cruz. and intelligently staged production of com- The production will run Thursdays poser Jeanine Tesori’s and librettist Brian through Saturdays Oct. 14-Nov. 19 at the Crawley’s award-winning off-Broadway mu- Wicker Park Art Center at St. Paul’s Church, sical about a facially scarred young woman 2215 W. North Ave. who befriends two soldiers (one Black, one Tickets are $20 with discounts for groups, white) on a cross-state bus trip through seniors and industry members. Visit http:// Tennessee in 1964. SCM www.UrbanTheaterChicago.org. —By Abarbanel, Barnidge and Morgan WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 5, 2011 25 THEATER REVIEW men in heels, ladders and steps can be a slippery Tickets for Reeling will be available for pur- slope and a tad dangerous, giving new meaning 30th Reeling chase at the beginning of October. Pussy on to the expression “break a leg.” Director Mat- LGBT film fest For more information visit http://www.reel- thew Gunnels could have trimmed the two-hour ingfilmfestival.org. the House cat’s tale a bit but with a healthy intermission it running Nov. 3-12 Playwright: Ryan Landry was a perfect time to grab a drink and join the Chicago, IL—REELING 2011: The Chicago At: The Athenaeum Theatre, Studio Space campy second act. Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival will Rosanne Cash #3, 2936 N Southport Ave. Brick Pollup, played by Eric Lindahl, has the mark its 30th anniversary this year, making it Phone: 800-838-3006; $20-$25 straight role and really anchors the piece with the second-oldest LGBT-related event of its kind at ECC Oct. 8 Runs Through: Oct. 30 Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter a strong performance hitting a home run by the in the world. The festival runs Thursday, Nov. Rosanne Cash will perform music from her ac- sticky ending. While not a musical like other 3-Saturday, Nov. 12. claimed 2009 album at “Rosanne Cash: A Spe- Handbag shows such as Poseidon or Trogg, this Reeling will kick off with its opening-night se- cial Acoustic Duo with John Leventhal,” a one- BY JERRY NUNN selection is a nice addition to the company’s lection, The Wise Kids by Stephen Cone, marking night-only engagement at the Elgin Community repertoire. the first time the festival will launch with a film College (ECC) Arts Center. Hell in a Handbag Productions is at it again with directed by a Chicago-based filmmaker. This crit- a brand new parody, this time taking on the Ten- The event will take place Saturday, Oct. 8, at ically acclaimed, coming-of-age drama follows nessee Williams classic Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. the ECC main campus, 1700 Spartan Dr., at 7:30 three teenagers from a religious community in Ryan Landry originally opened a version of this p.m. South Carolina who are in between high school show in Boston back in 2004, which now ar- Tickets are $45 each; a three-course, pre-show and college. Featuring a “brilliant cast of young rives in the Windy City. The Handbaggers have dinner prepared by ECC’s Culinary Arts and Hos- actors” (Variety), the film won Outfest’s Grand taken the story and run with it. This cat sinks pitality Program is an additional $35. Dinners Jury Awards for Best U.S. Dramatic Feature and its claws into such topics as same-sex marriage must be ordered in advance on or before Mon- Outstanding Screenwriting; Newfest’s Audience and addiction. With Artistic Director David Cerda day, Oct. 3. Award for Best Narrative Film; and Sidewalk/ throwing in a dash of typical Hell camp, this See http://tickets.elgin.edu or call 847-622- Shout Birmingham’s Audience Award for Best production has moments of bust-a-gut laughter. 0300. Jeremy Myers plays the lead sexually frustrated Narrative Feature. The Wise Kids screens Nov. character, Maggie, in drag for the first time with 3 at the Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport seductive charm and priceless facial expressions Ave. that would make Elizabeth Taylor (who played Closing the festival is the satire Going Down the role in the movie, of course) blush. in La-La Land, by award-winning director/writer David takes the cake as Mae and throws it off and festival favorite, Casper Andreas (Violet the porch! By popping out of the window shut- Tendencies; The Big Gay Musical). It will screen ters like a version of the nutty ‘70s television Saturday, Nov. 12, at the Portage Theater, 4050 show Laugh-In, the audience went wild for the N. Milwaukee Ave. nosy neighbor’s antics. The Ethel to Cerda’s Lucy, Reeling will also present three documentary ensemble member Ed Jones plays a lesbian lover centerpiece films: We Were Here, Wish Me Away who makes each line sing. “The biggest polyes- and Vito. ter plantation the South has ever seen” is run Screenings for the festival take place at Land- by Honey West as Big Mama, finally arriving to mark’s Century Centre Cinema, 2828 N. Clark shake up the family. West can work on the highs St.; Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Ave.; and lows of the character but settles into a nice Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark St.; Instituto rhythm towards the end of the show. Mama is Cervantes, 31 W. Ohio St.; the Block Cinema at not an easy part to play and West continues to Jeremy Myers (left) and Eric Lindahl in Pussy the Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Rosanne Cash. Photo by Deborah Feingold please the crowds. on the House. Photo by Rick Aguilar Studios Circle Dr., Evanston; and the Portage Theater, The awkward set was tricky for the troupe. With 4050 N. Milwaukee Ave.

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Oct. 5: University of Illinois-Chicago/James Stukel Tower (718 W. Rochford) Oct. 6: Rafael-Cintron Ortiz Latino Cultural Center (803 S. Morgan) KNIGHT Oct. 26: Roosevelt University/Ganz Hall (430 AT S. Michigan) THE Nov. 2—University of Chicago (5710 S. Wood- lawn) MOVIES —On Sunday, Oct. 9, at 2 p.m., Camp Mid- night returns with a new edition of the film series that celebrates “the best of the worst”—this time featuring director Brian DePalma’s 1976 adaptation of Stephen King’s teen horror novel By Carrie. Both Sissy Spacek (as the telekinetic title Richard teen) and Piper Laurie (as her religious nut of Knight, Jr. a mother) were nominated for Oscars. My alter ego, Dick O’Day, will host along with Hell in a Handbag’s David Cerda. The screening will feature a lively pre-show with costume contest Puncture; and more followed by an interactive audience George Clooney in The Ides of March. Photo by Saeed Adyani screening with commentary by myself and Cerda. The Ides The event will partially benefit both Handbag and Vital Bridges. (Have your photo taken with who also co-directed with his brother, Adam) thriller never quite jell—we end up focusing too Carrie and mum before the show in the lobby!). of March; stumble on a case involving a young nurse in- often on the troubled Mike as he misses deposi- www.musicboxtheatre.com fected with HIV/AIDS after being stuck with a tions and goes off on yet another bender (and —Sidetrack, 3349 N. Halsted, is hosting film notes needle in the ER. She leads them to a brilliant how does someone this drug-addled keep so Queer Vision, an evening of all-queer clips but difficult inventor of a retractable needle toned, we wonder). Several of the rather fasci- (film-TV-music video-Broadway-documentary) in “Earnest Hunks” might be the categorical sub- who can’t get hospitals to buy it thanks to what nating questions the storyline raises are never honor of National Coming Out Day on Tuesday, text of two flawed but entertaining dramas, amounts to a medical cartel. Via an antitrust explored and simply fritter away (e.g., How Oct. 11, 7-10 p.m. The evening will include the both with heavyweight subjects, opening this lawsuit, the duo attempt to break up the cartel. culpable are reused, infected needles in the first sneak peek at some of the movies in this weekend. The first,Puncture , stars Mr. Captain The film, set in 1998 and scripted by Chris spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa?). In the end, the year’s Reeling 30 gay and lesbian film festival. America himself, Chris Evans, while the second, Lopota, is based on a true story and is a famil- moviemakers apparently became more obsessed A donation of $10 includes a complimentary The Ides of March, is headed by the moody iar but nevertheless engaging variation on other with their leading character (which their film is beverage and chance at fabulous door prizes beauty Ryan Gosling co-starring with yet an- David vs. Goliath legal dramas a la A Civil Action, dedicated to) and his personal demons rather (including Kathy Griffin concert tickets). The other dreamboat, the film’s co-writer-director, The Verdict and, especially, Erin Brockovich. Paul than the case that apparently obsessed him—an evening will benefit the Queer Film Society (of George Clooney. does what he can to keep the small firm above interesting but unfulfilling irony that Puncture which I’m president) the non-profit film group Evans is front and center (and, yes, shirtless water, watching helplessly as his renegade part- doesn’t quite pierce. which promotes queer cinema in Chicago. www. and as buff as ever) in Puncture, in which he ner’s dual obsessions with drugs and the case queerfilmsociety.org plays Mike Weiss, an idealistic young lawyer keep spiraling downward. A good supporting Ironies abound as well in George Clooney’s po- —Openly gay writer and academic Michael whose life is heading for the deep end, thanks cast (Brett Cullen, Vinessa Shaw, Michael Biehn litical drama The Ides of March, based on a play Schiavi, author of The Celluloid Activist, the to his escalating addiction to drugs and hookers. and Kate Burton, among them) helps, as does by Beau Willimon’s play (who co-adapted the biography of queer film historian and activist Then he and partner Paul Danziger, the good yin the beleaguered Kassen. screenplay along with Clooney and Grant Hes- Vito Russo, will present a lecture on Russo Wed., to his damaged yang (played by Mark Kassen, However, although Evans is spectacular in the lov). Clooney plays Mike Morris, an ultraliberal Oct. 12 at 4 p.m. at the Elmhurst College Frick role, the elements of this lopsided conspiracy presidential candidate who not only isn’t afraid Center Founders Lounge, 150 College Hill Ave., of that label but embraces it. Morris, a gover- Elmhurst. Schiavi’s lecture is in conjunction nor from Pennsylvania, is close to tying up the with a two-day event honoring Elmhurst College Democratic nomination when typical behind- alumnus Reverend William R. Johnson who is be- the-scenes machinations kick into high gear. At ing honored for his longtime work on behalf of first, his campaign managers—Philip Seymour the LGBT community. (In 1972 Johnson, Russo’s Hoffman and the aforementioned Gosling as onetime lover, was the first openly gay person Morris’ number one and two, respectfully—seem ordained by the Christian ministry.) Call 630- to be on top of it. 279-1009 or visit http://public.elmhurst.edu/ However, then Gosling gets drawn into a web calendar. of personal and political missteps involving a Check out my archived reviews at http:// young, pretty intern (Evan Rachel Wood); Mor- www.windycitymediagroup.com or http:// ris’ conservative political opponent’s manager www.knightatthemovies.com. Readers can (Paul Giammatti); and a cagey journalist (Marisa leave feedback at the latter website. Tomei) that test his idealist aspirations with life-changing moral and ethical concerns. These same moral conundrums have been at the core of many of Clooney’s movies and, sadly, like his previous endeavors, Clooney gives with one SCOTTISH from page 21 hand while taking with another.

Thanks to its promising premise and stellar CST at the 2012 London Olympics work by the rest of the powerhouse cast, the Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) has movie hits the ground running. However, al- been chosen with theaters from around the though the exploration of the political wheeling world to participate in London’s 2010 Cul- and dealing never fails to fascinate, eventually tural Olympiad’s 37-play “Globe to Globe” the holes in the plot twists (which veer off into festival at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater on political-thriller territory) require a huge leap of the south banks of the Thames River in faith that The Ides of March can’t hope to over- London. come. (Gosling’s character, especially is required CST is commissioning a world premiere to do some really dumb stuff.) Ironically, one of Othello: The Remix from The Q Brothers, ends up feeling both skeptical and cynical about who are also famed for fusing Shakespeare this movie that wants to have it both ways but, with hip hop in pieces like in Funk It Up instead, ends up just as deeply cynical and About Nothin’ and Bomb-itty of Errors. flawed as its characters and the system it seeks Othello: The Remix is one of only two to expose. English-language plays in the “Globe to Globe” festival of Shakespeare presented in Film notes: different languages (the other English pro- —Woke Up Black, the documentary focusing duction will be the Globe Theatre’s Henry on five African-American teenagers with diverse V). Othello: The Remix will first be seen in backgrounds from the Chicago area by lesbian Chicago in May 2012 before crossing the filmmaker and social activist Mary F. Morten, is pond for the Olympics. screening several times and at several venues this fall. (Check http://www.WokeUpBlack.com for times and other specifics.) WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 5, 2011 27 LGBT films in the Chicago International Film Festival Tomboy. Photo from By Richard Knight, Jr. Other high-profile movies (all receiving their movie’s Chicago debuts) include Kirsten Dunst in the official Michael Kutza’s Chicago International Film end of the world oddity Melancholia (screening website Festival (CIFF) is back in its 47th incarnation on Oct. 7); Orlando Bloom in the medical drama with Oct. 6-20 with another tantalizing mix of The Good Doctor (screening Oct. 16); and Jen- eagerly anticipated star-driven features to the nifer Garner and Modern Family’s Ty Burrell in obscure, offbeat “finds” that all the hallmarks the wacky comedy Butter (screening Oct. 19), of the event. More than 150 films are on the among many others. schedule this year. As usual, a host of stars and The Last Rites of Joe May, a character study filmmaking celebrities—from John C. Reilly to focusing on an aging con artist starring Chicago signment to squire Monroe about London town bition and charm matched equally by a complete Anthony Mackie and Dennis Farina to My Week actor Dennis Farina, is the fest’s opening-night (and keep her in line) during filming. As noted, lack of remorse, best-selling author Mathieu will with Marilyn director Simon Curtis—will attend presentation. Farina, along with fellow Steppen- director Simon Curtis (along with screenwriter do anything for a good story. To write the un- festival screenings and the many red-carpet wolf Theatre alum Gary Cole will walk the red Adrian Hodges) will attend the Oct. 12 screening authorized biography of celebrity news anchor events. carpet and attend opening night festivities on at the AMC River East. Lena Weber (Catherine Deneuve in a career-top- Fans of LGBT-themed films will be pleased to Thursday, Oct. 6 beginning at 6pm at the Har- French star Jean Dujardin takes the lead in the ping performance), not only does he secure a see that CIFF’s OUTrageous program (its section ris Theater, 205 E. Randolph St., followed by a fest’s closing-night feature, The Artist, a sensa- job as her assistant but also seduces Lena, her of gay-themed movies) includes a nice assort- cocktail/hors d’oeuvres reception at the Chicago tion at Cannes (where Dujardin won Best Actor) estranged daughter who is searching for her own ment of internationally flavored movies. (See Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph. and other film festivals. The movie, a homage to son, and anyone who gets in his way, regardless capsule descriptions below.) CIFF’s annual Black Perspectives Tribute hon- the silent-film era, is the first all-silent movie of gender. Screens Oct. 9, 10, 16 In addition to those movies, CIFF will screen ors actor Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker, The (in glorious black and white) to reach commer- Leave It on the Floor (USA)—Sheldon Larry’s many LGBT-tinged films in the main section. Adjustment Bureau, Million Dollar Baby), who cial theatres in decades. It screens Thursday, delightfully cheeky musical about the glamor- Some will feature queer movie audience faves, memorably played gay in Brother to Brother, Oct. 20, at the AMC River East. ous world of voguing follows the journey of like Martha Marcy May Marlene, which co-stars with a career retrospective award Saturday, Oct. The eight films in the OUTrageous film program one young gay African American as he finds his out actor Sarah Paulson (screens Oct. 8); Tilda 15. The event begins with red-carpet arrivals at include the following titles. (Note: Descriptions place in the world. After being thrown out of the Swinton in We Need to Talk About Kevin (screen- the Chase Auditorium, 10 S. Dearborn St., at come from CIFF press materials.) All foreign films house by his homophobic mother, Brad stumbles ing Oct. 12 and Oct. 18 with John C. Reilly in 7:30 p.m. followed by the tribute and onstage include subtitles. into L.A.’s competitive underground drag-ball attendance Oct. 12); up-and-coming British Q&A with Mackie, the awards presentation and a American Translation (France)—Why is it al- scene where he discovers a brave new world heartthrob (and possibly gay) actor Luke Ev- post-event reception at theWit Hotel. ways the cute ones who harbor the deep dark of friendship, love and acceptance. The movie ans in Three Musketeers (screening Oct. 16); The centerpiece screening of the festival is the secrets? When Aurore, the daughter of a wealthy features original songs by Beyonce’s creative di- Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender and Keira eagerly anticipated My Week with Marilyn, based American, falls for sexy Frenchman Chris, she rector, Kim Burse, and dynamic choreography by Knightly in David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous on the memoir of writer Colin Clark (played in has no idea what adventure lies ahead. Escaping Frank Gatson, Jr. Screens Oct. 7, 8 Method (screening Oct. 10); and Ralph Fiennes’ the film by Eddie Redmayne, who played gay in the doldrums of life in the city, the two set out Love Actually…Sucks (Hong Kong)—Hong directorial and starring turn in Shakespeare’s Co- Savage Grace). Clark’s memoir focuses on the on a road trip with some unexpected, unsavory Kong cult filmmaker Scud pushes as many but- riolanus (screening Oct. 13). The Bully Project filming in the late 1950s of The Prince & the detours. A thrilling blend of passionate devotion tons as possible with these six tales about love, (screening Oct. 11), Carol Channing: Larger Than Showgirl, the famously controversial movie com- and degeneracy, this French Natural Born Killers sex and decadence. Opening with a scandalously Life, and Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel edy that teamed actor-director Laurence Olivier asks how far you would go for love. Screens Oct. are just three documentaries with LGBT themes (played by Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Mon- 8, 9, 13 Turn to page 40 or undertones being screened at the fest. roe (Michelle Williams), and his unexpected as- His Mother’s Eyes (France/Spain)—With am- 28 Oct. 5, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES Windy City Times’ Fall 2011 Books Preview BOOK REVIEW To be ‘Gay in America’ Gay in America out, and it seemed the obvious choice,” Pasfield said. “But after a few of the men expressed con- portraits by Scott Pasfield, Welcome Books, cern over their safety, it caused me to reconsid- 224 pages, hardcover, $45. er. I also realized that by using first names only, their stories were that much more relatable. As REVIEW BY Tracy Baim Stephen Foster put in [an] Outsmart cover story, ‘The men are presented with deceptive simplic- ity, identified by first names only, and their city and state of residence. This seemingly rudimen-

Scott Pasfield, the man behind Gay in America. Photo courtesy of Platon

tary cataloging of subjects takes on a startling profundity: they are every man. And they are everywhere.’ That sums it up pretty well.” I would have preferred last names (and if these guys do have fear, well, anyone could scan their photo and share it on the Internet and in their home towns). I think without the last names it calls to mind vestiges of our closeted past—and Bob from Arizona. From Gay in America by Scott Pasfield, published by Welcome Books. surely there were enough fully out men in each © 2011 Scott Pasfield. www.gayinamerica.us The Gay in America cover featuring Dan Choi. of the 50 states who would have been more than From Gay in America by Scott Pasfield, pub- happy to pose. lished by Welcome Books. relationship and doing their thing.” I also found the text accompanying the sub- © 2011 Scott Pasfield. www.gayinamerica.us The book reveals the struggles of some men jects, written in the first person, often lacking who face ostracism at home, but who choose to in the kind of basic details and interesting sto- stay and face it rather than abandon their roots. ries that would help readers relate to the men. Fifty states, three years, 52,000 miles, 140 gay Others have moved as far away from “home” as It would have been much better if the men men—and some camera equipment. That’s what possible to create a new life. These are our gay had been interviewed by a professional writer, it took New York-based photographer Scott Pas- pioneers, and some are still on the frontlines of so that for each we had some of the same info field to complete his epic Gay in America book, our movement, risking their lives to simply live (age, job, etc.) and then the most interesting with both images and text representing a wide as gay men. stories they had to tell—someone writing about range of men across the country, from Alaska to To get his subjects, Pasfield placed ads and themselves does not always know how to do New York, Hawaii to Florida. took small trips, no more than two weeks at a this. The book includes an introduction by play- time. The journey helped Pasfield shake off the Since the words were limited and lacking some wright Terrence McNally and his husband, ac- final strands of his own lack of self-acceptance. context, I focused mainly on the photos—be- tivist Tom Kirdahy. The cover image is quite The one person from Illinois included is “Kevin,” cause this is a gorgeous book full of photos timely: Gay military activist Dan Choi. Having a from Chicago, who says he is “an entire season of gay men of almost every type and category uniformed subject on the cover would not have of Oprah on my own.” He had a difficult upbring- (though no transgender men are included). We been likely had the book come out sooner—the ing and is searching for Mr. Right. have bears and leathermen, young and older, book’s release is perfectly timed to coincide Pasfield’s specialty is portraits, and that is Latino, African American, Asian and white, big with the end of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and the clearly reflected in this book. This is an amazing and small, coupled, tripled and single, fathers entire military gay ban. project, and worth your investment, even given and pet lovers. You name it, Pasfield has prob- However, Pasfield’s goal was to show the gay the minor issues I have with the text itself. ably found it. The photos are beautifully staged, Josh and Joseph of Oregon with Joseph’s “everyman,” and in that he does succeed quite Place it on the coffee table to make sure your and they are penetrating portraits of a multi- daughter Sabin. From Gay in America by Scott admirably. This is not some celebrity photo gay and straight family and friends all have a generational movement. The photos tell far more Pasfield, published by Welcome Books. book, despite Choi’s face on the cover. In fact, peek into the “normalcy” of what it means to be than the words. © 2011 Scott Pasfield. www.gayinamerica.us Pasfield does not even use the last names of a gay man in America in 2011. “I wanted to create a book that would change the rest of his subjects. I found this disturbing Pasfield will be in Chicago for a booksign- opinions and educate; to produce a profound in a book that is about being out in America, ing 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 11, which is Nation- collection of ordinary, proud, out gay men who but Pasfield emailed a statement about why he al Coming Out Day, at Barnes & Noble, 1441 defy clichés and stereotypes,” Pasfield said. “I chose this path. W. Webster in Chicago. was surprised to find these tough, rugged men, “At first I had considered using full names to See http://www.gayinamerica.us. who had never been into a gay bar in their lives, identify the men in the book, as they were all Video trailer: http://youtu.be/5S1emYtI8_E or were just living happily, in a monogamous

LEFT TO RIGHT: Kevin from Illinois; Stevie from Kansas; Nandi from Colorado; Todd and Jason from Georgia. All photos from Gay in America by Scott Pasfield, published by Welcome Books. © 2011 Scott Pasfield. www.gayinamerica.us WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 5, 2011 29 NUNN ON ONE: BOOKS Kendra Wilkinson opens up about gay fans, sex INTERVIEW BY JERRY NUNN vous. I hated going out in front of millions of people and would shake. I felt like I would pass Kendra Wilkinson showed she was just a “Girl out every single time. Next Door” when she arrived at the Playboy WCT: Do you still talk to your dance partner, mansion with Holly Madison and Bridget Mar- Louis Van Amstel? quardt to have her life changed by Hugh Hef- KW: Every now and then. It is kind of like me, ner. After moving out and marrying pro football Holly and Bridget. We had our experiences but player Hank Baskett, her life was chronicled on a we do our own thing. We keep in touch. He made self-titled reality show. With season four begin- an appearance on my show. ning, a new second book and a return to Chica- WCT: What did you think of The Playboy go, everything is coming up Kendra these days! Club? Windy City Times: Hi, Kendra! KW: I actually was impressed. I was a little Kendra Wilkinson: ¿Como estas? nervous at first. The story was really great. I WCT: Muy bien. I didn’t know you spoke love a mafia themed show. I am a huge fan of Cover of the book Dreaming Color by Fiona Lewis (left) and the author herself (right). Spanish. The Sopranos. I love the old type of feel in a Courtesy of Fiona Lewis KW: I didn’t either. [Both laugh.] show. There were good looking people but they WCT: Thanks for taking out time to talk know how to act. I was worried who was going BOOKS to me. By reading your book Being Kendra: to be in the bunny costumes. Hearing Hef nar- Cribs, Cocktails and Getting My Sexy Back, I rate the show was really fun. I could just picture see how busy you are… him sipping on a jack and coke reading his lines. Tiny Satchel Press gives KW: No, no, no: This is a new part of my life. I WCT: It was filmed here in Chicago so I went am just chillin’ nowadays. on set to see the whole thing as an extra. WCT: When I read the part about you eat- KW: That’s awesome. I was really impressed LGBT youth of color a voice ing in the shower I thought, “Now isn’t that with it. INTERVIEW BY David-Elijah Nahmod the United States. Contributors include famed interesting?” WCT: What do you want people to get out of author and LGBT activist Jewelle Gomez, whose KW: I just like to eat in the shower, except your book? Victoria Brownworth understands the power of “Caramelle” tells a tale of the underground rail- my bread will get soggy from the soap and all of KW: I wrote it because I had more to tell. I words. road of the 1860s. Other stories address young that. wanted to get a lot off of my chest. I wanted A writer since childhood, her first book of po- Black life as it might be today, as in Kahlil Al- WCT: The book is just like you talking on to tell what I really dealt with after having the etry was published when she was 17. That was mustafa’s “Discovering ‘Pac.” your reality show. baby and what happened behind the scenes. only the beginning. As an investigative journal- “I know that most people don’t read outside KW: It is. I like to think of this book as a People watch my show but they only see 30 ist for both mainstream and LGBT publications, their own groups,” said Brownworth. “Straight narration of this new season of my show com- minutes of me on Sunday nights. I wanted to she was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 people don’t read queers, men don’t read wom- ing out. When you read it you will see a lot of write what really happens with the cameras off. after a series of articles in which she exposed en, whites don’t read Blacks, etc. So I wanted to similarities and stories from my show. I wanted to explain things that I couldn’t about corruption at a Philadelphia based social service put together a book for Black teens and tweens WCT: You had a special episode with your the tabloids. I string everything together for my agency. There was much more to come. where everyone had to read about each other. gay assistant, Eddie Bochniak, coming out on fans to understand things and why things hap- “I became an AIDS reporter,” she wrote in an So you have stories by straight Black writers and the show. pened in the public. It is a clear-it-up kind of email to Windy City Times. “I won a series of queer Black writers together. It’s a fabulous col- KW: He just left, actually. He went to go get book. I had some struggles but everything is awards for my pieces on women and AIDS, pedi- lection!” me a plunger. good now. atric AIDS, and people of color and AIDS.” She WCT: When you want to get rid of him, like WCT: It seems you have changed and grown has worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the in the book, you just send him to get a plung- up a lot. Philadelphia Daily News, where she was the first er! KW: I know I have. I know I have grown up lesbian in the country to have a column in a KW: Yeah. [Laughs] That episode was amaz- a lot. I am definitely more aware and cautious daily newspaper that was devoted to lesbian is- ing. It was great to be a part of it. It was so in- about things. I look at it this way. You have one sues. She also contributed extensively to many spirational, not only to everybody that watched life to live. Live it the way you want. I am living other publications. it, but inspirational to me. That was real. You it the way I want to live. I have no shame. Why However, sometimes life can interfere while don’t script something like that. I was so hon- have shame? I am here in this business because you’re busy making other plans. “In 1993 I was ored to have that on my show. who I am Being Kendra and I am here to tell the diagnosed with primary progressive multiple WCT: You do have a lot of gay fans. story. People want to read it so I am excited and sclerosis, which altered my career radically. I KW: That’s awesome! very honored. began focusing on writing books and editing an- WCT: I think we love you because you are Kendra’s book signing was just at Macy’s thologies.” Since her diagnosis, Brownworth has real. and the fourth season of her show, Kendra, had thirty books published and has been includ- Victoria Brownworth. Photo by Maddy Gold KW: Thanks. I love to keep it real. I feel like premiered Sept. 25 on E! Keep up with ed in dozens of anthologies. She also authors a that is why I am here. I think that is why people Kendra at http://kendrawilkinson.celebuzz. syndicated column in which she discusses and want to keep me around is because I am real. com. critiques television from an LGBT point of view. The publisher is also particularly excited about I don’t judge anybody. I love everyone for who Recently, Brownworth entered a new phase of Dreaming in Color, the newly available novel by they are. That is why I wrote my first book too her career. As the owner of Tiny Satchel Press, Fiona Lewis, a Jamaican-American lesbian. The just to tell that side of my story. I grew up not she offers a much needed platform to some of very topical tale deals with racism and bullying judging anybody. I always wondered why there our most marginalized citizens. in high school, and with the dislocation of im- wasn’t a black Barbie. I just see everybody as “I had begun working as an acquisitions edi- migration. one. Kendra tor for another publishing company doing young Tiny Satchel also prides itself in its diversity WCT: Last night was a big night for you be- Wilkinson. adult books. I felt that my concerns about more of genres. Brownworth stated, “Last Christmas cause two shows came out that involved you, Press photo LGBT centered books and books for teens and we published Sorceress, a young adult novel by Dancing With the Stars and The Playboy Club. tweens of color weren’t getting attention. I gay mystery writer Greg Herren, who has won KW: Yeah; I am glad they didn’t run together knew from my own experience how important many awards for his work. His main character because I would have had a problem. It is funny having characters that represent you can be to was a young girl whose parents had been killed because I only went one time to see Jerry Rice kids. I thought that there were gaps to be filled. and dealt with a lot of issues young girls face— but other than that I never watched Dancing I live in a mostly African American neighbor- sex, isolation and bullying. The book came at With the Stars until I was on it. Last night was hood where the majority of the kids are poor or the gothic thriller from a different perspective the first time I watched it without being on it. working class. There is no access to books. So I than we’re used to seeing where the girl was It was so weird! I knew what those people were wanted to provide books to these kids.” self-empowered rather than just another vic- going through. They probably thought they were “As someone who has been dealing with the tim.” going into something fun but they were going marginalization of being a woman, a lesbian and Books have always been very important to through blood, sweat and tears. It is fun to now disabled, I really appreciate what it means Brownworth. “My mother taught me from a very watch now to see what they go through. to be searching for representation. I have al- early age to always take a book with me wher- WCT: Did you like anyone in particular? ways made an effort to have people of color well ever I went and I would never be bored,” she KW: Carson Kressley—oh my God, he needs to represented in my anthologies.” stated. “One of the things that made me a writer stay on there as long as possible. He was having Brownworth walks the walk. Recent releases was the power books had over me when I was a fun out there. That is what I like to see. from Tiny Satchel Press include From Where We child. Telling a story is one of the oldest abili- WCT: Some people get stiff on there and Sit: Black Writers Write Black Youth. The book ties we have as humans.” worry about what they are going to do. offers short stories by 13 writers who explore For more information, visit http://www. KW: I was one of those people. I was so ner- what it means to be a Black child or teen in TinySatchelPress.com. 30 Oct. 5, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES BOOK REVIEW Gay San Francisco through the eyes of Drummer Magazine Gay San Francisco: is especially of interest to our local history. He The book also features photos and artwork writes: “Without antiwar defiance of the cops in representative of the era, including photos of Eyewitness Drummer Chicago in August 1968, Stonewall might not men from the 1950s onward. The essays and se- by Jack Fritscher have happened in Greenwich Village in June lections from Drummer are given updated con- Palm Drive Publishing, 714 pages, $39.95. 1969.” He said his social activism in Chicago text, which is very helpful in placing the pieces began in 1961 when he worked with the Wood- in their proper historical place. REVIEW BY Tracy Baim lawn Organization, among other groups, and he This is a wide-ranging book and of interest to marched once in a protest lead by Dr. Martin Lu- both leather folks as well as gay historians. It Jack Fritscher, founding San Francisco editor ther King, Jr. to Mayor Richard J. Daley’s office. is filled with important stories, anecdotes and of Drummer Magazine, brings together a trea- There is a chapter, “Star Trick,” on Chicago- personal reflections from someone who was and sure trove of leather and gay-sex history in this based artist Dom “Etienne” Orejudos, lover of is on the frontlines of gay history. lengthy first volume of his work, Gay San Fran- Chuck Renslow. The piece was originally pub- cisco: Eyewitness Drummer, collected and edited lished in Drummer in 1977. “Having come out by Mark Hemry. in Chicago in the early 1960s, I became per- The book covers the incredible rich history of sonally familiar with the Renslow-Orejudos BOOK REVIEW the 1970s and through 1999. Drummer covered leather family,” Fritscher writes. “I played in hard-core sex for gay men on the edge, and the heady and ‘outlaw’ leather culture spun out Fritscher was in the heart of the San Francisco of the Black Castle where they lived.” Fritscher scene, documenting the art, politics, health also married into Renslow’s clan when he “mar- Get used to this: scares and controversies. Fritscher was also ried” Gold Coast bartender David Sparrow. Frit- lovers with artist Robert Mapplethorpe, and he scher documents the leather mural movement as tracks the rise and fall of San Francisco’s popular well, including Dom, who he credits as helping ‘We’re Here, We’re Queer’ gay areas, Folsom and Castro. found the movement with his famous Gold Coast The book begins with several introductions by murals of super-endowed gay men. [Fritscher is respected writers and activists, including Joseph among those interviewed for Leatherman: The covers the gay (19)90s Bean, Harold Cox and Larry Townsend. As Cox Legend of Chuck Renslow, a book I co-authored writes in his piece, subtitled “How Jack Fritscher with Owen Keehnen earlier this year.] We’re Here, We’re Queer Survived Every Owner, Publisher, and Editor” (of There are many other Chicago references, in- by Owen Keehnen Drummer): “The history of Drummer is closely cluding this comment about the notoriously gay Prairie Avenue Productions, 485 pages, soft- tied to the liberation history of masculine- Lawson YMCA: “[The] Lawson YMCA was a sperm- cover, $19. identified gay male sex in the United States and o-rama orgy party from the roof sundeck down there is no one alive today better qualified to through the rooms and toilets, down through REVIEW BY Tracy Baim write that history than Jack Fritscher.” the stairwells where I had to step over writhing Fritscher has connections to Chicago, and his bodies, down to the showers and the pool. This I have a few conflicts of interest reviewing this Chicago 7 chapter, about the Democratic Nation- was the Chicago scene in which Renslow and book—because of my occasional collaboration al Convention riots of 1968 and related protests, Orejudos flourished—years before Stonewall.” over many years with the writer—but I want to plow right through them to get to the heart of the matter: This is an important and highly recommended collection of interviews. Owen Keehnen wrote for Outlines newspaper (which purchased and merged with Windy City Times in 2000). I was publisher of Outlines and I am now publisher of WCT. Keehnen has always been among my favorite writers. He loved the art of writing, and he respected the work of activists, writers and other cultural pioneers. He interviewed top names in those areas, and he syndicated some of the interviews beyond Chi- cago. 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Fritscher, Rudy Galindo, Jewelle Gomez, Allan WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 5, 2011 31 Don Lemon: CNN anchor on race, coming out BY ANDREW DAVIS I’ve never been a conformist so when someone “The trouble with a secret life is that it is tries to put me in a certain category I always very frequently a secret from the person who In his accurately titled memoir, Transparent, out surprise that person. “Why do you think that lives it and not at all a secret for the people gay CNN anchor Don Lemon (who once worked way?” I think that way because I’m an individ- he encounters.” What led you to include that for NBC’s Chicago affiliate) discusses several is- ual. Just because I’m African-American doesn’t quote? sues, such as his determination to succeed as a mean that I belong to a monolithic group. DL: It’s the truth. I was reading Another Coun- journalist and the journey he took to be open WCT: Every once in a while I’ll hear “You try—and Baldwin is my literary role model. I about his sexuality. Lemon recently talked with speak so well” and I can’t understand why remembered people who were in the closet, say- Windy City Times about the book. people are surprised. ing, “I’m not gay”—and the only people they Windy City Times: I’m pretty private, so I’m DL: Isn’t that amazing? “You’re so articulate.” are not gay to are themselves. [Both laugh.] curious: What motivated you to write a mem- “Oh my God, you can write.” Of course I can I’m, like, “Dude, everybody knows.” I think that oir? write; I’m a journalist. Some people feel I’m an quote speaks volumes about keeping secrets and Don Lemon: I was asked to write it. I kept affirmative-action hire. being on the down low; it’s always obvious, so saying “No, no, no”—just like when other peo- Many professional African Americans have to why be a hypocrite? I think secrets are toxic; I ple tell me “no.” Then, I said yes, but it wasn’t deal with the black box, including the president. think they kill possibilities, they hurt people, supposed to be what it is. It was supposed to A counterpart of a different race can be curmud- they take lives. be this Chicken Soup for the Soul thing. Then I geonly and that’s OK, because that’s who they WCT: I also thought it was interesting that started writing it and said, “I don’t want to read are; if we’re that way, we’re angry and hard to you mentioned Tyler Clementi [the Rutgers this.” Long story short, I started writing about worth—a perception that’s very real. University student who committed suicide my childhood and it became cathartic—and I WCT: In the book, you talked about model- last year]. realized this would’ve been a book that would’ve ing. Do you feel that your looks have helped DL: Yes; I dedicated the book to Tyler. But helped as a kid, when I was abused, all sorts of or hindered you in this business? it’s not just about Tyler; it’s about all the Ty- things came out. DL: Sure! [Laughs] Everything comes into play. ler Clementis of the world who think they have of-factly; it didn’t seem organic to write about WCT: For our readers, could you talk about [Looks at car near him] This woman just left four to harm themselves because people finding out a relationship. I wasn’t keeping something a the “black box” and the impact it had (and kids in her car. Anyone could walk off with them. you’re gay is [supposedly] the worst thing that secret; it just didn’t fit into the narrative. I’ve still has) on your life? [Answering the question] It think looks can happen to you. That is a mechanism of soci- been in a relationship for four years, but it just DL: The “black box” comes not only from those have done both. I don’t think I’m some model, ety. There’s nothing wrong with being gay. God wasn’t a fit. who are African-American but also from those though; someone just approached me once, so created gay people and he didn’t make any mis- WCT: Do you see yourself as an activist? who are outside the culture. So whites have a I did it. But it’s television, and you have to be takes, as far as I’m concerned. DL: No, I don’t. I see myself just as a normal certain perception of Blacks, for example. So, telegenic—but maybe some people don’t take The quote [we discussed before] is like this. person who is an “accidental role model.” I’m immediately, some people think I’m a sports- me seriously because they think I’m a pretty If a parent tells a child he needs to be some- flattered by that. When someone says, “I can caster (“I work for CNN.” “So you do sports?” boy. But on top of that, I’m still African Ameri- thing else, that [also] kills the possibilities and be who I am” or “I can be an anchorman,” I “Uh, no.”) I got that even when I worked [in can. thwarts their creativity. become an accidental role model. However, I Chicago] at Channel 5. WCT: Also, the African-American commu- WCT: You’re very open with many aspects of haven’t counseled any youth—I’m not against But Blacks have certain perceptions of them- nity can be pretty conservative when it comes your life, but it seems you drew the line at it, but I just don’t have time for that right now. selves, [thinking] we have to listen to this kind to LGBT people. personal relationships. Why did you draw the WCT: What did you learn about yourself of music, we have to belong to this organiza- DL: I think just about any culture that has line? from writing this book? tion. When I was a kid, you didn’t achieve much to deal with church can be conservative. With DL: It wasn’t really a line that I drew. The book DL: I always thought I was fearless, but I’m or people would call you a punk; you couldn’t [African Americans], the church has been the is about me and my life; when I wrote the book, even more fearless now. What I’ve honestly speak a certain way. You couldn’t be interested backbone of society for such a long time. We I just didn’t think it was something that was learned is that you should always walk in the in things that were “white.” have, in many ways, been a victim of the Scrip- important. I talk about relationships with my light. I know it’s a cliche, but the truth really We still box ourselves in, but whites box us in tures and theology that have been used to keep family and I talked about feeling I could be gay does set you free. I have a degree of freedom as well. There’s a black box in broadcasting; you us as slaves. It’s been ingrained us, and now when I was in New York. that’s infinite now. don’t see African Americans in certain roles— we use it against gay people without thinking The area about being gay is small. However, like hosting or doing our own shows. People about things objectively. I wasn’t even in the closet when it came to my don’t see you in that particular light. WCT: You included a James Baldwin quote: family and friends. I just wrote the book matter-

BOOK REVIEW Local LGBT history comes ‘Out’ Out in Chicago: “Queer or Not,” tantalizingly tells us that Ad- World War II” which has not been generally dams was “very queer” but not gay, and exam- seen since it originally appeared under another LGBT History at the ines what we can learn from the questions that title in The Advocate, 1983. This is the seminal Crossroads dichotomy engenders. work, the compass from which many of us writ- by Jill Austin and Jennifer Brier, editors; E. Patrick Johnson’s “Gays and Gospel: A His- ing about Chicago’s early gay history plotted our $19.95; Chicago History Museum; 153 pages tory of Sacred Music ” examines the importance course. Ann Parsons and Jessica Herczeg-Konec- of the church and church music in the same ny joined the editors in preparing an introduc- REVIEW BY Marie J. Kuda communities as included in his book Sweet Tea: tion to Sprague, his work, and his importance Black Gay Men of the South. The Chicago con- to the community. He donated his papers to The cover blurb for this collection of essays, nection is explored through the life of the Rev. the Chicago Historical Society and it was from released concurrently with the Chicago His- James Cleveland (1931-1991), known as the among them that the article has reappeared, tory Museum’s exhibit “Out in Chicago,” tells us “Crown Prince of Gospel,” who was once a stu- complete with his endnotes and bibliographic “this book offers fresh insights on the history of dent of Thomas Dorsey at the Pilgrim Baptist sources appended for the first time. the city and its residents.” Six of the essays do Church. One of the more interesting asides is The one fly in the ointment is Jay Grossman’s indeed contribute to the “history of Chicago’s that a member of the Five Blind Boys of Missis- 21-page piece on Walt Whitman. Not that there sippi was found to be a “she” after his death in is any weakness in the essay, but there is very lesbian, gay bisexual, and transgender commu- ”Out at CHM” evening, and “followed George 1994. little that’s new and, more germane, only one nities (as) explored by leading historians and Chauncey (University of Chicago) in providing In their essay “Toward an Archive of Latina/o throwaway line relevant to Chicago. So why is it scholars.” One does not. intellectual leadership for the program.” One Queer Chicago: Art, Politics, and Social Per- included? If to show 19th-century sensibilities, In the title essay, editors Austin and Brier cannot fault choosing to include the man who formance,” three writers compile a history of why not use examples from Chicago history? walk you through the ”Out in Chicago” exhibit is no doubt an excellent historian and scholar, Chicago Mexican, Cuban and Puerto Rico-born There are novelist, playwright and journalist (which runs through March 2012)—its incep- but his essay does nothing to “chronicle how artists, writers and activists; the organizations Henry Blake Fuller (1857-1929) or Robert Al- tion, layout, artifacts, videos, etc. Their second the dynamic forces that made Chicago the great they founded; and the art, music, film and books lerton (1873-1974), scion of the banking and essay, “Gender Crossroads: Representations of American city also fostered the development of they created. meatpacking family, both of whom have had bi- Gender Transgressions in Chicago’s Press, 1850- its diverse LGBT communities,” as promised by Professor John D’Emilio of the University of Il- ographies published that attest to their orienta- 1920,” documents newspaper stories of “gender the book cover. linois circle writes on the transition from “first- tion. Another worthy choice touching on several outlaws” and the morality campaigns and laws/ Most essays in the volume are well annotated generation” LGBT history, documenting the creative genres might have been Mark Turbyfill ordinances imposed against them. The editors and all but two include halftone illustrations growth of movement and community to the cur- (1896-1991), a poet, artist and premier danseur expand on the fascinating history of Nicholas (though six or so are muddy with poor contrast). rent academic thrust of making that history an with America’s first ballet company. de Raylan, who worked for the Russian consul All of which should make visiting the exhibit a integral part of the wider whole—less of a “lav- When all Chicago’s major creatives seemed to as a man and whose case was first analyzed by necessity to get the full impact of the intent ender bubble ... more integral and connected to flow East to New York and Boston, Fuller and Tur- Magnus Hirshfield in his 1910 book (which in- of the editor/curators. As a companion guide or broader narratives of U.S. history.” byfill chose to remain in Chicago, why? Certainly cluded cases of several other American women standalone introduction to LGBT Chicago history But most exciting for me was the reprinting these men were worthy representative gays of transsexuals). the book will give you value for the price. of the late Greg Sprague’s “On the Gay Side of Chicago. Perhaps Mr. Grossman was included Biographer Victoria Bissell Brown’s essay on Copyright 2011 by Marie J. Kuda Chicago social work doyenne Jane Addams, Town: Chicago’s Homosexual Subculture Before because he presented his Whitman piece at an 32 Oct. 5, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES BOOK REVIEW cluding reincarnated soldiers from the civil war have a mother, a family ….To come from some- BOOK REVIEW in Usukuma’s country and about the traditional thing. A family tree to climb.” 10 Days with Minor passage into womanhood and the warning signs At the beginning of his journey, one finds such The Gay Icon Classics of the by Nsedu B. Onyile of the “golden waist chain.” innocent charm beguiling. Sadly, the world Pros- World $9.99; AuthorHouse; 168 pages Usukuma has many strong beliefs and values, pect encounters as he explores whether to be by Robert Joseph Greene central among them are two mottos: “You can- born or not chips away at his innocence, chang- $12.99; Icon Empire Press REVIEW BY SALLY PARSONS not give what you do not have” and “I cannot ing his perspective and interactions in ways please everybody all the time.” The first steers that harden him. Following that journey, we find REVIEW BY SALLY PARSONS her to choices that keep her healthy and happy ourselves musing over the meaning of love and so she is able to give to those who need what attachment, free will, and even life itself. Pros- she has to offer. The second motto helps her pect ponders these things too. (“Once you get stay sane. over the miracle that you are born at all—you Written in a matter-of-fact style, 10 Days pres- must get over the next miracle: that you are still ents physical details of the dying experience. The here.”) author knows what she is talking about. Onyile Prospect’s other Referrals include Lito San- has a master’s degree in nursing administration chez, 17, a biracial orphan with ADD; Trevor from George Mason University and is a trauma/ Grueling, 42, who opposes the project and will emergency care nurse. Some of her friends have try to convince Prospect to nix the birth choice; AIDS. Irene Iwanski, 71, a truly happy person and a This book is a refreshingly honest and raw retired greeting card writer; and Victor Pastelle, look at connecting with the dying—which is, at 49, a Muslim, a prophetic painter and an em- the same time, life-affirming. I am left wishing path. someone like Usukuma could hold my hand in All these Referrals in their own way influence my final days. Prospect’s impending decision about whether to join the human struggle. Irene, the happy Refer- BOOK REVIEW ral, gives Prospect an important lesson about life. “Life is a feast, but everything costs some- The Prospect of My Arrival thing.” The cost is indeed high for her. by Dwight Okita Trevor believes that science does not belong $14.95; self-published; 274 pages in the delivery room. He was victim of a different kind of bio-experiment. He donated a per- REVIEW BY SALLY PARSONS sonality trait—his sense of wonder. He didn’t think he needed it and has been searching for I can see this charming little book gracing a What would be fulfilling to you in your final a way to rekindle it ever since. Trevor will do coffee table to pick up and enjoy a story or two days of life? Do many of us at that point settle whatever it takes to stop Prospect from deciding (because they’re short and perfect for tiny delec- for less than is possible? Minor’s journey as he to be born. table bites at leisure). They could also be read moves quickly toward death gives pause for re- However, it is Lito, the one who wishes he was at bedtime to a child (or to the inner child of a thinking our own end days and what might give never born, who has perhaps the greatest influ- grownup partner) or used to start a conversation them meaning. ence on Prospect. The two form a special bond, at a dinner party. Minor is a gay man in his 30s who is dying of sealed by a kiss. But wait—if Prospect chooses Banatu’s Song and the Soiled Loin Cloth, a AIDS. He finds himself lonely, isolated in his bed to be born, he will be a baby. So, you wonder, tale from the Ivory Coast, was the first story in an empty house. Perilously close to suicide, two young men separated in age by only three Greene put together on the theme of gay roman- he decides in one last desperate grasp at life to years when they meet—one a natural-born teen, tic love that forms the basis of the collection. place an ad for a companion. Into his life walks the other in a borrowed 20-year-old’s body— He wrote it based on a story a female student Usukuma, a young Nigerian woman doing gradu- would at Prospect’s birth have an insurmount- from the Ivory Coast told him while they were ate studies in America. Their connection and ex- able gulf of 17 years between them. (On the at summer school at UCLA. Here’s the gist: Ofasu ploration of different cultures is the essence of other hand, if Prospect decides not to be born, was about to be beaten by the Mukasa chief for this moving fictional work, the first book-length they would never meet at all.) soiling his loin cloth, which was forbidden in work by Onyile, herself Nigerian. The book’s time frame is somewhere in the not their society. Ofasu had soiled it when refusing Minor questions what his life has amounted to too-far-distant future—with cool technological to acknowledge to a gang of boys who he was and comes up with precious little. He has never devices such as the Preb-Cam, the CyberSavant singing about in a love song; they dragged him allowed himself to get close to others, except and hyper-holograms, for example. into the mud as a punishment for his silence. for his uncle Eugene, who does not pay much There is humor, too. Prospect describes his life Banatu then took Ofasu’s beating for him, real- attention to him as Minor lies on his deathbed. in the womb before he was plucked out for the izing that Ofasu loved him and because he felt Usukuma is a life-affirming free spirit. She and experiment. “Life in the womb is not all fun and shame that he had not come to Ofasu’s rescue Minor take immediately to each other and skip games. You sleep a lot … you dream some … when he was being harangued by the gang. right over the “warming-up period” most new re- you extract nutrients … you divide your cells We meet many engaging characters in this se- lationships start with and plunge into intimate, over and over.” ries: Asfar, a kind-hearted Arabian prince; curi- honest and compassionate give-and-take. The thread of love—its importance and find- ous Haakon with the cold soul; Graham, whose For many of us, helping someone die is a deep- Suppose you had the chance, before birth, to ing it or not—runs throughout. On the other histrionics portraying female characters make ly uncomfortable experience, even disturbing. decide whether you wanted to be born? How hand, Trevor says the whole love thing is over- people laugh; and many more. Our culture for the most part does not deal very might that work? Assuming science and tech- rated. “Don’t be born for love,” he warns Pros- As Greene explained in an interview with The well with the final phase of life (or transitional nology could make that possible, should people pect. “Don’t be a sucker.” Watermark, a central Florida gay publication, phase, as some believe). If you have ever wished mess with this area? What would influence your The streets of Chicago, a house in Evanston most of his stories are allegories meant to give for guidance in this process, you may find this decision? Also, if you did choose to be born, and the O’Hare Hyatt are among the settings gay men an understanding of “the spiritual and small book comforting. In any case, it is eye- would you grow up a happier adult? that dot the landscape for this “quirky caution- mental aspects of love over mere sex or lust.” opening. Usukuma’s methods may not be yours, These are some of the intriguing questions ary tale” (Okita’s description). Greene is particularly interested, as he states in but her philosophy gives pause for contempla- raised in this elegant book by Dwight Okita, a The Prospect of My Arrival made it to the top the Introduction to his collection of tales, in tion on what is important in the last few days Chicago poet making his debut as a novelist. The three among 5000 submissions in the 2008 Ama- stories from cultures that have deep homopho- before our loved ones, and the strangers among Prospect of My Arrival is a book that is serious, zon Breakthrough Novel competition sponsored bic views. “I feel that seeing gay people exist in us whom we may choose to aid, leave this world. poignant and engaging. by Amazon.com and Penguin Publishers. Okita is their culture will help them realize that love is The book is full of wisdom, as only a perspective The Prospect in the title is the name of the currently at work on his second novel The Hope a universal truth which is not limited to hetero- from another culture can sometimes bring—and protagonist. (“I was given the name Prospect Store. sexual relationships.” it is touching. because people have high hopes for me.”) Pros- At the book’s end, and based on his meetings There are 10 tales in the collection, gathered After their first meeting, Usukuma tells Minor pect is a Pre-born, an embryo temporarily resid- with the Referrals and his reflections and experi- from numerous sources. Some were presented she has been thinking about him. He wants to ing in the body of a 20-year-old. He is given ences, Prospect makes his decision about wheth- as hearsay; these Greene wove into complete know specifics. She replies, “I was wondering if three weeks and encounters with five Referrals er to be born. Whether we agree with his choice stories. Others (his Introduction doesn’t make you were happy? Does somebody love you? Do to help him decide whether being born is a or not, our meeting with Prospect has been re- entirely clear) apparently were presented to him you love somebody? Are you content? What is good idea. At the end of his search, he is free to warding, a chance to reflect on the meaning of complete. While the title suggests the collection your passion? You know, all the stuff that fills choose birth or being thrown back into the gene life as encroached on by science and technology pulls together stories with a global perspective, the human soul!” pool. and corporate greed—and that is a good thing. in actuality they consist of five from Europe, two Minor responds that his poor soul is empty. The people with high expectations of Prospect Interested readers can order The Prospect of from the Mideast, two from Africa, and one from “It is never too late, Minor. We will fix all that in include the scientist Trish Mesmer, who thought My Arrival through CreateSpace at http://www. Mexico. None from Latin America, Australia, or due time.” up the bio-experiment that is the premise of the createspace.com/3543701. Asia. Still, an impressively varied collection. With the promise that her conviction carries, story; Karl Bangor, the head of new product de- Okita will make an appearance at Women and Several stories originally appeared in various Minor immediately feels stronger and is anxious velopment at Big Farm Technologies (who are Children First, 5233 N. Clark St., on Wed., Oct. publications. to begin their journey together. Usukuma has financing the project); and many of Prospect’s 26, 7:30-8:30 p.m. See http://www.womenand- Greene refers to the collection as “… a series plenty to offer Minor and, as it turns out, she Referrals. childrenfirst.com. of allegories set to teach gay men about val- learns much from him as well. Prospect’s first Referral is his mom-to-be. Af- iantly [sic], chivalry and selfless romantic acts.” Minor learns about Nigerian oral traditions, inter meeting her, he muses, “It’s a nice feeling to They are lovely, indeed. WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 5, 2011 33 NUNN ON ONE: BOOKS Michael Musto: ‘Knife’ as we know it INTERVIEW BY JERRY NUNN Trapp-like. I don’t know what she is really like was a rising strumpet we shared equal billing but… at a nightclub but she was already acting every Michael Musto is known for his column in The WCT: Is there a celebrity that has meant the bit the diva as if she was already the biggest Village Voice where he writes La Dolce Musto. He most to you to interview? star in the world. We never even got to do a just released his latest book, Fork on the Left, MM: Julie was one of my early icons and Di- sound check because she sound checked from Knife in the Back, in which he compiles many of ana Ross was another. When I met her in the every angle for so long. Her manager told us his past celebrity tidbits. ‘80s again she lived up to the image. She wasn’t we couldn’t have shared guests greet us in the We chatted about this latest project and talked anything like had been portrayed in these books dressing room after our gig because we went on shop about writing. where you can’t give her eye contact or address first and she was getting dressed. It was espe- her as Diana. She came up to me at a party cially ironic considering Madonna didn’t want to Windy City Times: Hi, Michael. Are you call- and started chatting. People ask me, “What are change in front of people when later she made Michael Musto. Photo by Tony Adams ing from work? celebrities like?” I really don’t know. I am giv- the whole world her gynecologist. Michael Musto: I work out of my home, so yes. ing you how they behave to press people at an WCT: Have you ever said something that you I work 24 hours a day. event. regretted about a celebrity? MM: A cater waiter in Fire Island who was a WCT: Must be nice to not go to a formal of- WCT: Oh, I got that completely! MM: After all of these years I don’t think I re- butler at the house of Robin Byrd—she’s a fa- fice. MM: You can live with someone for ten years ally have. mous porn star-turned-television host—came MM: It is kind of nice to just click something and still not know what they are really like. I WCT: Nothing has come back to haunt you? up to me and said, “The motto of Fire Island is and my column goes in. don’t pretend that this is a real profile of their MM: There have been repercussions and people fork on the left, knife in the back, spoon up the WCT: How did you wind up working for The psyches. have gotten angry at me but I have never been nose, dish, dish, dish.” I left the last part out Village Voice in the first place? WCT: Has there been a celebrity that left a sued and I don’t remember printing that many because I don’t do coke. MM: When I got out of Columbia College I had bad taste in your mouth? retractions so I am just going to keep cranking it Visit http://blogs.villagevoice.com/daily- no idea what my future was going to be. In fact, MM: Well, in the early days before Madon- out! I don’t just throw it onto the page or even musto for your daily dose of Michael. Pick up I recently ran a picture on my blog of me in a na was even famous, I had a band called The onto the blog. It is very well thought out. If I his book at http://www.amazon.com/Fork- leisure suit in the ‘70s at my college graduation Must—Michael Musto and The Must. We actually had regrets I would probably go nuts. Left-Knife-Michael-Musto/dp/1936467100. party. I had a horrified dumbstruck look on my sang Diana Ross cover songs. When Madonna WCT: Where did the title come from? face not to mention that horrible leisure suit! I started freelancing around and ended up doing a few pieces for The Voice and they liked my work so when there was an opening for an entertainment columnist they had me audition by writing a sample column. They liked the mix that I provided of movies, nightlife, fashion and politics, all with a personal vent to it. So they gave me the job. That was in late 1984. This November will be my 27th anniversary. WCT: Congrats on that. MM: I think that is, like, 1,400 columns but who is counting? WCT: The whole process has changed so much throughout the years, I am sure. MM: Yes, it has. Starting three and a half years ago I started writing a blog as well as a column. That becomes a venue for more media thoughts and breaking stories. Now the column is for me has become more of a one theme type of piece. I will either make it a one-theme piece or one personality. It is less of zigzagging around and going to events, especially since they are not what they used to be because of the economy. It used to be a sumptuous buffet and a gift bag and now it is like a cracker, some skin cream and a T-shirt. Oh, and a chance to interview a celebrity that was famous three seasons ago on a reality show! But I still leave the house and go cover what is out there. WCT: You must love blogging since it is immediate and you don’t have to wait for it to come out. MM: Yes, at first I thought it would consume me like a tapeworm but I got into the rhythm of it. It is fun to create an instant dialogue because you immediately get comments on it. You are kind of the conversation breaker at a party. You are throwing something out there and everyone has an opinion on what you have written, if what you have written is suitably provocative. WCT: I read your new book and saw that The Sound of Music inspired you to be a columnist. MM: When I was a kid I went to see The Sound of Music movie in its original run. I went with my aunt, who is a nun, and a couple of her nun friends. The box-office lady was very savvy and didn’t want to go to hell so she comped us. Obviously nuns get in free to see The Sound of Music. That has stuck with me in life for the complimentary lifestyle. I loved the movie and it just spun my head around. It really holds up. For years, I was angry at [movie critic] Pauline Kael for saying it was too treacly. I have a low toler- ance for treacle but, to me, it works on every level. It has nuns, Nazis and a love story. WCT: And great music, have you ever talked to Julie Andrews? MM: I have and she lived up to the image. She was impossibly nice and sweet, very Maria Von 34 Oct. 5, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES Women’s Voices Weekend debuts at Women and Children First Bookstore BY Carrie Maxwell first in a series of events that will happen annu- characters, and their dialogue surprise even us.” ally.” As for the weekend’s events Mun added, “There On Oct. 15-16, Women and Children First Book- Both Christophersen and Bubon want to show- are many things I look forward to about Wom- store will host its first-ever Women’s Voices case the writers they have invited and allow en’s Voices Weekend but here are my top two: Weekend to celebrate women writers and to of- Chicagoans who are interested in writing to take 1) talking to the folks in my workshop about fer readers a chance to converse and learn from advantage of the knowledge and skills the writ- taking risks in their writing, and 2) dancing with them. ers will present at their workshops. They also Dorothy Allison at the cocktail party.” Writers in attendance will include Dorothy want to foster a sense of community with this Obejas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Allison (Bastard Out of Carolina), Esther Her- weekend so writers from all over Chicago who said, “We’ll examine and work with ways to de- shenhorn (S is for Story: A Writer’s Alphabet), attend can get to know each other. “We want to velop conflict in stories. We’ll discuss choices Nami Mun (Miles from Nowhere) and Achy Obejas call attention to what a great literary town this and stakes, the importance of tension, and ways (Ruins), along with Booklist Senior Editor/WBEZ is and how rich we are in women writers,” Chris- to resolve stories without having characters kill Women and Children First owners Linda Bu- book critic Donna Seaman. tophersen explained, adding, “We can foster a themselves, live happily ever after, betray the bon (left) and Ann Christophersen. Photo by The weekend will feature workshops, readings climate of creativity and diversity in literature rest of the story or do anything too terribly ob- Carrie Maxwell and a cocktail party. Workshops will be held at and really showcase Chicago as this great liter- vious.” the Swedish American Museum during the day ary town.” As for the event, “Women and Children First on Saturday and Sunday. A cocktail party will Allison—a National Book Award finalist whose is home to me. Long before I’d published much take place Oct. 15 at Women and Children First workshop title is “Talk to Me the Way Your Mama of anything, Ann and Linda were inviting me to Bookstore. Guests will have a chance to talk to Talked to You: Issues with Language in the read in the store, promoting my work,” Obejas the featured writers and other Chicago writers Shaping of Voice and Story”—said, “We will talk said. “My career would be so different without while they nosh on appetizers, desserts and about voice as the primary strength of any piece them. I’m delighted to be a part of this confer- drinks. The next day at the Swedish American of writing—not just the sound of words but the ence because it’s always a homecoming to read Museum, Seaman will host readings and conver- attitude and personality of the speaker who tells in association with these gals, and an oppor- sations with the writers to close out the week- the tale. How does one shape such a voice? We’ll tunity to thank them for being such a steady end’s events. discuss this issue in the context of a series of champion for women’s literature.” The genesis of this event emerged when exercises designed to help writers develop the The event sponsors are Women and Children Women and Children First Bookstore co-owners ‘voice’ of their story,” adding, “I am always First’s “Women’s Voices Fund,” The Swedish Ann Christophersen and Linda Bubon formed happy to get to come to Chicago or to help out American Museum and the Richard H. Driehaus the Women’s Voices Fund seven years ago. They Women & Children First, and I really look forward Foundation. originally set up the fund to offset the cost of to hearing the other writers in the program.” Tickets for the entire weekend will cost $55 Achy Obejas. Photo by Kaloian running the programs at their store. Last spring Hershehorn will conduct a workshop along with and will cover one workshop, the cocktail party they re-visited the idea of bringing authors they Bubon called “Oh the Places You Can Go! Writing and the readings/conversations. To attend the were interested in hearing from instead of being for Today’s Children’s Book World.” “Harry Potter workshop only the price is $35 for students/ at the mercy of authors’ publishing and touring and his creator J.K. Rowling didn’t grow only seniors and $40 for the general public. The cock- schedules. readers; they grew a bounty of adults wanting to tail party price is $10 as is the author readings/ Christophersen said that two things encour- write for children,” Hershehorn said. “The good conversations. aged her to make this event happen: “One was news? Writing possibilities and opportunities For more information on this event visit: that one of our fiercest competitors [Borders] in today’s singular and ever-changing children’s http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/ was forced to close so we might be on better book world are limitless, as long as the writer is event/womens-voices-weekend or e-mail financial footing and then talking with a liter- willing to do the homework, learn and polish her [email protected]. To ary publicist [Sheryl Johnston] who felt like she craft, connect with the story and persevere.” find more about the writers visit: http:// could help us produce this event.” Mun—whose workshop is entitled “Taking www.dorothyallison.net/, http://www.esther- Bubon added, “Our hope is to do it this year Risks”—said, “We’ll explore ways in which we hershenhorn.com/, http://www.namimun. and do everything we can to make it successful can take more risks in our writing by identify- com, http://www.achyobejas.net/, http:// [covering our expenses] and if there is enough ing our comfort zones and stepping out of those www.donnaseaman.com/. Dorothy Allison. Press photo interest then we hope to make this weekend the zones so that our sentences, our stories, our

11, at 7:30 p.m. in the Frick Center’s Founders tion with our featured authors and others from Lounge, 150 College Hill Ave., Elmhurst. Chicago’s esteemed literary community. Sunday Book briefs Panelists include Johnson; the Rev. Dr. Alice will feature readings, a Q&A with our featured Hunt, president of Chicago Theological Semi- Michael Schiavi writers moderated by Booklist senior editor and Baim at Woodson Library discussing nary; Dr. Riess Potterveld, president of Pacific discusses his WBEZ book critic Donna Seaman, and book sign- Obama School of Religion in Berkeley, California; and book about Vito ings. Windy City Times Publisher Tracy Baim will Dr. S. Alan Ray, president of Elmhurst College. Russo Oct. 12 at Sappho’s Salon: A Provocative Night of Les- lead a discussion on her book, Obama and the On Wed., Oct. 12, writer Michael Schiavi will Elmhurst College. bian Diversions, featuring Kelli Strickland and Gays: A Political Marriage, on Wednesday, Oct. speak on “Vito Russo: Celluloid Activist and Gay DJ SpinNikki, is Saturday, Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m., 12 at 7 p.m. at the Woodson Regional Library, Hero.” Schiavi wrote Celluloid Activist: The Life $7-10 Sliding scale includes food and wine. This 9525 S. Halsted St. and Times of Vito Russo, a book on the late HIV/ month’s installment features actor Strickland, Baim’s book came out in 2010, and provides AIDS activist. The event will take place at 4 p.m. performing her solo show, We’ve Got a Badge for a comprehensive look at Obama’s trajectory on in the Founders Lounge. That. Recalling tales of near-death experience, LGBT rights, from his days in the Illinois state See http://public.elmhurst.edu/alum- puppy love, pyromania, and peach schnapps, be admitted during the signing. Stop by or call Senate to his first two years as president. With ni/125754713.html. We’ve Got a Badge for That is one girl’s story the store to purchase a copy and receive a tick- DADT history and DOMA legal battles in the of the scouts. Strickland, perhaps best known et, or to order an autographed copy, which can courts, where does the president stand on other Leatherman event at Center on Halsted for her role as young Hannah in the feature film be shipped anywhere in the continental United issues in the community? Come find out during Owen Keehnen, co-author (with Tracy Baim) of Hannah Free, is the former director of Bailiwick’s States. this free lecture. Leatherman: The Legend of Chuck Renslow, will Lesbian Theater Initiative, and a faculty member read from and sign copies of the book Thursday, Sarah Schulman will read from and sign her of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at book The Mere Future Friday, Oct. 14, 7:30 p.m. U.K. activist at Gerber/Hart Oct. 20, 6:30 p.m. at the Center on Halsted. He Loyola University. Joining Strickland is Sappho’s The Mere Future crosses many genres, includ- U.K. activist Keith Sharpe will be at Gerber/ will be joined by Renslow, a longtime commu- house DJ Spin Nikki, playing an eclectic array ing literary fiction, mystery, fantasy, poetry Hart Library, 1127 W. Granville, on Wed., Oct. nity activist and business owner and founder of music. Proceeds benefit the artists and the and stand-up comedy. In her dystopian vision, 5, at 7:30 p.m. to talk about his new book, The of the International Mr. Leather contests. The Women’s Voices Fund. New York has morphed into an idealized version Gay Gospels. Among other issues, he will dis- event is free and open to the public. Chicago gay author Dwight Okita reads from of itself. Rent is cheap, homelessness is over, cuss ways in which the Bible portrays Jesus as and signs his new book, The Prospect of My Ar- and everyone works in marketing. Despite the showing great empathy for LGBT people and how rival, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 7:30 p.m. A human utopian surface, however, there is a disturbing there is no condemnation of same sex love to be Women & Children First October events embryo is allowed to preview the world before malaise that infects the population. Schulman found anywhere in the Bible. Women & Children First Bookstore has some deciding to be born. To help him make up his top authors at the store for events during Octo- (People in Trouble, Rat Bohemia) is one of lit- mind, he will be able to interact with the best erature’s most important chroniclers of contem- Activities at Elmhurst College ber. They are located at 5233 N. Clark Street in and worst the world has to offer. A finalist for porary queer life. Elmhurst College has named its annual LGBT Chicago, (773) 769-9299. Amazon.com’s 2008 Breakthrough Novel Awards, Saturday, Oct. 15-Sunday, Oct. 16 is a special lecture for 1968 graduate the Rev. Dr. William R. Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor Jane Okita’s quirky cautionary tale is served up with Women’s Voices Weekend. Saturday features a Johnson. Lynch (Glee) will read from and sign copies of equal helpings of whimsy and dread, with just a full day of writing workshops with acclaimed A panel discussion, “Christian Theology and her new book, Happy Accidents, Sunday, Oct. 9, dash of hope. writers Nami Mun, Achy Obejas, and Esther the LGBT Person,” will take place Tuesday, Oct. 1-4 p.m. Only ticketed customers who have pur- See www.womenandchildrenfirst.com. chased a book from Women & Children First will Hershenhorn, followed by a celebration recep- WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 5, 2011 35 BY Tracy Baim LGBT-friendly and independent places such as Women & Children First Bookstore (5233 N. Clark, which also has online ordering, including Smorgasbord Windy City Times receives hundreds of books to review each year, but we of e-books), Unabridged Books (3251 N. Broadway), The Book Cellar can only read and review a fraction of those. In this special WCT books (4736-38 N. Lincoln), Seminary Co-Op (5757 S. University), 57th Street issue we are including some mini-reviews for some recent titles, plus Books (1301 E. 57th), Powell’s (1501 E. 57th and 2850 N. Lincoln), Cen- some mentions of others. turies & Sleuths Bookstore (7419 W. Madison in Forest Park), Quimby’s of books As always, we encourage our readers to purchase their books through (1854 W. North Ave.), Barbara’s and other independent stores. guard as well as lead,” the cinating read told across more What You Don’t Know About Men book’s promotion states. The than a century and across by Michael Burke (iUniverse, $12.95) author told the Mercury News thousands of miles. The con- in 2011: “I wrote this for any- nection for these charac- These 20 very en- body losing their sight, and I ters—gay and straight, male joyable short stories wanted to give people who are and female, Parisians and New by Chicagoan Michael blind and gay empathy and a Yorkers—is Richard Wagner’s Burke tell tales of men springboard to realize rehabil- opera Tristan and Isolde. I am in the Windy City. This itation is possible. I want the not an opera lover, and have is a slim book from general public to know there is never seen Wagner performed, iUniverse is really a way to progress regardless of but I absolutely loved this worth your money and whatever challenges you face. book. I felt I didn’t need to time. I enjoyed the People say to me, ‘If I’d gone know the depths of Wagner quick reads and glimps- blind, I’d never be able to do to understand the despair of es into the lives of a Blind: A Memoir what you’re doing,’ but you the characters, their loves wide variety of men. Belo Miguel Cipriani don’t know that. The percep- lost and lives lived. I enjoyed In “The Jonquils,” he (Wheatmark, $19.95) tion is that everything is over this book as one of my tops starts: “Kenneth Collins In the spring of 2007, Belo when something happens, but for 2011, comparable in won- is doing what Kenneth Cipriani was beaten and robbed that’s not true.” der and originality to my 2010 Collins always does Sweet Like Sugar of his sight at the hands of his enjoyment of the fabulous when Kenneth Collins by Wayne Hoffman (Kens- childhood friends. This book The Metropolis Case The Room by Emma Donaghue is anxious: repeating a ington, $15) chronicles the two years after by Matthew Gallaway (Crown, (Little, Brown and Company, silent prayer … ” and Hoffman is an author and that attack as the San Francis- $25) $24.99) and The Paperbark “Words, words, nothing journalist, and his work has co-based, openly gay writer This is one of those rare Shoe by Goldie Goldbloom but fucking words and appeared in many publica- shows and tells how he sur- books I actually purchased (Picardo, $15)—two other no words at all about fucking. And that was the great thing tions, including Windy City vived this change in his life. because the publisher didn’t wonderful reads that are high- about Jordan, though you wouldn’t know it by anything that Times. His new book is about We learn to “see” through the bother to send us a review ly recommended for lovers of was said at the memorial this afternoon.” This is simply a terrific a friendship between a young newly sensitive other senses copy of this very gay-inclusive books. book, a debut by a very promising writer. gay man and an Orthodox of the author as he navigates work. I read a review in The rabbi. As Hoffman notes in the the most simple tasks we take Advocate and that inspired promo for the book: “In Yid- “Piney Forest is home to many for granted if we can see. “He me to actually get the book— dish, there is a word for it: creatures, but Boris and Henry narrates the recondite world even though I had about 50 bashert—the person you are play and live by themselves of the blind, where micro- books in line ahead of it to fated to meet. Benji Steiner, on its edge, shunned because waves, watches, and comput- read. Well, Gallaway does not twenty-something and gay, is they do not look like every- ers talk, and where guide dogs disappoint. This is a truly fas- skeptical of the concept. But one else, have other ways the elderly rabbi who stumbles of walking and talking, and do things differently. When Windy City Queer: LGBTQ Dispatches from the Third into Benji’s office one day has danger threatens their forest Coast no doubts. Rabbi Jacob Zuck- home, they must warn those edited by Kathie Bergquist (University of Wisconsin Press, erman’s late wife, Sophie, was who have bullied them and $24.95) his bashert. And now that she is gone, he grapples with grief lead them to safety.” The il- Bergquist has al- and loneliness. Touched by the lustrations are very enjoyable. ways been a writer who rabbi’s plight, Benji becomes Profits benefit the Just Like cared about other writ- his helper.” You Foundation that deals ers. She used to write with bullying issues faced by for Outlines/Windy City children. Times (and even did The Quest for Brian John Wayne Gacy: our youth column for by Jeff Graubart For Frying Out Loud: Defending a Monster Nightlines oh so many (CreateSpace, $25.95) Rehoboth Beach Diaries by Judge Sam L. Amirante years ago), and she co- Lovers of Chicago LGBT his- by Fay Jacobs (A&M Books, and Danny Broderick ordinated (with Owen tory get a good background $17) (Skyhorse Publishing, Keehnen) our annual from the point of view of ac- Jacobs is a comic writer hardcover, $24.95) Windy City Times Pride tivist-turned-writer Graubart, with three books dedicated to Described a “the true story Literary Supplement. who was a front-line partici- her life in Rehoboth Beach, of the lawyer who defended She helps promotions pant in 1970s and 1980s gay a heavily gay resort town in one of the most evil serial kill- and plans events at activism in the Windy City. Delaware. The book features ers in history.” Chicagoans are Women & Children First This is a novel, of one man’s her columns with short, funny unfortunately well aware of Bookstore, and she’s quest for love, but it is histori- takes on a wide range of sub- the murderous past of Gacy, an all-around cultural cal fiction that should interest jects from the gayby boom to a Northwest Side “clown” who supporter. Now, she’s Chicagoans. But at 732 pages, falling in love and from dykes killed at least 33 young men it is a commitment you may edited a collection of Just Like You on bikes to RV travel. Jacobs and teenage boys. Finally have to spread out over a few caught in 1978, Gacy was ex- Chicago-area LGBTQ writers and it deserves our applause. There by Robert Kroupa, illus. has been published in numer- long sittings. See thequestfor- ecuted in 1994. The book in- are both established and new writers, organized along seven by Hannah F. Harrison ous gay and mainstream publi- brian.com. cludes some never-before-seen themes, such as “emergence” or “in transit.” There are poems, (Seven Legs Press, www. cations. graphic photos and drawings, memoir, fiction, essay and performance texts, and it is a who’s justlikeyoufoundation.com) and is told from a very insider who of queer writers, including: Sharon Bridgforth, Edmund Relevant to the issues of perspective. As the promo for White, Robert McDonald, Cin Salach, Achy Obejas, David Kodes- suicide and bullying, Chica- the book notes: “What is it ki, Aldo Alvarez, Carol Anshaw, Mark Zubro, C.C. Carter, E. Patrick go-based Seven Legs Press like to defend a man who you Johnson, Goldie Goldbloom, Owen Keehnen, Yasmin Nair, Gregg has published Just Like You, know to be guilty of crimes Shapiro, Gerald Wozek, Kay Ulanday Barrett, Carina Gia Ferrero, about intolerance toward chil- so grotesque they will make Deb R. Lewis, Karen Lee Osborne, D. Travers Scott, Allison Gru- dren with different physical your blood curdle? Can you ber, Brian Bouldrey, Nadine C. Warner, Emma Vosicky, Jeanne abilities. This is a very timely guarantee to him a fair trial Theresa Newman, Sheree L. Greer, J. Adams Oaks, Rose Tully, book: 11-year-old Mitchell without the influence of hate, Avery R. Young, Richard Fox and David Trinidad. Enough said? Wilson from Canada, a child spite, or the desire for revenge Love writing or reading? Get this book. This is an inspiring offer- with muscular dystrophy, by a shocked, sickened and ing by Bergquist, and just a taste of more great things to come. killed himself in September af- outraged public?” This is for Thursday, November 3, 7 p.m. there is a release party for Windy ter he had been tormented by those fans of Law & Order and City Queer: LGBTQ Dispatches from the Third Coast, with edi- another boy—he feared fac- followers of true crime—and it tor Kathie Bergquist and contributors Sharon Bridgforth, Goldie ing him again once the school is not for the faint of heart. Goldbloom, Robert McDonald, Achy Obejas and Gregg Shapiro. year started. The publisher of The party will be at Women & Children First Bookstore, 5233 N. this children’s book states: Clark Street in Chicago, (773) 769-9299. 36 Oct. 5, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES year. Filmmaker Andersson Black and Blue and Pretty Dead, Too you: “Ten years ago, Charlie to hate—and love again. Chi- and her friend Sara Marx co- by Mark Zubro (MLR Press) Crawford shot dead his two cago gay writer Dave Awl is a wrote this first in a series of lesbian neighbors. Sharon splendid writer and worth the Coming in November books based on Andersson’s Davis was their avenging an- read, even if we know some of is the much-anticipat- Internet-based series, The gel, the woman who fought to the Facebook tools will change ed new novel by Chi- Seer and InSight. Deborah win justice for her murdered before our very fingertips. The cago-area writer Mark Stewart (Rizzoli & Isles, The 6 friends.” Justice has a price, basics of Facebook are still Zubro. He has written Month Rule) was in the series. and we find out the cost from there to learn, so if you want 22 mysteries and five The book follows the life of this Lambda Award-nominated to look behind the curtain, short stories, and I psychic Los Angeles Police De- author of eight novels. this is the book for you. Awl just love his books— partment officer Guin Marcus is especially on-target in his they are great for an and her dysfunctional work recommendations for Face- escape from the real and love life. If you could read book etiquette, on how to use news. As the public- a woman’s mind, would you the site for publicity and on ity states for his next use that to get her into bed? protecting your ever-shrinking book: “One of the keys Those and other ethical ques- privacy. in Zubro’s mysteries is tions are handled very well in you do not want to be this novel. A fun read. The Girls Club a person who is racist, sexist, homophobic, or by Sally Bellerose (Bywater a school administrator. Books, $14.95) This book is set in the If you are any of those, 1970s and is the story of three it is likely you are the sisters dealing with growing corpse, or, at the least, up and womanhood. Author it can be fairly well Lesléa Newman said the guaranteed that bad book is “riveting, gripping, things will happen to you by the end. And if in Zubro’s books you unputdownable,” and Joan happen to be a Republican and/or against workers’ rights, it would Nestle, founder of the Lesbian be far better if you did not make a habit of broadcasting this. If Herstory Archives, said “One you did, you’re quite likely to be a suspect, or worse.” of our finest writers gives Phoenix Jackson is the novel’s The Choosing: A Rabbi’s us this best yet portrait of a lead character, and this is a Journey from Silent Letters from Frank: An working class, lesbian coming story of her quest for uncon- Nights to High Holy Days American Terrorist’s Life out in the early 70s.” Bellerose ditional love. by Rabbi Andrea Myers by Ingrid I. Holm-Garibay was awarded a fellowship in (Rutgers University Press, (Dorrance Publishing, $27, literature from the National $19.95) see www.dorrancebookstore. Endowment for the Arts based This non-fiction book tells com) on an excerpt of this book— the story of Myers’ coming Former Chicagoan Holm- that should be enough to out as a lesbian on her path Garibay, a native of Mexico, get the to a bookstore (or to Judaism. She was an advo- has written a book about a computer) to purchase this cate for same-sex marriage in domestic terrorist, Frank D. Al- book. New York, and speaks through exander. While the author was a liberal Jewish voice on a va- in the North Las Vegas Deten- riety of issues. Myers grew up tion Center awaiting political as a Lutheran, so this is an asylum in the late 1990s, she interesting book for those of met Alexander, who was being any persuasion making a con- detained before extradition. Unwelcome: An Archangel version to another faith. “They begin communicating Academy Novel through detailed and extreme- by Michael Griffo Facebook Me! Second ly personal letters, discuss- (Kensington, $9.95) Edition ing the subjects of sexuality, True Blood fans itching for by Dave Awl (Peachpit politics, family life, and even some vampires during the TV The Carousel Press, $21.99) spirituality,” according to the show’s off-season can trek by Stefani Deoul (A&M Ah, how difficult it is to get book’s publicity. “As Frank’s through this tale of young Books, $16.95) ahead of Facebook and actu- past is methodically dissected, blood-suckers. This is the sec- A collection of discarded ca- ally write a book on how to one can deconstruct his letters The Bridge of Deaths ond novel in Griffo’s series and rousal horses are the backdrop use this ever-changing social and gain incredibly profound by M.C.V. Egan (Author- is a “young adult” novel that for this novel about a woman networking tool we all love perspective into the making Keesha & Her Two Moms House, $13.99) likely some “not young” adults at the end of her rope, physi- Go Swimming This is a fictional account will gravitate to. cally and emotionally, and her Why Suicide: Questions & Answers About Suicide, by Monica Bey-Clarke and of a true story—the Aug. effort to both repair the hors- Suicide Prevention, and Coping with the Suicide of Cheril Bey-Clarke, with 15, 1939 crash of a British es, and her life. The author is Someone You Know illustrations by Aiswarya Airways plane over Denmark, a TV producer and writer. by Eric Marcus (HarperOne, $14.99) Mukherjee (MyFamily! before Hitler invaded Poland. $12.95) The crash killed five, includ- Prolific gay author Our diversity of LGBT fami- ing author Egan’s grandfather and activist Eric Marcus lies needs books for all ages and an anti-appeaser member is one of our commu- to represent our lives, but of- of the British Parliament (An- nity’s most important ten our diverse lives are not thony Crossley). With World writer-historians. All reflected in books for kids. The War II looming, the crash re- of his books provide Bey-Clarkes, a married couple ceived little notice, but Egan insight into issues of importance to LGBT life who are also the business does her grandfather proud in and history. Why Sui- partners behind the MyFam- digging into the archives for cide is a re-issue that ily! Company, have given us some kernels of truth. She be- has been updated and this children’s treat for your lieves the crash was not an ac- revised, and it could family and relatives. The book cident, and her 18 years of re- not be more timely, is for ages 1-4, and promotes search make for a compelling given the continued the normalcy of LGBT fami- story. “The Bridge of Deaths depressing rate of LGBT lies. It even helps kids learn is far more fact that fiction,” suicides, among the to share. Uh-oh, watch out for the author said. “My research young and older. Mar- the right-wing hate mongers, I Got This! … I Think? opened a can of worms—and cus’ father committed they can’t be far behind. by Vicky Nabors (available my hope is that the historical suicide, so this issue through Lulu.com and community will reopen this The Indelible Heart has been close to him InSight of The Seer case to ultimately uncover Amazon) by Marianne K. Martin most of his life. The by Linda Andersson and Sara Nabors, a former columnist the reasons behind the crash.” (Bywater Books, $14.95) book is a required read Marx (Bella Books, $14.95) This is not a gay book, and for Outlines and BLACKlines Do you like the old quick- for anyone who cares Bella Books took over the the author is not gay, but fans newspapers in Chicago, self- read Naiad Press books fea- about the why, how and getting beyond a suicide of a friend or book business previously of historical fiction should be published this come-of-age turing women seeking jus- family member. This is not about gay or straight, but of course it known as Naiad, and they is- satisfied with this tale. novel. It is about losing con- tice through whatever means is informed by Marcus’ own gay lens. For more on Marcus see www. sue several lesbian books each trol, and trying to get it back. necessary? Here’s a book for ericmarcis.com. WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 5, 2011 of a modern-day terrorist. This The Lost Women of Lost Lake at a wide range of gay-related Black Battle, White Knight: The Authorized Biography deeply insightful collection by Ellen Heart (Minotaur Books, $25.99 hardcover, also on issues, including “public sex,” of Malcolm Boyd of letters is a necessary read Kindle) marriage and discrimination. by Michael Battle (Seabury, $30) for every American who wants Many legal theories rely on to understand terrorism at its We can all rest easier and are motivated by shame Openly gay Episcopal deepest roots.” when Jane Lawless is and disgust, the author said, priest Malcolm Boyd is a on the case—and espe- and it is because of those poli- true pioneer of the gay cially when her creator cies that we have seen injus- spirituality movement. Ellen Hart releases a tice, oppression and violence Boyd’s 1965 book Are new Jane Lawless mys- towards LGBTs. Nussbaum is a You Running with Me, tery book. Here’s some professor of law and philoso- Jesus is a classic. Boyd promo language for her phy at the University of Chi- turned 88 this year, and new book, now avail- cago. this book details his able: “Restaurateur life’s quest for peace Jane Lawless is taking and justice. This is also some much-needed a very personal book for time off at her family’s the author, who weaves lodge when her best his own story with that friend, Cordelia Thorn, of Boyd. Battle is an Af- arrives with news that rican-American hetero- one of their good sexual Episcopal priest, friends, Tessa Cornell, and he interviewed has taken a nasty fall Boyd, a white gay Epis- and needs their help copal priest who is his with rehearsals for a spiritual director. There play that is set to open in a week. When Tessa isn’t on crutches, is an introduction by Archbishop Desmond Tutu: “One is an octo- she helps run Thunderhook Lodge, the premier resort on Lost Lake. genarian, and the other a late baby boomer. One is heterosexual, And while she clearly needs Jane and Cordelia’s assistance, she married with three children; and the other is gay in a long-term isn’t exactly acting all that grateful. A man who claims to be a partnership. One is black and the other is white. But the simi- journalist has arrived in Lost Lake with an old photograph and larities far outweigh the differences, the chief similarity being some questions about a death that go back decades. In The Lost their mutual search for God here and everywhere.” Boyd is the Women of Lost Lake, Jane’s only hope of protecting Tessa from the author of more than two dozen books; in the 1960s, his poetry secrets that are surfacing all around her is to uncover the whole readings at the Hungry i nightclub in San Francisco earned him truth before anyone else can.” the nickname “the Espresso priest.” Boyd was also a civil-rights and anti-war activist, and was among the Freedom Riders in 1961 (Freedom Riders took buses into the segregated southern closet—as used in the phrase This is the first in a line of U.S. to test the Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia— “coming out of the closet”— mysteries starring a realtor- which banned racial segregation in bus terminals serving buses affects persons of all sexuali- turned-amateur-sleuth. Well, that crossed state lines). Battle is rector and canon theologian ties. “Motivated by the death in this economy, that might in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. He is the author of of his partner, Adams explores be a good second profession several books, including Ubuntu: I in You and You and Me. the closet at various stages— for all our realtor friends entering it, inhabiting it, and out there. Crane, who is a coming out of it. He also offers lesbian, probably has a lot of go Tribune and past editor-in- be a more serious journalist Relocations: Queer strategies for coping with dif- stories inspired by her difficult chief of the Los Angeles Times, (women had their place back Suburban Imaginaries ficult coming out situations,” upbringing—in 1957, Turner which was owned by Tribune then). So I clearly have some by Karen Tongson (New York the promo material said. was with gangster Johnny Company. So O’Shea clearly bias here as well, though I University Press, $24) Stompanato, who abused her; has conflicts of interests as have always had friends and Tongson, assistant professor 14-year-old Cheryl stabbed the well as some grudges to set- colleagues inside the Tribune of English and gender studies man after he threatened to kill tle—but as long as we know I admire—they were not the at the University of Southern her mom. The judge ruled it this going in, we can piece off power brokers using people as California, provides a “queer was justifiable homicide. some of the lurid truths of this players in an elaborate, rigged cultural study of sexuality, The Deal from Hell multi-billion-dollar debacle. chess game. race and representation in the by James O’Shea (Public There are plenty of villains suburbs.” It focuses on the Los Affairs, $28.99) to go around in this book, a That’s enough for this Book Angeles suburban sprawl. This This is not a gay book by any must-read for journalists and Briefs column—back to read- is a non-fiction account of the means, but is a book of inter- j-students who are going into ing (and writing) a bunch ways queers live and impact est to anyone who cares about debt to get a degree for an more books. Note to publish- the “Lesser Los Angeles” area. the mainstream media and es- industry imploding from the ers of “big new LGBT books”— My only complaint is the tiny pecially the Chicago Tribune— weight of some really stupid don’t forget the LGBT media type, making it a difficult read and the “deal from hell” that mistakes. My stepdad Steve when promoting your books; for an already heavy subject. caused the once-prestigious Pratt worked at the Tribune for sometimes it amazes me how (well, in some people’s eyes) 29 years—and was screwed overlooked LGBT media can Tribune Company to be cut off by them when he wanted to be when it comes to the writ- at the financial knees, forced get out early after my mom ings of our own. It is impor- into bankruptcy due to greed died. My mom Joy Darrow tant these books are reviewed The Daring Spectacle: and arrogance. O’Shea had an also worked at the Tribune, through the lens of our own Adventures in Deviant insider’s view, since he was in the 1960s—but was forced community, not just the main- Journalism managing editor of the Chica- to leave when she wanted to stream. by Mark Morford (Rapture Machine, $20) I reviewed this book in the Jan. 12, 2011 Windy City Father Tierney is desperate Times, but I loved Morford’s writing so much I wanted to From Disgust to to keep his secret. recommend it again. He is a Humanity: Sexual pro-gay San Francisco-based Orientation and columnist who will take you Constitutional Law He is HIV-positive. on a wild ride with his words, by Martha C. Nussbaum thoughts and actions—bril- (Oxford, $21.95) Narrating the Closet: liant writing, collected into a This book is from 2010, An Autoethnography of book for your enjoyment. but worth recommending as Same-Sex Attraction we enter further into the un- A new novel by John Shekleton by Tony Adams (Left Coast The Bad Always Die Twice known landscape of the U.S. Now widely available for purchase. Press, $34.95) by Cheryl Crane Supreme Court and our LGBT Adams is an assistant pro- (Kensington, $25) rights, especially related to fessor in the Department of The title of the book the federal Defense of Mar- More about the book: Communication, Media and probably tells you all you riage Act. Nussbaum ably Theatre at Northeastern Illi- need to know—except that charts the course of the past www.johnshekletonauthor.com nois University. This book ex- the author is the only child of so that we can learn lessons amines how the metaphorical the late actress Lana Turner. for the future. The book looks 38 Oct. 5, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES

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An edible flower or a fruit garnish would have gone a long way in dressing it up. Taverna 750 The menu consists of hot and cold Italian small plates meant for sharing. Start with one of BY Meghan Streit the $6 “martini plates.” I highly recommend the Taverna 750’s Mozzarella allo filo. Photo by Meghan Streit mozzarella alla filo. Mozzarella is wrapped in a Paul Cannella, owner of the sultry Boystown crisp, delicate layer of filo dough, expertly fried lounge Scarlet, has been serving us drinks for a and drizzled with white truffle honey. Excellent $9. That’s not bad for something so delicious Do you need some more Sugar & Spice in few years. Cannella recently branched out into execution of the addictive salty/sweet combo and filling. your life? Follow me on Twitter: @SugarAnd- the world of food when he opened his restau- we all love so much. I love when elevated cuisine is sold in small SpiceMS for inside scoop and commentary on rant, Taverna 750, earlier this year. I also tried the eggplant caprese, which is portions at reasonable prices, and everything on Chicago’s dining scene. Taverna is nestled on a Boystown side street in far too decadent to be considered a salad, but Taverna’s menu falls into that enviable catego- the space that previously housed Cornelia’s. The I’ll play along. Tender eggplant is fried golden ry. All of the items are priced between $3 and kitschy old-school Italian ambiance of Cornelia’s brown, tucked between thick slabs of fresh $9, and two to three per person is more than has been replaced with a sleek, modern look. mozzarella and splattered with a tangy, creamy enough to make a meal. Exposed brick walls and an elegant tin ceiling tomato sauce. The mozzarella would have been When the time arrives for dessert at Taverna, set the stage, and massive black-and-white im- better if it was brought to room temperature be- you will get a not-so-subtle cue as to how you ages of romantic Italian streetscapes drive home fore it was served, but that did not stop me from should proceed. There is precisely one dessert the theme. The vibe is similar to Scarlet—sexy eating the entire dish. made of food on the menu (mousse of the day), lounge décor, potent cocktails, good-looking The more substantial offerings include a hand- but there are at least eight sweets made from gay clientele—but Taverna has snacks. ful of pizzas and pastas. Serving a memorable alcohol. I took the hint and ordered the tiramisu There is a big emphasis on cocktails at Tav- pizza in a pizza town like Chicago is no simple martini (when in Rome!). If properly combined, erna (no complaints!). In fact, the drink menu is feat. However, I’m pleased to report that Tav- Frangelico, Amaretto liqueur and Taverna’s about as large the food menu. The hand-crafted erna accomplishes it. The crust is thin, crisp and homemade chocolate liqueur taste remarkably cocktails are clearly mixed with care. In addition flavorful, and the topping combinations are de- like tiramisu. You can’t even taste the vodka, 5721 N. Clark St. to the classic Italian limoncello, Taverna also lightfully inventive. I tried the “Tutto Buono,” but I can tell you with utter certainty that it uses housemade orange- and grapefruit-cello. Call for which is topped with red sauce, salami, moz- is in there. I will return to try Taverna’s Italian The “Pera” is a nice way to start an evening. Reservations zarella, poppy seed, wine-poached figs and brie. wedding cake and gelato dessert martinis. It’s made with Absolut Pear vodka, grapefruit- 773-506-7014 That’s right—cheese on top of melted cheese. I think Taverna 750 is an ideal place to begin cello and fresh lime juice. My fellow bubble en- Putting brie on top of mozzarella might seem a night out in Boystown. You can start your eve- thusiasts won’t be able to resist the Prosecco like gilding the lily, but as it turns out, it’s actu- ning off right with a stiff cocktail and get some spritzes. I loved the Elderflower, which is made We feature the freshest seafood ally brilliant. I want to go back to sample all of food in your stomach, but not so much that you with a nice, dry Prosecco, St. Germain, lemon in Andersonville/Edgewater. Taverna’s pizzas, especially the one that com- won’t look good on the dance floor a couple of and soda water. It’s simple, light and refreshing. Come in for lunch bines mozzarella, Asiago, artichokes, rosemary hours later. And, you can also end your night or dinner and drinks I plan on throwing back a few spritzes on Taver- oil and pesto sauce. at Taverna. The bar is open until 2 a.m. every (YES! - our bar is now open). na’s patio next summer. Every cocktail I sampled Taverna’s pasta dishes include a unique take night, and they serve slices of pizza for $4 be- tasted delicious and accomplished its intended on lasagna. This decadent version is made with ginning at 11 p.m.—definitely a happy ending. Tue-Thu 11:30am - 10pm goal. However, I was a tad disappointed by the Fri-Sat 11:30am - 11pm Sun 10am - 9pm sage pasta, sun-dried tomato, bacon, asparagus Taverna 750 is located at 750 W. Cornelia St.; presentation. My lovely Elderflower spritz was Plated Sunday Brunch 10am - 2:30 pm and a whole lot of baked mozzarella cheese. The call 773-904-7466 or visit http://www.taver- served unceremoniously in a tall glass with ice. best part of this delicacy is its price tag—just na750.com. www.kingfisheronclark.com

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I have done a lot of television and enjoy 12 in the initial order. October is [episodes] the hour-long dramas. eight and nine, so over by the holidays. WCT: You had some of that when appearing Club’ on coming out, WCT: You are a New Yorker? on Drop Dead Diva for Lifetime Television. SM: Yes, I am. SM: Josh Berman, the creator, loves to use gay gay history and Chicago WCT: Chicago can be a smaller New York icons such as Rosie O’Donnell and Liza Minnelli. City. WCT: Now one you can be one, too! We had a mutual friend who is the producer, Neil SM: I love it here. I secretly want the show to SM: Thanks. I am just happy to be on the show Meron. I emailed them and got the part when become a huge hit and we can stay here. It is and hope people tune in. they saw me. I actually flew myself here. It was a fantastic place to raise kids. The thing about The Playboy Club airs every Monday on NBC. a matter of money and I offered to do it to get Chicago is that you do have suburbia about 15 Get your key to it at http://www.nbc.com/ the part. minutes away. the-playboy-club with listings and details. WCT: You really worked it! SM: I really did, which is so not my nature at all. I am not aggressive. I just loved the role and Fashion Incubator Bette Midler’s did the best I could. Now the role is getting to be bigger than they expected it to be. I am so accepting ‘Showgirl’ out on DVD grateful for the role. Image Entertainment is out with Bette WCT: Let’s talk about the Mattachine Soci- applications Midler’s return to Las Vegas in Bette Midler: The Chicago Fashion Incubator at Macy’s on ety, whose meetings your characters attend The Showgirl Must Go On, available on Blu-ray State Street (CFI) is accepting applications for on this show. I don’t think many people know and DVD. its 2012-2013 Designers in Residence (DIR) about that group, including myself. Taped before thousands in The Colosseum program. BY JERRY NUNN SM: Me neither. I thought everything started at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, the 67-minute The year-long residency, beginning March at Stonewall and it was the beginning of the gay show features many of Midler’s colorful and 2012, provides six designers with office space, Actor Sean Maher makes his mark on NBC with movement. classic stage and screen characters. Joining a workshop room with sample production Playboy Club in Chicago this month. Having WCT: So this was all underground? her on the gargantuan stage are performers in- space and a shared conference room/show- worked on the small screen in such shows as SM: It started in 1949 in Los Angeles by two cluding the Harlettes; 20 dancers she calls The room space. In addition to the space, DIR also Firefly, Party of Five, and CSI: Miami for the past men. It was underground and secret meetings. Caesar Salad Girls; and a 13-piece band. has opportunities for exposure and participa- 14 years in the closet, Maher was private about They were raising money and awareness and it Among the songs she performs are “The tion in events such as runway shows and meet- his life with partner of nine years, Paul, and two started to spread out. The first Chicago chap- Rose,” “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” “From a and-greets. children. Playing a similar character on televi- ter did start in 1961. Since that is the year in Distance,” “Hello in There” and “Wind Beneath The deadline is Tuesday, Nov. 8. See http:// sion mirrored this in the ’60s and encouraged his the pilot this became the very first homophile My Wings.” www.chicagofashionincubator.org or email decision to be more open with a subject that is movement. It was the one place the homosexu- The DVD is $19.98; it’s $24.98 on Blu-ray. [email protected]. still kept quiet by many actors even today. als could go and be themselves. They could feel Windy City Times talked to the actor right after he came out publicly to Entertainment Week- ‘Real Housewives’ ly recently. Windy City Times: Hi, Sean. Is this your first in Indiana Oct. 8 interview with a gay publication? Bravo Media is bringing Housewives from Sean Maher: It is. various cities together on one stage for an WCT: I’m honored! exclusive experience as the network presents SM: I did some interviews yesterday but it was “The Real Housewives Live Tour.” just about my gay-ism. It is all of my recent The tour will stop in Hammond, Ind., on Sat- news. urday, Oct. 8, with Sonja Morgan (New York WCT: It must be nice not to worry about City), Gretchen Rossi (Orange County), Lisa your big secret. Vanderpump (Beverly Hills) and Phaedra Parks SM: It was so funny walking here because nor- (Atlanta). mally when I am on my way to meet a journal- For more information or tickets, visit http:// ist for my work I was always so worried that www.BravoTV.com and follow on Twitter at question was going to come up. I always had to https://twitter.com/BravoPR. navigate around it. It is so liberating to have it all out in the open and have nothing to hide. WCT: Do you want to participate in activism now? FESTIVAL from page 21 friendship lie at the heart of this sweet, heart- SM: I do. I want to step out more in the fore- breaking film. After moving into a new home front fighting for the causes that I believe in. I with her mother and sister, 10-year-old Laure think it is about leading by example. It is shar- shocking wedding, Love Actually…Sucks! willingly poses as a boy after being confused ing my story and my family that I am so incred- continues its exploration of the dark side of for one by neighbor Lisa. As Michael, Laure ibly proud of. There is only beauty and love in romance with tales about an incestuous re- soon wins the admiration of neighborhood that. There is no shame in that. There is nothing lationship, a painter who falls for his male boys for her soccer skills and girls for her sen- to hide. Instead of stepping forward to fight, model, a fitness trainer in search of young sitivity. No matter how imaginative Laure is fight, fight, I’m stepping forward and accepting flesh, a lesbian couple with issues, a deadly in dealing with boy issues, keeping her true myself as not the normal family but a beautiful love triangle and a love story between a dance identity secret will prove difficult as she and family. teacher and his older student. Screens Oct. 7, Lisa become closer. Screens Oct. 7, 8 WCT: A “Modern Family!” 8, 10 Sean Maher. Photo by Brie Childers Without (USA)—On remote Whidbey Island, SM: Yes, pun intended! It is a cliché but I can Madame X (Indonesia)—In this Indonesian- Joslyn is in charge of caring for an old man have a white picket fence back in L.A. We have a styled Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, our trans- in a vegetative state while his family is on very domesticated life. I don’t think there are a sexual superhero goes up against Mr. Storm, vacation. Totally isolated from the world—no lot of examples out there. Bringing some aware- that they had rights and needed to be heard. I The National Morality Front and his deadly Internet, no cell phone signal—her fragile ness to it by leading by example is one of the love the underground aspect of it all. burqa-clad wives. A dark wit pervades this mental state slowly begins to crumble. In a best tools. WCT: I heard it was mainly men in the soci- daring, camp-filled first feature from director chilling and nuanced debut, Joslyn Jensen de- WCT: You must really relate to your charac- ety. Lucky Kuswandi. Screens Oct. 12, 14, 16 livers an outstanding performance as a young ter on The Playboy Club and it’s such a good SM: Yes; [there were] not a lot of women. Romeos (German)—Lukas, a female-to- woman struggling with her sexuality, loneli- part. You don’t see parts like that every day There are a few women in the show that Chad male transgender youth undergoing hormone ness and frail mind in this haunting film. on television. put but there were rarely more than a couple of replacement therapy, travels to Cologne, Ger- Screens Oct. 8, 9, 12 SM: Yes, it is amazing. My manager sent it to women. many, for his compulsory civil service. There Unless noted otherwise, all films will me. It was one of the very first pilots I read. WCT: I did some extra work on the show so he meets Fabio, who embodies all Lukas wants screen at the AMC River East 21, 322 E. Il- He said, “Don’t look at the lead role. There is went behind the scenes already. to be. However, can he open up to Fabio? And linois. Complete information on tickets, another role in there, ironically named Sean.” I SM: You did? Did you go inside the club? what will happen to their relationship if he show times, special events are available by read it and thought I have to do this! They were WCT: No, I filmed outside in an outdoor does? The charisma, sensitivity and chemis- calling 312-332-FILM (3456) or visiting just going to hire a local actor out of Chicago. café. try between the leads makes this unique love http://www.chicagofilmfestival.com. It was what they could afford with the budget. SM: It is amazing in the club. I was in awe story a treasure to watch. Screens Oct. 16, 18 I had gotten too involved in the story and the the first time I stepped in it. The only other set Tomboy (France)—Gender identity and Mattachine Society. Ironically, the creator, Chad I liked this much was the Firefly set. From some Hodge, used to live in my building years ago. angles you look around and don’t even know you WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 5, 2011 41

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The journey starts off blazing with “Sirens,” which has a powerful mix of drums and guitars. “Take” has a catchy chorus, as Becky Black passionately belts out “You take everything I love” POP repeatedly. The accompanying video even nods to the MAKING ’80s new wave masterpiece “Cars” by Gary Newman. SENSE Pearl Jam serves as the by David Byrne inspiration on “Seasick,” with Tony Peregrin while the magnificent “Pos- itronic” has muffled vocals and a driving beat courtesy of drummer Maya Miller. Al- though the pair rocks out ABC’s Dancing with the Stars is making headlines, fearlessly, the lyrics tend to as Chaz Bono marks the first transgender contes- favor social insecurities, as heard on “8” and “Rid Nervous but Excited. tant on the competition. This is garnering lots of of Me.” fandom and sadly bigotry and intolerance as well. Like the Canadian duo’s 2008 sophomore album Few will remember the Bono was in the rock band Funeral Mixtape, Unpersons is an absolutely out- “Edge of Seventeen (Just Like a White Winged the distinct recognition of directly falling off the Ceremony. His short-lived group only had one al- standing tour de force. The Pack a.d. has a con- Dove)” and the Rumors follow up “Tusk” are not MTV Top 20 Countdown from the chart’s summit. bum, 1993’s Hang out Your Poetry. The set’s lead cert at Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western Ave., on included here. Retromix: Fleetwood is available It was a memorable moment when “You Are the single “Could’ve Been Love” brings a ’60s pop- Thursday, Oct. 6. E-mail [email protected] now. Everything” was used on Beverly Hills 90210. rock sound to the next generation. for free admission. According to a recent interview with Minneapo- I never have seen R.EM. in concert. While tour- The iconic diva Barbra Streisand has so many Last year, The Ettes’ performance was the high- lis Star Tribune, Stevie Nicks revealed that Prince ing to promote 1994’s rock-heavy Monster, my signature nuances, that she readily can be paro- light of my day at Lollapalooza. The Nashville- approached her to write the lyrics to the song attempts were derailed by cancellations due to died. Never mind her looks—an imitator must based trio is on the road again with a stop at “Purple Rain.” Although she shied away from that band members’ injuries. Shortly after Bush’s re- flash the nails, have the soft lighting, strike dra- Park West, 322 W. Armitage, on Friday, Oct. 7, to opportunity, Nicks also stated that she wrote election, the politically vocal R.E.M. opened a matic poses and copy that voice. The wildly enter- promote Wicked Will. Here, there is an enticing “Stand Back” after playing “Little Red Corvette.” Chicago show with “It’s The End of the World As taining Steven Brinberg does a knockout parody retro sound on “My Heart.” “Trouble with You” Prince joined her on the track and, in return, in- We Know It (And I Feel Fine).” of Streisand. has a beat recalling a racing heart. Resistance is vited her to help pen his massive hit. R.E.M. has had many great collaborations, no- While we wait for Streisand to return to the futile to the double clap on “I Stayed Too Late.” R.E.M. has decided to disband after 31 years tably Kate Pierson on “Shiny Happy People,” KRS- big screen in the comedy My Mother’s Curse and The Ettes puts a great spin on Lee Hazelwood’s and 15 albums together. The Athens, Ga.-based One on “Radio Song” and Patti Smith on “E-bow Gypsy, come say “Hello, Gorgeous” as Brinberg “My Baby Cried All Night,” as if this was plucked group leaves a legacy. The 1991 hit “Losing My the Letter.” Queer frontman Michael Stipe con- brings his show “Simply Barbra!” Wed., Oct. 12, from the vaults. Religion” won six MTV Video Music Awards and the tributes his famously unmistakable voice on “Kid to Davenport’s, 1383 N. Milwaukee Ave. Brinberg I had my ear to the dance floor and heard “Ru- clip was directed by Tarsem Singh, who has gone Fears” by Indigo Girls. Collapse into Now marks has paid tribute to the ultimate diva all over the mors” that Centaur would issue a collection of to helm the films The Cell and The Fall. Tori Amos R.E.M.’s last studio album. The three-disc career- world and on his albums Duets and Simply Bar- covers of Fleetwood Mac classics tweaked to a and dance divas Abigail and Rozalla separately spanning retrospective, Part Lies, Part Heart, Part bra Live in London. Tickets to Simply Barbara! club beat. The newly released Retromix: Fleet- have covered this track wonderfully. “Stand” has Truth, Part Garbage, is due out Nov. 15. are available at http://www.davenportspianobar. wood opens with one of my favorites, “Every- com. where.” DeMarko! mixes these reworkings of ma- On the heels of its third studio album, folk duo terial like “Sara” and “Dreams” into a continuous Lampkin Music Group presents Nervous but Excited is hosting a record release mix here, keeping the tempo upbeat throughout show on Thursday, Oct. 13, at Panchos, 2200 N. the 13-track set. Just try not feeling energized California Ave. Chicago’s very own REGO will be with the recognizable synthesizers introducing on the bill, too. Nervous but Excited’s latest, You “Tell Me Lies” or the fiery chorus on “Go Your Own Intimate Are Here, features beautiful folk-focused material Way.” (“Away, Awake”) and endearing use of the banjo Fans must wait until 2012 for the next Fleet- (“Ohio to Michigan”). However, “Happiest We’ve wood Mac reunion. But until then, this remark- Ever Been” shows the duo’s personality with spins able collection serves as the first in the Retromix Saturday Nights about lesbian stereotypes. The phenomenal “No series. The potential possibilities for future in- at the Telling” offers both longing set to dose of bar- stallments are endless; other timeless stars like Stage 773 Cabaret Room room rock. The self-released You Are Here is out Madonna or more contemporary hitmakers like now. Lady Gaga and Rihanna would suit this series On its fourth effort Unpersons, The Pack a.d. is well. Fear not! Lindsay Lohan’s dreadful take on October 8 Stephen Rader “Sings a Song He Wants to” Coming soon

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by “Katie’s Corner” created by Alexandra Billings and Heather Hopkins. The performances will feature Chicago favorites Honey West, Molly Brennan (500 Clown), David Cerda (Handbag Productions, The Joan Band), Mitchell Fain and many more surprise guests. 10:30pm, 773-327-5252, Brought to you by the combined efforts of Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont, http://www. stage773.com WINDY CITY Love Actually---Sucks screening The 47th gay-walking Chicago International Film Festival pres- TIMES ents; 10:45pm, Check ticketmaster.com/ Wed., Oct. 12 chicagofilmfestival for location, http:// www.ticketmaster.com/chicagofilmfestival WCT Publisher Tracy Baim Wed., Oct. 5 will speak on her book, Only at Brunch Viewing Party Be the first Saturday, Oct. 8 Obama and the Gays, KATIE DECISION Oktoberfest The party starts at 2pm with to catch new episodes of Only at Brunch! complimentary brats, $3.50 well drinks at Woodson Regional From sex, dating, and relationships to Friday, Oct. 7 and Miller Lite drafts and $2 shots of Library, 9525 S. Halsted news, politics, and bedroom etiquette, no Alexandra Billings (right) will Schnapps. Prosit! 2pm, Scot’s, 1829 W topic is off limits. 7:30pm-8:30pm, Scar- St. star in “Katie’s Corner” at Montrose Ave. let, 3320 N Halsted, http://www.onlyat- The Theatre School Presents INTIMATE AP- brunch.com/ Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont. PAREL In turn-of-the century Manhattan, Northwestern LGBT Resource Center Wel- Esther, an African-American seamstress, come Back Reception LGBT Resource PR photo creates lingerie for a diverse clientele, Church, Spertus Institute, 610 S. Michi- Center Staff and LGBTQA Campus Advisory ranging from a socialite wife to a pros- gan, http://www.newchicagochurch.com Network sponsor food and an opportunity titute. Sept. 30 through Oct. 9, 2011, Very Queer Comedy in Mary’s Attic The to meet and talk with the Northwestern Wednesdays through Saturdays at 7:30pm, first of a series of monthly GLBT comedy LGBTQQIA community. 4:30pm-6pm, 847- Sundays at 2pm, post show discussion revues featuring Cameron Esposito, Brad- 491-7200, John Evans Alumni Center, Sunday, Oct. 2. ASL Interpreted - Sunday, ley Thomas, and Meg O’Rourke, hosted 1800 Sheridan Rd., Evanston Oct. 9. Tickets $15; students $6; 7:30pm, by Sissy Van Dyke. The featured perfor- Gay Liberation Network Organizing Meet- the Law and Sexuality course, give a 7:30 3656 N Halsted, http://www.averchicago. 312-922-1999, Merle Reskin 60 E. Balbo mances will be followed by a GLBT coming Monthly organizing meeting of Chica- pm lecture followed by Q&A and, at 8:30 org Dr., http://www.theatreschool.depaul.edu edy Open Mic. To sign up for the Open go’s direct-action LGBTQ group, focusing pm, attend a reception; 7:45pm, Univer- Pussy on the House Hell in a Handbag Pro- FRAT The raucous sellout hit comedy about Mic or for more information email: info@ on how the activity of people in our com- sity of Illinois-Urbana, http:// www.char- ductions is proud to kick off their season the fictitious “Theta Pi Psi” fraternity at a sissyvandyke.com or call: 312-513-9211. munity, not the politicians, is what brings lenestrong.com with a tale so big there’s barely room to southern college, is back by popular de- 7pm-9pm, 312-513-9211, Mary’s Attic, about change. 7pm-9pm, 773-209-1187, Daft Punk Dance Party All Daft Punk music contain it’s bubbling melodrama. A tale of mand. Staged at The Apartment Lounge 5400 N Clark, http://sissyvandyke.com/ Berger Park Fieldhouse, 6205 N. Sheridan and videos with DJ Adam EL. 10pm, Ber- dark desires; of greed and avarice; of long- night club in Lincoln Park, the audience where_events Road, http://www.gayliberation.net lin Nightclub, 954 W Belmont Ave, http:// ing and lesbians; all set in the hot and is right in the middle of parties, pledge Woke Up Black screening Film focuses on www.berlinchicago.com steamy South. 8pm-11pm, The Athenaeum education and initiation rituals. 8pm- Monday, Oct. 10 five Black youth, along with their strug- Theatre, Studio 3 2936 N. Southport Ave., 9:30pm, 773-404-7336, The Apartment The Baton’s Halloween Rummage Sale gles and triumphs as they start their jour- Thursday, Oct. 6 http://www.handbagproductions.org Lounge, 2251 N. Lincoln Ave., http:// Glamorous gowns, wigs, jewelry, costumes ney into adulthood. 7-9pm, James Stukel Civil Unions in IL, Love, Life, Death, Drag Idol Chicago’s newest drag competi- www,frattheplay.com and more from the finest in female imper- Tower Auditorium, 718 W. Rochford St., Taxes, Philanthropy The McGaw YMCA tion. Audience decides who stays and who 2nd Annual Fashion Mash Collaboraction sonation. 6pm-10pm, Baton Show Lounge, http://www.facebook.com/wokeupblack holds a free breakfast program on the new goes. Hosted by Kelly Lauren. Sign up with presents the 2nd Annual Fashion Mash, 436 N. Clark St., http://www.thebaton- Gay Gospels: Book Discussion London- civil-union act in Illinois, how the new act [email protected]. Winner of the showcasing Chicago talent in all forms of showlounge.com based Keith Sharpe will discuss his new is being applied so far, why estate plans 13-week competition will win a prize artistic creativity. Local designers, bands, United House: A Night of Unity in House book, 7:30pm-9pm, 773-381-8030, Ger- should be updated, what other impact package worth over $10,000, including DJs and artists will come together for an Music Join Hydrate Nightclub, Chicago- ber/Hart Library, 1127 W. Granville Ave., on philanthropy might the new act have. $1500 cash, a trip for two, a professional evening of style, visual arts and perfor- Pride.com, and host Cyon Flare for United http://www.gerberhart.org 8:30am-10:30am, Law Offices of Schiff photo shoot and more. 9pm-11:45pm, mance, beginning at 8pm. This “mash-up” House: A Night of Unity in House Music, Charlene Strong Washington state hu- Hardin LLP Willis (Sears) Tower, Floor Hydrate, 3458 N. Halsted, http://www. of fashion, art, music and theater will fea- featuring Resident House DJ Semaj; 9pm, man rights commissioner, subject of the 66, 233 S. Wacker Dr.; email lauraw@mc- hydratechicago.com ture visual art, entertainment and a full Hydrate, 3458 N. Halsted, http://www.hy- documentary film “for my wife…” and gawymca.org Stardust 3-Year Anniversary Gala Stardust runway show, with admission starting at dratechicago.com co-editor of The Seattle Lesbian, Strong American Veterans for Equal Rights (GLBT celebrates three years of Thursday nights only $10. 8pm-11pm, :312-226-9633, Flat will make an 11 am presentation with veterans) Monthly meeting first Thursday at Berlin with GlassLux (Live), DJs All the of each month. 7pm, Center on Halsted, Way Kay, Broken Disco 1980 and more. Iron Arts Building, http://www.collabo- Tuesday, Oct. 11 QueerVision benefits the Queer Film So- 10pm, Berlin Nightclub, 954 W. Belmont raction.org/ ciety An evening of all Queer content, a Ave, http://www.berlinchicago.com RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Stacy Layne Mat- thews Popular performer Stacy Layne non-stop compilation of classic to current Friday, Oct. 7 Matthews gives you two performances at Film-TV-Broadway-Music Video-Comedy clips rarely or never before shown at Side- Equality Illinois First Friday Networking midnight and 1 am. $5 in advance/$10 at track, exclusively edited for this special Social Join Equality Illinois every first Fri- the door/$20 VIP bar package with hosted event in honor of National Coming Out day of the month as they feature a differ- bar. VJ Riley York, DJ Bryan. 11pm, Spin Day. $10 donation includes complimen- ent community partner organization. $10 Nightclub, 800 W. Belmont Ave, http:// tary cocktail and prizes and exclusive First gets you 2 cocktails and a ticket for the www.spin-nightclub.com Look Preview of Reeling 30, Chicago’s Gay prize drawing. 6pm-9pm, Sidetrack, 3349 and Lesbian Film Festival; 7pm-10pm, N. Halsted St, http://www.equalityillinois. Sunday, Oct. 9 Sidetrack, 3349 N Halsted St, http://www. org Jane Lynch Actor and comedienne Jane queerfilmsociety.org American Brotherhood weekend kick- Lynch will be talking about and auto- off Registration at 6pm. Welcome party graphing her candid, heartfelt, and often 9-11pm. M.A.F.I.A. club night begins at funny memoir, Happy Accidents at a spe- Wed., Oct. 12 Obama & the Gays with Tracy Baim Tracy 11pm. 6pm, Touche, 6412 N. Clark St., cial ticketed event; call or go to the store Baim, publisher of Windy City Times and http://www.touchechicago.com to pre-pay for the book and a numbered author of Obama & the Gays, presents an Visual Strategies: AIDS Awareness Post- ticket for the signing; only ticketed cus- in-depth review of Barack Obama’s poli- ers, opening reception From the Special tomers who have purchased a book from cies on gay issues. Baim’s book came out Collections of Gerber/Hart Library and Women & Children First will be admitted. in 2010, and provides a comprehensive Archives, posters addressing awareness 1pm-3pm, 773-769-9299, Women & Chil- look at Obama’s trajectory on LGBT rights, of AIDS and means by which the disease dren First, 5233 N. Clark St., http://www. from his days in the Illinois state Senate could and could not spread, as well as womenandchildrenfirst.com to his first two years as president. With campaigns by specific groups and coali- Author speaks to Prime Timers Will Fel- DADT history and DOMA legal battles in tions within the LGBT community. Exhibit lows, author of “Farm Boys-Lives of Gay the courts, where does the president stand through Wed., Nov. 9. 7pm-9pm, Gerber/ Men from the Rural Midwest,” will discuss on other issues in the community? Free Hart Library, 1127 W Granville Ave. his latest book “Gay Bar: The Fabulous, lecture. 7pm, 312-747-6921, Woodson Re- 10th Annual DePaul Coming Out Ball The True Story of a Daring Woman and Her gional Library, 9525 S. Halsted St.; http:// Coming Out Ball benefit and celebration Boys in the 1950’s”, at the Chicago Prime http://www.chipublib.org/events/details/ with the objective of providing a safe, Timers open social. Social hour 6pm/din- id/74096/ and uplifting space for LGBT students and ner 7pm. $25 non-members; 6pm, 773- BTQ Book Group The BTQ discussion group their allies. Doors open at 7:30pm perfor- 844-1005, Ann Sather - Belmont, 909 W. focuses on bisexual, transgender and mances start at 8pm. Info DePaulComing- Belmont Ave., http://www.primetimer- queer topics. Newcomers are welcome! No [email protected]; 7:30pm, 78 E. sww.org/chicago preregistration is required. 7:30pm-9pm, Washington St., http://on.fb.me/oazxme Urban Village Church LGBT welcoming wor- THE JANE EVENT 773-381-8030, Gerber/Hart Library, 1127 Katie’s Corner: Live! Created by Alexan- ship services at Urban Village Church are W. Granville Ave., http://www.gerberhart. dra Billings An Improvised Evening With eclectic and experiential, practical and Sunday, Oct. 9 org/ Katharine Hepburn, developed by Alex- intelligent, relevant and, hopefully, in- andra Billings and Sean Abley, inspired spiring. 10:15am-11:30am, Urban Village Jane Lynch (above left, with wife Lara Embry) will be at Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark St. Get WindyCityMediaGroup.com Photo by Alex J. 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completely nude in the just-opened flick What’s “We’re judging the jive here, me ole sausage.”— Your Number (which was so poorly rated, save Len Goodman chastises Derek Hough after his your money and just watch the clip on my site). dance last week with Ricki Lake. “Me ole sau- And, sure, for the most part that is him. But one an evening of sage”? I believe that’s the British equivalent of part isn’t. Chris decided that he needed a butt me calling my friend a messy bottom. double. As someone who has spent time with all queer content A benefit at Sidetrack for the Queer Film Society I know this will be a controversial stance, but Chris, let me assure you there’s nothing wrong in honor of National Coming Out Day I’m standing behind Patti Stanger. I love our with his ass. But for whatever reason he didn’t “Millionaire Matchmaker” because she’s honest! want his bare derriere in this film. Instead, he She doesn’t coddle people. When guys come in enlisted the aid of Zach, his former roommate— to find love, she’ll say, “You look like crap,” or because if there’s one thing roommates know, Tuesday “You need better clothes,” or “Could you lay off it’s each other’s asses! Chris brought Zach to Oct. 11 the Fritos for five minutes?” So why on Earth was meet the powers-that-be and everyone agreed it 7-10pm anyone surprised when telling Andy Cohen about was a perfect fit. Added Chris, “He’s got a great $10 donation includes the gay men she encounters in her L.A.-based ass.” drink ticket business that, “There is no curbing the gay man. Could it be that a certain highly visible same- sex couple is looking to expand their repertoire? & chance to You know, I try curbing you people and I’ve just win fabulous Seems so, according to some South Beach studs decided to throw in the towel and say, ‘Do what door prizes you want. But when you find the right person, who were approached to join in the Cirque du you will know.’” Poor Andy looked positively baf- So Gay activities that take place in the pair’s fled—that wonky eye was spinning like a top! boudoir. While most wisely declined the invite, Then he said, “I’m down with monogamy”—like one did partake of the carnal pleasures that I he’s all street. Patti asked him, “Really? When was your last relationship?” “Well,” he said, “I was in a three-year relationship six years ago.” 3349 N. Halsted Patti just rolled her eye—she and Andy looked SidetrackChicago.com like twins! I give her a pass. She’s a matchmaker. She’s not looking to get us laid or for us to have a good time tonight. She wants us in relationships. Team Patti. Plus...we’ll be giving away tickets In a little case of life imitating art, sexy Sean to catch KATHY GRIFFIN Maher has come out. Sure, there have been rumors ever since his Party of Five days, to say LIVE at the Chicago Theatre, nothing of his sexy turn on the long-lamented Jan. 20th & Jan. 21st! Firefly” However, on The Playboy Club, he’s playing a character (coincidentally named Sean) who Kathy Griffin tickets on sale now at LiveNation.com, is in the closet and married to a lesbian—hon- Ticketmaster outlets & 800-745-3000 ey, that’s how it was done in the ‘50s. So he probably thought this was a great time to just come out. He reveals that back when he told his manager he was gay, the manager pushed him to always show up at events with a girl on his arm, adding, “It’s best if you keep your options open. Maybe bisexual?” Sean says he went so far as to sleep with several women. “It was a very CLICKTOWIN! confusing time for me,” he admitted. It’s not so confusing now—he’s been with his partner Paul for nine years and they have two kids: “I have JEM and The these beautiful children and this extraordinary family. To think in any way shape or form that that’s wrong or that there’s shame in that or Holograms: that there’s something to hide actually turns my Was Wendy Williams’ (above) show the set- stomach.” So there! ting of a Queen Latifah outing? Photo by Amy Season One Sept. 28, 2011—the day Barbra Streisand Etra caused Lea Michele’s head to explode. Actually, JEM and The Holograms: it started two days earlier. Lea was watching The Truly Outrageous Complete Series Hoarders and noticed one of the subjects had a have no doubt these experienced daddies can 11-Disc DVD Set featuring All 3 Seasons, Babs Barbie. “Where is this man and how can I provide. The encounter wasn’t horrible, but the 65 Original Episodes and get my hands on that doll!!!!” Michele posted on newbie called it “awkward—as if maybe it was Totally Awesome Extras! Twitter. Then, on the 28th, Babs went on Twit- their first.” The post-coital conversation was far ter to post, “Forget the guy. I’m sending you more adept. The more aggressive (read: gainfully Rockin’ into stores on October 11 the doll. But I want a Lea Michele doll when it employed) mate said he’d be up for future one- from Shout! Factory comes out.” Paramedics had to be called to the on-one action while his spousal-equivalent was JEM and the Holograms: Season One Michele house, but she’s fine now. She’s sitting busy in the kitchen. The new addition smiled available to own the same day! by the door waiting for the postman. and scooted. Since numbers had already been Win DVDs while supplies last! In other TV news, Tia and Tamera Mowry (for- exchanged, the texts have been flooding in. http://www.shoutfactory.com/browse/383/ merly on Sister, Sister) caused a bit of a kerfuf- When a blind item supports Patti Stanger’s jem_and_the_holograms.aspx#axzz1XlquzhzJ fle when they appeared on The Wendy Williams point of view, it’s definitely time to end yet an- Show. Wendy was very interested in how Tia lost other column. How fortuitous: A big-time same- the baby weight, and she said she’s been work- sex celebrity couple is not only having a three- ing out with Jeanette Jenkins, to which Wendy way, but one of the partners is trying to hook ENTER TO WIN one DVD and one book by quipped, “Oh, that’s Queen Latifah’s old friend.” up with the bonus boy on the side—things that sending an email with “JEM” Which lead Tia to say, stumbling over her words, make you (and Patti) go, “Hmmm.” Or things in the subject line to “Uh, yes, it’s her ... ’friend!’” The audience burst that make you go to www.BillyMasters.com—the [email protected] into applause. And Wendy looked out there as if site that stimulates your mind and other organs. by Mon., October 10 to be entered. to say, “What? What’s so funny?” But, of course, To get a hold of me for your queries, questions we all know what’s so funny! You’ll laugh, too, or quickies, just drop a note to Billy@BillyMas- Winner will be selected at random from all when you see the clip on BillyMasters.com. ters.com and I promise to get back to you be- entries and will be notified via email. Most of you enjoy seeing every inch of sexy fore Barbra buys her son a Chris Colfer doll for Chris Evans. Alas, I have to break some sad news Hanukkah! So, until next time, remember, one to you. Obviously you’ve seen the footage we man’s filth is another man’s bible. have on BillyMasters.com of him walking around First Mar- ket Days Classic a success

46 Oct. 5, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES perience,” she said. painful times in my life.” Tanner was the top overall female finisher in The Chicago Gay Games in 2006 were sad on Coming home: the Proud To Run race in 1996, which she said a physical front for Tanner. She fainted at home is a running “highlight, something I was really days before she was to compete in the mara- proud of because it was our day, with our group thon, injuring her face. Tanner could only watch Lesbian lends of people running.” She won her age-group in and cheer the runners that hot and humid Satur- that race every year. day morning in Chicago. “Running is something I enjoy,” said Tanner, “Such a disappointment. You can imagine how who has tinkered with the idea of entering a sad I was,” she said. Aussie flavor to triathlon, but is worried about her ability as a So what about the 2014 Gay Games in Cleve- swimmer. land? Running has never been a worry for the char- “Oh sure, I’ll go with Team Chicago, and will Chicago Marathon ismatic Tanner, who competed—and won her run the marathon,” Tanner said without hesita- age-group—in the marathon and the 10K race tion. By Ross Forman “I really would like to win my age category; at the 1994 Gay Games in New York City. She Tanner, who is single who still works as a nu- that’s a goal of mine,” said Tanner, whose main finished that ’94 marathon in about three hours tritionist and holistic healer three days a week, Dorothy Tanner was filled with emotions as she running superstition is similarity. Everything and 30 minutes. has had an amazing run helping and support- thought about the starting line of the annual will be the same for her as in past races. She has “It was wonderful, so wonderful,” Tanner said ing Chicago’s LGBT community. She long was a Bank of America Chicago Marathon. She was ex- the same nutrients before, during and after the of the ’94 Games. “Everyone was happy, walking strong fundraising supporter for such causes as cited and nervous, competitive and committed, race, and even carries six or eight packets of Gu around the streets holding hands. It was such a the Windy City Performing Arts and the Bailiwick determined and driven. in her hands while running, as she has for years. beautiful time—of joy, togetherness, and hope Theater. Plus, she managed Broadway Vitamins On Sunday morning, Oct. 9, Tanner will run Tanner opts against wearing a runner’s belt to for the future.” for years, and ran a vitamin co-op for people 26.2 miles through the streets of Chicago, which store her race-day nutrition, or a water bottle. Tanner competed in the 2002 Gay Games in living with HIV and cancer. She arranged to sell she proudly calls home. She’ll be one of about She said she plans to a play with friends after Sydney as a member of Team Chicago, though supplements to the needy at wholesale prices. 45,000 runners, motivated by, among other the race. she had moved from Chicago to Australia about She also provided programs of diet and nutri- things, the finisher’s medal that awaits all who Tanner, always energetic and enthusiastic, two weeks before the start of those Games. She tion. cross the finish line. joined the predominantly gay Frontrunners/ won individual and team medals, and Team Chi- “The HIV/AIDS community means a lot to me,” “I am a competitive runner, so I’m trying to Frontwalkers Chicago club in the mid-1990s and cago had a strong showing. However, the mem- said Tanner, who stresses the importance of be- be in the now and not put too much pressure remained with the group until she moved back ory is bittersweet for Tanner. When the Games ing comfortable with who you are. to her home country, Australia, in 2002. She also ended, her Team Chicago colleagues boarded Thus, many in Chicago’s LGBT community have formed Team Frontrunners, one of the top teams planes bound for the United States, yet she re- long viewed Tanner as a loving, nurturing sis- on the Chicago Area Runners Association (CARA) mained in Australia. ter who always was comforting, nurturing and circuit for years. “It was a wonderful experience, but also was someone you could trust. “The Frontrunners … that was a wonderful ex- very sad,” she said. “That was one of the most

“We have looked into the allegations relat- Questions, ing to the possible use of a homophobic slur by a Flyers player in the Rangers/Flyers preseason controversy game last night in Philadelphia. Since there are conflicting accounts of what transpired on surround the ice, we have been unable to substantiate with the necessary degree of certainty what NHL ‘slur’ was said and by whom. By Ross Forman “Specifically, Flyers player Wayne Simmonds has expressly denied using the homophobic In the heat of action during a National Hockey slur he is alleged to have said. Additionally, League (NHL) preseason game Sept. 26, Wayne none of the on-ice officials close to the al- Simmonds of the host Philadelphia Flyers tercation in question heard any inappropriate shouted at Sean Avery of the New York Rang- slurs uttered by either of the primary antago- ers. nists. In light of this, we are unable at this Dorothy Tanner. Photo by Ross Forman The action was caught on videotape, but time to take any disciplinary action with re- Simmonds’ words are not audible; however, spect to last night’s events. To the extent we on myself because I really would like to run this what he appears to have said is causing quite become aware of additional information con- [marathon] in under four hours. I’m not going to a commotion. clusively establishing that an inappropriate say how much under four hours. If I could finish Many are convinced Simmonds yelled an slur was invoked, we are reserving the option in 3:50 or 3:55, that would be wonderful,” said anti-gay slur at Avery, a strong supporter of to revisit the matter.” Andrew Sobotka. Photo by Larry Palm the five-foot Tanner, an open lesbian, who last gay rights. Some disagree with the NHL’s assessment; ran the Chicago Marathon 10 years ago—when The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defama- they are convinced they can read Simmonds’ cago Metropolitan Sports Association (CMSA), about 18,000 participated. tion (GLAAD), the nation’s leading LGBT media lips. However, some within the gay community was asked for comment on the situation—so “But it’s all about the day. I feel like I’ve advocacy and anti-defamation organization, support the NHL’s decision. he watched the YouTube clip numerous times. trained well. I also have to get my head right immediately called on the NHL to take action “It is abundantly clear from video footage Albritton is not convinced an anti-gay slur was and not be afraid of the amount of runners. against Simmonds. that an instance of anti-gay bias occurred,” said. “I don’t feel as though I’ve aged or changed Officials at Egale Canada, which is Canada’s said Mike Thompson, acting president of “Right now, [it] looks like a he-said, he-said [over the past 10 years]; I feel like the same national LGBT-rights organization, said they GLAAD. “League officials should revisit this thing, which isn’t worth a comment officially healthy person. [My] age is irrelevant, yet [my] are extremely disturbed by the NHL’s failure matter and take action immediately. The NHL from me,” Albritton said. height is a bigger concern.” to take action against homophobia within the is severely out of touch at a time when leagues Still, GLAAD launched an online action for In a half-marathon once run in Australia, for game. including (Major League Baseball) MLB and community members and allies to contact instance, Tanner was pushed at the start and “There can be no question that Philadelphia the (National Basketball Association) NBA are the NHL (http://www.glaad.org/tellnhl). The was nearly trampled. “It was an ugly scene,” she Flyers’ Wayne Simmonds hurled a hateful, anti- taking stands against anti-gay bullying and GLAAD online action says, “hearing a player said. gay slur during a pre-season game on Monday steps to ensure their sports are welcoming to shout ‘f**got’ during a game can perpetuate a Tanner has participated in approximately night, and the NHL must take responsibility all players, coaches and fans.” climate of intolerance that pervades so many 150 races over her running career, including 12 and stand with other major league sports in Andrew Sobotka, president of the Chicago schools and universities today.” marathons. She ran the 13.1-mile Chicago Half their active and explicit opposition to dis- Gay Hockey Association (CGHA), said the NHL Simmonds has expressly denied using the Marathon Sept. 11, and participated in a 5K race crimination based on sexual orientation,” said needs to take this issue seriously. homophobic slur he is alleged to have said, on Sept. 24 in suburban Park Ridge, which she Helen Kennedy, executive director of Egale “Other major sports leagues are issuing ‘It according to the NHL statement. won in her age group. Canada. Gets Better’ videos, and fining players for us- Chuck Jacobson, the founder of the CGHA, Tanner ran the marathon and other running “Incidents of anti-gay hate echo across all ing homophobic speech, and adding sexual also was an on-ice official for several years. He events at the two Gay Games, the 1994 edition of society, causing lasting harm in the local orientation clauses to their collective bargain- was among the officials working the 2006 Gay in New York City and in 2002 in Australia—and rink, the classroom, and at home. It’s time ing agreements. Where is the NHL on this is- Games in Chicago. claimed multiple medals at each. She participat- for one of Canada’s favorite pastimes to get sue?” Sobotka said. “They say that ‘hockey is Jacobson said it is “highly unlikely” the on- ed in Chicago’s annual Proud To Run race about with the times and directly address the issue for everyone,’ but, by not taking action on this officials did not hear exactly what was said. eight times—and even was the top female fin- of anti-gay discrimination on and off the ice. issue, they are essentially undermining the im- “It seems to me that nobody wants to take isher won year in her age bracket. There are many LGBT youth and athletes who portance of homophobia in the sporting world. responsibly in the NHL,” Jacobson said. “I The Chicago Marathon marks her first race in remain hesitant to live openly, fearful of rejec- If the NHL doesn’t want to address homopho- think the NHL is still a long way from getting the 70 to 74 female age-group, where she pre- tion by their coaches and peers. The NHL has bia in their league, then they are going to find to where they [need] to be with the homo- dicts there will be fewer than 20 others. She shamefully let them down.” themselves in a place where they have been phobic issue. celebrated her 70th birthday in Lakeview Sept. The NHL issued a statement following the before, disconnected from most of the viewers The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and oth- 25. (Tanner resides in Australia but comes to incident and the reactions from GLAAD, Egale in this country.” er advocacy organizations are asking the NHL Chicago for extended periods of time.) Canada and others. The NHL said: Shawn Albritton, the president of the Chi- to revisit the incident. WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 5, 2011 47 CONNE IONS X MAKE IT YOUR BUSINESS

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