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Scarlet Fever Hearing by Lisa Keen Keen News Service PETER WINDY CITY GALLAGHER THE VOICE OF CHICAGO’S GAY, LESBIAN, TALKS BI AND TRANS COMMUNITY SINCE 1985 WITH WCT APRIL 20, 2011 PAGE 26 TIMES VOL 26, NO. 29 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com Lesbian appt. to GEORGE TAKEI IN SOCIAL state rep post SECURITY SNIT BY TRACY BAIM appointment. Democratic ward committeepersons in the area, after Basta, regional director of the Levy Center, which a lengthy public meeting April 16. Committeewoman PAGE 6 Longtime lesbian activist Kelly Cassidy has been ap- serves seniors in Chicago, is not stopping her cam- and former state Sen. Carol Ronen had a large influence pointed to fill Illinois’ 14th District state representa- paign, however; she announced she is running for the because of the location of her district within the state tive seat on Chicago’s Far North Side. State Rep. Harry 14th District seat in the 2012 elections. rep area. Osterman is leaving the post to assume assumes his On May 16, Cassidy will join two other openly gay “I am pleased that after reviewing credentials and AIDS 48th Ward aldermanic duties in May. members of the state House: Rep. Greg Harris and Rep. hearing from 23 candidates the committeemen unani- Another lesbian, Paula Basta, had been in consider- Deborah Mell. Cassidy is currently director of programs mously selected Kelly Cassidy to fill the seat vacated by ation for the post, as was transgender activist Cath- and development as part of the Cook County State’s At- Harry Osterman,” Ronen said. “Kelly Cassidy has a set @ erine Sikora, vice president of the board of Equality torney’s executive staff. Turn to page 12 30 Illinois. There were more than 20 people vying for the The replacement for a vacant post was decided by PAGES 14-17 House holds DOMA-DoJ SCARLET FEVER hearing BY LISA KEEN KEEN NEWS SERVICE Democrats came out swinging April 15 during a House subcommittee hearing on the Department of Justice (DoJ) announcement that it would curtail its defense of the federal ban on recognition of same-sex mar- riages. The hearing, entitled “Defending Marriage,” was called by Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., the new Republi- BRITNEY IN POP can chairman of the subcommittee. MAKING SENSE Franks called only three witnesses—two of which PAGE 25 have taken high-profile stances against same-sex mar- riage and the DoJ decision to limit its defense of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). One witness—Ed Whelan, head of a religious conser- vative think tank called the Ethics and Public Policy Center—claimed the Obama administration’s decision to limit its defense was the culmination of a strategy by Obama to promote same-sex marriage. “I think one would have to be very naïve to think anything other than that [through] a stealth strategy, step-by-step, the administration is doing whatever it CHRISTIAN can to promote same-sex marriage and to induce the SIRIANO courts to adopt that approach.” Whelan said the fact that President Obama was once PAGE 26 a professor of constitutional law “makes all the more implausible that he suddenly discovered” that DOMA is unconstitutional. Whelan did not mention, nor did anyone else, that the DoJ made clear it would continue nightspots enforcing DOMA, that it would defend DOMA as meet- tApril 13, 2011 ing the simplest of judicial standards at least in the 1st Egg-cited Sisters Celebrate Easter with the Abbey of the Windy City Sisters. page 6 Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, and that it would assist Congress in its defense of the law. Ranking Democrat Jerrold Nadler pointed out to wit- ness Maggie Gallagher of the National Organization for Flesh Hungry Here’s to Marriage that two children in the hearing room had Dog Show’s 6th 24 more at anniversry. Roscoe’s. same-sex parents. pick it up The inaugural Chicago Red Dress Party, at 525 W. Monroe, featured cocktails, great company and singer Kristine Turn to page 6 take it home W as women (and some men) donned the signature clothing item of the evening. See more on page 23 and online at http://www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com. 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