HOLLY HUGHES BRINGS HER ACT TO MILWAUKEE America’s most esoteric trash-talking feminist trots out her dog and pony show. Page 20 THE VOICE OF PROGRESS FOR WISCOnsin’s LGBT COMMUNITY July 12, 2012 | Vol. 3, No. 18 There’sThere’s moremore ThereThere andand betweenbetween MMilwaukeeilwaukee andand backback againagain MMadisonadison thanthan cows.cows. PullPull overover andand seesee forfor yourself.yourself. By Michael Muckian To the unknowing eye, the land- ping, you’ll find something intrigu- Eagle. Operated by the State His- loom gardens and other authentic Contributing writer scape holds little more than cows, ing enough to turn your routine torical Society of Wisconsin, Old features complete the picture. Traveling between Milwaukee open fields and the occasional journey into a minor adventure. World is a trip back to 19th- A bit farther down the road in and Madison this summer? Chanc- pit stop. But the four counties century Wisconsin’s farms, villages Genesee Depot, Ten Chimneys, the es are you’ll spend most of the between the state’s two major WAUKESHA COUNTY and agrarian culture. Interpreters fabled summer retreat of Broad- 78.7-mile journey between Lake cities actually offer many attrac- HISTORY recreate the daily life of planters, way legends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Michigan and Lake Mendota rolling tions for those willing to get off Traveling west, one of your first craftsmen and other residents of Fontanne, recreates a more con- down Interstate 94, the concrete the highway and explore. Whether stops might be Old World Wis- Crossroads Village, the attraction’s temporary slice of history. umbilical chord that connects the you’re interested in history, cul- consin, located just south of the fictional community. Historic build- Old World Wisconsin and Ten two cities. ture, outdoor activities or shop- Waukesha County community of ings, traditional animal breeds, heir- BETWEEN page 16 Latino groups step up LGBT support By Louis Weisberg dom to Marry, a nationwide LGBT issues. that every gay or lesbian and their ability to take care Staff writer coalition that campaigns for The announcement also person is part of someone’s of each other and their fami- Twenty-one of the nation’s marriage equality, is providing came just days after the family – a son or daughter, lies; government should not leading Hispanic organiza- seed funding for the project, League of United Latin Amer- a brother or sister, a loved be putting barriers in their tions are launching a public- which also has a financial ican Citizens, the nation’s one – and the more con- way.” From July 22 -27, education campaign to build commitment from the Gill oldest and largest Latino civil versations we have, family The growing support for support within the Latino Foundation. rights and advocacy group, member to family member, LGBT equality among nation- ARCW president community for LGBT family The announcement came a passed a resolution at its the more support for the al Hispanic groups also is Mike Gifford will members. month after NCLR’s board of annual convention in Orlan- freedom to marry grows,” reflected at the local level, blog daily from the The campaign, called directors passed a resolution do, Fla., supporting marriage said Evan Wolfson, founder said Jason Burns, executive International AIDS “Familia es Familia” (”Family endorsing marriage equality rights for same-sex couples. and president of Freedom director of Equality Wiscon- Conference 2012 on is Family”) was announced on and after a number of public LULAC has 900 councils to Marry. “Latino gay couples sin. Voces de la Frontera, Wis- wisconsingazette.com July 8 at the annual confer- opinion polls have shown a throughout the United States. seek the freedom to marry consin’s leading immigrant ence of the National Council high level of support among “A growing majority of to affirm and strengthen rights group, has “been a tre- of La Raza in Las Vegas. Free- Hispanics for a number of Latinos in this country know their love, their commitment, LATINOS page 5 2 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | July 12, 2012 LGBT news with a twist WiGWAG By Lisa Neff & Louis Weisberg enforcement offi- spent two summers. “Who- than 300 guests and officiated CHOKE ON THIS cers. The Police ever you are, wherever you are by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Anti-gay Iowa Gov. Terry Tape app’s release … I’m starting to think we’re a Patrick. Frank is the first sit- Branstad, R, was hospitalized in was timed to coin- lot alike. Human beings spinning ting member of Congress to Los Angeles after choking on a cide with the sum- on blackness. All wanting to be enter a same-sex marriage. carrot during a ceremony for the mer season on the New seen, touched, paid attention to,” re-dedication of the USS Iowa. Jersey shore, when apparently Ocean wrote. The singer found STRANDED IN “We’re glad he’s OK,” a spokes- interactions between police and support among hip-hop friends TUNISIA man said. “He’s in great spir- citizens increase. who are not always known for Eleven male models are suing its. He’s probably a little more tolerance toward gays. Holland America and RSVP Vaca- embarrassed than anything.” ZOMBIE AUTOPSY tions for breach of contract. The A medical examiner concluded OVER AND OUT young men allege that RSVP PREACHING FROM RACHEL VICTORIOUS that the so-called “Miami zom- CNN’s Anderson Cooper offered them a free vacation if THE BENCH Christian hate-rocker Bradlee bie” did not ingest a dose of can’t be said to have come out, they promised to “mix and min- A South Carolina judge sen- Dean was ordered to pay Rachel the street drug bath salts before because the statement he posted gle” with guests. But, the models tenced a woman convicted of Maddow’s legal fees in a $50-mil- feeding on the face of a home- on the Daily Beast said he wasn’t claim, with rumors about them drunk driving to eight years in lion defamation suit he filed less man. There was widespread in the closet. Rather, Cooper said, circulating, RSVP forced them off prison and a mandatory biblical against the out MSNBC star. speculation on the Web that bath he was following a journalist’s the ship, leaving them stranded in assignment. Cassandra Tolley had Dean had sued Maddow for alleg- salts led Rudy Eugene, 31, to rule and keeping his private life tumultuous Tunisia without travel a blood-alcohol content of more edly misrepresenting a statement attack Ronald Poppo on a Miami private. Some cable-news watch- papers and money. than four times the legal limit he made calling for the execution causeway in May. But an autopsy ers speculated that Cooper’s when she drove down the wrong of homosexuals. According to of Eugene, who was killed by a public disclosure had something STATUS UPDATE side of the road and plowed into court records, Dean was ordered police officer during the attack, to do with CNN’s sluggish rat- The same weekend that Face- an oncoming car, injuring two to pay a total of $24,625.23 to found only marijuana in his sys- ings. book co-founder Chris Hughes men. Circuit Court Judge Michael Maddow, MSNBC and two other tem. married boyfriend Sean Eldridge Nettles commanded Tolley to defendants. MARRIED in New York, Facebook debuted read and write a summary of the SINGING OUT Rep. Barney Frank married new icons for same-sex couples Book of Job. So far, the constitu- STOP AND RECORD Frank Ocean celebrated Inde- longtime partner Jim Ready in to use on their timeline. Couples tionality of the sentence has not The ACLU of New Jersey pendence Day with an outing Newton, Mass., on July 7. Frank, can now display their married sta- been addressed. recently released a smartphone and some fireworks. Ocean 72, and Ready, 42, tied the knot tus with same-sex male or female app so citizens can discreetly said his first love at 19 was at the Boston Marriott hotel in couples; previously they were record interactions with law a male friend with whom he a ceremony attended by more stuck with the male-female icon. 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