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August 11, 2011 I Vol. 2, No. 20 Abele signs benefits TWO STEPS resolution • ARD By Louis Weisberg Dimitrijevic and Eyon Biddle, By Louis Weisberg Staff writer coordinated the effort to CAT ON The same-sex partners enact the benefits. Abele got Despite rising statewide unem- of Milwaukee County work- immediately behind the reso- CARE ployment and a groundswell of ers are set to receive health lution, first announcing his anger about GOP Gov. Scott insurance coverage under a support at the June 10 open- Walker's policies toward the mid- resolution signed by County ing of Milwaukee PrideFest. dle and working classes, corpo- Executive Chris Abele. "Today's victory is a criti- rate-backed Republican lawmakers "Done," Abele said to cal step in the movement to narrowly clung to control of the applause after applying his achieve full equality for lesbi- Wisconsin Senate following his- signature to a resolution that an, gay, bisexual and transgen- toric recall elections on Aug. 9. supervisors approved on July der Wisconsinites," said Fair Republicans retained four of 28 by a supermajority vote Wisconsin executive direc- the six Senate seats challenged of 13-5. The benefits will tor Katie Belanger in a state- by Democrats, leaving -them with become available to employ- ment. "Providing domestic a 17-16 advantage in the chamber. ees beginning Jan. I, 2012. partner health care coverage Democratic state Rep. Jennifer "I've been looking forward is an investment in the future Shilling, D-La Crosse, hand- to it, like a lot of you, for a of Milwaukee County and its ily defeated Republican incumbent while;' Abele said prior to sign- employees. We are thrilled Dan Kapanke, R-La Crosse, by a ing."With this resolution, we're with County Executive Chris 55-45 margin. Democrat Jessica bringing our benefits into line Abele and the Milwaukee King, D-Oshkosh, edged out with the rest of employers and County Board's visionary Randy Hopper, R-Empire, by 51-49. the 21st century" leadership ... and commit- Hopper's campaign was doomed The LGBT rights group ment to providing an inclu- by marital and ethical lapses. Equality Wisconsin, work- sive workplace for all." Democrats needed to take ing with Fair Wisconsin The Aug. 3 signing of )sa three of the races to reclaim the and Milwaukee County the resolution marked the Senate. Although they failed, the Supervisors Marina two-year anniversary of the election revealed significant vul- day that same-sex couples nerability for the Wisconsin GOP began registering as domes- as it heads into a major election tic partners in Wisconsin next year. This under a law that passed Democrats made strong show- before Republicans took ings in solidly Republican districts, issue over all branches of state ing 40 percent or better in inside and online at government. To date, more every race and coming within wisconsingazette.com than 1,800 couples have striking distance in the effort to registered, and only 37 of r recall Sen. Luther Olsen. His dis- News those have terminated their trict, which he retained with 52 WiGWAG 2 partnerships, according to percent of the vote, is so sol- Regional Gaze 3 Belanger. idly Republican that he hasn't even National Gaze 10 In Milwaukee, more than faced a Democratic challenger in Editorial 14 300 same-sex couples have more than 16 years. Faith Gaze 16 registered their partnerships Voter turnout was At "presiden- and only two have terminat- tial levels" in many wards, accord- Features ed, said Milwaukee County RECALL page 18 WiGOUT 21 Clerk Joe Czarnezki. Theater 23 "Compare that to the Art Gaze 24 BENEFITS page 18 Music 30 On the Town 32 AME-SEX COUPLES COUNT IN CENSUS PAGE3 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM I August I i, 201 I LGBT news with a twist WIGWAG By Lisa Neff & Louis Weisberg

Fort Lauderdale tourist and write about them in eye- "On average, they molest 1 17 instructing supporters to pressure BECK BYTE officials, long depen- brow-raising detail. people before they're found out." the former Minnesota governor. Radio host Glenn Beck, a for- dent on LGBT dol- Pawlenty's campaign quickly shift- mer Fox News host, offered his lars, want gay new- HE GETS WORSE COURAGE ed gears on Aug. 5 and apologized perspective on a right-wing ter- lyweds from New When the Massachusetts con- UNDER FIRE? to NOM, blaming the whole thing rorist's massacre of dozens of York to feel the love. gressional delegation put together After coming under heavy fire on a misunderstanding. young people attending camp on Marketers for the beach des- a video for the "It Gets Better" from anti-gay groups for refusing Norway's Utoya Island. Beck said tination purchased a full-page ad project, one member was missing. to sign a National Organization RUNWAY GROOMS the camp, run by Norway's lib- in The New York Times courting GOP Sen. Scott Brown declined for Marriage pledge, GOP hopeful Fashion designer and "Project eral Labor Party, sounds a "little same-sex couples. The ad read, the invitation to participate in Tim Pawlenty abruptly changed Runway" host Michael Kors is like the Hitler Youth or whatever. "After Your I Do's Consider Our the project, which aims to reas- his mind. On Aug. 4, Republican marrying his longtime partner Who does a camp for kids that's Proposal." sure LGBT youth who may be presidential candidates Michele Lance LePere. "Lance and I are all about politics? Disturbing." A getting bullied that their lives will Bachmann, Rick Santorum and very excited to finally be able to gunman confessed that he opened 'PORNO PETE' LOSES improve when they get older. Of Mitt Romney all signed the five- have the opportunity to marry fire on youth in the camp to TAX STATUS the 12 lawmakers who repre- step, anti-gay document. But in our home state after many save Europe from Muslim coloni- Americans For Truth About sent Massachusetts in Congress, Pawlenty turned it down, prompt- years together," Kors said in a zation and to challenge the Labor Homosexuality, which was des- Brown is the only one who does ing NOM to send out an e-mail statement. Party's policy of ethnic tolerance. ignated as a hate group by the not appear in the suicide-preven- A spokesman for the Norwegian Southern Poverty Law Center tion campaign. government said Beck had reached for promoting inflammatory mis- a "new low" with the comment. truths about LGBT people, lost METAL POISONING ARRIEAXESD? Now, how much lower can he go? its tax-exempt status after failing Heavy-metal preacher Bradlee GETTING .) to file a series of required tax Dean is suing Rachel Maddow for GAY PEOPLEBEALLOWED TO VOTE AND PAY T HONEYMOON HAVEN? forms for three consecutive years. $50 million, charging the out lesbi- (NEXT THEY'LL More than 60 percent of Florida The group's founder and president an MSNBC host with defamation. voters in 2008 approved a state Peter LaBarbera has been dubbed Dean's suit claims Maddow omit- Rd 1O0, constitutional amendment banning "Porno Pete" for his seeming ted portions of his 2010 live radio totitieti to Equal same-sex marriage. Neither the obsession with the mechanics of rant on homosexuals to make it Stteultlial all Of state's political leaders nor tour- gay sex. LaBarbera often goes appear that he was calling for their ism officials have done anything to "undercover" to leather bars and execution. Dean has a record of suggest the Sunshine State wants sexually charged events, such as making outrageous statements to revoke that amendment. But the Folsom Street Fair, to observe about LGBT people, including: A new billboard from designer Kenneth Cole.

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Got news? Tell us REGIONAL GAZE managingeditors wisconsingazette.com. Census records more same-sex couples, but... By Louis Weisberg Bass' son from a previous The analysis also showed tion officials said the 1996 Staff write, marriage. He said it's impor- that same-sex couples live Defense of Marriage Act The 2010 census recorded tant for same-sex couples to Wisconsin's top 5 throughout the state, includ- prohibited federal agencies a 66-percent increase in the be counted. ing in small towns and from tabulating and The state's top five counties and cities among reporting number of same-sex couples "It gives some degree of rural areas. Katie Belanger, data those with more than 50 same-sex couples: on same-sex marriages. living in Wisconsin, thanks to validity to our relationships," executive director of Fair The administration directed Same-sex couples Per 1,000 households an unprecedented effort by Bass said. "It also lends some COUNTY (adjusted) (adjusted) Wisconsin, said such data the bureau to re-categorize the U.S. Census Bureau to credibility to the community help her in lobbying lawmak- same-sex couples who iden- count them and a growing and the awareness is really Dane 2,429 11.92 ers. tified as "married" in the cen- willingness among same-sex good." Price 68 10.82 "This kind of informa- sus to "unmarried." couples to report their sta- While Milwaukee had the tion helps us to accurately But in the 2010 data, same- tus, according to experts. largest number of same-sex Bayfield a71 10.69 represent the scope of the sex couples who reported But experts caution that couples, Madison reported issues the Sawyer 72 10.18 community faces," that they were married were comparing the 2010 results the highest rate — nearly 16 Belanger said. counted. with those of 2000 is like out of every 1,000 house- Oneida 156 9.76 All of the states for which Statistics on same-sex cou- comparing apples with holds. Dane County had the census data have been ples have been mined from Same-sex couples Per t000 households oranges. highest rate among the coun- CITY (adjusted) (adjusted) released have shown an census data since 1990, when Recently released figures ties, with nearly 12 same-sex increase in same-sex cou- the bureau added "unmarried showed 13,630 same-sex couples per 1,000 homes. Madison 1,623 15.84 ples. But the data are only partner" to its questionnaire. couples living in the state in Shorewood had the sec- Shorewood 70 10.95 a partial reflection of reality, Independent researchers, by 2010, up from 8,232 counted ond highest rate among the advocates say. Many same- looking at the genders of the by the census in 2000. cities at 10.95. Fitchburg was Fitchburg 107 10.79 sex couples are still afraid unmarried partners, could with 10.79. to disclose their status to count same-sex unmarried Milwaukee reported the third Milwaukee 2,303 10.00 largest number of same-sex There were nearly twice the government. In addition, couples. couples — 2,303. Among as many female as male same- Cudahy 67 8.33 comparisons between 2000 Activists are organiz- them are Jeff Bass, 43, and sex couples in Wisconsin. and 2010 are distorted by ing a "Queer the Census" Source:The Williams Institute his partner of 10 years Tony Women comprised 66 per- former President George W. campaign to encourage the Torti, 39. The two, who are cent of the same-sex couples by the Williams Institute at state's same-sex couples Bush's efforts to "scrub" gay bureau to add "sexual orien- registered as domestic part- in the state, according to an the UCLA School of Law. reported they were rearing couples from the 2000 data. tation" to the questionnaire ners with the state, live with analysis of the census done Eighteen percent of the at least one child. In 2001, Bush administra- in 2020.

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Wisconsin Got news? Tell us! Gazette-. NATIONAL GAZE [email protected] PROP 8 WAIT: Delays continue a year after court ruling By Lisa Neff Meanwhile, West Coast which the state overwhelm- Staff writer gay couples who want to ingly supported Barack A year after a federal judge marry are expressing dismay Obama for president. overturned the California at the delay and envy of East The proposition on the ballot measure against same- Coast couples saying "I do" ballot asked, "Should the sex marriage, Proposition 8 in New York, Massachusetts, California Constitution be continues to be enforced. Vermont, New Hampshire, amended to specify that only And another anniversary of Connecticut and the District marriage between a man MIN the landmark decision seems of Columbia. Same-sex cou- and a woman is valid or likely before the case reaches ples also can marry in Iowa. recognized in California?" a conclusion. "Every day same-sex cou- The measure lacked the .•••••i•

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INV which was made Aug. 4, 2010, to marry, their families suffer including then-Gov. Arnold • is on appeal and likely to go significant harm," said Geoff Schwarzenegger. Along with as high as the U.S. Supreme Kors of the LGBT civil rights then-Attorney General Jerry Court. But before a federal group Equality California. Brown, Schwarzenegger later appellate court will rule on But the stakes in this case refused to defend Prop 8. the merits of the case, the are larger than marriage in a But the measure had sig- tt...,•••• state Supreme Court must single state. A federal court nificant financial backing decide a technical issue — can decision that California's anti- from religious institutions, Prop 8 proponents serve as gay amendment is unconsti- including the Catholic and the defenders of the state tutional could nullify anti-gay Mormon churches, and right- constitutional amendment in measures in other states, wing groups. PHOTO: COURTESY federal court? including Wisconsin. The proposition was Lawyers Theodore Olsen and David Boies. The state court is set to California voters passed the right's answer to a 4-3 hear arguments in that case Proposition 8 in November California Supreme Court ning same-sex marriage. The on my rejection of what I see ties in Los Angeles and San on Sept. 6. 2008 — the same election in ruling overturning a law ban- ruling opened the way for as superficially appealing but Francisco began preparing to same-sex couples to wed, and ultimately false perceptions celebrate with weddings. DOES YOUR BASEMENT 18,000 same-sex couples did about our Constitution and But the ruling was appealed No More Ugly Concrete! so before Prop 8 was passed. its protection of equality and to the U.S. Court of Appeals LOOK LIKE THIS? Those marriages remain legal. fundamental rights." for the Ninth Circuit, which Prop 8 went on trial on He continued, "Same-sex issued a stay. WE CAN HELP! Jan. I I, 2010, with the clos- unions promote the values In December 2010, the ing arguments delayed until conservatives prize. Marriage appeals court heard oral argu- June 2010. The battle over is one of the basic building ments on the case. But justices Prop 8 brought the attorneys blocks of our neighborhoods invited the California Supreme who represented Al Gore and our nation. At its best, Court to consider whether and George W. Bush in the it is a stable bond between the proponents of Prop 8 2000 dispute over Florida two individuals who work could legally defend the mea- election ballots into the to create a loving household sure in place of the governor same California courtroom. and a social and economic and attorney general. But this time conservative partnership." The question before the Theodore Olson and liberal On Aug. 4, 2010, U.S. Judge court is: "Whether under . . . David Boies were on the Vaughn R.Walker struck down the California Constitution, same team — arguing for mar- Prop 8, ruling that the measure or otherwise under California UMW riage equality. violated the U.S. Constitution. law, the official proponents of a Olson, in a column for Walker ruled that: an initiative measure possess Repair Stronger Than Concrete Newsweek, explained his par- ■ Prop 8 enacted a private either a particularized inter- ticipation, which has confused moral view without advancing est in the initiative's validity Licensed • Insured • Bonded at a Fraction of the Cost! and confounded some conser- a legitimate government inter- or the authority to assert STRUCTURAL ENGINEER ON STAFF DON'T REPLACE! 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OPPONENTS OF HIV INFECTIONS GAY HISTORY NATIONAL BRIEFS IN US HOLD LAW SEEK STEADY AT 50,000 REFERENDUM The number of Americans California's secretary of ROOMMATE IN NJ according to the Star-Ledger. eral law"improperly intrudes" to launch a bus tour, starting newly infected with the state cleared a group to WEBCAM CASE The newspaper reported on states' traditional role in Aug. 12 in Utah and ending AIDS virus each year has begin collecting signatures SEEKS DISMISSAL that Altman is asking the defining marriage. Oct. 30 in Florida, which will been holding steady at about for a ballot referendum to A former Rutgers prosecution for documents travel through I I states that 50,000, according to a gov- overturn a first-in-the-nation University student accused of from Clementi's computer MOST STATES ban gay marriage. ernment report released law requiring public schools using a webcam to spy on his and dorm room that could LIKELY TO SPURN Aug. 3. to teach the contributions roommate's sexual encoun- shed light on his state of GAY-MARRIAGE OPPONENTS But a U.S. health official of gays and lesbians in social ter with another man wants mind around the time of his BANDWAGON SUE OVER NY said just keeping the number studies lessons. his case dismissed because suicide. As hundreds of gay cou- MARRIAGE LAW stable was unacceptable, not- Gov. Jerry Brown signed evidence of the teenager's Ravi was indicted on 15 ples became newlyweds Opponents to New York's ing a dramatic increase in SB48 earlier this month, mak- state of mind before he com- counts in April. in New York in July, their gay marriage law filed the new HIV cases among young ing California the first state to mitted suicide wasn't pre- well-wishers included many first lawsuit challenging the gay and bisexual black men. mandate such lessons in public sented to the grand jury that N.Y.'S ATTORNEY far-flung gays aware that measure, an anticipated salvo "We've made accomplish- school curricula. The require- indicted him. GENERAL BACKS their own states may never that came one day after ments in driving down the ment is set to take effect in Lawyers for former MARRIAGE SUIT willingly allow same-sex weddings were celebrated rate of new infections," said the 2013-14 school year. Rutgers University student New York Attorney marriage. around the state. Dr. Kevin Fenton, the AIDS It took opponents less than Dharun Ravi argued that General Eric Schneiderman In all, 30 states have adopt- A representative of New prevention chief for the two weeks to draft the refer- prosecutors withheld evi- has joined the court chal- ed constitutional amend- Yorkers for Constitutional Centers for Disease Control endum challenging the move. dence showing Ravi never lenge against the 1996 ments aimed at limiting mar- Freedoms and a rabbi said in and Prevention. "The charge "Politicians have no busi- bullied roommate Tyler Defense of Marriage Act that riage to one-man, one-wom- a lawsuit filed July 25 in state now is to continue that tra- ness writing textbooks. It Clementi. Clementi jumped denies married gay couples an unions. court that New York's Senate jectory and take that 50,000 should be left to the histo- to his death from the George federal benefits. In a few of them — violated its own procedures down further." rians and academic experts," Washington Bridge days after The brief filed in U.S. California and Oregon, for and the state's open meetings The annual number of said Paulo Sibaja, a spokes- his same-sex encounter was District Court in Manhattan example — activists hold law when it approved the bill new infections peaked at man for the group Stop SB48. furtively captured on a web- argues that the law violates out hope of repealing the on June 24. 130,000 in the mid- I 980s, Backers of the referendum cam and transmitted through same-sex couples' right to bans. That outcome seems The lawsuit claims that he said. will need to gather 504,760 the Web. equal protection under the improbable, though, in many the Serfate prevented law- Gay and bisexual men signatures from registered Defense attorney Steven U.S. Constitution. heartland and Southern makers who opposed the account for the majority of voters by Oct. 12 to qualify Altman asked prosecutors to New York legalized same- states, where gay-rights lead- bill from speaking and that the new cases — nearly two- for the next statewide ballot. turn over evidence that they sex marriage this year and ers are eying more modest, the Senate didn't follow thirds in 2009. Heterosexuals Sibaja said paid and volun- said could clear Ravi, 19, of previously recognized such short-term goals. procedures that require a accounted for 27 percent teer signature-gatherers will the hate crime accusations, marriages legally performed They'll soon get a boost bill to go through appropri- and injection drug users rep- be used to try to meet the and will ask a New Jersey elsewhere. from the Human Rights ate committees before a full resented 9 percent of new requirement. court to dismiss the charges, Schneiderman says the fed- Campaign. The group plans Senate vote. infections. WISCONSIN LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS SEPTEMBER 18T" Bike Ride for Conservation in Madison • Warm-up laps around Capitol Square ELECTION*CYCLE • Ride and photo ops with legislators • Great prizes and finish line fun Register on-line at http://electioncyde.conservationvoters.org

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mamma?! 0 { Editorial } fit% A?:001)TTHE SANCTITY0v - ONEWOO MIMIRAY3 ORIID IS Q't\011('TtIM,IV I Appling's KILO' -I political bedmate 4 7,, If there was any doubt that the corporate right and the anti-gay right are f, • colluding,Wisconsin Family Action chief Julaine Appling erased it. In a taped phone call with a concerned citizen,Appling acknowledged her group is part of a political coalition that includes Americans for Prosperity, one of the political front groups for billionaires Charles and David Koch. The caller had confronted Appling because a return address owned by her group was printed on fraudulent ballot applications that AFP sent to voters before the Aug. 9 recall elections. The ballots listed a return date after the ; 4i %Pal Iffa .i esii ii,. e _j \ t ifillilegli 1 /.1,firtliZ 1111IIIIII t, i I ill Itilliallia I 071%40' •,'' election was over. V41,lit Ar 1 tit `11Zraill Shit'44.1 4, ' AFP blamed the inaccurate date on printer error. Democrats said it was part / ik 4111 IM ill r., 1,:i. 4/0- of a voter suppression scheme. Only an idiot would believe AFP's explanation. kW* •••,..11, a , 2 g 4 1 !re' AFP promotes public policies that favor the interests of the uber-wealthy iiii ' alai. I a a I I I I' Pit 1111 ti 111010r1,l trill I ka ALI111.,1,i,lartlirromitt over the middle class and the poor.WFA promotes "traditional" marriage by cl"11...,1.,,11,1 .0 IM .1 * 0: denying marriage equality to gays and lesbians.The only apparent commonality .. A , ate '"' 2 -- dm ma 5 inum 14 .., 4' i & I IIIIIIII K W is a desire to further oppress the underdog. ,,, ....._. AFP contends that giving more wealth and power to those at the top of the financial ladder will benefit those on the lower rungs. But 30 years of tax cuts and widening loopholes have allowed the rich to get richer, while the poor have grown poorer and the middle class has worked longer and harder than ever. Today the United States has historically low tax rates on the wealthy, record corporate profits and loopholes that allowed 1,400 people earning { Feedback } more than $ I million last year to pay no taxes. So, if AFP's premise were true, the economy would be swimming in jobs. AFP persuades lower-income earners to endorse its policies of preferential THE UPSIDE OF out, as is typical in "off-year" Thank you for delivering a treatment for the rich by scapegoating others. They say it's black people on THE TEA PARTY elections. whole bunch of white mid- welfare, Hispanics taking white people's jobs and teachers earning pensions It is a good thing that But the Tea Party has dle-class independents. who are responsible for the deficit and the nation's economic decline. WiG has given Wisconsin a proven to be a gift that pro- Wow. WFA is built on similar lies and scapegoating. Appling and her crowd voice.As is so often the case, gressives gave themselves. What a trifecta. preach that allowing same-sex couples to marry will denigrate marriage for your loosened cannon has The GOP has energized the The joke is that libertarian heterosexuals and lead to a further decline in American family life. But divorce targeted a truly heinous foe. Democratic base like never pizza chain moguls, genital rates began to soar and marriage began to crumble long before same-sex As horrid as the Tea Party's before. By blocking the Dream shocking, gay-hating pseudo- marriage entered the picture. In fact, the dissolution of marriage has coincided motives are, they drive the Act and passing "show me psychologists and flip-flop- with increasing financial hardships on families. GOP further toward the cliff your papers please" legisla- ping Mormons think they are In places where same-sex marriage has entered the picture, it has had no of the indefensible right-wing tion to "control" the border, acting on a mandate. Right effect on marriage. Massachusetts, the first state to legalize marriage equality, extreme.The Republicans are the GOP gave Hispanics a now the GOP Congress has has the lowest divorce rate in the nation. dangerously vulnerable to a reason to return to the polls. a 23 percent approval rating, But lying comes easily to Appling, who is the embodiment of hypocrisy. She political "market correction" By attacking Medicare, the while the president's is at 45 preaches "traditional" marriage but has never been married. She demonizes in 2012, as demonstrated GOP mobilized an army of percent. Everyday he seems same-sex relationships while living with a female life partner with whom she by the special congressional 50 million elderly Americans more reasonable and they owns a home. election in New York. with armored walkers. And, look sketchier. Appling seems to believe she was following the teachings of Jesus in col- In 2010, a shameful- of course, in their mania to The November 2012 elec- luding with billionaires to commit voter fraud in order to help maintain an ly large percentage of the protect tax loopholes for tions can't get here soon anti-equality majority in the state Senate. But we suspect that's not what Jesus Obama coalition (African- billionaires, the GOP ruined enough to sound last call for would have done. Americans, voters under 30 the good name of the U.S. the Tea Party. and Hispanics) thought their Treasury for the first time Charles William Feld Jr. work was done. Many opted in history. Austin, Texas

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ON THE RECORD Defeat zealots on Aug. 16 ballot The final two recall elec- Miranda rights, discrimination credited Baptist College of tions on Aug.I 6 are as impor- law and state sodomy laws — Ministry. Dan Bice of the "Most straight people who are tant as ever. The match-ups Opinion just to name a few. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel congratulating us so effusively don't pit incumbent state Sen. Bob Steitz was strongly recently reported that the CORY LIEBMANN understand that these marriages Wirch, D-Pleasant Prairie, endorsed by the gay-obsessed Menomonee Falls school share none of their federal benefits against corporate attorney show when Democrats con- Wisconsin Family Action describes itself as "unasham- and entitlements, the right to inherit Jonathan Steitz and Sen. Jim trolled state government, she group. He responded to the edly fundamentalist and mili- without punishing taxation, the right Holprien, D-Conover, against remarked with a dismissive endorsement by crowing that tantly separatist." for our joint incomes not to be taxed so hideously Tea Party leader Kim Simac. laugh that Wisconsin should he "strongly agrees with their With its chosen candidates, high, the right to share insurances. There are over The outcomes of these be called the "socialist State mission." Steitz went on to operatives and new organiza- 1,000 benefits worth money that the federal gov- two races are critical for a of Wisconsin." say that he looks forward to tional allies, the Republican ernment bestows on heterosexual marriages and number of reasons, including Simac is against science "working with the organiza- Party of Wisconsin has which our state marriages don't. So why do we the fact that both Republican and its teachings. She oppos- tion in the future." shown where it wants to continue to get so excited when so few worthless challengers are extremists es the separation of church The new extremist brand take this state — to a place crumbs are thrown our way?" who oppose LGBT equality. and state. She's compared of Republicans who control that is intolerant of anyone — Larry Kramer speaking out against the inequality of Kim Simac is the found- American public schools to Wisconsin have made their who doesn't subscribe to a same-sex marriages that lack federal recognition. er of the Tea Party group the Nazi regime.What makes plans very clear. They have rigid and increasingly extrem- Northwoods Patriots. By her comments even more not only shown that they will ist worldview. "Jesus was not a long-haired ... effeminate- her own account, the group outrageous is the fact that push extreme candidates like The best way to fight their looking dude. ... (He had) callused hands and big was formed after she spon- she and her Tea Party group Simac and Steitz, but they effort is by working against biceps." sored a showing of several seek to influence the public have also made it obvious the extremists they're cur- — Mork Driscoll, pastor of Seattle's Mars Hill Church, paranoid fundamentalist films school curriculum. that they will funnel massive rently seeking to install in insisting that Jesus was butch. He went on to say that in her community. The films The more that we learn amounts of dollars into the public office. If you live in contemporary Christianity has produced "a bunch of allege an imaginary effort about corporate attorney most extreme organizations one of the two districts fac- nice, soft, tender, chickified church boys." to "silence" her particular Jonathan Steitz, the more to accomplish that goal. We ing recalls, vote Democratic brand of Christianity. extreme he also turns out have not only seen this with on Aug. I6.You can also help "Your husband says he got rear-ended but the Simac repeatedly refers to to be. While attending law Wisconsin Family Action but by educating and motivat- car looks fine." her political opponents as school in Illinois, he was a also in the funding and form- ing other voters through the — David Letterman's No. I on the list of "signs that "the enemy," and describes member of the right-wing ing of new groups. various "get-out-the-vote" your husband is gay." people who disagree with Federalist Society. Founders It is worth noting that a efforts in those districts. her as "ungrateful, self- and other prominent mem- leader of one of these new The last thing we need "You've got to stop this hateful rhetoric. Some centered, disrespectful bers of the group have taken right-wing organizations, is more right-wing extrem- of the rhetoric is so hateful ... it'd spin your head Americans." Appearing on extreme positions in the Media Trackers, recently ists in positions of power in around.You have to say, listen, we're at a point in the a fundamentalist television areas of reproductive rights, graduated from the unac- Wisconsin. history when we have to save the country." — Fox News pundit Bill O'Reilly dishing out some surprising advice for his fellow right-wing Republicans. Nothing about us, without us "I have no trouble coexisting with gays as long as their behavior is normal." "Nothing about us, without home transition and other center near you. — Brazilian lawmaker Carlos Apolinario, who authored us!" was the rallying cry of programs, the center has a On Aug. 29, the Milwaukee legislation to designate the third Sunday of every the Independent Living move- Opinion strong commitment to advo- LGBT Community Center December as "Heterosexual Pride Day" in Sao Paulo. ment of the 1960s, which cacy. It sponsors advocacy hosts a panel about LGBT challenged pitying, paternal- JAMAKAYA teams in the issue areas of people with disabilities from "The reality is that if we were to publish the istic attitudes about people ized community. transportation, employment, 6 to 8 p.m. at the center, 252 same kind of report that GLAAD has produced with disabilities and the pure- Discrimination in hous- long-term care and ADA/ E. Highland Ave. U.S. Attorney but instead focus on the presence of evangelical ly medical model of "curing" ing, employment and public accessibility. James L. Santelle will speak. In Christians on television, it would be a very short and "treating" disabilities. accommodations, even 21 Anyone can join these addition to prosecuting federal report." Fueled by the same civil years after passage of the U.S. teams, which have achieved crimes for the eastern district — Dwayne Hastings, vice president at the Southern rights fervor that launched Americans with Disabilities real victories in the past of Wisconsin, Santelle over- Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty the gay rights movement, Act, is still common. Hate few years, including the sees civil rights compliance, Commission, commenting on GLAAD's annual assess- the IL movement has made crimes, abuse by caregivers court-ordered revision of including the ADA and the ment of LGBT characters on network TV. strides toward de-institu- and the isolation of people Milwaukee's Riverwalk sys- federal hate crimes law. A rep- tionalizing people with dis- with disabilities in institutions tem to make it accessible resentative of the Milwaukee "The brand of Christianity being offered today is abilities, providing support cry out for redress. Drastic to people with disabilities. Fire and Police Commission one of fear, and we want to let people know that for their independence and budget cuts to Medicaid and The employment advocacy and others may also speak. God loves everyone, not to be afraid." self-determination, and creat- public transit and right-wing team works cooperative- LGBT community members — United Church of Christ pastor Dan DeLeon react- ing a more inclusive society. cries for de-regulation (the ly with local employers to with and without disabilities ing to a "prayer" event held in Houston by Texas Gov. But all that progress is ADA is a target) are expect- teach them about workplace are welcome to attend. Rick Perry seriously threatened. ed to create more hurdles accommodations and the Under the Obama admin- Census statistics indicate for a population already fac- value of employing people istration, the U.S. Attorney's "Everyone knows my personal support of the gay almost 300,000 individuals in ing daunting physical and atti- with disabilities. The trans- Office has played a proactive and lesbian community. Dollywood is a family park the greater Milwaukee area tudinal barriers. portation team is working role, meeting with minor- and all families are welcome." and as many as 1.4 million in IndependenceFirst, one of hard to maintain public tran- ity and immigrant communi- — Dolly Parton responding to an incident at her Wisconsin have one or more Wisconsin's eight indepen- sit funding, including creating ties to educate them about theme park in which a lesbian was asked to turn her disabilities. LGBTs are cer- dent living centers, serves a dedicated funding source, federal laws and programs "Marriage is so gay" T-shirt inside out. tainly not immune from the greater Milwaukee. IF is so that people with disabili- that affect them. It is one genetic quirks, health issues committed to the goal of ties have the transit they of Obama's many unheralded and everyday accidents that independent living for people need to stay employed. initiatives. This event offers can bring on a disabling con- with disabilities. In addition To join an advocacy team, another opportunity to get dition, and for LGBTs, dis- to independent living-skills call 414-29 I -7520/TDD. involved and to spur some ability can further marginalize training, assistive technol- Google "independent living disability rights activism with- them in an already marginal- ogy assessments, nursing centers Wisconsin" to find a in the LGBT community. WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM j August i I , 201 i

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He offers a comical reason for of human origins. of Western culture, to that ing our better halves and virtue instead of reproduc- human love. Socrates' speech forms flirtatiously gay night when Socrates spoke of the pur- tion. It's a creation story that Religion According toAristophanes, the more famous part of the Aristophanes spoke of find- pose of love as growing in can work for all. the first humans were roly- "Symposium." Socrates was ANDREW WARNER poly. We had four arms and also a war-hero. Alcibiades four legs and two faces and said of him,"When Socrates is Conservative religious got around by rolling real- present, nobody has a chance Open & Affirming Congregations pundits look back to the ly fast. The Greek gods felt with the handsome ones!" Bible's creation stories to jus- threatened by the power Socrates' speech reports tify their homophobia. So it's of these original humans so back what he learned MILWAUKEE Beth'El Evangelical Lutheran Church, time for our community to they split them into two, so about love from a woman All Saints' Cathedral (Episcopal), 818 E. 101 Bethel Drive, P.O. Box 70, Poynette, WI create a queer creation story. that we moved around as we named Diotima. According Juneau Ave., 53202, 414-271-7719, www. 53955-0070 And there's no better source are now. to Diotima, love expresses ascathedral.org Community of Hope UCC, 7118 Old than the old-as-scripture It was all meant as a joke. our desire for immortality. Central United Methodist Church, 639 Sauk Rd., 53717, 608-836-1455, www. "Symposium," a text sacred But underneath his funny Heterosexuality can achieve N. 25th St., 53233, 414-344-1600, www. madisonchristiancommunity.org to Western philosophy and images was the notion that this through reproduc- centralumcmilw.org First United Methodist Church, 203 culture that also happens to each of us is looking for tion. But the better path in Congregation Shir Hadash, 414-297-9159, Wisconsin Ave., 53703-2105, 608-256-9061, be one of the gayest dinner our other half, that in love Diotima's view was same- www.cshmilw.org www.wisconsinumc.org/madison-firstumc/ parties ever recorded. we seek to find a compan- gendered. Because this form Cross Lutheran Church, 1821 N. 16th Plymouth Congregational UCC, 2401 Atwood "Symposium" takes place ion who completes us. Each of love will not lead to physi- St., 53205, 414-344-1746, www. Ave., 53704, 608-249-1537, www.pcucc.org at the house of Agathon person, one-half of the origi- cal pregnancy, it can instead crosslutheranmilwaukee.org around 400 B.C.E., about nal whole human, searches result in a "pregnancy of Divine Word Lutheran Church, 5505 GREEN BAY the same time as the Book for his or her lost part. soul." Such love leads one to Lloyd St., 53208, 414-476-3189, Angels of Hope MCC, P.O. Box 672, Green of Genesis was taking its Aristophanes understood grow morally and intellectu- divinewordlutheran.org Bay, 54305, 920-983-7452, www.aohmcc. current form. The men at love as any of us do who have ally — from eros to wisdom. First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee, org, [email protected] Agathon's meal engage in said,"This is my better half." Just as the Bible reflects 1342 N. Astor St., 53202, 414-273-5257, Hope United Church of Christ, 141 S. flirty banter, deciding to What makes Aristophanes cultural conventions we www.uumilwaukee.org 12th Ave., Sturgeon Bay, 54235, 920-743- try to outdo each other in meaningful for me is the would condemn, so does the Lake Park Lutheran Church, 2647 N. 2701, www.hopechurchdc.org, hopeucc@ describing love. Much of it unabashed way he included "Symposium." But the insight Stowell Ave., 53211, 414-962-9190, hopechurchdc.org involves Alicibiades, a heart- gays and lesbians in his view of Diotima remains: Love's lakeparklutheran.com Union Congregational United Church of throb warrior whom every- of love. Each of us — lesbian, blessing is not in reproduc- Metropolitan Community Church, 1239 W. Christ, 716 S. Madison St., 54301-3609, one seemed to have a crush gay, straight — is seeking a tion alone, but in the way Mineral St., 53204, 414-383-1100, www. 920-437-9266, www.unionucc.com, on. (Henry Cavill, who plays companion with whom, as companionship shapes us for milmcc.org [email protected] Theseus in the upcoming film Aristophanes says, "We are the better. Milwaukee Friends Meeting (Quakers), "Immortals," could cover the lost in an amazement of love In all the debates about 3224 N. Gordon Place, 53212, 414-263- FOX VALLEY role well). and friendship and intimacy." marriage, civil unions and 2111, www.milwaukeequakers.org Fox Valley UU Fellowship, 2600 Philip Lane, Two speeches that night par- Lesbians were once two domestic partnerships, Mt. Zion Lutheran Church, 12012 W. North Appleton, 54915, 920-731-0849, www. ticularly speak to our creation. women co-joined, gays once the religious right appeals Ave., Wauwatosa 53226, 414-258-0456, fvuuf.org Aristophanes wrote comedies. two men co-joined, straights to sacred texts. We ought www.mtzionlutheran.org SS Cyril and Methodius United His modern equivalent might once a man and woman co- to return to one of the Plymouth Church, 2717 E. Hampshire Ave., Independent Catholic Church, 3499 beTyler Perry or Bruce Vilanch. joined. It's an inclusive vision sacred philosophical texts 53211, 414-964-1513, www.plymouth- Oakridge Road, Neenah, 54956, 920-809- church.org 3969, www.uicchurch.homestead.com, St. James Episcopal Church, 833 W. [email protected] Wisconsin Ave., 53233, 414-964-1513, WELLS www.stjamesmilwaukee.org KENOSHA/RACINE ADVISORS,. FARGO Tippecanoe Church PCUSA-Living Waters Bradford Community Church-Unitarian Contemplative Life Center, 125 W. 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Campaigns spent more than $35 million the ANIMAL TIME RECALL from page 1 Fair Wisconsin director campaigns in Wisconsin Cat IF Doctor PET ing to poll watchers. Katie Belanger also tried history. The Wisconsin S.C. SERVICE All of the incumbent to look at the upside of Democracy Campaign re- bog Walking Republicans oppose LGBT the election on the morn- ports that so far more than Pet Sitting equality and all of the ing after. "We are happy that $35 million in spending has WE DO .w Democratic challengers sup- two strong pro-equality allies been tallied in nine recall Vacation Care port it. were elected last night and races, including three tar- ••• Ray Vahey, of the that we are continuing to geting Democrats. 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The Dentistry • Boarding • Grooming the coming months. second quarter of this year final tally could surpass the Nutritional & Behavioral Consultations "People have not felt yet at triple the rate of the first $37.4 million spent in the Providing the best care the dreadful impact from quarter, propelling the state 2010 gubernatorial race. Cat Adoptions for your best friend! the budget and from other into second place for the The lion's share of money through Local Rescue Groups acts that (Republicans) have highest rate in the nation. on the right came from out- Co pushed through," Vahey said. Only Kentucky had a higher of-state corporate interests, Food • Supplies • Gifts "And the wholesale disen- unemployment claims rate most of it from front groups ) franchisement of minori- for the second quarter. for billionaires David and i≥) ties, the aged and the poor Right-leaning media out- Charles Koch. They stand to through the voter ID bill and lets, including the Milwaukee gain lucrative no-bid con- to, 43 1 the attack on immigrants and Journal Sentinel, suppressed tracts from the state under DEER- other minorities will have an the report. Walker, who was GOP leadership. GROVE effect that (Republicans) did endorsed by MJS, ran on a The Koch-backed groups Veterinary C iniett LLC, not intend. I believe that it pledge to create 250,000 Americans for Prosperity /236 N. Water St. will drive us closer and closer jobs in Wisconsin. and Club for Growth teamed 535 Southing Grange together. I think it will dawn Voters in the recall races up with the anti-gay group (414) 272-CATS (2287) Cottage Grove, WI 53527 catdoctor98.com on people that equality is not also had to wade through a Wisconsin Family Action on (608) 839-5327. deergrovevet.com safe for any of us until it's daily onslaught of misinfor- a scheme to send fraudulent A Full Service Small Animal Clinic safe for all of us and that eco- mation from both sides in the absentee ballot applications ./1 nomic justice is a civil right." most expensive state Senate RECALL, next page WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM tliTtiSt 1 1. 201 1 OD RECALL continued as a "dress rehearsal" for to voters in the final weeks `This race 2012, Brenda Lewiston said of the campaign. The mailers was Democrats proved they listed a return date after the were battle ready. An out election. phenomenal Pasch supporter, Lewiston Randy Stoffel, an out gay helped collect signatures for man who takes care of his in terms the petitions to recall Darling elderly parents, said his and knocked on doors on Washington County house- of party Pasch's behalf throughout the hold was among those that campaign. received the deceptive bal- organization.' "This race was phenom- lots. His mother, a registered enal in terms of party organi- Democrat, was planning to zation," Lewiston said. fill one out and return it, but Lewiston was among Stoffel interceded, he said. the volunteers attending "I'm afraid with this bal- Pasch's defeat was espe- Pasch's victory party who lot thing that a lot of older cially poignant for equality either witnessed or heard people are going to think advocates and other progres- about attempts at voter sup- they've cast their vote and sives. A tireless campaigner pression on Election Day. not go to the polls," Stoffel with a squeaky clean record, Employees at Glendale City told WiG two days before Pasch was seen by many as Hall misinformed voters the election. Stoffel said he the best hope of scoring the that they weren't supposed spoke with several seniors upset that could have handed to cast ballots on Aug. 9, in Menomonee Falls who control of the Senate back to Lewiston said. were planning to do just that her party. Also among those watch- before he explained to them An enthusiastic overflow ing Pasch's election with that the mailers were a scam. crowd at the Sheraton Hotel great interest was Rob if A number of irregularities in Brown Deer waited until Zerban, who's taking on U.S. were reported on election late in the evening to cel- Rep. Paul Ryan in 2012. Ryan, night in the race between ebrate Pasch's victory. They who authored a plan to turn anti-gay incumbent Alberta watched with dismay as Medicare over to private, for- Darling and pro-equality Pasch's lead for most of the profit insurance companies, is challenger Sandy Pasch. night evaporated as reports expected to be the nation's Returns in that race were from right-wing districts No. I legislative target for held up for several hours trickled in after the other Democrats next year. by Waukesha County Clerk five races had been called. "It certainly is a challenge Kathy Nickolaus, who came "That district was always for Democrats to win seats to national fame earlier this going to be a very tough in Republican districts (like year when she suddenly district for a progressive to Darling's)," Zerban said. "found" 7,000 unreported win," Belanger said. "As close "Everyone must turn their votes for right-wing Supreme as Sandy came was an indica- focus now on Paul Ryan." Court Justice David Prosser tion of just how hard she and Pasch supporters seemed after his challenger had all of the volunteers worked to have their eye focused already declared victory. to win that seat." primarily on Walker's future. Darling, one of the Koch Looking at the recalls Buoyed by high Democratic brothers' staunchest allies numbers in Republican dis- in Wisconsin, had unlimited tricts, they expressed confi- access to campaign cash, ON THE COVER dence that Walker will not making her race was the State Rep. Sandy survive a recall effort next most expensive of them all. Pasch, waves to year. With every new report She defeated Pasch 54-46 by supporters at the of a Democratic gain, they managing to exceed turn- Sheraton Hotel in chanted,"Recall Walker, recall out for the 2008 presiden- Brown Deer on the Walker." tial race in the religious-right night before she The Democratic Party PHOTO: MANDIE LOUSIER portions of Senate District 8, conceded the race. plans to begin circulating Volunteers with We Are One, the organization that spearheaded the including Menomonee Falls, PHOTO: MANDIE LOUSIER petitions to recall the gover- groundwork to recall Senate Republicans, chat during Sandy Pasch's elec- Germantown and Waukesha. nor in January. tion campaign party at the Sheraton Hotel in Brown Deer on Aug. 9.

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PHOTOS TEN CHIMNE l'S FOUNDATION STEPPENU-_ .INTO THIL'iNEFR. HISTIJRY e- By Michael Muckian the historic property. "For not on creating Contributing writer half a century, this was the a brand new Ten .t: Picture yourself as center of the theatrical uni- Chimneys, but Laurence Olivier, Noel verse." one that had Coward, Katherine Hepburn The 29-acre estate was a comfortable or any of many theatrical Alfred Lunt's family home. lived-in feeling, 4.- luminaries of the 1930s and It's where he brought his as if the home's 1940s. You've been invited wife, the English actress occupants were to Ten Chimneys, the sum- Lynn Fontanne, when the just around the mer home of Alfred Lunt Broadway season ended corner. and Lynn Fontanne, then each summer. It's named The newly Broadway's most powerful for the ten chimneys that restoredTen Chimneys acting couple. The fact that rise out of the main house opened to the public on works.The Milwaukee Rep's you received an invitation and some of the estate's May 26, 2003, a date that upcoming production of property that is shared dur- makes you part of the the- outbuildings, a collection would have been the Lunts' Jeffrey Hatcher's play "Ten ing every tour. The critic each of them. Malone dis- atrical elite. of structures that includes 8 I st wedding anniversary. Chimneys" captures one Alexander Wolcott, a man misses the notion, but not Tours of the national his- a Swedish log cabin, an Since then, it has welcomed such rehearsal for Chekov's as robust in body as he was the concept behind the title. toric landmark in Genesee L-shaped pool and pool more than 150,000 visitors. "The Seagull," a production in opinion, liked to roam the "The Lunts did have a Depot (30 miles west of house and a creamery. "When people come in which Lunt and Fontanne estate in his bright orange design for living and believed Milwaukee) begin just that The Lunts retired from through they truly do feel as appeared with Uta Hagen pajamas, Malone says. you can live your life just way. The docents set the the theater in 1960 and if they're guests of the Lunts, and Sydney Greenstreet Coward, perhaps the Lunts' as you choose and not by stage outside the door of lived in Ten Chimneys year- which is why they love it," (see page 23). most frequent visitor, liked the standards of others," he Ten Chimneys' main house round. Alfred Lunt died in Malone says. "Surprisingly, But it's the quirky experi- to roam the estate wearing says."I think if the Lunts saw as if the Lunts were just 1977, Lynn Fontanne in 75 percent of visitors have ences and homey touches nothing at all, swimming in Ten Chimneys today they inside awaiting their guests' 1983. The property fell into no idea who the Lunts were, that give the Ten Chimneys the nude and frightening the would be really excited by it, arrival. Visitors in groups of disrepair and was destined which is why we couldn't tours their charm. The par- hired help. because it so reflects what no more than eight then for the wrecking ball until create another Graceland." lor, bedrooms and sitting "The Lunts lost at least they valued." begin a tour that takes the late Joe Garton, a the- Ten Chimney's docents rooms offer the details of one cook because Coward them back in time through ater historian, arts advocate undergo 14 weeks of train- a comfortable and vibrant didn't like bathing suits and a meticulously restored and owner of Madison's ing in which they steep life, including the piano on insisted on strolling through world of high art and gra- Quivey's Grove restaurant, themselves in the lore of which playwright, actor and the kitchen on his way to IF YOU GO... cious living. began an effort in 1996 the property. The Lunts entertainer Noel Coward the pool," Malone says. Ten Chimneys is "Ten Chimneys is a that resulted in the forma- and their guests played and frequently performed Coward is rumored open each year from truly inspirational place," tion of the Ten Chimneys relaxed here, but they also and a framed photograph to have written his play early May to mid- says Sean Malone, presi- Foundation and the res- debated the issues facing of Fontanne dyeing actor "Design for Living" about November. Go to dent of the Ten Chimneys toration of the property. arts and theater — and they Helen Hayes' hair. his relationship with the www.tenchimneys.org. Foundation, which oversees Restoration efforts focused rehearsed their upcoming Then there is the lore of the Lunts, including affairs with WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM i August # 1, 201 1 VISIT GAY CHICAGO

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We munion with every image. roads around the murder Wisconsin artist Paul Baker news way too much lately for Sontag stated, "Photographs cannot be passive. We have We offer a moment of our site to discourage memorial Prindle have been installed. its right-wing, anti-gay antics. help people to take posses- to implant the gained knowl- thoughts and respect for pilgrimages. Leaders refuse The room in which they're Several months ago, the sion of space in which they edge and imagined visual each terrible death. In this to erect a marker. The urge displayed has deep-green local school board denied a are insecure." image of the physical crime regard, the exhibition func- to bury the past rather than walls and contains a board- request by students to estab- In Baker Prindle's body into the subjectless pictures. tions almost ritualistically. dwell on it is powerful. room-style table that occu- lish a gay-straight alliance of work, the description of Nine photographs are just The installation's first pic- Baker Prindle says, pies most of the floor area. club. The club's mission to what occurred at each site is enough to create a mauso- ture (above) is of the site "Making large prints of the At first glance, the pictures "combat bullying and harass- presented with minimal wall leum. "Like all gestures to outside of Laramie, Wyo., sites helps a viewer enter appear to be somewhat vac- ment" hardly seems radical or text, perhaps only one or remember the dead, I hope where college student the site and deal with the uous images of parks and threatening. Yet it took sever- two sentences. For example, that these photographs point Matthew Shepard was left reality of these brutal events urban scenes. al years and a federal lawsuit the label accompanying a us back to an understanding following an ultimately fatal — to question if they would But wall labels reveal the to convince the school board photograph of a pretty rural of our own delicate human- beating in October 1998. be bystanders, what it means actual content. Each pho- to acquiesce and approve the footbridge in Virginia states: ity that nurtures a deeper Perhaps because of the pub- for humans to do these tograph is part of a larger club on June 13. "Northington's severed head respect for other humans," licity around the case, the things to other humans, and series documenting sites In 2009, this city of had been placed squarely in Baker Prindle said. image of a sunny, dry, rural how we remember impor- where anti-gay, hate-motivat- 30,000 also made national the center of the walkway, While an almost inde- landscape with a tree cast- tant things in a world that is ed killings have occurred.The news when a band of local leading many to speculate scribable residue of remorse ing a welcome shadow in so throwaway." project, which Baker Prindle religious fundamentalists that the murderer(s) had lingers over this project, the heat carries an almost A reception and informal has been working on for demanded that the library intended to make an anti-gay the large format and color- unbearable weight. The text presentation featuring Baker three years, has taken him to remove "Heather Has Two statement." ful crispness of the images reads simply: "Matthew's Prindle and assistant director 26 states and the District of Mommies" from the young The photograph itself is beckons us into what are major injuries upon arrival Graeme Reid is from 6 to 9 Columbia. adult section. innocuous, empty. We read essentially portraits without consisted of hypothermia p.m. Sept. 7 at the museum. It is a sad and strange Baker Prindle's exhibi- the label, digest the essence people, portraits where the and a fracture from behind The exhibition runs through pilgrimage. tion is a wake up call to of the crime, and then look subjects have been violently his head to just in front of Sept, 25. WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM I August I 201 ! Dg, Riverwest's Foxglove and a dose of collage. This the gallery, Foxglove hosts is planned for Aug. 27. the gallery is an art venue Gallery, 826 E. 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Sky High is just a of Gallery Night with some tured artists show work courtesy of Glass Aquatics of Bizarre Bazaar in June S. Howell Ave. The seven art- couple of blocks south. Levine high-profile hot spots. Now ranging from vibrant photos next door, is tranquilly cap- included a visit from the Yum ists featured in this quarterly and skate shop owner Aaron let's take a spin out to a couple tinged with mid-century style tivating.This gallery is a small Yum Falafel Truck and a com- art compendium will have lim- Polansky share a collective of events with a decidedly and nostalgia to stark wood- space with a lot to see. munity drum circle. If you ited edition prints available. vision in this combination of Milwaukee-DIY approach. block images, abstract prints Across the street from can't make this one, another Exemplifying a DIY spirit, art, sport and space.

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and writes a healthy chunk of 'TRUST' whom she's been chatting on Still, Annie knows that this before, and the next thing his novel. When it comes to being a regular basis, is older than electronic relationship won't you know he's lured her to DVDIva With Vernon suddenly an actor/director, David the 16 he initially claimed to sit well with her parents, a hotel room. It's there that (and brutally) murdered, Schwimmer is no Ben Affleck. be. Like the 201 1 gasoline advertising agency head Will he has her model the under- GREGG SHAPIRO Eddie comes into possession But his latest film "Trust" prices, Charlie's age keeps (Clive Owen) and Realtor wear that he bought for her of the remainder of the NZT, shows signs of improvement. rising. First he apologetically Lynn (Catherine Keener). So before proceeding to rape `LIMITLESS' as well as some cash. Popping Annie (Liana Liberato) is a admits to being a 20-year-old she keeps Charlie a secret. her, videotaping the entire When we first meet lov- another pill, he is motivated 14-year-old high school stu- college sophomore and then When Annie finally agrees encounter. able loser Eddie (Bradley to write more, visit a bar- dent who wants to play on a 25-year-old grad student. to meet Charlie (Chris There's a noticeable Cooper), he's standing on the ber, invest in a wardrobe, the volleyball team. When Annie is put off by these Henry Coffey) face to face change in Annie, but it isn't ledge of a very tall Manhattan take insane risks and meet she's not texting, she's making revelations, but once Charlie at the mall, she can barely until her best friend tells high-rise about to take the with cold-blooded loan shark what she thinks are friends calls her he is able to per- disguise her disappointment a school guidance counselor plunge. In spite of his phar- Gennady (Andrew Howard), her own age in Internet chat suade that their age dif- at discovering that he's really what she knows that the ma-enhanced, four-digit IQ, to get an advance so he rooms. ference is not a big deal in his late 30s. Listening to truth is revealed. Police are Eddie's gotten himself into can become a day trader. But, sadly, she's wrong. It before coercing her into him talk, it's obvious that called to the school and a heap of trouble. All that Suddenly, everything is going turns out that Charlie, with what amounts to phone sex. he's done this sort of thing Annie is taken into custo- trouble is about to break Eddie's way. He's back togeth- dy. Will and Lynn are called down the vault-style door of er with Lindy, his editor loves to the hospital where she's his $8.5 million "fortress with his book, he's a rising star being examined. They react a view" condo. on Wall Street making tons as any parents would, with How did Eddie get here? of cash and he's gotten the shock and horror. Before he got his hands on an attention of moneyed mogul Annie begins meeting with illegal stash of NZT48, cour- Van Loon (Robert DeNiro), therapist Gail (Viola Davis), tesy of his ex-brother-in-law who wants Eddie to assist while Will and Lynn try to Vernon (Johnny Whitworth), him with a major merger. deal with the gravity of the Eddie was just another But as anyone who has situation. But the last thing blocked writer working on ever seen a pharma ad on they expected was that a novel. He had a girlfriend TV knows, drugs come with Annie's feelings for Charlie named Lindy (Abbie Cornish), side effects. Unlimited spe- would actually get stronger who dumped him on her way cial effects and plot twists A and that she would become up the publishing ladder. But and turns follow, making his greatest defender. after gaining access to his "Limitless" an above-average, Liberato, Owen and entire brain via NZT, he finds occasionally heart-pounding Keener all give nuanced and himself endowed with pow- thriller. The two-disc Blu-ray praiseworthy performances. ers he never imagined. Not set includes a digital copy Topical and troubling, "Trust" only can he charm his land- as well as bonus material, is sure to spark many discus- lord's pit bull of a wife, but including an alternate ending. PHOTO: COURTESY sions and debates between he also cleans his apartment Liana Liberato in David Schwimmer's new flick "Trust." parents and teens. (See The People Behind The Product • Since 1989 6,60ii,AA-AnatirD. Lost Data? 7 2 -

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Meant GREGG S HAPIRO I'm Amazed," "Junk" and "That Julio Down by test albums of her to appeal to Joanna Newsom's Would Be Something" ground the Schoolyard," career. followers, Kleyn is a bit of an FREE CONSULTATION the disc, adding weight and room "Mother and Child Reunion" and Piano-playing goddess Alicia acquired taste. Songs such as for the lighter tunes. The new, "Duncan." But it also contained Keys wasn't born until a year "Baby Come Close," "Ode to d.ttS'141(Rupo,,t_ special two-CD edition includes such deeper cuts as "Peace Like after Teena Marie's 1980 double the Monarch" and "Higher than a seven-track bonus disc with a River," "Run That Body Down" whammy. But you can hear Teena High" have a pleasant and unex- outtakes, live cuts and more. and "Armistice Day." Simon Marie's influence on the attrac- pectedly timeless quality. C N McCartney arrived late to maintained this level of mastery tively packaged I 0th anniversary the synth/dance scene, although over the course of his next two collector's edition of Keys' 2001 DUELING DUDES LAW OFFICE he did have something of disco studio discs, striking a balance major-label debut "Songs in A With his 2001 debut album mum* hit with the 1979 Wings sin- between being a hit-maker and Minor" (J/Legacy). This includes "Musicforthemorningafter" gle "Goodnight Tonight." But a singer/songwriter of substance. the original album, as well as a (Columbia/Legacy), Pete Yorn RICHARD A. CHECKS S.C. he sounds a bit out of step second CD of mostly previously set the bar pretty high for him- ATTORNEY on "McCartney II" (MPUHear/ DUELING DIVAS unreleased tracks. There's also self. The proof is that none of AT LAW Concord), which arrived a little The late Teena Marie was as a DVD with music videos and a the discs that followed matched more than 10 years after his beloved by followers of soul and documentary about the making its promise.The expanded l0th- Bankruptcy solo debut. The single "Coming R&B as she was by the gay of the album. "Songs in A Minor" anniversary edition features Up" is catchy, and "Waterfalls" men who shook their booties was a thrilling introduction to a a re-mastered version of the Is Ali We Do! washes beautifully over listeners. to "Behind the Groove," from very talented artist that earned original disc, including the hits The instrumental "Frozen Jap" her reissued and expanded 1980 Keys numerous Grammy Awards. "Strange Condition" and "Life 8 Locations to Serve You could almost serve as an influ- album "Lady T" (Hip-O Select/ It still sounds fresh today. on a Chain," along with a second From Green Bay to Racine ence for what came later, during Motown). As comfortable belt- Where would Teena Marie live disc, a demo and more. the synth-powered early 1980s. ing out a ballad like "Aladdin's and Alicia Keys be without the Surf-pop stud Jack Johnson's A bonus disc includes live, full- Lamp" as she was dancing all pioneering Ella Fitzgerald? The 2000 debut disc "Brushfire MILWAUKEE length and edited versions. night in "You're All the Boogie I expanded reissue of "Easy Living" Fairytales" (Everloving) re- 757 North Broadway Like McCartney, Paul Simon Need," Teena Marie wasn't just (Concord Original Jazz Classics/ ceived the reissue treatment in had his work cut out for him when an interpreter of others' songs. Pablo), Fitzgerald's third collabo- an edition re-mastered by stu- Suite 401 he released his 1972 self-titled She was an accomplished song- ration with jazz guitarist Joe Pass, dio legend Bernie Grundman Milwaukee, WI 53202 Columbia Records solo debut writer in her own right. may be the weakest of their pair- using the original analog tapes. disc. It's been newly reissued by (414) In 1980, her most prolific year, ings. Fitzgerald's voice was not The album, which includes 223-0000 Legacy in an expanded edition she also released "Irons in the at its best here, even for a set of the songs "Bubble Toes" and with four other titles. This bold Fire" (Hip-O Select/Motown), jazz vocal renditions of standards. 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A lot of before you have a baby you them are just looking up the Renaissance woman just kind of picture the part questions on Google like you Miranda July has returned where it's a baby (laughs). It's or I would (laughs). I think with "The Future," her like an ad or something, and he's kind of that sort of IT first feature film since her it's not really real. And you person. acclaimed debut "Me and You don't really picture (that) it's and Everyone We Know." never going to end. Does Jason want to Like its predecessor, "The avoid becoming Joe Future" takes a non-tradi- Why did you choose to later in life? tional approach to storytell- make Sophie a dancer? I don't think he sees the ing. Thirtysomething couple Some of that charac- old man as a bad example. I Sophie (July) and Jason ter is based on friends of think he thinks it's all going (Hamish Linklater) plan mine. Especially this group to work out. We're still going to adopt a cat they name of friends I had in college to be together. The old man "Paw Paw" from an animal who were all dance majors, makes these bawdy, dirty shelter. But the adoption and I still know them all cards for his wife, which I provokes them to peer into and none of them are pro- think is how none of us pic- the future, and what they fessional dancers. But they ture being before we die, see has an unexpected and all still have some form of trying to think of rhymes profound impact on their dance in their life or some for twat (laughs). So I think relationship. kind of movement. I think I in some ways, if you feel like I spoke with July shortly was realizing these people your life is over when you're PHOTO: COURTESY before the film opened in ... are all kind of realizing, 40 or 50, this guy just proves Miranda July and Hamish Linklater in "The Future." theaters. "Oh what I was picturing in that wrong. my 20s didn't happen and I not how I thought about the and she's just paralyzed. She really. That's the only thing Gregg Shapiro: In "The actually have to decide now — Was Jason's vision of future when I was younger. finds it unbearable. She flees that isn't sort of sad. Future," Sophie and make some kind of decision." the future a way for I just assumed everything that terribly uncomfortable Jason appear to be Especially if you're a woman, you to include a green would go on like this forever, feeling, whereas Jason has a Have you begun responsible, thirty - you can't actually just drift message in the film? and maybe just get better and ... kind of artist's approach, thinking about your something adults. Yet through that period of time It's not so much "green" better (laughs). of being open to accidents next film project? they're only willing to — the second half of your 30s. as that when I think about and being curious. So even I do all these different commit to six months It doesn't matter who you the future these days — in the Sophie's relationship though she's the one trying things, so I have to rotate. into the future, the are, you're making a choice if last maybe, seven years — I with Marshall is much to make something, I feel like I'm working on a novel now. I length of time that the you have a kid or you don't tend to think like, "This way less about the future. she has that very kind of fear- have a movie idea, but frank- veterinarian estimates have a kid. of life that we have now, this Was this a way to dis- driven approach that's kind ly, writing fiction is sort of the cat they're adopt- isn't going to last forever." tinguish Sophie, who of the opposite of creativity. my bread and butter at this ing will survive. Is that Jason works in IT/ In fact it may shift sooner was sort of stuck in the But in the end she's got to point. 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