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EST BCLINICD BE THE MAN OF HIS DREAMS Get tested for HIV at BESTD Clinic. It’s free and it’s fast, with no names and no needles. We also provide free STD testing, exams, and treatment. Staffed totally by volunteers and supported by donations, BESTD has been doing HIV outreach since 1987. We’re open: = Mon. 6 PM–8:30 PM: Free HIV & STD testing = Tues. 6 PM–8:30 PM:All of the above plus STD exams & treatment Some services only available for men. Visit our Web site for details. Brady East STD Clinic 1240 E. Brady St.., Milwaukee,WI 53202 414-272-2144 = www.bestd.org IN REMEMBRANCE: LGBT ALLY DR. KAREN LAMB 1937 - 2009 By Jerry Johnson Jackson. Editor’s Note: Longtime Milwaukee LGBT One Christmas season Karen hosted a fundraiser ally Dr. Karen Lamb passed away in for the Cream City Foundation. Santa Claus (played that night by Jessie Carter) appeared and passed out Delafield January 30, following a multi- gifts. Karen also hosted several lakefront parties for year struggle with cancer. Below, former the foundation. Her guests always enjoyed taking Wisconsin Light co-founder and publisher lake rides in her platoon boat. One year as Karen sat Jerry Johnson shares his recollection of in her boat, a cute young fellow passengers decided Karen and the important work she did for to take off his trunks and swim naked. That thrilled the gay community. Karen and she talked about it for years. In 1990 Karen adopted two children from Romania, Born on August 21, 1937, Karen became a registered Colin and Daniel. Both are now being raised by nurse, receiving her PhD in Phoenix, Arizona. A Karen’s son Robert, and his significant other Mark. southern “belle” from Decatur, Georgia, Dr. Karen Karen was addicted to crossword puzzles, com - Lamb met then-Milwaukee Mayor Henry W. Maier at pleting several at a time. She filled them out from a democratic national convention. They fell in love, morning to night. married and she moved to Milwaukee. She also enjoyed going to movies and insisted on In 1988, Mayor Maier retired. He and Karen moved to seeing “Brokeback Mountain.” She enjoyed it so Nagawicka Lake in Delafield. The lake house was per - much she saw it a second time. Her favorite movie fect for Karen, who enjoyed fishing. Dr. Lamb passed was “Gone With The Wind.” She proudly stated that away on January 30, 2009 of cancer at the age of 71. her parents had the good fortune of obtaining tickets Through the years Karen was an extremely strong and attended the film’s December 1939 world pre - supporter of Milwaukee’s LGBT community. Karen miere in Atlanta. and Archbishop Rembert Weakland served as co- Karen was a great lady, always presenting her South - chairs on the Community Advisory Council in Mil - a column for the newspaper. Her first column appeared ern hospitality. Her many friends from the gay and waukee. That organization was instrumental in in the premiere issue. She proudly stated that she was straight community will dearly miss her. Karen is sur - founding the Milwaukee AIDS Project (MAP) in 1985. the only mayor’s wife in the country who wrote a col - vived by her grandsons, Daniel and Colin; her son MAP later became the AIDS Resource Center of Wis - umn for a gay newspaper. Her column continued Robert and his partner Mark; and two sisters, Jane in consin (ARCW), an statewide organization that cur - through the last issue published in 2001. Atlanta, and Helen in California. rently offers medical, dental, housing, mental health, In 1988, Karen, Terry and I drove to Atlanta to at - Karen was buried in Atlanta next to her beloved hus - nutritional, prevention and social services to those tend the Democratic National Convention. Terry and band Henry. A memorial service will be held at a later living with HIV/AIDS. I had media press passes. Because Karen was Mayor date. Memorial donations in Dr. Karen Lamb’s name When Dr. Terry Boughner and I founded the Wiscon - Maier’s wife, other doors quickly opened and allowed may be made to The Cream City Foundation, 759 N. sin Light in 1987, we approached Karen about writing me to take photos of important people such as Jesse Milwaukee St, Suite 212, Milwaukee, WI 53202. vestigators to the surprise discovery of FACEBOOK SCAM LEADS SEXUAL ASSAULT nearly 300 photos and movie clips of the CHARGES FOR NEW BERLIN TEEN FORMER boys and young men ranging in age from HONOR STUDENT FACES 300 YEARS IN PRISON 13 to 19 on his computer. A former par - New Berlin - A suburban Milwaukee teenager and child pornography, second- and third- ticipant on the Eisenhower Middle/High former honor student faces more than 300 years in degree sexual assaults, five counts of School Academic Decathlon team, prison after a police discovery of an alleged scheme child enticement and making bomb Stancl had been expelled after he had using the popular social networking website Face - scares. He is being held in the Wauke - been identified as the individual who book to blackmail fellow male students into having sha County Jail on $250,000 bail, made a series of written and emailed sexual encounters with him. pending a preliminary hearing on Feb - bomb threats that closed the school last Anthony Stancl was charged February 4 in Wauke - ruary 26. November 14. sha County Circuit Court with a total of 12 counts Police investigation of the bomb scare The formal complaint charges that Stancl that include repeated sexual assault of the same child, charge from last November and a com - created Facebook identity as a popular fe - multiple degrees of sexual assaults, possession of plaint form on of Stancl’s victims led in - male student at Eisenhower and then used the profile to entice at least 31 male fellow stu - prosecute Stancl without the actual victims having to pecially for high schoolers around the country. dents to send him naked photos of themselves in the take the witness stand, according to prosecutors. Along with the Stancl charges last week, three hopes of having an intimate encounter with her. Con - Reports indicate that Stancl had been using his Face - teenage girls who allegedly sent nude or semi-nude tinuing to use the female persona Stancl then attempted book scheme for some time and involved even more cell phone pictures of themselves, and three male to blackmail the boys - threatening to share the nude students. All current charges stem from the three classmates in a western Pennsylvania high school who shots with other students - into having sexual en - months since became a legal adult last August 10. received them, are charged with child pornography. counters with a “male friend.” Friends of Stancl were reportedly shocked to hear Last October a Texas eighth-grader spent the night At least seven of the boys agreed, and Stancl had about the charges. Stancl was best known to them as in a juvenile detention center after his football coach sexual encounters with them in a bathroom at the an avid computer geek and a volunteer for the recent found a nude picture on his cell phone that a fellow high school, the school parking lot, a New Berlin Pub - Obama Presidential campaign. student sent him. lic Library restroom, parks and at some of the victims’ The New Berlin case brings new attention to the Roughly 20% of teens admit to participating in homes, according to the criminal complaint. Stancl re - growing practice among teens and other young “sexting,” according to a recent nationwide survey portedly recorded the encounters with his cell phone. adults known as “sexting.” “Sexting” - the sending by the National Campaign to Support Teen and Un - The clips, found on his computer, may be sufficient to nude pictures via text message - is not unusual, es - planned Pregnancy. the Court to invalidate Prop 8 were filed, arguing that CALIFORNIA SUPREME Proposition 8 drastically alters the equal protection TRANSGENDER WISCONSIN COURT TO HEAR PROP 8 guarantee in California’s Constitution and that the RESIDENT AT CENTER OF CHALLENGE MARCH 5 rights of a minority cannot be eliminated by a simple ACLU BIRTH CERTIFICATE SUIT San Francisco - The California Supreme Court has majority vote. The supporters represent the full announced that it will hear oral arguments on Thurs - gamut of California’s and the nation’s civil rights or - day, March 5 in the Proposition 8 legal challenge. The ganizations and legal scholars, as well as California National Center for Lesbian Rights, Lambda Legal, legislators, local governments, bar associations, busi - and the ACLU - with support from civil rights groups, ness interests, labor unions, and religious groups. religious organizations, labor unions, and legal schol - In May of 2008, the California Supreme Court held ars - argue that Proposition 8 is invalid because the that laws that treat people differently based on their people of California have established strict safeguards sexual orientation violate the equal protection clause that prohibit the underlying principles of the Califor - of the California Constitution and that same-sex cou - nia Constitution from being changed by a simple ma - ples have the same fundamental right to marry as jority vote. By taking away a right only from one other Californians. Proposition 8 eliminated this fun - group, Proposition 8 violates the most basic princi - damental right only for same-sex couples. No other Chicago - A transgendered Wisconsin woman is part ple of our government: that all people are entitled to initiative has ever successfully changed the California of an Illinois lawsuit challenging that state’s refusal to equal treatment under the law.