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Owen Pallett speaks from the heart. Page 15 the vOice Of PrOgress fOr WisconsiN’s LgBt commuNity March 25, 2010 | Vol. 1, No. 10 candidate’s wife goes ‘on the warpath’ over gay video By Louis Weisberg Staff writer 411 on 911 A Wisconsin Tea Party Listen to the 911 rally boiled over March and security calls at 13 when a congressional www.wisconsinga- candidate showed video zette.com/images/ of his Republican rival at stories/issues/120. a gay wedding. wav. Candidate Dan Mielke called police after Rachel Duffy, the wife of his in 1997. opponent, attacked his Duffy was the first can- display table at the rally didate to be endorsed by in an effort to stop him Sarah Palin for the 2010 from playing the video on congressional races. his laptop computer. Mielke said Rachel The video showed Duffy approached his Rachel and Sean Duffy table and demanded that celebrating the 2003 nup- he stop showing the tials of a male couple the video. When he refused, Duffys apparently know “she started yelling at me through their involve- and tearing the signs off ment with MTV’s “The my table,” Mielke said. Real World.” The Duffys According to Mielke, he appeared on the series Video page 4 Photo: AP/M At t h e w S h A r P e constance McMillen, an 18-year-old senior at itawamba county Agricultural high school, shows a marking on her arm containing a quote from “hamlet”: “to thine own self be true.” This Prom dispute waltzes into court issue By Lisa Neff the big dance at Itawamba lanthropists offering to spon- right to be open and hon- “heavy hors d’ouvres” and inside and online at Staff writer Agricultural High School in sor an alternative prom and est about who they are at that those who wanted to wisconsingazette.com Prom season typically Fulton, Miss., April 2. a Facebook-based push for school, and schools shouldn’t attend must buy tickets for arrives with some minor The local school board sympathizers to participate treat any students worse or themselves and their guests News teen drama and angst. decided to cancel the event in the Nationwide Equality differently because of who by March 5. WiGWAG ��������������������� 2 Will he say yes? Will she rather than accommodate Prom and dress in evening they are.” The letter also stated that Wisconsin Gaze........... 4 ask me? McMillen. wear April 2. each junior or senior could National Gaze �������������� 6 Long or short dress? Black McMillen’s quest to bring “It’s wonderful that so A dANce bring one guest, who must Editorial ������������������������� 8 or white tux? a same-sex date to the prom many people have come for- iNvitAtion be at least a freshman and “of Opinion ������������������������� 9 Dance or play it cool? has become a national cause, ward to support Constance, On Feb. 5, a letter went out the opposite sex.” International Gaze ����13 Prom season only occa- with the American Civil and we hope that support to the juniors and seniors of The notice posed a prob- sionally brings a hasty lesson Liberties Union represent- helps convince the school Itawamba Agricultural High lem for McMillen, who has Features in constitutional law for the ing her in a federal com- that it should treat all of its School about the prom to be said she just wants her “prom WiGOUT ��������������������15 student and a lawsuit against plaint against the school dis- students fairly and equally,” held in the school commons. experience to be the same Theater ������������������������16 a school board, but that’s the trict, LGBT leaders across said ACLU of Mississippi The letter stated that as all of the other students, a Opera ���������������������������17 case for senior Constance the country praising her legal director Kristy Bennett. student organizers had night to remember with the On Stage ����������������������22 McMillen, 18, who wanted for a heroic fight, numer- “Lesbian, gay, bisexual and decided to forego a formal person I’m dating.” to bring her girlfriend to ous organizations and phi- transgender students have a banquet and instead serve Prom page 10 2 W i s c ON s i N g AZ e t t e . c OM | March 25, 2010 LGBt news with a twist WiGWAG By Lisa Neff & Louis Weisberg VaticAN’s MALe a prospective Vatican male In the video, Horsley held a Ben & Jerry’s symbolically that lasted for 21 days. The hOOkers hooker: “Do not break his kiss, sign that read “Elton John changed the name of its potentially fatal condition A corruption probe cock! You need the money kiss must die” as he stood ice cream flavor “Chubby was not the result of Viagra in the awarding of public ... put a little music, you T h e outside the musician’s Hubby” to “Hubby Hubby” – he hadn’t even taken the works contracts by Italy’s take out the (inaudible) … winner of Atlanta condo. Horsley also in 2009 after the company’s drug – but rather from a Civil Protection Agency has you drop the Viagra there. the first leg of denounced as blasphemy home state of Vermont rec- rare neurological disorder. unearthed an alleged gay And away!” the Giro d’Italia John’s statement in February ognized same-sex marriages. The man was treated at prostitution ring involving bicycle race usu- that Jesus was a “compas- Wockhardt Hospital. Yes, Vatican officials. kiss ally gets a kiss from two sionate, super-intelligent ‘Anna NicOLe,’ that’s the hospital’s real Angelo Balducci, a former The Washington Post women in miniskirts after gay man who understood the OPerA name, according to The member of the board of reported that 27 custom- crossing the finish line in human problems.” But he A new opera titled “Anna Times of India. Italy’s public works depart- ers canceled subscriptions Amsterdam. But maybe not didn’t say he’s more popular Nicole” will premiere Feb. ment and a consultant to to protest a page-one photo this year. A left-wing party than God. 17, 2011, at the Royal Opera gOt GayMe the Vatican on major con- of two men kissing – lightly in Amsterdam has proposed House, one of the United Xbox Live gamers can struction projects, was jailed – outside a D.C. courthouse that the winner of the leg, WeddiNg cAke – Kingdom’s most vener- now create profiles that for his role in the alleged the day the district began which is set for May 8, get ANd ice creAM able cultural institutions. use “gay,” “lesbian” and scheme. He formerly served issuing marriage licenses a smooch from two men Ben & Jerry co-founder Based on the tabloid-style “transgender” as identifi- in The Gentlemen of His to same-sex couples. One – not necessarily wearing Jerry Greenfield attended life of the late Anna Nicole ers. Use of the words in a Holiness, an elite group of reader wrote, “That kind of miniskirts. The Green Left the wedding of a gay couple Smith, the opera is being profile in the past would ushers who serve visiting stuff makes normal people party maintains that one in in one of the ice cream co-written by composer have triggered the suspen- Vatican dignitaries. want to throw up.” The 10 riders is gay. So, why not? maker’s stores in D.C.’s Mark-Anthony Turnage and sion of accounts. “I’d like La Repubblica reported Post defended the edito- Georgetown neighborhood. Richard Thomas – the duo to announce an update … that Balducci, a married man, rial decision: “There was a cuffed Keith Spangler-Vellios who created the West End which will allow our mem- was provided young men, time, after court-ordered Atlanta police recently and Andreas Vellios were hit “Jerry Springer.” bers to more freely express including seminarians, by a integration, when readers arrested a man for allegedly previously married in San their race, nationality, reli- Vatican choir performer. complained about front- making terroristic threats. Francisco in 2004, but same- erectiLe gion and sexual orientation,” In a wiretapped con- page photos of blacks mix- The alleged target was Elton sex marriages in California dysfuNction Xbox Live general manager versation leaked to the ing with whites. Today, photo John, and the arrest was were invalidated. The two A 55-year-old business- Marc Whitten stated. Now, Italian media, one of the images of same-sex couples based on the content of a have been together for man from Kolkata, India, had to get rid of the rigidly alleged ringmasters of the capture the same reality of video the defendant, Neal 11 years and have twin 2 emergency surgery after defined his and her clothing scheme explains the job to societal change.” Horsley, posted on YouTube. 1/2-year-olds. suffering from an erection for Wii’s Mii characters. g e t t h e W i s c ON s i N g AZ e t t e d e L i v e r e d . c ALL 414-961-3240 > heroes & Villains herO ponent of freedoms of ency. If he’s willing to betray This spring, in high expression and association. friends who shared one schools large and small Her fight is one not of the most momentous across the country, stu- only for the Itawamba events of their lives with dents are renting tuxedos, Agricultural High School him, how can voters trust shopping for gowns and yearbook but one for the him? preparing for prom. history books. The last thing Washington Students were doing just needs is another duplici- that in Fulton, Miss., where villaiN tous lawmaker who’s only Itawamba Agricultural High Sean Duffy, who hopes too willing to re-package School’s prom was set for to unseat U.S.