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Queer and Present PAGE 4 Left to right: Tammy Baldwin (official head shot); Chelsea Manning (campaign photo); Congressman Kyrsten Sinema (official head shot). VOL 33, NO. 33 MAY 2, 2018 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com FUN- POPULAR VOTES RAISER Howard Brown Looking at LGBT Senate hopefuls Health hosts ChiQ. Photo by Kat Fitzgerald 8 Queer Visibility NIGHT OF project NOISE IL Safe School launches Alliance’s annual event is variety show. Photo of Jace Smith by Melissa Wasserman 10 QUEER ‘SUPERSTAR’ WCT reviews Lyric AND Opera’s Jesus Christ Superstar. Photo by Todd Rosenberg PRESENT Queer Visibility creators Kiefer Otto (left) and Odea. PAGE 13 14 Photo courtesy of Odea @windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com APRIL 8 - May 20 by Bekah Brunstetter writer and producer of NBC’s hit show “THIS IS US” “A Christian conservative baker, a gay get your tickets now wedding, and a smart, funny play” directed by Lauren Shouse www.rivendelltheatre.org - L.A. Times it’s women’s work 773-334-7728 2 May 2, 2018 WINDY CITY TIMES You have seen them on the red carpet at the Golden Globes, on CELEBRATE 45 YEARS national news, in magazines, and on college campuses… OF WOMEN EMPLOYED: Now Meet the Leaders of Today’s Women’s Movement Speaking Up, Speaking Out, and Making Change Ai-jen Poo is Co-Founder and Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and Co-Director of Caring Across Generations. An award-winning activist, thought leader, social innovator, and a leading voice Thursday, May 31, 2018 on domestic workers’ rights and family care advocacy, Ai-jen recently joined 11:00 A.M. – 1:30 P.M. Meryl Streep on the red carpet at the Golden Globes to say #TimesUp. MÓnica Ramírez is the co-founder and President of Alianza Nacional de Hyatt Regency Chicago Campesinas, the first national farmworker women’s organization in the U.S. 151 E. UPPER WACKER DRIVE Mónica authored an open letter to Hollywood published in TIME magazine which sparked the creation of #TimesUp, which has raised more than $20 million to support lower-income women seeking legal justice. LEARN MORE AND GET TICKETS: womenemployed.org/working-lunch Andrea Pino is co-founder of End Rape on Campus, and co-author of “We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out.” Andrea This year, thousands spoke out to say #MeToo and #TimesUp. Our speakers for was one of the first students to publicly file a Title IX complaint against a university for mishandling her sexual assault report. Her work and The Working Lunch are at the helm of today’s invigorated women’s movement. With personal journey is prominently featured in the Emmy-nominated film, their decades of organizing and advocacy experience, they are empowering all women The Hunting Ground. to raise their voices and fight for change. MODERATOR THANKS TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS Laura S. Washington is a Chicago Sun-Times columnist and a political analyst for ABC-7 Chicago. Official Airline of Women Employed Anniversary Sponsor WINDY CITY TIMES May 2, 2018 3 NEWS LGBT Senate hopefuls 4 Obit: William Lloyd Barber 5 LGBTQ happenings at WE Day 6 Event focuses on queer undocumented people 7 Alliance hosts annual “Night of Noise’ 8 Photos from Howard Brown’s “ChiQ” fundraiser 10 Viewpoints: Lee Lynch 12 ENTERTAINMENT/EVENTS Theater: Queer Visibility project 13 INDEX DOWNLOAD THIS ISSUE AND BROWSE THE ARCHIVES AT www.WindyCityTimes.com Theater reviews 14 Chicago Filmmakers hosts ribbon-cutting 17 PAGE 4 Left to right: Tammy Baldwin (official head shot); Chelsea Manning (campaign photo); Congressman Kyrsten Sinema (official head shot). VOL 33, NO. 33 MAY 2, 2018 NIGHTSPOTS 19 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com FUN- POPULAR VOTES RAISER Howard Brown Looking at LGBT Senate hopefuls Calendar 21 Health hosts ChiQ. Photo by Kat Fitzgerald 8 Queer Visibility Book review: Tomorrow Will Be Different 22 NIGHT OF project NOISE IL Safe School launches Alliance’s annual event is variety show. Photo of Jace Smith by Melissa Wasserman 10 QUEER ‘SUPERSTAR’ WCT reviews Lyric AND Opera’s Jesus Christ Superstar. Photo by Todd Rosenberg PRESENT Queer Visibility creators Kiefer Otto (left) and Odea. PAGE 13 14 Photo courtesy of Odea @windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com Above: WCT reviews The Explorers Club (on page 14). APRIL 8 - May 20 by Bekah Brunstetter writer and producer of NBC’s hit show “THIS IS US” A Christian conservative baker, a gay “ directed by Lauren Shouse get your tickets now wedding, and a smart, funny play” www.rivendelltheatre.org Photo by North Shore Camera Club - L.A. Times it’s women’s work 773-334-7728 online exclusives at www.WindyCityTimes.com POWER MOVE U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky’s power lunch focused on women politicians. Photo of Schakowsky by Erica Demarest THE ZENG’S THE THING DUE NORTH Bill Malcolm’s latest value-travel column takes a look at Wisconsin. THAT’S SHOW BIZ Find out the latest about Andre Leon Talley, Troye Sivan and Jamie Lee Curtis. Singer/teacher Jonathan Zeng talks songwriting, Chicago—and his favorite plus snack—in an onlline version of In the DAILY BREAKING NEWS Life. PR photo 4 May 2, 2018 WINDY CITY TIMES that Baldwin’s “favorability” rating has dropped from 40 percent to 37 percent since last year. Looking at LGBT Senate hopefuls As of April 4, the Americas PAC, a conservative political action committee based in Iowa, has BY LISA KEEN senate, and, in 2013, became the first openly bi- Party says conservative Republicans are “coming spent $3,325,05 against Baldwin’s re-election KEEN NEWS SERVICE sexual candidate to be elected to Congress. after Tammy Baldwin like no other” U.S. senate and for one of her Republican opponents, accord- Sinema’s political popularity is probably due candidate in this year’s elections. The Milwaukee ing to the Center for Responsive Politics. An historic number of openly LGBT people are in large part to her willingness to ignore party Sentinel Journal says she’s facing a “tough re- According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, running for the U.S. Senate this year: five. Two lines on issues critical to her constituents. The election,” in large part because a “political net- one of Baldwin’s key Republican opponents is of those candidates are running in elections that political analysis group fivethirtyeight.com says work financed by billionaire industrialists Charles businessman Kevin Nicholson. are seen as the most competitive this year: Arizo- Sinema has voted “in line with” President Trump’s and David Koch has spent more than $5 million” In February, several news organizations re- na and Wisconsin. And that competition is both position 57.4 percent of the time; that compares to oppose her re-election. (Federal Elections ported that Nicholson’s parents and brother had good and troubling for LGBT candidates. with Baldwin’s 22.1 percent. Commission records through March 31 put the contributed the maximum allowable to Baldwin’s It’s troubling news for the best known of the Several other election analysis sites (the Cook number at $3 million.) CNN and Politico say Bald- re-election. But his sister has been posting crude four candidates: incumbent U.S. Sen. Tammy Political Report, CNN, Real Clear Politics and oth- win’s seat is one of the 10 U.S. Senate seats most Twitter messages against Baldwin and others. Baldwin. She is facing fierce opposition spend- ers) say Arizona—which currently has two Re- vulnerable to switching parties in November. “Maybe you should stick to opioids, scandals ing from billionaire conservatives who apparently publican U.S. senators (Flake and ailing Senator For almost a year, there has been big money and lesbians,” wrote sister Rebecca Steve, a resi- see an opportunity in the fact that Republican dent of Texas. Nicholson reportedly asked his sis- President Donald Trump won Wisconsin in 2016. ter to stop the Twitter posts on his behalf. The state had voted for the Democratic presiden- Despite the pummeling Baldwin has been tak- tial candidate for the seven previous presidential ing, the Cook Political Report says the seat is contests, and the Senate seat Baldwin holds has “likely” to remain Democrat. Baldwin has raised been held by a Democrat since 1957. $13 million in contributions and has benefited But a competitive race is good news for a from another $1 million in outside spending for second LGBT U.S. Senate candidate: U.S. Rep. her. She also stands to benefit from having two Kyrsten Sinema. She’s a Democrat from Arizona Republican candidates go through a harsh prima- who is hoping to win over a predominantly Re- ry battle to win the GOP nomination. And Bald- publican state for an historically Republican seat. win has the incumbent advantage. The question Arizona has voted for a Republican presidential is Wisconsin: Is it moving into the red column or candidate in nine out of the last ten elections. was the state’s 2016 vote for Trump an anomaly? And the last time a Democrat won a U.S. Senate seat from Arizona was 1988. Sinema was poll- The longshots ing ahead of the Republican incumbent Jeff Flake Two LGBT candidates are vying to carry their even before he announced he would not run for party’s mantle into the November election for re-election. U.S. Senate in Delaware: Republican Gene Truono Two of the other LGBT U.S. Senate candidates and Democrat Kerri Harris. It will be a long, uphill this year are running for the same seat—a U.S. battle for both. Senate seat for Delaware that a pro-LGBT Demo- Incumbent Democrat U.S.
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