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BOOK REVIEW Sex Variant Let’s Woman: The Life of Jeannette Talk Howard Foster REVIEW by Marie J. Kuda

Latina/o In the mid-1970s, I had the privilege of pub- lishing a slim volume of poetry by two of our Pride About Chicago foremothers, Jeannette Howard Foster page 9 (1895-1981) and Valerie Taylor (1913-1997). Taylor was a novelist whose books (known in the trade as lesbian pulps) had sold millions of cop- ‘Sex’ ies in the 1960s. Dr. Foster—a scholar, librarian and educator—could claim only one book. The culmination of 30 years of research, Sex Variant Women in Literature: a Historical and Quanti- tative Study (hereafter SVWL) when published in the mid-1950s sold less than half the initial printing of 3,500 copies. By the early 1990s, mainstream presses were no longer able to ignore the audience (academic and non) for gay and lesbian books and were publishing them a rapid rate. I was one of two Matthew lay activists invited to be on the advisory board for what would become an award-winning refer- Goode page 15 ence book, Gay & Lesbian Literature (St. James Press, 1994). A panel of 20 editors had assem- bled a list of hundreds of potential candidates for inclusion, authors whose contributions fig- ured prominently in the field since 1900, and asked the Advisors to rank or eliminate them winnowing the field down to two hundred. Dr. Jeannette Howard Foster, author of SVWL, a true pioneer was not on that initial list. Even after I proposed her, as a basically “one Turn to page 22

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News PEPFAR; HIV travel ban lifted 4 Census; Calif. vote to continue 4 La Pat memorial July 26 4 Radio Hall of Fame criticized 5 Movie in Boystown 5 Minority LGBTQ family forum 6 Sex workers’ conference 6 Point scholars differ 6 HRC’s ‘Summer Chic’ 7 The 2009 Ford Flex is one of the vehicles Chicago Gay History: D’Emilio 8 previewed in Windy City Times’ monthly Latina/o Pride pics 9 auto section. Read more on page 16. Quotelines 9 View: Monroe; letters 10 Photo courtesy of Ford ENTERTAINMENT Steppenwolf’s Tina Landau 11 Measure for Measure 12 Theater 12 Knight at the Movies 14 Matthew Goode interview 15 Sex Variant Woman 22 AUGUST 7 AUGUST 8 AUTOS Ford Flex 16 GM’s new course; Shad Balch 17 Top 10; Preview-BlueTech 18 Buy tickets at JAMUSA.COM • All Ticketmaster Outlets

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ROCK OUT WITH YOUR BAD SELF Chix Mix’s Party Like a Rock Star party was just that--a rock star nightspots party. n Photo by Kat Fitzgerald, MysticImagesPhotography.com 4 July 23, 2008 domestic. However, Dole’s amendment was only port that they are married will have their re- would have no fiscal impact, but it will, because PEPFAR introduced, not considered. sponse tabulated by the Census Bureau as if marrying gay couples from across the country Hopes are that the House will accept the mi- they had checked “unmarried partners.” brings money into California—both for counties reauthorized, nor changes by the Senate. President George W. Same-sex marriage is legal in California and and for businesses that cater to visitors. Bush has pushed for the legislation, which is Massachusetts. In addition, New Yorkers who While the court rejected removing the ini- Senate lifts likely to be one of the few positive legacies of marry in those states or abroad are recognized tiative from the ballot, it is possible the court his tenure in the White House. as married in New York state. would give renewed consideration to the groups’ HIV travel ban The Mercury News said the Census Bureau’s arguments should voters actually approve the By Bob Roehr Senate repeals HIV travel ban decision was based on the federal Defense of amendment. Senators John Kerry, D-Mass., and Gordon Marriage Act (DOMA) “and other mandates.” Polling suggests Californians do not support The United States international AIDS effort— Smith, R-Ore., led the effort to drop U.S. travel DOMA, signed into law by President Bill Clin- writing marriage discrimination into the state the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and immigration restrictions on persons who are ton in 1996, states, in part: “In determining the constitution, though that’s no guarantee they (PEPFAR)—has been renewed for another five HIV-positive that had been in place for decades. meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, won’t do so in the privacy of the voting booth. years. The Foreign Relations Committee agreed to that, regulation, or interpretation of the various ad- —Assistance: Bill Kelley Conservatives in the Senate used legisla- but Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., vowed to reinstate the ministrative bureaus and agencies of the United Read world news online at www. tive tactics to try to scale back spending and provisions. States, the word ‘marriage’ means only a legal WindyCityMediaGroup.com. re-impose greater ideological constrictions on The Congressional Budget Office had said that union between one man and one woman as hus- how the money might be spent. Some of those lifting the restrictions could cost the United band and wife, and the word ‘spouse’ refers only restrictions had been eased during reauthoriza- States an estimated $83 million in additional to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband La Pat memorial tion. Minor accommodations were made to the medical costs over the next ten years. A com- or a wife.” conservatives but they largely failed in a series promise increased the visa application fee by $1 Gary Gates of the Williams Institute, a think July 26 of votes over July 15-16. and the immigration application fee by $2 to tank at the University of California Los Angeles A public memorial will be held for Chica- The PEPFAR budget will more than triple to cover anticipated increased medical costs for a law school, told the newspaper that the bureau’s goan Joseph F. La Pat Sat., July 26, 12-3 p.m. $50 billion over the life of the program. Another variety of illnesses. And Sessions was placated decision “goes against everything the census at Misericordia Heart of Mercy, 6300 N. Ridge, major provision is lifting travel and immigration with a substitute amendment. stands for.” Chicago. restrictions on persons who are HIV-positive. Gay pundit Andrew Sullivan had been among “It’s a systematic hiding not only of married La Pat died on Pride Sunday, June 29, in the HIV will now be treated like every other infec- those pushing for the revision. He was ecstatic gay couples, but gay couples as families, which early morning hours. The cause of death was tious disease. with passage. “For those of us who have long I would argue is a fundamentally political deci- heart failure. The procedural logjam began to break up July dreamed of becoming Americans, and have been sion,” Gates said. La Pat and his life partner of 39 years, Dick 11 when the Senate voted 65-3 to close de- prevented by the 1993 law from even being able Uyvari, ran AREMCO, a property rental com- bate and vote on PEPFAR the following week. to enter or leave the U.S. without waivers or fear Attempt to block Calif. pany, for more than three decades. They have Conservative opponent Jim DeMint, R-S.C., had of humiliation, this is a massive burden lifted. vote on marriage fails been key contributors to numerous environ- angered colleagues by demanding the recorded “I’m not exaggerating when I say that it’s one mental and GLBT organizations, including Gay The California Supreme Court denied a petition vote late on a Friday afternoon, and then didn’t of the happiest days of my whole life … the Games VII and the Center on Halsted. July 16 to remove from the November ballot the even bother to stick around to vote. lifting of this threat—the sense that I now have In lieu of flowers, donations can be made voter initiative to amend the state constitution The key first vote July 15 was on an amend- a home I know will be secure for me and my to Center on Halsted. to re-ban same-sex marriage. ment by DeMint that sought to limit PEPFAR to husband—is indescribable.” Full details can be found in the July 2 Lawyers for Equality California, the National the 15 low-income countries that are the focus Michael Saag, vice chair of the HIV Medical Windy City Times, at www.windycitymedia- Center for Lesbian Rights, Lambda Legal, and of current operations. The Senate tabled it by Association, said “It is gratifying to know that group.com. a vote of 70-24. All Democrats supported the my HIV-positive colleagues from other countries the American Civil Liberties Union had argued motion and were joined by about half the Re- will finally be allowed to come to the United that the proposed amendment, if passed, would publicans. Barack Obama and John McCain did States to share their expertise.” actually amount to a “revision” of the constitu- not vote. “We applaud the Senate for rejecting this tion. An amendment by Jim Bunning, R-Ky., would unjust and sweeping policy that deems HIV- While the California Constitution can be have limited spending to $15 billion, the same positive individuals inadmissible to the United amended via a ballot initiative, it cannot be amount as the current program. It was resound- States,” said Joe Solmonese, president of the “revised.” A revision of the document requires ingly defeated, 16-80. Another amendment, to Human Rights Campaign. It played a leading role a proposal by the Legislature or by a constitu- reduce overall spending to $35 billion, went in lobbying repeal of the provision. tional convention, followed by popular ratifica- down 31-64. The final bill passed the Senate 80- tion. 16. The groups also argued that the initiative The legislation carries the names of Henry NATIONAL NEWS should be stricken from the ballot because peo- Hyde and Tom Lantos, the late Republican and By REX WOCKNER ple who signed petitions to put it there were Democratic leaders in the House who had cham- not given accurate information on the proposed pioned a bipartisan U.S. international AIDS ef- Census won’t count amendment’s impact. fort. Perhaps the most minor but also the most married gays Those petitions claimed the amendment would offensive amendment was to add the name of not change California law on marriage—which The U.S. government will not count married the recently departed Jesse Helms to the legisla- was true when the petitions were being circu- gay couples in the 2010 census, the San Jose tion, offered by Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C. lated but is false now that same-sex marriage is Mercury News reported July 12. Joe La Pat. Helms had been the most intransient oppo- legal. Instead, same-sex couples who accurately re- nent of funding for AIDS programs, foreign and The petitions also claimed the amendment

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terrupts his business, Brandt said, “We did close Howard Brown Health Center recently an- HOF induction Crews for Last Stop Films have been filming in By AMY WOOTEN the first night they filmed, by choice, because nounced that it will close the Brown Elephant Boystown for their newest flick, whose working we all wanted to be extras in the movie.” Since Resale Shop in Wicker Park, 1459 N. Milwaukee, title is Last Stop. According to a press release, The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation then, Pie Hole remains open during the shoots. effective July 27. the movie “tells the story of the girl who want- (GLAAD), a national media watchdog group, has “We haven’t lost any money,” Brandt said. In a statement, Donald Rolfe, Brown El- ed the boy who slept with boys who was loved expressed its disappointment that internation- “The exposure really helps us, and the crew has ephant’s director of development, said, “We’re by a boy who hated the girl because the boy ally syndicated “Focus on the Family” radio pro- been cool.” disappointed that the Wicker Park store did not she wanted really wanted him too. … In other gram, founded by Focus on the Family ministry In addition to Pie Hole, producers at Last Stop perform to the standards of our three other loca- words, a typical Saturday night on Halsted.” founder James Dobson, has been voted into Chi- Films use scenes from Center on Halsted and tions. Though we had a loyal customer base and Filming is scheduled throughout July. cago’s National Radio Hall of Fame. Sidetrack, as well as shots of various building a dedicated staff in place, each Brown Elephant Although the producers have not explicitly re- The anti-gay conservative’s program was façades. They are also featuring local musicians must also have a strong influx of donations. Un- vealed plot details to him, Doug Brandt—owner nominated by the National Radio Hall of Fame on the soundtrack. fortunately, that component did not materialize of Pie Hole Pizza Joint, 737 W. Roscoe—knows & Museum Steering Committee for the national “We really liked Chicago because of its urban for us in Wicker Park.” that characters converge in scenes filmed at his category. The steering committee includes ra- but still completely Midwestern character,” said Three other Brown Elephant Shops, located at restaurant. Brandt said that he jumped at the dio executives, academics, trade journalists and director Andrew Rodriguez in the statement. “It 3651 N. Halsted and 5401 N. Clark in Chicago, opportunity to participate when the filmmakers others appointed by the president of the Muse- will help make some of the events seem all the and 217 Harrison in Oak Park, will remain open. approached local business owners. um of Broadcast Communications (MBC), which more over-the-top. For more information about Howard Brown, “They were dead-set on taking advantage of is located in Chicago and home to the National “We love filming in this neighborhood,” said please visit www.howardbrown.org. Chicago,” Brandt said. “They wanted to use ac- Radio Hall of Fame. According to Bruce DuMont, J.D. Stimson, Jr., the movie’s writer and direc- tual locations and feature real businesses. They president of the MBC, the general public can also tor, in the press release. “The bar patrons at 2 want to showcase Boystown for what it’s really recommend nominees. The public was allowed to a.m. are like deer in headlights when they see like.” vote for the 2008 National Radio Hall of Fame all the equipment, so we manage around that. Brandt maintains a MySpace page for Pie Hole for free online. This was the first year voting was But the residents of the neighborhood have (www.myspace.com/pieholepizza), and recently free and completely open to the public. been extremely accommodating and helpful.” posted an invitation for extras to help in a club The Focus on the Family ministry, which is headquartered in Colorado, was founded by Dob- son in the mid-1970s. His internationally syndi- cated radio program, also called “Focus on the Family,” began in 1978. Over the years, Dobson has made numerous anti-gay statements. Most recently, he attacked California’s gay-marriage decision, claiming same-sex marriage will destroy the world. Dob- son also founded an “ex-gay” ministry called Love Won Out. DuMont told Windy City Times that when it Desi nin interiors is my passion. comes to nominations, “There is no discussion Creating spaces that are beautiful and functional. of politics.” According to DuMont, a nominee’s Homes, offices, restaurants, hotels. political stance is not considered. Instead, basic Bringing dreams to life through design. criteria must be filled, such as how long a pro- gram has been on the air, geographic location, etc., depending on the category. Nominees can be inducted in one of four categories. He added that in terms of how long “Focus on the Family” has been on the air, Dobson has a “remarkable record.” “Obviously, what he says is not germane to the discussion,” DuMont added. DuMont also said that even though the pub- lic was made aware of the nominees in May, it wasn’t until around July 10, a few days before the deadline to vote, that he started receiving e-mail objections to “Focus on the Family.” DuMont called it “unfortunate” that the mu- seum has been attacked because of the induc- tion, especially because the process is open to the public. In a statement, GLAAD president Neil Giuliano said, “For 20 years James Dobson has used his expansive, well funded media platform to per- petuate false and misleading information which contribute to putting gay and lesbian families in harm’s way. GLAAD urges the media to scrutinize and shed light on Dobson’s record of inaccurate claims about lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans- gender people and include an in-depth analysis of his distorted and defamatory statements.” Controversial anti-gay radio personality Dr. Laura Schlessinger was also nominated, but was not chosen as an inductee. A ceremonial award dinner will take place in Chicago Sat., Nov. 8. At least one gay-rights group is planning to protest the event. Truth Wins Out (TWO) announced that it will protest the annual awards dinner “to inform the world of Dobson’s shameful and bigoted record.” “It is an affront for the Radio Hall of Fame to honor James Dobson, a right wing demagogue, How do I take my vision and make it my reality? The Interior Design Program at Harrington College who built his radio empire on the back of gay of Design. I study alongside people who love interiors as much as I do, and I can learn from and lesbian people,” said TWO Executive Director accomplished professionals at a vibrant campus in the heart of the Loop. After all, I already love Wayne Besen in a recently released statement. design. Now I’m learning to live design TWO had initiated a protest and petition drive effort before national voting for the Radio Hall 200 W. Madison Street . Chicago, IL 60606 . www.harringtoncollege.com . 1.866.580.4423 of Fame was over. * Not a student testimonial. 6 July 23, 2008 Tara, a female-identified trans sex worker, others didn’t see clear distinctions between the spoke about the issues facing queer and trans street economy and sex work. Sienna Baskin, an people. “Out in the ‘real world,’ a ‘freaky’ trans attorney who works with sex workers, said that From left: Anna person like me won’t be hired by most employ- there wasn’t a distinction as much as a “con- Nieves, Nilsa ers … because I look like a man [even] though tinuum” between the two kinds of work. Irizarry and I’m legally a woman.” But Tara also emphasized Liz and Tara emphasized that SWOP advocates Lisbeth Melendéz that while many transgender sex workers did sex for the human rights of sex workers and that Rivera, attendees work because of a lack of employment options, “sex work is work, and we deserve labor rights.” at the July 20 that doesn’t mean they should be pathologised: Both see the need for health care and worker’s family workshop. “Because it’s their only option doesn’t mean it’s compensation. and are concerned with what Photo by a bad option.” they see as the unfairness of laws that target Yasmin Nair Liz, a lesbian sex worker understood the dis- sex workers. Attendees saw the conference as a tinction between street work and sex since she’d way to network and build solidarity among sex spent her youth working in the street economy: workers and allies. “Street work is harsh, violent, and dangerous— the goal should be harm reduction.” But she and personal example that highlighted the issue of Minority workshop how such families might be perceived in public. Rivera and her partner have a son who is blonde “One of the focuses on and blue-eyed. On one occasion, while mildly things I see as a arguing with her son in public, they watched as Caroline Cox- very powerful tool LGBTQ families Orrell and Kevin of social justice is By Yasmin Nair two white gay men came up to him and asked if his “nannies” were treating him badly. For Wil- Ferenchak. empowering com- munities to make LGBTQ families are frequently non-normative, liam Hall and Kevin Tindell, two Black men rais- ing children of color, parenting includes show- change,” Cox- and not just because they’re headed by queer Orrell said. “Point people. Queer families may consist of single ing their children how to negotiate racism rather than insulating them from it. provides me with women raising children with sperm donors who the ability to be maintains links with their offspring. Two men According to Rivera, the aim of such work- shops is “to collect a variety of stories. How do an activist and a might raise children together even after break- college student.” ing up. we come to be families? What role does race, Point scholars class, and location play in creating family re- Kevin Ferenchak, on the other hand, grew up All this becomes more complicated when race in a devoutly religious, conservative household and/or ethnicity enters the picture. How does lationships? Is marriage the only thing that we come from consider to be family?” She said that many queer that saw homosexuality as an unforgivable the media respond to such unlikely configura- different sin. Growing up, Ferenchak said the only gay tions and what can—and should—LGBTQ fami- parents are also single parents, and that they are legitimate families deserving of protection. people he knew about were the ones that died lies do to effect the representations of their motivations of AIDS. families? During the workshop, C.C. Carter spoke of rais- By John Lendman ing a son with an ex-partner and her current At the age of 12, Ferenchak was a victim of a Lisbeth Meléndez Rivera is the manager of Proj- traumatizing homophobic attack that left him ect Harmony, an offshoot of the Family Equality partner and of the conversations she needed to Each year, the Point Foundation awards a se- have with day care providers to explain a situ- hospitalized for a week. Council, which advocates for the rights and vis- lect few of LGBT students across the country “What that reinforced, at that point of my ibility of LGBTQ “parents, guardians, and allies.” ation that should be seen as “normal.” For par- with scholarships in recognition of their aca- ticipants, the workshop provided a forum to air life, was that being gay was not an option,” Rivera conducted a Center on Halsted-sponsored demic merit, financial need, leadership skills He said. “Fortunately for the years that had daylong workshop July 20 that coincided with their thoughts about living as LGBTQ parents. and community involvement. It also appeared to give them much to think followed … I had a lot of help from really good Latina/o Pride week. Project Harmony advocates Point, which prides itself in investing their friends.” for families of color. about. Sharon, who is white, said she tended to resources in the future generations of social be overprotective about her twins as the chil- At the age of 17, Ferenchak left home to live The workshop drew attendees who ranged in justice leaders, announced its 2008 scholar with a family he babysat for in Orange Coun- age, race, ethnicity and relational status. Partic- dren of gay parents facing questions about their class last month, with two of the 27 students family. But, after listening to William and Kevin, ty, Calif. He said he was able to finish grade ipants divided into groups and answered ques- attending schools in Chicago. school early and take the SATs and ACTs in ad- tions like, “What’s the greatest bond a family she decided that it was time to let them negoti- Caroline Cox-Orrell and Kevin Ferenchak, in- ate such issues more independently. vance, before applying for Loyola University of has?” fluenced by their life experiences, both serve Chicago, where he is currently attending with Responses indicated that LGBTQ people’s rela- in leadership positions within LGBT organiza- a Presidential Scholarship. tionship to the concept of “family” can be com- Sex workers hold tions in their schools and local communities. Ferenchak, 20, is currently a HIV/STD test plicated. For instance, in response to the ques- What makes Cox-Orrell and Ferenchak’s motiva- counselor at the Howard Brown Broadway tion of “the greatest bond,” one woman said local conference tions unique, however, are their polar-opposite Youth Center and takes part in their mentor that her “family of choice” (partner and friends) By Yasmin Nair upbringings. program. At Loyola, he takes on active leader- was more meaningful than her biological fami- Before 19-year-old Cox-Orrell co-founded the ship roles in the university’s GLBT Week, Hate ly—which had expelled her after she came out. Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP), a national Gay Straight Alliance Youth Networking Series Crime Awareness Month and Day of Silence. It became clear that LGBTQ families of color group that works on the decriminalization of in Boston, before she served on the Boston He has also helped co-found a free ACT prep can face particular challenges. Rivera gave a prostitution, held its third annual conference in Board of Directors for the Gay, Lesbian and course for an inner-city high school, taught by Chicago. Members attended panels on topics like Straight Education Network or volunteered her fellow Loyola students. GILBERT& B sex trafficking and the issues facing transgender time at Children of Lesbians and Gays Every- “What has committed me to social justice sex workers. where lobbing with queer rights organizations,

RACE YOURSELF has been my own experiences with [a lack of] One of the local groups that participated was she wrote an article for Time magazine. social justice,” Ferenchak said. “I feel like my Young Women’s Empowerment Project (YWEP), At the young age of 16, Cox-Orrell wrote that biggest motivation is my own personal experi- which works with many, but not exclusively, although she was growing up in a socially pro- ences.” queer youth in the sex trade. Cindy Ibarra, YWEP gressive Boston suburb, with a lesbian-parent- Ferenchak, who suffered from a collapsed communications coordinator, spoke of their ed family of activists, she felt confined to a lung at 17, said he has relied heavily on emer- “interactive discussion” with adult sex workers lower social standing and hurt by conservative gency care over the years, inspiring him to about how best to be allies with youth. leaders that felt so strongly against gay mar- enter the medical field. While majoring in biol- Ibarra pointed out that the world of sex work- riage rights. ogy with minors in bioethics and anthropology, ers was often different from that of youth in the She said, growing up, she felt an extraordi- Ferenchak hopes to keep volunteering at How- G street economy; the former tend to come from nary amount of pressure to have good grades, ard Brown, in the future, as a practicing MD.

EOR “the middle class sector of people.” Ibarra also be emotionally well-adjusted and not have any “I am very lucky to be alive; in life I have said she was pleased with the turnout at the sort of problems that might be associated with been given a second and third chance,” Fer- panel—approximately 50 people attended—and having queer parents. enchak said. “I think it’s great to be able that attendees were receptive to YWEP. “Understanding marginalization and exclu- to give back to the people that have helped Other attendees spoke about class and privi- sion happening [even] in a socially progressive © Gilbert & George. & Gilbert © you.” G lege, and said that sex workers can find them- bubble really motivated me to make a differ- While offering students financial support n, Miami. Miami. n, selves living in contradictions. While many make ence for kids with queer families,” Cox-Orrell E with an average award of $13,200, Point has a comfortable living, they’re also extremely stig- said. “As I started becoming involved in so- offered leadership training and mentoring to matized and prone to sexual assault and police cial activism and social justice on behalf of my its current 130 scholars in their respective field harassment. Violetta said that the conference own family I really became more aware of the THROUGH SEPT 1 of study since its foundation in 2001. had shown her the range of sex workers, not all marginalization and oppression of all different “I’m so excited to be a part of the Point MILWAUKEE Collectio Family Rubell The (detail).  , of whom enter into it as a matter of choice. For groups of people.” Foundation family,” Cox-Orrell said. “It’s an

ART MUSEUM Apostasia Karly Kirchner, SWOP highlights “how the crimi- Cox-Orrell, who has been actively involved opportunity to be a part of a really dynamic, Sponsored by nal system preys on the most vulnerable.” Her in GSA (gay-straight alliance) networks since powerful and supportive community of schol- concern is that “if people don’t [pay] attention high school, hopes to pursue a degree that in- ars, students and trustees.” Donald and Donna Baumgartner, Suzanne L. Selig, to the people at this conference and this or- tersects her interest with healthcare and medi- Lynde B. Uihlein, Lehmann Maupin Gallery (New York), and Sonnabend Gallery (New York) ganization, we’re going to continue to see the cine as well as social justice at the University A Tate Modern, London exhibition in association with the Milwaukee Art Museum mam.org targeting of the most vulnerable among us.” of Chicago. July 23, 2008 7 HRC’s steamy ‘Summer’ affair Photos by Kat Fitzgerald

By John Lendman Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., addressed the attend- donated by the Chicago Blackhawks to a lunch “We are not talking about special rights or ees in a video message, calling for support in date with Illinois State Treasurer Alexi Gian- excessive rights. We are talking about human The Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC’s) annual electing Sen. Barack Obama this November and noulias (valued at $500), to name a few. rights,” Lynch said. “We have come so far and “Summer Chic” fundraising gala was held Sat., in passing the Mathew Shepard Hate Crimes Pro- HRC also awarded this year’s Chicago-based the tide is turning in this country.” July 19, at the Grand Ballroom of the Hyatt Re- tections Act as well as the Employment Nondis- contributors to GLBT rights with Jenner & Block About 20 protesters came out to the gala as gency, 151 E. Wacker. More than 580 supporters crimination Act. receiving the Corporate Equality Award, Test well, saying transgender rights weren’t being filled nearly every seat. HRC Political Committee Chair Jason Held Positive Aware Network (TPAN) receiving the addressed as intensely by the HRC. They held Amid the political endorsements and call for addressed the crowd about the importance of Community Equality Award and Jared Fox receiv- picket signs outside the East Wacker entrance, HRC supporters to be more politically active this electing Sen. Obama—who recently received ing the GLBT College Student Award to standing saying, “Equality includes ‘T’” and “put equal election year, HRC Managing Director Susanne HRC’s endorsement—and in passing the Illinois’ ovations. rights ahead of petty politics.” Salkind reminded the crowd of all the accom- civil-union bill, currently awaiting passage in Las Vegas-based Zumanity, billed as the “sen- HRC Director of Communications Brad Luna plishments the organization has helped spear- the state legislature. “HRC is working tirelessly sual side of Cirque du Soleil,” provided the said there have been several protests concerning head in the political forum, such as the HRC- to fight fear and hate-mongering at the political night’s entertainment with a steamy dance per- transgendered rights across the nation at HRC sponsored gay rights Democratic presidential state and federal level by helping to elect fair- formance before actress, activist and comedian events but officials make it a point to speak debate held earlier this year. minded people and supporting legislation that Jane Lynch—a Chicago native—gave the clos- with them at the picket lines, to see how they “We are at a moment in history when educa- benefits us all,” he said. ing keynote speech. She said this year was espe- can address their concerns. See more photos tion, policy, practical politics and the possibility The silent auction offered a wide variety of cially exciting because of the rise of gay rights at www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com and www. of real change all align,” Salkind said. items to bid on, from autographed hockey pucks and gay culture, socially and politically. MysticImagesPhotography.com.

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tive, because society does bad things to queers. young woman’s introduction to lesbian love. CHICAGO GAY HISTORY Tell no one, she warns, or else jobs will be lost If the truth be told, I read these two novels and lives ruined. Edith herself had had an af- less because of a fascination with the pulp genre (it’s the covers that grab me), and more because BY JOHN D’EMILIO fair with a teacher when she was in high school, told a friend, and the result was expulsion from I started to become fascinated by Valerie Tay- school and suicide for the teacher. lor. She’s an extraordinarily interesting figure, a Meanwhile (there are always meanwhiles in woman who deserves a biographer. But more on these novels), Mary Jean has gotten pregnant, Taylor next time. and Joyce helps her procure an abortion from a Copyright 2008 John D’Emilio kindly old doctor in town. But then Mary Jean gets pregnant again, and this time commits under the pseudonym “Miriam Gardner”), Paula suicide. Joyce breaks up with Edith, and is res- BEHIV receives Pulp madness Christian and March Hastings were able to ma- cued from a life of both lesbianism and mean education grant heterosexual men by John, the nephew of the nipulate the genre and win the loyalty of lesbian Local HIV/AIDS organization Better Exis- abortionist, who is a Korean war vet, intends to Of all the topics I cover in my gay-studies readers. tence with HIV (BEHIV) received a $50,000 become a doctor, knows psychology, is under- classes, a candidate for favorite is the lesbian Leaving behind sensationalism and refusing Illinois State Board of Education grant that standing of Joyce’s lesbian interlude, and prom- pulp novel. In the 1950s and 1960s, publish- to pander to male sensibilities, they worked to will fund school HIV prevention presenta- ises not to have sex with Joyce until she wants ers released them by the hundreds. The name create believable scenarios populated by char- tions. stems from the low-grade paper stock on which acters that a female reader might identify with. to. Presumably they live happily ever after. State Sen. Heather Steans supported the they were printed, but “pulp” came to symbol- Sometimes, the publisher cooperated. A novel Okay, I know this plot summary is not making grant, which will help BEHIV reach more area ize something else as well: the cheap and taw- by March Hastings, published in 1960, had the you rush to your computer to buy a used copy students through its age-appropriate presen- dry. Pulp novels carried the scent of shame and title “The Unashamed,” revealing a bit of pride online. And lesbians at the time were probably tations. During Fiscal Year 2008, the organi- scandal. On one hand, they were very visible in and self-respect. The cover illustration showed not too thrilled at the plot’s final destination ei- zation reached an estimated 12,000 students this era of the closet. You could find them at two women in a pose and with facial expressions ther. But, really, it’s a pretty absorbing read, and in Chicago and the suburbs through its Edu- drugstores and newsstands across the country. that suggested tenderness and love. I was struck by the implied feminism of much of On the other hand, you wouldn’t want to be seen Still, lesbian authors couldn’t entirely abandon the plot. Girls on the edge of womanhood in the cation Outreach program. reading one. the formulaic plots, especially in the more re- 1950s had it hard. Life could be treacherous. See www.behiv.org. Part of what attracts me to the pulp novel is pressive 1950s. They worked within constraints Men were not women’s best friends. that it lets students see that things aren’t just and, as a reader today will quickly discover, Taylor’s next novel was The Girls in 3-B. It GLAAD visits one thing or the other, good or bad, anti-gay or these are not tales of a lesbian-feminist utopia. tells the story of Annice, Pat and Barby, three pro-gay. Instead, the past—like the present—is One of the most important of these lesbian high school graduates from downstate Illinois, Chicago complicated and contradictory. We spend time writers of pulp fiction was Valerie Taylor, who as they come to Chicago together to make their Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation looking at a Power Point presentation of lots of lived here in Chicago for more than two decades way in the world. Even more than Whisper Their (GLAAD), a national media watchdog group, these paperback covers. The titles seem to say it and, in the 1960s and 1970s, was quite an “out Love, this book charts the path of young white will hold a local event for those interested all: By Love Depraved; Degraded Women; Forbid- and proud” activist. Taylor wrote almost a dozen women in the 1950s; one could easily assign it in learning more about GLAAD’s latest work den; The Damned One; Satan’s Daughter; The Evil novels in the course of her career. Two of them, in a women’s history or social history course. around the United States. Friendship. “Strange” is used as a modifier for published in the 1950s, are very revealing of Annice, an aspiring poet, hooks up with a heart- The event, which also features hosted cock- every possible noun: Strange Passions, Strange both the limits and the possibilities of the pulp less young beatnik who gets her pregnant and tails, entertainment and hors d’oeuvres, will Seduction, Strange Lust, Strange Thirsts. Copy- genre. abandons her; Pat has an unrequited crush on be held Thurs., July 24, 6-9 p.m., at Blue Wa- writers seemed to work from a very abridged dic- Whisper Their Love, Taylor’s first novel with les- her handsome boss, who takes women to bed ter Grill, 520 N. Dearborn. tionary. Warped, tormented, unnatural, twisted: bian content, was published in 1957. It tells the and then moves on; Barby, who was raped at Tickets are $40-$125. Get tickets at the the words all make the same point. Lesbian is story of Joyce, a working-class girl from small- age 13 by the banker in her small town, is forced Chicago event page at www.glaad.org. bad, bad, bad. town Illinois who has just arrived at a college into bed by the superintendent of their Hyde Of course, these novels weren’t primarily meant for white women in North Carolina. Family dys- Park apartment building. for lesbians. The intended buyers were all those function trails her: Joyce was illegitimate, never But all turns out well for each of them. An- Hall of Fame so-called “one-handed” readers—heterosexual knew her father, and was raised by a puritanical nice is rescued by a nice young man who will nominations men turned on by the thought of lesbians mak- aunt while her mother, Mimi, was a traveling marry her despite the pregnancy. Pat is courted ing love. Their numbers were large enough to sales woman. At college, her roommate Mary by a Polish Catholic office boy, who respects extended propel skyward the sales figures for many pulps. Jean, who goes all the way with a boyfriend, her when she says no and takes her to Sunday The nomination deadline for Chicago’s Gay Indeed, lots of these books were written by het- sets Joyce up on a date, but Joyce rebuffs the mass with his parents. And Barby meets Ilene, and Lesbian hall of Fame has been exteded to erosexual men who knew that the readers were young man’s aggressive advances. On a visit to a supervisor at work who has recently broken Aug. 12. likely to be other heterosexual men. Chicago to attend Mimi’s wedding to her boss, up with her female lover of several years. Barby Nomination forms are available at www.gl- So what’s to study here? Isn’t the lesbian pulp Joyce loses her virginity to her mother’s fiancé doesn’t know what a lesbian is, but she knows halloffame.org or by calling 312-744-7911. craze just another example of how the 1950s the night before the wedding. Traumatized, she she’s attracted to Ilene and curious about her. Mail nomination forms to: The Chicago Gay were the worst time to be queer? Well, not en- returns to school where the dean, Edith Bannis- Their courtship starts with lunch dates and and Lesbian Hall of Fame, Chicago Commis- tirely. The pulp genre also opened an opportu- ter, comforts her ... and takes her to bed. moves on to an affair that is sweet and tender sion on Human Relations, Advisory Council on nity for lesbian writers. Pulp publishing was like Edith is a lesbian. She has a circle of lesbian and without emotional upheaval, and the reader LGBT Issues, 740 N. Sedgwick, Floor 3, Chi- a small crack in the wall of oppression, and some and gay friends in town, takes Joyce to parties knows that Barby has found a relationship that cago, Ill. 60654-3478 lesbians found a way to slip through. Writers like and clubs, and introduces her to the grim reali- will be good for her. It’s hard to imagine that Ann Bannon, Marion Zimmer Bradley (writing ties of gay life at the time. Secrecy is impera- there were many such portraits in the 1950s of a iLœÀ> Ê
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Chip Jones 2-375x4-5 Ad.indd 1 3/27/2008 1:19:55 PM July 23, 2008 9 QUOTELINES Q BY REX WOCKNER “No, not at all. As a matter of fact, “I had a backlash from gay fans for a I think the Supreme Court made a decision tiny period. Because they didn’t understand there. It was apparently unconstitutional to where I was coming from. Now they recognise stop anyone from getting married. It’s like that my beliefs are my beliefs and that I have 1948, the interracial marriage, when the Su- no opinions separate from the Bible. There are preme Court of California has, you know, de- areas that we agree to disagree on. It’s as sim- cided it was unconstitutional and then later ple as that. I don’t have a problem with them on the Supreme Court of the United States fol- having their beliefs, because my feeling is that lowed, I think 10 or 12 years later. So I think God gives each and every one of us the right to it is, it’s good that California lead —is leading not even believe in him. So who am I to try to in this way. I personally believe that marriage take that away from somebody? I will always should be between a man and a woman. But try to share my faith with any person who is at the same time I think that my, you know, willing to listen. When I feel a wall go up, we belief, I don’t want to force on anyone else, can talk about something else ... and I will so I think we should stay with the decision pray for you.” — ’70s disco diva Gloria Gaynor of the Supreme Court and move forward. There to London’s The Guardian, May 20. are so many other more important issues that we have to address in Califor- nia. So I think to spend any time on this initiative I really didn’t GLAAD photo I think is a waste of time.” — California Gov. Arnold have a Schwarzenegger on TV’s career until Meet The Press on June 29 I was out. when asked if he supports —Actor the Nov. 4 ballot initiative Alec Mapa to amend the state consti- Rain can’t dampen Latina/o Pride tution to re-ban same-sex A steady downpour threatened to cancel the third annual Latina/o Pride, held July 20 in marriage. Humboldt Park. But the clouds eventually cleared, and revelers gathered around their grills and, later, a performance stage to celebrate “our queer, gender-bending, ethnic culture,” ac- “(John McCain) indicated that he cording to Nicole Perez, one of the organizers. Perez said that this year marked a “conscious would take seriously their requests that “You can be the most intelligent, well- decision to move it to a Latino neighborhood.” It also marked a community-building col- he choose an anti-abortion running mate and read human being but when it comes to mat- laboration: The event was co-hosted with Chicago Black Gay Pride. Photos and text by Yasmin would talk more openly about his opposition ters of the heart—or the loins—we all become Nair to gay marriage—a pledge he carried out later idiots.” — Boy George to Britain’s The Observer, in the day by endorsing a ballot measure in July 6. California to ban gay marriage.” — The Los Angeles Times, reporting on a June 26 meeting “I always worried what being out in Ohio between Republican presidential candi- would do to my career. But the truth is date John McCain and “several influential social I really didn’t have a career until I was out— conservatives who have been critical of him.” because I think it was the first authentic thing I had to offer.” — Actor Alec Mapa—who “ “I will transfer. I am not going to plays Gabrielle’s gay best friend Vern on Desper- TERRIFIC! ONE OF THE compromise my beliefs or standards for any- ate Housewives, and plays Suzuki St. Pierre, the . one, not even the Supreme Court of California. host of Fashion Buzz, on Ugly Betty— to San SUMMER’S BEST MOVIES ... I do respect the rights of other citizens who Diego’s Gay & Lesbian Times, June 26. Emma Thompson gives the most arresting are now asserting same-sex marriages but I performance of her career.” also need to assert my right to religious free- “The anti-gays need to be kept in se- –Karen Durbin, dom. ... I also want to clarify that my refusal cure areas [at the pride parade]. By allow- to perform this ceremonies is based only on ing them to walk free this year, they provoked my personal morals and beliefs, and it doesn’t some gays and that resulted in arrests by the come from intolerance.” — Excerpts from e- police. Tell me this: Would a white man car- mails sent by San Diego county clerk employees rying a noose be allowed to march along the deputized to perform marriages, when County sidelines of the [black] Bud Billiken Parade? Clerk Greg Smith gave them the chance to opt For their own protection and out of respect out of performing same-sex marriages. The for the parade, the anti-gays with huge and heavily redacted e-mails were published July 9 hateful signs should have their area to protest, by The San Diego Union-Tribune, which used the surrounded by police. This really could have California Public Records Act to obtain them. escalated in violence and death.” — Windy Twenty-four of the clerk’s 112 deputized em- City Times Publisher Tracy Baim in a July 9 ployees raised objections, but 18 later backed opinion column. down after learning they would be transferred PrivILEGE. AMBITION. elsewhere within the county government bu- “Mark and I are going to get married DESIRE. reaucracy. in California very soon. Then we’re going to be recognized in New York as legally mar- “I thought innocent until proven ried. ... Like in Massachusetts, Californians will AT BRIDESHEAD guilty also applied in U.S. law. It seems realize that gay people getting married is not EVERYTHING sad when, as everybody who has had a drug a problem for anyone, and then the rest of the COMES AT aPRICE. problem knows, it takes supreme effort to get country is going to fall in line.” — Angels in where I am today. I was really looking forward America author Tony Kushner as quoted by New to doing my first live tour for a decade, and to York magazine, June 22.

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VOL. 23, No. 45, July 23, 2008 VIEWPOINTS The combined forces of Windy City Times, founded Sept. 1985, and Outlines newspaper, During an appearance on CNN’s “Larry King and those views, we find, have not altered that founded May 1987. Live” Tuesday night, Barack Obama addressed much today. Dante depicts hell as a hierarchy of REV. the firestorm. evil, consisting of nine circles. With his views of PUBLISHER & Executive EDITOR IRENE “Well, I know it was The New Yorker’s attempt Muslims as the sowers of scandal, schisms and Tracy Baim at satire. I don’t think they were entirely suc- heresy to the Christian faith, Dante places the MONROE Assistant Publisher Terri Klinsky cessful with it. ... You know, this is actually an prophet Muhammad and his disciple Ali in the MANAGING Editor Andrew Davis insult against Muslim-Americans, something eighth circle, just one above Lucifer. Today’s at- Business manager Cynthia Holmes that we don’t spend a lot of time talking about. titudes about Muslims would now place them in Director of New Media Jean Albright ART DIRECTOR Kirk Williamson And sometimes I’ve been derelict in pointing Dante’s ninth circle. account managerS: Amy Matheny, Suzanne The New Yorker that out. You know, there are wonderful Muslim- In an interview on CNN, Ayman Gheith, a Mus- Kraus, Kirk Williamson, Terry Wiegel, Kat Fitzger- Americans all across the country who are doing lim said, “I learned that injustice, regardless ald, Diane Mareci, Georg Coleman lampooning Obama wonderful things. And for this to be used as sort against whom, is wrong. It is against us today; Promotions director Kathleen Ulm of an insult, or to raise suspicions about me, I tomorrow it could be against you.” OFFICE Robb Olson insults Muslims NIGHTSPOTS MANAGING Editor Kirk Williamson think is unfortunate.” As I ask myself the question Gheith posed SENIOR NEWS REPORTER Amy Wooten And unfortunate it is because one viewer, after about who will be America’s next suspect, I am National Sales Rivendell Media, 212-242-6863 The old adage “A picture is worth a thousand hearing Obama’s remarks, still thinks he’s a Man- reminded of the pink triangle, a symbol known TheatER Editor Jonathan Abarbanel words,” is certainly true in the July 21 cover of Cinema WRITER Richard Knight, Jr. churian Muslim. to the LGBT community worldwide. The pink tri- BOOKS WRITER Yasmin Nair The New Yorker’s satirical lampooning of presi- “Finally, Obama comes out as the pro-Muslim angle dates back to the Nazi Holocaust, when dential hopeful Barack Obama, who is robed in SENIOR WRITERS Bob Roehr, Rex Wockner, David terrorist he is. I respect him for that. His pro- gay men were prisoners and confined to death Byrne, Cathy Seabaugh, Tony Peregrin Muslim garb and fist-bumping his Angela Davis Muslim stance scares me, but his honesty is re- camps because of their sexuality. Relegated to ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WRITERS Afro-wearing, machine-gun-toting wife, Michelle Mary Shen Barnidge, Jim Edminster, Steve Warren, freshing. ... He’s bringin’ Muslim back,” a blog- the lowest rung in the death camps’ hierarchy, Lawrence Ferber, Mel Ferrand, Tim Nasson, Scott Obama. And if you want to either chuckle some ger wrote on editor Christopher Frizzelle’s blog, gay prisoners were forced to wear the symbol more or gasp in fear of The New Yorker cartoon Morgan, Catey Sullivan, Eric Eatherly, J. S. Hall SLOG. that signified their rank—thus, making them Columnists/Writers: Yvonne Zipter, Susie Day, either poking fun at the question of Obama’s pa- It would be too simplistic and morally irre- among the first to die. Jorjet Harper, Lee Lynch, Steve Starr, Joe Rice, triotism or driving an unflattering point about Dan Woog, Marie-Jo Proulx, Lisa Keen, Chris Crain, sponsible to summarily justify these fears and I see the symbol of the pink triangle every day Charlsie Dewey, Michael Knipp, Karen Dixon, Tully it, then the American flag burning in the fire- acts of prejudice on the dangerous times we now on a poster on a wall beside my computer. Be- place with a picture of Osama bin Laden hanging Satre, Mark Corece live in or to place the blame on a few paranoid neath the symbol are the words of Pastor Martin PHOTOGRAPHERS Kat Fitzgerald, Mel Ferrand, above it has evoked visceral reactions. individuals, becasue we would not be examining, Niemoller. Niemoller was once an early supporter Steve Becker, Chuck Kramer “Stop whining! The magazine is doing what is at least, one of its root causes: Islamophobia. of the Nazis, but who eventually led the church’s ARTISTS/CARTOONISTS Alison Bechdel, Mikeoart does—poke fun. It’s much ado about nothing. I remembr on a national television talk show opposition to Hitler. He wrote: CIRCULATION Circulation director Jean Albright There’s no racial or ethnic slur attached,” Gladys in November 2002, Christian fundamentalist the “First they came for the socialists, and I did Jones told me. Jones a Chicagoan is an African- Distribution: Ashina, Allan, Crystal, Dan, Dan- Rev. Jerry Falwell unapologetically stating, “The not speak out because I was not a socialist. iel, Jack, John, Sue and Victor American lesbian, and not an Obama supporter. Prophet of Islam, Muhammad, was a terrorist ... Then they came for the trade unionists, and Obama supporters, however, feel differently a violent man, a man of war.” I did not speak out because I was not a trade about the controversy. While many of us can dismiss Falwell’s Islamo- unionist. “It undercuts Obama’s campaign, diminshes phobic diatribe, we cannot ignore, however, Then they came for the Jews, and I did not his chances and it exploits the fears people have centuries of polemical Christian Orientalist lit- speak out because I was not a Jew. about Obama,” said Nigel Jenkins, an African- erature that excoriates Muslims. 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did not do a substantial amount of work shop- er [or] as a director? Do you feel a part of a Tina Landau: ping. On the first night, an audience came, they gay theatrical aesthetic? laughed and leapt to their feet. They followed TL: Well, I’ve just recently in the last several Mother ‘Superior’ the story, and I just said a gigantic “phew”, years been aware of what a male gay mafia there By AMY MATHENY, WINDY CITY QUEERCAST mostly because I was just relieved that I hadn’t is in New York theater, which for some reason I ruined it. was oblivious to. Tina Landau is an award-winning writer, direc- AM: Tell me the story of Superior Donuts. AM: Do they like you? tor, teacher and Steppenwolf ensemble member. TL: It takes place in the Uptown neighborhood TL: They like me, but … professionally, it’s a Currently she directed Tracy Lett’s newest play, of Chicago. And you know, streets like Wilson, closed system. So it doesn’t matter that I’m a since his Pulitzer and Tony Award wins with Au- Sheridan [and] Broadway ... [are] the main lesbian because I’m not a gay man. So that ex- gust: Osage County. It’s called Superior Donuts streets referenced in the play. It takes place in cludes a lot of us. The thing that’s really inter- and you don’t want to miss it. the doughnut shop owned by a Polish-American, esting is that I have found my way into so many Tina Landau: I wasn’t supposed to originally Arthur, who we discover is sort of holed up in plays and experiences by my general experience direct. Amy Morton was. his own existence and doesn’t really interact of being an “outsider.” I look through most of Amy Matheny: Amy is still on Broadway, be- with the world in any proactive way. And into drama, and I find something I can tap into eas- ing a mega-star in August: Osage Country, and his shop one day comes this kid, Franco, who is ily that is about some sort of experience of iso- she was mentioned more than anyone at the played by John Hill. By the way, Arthur is played lation or segregation. I’ve been very aware of Tony Awards. by Michael McKeon. He’s really great. Tina Landau. Photo courtesy of Lucas [that] as a woman, as a lesbian, and as a Jew. It TL: I know. Wasn’t that great? AM: Audiences will remember him from Crawford definitely feeds my work, my experience of being AM: If [you] had a drinking game where Laverne and Shirley and many films (Best in in the world has greatly informed how I read and you drank every time “Amy Morton” was said, Show, Spinal Tap). snarky, dark and a little twisted. Then I saw Au- express things in the theater completely. Com- you’d be drunk by the end. TL: I had never watched Laverne and Shirley. gust, and I thought he actually has a big heart. pletely. TL: I just walk around going “Amy Morton Amy I had a very conflicted relationship with televi- What I find compelling about Tracy’s writing is, AM: All you have to bring to it is who you Morton Amy Morton.” I came on to this play very sion. I went through most of my life not watch- not only is it complex, but he has this uncanny are. late. I got a call from [Steppenwolf Artistic Di- ing it, and I’m an addict now. ability to tap into audience sensibility. He’s like TL: I just feel so blessed to have grown up in rector] Martha Lavey, and she said we’re in a Anyway, this kid comes into the shop, and a great populist master. It’s really fun to be a the time I did. I think back to when I was in col- bit of a bind. We have this play and Amy’s just wants to turn it and Arthur’s life around. It’s the part of writing that leaps off the page and into lege, and the difference between then and now. decided to stay in New York. I had other com- story really of their relationship, and Arthur’s a theater in this kind of chemical fashion. How I would only say ‘it’ then. I would say, [to] mitments. I said if I like the play, I want to do transformation. AM: It’s very rare that I get to talk to lesbi- someone I had a crush on, do you want to talk it because it’s family here. Steppenwolf doesn’t AM: Interesting that Tracy Letts with August ans ... gay women in theater. about “it?” I remember when I didn’t have the do this often where they say, “We need to ask and Bug … he likes these insular characters. TL: OK. ... I was like, what’s the end of that words. How grateful I am to have this kind of you to do something for the theater,” and I love What do you find compelling about Tracy’s sentence, because it can’t be true. interview without blinking an eye. For myself. this place so much, I would do anything for writing? AM: No, I talk to lesbians all the time, but aM: You have a new musical called Beauty this place and these people. So I read the play TL: It’s not theatrical. Tracy said he had hoped lesbians in theater. I met my girlfriend Kelli that you’re working on. What’s it about? and, fortunately, I really liked it. But it’s been a we would work together. He had always assumed in this theater [Steppenwolf]. She e-mailed TL: It’s a riff on Sleeping Beauty. … I wrote a whirlwind. I had no preparation time. Tracy was it would be as an actor, with me directing. He a friend of hers in Chicago, and said, “You play version that was done at La Jolla Playhouse going through the Pulitzer, the Tonys, and we said he never thought I would want to direct know, I met somebody while I was here in in like 2002. I’m currently working with [Grey looked at each other on the first day of rehearsal one of his plays. I said I never though you would town at Steppenwolf and I guess she’s a big Gardens lyricist] Michael Korie, and I’m giving and said, “Let’s just wing it. Let’s just see what ask me to direct one of your plays. And I really lesbian about town, and I’m staying for a you a big scoop here, but Regina Spektor is writ- happens.” And I have to say, that feeling has thought, “Can I direct a play that takes place while.” He e-mailed her back and said,” Who ing the music. I love working with her. I’m a big never quite gone away. You would think, maybe in a completely naturalistic room? Do I know did you meet? Tina Landau? Amy Matheny?” fan of her music, so I’m very excited. now with what he’s been through, we would feel how to have actors pick up props?” I do love I was … so proud that I was one of the only AM: She’s on tour with True Colors and Ms. a lot of pressure, (but) it’s really the opposite. Tracy’s writing. I have grown to be not only an two people he mentioned! Cyndi Lauper. We’re kind of just all here saying, we’re going to admirer of his, but I hope a real friend. I’m so TL: [Laughs.] Absolutely. It’s probably just be- do the best we can do with this play that is new, grateful for this opportunity, because I had an cause it was Steppenwolf. Turn to page 18 has never been seen for an audience before, we impression of Tracy. I thought he was kind of AM: Has being queer affected you as a writ- 12 July 23, 2008 mosaics of Preston Bradley Hall at the Chicago Cultural Center, and its newly restored Tiffany- CRITICS’ PICS stained glass dome, serve as the backdrop. Per- Ain’t Misbehavin’, Goodman Theatre, formances are Aug. 3, 3:30 p.m.; and Aug. 5 and through Aug. 3. The ubiquitous summer 7, 7:30 p.m. They are free, but admission is by songs of T-Pain and Lil Wayne wouldn’t last ticket only. Tickets must be obtained in person an eighth note in a musical smackdown with (limit 4 per person) at the Storefront Theater Fats Waller. Propelled by an unstoppable en- Box Office, 66 E. Randolph, 12-6 p.m., Tue.-Sat. semble, his tunes blow the Goodman roof off. Call first to make sure tickets are available as CS these city-sponsored opera performances “sell- Funk It Up About Nothin’, Chicago Shake- out” quickly: 312-742-8497. speare Theater, through Aug. 3. A blaze of Of course, the Big Two—the Grant Park and downright psychedelicious color, a rant of Ravinia festivals—continue to pour it on. The rapid-fire rhymes and a get-down, down-low, Grant Park Music Festival goes All-American low-comedy approach turn Much Ado About July 29 and 31 (indoors in the Harris Theater) in Nothing into a 75-minute rap rave. JA an all-choral (no-orchestra) concert of works by RenFaire: A Fistful of Ducats, Factory The- Barber, Copland, Corigliano, Hovhaness and oth- ater at Prop Thtr, through Aug. 2. It’s swords ers before concluding with two weeks of block- vs. six-shooters in a take-no-prisoners satire The ladies of VOX 3 enticed audience members during its recent concert, “Chanson d’amour.” buster favorites: Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto Photo by Benjeman Nichols on fantasy-theme parks. Matt Engle writes (Aug. 6), Grieg’s Piano Concerto (Aug. 8-9), and fights smarter, shorter and with more af- Act I of Wagner’s Die Walkure (Aug. 13) and a fection than his premise demands. MSB modern and jazz dance, ballet, opera, jazz and closing program of Great Opera Choruses (Aug. Measure for musical theatre. Both matinees are free, as part 15-16). All Grand Park Music Festival Programs —By Abarbanel, Barnidge and Sullivan of the City and Park’s Rising Stars Series. are free, at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Measure The Ravenswood neighborhood will play host Park. By Jonathan Abarbanel Aug. 3 and 10 to the gifted artists of the inti- The Ravinia Festival, which is not free, contin- under Sir Andrew Davis. The Emperor Concerto mate VOX 3 vocal ensemble, who will perform ues considerably longer (well into September), and the Eroica (Third) Symphony are featured. It’s high summer, when music lovers find many Of Fortune and Foolery in the courtyard of the and can offer dazzling international stars Grant The CSO completes its 2008 Ravinia residency of the best musical offerings played in the great Bethany United Church of Christ, 4250 N. Pau- Park couldn’t possibly afford. Those who read with a mini-repertory of Mozart operas, per- out-of-doors, where Bach, Beethoven and Bizet lina. Calling themselves a vocal music collective, this in time should rush to Ravinia Sat., July 26, formed in the intimate concert setting of Mar- can compete with barks, beetle buzz and bees VOX 3 will perform treacherously challenging for an all-the-stops-out performance of Gustav tin Theatre (with just 900 seats) rather than in (not to mention sirens, planes and horns). selections from the German, French and Italian Mahler’s titanic masterpiece, the Symphony No. the multi-thousand-seat outdoor pavilion. The For two special Sunday matinees, head for the baroque repertories of Bach, Handel, Rameau, 8 in E-flat Major (Symphony of a Thousand), one Abduction from the Seraglio is performed Aug. Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park at 3 and Monteverdi, accompanied by harpsichord of the great and profound joys of all music. Pa- 14 and 16 (with Michael York in a non-singing p.m., July 27 and Aug. 10. The July program is a and strings. The concerts are free although do- vilion tickets are $30-$75, and lawn admission role), and Don Giovanni Aug. 15 and 17 (with tremendously diverse concert by Midwest Young nations are welcome. In case of rain, the perfor- is $10. Come back July 30 for something rare at Sam Ramey as Leporello), all under the baton of Artists, a nationally known youth orchestra that mances will be in the church. Ravinia: reserved seats for only $25 for an all- Ravinia music director James Conlon. It doesn’t will cover Bernstein, Copland and Beethoven The first week of August also provides an in- Beethoven program featuring pianist Leon Fleis- get much better, folks. as well as jazz artists Basie and Rich. Midwest door pleasure: Djamileh, a little-known one-act cher and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) Young Artists is a leader in providing top-qual- operatic gem by Georges Bizet, a romance set in ity ensembles for young students who are pas- the exotic court of a young Egyptian nobleman. If those approaches sound too weird for sionate about music. The Aug. 10 program will The opera stars Katherine Pracht and Cornelius you, head out to the suburbs to see First Fo- feature gifted Chicago teenage musicians in the Johnson, and will be performed with members of lio Shakespeare Festival’s enjoyably traditional A7_23_WCITY_color:05_28_08fter School Matters gallery37 Summer 7/18/08 Show - 11:09the NewAM MillenniumPage 1 Orchestra of Chicago under and well-acted outdoor Much Ado staging. It’s case. The program of music and dance will offer the direction of Francesco Milioto. The sparkling the last summer Much Ado production out of the gate, following a now-closed outdoor ver- sion by Oak Park Festival Theatre. Interest- ingly enough, both have been set in the early 1800s. It’s an appropriate choice by director Michael AUG F. Goldberg. Much Ado has been much adored MICHAEL FEINSTEIN by feminists since its primary comic heroine, 17 Beatrice, more than holds her own intellec- JANE MONHEIT tually against the men without resorting to SING GERSHWIN HITS Much Ado About Nothing. Photo by D. Rice deceptive drag (like Viola in Twelfth Night or Rosalind in As You Like It) or physical violence PAVILION $40 LAWN $15 (Kate in Taming of the Shrew). As an added bo- THEATER REVIEW nus in the production, Melissa Carlson’s lovely AUG Beatrice embodies the wit and appearance of a UB40 Much Ado tart-tongued Jane Austen heroine. MAXI PRIEST 20 Other decisions by Goldberg are a tad ques- About Nothing tionable. Both actors portraying Benedick PAVILION $40 Playwright: William Shakespeare (Nick Sandys) and the prince Don Pedro LAWN $15 At: First Folio Shakespeare Festival at (Dominic Green) use British-sounding accents, Mayslake Peabody Estate, 31st St. which isn’t consistent with the rest of the cast AUG and Route 83, Oak Brook (though if Goldberg was aiming for them alone BACKSTREET BOYS Phone: 630-986-8067; $21-$26 to sound haughty and affected to reflect their GIRLICIOUS 24 Runs through: Aug. 17 high status, it’s appropriate). If you want to get too politically correct, BY SCOTT C. MORGAN you’ll get uneasy at Goldberg’s decision to cast LAWN ONLY–$15 Ben Whiting, the only actor in the show with a Some historians suggest the title of Shake- dark complexion, as Don Pedro’s villainous bas- speare’s romantic comedy Much Ado About AUG tard brother Don John. Whiting’s performance ONNA UMMER Nothing is misspelled. Their research suggests is solid, but you do wonder why he had to be D S it was actually called Much Ado About Noting paired with that role in the production’s sole HER NAME SAYS IT ALL 30 (emphasis added). instance of color-blind casting. The second title makes sense since so many These quibbles aside, First Folio’s Much Ado PAVILION $50 of characters in the play make wild assump- is a delight, from the pre-show clowning of Ke- LAWN $20 tions after noting what others deceptively land Scher as Verges (exaggerated comic Ital- show and tell them. It’s for the better in the ian accent and all) to the final invitation to AUG case of sparring lovers Beatrice and Benedick, Don Pedro to join in the merriment of a happy and for the worse when Claudio is tricked into marriage celebration. 31 believing that his fiancée, Hero, is unfaithful. Make a mental note of the beautiful Regency- One should also note that Chicago has been era clothing by costumer Elsa Hiltner; laugh PAVILION $40 festooned with Much Ado productions this at John Reeger’s bumbling Dogberry; and savor SQUEEZE AIMEE MANN LAWN $15 summer. On the non-traditional end, there’s Sandy’s Benedick and Carlson’s Beatrice getting S a hip-hop adaptation at Chicago Shakespeare tricked from being at loggerheads to becoming Theater and a gender-bending one courtesy of lovers. WWW.RAVINIA.ORG • 847-266-5100 the touring GroundUp Theatre. July 23, 2008 13 THEATER REVIEW a young man fears for his brother, who is—brace waffle iron and a large toy panda generate some yourselves, now—giving birth to a live puppy- amusement, but characters who jump from one Saints in dog through the only male body-orifice that can impulsive action to the next with never a hint accommodate such a parturition. While the ago- of transitional subtext grow quickly tiresome— Strange Places: nized progenitor howls in pain and a surgeon in not just from a lack of motivational context, a blood-soaked smock scurries back and forth, but from absence of individualized personalities A Five Part the grimly composed sibling chats with a ner- sufficient to spark our empathy. The resulting Apocalypse vous woman awaiting news of her boyfriend’s activity provides the actors of the Appetite The- Playwright: David Holstein wife, whom she has run over with her car, and atre an opportunity to showcase their emotive At: Appetite Theatre at who later calms herself by disconnecting a ran- skills, reveling in the passion of the moment, Strawdog Theatre, 3829 N. Broadway domly-chosen child’s life-support mechanism. but cripples further demonstration of proficiency Our second scene follows the surgeon home, at fully realized interpretations of fully-written Phantom. Photo by Greg Kolack Phone: 773-528-9696; $15 where his drug-dealing roommate has found Je- roles. Runs through: Aug. 9 sus—literally—passed out from a heroin over- dose. The third scene introduces Satan, garbed THEATER REVIEW BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE as an orthodox Jew in tallis and payess, who recalls a boyhood same-sex encounter with the Phantom A “Harold,” invented by the late Del Close, is now-estranged J. Christ. Scene Four takes the Playwright: Arthur Kopit (book), a training exercise in improvisation, structured bereaved brother in the first scene to his par- Online this week: Maury Yeston (music and lyrics) to challenge its participants by requiring them ents’ house, where his mother eagerly antici- At: Theatre at the Center, to affix a comprehensive ending to a lengthi- pates an assignation with the Pope—you heard 1040 Ridge, Munster, Ind. er-than-usual session of free-form narrative me—and his father cheerfully prepares to wel- Phone: 800-511-1552; $36, $40 exploration. David Holstein’s play reads like a —Potholes on come the apocalypse. Then, after everything has Runs through: Aug. 17 transcript of such a process, patiently record- gone kerflooey, Jesus and Satan reunite in Scene the Path ing sketches, premises, situations, musings and Five for some pop-psychology reconciliations as BY CATEY SULLIVAN confrontations until enough material has been to Enlightenment they survey the earth in holocaust. accumulated to divide into five scenes, with a Playgoers looking for a dramatic, philosophi- Who knew what hydraulic wonders lurked in the total running time clocking in at a smidgen over —Ruby Wilder cal or theological through-line in this drivel will catacombs of Munster, Ind.? With Maury Yeston an hour. soon abandon their efforts. The apocalypse may and Arthur Kopit’s Phantom, director William Our story begins in a hospital anteroom where Pullinsi unveils a technical marvel that brings supply a theme, and props such as a working the underground aboveground. The phantom’s lair below a Parisian opera house ascends and descends, appearing and disappearing with the swift, silent efficacy of a spy submarine. Set de- signer Andrew LaSalle goes to town with these ABBA–SOLUTELY LIVE! dueling worlds, crafting an ominous labyrinth of massive cogs and precarious scaffolding that allow the Opera Ghost’s shenanigans to appear suitably otherworldly. As for the rest of the show, it sounds gorgeous and Yeston’s score is far richer than the bom- bastic, superficial hooks of that other musical based on Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel. But Ko- pit’s book reduces the story to campy melodrama ON and a series of tired tropes: The pure-hearted, dewy young virgin in white is pitted against the conniving, shopworn, hatchet-faced harridan in SALE black. The handsome hero battles the hissing villain to save the damsel fluttering in distress. NOW Frankly, we’ve developed an intolerance for pa- triarchal inanity over the years. Kopit’s book is rife with it. Take (please) Christine Daae (a silver-voiced Johanna McKenzie Miller). When the story starts, she’s selling songs on a Paris street corner. Al- though she possesses a heart-melting soprano, it never occurs to her to do something with that magnificent gift until the dashing Count Philippe (an immensely pleasing Jeremy Rill) literally takes her by the hand and points her to- ward the opera. The plot is essentially the battle between two men—Philippe and the Phantom— for control over Christine, a child-like girl of a woman who at one point has to be swept up into the arms of her man and carried because she can’t even walk on her own. Granted, she’s been drugged, but still: Only the ninniest of bobble-headed birdbrains would have fallen for the ruse that allowed that bit of subterfuge to take place. As the Phantom, Larry Adams sounds fine but gives a performance that’s all but interchange- able with his other turns as the mature leading men in any number of Rodgers and Hammerstein shows. And (at the risk of regressing into snarki- tude), he has an odd tic of singing out of one side of his mouth. Notice it, and it’s impossible ©LITTLESTAR to un-notice it and be constantly reminded of the dastardly mustachioed evil-doers in a “Perils of Pauline” short. Things aren’t helped by Jim Sherman as Phantom-enabler and fired opera- house manager Gerard Carrier. You could walk September 17–28 the plank on his recitative delivery—it’s that wooden. (Also: Why is he wearing a contempo- (312)902-1400• rary suit when everybody else is dressed in pe- Tickets also available at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University and all riod costumes?) Broadway In Chicago box offices and Ticketmaster retail locations. Only Marilyn Bogetich installs anything resem- bling authenticity into her character. As diva- www.mamma-mia.com Groups (20+) call from-hell La Carlotta, she’s the one whose story MAMMA MIA! ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING AVAILABLE ON DECCA BROADWAY (312) 977-1710 you really want to hear. 14 July 23, 2008 when Charles gets involved with the impossibly think the sky has to be the same color for ev- rich and devout Catholic Marchmain family via eryone?” When he gets permission to move to his close friendship with their two older chil- Canada, the moment is bittersweet. Arriving at KNIGHT dren—the drunken, gay aesthete Sebastian (Ben his new home, far from his family, he says, “To- Whishaw) and Sebastian’s beautiful and mysteri- day is my new birthday.” Then a moment later he AT ous sister, Julia (Hayley Atwell). Charles’ intense breaks down and cries out, “How can I be free THE friendship with Sebastian blossoms after he vis- when others cannot?” its Brideshead, the family’s baronial estate— It’s a heartbreaking moment in a film filled MOVIES and a powerful kiss between the two suggests with them. Visit www.siskelfilmcenter.com. a relationship of physical intimacy or unrequited love on Sebastian’s part. Later, Charles and Ju- If the relationship portrayed in Chris & Don: lia also share a doozy of a kiss and—with this A Love Story were a modern-day one, it would being heavy, romantic drama—one kiss has the Brideshead Revisited. hardly seem remarkable. But given the time peri- power to change the lives of all concerned. od when it began and flourished—the repressive Charles has won the approval of Lady March- two warring dichotomies often coexist in people early 1950s—it’s sort of extraordinary. “Chris” main (Emma Thompson)—a staunch Catholic whose positions regarding religion and sexuality was writer Christopher Isherwood, best known who rules the roost with an iron first in her are immovable. The movie, which draws on foot- for The Berlin Stories, which formed the basis for velvet glove— but when he incurs her displea- age shot in Iran, Paris, Turkey, South Africa and Cabaret; “Don” is Don Bachardy, who was Ish- Brideshead sure, the film reaches its dramatic height and Canada, is as compelling in its way as For the erwood’s lover from 1952 to 1986 (Isherwood’s their confrontation is thrilling to witness. Like Bible Tells Me So, Daniel Karslake’s film which death) and, eventually, a renowned portraitist. Revisited; Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada, Thompson presented first person stories of gay men and When the two met, Chris was 46 and Don was never has to raise her voice. She’s so assured of women from Evangelical families. Sharma will be just 16. The 30-year age difference—given the A Jihad for Love; her position and her religious convictions she present for screenings during the opening week- proliferation of sugar daddies and boy toys in doesn’t question her actions, and her dismissal end of the film, which is taking place at the the gay world—isn’t so amazing, though the Chris & Don: of Charles annihilates him emotionally. Thomp- Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State, beginning openness of the couple about their sexuality, son, who appears in only five scenes, is abso- Fri., July 25. given the time period, certainly is. A Love Story lutely riveting and you want a lot more of her. Never mind the emotional consequences of What really helps filmmakers Tina Mascara and By Richard Knight, Jr. Goode, taking on his first starring role (he has coming out—this is a religion where revealing Guido Santi relate the portrait of this enduring had notable parts in Match Point, Imagine Me & your gay sexuality can literally mean death. gay relationship, however, is the seemingly end- Director Julian Jarrold, responsible for last sum- You and The Lookout), is wondrous. He lets you Sharma points this out as the film moves from less home-movie footage the stylish couple shot mer’s literary blockbuster Becoming Jane, has see the conflict confronting Charles—his need country to country, tracking down random gay of themselves. There’s an abundance of vintage now topped himself with a big-screen adapta- for love; his susceptibility to this overpowering Muslims brave enough to face such possible footage of the “the old horse” and “the kitty tion of Evelyn Waugh’s romantic saga, Brides- world; and the intoxicating effect that both Se- wrath (many who have fled from their homes to cat” (their pet names for each other). We see head Revisited. Jarrold’s adaptation clocks in at bastian and Julia have on him. more tolerate countries). We are presented with them on vacation, at home, hobnobbing with far less than the 14-hour miniseries from 1981 Brideshead Revisited is an epic with beautiful their stories—catalogues of human indignities famous friends and deeply in love—particularly that made Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews, shots, score (by Adrian Johnson), costumes and suffered by gays for centuries. A man is arrested in a snippet that shows the young couple ca- as gay lovers Charles and Sebastian, household art direction—a movie that honors its literary and jailed for years for standing in line to get noodling in a gondola in Venice and not giving a names—at least in households that watched source and deeply satisfies. into a gay disco in Cairo; an Iranian man is ar- tinker’s damn that their gondolier or anyone else PBS. This version should do the same for Mat- rested and given 100 lashes after attending a is looking on in disapproval. These home mov- thew Goode, who plays the title role of Charles Parvez Sharma’s A Jihad for Love is a reveal- party with other gays; and so on. ies—slices of a gay history rarely glimpsed—are Ryder, the handsome innocent at the center of ing documentary about gay Muslims—two words Like other repressed gays, the plea for toler- worth the rest of the charming movie, which in- the story. used to signify personal identity that would ance resonates, as does the bravery of the indi- cludes guest appearances by Liza Minnelli, Leslie Set in England before World War II and told seem as compatible as oil and water. Neverthe- viduals profiled. Arsham, one of four gay Muslims Caron, Michael York and others. The movie opens in flashback, the film focuses on what happens less, as Sharma’s film vividly demonstrates, these living in Turkey after fleeing Iran and awaiting Fri., July 25, at Landmark Century Centre Cin- word on whether he’ll be allowed to emigrate to ema. Canada, says with exasperation, “Why do they The Dark Knight By Richard Knight, Jr.

Is it going too far to call The Dark Knight not The Dark just the best blockbuster of the ’08 summer Knight. season but also one of the best films of the year? How about one of the best action block- busters of all time? I hasten to add that my superlatives are based on screening the I-Max version of the film. But as Meryl Streep exclaimed in Death Be- comes Her, “Now a warning?!” Yes—because even as you take in the dark delights that di- rector and co-screenwriter (along with brother in his confrontations with Batman which the Jonathan) Christopher Nolan has cooked up— messy clown makeup enforces. Ledger is so fun be aware that this blockbuster is one that and twisted (watch for the scene of him in drag comes with a price. There’s exhilaration in the in nurse’s uniform), that his loss to the acting spectacular action set pieces to be sure but No- world is that much more pronounced. The rest lan doesn’t allow his audience to savor them. of the cast do fine work but it’s Ledger’s picture The movie works on you psychologically at the all the way. same time that it’s ramping up your senses—a Nolan, whose dominate palette of brown and risky combination that Nolan is able to pull off midnight blue never really diminishes—even thanks to the tremendous performance by the when things get quiet the music is pulsating late Heath Ledger as the villainous Joker. in the background and by the last scene I felt The film starts where Batman Begins left off. wrung out, my senses overloaded. I literally Batman/Bruce Wayne (the brooding Christian shook after the movie and the unsteadiness Bale who just gets hotter with every passing had as much to do with the “ride” I’d been movie) joins up with Lt. James Gordon (Gary taken on as the dark emotional journey. Oldman) and Harvey Dent the city’s new Dis- The Dark Knight is a sinister epic and a rare trict Attorney (Aaron Eckhardt) to combat achievement in cinema—it’s a film that turns crime and especially Gotham City’s newest vil- its pulp, comic-book source into complex and lain The Joker. Dent also just happens to be thrilling art for the masses. hot and heavy with Bruce Wayne’s unsung love Check out my archived reviews at www. interest Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal tak- windycitytimes.com or www.knightatthe- ing over from Katie Holmes). movies.com. Readers can leave feedback Most of the big action scenes are between at the latter Web site, where there is also Batman and the Joker and later, in a surprise ordering information on my book of col- twist, the appearance of another Batman vil- lected film reviews, Knight at the Movies lain, Two Face. As noted Ledger does amazing, 2004-2006. intricate work. At times there are, as expected, Read the complete review online at www. homoerotic undercurrents in the character and WindyCityMediaGroup.com. July 23, 2008 15 Having a Goode time Windy City Times talks with steppenwolf Brideshead Revisited’s Matthew Goode By Richard Knight, Jr.

You’ve seen British actor Matthew Goode be- fore. Sometimes mistaken for fellow countryman Hugh Grant, Goode has played quiet, self-effac- ing roles in Match Point, Imagine Me & You and Copying Beethoven, but in The Lookout he was FIRST LOOK menacing as that movie’s seductive villain. Now in the big screen adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited, he takes on his first Matthew Goode in Brideshead Revisited. REPERTORY OF starring role as Charles Ryder, a young innocent who falls under the spell of the wealthy, pow- erful and deeply Catholic Marchmain family— WCT: Speaking of amazing actors, Emma especially the gay Sebastian and his troubled Thompson ... hold me back. sister, Julia. The novel, which spans 20 years, MG: [Laughs] Hold me back! Pin her down! WCT: She’s only in five scenes, and every NEW WORK was first made into a 1981 14-hour miniseries that starred Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews. time you see her in the movie she’s more im- (you have never seen this before) In person, Goode is tall (6’3”), laughs easily and perious. was excited to talk with Windy City Times about MG: She is the nicest woman in the entire his first starring role and the prospect of being world, and she could come in with her Oscars a gay heartthrob. and her talent and the fact that she’s a national Three New Plays in Rotation. Windy City Times: Charles Ryder kisses Se- treasure and that could loom over you. But the bastian and Julia once each and changes both fact is that she loves to goof around. Everybody of their worlds forever. With one kiss. Did you who’s successful should be as nice as her. In ever think about that why you were filming? print, people will be going, “Oh God, that’s so PURSUED BY Matthew Goode: Well, it’s funny because I look actor-y. They always say nice things about each HAPPINESS upon it as that Sebastian kissed Charles and, the other,” but she is the real deal and the moment first time, Julia kissed him as well. So they both she acts some sort of magic happens. by Keith Huff made the move, rather than [Charles] sort of WCT: Were there scenes that more explicitly directed by ensemble member imposing himself. There’s a huge love—platoni- dealt with the physical relationship between Tim Hopper cally, I think, from Charles, although there may Sebastian and Charles? Remember, I’m writ- have been some … you know when you haven’t ing for a gay paper and details are appreci- An unexpected meeting between two 40-something experienced love before and you are that lonely ated. I think he would have been confused about his MG: Were there scenes where I held his cock? biochemists touches off a whirlwind romance. But feelings. WCT: [Laughs] Yes, were there scenes like when it’s time to meet the parents, a series of shock- that—please! ing revelations test the new couple’s relationship in WCT: It makes me wonder if Julia hadn’t Keith Huff been around, things would have gone even MG: Tell me, “Did you put his cock in your this dysfunctional dark comedy from the author of further. As a gay man, I read that that is what mouth?” [Laughs] A Steady Rain. would have happened and, perhaps down the WCT: You dirty little… road, when he met someone else—a wom- MG: [Laughs] You dirty little so and so! No. an... I think it’s not that we would have been afraid MG: It would have [gotten] even messier. Ex- to have done that if it had been in the original PERFECT MENDACITY actly. But I think what was really interesting novel, [but in] trying to uphold the ambiguity by Jason Wells about the book is that it does say that these two and integrity of their relationship, it would have people (Sebastian and Julia) are very alike in the been in slightly poor taste to have suddenly had directed by David Cromer way they look and in their manner and sort of in a sex scene with them. the dark, you couldn’t tell one [from] the other WCT: [Laughs hard] Yes, actually I do know When a top secret, internal memo from a scientific [lowers his voice conspiratorially] unless you’ve exactly what you mean. It’s an idea I’m very research facility is leaked to the media, Dr. Walter got your hand down their pants. [Laughs] familiar with. This is certainly going to put Kreutzer is forced to take a lie detector test about WCT: I love at the outset of the movie, you on the map. Are you ready to be a heart- its origins. With his career on the line, Walter gets where the cousin warns Charles—when he throb? A gay heartthrob? tangled up in investigations of bioterrorism and racially MG: [Delighted] It would be thrilling. I lead a sees Sebastian and his friends—“Stay away motivated killings. As suspicions escalate that Walter’s from those sodomites.” pretty quiet life. I’m 30 now. I can turn up to a wife is involved, the play’s riveting plot twists uncover MG: Sodomites—stay well clear! premiere with my girlfriend on my arm and not the insidious hypocrisy of government sanctioned WCT: Yes. You know immediately he’s going be told by a publicist, “You can’t bring them; the Jason Wells to be drawn to this group. They’re so colorful audience won’t like you.” discrimination. and fabulous and enticing to someone who is WCT: Well, it’s starting already. There you yearning to break out. are on the cover of Entertainment Weekly for MG: I love Ben Whishaw’s performance; I really The Watchmen—your first comic-book mega do, and the character is gay for sure, and that’s blockbuster coming out next spring, in which FAIR USE partly because now it’s 1980 and the world is you play Ozymandias. still not where it should be, but it’s certainly MG: Yes! And he’s homosexual, isn’t he as well? by Sarah Gubbins much more comfortable with how male love is By the look of things, that suit he wears as well. directed by Meredith McDonough put on the screen. I can tell you, it’s still ambiguous. Right now, I WCT: Actually, what was brave of him was think, it’s running [at] about three hours and A plagiarism case involving a famous author is the to play such a queenie-nelly stereotype. Now it’s kind of an art-house film and it’s very much backdrop for this lesbian romantic comedy set in a the graphic novel. I haven’t seen it yet but I’m you’re going to get flak for that. high-powered law firm. A series of questionable love MG: Yes, but he’s bang-on believable and hearing really amazing things about it. I haven’t letters fuel this breezy cross-examination of negotiat- I think he fucking well owned it; I really do. seen any of it. There’s a lot of big, muscle-y cos- ing modern dating and relationships. The “sodomite” line isn’t in the original adapta- tumes and, you know, oooooooh [Laughs] and tion—it couldn’t have been. manly men and there’s a rape scene in there. Sarah Gubbins WCT: I read that you originally wanted to WCT: Well, good luck with that. It’s been play Sebastian but “I wasn’t pretty enough. nice to talk with you about your first real They gave it to Ben because when the cam- starring role. I hope you’re happy about it. July 23 – August 10, 2008 Wednesday-Sunday era settles on him, you gasp at his beauty. I MG: I am. I was exhausted at the time. It was TICKETS: $20 mean I have a girlfriend and all but still…” intense work but that’s what we’re here for, isn’t In the Steppenwolf Merle Reskin Garage Theatre [Laughs] it? MG: I think I also mentioned his extraordinary Read the entire interview at www. talent as well and that seems to have been cut WindyCityMediaGroup.com. buy online at www.steppenwolf.org or call 312-335-1650 out for some reason! 16 July 23, 2008 What else can it do? Two things that differentiate cars in today’s market are design and technology. Clearly Ford went a different route with the appearance and they continued that theme with the technology available in the Flex. For starters, you can get the Ford-exclusive SYNC™—a voice-activated, hands-free, in-vehicle communications and en- tertainment system that allows you to control your phone and music. Then there is the avail- able SIRIUS Travel Link that when combined with voice activated navigation displays real- time traffic, weather, fuel price information, thing to look gorgeous but it is rare to have ing about. Luckily the Ford Flex won’t remind VEHICLE PREVIEW sports scores and even movie times for your lo- both eye and butt appeal in one package. Ford you of all those dating disasters. It drives and cal theater! has figured it out. performs as good as it looks. The ride is con- The available technology is not limited to Need to get a way from the hustle and bustle trolled and “European” in feel and the 3.5-liter 2009 Ford Flex information and entertainment. Ford has done by JOE LAMURAGLIA, gaywheels.com of the city? Spending time in the new 2009 Ford V6 provides spirited, if noisy, performance. In a their part to make your life a little easier as well. Flex will make you realize how much noise you’ve trip from New York City to Westchester County, There is an available refrigerated console be- Ford set out to re-create the family vehicle and, put up with in the past. If you’ve ever used the NY, the Flex handled the challenging Saw Mill tween the second row seats that can cool up to from a design point of view, they’ve certainly Bose noise-cancellation headphones, the experi- Parkway with ease. Inherent to its boxy design is seven 12-ounce cans to 41 degrees 40 percent done their homework. This vehicle is totally ence is similar. Extensive use of sound-deaden- excellent visibility and its wide stance and long faster than your home fridge. Last but not least, unique in a sea of “me-too” crossover vehicles. ing materials, acoustic glass and attention paid wheelbase deliver a solid, comfortable ride. the Flex is equipped with an EasyFuel™ capless The two-box shape and unique exterior design to the “noise points” around the vehicle make a Front-wheel drive models are expected to get fuel filler. This feature replaces a fuel-filler cap details give us a modern interpretation of the very quiet vehicle. 17 MPG in the city and 24 on the highway which and provides a better seal, reducing the release classic “woody” wagon. The availability of a is about on par with the best in this class. Ford of smog-forming vapors. contrasting roof color allows you to create your We get it, it’s pretty. But how does it drive? promises a more refined and efficient “Eco- own color combination similar to MINI and the There is nothing more disappointing than a Boost” turbo engine in the near future which Does he have a brother? chrome treatment of the grill and tailgate fur- good-looking package that lets you down when should increase efficiency and rid the Flex from So it looks good, knows the importance of qui- ther differentiate it from anything else on the you open it up. Think about the last person the rough noises at full throttle. et time; is a spirited performer and has all the road. you met online and you know what I am tak- While the exterior gets your attention and latest gadgets. Sounds like the perfect partner, makes the Flex easy to find in a parking lot,it is right? Well, while we know “he or she” doesn’t the interior that will please both your eyes and exist outside of the cineplex, the Ford Flex comes derrière’. close to a perfect companion in vehicular form. 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She was also able to gain ac- height of the women’s movement, falling prey cess to Dr. Kinsey’s sex/survey-interview with to the suggestion by Grier that Gittings’ expres- Foster that was a prerequisite for her employ- sions of “nibbles” of interest from mainstream book” author she was deemed less important ment, and a similar-themed survey that activist/ presses was something sinister. Grier used her than other figures slated for inclusion. I pointed scholar Karla Jay PhD had used when compiling considerable influence with the isolated Foster out that SVWL had been reprinted twice in inter- The Gay Report (Summit, 1979). Jay also visited to imbue Gittings’ motives with her own long- vening years and was in demand by a new audi- Dr. Foster in the 1970s making a recording of standing personal dislike and mistrust, lobby- ence. Combing existing sources, I was only able their interview. These and other primary sources ing instead for reprint by one of the nascent, to come up with one major article to supplement enrich the text. under-capitalized lesbian publishers. Foster ac- her nomination: “The X-Rated Bibliographer: A Dr. Passet’s book gives us a rare window into ceded choosing Diana Press, a fateful decision Spy in the House of Sex” by Karla Jay in Laven- the sex life of an early 20th century lesbian. for SVWL. der Culture (Harcourt, 1978). I included infor- Against the warp of Foster’s 30-years’ pursuit Passet’s Sex Variant Woman is well annotated mation about Foster’s work as Dr. Alfred Kinsey’s of books essential for her magnum opus, Passet with a selected bibliography. The index is, as so first librarian and listed writers that were chosen weaves several parallel threads; the educational many these days prepared by electronic key-word for inclusion who had acknowledged their debt opportunities open to mid-West women after the Joanne Passet. selection, fraught with lacunae (full of holes). to her study: Lillian Faderman, Jonathan Ned turn of the last century, the options for mak- When the Diana Press edition reached Dr. Foster Katz, Gayle Rubin, et al. I gleaned what I could ing a living by a woman who was aware early in 1976, as a good librarian, she decried the nar- Foster had difficulty in getting SVWL pub- of her academic credentials from her book jacket on that she would be self-supporting her whole row margins on the paperbound reprint limiting lished. Though the post-WW II pulp-paperback and her letters to me, which also revealed the life, an extended look at academic libraries and rebinding. Had she seen the current volume she revolution had embraced lesbian fiction, main- names of contemporary correspondents already librarians, the emotional trail of a woman-loving would certainly despair at the non-archival qual- stream and academic presses were loathe to included in the volume: Sarton, Gidlow, Flanner woman exploring a world opposed to her finding ity of paper used. chance serious work. Foster could only com- and Grier. Eventually the librarians on the Board a partner and supportive lifestyle, and glimpses Jeannette Howard Foster’s local shadow ex- miserate with Margaret Anderson of The Little prevailed and the editors concurred that Foster into the checkered history of publishing lesbian tends beyond her book and her years at the Review fame who wrote her, after finding a copy books. Passet recounts Karla Jay’s observation University of Chicago as student and teacher. Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeannette of the London edition of SVWL in France, asking that so single-minded was Foster that if certain After her death in 1981 I delivered a memo- Howard Foster, by Joanne Passet, 2008, for help in finding an outlet for her lesbian nov- rare books had only been available in the Vati- rial lecture at the Jane Addams Bookstore; Joe Hardcover, 353 pages, $27.50, Da Capo el of romantic obsession. Foster ultimately had can library she would have become a nun to ac- Gregg interjected from the audience that he had Press, a member of the Perseus Books been forced to self publish with a vanity press. cess them. been a protégé of Foster, that she had advanced Group. It would be another twenty years before Foster Along the way Passet shows that Foster al- him funds to go to graduate school at her Alma would re-emerge on the crest of the women’s lowed her romantic loves to dictate her choices Mater. Gregg had just become co-director of the liberation movement with her poetry, prose, and of the schools she attended, her college majors, Gerber-Hart Library, further extending her influ- a literary translation published by three differ- was worthy of inclusion, of her place in the his- chase her heart across the country to unsatisfac- ence when her bibliography from SVWL was used ent lesbian presses. tory of our movement. tory jobs, and purchased property later sold as to obtain a significant grant enabling the expan- Passet does an excellent job exploring the Now, another fifteen years down the road, hope was lost. Her “beloveds” were mostly older sion of their collection of lesbiana. Dr. Foster passions, politics and perfidies of some of the Joanne Passet, a bloodhound of a biographer, women (she would later bemoan outliving many was inducted into the City of Chicago’s Gay & lesbian-feminist presses that boomed in the has pursued the scant trail that sustained us for of them) a few were younger, one a student who Lesbian Hall of Fame in 1998. 1970s. She posits Foster as a symbol for the evo- decades and has tracked the fully-fleshed wom- rebuffed her reticent teacher saying there were Copyright 2008 by Marie J. Kuda lution of lesbian publishing in the 20th century. an. Dr. Joanne Passet, (uniquely qualified with plenty of college kids who could give her what Joanne Passet will read from and sign cop- In her section on “The Two Barbaras” Passet dual doctorates in library science and women’s she wanted. Even her longest, most satisfying ies of Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jean- documents the 1974 efforts of two prominent history) teaches at Indiana University East, also relationship would melt into an enduring friend- nette Howard Foster Fri., Aug. 8, at 7:30 p.m., movement figures to get SVWL reprinted. Foster the home base of Dr. Kinsey’s Institute for Sex ship as she continued to live with her once-lover at Women and Children First Bookstore, 5233 (and Passet) seem to have been unaware of the Research. Passet pursued Foster’s paper trail, and the new partner until ending her days in a N. Clark; 773-769-9299. sub rosa networking that was done among femi- amassing a wealth of information at a variety nursing home. of institutions across the country where Foster nists working for libraries and publishers at the

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Karlyn Pipes-Neilsen and former Olympian Bridget Fahrner earned offensive MVP honors, A criterium or “crit” is a cycling race held in a Glenn Mills were particularly impressive, breaking while Jeannine Nebbeling and Amanda Malsch closed circuit loop. It is approximately 1.1 miles six International Amateur Swimming Federation shared defensive MVP honors. The MVP honors in length. (FINA) masters world records. This year’s IGLA are sponsored by Spin nightclub, and owner Da- Racing will commence at 7 a.m. and continue Championships set more United States Master vid Gassman was on the field for the post-game throughout the day. The total prize money is Swimming (USMS) and FINA world records than presentation. $40,000, with $25,000 of that marked for the in any previous IGLA Championship. “We’ve worked so hard all season,” Grisafe Pro Category 1 & 2 race—the final race of the Pipes-Neilsen has set almost 200 Masters world said. “We want that [championship] ring, and Chicago Force during its July 12 game. Photo day starting at 2:25 p.m. records. A straight woman competing at an LGBT we’re gonna get it.” by Mel Ferrand In addition to watching cyclists, attendees swim meet, she approaches it with the same in- The Force will play the Dallas Diamonds for will be able to They’ll also be able to enjoy live tensity as other swim meets. “I don’t look at this the championship. The kickoff for the National music, a sports expo, sponsor booths and ven- meet as a gay and lesbian championships meet,” SPORTS Championship game is at 7 p.m., at North Park dors inside Grant Park. said Pipes-Neilsen in a statement. “I look at this University. All races include multiple trophies/medals as a great championship meet.” Force advances to and cash prizes. Cyclists competing in each race Additionally, 16 short course USMS and 130 ‘Girlz.Got.Game’ at must complete a USA Cycling standard release IGLA records were broken at the Eppley Rec- national championship form and compete by designated USA Cycling reation Natatorium on the campus of the Uni- Center licensed category. See www.chicagocriterium.us versity of Maryland, College Park. But the most game for more information. By Ross Forman New Vision of Hope Foundation (NVHF), a non- memorable performance came from an unlikely profit organization, and E3 Radio, in association athlete. Margaret Camp (of the District of Co- The Chicago Force isn’t just hosting the Inde- with the Center on Halsted, will present their London to host lumbia), an 88-year old swimmer (and oldest pendent Women’s Football League (IWFL) na- first ‘Girlz.Got.Game’ 3-on-3 Basketball Classic athlete competing), set a new IGLA record in tional championship game Sat., July 26—the and Health Fair Sat.-Sun., July 26-27, at the gay soccer tourney the 50-meter freestyle at 1:48.20. Center, 3656 N. Halsted. It will run 8 a.m.-9 Force will be playing in the game for the first The Leftfooters FC team will bring the Inter- p.m. on July 26 and 10 a.m.-7 p.m. on July 27. time in team history. national Gay & Lesbian Football (a.k.a. Soccer) Only girls and women 16–55+ can play, but Race Judicata Sprint The Force came from behind to defeat the Association (IGLFA) World Championship to Lon- the entire community is welcome to participate Pittsburgh Passion, 8-7, Sat., July 12, at the don Aug. 24-30. Aug. 14 in the activitie, which will include free HIV, Holmgren Athletic Complex at North Park Uni- Besides the matches, events will include ev- The 15th annual Race Judicata Sprint for Jus- diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol and BMI versity. The Force is now 10-0, while the Passion erything from the “Homophobia in Sport” con- tice—a 5K run & walk that raises money for the screenings, and much more. ended its season 9-1. The Force victory ended ference to “Bubbles & Divas: Bingo Night.” Chicago Volunteer Legal Services (CVLS) Founda- All proceeds will benefit NVHF’s Youth/Adults Pittsburgh’s 22-game winning streak, dating See www.londonwc2008.co.uk to register. E- tion—will be held Thurs., Aug. 14, at Columbus for AIDS Prevention Outreach Program and E3 back since the last game of the season in 2006, mail [email protected] for registra- and Balbo, at 6:30 p.m. Radio, which produces socially conscious pro- and the Passion were the national champions tion-related inquiries. 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