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Photo from RAD Remedy TO YOUR HEALTH Trans health group RAD Remedy continues to grow By Liz Baudler the queer and trans communities. “RAD” stands for “referral aggregator database,” and the Riley Johnson’s quest for better healthcare is personal. “It’s organization’s main project so far is a searchable database always been a challenge, as somebody who’s queer and trans, of accepting health care providers nationwide. In 2014, to find quality healthcare and to know what you’re walking Johnson—whose background is in public health, not tech- into,” he said. “The National Trans Discrimination survey nology—entered the Trans-Hack a-Thon with RAD Remedy’s found about half of trans people were having to teach their proposal. It ended up winning the Hack-a-Thon, earning the providers about their care. And the part to me that was as- project seed money. tounding was that about 2 percent of their respondents had “It’s been a pretty successful beta so far,” Johnson, now ZAK ATTACK experienced physical violence in a medical center.” RAD Remedy’s executive director, said of the database. “We’ve Johnson consulted referral lists for trans-friendly providers, not had any major technical issues, and we’re continuing to Longtime local theater figure David Zak on but they were littered with dead ends. “There were people I include more and more resources. We’re up to about 2,000 upcoming benefit. knew who were deceased, people who had retired,” Johnson right now.” Photo by Bob Eddy 17 said. Thus was born the idea for RAD Remedy, an organization committed to improving access to health-care resources for Turn to page 10

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4 Oct. 28, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES gender expression are not effective, reinforce harmful gender stereotypes and are not appropriate mental health treatments,” said SAMHSA Special Expert on LGBT Affairs Elliot Kennedy. In a statement, National Center for Lesbian Rights #BornPerfect Campaign Coordinator and Relationships & Staff Attorney Samantha Ames said, “We could not be more grateful to SAMHSA, HHS, and the the Law Today entire Obama Administration for producing such an in-depth and lifesaving report, and to by Timothy R. Herman the APA for inviting us to the table with such high caliber experts to observe the process.” “This important report makes it clear that Procedures for filing discrimination claims conversion therapy is not appropriate for deal- through the lens of a recent Illinois Human ing with sexual orientation or gender identities in children and youth,” said Judith M. Glass- Rights Commission decision gold, Psy.D., the American Psychological Asso- ciation’s associate executive director for public On Sept. 15, 2015, the Illinois Human Creek”) (located in Ford County) discrimi- Rights Commission (“Illinois Commission”) nated against the couple. interest government relations, in a separate found in favor of a downstate Illinois same- Shortly after civil unions became legal in press release. “It provides guidance to clini- N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo. sex couple finding that a bed-and-breakfast Illinois in early 2011, Plaintiffs began look- cians on current science and best practices for discriminated against the couple by refusing ing for a venue to hold their civil ceremony. this vulnerable population.” to hold the couple’s civil-union ceremony. The couple reached out to TimberCreek The report is at http://store.samhsa.gov/ Pursuant to the Illinois Human Rights via email to ascertain whether the facility N.Y.’s Cuomo enacts product/SMA15-4928. Act, it is improper to discriminate against would host their ceremony, but the owner of Visit http://www.reuters.com/arti- individuals within Illinois on the basis of TimberCreek responded and indicated that trans protections numerous classes, including sexual orien- he would never perform such ceremonies be- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced cle/2015/10/15/us-health-lgbt-conversion- idUSKCN0S912520151015. tation, in connection with employment, cause he believed homosexuality was wrong. he would expand existing anti-discrimination real estate transactions, access to financial In June 2011, the couple later held a civil statutes to include transgender persons, The credit and the availability of public accom- ceremony at their home. Observer reported. Point Foundation modations. The Illinois Department of Human Rights The Democratic governor officially announced Under the Illinois Human Rights Act, sex- found substantial evidence of discrimination at the annual dinner of LGBT-rights group Em- seeks new applicants ual orientation means actual or perceived based upon their investigation, which gave pire State Pride Agenda that his office would LGBTQ students seeking financial assistance heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality Plaintiffs the right to have the Department now interpret a state law protecting people for their undergraduate or graduate school or gender-related identity. The Illinois Hu- of Human Rights file a complaint on their man Rights Act applies to persons living in behalf in the Illinois Commission. Both from the denial of certain services to also in- education are encouraged to apply for a Point Illinois, but it is important to note that cer- sides moved for a summary order requesting clude gender identity. Foundation Scholarship. tain counties and municipalities in Illinois judgment in each party’s favor. Note that if During his speech, Cuomo noted that trans- Point Foundation (Point) is the nation’s larg- may have their own governing bodies that the Department of Human Rights had found gender people are more likely to be the victims est scholarship-granting organization for LG- enforce local rules applicable to persons liv- a lack of substantial evidence, Plaintiffs of violence and harassment than other sexual BTQ students of merit and currently provides ing within that particular jurisdiction (i.e. could have filed a Request for Review with minorities. financial assistance and programmatic support the Cook County Commission on Human the Illinois Commission or filed a lawsuit in In a statement, Lambda Legal Transgender to 85 students. Students enrolling in under- Rights, the City of Chicago Commission on a circuit court in Illinois where the discrimi- Rights Project Director M. Dru Levasseur said, graduate or graduate programs for the 2016- Human Relations, and the City of Evanston natory acts were committed within 90 days “This is a very welcome step—these rules will 2017 academic year are eligible to apply for Human Relations Commission, etc.). after receipt of the Department of Human provide guidance and help alleviate some of Point’s multiyear scholarship. In contrast, under federal law, discrimina- Rights’ order. tion on the basis of sexual orientation is not The procedures vary slightly for discrimi- the very real problems transgender New Yorkers Applications open online at www.point- specifically recognized and enforced by the nation in real estate transactions as a com- experience. foundation.org/apply on Nov. 1. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission plaint is automatically filed with the Illinois “We thank the Cuomo Administration for Students may submit Part I of the application (the federal agency that investigates claims Commission and the complainant may elect working so hard to make this step happen. until 11:59 p.m. PST Jan. 19, 2016. Qualified of discrimination). to have the claims decided in a circuit court There has been a long-standing gap in spelling applicants will be invited to submit Part II of For LGBT individuals residing in Illinois in Illinois instead. out explicit protections that bar discrimination the application, which will open from Nov. 2, outside a jurisdiction with its own local or- After reviewing the parties’ submissions, on the basis of gender identity. 2015, until 11:59 p.m. PST Feb. 1, 2016. dinance, an individual discriminated against the Illinois Commission granted a summary The article is at http://observer. based upon sexual orientation in connection order in favor of Plaintiffs. TimberCreek ar- com/2015/10/andrew-cuomo-bans-trans- with employment, access to financial credit gued that they made a business decision gender-discrimination-and-burnishes-liberal- Campaign online and the availability of public accommoda- not to host same-sex civil unions because of tions has one choice: file a charge with the their sincerely held religious beliefs, which cred/. for Wells sculpture Illinois Department of Human Rights within would violate TimberCreek’s and its owners’ The Ida B. Wells Commemorative Art Commit- 180 days of the date of the discriminatory free exercise of their religious rights, speech Conversion-therapy tee has launched an online fundraising cam- act. For discrimination involving real estate rights and association rights. paign for a monument to honor the life and transactions, the charge must be filed with- The Illinois Commission found that forc- report released work of Ida B. Wells (1862-1931). The cam- in one year of the date of the discriminatory ing TimberCreek to host same-sex civil The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Ser- paign runs through October. act. unions would not cause a substantial burden For those individuals living in a jurisdic- on its exercise of religion since the bed-and- The goal is to raise $100,000 to begin the vices Administration (SAMHSA) has released a tion with its own ordinance, the discrimi- breakfast would not be involved in perform- report calling for an end to conversion therapy creation of a monumental interpretative sculp- nated against individual can file a charge of ing the ceremony and the bed-and-breakfast for LGBT youth, Reuters noted. ture by world-renowned sculptor Richard Hunt. discrimination in the Department of Human allowed same-sex couples to rent guest The practice aims to change a person’s sexual A decade after Wells died, the Chicago Hous- Rights within the same time periods refer- rooms. This appears to be the first time the orientation, gender identity or gender expres- ing Authority named a now-defunct public enced above or with the local governing Illinois Commission clearly held that own- sion, but the Obama Administration called for housing development after her in 1941 as a body within the prescribed limitation pe- ers of businesses serving the public cannot an end to the therapy a year ago. result of strong community pressure. Persons riod (for individuals filing with the City of choose who they serve based on their per- “Conversion therapies or other efforts to interested in the campaign can visit http:// Chicago Commission, the time period is 180 sonal religious views. change sexual orientation, gender identity or igg.me/at/idabwellsmonument. days). It is important to note that the same It is important to note that for those result would apply if the owners of the individuals residing in Chicago or other bed-and-breakfast refused to accommodate municipalities in Cook County with a local a heterosexual ceremony based upon the LAURENCE A. JACOBS, M.D. ordinance, the local governing body rather owners’ desire not to host a civil ceremony than the Cook County Commission on Hu- based upon the couple’s heterosexuality. Building Your LGBT Family man Rights will investigate the claims. 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HI2647R0 September 2014 6 Oct. 28, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES Included in that group are trans people of color, who often “experience outright, signifi- GOP immigration New study aims to cant discrimination,” according to Dr. Scott Cook, a clinical psychologist serving as a co- bill blocked investigator on the study. “Sometimes it’s not On Oct. 20, U.S. Senate Democrats scut- improve health care outright discrimination,” he said, but rather tled a GOP-backed measure that aimed to clinicians “not knowing how to navigate the toughen immigration laws. culture.” This can make it hard for trans people Voting 54-45, the Senate decided not trying to communicate their needs with health- to advance legislation meant to have for LGBT people of color care providers, who may be “willing to do their so-called “sanctuary cities” such as San best and want to try to do the right thing but Francisco comply with federal immigra- UChicago and the Morten Group people of color have not received this type of maybe just don’t know how and don’t know tion laws. Democrats contended that the shared-decision making. how to have those conversations.” In that way, measure would isolate the immigrant com- investigate how shared decision- In order to identify and recruit participants, Cook said, this study could benefit not just pa- munity even more. making can make a difference Chen and his colleagues called in the Morten tients but medical professionals in better treat- In a statement, National Center for Les- Group. Founded by Mary Morten, who formerly ing LGBT people of color. bian Rights (NCLR) Executive Director Kate BY Skylar Baker-Jordan served as Mayor William M. Daley’s liaison to Still, the research team understands that Kendell, Esq., said “We are relieved that the LGBT community, the Morten Group previ- potential participants may be apprehensive yet another discriminatory congressional Going to the doctor is seldom a fun process. ously conducted the 2013 LGBT Needs Assess- approaching them. However, Morten said her attack against the immigrant community Patients are often and understandably nervous ment, identifying the concerns of Chicago- group’s participation can help alleviate some of in the United States has been blocked. about what their medical professionals will “It is disappointing, however, that rather have to say about their overall health. Beyond than advancing genuine immigration re- that, the power and prestige afforded to doc- form that honors the dignity and value of tors can leave patients feeling unable to ar- From left: Mary all human lives, irrespective of their coun- ticulate their own concerns about prescribed Morten, Dr. try of origin, the Senate would prefer to treatment. Marshall Chen punish those who are seeking safety, shel- “When we sometimes have recommendations and Howard ter, and freedom from oppression and to about plans of care, unless we’re careful, we Brown Health unfairly target local governments seeking aren’t necessarily tailoring them to peoples’ Center’s Dr. to combat anti-immigrant discrimination experiences, preferences, and needs,” said Dr. Magda Houlberg. and to ensure the safety of all.” Monica Peek, an assistant professor and clini- Photo from cal-care physician at the University of Chicago Morten (UChicago). This tailoring of treatment based Franken inquires on a doctor’s advice and a patient’s reality is known as shared decision-making, and is the land’s LGBT population. “We learned through those concerns. It is “helpful to have someone about trans murders U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minnesota) has focus of a new study focused on LGBT people the needs assessment that healthcare was the on the ground who people know, people trust,” sent a letter to the Department of Justice of color. number one issue,” Morten said. The Morten she said. “I think that overall helps in think- expressing his desire to know, among other “Your Voice! Your Health!” is a collabora- Group has already had four different launches ing about the cultural competency and sensi- things, how much the federal government tion between the Morten Group and the Uni- throughout the city, which is important to tivities that I think are really important as we is working with local authorities after versity of Chicago investigating experiences reaching disparate communities. “I think we carry out this work.” Morten points out that multiple murders of trans individuals, The of shared-decision making between healthcare still deal with this idea that all the gay folks data collection on people of color has often Washington Blade reported. practitioners and LGBT people of color in the are on the North Side,” she said, “which is of been misrepresented and used against them, Franken called on U.S. Attorney General Chicagoland region. “Too often, LGBT persons, course not the case.” a fact she is “certainly very sensitive to, and Loretta Lynch and FBI Director James Com- in particular LGBT persons of color, have not Finding a diverse pool of participants is the I think the team has been sensitive to.” She ey to become more involved. The Oct. 21 received the type of shared decision making Morten Group’s role, and also vital to the suc- stresses that the answers are confidential and letter, in part, “strongly urge[s] the U.S. that is the best that can be done,” said Dr. cess of the study, according to Peek. “Vulner- kept under “lock and key.” Department of Justice to work with state Marshall Chen, the project’s principal investi- able and margianalized populations tend to The study focuses on several areas—ranging and local authorities in the investigation gator. “So the goal of this research project is to experience the same kind of discrimination from intimate partner violence to HIV/PrEP, and prosecution of these incidents.” try to understand what LGBT persons of color in healthcare that they experience elsewhere obesity and diabetic screening—and will en- The senator also wrote, “The Department want in communication with their healthcare in society,” she said. “We are really hoping to compass both focus groups and individual in- should develop a model policy for law en- providers.” make sure that everyone who wants to have terviews. Those wishing to participate should forcement agencies on interactions with Shared-decision making is important because their voice heard has the opportunity,” even contact the Morten Group at 773-422-2591 or LGBT and gender-nonconforming individu- it leads to the best possible outcomes for pa- people “who may not be seeing a doctor right [email protected]. als and guidance on public communica- tients, according to Chen. “For patients to have now because they’re afraid to enter the health- “The more participation we receive from the tions regarding crimes against members of the best possible health, they need to work care system.” community, the better prepared we will be to the transgender community.” close together with their healthcare provider,” “We take this responsibility seriously that create communication tools that can best en- The article is at www.washingtonblade. he said. “There’s got to be trust, there’s got to perhaps the most important part of the proj- gage and empower that same community in com/2015/10/21/franken-seeks-answers- be open communication, there needs to be a ect is giving voice to people who too often healthcare settings,” Morten said in a press from-doj-on-transgender-murders/. sharing of decision-making where patients are have not been asked to tell their stories,” Chen release. actively involved.” Too often, he added, LGBT added. 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Wolfson is the founder and president of the Wolfson’s thesis provided the basis for Free- “The campaign is called Freedom For All national Freedom to Marry campaign, which is dom to Marry’s three-pronged approach to win- Americans,” Wolfson said. “Many of my staff ultimately credited with developing the strat- ning marriage equality: win more states, grow have gone over or will be going over to this egy that lead to winning same-sex marriage the majority for marriage and end federal mar- new campaign, and they will follow a similar across the country earlier this year. riage discrimination—an approach he thinks strategy to achieve federal, state and local Wolfson founded Freedom to Marry in 2003, other movements can use to achieve success as non-discrimination protections.” after nearly two decades working as an attor- well. Wolfson said the heart of the Freedom to ney in the civil rights arena, including serving As he works to close up shop at Freedom to Marry model involved “having a clear goal, a as marriage project director for Lambda Legal Marry, one of his objectives is to share Freedom clear strategy to get to that goal, a campaign Defense & Education Fund and as co-counsel in to Marry’s approach and the the lessons he’s machine and a set of partnerships that could the historic Hawaii same-sex marriage case in learned with others fighting in the area of civil deliver on the battles necessary to fulfill the the 1990s. rights, particularly other LGBT organizations, strategy and to get to the goal.” The origins for Freedom to Marry began much that he thinks can help them reach their goals “That strategy might not be the exact strat- earlier though—in 1983, when Wolfson wrote as well. egy for a different goal, like non-discrimina- his Harvard Law School thesis on gay people Wolfson is coming to Chicago next month as tion, but the elements of having clarity around and the importance of marriage in ending the part of the Chicago Humanities Festival. He the goal and the strategy, building the right discrimination faced by LGBT community across said he plans to talk about the “tremendous structure, the right campaign, the right part- the full spectrum of their lives. transformation the country has made in under- nerships, and using some of the methodology “I thought about what would be the best standing who gay people are and why discrimi- and tactics, those are all very replicable.” way to challenge discrimination against gay nation under the law is wrong.” Personally, Wolfson’s biggest lesson for oth- people, and I had come to understand the lan- “It’s a transformation we’ve seen in hearts ers is to “believe you can win.” guage a society gives people shapes people’s and minds as well as the law, and it’s the trans- Evan Wolfson. He said he always believed same-sex marriage understanding of who they are and who other formation we have to keep building on as we Photo courtesy of the Chicago Humanities could win, even during the movement’s darkest people are,” Wolfson said. “The heart of the keep going; to win the other protections that Festival times. discrimination that gay people face is denial of we don’t yet have,” he said. “I’m going to talk “I believe one of the things I got right was our love, and the pre-eminent language of love about the importance of this change, what it as well as bettering the everyday lives of LGBT to just always be looking for the way forward,” in our society and virtually every other society, says about America, and the work ahead as we people in all pockets of the country. he said. “You have to believe in the power of is marriage. continue seeking to end discrimination and “It is about the legal and political goals of change, the power of persuasion, the power of “By claiming the language of marriage and by assure a happy, secure and good lived experi- securing non-discrimination protection in fed- organizing and the power of people to rise.” claiming participation in marriage, we would ence for people, not just under law, but in their eral, state and local laws, and it’s also about Wolfson will be in Chicago Wed., Nov. 4, be winning something important, a bundle lives.” the cultural and community support that peo- 6-7 p.m., at at Francis W. Parker School, of protections, responsibilities and meanings Continuing to change people’s hearts and ple should have no matter where they live,” 2233 N Clark St., as part of the Chicago Hu- that come with marriage, but we would also minds will be paramount to achieving federal, Wolfson said. “We want to make sure that peo- manities Festival, which is taking place Oct. be claiming this powerful engine of transfor- state and local non-discrimination protections ple’s lives are secure, happy and productive, so 24-Nov. 8. See ChicagoHumanities.org.

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We love at accept diversity in Furter, Roman centurions and gladiators, zom- all of its forms.” bie prom queens, aliens, hippies and maniacal Alden added that trans health is the next surgeons, to name a few. great health equality frontier. “One of the chal- They had all shown up in support of HBHC’s lenges facing our broader LGBTQ community is continuing programs of primary medical care, finding a place for the T,” he said. “A holis- KNAUZ MINI behavioral health, research, HIV/STD preven- tic part of that is health care. Howard Brown 409A Skokie Valley Hwy. tion, youth services, elder services, and com- prides itself on being a national leader not just munity initiatives which will soon be extend- in trans health but in being a pioneer in what Lake Bluff, IL 60044 ing into neighborhoods such as Rogers Park it means to be transitioning into yourself.” (847) 604-5050 and Edgewater. 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The MINI name, model names and logo are registered trademarks. “We used to do a Halloween party years ago, visit http://www.howardbrown.org. 10 Oct. 28, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES RAD from cover from Alabama or Iowa, they would be able to like people shouldn’t have to travel that far. said. see resources near them. But at the same time We’re going to try to build up a colleague circle RAD Remedy’s nationwide team operates re- Databases before RAD often relied on provid- we were dealing with community organiza- around the one provider who we found within motely and donates their time, Johnson said. ers self-identifying as LGBT-friendly, Johnson tions, suicide lines and help lines, that had an North Dakota. The hope is to grow it, to have And community representation is a priority— said. “We did a needs assessment and folks urgent need to refer people places,” Johnson somebody in some way willing to come on re- Johnson said RAD has consulted with sex work- actually pinpointed the ability to self-identify said. Because of this, the beta launched early. cord as being willing to serve trans people,” he ers and undocumented immigrants. “Any mo- as being a hindrance in some ways,” he ex- North Dakota stands out to Johnson as an said. ment we can put who’s actively engaged with plained. “Up until RAD we didn’t have a way of example of RAD Remedy’s potential influence. The same goes for Chicago. “Our goal is to those communities at the front and center, the identifying people’s expertise or their friendli- “Trying to find trans-friendly medical provid- really map all of the city, not just the well- better off we’re going to be,” Johnson said. “If ness or their experience in dealing with differ- ers in North Dakota has been a bit of a chal- known North Side sites,” Johnson said. “If we people have ideas about features they want or ent kinds of people. Somebody might be able lenge,” Johnson explained. “By way of con- see areas that don’t have resources, [we hope] pieces that are missing, we’re absolutely will- to work well with me, who looks the part of a tacting people in South Dakota, we determined to work with the communities that are there to ing to talk to people and see what we can do.” binary man, but somebody who’s non-binary, that people in North Dakota are actually driv- build those resources up,” In September, the Future plans include an educational zine series or a young person, or undocumented, or a sex ing three to four hours one way to Minneapo- Chicago Community Trust awarded RAD Remedy and a feature called “pop tags” where an expe- worker, these various layers may impact the lis. They’re getting what they need, but it may a grant from their new LGBT Community Fund, rience can be filtered by the reporting client’s degree to which somebody’s able to get care. not be acceptable in the long run if we feel which will help their citywide efforts, Johnson self-identified background. Rather than telling people who a good provider Recently, RAD Remedy launched a crowdfund- is, we want to give them maximum information ing campaign on RocketHub, and they’re also and let them make their own decisions.” seeking volunteers. “If anyone happens to be a full-stack developer, or knows CSS or HTML, According to Johnson, RAD Remedy takes a Images courtesy unique approach to data. “There is a review for of RAD Remedy. we’re happy to have you. If someone has an the provider, there’s a review for intake staff, hour for data entry, we’re happy to have you. there’s a review for other staff, and then there’s Whether it’s a consistent commitment, or it’s a an overall review. We’ve had some situations one-time house party that benefits us, any of where maybe the intake staff is not so good, those things really make a difference,” Johnson but then the provider behind it is fine,” John- said. son explained. Although his organization networks on social “In traditional spaces like Health Grades or media and at events like Dyke March, Johnson Yelp, sometimes they don’t have those facili- said he measures success in terms of “one-on- ties. What we’ve been able to do by providing one rigorous connection.” He was touched by the narrative, if say we have an intake staff using RAD’s resources to assist a downstate person named John who is consistently prob- transwoman who needed an orchiectomy to lematic, we can approach that provider and help her seizure medication work—but her in- say, ‘Hey, you might need to train John.’ We surance wouldn’t cover the surgery. “Now she’s can work with them to alleviate the trends that both seizure free and can be the woman she is. we see.” RAD also collects info on accessibility For me, success looks like people getting what and sliding scale from both clients and provid- they need,” he said. ers, and offers providers consults on forms and Rad Remedy’s website is www.radremedy.org, systems, Johnson said. and its RocketHub page can be found at: bit.ly/ The organization is committed to mapping radremedy. rural areas—Johnson grew up in rural Illinois RAD Remedy has announced its first crowd- and found getting care there nearly impossible. funding campaign, aiming to raise $20,000 Initially, Johnson said, RAD planned to wait by Nov. 17. Visit www.radremedy.org/funding- to release the beta database. “We wanted it to campaign. be really diversely populated—if someone was

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In particular, I think with Edie and Thea, who were together for so long—and, in certain ways, their mar- defeat talks Windsor riage existed over the same period as Justice Ginsburg’s relationship to her late husband—I think she, like so many others, came to her standards really fundamentally about equality. and more PGN: What was the hardest part of the By PAIGE COOPERSTEIN, was so obvious. Obviously this was going to book to write? LGBT HISTORY PROJECT happen.” But in 2009, that wasn’t necessarily RK: The early stuff, for sure, about my own the case. Marriage rights for gay people were life. I really struggled with whether to include Edie Windsor, charismatic, stylish and articu- still a pretty rare and pretty unique thing in that. I realized, at some point, there was no late, found herself widowed just shy of her this country. way to tell this story and tell it honestly with- 80th birthday. She hadn’t yet been married two PGN: It was believed in 2013 that Justice out talking about it. To write this book, I had years to her spouse, Thea Spyer, who died of Ruth Bader Ginsburg was against rendering Roberta Kaplan. to put down the “It’s all about Edie” Post-It complications from a heart condition on Feb. a 50-state ruling establishing the right to Photo courtesy of the LGBT History Project and explain to people the full story. It’s hard. 5, 2009. marriage between gay couples. What do you I think it’s hard for anyone. It’s hard writing Windsor and Spyer had been together more think happened over the next two years to theory about Roe v. Wade. Her theory about Roe about your past, obviously. We all do things than 40 years by the time they made the change Ginsburg’s mind? v. Wade is that it arguably went too far too fast and say things when we’re young that we wish treacherous journey to Canada, soon after the RK: First of all, she wasn’t that explicit—let and created political backlash. we hadn’t said years from then. That was defi- case for marriage equality failed in their home me be clear—when she gave that interview to I think the answer for Justice Ginsburg is nitely the hardest part to write, and to get it state of New York. Spyer had lost the use of [Jeffrey] Toobin in The New Yorker. I think a lot probably the answer for most Americans, frank- right, to put it in words that I thought were almost all of her limbs to multiple sclerosis and of people interpreted her as meaning that she ly: More and more people got—and I hate to honest and accurate about what had really used a wheelchair. was being cautious. But she didn’t come right use this phrase here, but—“gay married.” So happened. The two married May 22, 2007, at the Shera- out and say that. The reason it came out is, people who [Ginsburg] knew and loved—for- Read the entire interview at www.Windy- ton Gateway, a business hotel in Terminal 3 of she was comparing the marriage issue to her mer clerks, colleagues, friends, etc.—got mar- CityMediaGroup.com. the Toronto Pearson International Airport. Roberta Kaplan, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, relates the scene in her new book, Then Comes Marriage: United KicK-off event for the first-ever States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA. It came out Oct. 5. Kaplan, also a lesbian, filed the lawsuit that ultimately resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court declaring Section 3 of the federal Defense of to benefit Marriage Act unconstitutional. Kaplan was in Philadelphia Oct. 13 at Park- 19 agencies way Central Library. She had a conversation with Tobias Barrington Wolff, a law professor serving at the University of Pennsylvania. In advance of her talk, PGN chatted with Jess godwin youth robin da silva Kaplan about everything from her own coming experiencing out to challenging DOMA and becoming friends with Edie Windsor. hoMelessness Philadelphia Gay News: You talk a lot about how you felt like it was fate for you in chicago to take Edie Windsor’s case. You sought help in your coming-out process from Thea Spyer, Joey stone donica lynn a psychologist, in 1991, years before meeting Edie or taking her case. It seems like it was also fate for the case against DOMA to be won at the particular time in American Monday, nov. 9, 2015, 7-9 p.M. history when it was. Did it feel like there was something in the water around 2009 for sidetracK, 3349 n. halsted, chicago the sea change to happen so quickly? foiled again $10 cover John cicora Roberta Kaplan: To use a corporate legal (allison bazarko, rob and a civil-rights legal term, I think a lot of lindley and anne sheridan smith) the “smart money” in this area—and people who work in this field, including, of course, A SPECIAL MUSICAL CELEBRATION FEATURING: Mary Bonauto [Civil Rights Project director at Jess Godwin (sinGinG music from the new musical exposure) Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders]—had Joey stone a sense that the next step to ultimately win Jake Mahler equal protection under the law for gay people foiled aGain nationwide was to challenge DOMA. Everyone darrian ford (allison Bazarko, roB lindley, and anne sheridan smith) knew that the ultimate case was going to be a version of Obergefell. [The Obergefell v. Hodges darrian ford decision in June essentially created marriage christine mild equality nationwide.] Julius thomas iii Ultimately, we as a community were going nick graffagna to ask the court to recognize and require mar- honey west riage nationwide. But, before that, you have to christine Mild roBin da silva get the Supreme Court used to the idea of gay hOSTEd By: people being married. That, in itself, was a rel- donica lynn atively recent phenomenon. The best legal way to do that, I think everyone believed, and cor- John cicora (Guitar) rectly, was to challenge DOMA, because DOMA Jake mahler (Guitar) on its face was such an irrational statute. If you think of the timeline here, marriages nick GraffaGna (piano) Julius thomas iii between gay couples only started in Massachu- TO SIGN UP FOR ThE NOv. 20 SLEEP OUT BENEFIT, hONEy ANd SCOTT setts in 2003. Now, Thea died in 2009, so it’s WEST dUFF only six years later. The facts are truly incred- see www.sleepoutchicago.org ible. When we filed Edie’s case, in early 2010, ThOSE UNdER AGE 21 CAN ATTENd IF ACCOMPANIEd By ThEIR PARENT OR LEGAL GUARdIAN. only five states allowed gay couples to marry, and that didn’t even include New York. When I SPONSORS: argued the case at the Supreme Court, I think it was nine. When we won the case in June [2013], it was 13. And then it just exploded. It’s easy to look back today and say, “Oh this 12 Oct. 28, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES viewpoints

one blurted out “What is the right term to use planner wants to first know about your life and WINDY for Bruce Jenner?” After responding “Caitlyn,” lifestyle before recommending financial servic- we were able to have a much more candid con- es and products. Insurance data collection on versation on the new confusion that comes LGBTQ people and their varying family make- CITY with understanding gender and sexuality but, ups is necessary for governments and corpo- James Felton more importantly, the potential for inclusion rations to make insightful policy decisions to KEITH that comes along with identity. protect the value that we all contribute. One consensus of the audience was that the —HealthCare data ranging from health insur- TIMES members didn’t want to know “what goes on in ances to mental and psychological support pro- VOL. 31, No. 5, Oct. 28, 2015 LGBT identity The combined forces of Windy City Times, other people’s bedrooms.” This consensus came grams to pharmaceutical support are lacking founded Sept. 1985, and Outlines newspaper, after I introduced my mother in the audience per the LGBTQ community. The lack of data ef- founded May 1987. as big data to respond to one woman on the administra- fect the overall health of Americans via stigma tive staff who asked me what my dating life and disenfranchisement. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) an- was like with women, as a bisexual man. Per- Treating LGBTQ identity as a Big Data com- PUBLISHER & EXECUTIVE EDITOR nounced Oct. 1 that it was seeking comments haps we got a little too candid. It is true that modity that needs to grow in order for us to Tracy Baim from citizens while organizing priorities for its our individual curiosities have varying priori- be valuable is the first step in identifying big 2016–2020 fiscal year strategic plan to ad- ASSISTANT PUBLISHER Terri Klinsky ties, but our institutional curiosities should be solution to big problems facing America’s com- MANAGING EDITOR Andrew Davis vance the health and well-being of sexual and policy priorities that identify opportunities for munity. Governments and the corporations that ASSOCIATE EDITOR Matt Simonette gender minorities. the institution. My confession to the audience support our citizenry need to make the integ- BUSINESS MANAGER Ripley Caine I will be accepting comments through Nov. DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA Jean Albright was that “the more you know” is a valid adage rity of our identities their first priority. 2. Considering the modern political times and ART DIRECTOR Kirk Williamson in equality, as well as, workplace data. SENIOR REPORTER Gretchen Rachel Hammond the introduction of the Equality Act to both The biggest data collection efforts reside References: Senior Account Executives Terri Klinsky, Kirk chambers of congress, the best effort that where the people do, and offering more op- —National Institute of Health 2016 Williamson, Amy Matheny, Chris Cheuvront, Gretchen the NIH or any government agency can make Rachel Hammond, Mike O’Bleness portunities to identify ourselves in narrow form plan for sexual and gender minorities: is to ensure that they are collecting an equal NATIONAL SALES Rivendell Media, 212-242-6863 is what has changed our socio-cultural times. https://www.federalregister.gov/arti- SENIOR WRITERS Bob Roehr, Tony Peregrin, Lisa amount of data on LGBTQ Americans as they The observation of culture has also influenced cles/2015/10/01/2015-25026/the-national- Keen, Yasmin Nair are on others. Agencies should look internally the way in which we develop products, services institutes-of-health-fy-2016-2020-strategic- THEATER EDITOR Scott C. Morgan for solutions first. Corporate strategists and CINEMA WRITER Richard Knight Jr. and policies. Even if the data is discreet by plan-to-advance-research-on-the-health-and administrators know that collecting the Big SPORTS WRITER Ross Forman some measure, the benefits of accepting LGBTQ —Equality Act in Advocate.com: http:// ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WRITERS Data that comes from their own employees employee data are logistical. www.advocate.com/politics/2015/07/21/ Mary Shen Barnidge, Lawrence Ferber, Mel Ferrand, yield insights to identify their lowest hanging —Getting to know queer employees better sweeping-lgbt-rights-bill-be-introduced-week Jerry Nunn, Jonathan Abarbanel fruit. 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After establishing more elaborate orga- lgbtchamber Toce, Dana Rudolph, Melissa Wasserman, Joe Franco, support of state and municipal government’s nizational data, reserve the option to engage —Suze Orman at NGLCC Conference: http:// Nick Patricca, Liz Baudler, Rex Wockner, Marie J. non-discrimination policy across the United new types of diversity with affinity groups or www.miamiherald.com/news/local/commu- Kuda, Angelique Smith, Meghan Streit States, it is necessary to note that the LGBTQ SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHERS Mel Ferrand, Hal Baim, Tim employee resource groups (ERGs) that provide nity/gay-south-florida/article27298078.html community still has limited data points that Carroll, Ed Negron support and further insights for planners and James Felton Keith is an award-winning WEBSITE LISTINGS VOLUNTEER Gene Naden tell our full story. We have a vague understand- decision makers to leverage. Organizations engineer and published author. 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14 20 20 ‘Charm,’ I’m sure Gloria Allen (above) is the inspiration for Charm, reviewed this week. Pastoral opening in A’ville. Sidetrack’s Night of 100 Drag Queens. Photo by Gretchen Rachel Hammond

SCOTTISH PLAY SCOTT Cinderella and the world premiere of Bel Canto means that when they sing, I think they sing this December), while Black is responsible for with far more intent,” Black said. “The thing leading the chorus in all eight of the scheduled that makes it far more enjoyable is to work operas at Lyric. with a director like Sir David and a conductor Michael Black: “It’s quite a challenging season,” said Black like Sir Andrew Davis who together just create about teaching choral scores by composers this amazing tonal scene and visual scene and spanning four different centuries. “There’s a the chorus just loves coming into work every Mastering many styles huge variety of musical styles.” day.” For instance, Black says the Lyric chorus is Previously the chorus master for Opera Aus- BY SCOTT C. MORGAN 12-tone composing techniques for Wozzeck, learning a whole new tonal language with com- tralia, Black was initially hired away from his while Lehar’s romantic melodies are emblem- poser Jimmy Lopez’s Bel Canto. It features a native country to be an interim Lyric chorus This November, the Lyric Opera of Chicago per- atic of Vienna’s “Silver Age” of operetta. libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright master for the 2011-12 season after previous forms two very stylistically different works: Conducting both pieces is Lyric music direc- Nilo Cruz that features multiple languages like chorus master Donald Nally stepped down. But Alban Berg’s 1925 expressionistic masterpiece tor Sir Andrew Davis. He’s aided by gay chorus Spanish, Japanese and English to reflect the Black was immediately asked back when the Wozzeck and Franz Lehar’s 1905 bubbly comic master Michael Black, who is in the midst of international hostage crisis in South America replacement chorus master Martin Wright with- operetta The Merry Widow. Though only two his fourth season in at the Lyric Opera of Chi- originally inspired from Ann Patchett’s award- drew from the position due to personal health decades separate the premieres of both works, cago. Davis is scheduled to conduct four op- winning novel. reasons. Black began full time at Lyric in Au- sonically they are worlds apart. Berg’s mastered eras this season (including the soon-to-close “And at the other extreme you have some- gust 2013, and the company used the occasion thing like Nabucco. It’s one of the very few for a comprehensive in-house feature on him operas with more words to learn for a chorus in playbills handed out to patrons at the start (than the title role),” said Black about Verdi’s of the season. first big hit opera from 1842 about Hebrew “When the Lyric did the feature on me for the slaves in Babylonia. “But the sense of tonality program, I was really pleased that the picture is one that is familiar with everyone and they of my family was front and center in the pro- can basically sight read it.” gram,” said Black about his teenage son, Liam, Black has previously prepared Wozzeck earlier and his then-partner, baritone Tom Hamilton. in his career and he’s grateful for that experi- “I appreciated the fact that the Lyric treated us ence due to the opera’s many musical challeng- with great normality. It was wonderful.” es. Black is also very glad once again to work Sir David McVicar’s new production of Berg’s with gay Scottish director Sir David McVicar on Wozzeck for the Lyric Opera of Chicago pre- the Lyric’s new production. mieres 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1. Subsequent per- “The interesting thing about [McVicar’s] work formances are at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 4, 7, 12, 16 in regards to chorus work is, like he does with and 21. Wozzeck or with Rusalka last season, if the A remaining performance of Rossini’s Cinder- chorus is only featured in quite a small part of ella is at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, while a 10-per- the opera, he still features them in a way that formance run of Lehar’s The Merry Widow be- they become part of the fabric of the story— gins 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14, and concludes rather than some other directors who just get on Sunday, Dec. 13. Other operas in repertory them to walk on and walk off,” Black said. “The this season include the world premiere of Jim- chorus loves this and they love working with my Lopez’s Bel Canto (7 performances between him. So they don’t feel as though they’re just Dec. 7 to Jan. 17), Verdi’s Nabucco (7 perfor- singing a few bars and leaving.” mances between Jan. 23 to Feb. 12), Richard Black revealed that McVicar’s take on Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier (8 performances be- Wozzeck is to reset the opera just immediately tween Feb. 8 to March 13) and Gounod’s Romeo after World War I with lots of displaced people and Juliet (9 performances between Feb. 22 to and shell-shocked soldiers. Many of the choris- March 19). ters have to wear prosthetic limbs to show how All performances are at the Civic Opera they have been physically ravaged by war. House, 20 N. Wacker Dr. Tickets are $20- “The backstory [McVicar] gives them individ- $329; call 312-827-5600 or visit www.lyri- ually as characters and collectively as a group, copera.org.

Bees Do It...—are behind an evening explor- CHF’s ‘Four Women’ ing the lives and music of four iconic expa- triates: Josephine Baker, Eartha Kitt, Nina Nov. 2 in Simone and Tina Turner. Lincoln Park This one-night-only event, with Lili-Anne The Chicago Humanities Festival’s (CHF’s) Brown hosting, will feature CHF favorites as “Four Women: Josephine, Eartha, Nina, and well as music and theater legends, including Tina” will take place Monday, Nov. 2, at 6 and E. Faye Butler, Lynne Jordan, Dee Alexander, 8:30 p.m., at Francis W. Parker School, 2233 Bethany Thomas and more. N. Clark St. Admission is $12-$25; see chicagohuman- Rob Lindley and Doug Peck—the team be- ities.org. Michael Black. hind A Night at the Oscars and Birds Do It, Photo courtesy of Lyric Opera 14 Oct. 28, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES THEATER REVIEW Charm Playwright: Philip Dawkins At: Northlight Theatre at Steppenwolf Garage, 1624 N. Halsted St. Tickets: 1-312-335-1650; www.steppenwolf.org; $20-$40 Runs through: Nov. 8

BY JONATHAN ABARBANEL

Philip Dawkins is impressive in his refusal to write small and easy plays; y’know, three characters in a living room. He prefers to toss many characters into complex relationships and let his audiences observe them sputter and dance like bacon in a pan. Charm is like that. Its en- ergy, theatricality and color are high recommendations, along with its unusual subject matter. The play’s focus is Mama Darleena (Dex- ter Zollicoffer), a self-described “old tranny” who teaches a class in etiquette and manners (which together equal charm) at a center for The class in Charm. LGBTQ youth. The kids are multicultural, all Photo by Michael Brosilowby Ryan Bourque of them street-hardened beyond their years, come to understand that it’s okay not simply pleting the storylines of the characters. To be Mama Darleena, signaling rue or authority with most of them uncommunicative and defensive to care, but to express that you care. They may polite, one may infer that this story continues equal effectiveness. I expect this will be a Jeff even with each other, and most of them either not show this newly tender face to the larger rather than coming to an end. Award-nominated performance. Each support- transitioning or transitioned. Some are uncom- world, but at least they show it to each other. The company is splendid under Northlight ing actor creates a well-etched character, often municative by attitude, others because they The play is almost necessarily episodic, with artistic director BJ Jones, who, to his credit, pointed: Armand Fields, Monica Orozco, Julian lack the ability to verbalize what they think or Dawkins juggling nine characters and, amaz- came up with the idea for Charm and nur- Parker, Britney Love Smith, Namir Smallwood, feel. “They may cut up and act a fool,” Mama ingly, giving all nearly equal attention so none tured it with Dawkins. The design elements Matthew Sherback and Awate Serequeberhan. Darleena says to the center’s program director drop away. We don’t see all their “aha” mo- are simplicity itself, but Jones’ staging nearly Several act cross-gender roles, but I won’t say (Elizabeth Ledo), “but all they need is some ments as the play leaps forward, but we see the is choreographic in the constant and complex who. discipline and some manners.” It’s a rocky results or at least sense them. Less satisfactory movement of the cast. Tall Dexter Zollicoffer, Charm is inspired by the real-life Gloria Allen, course Mama Darleena sets herself—not for the are a somewhat-forced conflict and a feel-good even taller in red high heels (Izumi Inaba, whose life surely is a work of art and triumph first time in her life, we learn—and both she conclusion. The play stops rather than com- costumes), is commanding and masterful as of the spirit. and the kids are different by the end. The kids

THEATER REVIEW realize that they haven’t essayed it earlier. bystanders, and as in the Disney version, there True, nobody could proclaim it a neglected Lawrence E. are numerous seafaring songs performed by Treasure Island classic: references drawn from the 1888 novel DiStaci in a roving band of musicians. On the starboard Playwright: adapted by Mary abound in our culture, from chain restaurants Treasure Island. side, audibility has never been a priority with Zimmerman from the novel to grocery stores, but chiefly the 1950 film, Photo by Liz Zimmerman and her cohorts, making for widely by Robert Louis Stevenson where Robert Newton’s robust portrayal of the Lauren scattered vocal projection and a few obstruct- At: Lookingglass Theatre Company wily Long John Silver forever defined our popu- ed sightlines engendered by the auditorium’s and Berkeley Repertory Theatre at the lar conception of “pirate.” (Merely uttering alley configuration. Water Works, 821 N. Michigan Ave. the word within earshot of any male will bring Fortunately, the urban landscape surround- Tickets: 312-337-0665; forth a gutteral “Haaarr, Matey!” in response). ing the Water Works offers plenty of opportu- www.lookingglasstheatre.org; $55-$85 For a theater company faced with translat- nities to purchase a copy of the book or to Runs through: Jan. 31 ing a plot-heavy narrative to the dimensions of smartphone-search the Wiki to ensure arriving a skating rink-sized stage precluding the inti- sufficiently versed in the story’s sequence of BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE macy evidenced in Lifeline’s 2009 production, expect to see it now. events to permit unencumbered enjoyment of a while challenged by the physical demands of What audiences can anticipate instead is an hearty ensemble led by 14-year-old John Bab- Robert Louis Stevenson’s swashbuckling-swab- replicating natural spectacle (oceans, jungles, exemplary demonstration of what Lookingglass bo (whose string of credits already surpasses bies yarn is so perfectly suited to the Looking- etc.) in live performance, this could be a risky does best. Todd Rosenthal’s sweeping scenic those of actors thrice his age) as the young glass skill set that it’s downright shocking to voyage. Let’s not forget, too, the theater’s lo- design puts us aboard a ship constructed as Jim Harkins and Lawrence E. DiStasi as a com- cation at the crossroads of Chicago’s tourist a giant hammock, swaying over the bounding mendably cliché-free John Silver, who lead us c district during the holiday season—a boon for main as its passengers scramble over roped rig- through two-and-a-half hours of thrilling ad- family-friendly shows boasting familiar titles. ging and stagger on the shifting deck. Silver’s ventures guaranteed to send us home braying CRITICS’ Adaptor/Director Mary Zimmerman may have a parrot companion is represented by one of Blair “Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum” with appropri- PICKS Beowulf or a Bacchae up her sleeve, but don’t Thomas’ ingenious puppets, voiced by various ate Jolly-Jack-Tar swagger. The Cheats, Steep Theatre, through Nov. 7. A well-off California couple’s comfortable world THEATER REVIEW grandmother, where he was arrested by po- the confusion to its inevitable consequences comes undone when their spied-upon neighbor lice, handcuffed and transported to the sta- are generic TV-anchor gags from white-bread across the way pays a visit in Hamish Linklater Lawd, the CVS tion, only to arrive dead after having—ac- announcer Steve Cooper and slyly deadpan new comic drama. SCM cording to the officers—hanged himself in gags from African-American field reporter Jon Love and Information, Remy Bumppo at The Is Burning the car. Since Taylor was a dancer with the Steppin, who grows increasingly ambivalent Greenhouse, through Nov. 1. Always-intriguing Playwright: Carla Stillwell Alvin Ailey troupe, rumors soon circulate of over his adherence to the establishment party Caryl Chuchill considers how we give out and At: MPAACT at the Greenhouse, ”gay gangs” roaming the neighborhood— line (at one point, collapsing in tears after a receive all types of information: facts, details, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. and, since the neighborhood is Englewood, scolding from an angry-young-black-woman). emotions, signals and even love. There’s no Tickets: 773-404-7336; the victim is quickly transformed into a po- Oh, and did I mention that there are songs, story to this total ensemble work, so don’t www.mpaact.org; $15-$25 tential thief plotting to rob the grocer. This too? puzzle it out—just connect to its moments. JA Runs through: Nov. 22 premise serves to introduce a series of scenes This is a lot of material to pack into a mere My Manana Comes, Teatro Vista at Victory that could be dismissed as stereotypical, even 80 minutes of six actors zipping through Gardens Biograph, through Nov. 8. Even in the BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE offensively racist, caricatures if their real-life multiple roles—several mimed behind a sil- kitchen of Manhattan’s swankiest restaurant, prototypes were not prominently and repeat- houette screen on the Greenhouse’s tiny first- the American Dream can go sour, making for a The irreverent humor in Carla Stillwell’s com- edly displayed as solemn social commentary floor studio stage—and a score encompassing harsh lesson in microeconomics at the lowest edy comes at us quickly and loudly, but that’s in editorials, campaign speeches and pop-up a variety of musical styles from gospel to hip- and grittiest levels of our society. MSB the point of this satire on the pitfalls inher- docudramas. hop, assisted by composer Shawn Wallace on The Time of Your Life, The Artistic Home, ent in the modern practice of delivering news Our hero is the incredulous young Meechee side piano. The ensemble interplay is as im- through Nov. 15. A cozy West Town storefront in non-stop 24-hour multiple-channel tele- Jackson (who becomes so incensed at the dis- peccable as it is agile (although Quinton Guy- and a company of ensemble players adept in casts. When every talking head confronted tortions of the television media that he rips ton’s Madea-like turn as the formidable Mama verbal harmonies renders William Saroyan’s with empty air-time strives to fill it first with off his shirt—twice!!). His overbearing moth- Jackson almost steals the show). Playgoers classic portrait of a shabby Depression-era ur- the most, what soon emerges is a morass of er and featherbrained girlfriend advise him are advised not to dwell on comprehending ban landscape as colorfully enduring as a WPA misinformation. to pray away his anger but, instead, he joins every word of the rapid-fire dialogue in one mural. MSB The facts sparking the events of our play in the protest led by the scholarly Dr. Anika sitting, but to enjoy the roller-coaster ride —By Abarbanel, Barnidge are that Maurice “Munchy” Taylor went to Holden and the Rev. KiKi Sheppard. Propelling and perhaps contemplate a second viewing. the corner store one day to buy milk for his and Morgan WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 28, 2015 15 Slowly, this slice-of-life dramedy—which has Oct. 30 and Nov. 6 (or available digitally): the richly observed look and feel of an early Halloween (10/29)—For one night only, KNIGHT Jonathan Demme picture—moves toward its Fathom Events is bringing back John Carpen- rather shocking last act. The naturalistic per- ter’s 1978 classic. It plays Thursday, Oct. 29, at the formances are uniformly excellent, with Wiig a at the Showplace Icon at Roosevelt, 1011 S. decided standout as what, at first, seems to be Delano Ct. East, at 7:30 p.m. http://fathom- movies an amiable, meandering relationship dramedy events.com/event/john-carpenters-halloween reveals itself as a coolly crafted thriller. Silva Spectre (11/6)—It’s been a looong three manages the tricky balancing act of merging years since Daniel Craig, the sexiest James By Richard Knight, Jr. the two distinct genres without breaking a Bond in the franchise’s 50-plus-year cinematic sweat. history, thrilled us with his shaken-not-stirred- Nasty Baby plays at the Music Box Theatre, martini-swilling, kickass-007 super-spy moves. 3733 N. Southport Ave., beginning Friday, Oct. But Craig is back in the leather saddle (thanks Suffragette; 30. Wiig will attend screenings on Oct. 30-31 to a spiffy new Aston Martin) in this latest in- (The 8 p.m. shows are sold out, but tickets re- stallment that finds Bond battling the sinister Nasty Baby main for the 5 p.m. shows.) http://www.mu- organization Spectre. Christoph Waltz plays sicboxtheatre.com/features/nasty-baby the archvillain in this edition; Ralph Fiennes History lessons at the movies are by their na- Carey Mulligan in Suffragette. as Bond’s boss and out actor Ben Whishaw as ture inherently earnest; it takes a detailed eye Leather man Q are back; and Lea Seydoux and Monica Bel- to move beyond the familiar bullet points be- The tagline for Dan Hunt’s 2013 documentary a post-screening discussion. The film features lucci are the latest Bond beauties. There’s also ing retold and offer something beneath the Mr. Angel is “He’s a Man Like No Other”—and adult content and the screening is restricted a nice bonus: Out singer/songwriter Sam Smith surface that can truly moves audiences. Al- truer words were never said. to those 21 and over. Light refreshments and performs the film’s theme song. though Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette certainly Hunt’s subject, Buck Angel, is a transgender cash bar available. Co-sponsored by the library Spotlight (11/6)—It’s a dramatic re-creation struggles to do that—sometimes succeeding, male, adult-film performer, producer and trans and the Oak Park chapter of PFLAG. http:// of the Boston Globe’s “spotlight” investiga- sometimes not—its central performance by activist. Angel’s eye-opening journey from oppl.org/events/mr-angel-film-screening-and- tive team’s Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting on Carey Mulligan elevates the movie beyond its female to male to porn star to activist is de- discussion?ajax=1 the Massachusetts Catholic sex-abuse scandal. solemn intentions. tailed in the film which will be screened on Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Michael Keaton, Mulligan plays the fictional Maud Watts, a Friday, Nov. 6 at 8 pm at the Oak Park Library Upcoming movie calendar Stanley Tucci, John Slattery and Liev Schreiber working-class wife and mother in the industrial (Main Library, 834 Lake Street, 2nd Floor—Vet- Highlights from films opening in Chicago, co-star. bleakness of London of 1912. Maud has worked erans Room). Buck Angel will be present for in a laundry since she was 12 and we quickly see that Maud, along with all the other women at the laundry, are daily subjected to all the familiar abuses we have come to expect from such dreary places—being overworked in hor- rible conditions: low pay, sexual harassment, no chance for advancement and all the other tyrannies that women have experienced. Her husband, Sonny (out actor Ben Whishaw), works there, too, but being of the lower classes and a bit timid, he has learned not to interfere. Then, Maud takes tentative steps into the bur- geoning fight for women’s voting rights—first in support of a friend at work and then, slowly, as a true convert. Then Sonny acts brutally and swiftly—as, the movie tells us, was a man’s overbearing right. Within a terrifyingly short time, Maud has lost much that was dear to her and yet, like all true activists, she marches on with her sisters in spirit—those soldiers in petticoats whose dedication to the cause has become the driving force in their lives. Helena Bonham Carter (qui- etly subdued), as an educated pharmacist (another fictional character), opens Maud’s eyes to a different life and after a chance meeting with Mrs. Parkhurst (Meryl Streep, in a cameo), the real-life head of the movement, there’s no turning back. As the women plot their strategy in secret—how to alert the nation and the world to their cause—a police detective (the always fantastic Brendon Gleeson) is keeping tabs on them. Abi Morgan’s script piles on the injustices, each borne with determination by the women until, finally, they hit upon an idea that might have promise. It’s a bleak world these women live in, and the film’s open-ended finale leaves a bitter tang. But again, Mulligan’s richly detailed performance holds you and makes the sometimes unbearable journey that is Suffragette worth the trip back in time.

A bit of nasty business A movie about a mixed-race, gay couple trying to have a baby with their best friend (played by Kristen Wiig) doesn’t sound like something you’d want to see on Halloween. But, trust me: Writer-director Sebastian Silva’s Nasty Baby—while certainly not typical horror fare—has it in spades when it comes to the shock factor. Silva’s Freddy, half of the gay couple (along with Tunde Adebimpe, as Mo), is a performance artist who has suddenly become baby-crazy. As he works on a new gallery project, Polly (Wiig) is eagerly trying to have a baby for the couple. But Freddy is shooting close to blanks and Mo’s not sure if he’s quite as eager to step in. Then there’s The Bishop (Reg E. Cathey), the disturbed man in the neighborhood who keeps harassing the couple and Polly. 16 Oct. 28, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES CULTURECULTURE CLUBCLUB Roxane Gay dishes on Cyrus, Dunham, Watson and Clinton By Sarah Toce

Roxane Gay is a multifaceted columnist for Sa- lon, essays editor for Rumpus and co-editor of PANK, and her work has been featured in Glam- our, Best American Short Stories and the New York Times Book Review. In her 2014 essay collection Bad Feminist, Gay delivers upbeat cultural observations about her generation and community at-large, including references to Sweet Valley High, The Help and Girls. It’s no wonder then that Gay’s upcoming Chicago appearance with Gloria Steinem at Women & Front (L-r): Namir Smallwood, Julian Parker, Matthew Sherbach, Armand Matthew Julian Parker, Namir Smallwood, (L-r): Front Monica Orozco Serequeberhan, Smith, Awate Fields, BrittneyLove Children First on Oct. 29 is being dubbed the “Feminist Event of the Year.” Steinem will discuss her new book My Life on the Road at the fall gathering. “I would ask [Steinem] how the road has Roxane Gay. shaped how she understands her place in the PR photo world,” Gay replied when asked what one question she might offer the feminist activist if here), Bad Feminist mentions Dunham and her given the opportunity. hit show in its pages. The reading, conversation and book signing “Popular culture isn’t something we can treat will also feature Bad Feminist. as unimportant,” Gay said. “It is very much Modern day feminism is a term Gay isn’t fond a part of our lives. As I wrote the essays in of, naturally, but she had a few ideas of what Bad Feminist, these were simply some of the such a concept might look like. “There is no pop culture texts I was consuming, and that convenient definition or description of a mod- resonated with me in one way or another. Take ern day feminist, but I would hope that such Girls, for example. Here was a show that was a person is simply someone who cares about so groundbreaking, but as a woman of color, I gender equality, the intersections of the identi- didn’t see myself or women who look like me, ties we all inhabit, and the fallibility of human reflected in the show. That felt like something nature.” worth talking about.” For all intents and purposes, Harry Potter’s When provided with a series of questions and Emma Watson appears to be at the forefront choices to gain better perspective on Gay’s of the current generational feminist movement. pop culture loyalties, the results were intrigu- “There’s nothing wrong with celebrities as ing. For instance, given the choice between feminists so long as we understand that these Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton, Gay sided celebrities are not the entirety of the feminist in Clinton’s favor. When asked the first thing movement,” Gay said. “They serve as great am- that came to mind when hearing sexuality fluid bassadors and they do so much important work Kristen Stewart’s name, Gay chimed: “Bella in introducing feminism to a wide audience. drinking blood from a Styrofoam cup.” Miley I am particularly impressed when celebrities Cyrus prompted a “whatever” remark and Taylor bring feminism to younger audiences and make Swift was dubbed as “enthusiastic.” Then there it clear that it is absolutely great to be a femi- were the Kardashian/Jenners. Gay referred to nist. The only challenge is that some people Kim Kardashian as “brilliant” and Caitlyn Jen- assume these celebrities are all they need to ner as “interesting.” know about feminism. They don’t take intro- “I have always enjoyed pop culture,” Gay duction and convert it into inquiry.” said. “The older I get, the more I care about Gay has been outspoken in the past about how women are represented in pop culture, Watson. She wrote a title piece in The Guardian because all too often, those representations on October 10, 2014 called, “Emma Watson? are severely lacking. I worry about how young

PICTURED: MARY ANN THEBUS AND KATE FRY. PHOTO BY SAVERIO TRUGLIA. SAVERIO BY PHOTO FRY. ANN THEBUS AND KATE MARY PICTURED: Jennifer Lawrence? These aren’t the feminists people internalize these troubling messages you’re looking for” in which she emphasized, and because I want to be able to enjoy the “Watson announced her ‘He For She’ campaign culture I consume, I’m willing to fight for it to meant to unite men and women in the femi- be better.” nist movement and help women achieve equal- Fighting for a more fulfilling outcome is BEGINS OCTOBER 21 ity throughout the world. Clearly, the speech something Gay promotes regularly throughout WRITERSTHEATRE.ORG | 847-242-6000 and the campaign were both well intentioned: her work regardless of her audience. video of her speech went viral and hers was “My voice is fairly consistent regardless of the face that launched a thousand essays and where it might be heard,” she said. “I’m not articles about ‘Emma Watson’s feminism.’ The going to change who I am or how I think for a feminist movement found a new brand, even given audience.” though Emma Watson wasn’t saying anything Gay has a new opportunity to reach more feminists haven’t already said for more than 40 of the masses in her upcoming book Hun- years.” ger, forthcoming from Harper in 2016. Hunger Gay also said in the Guardian story that is described as an “essay-style memoir con- women such as Katy Perry, Shailene Woodley cerning unruly bodies, weight, trauma, body and Kelly Clarkson “denounce feminism be- image, and self-care.” cause they believe in humanism or they love Tickets for “Gloria Steinem in Conversa- men or other such reasons that make little tion with Roxane Gay”—to be held Thurs- sense.” day, Oct. 29—are available now via Women Girls star Lena Dunham spiked a controversial & Children First: http://www.womenandchil- tone with Gay as well. drenfirst.com/event/gloria-steinem-conver- “Lena Dunham is a talented writer, director sation-roxane-gay. The venue is Doors of the and creator,” Gay offered. “We don’t agree on People’s Church, 941 W. Lawrence Ave., with some issues, but I admire her talent, her cre- doors opening at 6:15 p.m. The program will ativity, her willingness to learn from her mis- begin at 7 p.m. and the signing will follow steps, and her willingness to stand her ground the event from approximately 8 to 10 p.m. on the things she believes in.” More about Roxane Gay is at http://www. Despite any bad blood (cue Taylor Swift roxanegay.com. WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 28, 2015 17 THEATER at Rivendell Theater through Nov. 22; Raggedy And, about a biracial transgender lesbian/cis- gender lesbian couple, also at Rivendell The- ater March 10-April 10, 2016; and Ten Dollar David Zak talks House, a true story of two men during the De- pression who restored a cottage in Wisconsin, at the Piccolo Theatre in Evanston Jan. 7-30, theater and film, 2016. “Every day I wake up and find script and screenplay submissions in my email inbox, so there’s always something new going on,” said upcoming benefit Zak. “We’re always looking for new board members and diverse voices to add to our ranks. We also need financial support to keep producing by CARRIE MAXWELL Zak told Windy City Times. “It was one of our plays and films, since we don’t get a lot of fed- biggest financial successes until The Boy From eral funding and the state of Illinois is broke, “I believe that the arts are very crucial and Oz. I would go from the Book of Merman, which so there is no money there” can change the world,” said Pride Films & Plays was a traditional musical with an older audi- See http://pridefilmsandplays.com for (PFP) Executive Director David Zak. ence, over to the Steppenwolf Theatre to see more information. To purchase tickets to Zak’s long and storied career in the theater Angry Fags, which had mostly young people in the Nov. 2 event visit, http://pridefilmsand- can be traced back to his teaching days at the audience with a few older Steppenwolf The- plays.com/chicago-legend-alexandra-bill- Benet Academy in Lisle, Illinois. One day Zak, atre season ticket holders. We billed it as Oscar ings-is-the-featured-performer-at-simply- who taught Drama and English, told his stu- Wilde meets Tarantino. The Angry Fags audi- sensational and for all other PFP productions dents what his mom told him, that they could ence wasn’t going to go see Book of Merman.” ticket purchases visit, http://pridefilmsand- be anything they wanted to be, i.e., the cap- Some Men is a Terrence McNally play consist- plays.com/tickets. tain of their own ship. ing of 10 different scenes from the 1920s to “One of the kids said to me if you can do any- today and had its Chicago premiere with PFP. thing you want to do why are you here teach- “We got positive reviews from each of these ing us,” said Zak. “I turned in my resignation shows because of the audiences who sought About Face’s ‘Club’ the next morning. The kids were shocked but them out since these plays are very different David Zak. supportive when I told them I always wanted from each other,” said Zak. “We’re making sure raises $70K to run a theater and would come back to teach- there’s a range of plays available and we’re More than 130 guests attended About ing later in life.” also looking to have people go outside their Face Theatre’s (AFT’s) 3rd annual The Black val Nov. 9 at the Public House Theatre and the Zak, who grew up in Lisle and attended comfort zone and try something new such as & Tan Supper Club at the InterContinental Gay Film Weekend Nov. 13-15 at the Center on Benet Academy before graduating from Mac- the gay guys going to the lesbian play. Really, Chicago Magnificent Mile hotel. Halsted. Murray College in Jacksonville, Illinois with a what we’re doing is LGBT material for every- Celebrating About Face’s 20th Anniver- Queer Bits Fall Film Festival will feature short BA in Theater and English, moved to Chicago in one. That’s the big turning point for us in the sary, the event raised $70,000 for AFT’s films from around the world. Gay Film Weekend 1979; in 1982, he founded Bailiwick Repertory. coming year—figuring out how to get everyone programming, including its Youth Theatre. will consist of movie directors working through As Bailiwick’s executive and artistic director, interested in seeing what we’re producing. Entertainment included performer Tila Von screenwriter submissions via stage readings Zak has received many Jeff Awards for produc- “We produce more plays than films but this Twirl and live music by Hannaniah Whitley. with actors so the screenwriters will get a vi- ing and directing. In 2003, he received a Jeff year we are working on evening that out and The evening also included the presenta- sual sense of what they wrote; the writer will Special Award for bringing diverse communities that’s our goal for 2016. Next year we’re start- tion of the 2015 Leppen Leadership Awards also hear feedback from the audience. into the Chicago theater with programs such as ing the Queer Chicago Project to look for ten (to honorary board member Megan Carney “I love 10-minute films because they’re the the Deaf Bailiwick Artists, Pride Series and the minute film screenplays from writers around and The LGBT Community Fund at Chica- perfect length for a short story,” said Zak. Lesbian Theatre Initiative. the world that can be shot here in Chicago.” go Community Trust) and the About Face PFP’s upcoming stage performances include He left Bailiwick in 2009 and spent about six PFP will be holding a benefit, “Simply Sensa- Youth Theatre MVP Award (to Kyla Norton). the Noel Coward production Design for Living months teaching contemporary theater at Ko- tional,” on Nov. 2, and it will feature Chicago rean National University of Art in South Korea. native Alexandra Billings. Honey West and Sky- “It was really great to get as far away from lar Kergil, who’s been documenting his transi- Belmont Avenue as you could get and work in tion on his YouTube channel since 2009, will “ “ an environment that values the arts and has also be performing. H H H H H (OF 5) H H H H (OF 4) money for the arts,” said Zak. “That was really “It’s a way to celebrate the various compo- exciting for me. To be in a culture that had no nents of what we do, raise money to support out gay people was really interesting to me. It all of our projects and make the L and T more deliciously fresh quirky, bizarre, was at this point that I began to think about visible in the theater and films,” said Zak. “The developing new LGBT works for the stage and event isn’t just about trans artists, however, we ” ” screen. The LGBT movies I was watching on my are highlighting this community at our event. Kindle weren’t very good and I knew I could do Lauren Sivak and Carolyn Reynolds will be there and inventive tantalizing TIME OUT CHICAGO CHICAGO TRIBUNE a better job.” representing our LezPlay Incubator program. As When Zak returned to the United States, he we kick off this coming year what we’re trying co-founded PFP in 2010 with John Nasca and to do is get more women in the director’s chair Patrick Rybarczyk. Over the years, PFP has pro- and see more women writers submit their work duced a number of successful plays, including to PFP.” Book of Merman, The Boy From Oz, Some Men Zak explained that a group of women started and Angry Fags, in association with Steppen- Lez Play Incubator specifically to energize les- wolf. bian plays, performance pieces and films. They Topher Payne wrote the comedy Angry Fags, meet on the first Sunday of the month at 4:30 which was a part of Steppenwolf’s Garage Rep. p. m. at 1411 W. Wilson Ave. in Chicago. “The Book of Merman opened at Mary’s Attic Not only will PFP be holding a benefit, but and later moved to the Apollo Studio Theatre,” it will also host the Queer Bits Fall Film Festi-

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NEW WORK PARTNER MAJOR 2015/16 SEASON SUPPORTERS The Harold and Mimi The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Steinberg Charitable Trust 18 Oct. 28, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES BOOKS biographical account recalls the poet’s volatile ‘60s adolescence with an alcoholic father and the “cultural accident” that led to the development of a passion for the written word. Eileen Myles: “I finally had the right publisher to reissue it,” she said of the decision. “I wasn’t going to give it to just anybody. Black Sparrow was a Still brazen after all these years great publisher. Ecco’s great, too.” By Sarah Toce riding in a cab when she realizes she had that Trust is paramount in Myles’ experiences in cab driver before,” Myles recalled. “Then she the world. In somewhat of a dichotomous mus- Eileen Myles will read, discuss and sign copies [finds] a pack of cigarettes in her jacket and ing, she explained why she is—and always will of her new book I Must Be Living Twice: New & another in a different pocket. At that moment be—Catholic. Selected Poems at Women & Children First on she says, ‘I must be living twice,’ but it was “I am always a Catholic,” she said. “Though, Saturday, Oct. 31, at 7 p.m. The event is free kind of a druggy joke she had with herself.” I despise their politics particularly around gen- and open to the public. Myles added, “But when I stick it on a book der and queer gay trans issues [and] I despise “It’s nice to put together what you think are I’m thinking about retrospectives rather than their policing of women’s bodies.” your best poems in one book,” Myles said. “It’s drugs.” In a similar vein, the mediums of poetry really cool, and I’ve been on my way to this If given the chance to change one thing from writing and performance art, while uniquely book for eight years, so it’s great.” her past, Myles said she would live in “New different forms of expression, are intermingled If the title “I must be living twice” sounds York as a poet” or maybe “go away to college.” in Myles’ perception. familiar, it should. It’s a line from Myles’ 2010 Our histories can find a way to resurface “They are completely interrelated in my mind book Inferno: A Poet’s Novel. when we least expect it. Take for instance Myl- and freshen each other,” she said. “They are Eileen Myles. “The Eileen character is high on drugs and es’ beloved 1994 book Chelsea Girls. The auto- both sorts of codified experience.” PR photo

The issue of trust resurfaced when Myles was asked about women writers being able to make a living wage while harnessing the written word. “C’mon. Poetry is free,” she answered. “And one can write a poem at work. I don’t trust this question.” To push the issue further, she was asked if female writers were more prominent in today’s society than they were 20 years ago. “Women are smarter than men so it makes sense that we would be better writers,” she said. “I think the world 20 years ago wasn’t that much different. I’d go 40. That was different. Men really made it impossible for women to be around, never mind heard or published.” On the topic of inspiring a minority group (such as the LGBT community) to engage in writing, Myles seemed to get even more com- bative. “I don’t believe the LGBT group is a minority,” she said. “I don’t [think] there is any accurate count of how many people are queer, trans [or] gay in the world. I think they are breathing just fine and don’t need anyone to inspire them. If people would rather go to bars than go to art events, I wouldn’t stop them. But I only know about the world that treats art events like bars.” In general, learning about events at bars— or art clubs—has gotten significantly easier with the adaptation of technology in our social lives. Has technology hurt or helped today’s modern poet? “Well we’re all different,” she said. “I love twitter, hated answering machines. I like pen- cils, hate hard drives.” One thing she does love without a disclaimer is Chicago. “I was once having breakfast in some neighborhood that was lately gentrified and the restaurant I was in was kind of hip ... the music, perhaps Motown, was blaring and the neighborhood,” she remembered. “Outside was poor and desolate and I was overwhelmed by how much great food and good music and green paint could create a fish tank effect. It was very drug-like the way this hipster restaurant sat in a poor neighborhood, and I thought the illusion of fullness inside was as mind-altering as anything I’d experienced during my years of getting drunk and fucked up. I felt I was in a movie of wellness that was really contradicted by the neighborhood. I felt I should be sad, but I wasn’t.” One thing Myles is feeling lately, though, is tired. “I’m sort of tired,” she said. “Lately I’m thinking I should read John Donne and finally watch the entire run of Battleship Galactica. Oh, I’m reading Oliver Twist. I just finished Middlemarch. I probably like reading more than anything. It really keeps the room full.” Find out more about Eileen Myles and her upcoming event at Women & Children First at http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/ event/evening-spooky-poetry-eileen-myles. WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 28, 2015 19 Billy Masters

“I don’t know about you, but you’ve answered my prayers!”—Bruno Tonioli after watching Car- los PenaVega’s stripper routine on Dancing with the Stars. Just remember—big things come in small packages. Or is it big packages come in small things?! Settle down: Class is in session. Today, we are going to discuss the difference between three terms. First, transvestite. This is someone who Keegan Allen and James Franco aim to make likes to dress in clothes of the opposite sex. Typ- a “sex-cellent” King Cobra. ically, these people are known as drag queens (or Instagram photo drag kings) and have no desire to be a member of the opposite sex. A transsexual lives as the ning on publishing it. Faye got in touch with opposite of their biological sex, which may, or her agent and asked if her former co-star would may not, include surgery. A transgender person be interested in “collaborating” on Dunaway’s believes he or she is born in the wrong body and book—for acknowledgement but no pay. Ru- typically undergoes surgery to “transition.” tanya declined and published her own book. The While there is some overlap between trans- Mommie Dearest Diary—Carol Ann Tells All is a sexual and transgender, transvestites are a short, breezy read with precious little that would completely different thing entirely. To refer to interest most people. But there is a handful of a transgender as a transvestite or drag queen dishy Dunaway dirt. Left to her own devices, is not only demeaning, but completely incor- Faye was photographed in a Hollywood bookshop rect. And yet, Laverne Cox, that trailblazer for buying a Mommie Dearest script and Christina transgender folks everywhere, is taking on a role Crawford’s book. There’s no word on when her where she’ll blur those lines. She’s just been book is coming out. cast as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in FOX’s remake of The Our “Ask Billy” question kinda has a literary Rocky Horror Picture Show. The trades tout this bent. Brandon in Chicago asks, “What is the sto- as perfect casting—for this country’s premier ry about this movie being made about that gay trans person to sing, “I’m a sweet transvestite, porn murder that Brent Corrigan was involved from Transsexual, Transylvania.” But the role was in?” written for a biological man in female lingerie. Way back in 2007, the owner of a gay porn What is shocking is that it’s a guy “making a company (Cobra Video) was murdered by two es- man, with blond hair and a tan”—to say nothing corts, Harlow Cuadra and Joseph Kerekes. Alleg- of him having sex with both Janet and Brad. For edly, they killed Bryan Kocis so that they could this role to be played by a woman—even a trans- make a movie with Corrigan (who was not in- gender woman—is ridiculous, to say nothing of volved in the plot). The story was chronicled in insulting to all the brave transgender people who the book Cobra Killer: Gay Porn Murder. The book have worked so hard to let everyone know they is being turned into the movie King Cobra, which are not simply drag queens. James Franco is producing. When Glee did its “Rocky Horror” tribute show, Corrigan was approached to be involved in the person initially cast as Frank-N-Furter was the production, but declined. The film will star John Stamos. At the last minute, those plans Christian Slater as Kocis and Molly Ringwald as were changed because of “network resistance”— his sister, Melody. We believe that Keegan Allen, I guess someone at FOX didn’t wanna see Stamos from TV’s Pretty Little Liars, will play Cuadra, and in fishnets. Now watch how seamlessly I weave Franco will play Kerekes. Garrett Clayton, best this into a current event story. Stamos’ DUI court known for his Disney Channel flicks Teen Beach date was supposed to be on Oct. 16; at the last Movie and Teen Beach 2, will play the pivotal minute, it was pushed to Nov. 24 We don’t know role of Corrigan. Brent initially seemed unim- what the holdup is. But we do know that he’s pressed with the casting choice: “I was 17-21 been charged with driving under the influence in the years the screenplay spans. I looked much of drugs. Some sources say that the drug in his younger. He doesn’t embody Brian’s [sic] pref- system was GHB! So my dream of bumping into erence for not legal boys.” However, once the Stamos at a late-night rave wearing fishnets 24-year-old Garrett posted a photo of himself in could actually come true! a very revealing costume, Corrigan changed his Caitlyn Jenner has just gotten quite a bit of mind: “Looks just like me at 17 ;-).” We’ll post good news. First, her reality show, I Am Cait, pics of both boys on BillyMasters.com and you has been renewed for a second season. It’s also can decide for yourself. been announced that she’s going on a five-city When a porn star is turning down being in speaking tour next year. “Up Close and Personal” a Molly Ringwald movie, it’s definitely time to will make stops in Toronto, Vancouver, Denver, end yet another column. How rare it is for me San Francisco and Seattle. You can get more to continue a theme for a whole column. But info and tickets by going to UniqueLives.com/ that’s what keeps people coming back to www. caitlyn-jenner. BillyMasters.com, the site that always delivers Last week, a certain story caught my eye. A the unexpected. If you have a question for me, mother in Nebraska bound her two sons with send it along to [email protected], and I duct tape and forced them to watch Mommie promise to get back to you before John Stamos Dearest over and over again. I half-expected the lets me play with his glow stick! Until next time, mom’s last name to be Dunaway. Alas, it was remember, one man’s filth is another man’s bible. not. Mary Lucas claims that after her kids called her the “meanest mommy,” she wanted to show them what a real mean mother was like. She’s been charged with felony child abuse. Faye was LGBTRIVIALGBTRIVIA only charged with overacting! This leads perfectly into a new installment of ? ? Magnus Hirschfeld wrote Fayewatch. As I previously told you, Faye has of this woman: “She was signed a deal to write a book about the making the first and only woman, of Mommie Dearest. The trouble is: a) she hates ? indeed the first and only talking about it and b) doesn’t remember much American, to take up the about the filming. She thought her memories ? defense of homosexual could be jostled by Rutanya Alda, the actress love before the general who played Carol Ann in the movie. She heard public.” that Rutanya had kept a diary and was plan- Answer on page 22 20 Oct. 28, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES WEDDINGS KRAMER/SIMS Shayna X Kramer and Larissa Sims (now Shayna X Sims and nightspots Larissa X Sims) met at Berlin more than 15 years ago, and they recently held a fabulous wedding for family and friends. “Larissa and I fought for marriage equality for Illinois,” Shayna the big said. “We never thought we would get married but certainly thought everyone should! And then, I proposed to her at the finish line of the Tough Mudder race. After 15 years together, we loved our family and friends coming together to celebrate. It TO-DO was the first time our families met only because everyone lives in different states. It was love at first sight with our families. OUR WEEKLY PICKS TO PLAN “Larissa’s dad passed away, but we are happy to have his YOUR NIGHTLIFE CALENDAR partner, Scottie, in our life. He is truly part of our lives. As he walked Larissa down the aisle, he wore a beautiful picture of Marvin (Larissa’s dad) by his heart. Our gay married friends told us they cried more at our wedding than their own.” The wedding was a mix of nightclub, wedding traditions and craziness, including the artsy hosts passing tissues in the middle of the ceremony. “It was absolutely unforgettable,” Shayna said. Larissa X Sims (left) and Shayna Photos provided by Scott Bradley, Jimmie Lisak and TG X Sims. Warford

the DISH Positively Aware: Weekly Dining Guide in Pastoral’s Ken Miller (left) 25 Years and Counting! and Greg O’Neill. WINDY CITY TIMES Photos by Tracy Baim Thu., Oct. 29 Museum of Broadcast Communications, 360 N. State St. SAVOR An evening of celebration as Positively Aware magazine marks 25 years of HIV Pastoral opening journalism. Complimentary cocktail reception, entertainment, raffle, and a short presentation. RSVP is required as in Andersonville space is limited. http://pa25.kintera. org/RSVP BY ANDREW DAVIS

Pastoral Artisan Cheese, Bread & Wine held a sneak peek of its new Andersonville retail location and Appellation, the full-service wine bar & restaurant, on Oct. 23 at 5212 N. Clark St. Among those who attended were Ald. Greg Harris and artist Adam Thomas, whose work is on display at the site. The store/restaurant hybrid (which one could call a “restorerant”) is a multiuse space that could be great for dates, friendly gatherings or group events. It is slated to open the week of Oct. 28. Jessica “Jesse” Williams (Uncommon Ground; available in just two locations outside of Chicago. Miller. The couple have opened three other Pastoral Floriole; Lulu’s Cafe) is the chef of the 75-seat Ap- Patrons will also be able to place takeaway orders sites in Chicago: at 2945 N. Broadway, 53 E. Lake pellation, which will, according to a press release, for sandwiches and salads throughout the day in St. and Chicago French Market, 131 N.Clinton St. Halloween Magic on “serve as an extension of the Pastoral retail store, a separate to-go area. In addition, there will be For more information about Pastoral, visit pasto- Northalsted presenting dinner cuisine that highlights artisan many bottles of wine that can be inspected and ralartisan.com. cheese, charcuterie [and] bread, and pairs them purchased. Judging by the number of people who peeked Sat., Oct. 31 with wine, craft beer and cocktails.” The best way to think of the space is as a store/ through the windows before the official opening, Halsted St., Belmont to Addison To accent and accompany its charcuterie station, gathering place that’s open for dinner and brunch, the Andersonville neighborhood is ready to greet Parade registration begins at noon at Pastoral will feature a rotating French mustard on co-owner Greg O’Neill told Windy City Times. O’Neill Pastoral/Appellation with open arms. Belmont and Halsted. Parade begins at tap from Maille, which, in the United States, is owns the spot along with life/business partner Ken 4 pm. Costume contest includes four categories: Scariest; Drag; Group; and Original. Jim Beam Apple and Effen specials at many bars along the route.

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Sat., Oct. 31, 10 pm The Glenwood, 6962 N. Glenwood Ave. Compete for the grand prize of $250, or walk away with $150 for second or $75 for third. Hosted by KWizmaster SIDETRACK Kirk Williamson, sounds by DJ Ron S. Photo from Glenwood’s 2013 contest Play time with Night of 100 Drag Queens: Queens at Play, Wed., October 21. by Kirk Williamson Photos by Kirk Williamson. See many more photos online at www.windycitymediagroup.com WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 28, 2015 21

Gay To attend, you must pre-order or pur- Chicago 312-335-1650 Tickets: http:// Sunday, Nov. 1 COMMUNITY chase the hardcover version of Gloria’s www.steppenwolf.org/Plays-Events/pro- The Lighthouse Church of Chicago Multi- forthcoming memoir My Life on the Road ductions/index.aspx?id=653 ethnic and LGBT-inclusive with Pastor ($30.59, including tax) from Women & Jamie Frazier, 10:30am Uptown Under- CALENDAR Children First in-store, through our web- Saturday, Oct. 31 ground, 4707 N. Broadway St., Chicago site, or over the phone (773-769-9299). Depression & Bipolar Support Alliance http://www.lighthousechicago.org Conversation at 7 p.m. Author signing (LGBTQ) Support meeting to talk about Memorial for Dick Uyvari Longtime par- Wed., Oct. 28 from 8 to 10 p.m. This event is sold out. illnesses, symptoms, treatment, doc- ticipant and supporter of Chicago’s LGBT Genderqueer Chicago A grassroots group 6:15pm The People’s Church, 941 W. Law- tors, and personal issues such as dating, and AIDS organizations, died Sept. 2 at that works to create safe spaces for every- rence Ave., Chicago Tickets: http://www. relationships and work. Every Saturday. 71. 11:00am Center on Halsted 3656 one to talk about, think about, explore and womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/gloria- 11:00am - 12:30pm Center on Halsted N Halsted express gender. 7:00pm - 8:15pm Center steinem-conversation-roxane-gay 3656 N Halsted Chicago http://dbsa-glbt- on Halsted 3656 N Halsted St. chicago.com Monday, Nov. 2 Jinx Titanic and the Ladykillers release Friday, Oct. 30 Magic: The 19th Annual Northalsted Hal- Simply Sensational: Legends, featuring party Celebrate the release of new full- Murder Mystery Halloween Party Chicago loween Parade Begins on Halsted, moving Chicago Legend Alexandra Billings Cel- length recording I Killed Juanita. Special Youth Worker Collective and Center on Hal- north from Belmont to Addison. Costume ebrate the talents of the Pride Films And appearance by The Magic of Mike. Doors at sted Youth Halloween Party. Food, prizes, contest. Noon: Registration begins at Bel- Plays Ensemble and Friends as we celebrate 7pm. $10 8:00pm The Hideout 1354 W DJ. Ages 13-25 3:00pm - 6:00pm Cen- mont and Halsted and Family Festivities in transformation. Dean Richards from WGN Wabansia Ave Chicago https://www.face- ter on Halsted 3656 N Halsted Chicago Space Park, 815 W. Roscoe. 1:30-2:30 pm emcees. Reception for VIP ticket holders 6 book.com/Hideout-Inn-139096082092/ http://www.centeronhalsted.org Family and Pet Parade at Roscoe and Hal- pm. 7:15pm Stage 773 1225 W Belmont Tickets: http://www.hideoutchicago.com/ Quarterly Conversations with the Caucus sted. 3:00-3:30 pm Ruby Red Relay Aldine Chicago Tickets: http://pridefilmsand- event/982395-jinx-titanic-ladykillers- Chicago Black Gay Men’s Caucus hosts to Cornelia. 4 -5:30 pm Halloween Parade plays.com/chicago-legend-alexandra-bill- chicago/ remembrance openly gay HIV/AIDS clinician and au- Belmont to Addison. 6 - 7 pm Costume ings-is-the-featured-performer-at-simply- Game Night Board games, card games, Sunday, Nov. 1 thor Dr. David Malebranche discussing his Contest Winner’s announcements Roscoe sensational/ dominoes, TV for video games. Free. book, Standing on His Shoulders: What I and Halsted http://northalsted.com Billy Strayhorn Festival Dance Event Lane 6:00pm - 9:00pm Gerber Hart Library and There will be a memorial for Learned about Race, Life and High Expec- Women and Children First Presents Ei- Alexander and Chicago Human Rhythm Archives 6500 N Clark St Chicago 773- Dick Uyvari at the Center on tations from My Haitian Superman Father. leen Myles A poetry reading and signing Project mix Strayhorn’s music with dance. 381-8030 https://www.facebook.com/ The event will have a Q&A followed by net- from I Must Be Living Twice and Chel- Call to confirm date/time. 7:30pm Jazz events/180633318947359/ Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted St. working. 6:00pm - 9:00pm The Jeffrey sea Girls. 7:00pm Women & Children Showcase 806 S. Plymouth Ct.; 312-360- L Lounge A safe place where Lesbians can Photo by Ross Forman Pub, 7041 S. 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