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Season classics A preview of the 2010-11 classical music season in Milwaukee, page 17. The voice of progress for Wisconsin’S LGBT community September 23, 2010 | Vol. 1, No. 23 voters set the stage for Nov. 2 races By Louis Weisberg East Side precincts, Larson Staff writer outpolled Plale by five to one. In an election season when The Larson-Plale race split upset victories by fringe- the LGBT community, with right candidates have domi- Fair Wisconsin and HRL- nated the news, Milwaukee PAC endorsing Plale based County Supervisor Chris on his past cooperation Larson bucked the trend by on legislative issues. Doug mounting a successful chal- Nelson, executive director of lenge from the left. An out- AIDS Resource Center of spoken progressive, Larson Wisconsin, also endorsed took 61 percent of the vote Plale, who was instrumen- Sept. 14 against moderate tal in securing a $1.8-million incumbent Jeff Plale in an grant for ARCW. expensive, nasty and closely Wisconsin Gazette backed watched Democratic prima- Larson. ry in Wisconsin’s 7th Senate “It’s important to Fair District. Wisconsin that we sup- Larson now faces port the people who have Republican Jeff Ripp at the been in the Legislature and polls Nov. 2 in a district have taken the tough votes that consistently votes time and again,” said Fair Democratic. The district Wisconsin executive direc- includes the East Side and tor Katie Belanger. “We were Bay View neighborhoods proud to support Sen. Plale, of Milwaukee, which are who has done just that. We believed to have the heaviest look forward to working concentrations of gay resi- with Chris Larson, who is dents in the state. In some fantastic on LGBT issues and P h oto : E l l E n S . C o o k will continue to fight for fair- ness.” CROSSING THE FINISH LINE Plale became a pariah to This progressive voters when he Walkers cross the finish line of AIDS Walk Wisconsin. The Sept. 19 event raised $261,024 for killed the Clean Energy Act AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin and seven other beneficiaries. See story on page 7. issue by refusing to bring it up inside and online at for a vote. In retaliation, he wisconsingazette.com was assailed by a barrage of negative mailers that charged News he was hostage to Big Oil Senate stalls on military vote WiGWAG ��2 and other anti-environmental Wisconsin Gaze............4 interests. The Potawatomi By Lisa Neff U.S. Sen. John McCain, a would create a path to citi- “Time is the enemy Political Gaze ��8 tribe reportedly provided Staff writer prisoner of war in Vietnam, zenship for undocumented here,” said Aubrey Sarvis Editorial �� 10 heavy financial support for The Senate’s most promi- led his party in paralyzing immigrants who arrived in of Servicemembers Legal National Gaze �� 12 the mailers. nent war hero led the action on a national defense the United States as children Defense Network, an LGBT “We’ve got a pretty good Republican campaign to authorization bill. The bill and enrolled in college or watchdog and legal rights Features shot (now) of having a state block a Sept. 21 vote on included amendments pro- joined the Armed Forces. group. “We now have no WiGOUT �� 17 senator who’s independent lifting the policy prohibiting viding for the repeal of The Senate likely won’t choice but to look to the Art Gaze �� 18 of corporate lobbyists and openly gay servicemembers DADT and passage of the take up repeal of DADT until lame-duck session, where Theater �� 20 big polluters,” Larson told a in the Armed Forces. Dream Act, legislation that after the mid-term elections. DADT page 16 On the Town �� 26 cheering crowd during his Community Events.... 29 victory party at Bay View’s Primary page 14 battle Over janesville gay bar, page 5 2 WISCONSINGAZETTE.CO m | September 23, 2010 lGBt news with a twist WiGWAG By Lisa Neff & Louis Weisberg record kISS for some equal “Kiss time she saw the 16-year- has violated international human Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Matty Daley and Bobby Cam” time. old Navratilova, Evert says, “I rights laws and perpetrated geno- Newt Gingrich and Mike Pense, Canciello have made the Guinness “Our stance is, remember that she was fat. cide by continuing to claim that Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachman, Book of World Records for lon- we’ll put you on She was very emotional on condoms don’t stop the spread Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell gest continuous kiss. The two male the request list, the court, whining if she didn’t of HIV. Previously leaders in the and American Family Association friends locked lips for more than no guarantees,” feel she was playing well. But I ERM have advocated the pope’s issues director Bryan Fischer, who 33 hours on the campus of New r e s p o n d e d remember thinking, if she loses arrest. The ERM is an atheistic has said gays should be disqualified Jersey College. They said their epic Tony Simokaitis, weight, we’re all in trouble.” movement founded, according to from holding public offices and smooch, streamed live on tow- director of score- She lost weight. a news release, “upon the premise “gay sex is a form of domestic elrod.com, was performed as a board operations. that there is no God. Raelians terrorism.” Not on the fall get- public service to the world. But apparently, the same- SmASHED believe all life on Earth was cre- away list. Per the rules laid out by sex kiss never happened, at least A British judge in mid-Septem- ated many thousands of years ago Guinness, neither man ate, slept, not in front of the cameras. ber sentenced George Michael by extraterrestrial scientists, who glittery farewell sat or used the bathroom as they to eight weeks in jail for “drug were mistaken for gods by our A Las Vegas attraction featuring kissed. The use of adult diapers SERvED-up driving.” The pop singer also lost ancestors.” the pianos, jewelry and gowns of also is prohibited, making this kiss “Unmatched,” a new docu- his license. Michael had pleaded pianist and showman Liberace is the ultimate challenge. mentary on ESPN, examines guilty in August to being under SuRvEyED closing down Oct. 17 due to costs. the off-court friendship and on- the influence and possessing pot Booking a fall getaway? An Liberace Foundation board Unrecorded kISS? court rivalry between tennis when he crashed a Range Rover international panel of travel jour- chair Jeffrey Koep said the vol- The between-innings “Kiss champs Chris Evert and Martina into a north London store July 4. nalists helped LOGO, the LGBT unteer board of the nonprofit Cam” is a popular feature at Busch Navratilova. They played one The judge said Michael was under network owned by Viacom/ foundation wants to take the col- Stadium and other ballparks – the another more than 80 times – the influence of “a dangerous and MTV, deem Chicago a “Best U.S. lection of artifacts from Liberace’s video board shows a couple, then often for the big prizes on grass unpredictable mix” of drugs and Destination.” Philadelphia also glittery 50-year career on tour, waits for a smooch. Gay activists or clay. The media fed on the com- cannabis when he crashed. Michael made the list, as did Las Vegas and sell the museum commercial cen- in St. Louis asked the Cardinals petitive nature of their game and has had some prior encounters San Francisco, Fort Lauderdale, ter several blocks east of the Las to show same-sex couples kissing helped manufacture their public with the law – including an arrest Fla., and Provincetown, Mass. Vegas Strip, and reopen in a differ- their partners, too. images – America’s blonde sweet- in 1998 for lewd conduct in a pub- ent place. The museum opened in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch heart vs. Czechoslovakia’s bratty lic restroom. Summoned April 1979. Liberace, a native of reported that at least 200 gays and defector. 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