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A variety of events and people shook up the local and national LGBT landscapes in 2009, including (clockwise from top) the National Equality March, President , a national kiss-in (including one in Chicago’s Grant Park), Scarlet’s comeback, a tribute to murder victim Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado and Carrie Prejean. Kiss-in photo by Tracy Baim; Mercado photo by Hal Baim; and Prejean photo by Rex Wockner National news in ‘09: Obama, & more Angie It was a year of setbacks and progress. (Look at Joining in: Openly lesbian law professor Ali- form for America’s Security and Prosperity Act of page 17 the issue of marriage equality alone, with deni- son J. Nathan was appointed as one of 14 at- 2009—failed to include gays and . Stone als in , New York and Maine, but ad- torneys to serve as counsel to President Obama Out of Focus: Conservative evangelical leader vances in , New Hampshire and Vermont.) in the . Over the year, Obama would James Dobson resigned as chairman of anti-gay Here is the list of national LGBT highlights and appoint dozens of gay and lesbian individuals to organization Focus on the Family. Dobson con- lowlights for 2009: various positions in his administration, includ- tinues to host the organization’s radio program, Making history: Barack Obama was sworn in ing Jeffrey Crowley, who heads the White House write a monthly newsletter and speak out on as the ’ 44th president, becom- Office of National AIDS Policy, and John Berry, moral issues. ing the country’s first African-American chief who is director of the Office of Personnel - A mad GLAD: The people who brought marriage executive in the process. Openly gay Episcopal agement. equality to and Connecticut—Gay nightspots Bishop V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire was Immigration initiative: U.S. Rep. Jerrold & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD)—filed n selected to deliver the invocation at the inau- Nadler re-introduced a bill Feb. 12 that would a lawsuit March 3 in federal court in Boston, pick it up guration’s kick-off event Jan. 18—calming some enable gay Americans to sponsor their foreign seeking to challenge the federal Defense of Mar-

December 23, 2009 take it home #1008 riage Act (DOMA). In the case, Gill v. Office of 2009 - The Green Issue LGBT-rights activists, who contested the selec- same-sex partners for legal residency in the Almost 100% recycled material. We’re, like, soooooo sustainable. tion of evangelical minister the Rev. Rick War- United States. Unfortunately, a bill introduced Personnel Management, the plaintiffs sought a ren, who delivered the invocation at the actual Dec. 15 by Rep. Luis Gutierrez (of )— Turn to page 6 inauguration. known as The Comprehensive Immigration Re-

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NEWS Interview with Joe.My.God 4 Honduran killed; world news 5 National LGBT news of ‘09 6 Local LGBT news of ‘09 7 LCCP head departing 8 A look at FCAN 8 Gays head state insurance 9 Quotelines 9 Views: Monroe, Kelly 10

ENTERTAINMENT Theater: Best of ‘09 11 A book provides insight about the Knight: Top 10 of ‘09 16 mysterious —who, among Bring in this ad for a Another look at ‘09 films 16 other things, adopted his life partner as second burger of equal or lesser value. Not valid with any other offer or discount. Exp. 1-31-10. Pop Making Sense: Wrap-up 17 his son in 1960. See page 19. Angie Stone interview 17 Book: Robert Allerton 19 Billy Masters 21 Photo by Elizabeth Leitzell

OUTLINES Real estate; classifieds 18 Calendar Q 20 : Antwerp, Wrigley 22 Sports: Top 20 moments 22

Cover photos and credits (from top): Photo of Joe Jervis aka Joe.My.God by Rex Wockner; Promotional photo from the movie A Single Man; Angie Stone PR photo

Cat Jefcoat (above) reflects on leaving the Lesbian Community Care Project. Read page 8.

Photo by Micki Leventhal

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Even if I changed Tom day and put them on a timer to go up on the to Tim or Keith to Ken, they knew it was about half-hour. them and it became harder and harder to write Rex: I was just going to ask you about that truthfully knowing that people I was writing because I know that you’re posting in your about were often reading it as it came out. And sleep. after about 300 short stories, towards the end of Joe: Well, I’m not posting in my sleep but I do that run of short stories, I’d been occasionally like to stagger my posts to give sort of a fresh —Peggy Shorey commenting on current events and eventually it and interesting life to the blog. I hope that’s (left) now heads sort of took over to the point where I was only not a dirty little secret—that it’s not entirely Pride at Work writing a short story once a month. And after a live. couple of years of once a month, I pretty much Rex: Is that built into the Blogger soft- —Pro-gay stopped it entirely with the exception of rerun- ware? Vermont ning a handful of chestnuts that I rerun on cer- Joe: It’s in the software. You just set the time Republican dies tain days of the year. you want the blog post to go up. Rex: Your cat is spazzing. Rex: Under “post options”? —Possible new Joe: She’s having the midnight crazies a little Joe: Yes. hate crime in early. Rex: Who knew? Rex: What’s the most memorable thing that’s Joe: Yup. Joe Jervis aka Joe. My. God. Photo by Rex happened to you as a result of the Joe. My. Joe: And so, yes, people are sometimes baffled Wockner God. blog? Like a story that had some amaz- when I’ve been posting all day and then at the must have put it in places where she can’t get it ing impact, or something that went wrong, or end of the day I’ll say, “By the way, I’m in San back, and then she screams at me. something about being a public figure now? Francisco (now).” “How could you be in San Rex: I think she’s gotten it, or she realizes Talking with What’s the weirdest or strangest thing? Francisco, you’ve been posting every 30 minutes it’s on the other side. Joe: The weirdest as far as being a public fig- for the last eight hours?” That’s how it’s done. Joe: That’s a little radio-controlled mouse I Joe. My. God, ure is people Facebooking my presence in Ber- So, I’ll write most of the morning’s postings the bought for her that worked for about three min- lin when I went to Folsom last year, and night before and then, in mid-afternoon I’ll usu- utes. I finally threw the remote away but she Joe Jervis friends of mine finding out I was in Berlin be- ally devote another couple of hours to it and still likes to with it. by Rex Wockner cause strangers were Facebooking having seen write the afternoon posts which typically do Rex: So, given that you sort of have become me, like a celebrity-sighting, and I thought that go up live. I don’t really finish that early. My a gay public figure and a gay media outlet and If you want a relatively straightforward report was very cool but also a little unnerving. last post of the day usually goes up by 6 unless a gay voice with clout, how do you deal with of the day’s gay news, you turn to blogger Andy Rex: Right. something happens, if somebody dies or some- people who try to influence what you do or Towle at Towleroad.com. If you want essentially Joe: Or sitting in some random airport at 6 thing dramatic is going on in the world. I’m a talk you into something that you don’t want the same news but with attitude, swagger and a.m. waiting for the gates to roll up on the food bit of an insomniac so sometimes I’ll blog live to do? fearless of anti-gay “douchebags,” you court and having someone tap me on the shoul- in the middle of the night just because I can’t Joe: I am very aware of being managed. And turn to Joe Jervis aka “Joe. My. God.” Joe and I der and being recognized. I’m very accustomed sleep. I am home office so if anything happens I’m aware when obviously lots of LGBT organiza- and his gray cat Shelley sat down for an inter- to being recognized in gay spaces, at events or or breaks, you know, my boss is very supportive tions and other groups want to get their mes- view recently in his studio apartment on Man- at bars or at parties or whatever, but on the of the blog and so there’s no problems at all sage out and how they’ll try to massage me into hattan’s Upper East Side. streets, in public, in airports—that’s very un- with me blogging while I’m ostensibly supposed being sympathetic either to their point of view Rex Wockner: Boxers or briefs? comfortable. to be— or to feeling obligated to parrot their press re- Joe. My. God: Briefs. Rex: Tell me about the name Joe-dot-My- Rex: Oh, you work your day job from home. lease or their event or their rally or whatever, Rex: When did this all start? dot-God-dot. Joe: Yes. and I try to keep them at arm’s length, you Joe: The blog started in March 2004. Joe: Originally, when I was brainstorming the Rex: I see, OK, that explains a lot of it. The know, both emotionally and not to overstep my Rex: Somebody told me it was originally about name with my friend who helped me set up the gay male bloggers that I look at every day are position journalistically. There are a few groups sexploits. original template—which I’m still using five you and Andy Towle at Towleroad; I scan The that are rather notorious for trying to manage Joe: Not really, although it’s sexual in its ori- years later because I know very little about HT- Slog in Seattle for ’s postings, I bloggers, to make sure that the message they gin in that I was originally frustrated by Man- ML—I told him that I wanted the name to have scan through Andrew Sullivan for gay stuff, want is the one that we put out. And that’s not hunt, where instead of putting up the traditional my name in it, my first name, and have some sort I scan through John Aravosis for gay stuff to say that there aren’t a lot of good people do- “I want this, you must be that” sort of profile, of—in those days pun blog titles were the rage; although he has a gay site now. There’s a lo- ing good work and their message isn’t the right I would write these sort of snarky-slash-bitchy they were all very punny and I wanted a punny cal blogger in San Diego that I look at named message. It usually is. But I’m also very leery of takes on the entire online-hookup phenome- blog title as well. I wanted a pun and I wanted Mike Tidmus. becoming their sock-puppet, and you learn by non—to the point where people would write it to have my first name in it and I wanted it Joe: Right, I know him. error. A few years ago, you might be flattered to me and say, “You know this is for getting to reflect that I was in —and the Rex: And I think that’s about it for me on that someone from some major progressive or sex, right?” And I would instead write things first, and almost immediately discarded, working a daily basis. There’s a lot of stuff out there LGBT group might want to get you on the phone like “Manhunt weather report” and “How to sell name for the blog was Joetorious NYC. like Good As You and Queerty and other and ask for your opinion, and then a little bit yourself on Manhunt: Marketing tips,” and I Rex: Thank goodness. things that I don’t look at every day (but), ul- wiser and later you realize that they were sweet- thought it was amusing, a lot of people did. And Joe: Which is really only funny if you know timately, it’s a pretty small group that you’re talking you into basically regurgitating to your I would update it once a week and my profile about morbidly obese dead rappers but I thought in. If you look at bloggers that are exclusively readers exactly what they want them to read and started getting passed around outside of Man- it was hilarious. Joetorious kind of fed into the, writing about gay stuff ... you’re probably the believe. And so with bitter experience you start hattan, where people would write to me from, as you said, sexploit aspect of the blog and it second-most-read blogger after Andy Towle, I treating those sort of conversations with a jaun- like, Olympia, Wash., and say, “I know we’re had my first name and it had New York City in it, would imagine. diced eye. never going to meet but I just want to tell you but my friends were just like, “No, that’s ridicu- Joe: I really don’t know. I used to follow my Rex: A lot of times with a lot of news I love reading your profile every week”—and lous, that’s so silly.” And finally, I really can’t stats and my Technorati ranking and all that events, your postings are perfectly straight. if I didn’t update it on Friday morning as was recall now how we settled on Joe. My. God., but stuff, but it’s self-defeating, you know, if you The headline, the opening line written by my tradition, I would get e-mails from strang- it was meant to be, obviously, a play on “Oh my start worrying about who’s doing better than you, a closing line written by you, whatever, ers saying, “Where’s your column?” And I’m like, God.” And it was because my English Mancunian you. doesn’t really opinionize at all. Sometimes, “Well, it’s not a column,” and, at one point, the boss at work was always using the expression Rex: ... I wasn’t trying to set it up like of course, you do. You call people douchebags Manhunt service man who monitors improper us- when I would—when she had something for me: that—what I was saying is, “That’s pretty and fuckwads, but a lot of times you don’t re- age of the service even wrote to me and said, “Joe, my God! You’ve got to do this for me.” That cool.” ally say anything. “You’re going to have to start using this the was her way of her letting me know that the Joe: Oh, it is very cool! Joe: Well, sometimes the news is opinion-neu- way that you’re supposed to,” because I guess project was urgent. And so I would tell her, “If Rex: I mean, you have, like, accidental tral; if somebody died, they died. Sometimes there it was being read, you know, and I didn’t mock you say ‘my God’ to me one more time—just tell clout. You’ve become a person with clout. isn’t really a lot to say other than repeating the Manhunt for being Manhunt, I just mocked the me to do it.” “Joe, my God!” And so it kind of Joe: It’s totally accidental. I follow on my RSS fact that there’s X amount of votes on a certain entire phenomenon. And after that, and already grew from there. The punctuation actually grew feeder about 75 other bloggers—gay bloggers in important bill. And, you know, occasionally you having been frustrated by the lack of charac- out of a blog that I quite admired at the time— particular (and) they’re very generous with at- color it with, “This guy didn’t vote and should ter spaces available—I think it was 600 back little. yellow. different.—which was written by tributing sources and quotes and, if Pam Spauld- have” or “This woman did and she shouldn’t then—I decided to, upon the urging of a couple Ernie Hsiung out of California, and little. yel- ing gets to something first, and it’s something have,” but other than that, you know—I am not of Manhunters—“You should put this on a blog low. different. was his, you know, self-referential we all would obviously blog about, we’ll credit as good as Andy (Towle of Towleroad) at keeping somewhere.” So I started blogging and a lot of take on being Asian and small and gay, and it Pam as being the first to write it. That doesn’t my opinion out of straight news stories and that the blog early posts were really silly, when I look was also the ad campaign for Advil when it first mean that she came up with the story or that might be why he’s much more widely read than at them. I haven’t taken anything down even came out, which, you know, that kind of amused she wrote the original story, but she was the I, because obviously people think I’m a loud- though I wrote stuff I regret that don’t make me me, so I used the same elliptical punctuation in first to discover it and find it, and we’re all very mouth. Andy typically doesn’t use pejorative look so great. I’ve left all of them up except for mine. good about hat-tipping. Even though it might terms to describe our enemies, whereas I do, the ones that are about people who now read Rex: You start posting pretty early in the be a New York Times story, but if Pam found it which is why I would probably never, if I wanted the blog. morning and you stop pretty early in the day, and found it relevant first, she gets the credit. to, work for, say, the HRC, because anything that The first two years were pretty much devoted usually. You have a real job as well. And I depend on my RSS feed. [The cat inter- Turn to page 5 to first-person memoir-ish short stories, nonfic- Joe: Yes, I do. Typically, I blog in two shifts. rupts us.] Was that her (the cat’s) mouse? She Dec. 30, 2009 5 Human Rights Watch called Trochez’s mur- has ruled ’s capital for the past 12 years, pageant, won by 25-year-old Mumbai model Ka- Honduran gay der “part of a pattern of violence against LGBT fully supported the measure. The country’s rul- reena. leader, resistance people in Honduras that seems to have acceler- ing National Action Party (PAN) opposed the Police officer Mark Carter, 27—crowned Mr. ated in the turbulent months since the June 28 bill. The new law alters the meaning of marriage Gay UK in 2006—has been arrested in connec- fighter assassinated coup.” from “a free union between a man and a woman” tion with allegedly committing a sex-based at- by Rex Wockner “The mounting violence against people who to “a free union between two people.” tack, according to Pink News. The Huddersfield look or love differently in Honduras reflects a has hosted its first transsexual beauty Examiner reported, “Police arrested a 27-year- Well-known Honduran gay activist Walter Tro- crisis of intolerance,” said HRW researcher Juli- pageant—an event that saw 120 people com- old man at a hotel in Leeds on suspicion of com- chez was murdered in a drive-by shooting Dec. ana Cano Nieto. peting for the title of “Miss India,” according mitting a serious sexual offence, on Saturday, 14 in Tegucigalpa. He was 27. The International Gay and Lesbian Human to a New York Post item. The pageant, which December 19th.” Carter, who has been suspend- Trochez was an active member of the resis- Rights Commission said Dec. 17 that Trochez’s featured contestants 20-35, took place in the ed, has been with the Huddersfield Police since tance front against June’s coup d’état and, on death was “the 16th known murder in the city of Chennai. The Indian Community Welfare 2005. Dec. 4, had been kidnapped, beaten, interrogat- Honduran LGBT community since the military Organization, a gay-rights group, organized the —Compiled by Andrew Davis ed about the resistance, threatened with death, coup.” and told to cease his activism. “The human rights of people in all sectors of JERVIS from page 4 Rex: I was interviewing Andy Towle and I The four kidnappers, whose clutches he man- Honduran society are being systematically vio- forget what I asked him, but he said: “I feel aged to escape after several hours, wore hoods lated as the direct result of the military coup. I ever did for them, the right wing would come overwhelmed right now because I’m doing and drove a truck without license plates. They However, the accelerated rate at which LGBT back and say, “This is the same guy who called this interview instead of being on the com- were probably government agents, multiple people have been killed in the last five months such-and-such preacher a douchenozzle.” And puter and seeing what’s happened. Some- sources said. Police officials denied any involve- suggests a targeted pattern of violence,” the the Internet is forever and when anyone ever thing could be happening right now.” ment. group said. gets a job of any sort of visibility, the first Joe: That’s what it takes. You sort of sur- “Even if you give us the information, we’re go- thing the right wing does is try and look for render a lot of your free time and a lot of your ing to kill you,” the kidnappers told him. “We —Assistance: Bill Kelley anything that they might have said that could peace of mind because it’s always a race. It’s have orders to kill you.” hurt them. always: Get the story up right away, particu- In his role with the Resistencia Nacional Rex: Do you get threatened sometimes? I larly when there’s elections or breaking news Contra el Golpe de Estado, Trochez had been More world news... mean, because you do call people - events and, you know, a lot of people depend documenting and publicizing homophobic kill- Mexico City lawmakers approved same-sex nozzles. I mean, legally and whatever? on like Andy and me, and they’re sitting ings and crimes believed to be committed by marriage Dec. 20—making it the first measure Joe: Never legally, except by one person who in their cubicle and they’ll refresh and refresh— the forces behind the coup, as well as general of its kind passed in Latin America, according I don’t care to name because there’s been a and sometimes, you know, the whole concept human-rights violations committed during anti- to AFP. The new measure modified a civil-union complete media blackout on him on my blog of live-blogging an event, that’s nerve-racking coup protest marches. statute already in Mexico City. ever since he first came to public notice. He when you are live-blogging a debate or an He had recently published an article titled “In- The parliament of has decided to has threatened me with legal action, which I election or a protest rally and people are look- crease in hate crimes and homophobia toward take out anti-gay language from a law that re- ignored. ... I’ve got numerous threats of physi- ing for updates not only every hour but every LGTB as a result of the civic-religious-military stricts information made available to children, cal harm, of course, from just regular wingnut two minutes! coup in Honduras.” according to Advocate.com. Originally, the Law nobodies who happen upon the blog, and I Rex: Right. I did that exactly once and it The article said, in part: “It is worth stating on the Protection of Minors Against the Det- usually dispatch them in short manner by de- made me kind of crazy. that the explicit support of the church in Hon- rimental Effect of Public Information banned termining their IP address and sending them Joe: It can be very tough. duras for the military coup of June 28, 2009, information that “agitates for homosexual, bi- a Google map shot of their own house and Rex: So you’re not making a complete liv- prevented holding a referendum organized by sexual, and polygamous relations” along with threatening to publish it. ... ing doing this, you’re clearly making some the legitimate constitutional government, while images of sex and death as well as foul language Rex: What would you ask Joe. My. God. if money doing it but, is it worth it? I mean, it put dictator Roberto Micheletti in power. ... and data on the paranormal. Now, the law bars you were interviewing him? what do you get from it? You have to give up Once again we say it is NOT ACCEPTABLE that in information that encourages “the Joe: I’ve had friends tell me that blogging to a lot to stay current. these past four months, during such a short pe- of minors, sexual relations between minors, and them feels like a homework assignment that’s Joe: You do have to give up a lot. My (reduced) riod, nine transsexual and gay friends were vio- other sexual relations.” always due but never done. interest in like going out and carousing and lently killed, six in San Pedro Sula and three in In , a dad is accused of forcing his Rex: Yeah, let’s talk about that. taking advantage of all gay New York City has Tegucigalpa. ... As a revolutionary, I will always 14-year-old son to have sex with a prostitute Joe: You can’t get into that mode. It’s almost to offer fortunately dovetailed perfectly with defend my people, even if it takes my life.” because he thought the boy might be gay—and become a compulsion with me to the point my increasing blogging, so, you know, I don’t “The murder of Walter Trochez must be in- the father will now stand trial for the of where I can’t even go on vacation; I have to know what I’d be doing if I wasn’t blogging vestigated immediately and those responsible the son, according to the Morning Bulletin. In haul up the laptop and see what’s happened as much as I do. Because, yes, I’ve got all of brought to justice,” said Kerrie Howard, Amnesty 2007, the father reportedly phoned a prostitute and post. I don’t think I’ve gone a day without glittery, glamorous lying at my feet International’s Americas deputy director. to meet her at a motel; he took his son there, posting for years. but even if I wasn’t blogging, I’d be, “Well, “Amnesty International fears that Walter’s kill- and asked to see a used as evidence Rex: I haven’t had a day offline in 15 you know, how many times can you go to the ing may be a sign of worse abuses to come in that he had sex. The prostitute has not been years—a day when I didn’t go on the Inter- Empire State, and I don’t even want to go to the atmosphere of political instability and fear located. net. bars.” You know, I can do it from anywhere and that has prevailed since the coup d’état in June. Mexico City lawmakers approved same-sex Joe: I don’t mean just not on the Internet, even my (daytime) jobby job isn’t irrevocably ... The de facto authorities must ensure all re- marriage Dec. 20—making it the first measure I mean contributing something to the blog. ... tied to Manhattan, so if I decided to go back ports of reprisals against protesters and cam- of its kind passed in Latin America, according My blogging volume is much lower on week- to , Fort Lauderdale or wherever, paigners are fully investigated and subject to to AFP. The new measure modified a civil-union ends, but I’ll still put up three, four, five posts it would be fairly seamless. the full weight of the law.” statute already in Mexico City. Members of the on Saturday and Sunday. Rex: Excellent. Thanks, Joe. Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), which 'LVFRYHU&RPSXWHU&ODVVHV DW C9?< &HQWHU

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&HQWHURQ+DOVWHG1+DOVWHG__ZZZFHQWHURQKDOVWHGRUJ 6 Dec. 30, 2009 NATIONAL from cover Crime time: New data collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation appeared to show an in- declaration that DOMA, enacted in 1996, is un- crease in bias-motivated crimes—hate crimes— constitutional. The Department of Justice filed on the basis of in 2008. a motion in September to dismiss the suit, and State of denial: The New York State Senate re- GLAD has filed a response. jected a bill to legalize same-sex marriage Dec. Money business: A report—“Poverty in the 2 in a 38-24 vote. The bill had passed the As- Lesbian, Gay, and ,” the first sembly repeatedly and Gov. David Paterson was report ever to look at the subject in depth— hoping to sign it into law. revealed that LGBs are more likely to be poor Georgia on my mind: Simone Bell became the than their heterosexual counterparts, despite first Black lesbian elected to a state legislature the myth of gay affluence. in the United States after winning her race in Making a statement: The Obama administra- Georgia, defeating attorney Asha Jackson. tion signed a United Nations official statement Major mayor: Annise Parker, an openly gay of support for “Human Rights, Sexual Orienta- public official, won the final mayoral election tion, and .” In signing the state- race in Dec. 12, becoming the first ment, the United States joins 66 other nations openly gay person to be elected as mayor of one in declaring support for LGBT people to be af- Annise Parker (left) and Lt. Daniel Choi were among those who made LGBT news in ‘09. Photo of the top five most populated cities in the Unit- forded basic human rights. of Choi by Joe Tresh ed States. The victory made Parker head of the Vermont victory: Same-sex marriage in Ver- fourth largest populated city in the country. mont began Sept. 1, 2009. Vermont was the first A matter of principles: A diverse group of 24 als should avoid telling clients that they can Making a federal case: The Washington, D.C., state to introduce civil unions in July 2000, and gay-rights activists, Democratic Party organizers change their sexual orientation through therapy city council voted Dec. 15 to give final approval the first state to legislate same-sex marriage. and fundraisers came up with a manifesto called or other treatments. to a marriage-equality law. While Democratic Getting an education: In an historic first, The Dallas Principles. The document is a call to Kiss, kiss: Thousands of people took to the Mayor Adrian Fenty signed the bill Dec. 18, the GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education arms, and lists principles and goals of the LGBT streets in dozens of cities Aug. 15 as part of District of Columbia is a federal territory and, Network) Executive Director Eliza Byard and a community. “The Great Nationwide Kiss-In” to protest recent therefore, Congress has 30 in-session days to delegation of students and teachers met with I’m coming out: Confirming the speculation harassment and arrests of same-sex couples for take action to overturn the measure. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in Washing- about his sexuality, American Idol runner-up kissing in public. Locally, two events took place ton, D.C., March 23 to discuss the importance of came out officially in Rolling Stone magazine. in Chicago (in Grant Park) and Oak Park. Passages: anti- efforts to the Obama administra- Also, former Family Ties star Meredith Baxter an- The church’s choice: In Minneapolis, del- Martin Delaney—a giant in the world of HIV/ tion’s education reform agenda. nounced to the world that she is a lesbian. egates at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in AIDS activism who founded Project Inform— “I do” in Iowa: In an enormous victory for Actions speak louder than words: President America’s biennial meeting voted 559-451 died of liver cancer at his home in San Raphael, equal marriage rights for gay couples, the Iowa Barack Obama signed a proclamation designating on Aug. 21 to ordain ministers in committed, Calif., Jan. 23 at the age of 63. Project Inform Supreme Court ruled unanimously April 3 that June as “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and same-sex relationships—although they did not was one of the first and, some say, best orga- gay couples should have the right to marriage li- Pride Month.” However, many LGBT-rights advo- endorse same-sex marriage. nizations to educate and empower patients in censes the same as heterosexual couples. Same- cates criticized the move, saying Obama had not Buju ban: After several LGBT-rights organi- making healthcare decisions. Peter Staley—an sex marriage became legal April 27. done nearly enough for the LGBT community. zations expressed outrage, concert promoters early member of ACT UP New York and founder A sad tale: Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, 11, Bad Smelt: In Smelt v. U.S., a somewhat ob- Live Nation and AEG canceled most of reggae of AIDSmeds.com—said that Delaney, a Chicago hung himself at home April 6 after enduring bul- scure gay-marriage case in California, the U.S. dancehall singer Buju Banton’s fall concerts. Ac- native, “indirectly helped tens of thousands of lying at his Springfield, Mass., school, including Department of Justice (DoJ) submitted a brief cording to these groups, the lyrics in some of people by shaping clinical trials, the develop- daily taunts of being gay—even though there June 11 that many LGBT activists saw as a be- his songs are vehemently anti-gay—to the point ment of HIV drugs, and policies affecting treat- was no specific proof he was gay. His mother trayal of President Barack Obama’s promise to where they call for the killing of gay people. ment access and the price of drugs.” reportedly complained to the school weekly. work to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. Sev- Cleveland rocks: Cleveland, Ohio, was award- Out AIDS leader Rodger McFarlane took his This was at least the fourth suicide of a middle eral groups, including , issued a ed the 2014 in a press conference own life May 15 at the age of 54. As he ex- school-aged child linked to bullying this year, joint statement saying, in part, “The adminis- held in , —the site of the ‘10 plained in a letter left behind, the increasingly reported GLSEN. tration is using many of the same flawed legal Games. The other finalists were Boston, Mass., disabling heart and back pain he experienced A page-turner: Amazon.com censored more arguments that the Bush administration used.” and Washington, D.C. were more than he chose to endure. than 57,000 books—including many LGBT- A subsequent DoJ brief stated that the Obama Marching on: Coinciding with National Com- George Tiller, 67, one of the few doctors in themed ones—in what was chalked up to “an administration “does not support DOMA.” ing Out Day, at least 200,000 individuals par- the nation who performed late-term abortions, embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error Plea to the president: Seventy-seven members ticipated in the National Equality March in was shot to death in a Wichita, Kan., church for a company that prides itself on offering com- of Congress wrote President Obama, requesting Washington, D.C. The 2.3-mile march ended at May 31. Suspect Scott Roeder, 51, was located plete selection.” that implementation of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” the Capitol with hours of speeches, including by almost 200 miles away, near Kansas City. In No- Minute by minute: The Obama administra- be suspended until Congress can repeal that pop-music sensation . The previous vember, Roeder admitted to killing Tiller and was tion held a high-profile unveiling of a new HIV/ law. The letter specifically mentioned Lt. Daniel night, the held its an- unapologetic, saying he murdered the physician AIDS public-awareness campaign in April. The Choi, a West Point grad, Arabic linguist and Iraq nual gala, which featured a speech by President to protect unborn children. first phase of the campaign, “9½ minutes,” was War vet “who is under investigation for refusing Obama. Lesbian Mary “Mandy” Doolittle was among based upon the fact that one U.S. resident be- to lie about his identity.” The Maine event: Residents in Maine narrowly the nine individuals killed when a Washington, comes newly infected with HIV every nine and a Remembering Stonewall: The 40th anniver- voted to repeal the state’s new marriage-equali- D.C., Metro subway train plowed into the back of half minutes. sary of the —a series of violent ty law. Marriage-equality advocates made up the a second train. She was planning a return trip to Carrie-d away: Miss California contestant demonstrations against a police raid that took “No on 1” camp, which tried to defeat the initia- with Carol Anne Douglas, her partner of 15 Carrie Prejean started a firestorm by stating to place June 28, 1969, at the in tive. years. judge Perez Hilton that she was against same- New York City—was noted with events all over Free to travel: President Barack Obama an- Walter Cronkite, the TV journalism giant who sex marriage. However, it would hardly be the the nation. nounced Oct. 30 that his administration will end has covered some of the most historic moments only time Prejean would be in the news, as she Being inclusive: U.S. Rep. Barney Frank—who the long-standing policy at Health and Human of modern times, died July 17 at 92. Mark Se- did everything from promoting a book to being had previously promoted a version of the Em- Services (HHS) that banned immigration by peo- gal, publisher of Philadelphia Gay News, said, implicated in a sex-tape scandal. Prejean lost ployment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) that ple with HIV. He announced the policy change “Walter embodied a tried and true journalist, her Miss California title. excluded gender identity—introduced a trans- during a ceremony at the White House, where he one who covered all sides of the story and was Library’s loss: A federal judge ruled that trans inclusive version in the House June 24. Hear- signed a bill to reauthorize the Ryan White pro- committed to the idea of bringing news to the veteran Diane Schroer is entitled to the maxi- ings have since been held, with people such as gram to help people with HIV and low incomes. public.” mum compensation for the discrimination she Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan testifying Acting against hate: Saying “no one in Amer- Nationally known AIDS activist Dennis de- suffered after the Library of Congress denied her in favor of the measure. ica should ever be afraid to walk down the street Leon died Dec. 14 of heart failure at age 61. In a job. Bar none: In Fort Worth, , police and holding the hands of the person they love,” 1993, deLeon, who was the human-rights com- Marriage in New Hampshire: New Hamp- Texas Alcoholic Beverages Commission (TABC) Obama signed the and James missioner for New York City, wrote an op-ed for shire’s House and Senate approved a marriage- agents reportedly entered the Rainbow Lounge Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act—included in which he revealed his HIV equality bill, which the governor signed June 3. gay bar and began forcibly arresting people for as an amendment within the National Defense status. After going public, he formed the Latino Same-sex marriage will become legal there Jan. public intoxication; one patron was hospitalized Authorization Act—Oct. 28. commission on AIDS. 1, 2010, replacing civil unions. with a brain injury. The head of the TABC later Closed Window: Window Media shut down Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., who fought The century mark: Members of the Human said that the raid was a mistake. several gay newspapers around the country, in- for equal rights for gays on many fronts and was Rights Campaign (HRC)—the largest national Showing their medal: Late gay-rights activist cluding the Washington Blade and the Southern an early defender of people with HIV, died Aug. LGBT civil-rights organization—held events Harvey Milk and lesbian tennis legend Billie Jean Voice. Blade editor Kevin Naff said Window of- 25; he had been suffering from brain cancer. As across the nation called “First 100 Days” on April King were among 16 honorees who received the ficials told him the company “was forced into author of ENDA, he led the debate in 1996 when 30 to mark (you guessed it) President Obama’s Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which means liquida- the Senate came within one vote of passing the first 100 days in office. Aug. 12. Regarding Milk, a White House press tion.” bill. Love and 8: In one of the most anticipated release said, “Milk encouraged [LGBT] citizens to Remembering Jorge: In a killing whose bru- Rusty Gordon passed away Oct. 27 after los- court decision in the past five years, the Califor- live their lives openly and believed coming out tality stunned many, gay 19-year-old Jorge Ste- ing her fight last night with progressive supra- nia Supreme Court ruled May 26 that the state’s was the only way they could change society and ven Lopez Mercado was decapitated, partially nuclear palsy. Among her many accomplishments anti-same-sex-marriage amendment Proposition achieve social equality.” burned and dismembered on an isolated street were producing one of the first-ever women-only 8 was valid law, but that the 18,000-plus mar- One argument against therapy: The American in Puerto Rico. People around the country held women’s music festivals and being involved with riage certificates issues to gay couples prior to Psychological Association published a resolution vigils, including an emotional one in Chicago’s many LGBT causes through and its passage last November remain valid. explicitly stating that mental-health profession- Humboldt Park neighborhood. other groups. Dec. 30, 2009 7 Tell.” In his note, Obama wrote, “It is because of Un-ladylike behavior: Thomas Flanagan— Local events outstanding Americans like you that I commit- known to many Chicagoans via his drag persona, ted to shanging our current policy.” Lady Vera Parker—was taken in by the Chicago From with no love: Local gay-rights Police Department. Flanagan, 24, was arrested in 2009 activist Andy Thayer was among the people ar- June 30 on charges of deception. “Flanagan pled by ANDREW DAVIS rested in Moscow, Russia, when LGBT-rights guilty Aug. 20 to two counts of theft and was advocates attempted to hold a pride parade. sentenced to 30 months of probation. Here is what happened in the local LGBT scene Thayer was later released without incident. Not backing barebacking: In a letter to ven- in 2009, from rallies/protests to controversies De Jesús denied: LGBT-rights activists ex- dors, International Mr. Leather (IML) President involving courts and clubs: pressed their concerns that the reportedly anti- has said that the event “will no Change we can believe in: New President Ba- gay Rev. Wilfredo De Jesús would replace 26th longer allow participation in the IML Leather rack Obama promised change—and Windy City Ward Alderman Billy Ocasio after Ocasio an- Market by any entity which promotes bareback- Times showed how much, revealing that back in nounced that he would become a senior advisor ing or distributes/sells any merchandise tending 1996, he supported same-sex marriage when he to Illinois Gov. . Cook County Com- to promote or advocate barebacking” starting . Photo by Base- ran for the Illinois State Senate. Now, he advo- missioner Roberto Maldonado was appointed next year. ball Club, LLC/Stephen Green cates civil unions but is not in favor of marriage the new alderman; De Jesús allegedly withdrew Going to market: Northalsted Market Days equality. because he did not reside in the ward. went on as usual, but there were a few different Mell-intentioned: Deborah Mell was officially Holding court: The Alliance of Illinois Judges things in 2009. The most controversial change Passages: sworn in as a state representative, making her (AIJ), an LGBT-oriented organization recently involved a new VIP Stage area at Addison that Former Cook County Commissioner Thaddeus the first openly lesbian member of the Illinois founded by a group of judges from the Cook allowed festivalgoers entrance for a $30-$50 S. “Ted” Lechowicz died Jan. 5 at the age of General Assembly. She also made history when County Circuit Court, was formed. Among its fee; giving patrons access to private bathrooms, 70. Despite what many might consider the rela- she was the only representative to vote against members are Tom Chiola, the first openly gay drink tickets and a liquor tent—as well as be- tively conservative bent of his Catholic commu- impeaching then-Gov. (and brother-in-law) Rod judge to be elected to the Cook County Circuit ing closer to acts such as and En nity, Lechowicz was instrumental in getting the Blagojevich. Court (and who is soon slated to retire) and Se- Vogue. Cook County Human Rights Ordinance passed in Out of school: Ron Huberman—a former Chi- bastian Patti, who was recently became the first In da club: Elk Grove Village’s Hunter’s Night- 1993. cago Transit Authority president who now heads gay man named to the Illinois Appellate Court. club caused controversy when it started look- Robert Maddox, co-founder of the legendary —officially came out in School daze: At Chicago’s Pride Parade, Lakev- ing at the IDs of trans individuals more closely. Male Hide Leathers, Inc., passed away suddenly the Chicago Sun-Times. However, Huberman’s iew’s Nettelhorst Elementary School became the Hunters manager Peter Landorf said that part of Oct. 25; he was 74. A memorial was held, fit- sexuality was considered an open secret in the first public school to march in the event. The the change was due to some individuals report- tingly, at the Leather Archives & Museum in No- LGBT community and did not matter to some school, which is known for honoring diversity, edly doing inappropriate things in public but vember. officials, who were more concerned with Mayor showcased thousands of multicolored cloths that, ultimately, it was about protecting the Former Alderman Leon Despres died the Richard Daley selecting a non-educator for the around the fence as a nod to . business. However, some trans individuals be- morning of May 6 in his Hyde Park home, at age position. Election gay: At least 10 gay and lesbian in- lieved the policy to be discriminatory. 101. Among the reformer’s last appearances was Case closed: Christopher DeChant—who was dividuals announced their intentions to run for Free to be: Hannah Free—a lesbian-themed speaking at the wreath tossing, behind the once-nationally syndicated HIV Talk various political offices throughout the state. film starring Sharon Gless that was produced held March 13 every year. Radio Project—and Kim Leffert, a member of Among others, Jacob Meister runs for the U.S. and filmed in Chicago—screened Sept. 25 at Judge Sandra Otaka—the first Asian Ameri- the group’s board of directors, settled a case in Senate seat and Jim Madigan aims for a state the Gene Siskel Film Center. Windy City Times can to be elected a Cook County judge—died on which the office of Illinois Attorney Lisa Madi- Senate post; if they win, they would be the first Publisher Tracy Baim executive-produced the natural causes June 6 at 57. Otaka was known as gan claimed that the two misappropriated more openly gay individuals in their respective legis- movie. a fierce advocate for human rights, including for than $1.4 million of the organization’s funding. lative bodies. Play ball: In a major development, the Chi- the LGBT community, having served on human- Like a phoenix: The Boystown bar Scarlet cago Cubs have become the first major-league rights commissions in Chicago. was seriously damaged in a fire in late February. sports franchise to have an openly gay owner. Best known for his 15 years as host of the (Residential units above the nightspot suffered On Oct. 30, the Ricketts family were announced nightly news program “Chicago Tonight” on pub- extensive damage as well.) However, the gay bar as the new owners of the Cubs, buying the team, lic television, John Callaway died of an apparent reopened in September, complete with a new bar and a share in Comcast SportsNet heart attack June 23 at the age of 72. Chicago and a featured seating area. Chicago for $845 million from the Tribune Co. Tonight debuted on Ch. 11 in 1984, and the first Wrong arm of the law: Charges were leveled Among the purchasers is Laura Ricketts, a les- guest was then-Mayor . against Boystown police officer Richard Fiorito, bian who now becomes the first out individual Sam Bezanis, a longtime Chicago businessman alleging homophobia, among other things. Other to own a professional sports team. and volunteer for numerous groups, died July 18 developments occurred throughout the year re- Seventeen times too many: A member of the from complications after shoulder surgery; ee garding Fiorito, including the addition of plain- South Side LGBT organization Youth Pride Center was 70. Among the numerous non-profits Beza- tiffs filing suit against him—and his eventual (YPC) was attacked and beaten in November as nis supported through fundraising and volunteer removal from his position as a witness in traffic he waited outside a Green Line train stop. The work were the American Civil Liberties Union of court. Thomas Flanagan a.k.a. Lady Vera Parker. Chi- victim of the attack, according to an e-mail from Illinois; the Illinois Gay and Lesbian Task Force Gray expectations: was saluted cago Police Dept. photo. YPC, appeared “feminine” and carried a hand- of the 1980s; IMPACT of the 1990s; the Gay, Les- by this newspaper for being an LGBT-rights ac- bag. According to YPC President Frank Walker, it bian and Straight Education Network; and the tivist for 40 years. Gray, the director of com- Statue situations: A statue in memory of les- was the fourth time in four weeks that an orga- Illinois Federation/. munity relations and special events at the Cook bian health advocate Mary York was stolen from nization member has been the object of anti-gay E. Lynn Harris, a former Chicagoan and author County State’s Attorney’s office, officially came the Memorial Peace Garden at the Howard Brown violence—and the 17th time this year. of best-selling books about Black gay life, died out in 1969. Health Center, but was soon returned. Then, End of the line: Local pro-LGBT spiritual orga- at age 54. Harris was a pioneer in Black gay fic- Villa Park verdict: Nicole Abusharif was found statue in memory of fellow activist Lisa Tonna nization Sankofa Way dissolved, citing money- tion, once selling his books out of the back of guilty in the 2007 Villa Park murder of her part- was found destroyed July 14. related difficulties. his car when no one would pick up his works for ner, Becky Klein. In July, Abusharif was sen- Northern exposure: became the No fund: Let’s Talk, Let’s Test Foundation—an mainstream distribution. Among his works were tenced to 50 years in prison. first state with a constitutional amendment HIV/AIDS advocacy organization long under sus- Invisible Life, If This World Were Mine and Bas- Letter days: President Barack Obama sent a banning civil unions and same-sex marriage picion of misusing funds—was ordered to return ketball Jones, his last book. handwritten note in response to 2nd Lt. Sandy to include domestic partnerships for same-sex a $500,000 grant it received from the Illinois To read an expanded list of local LGBT Tsao—a Chicago-area lesbian—after she sent a couples. Couples could apply for a declaration of Department of Commerce and Economic Oppor- events in 2009, see this week’s issue at www. letter urging him to change “Don’t Ask, Don’t domestic partnership Aug. 3. tunity. WindyCityMediaGroup.com. 8 Dec. 30, 2009 has always informed my understanding. In high school I listened to a lot of punk rock. I had a lot of friends who were Riot Girls. We were femi- nists. It was the early ‘90s and identity politics had really taken root.” Jefcoat volunteered for two summers with Amigos de las Americas, doing health care work in Latin America. Because of this experience, which “informed her ideas about sexuality, class, geography and colonialism,” she knew she wanted to pursue Latin American studies and women’s studies and landed at DePaul, coming out as a woman while in college. “I was best friends with the biggest on campus, so I didn’t actually have to ‘come out,’ everyone just assumed I was,” she explained. A Dallas, Texas, native with a “dyed-in-the- wool Republican father and a yellow-dog Demo- Cat Jefcoat. Photo by Micki Leventhal crat mother,” Jefcoat was “raised in a family where we had lots of great two-hour dinner con- versations debating issues like welfare. Ideas Families’ and Children’s AIDS Network. Cat Jefcoat: and thought, and being able to articulate your ideas, were really important.” tain and expand their outreach on behalf of all serving this community since 1985. What start- Moving on In addition to claiming the feminist label, queer women’s health, across race and class. She ed as the Chicago Roundtable (a group of social- Jefcoat naturally gravitated to another F-word: had particular praise for the work that’s been by Micki Leventhal service, child-welfare and other legal providers fundraiser. Her business acumen has always done on the south side, in partnership with Kim meeting to meet the needs of these individuals) been used in the service of the greater social Hunt and Affinity Community Services. blossomed in to a full-fledged organization that Cat Jefcoat, the dynamic young director of How- good. Even during college, she never wanted to ard Brown Health Center’s Lesbian Community “Half of the women we saw last year were un- offers free clinical and legal services in Cook simply produce a concert or plan a party; the insured,” she said, noting the nationwide health County. It’s in FCAN’s approach, though, that Care Project (LCCP), will leave her post at year’s undertaking always evolved into an event that end to become the associate director of resource care crisis and that many queer women are un- proves its success. FCAN recognizes the unique would benefit a charity or social cause. deremployed and therefore have inadequate or needs of parents and children and its mission: development for Episcopal Charities, the giving After finishing up at DePaul University in arm of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago. no insurance coverage. “The progress around “to create a coordinated, family-focused con- 1999, Jefcoat began her career with the Chicago race and class issues ebbs and flows. It’s two tinuum of care for HIV-affected families” using Tongues will likely wag regarding the reasons Foundation for Women. “I began as a part-time for her departure from HBHC/LCCP, but Jefcoat steps forward and one step back.” service programs, education and advocacy. consultant working on their annual luncheon and Although Jefcoat’s professional path will take The most recognizable service programs estab- maintained that the move is not the result of just bugged them until they hired me.” Working anything negative. “I have been profession- her in other directions, she’s not disappearing lished by FCAN are their retreats. By arranging as a Communications Associate, she cranked out from the queer scene. “I’m interested in taking semiannual retreats (for families) and yearly re- ally gay for six years and I’m looking forward press releases and marketing and development to being voluntarily gay,” said Jefcoat, who was a new role. I don’t know what that’s going to treats (for teens), attendees gain education and materials. look like, but I will continue to serve my com- advocacy allowing a cultivation of knowledge in named a “30 under 30” by Windy City Times in Jefcoat then moved on for a brief stint with 2001 and 2002. munity.” a safe space. Inspired by the families and teens Public Allies, a private not-for-profit that does themselves, FCAN is the only organization that “I also want to allow queer women’s care at skills building and economic development with Howard Brown to be as big and beautiful as it offers these opportunities statewide. area youth. This job with “the rabble rousers of FCAN also adds policy reform to its resume. can be. While community building relies heav- Americorps” allowed her to begin honing her Group focuses ily on relationship building, it is not ultimately As a result of the organizations efforts, an es- considerable community organizing skills. tablishment of the “standby guardianship and the best for an organization to be personality She joined Lesbian Community Cancer Project on relatives driven. Mixing it up is very important.” short-term guardianship law” was produced. This in November of 2003, working in development law allows families the option to plan ahead As the head of fundraising for Episcopal Chari- and later serving as the Interim Executive Direc- of HIV+ people ties, she’ll work to increase the individual and by Byron Flitsch when parents are unable to provide future care tor. When LCCP merged with HBHC in 2007, Jef- due to personal sickness. A standby adoption organizational giving that supports EC’s partner coat emerged as director of the newly conceived It’s often forgotten that HIV doesn’t just af- law was also introduced, giving families legally organizations: shelters, schools and youth ser- Lesbian Community Care Project, helming the fect the person living with the disease. Family binding adoption options if the opportunity was vices - “the entire gamut of human need,” Jef- 17-year-old grass-roots organization through members related to a child or individual with necessary. coat said. significant structural and programmatic change. the disease often feel emotionally helpless and The organization advises families and youth Concerning being out at her new job, she “I am very proud of the work I’ve done,” she separated from others. Along with the rising through educational programs, individual coun- commented: “Look at my resume—it couldn’t be said. “When we first merged with Howard Brown, costs of health care, an economic downturn and seling, family meetings and peer outreach. Its more gay. This is not an issue.” one in five clients who came through the door the previously mentioned physiological agonies, well-rounded programming has been so success- At 34, Jefcoat can already lay claim to nearly was a woman, now it’s one in four—and in only families need advice and a place for support. ful that, in 2008, FCAN earned the Illinois De- two decades of activism. “I identified as an two years. That’s a gradual shift that has a lot to Families’ and Children’s AIDS Network (FCAN), partment of Public Health’s “In Our Own Back- ‘outsider’ before I identified as queer and that do with LCCP.” an Illinois nonprofit organization, has been yard” award, celebrating FCAN’s work in HIV Jefcoat hopes and trusts that LCCP will main- education. The Chicago Spirit Brigade—the city’s only fundraising cheer, dance and drill team—fin- ished its 7th season at the Northalsted Hallow- een Parade, raising more than $2,700 for FCAN, according to an organizational press release. Recent budget cuts to the organization have HAPPY not slowed down FCAN’s drive to continue being a top source of support for families in Illinois. Events like the FCAN Associate Board’s “Spon- HOLIDAYS! sor a Needy Family” are occurring in December while the Red Ribbons Trails Spring Retreat will be held in March 2010. Visit www.familiesand- Have your childrennetwork.org.

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Rome has sex-kissing) image is a subject of great cur- eagerly jumped with both feet into America’s rent controversy, has not been nearly as widely culture wars and is working on a global scale disseminated and, for all we know, may still to punish or purge ideological dissenters with- lead to legal consequences.” — CBS lamely ex- in the church.” — Syndicated columnist Wayne plaining why on the Nov. 25 “The Early Show” Besen, Nov. 23. it rebroadcast the Madonna kiss but blurred a rebroadcast of the Lambert kiss, to the Los An- Brent Adams (left) and Michael McRaith. “They’re committing sin and that sin will geles Times. keep them out of heaven. But you don’t hate the person. You hate the sin that they com- “You sort of have to come out over Gay men head state insurance mit.” — Vallejo, Calif., Mayor Osby Davis on and over and over again. Years before, gays to The New York Times, Nov. 20. On Nov. the tabloids had written articles about Brian by WES LAWSON “We oversee everything from banks to bar- 24, Osby apologized and bers,” Adams said. “We license about 10 percent claimed, “My words were In Illinois’ newly created Department of Insur- of the population, we regulate pharmacies, try taken out of context.” ance, an LGBT presence has been established to ensure that women have access to emergency at the top of the ladder, as Gov. Pat Quinn ap- contraception and we have regulations in place “Christopher Rice It is time to admit pointed openly gay Mike McRaith as the director that aim to ensure it. But these regulations just can’t muster an- that the gay of the department. With McRaith’s appointment, are being challenged in court and the governor other clever status Quinn also asked Brent Adams, an out gay man wants to put regulations into actual law because line about the defeat of community has as well, to serve as the acting secretary of fi- regulations can be changed more easily. Laws marriage equality in an- a gigantic nancial and professional regulation, which puts would help to strengthen the access and expand other state. I just want to pope problem. two gay men in a position of great power in regulations because women can obtain contra- throw up on those fuck- —Wayne Besen Illinois’ insurance system. (Note: Recently, the ception over the counter and we want to expand ers.” — Author Christopher Illinois Senate voted 58-0 to confirm Adams as women’s rights to access drugs.” Rice, Ann’s son, on Face- Quinn’s Secretary of Financial and Professional Adams is not only an openly gay individual, book after the New York Regulation.) but also the first openly HIV-positive cabinet Senate voted down a bill to Before being appointed to this position, member in history. He has served on the board legalize same-sex marriage, Dec. 2. and me, when Frasier first started on the air. McRaith served four and a half years at one of of Illinois Political Action Committee (PACT) for We didn’t hide it, we didn’t deny it and no- the world’s largest law firms representing finan- 10 years. PACT is a pro-choice movement and it “It is time to seriously consider a body really paid that much attention to it, and cial institutions and heavily regulated compa- represents one of Adams’ most deeply held be- more civil-rights-movement approach it kind of disappeared. We’d go to the awards nies. The goal that McRaith had then and now liefs. to fighting for our rights instead of pumping shows together. I might occasionally mention was to combine the private business side of op- “I want people to have autonomy over their money into either (political) party in some his name, might not, trying to walk the line erations with the regulation and management of own lives and bodies, and we have to struggle to sort of masochistic dance. We must consider a between being honest and open and preserv- financial institutions. protect those rights against people who would concerted and well-planned campaign of non- ing our privacy. (M)aybe I could’ve been more “Gov. Quinn is a passionate consumer advo- deny us those rights. These issues (LGBT and violent civil disobedience. Business as usual specific and more public sooner, but it had cate, and I’m grateful to him for recognizing women’s rights) resonate with one another,” can not continue in this country as long as we more to do with kind of the way I was brought that I’ve worked hard for the state and on be- said Adams. are separated from the rest of our neighbors, up. We’re just not a family that talked about half of families and consumers in Illinois,” said The one crucial thing Adams is attempting to families and friends who have full equality and private things in public. And I certainly didn’t McRaith. do at this point is combat the recession, which freedom.” — Activist writing at go into the acting business to talk about my When asked about how his LGBT background has deeply affected many of Illinois’ businesses davidmixner.com after the New York Senate re- politics or my personal life or anything else will affect the decisions he makes in office, and financial institutions. jected a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, Dec. like that. So it took me a while to be able to do McRaith commented on how lucky he was to “We’re trying to protect people who have de- 3. that and depending on who you talk to, some have various pioneers in the LGBT movement posited their money in state financial institu- people felt that I did it at the right time, some who made it possible for him to be an openly tions. We want people to keep financial stability “People don’t view gay as a culture, people felt like it was too late, some people gay man in a public office, but he iterates that and we are trying to save consumers from fraud. they view it as a sex act. And so the Wash- felt I shouldn’t have done it at all.” — Ac- the job does not specifically put him at the fore- Illinois is ranked number two in the nation for ington Post gets hinky on it, all mainstream tor David Hyde Pierce (Niles on Frasier) to the front of LGBT issues. mortgage fraud according to the FBI, and we media get hinky on it, because they don’t Palm Springs gay magazine The BottomLine, “I think my department represents families of hope to change that,” said Adams. know anything about it. All they know is the Nov. 20. all shapes, sizes and demographics from within Like McRaith, Adams does not work specifi- idea of gay sex still makes them uncomfort- the four corners of this state,” McRaith said. “On cally on LGBT issues, but they are always in the able. Well, the idea of straight sex makes me “I don’t (see myself as a lesbian role a personal level, I am, of course, constantly re- back of his mind. uncomfortable, but there’s a lot of it in our model). I don’t, I don’t. Because it took me minded that there is great diversity in our state “I’m happy to be able to continue being a newspaper. We will always need our gay me- so long and it was such a complicated pro- and I’ve experienced and lived as a member of voice for the LGBT and HIV-positive communi- dia to make sure that the fullest experience is cess for me, first off, to come to terms with strong and active communities. It’s having an ties in this state,” Adams said. “I’m happy to represented.” — Openly gay Washington Post who and what I am.” — Top Gun actress Kelly awareness of diversity and an understanding be someone who’s out and can speak from the TV critic Hank Stuever to the D.C. gay magazine McGillis to the Palm Springs gay magazine The that often people who are not heard from so perspective of someone who’s open about it. I Metro Weekly, Nov. 5. BottomLine, Oct. 23. loudly are the people who should be listened to think I’m demonstrating that it’s possible to ac- the most closely that I approach the responsi- complish things as a gay person in jobs outside “I didn’t want to jump onto (the cover “I was there from the beginning (of bilities of this job.” of LGBT- and HIV-related jobs. It’s conceivable of) a gay magazine (Out) as my first thing AIDS). A lot of young people weren’t there at One issue he is definitely passionate about is that eventually I may have a direct role in study- because I feel like that’s putting myself in a the beginning of it. I was there in the ‘70s the issue of marriage and civil unions. “It’s an is- ing HIV policies, but at this point, being a lead- box and limiting myself. It was my desire to when suddenly this very strange thing started sue we need to talk about, because couples that er is my most important role. I certainly haven’t stay away from talking about certain political happening to friends of mine. Even though I are unable to marry are in many places denied gotten any complaints from the LGBT community and civil rights issues because I’m not a politi- was on the road most of the time, I was very the opportunity to access healthcare through at this point.” cian. I’m an entertainer. That is not my area much aware of it. By 10 years into it I had lost their partner’s employer. There are all kinds of McRaith best sums up the position that both of expertise. I can talk about relationships half my phone book. All these people that I had families throughout this state, and access to he and Adams are in at this pointing time in Il- and personal experiences because as an art- worked with and that I knew were gone, and health insurance is a fundamental need for all linois. ist those things involve writing lyrics and that at a relatively young age. I had never thought of these families. It’s important that the dis- “We’re dealing with issues on both local and part of my process. But I didn’t feel comfort- that I would be that close to death; it was cussion of family quality be informed by people statewide bases, as well as on a national scale. able talking about the March on Washington. I shocking. ... So whenever anybody asks me to who have seen individuals negatively impacted Nationally, the topic of financial regulatory re- didn’t feel comfortable, so I asked my publicist do something for this disease, I’m there.” — by the status quo,” said McRaith. form is something I’m very involved with. But to ask the (Out) interviewer to stay away from Singer Barry Manilow to the Palm Springs gay Brent Adams, on the other hand, is in charge on the state level, we continue to advocate the political questions. ... Not every gay man magazine The BottomLine, Dec. 4. of overseeing most of the state’s financial insti- for important health insurance reforms so that is the same gay man.” — American Idol celeb- tutions and professionals. health insurance doesn’t just serve the purpose rity Adam Lambert to EW.com, Nov. 19. —Assistance: Bill Kelley of the shareholders of an insurance company,” 10 Dec. 30, 2009

VIEWPOINTS VOL. 25, No. 13, Dec. 30, 2009 The combined forces of Windy City Times, founded Sept. 1985, and Outlines newspaper, diversity was an issue for some of the delegates missionary congregations and English-speaking founded May 1987. who supported Vasquez’s candidacy. However, parishes that must share the same facilities. REV. Glasspool had 153 clergy votes, with 123 needed “The two groups come together only for special PUBLISHER & Executive EDITOR IRENE to win, and 203 lay votes, with 193 needed to events and the Eucharist,” Gutierrez said. Tracy Baim win. Vasquez had 87 clergy votes and 177 lay I have my own queries for the Episcopal Church, MONROE Assistant Publisher Terri Klinsky votes. dubbed by many as the “ruling class at prayer,” MANAGING Editor Andrew Davis The issue of diversity in the governance and with respect to its urban churches, including: Business manager Meghan Streit election of bishops in the Episcopal Church is of —Will the Episcopal Church move as aggres- Director of New Media Jean Albright great concern to congregants of color in light of sively on race issues as it has on lesbian, gay, ART DIRECTOR Kirk Williamson Lesbian priest’s account managerS: Amy Matheny, Kirk shifting racial and ethnic demographics in big bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) issues? Williamson, Cynthia Holmes, Carlos Paret election causes urban cities like L.A. —Can Episcopalians only talk about the wel- Promotions director Cynthia Holmes And with the shifting demographics from white coming inclusion of its church in the context of NIGHTSPOTS MANAGING Editor Kirk Williamson to ethnic groups of color the Episcopal Church, women and LGBTQ issues in white face, but can’t National Sales Rivendell Media, 212-242-6863 divide in church SENIOR WRITERS Bob Roehr, Rex Wockner, Marie perhaps unintentionally, has chosen to build up when the issue is race? J. Kuda, David Byrne, Tony Peregrin, Lisa Keen, (part two) one ethnic or minority church over another. And, A joint survey by the Pew Hispanic Project and Yasmin Nair, Emmanuel Garcia too often, it feels to many ethnic churches of the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life reports TheatER Editor Scott C. Morgan On Dec. 5, cheers reverberated across the coun- color that they are always pitted not only among that the emergence of Latino-oriented churches Cinema WRITER Richard Knight, Jr. try with the news that at the 114th annual con- BOOKS WRITER Yasmin Nair themselves, but also against white . are changing the country’s religious landscape ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WRITERS vention of the Episcopal Diocese of For example, the unresponsiveness to dying not only in the Catholic Church but also in the Mary Shen Barnidge, Jim Edminster, Steve Warren, two women were elected as bishops: Rev. Diane Black urban churches is emblematic of the Epis- Protestant Church. Lawrence Ferber, Mel Ferrand, Catey Sullivan, Jardine Bruce of California, and Rev. Mary Doug- copal Church’s ineptitude to grapple with the The survey also reports, “While the preva- Zachary Whittenburg, Jonathan Abarbanel las Glasspool of Maryland. Columnists/Writers: Yvonne Zipter, Susie ways that racism and classism choke not only lence of Hispanic-oriented worship is higher Day, Jorjet Harper, Lee Lynch, Steve Starr, Joe While both elections bring their own contro- the spiritual life out of a church but its mon- among the foreign born, with 77% saying they Rice, Dan Woog, Marie-Jo Proulx, Lisa Keen, Chris versy, Glasspool’s keeps the church’s issue of etary life as well. With the Episcopal Church’s attend churches with those characteristics, the Crain, Charlsie Dewey, Michael Knipp, Mark Corece, queer bishops front and center. urban landscape changing, the denomination phenomenon is also widespread among the na- Sabine Neidhardt, Sam Worley, Billy Masters, John If both women are approved by a majority of Fenoglio has opted to pour its support, money, and en- tive born, with 48% saying they attend ethnic PHOTOGRAPHERS Kat Fitzgerald, Mel Ferrand, bishops their elections will signal that the U.S. ergy not into these historic black churches but churches.” Steve Becker, Steve Starr, Emmanuel Garcia arm of the Episcopal Church is aggressively mov- instead into developing urban Latino churches. The L.A. Diocese began its outreach ministry ARTISTS/CARTOONISTS Alison Bechdel, Mikeoart ing forward on both gender and gay justice. The gentrification of the urban church by replac- in the 1940s to Latino immigrants. Holy Family CIRCULATION But for many Episcopalians of color the issue ing one minority group with another sets up a Church in North Hollywood was the first Latino Circulation director Jean Albright of racial and diversity justice still hangs in the Distribution: Ashina, Allan, Dan, John, Renee, paradigm of “divide and conquer” that makes congregation in the diocese. Sue and Victor balance as many of their urban ethnic church- neither group feel welcomed, but both expend- Queer Latino Episcopalians like Gutierrez feel es struggle to survive. With nearly one-half of able. tore in a church that has elected either white L.A.’s population Latino concerns arose with the “Those Latino churches are set up like a ‘res- queer or Latino heterosexual bishops. election of two white women over Latino candi- ervation system’ within the Episcopal Church,” Glasspool is fluent in Spanish, has served in dates. said Juliana Gutierrez, a lesbian Mexican Ameri- urban cities across the country and is not a “There was this feeling that once an Anglo can who worships in an Episcopal Church in Chi- single-issue cleric. She told a reporter at the an- woman had been elected Friday, maybe we cago told me. nual convention that the church is ready to go should support a Latino candidate,” said the Composed primarily of a migrant population beyond “superficial characteristics and boxes in Rev. Brad Karelius, one of the senior priests of from all over Latin America, these newcomers which we put people, to really look at individual the L.A. diocese. “But the two Latino candidates Copyright 2009 Lambda Publications Inc./Windy City Media form missionary congregations set up by the people and assess the needs of the diocese and Group; All rights reserved. Reprint by permission only. did not have the leadership depth I saw in Mary Episcopal Church. Unlike parishes, missionary pair them with the gifts and skills that Diane Back issues available for $3 per issue (postage included). and Diane.” Return postage must accompany all manuscripts, drawings, congregations are not free-standing: they can- and I each bring. In that sense, in all ways, we and photographs submitted if they are to be returned, and The election for bishop suffragan of the Dio- not call their own rector, and cannot make their are moving to a point where we can look be- no responsibility may be assumed for unsolicited materials. cese of Los Angeles was a fiercely close race own decisions. According to Gutierrez, these neath the skin color and any single characteris- All rights to letters, art and photographs sent to Windy City Times will be treated as unconditionally assigned between Glasspool and the Rev. Irineo Martir missionary congregations have a paternalistic tic and really rejoice in the wholeness of every for publication purposes and as such, subject to editing Vasquez of St. George’s in Hawthorne, Calif.. relationship with the Episcopal Church because individual person.” and comment. The opinions expressed by the columnists, cartoonists, letter writers, and commentators are their own Given the theologically conservative make-up they are not only dependent on the church for However, for Gutierrez the post-racial revolu- and do not necessarily reflect the position ofWindy City of the laity and Spanish-speaking congregants monetary support but also for a place to wor- tion hasn’t come. Gutierrez wants to see more Times. Publication of the name, photograph, or likeness of a person or organization in articles or advertising in Windy of the L.A. Diocese a lot of support went for ship. Oftentimes Episcopal churches seek to Latinos in church leadership roles because race City Times is not to be construed as any indication of the Vasquez. According to the Rev. Altagracia Perez, remedy the tension by devising “separate but still matters. sexual orientation of such person or organization. While we encourage readers to support the advertisers who make rector of Holy Faith Church in Inglewood, Calif. equal” worship hours between Spanish-speaking this newspaper possible, Windy City Times cannot accept responsibility for advertising claims. (773) 871-7610 FAX (773) 871-7609 political earthquake in California. The California After a whirlwind of activity, the two bills ended e-mail: [email protected] Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8, a controver- up at exactly the same station in the legislative PATRICK sial ballot initiative that banned same-sex mar- process and both were nowhere near passage. www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com riage in the state. Gays and lesbians throughout And as the legislative session drew to a close, radio: WindyCityQueercast.com KELLY the nation were stunned, frustrated, even angry. with the LGBT community still burning with video: QueerTVNetwork.com In Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood, the heart rage, Democratic leaders could not simply let WINDY CITY MEDIA GROUP, of Chicago’s gay community, protesters gathered the bill die with the end of the session. So 5315 N. Clark St. #192, Chicago, IL 60640 USA on the streets and demanded justice. they extended the deadline for passage to Nov. (MAILING ADDRESS ONLY) The Illinois state legislature responded to the 30, leaving open the slim possibility that the outrage, not by real action to promote equal- legislature might address the issue in the Fall Windy City Times Deadline every Wednesday. Illinois Democrats Nightspots Deadline Wednesday prior to street date. ity, but by moving quickly to pacify their LGBT “veto” session. But the session ended weeks Identity (BLACKlines and En La Vida): Now put off LGBT political and fundraising base. They used a lit- ago, Thanksgiving came and went, and so has online only tle legislative sleight-of-hand that created the the Nov. 30 deadline for civil unions. Deadline The 10th of month prior. rights ... again convincing illusion of movement on the Civil And although they won’t get civil unions, the OUT! Resource Guide ONLINE www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com Unions bill without actually doing anything to Illinois Democrats were sure to not leave the gay Gays and lesbians can go ahead and scratch Civil further the cause. House Democrats took the community empty handed this holiday season. Unions off their holiday wish list this season, as language in Harris’ stalled Civil Unions bill and What did the gay community get in lieu of www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com a Nov. 30 deadline for moving on Civil Unions inserted it as an amendment into a totally un- rights? Another rain check. The deadline for the www.WindyCityQueercast.com legislation passed with almost no action by www.QueerTVNetwork.com related bill (SB1716, amendment 1) that had legislation has now quietly been extended yet the Democratic-controlled Illinois legislature— already passed the Senate. Then they passed the again to April 30, 2010—a date much closer to except to create a new deadline nearly half a bill out of committee. April Fool’s Day than Gay Pride Day. year away. The end result was a bill that had gone no fur- After all, in a 2010 election year when the The fact that the deadline was missed comes ther than the original bill introduced by Har- Democrats are likely to lose seats, a year when as no surprise, considering the state legislature “Windy City Media Group generated ris. But to the casual observer it might appear they are getting hammered on fiscal issues as has been adjourned for weeks and is not sched- enormous interest among their readers that the bill was really moving, and may in fact well as corruption, are they really going to uled to meet again until Jan. 12. Still, this is in this year’s LGBT Consumer Index be near passage. And in the days following the take risks on controversial social issues? Are just one more turn in a complex holding pattern Survey. Out of approximately 100 Prop 8 decision, right up until the May 31 end of they really going to put your rights ahead of the state Democrats have locked this bill into. print and online media partners who the legislative session, the paper-shuffling and their re-election prospects? The Nov. 30 deadline was set near the end of participated in the survey, Windy busywork on the bill continued, furthering the Patrick F. Kelly is a political activist, a mem- the spring legislative session. For months prior City was the best performing regional illusion of progress. ber of the Illinois Green Party (which proudly to that, the state House had sat on HB2234, a media in the U.S. Only survey partners The fact is, though, like HB2234, SB1716 supports marriage equality) and a resident of civil-unions bill proposed by Rep. Greg Harris, with a nationwide footprint were would still have to be approved by votes in the Wheaton. an openly gay Democrat serving Chicago’s North able to generate a greater number of full House and the full Senate, as well as get the Side. responses.” ­­—David Marshall, Research signature of the governor before becoming law. Then all the sudden on May 26, there was a Director, Community Marketing, Inc. Dec. 30, 2009 11 GOINGS-ON WINDY CITY TIMES’ ENTERTAINMENT SECTION

PR photo GUYS AND LOWS In Pop Making Sense, David Byrne rates the best and worst in music this year—and Guy B (above) is in the mix. Read page 17. THEATER MOVIES SPORTS Nine to remember. The best and the worst. Top moments Page 15. Page 16. of ‘09.

Photo from Love Person by Liz Lauren Page 22. Photo of Hall of Fame inductee Mike McHale courtesy of McHale

SCOTTISH PLAY SCOTT pher M. LaPorte). Each cast member was also physically and comically in sync with the play’s Nine of 2009 sneaky humor. BY SCOTT C. MORGAN —Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and The Piano Lesson: Court and director Ron OJ Par- It’s year-end round-up time again. son continue to go from strength to strength As usual, we critics pontificate on the best and when it comes to producing great works by the worst of 2009. But since no person can be every- late playwright August Wilson. An amazing cast where at once (especially in Chicago’s thriving of veteran actor-musicians helped to make Ma theater scene), the freelance theater critics at Rainey’s Black Bottom a memorable experience, the Windy City Times are offering up “Nine of while The Piano Lesson played beautifully fea- Mine” memorable moments from the past year turing a cast of Wilson veterans and newcom- (plus one or two shows best left forgotten). ers. Why nine? We’ve already had three nine-named —A Minister’s Wife: Local composer Joshua films in 2009 (District 9, 9, Nine), so why not Schmidt followed up his off-Broadway hit Add- continue on with that theme? But don’t be sur- ing Machine by teaming up with playwright prised if there are omissions, duplications or Austin Pendleton and lyricist Jan Tranen for a contradictions between each critic’s personal challenging and complex musical adaptation of lists. George Bernard Shaw’s Candida at Writers’ The- Nine of mine that were memorable from 2009: atre. While musically snippet structured work —Cabaret: Drury Lane Oakbrook showed its might not be for all tastes, it did heighten the daring with director Jim Corti’s classy staging dramas questions of when marriage turns people of Kander and Ebb’s seductive 1960s musical. Cabaret. Photo by Johnny Knight into possessions. The supremely talented cast Drury Lane’s Cabaret was closer to the spirit of did justice to this new and dramatically fasci- the original Broadway stage production since it new about the Greek System in Evan Linder’s staged Moises Kaufman and the Tectonic Theatre nating work. didn’t try to ape the heroin-chic 1998 Broadway drama about four guys entering a college fra- Project’s docu-drama follow-up to The Laramie —Best left forgotten: There’s no doubt that revival, nor did it shoehorn in any of the extra ternity, but The New Colony’s environmental Project on the 11th anniversary of gay college playwright Duane Scott Cerny tried to model his songs made famous by Liza Minnelli in the 1972 and fluid staging within a recreation room of student Matthew Shepard’s death (About Face gay spoof Mrs. Hyde & the Case of the Gaslight Bob Fosse film. Set amid the divine decadence Lincoln Square’s Dank-Haus was a master stroke Theatre locally staged its reading of the play at Buggerings on works by drag masters Charles of Weimar-era Germany, Corti staged the show as by director Andrew Hobgood. The huge cast was the ). While it may not surpass Busch and Charles Ludlam. But the resulting a literal nightmare that the show’s protagonist also amazingly dedicated and fleet on their feet the impact of the original Laramie Project, this production by Even & Odd Theatricals was a mis- has yet to truly wake from. when it came to adjusting to each new space powerful sequel continues to create a dialogue guided mess. Cerny’s pun-filled script failed to —500 Clown and the Elephant Deal: 500 and dramatic scene. in communities regarding the often contentious be funny, campy or coherently structured. Clown confirmed its status as Chicago’s premier —The History Boys: TimeLine Theatre scored issues of hate crimes, LGTBQ tolerance and how Equally infuriating was Factory Theater’s stag- troupe of artistic clowning comedy with this a palpable hit with the Chicago premiere of Alan the media shapes perceptions of what happened ing of Manny Tamayo’s tattered and tawdry neo- large-scale collaboration with composer/musi- Bennett’s wildly acclaimed drama of North Eng- in history. noir Dead Wrong. This mystery thriller about a cian John Fournier. So what if the connection lish students in the 1980s aiming for Cambridge —Lies & Liars: The final plot payoff in Mar- corrupt Chicago police detective deployed far between its inspirational Brechtian source mate- and Oxford. Bennett’s very human ode question- got Bordelon and Cassy Sanders’ futuristic comic too many plot tangents without building cred- rial, Man is Man, wasn’t entirely apparent. 500 ing the methods and purposes of teaching and drama may have been a letdown, but everything ible motivations for its many, many characters. Clown created a fun romp exploring the onstage learning history was wonderfully realized by di- else in Theatre Seven of Chicago’s fun produc- Tamayo jerks the audience around with such a persona of a singing diva and the small back- rector Nick , an amazing Chicago cast tion was truly a winner. Bordelon and Sanders spotty script that by the time the shocking con- stage army (with their own performing ambi- and Brian Sidney Bembridge’s environmental set slickly staged their work amid Courtney O’Neill’s clusion arrives (complete with out-of-nowhere tions) that do all sorts of grunt work to keep her design. orderly office sets that also allowed for inspired revelations regarding police-sanctioned snuff shining throughout. —The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later (An Ep- bursts of multimedia (great work by video de- films, organ harvesting and a paperboy’s pater- —FRAT: We may not have learned anything ilogue): More than 100 theaters across the world signer CJ Arellano and sound designer Christo- nity), you want to strangle him for wasting your valuable time. T:20”

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Dec. 30, 2009 13 EVEN WITH HIV,

“ All my life, I’ve powered through any problem that came up. But when I was diagnosed with HIV, it stopped me in my tracks. It took a while, but now I realize I have to keep going. And the more I use my mind, my body, and my strength against HIV, the more I learn how “ powerful I really am. “ My meds are a big help. When I asked my doctor about my options, he I AM A told me about EPZICOM. “ Turns out that, in combination with other medications, it’s clinically proven to help keep HIV from making copies and infecting healthy cells. And, 68% of patients taking a regimen with EPZICOM had their viral load become undetectable in less than one year. On top of that, they had a 93% increase in their T-cell counts.*

“ Less than a year later, I’ve reached another milestone—my HIV DRIVING is undetectable.”† Ask your doctor if EPZICOM is right for you. Learn more at www.EpzicomNews.com T:12.65”

FORCE. 3 * HEAT study of 688 patients defi nes undetectable as a viral load less than 50 copies/mL. Baseline median T-cell count for patients receiving EPZICOM was 214 cells/mm and at 48 weeks, patients saw a median increase of 201 cells/mm3 in their T-cell count. †Not an actual patient testimonial. Based on collection of real patient” experiences. Individual results may vary.

• EPZICOM, in combination with other antiretroviral agents, is indicated for the reaction to it before. If your healthcare provider tells you that you can take EPZICOM again, Some HIV medicines, including those containing abacavir (ZIAGEN, EPZICOM, and TRIZIVIR), may treatment of HIV-1 infection in adults. Important Safety Information start taking it when you are around medical help or people who can call a healthcare increase your risk of heart attack. If you have heart problems, smoke, or suffer from diseases that ® ® • EPZICOM is one of 3 medicines containing abacavir. Before starting EPZICOM, your EPZICOM contains abacavir, which is also contained in ZIAGEN (abacavir sulfate) and TRIZIVIR provider if you need one. increase your risk of heart disease, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or diabetes, healthcare provider will review your medical history in order to avoid the use of (abacavir sulfate, lamivudine, and zidovudine). Patients taking abacavir may have a serious A buildup of lactic acid in the blood and an enlarged liver, including fatal cases, have been reported. tell your healthcare provider. allergic reaction (hypersensitivity reaction) that can cause death. Your risk of this allergic abacavir if you have experienced an allergic reaction to abacavir in the past. Do not take EPZICOM if your liver does not function normally. The most common side effects seen with the drugs in EPZICOM dosed once daily were allergic reaction is much higher if you have a gene variation called HLA-B*5701 than if you do not. Your reaction, trouble sleeping, depression, headache, tiredness, dizziness, nausea, diarrhea, rash, • In one study, more patients had a severe hypersensitivity reaction in the abacavir healthcare provider can determine with a blood test if you have this gene variation. If you get a Some patients infected with both hepatitis B virus (HBV) and HIV have worsening of hepatitis once-daily group than in the abacavir twice-daily group. fever, stomach pain, abnormal dreams, and anxiety. Most of the side effects do not cause people symptom from 2 or more of the following groups while taking EPZICOM, call your doctor after stopping lamivudine (a component of EPZICOM). Discuss any change in treatment with your to stop taking EPZICOM. • EPZICOM should not be used as part of a triple-nucleoside regimen. right away to determine if you should stop taking this medicine. healthcare provider. If you have both HBV and HIV and stop treatment with EPZICOM, you should • EPZICOM does not cure HIV infection/AIDS or prevent passing HIV to others. 1. Fever be closely monitored by your healthcare provider for at least several months. By prescription only. 2. Rash Worsening of liver disease (sometimes resulting in death) has occurred in patients infected with both HIV and hepatitis C virus who are taking anti-HIV medicines and are also being You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. 3. Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, or abdominal (stomach area) pain Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch, or call 1-800-FDA-1088. treated for hepatitis C with interferon with or without ribavirin. If you are taking EPZICOM as 4. Generally ill feeling, extreme tiredness, or achiness well as interferon with or without ribavirin and you experience side effects, be sure to tell your Please see additional important information about EPZICOM, including boxed warnings, 5. Shortness of breath, cough, or sore throat healthcare provider. on the adjacent pages. Carefully read the Warning Card that your pharmacist gives you and carry it with you at all times. When you start taking HIV medicines, your immune system may get stronger and could begin I’ve got the fi ght in me. If you stop EPZICOM because of an allergic reaction, NEVER take EPZICOM or any other to fi ght infections that have been hidden in your body, such as pneumonia, herpes virus, or abacavir-containing medicine (ZIAGEN, TRIZIVIR) again. If you take EPZICOM or any other tuberculosis. If you have new symptoms after starting your HIV medicines, be sure to tell your Save on your medication! abacavir-containing medicine again after you have had an allergic reaction, WITHIN HOURS you healthcare provider. Ask your doctor about the Patient Savings Card may get life-threatening symptoms that may include very low blood pressure or death. Changes in body fat may occur in some patients taking antiretroviral therapy. These changes may or visit www.mysupportcard.com to learn If you stop EPZICOM for any other reason, even for a few days, and you are not allergic to include an increased amount of fat in the upper back and neck (“buffalo hump”), breast, and how to save on your out-of-pocket expenses. EPZICOM, talk with your healthcare provider before taking it again. Taking EPZICOM again around the trunk. Loss of fat from the legs, arms, and face may also occur. The cause and long- Subject to eligibility. Restrictions apply. can cause a serious allergic or life-threatening reaction, even if you never had an allergic term health effects of these conditions are not known at this time.

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EPZICOM® (abacavir sulfate and lamivudine) Tablets • Starting EPZICOM again can cause a serious allergic or life-threatening reaction, even if you never had an allergic MEDICATION GUIDE reaction to it before. If you run out of EPZICOM even for a few days, you must ask your doctor if you can start EPZICOM again. If your doctor tells you that you can take EPZICOM again, start taking it when you are around medical help or people who can ® EPZICOM (epv zih com) Tablets call a doctor if you need one. Generic name: abacavir (uH-BACK-ah-veer) sulfate and lamivudine (la-MIV-yoo-deen) • If you stop your anti-HIV drugs, even for a short time, the amount of virus in your blood may increase and the virus Read the Medication Guide that comes with EPZICOM before you start taking it and each time you get a refill because there may may become harder to treat. be new information. This information does not take the place of talking to your doctor about your medical condition or your • If you take too much EPZICOM, call your doctor or poison control center right away. treatment. Be sure to carry your EPZICOM Warning Card with you at all times. What should I avoid while taking EPZICOM? What is the most important information I should know about EPZICOM? • Do not take EPIVIR (lamivudine, 3TC), COMBIVIR (lamivudine and zidovudine), ZIAGEN (abacavir sulfate), or TRIZIVIR • Serious Allergic Reaction to Abacavir. EPZICOM contains abacavir (also contained in ZIAGEN® and TRIZIVIR®). Patients (abacavir sulfate, lamivudine, and zidovudine) while taking EPZICOM. Some of these medicines are already in EPZICOM. taking EPZICOM may have a serious allergic reaction (hypersensitivity reaction) that can cause death. Your risk of this allergic • Do not take zalcitabine (HIVID, ddC) while taking EPZICOM. reaction is much higher if you have a gene variation called HLA-B*5701 than if you do not. Your doctor can determine Avoid doing things that can spread HIV infection, as EPZICOM does not stop you from passing the HIV infection to others. with a blood test if you have this gene variation. If you get a symptom from 2 or more of the following groups while taking EPZICOM, call your doctor right away to determine if you should stop taking this medicine. • Do not share needles or other injection equipment. • Do not share personal items that can have blood or body fluids on them, like toothbrushes and razor blades. Symptom(s) • Do not have any kind of sex without protection. Always practice by using a latex or polyurethane condom or other Group 1 Fever barrier method to lower the chance of sexual contact with semen, vaginal secretions, or blood. Group 2 Rash • Do not breastfeed. EPZICOM can be passed to babies in breast milk and could harm the baby. Also, mothers with HIV should Group 3 Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal (stomach area) pain not breastfeed because HIV can be passed to the baby in the breast milk. Group 4 Generally ill feeling, extreme tiredness, or achiness What are the possible side effects of EPZICOM? Group 5 Shortness of breath, cough, sore throat EPZICOM can cause the following serious side effects: • Serious allergic reaction that can cause death. (See “What is the most important information I should know about A list of these symptoms is on the Warning Card your pharmacist gives you. Carry this Warning Card with you. EPZICOM?” at the beginning of this Medication Guide.) If you stop EPZICOM because of an allergic reaction, NEVER take EPZICOM (abacavir sulfate and lamivudine) • Lactic acidosis with liver enlargement (hepatomegaly) that can cause death. (See “What is the most important or any other abacavir-containing medicine (ZIAGEN and TRIZIVIR) again. If you take EPZICOM or any other information I should know about EPZICOM?” at the beginning of this Medication Guide.) abacavir-containing medicine again after you have had an allergic reaction, WITHIN HOURS you may get life- • Worsening of HBV infection. (See “What is the most important information I should know about EPZICOM?” at the beginning threatening symptoms that may include very low blood pressure or death. of this Medication Guide.) If you stop EPZICOM for any other reason, even for a few days, and you are not allergic to EPZICOM, talk with • Changes in immune system. When you start taking HIV medicines, your immune system may get stronger and could begin your doctor before taking it again. Taking EPZICOM again can cause a serious allergic or life-threatening to fight infections that have been hidden in your body, such as pneumonia, herpes virus, or tuberculosis. If you have new reaction, even if you never had an allergic reaction to it before. If your doctor tells you that you can take EPZICOM symptoms after starting your HIV medicines, be sure to tell your doctor. again, start taking it when you are around medical help or people who can call a doctor if you need one. • Changes in body fat. These changes have happened in patients taking antiretroviral medicines like EPZICOM. The changes • Lactic Acidosis. Some human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) medicines, including EPZICOM, can cause a rare but may include an increased amount of fat in the upper back and neck (“buffalo hump”), breast, and around the back, chest, serious condition called lactic acidosis with liver enlargement (hepatomegaly). Nausea and tiredness that don’t get and stomach area. Loss of fat from the legs, arms, and face may also happen. The cause and long-term health effects of better may be symptoms of lactic acidosis. In some cases this condition can cause death. Women, overweight people, and these conditions are not known. people who have taken HIV medicines like EPZICOM for a long time have a higher chance of getting lactic acidosis and liver Some HIV medicines including EPZICOM may increase your risk of heart attack. If you have heart problems, smoke, or suffer from enlargement. Lactic acidosis is a medical emergency and must be treated in the hospital. diseases that increase your risk of heart disease such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or diabetes, tell your doctor. • Worsening of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. Patients with HBV infection, who take EPZICOM and then stop it, may get The most common side effects with EPZICOM are trouble sleeping, depression, headache, tiredness, dizziness, nausea, diarrhea, “flare-ups” of their hepatitis. “Flare-up” is when the disease suddenly returns in a worse way than before. If you have HBV rash, fever, stomach pain, abnormal dreams, and anxiety. Most of these side effects did not cause people to stop taking EPZICOM. infection, your doctor should closely monitor your liver function for several months after stopping EPZICOM. You may need to take anti-HBV medicines. This list of side effects is not complete. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088. • Use with interferon- and ribavirin-based regimens. Worsening of liver disease (sometimes resulting in death) has occurred in patients infected with both HIV and hepatitis C virus who are taking anti-HIV medicines and are also being treated for How should I store EPZICOM? hepatitis C with interferon with or without ribavirin. If you are taking EPZICOM as well as interferon with or without ribavirin • Store EPZICOM at room temperature between 59º to 86ºF (15º to 30ºC). and you experience side effects, be sure to tell your doctor. • Keep EPZICOM and all medicines out of the reach of children. EPZICOM can have other serious side effects. Be sure to read the section below entitled “What are the possible side effects General information for safe and effective use of EPZICOM

of EPZICOM?” Medicines are sometimes prescribed for conditions that are not mentioned in Medication Guides. Do not use EPZICOM for a T:12.65” condition for which it was not prescribed. Do not give EPZICOM to other people, even if they have the same symptoms that you What is EPZICOM? have. It may harm them. EPZICOM is a prescription medicine used to treat HIV infection. EPZICOM includes 2 medicines: abacavir (ZIAGEN) and lamivudine This Medication Guide summarizes the most important information about EPZICOM. If you would like more information, talk or 3TC (EPIVIR®). See the end of this Medication Guide for a complete list of ingredients in EPZICOM. Both of these medicines are with your doctor. You can ask your doctor or pharmacist for the information that is written for healthcare professionals or call called nucleoside analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs). When used together, they help lower the amount of HIV in 1-888-825-5249. your blood. This helps to keep your immune system as healthy as possible so that it can help fight infection. Different combinations of medicines are used to treat HIV infection. You and your doctor should discuss which combination of What are the ingredients in EPZICOM? medicines is best for you. Active ingredients: abacavir sulfate and lamivudine • EPZICOM does not cure HIV infection or AIDS. We do not know if EPZICOM will help you live longer or have fewer of the Inactive ingredients: Each film-coated EPZICOM Tablet contains the inactive ingredients magnesium stearate, microcrystalline medical problems that people get with HIV or AIDS. It is very important that you see your doctor regularly while you are cellulose, and sodium starch glycolate. The tablets are coated with a film (OPADRY® orange YS-1-13065-A) that is made of FD&C taking EPZICOM. Yellow No. 6, hypromellose, polyethylene glycol 400, polysorbate 80, and titanium dioxide. • EPZICOM does not lower the risk of passing HIV to other people through sexual contact, sharing needles, or being COMBIVIR, EPIVIR, EPZICOM, TRIZIVIR, and ZIAGEN are registered trademarks of GlaxoSmithKline. exposed to your blood. For your health and the health of others, it is important to always practice safe sex by using a latex or polyurethane condom or other barrier method to lower the chance of sexual contact with semen, vaginal secretions, or * The brands listed are trademarks of their respective owners and are not trademarks of GlaxoSmithKline. The makers of these blood. Never use or share dirty needles. brands are not affiliated with and do not endorse GlaxoSmithKline or its products. Who should not take EPZICOM? This Medication Guide has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. Do not take EPZICOM if you: • have ever had a serious allergic reaction (a hypersensitivity reaction) to EPZICOM or any other medicine that has abacavir as one of its ingredients (TRIZIVIR and ZIAGEN). See the end of this Medication Guide for a complete list of ingredients in EPZICOM. • have a liver that does not function properly. • are less than 18 years of age. Before starting EPZICOM tell your doctor about all of your medical conditions, including if you: • have been tested and know whether or not you have a particular gene variation called HLA-B*5701. • are pregnant or planning to become pregnant. We do not know if EPZICOM will harm your unborn child. You and your doctor will need to decide if EPZICOM is right for you. If you use EPZICOM while you are pregnant, talk to your Lamivudine is manufactured under agreement from Shire Pharmaceuticals Group plc, Basingstoke, UK doctor about how you can be on the Antiviral Registry for EPZICOM. ©2009, GlaxoSmithKline. All rights reserved. • are breastfeeding. Some of the ingredients in EPZICOM can be passed to your baby in your breast milk. It is not known March 2009 EPZ:2MG if they could harm your baby. Also, mothers with HIV should not breastfeed because HIV can be passed to the baby in the breast milk. ©2009 The GlaxoSmithKline Group of Companies • have liver problems including hepatitis B virus infection. All rights reserved. Printed in USA. ECM469R0 October 2009 • have kidney problems. • have heart problems, smoke, or suffer from diseases that increase your risk of heart disease such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or diabetes. Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take, including prescription and nonprescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. Especially tell your doctor if you take any of the following medicines*: • methadone • HIVID® (zalcitabine, ddC) • EPIVIR or EPIVIR-HBV® (lamivudine, 3TC), ZIAGEN (abacavir sulfate), COMBIVIR® (lamivudine and zidovudine), or TRIZIVIR (abacavir sulfate, lamivudine, and zidovudine). How should I take EPZICOM? • Take EPZICOM by mouth exactly as your doctor prescribes it. The usual dose is 1 tablet once a day. Do not skip doses. • You can take EPZICOM with or without food. • If you miss a dose of EPZICOM, take the missed dose right away. Then, take the next dose at the usual time. • Do not let your EPZICOM run out.

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420055euro_M07D_PI 0000027557_0000027615_M07D_PI.indd Dec. 30, 2009 15 Lieutenant of Inishmore: When DeCaro went to work giving a dye job to a dead feline, he CRITICS’ PICKS embarked on a scene of blackhole dark humor. And as the sad-eyed, less than brilliant father of a sociopathic and murderous Irish superpatriot, The Addams Family, Ford Center/Oriental DeCaro created one of the season’s most memo- Theatre, through Jan. 10. Before there was rable losers. It takes a whipsmart actor to play Edward Gorey and Tim Burton, there was dumb and desperate with such heart and soul. Charles Addams. His drawings inspire this DeCaro has both the smarts and the inherent comic-creepy musical, which needs only a ability to make us empathize with him—even few adjustments of body parts to ready it when he’s huffing Kiwi black. for New York. MSB —Eddie Torres’ direction of The Elaborate In the Heights, Cadillac Palace Theatre, Entrance of Chad Deity: As someone who through Jan. 3. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s siz- viewed the world of professional wrestling as the zling score and Andy Blankenbuehler’s worst kind of mindless machismo, we went into equally scorching choreography make this Chad Deity with extreme skepticism. But Torres’ Fourth-of-July-set story one of the hottest tickets in town. And it doesn’t matter where The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity. Photo by Liz Lauren skilled shaping of Kristoffer Diaz ground-break- ing and eye-opening (and potentially bone- you’re from—This Latina/o inspired vision of immigrants and the American dream son and Rinne Groff, they assure us that good breaking) dramatic comedy had us at Desmin transcends race and geography. CS Nine ‘09 moments American plays will continue to be forthcoming Borges’ opening monologue. Diaz’ script required , Writers’ Theatre at Books on as we proceed into the second decade of the a keen ear for both polyglot urban rhythms and Oh Coward! Vernon, through March 21. This sublimely to remember 21st century. The same is true every time people the unctuous whitebread idiocy. Torres heard and skillfully performed musical revue like Brenda Barrie, Desmin Borges, Jon Michael them all, and made them resonate. We predict a (and one transports you to a celestial cocktail party Hill and Mierka Girten remind us that there will TKO at the 2010 Jeff Awards. celebrating the wit and sophistication of to forget) be actors to perform them. —The final scene in Victory Gardens’ Black- the (and gay) Noel Coward. SCM BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE —The unlucky 10—Cahn Auditorium and bird: Yes, William Petersen and Mattie Hawkin- Taming of the Flu, , Stage Two at the McGaw YMCA: Light Opera son were spellbinding throughout in David Har- open run. The new 50th anniversary revue —The O’Neill Festival: Some of the participat- Works produced some of the most original and rower’s morally provocative story of a pedophile is sharply topical (and bound to change, ing acts were better than others—’s Com- innovative shows of the season—including a My confronted by his victim 15 years after he se- therefore), witty more than ha-ha funny pania Triptal was my personal favorite, though Fair Lady to surpass the one currently playing in duced her. Directed by Dennis Zacek, the piece and features a six-person cast with acting Kate Valk and the Wooster Group have lost none the suburbs—but both were reduced to school- was equally disturbing and mesmerizing. As for chops in addition to comedy chops. JA of their fire—but the Goodman Theatre’s “Global pageant chintziness by their mismatched play- that final scene, it was a jaw-dropper that made Exploration” brought together an international ing spaces. Please, somebody find this company the blood cold and threw everything that had array of artists testifying to the universality of a real theatre. occurred earlier into a profoundly unsettling and —By Abarbanel, Barnidge, this American playwright’s insight into the hu- ambiguous light. Morgan and Sullivan man condition. —Victory Gardens’ The Elaborate Entrance Nine of 2009 of Chad Deity: Even the elderly opening-night- BY CATEY SULLIVAN ers whooped and hollered like teenagers at a rock concert under the spell of Kristoffer Diaz’ Picking the top moments in Chicago theater is hip-hop narrative and David Woolley’s wink-at- difficult enough without having to rank them. mighty rocks across set designer Walt Spangler’s the-audience fights, but we all went home the So here, in no particular order, are nine theatri- overwhelming foreboding and barren landscape. wiser for our walk through the tinsel world of cal memories we’re not apt to forget for a long Those long, silent opening moments set the pro wrestling. while. Here’s hoping 2010 is equally indelible. mood for the tragedy that ensued: Bleak, bold, —Patrick Andrews’ introducing Fraulein Sal- —Steppenwolf’s The Tempest and Good- intensely physical and utterly compelling. man’s Rock And Roll: It’s easy for big shows ly Bowles in Cabaret: After years of cringingly —Eric Burgher’s -basket scene Ellen to stagger under their own weight, but these mediocre (at best) productions, the Drury Lane, Fairey’s Graceland: The play itself, we’d argue, retained control of their special f/x at all times. Oak Brook roared back to life this year with stun- was a tad overrated, its plot a fairly predictable A special gallons-of-gore award goes to North- ning production values and A-List casts. Among character study in dysfunctional family relations. light’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore. the best of the best: Patrick Andrews as the But director Matthew Miller made the production Emcee in director Jim Corti’s shocking and won- —Profiles’ Graceland and Theatre Seven’s razor-sharp, both in terms of character depth Exquisite little shows have derful Cabaret. As the white-hot epicenter of the Diversey Harbor: and laugh-out-loud humor. The high point ar- their place, too, and these were beacons for show, Andrews was a den mother of debauch- rived with the delivery of one of those cheesy starwatchers. Other small gems: Lifeline’s Bus- ery equally at home in a ménage a trios and a Desire Under the Elms. Photo by Liz Lauren “fruit bouquet” arrangements. Actually, it wasn’t man’s Honeymoon, Theo Ubique’s Evita, Route goose-stepping kick line. As he introduced Sally the fruit, per se. It was deliveryman Burgher’s 66’s High Fidelity. Special boat-in-the-bottle Bowles, chorine of denial, he revealed the expression as he cowered behind a monster awards: Joseph Riley, Katie Schweiger and Alan Emcee’s dark heart in a single, memorable mo- —The opening scene of Desire Under the corsage of strawberries and cantaloupe chunks. Donahue. A special dancing-on-the-head-of-a- ment: Our host for the evening was a leering, Elms: The titular trees were missing in Bob Whether or not you’ve ever delivered fruit for a pin award goes to Brenda Didier. hypnotic prophet intent on blinding everyone Falls mammoth (and controversial) staging of living, you’ve been there. That pathos was both with glitter while the world went to hell. —Silent Theatre’s The Wild Party and Victo- Eugene O’Neill’s tale of land, love and sinister sublime and eminently recognizable. ry Gardens’ Love Person: How many languages —Tracy Letts’ entrance in American Buffalo: maternity. Instead, overpowering boulders hung can a theater audience comprehend simultane- Letts had the best opening shot of the season, from the sky. Below, a pair of mute, muscular ously? These productions proposed to take play- hurling expletives and looking like a low-rent farm hands engaged in Sisyphean labor, hauling goers outside their linguistic comfort zones to porn star as he descended into the claustropho- open new vistas of communication. Also: Grif- bic tomb of a junk shop in David Mamet’s tes- fin’s Little Brother tosterone-crazed classic. Ninety minutes later, —Raven’s Death of a Salesman, Remy he hadn’t lost an iota of energy as he made like Bumppo’s Heroes and the return of American a one-man tornado who didn’t give a fcuking Blues Theatre: Young people doing old plays are fcuker’s fcuk what or who he destroyed in the SPOTLIGHT a part of the learning process, but theater per- show’s epic, climactic tantrum. formed by adults, for adults, provide the model. —Joseph Foronda’s two big numbers in Miss Special Prodigal Son award: Michael Shannon in Saigon: Never mind the doomed ingénue. For Mistakes Were Made. Special AARP pin-up award: us, Miss Saigon has always been about the En- Jeff Christian in Day On Which A Man Dies gineer. Proof? He’s at the center of the musical’s Time is truly running out to see the great —Timeline’s The History Boys: And every showstoppers, If You Want to Die in Bed and The pianist/performer Hershey Felder in Chicago. play when actors under the tutelage of dialect American Dream. Foronda delivered them both There’s just one more performance of his instructors such as Eva Breneman, Sarah Eames, with infinite wile and unstoppable charisma, Broadway show George Gershwin Alone, while Lindsay Bartlett, Anita Deeley, Elise Kauzlaric, giving us an Engineer as enduring as a cock- Felder helps ring in 2010 with two special New Cecilie O’Reilly, Kate DeVore and Vera Kelly keep roach, as endearing as a precocious child and as Year’s Eve performances of The Great Ameri- us firmly grounded in time and place, however irresistible as, well, the American Dream. can Song Book Sing-A-Long. George Gershwin far from home the playwright may take us. —Michael Shannon in Mistakes Were Made: Alone finishes up 7:30 p.m. Wed., Dec. 30, at —Theo Ubique’s Taming of the Shrew: And Felix Artifex was the tour de force of the year. Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place, 175 E. every time the audiences at Black Ensemble Damaged, driven and the deliverer of a 100- Chestnut. Tickets are $55. The Great American witness back at the actors, joining in the on- minute monologue, this was not a character for Song Book Sing-A-Long then plays at 7 and 10 stage magic to physically illustrate the artistic amateurs. But in Oscar nominee Michael Shan- p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 31. Tickets are $100 principle of communion between performer and non’s hands, the producer unsuccessfully trying for the 7 p.m. show and $150 for the 10 p.m. spectator—a phenomenon that can only occur to keep from imploding while grasping at one show. Call 312-642-2000 or visit www.drury- in LIVE theater. last chance of redemption, was wholly error- lanewatertower.com. Photo of Felder in George —Every time I see playwrights like Ellen free. Gershwin Alone courtesy of the company Fairey, Marisa Wegrzyn, Andrew Burden Swan- —Matt DeCaro shoe-polishing the cat in The 16 Dec. 30, 2009 be a lack of support by Chicago audiences for 2. Valentino: The Last Emperor: Vanity Fair 7. Taking Woodstock: Oscar-winning Broke- LGBT cinema. Perhaps queer moviegoing audi- correspondent-turned-film director Matt Tyrnau- back Mountain director Ang Lee returned to ences have been burned by a series of dreadful er made this entertaining and deeply observed queer characters with this endearing, based on KNIGHT to not-great fests over the years or maybe, documentary debut about the last collection of a true story set in the sleepy hamlet that made in fact, that’s exactly what they want. Italian couture designer Valentino and his busi- history the weekend of the Woodstock festival in AT Whatever the cause, when even a major award- ness/life partner Giancarlo Giammetti. 1969. Everyone comes out—sexually, emotion- THE winning, high-profile release like Milk has trou- 3. Precious: Based on the Novel Push by ally, etc.—in this ultimate coming-out story, a ble at the box office, what kind of numbers can Sapphire: Bisexual author Sapphire’s novel tribute to the “peace and love” generation that MOVIES producers expect for low-budget queer movies about a twice-pregnant 16-year-old obese Af- should have done better in . without the benefit of money for splashy mar- rican-American teenager in Harlem in 1987 is 8. Grey Gardens: Out co-writer/director Mi- keting campaigns? So consider this yet another compellingly brought to the screen by self-de- chael Sucsy’s film version for HBO of the incred- exhortation to head out to theatres and support scribed “part homo, part Euro, part ghetto” di- ible story of once-wealthy Big Edie and Little the current crop of queer-tinged movies—A Sin- rector-producer Lee Daniels. Paula Patton plays Edie Beale, a mother and daughter now living in gle Man and Precious, for starters—especially if Miss Rain, the firm but loving teacher who helps squalor in their decaying East Hampton mansion you’d like to see more films about Our People Precious spread her wings—and just happens to provided Drew Barrymore with a career-altering show up in theaters around town in 2010. Let’s be a lesbian. role, Jessica Lange an Emmy award and Malcolm hope that several festival favorites from this 4. Outrage: Oscar-nominated documentarian Gets with a delicious supporting part as Big year—Ky Dickens’ Fish Out of Water, Ron Pa- Kirby ’s movie goes after conser- Edie’s gay piano accompanist. It should have jack’s Queerborn & Perversion, Tina Mabry’s Mis- vatives in Washington politics with a track re- been released in movie theaters. The 10 best sissippi Damned and other unsung movies—find cord of voting against Our People. For about 10 9. Little Ashes: Twilight star Robert Pattin- distributors before heading the DVD route. seconds after its release the conservative media son and newcomer Spanish hottie Javier Beltran LGBT movies Okay, enough of the soapbox. This year also helped it gain traction while the mainstream me- play the young painter Salvador Dali and writer/ had a lot of good queer-themed films that did dia once again ignored its eye-opening claims. activist Federico Garcia Lorca who have an in- of ‘09; make it to Chicago theatres—so let’s get to It arrives on DVD in January. See it. tense during their school days in this them. I’d like to point out—as I do every year— 5. Bruno: Opinions about Sacha Baron Co- old fashioned, gorgeously mounted mood piece. Poseidon that these “Best of” lists are completely sub- hen’s Austrian fashionista character Bruno and 10. Hannah Free: Sharon Gless makes her fea- BY RICHARD KNIGHT, JR. jective. Mine tends to shift around with repeat his shock-inducing stunts had mixed results ture debut in the title role about the decades viewings and reconsiderations. And with that, with both straight and gay audiences. Is Bruno long, up-and-down romance between a free This year was a mixed year for gay cinema. Tri- here’s my list of the 10 Best LGBT Movies of 2009 too stereotypical to score points from the homo- spirit and her more cautious lover who ironically umphs large and small for Our People were ham- (in preferential order): phobes he encounters? Or just the opposite? I’m end up down the hall from each other in a nurs- pered by political and social reverses outside the 1. A Single Man: Based on iconic queer writer in the latter camp. ing home at the end of their days. Windy City movie house, and the recession definitely hit Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 novel, Colin Firth, 6. Every Little Step: Adam Del Deo and James Media Group Publisher Tracy Baim was executive the independent movie business with the lion’s Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode and Nicholas D. Stern’s fascinating and entertaining documen- producer, and the movie was made by a mostly share of boutique studios—the indies that often Hoult look and act sensationally in this stylish tary about the history of Broadway’s “A Chorus local—and lesbian—group of actors and film- launch the most compelling queer fare—being and moving retro drama about a college profes- Line” as a revival is being cast included a biog- makers. absorbed by their studios or dissipated alto- sor coping with the death of his lover. Clothing raphy of the gay talent behind the scenes, most gether. Artiztical Entertainment, one of the few designer-turned-film director Tom Ford co-wrote, tellingly its brilliant director-choreographer, the Going on an adventure: distributors specializing in queer movies, didn’t directed, produced and financed the film. late Michael Bennett. For the second consecutive year, Camp Mid- survive the financial fallout and declared bank- night will present the disaster movie The Posei- ruptcy, while TLA, Strand Releasing and Wolfe don Adventure on New Year’s Eve. are still hanging in there. “Passengers” are invited to embark at 11 p.m. Several LGBT-themed movies that, in previ- for the camptacular Camp Midnight pre-show ous years, might have gotten at least a week’s hosted by Captain Dick O’Day and staffed by the run at the Landmark Century, the Music Box or crew of Hell in a Handbag Productions. one of the other indie theatres in town skipped The screening of the film will be timed so that bookings in Chicago altogether. Though festival theater patrons and their celluloid counterparts audiences saw Eleven Minutes, the documentary will celebrate midnight at the exact same time. about former fashion contestant Admission includes a complimentary cham- Jay McCarroll, the film didn’t get a theatrical pagne toast and party favors. Advance tickets booking here. Nor did we get to see Keira Knight- for select screenings are available via Brown Pa- ley and Sienna Miller bathing together in The per Tickets. Edge of Love or “Friday Night Lights” star Zach Check out my archived reviews at www. Gilford sleep with both Emmy Rossum and Ash- windycitytimes.com or www.knightatthemov- ley Springer in the provocatively titled Dare. One ies.com. Readers can leave feedback at the of the reasons, as I and other local queer film latter Web site. Gabourney Sidibe (left) and Paula Patton in Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire. critics told audiences when questioned about this at our Queer Film Society Q&As, seems to MOVIES each has a female love interest. Likewise there evening rewatching a few minutes each of sev- some festivals at least, The Nine Lives of Marion was definite chemistry between Tony Leung and eral of my 2009 favorites, refreshing my memory Barry, Nine Dead, The Back Nine and 9/9/09. 2009 in review Takeshi Kaneshiro in Red Cliff. Cultural differ- on their virtues so I could put a “best” list in Anyway, here are my choices for the best of a BY STEVE WARREN ences can’t explain away the scene where they some sort of order. pretty good year. I didn’t intentionally exclude make beautiful music together after their first It’s not easy to compare animated apples with franchises, but only the new Star Trek made it Until Colin Firth popped up at year’s end in Tom meeting. live-action oranges, not to mention computer- into the top 20. I’m sure the others would rather Ford’s A Single Man, it looked as if the gay face Lesbians were less visible (what else is new?), generated grapes. How does a lavish spectacle have their share of $9.7 billion (and counting) of American cinema in the year after Milk would except for the nice statement made by Paula match up against a gritty drama? A comedy is than my approval. be—ugh!—Brüno. Patton in Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” funny but is it Art? Should that matter? Is pho- A few titles in the various lists haven’t arrived Sacha Baron Cohen’s travesty wasn’t the only by Sapphire, directed by out Lee Daniels; Sha- tographing true events more praiseworthy than here yet or never will. Watch for them on DVD or queer presence on screen. There were real gays ron Gless in Hannah Free, Katherine Parkinson in recreating them? And if they want their film the various forms of new media that the unions in Valentino: The Last Emperor, The September Radio, Paige Turco and Sherry Stringfield appreciated in America, should we make them are still fighting for a piece of. Issue and Every Little Step, not to mention the in The Stepfather and maybe (mustn’t spoil the speak English? Top 10: ones Kirby Dick outed in Outrage. ending) Drew Barrymore and Katherine Moennig All this to ponder at the end of a stressful 1. Up There were gay characters played by Firth and in Everybody’s Fine. week in which distributors that made us wait 2. Inglourious Basterds Matthew Goode (and maybe Nicholas Hoult) in There was also the usual complement of gay until the last minute to see their films made us 3. The Hurt Locker A Single Man, James Brolin in The Goods: Live secretaries and best friends, female couples wait an extra hour in one case for the print to 4. Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sap- Hard, Sell Hard, Demetri Martin in Taking Wood- making out in party scenes; plus a couple of bi- arrive, an extra quarter-hour in another while phire stock (with Liev Schreiber as a trans individual), sexuals in “The Informers.” everyone entering the theater was searched for 5. Goodbye Solo Andy Samberg in I Love You, Man, Robert Pattin- While Americans reportedly had less money recording devices. 6. Summer Hours (L’heure d’été) son and Javier Beltrán in Little Ashes (although to spend in 2009 than any year since 1821, we Although I was able to show some love for 7. Fantastic Mr. Fox one of them turns straight), Mark Rendall in My spent more of it at the movies than ever before. performances I saw later, the latest I previewed 8. A Serious Man One and Only, Pavel Liska in The Country Teacher, December wasn’t half over when the total boxof- any of the films that made my Top Ten was Nov. 9. District 9 Zach Sanchez in World’s Greatest Dad and maybe fice for the year passed $9.7 billion, setting a 17. Avatar might have fared better if it hadn’t 10. Every Little Step (mustn’t spoil the ending) Jack T. Carpenter in I new record. been screened in the same 72-hour period as To find out everything from what made Love You, Beth Cooper. This obviously left us less money for food, yet Sherlock Holmes, Broken Embraces, Nine, A Sin- Steve Warren’s bottom 10 (besides Halloween The “bromance” trend continued unabated, there was no reported drop in our national obe- gle Man and The Maid; but who knows? II) to who he deemed the “Transformer,” see carried to hetero extremes in Humpday. It’s hard sity level. If the box-office total ends up over $9.9 bil- www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com. to tell what Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law are I’m glad I write about movies so I don’t have lion, as appears likely, it will be a fitting end to supposed to be in Sherlock Holmes, even though to analyze this data. Analyzing the movies is a The Year of the Nines, which saw Nine, 9, $9.99, tough enough gig. I recently spent a frustrating District 9, Cloud 9, One Nine Nine Four and, in Dec. 30, 2009 17 ers’ heads, especially those fort Wait for Me would translate onto the stage. above all others during her first North American constant pessimists and During his concert, the two phenomenal female tour. While in Chicago, Minogue heard the fans’ drama queens. vocalists took liberty on new numbers like “Walk chants and sang “Your Disco Needs You” a cap- No video was better with Me” and “JLTF,” as well as prior hits “Hon- pella as her bassist was sorting out a technical than The Gossip’s “Heavy ey” and “Porcelain.” The set was well-rounded difficulty. The pint-sized pop princess hit the Cross.” Here, lead singer with thumping favorites “Go” and “Feeling So high notes and sang the bridge in French. The Beth Ditto gets dolled up, Real,” making Moby’s recent tour the show of breast-cancer survivor also welcomed a fan on celebrating all body types. the year. stage for a hug and photo. Britney, Madonna and Culture Club back-up vocal- It has been a decade since I heard a tribute Beyonce, take note. POP ist Helen Terry gets a shout album as cohesive as New Tales to Tell: A Trib- The year’s best superstar, Lady Gaga, deliv- out with Ditto’s stylish ute to Love and Rockets. Lossy Coils with Ian ered hit after hit. After her pop crossover finally MAKING asymmetrical bob. Moore’s take on “Sweet F.A.” fits in among alter- came, the “Paparazzi” singer never forgot her As far as the sexiest pop- native acts like The Flaming redoing “Kun- loyal gay fan base. Whether it was at award cer- SENSE star, it would have to be dalini Express” and The Dandy Warhols tackling emonies, in interviews, during an HRC benefit or Guy B. The fit California- “Inside the Outside.” even at The March on Washington, Lady Gaga re- based singer looks great in I am torn awarding the best club song and mains vocal about her support to the LGBT com- his latest video “Co-Exist.” best collaboration. “When Love Takes Over” by munity. At the MTV Europe Awards, the blonde Expect his new album to David Guetta and Kelly Rowland was a mas- New Yorker reminded fans to wear a condom. It drop in 2010. sive summer hit. Rowland bravely stepped onto is rare to see many other celebrities—no - For the best music-related the dance floor to open arms. Then there was ter what list they are on—speak out like Lady 2009 rewind TV show, I was initially going to hand this rec- “Heartbreak Make Me a Dancer” by Freemasons Gaga does. by David Byrne with Tony Peregrin ognition over to TVOne’s Unsung for spotlight- and Sophie Ellis-Bextor. Here, the “Murder on ing overlooked artists of yesteryear. But then I the Dancefloor” singer seduces listeners with her This year saw Michael Jackson’s premature death got hooked on Glee. It is entertaining watch- signature raspy voice once again. resurrect album sales, an overdue comeback ing straight guys count to four as they dance. The uplifting Magical Dub of “More Than a from Whitney Houston, the crossover of Lady On this prime-time hit, the Benetton-ad-worthy Dream” from the limited edition of the Pet Shop Gaga and The Black Eyed Peas holding the pole choir performs fantastic musical numbers. It Boys’ Yes remains on repeat. The pair is known position for 26 straight weeks with the unavoid- does not hurt that lesbian comedian Jane Lynch for having superbly witty lyrics, but this dub able “Boom Boom Pow” and “I Gotta Feeling.” is in Glee’s outstanding ensemble. Two cast re- summons a carefree spirit that makes it the best But what do the pop charts know anyway? cordings from Glee are now available. remix of 2009. Shakespears Sister’s Songs from the Red Telling on Trixie’s cover of Belinda Carlisle’s The ultimate reissue is Sinead O’Connor’s Room is the year’s best album. Siobhan Fahey’s “Mad about You” is unparallel to the other re- I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got. Here, her work under the Shakespears Sister moniker is a makes out there. Openly gay frontman Derek chart-topping smash “Nothing Compares 2U” is far cry from her giddy dance-pop days with Ba- Nicoletto beams as he belts out the big chorus remastered and the bonus disc contains B-sides, nanarama. The long-awaited release blends the on this rocking rendition. Good luck trying not remixes, live tracks and a cover of John Lennon’s catchy rock and electro influences of Blondie, to sing along. “Mad about You” is on Telling on “Mind Games.” Siouxsie & The Banshees and Love and Rock- Trixie’s sophomore outing Ugly, Broke & Sober. The enough already award can be shared be- ets. “Cold” could easily appear on any Twilight In regards to debuts, The Joans’ We Are the tween Jennifer Lopez, Black Eyes Peas, Kanye soundtrack. The exclusive download “Someone Joans takes top honors. The set is clever, catchy West, The Pussycat Dolls, Britney Spears and Else’s Girl” has the innocent ‘60s girl group feel and oh-so-queer with its homage to Joan Craw- Mariah Carey. Their desperate need for media with guitars and tambourines. Whereas the elec- ford. New Wave-influenced goodies “Mad at the attention and their dumbed-down, disappoint- trifying “It’s a Trip” and “You’re Not Yourself” Dirt, ” “Joan World” and “Cool” prove this fun ing, uninspired music have become too much. make for a welcomed return. Chicago outfit is no one trick pony. Let me know when the backlash begins. Out singer-songwriter Linq prescribes a My favorite EP is Definition of Forever by The P!nk’s “Please Don’t Leave Me” and Kelly healthy dose of reassurance on the song of the Balloons. This self-described homo-goth band Clarkson’s “My Life Would Suck without You” year, “Life Goes On.” On the reprise, Linq re- shows a promising start with Love & Rockets and are the worst videos of the year. These clips fail peats “life goes on” in a gorgeous harmony, so Orgy inspired material like “Pass the Lines” and at adding humor to doomed, dysfunctional re- hopefully the message will sink into the listen- “Injection” on this five track digital E.P. lationships. Linq. I was worried how Moby’s deeply intimate ef- Kylie Minogue rightfully proved she is a diva

MUSIC WCT: Regarding Unexpected—why does the dresser is gay, my assistant is gay, some of the album have that title? writers and producers I work with are gay and Angie Stone’s AS: Well, I’m stretching above the rim. My my best friend is gay. So I had to tune [the ru- father passed away unexpectedly this year, and mors] out and pray about it. ‘Unexpected’ turn that was a shock to me. When I recorded the I like playing gay clubs. If you like my music, by andrew davis album, I didn’t have a title so I said, “This is so let’s all have fun together. unexpected. So I’m gonna go for broke and do WCT: You contributed to So Amazing: An For three decades, vocalist Angie Stone has whatever the hell I want to do.” I reached out All-Star Tribute to Luther Vandross [singing been entertaining—surprising audiences, crit- and got Jazze Pha to give me a fast club track “Since I Lost My Baby”]. What was Luther ics, peers and the music industry itself along the we could remix the heck out of—that’s “Free”— like? way. She’s back with a new CD, Unexpected (re- and I wanted to deliver a message in the music. AS: Luther and I went to the movies before he corded with the legendary music label Stax). In I did some classic Angie Stone; I reached back passed away [in 2005]. We actually toured to- a candid interview, Stone talked about growing for some Evelyn “Champagne” King. I’ve been in gether on his last tour. He bought me the most up in the South, explaining why some dislike the the business a long time, and I wanted people to beautiful Louis Vuitton purse as a thank-you term “neo-soul” and dealing with rumors that know that I’m not just a soul/neo-soul artist. gift. she is anti-gay. WCT: As a singer who has a lot of gay fans, Luther was one of my closest artist friends; we Windy City Times: I went to this event [re- I’m glad you have confronted those rumors could go to a movie, sit down, laugh and joke. cently] called World of Chocolate, and one of [that Stone made an anti-gay statement in We had a great rapport. And there was no bal- the songs the DJ played was a remix of [your 2002]... ladeer like Luther around. song] “Wish I Didn’t Miss You.” Gay men love AS: Oh, my God! That was so horrible. WCT: We just talked about Luther’s tribute that song. I was so flabbergasted because, at the time, I album. Who would you want on a tribute al- Angie Stone: Oh, my God—you don’t have to had three gay members in my band who were re- bum to Angie Stone? tell me. I did a New Year’s Eve party about six or ally, really good friends of mine. We’d joke with AS: I’d want the best, of course. I would do a seven years ago at the biggest gay club in New each other, and I think some people misunder- “living legend” tribute; I’d go to Gladys [Knight], York. I had about 25-30 choir members come stood and tried to take me seriously. Are you Chaka [Khan], Patti [LaBelle] and Natalie [Cole]. out in robes and neon hula hoops, baby. [Inter- Angie Stone. kidding? “Wish I Didn’t Miss You” was written by Then, I’d pick some of today’s divas like Ledisi, viewer laughs.] It was off the chain. The strobe a gay man who is one of the best writers in the Jill Scott, Fantasia and Alicia Keys. I would pick lights were going, and I came out there like the to deal with the drama that we deal with out in industry. the creme de la creme of the female bunch. Then, Supremes, baby. The choir came behind me and the industry. [The rumors] really hurt me. My best, best when it was time to do “Brotha,” I’d get the sang “Wish I Didn’t Miss You.” It was a blast. WCT: I’ve read that some musicians are not friend is gay. So I said, “You know what? If it’s baddest brothers in the business to sing—”My WCT: You and I have something in com- comfortable being classified as “neo-soul.” Is so easy for you guys to turn on me after every- Strong Sista”—as an homage to Angie Stone. mon—we’re originally both [the South] and “neo-soul” a bad word? thing—and I love gay people, and gay people Stone’s CD, Unexpected, is out in stores and grew up in the church, with gospel music. AS: I just think it’s a generic word for what is have been so loyal.” Unfortunately, I fell out available on iTunes. How did church shape you? really soul music. They feel that people are not with one of the gay guys in my group, and it To find out more about Angie Stone—in- AS: Well, it scared the mess out of me. It really crediting them for what they want people came back to bite me in the ass about a year cluding her 12-year battle with sarcoidosis— taught me to do the best for our people, in gen- to see them as: soul artists. It’s like, “You’re a later because they tried to turn our jokes into visit www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com. eral. I felt that, with my upbringing in gospel minute from being soul, [so] we’ll call you neo- something spiteful. I’m not in a position to music and the knowledge I learned, it helped me soul.” judge anybody. And let me tell you: my hair- 18 Dec. 30, 2009 REAL ESTATE FOR SALE TWO BEDROOM LOGAN SQUARE APT 2 BRM + DEN. Appliances, heat CONDOS & hot water included. Newly remodeled two blocks to LOFT WITH PRIVATE GARDEN Sunny 2 bedroom brick blue line. Parking off street /no smoking. $1,200 + sec. and beam loft in great location in Lakeview. Soaring deposit. 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Chicago’s most-trusted DOWNLOAD THE iPhone app LGBT news source... in the palm of your hands. Find it at the iTunes store Dec. 30, 2009 19 BOOK REVIEW tances in the exclusive clubs and corridors of chapter; but, fortunately Lucinda Fleeson’s book arts and finance whom we now know were gay. “Waking Up in Eden” (Algonquin Books, 2009) Other tidbits include the fact that somewhere includes a wealth of material on the gardens and Robert on the Monticello grounds, waiting to be found, Robert and John’s lives there. The only failings is a diamond brooch lost by a houseguest while of the current book are due to the paucity of walking the gardens 70 years ago. And the tale, source material available to Burgin and Holtz. more apropos of today’s disease alerts, of the The life of this handsome, rich, generous, gay Allerton: workers who unpacked and installed the statue Chicago son stands in stark contrast to other re- The Private Man, of the Sun Singer mischievously adding a giant cords of the era (like the 1910 Vice Commission condom—the authors report Robert was not Report) picturing gay hobos in Grant Park, and The Public Gifts amused. The Lawai-Kai property once belonged dandies wearing signature red ties or bouton- By Marie J. Kuda to two other queens—Queen Emma Kalanikau- nieres parading up State Street looking for tricks makaamano (widow of King Kamehameha IV) among the department store counter jumpers Last summer’s exhibition at the Art Institute of and the immediate previous owner, Alexander or YMCA regulars. A must for Chicago history Chicago, “Beyond the Golden Clouds,” featured McBryde (an openly gay man). buffs. a pair of 17th-century Japanese screens depict- The years are limited to one brief Copyright 2009 by Marie J. Kuda ing scenes from Lady Murasaki’s 11th-century classic “Tale of the Genji.” The screens were but one of dozens of gifts from Robert Allerton Writing wrongs Dates and places (1873-1964) to the AIC. Allerton, scion of the dance was held in the “Clouds Room” formerly by Marie J. Kuda Nancy Polikoff, Professor of Law at American stockyards and banking empire of Chicago ty- “The Tip-Top-Tap” of the Venetian- Renaissance- University Washington College of Law and au- coon Samuel Waters Allerton, had his generosity style Allerton Hotel on Chicago’s Michigan Av- The shortcomings of writing for the Internet thor of “Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: acknowledged when the AIC renamed the origi- enue. The Tap with its sweeping views of the city and/or gay newspapers and non-academic pe- Valuing Families under the Law” posted a bit nal Michigan Avenue building in honor of “his had long been rumored to be a gay rendezvous riodicals that don’t allow space for full cita- about the Allertons adoption in her blog: “Ever long service as a trustee, officer, and benefactor until well into the 1960s. (See sidebar.)] tions are illustrated by a handful of articles thought of adopting your partner?” August of the museum.” In the 1980s, my gay political guru, John that superseded the publication of Burgin and 2. 2009. Polikoff said that theirs was the gay “Robert Allerton: The Private Man and the Chester, whose avocation is the study of the Holtz’ biography of Robert Allerton. So-called partner adoption she thought of most often, Public Gifts” (News-Gazette, Inc. 2009) by Mar- “connected” families of the Gilded Age had man- “facts” occasionally get recounted from one recounting her first acquaintance with their tha Burgin and Maureen Holtz, opens with a aged a tour of the manor house at “The Farms” gay source to another without checking their story while touring Kauai in the early 1990s. 1906 society feature calling the (as Allerton’s downstate holdings were once legitimacy. The late gay historian Jim Kepner, She was so impressed that she thought of then 33-year-old Allerton “The Richest Bachelor called), and returned replete with stories about wrote about this concerning an Abraham Lin- writing an article on them; in her re-telling, in Chicago,” racking up all the characteristics the adoption, a butler who had posed naked for coln piece 30 years ago—technology had only she states: “Robert, an heir to one of Chica- that would make him a flawless husband. But in a pair of the garden statues, and other “friends exacerbated the problem. go’s great fortunes, adopted John in Illinois 1960, the 86-year-old bachelor philanthropist, of Dorothy” who had been guests in the old days. in 1951.” She notes that she didn’t write the adopted John Wyatt Gregg his 61-year-old com- It was Chester who relayed the suggestion that The Allerton Hotel article because of Bruce Shenitz’ piece on the panion of almost 40 years. Allerton money and influence might have been Under the pressure of deadlines an article I Allertons, “The Garden of Eden, Minus Eve,” in The men had met at a University of Illinois behind the change in Illinois adoption laws. wrote to run concurrently in “Out & Proud in the September 2007 issue of “Out” magazine. function in the 1920s when Robert was in his I didn’t start writing about Allerton until the Chicago” (Surrey, 2008) and Windy City Times Shenitz too erroneously cited 1951 as the late 40s and John an undergrad of 22. Theirs 1990s after my former landlord Jim Edminster led me to repeat an error, which on its face ap- adoption date; perhaps where Polikoff picked was the first adult adoption permitted in Illinois (inveterate gardener and dancer who won a gold peared a “no brainer.” It seemed safe to assume it up. He noted: “From the start they described under new laws passed by the state legislature medal in Chicago’s ) told me that that Robert Allerton, who dealt with most of themselves as having a ‘father-son relation- in 1959. This was not the first time that gays a tour guide at the former Allerton Gardens on the major Chicago architects and had the origi- ship,’ a suitably demure description of their had used adoption as a means to legalize a re- Kauai, Hawaii alluded to the true nature of the nal edifice of the Art Institute just down the setup, and one that was formalized in 1951 lationship. States in America that were settled relationship of Robert and John, and of other street on Michigan Avenue named after him, when Illinois passed a law allowing one adult under French rule, like Louisiana, preserved “gay games” at Lawai-Kai their Hawaii estate. had lent his name (if not his money) to the Al- to adopt another.” Further in his piece Shenitz adult adoption laws that were used primarily The land and gardens of both estates, Monti- lerton Hotel—especially since its Tip-Top-Tap quotes from a John Allerton oral history—a to protect property rights. Robert and John had cello and Lawai-Kai, were donated and preserved was long known as a gay cruising spot. transcript of one a few oral histories by John earlier considered moving to St. Louis to take as the Allerton Park and Retreat Center in Illi- Maureen Holtz, co-author of the new Aller- available online from University of Illinois. advantage of such laws, not then on the books nois, and as part of the National Tropical Botani- ton biography wrote to me in response to a The 84-year-old John responded to a question in Illinois. cal Gardens in Hawaii. query: “So many people are convinced that about his adoption suggesting the date was

Robert had something to do with the Allerton 1951. Other UI transcripts note 1959 as the Gay gardens Thin paper trail Hotel. However, it’s untrue. He merely agreed date. I began hearing of Robert Allerton in May, Burgin & Holtz have produced a remarkable to let the owner name it “Allerton” because Mr. William B. Kelley had done a quick bit of re- 1972 when a bus load of Chicagoans joined the book given the thin paper trail Allerton left be- Cushman liked the sound of it better than his search for my “Out and Proud in Chicago” Al- members of the nascent University of Illinois hind. Only a handful of articles, based on sketchy own name.” lerton piece, finding that the change in Illinois Gay Liberation group for a bit of a frolic on the research, preceded their book. Profusely illus- This set off an exchange of research with law was generated by Senate Bill 737 approved grounds of the Allerton Gardens at Monticello, trated, the book tells the bare bones story of his Holtz and William B. Kelley that yielded an July 17, 1959 and adopted as effective Jan. some forty miles outside of Champaign-Urbana. life, but is more expansive on his philanthropy, even more interesting (as yet unpublished) 1, 1960 (since reworked—now known as 750 Mattachine Midwest News editor David Stie- and the houses and gardens—their maintenance story. Mary Allerton, descendant of a parallel ILCS 50/0.01-50/24). Kelley noted that further necker and I had gone down by car. We parked and renovations. They have done extensive re- linage from Robert’s Mayflower ancestor Isaac research would have to be done to see whether adjacent a formal garden, hiked through a long search and provide us with copious notes, and a Allerton (1585-1659), lent her name to the or not, as frequently suggested in print, Aller- woodland trail with arching trees shading the biographical dictionary of Robert’s antecedents, first of a proposed chain of upscale hotels for ton influenced the original process. path; around a bend we entered a blinding sun- family and friends. But, unfortunately Allerton single business and professional women to be lit circle at the center of which a 15-foot statue was a very private person in many ways and we constructed in several cities by her relative Pansies in Hawaii of a gilded classic male nude with outstretched are left with a sketchy picture of the man, but a James S. Cushman. Several early-1920s news- Lucinda Fleeson, (in her November 2005 arms stood on a huge pedestal—a dozen or so more expansive one of his public persona. paper articles in New York and Chicago tell the “Chicago” magazine article “The Gay 1930s” gay couples lolled basking around its base—one This is not to say that tantalizing facts and story. reprinted in “Out & Proud in Chicago” sug- of those images that etch themselves in memory. anecdotes are not to be found among its pag- The 600-room Allerton in New York City gests that one of the main reasons Robert Al- I would later learn that this statue of Apollo was es. For the first time in print, two of Allerton’s opened a few years before construction was lerton left Illinois for Hawaii was the clamp “The Sun Singer” by Swedish artist Carl Milles earlier lovers are identified: English artist Glyn done on the Chicago “skyscraper” of 26 floors down on the freedom that had been afforded commissioned by Robert on his 1929 trip to Eu- Warren Philpot and composer Roger Quilter. In with a bachelor residence of 1,000 rooms—14 homosexuals in Chicago during “Pansy Craze” rope with John. addition, the text is laced through with names floors for men, six for women. Apparently there of the 1920s and 30s. Holtz and Burgin clearly [In 1978 “Summer Magic” the annual “Pride” of late-19th and early 20th-century acquain- weren’t enough women of the desired caliber illustrate that both men were smitten by Ha- (“lawyers, physicians, politicians, women lec- waii; the challenge of creating Kawai-Lai, re- turers, writers and interior decorators, not to plete with new buildings and gardens, drew mention buyers and department heads in the them back twice even in the midst of World From left: big stores and actual proprietors and managers War II. They would have been least likely to be John Allerton, of small ones”) to support the hotel, so it was affected by the pendulum swing of Chicago’s Robert Aller- opened to single men as well. The hotel had pansy intolerance. Robert would have been in- ton and Elmer all the amenities—library, ballroom and even sulated by his immense wealth and his rare res- Priebe. Image its own news magazine. In the 1940s the Tip- idence in the city—they traveled extensively, taken from the Top-Tap, a “swanky lounge,” was added to the from November to April each year, returning to book Robert top story. The Tap closed in 1961 and reopened “The Farms” downstate, where their entertain- Allerton: as the Cloud Room. Designated a Chicago ing, including their much touted costume balls The Private landmark in 1998, the hotel has gone through were held. Man, The owners and names—it is currently the Allerton Copyright 2009 by Marie J. Kuda Public Gifts Hotel again “independently owned underneath the Oxford umbrella of hotels.” 20 Dec. 30, 2009

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He can take heart that Calvin Klein is YYeeaarr’’ss of the Department of State will enjoy the same a fan and wants to see him in his undies. benefits as their hetero counterparts. So far, First the paparazzi snapped Channing Tatum she’s way ahead of Obama in keeping her prom- on vacation looking...well, looking fat! A month ises. later, GQ ran a photo spread with the hunk miss- EEvvee Lots of familiar names came out of the closet this year. Farrell, Gere and Evans, for example. A Big, Bright Future In each case, the gay person is the brother of the more famous sibling. Colin Farrell’s brother 3349 N. Halsted Eamon not only came out, but married his part- SidetrackChicago.com ner Steven Mannion—with Colin standing up as Valet Parking Available his best man. Alas, the couple had to get mar- A PORTION OF YOUR ried in , since gay are still il- $25 DONATION BENEFITS ® legal in their native Ireland. However, over the EQUALITY ILLINOIS PAC holidays, the pair arranged a reception in Dublin to celebrate the union with family and friends. Richard Gere’s brother David came out and was barely able to get married! “My brother is gay and he got married in that brief period when gay marriage was allowed in California. They have two great kids and he’s a wonderful father.” Sexy Chris Evans’ equally hot brother Scott is gay. Chris went on record saying, “It’s mindbog- gling and appalling that human beings are be- ing denied civil rights in this country.” A few months later, Scott joined the cast of One Life to Live, and is now the focus of a hot gay storyline. Coming out certainly hasn’t hurt his career. Things weren’t so peachy elsewhere on day- TThhaannkkssttoooouurrffrriieennddssaatt time television. The Guiding Light was snuffed out and As the World Turns is about to stop spin- ning. This means we’ll lose the delicious “Luke” Thom Bierdz came back from the great and “Noah” storyline—but I suspect we’ll be beyond. seeing much more of Van Hansis down the road. On the positive side, “Phillip Chancellor III” returned to The Young and the Restless, despite ing at least 30 pounds and gaining abs! Then a having died in a car crash 20 years ago (and video surfaced of an 18-year-old Chan as a mem- having been seen as a ghost). When the char- ber of “Male Encounter”—an all-male revue that acter returned to Genoa City, he was revealed to was based in Florida. Apparently this stripping have faked his own death rather than tell people led to being cast in Ricky Martin’s “She Bangs” he was gay! The role is played by openly gay video—which explains oh-so-much. The video, actor Thom Bierdz, who originated the part and pics and even a full-frontal snap from his model- had a hand in developing this new development. ing days can be found on BillyMasters.com. While his presence on the show is questionable Joan Rivers has once again risen from the right now, he can be proud to have been part of ashes. After several well-documented setbacks, a historic storyline. Joan and Missy were back on TV with “Celebrity Mariah Carey showed herself to be a true friend Apprentice”. Missy may have had a meltdown, to our community. After hearing from a young but Auntie Joan ended up on top. Now E! has gay man that his partner would only marry him rehired Joanie to helm the “Fashion Police” red if he got to meet Mariah, she arranged to bring carpet specials. She won’t be on the red carpet, the couple onstage during a performance. One but she’ll host the post-award show wrap-ups, proposed, one accepted, and Carey had cham- starting with a Golden Globe special on January pagne on ice to celebrate. 18th. Belinda Carlisle recorded a public service an- We even had a few Fayewatch items. My favor- nouncement supporting Protect Maine Equality ite was when Miss Dunaway learned that a re- saying, in part, “My son James is gay, and I make of “Bonnie and Clyde” was being prepared want him and every other gay person out there as a vehicle for Hillary Duff. Faye was quick to to have the same opportunities and rights as weigh in: “Couldn’t they at least cast a real ac- I’ve had in life.” Her autobiography, “Lips Un- tress?” It could have been worse—it could have sealed: A Memoir”, will be released in May. been planned for Brittany Murphy! What? Too Sexy Matthew Bomer resurfaced on the USA soon? network’s “White Collar”. He also surfaced on the When I’m making jokes in questionable taste, net in a few pics making out with a very hot guy. it’s definitely time to end yet another year of Bomer, currently dating his very powerful publi- columns. What a year it has been, what a rare cist, made no comment. But the other guy did. mood I’m in, but it’s nothing like being in love. Mike White confirmed that he and Bomer were However, I’m in love with each and every fan— a couple from 2001 to 2004. We also came into especially the ones who regularly check out possession of a hot pic of White, which made www.BillyMasters.com. While I’m ringing in the one long for a sex tape to leak of this duo. Until New Year in Fort Lauderdale, I’m still answering then, at least you can see them in all their glory e-mails. So feel free to drop a note to Billy@Bil- on BillyMasters.com. lyMasters.com and I promise to get back to you The “Twilight” craze continued this year. Rob- before return to Hollywood (just in time for the ert Pattinson may be the star of the flick, but Golden Globes). So, until next year, remember, if you ask me (which I know you would), he’s one man’s filth is another man’s bible. the least appealing of the boys—despite some convincing body makeup. Taylor Lautner did the 22 Dec. 30, 2009 of financial constraints and work commitments. manager and owner; Sami Grisafe is the team’s SPORTS Applegate is a member of the Ohio Splash, 2009 IN REVIEW quarterback. Both are lesbians. a predominantly gay swim team established in Top 20 moments 12. The Chicago Blackwolves debut in a new 1997. gets hockey league in Northbrook. The team wins in LGBT sports its opener and expands its roster, but ultimate- By Ross Forman ‘13 ly loses its first-round playoff game. By Ross Forman Welsh rugby 13. The Chicago Metropolitan Sports Associa- Here’s a look at the Top 20 LGBT sporting mo- player comes out tion (CMSA) launches a 12-team outdoor kick- The 2013 have been awarded ments from 2009, mixing national news with Welsh rugby player Gareth Thomas has official- ball league. to the city of Antwerp, Belgium, GLISA Interna- local flavor: ly come out of the closet—making him one of 14. CMSA’s Friday night beach-volleyball tional (Gay and Lesbian International As- 1. The World Outgames in Copenhagen battle the few openly gay athletes to reveal his sexual- league continues to expand. The 2009 season sociation) announced recently, ending months a worldwide financial crisis, and deliver memo- ity while still active in his field. Thomas plays featured a record 159 teams, making it the of speculation about whether or not there would rable eight-day event despite hate-crime at- for the Cardiff Blues. largest LGBT beach-volleyball league in the na- in fact be a third-ever Outgames. tacks that sent one U.S. resident to the hos- According to Towleroad.com, Thomas told tion. Antwerp was selected as the preferred host pital. the Daily Mail, “My parents, my family and my 15. CMSA softball leagues feature 100 teams city Oct. 25, 2008, at the Delegate Congress in 2. The Federation of Gay Games awards the friends all love me and accept me for who I am, (46 in each Sunday Open Division, and 44 by the members of GLISA Internation- 2014 event to Cleveland. Dick Uyvari of Chica- and even if the public are upset by this, I know in women’s league, along with 12 additional al and the Continental Associations. However, go made the official announcement in Cologne, the love of those people who mean the most to Thursday teams). CMSA softball is, by far, the the worldwide economic crisis delayed the sign- Germany, site of the 2010 Games. me will never change. I’m not going on a cru- largest gay softball league in the world and one ing of the agreement between the local organiz- 3. Chicago wins the rights to host two major sade, but I’m proud of who I am. I feel I have of the largest softball leagues in the country. ers and GLISA. 2011 events: the Gay Softball World Series and achieved everything I could ever possibly have 16. CMSA inducts three into the Hall of Fame: “We have been working on this since Antwerp the Gay Bowl. hoped to achieve out of rugby, and I did it being Nancy ‘Mac’ Mackenzie, Mike McHale and Early successfully hosted the EuroGames in 2007,” 4. Tragedy strikes at the annual Pride Bowl gay. I want to send a positive message to other Quintana. said Jan de Wiew, team member of WOGA2013 gay flag-football tournament in Chicago when gay people that they can do it, too.” 17. The Chi-Town Softball Classic successfully (World Outgames Antwerp 2013). “The 3rd World Jorge Lopez, a player for the Michigan Pan- Thomas is married to Jemma. (Their divorce returns after a three-year year hiatus over July Outgames will yet again show Antwerp’s capa- thers, passed out on the sidelines during a will be finalized next year, according to Wales 4th weekend, featuring more than 20 teams bilities in hosting attractive events, not only for game and died shortly thereafter. Online.) “My life seemed to be falling apart. from across the country. our own LGBT community, but for all in Antwerp. 5. SPIN Cougars win the B-Division champi- Jemma and I were splitting up, and I was scared 18. The CMSA indoor volleyball league (open This event in 2013 will of course be based on onship at the annual Gay Softball World Series of the future and being single again as a gay division) soared to a record 90 teams. the three equally important components that in , marking Chicago first B-Division man,” Thomas said to the Daily Mail. Jemma 19. Mommies play sports. CMSA officials not- distinguish all GLISA events: Sports, Culture and champion and the city’s first champion in any Thomas said, “I’m incredibly proud of him for ed that there were more new mothers compet- Human Rights.” division since 2006. coming out and if anyone thinks any less of him ing in sports in 2009 than any previous year. Tatjana Eggeling, director of GLISA Interna- 6. The AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) because of it, then they are stupid.” 20. The 12-person Class of 2009 for the North tional for Europe, said: ‘We are very happy to breaks ties with the National AIDS Marathon Gareth Thomas added that his teammates all American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance (NA- see that the City of Antwerp, the Province of Training Program (NAMTP) and officially an- know—and apparently don’t care. GAAA) features three Chicagoans: Sam Coady, Antwerp and the Flemish Government have tak- nounces its new Team To End AIDS (T2) en- Actor and former Australian rugby star Ian Bobby Nicholson and Phil Runions. en partnership in the project and will provide Roberts, who came out late in his career in the durance-training program. After seven years both financial and in kind support now and in mid-1990s, told the Sun Herald: “It’s great that in Chicago, NAMTP has trained thousands of the years to come.” the times have allowed for it. It’s so bewildering local runners for various marathons worldwide The GLISA announcement comes in the same to me that other people haven’t allowed for that and, in the process, raised millions of dollars week Wonderful Copenhagen announced a posi- to happen to themselves. There are so many gay for AFC. tive financial result from the 2009 World Out- sportspeople ... gay people playing league.” 7. The annual North American Gay Volleyball games. Association holds its annual National Tourna- “As 2009 comes to a close, GLISA Interna- ment in Chicago over Memorial Day weekend. tional is proud to report continental Outgames Gay Games fees to More than 100 teams from numerous countries will take place in Vancouver Canada and Wel- participate. lington, in 2011, followed by the increase Jan. 1 8. Hunter’s C-Division softball team wins 3rd World Outgames in Antwerp in 2013,” said Early-bird registration for the multiple out-of-state tournaments. Wessel van Kampen, male co-President of GLISA in Cologne, Germany, ends Dec. 31. 9. There were numerous anti-gay comments International. After midnight on Jan. 1, the base registration from national sports celebrities, such as Larry Added Julia Applegate, female co-president of fee will increase by 25 Euros (approximately $37 Johnson and Chris Jericho. GLISA International: “We’re pleased that we were U.S.). Registration fees include a ticket to Open- 10. The Chicago Freeze makes its Gay Bowl able to settle [the agreement] with Antwerp and ing & Closing ceremonies; a week-long transit debut, and finishes in sixth place out of 20 look forward to working with them on hosting pass; sport and cultural event costs; a participa- teams with a 2-3 record. the event. We had no doubt that we’d have a tion medal; welcome kit; and access to other 11. In women’s football, the Chicago Force host [city] for the 2013 World Outgames, but special events. More than 2,800 have already advances to the Western Conference Champi- Participant in May’s North American Gay the worldwide economic crisis slowed things registered to participate. onship Game, but lose 40-14 to the Kansas Volleyball Association tourney. Photo by down.” There is a registration party Saturday, Dec. 19, City Tribe. Linda Bache, a former standout on Ross Forman Applegate confirmed that Antwerp organizers at Crew, 4804 N. Broadway, 2-4 p.m. defense for the Force, is the team’s general “had to do some re-organizing of a viable [fi- The Games will take place July 31-Aug. 7, nancial] proposal.” Plus, local officials formed a 2010. Up to 10,000 athletes and artists are ex- new committee to run the event, she said. pected to participate. See www.games-cologne. Applegate said there were several other cit- com. Ice to meet you ies interested in hosting the 2013 event prior to the 2008 Delegate Congress, including Mel- New Year’s 5K bourne and , but no other cities were looked at “in any concrete way,” after the Del- Run/Walk egate Congress, she said. Chicago’s annual New Year’s Day 5K Run Antwerp officials nor GLISA were not basing & Walk—celebrating its 25th anniversary in their decision on the 2013 event completely on 2010—will take place at 11 a.m. at 1600 Stock- the result of the 2009 Outgames in Copenhagen, ton (at LaSalle, near North at the south end of Applegate said. ). Additionally, on-site fitness ex- “We didn’t hear any apprehension,” from perts will be on hand to offer advice and pro- Antwerp organizers, based on Copenhagen’s mote the “New Year LifeStyle Fair”—a health turnout of about 5,000 for the sporting events, event to be held Thursday, Jan. 7, at the State Applegate said. “The only reason we didn’t an- of Illinois building, 100 W. Randolph. nounce [Antwerp as the 2013 host during the Pre-registration is $30. See www.ChicagoEv- 2009 Outgames] was because the financial ents.com or call 773-868-3010. agreement had not been signed.” Applegate confirmed that “there really was never any conversation of not having the 2013 Williamses to Outgames,” she said. play King event The , 44th Ward Ald. , Chicago Cubs pitcher Ryan Dempster GLISA officials definitely will be at the 2010 Serena and Venus Williams, Kim Clijsters and and the Ricketts family celebrated the grand opening of The Rink at Wrigley Dec. 19. The Gay Games, though Applegate did not know if Svetlana Kuznetsova will play a one-night exhi- Ricketts made history when they purchased the Cubs; sister Laura became the first openly officials from Antwerp would be in Cologne as bition for the Cup at New York gay owner of a professional sports team. Among those pictured are state Rep. Sara Feigen- well. City’s Madison Square Garden March 1, according holtz, U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley, state Sen. , Tunney, Alderman Eugene Schulter Applegate, of Columbus, Ohio, is a two-time to CBSSportsline.com. and Laura Ricketts (starting third from left); hockey legend Stan Mikita, Tom Ricketts and Gay Games swimmer who won silver and bronze BNP Paribas is sponsoring the event, which Dempster are shown starting second from right. Photo courtesy of the Chicago Cubs medals in both Amsterdam and Sydney. She is will have $1.2 million in prize money. not yet registered to participate in 2010 because Dec. 30, 2009 23

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