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September 20, 2012 | Vol. 3, No. 23 Defying civil rights activists, Ryan speaks to hate groups

Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, R-Wis., waves after speaking at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 14. By Lisa Neff Inside the Omni Shoreham Hotel, Council and the American Family terized the annual event that began second convention. Staff writer the Wisconsin congressman and Association. in 2006 as an extremist affair pro- For civil rights activists outside To reach the Washington, D.C., Republican vice presidential nomi- Both organizations have been moting hate rhetoric and recycling the Omni, the issue was less about hotel where he delivered a speech nee hammered at Barack Obama on labeled as hate groups by the lies about Jews and Muslims, gays what Ryan said – which was pre- to right-wing extremists, Paul Ryan foreign affairs, health care, abortion, Southern Poverty Law Center, and and Latinos – and also Democrats. dictable – and more about his had to pass demonstrators waving religious freedom and gay marriage a coalition of civil rights groups But for a Republican Party appearance at a hate-group event. signs that read, “The TV cameras before about 2,500 disciples of the had urged Ryan and other public pitched to the right, the summit “Congressman Ryan has long are on. Fold the white sheets” and Values Voter Summit, which was officials to skip the summit. is seen as a must-do event on the been on the very edge of the con- “Value love not hate.” co-hosted by the Family Research Civil rights leaders have charac- political calendar, something of a RYAN page 18 Anti-gay tweets roil Thompson campaign

By Louis Weisberg It was the first anti-gay attack enough to advance their agenda. time, he denounced the actions of Staff writer from the Thompson campaign on After not holding public office for adviser Brian Nemoir and assured Democrats called on GOP U.S. his Democratic rival, who would nearly eight years, Thompson, 70, reporters that the operative had Senate candidate Tommy Thomp- become the first out U.S. Senator appeared stunned by the outrage been shuffled to a less public role son to fire his senior commu- if she defeats the former governor. and media attention that the gay-bat- in the campaign. nications adviser who sent out Thompson won a hotly contested ing incident generated. He dodged But that same night, Nemoir sent electronic messages on the cam- primary battle in which he struggled questions from the media for six out emails from the campaign nego- paign’s accounts attacking rival to convince the right-wing extrem- days until cornered by reporters tiating debates between Thompson Tammy Baldwin’s “heartland values” ists who dominate today’s GOP following a Sept. 11 speech to the and Baldwin under the title of because of her sexual orientation. primaries that he’s conservative Rotary Club of Milwaukee. At that THOMPSON page 16 Photo: AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps 2 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | September 20, 2012 News with a twist WiGWAG By Lisa Neff & Louis Weisberg

Homosexuality’s people are going to walk can Presidential candidate shows the 33-year-old married What do people notice, what are second-hand risks all over me. It means Mitt Romney’s unreleased tax father of two stripping down to they involved in, and what can The Center for Marriage Poli- so much to me that returns and/or details of his a pair of underwear from his cus- they relate to us about their lives cy has seized September as “Mar- everyone showed up.” offshore assets, bank accounts tom-designed line and engaging and their communities?” riage Protection Month” and is and business partnerships.” The in a sweaty workout for the cal- circulating literature that says Hustle for wealthy Romney has resisted endar photographer. Proceeds of Another pulp homosexuality, like drug abuse that million repeated calls that he release the calendar sales will benefit the fiction lover? and smoking, can be fatal and have Hustler magazine publisher more than what he has provided Ben Cohen Stand-Up Foundation, A man claims that he and second-hand risks. The group also Larry Flynt is offering $1 million to voters – tax returns for 2010 which fights anti-gay bullying and actor John Travolta had a six-year maintains that homosexuality is to someone who can expose and an estimate for 2011. societal homophobia. romantic relationship that began a greater threat than climate in September of 1981. Doug Got- change and same-sex marriage private Poet’s Sexually active terba, a 62-year-old pilot from is a tool promoted by feminists photograph citizen scientists California, told the National to keep women on welfare. WiG Scholars at Amherst College Here’s something Anthony Enquirer that he became the can’t explain. in Massachusetts believe a col- Weiner might appreciate – star’s private pilot in February of lector may have what would be or not. Indiana University has that year. A flight to Monterey Starry sidewalk just the second known photo released the Kinsey Reporter, an led to a night of passion and a six- celebration of the private and prolific poet app for collecting and report- year affair, according to the pilot. Ellen DeGeneres has received Emily Dickinson. The photo may ing anonymous data about sex- the 2,477th star on the Holly- also show Dickinson seated with ual and other intimate behaviors. Eau de Gaga wood Walk of Fame. She tweeted Kate Scott Turner, long rumored People can use the app – available Lady Gaga celebrated the in advance of the celebration: Photo: Amherst College to be the poet’s lesbian lover. The for Apple and Android devices release of her debut perfume “I’m getting a star on the Hol- Scholars think a photo daguerreotype dates to around – to “not only report on sexual at the Guggenheim Museum on lywood Walk of Fame today at shows Emily Dickinson, 1859 and shows, if it is Dickinson, behavior and experiences, but New York’s Upper East Side. 11 am. Come watch me! Also, left, and Kate Scott Turn- the poet at about age 30. also to share, explore and visual- When guests arrived, they found I’d love a ride home. 6270 Hol- er, long rumored to be ize the accumulated data.” Kin- the star encased in a replica lywood Blvd.” At the dedication the poet’s lover. Stripping for sey director Julia Heiman said, bottle of the new perfume, with on Hollywood Boulevard, she equality “People are natural observers. transparent glass. Eventually, she quipped, “It is amazing. I spent my presidential candidate Mitt Rom- To promote sales of his 2013 It’s part of being social, and using left the bottle and stripped to entire career trying to conduct ney by releasing the Republican’s calendar, British rugby hunk mobile apps is an excellent way her lingerie, before having a new myself in a certain way making financials. The reward is “a million and LGBT ally Ben Cohen has to involve citizen scientists. We tattoo applied to the back of her sure no one walks all over me dollars in cash for documented released a behind-the-scenes expect to get new insights into neck by celebrity tattoo artist only to get to a point where evidence concerning Republi- video of its making. The video sexuality and relationships today. Mark Mahoney. WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | September 20, 2012 3 4 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | September 20, 2012 UWM denies in-state tuition to gay spouse By Louis Weisberg an associate’s degree during amendment in 2006, when The case Staff writer their year apart. nearly 60 percent of Wiscon- Citing Wisconsin’s ban on Quintero decided to move sin voters approved limiting brings to light same-sex marriage and civil to Milwaukee and complete marriage or any equivalent unions, the University of Wis- a bachelor’s degree at UWM status to opposite-sex cou- a little-known consin – Milwaukee denied while Schneidewend finished ples. State statute also allows in-state tuition to the hus- his medical residency. for the criminal prosecution consequence band of a local resident who The couple’s rejected of same-sex couples who married him in New York. request for in-state tuition marry out of state. Violators of the state’s The case brings to light a demonstrates the harm Wis- can be imprisoned for up to ban on same- little-known consequence of consin’s same-sex marriage nine months and fined up to Wisconsin’s ban, which could ban does to individuals as $10,000. sex marriages have been very costly to Dr. well as the state, making it an In 2009, Gov. Jim Doyle, D, Robert Schneidewend and undesirable place for many enacted a domestic registry and civil his spouse Jorge Quintero, talented people to live, said law that grants some legal who was accepted into two Fair Wisconsin executive rights to same-sex couples, unions. programs at the university’s director Katie Belanger. It such as the right to visit Peck School of the Arts. In- also contributes to the state’s their partners in the hospital. Photo: Courtesy state students annually pay so-called brain drain – the But the same fundamental- undermines the institution of Jorge Quintero and Robert Schneidewend. $20,000 less in tuition costs movement of bright, talented ist Christians responsible for marriage. than out-of-state students. young people from Wiscon- pushing the ban are trying he’s a medical resident. In multiple reasons,” but said Unable to pay out-of-state sin to more progressive and to have that law overturned. Rude treatment response, he provided admis- she could not comment due rates, Quintero had to drop diverse areas, according to Gov. Scott Walker and Wis- Schneidewend said the sions officials with a copy of to privacy laws. She referred classes he’d already begun. equality advocates. consin Attorney General J.B. run-around and rude treat- the 2011 U.S. Supreme Court WiG to residency coordina- Schneidewend has worked “This is just another way Van Hollen are supporting ment the couple received ruling in Mayo Foundation v. tor Laura Perkins, who did in the state for over a year in which we’re made to be their effort by refusing to from admissions personnel United States, which deter- not return a call. Neither did as a resident physician at less legal,” added Equality defend the law, forcing LGBT at UWM were unacceptable. mined that medical residents Karen Wrench in enrollment a Milwaukee-area medi- Wisconsin executive direc- advocacy groups to foot the Quintero initially received must be treated as full-time services. cal center. During that time, tor Jason Burns. legal bill. a letter from admissions/ employees when it comes to Despite Schneidewend’s Quintero remained in Chi- The state’s restrictions Right-wing Christians residency specialist Debbie taxes and benefits. experience with university cago, where they met while on same-sex couples were claim that legal recognition Freiberg stating, “You do not Residents earn income and admissions personnel, he Schneidewend was in medical enacted first as a state law of same-sex couples violates qualify for the work exemp- work very long hours, gener- praised the Peck School of school. Quintero completed and then as a constitutional their freedom of religion and tion as gay marriages are ally 80 per week. the Arts, which he described not recognized in the state The couple also was told as another casualty of the of Wisconsin as legal.” The Quintero failed to qualify rejected tuition request by letter advised him to wait 12 because the two had lived losing an unusually talented months and reapply. apart for a year. student. But when Quintero Schneidewend said he got “The voice department requested an appeals form, the impression that admis- and the dance department the matter turned compli- sions personnel were looking were actually fighting over cated, according to Schnei- for other reasons to deny Jorge,” Schneidewend said. A dewend. He said that dur- the tuition request so the professional ballet dancer for ing phone calls and finally institution would not appear 15 years, Quintero decided at an appeals hearing, their homophobic. But in the pro- to study voice. He’d already requests for information cess, officials became increas- been cast in the school’s were “often ignored, unre- ingly dismissive, he said. spring musical. sponded to and given incon- “If you’re going to say, “Jorge blew the audition sistent” responses. ‘We don’t recognize your away,” Schneidewend said For instance, the couple marriage,’ then just say it,” proudly. “The chair of the was told that Schneidewend Schneidewend said. UWM voice area has actu- did not qualify as a full-time, Frieberg told WiG the ally offered to work with him in-state worker because application was denied “for outside the university.”

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By Louis Weisberg Former Gov. Jim Doyle, D, the parties’ dispute over The state’s sharply divided Regional Office. “The deci- the case is already complicat- Staff writer enacted the law, which gives the meaning of the marriage high court, which has a right- sion upholding the registry ed by Appling’s personal life. The Wisconsin Supreme registered same-sex couples amendment and its applica- wing majority, sent the case in 2011 is correct, and we Never married, she has lived Court has declined to take 41 of the more than 200 tion to Wisconsin’s domestic back to the appeals court, expect that the Court of for many years with another up a case challenging the benefits the state offers mar- partnership law,” the appeals however, on a vote of 5-2. Appeals will agree.” never-married woman in a constitutionality of the state’s ried couples. A Dane County court wrote. “We therefore The two dissenting judges Madison insiders say two Watertown home that the domestic partnership regis- judge ruled last year that the perceive no reason why the were liberal Chief Justice other justices on the court, women own jointly. try law until it’s gone through registry does not violate the Supreme Court might ben- Shirley Abrahamson and Jus- conservatives David Prosser In a May interview with The the normal appeals process. constitutional amendment efit from the refinement of tice Ann Walsh Bradley, who and Michael Gableman, are Cap Times, Appling acknowl- The case was initiated because the relatively few issues that sometimes occurs wanted to take up the case. widely perceived to be gay, edged feeling same-sex attrac- when Julaine Appling, head rights it affords to couples do when a dispute first works “This isn’t a surprise and which could add another tion, calling it universal. of Wisconsin Family Action, not mirror marriage. its way through briefing and we’ll defend the domestic twist to the case when it does “There’s not a person alive joined with other anti-gay Appling appealed that decision in the court of partnership law in any court. reach their courtroom. No who hasn’t said, ‘Well, I won- activists to file a suit claiming ruling, but the 4th District appeals. Thus, in light of the The law is clear – the domes- matter how the 4th District der’ (about my sexual ori- the registry violated a 2006 Court of Appeals sent the statewide importance of the tic partnership law does not Court of Appeals eventually entation),” Appling told Cap constitutional amendment case directly to the Supreme issue and the desirability of a violate the Wisconsin Con- rules, the losing side is certain Times reporter Jack Craver. banning same-sex marriage Court in July. prompt and final resolution, stitution,” said Christopher to appeal the decision to the Studies show a strong link and any similar legal status “We perceive nothing we certify this appeal to the Clark, senior staff attorney Supreme Court. between homophobia and for gay and lesbian couples. particularly complicated in Wisconsin Supreme Court.” in Lambda Legal’s Midwest The scenario surrounding repressed homosexual desire. Study: ‘That’s so gay’ so bad for students By Lisa Neff Staff writer Nine years ago, parents filed A study shows the oft- a First Amendment challenge heard “that’s so gay” can be against a California school dis- so bad for lesbian, gay and trict after their daughter was bisexual college students. disciplined for saying, “That’s The study is in the current so gay,” described in the suit issue of the Journal of Ameri- as an utterance that “enjoys can College Health and was widespread currency in youth based on the work of Michael culture.” Woodford, an assistant pro- The girl, a Mormon, was fessor of social work at the often teased by students, University of Michigan. including one who asked, “Do Researchers looked at you have 10 moms?” She how 114 LGB students ages responded, “That’s so gay” and 18-25 were impacted by was sent to see the principal, hearing “that’s so gay.” who put a warning in her “‘That’s so gay’ conveys school file. that there is something wrong The girl later said she meant with being gay,” Woodford said. “that’s so stupid” when she “And hearing such messages said “that’s so gay.” Her lawsuit about one’s self can cause raised questions for educators stress, which can manifest in dealing with student’s speech IF IT WERE THIS EASY TO SEE, YOU WOULDN’T NEED A SCREENING. headaches and other health but was decided in the dis- concerns.” trict’s favor. In an online questionnaire, Woodford suggested schools those surveyed were asked adopt – or practice – policies how often they heard the that teach staff and students phrase on their campus, as about wounding words. well as questions about their “There is a lot of atten- acceptance on campus, their tion being given to address- physical health, their mental ing LGBT bullying on college well-being and how willing they campuses,” he said. “Policies are to come out as gay, lesbian and educational programs or bisexual. are needed to help students, The researchers found a staff and faculty to under- connection between the fre- stand that such language can quency of hearing “that’s so be harmful.” gay” and negative health conse- Other study researchers quences, especially headaches, include Michael Howell, an eating problems and isolation. assistant professor at Appala- Make an appointment for an expert, fast, affordable breast and cervical Nearly all the survey partici- chian State University; Perry cancer screening at plannedparenthoodsaveslives.com/cancer pants reported hearing “that’s Silverschanz, a University of so gay” at least once in the Michigan lecturer; and Lotus past year, but nearly half said Yu, a University of Michigan they heard the phrase at least graduate student. 10 times in the past 12 months.

4501 • Planned Parenthood • Wisconsin Gazette • 6.3" x 7" 6 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | September 20, 2012 Ryan Braun steps up to plate for AIDS Walk Milwaukee Brewers left-fielder patients in any other state in Ryan Braun serves as the hon- the country. But there has been centro-happy-hour orary chair of AIDS Walk Wis- a spike in new infections over consin, which takes place Oct. 6 the past year. That being said, at the Summerfest Grounds in there has to be more work and the Milwaukee. We asked the slugger more attention drawn to the $808 east center via email about his involvement fight against HIV in our state and with the fundraiser, which ben- I wanted to help. We can’t take special efits the AIDS Resource Center our eye off of this disease. of Wisconsin. My mom has also been active in our bar . in California for the past few monday to thursday 5 to 7 WIG: Why did you years with this cause and has decide to become involved walked in the AIDS Walk in Los with AIDS Walk? Angeles and the AIDS Ride from Ryan Braun: There are a few San Francisco to Los Angeles.. reasons I got involved with the Finally, Brewers fans have been AIDS Walk Wisconsin. First, I supportive of me. I want to use wanted to help Wisconsin con- my work with AIDS Walk Wis- tinue to be a leader in the fight consin to give back to the state against AIDS. When I saw the that has been so good to me. work Clay (Matthews) did last year as chair of the AIDS Walk Have you known any- Photo: AP Wisconsin, I knew I could help. one who’s been affected Ryan Braun. So last month I was proud by the epidemic? that the Brewers Community No, I have not. What would you like to pledges. There are still so many Foundation presented AIDS Walk say to the people of Mil- people living with HIV and more half a pizza & Wisconsin with a gift of $25,000 As a role model and waukee about why they infections daily. AIDS Walk Wis- just before the game. We had a local hero, what impact do should participate in AIDS consin will help get patients what a small green salad - $8.08 bunch of the AIDS Walk Wiscon- you hope your participa- Walk and support the they need such as health care, sin teams at the park that night tion in the event will have? critical services provided food and housing. two drinks - $8.08 as well. Ultimately I want to inspire by the AIDS Resource With everyone’s help we can AIDS Walk Wisconsin is a more fundraising. I want my par- Center of Wisconsin? make sure that ARCW patients great cause to get behind. I didn’t ticipation to encourage more The message is simple: It takes continue to be an example to realize that patients with HIV live participation and more fund rais- all of us to make a big difference. the country. longer in Wisconsin than HIV ing for ARCW. So register. Join my team. Raise

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“Onward” and “Upward” before “Forward” was chosen. Baldwin, who would become the first openly gay person in the Senate if she wins in November, began her address, “I know you’ve Democratic heard a lot about Wisconsin lately. You’ve heard about Paul Ryan, who wants to end Medicare as we know it. You’ve heard about Scott Walker, who took basic rights away from teachers, nurses and public employ- campaign ees. Maybe you’ve even heard about Tommy Thompson, our former governor, who went to Washington, cashed in on his special inter- est connections and never really came back.” Baldwin said she wanted to talk about moves heartland values, the Wisconsin “where my grandparents raised me, the place where generations of families have worked hard to get ahead, the place where our state motto ‘forward’ might sound familiar to you. “It’s just one word: ‘Forward.’ We believe that if we’re going to prosper, everyone has to have a fair shot, and everyone has to do their fair share. That’s why I’m proud to lead the U.S. Rep. Tammy charge for the Buffet Rule, which makes sure Baldwin, who is run- that millionaires and billionaires don’t get to ning for the U.S. pay a lower tax rate than middle-class families. Senate in Wisconsin, And, President Obama is standing with me.” addresses the con- Baldwin also spoke of moving forward vention. She spoke on civil rights. “Our president has made of the Wisconsin she historic progress toward equality,” she said. knows. “He repealed ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ so that no PHOTO: courtesy American ever again has to lie about who they are in order to serve the country we love. Republicans want to write discrimina- By Lisa Neff when “a young African-American rider got off country, too. In every generation, the Ameri- tion into our Constitution. But the Wiscon- Staff writer the bus and tried to get a shoe shine in a so- can people have taken up that ride, pushing sin I know believes that with each passing Outside Time Warner Cable Arena on the called white waiting room. He was arrested the United States forward. We’ve never gone year and each generation, our country must day before the Democratic National Conven- and taken to jail.” back.” become more equal, not less. Mitt Romney, tion opened, some protesters were express- Later that day, Lewis and another Freedom And U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, who is run- Paul Ryan, Scott Walker, Tommy Thompson – ing their views that the Obama administra- Rider were in nearby Rock Hill, S.C., where ning for the U.S. Senate in Wisconsin against they think they’re the only ones who speak tion is not progressive enough. Others were they tried to enter a white waiting room. self-avowed conservative Republican Tommy for Wisconsin.” denouncing individual candidates – of both “We were met by an angry mob that beat us Thompson, said “forward” six times in her The congresswoman concluded, “Come parties – who cozy up to corporations. and left us lying in a pool of blood,” he said. address to the convention. November, the Wisconsin I know – the But not Candace Jackson or Benjamin Then the fight, in part, was for voting rights. The word, she pointed out, is Wisconsin’s America I love – will speak out loud and clear, Bearden. Dressed as 1950s throwbacks, they Lewis said the nation has come far, but motto, adopted in 1851 and placed over the and keep us moving forward: forward with were demonstrating against what they called “there are Republican officials still trying crest on the state coat of arms. There’s a a strong middle class; forward on a path to the backward, regressive Romney-Ryan plan to stop some people from voting. They are story that the state was going to repeat New prosperity; forward with President Obama!” for America. changing the rules, cutting polling hours and York’s motto – “Excelsior” and considered “They want to turn the clock way back,” imposing requirements intend- Bearden said of the GOP. ed to suppress the vote. The Jackson said she liked what Barack Obama Republican leader in the Penn- promised four years ago – “Change.” sylvania House even bragged Later in the week, she said she liked anoth- that his state’s new voter ID law er word she was hearing from the convention is ‘gonna allow Gov. Romney to – “Forward.” win the state.’ That’s not right. Democrats at their convention hammered That’s not fair. That’s not just. the theme, stressing that GOP presidential “And similar efforts have been nominee Mitt Romney and running mate Paul made in Texas, Ohio, Florida, Ryan want to dial back the clock on women’s Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia and rights and voting rights, to refocus on trickle- South Carolina. I’ve seen this down economics and to stop the clock on before. I’ve lived this before. Too LGBT rights and immigration reform. many people struggled, suffered In one of the first speeches at the conven- and died to make it possible tion, Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a likely for every American to exercise candidate for New Jersey governor, present- their right to vote.” ed the proposed party platform and said, “We Boston Mayor Thomas Meni- choose forward. We choose inclusion. We no talked repeatedly about going choose growing together.” forward, ending his convention U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a legend in the speech with a reference to a civil rights movement, said “forward” four hometown hero’s famous ride: times in a convention address that focused on “Up in Boston, we have a plaque the struggle for equality and freedom. that says: ‘Paul Revere started PHOTO: DemConvention/Donna Bise One of the original 13 Freedom Riders, a ride, which in a way has never Delegates to the Democratic National Convention cheer as President Barack Lewis recalled a day in 1961 in Charlotte ended.’ That’s true about our Obama talks about driving the nation forward. WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | September 20, 2012 9 Dem convention celebrates equality By Lisa Neff comes to expanding access to good health Staff writer care, Mitt Romney says, ‘No.’” LGBT Democrats say party leadership In a rousing speech on Sept. 4, New- asked them for years to wait for a dividend ark Mayor Cory Booker talked about the on their loyalty – for the time when the party “emboldened pathway toward the historic would fully embrace marriage equality. hope which has driven generations of Ameri- “The waiting is over” was the oft-heard cans forward. It is our most fundamental refrain from LGBT delegates to the Demo- national aspiration – that no matter who cratic National Convention in Charlotte, you are, no matter what your color, creed, N.C., held Sept. 4-6. how you choose to pray or who you choose In 1996, when Democrats gathered at the to love – that if you are an American, first United Center in Chicago for the convention generation or fifth … who is willing to work that nominated Bill Clinton for re-election, hard, play by the rules and apply your God- the big question in the LGBT community was given talents, (then) you should be able to whether the president would say “gay” in his find a job that pays the bills.” acceptance speech. Gay Congressman Jared Polis of Colorado In Charlotte, the big question was how introduced himself at the convention: “My PHOTO: Lisa Neff much attention the party would give to mar- great-grandparents were immigrants. I am The LGBT caucus meets at the Democratic National Convention on Sept. riage equality. Jewish. I am gay. I am a father. I am a son. I am 6 in Charlotte, N.C. The answer? A lot. an entrepreneur. I am a congressman from Speaker after speaker in the convention Colorado. I am always an optimist. But first addressed the LGBT caucus: “The one thing I some of my sisters and brothers are treated spotlight reminded delegates and their TV and foremost, I am an American.” want to point out here today is that we don’t in employment. Some can’t even go to a rest audiences that the party platform supports To sustained applause, Polis said, “Tonight, want to make any mistake about it – this elec- room.” marriage equality, celebrates the repeal of I don’t just ask my fellow Americans to tion is about even more than the issues that Meanwhile, on the streets of Uptown the ban against gay servicemembers in the respect my relationship with my partner are at stake right now. It’s about even more Charlotte, voters and volunteers, activists military, and strives for equality for all. Marlon and my role as a father to our son. I than the candidates that are on the ballot this and protestors mostly embraced the party’s In his keynote address, San Antonio Mayor also ask them to respect the Christian family year. This election, more than any other in his- positions on LGBT issues. Julián Castro said, “When it comes to getting concerned about decaying moral values and tory, is about how we want our democracy “Damn. I think gay marriage is the one the middle class back to work, Mitt Rom- crass commercialism. I ask them to respect to function for decades to come.” thing we’re really agreeing with the party ney says, ‘No.’ When it comes to respecting the difficult decision of a single mother to The caucus, chaired by longtime activist leaders on,” said Hank Webber of Tulsa, Okla., women’s rights, Mitt Romney says, ‘No.’ When bring a child into this world, because of her and party loyalist Rick Stafford, was the larg- who participated in the Occupy Wall Street it comes to letting people marry whomever heartfelt beliefs.” est in the party’s history, with more than 550 South demonstrations that took place dur- they love, Mitt Romney says, ‘No.’ When it In a quite different speech, actor Kal delegates and alternates. Some of the older ing the convention. “The Democrats aren’t Penn, referring to his members of the group remembered decades perfect on a lot of things, but I’m with them work in the Obama back, when the caucus could meet in a tele- on that.” White House, said, “My phone booth. Dyanna Johnson of Charlotte, who worked favorite job was having “History is being made this week,” Stafford, at a barbecue booth at the festival before a boss who gave the of Minnesota, said. the convention, said, “Baby, you love who you order to take out bin Baldwin said, “The sheer size of this caucus love. No one should tell you otherwise. I sup- Laden – and who’s cool is but one example of the progress we’ve port the president.” with all of us getting gay- made toward equality.” At the Human Rights Campaign’s booth at married.” Gay delegate Darrell Bouldin, over morn- the festival, there was a long line for festival- Outside the glare of ing coffee on the first day of the three-day goers to spin a wheel and win a prize. the podium spotlight at gathering, said he was proud to represent “I’m hoping to win an equality T-shirt for the Time Warner Cable Tennessee and is “a big supporter of Presi- my baby,” said Julie Sawyer of Durham, N.C. Arena, Democrats still dent Obama.” “That would be a great way to get into a con- promoted gay equality, Bouldin said he was most looking forward versation about marriage with moms on the whether the audience to the business of adopting the national party playground. You probably heard. There was a was the morning gath- platform, which states, “We support mar- vote here in May.” ering of Arkansas del- riage equality and support the movement to North Carolina voters, in the May primary, egates at the Hampton secure equal treatment under law for same- approved a constitutional amendment ban- Inn by the airport or sex couples. …We oppose discriminatory ning recognition of gay marriages and other the LGBT caucus at the federal and state constitutional amendments same-sex relationships. Charlotte Convention and other attempts to deny equal protection “I wish the vote had come after the con- Center. of the laws to committed same-sex couples vention,” said Marianne Kracker of Charlotte. LGBT caucus meet- who seek the same respect and responsi- “I think the outcome would have been differ- ings took place Sept. 4 bilities as other married couples. We support ent because, man, Democrats are fired up and and Sept. 6, with del- the full repeal of the so-called Defense of ready to go now.” egates hearing from out Marriage Act and the passage of the Respect legistlators Tammy Bald- for Marriage Act.” win and Mark Pocan “I’m really excited to vote for marriage Campaign from Wisconsin, Polis equality,” said Bouldin, who was sharing a connections and U.S. Rep. Barney table with Wisconsin delegate Jamie Shiner, Obama for America has several tools Frank, and openly gay who was proud to be a transgender delegate to connect with LGBT supporters, Democratic National to the convention. including: Committee treasurer Shiner praised Democrats for the repeal of www.barackobama.com/lgbt Andrew Tobias and DADT and supporting marriage equality and www.dashboard.barackobama.com PHOTO: Lisa Neff DNC CEO Steve Ker- the pending Employment Non-Discrimination www.facebook.com/obamapride Wisconsin delegate Jamie Shiner played a history- rigan. Act, which would ban workplace bias based There are no similar affinity groups making role at the convention – as a member of the At a special lun- on sexual orientation and gender identity. for the Romney-Ryan campaign. largest LGBT caucus and as one of about a dozen cheon on Sept. 5, first “It is critical to transgender people,” Shiner transgender delegates. lady Michelle Obama said of ENDA. “I get tired of hearing how 10 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | September 20, 2012 BY THE NUMBERS { Editorial } The equality gap A coalition of LGBT groups released a survey showing gaps in state laws Thompson is a relic for LGBT people and the need for comprehensive federal reforms. Tommy Thompson’s U.S. Senate campaign recently reminded us how far States lack laws banning LGBT discrimination behind the curve he really is. 29 Senior political adviser Brian Nemoir disseminated a tweet from the Thomp- States do not recognize same-sex couples son campaign linking to a video showing Democratic rival Tammy Baldwin dancing at a 2010 Pride event. “Clearly, there’s no one better positioned to talk 32 ‘heartland values’ than Tammy,” Nemoir wrote in an email, implying that being States say family-medical leave laws don’t apply to gays gay is inconsistent with having values. 37 Thompson refused to address the incident for six days, until pressed by reporters. Then he said Nemoir had been shifted to another position, saying it States lack laws protecting LGBT students was a less public role. But that same night, Nemoir sent out emails from Thomp- 18 son’s campaign account under his original title. Source: An Ally’s Guide to Issues Facing LGBT Americans During Thompson’s heyday, the press would have ignored such an incident, just as the press looked the other way for years at his personal indiscretions. He looked like a deer in the headlights when confronted about it. The episode was reminiscent of Thompson’s appearance before a conference of Reform Jews a few years ago, when he congratulated the audience on their success at making money. He was astounded later to learn the listeners were not flattered at being stereotyped in a way that’s been used to persecute them. { Voter information } The only area where Thompson’s sensibilities intersect with today’s politics is in the Republicans’ worship of mega wealth. After leaving George W. Bush’s Election dates tion must use the Broadway issued injunctions preventing administration, where he served as Secretary of Health and Human Services, he to remember entrance. the Government Account- cashed in shamelessly on his political connections and is $13 million richer as a Oct. 17: Last day to reg- If you apply for an absen- ability Board from enforcing result. Among other things, he lobbied for changes in Medicare to benefit com- ister to vote by mail (must tee ballot in your municipal the photo ID requirements panies in which he had a financial stake – to the detriment of seniors. be postmarked no later than clerk’s office, you must vote enacted by Republicans in For most of Thompson’s gubernatorial tenure, the nation enjoyed a prolonged 5 p.m.). immediately, seal your ballot 2011. The Wisconsin Depart- period of economic growth. He took credit for job creation that he had little or Oct. 22: Early voting, in the proper envelope and ment of Justice has appealed nothing to do with, but he never explained the huge budget deficit he left behind. known as in-person absentee return it to a member of the those injunctions, and the law Blustery and gaffe-prone, Thompson demonstrates a troubling lack of vision voting in the state, begins at clerk’s staff. No ballots may is on hold pending a ruling. or purpose. His idea of leadership is strictly partisan – grandstanding rather than your local municipal clerk’s be taken from the clerk’s moving the nation forward. “The truth of the matter is I’m not going to compro- office and continues through office. Where to mise,” he said at a June Tea Party event in Oconomowoc. Nov. 2. In Milwaukee, early Nov. 1: Last day to register and At a recent appearance before the Rotary Club of Milwaukee, he described voting is available 8:30 a.m.-7 request absentee ballots by vote himself as a moderate at some times, a conservative at others. He bragged at p.m. on Mondays through Fri- mail (by 5 p.m.). Look up your voter reg- length about being the first Bush cabinet member to visit Ground Zero after days at the Municipal Building, Nov. 6: General and istration and polling place at the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, as if it was a reason to vote for him. In answering 841 N. Broadway. Early voting presidential election. https://vpa.wi.gov/. questions from the audience, he expressed agreement with key provisions of the also is available 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Affordable Care Act, which he opposes. on Saturday, Oct. 27, and Sun- No photo ID Register to vote Thompson’s plan to reduce the U.S. budget deficit would increase it over the day, Oct. 28. required for online next decade by providing big tax cuts for the wealthy. He believes that allowing Voters who need to reg- voting – yet Online voter registration the uber rich to bring money they’ve sheltered overseas back home tax-free ister and/or make changes Two different judges, is at https://vpa.wi.gov/Onli- would stimulate job growth. That’s just another trickle-down fairy tale that to their current registra- on March 6 and March 12, neRegistration/Default.aspx. would benefit only him and his friends. It was discredited long ago as an effective economic stimulator. CORRECTION: Thompson is a relic from a bygone era of politics. If elected, his style would be The story that appeared in our Sept. 6 issue titled “Guerilla propagandists: Protesters over- a distraction and an embarrassment that would harm the state. He has nothing come harassment, draw worldwide attention” wrongly stated that Lisa Moline was assaulted to offer a nation that has real problems except for a pat on the back and a few and put into a headlock by a Milwaukee County sheriff’s deputy on Aug. 24. That assault actual- empty boasts. ly occurred at a different demonstration and was not perpetrated by an officer of the law. The story also reported that deputies attempted to remove signs held by protesters on Aug 24. That incident also occurred at another demonstration and did not involve law enforcement.

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ON THE RECORD ‘Assassins’ a must-see play in killing Lincoln, created a and Charles Manson. JFK’s bizarre and delusional outsid- sort of template for future murder (rerun via the hor- ers they were – incompre- “I just want to clarify something Opinion assassins. It ends dramatical- rific Zapruder film) is fol- hensible even to each other because I didn’t (by) any means want JAMAKAYA ly with the assassination of lowed by a haunting lament – is a tour de force of comic to infer or imply anything about Jews The Milwaukee Reper- Kennedy. In a gut-wrenching for ourselves and our coun- timing. and finances and things. What I was tory Theater’s production of scene, a kind of countdown try, a song titled “Something As is often said of the referring to, ladies and gentlemen, is Stephen Sondheim and John to catastrophe, Booth slowly Just Broke.” work of Stephen Sondheim, the accomplishments of the Jewish reli- Weidman’s musical “Assas- eggs on Oswald as he sits in There is a disturbing this is not your parents’ Rod- gion. You’ve been outstanding business people and I sins,” which runs through the Book Depository build- amount of loud gunfire and gers and Hammerstein. Sond- compliment you for that.” Oct. 7, is a must-see. ing in the minutes before the guns pointed at the audience heim doesn’t always write – Current Republican U.S. Senate candidate “Assassins” is a musical president’s motorcade passes. throughout the play. Without catchy, happy tunes you hum TOMMY THOMPSON addressing attendees at a exploration of the men and The musical score is any preaching about it, the while leaving the theater. In 2007 conference organized by the Religious Action women who have killed or bookended with the anthem ubiquity of guns and their the past 50 years he’s taken Center of Reform Judaism. Thompson was trying tried to kill American presi- “Everybody’s Got the Right,” devastation to our body poli- American musical theater to apologize for earlier remarks he’d made imply- dents over the years – from with its ironic refrain: “Every- tic is made obvious. to a whole new level with ing that accumulating wealth is a hallmark of the John Wilkes Booth (Lincoln) body’s got the right to be At the “talkback” with cast works that are complicated religion. and Charles Guiteau (Gar- happy. Everybody’s got the members after the perfor- and challenging both musi- field) through Lee Harvey right to their dream.” While mance I attended, we got cally and thematically. “We’ve got a Muslim for a president who hates Oswald (Kennedy) and John not meant as an endorse- into an interesting discussion I have seen many excellent cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farming, Hinckley (Reagan). ment of murder, it expresses about the roles that hatred, Milwaukee Rep productions loves gays, and we hate him!” Staged in a startlingly inven- the distorted connection mental illness and ideology but “Assassins” has to be one – HANK WILLIAMS JR., addressing the audience tive carnival setting, the play between violence and Ameri- play in motivating assassins. of the best. There is not one during a Sept. 2 performance at the Stockyards gives each assassin a few scenes can values. Despite the dark sub- weak link in the tremendous Music Festival in Fort Worth, Texas. and a song to express their Along the way, each assas- ject matter, there are some and large ensemble cast. And backgrounds or motivations. sin or would-be assassin laugh-out-loud scenes. Sam- the technical aspects – sce- “I didn’t know you had families.” A garish scoreboard marks sings a ballad about his par- uel Byck’s escalating fit of nic, sound and lighting design – GOP presidential candidate MITT ROMNEY whether the president targeted ticular beef. John Hinckley screaming rage against Rich- – which entail rotating scaf- speaking in 2004 with Julie Goodridge, one of the was a “hit” or a “miss.” and Squeaky Fromme (who ard Nixon is hilarious before folds and dozens of tricky plaintiffs in the case that led to the legalization of The play jumps around tried to kill Gerald Ford) sing it becomes really scary. sound and lighting cues, are marriage equality in Massachusetts, about her expe- chronologically but begins the eerie “Unworthy of Your Another scene between carried off brilliantly. It is a riences with discrimination. with the story of the vengeful Love” about the objects of Squeaky Fromme and Sara production that engages your and egomaniacal Booth who, their obsessions, Jodie Foster Jane Moore, showing what mind and all of your senses. “Even the players who are very religious, some of them understand that it’s a matter of equality and love, and they’re not going to let religion dictate government.” GOP gays settling for too little – Baltimore Ravens linebacker BRENDON AYANBADEJO telling ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” if your health plan doesn’t to praise the candidates’ sup- that he estimates 70 percent of NFL players sup- cover your partner or your port for traditional marriage. port marriage equality. partner’s children? In stark contrast, the Opinion Log Cabin has made some Democratic convention was “I can assure you that gay people getting married Marcus maichle gains in the party. This year, the most welcoming ever to will have zero effect on your life. They won’t come it was invited to participate LGBTs. According to Nation- into your house and steal your children. They won’t Following the Republi- in the platform committee. al Stonewall Democrats, magically turn you into a lustful cockmonster.” can National Convention, Although LCR’s recommen- this year’s DNC reported – Minnesota Vikings punter CHRIS KLUWE writ- Log Cabin Republicans and dations were heard, the party a record number of LGBT ing to Maryland state Del. Emmett C. Burns Jr., who GOProud released state- platform that resulted still delegates, including for the called on the Ravens owner to reprimand Brendon ments praising the Republi- opposes equality for same- first time at least one LGBT Ayanbadejo for supporting marriage equality. can Party and its candidates. sex couples. LCR executive delegate from each state. Both groups work within the director R. Clarke Cooper LGBT voices were heard the stranglehold that the reli- “Kids who are overweight are sometimes bullied, Republican Party to promote responded that he was dis- from the podium as well. gious right has on the party. It too. And we might want to make that person feel inclusion of conservative appointed in the “aggressive Several openly gay speakers would push the Democratic better. But it would be a mistake to say that over- LGBT Americans. With both and divisive language” used in addressed the convention, Party to step up its efforts eating is a good thing, right? So tell your friends, in conventions now over, LCR the platform. Otherwise, he including DNC treasurer toward equality, or risk los- a nice way, that no one needs to be ‘gay’ or pretend and GOProud are trying had only glowing words for Andrew Tobias, Reps. Jared ing votes it had taken for to be the other gender. It’s not the right thing to to convince LGBTs to vote the RNC. Polis, D-Colo., Barney Frank, granted. do.” Republican. What GOProud and LCR D-Mass., and Tammy Baldwin, I recognize the importance – LINDA HARVEY, head of the hate group Mis- GOProud cites a Har- ignore is that the Republi- who is running for U.S. Senate. of working within the GOP sion: America, advising parents what to tell their ris poll stating that the top can Party’s opposition to gay Zach Wahls, an Eagle Scout to affect this change. Unfor- kids about homosexuality. issues for LGBTs are still jobs rights is a deal breaker to who is taking on the Scouts’ tunately, these two groups and the economy. Some polls many who might otherwise position on gays, spoke about appear to be giving uncon- “We will never have the elite, smart people on do favor Romney-Ryan on agree with the conservative being raised by two moms. ditional support to a party our side.” economic issues. But LGBTs, approach to the economy. Both Barack Obama and and to candidates who actively – Anti-gay crusader and former SEN. RICK SAN- just like the rest of the nation, While both groups may Joe Biden, in their acceptance oppose equality. For them, a TORUM telling attendees at the Values Voter Sum- disagree on which platform is have made progress in being speeches, acknowledged the conservative economic policy mit that well-educated people will never embrace better for the economy, and heard, and making friends basic right of Americans to trumps equal rights. For many their hardline fundamentalist Chris- especially for LGBT people. within the party, the message marry who they love. conservatives who are gay or tian agenda. What good are more jobs sent by the speakers at the A more inclusive Repub- lesbian, however, the choice is if an employer can decide Republican convention was lican Party is a good thing. much more of a conflict. not to hire you because of still that we are not welcome. It would reflect the greater Marcus Maichle is a commu- your sexual orientation? The only mention of LGBT diversity within the LGBT nity organizer, blogger and short What good are lower taxes issues from the podium was community. It would loosen story writer from West Allis. 12 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | September 20, 2012 One year later, no problems with DADT repeal

By Lisa Neff asking about a servicemem- reported the same level of Staff writer ber’s sexual orientation and For the readiness after repeal as A year after the full repeal prohibited servicemembers record… they did before repeal. of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” from coming out as gay. The “Don’t ask, don’t tell’ The researchers, who policy, researchers say they policy was a compromise – became military policy on surveyed officers, service- see only favorable results Clinton had wanted to lift Dec. 21, 1993. members, veterans, scholars, from gays and lesbians serv- the longtime ban on gay ser- “Don’t ask, don’t tell” and activists for and against ing openly in the U.S. Armed vicemembers, but the GOP- ended on Sept. 20, 2011. repeal, also found that trust Forces. controlled Congress wanted among troops improved fol- “The U.S. military has set to keep the prohibition. lowing the lifting of the ban. an international standard In the 2008 presidential cohesion. Servicemembers and with the smooth transition election, every Democrat The researchers found: LGBT civil rights advocates to openly gay service,” said running for the White House • Only two servicemem- celebrated the one-year Aaron Belkin, lead author of pledged to repeal DADT. bers, both chaplains, were anniversary of repeal with “One Year Out: An Assess- President Barack Obama identified as having left the small events around the Unit- ment of DADT Repeal’s made repeal a White House military as a result of DADT ed States and with a gala in Impact on Military Readi- priority in 2010. The pro- repeal. New York City hosted by ness.” cess proved lengthy – with • A Pentagon spokes- Barbara Walters, with Adm. The Palm Center in Cali- studies and surveys, debates person told the study’s Mike Mullen, former chair- fornia released the report, and decisions required by the co-authors that she was not man of the Joint Chiefs of prepared with help from pro- Defense Department, Con- aware of a single episode Staff, as a special guest. fessors at the U.S. Military gress and the administration. of violence associated with Meanwhile, the issue of Academy, U.S. Naval Acad- Opponents of repeal repeal. gays serving in the military emy, U.S. Air Force Academy included more than 1,000 • Pentagon data show that remains politically charged. and U.S. Marine Corps War retired generals and admi- recruitment and retention Republican vice presiden- College, to coincide with the rals who signed a statement remained robust after repeal. tial candidate Paul Ryan of one-year anniversary of the predicting that open service • Survey data revealed Wisconsin voted against repeal on Sept. 20. would “break the all-volun- that service-wide, the troops repealing DADT, while GOP DADT, implemented in the teer force.” reported the same level of presidential candidate Mitt early years of Democrat Bill But Belkin said the review morale after repeal as they Romney has said he opposed AP Photo/Gregory Bull Clinton’s first term, earned of the first year found that did before repeal. the repeal but reinstate- A soldier wearing an Army T-shirt holds flags its nickname because it repeal has not compromised • Survey data revealed ment of the policy would be during the gay Pride parade July 2 in San Diego. banned military officers from security, readiness or unit that service-wide, the troops unnecessary. The Republican For the first time ever, U.S. service members Party platform adopted at marched openly in a gay Pride event decked out the national convention in in their uniforms. Tampa, Fla., in late August states, “We reject the use of Ingredients for Life. the military as a platform for achievement, and numer- desk? A person who wanted social experimentation and ous speakers celebrated the to keep ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ will not accept attempts to repeal. or a president who believes undermine military priorities “Whose leadership, whose that who you love should and mission readiness.” judgment, whose values do not keep you from serving In their platform, Demo- you want in the White House the country you love?” asked crats referred to the lifting when that crisis lands like Chicago Mayor Rahm Eman- of the ban as a civil rights a thud on the Oval Office uel in his convention speech.

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NATIONAL Briefs er this month at the Democratic marriages. National Convention, is campaign- PPP, in its latest survey, found ing against Minnesota’s constitu- that 52 percent of women, 78 per- N.Y. senator called tional amendment to ban gay mar- cent of Democrats and 50 percent ‘political whore’ riage. of voters under age 45 oppose for backing The 21-year-old gained fame the amendment. But 55 percent gay marriage in the gay marriage movement in of men, 80 percent of Republicans, 2011, when he testified against a 51 percent of independents and An email ad (right) that circulated constitutional amendment to over- 53 percent of seniors support the in early September called a New turn legal same-sex marriage in amendment, which would define York senator seeking re-election a Iowa. That amendment never made marriage as the union of a man and “political whore” for his vote sup- it to the ballot. a woman. porting marriage equality. State Sen. Supporters of Minnesota’s PPP polled voters on other mat- Mark Grisanti, a Republican from amendment say it’s important ters and found Gov. Mark Dayton’s the Buffalo area, was a key vote in because opposite-sex parents are approval rating is at 48 percent the passage of New York’s marriage ideal for children. while 59 percent have an unfavor- equality bill last year. But Wahls says he never worried able opinion of U.S. Rep. Michele The black-and-white ad showed his family was less than normal until Bachmann. two men, one of them on his knees he was exposed to criticism from kissing the other just above the opponents of gay marriage. Voters don’t like waist. The ad asks, “How far will a super PACS politician go to get in your pant$? A disclaimer said the ad was paid for by the Committee to Save Poll: Vote nearly Americans don’t like all the cash For his gay marriage vote, Mark Gri- the Erie County Republican Party, which didn’t appear to exist as tied on Minnesota that’s going to super political action santi received over $750,000. Some- a registered entity. marriage measure committees and other outside times they’re political whore$.” Grisanti survived a tough primary against Kevin Stocker on Sept. 13. A poll on a proposed constitu- groups that are pouring millions of – L.N. tional amendment against gay mar- dollars into races for president and riage shows the vote in Minnesota Congress. nearly tied, with 48 percent sup- More than 8 in 10 Americans in But they might have to change it a constitutionally protected form White House. They are buying pub- porting the amendment and 47 a poll by The Associated Press and the Constitution first. The Supreme of political speech. lic office.” percent opposing it. the National Constitution Center Court’s 2010 decision in the Citi- “Corporate donations, I think Voters will decide the question support limits on the amount of zens United case removed limits on that is one of the biggest problems on Nov. 6 in a state that already money given to groups that are try- independent campaign spending by today,” said Walter L. Cox Sr., 86, – from WiG and AP reports prohibits recognition of same-sex ing to influence U.S. elections. businesses and labor unions, calling of Cleveland. “They are buying the 16 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | September 20, 2012 ‘Time to hold Thompson accountable for what his campaign does and says’

THOMPSON from page one misunderstood the question. “senior advisor/communications.” In 2006, Thompson refused to join a coali- Thompson also told reporters that Nem- tion of former governors who opposed oir had apologized, when in fact he’s said that amending Wisconsin’s constitution to ban he stands by his attacks on Baldwin, according legal recognition of same-sex marriages and to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. civil unions. “Thompson needs to start telling the truth As Secretary of Health and Human Ser- and he needs to show Brian Nemoir the vices under former President George W. door,” said state Democratic Party chair Mike Bush, Thompson was charged with politiciz- Tate in a prepared statement. ing scientific decisions by rejecting respected “We are calling on Tommy Thompson to scientists, including a Nobel laureate, for key do the right thing and take responsibility for positions in favor of lesser-qualified, socially his divisive campaign and reject the personal conservative applicants. attacks that are out of touch with our Wis- During the Bush era, Republicans fre- consin values,” Tate said. “It is time to hold quently placed anti-gay marriage laws on him accountable for his record, the positions ballots in swing states to increase turnout he takes and what his campaign does and among right-wing voters. They also sent out says. If Tommy Thompson is afraid of standing campaign materials gay-baiting equality sup- up to his own political handlers then what porters as lacking in “family values” and seek- makes anyone believe he will stand up for us ing to indoctrinate America’s youth into “the in Wisconsin?” homosexual lifestyle.” Nemoir ignited the controversy when he Tate said he believed Nemoir’s attack on sent out a tweet and email questioning Bald- Baldwin was a calculated move that reflects win’s “heartland values” before she addressed this divisive style of campaigning. But with the Democratic National Convention on the fast-growing acceptance of gay people, today subject. the strategy runs the risk of offending LGBT His tweet linked to a video of Baldwin people and their allies, as well as indepen- dancing with a band playing the “Wonder dents who want leaders to focus on issues Woman” theme on stage at an August 2010 such as jobs and health care rather issues that Pride event in Madison. In the email, Nemoir have no effect on their lives. wrote sarcastically, “clearly, there’s no one As WiG headed to press, Nemoir still held better positioned to talk ‘heartland values’ the position within the Thompson campaign than Tammy.” that he’d held prior to the incident. The cam- “To me, (sexual orientation) is absolutely paign declined to explain why Thompson had not an issue,” Thompson told reporters on told the press otherwise. Sept. 11. He added that he was “very upset” about Nemoir’s action. But Thompson’s record in office was decidedly anti-gay. He eliminated former Gov. Tony Earl’s Council on Lesbian and FIND US ON TWITTER! Gay Issues during his first term as governor. During a 2009 Republican primary presi- @wigazette dential debate, he said it should be legal to fire employees based on their sexual orien- Integrity tation, although he later claimed that he’d Experience Results Automobile Accidents n Civil Rights Fires & Explosions n Medical Malpractice Nursing Home/Elder Abuse Mark L. Thomsen Truck Accidents n Wrongful Death Attorney at Law

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David will be reading from his new book My Movie. “Carnal and graphic as the best erotica and as elegiac as a finely rendered memoir.” Tom Medicino, author of “Probation” 18 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | September 20, 2012 Lending prestige to demonizers RYAN from page one contributions, including to sexuality to drug abuse. He servative Republican party,” Wisconsin’s Sean Duffy and also has said pedophilia is a said Nicole Safar, public Mark Neumann. According “homosexual problem” and policy director for Planned to Perkins, the group had others at FRC have called for Parenthood Advocates of enough influence to be given recriminalizing homosexuality. Wisconsin. the job of writing the anti-gay In early September, the “American Jews will feel marriage provisions that are SPLC and HRC, along with a sense of profound disap- contained in the Republican People for the American pointment that two of the Party’s national platform. Way, Gay and Lesbian Alli- most important Republicans But political positions ance Against Defamation, in the country have chosen didn’t earn FRC its hate National Black Justice Coali- to address – and thus court group status, according to tion, National Council of La and legitimize – some of SPLC president Richard Raza and Faithful America, America’s most extreme and Cohen. The classification is called on public officials not PHOTO: get equal deeply disturbing social con- based on the organization’s to attend the Values Voter Protesters offer a message to extremists at the Values Voter Summit. servatives at today’s Values demonizing of LGBT people, Summit. Voter Summit,” said National spreading lies and misin- “Our message is a simple foreign affairs. But he also The remarks rang famil- In the week before the Jewish Democratic Council formation about a class of one,” Cohen said. “Public nodded at domestic issues. iar to those who have heard conference, the Values Voter CEO David A. Harris, refer- people, to incite prejudice officials should not lend the He boasted of Mitt Romney’s Ryan’s stump speech in recent website contained a long ring to Ryan and U.S. Rep and hatred. prestige of their office to pledge to repeal the Afford- weeks, and to those in the list of speakers – many con- Eric Cantor of Virginia, who FRC “isn’t some policy groups that spread demean- able Care Act on day one if congressman’s home state. firmed, but some not, includ- promoted “traditional mar- shop that attempts to find ing and false propaganda he’s elected and said Barack Safar said that Ryan “would ing Mitt Romney. Late in riage” in his remarks. constructive solutions to about other people.” Obama has sought to dictate rather appeal to a narrow the week, after organizers Harris noted FRC’s “infa- problems facing our society,” Catholic Church policy on conservative political view indicated to the press that mous history of gay bashing, said Human Rights Campaign ‘waiting list’ contraception. than address the issues that the candidate’s wife would (as well as) anti-Muslim and vice president Fred Sainz. The news events of the To cheers, Ryan attacked women are facing every day speak, the Romney campaign intolerant statements, includ- “Tony Perkins wants you to week – the killing of U.S. dip- Obama’s support for the in this country.” said she had no such plan. ing disgustingly and directly believe that FRC is a family- lomats in Libya and escalating right of women to terminate She added, “To be clear, Catholic Cardinal Timothy linking homosexuality to focused advocacy organiza- anti-American violence in the their pregnancies. “‘We’re all Congressman Ryan believes Dolan, who delivered prayers the Holocaust. But equally tion, but that couldn’t be Middle East sparked over an in this together’ – it has a that politicians should ban at both the Republican and concerning is the history of further from the truth. The anti-Islam video – dictated nice ring,” he said. “For every- abortion access – no excep- Democratic national conven- hate-filled toxic rhetoric that only thing FRC advocates the substance of higher- one who loves this country, it tions, even when a woman tions, also was a listed speak- flows from many of its- par for is the demonization of profile speeches. Tradition- is not only true but obvious. will die or is the victim of er but said he never planned ticipants year after year. This those who do not fit into ally, the summit is devoted Yet how hollow it sounds rape or incest. This is a view to attend. is above and beyond one of their narrow worldview. They to challenging reproductive coming from a politician who that over two-thirds of vot- The summit did feature the summit’s organizers’ calls are a hate group that active- freedom, marriage equality has never once lifted a hand ers consistently reject. Presi- Ryan, Bachmann and Cantor, for Jews to be converted to ly spreads blatant lies about and immigration reform. to defend the most helpless dent Obama is clearly on as well as: Christianity.” LGBT people – with absolutely U.S. Rep. Michele Bach- and innocent of all human the side of the majority of • U.S. Sens. Rand Paul of FRC was launched in 1981 no regard for the impact of mann of Minnesota, speak- beings, the child waiting to voters and frankly the side Kentucky and Jim DeMint of by James Dobson, who creat- their harmful rhetoric.” ing mid-morning on Sept. 14, be born.” of women when he says that South Carolina and former ed it as a lobbying group tied Both FRC and AFA, for focused her ire on “radical In his only reference to politicians should not be U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum. to Focus on the Family, his example, advocate therapy to Islamists … who seek to LGBT issues, Ryan, who has involved in women’s medi- • TV actor Kirk Cameron. early Christian right group turn gays straight – a treat- impose their set of beliefs a consistent anti-gay record, cal decisions. Congressman • U.S. Reps. Jeff Fortenber- formed to block LGBT civil ment that’s not supported on the rest of the world.” said, “We can be confident Ryan is out of touch with ry of Nebraska, Tim Huels- rights efforts and reproduc- by any credible medical or In an address about foreign in the rightness of our cause, what women in our coun- kamp of Kansas, Steve King tive freedoms. mental health organization. affairs and national security, and also in the integrity and try know: We don’t consult of Iowa and James Lankford FRC became its own enti- At the 2011 Values Voter she remembered the Alamo readiness of the man who politicians when it comes to of Oklahoma. ty in the early 1990s, with Summit, the AFA’s Bryan and quoted Gen. Douglas leads it (Mitt Romney). He’s advice about mammograms • Gov. Jan Brewer of Ari- Tony Perkins, a former Loui- Fischer said the “homosex- Macarthur. solid and trustworthy, faith- or cancer screenings or zona. siana legislator, at the helm. ual agenda” is the nation’s Ryan spoke during the ful and honorable. Not only treatment. Politicians should • U.S. Senate candidate Today FRC is a right-wing “greatest immediate threat.” same session, focusing much a defender of marriage, he not be involved in a woman’s Ted Cruz of Texas. powerhouse that lobbies Perkins, opening this year’s of his speech on the Obama offers an example of mar- personal medical decisions American Family Associa- Congress and makes PAC summit, compared homo- administration’s handling of riage at its best.” about her pregnancy.” tion leaders Tim Wildmon and Buddy Smith also had micro- phones, as did retired Lt. Col. Oliver North of Iran-Contra Affair fame and anti-choice activist Lila Rose, who has ARRESTED? called for abortions to be per- formed in the public square. 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WiGOUT!Wisconsin Gazette entertainment school during the rest of the year.” In 1998, Keyes moved to New York City, receiving first a BA from Milwaukee childhood informs Fordham University College at Lin- coln Center for the Performing Arts and then an MFA from Colum- playwright’s budding career bia University’s School of the Arts. In addition to writing plays and television pilots, Keyes is an accom- plished travel writer-photographer, serves as the New York editor of GayCities.com and is a frequent contributor to “Queerty” and “Metrosource Magazine.” Keyes’ travel writing frequently takes him out of the country one or more weeks per month. “Travel informs my dramatic and creative writing tremendously,” Keyes says. “It was a large compo- nent of ‘The End of Days,’ which was about a travel photographer who seeks out an ex-girlfriend on the last night of the Mayan Calen- dar.” Keyes credits his family’s liter- ary heritage as an influential fac- tor in his life. His grandfather was a second cousin to out writer Glenway Wescott, part of the “lost generation” of American writers who immigrated to Paris in the 1920s. Keyes is currently conduct- ing research at the New York Public Library and the American Academy of Arts and Letters (where Wescott served as president) to write a new play about Wescott’s relation- Photo: Jeffrey James Keyes ship with Monroe Wheeler, one of Jeffrey James Keyes. the first curators of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. By Michael Muckian emphasis on brotherhood, which older kids started picking on me “My family has always encouraged Contributing writer is something I think I longed for Growing up gay and saying I was gay,” Keyes says. “At me to read and study his work, and For many gay people, coming of in my childhood friendships above in Milwaukee first I didn’t know what that meant. I am fascinated with the similarities age and coming out are synony- intimacy or anything else.” I was a child, after all. I gradually between us,” Keyes says of Wescott, mous. And together, these two mile- The play’s narrative draws on a brought went from not knowing what gay a Kewaskum, Wis., native who died stones have informed much of play- week Keyes spent some years ago meant to hiding it, and eventually in 1987. “I’ve become good friends wright Jeffrey James Keyes’ work. backpacking across Isle Royale, a challenges. Keyes owning it.” with some of his friends and col- His next play, tentatively titled unique natural environment where During his freshmen year at Mil- leagues in the past few years, and “17” and set on Isle Royale Nation- moose and wolves maintain a deli- endured what waukee’s Pius XI High School, Keyes one of my good friends even coinci- al Park in Lake Superior, tackles the cate ecological balance. The char- became involved in First Stage The- dentally lives in Wescott’s first New “out” and “of age” themes more acters come from an amalgam of he calls a typical ater Academy, the student-oriented York apartment.” fully than his earlier works. His Keyes’ experience growing up in level of abuse. subsidiary of a Milwaukee theater Keyes hopes to move beyond last play “The End of Days” was a Catholic school environment on troupe. Surrounded with like- the Fringe Festival with “17,” or performed last month at the Soho Milwaukee’s South Side. Not all the minded individuals, his interests and whatever he decides to title the Playhouse as part of the New York experiences were bad ones, he says. sense of self began to flourish. play. Several theater companies International Fringe Festival. “We lived near a forest in Bay “I was accepted into the First have expressed interest, he says. “The characters (in “17”) are a View, which is just off of Lake Stage work study program and was The writer also stays involved with composite of my childhood friends, Michigan,” Keyes earlier told inter- But growing up gay in Milwau- able to find a home base where a variety of writing groups and the- but the coming-out aspect of the viewer Adam Szymkowicz as part kee brought challenges. Supportive I could express myself and meet ater troupes, including New York play has no parallel or reference of an online series on playwrights. “I friends and family helped Keyes even more friends who didn’t give Madness, the 15th Floor and the to my own coming out story,” says spent my childhood climbing trees, thrive, despite what he describes as a damn about the fact that I was a ESPA Program at Primary Stages. Keyes, who grew up in Milwaukee’s diving off the back of sailboats, a fairly typical level of abuse. boy who liked other boys,” Keyes He also shows new works through Bay View neighborhood and now chasing fireflies and dreaming big. I “I went to St. Veronica’s, a big says. “Weekends and summers at the First Flight Festival and the lives in Manhattan’s Washington couldn’t think of a better place to Catholic grade school. I was some- First Stage were the ultimate anti- Boomerang Theater Company, both Heights. “The play has a clear-cut grow up.” what effeminate and some of the dote to any challenges I faced in in New York. 22 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | September 20, 2012 Gay producers film African-American ‘Steel Magnolias’ the iconic roles. I spoke with Robert Harling, who wrote Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, the original play and the orig- the gay executive producers inal screenplay for the first Interview of the remake. The two were movie. Robert said it was recently named as recipients always his fantasy to have GREGG SHAPIRO of the Visionary Award from “Steel Magnolias” done again, “Steel Magnolias” was the Outfest Legacy Project. with an all-black cast and set originally a play that chron- in a black town in the South. icled the friendship of six Gregg Shapiro: How Louisiana women who con- did the idea of remak- Queen Latifah, who gregate at Truvy’s Beauty ing “Steel Magnolias” plays M’Lynn (the role Shop to ponder the mys- with an African-Amer- originated on screen teries of life and death, ican cast come about? by Sally Field), gives PHOTO: courtesy husbands and children, hair Neil Meron: A while back, an amazing perfor- A scene from Lifetime’s “Steel Magnolias.” and nails. The 1989 film ver- maybe two years or so, Craig mance, the kind that sion, which starred Olympia and I were talking about has Emmy and Golden Dukakis, Sally Field, Julia Rob- things that we wanted to do. Globe written all over So you start with Queen just spreads throughout the done that a million times. It erts, Dolly Parton, Shirley Where are the great roles it. Latifah and build everything whole production. keeps us fresh and it keeps MacLaine and Daryl Hannah, for women? Our conversa- NM: It seemed like a per- around her. us curious and it keeps us has become something of a tion naturally went to “Steel fect match. I think that a lot CZ: We also had the most Aside from the interested. gay camp classic for its catty Magnolias.” I thought the of the success (of) projects magnificent experience familiar faces, “Steel dialogue interspersed within only way that we could real- is how well you cast them. working with her on “Chica- Magnolias” also stars A number of your a tear-jerking plot. ly tackle “Steel Magnolias,” It seemed that she had the go” and “Hairspray.” We felt two younger actresses, projects, including On Oct. 7, Lifetime televi- which was so brilliantly done strength and dignity and act- they were two of the best Adepero Oduye and “Serving in Silence,” sion airs an updated version originally, was if we were able ing chops to really anchor films she’s ever done, and Condola Rashad, Phyli- “What Makes a Fam- of the material, with an Afri- to bring something new to it. this new production of “Steel that we’ve ever done, and we cia’s daughter. ily,” “Wedding Wars,” can-American cast assuming Craig Zadan: We know Magnolias” and redefine it. thought we’d love to have NM: I think part of the sat- “It’s All Relative,” and the experience a third time isfaction of being a producer most recently “Smash” together as a team. So, when is being able to introduce have dealt with gay this came around, it seemed new talent. Craig and I spot- subject matter. How like a natural to involve her. ted Condola in a Broadway important is that to Alcohol or Other She said yes immediately, show, “Stick Fly.” She’s the you as gay men? because she understood only person that we wanted CZ: You can stand on a how passionate we were to play Shelby. Adepero, we soap box and give speeches Addictions? about doing the piece and knew about from “Pariah,” of all you want. A lot of people about her being in it. By the course. Her audition was so find speechifying is a turn off way, we think that she’s a spectacular and special that and they push away – they wonderful actress, and we’ve we knew she needed to be don’t absorb what you have seen her give wonderful per- in the movie. … It’s incredibly to say. However, when you We Can Help formances in the past, but I satisfying to have the ability do a piece such as “Serv- think that nothing that she’s to put new people into the ing in Silence” or “Wedding 12-Step Group Meetings done can prepare the audi- mix and introduce them and Wars” or “What Makes a ence for the depth of the have them become part of Family” or “Smash” or “Drop • Alcoholics Anonymous acting performances that she the extended family. Dead Diva” – when you do gives in “Steel Magnolias.” those pieces and entertain • Al-Anon Prior to big screen the audience, you go into You also worked with successes such as “Chi- their living rooms and you’re • Narcotics Anonymous Phylicia Rashad, who cago” and “Hairspray,” welcomed in by entertain- plays Clairee in “Steel the majority of your ing them. While they’re being • Sexual Compulsives Anonymous Magnolias,” on “A Rai- production work was in entertained, they’re also sin in the Sun.” TV. Do you have a pref- learning so much and expe- The Galano Club is a 12-step recovery club that provides NM: We love to work with erence for TV? riencing so much. “Wedding meeting space for 12-step groups and a place to socialize the same actors over and CZ: I think that we don’t Wars” is a good example, over again, because you have have a preference for any- because we were the first and enjoy the fellowship of others in recovery. While our a shorthand, you know they thing. We wanted to be in people ever to make a movie membership is made up of primarily gay and lesbian can deliver, it’s more like a every single medium, we about gay marriage. Any people, everyone is welcome. family. If you look at a lot of didn’t want to be excluded audience watching it would THE our work, we’ve been fortu- from any and we are able to have a wonderful time see- COMING nate to have a lot of repeat go from one to the other. It ing that movie without even (414) 276-6936 visitors. 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“You have to keep things moving and can’t In Tandem Theatre let the audience get ahead of you, but even Season at a Glance then some clever person will have it figured Theater “The Nightmare Room,” Oct. 5–21 out before intermission,” says Flieller, who “A Cudahy Caroler Christmas,” MICHAEL MUCKIAN also directed Joe DiPietro’s “The Art of Mur- Nov. 30–Jan. 5 der” two seasons ago. “The events that play In theater, as in life, love triangles can be “Beast on the Moon,” March 1–24 out in ‘The Nightmare Room’ are inevitable, messy affairs – especially when they involve “Apartment 3A,” April 26–May 19 but (Goodrum’s) plot construction will help a vengeful spouse, a soundproof cell and a in keeping the audience guessing until the bottle of poison. In Goodrum’s adaptation, the conflict pieces of the puzzle coalesce at the very last Such is the premise for “The Nightmare comes between two women, played by actors moment.” Room,” which opens Milwaukee’s In Tandem Mary McLellan and Libby Amato. The drawing The play employs flashbacks to give the Theatre Co.’s 2012-13 season Oct. 5 with its room becomes a soundproof cell in which narrative greater dimension. U.S. premiere performance. The play, freely McLellan and Amato alternately hold posi- “My wife said, ‘You always write shadowy, adapted by English author John Goodrum tions of power. The bottle of clear poison dark scary plays. What about writing a light, from a story of the same name by “Sherlock takes on the same role, with a “Twilight bright scary play?’” Goodrum says. “That was Holmes” creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Zone”-style twist at the end that gives the the challenge, and the contrast between the considers what might happen when two play an even stronger appeal, says In Tandem intensely bright, starkly lit nightmare room, women love the same film actor – and one artistic director Chris Flieller, who directed where nothing is what it seems, and the more of them happens to be his wife, who is none the production. mellow flashback scenes proved that this is too happy about the arrangement. “The hairpin turns of the plot are excit- possible.” Goodrum, who is also an actor, originally ing, and equally exciting is the energy the Flieller expects the play, which runs wrote the piece for his own Rumpus The- Photo: Courtesy In Tandem Theatre Co. characters exhibit in pursuit of their desires,” through Oct. 14, to be as successful for In atre Co. in 1985. The company had already plays, that was an exciting prospect.” Flieller says. “It’s sexy and dangerous.” Tandem as “The Art of Murder” was two become known for its adaptation of Victorian In Doyle’s narrative, two men vie for the Keeping a show like “The Nightmare years ago. In fact, he expects even more from and Gothic thrillers, including Bram Stoker’s affections of the same woman, a former Room” on the proper emotional footing can The Nightmare Room.” “Dracula’s Guest” and Charles Dickens’ “The Parisian dancer who gave up her career to be challenging, says Flieller, who has added “Don’t eat too much before the show – Signalman.” Goodrum happened upon the marry one of them. The husband confronts lighting, sound effects and unusual perceptual you may need a drink at intermission,” Flieller story, which appears in Conan Doyle’s “Tales the suitor in an ornately decorated yet sti- tricks to draw the audience further into the says. “And under no circumstances may you of Terror and Mystery.” fling drawing room. He offers to play a type narrative. More than most other types of give away the ending!” “I saw at once its potential as a basis for a of Russian roulette with beverages, one of shows, suspense thrillers require perfectly If you do, you may be facing your own contemporary thriller,” says Goodrum from which contains deadly poison. The survivor, timed pacing to keep audiences on edge, he nightmare (insert spooky laugh here). his home in England. “After so many period of course, gets the dancer. adds.

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Theater MICHAEL MUCKIAN

Madison playwright Kurt McGinnis Brown, like most authors, was originally counseled to write about what he knew. One of the results of that advice is “Broken and Entered,” a play with roots in his figurative as well literal experiences. “One of my grandfathers led a shady life,” says Brown, whose play opens Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s fall season. “He did odd jobs, including hitting the road in his Model T to sell matches. He also organized illegal card Illustration: Chamber Theatre games and ran numbers.” On the other side of Brown’s family were two brothers who never quite made it in the demons of their childhoods. world and ended up moving back to their Despite their nefarious ways, Vern and mother’s house. The two influences com- Wally engender the audience’s sympathy in bined to become the protagonists in Brown’s this comic tragedy, primarily because they play, which received a Chamber Theatre dra- simply are not very good burglars. The pair matic reading in 2010 and will have its first is also plagued by their past, resulting in a fully staged world premiere later this month. series of decisions that many of us can relate The play about two brothers who move to, Brown says. home and embark upon a life of crime has “They’d like to think of themselves as great appeal for director Suzan Fete, who clever professional criminals, but they’re bum- directed the staged reading and makes her blers whose mad logic puts them in comic Chamber Theatre main stage directing debut situations,” Brown says. “I think people might with this production. The appeal has less to find them endearing. Wally and Vern are two do with criminal activity than with the rela- guys that never had a chance. I don’t mean tionships among the characters. they should be excused for their actions, but “I am very attracted to family-dynamic all that they really want is to have lived in a plays, and the intricate, fragile and often sub- family that loved and cherished them. And it’s conscious inner working of families – mine too late for that.” included – fascinate me,” she says. “‘Broken What makes this play approachable for and Entered’ was a natural for me.” anyone is the truth of the piece and the inevi- In the play’s narrative, Vern (Jonathan Les- tability of its outcome, Fete says. That truth lie Wainwright) and Wally (Andrew Edwin is something to which Brown as playwright Voss) move back to their family home in a could relate. crumbling inner city community. They soon “If you’re a writer, you can’t help but write realize that in order to survive, they need what you know,” Brown says. “The milieu in to take what they can get. Each night they the play is not the milieu I grew up in, but by guiltlessly burglarize houses in nearby upscale pushing my imagination in a certain direction, neighborhoods. I can see what our family might have been But Wally falls for wealthy, attractive Afri- like. That gave me something fun to play with can-American neighbor Jamila (Marti Gobel, in creating this world.” who reprises her role from the 2010 read- Several performances of “Broken and ing), who has returned to gentrify the neigh- Entered,” which runs Sept. 27 to Oct. 14 at borhood. Her involvement and her outsider’s the Broadway Theatre Center’s Studio The- view help Vern and Wally realize how impos- atre, will be accompanied by talkbacks with sible it is for them to fully escape their past Brown, Fete, Gobel and Chamber Theatre or recriminations for their present actions. artistic director C. Michael Wright. The two brothers are forced to reexamine Visit www.milwaukeechambertheatre.com their perceptions of race while facing the for more information.

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre Season at a Glance “Broken and Entered,” Sept. 26–Oct. 14 “Collected Stories,” Nov. 21–Dec. 16 “Underneath the Lintel,” Feb. 21–March 17 “Jeeves in Bloom,” April 11–28 26 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | September 20, 2012 Seth Rudetsky deconstructs Broadway for Milwaukee presentation on “Tur- did a big concert with Patti but you never know what key Lurkey,” a number LuPone. I showed her that kind of mood she’s going to written by Hal David clip from the Tony Awards be in. Interview for the musical “Prom- where she misses linking ises, Promises.” arms with that guy on stage, How do you feel GREGG SHAPIRO Seth Rudetsky: I was very and she was like, “I meant to about movie musicals? In his popular YouTube moved when I read his obitu- do that.” She made a whole I’m not a fan. My whole life segments, Broadway maven ary. I was thinking how great joke about it. She thought I’ve hated lip-synching. I love Seth Rudetsky hilariously his lyrics are and how he it was hilarious. People love live singing. That’s why I love deconstructs musicals, songs captures real feelings in lyrics. laughing at themselves. I back theater. (I enjoy) watching a and performers. His rever- How specific they are – run- it up, because I show crap great dance number (on film), ence for the Broadway musi- ning for the bus and putting about myself too. I show this especially the way it was cal and his mastery of stage on your makeup. I was think- jazz dance video that I did done in the old days, when banter is so infectious that ing, “Wow, he really is a great when I was in 11th grade it was one shot. But I literally you can’t help but be enter- lyricist.” He was a pop writer, where I thought I was amaz- can’t bear those TV shows tained, even if you’re not a but the lyrics for “Promises, ing. I watch it nowadays. I’m with pre-recorded singing on show-tune queen. Promises” are musical the- wearing purple plastic jazz them. It’s just not me. In addition to his YouTube ater lyrics. He was a great dance legwarmers, white performances, Rudetsky is lyricist. It’s sad that he only Capezios. It’s hilarious. The As an author, you the Broadway host on Siri- wrote one musical. point is people love bust- recently entered the usX and recently launched ing themselves. I get a lot Young Adult genre his own Internet TV network. Have you ever heard of people who want to be with your novel “My Photo: Courtesy He brings his boundless directly from your deconstructed by me. (They Awesome/Awful Pop- From “Seth’s Big Fat Broadway.” enthusiasm to Marcus Cen- subjects, such as Patti say), “I’m waiting for the day ularity Plan.” Do you ter for the Performing Arts LuPone, Idina Menzel when you deconstruct my have a favorite Y/A fakery on the reality shows. I I approve of? The stuff that on Oct. 4 and Oct. 5 with or Barbra Streisand, blah blah blah.” The only per- novel from when you wanted to do a show where I think is great to watch. It’s “Seth’s Big Fat Broadway.” about what they think son I’ve not heard from is were a teenager? people could see what it’s like pay-per-view. You go to of your comments? Barbra Streisand. I know a Oh, my God, I still read Y/A like to rehearse for a Broad- the site and press a button. Gregg Shapiro: I want Yes, of course. Everything lot of people who know her, novels. I love Katherine Pat- way show, show them what What’s amazing is that within to begin by asking I do is so positive, even if it and they tell me they want to erson. She wrote “The Bridge the Broadway life is really one month of that being up about your YouTube is dishing the person. I just show her my deconstructing, to Terabithia” and “The Great like. I didn’t want to do it on online, I got a write-up in Gilly Hopkins.” What’s differ- a network. I wanted to own it Entertainment Weekly, on ent about mine is that there myself and do it myself. 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full-length debut disc “Gish,” ed deluxe reissue of the recently reissued in a remas- Smashing Pumpkins’ 1994 Music tered and expanded edition. B-sides and rarities compi- The Smashing Pumpkins, lation “Pisces Iscariot” and GREGG SHAPIRO didn’t sound like the ’80s, and the latest Pumpkins’ full- only vaguely echoed grunge. length recording “Oceania” The Smashing Pumpkins The music was metallic, but were released within weeks arrived on the Chicago (and it was saved by Billy Cor- of each other in 2012. They national) music scene at just gan’s distinctive and emotive offer a fascinating history les- the right time. For a city as vocals. son on Chicago’s most suc- big as Chicago, there was Two years later, after cessful band of the 1990s. an embarrassing dearth of grunge had predictably run cool music coming from Lake its course and alternative Michigan’s southwestern was the predominant force, On stage shores. As late as the late Smashing Pumpkins’ remark- Smashing Pumpkins 1980s, Cheap Trick was still able “Siamese Dream,” also play The Riverside in the biggest band to be associ- reissued, remastered and Milwaukee at 7 p.m. on ated with Chicago (and they expanded, set the standard. Sept. 30. were actually from Rock- Shimmering with the shards ford!). Most of the punk-era of grunge, “Siamese Dream” Photo: Courtesy bands emerging from Chica- also dared to go where few Joining the ranks of the demos and rough mixes, and years, but there’s no mistak- der of the disc follows the go never achieved the kind of others had ventured, as stunningly packaged “Gish” a DVD that includes footage ing “Oceania” as a Smash- Pumpkins’ formula of heavy crossover success that bands exemplified in the raptur- and “Siamese Dream” reis- from the cable access show ing Pumpkins record. Of rockers (“Panopticon,” “The from other major metro- ous “Today” and the disarm- sues, “Pisces Iscariot” includes “Pulse Basement Jam” and course, that’s mainly due to Chimera”) and pleasant pop politan areas did. Milwaukee ing “Disarm,” complete with the remastered original bonus live performances. Of the Pumpkins’ most consis- numbers (“The Celestials,” bands, such as the BoDeans chimes and a string section. album (featuring the glorious particular interest to Pump- tent factor, front-man Billy “Pinwheels”). Heck, there’s and Violent Femmes, fared “Gish” and “Siamese Dream” cover of Fleetwood Mac’s kins fans will be the six-song Corgan. His distinguished even a synthy tune, “One much better. are nothing less than essen- “Landslide” and the blistering red plastic demo cassette. vocals and guitar style are Diamond, One Heart,” that All of that changed in 1991 tial. “Hello Kitty Kat”), a second The band may have evident right from the start displays an unexpected side with The Smashing Pumpkins’ The considerably expand- disc of outtakes, live tracks, changed its line-up over the on “Quasar,” and the remain- of the band. WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | September 20, 2012 29

2012 Milwaukee Film Festival presents LGBT-themed lineup

The 2012 Milwaukee Film Festival features several LGBT titles in Me @ the Zoo its schedule, ranging from comedies to docs. Visit mkefilm.org for more information. The LGBT lineup includes the following:

‘Gayby’ A feature film about a gay man having a baby with his best friend, “Gayby” screens at: 9:45 p.m. on Sept. 28 at Fox Bay Cinema 9:45 p.m. on Oct. 2 at the Downer Theatre 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 4 at Fox Bay Cinema 7:00 p.m. on Oct. 6 at the Oriental Theatre

‘3,2,1 ... Frankie Go Boom’ A romcom starring Charlie Hunnam, Lizzy Caplan and Madison native Chris Noth, “3,2,1 … Frankie Go Boom” screens at: 9:30 p.m. on Sept. 29 at the Oriental Theatre

‘Me @ The Zoo’ This story of YouTube sensation and Britney Spears defender Chris Crocker’s navigation of fame screens at: 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 29 at the Downer Theatre 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 4 at Fox Bay Cinema

‘How To Survive A Plague’ David France’s highly praised documentary about the AIDS epidemic screens at: 5 p.m. on Oct. 1 at the Oriental Theatre 4:15 p.m. on Oct. 5 at Fox Bay Cinema 7 p.m. on Oct. 8 at the Downer Theatre

‘Love Free Or Die’ Filmmaker Macky Alston’s documentary about Gene Robinson, the first openly gay Episcopal priest to become a bishop, screens at: Noon on Oct. 2 at the Oriental Theatre How To Survive a Plague 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 8 at the Oriental Theatre 7:15 p.m. on Oct. 11 at the Fox Bay Cinema

‘The Jeffrey Dahmer Files’ The critically acclaimed documentary by filmmaker Chris Thompson screens at: 7 p.m. on Oct. 2 at the Oriental Theatre 3 p.m. on Oct. 7 at the Oriental Theatre 9 p.m. on Oct. 8 at Fox Bay Cinema 6 p.m. on Oct. 10 at Fox Bay Cinema

Theater locations: Fox Bay Cinema, 334 E. Silver Spring Drive in Whitefish Bay Downer Theatre, 2589 N. Downer St., on Milwaukee’s East Side Oriental Theatre, 2230 N. Farwell Ave., on Milwaukee’s East Side

– Gregg Shapiro

Love Free or Die

The Jeffrey Dahmer Files 30 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | September 20, 2012 Sept. 20, Thursday Sept. 29, Saturday Forward Theater opens its 2012-13 season with “44 Plays for 44 The Pabst, 144 E. Wells, presents Joe Jackson and The Presidents,” a series of skits developed by Chicago’s Neo-Futurists Bigger Band, featuring Regina Carter performing songs from covering the nation’s 44 chief executives. The production continues WiGOUT “The Duke,” at 7 p.m. Call 414-286-3663. at The Playhouse at Madison’s Overture Center for the Arts through The 2nd Annual PALM (Promoting Academics in Latino Oct. 7. Call 608-234-5001 or go to forwardtheater.com. Milwaukee) Scholarship Fundraiser features a comedy show “T.I.M. (The Improvised Musical)” is a fully improvised, hour- ON THE by Gwen La Roka and Elizardi Castro, live music, appetizers and long musical based on audience suggestions. The laughs begin at more, from 5:30 to 11:30 p.m. in the Helene Zelazo Center of the 7:30 p.m. at ComedySportz, 420 S. First St. Call 414-272-8888 or Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Boulevard. Call 414- 229-6156 or visit www.SmithereenProductions.com. visit rhc.uwm.edu. American Players Theatre, 5950 Golf Course Road in Spring TOWN Green, presents “In Acting Shakespeare,” playwright and APT company member Jim DeVita’s adaptation of Sir Ian McKellen’s Edited and compiled by Gregg Shapiro 1987 one-man show, through Oct. 4. Call 608-588-2361. Youngblood Theatre Company presents the Milwaukee premiere of “[sic]” through Oct. 5 at Bucketworks, 706 S. Fifth. Visit www. Barrymore Theatre, 2090 Atwood in Madison, hosts a 2 p.m. YoungbloodTheatre.com. sneak preview screening of the doc “Corpus Christi: Playing With Redemption,” followed by a 4 p.m. free Town Hall symposium with special guests and community leaders, culminating in a 7 p.m. performance of the play “Corpus Christi.” Call 608-241- Avenue Q 2345. “Gutenberg! The Musical!” runs through Oct. 14 in the Stackner Cabaret at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, 108 E. Wells. Call 414-224-9490. Joe Jackson Sept. 24, Monday Eric Simonson’s “Lombardi” runs through Oct. 14 at Peninsula Sept. 30, Sunday Players Theatre, 4351 Peninsula Players Road in Fish Creek. Call Hospitality and Teen play High Noon Saloon, 701A E. 920-868-3287. Washington in Madison, at 8 p.m. Call 608-268-1122. The Hotel Foster, 2028 E. North, welcomes Calliope and Wilder Maker at 9 p.m. Call 414-988-4758. Sept. 26, Wednesday Milwaukee Repertory Theater, 108 E. Wells, presents “The Oct. 1, Monday Sept. 21, Friday Mountaintop,” by Katori Hall, through Nov. 4 in the Stiemke Studio. Call 414-224-9490. Folk/punk act Two Gallants performs at 8 p.m. at High Noon “Avenue Q,” the controversial, Tony Award-winning musical Freddy Griffith & the Sex Circus take the stage at High Noon Saloon, 701A E. Washington in Madison. Call 608-268-1122. featuring a blend of humans and puppets, opens Skylight Music Saloon, 701A E. Washington in Madison, at 8 p.m. Call 608-268-1122. The Hotel Foster, 2028 E. North, welcomes Heidi Spencer and Theatre’s 2012-13 season. The production runs through Oct. 14 in The Rare Birds at 9 p.m. Call 414-988-4758. the Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N. Broadway. Call 414-291-7800 “Autumn Makes Me Sing,” featuring 12 American Folklore or go to skylightmusictheatre.org. Theatre company members performing an evening of music and Milwaukee’s Marcus Center for the Performing Arts welcomes poetry, begins at 7 p.m. in The Great Room at Bjorklunden Lodge, the Upright Citizens Brigade Touring Company to the Todd Sept. 27, Thursday 7590 Boynton in Baileys Harbor. For tickets call (920) 854-6117. Wehr Theater, tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30 and 10 p.m. Call Milwaukee Chamber Theatre presents the world premiere 414-273-2787. of “Broken and Entered,” by Madison-based playwright Kurt The Racine Theatre Guild’s 75th season begins with the madcap McGinnis Brown, through Oct. 14 at Broadway Theatre Center, 158 comedy “Noises Off,” running through Sept. 30 at The Racine N. Broadway. Call 414-291-7800. Oct. 2, Tuesday Theatre Guild, 2519 Northwestern (Highway 38) in Racine. Call 262- Canadian singer/songwriter Kathleen Edwards performs at Queer trio Girlyman performs at 7 p.m. at High Noon Saloon, 633-4218. 7:30 p.m. at the Majestic, 115 King in Madison. Call 608-251-2582. Stephen Sondheim’s “Assassins,” directed by Mark Clements, 701A E. Washington in Madison. Call 608-268-1122. runs through Oct. 7 in the Quadracci Powerhouse at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, 108 E. Wells. Call 414-224-9490. Sept. 28, Friday Oct. 3, Wednesday The Milwaukee premiere of “[title of show],” with music Boulevard Theatre, 2252 S. Kinnickinnic, presents the Milwaukee Sept. 22, Saturday and lyrics by Jeff Bowen and book by Hunter Bell, runs through premiere of “Life (X) Three” through Oct. 14. Call 414-744-5747 or Sept. 29 at 8 p.m. in the Tamsett Theatre at Soulstice Theatre, visit www.boulevardtheatre.com. Queer band Xiu Xiu is at Shank Hall, 1434 N. Farwell, at 8 p.m. 3770 S. Pennsylvania in St. Francis. For more info, visit www. The Hotel Foster, 2028 E. North, presents Hello Death and Hot Call 414-276-7288. theatricaltendencies.com. Coffin at 9 p.m. Call 414-988-4758. Majestic, 115 King in Madison, presents comedian/actress Relive your childhood with “The Hardy Boys and the Case Natasha Leggero, known for her appearances on “Chelsea Lately” of the Blankedy Blank!” a completely improvised Hardy Boys and “Reno 911,” at 8 p.m. Call 608-251-2582. mystery performed live on stage, aided by audience suggestions. Queer indie folk goddess Ani DiFranco performs at 7 p.m. at The show begins at 11:59 p.m. at ComedySportz, 420 S. First. Call Oct. 4, Thursday The Pabst, 144 E. Wells. Call 414-286-3663. 414-272-8888 or visit www.SmithereenProductions.com. Legendary Boston band Mission of Burma performs at 8 p.m. Marcus Center for the Performing Arts welcomes “Seth’s Big at High Noon Saloon, 701A E. Washington in Madison. Call 608- Fat Broadway Show,” starring Seth Rudetsky, Broadway host on 268-1122. SiriusXM Satellite radio, tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. The Pabst, 144 E. Wells, welcomes Tony winner Glen Hansard Call 414-273-2787. Sept. 23, Sunday (“Once”) at 7 p.m. Call 414-286-3663. “And If Elected,” a musical look at presidential campaign Crankshaft plays The Hotel Foster, 2028 E. North, at 9 p.m. Call history, runs through Oct. 14 at Gibraltar Town Hall, 4176 Maple in The Lumineers play The Pabst, 144 E. Wells, at 7 p.m. Call 414- Fish Creek. Call 920-854-6117. 286-3663. 414-988-4758. WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | September 20, 2012 31 32 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | September 20, 2012