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BRAUN CHAIRS AIDS WALK Ryan Braun talks about his role in this year’s AIDS Walk, to be held on Sunday, Oct. 6. page 6 THE VOICE OF PROGRESS FOR WISCONSIN’S LGBT COMMUNITY 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.

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