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WINDY CITY INTERVIEW THE VOICE OF CHICAGO’S GAY, LESBIAN, WITH ‘PINA’ BI AND TRANS COMMUNITY SINCE 1985 DIRECTOR WIM JAN. 25, 2012 WENDERS VOL 27, NO. 16 PAGE 22 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.comTIMES Gay alderman on Emanuel, cardinal ROBERT BraY: BY KATE SOSIN his Uptown office and asked him some. WCT: Part of this safety concern was born from is- interview WITH Windy City Times: What are you working on right sues with the Pride Parade. Were you in those first For many in LGBT community, James Cappleman is not now? meetings about the initial changes to the parade? A nationaL just the 46th Ward alderman. He and 44th Ward Ald. James Cappleman: A lot of my focus has been on en- JC: Yes. The reasons for the parade route itself was activist Tom Tunney represent the entire LGBT community as the couraging more economic development, creating more because there was that triangle where people were iso- pagE 16 first two openly gay aldermen in the city’s history. jobs, creating more retail in the area. lated and they couldn’t get out. It was a safety issue. Cappleman, still in his first year on the job, has ne- WCT: When Lakeview residents were worried about The thought was to make it to 10 a.m. because of the gotiated on recent Pride Parade changes and voted in safety this summer, did you believe that crime rates public drinking. I certainly listened to what the police favor of a hotly contested ward remap, a budget that were going up? had to say; 10 a.m. is rather early, so I was not thrilled slashed the Advisory Council on LGBT Issues and a pro- JC: What we’re hearing from the police is that crime about that. My understanding is that it has gone back test ordinance that many activists opposed. rates are going down. But there is a perception that it to 12 o’clock. I was not part of that conversation. When Windy City Times questioned Cappleman about is going up. It was the perception that needed to be WCT: People complained that the community was these and other controversies, the alderman invited addressed. What adds to this perception is that there the newspaper to come ask him “the really tough ques- are upticks in violence. We saw that uptick in violence, Turn to page 8 tions.” Windy City Times sat down with Cappleman in and it wasn’t necessarily a trend that we were seeing. Mayors, Freedom to Marry unite for MARILYN marriage equality URSO DIES BY MICHAEL K. LAVERS page 10 Freedom to Marry formally launched a campaign Jan. 20 that included 80 mayors from across the country who have pledged to advance the cause of marriage equality. Marc Solomon, national campaign director of Freedom to Marry, unveiled “Mayors for the Freedom to Marry” at a press conference at the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington, D.C. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel joined the campaign alongside Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Vil- laraigosa; New York City Michael Bloomberg; Houston Mayor Annise Parker; San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders; BEFORE AND Boston Mayor Thomas Menino; Santa Barbara, Calif., LaughTER Mayor Helene Schneider and Gainesville, Fla., Mayor Iconic comedian/actress Carol Craig Lowe, among others. Burnett weighs in about everything “Each of these mayors has committed himself or her- from Glee to Joan Rivers. Photo by self to the cause and to working with Freedom to Marry Randee St. Nicholas to ensure that loving and committed same-sex couples throughout America can marry the person they love and avail themselves of the crucial protections that their GAY soccer families need that only come along with marriage,” said Solomon. 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