THE VOICE OF CHICAGO’S GAY, LESBIAN, BI AND TRANS COMMUNITY SINCE 1985 April 21, 2010 • vol 25 no 29 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com Gender JUST rally Obama signs LGBT hospital access memo President calls lesbian denied access to partner page 8 BY TRacY Baim “I’m sorry.” Those two little words are what Janice Lang- behn has been waiting to hear since February 2007, when her partner of 18 years, Lisa Pond, just 39 years old, died separated from Langbehn and their children. But the apology did not come from Jack- son Memorial Hospital in Florida, where Pond lay dying from a brain aneurysm suffered Feb. 18, 2007, hours after the family boarded the R Family Cruise. Instead, President Barack Obama said those words to Langbehn in a phone call April 15, 2010, when he phoned her in Olym- pia, Wash., from Air Force One, ironically while it circled over Miami, where Jackson Memorial is Chicago located. Obama called Langbehn to explain a memo he Red Stars page 22 had signed that day to address discrimination LGBT families face from healthcare facilities. The Obama memo directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Kathleen Sebelius, to move forward on steps to address hospital visitation and other related LGBT healthcare access issues. The resulting regula- tion is expected to require hospitals that receive Turn to page 6 Janice Langbehn (left) and Lisa Pond in 1996. Dan Choi sounds off at Boston gala BY CHUCK COLBERT What should the president do? Choi insists that the president include repeal language in the Mario In the nearly six weeks since his arrest for civil Defense Authorization Act of 2010. At the same Cantone page 19 disobedience, Lt. 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Judy Gold, Mario Cantone 19 Photo by Con Buckley Billy Masters 21 OUTLINES Real estate; classifieds 18 Calendar Q 20 Sports: Red Stars tie St. Louis 22 Sky-high expectations 22 Gay Games: Stewart Hendrix 22 Photos on left side of cover (from top): Photo of Shawn at the Gender JUST rally by Micki Leventhal; Image of the Chicago Red Stars’ Julianne Sitch at the team’s 2010 home Windy City Times talked with out opener by Tracy Baim; Mario Cantone photo by Peter Lau comedian Judy Gold. See page 19. 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Photo by Giuliano Bekor www.WindyCityQueercast.com MINDING THE STARR QueerTVTVNetwork.comN Windy City Times pho- tographer Steve Starr Check OUT OUR recently received an video CHANNEL fOR award for his work. Find new videos WEEkly out more online. www.QueerTv Network.com Photo by Steven A. Richards 4 April 21, 2010 ONLINE AT radio broadcaster serving the gay community. to gay-rights cases. But he said the president’s Supreme court And he joined then D.C. Circuit Judge John Rob- chief considerations now are “who he connects WINDYCITYMEDIAGROUP.COM erts, Jr., in a decision rejecting police liability with best on a visceral level” and “who is most candidates: NATIONAL NEWS for misconduct by officers who sprayed a chemi- likely to be confirmed.” cal deterrent on members of a pro-gay protest ©2010 Keen News Service What the short group during President George W. Bush’s first inaugural parade. list is like —Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm is la- BY Lisa KEEN beled a “long shot” by her home state newspa- KEEN NEWS SERVICE per, the Free Press, but her name keeps coming up. She opposed an amendment to the state The White House has begun floating trial bal- —Gainesville, Fla., constitution to ban same-sex marriage and, fol- loons for candidates President Obama might ap- elects gay mayor lowing that, sent a letter to constituents assur- point to the U.S. Supreme Court to replace retir- ing them she was not ending benefits for domes- ing Justice John Paul Stevens. It’s a well-known —Univ. of Penn. tic partners. She riled right-wing conservatives ritual—played by anonymous White House OKs insurance for recently by issuing a statement calling on state sources; a willing and competitive media; and reassignment legislators to pass an anti-bullying bill, which even justice wannabes who know how to capital- operations the American Family Association sees as part of ize on the power of the rumor mill. the gay agenda. The Associated Press is, thus far, winning: —Pro-gay GOP man Obama is meeting with several members of the claiming that it has “confirmed” the names of (left) to run for Senate next week to hear their thoughts on fill- seven potential nominees on a list of candidates governor of Mass. ing Stevens’ seat. it says is 10 people long. Richard Socarides, who worked in the Clinton The seven include nominees that are gener- White House, said he thinks all the potential ally friendly to the LGBT community, based on olent acts of vandalism during a gay pride event.