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Activist Brice Smith Pens the Story of Female-To-Gay Male Trans Pioneer 30 yeArs of lAughter Sill pounding out the laughs, comedian Paula Poundstone returns to Wisconsin. Page 17 the voice of Progress for Wisconsin’s LGBt community August 25, 2011 | Vol. 2, No. 21 Baldwin leads Dem senate Becoming race By louis Weisberg Staff writer men Although the election is more than a year away, Tammy Baldwin is the cur- rent Democratic frontrunner Activist Brice smith in what is destined to be a fiercely competitive race pens the story of for retiring Herb Kohl’s U.S. Senate seat. If Baldwin runs and wins, female-to-gay male she would become the first openly gay U.S. senator in the trans pioneer nation’s history. Baldwin, who repre- sents the Madison area in Congress, was waiting to see whether former Sen. Russ Feingold would seek Kohl’s seat before making her can- didacy official. On Aug. 19, Feingold sent an e-mail mes- sage to Wisconsin support- ers of his political action committee Progressives P h oto o f United announcing that he B r i c e s m i t h BAlDWIN page 12 B y B e n s lA n e By Will fellows in order to write Sullivan’s to stay here as long as I can.” that you This Contributing writer biography, and he is now Since completing his are trans- In Brice Smith’s research working to get it, along with Ph.D. last year, Smith has gender? issue on female-to-gay-male pio- Sullivan’s journals, published. worked on the Milwaukee B r i c e inside and online at neer Lou Sullivan, two trans Smith has moved around Transgender Oral History Smith: Many wisconsingazette.com stories intesect in a way that a bit, both geographically Project under the auspices folks have lou sullivan enriches both. and gender-wise. He was of UWM Archives. Its inter- known their News Since 2004, Smith has born in Colorado, grew up views supplement those entire lives WiGWAG ����������������������2 been absorbed in learning, in New Mexico, went to acquired from local lesbians, that they were trans, or b e t t e r Regional Gaze ���������������4 writing and talking about high school in Oklahoma gays and bisexuals by the that their gender identity understand myself and the National Gaze ���������������8 Sullivan, who was born 60 and college in Missouri. He Milwaukee LGBT History was at odds with their natal world around me, including Editorial ����������������������� 14 years ago and died 20 years then moved to Wisconsin Project. Smith calls it “a sex. That was not the case moving from my childhood Faith Gaze ������������������� 16 ago. The Milwaukee native is for graduate school. fantastic collection of inter- with me. My trans identity home, getting sober, coming now a figure of great inter- “There’s something spe- views that reveals our city’s has evolved over time. Right out as a lesbian, (transition- Features est in trans history. cial about Milwaukee, which rich trans history.” now, I see transitioning as ing to male) and completing WiGOUT �������������������� 17 Smith pursued a Ph.D. in immediately felt like home to Will Fellows: how did one of several key moments my Ph.D. For me, transition- Theater ������������������������ 19 history at UW-Milwaukee me,” Smith says. “I would like you become aware in my life where I came to SMITH page 13 Art Gaze ��������������������� 20 Music ���������������������������� 26 On the Town �������������� 28 GREGG SHAPIRO PreviewS lgBt fAll Books page 25 2 W i s c o n s i n g AZ e t t e . c o m | August 25, 2011 W i s c o n s i n g AZ e t t e . c o m | August 25, 2011 3 LGBT news with a twist WiGWAG By Lisa Neff & Louis Weisberg being tested to see “whether GagA goes run, it played a role in Mr. Tims’ ‘ho, ho, ho’ michele, run death,” officers told The Wall Barneys is working with After arriving 30 Street Journal. Lady Gaga on its display for the minutes late to speak Tims was the senior pastor of Christmas season. The singer and at the Iowa State Fair, New Destiny Christian Center in her design team have a whole presidential candidate Michele Apopka, Fla., one of the largest floor and Barneys’ windows to Bachmann spoke only 3 minutes congregations in the region. He also build their take on Santa’s work- before fleeing a 17-year-old gay hosted and appeared on Christian shop. The retailer also plans to heckler. Gabe Aderhold, from Edina, television and radio programs. distribute shopping bags decorated Minn., yelled, “Shame on you,” sev- with a cartoon of Gaga in tradi- eral times at Bachmann. She and Taking it tional red for the holiday, but don’t her entourage, which included to the mAt expect a traditional red suit with bodyguards, moved quickly from In an appearance on “Matty P’s white whiskers. She’ll be in a satin the stage and through the crowd, Radio Happy Hour,” the ex-wife of red jumpsuit and long blue hair. shoving spectators along the way. Hulk Hogan claimed the legendary She jumped on a golf cart and fled. wrestler had a sexual relation- BirDs Do it Out CNN anchor Don Lemon ship with his frequent mat mate A study of zebra finches showed charged that Bachmann’s body- Brutus Beefcake while the two Working it that same-sex monogamous pairs guards and her husband shoved performed in the World Wrestling GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann breaks the ice of birds are just as attached and him into a golf cart on the same day. Federation. An e-mailer to the with voters at the Iowa State Fair shortly before her victory in faithful to each other as opposite- program asked Linda Hogan if the Ames Straw Poll on Aug. 13. Bachmann is the most anti-gay sex pairs. The study appears in Another one Hulk and Brutus, whose real name candidate to prevail in the poll since Pat Robertson won in 1987. the current issue of the scientific Bites the Dust is Ed Leslie, had an “intimate rela- journal Behavioural Ecology and New York City police said the tionship.” Laughing, she respond- Sociobiology. Lead researcher Julie Rev. Zachery Tims of Orlando was ed, “Wow, I don’t know how to PuPPet love gram, responded, saying that the Sunday, September 4 Elie from the University of California found dead on the floor of his answer this, so I don’t end up A web-based campaign is under two “remain puppets, and do not at Berkeley said that her researchers room at the W Hotel in Times getting a lawsuit. A little bird told way to encourage a same-sex have a sexual orientation.” But found that “relationships in animals Square. Police found a glassine me, ‘Yes they think they did.’” wedding on “Sesame Street” – WiG is wondering about that can be more complicated than just envelope with a white powdery Linda Hogan is currently that of longtime roommates Bert inter-species relationship between featuring the Las Vegas style show of a male and a female who meet and substance inside the right pocket promoting a tell-all book titled and Ernie. Sesame Workshop, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy. reproduce, even in birds.” of his shorts. The substance is “Wrestling the Hulk.” producer of the children’s pro- Heterosexual, right? the #1 Abba Tribute Band SEPTEMBER 18TH Bike Ride for Conservation in Madison • Warm-up laps around Capitol Square • Ride and photo ops with legislators • Great prizes and finish line fun Register on-line at http://electioncycle.conservationvoters.org www.conservationvoters.org Schedule of events: Catalano Square • 3pm - Beer tent opens (Across from Charlie’s) • 3-7pm - DJ Kelly 320 E. Menomenee St. • 7-8pm - Awards www.ssblmilwaukee.com • 8-9:30pm - ABBA Tribute • 9:30-11:00pm - DJ Kelly 4 W i s c o n s i n g AZ e t t e . c o m | August 25, 2011 W i s c o n s i n g AZ e t t e . c o m | August 25, 2011 5 Got news? Tell us REGIONAL GAzE [email protected]. sisters minister to the LGBt community By michael muckian Gurnee. In 2002, living in ‘We strive Contributing writer on the WeB Kenosha, he met Carlos Some queens take drag brewcitysisters.org Peneranda, aka Sister Rhoda to make our beyond the bouffant and the Kill of the Los Angeles abbey, bustier to play a critical role and got his first introduc- state a better, in their communities. Just whom we meet, bless and tion to the order. In 2007, ask Chad Morrell, who has touch.” he became Sister Truly safer and reached beyond the salon The Sisters of Perpetual Fierce, the first drag nun in more equal and into the sacristy (well, Indulgence traces its roots Wisconsin. In 2009, Morrell sort of). back to San Francisco in and several other co-found- place to live.’ Under the name Chad 1979 as a street performance ers began the Brew City Fabulous, Morrell owns and group that used Catholic Sisters. operates Grand Finale Salon imagery to call attention to The Milwaukee abbey, in Gurnee, Ill., and Black sexual intolerance and social like the other 35 around ties. “It’s a combination of Butterfly Salon, its sister facil- conflicts. The mission has the world, operates with a holding purses and herding ity in Sacramento, Calif. But remained the same over the quasi-Catholic doctrine and cats,” Morrell explains. “They the cosmetologist’s true call- past 32 years.
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