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If it comes down to it, we’ll as our full selves,” Paige declared. “We deserve come down to Detroit to shut that McDonald’s to be treated with respect and have our identity down.” acknowledged. We deserve to be able to use the As an illustration of their resolve to do precise- restrooms in accordance with out gender identity. ly that, organizers moved from the street outside It’s fair. It should be expected. We will not be to inside the restaurant where they fanned out erased. We will not be ignored and we certainly and chanted “Justice for La ’Ray Reed” to both aren’t going anywhere. We shouldn’t have to still workers and customers. be fighting for our humanity but don’t think we’re Legal assistant at Lambda Legal Alexis Paige too tired to fight.” said she was there to stand in solidarity not only For more information on Fight for $15, visit with Reed but “trans people all over this country FightFor15.org. who are vulnerable to harassment, violence and

Elizabeth Tawiah at the protest. Photo by Gretchen Rachel Hammond Protestors shut down local McDonald’s to support trans worker by Gretchen Rachel Hammond another crew member to follow me into the ladies room to see if I was standing up or sitting down While McDonald’s has tried to make some hay to use the toilet,” Reed continued. “When I came out of the LGBTQ community and pride month out of the restroom, the manager said I could no by placing rainbows on its French fry boxes and longer use either of the restrooms in the lobby. sponsoring a few marches, around 50 people Instead, she made me go in the very back of the The damaged monument. gathered at a Chicago restaurant June 23 to call store and clean the filthy bathroom that was be- Photo courtesy of Jean Albright the company out for blatant hypocrisy. ing used, at the time, as a storage closet.” Multiple advocacy organizations including Reed said that she tried to report the incidents Zylstra. “I’ve been assured by our friends [at Fight for $15, Lambda Legal, Healing to Action to the franchise owner but “[he] got made mad at LGBT veterans’ Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery] that a po- and the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless made me because I called him while he was at church. lice report has been filled out with the Elwood their voices heard in solidarity with transgender Instead of doing anything about it, management monument Police Department and will forward said report woman of color La ’Ray Reed who filed a May terminated me and made it seem like I was the vandalized in the next few weeks once an estimate is re- 25, 2017 civil-rights lawsuit against McDonald’s problem.” By Matt Simonette ceived for restoring [the] monument back to its Corporation alleging “extreme sexual harassment McDonalds claims “diversity and inclusion is a original status.” and disparate treatment based on sex” which she foundational element of our culture, it permeates An LGBT veterans’ monument located in Abra- If the perpetrators are apprehended, the ex- “suffered throughout her employment” at a res- multiple aspects of the business.” The Human ham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Il- tent of the criminal charges will be determined taurant in a Detroit suburb. Rights Campaign (HRC) has given the company linois, has been defaced. by the costs of restoring the monument, he The catalogue of horrific dehumanization Reed a score of 100 on its Corporate Equality Index. A vandal or vandals poured roofing tar on the added. allegedly experienced for the six months before Organizers of the June 23 event stated that monument, obscuring a prominent pink trian- The monument was dedicated just more than she was abruptly fired from McDonald’s were de- Reed’s case was not one in isolation—that it is gle as well as a portion of the inscription that two years ago, in May 2015. Its creation was scribed in testimony read by activist and fast- a systemic issue. highlighted the LGBT identity of the honorees. largely spearheaded by Stanley J. Jenczyk, ju- food employee Ashley Bruce. “McDonald’s are supposed to be supporting the Cemetery officials have filed a police report, nior board member of the Chicago chapter of “Once my manager told another crew member LGBTQ community,” Fight for $15 activist Eliza- according to an email sent to community orga- AVER, and it was the first federally approved through the headset to touch my private area to beth Tawiah said. “But LGBTQ workers are often nizations from the American Veterans for Equal monument honoring LGBT veterans. Another see if I had a penis or vagina,” Reed asserted. discriminated [against] as well as being harassed Rights (AVER) Chicago chapter’s vice-president tribute to LGBT veterans was erected at the “One co-worker, following instructions from the at our workplaces.” and board member Timothy Zylstra. corner of Halsted and Addison Streets in Lake manager, walked by and grabbed me in my pri- HRC appears to have not taken such incidents “It truly is a sad state of affairs that some- View in May 2017. vate area.” into account in its rating system. one would deface this lovely monument,” said “There was another time when a manager told Reed claimed her experiences sent her into a WINDY CITY TIMES June 28, 2017 5 Chicago Black Gay Men’s Caucus holds open house by Vernon Hester ter place to demand change, than of ourselves? Therefore, the Caucus took 2016 to ask the hard On June 22, the Chicago Black Gay Men’s Caucus questions and figure out our role in ending the (CBGMC) held its annual Pre-Pride Parade Open HIV epidemic among our people. House at Affinity Community Services at 2830 S. “We adopted a new mission: to advance health Wabash Ave. With many of the Caucus’ board of equity among Black, gay, bisexual and same-gen- directors and Affinity Executive Director Imani der-loving men by developing community cen-

From left: Chicago Board of Health LGBTQ Outreach Liaison Antonio King, Chicago Glack Gay Men’s Caucus David Dodd and Erik Glenn, and Affinity’s Imani Rupert-Gordon. Photo by Vern Hester

Rupert-Gordon in attendance, guests and cau- tered leadership and innovative programs.” cus volunteers reviewed accomplishments of the Some of these changes include continuing to group in the last 12 years while looking ahead to work in partnership with the Chicago Department new changes in the coming months. of Public Health and the AIDS Foundation of Chi- CBGMC Executive Director Erik Glenn greeted cago as well as specific initiatives that include guests; after a light Caribbean supper, he spoke leadership development, grassroots advocacy, at length about the new direction. civic engagement, capacity building and health Looking back to 2005—when the organization marketing. was established by the collective efforts of Black In the coming months, the Caucus will contin- gay community organizers and Chicago Depart- ue holding community events including the July ment of Public Health officials to address the sky- 1 event LoveFest (a health and entertainment rocketing rate of the HIV infection of Black gay festival held annually to ensure HIV/STI aware- men—Glenn noted that there is a need for a shift ness while showcasing community talent), From in the organization. the Heart (which acknowledges achievements of In 2005, 46 percent of Black gay, bisexual and community leaders during Black History Month same-gender-loving (SGL) men were thought to for their commitment to the Black, gay, bisexual be infected with HIV. In 2016, the Centers for and SGL men of Chicago) and Black Boy Joy (a Disease Control reported that one in two of that holiday soiree featuring live performances from same demographic will become infected. the community with the intent to strengthen and Glenn noted, “Something is wrong. HIV is no persevere despite adversity). longer the death sentence that it once was, but For more information about the Black Gay the advancements felt throughout our country Men’s Caucus, visit ChicagoBlackGayCaucus.org. are not felt throughout our community. What bet- 6 June 28, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES terpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado, agreed riage….” to sell various baked goods to a same-sex couple, James Essex, head of the ACLU’s national LGBT Supreme Court makes but not a wedding cake. Phillips claimed his re- project, said, “The law is squarely on [the same- ligious beliefs opposed marriage for same-sex sex couple’s] side because when businesses are couples. open to the public, they’re supposed to be open The couple filed a complaint with the Colorado to everyone.” three major rulings Civil Rights Division, which agreed that Phillips “While the right to one’s religious beliefs is had violated the state law barring sexual orien- fundamental, a license to discriminate is not,” By Lisa Keen tation discrimination in public accommodations. said Essex. Keen News Service Phillips appealed through the state court sys- The case is similar to one out of New Mexico in tem, which ruled against him. The Colorado Su- 2013, Elane Photography v. Wilcox. In that case, The U.S. Supreme Court took dramatic action on preme Court refused to hear his appeal. But the the photographer, also represented by the Alli- three LGBT-related cases today, with results that Alliance Defending Freedom took the case to the ance Defending Freedom, said her religious objec- could be described as bad, good, and “to be de- U.S. Supreme Court last year. tions to homosexuality should trump the state’s termined.” The ADF’s petition to the high court argued interests in eradicating discrimination against In a seven-to-two decision, the court said Mis- that Phillips’ Christian belief “compels him to LGBT people. She said the First Amendment guar- souri could not exclude a non-profit school from use his artistic talents to promote only messages antee to freedom of speech should protect her a state program just because the school was that align with his religious beliefs.” By ordering ability to express her beliefs. The Supreme Court run by a church. LGBT activists had argued the Phillips to create a wedding cake for a same-sex declined to hear the photographer’s appeal. school should be denied state funding because couple, says ADF, Colorado is violating the First The Masterpiece Cake case will likely be heard the school exercised its religious beliefs against Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech in October. homosexuality and against other religions in de- and “targets Phillips’ religious beliefs about mar- © 2017 by Keen News Service termining which children it would exclude. But the majority of the court, including pro-LG- BT moderates Anthony Kennedy and Elena Kagan, he said. “Sixty years ago, 73 percent of Ameri- said the state’s denying funding to a school that Orr announces cans trusted government to do what’s right “would have received [a state grant] but for the most of the time. Today, Pew reports that num- fact that Trinity Lutheran is a church” violates he will not seek ber is 19 percent. Government’s priority must the Free Exercise clause of the First Amendment. 2018 re-election be how well it serves the needs of ordinary The decision came in Trinity Lutheran v. Comer. By Matt Simonette people, and not just the powerful and wealthy. Lambda Legal had submitted a brief in the I ensure you that I will not stop talking about case, noting that the school’s policy allows dis- Cook County Clerk David Orr, on June 21, an- these issues.” criminating against students and parents based nounced that he will not seek re-election in Cook County Recorder of Deeds Karen Yarbor- on sexual orientation and even based on religion. 2018. ough (whose office was eliminated last year) So, requiring the state to provide funds to the In a statement, Orr, who has been county recently said that she planned to run for Cook Lutheran school would have the effect of the Susan Sommer of Lambda Legal. clerk since December 1990, called the deci- County clerk. state supporting discrimination based on sexual Photo courtesy of Lambda Legal sion “a deeply personal choice that I have orientation and religion. tussled with for some time because I care so “When government provides aid to religious conclude, denied married same-sex couples ac- much about the office, politics and the people Military wants delay schools and other entities, it must do so with cess to the ‘constellation of benefits that the in the office. I am very tempted to run again, safeguards ensuring that these institutions nei- on trans enlistees Stat[e] ha[s] linked to marriage’,” noted the U.S. but realistically, since the next election is not Officials have said that military leaders will ther discriminate based on religion nor use the Supreme Court’s decision on June 26. It noted until November 2018, I cannot make the com- seek a six-month delay before letting transgen- funds to inculcate religion,” wrote Lambda. that benefits such as birth certificates were mitment that I would serve another four-year der people enlist in their services—although That was the “bad” LGBT result. The “good” among those the high court explicitly included in term that would not end until December 2022.” the U.S. Army and Air Force had reportedly re- came in an unsigned (per curiam) decision that its Obergefell decision. Before filling the county clerk post, Orr was quested a wait of two years. included three dissents (Neil Gorsuch, joined by Susan Sommer, associate legal director for the 49th Ward alderman. After the 1987 death Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will eventually Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito) who appeared Lambda Legal, called the Pavan decision a win of Mayor Harold Washington, he was acting decide on the delay. to object only to the method of the decision, not “for same-sex couples and their families across mayor of Chicago for a week. Transgender servicemembers have been able the result. The decision reversed an opinion of the nation.” Orr was also inducted into the Chicago Gay to serve openly in the military since June 30, the Arkansas Supreme Court that had held that “The Arkansas Supreme Court’s decision flew in and Lesbian Hall of Fame—now the Chicago 2016, when former Defense Secretary Ash Cart- a legal spouse’s name could be omitted from her the face of Obergefell, undermining the dignity LGBT Hall of Fame—in 2012 and has been a er ended the ban. However, Carter also gave child’s birth certificate if she was not the bio- and equality of LGBT families and the govern- fervent supporter of LGBT rights, championing the services until July 1, 2017, to develop poli- logical mother or her “husband.” The court issued ment’s obligation to protect children,” said Som- both the Cook County Human Rights Ordinance cies to allow transgender individuals to enlist. the ruling without having heard arguments in the mer. “It was also an outlier; every other state and the Illinois civil-unions law, among other In a statement, Human Rights Campaign Na- case. that had considered this question got it right and causes. tional Press Secretary Stephen Peters—himself The Pavan v. Smith opinion noted, “As this ruled in favor of treating LGBT families equally. While marriage equality was being litigated a U.S. Marine veteran dischargd under “Don’t Court explained in Obergefell v. Hodges, the The historic ruling in Obergefell explicitly tells in Illinois, Orr, in conjunction with then-State’s Ask, Don’t Tell”—expressed disappointment Constitution entitles same-sex couples to civil us that the spouses of birth parents, regard- Attorney Anita Alvarez, refused to defend his with the delay. He said, “There are thou- marriage ‘on the same terms and conditions as less if they are of the same sex or different sex, office legally when it was challenged by gay sands of transgender service members openly opposite-sex couples.’” Obergefell was the 2015 must be listed on the birth certificates of their and lesbian couples seeking marriage licenses. and proudly serving our nation today, and as decision that said states could not ban same- children. Obergefell is crystal clear: marriage is He also had his staff hastily prepare paperwork they’ve proven time and time again, what mat- sex couples from obtaining marriage licenses the marriage, and equal is equal. We congratulate our and computers when those couples were sub- ters is the ability to get the job done—not same as opposite-sex couples. colleagues at National Center for Lesbian Rights sequently granted marriage rights by a federal their gender identity. The case involved two same-sex couples who on this great victory.” judge, months ahead of when the state’s mar- “We’re disappointed that a further delay is used anonymous sperm donors to conceive their Finally, the U.S. Supreme Court announced riage equality was already scheduled to take under consideration and urge Secretary Mattis children. Even though the U.S. Supreme Court June 26 it would review a lower court ruling in effect. to move forward expeditiously in implementing had in June 2015 struck down bans against Masterpiece Cake v. Colorado, a case involving a In his June 21 statement, Orr pledged to re- this recruitment policy which will strengthen same-sex couples marrying, the Arkansas health baker who refused to sell a wedding cake to a main active in progressive politics. our forces by allowing anyone who is qualified department refused to issue the children’s birth same-sex couple, claiming it violated his reli- “In the years to come, I will continue to and willing to serve our nation.” certificates with the names of both their parents. gious beliefs. speak out about the state of our democracy,” The Arkansas Supreme Court upheld that refusal. Wedding cake baker Jack Phillips and his Mas- “The Arkansas Supreme Court’s decision, we WINDY CITY TIMES June 28, 2017 7 the administration for unclear reasons, under a “cloak of secrecy.” Community rallies When he was fired, Tedeschi said, he was told he “showed poor judgment” in his handling of class discussion, and that he had “undermined authority.” When he asked for an example of how around former he had undermined authority, though, the administration told him they didn’t have to give examples, he said. Tedeschi said this lack of transparency in disci- Catholic teacher plinary practices makes teachers “far more afraid” By DAVID THILL year. He continued teaching until this spring, to do their jobs because they don’t know what when a separate incident occurred in his class. In the administration will use against them to dis- Community members rallied June 24 to demand that incident, a student shared sensitive informa- cipline them. He said the practices are bad for change at a local Catholic high school where a tion during a class discussion—which Tedeschi young Catholics because it makes them “not want former teacher says he was fired after students said he promptly reported to the administra- to be part of the Church.” And he said the prac- outed and harassed him. tion—ultimately leading to Tedeschi’s termina- tices are bad for parents and alumni, “who won- Chris Pett (left) and Matt Tesdeschi. Amidst chanting and picketing, including signs tion. But, he said at the rally, he later discovered der what values the administration is instilling” with messages such as “Make Ignatius Jesuit that the administration had been considering Photo by David Thill in its students. Again,” roughly 30 alumni, friends, community terminating his employment since last year’s in- to other student organizations. As of now, he He added that St. Ignatius is failing to live up organizers and a former administrator gathered cident. said, the group is not allowed to do either of to its Jesuit mission of social justice. For exam- near Saint Ignatius College Prep to support Matt Joined by Chris Pett, incoming national presi- those things. ple, the Day of Silence, organized by GLSEN each Tedeschi. dent of DignityUSA; Damian Richardson, a 2016 His other demands include a “fair panel to year to address anti-LGBT bullying in schools Tedeschi—who taught religion and French at St. Ignatius alumnus; and Colin Collette, a for- decide cases of faculty dismissals”; an impartial throughout the world, has become simply a gen- the West Side school until March—believes his mer music director at Inverness-based Holy Fam- ombudsman who is present at meetings involv- eral anti-bullying day at St. Ignatius, he said. The termination stemmed from issues that began last ily Parish, from which Collette was fired in 2014 ing employee discipline or termination; the abil- administration’s failure to directly address anti- year, when a student found his online dating pro- when he announced his engagement to his same- ity for teachers to “have more say in drafting, LGBT bullying through the Day of Silence silences file, which said that he is interested in men. He sex partner, Tedeschi called for six changes to St. implementing, and evaluating the school policies the students that the day is meant to serve, he claims the student then revealed his sexual ori- Ignatius’ policies. that affect them”; and the opportunity for St. added. entation to peers, and the students harassed him First of all, Tedeschi wants the school admin- Ignatius teachers to form a labor union. At press time, St. Ignatius representatives in the classroom and on social media. Tedeschi’s istration to change its nondiscrimination policy Tedeschi said that, including himself, three St. could not be reached for comment, though Te- story was first reported in May by DNAinfo. to include sexual orientation and gender identity. Ignatius teachers were fired this semester, and deschi said they were aware the rally was taking According to Tedeschi, the administration did Next, he wants the administration to allow the one was fired last year. He called this group the place. little more than issue a “slap on the wrist” to the LGBT student organization to post flyers in the “Disappeared”—teachers who have been fired by Visit WindyCityMediaGroup.com to read the en- students, who continued to harass him into this school and make online announcements, similar tire article. 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DVYC0019_B_10x10_WindyCityTimes_Nick_p1.indd 4 3/29/17 4:01 PM WINDY CITY TIMES June 28, 2017 11 Right: Lighthouse founders (from left) visitors came to the Lighthouse Pride event from Stephanie Wright, Valerie Litchfield, Phillip Illinois cities such as Frankfort, Tinley Park, Park Barker and Jimmy Austin. Forest, Naperville, New Lenox and Kankakee as Photo courtesy of Austin well as Grand Haven, Michigan. Below: Lighthouse logo. “Wednesday night, enjoying the beautiful weather, we celebrated outside the community house for over three hours with over 300 people stopping by to show their support from near and far,” Austin added. “The outpouring of love and support from the Homewood-Flossmoor community was absolutely overwhelming. We are so lucky to live in such a wonderful, accepting, progressive community, and I could not be more proud to call this place home.” In a speech at the event, Lighthouse co-founder Valerie Litchfield offered “a special thank you to our many generous sponsors, without whom this celebration would not have been possible. Hundreds attend Pride I also want to add—and this is important—we didn’t solicit anyone to participate. Each one of these businesses reached out to us.” event in south suburbs In a note to WCT, Litchfield added, “Each of us can make a difference in the fight for equality. Do whatever you can, whenever you can to make the world a little more accepting and loving.” Homewood Mayor Richard Hofeld of Homewood By ANDREW DAVIS June 21. and Flossmoor Mayor Paul Braun both stopped by Lighthouse, a pro-LGBTQ organization for the event to show their support for Lighthouse In what has been called the first Pride event in youths and their families founded in April 2016, and the local LGBTQ community. the south suburbs of Chicago, hundreds of people organized the event. More information about Lighthouse is at attended a celebration in Flossmoor, Illinois, on Jimmy Austin informed Windy City Times that https://www.lighthouselgbtq.org.

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Activism meet-ups, personal book recommendations, weekly events, Kids Storytime, and more! There are so many reasons to support Chicago’s only feminist bookstore. 12 June 28, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES the ever-increasing corporatization, whitewash- PRIDE ‘17 Photo by Kat Fitzgerald ing, gentrification, racism, and cisnormativity (www.MysticImagesPhotography.com). that have infused Pride for decades. This year, All photos on these two pages by Kat Fitzgerald, like so many years before, our communities have Gretchen Rachel Hammond and Tracy Baim. reached a breaking point.” MILLION See page 15 for more from the parade. Also see Members, who carried representations of trans- more online at www.WindyCityTimes.com gender activists Sylvia Rivera and Marsha John- son, said that they will re-launch a Trans Pride celebration in 2018. STRONG: Numerous politicians took part in the parade, or at least sponsored contingents, among them Mayor Emanuel, who walked toward its head; for- Celebration mer Gov. Pat Quinn, who followed shortly behind Emanuel; Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan; state Senate President John Cullerton; state Trea- surer Mike Frerichs; and state Comptroller Susana and resistance Mendoza. Conspicuously absent were state representatives and senators, who were required to be in at 2017 Springfield for a special session addressing the at 2017 state’s budget crisis. State Rep. Greg Harris (D- Chicago) sent a large contingent, however. Cook County officials included Board President Pride Parade Toni Preckwinkle, Treasurer Maria Pappas and State’s Attorney Kim Foxx. Other city officials be- sides Emanuel included Clerk Anna Valencia and Alds. Proco Joe Moreno (1st), Raymond Lopez (15th), Deb Mell (33rd), Michele Smith (43rd), Tom Tunney (44th) and James Cappleman (46th). Lopez and Cappleman both marched alongside their husbands. Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Commissioner Debra Shore also took part. Federal officials included U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth as well as U.S. Reps. Mike Quigley (D- 5), Jan Schakowsky (D-9) and Brad Schneider (D- By Matt Simonette 10). Marie Newman, who is mounting a campaign against incumbent U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-3) in City officials predicted that one million Chicago- 2018, took part as well. ans and visitors viewed the 48th annual Chicago Among the potential candidates running on the Pride Parade as it wound its way through the Up- Democratic ticket against incumbent Gov. Bruce town, Lake View and Lincoln Park neighborhoods Rauner in 2018 who participated included state on the city’s North Side June 25. Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston); Ald. Ameya Pawar It was a perfect day for pride celebrants, who (47th Ward); and businessmen J.B. Pritzker and were granted a reprieve from the blistering heat Christopher Kennedy. that often accompanies the celebration. Temper- The Lakeside Pride Freedom Marching Band, atures remained moderate throughout the course whose parent organization, Lakeside Pride Music of the afternoon. As they do every year, LGBT or- Ensembles, celebrates its 20th anniversary this ganizations, local politicians, sports teams and year, marched not only with a banner unveiling religious groups, among numerous others, came its new logo, but two of its historic banners as together to mark the 48 years since the Stonewall well. They joined with American Veterans for uprising in 1969. Equal Rights volunteers carrying an enormous Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Supt. Eddie American flag. Johnson, joined by Parade Grand Marshal Lea Several dozen individuals joined Equality Illi- Delaria, held a brief press conference before the nois’ entry, which was led by the organization’s parade started. CEO Brian Johnson and Director of Education The parade was halted mid-afternoon by protes- Anthony Galloway. Lambda Legal featured par- tors wishing to call attention to systemic inequi- ticipants holding signs marked, “Read my briefs.” ties against transgender individuals. The group Gay Liberation Network’s entry this year had over who stopped near the intersection of Belmont 100 participants in a solidarity contingent. and Halsted, said in a statement that they are Center on Halsted’s supporters marched with an “a Trans-led coalition of Chicago-based organiza- entry themed to persistence, while Howard Brown tions—headed by the Trans Liberation Collective Health’s was presented in conjunction with Whole and including the BTGNC Collective, Black Lives Foods. Matter Chicago, Jewish Voice for Peace, Assata’s Religious organizations included members of Daughters and Pilsen Alliance.” Chicago Welcoming Churches as well as a coali- The coalition published a number of demands tion of area synagogues. Participating higher in the statement, adding that, “Trans and queer education institutions included University of Il- communities … gather in a unified stance linois at Chicago, DePaul University, Rush and against the annual Chicago Pride Parade and Fes- University of Chicago. tival. We disavow the numerous atrocities done to The full statement is on page 18 and at https:// the legacies of our ancestors and foremothers in radfag.com/2017/06/25/happening-now-trans- the movement for trans and queer liberation, and led-coalition-shuts-down-chicago-pride-parade/ . WINDY CITY TIMES June 28, 2017 13

Angie Wines. Photo by Matt Simonette PRIDE ‘17 Local chef continues Pulse memorial at Pride Parade By Matt Simonette

Chicagoan Angie Wines, just before the 2017 Chicago Pride Parade, stood in front of the makeshift memorial to the victims of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting that she launched last year. Wines and friends have for several years organized a large- scale tailgating party on Halsted Street along the parade route. But in 2016, they decided to do something more, creating individual photos with the names and images of the persons who died in Orlando. They mounted the photos again at 2017’s parade, and said they’ll continue to do so in the years ahead. “I’d like to spread the word, so people have the opportunity to walk by and learn about these people,” Wines, a caterer and chef, said. “It’s a great location. We have great foot traffic. I’ve really enjoyed watching people stop by and check out the memorial.” 14 June 28, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES

PRIDE ‘17 More than 1,500 at Dyke March, Jewish Pride flags banned

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by Gretchen Rachel Hammond government and social institutions echoed along Windy City Times for a response, said the women 26th Street while Munoz leant a hand directing were told to leave because the flags “made peo- The 2017 Dyke March Chicago demonstrated two traffic at each intersection. ple feel unsafe,” and that the march was “anti- opposing personalities as it moved, for the first A small group of Christian extremists were wait- Zionist” and “pro-Palestinian.” time, to the Little Village neighborhood. ing for the marchers at the Piotrowski Park rally “They were telling me to leave because my flag More than 1,500 LGBTQ individuals and allies area. Dyke March attendees barricaded them with was a trigger to people that they found offen- gathered at Little Village Academy at Lawndale a beautifully illustrated counterpoint to hatred. sive,” Grauer said. “Prior to this [march] I had and 26th. People of all races, genders and gender identities never been harassed or asked to leave and I had With a few representatives from Dykes on Bikes formed a wall two lines deep and held up sheets always carried the flag with me.” and a contingent of youth leading the way, the of tarpaulin, trans pride flags and bed linen in Another of those individuals asked to leave was marchers shut down half of 26th Street after or- order to completely conceal the extremists from an Iranian Jew Eleanor Shoshany-Anderson. ganizers (historically called the Dyke March Col- the revelers in the park. “I was here as a proud Jew in all of my iden- lective) negotiated with 22nd Ward Ald. Ricardo The protestors were eventually asked to leave. tities,” Shoshany-Anderson asserted. “The Dyke Munoz and the Chicago Police Department (CPD) However, the Dyke March Collective also eject- March is supposed to be intersectional. I don’t to have the west-bound lanes shut down—be- ed three people carrying Jewish Pride flags (a know why my identity is excluded from that. I fell cause the city would not issue a permit to or- rainbow flag with a Star of David in the center). that, as a Jew, I am not welcome here.” ganizers. According to one of those individuals—A Wider A statement posted June 25 on Dyke March Chi- The march proceeded peacefully with support Bridge Midwest Manager Laurel Grauer—she and cago social media accounts read in part: “Sadly, demonstrated by passing cars and bystanders her friends were approached a number of times our celebration of dyke, queer and trans solidarity waving from local businesses and homes along in the park because they were holding the flag. was partly overshadowed by our decision to ask the route through the heart of Little Village. “It was a flag from my congregation which cel- three individuals carrying Israeli flags superim- It seemed as if the entire gender, racial and ebrates my queer, Jewish identity which I have posed on rainbow flags to leave the rally. This de- sexual spectrum was represented, walking hand- done for over a decade marching in the Dyke cision was made after they repeatedly expressed in-hand and demonstrating a powerful unity as March with the same flag,” she told Windy City support for Zionism during conversations with they chanted “We are Dyke March” in English and Times. Dyke March Collective members.” Spanish. She added that she lost count of the number of “People asked me if I was a Zionist and I said, Declarations of support for minority commu- people who harassed her. ‘Yes, I do care about the state of Israel but I also nities and against gentrification and abusive One Dyke March collective member, asked by believe in a two-state solution and an indepen- dent Palestine,’” Grauer said. “It’s hard to swal- low the idea of inclusion when you are excluding people from that. People are saying, ‘You can be gay but not in this way.’ We do not feel welcomed. We do not feel included.” In their statement, Dyke March Collective organizers singled out Grauer’s organization A Wider Bridge for what they called “provocative actions at other LGBTQ events [and] for using Israel’s supposed ‘LGBTQ tolerance’ to pinkwash the violent occupation of Palestine.” Social media posts in support of the Dyke March Collective also claimed that a rainbow flag with a Star of David is a form of pink washing (a One of the Jewish Pride flags. Turn to page 16 WINDY CITY TIMES June 28, 2017 15

More from the Chicago Pride Parade Photos on this page by Jerry Nunn. See more from the parade on page 26. 16 June 28, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES DYKE MARCH from page 14 belief that Israeli support of LGBTQ communities is designed to detract attention from civil and human rights abuses of Palestinian people). Supporters added that American flags were similarly not welcome as they too are considered signs of oppression. However, flags from other nations were present. In a June 25 press release concerning the incident, A Wider Bridge asserted that “The Dyke March has failed to live up to their goal of ‘bridg- ing together communities.’ That the organizers would choose to dismiss long-time community members for choosing to express their Jewish Photos by Gretchen Rachel Hammond. See identity or spirituality runs counter to the very more online at www.WindyCityTimes.com values the Dyke March claims to uphold, and veers down a dangerous path toward anti-semitism.” The organization called on the Dyke March Col- lective “to issue a full public apology for dismiss- ing LGBTQ Jews from the March, and affirm the Dyke March hold to their own values as a safe place for all LGBTQ people, including the Jewish Community.” One Dyke Marcher, Ruthie Steiner, who wit- nessed the removal of the Jewish participants, called the decision “horrific.” “This is not what this is community is supposed to be about,” she told Windy City Times. “I’m German-born. Am I pink washing by being here and supporting my community? Is every nation which does not have a clean civil-rights record and also hosts a pride parade guilty of pink washing? With all the people that so hate the LGBTQ community, for it to tear itself apart in self-hatred makes no sense at all.” The full Dyke March statement reads as follows: “Yesterday, June 24, Chicago Dyke March was held in the La Villita neighborhood to express support for undocumented, refugee, and immigrant communities under threat of deportation. Sadly, our celebration of dyke, queer, and trans solidarity was partially overshadowed by our decision to ask three individuals carrying Israeli flags superimposed on rainbow flags to leave the rally. This decision was made after they repeatedly expressed support for Zionism during conversations with Chicago Dyke March Collective members. We have since learned that at least one of these individuals is a regional director for A Wider Bridge, an organization with connections to the Israeli state and right-wing pro-Israel interest groups. A Wider Bridge has been protested for provocative actions at other LGBTQ events and has been con- demned by numerous organizations (tarabnyc. org/cancelpinkwashing/&; for using Israel’s supposed “LGBTQ tolerance” to pinkwash the violent occupation of Palestine. “The Chicago Dyke March Collective is explicitly not anti-Semitic, we are anti-Zionist. The Chicago Dyke March Collective supports the liberation of Palestine and all oppressed people everywhere. “From Palestine to Mexico, border walls have got to go!! “[Edited to add: We want to make clear that anti-Zionist Jewish volunteers and supporters are welcome at Dyke March and were involved in conversations with the individuals who were asked to leave. We are planning to make a longer statement in the future.]” WINDY CITY TIMES June 28, 2017 17 SWEDISH SNUS SUPPORTS

PRAA Operations Dirctor Hector Barraza (left), Julio Rodriguez, Kenny Martin-Ocasio and Cindy Ibarra. Photos by Carrie Maxwell CHICAGO PRIDE ‘17 ALMA, PRAA host Pride weekend gathering PRIDE. by CARRIE MAXWELL

The Association of Latino/as/x Motivating Ac- tion (ALMA) and the Puerto Rican Arts Alliance (PRAA) hosted a pride weekend gathering June 23 at PRAA’s Avondale location. ALMA Board President Julio Rodriguez, among other things, noted that the PRAA is an institution dedicated to preserving Chicago’s Puerto Rican history. He also explained that last year’s Pulse Nightclub massacre in Orlando, Florida, was significant because it propelled the LGBTQ Puerto Rican community into the spotlight. “It is important to remember that it took almost a whole week before the press even mentioned the that the majority of the people killed were Latinx and almost two weeks before they identified any of the people specifically,” said Rodriguez. “This speaks to the fact that we need to continue to be SWEDISH visible. 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FIKA BAR 18 June 28, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES PRIDE ‘17 - SIDEBAR of our coalition demand Puerto Rico’s colonially- resources, facilities, funding, and access for created debt be forgiven, that all stolen lands Black and Brown trans people in Chicago! be returned to indigenous peoples, and advocate We demand better education on trans issues, Statement from Pride protesters self-determination for all colonized communities beyond just pronouns, and that trans educators Trans and queer communities, leading groups The same forces which violently forced our an- as we fight to protect our planet! be paid to do this education. We demand jobs of accomplices, gather in a unified stance against cestors out of their own movement are still at 4. Stonewall and Compton’s were anti-police for all trans people, who are systemically un- the annual Chicago Pride Parade and Festival. We work, creating a celebration of queerness that riots! We reject the insertion of law enforce- deremployed due to transphobia, especially in disavow the numerous atrocities done to the is inaccessible by all but the most privileged of ment into queer struggles, and demand the organizations that claim to work for queer and legacies of our ancestors and foremothers in the trans and queer people. When queer celebrations city of Chicago immediately move toward dis- trans causes. We demand access to affordable movement for trans and queer liberation, and the uphold the violent systems of gentrification and arming, disbanding, and abolishing all police housing, especially for Black and Brown trans ever-increasing corporatization, whitewashing, segregation in Chicago, echoing racist practices and prisons! people, trans elders and youth. We demand trans- gentrification, racism, and cisnormativity that of redlining that have shaped the human geog- The police are not now, and have never been, a affirming shelters to be established and fully have infused Pride for decades. This year, like so raphy of this city, queer revolution is impossible. friend of queer and trans people, especially queer funded, especially in the South and West sides. many years before, our communities have reached We rise in solidarity with coalition member Pilsen and trans people of color. For far too long, po- We need free, affirming, competent, and acces- a breaking point. Alliance, who are working to end economic and lice have intentionally harassed queer and trans sible healthcare, to offset the disproportionate The trans community of Chicago has risen up environmental violence where the most vulner- people, arresting us on assumptions and false poverty, lack of wellness, and HIV+ rates in the to explicitly denounce the Chicago Pride Parade able communities in Chicago are being pushed charges, terrorizing our communities, and crimi- trans community—the result of decades of medi- and Festival, and to announce our intention to out, schools are being closed, and families are nalizing our very existence. Hosting the Chicago cal mistreatment and refusal. We demand a re- once again form our own spaces, to better serve being separated—thanks to Danny SolÃ�s and Pride Parade in the heavily-policed neighbor- distribution of funding from wealthy North Side and represent our own pride and liberation. The Mayor Rahm Emmanuel’s real estate developers. hood of Boystown—and relying on the labor of schools to impoverished and underfunded schools Compton’s Cafeteria Riots and the Stonewall Ri- We denounce the racist, transphobic, ableist, and incarcerated people to clean up afterward—is a on the South and West sides as a form of educa- ots are how we mark the legacy of Pride: Strong, exclusionary policies and practices of white, cis proud, and unapologetic trans resistance in the gay organizations like Center on Halsted, How- face of a world that continues to prefer our bod- ard Brown, Equality Illinois, and other organiza- ies as corpses in the ground, rather than revolu- tions that prioritize North Side services and the tionaries in the streets. wealthy over Black and Brown trans people. Some of the We reject the image of Pride offered to us: 2. We rise in solidarity with Palestinian lib- contingent Empty platitudes from politicians who cover up eration, including the call for Boycott, Divest- that later the murders of Black youth, productions put ment, and Sanctions! briefly on by corporations that abuse trans and queer The Chicago Pride Parade has a long history of stopped the workers, and the constant presence of murderous allowing organizations that engage in pinkwash- parade, here police officers armed to the teeth with, tasers, ing—the promotion of Israel’s supposed positive at the start of pepper spray, automatic weapons, and the audac- record on LGBTQ rights as a means to distract the event. ity to say that they are here for our protection, from their brutal crimes against Palestine—to Photo by as they rush to arrest us for celebrating our own participate in the Parade. The presence of groups Tracy Baim legacy. The rainbow masquerade is not enough. like A Wider Bridge, Stand With Us, and the Is- In 1970, Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson raeli Consulate General dishonors the legacy of created the Christopher Street Liberation March the trans women of color who galvanized our in New York City, in commemoration of the po- movement. As an explicitly anti-Zionist collective lice riot at Stonewall Inn the year before, and leading an explicitly anti-Zionist coalition which in direct protest of the New York Women’s House includes Jewish, Muslim and Palestinian orga- testament to the event’s lack of commitment to tional reparations. We demand an immediate end of Detention and the incarceration of queer and nizers, we reject any celebration of the illegal Black and Brown communities. We rise in explicit to the practice of charter schools in Chicago, and trans people. By 1973, wealthy, white, cisgender Israeli state in the Chicago Pride Parade. Trans solidarity with coalition member Black Lives Mat- a use of those funds to invest in public schools gays and lesbians had taken over the march, ban- and queer people will not be used as propaganda ter Chicago in calling for the immediate abolition with education and protections for queer and ning trans women and those with radical politics. for a genocidal, settler-colonial state, in an at- of police and prisons, including the practice of trans children. We demand the decriminalization tempt to spread racist and Islamophobic tropes solitary confinement. The brutality of the Chicago of sex work, because sex work is real work, and In 1992, 2008, and 2015, Chicago’s Pride Pa- about Palestinian culture. Pinkwashing, Zionism, Police Department, and the cowardly, conniving deserves to be treated as such. We demand to be rade was disrupted by queer and trans activists settler-colonialism, and genocide have no place racism of Mayor Rahm Emanuel have shown us treated as human beings, with respect, dignity, protesting police brutality, corporate greed, rac- in queer struggle. As a coalition, we proudly join again and again that abolition is the only answer. and resources! ism, and gentrification. Most recently a collec- the calls to free Palestine! Chicago does not need police; it needs better in- 7. In the legacy of powerful trans women of tive called #BlackOutPride disrupted the Parade 3. We rise in solidarity with anti-colonial frastructure, public schools, free health services, color, we will be launching our own celebra- to make a statement that the gay establishment movements, from Puerto Rico to Standing and shelters specifically for trans and queer peo- tion for 2018! of Chicago has since shamefully ignored. We rise Rock, and beyond! ple, especially trans and queer elders and youth. Today, in the city of Chicago in 2017, we follow in explicit solidarity with their demands as we Trans liberation necessitates the liberation of 5. We demand sanctuary and immediate am- the legacy of disruptions before ours, and answer issue our own. all peoples, and especially indigenous peoples. nesty for all undocumented communities! Sylvia Rivera’s call by announcing the reinstating We are the Trans Liberation Collective leading We honor the legacy of Sylvia Rivera, a Boricua Undocumented queer and trans folks are some of Chicago’s Trans Pride, to be held during June of a coalition of sibling organizations and accom- trans woman as we resist all forms of colonial of the most vulnerable in our community. We 2018, co-sponsored by Brave Space Alliance, the plices to shut down the Chicago Pride Parade, occupation and US imperialism, both in Chicago demand that the safety of undocumented immi- Trans Liberation Collective, and the BTGNC Col- because our voices have been repeatedly erased, and around the world. We remember Jamie Lee grants be ensured through immediate amnesty. lective. We call on all trans people in Chicago, and Pride organizers have refused to listen to Wounded Arrow, an indigenous trans woman mur- Furthermore, we denounce the actions of both and especially all trans and queer people of color past demands made by the most vulnerable of dered this year, and recognize that indigenous current and previous administrations in perpetu- to join us in divesting from Chicago Pride, and queer individuals. We, as a coalition led by trans peoples will be the leaders in our movements as ating the state of political violence that has led joining us in 2018. Together we will make a new women and femmes of color, know that there can we continue to proliferate ways of celebrating so many refugees to seek safety in the United celebration in our own images, full of our own be no Pride in a celebration of white, cisgender, ourselves that transcend binaries, and protect States, where they are forced to confront the xe- joy, pride, strength, resilience and liberation. gay male joy that simultaneously excludes the the natural environment. We denounce the par- nophobic and racist policies in place. We demand Trans liberation means police and prison abo- lives, legacies, and power of Black and Brown ticipation of banks and corporations in the Chi- that ICE be dismantled, and that the funds used lition! Trans liberation means resisting capital- trans women. Knowing those truths, and in the cago Pride Parade that contribute to the genocide to imprison undocumented people be channeled ism! Trans liberation means divesting from war, name of trans liberation, our coalition states the of indigenous people, the continued investment back into immigrant communities. No borders! No militarism, and colonialism! Trans liberation following: in DAPL and other oil pipelines, and the debt cri- walls! No prisons! means protecting the environment and sharing 1. We call for divestment from gentrifica- ses in oppressed communities across the planet. 6. Trans people are the vanguard of the resources! tion, displacement, and white cis supremacy! The Trans Liberation Collective and all members queer liberation movement. We demand more WINDY CITY TIMES June 28, 2017 19

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“I’m emotional about this. I love Bill Maher. He’s to name a few—wrong when he used the N-word a very dear friend. But as I’ve made plain through at Emerson College commencement last month? In Rev. Irene the years, the n word should be reserved for Black talking about Boston’s 1970’s bussing crisis Lehane WINDY use. Period,” Dyson wrote on twitter. highlighted that white opponents of school deseg- MONROE In 2002 Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy, regation shouted, “niggers out” at protests. Twit- who wrote “Nigger: The Strange Career of a Trou- ter blew up attacking Lehane and he apologized CITY blesome Word,” said that while the word has been immediately. The enduring used to “terrorize and humiliate” Black Americans, Another failed teaching moment was in January “it’s also been used as a term of endearment and a 2011. The kerfuffle concerning the N-word focused TIMES use of the VOL. 32, No. 40, June 28, 2017 gesture of solidarity.” on Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known as Mark The combined forces of Windy City Times, N-word However, the notion that it is acceptable for Twain, in the NewSouth Bo.ks edition of his 1885 founded Sept. 1985, and Outlines newspaper, African-Americans to use the N-word with each classic, “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” In the founded May 1987. In this political climate hate speech is becoming other yet it is considered racist for others outside original edition of the book, the epithet is used the race to use it unquestionably sets up a double 219 times. In a combined effort to rekindle inter- PUBLISHER & EXECUTIVE EDITOR common use. And there has been an uptick of the Tracy Baim use of the N-word, even from the mouths of people standard. And because language is a public enter- est in this Twain classic and to tamp down the one would not expect. prise, the notion that one ethnic group has prop- flame and fury the use of the N-word engenders, ASSISTANT PUBLISHER Terri Klinsky While it came as no surprise to most people of erty rights to the term is an absurdly narrow ar- Alan Gribben—editor of the NewSouth Edition, and MANAGING EDITOR Andrew Davis gument. Moreover, the fact that African-Americans an English professor at Auburn University in Ala- ASSOCIATE EDITOR Matt Simonette color in Boston when last month Orioles outfielder BUSINESS MANAGER Ripley Caine Adam Jones said Fenway fans hurled the N-word have appropriated the N-word does not negate our bama—replaced the N-word with the word “slave.” DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA Jean Albright at him, much of America, however, was shocked long history of internalized self-hatred. 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SCOTTISH PLAY SCOTT Taylor Mac’s here for ‘Hir’ by SCOTT C. MORGAN gender, it’s about polarization and what we’re dealing with in the United States right now in Acclaimed out playwright and drag-performance terms of these two very different philosophies: artist Taylor Mac is back in Chicago. But instead one is to go forward and one is to go back.” of donning glittery deconstructed drag onstage Mac says the recent U.S. presidential election From left: Amy Morton, Em Grosland and Ty Olwin in rehearsal for Hir. to entertain and prod audiences to question gen- has actually put Hir more in the light that judy Photo by Joel Moorman der and culture throughout history, Mac is behind originally had in mind when writing it. the scenes at rehearsals for Steppenwolf Theatre’s “Some people have said the play is very pre- and director/choreographer Susan Stroman (The not a cow,” said Mac with a laugh. “Art world drag Chicago premiere of Hir. scient, but I say ‘No, I was paying attention for Producers) for a 2015 regional production of The and commercial drag are two separate things and “It’s fun to queer the institution a bit,” said the past 20 years.’” Mac said. “It’s not because Last Two People on Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaude- they’re both valid. I’m not pooh-poohing either Mac, happy to have Hir performed by a Chicago the polarization suddenly happened because ville at American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, one or saying one is better than the other, but I theater famed around the world for the machismo Donald Trump was elected. It’s been going on Massachusetts. don’t perform at a lot of LGBT Pride events. When and no-holds-barred performance energy of its quite some time in the country.” Mac also finally completed the long-gestating you think of someone to book to entertain the founders. “Everyone can use a little queering ev- Even with limited time in the rehearsal room, 24-hour marathon performance piece A 24-De- masses, you don’t think of me. It’s not really my ery so often.” Mac has been impressed at how everyone has cade History of Popular Music. Mac was named a world.” Mac’s critically acclaimed 2015 off-Broadway been so down-to-earth under Hir director Hallie Pulitzer finalist in drama for it last year. Nonetheless, Mac is keen to continue work- drama concerns a dysfunctional American fam- Gordon. Mac likes the collaborative atmosphere No Windy City performances of the full 24-De- ing at creating a space for LGBTQ performers ily. Hir follows PTSD-addled ex-Marine Isaac (Ty so far, especially since judy admits that Hir is a cade History of Popular Music are currently in the and ideas in American culture. And that’s both Olwin), who returns from Afghanistan only to very difficult work to get right in performance works (selected excerpts were previously staged a performer and playwright who can now make find a different war zone at home. There’s Isaac’s and sometimes for theater audiences to take in. at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art). Yet a certain degree of demands. For example, Mac abusive father Arnold (Jeff Award-winner Fran- “It’s challenging a lot of expectations,” Mac Mac will be touring the piece to San Francisco, has made it a casting requirement that theaters cis Guinan), a recently liberated mother (Tony said. “It’s a show that is trying to get liberals Philadelphia and a soon-to-be-announced Aus- must hire a trans or gender-queer performer to Award-nominee Amy Morton as Paige) and a to pay attention and be a little conscious with tralian venue in the future. To make this massive star in Hir. newly out transgender sibling (trans performer their choices.” work that politically deconstructs American mu- “I’m in this extraordinary place where you get Em Grosland as Max). In the years since Mac’s Chicago debut when sic and mythology to be a little more digestible, to come up with ideas and make them,” Mac said. Since there is a trans character and the title of About Face Theatre presented judy’s autobio- Mac has broken it into four six-hour parts and “I like to create big-form kind of theater and I’ve Hir is a pronoun variation (Mac’s own preferred graphical father-son piece The Young Ladies Of sometimes two 12-hour parts. managed to figure out a way to do that in the pronoun is a lowercase “judy”), Mac told Windy in 2008, the New York-based artist has gone on “It’s not a cheap show to do,” Mac said. “And United States, which is very rare.” City Times that audiences can mistakenly think to more acclaim, marathon performances and cre- it’s certainly a lot of work.” Hir runs from Thursday, June 29, through the play is a gender polemic or an agitprop piece. ations with Tony Award-winning collaborators. When asked about judy’s place in the drag Sunday, Aug. 20, at Steppenwolf Theatre, 1650 “We always have to represent ourselves in cul- For example, Mac starred opposite lesbian world, Mac was equivocal—especially in light of N. Halsted St. Previews run through Saturday, ture, so I kind of flipped that a little bit to ask playwright Lisa Kron (Fun Home) in a 2013 off- the growing mainstream success of RuPaul’s Drag July 8, with an official opening on Sunday, what happens if a theatergoing audience has to Broadway adaptation of Brecht’s Good Person Race and how it is commercializing drag. July 9. Tickets are $20-$89; call 312-335- consider America if it was a trans character go- of Szechwan. Mac also notably teamed up with “The one thing that I don’t like about it is ev- 1650 or visit Steppenwolf.org. ing through transition,” Mac said. “It’s not about award-winning actor Mandy Patinkin (Homeland) eryone is talking about ‘branding.’ I’m like, I’m 22 June 28, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES THEATER REVIEW poser himself, airings of which on WFMT’s “Mid- one-man orchestra Jeremy Ramey’s score doesn’t night Special” during the 1960s and ‘70s tran- welcome us with a robust anthem in praise of Jacques Brel’s scended language barriers to conjure visions of beer only to have us cry into them, however. The smoky Left Bank boites (although Brel was, in selections spanning a swift 80 minutes—ren- Lonesome Losers fact, Belgian) for a generation of Anglophonic- dered in Arnold Johnston’s superlative transla- exclusive Midwestern romantics. This 2017 revival tions—reflect tempos ranging from the swag- of the Night deserves to be viewed fresh. gering tango-rhythms of the sardonic “Jacky” to Playwright: music and lyrics by The setting is still a waterfront tavern in Am- the bass-heavy boogie-woogie backbeat of “What Jacques Brel, translated by Arnold Johnson sterdam, its denizens consisting of a proprietor, Have We Done,” while the delivery evokes pro- At: Theo Ubique Cabaret Theater two sailors—one clad in remnants of military totypes as varied as Maurice Chevalier and Kurt at the No Exit Cafe, 6970 N. Glenwood Ave. uniform—and a heartbreakingly young prosti- Weill. The likewise diverse vocal soundscape en- Tickets: $29-$34 tute. The stories recounted in song are familiar compasses Randolph Johnson’s rich baritone pro- Runs through: Aug. 6 tales of repressive childhoods in provincial vil- fundo and Jill Sesso’s delicate treble, with David lages, youthful crushes and loss of innocence, Moreland’s and Neil Stratman’s distinctive tenors BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE faithless lovers and sex as unsatisfying in ab- anchoring the harmonies. sence as in consummation, wistful dreams and Brel fans may protest exclusions evidenced in Playgoers attending Theo Ubique’s musical an- unpromising futures. One of the men comforts the agenda, but this is not a “greatest hits” re- thology drawn from the canon of Jacques Brel his morose companion. The girl whom they both vue. Instead, its purpose is, through the poetry are advised to set aside their memories of the love contemplates escape—with anybody. The of a charismatic composer who continues to in- 2008 premiere production, as well as those of the bartender recalls his glory days, now soured by fluence artists to this day, to paint a portrait of seriously flawed 1970-vintage “Alive and Well“ age and wisdom. (Did you know that Brel was disaffected youths crippled by ennui, but refus- cabaret revue. Jill Sesso and Neil Stratman in Jacques Brel’s a pop star early in his career?) Ultimately, they ing to abandon their search for contentment in It might be a good idea, too, to forget the Lonesome Losers of the Night. conclude, everyone is alone. an indifferent universe. Who doesn’t recall having Olympia Theatre concert recording by the com- Photo by Adam Veness Director Fred Anzevino and musical director/ experienced such a moment?

THEATER REVIEW of the subject initiating the dispute. Throw in grets, remorse and ultimately, forgiveness. now a Republican holding office in Springfield— a hot-issue topic, hints of class warfare and a Curtis’ apology turns out insufficient to placate cannot help but sound pasted-in at times, but Late Company touch of Pinteresque menace and you have all the grieving Debora, who continues to confront the ensemble led by Cor company members Tosha Playwright: Jordan Tannahill the components for a plot that could skew in a him with her anguish, her fury spurring the Der- Fowler and Tony Buzzuto, ably assisted by Paul At: Cor Theater at the Pride myriad of directions—which is precisely Jordan mot sire and dam, and even her own skeptical Fagen and Asia Jackson, invoke an atmosphere Arts Buena, 4147 N. Broadway Tannahill’s goal. husband, to defend the unprotesting Curtis from of obsessive righteousness (contrasting with Tickets: $18-$30 Our setting is a stark-chic Lucite-and-brushed- the onslaught. Gradually information is intro- Matthew Elam’s stoic resignation) that keeps our Runs through: July 16 steel dining room where Michael and Debora duced raising questions of possible aggravat- sympathies ever-shifting. Also, Jessica Fisch’s di- Shaun-Hastings are preparing to host Bill and ing factors leading to the tragedy. By the time rection generates an ambient ambiguity prompt- BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE Tamara Dermot, along with their son, Curtis. we finally hear from the boys themselves—Joel ing us to speculate on Debora’s hidden motives The occasion—revealed early in the narrative “speaking” through self-posted videos left unde- in planning a sumptuous meal based in dishes Two sets of affluent parents meeting to discuss and serving as a springboard for the discussion leted on the net—it has become apparent that that the designated malefactor cannot eat, or an incident involving their respective offspring to follow—is to formally acknowledge the sui- responsibility for his untimely death lies in the the source of the ghostly rapping emerging from is a premise inviting anticipation of a comedy cide of young Joel Shaun-Hastings a year earlier, lack of intervention by adult mentors ignorant empty rooms that only the bereft can hear. of manners in the style of Yasmina Reza, where precipitated by the bullying of classmates, Cur- and/or indifferent to the adolescent tumult oc- rational discourse quickly gives way to voices tis among them. This ceremony’s purpose is to curring within their purview. c raised in angry protest, often to the exclusion provide “closure” through the families of victim The textual transpositions of Canadian refer- and perpetrator exchanging letters expressing re- ences to those of United States culture Michael is CRITICS’PICKS Aladdin, Cadillac Palace Theatre, through Sept. ans) to his son, Charles, (Kraig Kelsey), who has ters must be firmly established before they can 10. This national tour is a corporate Disney prod- THEATER REVIEW been pretending to be someone else. There are, be funny. The comedy increases as the play pro- uct, no doubt. But most audiences nostalgic for London Assurance of course, complications, chiefly in the persons gresses. There also are wonderful bits of busi- the blockbuster 1992 animated feature probably of dashing horsewoman Lady Gay Spanker (Cam- ness, especially for the smaller roles. Keep your won’t care since Aladdin delivers as a wowing, Playwright: Dion Boucicault eron Feagin), described by Grace as “glee made eye on everything Edward Kuffert says and does At: City Lit Theater, big-budget stage spectacle. SCM into a living thing,” and an opportunistic fixer as Sir Harcourt’s valet, Cool (he is), and likewise Bette Davis Ain’t for Sissies, Velvet Fox Pro- 1020 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. named Dazzle (Richard Eisloeffel) who mightily skilled physical clown David Fink as Lady Gay’s Tickets: 773-293-3682; ductions at Athenaeum Theatre, through July 2. stirs the pot. meek husband. There’s wonderful contrast, too, We only have an hour to chat with the virago of Citylit.org; $32 It’s great fun—from the snobbish and per- between tall, thin Day as acerbic and hyper- Runs through: July 23 the silver screen, but Jessica Sherr’s camp-free ceptive servants to the caricatured Upper Class refined Sir Harcourt and Feagin’s earthy Lady portrayal of Hollywood’s legendary rebel leaves types—and director Terry McCabe has staged Gay with whom Sir Harcourt is smitten. They BY JONATHAN ABARBANEL us wanting more. MSB it well, with relatively simple blocking (stage resemble a dry lemon falling in love with a juicy Paradise Blue, TimeLine (sic) Theatre, through movement), a colorful drawing room set (design cherry pie. July 23. Jazz man Blue is squeezed between per- Comedies about a father and son competing for by Ray Toler, painted by Shannon Evans) and Of course, the story itself isn’t believable— the same woman go back well over 2,000 years, sonal demons and urban renewal in 1949 Detroit, lavish costumes (Tom Kieffer) and hair stylings/ London Assurance was written well before the and makes all the wrong choices. This atmospher- perpetually reinvented by clever writers of many wigs (Bob Kuper). McCabe wants Boucicault’s era of psychological realism in theatre—but eras and nations, none more so than this Early ic play has strong characters and dialog but weak wit to speak for itself and it does, but audiences that doesn’t matter. What matters—beside the structure. Powerful acting carries it, along with Victorian take by Dion Boucicault (pronounced must listen well to get it all. It’s not just the sheer enjoyment of it all—is whether or not we “BOO-sha-coe”), one of the greatest Anglo- Orbert Davis’ original jazz score. JA substantial English town-and-country dialects can see believably human traits in the charac- Native Gardens, Victory Gardens Theater, American playwrights of the 19th century. (coached by Carrie Hardin) but the fact that ters and, of course, we can. Love at first sight, Essentially a comedy of manners, London As- through July 2. History is filled with accounts of plays of this era are language-heavy, and the vanity, self-deception, joy, generosity, pretense, wars arising from just such trivial squabbles as surance ends with the father, foppish Sir Har- speech is not entirely modern. scheming and social climbing all are present court Courtly (Kinglsey Day), realizing (as all Karen Zacarias illustrates in this tale of two back It’s well worth the effort, because the players and accounted for, as City Lit puts its best foot yards and their intractable gardeners. MSB such fathers do not) that he has been a fool and are capable and charming, the pace is fast but forward with London Assurance. reclaiming his nearly-lost honor while leaving not frantic and McCabe understands the charac- beautiful young heiress Grace Hardaway (Kat Ev- —By Abarbanel, Barnidge and Morgan WINDY CITY TIMES June 28, 2017 23

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24679 BMC_Windy-City-Times-Pride_ad_01.indd 1 6/7/17 6:08 PM 24 June 28, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES BOOKS move, in retrospect Frank saw that Hawaii got the afraid to engage with people you don’t agree nation talking. “You often need outsider activ- with. “There are times where it may feel like ists, who are not working in concert with a heav- you’re compromising your principles or objectives ily vetted professional strategy, to put something too much,” said Frank. “If you’re someone who Nathaniel Frank on the map that otherwise wouldn’t be there,” believes that marriage is oppressive and patri- Frank said. “One of the things the legal strate- archal and you don’t want to extend any effort gists encountered constantly was the recognition into strengthening the institution, then you may chronicles the road that they couldn’t control the game entirely.” not be willing to make compromises. There may Overall, Frank views the lawyers’ plan to secure be compromises that people are more willing to marriage as “very strategic and very pragmatic.” make once they think about the greater good. He cites some intangible aspects to the concept’s Changing hearts and minds takes time, and it to marriage equality success: queer people come from straight fami- takes pragmatic effort, and you can’t necessarily lies, leading to a certain kind of visibility and do what you want to do overnight.” By Liz Baudler possible acceptance, and the LGBT movement has Ultimately, Frank said, a lot of marriage’s de- rich financial backers with a vested interest in tractors on the left found themselves swayed. “By Nathaniel Frank trained as a historian, but found their own dignity. And marriage itself is quite the end of the story, they had occasions to cry at his calling covering what he calls “first drafts” of traditional. It seems like no accident to Frank, lesbian weddings; in many cases, gotten married recent events. who’s written books on both, that fights for LGBT themselves, gotten married for more nuts and “In graduate school we used to make fun of military service and same-sex marriage have ulti- bolts reasons and then maybe found that the cer- people who were doing recent history and call mately been won. emony was more emotional than they thought it them sociologists. It didn’t seem like history “Even choosing those issues was an example would be,” he said. The book’s title, “Awakening”, could ripen into a really substantive and useful of being pragmatic, and sounding conservative “speaks to that sense of arising awareness about interpretation until some number of years had themes in order to achieve liberal ends,” Frank the meaning of marriage and its connection to gone by,” Frank explained. “I no longer think that explained. “Some people were reluctant to do advancing the dignity of same-sex love.” way, because I’m very happily doing contempo- that. I think those that were willing to be practi- Frank said he hopes that future historians will rary history. It’s sort of my activism.” cal are among the ones who have had the biggest follow the state-by-state efforts for equality, and Marriage equality, the subject of Frank’s re- impact on improving people’s lives.” perhaps delve into the political pressures behind cent book, Awakening, only became federal law legislation. Though he interviewed around 50 in 2015. Frank, however, began chronicling the people, fight in 2009, when the New York state legislature Edie Windsor was the highlight. “She was just considered legalizing same sex marriage. In 2014, divine,” said Frank. “I’m absolutely not the first after reading his work on Slate.com, Harvard Uni- person to say that, and that’s one the reasons versity Press approached Frank to write what has why she became so inspiring and such a hero to become, in his words, “the first full scale history so many people. In some cases plaintiffs in high of the marriage equality movement.” profile cases are carried along by the develop- The earliest calls for same-sex marriage are ments of their case. In some cases for impact found in occasional articles in 1950s lesbian and litigation they’re recruited. Edie Windsor was gay publications. “It was natural for me to start someone who sought out representation for a at mid-century and show how the ideological Nathaniel Frank. lawsuit because she was very cognizant of having and strategic differences really began very early PR photo courtesy of Frank been wronged.” within our movement,” Frank said. But for de- He recalled worries that a wealthy, singular cades, marriage remained inconceivable for many, plaintiff would make for a disastrous lawsuit, and “The nice part about history is that it has an even for the happily partnered Edie Windsor, who the lawyer, Robbie Kaplan, was a corporate liti- obvious structure of its own,” Frank said. “There later became the face of the lawsuit that smashed gator who was only loosely affiliated with those were so many different thoughts and ideas at any DOMA to bits. working on marriage equality. “I thought it was given time about how to move forward, when to Starting around the 1980s, marriage became a fascinating to see that case evolve, and see the move forward, whether to move forward. I was fascinating legal cause for a generation of law- reactions,” Frank said. “[Windsor] just proved all trying to present them all and tie them together, yers to advance. Evan Wolfson and Mary Bonauto, of those naysayers wrong and showed the power but without necessarily pronouncing one strategy who worked in LGBTQ rights, were enraptured by of a story. Talk about commitment and care and more correct than the other, except inasmuch as I the marriage equality fight, but even they were responsibility through sickness and health. There developed an interpretation about what worked.” wary of attacking the issue fully, preferring to As an example of this pragmatism, Frank re- was just no way you hear about her story and As he wrote, Frank found new appreciation for see legal groundwork laid in other areas first. ferred to research that indicated “straight-act- meet her and not be moved, no matter who you both the activists and the legal team. “I was al- Some gay lawyers even wondered if supporting ing” gay people and their straight family mem- were.” ways so impressed with the strategic prowess of marriage was selling out to straight ideals. Simul- bers were the movement representatives with Windsor underwent her own revolution when it the legal thinkers, and the legal organizations, taneously, mainstream culture perceived growing the most effect on the “moveable middle”, or came to political activism. “She and Spyer basi- which took a lot of flak for their decisions some- LGBTQ visibility as a threat, throwing Don’t Ask, those who could be persuaded to support mar- cally passed by the embers of the Stonewall up- times to decline to support a case or to urge Don’t Tell and DOMA in the faces of the LGBTQ riage equality. “You can say that’s not nice and rising on their way back from a swank trip to people to hold off. Even when they had disagree- public. that’s not fair and that’s upsetting and all of Italy, and said, ‘what do I have in common with ments among themselves, which were frequent, By 2014, developments were occurring at those things are true, but if the goal is to achieve them?’,” Frank said Windsor told him. “Years lat- they were having a highly respectful debate breakneck pace. Every few months another state equality for all people, then you may lose very er, as she made her way into the movement, she about strategic differences. They very rarely took would legalize same-sex marriage, and lawsuits little by using the messages and faces that the realized, ‘those queens changed my life.’” it personally, and they very rarely, if ever, as- like Windsor’s and Hollingsworth vs. Perry, which research is telling you works better,” Frank said. And Frank still has an affinity for those earlier sumed bad faith.” challenged California’s Prop 8 amendment, were Having studied in the inner workings of the on in gay liberation. “They were going to change But even unsanctioned efforts like the early winding their way up the courts. “Things were marriage equality movement, Frank feels it has society and not let society change them,” he 90s attempt to marry same-sex couples in Hawaii coming so quickly, particularly the court cases, lessons for the left: collaborate, and don’t be said. “I understand why the idea of marriage was were crucial steps. Though it was a premature I remember reacting by saying to myself, ‘don’t a threat to that vision they had almost a utopian necessarily follow this development too closely, vision of remaking the way that society would you’re going to come back to it,’” said Frank. @windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup structure its relationships, but history often un- His narrative lay in the tension between law- folds through unintended steps and with unin- yers who made marriage equality their Holy Grail tended consequences. And in one sense, marriage but wanted to be strategic about their approach @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com equality was one of them.” and outsider activists who were tired of waiting. WINDY CITY TIMES June 28, 2017 25

Christopher W. Jones and Matthew Fahey in MacBeth. Photo by Johnny Knight Photography THEATER REVIEW nated comic character), almost immediately after his genial King Duncan has been eliminated. MacBeth Yet where Zahora’s economical casting policy Playwright: William Shakespeare arguably works is with Elyse Dawson, Savanna At: Oak Park Festival Theatre at Rae and Mark Lancaster as the Witches. Once Austin Gardens, 167 Forest Ave., Oak Park these “three weird sisters” plant the poisonous Tickets: 773-445-4440 or seed in the minds of the Macbeths that they will OakParkFestival.com; $15-$30 become rulers of Scotland, the malevolent trio Runs through: July 22 become an inescapable presence in the Macbeth household in the guises of servants, doctors or BY SCOTT C. MORGAN henchmen—a constant reminder to the Macbeths of the murderous consequences that lead to their I’m ashamed to admit that Oak Park Festival The- bloody end. ater’s new outdoor production of Shakespeare’s Performance-wise, the acting on display is tragedy Macbeth reminded me of awful stereo- largely standard-issue Shakespearean delivery types about Scottish people—particularly, those without delving too deeply into the characters’ oft-repeated jokes about Scotsmen being notori- dark dilemmas. This not only includes the expect- ously tight-fisted with their money (aka cheap). edly evil antics of Macbeth (Matthew Fahey) and The instant that soldiers march on in the open- Lady Macbeth (Melanie Keller), but also among ing scene, it’s hard to ignore how many actors the “good” characters, too. are wearing plaid pajama bottoms. There may be I would have like to see more moral strain by lots of other solid design elements including Mi- the likes of Banquo (Bryan Wakefield), Malcolm chael Lasswell’s craggy unit set, Julie A Mack’s (Matt Gall) and Macduff (Christopher W. Jones), spooky lighting and much medieval-looking gear especially as the latter two question their own crafted or assembled by costume designer Hailey aspirational motives in taking back Scotland from Rakowiecki. But it’s also hard not to think of kids’ the usurpers. slumber parties once you spot those pajamas. But if all you’re looking for is an enjoyable Then there’s the matter of much double cast- summer evening out, Oak Park Festival Theatre’s ing in director Barbara Zahora’s production. Other Macbeth largely gets the job done with a diverse than the scheming title power couple, every oth- cast. Notably, trans performer Jaq Seifert is both er performer has to take on multiple roles ranging Ross and the production’s fight captain maintain- from nobility to anonymous soldiers. ing the impressive “violence design” of R&D Cho- This feels like a budget-saving measure and can reography. The uproarious, subversive black comedy be jarring. For instance, Jack Hickey reappears Oak Park Festival Theatre also reminds us that, as the drunken porter (struggling as many have in our troubled times, Shakespeare forever re- by renowned performance artist done to mine the humor out of the play’s desig- mains timely and relevant. Taylor Mac SPOTLIGHT A newly liberated mother, her transgender child and her e PTSD-addled son shake up the patriarchy in this absurd A recently dumped gay guy turns to his circle and surprising look at a reimagined American family. of straight friends for solace in Lee Peters’ new comedy Alone, With Friends... Peters wrote Previews June 29 – July 5 just $30! the play originally to explore how gay and straight men could be friends, though now he steppenwolf. org | 312-335-1650 says it is more about the power of relationships in our lives. Alone, With Friends... plays 8 p.m. Supported by a Grant from Corporate Production Sponsor Fridays and Saturdays through Saturday, July 15, at the Prop Thtr, 3502 N. Elston Ave. Tick- Rivera star in the new comedy Alone, With ets are $20; visit PropThtr.org or AloneWith- Friends... at Prop Thtr. Photo by Paul Bren- Friends.btp.me for more information. nan Caption: Nichole Green and Jonathan 26 June 28, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES More from the Chicago Pride Parade

All photos on this page by Kat Fitzgerald, Gretchen Rachel Hammond and Tracy Baim. See page 28 for more from the parade. Also see more online at www.WindyCityTimes.com WINDY CITY TIMES June 28, 2017 27 Jason Collins at ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ CULTURECULTURE CLUBCLUB Chicago Sky events winner crowned The Chicago Sky and retired NBA trailblazer Jason Col- The champion of season nine of the VH1 show RuPaul’s The Tony Award-winning Musical — lins will host diversity and inclusion celebrations July Drag Race has been crowned. 6-8. Sasha Velour sashayed away with the title of “Ameri- Best Book and Best Original Score! Collins was the first active male athlete in any of the ca’s Next Drag Superstar” and a cash prize of $100,000, four major U.S. professional leagues to publicly an- beating 13 of the nation’s top queens, including Miss nounce he was gay in a Sports Illustrated story following Congeniality winner Valentina. the 2012-13 NBA season. Chicagoan Shea Coulee was also a finalist for the title. The first private event will be a meet-and-greet pan- Season eight winner Bob the Drag Queen was on hand el with Collins and Imani Boyette, “Facing Adversity to crown her successor in front of a packed house at Los Through Sports,” moderated by Stephen Bardo on Thurs- Angeles’ Alex Theatre. day, July 6. The event will be hosted at Midtown Athletic RuPaul will be back on Logo with RuPaul’s Drag Race: Club and The Hotel at Midtown in Chicago. Season 9 RuVealed, premiering Thursday, June 29, at 8

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‘Lives: Visible’ film June 28 at Siskel Lives:Visible—the new film by Chicagoan Michelle Citron that looks at the working- class butch/fem world of pre- Stonewall Chicago, and the film-based snapshot that recorded everyday 20th-century life—will run at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St., on Wed., June 28, at 8:15 p.m. Citron will be at the screening. The filmmaker, whose 1984 meta-documentary Daughter Rite is a classic of feminist cinema, centers her latest film on a box of more than 2,000 snapshots that had belonged to Norma and Virginia, a lesbian couple who lived together for DIRECT FROM NEW YORK, nearly 50 years in Chicago’s East THE OFF-BROADWAY SMASH HIT! Rogers Park. The film will be followed by Leftovers (2014, Michelle Cit- “ALTOGETHER BRILLIANT!” “SPAMILTON IS A BLAST.” ron, USA, 23 min.), described Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune by Citron as an experimental documentary. See http://genesiskelfilmcenter.pfestore.com/capacity/ events/1b285c6e-4267-48b7- 8ee9-da3fe34eaed0.aspx.

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Expanding its number of honorees due to what the de- termining body saw as a sur- plus of qualified applicants, Windy City Times actually honored 36 individuals during its 18th annual 30 Under 30 Awards, held at Polo Cafe on Chicago’s South Side. WCT Art Director Kirk Williamson and senior entertainment reporter Jerry Nunn emceed the ceremony, which honored 32 people under the tradition “30 Under 30” format. However, there were also three people who were given special visibility awards as well as one person who received a special jour- nalist honor. Andrew Davis, managing editor of Windy City Times, coordinated the awards. In addition to Polo Cafe, co- sponsors of the event were AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Chicago House, Center on Halsted and Howard Brown Health. Photos by Hal Baim WINDY CITY TIMES June 28, 2017 31

Congressman and vice-chair of Photos by Nina Matti the Congressional LGBT Equal- PRIDE ‘17 ity Caucus Mike Quigley was also present, and he spoke to the Proud to Run sports crowd about the importance of supporting one another. “Since November, the number record participation one question I get from folks is, ‘How can I help?’ You’re doing it,” by Nina Matti he said. “Love is stronger than hate and the number one thing The 36th annual Proud to Run brought in a record 2,200 participants for we can do is help each other... the 10K run and 5K run/walk on June 24. Watch out for each other, stay ac- Co-directors Ryan Hagerty and Justin Koziatek thanked the over 200 vol- tive, stay involved, and don’t let unteers that made the event possible. “This is my favorite part of Pride,” them get you down. I can’t thank Koziatek said. you all enough... You’re doing ex- Since it began in 1982, Proud to Run has donated over half a million traordinary work.” dollars to Chicago LGBTQ-based organizations. This year’s event benefitted Sponsors included Urban Care2Prevent, The Illinois Safe Schools Alliance, Pediatric Aids Chicago Pooch, PepsiCo, Universal Sole, Prevention Initiative and Test Positive Aware Network. CNA, Thorek Memorial Hospital, “Pride weekend is such a great reminder of what the community is ca- CMSA, United Airlines, U.S. Cel- pable of doing and the change that we can affect,” said Matt Richards, lular, Tylenol PM, Factset, Pavich Care2Prevent’s program director. Law Group, LaGrange Country, After the race, participants were entertained by sponsor Urban Pooch’s Vivid Seats, ZS, ClosetBox and dog agility demonstration and a performance by the Chicago Spirit Brigade. ChicagoPride.com. Awards were given to the top finishers of the 5K and the 10K races in male, See ProudToRun.org for more female and nonbinary categories. information.

PRIDE ‘17 Unofficial Pride gathering at Montrose Harbor by Vernon Hester

Despite the closure of the annual Pride at Montrose Festival in 2016, members of the LGBTQ community gathered for the traditional post parade celebration at Montrose Harbor. Friends and families celebrated in the cool early evening with barbecue cook outs, spontaneous dance competitions, and social networking with an emphasis on joy and frivolity. No incidents or arrests were recorded at the gathering. Photos by Vernon Hester 32 June 28, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES PRIDE ‘17 Back Lot Bash thrills A-ville This year, the popular Andersonville Pride festival of dancing, DJs and world-class talent took place oer two weekends. Here are some images from Saturday, June 24. Photos by Kat Fitzgerald (www.MysticImagesPho- tography.com)

PRIDE ‘17 Pride North returns to Rogers Park DJs, dancing and sunshine all helped to spread Pride rainbows across Chicago’s northernmost neighborhood. The Pride North Festival, which took place along Glenwood Ave. between Morse and Lunt, drew hundreds after the parade for a party that went on well into the evening. Photos by Kirk Williamson WINDY CITY TIMES June 28, 2017 33 More from the Chicago Pride Parade All photos on this page by Kat Fitzgerald, Gretchen Rachel Hammond and Tracy Baim. See more online at www. WindyCityTimes.com 34 June 28, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES

PATIO BEEF AT THE SOFO TAP A new Andersonville Pride tradition with Moose the DJ. Photos by Kirk Williamson

PRIDE SUNDAY AT SIDETRACK The biggest deck in town. Photos by Kirk Williamson WINDY CITY TIMES June 28, 2017 35 Billy MastersMasters

“My government will make further progress to tackle the gender pay gap and discrimination against people on the basis of their race, faith, gender, disability or sexual orientation.”—Queen Elizabeth’s address to Parliament. BTW, she also shot down a proposed visit by Donald Trump. Way to go, Lilibet. With the summer here, I have a message for all my readers: Hold onto your cock rings. Over these many, many years, I have picked up a few things—to say nothing of quite a few people. If you are in a darkened environment and you happen to be wearing what is in polite conversation referred to as a C-ring, remember—once one is “done,” one deflates. And if one doesn’t remove their accessory, there is a good chance it will drop down a pant leg only to disappear Aaron Carter caused a little gun-related into a darkened abyss. If there is anything worse controversy, Billy says. than rummaging around on all fours checking out PR photo questionable crevices, it is going through a box labeled “Lost & Found” the following day. Should boy bands. He had a particular fondness for Nick you find yourself in this position, I recommend Carter, which his mom says is still difficult for wearing a hazmat suit, quickly followed by a Nick to discuss. And don’t get me started about Karen Silkwood shower! I know it sounds like an all those videos of Ashley Parker Angel from O- awful lot of trouble to retrieve your favorite cock Town in the shower. Sigh... ring, but what can I say—I’m a romantic. The lovely and talented Colton Haynes has Why is Aaron Carter performing at gay-pride stopped whining long enough to get a job. Three festivals? Not that he shouldn’t. I think it’s fine. guesses who gave it to him? Yes—Ryan Murphy. Not only am I unclear why a gay organization Colton has joined the cast of the latest season of would want Aaron Carter to sing, I’m not sure American Horror Story. He already posted a photo why anyone would want to see him! I hear he of himself with some liquid smeared all over his did OK at Phoenix Pride. But leading up to LA lips. Must be from his audition! Pride, someone asked him if he was worried Someone who doesn’t discuss his sexuality is about any terrorism or violence. He said, “No, little Garrett Clayton. He recently gave one of I’ll shoot back!” Well, this caused quite a bit of those gay pride messages which really doesn’t concern—as someone who hosted LA Pride more say anything: “Love yourself and fuck what any- than anyone in the festival’s history, I can tell body else thinks. That’s what matters.” Over the you I would not have been too thrilled to have past year, he portrayed porn pup Brent Corrigan someone with a pistol in his pocket on my bill. in King Cobra, Link Larkin in Hairspray: LIVE and The organizers got him to retract the statement. even acted onstage opposite Al Pacino in God “I won’t pack heat at LA Pride. Emotions got me.” Looked Away. And through July 22, he’s in an ting a star this year is—wait for it—Ryan Mur- Days after the event, he landed in the hospital unauthorized musical parody called The Last phy! Congrats to both! looking like “Spawn of Skeletor,” should anyone Breakfast Club at Rockwell Table & Stage in Los Could it be that a certain champion is keeping be making such a movie. This led to some skinny- Angeles. On one of his off nights, when the re- a secret as big as his cup? It’s certainly not that shaming—yeah, like that’s a bad thing. Carter nown Skivvies (the quirky band made up of sexy he usually goes commando—everyone can see said, “A grown woman was gossiping about me Nick Cearley and Lauren Molina, who perform in that! Nope, our sources tell us that he prefers the when I have a eating disorder, telling people I their underwear) were performing at Rockwell, company of other men. He’s pretty quiet about need to eat 5 cheeseburgers cause I look like I’m Garrett was coaxed—perhaps at Aaron Carter’s his personal life, which I can respect. Instead dying. This is body shaming. You guys are bully- gunpoint—to sing “Stitches” in his drawers. It’s of making passes, he has a special someone who ing me.” At least they didn’t have a gun! certainly worth seeing on BillyMasters.com. is another giant with a similar Adonis-like phy- Meanwhile, Aaron’s brother Nick is part of Proving that everything is connected, one of sique. In the past, he’s publicly supported col- ABC’s pretty lame Boy Band show with Baby Garrett’s co-stars in the Al Pacino play was sexy leagues who are in same-sex relationships. But Bunton, Timbaland and Rita Ora. Nick still looks Miles Gaston Villanueva. Miles has just been while his career is in limbo, the last thing he good and has some interesting things to say. But cast in Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez wants to do is rock the boat. so far, I can’t imagine any of these people will Murders for NBC. And he’ll be playing Lyle Menen- When we can go from cock rings to free- become stars. That said, I’ll watch for a couple dez—the brother who was wearing a wig and balling, it’s definitely time to end yet another more weeks and pray they come up with a con- (allegedly) being banged by his father almost column. With summer here, it’s not only steamy testant who grabs me. nightly. If this were a Ryan Murphy production, outside, but also at BillyMasters.com—the site No word on whether Nick or Aaron Carter is we’d probably get to see that! that’ll make you all hot and bothered. If you participating in The Lou Pearlman Story, which Congratulations go out to RuPaul, who will be need my assistance, feel free to drop a note to is being produced as a limited series by Desmond receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. me at [email protected] and I promise to Child and Andreas Carlsson. You remember Big “Sweet Cheeses! My heart is beating so fast right get back to you before someone explains what Lou as the guy (literally) behind Backstreet Boys, now!,” said Ru. Now, note with what finesse I tie “Sweet Cheeses” means. Until next time, remem- NSync, O-Town and oodles of other pre-pubescent this whole column together. 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PRIDE ‘17 Center holds 10th Pride kickoff party By Tarina Hargrays

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