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Danny Clover to Lead 999 AIDS • Walk Page 2 IN Impersonator Charles Pierce Dies — Charles Pierce, proba- Milwaukee D.P. Registry Hearing Set For June 24 bly the country's best-known female imper- Milwaukee — Members and allies of Milwaukee's LGBT businesses to provide benefits to registered couples. However, sonator, has died of cancer at the age of 73. community are urged to attend a June 24 Common Council companies that offer domestic partner benefits to their employ- Pierce, who entertained with vivid por- hearing to show support for a proposed domestic partnership ees and customers could use the registry to independently veri- registry ordinance. The Council's Judiciary and Legislation trays of Mae West, Bette Davis, Tallulah Committee will hear testimony from supporters and opponents Bankhead, Joan Crawford and Jeanette Mac- of the legislation and will vote to determine whether or not to "Our community must mobilize Donald, gained mainstream attention as what support the ordinance. "Our community must mobilize to attend this hearing," to attend this hearing." else — a professional female impersonator said Patrick Flaherty, co-chair of the Domestic Partnership Task — in the film version of Torch Song Trilogy. Force. "This is the best opportunity we have to show the wide- fy committed same-gender relationships. Some Milwaukee Pierce was especially noted for his sharp spread community support that exists for the registry." Oppo- companies, including Wells Fargo (formerly Norwest), have wit and his gift at rendering the women he por- nents of the registry are expected to turn out in full force. indicated that they would use the registry to verify domestic In addition to attending the hearing, supporters of the reg- partnership. trayed because of what he once described as his istry are asked to call the Common Council at (414) 286-2221. The Judiciary and Legislation Committee hearing on the "plastic face" which allowed him to take on Callers can leave a message for their alderperson asking him or domestic partnership registry ordinance will take place in Room uncanny facial resemblances to his characters. her to vote in favor of the ordinance. 301-B at City Hall, 200 E. Wells Street. The hearing will begin The Domestic Partnership Registry Ordinance would allow at 9:00 a.m. and may last for several hours. Supporters are asked Chicago Judge same-gender couples to publicly pledge their commitment to to plan to attend for however long they can. each other by voluntarily registering their relationship with Mil- Contact the Domestic Partnership Task Force at (414) 225- Reassigned for waukee's City Clerk. All costs of the registry would be paid by 1621 for more information about the registry and hearing. the couples through a $30 registry fee. Bias in Lesbian The ordinance would not require the city or Milwaukee Adoptions Chicago — The Illinois Appellate Court formally rebuked Cook County Judge Susan Danny Glover to Lead McDunn for anti-gay bias in an adoption case involving lesbians. After the appeals court's decision, Chief 1999 AIDS Walk Wisconsin Judge Donald O'Connell relieved McDunn of her Milwaukee — Actor and social because of an unwarranted and danger- courtroom duties and assigned her to a non- activist Danny Glover will lead this year's ous complacency. I will challenge the judicial job in a municipal court judge's offices. 10th anniversary AIDS Walk Wisconsin people of Wisconsin to walk with me and In making the reassignment of McDunn, by serving as its honorary chair. Glover is to work harder to defeat AIDS." slated to help recruit walkers throughout The executive director of the AIDS Judge O'Connell said it was necessary "to the summer and will attend the state's Resource Center of Wisconsin praised promote public confidence in the integrity largest AIDS fundraiser on Sunday, Sep- Glover's commitment. "He's a powerful and impartiality of the judiciary and to tember 12 in Milwaukee. advocate," said Doug Nelson. "He's seri- Glover is well known for his leading ous about AIDS, he's correct that AIDS ensure the perception and reality of the high- roles in the recent movie Beloved in which complacency is a big problem, and he est standards of conduct." he costarred with Oprah Winfrey, in Steven will be a terrific motivator for the 10th McDunn had tried to block three separate Spielberg's The Color Purple, the Academy anniversary AIDS Walk." adoptions involving Award-winning Places in the Heart and in Nelson added that HIV infection lesbian parents by delay- the mega-hit Lethal Weapon film series, in rise in Wisconsin and rates continue to Donny Glover ing reviews of the cases and ignoring state which he costarred with Mel Gibson. that the protease inhibitor drug therapy child care agencies that had recommended Throughout his career he has been a that was extending the lives of many, are Breakfast and the opening ceremony, and the adoptions be approved. strong advocate for human rights and now, regrettably, failing for up to one half will kick-off the expected 10,000 walkers helping youth. of the people with HIV and AIDS taking during a red ribbon cutting with other She also took the extraordinary step of "I come to the AIDS Walk for the the drug treatments. Wisconsin dignitaries. He follows a distin- contacting an anti-gay organization and invit- serious purpose of intensifying the fight "As a celebrity who is committed to guished list of honorary chairs including ed them to intervene legally in the case. AIDS, Danny Glover will inspire walkers Bette Midler, Vice President Al Gore and Immediately after the formal rebuke, the for this phenomenal event," Nelson said. Tipper Gore and Earvin "Magic" Johnson. "I come to the AIDS "He will bring a powerful message espe- To register for AIDS Walk Wisconsin, appeals court also promptly used its authority cially for communities of color where the call (800) 348-WALK, or register online to approve all the adoptions and apologized Walk for the serious AIDS epidemic is intensifying." at www.arcw.org. Bus transportation will for what it called an "inexcusable injustice" Nelson added that with the African be provided to the AIDS Walk from all purpose of intensify- American state of AIDS emergency, parts of the state. Pledge walkers will gain the women hod experienced in the courts. which was declared in 1998 by the Con- free admission to the Indian Summer fes- ing the fight against gressional Black Caucus, a portion of tival which is also being held on Summer- Black Pride AIDS Walk proceeds will be earmarked fest grounds the day of AIDS Walk. AIDS in Wisconsin." for minority community-based organiza- Festival Draws tions providing AIDS services. In total, at Record Numbers against AIDS in Wisconsin," Glover said. least 17 Wisconsin benefiting agencies "I worry that a new generation of Ameri- will be recipients of AIDS Walk funds. Washington — Organizers estimated can youth are at high risk for HIV Glover will speak at the AIDS Walk that some 25,000 people turned out during the 9th annual Black lesbian and Gay Pride Festival in the nation's capital over the Memorial Day holiday weekend — doubling Dane County Moves Toward Domestic Partnerships last year's record. by Mike Leon fairness. LGBT couples of the same sex in a committed rela- The event drew Mayor Anthony Williams, of the IN Step staff tionship deserve health care benefits. Leadership on this issue is coming from all quarters, as well it should," said Supervisor who earlier had proclaimed "Black Lesbian Madison — In an atmosphere of tepid opposition and Tom Powell representing the 5th District. widespread calls for basic fairness, Dane County appears poised and Gay Pride Weekend" in the District. Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk's domestic partner- Mayor Williams addressed the crowd and hip initiative has aroused opposition from some conservatives, "Domestic partnership coverage is just a later stayed for a tour of booths and exhibits. but it is comparatively gliding through the hoops on the Coun- question of basic fairness, LGBT couples ty Board. - One of the newest groups participating in Reflecting a friendly political climate toward LGBT rights, this year's festival was a PFLAG (Parents & of the same sex in a committed relation- most observers here expect the initiative to pass the full Coun- Friends of Lesbians and Gays) for African- ship deserve health care benefits..." ty Board easily. The cost to the county is expected to be slight as only a American parents. The new PFLAG group is small fraction of the county's full-time employees are expected to extend health insurance coverage to same sex couples as part informally called For Those We Love and is to utilize domestic partnership health care coverage. of union contracts to be negotiated later this year. aimed at offering a more comfortable environ- The Personnel and Finance Committee voted 4-2 on June ment for black parents to participate in PFLAG. 14 to offer the domestic partnership coverage to same sex cou- ples, and not unmarried heterosexual couples. "Domestic partnership coverage is just a question of basic

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For More Information, Check Out: www.madisonpride.org Email: [email protected] -- Phone: 608.241.8971 Appoints Hormel °lulun Clinton te t as Ambassador During .. 0- 4: it Al Z) Congressional Recess ..-T, IL , ‘_„/A 41)c) by Keith (lark or of smut" because of material in The San of the IN Step staff Francisco Library's gay wing. Hormel donated $500,000 to the new Washington — President Clinton has wing and helped raise several million dollars .4.esro cot t° announced the recess appointment of San to fund the enormous collection that bears Francisco philanthropist James C. his name. And anti-gay activists have charged Hormel as U.S. ambassador to the tiny that the collection contains sexually explicit European nation of Luxembourg. photographs and material that promotes The nomination of Hormel, who is pedophilia. I gay, was first sent to the Senate in Octo- city officials, however, ber 1997 and he was renominated in Jan- have pointed out that Hormel had noth- I uary of this year after the Senate failed to ing to do with the selection of materials act earlier after objections by a handful of in the collection, and that most of the Republican senators. books in the gay collection are probably The new ambassador recently complet- in the Library of Congress as well. Vounteer Reunion ed his term as a member of the U.S. dele- But some of the most stinging criti- gation to the 51st United Nations General cism of Hormel's opponents came from If you have volunteered in the past 25 years and would like to attend, Assembly. He was also a member of the the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay GOP U.S. delegation to the 51st U.N. Human lobbying organization. Rich Tafel, Log please mail or phone the following information to the Clinic. Rights Commission Geneva in 1995. Cabin's executive director, said, "This was Hormel, 66, is chairman of Equidex a totally unnecessary confrontation set up Inc., a the San Francisco financial man- by a tiny handful of senators who are agement firm, and serves on a variety of completely out of step with the rest of the EST civic and nonprofit boards, including the Republican Party, and the majority C•I.•I•N•I.0 San Francisco Symphony and the San leader's decision to back them up has Francisco Chamber of Commerce. He is 1240 East Brady Street damaged our party." also a former dean at the University of Tafel said, "Mr. Hormel deserved a Milwaukee, WI 53202 • 414/353-4798 Chicago Law School. vote on the Senate floor, and would have But a handful of conservative senators been confirmed easily. It's very frustrating objected to Hormel's involvement in gay Ir to see a majority leader paralyzed by a rights causes, including helping to fund a Name: small handful of ideologues." "gay wing" at San Francisco public library. Because recess appointments run Address - Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott refused through until the end of the next Con- to allow a vote on the nomination, even gress, Hormel could serve in the new post City: State. ZIP. though it had been approved in 1997 by until October of next year. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Opponents of the nomination had Phone: Year(s) Volunteered. there appeared to be more than enough said Luxembourg, which is heavily Senate votes to confirm. Catholic, would be offended because Hormel, a multi-millionaire who is part Hormel had been videotaped laughing of the Hormel Meat Co. , becomes the during a street performance by the Sisters first openly gay ambassador in U.S. history. of Perpetual Indulgence during a Gay Wayne Besen of the Washington D.C. Pride parade and had refused to lobbying group Human Rights Campaign denounce the drag-nun troupe. said the recess appointment "was a bold And while the Hormel appointment move on the president's part." Besen was a major item in the nation's dailies added, "This never had anything to do and on nightly TV news broadcasts, it Multi- with Hormel's abilities and it had every- apparently was of little interest in Luxem- thing to do with anti-gay discrimination." bourg itself, where the three leading Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), newspapers didn't bother to report it. who has been a friend of Hormel's since In a brief press statement, Hormel said, Skilled 1970, said in a statement: "The fact of "I am pleased and honored that the presi- the matter was that his nomination was dent has appointed me as not permitted to be brought to the floor ambassador to Luxembourg. I want to of the Senate for a vote. Because of that, thank him, Secretary (of State Madeleine) the president did what I think was the Albright and the many members of the honorable thing.". U.S. Senate who have supported my nom- But far-right anti-gay conservatives ination. I deeply appreciate the confidence painted Hormel's appointment as "cow- they have expressed in me and I look for- ardly" and a "political payback," branding ward to serving." the nation's new ambassador as a "purvey-

Rely on the MEMORIAL: James 1. Nelson Barney H. Moore James J. Nelson, age 35, a former Milwaukee resident expertise of the passed away in his home in Ishpeming, Michigan Wednesday Phone: 414-536-7515 May 26, 1999 after a lifelong battle with a genetic terminal ill- Fax: 414-536-7581 ness for which he received a liver transplant. Barney Moore Agency James was born August 27, 1963 in Ishpeming and was a 1982 graduate of Ishpeming High School and attended 7600 W. Hampton., Suite 201 Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan. He to bring all worked for Simmons Airlines (American Eagle) as a Parts Milwaukee, WI Manager at Chicago's O'Hare Field after first working at the Marquette Airport. your insurance Later he moved to Milwaukee where he was a co-owner and operator of a TV and VCR repair service. James was also a Director of Earth Preservation Funds, Inc. of Milwaukee.-James' interests included photography, electronics, computers, protection camping, and chatting with friends at the C'est La Vie. Survivors include his father AMERICAN FAMILY and stepmother, James A. and Joan Nelson of Ishpeming; his mother and step- together under INSURANCE mother, Bonnie J. Nelson and Joan Verheyden of Adrian, Michigan; two sisters, AUTO HOME BUSINESS HEALTH LIFE Rene' (Dr. J. Marc) Himes of Marquette and Jacqueline Nelson of Ishpeming; a brother, Bradley Nelson of Calumet, Michigan; his maternal grandparents, Violet one roof. and Henry Coty of Ishpeming; and nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts and uncles. All Your Protection Under One Roof. Funeral services were conducted in Ishpeming on May 29, 1999. James' com- passion for others, jovial personality and friendship will be greatly missed by his Call today. ©1997 American Family Mutual Imurance Company and ir. Subsidaries. Home Office — Madison. WI 537143 family and friends. Condolences can be sent to in care of Terry Lam- hrip://www.amfam.com bert, PO Box 511692, Milwaukee, WI 53203-0291.

Ltd lune 11 — lune 30, 1999 • IN Step www. instepnews. corn country. That night a riot ensued, kick- $204.32; Milwaukee LGBT Community ing off the formation of the modern gay Center, $143.67; BESTD, $106.22; Chicago's Pride rights movement. Since that time, the LAMM, $72.15; Oberons, $71.87; Gem- Group Notes parades have grown into celebrations ini Gender Group, $63.77; St. Camillus that include social as well as political AIDS Ministry $23.27; Cream City Parade & Rally expressions of community pride. Foundation $20.36; Cream City Chorus, UW-Parkside Offers A special guest at this year's Pride Day $18.62; Bi-Definition, $13.65; P-Flag, Celebration will be Greg Louganis, who $4.24; Sage, $1.67. Gay and Lesbian to Feature won his first Olympic Gold Medal at age Any individual or couple can join 16. He became the first man to win dou- Afterwords' 10% Club throughout the Studies ble gold medals in diving in two consecu- year and can chose from either the above Kenosha — The Department of English Greg Louganis tive Olympics, and was six-time World listed or any other local GLBT organiza- Champion. He also held 47 National tion. Each new member will also receive and Women's Studies will be offering UW- Chicago — Chicago's 30th Annual Championship titles. After coming out an exclusive Afterwords tote bag. The Parkside's only course in gay and lesbian Gay & Lesbian Pride Parade on Sunday, publicly, he began doing public appear- cost of membership is $10.00. studies: Women's Studies 290/English 464: June 27, will begin lining up at the cor- ances speaking on gay and HIV themes. For further information concerning ner of Halsted and Belmont. At 2 p.m. His best selling autobiography Breaking the Afterwords 10% Club, please stop by Gay and Lesbian Writers. The course is sched- the parade will step off from the Halst- the Surface was #1 for five weeks on the or call Afterwords at (414) 963-9089. uled to meet on Monday evenings from 6 to ed/Belmont corner and proceed north on New York Times best-seller list and was 8:45 p.m. beginning Sept 13. This course is Halsted to Broadway, then south on later made into a movie. His new book highly recommended for anyone interested in Broadway to Diversey, then east on For the Life of Your Dog has recently been Counseling Center published. Louganis is currently starring literature, gender, sexual orientation, diversi- in Bailywick Repertory's (Pride Series 99) Sessions ty and humankind. Anyone interested is revised version of Larry !Garners 1988 Summer urged to register now, as low enrollment will play Just Say No. Milwaukee — The Counseling Cen- mean cancellation not only of this course, but ter of Milwaukee, Inc. has announced their summer sessions of support and future courses in gay and lesbian studies. Afterwords 10% Club therapy groups. Some groups are ongo- The course surveys literature by gays and ing while others are 8 to 10 weeks in lesbians from the end of the 19th century Distributes Funds length. All groups are held at the Coun- seling Center, 2038 N. Bartlett Ave. on through the present, as well as history and Milwaukee — Afterwords Bookstore Milwaukee's East Side. theory. The course begins with Oscar Wilde & Espresso Bar anounced the second Support groups for gays and lesbians annual cash disbursement from the and includes James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, are: Free Space for Women Exploring Afterwords 10% Club, timed to be in Their Sexual Orientation; More Space Rita Mae Brown, Dorothy Allison and others. conjunction with National Lesbian and Group (for lesbian identified women There are no prerequisites. Registration for Gay Book Month, which is celebrated wanting support and connection with each June. the fall semester is currently underway or other lesbians), Breaking Up Is Hard To Checks totaling $743.81 will be sent students may register by attending the first Do, Gay Men's General Issues, Silver Space to 12 different local gay, lesbian, bisexu- Group (for older lesbians), Married/Part- class meeting. For more information, call Greg Louganis al, transgender and AIDS-related organi- nered Women's Group (for women who Carole Vopat in the English Department at zations. Diversey to Cannon Drive. Last year's are partnered with men and are dealing In March 1997 Afterwords initiated (414) 595-2139. parade drew 246 parade entries and with affectional/sexual feelings for other a unique customer program, the After- 250,000 people. As many are expected women. Other support groups include: words 10% Club. Customers who elect Community Thrift this year. A rally will take place at 4 p.m. Women's Self Esteem, Men's Self Esteem, to become members of Afterwords 10% in Lincoln Park, Grove #13, after the Relationship Group for Women Why Club receive an immediate 5% discount Store Plans parade ends at 3000 N. Lake Shore Drive Me?, Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse, and on purchases at Afterwords with the West (the Inner Drive at Wellington). Women With Physical Disabilities. bookstore donating an additional 5% of Anniversary Events Featured performers will include bands The 8 to 10-week groups will meet in all qualifying purchases to the local as well as singers. Live entertainment, June and July. There is a $10 fee per Madison — The nonprofit Community GLBT organization of their choice. informational tables staffed by commu- group session. The counseling center also Since the Afterwords 10% Club Thrift Store, Inc., located at 1814 S. Park St., nity groups and speakers will be on hand. runs facilitator training for anyone inter- began, over 100 individuals and couples has two June events planned to celebrate one The international theme for the ested in becoming a support group facil- have joined, designating 12 different 1999 celebration is A Prideful Past, A itator. For more information on these full year of business. On June 5 and 6, there organizations. Powerful Future. The parade commemo- groups, please call the Support group was a sidewalk sale from noon to 5 p.m. On What follows is a list of organizations rates the night in June 1969 when gay program at (414) 2565. grand celebration men and lesbians fought back during a and the total they will receive: ARCW, June 26, the store will have a raid of the Stonewall Inn, a New York to mark its first full year. Shoppers will be City gay bar. Gay bars were routinely treated to free Chocolate Shoppe ice cream with raided by police in the 1960s across the their purchases early in the afternoon. Festivi- ties will close with a brief ceremony to be held E.Pluribus at 3:15 p.m. At that time there will be a draw- IN Step's ing for a $100 gift certificate to the store. Community Thrift Store, Inc., is open for Cubes Only Vaunt business every Wednesday through Sunday $25 each! from 12 noon to 7 p.m. The store is stocked It means "out of many, one" and appears on the with clothing, furniture, household goods, also sums up the Buy Two, Great Seal of the United States. It toys, books and other merchandise. The Get One FREE! attitude that the team at Affiliated Mortgage resale store, whose proceeds benefit 70 par- brings to the home lending business. An attitude ticipating nonprofit organizations, has distrib- that says that the strength of any community is in uted over $13,500 to its partners since it its diversity. In our second decade, our mission is opened last year. People who contribute to continue to provide the best advice and goods to be sold designate which nonprofit organization will receive proceeds from their UNIT4, unmatched customer service to all who choose to sale. For more information, call (608) 250- be our clients. MILWAUKEE 1986 during store hours. Call us, and see the difference that SAGE/Milwaukee tis ft, respect, discretion, and over one billion Qualifies For WE Maintaining the Endowment Fund and dollars in closed home loans can make CARE Program At assistance for Building Fund and providing home purchase, construction, a variety of programs and organizations in to your Pick N' Save the community. or refinance. Milwaukee — SAGE/Milwaukee Become part of our growing community (Senior Action in a Gay Environment) has with open membership and accountability. qualified for the WE CARE program at Pick N' 453-6700 Save stores. All you need to do is go to the GA COMMUNITY Customer Service Window and fill out a CENTER TRUST FUND A Savers Club application and enter the SAGE 1 233 North Mayfair Road P.O. Box 1686 • Milwaukee, WI 53201 number (694300) under the charity code and Suite 202 AFFILIATED INFO LINE: 414/643-1652 MORTGAGE turn it in. Pick N' Save issues quarterly checks Wabwatosa, WI 53226 & FINANCIAL CORPORATION to charities listed in their computers. a 501 c-3 tax exempt organization www. instepnews. corn IN Step • lune 1l — lune 30, 1999 the new office will allow ARCW to focus more closely on housing issues in the Madison area. "The HIV/AIDS com- ARCW Opens munity there is too significant for us to not have a pres- Pridefest Announces ence." ARCW has eleven people working on housing issues statewide, and two full-time staffers will now work out of Office the Madison office. ARCW will also cooperate on housing Madison with AIDS Network, Rodney Scheel House and other local Award Recipients social-service agencies. Last year, ARCW gave out $630,000 Milwaukee — Each year, PrideFest presents awards by Christopher Ott in rent assistance throughout the state, and Nelson expects to individuals or organizations that have demonstrated of the IN Step staff the figure to reach $750,000 this year. leadership, community service and notable achieve- Madison — The AIDS Resource Center of Wiscon- Additionally, the new office will help support the Mid- ments. This year's winners are the Milwaukee LGBT sin (ARCW) has opened a Madison office to provide west AIDS Training & Education Center. MATEC is a joint Community Center, Barbara Bremmer, Tony Rhodes, space for its staff members working on housing, legisla- effort by ARCW and the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Jerry Johnson and Terry Boughner. tion and other efforts. And on the eve of the office's offi- and Clinics to train health-care professionals in the most up- They will be invited to ride in the Wisconsin Pride cial opening, both ARCW and AIDS Network, the to-date treatments and therapies for HIV and AIDS. Parade as honorary marshals, and will be presented Madison area's local AIDS service organization, sought to ARCW also conducts a needle-exchange program in with plaques at the Harley Davidson Stage after the downplay potential friction between the two groups. Madison called Lifepoint. While AIDS Network has its parade, about 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, August 8. "Our office in Madison is own needle-exchange program, Nelson estimates that even Community Service Awards completely a function of pro- with both efforts, only 20% of the injection drug users in viding additional HIV/AIDS the Madison area are being reached. "This is a program The Milwaukee LGBT Community Center — services in the Madison area," that needs to grow, and it needs more resources, not less. When Milwaukee's LGBT Community Center said Doug Nelson, ARCW's Our ultimate goal is to reach all of the reachable drug opened its doors at 170 S. Second St. on Nov. 6, executive director. The new users, and working together we'll reach that goal quicker." 1998, it was the culmination of many years of office at 222 State St. pro- Over the last year there has been discussion of a territo- dreaming, planning and hard work. vides space for six full-time rial rivalry between ARCW and AIDS Network, but both Tony Rhodes — Tony Rhodes first got involved and three part-time employ- Nelson and Casey R. Corbin, AIDS Network's new direc- with the Cream City Foundation in 1988 and over ees, as well as volunteers. tor of public affairs, sought to downplay the controversy. the next II years and has played a critical role guid- The office will open offi- "I think the controversy is sort of on the street more ing its growth and increasing its influence. cially on June 21, but Nelson than between us," said Corbin. "I think the new office is Stonewall Award said that staff have already. a positive thing." Barbara Bremmer— Barbara Bremmer's journey Doug Nelson been working out of the Referring in particular to ARCW's lobbying efforts, Madison office for several Corbin said, "Those. are people that we rely on ... and to lesbian activism was long and circuitous. She first weeks. ARCW has offices around the state, and the orga- those poor guys have had to travel back and forth from came out 40 years ago. She currently serves as facili- nization's main office is in Milwaukee. Milwaukee with no home base. I would hate to have my tator of the Silver Space steering committee, is invovled with Wisconsin Outdoor Women and has Located a block from the state Capitol, one of the staff have to do all that driving." become active in SAGE, Senior Action in a Gay new office's most important functions will be lobbying. Nelson stressed greater possibilities for cooperation Environment, where she tries to foster more lesbian Last year, for example, ARCW helped win an expansion as well. activities. of the state Medicaid program to cover people with HIV "We very much look forward to collaborating with the and AIDS. "Our lobbying staff spends a lot of time in AIDS Network in the areas that make sense. Our presence Lifetime Achievement Award Madison, and having an ability to work in Madison is in Madison is not in any way to compete. It is to comple- Jerry Johnson and Terry Boughner - Widely and pretty important to them," Nelson said. ment the good work that they are doing," Nelson said. affectionately known as "Terry and Jerry" through- The Madison office will also help administer a $1 "The bottom line is that Madison is out Wisconsin's LGBT community, this couple has million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and a winner in this by having a wider array of services." contributed mightily to the growth and develop- Urban Development. The funding is to enhance an exist- ment of gay Wisconsin, primarily through their cre- ing program to prevent homelessness among people with ation of the WI Light newspaper. HIV and AIDS. "HUD has designated this as what they call a special project of national significance," Nelson said, adding that

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L6A lune 17 — lune 3o, 1999 • IN Step www.instepnews.corn CAIR Receives Funding Renewal Through 2004 Milwaukee — Citing the Medical College of Wisconsin's Center for AIDS ARCW Intervention Research (CAIR) for its "highly innovative, forward looking" research program, the National Insti- AIDS RESOURCE CENTER tutes of Health has renewed CAIR's des- ignation as a national HIV/AIDS pre- OF WISCONSIN vention research center. A grant of $4.75 million will support CAIR's research efforts into the year 2004. Over 5,000 women, men and adoles- cents have received HIV prevention ser- vices and care through CAIR research projects. Participants in these studies have included gay men and youths; )Yt,aalifiox, women and teens living in low-income, inner-city housing developments; persons leaving incarceration; severely mentally ill adults; homeless men g)te-vejoix, xs and women; and youth in high-risk situations. The grant award marks the begin- ning of CAIR's sixth year as a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) HIV/AIDS prevention research center and sustains CAIR's standing as the only such center between the country's East 222 State Street Madison and West coasts. "We are pleased that the NIMH has Monday, June 21, 1999 4:00-7:30 p.m. recognized CAIR's work as worthy of continued investment," said Jeffrey A. Kelly, Ph.D., director of CAIR and pro- fessor of psychiatry and behavioral med- icine. "By supporting the infrastructure ?rgroit 6:00 of CAIR's research program, this grant gives CAIR a solid foundation from which to continue its work to develop new HIV prevention approaches and to improve the health and quality of life of persons living with HIV disease." • aefreIltAtellti CAIR studies encompass many aspects of HIV prevention research, catered by Deb Lola's Relish Deli including the identification of factors that put people at risk for the disease, the development of interventions to help persons reduce risk for contracting HIV infection, and the evaluation of strate- 2,SV? luxe- i(5) gies to help persons living with AIDS/HIV to benefit from new treat- ment advances. CAIR's research also via voice mail at 608-258-9103, ext. 15 seeks to meet the mental health needs of persons living with HIV and their loved ones. CAIR researchers have developed approaches for helping HIV-positive persons cope with bereavement due to ARCW is grateful for the support of our hosts and acknowledges that some may be unable to attend. the loss of loved ones to AIDS and deter- mined the special needs of older adults Barry Avery Kevin Bonds Neil Heinen Bill Murat Howard Sweet who have the disease. CAIR has also pio- neered new methods for providing men- Ken Baldwin John Chapin Tom & Lynn Hirsch Representative Jim Vergeront, MD Wisconsin Division Wisconsin Division Mark Pocan Wisconsin AIDS/HIV Teri)? Hoard tal health services for HIV-positive per- of Public Health of Public Health Program Deborah Powers sons in rural areas of the country by Richard Keeling. MD U.S. Representative Senator ChuckChvala Alderman connecting them in support groups & Eric Engstrom Progressive Solutions, Tammy Baldwin Michael Verveer offered using telephone conference calls. David Danaher & Inc. Richard Kilmer, RPh Mayor Sue Bauman Chris Ott Dick Wiper A key objective of CAIR's research William Reinicker Carol Lobes 6' program is to not only study HIV pre- Kathy Bell Joann 6 -Joseph Elder. Mark Webster Joe McLain Senator Fred Risser Ph.D vention approaches, but also to share Representative County Supervisor Neil Luechese. MD Dan Schaefrr research findings quickly with commu- Terese Berceau Scott Evertz Judy Wilcox nity-based organizations that provide Pamela Mache, DVM Jim Sosman, MD Jason Best elz Eve Galanter Wisconsin Department AIDS services to clients. To ensure that 6 - Mary O'Donnell Kevin Myren Tom Spowart of Administration Paul Grossberg. MD & its research benefits the community, Manhattan Representative Dean Ziemke, Ph.D Mary Strickland Jonathan Z.arov CAIR has undertaken information Hair Designs Spencer Black exchange programs with the frontline staffs of 75 AIDS service organizations in 44 states. In this way, results of CAIR's research in HIV prevention and ARCW is pleased to serve the Madison community with: care can rapidly retch organizations and agencies so that their programs directly Housing counseling and financial assistance for people living with HIV and AIDS. benefit from new findings. CAIR is funded by research grants from the National Institutes of Health, Lifepoint needle exchange and drug intervention program for people at risk for HIV the Centers for Disease Control and Pre- vention, and other sources. Because HIV training for health care professionals in collaboration with UW Hospital 6" Clinics. CAIR is the only HIV prevention research center in Wisconsin, the Center brings to the state HIV/AIDS preven- HIV clinical drug trials through ARCWs Wisconsin AIDS Research Consortium. tion funds that otherwise would not be available locally. Public policy advocacy and community involvement through ARCW's AIDS Action Wisconsin.

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but look at the scene now! However, I from Chicago, taught us: "You cannot still must go to Milwaukee to get my create a movement unless you have an Tossed Salad favorite flavor of Tomka Guy (Thai chick- idiot as an enemy." Let me explain this as en soup) at The King & I. simply as I can. We need Ronnie more 55 by Dave Runyon The real jewel in the crown is not the than Ronnie needs us. Every time he had a hell of a time figuring out what University, but the "Off-Off Broadway" opens his big mouth, the political middle I wanted to be when I grew up. theater that has been developing here, of the road folks stampede to the Indeed, I'm still not completely sure, I thanks especially to the leadership of Joel GLBTQ side. despite the fact that I've been retired for Gersmann's Broom Street Theater, cele- Like Gene Parks who recently ran for the past three and a half years. It's not IN Step brating it's 30th year. 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Indeed, to get ing GLBTQ people about morals when to retrain (having demitted the Presbyter- Milwaukee, WI 53202 ian ministry), Madison was "in between" 414.278.7840 voice what it was back then — a college town 414.278.5868 fax and the state capital — and what it has Ronnie Greer, with only a high school diplo- instepnews0aol.com become, a tourist trap for regional and ma and two years of military service, is lec- ISSN# 1045-2435 state sports conferences. Those are money-makers, unlike the activities going turing GLBTQ people about morals when he William Attewell on in the Monona Terrace financial rat hole convention center and future con- Jorge L. Cabal tiguous hotel. spent two years at Fort Leavenworth prison. publishers Not unlike Pirandello's play Six Char- a grant from the NEA today is in most he spent two years at Fort Leavenworth acters in Search of an Author, Madison, cases an aesthetic igsult, if not a citizen prison. A criminal? A felon? A convict? William Attewell from the perspective of a coastal city citi- caveat. Lecturing US?! Oh, Mary, PLEASE. editor@instep news. corn zen like myself, is still very much a "cow town" with delusions of grandeur. This When I attend a Broom Street play, I Oops. I mean The Rev. Ronnie Greer. editor-in-chief can never shake off the feeling of what we Was he ever university has a good reputation for hav- ordained? Oh, silly me, did as kids; dress-up and do plays for the he must be a self-appointed prophet, Jorge L.Cabal ing many foreign students, but neither they nor we really integrate; we don't neighborhood in the curtained doorway unrespected in his home territory. Ronnie [email protected] of the garage. What a delightful memory, is cute, speaks quickly on his feet in pub- know each other. We segregate ourselves, only this time around at Broom Street, lic and dresses very nicely. But he is as arts editor and we all are losers rather than benefi- we put our brains to work. We have lots biblically ignorant a fence post. Can he ciaries. When I walk down a street in of little theater popping up, like "Brave read the Old Testament in Hebrew? Can Ed Grover NYC or San Francisco, I am bombarded Hearts" in a store front. And the recently he read the [email protected] with racial/ethnic diversity: I passionately New Testament in Quoine acquired Esquire Movie Theater is a per- Greek? love it. But doing State Street in Madison The poor schmuck swings from book editor formance space for two theater is very different. It's mostly homogenized groups, one extreme pole to the other. He goes Strollers and The Mercury Players. lily-white boys in baggy _jeans, baseball from the absolute authority of a God who The show stopper for Dorothy Austin, Keith Clark, caps and t-shirted conformity. Girls? me, happened doesn't exist — except in his own mind this late spring when a Journalism junior, — over to the other Scott Evertz, Kevin John, What girls? Jesus, I AM a gay male. extreme of a track David Au, selected Chay Yew's A Lan- record of Today's Madison has little pockets of conflict with authority figures Christopher Krimmer, Jamakaya guage Of Our real gems. One of them is UW-X — that's Own to produce in the in his work and the military, as well as in Mike Leon, Julia LaLoggia, what I call UW-Extension. In the Contin- Memorial Student Union's tiny Play Cir- the fire department from which he was cle. The cast includes four also Tim Nasson, Leslea Newman, uing Studies section there is a senior citi- gay men — an disciplined. Asian, an Asian-American, an African- He seems to be a very unemployable zen venue called The Plato Society, where Jeffrey Newman, Christopher Ott, American and a white American. Here's a person. He doesn't have the mental or each of us kicks in $40 a year and then Gip Plaster, Dale Reynolds, play where, four weeks later, I'm still emotional ability to exit in some middle decides whether we want to be a student Dave Runyon, Jamie Taylor, or a facilitator for the semester. God for- mulling it over in my mind and asking space between the poles. He's rigid, questions. No Carl M. Szatmary Richard Waswo, bid I should be so cruel to say this, but wonder, Yew's newest play, inflexible, and immature. It is just won- RED, is currently having a run in New derful having such a "home town what does an 18 to 22-year old have to crazy" Rex Wockner, W.W. Wells III York bring to the table as we discuss ancient City. Here is a playwright to keep always at the ready to remind the rest of your eye on. It's been contributing writers Greek plays? Senior citizens bring a whole a while since we've the city that Ronnie-The-Bully is there had the engagement of life of experience and travel to the table. a thinker like this. picking on people. This time it's the James Taylor, Chris Hammerbeck My jewel of jewels Another little gem is food. I can is Ronnie Greer, young over in the suburb of Verona at the photographer remember when there wasn't even one the self-appointed minister who recently high school's Gay, Lesbian, Straight ran as one of six Republicans for Con- Alliance. Oh good restaurant in Madison; indeed, we honey, pick on somebody gress. As Paul Berge, Eric Orner had to drive to Stoughton to Tio Peppy's, Chicago's Saul Minsky, the 20th your own size and stop playing God. 0 cartoonists century's greatest community organizer,

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Jones Flak society and he always works on the side of the "oppressed." Shame on anyone who To the Editor— tries to discredit a man who deserves to I don't normally read your newspaper, be recognized as a hero. Our del i but I heard that you had an interview We suggest that people like Scott with Milwaukee Police Chief Arthur Evertz spend less time on charity, more Jones ("Top Cop," June 3) so I logged on parity and we also respectfully request onto your Web site to read it. I had a spe- that he "shut his cake-hole!" cial interest in this. I was at La Cage when Don Anderson the police did their things. Andrew Miller-Rhodes You didn't cover the story about what Madison has been the police did. Jones said he gave you the interview because of the commotion over Pass the Turns the police activities at La Cage. He let To the Editor— you interview him even through you never wrote a word about what hap- Thanks for "Eat Out!" your restau- pened. I wonder why? rant guide published in the May 20 issue As far as the bar incidents goes your of IN Step. Milwaukee has much to offer interview was a joke. Besides the ques- as far as restaurants go. However, I was known to tions you lifted from your competitor's disappointed to see the negative reviews articles you let this man get away with his for Vinifera and Coquette Cafe. B.S. about how his force didn't do any- I have eaten at Vinifera three times thing wrong and he won't tolerate ... and each time found it to be a wonderful blah, blah, blah. dining experience! If the reviewers only Any real reporter might have asked tried it once shortly after it opened, then what non-gay bars were treated this way. why did they review it? You didn't. Any real reporter might have Just recently, my partner and I along ast a very long & del icious shado w. asked why their records don't back up with two friends dined at Coquette Cafe what Jones said. You didn't. and were very impressed! Not only were There is a good gay reporter in Mil- the food and service quite good, but the Fast natural foods served daily at waukee and his first name is Bill, but his prices were very reasonable. our new Deli, Juice Bar & Salad Bar! last name isn't Attewell. Do us all a favor, I think Vinifera and Coquette Cafe stick to the stuff you are best at and leave both deserve better reviews and I would the real stories to the real reporters. definitely recommend them. J.G. Robert Kewan Milwaukee Milwaukee Outpost EDITOR'S NOTE: Normally, IN Step does not print Patrick Cudahy Kudos unsigned letters. However, I concluded that the Natural Foods strong opinions expressed in the above letter from To the Editor— A COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE SINCE 1970 ".1.6." warranted publication. For the record, I did Recognition is in order to Patrick a write an editorial (Vol. 16, #VIII) critical the police's Cudahy, Inc. for their inclusion of Pride- 100 East Capitol Drive • Open Daily 8am to 9pm handling of the "fruit fly" inspections, and my inter- Fest this year, as a Milwaukee lakefront • 961-2597 view with Chief Jones speaks for itself. festival to which free admission will be available, through a company-sponsored Let Them Eat Cake! consumer promotion. To the Editor— Last year, several phone calls were made to Patrick Cudahy, Inc. inquiring BESTD TRAVELING HIV TESTING CLINICS We are outraged by Scott Evertz's arti- why PrideFest was the only summer lake- cle, "Thoughts From a White Boy of front festival not included in their pro- Every Thurs., LGBT Community Center (BESTD Office), 5pm-7:3opm Privilege" (May 6, '99), and his attacks motion., A consumer affairs representative Wed., June 23, Triangle, 9pm-i2am • Thurs., June 23, La Cage, iopm-iam on David Runyon. This article is a classic from the company stated the matter example of the kind of character assassi- would be addressed. leaders and nation which brings down And obviously, it was, as PrideFest is impedes progress in our community. now included on the list of Milwaukee lake- Us, Runyon has always shown all of us front festivals to which Patrick Cudahy Inc. to inspiration. hospitality, friendship and offers their "free admission" promotion. his tireless He has done this for years, and You may wish to inform your readers efforts for global gay equality are an of this action, and encourage support of preposterous to example for us all. It is Patrick Cudahy, Inc,. and its products, as suggest that a retired teacher living on a positive acknowledgement for including pension is "ruling Glass." PrideFest in their promotion. Some people don't like David because Mike he is conscious of the inequities in our Sheboygan

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You. more relativist than a selective interpreta- people are discriminated against because One of the Write it down, tear it out, politically correct tion of the Bible's crazed moral hodge- of a characteristic that doesn't show up in strategies we often podge?) is really a complaint that no one their ability or work ethic, then maybe we share it with your friends use to win people has any standards, that anything goes, should try to prevent it. and that nothing is wrong if it feels good Instead of trying to dodge the ques- and family. Ya gotta save over to our side is to portray anti-gay for a moment. tion, we need to tell it like it is: Anti-gay this date for the most conservatives as This is, of course, not what we stand conservatives and others who are con- harsh judgmental- for, nor is it anything that we should cerned, about civil-rights laws being a exciting community-wide ists. The thinking appear to stand for. The argument for gay "slippery slope" have gotten themselves goes that they're too willing to judge oth- equality is a civil rights issue: we're singled into a tricky position. Let's make them event that Milwaukee ers, and that they need to come down out on the basis of the judgments — the explain their way out of it. They're essen- from their high-and-mighty, self-appoint- erroneous judgments — that people make tially arguing that it's OK to discriminate has ever seen. ed position as judges over the rest of us. about us, and the reality of this discrimi- on the basis of arbitrary characteristics. This strategy usually doesn't work too nation calls for laws to protect against it. Let's see where arguing for this kind of Saturday, well for us. The real problem isn't that The irony of the debate about "gay unfairness gets them. anti-gay conservatives are judgmental, issues" is that it's not really about gay The final irony of this concern about but that the assumptions they make their issues at all. It's really about the insecuri- where new civil-rights laws might lead August 28 judgments with are all wrong. ty, ignorance and bigotry of the anti-gay shows up in its misplaced priorities. The One problem is the easy way in which side, and whether or not they get to call people who argue that gay-equality laws Watch for more details this argument starts to go against us, such the shots. Instead of trying to do away will open the door to other "frivolous" in future issues. as when we quote Biblical advice like with judgment, we need to encourage legal protections show a much greater "Judge not, lest ye be judged." This has a people to judge anti-gay conservatives, concern about theoretical future abuses profound meaning, but it's the wrong not us. They are essentially arguing that than the reality of anti-gay discrimination meaning for the case we're trying to the law should cater to their own igno- now. This is, at best, a weak argument. make. "Judge not, lest ye be judged" rance about sexual orientation, and we Let's ask them to help solve the problem warns against harshly judging others for shouldn't mince words about judging of anti-discrimination — it is, after all, what they do wrong if you don't want to them for this wrong-headed belief. largely a problem they are responsible for Milwaukee be judged for what you've done wrong Q: What will you be — before we let them wave the red shirt about what might happen in the future if V V V LGBT yourself. That's fine advice, except that advocating next? V V V we're not doing anything wrong. This we do solve it. Community argument suggests that we are, and to An occasional argument that you'll Center anti-gay conservatives, it sounds like we hear against gay equality is essentially Straight Answers is a monthly column devoted to advice just want to be left to "sin" without being "What next?" In other words, if we pass about how to change anti-gay attitudes. If you hove o bothered or confronted about it. Their laws to protect gay people from discrimi- question or suggestion, please write to 170 ti tiutlt 2itil Strvei erroneous assumptions are left intact. nation, then where do we stop? Pretty [email protected] or in care of IN Step. 414-271-2656 NN‘NisNi.mItt•Ig1)1.46-;.; from San Francisco! BfY T's 000 Quips & Quotes me. 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$110 million, complaining it wanted her to participate in a lesbian storyline, expose her breasts on TV and appear in sexually Moorthy at Grava degrading photos. Poornima Moorthy, a Milwaukee The lawsuit, filed in federal court, based artist who grew up in Madison, will- charges that professional wrestling has have her work in a one-person exhibit at become increasingly "obscene, titillating, Grava Gallery in Milwaukee. Poornima's vulgar and unsafe." arts has been influenced by her Asian/Indi- Known for her waist-length hair and an heritage using both drawing and paint- scanty outfits, Sable, whose real name is ing in layers on wood and canvas. Her art Rena Mero, said the WWF stripped her of currently graces Brasserie 143, a restaraunt her championship belt by scripting her in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward. The defeat in a recently televised Monday Night new show will be presented at Grava Raw match. Gallery, 1209 E. Brady from June 25 Her downfall, she claims, came after through July 17. A artist's reception will she repeatedly refused to have her gown Queen Liz is o Rockin' Mama! open the show on June 25. torn off on national television, exposing don's Daily Mail wrote of the announced her breasts. postal series: "The queen we would rather alt.binaires.coogress. Baldwin is see on our postage stamps is not stripped UK Freddie Mercury to the waist and wearing spray-on red trousers." hipocracy.erotica `Out I About' Heffer said Mercury's "degenerate Following the June 4 appointment of Last November's election of Democratic Postage Stamp Stirs lifestyle caused him -to die of AIDS at an James Hormel as the ambassador to Luxem- Rep. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin was unfortunately early age." bourg, Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Okla. had unprecedented in that the lawmaker became Other Britons have written to the threatened to block all future Clinton nomi- the first openly lesbian member of Congress. Up Some Brits Royal Mail complaining that the Freddie nations — an action which Senate Majority Now, Interior Secretary Bruce Bab- Britain's Royal Mail has selected a fic- Mercury stamp shows drummer Roger Leader Trent Lott has agreed to support. bitt has presented Baldwin, 37, as keynote titious malevolent robot, a UK football Taylor, who is alive, in violation of a Royal Now it has come to light that several of the speaker for his department's gay pride cel- star, a classic film comic and a bisexual Mail rule against portraying any living Senator's aides were discovered to have down- ebration, "Out and About in Govern- rock singer for its new set of millennium person on stamps other than members of loaded pornography off the Internet — a vio- ment" held last week. commemoration stamps. the royal family. lation of federal sexual harassment policy. The Interior Department event also But some Brits apparently think it's But authorities with the Royal Mail The computer pornography was discovered featured the "Not What You Think OK for comedian Charlie Chaplin or coolly have responded to all critics that all during a routine systems check, according to Ensemble of the Lesbian and Gay Chorus football jock Bobby Moore or even the stamps in the millennium commemo- the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. of Washington, D.C." "Doctor Who" mortal robot enemies, the ration series — like all UK postage stamps "In deference to legitimate privacy royal family on Daleks, to join Britain's — were approved by Queen Elizabeth. concerns, our office plans no further com- Wrestling Star the nation's postage stamp images, it's not That, Royal Mail says, pretty much over- ment," Inhofe spokesman Gary Hoitsma appropriate for rock singer Freddie rides objections by anyone in the country. said. This attention to privacy is inconsis- Mercury of the band Queen and an avid Three cheers for the Queen. The tent, at best, since the Senator has spent Sues INF stamp collector during his life, to be car- stamps went on sale on June 1. the last several days impugning the Pro wrestling champion Sable is ried by the Royal Mail. integrity and good name of Hormel, the suing the World Wrestling Federation for Columnist Simon Heffer of Lon- nation's first openly gay ambassador.

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12 lune — lune 30, 1999 • IN Step www. instepnews. com IN Step, SECTION Q • June 17 to June 30, 1999 Arts • Interviews • Reviews • Calendar • Classifieds • Mite Life • The Guide INSIDE Q: LILITH FAIR 1999 Preview — page zz TOP zoo GAY NOVELS: on page 19 ART REVIEW: Randy James' Butch-O-Matic on page u, PLUS: Entrepreneur Perfects 'Caydar' story on page a

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Summer Sizzle: A Jazz Festival A free jazz festival called Summer Sizzle will be held in the 100 and 200 blocks of N. Broadway in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward on July 31 and Aug. 1. There will be continu- ous entertainment on Iwo stages, a fashion that he'd been diagnosed with terminal cancer. So I said the old TV's flamboyant decorating proverbial line, "I know the part. I can go on." I'm not in the show, outdoor shopping, a jazz photo exhibit, business to be famous. If that's happening, that's simply a by- special attractions and food and beverages. guru Christopher Lowell product of the work that we're doing. Headline acts include saxophonist Stan- discusses his sudden fame IN Step: You were great recently as a celebrity guest ley Turrentine and the Charmaine Neville on `The Match Game'. Have you been on Letterman Band on Saturday, July 31, On Sunday, Aug by Bradley David or Oprah or any of the big talk shows? IN Step Contributing Writer CL: I've been offered to go on Rosanne's show and all these 1, Jango and jazz pop artists will perform. other shows. But I have to say to myself, "Why should I go on The hours for July 31 are 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. these shows?" My audience is in a niche category, and I want hristopher Lowell, host of the hugely popular Interior them to feel connected to the authenticity I think they see in The hours for Aug. 1 are 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Motives on cable TV's Discovery Channel, is to home For more information call (414) 384-4272. me. I have intentionally kept a low profile the last couple of improvement what Richard Simmons is to fitness ... and years. I didn't get into show business to do talk shows. I really then some. With his over-the-top enthusiasm, Lowell got into this business and created this project to be helpful. My Rainbow Summer's (preaches to his millions of loyal viewers the idea that self esteem audience is large and loyal, and it's really essential to me that New Line-Up is essential to design. my audience doesn't see me popping up on every talk show. "Where there is fear, there is no creativity," he says. And there's no reason for me to — I've got my own show. In the fall, the flamboyant Lowell — now in the third sea- Daily, free fun and entertainment return son of his show, which airs weekdays at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 IN Step: So you never dreamed about being famous to the downtown banks of the Milwaukee p.m CST — will begin shooting The Christopher Lowell Show, when you were growing up? River with the 17th season of the Marcus which will replace Interior Motives on the Discovery Channel. CL: No. The only thing I knew was that I would eventually be affecting lots of people. I was one of those kids who had too Center for the Performing Arts' Rainbow The show will feature Lowell in a fully operational twelve-room home constructed as a set and will be much talent. I was an artist, a sculptor, a concert pianist ... Summer Festival. Running weekdays basically the same as Interior Motives but with You name it — I was doing it. For some reason, from the through Aug. 24, during the lunch hour and no studio audience and more of an emphasis on time I was born, I had an innate sense of what creativity on many selected evenings, the Peck Pavil- viewer mail, addressing questions and concerns was. And it was easy for me to channel that, much to from the 2,000 letters Lowell receives the nervousness of my whole family. I learned early ion will come alive with performers repre- each week. enough in the game that all that creativity was senting the full musical spectrum. Besides the Discovery show, Lowell going to do nothing unless I focused. So I New to Rainbow Summer this year are a is in negotiations for a syndicated talk decided that from the time I was seven years old to the time I was 20, I would number of local and national acts. They show to be called Christopher and Camilla At The Mall. Lowell and hold almost every single job in the arts include "Brave Combo," an eclectic sextet co-host Camilla Scott will do the I possibly could, and I did pretty from ; "Gaelic Storm," the steerage home improvement show from a damn good. Then once I felt I under- stood everything from dance to party band from the movie "Titanic"; "Big $4 million set being constructed in the middle of the second to sculpture to performance to what- Nick and the Cydecos," three Kenosha-born largest mall in the country. Low- ever, I would decide if I was about musicians and a Milwaukee blues man; ell, 43, is also currently in a all of those things or about one of "Frogwater," acoustic Celtic music with blue- bidding war with several those things. When the home national chains for his own improvement category came along, grass and country blues; and an afternoon of line of merchandise, to include it was sort of a microcosm for me. It eclectic jazz with Jerry Grillo, Jack Grassel paini;, linens, and fabrics. allowed me to do a subject matter I and Tom McGirr, among many other acts. Coinciding with the launch of knew very well, to present it in a way I knew had never been presented For daily performance information, call the product line, expected to hap- pen later this year, will be the release before, and to perform the way I the Marcus Center Events Line at (414) 273- of a self esteem/interior design work- felt the character would work. 2787 or visit the Center's Web site at book that Lowell is writing. IN Step: Were you always www.milwaukeearts.org. Born in Alaska, where his interested in decorating? father was stationed in the mil- CL: The interior design actually grew Walker's Point itary, Lowell went to high out of my set-design work in the theater school in Portsmouth, New in the late '70s. I learned a lot of tricks of Center For The Arts Hampshire and later spent sever- the trade, and essentially those same tricks al years at the University of New Hamp- are what I teach today — truly believing Membership Show shire. He was trained as a classical pianist, but that your home is a theater. My background ended up working in theater and television, in is more theater than it is interior design. A new exhibition at the Walker's Point addition to a successful career in the beauty But the theater background is far more rig- Center for the Arts features recent works by industry as a creative director for companies orous than anything an interior designer has its artist members. The Membership Show is like Revlon, Paul Mitchell, and Matrix Essen- to go through, because you have to interpret tials. In a recent telephone interview, Lowell scripts, you have to know lighting, you've open now through July 10. The show includes discussed, among other topics, his philosophy, got to understand period, the whole bit... rivalry sculpture, prints, paintings, photography and his private life (or lack thereof), and his IN Step: What made you decide to do with Martha Stewart. ceramics among the works by university pro- a TV show? fessionals, students, recent art school gradu- CL: I had seen Martha Stewart sort of make ates and career artists from the community. IN Step: Have you been shocked by it on the scene and took a look at that. And your sudden fame? Walker's Point Center for the Arts is I took a look at the sitcom Home Improve- Christopher Lowell: I can't say that I'm ment. There was an aspect about both that I located at 911 W. National Ave. and is open shocked by the fame. But I'm shocked that I liked and I said, "Wouldn't it be interesting Wednesday through Saturday from 1 to 5 ever became the host of the show. I had cre- if the two sort of got in a train wreck?" So p.m. For information call (414) 672-2787. ated this series and had been grooming a when I was working for the Matrix Hair young man for about three years to do the Corporation near Cleveland, I opened a dec- job. Two weeks before the camera crew orative home arts center, and for three years arrived to shoot my original pilot, he told me Continued on page 16 a p E_r 0 I'D I'D Photographer Stop by for one of our famous specialty margaritas! Check out our Friday Fish fry! Kirkland in Milwaukee Milwaukee — Advertising Photographers of America/Milwaukee (APA/M) will present an evening with internationally renowned AZTECA photographer Douglas Kirkland on Wednes- day, June 23 at the Wyndham Hotel, 139 E. 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14/ • ChristopherLowell, continued from page 13 experience. IN Step: I'm sure people are curi- we taught and graduated about 3,000 ous about what your own home Always the very best in men and women through home arts class- looks like. es. We shot about 2,200 hours of docu- CL: When I'm in production in L.A. I have mentary film footage, created a television a home up in the canyon. When I'm not in special specifically about creativity, which production, I have a home down on the aired on PBS, and that became the basis grounds of La Costa in Carlsbad, CA. My 6 for our pilot. homes are very photogenic but I purposely IN Step: Besides giving good dec- have never let them be photographed. I've eel orating tips, what impact do you got millions of viewers out there, and I do e er not want them to emulate my style. I want think Interior Motives has had on them to discover their own. people's lives? CL: Over the course of time, we realized IN Step: I noticed you wear a ring that what we were really doing was moti- on your ring finger. Do you have a Miss... vational/self-esteem issues. We were the significant other? Don't first to bring that in a really strong way to CL: No. I have no personal life. That ring lune 27 the "how to" market. When you think dates back to about 350 BC. A very dear Cross • about it, it makes a lot of sense. Most peo- friend of mine, a well-known Roman coin loey ple's only form of expression is their home. jewelry designer, created that for me. I had taught an unaccredited course at IN Step: So have you ever talked Boston University many years before on publicly about your private life? Join the Ed Sullivan and THE LEAD SUPREME creativity. It was extraordinary how, CL: No. I talk about my personal life throughout that course, just about every- for a REEEALLY BIG SHOW! • June 18 where I feel it's relevant. I'm very candid body would go through these crying jags. —a possum queen fund-raiser— on the air about the fact that I've been It was so personal — what they had bot- poor at times and I've had money at tled up in them. The only thing I regret- times. My life has been about being ted was that at the end of those classes, Help Support the M&M Peanuts Softball Team clever, moving forward, having courage. I they were convinced that yes indeed we all think that's relevant. FUND-RAISER: lune 19th • beer bust & cook-out are creative, but I hadn't given them a cre- ative task to bring that into three-dimen- IN Step: But you have no interest sional form. So when the home arts thing in talking about your romantic life? came up, I said, "This is an opportunity CL: I don't think it's relevant to anybody. for me take what I know about that and If I thought it meant something, to teach put that into a very vital arena." somebody something, that would be fine. IN Step: What do you think of But since it doesn't exist, I don't have to worry. [laughs] Martha Stewart? CL: I don't consider her "how to" to IN Step: You have a very dramatic begin with. I think she teaches people flair. Were you ever bullied specifically how she lives in the Hamp- because of that as a child? tons. If you look at Martha from that CL: I was very lucky. I had such visible point of view, she does a hell of a job. My talents that I garnered a lot of respect very .1\4.§.,c1V1 CLUB problem is, there's not enough room in early in my life, so I really never had a the Hamptons for my 35 million viewers. problem. I was a very quiet, shy person My viewers are a much more realistic when I was a kid. I sort of lived through 124 NORTH WATER STREET • 414.347.1962 group. Our show has continued to mysti- my talents. There are subtle differences fy the Discovery people because it just between the persona you see on the show Cabaret Entertainment • Major Credit Cards Accepted • Gift Certificates Available absolutely translates into every singe and me off-screen. When we edited that socio-economic base and demographic. documentary for PBS, I had an opportu- There are people in Beverly Hills who nity to watch myself teach over and over watch it religiously, and there are people again in very intimate situations. One of in the Turks and Caicos islands who have the things we found that was critical for nothing but a shack and an antenna who both men and women was that a certain watch it every day. The show has actually sense of androgyny had to be there. Men become quite a common denominator, had to not be threatened and women had ~at of even for professional interior designers. to not be threatened. J E W E L R Y IN Step: Do you feel competitive IN Step: Do you think your view- with Martha? ers assume you're gay? CL: No. She does with me. Actually, CL: I don't know. I know, based on the when she was on the Lifetime channel letters we get and the personal appear- before she moved to CBS, we were beat- ances I do, that they think I'm their ing her ratings every day. I know so many friend, and they will walk right up to me r•1 r people who know her — this is a very and throw their arms around me. It's that small industry — so I try to keep the gos- kind of relationship that I hope I have sip to a minimum. And that poor woman fostered with them. I think whatever e-N , t ri r-I has certainly left a paper trail. I don't they're seeing, they know that there's a %•••••••••••1 think others have to lose in order for me good deal of earned authenticity there to win. 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Alcohol Karooke with Pam! JAll in the Park - Outdoor Summer Concert Series (Milwaukee): This call (414) Barb S. (414) 483-6288 or Peter D. (414) 305-9291. ' weekly event is held in Cathedral Square Park along Jefferson & Jack- served to over 21 in Java's. M&M Club (Milwaukee): M&M Club (Milwaukee) Double Bubble with Rural Dykes Assn - Packing, Potluck & Farewell (Milwaukee): Come son Streets in the heart of East Town. Tonight WISCONSIN CONSER- Mondays: complimentary Hors D'oeuvres 5 to 7 p.m. OF MUSIC JAll ENSEMBLE from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Bring a help say farewell to Julie and Jules. RDA will help pack at 11 a.m. for VATORY Milwaukee Eagle (Milwaukee): Levi/Leather. Open 8 p.m. Free Pool, picnic and set up a table for a feast. Food and beverages are also avail- these gals who are moving west. Bring a vegetarian dish to pass. Car Boot Camp Saloon (Milwaukee): Cocktail Hour - 4 to 8 p.m. 838-3094 $S pitchers. able. FMI call (414) 271-1416. pooling from Eta and Carol's at 9:15 a.m. FMI call (608) Club 5/Planet 0/The Barracks (Madison, WI) 2-4.1 Happy Hour on all or (414) 964-2912. drinks up to $3.50 all night. All other drinks $1 off. Power Hour from Naplese lounge (Green Bay, WI): Shake a Drink! Aces free and sixes Friday, June 18 Sunday, June 27 8 to 9 p.m. Doubles for $1 more up to $3.25 regular drinks. Shots of half-price - 3 to 7 p.m. Dairyland Cowgirls & Cowboys Dancing (Madison, WI): At 8 p.m. Hot Sex or Pucker are $1.50. Pitchers of Long Islands are 510 from 12K - Lesbian Picnic (Milwaukee): There will be a picnic in area 4 of OH ZONE (Rockford, IL): All coffee drinks - $2. there will be lessons with Bill or Sharon. From 9 p.m. to close there will open to close. Patio open in June. be Open Dancing at the Sapphire Ballroom, 1133 N Sherman Ave. in Lake Park from 12 noon to 5 p.m. Enter off Newberry Street & go to Ray's Bar & Grill (Madison, WI): Grill open! 2-4-1 Happy Hour runs 219 Closed. the Northgate Mall. Smoke-free & a cash bar. There is a 53 suggested the left. Bring a dish to pass, your own beverages, and food to grill. Club (Milwaukee): from 4 to 7 p.m. Free pool with drink purchase from 9 p.m. to close There will be games. FMI call LAMM (414) 272-9442. donation. Everyone is welcome. FMI call (608) 245-0627. outdoor Dish (Milwaukee): The new night-spot for women! Happy Hour 2.4-1 Scooter's (Eau Claire, WI): Progressive Night! 9 p.m. through close. 51 rail Leagues - sign up now. LAMM- Softball Game (Milwaukee): The Lesbian Alliance of Metro Mil- PRIDEChicago - Pride Parade (Chicago): Chicago's 30th Annual Goy & from 5 to 7 p.m. Pool & Dart mixers, 506 mugs of beer. Price goes up 256 every half-hour to closing. will begin lining up at the corner of Halsted and waukee is playing games weekly at WICK FIELD #4 at 6, 7, 8, & 9 Lesbian Pride Parade Emeralds (Milwaukee): Margarita Mondays! 52 - 8 p.m. to midnight. South Water St. Docks (Milwaukee): 2 Cocktail Hour! 3 to 8 p.m. Tick- Belmont. At 2 p.m. the parade will step off from the Halsted/Belmont p.m.. If you want to play, contact Monica at (414) 860-1829. ets good until 9 p.m. $4 pitchers 9 p.m. to midnight. Station 2 (Mil- corner and proceed north on Halsted to Broadway, then south on Broad- Fluid (Milwaukee): 2-4-1 drinks from 5 to 8 p.m. waukee): Closed! Lakefront Festival of the Arts (Milwaukee): This is the 37th anniversary way to Diversey, then east on Diversey to Cannon Drive. A rally will take Jo'Dees International (Racine, WI): $6 Super Bust! by MGD and Miller of the arts festival at the Milwaukee Art Museum on Milwaukeeks lake- place at 4 p.m. in Lincoln Park, Grove #13, after the parade ends at lite , all the MGD or Miller Lite you can dank - ALL NITE! (S4 Packer The Ballgame (Milwaukee): $2.90 top-shelf, $1.80 rail drinks from 9 front. This is the perfect place to by a pointing for those bore walls. Free 3000 N. Lake Shore Drive West (the inner Drive at Wellington). live Bust for televised Monday night Packer's games. Open 1 hour before p.m. to close. tours of the museum will be available along with good food and enter- entertainment, informational tables staffed by community groups and televised games). The Office (Rockford, IL): Bud Products $1.50. tainment. Admission is $6 at the gate. FMI call (414) 224.3200. speakers will be on hand. Kathy's Nut Hut (Milwaukee): 4 to 6 p.m. Pull tabs! Trading Company (Eau Claire, WI): 2 for $2. Domestic bathes and Polish Fest - (Milwaukee) Celebrate the heritage of . Polka your The Wednesday, June 30 all night. little legs off. Have some great food. This ethnic festival celebrates the The Kloset (Beloit, WI): Happy Hour Drink Specials 4 through 7 p.m. rail mixes 150th anniversary of the death of Chopin and runs through 9 p.m. on Concerts an the Square - First Concert (Madison, WI): Join the Frontiers After 7 p.m. It's Guy's Night Out! $1.15 well drinks, $2.25 call drinks, Triangle (Milwaukee): Happy Hour - 5 to 9 p.m. 2-4-1 drinks! guys at 7 p.m. Bring a blanket and your goodies for a picnic on the 51 Special Ex, and 506 Pabst on tap. 6/20. FMI call (414) 529.2140. Woody's (Milwaukee): Appetizers! Cocktail Hour - 4 to 9 p.m. gross of the Capitol Green Commons while you enjoy this popular sum- M&M Club (Milwaukee): Mountain of BM Rib Special! Saturday, June 19 mer concert series. Wednesdays: Man's Country (Chicago): Half-Price Night. Rooms $10, Lockers Si. Boerner Botanical Gardens - 15th Anniversary Festival (Hales Corners, Doiryland Cowgids & Cowboys- Dancing (Madison, WI): At 7 p.m. there Barracks - Levi/Leather (Madison, WI): Happy Hour from 4 to 8 p.m. WI): Celebrate the 60th birthday of these beautiful gardens with a will be Beginning Line dance lessons with Elain, at 8 p.m. there will be Milwaukee Eagle (Milwaukee): Closed. 2.4.1 on all drinks under $3.50 plus the Happy Hour Wheel. From 8 everyone. The gar- series of entertainment and educational lectures for Folk Partner dance lessons with Kathy A., and from 9 p.m. to close there Naplese Lounge (Green Bay, WI): Pull tabs from 3 to 7 p.m. (Drinks as p.m. to close pints of Lite 52. Roil drinks 506 off. Shots of Cuervo or dens are located at 5879 S. 92nd Street. Some events hove a fee, but will be Open Dancing at the Sapphire Ballroom, 1133 N Sherman Ave. low as 256). There is a $6 Beer Bust from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Doctors $1.50 most are free. FMI call (414) 529-1870. in the Northgate Moll. Smoke-free & a cash bar. There is a $3 suggest- OH ZONE (Rockford, IL): Melrose Mondays. Free pizza & shot specials. Boot Camp Saloon: (Milwaukee): Cocktail Hour - 4 to 8 p.m. It's East Town Formers Market (Milwaukee) Flowers, vegetables, home- ed donation. Everyone is welcome. FMI call (608) 245-0627. leather Night! Prizes throughout the night. mode bakery and more! This happens every Saturday morning from - Ray's Bar & Grill (Madison, WI): 2.4-1 Happy Hour 4 to 7 p.m. $3.50 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Cathedral Square Pork. Milwoukeeks best BAR SPECIALS: and under drinks over $3.50 get SI off. Cell Block (Chicago): Open Shawn's Treasure Chest for Great Prizes! more. $2 Lite/MGD longnecks. and brightest jazz artists will highlight the morning while you shop. The Scooter's (Eau Claire, WI): S3 pitchers - 9 p.m. to close. Check your planner for outdoor market runs through Oct. 5. Sundays: South Water St. Docks (Milwaukee): Cocktail Hour! 3 to 8 p.m. Tick- Chicago Eagle (Chicago): Free pool. FrontRunners Milwaukee - Weekly Run/Wolk (Milwaukee): This week- Boot Camp Saloon (Milwaukee): Sunday afternoon bottle beer special ets good until 9 p.m. 51 off top and rail 9 p.m. to midnight. Club S/Planet 0 (Madison, WI): 2-4.1 Happy Hour from 4 to 8 p.m. on ly run/walk starts at 9 a.m. from St. Mary's . Join every- from 3 to 7 p.m. rails. Cuervo & Dr. S1.50 Karooke Station 2 (Milwaukee): Closed! drinks up to $3.25.506 off all taps & one for brunch afterwards. Everyone is welcome. FMI contact Bill Mor- Cell Block (Chicago): Beer Busts hosted each week by various groups. from 8 to 11 p.m. Power Hour from 8 to 9 p.m. Doubles for $1 more up 51.80. 9 ley (414) 278-0787 or wmorley@pitnetnet. Check your monthly planner. $4.25 pitchers all night. Holding Cell The Ballgame (Milwaukee): Domestic beer $1.50, rail drinks to 53.25 regular drinks.Shots of Hot Sex or Pucker are $1.50. Pitchers LAMM - Wolk Against Family Violence (Milwaukee): The walk starts at opens at 6 p.m. Dominic DJ. p.m. to close. of Long Islands are SIO from open to close. Patio open in June. 9 a.m. and concludes at 12:30 p.m. with closing ceremonies and grand Chicago Eagle (Chicago): Pizza Night! The Office (Rockford, IL): Miller products - 51.50. Club 219 (Milwaukee): Open at 5 p.m. Cocktails ore 1/2 price from prizes. All walkers receive free admission to Polish Fest on the Sum- Triangle (Milwaukee): Happy Hour - 5 to 9 p.m. 2-4-1 drinks! $4 pitch- 5 to 8 p.m. merfest Grounds. FMI or to join the LAMM Team, call the LAMM Office Club 5/Planet 0/The Barracks (Madison, WI) Sunday Miller Lite Beer ers of beer. Melrose Place Mondays. Point for 51. 2- at (414) 272-9442. Bash from 3 to 8 p.m. Power Hour from 8 to 9 p.m. Doubles for $1 Dish (Milwaukee): It's Point Night! There are pints of more up to $3.25 regular drinks. Pitchers of long Islands are $I 0 from Woody's (Milwaukee): Cocktail Hour - 4 to 9 p.m. 4-1 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Juneteenth Day (Milwaukee) This one day African-American festival is open to close. Live Drag & Male Strippers. Patio open in June. held in honor of the Emancipation Proclamation, and boasts, soul food, la's (Green Bay, WI): Free Pool & Darts. $6 Super Bust at Java's. Emeralds (Milwaukee): Lady's Night! Call drinks $2. Club 219 (Milwaukee): SI tappers & 51.50 rail drinks from 4 to 8 information booths and entertainment on Martin Luther King Dr. Tuesdays: Fannies (Milwaukee): Karooke Night! Pull tabs. Drinks as low as 256. between (enter and Burleigh Streets. p.m. Dart leagues starting the 2nd week of January. Sign up now! Barracks Levi/Leather (Madison, WI): 2-4-1 Happy Hour on all drinks Dish (Milwaukee): The new night spot for women! Rotating Events! Wednesday, June 23 up to $3.50 and under, plus Spin the Happy Hour Wheel to win beer Fluid (Milwaukee): 2-4-1 drinks from S to 8 p.m. Bottles of Corona & shots of Cuervo $2 from 8 p.m. to close. Dairylond Cowgirls & Cowboys Dancing (Madison, WI): At 7 p.m. there Emerald's (Milwaukee): Men's Night! Call drinks S2. bash, free drinks, fish fry & more. Customer Appreciation Day. Free taps will be Beginning Line dance lessons with Joan, at 8 p.m. there will be Fannies (Milwaukee): Open at 3 p.m. $1 off all Miller products. S4 of lite from 8 to 9 p.m., plus all rail drinks & domestic bottles are only Jo'Dees International (Racine, WI): Free Pool & $6 Super Bust! MGD Advanced Two-Step lessons with Ron or Bill, and from 9 p.m. to close pitchers of beer. $1. 9 p.m. taps of Lite, domestic bottles of beer & rail drinks are and Miller Lite! there will be Open Dancing at $1.25. Price goes up 25 cents every half hour until 11 p.m. From then the Sapphire Ballroom, 1133 N Sherman Kothy's Nut Hut (Milwaukee): Noon to 4 p.m. Bloody Marys & Screw Kathy's Nut Hut (Milwaukee): Hump Day! Everything's a buck. Open Ave. in the Northgate to close taps of Lite, rails & domestic bottles are $2. Shots of Pucker Mall. Smoke-free & o cash bar. There is a $3 sug- Drivers - $2 a mug. to close. gested donation. Everyone is welcome. FMI call (608) 245-0627. & Hot Sex ore $1 from 8 p.m. to close. Dancing & DJ at 10 p.m. The Kloset (Beloit, WI): Happy Hour Drink Specials 4 through 7 p.m. M&M Club (Milwaukee): Brunch from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Boot Camp Saloon (Milwaukee): Cocktail Hour - 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, June 24 55 Beer Bash! DJ spinning the hits starting at 9 p.m. Milwaukee Eagle (Milwaukee): Underwear Night! $1 off all alcoholic Cell Block (Chicago): SMUT Tuesdays! XXX Videos. Cheap Drinks. Free JAll in the Park - Outdoor Summer Concert Series (Milwaukee): This M&M Club (Milwaukee): Double Bubble with complimentary Hors beverages for those in their underwear. DJ Eddie. Games. weekly event is held in Cathedral Square Park along Jefferson & Jack- D'oeuvres 5 to 7 p.m. son Streets in the heart of Eost Town. Tonight STREETEIFE with WAR- Naplese Lounge (Green Bay, WI): $6 Beer Bust from 3 to 6 p.m. Chicago Eagle (Chicago): Leather/levy Night. Well-drinks & draft beer Milwaukee Eagle (Milwaukee): Open 8 p.m. Levi/Leather. Miller REN WIEGRATZ from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Bring a picnic and set up a Olt ZONE (Rockford, IL): $1.50 Bloody Marys hosted by the Gay Voice. $1. Dress Code Enforced. Pit open. Time! Miller Nite, table for a feast. Food and beverages ore also available. FMI call $1.50 taps and $2.00 bottles. (414) Ray's Bar & Grill (Madison, WI): Patio bar open at 2 p.m. Beer Bash Club 5/Planet 0 (Madison) 2.4-1 Happy Hour 4 to 8 p.m. on all drinks 271.1416. Naplese Lounge (Green Bay, WI):Rail drinks $1.50, Soda & juice are from 2 to 8 p.m. Open volleyball. Food available from 2 to 6 p.m. 53.25. Rail drinks & domestic beers ore $1 © 8 p.m., $1.25 @ 50( from 3 to 7 p.m. $6 Beer Bust from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. SUMMERFEST Party of the Century (Milwaukee): Americaks biggest 2/4/1 10 p.m. to close 8:30 p.m., $1.50 @ 9 p.m., $1.75 @ 9:30 p.m. and $2 from 10 outdoor music festival opens on the Summerfest Grounds of Maier Fes- OH ZONE (Rockford, IL): Karooke! 51.50 MGD and Michelob Scooter's (Eau Claire, WI): Beer Bust (tap beer S6) 3 to B p.m. $8 rail p.m. to close. Shots of Hot Sex or Pucker ore $1.50. Power Hour from Goldens. tival Park with 12 star-studded stages featuring Americaks favorite mixers, SI 0 call mixers, 52 dbl. Bloody Marys & Screw Drivers all night. 8 to 9 p.m. Doubles for $1 more up to 53.25 regular drinks. Pitchers Ray's Bor & Grill (Madison, WI): Grill open! 2.4.1 Happy Hour from 4 award-winning artists. The Marcus Amphitheater sparkles with stars of Long Islands are 510 from open to close. Patio open in June. to 7 p.m. $1.50 Dr. orSchnapps with drink 9 p.m. to close. such as John Mellencamp, Lauren Hill, Bob Dylan and Paul Simon. For South Water St Docks (Milwaukee): During the day there is o $1 beer Club 219 (Milwaukee): Open at 5 p.m. Cocktails are 1/2 price from ticket information call (800) 272-FEST or visit their web site at sale from 3 to 9 p.m. on selected varieties. Shirtless Sunday Nights with Scooter's (Eau Claire, WI): 2 for 52 domestic bottles and rail mixers. 9 S to 8 p.m. www.summerfest com. Joke and Steve M. Half-price top & roil if your shirt is off. 9 p.m. to close. p.m. to closing. Dish (Milwaukee): Closed Saturday, June 26 Station 2 (Milwaukee): Bloody Marys $2. Mimosas $2. South Water St. Docks (Milwaukee): Cocktail Hour! 3 to 8 p.m. Tick- Emeralds (Milwaukee): $5 Beer Bust - 8 to midnight! ets good until 9 p.m. 2/4/1 all day, all night (open to close). 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Water St, Milwaukee • 218-0636 1-90 to Bus. 20 (State St.) k8A lune 17 — lune ;o, 1999 • IN Step www.instepnews.corn town, Nancy takes a 15-minute train ride to few paragraphs in which Kitty is rebuffed and threads in the larger pattern — the Canterbury Palace of Varieties, as it was and turned away at the conclusion. moments of family memory and family called, and sees for the first time Miss Kitty This is one book you won't be able to put sadness, of love and yearning and loss and Butler, a cross-dressing music hall singer. down as Waters leads you through the les- recovery, of confidence and innocence, of Kitty is known as a "masher" (a gen- bian and queer demimonde of the "original" cynicism and optimism--and recognize in tleman dandy), because of her fancy-dress gay nineties. In discussing her first novel, she them the fragments of my own self." male impersonation and the fact that she says her mother met her father at a local There is no shortage of erotic writing flirts with the young women in the audi- dance. Her mother taught her the songs, for those who like that sort of thing, but I ence. At the end of her act she tosses the often love songs, sung to a woman, and they think the historical part of the novel is prettiest girl a rosebud. Nancy keeps have been "a peculiar source of pleasure to enchanting and stands on its own. As for returning alone to see her and eventually her as an adult, with women lovers of her the title, it's a sex act called cunnilingus, finds her way into an unused box seat own, to be able to recall those lyrics ... and "the details of which lie within this lusty through the courtesy of Tony, the ticket- to make them meaningful again. novel. (Riverhead Books, ISBN:1-57322- seller. One night it is she who gets the She says that if she were to write and 136-8, $25.95 HC). rosebud. As she leaves there is a message publish 10 more novels, she isn't sure she —Ed Grover for her to visit Miss Butler in her dressing would "produce a book of which she room and the romance is on. could be fonder." She finds this novel Read more book reviews on Kitty's career blossoms as she is beck- "filled with resonances of a purely person- IN Step's Web site ot www. instepnews.com oned to the London stage; she asks Nancy al kind ... it surprises me to find patches to accompany her as her (unofficial) dress- 'Fin bd the Ve vet er. They find rooms among the other lodgers at a Mrs. Dendy's on Greasepaint Avenue. Here they share a bed up under TIPPING THE VELVET the eaves and gradually become lovers. Waters keeps the reader's interest high, as by Sarah Waters the two girls then become partners in a wildly successful stage act as male imper- sonators. Now there are "two lovely girls •.:2J1 :;1111 :311) ha f all the books that have come in in trousers, instead of one." Kitty begins to IN Step World Headquarters to feel shame over her sexual preference 0 prior to Gay and Lesbian Book and heads into marriage with their man- fascinating. Month, this one is the most ager, Mr. Bliss. Nancy is dumped, left on This colorful (and erotic) novel, set in her own. Victorian England circa 1890, tells of the Devastated, Nancy goes on a series of coming out of 18-year old Nancy King, a erotic excursions and struggles to survive fishmonger who works for her parents in disguised as a "renter" (a male street pros- provincial the family oyster parlor in the titute). She is picked up by a wealthy and seaside town of Whitstable. Early on, we 4, lustful widow and becomes a kept "tart" (a get a Dickensian slice of home life and girl/boytoy) in her posh mansion. She learn the proper way to open a "native" — undergoes undreamed-of transformations referred to — while we sit as oysters are and mortification among the Sapphic family. around the supper table with the members of the jaded Cavendish Club, 7 6 Alice have a pas- Nancy and her sister before finally finding true love and her sion for the music halls during their spare own voice as a fledgling Socialist while Nancy loves all the I I time. More particularly, working as housekeeper for a female union 14.278. our ad today! music-hall songs sung by and about organizer. We could have done without the women. Since there is nothing in her small 'Death in Venice' Is No, 1 Gay Novel /Mexican Fiesta New York (AP) — Contributing supposed to choose a gay novel, I should yet another end-of-the-century list, an think that it's not just because it has a organization of gays in publishing has group of men or women interacting." compiled the 100 greatest gay novels of The exercise was a response to the all time, with Thomas Mann's Death in Modern Library's list last summer of Patio PARTY Venice coming in at No. 1. the century's best English-language The novella about a writer's infatua- novels. That list was widely criticized as tion with a teen-age boy was followed by a stodgy compilation of white male lit- James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room," the erature. The Modern Library is a divi- story of an expatriate's struggle with his sion of Random House. FRI., JUNE 25 • 4PM•8PM sexual identity, and Our Lady ofthe Flow- "That list got me thinking about ers, Jean Genet's fantasy about a male what novels by gays and lesbians were prostitute in the Parisian underworld. overlooked," said Charles Flowers, Two classic French novels finished chairman of the Publishing Triangle. Raffle — fourth and fifth: Marcel Proust's The Publishing Trangle list covers Prizes Remembrance of Things Past and Andre the best novels ever, not just those of Gide's The Immoralist. the 20th century. There are far more Must be present to WIN! The list was compiled by Publish- women and nonwhites, and all lan- ing Triangle, which consists of more guages were eligible. than 250 gay and lesbian writers, edi- Fourteen judges were on the Pub- —A Possum Queen Fund-raiser— tors, agents and publishers. lishing Triangle selection committee, The criteria for what constitutes a among them John Loughery, art critic "gay novel" were hazy. Titles apparently for The Hudson Review, and Anthony could, make the list if the author was Heilbut, author of a prize-winning Margatqa Specials gay, if the book had gay subject matter, biography of Mann. or the text was simply open to gay If the Modern Library could be interpretation. faulted for disregarding alternative WEEK! As a result, the judges disagreed, for voices, the current list could be cited for instance, over the inclusion of Herman excessive loyalty to those voices. Melville's Moby-Dick. Few critics, for instance, would call "Each of these books contributes to Giovannis Room a better novel than the understanding of the outsider men- Remembrance of Things Past or rank tality," said one of the judges, novelist Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt Er" Dorothy Allison, whose own Bastard (No. 36) above The Turn of the Screw by Out of Carolina" made the list. Moby- Henry James (No. 40) and Louisa May BOOT CAMP Dick is very much about the survival of Alcott's Little Women. 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www.instepnews.com IN Step •iiine — lune 30, 1999 Station 2 (Milwaukee): Mini Pitchers $2.50. Roil drinks $1.50 DJ/Dancing. Former Congressman Henry S. Ruess will read from his new book WHEN GOVERNMENT WAS GOOD: MEMORIES OF LIFE IN POLITICS at The Ballgame (Milwaukee): Tap beer Special Export 806 a gloss.. 9 Ray's Bar & Grill (Madison, WI): 2-4-1 Happy Hour from 4 to 7 p.m. 7 p.m. FMI call (414) 963-3111. p.m. to closing. Fish Fry 4 to 7 p.m. Live DJ 9 p.m. to close. Men's Room p.m. to close: 506 off all drinks with card. Friday The Office (Rockford, IL): $2.50 pitchers/506 drafts. Retro party with (Levi/leather) 7 Wednesday, June 23 Fetish Night! DJ Cris. Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop - Author Appearance (Milwaukee, Down- domestic bottles 9 p.m. to close. Triangle (Milwaukee): Happy Hour - 5 to 9 p.m. 2-4-1 drinks! South Scooter's (Eau Claire, WI): S1 er Ave.): Tom Franklin will read from his new book of short stories, Pork Wednesdays. S5 All-Ran-Drink Superbust (beer, wine & soda). South Water Street Docks (Milwaukee): Cocktail Hour! 3 to 8 p.m. POACHERS, at 7 p.m. FMI call (414) 332-1181. Tickets good until 9 p.m. Woody's (Milwaukee): Dart Night Cocktail Hour - 4 to 9 p.m. Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop - Author Appearance (Mequon, WI) Neil Station 2 (Milwaukee): Margarita Madness $2. Corona $2. Barnard, M.D. will read from FOODS THAT FIGHT PAIN at 7 p.m. FMI La's (Green Bay, WI): $6 Super Bust. Sean spins requests. call (414) 241.6220. The Ballgame (Milwaukee): Cocktail hour from 2 to 9 p.m. Hors d'oeu- Thursdays: vres. Friday, June 25 Barracks - Levi/leather (Madison, WI): 2.4.1 Happy Hour plus the The Office (Rockford, IL): Best Dance Party! DJ Cris. Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop - Author Appearance (Milwaukee, Down- Happy Hour wheel from 4 to 8 p.m. After 8 p.m. All whiskey drinks er Ave.): Paul Auster will read from TIMBUKTU at 8 p.m. FMI call (414) The Trading Company (Eau Claire, WI): All chilled shots $1.50 - 9 to (rail, Jim Beam, Jack Daniels etc.) are 506 off. Pitchers of Lite S4 for 332-1181. small & $5 for large. Shots of Doctor $2. 11 p.m. Wednesday, June 30 . Dynamic Duo. Photo by Jamie @ Eagle. Boat Comp Saloon (Milwaukee): Cocktail Hour - 4 to 8 p.m. Triangle (Milwaukee): Happy Hour - 5 to 9 p.m. 2.4-1 drinks! A Room of One's Own Bookstore & Coffeeshop • Author Appearance Chicago Eagle (Chicago): Pain & Pleasure in the Pit. $1.50 longnecks. Woody's (Milwaukee): Cocktail Hour - 4 to 9 p.m. (Madison, WI): Gigi Kaeser, co-author of LOVE MAKES A FAMILY; POR- Pit open. Saturdays: TRAITS OF LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDERED PARENTS Club 5/Planet 0 (Madison, WI): 2-4-1 Happy Hour on all drinks up to Barracks - Levi/Leather (Madison, WI): Levi/Leather/Uniform Night! AND THEIR FAMILIES will discuss her book at 6 p.m. Ms. Kaeserwill be 53.25. Frozen cocktails $3. Pitchers of Lite $5. Will A Grace Night: Si 506 off every drink for proper L/L/Uniform attire. 2.4-1 Happy Hour joined by several local families. The event is free and open to the pub- off Martinis during the show. Power Hour from 8 to 9 p.m. Doubles for on all drinks 5350 and under. SI off all drinks over 53.50, plus spin lic. FMI call (608) 251.7888. Si more up to $3.25 regular drinks. Shots of Hot Sex or Pucker are the Happy Hour Wheel from 4 to 8 p.m. Afterwords Bookstore - lesbian Rending Group (Milwaukee): The group $1.50. Pitchers of Long Islands are $10 from open to close. Patio open will discuss HOOD by Emma Donoghue at 7 p.m. Anyone who is inter- in June. Cell Block (Chicago, IL:): Open at 2 p.m. Saturday Night Riot 'tit 3 o.m. Holding Cell opens at 10 p.m. Freddie Bane Dl. ested my join in. FMI call (414) 963-9089 or check the web site at Club 219 (Milwaukee): Open at 5 p.m. Cocktails are 1/2 price from www.afterwords.com. 5 to 8 p.m. Chicago Eagle (Chicago): Drawings for Eagle Leather all night. Pit open. Dish (Milwaukee): 2-4.1 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Groove with Amy! Club 219 (Milwaukee): $1 tappers & $1.50 rail drinks 4 to 8 p.m. COMMUNITY MEETINGS E Amy entertains! Dish (Milwaukee): The new night spot for women! Join DJ Amber for EVENTS: Emeralds (Milwaukee): Tea Thursday! Ice Tea $2.50. dancin' & romancin'. Fannies (Milwaukee): SI off almost everything including top shelf. Fannies (Milwaukee): Hot Music to dance to. Two new DJs playing top Thursday, June 17 40, booty, house, funk, oldies etc. Fluid (Milwaukee): 2-4-1 drinks from 5 to 8 p.m. Cosmopolitan Marti- LAIR - Research Conference (Milwaukee): TWELVE YEARS OF PRISON nis $3 from 8 p.m. to close. Jo'Dees International (Racine, W0: Vanilla & Original Doctor's, Cherry HIV PREVENTION INTERVENTIONS: THE EVOLUTION OF PROGRAMS, Group grope. Photo by Jamie @ 219 Cheesecake, Cherry lifeSaver's and Viagra shots - 52.50. S1.25 Tap will be discussed at 3 p.m. in the Conference Room at 2071 N. Sum- Jo'Dees International (Racine, WI): $6 SUPER BUST! MGD and Miller MGD & Miller Lite, $1.75 Pints of Leinie's Red, 52.50 Pints of Hacker- mit Ave. FMI call (414) 456-7731. Lite. Cherry LifeSaver's and Viagra Shots • $ 2.50 Pschorr Weisse. 11 Diversity G/L Resource Center (Rockford, IL): Located at 610 E State St. Kathy's Nut Hut (Milwaukee): Stammers! Si -1 p.m. to 2 a.m. Kathy's Nut Hut (Milwaukee): Short beers 2 for $1.50. Open from 4 to 9 p.m. teen Drop-in Hours. FMI call (815) 964-2639. Kirby's Klub (Madison, WI): Every Thursday Night is 20's Night! Party Man's Country (Chicago): Male Strippers and Porn Stars. Show at Mid- Gay AA - Open Meetings (Appleton & Green Bay, WI): There are five to the hottest rock all night. Si roil, SI shots, 506 tops. Listen to our night. Free Continental Breakfast Sunday Morning. open AA Meetings for the gay and lesbian community each week in new DJs Todd & Shawn. Appleton and Green Bay. 336-2868 or Milwaukee Eagle (Milwaukee): 2-4.1 on all mixed drinks from 8 p.m. FMI & locations call (920) The Kloset (Beloit, WI): Happy Hour Drink Specials 4 through 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. DJ Eddie! (920) 954-9169. After 7 p.m. It's Lodies Night Out! 53 pitchers, S1.50 bottled beer and OH ZONE (Rockford, IL): $1.50 shot specials. DJ/Dancing. Goy AA/Gay Al-anon 12-Step Meetings (Kenosha): These recovery 156 taps. groups meet every Thursday at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 5810 M&M Club (Milwaukee): Happy Hour horn 5 p.m. to close!. Ray's Bar & Grill (Madison, WI): live DJ 9 p.m. to close. Men's Room 8th Ave., at 1:30 p.m. FMI call Bill or Art at (414) 694-0115 (Levi/Leather) 7 p.m. to close: 506 off all drinks with cord. Progres- Mon's Country (Chicago): Half-Price Night. Rooms $10, lockers $7. sive Happy Hour from 7 to 10 p.m. Gay/Lesbian AA Closed Meeting (Madison, WI): Meets weekly at 8 1609 University Ave. FMI call Milwaukee Eagle (Milwaukee): Open 8 p.m. Levi/Leather. Tex-Mex p.m. at the First Congregational Church, Scooter's (Eau Claire, WI): All chilled shots only 51.50 - 9 to 11 p.m. Family Ctr. (Madison, WI): Night! S2 bottles of Corona, $2 shots of Cuervo and Tequila Rose. (608) 222-8989. South Madison Health & Dl & dancing starting of 11 p.m. Free, anonymous walk-in HIV testing from 5 to 7:45 p.m. Located at Naplese Lounge (Green Bay, WI): Pull tabs! drinks as low as 256 3 to Station 2 (Milwaukee): Dirty Cocktails Specials (ask bartender). Hat 2202 South Pork St. FMI call (608) 261-9270. 1 p.m. Sex Si. Stammers 51. HIV Self-Help Group - Monthly meeting (Baraboo, WI): This group spon- OH ZONE (Rockford, IL): Si bottle beer. 506 drafts. The Ball Game (Milwaukee): Bloody Marys, Screw Drivers, Grey sored by persons living with HIV, Sauk Prairie Memorial Hospital & the Y-M-C-A! Photo by Jamie @ 219 Ray's Bar & Grill (Madison, WI): Grill open! 2-4-1 Happy Hour from 4 Hounds 52.30. Tap beer 806 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. AIDS Network meets every 3rd Thursday from 1 to 3 p.m. in Baraboo. Refreshments are served & transportation assistance is available. FMI to 7 p.m. The Office (Rockford, IL): Rockford's Best Dance Party! DJ's Jerry & A location call (608) 643.7241 or (608) 643- 7583. South Water St. Docks (Milwaukee): Cocktail Hour! 3 to 8 p.m. Tick- less One! 7 LGBT Community Center - HIV Tests and STD Screening (Milwaukee): ets good until 9 p.m. S3 Weiss Beers Collection (selection varies). Woody's (Milwaukee): Come down and Bash with Chris from 4 to 9 These testing/screening services are available weekly at the BESTD Station 2 (Milwaukee): Bottle and Can beers, 506 off. 51 shots of cold p.m. office in the Community Center from 5 to 7:30 p.m. FMI call (414) Schnapps. 271.2656 or (414) 272.2144. The Ballgame (Milwaukee): 51.80 rail drinks 9 p.m. to close. BAR EVENTS: LGBT Community Center - lesbian Singles Discussion Group (Milwau- The Office (Rockford, IL): Beer $I Well drinks 51.50. Thursday, June 17 kee): The meeting is at 7 p.m. and is open to all lesbians for ongoing discussion about unique challenges and rewards of being single. FMI The Trading Company (Eau Claire, WI): Super Bust! 9 p.m. to close. 58 Fluid - HIV Testing (Milwaukee): The BESTD Traveling HIV Clinic will be call Pat Walsh (414) 329-8404. rail, $10 call mixers, $12 top-shelf mixers. there hom 9 p.m. to 12 midnight. FMI call (414) 272-2144. South Madison Health & Family Ctr. (Madison, WI): Free, anonymous Triangle (Milwaukee): Happy Hour - 5 to 9 p.m. 2.4.1 drinks! 56 All- Friday, June 18 U-Can Drink Rail Bust! walk-in HIV testing from 5 to 7:45 p.m. Located at 2202 South Park Milwaukee Eagle - Fetish Fridays (Milwaukee): 2-4.1 on mixed drinks St. FMI call (608) 261-9270. Woody's (Milwaukee): Cocktail Hour - 4 to 9 p.m. Specialty Beer Night from 8 to 10 p.m. Check your Eagle calendar for the latest information. Triangle Coalition - LGB Support Group (Rockford, IL): Meet to establish $1.50 per bottle from 8 p.m. to close (Sam Adams, Corona, Becks, Participating customers will receive 506 off all beverages from 10 p.m. Rolling Rock & More). and explore friendships & relationships. Discuss a variety of topics every to closing. Thursday at 8 p.m. FMI colt (319) 583.1834. Za's (Green Bay, WI): S6 Super Bust. Ill Mork spins. Saturday, June 19South Water Street Docks - Battle of the Possum Women's Consciousness Raising Group (Madison, WI): Meets weekly Queens (Milwaukee): This Possum Queen fund-raiser runs from 6 to 10 Cuties of the week. Photo by Chris Fridays: at 5:30 p.m. at 122 State St. Suite 403. FMI call (608) 250-6775. p.m. FMI colt (414) 225-9676. Borracks - Levi/leather (Madison, WI): 2-4.1 Happy Hour on all drinks Unitarian Universalist Church Lesbian Support/Discussion Group S3.50 and under. $1 off all other drinks. From 4 to 8 p.m. plus the Sunday, June 20 (Rockford, IL): The group meets weekly from 7 to 8 p.m. at 4848 Turn- Happy Hour wheel. Club 5 Beer Bosh (Madison, WI): There is a beer bash from 4 to 8 er Rd. FMI call (815) 636.7298. • Boot Comp Saloon (Milwaukee): Cocktail Hour - 4 to 8 p.m. p.m. 55 gets you all the miller Lite top you can drink. There are live Friday, June 18 Cell Block (Chicago): Fetish Night! Check your Monthly Planner. $100 shows; either Drag or Mole strippers. The Patio opens in June and a new restaurant menu is coming soon. LGBT Youth Group • Meeting (Kenosha): This group meets the first & drawings. Holding Cell opens at 10 p.m. third Fridays of the month from 1 to 10 p.m. of the ARCW Offices, Chicago Eagle (Chicago): Club Night. Chicago's Leather and SAM Clubs Wednesday, June 23 1212 57th St. FMI call 800-924-6601. welcome. Pit open. The Triangle - HIV Testing (Milwaukee): The BESTD Traveling HIV Clinic Frontiers Gay/Bi Men's Group - Happy Hour (Madison, WI): Meet at Club 5/Planet Q (Madison, WI): 2.4.1 Happy Hour on all drinks up to will be there from 9 p.m. to 12 midnight. EMI call (414) 272.2144. the Shamrock Bar every Friday night around 6 p.m. for drinks and $3.25 from 4 to 8 p.m. Patio open in June. maybe a bite to eat afterwards. Club 219 (Milwaukee): Open at 5 p.m. Cocktails are 1/2 price from BOOK READINGS, CLASSES High Teo & Talk - Senior Men's Group (Madison, WI): High Tea & Talk 5 to 8 p.m. E CLUBS: is an organization-free (no long associated with SAGE/Dane) opportu- Dish (Milwaukee): The new night spot for women! Happy Hour 2-4-i nity for senior men, and their friends of all ages, who enjoy the com- 5 to 7 p.m. Join DJ Amber for dancin' & romancin'. Friday, June 18 pany of other men on friday afternoons. The group meets at Monty's Blue Plate Diner, 2089 Atwood Ave., from 3:30 to 5 p.m. and is wheel Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop - Author Appearance (Shorewood, WI): A. Emeralds (Milwaukee): Friday Night Dance Party with DJ Bange. No chair accessible. cover before 9 p.m. Manette Ansay will read from her new book set in Wisconsin, MID- We hate Ricky Martin! Photo by Chris NIGHT CHAMPAGNE, at 8 p.m. FMI call (414) 963-3111. LGBT Community Center - Coffee Chat (Milwaukee): The AIDS Resource fannies (Milwaukee): Envelope Night! WIN SSScash & prizes. DJ of Center of Wisconsin sponsors a youth chat from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in 10 p.m. with the best of the 70s, 80s & 90s. Saturday, June 19 Room A. FMI call (414) 271-2656. Frontiers Gay/Bi Fluid (Milwaukee): 2-4-1 drinks from 5 to 8 p.m. Men's Group - Author's Book Discussion (Madison, MGLO & MGLPO - Red tight Night (Marshfield, WI): Come every Friday WI): UW Professor Deric Bownds will brief Frontiers members on his Jo'Dees International (Racine, WI): Bring on the Bears and Bikers! night horn 10:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. to Marshfield's #1 spot at 130 S. Cen- recently published book THE BIOLOGY OF THE MIND at 1:30 p.m. in $1.25 Tap MGD & Miller Lite, $1.75 Pints of leinie's Red, $2.50 Pints tral Ave., above the Thimbleberry Bookstore. Come and meet local LGBT Middleton. Afterwards he will lead the group in some simple exercises of Hacker-Pschorr Weisse. $2.50 Vanilla & Original Doctor's, Cherry people, enjoy Videos and Dancing. Everyone is wekome to attend. Corry-in that illustrate how their brains work. FMI call Gene (608) 831.4711. 'Cheesecake, Cherry LifeSover's and Viagra shots. Alcohol accepted. FMI call Jim (715) 384-6731 or Vic (715) 387-2068. Kathy's Nut Hut (Milwaukee): Pull tabs! 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, June 21 Northland Gay Men's Center - Weekly HIV/AIDS Social Group (Duluth, MN): The group meets from S to 8 p.m. at the Center, 8 N. 2nd Ave. The Kloset (Beloit, WI): Happy Hour Drink Specials 4 through 7 p.m. Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop Author Appearance (Shorewood, WI): East, Temple opera Block, Suite 309. This is an opportunity for all men DJ spinning the hits starting at 8 p.m. 51.50 bottles and SI shots Elinore Lipman will read from her new book, THE LADIES' MAN at 7 with HIV/AIDS to socialize and find support. FMI call (218) 722-8585. (Liquor and Schnapps). p.m. FMI call (414) 963-3111. Madison Transgender Group - Support Group (Madison, WI): A support M&M Club (Milwaukee): All you can eat Fish Fry & other great specials. Tuesday, June 22 and advocacy group for Transsexuals (M-1-F and F-T-M), Cross Dressers Milwaukee Eagle (Milwaukee): Open 8 p.m. Fetish Nite! 506 off all Shake It Up! - GOO Book Discussion Group (Madison, WI): Two and their Friends, Families and Significant Others. Meeting at 7:30 beverages for those who are Fetish dressed from 10 p.m. to close. 2- hooks will be discussed at 7 p.m., one a fiction novel and a non-fiction p.m. of OutReach, 14 West Mifflin Street. FMI call (608) 255-4927. 4-1 on all mixed drinks from 8pm to 10pm. The Shaft Bar opens at 10 book that ties in with the fiction novel. At Borders Book Store East. EMI p.m. Dress Code enforced. DJ Eddie. (608) 240-0080 Saturday, June 19 Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop - Author Appearance (Shorewood, WI): AIDS Network HIV/AIDS Support Group (Madison, WI): This group We love Ricky Martin! Photo by Chris OH ZONE (Rockford, II): $1.50 shot specials & import beer specials.

Tune 1T — lune go, 1999 ' IN Step www.instepnews.com Your `Gaydar' or Mine? Making Contact the High-Tech Way by Keith Clark by IN Step cientists have pooh-poohed it for decades, but many gay men swear Sby it as their most reliable way of telling who's gay Triplets. Photo by Chris @ Triangle and who isn't. "Gaydar" On the Town! Photo by Chris @ La Cage Don't squeeze the Chormin. Photo by Chris @ Switch —that "ping" sense that someone meets from 10 a.m. to noon at UW Hospital, 600 Highland Ave. in you 675-9400. CATHEDRAL OF HOPE, (Dallas, TX) port of the Federated MCC, will reg- see, perhaps even in a film or on TV, is K6/Rm. 280, 2nd floor. FMI call (608) 252-6540 or 1-800-486- ularly air a 30 minute worship service at 8 p.m. 6276. LGBT Campus Center Boy-Oh-Boy Men's Social Group (Madison, WI): gay — has long held folklore status in This social group for ages 18 to 25 meets every Tuesday at 7 p.m. at WORT Radio 89.9 FM - Lesbian Radio (Madison, WI): A weekly show GO AA- Open Meeting (Madison, WI): This meeting takes ploce every 406 W. Gilman St. FMI call (608) 265.3344. fitted HER TURN: Women's news and Information by and about Saturday at 6 p.m. at OutReach, 14 W. Mifflin, Suite 103. FMI roll women, airs from 11 to 11:30 a.m. Followed by HER INFINITE VARI- (608) 255-8582. LGBT Campus Center - Youth Group (Madison, WI): The group meets weekly from 1 to 8:30 p.m. on the second floor of the UWM Memor- ETY: Women in Music from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. All genres and styles. Gay Men's Singles Club Monthly Party (Madison, WI): This monthly ial Union, 800 Langdon St. The under-21 support group is for all Madi- Interviews, live guests and announcements for the Womyn's commu- nity. party for single men seeking long term relationships takes place at 7 son lesbian, gay and bisexual youth, whether in college or not. FMI call FMI call (608) 256-2001 or http://www.netphoria.com/wort p.m. There is a pot plan -luck, so bring something to pass. They will (608) 265.3344. Monday, June 21 summer activities. FMI call (608) 244.8675 (evenings). LGBT Campus Center -Young Feminists' Task Force (Madison, WI): This WHA-TV, Cable 21 - I.GBT Programming (Madison, WI):At 10 p.m. IN Northland Gay Men's Center - Social Night (Duluth, MN): Meets every group meets weekly at the (enter at 8:30 p.m. on the second floor of THE LIFE presents AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE. Examine the widely held Saturday. Activities include games, videos and other social events from the UWM Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St. FM! call (608) 265-3344. view that Judy Garland's funeral on the eve of the Stonewall Riots 6 to 9 p.m. at the Center, 8 N. 2nd Ave. East, Temple opera Block, helped spark the conflict. Campus fraternities for gay men ore also fea- Suite 309. FMI call (218) 722.8585. Madison Community Health Ctr. - HIV Testing (Madison, WI): Free, anonymous, walk-in HIV testing from 3 to 5:45 p.m. at 1133 tured. Also WPNE-TV Green Boy, WHLA-TV La Crosse, WHRM-TV Sunday, June 20 Williamson St. FMI call (608) 255-0704. Wausau, WHWC-TV Menomonie-Eau Claire, WLEF-TV Park Falls. Angels of Hope MCC Religious Services (Allouez 8 Appleton, WI): Ser- Northland Gay Men's Center - Open Discussion Group (Duluth, MN): Tuesday, June 22 vices are held every Sunday ot 11 a.m. at 3607 Libel St., Allouez, 8 at The group meets weekly from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Center, 8 N 2nd Ave. WORT, 89.9 FM - G/L Radio (Madison): This is a weekly lineup: Gordon? 5 p.m. at 815 N. Richmond St., Appleton. FMI call (920) 991-0128. East, Temple Opera Block, Suite 309. Topics include coming out issues, QUERY, from 7 to 7:30 p.m. and THIS WAY OUT from 7:30 to 8 p.m. Gay Men's Discussion Group - Monthly Meeting (Milwaukee): The support 8 resources. No age limits. FMI call (218) 722-8585. the world's gay and lesbian community. Wednesday, June 23 group meets at the Counseling Center of Milwaukee, 2038 N. Bartlett UHS Counseling 8 Consultation Services Sex Out Loud (Madison, Now there really is a Gaydar and Ave., every second Sunday of the month from 6 to 8 p.m. Topic's range WI): This discussion group for Gay/Bi students meets in the Memorial WHA-TV, Coble 21 - LGBT Programming (Madison, WI): AFTER its manufacturer hopes it could from relationships and doting to HIV/AIDS to spirituality and mental Union at 12 p.m. every Tuesday. FMI call (608) 265.4901. STONEWALL: FROM THE RIOTS TO THE MILLENNIUM: a 90 minute spe- become as wildly popular as the Pet heath. FMI call Bill Hanel at (414) 271-2565. cial AT 8 P.M. This sequel to the Emmy Award•winning Before Stonewall Rock craze. Womansong - Rehearsal (Madison) This singing group meets at Beth traces the history of lesbian and goy life, from the riotsat the Stonewall James Reeb Unitarian Univeralist Church - Worship Service (Madison, Gaydar is billed by Canadian dis- Israel Ctr. at 7 p.m. FMI call (608) 222-2987. Bar in Greenwich Village, NYC, in 1969 to the end of the 20th centu- WI): Services are from 10 to 11 a.m. at 2146 E. Johnson St. FMI call Yoga Spirit - Free Classes (Milwaukee): Every Tuesday there are free ry. Also WPNE-TV Green Bay, WHLA-TV La Crosse, WHRM-TV Wausau, tributor GayGety as "the first and only (608) 242-8887. classes for all people living with HIV. Among other things you can WHWC-TV Menomonie-Eau Claire, WLEF-TV Pork Falls. portable interactive electronic ice- LGBT Community Center - Meditation Circle (Milwaukee): The Circle reduce stress and ease neuropothy 8 joint pain. Classes are held at WHA-IV, (able 21 - LGBT Programming (Madison, WI): THE CASTRO breaker-matchmaker for the queer will begin with centering and grounding exercises followed by guided 301 N. Water St., Suite 410 at 3:30 p.m. FMI call (414) 289-9660. sheds light on why the rather modest neighborhood became the community." meditation. It will evolve as the group desires, and meets from 10 world's first "gay hometown. Shows at 9:30 p.m. Also WPNE-TV Green In fact, it's something like a high- a.m. to noon on the 1st Sunday of the month at the Center, 170 S. Wednesday, June 23 Bay, WH1A-TV La Crosse, WHRM-TV Wausau, WHWC-TV Menomonie- tech keychain that begins beeping, 2nd Street. FMI call (414) 271-2656. Diversity G/L Resource Ctr - Coming Out Support Group (Rockford, Ill: Eau Claire, WLEF-TV Pork Falls. flashing or just quietly vibrating when- LGBT Community Center - Conversations With God (Milwaukee): The The group meets every Wednesday at 610 E. State St. from 7 to 8 Cable Channel 4, Public Access TV, WYOU - LGBT Programming (Madi- ever someone else with a Gaydar unit group meets from 10 a.m. to noon on the 3rd Sunday of the month p.m. FMI call (815) 964-2639. son, WI): From 9 to 11 p.m. NOTHING TO HIDE presents THE ANNU- is within about 20 feet. at the Center, 170 S. 2nd Street. FMI call (414) 271-2656. Gay/Bi Men's Alanon Group (Madison, WI): Meets at the University AL FEMINIST AWARDS given by the State Chapter of the National Asso- United Methodist Church, 1127 University Ave. every Wednesday ot 6 David Elliot, Gaydar's inventor — LGBT Community Center - Drumming Circle (Milwaukee): The group ciation of Women on April 24, 1999. Plus Free Speech TV: ARE WE himself a heterosexual — didn't origi- meets from 10 o.m. to noon on the 4th Sunday of the month at the p.m. FMI call (608) 256-4107 or (608) 846-2860. PREPARED FOR CHEMICAL QUEERS: THE ORIENTATION EXPRESS, nally develop the idea as a discreet gay (enter, 110 S. 2nd Street. FMI call (414) 271-2656. HIV/AIDS Support Group - (Green Bay, WI): Free, confidential and MOM, I THINK I'M BI. Plus, IN OUR OWN WORDS. open to any person living with or affected by HIV/AIDS on the 1st and dating device, but instead crafted it to Perfect Harmony Chorus - Rehearsal (Madison, WI): Meet and sing Saturday, June 26 serve as a portable doorbell for the deaf. every Sunday at Grace Episcopal Church on Capitol Square from 7 to 9 3rd Wednesday of the month. The meetings take place at Renaissance LGBT p.m. Enter from the West Washington side of the court yard. FMI Healing Arts Ctr., 311 S. Jefferson from 7:30 to 9 p.m. FMI call (920) Community Center - LGBT TV Planning (Milwaukee): Anyone With a special door unit and one of (608) 232-0528. 431-4325 or Sylvia at 1-800-67S-9400. interested in getting involved in a local access TV program benefiting Elliot's inventions, the vibrations it gave Madison Vet Center - GLB Veterans Meeting (Madison, WI): The group our community? This meeting will be held from 10:30 to Noon. FMI: off would alert someone who was hear- Rainbow Friends - Quaker Worship Group (Madison, WI): This group Margaret at (414) 562-0366 meets on the third Thursday of each month at 11 a.m. Diversity is meets every Wednesday at 147 S. Butler at 5 p.m. FMI call (608) ing impaired of a visitor at the door. encouraged, feelings are honored, and boundaries ore respected. FMI 262-7084 or (608) 264-5342. Sunday, June 27 But with some modifications, 8 location, call (608) 250-7989. Queer Chicks - Social Group (Madison, WI): This group meets every Cable Channel 4, Public Access TV, WYOU - LGBT Programming (Madi- Elliot's little invention has become Seeking Sobriety - Non-Religious Recovery Group (Milwaukee) This Wednesday at 7 p.m. at 219 N. 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Here's the idea: You're shopping at Weekly services ore at 10 a.m. at 1127 University Ave. FMI (608) LGBT Community Center - Lag Entrepeneurs (Milwaukee): This 7 p.m. Thursday, June 17 the mall, or you're out seeing the sights 256-2353. in a new town, or catching a bus to meeting is open to any LGBT small business owners interested in net- Katie Gingrass Gallery Current Exhibit (Milwaukee): The gallery is Monday, June 21 working with other entrepreneurs in the LGBT community. FMI contact showing its annual spring showing of EUROPEAN VINTAGE POSTERS work, or you're at your favorite sports BRASS Weekly Meeting (Appleton, WI): The Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian Pat Walsh (414) 329-8404. through June. FMI call (4141 289-9255. bar watching the game. 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But you can make 8 p.m. at the University United Methodist Church, 1127 University gy at 6 p.m. at St. Francis House, 1001 University Ave. FMI call (608) 836-8886. - AMERICAN ART: 'A DECADE OF COLLECTING will open in the inquiries through the Canadian dis- Ave. FMI call (608) 222.8989. Journol/Lubar Galleries on the lake level and run through 8/29/99. tributor's World Wide Web site on the Tuesday, June 22 View paintings, sculptures prints, photographs and works by self-taught Internet at http://www.gaygety.com or FILM, TV, VIDEO & RADIO: artists. FMI call (414) 24-3200. Boyz Nite ARCW - (Milwaukee): The group meets every Tuesday from by phone at (905) 628-0704 . 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Assemble Safer Sex kits and other prevention mate- Friday, June 18 Wednesday, June 23 And given the trendy U.S. market rials. It's a place to hang out with other gay men and just dish. 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DARTS, '99 POOL Lilith Fair GOAT AND MUSIC by Keith Clark ever, that she needs some time off from of the IN Step staff the music festival and confirmed that this will be the last tour she organizes for at or the past two years, Canadian least a few years. She says, however, that singer- Sarah McLachlan the Lilith Fair spirit won't end. F has organized the Lilith Fair, a trav- In fact, the fair announced informa- eling festival of women artists. Working its tion is now available at its Web site at way across the U.S. and Canada during http://www.lilithfair.com/ where fans the summer months, the Lilith Fair has can not only get the latest details about quickly become a showcase for both estab- WHERE OUR ALWAYS ONilit 141 Lilith `99 but also can see and hear NUS ARE lished and upcoming artists, while raising excerpts from shows. funds for local charities that support "It's continuing on," McLachlan said. women's issues and concerns. "We are all individuals and we all have our Like an increasing number of contem- unique voices, and when we all come porary women's events, "diversity" is taken together at Lilith we all remain those not only as an essential component at the unique voices. But we all gather together as Lilith Fair; it's also taken simply as a given. a collective. I think Lilith Fair could not Sarah McLachlan gathered her fellow have happened if it wasn't for all the strong, Lilith Fair performers at Manhattan's Irving independent women who are already doing Plaza Club recently to announce the line-up very well in music. So I think it's all going 7 for this year's itinerary and performers. to continue on very strongly." with the GREATEST staff... Included in Lilith 1999 will be: Sheryl Along with its roster of performances, Richard, Chris, Patrick, Carlos and Rick! Crow, Me'shell Ndegeocello, The Pretenders, the Lilith Fair also features a veritable vil- Mya, , The , Dixie lage of information booths about various • Chicks, Deborah Cox, Martina McBride, causes like breast cancer, sexual abuse and • / Luscious Jackson, and many others. youth services. There's also an abundant The fair has gained enormous popular- collection of commercial booths of women- ity in a short time, partly because founder- owned businesses, products and services. itidddy's organizer McLachlan took criticisms of Drink The music line-up this year is as coupon other music festivals very seriously and set diverse as its ever been for Lilith, with out to avoid many of their pitfalls. music styles from , and Instead of swooping into town, pledg- R&B to hip-hop, rap and country. One of ing some unspecified part of ticket sales to the new headliners in this year's line-up is oNE an equally unspecified charity, the Lilith teen R&B star Monica, who has strong Fair donates $1 from each ticket sold to a reasons for her participation. FIDE DRINK! specific local charity dealing with women's "I'm involved in a program called Limit one coupon per customer per day. / issues locally. Helping Girls Become Strong Women," Offer good thru 7/31/99 Similarly, rather than bringing in a she says. "And I realize that, while I'm on troupe of headliners to "performer for the the verge of becoming a woman, I need to provincials," the Lilith Fair operates three be around strong women to learn from stages, one featuring the big-name per- them and help myself become a woman. formers and two others spotlighting new That's one thing. And recently one of my 1579 S. 2nd St. • Milwaukee • (44) 672-o806 and local performers who rarely get an family members has been hit with breast opportunity for such large-scale exposure. cancer. When I heard about the charity McLachlan announced this year, how- organizations and the monies donated, that was one of the things that really hit me. And that's why I'm involved." Lilith '99 will be staged in more than 30 U.S. and Canadian cities this July and • August. And before she completely stops working with the fair this year, McLachlan says she hopes to organize an Australian leg of the tour for later in the year. She's also planning to have Lilith '99 captured in a documentary film for later release. A double CD compiled from last year's tour was released on May 18.0

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Ridin' the Bull by Jamie t's one of those early Monday I mornings again! I kinda like getting up this early, it's so quiet! Just went to check on Josh — hes sleeping with a big smile on his face. I wonder what he's dreaming about? Hmm, I think I'll crawl on top of him and give him a big smooch. This past week has been full of events for me. It started with a birthday party for Hove you seen our one of the girls at the Mineshaft. (No, Group hug. Photo by Jamie O Eagle Disco Inferno. Photo by Jamie O MU shirts? Photo by Jamie 0 Docks tice. Yes, we to Patio Party on the Mineshaft isn't a new leather bar you since I've been to Great America so I was did wait in line for over an June 25 with mar- hour to garita specials haven't heard about. It's where Josh used ready for some roller coasters. ride it, but it was worth the wait. that should also be fun. Fluid is having a to work at in Hartford.) We went on several rides including the Great America was lots and lots of fun. Beach Party on I the 16th and if you Josh invited Anna and a bunch of Big Drop. Let me tell you that I have wouldn't recommend the food but hey, dress in beach attire, when you're hungry it'll rail drinks are $1.50 all night. Don't other Mineshaft staffers for a night on the never felt those kinds of sensations before, do. After driving forget back to Milwaukee, we that Thursday nights are Corona-Cuervo town here in Milwaukee. We started with and I used to skydive. They take you up went to Triangle to brag about our day's events. If anyone nights. Only for either or both. dinner at M&M. As usual, the food was on this four-seat lift that has nothing in $2.90 wants to plan a trip After you've had brunch at M&M on fantastic. We stayed there for a couple of front of you but a harness. Feet dangling back down there let Sun- me know, I'm in. days, head over to Triangle for the Sun- cocktails and then headed over to Fluid. in the breeze, you are lifted something like Monday I had my day afternoon keg parties. Pay $5 and it's Jimmy and Tammy were there, servin' up a 20 stories. Slowly this lift brings you high- grandmother's funeral to attend. No, I wasn't that close all you can drink out on the patio. good time. After a couple of tasty martini's er and higher, when this thing comes to to her. Actually, there weren't any Until next issue, hope your summer is we headed over to Club 219. Being a stop. After sitting up there for a minute grand- kids close to her. She wasn't a mean per- going well and as always, slower traffic Wednesday night there were gonna be we heard a clunk expecting an immediate son; she just didn't take much keep right. strippers. What better way to ring in a drop. Nope. I think the clunk was to time out for her grandkids. Anyway it was birthday than with hotties strippin' down make you think you're gonna drop just to cool seeing all of my cousins, aunts and uncles again. to near nothing. Anna was havin' a blast let your guard down then just when you We do have an with all those hot, sweaty guys rubbing all start wondering when it will happen, interesting family ... I Do you enjoy singing? found out that one if my uncles used to over her. I think she was getting moist her- clunk, you're heading towards earth at a try to slip his nieces the tongue when kiss- self! Kimberly Anne was nice enough to speed that makes your feet fly up. Just The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra ing them — what a perv. wish Anna a happy birthday over the sound when you think the thing has malfunc- Chorus is now scheduling auditions for Unfortunately for this column, system. Our final stop was La Cage. Lots tioned and you're dropping to your death, there the 1999-2000 Season! really isn't much more to talk about. This of fun and dancing ended the night. it starts to slow down. It was hard to walk next couple of weeks has a few schedule an audition The next day Josh and I had plans for after that ride and many of us decided that events that Call 967-1905 to I will attend and be able to report about. or for more information. Six Flags Great America. After a couple of was a bit much. The Boot Camp has an Auction/Possum phone calls Josh, Lana, Brad, Josh The Raging Bull is the best roller Queen fund-raiser that looks to be fun. Visit us on the web. and I, were headed to south to ride the coaster I have ever been on. Those TV They are also throwing a Mexican Fies- wwvi.milwaukeesymphony.orgIchorus.htm Raging Bull! It's been at least 18 years commercials don't really do the ride jus- AD BUDGE #0 &a/diva Ake/ Oveixa:f Get listed in Wisconsin's LARGEST direc ory of x. LGBT businessses & professionals for FREE! LtL

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