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June 3, 2010 | Vol. 1, No. 15 Pocket-sized p ridefest guide inside AIDS Quilt panels Deported coming to MAM U.S. Immigration separates partners By Lucky Tomaszek By Louis Weisberg But while most of his Staff Writer Staff writer Donations for Helaman siblings were granted legal From June 8 to June 20, Milwaukee On the morning of Jan. 22, Iquique’s immigra- status under amnesty law, area residents and visitors will be able 2009, Helaman Iquique left tion battle can be sent Iquique and his mother were to see a portion of the AIDS Memorial his home in West Milwaukee, to Wade Twamley, not, for reasons they never Quilt for the first time in more than headed for his job at a 1602 S. 55th St., West understood. Still, his mother four years. The AIDS Resource Center plumbing supply company. He Milwaukee, WI 53214. lived here for the rest of of Wisconsin and the Milwaukee Art said goodbye to his partner For information, call her life, and Iquique went to Museum have joined forces to co-spon- of 10 years and their dogs, 414-329-0753. school here. He was given a sor the NAMES Project AIDS Quilt Bibi and Boogie. Social Security number and exhibition, with the support of the It was a routine beginning granted work permits for 22 Greater Milwaukee Foundation Johnson to an ordinary snow-covered officials and forcibly sent to years. and Pabst LGBT Humanity Fund. Milwaukee winter day. But Guatemala, where he hasn’t Then, two years ago, his The AIDS Quilt will be displayed it was to have an extraordi- lived since childhood. He was Social Security number and concurrently with “American Quilts: nary ending: Iquique never put on a plane just an hour work visa were suddenly Selections from the Winterthur returned home. Neither his before a judge ordered a stay revoked. “That’s when I got Collection.” The museum decided to differences in time and society, the partner nor his large extend- in his deportation. involved and hired an attor- exhibit nine panels from the AIDS Quilt AIDS Quilt fit because it embodies the ed family in the Milwaukee That action drastically ney, because I assumed some- as a complement to that collection of spirit of traditional quilt-making, which area has seen him since. changed Iquique’s legal pros- thing was going to happen,” Colonial quilts. includes documenting personal histories Without any warning pects. As a deportee, he can- Twamley says. “After we knew that we were having and memorializing major life events. Like and despite the fact that not even apply for a visa to Over the course of his this more traditional quilt exhibition, Colonial quilts, which were often creat- he had an appeal pending visit the United States for 10 legal battle with INS. Twamley we really wanted ed by families and community members before an immigration court years, much less continue to has retained six attorneys, to also make a working together over time, the AIDS in Miami, Iquique, 40, was pursue his case. one of whom fully refunded more contempo- Quilt is an ongoing community project detained by Immigration Iquique’s partner Wade his money after admitting to rary show,” said that “serves as a repository of history and Naturalization Service Twamley says if the two doing nothing. “I’m so tired of Mel Buchanan, and of memory,” Buchanan said. could get married – or if lawyers, taking and taking and assistant curator The AIDS Quilt “continues the federal immigration law at taking and never promising at MAM. tradition of using quilts as com- least recognized their rela- results,” he says. Despite the This tionship – they would be Despite what he acknowl- AIDS Quilt page 15 together now planting their edges is the growing futil- issue garden. Instead, Twamley, a ity of his situation, Twamley inside and online at Vietnam veteran, has drained vows he’ll never give up until Joe Pabst wisconsingazette.com his retirement account to he and Iquique are reunited. supported pay for lawyers to help him “He’s my soul mate,” he bringing the News navigate what he considers a says. “I originally met him at exhibit to MAM. WiGWAG ����������������������2 labyrinth of randomly applied a barbecue, and we just sat photo: Dan zaitz National Gaze ���������������4 immigration laws. and talked for a long time. I Milwaukee Gaze �����������6 said, ‘Would you like to go Editorial ����������������������� 12 No results out to dinner?’ We dated for Opinion ����������������������� 13 Iquique’s mother brought a year. 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LGBT news with a twist WiGWAG By Lisa Neff & Louis Weisberg

More Congressman Mark Souder R e k e r s relations between rela- Word for word tions from idiopathic pulmo- pageantry (R-Ind.) has resigned from had more tives, everything,” says Mote In a Web site post titled “In nary fibrosis, a lung disease. Last year, the right-wing office after admitting to e x p e r - Marine Laboratory scientist Defense of Homophobia,” He was 63. The wire service blogosphere was buzz- an extra-marital affair. “I tise than Randy Wells. Katz said the human body that Kuchwara worked for ing with accusations that sinned against God, my anyone knew. was “not designed to share reported that, when he died, Carrie Prejean lost the title wife and my family by hav- Last month, it In deep hypodermic needles, it was he was surrounded by family of Miss USA because she ing a mutual relationship was revealed that water not designed to be pro- and was listening to music spoke out against same- with a part-time member he’d hired a male St. Louis physics profes- miscuous, and it was not from his favorite show sex marriage. This year, the of my staff,” he said. The escort on rentboy.com to sor Jonathan Katz recently designed to engage in “Gypsy” on his iPod. same echo chamber claims staffer in question, a much give him daily nude sexual got yanked from a panel homosexual acts. … It may that Miss Oklahoma, who younger woman, produced massages during a two-week appointed to advise the be possible to get away with Gadzooks expressed support for and appeared in a video European vacation. Obama administration on its it for a while, and a few mis- Spandex, a comic book Arizona’s new anti-immi- that Souder made promot- response to the Deepwater guided souls may get a thrill featuring an all-gay team of grant law, lost out to win- ing sexual abstinence. Romp Horizon oil spill in the Gulf out of doing so, but sooner superheroes, has been nom- ner Rima Fakih because the in the bay of Mexico. Katz was one of or later (probably sooner) inated for an Eagle Award, politically correct judges Expert witness AP recently introduced five scientists appointed to the consequences will be a top industry prize. The wanted to choose a Muslim. At the direction of readers worldwide to Nicklo the advisory panel. He was catastrophic.” British-themed comic has Conservative radio host Florida Attorney General and BlacktipDoubledip, the removed after Department just two issues, the second Debbie Schlussel called the Bill McCollum, the state two oldest known dolphins of Energy officials learned Broadway of which tells the story of contest rigged and made paid anti-gay psychologist in Sarasota Bay, Fla. AP also of some of his non-scientific closing a jewel heist at Buckingham the bizarre claim that Fakih George Rekers $120,000 to recently introduced readers writings, including Web site So many Broadway Palace that sends the is a “Lebanese Muslim appear as an expert witness worldwide to a not wide- posts defending homopho- enthusiasts living far from Spandex team off on a Hezbollah supporter with defending the state’s ban on ly known fact: a majority bia and questioning the value the bright lights of the chase to find the perpetra- relatives who are top ter- gay adoption. Ultimately, the of male dolphins travel in of racial diversity efforts. big city learned about the tors. They end up in Japan, rorists.” judge in the 2008 adoption same-gender pairs, though A DOE spokesperson said shows and the stars and the fighting Gayzilla and the Pink case disregarded Reker’s their relationships are not the controversy over Katz’ music from reading Michael Ninjas. Will they return the Abstinence testimony, saying it was “not exclusively male. “You see beliefs had become a dis- Kuchwara’s reviews for the jewels? Will the queen be lesson consistent with the science.” homosexual activity, het- traction. Associated Press. Kuchwara beholden? Will Spandex win Christian “pro-family” Of course, it now seems erosexual activity, sexual died May 22 of complica- an Eagle? Tune in…

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Got news? Tell us National Gaze [email protected]. Lawmakers cast historic votes for repeal

By Lisa Neff consider the defense bill, implementation until after week Staff writer and U.S. Sen. John McCain, Dec. 1, when the Defense The historic week began “Don’t ask, don’t tell” was R-Ariz., has vowed a filibus- Department is set to com- with a May 24 letter from U.S. born of a compromise. ter. The former presidential plete a study on repeal. Sens. Joe Lieberman and Carl And, in late May, with candidate was once believed “Don’t ask, don’t tell” Levin and U.S. Rep. Patrick Memorial Day near, anoth- to be a proponent of DADT’s was enacted in 1993 as part Murphy to Obama stating, er compromise developed, repeal, but McCain is now in of the National Defense “It is our firm belief that it is one that might overturn a serious primary fight in his Authorization Act. It was time to repeal this discrimi- the Clinton-era ban against 2010 re-election campaign. the result of a compromise natory policy that not only openly lesbian and gay ser- McCain, a Vietnam vet- between the Clinton admin- dishonors those who are vicemembers this year. eran, now maintains repeal istration, which had set out willing to give their lives in On May 28, the U.S. would be harmful for military to lift a blanket ban against service to their country but House of Representatives morale and effectiveness. gays in the military, and the also prevents capable men passed the National Defense GOP-dominated Congress, and women with vital skills Authorization Act with an The compromise which wanted to maintain from serving in the Armed amendment providing for the The key votes on the the ban. Forces at a time when our repeal of DADT. House floor and on the Over the past 17 years, nation is fighting two wars.” The day before, the House Senate panel were the result an estimated 14,000 ser- The Democratic lawmak- had approved the amend- of a compromise brokered vicemembers have been dis- ers proposed the amendment ment by a vote of 234-194. earlier in the week during charged under the policy, and to put a process in place Meanwhile, that same meetings with Democratic many others voluntarily ter- to repeal DADT but allow day, the U.S. Senate Armed lawmakers, Pentagon officials, minated their careers in the the Defense Department to Services Committee voted White House staff and repre- Armed Forces, the nation’s complete its study and “certi- 16-12 to amend its defense sentatives from major LGBT largest employer. Estimates fy that repeal can be achieved spending bill to include a groups. put the number of active- consistent with the military’s provision to repeal the policy. The compromise provided duty LGB servicemembers standards of readiness, effec- But taps hasn’t yet sound- for congressional lawmak- at 66,000. tiveness, unit cohesion and ed for DADT. ers to move forward with recruiting and retention.” The full Senate still must repealing DADT, but delay Promise and Later that day, the law- policy review P hoto: Courtesy makers had their go-ahead In two sentences in his Former Vt. Gov. Howard Dean, working with the response from the White State of the Union Address Courage Campaign, delivered Congress a letter House. Peter R. Orszag, Do you know you can now in January, President Barack signed by more than 100,000 Americans calling director of the office of man- Obama pledged: “This year, for the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” agement and budget, wrote, I will work with Congress “The administration under- Share a and our military to finally But the prospect of repeal- after the swearing in of a new stands that Congress has repeal the law that denies ing DADT this year dimmed Congress. chosen to move forward with gay Americans the right to in early May, when a memo Then, on May 23, lawmak- legislation now and seeks the Health Insurance serve the country they love from Gates to lawmakers ers announced the compro- Administration’s views on because of who they are. It’s urged Congress to hold off mise, which Aubrey Sarvis, the proposed amendment. Policy the right thing to do.” on votes until the Defense a veteran and the director Accordingly, the administra- The president’s promise Department completed its of Servicemembers Legal tion is of the view that the with your partner? quickly won the support of review of the policy and how Defense Network called a proposed amendment meets top officials in the Pentagon, to implement a repeal. That “dramatic breakthrough on the concerns raised by the including Adm. Mike Mullen, review is to be completed dismantling ‘don’t ask, don’t secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Dec. 1. Inaction on Capitol tell.’” chairman of the Joint Chiefs Call Sherry today Chiefs of Staff, and Defense Hill probably would have of Staff. … The administra-

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Got news? Tell us National Gaze [email protected]. not care whether a fellow Poll: Overwhelming soldier was straight or gay if they could fire their assault support for repeal rifle or run a convoy down ambush alley and do their About 78 percent of Americans support the repeal job so everyone would come of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the policy banning gays and home safely.” lesbians from serving openly in the military, according Going into Memorial Day to a CNN/Opinion Research poll conducted May 21-23. weekend with the votes to The survey was released just days before the celebrate, Joe Solmonese of announcement from White House and congressional the Human Rights Campaign Democrats of an agreement on repealing DADT in the said, “This is the beginning of National Defense Authorization Act. the end of a shameful ban on open service by lesbian and gay troops.” DADT is 17 years old, but the gays- DADT from page 4 ‘I gave Sen. in-the-military issue is an old one. George Washington dis- Joseph charged a soldier for homo- repeal. sexual acts in 1778. Feeling confident about Lieberman a vote in the House, activ- Summer skirmish ists focused on the Senate and his Action in the full Senate committee, specifically may come as early as this members Scott Brown of legislative month but more likely early Massachusetts, Evan Bayh of team all big this fall, coinciding with a Indiana, Robert Byrd of West stepping up of mid-term Virginia, Jim Webb of Virginia, hugs.’ election campaigns. Ben Nelson of Nebraska and While LGBT activists Bill Nelson of Florida. launched an all-out war on The Senate committee vote to pass the $700 billion the policy last week, urging vote came first on May 27. spending bill came May 28. constituents in key districts “Just after the vote, I gave “I know that our mili- to press representatives to Sen. Joseph Lieberman and tary draws its strength on vote for repeal, anti-gay forc- his legislative team all big the integrity of our unified es also went to battle. hugs, and then we had a force, and current law chal- “Allowing open homosex- drink, saluting the LGBT lenges this integrity by creat- uals to serve in the military servicemembers who were ing two realities within the will decimate military morale honored by that SASC vote,” ranks,” said U.S. Rep. Susan and unit cohesion, introduce Sarvis said. Davis, D-Calif., who voted sexual tensions into same- Hours later, the House, for repeal. gender accommodations which had devoted much of Murphy, D-Pa., the chief and damage rather than P hoto: Courtesy the day and much of the night sponsor of the amendment enhance military readiness,” U.S. Sen. Carl Levin chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee. to debating amendments to in the House and an Iraq War claimed Tim Wildmon of the the defense bill, voted 234- veteran, told colleagues that American Family Association. and House Speaker Nancy summer assaults. 2010,” Sarvis said. 194 to repeal DADT. The full in Iraq servicemembers “did Wildmon accused Obama Pelosi of “using arm-twisting “Final victory is no sure In the meantime, Sarvis and backdoor deals … to thing,” said Solmonese. “And warned, “All gay and lesbian force open their laboratory we must continue to be vigi- active-duty service mem- for trendy experiments in lant.” bers – including those in the For the record the social engineering of our “We still need to reserves and the National military.” urge every U.S. senator to Guard – can still be fired U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, know that it is a misguided, to repeal ‘don’t ask, don’t Both sides have vowed get DADT repeal done in under DADT.” D-Madison, called for unjust and discriminatory tell,’ we will have taken one repealing “don’t ask, don’t policy. more step on the path to tell” during floor debate in Not only does ‘don’t ask, full civil rights and equality the House May 27. don’t tell’ damage the lives for LGBT Americans. But That night the House and livelihoods of military we will also change the “The Pet Sier” voted for an amendment professionals, it deprives course of history for all the that provides for repealing our nation and our armed courageous Americans who The Kennel Alternative the military ban. services of their honorable serve our country and for In her speech, Baldwin service and their needed their families. Dogs • Cats • Birds told fellow House mem- skills. In the land of free and Exotics • Fish • Reptiles bers: Under this law, almost the home of the brave, it is “Today we have the 14,000 service members long past time for Congress Daily Walks • In Home Pet Sitting opportunity to right a have been discharged, to end this un-American Airport Pick-up • Insured wrong. I rise in strong sup- including almost a thousand policy.” port of repealing the mili- mission-critical troops and tary’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ at least 60 Arabic speakers RICK CORBETT Cell: 414-331-7183 policy. Seventeen years and 10 Farsi linguists. Wig Web link: http:// [email protected] after Congress passed It’s indefensible! www.youtube.com/ 414-481-7838 ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ we When the House votes watch?v=qUbecBkzxh0 www.rickthepetsitter.com 6 WI s c o N S INGA z e t t e . c o m | June 3, 2010 Students, faculty increase pressure on Marquette By Louis Weisberg called on administrators to zation, this can range from job offer. “We handed him an Staff writer apologize and re-extend the an unofficial blacklisting so apology and asked him to Marquette students and job offer. Faculty members (Marquette) couldn’t host sign it, but he refused,” Smith faculty have stepped up their from many departments of association events, or it could said. “He said, ‘I have not dis- effort to get university offi- both universities signed the mean certain speakers would criminated and I cannot sign cials to apologize to lesbian letter. not appear on campus and this letter.’” scholar Jodi O’Brien and Students have staged sev- jobs available at Marquette Smith said he and fellow reinstate their offer to make eral protests and are pursu- wouldn’t be posted by the students who attended the her dean of the College of ing both legal and academic association,” Smith said. He meeting felt talked down to Arts and Sciences. actions against the university. said censuring could also “in a heavy paternalistic way.” After O’Brien signed Graduate philosophy student prevent Marquette scholars The American Association a contract for the posi- Trevor Smith, a spokesperson from being published in aca- of University Professors tion, Milwaukee Archbishop for the May 6th Movement, demic journals and prevent (AAUP) is considering a Jerome Listecki and other said the group is looking the university from hosting formal investigation into church leaders complained into whether Marquette academic events. the handling of O’Brien’s that her academic writings violated federal and state Action by the Wisconsin job offer, said Nancy Snow, on lesbian sexuality, gay part- non-discrimination statutes, Arts Board could be a har- professor of philosophy at nership and the nature of the which would make the uni- binger of things to come Marquette. AAUP has cen- family were inconsistent with versity ineligible for govern- for Marquette. The board sured the university in the the school’s Roman Catholic ment grants. The May 6th recently voted unanimously past for stripping a professor mission. University president Movement is an informal to defer action on a grant of tenure when he left the Fr. Robert A. Wild subse- coalition of undergradu- for the university’s Haggerty Jesuit order. quently rescinded the offer, ate and graduate students Museum of Art due to “seri- “It was only since I’ve been setting off a wave of protests named for the day Marquette ous questions suggesting dis- at Marquette that we’ve had by students and an outcry announced it was rescinding P h oto : Da n Z a i t z criminatory hiring practices that censure lifted,” said from faculty members. the offer to O’Brien. At a May 11 meeting, students called on Mar- at Marquette” (see “letters” Snow, who helped plan the In a full-page ad that “Marquette takes mil- quette University president Fr. Robert A. Wild in this issue). ad that appeared in the appeared in the Milwaukee lions in federal funding and (left) to resign. After several requests for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Journal Sentinel on May 24, takes state money,” Smith meetings with Wild were “Faculty had to work with dozens of faculty members said. “Marquette desperately Smith said his group is The May 6th Movement turned down, members AAUP to convince them that at Marquette and Seattle depends on federal and state consulting with Lambda Legal, has asked 20 academic pro- of the May 6th Movement was no longer the situation.” University, a Jesuit school funding but wants to opt the Association of University fessional societies to cen- finally met with him May 19 Marquette also has been where O’Brien has taught out of full disclosure, aca- Professors, the ACLU and sure Marquette, which would and asked him to apologize criticized by the Higher for 15 years, condemned demic freedom and anti-gay other organizations on how marginalize the institution. for discriminating against Learning Commission/ Marquette’s decision and discrimination.” to handle the matter. “Depending on the organi- O’Brien and to re-extend her North Central Accreditation Association for its lack of diversity. the Snow said the current situation amounts to “much Cat Doctor worse than egg on your face. S.C. It’s an intrusion on academic freedom here, and that’s at

witter the heart of academia.” Gentle, loVinG T “I have received e-mails CoMpassionate health Care from parents and alumni who ust for ats don’t know if they want to J C send their kids here because of this,” Snow said. “One @wigazette Kathryn Christensen, DVM woman told me her daughter

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By Louis Weisberg tures the PrideFest logo over ple, including Oscar Wilde, necessary,” Cage said. “He Staff writer a rainbow flag background. Rock Hudson and Billie did not want in any way to In support of the LGBT PrideFest board presi- Jean King. The centerpiece offend the LGBT community. community and PrideFest, dent Scott Gunkel called the of the display was the U.S. He came to the table with a the U.S. Postal Service has cancellation “an incredible Postal Services’ AIDS Ribbon relevant solution.” created the first-ever pictori- honor.” stamp. The solution proposed by al cancellation mark to com- The creation of the picto- “But three hours after Miller was creating the pic- memorate the state’s largest rial cancellation grew out of we put it up, another post- torial cancellation mark for LGBT event. a dispute in June 2009 over al employee took it down, PrideFest 2010. Cage took Postal workers will staff an LGBT Pride exhibit that unbeknownst to us,” Cage the proposal to the PrideFest a kiosk at PrideFest, where was set to be displayed at said. “No one ever called us board. they will stamp the cancella- the Milwaukee Post Office and told us about it.” “It was a very gener- tion mark on mail submitted Building. News of the post office’s ous offer, and, of course, by festivalgoers. The kiosk LGBT Community Center snub was heard as far away we said yes,” Gunkel said. will not sell postage, but director Maggi Cage said she as Los Angeles, where the “With the help and work people can take pre-stamped coordinated the creation and publicist for Sir Ian McKellan of the Milwaukee LGBT letters and postcards to be installation of the exhibit called Cage to ask if he could Community Center and per- cancelled and posted June 11, in response to a request help. The Shepherd Express severance of Dr. Maggi Cage, from 3 to 6 p.m., and June from the chair of the post named postmaster Charles PrideFest is allowed to shine 12-13, from noon to 4 p.m. office’s diversity committee Miller “Jerk of the Week.” even brighter this year. We In addition to the picto- to honor Pride month. The Cage subsequently met are very grateful.” rial cancellation, PrideFest exhibit included biographies with Miller and learned that “I think the LGBT commu- Top: The PrideFest postal stamp. Bottom: The stamps will be on sale at the of famous LGBT people, pic- “he was never contacted nity should feel very proud pictorial cancellation created by the post office. merchandise booth. tures and historical descrip- about either putting the dis- of itself,” Cage said. “We Designed by PrideFest tions of the rainbow flag and play up or taking it down, stood up as a community for board member Paul pink triangle, and photos of which according to postal what we believed was right. of the LGBT community in For news updates go to Masterson, the stamp fea- famous gay and lesbian peo- regulations would have been ItHumaneSoc validatesAd09 r2.qxd:HumaneSoc the importance Ad 7.5Milwaukee.” x9.5 2/11/09 11:56 AM Page 1 www.wisconsingazette.com.

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Immigration from 1 advocacy organization in these couples have no pro- Washington, D.C., that works tection against deportation Twamley questions why on behalf of LGBT immi- proceedings, no matter how the government would grants and their families. long they have been together deport Iquique, who worked According to an analysis and whether or not they hard, paid his taxes and bills of the 2000 census, about have obtained a valid mar- on time, and never got into 36,000 bi-national lesbian and riage license or other legal any trouble with the law. “In gay couples are living in the recognition in a jurisdiction all the years I’ve known him, U.S. “Many are either facing that recognizes same-sex he’s had one speeding tick- separation or living in exile marriage or civil unions.” et,” Twamley says. “He’s the or have already been sepa- sweetest guy in the world.” rated because of the discrim- lingering hope Besides breaking up his pri- inatory nature of U.S. immi- For a while, Twamley clung mary relationship, Iquique’s gration policy,” Ralls says. to the hope that he and deportation separated him “Nearly half of them are also Iquique could move together from his close-knit family. raising minor children who to Canada as a last resort. “He was always the sup- have only known the U.S. as But he recently learned that port in our family,” says their home, and they’re faced he’s not eligible to obtain “I worked with agen- Iquique’s niece Dulce Fajardo. with the possibility of having residency status in Canada, in cies to ensure that Mr. “He was always the one help- to leave the country in order part because he’s spent all of (Iquique) was afford- ing everyone out. There’s no to keep their families intact.” his savings on lawyers. ed a fair review of his reason for him to be shipped Helaman Iquique at his home in Milwaukee. Twamley and Iquique’s Twamley says staying close case,” says U.S. Rep. off like that.” case has drawn the support to Iquique’s family has helped Gwen Moore. “And a “We’re devastated,” says Twamley says. “One of the gling to adjust to his life in of high-profile political lead- him get through the past year judge agreed – just an his niece Ingrid Fajardo. “We kids was killed for a pair of Guatemala, he longs for his ers. U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, and a half. hour too late.” miss him so much. It just Nike shoes.” partner, his family, his home D-Milwaukee, lobbied the “I am part of his family, so isn’t fair.” Iquique and his brother’s and his dogs. INS on their behalf and U.S. his brothers and these guys Twamley auctioned off items family fled to a suburb. Now “He’s lived here his whole Sens. Russ Feingold and Herb come and visit me and keep from his household, includ- On the run Iquique commutes two hours life,” Dulce Fajardo says. “To Kohl both sent letters of me entertained,” Twamley ing two of Iquique’s favorite Twamley and Iquique’s to the city, where he works him, he’s American. His life- support urging officials to says. “Otherwise I’m just plants – a mother in law’s family are worried about his for Telus, a company that ser- style is totally different from reconsider the case. fighting with attorneys. I’m tongue and a seven-foot cane safety in Guatemala. After vices cell phones in Canada. what it is there, and he’s suf- Feingold is a co-sponsor getting an education.” plant. arriving in Guatemala City, His nieces worry that fering horribly now. He says of the Uniting American Refusing to give up the The item Twamley expect- he moved in with a brother. Iquique will become a target this is a nightmare I would Families Act, which seeks to hope that Iquique will some- ed to raise the most cash was In April, a local gang extorted in Guatemala because he’s have in my dreams. We hear allow American citizens and day return home, Twamley an American flag that was money from him, threatening “obviously gay.” his pain and we feel it.” legal permanent residents to continues to pay his partner’s flown over the U.S. Capitol to kill one of his brother’s “He’s not ashamed of sponsor their same-sex part- bills to keep his credit clean. on the first anniversary of children if he didn’t pay them himself,” says Dulce Fajardo. ‘No protection’ ners for legal residency in the He plans to go to Guatemala Sept. 11, 2001. more than $3,000. “Here people have rights, Twamley’s situation is not United States. to visit Iquique as soon as It didn’t draw a single bid. “Because he’s from but it’s a different, dangerous unique. “Unfortunately there “Right now, our fam- he can. the U.S., they think he has environment for him there. are a lot of lesbian and gay ily immigration rules force He’s also raising money money,” Twamley says. He was always full of life – couples who are separated many committed long-term to help pay for his con- The threat was taken very so happy and outgoing. He because of the inability under couples to make a terrible tinuing legal battle. A May seriously. In Guatemala, kid- can’t be himself there, and it’s current law for the American choice between living in dif- 9 fundraiser at Hot Water nappings and random kill- completely unfair.” partner to sponsor the immi- ferent countries and leaving Wherehouse brought ings are common. “They His partner and his family grant partner for residency,” this country they love to together 62 supporters, killed the lady two houses stay in touch with Iquique says Steve Ralls, spokesper- stay together,” Feingold said who contributed just over down, and they killed two by phone as much as pos- son for Immigration Equality, in a statement delivered on $1,000. Iquique’s family made of the brother-in-law’s kids,” sible. 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Got news? Tell us LGBT immigration [email protected]. Gutierrez backs gay measure in immigration reform By Lisa Neff in Chicago with U.S. Reps. sponsor his or her spouse couples who have to make tions or major relocations Duenas said reform must Staff writer Mike Quigley, D-Chicago, and for immigration, a coveted a painful choice between away from good friends and include “at a minimum, an U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez on Jared Polis, D-Colo. All three “green card.” However, the their family and the immi- close relatives. U.S. policy end to unequal treatment May 24 endorsed the inclu- pledged unwavering support provision does not apply to gration laws of the U.S. that affords no recognition of of same-sex bi-national cou- sion of a provision protecting for including the provisions same-sex spouses or part- do not recognize these fam- these relationships and guar- ples.” same-sex couples and their of the Uniting American ners. ily units for the purposes of antees no rights. A number of other coun- families in any comprehensive Families Act in any major “We need to recognize immigration. By disallowing “LGBT people and people tries already allow their immigration reform package. immigration bill. that one of the main prob- legal immigration and fam- living with HIV are dispro- citizens to sponsor perma- Gutierrez, a Democrat The Uniting American lems facing the U.S. when ily unity for these couples portionately affected by our nent partners or same-sex from Chicago, is considered Families Act, sponsored for it comes to immigration is and families, our immigration country’s discriminatory spouses for immigration. the House leader on immi- the past eight years by U.S. that our legal immigration laws are separating families immigration system,” said Those countries include gration reform efforts and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., system is so dysfunctional and preventing the reunifica- Francisco Duenas of Lambda Australia, Belgium, Canada, is the sponsor of the only would allow Americans in and restrictive that we have tion of families separated by Legal, a national LGBT civil Denmark, Finland, France, comprehensive immigration same-sex relationships to created incentives for people borders because of immigra- liberties group. “Many inhabit Germany, Iceland, Israel, bill pending. So, his endorse- sponsor their “permanent to go around our system tion bureaucracy and restric- a double closet, afraid of dis- the Netherlands, New ment is significant to LGBT partners” for immigration rather than going through it,” tions.” closing their sexual orienta- Zealand, Norway, Portugal, equality advocates. purposes. Gutierrez said in a statement. U.S. law essentially can tion and/or gender identity South Africa, Spain, Sweden, On May 24, Gutierrez Existing immigration law “Nowhere is this more true force same-sex couples into and afraid of disclosing that Switzerland and the United held a press conference allows for a U.S. citizen to than for committed same-sex divorces, extended separa- they are undocumented.” Kingdom. Opinion Yes, race matters: on creating a strong Maria Cadenas LGBT social change movement tections to large groups of A recent study showed that of research on the Racial Take the issue of immigra- As a social movement, we people in a systematic way. only 11 percent of LGBT Equity Theory gives us a tion. National groups like must build bridges and strong As much as this sounds funding went to people of lens and effective tools to Mexican American Legal relationships across identity like a sociology lesson, we in color. That is 11 percent of help both frame our move- Defense and Education Fund to ensure we all move for- the LGBT movement need to the already ridiculously low ment and prevent repeating and local groups like Voces ward without leaving others understand that we face the 0.2 percent available for all the mistakes made by those de la Frontera actively sup- behind. We must invest stra- same institutional and policy LGBT work. A quick scan of before us. port immigration reform tegically to ensure that as we bias – from gay and lesbian paid executive directors in We must recognize that that would allow same-sex gain our rights, we hold each immigration bans that were Milwaukee area LGBT orga- these social movements have partners to petition for each other’s hand and open the not removed until the ’90s, nizations reveals that all are more similarities than dif- other in seeking legal entry door to others facing similar to the current lack of access white – except for me. ferences. In fact, many of us to the United States. So why struggles. This is the only way to marriage and the lack of As Latino, African already live with these two were there only a handful we can create the move- job security for transgender American and other com- identities. of visible LGBT community ment that will bring about individuals. munities of color grow to Working to support each members, all from Equality the change we seek. Maria Cadenas As a Latina and a lesbian, become the majority in our other is not difficult, but Wisconsin, at the recent For news updates go to www. the intersection of race and country, so will the LGBT it requires explicit intent. immigration rally? wisconsingazette.com. I said the “R” word. Too sexual orientation is some- community be primarily a often race is the elephant in thing I live with every day. community of color – and the room – especially with The LGBT struggle for our yet we are not investing in immigration, the Obama rights is the same as the or supporting them. Instead, administration and the shift- struggle for equal pay for anti-gay groups are reaching ing demographic makeup of women, and the same as the out to communities of color. Don’t just smile – Sparkle! the United States being cur- struggle for people of color Reaching out to our Latino rent topics of discussion. for civil rights. We are all and African American neigh- Race matters because seeking equity in treatment, bors is not only the right David A. Paris, DDS, SC throughout the history of access and respect. thing to do. It is the smart our country race has been If we’re honest, the LGBT thing to do to ensure long- used as an arbitrary way to movement has not done a term success and a strong deny access, power and pro- good job of being inclusive. LGBT movement. A decade Cosmetic & QUOTES OF PRIDE General Dentistry “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. 414-272-7747 Accept no one’s definition of your life; Downtown Milwaukee define yourself.” 601 N. Broadway – Harvey Fierstein (corner of Broadway & Michigan) 12 WI s c o N S INGA z e t t e . c o m | June 3, 2010 { Editorial } Perpetuating pride

LGBT people in Wisconsin have a lot to be proud of. Our state was the first in the nation to ban anti-gay employment dis- crimination (1982) and the first to elect an out gay or lesbian non-incumbent (Tammy Baldwin) to Congress. Wisconsin is one of only 14 states where legislatures have enacted some form of recognition for same-sex couples. And Milwaukee hosts a Pride festi- val every June that’s widely considered one of the nation’s best. But despite all this, our LGBT community has a long way to go. Community events are often sparsely attended and our organizations tend to be poorly supported. The “isms” that pervade American society as a whole – racism, sexism, ageism, etc. – also divide our community. Many gay and les- bian Wisconsinites still live in the closet out of fear, both real and perceived, of losing their jobs, their friends and their social standing. The state’s LGBT community faces a number of urgent challenges. More of us continue to live unhealthy lifestyles than our straight counterparts, with higher rates of smoking as well as alcohol and drug abuse. HIV infections among young gay and bisexual men, particularly African-American men, are on the rise. Also, hate-motivated violence toward us, as evidenced by the recent slaying of Milwaukee transgender woman Dana Larkin, persists. The November mid-term elections pose a serious threat to the political gains LGBT people have made in the state. The Republican Party here, as elsewhere, has taken a sharp turn to the social right, pushed by the Tea Party movement. As the party that’s now out of power, Republicans stand a strong chance of capitalizing on voter disaffection over the economy to seize control of the Legislature and the Governor’s mansion. If this occurs, some of the positive developments we’ve seen in recent years, including the establishment { Letters } of the state’s domestic partnership registry, will be imperiled. As we join with people throughout the world in celebrating LGBT Pride defer action sion, promotes the arts, to reason, to be open to this month, let’s recommit to our community by becoming more involved, The following letter was sent supports the arts in educa- discourse and to show con- more inclusive and more politically engaged. We must remember that the to Wally Mason, director of the tion, stimulates community cern for all on whom our freedoms we enjoy today were not just handed to us, but won through Haggerty Museum of Art at and economic development actions will have impact. You decades of activism and perseverance. Marquette University: and serves as a resource for taught us to respect the dig- That’s something to be proud of, and something we must continue. At its May 14, 2010 meet- people of every culture and nity and the inherent, unas- ing, the Wisconsin Arts Board heritage.” Our clearly stated sailable value of every single voted unanimously to defer values include “freedom of human person. You taught us action on the Haggerty expression” and “respect and to love learning and to value Museum’s application for a appreciation for all cultures the free and open expres- fiscal year 2011 Creation and and people.” sion of ideas. You taught us The Wisconsin Gazette is published Presentation grant until our We welcome any materials to be responsible and loving biweekly and distributed throughout the meeting Sept. 11. you believe may be instruc- men and women for others. Milwaukee area, Madison, Racine and The Wisconsin Arts Board tive as the Wisconsin Arts You taught us to follow our Kenosha. To have WiG delivered to your members expressed unani- Board studies the situation hearts and our consciences. address, contact circulation@wisconsin- mous concern that serious and weighs their decision. I You taught us to be the dif- CEO/PRINCIpal gazette.com or call 414-961-3240. questions suggesting dis- will inform you of that deci- ference. You taught us well, Leonard Sobczak criminatory hiring practices sion immediately following and we will live these lessons, WiG Publishing, LLC. © 2010 at Marquette University had the September meeting. even when you fail to do so. Publisher/ been recently raised in the Barbara Lawton, Lieutenant We are who you taught us to Editor in Chief press and remained unre- Governor be. We are Marquette. Louis Weisberg Social Networking solved. Board members Concerned Students Emily Adams asked for more time to inves- Dear president NATIONAL NEWS Editor tigate and ensure that any The following letter was sent Lisa Neff Entertainment Editor grant approved was consis- by Marquette students to uni- Gregg Shapiro tent with our mission as the versity president Fr. Robert A. WiG welcomes letters to the Creative Director state agency which “nurtures Wild: editor. E-mail managingedi- Jason Smith contributors Harry Cherkinian creativity, cultivates expres- You taught us to listen [email protected]. Jr., Jody Hirsh, Rick Karlin, Kerrie Ken- Assistant Editor nedy, Angel Sevilla, Jennifer Vanasco, Paul Lucky Tomaszek Varnell, Todd Wellman, Dan Zaitz Account Executives Technical consultant Our mission Will Elwood, Marypat Wulff Kevin Rux To inform, engage and empower Wisconsin’s LGBT community by providing a professional, independent print and online source for news and commentary, www.wisconsingazette.com as well as coverage of political and cultural issues. WI s c o N S INGA z e t t e . c o m | June 3, 2010 13 Monogamy Self-education In light of recent per- There is much to be while to get up to speed, but Film? There are gay char- sonal events, I’ve decided gained from a lifetime of con- I spent a lot of time focusing acters, a few gay actors and to focus this column on tinuing education. The world on art, which benefitted my even a gay producer or direc- pinion the dynamics of monoga- has many riches and sources reviews and evaluations. tor or two. O mous relationships. Being Angel Sevilla of pleasure to absorb. Those Based on my experience, Drama? There are gay play- Paul Varnell a relationship-oriented broad survey courses we all gays have an advantage in wrights and gay characters person, I’ve many times pletely monogamous. That took in college provided only pursuing the humanities in many modern plays and ality and what, if anything, found myself in positions said, we are humans and a smattering of what is avail- and social sciences. There is maybe in earlier plays as well. they do about it. Sociology? where I’ve been faced with love complicates every- able on any topic. They were almost always a gay aspect English and American litera- The growth of the gay move- the choice – to cheat or thing. So of course we’re designed to whet the appe- to them that can serve as an ture? There are any number ment and the worldwide not to cheat. going to be hurt when we tite for learning more. opening to the whole topic in of gay writers and gay char- gay community. Economics? If you’ve ever been in get cheated on. Self-education beyond its broader aspects. acters? Psychology? There is Why gays live in some places this position, you’ll under- What I’m present- college can involve reading Most subjects have a the history of the treatment rather than others, how gays stand that as much as you ing here is some scien- books. But it also includes gay angle. I mentioned art of homosexuals and the fare in salary and benefits can love your partner, tific logic to help calm you travel to new places, learn- because of the number of failed attempt to develop a compared with heterosexu- temptation is a sexy bitch down when your partner ing about different peoples modern artists who are gay theory about homosexuality als (does being technically who’s sometimes hard to says that he/she feels bad and their cultures and the and who have painted on gay (e.g., Freud). single help or hurt career resist. or doesn’t know what he/ effort to have new experi- themes. History? The whole field is advancement?). I’m not saying monoga- she was thinking. It’s just ences (e.g., in music, in art, in Music? There are a number loaded with the treatment of You get the idea. It is hard my is wrong. I’m just saying that you partner got a personal growth). of gay composers, especially gays and, in the last 60 years, to believe that there is any that people are not pre- little more in touch with I can offer my own expe- in modern times. There are the revolution by gays and gay person who is not inter- disposed to be monoga- that animal side than what rience as an example. In many gay performers, (many lesbians and the resistance ested in at least one or more mous. is socially acceptable these recent years I have had to of whom remain to be de- against the legal and medi- of those topics and would I watched a special on days. learn something about art closeted) and an increasing cal abuses visited upon us in not want to learn about it the Discovery Channel In the case of mar- and art history – after I was number of compositions on the past. or them. called “The Science of Sex riage, I’d like to propose assigned the task of writing gay themes (e.g., Benjamin Anthropology? How vari- For news updates go to Appeal.” It revealed the a change in the way things art reviews. It took me a Britten’s opera “Billy Budd).” ous cultures view homosexu- www.wisconsingazette.com. subconscious aspects of are done. Marriage is a attraction. commitment and a tes- The most interest- tament to true love but ing part was when it above all it is a contract. Questioning authority addressed the nature Ask any lawyer. I recently behind cheating. Simply switched my cell phone As the controversy over of the “faithful” to rid society lowed back, “BELIEVE AND put, it stems from the fact service from T-Mobile to Marquette University’s of that minority’s existence. OBEY!” that men by nature have US Cellular, and when I rejection of Jodi O’Brien pinion Protecting the physical and “Well, that’s dumb,” I the need to make babies. signed the contract it was as new dean of Arts and O moral purity of the nation or remember my stubborn little Men find themselves made very clear to me Sciences wore on in the past Jamakaya community is the rationale. 10-year-old self thinking. attracted to fertile, repro- that it was a two-year month, I found myself chan- Depriving people of their The reigning ethos of ductively healthy women. agreement. So, after two neling Captain Renault in complications, especially in civil rights and pathologizing the 1960s was to question They have sex to relieve years, if I decide that I’m “Casablanca.” the Third World, due to the their differences are key ele- authority, and the history the need to impregnate not happy with my service, I’m shocked, shocked to Vatican’s irrational opposi- ments in the operational plan. books I was reading talked them. I can leave the relationship find discrimination going on tion to condoms? The Catholic Church in about this really cool time But just because a man scot-free. Why are mar- in the Catholic Church! What about the millions America has spent millions called “The Enlightenment,” has impregnated one riage contracts not this Don’t get me wrong. of Catholic women who are to lobby against women’s when science overcame woman doesn’t mean that sensible? I hope O’Brien gets a big restricted from full participa- rights, sex education, no-fault superstition and average folks he’s freed from the instinc- With divorce rates settlement for enduring such tion in the Church, perma- divorce, same-sex marriage. challenged the divine right of tive need to create life. sky high it would be an shabby treatment. Ultimately, nently relegated to a second- And we’re surprised kings. We kicked the Brits That urge is constant and, ideal option for millions her reputation will be ary role? It is an apartheid by Milwaukee’s archbish- out of America so we could biologically speaking, that’s of Americans who don‘t enhanced by the classy way regime based on fear of, and op cracking the whip and run our own lives, didn’t we? why a man might find it want to deal with divorce. she’s handled herself and by contempt for, women. Marquette dumping a lesbian Why in the world would any- hard to say no when in a I propose that marriage the national publicity given What about the thou- scholar? one just “believe and obey”? tempting situation, even if contracts last 10 years and to her work. I feel bad for sands of victims of pedophile I know there are good It didn’t make any sense he truly loves his already that after they expire the the students who are so dis- priests, a sad but predict- Catholics doing a wide range then, and it makes even less pregnant partner. couples can opt to go back heartened by the actions of able result of the Vatican’s of valuable work in our com- sense now. Women seek out men and renew them or they Marquette’s administration, repressive, hypocritical view munities. But one does not With the world in the who are biologically com- can part ways and leave and I certainly admire their of human sexuality? need an archaic, misogynist, shape it’s in – environmental patible with them in terms their marriages without protests. Imposing the Inquisition? morally compromised hierar- catastrophes, unending wars, of baby making. They’ll the bitterness that divorce But what world are they Accommodating fascists? chy to love God or to honor corporate corruption, gov- choose to have sex with brings. living in? Have they studied Excommunicating people the teachings of Jesus Christ. ernment incompetence, reli- the alpha male who will Whatever your per- history? Do they know what desperate to leave rotten I write as only a lapsed gious zealotry – we all need give her a strong and sonal situation might be, the Catholic Church stands marriages? Catholic can write. My own to engage at whatever level healthy baby. But as far as a little logic and simplifi- for? Successive popes have estrangement came early. we can to question authority a woman choosing a part- cation can go a long way Do they know about the called homosexuality “intrin- While attending Catholic and work for change. ner is concerned, she’ll for your relationships, past millions of women world- sically disordered” and “evil” grade school as a child, I once The only upside of choose a softer, gentler and present. And to the wide condemned to compul- (John Paul II) and labeled naively asked the forbidden Marquette’s boorish rejec- man who can help nurture innocent I refused to men- sive childbearing, poverty and long-term same sex relation- question in catechism class: tion of Jodi O’Brien is that her and her baby. She’ll be tion in the first paragraph, ill health by the Vatican’s cam- ships “insidious and danger- “Why?” When the answer, it’s spurring a new generation tempted to cheat on the he just gave in to his ani- paign against artificial birth ous” (Benedict). which I’m sure had something to question authority. I hope alpha male with the beta mal side. You can blame control? This is scurrilous, elimina- to do with blind faith, did their inquiries run deep, and I male. nature. Or about the millions tionist language. It is intended not seem adequate, I asked hope they last a lifetime. It’s simply just not in For news updates go to who have died and who to demonize and isolate a again, “Why?” And again, “But For news updates go to our nature to be com- www.wisconsingazette.com. will continue to die of AIDS minority and mobilize armies why?” The priest finally bel- www.wisconsingazette.com. 14 WI s c o N S INGA z e t t e . c o m | June 3, 2010 Opinion Marching forward together on staff who will fill birth sored bills to take away all Clearly, strengthening the Teri huyck control prescriptions. We state funding for Planned relationship between repro- have a long way to go to Parenthood and other family ductive health advocates and The LGBT community and ensure equity in insurance planning providers. He was LGBT advocates becomes reproductive health advo- coverage for our communi- also a vocal proponent of all the more urgent as cates have so much to be ties, but these are important writing discrimination into November approaches. proud of this year, and yet, we first steps that Democratic the Wisconsin Constitution, In Tom Barrett, face many challenges ahead. lawmakers and Doyle took in issuing a press release Wisconsinites would have a Gov. Jim Doyle signed four the right direction. in support of the ban on pro-fairness governor who laws enhancing reproduc- We share your success, marriage equality and civil is solidly pro-reproductive tive health care in our state, too. Domestic partnership unions, stating, “Many years health. Barrett has a strong, making 2009-10 the most protections are a milestone ago, I concluded that we must 10-year Congressional successful legislative ses- for all Wisconsinites who change the Wisconsin State record supporting women’s sion for reproductive health want to ensure that caring, Constitution to say that mar- and reproductive health advocates in the history of committed couples are able riage is to be between one policies. Under his leader- Wisconsin. to take care of each other. man and one woman.” ship, the Milwaukee Health The entire LGBT com- We share your values. During his five years in Department was recently munity shares in these suc- Planned Parenthood sup- Congress, Mark Neumann awarded the Wisconsin cesses. The Healthy Youth ports the right to reproduc- voted repeatedly against Public Health Association’s Act ensures LGBT students tive and sexual self-determi- family planning access both Excellence in Public Health will not face discrimina- nation for all people. We sup- internationally and domesti- Award for reducing teen tion in sex-ed curricula. port policies that guarantee cally. He voted over a dozen pregnancy and STD rates, Expedited Partner Therapy the essential right to privacy times to limit access to among other factors. P h oto : C o u rt e s y allows physicians to treat a for all individuals, regardless abortion for women serv- Barrett also has a proven Teri Huyck is president of Planned Parenthood patient’s partner for an STD of their sexual orientation. ing in the military, federal track record of supporting Advocates of Wisconsin. he or she has contracted. We also share many chal- employees and women in the LGBT community. During The Contraceptive Equity lenges. Both Republican can- prison – even if they used his years in Congress, he As mayor of Milwaukee, he together. We both work on and Prescription Protection didates for governor promise private funds to pay for abor- opposed the “don’t ask, don’t proactively supports the city matters that involve the most laws help ensure fairness in to reverse the historic gains tion care. When he was in tell” policy that hinders the of Milwaukee’s domestic intimate choices central to a the provision of health care. we’ve made. Congress, Neumann voted ability of gays and lesbians to partner registry and he has person’s dignity and auton- Insurance plans now will When he was in the state for the Defense of Marriage defend our country. Barrett ensured that the LGBT com- omy. have to include prescription Legislature, Scott Walker led Act. He also told The New was also a vocal opponent munity is represented in city This November, everything birth control in prescription the charge to allow pharma- York Times, “If I were elected of the 2006 constitutional government. we stand for is on the line. drug plans and all pharma- cists to refuse to dispense God for a day, homosexuality amendmentA Milwaukee banning marTreasure….S- Our movementstill areOpen inter- andTogether, Available we must preserve cies must have pharmacists birth control and spon- wouldn’t be permitted.” riage equality and civil unions. dependent. We rise and fall our gains and march forward.

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AIDS Quilt from 1 The NAMES Project The AIDS Quilt AIDS Quilt Exhibition panels on display is at MAM June 8-20, 10 at MAM were cre- a.m.–5 p.m. on Tuesdays ated by some of through Sundays and the great fashion munication ... and as the until 8 p.m. Thursdays. designers of our medium by which you can Admission is free. time, including: express (such emotions as grief),” said MAM director Donna Karan Dan Keegan. Dolce & Gabbana Joe Pabst, who founded world’s foremost fashion Versace the Johnson and Pabst LGBT designers. They were among Ralph Lauren Humanity Fund to recognize the first to join the fight Isaac Mizrahi his seven-year relationship against AIDS, and creating the Tommy Hilfiger with Robert Johnson, who panels was a natural exten- BCBG died of AIDS complications, sion of their fight. Valentino said the AIDS Quilt “is the “It was one community’s Anna Sui largest ongoing community response because so many Oscar De La Renta folk art project in the world of their own were lost to Joe Boxer in history.” the pandemic,” Shaffer said. United Colors of Benetton Each panel of the quilt “It was fitting to have that Helmut Lang is created by bereaved community respond through P hoto: Courtesy N a m e s P ro j e c t friends and/or family mem- the medium that most suited A detail from one of the 6,000 12-foot-square blocks of the AIDS Quilt. bers and measures roughly them – textiles.” the size of a human grave, The NAMES Project and underscores the excellent reminder that there is still The postcard is valid Editor’s note: See Deb said Janece Shaffer of the ARCW wanted to connect relationship between MAM so much to be done in this for the duration of the Brehmer’s review of “American NAMES Project Foundation. the exhibit back to the local and ARCW, said ARCW vice fight, Mueller said. “It is going Winterthur exhibition, not Quilts: Selections from the Eight panels are then sewn community. Included in the president and chief devel- to take courage, passion and just for the two weeks that Winterthur Collection” in this together to make a block, exhibit is the “Milwaukee opment officer Dan Mueller. the help of a lot of people the AIDS Quilt is on display. week’s Art Gaze. which is 12-feet square. Remembers” panel, created MAM has been a regular to achieve what needs to be There are a total of 6,000 in 1987 by the Milwaukee donor to ARCW’s Make done next.” blocks - each one as big as AIDS Project, which later a Promise dinner and has The AIDS Quilt will be a typical bedroom. In total, became ARCW. It depicts hosted celebrations for the on display in the Schroeder Anyone can sell there are 47,000 panels more than 50 white doves organization. Galleria. To increase its acces- you insurance. that honor 92,000 names. taking flight over a field of “When Joe (Pabst) sibility to the community, the Though the quilt has grown deep blue. approached us with the pros- exhibit is free and open to so immense that it’s nearly According to a 1989 arti- pect of doing another project the public. The difference is witter impossible to exhibit it in cle in MAP’s newsletter, the with MAM, we were very But MAM has made it pos- T service. entirety, Shaffer said it rep- panel took an entire sum- excited,” Mueller said. “The sible for ARCW to do some resents only 17.5 percent of mer to finish, utilizing both museum curator has really additional fundraising in con- the lives that have been lost paid and volunteer staff. The taken the lead on making the junction with the exhibit. to AIDS. article details a time when connections and doing the When MAM patrons pay Buchanan said the muse- Milwaukee was facing the leg-work. 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WIG_WUWM_SchedSunday.indd 1 5/27/2010 6:25:05 PM 16 WI s c o N S INGA z e t t e . c o m | June 3, 2010 Opinion Equality advances Rep. Mark Pocan in Wisconsin Despite a rough national goal had already been met. classification. ful death. economy that has created This continues to be great In total, there are now And there are other pro- difficulties for so many peo- news for our LGBT com- 43 protections that regis- tections, such as being able to ple and families in Wisconsin, munity, because according to tered domestic partners are transfer real estate and car one aspect of this past leg- Fair Wisconsin’s most recent afforded. titles among partners with- islative year was cause for research, 1,437 couples have We can now take time off out a transfer fee. optimism. registered as domestic part- of work covered by the state There are still many battles When the Democrats took ners in Wisconsin since our Family Medical Leave Act to for equality yet to be waged, over the Assembly last year, registry law took effect in be by the hospital bed of and it is important to sup- one of my goals for being in August 2009. our partners. Visitation rights port the people and groups leadership was mitigating the We became the first state are also covered in hospitals, that are fighting for fairness black eye Wisconsin deserv- in the Midwest to legisla- hospices, group or nursing and equality and a return edly got in passing a hateful, tively enact any legal pro- homes and residential care to our state’s proud history anti-gay marriage constitu- tections for same-sex cou- facilities. of anti-discrimination. Your tional amendment in 2006. ples, returning to the path There are a number of hard work and support has We did this by making sure of our state’s proud history inheritance and survivor made these advances pos- all committed couples had that began with our ground- protections that same-sex sible against the odds. There basic protections for their breaking sexual orientation married couples also have, is good cause for optimism, relationships. non-discrimination on law in such as inheriting the estate and good reason to keep We were able to get that 1982. No other state that of a domestic partner who up the high goals and the measure into the budget and has a constitutional amend- dies without a will, receiv- hard work. And they will fuel begin the fall session focused ment banning gay marriage ing death benefits or victim future advances as well. on creating jobs and healing and civil unions has been able compensation and the ability But for now – celebrate p h oto : c o u rt e s y the economy, knowing that to enact a domestic partner to sue for a partner’s wrong- and enjoy Pridefest! State Rep. Mark Pocan. QUOTES OF PRIDE “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” – Judy Garland PRIDEFEST 2010 Congresswoman Gwen Moore was recognized on May 11, 2010 by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force for her work with Equality Wisconsin and on behalf of LGBT Wisconsinites.

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Got news? Tell us Brief GAzE [email protected]. Supremacists Six intends to file a friend the church’s teachings aren’t said had come under “undue courts decide otherwise. ad campaign in late May, a get permit for of the court brief in an appeal compromised, Cardinal Sean criticism” for the decision. David Rocah, staff attorney week after three gay couples rally by the family of Marine Lance O’Malley said. One of the boy’s parents said for the ACLU of Maryland, filed a lawsuit seeking to The National Park Service Cpl. Matthew Snyder. The O’Malley’s comments Rafferty said her relationship described the change as “a overturn Minnesota’s ban on has approved a permit for a family sued the Westboro were his first public remarks was “in discord” with church very small step in the right gay marriage. white supremacist group to Baptist Church in Topeka about a decision by St. teachings, which sees mar- direction.” hold a rally at Gettysburg after members picketed Paul Elementary School in riage as only between a man “I think the basic idea here, 2 students cited National Military Park in Snyder’s 2006 funeral. The Hingham, Mass., to rescind a and a woman. to put it in a nutshell, is that in anti-gay Pennsylvania this month. church, led by the Rev. Fred boy’s acceptance because his the state is treating these graffiti case The Aryan Nations group Phelps, contends U.S. military parents are gay. Maryland married couples as married Two Southern Oregon plans a rally June 19 from 1 deaths are God’s punishment The archdiocese’s head of updates couples at least in this limited University students have p.m. to 3 p.m. near the old for tolerating homosexuality. education later called one benefits for instance, and it hopefully will been cited on charges they Cyclorama Center. The Supreme Court has of the boy’s parents, apolo- same-sex be a harbinger of things to scrawled anti-gay graffiti in Park spokeswoman Katie agreed to consider whether gized and offered to help the couples come,” Rocah said. a dormitory on the Ashland Lawhon said the park is obli- the protesters’ actions, no 8-year-old enroll in another Maryland updated its ben- campus. gated to make the land avail- matter how provocative and Catholic school. The arch- efits policy for state employ- Anti-gay The Ashland Daily Tidings able to the public to exercise upsetting, are protected by diocese said it is creating a ees in late May to include marriage ads reports that Ashland police their free speech rights guar- the U.S. Constitution’s free policy to clarify its schools same-sex spouses who pos- AIR in Minnesota cited 20-year-old Kevin anteed by the Constitution. speech amendment. don’t bar children with same- sess a valid marriage cer- A national group is sinking Novotny and 19-year-old The group has said it plans Six says that other states sex parents. tificate from another juris- $200,000 into TV ads oppos- Blake Adkins on charges of speeches and discussions of need to stand up for the “It is true that we wel- diction. ing gay marriage in Minnesota. criminal mischief. Adkins also current issues, such as immi- families’ right to mourn their come people from all walks The Maryland Department The Washington-based faces a charge of intimidation. gration and homosexuality. loved ones in dignity. So far, of life,” O’Malley wrote. “But of Management and Budget National Organization for Jonathan Eldridge, the uni- Some other Adams County eight states have joined we recognize that, regard- updated the policy in its role Marriage says Minnesota is versity’s vice president for groups have announced plans less of the circumstances as administrator of the state the latest battleground state student affairs, says the stu- for a “celebration of diver- Cardinal: involved, we maintain our employee benefits program. in the fight over same-sex dents will also face a univer- sity” the same day. In 2006, a Catholic responsibility to teach the The change was made marriage. The statewide ad sity disciplinary hearing. “Community Unity Day” was schools truths of our faith, includ- after a legal opinion issued urges a vote on the issue The graffiti showed up last held to counter a rally by welcome all ing those concerning sexual by Attorney General Doug through a constitutional month in two halls. the World Knights of the Ku Catholic schools in the morality and marriage.” Gansler in February that con- amendment defining mar- Klux Klan at the battlefield. Archdiocese of Boston wel- O’Malley defended the cluded Maryland must recog- riage as the union of one come all children, even as Rev. James Rafferty, the par- nize out-of-state gay mar- man and one woman. –AP and Southern they work to make sure ish priest at St. Paul’s, who he riages until the Legislature or The group announced the WiG reports California transgender Police Officer Career Opportunity! City of Milwaukee Police Department woman sues Macy’s A transgender woman In some jobs, success is measured by what doesn’t happen has filed a lawsuit against It’s a call to be more than a citizen a Macy’s store in Torrance, Be more than a politician Calif., alleging that managers Be more than a cop and co-workers treated her Be a force unfairly and humiliated her.

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Internationa5 l GAzE Malawi president pardons couple

From WiG and AP A judge had science. Kagari said imme- reports diately after the sentencing In late May, Malawian sentenced that Amnesty would “con- President Bingu wa Mutharika tinue to campaign on this in late May issued an uncon- the couple to matter and to work tirelessly ditional pardon for Tiwonge to see that they are released Chimbalanga and Steven 14 years of unconditionally as soon as Monjeza. prison and possible.” A May 31 statement from Mark Heywood, director the White House May 31 hard labor. of the South Africa-based read, “The White House is AIDS Law Project, called the pleased to learn of President sentence “outrageous.” Bingu wa Mutharika’s par- Malawi society which I do In a joint statement issued don of Tiwonge Chimbalanga not believe is ready at this in London, British lawmak- and Steven Monjeza. These point in time to see its sons ers Henry Bellingham, individuals were not crimi- getting married to other sons Stephen O’Brien and Lynne nals and their struggle is not or conducting engagement Featherstone urged the unique. We must all recom- ceremonies.” Malawi government to mit ourselves to ending the Chimbalanga, then, review its laws to ensure persecution and criminaliza- remained composed as human rights were protected. tion of sexual orientation and armed police officers hand- They said their country gender identity. We hope that cuffed him to Monjeza. “believes that human rights President Mutharika’s pardon “I am not worried,” he apply to everyone regardless marks the beginning of a new told reporters as they were of their sexual orientation or dialogue, which reflects the taken to a police vehicle. gender identity,” and would, country’s history of toler- Monjeza broke down upon with its international part- P hoto: Courtesy ance and a new day for les- hearing the ruling and was ners, “continue to press the Headline news in Africa: The Malawi government prosecution – and par- bian, gay, bisexual, and trans- still sobbing as he was helped Government of Malawi on don – of Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza. gender rights in Malawi and into the van. this issue.” around the globe.” Hundreds of onlookers In Geneva, the UN’s top a number of years – rightly and funds six orphanages in the pardon and ordered the A judge in Blantyre, Malawi, inside and outside the court human rights official, High so.” the country, said in a state- men’s immediate release. had sentenced the couple to house showed little sympa- Commissioner Navi Pillay, In Washington, Philip ment, “As a matter of prin- Cary Alan Johnson of the the maximum 14 years in thy. There were shouts of called the sentencing “bla- Crowley, an assistant secre- ciple, I believe in equal rights International Gay and Lesbian prison with hard labor under “You got what you deserve!” tantly discriminatory.” tary of state, expressed dis- for all people, no matter what Human Rights Commission, Malawi’s anti-gay legislation, and “Fourteen years is not “I am shocked and dis- appointment with the convic- their gender, race, color, reli- said, “This pardon should be and crowds jeered the two enough, they should get 50!” mayed by the sentence and tion. “We view the criminal- gion, or sexual orientation. seen as a significant chal- men as they were driven Michelle Kagari, deputy reports of the treatment of ization of sexual orientation Today, Malawi took a giant lenge to laws and proceed- from the court house to jail. Africa director of Amnesty Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge and gender identity as a step step backward.” ings that are inherently The harsh sentence for International called the sen- Chimbalanga while in deten- backward in the protection Malawi’s government had unfair. However, it should unnatural acts and gross tence “an outrage.” tion,” Pillay said. “The law of human rights in Malawi,” been defiant in the face of not require a presidential indecency had been expect- The watchdog group had which enabled the conviction Crowley said. international criticism over intervention for lesbian, gay, ed after the same judge adopted Chimbalanga and dates back to the Colonial Madonna, who has adopt- the couple’s prosecution bisexual and transgender convicted Chimbalanga and Monjeza as prisoners of con- Era and has lain dormant for ed two Malawian children until the president issued Malawians to obtain justice.” Monjeza earlier under laws dating from the Colonial Era. The case has drawn inter- national condemnation and sparked a debate on human Third Ward: 414.272.8482 rights in this conservative southern African country. www.getvitafit.com Chimbalanga and Monjeza were arrested Dec. 27, 2009, 222 East Erie Street, Suite #150 the day after they celebrat- Milwaukee, WI 53202 ed their engagement with a party at the hotel where Chimbalanga worked – an • Unique Personal Fitness Experience apparent first in Malawi. “Maximum sentences are • Outpatient Physical Therapy in a Wellness Gym Environment intended for use for worst cases,” Magistrate Nyakwawa • Mention This Ad For Free Injury Evaluation or Free Fitness Evaluation Usiwa Usiwa said as he deliv- ered his sentence. “We are sitting here to represent the 20 WI s c o N S INGA z e t t e . c o m | June 3, 2010 International GAzE Zimbabwe police Portugal’s tions,” though he did not Socialist Party spokesman in 2007 allowing abortions. said they will continue to raid gay group president elaborate and did not take Vitalino Canas welcomed the The following year, it intro- fight for gay couples’ paren- offices, arrest 2 ratifies gay reporters’ questions. president’s decision. duced a law allowing divorce tal rights, including adoption, A defense attorney says marriage law The country’s parliament “This is a memorable even if one of the spous- which are not included in police in Zimbabwe have Portugal’s conservative passed the Socialist govern- moment,” he said. “This is es objected. It has argued the law. arrested two members of a president said he is reluc- ment-backed bill in January, a great step forward for us that the legislation is part of Portugal lifted a prohibi- gay organization in Harare. tantly ratifying a law allowing with the support of all of politically and as a society.” Portugal’s “modernization.” tion on homosexuality in the Attorney David Hofisi says gay marriage, making the pre- Portugal’s left-of-center par- Antonio Serzedelo, the The new law removes the early 1980s. In 2001, it passed he has not been allowed to dominantly Catholic country ties, who together have a president of lobbying group previous legal stipulation that a law allowing “civil unions” visit them in jail since their the sixth in Europe to let majority. Right-of-center par- Opus Gay, congratulated marriage is between two between same-sex couples, arrest May 20, but they were same-sex couples wed. ties opposed the measure the head of state for placing people of different sexes. which granted couples cer- expected to be brought to President Anibal Cavaco and demanded a national ref- “ethical responsibility above Portugal’s Constitutional tain legal, tax and property court in late May. Silva said he would not erendum. personal opinions.” Court validated the bill’s rights. However, it did not Ellen Chadehama, 34, veto the bill because major- Elsewhere in Europe, gay Portugal is nearly 90 per- legality last month. allow couples to take a part- and Ingatius Mhambi, 38, ity liberal lawmakers would marriage is permitted in cent Catholic. However, only Like neighboring Spain, ner’s name, nor inherit his are employees of the Gays only overturn his decision. Belgium, the Netherlands, around 2 million of its 10.6 which introduced same-sex or her possessions or state and Lesbians of Zimbabwe The country must focus Spain, Sweden and Norway. million people describe them- marriages four years ago, pre- pension. organization. They were instead on battling a crip- As well, five U.S. states and selves as practicing Catholics vious efforts in Portugal to –AP arrested on allegations under pling economic crisis that has Washington, D.C., have legal- and Portugal has drifted away introduce gay marriage ran Zimbabwe’s censorship laws. increased unemployment and ized same-sex marriage, from the church’s teachings. into strong resistance from Police raided the offices deepened poverty, he said. as have Canada and South The current Socialist religious groups and conser- of their gay and HIV/AIDS “Given that fact, I feel I Africa. government has defied the vative lawmakers. 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P h oto : c o u rt e s y A gay Pride celebration in Holland. Pride celebrations planned worldwide

By Lisa Neff will turn out for PrideFest, celebra- tion, began in 1970, a year after 80s. that everyone has the right to live Staff writer tions take place in Birmingham, Ala., Stonewall. Moscow Pride was May 29, and in conditions of dignity, respect ne heart. One Albuquerque, N.M., Lansing, Mich., On the Pacific Coast the same the first Pride celebration planned and peace; …continues to advocate world. One pride. Spokane, Wash., West Hollywood, day, San Francisco’s Pride celebra- in Tijuana, Mexico, is June 19. for the elimination of all forms of This is the Calif., Boston, Indianapolis and tion will begin at Market Street Toronto will celebrate Pride June discrimination and is committed to theme for many Philadelphia. and Beale. Grandstand seats are so 25 and Warsaw will host EuroPride equal treatment of all people.” LGBT Pride cel- A week later, Pride celebrations coveted, that late-comers’ seats can on July 9. Spartanburg City Councilmember Oebrations in 2010. take place in Augusta, Maine, Grand be re-sold for $40 each. The arrival of Pride season tra- Linda Dogan complained that White The earliest U.S. Pride celebra- Rapids, Mich., Nashville, Tenn., Chicago’s parade also takes place ditionally brings along a flurry of didn’t seek the board’s input before tion this year was West Virginia Louisville, Ky., and St. Paul, Minn. June 27, stepping off from Belmont proclamations from politicians – issuing the proclamation and that Pride Parade and Festival in But the majority of U.S. celebra- and Halsted in the Lakeview neigh- from the White House to the may- the decree should be rescinded. Charleston, W.Va., which took place tions occur in late June, close to the borhood. This year’s grand marshal ors’ offices. White responded that the refer- over Memorial Day weekend. anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. is Chely Wright, the country musi- One of the first mayoral procla- ence “on behalf of my fellow city The latest Pride happening on What has become known as cian who came out last month in a mations issued this year – a decree council members” was removed the 2010 world calendar takes place “The March” will begin at 52nd media blitz. from Spartanburg, S.C., Mayor Junie from the document. Oct. 10-12 in Rio de Janeiro. and Fifth Avenue in New York City U.S. Pride activities will continue L. White – generated hometown Between those dates, people in on June 27 with Mississippi teen throughout the summer, with a controversy in advance of the June hundreds of communities will cele- Constance McMillen as the grand number of cities in the South hold- 19 LGBT Pride Day. brate LGBT Pride. The same week- marshal. “The March,” the culmina- ing events in mid-September, when White’s proclamation states that For news updates go to end Milwaukee’s LGBT community tion of New York’s Pride celebra- the temperatures drop from the the city “supports efforts to ensure www.wisconsingazette.com. special P ridefest supplement 22 WI s c o N S INGA z e t t e . c o m | June 3, 2010 L G B T Pride 2010 MILKING IT Activists make the most of first Harvey Milk Day

By Lisa Neff then as an insurance actu- California. Milk was at the Staff writer ary and later a Wall Street front of a five-mile protest researcher. march against the Christian et Milk” read Milk is said to have found fundamentalist crusade, and the T-shirt slo- himself and his purpose in he also was ahead in the race gan that curved San Francisco in the early to represent the Castro on over a black- 1970s. There the counter- the San Francisco Board of ‘Gon-red image of Harvey Milk. culture fed the gay liberation Supervisors. “I made it myself,” 17-year- movement and flower-power In November that year, old Logan Pierce boasted. “In melted Milk’s conservatism. Milk defeated 16 other can- art class.” He and a boyfriend arrived didates for the seat and, after In a business class, the high on the West Coast with the his swearing-in, entered city school student picked up a traveling company of the hall with his current boy- few tips on how to sell the musical “Hair” in 1969 and, friend. T-shirts at the first annual after some drifting years, Milk “You can stand around P h oto : a p P h oto Harvey Milk Festival, held May permanently settled in San and throw bricks at Silly San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk (left) and Mayor George Moscone 22 in the Rosemary District Francisco in the early 1970s. Hall or you can take it over. in 1977. of downtown Sarasota, Fla. By 1973, he and boyfriend Well, here we are,” Milk said, “Harvey, he was a cool Scott Smith were the propri- according to biographer that both Mayor Moscone hosted a private Harvey dude,” the young, gay entre- etors of a camera shop on Randy Shilts. and Supervisor Harvey Milk ‘He gave his Milk Day reception and, in preneur said. Castro Street and Milk was Ten months after he was have been shot and killed … life so others West Hollywood, volunteers Nearby, mom Maggie taking an interest in local, sworn in, Milk was shot and the suspect is Supervisor turned out for a day of com- Pierce looked on. “Logan said state and federal politics. He twice in the head and killed, Dan White.” could live munity service. Meanwhile, he wanted to come out here ran that year for supervisor along with Moscone. Dianne In death, Milk became an in Palm Springs, celebrants and be involved,” said mom. “I and lost. He ran again for Feinstein, today a U.S. sena- icon. openly and joined in a happy hour at a think it’s good, wholesome.” supervisor in 1975 and lost. tor, became acting mayor. “He gave his life so that Hamburger Mary’s. Wholesome could He ran for the California She announced, from the others could live openly freely.’ On the other side of the describe the Harvey Milk Assembly in 1976 and lost. steps of city hall, “Today San and freely,” said California country, at the White House, Festival and many other And then came 1977, the Francisco has experienced a Assemblymember Tom Milk Day demonstrators commemorative events held year of Anita Bryant’s anti- double tragedy of immense Ammiano, D-San Francisco. joined in color-coded pro- nationwide May 22, on what gay Save Our Children cru- proportions. As president of “He hoped for a time when the contributions he made to test, wearing red for HIV/ would have been Milk’s 80th sade in Florida and of the the board of supervisors, it all people, regardless of this state.” AIDS awareness, orange for birthday. anti-gay Briggs Initiative in is my duty to inform you sexual orientation or gender “This special day provides the freedom to marry, green Milk never turned 49. identity, could be equal.” us with the unique opportu- for lifting the military ban, His prophesy of a bullet nity to educate Californians gray for immigration rights, entering his brain came true Honoring Milk about a true American hero white to represent people of Nov. 27, 1978. Milk, who had For several years, activists who believed that all men faith and black to represent served just 10 months as a and lawmakers campaigned in and women are created the lack of diversity in the San Francisco supervisor, and California to establish Harvey equal and who lived and died LGBT movement. San Francisco Mayor George Milk Day. Last year, Milk got by those convictions,” Leno Elsewhere on the holiday, Moscone were gunned down his day when Gov. Arnold said. LGBT groups hosted screen- at city hall by Supervisor Dan Schwarzenegger signed the But Harvey Milk Day fell ings of “Milk,” organized con- White. legislation into law. Also in on a Saturday this year, and certs and festivals and spon- 2009: much more activity took sored picnics and protests. life and legend • “Milk,” the biopic starring place outside the classrooms. A number of events were In life, Milk was an activist Sean Penn, earned Oscars. In California, more than coordinated through Equality and an agitator, and he was • Schwarzenegger induct- 1,000 volunteers knocked on Across America (EAA), which among the first openly gay ed Milk into the California doors to build support for said activities took place in candidates elected to office Hall of Fame. the freedom to marry. Dustin 20 states. in the United States and the • Barack Obama award- Lance Black, who wrote the The Sarasota festival, one first openly gay candidate ed Milk a posthumous “Milk” screenplay, was among of the EAA events, was a elected in California. But not Presidential Medal of those who canvassed. nine-hour celebration of until later in life – he was Freedom. “Everything I know about music, visual and perfor- 22 years older than Logan Harvey Milk Day, provided Harvey Milk tells me that he mance art, food and drink, Pierce when he became for in legislation promoted would want us to be on our commerce and politics. Many active in civic politics and by Equality California and feet fighting for our equality,” in the crowd were young – in gay rights. authored by California Sen. Black said. their teens and 20s – and had Milk was born on Long Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, In Sacramento, Calif., there learned about Milk from the Island, N.Y., May 22, 1930, and is a State Day of Recognition was a “Milk and Cookies” 2008 movie. went through school hiding and was proposed as a day panel discussion on Milk and “He was like the first gay his homosexuality. He served for California public schools the movement, as well as a icon who wasn’t a celebrity,” in the U.S. Navy during the to focus on “remembering rally at the state Capitol. A said Jill McKay. Korean War and, upon his P hoto: Courtesy the life of Harvey Milk, rec- community picnic took place Pierce said, “He really discharge in 1955, went to A poster advertising the first Harvey Milk Day, ognizing his accomplishments in Fresno. In Los Angeles, shook things up. That’s what work as a school teacher, held May 22. and familiarizing pupils with Sharon and Kelly Osbourne it takes to change the world.” WI s c o N S INGA z e t t e . c o m | June 3, 2010 23 L G B T Pride 2010 Beyond acceptance

By Lucky Tomaszek While monthly PFLAG Staff writer Wisconsin’s meetings offer support to parents and families who ne late night are struggling to accept a in 1994, Kay PFLAG loved one’s homosexuality, Heggestad’s for many Wisconsin chapters 16-year-old the focus has shifted almost son came to members entirely to advocacy. This is herO and her husband and the case with the Steven’s made an announcement: “I’m Point chapter. Laura Goetz gay.” shift into started the chapter after “I was extremely sur- moving there from Dubuque, prised,” Heggestad said. Iowa, where she had been “Neither my husband nor I active in a chapter for years. had any idea. (My son) was in activism “That group was very plays and drama club, dressed politically active,” she said. “I nicely, got good grades and wasn’t really involved with he went to prom. He even that part. I mostly liked being brought girls to the house with other like-minded peo- sometimes.” ple.” “We didn’t give him any told their stories. ...I briefly But her role with the grief – we hugged him and told our story and no one Steven’s Point chapter is told him we loved him,” gasped!” defined by advocacy. Heggestad said. Eventually both Heggestad “I think that straight allies But the next day her son and Whitney transitioned have it easier than LGBT went on a three-day trip from quiet acceptance to people when it comes to p h oto : l u c k y to m a s z e k with a school group and real- LGBT activism. “Once the advocating,” Goetz said. “I PFLAG moms show their pride at PrideFest 2009. ity settled in. “We had three parent is out of the closet think we are heard more days to think about it, pro- and everyone knows that clearly, because people are so cess it, worry and wonder, their grandson is gay or their homophobic.” ‘What does this mean?’” nephew is gay, you can start Goetz has rarely been While her husband react- working on other issues,” called on to support people Cannon & Dunphy ed by going through a “this- Heggestad said. “You can say, who are struggling to accept is-a-phase phase,” Heggestad ‘OK, what needs to be done a loved one’s sexual orienta- Wisconsin Personal Injury Attorneys reached out to a chapter of here?’” tion, because most people Parents, Familes and Friends Since the mid-90s, both who contact the Steven’s with a Reputation for Winning ™ of Lesbian and Gays (PFLAG) women have been knocking Point chapter have already C in Madison. on doors, making phone calls, moved beyond acceptance. “That first meeting writing letters and teaching They’re looking for ways to D was pretty rough for me,” tolerance. During the 2006 expand their activism. Heggestad said. “But after campaign against Wisconsin’s “We don’t need to have a that it got easier. It was just constitutional amendment meeting just so that every- • Automobile Accidents so good to see that other banning same-sex marriage, one can agree with each people had gone through Heggestad said she canvassed other,” Goetz said. • Civil Rights this.” door-to-door four days in One of the chapter’s great- She’s attended every the final week before the est successes has been bring- meeting since then. vote. ing PFLAG together with • Fires and Explosions Heggestad’s experience PFLAG’s non-profit status high school and college gay/ with PFLAG is shared by prohibits the group from straight alliance groups. The • Medical Malpractice many of the parents who endorsing a specific candi- chapter has held three inter- reach out to the group. date, but they “can certainly generational meetings and is • Nursing Home/Elder Abuse Sharon Whitney, also a mem- talk about specific issues,” planning another. ber of the Madison chapter, Heggestad said. “We really want to get • Truck Accidents said she attended her first As an organization, PFLAG some intergenerational sup- PFLAG meeting less than a is working diligently on the port going,” Goetz said. “It’s month after her son came Safe Schools initiative, two- not just high school students • Wrongful Death out. Whitney was initially parent adoptions, the passage taking on the fight. It’s not (Domestic Partner under ch. 770) Mark L. Thomsen apprehensive about reaching of the Employment Non- just college students, or par- Attorney at Law out for support. She said she discrimination Act, the repeal ents. It’s all of us, taking it on “wasn’t sure I could share of “don’t ask, don’t tell” and together.” what I considered private many more LGBT issues, 595 N. Barker Road family info with ‘strangers.’” according to Heggestad. The But her experience was 12 chapters in Wisconsin Brookfield, WI 53008 better than she had feared. follow the lead of PFLAG “There were tears shed at national, with members par- For news updates go to (262) 782-2700 Office / (262) 796-3703 Direct the meeting when people ticipating however they can. www.wisconsingazette.com. 24 WI s c o N S INGA z e t t e . c o m | June 3, 2010 There’s Power in Our Pride. Please participate in the largest Gay & Lesbian Community Survey in history, and help demonstrate the growing Power in Our Pride.

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This October • Website redesign begins. ter or dog-walker and maybe is a process that can take a • PrideFest retreat: The • The search for PrideFest pick out the perfect T-shirt couple of months. production team and board volunteers is on. for spending the day in the • Follow up with entertain- of directors hole up for an • PrideFest intern is hired. sun. ers. extended business day to • Small stage performer P hoto: ten thousan d b u ll e t s But for the PrideFest comb through all of the data announcements begin. PrideFest gives away 5,200 bottles of water. production team and board, July on the previous festival. They planning the festival is a year- • Start the search for next discuss promotions, enter- February round activity. Starting the year’s headliners. tainment, festival attendees • Increase PrideFest’s pres- day after PrideFest closes and • Attend Capitol Pride in and more. ence on Facebook and 3 days of PrideFest = continuing for a full 365 days, Madison to support the fes- • Small stage and local per- Twitter. • 150 performances the group works hard to tival and promote Milwaukee former confirmations begin. • Start sending e-mail blasts • 16 food booths bring Milwaukee the largest PrideFest. to update the public on • 47 community groups represented PrideFest in the country. • Write a report on the November PrideFest acts and events. • 56 merchandise vendors Here’s a look at the rig- demographics of PrideFest: • In the thick of negotiations • Website reconstruction • 38,000 beers orous schedule the folks at It’s the “who, what, where, for next year’s headlining complete – just need to • 5,200 free bottles of water given away PrideFest keep throughout when and how” of PrideFest. performers! fill in the blanks as more • 80 hotel rooms booked for out-of-state entertainers the year, starting the day after • Prepare for the annual • Continue recruiting new announcements are made. • 100-plus limousine rides to transport acts around the last event ends. audit: Track all the money sponsors. • Vendors and community Milwaukee that came in and all the • Start using all of the care- groups mail in applications • 400-plus volunteers June – After money that went out. fully collected information and deposits for booths. • 8,520 volunteer hours donated by the PrideFest PrideFest and feedback to shape next • First mainstage performer board throughout the year • Take a deep breath after August year’s festival. announcement made. • 1,458 volunteer hours donated by the community another successful festival. • Attend concerts, festivals over Pride weekend • Balance all of the cash and sporting events to pro- December March • 0 paid staff members and credit cards. Update the mote next year’s PrideFest. • First headliner is con- • Track international hits on website with the dates for • Take a chartered bus of firmed, but the announce- the PrideFest website. next year’s event. LGBT community members ment will wait until the new • Finalize ticket prices and • Post the official PrideFest to the annual Gay Day at the year. VIP package details. May June – Before photos in a gallery on the Bristol Renaissance Festival. • The board of directors • PrideFest tickets go on • Produce an itinerary for PrideFest sale. each band and performer • Write press releases. that includes travel, hotel and • More volunteer recruiting April parking arrangements, festi- and training. • Volunteer applications are val arrival times and perfor- • The production team and available on the website. mance details. board have frequent televi- • Begin the layout of the • Check and double-double sion and radio interviews as Pride Guide. check every piece for the PrideFest grows closer. Every • Miss and Mr. PrideFest pag- Pride Guide: ads, logos, maps, piece of PrideFest must be eant registration opens. stage schedules and more. handled by someone: rain- • Finalize all entertainment • Schedule press coverage bow flags, merchandise, Pride contracts by the middle of for the first two weeks in Guides, tickets, garbage cans, the month. June. fireworks, Day-Glo safety • Order walkie-talkies, golf • Volunteer trainings begin. vests, free bottles of water carts, traffic control signage. • Put together press access and more. • Begin work on travel passes and distribute to all P hoto: ten thousan d b u ll e t s arrangements for perform- the appropriate people. Get news updates at More than 100 limousine rides are required to transport PrideFest acts. ers coming from out of state. www.wisconsingazette.com. 26 WI s c o N S INGA z e t t e . c o m | June 3, 2010 L G B T Pride 2010

Believing out loud: Franksville United Methodist Church

By Bruce H. Joffe out of the church could go all who have known the pain Special to WiG and find God. But the state- of exclusion and discrimina- Franksville United Methodist Church is at 10402 ment of inclusion went fur- tion within the church.” Northwestern Ave., Franksville (www.franksvilleumc. hile the United ther, professing that FUMC is Adopting the inclusion org). The Reconciling Ministries Network is a growing M e t h o d i s t “committed to the reconcili- statement was a big step movement of United Methodist individuals, congrega- Church vacil- ation of all persons as sacred, for this church, founded in tions, campus ministries and other groups working for W the full participation of all people, sexual orientations lates on its position about beloved children of God. Our 1874. Members of the con- homosexuality and the sta- welcome knows no boundar- gregation say the Rev. Kaye and gender identities. tus of gay people in the ies.” Glennon, FUMC’s pastor church, Franksville United The statement continued: since July 2002, played a key lesbian couples into mem- who weren’t quite as united Methodist Church has boldly “We support the full inclu- role in taking the action. bership a few months after as their denomination or its gone where few have gone sion and participation of all “I didn’t want to be a the decision,” Glennon says. slogan – “Open Hearts. Open before – first quietly accept- persons in the life and minis- pastor that let her church “Another woman ‘came out.’ Minds. Open Doors” – had ing, then loudly proclaiming try of the church, regardless stand on the sidelines … I appreciate that people who claimed. its embrace of LGBT people. of sexual orientation, gender at least not if I could help join the congregation now Obviously and in ways In December 2008, church identity, race, ethnicity, mari- it,” Glennon says. “I believed do so with the knowledge much more subtle, this new members officially adopted a tal or socioeconomic sta- then, and now, that God was “My faith is so deeply and acceptance that we are movement of the spirit at statement declaring FUMC a tus, age, family formation, or telling me it was time.” rooted in the uncondi- reconciling. We draw people FUMC has pit Glennon “reconciling” church, making physical and/or mental ability. To convince the FUMC tional love of God that who are open-minded, wel- against more fundamental- it the seventh in Wisconsin At the same time, we recog- membership to adopt the I don’t understand the coming, and more progres- ist United Methodist mem- to join the Reconciling nize and respect the differ- statement and join the conditions people want sive theologically.” bers and churches. And it Ministries Network. ences of opinion among us. Reconciling Ministries to put on God’s love,” For Roxanne Danek, hasn’t necessarily been easy The church had already We welcome all in our jour- Network, Glennon arranged says the Rev. Kaye whose son is gay, the change for members of the church been considered a “healing” ney together in faith toward educational opportunities Glennon (above), pas- was especially welcome. either. Though most people congregation, a place where greater understanding and and listening sessions. Adult tor of Franksville Unit- She was appalled when she there are comfortable with people who’ve been hurt by mutual respect. We proclaim forums with outside speakers ed Methodist Church. learned that the governing the church’s identity, some past experiences inside and this statement of welcome to were conducted. Glennon “The church should be Book of Discipline for the say they’ve heard people taught her Homosexuality a leader in promoting United Methodist Church refer to it as a “gay” church. and the Bible course a people’s equality and says that “homosexuality is Others may worry about ruf- second time. People were freedom … and yet the incompatible with Christian fling too many feathers. encouraged to talk and church often has been teaching.” “I’ve had fellow clergy col-

buy · sell · trade express questions in large “Imagine!” Danek leagues disagree with what •modern the oppressor.” and small groups. Question- exclaimed. “I had no idea that I’m doing. While the leader- •vintage and-answer forms were dis- didn’t object to gay people was in there. Of course, I ship within this church has •new tributed on what it meant in church and at communion, wasn’t the only member of been overwhelmingly sup- • recycled to be a reconciling church. but was opposed to “queers” FUMC unaware of the word- portive, my hierarchy cau- fashion A task group was appointed teaching Sunday school. A ing and the significance of tioned me to be careful and to write an inclusivity state- few people said they didn’t it. My Church – the one to pray a lot when this pro- ment. want to explain to their kids with the big ‘C’ – says that cess was going on,” Glennon In the end, 85 percent what some of the words now my son is incompatible with says. of the people present at being used in church meant. Christian teaching. How dare “I don’t really know if or FUMC’s Annual Church Others simply believed that they!” how this will affect my career Conference voted in favor of it was wrong or against Bible For Danek, neither the per- opportunities,” she adds. “But the action. teachings. sonal beliefs of FUMC’s pas- it’s not in my character to Three families left the But becoming a reconcil- tor nor the comforting fabric back off of something that I church or stopped attend- ing church attracted new of her flock could reconcile believe is of God. Eventually, www.wisconsingazette.com ing specifically because of members and energized oth- the differences between big I believe the world will the decision. One person ers. “We brought two gay/ and little “C” Methodists change.”

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1924 state to decriminalize homo- 1982 that valid same-sex mar- of Public Health issues the The country’s earli- sexual acts between consent- Wisconsin becomes the riages performed in other state’s first marriage license est known gay rights orga- ing adults in private. first state to outlaw anti-gay states must be recognized by to a same-sex couple. nization – the Society for discrimination. employers in New York. The Vermont Legislature Human Rights – is founded Oregon passes a law overrides Gov. Jim Douglas’ in Chicago. 1993 allowing same-sex couples to veto of a bill allowing gays Alfred Kinsey’s “Sexual President Bill Clinton register as domestic partners and lesbians to marry, legaliz- Behavior in the Human Male” adopts the “don’t ask, don’t and obtain some of the spou- ing same-sex marriage in that shows that homosexuality is tell” policy as a compromise sal rights of married couples. state and making Vermont far more widespread than to his original promise to The California Supreme the first state to legalize gay previously believed. remove the ban on gays and Court rules that same-sex marriage through the legis- lesbians serving in the mili- couples have a constitutional lature. 1951 1969 tary. right to marry. By Nov. 3, The governor of Maine Harry Hay Patrons of the Stonewall more than 18,000 same-sex legalizes same-sex marriage, co-founds The Inn in New York’s Greenwich 1996 couples have married. But but voters overturn the law M a t t a c h i n e Village fight back during a In Romer on Nov. 4, California voters at the poll and make Maine Society, the first police raid on June 27. The v. Evans, the approve Proposition 8, a con- the 31st state to adopt a national gay ensuing three days of riot- S u p r e m e lesbian couples. stitutional ban on same-sex marriage ban. rights organization. ing spark the inception of a Court strikes down marriage. New Hampshire governor national gay rights movement. Colorado’s Amendment 2, 2003 John Lynch signs legislation 1956 which prohibited anti-dis- The U.S. Supreme Court allowing same-sex marriage. The Daughters of Bilitis, a 1973 crimination laws based on rules in Lawrence v. Texas President Obama signs national lesbian organization, The American Psychiatric sexual orientation that sodomy laws are uncon- a referendum allowing the is founded. Association declassifies stitutional. same-sex partners of fed- homosexuality as a mental 2000 The Massachusetts 1962 disorder. Vermont legally recognizes Supreme Judicial Court rules Illinois becomes the first civil unions between gay and that barring gays and lesbians from marriage violates the state constitution. 2009 2004 The California Supreme On May 17, same-sex Court upholds Proposition marriage becomes legal in 8 but declines to revoke eral employees to receive Massachusetts. the marriage licenses issued benefits. before the ban. 2005 The Supreme Court of 2010 Connecticut legalizes civil Connecticut rules that same- Congress approves a law unions. sex couples have the right signed in December 2009 to marry. Beginning Nov. 12, that legalizes same-sex 2006 same-sex marriages are offi- marriage in the District of Civil unions become legal cially performed in the state. Columbia. in New Jersey. The Iowa Supreme Court unanimously rejects the 2008 state law banning same-sex A New York State appeals marriage. Twenty-one days For news updates go to court unanimously decides later, the Iowa Department www.wisconsingazette.com.

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By Martha Irvine “In a perfect world, we ever, regularly circulate about this isn’t a question members AP writer would not be talking about former Attorney General of the mainstream media She plays softball. Huge this. However, it is under- Janet Reno and about Donna usually ask. And some think hint, right? standable that, at this time, Shalala, the former head of that’s the way it should’ve She’s 50, single and has a it would be a risk for a the U.S. Health and Human stayed. short haircut. Yup, definitely Supreme Court nominee to Services. “The press needs to be a lesbian. be perceived as a homosexu- Shalala responded to grown-ups themselves and Or is she? And if so al,” says Mark Osler, a profes- claims that she was a lesbian decide that there is no (though that appears to be sor at Baylor Law School in that came not from conser- reason to write about this a big “if”), so what? Should Waco, Texas, who has argued vatives, but from a gay orga- aspect of a person’s private it matter? cases before the Supreme nization whose aim was to life,” says James Gomes, These are questions that Court. “out” public officials. “Have I director of the politically ori- have circulated about Elena “It would appear, at least lived an alternative lifestyle? ented Mosakowski Institute Kagan for a while. But since from the Obama adminis- The answer is no,” she said in of Public Enterprise at Clark President Barack Obama tration’s reaction, that they an interview with The Capital University in Worcester, introduced her as his next don’t think the country’s Times newspaper in Madison, Mass. The media, he says, nominee to the U.S. Supreme ready for that conversation,” Wis., in 1993, when she was a “should be more dignified.” Court, the speculation has he says. “And they may well nominee for her federal post. Regardless, many blog- never been greater – or the be right.” Though no male Supreme gers from a wide spectrum handling of it more awkward. The irony in all of this is Court nominee has faced of viewpoints continue to It’s a sign that, in a nation that Kagan may very well be these questions – nor have call for Kagan to declare her where gayness is as main- straight. the three women who have sexual orientation. stream as ever, sexual orien- A White House official served on the High Court, “It’s time we got over tation is still a delicate topic told The Associated Press who have all been married the myth that what a public for anyone in America, across that Kagan said she was not – the fact is that male public servant does in his private the spectrum of beliefs and a lesbian after media reports figures, whether politicians, life is of no consequence,” politics. on the issue first surfaced celebrities or sports figures, wrote Bryan Fischer, who “Even the leadership of while Obama was contem- regularly deal with specula- blogs for the conservative the Democratic party is still plating his choices for the tion about their sexual ori- American Family Association uncomfortable handling the court. The official would pro- entation, too. and doesn’t think a lesbian issue,” says Kenneth Sherrill, vide the statement only on Rumors that New York should hold such a power- a political scientist at New condition of anonymity. Mets catcher Mike Piazza ful post. York’s Hunter College who Eliot Spitzer, who attended was gay were so persistent, Some gay bloggers, mean- specializes in the politics of Princeton with Kagan and for instance, that he had a while, have implied that gay and lesbian rights. who resigned as New York press conference in 2002 to Kagan should make a public “They don’t know how to governor over a prostitution make it clear that he was statement out of respect for handle the question with a scandal, told Politico: “I did straight. At the time, he said herself and the gay commu- ‘So what if she is?’” not go out with her, but that players would accept an nity. And should we even be other guys did.” openly gay teammate. “In this “In a free society in the asking, anyway? The recent days’ erup- P h oto : D o c S e a r i s day and age, it’s irrelevant,” 21st century, it is not illegiti- Polls, after all, show that tion of conversation isn’t Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has denied he said. “I don’t think it would mate to ask,” wrote Andrew Americans are increasingly the first. On April 15, four rumors she’s a lesbian. be a problem at all.” Sullivan, a gay blogger for The accepting of lesbians and gay weeks before Obama nomi- It would seem that it’s Atlantic. “And it is cowardly men. Popular TV shows like nated Kagan, the White Kagan’s personal life” quick- was confirmed, his “bache- about as “irrelevant” today, not to tell.” “Modern Family” often have House rebuked CBS News ly became among the top lor” status was noted but his though few believe a similar –AP reporters Charles gay characters and plotlines. for publishing an online col- searches on Google, an indi- sexual orientation was never news conference from Kagan Babington and Julie Pace in And these days, it’s common umn by a Republican blogger cation that the public was questioned, at least not pub- is likely. Washington contributed to for people to say they have who wrote that Kagan could curious about more than just licly. Gay rumors did, how- Even without one, though, this report. a family member or friend become the “first openly gay her stance on the issues. who’s gay. justice.” Some say that posing the Yet this also is a country White House spokesman sexual orientation question is where, for gay public offi- Ben LaBolt publicly criticized just another way to undercut Congratulations to the cials, coming out is often still the item, saying it made “false powerful women who are a big deal. And while many charges,” a term that upset routinely held to a different Americans are generally those who thought the word standard for everything from LGBT Community more accepting of gay men “charges” made it sound like the way they dress to the and lesbians, only 39 percent there would be something way they wear their hair, or on Pridefest 2010! of adults support the legaliza- wrong if Kagan were a les- even their emotions. tion of same-sex marriage, bian. LaBolt later said he was “No man (who’s nomi- according to a recent poll by referring to the blogger’s nated for the Supreme the Pew Research Center. suggestions that Obama had Court) would be asked this Those are tough issues to an ulterior political motive: question,” insists Birute ignore when you’re talking to please gay rights activists Regine, author of the book about the highest court in important to his campaign “Iron Butterflies: Women the land, which may well end operation. Transforming Themselves up tackling the issue of same- Then came the announce- and The World.” sex marriage at the federal ment that Kagan was the Back in 1990, when now www.sullivanforsenate.com level. president’s choice. “Elena retired Justice David Souter 30 WI s c o N S INGA z e t t e . c o m | June 3, 2010

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WiGOUT!Wisconsin Gazette entertainment ‘Role model’ citizen An interview with John Waters or more than 40 is. …I don’t talk down. I years, John Waters recently did my spoken-word has been one of act “This Filthy World” at the most original Interview Michael Moore’s Comedy voicesF in contemporary pop By Gregg Shapiro Festival and Jeff Garlin said culture. His films, including to me, “I love that you crack “Pink Flamingos,” “Desperate go for it is (because their) a Jean Rhys joke. Not many Living,” “Polyester,” phones never ever ring … people know who Jean Rhys “Hairspray” and “Pecker,” and they’re lonely. I do have is.” Well, look it up! I assume brought the underground friends that I confide in. But my audience is intelligent. It’s and independent creative at the same time, when I’m easy to look things up now. spirit to mainstream audienc- talking about something as You don’t have to go to the es. Waters also is the author serious as the Leslie Van library anymore. You hit one of several books, including his Houten chapter – there are word and it comes up on latest, “Role Models” (Farrar, no jokes in that chapter – your computer. Straus and Giroux, 2010). basically that is something GS: What would you do if In “Role Models,” Waters I never revealed for a long, Oprah invited you on her show pays homage to the people, long time. It just seems that to talk about your book? some famous, some not, who when you’re reflecting on JW: I’d go in a minute. I helped to make him who he somebody else’s horror, it know Oprah, because she is today. was the closest I had to that used to be in Baltimore. Gregg Shapiro: In “Little horrible experience. Every time I see Oprah she Richard, Happy At Last,” you GS: You wrote about the joke does a Baltimore accent for write about doing a difficult you and Gus Van Sant make me. I think my message is celebrity interview. Since you’ve about the press calling you hopeful. I have “The Secret” done your share of interviewing, “openly gay.” to being a happy neurotic. I how does that affect the way JW: They always say that, don’t know if Oprah admits you approach interviews when “openly gay.” Once I was on that you can be a happy neu- you are the subject? the cover of The Advocate, rotic, but I have my “Secret,” John Waters: I read the “Openly gay director, John too (laughs). press – I get a hundred and Waters.” But they never GS: How do you respond to some magazines a month, asked me! So my joke now people who tell you that you although that’s dwindling, with my staff when someone are their role model? I’m afraid. I read about six says “openly gay” is, “How JW: They do a lot now, or seven newspapers every dare they presume I’m gay!” these days, and I’m very flat- morning. I participate in the I’m just kidding, of course. tered. I joke that I’m a “filth press, so … I try to make it I’ve always said I was gay. elder.” I played the Coachella good for the journalists. … But “openly gay,” Gus and I Festival recently and I really But I don’t hate the press and always say, “What does that felt like a “filth elder.” It was I think that’s why I don’t have mean?” I guess it means that packed with 20-year-old kids. a horrible time doing it. we’ve said we’re gay and it’s That is the ultimate compli- GS: I know that “Role Models” no big deal. But to me, “open- ment that I can have. I’ve is a literary self-portrait, but ly gay” somehow sounds like been doing this for almost 50 after reading the section on you’re running into parties years, I started in ’64. These gay and straight boyfriends and screaming, “Got any Judy kids weren’t even alive when accidentally killing someone, I Garland records?” Like the I made my earlier movies! wondered if you were surprised worst cliché of what it could GS: Speaking of things com- by what you found yourself to be. I love Judy Garland; I don’t ing around again, you wrote be revealing. think that’s a bad cliché. I’m about burlesque queen Lady JW: I think you have to a fan of Judy Garland’s, even Zorro. What do you think of the reveal something in a mem- more so now. It’s a term current burlesque revival? oir. I don’t name my boy- that’s taken the place of flam- JW: It’s good and I love C o u rt e s y P h oto friends’ names, they’re not boyant, which used to mean it, but they don’t have butch John Waters’ new book “Role Models” is a literary self-portrait. famous people. I know one gay when they couldn’t say it lesbian ones that are strip- or two of them might not in a mean way. pers. That come out nude so hilarious in a way, Zorro is books all the time and tell on your next film project? like being in the book. … GS: In addition to writing and snarl, “What the fuck finally in Playboy! them how much I like it. I JW: No. …Right now in When I see celebrities reveal- books, you’re a voracious reader, you lookin’ at?” I think they GS: Having written a few still write fan letters... I just America I don’t know anyone ing every personal thing to a citing other people’s books in should. Just come out and books, have you ever felt read Justin Spring’s “Secret who can get an indepen- journalist, I think they don’t several chapters. The publishing say, “Yeah, what do you think strongly enough about another Historian” (about Samuel dent $5 million film made. have friends. And they don’t! industry is in flux. How is that you’re lookin’ at, you pig?” author’s book to adapt it for Steward), and let me say that Independent film is the worst That’s why they have to tell affecting you? I’m still friends with Zorro’s film? that’s my new favorite book. it’s ever been since I started, a journalist. The same prin- JW: I never stop to think daughter and she liked the JW: No, not that I’d want And this guy really knew how and it’s probably the best for ciple applies to telemarket- that my readers might book. And Playboy is print- to adapt. But I write to to top from the bottom. Hollywood big budget mov- ing. The reason some people not know who somebody ing that chapter, which I find authors when I read their GS: Have you started work ies since I started. 32 WI s c o N S INGA z e t t e . c o m | June 3, 2010 art GAzE Stitching tradition By Debra Brehmer work, or, more recently, the show, reveals how the pre- Contributing writer post WWII photography sur- Civil War culture of 1760 to At first glance, the quilt vey that occupied these same 1850 defined female good- show at the Milwaukee Art walls? ness. Each tiny, perfect stitch Museum seems rather ho- I would like to think speaks of order, rules, devo- hum. The quilts are not daz- that MAM was in the latter tion, confinement and the zling in design and innovation camp of spunky revisionism. virtues of hard work and like the African-American Unfortunately, there is no humility. version that emerged much evidence in the show to sup- Quilts are truly time made later from Gees Bend. They port that conclusion. visible: Each stitch is the are instead detailed and This exhibit was organized tick of the clock, marking appliquéd and embossed, by Winterthur, the famous days, weeks, years of even- with an emphasis on dutiful decorative arts museum in handed life. The seamstress perfection. Delaware. The show is pack- metaphorically pieces things But this show is actually aged like an American Girl together, optimistically turn- more interesting than one made-for-TV movie (one ing scraps into new wholes, would think. A little peek wonders if the docents will beautiful objects that have under each pretty coverlet be forced to wear some kind the power to warm and sym- reveals itchy concerns of gen- of bonnet). bolically protect or embrace der roles, oppression, and the In the first room, we us. All of this was rendered materialization of a carefully are introduced to Mary in opposition to the uncon- stitched colonial elite. Remington, born in 1792, trolled breath of “real life,” Before we unsnarl any of who, through a series of with its typhus, failed crops, that, let’s consider the impli- excerpted letters, brings a infant mortality, loss and cations and motivations of personal and authentic voice more loss, emotional despair. MAM giving its major exhibi- to warm the cold hand of The quilts are surviv- tion space for the entire sum- piece-meal history. This is an ing artifacts, complete with mer season (May 22-Sept. effective way to frame the stains, which document the 6) to early American quilts. show. Mary Remington’s brief constricted state of women. Were they trying to do the missives pull us through the But they also hold small most crowd-pleasing, benign, rooms and offer a voice and (almost hidden) evidence of a mainstream show imaginable sense of human presence, a subversive female insistence to lure Summerfest over- continuum from then to now. to be known, named, remem- Rebecca Scattergood Savery, pieced quilt, 1827. flow? Were they hoping to Unfortunately, Mary is a bered and noticed. ride the coat tails of the goody two-shoes. She spends What is truly most exhibition and think of the when the family immigrated. June 8, the juxtaposition will smashing Gees Bend Quilt her young life waiting for her remarkable about this show quilts as diary pages. The Rebecca Scattergood Savery generate some insights. Like show of 2004? Or was this ship captain suitor to come is that most of the quilts are show emphasizes each per- pieced 6,708 patches togeth- its Early American sisters, the a gentle-handed but coura- back to Rhode Island and signed. Tiny cross-stitched or sonal story well: How one er in 1827, and she recorded AIDS quilt is all about naming, geous act of post-feminist marry her. Her “Whitework embroidered cursive names, quilt was made of an old that accomplishment on the valuing and recognizing indi- reordering of art history’s Quilt” of 1815 is a mind- some with dedications, silk wedding dress, how quilt along with her name. viduals who were part of a emphasis on genius, white blowing testament to this anchor each one to a maker. another was intended for But it’s a shame that the larger whole, individuals who male production and inven- waiting and all the hopes and Those makers were a cen- a marriage that had to be exhibition doesn’t nudge still have something to tell us tion? dreams of what will soon tury away from women’s suf- cancelled because of political us toward more questions down the road in history. So Is it a statement that become her life (once the frage (1920), and it is heart- disputes among the Quakers. about the cultural meaning far, 91,000 names have been pre-Civil War era women’s ship captain climbs under ening to see their gestures of Another contains an inscrip- and implications of the quilts. stitched into it. work should be on equal the quilt). It is a thing of individuation and pride in the tion: “From Muzzie to her Perhaps when the NAMES What would Mary turf and interest with Andy great beauty and devotion claiming of authorship. darling grand child… .” One Project AIDS Memorial Quilt Wellington have thought Warhol’s exhibition of late and, like all the quilts in the One could traverse this quilt traveled from Ireland panels arrive down the hall on about this?

of artists, including: Madison Lynne Wilson Center for the Director Bruce Pepich at RAM, when admission is Patridge (1882-1975). These photographer Tom Jones; Arts, 19805 W. Capitol Drive, recently hired Lena Vigna, free and the museum is open two women were the Milwaukee’s favorite pho- is hosting a COPA exhibit formerly of the Kohler Arts until 9 p.m. Two of the artists founders and directors of Artwatch to-realist David Lenz; the featuring landscape photog- Center, as curator, which is a will be there to discuss their the Layton School of Art, Debra Brehmer ever-odd sculptor Demitra raphy. COPA, the Coalition very good thing indeed. work. RAM is located at 441 Milwaukee’s first art school, Copoulos; a photo series of of Photographic Arts, is The current show features Main Street, Racine, 262-638- established in 1920. The It’s that season for road portraits of older women Milwaukee’s giant organiza- three artists who work with 8300, ramart.org. school eventually morphed trips, even short ones. The done as Roman busts by the tion of photo enthusiasts that either real insects or depic- Each year, the Museum of into the Milwaukee Institute Museum of Wisconsin Art in team of Lindsay Lochman and organizes huge group shows tions of them: Catherine Wisconsin Art presents life- of Art and Design, but Frink West Bend, 300 S. Sixth Ave., Barbara Ciurej; Milwaukee and gives both aspiring and Chambers explores the time achievement awards to and Patridge ran it for a has a new show opening on painter Mark Mulhern; self- established photographers a “American Cockroach,” artists and administrators good 30 years. It’s amazing Sunday, June 6, with a recep- portrait tzar Fred Bell, as well sense of belonging and sup- Jennifer Angus (Madison) who’ve had a large impact. that they are not household tion from 1:30 to 4 p.m. as Sarah Detweiler, Melissa port. The show opens Friday, creates stunning wallpaper The awards took place May names in the art commu- “To See Ourselves As Others Cooke, Gary S. Kampe and June 4, and runs through July patterns from real bugs, 23 at the museum, and per- nity, but that sneaky hand See Us: Contemporary Milwaukee’s premiere por- 30. (262-781-9470, Wilson- and JoAnna Poehlmann haps most significant to of history tends to diminish Wisconsin Portraits” will run trait goddess Katie Musolff. center.com) (Milwaukee) has long done Wisconsin Gazette readers accomplishments by women, through Aug. 29. It features 262-334-1151, wisconsinart. We’ve been hearing great ever-so-delicate drawings of is the award that went to especially lesbians. Bravo project-oriented takes on org. things about the bug show eggs, feathers and, yes, insects. Miriam Frink (1892-1977) Museum of Wisconsin Art the portrait with a variety In Brookfield, The Sharon at the Racine Art Museum. Friday, June 4, is “First Friday” and her partner Charlotte for granting recognition. WI s c o N S INGA z e t t e . c o m | June 3, 2010 33 An evening of melody and delight

Wilde is down the hall and On Stage he’s done up his room in “An Evening with all lavender). The two bick- Theater Gilbert & Sullivan” er, reminisce and eventu- Harry Cherkinian runs through June 20 ally come to appreciate the in the Studio Theatre other’s talents for what they Gilbert & Sullivan together at the Broadway created. again? Well, only in the after- Theatre Center, 158 N. What makes this evening life – literally. And what a Broadway. Call 414-291- so enjoyable are the three charming and comical place 7800 or go to www. actors who fill the stage so this “afterlife” turns out to skylightopera.com. memorably. As Gilbert, John be, thanks to the delightful R. Muriello is a perfect foil production of “An Evening to Gary Briggle’s Sir Arthur with Gilbert & Sullivan” may – he ends up in a well Sullivan, his dry sense of which opened last week- decorated Victorian parlor humor taunting the oh-so- end at the Skylight Opera complete with butler (and tal- proper Sullivan, as mischie- Theater, completing its 50th ented pianist), along with his vous as he is gleeful in exas- anniversary season. fellow composer and “spar- perating his partner as he Is the duo’s “afterlife” actu- ring” partner W.S. Gilbert. dons a dress in “I’m Called ally heaven? Or you know, Together, in human form, Little Buttercup.” that other place with the fire they created such works as Like Muriello, Briggle is a down below? For the audi- “Pirates of Penzance,” “The veteran of Skylight produc- ence, it’s a humorous two Mikado,” “H.M.S. Pinafore” tions, including a number photo: Courtesy hours (including a 20-min- and “Yeoman of the Guard,” of G&S shows. His talent “An Evening with Gilbert & Sullivan.” ute intermission) of clever all of which are featured in once again shines through tongue-in-cheeky remarks this musical revue. as Sullivan. Every move- and marches to “Onward the clash of their titanic egos. their historical pairing. sandwiched between some The evening follows an ment expressive of the fussy, Christian Soldiers” (which Much credit goes to How appropriate that the of the pair’s most famous arc of the pair’s relation- demanding composer hits Sullivan wrote). director Dale Gutzman, Skylight finishes its 50th anni- songs, taken from a number ship through song and dance, the right note with a power Jeff Schaetzke doubles who returns to direct the versary season with the two of the 14 operas they wrote while the butler serves to that belies his perseverance. quite nicely as the English show that he conceived and composers who were the over their 25-year creative provide expository informa- Muriello is his perfect coun- butler and music director wrote. Gutzman has created foundation of the very first collaboration. tion that ranges from factual terpart vocally as well as (onstage pianist), who’s there a delightful piece that honors show. Much to Sir Arthur (Sullivan was a womanizer) theatrically, strutting in mil- to gently remind the other the genius of the duo’s work For news updates go to Sullivan’s surprise – and dis- to fictional and funny (Oscar itary costume as he sings two of the good times amidst while mining the humor of www.wisconsingazette.com.

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Rachael Sage: …It made far. It all came together in me laugh for you to use the terms of … all the outreach word “mogul.” But, I don’t we were doing. Then people Interview really think of it that way. I showed up in droves to our Gregg Shapiro just get these crazy ideas in event, so it was really excit- my head. I become kind of ing. All the artists played so “Delancey Street” possessed by them and they beautifully and our snacks (Mpress), the ninth album by don’t let me go. So, I have my were really good, so it was a prolific out singer/songwriter obsessive-compulsive disor- perfect day. and queen of the keyboard der to thank. I would like to GS: Over the years, you have Rachael Sage, sounds like take this moment to thank included cover tunes by queer it could be her most fully her. Her name is Natasha and or indie musicians on a few your realized and richly reward- every Shabbat I say a little discs. One of the covers that ing effort. Making the per- prayer for her and I hope you did for “Delancey Street” sonal universal on “Hope’s that she never gets cured. I is a reinterpretation of “Fame.” Outpost,” “Everything Was am really lucky that I am able RS: That was a pretty lit- Red” and “Back To Earth” to pursue something that I eral reaction to the oppor- or offering Sage advice on love … all of the grunt work tunity that I had “Big Star,” “Brave Mistake” or and stuff that … keeps me earlier. Last year, “Wasn’t It You,” these songs up most nights and occasion- I had a song On Stage illustrate why her following ally gives me pneumonia. The called “Too Many Sage performs on continues to grow in leaps purpose of all that is to do Women” picked the Miller Lite Main and bounds. the thing that I love most … for the remake of Stage at Milwaukee Gregg Shapiro: Like Ani perform, bring other artists “Fame.” It didn’t PrideFest June 12. DiFranco and her Righteous together and keep building do quite as well Babe record label, you have this community. I’m pretty as we had hoped, been putting out records on damn lucky. but it was such your MPress Records label from GS: I want to begin by asking an exciting thing to have a the very beginning. Additionally, you about your SXSW (South song picked for a big, main- p h oto : c o u rt e s y you have been putting out the by Southwest music festival in stream release. “It’s important for me to include out musicians in my life,’ Sage says. “New Arrivals” various artists Austin, Texas,) experience in I was a huge fan of the origi- compilation for a few years. March. nal film and also the TV show. friends (laughs). When I got & Oates, one of my favorite to perform on a gay men’s Howmorning does it gloryfeel to be1-4 a musicwis gaz RS:pride It was fest:Layout fantastic! It was 4 5/25/10Coco and Leroy12:11 felt PM like Page my 1that opportunity, I decided to bands from childhood. I went cruise ship. But, absolutely, a mogul? the best we’ve ever had, by slightly more than imaginary not only perform “Too Many into the studio the very next firm yes! Women,” but also to cover day and just played that song. GS: Queer musicians, such as (“Fame”), to thank the folks GS: In the song “How I Got Gregory Douglass and Allison at Lakeshore (Records). I By,” you use the word “ame- Cornell, perform with you on performed it when I went to liorate.” your disc. Is it important for you L.A. Everybody went crazy; RS: (Laughs) That’s very to include out musicians as part Fine Crafts everyone was singing along funny because Kevin Killen, of your band and part of the from and yelling out the word who mixed the album and musicians with which you work? “fame” in the chorus. mixed that song, he gave me a RS: It’s important for me GS: The other cover on the lot of shit about that (laughs). to include out musicians Wisconsin Artists disc is the Hall & Oates hit He’s like, “Rachael, I’m very and queer people in my life. “Rich Girl.” impressed you use the word I think that’s just a natural RS: I think Hall & Oates ‘ameliorate.’ The only other extension of that. Most musi- are back in everybody’s person I could think of who cians will tell you that half minds. They reissued … their would use that word would the people in their band are entire catalog. And they have be Paula Cole.” I’m sure that there because … they liked been on television a lot and it will make my mother happy. hanging out with them. Then all of that. I’m quite friend- GS: “How I Got By” makes they discover they play three NEW WORK ARRIVES ly with their percussionist reference to Esther Williams instruments. If you can’t … WEEKLY! Everett Bradley, who is one and “Everything Was Red” enjoy the company of the of my oldest and dearest contains a reference to Judy people you are being creative friends, and he played on my Garland. Are you a gay man (with), you’re in trouble. The album. He offered me an invi- trapped in a lesbian’s body? people that you mentioned, tation to see Hall & Oats at RS: The answer is yes! And they’re people I love and Mohegan Sun on New Year’s. you are not the first person whose work I admire. 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Greta is conservative Vanderbilt, That following would grow a college-aged, out lesbian ON YOUR located in the “strap of the considerably when she was who leads Hannah to believe bible belt,” being rejected by cast as Debbie, colorful that she wants to interview sorority sisters and finding mother of gay Michael and her for a class assignment. no community to speak of, sister of gay Vic, in “Queer As She offers to wheel Hannah PHONE! that’s precisely what she did. Folk.” So when word began down to Rachel’s room late Dickens’ documentary to circulate that Gless would one night so that she can see “Fish out of Water” (First be starring in “Hannah Free” her. Greta is there to ensure Run Features/Yellow Wing) (Wolfe), the first film adapta- that Hannah and Rachel get follows her as she talks to tion of an Allen play, it made the closure they deserve. You can think of it as the preachers in Nashville about complete sense, given the Gless is quite good here. the gross misinterpretation history. The fatal and damning flaw is of the Bible on the subject In “Hannah Free,” (Wolfe Allen’s awkward, stilted and ‘PrideFest Schedule of homosexuality. She learns Video/Ripe Fruit), formerly simply boring screenplay. The a few things about theol- footloose Hannah (Gless) is endless exposition repeat- ogy, biblical language and the in her twilight years, nurs- edly brings the film to a in your Pocket’ ministry of Jesus. Following ing-homebound and none screeching halt. It’s a case the renewal of hope that was too happy about it. When of too much telling and not the 2008 presidential elec- she’s not chasing the nursing enough showing. Perhaps she tion and the disappointment staff from her room, she’s was afraid that she would of the passage of state anti- reminiscing about chasing a alienate the show’s diehard gay marriage amendments, red ball through a cornfield lesbian fans if she deviated Dickens interviewed more with childhood gal pal Rachel from the original play too than 170 members of the (Elita Ernsteen). The elderly much. What she ends up LGBT community and almost Rachel (Maureen Gallagher), with is characters, especially a dozen people of the cloth, with whom Hannah had a the mid-period Rachel, who in New York, Kansas, Georgia, lifelong romance, is on life speak in unintentionally funny Iowa, Colorado and Missouri. support in the same nursing ways that result in numerous Along with the interviews, home as Hannah. laughs. On the “Claire of the the film incorporates footage But Rachel’s homophobic Moon” scale, consider your- of same-sex weddings and daughter Marge (a painfully self mooned. LGBT rights protests. This miscast Taylor Miller), sport- “Hannah Free” DVD footage is enhanced by Daniel ing oversized Christian hair bonus features include inter- Saunders’ animation and Kyle and New Testament fash- views with Gless (in which Harter’s illustrations. One ions, has forbidden Hannah she talks about “Cagney & of the pleasures of this film from ever seeing Rachel. Lacey’s” lesbian following, is learning things along with Hannah carries on imaginary among other things), play- the filmmaker, which dem- conversations with the mid- wright Claudia Allen, director onstrates the belief that “no period Rachel (a stiff Ann Wendy Jo Carlton, as well as fish was created to live out Hagemann) to get her mind cast and crew members. You of water.” off fears of Rachel dying also will find bloopers, a look DVD special features alone. They tease and pro- behind the scenes, the theat- include bonus interviews, voke each other. They recall rical trailer and more.

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Wilson in Madison, wel- performs at 9:30 p.m. at at 11 p.m. Call 414-630-6055 VALET PARKING AVAILABLE chicago style comes Brandon McHose at Restaurant Magnus, 120 E. or 414-460-6277. Galleries, directions & more at chicago style SidetrackChicago.com 9:30 p.m. Call 608-258-8787. Wilson in Madison. Call 608- June 16, Wednesday June 12, Saturday 258-8787. The Rave, 2401 W. *PrideFest Milwaukee June 13, Sunday Wisconsin, presents Cute at Henry W. Maier Festival *PrideFest Milwaukee Is What We Aim For with Park (Summerfest grounds), at Henry W. Maier Festival The Friday Night Boys, The 200 N. Harbor Drive, pres- Park (Summerfest grounds), Bigger Lights, Down With ents Patti LaBelle, Bruce 200 N. Harbor Drive, pres- Webster at 7 p.m. Call 414- Vilanch, Rachael Sage, Tret ents Joan Rivers, Scott Free, 342-RAVE. Fure, Blame Sally, Roslyn Todd Alsup, Jeffree Star, June 17, Thursday Kind, Christopher Dallman, Amanda Lepore, Stewed *Tropical Night Club, 626 Ellis, The Heatbirds, Melissa Tomatoes, Sean Wiggins, S. Fifth, hosts Noche De Ferrick, The Shondes and Katie Todd, Robert Verdi, The Divas, with a show beginning many more on a variety of Joans, Brett Every, The Che at 11 p.m. Call 414-630-6055. stages. Go to pridefest.wis- Arthur Three, Mike Rickard, Comedian and actor Denis Join us on... consingazette.com for the Nicole Reynolds, and many Leary takes the stage at complete schedule, acces- more on a variety of stages. The Riverside, 116 W. sible by smart phone. Go to pridefest.wisconsinga- Wisconsin at 8 p.m. Call 414- Dance diva Cascada is at zette.com for the complete 286-3663. WI s c o N S INGA z e t t e . c o m | June 3, 2010 43

The AIDS MeMorIAl QuIlT june 8–20, 2010

Photo courtesy of The NAMES Project Foundation | AIDS Memorial Quilt

Honor tHe lives of tHose lost to AiDs. Nine specially selected quilts on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum show the contributions of fashion designers Dolce & Gabbana, Versace, Ralph Lauren and Isaac Mizrahi, among others, to the largest community folk art project in the world. Also on view, the original quilt the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin designed in 1987.

This special exhibition is open to the public; Museum admission is not required.

The Milwaukee Art Museum’s presentation of the AIDS Memorial Quilt is supported by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation Johnson and Pabst LGBT Humanity Fund and the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin. 44 WI s c o N S INGA z e t t e . c o m | June 3, 2010 community listings MILWAUKEE Court St., 53212, 414-272- bestd.org, bestd@execpc. ers.org. Cities, 740 Kensington Madison Gay Volleyball, 9442, www.lesbianalliance. com. Plymouth Church, 2717 E. Road, Neenah, 54956, 920- 608-347-8907, www.madi- Arts/Entertainment org. Galano Club, 315 Court Hampshire Ave., 53211, 414- 722-7145. Rainbow Over sonlbtvolleyball.com. Cream City Chorus, 315 Lesbian Fund of the St., Suite 201, 53213, 414- 964-1513, www.plymouth- Wisconsin, 702 E. Wisconsin W. Court St., 53212, 414- Women’s Fund of Milwaukee, 276-6936, www.galanoclub. church.org. Ave., Appleton, WI 54911, Youth/education 276-8787, www.creamcity- 414-290-7350, www.wom- org, [email protected]. St. James Episcopal Church, www.rainbowoverwisconsin. GSA for Safe Schools, chorus.org, info@creamcity- ensfund.com/who_we_are/ Health Institute of 833 W. Wisconsin org. 301 S. Bedford St., Madison, chorus.org. lesbian_fund. Milwaukee, 1817 N. Martin Ave., 53233, 53703, 608-661-1360, www. Cream City Squares, 414- LOC/Women of Color, Luther King Drive, Suite 3, 414-964-1513, GREEN gsaforsafeschools.org. 445-8080, www.iagsdc.org/ P.O. Box 93594, 53203, 414- 53212, 414-263-9999. www.stjames- BAY creamcity. 263-1631. Milwaukee Women’s milwaukee. RACINE/ Men’s Voices Milwaukee, Milwaukee LGBT Center, 611 N. Broadway, org. Community KENOSHA 2717 E. Hampshire St., 53211, Community Center, 315 W. Suite 230, 53202, www. A r g o n a u t s 414-964-1513 Court St., 53212, 414-271- mwcinc.org. Sports of Wisconsin, Community www.mensvoicesmilwaukee. 265, www.mkelgbt.org. Pathfinders, 1614 E. Kane F r o n t P.O. Box 22096, PFLAG-Racine/Kenosha, com. Milwaukee LGBT History Pl., 53202, 414-271-1560, R u n n e r s / Green Bay, 54305, P.O. Box 580058, Pleasant Milwaukee Gay Arts Project, 414-224-0517, www. www.pathfinders.org, info@ Front Walkers, www.argonautsll. Prairie, 53158, 262-694-2729, Center, 703 S. Second St., mkelgbthist.org. tccmilw.org. 414-443-0379, org, info@argonautsll. [email protected]. 53204, Milwaukee Pride Parade, STD Specialites, Inc., 3251 ullrwolf.com/frontrun- org. 414-383-3727, www.milwau- P.O. Box 070177, 53207, N. Holton St., 53212, 414- nersmke, thbolt@milwpc. Bear Club 4 Men, P.O. Box Religion/Spirituality keegayartscenter.org. www.prideparademke.org. 264-8800, www.stdspecial- com. 13463, Green Bay, 54307, Bradford Community Milwaukee/LGBT Film/ Out to Brunch, jennierag- ties.org. Metro Milwaukee Tennis www.bc4m.com. C h u r c h - U n i t a r i a n Video Festival, www4.uwm. [email protected]. Club, 3957 81st St., 53222, Harmony Café, 1660 W. Universalist, 5810 8th Ave., edu/psoa/programs/film/lgbt- PFLAG-Milwaukee, 315 W. Politics 414-616-3716, moenell@ Mason St., Green Bay, 54303, 53140, 262-656-0544, www. film. Court St., 53212, 414-299- Center Advocates, 315 W. sbcglobal.net. 920-569-1593, www.har- bradforduu.org. Queer Zine Archive 9198, pflagmilwaukee@hot- Court St., 53212, 414-271- Milwaukee Gay Soccer monycafe.org. Project, 2935 N. Fratney St., mail.com. 2656, www.centeradvocates. League, 1012 E. Clark St., Positive Voice, P.O. Box Sports 53202, www.qzap.org. PrideFest, 414-272-3378, org. 53212, 414-405-5878, www. 1381, Green Bay, 54305, 920- Wisconsin Warriors, P.O. Shoreline Country www.pridefest.com. Equality Wisconsin, 2717 E. milwaukeegaysoccer.org. 435-4404, pvinc.org, info@ Box 334, Somers, 53171, 414- Dancers, 2809 E. Oklahoma Queer Program, P.O. Box Hampshire Ave., 53211, 414- Milwaukee Gay Volleyball pvinc.org. 759-8823, wiwarriors.com, Ave., 53207, www.shoreline- 090441, 53209, 414-265- 431-1306, www.equalitywi. League, www.milwaukeegay- Pride Alive, 920-471-3260, [email protected]. milw.org, info@shoreline- 8500, [email protected]. org. volleyball.com. www.newpride.org, info@ milw.org. SAGE Milwaukee, 1845 Human Rights League, P.O. Saturday Softball Beer newpride.org. Youth/Education Women’s Voices N. Farwell, Suite 220, 53202, Box 510407, 53203, 414-319- League, 2333 N. 56th St., Rainbow Alliance, Milwaukee, 315 W. Court 414-224-0517, www.sagemil- 9863, www.hrl-pac.org, hrl- 53210, www.ssblmilwaukee. Religion/spirituality UW-Parkside, Student St., 53212, 414-534-5645, waukee.org. [email protected]. com. Angels of Hope MCC, P.O. Center, L108D, 262-595-2685, womensvoicesmke.viviti.com, Sapphic Adventures Vets Do Ask Do Tell, 315 Box 672, Green Bay, 54305, http://www.uwp.edu/clubs/ womensvoicesmilwaukee@ Milwaukee, www.meetup. W. Court St., 53212, www. Youth/Education 920-983-7452, www.aohmcc. clubtemp.cfm?clubID=38. gmail.com. com/sapphic-MKE, calamity- vetsdoaskdotell.org. Alliance School, 850 W. org, [email protected]. [email protected]. Walnut St., 53205, 414-267- Community SHEBA/Sisters Helping Religion/Spirituality 5400, www.allianceschool. Bay View Gays, 414-482- Each other Battle AIDS, 2349 Central United Methodist org. MADISON 3796, www.bvgays.com. N Holton St., 53212, 414- Church, 639 N. 25th St., Alliance for LGBTQ Youth, Brew City Bears, P.O. Box 390-0444. 53233, 414-344-1600, www. 1212 S. 70th St., 53214, 414- Arts/entertainment 1035, 53201, 414-331-3744, WanderWomyn Outdoors centralumcmilw.org. 453-1400, www.cssw.org. Dairyland Cowboys www.bcb4men.info. Group, debydoo2@yahoo. Congregation Shir Hadash, Gay Youth Milwaukee, P.O. and Cowgirls, Club 5, 5 BWMT, 414-463-5359, com. 414-297-9159, www.cshmilw. Box 090441, 53209, 414-265- Applegate Court, Madison, www.nabwmt.org/milwaukee. Washington Heights org. 8500, http://gayyouthmilwau- 53713, 608-277-9700, www. Castaways, P.O. Box 1697, Rainbow Association, 414- Cross Lutheran Church, kee.tripod.com. dcandc.org 53202, castawaysmc@yahoo. 258-8834 www.washington- 1821 N. 16th St., 53205, Marquette Gay/Straight com. heightsrainbow.org. 414-344-1746, www.crosslu- Alliance, 1442 W. Wisconsin Community CONNEXUS, 2439 N. Wauwatosa Rainbow theranmilwaukee.org. Ave., 53233. OutReach, 600 Williamson Holton St., 53212, 414-390- Association, 414-218-9277, Divine Word Lutheran Marquette U G/L Alumni, St., Suite P1, Madison, 53703, 0444, www.diverseandresil- [email protected]. Church, 5505 Lloyd St., P.O. Box 92722, 53202. 608-255-8582, www.lgbtout- ient.org/connexus. Wisconsin Rainbow 53208, 414-476-3189, divine- Project Q, 315 W. Court reach.org, info@lgbtout- Diverse and Resilient, Alliance of the Deaf, P.O. Box wordlutheran.org. St., 53212, 414-223-3220. reach.org. 2439 N. Holton St., 53212, 353, Hartland, 53029, www. First Unitarian Society of UWM LGBT Resource PFLAG-Madison, 4221 Look 414-390-0444, www.diverse- wiscrad.org. Milwaukee, 1342 N. Astor St., Center, UWM Union WG 89, Venetian Ln., Madison 53718, andresilient.org. Wisconsin Rainbow 53202, 414-273-5257, www. P.O. Box 413, 53201, 414- 608-848-2333, pflagmadi- for Firebirds, P.O. Box 159, Families, 315 W. Court St., uumilwaukee.org. 229-4116, www.uwm.edu/ [email protected]. 53201. 53212, www.wirainbowfami- Lake Park Lutheran Dept/OSL/LGBT. FORGE, P.O. Box 1272, lies.com, info@wirainbow- Church, 2647 N. Stowell Politics us 53201, 414-559-2123, www. families.com. Ave., 53211, 414-962-9190, Fair Wisconsin, 112 State forge-forward.org. lakeparklutheran.com. FOX RIVER St., Suite 309, Madison, 53703, on GAMMA Milwaukee, P.O. Health Metropolitan Community 608-441-0143, www.fairwis- Box 1900, 53201, 414-530- AIDS Resource Center of Church, 1239 W. Mineral St., Community consin.org, info@fairwiscon- Twitter 1886, www.milwaukeegam- Wisconsin, P.O. Box 510498, 53204, 414-383-1100, www. Harmony Café, 233 E. sin.com. ma.com. 53202, 414-273-1991, www. milmcc.org. College Ave., Appleton, Gemini Gender Group, arcw.org, [email protected]. Milwaukee Friends 54915, 920-734-2233, www. Sports P.O. Box 44211, 53214, 414- Brady East STD (BESTD) Meeting (Quakers), 3224 N. harmonycafe.org, skenevan_ Madison Gay Hockey @wigazette 297-9328, gggwi.tripod.com. Clinic, 1240 E. Brady St, Gordon Pl., 53212, 414-263- [email protected]. Association, www.madison- Lesbian Alliance, 315 W. 53202, 414-272-2144, www. 2111, www.milwaukeequak- PFLAG-Appleton/Fox gayhockey.org. WI s c o N S INGA z e t t e . c o m | June 3, 2010 45

Calendarwhat’s going on? Ongoing ONGOING St., No. 201, Milwaukee. Info: St., Green Bay, 54303. Info: Park off Monroe St., Madison. St., Madison. Info: 608-255-8582. of the Chippewa Valley, LGBT Mondays, Wednesdays- 414-276-6936, galanoclub.org. 920-268-3911 or dtappy_gw@ Info: 608-469-4882. 5 p.m., third Sundays, PFLAG Community Center of the Saturdays, the LGBT Center 7 p.m., Q2-LGBTQ Youth gwicc.org. 6 p.m., AA The Women’s Milwaukee, Martin Luther Chippewa Valley, 510 S. Farwell of SE Wisconsin, 1456 Junction Group, LGBT Community 7 p.m., AA, The Galano Club, Light meeting; 7:30 p.m., Church, 9235 W. Bluemound St., Eau Claire, 54701. Info: 715- Ave., Racine, holds drop-in Center of the Chippewa Valley, 315 W. Court St., Milwaukee. Spiritual Light, The Galano Road, Wauwatosa. 552-LGBT. hours. Info: www.lgbtsewisc.org, 510 S. Farwell St., Eau Claire, Info: 414-276-6936, galanoclub. Club, 315 W. Court St., No. 201, 7 p.m., Spectrum GLBT and 262-664-4100. 54702, 715-552-LGBT, www. org. Milwaukee. Info: 414-276-6936, MONDAY Allied social group for adults, thecentercv.org. 7 p.m., Gay Narcotics galanoclub.org. Harmony Cafe, 1660 W. Mason THURSDAY 7:30 p.m., Four Lakes Bears, Anonymous, 315 W. Court St., 6 p.m., Rotating Activity Night 7 p.m., Spectrum -Social St., Appleton. Michelangelo’s Coffee Shop, 114 Second floor, Milwaukee. Info: each week, LGBT Community and networking LGBT group, 2:30 p.m., first and third State St., Madison. Info: 608- 414-276-6936. Center of the Chippewa Valley, Harmony Cafe, 233 E. College WEDNESDAY Thursdays, LGBT senior adults 251-5299. 7 p.m., Drop-in night, LGBT 510 S. Farwell St., Eau Claire, Ave. Info: [email protected], discussion, Madison Senior Community Center of the 54702, 715-552-LGBT, www. 917-669-7529. 7 p.m., AA 12 Steps and 12 Center, 330 W. Mifflin St., FRIDAY Chippewa Valley, 510 S. Farwell thecentercv.org. 7:30 p.m., AA Came to Traditions, The Galano Club, Madison. Info: ferington@char- St., Eau Claire, 54702, Info: 715- 7 -8:30 p.m., third Saturdays, Believe, The Galano Club, 315 W. Court St., No. 201, ter.net. 4 -7 p.m., fourth Friday, Happy 552-LGBT, www.thecentercv. BWMT (Black and White Men 315 W. Court St., No. 201, Milwaukee. Info: 414-276-6936, 6 p.m., third Thursdays, same- Hour with Planned Parenthood org. Together), general meeting. Milwaukee. Info: 414-276-6936, galanoclub.org. sex partners group, OutReach, Advocates of Wisconsin, rotat- 8:30 p.m., second and fourth galanoclub.org. 7 p.m., first Wednesday, Bear 600 Williamson St., Madison. ing location in Milwaukee/ Fridays, Shoreline Milwaukee SUNDAY Club 4 Men monthly meeting, Info: 608-255-8582, www.lgb- Madison. Info: www.ppawi.org. line dancing and lessons, TUESDAY Napalese Lounge, 1351 Cedar toutreach.org. 5:30 p.m., second and fourth Hot Water, 818 S. Water St., 1 p.m., Cream City Squares St., Green Bay, Info: bearclub- 6 p.m., Qgrads, UW Memorial Fridays, Pozitive Lite HIV/ Milwaukee. Info: 414-383-75936. dances, Lake Park Lutheran 12:30 p.m., third Tuesday, [email protected]. Union Rathskeller, 800 Langdon AIDS group, OutReach, 600 Church, 2647 N. Stowell, Retired Old/Older Lesbians St., Madison. Williamson St., Madison. Info: SATURDAY Milwaukee. (ROLLers), Madison. Info: 608- 7 p.m., third Thursdays, 608-255-8582. 7 p.m., AA The Big Book 219-7751. Lesbian Alliance movie night, 6 p.m., second Fridays, 9 a.m., Frontrunners/Walkers meeting, The Galano Club, 5 p.m., AA Over 40; 7 p.m. LGBT Community Center, 315 Lesbian Alliance game night Milwaukee Run Walk, starting at 315 W. Court St., No. 201, AA The Blue Group, The Galano W. Court St., Milwaukee. Info: and potluck, LGBT Community the Water Tower at the East end Milwaukee. Info: 414-276-6936, Club, 315 W. Court St., No. 201, 414-272-9442. Center, 315 W. Court St., of North Avenue, Milwaukee. galanoclub.org. Milwaukee. Info: 414-276-6936, 7 p.m., AA Living Sober; 7 Milwaukee. Info: 414-272-9442. Info: 262-285-7645. 5 p.m., OutThere LGBT galanoclub.org. p.m., Crystal Meth Anonymous, 6:30 p.m., Open Mic night, 9 a.m., Frontrunners/ youth group meeting, OutReach, 6 p.m., third Tuesday, Fair Send listings to ltomaszek@ The Galano Club, 315 W. Court Harmony Cafe, 1660 W. Mason Frontwalkers Madison, Wingra Gateway Mall, 600 Williamson Wisconsin Action Network wisconsingazette.com.

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some real financial impacts to 1. Gay Navigating owning a home as a couple knowledgeable if you’re not married,” says Most real estate agents Brian Moulton, chief legisla- are gay-friendly, simply the legal tive council for the Human because they have to be, Rights Council. says ReMax real estate agent However, with same- Scott Campbell. “Times have maze of sex marriage now legal in changed,” he says. “Real five states (Connecticut, estate agents now have to buying Massachusetts, Iowa, New follow certain rules and Hampshire and Vermont) and guidelines.” Washington, D.C., experts say But which agents can a home that gap is beginning to close, tell same-sex couples what as newly married same-sex school districts are most couples decide to take the welcoming to LGBT families together real estate plunge as well. “I or out-of-towners where the think (legalized gay marriage) gay bars and gay neighbor- will potentially increase hoods are? “I think some- By Kerrie Kennedy the rate of homeowner- times you just feel more Contributing writer ship among LGBT couples,” comfortable working with Moulton says. “On a broader someone who is gay and aul Masterson, level, marriage has a stabiliz- understands what your needs director of ing, formalizing impact on a are,” Campbell says. M i l w a u k e e relationship that encourages Gay Arts people to build permanency 2. Location Center, has in their lives, which includes For LGBT couples buying Pbeen a homeowner for a home.” real estate today, it’s not so more than 14 years. While In Milwaukee, some real much about buying in the he’s spent more than half of estate agents say they’ve right neighborhood as about those years in relationships, buying in the right state. he says he’s never considered ‘State laws “State laws determine owning a home with a part- title and inheritance rights,” ner. “There’s a risk involved,” determine Moulton says. “And no state Masterson says. “If you trust is required to recognize your partner it’s one thing, title and another state’s marriage but you also have to trust laws.” his family. You have to ask inheritance A few states – such as New yourself how it would play rights.’ York and Maryland – do rec- out legally if your partner ognize same-sex marriages, passed away.” even though they don’t grant That fear – that a partner’s noticed an increase in LGBT marriage licenses to same- passing could result in the couples buying homes since sex partners. More often, if loss of one’s home – is at the the state adopted a domestic a legally married same-sex very core of the marriage partnership registry last year. couple buys property in a P h oto : J a s o n s M i t h argument, Masterson says. “It “I’ve been seeing a steady non-recognition state, they’re Buying a home together presents unique legal challenges for same-sex is one thing to have a docu- increase in same-sex couple bound by the rules of that couples. ment that states your part- buyers over the past year state. ner will inherit your proper- or so,” says Bay View Homes Some states recognize civil estate in the absence of a sort out the details of who According to Wells Fargo ties, but it doesn’t safeguard Realtor® Karen Block. unions or domestic partner- will, the right to transfer real pays what and who owns Home Services Lending against lawsuits,” he says. While LGBT couples share ships, but the rights and pro- estate titles without paying a what. Partners who have dis- mortgage broker Mark Olley, That lack of protection many of the same home-buy- tections that they offer vary fee and the presumption of proportionate incomes may this kind of unequal arrange- and uncertainty might help ing concerns as straight cou- widely. It pays to do your joint tenancy in real estate. want to contribute unequal ment only dictates what explain why homeowner- ples, they also have unique research. portions (80/20 or 60/40), happens once the proper- ship rates among same-sex needs. Here are some things Wisconsin’s domestic 3. Divide and divide the ratio of homeown- ty is sold and has nothing couples have typically lagged to consider before taking the partnership law provides conquer ership accordingly and then to do with purchasing the behind those of hetero- plunge: registered LGBT couples the Unmarried couples plan- draft a legal contract that home. “You’re both equally sexual couples. “There are right to inherit a partner’s ning to buy will need to spells out the agreement. Homeowners page 48 48 WI s c o N S INGA z e t t e . c o m | June 3, 2010 Real estate The federal government considers same-sex partners to be legal strangers

Homeowners from 47 down payment or will oth- 4. Protect what title to their home as “ten- becomes owner of the prop- out the advice of an attorney erwise be subject to fed- is yours ants in the entirety,” meaning erty and takes on the mort- anyway. eral gift tax rules. This applies Survivorship rights aren’t each person is 100 percent gage. According to Olley, “Even under domestic even to couples who are just a real estate issue for owner of the house. Not most lenders also offer a partnership laws, to what responsible for the mort- lawfully married under state same-sex couples, they’re an only does that protect them life insurance policy, so that extent you have to safe- gage regardless of what you law, because the federal gov- equal rights issue. in the event of death (the if one of the partners dies, guard through additional make,” Olley says. ernment does not recognize Rights of survivorship are house is automatically owned the other would inherit the legal means is very unclear,” What’s more, same-sex same-sex marriage and con- granted to legally married by the survivor), it also pro- property without a mort- Masterson says. “This is why couples are equally respon- siders the partners to be couples who own real estate tects them from creditors. gage. domestic partnership isn’t sible for sourcing half of the legal strangers. together and allow them take One option for same-sex Registered domestic part- adequate and why the com- couples who are not legally ners in Wisconsin have the munity is striving to achieve married is to hold the title right to inherit from the full equality through gay mar- in joint tenancy with rights estate of a domestic partner riage.” of receivorship, so that if who dies without a will, but For news updates go to The Total HomeHome CompanyCompany Inc. one partner dies, the other experts say it’s wise to seek www.wisconsingazette.com.

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