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In WiGOUT! John Waters dishes the dirt about his new book “Role Models” on page 31. the voIce of proGress for WIscoNsin’s LGBt community 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. Then, almost exactly International Gaze �� 19 him to the United States to the date, I said, ‘We seem in the 1980s to escape a to have a lot in common and Features genocidal campaign against we enjoy each other’s com- LGBT Pride 2010 �� 21 Guatemala’s Mayan popula- pany. So let’s either take this WiGOUT �� 31 tion. It took Gumercinda to the next level, or it’s going Art Gaze �� 32 Iquique Fajardo three and nowhere.’” On Stage �� 42 half years to bring all 10 of Iquique moved in a week Real Estate �� 47 her children and five other later. relatives here to safety. Immigration page 10 2 WI s c o N s INGA z e t t e . c o m | June 3, 2010 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… G e t t h e W I s c o N s I N G A z e t t e D e LI v e r e D .

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