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All rights reserved. Reproduction, either in whole or part is prohibited. NEXT Deadline... May 12 at 5pm for the IN Step Appearing ... May 18 Member of the Ap Associated Press Wisconsin's LGBT Newspaper since 1984. j: HE MILWACJI<EE RIVERSIDE MGD t h e a t r MUSIC GENUINE DRAFT ELLEN ES LIVE G MAY 22 tic ketmaster CHARGE-BY-PHONE: 414-276-4545 SELECT PIGGLY WIGGLY STORES, BOSTON STORES, DISC MAN, AND Produced by CELLAR DOOR kivj MAINSTREAM IN MILWAUKEE OR WWW.TICKETMASTER.COM www.cellardoor.com ENTERTAINMENT www.instepnews.com • May 4 — May 17, 2000 IN Step Page 7 news co-chair of the march, said, "We're marching on Washington on April 30, but we're marching into the voter's booth on November 7. We cannot be ignored." The severest critics of the Millennium March were absent. Prominent activist groups in New York state and Illinois called formal boycotts of the event and several gay rights advocates also complained that the heavy corporate sponsorship of the event — ranging from United Airlines to America OnLine — was turning the march into a mar- keting event. " But criticism, disputes over the turnout, and debates t;•401114-' about the aims of the march aside, the tens of thousands r attending the weekend events were clearly bolstered by a new Vermont measure, signed into law just days before the march itself, that gives same-sex couples in the state virtual- t ly all the legal benefits married couples in Vermont enjoy. Officiating at a mass marriage ceremony on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for more than 3,000 gay and les- EVALI Millennium March bian couples the day before the march, the Rev. Troy Perry, founder of the Metropolitan Community Churches told the crowd, "We stand here because we know that loves makes a Controversies Aside, family, nothing more, nothing less. We will no longer be silent about the love that dares not speak its name." The March Rolls On The weekend's events were also heavy with notables of , 1i14-f"litm! I: By Keith Clark every stripe. Tennis star Martina Navratilova, actors Ellen I DeGeneres and her partner Anne Heche, Wilson Cruz. Washington— There are probably only two things that Music stars k.d. lang, Melissa Etheridge, Garth Brooks, Madison's So! Kelly-Jones addresses the are universally true about the four gay rights marches in the George Michael and others entertained a sell-out crowd of post-March Rally. Photo by John Quinlan. nation's capital to date: no one agrees much about anything 40,000 at an "Equality Rocks" concert the night before the connected with them, and despite the pre- and post-march In spite of some concerns over security, there was little march itself. Tipper Gore, the vice president's wife, got grousing that seems inevitable, nothing appears to have in the way of anti-gay protest during the weekend.