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Tackles Race, Political Apathy VOL 34, NO. 06 OCT. 31, 2018 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com JOHNJUSTICE MOSSMANProtesters PAGE 27 want trans murders Sheldon Brown and Daniel Desmarais of This Bitter Earth. investigated. Photo by Anna Gelman Photo of Reyna Ortiz, Windy City Times staff photo 4 ‘BITTER’ SWEET PRONOUN Gay play ‘This Bitter Earth’ Singer talks name, breakups. Photo by Shervin Lainez tackles race, political apathy 34 Turn to page 16 From left: Adrian Hadlock, Ed Jones, David Cerda and Grant Drager in The Golden Girls: Bea Afraid! Rick Aguilar Studios EXPANDED COLE ESCOLA: FROM CRAIGSLIST ARTS TO THE PARK WEST PAGE 28 ROCKIN’ THE COVERAGE Interviews with out EVERY candidates, our special WEEK ‘Guide to the LGBTs’ and our Noah Cyrus. Photo from David Enriquez/Records Marketing Cole Escola. Photo by Allison Michael Orenstein general election charts www.artsandtheaterweekly.com STARTING ON PAGE 8 @windycitytimes /windycitymediagroupVOTE@windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com 2 Oct. 31, 2018 WINDY CITY TIMES WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 31, 2018 3 NEWS Protesters demand jusice for slain trans individuals 4 Tree of Life vigil, Marge Summit 4 This Week’s Featured Properties Intersex ‘takeover,’ S.O.S. ball 6 Civil-rights groups speak against anti-LGBTQ ads 7 Ideally located on an oversized 30x140 lot on ELECTIONS 2018: Maggie Trevor 8 a one-way street in Lincoln Park, this custom Hundreds attend HRC Chicago gala 10 Metzler-Hull solid-masonry house, designed ELECTIONS 2018: Pritzker, Yingling interviews 12 by noted architect Dan Wheeler, reflects a ELECTIONS 2018: Guide to the LGBTs 13 rare & impressive attention to detail in its ELECTIONS 2018: Charts, questionnaire scores 14 design, construction & finishes. Dreamy yard, ELECTIONS 2018: Lamont Robinson Jr. 19 three car garage. 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Compass Real Estate is a licensed real estate broker with a principal office York,in New NY and abidesbut by isall subject applicable to errors, Equal omissions, Housing Opportunity changes in price, laws. condition, All material sale, orpresented withdrawal hereinherein without shallis intended notice. be construed for No statementinformational as legal, is made accounting aspurposes to the accuracy oronly. other ofInformation any description. professional is compiled All advice measurements from outside sources thedeemed and realm square of reliable real footages estate brokerage. are approximate. This is not intended to solicit property already listed. Nothing DAILY BREAKING NEWS Photo courtesy of Fox Entertainment 4 Oct. 31, 2018 WINDY CITY TIMES Protesters demand justice for slain trans community members BY MATT SIMONETTE in one of the victims was a gay man—CPD an- nounced that they had 40 detectives on the case. Several dozen community members, among them He added that there was “no justice for the entire many transgender activists and their allies, gath- LGBT community” until justice was achieved for ered at Chicago Police Department Headquarters members of the transgender community. (CDP), 3510 S. Michigan Ave., the evening of Entertainer/activist Lia Stokes added that, be- Oct. 25 to demand that the recent murders of ing a transgender woman who has reached the two local transgender women be more thoroughly age of 51, she is somewhat of an anomaly since investigated, and that CPD work harder overall the average life span of a transgender woman in to ensure the safety of transgender Chicagoans. America is about age 30. She added, “The time Reyna Ortiz, board vice-chair of Equality Il- has come for us to ignite and initiate change at Attendees at Oct. 28 vigil in Federal Plaza. Photo courtesy of Emmanuel Garcia 1968 activities of the national gay and lesbian Tree of Life vigil community. In addition, Summit pioneered the “Gay $ draws hundreds Project” together with gay businessman Frank On Oct. 28, hundreds of people attended a Kellas, creating an ink stamp to mark paper candlelight vigil in Chicago’s Federal Plaza that currency as coming from gays and lesbians, commemorated the 11 victims from a Pitts- demonstrating economic impact on every day burgh synagogue shooting and the two African- commerce. She helped lead the charge picket- American people killed Oct. 24 in a seemingly ing Evergreen foods, educating it’s owners and racially motivated shooting at a Kentucky gro- other ‘mainstream’ business persons that gays cery store, according to The Chicago Tribune. and lesbians were among their regular custom- The Pittsburgh mass shooting, which oc- ers and deserving of common courtesy and re- curred Oct. 27 at the Tree of Life Synagogue, spect. has been called the deadliest attack on Jewish Damski was an weekly columnist, poet and people in U.S. history. community activist who died in 1997 at age LGBTQ-rights activist Emmanuel Garcia said 60. Among other things, he was considered he attended the vigil because he remembered among those who were critical in the passage how many people supported his community af- of Chicago’s Human Rights Ordinance in 1988 ter the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting at a gay and the local hate-crimes bill in 1990. He con- nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and he wanted to tributed to many publications, including Windy At the mic, Valerie Griffin, mother of Dejanay Stanton, who was killed Aug. 30. do the same for others. Windy City Times staff photo City Times. The Tribune article is at https://www. For more information about the event, con- chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ linois, opened the presentation, insisting that every turn.” tact Sharyl Holtzman at 773-398-9009 or sha- ct-met-chicago-vigil-synagogue-victims- CPD was being put on notice about the lack of Activist Gearah Goldstein further noted, “I un- [email protected]. 20181028-story.html. progress in the investigations of the murders of derstand that I owe my life to transgender wom- Dejanay Stanton, who was killed Aug. 30, and en of color who stood up under pressure that I Ciara Minaj Carter Frazier, who was killed Oct. 3. can barely imagine.” Marge Summit to LGBT-friendly Lee “We are not going to sweep this under the rug,” Other speakers included Broadway Youth Center Manager Channyn Lynne Parker and community Lumber closing said Ortiz. receive Jon-Henri Lee Lumber—the largest family-owned lum- advocates Beverly Ross and Elise Mallory. Per- Stanton’s mother, Valerie Griffin said that “be- beryard in Chicago that had a float that once former Karma Munez led the crowd in a perfor- ing who she was was no reason for what hap- Damski Award Nov. 4 won a prize in Chicago’s Gay Pride Parade—is mance of “We Shall Overcome,” wherein transgen- Businesswoman Marge Summit will receive pened to her.” closing after 66 years, The Chicago Tribune re- der individuals gathered and sang, surrounded by the 22nd Annual Jon-Henri Damski Award Sun- Griffin further led the crowd in a chant: “Jus- ported.
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