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WindyCityTimes_Boston_Caucasian_MALE.indd 1 3/11/11 6:06:25 PM 4 April 6, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES in its clinical practice section entitled “Care of ONLINE AT Transsexual Persons.” It is the first time it has LGBT health issues dealt with the subject so extensively. Garofalo WINDYCITYMEDIAGROUP.COM said we have much to learn from the Dutch in NATIONAL NEWS this area. certified in new report Graham said the journal article, this report, inclusion in surveys and electronic health re- by Bob Roehr cords are important because they create opportunities for self-reporting of sexual orientation “Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) and gender identity. And for others, including individuals experience unique health dispari- physicians, “seeing those questions legitimates ties. Although the acronym LGBT is used as an the fact that it’s okay to be that way. ... It is a —Matt Barber defends umbrella term, and the health needs of this sensitizing experience.” anti-gay comments community are often grouped together, each of The NIH has appointed a liaison to coordinate these letters represents a distinct population implementation of the report’s recommendations —Giffords hero to with its own health concerns.” within that agency. speak at Camp Pride “Furthermore, among lesbians, gay men, bi- “The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Building a Foundation for sexual men and women, and transgender people, —Activists push Better Understanding” is available at www.iom. there are subpopulations based on race, eth- for Harvey edu/lgbthealth. nicity, socioeconomic status, geographic loca- Milk (left) stamp tion, age, and other factors,” is how the report opened. That summary statement is not news to anyone familiar with the LGBT community. But the fact that it was made in a report commissioned Tsongas, D-Mass., both Stanley and Gortney by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and House hears about said they expect the Pentagon will be ready written by the prestigious Institute of Medi- to submit in mid-summer its required written cine (IOM) adds new meaning and credibility to DADT-repeal certification to Congress that the military is shaping health policy, which that heretofore had prepared to drop DADT implementation. been lacking. implementation By Lisa Keen President Obama, too, must submit written Traditionally IOM committees are asked to Keen News Service certification to Congress, saying he is confi- identify research gaps and priorities within a dent the military is ready to implement repeal field. “But that paradigm does not fit for this Pentagon officials told a House subcommittee of DADT. Then, 60 days after his certification, area,” Chair Robert Graham, M.D., said at the April 1 that training for implementation of re- and that of Defense Secretary Robert Gates March 31 news conference releasing the report. peal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) has gone and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Ad- “There has been so little fundamental, across “extremely well so far” and that certification miral Mike Mullen, is submitted, the law will the board research with the LGBT communities Robert Garofalo. Photo by Bob Roehr to Congress might come by mid-summer. be repealed in practice. that we couldn’t just identify gaps, we really Republicans on the Military Personnel Sub- Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Joe Wilson, needed to base our findings upon a more broad committee of the House Armed Services Com- R-S.C., repeatedly expressed his concern and encompassing degree of needs in terms of served populations, like young African American mittee used the hearing to reiterate concerns that military chaplains might lose their First research,” continued the professor at the Uni- men in this country who are facing exorbitant from previous Congressional debates that Amendment right to freedom of expression versity of Cincinnati School of Medicine. amounts of HIV.” the military might rush to jump through the and religion. He also asked whether gay ser- He said much of the research that does ex- The past president of the Gay and Lesbian hoops necessary to actually implement repeal vicemembers were made aware of when they ist focuses on gay male adults, particularly with Medical Association said very little has been of the law. were in a country that considers same-sex regard to HIV and other sexually transmitted done in the area of intervention research that Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., for instance, said sexual relations illegal. Military officials re- diseases. And it has been conducted largely in has been proven effective in reaching this com- he was concerned that military leaders might sponded that all service members are given urban environments, not suburban or rural ones. munity. He is particularly interesting in struc- be pressuring service members to respond information about the cultural norms and There is little research focusing on bisexuals and tural and community-based rather than medical with “political correctness” during the repeal laws of countries into which they are going. transgender persons or on issue of childhood or interventions. process, calling it “social engineering.” Coffman suggested that, since separate aging. Information on racial and ethnic groups, Judith Bradford, with Fenway Community Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo., said he has housing for gay and straight servicemembers and lower income populations also is scant. Health in Boston, would focus on behavioral risk “no confidence” in the process because, he is not being mandated, perhaps the military Some of these factors may confer additional factor surveillance that includes sexual orienta- said, “this is a political decision made by the should end its practice of providing separate health risks “and these sorts of crosswalks just tion and gender identity. Only 13 states current- executive branch and the military will follow housing for men and women. have not been examined at all,” Graham said. ly measure it, “so if you look across the country it.” Stanley said that sexual orientation is a

you have a patchwork of places in which this Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo., said she is “very “private and personal” matter, different from Recommendations data are collected.” She also would extend the concerned. … We’re making such a radical gender, and that commanders do have the au- Among the broad recommendations in the re- questions to include adolescence through older major shift in our policy, jeopardizing mis- thority to assign servicemembers to separate port are: age. sions and putting people in harm’s way.” billeting if they believe it’s necessary. —Data collection: Most federal surveys should “How does this increase our mission of be- Hartzler asked why men and women were offer opportunities for people to self-identify as Other areas ing able to win wars in doing this?” asked provided with different shower facilities. LGBT, should they choose to do so. Electronic A second-year medical student in the audience Hartzler. “What’s the difference? Seems you have a health records should contain information on noted the spotty nature of education on LGBT Vice Admiral William Gortney said it was the double standard here,” said Hartzler. sexual orientation and gender identity. issues in medical schools—some offer little to judgment of the chairman of the joint chiefs “Gender is very public and sexual orienta- —Methodologies: NIH should support devel- no training while a few are doing “a fantastic of staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, that repeal tion is very private,” said Gortney, echoing oping standardized definitions and measures of job”—and asked how the report addresses that “won’t have an impact.” Stanley’s response earlier. sexual orientation and gender identity, to facili- training. “And I happen to believe that as well,” said She also asked whether the children of ser- tate comparisons across studies. The NIH plays only a small role in medical Gortney. vicemembers were being provided with train- —Training: NIH should create a comprehen- education so that was not a major focus of the Rep. Austin Scott, R-Texas, asked how much ing concerning the repeal. sive research training approach to strengthen report. Garofalo said, “The report does an in- money had been spent on implementation Stanley said such training is available for LGBT research at NIH and among its grantees. credibly good job of condensing the available of repeal that could have been spent on the parents who want to access it for their chil- —Research: Researchers applying for grants literature. I think that will help medical schools war effort. He later expressed surprise when dren. from NIH and other federal agencies should develop curriculum.” Gortney told him that a servicemember was Hartzler asked whether children attending identify how their research will meet the needs Graham said a similar first report on Black and dismissed just for saying he was gay. military schools would have any alternatives of LGBT Americans, in much the same way they minority health disparities in the 1980s “worked “Not because of a violation of the standard where pro-LGBT curricula would not be man- do now along lines of race and gender. its way into medical school curriculum as a sour- conduct?” asked Scott. dated. —Committee members at the news confer- cebook. We have some hope this report will do “No,” said Gortney. “The question is pretty heavy,” said Stanley, ences offered their own more focused research the same thing for the LGBT community.” “That’s not the answer I was expecting,” saying he wanted more time to look into what priorities toward meeting those needs. Bradford said many of these recommendations said Scott. the curriculum provides for. —“We don’t have a good understanding of the “are not a big deal” to implement, but she ac- “Do you think in most cases there’s a vio- In December, both houses of Congress developmental processes that affect LGBT per- knowledged that there are barriers, including lation of the standard of conduct?” pressed passed, and President Obama signed, a bill to sons. I would love to see something that pulls political barriers to doing so. Scott. repeal the 1996 law prohibiting openly gay together what we have attempted to piece to- For Garofalo, “This is something we have done “I think in very few instances,” said Gort- people from serving in the military. The mea- gether, the LGBT life cycle,” said Brian de Vries, for other populations and we think we should ney. sure stipulated that, before actual repeal of a gerontologist at San Francisco State Univer- be doing it now for this population. This docu- Undersecretary Clifford Stanley said about the law takes place, the Defense Department sity. ment goes a long way in framing it from a very $10,000 had been spent for training materials would conduct training to prepare its forces —For Robert Garofalo, a pediatrician and pro- scientific perspective. It is entirely now a matter and that no calculation had yet been made for the change. fessor at Northwestern University, “HIV is the of political will.” for how much staff time had been used. ©2011 by Keen News Service. All rights number-one health disparity that affects our The day prior to release of the report the New In response to a question from Rep. Niki reserved. community. If I were to design a study it would England Journal of Medicine published an article be to focus on intervention research for under- WINDY CITY TIMES April 6, 2011 5 Lambda Legal Executive Director Kevin Cath- cart took a similar approach, saying, “With Frank announces ENDA now reintroduced, it is time for Congress to make good on its promise to focus on the top priority of all Americans - good jobs and economic security.” upcoming ENDA Republicans have said publicly they want to focus on jobs. However, Republicans have also indicated reintroduction they want broad exemptions for religious organizations, and that is something that does not set well for many supporters of ENDA. By Lisa Keen The Transgender Legal Defense and Education In a little bit of intrigue, Frank’s press release Keen News Service Fund issued a press release Wednesday, saying on Tuesday and Wednesday indicated he would that 47 percent of transgender people surveyed have an important announcement concerning U.S. Rep. Barney Frank on Wednesday, March 30, reported being fired or denied a job because ENDA. That prompted many people to expect announced he would soon reintroduce the Em- they are transgender. Frank would actually introduce the bill march Barney Frank. ployment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), char- The “gender identity” language would protect 30. Instead, he said he would try to sign up acterizing it as “winnable.” not just people who are transitioning from one additional co-sponsors for the legislation before However, the bill, which seeks to prohibit sex to another, but also those whose outward orientation discrimination in employment and introducing the bill. discrimination based on sexual orientation and appearance does not conform with common ex- none in 38 states to prohibit gender identity Interestingly, too, two of the House’s four gender identity by employers, is unlikely to pectations for their gender. The language of the discrimination. openly gay members—Reps. Tammy Baldwin and move during the current Congressional session— bill defines gender identity as: “gender-related Human Rights Campaign President Joe Sol- David Cicilline—were not listed in Frank’s press primarily because the Republican Party controls identity, appearance, or mannerisms or other monese issued a statement, pitching ENDA as a release and did not attend the press conference. the House. gender-related characteristics of an individual, jobs bill, an appeal that would presumably at- But spokespersons in both offices said the issue The bill is typically assigned to the House with or without regard to the individual’s desig- tract more Republican support. was one of scheduling and that both intend to Committee on Education and Labor, now chaired nated sex at birth.” “Passing ENDA is a key element of making sure co-sponsor the bill. by Rep. John Kline, R-Minn. In 2009, during a A press release from Frank’s office noted that all Americans can get back to work and get our ©2011 Keen News Service. All rights re- committee hearing on the bill, Kline said his there are no laws in 29 states to prohibit sexual country moving again,” said Solmonese. served. many concerns about the bill in previous years had “not been alleviated” by its recent rewrite. Between 2007 and 2009, the bill added “gender identity” and also provided exemptions for religious organizations. Diego Sanchez, a spokesman for Frank, said the language in this year’s bill is “exactly” as the one from last Congressional session. The bill reads, “This Act shall not apply to a corporation, association, educational institution, or society that is exempt from the religious DPG8JJ@FE@J discrimination provisions of title VII of the Civil :I<8K@E>K?< 23 Rights Acts of 1964….” c`fe@ejk`klk\f]?`^_\i<[lZXk`fe! But it did not get a vote in committee. C\Xiek_\Xikf]_fjg`kXc`kpXe[k_\jZ`\eZ\f]dXeX^\d\ek]ifdc\X[è^ The last time ENDA got a vote in the Senate è[ljkip\og\ikj was 1996, when it came within one vote of pas- c`fe8[mXeZ\[:\ik`ÔZXk\è sage. The Senate was controlled then by Repub- @ek\ieXk`feXc?fjg`kXc`kpDXeX^\d\ek XjgXikf]pfli9%8%[\î\\ licans. :_ffj\]ifdÕ\o`Yc\gifîXdjÆèZcl[è^n\\b\e[jXe[fecè\ A version of ENDA passed the House in 2007. =fi@e]fidXk`fe1 However, in both the House and Senate votes, ;`jZfm\iB\e[Xcc:fcc\^\%Zfd the version of ENDA on the floor was one that included only sexual orientation, not gender /''%-*0%..,* identity. By 2009, the LGBT community of organiza- !@eX^cfYXcjlim\pf],$jkXi_fk\c_ìè^dXeX^\ij# >c`fenXjiXeb\[eldY\iknfXdfe^Xccèk\ieXk`feXc 0''E%Efik_9iXeZ_ tions stood firm to insist that ENDA also include _fjg`kXc`kpdXeX^\d\ekjZ_ffcj]fiXeèk\ieXk`feXc ZXi\\i KXpcfiE\cjfeJf]i\j)'(' % :_`ZX^f#@C-'-+) a prohibition on discrimination based on gender identity. And in 2009 as well as this year, ENDA 9LJ@E

news from USCIS made them think they might Turn to page 12 WINDY CITY TIMES April 6, 2011 7 8 April 6, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES Cappleman Interactive workshop focuses on makes history in prisons, policing and gender By Carrie Maxwell to look at pictures or illustrations related to runoff election prisons—such as a pregnant woman giving James Cappleman became only the second The Chicago Prison-Industrial Complex Teaching birth with her hands in shackles and her abdo- out gay individual on Chicago’s City Council Collective and Maine’s Beehive Design Collective men strapped down. Each group got a different when he defeated Molly Phelan 55 percent to held an interactive workshop March 27 at the picture or illustration and the members had to 45 percent in a runoff election April 5. (Tom Chicago Freedom School. The collectives gath- share what they thought about what they saw. Tunney, alderman of the 44th Ward, is the ered to discuss how the prison-industrial com- Attendees were made aware that all the Bee- first.) plex targets women and LGBT people in specific hive artwork depicts people as the animals who Fourteen wards held runoff elections, which ways and how that affects society. are native to the region the artwork represents. featured opponents who did not get at least An icebreaker designed to help participants The Beehive representatives then showcased 50 percent plus one of the vote in the general understand each other started off the workshop, their recently finished Plan Columbia banner, election in February. Turnout was typically low—this time, slightly less than 23 percent of people registered in those wards actually Carrie voted. Kauffman The 46th Ward race became increasingly and Lewis negative over the weeks, with some commu- Wallace of nity members accusing Phelan of employing the Prison- flyers with anti-gay undertones against her James Cappleman. Industrial opponent. At least one of the flyers criticized Complex Cappleman’s plan to address crime in the ward Teaching as consisting of “anger management classes the unions and ward committeemen, among Collective. and flowers,” in addition to “planters, pub- other things, and added that he once had the Photo by lic art, decorative pedestrian lightposts and support of the machine but then had to face Carrie Maxwell streetscaping.” Phelan had repeated similar it. He added that he felt sorry for the people statements in several debates and in inter- in his ward now that Silverstein will be alder- views with other media outlets in recent man. weeks. In the 20th Ward, Ald. Willie Cochran Another contentious race was in the 25th squared off against Grammy-winning rap art- Ward, which covers neighborhoods such as ist Che “Rhymefest” Smith, with Cochran nar- Chinatown, Tri-Taylor, Little Italy and Pilsen. rowly winning. The 15th Ward saw Toni Foul- Ald. Daniel Solis held on to the seat he has kes handily defeating Raymond A. Lopez. held since 1996 as he edged Temoc Morfin. In the 6th Ward, Ald. Freddrenna Lyle was At a March 30 LGBT event hosted by Solis at in the fight of her life—and lost. She ended led by Lewis Wallace of the Prison-Industrial which shows the effects of colonialism in South the restaurant Ciao Amore, pro-Morfin backers up trailing Roderick Sawyer—son of former Complex Teaching Collective. Music was played America. Among other things, the audience fig- sat at two tables while at least one person Chicago Mayor Eugene Sawyer—49 percent to while everyone walked around the center of the ured out what particular sections of the banner distributed pro-Morfin flyers. As Solis and 51 percent. room weaving in and out of the crowd. When it meant to them. guest 44th Ward Ald. Tom Tunney spoke, said Joann Thompson defeated Hal Baskin in stopped people had to pair up and share three It turned out that the common thread from all supporters asked questions, but were eventu- the 16th Ward to retain her aldermanic seat. facts about themselves. This was repeated three four groups was that the poor farmers of Colum- ally drowned out by Solis’ supporters. Shout- There was some drama in this race as Baskin times with different questions and pairs of peo- bia are being used to grow coca, which is turned ing commenced on both sides, culminating in was arrested for allegedly engaging in a ple. into cocaine and then sold to the people in the the first woman repeatedly saying, “Do not shouting match with an election judge who The collective’s Carrie Kaufman read the mis- United States. According to the presenters, the touch me!” as people closed in around her. supposedly bad-mouthed Baskin, according sion statement before everyone introduced drug war in Columbia and the United States is Eventually, the pro-Morfin supporters made to the Chicago Sun-Times. themselves by stating their name, what pronoun a smokescreen and justification for population their way out of the restaurant. Ald. Latasha Thomas edged David Moore they preferred to be addressed by and what they control, warfare and modern-day colonization. In the 50th Ward, challenger Debra Silver- in the 17th Ward. In the 24th Ward, Michael do to relax. Then the three representatives from They added that prisons are a way to have a stein—the wife of Democratic state Sen. Ira Chandler prevailed against incumbent Ald. Maine’s Beehive Design Collective were intro- workforce without any rights and targeting drug Silverstein who had the support of Mayor- Sharon Denise Dixon. In the 36th Ward, Nich- duced: Christine B., Kyle and Tyler. addicts gives the prison-industrial complex the elect Rahm Emanuel—handily defeated in- olas Sposato defeated John Rice while in the To get everyone thinking about the institu- resource they need to thrive. cumbent Ald. Bernie Stone. First elected to 38th Ward Tom Caravette lost to incumbent tions and people who support the Prison-Indus- To find out more about the Chicago Prison- city council in 1973, Stone was the longest- Ald. Timothy Cullerton. trial Complex participants created a “mind map.” Industrial Complex Teaching Collective, visit serving alderman in the city after Ed Burke, In the 41st Ward, it was down to the wire as Subjects such as private business, poverty, public http://chicagopiccollective.com; to see what and was Chicago’s vice mayor. Mary O’Connor narrowly beat Maurita Gavin. school systems, politicians, family and friends, Maine’s Beehive Design Collective is doing ,visit According to the Chicago Tribune, Emanuel In the 43rd Ward, as Michele Smith and Tim urban destabilization, court systems and white http://www.beehivecollective.org/english/ spent $250,000 on seven aldermanic candi- Egan were virtually neck and neck, with Smith supremacy were added to the mind map, with front.htm. dates, including Silverstein, the only non- eventually winning. many of the 20 participants contributing. incumbent he endorsed. “He wants a puppet Lastly, in the 45th Ward, it was another The question posed after the mind map was in the City Council and I’m not going to be a tight race, this time between John Garrido created was: Looking at the mind map where UCAN open house puppet,” Stone said of Emanuel. Stone, 83, and John Arena, with Arena winning 50.12 does gender come into play? 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Jail has instituted a policy for housing trans- Daniel-McCarter said the under older rule, Daniel-McCarter remains skeptical. “I don’t gender detainees based on their gender identity, many transgender women were placed in men’s like that this was sprung on us,” he said, noting rather than birth sex. facilities and transgender men in women’s. He his suspicions that Chicago’s transgender com- The policy became effective on March 21. It is called this practice “dangerous, not only for munity was not consulted on the policy. Daniel- thought to be the first of its kind in the United mental health but physical health.” McCarter questioned why the sheriff’s depart- States. Limited research on transgender people behind ment will oversee staff trainings, rather than “Particularly with this issue, we wanted to bars exists. However, it is generally believed that local experts. do it right,” Dart told Windy City Times, add- transgender detainees face violence and sexual Dart did say that his office had reached out ing that “medical and sociological” concerns for assault at rates far higher than non-transgender to local LGBT activists such as Rick Garcia and transgender people “even superseded security detainees, especially for transgender women Art Johnson. Windy City Times was not able to issues.” placed in men’s facilities. A 2011 report from Owen Daniel-McCarter. Pic by Carrie Maxwell confirm this by the press deadline. The seven-page policy mandates that trans- the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force found Daniel-McCarter also criticized the language gender detainees be allowed to consult with a that 37 percent of transgender people polled re- said. “I said, ‘Are you trying to tell me there is in the policy, which is based on the concept of “Gender Identity Panel” of physicians and thera- ported being harassed by correctional officers, no policy?’” “gender identity disorder” (GID), a term used pists before being placed into male or female and 35 percent reported harassment from peers. According to Dart, his office, Cermak Health by the American Psychological Association to housing. It also directs correctional staff to al- That same study also found that transgender Services and the Department of Corrections col- diagnose transgender people. That diagnosis low transgender people to wear clothing/ own people of color were especially vulnerable to laborated with experts ranging from therapists has become increasingly controversial over the hygiene products consistent with their gender violence and discrimination behind bars. to LGBTQ activists to other jails in order to draft past several years for a host of reasons, includ- identity. Further, it requires that corrections Dr. Avery Hart, the chief medical officer at Cer- a comprehensive policy. Unlike the 1984 direc- ing offense taken to the labeling of transgender staff, physicians, and therapists undergo gen- mak Health Services, which oversees healthcare tive, the new policy includes clinical information people has having a disorder. Daniel-McCarter der-related sensitivity training administered by for Cook County Jail, estimated that at least on gender identity disorder, a glossary of terms worries that, as a consequence, the gender iden- the sheriff’s department. The policy is a far cry two to three transgender people are in custody and, most significantly, a recommendation that tity panel has too much power and too little from old standards, which, officials said, were at the jail at a given time. Hart worked closely transgender people be placed in accordance with knowledge to decide where a transgender person nonexistent. with the sheriff’s department to draft the new their identity (as opposed to genitalia). Dart should be placed in the jail. The only known policy to deal with trans- policy. He did not comment on any specific re- hopes the policy will be adopted elsewhere and However, Daniel-McCarter also remains hope- gender issues at Cook County Jail dates back ports but did say that he thought that “what’s said it will be featured on the Department of ful. He said the policy is the “most progressive” to 1984. The “Transsexual Treatment Protocol” been reported in the country about trans people Justice website. he has seen in Illinois yet. policy made recommendations for jail physicians detained reflects Cook County Jail.” Other jails have adopted policies for plac- “My overall response is that it is a step for- regarding hormones, but it did not address hous- Dart said he discovered the jail had no trans- ing transgender detainees, most notably in San ward,” he said. “I am grateful that Tom Dart ing, clothing or transgender men (FTMs). The gender policy over a year ago when the issue Francisco. The Cook County Jail policy is unique, is concerned about trans people. I think that’s policy also uses language that, by today’s stan- was raised at a jail staff meeting. He said that however, in that it not only aims to place trans- commendable.” Daniel-McCarter added he wants dards, is largely considered offensive, classifying questions arose about where to place transgen- gender people based on how they identify, it the sheriff’s office to sit down with transgender transgender people as “transsexual men.” der people in housing, and Dart recommended defers to a “gender identity panel” of doctors Chicagoans and talk about the policy. Owen Daniel-McCarter is a project attorney of that staff defer to the policy. and therapists to make that decision, not just the Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois “I just saw blank stares across the room,” Dart

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State—show President Obama have any information for pregnant women, only ends April 30. followed by the statement “Every 21 minutes, a link to website called TooManyAborted.com, In city council, Shiller has sponsored or our next possible leader is aborted.” A private which loads the viewer with statistical figures lobbied for numerous measures that ben- individual provided space for the billboards, about abortion and adoption information. efited the LGBT and HIV/AIDS communi- which sit on the side of a building, Rev. Isaac Planned Parenthood of Illinois services 60,000 ties. In 1988, she co-sponsored the Chica- Hayes told Windy City Times. patients per year, 25 percent of whom are Afri- go human-rights legislation that included A group from Texas called Life Always is re- can-American. “We believe every woman has the sexual orientation as a prohibited basis for sponsible for these controversial billboards, right to make private medical decisions,” said Carole Brite. discrimination. which were placed in five other states, includ- Carole Brite, president and CEO of Planned Par- She was inducted into the Chicago Gay ing Georgia and New York, before being taking enthood Illinois. ganization offers a lot of similar resources, com- and Lesbian Hall of Fame as a friend of the down after complaints. (Life Always could not Ninety percent of the care Planned Parenthood community in 2000. be reached for comment. )The billboard is one provides is preventive: cancer screenings, STD parable to those of Planned Parenthood: contra- of 29 that are expected to go up on the South testing and gynecological appointments, along ceptive education, pre-natal care etc. The only Side of the city, according to Planned Parent- with contraceptive education. Brite feels the procedures the organization does not perform on Rep. Harris on hood. African-American women are the targets racially targeted billboards are not helping any- site is abortions. “We believe women need safe of these billboards “because they have a statis- one. “Using race as a scare tactic for women,” access to reproductive heath sources, and if it is rules committee tically higher rate of abortions than any other she said. “I think that is the ultimate aim: [to] abortion that we direct them to a safe place,” State Rep. Greg Harris has been ap- race,” said Hayes. use race as a wedge issue.” said Scott. pointed a member of the Joint Committee Hayes, who leads the Apostolic Church of Christ Black Women for Reproductive Justice, a pri- Pro-life and pro-choice individuals feel that on Administrative Rules (JCAR), which ap- at 6320 S. Dorchester, is lending his support to vately funded organization, is also making its the other side has made no attempt to reach out proves all the rules and regulations by all these billboards as a member of the Fredrick opinion about the billboard known. “No outsid- to them. “No one has reached out to me in terms state government agencies in Illinois. Douglas Foundation of Illinois, a self-acclaimed ers should be able to come into the city and of conversation and dialogue [about] protecting “It’s a great honor to serve on this conservative devout Christian organization. push a message of negativity. The billboard is innocent lives,” said Hayes. Scott feels just the committee to ensure that the legislation He said, “[The] billboards are twofold. [They] going to drive a wedge in [the] Black commu- opposite: “For them not to sit down and address passed by the General Assembly is properly raise awareness about the disproportionate nity,” said Cherisse Scott, a health educator at Black women, especially those doing the work, implemented,” Harris said in a statement. number of abortions in the Black community and Black Women for Reproductive Justice. The or- makes me think they believe we do not have the “At a time when we need more responsible mental capacity to make a decision about our government, it is important that we have body.” this committee to provide a system of Planned Parenthood and Black Women for Re- checks and balances for our state laws.” productive Justice are combining their efforts JCAR is a bipartisan legislative oversight to get the billboard down before the remaining committee created by the General Assem- billboards are shown. “We are working with Black bly in 1977. The committee is composed Women for Reproductive Justice and contacting of 12 lawmakers who are appointed by the local politicians to engage them in helping us legislative leadership, and the membership get the billboard taken down,” said Brite. is apportioned equally between the two Organizations like Planned Parenthood, Black houses and the two political parties. Women for Reproductive Justice and Chicago Members serve two-year terms, and the Abortion Fund will continue to provide their ser- committee is co-chaired by a member of vices despite the billboard. “It’s clear those who each party and legislative house. State fight against reproductive choice for women of Sen. Maggie Crotty and state Rep. Angelo color know nothing of why women choose abor- “Skip” Saviano currently co-chair the com- Life Always banner on South Side billboards. tion,” said Gaylon Alcaraz, executive director of mittee. the Chicago Abortion Fund.

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He responded with an email Rick Garcia, a longtime activist and a former that did not address EI’s role and these words, ANITA BRYANT public policy director of Equality Illinois, had “Year after year, angry right-wing extremists in been following the progress of the amendment, the Illinois General Assembly bring up the same which state Sen. William Haine first introduced anti-marriage-equality Constitutional amend- Feb. 10. Speaking to Windy City Times a few ment. The proposal is deeply unpopular with hours after the amendment was moved, he said, Illinoisans, who overwhelmingly support equal to with evident delight, “Subcommittees are where treatment for same-sex couples.” you put bills to die. And there are no members PROP 8 appointed to the subcommittee on constitutional amendments. The bill went to committee Cosgrove named and it was quickly dispatched as it should have been.” to human-rights Besides Garcia, the American Civil Liber- ties Union (ACLU) and The Civil Rights Agenda commission (TCRA) were among those following the propos- Gov. Pat Quinn appointed Terry Cosgrove ing amendment. The ACLU’s communications di- to the Illinois Human Rights Commission rector, Ed Yohnka, told WCT that the apparent March 28. Cosgrove, an openly gay man and president/CEO of Personal PAC—one of the fore- most pro-choice political organizations in Illinois and the United States—has been active in human rights and efforts to end Thursday, April 14 discrimination most of his life. As a high school student, he was part of the Chica- 5:30 P.M. cocktails, 6:30 P.M. program go area committee to support the United $12, $10 members and students Farmworkers. Esther Patt, director of the Champaign- Urbana Tenant Union, where Cosgrove Don’t miss this fascinating evening with Yale historian George Chauncey, worked before moving back to Chicago, said, “Throughout his adult life, Terry Cos- who testiﬁed last year at the Proposition 8 trial in California and other grove has demonstrated his deep commit- gay rights cases. He will discuss why history matters to the courts and also ment to equal opportunity for all people. Long before the Illinois General Assembly share the arguments about marriage, anti-gay discrimination and anti-gay passed the Illinois Human Rights Act, the cities of Champaign and Urbana passed demonization that were used in those cases. comprehensive Human Rights Ordinances outlawing discrimination across many categories, including sexual orientation. These were among the first two ordinances Rick Garcia. Photo by Kat Fitzgerald anywhere in the U.S. to ban discrimination due to sexual orientation, familial status and source of income. defeat of the amendment means that “the ef- Cosgrove has worked for women’s rights forts by some members of the Illinois general as- for decades. When he was a student at the Clark Street at North Avenue 312.642.4600 University of Illinois, the school was not sembly to advance a constitutional amendment www.chicagohistory.org that would write discrimination into the Illinois following Title IX regulations, requiring fe- constitution has been stopped this year. On the male athletes to have higher grade point heels of the adoption of civil unions in Illinois averages than male athletes to participate and the wide-ranging public support for civil in sports. Cosgrove supported his female Out at CHM Lead Corporate Sponsor: unions, Illinois was not going to turn the clock rugby-player friends by helping them back twenty years and pass the amendment. ” raise the money needed to bring a lawsuit According to Yohnka, what he identified as against the university. They did file the “larger public attitude shifts across Illinois and lawsuit and won the case. the country” in terms of greater acceptance of Cosgrove’s commitment to reproductive same-sex marriage meant that the amendment rights has been the hallmark of his profes- was a “non-starter” from the beginning. Ex- sional career for more than two decades in panding on that point, he said that, “You see his role as leader of Personal PAC. He said, Exclusive April program partners: legislators who will propose some sort of legis- “Denying poor women and teenagers com- lative activity who are really not doing so with plete access to abortion while wealthier the expectation that it will pass, but they get a women and teenagers of means can always press release or it fills the needs of some narrow get a safe abortion is one of the greatest constituency in their district.” injustices of my lifetime.” Anthony Martinez—the executive director of Cosgrove made LGBT history when in TCRA, which was formed in summer 2010—like 1980 he and his then-partner, Patrick Garcia and Yohnka, is confident that there should Forbes, filed what is believed to be the Sara Lee Foundation is the lead corporate sponsor of the Out at CHM programs. Generous support for the entire be no concern that the amendment or anything first successful lawsuit in the United States Out at CHM project is provided by The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust. The series is presented in partnership with like it will come up in the rest of the year. How- challenging discrimination based on sexual the Center on Halsted. Additional support is provided by Community Marketing, Inc., WFMT and WTTW Chicago ever, he emphasized that activists fighting for orientation in public accommodations. The Public Television. In-kind assistance is provided by River North Sales & Service, LLC and Constellation Wines. same-sex marriage in Illinois “need to be vigi- two men were represented by an attorney lant in watching who’s going to be running in from Lambda Legal Defense Fund. 2012 and in ensuring we’re electing the right Cosgrove’s appointment to the Illinois On May 21, the Chicago History Museum will present the people.” He cited the efforts of conservative Human Rights Commission requires confir- groups like the National Organization for Mar- mation by the state Senate. groundbreaking exhibition that explores the history of Chicago’s riage to rally anti-gay marriage activists on the LGBT communities over the past 150 years. issue. Follow us at www.facebook.com/outinchicago Garcia similarly emphasized the need for vigi- 12 April 6, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES

—Patrick Wong, Ph.D., associate professor, Man claims termination HBHC announces Northwestern University Dept. of Communica- tion Sciences & Disorders new board The board is seeking applications for eight from Gibsons due to members, seeks additional nominees, who will join the Board in June, rounding out the transitional process more nominees by establishing 16 new board members by sexual orientation Howard Brown Health Center’s board of July 1. Resumes or letters of interest can be by Lisa Klein directors elected eight new members March forwarded to [email protected] through 28 following a rigorous selection process and April. The committee will review applications On March 25, 2010, Brandyn Falconer received interviews conducted by a volunteer board- and interview candidates in May through early a termination letter from Gibsons Restaurant nominating committee that presented the June. Group, who he worked for as a server at Hugo’s slate after considering 40 interested candi- Frog Bar & Fish House restaurant for about eight dates. The new members were elected during months. the regularly scheduled board meeting. Lambda Legal’s The letter stated that he was found to have The eight new board members bring leader- Camilla Taylor is stolen company property, but Falconer believes ship experience involving the management of he was let go because he had taken action not-for-profit organizations, healthcare man- new marriage against harassment that he’d been experiencing agement, and the financial services sectors. at work and because he is HIV-positive. In continuation of Howard Brown Health project director “Instead of remedying the situation they ter- Center’s Responsible Transition Plan— On the heels of the second anniversary of minated his employment,” said Falconer’s attor- launched in December 2010 to transition marriage equality in Iowa, Lambda Legal an- ney, Christopher Cooper. oversight of the organization to new board nounced that Camilla Taylor, lead attorney on Falconer said that he’s “an open-book kind of members by July 1, 2011—the volunteer the Iowa marriage equality lawsuit, has been person,” and let it be known at the restaurant committee chose applicants who they felt promoted to national marriage project direc- from the start that he was gay. He said later on best represent Howard Brown Health Center tor. he told some co-workers that he is also HIV- and its vision to be the premier comprehen- “Camilla is the ideal person to take over the positive. sive health, wellness and research center for reins of our Marriage Project,” said Lambda Falconer said that while he was being trained, the LGBTQA community. Legal Legal Director Jon Davidson. “She has racial slurs were being “thrown around.” He said “The committee is very fortunate, as is How- done an extraordinary job fighting for the that after that he was repeatedly called both ard Brown Health Center, to have so many rights of LGBT and HIV-positive people in the racial and anti-gay slurs by other employees. highly qualified individuals step forward and Midwest and beyond for nearly nine years at In October 2009 Falconer reported to a man- want to play a role in the shaping Howard Lambda Legal. She was the architect of our ager that he had been threatened and called an Brown for the next decade,” said Ron Nun- Varnum v. Brien case that won marriage equal- anti-gay slur by another employee. In a state- ziato, chair of the committee. ity in Iowa. She has become well known not ment made to Windy City Times, Gibsons said The latest class of board members elected only for her legal prowess, but also for her includes: ability to passionately express to the public that the management at Hugo’s “promptly in- Brandyn Falconer. Photo courtesy of Falconer vestigated and took immediate action.” The —Brad Carlson, MBA, president of Brad Carl- why same-sex couples deserve the freedom to employee was suspended from work and Gibsons son & Associates, Ltd., which provides profes- marry.” said they conducted training with all employees entation,” said Cooper. sional fundraising consulting assistance “We’ve seen some extraordinary advances of Hugo’s after the incident. The case against Gibsons was dismissed due to —Alan Eaks, MS, CEO of Aurora Lakeshore over the last few years for same-sex couples “Two weeks is not enough,” said Cooper. “He want of subject matter jurisdiction, meaning the Hospital and their children as more and more states, should have been terminated.” court in which the case was filed was not able —Jenetta Mason, B.S., senior manager of counties, and cities have taken steps to re- Falconer said the harassment did not stop. “Af- to try that type of case. The case against the valuation services group at Grant Thornton spect their relationships and the right of ter it became known that I was HIV-positive it three employees was also dismissed because the LLP, which specializes in auditing, manage- same-sex couples to marry,” said Taylor. became more aggressive,” he said. He also said defendants were not properly served. ment consulting, corporate finance, risk man- “Lambda Legal has helped create this mo- that co-workers started to avoid him, his hours Gibsons said that on March 15, 2010, an em- agement and information technology mentum, and I’m excited to work with a great started getting cut and he would get phone calls ployee of Hugo’s informed the management that —F. Patrick Robinson, Ph.D., RN, Chicago team of colleagues and partners across the before his shift telling him he wasn’t needed he saw Falconer acting suspicious and carrying campus dean of the Chamberlain College of country to keep it going.” that day. a meat presentation tray (used to present cuts Nursing Prior to joining Lambda Legal in 2002, Tay- “I know they didn’t do anything,” Falconer of meat, worth more than $300, to customers) —Brent Styles, CPA, senior vice president lor was a staff attorney with the Criminal Ap- said of the management after each complaint. on the second floor of the restaurant near the at the global real estate-services firm Jones peals Bureau of the Legal Aid Society of New “It seemed like they wanted [the employees] to employee lockers. An inventory the same night Lang LaSalle York City. Taylor fills the role recently vacated keep it up so I would quit.” found that one of the trays had not been re- —Anthony Sullivan, Jr., B.S., U.S. Depart- by Jennifer C. Pizer, who has become the le- “I felt alienated,” said Falconer, who has turned. ment of Health and Human Services Adminis- gal director for the Williams Institute after 15 worked in the hospitality industry for the past Video from the security cameras was then re- tration for Children and Families years of leadership at Lambda Legal. 20 years. “Never ever had that happened to me viewed. The video from the second floor shows —Jeff Todd, J.D., chief operating officer at in my life.” a man who appears to be Falconer carrying a Prevent Blindness America “Mr. Falconer never made any other complaints tray upright and entering the restroom. Another to Hugo’s management,” said Gibsons in their employee is seen listening at the door and then statement. They said that the first time Hugo’s leaves the area. The man then exits the restroom es. This administration needs to show back- was made aware of any other harassment besides with the tray folded up and a full paper bag, and BINATIONAL from page 6 bone and leadership on the issue of immigra- the initial complaint was when Cooper contacted puts the bag into his shoulder bag in his locker. Immigration Equality (IE) Communications tion reform and gay couples. Congress needs them with allegations of racial harassment by Gibsons said that “Hugo’s justifiably termi- Director Steve Ralls emphasized that IE had to change the law.” He also said that despite some co-workers. nated Mr. Falconer’s employment” based on the encouraged prudence on the part of couples. DOMA, there are things “that the administra- Gibsons said it investigated each incident re- videotapes, witness statements and the fact that He said, “Immigration Equality hopes for a tion can do to make sure the law is not used ported by Cooper. In the investigations, none Falconer refused to address the incident when long-term solution for those whose hopes to hurt families—use discretion in a way that of the witnesses identified by Falconer saw or questioned by management. were dashed by the USCIS announcement. is consistent with the law and ameliorate the heard anything. Gibsons also said that, in some “This is just outrageous,” said Cooper. “There They should return to holding those ap- effects of the statue on families.” cases, either Falconer or the offending employ- is nothing in the film that shows him stealing plications until DOMA’s constitutionality is While they are likely to be glad for such ees were not working the day of the reported anything.” resolved. Hopefully, the administration can support, several binational couples, like Kim incident. They said that they also conducted fur- Gibsons’ statement also said that the manage- take another look at those.” IE is also a major and Mary, are faced with constant worry as ther non-discrimination training with employees ment at Hugo’s was unaware of Falconer’s HIV sponsor of the Uniting American Families Act they try to see their way through the situ- at the restaurant. status and that an email sent to its attorney by (UAFA), which Ralls said would be reintro- ation. In some cases—as with Shirley Tan “Hugo’s has an impeccable reputation for Windy City Times for this story was the first the duced in the next month. and Jay Mercado, whose case was taken up treating its customers and employees with dig- company had heard of it at all. Both Soloway and Ralls pointed to non- by IE—it is possible to gain enough public nity and respect. Hugo’s is an equal opportunity An additional claim has since been filed with LGBT groups like the American Immigration attention to go so far as to get a private bill employer and does not tolerate discrimination the EEOC and also with the Illinois Department Lawyers’ Association (AILA), having worked (in Tan’s name), a highly rare occurence. or harassment of any kind,” said Gibsons in its of Human Rights. A new discrimination case is on the issue with them. David Leopold, an However, Ralls clarified, this is not a perma- statement. now filed in arbitration (an alternative way to Ohio-based lawyer and president of AILA, said nent solution and requires the bill to be rein- Falconer said the harassment continued for resolve legal disputes which Gibsons has a policy that the ban on same-sex couples sponsoring troduced every two years and the support of three months. In January 2010 Falconer filed a about using) with the American Arbitration As- their sponses was “outdated, archaic, unfair.” the key legislator, leading to great stress and claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity sociation. He also contextualized it within the larger emphasizing the need for more permanent Commission (EEOC), and in February he filed a “I do want monetary damages,” said Falconer, framework of immigration reform, which has solutions like the repeal of DOMA or UAFA lawsuit in federal court against the company and who has been unemployed since his termination been slow in making its way into any legis- becoming law. Said Kim, “We’ve always felt three employees for discrimination based on the from Hugo’s. “But I also want [Hugo’s] to be lative form: “Immigration law is broken. The like we’re in limbo, but now it’s even worse. 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While AIDS is not a “gay” disease, it devastated the gay of the crisis, can be morally linked to the deaths of tens of thou- community, and caused the mainstream to delay a comprehensive sands, if not millions. plan to stop the epidemic before it took hold. Our archives will The impact of AIDS can never be fully measured. It changed the show just how political those early years were, from ACT UP in @ world, and it continues to kill. While the crisis in the U.S. changed the streets, to lobbyists in Springfield in D.C. fighting off horrible with new medications introduced in the mid 1990s, people still die AIDS legislation. of complications of the disease, from Chicago to New York, China We invite our readers to suggest stories, people to profile, or to South Africa. Thirty years into the epidemic, there is still no to submit your own essays about vaccine, still no cure. AIDS. You can send questions A WINDY CITY The start date of the AIDS crisis is debatable, especially in hind- to editor@windycityme- 30 sight, because blood samples tested later show it could have been diagroup.com, with with us for decades. But most people believe the first indication AIDS @ 30 in the TIMES of the plague to come occurred in 1981 in the U.S. Therefore, this memo line. At the Special Project summer marks 30 years since the early deaths from what would end of the series, later become known as AIDS. we hope to collect A special series in partnership with For the next nine months, Windy City Times will take an un- the materials into a the AIDS Foundation of Chicago precedented look back at the first 30 years of AIDS. Starting with book. this issue, and through December 2011, we will have hundreds of articles, photos, and essays about the AIDS epidemic, from profiles — Tracy Baim, of people we lost, to stories about groups that responded, to the Publisher, Windy City science and medical issues, and the current statistics and impact Times of AIDS. While we will have a strong focus on the Chicago region, we will also look at AIDS beyond our city, especially with national A button used by ACT UP: Silence = Death. AIDS: The plague years BY Tracy Baim Test Positive Aware Network, Stop AIDS, Kupona While the disease in Chicago and other U.S. Network, AIDS Legal Council of Chicago, Chicago cities was initially reported as mostly affecting If you are of an older generation, and especially Women’s AIDS Project, and dozens more. Even- white gay men, it was quickly clear that its path a gay man, you probably remember reading or tually, more than 100 agencies dealt with some would grow wider and would have an impact on hearing about a July 3, 1981, New York Times aspect of AIDS, from fundraising events, such as the entire world. article reporting on a strange series of illnesses AIDS Walk and the AIDS Ride, to service groups, The Chicago Department of Public Health be- striking gay men in East Coast and West Coast research and prevention organizations. gan tracking what would later become known urban areas. Just 12 years after the Stonewall In many ways, the quick rise of activism and as AIDS in 1980. The statistics for those early riots in New York, the decade of love and libera- empowerment, the goals to “help our own,” years show fewer than five cases in 1980 and tion had come to a crashing end. came out of the 1970s gay liberation movement. 1981, but a jump to 16 in 1982 and 42 in 1983. There were some signs of distress earlier than Women had been taking control of their own It should be emphasized that these were cases 1981. Doctors and nurses, especially those with health and well-being (founding women’s crisis reported to CDPH, since not all doctors may many gay patients, began to notice obscure lines and shelters and learning with the book have known what signs to look for (especially in illnesses cropping up. Gay health groups did Our Bodies, Ourselves), and gays and lesbians the early 1980s). [In upcoming editions of WCT screenings for venereal diseases, which were were already creating community centers and we will be showing detailed reports and charts spreading rapidly. support structures outside the mainstream. Gay about the disease in Chicago and nationally.] But it was the summer of 1981 when the U.S. doctors were starting to come out, and those When speaking with gays and lesbians who Centers for Disease Control’s Morbidity and Mor- same doctors would be on the front lines of were out in the 1980s, almost all report having tality Weekly Report (MMWR, June 5 and July 3) medical research and care during the AIDS cri- felt the impact of AIDS, through their friendship first reported that a new disease might be in our sis. Both lesbians and gay men took leadership circles, their families, the deaths of partners, midst. It could have been around for years, but roles in the new AIDS infrastructure, heading or even their own HIV diagnoses. But what is was just at that time starting to exhibit itself. small organizations that would become multi- striking is the vastly different experiences. In The individual illnesses striking these young gay million-dollar agencies respected nationally for some cases, individuals may have lost literally men were otherwise rare—pneumocystis carinii their pioneering work. hundreds of people from their circle of friends. pneumonia and Kaposi’s sarcoma, the latter Part of the response was due to the fact that Yet another person of the same age, in the same manifested as purple lesions. These and other mainstream doctors and agencies were quick to city, was relatively untouched, attending few fu- strange illnesses had started to be diagnosed spout anti-gay feelings and even push for AIDS- nerals and giving few memorials. Many lesbians some 30 months prior to the 1981 MMWR re- phobic acts such as quarantining and contact lost their gay brothers to AIDS, while some gay ports. In January 1982 the syndromes together tracing. Families ostracized their own sons and men lost no one close to them. began to be called GRID, gay-related immuno- daughters, and schools tried to keep out HIV- The change in the demographics of Chicago deficiency, and the acronym stood until July positive children, including a boy named Ryan AIDS cases has also caused friction over the of that year, when it was renamed AIDS, or ac- White. There was a huge backlash in the United years in terms of access to resources. The AIDS quired immunodeficiency syndrome. States, and gay men and women were first to Foundation of Chicago (AFC) has effectively jug- The rumors and media reports, including those recognize that we had to find solutions from gled the needs of the crisis, bringing together in the gay press, only trickled out for many within. We could not rely on a homophobic cul- groups from all parts of the region. The first months. But by 1983–’84, it was clear a major ture to save our lives. Soon, allies would come AIDS Walk in Chicago was seen as not funding epidemic was at hand, one that struck more than to our side. But even in 2008, abstinence-only representative groups. It later collapsed, and gay men. funding takes precious resources away from AIDS was recreated by AFC as a new funding source In Chicago, while existing organizations such work, despite studies that show those programs for a wide range of groups. as Howard Brown Memorial Clinic (now Howard do not work. But the bottom line for AIDS funding is that A June 1991 AIDS protest. Photo by Genyphyr Brown Health Center) and Gay Horizons (now groups need to fight for a larger pie instead of Novak. Center on Halsted) tried to cope with new legal, BY THE NUMBERS fighting among each other for slices of an ever- psychosocial, and health issues facing the com- As of December 2010, a total of 36,802 peo- shrinking one. The disease’s demographics are munity, more support would be needed. ple had been reported to the Chicago Depart- shifting. That does not mean that prevention Within three years, major institutions were ment of Public Health with a diagnosis of HIV and services for white gay men should stop. It founded, many of them still in existence in 2011. infection—this includes both AIDS and HIV means that prevention and services should ex- These included AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Chi- (not AIDS)—since reporting began in the early pand overall. It is also not a “Black and white” cago House, Open Hand (now Vital Bridges), 1980s. Of these, 14,507 (39%) have died and issue. While many people segregate based on 22,295 are living with HIV infection. race in Chicago, some whites live south, and WINDY CITY TIMES April 6, 2011 15

Assure HIV-positive youth their futures will also get better Reflections by David Ernesto Munar

Even before I lined up to purchase my hard-copy edition of the It Gets Better anthology, I gathered with my thoughts and flip camera to consider what messages of hope I could impart on LGBT youth facing a world of opportunities I never knew and haunting challenges that remain all too close to the surface. Like all autobiographical work, I wanted my short video to be authentic and compelling. I also ACT UP in Chicago Pride circa 1990. Photo by Lisa Howe-Ebright. have the pressure of facing Dan Savage who will keynote the AIDS many Blacks live on the North Side or prefer gan, Reagan, you can’t hide! We all know it’s Foundation of Chicago’s Spring to receive services at places such as HBHC or genocide!” Luncheon Monday, May 2. As TPAN. In August 1987, activists David Bell, Maryon the mastermind behind the bril- The next years of the epidemic will continue to Grey, Carol Jonas, Don Maffetore, Darral Pugh liant It Gets Better project, Dan’s see these struggles for funding. The AIDS drugs and Ferd Eggan tied themselves to the fence opinion matters. I certainly hope have provided some relief, but there is still no outside the Chicago home of Illinois Gov. James my meager contribution to this cure. And there is no guarantee, even if a cure R. Thompson to pressure the governor not to much-needed advocacy move- comes, that it will be made affordable to all sign homophobic AIDS legislation. An estimated ment meets his and his audience’s those in need. 400 people participated in the DAGMAR-spon- expectations, but you can be the sored march and protest. A 24-hour vigil was judge of that. An essay format of THE 1980s: ACTING UP held, with no arrests. (Bell died soon after from my submission follows and the Gay men and lesbians interviewed for the Chi- AIDS complications, and Eggan died in 2007.) video is posted at itgetsbetter. cago Gay History Project saw the rise of AIDS in On June 16, 1988, C-FAR occupied the Chicago org/video/entry/yboip3suuie/. the mid-1980s as both a curse and a potential office of the regional director of the Food and blessing. AIDS caused the voluntary and invol- Drug Administration to push for more AIDS re- I want to speak to the tens of untary outing of thousands of gay people, from search and drugs in the pipeline. C-FAR members thousands of gay teens who will Rock Hudson to colleagues and family members. Eggan and Paul Adams (who also died of AIDS) learn this year that they are HIV- With death on the line, many gay men were em- commandeered two phones and began dialing positive. boldened to come out and live a quality life, not the national FDA office to issue their demands. Like many of you, my teen a closeted one. The American public had never The demonstrators demanded that drug com- years were riddled with secrets seen so many gay men and lesbians “coming panies be banned from “extorting huge profits I couldn’t bear to reveal. My life out” all within a short period of time. from people with AIDS.” Eight protesters were did get better once I went off to But it was mostly a curse. handcuffed by security officers, some of whom college and graduated. In 1984, Jerry Soucy and Katie Sprutta were wore rubber gloves. All were later released. But my newfound independence David Munar. Photo by Andrew Collings part of the AIDS Action Project of Howard Brown However, not all AIDS activists were on the and confidence came crashing Memorial Clinic, one of the first places people streets risking arrest. There was a very deliberate down when, at age 24, I tested with AIDS could go. An article for GayLife on move to have both an “inside” and an “outside” positive for HIV. It felt like the world would end. The diagnosis sent me back into a Nov. 8,1984, reported that there were 50 surviv- approach. Existing groups such as the Illinois new closet full of shame and blame. ing people with AIDS in Chicago at that point. Gay and Lesbian Task Force (IGLTF) and the Chi- Everywhere I turned, I heard people blaming HIV on those of us infected—as if we The duo bemoaned a general apathy within cago Area Republican Gay Organization (CARGO) brought it on ourselves—that we deserved to die. the gay community about AIDS. Soucy said he met with government officials, while ACT UP, C- I became depressed and didn’t know what steps I needed to take to help my chances thought some portions of the community didn’t FAR and others protested in the streets. City and for survival; I was scared to ask for help. In my darkest hour, I didn’t think I would want to deal with persons with AIDS. He added: state health departments were feeling the po- live pass age 35. “They think there will be a cure soon. … The litical pressure, and Gov. James Thompson, after In time—and with the help of loving friends—I learned to overcome my fears. I met crisis is not over and it is not going to be over pressure from activists, needed to meet with the courageous people with HIV—including longtime survivors—who showed me how to soon.” gays in “suits and ties.” Among those who met cope. I learned to live with HIV, accept and love myself and manage my HIV just like Chicago for Our Rights (C-FOR) was an organi- with Thompson were Tim Drake, Gail Schiesser, any other chronic disease. zation that already existed prior to its morphing Al Wardell and Paul Varnell. Thankfully, medical treatments have greatly improved since my diagnosis and so has into a Chicago chapter of the national ACT UP Each of these battles was being fought on my outlook. (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) movement in many fronts: the work to stem the tide of bad I see my doctor regularly, make sure to take my medications, and rely on great fam- 1988. CFOR was a name originally chosen by the AIDS legislation, increase AIDS funding, allow ily, friends and colleagues for support. group of Chicagoans arrested at U.S. Supreme safer-sex messages on buses and trains, push I’m healthier mentally and physically now than I have been for a long time. Court demonstrations after the October 1987 for access to low-cost AIDS drugs and fight for While HIV continues to be a topic of tremendous discrimination, coming out as a March on Washington. It was a radical group of more AIDS beds for women. Chicago hosted na- person with HIV has allowed me to reject the negative stereotypes: they do not define street protesters unafraid of police and included tional AIDS demonstrations, stopping traffic in me. In fact, they propelled me to fight back against injustice and for better services gay men with HIV or AIDS, lesbians fighting for the streets along march routes and laying down for those of us directly affect by the disease. their friends, straight allies, and both younger beds in front of the Cook County Building. Chi- You see, HIV stigma hurts just like bullying: It stops people from taking steps to and older people. There had actually been a cago activists also traveled around the country protect themselves against a preventable disease. Sadly, it also results in some people radical group prior to C-FOR, called Dykes and to protest at the 1988 Democratic National Con- shunning those of us with HIV because of fear, ignorance and misunderstanding. Gay Men Against Repression (DAGMAR) (alter- vention in Atlanta and at events in Washington, You can change the story about HIV by getting educated about HIV/AIDS, knowing nate uses of the “R” were Right Wing, Reagan, D.C., New York and San Francisco. Meanwhile, your HIV status, and fighting bullying and stigma in all its forms. etc.). DAGMAR had marched in Pride parades and political gays worked the corridors of power. As a person living with HIV, I can attest that it does get better. I never thought I responded to the KKK presence there. DAGMAR When Richard M. Daley took over as mayor, he would say that … but it’s true. If you are struggling to come to terms with HIV— and C-FOR merged and became Chicago for AIDS inherited a community already on edge about you’re are not alone. Never give up—your life is not over. Despite whatever challenges Rights (C-FAR), which later became the Chicago failed health department policies and people. you may face today, a great future awaits.” ACT UP chapter. Daley was seen as not acting fast enough to Some early AIDS demonstrations, like a June increase AIDS spending, and protests occurred David Ernesto Munar is president and CEO of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago. 30, 1987, protest at Federal Plaza, were sparsely at City Hall and at a dramatic 1989 community Learn more about the AIDS Foundation of Chicago and Dan Savage’s next Chicago attended. Among those at the protest was Lori meeting at the de facto community center, the appearance at aidschicago.org. Cannon, a longtime AIDS activist still working Ann Sather restaurant on West Belmont Avenue. on AIDS issues in 2008. Chants included “Rea- Turn to page 16 16 April 6, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES

PLAGUE from page 15 event, which was sponsored by Marshall Field’s, Outlines newspaper and others. Danny Sotomayor, Lori Cannon and other AIDS Other fundraisers that provided support in- activists confronted Daley wherever they could, cluded the annual Strike Against AIDS bowling and 46th Ward Ald. Helen Shiller and others were events, the Proud to Run race, golf benefits, pie able to fight for more city AIDS funding. Daley tosses, croquet tournaments, drag shows, bike eventually repaired his reputation among most rides and more. While there is no longer an AIDS gays; however, many AIDS activists, including Ride (because of fundraising controversies), Sotomayor, did not live long enough to see that there are shorter bike benefits, a new and rein- happen. vigorated AIDS Walk, and a benefit for AIDS that But no matter how media-savvy and creative piggybacks the Chicago Marathon. Foundations ACT UP became, the divisions in the community such as WPWR (now Alphawood) and Crossroads and within organizations were similar to those provided key early funding. in society. ACT UP meetings were often long and heated. There were people living with AIDS and IMPACT ON CULTURE people fighting for them. Diverse voices all came There was also a cultural response to AIDS. to the movement with their own agendas, and In 1982,the Lionheart gay theater company many could not separate out AIDS as their only presented the world’s first AIDS play, One, by cause. ACT UP was a very loose coalition, and Jeff Hagedorn (who died of AIDS in 1995). The members could choose what events they wanted School Street Movement’s Sex Police dancers ed- The huge 1987 AIDS Foundation of Chicago gala featuring Angela Lansbury, Oprah Win- to stage. More issues were added on, including ucated people about AIDS. Keith Elliott, Danny frey, Peter Allen, the gay and lesbian choral groups and more. Photo by David Miller, national healthcare and pro-choice activism. Kopelson, Randy Duncan and others worked on Outlines/Windy City Times. Prominent members such as Danny Sotomayor an annual Dance for Life benefit for AIDS groups, became telegenic media stars, able to use their an event still staged in 2011. The ranks of Chica- charisma to help the cause. But despite, or may- AIDS—in fact, consciously looked the other cate men wherever they were—and that bath- go Gay Men’s Chorus and Windy City Gay Chorus be because, of the amazing dedication of these way—best symbolized by the fact that our presi- houses were safer than parks and other cruising were devastated by AIDS, and they performed at activists, there was bound to be burnout. The dent [Ronald Reagan] didn’t utter the word until areas, because condoms could be handed out many funeral services for their own singers and energy could not be sustained. Some activists September 1986 … people did nothing, with the and safer-sex information posted. at benefits for AIDS groups. died, and others could not maintain the fever exception of the gay community,” Sherer told People with AIDS also needed personal and in- Members of every creative profession, from pitch. By the end of the 1980s, ACT UP was Outlines reporter William Burks in July 1987. dividual support in many aspects of their lives. photographers to filmmakers, dancers to chore- about to give way to Queer Nation, which itself Gay doctors David Blatt and David Moore, part- These included legal issues (losing apartments, ographers, musicians to actors, were affected. was short-lived. ners in life and in their medical practice, were writing wills), basic needs (housing, food, dog Visual artists were also taken in their prime. Jon (Former Chicago ACT UP member Deborah also on the front lines, treating hundreds of peo- walking), psychosocial needs (support groups, Reich and Gabor were two prominent local art- Gould has an excellent book out about the ACT ple with AIDS from their base at Illinois Masonic counseling) and much more. Specific agencies ists who were lost to the disease. Sotomayor was UP years, Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Hospital’s Unit 371. took on targeted areas, while others were wider an editorial cartoonist who used his anger and Fight Against AIDS.) People with AIDS, or even those thought to in their scope. Prevention was also important, wit to create cartoons that cut to the heart of have AIDS, were losing their jobs, and organiza- and free condoms (including those from the AIDS issues in the late 1980s, in Gay Chicago RAPID RESPONSE tions such as the ACLU, Lambda Legal (which Reimer Foundation), safer-sex literature, and Magazine, Windy City Times, and Outlines. He Among other responses to AIDS was the im- eventually opened a Chicago office in the 1990s) safer-sex demonstrations were the rage. Gays died in 1992, shortly before his partner, nation- portant work of two doctors at Cook County Hos- and individual attorneys and firms fought for protested the Roman Catholic Church’s attempts ally renowned playwright Scott McPherson (Mar- pital, which saw a large proportion of the early their return to work. In 1987, a Cook County to stifle condom use. Lesbians even held a blood vin’s Room), died of AIDS as well. cases in Chicago. Dr. Ron Sable, an openly gay Hospital doctor was removed from treating pa- drive. Among dancers lost to AIDS was Joseph Holm- physician, and his straight colleague, Dr. Ren- tients because he had AIDS. After protests and The need to raise money for all these endeav- es, whose Chicago dance company continued af- slow Sherer, founded the Sable/Sherer Clinic in a review, he was allowed only limited practice, ors also opened up a new era of more sophis- ter his death in 1986. At first his family did not 1983 to focus on treatment for people with AIDS according to ACLU attorneys. Airlines discrimi- ticated fundraising than the gay community want it to be known he had AIDS, so no mention as well as what was known at the time as AIDS- nated against ill passengers—or even those had ever seen. In combination with support of it was made at his huge South Side funeral related complex (ARC). The nurse who helped thought to be gay and “carriers.” People were from straight allies, gay and AIDS groups began service. Keith McDaniel, who had gone from was Jim Lovette. Sable, who twice ran unsuc- afraid of gay waiters. Even gay bar customers hosting black-tie galas, tag nights at bars, drag Chicago to stardom in the Alvin Ailey American cessfully for 44th Ward alderman, later died of were afraid of sharing drinking glasses with shows, fun social benefits and more. AFC host- Dance Theater, died in 1995 at age 38. AIDS complications. Sherer, meanwhile, has con- those who “looked” sick. It was a very difficult ed a huge gala Sept. 27, 1987, at the Chicago Thing magazine publisher Robert Ford was also tinued to work for many years on issues related time, and there were battles on dozens of major Theatre, raising more than $1 million for AIDS a pioneer in publishing, heading a ’zine that to AIDS. He was also a key ally in the years when front lines. Dentist Larry Spang lost his job at a groups. The event featured Angela Lansbury, Pe- played a vital role for the African-American gay the state legislature was considering measures federal prison, which led him to found a Chicago ter Allen, Jerry Herman, Colleen Dewhurst, Chita community in town. Ford died in 1994, shortly to stem the epidemic. As a straight, married man clinic for low-income HIV-positive people. Rivera, Lily Tomlin (via a film clip), Leslie Ug- after his induction into the Chicago Gay and Les- with children, he was happy to play a role for In Chicago, the bathhouse controversy never gams, Oprah Winfrey, Mayor Harold Washington, bian Hall of Fame. the community, someone to whom the elected reached the same crescendo—or outcome—as U.S. Sen. Paul Simon, all of Chicago’s gay and In the design community, the Design Industry officials could relate, but Sherer’s opinions on the closing of the baths in San Francisco. Chi- lesbian choral groups, and others. This “Show Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) has a strong the bills coincided with those of gay activists. cagoans connected with the political establish- of Concern” was a co-benefit for AFC and the fundraising community, bringing straights and “It’s an obvious fact to me that while the rest ment made it clear that unsafe sex was going on American Foundation for AIDS Research. Beverly gays together to raise funds for a variety of of the world did almost nothing and ignored in many places, and that the goal was to edu- Blettner, a Chicago socialite, chaired the entire groups. Season of Concern does the same among

Dr. Ron Sable (left) speaks with activist David Bell (right), who had chained himself to the fence of Gov. Jim Thompson’s home to protest draconian state AIDS legislation in 1987. Hun- dreds of people marched on Thompson’s home. Both Sable and Bell later died of AIDS. Photo Mary Patten, Saundra Johnson and Debbie Gould on a “Freedom Bed” protest downtown. Photo by from Outlines archives. Steve Dalber, courtesy Mary Patten. WINDY CITY TIMES April 6, 2011 17

The 1988 display of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt in Chicago, at Navy Pier. DAGMAR marches in the 1980s. Photo courtesy Mary Patten. Photo by Lisa Howe-Ebright. theaters and theater patrons, raising money at Eugene Sawyer. TV (Channel 44) and the Navy Pier management member the names of those lost to AIDS. benefits and during special nights at various The coordinator for the local NAMES Project itself. AFC and the Illinois Department of Public The volunteer infrastructure that supported all shows. chapter, Peggy Shinner, told Outlines reporter Health were hosts for the event. The Ann Sather these activities numbered in the tens of thou- There are also many cultural pioneers still liv- Rex Wockner: “People look at this quilt and it restaurant and Marshall Field’s placed some quilt sands. Whether it was sitting by someone’s bed- ing with HIV and AIDS, although the disease brings the political and social issues surround- panels in their windows during the display. side in the Illinois Masonic Medical Center’s Unit takes its toll on their creative energies. ing AIDS to a very different level. … [The] quilt More than 1,000 volunteers helped with the 371, delivering a meal for Open Hand, picketing clearly functions as a consciousness-raising NAMES Project, which included nearly 3,000 the CTA, getting arrested at the Cook County SHOWING THEIR NAMES tool.” panels. An estimated 20,000 people attended. Building or the American Medical Association, Another major event for the city was the first Organizers of the NAMES display stood in soli- Donations totaled $50,000, shared among local lobbying in City Hall or Springfield, coming out display in town of the NAMES Project AIDS Me- darity with C-FAR in refusing to take a $2,000 AIDS service providers. among the “Faces of AIDS” for a photo exhibit morial Quilt panels, July 9–11, 1988, at Navy contribution from the drug company Lyphomed, The Chicago display was part of a national tour or book, or simply donating money, the effort to Pier (well before that space was renovated to the embattled maker of the drug pentamidine, that ended in Washington, D.C, in October 1988, cope with AIDS in Chicago was a herculean task. be a tourist attraction). While the quilt returned at the time the most common treatment for the on the anniversary of the quilt’s first full display Not every Chicagoan could rise to the occasion, in later years, the 1988 display was seen as a pneumonia striking persons with AIDS. The com- during the 1987 March on Washington. The quilt and many thousands died. As a whole, the com- pivotal coming-together of people from all company had a monopoly on the drug and had raised has returned to Chicago in small sections and in munity accomplished much to be proud of. munities and stood as a symbolic and somber the price 400 percent, sparking protests at its one more large showing in 1998, the quilt’s larg- In the coming months, Windy City Times will reminder of those lost. Readers of the quilt’s Chicago-area facility in suburban Rosemont. est-ever indoor display. NAMES Project founder detail some of these important events and peo- names included the Rev. Willie Barrow of Opera- The support of other corporations was wel- Cleve Jones, of San Francisco, has returned to ple who acted up and fought back against AIDS. tion PUSH, who lost her son to AIDS, and Mayor comed, including WPWR-TV (Channel 50), WSNS- Chicago many times to promote the need to re- We invite you to join us on this journey.

Adapted from Out and Proud in Chicago: An Overview of the City’s Gay Community, edited AIDS T-shirt campaign confronts stigma and silence by Tracy Baim, 2008, Surrey/Agate. If you have story ideas for this series, email The Illinois Alliance for Sound AIDS Policy (IL ASAP), a project of across the state who are leading the fight against the epidemic. Tracy Baim: publisher@windycitymediagroup. the AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC), has launched a year-long After purchasing a t-shirt, campaign participants are encouraged com. anti-stigma t-shirt campaign to confront the stigma and silence to upload pictures, video and details of their experience on the associated with HIV. The campaign invites participants— both campaign’s Facebook page: http://on.fb.me/tshirtcampaign. AFC and Windy City Times Want HIV-positive and HIV-negative—to purchase and wear a t-shirt The campaign was inspired by IL ASAP member Arick Buckles who embossed with the label “HIV POSITIVE” and then to share their saw the affects of stigma first-hand in his work as a community Your Stories for AIDS @ 30 experiences via Facebook. outreach worker. Were you around during the era of GRID “HIV/AIDS-related stigma is one of the primary barriers to curb- “My job is to connect with people who are HIV-positive, but have and ACT UP? Did you lose friends or family? ing the spread of HIV,” said AFC President /CEO David Ernesto Mu- neglected to start treatment,” Buckles explained. “I was touched Then the AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) nar. “People are afraid to get tested, know their status and seek by the fact that these people were so affected by stigma that and the Windy City Times want to hear your treatment for fear of what might happen if others find out they are they would choose to be sick, debilitated or die rather than inter- account of that time. We are teaming up to HIV-positive.” act with HIV service providers and somehow have their HIV status produce a nine-month series called AIDS Approximately 1.1 million Americans live with HIV—46,000 in revealed to their community. It’s insane, and I knew I had to do @ 30 to recognize the 30th year of AIDS in Illinois and 30,000 in Chicago. Twenty-one percent of Americans something about it.” America, remember the early days of the with HIV do not know they are infected. And an estimated 56,000 Learn more about the HIV Anti-Stigma T-shirt Campaign at: aid- epidemic, honor those we lost, and cel- Americans become infected with HIV annually—that’s one every schicago.org/advocacy-home/il-asap. Founded in 1985 by commu- ebrate long-term survivors. 9-1/2 minutes. nity activists and physicians, the AIDS Foundation of Chicago is a AIDS @ 30 will draw from more than two T-shirts are $12 each or two for $20 and may be purchased at catalyst for local, national, and international action against HIV/ decades of photographs and articles from www.aidschicago.org/ilasap. Proceeds will go to the Illinois Al- AIDS. the Windy City Times and other Chicago liance for Sound AIDS Policy, a network of AIDS advocates from publications, but we need your stories to give this project real life. The weekly features will run in the Windy City Times from April through December, tracing the epidemic’s history from the early 1980’s. The series will feature profiles of local advocates, organizations, those lost to AIDS, and uncover personal stories of family members, friends and people who have lived with AIDS for 20 These shirts will help raise awareness and years or more. money in the fight against HIV/AIDS. is there a particular person, organization or story you think needs to be highlighted in AIDS @ 30? If so, please contribute your story ideas! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/AIDSAT30 AIDS @30 18 April 6, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES VIEWPOINTs WINDY CITY but it repulsed him so much it actually made informed the sociopolitical theology of the civil- TIMES him physically ill, avowing never to attempt it rights movement of the 1960s, giving rise to a VOL. 26 No. 27, April 6, 2011 rev. irene again. Black nonviolent movement consisting of sit- The combined forces of Windy City Times, While Gandhi may have been repulsed by het- ins, freedom rides and marches that shamefully founded Sept. 1985, and Outlines newspaper, monroe erosexuality he seems to be repulsed, at least exposed and evidently toppled the South’s Jim founded May 1987. publicly, by homosexuality, too. For example, in Crow ordinances. PUBLISHER & EXECUTIVE EDITOR the 1930s both Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru at- As with King, Gandhi, too, became an iconic Tracy Baim tempted to erase all traces of the Indian homo- image in The Movement. However, if King and erotic tradition from Indian temples as a result others knew of Gandhi’s racist views of Black ASSISTANT PUBLISHER Terri Klinsky of their systematic campaigns of “sexual cleans- South Africans, and knew why Gandhi never met MANAGING EDITOR Andrew Davis The Gandhi BUSINESS MANAGER Meghan Streit ing.” with African-American civil-rights leaders, who DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA Jean Albright The revelation of Gandhi’s alleged bisexuality, were hungry to not only meet the man but to ART DIRECTOR Kirk Williamson none of in Lelyveld’s book, is the only positive news in know more about his philosophy of “satyagra- SENIOR ACCOUNT MANAGERS: Terri Klinsky, Amy a long laundry list of sexual peccadillos, bizarre ha,” Gandhi wouldn’t have been so highly pro- Matheny, Kirk Williamson, Dave Ouano, Kirk Smid PROMOTIONAL SUPPORT Cynthia Holmes us knew personal habits, like his love for enemas, and filed in his public sermons. NIGHTSPOTS MANAGING EDITOR Kirk Williamson done twice a day, mind-bending cult practices However, Gandhi was unabashedly a diehard NATIONAL SALES Rivendell Media, 212-242-6863 It has been not quite a century since Mohandas like “spiritual marriages” with women where sex supporter of India’s Hindu caste system, and SENIOR WRITERS Bob Roehr, Rex Wockner, Marie Karamchand Gandhi was assassinated in January is purportedly absent, and his unbelievable bla- would never mix with a lowly group or caste, J. Kuda, David Byrne, Tony Peregrin, Lisa Keen, 1948 at the age of 78 in New Delhi, India, and Yasmin Nair, Emmanuel Garcia tant racists attitudes towards Black South Afri- and Lelyveld in “Great Soul” lays out Gandhi’s THEATER EDITOR Scott C. Morgan the bevy of hagiographies on him are now being cans. unedited views: CINEMA WRITER Richard Knight, Jr. replaced with truth-telling biographies on the How did the public get so hoodwinked by the “We were then marched off to a prison in- BOOKS WRITER Yasmin Nair Gandhi nobody knew. divinity of Gandhi? tended for Kaffirs (offensive term equivalent to ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WRITERS The most recent one is titled GREAT SOUL: Ma- Mary Shen Barnidge, Steve Warren, Lawrence The deification of Gandhi intentionally eclipsed the N-word),” Gandhi complained during one of Ferber, Mel Ferrand, Jerry Nunn, hatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India, by Gandhi, the real man. Elevated to a 20th-cen- his campaigns for the rights of Indians settled Alicia Wilson, Jonathan Abarbanel Joseph Lelyveld. tury messiah by both European and American there. “We could understand not being classed COLUMNISTS/WRITERS: Yvonne Zipter, Susie Day, According to Lelyvard, Gandhi, the pacifist, Christian clerics and missionaries, who wanted with whites, but to be placed on the same level Jorjet Harper, Lee Lynch, Steve Starr, Lisa Keen, was a wife-beater, denied sex to his wife for de- Charlsie Dewey, Michael Knipp, Mark Corece, Joe to covert Hindus to Christianity, and elevated to as the Natives seemed too much to put up with. Erbentraut, Carrie Maxwell, Billy Masters, Kate cades and purportedly lived a “celibate” living a 20th-century Hindu god by Indians, Gandhi’s Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized—the convicts Sosin, Chuck Colbert, Micki Leventhal, Sarah Toce, life as an ascetic, but actually was a pedophile real life was overlooked and supplanted with a even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty Natasha Hemley, Dana Rudolph, Sally Parsons who ritualized sleeping naked with underage series religious myth. For example, John H. Hol- and live like animals.” SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHERS Kat Fitzgerald, Mel girls in order to test “the ferocity of his sexual Ferrand, Hal Baim, Steve Starr, Emmanuel Garcia, mes, a Unitarian pastor from New York, praised In an open letter to the legislature of South Dave Ouano desires,” and at one point left his wife for a male Gandhi in his writings and sermons with titles Africa’s Natal province, Gandhi wrote of how lover. CIRCULATION like: Gandhi: The Modern Christ, and Mahatma “the Indian is being dragged down to the posi- CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Jean Albright While one would think, at first glance, reading Gandhi: The Greatest Man since Jesus Christ, and tion of the raw Kaffir,” someone, he later stated, DISTRIBUTION: Ashina, Allan, Dan, John, Renee, Lelyveld’s shockingly revelations about Gandhi, Krishnalal Shridharni announced that Gandhi “whose occupation is hunting and whose sole Sue and Victor it’s all tabloid fodder for a rapacious audience WEB HOSTING: LoveYourWebsite.com (lead pro- was “The seventh reincarnation of Vishnu, Lord ambition is to collect a number of cattle to buy grammer: Martie Marro) that diets on sordid tales, Lelyveld, former edi- Rama,” a wife, and then pass his life in indolence and tor of the New York Times, and a Pulitzer Prize- Known the world over as Mahatma Gandhi, nakedness.” winning journalist and author, pays meticulous Copyright 2011 Lambda Publications Inc./Windy City Media Sanskrit for “Great Soul,” and as Bapu, Gujarati On white Afrikaners and Indians, he wrote: Group; All rights reserved. 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his work cut out for himself on the show. White Noise is now playing at the Royal George “That is challenging, we all want to go to the Theatre, 1641 N. Halsted. Performances are 7:30 Sergio Trujillo makes theater and identify with a character,” said Tru- p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays, jillo, adding that the showbiz and rock concert 5 and 8 p.m. Saturdays and 2 and 5 p.m. Sun- some ‘Noise’ with Whoopi nature of the show should be entertaining in it- days through June 5. Tickets are $54.50-$64.50 self. Trujillo describes White Noise as “A musical with $25 student tickets. Call 312-988-9000 or BY SCOTT C. MORGAN ing both hats of director and choreographer set against the backdrop of the record industry visit http://www.whitenoisebroadway.com. for White Noise, a new Broadway-aimed musi- so it’s a modern day Dreamgirls if you want to It’s easy to write off a Broadway musical’s danc- cal currently playing at Chicago’s Royal George call it that, but with anti-heroes.” ing chorus. They’re just moving scenery on stage Theatre. Trujillo is particularly pleased with the work CRITICS’ PICKS to make the star look good, right? “I’ve been ready to do this for a long time,” of Tony Award-nominated star Douglas Sills (The However, be sure to keep your eyes peeled on Trujillo said about his new elevated dual job. “As Faith Healer, Oak Park Festival Theatre, those talented dancers who might rise in the a director/choreographer, you have to find the through April 16. Three witnesses recount ranks to become the next generation of Broad- right tone and right style for the show to move conflicting reports of a tragic atrocity, way choreographers. And if they’re extra-talent- in and the right concept.” Rashomon-style, but Belinda Bremner’s ac- ed, those dancers may even become director/ White Noise was conceived by Ryan J. Davis tors make you believe every word of their choreographers like the late Broadway legends when he was inspired by a true incident about Spring contradictory accounts in this look-’em-in- Bob Fosse and Michael Bennett, or current-day white supremacist singer-songwriters who the-eyes production. MSB Tony Award-winners like Tommy Tune, Susan started becoming mainstream pop sensations. MilkMilkLemonade, Pavement Group at Stroman, Jerry Mitchell and Rob Ashford. Though White Noise was previously produced theater Chicago Dramatists, through April 17. Josh- Hoping add his name to that distinguished list in New Orleans, the show has been revamped ua Conkel’s comic drama about two young is out choreographer Sergio Trujillo. As a Broad- by playwright Matte O’Brien with twin brother boys coming to terms with their homosexu- way dancer, Trujillo performed in dance-heavy composer-lyricists Robert and Steven Morris round-up ality may be a tad too whimsical for its own revues like Fosse and Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, with Joe Shane. good, but there’s no denying how heartily before he worked his way up to become choreog- White Noise fascinates Trujillo because it deals 2011 this show can make you laugh. SCM rapher for current musical hits like Jersey Boys, so heavily with pop culture and politics. And The Three Faces of Dr. Crippen, Strange The Addams Family and Memphis. since many of the musical’s characters just by Tree Group at Steppenwolf Garage, through But now for the first time Trujillo is wear- their nature are unlikable, Trujillo knows he has April 24. Murder, Scotland Yard and the Scarlet Pimpernel, Little Shop of Horrors) as the Marconi wireless: Strange Tree blends hor- unscrupulous record producer in White Noise. ror, vaudeville and whimsy to tell the 1911 “He’s just brining the absolute right colors and tale. It’s 1/3 of the Steppenwolf Garage instincts about his performance,” Trujillo said. Rep. JA. “It’s going to be quite a star turn. He’s really Sergio Trujillo The Warriors, The New Colony at The doing phenomenal work.” with Whoopi Second Stage Theatre, through April 17. Though there hasn’t been any word yet wheth- Goldberg. Though it could stand to be expanded, Evan er White Noise will transfer to Broadway, hopes Photo by Linder writes an honest and touching drama are high not only for Trujillo, but the shows fa- CromCo based upon company member Mary Hollis mous producer who is none other than Academy Inboden’s attempt to reconnect with her Award-winning star Whoopi Goldberg (who al- fellow school shooting survivors. It’s in- ready has a Tony Award to her credit for co-pro- sightful to see how people live on and find ducing the 2002 Broadway musical Thoroughly different ways of coping following a horrific Modern Millie). event. SCM Trujillo is out to prove himself with White —By Abarbanel, Barnidge Noise, and to please his famous producer. and Morgan “It was [Whoopi Goldberg’s] blessing that allowed me to get this job.” 20 April 6, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES SPRING SPECIAL about WW I in this scathing indictment of war, ner-theater version, but the raw Kingston Mines but Vietnam-era theaters were forbidden to per- satire that put Chicago on the map in 1971. (For form it. Aren’t you glad we live in less repres- information, phone 773-409-4125.) Everything old is new again: sive times? (For information, phone 1-800-838- Life is A Dream, Vitalist Theatre, May 20- 3006.) June 11. A king, fearing a prophesy, schemes Springtime classics for 2011 A Little Night Music, Circle Theatre, April 27- against his own son in Pedro Calderón de la June 5. Stephen Sondheim set out to write an Barca’s philosophical fantasy, adapted by Helen BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE April 15-May 22. The little guy still doesn’t stand entire musical score in waltz-tempo and what Edmundson and staged by a theater company re- a chance against the big boys in George Büch- better vehicle for that task than this weekend nowned for its epic spectacle. (For information, Spring is a time of renewal, of rejuvenation, of ner’s 1913 drama, even with Sean Graney direct- country-house party romp? (For information, phone 773-327-5252.). aspirations earlier lost to winter’s gloom arising ing. (For information, phone 866-811-4111.) phone 708-660-9540.) Porgy And Bess, Court Theatre, May 12-June with renewed strength to reawaken our resolve in The Front Page, Timeline Theatre at Baird The King and I, Porchlight Music Theatre at 19. The archetypal denizens of Catfish Row may an atmosphere of optimism. For the 2011 spring Hall, April 16-June 12. The granddaddy of all Stage 773, April 29-June 5. The script may be stir controversy, but Gershwin’s operatic score theater season, however, the big “re” inspired by how-I-got-that-story newspaper-office epics— ready for retirement, but the Rodgers & Ham- cannot be faulted. (For information, phone 773- the “re”turn of the sunshine is “revival,” as in just you try to get this much action and intrigue merstein score is as fresh and optimistic as ever. 753-4472.) plays that you may have seen before, but—note out of your iPhone. (For information, phone (For information, phone 773-327-5252.) Our new mayor claims that his second date the prefix—”re”conceived to address distinctly 773-281-8463.) with the woman who would become his wife was modern issues. Arms And The Man, ShawChicago at the Cul- Plays opening in May: a play in Pilsen circa 1990. Who knows what tural Center, April 16-May 15. Who needs scenery Grease, American Theatre Company, May auspicious journeys might begin with your visit Plays currently running: and costumes when you’ve got Chicago’s most 2-June 5. Not the sugar-laden Hollywood/din- to one of Chicago’s playhouses? The Homecoming, Mary-Arrchie Theatre at verbally-agile actors dancing with George Ber- Angel Island, running through April 10. Vance nard Shaw’s romantic comedy of returning veter- Smith and Michaela Petro are evenly-matched ans? (For information, phone 312-587-7390.) ‘Peter Pan’ adversaries in Harold Pinter’s sizzling allegory of Heartbreak House, Writers’ Theatre in Glen- producer on his high-flying show By JERRY NUNN

Peter Pan flying into Chicago this spring with a 360-degree twist. The classic created by J.M. Barrie will be performed in a tent at the Chicago Tribune’s Freedom Center. Producer Robert Butters puts a spin on the show that will Hook audiences into never growing up. Windy City Times: Hello, Robert. What is your background? Robert Butters: I am an accountant by trade and a business person at heart. I fell Robert Butters. Photo courtesy of Katie into theater in the strangest way. I have been Smith into it for 20-plus years. the spoken word and augment it with things WCT: How did you get involved in this? RB: I was lucky enough to be with the that are on the screen. It is a blend of cin- something group and Andrew Lloyd Weber ematic theatre. The Alchemist. Photo by Michael Laird was looking to set up an office in America WCT: So it is for audiences that go out to with Sunset Boulevard. That was when I be- the movies and to the theatre at the same came involved with it. time. RB: Absolutely. We have been very fortunate WCT: Where are you from? family conflicts. (For information, phone 773- coe, April 19-June 26. It’s the eve of war in Eu- RB: London. in other cities and we find that the audience that comes to the show is both a traditional 871-1440.) rope, but the gentry living on the coast of Eng- WCT: How was it working with Andrew theatre audience and new people. In Orange Romeo And Juliet, Babes With Blades at Ra- land in George Bernard Shaw’s play are keeping Lloyd Webber? ven Theatre, running through April 30. Verona is calm and carrying on. (For information, phone RB: It was an amazing experience. He has County we had people that had never been to no less feudal in the 19th century, nor violent— 847-242-6000.) fantastic shows. Working with Phantom of the a show at the Performing Arts Center before. only the technology has changed from Shake- Eurydice/Orpheus, Filament Theatre, April Opera, Cats and Sunset Boulevard were great We really are reaching a new audience. speare’s time. (For information, phone 773-904- 22-May 29. Marriage on the down-low, Greek experiences for audiences around the world. WCT: Where is this unique stage going to 0391.) myth-style, according to Sarah Ruhl, running in I was very fortunate to travel a lot and see be located? The Hot L Baltimore, Steppenwolf Theatre, repertory with DJ Puzzle’s late-nite hip-hop tour the shows in many different countries and RB: It is going to be at the Freedom Center running through May 29. The recent death of au- of the underworld. (No phone number, but log languages. North, which is on Chicago Avenue and right by the Tribune building. thor Lanford Wilson renders his wistful portrait onto www.filamenttheatre.org for information.) WCT: Explain what 360 Degrees means. of lobby-transients facing diaspora more endear- Bury The Dead, Promethean Theatre Ensem- RB: Basically, it is the name of the com- WCT: Is there parking around there? ing. (For information, phone 312-335-1650.) ble, April 23-May 21. Irwin Shaw was talking pany but really an experience. We wanted to RB: There are two surface lots. We were ac- have something completely immersive where tually there today and within a block and a Plays opening in April: audiences can go and feel the show is around half there is ample parking. The Voodoo Chalk Circle, State Theatre of them. They would be involved in it from the WCT: Are there Chicago people in the Chicago at the Viaduct, April 9-May 1. It’s a sto- beginning. So we used computer generated cast? ry that dates from before Solomon, here given a images to tell part of that story. It is very RB: Yes, there are. shamanistic dimension, New Orleans-style. (For visual and very fast. It really is a way to push WCT: The show uses household objects? information, phone 773-296-6024.) RB: All of the puppets are made from things The Alchemist, Nothing Special Productions you would find in a nursery. We have an os- at the Heartland Studio, April 9-April 30. It’s a trich that is made out of a skipping rope and good year for Jacobean hitmaker Ben Jonson, a shuttlecock. So they really wanted it to feel this time skewering the quack science of his day. childlike. They don’t want it to feel like a hi- (For information, phone 773-791-2393.) tech production. Our puppeteers are amazing. 42nd Street, Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, The goal of any puppeteer is to see them first April 10-May 29. Come and meet those dancing then it goes away. feet, just like in the groundbreaking depression- WCT: Is this a musical? era movie. (For information, phone 847-634- RB: No, it’s a play. 0200.) WCT: This is a total re-imagining of the The Mandrake, A Red Orchid Theatre, April show, correct? 11-May 24. Childless couples have always relied RB: It is a completely new conception. on volunteer sperm donors—but as playwright WCT: Are there more 360 shows in the Niccolo Machiavelli says, the end justifies the works? means. (For information, phone 312-943-8722.) RB: Yes. Hopefully, we can announce an- The Copperhead, City Lit Theater, April 12- other one before we leave Chicago. May 15. Families divided by an America suffer- Peter Pan swoops in from April 27 through ing from wartime devastation—in this case, the June 19 with prices from $20 to $75. Visit Civil War—as recounted by firsthand witness http://peterpantheshow.com and http:// Augustus Thomas. (For information, phone 773- The Hot L Baltimore. Photo by Michael Bro- www.broadwayinchicago.com for tickets Peter Pan poster. 293-3682.) silow and information. 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THEATER REVIEW tween this linear-plotted story and the bio/ docudrama musical revues for which Black All in Love Is Fair Ensemble is justly famous. Author/director Playwright: book by Jackie Taylor, Jackie Taylor’s focus this time is, not a sin- music & lyrics by Luther Vandross et al. gle artist or genre, but the issues associated At: Black Ensemble Theater at the Beacon with the topic of love in this modern world— Street Community Center, 4520 N. Beacon whether marital, illicit, gay, het, platonic or Phone: 773-769-4451; $40-$47.50 filial: Elderly couples fear the onset of dis- Runs through: May 8 ease and death. Same-sex fraternizations are acknowledged covertly, but never publicly. BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE Sons are devastated by the loss of their sires. Impulsive youths wed in haste to repent at Don’t be fooled by the title. “Love,” in this leisure. Emotionally scarred singles hesitate latest Black Ensemble musical production, is before Cupid’s insistent imperative. a small, multiethnic (though predominantly This emphasis on text doesn’t exclude mu- African-American) Illinois community where sic, though—and who better to sing about life is generally placid and harmonious. The love than Luther Vandross, whose many con- Man from Nebraska. Photo by Andrew Jessop tutelage of the town busybody, however, tributions to the score include the anthemic reveals unease among Love’s lovers: Zeland “Any Love” and the reverent “Dance With My THEATER REVIEW Ken Carpenter goes on a literal and figurative and Rena, married 50 years with libidos un- Father” (performed with deep-felt poignancy journey, heading to London where he samples diminished. Cortez and Diedra, married three by the remarkably light-on-his-feet Vasily De- Man from the pleasures of alcohol, drugs, sex and—uh— months and fighting constantly. Venie and ris). Katrina V. Miller makes a charming and sculpting. He embraces and enjoys his new Cara, a Moose-and-Squirrel duo troubled, not sassy Ms. Katie, Lawrence Williams does a nice Nebraska freedom but he finds them no more fulfilling by their racial disparities, but their body im- Al Green impression on the C&W classic, “For Playwright: Tracy Letts than his previous circumscribed but secure life. ages. Lewis, engaged to Athena, but in love the Good Times,” and Aeriel Williams’ balletic At: Redtwist Theatre, 1044 W. Bryn Mawr Forced to return to his wife, Ken asks her to with Jenean. Doug and Dorian, a pair of clos- pas seul lends visual interest to the lulling Tickets: 773-728-7529; begin a journey with him to ... something un- eted gay men. Oh, and our guide, twice-di- “First Time Ever,” but what pulls us in at the http://www.redtwist.org; $25-$30 known, but something human and to be shared. vorced Ms. Katie herself, whose current beau top of the first act is an “All The Man I Need,” Runs through: April 24 Eschewing the semi-gothic violence and waits patiently for her to make up her mind. belted forth by Jenny Lamb with a full-bodied quirkiness for which he’s known, author Tracy Will these ambivalent citizens come to terms intensity hitherto reined in by tiny cabaret BY JONATHAN ABARBANEL Letts wrestles with fundamental metaphysical with the problems that beset them by eve- rooms. Valentine’s Day may be over, but if

questions in a quiet voice. He no more arrives ning’s end? Early in Man from Nebraska, a Baptist preacher spring turns your fancy to thoughts of you- at answers than anyone else, but he poses the And in that question lies the difference be- describes a believer’s journey as one of “conver- kthrough what, this is your show. questions and doubts through tremendously ef- sion, baptism and Christian growth.” Almost im- fective, revealing, pithy and sometimes mov- mediately, Christian growth becomes the focus ing dialogue laid over a cinematic flow of short THEATER REVIEW appropriate Broadway Armory (a venue that op- as Ken Carpenter, devout middle-aged Nebraska scenes. Act I beautifully renders a character in erated as an army drill hall during World War I). grandfather, awakens one night completely un- crisis. Alas, Act II abandons character in favor of Black Watch And any respectable theater fan shouldn’t miss nerved, having lost his life-long faith in a mo- exploring thesis (and becomes increasingly im- Playwright: Gregory Burke it. ment of awesome revelation as powerful as probable), but the audience retains its sympathy At: National Theatre of Scotland at Black Watch is a theatrical jolt of Celtic tes- revelations that inspire faith, and just as inex- for Ken—Everyman—because he never loses his Broadway Armory, 5917 N. Broadway tosterone as it offers up both the history of the plicable. inherent decency. Phone: 312-595-5600; $38-$45 legendary Scottish military regiment and its in- Ken doubts that God exists and wonders if hu- Director Andrew Jessop’s fine cast gives Man Runs through: April 10 volvement in Iraq this decade. Drawn from sol- manity is any better with God than without. Un- from Nebraska an earnest, direct reading that dier interviews and featuring traditional songs, able to explain himself to his wife and daughter, embraces the tenderness with which Letts treats BY SCOTT C. MORGAN Black Watch is both an insightful and human- Ken nonetheless understands that he’s a believer his characters. There is wistfulness in Chuck istic military drama that largely focuses on the because he was raised as a believer, and not be- Spencer’s Ken, a longing that is universal and The National Theatre of Scotland may sound like real-life camaraderie of the troops and their cause he (or his wife or children) went through palpable. Jan Ellen Graves plays Nancy Carpen- an august institution, but it was only founded traditions (described as “The Golden Thread”) conversion prior to baptism, let alone the sort of ter’s mixed bewilderment and anger well. The in 2006. And boy, did the theater have a hit on stretching back to the mid-1700s. revelation that inspires faith. “Can you explain supporting cast breaths life into the other char- their hands when Gregory Burke’s Black Watch Like a Scottish military tattoo, Black Watch is the stars?” he asks his concerned wife, Nancy. acters, all colorfully sketched by Letts (some- debuted that same year during the Edinburgh staged along an esplanade stage with the audi- From numerous versions of the Faust legend to times in comic strip strokes) but none fully Fringe Festival. ence on either side. Director John Tiffany and David Mamet’s Edmond, scores of plays portray dimensional. The frequent scene changes aren’t Not only did Black Watch win an outpouring of his associate, Steven Hoggett, suffuse the stag- men who give up secure but unsatisfying lives in congenial to Redtwist’s low-tech space, but critical raves and awards, it has since gone on ing with brilliant interludes of movement, from pursuit of power, pleasure, riches, knowledge or Stephen H. Carmody’s rough-hewn set—strewn to tour around the world. Thanks to the hosting the touching pantomimed letters from home se- some other “freedom.” Man from Nebraska isn’t with Christian icons—and Christopher Burpee’s of Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s international quence to the highly choreographed ten-seconds the first to break the constraints of religious de- lighting deliver simple and swift solutions. World’s Stage series, Black Watch is now briefly fighting section (showing both the playful and votion as its premise. Like Faust and Edmond, ensconced in the Chicago Park District’s wholly brutal fighting nature of troops). Also, with this being a military drama, the fine and energetic cast offers up an amusingly CULTURE CLUB unending stream of profanity and sometimes sexually charged dialogue (don’t say you weren’t warned). But that only adds to the authentic feel to the whole stunning enterprise. Jack Lowden plays Cammy, the initially reluc- tant narrator and ex-soldier who talks with the inquisitive writer of Paul Higgins (a stand-in for playwright Burke). Other standouts include Ja- mie Quinn as the mischievously bad boy Franz, Chris Starkie as the violently depressed Stew- arty, Ian Pirie as the regimental officer and Lord Elgin. There’s also champion bagpiper Cameron Barnes in the cast as Macca, providing a very moving funeral processional elegy near the cli- max of the drama. I made myself Alhough it’s easy to see Black Watch as an an- platinum, but I was born a... ti-Iraq War screed (and against the recent Brit- ish military policy of regiment amalgamation), the play only does it so from a political angle and lays its hands off the troops. Black Watch E\&ODXGLD6KHDU compellingly argues the case that the soldiers Now Playing at Theater Wit are only doing their jobs and fighting not for www.BohoTheatre.com for tickets their country per se, but for their friends and comrades at arms. That makes Black Watch both timely and timeless in its examination of the respected Scottish troop. WINDY CITY TIMES April 6, 2011 25 Heide at Leigh Gallery April 8 Artist Roger Heide will be at a meet-and- greet at The Leigh Gallery, 3306 N. Halsted, SPOTLIGHT on Friday, April 8, 6-9 p.m. Heide will discuss his original artwork on display. discuss his original artwork on display. Some paintings are totally abstract while others gravitate toward minimal/ de- constructed landscapes. The Music Theatre Company may be a See http://www.theleighgallery.com. young performing arts organization, but it certainly shows its ambition by producing the beloved Stephen Sondheim and George Furth Broadway flop musical Merrily We Roll Along. This intimate staging features some talented Equity actors in a told- backwards tale of a famous composer and Romeo and Juliet. Photo courtesy of Babes his two best friends. Merrily We Roll Along with Blades continues 8 p.m. Thursdays through Satur- days and 3 p.m. Sundays until May 1 at the THEATER REVIEW Karger Center, 1850 Green Bay, Highland Park. Tickets are $30; call 847-570-4900 Romeo and Juliet or visit http://www.themusictheatrecom- Playwright: William Shakespeare pany.org. Photo of (from left) Jarrod Zim- At: Babes With Blades Theatre Company Roger Heide work. Image courtesy of merman, Jessie Mueller and Alan Schmuck- at Raven Theatre, 6157 N. Clark Jean Leigh ler in Merrily We Roll Along by Brandon Phone: 773-904-0391; $20 Dahlquist Runs through: April 30

BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE

In a season boasting seven productions of Shakespeare’s classic tale of teenage sweethearts thwarted by family feuds, you can’t really blame a theater company for adopting impulsively-cho- GET YOUR TICKETS NOW sen conceptual angles without adequately considering the consequences. It might be argued that the Babes With Blades’ practice of casting for the PARTY OF THE YEAR! women in all the roles is novelty enough, but director Brian LaDuca has also transposed the familiar story to a problematic historical period making for insurmountable visual ambiguities. Italy in the 19th century (following unifica- tion) saw the power exercised by the noble houses in the northern regions (e.g. Verona) gradu- ally waning under the newly established central government. This explains the stubborn enmity of the Montagues and Capulets, but not cos- tumer Ricky Lurie’s curious wardrobe choices for the members. The female characters wear fash- ions ranging from 1860 to 1950, but the women playing men are garbed in eccentric ensembles, assembled from what look to be thrift-shop dresses to approximate medieval doublet-and- hose, replete with gaudy colors, cumbersome high-heeled boots, modern haberdashery and onka Ball futuristic-black wimples, all contributing to a buffoonish stage picture more suited to comme- dia than Elizabethan tragedy. A Royal Wedding Nor is this the only design element pulling focus from the play’s dramatic progress. Sound designer Harrison Adams foleys in a continuous %HQHßWLQJ$ERXW)DFH7KHDWUHDQGWKH$ERXW)DFH

DW: I agree with you. Now I need to get someone else to feel that way. [Laughs] WCT: I have been watching Celebrity Ap- prentice, of course. DW: Of course. WCT: How do you feel about the experience? DW: It was an interesting show, very very interesting. The fact that Donald Trump has thought enough of charities to create a show based on that is I think a brilliant idea. He’s a brilliant man, what can I tell you? He is the ultimate business man. I had an interesting time. I got to know things about some people and when they would ask my opinion I would give that to BY JERRY NUNN

Whether Marlee Matlin knows it or not, Dionne Warwick is a music legend (a reference to their appearances on the current season of Celebrity Apprentice). She has charted more singles than any other female vocalist next to Aretha Franklin, with a record number of 56 between 1962 through ? 1998. Warwick raised more than $3 million for AIDS THE HOT L research with a benefit single, “That’s What Friends Are For” (recorded with Gladys Knight, Sir Elton John and Stevie Wonder). She continues to give to charity today even putting herself on the chopping block for reality television. She talked Nunn on One the day after she basically BALTIMORE fired herself on Celebrity Apprentice. Windy City Times: Hello, Miss Warwick. You have had such a long-lasting career and just celebrated 50 years in the business. By: LANFORD WILSON Dionne Warwick: It sure has been amazing. WCT: You were able to look back on your Directed by: ensemble member TINA LANDAU career in a memoir recently. Featuring ensemble members ALANA ARENAS, KATE ARRINGTON, JON MICHAEL HILL, JAMES VINCENT DW: Yes, My Life as I See It. WCT: Have you been doing book signings? MEREDITH, YASEN PEYANKOV and MOLLY REGAN with DE’ADRE AZIZA, JEREMY GLICKSTEIN, DW: Yes, we did some when the book dropped SEAN ALLAN KRILL, TARON PATTON, NAMIR SMALLWOOD, SAMUEL TAYLOR, ALLISON TOREM and in November. I have done about ten since then. Dionne Warwick. PR photo JACQUELINE WILLIAMS It has been absolutely wonderful the way people have been responding to it the way that I want The Hotel Baltimore used to be the swankiest place them to. It is an inspirational memoir about in town—now it has a date with the wrecking ball. people I have met, the places that I have gone them personally. It gave people an opportunity and the things that I have done, also the ups Don’t miss this acclaimed play revealing the private to show what they are capable of doing. and downs of my career, too. All of it is there. WCT: The women’s team was particularly fun lives of an unconventional community about to be WCT: If the book were to be made into a to watch. turned inside out. movie, who would you want to play you? DW: Oh, it was! DW: Oh my! I think Taraji Henson. She is an WCT: I can’t get enough of NeNe Leakes’ exceptional actress and she can sing well. Actu- crazy. ally she favors me so it is not too much of a DW: [Laughs] stretch. WCT: Do you currently live in Brazil? WCT: I really like your new jazz album, Only DW: I currently live in New Jersey and Brazil. Trust Your Heart. WCT: So you go back and forth? NOW PLAYING! DW: Oh, good. I am so glad you like it. DW: Yes. WCT: How do you take care of your voice? WCT: Do you speak Portuguese? DW: The only way someone can take of their DW: Oh, um pouco (a little). Enough to get voice is rest, which I don’t get that much of. by… Buy online at steppenwolf.org It is a muscle and as long as you exercise it, WCT: Gladys Knight is coming to town which I do a lot with traveling and all that there also and Elton John is here pretty often as is with touring. That is the only thing you can well. Do you still keep in touch with any of or call 312-335-1650. do. your friends from the group on “That’s What WCT: Speaking of touring, you are head- Friends Are For?” Corporate Support ing to Illinois. Will the set be old as well as DW: Absolutely. They have been friends for new? many, many years. Friends stay in touch with DW: Yes. each other. WCT: Is there a classic you particularly like WCT: Have you talked to cousin, Whitney to perform? Houston? DW: The honest answer is all of them based DW: Oh, yeah I was just with her last month. on the fact that I treat my music like my babies. WCT: Well, it has been fun talking to a leg- You can’t have a favorite out of all of them. Of end and I look forward to seeing you at the course I will be doing what people expect me to show. STEPPENWOLF WINE TASTING SERIES and throwing in a couple of surprises, too. DW: Thank you very much. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13 WCT: Did you see the musical Promises, “Do You Know the Way to” Joliet? Dionne Promises with all of the Burt Bacharach music arrives at the Rialto Square Theatre, 15 E. Hilarious, true stories, inspired by The Hot L Baltimore, from 2nd Story in the production? Van Buren, Joliet, Friday April 8. To purchase storytellers with DJ White Russian, wine from Webster’s Wine Bar, DW: No, I didn’t. tickets visit http://www.rialtosquare.com. food, and a ticket to the show–all for only $55! WCT: Would you ever write a musical? For more Dionne, log onto http://www.dion- Event starts at 6 p.m. For tickets call 312-335-1650 and use code 7452. DW: If I did, it would be my life story. newarwick.info. WCT: That would be perfect!

ZLQG\FLW\KRWOLQGG 30 WINDY CITY TIMES April 6, 2011 27 was in town earlier this lives. Her career resurrected in the late ’80s due year, as the video to the to sampling of “Love Sensation” by acts like Sa- lead single “Where You At” mantha Fox, Black Box, the Pet Shop Boys, Moby was filmed in the Windy and Cappella. City. Unlike many image sensitive bands, Marky Nine Inch Nails Mark and the Funky Bunch properly credits and frontman Trent Reznor re- features the full-figured siren in the video to ceived a Golden Globe and the mega-smash “Good Vibrations.” This hit has Oscar for scoring The Social been remade by the cast of Glee. POP Network. Daft Punk not In 1979, the top spot on the disco charts was only had soundtrack du- claimed for six weeks by “Relight My Fire,” which MAKING ties to Tron Legacy, but the Holloway sang with Dan Hartman. In 1994, French pair appears in the Hartman succumbed to complications relating SENSE flick. Other electronic lu- to AIDS, shortly after Take That and Lulu turned by David Byrne minaries like Goldfrapp and “Relight My Fire” into number-one hit in the with Tony Peregrin Massive Attack are delving U.K. to contributing music to Not limited to the club scene, Holloway has film. Also venturing into sung gospel and delivered some Etta James- scoring is The Chemical worthy heart-wrenching R&B on “There’ll Come Brothers by providing the a Time,” “Only You” and “I’m in Love.” Ricky Martin has been riding high on the recent soundtrack to Hanna. Her steady stream of dance-floor hits include publicity surrounding his personal life. His major Forget the British outfit’s party-themed hits “Dreamin” and the overlooked goodie “Mama milestones include coming out, becoming a fa- like “Block Rockin’ Beats” and “Hey Boy Hey Jennifer Hudson. Won’t, Papa Don’t.” If there is any doubt that ther to twins and issuing the autobiography Me. Girl.” For Hanna, The Chemical Brothers create a Holloway is a diva vocalist, queue up the hard- The handsome Puerto Rican star released the al- score that will accentuate the thriller that stars the Beats” possess childlike qualities similar to to-find “Queen’s Anthem,” where she challenges bum Musica + Alma + Sexo, which is sung mostly Cate Blanchett and The Lovely Bones lead ac- those of the trained assassin in the titular role. her audience, “You want me to come down stairs in Spanish. Here, Martin favors a more electronic tress Saoirse Ronan. There are livelier moments I am saddened to hear of the passing of Chi- with rollers in my hair?” In 2004 Holloway per- vibe, which suits him best on the slow burning on the soundtrack, like “Quayside Synthesis.” cago-born vocalist Loleatta Holloway. Her 1980 formed at Pride Fest and her ’70s focused dou- “Te Vas” and its English counterpart, “Shine.” “The Devil Is in the Details” and “The Devil Is in disco staple “Love Sensation” has lived many ble-disc Anthology is out now via Salsoul. Clues about Martin’s sexuality could be found in his music. The former Menudo member sings “Be Careful (Cuidado Con Mi Corazón)” with Ma- donna and “Nobody Wants to Be Lonely” with Christina Aguilera, two the pop’s biggest gay icons. Granted, the company he keeps has little merit, as Bryan Adams has teamed with Tina Turner, Mel C. (Sporty Spice) and Barbra Stre- isand. Get ready to “Shake Your Bon Bon” as Mar- tin’s M.A.S.: Musica Alma Sexo World Tour comes to the Chicago area on Tuesday, April 19, at Allstate Arena, 6920 N. Mannheim, Rosemont. When this tour kicked off in San Juan, Wanda Rolón of First Christian Church of La Senada An- tigua posted concerns on Facebook that the pop star is confusing youth into thinking being gay is OK, per ChristianPost.com. Acclaimed recording artist Lucinda Williams continues to deliver remarkable music with her latest, Blessed. The material here is timeless, classic Americana. As a keen observer, Williams captures the spirits of everyday folk, similar to the works by Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp. She demands to know how things are going to get better on “Convince Me.” Our heroine is at her finest when she comes across as nearly defeated, yet always honest as heard on “I Don’t Know How You’re Livin’.” “Born to Be Loved” has an organ that perfectly compliments her aching voice. The tale of war’s effects is enhanced with the subtitle pedal guitar on “Soldier’s Song.” Blessed is not all dire; on the title track and “Seeing Black,” the guitars run freely. Williams even shows her affectionate side, albeit quietly and intimately, on “Kiss Like Your Kiss.” The outstanding Blessed is out now. At this moment in time, there are very few singers out there in the same league as vocal powerhouse Jennifer Hudson. Throughout her sophomore outing, I Remember Me, the Grammy winner shows off her strength on heartfelt and inspirational songs. On “I Got This,” she salutes her hometown Chicago with the refrain, “I’m from the South Side.” “Everybody Needs Love” and “Don’t Look Down” are upbeat with head-bobbing grooves. As Michael Jackson did “You’re Not Alone,” Hud- son makes the best with the generic R. Kelly- penned “Where You At.” Hudson’s voice stands in the “Spotlight” on the single-worthy “Still Here.” Hudson shuns all other remakes of Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good.” Her fantastic modern- ization of “Feeling Good” can be heard in the Weight Watchers commercials. Hudson’s tour to support I Remember Me will be in the Chicago area “for one night only” Sun- day, July 17, at Ravinia in Highland Park. She 28 April 6, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES MUSIC ing sad that Mike wasn’t around but that my love for him was bigger than anything else around. [Referring to the line, “They say that every one Tom Goss: Gay singer thousand years a love may come”] You’re really lucky if you’re on Earth for 30 and you find it. I recorded it on my 2009 album, Back to turns romantic activist Love, and people always requested it. I’ve always wanted to do a video for it. It’s such a big BY ANDREW DAVIS TG: Yes, the squid. [Laughs] So I don’t think song that it demands a big video. A friend told my upbringing was the stereotypically Midwest- me about a screenplay he was writing about a You could say that Tom Goss puts his heart and ern one. But there is something to be said for soldier at war and his lover at home; he said soul into his work: The openly gay Washington, the values and the hard work. My parents owned that my music was the backdrop for a lot of the D.C.-based singer/songwriter is set to release a gym when I was born, and I basically grew up scenes. When he was explaining the scene, he his third full-length album, Turn It Around, April in the gym. I would go to [gymnastics] prac- would tell me the lyric from a song; I don’t think 12—and he says that his husband inspired the tice five days a week, three hours a day. When he realized he said at the time was from “Lover.” CD. In an interview with Windy City Times that I stopped doing gymnastics I started wrestling, [Laughs] sometimes bordered on the emotional (in a good which is a 24/7 thing. Even beyond the hard- WCT: In light of some of the other songs way), Goss talked about touring away from his work thing, I have this crazy work-overdrive you’ve written, such as “12 Chairs” [about husband, being an “accidental activist” and ow- thing ingrained in me. the D.C. Council on Marriage Equality] and Tom Goss. PR photo ing his career to Dave Matthews. There is something to be said about meeting “Prop 8,” would you say you’re an activist? Windy City Times: You’re a Midwestern boy, people from the Midwest, too. You can always TG: It’s funny. When I released that EP last having grown up in Kenosha, Wis. What was tell when you’re on the East Coast and you can TG: That’s the thing. In my house, approxi- year I was doing an interview, the guy had growing up there like? tell when you’re leaving the East Coast. The first mately 90 percent of the people were gay. Ob- called me an “accidental activist,” and I think Tom Goss: I love Kenosha, and I love going thing someone [out east] asks you is “What do viously, the ones who are the [most hypocriti- that’s true. I’m in love with a man and I’m in back there. It was good. Obviously, like every- you do?” Being in the Midwest seems like a lot cal] are the ones who are closeted. It was really love with a man, and that marginalizes me, in where else, your family loves you and drives you less pressure. [Laughs] weird. “Hypocrisy” is the right word; it was just a way. I think, more than anything, I just want crazy at the same time. [Laughs] I love that it’s WCT: Why don’t you and your husband move an uncomfortable situation. Your friend hit it to talk about that and start that conversation. a smaller city where it’s easy to be relaxed but back? dead-on. Somewhere along the line that made me an ac- you’re a Metra ride away from Chicago—and I TG: That’s not out of the question. I think my WCT: So how did you become a musician? tivist, but that’s not my intention. Those songs have family that’s from the Chicago area. A lot husband and I have similar values in the sense TG: I got a guitar for my high school gradu- were written in reaction to things that touched of my holiday memories are from Chicago. that we’re going to want to slow things down— ation present—mostly because I was obsessed me emotionally in a negative way—but I real- WCT: I just wanted to get some sense of and that’s going to mean moving to a smaller with the Dave Matthews Band. More than any- ized that these songs resonated with people. what it was like because people have this town and enjoying each other more. He grew up thing, I wanted to sit in the parking lot during WCT: How did your family handle you com- view of “Midwestern values” and apple pie. in a smaller town in Massachusetts and, in that their shows and play every single Dave Matthews ing out? TG: I don’t feel like my upbringing was as regard, we have similar ideals. Right now we’re song, so that’s what I started doing. (This was TG: I think it was hard on my family. I think Wisconsin-y as most other folks’. My mom’s fam- in D.C.; my music is there and his job is there. around ‘99-’00.) So I learned every Dave Mat- it’s one thing if your gay son is going to be a ily is an Italian immigrant family in Chicago. Eventually, that’ll change. thews song that was ever written. I still love his priest and you don’t have to deal with sexuality. It’s funny: I used to go to lunch with my friend WCT: I read that you moved to D.C. initially work, although I’m not as crazy as I used to be. It became harder when Mike showed up and that Jason in Catholic grade school. Used to eat bo- to become a priest. I started writing almost immediately after I he was a real part of my life. I think the ones logna and ketchup with Oreos for lunch—and I TG: [Laughs] Yeah. I was going to seminary. started playing—and [the first songs] were re- who love you the most just want you to have the would have, like, my squid. [Laughs] Everybody That was a pretty bad decision. ally horrible. It took me years before I started best and the easiest life possible. Anything that was doing the American thing and here I was WCT: I have a friend who went to seminary writing these songs, mostly because I started makes it harder is hard for them to take. I don’t with the... but got tired of what he called the “hypoc- listening to other people. I started listening to think my parents disliked Mike or gay people; my WCT: Squid. risy” in it. David Gray, who is the opposite of Dave Mat- mom always had gay friends. thews in the sense where he takes two chords WCT: Let’s end on a lighter note: Who would and totally rips your heart out. I started to be- you like to collaborate with, besides Dave lieve in the power of the simplicity of music, and Matthews? kinda rolled with that. TG: I would say David Gray; his simplicity and WCT: You said that your husband inspired his voice are amazing. I think it’d be fun to col- this CD? laborate with someone like Ben Folds, who’s just TG: I would say everything I do is inspired by super-fun, or Jason Mraz. One of the things I him, at the risk of sounding lame and sappy. We love about music is clever writing, and I think met a couple weeks after I left seminary, and he they do it quite well. was ending a long-term relationship. We were WCT: For some reason, I see you collaborat- both deeply wounded and scarred, and were sen- ing with Annie Lennox. sitive to each other’s needs. I wouldn’t be able TG: Oh yeah? Sure, I’ll do it. [Laughs] You got to write these songs without him. He’s amazing her number? and extremely supportive. Tom Goss will perform Saturday, April 9, WCT: Would you say you’re lost in him? at Martyr’s, 3855 N. Lincoln, at 7 p.m. with That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Jeff Altergott. For more on Goss’ music, visit TG: Would I say I was lost in him? I don’t think http://www.tomgossmusic.net. so. I think being lost in someone means that it’s impossible to be away from him. The thing that’s amazing about Mike is the depth of his belief in my dreams and my music—so much so Lesbian folk that he lets me disappear for two months and go on tour. We talk a couple times a day. singer performing WCT: I was going to ask how you’re able to in suburbs balance the personal and the professional. Lesbian folk singer Jamie Anderson— TG: It’s hard. I miss Mike a lot; I left him yes- who has toured nationally for more than terday and I won’t see him for a month. How 20 years, including many headlining ap- do you balance it? I don’t know; you just try to pearances at the National Women’s Music touch base and keep the lines of communication Festival—will perform two shows in the open. We trust each other and love each other. Chicagoland area. WCT: I want to talk about “Lover” [that’s On Friday, April 15, at 8 p.m., she’ll be about a man who loses his partner, who’s on appearing at Two Street Coffeehouse, 1047 military duty overseas] and the video that Curtiss, Downers Grove. On Saturday, April accompanied it. [Note: The video, made last 16, at 7:30 p.m., she’ll be at Charlotte’s year, includes three soldiers— Mike Almy, Web at Just Goods Listening Room, 201 David Hall and Danny Hernandez—discharged 7th, Rockford, with fiddler player Tracy under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”] What was the Feldman. (See http://www.twowaystreet. impetus behind writing that song? org. and http://http://www.charlotteswe- TG: The song was written about Mike; I wrote bofrockford.org, respectively.) it in Christmas 2007. At the time, I was run- Anderson has nine recordings including ning a meal program for the homeless. Christmas the recently released Better Than Choco- 2007 fell on a Tuesday, I believe. I was in D.C. late. 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BREAKING NEWS WWW.WINDYCITYMEDIAGROUP.COM 30 April 6, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES their born we should start valuing them and re- audience, Karol developed the project with the specting them, helping them to feel their self intention of seeing it travel. She is hoping that Photo exhibit shows worth so that while they are growing and matur- she will eventually be able to take the piece on ing they become strong women. The only way to the road and reach women across the country. women’s inner strength do that is to reach them when they are young. The Cape Project will launch Friday, April It is very important to bring this project in front 8, 6 p.m.-10 p.m. at The Studio, 1932 S. Hal- of younger girls and to make them a part of it. BY CHARLSIE DEWEY “Personally, I want to always be out in all of my sted, Suite 408. For more information about day-to-day realms. Involvement in this project It’s their project too.” The Cape Project visit, http://www.thecapep- For photographer Saundra Karol, making a social has been a way for me to mentally tie together Knowing that she wanted to reach a wide roject.com. difference through photography is no longer just all of my struggles with survival and recognize a dream. The Cape Project, a photography ex- as a grown woman that I will not adjust my NUNN ON ONE: hibit exploring women’s inner strength, will be identity to fit a norm.” DINING unveiled April 8 at The Studio, located in what’s Knauer’s strength story involved her continu- known as the Chicago Arts District. ing recovery from rape: “A few days prior to Dale Levitski’s Karol said that she began the project over a being introduced to the project I had a friend year ago to explore the persistent double stan- tell me that when she was 7 years old she was ‘Sprout’-standing dards and inequality women experience in so- raped. It really [sank] low in my stomach hear- ciety. She explained, “The inequality with how ing her story. I started thinking about my own cuisine women are viewed is a huge issue and always rape recovery and how it always made me feel BY JERRY NUNN has been. Looking back, it’s never stopped me better when I found an outlet to talk about it. I personally, but just knowing its there has always think these stories need to be shared so that the Dale Levitski served it up on Bravo’s Top Chef affected me. I wanted to do something about community is aware of the affect these kinds of as a contestant and is now the executive chef it.” traumas have.” at the Chicago restaurant Sprout. The out gay The way that The Cape Project affected both Levitski—who was recently announced as a Alfaro and Knauer speaks to the power of wom- semifinalist for a James Beard Award—sat en sharing their individual stories and how that down to talk about his career and current sharing can help another woman find strength culinary endeavor before a busy day of cook- within, which is really the goal of the project. ing. Karol would like to see more women feel empow- Windy City Times: Hello, Dale. How would ered and stand up against the often-frustrating you describe this restaurant? inequalities that exist. She believes every wom- Dale Levitski: We are a chef-driven restau- an has a strength story worthy of sharing and rant. Our whole concept of what we do here that these stories will impact other women and is we take fine dining and neighborhood a la girls. carte dining and we smack them together! We “I think the diversity of the stories helps to take all of the pretense and pageantry out of Dale Levitski. Photo courtesy of Bravo show that women need strength for a plethora fine dining with food quality and innovation of reasons,” said Knauer. still there. I hate pretentious attitude and don’t think it has a place in a dining room. Alfaro agreed, saying, “I believe that the Cape was planning fell through. I got a phone call My whole thing is we are very friendly and Project speaks volumes to an array of issues. and decided to take it over. It was the best educated in the front of the house. That is There are so many empowering points that I decision in my life that I have made. one of our main things because the menu is couldn’t even think of where to begin, such as WCT: So the crowds have been good? so ambiguous that every server knows every battling cancer, overcoming rape, being able to DL: It has been amazing and we are just detail of every single dish. say ‘yes I can.’ There is something for everyone. growing. Every month we are getting more WCT: Sounds like a tough place to work. I can only hope that people come out feeling people in the door. We are a little off the DL: There is a lot to know. It is fun expe- more empowered then when they walked in. beaten path. We are on Lincoln Park and a rience to eat here. It is a Choose Your Own Know that anything is possible as long as you destination place. Adventure dining experience. We have grown. Saundra Karol. Photo courtesy of Karol can believe.” WCT: Reservations are accepted? We opened a year ago this past November. Karol is particularly concerned with reaching DL: They are very highly recommended. We This part we are sitting in was an outdoor young girls with the message of inner strength. book up Friday and Saturday nights a week patio so we built all of this. I am building a She believes it’s important to empower girls out. Adding fifty percent to the restaurant chef’s table in the back with a porthole from For the project, each woman was photo- early on, before they have adopted self-esteem with the remodeling has been important. We a ship so you can see into the kitchen and graphed posing in a cape. Karol said she gave issues. She is hoping that many young girls will have permits for a rooftop garden. We are go- watch us cook. the women very little direction, wanting them to see her exhibit and be able to draw strength, ing to find a way to grow all of our own herbs, WCT: That is a great idea. express their strength in whatever way appealed just as adult women have, from the project. flower arrangements and figure out what we DL: It is really fun. We are in the middle of to them: “Once you give somebody the okay to “I think its something that needs to reach are going to do for the first month. decorating it. We are wallpapering and hav- look within and acknowledge their strengths it children,” said Karol. “It needs to be addressed WCT: Do you eat at other restaurants ing a custom made table. For eight people or is amazing to see the transformation take place. when females are young, for so many reasons. ever? less it will have a special menu. I had a chef’s The women, they put on the cape and their pos- Why try to build your self-esteem and value DL: I don’t go out that much. table when I was the executive chef at Trio in ture is better, they’re excited and some I think when you are twenty years old? Why can’t we WCT: Cook at home? Evanston. I missed having that. are just going to walk out of the studio with start with girls when they are five? From when DL: Never. I take out or starve! I love avec WCT: So you are always changing things. it.” or else I am happy with Soupbox or Chicken DL: Yes, I have two new dishes today. We re- Along with being photographed wearing the Hut. Chicken Hut is remarkably amazing. ally try and rotate but this is the time of year cape, Karol also asked each woman to write her WCT: It has that yummy grilled chicken! when nothing is available due to weather. own strength story. Influenced by Karol’s pas- DL: I can’t get enough of it. WCT: How would you describe the menu? sion for the project and empowered by other WCT: Are you single? DL: This is a place where you bring people women’s stories, Amanda Alfaro, a lesbian who DL: Yes, I have dated here and there but I that have not been here before. We have a had accompanied her friend to the studio, de- have been so busy lately. Out Magazine just set price at $65 per person. They pick one cided it was time to tell her own story. put me as one of their 100 Most Eligible Gay item out of each category so appetizer, entrée “I felt moved to tell my story and finally come Bachelors, which is kind of funny. and dessert. These are not just tasting size out to everyone that I am gay,” said Alfaro. For WCT: Do you go out to the bars? portions, they are Chicago a la carte size so myself, it was a way of saying, ‘I’m not scared DL: I stopped in the past year. If I do then you roll out of here. In between the first and anymore.’ I can come out and be open to the Cocktail is my favorite place, GeNo is a really second and the second and third you get two world.” good friend of mine. It has been in business free mini courses as well so it is actually a Alfaro is one of several lesbian and bisexual a long time and had a renaissance in the last five-course tasting. women to participate in The Cape Project. While three years about getting people in the door. WCT: That is a lot of food! the project is not specifically about any one par- WCT: The back of the bar has expanded. DL: In the winter we do a mini soup. In be- ticular struggle, Karol can see why lesbian and His birthday party was fun. tween the entrée and dessert I give everyone bisexual women might relate on an even deeper DL: I missed it. He came here last year for a grilled cheese sandwich that was named one or more immediate level to the project. “I think his birthday. of the 30 best sandwiches in Chicago. its so appealing to the lesbian community be- WCT: Would you do more reality shows? WCT: Excellent. You actually took over cause so many women in the lesbian commu- DL: It’s one of those things that I say nev- Sprout after the opening, correct? nity are passionate about, of course lesbian and er again but then I always wind up doing it DL: Yes, it had been open a month or two. gay issues, but also women’s rights. I think it again. I just got back from L.A., filming some An acquaintance of mine was managing at is a project that appeals to a lot of the strong stuff for Toyota. Top Chef always calls to do the time and some chefs were not working women in the community. They might be more little things. out. This was shortly after my mother had used to fighting for rights. 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Each film explores the theme in Back with acclaimed filmmaker of A Ji- Amy Armstrong and Freddy Allen Live at now in its 9th year, searches for the best singers in the Chicago area and is open to the context of a different religion. 7 p.m., had for Love, Parvez Sharma. A film on Francesca’s on Chestnut Join talented cab- amateur LGBT singers in the Chicago area all amateur singers age 21 and above, re- Illinois Institute of Technology, 3300 S. the complex intersections between Islam aret duo Amy Armstrong and Freddy Allen and is open to all amateur singers age 21 gardless of sexual orientation. $10 signup Federal, http://www.lgbtchange.org and homosexuality. April 7-8. 7:30 p.m., this Saturday at Francesca’s on Chestnut, and above, regardless of sexual orienta- fee for singers, and a $5 fee for audience Jane Addams Hull House, 800 S. Halsted, 8:30-11:30 p.m.. Fantastic food & drinks, tion. $10 signup fee for singers, and a $5 members at all preliminary events, $10 Thursday, April 7 http://www.hullhousemuseum.org fun atmosphere and music entertainment! fee for audience members at all prelimi- cover at the semi-finals and finals at Side- Men’s Fashion Premiere at Macy’s FREE but Grammy Award- and Latin Grammy Award- 8:30 p.m., Francesca’s On Chestnut, 200 nary events, $10 cover at the semi-finals track, 9 p.m. sign up, 10 p.m. start. The phone RSVP requested; Macy’s is team- Winning Elvis Crespo Club Papi and Gran- E Chestnut, http://www.facebook.com/ and finals at Sidetrack, 8 p.m. sign up, 9 Call, 1547 W. Bryn Mawr ing up with OUT Magazine and Center on da Entertainment present a special night amyfreddy p.m. start. 8 p.m., The Glenwood, 6962 Halsted for an exciting evening with mu- with Grammy Award and Latin Grammy N Glenwood, http://www.windycitymedia- sic, cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, live fashion Award Winner Elvis Crespo at Chicago’s Sunday, April 10 Tuesday, April 12 group.com Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce featuring the newest Men’s Impulse and hottest dance club, Circuit Nightclub. Listening to God: Urban Village Church Retiring 46th Alderman Helen Shiller, Speed Networking Register to network Designer collections including Hugo Boss, Crespo had dedicated his tour against dis- Most of us would accept a friend request 14th Annual Damski Award Retiring 46th one on one with 12-24 business profes- Armani Jeans, French Connection, compli- crimination and for equal rights. $20 in from God, but would the relationship stay Alderman Helen Shiller will be presented sionals and begin to build new referral mentary skin care treatment, nail buffing, advance; 9 p.m., Circuit Night Club, 3641 superficial? How can we have a more per- with the 14th Annual Jon-Henri Damski relationships. 7 a.m., Ann Sather - Lakev- special offers, exclusive savings and a de- N Halsted, http://www.wantickets.com/ sonal experience? During Lent, Urban Vil- Award for her leadership. 6 p.m., Side- iew, 909 W. Belmont, http://www.glcham- signer gift bag! 5:30 p.m., 800-329-8667, clubpapi lage Church will explore practices to help ber.org track, 3349 N. Halsted Macy’s, 111 N. State, http://www.center- you meet up with God in powerful ways. I2I-Invisible to Invincible, Asian/Pacific Queering the Faith Film Series, Fish Out onhalsted.org Friday, April 8 This week, Listening to God: Bringing Si- of Water Chicago-made film about homo- Islander Pride of Chicago social Topic: Equality Illinois Civil Union Community MORE for Gay Men Spring Workshop An lence and Music Together. 10:15am, Urban sexuality and the bible, room to be an- Identity; social held the 2nd Tuesday of Forum Contact EQIL at [email protected] or experiential weekend designed to give Village Church, Spertus Institute, 610 S. nounced, part of LGBT Change’s The Faith every month. 6 p.m., My Thai , 333 S. 773-477-7173 for more information; 6:30 participants the opportunity to learn and Michigan, http://www.newchicagochurch. Project in association with the Queer In- State, http://www.chicagoi2i.org p.m., Champaign Public Library, http:// practice the skills necessary to lead a life com tercollegiate Alliance series exploring the Equality Illinois Civil Union Community www.eqil.org of deeper engagement, satisfaction and aChurch4Me MCC Worship Celebration Forum Contact EQIL at [email protected] or fulfillment. 6:30 p.m., 312-645-8300, The LGBTQ community’s oldest and larg- 773-477-7173 for more information; 6:30 Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted, est spiritual movement; 11 a.m., Center p.m., Bloomington Unitarian Universalist http://www.moreforgaymen.com on Halsted, 3656 N Halsted, http://www. Church Mat Fraser, Disabiltity in the Mainstream achurch4me.org One the UK’s best known performers both Chicago premiere of the play TERRE HAUTE in the mainstream and in the disability It is the year 2001. Two men will tell the Wed., April 13 Comedian Eddie Safarty’s Mental Eddie arts community, sign language interpret- true story of the deadliest terror attack Safarty’s Mental: an evening of homo- ed. 6:30 p.m., Access Living, 115 W. Chi- in American history. Two men with noth- neurotic comedy. Benefitting Lambda cago, http://www.accessliving.org ing in common except the eighty minutes Legal. $25 ticket (includes one drink Impromptwo - Club for Gay Swingers New, they will share in TERRE HAUTE. 3 p.m., ticket) available at the door or by calling private club for committed, non-monog- Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N Southport, 312-663-4413. Eddie will also be signing amous gay couples. Meet like-minded http://www.blackelephanttheatre.com copies of his book Mental. 6 p.m., Side- couples in a relaxed, private setting. Pool About Face Theatre and The Hypocrites: track, 3349 N Halsted, http://www.side- table, videos, dance floor & private play The Woyzeck Project Woyzeck doesn’t re- trackchicago.com rooms. 2nd Friday of every month. RSVP ally exist since the work was left unfin- Interactive All-Star Seder David Broza, required. BYOB; 8 p.m., 847-417-7076, ished by Georg Büchner upon his death Judy Gold & Chicago’s own, Cantor Al- Impromptwo, 1640 W. Hubbard, http:// in 1837 and the original manuscript is berto Mizrahi, are among the perform- www.impromptwo-chicago.com fragmented, crossed out and chemically ers, comedians, politicians and other big Steppenwolf Auxiliary Council Presents altered so, for decades, the incomplete shots participating in unique interactive 9th Annual Red or White Ball Hundreds work has fascinated avant-garde arts and Passover Seder dinner to benefit Greater of Chicago’s young arts supporters will scholars who have studied and adapted it. Chicago Food Depository. Only 400 tickets gather for a high-energy evening of mu- About Face Theatre and The Hypocrites are available, $118 and $500, with tables sic, dancing, signature cocktails, delecta- will present a festival headlined by pro- of eight available for $1800 and $3600. 7 ble food and a silent auction at Chicago’s ductions of Woyzeck by Georg Büchner, p.m., Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Wash- unique, eco-chic Salvage One, proceedben- adapted and directed by Sean Graney ington, http://www.citywinery.com/seder efit Steppenwolf for Young Adults. $130, and the world premiere of PONY by Syl- by phone, online or via e-mail at auxilia- van Oswald, directed by Bonnie Metzgar, [email protected]; 8 p.m., 312- in repertory through May 22; 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 14 Beyond Shame: Life and Love in the 654-5681, Salvage One, 1840 W. Hubbard, 866-811-4111, Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. 1950s In the he third and final program http://www.steppenwolf.org/rowb Division, http://www.aboutfacetheatre. com in the Out at CHM series, Yale historian George Chauncey talks about how gay men Saturday, April 9 and lesbians drew on religion, pop cul- 21st Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Confer- Monday, April 11 ture, conversation and academic writings ence for Black Literature Conference Live Band Karaoke with Amy Armstrong to forge an understanding of themselves activities include panel discussions, Every Monday at 10 p.m., Join Amy Arm- SEEING THE LIGHT during the ‘50s. 7:30 p.m., Chicago His- open mic, musical interludes, receptions, strong for Live Band Karaoke! It’s Your tory Museum, 1601 N. Clark, http://www. and a MFA student reading, April 7-9, Stage with a five-piece live band! 10 p.m., Saturday, April 9 chicagohistory.org 2011, more information at The Gwendo- 773-281-3355, Roscoe’s Tavern, 3356 N. Halsted, http://www.roscoes.com Joel Hall Dance will present “Illumination!” at the lyn Brooks Center, gbrookscenter@gmail. Raven Theatre, 6157 N. Clark. Get Photo of Joel Hall by Hal Baim : WindyCityMediaGroup.com online ChicagoPride.com WINDY CITY TIMES April 6, 2011 35

BILLY MASTERS Sidetrack welcomes to Chicago...

stars of Dirk Shafer’s Circuit is in the news. My “I’ll see people I worked with back then who look buddy Paul Lekakis has a new single. The aptly like they could be my parents now. I don’t un- titled “I Need a Hit” is credited to Massi & De derstand. I do take care of myself but I drink Leon featuring Paul Lekakis, but it’s pretty much a fair bit and I still smoke cigarettes, which I Paul’s baby. It’s been on the Billboard Dance shouldn’t. I have tried to age myself. It’s just not Chart for the past dozen weeks and the video on An Evening of Homo-Neurotic Comedy working.”—Ryan Phillippe talks about how he’d YouTube is pretty damn hot. Check it out (and, to benefit like to shed his youthful appearance. Cry me a what the hell, I’ll run nude photos of him, too). river, Phillippe! How’d you like to get close to Hugh Jackman? I’ve peaked too early. I don’t mean in the big- OK, put down your hands—it was a rhetorical ger picture sense—like my life has peaked too question. Well, have we got an announcement As seen on early. I’m talking about when you look absolute- that you don’t get to make every day. Hugh Join us at Sidetrack The Today Show, ly perfect, but it’s days before you really need to Jackman—arguably one of the hottest men in Comedy Central look good. I have two things I wanted to look Wednesday, the world—will be spending May singing show- & Logo good for—hosting the white carpet arrivals at tunes in San Francisco. The only thing that April 13 6-8pm Jeffrey Sanker’s White Party (JeffreySanker.com) surprises me is that it won’t be in June on a as we welcome “Comedic Genius!” The Huffington Post and taking new headshots (which I’m loathe to float! It’s been announced that on May 3-15, comedian & writer do, but how much longer can I call that high Hugh will be performing a new one-man show Eddie Sarfaty to the “He’s a riot! school yearbook photo “recent”?). I calculated at the Curran Theatre and will be backed (as it Don’t miss him!” Sidetrack stage. Dallas Voice exactly when I should tan, when I should get my were) by a 17-piece orchestra. We’re told Hugh “Polished and highlights retouched, when I’d get a haircut and has to take a bit of an enforced hiatus since $25 ticket from when I had to stop eating. Somehow I ended his next Wolverine film is in search of a new sure-fire with Lambda Legal up looking fabulous six days early—I guess my director. So in the meantime, he’s going to relive the one-liners abacus was off! You know what that means? You 312-663-4413 ricocheting some of his favorite stage roles. Expect selec- off the walls!” may never see those new headshots—and God tions from Sunset Boulevard, Carousel, My Fair ar at the door Bay Windows, Boston (includes one drink ticket). knows what I’ll look like in Palm Springs April Lady, “Oklahoma, Beauty and the Beast and, of thanks to our friends at 8-11. course, The Boy from Oz. I’m told he’ll recreate When we think of men’s peaks, usually an age the now-infamous lap dance sequence that was Eddie will also in the 30s is cited. Then there’s Rob Lowe, who so popular when “Boy” was on Broadway. So get be signing appears shirtless on the current issue of Vanity a good seat—maybe you’ll be the one! Tickets his book... Fair. I’m sure special filters, lighting and other for “Hugh Jackman in Performance” can be pur- wizardry were employed (would that I had that chased at www.shnsf.com. budget for my shoot). But you can’t deny the Just to whet your appetite, those scrappy pa- results are spectacular. OK, so it’s not the same parazzi caught Hugh exiting the gym in some Rob who walked around in a jock strap in Young- clingy shorts that leave very little to the imagi- 3349 N. Halsted blood or in far less on that sex tape from the nation. There seems to be a protrusion of some SidetrackChicago.com 1988 Democratic National Convention. I’d say I girth that sticks out significantly and curves hope I look that good when I’m 47, but I doubt quite a bit downward. I suppose you have to see it—I don’t look that good now! it to believe it, and I believe you can see it at Then there’s one of the most stunning men in BillyMasters.com. our community—Dirk Shafer. Sure, he’s beautiful When I’m handing you Hugh’s huge hog on a WINDY CITY on the inside, too, but let’s linger on that fan- silver platter, it’s definitely time to end yet an- TIMES 12th Annual tastic flesh which has held up quite nicely since other column. Let’s go back to peaking early. We his stint as a Playgirl centerfold and Man of the all wonder when we’ll peak. Or have we peaked. THIRTY Year in 1992 (which spawned his hysterical moc- Or will we ever peak. I’m not sure if you realize kumentary of the same name). We hear that Dirk it when you’re there—but you certainly can tell under 30 recently had some discussions with the powers- when you look back. For instance, just last week that-be at Playgirl about doing another explicit I was looking at the stats to www.BillyMasters. NOW ACCEPTING pictorial—which is saying something because com and I am proud to say that this 15-year- NOMINATIONS how many of you look as good naked as you did old weekly column continues to reach record Windy City Times is seeking to recognize 30 more outstanding LGBT individuals (and allies) 19 years ago? I’m having trouble maintaining numbers of readers—every time I think we’ve for its annual 30 Under 30 Awards. my peak for a week. While the talks with Playgirl peaked, you people shock me. Since you’ve got- were serious, it seems that the money was not ten my attention, feel free to do it one-on-one. Nominees should be 30 years or under as of June 30, 2011 and should have made some substantial contributions to ... to say nothing of a minor scandal caused by If you’ve got a question, just e-mail me at Bil- the LGBT community, whether in the ﬁelds of entertainment, politics, health, activism, academics, or other areas. a far more recent Man of the Year having an ad [email protected] and I promise to get back up on RentBoy.com! At least Dirk is busy being a to you before Hugh’s lap dance creates another Individuals, organizations, co-workers, etc. can nominate a person by e-mailing Andrew@ personal trainer, writing a new movie and releas- peak! So, until next time, remember, one man’s WindyCityMediaGroup.com or faxing to Andrew Davis’ attention to 773-871-7609. ing a new fitness product. If it ensures that I’ll filth is another man’s bible. Self-nominations are welcome. look like him, sign me up! Another former Playgirl guy and one of the The nomination should be 100 words or fewer, and should state what achievements or contributions the nominee has made. Nominators should include their own names and contact information as well as the contact information and the age of the nominee.

Honorees will be notiﬁed in May and recognized at a free ceremony Wed., June 22, 5:30 p.m., at Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted St.

The deadline to nominate individuals is Friday, April 22. Photo of 2010’s 30 Under honorees by Hal Baim. Photo of 2010’s

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Ryan Phillippe: Youth is wasted on the ... almost middle-aged. 36 April 6, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES Once I got a couple of short-sale certifica- tions, I decided to help people who needed to sell their properties. It didn’t matter where I went—so that’s how I ended up in Joliet. I had a couple out on the market at Hanover Park. I was regional for quite a while, having been in food-service management, so I was all over the MONTHLY REAL ESTATE SECTION place; I’m familiar with a lot of the city and said it’s something you’ve always wanted to suburbs. I’m not afraid to get out of my familiar do. Why didn’t you go into it sooner? area. Cindy Gaffney CG: I was a single parent with a child at home. WCT: I have a basic question: What is a I was working full-time; I’ve always been in- short sale? on buying and volved in food-service management—25 years. CG: That’s a good question. It’s when somebody It was something I was really passionate about, needs to sell a property, but they owe more on it selling, economy and I did it for many years. than the property’s worth—so they’re asking the In 2006, I decided to get my real-estate li- bank to take less than they owe on that loan. So and family cense; at that time, I was living out in Rockford. many people are in that situation—upside-down BY ANDREW DAVIS I started with Coldwell Banker Premiere out in in a mortgage. Banks will typically entertain Roscoe [a suburb of Rockford]; I was living in these because the person has had some type of Cindy Gaffney only joined @properties last year Rockton [another suburb] at the time. a hardship—losing a job, getting transferred, but has plenty of experience as an agent, having However, my food-management position getting divorced [or something else]. been one for several years—although she pre- changed and I took a position in Evanston with A short sale is a good alternative to a fore- viously managed school and senior living food senior living. At that time my son was in college closure or what we call a deed in lieu. A deed programs. and I said, “I’m moving to the city.” That was in lieu is basically giving the deed back to the Gaffney, who is originally from the Rockford five years ago. I moved to Andersonville, and I bank. The last option is foreclosure, when the area, talked with Windy City Times about, among haven’t looked back. [Laughs] Andersonville is bank has filed with Cook County to take over the Cindy Gaffney. Photo courtesy of Gaffney other things, changing times for the real-estate such a neighborhood—such a homey feel. property, and is eventually awarded the prop- market and her son—who works for the same WCT: It’s like you’re in the burbs but you’re erty. company. tell people, “Just because your letter says that in the city. WCT: Compared to, say, two years ago, how Windy City Times: Real estate is a family you’re pre-approved and can spend X amount, CG: Yeah, and I like that because I had lived in is the housing market? affair for you, as your son is also an agent. Do that doesn’t mean you have to spend that.” the Belvedere/Rockford area my entire life. I ab- CG: It’s improved. I look to see what’s happen- you have any idea why he decided to go into Look at your finances, and see how much comes solutely love being in the city. I love being less ing in the housing market. [Shows WCT a chart] real estate? in and how much goes out. Determine what you than a mile from the lakefront. It’s an amazing Overall, there was still a 3.9-percent decrease in Cindy Gaffney: He’s 23 and a graduate of the think you can afford, and compare that to your city. housing prices but when you look at the previ- University of Illinois—economics and psycholo- pre-approval. WCT: I looked at your sales, and I saw that ous quarters, that’s still an improvement; prices gy. When he graduated, that was about the time WCT: What’s your advice to those who are you sold properties in Joliet. I started to haven’t fallen as significantly. The number of we were having layoffs. I’ve had my real-estate selling? wonder, “How large an area does she cover?” delinquencies on loans has also fallen slightly. license, and it’s something I’ve always loved. We CG: It’s kinda the same thing: What’s the situ- CG: Here’s the thing: When I came into real es- So we’re seeing improvements. got to talking about it, and he said, “You know, ation? Are they looking to move up? tate full-time, I was looking at what was going WCT: What’s your advice to people who are I think I’m going to get my real-estate license.” If they’re looking to move up, they must con- on in the market and I was predominantly short looking to buy? And I said, “It’s a great time. Go ahead and get sider what they selling their home for, and what sales and foreclosures. I thought, “In order to CG: First of all, get your credit in order. Know it.” He actually started full-time before I did; I they’re going to be able to buy their new home make myself competitive, I need to understand what’s on your credit report. Make sure you became full-time last year. those sales.” So I spent some time last year get- can afford what you’re buying—and get pre- Turn to page 37 WCT: You got your license in 2006 and you ting myself up to speed. approved. When people get pre-approved, I CMSA Beach Volleyball

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Check out our website for more info on our beach volleyball league: chicagomsa.org WINDY CITY TIMES April 6, 2011 37 GAFFNEY from page 36 Cindy Gaffney is part of the Chicago Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. For more at. A lot of people wait for the bottom of the on her, see http://www.atproperties.com/ market, but the important thing is the cost of agents/CindyGaffney. the home, and that includes interest rates. We’ve seen an increase in interest rates so the buyer’s purchasing power is less. Real estate news: That applies to a seller as well. If interest —Going down: Local home prices have now rates are climbing, buyers are getting less house decreased for 13 consecutive quarters—more of their money so there may be fewer buyers in than three years—because of the prevalence that price range. It’s a very personal decision on of foreclosures and short sales, according to an each side; I sit down with buyers and sellers and article in Crain’s. The Federal Housing Finance figure out what their goals are. Agency’s index of home prices in the area de- WCT: Someone told me last night that Chi- creased 3.02 percent in the fourth quarter com- cago has the second-largest rental market in pared with the same period in 2009 and dipped the country. 0.77 percent compared to the third quarter of CG: We do have a very big rental market, and 2010. James Shilling, a finance professor at De- we seeing more rentals as people who have ei- Paul University, said that Chicago’s shrinking ther short-sold or had their property foreclosed population (down 7 percent to 2.7 million in 2010, from 2000) is also a factor. on going into that market. SIGN-UP AT CHARLIES WCT: If someone decides not to go with an —The $7-million mansion: However, not all prices are decreasing, apparently. According to 3726 N. BROADWAY agent and looks online or in the paper. What SATURDAY APRIL 16, 2011, 4:00-6:00 PM are key phrases to watch out for? Is “an up- ChicagoRealEstateDaily.com, a huge Lake Forest and-coming neighborhood” a good thing? mansion designed by David Adler is back on the CG: It depends. I always recommend using market for just under $7 million. Yoonok Kim and SUMMER TENNIS PROGRAMS an agent because that’s our business. I should Hi Kyung Kim have owned the 14,937-square- know the market and be able to show you sta- foot home on Lake Road since 1984, according •SINGLES $27 (+CMSA MEMBERSHIP $20) •DOUBLES $65 (+CMSA MEMBERSHIP $20) tistics, and tell you what’s happening. An “up- to property records. The mansion, built in 1917, •CO-ED WITH DIVISIONS FOR ALL ABILITIES and-coming neighborhood?” What is an “up- sits on nearly three acres and has six bedrooms, six full bathrooms and a private beach. Houda •SINGLES - PLAYOFFS AT END OF THE SEASON WITH TROPHIES and-coming neighborhood?” Does it mean that •DOUBLES - 5 SUNDAYS ON DIVERSEY CLAY COURTS there are more renovations going on? It’s not Chedid of Coldwell Banker NRT has the listing. —Affordable housing in Winnetka?: The about the verbiage; it’s about the facts and the FOR MORE SUMMER TENNIS PROGRAMS OR TO SIGN-UP ONLINE VISIT tony suburb of Winnetka (median income: statistics. WWW.SECONDCITYTENNIS.COM WCT: What are the best and worst aspects of $201,650) is split over the issue of affordable your job? housing, according to the Chicago Tribune. In CG: I love working with people, and I enjoy the town of 12,000, some residents are balking somebody find the home of their dreams. That is at the plan, citing possible governmental infer- so rewarding. ence; supporters say that affordable housing The worst aspect? Sometimes it’s the fact that would allow the village’s teachers, police and SECOND CITY it’s a 24/7 business. If that phone rings at 10 other professional to live and retire there. The TENNIS o’clock at night, I’m picking it up. There are median home price in Winnetka was $1.1 million www.ChicagoMSA.org people who work nine to five; I’m not one of last year, and the plan would help those making those people. at least $45,000 annually.

38 April 6, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES Gay volleyball team impresses at event

By Ross Forman “[Kansas City] played with a very high level of athleticism and won the championship without The Chicago Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (KKBB) vol- going to the loser’s bracket. We gave up a de- leyball team came within a spike of winning its cent lead against them and never recaptured the division in the annual 2011 Team Saint Louis advantage.” Volleyball Tournament, held recently. Byrne, 36, said one of the team’s tournament The tournament featured 40 teams, represent- highlights was its match against the Lexington ing Atlanta, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Kansas Soundbar, a three-set nail-biter won in over- City, Milwaukee, New York, Louisville and other time. “As a regular fixture on the North American cities. Gay Volleyball Association (NAGVA) circuit, Lex- KKBB lost in the finals of the 17-team B-Di- ington Soundbar’s roster includes friendly faces, vision to Kansas City Hit It or Quit It, 17-25, namely, [Chicagoan] Sebastian Ang as libero.” 17-25. KKBB was one of five B-Division teams KKBB defeated Lexington 18-16 in the third from Chicago. set. Chicago Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. “For having a newly assembled team, I’m ex- “The team played pretty well throughout the tremely proud of how well we gelled without tournament,” Byrne said. “Three teams in our much [pre-tournament] court time,” said KKBB division finished 7-1 after pool play, but, due ternoon and then the double-elimination tour- son, and libero Marc Estrada. Four of the team player-coach Mark Byrne. “Our setter, a volley- to our point-spread, we were named the No. 1 nament ended up being twelve sets beginning members played for the Chicago Bonheur team ball role equivalent to a quarterback in football, seed. Advancing to the third round without giv- early Sunday morning.” in January’s NAGVA tournament in New Orleans, lives in Indianapolis, so only four of us prac- ing up a set was a great indicator that we had KKBB featured setter Marty Murrillo, outside finishing third in its 24-team division. ticed together a week before the two-day tour- the endurance to make it to the finals. hitters Eric Veit and Ozzie Meza, middle hitters Byrne and Blin were named tournament all- nament. “We played eight pool-play sets Saturday af- Byrne and Derek Blin, right-side hitter Eric Nel- stars in St. Louis, as voted by the tournament’s officiating team and the head referee. “I was completely shocked and very flattered to be named All Star,” Byrne said. “I updated my Facebook status that evening to, ‘While the tournament named two All Stars from our team, I’m convinced there were seven.’” WINDY CITY Byrne said Blin is a smart player on the TIMES court. “I remember him gently tipping a ball over two opponents for a point instead of hitting the ball into a double block,” Byrne said. “Other strengths [of Blin] include being vocal on court and off, calling for a set, letting his team know he is running after a ball and lifting spirits by PRIDE DAY making some noise. In our loser’s bracket match AT WRIGLEY Turn to page 39 Sunday, Sept. 4, 2011 Private event during Gay Games probed for

MEDIA SPONSORS: funding issues WINDY CITY The Chicago Sun-Times reported that “a TIMES n i g h ts p o t s federal probe into state payouts to social- service agencies” connected to state Sen. Rickey Hendon is being widened to include Join us for a charitable event at the three other elected officials. Among those reportedly being investigated is state Rep. Chicago Cubs vs. Pittsburgh Pirates game Ken Dunkin, in part for a $200,000 grant he gave to an event held during Gay Games 1:20 p.m., Sept. 4. VII in Chicago, in 2006. The event, which was not organized by Bleacher the Gay Games, was a house-music party tickets reunion held on Northerly Island on the closing weekend of the Gay Games. The $50 Gay Games organization did not host that event. Rather, the Gay Games listed events www.windycitymediagroup.com/WrigleyPride hosted by separate agencies, from art gal- leries to theaters, music events to poetry slams. The state grant in question was not given to the Gay Games organizing group. The international house-music event, featuring DJ Frankie Knuckles and other well- A portion of the proceeds will beneﬁt the following charities: known house music legends, was planned as a way to promote cultural tourism in In partnership with Chicago, which was the founding home of house music. The grant was through the state Department of Commerce and Eco- nomic Opportunity, and is similar to grants given to other entities promoting Illinois & as a cultural and tourist destination. Part of the issue seems to be that some people associated with the event also gave campaign contributions to Dunkin, raising conflict-of-interest questions. WINDY CITY TIMES April 6, 2011 39 VOLLEYBALL from page 38 DALE from page 30 genre whether it is So You Think You Can Dance and Andy Cohen. Andy is a nut but super fun. or American Idol. Everyone is the biggest couch WCT: Are you doing Taste of Chicago this against the Madison (Wisc.) Madness, Derek critic known to man. year? WCT: They love you! made several impressive defensive plays, which WCT: People tend to think they would act DL: No; I do smaller charity events like cystic DL: I was so disappointed to go home so early [you] doesn’t see very often from middle hitters. differently in the situation. fibrosis or the Farmers Market Barbecue. Also, this time around but it is what it is. It’s a game He’s a stud.” DL: I can’t watch a lot of it now because I breast cancer, AIDS charities and I think we are show although life experience wise you can’t In fact, Byrne said everyone on KKBB played know the ins and outs of editing. Five minutes signed on for a seal fundraiser so puppies, boobs beat it! exceptionally well in St. Louis. into the shows I can tell you who is going to win and kids is our format! I try to do as many of the WCT: And the exposure is good. “Everyone brought something wonderful to the or lose just by the editing. charity events that I can. DL: Being one of the more prominent gay team,” Byrne said. “Ozzie and Derek’s high level WCT: The shows are all out of order in time WCT: You taught yourself how to cook? chefs in the country and having an image that of playing can be attributed to their fitness, of when they really happen as well. DL: Yes. I went to University of Iowa to be is so different for Bravo. I am not the screaming chasing down balls and maintaining focus. Scott DL: Yes. It is an amazing feat to pull these an athlete. I started off as a sociology major. I queen that when I open my mouth a purse falls filled in as setter one game and is extremely shows off. We received the Emmy last year and started cooking in school and fell in love with out. crafty. The other team would yell, ‘corner’ each beat The Amazing Race. It is the hardest compe- it. I bought textbooks and magazines to do re- WCT: Like in that Glee episode! time he got set, meaning, Scott can pinpoint tition on television. It is brutal. We are all crazy search. I read about it every single day. DL: Yes, I like breaking the stereotype of gay open areas of the court accurately. enough to be addicted to watch. WCT: So you are always learning. reality show contestants. It’s fine that there are Eric described himself as a machine, which WCT: Have you made good friends from it? DL: That is one thing about food you can sometimes flaming people on the design shows is true because he is a serving machine, pass- DL: I have been texting with Casey all morn- never know everything. You can learn something but having that being constant representation ing machine and hitting machine. At the post- ing. My Sous Chef Sara Nguyen here was on sea- new everyday so that is what’s fun about being of our community is a misrepresentation. We are tournament party, I overheard other teams talk- son three with me. At least half of that season I severely ADD, it makes your life a little easier not all the same. We are well-rounded people ing up Marc’s defensive skill of putting up hard talk to on a regular basis. Jamie is not as bad as and challenging! and I happy to represent that. driven balls and Marty’s finesse at setting. This you would think. Come see Sprout Restaurant grow from top WCT: I think that is very important to have was a dream team.” WCT: What do you think of Ted Allen? to bottom at 1417 W. Fullerton. Call 773- in the media. KKBB likely will travel to Houston in May for DL: I do love Ted Allen. He’s a hoot. After the 348-0706 or visit http://www.sproutrestau- DL: People can say whatever they want but ev- the annual NAGV Nationals, and also will com- season three finale I had a lot of fun with him rant.com to make reservations. pete in an August tournament in Chicago. eryone watches these shows no matter what the

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