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MAKING EBONIE DAVIS Running for Vacated State Rep Position VOL 33, NO. 05 OCT. 18, 2017 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com VERY JOHN LEWIS Congressman talks LGBT, civil rights. Sasha Velour. Interview on page 16. Photo of Congressman John Lewis courtesy of Lewis 10 Photo by Adam Ouahmane VELOUR Speaking with drag champ Sasha Velour MAKING EBONIE DAVIS Running for vacated state rep position. Photo courtesy of Davis 11 SPACE The premiere of the Dyke LEGACY WALK Spaces exhibit Dedication honors Harlem Renaissance. Dyke Spaces creators Kristen Kaza, Ruby Western and Liz Weck. Photo of Victor Salvo by Carrie Maxwell 4 Photo by Carrie Maxwell PAGE 8 @windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com 2 Oct. 18, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES In adults with HIV on ART who have diarrhea not caused by an infection IMPORTANT PATIENT INFORMATION This is only a summary. See complete Prescribing Information at Mytesi.com or by calling 1-844-722-8256. 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NP-390-23 RELIEF, PURE AND SIMPLE WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 18, 2017 3 NEWS Legacy Walk dedication; column 4 OBITS: John Charles Power 5 Trans woman of color claims discrimination 6 Affinity coming-out event 7 Dyke-spaces exhibit opens 8 LGBT History Month: Congressman John Lewis 10 Elections 2018: Ebonie Davis 11 Viewpoints: Lynch; letter 12 ENTERTAINMENT/EVENTS Dancin’ Feats 13 INDEX DOWNLOAD THIS ISSUE AND BROWSE THE ARCHIVES AT www.WindyCityTimes.com Theater reviews 14 VOL 33, NO. 05 OCT. 18, 2017 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com VERY Sasha Velour talks RuPaul, Chicago and more 16 JOHN LEWIS Parking-meter art 18 Congressman talks LGBT, civil rights. Sasha Velour. Interview on page 16. Photo of Congressman John Lewis courtesy of Lewis 10 Photo by Adam Ouahmane VELOUR Speaking with drag champ Sasha Velour NIGHTSPOTS 20 MAKING Classifieds; calendar 22 EBONIE DAVIS Running for vacated state rep position. Photo courtesy of Davis 11 SPACE The premiere of the Dyke Above: WCT reviews Zombie Bathhouse. LEGACY WALK Spaces exhibit Dedication honors Harlem Renaissance. Dyke Spaces creators Kristen Kaza, Ruby Western and Liz Weck. Photo of Victor Salvo by Carrie Maxwell 4 Photo by Carrie Maxwell PAGE 8 Photo by Scott Free @windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com online exclusives at www.WindyCityTimes.com ‘BLOCK’ AND ROLL The latest Bent Nights is about The Hideout Block Party. Photo of Sally Timms (left) by Vern Hester ‘MARSHALL’ LAW SWITCH PERFECT Find out about the local LGBTQ dance-partner party called SWITCH. THAT’S SHOW BIZ Find out the latest about Shaun T, Bjork and the amfAR gala. WCT covered the red-carpet plus screening of the film Marshall. DAILY BREAKING NEWS Photo of Jussie Smollett by Jerry Nunn 4 Oct. 18, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES Legacy Walk honors GUEST COLUMN Harlem Renaissance BY KELSI WILLIAMS at dedication Fighting transphobia BY CARRIE MAXWELL A lot of people believe that being completely The whole idea of not dating a transgender open with your significant other is an im- person being a preference leads to those situa- The Harlem Renaissance (1919-1929) was hon- portant part of any relationship, but to what tions where trans people—especially women— ored with a bronze memorial plaque Oct. 15 at extent does this statement stand? A popular are losing their lives. A preference is under- the sixth annual Legacy Walk dedication cer- debate today is whether or not someone should standable, but what is the reasoning and the emony. The plaque is located between Melrose inform their partner that they identify as trans- definition behind this specific preference? A Street and Aldine Avenue on Halsted Street in gender. This raises the question: Are the people lot of times there is no answer to the question Lake View, and celebrates the first urban LGBTQ who think that knowing this information is im- so it is deemed as a transphobic response. community in the United States. portant transphobic? Whether they face physical or emotional This milestone joins 37 other bronze memorial For those that do not know, a transgender abuse by these acts is irrelevant, the point is plaques commemorating the Stonewall Riot and person is someone who does not identify with that real people are getting hurt for being who the Pink Triangle as well as the lives of LGBTQ the gender that they were assigned at birth. It they are. This exact reason is why the whole people from across history and around the world. does not matter if the person undergoes sur- situation is considered transphobic, not even Among these individuals are Jane Addams, Jose- gery, they are still valid and no one really has just for the simple act of having the prefer- phine Baker, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, the right to tell them otherwise. ence, but because of the actions that may or Barbara Jordan, Frida Kahlo, Dr. Sally Ride, Sylvia Most answers to the debate of revealing not follow once the person finds out their part- Rivera, Bayard Rustin, Alan Turing and Walt Whit- trans identities end with people saying yes ner’s gender identity. man. that they would want their partner to alert When asked, several people, my age and Polish artist and illustrator Krzysztof Wasko Post-dedication ceremony emcee Wayne even older, have admitted provided the artwork while University of Illinois Johnson. that if they were to find out at Champaign-Urbana History Professor Dr. Kevin Photo by Carrie Maxwell that the person they were Mumford consulted on the text for the plaque. A “Whether they face physical or involved with identified as consortium of private individuals sponsored the then becomes what we recognize as valid history. transgender they would no plaque, which was spearheaded by Legacy Project The Legacy Project challenges that erasure.” emotional abuse by these acts is longer be in the relationship Board Member Paul Highfield.
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