THE FANTASTIC MARLOW VOL 33, NO. 09 NOV. 15, 2017 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com LA FantastiQUE ALSO INSIDE: HALL OF FaME, PAGE 6 REYNA ORTIZ BOOK, Marlow La Fantastique. & MORE Photo from her collection, used with her permission NATURAL ELECTION LGBTs score political wins PAGE 4 Left: Danica Roem, of Virginia. Center: Phillipe Cunningham (top) and Andrea Jenkins, of Minneapolis. Right: Tyler Titus, of Pennsylvania. Cunningham photo from campaign website; other photos from Facebook accounts @windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com AIDSCHICAGO.ORG/CHOCOLATE BENEFITING 2 Nov. 15, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES EVERYONE DESERVES ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE howardbrown.org Howard Brown Health is now Open Enrollment for health insurance is only citywide! Visit us in a six weeks, November - December . neighborhood near you. Don’t miss it! 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LAKEVIEW howardbrown.org/affordablecare UPTOWN WINDY CITY TIMES Nov. 15, 2017 3 NEWS LGBTs impact election landscape; column 4 AVER hosts Veterans Day dinner 5 Marlow La Fantastique 6 Obit: Darlene Stille 10 Obit: Filmmaker Debra Chasnoff 10 YOUR PERFECT DAY Viewpoints: Lynch; letter 12 ENTERTAINMENT/EVENTS Scottish Play Scott: Trans opera 13 INDEX DOWNLOAD THIS ISSUE AND BROWSE THE ARCHIVES AT www.WindyCityTimes.com Theater reviews 14 Hall of Fame holds induction ceremony 16 Trans Day of Remembrance events 18 THE FANTASTIC Reyna Ortiz holds book-signing 18 MARLOW VOL 33, NO. 09 NOV. 15, 2017 NIGHTSPOTS 20 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com LA FANTASTIQUE ALSO INSIDE: HALL OF FAME, PAGE 6 Classifieds; calendar 22 REYNA ORTIZ BOOK, Marlow La Fantastique. & MORE Photo from her collection, used with her permission NATURAL ELECTION LGBTs score political wins PAGE 4 Left: Danica Roem, of Virginia. Center: Phillipe Cunningham (top) and Andrea Jenkins, of Minneapolis. Right: Tyler Titus, of Pennsylvania. Cunningham photo from campaign website; other photos from Facebook accounts @windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com Above: WCT reviews Dream Freaks Fall from Space. AIDSCHICAGO.ORG/CHOCOLATE BENEFITING Photo by Todd Rosenberg online exclusives at www.WindyCityTimes.com JOYNT EFFORT Chase Joynt (left) organized an event that featured ACLU attorney Chase Strangio. Photo by Carrie Maxwell IT STARTS HERE Where Magnificent Mile elegance meets the ‘SCHOOL’ mate grandeur of Chicago’s architectural glory, LondonHouse Chicago offers couples one of the city’s most unforgettable wedding venues. ‘STACHE AND CARRY From our iconic rooftop and Cupola, to the Two local individuals talk about stunning Juliet Grand Ballroom with its incredible Movember, which involves growing views of the Chicago River and city skyline, moustaches during November to raise ® awareness of men’s health issues. LondonHouse Chicago offers you an array of show-stopping settings for your special day. THAT’S SHOW BIZ Find out the latest about Ellen Page, Anthony Edwards and Lupita Nyong’o. Kristian Espiritu talks about being in 85 EAST WACKER DRIVE AT NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE plus the musical School of Rock. 312 357 1200 | LONDONHOUSECHICAGO.COM PR photo DAILY BREAKING NEWS 4 Nov. 15, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES LGBT wins impact WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU political landscape BY LIsa KEEN AT OUR FIRST TOWN HALL! KEEN NEWS SERVICE Tuesday was a good night for LGBT candidates when where and an historic one for transgender candidates. wednesday, november 29 howard brown health There were at least 72 openly LGBT candidates in 23 states. Of those, 55 percent won, 35 percent 6pm-9pm 6500nclark st., chicago lost. Lesbian Jenny Durkan handily won election as who mayor of Seattle, one of the fastest growing cit- female (trans and cis) chicagoans ies in the country and the eighth largest con- refreshments tainer port in the U.S. Durkan replaces Seattle’s gender non-binary chicagoans first openly gay mayor, Ed Murray, who resigned provided! in September after allegations surfaced from five for more information men who said Murray sexually abused them as teenagers. (Murray denied the allegations.) The amy miller - [email protected] Seattle Post Intelligencer said Durkan’s opponent leela [email protected] tried to link her with Murray. Though her oppo- nent has not yet conceded the race, results sug- gest Durkan took more than 60 percent of the can't make it on November 29th? vote. She was the first openly gay person Presi- please submit your thoughts on what #ChicagoHealthLooksLike dent Obama appointed as a U.S. attorney. via our online survey: http://bit.ly/2jbLDfa Also in Seattle, lesbian challenger Mitzi Jo- hanknecht, 58, appeared to defeat incumbent John Urquhart in a race for King County Sheriff. Johanknecht is in charge of one of the sheriff office’s precincts and ran against Urquhart, say- ing he mistreated employees, especially women. She’s been on the force for three decades, and Urquhart had recently accused of rape by a former female deputy. Danica Roem won a stunning victory to the Virginia House of Delegates against a candidate Lesbian Seattle Mayor-elect Jenny Durkan. who had made a name for himself trying to ban Image from campaign page transgender people from public restrooms. Ac- cording to the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, in a very tight race for a seat. (Cunningham has which was supporting 61 of the 72 LGBT candi- been declared the winner, having won 51.7 per- dates Tuesday, the win in Virginia made Roem the cent of the vote. The victory makes him the sec- first out transgender person to win and serve in ond African American transgender member of the a state legislature and the only out transgender Minneapolis City Council. Pessenda’s opponent state legislator in the U.S. (A number of sources eeked out a 51 percent vote to secure his seat.) subsequently have pointed out that Althea Gar- Tyler Titus became the first transgender can- rison, a Republican of Boston, was the first Af- didate to win elective office in Pennsylvania. He rican American transgender person to be elected won a seat on the school board for Erie. to a statewide position. She won election to, and There were only five LGBT candidates for state served a term in, the Massachusetts State House legislative offices Tuesday; three of them were in 1992. Garrison has never voluntarily identified incumbents who won re-election: Tim Eustace as transgender, but following her election, a Bos- and Reed Gusciora of New Jersey and Mark Levine ton Herald reporter outed her after finding a birth of Virginia. Danica Roem was the newcomer who certificate indicating she had been identified as won in Virginia. And Luis Lopez advanced to a male at birth.) run-off for a California Assembly seat represent- In Minneapolis, another Victory Fund backed ing Los Angeles December 5. transgender candidate, Andrea Jenkins, won 70 percent of the vote to become the first transgen- Mayoral races der woman of color elected to office in a major Of the 72 LGBT candidates Tuesday, 67 ran for U.S. city. Jenkins won a seat on the Minneapolis local offices –12 for mayor, 41 for city council City Council. Vote counts in that city (which al- seats, seven for local school boards, and seven lows voters to indicate first, second, and third for various other local positions. choices) are still underway and Wednesday morn- Only five out of the 12 mayoral candidates won ing, the Star Tribune says another transgen- Tuesday night –newcomer Jenny Durkan in Seat- der candidate, Phillipe Cunningham, still has a tle and four incumbents (Alex Morse in Holyoke, chance to win a seat held by the current Council president. Lesbian activist Jillia Pessenda is also Turn to page 5 WINDY CITY TIMES Nov. 15, 2017 5 LANDSCAPE from page 4 vacant City Council seats to a transgender woman and a bisexual woman. Lisa Middleton’s victory Mass.; Sean Strub in Milford, Pa.; Lydia Lavelle makes her the first transgender person to win a AVER hosts in Carrboro, NC; and Patrick Wojahn in College non-judicial elective office in California. Middle- Veterans’ Park, Md.). ton and Christy Holstege, who is married to a man — In Atlanta, long-time lesbian activist and but identifies as a member of the LGBT commu- Day dinner politico Cathy Woolard came in third among 12 nity, were the top two vote-getters in a field of A Veterans Day dinner was candidates for mayor. Woolard, a former Atlanta six candidates. hosted, as it is each year, by the City Council president, garnered 17 percent of — A gay candidate for City Council in Cape Chicago chapter of the American the vote behind the second place winner. The top Coral, Florida, found a flyer on this front door Veterans for Equal Rights on Nov. two vote getters will battle it out in a run-off in August, threatening him with a “nice visit” 11 at Ann Sathers Restaurant on December 5. from the Ku Klux Klan. James Schneider, 54, said, Belmont Aveneu. — In Hoboken, New Jersey, Councilman Mi- “I’m a gay, Jewish, German man” and that he Recently installed chapter pres- chael DeFusco, 35, failed in his bid to become considers the flyer a hate crime. The flyer said, ident Heather Yang spoke to the the city’s first openly gay mayor. The six-person “We know where you live faggot….quit now….” group about lessons learned from race was marred near the end when anonymous He told the local News-Press that photos of him her Army combat experience and flyers tried to portray the campaign leader and with gay slurs have also been posted on Face- was presented the chapter’s annu- eventual winner, a Sikh, as a terrorist.