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DANIEL CRAIG IS NOT JAMES BOND In a probing interview wih the latest – and many say best – 007, Daniel Craig stresses that he’s nothing like the iconic spy. For one thing, he’s getting older. page 20 THE VOICE OF PROGRESS FOR WISCONSIN’s LGBT COMMUNITY Nov. 29, 2012 | Vol. 4, No. 2 Joe Pabst and MAM refine the art of AIDS awareness By Debra Brehmer reflection within our local Contributing writer community? Focusing attention on Philanthropist Joseph serious issues is a challenge R. Pabst, an LGBT funder in a culture that seems and activist, regularly thinks intent on distracting people about that question and has from them. come up with a gently inno- One way that issue advo- vative means of marking cates fight back is to des- World AIDS Day in Milwau- ignate special events, com- kee this year. memorative days and fund- As Pabst tells it, he was raisers that highlight what inspired by the work of the might go unnoticed: Al’s internationally known pho- Run, Breast Cancer Aware- tographer Taryn Simon after ness Week, World Kidney seeing her exhibitions at Day. the Milwaukee Art Museum It was in this spirit that in 2011. The three Simon World AIDS Day was estab- projects presented by MAM lished in 1988 and is hon- included “An American ored each year on Dec. 1. Index of the Hidden and Globally, an estimated 42 Unfamiliar” (2007), which million people carry HIV, documented significant the virus that causes AIDS. places and objects to which In Wisconsin, about 6,500 the public normally does individuals are living with not have “the privilege of HIV or AIDS. access,” as she puts it. Those LLAGE: MMK DESIGN LLAGE: O The intent of World AIDS ranged from the CIA’s art Day is to support those collection to quarantine living with HIV, remind the sites, nuclear disposal sites public that the virus has not and prison death rows. PHOTO C PHOTO gone away and remember One photograph particu- those who have died. But larly struck Pabst. It was HHowlingowling againstagainst thethe huntshunts how do we use this vast global initiative to generate By Lisa Neff listed the wolves in the Great to the work of our scientists, the hard work of the Ser- AIDS page 7 Staff writer Lakes Region, removing fed- wildlife managers and our vice and our state and local After nearly 40 years on eral protections for the ani- state, tribal and stakeholder partners. We are confident HOLIDAY STAGES the endangered species list, mals and ceding management partners, gray wolves in the state and tribal wildlife man- The holiday season has the gray wolf made a come- of the species to the states. western Great Lakes region agers in Michigan, Minnesota arrived on Wisconsin stag- back in Minnesota, Michigan “Once again, the Endan- are now fully recovered and and Wisconsin will effectively es, with nine versions of and Wisconsin – and now gered Species Act has proved healthy.” manage healthy wolf popula- “The Nutcracker,” eight “A the animals are back in hunt- to be an effective tool for U.S. Fish and Wildlife tions now that federal pro- Christmas Carol” produc- ers’ sites. bringing species back from Service director Dan Ashe tection is no longer needed.” tions and an assortment Animal rights activists are the brink of extinction,” Inte- enthused, “Gray wolves are But animal rights advo- of other fare to make the howling in protest. rior Secretary Ken Salazar thriving in the Great Lakes cates say they lack Ashe’s season gay. The Obama administra- said in an announcement of Region, and their successful confidence. tion in December 2011 de- the federal decision. “Thanks recovery is a testament to page 17 HUNTS page 14 2 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | November 29, 2012 News with a twist WiGWAG By Lisa Neff & Louis Weisberg STRANDED BY for Nevada or Florida if ing GOP donors and then- riage, according to records my marijuana before I-502 BIGOTRY latex remains the law. Or Gov. Charlie Crist. Greer released in his divorce passed. Can I have it back? Passengers in England porn-makers may just move has pleaded not guilty to trial. The trial transcript, A: No. Another passage – were left stranded on a down the freeway to Long charges of fraud, theft and obtained by the Chattanoo- Q: Dec. 6 seems like a bus when the replacement Beach or Pasadena. “People POLITICAL money laundering in the ga Times Free Press, also really long ways away. What driver refused to board the forget that porn people are CASUAltY case, which is likely to go confirms that DesJarlais happens if I get caught with vehicle because it bran- people too,” concerned A gay Key West busi- to trial in February. He had a number of unethical marijuana before then? A: dished a pro-gay ad. The ad, actress Kylie Ireland told nessman, distraught over resigned following revela- extra-marital sexual rela- Hold your breath. Your case a billboard by the United AP. “They forget that we the re-election of Presi- tions that he and his sec- tionships while serving in a will be processed under Kingdom’s gay advocacy have families and we are dent Barack Obama, took ond-in-command charged position of medical author- current state law. However, group Stonewall, contained married and we have kids his own life by overdosing $1.5 million on party credit ity, including having sex with there is already a city ordi- the words, “Some people and we have lives and jobs on pills. Sixty-four-year- cards, much of it on luxu- at least two patients, three nance making marijuana are gay. Get over it.” The and hobbies just like every- old Henry Smith Hamilton rious hotels, restaurants, coworkers and a drug rep- enforcement the lowest law driver said that being asso- body else.” Jr., who owned a tanning chauffeured sedans and resentative. DesJarlais apol- enforcement priority. ciated with a message pro- parlor, told his partner, “If entertaining. Then-House ogized, sort of, saying that moting tolerance for peo- NO RITE Barack gets re-elected, I’m Speaker Marco Rubio, now he’s not perfect. WESTBORO ple with same-sex attrac- The family of a Minnesota not going to be around.” a U.S. senator and rising BAPTIST TAKES tions violated the core of teenager says the boy was Hamilton’s business was tea party star, spent more MariJ … WHAT ON THE BOSS his Christian faith. denied a Catholic confir- struggling and he apparent- than $100,000 on a party NOW? The Westboro Baptist mation because he posted ly believed the dire warn- credit card. Rubio has said Seattle police know their Church clan protested CONDOM on Facebook a photograph ings from the right that an he sometimes pulled the community – and thus were Bruce Springsteen’s con- CONUNDRUM of him with a sign backing Obama victory would be wrong card out of his wallet. prepared for passage of a cert in Kansas City, Mo., on Los Angeles County same-sex marriage. Minne- devastating for small busi- ballot measure legalizing Nov. 17 because The Boss voters approved a ballot sotans recently defeated a ness owners. PRO-CHOICE marijuana for adults effec- supports marriage equal- measure on Nov. 6 requir- ballot measure to add an WHEN IT’s HIS tive Dec. 6. The PD hired an ity and stumped for Barack ing porn actors to wear anti-gay marriage amend- WRONG CARD CHOICE alternative newspaper jour- Obama’s re-election. An condoms while performing. ment to their Constitution. A witness in a crimi- “Pro-family,” anti-choice nalist to write a Web-based announcement for the pro- The industry immediately A priest at the family’s now- nal case against former Republican Congressman guide, “Marijwhatnow? A test said the entertainment filed a legal challenge to former church denies the Republican Party of Florida Scott DesJarlais of Ten- Guide to Legal Marijuana “industry is a microcosm of block the measure. But the teen was refused confirma- chairman Jim Greer says nessee, a medical doctor, Use In Seattle.” The guide the people of this doomed industry also is preparing to tion but he can’t elaborate prostitutes were at a 2009 encouraged his ex-wife to has a question-and-answer nation; hard-hearted, Hell- depart the U.S. porn capital because it’s an “internal and fundraiser in the Bahamas have at least two abor- structure. 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