THE VOICE OF ’S , , BI AND TRANS COMMUNITY SINCE 1985 June 17, 2009 • vol 24 no 38 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com furious with Meet the New Obama over DOMA Gay Idol page 21 By Lisa Keen Keen News Service

The honeymoon is over. The gloves are off. The Rolling anger is fierce. In a somewhat obscure gay marriage case in , the U.S. Department of Justice sub- mitted a brief June 11 that many LGBT activists Along are decrying as a betrayal of President ’s promise to work to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). And yet a prominent, widely respected con- stitutional law professor urges caution, arguing Bronzeville page 7 that the particular lawsuit that triggered this latest controversy is “extremely vulnerable” on a number of legal grounds. The case is Smelt v. U.S., one that has been brewing since 2004 and which gay legal activists openly criticized as premature and ill-conceived at the time. That criticism has not changed with the lawsuit’s new incarnation, filed last Decem- ber. What has changed is the president, his ap- pointees to the Department of Justice, and the Chaz expectation on the part of many in the LGBT To Become community that the Obama administration page 18 would mount only a perfunctory defense of a Man DOMA, given that President Obama has vowed to work to repeal the statute. But instead, the DOJ, under Obama appointee page 26 Tony West, an Assistant Attorney General, has filed a brief vigorously defending DOMA as a rea- sonable and necessary law. Lesbian Alice Gleason can be the picture of calm or can certainly stir things up as a member of “The brief is appalling,” said lawyer Lorri Jean, the roller-derby league , which will hold its championship June 20 at the UIC Pavilion, 525 S. Racine. Read more about her on page 26. Turn to page 4 Milwaukee Pridefest Gay couple loves challenge of fatherhood page 19 By ROSS FORMAN Lincoln Park couple of 14 years. said. “I’ve always envisioned being a parent, but “On Father’s Day, we’re grateful for having a wasn’t sure how I was going to be able to work On a late April day in 2002, life partners Marv family; it’s a great day to celebrate,” said Pol- that out being gay.” Pollack and Barry Taylor got a frantic phone call lack, 56. They talked at length about becoming parents. from Pam Benziger of California. Taylor, 45, a civil-rights attorney and the legal They did hours of research on the topic, went to Benziger was the surrogate mother for their director at Equip For Equality, added: “Father’s parenting meetings and talked with many people first child and, though she wasn’t due until the Day is an official day to celebrate that we are about the subject. third week in May, her water broke. So Pollack a family, that we’ve been able to have a family. “We spent a lot of time talking about it be- and Taylor bolted to the airport, bound for Los Growing up as a gay man, that wasn’t something cause it is a big commitment and it’s very impor- Angeles. They weren’t able to get on the same I was sure I could have. So sometimes I think tant for both partners to be committed to being Andersonville flight, but both made it in time to be in the becoming a parent is a miracle. It’s a very spe- parents,” Taylor said. Midsommarfest birthing room as Benziger gave birth to Molly, cial day to commemorate something very mean- “I’m really, really glad that we came to the now 7. ingful to us.” conclusion that parenting was for us; the kids page 19 Pollack and Taylor reconnected with Benziger The road to parenthood for Pollack and Taylor have really added a marvelous dimension to our a few years later for their son, Hudson, now 4. started with Taylor. “I’ve always wanted to be a Turn to page 8 Father’s Day now truly is a blessing for the parent; I guess it’s just part of my DNA,” Taylor

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NEWS Obama and DOMA 4 The HIV Testing & Prevention Program Calif. might cut HIV funds 5 of on Halsted Presents: Carrie Prejean fired 5 LGBT judges’ group forms 6 ‘Stonewall’ panel 6 A NATIONAL Queer Bronzeville exhibit 7 Nettelhorst’s tribute 8 Gay fathers 8 HIV TESTING AARP forum and LGBT issues 9 Latino Pride picnic photos 9 Marriage forum 10 Nettelhorst Elementary has put up a DAY SEMINAR Passages: Allen, Otaka 10 tribute to diversity (above) during World news; Quotelines 11 Pride Month. Read more about this View-Strub; letter on DOMA 12 development on page 8.

Photo by Robin Schachtel WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2009 ENTERTAINMENT 8AM – 1PM Scottish Play Scott: London 13 KATM; Forever Plaid 16 Gretchen Phillips; Gay chorus 17 Pop Making Sense 18 Chaz Bono to change 18 Free, rapid HIV testing will be available PrideFest; Midsommarfest 19 throughout the day. Gay Idol: We have a winner! 21 Billy Masters 24 Adam in RS: I’m gay 25

OUTLINES Calendar 22 Real estate; classifieds 23 Join Center on Halsted for a free educational Sports: Rapinoe, Gleason 20 War Horse (above) is one of three London and informative presentation on HIV/AIDS. This productions analyzed in our Scottish Play Cover photos and credits (from top): Windy City Gay Idol Scott column. See page 13. National HIV Testing Day Seminar is designed winner by Kirk Williamson; Queer Bronzeville photo of jazz musician Tony Johnson courtesy of Tristan Cabello; and Photo by Simon Annand for both interested members of the community Chaz Bono courtesy of Jesse Danzig and for HIV/AIDS service providers.

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The President has said he wants to see decisive, appropriate changes on LGBT people’s gay marriage. head of the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center. a legislative repeal of the Defense of Marriage issues.” In its brief on the Smelt case, the DOJ asks the “If that is an example of Obama’s “fierce advo- Act because it prevents LGBT couples from be- “This brief’s an example of profoundly distress- federal district court to dismiss the Smelt lawsuit cacy” on our behalf, I’d rather he go advocate ing granted equal rights and benefits. However, ing doublespeak,” said Pizer. for a number of reasons—procedural and legal. for someone else. This brief went far beyond until Congress passes legislation repealing the Well-known legal scholar and champion for In doing so, DOJ asserts that DOMA addresses a anything that might have been ‘required’ of the law, the administration will continue to defend equal rights, Lawrence Tribe said he believes the legitimate need for the federal government to Administration. I worry that this is a revealing the statute when it is challenged in the justice specific case is flawed. adopt “a cautious policy of federal neutrality glimpse into the true sentiments of this Admin- system.” “Although there certainly are instances in towards a new form of marriage.” It also asks istration. It feels like a betrayal of all he has It also “authorized” Office of Personnel Man- which the executive branch should throw in the that the courts uphold DOMA in order to protect promised our community.” agement Director John Berry to tell The Advo- towel even when that would result in disman- the federal government’s “scarce resources” and All four national gay legal organizations, plus cate and attendees of an LGBT Pride celebration tling a duly enacted congressional statute,” said its ability “to respond to new social phenomena the and the National in Washington, D.C. on Sunday that the admin- Tribe, “in my view, the Smelt case is not among one step at a time, and to adjust national policy Gay and Lesbian Task Force, issued a joint state- istration is still committed to repealing DOMA. them.” Tribe acknowledged that he found much incrementally.” ment Friday, criticizing the brief in uncharacter- Berry defended the DOJ brief, saying the presi- of the DOJ brief “quite baffling—gratuitously “DOMA does not discriminate against homo- istically strong terms. The statement said the dent has to enforce all federal laws “that have reaching for substantive arguments lacking in sexuals in the provision of federal benefits,” organizations are “extremely disturbed by a new been enacted appropriately and that he has in- plausibility, simplistic to the point of being in- argues the DOJ. “…DOMA does not distinguish and nonsensical argument the administration herited.” sulting, and insensitive to the force of the stron- among persons of different sexual orientations, has advanced suggesting that the federal gov- “It would be wrong for me or any of our com- gest arguments against DOMA’s constitutionality but rather it limits federal benefits to those who ernment needs to be ‘neutral’ with regard to its munity to advise him to lie or to shirk his re- as well as to the sensibilities of both gays and have entered into the traditional form of mar- treatment of married same-sex couples in order sponsibility,” said Berry. “He’s doing his job. He straights who find DOMA as abhorrent as I know riage.” to ensure that federal tax money collected from has made clear that he stands for the repeal of President Obama does.” But he said the Smelt The brief claims that gay people who marry across the country not be used to same- DOMA. It will be part of this administration’s lawsuit has too many flaws to warrant the ad- same-sex spouses “are denied no federal benefits sex couples duly married by their home states.” agenda to accomplish that act. We ought not ministration’s support. Instead, said Tribe, the to which they were entitled prior to their mar- “When President Obama was courting lesbian, waste energy and angst attacking him when we administration would do better to side with riage.” gay, bisexual and voters,” said the should be focusing the energy and effort on get- LGBT plaintiffs in the “very powerful” lawsuit One argument that prompted the particular ire statement, “he said that he believed that DOMA ting 218 votes in the House and 60 votes in the being mounted by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & of gay legal activists was a claim by the DOJ should be repealed. We ask him to live up to his Senate, and that’s where we ought to target the Defenders in Massachusetts. that the federal government, through DOMA, emphatic campaign promises, to stop making energy and the strength of this community and simply “declines to obligate federal taxpayers false and damaging legal arguments, and imme- this president is with us, this is our agenda and What the DOJ says now in [straight marriage only] States to subsidize a diately to introduce a bill to repeal DOMA and it’s his agenda.” The case is Smelt v. U.S., filed in the U.S. form of marriage their own States do not recog- ensure that every married couple in America has LGBT legal activists say they understand the district court for Central California on behalf nize.” the same access to federal protections.” DOJ has a responsibility to defend federal laws, of Arthur Smelt and Christopher Hammer, who “This policy of neutrality,” said DOJ, “maxi- Kate Kendell, head of the National Center for they just feel the department went far beyond were married in California last year during the mizes state autonomy and democratic self-gov- Lesbian Rights, called the DOJ brief “shocking what it needed to—from providing a basic de- period the state was allowed to issue marriage ernance in an area of traditional state concern, and unsettling.” Geoff Kors, head of the Equality fense to delivering a vigorous justification. licenses to same-sex couples. The Smelt case and preserves scarce government resources. It is California group that fought Proposition 8, said Jennifer Pizer, head of Lambda Legal Defense and the GLAD case, Gill v. Office of Personnel thus entirely rational.” his organization is “outraged.” Former Clinton and Education Fund’s Marriage Project, said her Management, are two of at least four gay-related ©2009 Keen News Service White House staffer Richard Socarides called the group was “very surprised and disappointed and marriage challenges filed in federal courts this read the entire analysis online at www. 612269_DIPL_AD.epsbrief aTue “veritable Jun 9 kitchen12:10:20 sink EDT of anti-gay 2009 legal distressed at the arguments in this brief.” year. WindyCityMediaGroup.com. theories, that it seemed expressly designed to “They go much farther than they need to,” The best-known case, Perry v. Schwarzenegger, inflict maximal damage to our rights.” said Pizer, and offer arguments we would not was filed just last month by famed attorneys Ted Responding to the criticism, the White House expect from this administration.” Olson, a staunch conservative, and David Boies, issued a brief statement June 12, saying: “As it Pizer said while legal activists have seen a staunch liberal. A fourth suit, Bonilla v. Levine, generally does with existing statutes, the Justice “clear, decisive changes in policy” regarding asks a federal district court in to

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Pepsi Item: Vertis Job No: 612269 Pepsi Item No: File Trapped: Date: Tue Jun 9 12:10:20 EDT 2009 Trap Amount: .004 in June 17, 2009 5 ADAP and elimination of monitoring testing. followed, along with a revelation that she’d re- Calif. pols Gay and HIV advocates have strongly de- cently had breast implants. And topless photos NATIONAL nounced the budget proposals, and a large rally of her appeared on the Internet. was held at the state Capitol in Sacramento on In firing Prejean, the USA orga- may slash June 10. nization said: “This was a decision based solely ROUNDUP BY ANDREW DAVIS on contract violations including Ms. Prejean’s HIV funding unwillingness to make appearances on behalf of by Rex Wockner In South Carolina, lesbian politician Linda Miss California the Miss California USA organization. ... It has Ketner—who narrowly lost to incumbent State become abundantly clear that Carrie is unwilling Rep. Henry Brown last November—has outed California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has pro- to fulfill her obligations under our contract and fired three Republican lawmakers, according to posed, and the California Legislature is consider- by Rex Wockner work together.” ing, draconian cuts to all types of HIV-related On Top Magazine. Speaking to Howie Klein at Miss USA pageant owner said he Fire Dog Lake, a progressive political blog, Ket- funding in the near-bankrupt state. Controversial Miss California USA and Miss USA supported her firing. ner said, “We have more gay people serving in In the worst-case scenario, which is still not first runner-up Carrie Prejean was stripped of her “I told Carrie she needed to get back to work South Carolina than probably in any place in off the table, slashes to the AIDS Drug Assis- California crown June 10. and honor her contract with the Miss California the United States”—and then named U.S. Sen. tance Program could result in thousands of Cali- Pageant officials said she wasn’t fulfilling her USA organization and I gave her the opportu- Lindsey Graham, State Sen. Glenn McConnell and fornians who make less than $41,600 per year duties. nity to do so,” Trump said. “Unfortunately it just Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer. However, after that remark losing access to the state-provided drugs that Prejean had become an unofficial spokesper- doesn’t look like it is going to happen and I was made public June 1, Q Notes reported two suppress HIV and keep them alive. son for the anti-gay-marriage movement after offered (Miss California USA Executive Director) days later that Ketner backed off those asser- In the apparent best-case scenario, not all the brouhaha at the Miss USA pageant April 19, Keith (Lewis) my full support in making this de- tions, saying she thought her remarks were off HIV drugs would be available via ADAP and pa- where she had said, in response to a question cision. Carrie is a beautiful young woman and the record, according to EDGE Boston. tients would have to pay part of the cost of the from gay judge : “Um, we live in I wish her well as she pursues her other inter- Thomas Beatie, who became nationally ones they could get. That is problematic because a land that you can choose same-sex marriage ests.” known last year as the “pregnant man,” has some HIV-positive people have developed resis- or opposite marriage and—you know what?— Prejean and her lawyer have publicly contest- given birth to a second child, NJ.com reported. tance to some HIV drugs, and need access to the in my country and in my family, I think that ed the charge that she violated her contract. Beatie, a transman formerly known as Tracy Lan- full arsenal of therapies to stay alive. I believe that a marriage should be between a The new Miss California USA is Miss Malibu, gondino, gave birth to a son June 9; he and wife Further, the current plan apparently com- man and a woman—no offense to anybody out Tami Farrell, who had been first runner-up in the Nancy already have a daughter, Susan Juilette. pletely eliminates state funding for the tests there, but that’s how I was raised and that’s how state pageant. Beatie has his gender altered legally and surgi- that determine if a patient is responding to I think that it should be: between a man and a In an interview with on June 11, cally, but opted to retain the female reproduc- treatment—such tests as CD4 counts, viral-load woman.” Farrell, when prodded, very reluctantly said she tive organs. measurement and drug-resistance monitoring. Later that evening, Hilton posted a video on also thinks marriage is between a man and a In California, Rob Williams and Arnie States— These tests are essentially mandatory in HIV his popular blog in which he called Prejean “a woman. co-hosts of Sacramento’s “Rob, Arnie & Dawn treatment. Doctors use them so they can change dumb bitch” and said, “If that girl would have She also said: “You know, I think it’s hilarious Show”—have apologized on-air for making a nonresponsive patient’s drug combination to won Miss USA, I would have gone up onstage—I right now that the world is turning to beauty critical remarks about trans teenagers, Advo- another combo that works in that patient—be- shit you not—I would have gone up onstage, queens for the answers for this. I think it’s an cate.com reported. After the May 28 broadcast— fore the patient’s immune system breaks down snatched that tiara off her head and run out the important issue and I think that it’s one that I which included States saying he would probably further and the patient develops a life-threaten- door.” don’t think I can win a battle. I don’t want to be hit his son with one of his shoes if the boy wore ing opportunistic infection. The blog video caused the story to mushroom, any more divisive than it’s already become. ... I high heels—11 companies (including McDon- The current plan apparently also dramatically as did Prejean’s comment to this news column a don’t think that I have the right or anybody has ald’s, Verizon and Snapple) pulled their ads from slashes funding for education, prevention, coun- week later that people aren’t born gay but rather 612269_DIPL_AD.eps Tue Jun 9 12:10:20 EDT 2009 a right to tell somebody who they can or can’t the program. Incidentally, Dawn Rossi, the third seling and testing programs. “it’s a behavior that develops over time.” love. And I think this is a civil-rights issue. And co-host, defended the teens during the earlier Some 35,000 working- and middle-class Cali- Prejean later appeared at a press event and in I think the right thing to do is let the voters program. fornians who don’t make enough money to pay a TV ad for the National Organization for Mar- decide.” Read more national news online at www. for their own treatment could be adversely or riage, an activist group opposed to same-sex WindyCityMediaGroup.com. dangerously affected by the possible cuts to nuptials. Numerous national TV appearances

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Pepsi Item: Vertis Job No: 612269 Pepsi Item No: File Trapped: Date: Tue Jun 9 12:10:20 EDT 2009 Trap Amount: .004 in 6 June 17, 2009 pointed out that the benefits that judges and Ten years after Katz’s election—and fifteen Staton, addressing the issue of why Stonewall their partners receive from the state are taxed: years after Chiola’s—the Alliance of Illinois became a historic point of reference, said that “This is not something that would happen if we Judges is being founded with 16 charter mem- “the night of the arrests was different because were married with a spouse.” bers. people stayed around to watch and, as people “This is one of the things that we deal with,” Chiola also proposed, in 2001, a rules change were put into the paddy wagon, people began Chiola said. “We all need to consider whether that would include sexual orientation in discrim- picking fights.” He also said that there were oth- that’s equitable.” ination protections accorded to members of the er similar events in Chicago, but the difference Chiola, the first openly gay judge to be elect- Illinois bar. His proposal was accepted by the was that Stonewall gained a national reputation ed to the Cook County Circuit Court, has been Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who, for its significance. Lott Hill added that “Stone- on the bench since 1994. Before his election, Chiola said, “didn’t consider it to be a big deal.” wall was not the first protest but the one that Chiola worked for the State Attorney General’s Big deal or not, Chiola pointed to the event as generated a lot of press, a point where media Office and in the State Department of Profes- an illustration of the importance of having “ac- started to pay attention” to LGBTQ issues. Hill sional Regulation. An active member of the LGBT cess from the inside”—and being able to use also spoke about AIDS activism in the 1980s, community for a long time, he also served as that access on behalf of LGBT people. and the kind of organizing against pharmaceuti- the race director for Proud to Run. “One of the The group also grew to function as a support cal companies that cohered after Stonewall. things my campaign was about,” he said, “was system. Because stringent ethics rules make it Referring to the media spin, LaTrobe sought to get somebody from the gay community elect- difficult to talk openly about certain LGBT issues to correct a widespread myth about the event, Judge Tom Chiola. ed in Illinois.” that could be construed as political, Sebastian that it came about as a memorial for Judy Gar- Being out and on the bench, he said, is “not Patti said, “We have to rely on one another for land who had just died. Sinozich affirmed that something I would have even considered when I an internal support system.” The fact of being his historical understanding of the event proved Here come became a young lawyer.” a minority within the judicial system, he said, otherwise. For one thing, according to him, cli- the judges: His comments were echoed by Judge Sebastian “increases the burden on each of us to support entele at Stonewall that night would have been Patti, also a founding member of AIJ. Patti, who our brother and sister judges.” younger than those who would have remem- New group forms was appointed to a vacant seat on the Circuit See www.theaij.com. bered Garland singing at Carnegie Hall. LaTrobe Court in 1995 and stood for election in 1996, also referred to other events, like the Compton’s BY SAM WORLEY said that the cultural change he’s witnessed Cafeteria riot in San Francisco three years before within and without the judiciary is “nothing Panelists discuss Stonewall, that went unnoticed by the media at A June 24 reception will mark the inaugura- short of remarkable.” the time. tion of the Alliance of Illinois Judges (AIJ), an “[Chiola’s] election was huge,” Patti said. “It ‘Stonewall In concluding remarks, participants spoke LGBT-oriented organization recently founded by really did pave the way for us after that.” about the state of the current gay movement. a group of judges from the Cook County Circuit (Chiola returned the compliment, calling it and Beyond’ Sinozich said that while Stonewall created a Court. “nothing short of a coup” that the Democratic By YASMIN NAIR sense “that there be a response, I don’t sense Judge Tom Chiola, who will preside over the Party chose Patti as its candidate in 1996). any urgency in the community as a whole.” Gray, new organization, says that AIJ is intended to What would eventually become AIJ started as The 40th anniversary of Stonewall falls on June however, said she saw the opposite: “an incred- act as a resource for LGBT people involved in the an informal group of judges who, said Tom Chi- 28 this year, the same date of the original riot in ible urgency” in relation to marriage “as a very world of the courts; though comprised of judges, ola, grew close by “trying to socialize and give 1969. Since Stonewall, the LGBTQ community has important issue.” Hill said that he was “very the group seeks as well to enhance the experi- each other support.” Chiola said that group has seen the formation of the Gay Liberation Front hopeful” and that, in his work with students, he ence of lawyers and law students. Without taking been particularly instrumental in electing LGBT in the 1970s, the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and felt that “Proposition 8 is one of those galvaniz- an explicit politics—prohibited under judicial people as Associate Judges—positions whose the rise of the same-sex-marriage movement in ing moments.” Staton added that he was “hope- ethics rules—AIJ provides a forum for discus- occupants are chosen by already-seated mem- the late 1990s and beyond. To commemorate the ful and optimistic.” In the question-and-answer sion of LGBT issues within the judicial system, bers of the judiciary, the latter of whom are free event, the Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted, session, some of the nearly 30 attendees (plus including domestic partner coverage (which its to lobby colleagues on behalf of preferred can- hosted an intergenerational roundtable discus- the members of the chorus) indicated that the members, as state employees, have access to) didates. Nancy Katz, the first out lesbian judge sion entitled “Stonewall and Beyond” June 11. discussion had been thought-provoking. and pension benefits (which they don’t). on the Circuit Court, was elected as an Associate Participants were Lott Hill, director of the “We are searching out ways to equalize the Judge in 1999. Center for Teaching Excellence at Columbia Col- playing field for our members,” said Chiola. He lege Chicago; Patrick Sinozich, artistic director Milk letters to of Chicago ’s Chorus; Monte Staton, a doctoral candidate at Loyola and a Gerber/Hart be auctioned off Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, 1338 W. Lake, has volunteer; , a local LGBT activist announced the sale of two intimate letters from Margo M. Jacquot who serves on Center on Halsted’s SAGE Advisory Harvey Milk to his friend Patrick Mormon, whom Council; and June LaTrobe, the Center on Halst- Psy.D., CSADC, BCETS he befriended while serving in the U.S. Navy. ed’s transgender community liaison. LaTrobe was The letters will be a highlight in the Fine Books also the moderator. The discussion was punctu- and Manuscript auction Tuesday, July 28. (They ated with performances by Chicago Gay Men’s Helping the LGBTQ will be exhibited Sunday-Monday, July 26-27.) Chorus. The first of the two letters being offered at communities create Each participant provided a different set of auction shed light on the history of Milk’s dis- details about Stonewall, and the activism that better, more ful lling charge and the ethics of outing in the 1950s for came after. Gray said that she came out the young gay men in the Navy. In the second let- lives and relationships same year, and that she and her then-girlfriend ter—postmarked “USS Kittiwake, New York, NY” had gone to New York to attend Woodstock with a specific date unknown—Milk revealed to where they found a little tent with information friend and fellow servicemember Pat Mormon his about Stonewall. According to Gray, the two intentions to be “married” to an unnamed lover determined that they would be involved in gay and move to Dallas, Texas. politics upon their return to Chicago. Gray went See www.lesliehindman.com for more informa- on to describe what it was like to be out and gay tion. in the period: “You couldn’t touch in the bar, they’d shine a light on you and ask you to leave. It was a different world.” Candidate to run Sinozich discussed the physical geography surrounding the Inn as well as the political pow- against Deb Mell Joe Laiacona has declared his candidacy for ers that dominated it. According to him, Stone- Illinois state representative, according to a cam- wall was “owned and run by the mafia for sev- paign press release. He will run in the 40th Dis- eral reasons” having to do with liquor laws and trict, currently represented by out legislator Deb bootlegging. The police would occasionally raid Improving intimacy Repairing relationships Mell. and harass clientele, but mostly in order to dem- Laiacona—who wrote the column “Leather onstrate that they were doing their job when, in Views” for magazine for many years Healing from abuse, trauma, addiction, anxiety, reality they were being paid by the mafia to only under the name Jack Rinella—is a past member raid on occasion, when a lot of people were not depression, uncertainty about sexuality, loss of a relationship of the board of directors of Test Positive Aware around. Network and a former member of the Lakeview LaTrobe discussed the spectrum of sexual and Police GLBT liaison group. He is also on the gender identity of the patrons at Stonewall. She North and Northwest Suburbs board of directors of the Leather Leadership said that while most people think of drag queens Conference, Inc. His Web site is www.Friendsfor- at the forefront, many identified as such because JoeLaiacona.org. the word “transgender” was not in common us- Among other things, Laiacona favors govern- age at the time. She also explained that, at the mental transparency, disclosure of all political- time, everyone had to be wearing at least three ly-related financial transactions and limits on items of clothing “that corresponded to your contributions to and among those involved in www.junipercenterchicago.com birth sex.” Terms like “fluffy sweater boys” and politics. “flame queens” were ways to demarcate differ- Primary elections are in February 2010. 847-759-9110, ext.1 ent forms of gender identity and expression. June 17, 2009 7 Barrow, a singer and Chicago native who suc- still happening in the city today, and white and cumbed to AIDS early on in the epidemic. All Black LGBT people typically are not integrated. of these artists are profiled in the project, and With this exhibit, we can work toward changing again in Pilsen many others. that.” Chicago Dyke March (CDM) organizers an- In doing this project, Cabello had a simple Cabello also mentioned that LGBT people, par- nounced that the event will take place in Pilsen goal: to show people that there was gay history ticularly , began to lose their for a second time Saturday, June 27. in their neighborhoods. sexual freedom when they began to work toward The rally will begin at 1 p.m. on 18th and Hal- “I wanted to show that people back then were equality, because the civil rights movement sted. A bike contingent will begin from Trum- accepting. Homophobia in the Black community mostly worked to uplift the race. bull Elementary (at Foster and Ashland) to the is not a historical thing,” said Cabello. “Sexual Ultimately, Cabello wants people to know that march, departing at 11 a.m. For more informa- identity didn’t really matter. It was not part of there is more to LGBT history than they are prob- tion, to volunteer, or to perform, please e-mail the public discourse and people were accepted ably aware of. CDM at [email protected] or visit and integrated.” “One of the other purposes of this exhibit is to www.myspace.com/dykemarchchicago. One of the crucial shifts in this mentality came let people know that not only was there [LGBT] when the Civil Rights movement began. Cabello history for African Americans before the civil- spoke of how Martin Luther King’s goal to gain rights movement, but there was general [LGBT] BEHIV moves all full citizenship for African Americans often over- history before gay liberation in the ‘70s,” Ca- services to Chicago shadowed other problems within the communi- bello said. “If people get to know this, then my Better Existence with HIV (BEHIV) has shut ty. work here is done.” down its Evanston office and moved all of its “Oftentimes, Black people, in order to gain The goal of the exhibit will be for services to its Chicago location, 1244 W. Thorn- acceptance, had to play to white heteronorma- Cabello to turn it into a book, which he plans to dale. tivity. Ebony published an article in the 1960s publish within the next three years after com- Some of the agency’s services now have new ‘Queer Bronzeville’: where MLK took questions from young people, pleting more research. Until then, readers can times and locations. Among some of BEHIV’s of- and one person asked him about being gay. King see the exhibit at www.outhistory.org, in the ferings are HIV/STI testing, a weekly substance- The South Side’s suggested that he seek the help of a doctor. This “Exhibits” tab. abuse support group, massage therapy of those is when the discourse begins to shift,” said Ca- Note: The WCT cover photo for this article is of who are HIV-infected and -affected, the Brothas LGBT history bello. “When people began to write black histo- jazz musician . Saving Brothas Group and art therapy. See www. By WES LAWSON ry, they tried to use the templates for white his- behiv.org for more information. tory, and that doesn’t really work. Segregation is In the 1920s, in an area of Chicago known as Bronzeville, a small but powerful queer subcul- ture emerged. 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Should they be allowed great school for my kid!” Festen said that the idea came largely from to participate in a parade that has become a sex Even Mannis wants to make it clear that he pays tribute to Rossi, and that the idea stemmed from a desire parade? No.” does not look disparagingly on Nettlehorst. for a school that was both safe and affirming. Festen was in charge of getting the fabric for “It seems like a very good school,” he said. diversity “In kindergarten, the kids say ‘It’s so cool the mural and was astonished at the community “They’re doing great things for the kids. Al- BY WES LAWSON that you have two moms!’ to our daughter. Our outpouring. though I was picking on them for that one issue. daughter knows are family is different. When she “When we were thinking about this, we want- I’m not attacking the school as a whole. I may Anyone who has passed by Nettlehorst Elemen- plays, she always uses a mom and a dad. [But] ed to show our kids that we were part of the have overstated my case.” tary, 3252 N. Broadway, is likely to notice the there was a kid that got teased for having two community,” she said. “We took fabric donations Rossi said that in the end, he wants this to be colorful rainbow fence surrounding the play- dads. Our kids will get teased. That’s a fact of and got an overwhelming amount. There was a a stepping-off point for further dialogue. ground. And if you read the placard that is part life. My job as a parent, and the reason why I guy named Adam at CB2 [at Clybourn and Hal- “There have been incidents at this school that of the display, you’ll learn that the school is the got involved, was to help my kids be resilient sted] who went out of his way to get us fabric. made us say, ‘we’re going to either sit and wait first public school to be marching in Chicago’s to teasing by building a support system around Within two weeks he had gathered us two bags. around and react or we’ll become proactive. The . them,” said Festen. We got donations from the Steppenwolf Costume question of ‘How do we make this school become The children of Nettlehorst have tied thou- The project began with the fence, which has Department, the fashion department at the Art a school we want to be a part of?’ prompted sands of multicolored cloths around the fence been an ongoing art project for several years. Institute—it’s been amazing.” us to say, ‘We need to do this now, because we to display, in the words of the placard, “[a] tan- This is the first year in which it was specifically In spite of the blog comments, Festen says don’t want our kids to face some of the things gible sign of his or her personal intention to LGBT themed, and Rossi said that he was ner- that the response has been overwhelmingly pos- we faced as LGBT kids,” Rossi said. create a better world ... Here, the rainbow colors vous at the outset of the project. itive. T-shirts for the parade and the school are of are a visible sign of our respect for “You never know if people will be silent, angry, She said, “A conversation has been started available through the school, and Rossi men- the neighborhood of which we are a part, and or supportive. There are 450 kids that go to this among the parents on the playground. Most tions that they have already sold over a hun- the diversity of families that we serve.” school and I’ve only heard one negative com- people probably knew I was a lesbian mom, but dred. Brad Rossi, a gay parent of a first-grade girl, ment, and that was just hearsay. For the LGBT now people are having a dialogue. There’s a sup- and Marcia Festen, a lesbian parent of two families, this is cool because we didn’t know portive community ready to engage in these is- daughters, one of whom is in kindergarten, were what to expect. There’s this idea that because we’re in Boystown, we’ll be light years ahead, both crucial in bringing the idea to the school. is very mainstream, so a lot of our social life but we’re not. We’re ripe to move forward and The two worked together in the 1980s, and Rossi FATHERS from cover is with other parents of other kids, which has says that the idea came from California. the pieces are in place.” lives,” Pollack added. been a very broadening experience. And most “My partner and I moved here from San Fran- Among the few dissenting voices in the com- Their surrogacy was coordinated through Los of those parents are straight. And it’s not what cisco last year with our daughter specifically munity is Tom Mannis, a blogger for conserva- Angeles-based Growing Generations, the first I was expecting.” for this school. We liked the school’s focus on tive blog RogersParkBench.blogspot.com. surrogacy agency dedicated to serving the gay The fathers said that, as far as they know, arts and the Boystown location,” Rossi said. “I was walking through the neighborhood, and and lesbian community. they are the only gay parents at Molly’s “We already knew Marcia, and we began look- I came across the school, and the display of very “I think it’s very important for partners to school. ing around the school for other [LGBT] families, pretty multicolored cloths. I thought it would make sure that they are both committed. It’s a Molly is aware of Benziger. since we had come from a school with many make a nice picture. When I read the placard huge responsibility, a long-term commitment,” “Molly understands that, in order to have a [LGBT] families and we hoped that would be the [that explains the display], all kinds of thoughts Taylor said. baby, there needs to be a woman involved, and case here.” went through my head,” said Mannis. “I have Pollack added, “[Potential gay parents] Pam carried her in her tummy for us,” Barry Rossi said that in looking for other LGBT fami- nothing against gay people, I’m not a homo- should be mindful of the responsibility in- said. “She doesn’t perceive Pam as a mom or lies in the community, the idea of marching in phobe, and I have nothing against the parade. volved because it will re-focus your life. But anything like that. the parade, which he did at his daughter’s previ- But I step back and say, ‘What is the gay pride I will say, don’t hesitate to do it. It’s a real “When the question of her mom comes up ous school in San Francisco, came about. parade as it happens here?’ Drunk men with their blessing.” in school, she’s just very factual about it, say- “I started wondering if there was something asses hanging out of tutus.” Pollack and Taylor have adopted a very sim- ing that she has two dads. I think we’re in a we should be doing. This translated into improv- He added, “On the one hand, is it good for ple, straight-forward approach—with the kids new generation. Sure, gay families are not ev- ing the overall climate for the students at the kids to be acceptant and nondiscriminatory? and truly anyone who asks. Their world is based erywhere, but certainly more and more fami- on honesty, period. lies are comprised of same-sex couples, so it’s Take, for instance, the time Taylor was push- not as radical or as poorly received as it might ing Molly in a stroller at a park. A lady said to have been even 10 years ago.” Taylor, ‘I guess it’s mom’s day off.’ Molly and Hudson, who spend their Saturdays follow these days playing soccer along the lakefront, Taylor replied, “No; our kid has two fathers.” “From the beginning, we have always been have “very different personalities,” Taylor said, very specific and very factual about our fam- and Pollack agreed. “Molly is very deliberate; the stars she is very analytical. Hudson is very funny, ily; we chose to not ignore those questions or not answer them. I think people appreciate our very active. honesty,” Taylor said. “They play very well together; they have a Pollack said that people have been “amaz- strong affection for each other.” ingly accepting.” In fact, they really have not Pollack and Taylor said they are done at two. had anyone question them. Rather, they get “We’re very pleased with where our family is great support from everyone. That includes right now,” Taylor said. “Father’s Day is a very great support in the kids’ schools, in their so- meaningful day for both of us. While I was the cial network and even at airports. “We’ve never catalyst for us becoming parents, Marv certain- really had any negative response, which actu- ly has embraced parenthood.” ally has been a little surprising. We were pre- Pollack added, “The kids are still a little pared for some [negative] questions and com- young to understand Father’s Day, but I’m sure ments,” Pollack said. “One of the factors that as they get older, it will be a meaningful day we really hadn’t expected was … having kids for them too.”

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Hope Barrett (left) and Alejandro Garcia. Left photo by Andrew Davis; right photo courtesy of Garcia griot members recalled their relationships, fa- LGBT issues milial encounters and other life experiences. (A griot refers to a storyteller, poet or performer.) discussed at For example, Paul Darling talked about fighting in Korea, being addicted to heroin and hustling in drag before becoming a minister. Another, Lil- AARP confab Two giant pride flags on the corner of Division and Humboldt marked the location of this By andrew davis lie Wheatley, talked about supporting her lover, year’s Latino Pride Picnic, which took place June 13. Overnight rain showers didn’t stop Ellen, for 47 years—but telling people that they Orgullo en Acción organizers from hosting their fourth event in Humboldt Park. The early The AARP conference “Diversity and Aging in the were “cousins.” morning steady rain made the set-up difficult, but that didn’t dampen the mood. While 21st Century: The Power of Inclusion” took place Francis then talked about how Griot Circle is people grilled with friends and family, a variety of performers entertained the crowd. The June 8-10 at the Marriott Chicago Downtown facing a crisis trying to find a place in New York event also featured DJ Corona playing music throughout the day and an appearance by Magnificent Mile, 540 N. Michigan. Reflecting City with affordable rent—and that the organi- Zobo the Clown, who face-painted children. the event’s theme, there were several forums zation has 1,200 members and a working space The Latino Pride Picnic was co-sponsored by Amigas Latinas, ALMA (Association of La- that revolved around LGBT-related issues. of 822 square feet. However, despite those ob- tino Men for Action) and Circuit Nightclub. Photos and text by Emmanuel Garcia; video will Just one was the symposium “Multiple Jeopar- stacles, he still seemed optimistic about the be on QueerTVNetwork.com dy: To Be Old, Gay and a Person of Color,” which group. examined the sometimes devastating effects of Barrett presented data from a needs assess- being in several demographic groups that are of- ment study that involved 328 respondents who ten ignored or viewed with disdain. ranged in age from 49 to 87. (In keeping with Speakers included Glen-Michael Francis, ex- the symposium’s theme, she presented results ecutive director of New York’s Griot Circle, which by race.) The survey looked at a wide range of is for those who are at least 50 years of age; Ale- healthcare-related topics, including insurance jandro Garcia, a professor at Syracuse University coverage and the subjects’ own assessment of and a member of AARP’s National Policy Council; their health. However, one of the most interest- and Hope Barrett, director of community initia- ing results involved the respondents’ feelings of tives at Center. James hopelessness: 38 percent of whites, 35 percent Miner of the University of Chicago moderated. of Blacks and 36 percent of Latinos admitted Garcia remarked how those who are old, gay feeling despair. and people of color are the “ultimate invisible Regarding local resources, Barrett said that people” and added that they have the same most of them are concentrated on the North fears everyone else has, including loneliness and Side of Chicago, but added that Howard Brown isolation. is “seeking to spread resources,” saying that In including those who fit in multiple catego- people “have to use [others] from the commu- ries such as these, Garcia said that there are sev- nity to be messengers.” eral factors to consider, including age, fear, the Working with community partners Rush Uni- hesitancy to share needs/priorities with strang- versity Medical Center, Heartland Alliance, Coun- ers and cultural differences, citing how minority cil for Jewish Elderly and Midwest Hospice and communities are often homophobic. Palliative Care, Howard Brown is creating a first- Regarding research recommendations, Garcia of-its-kind comprehensive senior program for suggested qualitative studies (how subjects isolated, vulnerable and disadvantage seniors. survive), which would involve looking at their Among the other forums and mini-workshops support systems, cultural traditions, experiences at the conference were “Transgender Elders: with healthcare providers, spirituality, nature of What Providers Need (and Don’t Need) to Know” family and other aspects. and “Barriers to Service for LGBT Seniors: Is It Francis showed a 15-minute video, “Griot on the Public Agenda?” Circle: A Gathering of Elders,” in which various 25 for 25 charity drive nets $5,700 The 25 for 25 Charity Drive Better Existence with HIV (BEHIV): $275 ended June 5, raising nearly $6,000 for local Bonaventure House: $25 LGBT and HIV non-profits. The month-long Center on Halsted: $75 event marked the 25th anniversary of Windy Chicago House: $100 City Times Publisher Tracy Baim’s start in Chi- : $50 cago LGBT media. She started as an editorial Gerber/Hart: $24 assistant at ’s GayLife newspa- Howard Brown Health Center: $125 per in 1984. Jo-Ray House: $25 The drive was also a contest: About Face Lambda Legal: $350 Theatre edged out the Oak Park Area Gay and Lesbian Community Care Project: $150 Lesbian Association to receive a $250 bonus Oak Park Area Lesbian and Gay Assoc.: $1,307.50 donation. Parents, Friends and Families of Lesbians and Gays: $300 The following amounts were raised in the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network: $25 mail-in campaign, for a total Test Positive Aware Network: $505 of $5776.50: Vital Bridges/Open Hand: $440 Checks were handed out during the finals of About Face Theatre: $1,650 Windy City Gay Idol June 13 at Sidetrack, 3349 AIDS Foundation of Chicago: $150 N. Halsted, and will be sent to those agencies Affinity: $100 who did not attend. Amigas Latinas: $100 10 June 17, 2009 “equal marriage will somehow sweep the land.” Health and Development Program, to study the Marriage forum She quickly added that LGBT individuals are “le- development of sexual orientation and the feasi- gal strangers to the federal government, even in bility of retaining a study sample of LGBT youth full of emotion the six states where marriage is legal.” into adulthood; and By ANDREW DAVIS Wolf staunchly advocated organized activism, —James Swartz, associate professor in the and garnered applause when she said, “We need College of Social Work, to develop Given the spate of recent same-sex marriage- to bring Stonewall back to the parade. It didn’t enhanced HIV-prevention services for gay men related decisions (for and against), it was no start off being sponsored by Miller Beer.” who abuse methamphetamines and other drugs. surprise that there was a lot of emotion among She also said that she finds the state’s civil- the dozens of individuals who convened at a union bill’s language “embarrassing.” Referring marriage-equality forum at the J. Merlo Branch to Section 15 of House Bill 2234—which states Hundreds bid Library, 644 W. Belmont, June 9. “Any religious body, Indian Nation or Tribe or blues legend Panelists at the event included Nik Maciejews- Native Group is free to choose whether or not to ki and Patrick (no surname available) of Join the solemnize or officiate a ”—Wolf said farewell Steven R. Allen. Impact-Chicago; Marc Loveless, coordinator of that “no one’s ever been forced to officiate at Approximately 1,000 individuals turned up at the local organization Coalition of Justice and an event he didn’t want [to do so]” and added the Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters, 930 PASSAGES Respect (CJR); and writer/activist Sherry Wolf. that the measure’s “wording is a concession to E. 50th, June 12 to bid farewell to the late blues Maciejewski talked about the need for orga- right-wing bigots.” legend Koko Taylor, according to the Chicago Tri- Steven R. Allen nization and called for a national movement, Lastly, like Maciejewski, Wolf called for “the bune. Steven R. Allen passed away suddenly May stressing for the dispensing of the “state-by- need to mobilize and put [this subject] at the Taylor, known as the “Queen of the Blues,” 2 in Chicago of a massive heart attack. He state battle crap” that has resulted in dispari- foot of Congress. ... Enough is enough. This is died at age 80 from complications resulting from was 54. ties between states. He said that “[i]t’s time bullshit now.” gastrointestinal surgery. Allen was born Sept. 29, 1954 in Canton, for things to be federally mandated” and urged Equality Illinois and Allied for Equality spon- Lori Cannon of Groceryland (an arm of the Ohio. He was a graduate of Oakwood High President Barack Obama to take a stand. sored the forum. HIV/AIDS agency Vital Bridges), said, “AIDS School and Wittenberg University. He worked Maciejewski also mentioned that he talked benefits; the homeless, abused women; women for newspapers in Bucyrus and Xenia, Ohio, with State Rep. Greg Harris—who sponsored the at Cook County jail—anyone who reached out to before moving to Chicago, where he worked at civil-union bill in the Illinois House—about get- UIC awards grants her ... She always made time—despite suffering the law firm of Berger, Newmark and Fenchel ting state lawmakers to vote for marriage equal- with poor health. She was a ‘wang dang doodle’ for the past 25 years. He had been a member for LGBT research of Chi-Town Squares Dance Club for 22 years. ity. Again, a keyword arose: organization. “The The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has of a gal!” Allen was preceded in death by his father, coalition needs to be organized,” Maciejewski announced six new seed grant awards to cam- Rev. Jesse Jackson presided over the event, George Allen (2007) and sister, Patricia Ep- said. pus researchers studying LGBT issues under a which included a proclamation from Gov. Pat stein (2008). He is survived by his mother Patrick read a statement on behalf of Join the grant from the Los Angeles-based David Bohnett Quinn and condolences from personalities such Betty Allen, sister Barbara Frank, brother and Impact-Chicago’s Missy Lorenzen, who wrote Foundation. as B.B. King. Taylor is survived by husband Hays sister-in-law John and Elaine Allen, brother about strategies she learned from attending the The awards are the second round of grants Harris, daughter Joyce Threatt, son-in-law Lee David Allen, two nieces, four nephews, one National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s recent Cre- funded by the foundation, which last June Threatt, two grandchildren and three great- great niece and his extended family of friends ating Change conference. Among the strategies awarded the UIC Chancellor’s Committee on the grandchildren. in Chicago. A Chicago memorial service cele- discussed were reaching the “moveable middle” Status of LGBT Issues $20,000 to advance LGBT brating Allen’s life will be held Saturday, June (those with mostly moderate views), connect- research at UIC. The first three seed grants were 2009 HIV directory 20, at 5040-60 N. Marine. Longtime friend ing with the media, targeting specific legislators awarded last fall. Rev. Jeffrey Phillips will be officiating. and avoiding negative messages. The interdisciplinary review committee funded now available Loveless said that CJR got involved in the civ- two student and four faculty projects for a total Test Positive Aware Network (TPAN), the pub- il-union/marriage movement in 2008, when the of $14,000. The recipients are: lisher of Positively Aware magazine, has an- organization saw it as a healthcare issue (“Peo- —Christine Holland, doctoral candidate in nounced that the 2009 edition of the Illinois ple in couples reduce the number of sex partners psychology, who is investigating the effects of HIV Services Directory is now available. and STIs [sexually transmitted infections]”). He childhood sexual abuse and post-traumatic stress This updated resource lists a combined total also cited Loving v. Virginia—which revolved disorder on the functioning of adult males; of 722 agencies and professionals statewide around interracial marriage—as being pivotal —Mona Noriega, doctoral candidate in public that provide services to people living with and for CJR, saying that the case’s concepts of due administration, who is examining LGBT aging is- affected by HIV, with nearly 380 agencies and process and equal protection also had bearing sues; 170 professionals in the Chicago area alone. The Judge Sandra Otaka. Photo courtesy of regarding marriage equality. Loveless added that —Colleen Corte, assistant professor of health Illinois Department of Public Health provided Aurora Austriaco CJR has an online petition (at www.cjrchicago. funding for the directory. systems science in the College of Nursing, for a PASSAGES net) and will initiative a drive at various events pilot feasibility project to investigate self-iden- Call 773-989-9400 or visit www.tpan.com to this summer, including both Black Prides. tities and risk behaviors in LGBT adolescents; order free copies of the directory, or e-mail di- Judge Sandra However, despite the passions that the previ- —Peter Ji, research assistant professor of [email protected]. ous speakers exhibited, it was Wolf who stirred psychology, to investigate the appropriateness Otaka the audience more than anyone else. Wolf—an of using the LGBT Ally Identity Development Judge Sandra Otaka—the first Asian Ameri- associate editor at the International Socialist Scale in diverse populations; can to be elected a Cook County judge—died Review—warned against marriage-equality or- —Brian Mustanski, assistant professor of on natural causes June 6, according to the ganizers getting complacent and thinking that psychiatry and director of the IMPACT LGBT . She was 57. Born in California, Otaka was a third-gen- eration Japanese-American. Her mother and grandparents were held in U.S. internment camps during the second World War. Tuesday, June 23 She moved to Chicago and began her legal 7:00 p.m. career with the law firm Sidley Austin. Ap- Annual Pride Open Mic pointed to the bench by the Illinois Supreme Court in 2000, she became, in 2002, the sec- ond Asian-American to be elected a judge by Thursday, June 25 Illinois voters. 7:00 p.m. Otaka was known as a fierce advocate for GLBTQ Literary Double Header human rights, including for the LGBT commu- Larry La Fountain-Stokes nity, having served on human-rights commis- and Have your sions in Chicago. E. Patrick Johnson Out historian Bill Kelley said of Otaka, “San- premiums dra and I served together on the Cook County Human Rights Ordinance drafting committee and later on the county Human Rights Com- increased mission, of which she was vice chairperson for several years while I was chairperson. She 5233 N. Clark recently? was always full of energy, ideas, and humor (773) 769-9299 and had a keen appreciation of coalition- See me: building. All of us are lucky she was always on Charles T. Rhodes, the go, because she was able to accomplish Agent a great deal for a number of constituencies, among them not only Asian Americans but 2472 N. Clark also sexual minorities, before her life was cut [email protected] short so soon.” www.womenandchildrenfirst.com 773.281.0890 State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Otaka raised her late brother’s son, Jeffrey. Parking Available (not in NJ) Wheelchair Accessible State Farm Indemnity Company (NJ) She is also survived by a sister, Susan Smith. Home Offices: Bloomington, Illinois June 17, 2009 11 Australia where gay inmates can have sex dates WORLD with their partners. sees its QUOTELINES ROUNDUP gay-pride week BY REX WOCKNER by Rex Wockner China saw its first-ever gay pride week June 7-14 in . Events included movies, plays, art exhibits, Q 50,000 at panel discussions, swimming and badminton “I lived through eight years of the on the ‘70s TV series M*A*S*H, in a March in- Some 50,000 people turned out for the Euro- competitions, and a big party, though at least Clintons and then eight years of Bush. terview with Gossip-Boy.com that just recently Pride parade, held in Zurich this year on June one play and one film were ordered canceled by Through it all, gay people were treated at the caught the attention of other media. 6. authorities. federal level like embarrassments or impedi- Openly lesbian Zurich Mayor Corine Mauch Some 500 people attended a barbecue/drag ments. With Clinton, we were the means to “I got alienated from the gay world— joined in. show/fashion show/hot-body contest on June raise money. With Bush, we were the means when I went through my famous heterosexual Next year, the parade ventures behind the 13. to leverage votes by exploiting bigotry. Obama phase—because everyone looked the same. To former Iron Curtain to Warsaw—a city that as Organizers decided against holding a parade, seemed in the campaign to promise something this day, I’ve never got the everyone-looking- recently as 2005 tried to ban pride, only to be saying it just didn’t seem to be legally possible, else. ... But I have a sickeningly familiar feel- the-same thing. ...(T)he clones and the checked later rebuffed by the European Court of Human according to China Daily. ing in my stomach, and the feeling deepens shirts and the 501s and the same mustaches, Rights. “Shanghai Pride is a community-building exer- with every interaction with the Obama team you know. I mean, now you can look back, and Meanwhile, Rome’s gay pride parade drew more cise,” co-organizer Tiffany Lemay told the Eng- on these issues. They want them to go away. it seems sort of endearingly kitsch. It’s Tales than 100,000 participants June 13, with a de- lish-language paper. “We hope to raise aware- They want us to go away. Here we are, in the of the City, you know—it’s that period. I found mand for legalization of same-sex marriage and ness of issues surrounding homosexuality, raise summer of 2009, with gay servicemembers still that alienating because it seemed professional equal rights for gay couples. the visibility of the gay community, help people being fired for the fact of their orientation. and narcissistic and just about doing sex really Some 1,500 people marched in Warsaw within our community to come out, and build Here we are, with marriage rights spreading well. And all of that I don’t find very sexy.” — on June 13, also demanding legalization of bridges between the gay and straight communi- through the country and world and a president The Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant to Out maga- same-sex partnerships. The parade, on central ties.” who cannot bring himself even to acknowledge zine, June/July issue. Marszalkowska Street, attracted fewer than 100 these breakthroughs in civil rights, and having counterprotesters, who shouted anti-gay vitriol. no plan in any distant fu- Five hundred people marched in Zagreb, Croa- Denmark is not ture to do anything about tia, on June 13. Police kept about 50 snarling gay nirvana it at a federal level. Here I anti-gays from disrupting the parade. Denmark, the first nation in the world to legal- am, facing a looming dead- About 3,500 people marched in Strasbourg, ize gay partnerships, in 1989, still has a problem line to be forced to leave My (gay) story France, on June 13, and 2,000 marched in Ath- with homophobia. my American husband for is relative ens. Eighteen percent of GLBT people in Copenha- good, and relocate abroad to the gen and 8 percent in other parts of the country because the HIV travel and times. say they’ve been discriminated against based on immigration ban remains Moscow gays want —Lily Tomlin their sexual orientation in the past year, accord- in force and I have slowly to picket Obama ing to a report from the Center for Alternative run out of options.” — Gay founder Nikolai Alekseev says Social Analysis. writer Andrew Sullivan on members of his group will attempt to stage GLBT people between ages 16 and 29 reported his blog, May 13. a picket in favor of same-sex marriage at the more problems than older people. U.S. Embassy on July 7 during President Barack A total of 3,400 homophobic incidents were “Let’s stop hurling dismay at beauty Obama’s visit. reported to police in 2008, the study said. pageant losers for a second, considering “It was the gayest season ever of The It is unlikely the activists will receive city A report in the Politiken newspaper said gay the fact that our own President seems to have Amazing Race, and also one of the best ever. permission to do so. Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has businesses also have been targeted. left the gays out to float on a block of ice Coincidence? I don’t think so. There was father banned pride parades for the past four years and Copenhagen’s oldest gay bar, Centralhjørnet, too. As we know, Obama used to be in favor and son Mel and Mike White, who are both gay; sent riot police to aggressively arrest those who had rocks thrown through its windows six times of same-sex marriages, but then he changed sisters Kisha and Jen (Kisha is a lesbian); one ignored the bans. in 2008. Patrons also have been bombed with that to a far more politically expedient mid- person who apparently isn’t out of the closet; Luzhkov has called gay parades “demonic,” eggs through the bar’s open door. dle-of-the-road stance, shifting his true feel- and, finally, Luke Adams and his mom Margie.” “satanic” and “weapons of mass destruction.” —Assistance: Bill Kelley ings on the road to ambition. Meanwhile, he — AfterElton.com, May 11. He also has said the bans are for gays’ own good can’t exactly denounce the California Supreme so that “radical Christians” don’t have a chance Court’s decision to uphold Proposition 8, see- “My (gay) story is relative to the to “kill them.” South African ing as he’s now conveniently anti gay marriage times. Jane (Wagner) and I were out, but we Alekseev is hopeful that he’ll be able to pull himself, so he’s staying mum about it. And he never called a press conference. In those days off the picket regardless because “the presiden- AIDS activist dies doesn’t seem all that willing to reconsider the the press also didn’t write about (our personal tial media pack will be in town.” South African AIDS activist Thembi absurd ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ premise that still lives). And truthfully from my heart, I didn’t Ngubane, who gained fame around the globe haunts gays in the military, despite gay activ- encourage them. It was the ‘70s. But I don’t for her radio diaries about her struggles with ists begging him to abolish it now.” — Village know what would have come of it if I had. It Australian prison the virus, died of tuberculosis June 9, accord- Voice columnist Michael Musto on his blog, May could have been great. I mean, Time magazine OKs gay ing to Independent Online. Ngubane was 24. 28. offered me the cover in 1975 if I came out Ngubane was 19 when she received a re- and Ellen (DeGeneres) came out on the cover conjugal visits corder to make an audio diary about living “I wish to spend my life’s twilight 20 years later. She was the right person at the The Alexander Maconochie prison in Australia’s with HIV. She then recorded pivotal moments being just who I am. I could claim noble right time.” — Lily Tomlin to Montreal’s Hour Capital Territory has decided to let gay inmates in her life. U.S. National Public Radio aired reasons as in order to move gay magazine, May 28. receive conjugal visits six times a year. the tapes April 2006, on Ngubane’s 21st rights forward, but I must admit it is for far The policy applies to prisoners who are well- birthday. more selfish reasons. Now is the time I wish to behaved and whose partner is not also incarcer- Ngubane is survived by a four-year-old find someone and I do not desire to force any —Assistance: Bill Kelley ated at the facility. daughter. potential partner to live a life of extreme dis- Reports said that the state of Victoria, where —Andrew Davis cretion with me.” — Actor David Ogden Stiers, Melbourne is located, is the only other place in who played Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III

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VIEWPOINT VOL. 24, No. 38, June 17, 2009 The combined forces of Windy City Times, from affluent and somewhat jaded gay white passionately argued against the march. Some founded Sept. 1985, and Outlines newspaper, founded May 1987. men in New York. of them are individuals or from organizations I had been ambivalent about a march this fall, who have, in the past, carried a disproportion- PUBLISHER & Executive EDITOR SEAN for many of the reasons that have been elo- ate burden for coping with what a march means Tracy Baim quently expressed by others on this list over the for the community in the Washington area. Their STRUB past couple of weeks. The debate and discus- concerns mustn’t be ignored. Assistant Publisher Terri Klinsky MANAGING Editor Andrew Davis sion was important, as it forced us to confront But let’s recognize that decentralized organiz- Business manager Cynthia Holmes and consider with a clear eye the challenging ing for this march is underway and the march is Director of New Media Jean Albright realities of trying to organize such a large-scale going to happen, albeit in a much different way ART DIRECTOR Kirk Williamson event in a short period of time. than marches in the past. It will probably have account managerS: Amy Matheny, Kirk To march or Williamson, Cynthia Holmes But I contrasted those legitimate concerns and more of a grassroots feeling of the 1979 march Promotions director Cynthia Holmes not to march reasons with what I heard from LGBT folks with than the increasingly-corporatized “movement NIGHTSPOTS MANAGING Editor Kirk Williamson whom I discussed this in rural northeast PA, as a market” events we’ve seen in more recent National Sales Rivendell Media, 212-242-6863 Recently, Cleve Jones was honored by the Amer- what I read on non-leadership listserves or com- years. That’s a good thing, in my view. SENIOR WRITERS Bob Roehr, Rex Wockner, Marie J. Kuda, David Byrne, Tony Peregrin, Lisa Keen, ican Foundation for AIDS Research at a lively ments on blog posts (overwhelmingly in favor), I hope those who have opposed the march can Yasmin Nair, Emmanuel Garcia event in New York. David Mixner gave a stir- what I witnessed when Cleve spoke last night find their way to embrace these realities and try, TheatER Editor Scott C. Morgan ring introduction—it was classic David, at his and what has stirred in my own heart, which is in whatever ways they can, to help make the Cinema WRITER Richard Knight, Jr. finest—and then Cleve gave a rousing speech, an exciting and even a bit frightening sense that march as successful as possible. BOOKS WRITER Yasmin Nair ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WRITERS calling for a march on Washington in October. this may be a moment unlike any other, a mo- We are a movement of free will; no one has Mary Shen Barnidge, Jim Edminster, Steve Warren, Lady Bunny gave quite a speech as well, but I’ll ment that will be gone a year or two from now to support or participate in any given endeavor. Lawrence Ferber, Mel Ferrand, Catey Sullivan, share those details off-list with anyone inter- when reelection politics will dictate the admin- And there will surely be further debate over the Zachary Whittenburg, Jonathan Abarbanel ested. istration’s every move. merit to an October march and it its potential Columnists/Writers: Yvonne Zipter, Susie Day, Jorjet Harper, Lee Lynch, Steve Starr, Joe The crowd responded wildly to Cleve’s call for a I am now convinced that the time to debate for success or failure, which is as it should be. Rice, Dan Woog, Marie-Jo Proulx, Lisa Keen, Chris march, clapping and standing, with some stomp- whether to march or not is over. If I had any We should celebrate the many ways in which Crain, Charlsie Dewey, Michael Knipp, Mark Corece, ing their feet or pounding the tables. They were residual doubt, today’s news about the Justice technology has enabled our community’s con- Sabine Neidhardt, Sam Worley, Billy Masters, John mostly gay white men, to be sure (and donors, Department’s approach to DOMA erased them. versation to be broadened to allow more voices Fenoglio PHOTOGRAPHERS Kat Fitzgerald, Mel Ferrand, as it was a fundraiser). But their heartfelt and The march this fall is not going to be a small to participate. Steve Becker, Steve Starr, Emmanuel Garcia hopefelt response made an impression on me. affair. It is going to happen and it is going to be But I hope that discussion can take place ARTISTS/CARTOONISTS Alison Bechdel, Mikeoart I went to bed reflecting, with admiration, on significant. within a constructive context, one that does not CIRCULATION how often Cleve has been in the vanguard, feel- Cleve has always had an extraordinary talent sabotage the genuine and heartfelt need to take Circulation director Jean Albright ing the pulse of the community’s “new” roots: to rally the grassroots. With the release of the our issues to Washington and demand equality. Distribution: Ashina, Allan, Dan, John, Renee, Sue and Victor the young, the newly-out and the newly-com- movie Milk, his already-significant credibility One can oppose the march without seeking to mitted as well as the previously-dispossessed with the media and major funders, as well as his impair its possibility for success. One can sup- just gaining a grip on their personal power to celebrity stature, has increased dramatically. port it without vilifying or thinking less of those affect change. I understand that permitting for an Oct. 11 who oppose it. Cleve is, at his core, a street activist, with a LGBT Equality March on the Capitol’s west lawn The march will raise our expectations, broaden particular talent for organizing those who had has been assured. Robin Tyler, David Mixner, To- our vision and inspire hope. That’s what every previously not been involved, whether it was rie Osborn and others calling for this march are one of the national marches has achieved in the for Harvey’s campaigns, organizing labor, immi- amongst our community’s most accomplished past. But let’s also make this march demonstrate Copyright 2009 Lambda Publications Inc./Windy City Media grants or street kids, the earliest responses to and respected leaders; their political judgment our community’s shared struggle with those Group; All rights reserved. Reprint by permission only. the epidemic, or inspiring people to stitch pan- and informed perspectives earned from decades combating racism and poverty and sexism and Back issues available for $3 per issue (postage included). Return postage must accompany all manuscripts, drawings, els for the quilt. Yet he also is able to inspire an of activism are not to be dismissed easily. Turn to page 22 and photographs submitted if they are to be returned, and authentic and incredibly enthusiastic response I appreciate the voices of those who have no responsibility may be assumed for unsolicited materials. 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DOMAgate wave of Civil Rights legislation was passed, and dent Obama’s latest broken promise to the LGBT (773) 871-7610 FAX (773) 871-7609 2009 was presaged by his announcement days it was the beginning of the end of apartheid in e-mail: [email protected] community—his egregious brief for the Defense before his US Senate election that his “Christian the American South. of Marriage Act (DOMA), comparing equal mar- beliefs” forced him to oppose equal marriage There is now another D.C. march in the works www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com riage rights to incest and pederasty—it’s time rights, etc., etc. for Sunday, Oct. 11, this time for LGBT rights. radio: WindyCityQueercast.com to examine how we got to this sorry state of And yet our community leaders, almost to a I support this march, but will be very disap- video: QueerTVNetwork.com affairs. one, said muffle your protests during these pre- pointed if it repeats the mistakes of so many of To put it simply, candidate Obama, like most WINDY CITY MEDIA GROUP, election debacles—which just reinforced the our previous marches instead of doing our best 5315 N. Clark St. #192, Chicago, IL 60640 USA Democratic candidates before him, got a blank notion that the Democrats had us in their back to emulate what made the 1963 march such a (MAILING ADDRESS ONLY) check from almost all progressive leaders (LGBT pocket and encouraged Obama’s slide to the success. and otherwise), and it was a straight line from right. The Obama administration has taken the LGBT Windy City Times Deadline every Wednesday. that to the DOMA debacle, continued expan- Nightspots Deadline Wednesday prior to street date. But we have to support someone in the elec- community for granted. The previous Democratic Identity (BLACKlines and En La Vida): Now sion in war funding and wars, continuation of tions, they say! What civil rights activist worthy administration gave us the mess of DOMA and online only the Bushite civil liberties violations through of the name wouldn’t support someone in a ma- DADT. We must demand that Obama keep his Deadline The 10th of month prior. extraordinary renditions and detentions without OUT! Resource Guide ONLINE jor election, right?!? promises to clean up the mess that Clinton cre- www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com trial, etc. Well, according to this standard, then, Dr. ated, and fulfill the other LGBT promises he’s As one who has never trusted a politician’s Martin Luther King, Jr., wasn’t much of a civil- been retreating from—removing the HIV+ travel promise—especially a Chicago politician’s rights activist. Dr. King never publicly endorsed ban and instituting safe and legal needle ex- www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com promise—Obama’s actions were predictably www.WindyCityQueercast.com a candidate in his life. He always played it coy, changes. www.QueerTVNetwork.com “been there, done that.” To borrow a line from a playing the parties off against one another, even Moreover, we must demand that he drop the Christmas song, “It’s beginning to look a lot like courting then-Vice President Nixon at one point continuation of the utterly reactionary, Bushite Clinton, everywhere you go...” when the Democratic candidates were deferring “faith-based” funding of sectarian agencies that It’s the same trajectory we saw in the early to their Dixiecrat wing. refuse to hire openly LGBT people. And as most years of the Clinton Presidency, which also start- The secret to the success of King, such as the politicians rightly refuse to associate with open “Windy City Media Group generated ed out with both houses of Congress controlled 1963 March on Washington—with the wave of racists and anti-Semites, thus de-legitimizing enormous interest among their readers by the Democrats ... proceeded through a trail of civil rights legislation which followed it—was them, so must Obama cease his dalliances with broken Democratic promises, and ended with the in this year’s LGBT Consumer Index not King’s soaring “I have a dream” rhetoric. bigots of the Keith Warren and Donny McClurkin Survey. Out of approximately 100 “Republican Revolution” and all that we hated The secret was that King and his co-organizers variety. And finally, as the offspring of a bi-racial about U.S. government around the turn of the print and online media partners who put the interests of their community first, above couple and a man who was a former professor of participated in the survey, Windy century. political parties. Democratic President John F. Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago, City was the best performing regional The howls of protest about Obama’s DOMAgate Kennedy tried repeatedly to get King to call off he must drop his cowardly support of “separate media in the U.S. Only survey partners from gay organizations—HRC, NGLTF, Equality the march. He had his brother Attorney General but equal” civil unions and publicly endorse full with a nationwide footprint were California, etc.—are, frankly, getting to become spy on King. He sat on his hands during most of equal marriage rights for same-sex couples. able to generate a greater number of a bit tiresome. Every time there’s a stab in the the violence against Civil Rights marchers. responses.” ­­—David Marshall, Research back, over the Rick Warren invocation for exam- But King refused to call off the march. It was Andy Thayer Director, Community Marketing, Inc. ple, they’re in the words of the Vichy police offi- clear that if Kennedy didn’t move on civil rights Chicago cial in the movie Casablanca, “shocked, shocked legislation, the ‘63 march would become an anti- June 17, 2009 13 GOINGS-ON WINDY CITY TIMES’ ENTERTAINMENT SECTION

Photo by Tristram Kenton GIRLS The stage adaptation of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is one of three London productions reviewed by Scott C. Morgan. See below. MOVIES MUSIC SPORTS Reynolds wrap. Gwen in Doubt. Kick or treat. Page 16. Page 18. Page 20. Photo courtesy of the

same goes for the amazing 2007 children’s play Scottish War Horse, which unfortunately appears like it won’t be transferring stateside anytime soon. Play Scott Based upon Michael Morpugro’s children’s novel, Nick Stafford’s adaptation of War Horse Three to see in tells the story of a boy named Albert who rais- London’s West End es a magnificent horse, Joey. When World War BY SCOTT C. MORGAN I arrives, Joey gets sold into service, prompt- ing Albert to join up so he can find his beloved Fans of the 1994 Australian flick The Adventures horse. of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert can rejoice. War Horse’s plot may sound corny, but the A 2006 Australian stage adaptation, Priscilla magnificent stage craft of directors Marianne El- Queen of the Desert—The Musical, is now a big, liott and Tom Morris, especially in collaboration sold-out London hit at the Palace Theatre. with South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company Yet for die-hard musical theater fans (you and production designer Rae Smith, reduced know, uppity ones who hold Stephen Sondheim quite a few audience members to tears (myself sacred), the arrival of Priscilla prompts this re- included). sponse: “No more f*@king jukebox musicals!” While the acting company is near-perfection, Sorry to rain on Priscilla’s big gay parade, but it’s the horses that stick in the memory. Manipu- I’m one of those curmudgeons in the latter cat- lated by team of three puppeteers, the horses egory. Much like the stage adaptation of Dirty were amazingly lifelike and stunningly realized Dancing (another Australian jukebox musical ex- (so much so that actors could even ride atop port), too much effort has gone into slavishly them). duplicating key movie moments and recycling You couldn’t ask for a better show than War disco hits instead of making Priscilla its own Horse to introduce children to the power of live original stage creature. This approach satisfies War Horse. Photo by Simon Annand theater. It also reignites the childhood imagina- die-hard fans who quote regularly from the film, tions of grown adults. but it doesn’t make a cohesive stage show. Despite War Horse’s two sold-out holiday runs songs replace ABBA numbers, probably due to Priscilla, is a technical marvel, especially when Priscilla is in a tight bind, since all of the film’s at the Royal National Theatre and its hit open- Mamma Mia rights issues), but the additions it turns pink and other animated colors. iconic drag costumes by the Academy Award- run transfer to the West End’s New London The- don’t always help the plot. The “Macarthur Park” London’s Priscilla also has a casting coup with winning team of Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner atre, it probably won’t see Broadway. The cast green cupcake costumes are extremely clever, Jason Donovan as Tick/Mitzi (Kylie fanatics know are expected to be seen (I particularly awaited is so large and the theater requirements are so but that number proves pointless in the overall Donovan as her one-time soap opera co-star and the appearance of the Sydney Opera House skirt specific that it would be unlikely for a team of scheme of things. former boyfriend). Other strong work comes from combo). Chappel and Gardiner have magnifi- commercial producers to bring War Horse to the At least Priscilla doesn’t resort entirely to pre- Tony Sheldon as the mourning transgender art- cently re-imagined and expanded their designs States (unless the non-profit Lincoln Center The- recorded song tracks, since a trio of floating ist Bernadette, Clive Carter as Bob, Bernadette’s for the musical, but the outlandish costume pa- ater took the risk). pop divas (Zoë Birkett, Kate Gillespie and Emma outback love interest and Oliver Thornton as the rade seems to take more precedence than the So if you do cross the pond anytime soon, Lindars in flying harnesses) appear out of the insolently young and beautiful Adam/Felicia. storytelling (Allan Scott and original screen- make it point to see War Horse while it’s still ether to sing the songs that the drag queens On stage, Priscilla is a visually fun gay feast. writer/director Stephan Elliott are responsible alive and kicking in London. Priscilla might need lip-sync to (an exception is Wezley Sebastian, But when compared to a far more original screen- for Priscilla’s glib and flimsy book). some more cosmetic surgery before it crosses who amazingly sings his own Tina Turner as Miss to-stage show like Hairspray (still playing in the Take, for instance, the bit when the Guy Pearce the Atlantic, but the odds are that this big drag Understanding). West End), Priscilla pales with its cut-and-paste character of Adam/Felicia operatically rides the show will eventually make it in. And there’s no faulting Priscilla jaw-dropping script and shoehorned pop hits. Priscilla tour bus atop a giant high-heeled shoe. Please send theater news and other tidbits to stagecraft and the top-notch performers as- There’s no word yet if Priscilla is planning a It’s a stunning film visual, but on stage it adds [email protected]. nothing dramatically and halts the plot. sembled by director Simon Phillips. Set-designer North American transfer yet, so the place to There are changes from the film (Kylie Minogue Brian Thomson’s rotating realization of the bus, catch the show is in London at the moment. The 14 June 17, 2009 theme of “Stupid men! The clitoris is located As played at full throttle by Robin Lewis-Bedz, here!” Professor Jameson at the height of her fury risks Director Michael Buino should have tightened coming off as too batcrackers to be taken se- up the long scene changes or simplified the riously. Ironically, however, her anguish serves staging. The idea of having all the women sit- to render her redemption the more sympathetic ting in to listen shows solidarity, but the unused (the higher the horse, the harder the climb after actresses could really be offstage readying the falling). And the fellow travelers bearing witness next scene. to a fine mind gone temporarily sclerotic—Jim Haglund’s approach to some of the topics is Farrell as the befuddled dad, Kristen Pickering as also questionable, particularly genital mutila- the restless daughter, Susan Felder as the candid tion in Africa. Haglund confounds expectations colleague—reject the temptation to propagan- by showing four white colonialists in 1920s garb distic saintliness, while Michael Gonring, in the singing a silly ditty questioning what is to be pivotal role of Woodson Bull III, aka “Third,” done about those natives’ strange practices. It’s conveys perfectly the guileless poise of an alien far too glib for such a serious topic. species lost in an artificial wilderness. And with such a strong emphasis on taking the penis out of the equation, Clitoris Stories slights lesbians and their experiences with only cursory About Face shout-outs. The 11-member cast is good with a few stand- announces outs. Allison Paige is very funny as the celebrity summer series Clitoris on a chat show, while Jenn-Anne is hi- About Face Theatre has announced a sum- Clitoris Stories. larious as an outraged woman who finds cheesy mer cabaret series featuring Broadway stars late-night TV to be so educational about the cli- and local legends. toris. broaden my horizons. “The Homo Show”—curated by Paula THEATER REVIEW The “Clitoris Supporters” of Tim Ballard and After a brief prologue where the women (iden- Gilovich and Jane Beachy—will take place Steve Truncale also brighten up every scene tified in the program as numbered Clitorises) Monday, July 27, at Subterranean, 2011 W. Clitoris Stories they appear in, even though they’re not well-in- Playwright: Tina Haglund chime in on the play’s title, playwright Haglund North, at 8 p.m.; tickets are $10-$15 each. tegrated well into the show’s staging concept. At: A Reasonable Facsimile Theatre Co. provides a monologue explaining why she felt it (See www.aboutfacetheatre.com.) “FLIP FLOP Unless Haglund can reduce the cast size or at Cornservatory, 4210 N. Lincoln was vital to write Clitoris Stories. Pop: The ‘70s” will take place Monday, Aug. trim at least 30 minutes from the show, Clitoris Info: 773-418-4475; $13-$15 Haglund openly acknowledges the influence of 24, at Sidetrack, 3349 N. Halsted; see www. Stories probably won’t have much of an afterlife. sidetrack.com. Runs through: July 12 Eve Ensler’s groundbreaking The Vagina Mono- That would be a shame, since its educational logues. Yet Haglund felt that the pleasure-pro- pro-sex information would be a great help to ducing clitoris (which she pronounces to rhyme BY SCOTT C. MORGAN many women and their lovers. with Delores) was neglected and deserved its BCEFA/ own exploratory play. “Why do you have see that!?” and “Couldn’t they THEATER REVIEW Chicago House have assigned a woman?” Alas, what Clitoris Stories only reinforces is benefit June 21 Some of my gay male friends asked these ques- how the one-act Vagina Monologues is a better Third tions as I tried to drum up a theater compan- piece of theater. Clitoris Stories frequently feels On June 21 at 7 p.m., the cast of the na- Playwright: Wendy Wasserstein ion (in vain) to accompany me to A Reasonable repetitious and lasts almost two hours and 30 tional tour of Fiddler on the Roof will pres- At: Apple Tree Theatre, Facsimile Theatre Co.’s world premiere of Tina minutes. ent “Fiddlin’ Around,” a cabaret benefit for 1840 Green Bay, Highland Park Haglund’s Clitoris Stories. While Clitoris Stories does contain a few com- Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BCEFA) Phone: 847-432-4335; $38-$48 Yes, I’m probably not the intended audience edy gems and serious pieces that prove enter- and local HIV/AIDS agency Chicago House. Runs through: June 28 demographic for this play, nor can I apply its taining and enlightening, some pieces drone on The one-night-only benefit will take place lessons to my everyday life. But, hey, it did too long. Haglund also draws too often from the at The Spot, 4437 N. Broadway. Admission BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE is a $10 donation at the door and includes a drink ticket good for domestic beer or the It’s hardly a secret that many of the rebellious house wine. youths who vowed to change their society for Call 773-728-8934 or visit www.spotchi- the better grew up to become the same kind of cago.com. stodgy, pompous, parochial windbags they con- demned, but Wendy Wasserstein was the first playwright to say so. Dying untimely in 2006 at the age of 55, her legacy to her feminist peers was to caution them against the smug compla- CRITICS’ PICS cency that knows no boundaries. To be sure, her protagonist has reason for Busman’s Holiday, , straying from her ideals: Laurie Jameson—10 through July 26. It may have been extend- years earlier, the first woman to be granted ed, but lazy Dorothy Sayers fans are warned tenure at the Ivy League university where she that this is the final installment in Lifeline’s now teaches—has a father suffering from ge- trilogy of whodunits starring Richard Green- riatric dementia, a best friend struggling with berg and Jenifer Tyler as the romantic de- cancer, and a child scornful of Mom’s hard-won tectives. MSB privileges, which currently include the unset- The History Boys, TimeLine Theatre, tling symptoms of menopause. Small wonder through Aug. 2. Director Nick Bowling has that the having-it-all professor clings to her conceived a cracking good staging of Alan former principles for stability in an increasingly Bennett’s 1980s coming-of-age tale that volatile universe, fighting the good fight against examines approaches to education and how the old enemies—racism, sexism, homophobia, history should be taught. SCM imperialism, capitalism. And when a student in Pump Boys and Dinettes, Drury Lane Oak one of her classes displays an intellectual inde- Brook, through Aug. 2. A quartet of sing- pendence inconsistent with his alleged demo- ing nozzle jockeys joins the winsome two- graphic, she promptly makes him the target of some slinging hash at the diner next door her -doctrinaire prejudices. in a shamelessly plot-free, infectiously Sarah Gabel, director of this Apple Tree Theatre foot-stomping rockabilly ode to the simple production and Performing Arts department chair southern joys of beer tips, catfish and beer. at Loyola University, has had ample opportunity CS to observe the phenomenon afflicting Dr. Jame- Uncle Vanya, TUTA at , son. Not for nothing has academe been dubbed through June 28. Chekhov’s ironic comedy an “ivory tower,” aloof from messy everyday of self-absorption and complacent Russian matters—but the human propensity for blaming provincial life is given a fresh and unstilted our misfortunes on an exotic “other” can be evi- translation in this well-acted staging that’s denced in all segments of society. And long be- equal parts sunlight, shadow and self-pity. fore the advent of on-line plagiarism, too-clever JA undergraduates often found themselves accused —By Abarbanel, Barnidge, of theft by skeptical instructors. The solution, Morgan and Sullivan maintains Wasserstein, is to acknowledge one’s error and atone, insofar as atonement can be affected, for the damage inflicted by misguided suspicions. June 17, 2009 15 THEATER REVIEW date as anything but a rite-of-passage exercise encounters could be linear or mixed up, so we’re for writing workshops. Add in the propensity of never sure if the woman is cheating or revisiting Mud People young authors to overstate their case, and what past flames in the flesh or flashback form. Playwright: Keith Huff we’re left with in 2009 is a scenario as anony- So we get to see the woman have sex out of At: Mary-Arrchie Theatre at mously shopworn as the mid-’50s pop tunes on spite, sex out of boredom, sex out of familiarity, Angel Island, 735 W. Sheridan Zesto’s jukebox. sex out of drunkenness, sex out of a need for Phone: 773-871-0442; $18-$22 The world of sunbleached awnings, grease- companionship and on and on. It all varies upon Runs through: July 12 clotted grills and diesel fumes has been home the guys she is with, which range from a stubbly to Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company’s gritty un- alcoholic (Keith Neagle), a younger college guy BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE derdog cosmology from its debut production (Christopher Acevedo), a bearded bisexual guy in 1986 (Sam Shepard, naturally). Tim Mann’s (Ben Carr), a childhood friend (Colin Raymond) Pump Boys and Dinettes, this isn’t. The rural citi- decor captures in vivid detail the ambience of and a departing boyfriend (Chip Davis), among zenry whom we meet at Zesto’s diner on the out- wayside cafés far from the tourist trade, right others. skirts of Claybourne Rising—a town so wretched down to the mud tracked in by the hapless pe- fracture/mechanics. Avidon pieces all these scenes together so the that the local schoolteacher cheerfully informs destrians giving the play its title (as in “stuck woman herself tries to make sense of why she its children that they are living in hell—have in it and can’t get out”). Under the direction of THEATER REVIEW can’t seem to commit fully to a stable relation- grown foul-mouthed and foul-tempered with the Carlo Lorenzo Garcia, an ensemble of storefront ship. But as the end approaches, Avidon throws reflexive hostility of trapped animals despairing veterans embrace their stereotypical personae fracture/ in a factoid (from way out of left field) about of deliverance from their squalid environment, with an empathy devoid of mockery, deftly cam- the woman’s past familial history to explain why never mind passage to a better one. But don’t ouflaging Huff’s more expedient-driven incredu- mechanics her relationships never work. It’s a lame plot de- you just know that one stormy night, a stranger lities to invoke an appropriately solemn tone Playwright: Mallery Avidon vice that feels too easy, too pat and too simplis- will invade their community—a feral waif who throughout. Mary Jo Bolduc and Michele Gorman At: Pavement Group at St. Peter’s tic to tidily wrap up everything that has gone on just might be a jen-yoo-wine heavenly messen- deliver noteworthy performances as the piteous Episcopal Church, 621 W. Belmont before it. (What is it you may ask? Consider the ger—and with agonizing slowness, the unhappy captives in this prison with ketchup bottles, but Info: 312-733-9283; $15 demographics of the publication you’re reading derelicts, one by one, will find themselves turn- Richard Cotovsky, after a long career of playing Runs through: June 27 right now.) ing toward the good. heartless bullies, also deserves commendations With such fragmentary characters and situa- Keith Huff has a play going to Broadway this for his spillover-free portrayal of the patriarchal BY SCOTT C. MORGAN tions, Avidon doesn’t give much for audiences fall, so it’s instructive to recall that in 1989, this tyrant who would shackle even the angels to his to take an active interest in the characters. The prolific Chicago playwright composed an old- own petty schemes. A woman’s active sexual history is the subject actors work with what they’re given, frequently fashioned morality fable steeped in the bucolic matter of Mallery Avidon’s very artsy-titled frac- eliciting laughs in the process, but it all feels fairy-tale lore so beloved of urban authors. But ture/mechanics, now having its world premiere more like a series of acting exercises rather than while the number of modern American dramas courtesy of Pavement Group. anything truly deep or meaningful. set in short-order eateries are surpassed only Avidon provides a program note saying “frac- Director David Perez does what he can to make by those located in likewise remote hotels, bus ture mechanics is the study of how things the show interesting, which includes Jeff Kelley stations and taverns (the better to keep the dra- break.” playing guitar in-between scenes and a series matic microcosm at once varied and stationary), The “fracture” of the play’s title certainly de- of changing bedspreads and costumes atop the this is a genre rapidly approaching its expiration scribes its fractured structure, which is a series rotating bed (all coordinated by Lara Dossett). of abrupt scenes focusing on an unnamed woman Undoubtedly Avidon is trying to explore some- (Cyd Blakewell) and her many male companions thing vital about sex and relationship break- in the moments before they have sex (very likely downs in fracture/mechanics. But ultimately it the “mechanics” of the title’s equation). feels little more than an artsy opportunity to Avidon leaves the audience guessing or making cop a look at the parade of shirtless guys and SPOTLIGHT assumptions of the time between each of the the leading lady in her panties. woman’s pairings, which play out on a rotating bed center stage. The chronology of the sexual

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2008/09 Season Sponsor: Production Sponsors: Production Corporate Sponsor: Media Sponsor: Mary Winton Green Avy & Marcie Stein Pioneer Press WRITERS’ Mary Pat Studdert THEATRE 16 June 17, 2009 in The Proposal, her first movie in two years. wattage of The Proposal as it’s probably possible The movie, dully enjoyable, joins a long list of to get, this scruffy little comedy has its share of Bullock’s previous audience pleasing romance- familiar laughs and some genuinely funny, ec- KNIGHT centric films. There is nothing remotely fresh centric moments. or original in the material; in Bullock’s perfor- Three divergent bands of petty Brooklyn AT mance or that of her dreamboat but innocuous neighborhood criminals—described by the rac- THE leading man Ryan Reynolds; or her expert sup- ist, Mob-connected pawn broker (played by porting cast. But I suspect that audiences who Phyllis Somerville, who played Jackie Earle Ha- MOVIES adored Bullock in Two Weeks Notice, the Miss ley’s mother in Little Children) as the Moolies Congeniality pictures, The Lake House, et al. will (a gangsta, his moll and accountant), the Sput- fall hard for her once again and the movie, too. niks (a Russian actress and her brother) and the Margaret is a Manhattan-based book edi- Amateurs (two guys who seem inspired by char- tor who—in the words of her gay in all but acters from Dog Day Afternoon and Mean Streets sexual orientation assistant, Andrew Paxton and their accomplices which include a gay ninja (Reynolds)—is “allergic to pine nuts and a and a tall, menacing guy)—plan to break into whole range of human emotions.” This corporate the pawn shop and steal the harridan’s safe. Cruella De Vil has the same effect on her staff Each of the gangs is filmed in styles reminis- that Streep’s Miranda Priestly had on hers in The cent of the movies from which they’ve sprung: The Proposal; Devil Wears Prada. But with Bullock we know it’s the Moolies in hot, bright colors a la Spike Lee a sham. Here, almost from the moment the plot The Proposal. and rap videos; the Sputniks in bleak black and is revealed Margaret’s frost begins to thaw. Told white “neo-realist” fashion; and the Amateurs Capers by her bosses that she is about to be deported see both stars nearly naked—hubba hubba), the ala vintage ‘70s “grindhouse” pictures (complete By Richard Knight, Jr. to her native Canada, losing her powerful job plot puts Bullock right where the viewers want with scratchy negative). The alternate styles, and status in the process, quick thinking Marga- her: in the arms of her hunky, now lovestruck along with some cute animation sequences that In the almost 15 years since Sandra Bullock’s ret announces that she and Andrew are engaged. co-star. spell out the plot and a score with ‘60s spy- movie stardom was solidified in the 1995 ro- After visiting an inquisitive, doubting Depart- Though my moviegoing companion pointed music flair by David Poe, invigorate what might mantic comedy While You Were Sleeping, she ment of Immigration officer (played by out ac- out that there is a 12-year age difference be- otherwise have been a very long haul, as does an has made almost two dozen movies, the bulk of tor Denis O’Hare), Andrew agrees to the sham tween Bullock and Reynolds (who is likeable and enthusiastic cast. Many of the faces are familiar them romantic comedies that have the qualities marriage because he wants to be a book editor good-looking but not particularly memorable— but lack name recognition, and Kheel manages that first endeared her to audiences. She is in- and get his book published and with the deal except for that unbelievable body of his), The to give each of the actors a memorable moment nately intelligent—plucky, hard-working, klutzy, in place, the couple head to his home in tiny Proposal doesn’t come off as a trendy “cougar” or line. sweet-natured and warm, and given to kvetch- Sitka, Alaska, for his grandmother Annie’s (Betty comedy, mainly because Bullock’s age hasn’t any Heist comedies always lend themselves to a ing, self-deprecation or brooding (depending on White) 90th-birthday celebration to announce impact on her “nice” movie-star identity. Unlike, raft of wacky characters and fun, offbeat plot whether the movie is a bright rom-com or a bit- their engagement. say the luckless Meg Ryan and Melanie Griffith— machinations (Welcome to Collinwood, Who’s tersweet dramedy). She can be testy, bossy and Andrew, we learn, comes from money and his both stuck forever with confining “ditzy blonde” Minding the Mint?, Small Time Crooks, Gambit, downright mean, but can’t fool the audience for parents (Craig T. Nelson and Mary Steenburgen) identities that have grown shrill with age and Topkapi, et al.), which just about always endears long that the nastiness is anything other than fit the classic stereotype of many a gay man: repetition and have forced them to seek out the them to me; on that score, Capers can honorably a cover-up. She is our pretty girl next door with stern, distant, disapproving father and doting surgeon’s knife to stay as young as viewers want take its place alongside its more high profile the long, dark hair. Bullock, a latter-day June mom. Grandma Annie is embarrassingly and them—Bullock’s defining girl-next-door quality brethren. The film screens Saturday, June 20, Allyson or Doris Day, above all radiates a quality “hilariously” frank. (White’s character is as tart has a proven long shelf life. It’s something that at 6 p.m. at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 that movie audiences treasure almost more than as the one played by the late Estelle Getty, her will help keep the march of time from fizzling N. State, as part of the weeklong TBS “Just For anything else in their movie stars: niceness. former Golden Girls co-star.) Many zingers and out Bullock’s star for many years to come. When Laughs” comedy festival. Kheel will participate All of these qualities are on display in the role familiar-though-audience pleasing sequences it comes to movie stars, nice girls do finish in an audience discussion after the screening; of Margaret Tate, the starring part that execu- later (including a long one in which we get to last. visit www.siskelfilmcenter.com. tive producer Bullock has picked out for herself Check out my archived reviews at www. Capers, which is the debut of writer-director windycitytimes.com or www.knightatthemov- Windy City Media Group invites you to Julian M. Kheel, is another comedy filled with ies.com. Readers can leave feedback at the stereotypical but welcome characters. Though latter Web site. Enter for your chance to win tickets to see it’s about as far from the big-budget, high-star

been cast with dozens of openly gay perform- Maya Angelou ‘Plaid’ to the bone: ers and utilized an equal number of talented Group marks 20 musical directors and pianists), Forever Plaid was a staple of the scene for years years and an instant hit when it first debuted By Richard Knight, Jr. here. Tickets are $15-18. Chicago movie the- atres participating in the screening event in- The Forever Plaid guys, those cutie pies in their clude the Kerasotes Showplace Theatres (City speaking at the matching ‘50s tuxes and bow ties are back. North and Webster Place) and a host of subur- Chicago Foundation for Women Twenty years after first taking Off Broadway by ban locations. 24th Annual Luncheon storm (and some years before that local Chi- Tickets for the July 9 event are available at Thursday, Sept. 17 cago theatre enthusiasts), the adorable quartet participating theatre box offices and online at Hyatt Regency Chicago of ‘50s crooners, trapped in a time warp after www.fathomevents.net. A trailer and a making- an untimely accident has left them in limbo of featurette are available at www.foreverplaid- singing doo-wop and early rock ‘n’ roll classics themovie.com. in close harmony for all time, are making the leap from the stage to the silver screen. On Thursday, July 9 (for one night only) at 7 p.m., ‘Milk’ screenwriter moviegoers and theatre patrons can experi- sorry for sex pics © Dwight Carter, 2001 ence the Plaids together in the Forever Plaid Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance 20th Anniversary Special, a filmed version of Black has issued a statement saying he felt TWO PAIRS OF TICKETS --- TWO WAYS TO WIN! the show that will be show at area movie the- “embarrassed” after photos were posted online atres. that apparently show him engaging in risky sex Daniel Reichard, David Engel, Larry Raben with another man in late 2006, NBCBayArea. 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As a special bonus, the cast www.facebook.com/pages/Windy-City- importance of responsible sexual practices.” will introduce the screening live from the red Media-Group/40409828544 However, he did add that “[i]t is unfortunate carpet at Los Angeles’ Club Nokia, perform a that individuals and other outside parties are Deadline: July 15, 2009. Winners drawn from those who have joined the email list or Facebook page by July 15, 2009. batch of new musical numbers after the screen- trying to profit from material which is clearly ing and lead a coast-to-coast theatre sing-a- private.” Contest courtesy of Windy City Media Group. windycitymediagroup.com long. For details on the Chicago Foundation for Women event, see cfw.org A longtime favorite with the gay community (both onstage and backstage—the show has June 17, 2009 17 GP: It’s changed enormously and I think it’s way easier. With Katy Perry’s version of I Kissed a Girl on the radio, you have a younger genera- tion for whom homosexuality has been way more Choruses: ‘Hand’ stand normalized. And then you have everything that’s been so helpful about Girls Gone Wild. [Laughs] I’m kidding. wcT: What are your thoughts on Katy Perry’s song? GP: I hate the ahistorical notion that you can just transfer another hit song by the exact same title. Maybe you don’t know that [Jill Sobule’s original song I Kissed a Girl] existed, but there is another song. It’s also interesting that in or- der to have a hit song about lesbianism, there’s gotta be a guy involved. Even my song, I Spent my Last Ten Dollars on Beer and Birth Control, it’s all about a guy. The hits have a man, if not at the center, at the margins. A song that’s girl on girl, there’s no dude involved, its not even a coming out story, its just about how much I love you—it just hasn’t happened yet. Gretchen Phillips. wcT: What about being a woman in the mu- sic industry, has that gotten easier? MUSIC GP: So much easier. One of the most challeng- ing things back in the day, was just not to be Gretchen Phillips: treated like shit by guys at music stores who had A DIY performer this incredibly condescending attitude about my By SARAH TEREZ ROSENBLUM choice of pics and strings. There was a lot of dis- couragement when I started to play, and that’s Out lesbian performer Gretchen Phillips knows not the case now. People are getting more used how to relax, although the amount she has ac- to seeing women rock. That’s thrilling. complished over her decades spanning career wcT: Speaking of rocking, you’re cross-dis- The Windy City Performing Arts (WCPA) delivered two uplifting performances June 13 at would seem to indicate otherwise. Boasting a ciplinarily creative: one person shows, songs, the Hoover-Leppen Theatre at the Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted. The “Walking Hand resume fairly bursting with genre-busting en- art. When an idea comes to you, how in Hand” concert featured Aria (Windy City Women’s Ensemble), the Windy City Gay Chorus deavors, Phillips has done everything from form- do you know which direction to take it? (WCGC) and a reunion chorus of members from WCGC’s 30 years. ing and dissolving iconic bands Two Nice Girls GP: That’s a very interesting question; I’ve “They were great performances, especially having the alumni chorus,” said Ray Lesniewski, and Girls in the Nose to writing and performing never been asked that. The ideas are pretty spe- who serves as WCPA’s board chair. “I was a freshman in high school in 1979, when this group a one-woman show to designing her own cover cific. I generally know where they’re gonna go. was founded. It’s amazing to think how much this group has done, how much it has grown art. I like to do so many kinds of things. I can’t just and developed.” The highlight of this year’s Pride concert was, perhaps, the Windy City Set to perform at Sappho’s Salon’s one-year do one thing, and I always have new creative in- Slickers’ tribute, “Drama Queen,” which featured Curt Eakle, William Howes, Gerry Johnson, anniversary bash at Women and Children First, terests, I’m always trying to be more proficient. Bobby Owens, Trung Tieu and Lesniewski. Text and photos by Ross Forman 5233 N. Clark, Saturday, June 20, as well as a wcT: What does relaxation look like to Green Note Productions house party Sunday, you? June 21, Phillips chatted with Windy City Times GP: Oh honey, that’s what I was doing before about her writing process, Katy Perry’s man-cen- you called. I was reading a book and lying down. tric pseudo-lesbianism and her own well-earned I spend a tremendous amount of time lying on <_dWbbo$$$7d7fWhjc[djH[djWbI[l_Y[ downtime. my back… reading. And I totally enjoy televi- j^WjIf[Y_Wb_p[i;nYbki_l[bo_d Windy City Times: You’ll be playing a house sion. concert in Chicago. You have such a DIY ethos wcT: What do you watch? 9^_YW]eÊiIekj^Beef I’m guessing you’ll be right in your element. GP: I love your traditional lesbian fare—Buffy, Gretchen Phillips: Well, I’m comfortable in lots Xena. I like The Sopranos. And Lifetime? I love of different elements. My first house concerts Lifetime movies so much. I have such a dream of M[Êh[OekhED;#IJEFI>EF were punk parties in the early eighties when, being able to act in some of those, and maybe in lieu of being able to find a venue, you’d get me and Kate Jackson are neighbors and of course š

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Milwaukee brewing

Milwaukee was the place to be as its annual PrideFest—which celebrates the diversity of the LGBT culture and community—took place this past weekend. There were over 120 acts and activities, including food, games and, of course, the music. Among the event’s headliners were , Brandy, the legendary Etta James, Deborah Cox and September. Photos by Mel Ferrand and Daniel Bissing; see more at www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com.

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The will return to Portland, Ore., she said. food, the people, the night life, the positive “It’s just a bit too cold to be in Chicago in the Don’t fret over the miserable May endured by the energy, shopping, parks, the music scene, mu- winter; you can’t train in that weather,” Rapinoe Chicago Red Stars. The team is still a true con- seums, etc. said, laughing. tender in the new Women’s Professional Soccer But Rapinoe is not a fan of the wind off Lake (WPS) League, said forward Megan Rapinoe. Michigan. The team lost all three games it played in May, Away from soccer, Rapinoe enjoys playing Force crush and was shut out in each, too. the guitar and recently purchased a keyboard, Demolition, I think it was unfortunate,” Rapinoe said. “I although she doesn’t know how to play it. She don’t think we played terrible; it’s not like we enjoys eople-watching and relaxing with the gain playoffs were getting run over by teams. Some of the girls as well. By Ross Forman games could have gone the other way. Rapinoe is among the most popular Red Stars “I think it’s still pretty early in the season to among the lesbian community, and she’s happy The ’s playoff future was on the line dwell on [an 0-3 record in May].” about that. June 13 when the team played host to archrival All three May games were home matches, “I think that’s a good thing,” she said. “I the Detroit Demolition at the Holmgren Athletic played at Toyota Park in Bridgeview. Five of the Megan Rapinoe. Photo courtesy of the Chicago think we need to bring people of all different Complex on the campus of . team’s six games in June are on the road. The Red Stars walks of life into the game. I definitely think More importantly, the Force left no doubt what- Red Stars play host to the Boston Breakers on game-winning goal in 2009 Algarve Cup semifi- there’s a place within the Red Stars organization soever that they want a shot at returning to the Sunday, June 21. nal win over Norway and had the assist on the for everyone. Independent Women’s Football League (IWFL) Rapinoe (pronounced rah-PEE-no), has one of lone U.S. goal in the final. “I want to make people feel like, when they Championship. the team’s seven goals as of this article’s writ- “I play hard; I think I’m exciting to watch; I go watch [the] team, that there is someone that The Force crushed the Demolition 26-6 in a ing, and is second on the team with 16 shots. play with a lot of passion; I put it all out there,” there’s someone like them on the team, and that game they never trailed, and clearly dominated “I’ve been playing well this season,” she said. she said. “I like to play as hard, and as beauti- we’re not all the same on the team, that there and controlled. “It’s an adjustment playing for a new coach, fully, as possible. Hopefully I can score a few is diversity. I think that’s a good thing for the “It was awesome,” said Jamie Menzyk, who with new teammates. But I’m feeling more com- [more] goals and get the fans excited. sport and our team in general.” scored two touchdowns and was named the Spin fortable and more confident. “I think one of my biggest attributes is some- Rapinoe is convinced the Red Stars and the Nightclub Offensive Player Of The Game for her “I feel good about the team going forward. I thing I enjoy doing: going at players. I like to league as a whole are open to diversity. efforts. “I had great blocking from the offensive think we realize that we’ve been in games; it’s get the ball at my feet, dribble at players. I “Undeniably, there are lesbians in the league, line and the receivers.” not like we’re getting blown out. I think we’ve know I then can pass or go around a defender. with all of the different clubs, though I have not Menzyk scored her first touchdown seven min- been unlucky to not have scored in some games, And I think that one-on-one battle is exciting seen a lot [of them]; gays and lesbians are ev- utes into the game, and her second with 13:44 but I still think we’re very confident. I still think for the fans to watch. erywhere in our society,” Rapinoe said. “I know left in the fourth quarter. we have one of the best teams in the league, at A native of Redding, Calif., Rapinoe played at that our team has reached out to the gay and Chicago’s Sami Grisafe also scored a pair of least on paper. It’s taken a little longer than we the University of Portland, where she was named lesbian community, and I think that’s important. touchdowns, rushing in from five yards out in had hoped for our on-field chemistry to gel. I Player of the Year as a se- I think there’s a pretty good potential for a good the third quarter and with a 37-yard run with think we have an unbelievable group.” nior in 2008. She started all 22 games her senior fan base within that community.” 7:48 remaining in the game. Rapinoe, 23, was selected by the Red Stars in year, scoring five goals and adding 13 assists. Windy City Times is one of the sponsors of the The Force will play its first-round playoff game the first round of the WPS general draft (sec- “I didn’t have too many expectations going Red Stars, and Rapinoe said the cross-promo- against June 27 in Washington state. ond overall). She has been a member of the U.S. into the season because I had no idea what the tion “is a great thing.” Throughout the season, Women’s National Team since 2006. She scored team or the league was going to be like, but it’s Windy City Media Group is doing promotions for

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“I loved it this season when girls went crazy for father. I can’t be a husband. I’m so sorry.” And me. As far as I’m concerned, it’s all hot. Just be- that was that. Soon after that, she suffered a cause I’m not sticking it in there doesn’t mean miscarriage. “I had lost my baby and my rela- that I don’t find it beautiful.”—Just a bit of tionship with Rob...and it hurt like hell.” Adam Lambert’s eloquent prose from the “Roll- Perpetual virgin Brooke Shields feels she wait- ing Stone” interview. Next thing he’ll tell us he’s ed too long to give it away. But she feels emo- a devotee of Georgia O’Keefe! tionally she was unable to connect with someone We interrupt this regularly scheduled column else because she hadn’t learned to love herself. 8 18 to announce that the artist formerly known as “I would have lost my virginity earlier than I did, 10 Chastity Bono, daughter of Sonny and Cher, will at 22, because I would have been much more in 2 now go by Chaz Bono, son of Sonny and Cher! touch with myself.” Another problem might have

4 Yes, that strapping gal is undergoing gender been that until she was 22, she’d only dated gay reassignment and transitioning into a man— guys! 16 11 9 1 which may surprise those of you who thought This week’s “Ask Billy” question is from Kale she already was a man! It reminds me of a story in Chicago: “Did you see the picture of Barbara 17 12 3 someone told me at GLAAD. After Chastity re- Bush with some hot guy in a Speedo (with a huge 6 19 55 14 5 signed, they found a huge dildo in the back of bulge) at her birthday party? Who was he?” 15 13 one of her desk drawers. Now they’ll find an itty- In news stories regarding Mrs. Bush’s 84th 7 bitty one in her drawers! birthday pool party, most articles said that some In one last late breaking story, how’d ya like cast members from a “local production of ‘A Cho-

58 to see hunky Dustin Lance Black naked? Sure, rus Line’ were in attendance.” Let me be the first 46 48 47 you weren’t excited over Chastity’s penis, but to explain to you this wasn’t like the Kennebunk 60 44 45 this one got your attention! Stills from a sex Port High School production. It’s the Ogunquit 54 tape featuring Mr. Black have surfaced that not Playhouse production starring Lorenzo Lamas— 59 only show every inch of the Oscar winner (I’d say which I told you about months ago. Real Broad- 50 about 6.5”), but also show him performing oral way-caliber folks perform there...in addition to 52 25 49 37 sex on his well-hung partner and bottoming! Lamas. The hot guy in question is 24 year-old 22 51 24 26 Am I mistaken or is the activist being entered hottie Justin Clynes, and he’s most definitely 32 without a condom? Yes, indeedy. Bad, bad Black. a Broadway babe. He was in the recent revival Until the video surfaces, you can take in every of “The Ritz” where he played a towel-wearing, 33 31 inch of him at BillyMasters.com. bathhouse-cruising type. He’s also a model, and 30 56 23 53 The Tony Awards are typically one of the low- we’ve unearthed quite a few photos showing off 39 28 38 41 57 est-rated award shows on television. However, his fabulous flesh and a penchant for publiciz- 36 40 29 27 this year’s ratings were up 19% over last year ing his pubes. Oh, did I mention he’s done un- 21 43 ...which may not seem like much, but a bump’s a derwear modeling? You’re right—he does have a 42 bump. Some of the credit must go to Neil Patrick huge bulge. And, in case any of you are wonder- 20 34 Harris, who hosted with grace and humor (and ing (and I know you are), he’s circumcised. If I sported a snappy shiny suit). know my fans, they’ll all be headed to BillyMas- Coming up this fall is the Broadway revival ters.com. 35 of “Bye Bye Birdie”, starring John Stamos and When I’m talking about hot guys’ packages Gina Gershon, as Birdie’s manager and secretary and Barbara’s Bush, it’s definitely time to end

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Giuliano said, “Ameri- can Idol has become iconic in our culture, and as Adam continues to share his story during his post-Idol career, we hope his decision to live openly and honestly inspires gay people and opens the hearts and minds of his fans and oth- ers he will continue to entertain.” Rich Overton of RJO Artist Relations & Manage- ment, LLC, e-mailed Windy City Times that “[a] s someone who does not shy away from working with out artists [such as Jason Antone], I am Adam Lambert. hopeful and confident that Adam’s decision to come out will further the movement that people For 27 years of nightly celebrations... Adam Lambert are people, feelings are feelings and that we can all relate to one another no matter our sexual- officially comes out ity.” BY ANDREW DAVIS He added, “People connect with truth. The We Thank You core of music brings out our own individual In a development that a lot of people anticipat- truth. With that said, I believe Lambert’s career ed but that still borders on the historic, Ameri- will soar not only because of the connection to can Idol runner-up Adam Lambert officially came his truth, but also his talent. Let’s not forget out in an interview printed in the most recent the amazing talent of Mr. Adam Lambert. I hope issue of Rolling Stone magazine. other people in this country can move past their “I don’t think it should be a surprise for any- own lingering fears and judgments. In an ideal one to hear that I’m gay,” Lambert said. world, this wouldn’t matter in the least. The The interview is chock full of revelations, in- music is what connects us all anyhow, doesn’t cluding Lambert’s crush on Idol winner Kris Al- it? There is no greater success than being who len: “I was like, ‘Oh, sh--, they put me with the you are so Adam cannot lose. ... It’s all gravy cute guy. Distracting! He’s the one guy I found from here.”

® BILLY from page 24 lets his own genitals dangle about (short and stubby are the words that spring to mind). We For your questions, drop a note to Billy@Bil- are happy to run stills and footage on BillyMas- 3349 North Halsted lyMasters.com and I promise to get back to ters.com. SidetrackC.h..iwcahgeore.cyoomu’re you before Chastity shows off her bulge! Until When I have more penii than you can shake always welcome. next time, remember, one man’s filth is another a stick at, we’ve definitely come to the end of 3349 North Halsted man’s bible. yet another column. On my flight back to LA, I SidetrackChicago.com These columns sometimes have a way of de- Sidetrack The Video Bar...welcoming our community since 1982 found myself hob-nobbing with Justin Guarini. veloping themes. This week’s “Ask Billy” query And soon I’ll be with more “Idol” alums while comes from Will in : “I keep seeing hosting the mainstage of LA Pride over the Russell Brand here in town, and he’s really hot weekend of June 13-14. If you’re not around, in a kinda dirty/nasty way. Has he ever shown I’m only a click of a mouse away. Just cruise on his dick in a film? He looks like the type that over to www.BillyMasters.com for the best dish wouldn’t be shy.” around. For your personal needs, drop a note to And he’s not. That’s the Brits for you—they me at [email protected] and I promise to get their naughty bits right out there. At one get back to you before Brand foists his geni- point in “RE:Brand” (a UK reality show he did tals on anyone else (if only he needed to hoist back in 2002), he takes in a homeless guy and ‘em!). So, until next time, remember, one man’s gives him a bath. He gets in the tub with the filth is another man’s bible. guy, during which Brand quite matter-of-factly

BEHIV’s drive

Better Existence with HIV (BEHIV) launched its 60-day fundraising drive with a reception at Salute Wine Bar, 46 E. Superior, on June 11. The drive is a grassroots effort to obtain much-needed funding of the agency’s programs and services; several other events will take place through early August, including house parties and a drag show. Among those pres- ent were Executive Director Eric Nelson, board members and NBC-5’s LeeAnn Trotter; singer “Peaches” Faison provided the entertainment. See www.behiv.org for more info. Photos by Andrew Davis 26 June 17, 2009 myself as hard as I wanted to or could.” ing,” Gleason said. “We knew that, when we SPORTS/RECREATION Gleason was a soccer goalie who has devel- joined, we were part of something bigger than oped into an All-Star on the track. us and we were able to keep derby and our per- Alice Gleason WCR features four teams: the Double Cross- sonal lives separate for the two and a half years ers, Hell’s Belles, Manic Attackers and The Fury. that we skated and dated. Since we broke up, rolls on Each has about 20 players, with such traditional we’ve remained good friends.” By Ross Forman derby names as Georgia On Yer Behind, Norma The WCR’s 2009 Ivy King Cup Champion- Lee Wright, Athena DeCrime, Ivanna Riot and ship will be decided Saturday, June 20, at the Alice Gleason was at an art show in 2005 when Red Zeppelin. Gleason’s alter ego is the captain UIC Pavilion, 525 S. Racine. Action starts at she picked up a flyer for the Windy City Rollers, of the Manic Attackers, the squad that features 6 p.m. Tickets are $20-$40; visit www.windy- a new local roller-derby group. Celia Coffin, Ruth Enasia and Blazing Inferno. cityrollers.com, Ticketmaster or the UIC box She went to her first bout that October and The WCR All-Stars, which Malice With Chains is office. was immediately hooked. She went again in No- one of two captains, include Hoosier Mama and vember after buying 20 tickets online for her Yvette YourMaker. Outgames cultural friends to join her. “Derby is … very physical, very fast, very stra- “My jaw basically hit the ground when I saw tegic, and a lot of fun to watch,” Gleason said. program launches And dangerous, too. Broken bones and bruises these women skating around, being physical and By Ross Forman working together. I immediately wanted to be a are commonplace on the track. When asked which is more difficult—college part of it,” said Gleason, a former three-time All- As the clock ticks closer to the Opening Ceremo- soccer or roller derby—Gleason said roller derby State soccer player from the Chicago area who ny of the 2009 World Outgames in Copenhagen “because it is a sport that we’re still defining then played four years of Division I soccer. “I on Saturday, July 25, the first opening of the every day whereas soccer has been around for wanted to be a part of the league the second I World Outgames’ cultural program kicked off in hundreds of years.” walked in the door,” that October evening. the Denmark city on Friday, May 29. Gleason is one of several lesbians in the league. Gleason joined the league in 2006, morphing ‘Lost and Found: Queerying the Archive’ pres- She is currently dating Brittany Brumbaugh, who into her alter ego, Malice With Chains, to help Alice Gleason. ents a series of thought-provoking works that fill the void in her life for a physical sport. Plus, does not skate, and Gleason’s former partner is a 1998 and works locally in customer service for a generate new narratives based on private memo- she had just moved back to Chicago at the time, current teammate on the WCR All-Stars. steel service center. “I’m more of a team-sport ries and experiences beyond gender and sexual- “so it seemed like a great way to immerse myself “Being a lesbian [in the WCR] is not an issue, player; I don’t get as much enjoyment out of ity norms. into a new community, a sub-culture.” not at all,” Gleason said. “We’re very well ac- running by myself or swimming. Using the potent and emotionally laden detri- The Windy City Rollers are the brainchild of cepted within our own teams, within the whole “The league is loaded with women who you tus of society, like found silent-movie footage, Elizabeth “Juanna Rumbel” Gomez and Kelly league. There’s someone on the team who’s a wouldn’t consider or call a stereotypical athlete. garments from the family past, and desecrated “Sister Sledgehammer” Simmons. In September Republican. She gets more [grief] for that than There are tall, short, fat, skinny—a little of ev- and fictionalized photo albums, the works in 2004, the two formed Chicago’s premier all- I do for being a lesbian, [even though that jok- erything … and there’s something for everyone Lost and Found recreate, deconstruct and recon- female flat track derby league, the Windy City ing] is all done in good fun.” to do out there. The biggest thing about roller struct the past. Rollers. Gleason speculated that 10-20 percent of the derby is: it’s not what you are, but how you use The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrat- Their rookie season was held at the historic WCR competitors are lesbian. She regularly posts it. ed catalogue with contributions by Jane Rowley, Congress Theater, and then moved to The Sta- flyers and posters about the league in Lakeview “In many other sports, if you’re too short or Louise Wolthers, Mathias Danbolt, Anne Cvetk- dium in Cicero for its second season. and Andersonville. you carry a few extra pounds, you’re value is lim- ovich and Heather Love. The Windy City Rollers now skate at the Uni- “The Chicago Force [football team] markets ited. But in roller derby, there’s something for It runs through Aug. 2. versity of Illinois-Chicago Pavilion and are mem- itself much better than we do in the LGBT com- everyone to do, and you can use your body to For more information, go to www.kunsthallen- bers of the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association munity. I definitely think we can increase our your advantage. It’s the kind of [sport] that you nikolaj.dk. (WFTDA). efforts on that front,” Gleason said. WCT AD get out of it what you put into it, and I knew PTR13035“I kind of got burned outV1 on soccer and was So what about your ex who is also is a team- I’d go at it 100 percent. Physically, I guess it’s just looking for something new,” said Gleason, mate? what I expected because it’s allowed me to push who graduated from Maine South High School in “We were together before either started skat-

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