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PLACE in North Carolina VOL 31, NO. 28 APRIL 6, 2016 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com DAN SAVAGE, UNCENSORED Dan Savage. Photo by LaRae Lobdell BY ANDREW DAVIS WCT: Apparently, there’s never been a bill of this scope. It even reaches beyond the LGBT community and stops cit- Dan Savage is many things—columnist, activist, author, ies from increasing the minimum wage. “It Gets Better” co-founder and pundit. However, he’ll don DS: Yeah—it’s just appalling. another hat when he hosts his HUMP Film Festival—which WCT: Switching gears, you’re a Chicago boy. You grew up showcases homemade porn—later this week in his hometown on which side of the city? of Chicago (which he frequently visits). DS: North Side—Rogers Park. However, before that event, Savage candidly talked with WCT: What was that like? I didn’t move here until the Windy City Times about a variety of topics, including his first ‘90s. gay bar, his relationship with the transgender community— DS: [Laughs] Well, Rogers Park was very different than it is and his affinity for musical theater. The topic began with the now. In the ‘60s and ‘70s, [leather bar] Touche was not there. recent passage and signing of the controversial anti-LGBT law [Both laugh.] It was an Irish Catholic neighborhood on one ‘FIRST’ PLACE in North Carolina. side and Jewish on the other—basically, a religious dividing Windy City Times: The passage of the law in North Caro- line. Basically, the most important thing to know about some- Center on Halsted hosts annual Human First gala. lina is [causing chaos]. one in Rogers Park was what parish they belonged to. It was Photo of honoree Mike McRaith by Kat Fitzgerald Dan Savage: There will be lawsuits. They will pay dearly for a very different time and place. 22 whatever they thought they accomplished. Turn to page 18 COVENANT HOUSE BODY IMAGE IAN HARRIS SCHROEDER Agency expands to Chicago. So Canadian YouTube series examines GBTQ Activist diagnosed with brain cancer, needs Image courtesy of Covenant House male body-image issues. funds. 8 Photo by Kyle McGregor 21 Photo of Schroeder and fiancee Patrice Foster courtesy of Foster 10 @windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com 1.577 pt 2 April 6, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES Brian had his HIV under control with medication. But smoking with HIV caused him to have serious health problems, including a stroke, a blood clot in his lungs and surgery on an artery in his neck. Smoking makes living with HIV much worse. You can quit. CALL 1-800-QUIT-NOW. #CDCTips HIVHIV alonealone didn’tdidn’t causecause thethe cloggedclogged arteryartery inin mymy neck.neck. SmokingSmoking withwith HIVHIV did.did. Brian, age 45, California WINDY CITY TIMES April 6, 2016 3 WINDY CITY TIMES March 31 – May 29 INDEX NEWS Emanuel installs travel ban to N.C.; column 4 DowNLoAD Proud2Share launches 5 tHIS ISSuE Day of Action march in the Loop 6 AND BrowSE tHE ArCHIvES At Transgender Day of Visibility 7 Covenant House to expand to Chicago 8 WWW.WINDYCITYTIMES.COM Activist diagnosed with brain cancer 10 Trans PAC forms 12 Passages: Sportsman; L.A., German politicians 12 Views: Senior Moments, Mombian 14 ENTERTAINMENT/EVENTS Scottish Play Scott 15 VOL 31, NO. 28 APRIL 6, 2016 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com Dan Savage interview 18 Trans art book 20 DAN SAVAGE, YouTube series on LGBT body image 21 Human First gala photos 22 UNCENSORED Author Augusten Burroughs Dan Savage. 23 Photo by LaRae Lobdell BY ANDREW DAVIS WCT: Apparently, there’s never been a bill of this scope. It even reaches beyond the LGBT community and stops cit- NIGHTSPOTS 26 Dan Savage is many things—columnist, activist, author, ies from increasing the minimum wage. “It Gets Better” co-founder and pundit. However, he’ll don DS: Yeah—it’s just appalling. another hat when he hosts his HUMP Film Festival—which WCT: Switching gears, you’re a Chicago boy. You grew up showcases homemade porn—later this week in his hometown on which side of the city? of Chicago (which he frequently visits). DS: North Side—Rogers Park. However, before that event, Savage candidly talked with WCT: What was that like? I didn’t move here until the Windy City Times about a variety of topics, including his first ‘90s. gay bar, his relationship with the transgender community— DS: [Laughs] Well, Rogers Park was very different than it is and his affinity for musical theater. The topic began with the now. In the ‘60s and ‘70s, [leather bar] Touche was not there. recent passage and signing of the controversial anti-LGBT law [Both laugh.] It was an Irish Catholic neighborhood on one ‘FIRST’ PLACE in North Carolina. side and Jewish on the other—basically, a religious dividing Windy City Times: The passage of the law in North Caro- line. Basically, the most important thing to know about some- Center on Halsted hosts annual Human First gala. lina is [causing chaos]. one in Rogers Park was what parish they belonged to. It was OUTLINES Photo of honoree Mike McRaith by Kat Fitzgerald Dan Savage: There will be lawsuits. They will pay dearly for a very different time and place. Calendar Q 29 22 whatever they thought they accomplished. Turn to page 18 Classifieds 30 COVENANT HOUSE BODY IMAGE IAN HARRIS SCHROEDER Agency expands to Chicago. Canadian YouTube series examines LGBT body- Activist diagnosed with brain cancer, needs Image courtesy of Covenant House image issues. funds. 8 Photo by Kyle McGregor 21 Photo of Schroeder and fiancee Patrice Foster courtesy of Foster 10 @windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com online exclusives at www.WindyCityTimes.com ISSUES AND ANSWERS A recent webinar examined the stigmatization of LGBT-related health issues. Screen shot of webinar (left) by Margo Anderson; image by the National Black Justice Coalition SHOW ME THe ‘may’ A world premiere from the Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning playwright of Killer Joe, Superior Donuts and August: Osage County By ensemble member Tracy Letts Directed by artistic director Anna D. Shapiro Featuring ensemble members Ian Barford | and Alan Wilder with Blair Brown | Benicio Calderone | Stephen Cefalu, Jr | Carrie Coon Amanda Drinkall | Jack Edwards | Laura T. Fisher | Kirsten Fitzgerald Tess Frazer | Charlotte Freund | Keith D. Gallagher | Caroline Heffernan Sandra Marquez | Annie Munch | Rebecca Spence | Ariana Venturi Madeline Weinstein | Sebastian White | and Gary Wilmes The upcoming documentary The First Get up close to the actors and feel the drama Monday in May (about Anna Wintour in the most intimate and exciting way possible and the Met Gala) is among Five Worth ‘peARL’ tALK with Steppenwolf’s newly added Pit Seats. Rev. Irene Monroe discusses Left Finding. on Pearl, a documentary about Image courtesy of Magnolia Pictures International Women’s Day marchers who took over a Harvard University | building in 1971. VISION OF VISIBILITY steppenwolf. org 312-335-1650 Lead Production Support Corporate Production Sponsors URBAN SPRAWL Dining news covers restaurant openings, including a new urbanbelly in Wicker Park. Major Support for Steppenwolf’s New Play Development Initiative The Davee Foundation | Zell Family Foundation Major Foundation Support National Endowment for the Arts | Edgerton Foundation The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation THAT’S SHOW BIZ Find out the latest about Bette Midler, 2015/16 Grand Benefactors Antonio Sabato Jr. and Nate Berkus. 2015/16 Benefactors Michaela Mendelsohn is a transgender board member of The Trevor Project. plus Photo courtesy of ILDK Media DAILY BREAKING NEWS 4 April 6, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES Emanuel to enact travel ban for N.C.— Open To Thinking and try recruiting BY NICK Patricca its businesses Sheltering the artist at risk BY Matt SIMONETTE aware, the state of North Carolina has enacted On March 10, 2016, ISIS (aka Islamic types of artists at risk. Ithaca, New legislation which bars transgender persons State) murdered the 56-year-old Syr- York, Las Vegas and Pittsburgh were Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel will not only pre- from using bathrooms and changing facilities ian poet Mohammed Bashir al-Aani and among the very first cities to join this pare an order banning travel to North Carolina corresponding to such person’s gender identi- his son Elyas. Al Aani and his son had network of host cities. for non-essential city business, but he’ll use ties, excludes sexual orientation and gender been kidnapped and held captive by Co-founded by Ralph Henry Reese the passage of virulently anti-LGBT legislation identity from its anti-discrimination protec- ISIS since September 2015 when they and Diane Samuels in 2004, the Pitts- as an opportunity to recruit businesses from tions, and prohibits units of local government returned to their home in eastern Deir burgh City of Asylum has developed as the Tar Heel State, according to reports. from extending such protections to LGBT citi- a grassroots orga- In comments at a March 30 event, Emanuel zens. …Chicago is on record supporting efforts nization enjoying said, “When Indiana … expressed intolerance, to promote mutual understanding and respect strong community I immediately not only expressed our views among all people who live and work in our “This plague of intolerance—whether it support, includ- but went about recruit- be based in political, national, ethnic, ing that of Mayor ing companies that did Bill Peduto. In ad- not want to be part of a sexual identity, gender identity, or dition to protect- state with those values, religious ideologies—attacks the heart ing and promoting but wanted to be in a city the writers whom or a state with the values of what it means to be a human being: it shelters, this of inclusion,” according Chicago Mayor liberty and creativity.
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