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The voice of progress for Wisconsin’s LGBT community October 4, 2012 | Vol. 3, No. 24 Gay film festival reflects global LGBT diversity By Michael Muckian Contributing writer Aging lesbian partners make a humorous and touching break for the Canadian border. A stir- ring documentary chronicles one group’s struggle against the AIDS epidemic. Gay men and transgen- ders fight for survival in three different homosexual-intolerant countries. And that’s just for starters. Thirteen feature films and 21 shorts from 11 countries will com- prise the 2012 Milwaukee LGBT Film and Video Festival, presented by the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts Department of Film. The “2nd annual 25th anniversary edi- tion” of the festival runs from Oct. 18 to Oct. 21, with an opening night showing of Thom Fitzgerald’s “Cloudburst,” starring Olympia Dukakis (see interview page 18) and Brenda Fricker at the Oriental Theatre, 2230 N. Farwell St. All other screenings will be held at Photos courtesy/collage by MMK Design the UWM Union Theatre, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd. The festival’s film choice has long served as a barometer for the Dems running strong in Assembly races changing way LGBT groups have viewed themselves — and have By Louis Weisberg the 11 seats needed to regain con- ries last month will bring renewed ing. Seats that Republicans nabbed been viewed by society. Conse- Staff writer trol of the chamber. But it appears vigor to the minority side of the unexpectedly during the right-wing quently, the nature of LGBT cinema On Nov. 6, all 99 seats are up for increasingly likely that Democrats aisle. wave election of 2010 are strongly has changed over the decades, and grabs in the Wisconsin Assembly, will pick up enough seats to help While Wisconsin leaders of both in play, as are several open seats. many of the films no longer bear where Republicans currently hold a progressives stall the agenda of the parties have focused on races for The shift has been most notable the burden of having to take a 58-39 majority. tea party extremists who currently the U.S and state Senate, which in southern and western districts social, political or at least explana- With newly redrawn districts command the Assembly. And a new Democrats hold by a single-vote of the state, according to Melanie tory stance, according to festival that heavily favor the GOP, it’s crop of freshmen progressive legis- margin, the dynamics of Assem- Conklin, a volunteer for the Assem- director Carl Bogner, a lecturer in unlikely that Democrats will pick up lators who won Democratic prima- bly races have been quietly chang- ASSEMBLY page 8 the Peck School’s film department. These changes, coupled with the rise of independent filmmaking, ENDORSEMENT: Baldwin for U.S. Senate, page 9 have allowed FILM page 24 2 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | October 4, 2012 News with a twist WiGWAG By Lisa Neff & Louis Weisberg

One shot shows him artist for the network insisted criminal complaint. Charged with year. Matt Damon stars as young posing onstage at a Romney’s tan was genuine. The one count of lewd and lascivi- lover Scott Thorson, who filed a bodybuilding contest unusual skin color, he insisted, ous behavior, Gerard P. Streator palimony suit in 1982 and won a wearing barely-there was due to an unanticipated faces up to nine months in prison $95,000 settlement. The film is trunks and sporting a interaction between the lights and $10,000 in fines if convict- based on Thorson’s seamy, sordid fake tan that even John on the set and the foundation ed. Police reports describe the story in “Behind the Candelabra.” Boehner would envy. A black- that he used on the presidential couch only as “yellow,” without and-white photo, taken in silhou- hopeful’s face. WigWag wonders noting the style. This leads Wig- Critical ette, shows off Macco’s naked what shade of makeup Romney Wag to conclude that the officer failure butt. Sue Macco has captioned will use during his debates with was straight. Right-wing radio personality the photo with the single word, Barack Obama. Mark Belling hasn’t actually seen “Yum.” The legions of gays who Excessive “Avenue Q,” currently playing at devour bodybuilding content, Here’s to the borrowing Milwaukee’s Skylight Music The- such as Joe Macco’s blog at body- Church! The Liberace Foundation for atre. But that didn’t stop him building.com, would undoubtedly New San Francisco Archbishop Performing and Creative Arts was from going off on a rant about the PHOTO: bodyspace.bodybuilding.com agree. But he shares a little too Salvatore Cordileone, one of the funded by the now defunct Lib- brilliantly clever and entertaining Evangelical state Senate much personal information on leading proponents of California’s erace Museum in Las Vegas, which production, which he essentially candidate Joe Macco his blog: “My new favorite break- anti-gay Prop 8, was busted for was founded by the famously denounced as “gay” filth in a Sept. shows off his faith. fast conversation? Colonics,” he drunk driving last month. He has excessive entertainer from West 26 broadcast. As a result, ticket tells visitors. announced that sexually active Allis. Seems the foundation had sales have soared. The theater gay Catholics should be denied to do some excessive borrow- was sold out for the weekend Evangelical Bright lights, Holy Communion. More sacra- ing and now, with the museum following Belling’s review. show-off dark tan mental wine for him, we guess. closed, has defaulted on a $1.9 Joe Macco, the evangelical, Speaking of fake tans, ABC/ million loan from US Bank. APB for poor right-wing Green Bay Republi- Univision claims to have solved Really Love speller can seeking to unseat state Sen. the mystery of the bright orange the couch! Seamy cinema Police in York, Pa., were search- Dave Hanson on Nov. 6, isn’t tan that Mitt Romney sported A 46-year-old Waukesha man Filming continues on Steven ing in late September for a van- always dressed for church. In fact, during an appearance on Univi- is facing charges after an off- Soderbergh’s biopic about Lib- dal. The only description of the the 50-year-old bodybuilder’s sion, the Spanish language net- duty cop jogging through the erace, who died in 1987 of AIDS- suspect was that he or she is a wife posted pix of her hubby work. Liberal bloggers accused Pebble Valley neighborhood dis- related complications. The HBO poor speller and possible thief. at http://bodyspace.bodybuilding. the GOP chameleon of darkening covered him having sex with film starring Michael Douglas The vandal painted “bicth” on a com/NurseForHealth/ in which his skin to appear more appealing an abandoned couch set on a as the flamboyant and closet- woman’s SUV and possibly stole he’s wearing hardly anything. to Latino voters. But a make-up curb on Sept. 3, according to a ed entertainer is due out next a motorcycle from the property. WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | October 4, 2012 3 Acceptance Journeys IMAGINENATIONAL MORE COMING OUT DAY is October 11 Imagine th. Imagine more! IMAGINEMore MORE What if the closet was only a place for your clothes?

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By Lisa Neff 1973, the mansion was the “troubled priests” would be Staff writer site of the House of Affirma- revealed to mean “pedophile James Fairbanks and Alain tion, a retreat for “troubled priests.” Priests accused of Beret saw potential in the priests” founded by the Rev. abusing kids were sent to property – 44 rooms, 26 Thomas A. Kane. In a notice the House of Affirmation in acres and community zeal in a church-affiliated newslet- Northbridge for treatment for preservation. The stately ter from decades ago, Kane or to hide out. though deteriorated man- announced that the center The House of Affirmation sion in Northbridge, Mass., was at “the service of all closed in the late 1980s, as seemed an ideal location for priests and religious who are Kane was accused of finan- an inn or a special events. not embarrassed to become cial improprieties and falsify- But despite an offer and a more fulfilled and healthier ing a doctoral degree. He a deposit, the seller – the person.” was placed on leave after at Worcester Diocese of the Treatment, he wrote, could least one allegation of sexual Catholic Church – backed help a troubled priest become abuse, which was settled out out of the deal. an “affirmed person,” leaving of court for a church pay- The diocese says the deal- behind “neurosis, emotional ment of $42,500 to the vic- breaker was money. The and mental discomfort, alco- tim, who said Kane abused couple claims it was discrimi- holism and addiction, erratic him for 11 years, including at nation. homosexuality, compulsive the retreat. The vacant property at the heterosexual behavior, and The Bishop Accountability Photo: BISHOP-Accountability.org center of the controversy other symptoms of unhappi- Project, which tracks priests A gay couple sued the Church for refusing to sell this mansion. most recently hosted the ness and confusion.” accused of sexual abuse, a $110,000 settlement from The couple reduced their sense to the church. Oakhurst Retreat and Con- Over the years, with says several other men have the diocese in 2002, recently offer from $1 million to However, an email from ference Center, an office for increased attention and dis- settled suits against priests called the House a “dirty, $550,000 after learning the the diocese dated June 8 the church’s youth ministry. closures about child sexual associated with the retreat. dirty place” to the Worcester extent of repairs needed. – around the time the real Before that, beginning in abuse in the priesthood, One victim, who received Telegram & Gazette. Others “We expected that we estate bargaining ended – have described the facility as would continue our dance, lends support to the couple’s a boot camp for pedophiles. but the dance partner left the claim. In the Worcester area, room,” Beret said. “I just went down the hall the property is associated The husbands, in a discrim- and discussed it with the with the scandalous, not the ination suit filed on Sept. 10 bishop,” Diocese Chancel- sacred. in Worcester Superior Court, lor Thomas Sullivan alleg- But the property’s history claim the diocese didn’t sell edly wrote to his real estate begins before the House of because they are gay and, it agent. “Because of the poten- Affirmation, and it is a history was assumed, would hold gay tiality of gay marriages there, that the citizens of North- weddings on the premises. something you shared with bridge have shown an inter- Church officials are only us yesterday, we aren’t inter- est in preserving. commenting through their ested in going forward with The Chester Whitin Lasell attorney, who maintains that these buyers. I think they’re family, which made its fortune the seller was concerned shaky anyway. So just tell in the textile-machine indus- about Fairbanks and Beret them that we will not accept try, built the mansion in 1890. coming through with the their revised plan and the The property is the last of its financing. “It wasn’t a case Diocese is making new plans kind in the area and voters, of discriminating against gay for the property. You find the at a special town meeting in people. We didn’t even know language.” February, elected to zone it they were gay,” attorney Fairbanks and Beret, who into a historic district. James G. Reardon Jr. told The are suing for loss of civil Beret called the mansion Associated Press. rights and dignity and for a “grand dame” – though He said the couple wanted emotional distress, said that she’s in need of more than only to buy a fraction of the the subject of gay weddings cosmetic surgery. property, which didn’t make never came up during discus- sions about their purchasing the property, “There was never, ever a discussion about gay mar- riage,” Beret said. The attorney for the couple, Sergio Carvajal, said regardless of whether the business plan included host- ing gay weddings, the church broke a state law that prohib- its discrimination in housing. “It was a facility we were extremely interested in,” Fairbanks said. “We have made our life by restoring old buildings.” The opportunity is now lost, he added. WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | October 4, 2012 5 Supreme Court watch continues, marriage cases pending By Lisa Neff in the state. U.S. district and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hinted that Staff writer appeals courts have said Prop the court likely will hear at least one Confident San Francisco 8 is unconstitutional. party planners say the ques- The proponents of Prop marriage equality case this term. tion is when, not whether, 8 want a final ruling from same-sex marriages will the Supreme Court, but the resume in California. attorneys representing the So a Prop 8 Is Toast cel- two same-sex couples that Island. the appeals courts. Argu- ebration is being planned for serve as plaintiffs asked the If the court decides to hear ments in the Windsor case 5 p.m. at the intersection of court not to take the case one or both of the cases, the were just heard in late Sep- Castro and Market streets in – in legal terms, they want justices could reverse, uphold tember. San Francisco on the day the the justices to deny a writ of or broaden the appeals court The last major ruling from U.S. Supreme Court clears certiorari. ruling. The outcome could the High Court on a case the way for marriage equality The two other cases – Gill be the demise of the federal specific to LGBT equality in the state. v. OPM and Massachusetts v. denial of benefits, including was in 2003, when the jus- “We will have one heck of HHS – challenge the section Social Security survivor ben- tices struck down state stat- Photo: Supremecourt.gov a celebration when we win,” of the 1996 U.S. Defense of efits, to married same-sex utes criminalizing consensual Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. said San Franciscan Ryan Marriage Act that bars fed- couples. same-sex sex. Kruger, who has been wait- eral recognition of same-sex If the court decides not At a forum in September, will hear at least one mar- a question about equal pro- ing four years to marry his marriages, which means that to hear Golinski, Windsor or Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg riage equality case this term tection and sexual orienta- partner in their home state. gay couples legally wed in Pedersen, the cases stay with hinted that the court likely when she declined to answer tion. Will that day be some- the District of Columbia and time this fall, with the court six states are denied more announcing that it will not than 1,100 federal marriage hear oral arguments in the benefits. case challenging the legality Gay rights victories were of Proposition 8, the Cali- won at the appellate level fornia constitutional amend- on the cases, with findings ment defining marriage as the that DOMA’s denial of fed- union of a man and a woman? eral recognition to lawfully Or will that day be some- married same-sex couples time in early summer, after violates the U.S. Constitu- the court hears arguments tion’s guarantee of equal pro- and renders a decision? tection. The Supreme Court began Legal experts say the jus- its 2012-13 term on Sept. 24 tices may not have acted on with a conference, a weekly Perry, Gill and OPM because meeting at which the justices either: reviewed cases and decid- • They need more review ed whether to let a lower time; court’s ruling stand or to • They decided to let the hear arguments. lower court rulings stand Those for and against but have yet to make that legalizing same-sex marriage announcement; or eagerly awaited Sept. 25 and • They are waiting for writ- the release of a first list of ten arguments in three cases the court will con- additional challenges to sider over the next eight DOMA – Golinski v. OPM months. About 8,000 cases from California, Wind- are filed with theH igh Court sor v. United States from each year but only 70-80 are New York and Pedersen v. heard. This year, several cases OPM from Connecticut. on the issue are before the court, including the challenge If the court decides not to to Proposition 8. hear Perry and lets the lower None of the marriage- court ruling stand, same-sex related cases made the Sept. marriages could resume in 25 list of six. California within weeks of So, plaintiffs and defen- that announcement. dants, attorneys and activ- If the court takes the Prop ists, and scores of same-sex 8 case, arguments likely will couples wait for word from be heard early in 2013, fol- Washington. lowed by a decision in late Three gay marriage cases June or early July. The jus- currently are before the tices could reverse, uphold court — Perry v. Brown, Gill or even broaden the appeals v. OPM and Massachusetts court ruling. Yes, you can have it all. Right now. Right here. v. HHS. If the court decides not to Learn about all our health care services and make an appointment hear Gill or OPM, the First Perry v. 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It’s not just the collection Riley Duval, social justice get souls to the polls. What- plate that’s getting passed minister at the Shorter ever it takes to get them around this fall at hundreds Community A.M.E. Church there, that’s what we’re going of mainly African-American in Denver. “The people are to do.” and Latino churches in presi- being oppressed by these With national public opin- dential battleground states measures. It has ignited a ion surveys showing a close and across the nation. sense of urgency and collec- race between President Exhorting congregations tive power that we can take Barack Obama and Repub- to register to vote, church by engaging in the process.” lican nominee Mitt Romney, leaders are distributing reg- In key swing states such even a few votes either way istration cards in the middle as Florida and Ohio, propo- in a state such as Florida – of services, and many are nents of the new election a mere 537 votes decided pledging caravans of “souls to rules deny they are aimed the 2000 contest between the polls” to deliver the vote. at suppressing the minor- Republican George W. Bush The stepped-up effort in ity vote in hopes of helping and Democrat Al Gore – many states is a response by Republicans win more races. could prove decisive. In 2008, activists worried that new Reasons for their enactment Obama won 95 percent of election rules, from tougher vary between rooting out black voters and is likely to photo identification require- fraud and purging ineligible get an overwhelming major- ments to fewer days of early voters to streamlining the ity again. He also won among voting, are unfairly targeting voting process. Latinos, a rapidly growing PHOTO: AP/J Pat Carter minority voters – specifically, But to some African- constituency that also tilts In Miami on Oct. 2, Rev. Richard Dunn discusses plans to motivate church African-Americans who tend American leaders like the heavily toward the Demo- members to vote in the upcoming elections. Exhorting congregations to to vote heavily for Demo- Rev. F.E. Perry, a Cleveland- crats in polls this year. register to vote, church leaders are distributing registration cards in the crats. Some leaders compare based bishop in Ohio’s But any loss of votes middle of services, and many are pledging caravans of “souls to the polls.” their registration and get- Church of God in Christ, would sting. out-the-vote efforts to the it’s as if the 1960s barri- To be sure, not all clergy presidential choice between sex marriage, as Obama did Jesus Christ of Latter-day racial struggle that led to the ers to black civil rights have are encouraging their flocks a Mormon candidate and one in May. As for Romney, the Saints and its former ban on 1965 Voting Rights Act. returned all over again. to turn out on Election Day: who supports gay marriage. first Mormon nominee from men of African descent in the “In light of all this, we are “We’ve come too far to sit Some black pastors are tell- The pastors say their congre- a major party, some con- priesthood. saying just let our people idly by and watch that hap- ing their congregations to gants are asking how a true gregants are questioning the Those pastors, however, vote,” said the Rev. Dawn pen,” Perry said. “We want to stay home, seeing no good Christian could back same- theology of the Church of are in the minority.

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Network, staged a “Let My said about 100,000 people that the change would harm congregations to remember milestones. Some leaders People Vote Sunday” in Sep- voted during the last week- African-Americans’ right to the fight to obtain the vote “We remember thousands compare their tember in which about 300 end before the election. A vote. The judge also noted as well as other civil rights. of little towns where count- churches around the coun- new Ohio law would have that, unlike the previous law, One such script distributed less, unnamed ancestors registration try held voter registration cut off early voting on the the new rules required at by PICO (it stands for People stood in their dignity to cast drives during services and Friday before the election, least one Sunday for early Improving Communities by a ballot,” the script says. “In and get-out- recruited churchgoers to go but a federal judge declared voting. Organizing) mentions the 2012 we will not be silent out and register even more it unconstitutional because Meanwhile, from the pul- Rev. Martin Luther King, the or denied the right to vote. the-vote people. The goal was to sign some groups such as military pit, some churches are even bloody march in Selma, Ala., For we have come too far up around 75,000 people, personnel were exempted. using a litany that calls upon and many other civil rights by faith.” efforts to the PICO policy director Gor- The state is appealing that racial struggle don Whitman said. ruling. “People are stopping in the This year in Florida, a new that led to the middle of worship to have election law eliminated early people pull out the registra- voting on that last Sunday, wisconsingazette.com 1965 Voting tion forms and fill them out. although there is a Sunday updated all day. It’s about the church saying, for early voting about a week Rights Act. ‘We are going to participate and a half earlier. Dunn, the in this process,’” Whitman Miami pastor, said he expects said. most churches will shift to Many Democrats see a In many states with early that earlier day, which falls on pattern of partisanship in voting, the Sunday before Oct. 28 this year. WE MAKE YOU many of the new election Election Day in 2008 was a “Sunday in the African- laws, which they contend are church-based political event American tradition is one of intended to hinder minority in which minority congre- the biggest days historically WANT TO SMILE! turnout and boost the pros- gations went en masse to in our community,” he said. pects of GOP candidates. polling places and cast their “You have large numbers of “I pray it’s not politics, ballots. That year in Florida, people who go to church. but I don’t know. It doesn’t 33.2 percent of all African- Pastors aren’t saying who to Call Us Today! look like anything other than American voters and 23.6 vote for, but they are saying, politics,” said the Rev. Rich- percent of Latino voters cast ‘This is souls to the polls DeWAN DENTAL WELLNESS ard Dunn, pastor at Faith ballots on that final Sunday, day.’ ” Michael DeWan D.D.S., S.C. according to the Brennan Florida’s law was also chal- Community Baptist Church 2445 N. Farwell Ave. in Miami. Center for Justice at New lenged in federal court, but One organization, the York University. a judge ruled in September 414.962.5915 faith-based PICO National In Ohio in 2008, Whitman there wasn’t enough proof www.dewandental.com

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is the way to spur jobs, especially GOP candidates are no-shows since it hasn’t proven to be a job ASSEMBLY from page 1 about these positions, Republican creator yet,” she said, adding that bly Democratic Campaign Com- Assembly candidates are increas- the majority of voters she speaks Analysis mittee. Under the best-case sce- ingly no-shows at forums and with agree with her. nario, she said, Democrats would debates with their Democratic In Assembly District 51, which to enact tax breaks for start-ups, pick up a dozen seats, but she opponents, according to Conklin. includes the bulk of Iowa and small businesses and the middle acknowledged that’s a long shot. For instance, at a recent forum Lafayette counties, Maureen May- class rather than the wealthy. Although a Wisconsin sweep in Assembly District 85, which Grimm, known locally as “Mo,” Lemke’s opponent Tom Weath- by President Barack Obama includes Wausau, Democratic is working to unseat tea party erston represents corporate would help Assembly Democrats, candidate Mandy Wright showed Republican Howard Marklein. interests. A motorcycle safety Conklin said voters are paying up to find an empty chair next Although the district was redrawn teacher, he was hand-picked for unusual attention at the local to her instead of Republican Pat to give Marklein an advantage, the office by stateR ep. Robin Vos. level this year. The issues topping Snyder, a far-right radio personal- Grimm’s campaign manager Jake A “family values” leader whose their concerns are education and ity. Rather than cancel the event, Rebholz said it remains about 54 second wife recently left him, Vos Milwaukee’s jobs, she said – both areas where panelists questioned Wright and percent Democratic. has been branded a “slumlord” Democrats hold an advantage. the Libertarian candidate. The Grimm, who’s in her second in his district. He’s one of the Premier Wausau Daily Herald covered term on the Mineral Point School state’s major conduits to the Education the event under the headline, Board, is focusing on jobs and Koch-brothers financed Ameri- and jobs “Voter forum turns into Demo- education. can Legislative Exchange Council, Boutique “Voters are looking at what’s crat show.” “Our main campaign point is which writes cookie-cutter laws happened in Wisconsin over the Wright and Snyder are vying restoring fair funding to public on behalf of the corporate right Real Estate past two years,” Conklin said. for a seat that became open education,” Rebholz said. “Mar- and disseminates them to state “They want to know why their when Democrat Donna Seidel klein has sponsored bills that legislatures through locals such as representatives are taking money decided not to seek re-election. send tax dollars to fund private Vos. Weatherston’s defeat would Company away from schools in their dis- schools in the Milwaukee area – be humiliating to Wisconsin’s tricts and sending it to private Knock, knock and that doesn’t sit well.” right wing. voucher schools.” A great deal of the momentum In Assembly District 62, which Kolste, Grimm and Lemke Conklin said voters see blue for Assembly Democrats comes includes portions of Racine, have all been endorsed by Fair after learning that Republicans from the quality of candidates Caledonia and western Racine Wisconsin. In addition to Lemke gave $2.3 billion to special cor- vying for office in this election County, Melissa Lemke is vying and Zamarripa, Democrat Marga porate interests without tying cycle, as well as the hard work for an open seat. If elected, she Krumins, who came out on Face- it to job creation. In fact, after they’ve demonstrated on the would join state Rep. JoCasta book this summer, is running two years of complete Republi- campaign trail. Zamarripa as an out member of in Assembly District 97, which can control, Wisconsin ranks at In Assembly District 44, which the Assembly. Lemke is a public includes Waukesha. or near the very bottom of the includes part of Janesville, Dem- health educator and a researcher states in job creation. ocratic candidate Deb Kolste for UWM. Other Assembly “Voters are asking, ‘Why knocked on more than 11,000 “They redistricted that race to races to watch: should companies get tax breaks doors during her primary race, make it tough for Democrats,” District 42: Democrat Paula for cutting jobs and shipping jobs and she continues to knock on said Scott Spector, executive Cooper is taking on second-term to China?” Conklin said. “If you’re doors at a prodigious rate. As a director of Wisconsin Progress. Republican Keith Ripp in a dis- going to tell voters that the state result, party leaders believe she His organization recruits and trict he won by 20 votes in is financially broke and then give has a good chance at taking back trains progressive candidates for 2008, although the boundaries away $2.3 billion to wealthy a seat that was lost to Republican local and state office. have been redrawn to favor him. corporations, you’d better have Joe Knilans in 2010. But, he added, “Melissa is just The district includes Columba some jobs to show for it.” District 44 is 60-percent Dem- such a hard worker that I believe County and the towns of Portage Voters also are disturbed by ocratic and voted to recall Gov. she will be successful. She’s made and Baraboo. the extremist social positions Scott Walker earlier this year. the seat competitive by raising a District 49: Democrat that Republicans have taken on Democrat Mike Sheridan held lot of money and knocking on a Carol Beals is taking on freshman Jay Schmidt issues such as women’s health the Assembly seat for more than lot of doors.” Republican Travis Tranel in an and pay equity, Conklin said. The a decade prior to Knilans’ win. “It’s going wonderfully,” Lemke area of southwestern Wisconsin Sales Executive GOP killed legislation support- Kolste, who served for three said of her campaign, adding that that includes Platteville. ing women seeking equal pay for terms on the Janesville School knocking on doors and meeting District 67: Democrat Deb equal jobs. Republicans also shot Board, said her constituents are constituents is “the best part of Biebing hopes to unseat freshman “My partner and I have down funding for organizations primarily concerned about job the campaign” for her. Republican Tom Larson, who was such as Planned Parenthood that growth – or rather the lack of it “People are responding to me honored by the American Con- renovated many homes, provide low-cost and free cancer under Republican leadership. well, and I think it’s because of servative Union for his votes in so I know the market. screenings to women without “I tell them that I’m not sure the work ethic they see when I’m the last Assembly session. health insurance. that the Republican approach of out there calling on them again District 68: Democrat Judy Let me show you To avoid answering questions just giving corporate tax breaks and again.” Smriga is competing against Although her district includes freshman Republican Kathy Ber- why I am getting part of Paul Ryan’s congressional nier. The district includes Chip- unprecedented results!” district, Lemke said her cam- pewa Falls. paign’s success would ultimately District 69: Democrat A portion of proceeds depend more on the turnout Paul Knoff is showing surpris- for U.S. Senate candidate Tammy ing strength against long-term will be donated to Baldwin. incumbent Republican Scott Milwaukee LGBT “Because that race is so close, Suder in this north-central dis- Community Center it’s going to be the big draw,” trict, which includes Abbotsford. Lemke said. “That is probably the District 75: Democrat Ste- one that is most closely related phen Smith is mounting a strong to our race.” challenge to freshman Republican 414-517-7716 In District 62, education ranks Roger Rivard in a district that Learn more at Photo: Facebook second behind jobs in terms of includes Rice Lake. Before Rivard, www.powersrealty.net Democrat Melissa Lemke, left, speaks with constituents voters’ priorities, Lemke said. Her the seat was held by Democrat as she campaigns in Assembly District 62. prescription for the economy is Mary Hubler, who retired. WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | October 4, 2012 9 Baldwin the best choice for U.S. Senate The progress represented since the Great Depression would act as an obstruction- worse for the wear after by electing an out candidate had kept banks from engaging ist if elected. Since then, he years of notorious hard liv- to the U.S. Senate is tremen- in the kinds of risky practices has taken to labeling himself ing, he’s back in Wisconsin dous. But there are many that led to the worldwide alternately a conservative pretending to be a farmer. Endorsement other important reasons to 2008 economic collapse. or a moderate, depending During the Sept. 28 debate, support openly gay Demo- She stood up for Wiscon- on the audience. He is as Thompson had the temerity nomic bonanza for more crat Tammy Baldwin over sin homeowners by stop- disingenuous as Baldwin is to depict himself as loving than 30 years, Thompson and Republican Tommy Thomp- ping the Justice Department authentic. and devoted family man and Romney have not laid a single son in the race to succeed from granting immunity to Thompson left Wiscon- a Washington outsider, one job-creating proposal on the retiring U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl big banks guilty of mortgage sin in debt despite presid- of the more audacious dis- table. – reasons that benefit both fraud. Ultimately, the banks ing over a period of great tortions of reality heard this Baldwin, on the other Wisconsin and the nation. were forced to pay billions national economic expansion. election cycle. hand, would help to reinvigo- Baldwin is unimpeachably of dollars to victims of their He took the position of Sec- Tellingly, Thompson has rate the economy by invest- one of the most genuine, unethical practices. retary of Health and Human refused to release even one ing in critical infrastructure intelligent and committed Blustery and boastful in Services in George W. Bush’s year of his tax returns since and education needs. lawmakers serving in the U.S. temperament, Thompson is administration. After leav- 1997. But of even more con- Baldwin, who has released Capitol today. Every day of the polar opposite of the ing that job, he capitalized cern is his inability to artic- all of her tax returns, has not her career as a public ser- warm, soft-spoken Baldwin. shamelessly on the connec- ulate why he’s running for enriched herself through pub- vant – and that is quite liter- In his heyday, Thompson was tions he’d made, shilling for office, other than to offer the lic employment as Thompson ally how she views herself a moderate whose political pharmaceutical companies in obligatory political promises has. Instead, she has enriched – Baldwin has demonstrated success was built on compro- which he had financial stakes. de jour of wanting to create the lives of those she has her support for the middle mise. He created BadgerCare, Among his gifts to the drug jobs and lower taxes, without served by faithfully repre- Photo: Courtesy DNC class and for such traditional which helped low-income industry was changing fed- explaining how. senting their interests, by Democrat Tammy values as social justice, eco- earners obtain affordable eral law to make it illegal for Like GOP presidential can- standing up to the greedy Baldwin addresses the nomic opportunity, access to health care coverage. Medicare to negotiate with didate Mitt Romney, Thomp- and the powerful and oppos- Democratic National education and health care, But the Thompson of them for lower costs. That son would sacrifice the ing GOP policies that have Convention last month individual liberty and toler- today is not the popular put affordable, life-saving nation’s future as a whole pushed the American dream in Charlotte, N.C. ance. governor that older Wis- drugs out of reach for mil- for the short-term financial farther and farther from the Early in her congressional consinites remember. During lions of middle- and lower- benefits of a very few, them- grasp of average individuals. career, Baldwin was one of the Republican primary, he income seniors, but it helped selves included. Beyond cut- Baldwin would be a stellar close. Thompson just isn’t in the few members of Con- positioned himself as a hard- to make Thompson $13 mil- ting taxes for the uber rich, choice for the U.S. Senate the same league. He’s running gress to oppose lifting the line conservative, promising lion richer. a strategy that has failed to regardless of her opponent, to run, while she’s running to Glass-Steagall Act, which tea party extremists that he Now 70 and somewhat deliver the promised eco- but this race is not even make a difference.

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Presidential University in Boca Raton, Fla. had previously volunteered year after the death of Kerry long absence that was hailed debate cycle The moderator will be Bob with a local LGBT commu- Fadely, a food and beverage as a historic development begins Schieffer, host of “Face the nity center and allegedly told manager at the Millennium that would help groom lead- The first presidential Nation” on CBS. the guard he didn’t like FRC’s Hotel in Anchorage, Alaska. ers at a prestigious university. debate took place Oct. 3, views, was in possession of A former employee she had Yale brought the ROTC after WiG went to press with No release of an automatic pistol, ammuni- fired nine days earlier fatally units back to campus this Jim Lehrer of “NewsHour” 911 call on FRC tion and Chick-fil-A sand- shot Fadely. fall after Congress voted to moderating the Denver dis- shooting wiches. Not long after Fadely was allow gays to serve openly in cussion between Barack The D.C. police depart- murdered, Harris had to the military. ROTC hasn’t had Obama and Mitt Romney on ment refuses to release the Woman sues leave the home they shared. a presence at Yale since the 911 call made after a shoot- “When Kerry was killed, Vietnam War era. domestic policy. over denied Photo: unicornbooty.com The vice presidential ing at the headquarters of an survivor it was like a hole had been ROTC programs left the debate between Joe Biden ultra-conservative Christian benefits punched in my heart,” she campuses of several promi- political speech on Bourbon and Paul Ryan is Oct. 11 at lobbying group. A woman whose part- said. “We loved each other nent universities in the late Street after dark. Centre College in Danville, AP requested a copy of the ner was shot dead by a dis- and were together for more 1960s and early 1970s in the U.S. District Judge Eldon Ky. ABC News chief foreign Aug. 15 recording under the gruntled former employee is than a decade in a committed fervor of student protests Fallon issued the temporary correspondent Martha Rad- District of Columbia’s open suing under Alaska’s workers’ relationship. But because we against the Vietnam War. restraining order against the datz moderates the discus- records law. But the depart- compensation law for survi- could not marry, I was unable ROTC was kept away more law used to arrest Chris- sion of foreign and domestic ment rejected that request, vor benefits. to receive the same financial recently because of “don’t tian evangelists preaching policy. saying the call was part of an Deborah Harris is repre- protections that the state ask, don’t tell,” which banned on Bourbon Street during The Oct. 16 presiden- ongoing FBI investigation and sented by the national Lamb- provides to married hetero- gays from serving openly in Southern Decadence, an tial debate is a town meet- the caller was a witness in da Legal defense group. sexual couples.” the armed services. The uni- annual celebration of gay ing focusing on foreign and the investigation. Under the state law, the versities said the policy vio- Pride. domestic policy. The debate A Virginia man was arrest- spouse of a person who dies Yale holds lated nondiscrimination rules The ordinance was adopt- takes place at 8 p.m. at Hofs- ed and charged in the shoot- from a work-related injury is ceremony to for campus organizations. ed in October 2011 and vio- tra University in Hempstead, ing. Authorities say he went eligible to receive survivor welcome ROTC lation is a misdemeanor pun- N.Y., with CNN chief political into the Family Research benefits – generally paid by back to campus Bourbon Street ishable by up to six months in correspondent Candy Crow- Council headquarters, strug- insurance companies. How- Yale University welcomed preaching jail and a $500 fine. ley as the moderator. gled with and shot a security ever, same-sex couples are the Air Force and Naval limits blocked Opponents of the ordi- On Oct. 22 at 9 p.m., officer who then restrained excluded because Alaska bars Reserve Officers Training A federal judge has barred nance, including the ACLU, the presidential candidates him. same-sex marriage. Corps detachments to cam- enforcement of a city ordi- say it violates free speech debate foreign policy at Lynn Police said the man, who Lambda filed the lawsuit a pus, a return after a decades- nance restricting religious or rights. – L.N.

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Domestic Cardinal laws might change – if they “there should be no legal Pylon the sequel violence down George: gay do­ then society will be the recognition.” Opposition A new walking museum in Chi- in Wisconsin couples in worse for it.” to any legal recognition for cago’s east Lakeview neighbor- A new report says the ‘friendships’ The Mass took place at same-sex couples was nearly hood opens officially on National number of deaths involving Cardinal Francis George Holy Name Cathedral, where 27 percent in 2010. Coming Out Day, Oct. 11, with a domestic violence is down suggested gay couples seek- earlier this year LGBT civil The poll of registered vot- daylong series of events. in Wisconsin. ing to marry are really just rights demonstrators pro- ers was conducted Sept. 4-10 Displayed along a half-mile The Wisconsin Coalition friends, unlike heterosexual tested George’s comparison by telephone and has a sam- strip of North Halsted Street, the Against Domestic Violence couples who wed, form of gay rights activism to Ku pling margin of error of plus Legacy Walk recognizes LGBT says there were 37 homi- unions, have families and Klux Klan activities. or minus 3 percentage points. contributions to world history cides and three suicides in build their lives together. and culture. The exhibit consists 2011. That compares with The cardinal, at a special Support for Iowa tours of a series of bronze plaques 51 homicides and seven sui- Mass in Chicago for 400 cou- marriage surges offer competing attached to the area’s celebrat- cides related to domestic ples celebrating their golden in IllINOIS views on justice ed rainbow pylons. Each plaque violence in 2010. 50th wedding anniversaries, More than four of every 10 Competing campaigns will bear a laser-cast image of Shannon Barry, who said, “Marriage is what it is, Illinois voters support legaliz- crisscrossed Iowa in Septem- an LGBT person of prominence directs the Domestic Abuse what Jesus said from the ing gay marriage, a 10-point ber in support of and opposi- along with a 300-word paragraph Intervention Services in beginning: Two in one flesh, increase in just two years. tion to state Supreme Court explaining the individual’s contri- Dane County, says it’s diffi- for which man leaves his fam- Forty-four percent of Justice David Wiggins. butions. cult to draw any conclusions ily and joins himself to his those polled said they believe Both tours began early Eighteen plaques will be dedi- about the lower number of wife; and wife leaves her fam- gay and lesbian couples Sept. 24 in Des Moines, cated as part of the first phase of deaths. But, Barry told the ily, and joins herself to her “should be allowed to legally then headed out for stops the project, which will be com- State Journal that she hopes husband.” marry,” according to South- throughout the state. pleted over the next two years. it means victims are reach- He added, “There must ern Illinois University’s Paul The Iowa State Bar Asso- Eventually the project will fea- ing out for services earlier surely be ways in our civil Simon Public Policy Institute. ciation joined with other ture 34 markers, with each pylon and getting the help they society, where we can honor When the same institute groups for a “Yes Iowa Judg- showcasing two plaques. need to leave abusive situ- friendships, where we can asked that question in 2010, es” tour through 19 commu- The project is the first of its ations. respect other people, with- 34 percent backed gay mar- nities. The tour supports all kind in the world. A silent march around out destroying the nature of riage. the judges up for retention For more, go to www.legacy- PHOTO: Courtesy the state Capitol on Oct. marriage. It is very important, The latest poll found 32 in November, including Wig- projectchicago.org. Chicago’s rain- 1 remembered those who for your whole lives, to give percent of respondents pre- gins. He faces a campaign for – Louis Weisberg bow pylons. died in domestic violence witness to what marriage fer civil unions for gay cou- his removal for joining in a in 2011. truly means. And while civil ples, while 20 percent believe unanimous 2009 ruling legal-

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WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | October 4, 2012 13 izing gay marriage in Iowa. of Milwaukee, through this Conference about $100,000, Congresswoman Moore at even though the Obama rally The Family Leader and resolution, have demanded a went to more than 400,000 the Milwaukee LGBT Com- was equally in violation of the other groups seeking Wig- change in priorities – money Catholic households in Min- munity Center,” said interim curfew,” Donnelly wrote. gins’ removal plan a four-day for Milwaukee’s needs, not nesota. executive director Karen Roderick Drew, spokes- bus trip through Iowa. The FL for war,” a news release said. Some people received a Gotzler. “It shows how man for Chicago’s Law led a campaign that resulted Endorsing organizations request for donations and a important the LGBTQ com- Department, said the city will in the ouster in 2010 of three included the Milwaukee vote while others, who don’t munity is to the whole com- appeal the ruling. justices who support the gay Teachers’ Education Asso- have a history of giving to the munity of voters.” The protesters and their marriage ruling. ciation, AFSCME District archdiocese, were asked for The center is at 1110 N. lawyers said the ruling coun- Council 48, Milwaukee Inner- their “yes” vote. Market St. Use the “garden tered claims by Mayor Rahm Milwaukee City Congregations Allied The church has raised entrance” and go to the sec- Emanuel and the city’s top council for Hope, Nine-to-Five Mil- more than $1 million for ond floor. leadership that they were adopts ‘Move waukee, NAACP Milwau- the anti-gay initiative – about For more, call 414-271- upholding First Amendment the Money’ kee Branch and Progressive $500,000 this year – and 2656. rights in their handling of the resolution Democrats of America. $750,000 last year from the protests. The Milwaukee Common MCC. The largest chunk of PHOTO: Courtesy Charges “It demonstrates beyond Council in September unani- Minnesota money came from the Arch- U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore against any reasonable doubt just mously adopted a resolution Catholics asked diocese of St. Paul and Min- Chicago Occupy what a flagrant violation of calling for a redirection of to fund anti- neapolis. Moore also will explain protesters people’s rights these arrests federal spending priorities gay effort new legislation, such as the dismissed were,” said Andy Thayer, an from military intervention A mailing from church Gwen Moore inclusion of LGBT people in A judge on Sept. 27 tossed anti-war and gay rights activ- to domestic programs, espe- leadership to Minnesota holds town the Violence Against Women out charges against 92 Occu- ist who was among those cially those meeting urban Roman Catholics asked them hall meeting at Act, new federal policies ban- py protesters arrested in a arrested. needs. to donate to the political Milwaukee LGBT ning discrimination on the Chicago park last October, The protests were an off- Peace Action Wisconsin campaign to ban gay mar- Center basis of sexual orientation or severely criticizing what the shoot of the Occupy Wall proposed the “Move the riage with a constitutional Congresswoman Gwen gender identity in supported city had proudly held up as Street movement and a dem- Money” resolution citing amendment. Moore hosts a town hall housing or emergency shel- a better way for dealing with onstration against corporate adverse economic condi- The money is for Min- meeting from 6 to 8 p.m. ters, said center board co- demonstrations. greed. tions that include “devastated nesota for Marriage’s televi- on Oct. 9 at the Milwaukee president Paul Williams. Cook County Associate housing markets, high unem- sion ads urging a “yes” vote LGBT Community Center. Equality Wisconsin will be Judge Thomas Donnelly ruled ployment and poverty, chal- on the amendment defining Moore will update par- on hand with its OUTspoken that the city’s curfew law was – WiG lenges to educational institu- marriage as the union of a ticipants on the status of campaign to register voters, unconstitutional and that the tions, and the degradation of man and a woman. The vote legislation related to equality, get pledges from community city selectively enforced it. public infrastructure.” is Nov. 6. health care and other issues members to vote and pro- “The city arrested no one Send community news to “Peace Action Wisconsin The mailing, which cost of importance to LGBT and mote BeOUTspokenWI.org. at the Obama 2008 presi- [email protected]. and the Common Council the Minnesota Catholic progressive voters. “We are delighted to host dential election victory rally,

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{ Editorial } BY THE NUMBERS Percentage answering yes to pollsters’ question, “Do you happen to have a family member or Bias that dares close friend who is gay or lesbian?” not speak its name High-ranking officials of the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee consider 60% yes 45% yes their campus to be a model of LGBT inclusivity. But UWM admission officials denied in-state tuition to a man whose hus- band – the couple was legally married in New York – has lived in the state 2012 2007 for more than a year. The first rejection letter the couple received gave the real reason why: Same-sex marriage and its equivalent are illegal in Wisconsin. But when the couple protested, the university provided a growing list of 49% yes 41% yes other reasons, which we believe are disingenuous. In responding to our cov- erage of the incident, vice chancellor of student affairs Michael R. Laliberte 2010 1998 insisted the in-state tuition was denied because the applicant’s partner is a resident physician working at a hospital under contract. But Laliberte was unable to provide even theoretical instances of other spouses of contract workers being denied in-state tuition. 49% yes 32% yes Prior to the contract excuse, the couple was told that resident physicians are not considered workers. That reason appears to have been dropped after 2009 1994 university officials were informed that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year mandated that resident physicians be treated as regular workers under the law. Source: CNN/ORC Bias cloaked in bureaucratese is still bias. The couple got the runaround when they should have gotten empathy. The university could have made some sort of accommodation for their situation but apparently didn’t try, even though the applicant was accepted into two programs and had already begun classes. Perhaps because they’re funded by the state, university officials seemed unwilling to criticize state law discriminating against same-sex couples. But they didn’t want to be perceived as complying with blatant discrimination either. In the process of trying to avoid both a conflict with the state and the { Voter information } appearance of bigotry, the university damaged two lives and missed the oppor- tunity to shine a light on a seldom-exposed consequence of anti-gay laws. Election dates to No photo ID required That’s not very gay friendly, in our opinion. Throughout our contact with remember for voting — yet the university while investigating this incident, not one admissions or student Nov. 1: Last day to request absentee Two different judges, on March affairs officer expressed regret or compassion. ballots by mail (by 5 p.m.). 6 and March 12, issued injunctions Many organizations that claim to be inclusive sometimes behave otherwise. Nov. 6: General and presidential election. preventing the Government Walgreens, for instance, provides low-profile sponsorships for LGBT events in Accountability Board from enforcing Wisconsin. But the company refuses to distribute WiG in its stores. Officials Register to vote online the photo ID requirements enacted have told us that it’s not us – it’s them. For three years, they’ve said they’re Online voter registration is at https://vpa. by Republicans in 2011. The planning to eliminate all publications because they’re messy. But with the wi.gov/OnlineRegistration/Default.aspx. Wisconsin Department of Justice has exception of a couple of stores whose managers have agreed to look the appealed those injunctions, but the other way, the other publications are still on display and ours are not. Where to register & vote Wisconsin Supreme Court recently The take-away message from all of this is that the LGBT community has Look up your voter registration and turned down the case for the time reached the point where overt discrimination against us is frowned on, but polling place at https://vpa.wi.gov/. being. it’s still permitted under the radar. That represents progress but not success.

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Kane WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | October 4, 2012 15 ON THE RECORD Milwaukee police strike again investigation will not lead to “How many of these rapes do Derek “Gay people are the strongest and criminal charges against his you think are really rapes?” most inspiring people I know. It is officers. Three thousand women took Williams’ so wrong when people bully or put Opinion The demand for a federal to the streets in the first down others for being gay. No one JAMAKAYA inquiry into Williams’ death “Take Back the Night” march death is the should have to go through that.” is a reasonable one given that October shouting, “Fire – Paris Hilton apologizing yet again to I began covering the Mil- the apparent shoddiness of Breier, he’s a liar!” latest stain. GLAAD after an audio of her making derogatory waukee Police Department the initial investigation and Flash forward to 1991 and comments about gay people was posted online. in the late 1970s during the Flynn’s bias. Also legitimately the epic incompetence of the In the recording, Hilton is heard saying gay people dictatorial reign of Chief driving federal intervention MPD – under Chief Phil- the training as a joke. He are “disgusting” and “most of them probably have Harold Breier. More than are longtime public suspi- lip Arreola – in the Jeffrey detailed the MPD’s systemic AIDS.” three decades later, after cions of alleged collusion and Dahmer case. While young homophobia in an affidavit five subsequent police chiefs cover-ups by the MPD and men of color were disap- included in the Sinthasom- “The method of conception doesn’t change the and multiple studies aimed at DA’s office. pearing from gay bars, the phone family’s lawsuit against definition of life.” improving police-community When I saw the tape of police were busting those the city. – GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan relations, the rot remains. Williams dying, I immedi- same bars for strip shows I haven’t mentioned the defending his view that abortion should not be legal The death of Derek Wil- ately thought of Ernest Lacy, and ignoring the requests of failure of the cops and DA’s in cases of rape. liams in police custody is the who died in the back of family members to search office to investigate or charge latest stain on a department a Milwaukee police van in for their sons. Despite pleas hate crimes. The Frank Jude “I’ve got a birthday coming up where I’m turning with a disgraceful history of 1981. A coroner’s jury found of witnesses, laughing cops beating case. The number of old. I’ve spent 30 years – or whatever the number racism, homophobia, disdain the cause of death was returned the fleeing Kon- thugs with criminal records is specifically – not talking about my personal life, for civil liberties and public interruption of oxygen flow erak Sinthasomphone into who serve as cops. The time lying about my personal life.” input, and just plain incom- to the brain due to pressure Dahmer’s clutches, where he I saw cops arrest the wrong – Kevin McClatchy, who owned the Pitts- petence. applied by police to Lacy’s was murdered. One of those man and threaten witnesses burgh Pirates from 1996 to 2007, coming out to New evidence only chest and neck. The Fire and detestable cops later led the with obstruction for point- The New York Times. McClatchy said he’d kept made public after months Police Commission found police union. ing out their error. The good his sexual orientation secret due to the frequent of requests by the Milwau- five police officers guilty At a public hearing in Sep- ol’ boy preferential hiring of homophobic slurs he heard in baseball circles. He kee Journal Sentinel com- only of failing to render first tember 1991, dozens of gays Flynn. The strip searches. The turns 50 in January. pelled the medical examiner aid to Lacy. and lesbians told hair-raising deliberate arrest of a creden- to revise his original find- My disgust with the MPD stories of abuse at the hands tialed reporter at an Occupy “Now that it’s done, we should not reverse it. I ings in Williams’ death. The predated the Lacy case. In of Milwaukee cops. In the protest. The thousands of think that would be a step in the wrong direction mayor, police chief and dis- 1979, after a series of rapes 1980s and ’90s, Ralph Navar- crimes misreported in MPD because people have already disclosed themselves. trict attorney concede that a in the city and reports that ro led trainings to sensitize databases. … Yeah, I’m sure I think this issue is past us. It’s done. And I think we new investigation is needed. cops were insensitive to cops to the gay community. there are good cops, but my need to move on.” Yet Police Chief Ed Flynn victims, Police Chief Breier Navarro felt that most cops confidence in the whole sys- – PAUL RYAN, who voted against lifting the has already declared the uttered his infamous line, and their supervisors treated tem is shot. “don’t ask, don’t tell” ban on out military personnel, saying that it would be a mistake now to reinstate the policy. Looking back at looking forward “Civil rights are for blacks. We don’t owe the homeless. We don’t owe feminists. We don’t owe day, with love in our hearts, … They are wrong because home. I challenge everyone women who are desirous of having abortions, or we have come out, and we justice is moral, and preju- of you, straight or gay, who gays who want to get married to one another.” Opinion have come out across Ameri- dice is evil; because truth can hear my voice, to join – Right-wing pundit ANN COULTER speaking ca to build a bridge of under- is moral and the lie of the the national gay and lesbian with George Stephanopoulos on the Sept. 23 edi- Urvashi VAID standing, a bridge of progress, closet is the real sin; because movement. … We have got tion of ABC’s “This Week.” October is LGBT History a bridge as solid as steel, a the claim of morality is a to match the power of the Month. In observance, below bridge to a land where no subtle sort of subterfuge, a Christian supremacists, mem- “We don’t believe this is in the best interest of our is a partial transcript from one suffers prejudice because stratagem which hides the ber for member, vote for state, or our employees, and so as a Minnesota-based activist Urvashi Vaid’s speech of their sexual orientation, real aim, which is much more vote, dollar for dollar. Get company we took the position and opposed it.” at the March on Washington their race, their gender, their secular. … involved! Volunteer! Volun- – General Mills CEO Ken Powell explain- for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal religion or their human dif- They care about social teer! Every local organization ing to shareholders why the company decided to Rights and Liberation on April ference.” control. And their goal, my in this country needs you. oppose a proposed constitutional ban on same-sex 25, 1993. I have been asked by the friends, is the reconstruction Every clinic, every hotline, marriage in the state. I am proud to stand before March organizers to speak of American Democracy into every youth program needs you as a lesbian today. With in five minutes about the American Theocracy. you, needs your time and “This kind of support of homosexuality is only hearts full of love and the far right, the far right which It’s war all right. It’s a war your love. engrained in the thoughts of hard-core capitalists abiding faith in justice, we threatens the construction about values. On one side And I also challenge our and those who support of the growth of capital have come to Washington to of that bridge. … Language are the values that everyone straight liberal allies, liberals only, rather than human values.” speak to America. We have itself fails in this task, my here stands for. Do you know and libertarians, independent – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad offer- come to speak the truth of friends, for to call our oppo- what those values are? Tra- and conservative, republi- ing his take on homosexuality, which he also con- our lives and silence the liars. nents “The Right,” states a ditional American values of can or radical. I challenge demned as “very ugly behavior” to CNN’s Piers We have come to defend profound untruth. They are democracy and pluralism. On and invite you to open your Morgan. our honor and win our wrong – they are wrong the other side are those who eyes and embrace us without equality. But most of all we morally, they are wrong spiri- want to turn the Christian fear. “Never mind his tax returns. I now want to see have come in peace and with tually, and they are wrong church in government, those The gay rights movement Romney’s high school diploma. And IQ tests.” courage to say, “America, this politically. whose value is monotheism. is not a party. It is not life- – KEITH OLBERMAN tweeting a day marks the end from exile The Christian suprema- To defeat the Right politi- style. It is not a hairstyle. It response to Mitt Romney’s misun- of the gay and lesbian people. cists are wrong spiritually cally, my friends, is our chal- is not a fad or a fringe or derstood joke about airplane win- We are banished no more. when they demonize us. They lenge when we leave this a sickness. ... The gay rights dows not rolling down. We wander the wilderness are wrong when they reduce March. How can we do it? movement is an integral part of despair no more. We are the complexity and beauty of We’ve got to march from of the American promise of afraid no more. For on this our spirit into a freak show. Washington into action at freedom.… 16 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | October 4, 2012

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By Gregg Shapiro York City, ACT UP followed Staff writer that appearance by the first Like previous festivals, the of its actions at Sloan-Ketter- 2012 Milwaukee LGBT Film ing Hospital. and Video Festival presents Things escalated from a fascinating array of fea- there. ACT UP meetings ture-length and short-subject more than doubled in atten- queer cinema. Beginning with dance. People with a his- Photo: Courtesy the Olympia Dukakis vehicle tory of organizing mingled “Facing Mirrors” is a groundbreaking Iranian film with a transgender character. “Cloudburst” and conclud- with newcomers, creating ing with the Arab-themed an amazing synergy. ACT UP Patalano) in the Huntington influence has an impact on a business deal gone wrong. regular Carmen Maura), his British movie “My Brother fearlessly took on cultural, Park section of Los Angeles. Yoli’s grades and her home Even though it is illegal for unfaithful father Nathan, his The Devil,” the selections political and religious orga- A studious high school soph- life. Each girl ends up manipu- her to drive, Rana secretly sister Irene (Amira Casar), are international in scope nizations of all stripes. From omore, Yolanda is respectful lating the other. The friend- works as a driver, careful her husband Herve (Char- at the festival presented by the pharmaceutical indus- of adults and avoids the nega- ship begins to fray at the to only pick up female pas- lie Dupont) – even his own the University of Wisconsin- try to Cosmopolitan maga- tive influences of her peers. edges, due to jealousy, paren- sengers. lack of sleep. Things become Milwaukee’s Peck School of zine, from New York City But Yoli is unprepared for tal and social pressure, and While on the lam, Eddie even more complicated the Arts Department of Film. Hall to the New York Stock the changes that occur in the complexities of the girls’ crosses paths with Rana, who when elderly, widowed law- The festival runs Oct. 18-21. Exchange, from St. Patrick’s her life when she meets new feelings toward each other. offers a ride. It is in Rana’s car yer Goldberg (Jean-Luc Bide- Following are some of this Cathedral to Grand Central neighbor and classmate Mari “Mosquita Y Mari” has a that a life-changing culture au) becomes enamored of year’s festival offerings. Station, ACT UP was there (Venecia Troncoso). sting, but it is well-worth clash occurs. Each character Ruben. As Ruben puts it, his and made certain that its Mari’s life is the opposite enduring. impacts the world view of life has become “one bad ‘United In message was heard. of Yoli’s in every way. She the other, and they come Jewish joke.” Anger: A History The interview component has to be the adult in her ‘Facing Mirrors’ to each other’s aid without Back in Finland, Teemu of ACT UP’ of the documentary, featur- relationship with her mother Following 2011’s ground- hesitation. learns the truth about the Combining vintage foot- ing firsthand accounts from (Dulce Maria Solis) and little breaking Iranian film “Cir- suspicious stash of cash. He age – much of it amateur and Kramer, Peter Staley, Maxine sister Olivia (Samy Zaragoza). cumstances,” which dealt ‘Let My hops a plane to Paris to make personal – with interviews Wolff, Michelangelo Signorile, Mari thinks nothing of shop- with lesbian relationships, People Go!’ amends with Ruben. Unfortu- of more than 50 people, this Anna Blum and others, is lifting or smoking pot in the “Facing Mirrors” takes on In Finnish and French with nately, he’s about to make an documentary is as inspiring highly effective. In combina- girl’s bathroom at school. But the subject of being trans in English subtitles, the modern, appearance just as everything as it is infuriating. It’s inspir- tion with the remarkable a teacher pairs up Yoli and Tehran. “Facing Mirrors” viv- campy farce “Let My People goes haywire, including the ing in the way it portrays a period footage, the results Mari in class, and soon they idly depicts the consequenc- Go!” follows young gay cou- arrest of Ruben, his brother community affecting change are a powerful cocktail, ele- become study mates. es and horrors of living in a ple Ruben (the elastic Nicolas Samuel (Clément Sibony) and through desperation, orga- vating “United In Anger” to a It’s fascinating to watch repressive society. Maury) and Teemur (Jarkko Nathan. Lovesick Goldberg nization, affinity, action and higher level among the many the friendship bud. Each girl Eddie, aka Adineh (Shayes- Niemi) as their relationship doesn’t help matters when rage. It’s infuriating because docs about the AIDS crisis. brings something unique to teh Irani), is trying to secure is threatened by a variety of he sends Teemu away. How- it shows how the ACT UP the relationship. Mari nick- a passport to Germany for outside influences. The first ever, when Teemu appears at movement ate itself up from ‘Mosquita names Yoli “Mosquita” and is gender reassignment surgery. and greatest challenge occurs the door on the night of the the inside, losing much of its Y Mari’ protective of her. Mari, who is However, Eddie’s honor- after postman Ruben unwit- Seder, like a blond Elijah, it’s strength 30 years into the Like Dee Rees’ well- not doing well in school, ben- obsessed father (Homayoun tingly comes into possession clear that Ruben’s days of HIV/AIDS crisis with still no received 2011 film “Pariah,” efits from the study time. But Ershadi) has other plans. A of about 200,000 euros. This suffering are over. cure in sight. “Mosquita Y Mari” presents outside influences threaten wedding date has been set causes such a rift between “United In Anger” high- an underrepresented seg- the relationship. Mari passes for Eddie, and the father will the pair that Ruben leaves lights the March 1987 speech ment of the LGBT commu- out fliers for money to help do everything in his power to rural Finland to return to For a full festival in which Larry Kramer calls nity. This effectively told and with the rent and utilities. make sure it occurs. what he thinks is the safety schedule, go to for a “new AIDS movement.” performed story about two Yoli’s parents don’t approve Meanwhile, in another part net of his family in Paris. Two day later, Kramer got young Latinas is one that we of Mari, especially after the of the city, seamstress Rana Arriving just in time for http://www4.uwm. his wish with the formation don’t often see onscreen. gossipy grocer badmouths (Qazal Shakeri) is struggling Passover, Ruben can feel the edu/psoa/film/ of the AIDS Coalition To Yolanda (Fenessa Pineda) her. to make ends meet for her- Angel of Death hovering lgbtfilmfestival/pdf/ Unleash Power or ACT UP. A lives with her overly pro- But because Yoli’s feelings self and her young son while over everything: his nephew LGBT2012_Bro- visible presence at the June tective, traditional parents toward Mari are beyond her husband serves time in Gabriel, his relentless mother chure.pdf. 1987 Pride parade in New (Joaquín Garrido and Laura friendship, Mari’s negative prison for his involvement in Rachael (Pedro Almodóvar 18 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | October 4, 2012 Olympia Dukakis channels her rebellious spirit in ‘Cloudburst’ Interview By Gregg Shapiro I spoke with Olympia Staff writer Dukakis last month. GREGG SHAPIRO In “Cloudburst,” Stella (Olympia Dukakis), a foul- Gregg Shapiro: Stella, I’ve encountered people mouthed, old-school dyke the character that you who have insisted on their and her longtime partner play in “Cloudburst,” own lifestyle even against Dottie (Brenda Fricker), a has, shall we say, a way what might be considered visually-impaired, doughy with words. the grain, what might be con- femme, are threatened with Olympia Dukakis: (Laughs) sidered the acceptable. separation after Dottie takes And gestures! There is a kind of eccen- a fall. Dottie’s granddaugh- tricity that some people ter tricks her into signing a Have you ever played have in the New England legal guardianship document a character with such a area. They don’t succumb to and then proceeds to move vast vocabulary of pro- what’s expected, but decide Dottie into a long-term care fanity? they’re going to have the life facility. But Stella, who will No. I’ve never played any- they want. That I’ve encoun- not be deterred, busts Dottie one so openly rebellious tered. But I think that Stella, out of the home. (laughs). Unfortunately, it’s a because of the time she came As the couple heads to real part of my nature, so I out and connected with her Canada to get married and kind of took to it like a fish partner, Dottie, was a time gain some kind of legal rights, to water. when it was not as it is today. Photo: courtesy they pick up hitcher/hustler Stella took it on and was Olympia Dukakis, left, and Brenda Fricker play a longtime lesbian couple Prentice (Ryan Doucette). Stella, who lives in rebellious in that way. She in “Cloudburst,” which opens the Milwaukee LGBT Film Festival on Oct. The three embark on a series Maine, is what I would was probably one of the few 18 at the Oriental Theater, 2230 N. Farwell Ave. of adventures that none describe as a classic at the time – because she anticipated. northern New Eng- didn’t live in a so-to-speak “Cloudburst” is a sweet lander. As a New Eng- community of people who Stella is obsessed Oh my God, it’s a painful, comedy with serious under- lander yourself, have could then be supportive of with k.d. lang and her painful thing, which is some- ‘They don’t tones, as well as a strong you ever encountered each other. music. How do you, thing that Stella just refuses script and performances. anyone like Stella? personally, feel about to accept. That’s why she succumb k.d. lang? abducts Dottie and takes her to what’s (Laughs) Oh, I love her off. songs. The movie actually expected, but takes its title from one of her You previously songs. I don’t hear her songs worked with writer/ decide they’re “Nueva cocína Mexicana” so much now. I remember director Thom Fitzger- once I was in a restaurant ald on “The Event.” going to have and k.d. was there with a What do you like about the life they Featuring old world, indigenous younger woman and I could working with him? see that there was kind of He’s damn good, that’s want.’ & contemporary Mexican cuisine a thing between the two of what I like about working them and they were very with him. I like the stories in a casual setting deep in conversation. I just he tells, I like the way he went up and inserted myself shoots. He makes beautiful and told her how much I films. Just to look at them, already made a con- Full bar with enjoyed her music, and she they’re great. The stories siderable impression was very sweet to me and are all varied and unique. I on the LGBT commu- made it clear to me that was in “The Event,” a story nity with your wonder- she wanted me to fuck off about a gay guy who wants ful portrayal of Anna Handcrafted Margaritas (laughs). to take himself out because Madrigal in the “Tales & over sixty 100% blue agave tequilas he’s going into the last phases of the City” series. Where do you stand of AIDS, and he has a party. Were you aware of an on the subject of same- The mother is the one that LGBT following before sex marriage? actually helps him die. That’s that? OUTDOOR SEATING Stand on it? There’s no an unusual story and a real Oh, no. Well, yes. “Steel stand. Everyone should live heart-wrencher. And then “3 Magnolias” to a certain and be the way they want! Needles.” I would do any- degree – a lot of gay men thing in a movie with Thom enjoyed the things that my “Cloudburst” takes Fitzgerald. I told him I’ll play a character said. They loved on the serious subject small part, I don’t care. In “3 her humor, her honesty and of aging queer people Needles” I played this small her phrasing. ”If you’ve got and how there is the part of a nun. nothing good to say about potential of them being anybody, come sit by me.” separated in their twi- Before appearing in Things like that. I think they www.cempazuchi.com light years. “The Event,” you had enjoyed a lot of it.

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need of connection and love to give a try. The difference that they search for it com- between living a relationship pulsively in different ways. that begins on that note is Interview There’s a great line in an very, very deep. I think having Emmylou Harris song where an honest relationship is not GREGG SHAPIRO she says that addiction fits something that comes easily “Keep the Lights On,” like a glove. I think for both to gay people. Because of our written and directed by gay these men their compulsive history it was very necessary filmmaker Ira Sachs, is one of behavior is very, very com- to keep ourselves apart from the most eagerly anticipated fortable because it’s so famil- other people in our lives and gay films of 2012. iar. I think also … it’s a film to maintain secrets. I think The film shines a light into about two men who believe we’ve actually developed a the darkest corners of gay that their only sense of whole kind of anthropology relationships. In the movie, worth is in another person. based on the idea of that. In gay filmmaker Erik (Thure a way this film urges people Lindhardt) embarks on a Telephones seem to to ask what is the residual roller-coaster relationship become characters in element of the closet that we with crack-addicted publish- the movie. still hold on to? ing lawyer Paul (Zachary That’s very interesting (laughs). No one has pointed Artwork figures Booth). Sex, drugs and cel- Photo: Courtesy luloid combine in a provoca- that out to me. To depict 10 prominently in “Keep A scene from “Keep the Lights On.” tive, wrenching film. years of a relationship, we did the Lights On.” Was that primarily through the that the result of Boris’ I spoke with Ira Sachs last soundtrack. ate a score from that music.” of Arthur’s music was not emotional shifts that these influence? month. I had an idea to use In a way I think Arthur’s heard in his lifetime. I hope characters go through in the Boris is a painter. His work Arthur’s music the way they music becomes another the film manages to bring course of the story. But, in is very open, funny, sexual and Gregg Shapiro: The used Simon and Garfunkel in character in the film. It has back Arthur and make him a way certain props became unabashed. There is a joyous- title of the movie “The Graduate” and the way great humor and it’s messy part of our lives. sort of totems to a changing ness to Boris that comes “Keep the Lights On” that Aimee Mann’s is used in and it’s full of melancholy society. So the cell phone, the through his work and I want- comes from Paul’s line “Magnolia.” I thought, “I can and full of passion. What’s FIND US ON TWITTER! ways people hook up, and ed to include in the film. The to Erik toward the end take Arthur’s tunes and cre- very moving is that most @wigazette of the film, about not laptops are three things that film is about very dark times, wanting be in the dark define time changing. but there is a level of plea- with him. Why did you sure. This is central to mov- choose it as the film’s The artwork in the ies and to the hunger for life Free Testing at title? opening credit is by that these characters have. Ira Sachs: The title has mul- Boris Torres (Sachs’ In a way a film like “Good- Midtown Spa tiple meanings. In some ways husband). Is the char- fellas” was a big influence. the film’s title is a call to acter of Igor (Miguel We watched the film several Sept. 8th, 14th, 29th arms to the audience to keep Del Toro) based on times, because “Goodfellas” 8pm - 11pm Boris? is a film about bad behavior the lights on and to share Sept. 22nd • 6pm - 9pm what we do in our lives with Yes, it is! Boris and I met and had great energy and a each other. There’s also a pun toward the tail end of (the lot of color. In a way what we around “Keep the Lights On,” relationship depicted in the wanted to do was depict this which is that the film is look- film). The film in a certain behavior, but not judge it and ing very openly at sex and way has a happy ending, not not demonize it – actually sexuality. because you know certain just embrace it as well as its characters might get togeth- consequences. And not shy Is this a personal er, but because there’s a away from the effect of drugs story? sense of possibility in both in our lives and communities When he asks. You should know. I began with autobiogra- Eric and Paul’s future. I am and the effects of compulsive phy. But ultimately I knew I now married to Boris. We behavior. I think the film lay- was making a fictional film had twins seven months ago. ers different attempts of dif- Get Tested. It's FrEE! that was rooted in a very We’re raising them with our ferent artists to depict what personal kind of filmmaking, friend, who is a filmmaker, gay life looks like now. So so I never intended the film she is the mother of the you have Boris’ paintings, the to be biography. I’ve made kids. We have a three-parent filmmaker who is making a four features, and all of them household with two kids. I’m film about Avery Willard, the 1240 East Brady St. began from a certain kind of very happy that we were photographer and filmmaker Milwaukee • 414.272.2144 allowed to get married and in the ’50s and ’60s who intimacy of experience. It’s [email protected] what I offer as a filmmaker. that we could in New York. tried to document gay life The difference in this rela- at that time. In some ways Erik is addicted to tionship is that it’s a rela- you could say the film was phone sex lines. Was it tionship that I lived honestly. an attempt to make visible necessary to give Erik a From the beginning there was certain elements of gay life dependency of his own an understanding that deceit and gay history. to achieve a kind of and secrets were the most balance? destructive part of my life The late Arthur Mondays & Tuesdays Russell’s music is I think these are charac- and that honesty was some- 6:00pm-8:30pm ters who are so in desperate thing new and that I needed heard throughout the

BestD_WI Gazette_0812.indd 1 8/19/12 8:53 PM 20 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | October 4, 2012 Italy’s lush, robust flavors flourish Dining MICHAEL MUCKIAN in Zarletti’s urban-chic dining room Owner and executive chef Zarletti’s menu is divided its veal and our waitress Brian Zarletti’s seven-year- into antipasti (appetizers), boasted about the Osso- old enterprise specializes in insalate e minestre (salads buco ($29.95), two Strauss northern Italian cuisine. It and soups), primi (primarily veal shanks served in a has one of Milwaukee’s fin- pasta selections) and secon- robust and richly flavored est kitchens. The intimate di (entrees). The Italian tra- sauce with a side of Risotto L-shaped dining room and its dition, our waitress told us, Milanese. “I’ve had several commanding view of the Mil- is to choose appetizers and people tell me it’s every bit waukee and Mason streets entrees and share a pasta as good as what they tasted intersection has made it a dish, so that’s what we did. in Italy,” she enthused. mecca of sorts for diners Our appetizer of the olive I don’t remember having in search of a very special della casa ($6.95) was a Ossobuco when I visited evening. small plate of some 24 dif- Italy, but if Zarletti’s prepa- We arrived 10 minutes ferent imported un-pitted ration is authentic, then I early for our 8:30 p.m. res- olives bathed in olive oil will move the dish to the ervation on a recent Satur- and herbs. We admit not top of my next visit’s must- day and found the urban-chic to know our olive varieties, do list, ahead of the Sistine dining room filled and the but enjoyed every one. The Chapel and the canals of staff moving briskly through first of several baskets of Venice. The veal was fork- the maze of tables. We sat warm bread, served with tender, the sauce succulent at the bar and ordered a Parmesan-laced olive oil, and risotto sweet and lus- glass of the evening’s fea- accompanied the appetizer. trous. The entire dish was tured wine, a 2008 Speri We had also heard much an intoxicating blend of fla- Sant’Urbano Valpoilicella about the Calamari Ripeni vors and textures, and this D.o.c. Classico Superiore ($12.95), which offered four was the only time my res- ($13, or $52 for a bottle), larger pieces of squid stuffed taurant service included a Photo: Courtesy a wine grown in the Veneto with crab, tomato and bread tiny fork to spear marrow Zarletti’s urban-chic dining room looks out on the intersection of region north of Verona. crumbs sautéed in a white- from inside the bones. Milwaukee and Mason. Specializing in northern Italian cuisine, the The northern Italian wine wine tomato sauce. The We also tried the Hali- restaurant features one of Milwaukee’s finest kitchens. was produced from single- components were all pres- but al Pistacchio ($28.95), vineyard, hillside-grown ent, but they failed to strike the pan-seared fish having grapes that had dried for up the richness of flavors we been crusted with pistachio close to a month to con- had expected. If there was nuts and served with a Door centrate their flavors. The a soft spot to the evening, County cherry buerre blanc wine, primarily a blend of that was it. and Gorgonzola mashed native Corvina, Rondinella We did share our pasta potatoes. Good though they and Molinara grapes grown course, the Ravioli del were, the potatoes paled in largely volcanic and chalky Giorno ($23.95), and this is next to the richness of the soil, boasted rich fruit and where Zarletti really began risotto, but the nut-crusted a firm body with significant to shine. The dish was the fish and buerre blanc with depth and a lingering fin- restaurant’s fall seasonal of the dried cherries was defi- ish. The same area produces roasted butternut squash nitely one of the best halibut Italian Lunch Buffet Speri’s amarone, one of Ita- braised and served in a sage preparations we have ever Tuesday thru Friday – 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. $9.95 ly’s very best wines, and this brown butter sauce. Each enjoyed. Lunch menu available ‘til 4 p.m. one is similar in style and bite offered a warm, lus- Add Zarletti to your din- delivery – but for a much cious burst of flavor that ing list and visit soon. 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Tickets on sale at Sugar Shack, Star Liquor, Madcity Music, rs with the Yea Sta 25 rs” B-Side, Frugal Muse (Northgate & “ Junction Rd), Strictly Discs, (414) 291-7800 The Barrymore, online at www.skylightmusictheatre.org THEATRE barrymorelive.com or call 2090 Atwood (608) 241-8633 barrymorelive.com & charge at (608) 241-8633. 22 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | October 4, 2012 Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet opens with program focused on the human experience By Michael Muckian aspects of the human experi- lar movements and ‘freeze- a ballerina Contributing writer ence.” frame’ vignettes, fits this in blood- Ballet is enjoying renewed The cornerstone of the understanding.” red pointe public interest and gener- fall program, which runs for Set to the music of Fred- shoes ating enthusiastic audience 10 performances from Oct. erick A. Cohen, “The Green serves as a responses. But has this clas- 17 to Oct. 28 at Chicago’s Table” also plays a role in metaphor sical art form retained its Roosevelt University Audito- the Joffrey’s history. Founder for this ten- relevance amid the dra- rium Theatre, is “The Green Robert Joffrey first saw the sion. matically changing social and Table.” Choreographer Kurt dance performed at age 11 The third artistic landscapes of recent Jooss’ 1932 anti-war master- and became committed to work on the decades? piece, it tells the story of war reviving it when he formed fall program is Ashley Wheater, artistic and its many victims. Jooss his own company. The Joffrey Jirí Kylián’s 1981 director of Chicago’s world- was a Jew who fled Nazi premiered the work, sub- work “Forgotten renowned Joffrey Ballet, says Germany for England prior titled “A Dance of Death in Land,” which the Jof- emphatically “yes.” In fact, he to World War II. Eight Scenes,” for American frey has not performed Joffrey believes that ballet couldn’t While the work seems to audiences in 1967. since 1985. Set to music Ballet’s possibly be more relevant offer an unmistakable point The other two works on by Benjamin Britten and season at than it is today. of view, audiences at its pre- the Joffrey’s fall program will inspired by an Edvard a Glance Evidence for this belief, miere debated whether its take viewers’ emotions in Munch painting of women “Human he says, can be clearly seen dance-of-death motif was a distinctly different directions, on a beach, the work is Landscapes,” in “Human Landscapes,” the plea for pacifism or a call to Wheater says. But they too set before a giant ocean Oct. 17–28 mixed repertory of ballets arms. In either case, Wheat- have great significance for wave that serves as a that launches the Joffrey’s er says, the work exempli- today’s audiences, as well as metaphor for constant “ The Nutcracker,” 2012-13 season. The three fies the power of dance as for the ballet company’s his- movement, erosion and Dec. 7–27 works demonstrate ballet’s humankind’s first art form. tory. renewal. It uses a motif “American relevance both through their “The Green Table” helped Choreographer James of pulsing, circular move- Legends,” artistic style and social narra- launch “tanztheater,” a blend Kudelka’s “Pretty BALLET” ments reminiscent of Feb. 13–24 tives, he contends. of dance and dramatic ele- had its world premiere at waves to invoke trea- “Othello,” Universal and timeless, ments that grew out of the the Joffrey in 2010. Set to sured memories of lost April 24–May 5 “The ‘Human Landscapes’ expressionist dance move- Bohuslav Martinu’s “Sym- homelands, lost lovers program presents the work ment flourishing in Vienna phony No. 2,” Kudelka’s and lost time. of three masters searching and Weimar Germany in four-movement work uses Single tickets for to understand our place in the 1920s and ’30s. Ger- demanding phrases full of “Human Land- the world,” says Wheater, a man Expressionism is usually quick, sharp changes of direc- scapes” range from Scottish-born former dancer associated with film, art or tion, along with intricate spa- $31 to $152 and who joined the Joffrey in architecture. Fritz Lang’s film tial patterns. are available at 1985 and has served as its “Metropolis” is the move- The most abstract of the all Ticketmas- artistic director since 2007. ment’s most cited example. three works, “Pretty BAL- ter outlets, by “I was interested in a pro- “The Green Table” fits neatly LET” is full of swirling motion telephone at gram of ‘modern’ dances, into the category. punctuated by lush and fluid 800-982-2787 created across a span of 80 “The work is modern, pas de deux, Wheater says. and online at years, hoping to contrast as sometimes harshly so, with The work explores the www.ticket- well as compare,” Wheater an underlying notion of subject of ballet itself as a master.com. says. “Despite differences distorted reality or hyper- balance between romantic among the three works in realism,” Wheater says. “I ideals and the discipline it Photo: Herbert Migdoll terms of content and style, think Jooss’ choreography, takes to perform. A haunting “After the Rain,” featuring Victoria Jaiani and Fabrice Calmels, was per- each choreographer explores with its unornamented, angu- adagio pas de deux featuring formed by the Joffrey Ballet during the 2010-11 season.

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Interview The gospel according GREGG SHAPIRO to Leslie Jordan have since appeared aspect to being gay. Even Memphis. Anybody under 30, on television, including when it’s two couples hav- even the Bush twins, could this new fall TV sea- ing a baby, one of them is care less. The old people just son? fabulous. One is more like a have to die. You’re not going I’m pitching a series right football-loving gay man that to change their mind in any now that has me as a gay you wouldn’t think was gay. way or form. They are as firm character, but he’s kind of But then there’s the part- in their beliefs, and it all boils closeted because it’s the ner, screaming his head off. down to the Holy Bib-iot. Deep South. He’s not a part And that’s fine. But why does They believe it’s the word of the gay culture. In my everybody have to scream of God, and there’s not one series, I pitch it as not hav- and be so nelly? thing you can say to dispute ing a lot to do with the gay that in any way. You can’t try culture. I turn on the TV Your homeland of to show them the history (today), and it just seems like Tennessee has been in of the Bible. You can’t tell the same gay character. What the news quite a bit them that Leviticus was not I said in my pitch is that there in recent years for its for Christians. Christ railed are two types of gay people anti-gay legislation. against the Levitical code. in the world today. There’s What do you think it Nowhere in his teachings the fabulous, which we see will take for Tennessee does he mention homosexu- Photo: Courtesy on television. Then there’s to embrace its LGBT ality. And if you do believe Leslie Jordan appears at the Barrymore Theater in Madison on Oct. 19 and the fearful. There’s a whole citizens? that the Levitical code, slaves at the Oxford Theatre in Eau Claire on Oct. 21. group of gay people who, For the old people to die. obey your masters, don’t eat for whatever reason, are not I’m dead serious. You talk to shellfish and if your wife’s on Leslie Jordan, the diminu- plane in an hour to go to to have this huge loft and lots caught up in what we call the anybody in Nashville – Nash- her period, put her in the tive comic actor with the New York to do (my original of beautiful boys who would gay culture. My complaint is ville, the hippest city in the backyard, she’s unclean. They big Southern drawl, entered solo piece) “Fruitfly” at the stay. It was a dog-and-pony that every gay person on country. You go to Nashville, pick, they choose. But it’s like our consciousness in a big All For One Festival. Your show, there were so many TV is fabulous. That’s fine, and it’s like L.A. Chattanooga, talking to a wall. way with his Emmy Award- readers are going to see my people. But I’m on the road but there’s a whole other too, is so progressive, and winning portrayal of Bev- standup – there’s not a whole now almost eight months of erley Leslie on the sitcom lot of difference. the year. I’ve downsized to “Will & Grace.” Before that a tiny one-bedroom. When he worked on stage and on Your current tour you walk in the door there the big and small screens includes elements of is a kitchen area and I’ve got in a variety of productions. your solo piece “Fruit it right there on my kitchen Alcohol or Other Notable among them were Fly”? table! Jordan’s collaborations with Absolutely! It’s all the writer Del Shores, with stories of “Fruit Fly,” but it What did it mean to Addictions? whom he has an incompara- doesn’t have the music and you to be a part of ble working relationship (as the slides that accompany it. such a groundbreaking well as a similar background), But I have never had a com- network television sit- exemplified by the movie and plaint. Actually, in a cabaret com? We Can Help TV series “Sordid Lives.” In setting they like it better, just I was so honored when addition to his recent role in me and a mike. I won that Emmy. Over the the movie “The Help,” Jordan years I’ve worked on so many 12-Step Group Meetings continues to do sitcom work There’s an intimacy sitcoms. I’ve done good work and tour the country with his that you have with the and maybe could’ve got- • Alcoholics Anonymous one-man show. audience in that set- ten nominated from other ting. shows. I’ve always felt there • Al-Anon Gregg Shapiro: You Right! It’s almost like a were two ways to combat have performed your musician putting together a homophobia. One is through • Narcotics Anonymous own work as well as set. I hesitate to call it stand- humor. I learned that in junior • Sexual Compulsives Anonymous work written by others. up, because I don’t really fall high school, during dodgeball Leslie Jordan: My first one- into what I call standup – (laughs). If I was funny, I could man show went to New York (unless) it’s a bar and there’s keep the bullies at bay. The The Galano Club is a 12-step recovery club that provides in ’92. So I’ve had a 20-year a lot of alcohol (laughs). I’m second is to put a face on meeting space for 12-step groups and a place to socialize run of my own stuff. You a storyteller, and if you’re it. I think America fell in love and enjoy the fellowship of others in recovery. While our get so spoiled. Last week I drunk, you can’t keep up and with those four characters. did that show “Raising Hope” then I fall into more jokes, They welcomed them into membership is made up of primarily gay and lesbian with Cloris Leachman, and it talk dirty. their living rooms. For many people, everyone is welcome. was a ball. I had a really good people it was the first time THE time. But to me that’s what I Do you have a special they’d seen a gay person. I COMING do, kind of like waiting tables. place of honor where think we laughed and loved (414) 276-6936 KEEP I do that so that I can afford you keep your Emmy? and a lot of progress was www.galanoclub.org my own stuff. I start next It’s on my kitchen table! It’s made. [email protected] CLUB BACK week on another new (TV) in the middle of my kitchen show called “Neighbors.” But table when you walk in the What do you think of 315 Court St., # 201 (5 blks north of the Bradley Center) Milwaukee, WI 53212 meanwhile I’m getting on a door. I’ve downsized. I used the gay characters who 24 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | October 4, 2012 Films run the gamut, from an ACT UP doc to a classic underground feature FILM from page 1 has broadened to embrace Filmmaker Sally El Hos- you will find in other films in filmmakers greater freedom more subtle and evocative ani’s “My Brother the Devil,” the festival.” Festival Features to be more expressive and storytelling, Bogner says. which screens Oct. 21 at Other films run the gamut less didactic. The new envi- “Mosquita y Mari,” writer- 7 p.m., is another film that of LGBT issues, including Historic Film Posters ronment also has fostered director Aurora Guerre- explores the boundaries of Jim Hubbard’s 2012 docu- the emergence of films from ro’s 2011 film, successfully sexual orientation within a mentary “United in Anger: A “Tea and Sympathy,” Vincente Minnelli’s 1956 film countries historically intoler- explores the loving friend- greater social context. Set History of ACT UP”; “Facing about the love affair between an older woman and a ant to LGBT people, helping ship that grows between in London’s Hackney section, Mirrors,” a 2011 film and sensitive younger man within the confines of a hyper- to broaden the nature and two young Chicanas without the U.K. film chronicles the the first from Iran to fea- masculine boy’s prep school, may not be a bellwether of content of the festival,” Bog- being burdened by the need challenges facing a family of ture a transgender character gay cinema. But its undercurrents have earned the film ner says. “In many ways, we to make an LGBT statement. Egyptian immigrants living at in the lead role; “Call Me its place in the LGBT canon. A poster for the film, based see more of a ‘mainstream- “Is the word ‘lesbian’ even the edge of a growing gang Kuchu,” a 2012 documentary on Robert Anderson’s 1953 play, will be part of a special ing’ of LGBT films, and I am mentioned in the film? I can’t culture. The questions that about being gay (“kuchu”) display held in conjunction with this year’s Milwaukee not talking only about U.S. recall and it doesn’t need to emerge about role models, in Uganda, a country that LGBT Film and Video Festival. film production. That is to be, so sensitive and alert is masculinity and other social criminalizes homosexuality; Some 30 posters from films as diverse as “The say, LGBT film – the pub- the filmmaking,” says Bogner. issues helped the film win and 1985’s “Sparkle’s Tavern,” Children’s Hour,” “The Strange One” and “Lonesome lic, most prominent face of “Understanding the feelings the Outstanding Internation- the last film of notorious gay Cowboys” will comprise “25 Years of LGBT Film Fes- it – is more commercially of these two girls will be easy al Feature award at last year’s underground U.S. filmmaker tival Posters,” which runs in the UWM Student Union savvy than one would have for any moviegoer.” Outfest. Curt McDowell. Atrium Oct. 8–21 as part of the festival. A selection of imagined two decades ago, “Mosquita y Mari” screens “The film is a consider- Past LGBT film festivals those posters also will be on display at Milwaukee’s Ori- when there were tendencies Oct. 20 at 7 p.m. at the UWM ation of masculinity, and with- have attracted “thousands” ental Theater on Oct. 18 for the festival’s opening night toward a more transgressive Union Theatre. Guerrero will in that consideration, values of viewers each, Bogner says. screening of “Cloudburst.” edge.” be on hand to introduce her and boundaries are tested He expects the trend to con- The posters are drawn from among 400 movie post- The scope of LGBT films work. when gay identity becomes tinue this year, despite the ers that are part of the UWM Libraries’ collection. It is a part of the mix,” Bogner busy fall arts season. the first poster display to accompany the festival, accord- wisconsingazette.com says. “It echoes and expands “The festival has a very ing to Max Yela, the libraries’ head of special collections. on concerns about identity, loyal audience, with a lot “There will be titles iconic to gay cinema, as well as updated all day. family and community that of generous support from those from films with gay issues going on under the across the community,” surface,” says Yela, who curates Bogner says. “They a collection of some 50,000 also are culturally print pieces that themselves are savvy consumers iconic to the time and place in and I hope this which they were produced. year’s selection Past film festivals have had of film appeals to similar object displays, but them.” none has featured a showcase In addition to this simply of film posters, which month’s festival, the Yela believes will demonstrate Peck School of the the cultural influence of gay Arts will continue to elements in cinema over the offer special monthly decades. Copies of the post- screenings of LGBT ers are available to anyone films. The first two visiting the libraries and will- screenings in that ing to pay for digital render- series are scheduled ings of the images. Although for Nov. 1 and Nov prices will differ based on 29. Titles and locations the complexity of the imag- have yet to be deter- ery, Yela estimates an aver- mined. age price per poster of $50. Walk-in hours for the UWM Libraries, which are To download a festival bro- open to the public, are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through chure, visit www.uwm.edu/ Friday. For more, visit www.uwm.edu/libraries/special. psoa/film/lgbtfilmfestival. – M.M. YOUR EAST SIDE

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Early Music Now presents virtuosic early music quintet Ballet Folklórico de México Ensemble Caprice performing “Salsa Baroque: Music of 17th and 18th Century Latin America and Spain” at St. Matthias Episcopal Church, 111 E. Main in Waukesha at 7:30 p.m. Visit Oct. 9, Tuesday Oct. 17, Wednesday st.matthiasonline.org or call 262-547-4838. Muscled, tattooed Henry Rollins presents “Capitalism” at All-American Rejects swing into The Rave, 2401 W. Soulstice Theatre, 3770 S. Pennsylvania in St. Francis, presents Wisconsin, at 8 p.m. Call 414-342-RAVE. the Milwaukee premiere of “[title of show]” tonight and tomorrow 7:30 p.m. at the Barrymore Theatre, 2090 Atwood in Madison. night at 8 p.m. Visit www.theatricaltendencies.com or call 414-481- Call 608-241-2345. 2800. Turner Hall Ballroom, 103 N. Fourth, presents singer/songwriter Political humor specialists the Capitol Steps are at the Overture Beth Orton at 7 p.m. Call 414-286-3663. 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TWO LAMBDA AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS READING FROM THEIR LATEST BOOKS

Mark will be reading from his latest mystery Another Dead Republican set during a recall election in Wisconsin.

David will be reading from his new book My Movie. “Carnal and graphic as the best erotica and as elegiac as a finely rendered memoir.” Tom Medicino, author of “Probation” 28 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | October 4, 2012 BEFORE YOU VOTE... PLAN. The election is November 6th. If you want to ensure victories for equality, ask yourself and your friends and neighbors the following questions: WHEN? WHERE? HOW? N

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What time of day are What's your How will you get to you going to vote? polling location? your polling location? Will you vote early? Polls in Wisconsin are open 7am - 8pm. Make sure you plan your vote.

For answers, go to wisdems.org/ownyourvote

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