Transgender Woman Released After Nearly Four Years Without Trial by Gretchen Rachel Hammond Already Served

Home , Christina Kahrl, Iroquois Theatre fire, Kevin Sessums, Sense8 (season 1), The Christmas Schooner, The Second City

Eisha Love. Photo by Gretchen Rachel Hammond

vol 31, no. 13 Dec. 23, 2015 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com FREEDOM Transgender woman released after nearly four years without trial By Gretchen Rachel Hammond already served. A second charge of aggravated battery relating to a incident After spending three years and nine months without trial in that occurred at Cook County Jail shortly after Love’s incar- the maximum security male Division IX of the Cook County ceration has been set for a status hearing on Jan. 20, 2016. Jail on a charge of attempted murder in the first degree, Eisha Love claims she was attacked by the correctional officer who Love—a 26-year-old transgender woman of color—accepted in turn made the aggravated charge. The officer in question a plea deal of guilty to a single felony count of aggravated has a history of documented abuse cases. CHRISTMAS ‘CAROL’-ING battery on a public way before Cook County Circuit Court As- Love was released Dec. 18. WCT reviews the movie Carol. sociate Judge the Hon. Alfredo Maldonado Dec. 17. On the morning of March 28, 2012, Love and her friend, Taking into account the maximum penalty of five years im- 19-year-old Tiffany Gooden, were involved in an altercation Photo of Cate Blanchett from The Weinstein Company prisonment reduced to 50 percent under the Truth in Sen- with a man at the Citgo station on the corner of West Madison 20 tencing Act ( TIS ), Love will be released this week with time Turn to page 12

LOOKING BACK HOLIDAY SHOWS SPORTS IN 2015 Local LGBT stories in 2015. Theater offers plenty for the season. Passages, anniversaries and Photo of RJ Eldridge from the Out In the Open Sleep Out Photo from Christmas Dearest by Rick Aguilar Studios more. by Kat Fitzgerald, www.MysticImagesPhotography.com 10 18 Photo of Chicago Rowing Union 24 2 Dec. 23, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES

Actual Size

One pill contains elvitegravir, cobicistat, emtricitabine, New Genvoya® and tenofovir alafenamide (TAF).

is now available Ask your healthcare provider if GENVOYA is right for you.

To learn more visit GENVOYA.com

Please see Brief Summary of Patient Information with important warnings on the following pages.

GENC0003_WindyCity_10.x13.5_Sprd.indd 1-2 12/3/15 3:23 PM WINDY CITY TIMES Dec. 23, 2015 3

Actual Size

One pill contains elvitegravir, cobicistat, emtricitabine, New Genvoya® and tenofovir alafenamide (TAF). is now available Ask your healthcare provider if GENVOYA is right for you.

To learn more visit GENVOYA.com

Please see Brief Summary of Patient Information with important warnings on the following pages.

GENC0003_WindyCity_10.x13.5_Sprd.indd 1-2 12/3/15 3:23 PM 4 Dec. 23, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES

Brief Summary of Patient Information What is GENVOYA? What should I tell my healthcare provider What are the possible side effects of GENVOYA? about GENVOYA GENVOYA is a prescription medicine that is used without other HIV-1 before taking GENVOYA? GENVOYA may cause serious side effects, including: GENVOYA (jen-VOY-uh) medicines to treat HIV-1 in people 12 years of age and older: Before taking GENVOYA, tell your healthcare provider if you: • See “What is the most important information I should know (elvitegravir, cobicistat, emtricitabine, and tenofovir • who have not received HIV-1 medicines in the past or • have liver problems including hepatitis B infection about GENVOYA?” alafenamide) tablets • to replace their current HIV-1 medicines in people who have • have kidney or bone problems • Changes in body fat can happen in people who take HIV-1 been on the same HIV-1 medicines for at least 6 months, have medicine. These changes may include increased amount of fat Important: Ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist about • have any other medical conditions medicines that should not be taken with GENVOYA. an amount of HIV-1 in their blood (“viral load”) that is less than in the upper back and neck (“buffalo hump”), breast, and around • are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known if There may be new information about GENVOYA. This information is only 50 copies/mL, and have never failed past HIV-1 treatment GENVOYA can harm your unborn baby. Tell your healthcare the middle of your body (trunk). Loss of fat from the legs, arms a summary and does not take the place of talking with your healthcare HIV-1 is the virus that causes AIDS. provider if you become pregnant while taking GENVOYA. and face may also happen. The exact cause and long-term health ® effects of these conditions are not known. provider about your medical condition or treatment. GENVOYA contains the prescription medicines elvitegravir (VITEKTA ), Pregnancy registry: there is a pregnancy registry for women cobicistat (TYBOST®), emtricitabine (EMTRIVA®) and tenofovir alafenamide. • Changes in your immune system (Immune Reconstitution What is the most important information who take HIV-1 medicines during pregnancy. The purpose of this It is not known if GENVOYA is safe and effective in children under Syndrome) can happen when you start taking HIV-1 medicines. I should know about GENVOYA? registry is to collect information about the health of you and your 12 years of age. baby. Talk with your healthcare provider about how you can take Your immune system may get stronger and begin to fi ght infections that have been hidden in your body for a long time. Tell GENVOYA can cause serious side effects, including: When used to treat HIV-1 infection, GENVOYA may: part in this registry. your healthcare provider right away if you start having any new • Build-up of lactic acid in your blood (lactic acidosis). • Reduce the amount of HIV-1 in your blood. • are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. Do not breastfeed if you symptoms after starting your HIV-1 medicine. Lactic acidosis may happen in some people who take GENVOYA. This is called “viral load”. take GENVOYA. Lactic acidosis is a serious medical emergency that can lead • New or worse kidney problems, including kidney failure. Your • Increase the number of CD4+ (T) cells in your blood that help – You should not breastfeed if you have HIV-1 because of the risk to death. Lactic acidosis can be hard to identify early, because healthcare provider should do blood and urine tests to check your fi ght off other infections. of passing HIV-1 to your baby. kidneys before you start and while you are taking GENVOYA. Your the symptoms could seem like symptoms of other health problems. Reducing the amount of HIV-1 and increasing the CD4+ (T) cells in your – At least one of the medicines in GENVOYA can pass to your Call your healthcare provider right away if you get any of the healthcare provider may tell you to stop taking GENVOYA if you blood may help improve your immune system. This may reduce your baby in your breast milk. It is not known if the other medicines develop new or worse kidney problems. following symptoms, which could be signs of lactic acidosis: risk of death or getting infections that can happen when your immune in GENVOYA can pass into your breast milk. • Bone problems can happen in some people who take GENVOYA. • feel very weak or tired system is weak (opportunistic infections). – Talk with your healthcare provider about the best way to feed Bone problems may include bone pain, softening or thinning • have unusual (not normal) muscle pain GENVOYA does not cure HIV-1 infection or AIDS. You must stay on your baby. (which may lead to fractures). Your healthcare provider may need continuous HIV-1 therapy to control HIV-1 infection and decrease • have trouble breathing Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, to do tests to check your bones. HIV-related illnesses. including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and • have stomach pain with nausea or vomiting The most common side effect of GENVOYA is nausea. Avoid doing things that can spread HIV-1 infection to others: herbal supplements. Other medicines may affect how GENVOYA works. • feel cold, especially in your arms and legs Tell your healthcare provider if you have any side effect that Do not share or re-use needles or other injection equipment. Some medicines may interact with GENVOYA. Keep a list of your • feel dizzy or lightheaded • bothers you or that does not go away. Do not share personal items that can have blood or body fl uids medicines and show it to your healthcare provider and pharmacist • have a fast or irregular heartbeat • • These are not all the possible side effects of GENVOYA. For more on them, like toothbrushes and razor blades. when you get a new medicine. information, ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist. • Severe liver problems. Severe liver problems may happen in You can ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist for a list of • Do not have any kind of sex without protection. Always practice • • Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. people who take GENVOYA. In some cases, these liver problems can safer sex by using a latex or polyurethane condom to lower the medicines that interact with GENVOYA. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088. lead to death. Your liver may become large and you may develop fat chance of sexual contact with semen, vaginal secretions, or blood. • Do not start a new medicine without telling your healthcare in your liver. Ask your healthcare provider if you have any questions about how to provider. Your healthcare provider can tell you if it is safe to take General information about the safe and effective GENVOYA with other medicines. Call your healthcare provider right away if you get any prevent passing HIV-1 to other people. use of GENVOYA. of the following symptoms of liver problems: your skin or the white part of your eyes turns yellow (jaundice) Who should not take GENVOYA? How should I take GENVOYA? Medicines are sometimes prescribed for purposes other than those listed • in a Patient Information leafl et. Do not use GENVOYA for a condition for dark “tea-colored” urine • Do not take GENVOYA if you also take a medicine that contains: • Take GENVOYA exactly as your healthcare provider tells you which it was not prescribed. Do not give GENVOYA to other people, even if light-colored bowel movements (stools) ® to take it. GENVOYA is taken by itself (not with other HIV-1 • • alfuzosin hydrochloride (Uroxatral ) they have the same symptoms you have. It may harm them. loss of appetite for several days or longer ® ® ® ® medicines) to treat HIV-1 infection. • • carbamazepine (Carbatrol , Epitol , Equetro , Tegretol , This Brief Summary summarizes the most important information about • nausea Tegretol-XR®, Teril®) • GENVOYA is usually taken 1 time each day. GENVOYA. If you would like more information, talk with your healthcare Take GENVOYA with food. • stomach pain • cisapride (Propulsid®, Propulsid Quicksolv®) • provider. You can ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist for If you need to take a medicine for indigestion (antacid) that information about GENVOYA that is written for health professionals. • You may be more likely to get lactic acidosis or severe liver • ergot-containing medicines, including: dihydroergotamine • ® ® contains aluminum and magnesium hydroxide or calcium For more information, call 1-800-445-3235 or go to www.GENVOYA.com. problems if you are female, very overweight (obese), or have mesylate (D.H.E. 45 , Migranal ), ergotamine tartrate ® ® ® ® carbonate during treatment with GENVOYA, take it at least been taking GENVOYA for a long time. (Cafergot , Migergot , Ergostat , Medihaler Ergotamine , Keep GENVOYA and all medicines out of reach of children. Wigraine®, Wigrettes®), and methylergonovine maleate 2 hours before or after you take GENVOYA. • Worsening of Hepatitis B infection. GENVOYA is not for use to treat (Ergotrate®, Methergine®) • Do not change your dose or stop taking GENVOYA without fi rst Issued: November 2015 chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV). If you have HBV infection and take lovastatin (Advicor®, Altoprev®, Mevacor®) talking with your healthcare provider. Stay under a healthcare • provider’s care when taking GENVOYA. GENVOYA, your HBV may get worse (fl are-up) if you stop taking midazolam, when taken by mouth GENVOYA. A “fl are-up” is when your HBV infection suddenly returns • Do not miss a dose of GENVOYA. phenobarbital (Luminal®) • in a worse way than before. • ® ® • If you take too much GENVOYA, call your healthcare provider or • phenytoin (Dilantin , Phenytek ) go to the nearest hospital emergency room right away. • Do not run out of GENVOYA. Refi ll your prescription or talk to ® your healthcare provider before your GENVOYA is all gone. • pimozide (Orap ) When your GENVOYA supply starts to run low, get more from your ® ® ® ® • Do not stop taking GENVOYA without fi rst talking to your • rifampin (Rifadin , Rifamate , Rifater , Rimactane ) healthcare provider or pharmacy. This is very important because • ® EMTRIVA, GENVOYA, the GENVOYA Logo, GILEAD, the GILEAD Logo, GSI, healthcare provider. • sildenafi l (Revatio ), when used for treating lung problems the amount of virus in your blood may increase if the medicine is TYBOST, and VITEKTA are trademarks of Gilead Sciences, Inc., or its ® ® ® • If you stop taking GENVOYA, your healthcare provider will need • simvastatin (Simcor , Vytorin , Zocor ) stopped for even a short time. The virus may develop resistance related companies. All other marks referenced herein are the property to check your health often and do blood tests regularly for • triazolam (Halcion®) to GENVOYA and become harder to treat. of their respective owners. several months to check your HBV infection. Tell your healthcare • the herb St. John’s wort or a product that contains St. John’s wort © 2015 Gilead Sciences, Inc. All rights reserved. GENC0003 11/15 provider about any new or unusual symptoms you may have after you stop taking GENVOYA.

GENC0003_WindyCity_10.x13.5_Sprd.indd 3-4 12/3/15 3:24 PM WINDY CITY TIMES Dec. 23, 2015 5

GENC0003_WindyCity_10.x13.5_Sprd.indd 3-4 12/3/15 3:24 PM 6 Dec. 23, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES

WINDY CITY TIMES Dec. 23, 2015 7 WINDY CITY TIMES INDEX When A Great Deal Matters, Shop Rob Paddor’s... NEWS ACLU; Durbin; column 8 download GSA’s items canceled; HRC indices 9 this issue Evanston Subaru in Skokie Year in review: Local news 10 Trans woman Eisha Love freed 12 and browse the archives at Passages: Stark; Clinton campaign 15 www.WindyCitytimes.com Viewpoints 16

Eisha Love. Photo by Gretchen Rachel Hammond Year-End Deal-Time ENTERTAINMENT/EVENTS Scottish Play Scott 17 Theater reviews 18 Knight at the Movies: ‘Carol’ 20 HOLIDAY HOURS

Tom Hooper of ‘The Danish Girl’ 21 vol 31, no. 13 DeC. 23, 2015 Theater: Georgia Engel of ‘Gotta Dance’ www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com ecember a p 22 D 23 (9 -9 ) Autos: 2016 Lexus RX 23 hristmas ve a p Year in review: Sports 24 FREEDOM c e (9 -3 ) NIGHTSPOTS 26 Transgender woman released after nearly closeD on christmas four years without trial OUTLINES By GrETChEn raChEL hammond already served. A second charge of aggravated battery relating to a incident After spending three years and nine months without trial in that occurred at Cook County Jail shortly after Love’s incar- Classifieds 28 the maximum security male Division IX of the Cook County ceration has been set for a status hearing on Jan. 20, 2016. Jail on a charge of attempted murder in the first degree, Eisha Love claims she was attacked by the correctional officer who Love—a 26-year-old transgender woman of color—accepted in turn made the aggravated charge. The officer in question at ec a p a plea deal of guilty to a single felony count of aggravated has a history of documented abuse cases. s . D . 26 (9 -6 ) CHRISTMAS ‘CAROL’-ING battery on a public way before Cook County Circuit Court As- Love was released Dec. 18. Calendar Q 30 WCT reviews the movie Carol. sociate Judge the Hon. Alfredo Maldonado Dec. 17. On the morning of March 28, 2012, Love and her friend, Taking into account the maximum penalty of five years im- 19-year-old Tiffany Gooden, were involved in an altercation Photo of Cate Blanchett from The Weinstein Company prisonment reduced to 50 percent under the Truth in Sen- with a man at the Citgo station on the corner of West Madison 20 tencing Act ( TIS ), Love will be released this week with time Turn to page 12

LOOKING BACK HOLIDAY SHOWS SPORTS IN 2015 Local LGBT stories in 2015. Theater offers plenty for the season. Passages, anniversaries and Photo of RJ Eldridge from the Out In the Open Sleep Out Photo from Christmas Dearest by Rick Aguilar Studios more. by Kat Fitzgerald, www.MysticImagesPhotography.com The All-Wheel-Drive Experts! 10 18 Photo of Chicago Rowing Union 24 online exclusives at GET OUR 2016 OUTBACK www.WindyCityTimes.com LOW

‘EARTH’ day PRIn ISCkokEie Sidetrack hosted “Can You Feel the Earth T Move?: A Holiday Cabaret to Benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.” Photo of John Michael Dias (left) by Jerry Nunn 2016 LEGACY

my so-called life 2016 FORESTER

subaru of america will Donate $250 to one-of-six charities, listeD above, with any new subaru purchase. TOP-QUALITY INSPECTED USED CARS & SUV’S IMPORTS & DOMESTICS SUBARU FORESTERS ‘14 Acura RDX Tech/ Navi. AWD...... Loaded, Crystal Black, 13746B ...... $30,995 ‘16 Forester Ltd...... Automatic, Sunroof, Leather, Silver, 12967R ...... $27,995 Members of the organization Israeli Gay ‘12 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sahara 4x4 / Navi. Leather, 13852A ...... $28,995 ‘16 Forester Prem...... Auto., Sunroof, Heated Seats, Silver,12980R ...... $25,995 Youth spoke at Anshe Emet Synagogue ‘13 Honda CRV EX AWD ...... Manual, Sunroof, White, 13930A ...... $22,995 ‘15 Forester Prem...... Auto., Sunroof, Heated Seats, Red, P5074 ...... $23,995 ‘14 Mazda 6i Touring...... Leather, Push Button Start, Black, 14014A ...... $18,995 ‘12 Forester Ltd...... Automatic, Sunroof, Leather, Grey, 13765A ...... $21,995 Dec. 15 about life for LGBT young people ‘13 Honda Civic Si ...... Manual, Sunroof, White, 13346A ...... $16,995 ‘11 Forester Ltd...... Automatic, Sunroof, Leather, Red, 13610A ...... $17,995 in Israel. ‘10 Acura TSX ...... Sunroof, Leather, 1-Owner, 30K, Silver, 35335 ...... $15,995 ‘11 Forester Prem. Automatic, Sunroof, Heated Seats, Silver, 13280A ...... $15,995 ‘08 Honda CRV EXL AWD Auto., Leather, Sunroof, 50K, Green, 13834A ...... $14,995 SUBARU LEGACYS / OUTBACKS Photo of Moran Dankner and Zachary Cohen by Matt ‘11 VW GTI ...... Sunroof, Automatic,Grey, P5079A ...... $14,995 ‘14 Outback 3.6R Ltd. ..Automatic, Moonroof, Leather, Grey, 13876A ...... $28,995 Simonette ‘13 Ford Fusion SE ...... Auto., Full Power, Black, 13727A ...... $12,995 ‘14 Outback Ltd...... Automatic, Moonroof, Leather, White, 13503A ...... $25,995 ‘13 Hyundai Veloster ...... Automatic CVT, 40K, Blue, P4993B ...... $12,995 ‘15 Outback Prem. .... Auto., Bluetooth, All Weather, Tungsten, 13761A ...... $23,995 ‘13 Kia Soul+ ...... Manual, Full Power, 23K, Moss, 13919A ...... $11,995 ‘13 Outback Ltd...... Automatic, Moonroof, Leather, Silver, P5088 ...... $23,995 ‘08 Acura TSX ...... Sunroof, Leather, 1-Owner, Milano Red, 13042A ...... $11,995 ‘14 Outback Prem. .... Automatic, Bluetooth, All Weather, White, P5082 ...... $22,995 who’s zoomin’ who? HAVING A BALL ‘12 Ford Focus SE ...... Automatic, Full Power, Yellow, 13948A ...... $10,995 ‘14 Legacy Prem...... Automatic, Alloys, All Weather, Tungsten, P5008 ...... $19,995 Zoom Pizza Factory, which just ‘07 Cadillac CTS ...... Automatic, Only 38K Platinum, 13868A ...... $8,995 ‘13 Legacy Ltd...... Automatic, Moonroof, Leather, Silver, P4971 ...... $19,995 ‘11 Chevy Cruise LS ...... Automatic, Full Power, Black, P4941A ...... $8,995 ‘12 Legacy Ltd...... Automatic, Moonroof, Leather, 25K, Indigo, P5080 ...... $18,995 opened in Lincoln Park, presents a ‘09 Scion tC ...... Automatic, Full Power, Silver, P4991 ...... $8,995 ‘13 Outback Prem. .... Automatic, Bluetooth, All Weather, Black, P5094 ...... $18,995 unique approach to ordering. ‘08 Dodge Grand Caravan SE .... Auto., Full Power 51K, Red, P5052B ...... $7,995 ‘10 Legacy Ltd...... Automatic, Moonroof, Leather, Blue, 13523A ...... $14,995 ‘06 Toyota Corolla CE ...... Automatic, 76K, Silver, 13988A ...... $6,995 ‘08 Legacy Ltd...... Automatic, Moonroof, Leather, 62K, Grey, P4996A ...... $12,995 ’07 Nissan Sentra 2.0 S ...... Manual, Full Power, Powd er, P4905 ...... $6,995 SUBARU IMPREZA S / CROSSTREK / BRZ ‘05 Mini Cooper ...... Automatic, Full Power, 75K, Silver, 13485A ...... $6,995 ‘14 Crosstrek Prem. .... Automatic, All Weather, Sunroof, Blue, P4994 ...... $21,995 ‘06 Scion tC ...... Manual, Full Power, Silver, 13757B ...... $4,995 ‘15 Impreza Prem...... Automatic, All Weather, Sunroof, Grey, P5078 ...... $20,995 ‘04 Toyota Corolla CE Manual, Great Gas Mileage, 86K, Silver, 13553B ...... $4,995 ‘13 BRZ Ltd...... Manual, 31K, Dark Green, P5095 ...... $19,995 ‘03 Toyota Camry LE ...... Automatic, Full Power, Blue, 13803A ...... $3,995 ‘12 Impreza ...... Automatic, Full Power, Grey, P5071 ...... $15,995 ’05 Nissan Altima 2.5 SL...... Automatic, Full Power, Green, 13974A ...... $2,995 ‘11 Impreza ...... Automatic, Full Power, Red, P4992 ...... $13,995 choosing my religion ‘98 VW GTI...... Sunroof, Manual, Full Power, Red,13834A ...... $2,995 SUBARU TRIBECA Sandra Lawson is set to break ground ‘00 Saturn L-Series LW1 Wagon Automatic, 1-Owner, Red, 13505A ...... $2,495 ‘12 Tribeca 3.6R Ltd...... 7 Passenger, Loaded, 37K, Silver, P5010 ...... $22,995 as a lesbian rabbi. Evanston Subaru in Skokie CALL THAT’S SHOW BIZ TOLL FREE Find out the latest about Margaret E 847-869-5700 Cho, Azealia Banks and the show 3340 OAKTON - SKOKIE • EVANSTONSUBARU.COM A+ RATED House of Cards. * Add tax, title license and $168.43 doc fee. **Finance on approved credit score Subject to vehicle insurance and availability. Offers in in 3 days, unless noted Subaru will donate $250 for every new Subaru vehicle sold or leased from November 19, 2015, through January 2, 2016, to four national charities designated by the purchaser or lessee, up to $15,000,000 in total. Pre-approved Home- plus town Charities may be selected for donation depending on retailer participation. Certain participating retailers will Selena Gomez was among those at this make an additional donation to the Hometown Charities selected. Purchasers /lessees must make their charity desig- DAILY BREAKING NEWS nations by January 31, 2016. The four national charities will receive a guaranteed minimum donation of $250,000 year’s Jingle Ball. each. See Evanston Subaru details or visit subaru.com/share. All donations made by Subaru of America, Inc. Photo by Jerry Nunn

8 Dec. 23, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES ACLU questions Walgreens partnership GUEST COLUMN by Erica R. Meiners and Therese Quinn By Matt Simonette restricted by religious doctrine.” Besides ACLU affiliates in Washington and Representatives from the American Civil Liber- Oregon, the letter was co-signed by 17 other ties Union, on Dec. 14, asked Deerfield-based rights-organizations. Leah Rutman, ACLU- Toilet trouble Walgreen Company to clarify policies surround- Washington’s policy counsel, said, “We have From Houston’s defeated “Equal Rights Or- segregated bathrooms. ing a new partnership between the pharmacy been working with allies in Washington State dinance,” to K-16 campuses across the na- Of course, some people giant and a Pacific Northwest health provider and Oregon on this, and, when we heard about tion, our private business, or who can uri- do harm children, but re- affiliated with the Catholic Church. this partnership, we were concerned.” nate, defecate, change menstrual pads and search consistently illus- Walgreens recently announced a partnership Among those concerns were that LGBT indi- tampons, wash, and attend to other needs, trates that those known to between itself and Providence Health & Ser- viduals would be discriminated against should where, is again a public matter. children, not strangers, are vices, a not-for-profit Catholic health system they attempt to access medical services or State-sponsored bathroom anxiety is an most likely to cause harm based in Renton, Washington. Under the agree- obtain medications for HIV-treatments or hor- old story. In the 1930s, African Americans to children. Far from random public places, ment, in-store clinics in Washington and Or- mone therapies, for example. Rutman added, used the Negro Motorist Green Book to lo- the home is overwhelmingly the site of sex- egon would be staffed by personnel from Provi- “What we also sometimes see are limitations cate welcoming accommodations in a seg- ual and other violence for many, and par- regated country, yet knowing they would ticularly children. And public bathrooms? dence and Swedish Health Services, a health on comprehensive counseling.” be denied the use of public restrooms, “A child’s risk of being killed by a sexually system with which Providence affiliates. Walgreens had not yet provided ACLU with often carried containers or portable toilets predatory stranger is comparable to his or But the ACLU wants clarification on the terms a response as of press time, but company rep- in their car trunks. In the 1960s mimeo- her chance of getting struck by lightning (1 of that partnership, especially with regards to resentatives told Windy City Times Dec. 18 graphed Midwest Mattachine newsletters, a in 1,000,000 versus 1 in 1,200,000)” writes how services, information and referrals are im- that they planned to. In an email statement, gay organization, routinely included snap- Roger Lancaster (2011), author of Sex Panic pacted by Catholic Church doctrine. Walgreens, representatives said, “Most of the ACLU’s let- shots of the public restrooms men looking and the Punitive State. for its part, maintains that its store policies ter focuses on services that are not applicable for sex with other men should avoid as Destroying public space to protect chil- will not change. to a retail healthcare clinic setting, regardless these toilets were sites of police entrap- dren, however, is a more familiar story: In their letter to Walgreens, ACLU officials of the provider. We plan to clarify that in our ment. And by many accounts, the Equal Throughout the sex panics of the 1980s and wrote, “...Providence is a Catholic health care response to ACLU. Rights Amendment, passed by Congress in ’90s newspapers published articles warning 1972 and defeated by the Senate in 1982, parents about the dangers of public spaces, system that is required to follow the Ethical “The more than 400 Healthcare Clinic loca- was doomed by a fear of “unisex” bath- including restrooms, for their children. and Religious Directives (“ERDs”) promulgated tions that are managed by Walgreens do pro- rooms. More recently, articles and books encourage by the United States Conference of Catholic vide a range of contraceptive services, in ad- While the first state law mandating that parents to prepare children if they must use Bishops. These directives forbid or severely dition to acute care, treatment of chronic and toilet facilities be separated by gender was public facilities, suggesting instructions restrict critical reproductive and end-of- life common illness and conditions, and other pre- passed in 1887, separation hasn’t led to like, “Scream as loud as you can if you can’t health care services at Catholic health facili- ventive health services. bathroom safety for anyone. In 2003 a pro- get out,” as a Nebraska writer offered in ties, including contraception, abortions, fertil- “We have no plans to change any of our cur- fessional football player for the DC Divas, 2000. As amplified by the signs and T-shirts ity treatments, vasectomies, tubal ligations, rent policies in light of the Providence relation- who identifies as a woman and a lesbian, too visible in the 2015 defeat of Houston’s aid in dying, and advance directives that are ship. was arrested for using a women’s restroom. Equal Rights Ordinance, exhorting “No Men contrary to Catholic teachings. Some religious Walgreens representatives also forwarded a As attorney Dana Turner noted in the 2003 in Women’s Bathrooms,” the panic that political intervention by Tara Mateik and men will pose as women to infiltrate wom- health systems also restrict the information response from Providence Health & Services, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, Toilet Train- en’s bathrooms and rape women and girls and referrals that their health providers are al- which added, “[Many] chronic issues are not ing: Law and Order in the Bathroom, “Even continues to influence policy and shape ac- lowed to give to patients. Adherence to the within the scope of retail clinics and require being in perfect compliance with the signs cess to these necessary public spaces. ERDs also increases the likelihood that LGBTQ more in depth, ongoing care provided by a pri- on the door, you may have trouble in the If lawmakers are worried about the con- individuals and their families will face discrimi- mary or specialty provider. bathroom according to how you are per- nection between public spaces and harm nation in seeking to access health care services “STD counseling and testing will be offered ceived by the other people in that bath- to children, we should move beyond the consistent with their medical needs. at Express Care, but ongoing treatment will room.” myths of bathrooms as sites of violence for “In our states, we have consistently seen be referred to a primary care provider. Discus- Today, as contemporary challenges to children and focus on the real and current that when secular entities join with religious sions about end-of-life care, fertility and other old gender systems continue, bathroom ways our eroded public sphere stunts lives, health systems, the services, information, or complex issues are not appropriate for a retail anxieties also flare. In 2015, with appeals arrests development, and corrupts child- to shield the youth, jurisdictions are bus- hood: What damage is done by the empty referrals provided at the secular entity become clinic, and patients will be referred to the ap- ily concocting gender policing ordinances stacks in our public libraries, the librar- limited by religious doctrine. ...As Providence propriate setting. and laws to enforce gender segregated ians missing from our public schools, the is bound by the ERDs, we are concerned that “Anyone visiting Express Care will be treated bathrooms. In districts like Palatine, Il- evisceration of support for public housing, the clinics will likewise be required to follow with the same respect, care and compassion, linois, school officials resisted the federal and the privatization of public parks? What the ERDs, limiting access to important medical regardless of their age, race, color, creed, eth- government’s directive to require schools violence happens when 15-year-olds are services, information, and referrals. Further, we nicity, religion, national origin, marital status, to permit a transgender student unrestrict- tried as adults? When young people are de- are concerned, especially in light of the plan sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or ex- ed access to the bathroom corresponding nied meaningful and comprehensive sexual to form a Providence-Walgreens collaborative pression, disability, veteran or military status, to their gender; in a still-contested last- health education that includes pleasure, leadership governance council, that Walgreens’ or any other basis prohibited by federal, state, minute settlement the student agreed to contraception, and LGBTQ lives? And to pharmacies’ ability to fill prescriptions will be or local law.” shower and change clothes in a “private” really address what makes children’s lives area of the locker room. precarious, and invites danger, we can start In Florida, proposed law would have pun- by focusing on the nation’s overwhelming ished anyone who used a bathroom that need for paid parental leave and subsidized did not correspond to their assigned sex; a childcare programs, services deemed es- Durbin defends gay Wally Nevada school banned a trans boy from us- sential public goods in many parts of the ambassador in letter Brewster. ing the boys’ restroom; and a small town in world, although not the United States. Photo by Kat Missouri is reported to have been “divided” To be sure, safe access to public rest- By Matt Simonette by debates over a trans girl’s access to the rooms is a queer struggle: The consistent Fitzgerald girls’ locker-and-bathrooms. To cap off the targets of bathroom trouble are gender flu- U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), on Dec. 15, year, in November presidential candidate id, gender creative, gender resistant, gen- sent a letter to Pope Francis defending U.S. Ben Carson suggested that trans people be der queer, and transgender people, along Ambassador to the Dominican Republic Wally offered separate facilities because, “It’s not with all poor people, who are often un- Brewster, who has been the subject of slurs fair for them to make everyone else uncom- housed and thus unrestroomed. But coun- and heated rhetoric from Cardinal Nicolas de fortable.” tering our nation’s bathroom anxieties, Jesus Lopez Rodriguez of the Archdiocese As the nation continues to fight over requires dismantling the “child protection” of Santo Domingo, according to a state- queers’ access to bathrooms, and particu- myths often at their center. What harms larly access for transgender and non-gender children? Poverty, and the ongoing and ment. conforming people, LGBTQ lives are again relentless destruction of our most critical Brewster, a former Chicagoan who is openly with public statements quoted in the popular being drawn into an age-old battle about public resources. Bathrooms? Of course we gay, became ambassador to the Dominican press. The Cardinal used the hateful slur ‘fag- what makes our children safe, or at least give a shit, but in the movement to make Republic in 2013. got,’ which he continues to use to this day. safer. The threat of sexual violence, laced them queer positive, let’s challenge the re- In his letter, Durbin wrote, “Ambassador ...The Cardinal described the Ambassador as with trans- and homophobia and paired sistant fiction that we can protect children Brewster is from my state of Illinois and he a ‘wife’ who ‘should stick to housework.’” with calls to “protect our children,” is without preserving the public. is a personal friend. I supported President Durbin further reminded the Pope that, deftly circulated to legitimize gender- Obama’s selection of Ambassador Brewster when speaking before Congress, Francis and he was sworn into his position in my spoke of a collective responsibility to “de- Senate office. Ambassador Brewster is gay fend and preserve the dignity of your fellow Therese Quinn writes about the arts and cultural institutions as sites of justice- and was married under the laws of the United citizens in the tireless and demanding pur- work and is Director of Museum and Exhibition Studies at the University of States to his partner, Bob Satawake. suit of the common good. Illinois at Chicago. Erica R. Meiners is a fan of Octavia Butler and teaches at Even before Ambassador Brewster’s arrival “I accept that challenge and I am calling Northeastern Illinois University. in Santo Domingo in 2013, Cardinal Rodri- on you to ask nothing less of the hierarchy of guez launched a personal attack against him the Church,” Durbin concluded. WINDY CITY TIMES Dec. 23, 2015 9

The report, titled “Hidden Discrimination: Pulling of GSA bulletin questioned HRC foundation Title IX Religious Exemptions Putting LGBT By Matt Simonette executive director of Illinois Safe School Al- releases Students at Risk,” spotlights 56 colleges and liance, said, “The Alliance is saddened to hear universities based in 26 states across every York Community High School students, instruc- that students from the GSA at York Community municipal index... region of the country—which collectively tors and family members attended a meeting High School were not allowed to read their The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foun- have nearly 120,000 students—that have re- of the Elmhurst School District board Dec. 15 morning announcements, which were intended dation announced that a record number of quested religious exemptions under Title IX in response to that district’s superintendent’s to inform and educate their peers on the harsh U.S. cities have achieved perfect scores on since 2013. decision to pull morning announcements that treatment and influence of Lesbian, Gay, Bisex- its 2015 Municipal Equality Index (MEI) by Illinois’ Wheaton College is one of sev- were on behalf of that school’s gay-straight al- ual, and Transgender (LGBT) throughout histo- establishing fully inclusive local protections eral schools featured in a section entitled liance (GSA), according to Chicago Tribune. ry. The Alliance firmly believe that in order for for LGBT people. “Stories of LGBT Discrimination.” A table of The morning announcements were set to run students to reach their fullest potential, they Since the MEI debuted in 2012, the num- schools that have requested exemptions in- in October, but Superintendent David Moyer must feel safe, welcomed and respected. This ber of cities earning perfect scores has more cludes local schools such as Bethel College would not allow it and has not publicly offered decision made by the superintendent is a clear than quadrupled, with 47 (out of 408 sur- (Indiana) and Maranatha Baptist Bible Col- an explanation as to why. In an email to the indication that our schools are not there yet.” veyed) scoring 100 this year. lege (Wisconsin), Tribune, he said, “I share the students’ belief in Morning announcements at the school reg- Illinois cities in the survey include Chicago The report is at http://hrc-assets.s3-web- tolerance, acceptance and respect for all indi- ularly recognize contributions of numerous (earning a perfect score of 100), Aurora (68), site-us-east-1.amazonaws.com//files/as- viduals. ...I have made that clear at every point groups. Champaign (78), Joliet (78), Naperville (54), sets/resources/Title_IX_Exemptions_Report. along the way.” Chicago Tribune’s article is at http://trib. Rockford (62) and Springfield (68). pdf. In a Dec. 17 statement, Anthony Papini, in/1m8m8Y4. New top-scoring cities this year include Louisville, Kentucky; Detroit, Michigan; and Bloomington, Indiana, which are among the Purdue ending MEI’s 31 “All Stars”—cities paving the way benefits for Fred Says giving on LGBT equality in states that still lack fully $50K to HIV groups inclusive LGBT non-discrimination laws. same-sex partners The Chicago-based charity Fred Says will be The report is at http://www.hrc.org/cam- In Indiana, Purdue University will likely terminate benefits for same-sex domestic giving $50,000 across the United States to paigns/municipal-equality-index. partners in 2017, according to the Indy Star. organizations supporting HIV-positive youth, The university’s board of trustees audit and with two large “impact grants” at $10,000 go- ... as well as one insurance committee approved the proposal ing to Test Positive Awareness Network (Chi- Dec. 18, with the full board okaying the mea- cago) and Lost-and-Found (Atlanta). that affects sure the following day. The money is being given to provide fiscal Legal counsel Steve Schultz has said that support for any advocacy going on that helps LGBT students now that there’s nationwide marriage equali- educated the public about the needs of young In a comprehensive new report, the Human ty, keeping the benefits discriminates against people at risk for HIV, to help cover costs as- Rights Campaign (HRC) details the growing unmarried couples in long-term, committed sociated with running direct services for HIV- trend of colleges and universities requesting relationships. positive youth, or other areas cited by organi- “exemptions from existing civil-rights law in The original article is at http://www.indys- zations. order to discriminate against LGBT students,” tar.com/story/news/education/2015/12/18/ Other recipients will include Advocates for according to a press release. purdue-trustees-end-benefits-sex-part- Youth (Washington, D.C.), Ann & Robert H. Fred of Fred Says. It also called on the Department of Educa- ners/77598692/. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Bay Area Photo from Robert Garofalo tion to publicly document for students and Young Positives (San Francisco), Children’s Congress which colleges are making said re- Hospital Los Angeles, Callen-Lorde’s Health search Hospital Adolescent HIV Program (Mem- quests. Outreach to Teens (New York City), The LGBT phis, Tennessee) and POZ Magazine (New York Center (New York City), St. Jude’s Children’s Re- City).

With world-class indoor tennis courts, state-of-the-art fitness equipment and a philosophy that nurtures a feeling of community, isn’t it time you upgrade from gym to club? Join Midtown in December and earn back your initiation fee. Learn more at midtown.com/visit 10 Dec. 23, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES 2015: YEAR IN REVIEW seven years, Nan Schaffer, in April, announced was held following the Pride parade on June their commitment to the organization’s #IDo 28. campaign with a $1 million matching chal- —Vaccinations needed: City health of- lenge grant—one which the organization must ficials, in June, urged Chicagoans, especially Local year, from earn by raising the same amount from its do- persons who are HIV-positive as well as gay nors. The goal was reached by June. Dixon and and bisexual men and transgender women who Schaffer are former Chicagoans. have anonymous sex or use hook-up apps, to elections to closures —Amigas Latinas folds: After 20 years of be vaccinated against meningococcal disease, offering a wide range of support, education and after several cases were reported locally. Compiled by Matt Simonette Schock resigned in disgrace hours after racially advocacy for LGBT Latinas, Amigas Latinas an- —National landmark: In recognition of insensitive posts he wrote on Facebook came nounced in May that the organization will fold. LGBT Pride month, U.S. Secretary of the In- —Meeks nomination: Former state Sen. the to light. It was the first of many setbacks for “We did not take this decision lightly, it was terior Sally Jewell announced that the Henry Rev. James Meeks was, in January, nominated Schock, whose lavish spending was questioned over a year-long process,” said board president Gerber House in Chicago has been designated by Gov.-elect Bruce Rauner to become chair- by authorities and had to leave office. He is Alma Izquierdo. “But we have to recognize that a national historic landmark, becoming the na- man of the Illinois State Board of Education. currently the subject of a federal investigation. despite a vibrant legacy, we no longer have the tion’s second LGBT related property to achieve Meeks, who heads the Salem Baptist Church —New LGBT caucus: Chicago has 10 percent resources or capacity to continue our work in such recognition. on Chicago’s South Side, has a long history of of its 50 ward posts led by openly gay or lesbi- the ways that we think our growing and chang- —Mirror, mirror: A comedian well known in challenging goals sought by the LGBT commu- an aldermen, after the April 7 runoff races. The ing community deserves.” the LGBT community made a bizarre discovery nity. The state Senate nevertheless approved gay aldermen included Alds. Raymond Lopez Meeks in March, with only state Sen. Heather Steans voting “present” and state Sen. William Delgado voting “nay.” —Conversion therapy: State Rep. Kelly Cas- sidy, in January, introduced HB 217, or the Conversion Therapy Prohibition Act, which prohibits mental health care providers from engaging in sexual orientation change efforts with patients under the age of 18. The bill eventually passed both houses and was signed by Gov. Rauner in August. —Trans expansion: By a unanimous vote Jan. 21, the Chicago City Council approved the expansion of an existing city ordinance prohib- iting police profiling based on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and disability, military dis- charge, marital, financial or parental status to include gender identity and national origin as well. —Mayoral runoff: Incumbent Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel faced a runoff against challenger Jesus Garcia April 7, after not receiving Amigas Latinas’ final event, in July. the number simple majority of votes needed to Photo by Carrie Maxwell win in the February election. Emanuel eventually defeated Garcia with about 56 percent of the vote. (15th Ward); Deb Mell (33rd); Carlos Ramirez- —Veterans monument: A dedication was at a gig in suburban Berwyn—a two-way mir- —Uptown runoff: The 46th had a gay vs. Rosa (35th); Tom Tunney (44th); and James held Memorial Day, May 25, for the first fed- ror in the women’s washroom—and that led to lesbian runoff—James Cappleman the incum- Cappleman (46th). erally approved LGBT veterans monument on a change in local ordinances. It is now illegal bent versus challenger Amy Crawford. Capple- —Seasons of change: A Chicago couple, on federal land, at Abraham Lincoln National Cem- to utilize two way mirrors or similar surveil- man eventually won. April 12, found themselves in the spotlight etery in Elwood, Illinois. lance devices in private spaces in Berwyn. The —Bullying and the budget: Among the when their engagement was referenced in the —Hastert downfall: Republican U.S. House Berwyn City Council unanimously passed the myriad budget cuts handed down in the Feb. video that officially announced Hillary Clinton’s Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, represented Illinois’ ordinance June 9 after Chicago performer Ta- 18 budget from Gov. Bruce Rauner was the 2016 presidential bid. Jared Milrad and Nathan 14th Congressional District for 20 years, was male Rocks (also known as Tamale Sepp) no- elimination of funding for programs that stem Johnson, who live in Uptown, were among myr- faced with a federal indictment in June for ticed such a mirror in the club where she was school bullying. “There’s so little rhyme or rea- iad Americans depicted in the video who were trying to evade federal bank reporting require- performing. son to this,” said state Rep. Kelly Cassidy, who preparing to undergo change of some sort, all ments, and lying to investigators about the —Dyke march: Several thousand turned out was chief House sponsor of SB 5707, passed of which led up to Clinton’s stated change— purpose of those bank transactions, which re- for the annual Chicago Dyke March on June 27. in 2014, which implemented a number of anti- her run for president. ports said went towards hush-money payments As is tradition, motorcycle riders kicked off the bullying initiatives. —Research center: Center on Halsted and to cover up abuse-allegations. Hastert admit- march, which started this year at the corner —Giving things a Spin: The longtime owner IMPACT LGBT Health and Development Pro- ted to the payments in October, and is sched- of Western and Division and headed west into of Spin—who sold the nightclub in 2014, but gram at Northwestern University on April 23 uled for sentencing Feb. 29, 2016. Shortly after Humboldt Park. still owns the building in which it was locat- launched a new LGBT health research center lo- appearing in court this fall, however, Hastert —Perfect day: Chicagoans could not have ed—said he would be taking the space back in cated at the Center. It is the first LGBT health was hospitalized with a stroke. asked for a better day for their Pride Parade. March, after new businesses failed to click in research facility in the nation that is housed in —New Montrose Rocks name: A longtime With sunny weather and temperatures in the the space. an LGBT community center. Black gay pride celebration was rebranded mid-70s, one million people gathered for the —Schock treatment: A senior advisor to —Matching grant: Lambda Legal national when the event formerly known as Montrose 46th annual parade that stretched from Up- now-former Illinois Republican Rep. Aaron board co-chair Karen K. Dixon and her wife of Rocks became Pride at Montrose. The event town through Lake View. Celebrants were this year further stoked by news that came from the U.S. Supreme Court just more than 48 hours earlier, that marriage equality was now the law of the land. Country singer Ty Herndon was the parade’s grand marshal. Chicago police said that there were 52 arrests connected with the Pride celebration. —Parade, interrupted: Several protesters from the group #BlackOutPride staged a “die- in” at Halsted and Addison on the Pride parade route. Eight people were arrested. The group #BlackOutPride wanted to call attention to numerous LGBT-related issues that had been given short-shrift by the community in favor of marriage equality, such as homelessness among LGBT youth and hyper-policing of communities of color. —Budget demands: About 100 community members and health activists gathered in front of the James R. Thompson Center in downtown Chicago July 22 to demand that the state pass a budget that adequately funds services for those Illinoisans who have been impacted by HIV/AIDS. Army Major Melinda M. Rayter presents the American flag to Stanley Jenczyk. Photo by Hal Baim Turn to page 14 WINDY CITY TIMES Dec. 23, 2015 11

WE FOCUS ON HIV TO HELP YOU FOCUS ON

AskTODAY your doctor if a medicine made by Gilead is right for you. onepillchoices.com

UNBC1839_MA1_WindyCityTimes_10x13.5.indd 1 3/27/15 3:37 PM 12 Dec. 23, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES FREEDOM from cover represent Love pro-bono and launched his own whether you are getting out or not.” cept for a judge,” Coyne explained. “When the investigation. By the time Coyne took the case, Was the length of time Love spent in jail supplemental call [program] was first begun, Street and North Kilbourn Avenue in Chicago’s Love had been in jail for two years and seven awaiting trial excessive, particularly given the the theory was that there would be a group of Austin neighborhood, on the Far West Side. months. statutory and constitutional rights under Illi- five judges who would review cases that were Love stated that the man, whom we will refer Coyne discussed his work on the case with nois law to a speedy trial (120 days when in lingering too long in the system. However, be- to as XX, verbally and then physically assaulted Windy City Times and why the state believed custody)? cause of budget cutbacks, neither the state’s her. Security camera footage from the Citgo that first-degree attempted murder charges “I would think that it’s not normal for a case attorney’s office nor the public defender’s of- indicated that he had struck her. After police against Love were justifiable. of this simplicity,” Coyne said. “It is possible fice was able to staff those courtrooms. So the were called, XX walked away. Love and Gooden “The state established it mainly through the to spend an extended period of time in Cook irony was that you had a judge to hear the left shortly after in Love’s vehicle. Approxi- defendant’s statement that she saw [XX] on County Jail where there are scientific defenses, case but no staff to present the case. What mately a block away from the gas station, Love the sidewalk and decided to intentionally drive where there are other cases that are continuing would happen is that the state’s attorneys as- drove her car onto the curb at 124 N. Kilbourn, over the sidewalk in self-defense and strike or if you have multiple murders. When there signed to the courtroom from which the case striking XX in the leg. him,” he said. “There’s a body of case law that was still the death penalty in the state, it was transferred would have to follow that case Terrified, Love and Gooden fled. Love called says if you use that degree of force against would not be unusual to spend that amount of over to the next courtroom leaving their origi- her mother, telling her, “Mom, come get me. someone—that is an automobile to drive over time waiting for trial on such a case because of nal courtroom unstaffed. So they had to be two These boys, they’re trying to kill me!” someone—you can infer intent to kill from the necessity to get mitigation evidence.” places at the same time.” Fifteen minutes later, her mother drove Love that.” Owen Daniel-McCarter is a collective member “When a case hits its second year in the sys- back to the scene of the accident. According to Coyne stated that, according to medical re- and project attorney with the Transformative tem it goes up for review in the supplemental both, there was no sign of XX, no crime scene cords, XX’s leg was amputated almost a year Justice Law Project of Illinois (TJLP). He is also call,” Coyne added. “In [Love’s] situation my tape and only one Chicago Police Department and a half following the incident. the policy and advocacy director for the Illinois recollection is that it went up for review once (CPD) officer watching Love’s car. “That amputation was as a result of numer- Safe Schools Alliance. and Judge Wadas said he wanted to keep it In a September 2014 interview with Windy ous infections, reluctance to engage in physi- He agreed with Coyne that the length of time because he thought he was going to be able City Times, Love’s mother said that six or seven cal therapy and a request to have it amputated Love spent in jail was out of the ordinary “but to dispose of it. Six months later, it went up male bystanders began walking toward her as an elective procedure as opposed to a neces- I don’t think it’s unusual for people to wait for reassessment. Judge Goebel had it for a truck with Love inside. “They kept staring and sary procedure,” he said. years, definitely more than 12 months, if they time. We were set to go forward on motions saying some shit like, ‘We’re going to get you,’” Yet the state’s attorney’s office still chose to do wish to go to trial,” he said. “We know that and then he got transferred out to the Third she recalled. “I was thinking they were going use the amputation in its charges against Love. 95 to 97 percent of all corrections are the re- Municipal District. I think there’s a recogni- to do something to me.” “There’s aggravated battery based on great sult of a plea, not a trial. It’s a reality not only tion that the supplemental call isn’t doing The officer advised Love’s mother to go to bodily harm and aggravated battery based on in the court system in Cook County but the as well as it should be doing. It’s being cut the District 11 Police Precinct at Harrison and permanent disfigurement,” Coyne said. “Both criminal legal system in the U.S. as a whole.” back and cases are being sent back to original Kedzie. There, Love was questioned for hours of those counts were in there.” Love went through three judges throughout courtrooms or assigned to new judges in the by detectives. She eventually told them that In the nearly four years Love spent in jail, the course of her case, beginning with Judge building. [Love’s] case was stuck in a situation she struck XX “deliberately in self-defense.” her emotions ran the gamut from despair to Kenneth J. Wadas and then Judge Steven J. where there are some systemic problems.” An April 2012, a grand jury indicted Love on resignation to joy at the community support Goebel, as well as two public defenders. The “It’s a constitutional travesty,” Parker said. “attempted first-degree murder without lawful she began to receive. most recent assistant state’s attorney (ASA) “This is a problem with the justice system. Pe- justification with intent to kill,” an act which Parker has been meeting with her for the past assigned to the case was Shelley A. Keane. riod. When it comes to a prosecuting attorney, “constituted a substantial step towards the two years. On numerous occasions Windy City Times they are invested in trials being over with. I’m commission of first degree murder” as well as “The distress she went through, the weight of noted that the ASA did not show up to court not hearing of these trials being done properly three counts of aggravated battery. incarceration and living in limbo took its toll hearings. There was one day that Coyne had to especially when it comes to those who are dis- Love said she was informed of the severity of on her emotional health,” Parker told Windy leave the courtroom and go into the 26th and enfranchised or are people of color. They are the charges because the incident caused XX to City Times. “She wanted it to be over even if California building in an attempt to locate her. going to go to prison and that’s it. The system have his leg amputated. that meant her going to [state] prison. Hope “This case came off the regular felony trial is not invested in justice but in getting people The Cook County state’s attorney’s office ini- dwindles fast when it comes to facing the real- division call and was transferred to the supple- into the prison industrial complex.” tially asked for a 10-year sentence—something ity of a cell and a bunch of uncertainty about mental call which is not staffed by anyone ex- Daniel-McCarter believes that the system is Love said that her then-public defender en- couraged her to accept while reminding her to SIDEBAR “think about justice for the poor boy you hit.” XX is currently facing four pending criminal Eisha Love reunites with her family. cases including one for possession of firearms. In her own words: Photo by Gretchen Rachel Hammond Two subsequent murders could be related to the 2012 incident. On April 16, 2012—less Eisha Love looks back than a month after Love’s arrest—the body of By Gretchen Rachel Hammond 23-year-old Paige Clay was discovered in an al- ley in the 4500 block of West Jackson. She had On Dec. 18, Eisha Love was transferred to Statesville Prison in Joliet, been shot through the head. Four months later, Illinois, to “dress in and dress out”—the process for release after hav- on the second floor of an abandoned building ing spent three years and nine months in a tiny cell of the Cook County on the corner of South Cicero Avenue and West Jail waiting for a trial. Jackson Boulevard, the body of Gooden-Love’s After 11 hours of testing, photos, fingerprinting, paperwork and wait- passenger on March 28, 2012-was discovered ing in the bullpen (a warehouse-sized holding cage), Love was finally stabbed multiple times. Both of the transgen- taken in a prison van to the massive front entrance of the facility, der women were friends who looked very much where she was met by the arms of her mother. Sobbing with joy, both alike. women embraced. They didn’t want to let each other go. No arrests have been made. According to the Freedom—a word Love never thought she would hear. families of the women, Chicago Police Depart- “There is a God,” she told Windy City Times. Years passed like that for Love—locked in her cell for, usually, 23 ment (CPD) detectives informed them in 2013 For the first three months of her incarceration—beginning in March hours each day in that confined area, which she deliberately kept dark that both of the cases had gone cold. 2012—Love was housed in the medium-security Division XI. “I was as she retreated further into herself. “You are hoping that you’re going Community advocate and Chicago House with a couple of familiar people that I was getting along with,” she to get some good news, but it was always bad. I was losing hope,” she TransLife Center Project Coordinator Chan- recalled. “Out of the blue I got a court date. I didn’t know the reason said. nyn Lynn Parker also serves as a liaison for behind it.” “I had probably three [public defenders]” Love remembered. “From the trans-identified population detained at The charges against her had been upgraded from aggravated battery different ones there were different stories. One was with me. One was the Cook County Department of Corrections to attempted murder in the first degree. Love was told by a correctional somewhat with me and the last one was not for me.” (CCDOC). After meeting Love and hearing her officer to pack up her things because she was being sent to the all-male According to Love, her last public defender did everything she could story, Parker wrote an August 2014 letter super maximum security Division IX to be housed alongside some of to dissuade her from fighting her case. “There would be things that about the case which she posted on her Face- Chicago’s most violent offenders. kind of discouraged me to believe that she was working for me. It was book page. Shortly after, Chapman University “It was a shock,” Love said. “Because my public defender never told like she was working against me. I would tell her I wanted to go with student Addison Vincent saw the post and creme. I didn’t understand. I was lost. I was stuck. After coming down to a strong fight and she would say, ‘It happened. You did it. Just plead ated a Change.org petition, with the hashtag holding, we were walked to Division IX. They have a long tunnel. It out.’ It was a scare factor. But I felt like she was misleading me.” #FreeEisha. was dawning on me—how would I be able to get through? How would The public defender was not the only one. Love was told that the man Windy City Times conducted an investigation things be with a girl like myself in an area with murderers?” she struck with her car had his leg amputated as a direct result of the into the case in September 2014 questioning Initially, there were two other transgender women on Love’s Protec- incident. Once Chicago-Kent College of Law Clinical Professor Daniel T. why the charges against Love were so harsh tive Custody [PC] tier. Their gender and humanity were systematically Coyne took Love’s case in late 2014, it became clear through medical and exploring a possible connection between robbed from them by prison guards. “It took a toll,” Love said. “They records that the amputation was voluntary. Love’s arrest and the murders of Clay and would look at us as clowns. The respect level was none. They would “I was being lied to the whole time,” Love said. “My public defender Gooden. address me as ‘him.’ I would let them know I was trans but it was their was saying that I did something I didn’t do and all this time I was sit- ESPN journalist and renowned transgender option to choose to say what they wanted to say. It was more not car- ting here fighting for my life. When I got Dan, I never doubted him.” activist Christina Kahrl then contacted Chica- ing at all. I had to tolerate it.” Ultimately, Coyne secured her freedom. Looking back from that long go-Kent College of Law Clinical Professor Daniel “They would put boys into my cell,” she added. “We were supposed dark tunnel, Love has taken some hard lessons from her ordeal. T. Coyne. to be housed according to us as being transgender, but there would be “This could have been something that could have been swept under To that point, Love had an appointed public times when the jail got to be over-capacity. Being in that predicament, the rug,” she said. “I want to let other girls know that if there’s any- defender. you never know what the [chances are] of them doing something to thing you are doing, be careful. You never know what may happen.” An accomplished and celebrated criminal you. It was very uncomfortable.” law attorney and instructor, Coyne agreed to WINDY CITY TIMES Dec. 23, 2015 13 However, rather than seeing the end of the Love case as the end of their involvement, the community can do a great many things to help Love get on her feet and create positive change not only for herself but others who find themselves in her situation. “The handouts I have seen that said she was using self-defense are emotionally beneficial but legally incorrect,” Coyne said. “If the LGBT community wants to argue effectively for how to best assess people that are similarly situated, they have to first deal with the perspective of what is accurate, otherwise their position is marginalized.” “Eisha has a lot to contend with and she has a long road ahead,” Parker said. “I hope the community puts their talk into action and they rally and support this woman. I hope that they hold this woman up because, once all this fan- fare is over and the gavel drops and the judge says, ‘You’re free to go,’ where is she free to go? This could turn around really quickly. This young woman could end up going right back in to survival crimes and ultimately be right back where she was.” “Society, as a whole, must find acceptance, first of all for someone who is African-Ameri- can, then for someone who is transgender, then for someone who is a sex worker,” Coyne said. “How do you find acceptance in your heart for that? How is your soul open to that? The LGBT community needs to move in such a way that acceptance of someone similarly situated Eisha Love. to Ms. Love is not a challenge to anybody. It Photo by Gretchen Rachel Hammond should be OK.” “Fiat justitia ruat caelum. Let justice be done set up in a way that perpetuates its own prob- she would be able to find a jury receptive to Organizations like the TJLP, the Illinois Ac- though the heavens fall,” Parker noted. “What lems. that argument. That’s when you come to the countability Initiative, Love & Protect, the justice has been done if Eisha and those like “The system is not actually trying to stop more difficult question of her being a Black Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and Black her cannot access the tools to ensure they crime or violence in our communities,” he said. transgender woman who had a history of being and Pink sent representatives who stood in thrive in their day-to-day lives and don’t return “Cases like this are moments where the system involved in sex work. With a jury of her peers, respect and solidarity when Love entered the to the penal system?” should be compelled to be reflective and ask, this would have easily been a not-guilty. How- court room. There are many unanswered questions. The ‘How can we make sure that this never happens ever, if you had a jury of people representative She cried tears of elation and shock. “I just length of time Love was imprisoned, the charg- again?’ There are not enough court-appointed of a white, suburban high socio-economic sta- couldn’t believe it,” she said. “I’d felt like I es leveled against her by the State’s Attorney’s attorneys and they are simply overwhelmed tus sort of an environment, I’m not quite sure was alone for so long. Then the letters started office that were still pursued despite its knowl- with the amount of work they have. Ideally, they could have understood or appreciated the to come and I saw all those people. I’m going edge that XX’s amputation was an elective we should not have so many people incarcer- environment that Ms. Love was coming from. to hang on to those memories and the letters. rather than necessary outcome of the incident ated. Eisha or any other person would have a It is a difficult thing to find a jury that would I’m going to pick my life up and justify every- on March 28, 2012. The fact that Gooden’s and different relationship with their case if they be receptive to an argument that is not funda- body’s faith in me.” Clay’s cases remain unsolved. were navigating their defense from the outside. mentally a legal defense but rather is an equi- Marian is still deeply concerned with both As Love finally leaves the Cook County Jail Right now, part of what they are trying to do is table defense.” Love’s and the family’s safety particularly given to an uncertain but determined future, Parker get out by any means necessary. People might “There is something awry in the justice sys- the mounting evidence that both Gooden and and others believe it is up to the community consider options and pleas they would not nor- tem where trans people are looked at as ex- Clay’s murders may have been retaliatory acts and society as a whole to demand answers mally consider if they weren’t incarcerated.” pendable and justice doesn’t matter,” Parker on the part of a local gang. on her behalf, for those who died and those To both Parker and Windy City Times, Love said. “There’s no real investment in giving “It’s been OK for now, because people don’t whose lives remain ignored and undervalued vehemently maintained that she acted in self- them a fair trial or in giving them justice.” know her family,” she said. “But when she’s out, while constantly shadowed by the ever-present defense against the threat that XX represented. Ultimately, Love accepted the deal because for as long as these guys are on the streets, she threat of violence and death on the streets of Had she not opted for a plea deal, could she she wanted to be reunited with her family and we all are in danger.” Austin. have received a fair trial in the State of Il- again while trying to reassemble her life. linois? Can any transgender woman of color? “I wish I had just drove away that day,” she “Certainly in a bench trial one would expect told Windy City Times in her last jailhouse in- any defendant to get a fair trial because judges terview before accepting the plea deal. “But Balance your priorities today should be above any sort of a bias or prejudice,” I can’t change that. I just want to make sure Coyne said. “In this particular case, there were that this does not happen to anyone else and for a more confident tomorrow. a set of circumstances that made a bench trial that those girls out there now will not have to ALEXANDRA MORAN somewhat untenable. Under the law, this would go through what I went through.” Call me today for a be an imperfect self-defense case. One cannot Looking ahead to freedom after a nearly four- Financial Advisor avail themselves of self-defense if one is not in year ordeal during which Love claims she was Branch Manager complimentary initial immediate harm.” subjected to verbal abuse from prison staff and Confident Retirement® Coyne added that, since Love was in her car fellow inmates, placed in solitary confinement 15255 S 94th Ave conversation. at the time, she could have opted to drive away on numerous occasions including once for nine Orland Park, IL 60462 from her attacker to home or a police station. days after protesting when a cisgender male 708.226.3438 “If an individual is in a position to be able was put in her cell due to overcrowding in Divi- to escape safely and does not take advantage sion IX’s two protective custody tiers, she is [email protected] of that ability, that’s not really a self-defense both overjoyed and terrified. ameripriseadvisors.com/ case under the law and a judge would more Her family on the other hand is furious with alexandra.j.moran likely than not have found her guilty,” he a legal system they believe both targeted and added. “On the other hand, if she would have tortured her. elected a jury trial, they may have felt com- “Marian” is Love’s aunt. fortable disregarding the law and say that Ms. “Over the years that she was gone we were Love had been attacked by someone at a public angry,” Marian told Windy City Times. “The way The Confident Retirement approach is not a guarantee of future facility, that her emotions were running high she has been treated is plain unfair. When she and they could understand why she wanted to turned herself in, they turned this into some- financial results. The initial Confident Retirement conversation engage in what some may call ‘anticipatory thing way bigger than it actually was and made provides an overview of financial planning concepts. self-defense,’ especially given the fact that she her sit there all those freaking years. It wasn’t You will not receive written analysis and/or recommendations. was aware that there had been threats in the right. It was bogus, underhanded bullcrap and neighborhood against her and other transgen- plain torture to see her miss out on all her Investment advisory products and services are made available der individuals.” birthdays and all those Christmases.” through Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc., a registered “While that’s not a legally tenable basis for The only joy Love received came through all investment advisor. self-defense, a jury could find, based on all too brief visits with her family and the knowl- the equities, that it was,” he continued. “But edge that the community had rallied around © 2015 Ameriprise Financial, Inc. All rights reserved. (3/15) then you have attack the question of whether her. 14 Dec. 23, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES YEAR IN REVIEW from page 10 From the Out In the Open Sleep Out. —New designation: The U.S. Department Photo by Ronit Bezalel of Health and Human Services (HHS), on Aug. 11, selected Howard Brown Health Center as a Federally Qualified Health Center, the high- est designation that can be awarded to a U.S. health center. —New trans benefits: Mayor Rahm Emanuel, on Aug. 5, announced that the Chicago would remove the exclusion of gender-reassignment services from city health care benefits. Under the new rule, the insurance plans of city em- ployees will cover such procedures. —Leaving a legacy: Several dozen supporters of The Legacy Project gathered at the Bridgeport Art Center Aug. 23 for the first showing of The Legacy Wall, an interactive exhibit featuring a diverse cross-section of LGBTs that will travel across the state for 15 months, after which it is expected to tour around the United States. —19th murder: Keyshia Blige—a Black woman who lived in Naperville, Illinois, but was killed in the city of Aurora—became the 19th known transgender woman murdered in the United States this year (As of this writing, there are 22). —Rentboy response: Approximately 20 people gathered outside the Center on Halsted Sept. 5 and marched along a route that took them through Lake View. The action was part of a coordinated week- long protest in four cities nationwide that members of the Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP) and their allies orga- nized in response to the Aug. 25 Rentboy.com raids in Manhattan. —Bijou closes: Bijou Theater, 1349 N. Wells St., announced that it would close Sept. 30. “The end of days has come to Bijou after 46 years,” owner Steve Toushin said in the mes-

Bijou owner Stephen Toushin. Photo by Ross Forman sage. “...[Times] change. Neighborhoods inquiry, advocacy and action—is launched in Cricket Hill at Montrose and the Lake Nov. 20 change. Ownership changes of buildings and October as a project of the AIDS Foundation of and braved the season’s first snowfall for the leases change.” Chicago. Kim L. Hunt, former executive director first Out in the Open Sleep Out. The event —Sloan leaving: Longtime Chicago House of Affinity Community Services, was named as raised funds for 19 Chicago-area charities that and Social Service Agency CEO Rev. Stan Sloan PAT’s executive director. work on issues pertaining to homeless LGBT announced the week of Sept. 14 that he would —Plaque story: Chicago’s Legacy Walk youth. be stepping down from his post in 2016. gained five new bronze memorial plaques that —Shopping, interrupted: Chicago’s Mag- —Bed and breakfast: The Illinois Human were unveiled in the Phase IV dedication cer- nificent Mile and the Black Friday cash regis- Rights Commission, on Sept. 15, found that a emony on Oct. 10 in Boystown. The five new ters of its high-end stores were brought to a downstate bed-and- breakfast facility discrimi- inductees included the Pink Triangle, Billy standstill Nov. 27 by nearly 2,000 protesters nated against a gay couple when the owners Strayhorn, Rudolf Nureyev, Leonard Bernstein who covered the breadth of Michigan Avenue, told them they do not allow same-sex civil and Josephine Baker. pausing at each intersection to give voice to union ceremonies. —Hall of Fame name change: The Chicago each of the 16 gunshots discharged by Chicago —HBHC and Gerber/Hart mashup: Officials Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame, founded in 1991, Police Department (CPD) officer Jason Van Dyke from Howard Brown Health Center (HBHC) and voted to change its name to the more inclusive into the body of 17-year-old Laquan McDon- Gerber/ Hart Library and Archives, on Sept. 29, Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame. ald. announced that HBHC will open a clinic at 6500 —Caitlyn appears: Television celebrity and —Agreement reached: The Township High N. Clark St.—the address where Gerber/Hart former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner spoke before School District 211 Board of Education voted has been the sole tenant since 2013. a capacity audience at the 7th Annual Chicago Dec. 7 to uphold an agreement that will allow —Taking action: The Pride Action Tank House Speaker Series held in the Grand Ball- a Palatine trans student to utilize her school’s (PAT)—a group that addresses challenges fac- room of the Chicago Hilton Nov 12. girls’ locker room facilities. The agreement ing individuals and groups within LGBTQ com- —Sleepout: Nearly 400 people, about half came after weeks of heated deliberation over munities through a collaborative process of camping overnight, showed up at Chicago’s the matter.

vol 30, no. 52 Sept. 23, 2015 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com WINDY CITY TIMES 30th Anniversary Issue Download this special souvenir issue at: www.windycitymediagroup.com/images/publications/wct/2015-09-23/current.pdf YEARS WINDY CITY TIMES Dec. 23, 2015 15 PASSAGES where he began a brief career in the real es- Clinton campaign tate mortgage industry. In what would be a Shirtless jogger in Bradford H. fortuitous twist of fate, Brad’s real estate ca- aims for LGBT reer suddenly ended and, in 1980, he began ‘free prayer’ ‘Brad’ Stark a 24-year career with the Internal Revenue support Bradford H. “Brad” Stark passed away Dec. 14 Service, beginning as a tax auditor in Chicago, ministry By Matt Simonette in Desert Hot Springs, California, after battling and retiring in 2004 as the director of human Ethan Renoe—the shirtless jogger whose a long illness. resources for the Tax Exempt and Government video became a recent viral sensation— Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, on Brad was born in Racine, Wisconsin, to Rob- Entities Division in Washington, D.C. started a movement four years ago in Dec. 14, officially launched a new cam- ert H. and Nancy L. Stark. He was educated In 2006, the lure of inexpensive housing and which students stand outside mostly gay paign coalition, LGBT for Hillary, to raise in Racine public schools, graduating from J.I. a good Friday night fish-fry became just too clubs in Chicago’s Boystown neighborhood awareness and increase support in the Case High School in 1970. much for Brad to resist, so he returned to Ra- holding up signs that read “free prayer,” LGBT community. Seeking to enjoy the full range of experiences cine to be closer to his family. In 2014, he according to Gay Star News. In a Dec. 14 conference call with sup- that higher education had to offer during the moved to Desert Hot Springs, California. Current group leader Noah Reynolds told porters to mark the launch, Clinton out- era of bad hair, bell-bottom jeans and bad Brad is survived by his sisters Elizabeth (Den- NBC News that the organization is nothing lined LGBT-related issues her campaign apartments, Brad attended a slew of colleges nis) Homolka and Cynthia Putz (Curtis Heidke), like the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church. would be addressing in the months ahead, including Carthage College, the University of both of Racine and his best friends Edward “Westboro Baptist is nearly the antithesis among them drumming up support for the Wisconsin-Parkside, and the University of Wis- Haggar of Racine and Marty Lingg of Vancou- of what we are,” Reynolds said. “Our mes- Equality Act, allowing transgender indi- consin-Madison. ver, British Columbia, Canada. He is also sur- sage is a message of grace through faith.” viduals to openly serve in the military and Then, in a complete turnaround from his hip- vived by a gaggle of nephews, great-nephews Renoe, a personal trainer, has told WGN combatting increasing incidents of vio- pie ways, Brad decided to enlist in the U.S. and -nieces, and cousins. Morning News that he plans to move to lence against transgender people as well. Army, where he served three years in the Army Per Brad’s wishes, his cremated remains are Colorado. “This was the year love trumped hate,” Security Agency, learning Russian at the De- to be buried in Southern Wisconsin Veterans The original article is at http://www. Clinton said, referring to the Obergefell fense Language Institute in Monterey, Califor- Cemetery. Services are private. gaystarnews.com/article/chicagos-shirt- v. Hodges U.S. Supreme Court decision. nia, and serving the bulk of his time in Berlin, Brad’s take-charge personality, and brilliant less-jogger-founder-of-ministry-offering- “...[But] even as we celebrate progress, Germany. Brad was honorably discharged from sense of humor will be cherished and missed, prayer-outside-gay-bars/#gs.TjQNPRs. we shouldn’t forget how much work lies the Army in 1976 and, thinking he might have as he dictated his every move down to his own ahead.” missed something while he was away, returned obituary. The moving industry will surely take a Clinton added, “There are some serious to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for hit due to his serial moving habits. issues at stake. Every top-tier Republican another dose of college life. Arrangements by Cremation Society of Illi- candidate has gone on the record against In 1978, finally realizing that he had to put nois, 773-281-5058 or www.cremation-society. marriage equality. … Just yesterday, Mar- a roof over his head, Brad moved to Chicago com co Rubio said he would appoint supreme court justices who would overturn marriage equality.” Clinton was introduced in the call by singer Ricky Martin, who will be campaign- ing for her. Athlete/activist Billie Jean King also spoke on the call, and said she and her partner, Ilana Kloss, have been active with LPAC (Lesbian Political Action Committee) on Clinton’s behalf. “Lesbians have a right to be at the table, and we have the right to use our voice,” King said. LGBT for Hillary is being headed up by Dominic Lowell, who was previously director of strategic partnerships for the Rock the Vote campaign. “If we take Republicans at their word, all the priorities we’ve been fighting for could be stalled,” Lowell said, adding that Clin- ton supporters “must make sure that our community shows up in this election.”

Painter/photographer Lenore Chinn and Phyllis Lyon. Photo by Gerard Koskovich Daughters of Bilitis turns 60 The GLBT Historical Society marked the 60th anniversary of the Daughters of Bili- tis—the first lesbian organization in the United States—with a reception at the GLBT History Museum on Dec. 13. The guest of honor was Phyllis Lyon, 91— the one surviving co-founder. The complete papers of Lyon and her late partner, Del Martin (1921–2008), are preserved in the GLBT Historical Society’s archives. The office records of the Daughters of Bilitis are included in the collection. 16 Dec. 23, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES editorial sumes the overall system would be fine with — Other cites have successfully created a WINDY Justice delayed just more money. It would not. pre-trial release system for more than 90 per- by TRACY BAIM AND Love was also placed in Division IX—a su- cent of those arrested, including those arrested GRETCHEN RACHEL HAMMOND per maximum security male facility. There she for any non-violent offenses. CITY spent 23 hours per day locked in her cell. — We can create a restorative justice court Eisha Love sat in Cook County Jail for nearly In 2014, Divisions IX and X were at the center for both juvenile and adult offenders, to re- four years without a trial. The unfortunate real- of a lawsuit brought by Northwestern Univer- move many crimes away from the traditional ity is that she is not alone. sity’s MacArthur Justice Center. criminal legal system. TIMES The criminal legal system in this country pro- “A culture of brutality and lawlessness infects — We should legalize (and tax) marijuana, VOL. 31, No. 13, Dec. 23, 2015 vides cruel and unusual punishment even prior the jail and forces [prisoners], all of whom are and issue tickets for any other drug-use crimes. The combined forces of Windy City Times, awaiting trial, to live under a constant risk of Creating a free drug and alcohol rehabilitation founded Sept. 1985, and Outlines newspaper, to trial for thousands of people each year. Most founded May 1987. of the people who end up caught in this web life threatening violence,” plaintiff’s attor- network would be much cheaper than continu- are there because they don’t have the money neys stated. “Officers slam people to the floor, ing to lock up people in jail for using substanc- for proper legal representation, or for even stomp, kick and punch them—often while the es. PUBLISHER & EXECUTIVE EDITOR minimal amounts of bail that would set them individuals are handcuffed and shackled.” — We should legalize all sex work and regu- Tracy Baim Often, due to over-crowding, a male inmate late the industry so that the workers are pro- free to prepare their defense. ASSISTANT PUBLISHER Terri Klinsky In many cases, people are caught up precisely would be placed in Love’s cell. Correctional of- tected, and sex trafficking is not allowed to MANAGING EDITOR Andrew Davis because they are poor, unable to pay fees on ficers referred to her with male pronouns and flourish. ASSOCIATE EDITOR Matt Simonette top of fees for minor traffic or other offenses. subjected her to verbal abuse. She had no — The crisis in mental health is real. Dart BUSINESS MANAGER Ripley Caine choice in the matter and any recourse she at- recognizes that Cook County Jail has become DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA Jean Albright The system is broken, and it is breaking the ART DIRECTOR Kirk Williamson backs of the people. tempted went nowhere. a mental health dumping ground. We must not SENIOR REPORTER Gretchen Rachel Hammond In Cook County, we are witnessing the crisis Multiple psychological studies have found lock up those with mental illness in jails think- Senior Account Executives Terri Klinsky, Kirk on a daily basis, and the Cook County State’s that the kind of isolation to which Love was ing this will be a cure. They will be out some Williamson, Amy Matheny, Chris Cheuvront, Gretchen subjected lead to, among other effects, rage, day, and likely worse off. We need to restore Rachel Hammond, Mike O’Bleness Attorney’s Office, the Cook County Sheriff, and NATIONAL SALES Rivendell Media, 212-242-6863 the Cook County Board all must play a role in anxiety and paranoia. the mental health safety net in this city with SENIOR WRITERS Bob Roehr, Tony Peregrin, Lisa fixing these tragic mistakes. It is not fair to have people sitting in jail true mental health reform and resources. Keen, Yasmin Nair In the case of Eisha Love, a trans woman awaiting trial for years. For a transgender — Transgender individuals should be housed THEATER EDITOR Scott C. Morgan woman placed in the isolation of “protective according to their gender identity or, at the CINEMA WRITER Richard Knight Jr. who waited far too long for justice, Cook SPORTS WRITER Ross Forman County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez’s Office custody” it can be like torture. very least, given a voice in the matter. Cor- ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WRITERS continually delayed Love’s day in court, with Society pays for it as do the individuals rectional officers who abuse them whether ver- Mary Shen Barnidge, Lawrence Ferber, Mel Ferrand, charges that ultimately did not fit the crime. robbed of their humanity. bally or physically must be held to account. Jerry Nunn, Jonathan Abarbanel Both Cook County Board President Toni Preck- Time and again the Prison Rape Elimination Act COLUMNISTS/WRITERS: Yvonne Zipter, Jorjet Harper, There were times when no representative of the Charlsie Dewey, Carrie Maxwell, Billy Masters, Sarah state’s attorney’s office even bothered to show winkle and Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart claim (PREA) has proven to be useless as a remedy. Toce, Dana Rudolph, Melissa Wasserman, Joe Franco, up for a court date. This was incompetence and to want a more fairly administered system. Eisha Love is just one case among thousands Nick Patricca, Liz Baudler, Rex Wockner, Marie J. neglect, but unfortunately it is all too common Working with other elected officials, there are that have been mishandled in this county in Kuda, Angelique Smith, Meghan Streit things we can innovate in Cook County that recent years. We, as a taxpayers and as a soci- SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHERS Mel Ferrand, Hal Baim, Tim for the average defendant. Carroll, Ed Negron Yes, there are too few resources to do the would save both time and money, and lead to a ety, are not served by a criminal legal system WEBSITE LISTINGS VOLUNTEER Gene Naden proper work of the system. But that excuse as- more just society. that makes the situation worse. CIRCULATION CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Jean Albright DISTRIBUTION: Ashina, Allan, Dan, John, Sue and Victor WEB HOSTING: LoveYourWebsite.com (lead viewpoints programmer: Martie Marro) Copyright 2015 Lambda Publications Inc./Windy City Media I walk in circles because I have no place to go. Group; All rights reserved. Reprint by permission only. Back Usually I burn out and lay in the snow. issues (if available) for $5 per issue (postage included). Return postage must accompany all manuscripts, drawings, Help me touch the clouds, ignore the tears I cry. and photographs submitted if they are to be returned, and BREEZY I want to be the dragon that soars in the sky no responsibility may be assumed for unsolicited materials. All rights to letters, art and photographs sent to Windy Spread my wings, close my eyes, one deep breath, and let me fly. City Times will be treated as unconditionally assigned Back to hitting the UV, smoking like a chimney. for publication purposes and as such, subject to editing And popping any pills people give me. and comment. The opinions expressed by the columnists, Fly cartoonists, letter writers, and commentators are their own The mental illness I have developed is going untreated and I’m losing and do not necessarily reflect the position ofWindy City my mind. Times. Publication of the name, photograph, or likeness of The following poem was written and read by youth activist Breezy at the a person or organization in articles or advertising in Windy I whip up my own potions to try and fix myself, but there’s nothing I find. recent Out in the Open Sleep Out. City Times is not to be construed as any indication of the Help me touch the clouds, ignore the tears I cry. sexual orientation of such person or organization. While we encourage readers to support the advertisers who make I want to be the dragon that soars in the sky. Help me touch the clouds, ignore the tears I cry. this newspaper possible, Windy City Times cannot accept Spread my wings, close my eyes, one deep breath, and let me fly. responsibility for advertising claims. I want to be the dragon that soars in the sky. Shelters full most nights if I’m lucky I can get bus cards for the night (773) 871-7610 FAX (773) 871-7609 Spread my wings, close my eyes, one deep breath, and let me fly. and next day. e-mail: [email protected] or Tell me how you feel about these homeless youth, [email protected] All I need is a couple of jail-burg sandwiches and I’ll be on my way. Are you willing to listen to one woman’s truth? My eyes seem to never see sun. I will start with telling you a little bit about myself, www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com I am the definition of what society calls a bum. Believe it or not my childhood was filled with a lot of wealth. podcast: WindyCityQueercast.com I come across good people, I feel no one is truly my friend. I had semi-rich foster parents that told me my mother didn’t want me Over dose after over dose, I wish everything would end. WINDY CITY MEDIA GROUP, and was dead. 5315 N. Clark St. #192, Chicago, IL, 60640 U.S.A Help me touch the clouds, ignore the tears I cry. At this point can you imagine the things running through my head? (MAILING ADDRESS ONLY) I want to be the dragon that soars in the sky. Awhile went by of physical and verbal abuse and I turned to drugs to Spread my wings, close my eyes, one deep breath, and let me fly. Windy City Times Deadline every Wednesday. mask my pain. What I have told you so far might seem sad, Nightspots Deadline Wednesday prior to street date. Little did people know the inside of this beautiful house was constant OUT! Resource Guide ONLINE And I haven’t even told you a fraction of the details, rain? www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com Or described my countless epic fails. Look at me, aren’t I dressed so nice? www.WindyCityQueercast.com Being a homeless youth takes a toll on you. Under these cloths can you see the marks I left from the knife? Some of us steal, fight, and make fast cash in ways we wouldn’t normally “Windy City Media Group generated enormous I think you only see what you want to see do. interest among their readers in this year’s LGBT You pretend this woman is imaginary that’s clawing at me. Consumer Index Survey. Out of approximately 100 Just for a quick meal and a hotel bed, I laugh at her when she puts me out. print and online media partners who participated To lay our spinning heads. No need to yell, scream, or shout. in the survey, Windy City was the best performing Most homeless youth have gone through similar things as me, regional media in the U.S. Only survey partners Maybe she doesn’t realize her putting me out sets me free, But it’s never too late to help my peers. with a nationwide footprint were able to generate Helps me touch the clouds, ignore the tears I cry. a greater number of responses.” —David Marshall, Be their human angels that chase away their fears. I want to be the dragon that soars in the sky, Research Director, Community Marketing, Inc. As for me, one might think there is no hope, Spread my wings, close my eyes, one deep breath, and let me fly. Crawling out the bottom of a volcano, Awhile goes by and I’m auctioned from one home to another, But I disagree FOUNDING MEMBER My final stop is a Christian home that forces me to stay under cover. I don’t know the ending of my story, Eventually they found out I was more like Denzel Washington instead of But I have risen from ashes and totally free. Britney Spears, I will touch the clouds, and never ignore the tears I cry. How ironic it is that they didn’t find out for years. I will be the dragon that soars in the sky. Let’s fast forward this story a half a decade. I now wander the streets, Spread my wings, close my eyes, one deep breath, and I will fly. Feels like King Kong’s on my back and I have blisters on my feet.

FOUNDING MEMBER

FOUNDING MEMBER WINDY CITY TIMES Dec. 23, 2015 17 WINDY CITY TIMES DIVERSIONS THEATER • FILM • ENTERTAINMENT • SPORTS

18 26 27 ‘Twice’ as nice WCT reviews Fool Me Twice, Deja Vu. Brunch at Cindy’s. CGHA’s Holiday Party at Crew. Photo by Todd Rosenberg

SCOTTISH PLAY SCOTT Mitchell Fain in The Santaland Diaries. Holiday shows to go Photo by Johnny BY SCOTT C. MORGAN Shepherd’s novel In God We Trust, All Oth- Knight ers Pay Cash that also inspired the 1983 film. If you’ve somehow avoided catching a holiday (Through Dec. 27; www.theatreatthecenter. show this season, there’s still time to see a com) plethora of shows running through the end of A Christmas Story—The Musical, Paramount the month and into early January. They range Theatre, 23 E. Galena Blvd., Aurora. The 2012 from perennial family-friendly fare to campy musical adaptation of the popular 1983 holiday comedy takeoffs of Christmas classics. All loca- film returns with a big tap dance production tions are in Chicago unless otherwise noted. number that wasn’t featured in the pre-Broad- Burning Bluebeard, The Hypocrites and The way tour that played the Chicago Theatre in Ruffians at Den Theatre, 1329 N. Milwaukee 2011. (Through Jan. 3; www.paramountaurora. Ave. Chicago’s deadly Iroquois Theatre Fire of com) 1903 is artfully reflected on in this returning The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, Found- revue of singed performers contemplating their lings Theatre Company at City Lit Theater, roles in the disaster that claimed 600 lives. 1020 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. Scandal erupts in (Through Jan. 10; www.the-hypocrites.com) Jeff Goode’s adults-only comedy about eight A Charlie Brown Christmas, Emerald City reindeer accusing Santa of sexual harassment. Broadway musical stage adaptation. (Through Shakespeare Theater, 800 E. Grand Ave. Charles Theatre Company at Broadway Playhouse at (Through Dec. 27; www.foundlingstheatre.com) Jan. 3; www.drurylaneoakbrook.com) Dickens’ classic holiday tale gets a hip-hop Water Tower Place, 175 E. Chestnut St. The EL Stories: Holiday Train, Greenhouse The- It’s a Wonderful Life, American Blues The- makeover in this adaptation by the guys who 50-year-old Peanuts TV special is brought to ater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. A holiday ater at Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. did Shakespeare takeoffs like Funk it Up About life onstage for family audiences. (Through version of the long-running late-night show Lincoln Ave. The classic 1946 Frank Capra film Nothin’ and Othello: The Remix. (Through Jan. Jan. 3; www.emeraldcitytheatre.com) drawn from riders on Chicago’s elevated trains. is retold in the form of a 1940s radio play 3; www.chicagoshakes.com) Christmas Bingo: It’s a Ho-Ho-Holy Night, (Through Jan. 9; www.greenhousetheater.com) broadcast in this returning holiday favorite. The Santaland Diaries, Theater Wit, 1229 Royal George Theatre, 1641 N. Halsted St. This Elf the Musical, Marriott Theatre, 10 Mar- (Through Dec. 27; www.americanbluestheater. W. Belmont Ave. Mitchell Fain returns to star returning interactive comedy is a seasonal vari- riott Dr., Lincolnshire. Director/choreographer com) as the embittered Macy’s department store elf ation on the long-running Catholic humor pow- Marc Robin whips up an inventive and eye-pop- It’s a Wonderful Santaland Miracle, Nut Crumpet in this revival of Joe Mantello’s theat- erhouse Late Nite Catechism. (Through Jan. 3; ping staging of the 2010 Broadway adaptation Cracking Christmas Story… Jews Welcome! rical adaptation of the story that launched the www.theroyalgeorgetheatre.com) of the 2003 Will Ferrell holiday film. (Through Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave. A return of career of author and touring raconteur David A Christmas Carol, Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Jan. 3; www.marriotttheatre.com) Brian Posen’s interactive and family-friendly Sedaris. (Through Dec. 27; www.theaterwit. Dearborn St. Larry Yando returns to play Ebene- Forever Plaid: Plaid Tidings, Steel Beam holiday show that steals from other popular com) zer Scrooge in this diversely cast and special- Theatre, 111 W. Main St. St. Charles. The har- Christmas show hits. (Through Dec. 27; www. The Second City’s Holidazed, Metropolis effects filled flagship adaptation of Charles monizing Plaids quartet are back from the spir- stage773.com) Performing Arts Centre, 111 W. Campbell St., Dickens’ classic holiday tale. (Through Dec. 27; it world to perform a holiday version of their It’s Christmas, Goddamnit, Annoyance The- Arlington Heights. A holiday sketch comedy re- www.goodmantheatre.org) previous show of pre-Beatles pop hits in an atre, 851 W. Belmont Ave. A dysfunctional fam- vue put together especially for suburban audi- A Christmas Carol, Metropolis Performing intimate venue. (Through Dec. 27; www.steel- ily holiday gathering turns nasty in the return ences. (Through Dec. 31; www.metropolisarts. Arts Centre, 111 W. Campbell St., Arlington beamtheatre.com) of this dark comedy. (8 p.m. Dec. 26; www.an- com) Heights. A snowy finale over the audience has Forever Plaid: Plaid Tidings, Williams Street noyanceproductions.com) Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the been one of the highlights of this suburban in- Repertory at Raue Center for the Arts, 26 N. A Kokandy Christmas, Kokandy Productions Christmas Goose, Raven Theatre, 6157 N. terpretation of Charles Dickens’ classic Christ- Williams St., Crystal Lake. The harmonizing at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave. A new Clark St. The famed fictional detective of mas novella. (3 and 7 p.m. Dec. 23; 3 p.m. Dec. Plaids quartet are back from the spirit world holiday revue filled with stories, songs and Baker Street is on the case to find out how a 24; www.metropolisarts.com) to perform a holiday version of their previous more. (8 p.m. Dec. 23; www.kokandyproduc- blue jewel made its way into a cooked goose. Christmas Dearest, Hell in a Handbag Pro- show of pre-Beatles pop hits in a grand venue. tions.com) (Through Jan. 3; www.raventheatre.com) ductions at Mary’s Attic, 5400 N. Clark St. The (Through Jan. 3; www.rauecenter.org) Moot Pulk and It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Tinsel! The Musical, Li’l Buds Theatre Com- infamous Hollywood actress Joan Crawford The Great Annoyance Melodrama and Like Menopause, (re)discover theatre at Den pany at No Exit Cafe, 6970 N. Glenwood Ave. gets the Christmas Carol treatment in this re- Vaudeville Holiday Revue, Annoyance The- Theatre, 1329 N. Milwaukee Ave. A double bill A kid’s show about a nearsighted waitress vival of David Cerda’s drag-filled 2013 musical. atre, 851 W. Belmont Ave. A park ranger has to of holiday tales featuring dance and drag. (8 reindeer who pursues her dream to become a (Through Jan. 2; www.handbagproductions. protect the nation’s largest Christmas tree in p.m. Dec. 23; www.rediscovertheatre.com) recording artist. (Through Dec. 27; www.lilbud- org) this comedy revue that includes tap dancing, The Nutcracker, The House Theatre of Chi- stheatre.org) The Christmas Schooner, Mercury Theater, songs and more. (8 p.m. Dec. 27; www.annoy- cago at Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division St. Twist Your Dickens, The Second City and 3745 N. Southport Ave. Find out all about the anceproductions.com) A ballet-free and puppet-filled interpretation Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn St. Charles treacherous journeys across Lake Michigan to Hellcab, Profiles Theatre Main Stage, 4139 of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Christmas tale involving a Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is sent up in this hi- bring Christmas trees to early Chicagoans in N. Broadway St. A Chicago cabbie encounters girl’s battle against an evil Rat king. (Through larious collaboration by former Colbert Report the return of this acclaimed Windy City-born all kinds of strange characters on Christmas Dec. 31; www.thehousetheatre.com) scribes Peter Gwinn and Bobby Mort. (Through musical. (Through Dec. 27; www.mercurythe- Eve in the return of Will Kern’s long-running The Nutcracker, Joffrey Ballet at Auditorium Dec. 27; www.goodmantheatre.org) aterchicago.com) Chicago hit comedy. (Through Jan. 10; www. Theatre of Roosevelt University, 50 E. Congress Yippee Ki-Ya, Merry Christmas, MCL Chicago, A Christmas Story, Theatre at the Center, profilestheatre.org) Parkway. This is the final outing of the late 3110 N. Sheffield Ave. An odd array of pop 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, Indiana. A nine- Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Drury Lane choreographer Robert Joffrey’s 1987 staging of culture character converge together for this year-old boy growing up in 1940s Indiana Theatre, 100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace. the classic Tchaikovsky ballet. (Through Dec. comedy spoof of the Die Hard movies. (Through wants nothing more than a Red Ryder BB gun The classic 1954 Christmas film gets filled out 27; www.joffrey.org) Jan. 9; www.mclchicago.com) for Christmas in this stage adaptation of Jean with other Irving Berlin song standards in this A Q Brothers’ Christmas Carol, Chicago 18 Dec. 23, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES THEATER REVIEW Tom Irwin Domesticated and Esteban Playwright: Bruce Norris Andres Cruz in At: Steppenwolf Theatre, Domesticated. 1650 N. Halsted St. Tickets: 312-335-1650; Photo by Michael www.steppenwolf.org; $20-$89 Brosilow Runs through: Feb. 7

BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE

One advertising campaign promotes Bruce Nor- ris’ new play as nudge-nudge-wink-wink political satire and another attempts to sell it as a battle-of-the-sexes romp. Don’t believe either one. The dramatic premise might have its real- life counterparts, and it might have been Nor- ris’ intent to capitalize on the tabloid factor, but both representations are as fraudulent as a diamond mine in Dolton. The story opens with William Pulver calling a news conference to answer allegations regard- ing his part in an incident involving an injured prostitute currently languishing in a concus- sive coma. It then documents the progress of his family members as they salvage what they can from the fallout—wife Judy finds an eager audience for her tell-all book, teenage daughter Casey rails against her father’s misdeeds, while adopted daughter Cassidy immerses herself in studies of mating habits in lower organ- more hostility toward his perceived persecutors did he pursue a career in a predominantly fe- Norris assume we are as obsessed with the Rich isms. spurs him to engage in behavior worsening his male sphere, followed by marriage, fatherhood, and Stupid as his cartoonish media vultures Since the Pulvers’ immediate environment circumstances. and civic leadership? Why, too, did Judy like- and gullible gossips, or does he consider Step- appears to be populated entirely by women— Ultimately, though, the question is not wise embark on a contract based in illusion and penwolf subscribers his personal focus group? even William’s attorney is Judy’s best friend— whether it’s natural for men or woman to keep thus doomed to inevitable failure? Whatever the motive, it leaves playgoers no their recovery is mostly successful. The erring their pants zipped, nor is it why people occu- More puzzling is why Norris thinks he can recourse but to commiserate with an excellent husband’s notoriety, however, renders him job- pying lofty positions take risks deliberately en- repeat the ruse employed in The Qualms of cast (nobody projects “Iron Lady” better than less—he was a gynecologist before seeking dangering their privileged status, but why they throwing down two hours of let’s-you-and-him- Mary Beth Fisher) assigned the task of refer- public office, you see. The more he continues agree to responsibilities mandating promises fight rhetoric and declaring it a finished play. eeing comic-book confrontations designed to to protest the severity of his punishment and they know that they will break. If William never (David Mamet can get away with this gambit spark conversation, outrage and divorce pro- the degree of his culpability, however, the bought into the concept of marital fidelity, why nowadays, but Norris can’t—not yet.) Does ceedings.

THEATER REVIEW ing English translations of modern plays from performance. All the while saxophonist Hannu Director Brad Akin’s production of The Or- Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Swe- (Ryan David Heywood) reacts silently to every- chestra for Akvavit also might have come off The Orchestra den. thing in the background. more effectively if the cast was made up of Playwright: Okko Leo; Akvavit’s latest offering is the U.S. premiere Where the plot picks up is when the irrespon- more expert comedians. There are many mo- Translator: Kristian London of the Finnish comedy The Orchestra, by Okko sible lead singer, Jase (Jim Poole), shows up ments of odd physical comedy bits (particularly At: Akvavit Theatre at Rivendell Leo and translator Kristian London. It’s all late with a scheme involving Simone (Bergen a candy bar gag) in The Orchestra, but some of Theatre, 5779 N. Ridge Ave. about a band of has-been Finnish rockers who Anderson), a wedding guest who also is a suc- the cast members struggle to get laughs out Tickets: 800-838-3006 or make a dunderheaded grasp to become relevant cessful former winner of a Finnish reality TV of those moments and the dialogue in general. www.akvavittheatre.org; $15-$20 again. singing competition. But when a pot of the The Orchestra may not be as original as it Runs through Jan. 10 At first, The Orchestra plays like a study in three-meat Finnish stew called Karelian goes could be, but local audiences should be able to character comedy as members of a one-hit won- missing, things soon spiral into the realm of relate to its struggling Finnish rockers whose BY SCOTT C. MORGAN der band show up in a dressing room to play a silly farce. behavior isn’t that far removed from our Ameri- wedding gig. There’s the childlike Halla (Tony Clearly, Leo was aiming for comedy on the can ones. And The Orchestra also opens a win- Scandinavian drama didn’t end with the early St. Clair), who is obsessively concerned about level of the 1984 faux film documentary This is dow to show what’s concerning a modern-day 20th-century deaths of playwrights Henrik his mobile phone minutes and the behavior of Spinal Tap to lovingly mock the inflated egos playwright in Finland. Ibsen and August Strindberg. Yet many U.S. the bride (Emily Demko) at a previous wedding. of rockers and their desperation to get back theatergoers would be hard-pressed to name There’s also the divorced guitarist Rane (Steve into the limelight. But when Leo steers the c subsequent Scandinavian dramatists. Herson), who boasts about his shooting skills, play into territory explored much more astutely This is where Akvavit Theatre comes into the while the music academy-bound young drum- in Martin Scorsese’s 1982 film King of Comedy, picture. Named after a popular Scandinavian mer Timi (Josiah Kumpost) is understandably The Orchestra starts feeling like warmed-over CRITICS’ liquor, Akvavit Theatre is dedicated to present- perturbed at not being paid for his previous leftovers instead of something biting and fresh. PICKS THEATER REVIEW stage earlier this month. The phenomenon of are among the many topics that speak to the Bernarda Alba and Her House, Poetry Is having experienced a certain situation before climate of 2015 and serve as a hilarious year Theatre at Redtwist Theatre, through Jan. 3. Fool Me Twice, proved comedy gold for Groundhog Day and it in review. A couple sketches imagine this year Louisiana’s Bayou country, not rural Andalusia, clearly has its benefits in the world of sketch as if it were the past and the future, remind- is the locale for this emotionally ravaging, but Déjà Vu comedy, putting a framework around Second ing us how improved but still flawed society always riveting, adaptation of Federico Garcia By: Second City City’s often sharp and topical humor. has become. Lorca’s tragedy. MSB At: Second City Mainstage In a time when we constantly find ourselves But the show’s real genius are the tie-ins Fallen Angels, Remy Bumppo Theatre Com- Theater, 1616 N. Wells St. asking, “Isn’t this 2015? How is ___ still a in the second act, which see all the first-act pany at the Greenhouse, through Jan. 10. An- Tickets: 312-337-3992; $23-29 problem?”, Fool Me Twice provides a comical sketches flipped and mixed up in inventive nabel Armour’s unflappable domestic servant Runs through: April 2 (Tues-Sun), outlook on present times through an ever- and surprising ways that catch the audience steals the show in Noel Coward’s comedy about with some additional changing lens. The show shifts regularly from off-guard and test our memory of the first half upper-class matrons. MSB performances after April 2 insightful to challenging the audience to, of of the show. It evokes the effectiveness of a Good for Otto, Gift Theatre, through Dec. course, making fun of the audience. No one is standup comedian successfully calling back to 20 and then extended from Jan. 14 to Feb. 7. BY STEVEN CHAITMAN safe, not even millennials. an earlier joke when the audience didn’t see Both profound and invigorating, David Rabe’s How the cast of six (Second City veterans it coming. world premiere looks at two community mental “Do you ever have déjà vu?” Andie MacDow- Chelsea Devantez, Paul Jurewicz and Daniel The artistic point of this exercise isn’t en- health workers and their patients struggling ell’s Rita asks Phil Connors, played by Bill Strauss, with new cast members Sarah Shook, tirely clear in spite of the show’s wrap-up mu- with parental abandonment. Rabe’s skill makes Murray, in the classic ‘90s comedy Groundhog Rashawn Nadine Scott and Jamison Webb) sical finale, but there’s something meaningful it’s more exciting and entertaining than you’d Day. have crafted the show around the theme is to latch on to regardless, it’s just a little more think. JA “Didn’t you just ask me that?” Phil re- unclear until the second act, when the first- subjective to each audience member in terms Twist Your Dickens, The Second City with sponds, playfully, though he’s been seduc- act jokes resurface in surprising ways. For- of what will provoke thought or laughter or and at Goodman Theatre, through Dec. 27. ing her for “days,” carefully trying to get his tunately, the individual sketches are funny how the “déjà vu” tactic will resonate. Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol gets deli- moves right with each recurring day. enough, déjà vu or no. Relevant, fresh and clever, this revue might ciously spoofed with a great comic cast offer- The truth is you haven’t seen a Second City Hollywood whitewashing, superhuman ex- fool you into thinking twice about some time- ing up plenty of bizarre and modern digressions show like Fool Me Twice, Déjà Vu, the compa- pectations for young mothers and, of course, ly issues or even your own shtick—and maybe woven through the classic tale. MSB ny’s 104th revue, which opened on its main- the current slate of presidential candidates you’ll be tricked into seeing it again. —By Abarbanel, Barnidge and Morgan WINDY CITY TIMES Dec. 23, 2015 19

From left: Mark Delavan, Marc Kudisch and Nathan Gunn in Baritones Unbound. Photo by Chuck Osgood e SPOTLIGHT

The return engagement of Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience—A Parody by THEATER REVIEW needed. In vocal music, choral harmonies for Dan and Jeff was so popular that several performances were added to the run. So if you previ- male voices are divided “tenor” or “bass,” but ously missed this family-friendly, 70-minute spoof of all seven Harry Potter books from its first Baritones Unbound: when it comes to solos, it’s the baritone who Chicago visit back in 2012, there’s still time to catch it before it disappears. Potted Potter: The descends smoothly to the bottom of the glis- Unauthorized Harry Experience—A Parody by Dan and Jeff continues through Sunday, Jan. 3, The Uncommon Voice sando in “Old Man River” while also sustaining at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, 175 E. Chestnut St. Tickets are $39-$69; call pitch on the fragile “head-voice” final note of 800-775-2000 or visit www.broadwayinchicago.com. of the Common Man Photo by Brian Friedman Playwright: Marc Kudisch, Merwin “Some Enchanted Evening.” Foard, Jeff Mattsey and Timothy Splain That’s right—the baritone. Marc Kudisch, Na- Canto, Opera Verismo and Viennese Operetta— leather-lunged fortissimi. Don’t assume, either, At: Royal George Theatre, than Gunn and Mark Delavan are here to ac- name-checking en route celebrities like Anto- that physique is always an indication of lar- 1641 N. Halsted St. quaint us with the history, myth and personal- nio Tamburini (1800-1876), for whose multi- yngial prowess (forgive us, Rick Astley!). Our Tickets: 312-988-9000; ity of the men who would find themselves cast octave range Bellini and Donizetti wrote some friendly hosts acquit themselves capably on www.ticketmaster.com; $60 as heroes and villains, embodying both the of their best arias, and featuring performances Western-style guitars, as well as hoofing (kind Runs through: Jan. 3 heavenly exaltation associated with pre-pubes- cent innocence and the underworld darkness of such highbrow favorites as the “Prologue” of) and frequently share lyrics—performing from Pagliacci and the “Largo al Factotum” the “Soliloquy” from Carousel as a three-way BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE suggested by basso-register growls. You wonder why parents fretted over their daughters from Il Barbiere de Seville (known by cartoon dialogue between buddies, for example—to buffs as the “Figaro” song). Before you know it, keep the visual picture moving at all times. The The traveling theater companies of antiquity crushing on Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Elvis however, we arrive at the dawn of the Ameri- patter on preview night was still a bit rough typically numbered seven actors: leading man Presley and Jim Morrison? Sure, they were all can musical—Alfred Drake! John Raitt! Robert around the edges, but by the time pianist/ and woman for the raisonneur roles, juvenile crooners, whispering intimately to their listen- Goulet!—with a full 30 minutes to spare before musical director Timothy Splain (who’s not a and ingenue for the youthful ones, “character” ers—but they were baritones, too. intermission. baritone) joined the trio downstage for a John- man and woman to play villains, elders or ec- Our evening begins with a brief 1,300-year So don’t come expecting a stodgy recital with ny Cash encore, we wouldn’t trade them for a centrics—and a lone player called the “util- survey chronicling the evolution of sacred Gre- human bullhorns in penguin suits belting forth whole roomful of chirpy tenors. ity man” capable of stepping into any part as gorian chant to secular madrigals, through Bel

Advertise in AmericA’s premier LGBt puBLicAtions todAy! Stronger than ever

Spending in America’s LGBT media is at a record high of $381.4 million, up 18.2% from 2012. Circulation and readership of LGBT media are also up a healthy 15.1%*

Now that’s just SUPER!

BAy AREA REPoRTER I BAy WINdoWS I BETWEEN ThE LINES I dALLAS VoICE I GA VoICE GAy CITy NEWS I SoUTh FLoRIdA GAy NEWS I WAShINGToN BLAdE I WINdy CITy TImES Advertise in America’s premier LGBT publications today! Call 212-242-6863 20 Dec. 23, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES KNIGHT at the movies

By Richard Knight, Jr. ‘Carol’ for Christmas Few actors could possibly convey as much complexity with a line like “Shall I pay you now?” as Cate Blanchett does as Carol Aird, the wealthy socialite in Todd Haynes’ new movie, Carol. Blanchett delivers this line barely 10 minutes into the movie to Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara), a would-be photographer working as a temp sales girl in the toy area of a large department store. The period is the repressive 1950s and, in the brief moment Carol and Therese chat (as the mink draped Carol contemplates a doll but instead buys a train set for her daughter for Christmas—at Therese’s suggestion), it’s clear that the connection between these two women is electric and we are at the onset of a grand passion. Carol’s deep chest tones when she delivers that line is like the opening salvo in a romantic drama so deep, so drenched in unfettered de- Cate Blanchett in Carol. sire underneath all the forcibly stifled emotion Photo from The Weinstein Company and conscripted daily life that was the norm for Our People in that stultifying era, that one (she was Oscar nominated playing Bob Dylan aunt’s best friend, that uncle’s “roommate,” Slowly, the world is catching on to this, too nearly has to take a moment afterward to learn in a nice bit of cross-gender role playing in his that father’s letters from his college roommate (and here is where an organization like The to breathe normally again. Dylan homage I’m Not There), is no less im- you found in a shoebox after he died—we Legacy Project is helping to fill such a huge Carol is erotically charged alright, but it also pressive. Mara’s Therese, tentative but strong knew that they were gay and at times happily void). Watching Carol from a queer perspective has you gasping with fear with each second as steel underneath, compliments Blanchett’s coupled behind closed doors; and we’ve known is like witnessing an unearthed artifact of queer as the two women slowly but inexorably and deeply conflicted Carol, who seems drawn from that it’s been this way since time immemorial culture that one dreamed of but never hoped to gingerly navigate their way around society and a Douglas Sirk melodrama. (She has the weight for the famous and the everyday folks who are see. Here’s hoping this rapturous movie opens men to a physically and emotionally intimate on her shoulders that Susan Hayward or Lana and were just like us. the floodgate to dozens more like it. union. Carol is going through a tricky divorce Turner would recognize.) Working from a script from Harge, her hard-drinking playboy husband by Phyllis Nagy, adapted from the long cher- (a very fine Kyle Chandler) who is besotted ished lesbian classic novel The Price of Salt, Joffrey Ballet’s Nutcracker. with feeling for her, while Therese (“Tur-ez”) by Patricia Highsmith, Haynes works with his Photo by Cheryl Mann is being pestered into an engagement by a longtime cameraman Edward Lachman to gor- persistent, eager beau (Jake Lacy) so dull his geously re-create the period in soft pastels name should be Wonder Bread instead of Rich- while contrasting them with the occasional ard. Harge is holding a previous lesbian love vivid color. Red, especially, is used as a badge affair with Carol’s friend Abby (Sarah Paulson, of courage in this oppressive world (desig- arch and wised-up, like a quasi-Eve Arden) over nating Carol as a scarlet woman and, later, her head and suing for full custody of their Therese, too). daughter based on moral grounds, threatening Everything in this repressive world—it’s like to expose Carol’s proclivities. a 1950s version of Bent, or something—is cod- To escape hideous pressure and the mounting ed so that the “subterranean” people can read invasion of privacy, Carol invites Therese to go each other’s thoughts just by noting a certain on a road trip with her over the holidays. As object of clothing, accessory and, most espe- the trip progresses west toward Chicago, the cially, a well-timed glance. To see such a pas- romance intensifies, but so does the ominous sionate story play out against the backdrop of nature of the film—the careful happiness the this insulated world is thrilling. And you real- women share in private is almost always coun- ize from the first moment (in which we glimpse tered by the prying eyes surrounding them. Ev- Carol and Therese in a bar at what we think is erywhere, men act as if the women were their the end of their story) that we are viewing one possessions to be controlled at their whim, of those films that audiences—and certainly while women expect them to toe the line. Out- jaded film critics—silently wait for in earnest. side forces seem to match the intensity of the These are movies in which the director’s tal- affair but, like the novel it springs from, the ent and technique meld so seamlessly that we film takes us in a surprisingly modern direc- know that we are witnessing an instant clas- tion as it moves toward its conclusion. This sic. Part of you stands outside the movie as dancers from the Chicagoland area and young direction—which must have been read as wish you watch it—admiring it for its sheer genius. Final Joffrey vocalists from five different local children’s fulfillment by both author and many readers at These are films like Hitchcock’s Rear Window, choirs. the time—is all the more powerful when seen Fleming’s The Wizard of Oz, Minnelli’s The Band ‘Nutcracker’ For its 2016-2017 season, The Joffrey Bal- through our modern eyes, so filled with copi- Wagon, Welles’ Citizen Kane, Coppola’s God- let has commissioned Christopher Wheel- ous amounts of queer imagery that we take father Part II, Spielberg’s Jaws, Mankiewicz’s through Dec. 27 don—whose direction for Broadway’s An them for granted. All About Eve and several more. Haynes’ Carol The Joffrey Ballet celebrates the 28th an- American in Paris earned him the 2015 Tony Not so openly gay director Todd Haynes has stands with these movies. It is, in short, cin- nual, and final, presentation of Robert Jof- Award for Best Choreography—to re-envision always had a special affinity for queer charac- ematic perfection; for movie audiences of any frey’s The Nutcracker in a 24-performance a new Nutcracker to receive its world pre- ters placed in the rigid past. (His 2003 mas- persuasion, that is indeed a rarity. engagement at the Auditorium Theatre of miere in December 2016. terpiece Far From Heaven is like part one of a For Our People, it’s, well … bliss. Carol is a Roosevelt University, 50 E. Congress Pkwy., Tickets are $32-$136; they are available trilogy with Carol being part two; I can’t wait movie that has been a long time coming—this through Dec. 27. at The Joffrey Ballet’s official box office at for part three.) Haynes, the most renowned is Brokeback Mountain with the happy ending. The Chicago Philharmonic, led by Joffrey Joffrey Tower, 10 E. Randolph St.; the Audi- director of the New Queer Cinema movement It contains a truth that has been denied queer Music Director Scott Speck, provides live torium Theatre of Roosevelt University box of the early ‘90s, has also drawn one exquisite people on the screen pretty much forever: A accompaniment of the classic Tchaikovsky office; all Ticketmaster Ticket Centers; at performance after another from his actresses. lot of gay men and women managed to carve score for every performance. The full Joffrey 800-982-2787; or online at www.ticketmas- His rapport with Julianne Moore is legendary out happy lives for themselves within the in- company is also joined onstage by 118 young ter.com. and this, his second film with Cate Blanchett sane constrictions of society at large. That WINDY CITY TIMES Dec. 23, 2015 21 The last consideration was that, for the ma- Director Tom Hooper on the set of The Danish Girl. jority of the film, the character is living as a Photo from Focus Features man and the transition happens quite late in the film. So that played a part into my thinking. WCT: What were the challenges of making this movie in that time period? TH: I didn’t feel it was a challenge. I felt it was a joy. It is such a great period. The look of the Danish world was very inspired by the paintings of Vilhelm Hammershoi, who is a Danish artist I love. His palette is an austere blue gray. He tends to build his own apartment so we built our version of Hammershoi’s apartment for Einar to live in. I thought of Einar, living as Lili, who had a color palette that spoke to his sense of con- striction. In Paris there was an explosion of Art Nouveau, which was a revolution of the feminine in design and rejection of the masculine. The embracing of the curve line with a pattern of explosions of color. I thought that revolution in the arts would be a great backdrop for NUNN ON ONE: MOVIES the emotions of Lili. It was treat to work in the vernacular of this period. WCT: Where was it filmed? Tom Hooper on TH: It was filmed in Copenhagen, Brussels, London, Paris, Dresden and in Norway. We were on the same budget as The King’s Speech—$15 million—so it was tough! directing critical fave WCT: What is next for you? TH: It is like looking after our baby as we release it into the world. I would love for the film ‘The Danish Girl’ to find an audience so I am going to support it in any way I can and for as long as I need to. That will take me through to the spring of next by Jerry Nunn see what the actor brings. Let them feel free to and into his heart. year. There are three things after that, one of offer their ideas. Sometimes they have a better I wanted an actor where Lili would never be which I really like that I am developing but I Tom Hooper has come a long way from direct- idea than I even imagined. Really great actors other-ed, where Lily’s change would never feel can’t say yet. ing plays and television commercials. are like co-directors because they do have a strange or uncomfortable for the audience. Ed- WCT: You should come to Chicago. These initial jobs led to a 2003 revival of sense of staging in the scene and awareness of die has that gift in the movie. He takes you TH: I love Chicago. That is the home of Lana ITV’s Prime Suspect, starring Helen Mirren; he what extras are doing. with it step by step so the emergence feels Wachowski, whom I met with through Eddie then directed her again for HBO Films in the With Helen Mirren, I learned to listen. She inevitable and necessary. I think that was im- right at the beginning. She had brilliant advice drama Elizabeth I. On the big-screen front, had an eye on so many things even beyond portant. for us both and was very inspiring. Hooper tackled The King’s Speech (which won herself. Not only is it about working with the Something I also thought of is Eddie is WCT: There must have been tons of re- four Oscars, including Best Picture) and, later, best possible actors but what they can bring drawn to the feminine. He played girl’s parts search for this project. Les Miserables and an all-star cast. to the set. at school. He played Viola in Mark Rylance’s TH: Yes, lots of reading. My favorite book was He returns to work again, with actor Eddie WCT: What attracted you to The Danish Girl Twelfth Night. So he had a body of work play- Conundrum, by Jan Morris. It is the most beau- Redmayne in the new film The Danish Girl, in the first place? ing women before this so that was fascinating tiful book about transition. which is up for three Golden Globes. It is based TH: I fell in love with this incredible script to me. I wanted to give Eddie the opportunity Read up on The Danish Girl and check the on David Ebershoff’s 2000 novel of the same late in 2008. I was really moved by the love to push farther into his psyche. Gender is on film out in a theater near you, currently name that tells the story of one of the first story at the center. I felt like for this transition a spectrum and we all fall somewhere on that playing locally at Landmark Century Theatre, known gender-reassignment surgeries. to happen in the 1920s at a time when there spectrum. 2828 N. Clark St. Windy City Times recently talked with Hooper was no language to verify what Lili [Elbe] was about his direction and latest project. going through. The word “transgender” wasn’t Windy City Times: It’s the Tom and Jerry there and the establishment didn’t acknowl- ‘Sing-A-Long’ at Show! Did you always want to make films? edge or accept the claims she was making Tom Hooper: I fell in love with it when I was about herself, which we now would see com- Music Box in Dec. 12. There is a line in the Spike Jones movie pletely differently. The space for change was The Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Adaptation that says, “We fall in love in order made possible through that marriage. Ave., is presenting its 32nd Annual Music Box to simplify the world for ourselves,” and I feel The film is about unconditional love at its Christmas Sing-A-Long as well as a double like that when I look back at that moment. purest. Love is really about putting someone feature of the classic films White Christmas There are so many complex choices on what else ahead of yourself and caring about them and It’s a Wonderful Life. one can do but at that point I knew what it more than yourself. The film explores this and The events will take place through Thurs- was. I was lucky. helps create a space where Lili can emerge. I day, Dec. 24. I started to make films on my 16mm Bolex found that moved me to tears and that is what To view a full schedule of showtimes and to camera on a hundred feet of film that I spliced made me want to make the film. purchase tickets ($10-$24), visit http://www. in the attic. I was a silent filmmaker from the WCT: Was there never any thought of fo- musicboxtheatre.com/collections/2015-an- ages of 12 to 16. The world has changed bi- cusing on Lili’s family? nual-music-box-christmas-show. zarrely because now your iPhone has a better TH: The script was so powerful that I com- camera on it. I had old school training as a mitted in my head to remaining quite loyal to teenager. the way Lucinda Coxon wrote it. It was also Streisand WCT: That is the real deal. inspired by David Ebershoff’s great novel. I TH: There is something romantic about hold- did commission some research to see what we impersonator ing the images in your hand. In the digital could bring in but I felt the central story that I Caitlyn Jenner. in Skokie Dec. 26 world, it is so different. I don’t understand the wanted to tell was about the navigation of this PR photo Barbra Streisand impersonator Michelle technology driving it. There is something very situation in a marriage. Monet will present her one-woman show immediate about the tactile connection to the WCT: Did you consider a transgender per- “SHE, Streisand and ME, Monet,” at the material. son playing this role of Lili Elbe and Einar Jenner is ‘Most Skokie Theatre, 7924 Lincoln Ave., Skokie, on WCT: Were you ever intimidated directing Wegener? Saturday, Dec. 26, at 8 p.m. Helen Mirren? TH: When you sometimes read a script you Fascinating’ person The first act will be Monet transforming her- Barbara Walters has named transgender TH: Yes. I have never mentioned it before but put an actor in the character—and I imagined self into Streisand and sharing some of Strei- personality Caitlyn Jenner the “Most Fasci- I remember a day on Prime Suspect where I had Eddie in that very first read. That was seven sand’s chart-topping hits, including“People,” nating Person of 2015.” laid a track for the camera on the floor. Helen years ago and I had time to think about other “Don’t Rain on My Parade,” “The Way We Walters’ annual TV special, which aired Dec. came on set and I explained where she would options, but he remained my first and strong Were,” “Hello Dolly,” “Papa, Can You Hear 17 on ABC, also featured actress Amy Schum- be walking. She asked me why and I said, “Be- instinct. We collaborated before, with Elizabeth Me” and others. In the second act, Monet er, actor Bradley Cooper, comedian Tracy Mor- cause the track is here and we are shooting I, where he played a young earl who rebelled will go back to her roots as a guitar player gan, ballerina Misty Copeland, presidential around these columns.” She asked she couldn’t against her and was sentenced to death. The and singer/songwriter, and share some of her candidate Bernie Sanders, fashion designer just do the whole scene standing there by the raw emotional power he showed in that scene original songs with the audience. Donna Karan, fighter Ronda Rousey, Amazon window. It started an interesting process where where he was killed knocked me sideways. Tickets are $25 general admission; visit CEO Jeff Bezos and presidential candidate/ I thought it might be a better idea. In Les Miz again, he was so emotional. He is SkokieTheatre.org or call 847-677-7761. I learned that even when the actors walk into gifted. He almost has an emotional transpar- real-estate mogul Donald Trump. the room, you keep the plan to yourself and ency. I feel you can see through his skin almost 22 Dec. 23, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES it so now he gets a laugh out of it. from dancing because it was no longer easy for Georgia Engel. WCT: Talk about your character in Gotta me. I dance for over 50 years, but when Bob PR photo Dance. wrote such a delicious part it was worth all of GE: The character’s name is Dorothy/Dottie. the pain of doing it again. She is a kindergarten teacher. We find out in WCT: Isn’t that funny—how life has led the course of the show that she really loves you back to the dance world? hip-hop. It speaks to her because that is what GE: I know, and I started out wanting to be she sees her baby kids doing! She wants to a dancer! communicate with them. WCT: What are you working on after the WCT: Did you study any hip-hop artists? show? GE: No, but I have had plenty of wonderful GE: Oh my goodness. When you come into teachers both from the documentary and Nick Broadway, you can’t even think beyond it. You Kenkel, our associate choreographer. He’s been have to completely focus on that. These past teaching me. two years have so full, with John and Gotta WCT: Jerry Mitchell is doing well with these Dance, that I haven’t had a chance to think musicals, like Kinky Boots and On Your Feet, ahead. Even if they were the climax of my ca- so this new one may be even better. reer, what a way to go out! GE: He is so amazing. He takes a person’s I would love to be like my friend Betty White, part to show them the possibilities and we are but not that many people can do that. She is just howling. He knows the characters better raising the ceiling for all of us! than we do. Gotta Dance cuts a rug now through Jan. WCT: What is the theme of Gotta Dance? 17 at Bank of America Theatre, 18 W. Mon- GE: For me, this show is about overcoming roe St. Visit www.BroadwayInChicago.com or and not accepting limitations. I had retired call 800-775-2000 for tickets today.

Pride Tape unveiled The Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services at the University of Alberta (Faculty of Education) recently unveiled the Pride Tape. The tape, inspired by the six colors of pride and created by Calder Bateman Communications Ltd. (led by Creative Director Jeff McLean), is initially being manufactured for hockey, but will also be produced for other sports. When the tape is manufactured, profits from the sale will be split between the institute and NUNN ON ONE: THEATER the You Can Play Project, which has played a leading role in combatting homophobia in sports. The Kickstarter campaign will allow for an initial free distribution of rolls of Pride Tape to local teams across Canada and beyond. The tape will also go on sale to the public. See https://www. Still dancing with kickstarter.com/projects/252024940/pride-tape-hockey-tape-to-support-young-lgbtq-play. Georgia Engel

Pride Tape poster. Photo from the University of Alberta By Jerry Nunn for making world-class ballerinas. She offered me a scholarship to the school, with the under- Five-time Emmy Award nominee Georgia Engel standing that I would never be a ballerina; she is spending some time in the Windy City—and thought the dance training would be very help- we are privileged to have her. Discovered for ful to me. She wouldn’t let me be in the ballets television after a Broadway career, she played at night with my friends—she would send me Georgette Franklin Baxter on The Mary Tyler over to be in the musical comedies. At that age Moore Show for five years. Later, she received you want to fit in and be with everyone else, so critical praise and consecutive Emmy nomina- it was hard. In retrospect, I can see how kind tions on Everybody Loves Raymond and had a and wise she was to steer me in a direction recurring role on Hot in Cleveland. where I have more aptitude. She returned to the stage for the musical The WCT: That is what a great teacher does. Drowsy Chaperone, with Sutton Foster, and is With so many roles over the years, is there now rehearsing for a new musical. one that stands out? Gotta Dance is a brand-new show about pro- GE: This last summer I had a thrill of a life- fessional basketball’s first ever over-60 dance time being Annie Baker’s John. She wrote that team. The show not only stars Engel but Steph- for me. Anybody in the world can act better anie Powers from TV’s Hart to Hart, Andre De than I can, but she wrote this magical low-key Shields from The Wiz, and Lori Tan Chinn from character for me. When someone writes some- Netflix’s Orange is the New Black. The creative thing for you, it fits like a glove and is written team reunites the Kinky Boots’ dream team, to your strengths. including Tony Award winner Jerry Mitchell as [This year] and 2016 are really big years for director and choreographer. me because Bob Martin wrote this role in Gotta Windy City Times caught up with Engel re- Dance with me in mind. It wasn’t a guaran- cently at the theater where she is set to per- tee that I could do it like Annie’s was, but it form. worked out. Windy City Times: Hi, Georgia. First where WCT: Lois Smith from Steppenwolf was in did your interesting middle name, Bright, the John show. come from? GE: Yes, and Christopher Abbott. There was Georgia Engel: It’s a family name. also a young actress, Hong Chau, who was WCT: Did you always want to be an actress? starting her career and it was her first play. GE: I wanted to be a dancer, as a little girl. That is much like this show where the mature Trans exhibit at My dad was an admiral in the Coast Guard so we actors work with the very young actors. There moved all over the United States. I was born in is such a sense of giving back and forth. Columbia thru Feb. Washington, D.C. When I was going to public WCT: Did the younger members of the cast Columbia College Chicago’s Glass Curtain Gallery, 1104 S. Wabash Ave., presents “Bring Your high school, I tried out for a high school mu- ask for advice from the seasoned perform- Own Body: transgender between archives and aesthetics,” which is open through Feb. 13, 2016. sical. I was taking ballet class twice a week; ers? Jeanne Vaccaro and Stamatina Gregory are the curators, with Cooper Union organizing. I got the part that all of the little ballerinas GE: Yes; Colby Lewis did. He plays a cad of Taking its title from an unpublished manuscript by intersex pioneer Lynn Harris, the exhibit were trying out for. It wasn’t because I was a boyfriend to one of the cheerleaders. He asked historicizes the sexological and cultural imaginary of transgender through a curatorial explora- better dancer, but I just had a natural sense me for help with the timing of something. They tion of historical collections, including the Kinsey Archives. of comedy. were still working on his speech so I told him See Colum.edu/deps. The head of the school, Mary Day, is famous to be confident. The next day they sharpened WINDY CITY TIMES Dec. 23, 2015 23 VEHICLE REVIEW 2016 Lexus RX: Eye-catching, very safe and very gay BY SAM GOMEZ, GAYWHEELS.COM For all you size queens, that’s just enough to impress, take care of all your friends but still Some people get very uneasy when they hear make you rethink how you are going to get me call a car “gay”—as if somehow it’s a bad such girth in …. your garage. thing to be deemed festive and progressive. The interior is just as stunning and luxurious. Gay is Michael Sam. Gay is Barry Manilow. So Leather is everywhere, refinements abound, and given all that great company, you would think the styling is a combination of the Starship En- car companies would love being known as gay. terprise, the dash board of the Batmobile and In 2015, being gay is a badge of honor that is all the cool gadgets of The House of Tomor- not just handed out lightly, and Lexus knows row, as might have been on display at the 1964 this (and treasures it). World’s Fair in New York. And all this can come Thus, when I say a car is gay, congratula- to life when you get a Navigation package, tions. Many are called, some hide in the clos- which boasts a huge 12.3-inch display screen. et, but ultimately, few are chosen. Congrats, Try pinching that between your fingers. Lexus. Your all new 2016 RX is a very gay Admittedly, however, space inside is still a 2016 Lexus RX. car—and one of my first nominees for Gayest bit tight. At just 5-foot-10, I had to watch my Photo from Gaywheels Car of 2016. Please put that in your advertise- head as I got in and out. For those of you not ments aimed at all the Millennials who have overdosing on human growth hormones, you on the new RX is the Lexus Safety System Plus. car for the company. As with any major pur- childhood friends who are LGBT and still need should be fine. This is your ultimate safety package. It includes chase, do your research on the car before you a hug—and a car company that cares just as Like years past, the RX is available as a 350- a radar- and camera-based forward collision buy; not every auto geek in the Twitter-verse is much about them as their lifelong friends do. or a 450-hybrid, and each is available as an alert system with braking capabilities, which as gay-crazy about the RX, and those naysayers So what’s so “gay” about the 2016 RX? Ev- F-Sport, which is the snazzy sporty trim that means that you will not only not ram the car in may have some valid concerns. Still, go where erything. This car looks great and you will look makes the car just as much of a Speed Racer front of you, it can be programmed to keep you you wanna go and do what you wanna do, as great driving it. It’s all new for 2016, and the as your underwear. With the F-Sport, part of a safe distance away from the car in front at all the Mamas and the Papas (who?) used to sing. new exterior design is more aggressive than its power lies in how low it can ride, so with times. This package also has a lane keep assist And do it in style... just a year ago. The lines are sharper, the cor- Lexus’ Adaptive Variable Suspension, your ride function, radar cruise control, a 360-degree ...But have access to at least $45,000 in ners and turns are more pronounced, and you height can drop from the standard 8.2 inches camera system, a blind-spot monitor, rear cross credit handy, because that’s about how much can’t help but feel like you are driving a 21st- to 7.5 inches. That’s a loss of more than a half- traffic alert, and radar cruise control. Finally, a all this gay style will cost. Still, that’s a lot century Batmobile when you see that grille inch, and in this case, it will be noticeable on car that can drive for me while I rehearse my cheaper than a 400-square-foot flat near a pot coming down the street. Please note that the a night out, allowing you to go faster and go numbers for the night’s show…. shop in Denver. 2016 RX is also bigger: The wheel base has smoother. Hooray! One-third of all Lexus sales in the U.S. are for See more articles at Gaywheels.com. grown almost two inches to about nine feet. Perhaps the optional item I love the most an RX, so this is indeed an important flagship 24 Dec. 23, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES YEAR IN REVIEW Local sports: Anniversaries, passings and more By Ross Forman Chicago LGBT sports moments from 2015.

There was plenty of joy, jubilation and success Spiking success on the fields of play for Chicago’s LGBT sporting The team name is Poppers and at the annual world in 2015—and tears, too. Thirst Seattle NAGVA Championships 2015, it Chicagoans had strong showings in multiple was tops in the B division. sports on a national scene and further expand- This Chicago team of eight, plus a player from ed this city’s grip as a prominent force for gays Minneapolis, captured the championship out of who love to play sports. 39 teams, ultimately defeating a team called There’s an overflowing crowd of participants LAVO Killer B’s. and spectators on Friday nights along the The team featured Federico Roque, Guillermo beach for the multi-leveled beach volleyball (Memo) Madrigal, Mark Saavedra, Nathan Drap- league. Saturdays in the fall mean flag foot- er, Sean Alexander, Ronald Gonzales, Steven ball, with multiple divisions and games for men Acosta, Daniel Ibarra-Ramirez and Giovanni and women. Sundays in the spring and summer Parodi. mean softball, of course—with the predomi- “We retired the team name now that we no longer can play together since three of us were uprated,” after the championship, said Acosta. “Last year championships were in [Washing- Team Poppers. ton] D.C. [for the championship] and got sec- Photo from Steven Acosta ond place. We fought hard, but could not make it. So we came back this year and we really tained by Matt Simpson and Rich Aleong, ac- World Series (B Division). wanted to get first place.” complished Chicago’s best showing in any divi- 5. Chicago Dragons (rugby) have winning sion of Gay Bowl since 2006. season. Speedo run 6. Rachel Gore and Jamie Fornal arrive in Sure, the annual Santa Speedo Run-Boystown, Decade of success Chicago, lead Force (women’s tackle football held in early December, might not qualify as a The Chicago Rowing Union (CRU) celebrated team). true sport, but it certainly is entertaining, eye- its 10th anniversary in 2015—and has now 7. Chicago softball teams have overall suc- catching and benefitting a worthwhile cause. taught more than 200 people how to row, built cess at the Gay Softball World Series. Sidetrack hosted the event once again. an alumni base of more than 250 members from 8. Chicago Blaze capture second place in the “By all measures, the event exceeded our the LGBT community and its allies, participated annual Gay Bowl (flag football). goals for this unique and fun event,” said in more than 65 competitions (including six in- 9. Caitlyn Jenner speaks at Chicago House Sidetrack general manager Brad Balof. “We ternational events), and brought home numer- fundraiser. had [more than] 700 people participate in the ous medals including a gold medal at the 2014 10. Women’s softball team goes undefeat- event, [including more than] 200 runners, and Gay Games. ed, wins championship in CMSA Fall Softball a lot of holiday spirit. In 2015, with membership of about 60 ath- League. “It was a joy to be joined by the Chicago letes, CRU attended Midsommarfest in Ander- 11. Jack Neilsen steps down as commissioner Spirit Brigade to cheer on the scantily clad sonville, marched in the Chicago Gay Pride after eight years leading the CMSA open Sun- Dick Uyvari. guys and gals running through Boystown. The Parade, raised money for the Broadway Youth day softball league. Michael O. Rice named his Photo by Ross Forman costumes have gotten more creative and more Center as part of its Erg-a-thon, competed in successor. sexy over the last few years, and even if you seven regattas, and celebrated this milestone 12. CMSA Kickball has success on and off the nantly male Open Sunday Softball League and, weren’t a runner, or in a Speedo, there was a season with its 10th-anniversary gala at the field. about a mile away also played along the lake- lot to enjoy about the event. Swedish American Museum. 13. Sadness: Chicago mourns the passing of front, the women’s league. “The event organizers bring so much spirit “I’ve been a part of CRU from the very begin- Carl Sharp and Matt Snyder, among others. Pick a day and pick a sport, and you can and joy. When you listen to them talk about ning of both this team and of my rowing expe- 14. Santa Speedo Run-Boystown has its best probably play it in Chicago’s strong, ever-ex- what they do, it’s inspiring. I know that Center rience,” said CRU president Bill Moudry. “The event ever. panding LGBT sports scene. on Halsted is grateful for their amazing efforts sport has had a huge impact on my life not just 15. CMSA plays host to another success- Chicagoans in 2015 won volleyball champi- for this annual event,” as the Center benefits because of the physical and mental challenge ful flag-football tournament: Pride Bowl VIII onships, soccer titles and certainly boasted from the run. it provides, but also because of the incredible draws teams from across the United States for our city’s rank nationally on the softball field. Several Boystown businesses contribute to people I have met. In many ways CRU does the late June event. Chicagoans also in 2015 cried at the passing of the success of the Santa Speedo Run, donating same things that any other rowing team does, sporting friends, with three prominent deaths auction, drawing and prize packages, and more. which in itself is impressive; but what it does bringing the sporting world together to mourn The 2015 Santa Speedo Run, the fifth annual, differently is provide a gateway into this amaz- and console one another. brought in more than $42,000. ing sport for a segment of the community that Abby Wambach Richard M. “Dick” Uyvari, an integral part of The event’s top fundraisers were David Rob- may not have had the opportunity or inclina- Chicago’s gay sporting surge dating back to the erts, Adam Lang, Everett Moran and Alexander tion to participate in a team sport previously. plays last match 1970s, died Sept. 2. He was 71 and preceded in DeHilster who collectively brought in about “It’s been great to see the team grow and Abby Wambach has played her last pro- death by his longtime partner Joe LaPat, who $12,000. evolve, and I look forward to see what is next.” fessional soccer match. died in 2008. The event benefits the Center on Halsted’s Jill Manrique, who is the CRU vice president Wambach played in the United States’ Uyvari played a major role in the national new youth housing initiative. of operations, added, “As an ally to the LGBT friendly against China Dec. 16 in New Or- gay bowling movement, helping host the In- community, I am beyond proud to be a part of leans—and was honored with a pre-game ternational Gay Bowling Organization (IGBO) Winning ways this organization. I have always loved rowing, ceremony, Sports Illustrated reported. Fans chanted Wambach’s name throughout, and tournament in Chicago, and he played in most CMSA soccer captured first place at the San but being a part of CRU with its amazing ros- she was subbed off for Christen Press in the of their tournaments. Uyvari also competed Fransisco Folsom Tournament; Kyle Palmer was ter of teammates and friends has increased my 72nd minute to a standing ovation. in almost every Gay Games (winning a gold, a the team captain. CMSA soccer also finished love of this sport more than I thought possible. The 35-year-old Wambach, an out lesbi- bronze, and two silver medals as bowling team in second place at the IGLFA Madison North This team, this sport, this safe, fun, environ- an, finished with 255 international caps, a captain), and he helped run the bowling tour- American Championship, with John Rutka serv- ment is what being an athlete is all about. I record 184 international goals, a World Cup nament at Gay Games VII in Chicago in 2006. ing as the team captain. cannot wait to see what the future has in store title and two Olympic gold medals. CMSA kickball ended its sixth season in 2015, for CRU.” Uyvari and LaPat were key donors to the Gay The only down side of the Dec. 16 match Games in Chicago. with more than 10 teams and 170 players. The was the China prevailed 1-0; the U.S. had Top 15 Chicago LGBT sports Uyvari’s legacy within the predominantly league also gave back to the community by gone 104 home games (92-0-12) without moments from 2015 gay Chicago Metropolitan Sports Association participating in a paper good fundraiser for Gi- losing since falling to Denmark 11 years (CMSA) is long-lasting. He is a member of the gi’s Playhouse, which helps children and adults 1. Dick Uyvari passes away. ago. CMSA Hall of Fame and had been the organiza- with Down’s syndrome. 2. Poppers volleyball team captures first The Sports Illustrated article is at http:// tion’s president, secretary, or treasurer of more Kickball resumes in May. place at national championship. www.si.com/planet-futbol/2015/12/16/ than a dozen years. Uyvari also served on the The Chicago Blaze placed second in the “B” 3. CMSA Soccer wins first place in San Fran- abby-wambach-last-game-retiring-uswnt- boards of the Lincoln Park Lagooners and IGBO. division of the annual Flag Football Gay Bowl, cisco tournament. usa-china-friendly. Uyvari’s passing ranked first on the Top 15 this year held in San Diego. The team, cap- 4. Dragons finish second in the Gay Softball WINDY CITY TIMES Dec. 23, 2015 25

©2015 COORS BREWING COMPANY, GOLDEN, CO 26 Dec. 23, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES the DISH Weekly Dining Guide in nightspots WINDY CITY TIMES SAVOR the big Brunch at Above: Croque madame (left) and fruit plate at Cindy’s. TO-DO Cindy’s Photos by Andrew Davis OUR WEEKLY PICKS TO PLAN YOUR NIGHTLIFE CALENDAR BY ANDREW DAVIS had to wait for a ride—with a velvet rope separat- teas and mocktails.) ing the groups.) Another advantage is that half-orders for most Cindy’s (12 S. Michigan Ave.; CindysRooftop. My dining partner astutely pointed out reasons brunch items are available. We ended up getting com), situated at the top of the Chicago Athlet- for the relative quiet at Cindy’s, including the fact that size of the seasonal fruit, French toast and ic Association Hotel, has been one of the most that people check out of the hotel on Sundays croque Madame, and it was $50 total (three dishes buzzed-about restaurants in recent months, with and that the foot traffic (from tourists and Loop for $25 per person)—not bad at all. food critics discussing the restaurant’s views, cli- businesspeople alike) just isn’t there. As for the dishes themselves, they were cer- entele, food and even noise level. Depending on where one stands, the relative tainly solid. The French toast was pretty tasty— However, a recent Sunday visit for brunch lack of patrons is a shame or a boon. Those in the cinnamon-raisin brioche, caramelized pineapple, proved to be quite less noisy—almost tranquil latter camp can definitely appreciate stepping out Tahitian vanilla creme fraiche and barrel-aged ma- (quite a pleasant surprise). Of course, there were on to the balcony and taking in the spectacular ple syrup. The croque Madame (a combination of a few people lined up for the elevator. (A photo- views of Millennium Park and the lakefront—even brioche, Neuske’s smoked ham, gruyere, mornay, genic gentleman made sure those with reserva- when the day is cloudy, as it was when we visited. fried eggs and frisee salad) was also pretty good. tions where ushered into the lift, while walk-ins (It seemed that practically everyone Other brunch offerings (enough to warrant walked out to take advantage of the a return visit) include watercress salad, eggs warm weather, posing for photos.) Benedict, B.L.A.T. (bacon, bibb lettuce, avocado, Ho Ho House We were seated in one of those heirloom tomato, Japanese mayo) with fries, salt- large rocking sofas seen on porches and-pepper biscuits and pastries. Wed., Dec. 23, 10 pm across the country, and the seat I do recommend trying out brunch at Cindy’s. provided that aforementioned view. Just be sure you make a reservation to avoid that Berlin, 954 W. Belmont Ave. Get down to the groovy sounds of There was a little problem adjusting clubby velvet-rope feel. Derrick Carter, Lady D, Micahel Serafini ourselves to tackle the culinary fare, and DJ Pluto. Hosted by Claire Van but that was really a minor dilemma. Eijk and Scott Cramer. Come sit on The fare itself is substantial. Size The view from Cindy’s. Santa Jojo Baby’s lap. queens will love this place—Cindy’s serves platters that feed three to four people, as well as large plates. People may initially balk at paying $24 for French toast; however, think of the cost per person when everyone dives into the dish. (The drinks—and we ordered juice—were admittedly rela- tively miniscule, even compared to a glass of water. To its credit, though, this place has an intoxicating (pun intended) mix of “sunrise potions,”

Nice and Naughty

Thu., Dec. 24 Touche, 6412 N. Clark St. A Christmas Eve party for nice and naughty boys. Get your gifts or spankings from Santa. Free photos with the big guy. Special holiday drinks and eggnog.

Roscoe’s Yooo-Hoooo!! Revue

Tue., Dec. 29, 8 pm Roscoe’s, 3356 N. Halsted St. Celebrate seven seasons of RuPaul’s Drag Race with Shannel, Raven, Manila Luzon, Sharon Needles, Roxxxy BERLIN SIDETRACK Andrews, Courtney Act and Trixie Mattel. Post-vogue For Tots, Thu., December 17. Broadway Cares benefit, Mon., December 14. Photo of Mattel by Kirk Williamson Photos by Kirk Williamson Photos by Jerry Nunn WINDY CITY TIMES Dec. 23, 2015 27 Billy Masters

“No one forces me to lose weight. I force them to force me.”—Carrie Fisher clarifies exactly who forced who to lose what. Alas, her weight loss meant scrapping the scenes where it’s re- vealed that Princess Leia’s real father is actually Jabba the Hutt! Another member of our tribe is using his power to help get Hillary Clinton elected. Ricky Martin proclaimed Hillary is “a Latina at heart” as he launched the “LGBT for Hillary” group. Supporters can join for a minimum donation of $1 by simply texting the word “RICKY” to 47246. I’m guessing Ricky will be seeing those texts, so feel free to send any hot selfies to Ricky Martin is getting political. that number, as well. Since we should provide equal time, a former SeaWorld employee has started a rival group to the powerhouse vocalist, prepare to have called “Gays for Trump.” Admittedly, it’s a small your socks blown off. With songs written by group. Kyle Kittleson says, “Long before Hill- Bruce Springsteen, Joan Jett, Elvis Costello, ary Clinton supported equal marriage and gay and more, this is a collection not to be missed. rights, Donald Trump supported equal rights If you’d like more than your socks to be for everybody. Granted he didn’t want it to be blown, check out the new CD from the sing- called marriage, but he did advocate for unions ing string quartet Well-Strung. These boys with legal equal rights.” From my cursory re- are a few of my favorite things, and they have view of Trump’s LGBT track record, it seems he’s released a collection of pop/classical combos made conflicting statements about gay unions. called POPssicle—get it? Pop and classical. Oh, But, I’m sure he’s got lots of gay friends—Me- they’re not only sexy and talented—they’re lania’s makeup artist, his hairdresser, all of clever! And did I mention they’re sexy? You can Ivanka’s friends, etc. buy their CD and find out when you can see Months can go by without a Margaret Cho them in person at Well-Strung.com. item. But this week, we’ve got THREE! Let’s If you want something to stuff your own start with the one I told you about months ago stocking, look no further than our very own (hmmm, I’m sensing a trend)—E! announced Matt Dallas. He’s starring in a Web series that Cho will be a permanent co-host on Fash- called Anne and Jake, about an inventor in ion Police. Her duties begin when the show re- 2014 who is inspired by Back to the Future and turns to the air Jan. 11 for the Golden Globes brings a woman from 19th-century England to recap. the present time. Think of it as Downton Abbey She’s also signed a deal with Amazon to re- meets The Time Traveler’s Wife—alas, without turn to series television. In Highland, her char- Eric Bana. Still, I’m always happy to see Dallas acter is a former addict who leaves rehab and and his schlong in some snug briefs. You can moves in with her family, who happens to be check out the fully packed footage on Billy- running a pot dispensary. Presumably, hilarity Masters.com. (and munchies) will ensue. This brings us to the case of the missing Lastly, Cho is taking aim at the Absolutely foreskin. Eagle-eyed fans of actor Max Riemelt Fabulous movie, slated to be released July 1. (Hands? Anyone?) noticed a difference be- Her problem is with a character described as tween his nude scene in the film Freier Fall and a Japanese fashion designer named Huki Muki. in the Netflix series Sense8. I know some of The role is being played by a Caucasian actress, you are wondering, “I’ve never heard of any of and Cho is outraged, saying: “#YELLOWFACE these things.” Be that as it may, Max plays a is racism. Sorry. It’s unacceptable. Not now. I gay cop in the film. In his shower scene, he is was thrilled about the @abfabmovie but now obviously uncircumcised. But in a nude scene I just can’t be. I’m very disappointed. It’s hard from the series, he appears to be circumcised. enough to get into film and TV as a person of In my expert opinion, he is still uncircumcised color—and when roles written for us are played but just somewhat aroused, which gives the il- by white actors—it’s an outrage.” Of course, lusion of being cut. Others say he may have the film was written byJennifer Saunders, gotten circumcised to land the role, but I be- who presumably had a hand in the casting. It’s lieve that’s only a stipulation to be cast on possible that having a Caucasian designer with Dancing with the Stars. Whatever the reason, a Japanese name (and perhaps raised in Japan) you can see the results on BillyMasters.com. may actually be the joke. Let’s end with a nude Brit. Our “Ask Billy” In television news, Netflix has announced question this week comes from Tony in San plans for a third season of Grace and Frankie. Francisco: “I heard that Ben Hardy did a play The Lily Tomlin/Jane Fonda series has already in London where he was completely nude and filmed a second season, which will be released was enormous. Do you have any photos?” at the beginning of 2016. Ben Hardy, best known for EastEnders, did Netflix has clearly figured out what works for the 2012 West End revival of The Judas Kiss, them—projects with old ladies. So, they’ve put which also starred Rupert Everett. If he looked up the money for an original movie that will impressive onstage, there’s a good reason. In star Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler and Diane an interview with Attitude magazine, he said, Keaton. Nope, it’s not a sequel to The First “I was fluffing myself in the bathroom before.” Wives Club. This new film, Divanation, is about To see the sizable results, check out BillyMas- members of an old girl group who reunite after ters.com. 30 years. Think of it as These Old Broads meets When a hot guy in a play with Rupert Everett Josie and the Pussycats. has to fluff himself, it’s definitely time to end That’s a perfect segue into my last install- yet another column. While I check to see if ment of “Billy’s Holiday Gift Giving Sugges- hell has frozen over, you can check out www. tions.” This time, we’re focusing on the gift of BillyMasters.com, the site that will also turn music. What could be better than celebrating up the heat. If you have a question, you best the holidays with Darlene Love? The perennial send it along to [email protected], and I CREW David Letterman favorite has released her first promise to get back to you before Ricky Martin solo CD in years, ironically titled Introducing returns my text. Until next time, remember, one High sticking at CGHA’s annual holiday party, Wed., December 16. Darlene Love. In case this is your first exposure man’s filth is another man’s bible. Photos by Kyle Henderson 28 Dec. 23, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES CLEANING SERVICES HELP WANTED SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS CHESTNUT CLEANING SERVICES: We’re a house clean- ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRITS WANTED. Achieve Person- ARE YOU INTELLECTUALLY GIFTED? Are you interested CLASSIFIEDS ing service for homes, small businesses and small al & Financial FREEDOM. Help us help you help oth- in meeting other LGBTs like you? Come join the LGBT ADVERTISE HERE buildings. We also have fabulous organizational skills ers. It’s what we do. Earn while you learn to invest and Allies Special Interest Group in Chicago Area Men- ADVERTISE HERE: Want to advertise your product, (a separate function at a separate cost that utilizes VERY PROFITABLY in Real Estate. For a brief online sa. To inquire, contact [email protected]. service, etc. to thousands of readers? Place an your assistance) for what hasn’t been cleaned in many overview, call or text your name to 708-292-8778. org. (4/20/16-52) ad in the Windy City Times! We offer affordable months or years due to long-term illness, depression, (12/30/15-8) rates, convenient service, and as a bonus, your physical/mental challenges, for the elderly, if you HIRING: PATRON SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE. The WINDOW TREATMENTS ad runs in our online section for free. To place have downsized and more. Depressed about going Leather Archives & Museum is looking for a qualified WONDERING WHAT TO DO WITH THOSE WINDOWS?: an ad, contact Terri at 773-871-7610 ex 101, home to chaos? We can organize your chaos, straight- candidate who will assist museum patrons and operate Call me! I take care of it all from design through [email protected], or go to our en out your chaos, help you make sense of your chaos the museum store as well as perform other administra- installation, customizing to your needs. JOSEPH RICE website http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/ and finally clean what is no longer chaos. Can we help tive tasks at the LA&M. Apply ONLINE ONLY www. Interiors, Inc. Full Decorating Services with a specialty placeaclassified.php. you? Bonded and insured. Chestnut Cleaning Ser- leatherarchives.org/nowhiring.html (12/23/15-3) in window treatments for over 25 years. 773-799- vice: 312-332-5575. www.ChestnutCleaning.com 8707. www.JosephRiceInteriors.com (3/9/16-13) ADULT MALE ENTERTAINMENT (11/23/16-52) HOME IMPROVEMENT & PAINTING BORED?? WE HAVE THE SOLUTION! Check out MAKE YOUR HOME LOOK FABULOUS! We do Bathroom www.gayflicks.com. Buy DVDs, Stream Gay Movies, DESIGNER FURNITURE Remodeling, Carpentry, Drywall Repairs, Painting and Download them or just Pay Per Minute and watch only KNOLL, HERMAN MILLER, ARTEMIDE ETC Pop-Up more. “A+” with BBB. Licensed-Bonded-Insured, One REAL ESTATE the scenes you want to! You will love these xxx gay Store located 2130 N. Halsted, Chicago has slightly year Warranty. Free Estimates! Andy OnCall 847-328- movies. WWW.GAYFLICKS.COM (1/6/15-4) loved (okay - used yet in good to excellent condition) 3100 www.andyoncallchicago.com (12/16/16-56) ONE BEDROOM APTS FOR RENT Knoll Brno chairs in many colors, large quantity. Also EDGEWATER COMMUTER ADVANTAGE. Walk to beach, Knoll Vignelli designed Handkerchief stacking chairs, ANTIQUES MASSAGE red line, bus and shops. large kitchen with pantry various Herman Miller seating, & unique cocktail/ MASSAGE FIRST-CLASS ASIAN MALE MASSEUR. Lon- and dining room. Big bedroom with unique and large reception/side tables. Artemide Tolomeo’s used for don-trained and qualified. Over 25 years of worldwide ZURKO ANTIQUE EVENTS closets. $925 with heat. Plus laundry, video intercom, $50.00 in various condition. lights.chairs@gmail. experience and 100% attuned to your needs. Satisfac- patio and storage. Call 773-275-3216 (12/30/15-4) ANTIQUE FLEA MARKET com. Cash/Credit cards only. Open Weekends or tion assured. Please call Dennis at 773-248-9407 Sunday, Dec 27 by appointment during week. Designers welcome! (12/16/15-15) TWO BEDROOM APTS FOR RENT (12/23/15-2) 8am - 3pm/$5 EDGEWATER COMMUTER ADVANTAGE. Walk to beach, County Farm & Manchester RELIGIOUS SERVICES red line, bus and shops. Awesome living room with Dupage County Fairgrounds FIREWOOD lots of windows. Big kitchen with pantry. $1500 with Wheaton, IL heat. Plus laundry, video intercom, patio and storage. Vendors Welcome GOOD WOOD Call 773-275-3216 (12/30/15-4) 1ST & 3RD FLOOR Sunny Apartments near Pratt & $1 OFF WITH THIS AD FIREWOOD Ridge. Close to Metra, shopping, park, golf course. ZURKO / 715-526-9763 30 Years Experience $1150. Interested? Call Mal 312-320-0030 (1/13/16- 8) www.ZurkoPromotions.com PREMIUM SEASONED FIREWOOD Oak • Apple • Cherry • Birch HOUSE FOR RENT DEERFIELD SINGLE FAMILY HOME 4 RENT Great little BOOKKEEPER AVAILABLE No Criss Cross house (900+sqft) available to rent now. WALK to train, QUICKBOOK BOOKKEEPER AVAILABLE. Accounts No Tree Service Wood grocery, & suburban amenities. Detached garage, Payable/Accounts Receivable, Invoicing, Collections, HUGE yard, newly refinished wood floors + new floor- Time Tracking, Bank & Credit card reconciliations, Fi- 773-975-0251 ing in kitchen, mudroom, & bath, w/d in unit, newer nancial Statements, Journal Entry, Reports for accoun- www.goodwoodfirewood.com refrig & stove, central a/c, & in an awesome neigh- tants for year-end and Much More! www.rockstarbooks. borhood. $2020 / month + utilities. Addl $25/month webs.com for pet fee. For appt, please call: 847-607-9365 (lv msg if no answer) (12/23/15-1)

BOOK REVIEW and often woke up in the arms and homes of with Mama Jean is ultimately like so many oth- strangers. er moms: an exasperating reason for eye-rolls Dangerous When His boyfriend knew what was going on. to their children, but adorable to others. Brickhouse hoped Mama Jean never would… The small bit of humor lies with her antics, Wet: A Memoir For some reason, I’ve been awash in mother- at any rate. The alcoholism, the blackouts, the by Jamie Brickhouse and-gay-son memoirs lately. Dangerous When promiscuity—not so much. $25.99; St. Martin’s Wet is the newest one, and only a little differ- I do think this book is worth a try. I enjoyed Press; 288 pages ent than the others. it enough, but if you’re drowning in similar by TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER Don’t get me wrong: This wasn’t a bad book, memoirs, too, you could just as easily skip it. but it doesn’t really stand out a lot. Author “Dangerous When Wet” isn’t the worst book of Mother knows best. Brickhouse is a funny guy, but I would say this genre, but it’s not the best, either. Long before you were old enough to com- that charm is more prevalent in this book than Want more? Look for Bettyville, by George plain, for instance, she knew when you were laughs. That may be, perhaps, because his Hodgman, or Kevin Sessums’ Mississippi Sissy. uncomfortable or ailing and she fixed it. She thumb-sucking, profane, force-to-be-reckoned- told you to ignore detractors. She helped you follow your heart. She reminded you to take a sweater. Mom always knew best—except, as in Jamie Brickhouse’s new memoir Dangerous When Wet, when her counsel could derail your life. Brickhouse “had no business being a child.” Then again, he never was a child, really. Starting at age 5 (an age his mother wished she could freeze him, Peter Pan-style), he was his Mama Jean’s sounding board, fashion advi- By junior high, he realized that he was, too, sor and cheering squad. He recalls the fascina- but since Mama Jean had had a fit when Brick- tion of seeing her put on make-up; his days house’s older gay brother came out and had were spent watching her sew and going to offered a psychiatrist to Brickhouse if he was downtown Beaumont, Texas, to shop and visit “like that,” Brickhouse denied his sexuality. the beauty parlor. He also dimly recalls his first Years later, he also denied his HIV status to drink at age five. her, just like he denied his alcoholism. Although his mother warned him that oth- From the time he was a toddler, Brickhouse ers would never love him like she did, his first had had an obsession with sex. His love of grade teacher came close. Brickhouse adored drink also came early and the two intersected that woman who shared school gossip with him when he went to college. Even after he found and invited him into her home. Later, after a the love of his life, he couldn’t let go of either THE BATON SHOW LOUNGE playground friend became his “first boyfriend,” vice: many nights after work as a book publi- that same teacher warned Brickhouse that the cist, he drank until he could barely function Happy Holidays from The Baton! boy was a “sissy.” Photo by Tracy Baim WINDY CITY TIMES Dec. 23, 2015 29 CONNEXIONS MAKE IT YOUR BUSINESS i l

Alan Sanchez, CPA, P.C. o Accounting Services i 25% OFF Tax Consultation/Preparation 312-855-0875 | 221 N. LaSalle St., Chicago, IL l Custom Framing [email protected] o 24/7 Emergency Phone : 847-309-7777 3418 North Sheffield Ave. • State & Federal Courts • Weapon & Gun Charges • Felonies & Misdemeanors Chicago, IL 60657-8589 • Internet & White-Collar Crime • Drunk Driving • All Drug Charges • Orders of Protection CUSTOM FRAMING • Expungements Telephone 773-871-1256 www.alansanchezcpa.com Framing Chicago’s art since 1991. Speak to an experienced HAPPY HOLIDAYS! attorney within minutes who 1478 W. Berwyn - 773.784.3962

Get the REAL ESTATE Edge! LAURENCE A. JACOBS, M.D. Mark Zipperer / RE/MAX Edge Building Your LGBT Family Family Law See Dr. Jacobs for all your infertility needs, including: • Buyers • complete evaluations Donald B. Boyd, Jr. • Sellers • inseminations • ivF • RecipRocal ivF • suRRogacy • Pre-Marital Agreements • • Rentals LGBT Issues • Divorce/Wills/Trusts • Real Estate Closings • Consulting Custody Violation • Child Support For a consultation, call • Advice 847-549-3746 Free Initial Consultation RE/MAX is a worldwide leader in selling real estate. Offices are locally Sat & Sun appointments available. owned and operated by Brokers who are experts in their markets. The 708-848-1005 combination of global resources and locally expertise gives clients of 113 South Marion St., Ste. 100, Oak Park, Ill., 60302 RE/MAX agents the EDGE they need to buy, sell or rent their homes. RainbowReproduction.com Evening & Weekend Appointments Available 773.435.1601 / [email protected] The first and best website devoted to Major Credit Cards Accepted 3843 N. Broadway, Chicago, IL, 60613 Providing All Fertility Options for www.chicagorealestateedge.com Building Your LGBT Family www.BoydDivorce.com

We Bring the Showroom To You® Helping our clients with: Flooring Projects including Wood, Laminate, Carpet, Vinyl and Tile. Window Covering Projects from Shades to Family Owned & Operated Since 1965 Shutters to Draperies. 24-Hour Emergency Service We Service ALL Makes & Models • Residential • Service Schedule a Free Estimate • Commercial • Installation Charles Jones Mention this ad for (773) 935-8700 a 20% discount • Industrial • Sales (773) 915-3271 Cell/Text 2014 Angie’s List [email protected] Super Service Award Find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/AAService 847-729-7889 www.nfwchicago.com Gay owned and operated www.AAServiceCo.com 1435 W. Rosemont Ave, #1W , Chicago, IL, 60660 Chicago small business since 2007 550 Anthony Trail, Northbrook, IL

The Law Offices of Ray J. Koenig III and Clark Hill PLC Roger V. McCaffrey-Boss & Associates When experience counts... • Probate In service to the community • Trusts for over 35 years. • Guardianship • Bankruptcy • Estate Planning • Wills, Trusts & Probate • Elder Law • Real Estate Closings Clark Hill is an entrepreneurial, full service law firm that provides business legal services, government & public affairs, and personal • Premarital Agreements legal services to our clients throughout the country. With offices in Arizona, Delaware, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C. and West Virginia, Clark Hill has more than 300 33 N. Dearborn St., Suite 800, Chicago, IL 60602 attorneys and professionals. 312-263-8800 [email protected] 312.985.5938 [email protected] We are a debt relief agency. clarkhill.com We help people file for bankruptcy relief under the bankruptcy code. 30 Dec. 23, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES

Monthly passes: $30 6:00pm - 9:00pm Kiss Kiss Cabaret, Chicago Magic Lounge, Wed., Jan. 6 COMMUNITY Center on Halsted 3656 N Halsted Chi- Muffy Fishbasket, Boy Toy’s Pocket Cabaret Free HIV/AIDS testing at Affinity Com- cago http://www.centeronhalsted.org/ and other special guests on two stages. munity Services Affinity is a social jus- newevents-details.cfm?ID=10342 Red-carpet welcome and complementary tice organization that focuses on health CALENDAR cocktail ands hors d’oeuvres. Full service and wellness, leadership development, and Tuesday, Dec. 29 bar featuring New Year’s Eve drink specials community building for Black lesbian, bi- Registration for GED Classes Spring session and a dessert buffet. Flapper Girl Sins and sexual, and transgender women and LGBTQ Wed., Dec. 23 runs Jan 11, 2016 - May 7, 2016, Tuesdays her Jazz Ensemble till 2 am. 8:00pm Up- youth of African descent in the Chicago Genderqueer Chicago A grassroots group and Thursdays from 12 pm - 4 pm at the town Underground, 4707 N. Broadway St., metropolitan area. 1:00pm - 3:00pm Af- that works to create safe spaces for every- Center on Halsted. Spring registration will Chicago http://www.UptownUnderground. finity Community Services 1424 E. 53rd St. one to talk about, think about, explore and run through Jan 9, 2016 on Tuesdays and net Suite 306 Chicago 773-324-0377 http:// express gender. 7:00pm - 8:15pm Center Thursdays from 12 pm - 4 pm. If you are www.affinity95.org on Halsted 3656 N Halsted St. ‘TIS coming to register, please plan on staying Saturday, Jan. 2 Brass Chuckles Comedy: Comedy that Kicks up to 3 hours for assessment testing. Class Depression & Bipolar Support Alliance Ass Hosted by Tamale Rocks. Each Wednes- Thursday, Dec. 24 free and Center on Halsted will cover the (LGBTQ) Support meeting to talk about day comedians performing stand-up and Open Gym Volleyball Every Monday and THE price of the test ($120). For more infor- illnesses, symptoms, treatment, doc- improv based on a nightly “Performer Chal- Thursday for 18 and over. All gender and mation, email [email protected] tors, and personal issues such as dating, lenge.” After the mainstage show, there is experience levels welcome. Daily passes: or call 773.472.6469 ext. 494. 12:00pm - relationships and work. Every Saturday. an open-mic opportunity where anything $7; Monthly passes: $30 6:00pm - 9:00pm SEASON 4:00pm Center on Halsted 3656 N Halst- 11:00am - 12:30pm Center on Halsted is fair game. $10 9:00pm Uptown Under- Center on Halsted 3656 N Halsted Chicago ed Chicago http://www.centeronhalsted. 3656 N Halsted Chicago http://dbsa-glbt- ground, 4707 N. Broadway, Chicago http://www.centeronhalsted.org org/newevents-details.cfm?ID=10286 chicago.com 2nd Annual Feed The Homeless Event At 74th annual Christmas Around the World Thursday, Jan. 7 last year’s event, La Ciudad was able to Wed., Dec. 30 and Holidays of Light Fifty trees and dis- 15th anniversary Chicago Sketch Comedy feed over 100 homeless men, women, Through Game Night Bring yourself, some friends, plays beautifully decorated by volunteers Festival Largest festival of its kind in the and children of the Chicagoland area. La and a board game to share. There is a from Chicago’s ethnic communities to re- world, attracting over 1,000 artists, in- Ciudad is accepting sponsors and donors Jan. 1 TV available for anyone who prefers vid- flect their diverse culture and holiday cus- cluding GayCo annually. Through Jan. 17. for this annual event. Monetary, goods, eo games. Just bring your own system, toms. Santa Claus on weekends. Through All-fest passes $115 before Dec. 31. Day and service donations are all welcome and games, controllers, etc. This event is free Jan. 3, 2016 9:30pm - 4:00pm Museum passes $37-$57. Time:TBA Stage 773 needed. 12:00pm - 3:00pm La Ciudad and open to people of all ages. 6:00pm - of Science and Industry 5700 S Lake Shore 1225 W Belmont Chicago 773-327-5252 9:00pm Gerber Hart Library and Archives Dr. Chicago http://msichicago.org Mexican Café and Grill, 4515 N. Sheridan Happy holidays! Tickets: http://www.ChicagoSketchfest. Rd., Chicago 773-728-2887 http://www. 6500 N Clark St Chicago com laciudadgrill.com L Lounge A safe place where Lesbians can Sunday, Jan. 3 connect to each other as a community The Family of Women Book Group This Friday, Jan. 8 Friday, Dec. 25 in a friendly, helpful environment. Free. group reads fiction and non-fiction ex- 50 States of Gay in the ‘burbs for one Ugly Sweater Brunch Bottomless seasonal 6:30pm - 9:00pm Center on Halsted ploring women’s familial relationships. Grand Ballroom, 6351 S. Cottage Grove St., night only Best-of scenes from GayCo’s cranberry mimosas for $20 and a full 3656 N Halsted Chicago http://www. The group meets the first Sunday of each Chicago 773-707-2448 fall revue featuring eight of the 50 states, brunch menu, with a few surprise seasonal centeronhalsted.org/newevents-details. month at 2 p.m. 2:00pm Women & Chil- bondaged to some oldies from GayCo’s al- Christmas dishes and cocktails 9:00am - Monday, Dec. 28 cfm?ID=9899 dren First Bookstore 5233 N Clark St Chi- most two decades. $25 GayCo’s fall revue 3:00pm AMK Kitchen Bar, 1954 W. Ar- Genderqueer Chicago A grassroots group cago http://www.womenandchildrenfirst. Transworks Peer leaders run a job program featured a random state of the USA each mitage that works to create safe spaces for com/familyofwomen for gender non-conforming community week, so whether you missed 1 show or all people to talk about, think about, ex- Domesticated Funny, unpredictable play members in the John Baran Cyber Cen- 8, you are sure to see something new from Saturday, Dec. 26 plore and express gender. Free. 7:00pm about a marriage burst apart by a sex scan- ter. Walk-ins welcome. Free. 12:00pm - as west as Hawaii to as east as Massachu- 1st Annual LGBT Winter Ball Taz, Kaystart - 8:15pm Center on Halsted 3656 N Hal- dal investigates gender politics, modern 2:00pm Center on Halsted 3656 N Halst- setts. 8:00pm Metropolis Performing Arts and Ms B of Rainbow City Takeover re- sted Chicago https://www.facebook.com/ marriage and the sexual mysteries of the ed Chicago http://www.centeronhalsted. Centre, 111 W. Campbell, Arlington Heights loaded present DJ Found 4 Found in the groups/75187866592/ animal kingdom. Through Feb. 7. 3:00pm org/newevents-details.cfm?ID=10386 847-577-2121 Mix. Free street parking. 21+ $10 advance, Steppenwolf 1650 N Halsted Chicago Open Gym Volleyball Every Monday and $15 door. $25 group tables, $20 dinner Thursday, Dec. 31 Tickets: http://www.steppenwolf.org Thursday. Age 18+. All gender and expe- includes entry. 10:00pm - 4:00am The New Year’s Eve Hullabaloo New Year’s Eve rience levels welcome. Daily passes: $7; Hullabaloo. T-hour performance by The HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM WE HEART PETS! A special thanks to everyone who submitted pet photos for this year’s installment. May you enjoy the warmth and companionship of your pets this holiday season.

Meister Teva

Maci

Yager Lola

Lola Duke

Blackhawk Bowie & Topo Lucky

Lola Simon

Olivia

Sophie WINDY CITY TIMES Dec. 23, 2015 31 Want to look FABULOUS for the holidays?

Botox $16 per unit Dermal Fillers $750 per syringe Mention now through January 2016 WINDY All injections performed by a board-certified surgeon CITY TIMES Shifrin Plastic Surgery 680 North Lake Shore Drive #1425 312-590-3572 www.davidshifrinmd.com

all injections performed by a board certiﬁedSheilasurgeon Shifrin DO Board Certified Oculoplastic Surgeon Specialist in Eyelid, Midface and Brow Rejuvenation with Surgery, Botox and Fillers

Mention Discover what others know ... WINDY CITY TIMES and get $500 off liposuction through January 2016.

Award-Winning Plastic Surgery Member DR. DAVID SHIFRIN Board-Certified Plastic Surgeon CHICAGO • 312.590.3572 680 N. Lake Shore Dr. www.davidshifrinmd.com 32 Dec. 23, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES

mbusa.com/GLC

The new power couple. Introducing the all-new Mercedes-Benz GLC.