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View Entire Issue As SHAKESPEARE STRIPPED American Players Theater presents two plays that invite questions about Shakespeare, the man and the playwright. Page 23 THE VOICE OF PROGRESS FOR WISCONSIn’S LGBT COMMUNITY August 23, 2012 | Vol. 3, No. 21 Convention countdown The sound of violence Activists prep for political parties’ parties By Lisa Neff Staff writer The coming month brings two national events promising pageantry, drama, glamour, humor and folksy homages. These aren’t awards shows – the celebri- ties, for the most part, will be political stars, and the ultimate prizes are party nomina- tions for the presidency. The Republican National Convention ronek takes place Aug. 27-30 in Tampa, Fla. The G Democratic National Convention takes place Sept. 4-6 in Charlotte, N.C. Both conventions are crucial to rallying the party bases going into the final two months of a close contest for the White House. With 270 electoral votes needed to win, Obama has 217 solid votes and Romney has 206. Battleground states include Wiscon- sin, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Nevada, New Hampshire, Iowa, Florida and Colorado. In both Tampa and Charlotte, host com- mittees are busy making sure the venues Laura by Photo Illustration are ready – outfitted and secured for an estimated 50,000 delegates, politicians, staff, press and activists. But host police depart- ments are also preparing for the thousands more who are planning to rally, parade and protest as part of the Tea Party and Occupy Sikh shooter a product of Wall Street movements, while party com- mittees are firming up credentials, caucus meetings, draft platforms and speakers. shadowy ‘hatecore’ music scene IN TAMpa Official Republican National Conven- tion plans include a kick-off party at Tropi- By Louis Weisberg supremacist group. Around the ing in Web forums, many of names of hatecore bands tell cana Field in St. Petersburg, the nomination Staff writer time that shooter Wade Michael the world’s white suprema- their story: Aggravated Assault, PARTIES page 16 When Arno Michaels learned Page joined the movement, cists employe a louder out- Angry Aryans, Attack, Definite that the shooter at Oak Creek’s Michaels was actively recruiting let for their views: thunder- Hate, Final Solution, Force Fed Sikh temple was a white in the Milwaukee area. ous, thrashing heavy metal or Hate, Fueled by Hate, Hate Ryan has supremacist, he lay “awake that Eventually Michaels learned hardcore punk music known as Crime, Jew Slaughter and White night wondering if it was some- that Page lived in North Caro- “hatecore,” with violent lyrics Terror. nearly one I recruited,” he said. lina at that time, which was that call for a race war. Hate music has also emerged perfect It was a plausible fear. Michaels the early 1990s. Initially, he was Hatecore bands echo the in the country and folk music is a former white-power skin- relieved, “but then it came out sounds of death metal and hard- genres. But it’s the crashing, anti-gay head who helped found the that he was in (white power) core punk, with amplified, atonal death-metal style that seems record Northern Hammerskins, part of bands,” Michaels said. guitar riffs, blast-beat drum- best suited to the message and page 4 the nation’s predominant white When they aren’t rant- ming and screeching vocals. The HATE page 12 2 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | August 23, 2012 News with a twist WiGWAG By Lisa Neff & Louis Weisberg MORE PUBLIC to keep everyone else from doing so let the public know of Beautifulpeople, which recently UNderwear giving them business.” Appar- his orientation. launched lesbian and gay dating An Oregon priest ently Perry is drinking his Star- sites, wanted to put up a mar- has apologized and bucks and eating his Cheerios, PILL PROBLEM riage equality billboard in Florida, said he was drunk when unaware of right-wing boycotts. An evangelical Christian pas- near the site of the Republi- he was caught on the street tor tried to commit suicide in can National Convention. Turned in his underwear trying to chase POSITIVE a Florida courtroom moments down, the ads went up on mobile down a 12-year-old boy he had DEVELOPMENT after a jury found him guilty billboards in New York City. just molested. The Archdiocese A public charter school in of felony sex crimes involving a of Portland has said it will pay Delhi, La., has dropped its policy 15-year-old boy. The Rev. James ODD DETOUR for the priest’s criminal defense that allowed administrators to Harris, 64, formerly the pastor Someone recently hacked a even though it was the first in the require tests for female students of Belle Glade’s Second Baptist construction sign in Provo, Utah, nation to declare bankruptcy in suspected of being pregnant and Church, stuffed several pills in his to make it flash the phrase “God 2004, just hours before two civil for the expulsion of students mouth and tried to swallow them Hates Gays,” alternating with the trials on sex abuse allegations who become pregnant. The before West Palm Beach court- phrase, “Follow Detour.” Provo is were to begin. school rescinded the policy at room deputies ordered him to where prominent Mormon college the urging of the American Civil spit them out. Harris was previ- Brigham Young University is located. PERRY POOH-POOHS Liberties Union. The measure ously arrested in March 2009 for PHOTO: FACEBOOK PC-NESS also had opponents on all sides aggravated assault after attacking PAIN IN THE ASS Texas Gov. Rick Perry, talking of the abortion issue. a woman with a baseball bat at Anal tattoos were the all the LIKE A statUE to a politically charged group of the Belle Glade Elks Club. buzz at the 17th annual Florida Wearing designer underwear, conservatives in Iowa recently, IdahO Tattoo Expo, held at a Coral David Beckham is making appear- said, “political correctness has to DOUBLE OUTING DIVERSE BEAUTY Springs convention center last ances around New York City – in stop.” He was referring to the An Idaho Democrat has taken BeautifulPeople.com, a dating weekend. A young woman was the form of 10-foot-tall metallic protests against anti-gay Chick- himself out of the race for the website “exclusively for beautiful the subject of a demonstration, statues, that is. The massive sculp- fil-A, saying that when CEO Dan state House. The decision comes people,” is celebrating diversity her butt pertly in the air as a tat- tures have gone up as part of a Cathy defended “the sanctity of after a party colleague acci- and the freedom to marry with too artist inked her. Spectators promotion for the soccer player’s marriage, the left went nuts.” The dentally outed Nate Murphy of an ad campaign featuring two ambled by, gawking and express- new line for H&M. In addition to former presidential candidate Pocatello as a bisexual. Idaho faux same-sex weddings – that of ing opinions. The model told NYC, there are also two statues said when conservatives dislike Sen. Nicole LeFavour of Boise Mitt Romney and Donald Trump passersby that she had two boy- in Los Angeles and one in San a corporate policy, “we simply had told a newspaper that she and that of Michele Bachmann friends’ names already inscribed Francisco. They’ll remain on dis- choose not to give them our was happy that Murphy would and Sarah Palin. President Barack on her anus – one of them pre- play until Aug. 31. business.” Liberals, however, “try be taking up her legacy – and in Obama is the officiant at both. sumably an ex. WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | August 23, 2012 3 Mandel Group. Move-in ready condominium homes in Milwaukee’s most coveted neighborhoods. Historic Third Ward, East Side, Downtown and Elm Grove. Trade up, downsize or relocate! WATERMARK CONDOMINIUMS Classic Design. Exceptional Interiors. Balconies www.mandelgroup.com and private terraces. Luxury appointments. In the heart of Elm Grove. From $369,900. 414-248-2883 80% SOLD. Only 6 homes left. 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Gay rights oppo- and a fast growing majority of as the union of a man and nents and proponents seem Republicans,” said HRC pres- a woman. In 2003, he sup- to agree that the vote is a ident Chad Griffin. “LGBT ported, the anti-gay Marriage blip on an otherwise unblem- Americans need leadership Protection Act and voted ished right-wing record. that will continue to fight for in 1999 against allowing gay For his ENDA vote in the their rights to protect their couples to adopt in the Dis- 2007 session of Congress, families, marry the person trict of Columbia. He also Ryan earned a 10 out of they love, and enjoy equal voted against the repeal of 100 rating from the Human protections under the law.” “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the Rights Campaign, the nation’s At the other end of policy that banned gays from largest LGBT civil rights the spectrum, Concerned serving openly in the Armed group.
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