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In WiGOUT! Out singer/songwriter Patty Larkin talks about her latest release, featuring 25 of her best musical friends. Page 15 THe voice Of progress fOr WIscOnsIn’s LGBT community April 8, 2010 | Vol. 1, No. 11 Out candidate wins Waukesha race By Louis Weisberg “My Web site will remain also was accused of lying Staff writer up and running as a means about his academic creden- Political newcomer Vance of communicating with the tials, to which he responded Skinner handily beat a six- district,” he stated. by posting pdfs of his degrees term incumbent April 6 in Skinner’s bid for a low-pro- on his Web site. a hard-fought race for the file office attracted relatively Skinner is well known in Waukesha Common Council. high voter turnout. The last his district for his work on A family man who is active time Vitale faced a challenger, the Waukesha Landmarks in his church as well as local in 2004, fewer than 400 votes Commission, which oversees civic life, the clean-cut Skinner, were cast. Nearly twice that development in the city’s his- 40, fits the Waukesha stereo- toric area, and for his involve- type in every way but one: ment in a group to repurpose He’s openly gay. That makes p O L I T I c s local schools facing closure. his election in Wisconsin’s In addition to his civic most politically conservative activism, Skinner has been an county one for the history number participated in this activist for LGBT inclusion. books. year’s race, with Skinner win- He played a key role with In a victory statement, ning by 10 percent. M&I’s diversity and inclusion Skinner thanked his oppo- Vitale was the only incum- council in gaining domes- nent, Ald. Emanuele Vitale, 74, bent aldermen to lose a seat tic partner benefits for the for his many years of service in Waukesha’s April 6 munic- bank’s employees. He, hus- to the residents of the city’s ipal races, although voters band Brendan Barrett and 8th aldermanic district and also turned out first-term their two young daughters vowed to begin work imme- mayor Larry Nelson. participated in “Shall Not diately on “the issues impact- An information technol- Be Recognized,” a traveling ing our district as well as the ogy manager for M&I Bank, exhibit of portraits of same- larger community.” Skinner ran on a theme of sex couples. Signaling a shift in style change and competent lead- As director of Wisconsin from his predecessor, Skinner ership. He positioned him- Rainbow Families, Skinner assured voters that he would self as a fresh alternative to helped to build the group’s seek out “constituent input Vitale’s outspoken personal- membership to include 300 at every avenue.” ity and lack of understanding LGBT families. The group – according to Skinner – on offers peer support as well key issues facing the city, such as family activities and events. as its notoriously dwindling Skinner treated his sexual water supply. orientation as a non-issue newly elected Waukesha This Although Skinner’s sexual during the campaign, neither Ald. vance skinner is a orientation never became a shying away from it nor tout- church-going family man issue serious issue in the cam- ing it as a reason to vote and an all-around good inside and online at neighbor who just hap- wisconsingazette.com paign, he was attacked during for him. its final days for campaigning Waukesha’s 8th district is pens to be gay. News against the state’s 2006 anti- one of the most diverse in Photo: Dan Zait Z WiGWAG ����������������������2 gay marriage referendum. He Skinner page 11 Wisconsin Gaze............4 National Gaze ���������������6 Editorial ��������������������������8 Opinion ��������������������������9 Iowa marks first wedding anniversary International Gaze ���� 13 By Molly Hottle That April 3, 2009, deci- The ruling drew people “It felt like a huge party all “I felt relieved,” said Features AP writer sion, followed about three like Judith Weir and Olly the way,” Weir said. Staneslow. “We know it’s not WiGOUT �������������������� 15 The Iowa Supreme Court weeks later by the issuing Staneslow of St. Paul, Minn., The couple of 17 years legal (in Minnesota) yet, but Theater ������������������������ 18 ruling that legalized gay mar- of marriage licenses, led to who boarded a bus with said they knew their we’ve done everything we Dining ��������������������������� 20 riage has created something 1,783 same-sex weddings by eight other gay couples marriage would have no absolutely could.” On Stage ���������������������� 22 unprecedented over the past year’s end. Of those, 1,044 last August and made the legal standing back home They were among 100 year: Iowa as a wedding des- of the couples came from 250-mile drive to marry in a but agreed it would have Minnesota same-sex cou- tination. outside the state. Des Moines church. personal meaning. Iowa page 5 2 WI s c O n s I n GAZ e TT e . c OM | April 8, 2010 LGBt news with a twist WiGWAG By Lisa Neff & Louis Weisberg rIcky MArTIn Voyeur West Hollywood, a cHeney’s cial field of candidates for also was so unimpressed cOMes OUT bondage-themed nightclub cOMMAnd the 2012 presidential elec- with the New Times feature Singer Ricky Martin has featuring topless women Like father, like daugh- tion, but Liz Cheney has report that it placed the finally swung open his closet dancers simulating lesbi- ter in the Cheney clan. been mentioned as a GOP newspaper on permanent door, putting an end to the an sex. The expenditure VaticAn Dick Cheney’s non-lesbian possibility. How should she probation from covering its worst-kept secret in the was included on an RNC cAsTs daughter Liz is the neo- distinguish herself? To avoid games. entertainment world. report filed with the Federal deMOns conservative torch-bearer confusion with lesbian sister “I am proud to say that I Election Commission. How OUT in the family, but she now Mary Cheney, political sati- HOMO hate am a fortunate homosexual many things are wrong with The Vatican’s chief exor- has critics on the right rist Bill Maher has suggested A Florida church is cru- man,” Martin stated in a this picture? cist claims that the devil comparing her to Joseph the campaign slogan, “Not sading against the mayoral March 29 blog post on his has infiltrated the Holy See. McCarthy. In her leader- the lesbian one.” candidacy of Craig Lowe, Web site. “I am very blessed ‘prOsTI-dUde’ “When one speaks of ‘the ship post at Keep America who is in a run-off election to be who I am.” sTrIkes OUT smoke of Satan’ in the holy Safe, Cheney is defending UnIfOrM rULes this month in Gainesville. Martin said his sons gave America’s first legal rooms, it is all true – includ- her dad’s record as boss Two women with the In a video posted on him the inspiration to stop male prostitute has left a ing these latest stories of of the president during the Lingerie Football League YouTube, Dove World living a lie. “To keep living as rural Nevada brothel after violence and pedophilia,” Bush years and his record were placed on probation Outreach Center pastor I did up until today would a two-month stint that Father Gabriele Amorth, 85, as adversary of the presi- for being overdressed in a Wayne Sapp says, “Bottom be to indirectly dimin- received oodles of attention told The Times of London. dent during the first Obama photo shoot for an alter- line is, we cannot afford ish the glow that my kids but fewer than 10 paying He also claimed there are years. As an anti-terrorism native newspaper in Miami. a homo mayor. …We got where born with,” he wrote. women. “cardinals who do not hawk, she also is attack- The women wore shoulder one running for mayor “Enough is enough. This has The Shady Lady Ranch, believe in Jesus, and bish- ing U.S. Justice Department pads for their cover photos. of Gainesville, trying to to change.” located 150 miles north- ops who are linked to the officials who represented The pads are allowed on convert Gainesville into Welcome to the free west of Las Vegas, reports demon.” Guantanamo Bay detainees the gridiron, along with hel- Homoville. We can’t have world, Ricky. that “Markus” (not his Amorth said he’s seen as the “Al Qaeda 7.” That mets and kneepads, but the it.” Dove World has other real name), a 25-year- people spit nails, glass and attack proved too much preferred attire for photo campaigns in what it calls GOp cHIef’s old Alabama native, has rose petals during exor- for some on the right, who sessions is a satin bra and this “end time,” including nIGHT OUT returned to his porn career cisms, but he didn’t mention called the characterization panties. The league, which offering free shelter and Republican National in California. Maybe Markus spinning heads or projectile viscious and unfounded. presents women’s indoor food for “women who want Committee Chairman should have taken male cli- pea-green vomit. football and sponsors the to escape from Islam” and Michael Steele spent ents after all. cHeney’s rUn Lingerie Bowl as an alter- selling “Islam is of the Devil” $1,946.25 in February at There is not yet an offi- native to that NFL game, T-shirts. G e T T H e W I s c O n s I n G A Z e TT e d e LI v e r e d .