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KIM CATTRALL TALKS WITH WCT WINDY CITY THE VOICE OF CHICAGO’S GAY, LESBIAN, PAGE 24 BI AND TRANS COMMUNITY SINCE 1985 MAY 4, 2011 TIMES VOL 26, NO. 31 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com SPRING... AIDS DIVA ...WITH BENEFITS RAE LEWIS- THORNTON PAGE 12 ‘BOYSTOWN’ CONTROVERSY PAGE 7 BOOKS: THE L liFE, SMOKING TYPEWRITERS PAGES 20-21 DESIGNER BORRIS POWELL PAGE 26 Spring is in full swing, if events around town are any indication. Dan Savage was the keynote speaker at AIDS Foundation of Chicago’s spring luncheon (bottom right), while Chicago House held its annual brunch/fashion show (top) and Lambda Legal hosted its yearly Bon Foster celebration (bottom left). See pages 9 and 28. Photos by Kat Fitzgerald, www.MysticImagesPhotography.com 2 May 4, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES NEXT GAME: May 7th at 4pm vs. Kansas City Tribe Home games played at Winnemac Stadium, next to Amundsen High School, 5105 N. Leavitt (south of Foster Ave.) in Chicago! 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NEWS ENTERTAINMENT/EVENTS AIDS funding; Obama on bin Laden 4 Scottish Play Scott 17 Judge Walker’s situation 5 Books: L Life, Smoking Typewriters 20 States and same-sex adoption 6 Knight: Becoming Chaz 22 ‘Boystown’ show controversy 7 Pop Making Sense 23 Youth confab; Wheaton group 8 Kim Cattrall interview 24 AFC luncheon with Dan Savage 9 Borris Powell; Gay Idol update 26 Lesbian couple in online contest 10 TV: The Braxtons dish 27 Gay in the Life: Iliana Regan 11 Brunch/fashion; Bon Foster 27 Views: Terry Angel Mason 16 Billy Masters 33 Everything AIDS @ 30 OUTLINES Rae Lewis-Thornton interview 12 Real estate; classifieds 30 Youth Pride outreach 13 Calendar Q 32 Sports: Slur, Cubs Care, Force 34 feels better Photos on cover (left, from top): Kim Cattrall pic by Andrew Potter; Rae Lewis-Thornton photo by Andrew Davis; Dave Schlessinger Facebook image; The L Life book cover; photo of Borris when you Powell by Andrew Davis WINDY CITY oup.com ityMediaGr TIMESWindyC www. NG... 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That’s the #415 SIGN UP ONLINE: page 20 booth at Berlin and Roscoe’s. page 16 Find Nightspots on www.WindyCityQueercast.com WWW.CHICAGOWORLDGYM.COM 4 May 4, 2011 WINDY CITY TIMES largest source” of funding for HIV-related treat- ONLINE AT ment and care, covering about 40 percent of people with HIV in the United States. WINDYCITYMEDIAGROUP.COM AIDS funding: The coalition said Ryan’s proposal to com- NATIONAL NEWS pletely defund provisions of President Obama’s recently enacted Affordable Care Act would leave “hundreds of thousands of people with Caught in HIV without access to health care coverage and services.” Overall, Ryan’s plan would cut federal spend- ing by $6 trillion over the next 10 years. For the crossfire fiscal year (FY) 2012, Ryan’s plan calls for a 15 —Bill T. Jones (left) percent drop in spending on non-security-relat- joins N.Y. marriage- ed funding—from $565 billion this year to $482 equality effort BY Lisa KEEN billion next year. That includes a $56 billion cut KEEN NEWS SERVICE in discretionary health spending over the next —First full-time five years. The coalition of AIDS groups say that staffer at Fairness Before it left on spring recess, the U.S. House cut would lead to the loss of programs to pre- West Virginia passed a budget for Fiscal Year 2012 that the vent new HIV infections. president called “wrong for America” and that “It is counterproductive to disable the preven- —Five men charged AIDS activists have said would do “irreparable tion, care and research programs that have con- in anti-gay S.C. attack harm.” trolled the HIV epidemic and transformed HIV The proposal hasn’t gone over well with many disease from a fatal to a complex but manage- able condition in the United States,” said the Americans, either. During the two-week recess, dent’s original FY 12 budget plan (which AIDS coalition’s letter. the budget bill’s chief author, Rep. Paul Ryan, and LGBT groups generally like) and several in The letter was sent to members of the House R-Wis., was greeted with crowds of unhappy the works by various groups of legislators. One April 13 and signed by 54 groups, including AIDS constituents and many boos. plan, from the Congressional Progressive Caucus, United, the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, the AIDS The primary complaint is that the so-called would maintain Medicare and Medicaid but re- Institute, the National Minority AIDS Council, “Ryan budget” calls for dramatic cuts in Med- quire significant tax increases for people with the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Treatment icaid, which provides health insurance cover- high incomes and tax capital gains and divi- Action Group, the AIDS Task Force of Greater age for people with low incomes. It also calls dends as ordinary income. The caucus includes Cleveland and the AIDS Foundation of Chicago. for dramatic cuts in Medicare, which provides all four openly gay members: Rep. Tammy Bald- Some the organizations that signed the let- health insurance coverage for Americans 65 and win, D-Wis., who serves as a vice chairman, as ter—such as AIDS United and The AIDS Insti- older and for people with disabilities, including well as Reps. Barney Frank, D-Mass.; Jared Polis, tute—had expressed relief at the FY 2011 bud- AIDS. D-Colo.; and David Cicilline, D-R.I. get because there were no cuts in places where In a letter to members of the House last The House rejected that proposal during last people with HIV need additional help. But all month, a large coalition of groups serving peo- month’s vote. AIDS organizations seem to be alarmed at the ple with HIV urged a “no” vote on the plan. However, no budget proposal has yet emerged U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan. House plans for FY 12. “Chairman Ryan’s proposal to dismantle the that appears to be capable of gaining passage Project Inform, a 26-year-old national AIDS Medicaid and Medicare programs, roll back re- through both chambers of Congress. So, it’s policy advocacy group, says on its website that forms enacted through the Affordable Care Act, likely to be another knockdown-drag out fight, our battle against HIV disease and the loss will Ryan’s budget would “devastate” the country’s and drastically reduce support for vital federal like that just finished for FY 11. come with a high price tag in terms of the hu- response to HIV. programs will do irreparable harm to people liv- And to complicate the negotiations for FY 12, man toll and costs to the health care system.” The National Minority AIDS Council Deputy ing with HIV disease as well as those at risk there is the looming gloom of the nation’s debt The letter notes that Medicaid is the “single Executive Director, Daniel Montoya, issued a for HIV infection,” said the letter. “We will lose ceiling. The government anticipates spending to statement, saying, “Medicare and Medicaid are bump up against that ceiling—currently set at essential programs that safeguard the health of $14.6 trillion—in July. Republicans have vowed all Americans, including those living with HIV/ to oppose an increase in that ceiling unless sig- AIDS.” nificant concessions are made to cut spending. “Placing the burden of his $6 trillion cuts on In an effort to encourage cooperation be- the backs of our nation’s vulnerable,” said Mon- tween the House and Senate and both parties, toya of Ryan, “is inhumane and un-American.” President Obama named a commission of six to 6 sessions $115 Starts June 2 The unpopularity of the Medicare/Medicaid find common ground on the budget and on a provisions prompted Senate Majority Leader request to raise the debt ceiling.