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Kids’ Baptism day. Back (L-R): Angel, Art Smith, Jesus Salgueiro. Front (L-R): Zuky, Brando and Zumy. Photo by Kipling Swehla Chef Art Smith, artist Jesus Salgueiro talk parenting, activism

By Carrie Maxwell couple is also raising their 16-year-old Venezuelan nephew Diego Ramez. When Art Smith and Jesus Salgueiro met 15 years ago, they A week after the adoption, the siblings were baptized by never dreamed they’d become parents to four siblings all at Monsignor Dan Mayall at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago. once, but that’s just what happened when they decided to Angel Jesus, Brando Arthur, Zumy Iris and Zuky Francis also foster Angel (12), Brando (9), Zumy (7) and Zuky (6) in received individual engraved plaques with apostolic blessings February 2014. from Pope Francis. The siblings were on the verge of being split up; however, “Our baptism was the first same sex family baptism in Holy due to Smith and Salgueiro stepping in, that didn’t happen, Name Cathedral history,” said Smith. HOME SWEET HOME and on June 23 of this year the couple adopted them. Prior The family currently divides their time between their Hyde Project Fierce Chicago finds a home in the North to adopting the siblings, the couple was named “Foster Care Park home in Chicago (during the winter holidays and sum- Parents of the Year” by Arden Shore Child and Family Services, mers) and their new home in Smith’s hometown of Jasper, Lawndale area of Chicago. 9 the foster care agency that placed the kids in their care. The Florida (during the school year). Photo by Cassandra Avenatti Turn to page 8

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By Carrie Maxwell couple is also raising their 16-year-old Venezuelan nephew Diego Ramez. When Art Smith and Jesus Salgueiro met 15 years ago, they A week after the adoption, the siblings were baptized by never dreamed they’d become parents to four siblings all at Monsignor Dan Mayall at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago. OUTLINES once, but that’s just what happened when they decided to Angel Jesus, Brando Arthur, Zumy Iris and Zuky Francis also foster Angel (12), Brando (9), Zumy (7) and Zuky (6) in received individual engraved plaques with apostolic blessings February 2014. from Pope Francis. The siblings were on the verge of being split up; however, “Our baptism was the first same sex family baptism in Holy Calendar Q 21 Name Cathedral history,” said Smith. due to Smith and Salgueiro stepping in, that didn’t happen, HOME SWEET HOME and on June 23 of this year the couple adopted them. Prior The family currently divides their time between their Hyde Project Fierce Chicago finds a home in the North to adopting the siblings, the couple was named “Foster Care Park home in Chicago (during the winter holidays and sum- Parents of the Year” by Arden Shore Child and Family Services, mers) and their new home in Smith’s hometown of Jasper, lawndale area of Chicago. the foster care agency that placed the kids in their care. The Florida (during the school year). Classifieds 22 Photo by Cassandra Avenatti 9 Turn to page 8

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THAT’S SHOW BIZ Find out the latest about Pierce Brosnan, RuPaul and Maria Bello. With state-of-the-art fitness equipment, the hottest group training programs, and a philosophy that nurtures a feeling Singer-songwriter Greg Holden talks of community, isn’t it time you upgrade from gym to club? about co-writing “Home” for American plus Idol winner Phillip Phillips and his new Learn more at midtown.com/chicago DAILY BREAKING NEWS album, Chase the Sun. Photo by Myriam Santos 4 Sept. 2, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES Military trans ban could end next May Open To Thinking by Nick Patricca The ban on transgender individuals in the U.S. as the date to officially lift the ban, it will not military forces could end May 27, according to get here soon enough. All service members and USA Today. their families, regardless of their sexual orien- A memo the publication obtained actually tation or gender identity, deserve to be able to Julian Bond: A personal tribute discusses ending the policy and highlights serve our nation proudly and authentically.” some of the potential issues, including a pro- Kristin Beck, a transgender former Navy SEAL It was Spring of 1965. The high hopes culture and behavior through grassroots gram that would provide leaves of absences who is running for Congress, and Sgt. Shane raised by the 1964 Civil Rights Act had political activism. Some activists wanted to turn to for transgender troops being treated with hor- Ortega, the first open transgender U.S. Army been dashed by the failures encountered in implementation. Everyone agreed that violence. Enter Julian Bond, SNCC co- mones or undergoing gender-reassignment sur- member, jointly said, “The ending of this ban these failures had one root cause: voter founder and director of communications: gery. gives hope to a more inclusive future. Now, we disenfranchisement. a calm, creative, intelligent voice in trou- A repeal of the policy would affect approxi- are living out the true meaning of our Con- Voter registration workers were being bled times. mately 12,000 troops. stitutional creed—to honor and respect ALL threatened, beaten up, and intimidated There were essentially two main camps Last month, Secretary of Defense Ashton gender identities of our servicemembers. Today by local law officers and courts. Voter- within SNCC: the one group supported Carter announced a working group that would our military has been lifted up. We move from rights activists James Earl Chaney, An- John Lewis and Julian Bond who wanted look into the logistics of such a repeal. strength, to strength in defense of the greatest drew Goodman and Michael “Mickey” to keep SNCC committed to the civil- The American Military Partner Association country in the world.” Schwerner had been brutally murdered on rights strategy and philosophy of Martin (AMPA), which support LGBT military fami- The USA Today article is at http://www.usa- road 491 near Meridian, Mississippi, be- Luther King, Jr.; the other group support- lies, praised the development. AMPA President today.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/25/ cause of their work on voter registration. ed Stokely Carmichael who was a strong Ashley Broadway-Mack said in a statement, “If military-transgender-ban-set-end-next- At the Democratic National Convention advocate of Black Power. In Spring 1965 indeed the Pentagon targets May of next year may/32345385/. in Atlanta, the integrated delegation of these two camps were evenly matched. the grassroots Mississippi Freedom Demo- Starting in 1966, the balance of power cratic Party (MFDP) had failed to unseat shifted to Carmichael. Bond left his po- The Breitbart article is at http://www.bre- the all-white delegation of the regular sition as director of communications of Virginia shooter gay, itbart.com/big-government/2015/08/26/ Mississippi Democratic Party. SNCC in 1966. Carmichael became presi- vester-l-flanagan-idd-by-va-police-as-person- Into this volatile 1965 spring of hope, dent of SNCC in 1967. In 1969 SNCC manifesto says of-interest-in-wdbj-double-murder/. The Daily fear and disappointment, I joined a group replaced the term ‘nonviolent’ with the In a manifesto, Vester Lee Flanagan II— Mail item is at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ of Catholic clergy affiliated with the term ‘national.’ SNCC became the Student who shot and killed WDBJ7-TV reporter Alison news/article-3213494/Vester-Flanagan-s- Southern Christian Leadership Confer- National Coordinating Committee. Parker and cameraman Adam Ward on Aug. 26 family-reveal-knew-gay-accepted-cousin-says- ence (SCLC) and with the Student Nonvi- This change in the spirit of SNCC was before taking his own life—says he was a gay praying-victims-families.html. olent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to personal for me. At the end of our work Black man. He also apparently claims he was work on voter registration in Greenville, in Greenville, a co-worker came to me a victim of homophobia from his co-workers, Mississippi. We had three objectives: 1) and asked me to go with him to Detroit including “black men and white females,” Bre- LGBT groups join to take up arms to itbart reported. fight for civil rights. Flanagan, additionally, reportedly left a call to decriminalize He was a close suicide note indicating he was motivated by “As the first president of the Southern friend. I told him a “Race War.” He wrote, “As for Dylann Roof? sex work On Aug. 20, several LGBT-rights organizations Poverty Law Center and as the I could never pick You (deleted)! You want a race war (deleted)? up a gun for three BRING IT THEN YOU WHITE …(deleted)!!!” across the country issued a joint statement in support of Amnesty International’s Aug. 11 Chairman of the NAACP, Julian Bond reasons: 1) I am a In one part of the document, Flanagan says coward; 2) If I were he has suffered racial discrimination, sexual resolution supporting sex-worker human rights. fought for the rights of all peoples Transgender Law Center, Gay & Lesbian Ad- to pick up a gun, I harassment and bullying at work. feared I would never vocates & Defenders (GLAD), Lambda Legal, regardless of their color, ethnicity, put it down; and 3) the National Center for Lesbian Rights and the sexual identity, or their legal status as I was committed National Center for Transgender Equality all to the spirituality signed off on a resolution that reads, in part, migrants.” of Jesus the Christ, “As LGBT rights organizations in the United Dorothy Day, Daniel States, we join to applaud and support Amnes- Berrigan, Gandhi, ty International’s recent resolution to protect the Buddha, Martin the human rights of sex workers by calling for register voters for the upcoming local Luther King, Jr., and now, Julian Bond. decriminalization of sex work, while simultane- and general elections; 2) organize these His reply: ‘the next time we meet you will ously holding states accountable in preventing voters to support the Mississippi Freedom be at the wrong end of the gun.’ and combatting sex trafficking, ensuring that Democratic Party; and 3) network for the As the first president of the Southern sex workers are protected from exploitation, passing of federal voting-rights legisla- Poverty Law Center and as the Chairman and enforcing laws against the sexual exploitation to overcome the complex maze of of the NAACP, Julian Bond fought for the tion of children. local voting regulations designed to keep rights of all peoples regardless of their “Laws criminalizing sexual exchange— Blacks and others from voting. color, ethnicity, sexual identity, or their whether by the seller or the buyer—impede Our work went along surprisingly well legal status as migrants. sex workers’ ability to negotiate condom use except for a few nuisance instances of When some Black leaders and clergy and other boundaries, and force many to work harassment. The local sheriff ‘detained’ opposed complete civil rights for mem- in hidden or remote places where they are more me and two of my colleagues for tres- bers of the LGBTQ communities, Julian vulnerable to violence. ... And as UNAIDS and passing by walking into an all-Black Bond advocated for marriage equality, the World Health Organization have recog- school to talk about voter registration. facing down opposition even within the nized, criminalization also seriously hampers Vester Flanagan. William Hodding Carter III, whose family Southern Christian Leadership Confer- efforts to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS—efforts Twitter photo owned the local newspaper and who later ence. (Cfr: https://en.wikipedia.org/ in which people involved in the sex trades are became a key player in the administra- wiki/Julian_Bond) crucial partners.” tion of President Jimmy Carter, came to Julian Bond is my personal hero be- Many other media outlets reported that Fla- the jail house to bail us out—actually, he cause his example helped me to remain nagan used social media to post chilling videos NIH expands research got us released from all charges. committed to my values. showing him approach the scene, raise his gun In the local elections, the regular Thank you, Julian. May we continue to and fire at the media employees as well as in- on sexual, Democrats won handsomely—and with remember you. May your spirit continue terview subject Vicki Gardner. Flanagan, who a whole lot of votes of the new voters to bless us. also worked at WJDBJ-TV as a reporter (under gender health we had registered. This defeat fueled the Horace Julian Bond died August 15, the name Bryce Williams) before being let go, The National Institutes of Health (NIH) re- already simmering anger and frustration 2015. has said that that Parker made racist comments leased an administrative supplement to expand of many civil-rights workers, especially in and that he filed an Equal Employment Oppor- existing research to focus on sexual and gender the ranks of SNCC, who were becoming © [email protected] tunity Commission report. He also tweeted that minority (SGM) health. demoralized in their efforts to change Ward went to human resources about him “after This trans-NIH effort—which involves mul- working with me one time!!!” The tweets were tiple institutes, centers and offices from across posted Aug. 19. NIH—is intended to encourage investigation in this underrepresented, yet growing field of Guynell Flanagan, first cousin of Vester, told Nick Patricca is professor emeritus at Loyola University Chicago, president of The Daily Mail that “the whole family knew he research. The application due date is Nov. 30. Chicago Network and playwright emeritus at Victory Gardens Theater. was gay. We accepted him. He’s not the only Visit http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa- one in the family who’s gay and, personally, I files/PA-15-329.html for more information. couldn’t care less.” Beverly Ross. Photo by Lawrence Turner

WINDY CITY TIMES Sept. 2, 2015 5 told the UN Security Council. “ISIL operatives circulated freely where I lived and it was only Writer Oliver Sacks a matter of time before I would be found and dies at age 82 killed.” Writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks died Instead, Nahas found Grungras and his or- Aug. 30 at his Manhattan home at age 82. ganization before ISIL could make good on Sacks died at his home in Greenwich Vil- their threats. Today he lives in San Francisco, lage with longtime collaborator Kate Ed- working for ORAM as a representative and ad- gar and his own partner, Bill Hayes, at his ministrator. He is hoping to finish his college side, CNN noted. Sacks was diagnosed with education. ocular melanoma almost a decade ago, Jason Heeney left Chicago for Israel in 2010. and treating the cancer left him blind in He now serves as the board president for ORAM one eye; however, the cancer spread to his and so joined Nahas at the UN briefing led by liver. U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power and Chile’s The Oxford-educated Sacks—who shot to UN ambassador, Cristian Barros. fame as the doctor Robin Williams played “This was one of our proudest moments,” Heeney said. “Subhi’s speech was eloquent and in the 1990 film Awakenings—revealed in Subhi Nahas and US Ambassador Samantha Power address the UN Security Council. February that he had terminal cancer. The moving.” Photo from ORAM International movie, which Penny Marshall directed, was He added that Nahas spoke to at least 200 based on Sacks’ 1973 book of the same people representing nearly 40 countries. name. It was a daunting prospect but one Nahas The Washington Post reported that Sacks Historic UN Security was impelled to confront if only for a particular talked about his own sexuality, saying in right that LGBTQ people living in countries like his memoir On the Move that his mother Syria, Saudi Arabia or Iran are denied. called him “an abomination” upon learn- Council briefing focuses “Everybody says to us, ‘You don’t have a ing about his same-sex leanings. Sacks voice,’” Nahas told Windy City Times. “They reflected that “[m]y mother did not mean don’t recognize that we exist. There is so much to be cruel, to wish me dead. She was sud- on LGBTQ refugees prejudice and violence. People want to try to denly overwhelmed, I now realize, and she do something but the laws make it very dif- probably regretted her words or perhaps By Gretchen Rachel Hammond just to be able to eat. “Most of these people ficult.” partitioned them off in a closeted part of don’t make it out alive at the end of their or- Moving from a deeply conservative town in her mind. As a 27-year-old man, Subhi Nahas could have deal,” Grungras told Windy City Times. Syria to one of the most openly accepting cit- “But her words haunted me for much of spent an afternoon walking through magnifi- Grungras regards his work at ORAM as a life- ies in the world has presented Nahas with its my life and played a major part in inhibit- cent olive orchards before taking-in the flaw- calling. “I spent a lot of years as a gay activist own challenges. “I’m still adapting,” he said. ing and injecting with guilt what should less night sky and losing himself under the in San Francisco,” he said. “Both of my parents “I’m used to suppressing my emotions and hid- have been a free and joyous expression of marquee of stars covering the mountain ranges were refugees and by the time I went to law ing myself. It’s going to take a long time to sexuality.” that surround his hometown of Idlib in North- school it was clear to me that I was going to process. I was trying to reconstruct my rela- The Washington Post article is at http:// ern Syria. be a refugee lawyer.” tionship with my family but after [giving] this www.washingtonpost.com/national/ But it was 2014, his country was being torn Since graduation, Grungras has spent 30 speech, I know they will never try to reconnect. health-science/oliver-sacks-doctor-of- apart by civil war and, as a gay man, Nahas was years in that role. “I started to encounter an They are still my family but they are not going awakenings-and-poet-laureate-of-medi- terrified to step one foot outside his house. invisible population worldwide of LGBTQ people to accept that I spoke about LGBTQ rights.” cine-dies-at-82/2015/08/30/62ba620c- Two-years earlier he had been the target of who are too terrified to tell anybody and who “We set out to raise awareness about this 4f0c-11e5-933e-7d06c647a395_story. a group of soldiers from Bashar Al-Assad’s re- are not being protected by their home country issue and the role that the UN could play mov- html. The CNN item is at http://www.cnn. gime, who herded him off the bus he was riding or their country of origin,” he said. ing forward in helping to protect the rights of com/2015/08/30/us/neurologist-oliver- to university, took him to a secluded house and Grungras stressed that the situation for an LGBTQ people,” Heeney said. “This was a first sacks-dies/. assaulted him. individual seeking asylum in a country like the step—given the probably 20 countries who The soldiers were eventually replaced in Idlib United States or Great Britain is completely pledged to support this work. I hope this level by militants from Jabhat Al Nusra—a jihadist different from an LGBTQ refugee who manages of consciousness raising will bring the issue of Catholic school cell of Al-Qaida—who arrested, tortured and to escape, for example, Uganda. LGBTQ refugees to the forefront of our com- executed anyone they suspected of being gay. “They’re not going to London, they’re going munity’s work. This is an opportunity to build changes policy a movement for a huge number of people who In Oregon, a Portland Catholic school has Then, ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Le- to Kenya,” he said. “Kenya is not a country of are not as lucky as folks in the U.S. They are changed its hiring policies after withdraw- vant) came. asylum for Ugandans. So they’re not going to stateless and fleeing for their lives.” ing a counseling job offer it had given to a “It stepped up the violent attacks on sus- get permanent legal status there. Even if you “It’s up to us an international LGBTQ commu- lesbian candidate, KGW.com reported. pected LGBTI people, publishing images of do go to countries-of-transit that have a fledg- nity to stand next to each other and help each St. Mary’s Academy President Christina their exploits,” Nahas would later recall. “At ling asylum system, they tend to criminalize other do something,” Nahas said. “If we do not Friedhoff said in a statement, “St. Mary’s the executions, hundreds of townspeople, LGBTQ people and, even if they don’t, surviving stand as one body and defend our rights, no- is a diverse community that welcomes and including children, cheered jubilantly as at is difficult and dangerous. In Turkey, murders body else will. Then all of this will have been includes gay and lesbian students, faculty, a wedding. If a victim did not die after being of transgender people in 2015 haven’t even in vain.” alumnae, parents and friends, including hurled off a building, the townspeople stoned been investigated.” For more information about the work of those that are married.” him to death. This was to be my fate too.” “Death threats followed me to Turkey,” Nahas ORAM, visit ORAMInternational.org/en/. In a separate statement, New Ways Min- It was a story Nahas told members of the istry Executive Director Francis DeBernardo United Nations (UN) Security Council Aug. 24 praised the school. He said, in part, “New in New York. It was a historic moment—the Serving Chicagoland’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Jews, their Ways Ministry thanks and congratulates St. first time the council has ever convened to dis- families and loved ones for nearly 40 years. Membership is open to everyone. Mary’s Academy, Portland, Oregon, for not cuss LGBTQ rights. only reversing their decision to dismiss a The issue of LGBTQ refugees forced to flee counselor who they learned was a lesbian, their homes in any of the over 75 countries High Holidays begin Sept. 13th… but to adopt a non-discrimination policy worldwide where homosexuality is illegal or and we’re giving them a sweet twist! which welcomes gay and lesbian employ- where the state sanctions brutal attacks upon ees, including those who are legally mar- them is one involving multiple levels of married.” ginalization. DignityUSA Executive Director Marianne It is an internationally immense problem yet Duddy-Burke also issued a statement, so shadowed that even raw data on the num- bers of people who cross borders or are able to saying, “This is an important moment for Our High Holy Day services will Catholics concerned about justice and survive when they do is hard to come by. equality. That St. Mary’s Academy had the Neil Grungras is the founder and executive be free of charge in 2015. courage to look at their action in the light director of the Organization for Refuge, Asylum Everyone is invited to join us in a of their values, reverse it and take steps to & Migration (ORAM). Since 2008 and in part- ensure that their future policies are rooted nership with the United Nations High Commis- deeply meaningful spiritual journey in respect and inclusion is a wonderful sioner for Refugees (UNHCR), it has been the from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur. model.” only international resource dedicated solely to Jewish Reconstructionist the plight of LGBTQ refugees. The original article is at http://www.kgw. Congregation com/story/news/2015/08/26/catholic- Its research, training and advocacy programs school-rejects-hire-due--same-sex-mar- have already resulted in significant changes in Services will be held at riage-view/32381067/. the way LGBTQ refugees are treated in some , 303 Dodge Ave., Evanston. countries but the problems remaining for them For information, visit orchadash.org or call (773) 271-2148. to tackle are monumental. For individuals like Nahas who managed to Congregation Or Chadash escape from Syria in 2014 first to Lebanon and then Turkey, life is one spent in limbo. 5959 N. Sheridan Rd., Chicago, IL, 60660 Denied work permits or any of their new country’s benefits, many turn to the sex-trade www.OrChadash.org 6 Sept. 2, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES

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From left: Panelists Monica James, Benji and Jaz. Photo by Shelby Stone Panel calls for account, action for murdered Aurora woman is Largest-ever trans Black trans women 19th trans murder study has launched By Gretchen Rachel Hammond bleeding out.” Keyshia Blige—a Black woman who lived The National Center for Transgender Equal- She challenged union representatives in the in Naperville, Illinois, but was killed in the ity has launched the 2015 U.S. Trans Survey Just as the Aug. 25 sun began to set outside audience to employ 600 Black trans people by city of Aurora—became the 19th known (USTS), the follow-up to the National Trans- the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) So- the end of 2016. transgender woman murdered in the United gender Discrimination Survey, in attempt to cial Justice Initiative’s Pop Up JUST Art (PUJA) Gender non-conforming advocate Benji re- States this year (Seventeen of them have gather a more comprehensive understanding center on South Halsted Street, activist Monica called that, from as early as the fifth grade, been women of color). of the experiences of transgender people in James read off the names of the 18 transgender she wanted to be a teacher. Today she works According to media reports, Blige was shot the United States. women of color murdered in 2015. at Walmart. “I just stay focused on showing and killed March 7 while driving with a pas- The 2015 US Trans Survey is expected to be James asked the more than 100 people who people that there is more to life than what we senger. Police believe it was a deliberate at- the largest, most extensive study ever under- gathered in solidarity with the fallen to repeat see on television,” she said. “The Black trans tack. taken of trans lives in the United States. each name with enough emphasis to “resonate community doesn’t want to feel boxed-in and The Guardian reported that Blige was not The USTS will cover a wide range of top- into this universe.” not living up to our own potential to be who initially identified as transgender by local ics that reflect the lives and experiences of “This is all we have to give to her,” James we want to be. Our system is black and white, media, which named her as Bryce Stiff; how- transgender people today. More specifically, said. “So that we don’t have 19. It’s a real war and it puts a lot of strain onto our existence.” ever, her best friend, Sasha Love, reported the USTS will assess transgender people’s ex- out here.” The strain on James’s existence was accentu- her actual gender identity to the publication. periences including in employment, housing, The names Papi Edwards, Lamia Beard, Ty ated through horrendous violence at the hands The Chicago Tribune first identified Blige as healthcare, HIV/AIDS, disabilities, immigra- Underwood, Yazmin Vash Payne, Taja Gabrielle of the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and a male in its early March report. In a follow- tion, sex work and police interactions. DeJesus, Penny Proud, Kristina Grant Infiniti, most of her adult life behind bars. up story, the newspaper noted that Blige was Results are slated to run next spring. Visit London Chanel, Mercedes Williamson, Ash- “Why is accepting trans women of color such a male who was “transitioning” and had be- USTransSurvey.org. ton O’Hara, Amber Monroe, India Clarke, K.C. a big barrier for our society?” James demand- gun taking hormones. Haggard, Shade Schuler, Kandis Capri, Elisha ed. “It transcends beyond labor. We know that The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Pro- Walker, Tamara Dominguez and Jasmine Collins housing is one of the biggest issues. Without grams’ (NCAVP’s) most recent report—Hate Trans beach party were not only echoed in Chicago but—accord- housing you cannot attain anything. Without a Violence Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, ing to Black Lives Matter strategic partner and place to stay, you cannot get a job, you cannot a success Transgender, Queer and HIV-Affected Com- The 2nd Annual Chicago Trans Pride Beach GetEQUAL Central Regional Coordinator Elle get your health in order. Those 18 [murdered] munities in the United States in 2014 docu- Party took place Aug. 30 at Ardmore Holly- Hearns—in 20 cities nationwide that evening women were known somewhere in this world mented 20 anti-LGBTQ homicides in 2014. Of wood Beach, 5800 N. Lake Shore Dr. and through 5.5 million Twitter followers who by their name, by their loved ones as a trans those 20 homicides, a majority (55 percent) Dozens of people attended, taking part in answered a call to action marking Black Trans woman but they didn’t make it to the world of victims were transgender women, and half various festivities. According to a pre-event Liberation Tuesday. news. How do we get this movement further? (50 percent) were transgender women of col- release, the event “is an independent and “We wanted to be very vocal about the ways We all know trans women who are out there or. public gathering to celebrate the beauty, di- we are all intrinsically causing the deaths of on the battlefield every single day getting re- The Guardian article is at http://www. versity and resilience of the trans community these women,” Hearns told Windy City Times. jected, being snickered at, laughed at, toyed theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/26/ in Chicago.” “Across the country we saw cisgender men as with. They are beautiful and resilient.” keyshia-blige-trangender-homicide-illinois. Photo courtesy of Crispin Torres’ Facebook an integral part of these actions. They made Hearns stated that the Black Lives Matter page accountability statements as to how they par- movement is not restricted to the nationally ticipated in transphobia and what they can do publicized murders of Black men, women and to end that. At some of the actions, highways children at the hands of the police. “The reality were shut down by folks who felt compelled to is all Black lives. It has essentially become a do more. Part of that was to disrupt a normal- movement for the pursuit of liberation of Black ized way of living.” people. The co-founders have really been com- In Chicago, James joined a notable panel el- mitted to being collaborative in a partnership evating and demanding conversation about the of Black trans women and also making sure we lives of Black transgender women senselessly are sistering those who are most directly im- lost while facing system-wide discrimination pacted by the systems of oppression leading to blithely dismissed by the mainstream media the demise of Black people not just in police and legislators and ignored by society at large. brutality, but in state violence.” Jason Tomkins was host for the evening, along Hearns believes the answer as to why the with representatives of Black Lives Matter Chi- epidemic of attacks and murders of Black trans cago. women has been ignored by the national media Despite her considerable talents as a writer lies in respectability politics. “What happens is and public speaker, Jaz—author of the Black the media is attracted to certain demograph- Trans Lives + Labor booklet distributed that ics of people,” Hearns said. “Throughout our evening—told the audience that she has spent society, Black people, trans people and women her young life working low-wage jobs. have always been an afterthought. Black trans “I look at myself and I see the statistic where women have been discarded as a conversation over 50 percent of trans women of color are piece. We really want people to start and con- making an income of under $10,000-a-year,” tinue that conversation. We want them to take she said. “You can’t afford rent anywhere with bold, direct action to stand up for Black trans that. I’ve been intermittently houseless. I’ve women in their community.” lived with men who I don’t like—essentially in For more information about Trans Liberation what we consider modern-day slavery. I’m there Tuesday, visit http://blacklivesmatter.com and as a thing for his use and consumption and http://www.getequal.org/. when he’s done with me or bored with me, I’m To donate to the event, go to https://www. out. So many social-service centers [are] only indiegogo.com/projects/black-trans-lives-la- able to be a Band Aid on what is otherwise a bor-real-talk-real-action--2#/story. 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Go ahead....take your shirt oﬀ this summer. Enjoy $500 OFF Body Reshaping through October 1st. 8 Sept. 2, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES “I did work for one year at the Waldorf- Astoria in New York City but I hated it,” said Salgueiro. Currently, Smith is a partner in and/or owns 20 restaurants, including Table Fifty-Two; Art and Soul in Washington, D.C.; Southern Art & Bourbon Bar in Atlanta; and a number of other restaurants around the country. He will be opening another restaurant in South Florida sometime next spring. Salgueiro was also in the restaurant business for a brief time, having previously co-owned a restaurant in Miami for two years. “After I sold my share of the restaurant I opened up my art studio in Miami,” said Sal- gueiro. “I’ve been a full-time artist ever since.” Most recently, Salgueiro’s artwork has been featured on the hit FOX-TV show Empire. He’s also busy creating more of his signature man- Art Smith with Oprah Winfrey. hole artwork. The couple married in 2010 in Washington D.C.—10 years after meeting in Miami for the first time. Smith was working as Oprah Winfrey’s personal chef at the time and Salgueiro was working at a flower shop to make ends meet while also launching his art career and studio. “Oprah had a house in Miami Beach on Fisher Island and I was buying flowers for the house for Thanksgiving,” said Smith. “I went to the flower shop where Jesus worked because Maria Shriver told Oprah that it was a great flower shop, because her brother Anthony mentioned it to her, and that’s how I met Jesus. I told Ma- ria that if it wasn’t for her suggestion I never would’ve met Jesus.” “After Art left the store, I went to the register and asked if they had his info but they didn’t since the flowers were already paid for,” said Salgueiro. “I talked to the sales person who worked with Art and asked him for his name, and the sales person told me, it’s Art Couple Jesus Salgueiro and Art Smith with their children and nephew Diego. Smith and he’s Oprah’s chef. It took about a Photos courtesy of the couple year for us to meet again in person. “He urged me to meet him, even though I was sick and that’s when he proposed to me. I FAMILY from cover grandma, which they’ve never had before, they laughed and Art said ‘I’m very serious.’ We went also have a yard to play in and they love it.” to a restaurant and talked for two hours. After Since becoming parents, Smith spends less The couple is looking to take the kids to Cuba that we went to my house and he stayed for time traveling for business and Salgueiro has in the near future because they have Cuban an- two weeks. Art came into my life when I was taken on the role of stay-at-home parent. cestry. looking to settle down, so it was like kismet.” They’ve spent the past year and a half show- When asked to describe their kids, Smith “We sat for two hours eating pizza during our ering the kids with love and security, which and Salgueiro say that Angel is compassionate first date, which we still enjoy and celebrate was in short supply prior to Smith (Papi Art) while Brando is a little man engineer. As for with,” said Smith. “This week is our five-year and Salgueiro (Papi Jesus) becoming part of the girls, they say that Zumy is quiet, sweet wedding anniversary, and we will celebrate their lives. and loves puzzles, while Zuky wears the pants with margherita pizza with prosciutto and aru- “The biggest challenge for us is instilling in the family and loves Q&A’s. gula.” manners in the kids because they didn’t come Smith explained that in terms of fun activi- Since Jan. 2015, Smith has hosted “101 Gay from an environment where that was a prior- ties, the family loves to go to water parks and Weddings” events in Miami, Atlanta and Palm ity,” said Salgueiro. “They were in the foster other kid-friendly places. They also love eating Springs. However, due to the U.S. Supreme system for five years before they came to us. breakfast at Smith’s restaurants, Table Fifty- Court Obergefell v. Hodges decision legalizing Two and Lyfe Kitchen, as well as eating out in same-sex marriage across the country, Smith is They’re really happy and excited to finally have Smith and Salgueiro before their wedding. a home. Chicago’s Chinatown neighborhood. looking to take this concept to Cuba, where “I’m looking forward to raising them here in “The kids love playing critic at my restau- same-sex marriage and civil unions aren’t legal. Jasper, where they can go to school and not rants,” said Smith. Palm Springs “101 Gay Weddings” will air on be treated like celebrity kids. I’ve been very Although they come from different parts of Bravo this fall. impressed with the schools and everyone else the world, Smith (who is a sixth-generation na- “I’m trying to get approval from Mariela Cas- here. They’re so nice and it’s rewarding to see tive Floridian) and Salgueiro (who hails from tro [President Raul Castro’s daughter] to do one everyone help each other. I met the Superin- Cabimas, Venezuela) share a lot in common. in Havana, Cuba,” said Smith. tendent of the kids schools and the bus driv- Both men grew up in small towns and attended Smith explained that they are moving their ers already. It’s so great to be treated like any two-year colleges before graduating from state focus to other LGBT areas outside of marriage other parent. It wasn’t like that in Chicago.” universities with similar degrees—Smith at equality such as adoption rights for same-sex “I’ve written award-winning cookbooks and Florida State University in Tallahassee with a couples regardless of marital status, transgen- opened restaurants, but raising kids is totally degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management der rights and international LGBT equality. different than anything I’ve done career-wise,” and Salgueiro at Florida International Univer- Outside of LGBT issues, the couple is also in- said Smith. “As a chef, I’m used to people tell- sity in Miami with a degree in Hotel Manage- volved in other philanthropic work, including ing me how much they love me. The kids tell ment and Tourism. Common Threads (www.commonthreads.org), me how much they love me but they don’t al- Smith always wanted to be a chef but which they co-founded in 2003. ways love everything I make. Sometimes they couldn’t afford to go to culinary school. “We’re doing some work in the [Jasper] com- just want fast-food. “I’m artistic and I found that I was very good munity because there’s a lot of poverty and “Our main focus, other than teaching them at making food look pretty,” said Smith. “I was other challenges.” said Smith. “Jesus and I manners, is are the kids happy and do they a disciple of Martha Stewart and when she re- have done a lot of work that’s helped people in feel loved? I tell them the golden words are leased her book Entertaining in 1980, I could challenged neighborhoods in Chicago, so now be kind, be polite and be brave. If you do all reproduce everything in her book to a tee.” we’ve taken that work to a rural setting.” of these things they will get you through your Salgueiro has always been an artist, having For more information on Salgueiro’s art- life. What’s great about living in my hometown painted since he was four-years-old. However, work, visit www.facebook.com/pages/Susej- for most of the year is my mom lives about a he went to college just to please his family, Art/223557601001561; for Smith’s various block away from our house, which is great, be- because they wanted him to get a degree in endeavors, visit http://www.chefartsmith. cause the kids not only get to bond with their something so he would have a career to fall net/chef_art_homepage/index.htm. Salgueiro with finished manhole artwork. back on. WINDY CITY TIMES Sept. 2, 2015 9 There are several renovation projects to tack- ing young folks in transition to living indepen- le, including bringing down and building new, dently. The initial term for the program is two Project Fierce Chicago safe back porches, and kitchen and bathroom years, and we will have a support/accountabil- renovations. ity buddy meetings with residents monthly to Renovations will cost about $75,000 to get help support the achievement of their stated the building prepared for residents. goals,” Avenatti said. “There will be private buys building in “The building will have three flats of housing bedrooms for 8-10 young people, a room for for LGBTQ-identified young adults experiencing a live-in advocate, and our administrative of- homelessness and a live-in resident advocate,” fice in the garden apartment. We also hope to North Lawndale Avenatti said. “The garden flat will house our establish a productive garden in our back lot, administrative office and an additional office to generate produce for the home.” By Ross Forman available to an allied grassroots organization, Numerous individuals and organizations have at a low-cost donation.” contributed to the purchase of this home, Av- It’s all smiles these days at Project Fierce Chi- Avenatti, 31, lives in rural Indiana, although enatti said. The PFC leadership team includes cago (PFC), but now the real work starts—and she travels to Chicago for PFC meetings, events Avenatti, along with Cassandra Warren, Jacque- that’s a good thing. and engagements. She grew up in rural Indi- line Boyd, Carrie Kaufman, Tasasha Henderson Project Fierce Chicago—which promotes it- ana, and after moving to cities around the and former team members Andre Perez and self as a grassroots collective of radical social world for a few years, she moved to Chicago in Katrina Sanford. “We also have had dozens of workers, youth advocates and other community 2007 and lived there for eight years. Avenatti volunteers at various points that have made members who are working together to establish is partnered to trans Latino tech geek and writ- our progress possible, as well as hundreds of community-driven, identity-affirming housing er Asher Diaz, who works in higher education, donors who’ve given what they can, and a few in Chicago—announced in late August that it she said. larger individual donors. We are grateful for all had purchased a four-flat building on Chicago’s “The purchase of this building is the cul- of this support,” Avenatti said. Southwest Side that will eventually be home mination of more than two years of organiz- The building is located in the North Lawndale to LGBTQ young people experiencing homeless- ing, fundraising and community-building, and neighborhood, near public transportation and ness. countless hours of work, all done by volun- several community organizations. The building “I couldn’t be more exited, and grateful,” teers,” Avenatti said. “I’ve been on the verge has been a residence for at least the past 10 said Cassandra Avenatti, the founder and a of joyful tears since we signed [for] the build- years, and was foreclosed on. leadership team member for Project Fierce ing. We’ve spent countless hours, sweat and “The [PFC] leadership team [is] incredibly Chicago. “We have worked incredibly hard for tears on this project, and to see it come to grateful for the hard work of all our volunteers, nearly three years on this project, and to have fruition, with people [who] I deeply love and past and present, and to the broader commu- it begin to realize is so fulfilling. We have all respect, is magical. The fact that we’ve done all nity for believing in our vision, and continuing labored as unpaid volunteers while balancing of this solely with and for community, outside to support us,” Avenatti said. “The best way for paid employment, activism and personal lives, of systems we find problematic, is even more folks to help ensure that we can open our doors and through everything, have challenged our- satisfying.” and serve LGBTQ young people, is to consider selves and each other to be accountable to our PFC raised more than $125,000 over the past becoming sustainers, or sustaining members, ideals, and to remain hopeful about what is two years, largely from small, individual dona- who give monthly, and help ensure our sustain- possible outside of traditional non-profit sys- tions. ability.” tems. This is what community looks like.” The building ultimately will provide transi- For more information, or to support the Renovation on the building will begin soon tional housing for about 10 LGBTQ-identified cause, go to http://projectfiercechicago.org/ and continue through the fall. The hope is to young adults experiencing homelessness. get-involved/. be open to residents by next winter, Avenatti Project Fierce Chicago’s Cassandra Avenatti. “The program is designed as a longer-term said. Photo by Angelique Smithby Ryan Bourque transitional program, with the goal of support- 10 Sept. 2, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES viewpoints Union, and the Human Rights Campaign Foun- events to engage school communities of all dation, it discusses basic concepts, general grades throughout the academic year, includ- WINDY guidelines for meeting the needs of transgen- ing Ally Week, ThinkB4YouSpeak, the Day of der youth, specific issues impacting them, best Silence, No Name-Calling Week, and the Safe practices, and the legal landscape. Download it Space Kit. glsen.org. CITY Dana free at genderspectrum.org. PFLAG’s Safe Schools for All: Cultivating Re- RUDOLPH Not LGBTQ-specific, but of use because of spect program has similar materials (in English the high incidence of bullying based on real and Spanish) for making schools safer, reduc- TIMES MOMBIAN or perceived LGBTQ status, is Bullying and The ing bullying, and providing comprehensive Law, a guide by attorney Adele Kimmel of Pub- health education. They also offer a certifica- VOL. 30, No. 49, Sept. 2, 2015 The combined forces of Windy City Times, Back-to-school lic Justice, a national impact litigation group. tion program for PFLAG members who want to founded Sept. 1985, and Outlines newspaper, Kimmel describes the options parents have, in- assist with staff training and policy creation founded May 1987. reflections cluding legal action, when students are bullied, in local schools. community.pflag.org/safe- and suggests things to consider when thinking schoolsforall. and resources PUBLISHER & EXECUTIVE EDITOR about such action. She also provides informa- The Gay-Straight Alliance Network has great Tracy Baim Back-to-school time always raises mixed feel- tion on what parents can reasonably expect materials for starting or sustaining a GSA. ings in me. On the one hand, years of being in from schools in those situations, and what the gsanetwork.org. ASSISTANT PUBLISHER Terri Klinsky MANAGING EDITOR Andrew Davis academia make me see September, not January, options are when schools don’t do enough. In addition to taking comfort in the resourc- The guide was created for the Bully Project, an es available, I am also grateful that the school ASSOCIATE EDITOR Matt Simonette as the start of the year (or maybe it’s just a BUSINESS MANAGER Ripley Caine Jewish thing). On the other, the lazy days of anti-bullying initiative inspired by the award- year gives us opportunities to build bridges as DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA Jean Albright summer are giving way to school time’s hec- winning 2011 film Bully. Download it at www. we work towards equity for all. For example, ART DIRECTOR Kirk Williamson SENIOR REPORTER Gretchen Rachel Hammond tic rush, with my son’s after-school activities, thebullyproject.com/bullying_the_law. one new study, by Abbie Goldberg of Clark Uni- Other, long-standing school resources par- versity, has shown that many adopted children, Senior Account Executives Terri Klinsky, Kirk homework reminders, and the various other Williamson, Amy Matheny, Chris Cheuvront, Gretchen events and paperwork that public education ents should know about include: with both same- and different-sex parents, ex- Rachel Hammond, Rafael Alanis brings in its wake. The Human Rights Campaign’s Welcoming perience stigmatization in preschool. This is NATIONAL SALES Rivendell Media, 212-242-6863 SENIOR WRITERS Bob Roehr, Tony Peregrin, Lisa My son is starting seventh grade, his second Schools project covers family diversity, gender sobering—but also a chance for us to work stereotyping and bullying. Its website includes with non-LGBTQ adoptive parents on solutions. Keen, Yasmin Nair year in the school and seventh in the same dis- THEATER EDITOR Scott C. Morgan trict, so I’m not particularly stressing about his a section just for parents and caregivers as well In doing so, we can also find ways to be al- CINEMA WRITER Richard Knight Jr. adjustment this time around—which is not to for teachers and administrators, with book rec- lies across the many aspects of all our varied SPORTS WRITER Ross Forman ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WRITERS say I don’t have a fairly normal amount of con- ommendations, ideas for building community, identities. suggestions for productive discussions, and Finally, I have faith in my son and his own Mary Shen Barnidge, Lawrence Ferber, Mel Ferrand, cern about the quality of his teachers and the Jerry Nunn, Jonathan Abarbanel kindness of his classmates. I’m sure it will all much more. welcomingschools.org. sense of self-confidence and self-worth. He COLUMNISTS/WRITERS: Yvonne Zipter, Jorjet Harper, be fine, but I dislike the uncertainty. Family Equality Council’s Inclusive Schools knows his family is as good as anyone else’s, Charlsie Dewey, Carrie Maxwell, Billy Masters, Sarah Toce, Dana Rudolph, Melissa Wasserman, Joe Franco, As a lesbian mom, I also always have a little page offers sample letters that parents can even if its structure is different from most in send to teachers to start conversations about his school. I have to trust that he’ll stand up Nick Patricca, Liz Baudler, Rex Wockner, Marie J. niggle in the back of my head at the start of Kuda, Angelique Smith, Meghan Streit the school year about whether my son will en- LGBTQ inclusion; suggestions for making school for himself when needed and that he’ll come SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHERS Mel Ferrand, Hal Baim, Tim counter any bias or harassment because he has forms more inclusive, and book ideas for all to my spouse and me if things escalate beyond Carroll, Ed Negron WEBSITE LISTINGS VOLUNTEER Gene Naden two moms. I try not to dwell on that, however, ages. familyequality.org/get_involved/inclu- where he feels he can handle it alone. I also but to reassure myself with three things. sive_schools hope he will be an ally to those of identities First, the number of school-related resources GLSEN’s Ready, Set, Respect Toolkit has tools different from his own, and that many of his CIRCULATION CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Jean Albright for teachers, LGBTQ parents and the parents of and lesson plans for elementary school teach- peers will be allies to him in turn. ers, covering name-calling and bullying, fam- A new year is full of new possibilities. I’m DISTRIBUTION: Ashina, Allan, Dan, John, Sue and LGBTQ children is growing ever larger. Two new Victor items this year deserve special attention. ily diversity, gender-role diversity, and more. optimistic it will be a fun and exciting one for WEB HOSTING: LoveYourWebsite.com (lead Schools In Transition: A Guide for Support- glsen.org/readysetrespect. our family. 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THEATER REVIEW hauling the whole show. too. But it’s bigger than that. It’s a metaphor “The first version is more of a backstage sto- for difference in whatever way.” ry, the revival version being more of a bio-pic Porchlight Music Theatre’s Chicago pre- and more about their life story,” said Russell, miere of the revised Side Show plays from noting that he and Krieger didn’t have as much Friday, Sept. 11, through Sunday, Oct. 18, at Conjoined anew available historical material to draw from when Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave. Previews they initially wrote Side Show. run through Sept. 14, with an official press By SCOTT C. MORGAN productions just in case we didn’t get the con- But as a nod to the fanatical fans who cher- opening 7:30 p.m. Sept. 15. tracts for the revisal, which is very, very differ- ish Side Show in its initial form, Russell said Previews are $35 and opening night (with When Porchlight Music Theatre included the ent. For instance we needed to cast someone that theater companies will have the option reception) is $50; regular-run tickets are critically acclaimed Broadway musical Side who could play (the famed illusionist) Harry to license and produce either the original 1997 $39-$45. Call 773-327-5252 or visit www. Show as part of its 2015-16 season, it was ini- Houdini in the new version, but if we didn’t get or the revised 2014 version through Samuel porchlightmusictheatre.org. tially announced that it would be the original the rights, then he would play another charac- French, Inc. 1997 version and not the thoroughly revised ter in the older version.” “It’s always been so moving to me about how 2014 revival edition overseen by Academy What prompted all the Side Show revisions much this show means to people,” said Russell, Award-winner Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters, in part was the passion of Condon, who was adding that growing up gay and effeminate in LGBTRIVIALGBTRIVIA Chicago). But it was Side Show’s book writer enamored of the original version. But also a a hyper-masculine cattle-ranching place like and lyricist, Bill Russell, who put the pressure wealth of more information about the Hilton Black Hills, South Dakota, made him feel like Three Supreme Court justices on Porchlight to switch to the newer version. twins became known thanks to Dean Jensen’s “the biggest freak in the world in that environ- ? ? in which state lost their “We worked quite a long time on this new 2006 biography The Lives and Loves of Daisy ment.” judicial retention races in version,” Russell said, noting the regional pro- and Violet Hilton: A True Story of Conjoined “Relating to a side show attraction of con- 2010 because they were part ductions of Side Show at La Jolla Playhouse in Twins and Leslie Zemeckis’ 2012 film documen- joined twins felt absolutely that it hit home of? the unanimous 2009 ruling California and at the Kennedy Center in Wash- tary Bound by Flesh. Condon pushed Russell and it was not a leap for me,” Russell said. in favor of marriage equality? ington, D.C., that led up to the musical’s criti- and composer Henry Krieger (Dreamgirls) to “I don’t see Side Show as a gay metaphor, al- ? Answer on page 22 cally acclaimed return to Broadway. “I’m very strengthen the story and they ended up over- though if people read it that way, I’m happy, proud of it and I really think we didn’t do all that work to make it worse. I feel like it plays better and I really wanted to get it out there so this seemed like a good first step.” What hastened the switch for Porchlight was the premature closing of Side Show on Broad- way in early 2015. Despite rave reviews, Side Show didn’t draw in huge tourist crowds to keep it afloat. It’s a fate that also befell the original Broadway production which also gar- nered much critical praise. Russell cited what is known as an “ick fac- tor” that might initially turn off general audiences when told that Side Show is based upon the tragic story of real-life show-biz conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton (1908-1969). Fused at the pelvis, the duo were essentially sold at birth into showbiz servitude, but their hard work and talent elevated them above the fairground freak shows to become the highest- paid touring act in vaudeville. “It’s a curious situation, because once you get the people there, they tend to love it. The Broadway revival got rave reviews and the response was positively ecstatic, but we couldn’t sell enough tickets,” Russell said. “Ironically, Side Show has done very well regionally.” Negotiating the version switch was a little dicey time-wise according to Porchlight artistic director Michael Webber, who also directs the post-Broadway premiere of the revised Side Show. “It all came to a head about the same time— Bill was working with the lawyers in New York in order to solidify the rights and the licens- ing, but we really had our backs against the Side Show. wall because we needed to start casting and Photo by Brandon Dahlquist getting contracts put out there,” Webber said. “We were basically preparing for two different 12 Sept. 2, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES THEATER REVIEW housekeeper girlfriend who conspire to send an innocent Black man to the gas chamber (“He The Jacksonian knew the system,” shrugs the latter) are easy Playwright: Beth Henley, culprits—but then there’s the wife with artistic At: Profiles Theatre Main Stage, inclinations driven to madness by her insecuri- 4139 N. Broadway ties, and the dentist addicted to the pharma- Tickets: 773-549-1815; copoeia of his trade, who loses his license after www.profilestheatre.org; $35-$40 perpetrating an act of reckless malpractice, Runs through: Oct. 11 rather than risk following in the steps of his suicidal brother. Surrounded by such adults as BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE these, is it any wonder that young Rosy’s tem- perament belies her name and years? Beth Henley’s plays have always hinted at the As with Neil Simon, a few more generations of dark side of the rural/tribal values lingering playgoers are needed to free Henley from the at the cultural roots of our country’s southern expectations of cartoonish grotesquery associ- regions, but smug Yankee directors and audi- ated with her earlier work. In the meantime, ences usually prefer to chuckle complacently at Profiles Theatre director Joe Jahraus and his the droll antics of their hayseed cousins. This cast acknowledge the intimacy of their store- time, however, Henley does not offer them that front quarters to keep their production’s tone option. The scenario proposed by her teen- subdued and acting styles naturalistic—no age narrator starts with a man wearing bloody easy accomplishment in a milieu where people clothes fetching ice from a motel dispensary say things like “She smells like broken cray- and only gets worse after that. ons,” and others reply, “All the colors you don’t Of course, a 16-year-old girl who never re- want to use.” The ensemble work is impeccable, The Jacksonian. moves her coat, deliberately cultivates a but the standout performance of the 85-minute Photo by Michael Brosilowby Ryan Bourque flawed complexion and requests an antique evening is Loyola University freshman Juliana wheelchair for Christmas might not be most Liscio in the role of the forlorn adolescent who child threatened by her parents’ imminent in nearby Meridian—but to draw us a picture of reliable of witnesses, but since she is the sole just might someday write about her experienc- divorce has a right to view the world a little an environment like “a swamp you’re living on survivor of that fatal December night in Jack- es for comfortably uncomprehending strangers sidewise. Anyway, her purpose is not to point that pulls you under.” son, Mississippi during the troubled winter of like us. fingers—the crimes committed by her villains It’s simple to ignore that pull at first. The 1964, we don’t have much choice. Besides, a are far less heinous than the church bombings bartender in the motel coffee shop and his

THEATER REVIEW Our title character is the daughter of a peer to elope to New York (!) begins to crumble the but, tonight, instead of celebrating with Dad- instant they confront the question of money— After Miss Julie dy’s colleagues in the city, prefers to carouse not trust-fund annuities, but ready cash—to Playwright: Patrick Marber, adapted with the servants on the family estate. The finance their flight. from the play By August Strindberg unease felt by the household chauffeur and Time-travel adaptations always raise nagging At: Strawdog Theatre Company, cook—war-scarred John and his ex-intended, questions—could Julie’s untimely executed pet 3829 N. Broadway Christine—at Miss Julie’s frenzied gaiety es- canary gone to an RSPCA shelter, or a Malthu- Tickets: 866-811-4111; calates after their boss’s offspring invades the sian League clinic have spared her free-think- www.strawdog.org; $28 kitchen in flirtatious temper. As the night wears ing mother? Under the insightful direction of Runs through: Sept. 26 on, Julie’s romantic fantasies of mingling with London expat Elly Green and dialect instructor the commoners and John’s of hobnobbing with Adam Goldstein, assisted by Mike Mroch and BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE the elite grow increasingly seductive, leading Jamie Karas’s museum-accurate scenery, Mag- both to engage in rash actions ultimately shat- gie Scrantom’s Julie transcends her persona’s It was 1945 when England’s Labour Party scored tering their fairy-tale illusions of liberty. defensive superficiality to emerge a self-loath- a victory over the Conservatives in the general Overthrow of the established social order may ing nihilist in pursuit of her own destruction— election—translated for Yanks, this meant that not require violence, but rarely does it not in- a task she naturally expects somebody to do the rich lazy aristocrats had been toppled by volve sex. The candor permitted in 2015 allows for her. John Henry Roberts, currently the go- the poor working blokes, who soon initiated a us a more explicit view of issues only hinted to actor for haunted-veteran roles, delivers a bevy of government-welfare programs (among at by Strindberg—the status of Julie’s virgin- likewise complex portrayal of a man trained to them, subsidized housing, unemployment com- ity, for example—and internationally censured obey commands, even at his own peril. Finally, pensation and healthcare). British playwright when uttered by D.H. Lawrence in 1928. Mar- as played by Anita Deely (and written by Mar- Patrick Marber sees parallels between the men ber’s Julie is no hormone-driven Lady Chatter- ber), the pragmatic Christine comes off as the and women seeking to escape their birthright ley, however, since her author is more inter- After Miss Julie. most likely to survive in the new society to at this moment in history and those in August ested in the economics of change than in its Photo by Chris Ocken, Ocken Photographyby come. Never underestimate the quiet ones. Strindberg’s 1888 Swedish shocker. breeding habits. Julie and John’s fanciful plan Ryan Bourque

c THEATER REVIEW The arrival of elderly antiques dealer Grego- CRITICS’ ry Solomon (Mike Nussbaum, playing younger The Price than his actual age of 91!) is the most amus- PICKS Playwright: Arthur Miller ing part of the play as he and Victor chit- At: TimeLine Theatre, chat all the while sizing each other up for the Bad Jews, Theater Wit at Royal George The- 615 W. Wellington Ave. potential transaction. Solomon has seen it all atre, through Oct. 4. Takes sides in an epic Tickets: 773-281-8463 or when it comes to family bickering over divid- battle over a prized family heirloom in Josh- www.timelinetheatre.com; $38-$51 ing the estate, and he wisely waits things out ua Harmon’s scathingly funny and thoughtful Runs through Nov. 22 once Victor’s far more financially successful comedy. SCM brother, Walter (Roderick Peeples), makes a The Dueling Gentlemen, Silent Theatre at BY SCOTT C. MORGAN surprise appearance near the close of Act I. Athenaeum Theatre, through Sept. 20. Mar- Watching this quartet hash out a price vin Quijada and Marcus Fittanto pack a whole The instant you walk into TimeLine Theatre’s for the antiques all the while dredging out evening’s worth of laughs, tears, violence and production of The Price, you’re confronted by long-held assumptions and life-long grudges slapstick clowning into a single fast-paced stacks of antique furniture piled up haphaz- is great dramatic stuff. Yet it’s all enhanced hour, with the help of ivory-tickling Elliot Tag- ardly to the ceiling by scenic and lighting when put in context to our own situation of gart. MSB designer Brian Sidney Bembridge. And soon recently weathering the global financial crisis The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, No Stakes enough, all that left-behind excess turns out The Price. of 2008. The Price looks at how two brothers Theater Project at Theater Wit, through Sept. to have larger metaphorical implications in coped as the inheritors of a confidence-shat- Photo by Lara Goetsch 5. Emotionally-stunted LV is an adolescent vo- this 1968 drama that has been so lovingly tering financial crash and how their family cal prodigy who channels Garland, Piaf, Holi- and astutely revived by director Louis Contey loyalties drastically diverged. day, etc. and won’t leave her room. Intriguing to time with the centennial of its playwright, Then the plot gets set into motion with the By producing The Price now, TimeLine rather than satisfying, this play is very well the late Arthur Miller. smartly taps into the current debates about done. JA arrival of Victor’s wife, Esther (Kymberly Mel- After a savvy sound montage by designer len), who insists that he get a fair price for income inequality and the value of placing Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight, Andrew Hansen that foreshadows the play in the lot of items held onto by his family af- one profession’s worth over another. The per- Windy City Playhouse, through Oct. 4. The ster- the memories of the characters and its current formances are all great (save for some shaky ling cast and director William Brown’s funny ter they were wiped out by the stock market setting, the first person to swagger in is po- crash of 1929. Esther initially comes off as delivery of the New York dialects from Mel- production make Peter Ackerman’s 1999 sex lice officer Victor Franz (Bret Tuomi). At first len). In particular, it’s a wonder to watch comedy far better than what’s printed on the being very superficial, especially when she he just seems like a security guard keeping gets upset when Victor reveals that he’ll be Nussbaum hit it out of the park with a perfor- page. So go if you want some silly laughs tied watch over a dilapidated Manhattan pile, but mance makes us all wish that we could be as to conflicts around sex. SCM wearing his police uniform for their night out it becomes very clear that Victor previously on the town. smart, sharp and active at his age. —By Abarbanel, Barnidge grew up amid such luxurious items. and Morgan WINDY CITY TIMES Sept. 2, 2015 13 SPOTLIGHT

e The sex-positive variety show Menage-A-Hah returns for another stint at Mary’s Attic, this time featuring standup comedy sets from Zach Peterson and Shannon Noll, burlesque strip- ping from Stephanie Hawking, a rope-bondage demonstration from BadKitty Bondage and the chance to win prizes from The Pleasure Chest. Mary Zee and Eric Barry are the co-hosts. Me- nage-A-Hah plays 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 3, at Mary’s Attic, upstairs from Hamburger Mary’s at 5400 N. Clark St. Tickets are $10; call 773- 784-6969 or visit www.hamburgermarys.com/ chicago/attic. Photo from Mary Zee October Sky. Photo from Liz Lauren and The Marriott Theatreby Ryan Bourque

THEATER REVIEW influences as varied as the Welsh choral tradition (identified with coal mining), blue grass, October Sky rockabilly and tight harmony vocals without Playwright: Aaron Thielen (book), actually imitating them. It’s contemporary Michael Mahler (music/lyrics) mainstream show music, although David Sie- At: Marriott Theatre, gel’s lovely orchestrations make concessions to 10 Marriott Dr., Lincolnshire tradition by eliminating the brass section in fa- Tickets: 1-847-634-0200; vor of strings, reeds, acoustic bass, banjo and www.MarriottTheatre.com; $50-$55 mandolin, and I say bravo! Mahler’s lyric are Runs through: Oct. 11 much to be admired. Although written in stan- doctor in Gulfport, Mississippi—who stayed dard rhymed formats, his lyrics almost always Play to mark 10th behind to take care of patients as the storm BY JONATHAN ABARBANEL sound conversational rather than overly-poetic hit in August 2005. or forced, which is admirable. anniv. of Katrina Previews will be Wed, Oct. 21-Sunday, Oct. The Raven Theatre, 6157 N. Clark St., will This world premiere musical is based on a Director Rachel Rockwell handles a large 25, with press openings Monday, Oct. 26 and observe the 10th anniversary of Hurricane popular 1999 movie and, in turn, an autobio- ensemble well, although October Sky is not Tuesday, Oct. 27. The regular run will be Oct. Katrina with The Play About My Dad. graphical novel by Homer Hickam. It tells of a dance show, despite Rockwell’s credentials 30-Nov. 28. The Play About My Dad, by Boo Killebrew, four teenage boys—with Homer as hero—who as a choreographer. Indeed, dance opportuni- Tickets are on sale now at www.raventhe- opened at New York’s 595 E 59 Theatres in rebel against limited expectations imposed ties—or at least more elaborate musical stag- atre.com or 773-338-2177. by their elders and stifling small-town social ing—must be developed if the show expects to June 2011. It tells of the author’s father—a conditions. The four are sons of coalminers have a future. This world premiere also is 15 in late-1950s hard-scrabble West Virginia, in- minutes too long, with too many repetitions of spired by the “Sputnik Crisis” to become rocket the conflict between Homer (a charming Nate scientists. Indeed, Hickam did actually make it Lewellyn, a good Welsh name) and his father to NASA. (stalwart David Hess, earning sympathy in It’s a cliché story with bits of Billy Elliot, the least sympathetic role), and perhaps one The Jazz Singer, Footloose and numerous other rocket test too many by the four lads. Also, against-the-odds tales of adolescent triumph. the intermission doesn’t work. Act I ends with Its character types are instantly familiar, which a mine explosion but we don’t learn its conse- may benefit the show, even as much of the quence, which is that Homer leaves high school story is predictable, which is not a benefit. to replace his father in the mine. Beneficial or not, it’s the story with which the That’s where the intermission needs to be. It musical co-authors had to work and the central would require shortening Act I, and it would question is whether or not they’ve turned it naturally make Act II faster. into anything bigger or better. Everyone in this show is good. Besides A professional colleague of mine, a fan of Lewellyn, the four cute-as-buttons teens are the movie, dissed the show at intermission, Ben Barker, Alex Weisman and Patrick Rooney. easily dismissing Michael Mahler’s score. My Veterans supplying heartfelt supporting work colleague was wrong. Mahler’s music often is include Susan Moniz, Derek Hasenstab, Terry magical and always is easy to like. It draws on Hamilton and Johanna McKenzie Miller.

The special exhibitions program will join COT gets largest 140 galleries representing 16 countries and 46 cities from around the world. single gift A few of the special exhibitions are Shop- Andreas Mitisek, general director of Chi- Columbia, Columbia College Chicago’s stu- cago Opera Theater (COT), announced that dent and alumni art boutique; Human Rights the company has received a $1.5-million gift Watch, which will showcase six photographs from Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson. by world-renowned photographer Sebastiao Their gift is the single largest contribution Salgado; and Union League Club of Chicago in the company’s 42-year history. presenting a selection of works by female Combined with a recent, anonymous artists who have shaped art in Chicago. $500,000 gift, this gift brings COT $2M clos- Visit EXPOChicago.com. er to meeting its goal of raising an additional $5M in funds over five years so that the company can present a five-opera season. ‘Punk Punk’ to run Sept. 22-Oct. 10 EXPO Chicago Nothing Without a Company will premiere the production Punk Punk—described as “a reveals special dark comedy filled with live music”—Sept. exhibitions 22-Oct. 10 at Fat Cat Bar, 4840 N. Broadway. EXPO Chicago, The International Exposi- It will feature Anna Rose Ii-Epstein, Jamie tion of Contemporary & Modern Art, has Newell and Caroline Wright. announced 25 special exhibitions to be in- Previews (Sept. 22-23) are $5-10, with cluded in the fourth annual exposition Sept. regular-run admission $15-30; visit Nothing- 17-20 at Navy Pier. WithoutACompany.org. 14 Sept. 2, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES and a contemporary who said that Henrietta Henrietta Bingham on Fourth Street, Louisville. ‘wasn’t congenial—she liked girls and I liked Undated photo from the family collection boys.’ I sometimes wished I had that kind of ability to draw others in, but ultimately I feel that it derived from very deep wounds, as a way to exert power when she felt so afraid, a way to seize love and passion when she feared it would never last and could be snatched from her at any moment. I feel lucky not to be operating from such hurts.” Henrietta ran as far away as she possibly could from the Emily family’s media empire, while, with Irrepressible, Emily appears to be right in the middle of it. “My family sold its media properties when I was in college,” Emily explained. “Before that, I expected to be ‘in the running’ to play a large role in that world, but things changed dramati- cally. In many ways, this was dislocating, but as a result of the sales, I have been far freer to BOOKS chart my own course than I might have been. I’m very progressive politically, but I have a strong sense of duty and would have done my Uncovering the past: best to keep the businesses afloat in what would have turned out to be highly challeng- ing times. Henrietta was extremely loyal to her father and also ambitious, but the public role Emily Bingham she was offered would have made her uncon- ventional lifestyle completely impossible.” The younger members of the Emily family is ‘Irrepressible’ have responded positively to the rehashing of dirty laundry, so to speak. “My 11-year-old son told me, ‘I want to know all the Henrietta stories,’ and, now that she is By Sarah Toce American musicians and performers. You taught actress Hope Williams and artist Dora Car- back on our family tree, he will,” Emily shared. yourself the saxophone in the early 1920s when rington. “That said, if my grandparents [Henrietta’s Kentucky-born Moredcai author Emily Bingham white Southern belles were not supposed to be “All three of these women were strong, some- little brother and his wife] were living, I’m not discovered treasure trunks in the attic that blowing on horns. You loved the Charleston and what androgynous, and achieved remarkable sure the book could have been written.” would one day unlock a lifetime of family his- the Black Bottom. What about jazz, blues, jug things professionally in a time when most If Henrietta were alive today, Emily imagines tory only she could illustrate to the world. Her music and African-American culture appealed women were expected to fulfill very traditional she would very much have approved of the Su- painstaking research would result in Irrepress- to you. You crossed the color line regularly and familial roles,” Emily explained. “None were preme Court’s decision to pass marriage equal- ible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham. introduced many people to these artists you be- classically beautiful, but all had their own ity nationwide. Emily explained, “In 1998, 30 years after friended, but whose music did you most love? magnetism. They were all ‘known’ and willing “Oh, she would be absolutely thrilled,” Em- Henrietta Bingham died in New York City on Count Basie, Florence Mills, Bessie Smith? So to risk their reputations to pursue their de- ily said. “To do away with the terrible silence the eve of the Stonewall Riots, I had a daugh- many people were in love with you—did any of sires.” and secrecy about sexuality would have been ter and named her after this great-aunt I them fall under your spell, as well?” Emily also said, “Carrington was a remarkably a huge relief and might have saved her from knew very little about—except that she had —“Tell me about your relationship with your complex person, perhaps gender dysphoric, and great anguish and self-destructiveness.” spent time in London in the 1920s and had mother, who died in violently in a car accident Henrietta was able to give her a degree of phys- Being that Emily uncovered quite a bit about been acquainted with some members of the (you were there) when you were 12 and how ical pleasure (Carrington was over 30) she had Henrietta from trunks left in the attic, does it Bloomsbury Group, the sexually and artisti- that affected your rocky but highly interde- never come close to. Unfortunately, the screen- inspire her to leave her own trunks in the attic cally avant-garde circle around Virginia Woolf pendent bond with your father, the newspaper writer of the 1995 biopic, Carrington, decided for future generations? and her sister Vanessa Bell. And that she would publisher and active Democratic Party supporter, that her ‘polymorphous’ side was simply too “I keep all my old diaries and many letters,” upset my father when he was a boy by slipping Robert Worth Bingham. He adored you, spoiled complicated to include! But Henrietta slipped Emily said. “I even save emails. God knows the bacon out of his BLTs when he wasn’t look- you, and wanted you to succeed him in his me- between her fingers, as she did with almost what will become of them. But I encourage ev- ing. And that my grandmother, in an interview dia empire. Why didn’t you?” anyone who tried to hold on to her hard. Hope eryone to keep a box that tells about their life I conducted with her in the early 1990s, noted Williams, who taught Katherine Hepburn her and turn it over to a local or national archive. in passing that her sister-in-law Miss Henrietta trademark swagger, was a very private person Historians need primary material like this to was ‘you know, an introvert.’” and a supremely gifted performer—I wonder if put together the stories of the past and the An introvert with a colorful past, some might Henrietta was too indiscreet for her. Helen was Twitter archive simply won’t convey the inter- say. younger. She idolized Henrietta, and with her action of inner and social/public life that we “She was clearly a big character. I liked the Henrietta found the most stability long term.” most need to understand to know what it felt strong Victorian name and the association with Progressive Henrietta was sent to Freud for like in other times.” Etta James and felt it was worth reviving,” Em- an analysis of her bisexuality. Emily Bingham is married to Stephen Reily ily said. “My father walked into the hospital “Henrietta was ‘pushed’ into treatment not by and they share three children. The book Ir- room where I was holding the tiny new Hen- her family, but by one of her first lovers and repressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta rietta and said, ‘How could you do this to a her Smith College professor, Mina Kirstein,” Bingham is available now on Amazon and child?’ Clearly there were things I had not been Emily said. “Mina had decided that she needed other retailers. told everything about Henrietta. He had some to move away from lesbianism. Henrietta did harrowing tales from her later years—of addic- cultivate affairs with men during this period as tion and dependency—but once there was a Dr. Jones and Mina hoped she would, but she new Henrietta in the world others approached never stopped seeing women, too. I only wish me with stories and photographs and objects, I had her perspective on the effort she put into thrilled to have the chance to speak about her analysis and whether she would do it if she someone they had found devastatingly fasci- had the chance to start over.” nating. Slowly, I began to think that Henrietta Emily recalled that “Freudian analysis was deserved another moment in the limelight.” very new and quite scandalous in the early Emily Bingham. Henrietta died when Emily was just 3 years 1920s. Many bookstores refused to stock Photo by Leslie Lyons old. The mystery of her great aunt’s reputation Freud’s writings, seeing them as obscene. Many piqued her curiosity and, to this day, Emily homosexuals found in analysis a safer place to still harbors questions. For instance, if given In lieu of these questions that shall forev- discuss things considered taboo in the wider an hour to sit and chat with her departed, she er go unanswered, Emily did discover quite a culture—sex, desire, anger, abuse. On one would likely pose the following questions: backstory to her great aunt’s love life, which hand, Freud saw homosexuality as a neurosis —“When you began psychoanalysis with Dr. included “over 200 love letters from two men and an unfortunate sign of an incomplete reso- Ernest Jones, the leading Freudian in the English she almost married in the 1920s, Bloomsbury lution of the Oedipal stage of life. On the other speaking world, did you know that he wanted sculptor Stephen Tomlin and the producer/ac- hand, his theory acknowledged its existence to make you transfer your desires ‘from women tor John Houseman,” she said. and that all people are born bisexual.” to men,’ as he wrote? Did he help you—even The love letters were at the bottom of a trunk In comparison to Emily’s life, Henrietta might though you continued to love mainly women— in her family attic, just a few feet above her possibly be bored had she been alive today. or did your time with him leave you with a layer childhood bedroom, her entire life. However, “Henrietta had a degree of allure, of magne- of shame for not ‘moving beyond’ what he con- noticeably missing were the love letters writ- tism, that I simply don’t possess,” Emily said. sidered neurotic behavior?” ten between Henrietta and her lady loves, “It attracted men and women, though it also —“You spent so much time with African- which included tennis great Helen Hull Jacobs, repelled some, my grandmother, for instance, WINDY CITY TIMES Sept. 2, 2015 15 TransReelization: Second annual event opens hearts, doors By Gretchen Rachel Hammond with us don’t necessarily want to be in a com- munal environment. Are we better off giving Award-winning filmmaker Lana Wachowski people their own apartment and moving the opened her art and the Chicago studio that subsidies out there?” forges it to more than 170 people on Aug. 29. Driving the point of the TransLife Center Those who attended the second annual Tran- home, among the four films painstakingly cu- sReelization event held at Kinowerks Studio rated for the event by host committee mem- not only received an intimate tour through the bers Karin Winslow and Mickey Mahoney was boundless imagination of Wachowski and her Elise—a devastating look into the life of a brother Andy but three of the stars from their young trans woman of color whose dreams are critically acclaimed Netflix series Sense8—Ja- contained in simply getting through the next mie Clayton, Miguel Angel Silvestre and Brian 24 hours on the streets of Washington, D.C. J. Smith—provided live commentary to select- Another of the evenings films, Flying Solo— Above (from left): Director Lana Wachowski and Sense8 stars Brian J. Smith, Jamie Clayton ed scenes. about 92-year-old World War II veteran Robina and Miguel Angel Silvestre. Below: Chicago House CEO the Rev. Stan Sloan. According to Chicago House Chief Develop- Asti who faced a further battle with the Social Photos by Gretchen Rachel Hammondby Ryan Bourque ment Officer James LoBianco, the red-carpet Security Administration (SSA) for spousal ben- evening was expected to raise more than efits as a transgender widow—struck a particu- $60,000 toward the organization’s TransLife lar chord with the evening’s recipient of the Center, which provides critically needed hous- Keeping it Reel award Colonel Jennifer Pritzker. ing, a comprehensive range of support pro- “Greater knowledge and understanding of grams and resources to transgender individuals transgender people benefits the entire com- suffering from HIV/AIDS or other chronic ill- munity,” Pritzker said. “We would not be here nesses, homelessness and poverty. now and certainly not having a ceremony like Chicago House CEO Rev. Stan J. Sloan told this one without people like [Asti] who won Windy City Times that both the present and the essential victory for all of us. It is so ap- future of the facility offer encouragement and propriate that all she asked for was to harvest possible expansion into independent living for what nearly a century of life and work earned its residents. for her—a simple recognition that transgender “We’re part of a national HRSA [Health Re- people are just that: people.” sources and Services Administration] study and For more information about the TransLife we are exceeding all expectations with that,” Center, visit www.ChicagoHouse.org/?post_ he said. “One of the things we are gauging is causes=translife-center. that, just like any adult, the folks who stay

mented on the night’s happenings, such as when Chicago rapper Kanye West made his speech after accepting the Video Vanguard Award: “ Kanye is preaching in this house and taking no prisoners! This speech is pop- culture gold.” ERS Regarding the awards themselves, it was IV AR Taylor Swift’s night, as the converted pop N Y singer (and rapper Kendrick Lamar) won Video of the Year and Best Collaboration for N “Bad Blood.” She also won Best Female Video A and Best Pop Video for “Blank Space.” Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson won Best Male Video H for “Uptown Funk.” T Among those who performed and/or pre-

sented were Swift (with Nicki Minaj, at one 0 point), Britney Spears, Macklemore and Ryan

Lewis, Pharrell Williams, Demi Lovato, Justin 3 Bieber and The Weeknd. Trans documentary’s campaign launched The Trans Oral History Project (TOHP), the oldest transgender-led organization dedicat- Myles Brady (right) and Precious Davis ed to sharing trans stories, announced that it on the night of the MTV VMAs. is launching a new documentary Web series. Facebook image America in Transition (AIT) will highlight PARTY social issues and positive role models from . 27 underrepresented trans communities across Local trans residents the United States. SuN., SEPT Building relationships within and between 2- 5 Pm @ part of MTV VMAs communities is central to AIT’s model. AIT Chicago transgender residents Precious Da- Director Andre Perez started working toward vis and Myles Brady were part of the 2015 AIT almost a year ago by establishing a com- MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs). munity advisory board, recruiting media men- Davis and fiance Myles Brady were part of a tors and forging partnerships with more than transgender contingent that introduced host $30 doNATIoN AT THE dooR 30 organizations around the country such as INcLudES oNE dRINk TIckET PLuS A fEAST of “JuST dESSERTS” Miley Cyrus’ newest single. Cyrus herself re- Disability Visibility, Lambda Legal, Medium, cently came out as pansexual. Trans Lifeline and United Latino Pride. Davis captioned one Facebook photo of AIT is launching its first fundraiser ever, via muSIc + cELEALbkRATI dowoN m+ EmoRY LANE her and Brady thusly: “ @mrmylesbrady and an Indiegogo campaign for $5,000 ($10,000 AL w I at the #vmas tonight representing the @ A VISu stretch goal); visit http://igg.me/at/My- TS of gREAT dooR PRIzES happyhippiefdn #mylesandprecious #dream- Lo TransStory. For more, see http://americain- scometrue #transisbeautiful.” She also com- transition.org/mytransstory/. 16 Sept. 2, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES play in the major leagues. “He can’t be much cago Metropolitan Sports Association (CMSA), farther away than he is,” Bean said. “He’s got are the city’s lone team competing in the top MLB inclusion six [minor league] levels ahead of him. He’s tiered A-Division, running through Aug. 22. [now] playing a notch above college baseball, Kevin Ball, 37, who lives in Andersonville and but not much more.” is the president of In Grape Company, is the Still, “it’s another milestone” for the LGBT Menace pitcher. He has played CMSA softball ambassador talks sports movement, Bean said. for eight years and also has played CMSA vol- And should Denson make it to the majors, leyball, dodgeball and basketball. he then becomes, “one of the most important Ball was a Division III baseball pitcher and about newly out player stories of the LGBT sports movement, ever,” was one of two selected, out of 1,200, at a Bean said. Colorado Rockies tryout. By Ross Forman Denson’s coming-out came days before one Ball is straight, married. of the largest LGBT sports events of the year— “I thought it was great,” that Denson came Billy Bean received a random text message the annual Gay Softball World Series, run by out, Ball said. “What was more exciting than during spring training for the 2015 baseball the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Al- just that he came out was, that there seems season from David Denson, who said he plays liance (NAGAAA), an event that dates back to to be some growth and acceptance [for gay baseball—although was a bit short on specif- 1977. The 2015 NAGAAA World Series, held in athletes].” ics—and was hoping Bean, Major League Base- Columbus, Ohio, features more than 180 teams Ball said that, 20 years ago, when he was ball’s ambassador for inclusion, would call him from across the U.S. and Canada, playing in pitching in college and then in his brief stint back. four talent-based divisions, and fifth for play- with the Rockies’ organization, he never could They talked the next day, and Bean sensed ers aged 50 and over. have envisioned a player coming out. So, Den- Denson was young. Denson said he played for The Chicago Menace, representing the Chi- son’s coming-out “means a lot,” Ball said. the Milwaukee Brewers’ organization and was curious if Bean was planning to talk to the team about LGBT inclusion, as he did during enue in Grant Park. The start time is 6:30 spring training for many teams. p.m. Denson then, seemingly out of nowhere, said, Through the foundation, attorneys have “You and me are the same,” recalled Bean, who volunteered free legal services for the work- thought the confirmation that he is gay was ing poor since 1964. “very candid.” Registration is $39; visit CVLS.org/judica- Denson, 20, of African-American and His- ta. panic descent, had then just recently told his parents and they were slowly OK with it; his dad struggled with the coming-out the most. Chicago Sky playoff Bean told Denson that he could reach out tickets on sale whenever he wanted to talk, whatever time of Tickets to see the Chicago Sky in the 2015 day, be it about baseball or life in general. WNBA playoffs are on sale. That started regular text messages between David Denson. Following a historic 2014 season in which the two and phone calls every week or so. Photo courtesy of Kevin Hudson the Sky won the Eastern Conference champi- Soon, Denson told Bean that he wanted to onship and advanced to the WNBA Finals for come out publicly, yet Bean advised him to I just did.” the first time in the team’s history, Chicago take a few days to make certain he was ready— He came out as gay to his team before a has clinched its third consecutive post-sea- because once you do it, that’s it, Bean said. game. son appearance, thanks to a 98-96 Chicago “[Coming out] was the best decision I made, “Someone said something to him joking Sky victory over the Atlanta Dream and the but I did it after I quit playing,” said Bean, around and he replied, ‘You better be careful; Connecticut Sun’s 80-66 loss to the New York who played for three major league teams from you never know if there would be one in the Liberty on Aug. 29. 1987-95 before retiring. “I also told him that 2013 AIDS Run & Walk. room,’” who might be offended by the com- Photo by Melissa Wasserman Tickets for the first round of the 2015 Sky the greatest regret of my life is that I quit ment, Bean said. playoffs start as low as $19 and fans can lock playing when I still had time to play.” Ultimately, Bean said that Denson “seemed a in a seat for every Sky playoff game and save Denson is just starting his professional base- little relieved, very excited about” coming out. AIDS Run & Walk up to 33 percent by taking advantage of a ball journey, a first baseman dreaming of major And now—after the news that Denson is gay playoff plan. Call 866-SKY-WNBA or visit Chi- league stardom. broke in mid-August, first in a story appear- Sept. 26 at cagoSky.net. He attended Bishop Amat High School in La ing in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel—he is Puente, California, during his freshman year, so happy, Bean said. Soldier Field This year’s AIDS Run & Walk Chicago, and then transferred as sophomore to South (Denson is not doing interviews for the time Rugby player makes hosted by the AIDS Foundation of Chicago Hills High School in West Covina, California, being, Windy City Times was told when request- (AFC) and benefiting 35 other community graduating in 2013. The Milwaukee Brewers se- ing an interview with the baseball prospect. history in England organizations—known as CommunityDirect A British rugby league player has become lected him in the 15th round of the 2013 MLB Bean, though, said he’d “be happy to introduce partners—on Saturday, Sept. 26, at Chicago’s the first professional in his sport to come out Draft, and he played for the Wisconsin Timber him when he’s ready.”) Soldier Field. as gay, Messenger Newspapers reported. Rattlers of the Class-A Midwest League for most Bean said that, over the past few months, This year’s message is “Put your foot Keegan Hirst, 27, told the Sunday Mirror, of 2014. Denson has asked him literally hundreds of down.” In a statement, AFC President/CEO “At first I couldn’t even say ‘I’m gay’ in my He began the 2015 season with Wisconsin, questions. “He wants to be his best self and John Peller said, “We want supporters to put head, let alone out loud. Now I feel like I’m but struggled at the plate and was demoted seems very certain [about coming out],” Bean their foot down and make a difference in this letting out a long breath that I’ve held in for to the Helena Brewers of the Rookie-level Pio- said. “He has no hang ups about [coming out]. epidemic, especially among communities a long time.” Hirst, a father of two, plays for neer League. With Helena, though, Denson was He just wants to go out there and [play the most impacted by HIV.” the Batley Bulldogs. selected to play in the league’s all-star game, game].” The 35 CommunityDirect partners that will Gareth Thomas was previously the only where he was honored as the MiLB.com Top But now, and forever, the spotlight will shine raise funds through this year’s event will re- openly gay rugby player after he came out Star. on Denson. He is, after all, the first active play- ceive 90 percent of all money raised by their while playing for Wales rugby union side Car- “David is of a different generation and very er in affiliated professional baseball to reveal teams. Last year, the 32 CommunityDirect diff Blues in 2009. comfortable with himself, but he was appre- he is gay. Sean Conroy, a pitcher for the So- teams raised a combined $270,000. The article is at http://www.messengernews- hensive as a baseball player; he just wanted to noma Stompers of the independent Pacific As- Event registration is $40 in advance for papers.co.uk/news/national/13599947.I_m_ be judged for that,” said Bean, who noted that sociation, came out in June, becoming the first 5K walkers, and $50 for 5K or 10K runners. gay__says_rugby_league_s_Keegan_Hirst/. Denson even had issues balancing social media active pro baseball player to do so. Conroy’s To register as an individual or as a team, or posts with baseball and personal life matters. league is not affiliated with MLB. to donate to a CommunityDirect team, visit While still playing for Wisconsin, Bean visit- Bean and Glenn Burke are the only two ma- AIDSRunWalk.org or call 312-334-0946. On- ed him to simply watch him play, unbeknownst jor-leaguers revealed they were gay, both com- line registration ends Sept. 20. Stonewall Kickball to the team or MLB. Bean even bought a ticket ing out after retiring. to that game with cash. Former NBA player Jason Collins announced registration in effect He took Denson to dinner after that game. that he is gay after the 2013 season. Collins ‘Race Judicata’ Stonewall Kickball, a non-profit kickball They laughed throughout the night and just played 22 games for the Brooklyn Nets in league, has launched its fall season registra- had a good time, Bean said. 2014 before retiring. Collins was the first ac- Sept. 10 tion. When Denson was demoted to Rookie League, tive player in one of the four major male team Race Judicata—the weeknight 5K run & The league will be playing on Sundays at “that’s when I for sure thought that he’d wait sports to reveal he is gay. walk that raises money for the Chicago Vol- 12-5 p.m. from Sept. 13 through Oct. 25. The until the fall or next season to consider com- “It’s a big story, and great that the Brewers unteer Legal Services (CVLS) Foundation— league’s main goal will be to help raise funds ing-out.,” Bean said. and baseball overall are showing that they are returns for its 21st year on Thursday, Sept. for the local non-profit Fred Says. But Denson “felt very comfortable with” the supportive of a player. Whether or not David 10. Registrations are per player, with no team Helena team, Bean said. makes it to the big leagues, another player is Attracting nearly 5,000 participants (in- registration fees. Visit the Stonewall Kick- And one night in July Bean got a text from still going to see this and hopefully see it as a cluding support from many of the city’s top ball-Chicago Facebook group or email chi- Denson, but not one he expected. positive,” Bean said. law firms), the after-work run/walk takes [email protected]. Denson texted Bean: “You won’t believe what Denson, though, has a quite a long road to place at Roosevelt Road and Columbus Av- WINDY CITY TIMES Sept. 2, 2015 17 Download our new Windy City Times Gay and Lesbian Gay and Lesbian Wedding Guide magazine! Wedding Guide www.windycitymediagroup.com/WeddingGuide/2015-07-29.pdf

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By marc ‘moose’ moder

Rihanna and the lost album saga Recently, our beloved Rihanna tried very hard to break out of her pop shell and go with an “edgier” sound, via Kanye West, and failed. All three singles off of the planned R8 album tanked, despite the help of a Beatle, an epic Tarantino-esque video for “Bitch Better Have massive amounts of hashish, Quaaludes and My Money” and a warm reception for the po- depression, plus an odd collaboration with the heady lyricist Van Dyke Parks yielded The Smile Sessions, a group of recordings meant to be the follow up album, Smile. The Smile Sessions rambled on for a year and had no real catchy singles and was eventually abandoned by the band, then re-recorded poorly and on-the-fly as Smiley Smile, one of their worst and poorest Advertise in AmericA’s premier LGBt puBLicAtions todAy! selling albums, derailing their career perma- nently. Stronger than ever Dr. Dre is currently very high on his billion dollar headphones, hit movie (Straight Outta Compton), and now long-awaited (and criti- Spending in America’s LGBT cally acclaimed) LP, Compton. But it hasn’t al- media is at a record high of $381.4 million, up 18.2% ways been “Dre Day.” Three of his projects have from 2012. Circulation and died on the vine. Helter Skelter, a dream album readership of LGBT media are also up a healthy 15.1%*

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“Black drag queen comes in and saves all the white folk ... that doesn’t happen often!”—Billy Porter encapsulates the plot of Kinky Boots during his show at the Crown & Anchor in Provinc- etown. Over this column’s long history, the line between celebrity and porn has been blurred beyond recognition. While prostitution and porn are not necessarily the same thing, there is an indisputable connection. Last week, the offices of the largest gay escort website, Rentboy.com, were raided in New York City and seven employees were arrested. But this raid wasn’t solely carried out by the NYPD. The website was being investigated by the Department of Homeland Security. Huh? Is ISIS trying to infiltrate the US through hot male hookers? Was Bin Laden the Al-Qaeda equivalent of Heidi Fleiss? Maybe they’re housing a sleeper cell! The official complaint was filed by special agent Susan Ruiz, and she spends an inordinate Rosie O’Donnell has her own edition of amount of time defining terms such as twink, Family Matters happening. scat, fisting, and out rate. Here’s an example: “I have learned that a sling, also known as a ‘sex sling’, is a device that allows two people to have But Candace will also be filming the Full House sex while one is suspended.” If nothing else, reboot, and Paula hosts Good Morning America we’ve surely enriched Ruiz’s education. on the weekends. So they needed some fill-ins. There’s all sorts of drama happening at the Enter Stacy London, Ana Navarro, Molly Sims O’Donnell home. From what we can piece to- and Sherri Shepherd. Yes, Sherri Shepherd—one gether, it all started in 1997. That was when of the few co-hosts in the history of The View to Deanna Micoley put her 2-month-old daughter actually leave of her own accord. Kayla up for adoption. According to Deanna, she Then ABC announced that Joy Behar is back. signed the consent documents while high on Not only is she back—she’s back as a perma- drugs and under pressure of her then-husband. nent host. How did this happen? When plan- She also alleges that the adoptive mother knew ning for this revamped panel, the network asked the condition she was in. That adoptive mother both Sherri and Joy to return. Both entered into was Rosie O’Donnell, and Kayla soon became negotiations. The idea of this rotating slot ap- Chelsea O’Donnell. In the intervening years, pealed to Sherri, who still acts and does stand- Chelsea has been trying to find her biological up around the country. She was in. Joy was less parents. Somehow she got in touch with Dean- than thrilled. na’s father last November. Since then, Deanna “They’ve come to me, and we couldn’t make a and Chelsea/Kayla have been in contact via text deal,” she said. “They wouldn’t really negotiate and Facebook messages. Allegedly, O’Donnell well enough for me. And so I said, ‘No, I’m not tried to stop this communication and had some coming back.’ I mean, if they were giving me a heated exchanges with Deanna. One text from bigger role on the show, and giving me some Rosie says, “Get any lawyers u want. It was all power to actually make some changes and let legal. Like it or not. Now stop.” When Deanna them benefit from my expertise after being there went public with the story, Rosie’s publicist said for 16 years—but they’re not going to do that, that Rosie “encouraged and supported Chelsea’s so why would I want to bang my head against desire to communicate with her birth mother.” the wall?” A big issue was the money—we hear Fast forward to last month when Rosie revealed Joy wanted $3 million for the part-time gig. The that Chelsea had been missing for a week with network balked, and Joy walked. Then Barbara her service dog. On Aug. 18, Chelsea was found Walters went to bat for Behar. Babs was dis- with 25-year-old Steven Sheerer, a man she al- gusted with how the show has been run since legedly met on Tinder and who has a record for her retirement, and insisted that Joy be rehired. heroin possession. According to reports, Sheerer But wait: There’s more. Because the show will sent Chelsea a nude photo of himself, and since now be live on Fridays, Whoopi will take that day she was only 17 at the time, he was charged off—and guess who will be the moderator? Joy, with third-degree distribution of obscenity to a that’s who. minor and third-degree endangering the welfare I’m already looking forward to Dancing with of a child. Six days after the police brought her the Stars—or, as I like to call it, Dancing with home, Chelsea turned 18 and became a legal a Bunch of Nobodies. So far, we have Chaka adult. Rosie’s publicist made another statement: Khan huffing and puffing and sweating like a “Chelsea made a decision when she turned 18 pig. Paula Deen might be a hoot. Then there’s that she wanted to go to her birth mother. That Nick Carter. If nothing else, he’ll get back in was her choice.” But it wasn’t quite so placid. We shape—and there are few things in this world hear that Rosie refused to give Chelsea her birth better than Nick Carter in shape. As to Bindi certificate or Social Security card and threatened Irwin, really? She’s a celebrity? Let’s just hope to cut her off financially if she left. And yet, off her partner has a pet stingray. she went. Deanna drove from Wisconsin to pick When our tax dollars are being used to teach up Chelsea/Kayla and told reporters, “Leave my the feds about slings, it’s definitely time to end daughter out of Rosie’s stuff.” To be continued... yet another column. We had a little bit of ev- Season 18 will likely go down in history as the erything to kick off our second decade—music, least successful season of The View. All three of dance, murder, arrests, porn and escorts. And we the newly-hired co-hosts vanished. For a while, LOLed the whole time. You can get even more it looked like Whoopi was going to be on the kicks at www.BillyMasters.com, the site that will show all by herself. Then Raven-Symone was make you do more than laugh out loud. If you hired. Then Michelle Collins was hired. Then have a question for me, send it along to Billy@ Candace Cameron Bure was hired. Then Paula BillyMasters.com, and I promise to get back to Faris was hired. For those of you keeping count, you before Chaka asks Paula Deen to try her that’s five co-hosts—the most the show has ever chocolate pie. Until next time, remember, one had. man’s filth is another man’s bible. 20 Sept. 2, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES the DISH Weekly Dining Guide in nightspots WINDY CITY TIMES SAVOR the big Seven Lions BY ANDREW DAVIS TO-DO OUR WEEKLY PICKS TO PLAN Honestly, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from YOUR NIGHTLIFE CALENDAR Seven Lions (130 S. Michigan Ave.; SevenLionsChi- Fried chicken skins (above left), cheeseburger juiciness.) It’s a simple concoction—adorned with cago.com). (above right) and s’mores bread pudding (below) only American cheese and red onion—but the Before visiting restaurants, I try to conduct re- at Seven Lions thought of sharing the burger with my cohorts only search—after all, it wouldn’t be right to be un- filled me with dread after I had the first bite. prepared, I feel. However, during the course of re- The pastry/dessert menu is a bit more adventure- searching, I made the mistake of stumbling across some. The S’mores bread pudding is beyond tasty reviews on certain websites—and they were among (and a close second to the cheeseburger as my fa- the most widely divisive I’d seen. vorite item). However, there are also items such as Say what you will, but the bustling restaurant the breakfast “cereal” bowl (toffee corn puffs and (renowned sommelier and former Check, Please! vanilla-bean yogurt panna cotta), bourbon banana host Alpana Singh’s second venture, after Board- split and PB&C (malted milk and peanut-butter ing House) offers many reasons to warrant a return mousse, peanut butter-chocolate crunch and a visit. malted milkshake). I started my meal with the cleverly named Grow In addition to the food and libations/wine, Another Pair cocktail. The pear liqueur was certain- there’s also the view, if you sit outside. It’s situ- LQQKS: Wigshock ly noticeable but wasn’t overpowering. My dining ated near the Art Institute of Chicago and, because w/Lady Bunny companions tried the Hell or High Watermelon, a “outside” means sitting in the sidewalk area, there wheat beer that they genuinely liked. will be various businessmen, students and tourists Thursday, Sept. 3, 10 pm The food is solidly recommended, overall. (The to observe—and who will observe you. lunch menu isn’t the most adventurous, I’ll admit, Berlin, 954 W. Belmont Ave. I entered Seven Lions with uncertainly, but left Chicago’s homage to the legendary fes- with items such as tuna nicoise and Cobb salad— pretty sure that I’ll return soon. tival and movie, Wigstock. Featuring but what it does, it does quite well.) I fell in love [Note: Here’s some trivia, in case you were won- hair-raising LQQKS and performances with the Brussels sprout and burrata toast as well dering about the restaurant’s name. The name from Lady Bunny (pictured), Saya Nao- as something you don’t find in a lot of restaurants: Seven Lions factors in several components, includ- mi, Rosemary Maybe, Betti Kyle and fried chicken skins (along with fried pickles). The more. $2 PBR, $3 Berlin Bombs. ing the more than 50 lion ornaments affixed to Photo by Kirk Williamson sriracha honey mustard, thankfully, only enhances the façade of the building, and the fact that the the skins without setting one’s mouth on fire. restaurant is located directly across the street from However, the magnum opus of this meal, for me, Art Institute, with its two iconic lion statutes. was the simplest of items: the 7L Cheeseburger. However, the name is largely a tribute to Singh’s (Singh actually stopped by our table and recom- late grandmother. “Singh” is derived from the San- mended this item, adding that even putting lettuce skrit word for “lion,” and her grandmother referred and tomatoes on it would detract from the burger’s to her seven children as her lions.]

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