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Pansexual Woman's Journey Empowers Her to Help Others GOV. PAT QUINN PAGE 13 IS PART OF WCT’S ELECTION COVERAGE WINDY CITY THE VOICE OF CHICAGO’S GAY, LESBIAN, BI AND TRANS COMMUNITY SINCE 1985 MARCH 12, 2014 VOL 29, NO. 24 TIMESwww.WindyCityMediaGroup.com Group helps ‘80S ICON MOLLY asylum-seekers RINGWALD CHATS BY MELISSA WASSERMAN ing safety in the United States because of persecution BEFORE VISITING based on sexual orientation or gender identity in their CHICAGO The recently launched Chicago LGBT Asylum Support home countries. CLASP reflects that mission as it aims page 24 Program (CLASP) stands as a source of support and to provide direct living support and welcoming environ- safety for LGBT people escaping a life of persecution in ments to asylum-seekers. their home countries and arriving in the United States “We’re certainly not reinventing the wheel for things for a new life. we don’t have the capacity to do,” said Parr. “We’re con- Established toward the end of January, CLASP comes gregations; we’re not lawyers, but what we can do is to from a partnership between the national coalition LGBT kind of support what is tangible and physical for asy- Faith & Asylum Network (LGBT-FAN) and Broadway lum-seekers who arrive here with nothing. We’re trying United Methodist Church located in Chicago. Currently, to use our network of welcoming churches to do that.” Broadway United Methodist Church is acting as a hub The group’s founding members include Parr; LGBT- and fiscal agent through which people can make dona- FAN Coordinator Max Niedzwiecki; National LGBTQ and tions. Faith Communities Consultant Ann Craig; Daniel Weyl of “I think we understand the thru line of God’s word is Heartland Alliance; John Ademola, a Nigerian refugee; the word of love,” said Rev. Lois McCullen Parr, pastor and Dennis Ojiyoma, a Nigerian asylum-seeker. at the Broadway United Methodist Church and CLASP “I just feel a huge responsibility as a global citizen Co-Founder. “I think we have a responsibility to speak and for me personally, as a Christian pastor,” Parr said. loudly and clearly that what we believe about God and “I feel a huge responsibility to be part of what’s life- WRITER JACKIE God’s people is true and that love is greater than fear— giving and to be part of a community of faith that’s that God’s intention is for people to love and live to- faithfully listening to God’s leading in saying ‘This is COLLINS’ gether and not to do harm.” John Ademola Adewoye at a CLASP press LGBT-FAN’s overall mission is to help people seek- ‘CONFESSIONS’ Turn to page 10 conference. Photo by Tracy Baim pagE 23 Pansexual woman’s journey empowers her to help others BY GRETCHEN RACHEL BLICKENSDERFER In 2013, when 24-year-old pansexual woman Keyshia Lay Morris first met Chicago House TransLife Center director Bonn Wade, she hadn’t closed her eyes in more than three days. Wade made her a spinach smoothie and, as they were talking, Morris fell into an exhausted sleep. Born in Atlanta, Ga., Morris said her father moved her family to Chicago and left when she was 2. By the age of 4, her mother had moved Morris, her brother and sister into a home they shared with a woman named ‘Mother Thomas.’ Morris claimed the woman physically abused Morris and her brother while her mother was at work. “She used to beat on us,” Morris re- membered. “They found scars on my brother when he was going to school.” The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) removed her from the JOE KAISER EXCELS household. Morris’ mother fought unsuccessfully to get them back and no one in her ex- tended family would take her. ON, OFF TRACK Morris said she went through 37 placements as a part of “the system,” as she calls it. “I pagE 30 am very skeptical of white people because of what happened to me in those foster homes Keyshia Lay Morris (left) and Bonn Wade. Photo by Gretchen Rachel Blickensderfer Turn to page 6 BEGINS TUESDAY! 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Pat Quinn by Hal Baim; publicity photo 18 Billy Masters Democrat for Judge • Neville Vacancy Joe Kaiser excels on, off track 25 of Molly Ringwald; photo of Jackie Collins 26 by Greg Gorman; photo of Joe Kaiser by Ross 29 INTEGRITY • EXPERIENCE • COMMON SENSE Forman OUTLINES 30 Classifieds Calendar GOV. PAT QUINN PAGE 13 IS PART OF WCT’S ELECTION 26 COVERAGE WINDY CITY THE VOICE OF CHICAGO’S GAY, LESBIAN, BI AND TRANS COMMUNITY SINCE 1985 MARCH 12, 2014 VOL 29, NO. 24 TIMESwww.WindyCityMediaGroup.com 28 Group helps –Lesbian & Gay Bar Association – ‘80S ICON MOLLY asylum-seekers RINGWALD CHATS BY MELISSA WASSERMAN ing safety in the United States because of persecution BEFORE VISITING based on sexual orientation or gender identity in their CHICAGO The recently launched Chicago LGBT Asylum Support home countries. CLASP reflects that mission as it aims PAGE 24 Program (CLASP) stands as a source of support and to provide direct living support and welcoming environ- safety for LGBT people escaping a life of persecution in ments to asylum-seekers. their home countries and arriving in the United States “We’re certainly not reinventing the wheel for things for a new life. we don’t have the capacity to do,” said Parr. “We’re con- Established toward the end of January, CLASP comes gregations; we’re not lawyers, but what we can do is to from a partnership between the national coalition LGBT kind of support what is tangible and physical for asy- DOWNLOAD THIS! Faith & Asylum Network (LGBT-FAN) and Broadway lum-seekers who arrive here with nothing. We’re trying United Methodist Church located in Chicago. Currently, to use our network of welcoming churches to do that.” Broadway United Methodist Church is acting as a hub The group’s founding members include Parr; LGBT- and fiscal agent through which people can make dona- FAN Coordinator Max Niedzwiecki; National LGBTQ and tions. Faith Communities Consultant Ann Craig; Daniel Weyl of “I think we understand the thru line of God’s word is Heartland Alliance; John Ademola, a Nigerian refugee; the word of love,” said Rev. Lois McCullen Parr, pastor and Dennis Ojiyoma, a Nigerian asylum-seeker. at the Broadway United Methodist Church and CLASP “I just feel a huge responsibility as a global citizen Co-Founder. “I think we have a responsibility to speak and for me personally, as a Christian pastor,” Parr said. loudly and clearly that what we believe about God and “I feel a huge responsibility to be part of what’s life- WRITER JACKIE God’s people is true and that love is greater than fear— giving and to be part of a community of faith that’s that God’s intention is for people to love and live to- faithfully listening to God’s leading in saying ‘This is COLLINS’ gether and not to do harm.” John Ademola Adewoye at a CLASP press LGBT-FAN’s overall mission is to help people seek- ‘CONFESSIONS’ Turn to page 10 conference. Photo by Tracy Baim PAGE 5 Pansexual woman’s journey Go to www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com empowers her to help others BY GRETCHEN RACHEL BLICKENSDERFER In 2013, when 24-year-old pansexual woman Keyshia Lay Morris first met Chicago House TransLife Center director Bonn Wade, she hadn’t closed her eyes in more than three days. “RECOMMENDED” Wade made her a spinach smoothie and, as they were talking, Morris fell into an exhausted sleep. Born in Atlanta, Ga., Morris said her father moved her family to Chicago and left when she was 2. 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