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HER BEST YEAR With a new husband and Oscar buzz about her performance in “Les Misérables,” Anne Hathaway says 2012 has been her best year ever. Interview page 15 THE VOICE OF PROGRESS FOR WISCONSIN’s LGBT COMMUNITY Dec. 27, 2012 | Vol. 4, No. 4 Celebrating a watershed year for LGBT rights – here and across the nation See stories pages 4-7 Appeals court upholds partnership registry law By Lisa Neff mer Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle signed into to list the rights and obligations that go with maintained all along – it is ridiculous to sug- Staff writer law in 2009. WFA’s Julaine Appling alleged that marriages but not domestic partnerships. … gest that a domestic partnership law could Gay civil rights advocates in Wisconsin the registry violated a 2006 constitutional It is not necessary to list that many here to be considered anything closely resembling a got some holilday cheer on Dec. 21, when amendment approved by Wisconsin voters demonstrate that ... the rights and obligations marriage for purposes of state law. Wisconsin’s 4th District Court of Appeals banning same-sex marriage or its equivalent. of marriage are not substantially similar to “In fact, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals said the state’s domestic partnership registry The appeals court panel disagreed. The the rights and obligations of domestic part- rejected the plaintiffs’ arguments as ‘non- is constitutional. judges affirmed a lower-court ruling that the nerships.” sense.’ We fought off this ugly attack against The anti-gay group Wisconsin Family Action partnership law does not violate the 2006 Lambda Legal attorney Christopher Clark had filed suit against the measure, which for- amendment because “... it would ‘take pages’ said, “The court has affirmed what we have REGISTRY page 12 HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | December 27, 2012 The twisted best of 2012 WiGWAG By Lisa Neff & Louis Weisberg BONE PICKS this particu- 1950s, was shot to death after the Knoxville police A headline in Britain’s lar civil rights on Nov. 27, 1978, while released a report stating The Sun newspaper group refers serving as a San Francisco that he suffered poisoning summed up Tory MP Peter to Adolf Hitler as supervisor. from a wine enema. He Bone’s concern about “our Fuhrer, the also said the reports were legalizing same-sex mar- beloved Holy Father of ROMNEY false, as were insinuations riage: “Gay marriage law our age.” APOLOGY that he’s gay. Broughton means ‘there could be two Mitt Romney went said as a Christian he Queens’ on the throne.” REAL CREEPY on Fox News to apolo- would never desecrate his The British government Real Doll, the company gize over reports that body in such a way. Rather, was in a “consultation” that creates creepy, life- he’d bullied gay students he said, he consumed a process intended to result like, life-size silicone female during high school. The six-pack of beer on an in a final proposal to legal- dolls equipped to provide Washington Post uncov- empty stomach and then ize same-sex marriages by sexual pleasure, announced ered Romney’s youthful played a wine-drinking WHOLESOME AS 2015. Bone said there were the production of life-size shenanigans in interviews Queen Latifah. game. When he passed out, APPLE PIE too many unanswered male dolls. The standard with his former classmates his frat brothers hoisted Vermont-based Ben & questions about how legal- male model came with at the exclusive Cranbrook Pride celebration. Their him by his belt to take him Jerry’s renamed its Apple izing gay marriage would “anal entry, plus one size School in Michigan. “Back proof was apparently noth- to the hospital – and that’s Pie-flavored ice cream to impact the royal family: penis attachment.” Buyers in high school, I did some ing more than the fact that how he injured his private Appl-y Ever After to pro- Would royals also be able could select everything dumb things,” Romney said. she’d performed at a Pride area, he said. But police say mote marriage equality in to enter into civil same-sex from eye color to pubic “And if anyone was hurt by event – after all, only LGBT they had proof Alexander the U.K. The company said, marriages? Could there be hairstyle. The cost: $5,999. that or offended, obviously people perform at Pride Broughton sought emer- “Social justice is at the two lesbian queens? A pair I apologize for that.” events – and that she’d gency treatment after a core of our values. Since of gay kings? CABLES CROSSED referred to her audience as butt bong. our humble beginning 34 On April 20 in Ontario, He’s OUT “my people.” After all, she years ago, Ben & Jerry’s has Canada, cable station Alan Scott, aka the could only have been refer- SOME BLESSING been an advocate for equal CHCH aired three min- Green Lantern, came out. ring to gays, not to Cali- An ordained Christian rights.” A couple years ago, utes of “hardcore” gay Actually, in the latest incar- fornians or progressives or, “counselor” devoted to B&J renamed its popular porn at the end of its nation of the character, he um, her fans – right? “freeing” people from Chubby Hubby flavor to morning newscast. The sta- was never in. DC Comics homosexuality was Hubby Hubby to celebrate tion said a cable company brought back the charac- WITH FRIENDS charged with eight counts marriage equality in Ver- employee inserted the ter first introduced to a LIKE YOU … of criminal sexual conduct mont. UNFAIR AND wrong programming after super-fan base in 1940. The Actor Max von Essen, after two young men filed UNBALANCED repairing cut cable lines. Green Lantern has had who was in the Broadway complaints against him in MARY VISITS A Fox News Orlando multiple personalities and revival of “Evita,” published Minnesota. The Rev. Ryan J. MARy’s affiliate aired a report THE USS MILK? names over the years, but an open letter on his Muelhauser, who’s affiliated Hamburger Mary’s, a describing the National U.S. Rep. Bob Filner, he’s always had his power Facebook page asking all with a group that claims to restaurant known for Socialist Movement, a a San Diego Democrat, ring, one of the most dan- Mitt Romney supporters cure same-sex attraction its gay karaoke and drag Neo-Nazi organization, wanted the Navy to name gerous weapons in the uni- to unfriend him. The gay through prayer, allegedly queen bingo nights, was the as “a civil rights group.” a ship after slain San Fran- verse. The newest Green actor said he wanted those fondled the two young latest eatery to report a The focus of the station’s cisco gay rights activist Lantern is gay, partnered connected to him to know men, who had sought his sighting of the Virgin Mary. report was the group’s Harvey Milk. In a letter to and all-American. that by supporting Romney, help to rid themselves Customers of a franchise armed patrols of Sanford, Defense Secretary Leon they are opposing him, his of homosexuality. One of the restaurant chain Fla., where Trayvon Martin Panetta and Navy Secre- She’s NOT life and his ability to love a young man said the pastor located in the Ybor City was killed. “They say they tary Ray Mabus, Filner said Queen Latifah got partner and raise a family. cupped his genitals with neighborhood of Tampa, are just a civil rights group naming a ship after Milk caught in a gay Web whirl- his hands several times Fla., first noticed the image trying to protect people would promote equality wind in June. Even the BUTT BONG OR to bless him. Both men on a stainless steel plate in case things get out of in the military after the most respected news out- BUST? said the pastor had them on the wall near the kitch- hand,” concluded Fox repeal of the “don’t ask, lets rushed to publish false A University of Tennes- masturbate in front of him, en. The restaurant’s tagline reporter Jennifer Bisram. don’t tell” policy. 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We need your help to continue building this leadership and possibility. amazing organization and to move the center from stability to sustainability. The Center’s new Board of Directors has cut operating expenses by more than 50%, and Supporting the Milwaukee LGBT Community management expenses by 65%. Center means you are committed to that vision. It means you are willing to invest today for us At your request, we brought the community to provide services for the LGBT community back into the Community Center by not offered anywhere else.