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Ky by YASMIN NAIR ness because Alan Stock, CEO of Cinemark, the non-unionized workers protested unfair work page 26 corporation that owns Century, gave a personal practices. Dickens The gay dollar has never been stronger. The pas- contribution of $9,999 to support Proposition Local 30’s political director, Dan Rottenstre- sage of the anti-same-sex-marriage initiative 8. ich, said that Proposition 8 became the basis for Proposition 8 brought protests across the coun- Gay groups in California have been calling for an “unprecedented coalition” between labor and try. Subsequently, gay activists have released economic boycotts since the summer. Among the gay organizing. A press release regarding a Nov. December 3, 2008 #973 the names of prominent businesspeople who most prominent of these calls is the one about 22 protest outside the hotel said that, “Organiz- donated to the ballot measure, and called for the Manchester Hyatt in San Diego. The hotel ers are expected to call for major demonstrations economic boycotts of their corporations. is owned by Doug Manchester, but operated by in front of Hyatt hotels throughout the nation.” nightspots Such initiatives, while part of gay history, also Global Hyatt Corporation. It was revealed that But will the Hyatt protest translate the same n prompt new questions. What role do boycotts Manchester donated $125,000 to Proposition 8. way across the country and in Chicago, where play when many corporations now woo well-off In response, Local 30, the San Diego chapter the hotel has a reputation for its support of the Scream Club pick it up Windy City Empire’s Investiture at 3160. inSIDE pg. 17 of UNITE HERE, joined a gay group, Californians gay community? After all, the Hyatt Regency, Weezer makes This wild on a Wednesday? gay consumers, boast of “gay-friendly” policies some trouble for DJ Must be Circuit. Res-5. page 19 take it home page 10 and sometimes have gays and lesbians at the Against Hate, to demand that Global Hyatt sever 151 E. Wacker, was the 2008 host of Interna- helm? What do boycotts say about the connec- its connection with the Manchester Hyatt. UNITE tional Mr. Leather. tion between gays and labor unions, tradition- HERE is a union born of the 2004 merger be- In 1977, the activist Harvey Milk led a boy- ally among the organizations that call for such tween the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and cott against Coors Brewing Company for the boycotts? Textile Employees and HERE (Hotel Employees company’s anti-gay policies. Ironically, a current The city of Evanston saw the first of recent and Restaurant Employees International Union). biopic of the gay activist is being released at boycotts in Illinois Nov. 22 when picketers According to Cleve Jones, a gay organizer with Cinemark theaters (and at other chains). Both www.WindyCityQueercast.com gathered outside the Century Theater. They the union, UNITE HERE has had its eyes on this urged theatergoers not to patronize the busi- particular hotel since 2006, when the hotel’s Turn to page 6

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NEWS Obama’s transition team 4 Commercial Closet merger 5 National news 5 Chicagoan flees Mumbai 6 Thanksgiving Day help 6 Local briefs; Hill passes 7 D’Emilio column 8 World news; Quotelines 9 Views: Osborne, Foster 10 Doug O’Keeffe (left in above photo) managed to flee the chaos in Mumbai GIFT GUIDE last week. See more on page 6. Naughty gift ideas 12 Musical suggestions 14

ENTERTAINMENT Scottish Play Scott 19 Theater reviews 20 Books: E. Patrick Johnson 23 Vosovic; Actor Slash Model 25 Filmmaker Ky Dickens 26

OUTLINES Real estate; classifieds 24 Calendar 25 Sports: Flag football 26 Lori Cannon (above) and other Northside Grocery Center volunteers helped clients on Thanksgiving Day. See page 6. Photo by Andrew Davis The Seafarer by Conor McPherson directed by ensemble member Randall Arney featuring ensemble members Francis Guinan, Tom Irwin, John Mahoney and www. Alan Wilder with Randall Newsome Windy Features include: It’s Christmas Eve in Dublin. In the rundown house where Sharky cares for his blind brother, old City —Interior Motives acquaintances gather for a card game—joined by an ominous stranger. As the booze flows and the game intensifies, Sharky discovers he is playing for his soul. In this eerie, darkly humorous tale, Media —Starrlight: celebrated playwright Conor McPherson examines how we face the demons of our past as we Lana Turner (right) struggle to find redemption. Group .com On Sale Now! December 4, 2008 - February 8, 2009

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4 Dec. 3, 2008 to the president on a wide range of domestic issues, including many that can be of specific interest to gays. The position became notorious under former President Ronald Reagan, when he appointed ultraconservative activist Gary Bauer to the spot. To that position, President-elect Obama has named Melody Barnes, a former top aide to U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, one of the most pro-gay members of Congress in history. “She’s smart, sharp, solid—she totally gets the gay and HIV issues,” said Chai Feldblum, who worked with Kennedy in the drafting of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). “I worked with her a lot in Kennedy’s office. I’m more ex- Tom Daschle. cited about this appointment than just about anything.”

Obama’s team: Transition team Most familiar among the seven openly LGBT Good news people serving on the transition team is Roberta Achtenberg, who served as assistant secretary in for LGBTs the Department of Housing and Urban Develop- by Lisa Keen ment under Clinton. Achtenberg garnered more Keen News Service attention than most assistant secretaries when then-Sen. Jesse Helms referred to her as “that The appointments are rolling out steadily now damn lesbian” and tried to block her confirma- for Barack Obama’s administration. Sometimes, tion. they are actual announced appointments; some- Others on the transition team include Michael times, they are leaks about presumably certain Guest, former George W. Bush ambassador to appointments. But so far, most sound like good Romania; Fred Hochberg, former Small Busi- news for the LGBT community. ness Administration leader under Clinton; Elaine Seven openly LGBT people are part of the Kaplan, who headed Clinton’s Office of Special transition team that is helping to prepare the Counsel; Thomas Soto, who was appointed by president-elect to take charge of the federal Clinton to serve on an international commission government beginning Jan. 20. Interestingly, involved in conservation efforts with Mexico; five of them are former appointees of President Rick Stamberger, president of an online gay Bill Clinton. news-collection Web site called SmartBrief; and The three appointments of greatest interest Brad Kiley, a deputy assistant for administration during the past week have been for Secretary at the Clinton White House. of Health and Human Services (HHS), U.S. At- Kiley is one of 13 people listed on the tran- torney General and the White House domestic sition’s senior staff as one of two directors of policy adviser. operations. He, along with Soto and Stamberger, Former U.S. Senator Tom Daschle, a longtime are among 21 people on the “Executive Office of friend to the LGBT community, has been tapped the President” team. to head HHS, though his appointment has not Achtenberg is one of 12 people on the HHS been formally announced. Daschle represented transition advisory team. Guest is one of 11 South Dakota in the U.S. Senate and, while con- people on the Department of State segment of sidered friendly to gay causes, did not score well the National Security Team. Kaplan is one of 10 on his last “scorecard” with the Human Rights people on the Government Operations Team. Campaign. He earned only a 63 (out of a pos- Hochberg is one of 20 on the Economics and sible 100) in his last two years in the Senate. International Trade Team. Daschle declined a request to co-sponsor the While the others served under Clinton, Stam- Early Treatment for HIV Act of 2003. Accord- berger was a White House fellow under then Vice ing to HRC, the bill would have enabled people President George H.W. Bush, during the Reagan with HIV to receive Medicaid and would enabled administration. people with HIV and low incomes with the abil- The seven openly gay appointees ae among ity to receive state aid under the category of about 300 people named to help the Obama “categorically needy.” He also declined a request administration prepare to take the reins of the to add sexual orientation to his Senate office government starting Jan. 20. non-discrimination policy, even though an ear- Gay leaders have taken note of the Obama lier scorecard showed he did and in the score- transition Web site’s inclusion of the President- card for the previous two-year session, Daschle elect commitment’s to gay civil-rights issues. earned a 100 percent score. The Human Rights Campaign called it an “en- In recent days, the Obama campaign’s transi- couraging sign.” tion Web site has stated that, “In the first year Meanwhile, the Gay & Lesbian Leadership In- of his presidency, Barack Obama will develop stitute reports having received more than 1,300 and begin to implement a comprehensive na- applications from LGBT people interested in tional HIV/AIDS strategy that includes all fed- seeking an appointment with the Obama ad- eral agencies.” And Daschle, a senior fellow with ministration. Spokesperson Denis Dison says the SEAN PENN the Center for American Progress, a liberal think Institute groups are putting together their own SEAN PENN tank headed by Obama’s transition chief John “review teams” to examine the applications and Podesta, is presumably onboard with that plan. “tease out applicants who are qualified.” Dison President-elect Obama is reportedly planning says the Obama transition team is “aware of the to appoint former Deputy Attorney General (un- project.” der Bill Clinton) Eric Holder as his U.S. attorney ©2008 Keen News Service general. Tracey Conaty, who, for many years headed EMILE HIRSCH JOSH BROLIN DIEGO LUNA AND JAMES FRANCO up a group documenting and seeking to prevent Obama notes FROM THE DIRECTOR OF “GOOD WILL HUNTING” LGBT-related hate crimes in Washington, D.C., World AIDS Day said Holder “clearly cared about the issue of President-elect Barack Obama marked World CELEBRATE hate crimes.” HARVEY MILK AIDS Day with an official statement. 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RIVENDELL MEDIA Chicago Windy City Times Trim: 4.25" x 13" Issue Date: Wednesday, Dec. 3rd Newspaper Dec. 3, 2008 5 When asked to comment on the situation be- tions for gay people. To partially settle the case, on the project, and gay social networking site tween Wilke and the CCA and whether there is the Pasadena, Calif.-based company will develop Manhunt helped promote it. still an opportunity for Wilke at GLAAD, Neil Compatible Partners, a same-sex dating service, On Dec. 10—International Human Rights Giuliano, president of GLAAD, responded, “We and will let the site’s first 10,000 users to regis- Day—LGBT individuals are being urged to call believe it is best that those conversations take ter free. in “gay” to work during what has been dubbed place within professional personnel practices.” Police are looking into death threats that “Day Without a Gay.” Interested persons should With the dissolution of CCA scheduled for Dec. have been made against Vermont State Sen. see http://daywithoutagay.org. 31 and the launch of GLAAD’s new Advertising John Campbell after the said he would intro- Out & Equal Workplace Advocates—a lead- Media Program set to follow, Wilke is concerned duce a pro-same-sex marriage bill, according to ing LGBT workplace equality organization—has for the future of CCA’s work. 365Gay.com. An anonymous woman threatened launched www.LGBTCareerLink.com, accord- CCA board members, however, expect that the Campbell and his family, saying that she would ing to a company press release. CareerLink, merger will lead to much success in impacting bomb his home. which connects LGBT-friendly businesses with the advertising industry. “When GLAAD speaks In Syracuse, N.Y., Dwight DeLee, 20, has been job seekers, “is the fastest and most effective out about a media situation that does not accu- charged with second-degree murder regarding way for LGBT candidates to find quality employ- Mike Wilke. rately and fairly portray LGBT people the media the killing of Moses Cannon, 22, a man who ment,” said Out & Equal Executive Director Se- listen, and what follows the initial conversation lived his life as a woman, according to WSYR. lisse Berry. Commercial Closet about the need for correction is usually train- Police said that DeLee did not like Cannon’s ing about how to do it better,” Blackwood said. sexual preference. In a statement, Human Rights merges without “That’s the access and the capacity that CCA will Campaign President Joe Solmonese said that Fla. judge: State’s executive director achieve in this relationship.” “[t]he senseless killing of Moses ‘Teish’ Cannon At this time, no decisions have been made gay-adoption ban by CHARLSIE DEWEY is a clear example of why we need to redouble by GLAAD regarding staff, and Giuliano said, our efforts on education and awareness to end- unconstitutional Last month, Commercial Closet Association “GLAAD’s Advertising Media Program has not of- ing hate violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual In a landmark decision, Miami Dade (Fla.) (CCA) announced that it would integrate its pro- ficially launched and we are still in the process and transgender people.” Circuit Judge Cindy Lederman ruled Nov. 25 grams and operations with those of the Gay & of deciding on specific components of [that] LGBT individuals use statutes banning sex- that gay foster father Frank Martin Gill can Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). program.” ual-orientation discrimination just as often adopt the two brothers he has fostered for The statement also relayed, “As part of the tran- The original statement regarding the merger as women and people of color utilize laws re- four years, according to U.S. News and World sition, founding executive director Mike Wilke is reported, “The newly integrated GLAAD Adver- lated to, respectively, gender and race, accord- Report. leaving the organization.” That left many won- tising Media Program will monitor advertising ing to a release from the Williams Institute at The ruling flies in the face of Florida’s gay- dering what happened to Wilke. worldwide and continue to expand CCA’s unique the UCLA School of Law. The study revealed that adoption statutory ban, which Lederman Wilke founded CCA in 2001 in an effort to online archive of more than 4,000 corporate, five out of 10,000 LGBT people file sexual ori- ruled has “no rational basis.” However, the “work with advertising professionals to advocate brand, nonprofit, and political ads, all evalu- entation employment discrimination complaints state allows gays and lesbians to be foster for inclusive images of LGBT people in advertis- ated based on their inclusion of LGBT themes each year—a figure comparable to the number parents. ing,” and, over the years, CCA has compiled an and portrayals. The Advertising Media Program of sex- and race-related complaints filed annu- In a statement, Human Rights Campaign archive of over 4,000 LGBT-themed advertise- will also build on CCA’s education and training ally. President Joe Solmonese said, “Miami Dade ments on its Web site, which have been utilized programs and LGBT-inclusive advertising best In the Life Media—producer of the long- Circuit Judge Cindy Lederman has issued a by advertising and marketing professionals. practices for Fortune 500 corporations, leading running LGBT TV show In the Life—will run an ruling that protects children and strengthens Wilke was terminated from the CCA Nov. 4, af- advertising agencies and universities.” innovative Web-based educational video that families. Florida’s draconian ban on adoption ter months of mounting tension between himself Undeniably, Wilke’s work has been important tells the story of Josh, a young gay man in by lesbian and gay people has for too long and board members, and the organization’s need to the LGBT community, and CCA board members New York City, according to InTheLifeTV.org. deprived children of loving, committed and to transfer a debt-free organization to GLAAD. expect that the Advertising Media Program will The video, which centers on HIV awareness and qualified parents.” Wilke said, “It is a pretty complicated situation. attempt to better reach the advertising indus- prevention, shows Josh confronting such issues This was the first trial-court case involving It is partly the result of tension between CCA’s try and have a positive impact on inclusive and as unprotected sex and online hook-ups. Re- gay adoption; the Florida Supreme Court may board and me that increased as the year wore fair representations of the LGBT community. The searchers at New York City-based Public Health overturn the decision. on.” question of Wilke’s role still remains. Solutions and New York University collaborated Stephanie Blackwood, vice president of the CCA board, explained, “It was a decision that was based on the fact that Mike was not will- NATIONAL ing to comply with the requirements that the board had to undergo in order to move towards ROUNDUP the merger with GLAAD. ... We had a series of BY ANDREW DAVIS requirements to meet and Mike became unwill- ing to comply. ... There are actual requirements San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom criti- of the attorney general’s office for the merging cized President-elect Barack Obama and Ca- of non-profits.” lif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for not being Blackwood said one of the most important more active in fighting Proposition 8, according requirements was turning over a debt-free or- to the Washington Blade. In an interview with ganization, but that Wilke repeatedly would not the Blade, Newsom said that the other two poli- cooperate in turning the books over to the trea- ticians did not do enough to fight the measure, surer, leaving the board without a concrete idea but added that they deserved credit for speaking of CCA’s financial situation. According to Black- out against the initiative when they did (this wood, requests for cooperation began in the past spring). summer and continued to the point of Wilke’s National Log Cabin Republicans President termination. Patrick Sammon is leaving his post, The Wash- Wilke had expected to raise needed funds ington Blade reported. According to a statement through a fundraiser scheduled for Dec. 4, which Sammon released, he will leave at the end of the board decided to cancel. January 2009—after slightly more than two Blackwood said the current economic down- years—”to tackle new challenges. I’ll be doing turn played a large part in the decision to cancel documentary filmmaking, which is what I did the fundraiser and the need to terminate Wilke: before joining Log Cabin’s staff.” “We looked at the potential outcome and what On the TV show The View, Arkansas Gov. Mike we saw was, in the best of all scenarios, we were Huckabee implied that gays are not entitled going to make a modest amount of money and to civil rights because they have not suffered we were going to invest a lot of time and spend enough, PageOneQ.com reported. In distinguish- a lot of money, so, we made the decision to ing the rights of sexual versus racial minorities, eliminate our biggest cost on a monthly basis— Huckabee said, “Bull Connor was hosing people the executive director’s salary—and we reduced down in the streets of Alabama. John Lewis got the editorial director to half-time.” his skull cracked on the Selma Bridge,” to which The termination was a surprise to Wilke, who, The View co-host Joy Behar said, “Gay bashing from the beginning, had expected that he would goes on, too.” Huckabee also said he does not be part of GLAAD’s new Advertising Media Pro- believe that Arkansas’ Proposition 1—which gram. “GLAAD had originally offered me a job to bans unmarried couples from adopting or foster- lead the advertising program in 2009, but then ing children—targets gays. they withdrew the offer, it seems, or changed eHarmony will now offer a dating service to their mind. They haven’t clarified exactly what gay people to settle a complaint filed against they’re doing,” he said. the company, according to the Wall Street Jour- As part of the merger, Wilke and his employee nal. A man originally sued eHarmony in 2005, had moved into GLAAD’s office several months stating the the dating site violated New Jersey’s ago, and Wilke said he had been creating a pro- anti-discrimination statute by not offering op- gram plan and a budget for 2009. 6 Dec. 3, 2008 lobby, to outside the building. The people were Part of Quigley’s letter stated, “Throughout Democrats to become the next president of the then told to run to a parking garage on the op- my career I have fought tirelessly for lower Illinois Senate. He will replace Emil Jones, who posite side of the street. O’Keeffe and the others taxes, improved services, and a more efficient, is retiring. stayed there until 7 a.m the next morning when accountable government. ... And I have always In a letter, Cullerton said, “I am honored the hotel manager drove them to an airport ho- stood up for citizens and taxpayers, even if it and humbled by the support my fellow sena- tel in a bus. puts me at odds with some of the most powerful tors have shown by selecting me to be the new O’Keeffe, who has visited Mumbai several politicians in Illinois.” Senate President. I welcome the opportunity to times in the past, told Windy City Times that Quigley is the second person to express in- work closely with Governor [Rod] Blagojevich, the experience was “beyond reality” and that, terest to supporters about filling this position. Speaker [Mike] Madigan, Senate Minority Leader at the time, he couldn’t “believe it was happen- Democratic State Rep. Sara Feigenholtz has also [Christine] Radogno and House Minority Leader ing.” The experience has not changed his feel- announced her intention to run for the seat. [Tom] Cross to remedy the current legislative ings about Mumbai, “I’ve always found it a fas- After Emanuel submits his resignation, Illinois logjam we have in our state.” cinating and interesting place and have no bad Gov. Rod Blagojevich must set the date for a Radogno made history as the first female cho- Doug O’Keeffe. feelings about [it]. I feel very sorry for all the special election within five days, and the elec- sen to be the state’s Senate Republican leader. people who were victims.” tion must take place within 115 days. Chicagoan Some news analyses are comparing the Mumbai Fire occurs at attacks to 9/11 in the United States. O’Keeffe Gay man to head escapes Mumbai himself lost a co-worker in that event: “I find dance club it so astronomically ironic that he should die state regulation by ANDREW DAVIS in a terrorist attack and I should survive one.” turmoil O’Keeffe was reluctant to make any comparisons, BY YASMIN NAIR department The building that houses the popular Lakeview saying that the events occurred in “two com- The office of Gov. Rod Blagojevich has an- gay dance club Roscoe’s, 3356 N. Halsted, was pletely different societies,” and that he didn’t nounced that Michael McRaith will take over as Doug O’Keeffe, a Chicago resident and volunteer the site of a fire on the afternoon of Nov. 25. want to assume to know “how the Indian people Secretary of the Illinois Department of Financial at the Northside Grocery Center (a food-pantry The extent of the fire’s damage is unknown. feel about [the attacks].” and Professional Regulation. branch of HIV/AIDS agency Vital Bridges), was The address has residential units in addition McRaith, who is openly gay, is currently the caught in the recent attack on the Taj Oberoi to the club. According to the Chicago Fire De- director of the Illinois Division of Insurance. hotel in Mumbai, India, but was able to escape. partment, the cause of the fire was electrical in Quigley exploring The new position was open because the previ- O’Keeffe was in the city as part of a routine nature and originated in the club’s dance-floor ous secretary, Dean Martinez, will be the state’s layover for his airline job Nov. 26. Crew members run for area. newest deputy governor. Martinez has made his- were scheduled to leave that night. They heard A sign on the front of the establishment read tory by being the first Latino to be named to the first explosion in the building while waiting Emanuel’s seat “Roscoe’s is temporarily closed. We’re sorry for Democratic Cook County Commissioner Mike that position. for the elevators. any inconvenience, ” but the club reopened in Quigley has filed papers to explore his candi- The group made its way into a conference time for the Thanksgiving weekend. dacy to represent the 5th Congressional District room. After a while, one of the hotel employees of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives. Cullerton new discovered them, told them to turn off all their The person chosen for this seat would replace lights and stay quiet. He left and with a group state senate prez Rahm Emanuel, who is now President-elect Ba- of commandos carrying assault rifles, which es- State Sen. John Cullerton, who is from Chi- rack Obama’s chief of staff. corted the group through the destruction in the cago’s North Side, has been chosen by fellow LABOR from cover the film’s director (Gus Van Sant) and screen- writer (Dustin Lance Black) are gay. But it’s not just the growing presence of out gays and lesbians (and their gatherings) that highlights the complexities of, and differences in, economic boycotts today. The International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association estimates that gay and lesbian customers spend $55 bil- lion per year in North America for “leisure and hospitality services,” according to one report. So it makes sense to ask gay consumers to withhold their dollars from anti-gay hotel own- ers like Doug Manchester. But will the alliance Eric Stanley. between labor and gay organizing last beyond Manchester and Proposition 8? In Chicago, one the United States. Both UNITE HERE and PAW such alliance failed to get the desired result. In supported a trans-inclusive Employment Non- 2004, the Great Lakes Bears invited its mem- Discrimination Act; PAW also advocates for bers to book rooms at the Congress Hotel, 520 domestic partnerships on its Web site even as S. Michigan, for its annual conference. Queer it presses for marriage equality. Local 2, the to the Left (QTL), a now-defunct group, asked San Francisco chapter of UNITE HERE, “started Vital help for Thanksgiving the Bears not to patronize the Congress be- a Health and Welfare fund for member ho- If it’s Thanksgiving Day, people can count on several things, including turkey, football—and cause its workers were on strike. The Bears did tel workers suffering from HIV and AIDS” in Northside Grocery Center (a food-pantry arm of the HIV/AIDS agency Vital Bridges) collabo- not heed the call. [Note: This reporter was, at 1989. rating with Lakeview restaurant Ann Sather (and owner, 44th Ward Alderman Tom Tunney) the time, a member of QTL]. Finally, are economic boycotts effective? Eric to deliver box lunches and/or dinners to clients. Photo of (from left) Lori Cannon, Jay Cook, This certainly did not reflect upon individual Stanley, a queer organizer with the prison- Randi Levin, Lance Tines, Tunney, Joe Leptkowski and Glenn Sieverson by Andrew Davis Bears but it does beg the question: Given a abolition group Critical Resistance, says that choice between their interests as gay people “the trouble with an economic boycott as a and their interests as workers, which side will way of working change is that it also argues gays and lesbians choose? that everything is ‘fine’ when not in a time Acupuncture • Herbs • Massage • Tai Chi • Yoga Furthermore, the position of some unions of boycott.” For Stanley, economic boycotts on the issue of gay marriage seems to contra- “uphold the free market myth of capitalism dict the basic premise of union organizing: to in ‘non-boycott’ times.” In other words, boy- ensure fair wages and economic parity for all cotts don’t challenge the systemic inequality workers, regardless of individual factors like that turns some gays into rich consumers and marital status. According to Jones, “UNITE others into ill-paid hotel workers. But Stanley HERE “reject[s] the compromise of domestic also acknowledges that economic boycotts, as partnerships [and is] in favor of full marriage in the case of South Africa, can be a way to put equality.” Yet, many gay (and straight) workers specific pressure on corporations that support might prefer the flexibility of domestic part- state policies like apartheid. nerships over marriage. There is no widespread It seems likely that the gay community will consensus on gay marriage within the gay press on with economic boycotts and perhaps community. even work, however evanescently, with labor Still, there are important pro-gay policies organizers (many of whom are also gay). The echoed in the day-to-day workings of UNITE power of the gay dollar will continue unabated, HERE or Pride at Work (PAW), the LGBT con- regardless of the fact that some of us, gay or Alternative Health Group LLC stituency group of the American Federation of straight, have fewer dollars to spend in the Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations first place. 1834 W. North Ave. #1 773-227-9150 (AFL-CIO), the largest federation of unions in www.althealthgroup.com Dec. 3, 2008 7 World AIDS Entry limited to 40 Artist offers at ‘Champagne ‘healing Day marked Wrapture’ Chicago House returns with its glamorous dreamscapes’ at Sidetrack Nancy Gershman, an artist who has worked Champagne Wrapture Tuesday, Dec. 9, at The by KAITLYN MCAVOY with such LGBT groups as PFLAG (Parents and James Hotel, 55 E. Ontario. The VIP reception Friends of Lesbians and Gays), has pioneered an is 5:30-6:30 p.m., with the premium reception In honor of World AIDS Day, Dec. 1, Chicagoans art form called “healing dreamscapes,” which are taking place 6:30-9:30 p.m. gathered in Lakeview for a candle light vigil that photomontages using family photographs that Attendees will sample champagne from Veuve included a peaceful walk outside on the ice-cov- tell stories intended to help families reconcile, Clicquot, specialty martinis by Belvedere Vod- ered sidewalk along North Halsted Street. send positive messages to loved ones and heal ka, desserts by Sweet Miss Giving’s, and hors About 30 people came to the service that relationships. d’oeuvres. Guests will also be able to bid on started inside Sidetrack, 3349 N. Halsted. The Her latest work, “Dreamscaping: The Therapeu- bottles of Clicquot artfully dressed by Chicago’s annual vigil is a “simple way to remember” those tic Photomontages of Nancy Gershman” is show- premier designers. living with HIV and AIDS and those who have ing at The Loyola University Museum of Art, 820 World of Chocolate 2007. Photo by Kat Only 40 people will be allowed to attend. Tick- passed due to the disease, said organizer Robert N. Michigan through Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009. See Fitzgerald (www.MysticImagesPhotography. ets start at $65; call 773-248-5200 x303 or see Hadley, founder and director of Caritas Chicago, www.luc.edu/luma/. com) www.ChicagoHouse.org. a treatment facility for substance abusers. Gershman is offering to create “healing dream- Hadley welcomed the crowd before handing travaganza Friday, Dec. 5, at Macy’s on State, scapes” for anyone in the LGBT community for the microphone to speaker Jeremy Butts who 111 N. State, 6-9 p.m. UW-Madison showing free, as she is solely supported by grants and was diagnosed with the disease in 2003. Butts Macy’s and the Chicago Department of Public exhibit on Nazi donations. Individuals each get an 8” x 10” print talked about all the advocacy groups here in Health are co-sponsoring the event. of his or her “dreamscape” and a CD. E-mail nan- Chicago saying he was “blessed” by all the sup- The Red Carpet Walk OUT is a fashion show persecution of gays [email protected] or call 773-255-4677. port he has received. He also urged others to that will raise funds and awareness of HIV/AIDS. The University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial take advantage of the help offered in the city The fashion show will feature celebrity models Library, 728 State, Madison, is presenting “Nazi Children’s AIDS group and to also lend a hand by volunteering at HIV/ as well as fashion icons. Call 312-781-1000. Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945” (from AIDS organizations. the United States Holocaust Mueum) through on North Side Dec. 7 The candlelight walk began at 7:30 p.m. and Wed., Dec. 10. The Awassa Children’s Project (ACP)—which ended at the Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Hal- AFC holding Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools is host- supports two children’s AIDS organizations sted. Participants held their lit candles and they ‘World of Chocolate’ ing the exhibition, which consists of more than in Awassa, Ethiopia—will hold its 7th Annual trekked almost half a mile in the 20-degree The AIDS Foundation of Chicago will hold its 200 reproductions of photographs, documents World AIDS Day event Sunday, Dec. 7, at The weather as snow flurries fell. sumptuous annual event, “World of Chocolate” and artwork that analyze the Nazi regime’s ef- Wild Hare, 3530 N. Clark, 7-11 p.m. This is the first year the event also had the on Wed., Dec. 3, 6-10 p.m., at the Hilton Chi- forts to eradicate homosexuality, and the devas- There is a voluntary tax-deductible admission walk, said Hadley. Even though the vigil is not a cago, 720 S. Michigan. tating effects the regime had on the gay com- fee of $25. See www.awassachildrensproject. religious ceremony, in previous years it has been There will be creations from more than 30 of munity. org. held at churches. Since this year it was held at Chicagoland’s finest restaurants, caterers, and See www.gsaforsafeschools.org. a bar, the walk along Halsted Street gave those chocolatiers in an effort to raise awareness, under 21 years old a chance to participate, said while celebrating the world’s achievements, in Hadley. the fight against HIV/AIDS. There will also be a PASSAGES This was the second year in a row Lance Tines, light buffet, holiday bazaar and open bar. 44, of Rogers Park, has attended the vigil. Tines Tickets start at $75 apiece. See www.aidschi- Clissold ‘Budd’ Hill said he has been helping people with AIDS for a cago.org. Clissold “Budd” Hill, died peacefully at home long time and has lost friends to the disease. Nov. 20 with his partner of 34 years, J. Robert “It is important for me to do something to “Bob” Caldwell, at his side. commemorate them on World AIDS Day,” Tines Vital Bridges to A 1949 graduate of Oak Park High School, said. celebrate 20 years Budd was honored with that school’s Tradition Vital Bridges, which helps provide food and of Excellence Award in 1997. From Oak Park, other services to those living with HIV/AIDS, Budd attended the University of Colorado and Trans aging program will celebrate its 20th anniversary during its An- went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts in Design set for Dec. 5 nual Holiday Brunch on Sunday, Dec. 7. from Yale School of Drama. Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bi- The event will take place at the Four Seasons His freelance career as a designer progressed sexual, and Transgender Elders (SAGE) and the Hotel, and will include music, live and silent through New York costume shops toward assist- Sexual Orientation and Gender Institute (SOGI) auctions and more. ing in major Broadway and film productions. will present a “Transgender Aging Intensive” Fri- Tickets are $250 per person. Call 312-948- His costume designs on Broadway included: day, Dec. 5, 9 a.m.-5 p.m, at Center on Halsted, 2785 or see www.vitalbridges.org for more infor- Thistle in my Bed; The Merchant of Venice; The 3656 N. Halsted. mation. Policemen; Oedipus Rex; and Pygmalion. He Clissold “Budd” Hill. The cost to register is $100, and will cover also worked for Joseph Papp’s Shakespeare in lunch, a reference binder and continuing educa- the Park Productions, the first Broadway pro- ‘Don We Now...30!’ will be a private memorial dinner in December tion units. Register at www.forge-forward.org/ duction of Camelot and the Children’s Televi- where his close friends can remember his spirit tan/intensive.php. at Center Dec. 6-7 sion workshop. Later, Budd branched into tele- and regale his theatrical history. FORGE (For Ourselves: Reworking Gender Ex- Windy City Gay Chorus and Aria: Windy City vision, including games shows and soap operas To Caldwell, Hill “was my North, my South, pression) and the center are co-sponsoring the Women’s Ensemble will present their 2008 holi- (All My Children). my East and West.” program. day concert, “Don We Now…30!,” under the di- In 1978 Budd returned to the Midwest, where rection of Alan Wellman, Saturday, Dec. 6, at 5 he served as a costume designer for 15 years at Donations in Hill’s memory may be made and 8 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 7, at 2 p.m. in the American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wis., to The American Players Theatre, P.O. Box Center gets Hoover-Leppen Theatre at Center on Halsted, while also working occasionally on designs in 819, 5950 Golf Course Road, Spring Green, WI fashionable 3656 N. Halsted. Chicago. 53588. For further information, please contact the The Center on Halsted will present the Red Tickets are $20 each. They are available online Budd lived a rich and wonderful life, and will Cremation Society of Illinois at 773-281-5058. Carpet Walk OUT: A World AIDS Day Fashion Ex- at www.windycitysings.org or at the door one be sorely missed by family and friends. There hour prior to the performance.

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Anita Bryant danced a jig when she at Martyr’s GAY HISTORY center of homosexual activities in Chicago.” The heard the news, and announced that she was Chicago Flair—an event showcasing Chi- commander of the youth division of the Chicago preparing to transform “Save Our Children” into cago’s diversity in entertainment—will take BY JOHN D’EMILIO Police charged that the north side office of Chil- a national campaign to repeal ordinances in oth- place Tuesday, Dec. 16, at Martyr’s, 3855 N. dren and Family Services was “a center of homo- er cities. Chicago’s editorial pages added to the Lincoln, at 8 p.m. sexuality,” colluding with the sexual abuse of its pain of the vote. “Miami sends a message,” said Among the scheduled highlights are bur- young clients. the Daily News. “The people simply aren’t ready lesque performances by Viva La Muerte and Some details were downright bizarre. A detec- to accept homosexuality as a constitutional or Ms. Bea Haven; a spoken-word performance tive claimed he had seized from a national ring- human ‘right,’” in defiance of “moral codes in by the Miss Vine; and a fashion show of hard- Every kick is leader 30,000 index cards with the names of cli- effect for millennia.” The Tribune editorial board to find and exquisitely sexy latex clothes ents, but the State Department was said to have told readers that “we share the concern of par- created by Chicago latex fashion’s House of a boost destroyed all the cards! The mastermind of the ents ... who see [homosexuality] as a latent Bias. biggest network of child porn lovers was sup- threat to society.” It advised gays and lesbians The show is a benefit for Maria the Purple to practice “discretion.” As the campaign to repeal Dade County’s gay posed to be a convict in an Illinois state prison. Goddess, a Chicago burlesque and fetish per- How did he manage all this, one wondered? For Chicagoans, however, the story wasn’t rights law headed into its final weeks, Chicago former who had brain surgery earlier this year. But sex panics don’t require believability. The over. Bryant was coming to Chicago the fol- unexpectedly faced its own “Save Our Children” Tickets are $15; call 773-404-9494. campaign. In mid-May, the Tribune began a Tribune had set hysteria in motion. Alderman lowing week to perform at a Flag Day benefit four-part, front-page series on child pornogra- Ed Burke conducted public hearings. Governor concert for the Shriner’s Children’s Hospital. Gay phy. The headlines seemed designed to agitate Thompson appointed a state task force on child men and lesbians descended on the Medinah 2009 LGBT college readers. “Child Pornography: Sickness for Sale,” pornography. The U.S. Attorney opened an in- Temple, located at Wabash and Ohio, to protest vestigation and the Cook County state attorney the singer’s appearance. Marchers six abreast confab in Indiana the Sunday paper announced to homes and fami- The Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgen- lies across Chicagoland. “Chicago is center of na- convened a grand jury. Police and building in- circled the building, as a large contingent of der Ally College Conference (MBLGTACC) will tional child porno ring,” it told readers heading spectors descended on 34 adult bookstores and police looked on. “Anita is McCarthy in drag,” hold its 17th annual conference Feb. 13-15, to work on Monday morning. shut them down. Legislators in Springfield intro- one placard proclaimed. “God drinks wine, not 2009, at Indiana University in Bloomington, The reporters, Michael Sneed and George Bliss, duced eight bills to control the menace. Police orange juice,” said another. Afterward, a large painted a terrifying picture of the dangers fac- stepped up their harassment of gay male cruising contingent marched over to Pioneer Court and Ind. ing children. Up to 100,000 were involved, they areas. And the Tribune editorialized about “the the Tribune building, to chants of “Boycott the The theme is “Living Out Loud: Examining claimed. The industry not only photographed plague” that was thriving right here in Chicago. Tribune.” the Past to Enhance Our Future.” Among the and filmed children, but also sold their sexual The expose provoked a rapid response from Claims about the size of the demonstration scheduled events are a career/vendor fair and services to adult men. The menace was near at gay and lesbian activists. Even before the se- varied, from a conservative police count of various workshops. hand. “Chicago is the headquarters of a nation- ries ended, representatives from several orga- 2,000 to one participant’s estimate of ten to fif- The registration fee is $60. See www.mblg- wide ring trafficking in young boys,” they wrote. nizations held a press conference to denounce teen thousand. But no one disputed that it was tacc.org. “A nationwide homosexual ring with headquar- the reporting as an “indictment by insinuation a unique event in the city’s queer history. “Ex- ters in Chicago has been trafficking in young of the entire gay community.” Demonstrators hilarating,” recalled Linda Rodgers, a bartender boys, sending them across the nation to serve chanted “Stop the witch hunt now!” as they who was there. “One of the biggest things that Chicago Pride Fest clients willing to pay hundreds of dollars for picketed City Hall. Bill Kelley and Paul Goldman ever hit Chicago for the gay community,” Grant and Market Days their services.” spoke at Alderman Burke’s city council hearings. Ford, the publisher of Gay Life, remembered. Law enforcement officials used extreme lan- At a march in New Town, according to one re- “There was just this feeling in the air that we dates set guage to portray the danger. The Cook County port, “the gay community’s anger at the Tribune could accomplish something,” said Rich Pfeiffer, Mark your calendars. Northalsted Area Mer- state attorney called the industry “one of the series boiled over.” who organized Chicago’s annual Pride parade. “It chants Association has announced that Chi- most sordid rackets I’ve ever encountered.” A A week after the series began, over 4,000 men was an incredible feeling ... a feeling of empow- cago Pride Fest will run Saturday, June 27, detective compared it to “spider webs strung and women arrived at Uptown’s Aragon for the erment.” 2009 and that Northalsted Market Days will out all over the nation.” Another described what Orange Ball, a fundraiser to help fight the refer- Gays and lesbians in Dade County in 1977 lost occur Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 1-2, 2009. happened as “a crime worse than murder.” endum in Dade County, Fla. The one-two punch an anti-discrimination law, but the months of Pride Fest™ runs from 11 a.m.-9 p.m. on The series put the gay community in a diffi- of antigay crusades in Florida and Chicago made headlines, fundraisers, rallies, and demonstra- Halsted Street between Waveland Avenue and cult spot. To attack the Tribune risked sound- the event the largest queer benefit in the city’s tions—across the nation and here in Chicago— Grace Street. Market Days, the largest two- had accomplished something profound. Renee ing like a defender of child sex abuse. Yet the history. Businesses displayed posters; bars con- day outdoor street festival in the Midwest, tributed door prizes; and organizations provided Hanover, an activist lawyer in Chicago who reporting was irresponsible and unbalanced, runs 11 a.m.-10 p.m. both days and has a volunteers. had participated in movements for social jus- and the claims stretched credibility. The paper gate entrance fee donation of $7 per person. Even the harassing presence of police failed to tice for decades, expressed it well. Bryant and purported to expose the sexual exploitation of See www.chicagoevents.com or www. dampen the crowd’s enthusiasm. Chuck Renslow, Dade County had “unified and strengthened us children, yet in the whole series only five short northalsted.com. paragraphs mentioned young girls. The writers who produced the event, told the audience they as a national movement. Never before has one claimed to have spent three months investigat- were living through “a time of war”; he called for fight stirred the national gay and lesbian com- ing an industry that exploited tens of thousands; “unity of purpose ... as one family.” Bob Basker, munity to such fervor.” Or, as one anonymous they said Chicago was a major center of it; and from the Dade County gay coalition, worked the demonstrator told a Tribune reporter after the they cooperated closely with police. Why then crowd up by reading from ads that “Save Our Dade County votes were tallied: “I don’t think could the police only find two fourteen year old Children” had placed in the Miami Herald. Bryant people should be disheartened ... Every kick is a “victims”? had allegedly recently declared that “God hates boost.” Over and over, the series fingered the city’s gay homosexuals because they eat sperm.” Copyright 2008 John D’Emilio iLœÀ> Ê
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BY REX WOCKNER by Rex Wockner A spokesman for ARDHO said, “The govern- ment has moved this bill quickly and unjustly British Columbia through the legislative process ... over the Q course of a weekend, with no input from civil “Watching the returns on election I think the religious groups have done a re- pride parade society or general discussion about the issue of night was an amazing experience. Ba- ally big campaign, a lot of them, to support canceled after threats homosexuality and freedom of expression within rack Obama is our new president. Change is Proposition 8, and so on, and so it’s a very, here. I, like millions of Americans, felt like we very difficult thing. ... (Y)ou should never ever A gay pride parade planned for Nov. 15 in Ab- Burundi.” had taken a giant step towards equality. We give up. ... They (gays) should never give up. botsford, British Columbia, was canceled after The small, landlocked nation has a population were watching history. This morning, when They should be on it and on it until they get it threats it would be attacked, the Vancouver Sun of 8.7 million, a life expectancy of less than 52 it was clear that Proposition 8 had passed in done.” — California Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneg- reported Nov. 23. years, and a per capita gross domestic product California, I can’t explain the feeling I had. ger to CNN, Nov. 9. The parade, organized by high-school students at purchasing-power parity of $300. The compa- I was saddened beyond belief. Here we just using Facebook, was scheduled for the same rable figure for the U.S. is $45,800. Norway’s is had a giant step toward equality and then on “We’re (David Furnish and I) not mar- day as the 300-city protests against California’s $53,300, Mexico’s is $12,400 and Vietnam’s is the very next day, we took a giant step away. ried. Let’s get that right. We have a civil part- Proposition 8, the ballot measure that re-banned $2,600. I believe one day a ‘ban on gay marriage’ will nership. What is wrong with Proposition 8 is same-sex marriage in the state. About two-thirds of African nations ban con- sound totally ridiculous. In the meantime, I that they went for marriage. Marriage is going The march was called off after a rival Face- sensual sex between adults of the same sex. will continue to speak out for equality for all to put a lot of people off, the word marriage. I book group formed with more than 300 members of us.” — Ellen DeGeneres on her Web site, Nov. don’t want to be married. I’m very happy with quoting the Bible, condemning homosexuality Irish gay choir 5. a civil partnership. If gay people want to get and proposing a straight-pride march. married, or get together, they should have a Gay organizers say they also received threats may sue festival “Okay. So Prop 8 passed. Alright, I get civil partnership. The word marriage, I think, that their march would be “egged.” “Glória: Ireland’s Lesbian & Gay Choir” is con- it. 51% of you think that I am a second puts a lot of people off. You get the same Following the kerfuffle, the University of the sidering filing a Circuit Court lawsuit because class citizen. Alright then. So my wife, uh equal rights that we do when we have a civil Fraser Valley Pride Network stepped forward and the “lesbian & gay” part of its name was not I mean, roommate? Girlfriend? Special lady partnership. Heterosexual people get married. is helping the high-school students organize a included on posters advertising the 2004 Cork friend? You are gonna have to help me here We can have civil partnerships.” — Elton John Dec. 6 “social justice rally” at Abbotsford Com- International Choral Festival. because I am not sure what to call her now. to USA Today, Nov. 12. munity Services, the Sun said. According to The Sunday Tribune, a complaint Anyways, she and I are Abbotsford, population 129,000, is located 46 the choir filed over the matter with the nation’s not allowed the same right miles (74 km) southeast of Vancouver on the Equality Tribunal was recently rejected because under the state constitu- border with Washington state. it had been filed by the group rather than an individual. tion as any other citizen. The choir’s former musical director told the Okay, so I am taking that Marriage is 80% of South to mean I do not have paper that the choir had insisted the festival going to put Africans think gay use the group’s full name in advertising and on to pay my state taxes posters but, upon arrival in Cork, choir members because I am not a full a lot of sex is wrong discovered that the festival had not done so. citizen. I mean that would people off. Despite a constitutional ban on discrimination “We sing and want to do it openly as gays and just be wrong, to make —Elton John based on sexual orientation and its being one lesbians,” said Bernadette Manning. someone pay taxes and of only six nations where same-sex couples can not give them the same marry, South Africa remains deeply homophobic, rights, sounds sort of like a new survey has found. Transgender that taxation without rep- The Human Sciences Research Council’s annual ex-MP wins resentation thing from the South African Social Attitudes Survey, released history books.” — Melissa Etheridge writing at Nov. 24, found that 80 percent of respondents Italian reality show The Daily Beast, Nov. 6. “The No (on Prop 8) side (was) ahead think gay sex is wrong. Transgender former Italian Member of Parlia- by double-digit margins throughout Whites, city dwellers and highly educated peo- ment Vladimir Luxuria won the Italian TV reality “(R)ight-wing forces led by the Mor- most of the pre-television campaign ple polled less anti-gay than blacks, “coloureds” show Celebrity Island (L’Isola dei Famosi) Nov. mon Church poured tens of millions of stages. However, as the TV advertising hit (mixed-race people), people with less education 24. dollars into the campaign for Propo- in mid to late September, the Yes campaign and those living in rural areas, the Sunday Times Viewers selected Luxuria, 43, winner of the sition 8—a measure to enshrine bigotry in ads proved to be more effective, and the polls reported. program after seeing the contestants live for six the state’s Constitution by preventing people showed the No side advantage slipping. The weeks on Honduran beaches. of the same sex from marrying. The measure movement continued into and through the fi- Euro MPs’ gay leader Luxuria, who has not had sex-change surgery was designed to overturn May’s State Supreme nal weekend of the election when the churches and whose real name is Wladimiro Guadagno, Court decision, which made California the sec- and various religious groups made a concerted blasts Burundi won 200,000 euros ($260,000), half of which ond state to end that exclusion of same-sex effort to win over the support of their con- gay-sex ban will be donated to UNICEF. couples. ... Apart from creating legal uncer- gregations. The evidence shows that they were Luxuria served in the Chamber of Deputies successful.” — Mark DiCamillo, director of Cali- The president of the European Parliament’s tainty about the thousands of same-sex mar- from 2006 to 2008, representing a district of fornia’s The Field Poll, writing at Pollster.com, Intergroup on Gay and Lesbian Rights, Michael riages that have been performed in Califor- Rome for the Communist Refoundation Party. Nov. 7. Cashman, on Nov. 26 condemned new legisla- nia and giving rise to lawsuits challenging tion in the Central African nation of Burundi whether the rules governing ballot measures “ that specifically criminalizes gay sex. Sweden to strike were properly followed, the immediate impact I’m a big lesbian who looks like a I am not, like, Anchor Babe, and I’m Cashman discussed the matter with the Eu- of Tuesday’s rights-shredding exercise is to un- man. six sexual diagnoses never gonna be.” — MSNBC talk show host Ra- ropean commissioner for development and hu- derscore the danger of allowing the ballot box chel Maddow as quoted by Out.com, Nov. 4. manitarian aid, Louis Michael, and called on the from list to be used to take away people’s fundamental European Commission to raise the issue with Sweden’s National Board of Health and Wel- rights.” — New York Times editorial, Nov. 6. “ Burundi’s government. fare will strike six sexual diagnoses from the na- It’s often said that Tom (of Fin- greatest achievement was in draw- “The commissioner expressed that he was tion’s official list of medical diagnoses on Jan. “They had a very, very strong cam- land’s) ing gay men who were masculine, happy and shocked to learn of this law,” Cashman said. “He 1, Stockholm’s The Local newspaper reported. paign, the pro-Proposition 8 people, proud at a time when they were supposed to (said) he will travel to Burundi and discuss his The agency will remove transvestism, fetish- and I think that the people that tried to defeat be effeminate, neurotic and shameful. This is concerns with the government.” ism, fetishistic transvestism, sadomasochism, it did not have, maybe, as good a campaign certainly the reason why so many gay men are Burundi’s National Assembly passed the ex- gender-identity disorder in youth and multiple or had as much money behind it, whatever. I Tom devotees, wittingly or not. Today’s gay plicit ban Nov. 21 as part of a package of more disorders of sexual preferences from the list. think it is unfortunate, obviously, but it’s not porn is merely footnotes to Tom, endlessly than 600 legal changes that included abolition “We don’t want to contribute to certain sexual the end, because I think this will go back into replaying the narrative of ‘regular guys’ with of the death penalty. The measure punishes con- behaviors being thought of as diseases,” said the courts, this will go back to the Supreme very irregular-sized penises and pectorals hav- sensual adult gay sex with a large fine and a jail board director Lars-Erik Holm. “These diagnoses Court because the Supreme Court very clearly ing spontaneous, shameless sex at the drop of term of between three months and two years. are rooted in a time when everything other than in California has declared this unconstitu- a monkey wrench.” — Martin Simpson, writing According to Amnesty International, male- the heterosexual missionary position was seen tional. It’s the same as in the 1948 case when in The Times of London, Nov. 3. male sex previously was targeted via laws gov- as sexual perversions.” blacks and whites were not allowed to marry. erning “immoral acts.” Homosexuality was removed from the list 30 This falls into the same category. So, I think The vote on the package was 90 to 0 with 10 years ago. that we will again, you know, maybe undo abstentions. The legislation now advances to that, if the court is willing to do that, and —Assistance: Bill Kelley the Senate, then goes to President Pierre Nku- then move forward from there and again lead runziza. Neither is expected to oppose it. —Assistance: Bill Kelley in that area. ... Because of the big turnout The International Gay and Lesbian Human amongst African-Americans and Latinos, that Rights Commission and the local Association had an effect also, which they did not expect, pour le Respect des Droits des Homosexuels so there’s all kinds of other things there. And 10 Dec. 3, 2008

VOL. 24, No. 11, Dec. 3, 2008 VIEWPOINTs The combined forces of Windy City Times, founded Sept. 1985, and Outlines newspaper, to say, “It is emphatically the province of the created by elected representatives (as opposed founded May 1987. judicial department to say what the law is. If to laws created by the people directly). PUBLISHER & Executive EDITOR jamar two laws conflict with each other, the courts One of the problems with democracy is that Tracy Baim must decide on the operation of each.” The voters tend to be irrational. Voter irrationality osborne Court reasoned that “those who apply the rule stems from the fact that voters have strong bi- Assistant Publisher Terri Klinsky to particular cases, must of necessity expound ases and are often uninformed on the issues. In MANAGING Editor Andrew Davis Business manager Cynthia Holmes and interpret that rule.” California, voters were misguided into believing Director of New Media Jean Albright The decision reached by the California Supreme that allowing gay marriages would mean that ART DIRECTOR Kirk Williamson Court that the state’s original ban on gay mar- churches would be required to perform same-sex account managerS: Amy Matheny, Kirk riage violated the state constitution’s guarantee marriages and that schools would be forced to Williamson, Terry Wiegel, Shawn Murray Gay marriage Promotions director Cynthia Holmes to equal protection was not the result of activist teach children about same-sex marriages. NIGHTSPOTS MANAGING Editor Kirk Williamson overturned judges pushing a liberal agenda. This was a Re- In America, we have a government of laws, not National Sales Rivendell Media, 212-242-6863 publican-dominated court and under the court’s a government of men. We have elected officials TheatER Editor Scott C. Morgan interpretation, the state’s ban on gay marriage to create the laws and courts to interpret them. Cinema WRITER Richard Knight, Jr. by mob rule BOOKS WRITER Yasmin Nair violated the state’s Constitution. Courts have It’s perfectly fine for voters to decide whether SENIOR WRITERS Bob Roehr, Rex Wockner, Marie Imagine that in this past election, there were a huge responsibility to protect minorities and or not to raise taxes to build bridges or schools, J. Kuda, David Byrne, Cathy Seabaugh, Tony Peregrin state initiatives to ban interracial marriages be- ensure equal protection under the law. For those but complex issues pertaining to individual lib- who believe that the court’s decision was judicial erties should be decided by public officials who ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WRITERS cause children might learn about them in school. Mary Shen Barnidge, Jim Edminster, Steve Warren, Now imagine that there were racially discrimina- activism, I would like to point out that America can be held accountable for their public policy Lawrence Ferber, Mel Ferrand, Tim Nasson, Catey tory state initiatives designed to preserve the has never had a purely codified system of gov- decisions. There is no accountability for anony- Sullivan, Zachary Whittenburg, J. S. Hall Columnists/Writers: Yvonne Zipter, Susie Day, “sanctity” of white neighborhoods. I would like ernment. Since its inception, America adopted mous voters and considerable questions could common-law principles from England. America be raised about their objectivity and familiarity Jorjet Harper, Lee Lynch, Steve Starr, Joe Rice, to think that most Americans would be out- Dan Woog, Marie-Jo Proulx, Lisa Keen, Chris Crain, raged. Some might respond that this could never has a mixed legal system; our system is part with the issues. The fact that California’s ban Charlsie Dewey, Michael Knipp, Karen Dixon, Mark happen because America has a legal system to common law and part codified law. It was well on gay marriage came from a vote of the people Corece, Sabine Neidhardt PHOTOGRAPHERS Kat Fitzgerald, Mel Ferrand, ensure equal protection of all its citizens. Does within the California Supreme Court’s authority, adds neither to its credibility nor its legitimacy. duty and responsibility to rule on the issue. It is completely un-American for people to ran- Steve Becker, Steve Starr equal protection really apply to all Americans or ARTISTS/CARTOONISTS Alison Bechdel, Mikeoart Article Four of the U.S. Constitution states domly target a class of people, form mobs and does it apply to all Americans except gays? CIRCULATION In May of this year, the California Supreme that “The United States shall guarantee to every then raise millions of dollars to disenfranchise Circulation director Jean Albright Court struck down the state’s ban on same-sex State in this Union a Republican Form of Govern- that particular group. Distribution: Ashina, Allan, Crystal, Dan, John, Sue and Victor marriage. The moderately conservative, Republi- ment…” Contrary to popular opinion, America is While there are many Americans who are un- can-dominated court ruled that citizens have a a republic and not a democracy. comfortable with the idea of gays having the fundamental “right to marry” the person of their John Adams distinguished a democracy from a right to marry, marriage is a fundamental right choice and that gender restrictions violate the republic by affirming that a republic is a “gov- and should not be decided by a whimsical tyr- state Constitution’s equal protection guarantee. ernment of laws and not of men.” The founding anny of the majority. Madison warned that “If Religious and conservative groups slammed the fathers were cautious about how a democratic a majority be united by a common interest, the Copyright 2008 Lambda Publications Inc./Windy City Media form of government would lead to the intrusion rights of the minority will be insecure.” Today, Group; All rights reserved. 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Resource Guide ONLINE by referendums sons from their own history—in Europe and the the legal challenges in response to the Califor- www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com American colonies. nians’ recent vote. The United States Supreme The recent decision of California voters to take Puritan New England famously founded its co- Court may down the road be called upon to rule www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com away the right of gays and lesbians to marry lonial enterprise with some official divisions be- on the matter. Still in legal limbo is the status of www.WindyCityQueercast.com highlights the danger of exposing civil-rights tween state and church, not allowing ministers the 18,000 gays and lesbians who married when protection to popular vote. to hold office, for example. But the Puritans also California provided that right to them. Earlier this year, the Superior Court of Califor- cited the Bible to support capital punishment In all such cases, spurious arguments about nia ruled that under the California constitution and other laws. Thus, adultery, then defined as gay and lesbian marriages invoke selective read- gays and lesbians had the same right as het- sex between a married woman with either a sin- ings of the Bible, faulty interpretations of the erosexuals to be married by the state. The deci- gle or married man (and not a married man with Founding Fathers, and lessons not learned from sion in no way infringed upon the privilege of a single woman) was punishable by death. American history or from current religiously in- churches to sanctify marriages as they saw fit. Today, the West criticizes regimes that enforce tolerant regimes in the world today. The issue is, of course, not limited to Califor- religious faith by state government, such as The outcome of the recent referendum in Cali- Windy City Times nia. In last week’s election, voters in Arizona Iran’s death penalty against homosexual sex, for fornia shows us that unless Americans can rec- and Florida decided to deny gays and lesbians example. ognize that their own individual religious beliefs is Chicago’s only the right to marry, with Florida also choosing to When supporters of defining marriage as be- should not be the basis for the legal structure of gay publication with deny both heterosexual and homosexual couples tween one man and one woman argue that al- the country, civil rights should no longer be put independent, outside the option of civil unions. In Arkansas, voters lowing gay and lesbians to marry offends their to public vote. decided that gay and lesbian parents should not religious faith, they are invoking a long and Tom Foster is an associate professor of audit verification of be allowed to adopt or act as foster parents by troubled history of faith and sexuality in this history at DePaul University; editor of the circulation by the restricting those activities to married couples. country alone. award-winning Long Before Stonewall: Histo- nationally recognized Marriage in this country (as it was in even Because the Bible is most frequently invoked ries of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early American; Puritan New England) is a civil contract. Thus, in such arguments, presumably that faith is lim- and author of Sex and the Eighteenth-Century firm, Verified Audit superior courts in California, Massachusetts and ited to Christianity. Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexu- Circulation. 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Theatre’s attempt to find humor in the toxic Scottish sub-prime mortgage-backed securities that are freezing up the world’s credit markets. Get some holiday stimulus packages at the Gorilla Tango Play Scott Theatre, 1919 N. Milwaukee, through Dec. 20. BY SCOTT C. MORGAN $12; 773-598-4549. —Robinson Crusoe is Piccolo Theatre’s entry Kids are constantly bribed to be nice each De- for its annual British Christmas pantomime. Why cember to curry favor with Santa. But as grown- is this theatrical holiday tradition included in ups, we can cut out the pretense of phony such a pessimistic listing? Obviously those adult niceties and give into the naughtiness of sin, innuendo-laden jokes have been going over your sarcasm and satire for the holidays. innocent head. Shout out, “It’s behind you!” at Instead of traditionally forced Christmas cheer the Evanston Arts Depot, 600 Main, Evanston, à la A Christmas Carol or The Nutcracker, con- through Dec. 20.; 847-424-0089. sider these alphabetically listed non-traditional —The Santaland Diaries is back again to al- holiday shows to liven up the season with a brisk low us to revel in David Sedaris’ humiliation from splash of irony mixed with ignominy (Watch out working as a Macy’s Santaland elf. The Theater for long titles!) Items are in Chicago unless in- Almost-Has-A-Witty-Title (We Really Mean It This Time!) Chicago Christmas Spectacular! Photo Wit! revival plays Theatre Building Chicago, 1225 dicated otherwise: by Tina Haglund W. Belmont, through Jan. 3; 773-327-5252. —ARFTCo’s Almost-Has-A-Witty-Title (We —The Second City’s Exceedingly Dysfunc- Really Mean It This Time!) Chicago Christmas tional Holiday Revue returns to stake its subur- network edit) is New Millennium Theatre Com- yes, Virginia, there is a suburban berth for 500 Spectacular! is A Reasonable Facsimile Theatre ban claim on holiday silliness at the Metropolis pany’s fantasy of what a holiday special hosted Clown at North Central College’s Meiley-Swallow Company’s second long-titled comedy revue that Performing Arts Centre, 111 W. Campbell, Arling- by David Bowie’s “Ziggy Stardust” persona would Hall, 31 S. Ellsworth, Naperville, from Dec. massacres the squeaky clean image of sacred ton Heights, through Dec. 31; 847-577-2121. have been like. Get spaced out at the National 18-23; 630-637-7469. holiday icons and situations. You’d better watch —Sexy Santa’s Spectacular! Spectacular!— Pastime Theater, 4139 N. Broadway, through —Land of the Sweets: The Burlesque Nut- out for a gun-toting Santa Claus in this year’s Burlesque’s Naughty List heats up the holidays Dec. 27; 312-458-9083. cracker is the nation’s first and only full-blown edition at the Cornservatory, 4210 N. Lincoln, with plenty of scantily clad Santaland denizens —Drinking and Writing Vol. IV: The 12 Steps professional production of the holiday classic through Dec. 27; 312-409-6435. at the Gorilla Tango Theatre, 1919 N. Milwaukee; of Xmas celebrates famed authors’ creative al- rendered in 1930s burlesque cabaret style. It —Bing Faithful’s Nondenominational Holi- through Dec. 20; 773-598-4549. coholic lubricants of choice. See this return will premiere in Chicago at the Park West, 322 W. day Special features improviser and actor Bob —Silent Night of the Lambs is Hell in a Hand- engagement at the Victory Gardens Biograph Armitage, Tuesday-Wed., Dec. 9-10. It will run at Kulhan taking on the persona of a pop crooner bag Productions’ holiday spoof that allows you Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln, through Dec. 19; 7 and 10 p.m. each night; 312-553-1212. trying to dream of a white Christmas while fac- to combine your yens for Christmas cheer and 773-871-3000. —Late Nite Catechism and its hit spin-offs ing two horrific “the-show-must-go-on” inci- Hannibal Lecter’s cannibalism at Mary’s Attic, —Faith is not a reference to 1980s pop by Put the Nuns in Charge and Sunday School Cin- dents of live broadcasting. See if Bing Faithful 5400 N. Clark, through Jan. 3; 800-838-3006. George Michael, but Nathaniel Wright’s semi-au- ema always get spruced up in Christmas finery. can hold it all together (including his liquor) —A Very Neo-Futurist Christmas Carol uses tobiographical black comedy about six Midwest- But the ever-stern Sister has a special guest at the Annoyance Theatre, 4830 N. Broadway, Charles Dickens’ classic tale to riff on topics erners of different races, faiths, classes and sex- star this season for her celluloid edition: Dick through Jan. 2; 773-561-4665. ranging from commercialism to Jewish holiday ual orientations who are all forced to confront O’Day’s Big Lovely Holiday Bingo (featuring the —Cold is Jeremy Menekseoglu’s adults-only resentment at the Neo-Futurarium, 5153 N. Ash- each other for the Christmas holiday. See this wacky film-o-phile persona of Windy City Times Christmas tale of two lonely souls who find each land, through Dec. 23; 773-275-5255. Chicago premiere courtesy of Sandhill Theatre critic Richard Knight, Jr.). Be as Catholic as other amid disappointments, prescription-drug —Xtreme Holiday Make Over is New World Company at the fairly new Stage 33 Chicago, you can be at the Royal George Theatre Center, abuse and lots of eggnog. See if their love will Repertory Theater’s entry for poking fun at the 3655 N. Kedzie, through Jan. 4; 773-648-0583. 1641 N. Halsted. Sister is in an open run, but keep them warm at Dream Theatre Company, 556 Christmas season. But be forewarned: this sketch —500 Clown Christmas is 500 Clown’s ac- Dick O’Day’s guest spot is only through Dec. 21; W. 18th, though Dec. 21; 773-552-8616. comedy show is acceptable for family audiences! claimed three-clown deconstruction of Charles 312-988-9000 or 312-902-1500. —The David Bowie Hepzikat Funky Velvet See it at the Masonic Temple, 923 Curtiss, Down- Dickens’ tale of a misers redemption, placed in —Northern Foreclosure: All I Want For Flarney Solstice Spectacular, Live... From ers Grove, through Dec. 28; 630- 663-1489. context of our own seasonal joys and angst. And Christmas are my Front Door Keys is Shantz Space! (David Bowie’s Christmas Special 1977 20 Dec. 3, 2008 THEATER REVIEW stumbles, chases, surprise entrances and wres- to Pirandello of Six Characters in Search of an tling matches with telephone cords—from their Author-fame, was also praised for constantly go- Don’t Dress pre-1965 counterparts is the heightened recog- ing off the rails to break down the “fourth wall” nition of a sororal allegiance as unswerving as between audiences watching actors reinterpret- for Dinner that practiced by the straying menfolk (nowhere ing past events. Playwright: Marc Camoletti, adapted by more vividly demonstrated than in the delightful For Next’s production under Damon Kiely’s di- Robin Hawdon moose-and-squirrel brawl, courtesy of fight cho- rection, we unfortunately have a stand-in play- At: British Stage Company at reographer David Woolley, where the rampage of ing the “role” of author Lisa Kron. Lia Mortensen the Royal George, 1641 N. Halsted the cook’s jealous husband is curtailed by the does her best, but having an actorly interloper Phone: 312-988-9000; $49.50-$50.50 three women together overpowering their bear- takes away Kron’s truly “personal” agony of won- Runs through: Jan. 11, 2009 like adversary.) Playgoers recalling earlier pro- dering why her mother can’t get well from her ductions of Camoletti’s play will also find much debilitating life-long fatigue. BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE of the humorous wordplay tweaked with an ear The general acting company of Lily Mojekwu, to Yankee vernacular (though the aural puns on Andre Teamer, James Krag and Kat McDonnel all the former status of the converted farmhouse’s are meant to look uncomfortable by the weird The foundation of Bedroom Farce is a reverence various rooms should be jettisoned). shifts between the two stories. But the company for discretion, acknowledged at all levels of The coast-to-coast cast acquits itself with Well. Photo by Michael Brosilow at the performance I attended seemed more per- society, manifested by a willingness to turn a verbal agility and athletic stamina under the plexed by the audience’s general refusal to buy direction of John Tillinger, assisted by dialect into the play, despite the actors’ best attempts blind eye to license, duplicity and vice as long herself in a play of sorts featuring other actors instructor Alan Wilder’s razor-sharp French ac- to get extra laughs by affecting funny voices as an appearance of decorum is preserved. This and her mother (or at least an actress as her cent for the chipmunk-voiced Spencer Kayden, and doing contorted facial expressions. dubious moral code is more often observed in mother). costume designer Virgil C. Johnson’s breakaway One element that truly succeeds in Next’s Well European cultures with a history of authoritarian As befits the play’s title, Well is Kron’s attempt server’s uniform that magically transforms to is veteran actor Mary Ann Thebus, who fits com- governments than in the United States, where to show how people as individuals and in society a chic Parisian cocktail gown, and a technical fortably into Kron’s mother’s shoes as wonderful- money is more likely to fuel the deception nec- can heal and get better. Kron’s two examples are team that keeps the madcap action progressing ly as Jack Magaw’s homey set design of a wood- essary to the genre. That said, Marc Camoletti’s her mother’s community organizing efforts to as swiftly and precision-timed as a Road Runner paneled suburban living room. Thebus rightfully 1991 take on the venerable formula, currently help foster integration in 1960s Lansing, Mich., cartoon. comes off an everyday mother strangely trapped playing at the Royal George, nevertheless brings and her own experiences in the allergy unit of a in someone’s flailing attempt of a thought-pro- some welcome changes to the old double-D cup Chicago hospital. voking theatrical experience. of tea. THEATER REVIEW But the problem is that Kron’s acting company Though theater fans may enjoy Well as a non- To be sure, the plot is rooted in the traditional (particularly her sleepy mother in a La-Z-Boy Well conformist play/monologue, it’s more likely to assumptions of male fraternity, female gullibil- recliner) hijack her attempts to tell the story— Playwright: Lisa Kron try the patience of audiences who don’t care for ity and eccentric architecture: The setting is a going so far as to question the play’s haphazard At: Next Theatre, 927 Noyes, Evanston self-important deconstructionism—especially if country house in France, where Bernard plans to structure and information gaps. Phone: 847-475-1875; $23-$38 all that clever self-awareness gets in the way of entertain his pampered mistress while his wife Laurels of critical praise greeted Well’s two pro- Runs through: Dec. 14 telling a good story. Jacqueline is away. The unexpected arrival of ductions off-Broadway in 2004 and on Broadway their American friend Robert, with whom Jac- in 2006, particularly for the two leading ladies BY SCOTT C. MORGAN queline is having a clandestine affair, brings (Kron herself and Jayne Houdyshell were nomi- an abrupt halt to this order of business, how- nated for Tony Awards). The play’s unconven- Lisa Kron’s Well is clever. But for many seeing ever—especially after the chef/cateress hired tional storytelling, which was likened at times by Bernard to prepare dinner for his proposed this play in its Chicago-area debut at Next The- tryst turns out to be a savvy Gallic gamine with atre, Well will come off as being too clever for mercenary inclinations and a name very similar its own good. to that of his paramour. Kron is an openly lesbian writer and performer But what most distinguishes the array of best known for her one-woman monologues. physical gags—such as stalks, sneaks, stamps, With Well, Kron shook up her routine by playing SPOTLIGHT Corpus Christi

Ten years ago, Terrence McNally’s drama Corpus Christi was met with protests, cancellation concerns and death threats in New York—all because McNally re-imagined the life of Christ amid a group of modern-day homosexuals. See if all the fuss was worth it in Ludicrious Theatre Company’s new intimate production. Corpus Christi plays 8 p.m. Fridays through Sundays with 2 p.m. matinees Saturdays and Sundays through Dec. 13 at the Heartland Studio Theatre, 7016 N. Glenwood. Tickets are $15; 630- 988-0768 or ludicrioustheatre.com. Photo courtesy of Ludi- crous Theatre Company Dec. 3, 2008 21 THEATER REVIEW A Midsummer CRITICS’ PICS Night’s Dream Dublin Carol, Steppenwolf Theatre, Playwright: William Shakespeare through Jan. 4. Heroes in Christmas Eve At: Chicago Shakespeare tales of redemption and rebirth range from Theater, 800 E. Grand Victorian financiers to Chicago cabbies. So Phone: 312-595-5600; $60-$75 why shouldn’t an Irish undertaker (played Runs through: Dec. 7 by the legendary and long-absent William Peterson) also find his salvation on this BY CATEY SULLIVAN auspicious day? MSB Grey Gardens, Northlight Theatre, through If you aren’t familiar with A Midsummer Night’s Dec. 28. Hollis Resnik is a both hilarious Dream going into Tim Supple’s adaptation of the and touching as both guises of Edith Bou- Bard’s ripe, sensual comedy, odds are you’ll be vier Beale in this clever and quirky musical bewildered before the first scene plays out. Per- adaptation of the 1975 cult documentary. formed half in English and half in a pastiche The rest of the cast in this handsome pro- of Southeast Asian languages including Hindi, duction is no slouch either. SCM Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, Theatre Bengali and Sanskrit, this Midsummer transforms A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Photo by Tristram Kenton Shakespeare’s poetry—and his clear narrative— Wit at Theatre Building Chicago, through into beautiful cacophony and staggering physi- Jan. 3. Remarkable actor and author Tom cality. dirt flooring that covers the stage (Reminiscent fawn on you,”) to be with a man who despises Mula performs a stage version of his magical The cast—a raucous mix of nearly two dozen of a Zamboni operator, a fellow operating a gi- her. Xmas tale of the afterlife and redemption of singers, dancers, street musicians and formally ant roller appears at intermission to tamp and Supple heightens the themes of sexual submis- Scrooge’s “dead as a doornail” partner. JA trained actors—performs acrobatics, circus-style smooth the playing field) and propel themselves sion and domination with refreshing abandon. Jarred: A Hoodoo Comedy, Teatro Luna, tumbling, aerial ballet and dance numbers that into backflips and handsprings through Midsum- The mischievous imp Puck, displaying a bare through Dec. 14. Based on interviews with wouldn’t be out of place in a Bollywood extrav- mer’s fairy-infested forest. chest worthy of a bear bar, is decked out in women who use folk magic to help with aganza. It all makes for a Midsummer blazing Amid all this activity, the text takes a backseat. fetish gear worthy of Chicago’s annual Interna- everything from their careers to their sex with kinetic energy, a force that is shimmering, And while there is sonic musicality inherent to tional Mister Leather pageant. When Nick Bottom lives, Tanya Saracho’s play about a woman extravagant and wholly distracting from text. the stunning array of languages on display, it is transformed into an ass, he sprouts a giant, casting spells to bring back her wayward As an elaborate piece of performance art obscures both Shakespeare’s sublime poetry and gourd-shaped dildo—which Fairy Queen Titania boyfriend is funny, provocative and just a grounded in the many guises of sexuality, Mid- confuses his bewitching narrative. rides with wild abandon. For Helena and Hermes little bit scary. CS summer is terrific. As a Shakespearean com- The storyline might be fuzzy at best, but Sup- and their love interests, aggressive tussles on edy, it stumbles. Moreover, opening night the ple does capture the roiling sexuality that runs the forest floor quickly border on rape. As for —By Abarbanel, Barnidge, Morgan production suffered from maddeningly muffled like a riptide through Midsummer. Good for him. Queen Hippolyta and King Theseus (and their and Sullivan acoustics. In English or Hindi, the actors were All too often, Midsummer is all pixie dust and fairy-world counterparts Titania and Oberon), often unintelligible. precious, the chaos-inducing, life-threatening they are lovers defined by a core of carnal joy There’s no denying that Supple’s cast is a vi- lust at its throbbing heart neutered into some- that beams like a heat lamp off the stage. brant, passionate and fearless group. They clam- thing sparkly and cute. It’s worth remembering But for all its joyfully unbridled physicality ber and swing from massive, bamboo-like scaf- heroine Hermes risks death by refusing to marry and poly-linguistic ardor, the heart of Midsum- folding three stories high and spread across the as the tyrannical King Theseus father demands. mer is lost in the woods as surely as the lovers width of the stage. They dangle by their heels Meanwhile, her best friend Helena is willing to who propel its story. It’s a tale rich with sound, from streamers of silk that spins crazily from put up horrendous degradation and abuse (“I am fury and sex—but in the end, signifying little of the rafters. They wrestle like gladiators in the your spaniel. ... The more you beat me, I will what Shakespeare’s narrative contains.

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Lincoln 1229: Fifteen Years of Great Musicals from Phone: 773-404-7336; $25 Pope Joan to Hunchback.” Runs through: Dec. 21 A 6 p.m. reception will feature food and a cash bar; at 7:15 p.m., attendees will move BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE into the mainstage area for an 80-minute program; and, at 9 p.m., people will go across Oh, what would authors do without inns, air- the street to Joey’s Brickhouse for an open ports, bus stations, hotel lobbies and other ref- mic of backstage stories. uges for transients? What more reliable formula General admission is $50; VIP tickets are for intrigue than a bunch of strangers thrown to- $75 each; and tickets for industry profes- gether—preferably strangers in a state of mate- sionals are $25 each. Call 773-883-1090, The Autumn Garden. Photo by Scott Cooper rial or psychological upheaval and letting them visit www.bailiwick.org or e-mail Bailiwick- just be themselves? And when the times, or the [email protected]. places, of their encounters are also in flux, how personate them. But even if three hours (with is taken by surprise. Powerful stuff on the brink can something interesting not happen? two intermissions) seem, likewise, a long haul of the French Revolution, the play shows com- The personnel gathered in Miss Constance for modern audiences, the empathy generated moners Figaro and Suzanne outsmarting a noble- Tuckerman’s Guest House (analogous to a B&B, by relationships still evident in our society to- man of inherited privileges and rank (albeit with Richard for you kids) cannot really be called strangers, day evokes suspense sufficient to make waiting the help of his wife), while Figaro—in a famous Chamberlain having for several years summered together on for the succession of irony-steeped resolutions monologue—says the aristocracy is superior the Louisiana Gulf Coast. But as the title of the worthwhile. only by accident of birth, rather than by merit. part of ‘Spamalot’ play hints, all are approaching midlife crises— Beaumarchais himself was a shrewd, witty and Legendary entertainer Richard Chamberlain even the young (and in one case, gay) sons and THEATER REVIEW ambitious scoundrel who rose from the artisan will star as King Arthur when Monty Python’s daughters, who must soon determine a way to middle class to the aristocracy through talent, Spamalot, the Tony Award-winning Best Musi- avoid their elders’ sorry fates. What their goals The Marriage craft, marriages to powerful older widows, spy- cal of 2005, plays Chicago’s Auditorium The- have in common is that each involves breaking ing, war profiteering, financial speculation and atre of Roosevelt University, 50 E. Congress, of Figaro the slashing power of his words. Seemingly egal- for a limited engagement Jan. 20-Feb. 1, with their former lifestyles—through divorce, Author: Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais itarian—he supported the American Revolution, 2009. marriage, relocation. Gradually, however, we see At: Remy Bumppo Theatre, Greenhouse legally challenged French vested interests and Chamberlain, who is openly gay, has acted their plans succumb to spiritual torpor. In the Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln created an author’s union—he nonetheless cur- in some of television’s most acclaimed mini- end, the only contentment lies in acceptance of Phone: 773-404-7336; $40-$55 ried favor with kings Louis XV and XVI and barely series, including The Thorn Birds and Shogun. their enervation and their allegiance to the sta- Runs through: Jan. 4 tus quo. survived the French Revolution in one piece. Lit- He has also appeared on shows such as Will & tle of this is apparent in the play, although the Grace and Nip/Tuck. What this rootless band of bourgeoisie also BY JONATHAN ABARBANEL has in common is Lillian Hellman’s unflinching basic Beaumarchais political message remains Tickets are $25-$90, with premium seats insight as she recounts their stories. Herself a intact if watered down. going for $125-$150. Call 312- 902-1400 or Director Jonathan Berry has assembled a highly The Remy Bumppo production is a frothy 90 visit www.BroadwayInChicago.com. native of the Deep South, she knows well the skilled and attractive cast for this fast farce ren- propensity of its denizens to dramatize, roman- minutes performed by an ensemble of supe- dition of Beaumarchais’s famous comedy, first rior comic skill: the impeccable comic actor ticize and elegize the slightest frissons in their produced in 1784 and basis for the even more placid existence, regional traits thrown into Joe Dempsey as Almaviva, the refined and well- Broadway in famous Mozart-Da Ponte opera. However, the groomed Nick Sandys as Figaro, multi-layered stark contrast by the inclusion in the assembly original play was more comedy of manners than Chicago of a stoical Bostonian, a cynical New Yorker and Mary Beth Fisher as the Countess and Kate Cares farce and, unlike its predecessor, The Barber of as a sparkling Suzanne. Greg Matthew Anderson’s two unsentimental Europeans, who regard their Seville, it also had a significant political edge subscriptions scene-stealing turn as Cherubin rivals them all. The 2009 Broadway In Chicago Season Se- companions’ histrionics with bemusement as which this adaptation by Ranjit Bolt dulls. Bolt Setting the play near Paris in 1952—vs. 1780s ries package subscriptions are on sale. they plot their escapes. eliminates significant characters and a major Seville, Spain—allows costume designer Alison Subscription packages include tickets to the Comparisons to Chekhov are inevitable, but subplot satirizing the French legal system. Siple to display exquisite Eisenhower-era de- world premiere of The Addams Family; previ- the troubles of a once-vital but now waning In The Barber of Seville, the clever factotum signer gowns, as director Berry choreographs de- ously announced productions Legally Blonde ersatz aristocracy take on a new immediacy Figaro helps the dashing young Count of Alma- lightful scene changes to period jazz (post-1952 and Spring Awakening; and the new addition when occurring in our own backyards only half viva woo and wed Rosina. In the sequel, the but close enough). However, the time choice Fiddler on the Roof. a century ago. Under Nathaniel Swift’s direc- count is chasing everything in skirts except the is arbitrary as is Nick Sandys’s use of a London Season ticket packages are $83-$405. Visit tion, the cast for this Eclipse Theatre Company countess, and now intends to seduce Suzanne, working-class accent. Admittedly well-executed, www.BroadwayInChicago.com or call the production approach their roles with reverence the countess’s maid who is engaged to Figaro. they nonetheless are anomalies that don’t illu- hotline at 312-977-1717. and compassion. Granted, the stamina of the ac- Although disinterested in the countess, Almavi- tors with extensive experience at old-fashioned minate the play. But take it as is, for The Mar- va nonetheless is insanely jealous of his adoles- riage of Figaro rarely is produced in the United three-act plays—Chuck Spencer, Millicent Hurley cent page, Cherubin, who’s infatuated with her. and Judith Hoppe among them—enable them to States in any version, let alone one as stylish as A series of plots and counterplots ends with the this. inhabit their characters, rather than merely im- count shamed and chastened, and even Figaro CULTURE CLUB NOV 12-DEC 28

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For more shows and listings, check out www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com Dec. 3, 2008 23 BOOKS E. Patrick Johnson: Southern exposure By YASMIN NAIR

E. Patrick Johnson is the author of Sweet Tea: An Oral History of Black Gay Men of the South, KING which consists largely of transcribed oral nar- ratives. Johnson, the department chair of per- formance studies and a professor of African- American studies at Northwestern University, E. Patrick Johnson. began researching the book in 2004. In October 2006, he began enacting solo performances and a way that reading it on a page would not. So I RICHARD recreations of the narratives. The performances decided, after I’d done more than half of these (called “Pouring Tea”) are now part of his cur- interviews, that I would put together a perfor- rent book tour. Windy City Times spoke to John- mance based on these narratives. son about his book; the accompanying perfor- What I didn’t know [at the time] was whether mances; and the lure of the South. I would cast the show or if I would do it [as Windy City Times: In your introduction, you a solo performance]. It became a [set of] in- emphasize the fact that you didn’t approach tellectual questions for me: What would it be THE FIRST! this as a historian. How would you character- like for the researcher to stage his ethnographic ize the difference between your work and material? What are the politics around that? So, that of historians like John Howard [author I began to think about how to frame this perfor- of Men Like That: A Southern Queer History, mance in a way that also staged this encounter. about Mississippi gay history]? I’m still thinking through the politics of all this, E.Patrick Johnson: My book was meant to be a but one of the things I decided that I didn’t living archive of narratives of African-American want the show to be was a kind of Anna Deavere gay men born and raised in the South. For me, it Smith show, to “become” these people. But I RICHARD was important that it be an oral history, that it also didn’t want it to be a bland reading. be about people essentially theorizing their own WCT: How have the book and the perfor- lives in the telling. In that way my approach was mance shifted for you since the publication a little different from a historian’s approach. I of the book? CHAMBERLAIN wasn’t necessarily interested in it from a schol- EPJ: The book is what it is. But the perfor- arly perspective, in analyzing what they said mance is its own thing; it continues to morph; joins the cast of SPAMALOT! or imposing a certain theoretical frame onto [it] gives the audience a three-dimensional what they said as much as I was interested in perspective on the men in a way that the book documenting narratives and letting the theories doesn’t. The book is heavily edited. …There are speak through what was said. The other differ- certain freedoms that I can have with the per- ence between mine and other such histories of formances that I can’t have with the book. The the South is that I do the entire South. performance keeps morphing and narrators are WCT: What were those theories? coming in and out; I don’t do all the same ones EPJ: For instance, in the narrative of Chaz/ every time. Both the book and the performance Chastity (a transgender person in Hickory, N.C.): have a life of their own. The ways in which Chaz narrates her life is a WCT: Sweet Tea is mostly about men who theorizing about the performativity of gender in don’t want to leave the South, but there are a way that’s understandable and based on life some who do leave. What pushes them to experience, and in a way that Judith Butler [the leave? feminist theorist who’s written on the performa- EPJ: I write about my own journey out of the tivity of gender] can’t explain it [Laughs]. We South in the introduction: That even though I don’t have to go to post-structuralist theory; may leave it, it will never leave me. [Laughs] we can go to Chaz. That’s not to belittle Judith and I think thats true for even those who re- Butler’s work, but just to say that it’s a different ject the ‘South and leave it behind. The South way of accessing the performativity of gender— doesn’t leave them. in a way that my mother could understand, for [And] then you have people who left because instance. they felt too confined, wanted to experience WCT: In your discussions about the cultural queer culture with a capital “Q.” ... There are norms of the South, you write about how the some who feel, “I will never go back there be- South has a way of holding on to secrets. As cause I don’t feel free.” They don’t want to par- you put it, that’s a part of “Southern gentil- ticipate in that passive aggression. They want to ity.” But is it also about maintaining power be in a place that allows them to be explicitly structures? gay and not have to get shrouded in codes. EPJ: Absolutely, it’s about hostility as much as Read the entire interview at www. gentility. [Laughs] The phrase “governing with WindyCityMediaGroup.com. a steel fist in a velvet glove” [comes to mind]. The dominant discourse in much of the South is a religious discourse; it pervades every aspect of Southern life. So if one’s intention is to have it both ways—to maintain the veneer of religious piety yet be able to partake of the flesh—then one must not speak of those things that might KNIGHT go against the grain of the predominant religious SPAM is a registered trademark of Hormel Foods, LLC, used with permission here. Photo by Greg Gorman SPAM discourse. So that’s why you have, particularly in AT the church—and not just the Black church of THE the South—all kinds of transgressions, all kinds MOVIES of hypocrisy that transcend sexual orientation. There are just as many heterosexuals participat- JANUARY 20— FEBRUARY 1 ing in that [kind of hypocrisy]. WCT: The performances that are now a part of your book tour started in October 2006. (312) 902–1400 š Did you think about performing these narra- tives when you conceived the book? EPJ: No. When I got deep into the research and started conducting the interviews, I realized: This has to be a play. [Laughs] Sitting down with Tickets also available at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt these folks and hearing them tell their stories will return next week University and all Broadway In Chicago box offices and in their unique ways suggested to me that the Ticketmaster retail locations. 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Getting down and ‘Dirty’ Former Windy City Times “30 Under 30” honoree Simon Strikeback celebrated his 30th birthday Nov. 28 with a show at Jackhammer, 6406 N. Clark. Headlined by Strikeback’s band, Actor Slash Model, “Dirty Thirty” was a fundraiser for the film Me Neither, which highlights the art and experiences of trans and gender variant musicians. Actor Slash Model was sup- ported by queer musical acts Congress of Starlings, Brother Truck, and Division & Honore. A dance party with DJ SKY followed the live music. In ‘Fashion’ The feature-length documentary Me Neither is filmed and directed by Strikeback and band- Project Runway alumnus Daniel Vosovic stopped by boutique clothing store Jake, 939 N. mate Madsen Minax (also a former “30 Under 30” honoree), and will feature interviews and Rush, on Nov. 12 and Borders, 830 N. Michigan, on Nov. 13 to promote the release of his book, performances from trans musicians across the country. The money raised at the benefit will Fashion Inside Out. Here, Vosovic (left) poses with Jim Wetzel, co-owner of Jake. Photo by fund a final round of interviews later this month with artists in California. From there, accord- Andrew Davis ing to Strikeback, the film goes into post-production and is expected to be released at the end of summer 2009. Text and photo of Strikeback (left) and Minax by Samuel Worley 26 Dec. 3, 2008 verses used to condemn homosexuality. I delved into theories surrounding identity, forgiveness, love and the tenets of Jesus’ message. I didn’t think the letter would make a difference. It is almost impossible to change someone’s ide- ology, especially in regards to faith and ideas around family. However, about five weeks later she called me. She wanted to apologize. She told me I was right and that she wanted to start re- building our friendship. I was shocked. Shocked. Letters like that never work. They aren’t sup- posed to ever work. They’re basically written just to make the sender feel enabled. But this letter worked. My mind was blown. And with that, I decided to make a film outlining all the aspects Ky Dickens filming the recent anti-Prop 8 of my letter. rally in Chicago. WCT: Were there any issues you faced while The Rebels. Photo by Mel Ferrand interviewing people on a controversial topic Chicago filmmaker like this? injury, or “put salt in the wound,” the one in- KD: I interviewed a lot of anti-gay folks as SPORTS jured reserve was called in off the sidelines to focuses on well as pro-gay folks. The film took us to ev- play simply so the team wouldn’t forfeit. As ery corner of the country—to small towns in Flag football one might guess, this wasn’t the most beau- gays and the Bible South Texas to the clamoring streets of New York tiful football to watch, but the competition by ANNIE KENNEDY City to truck stops in Kansas and to beaches in was first rate. Halsted’s was down by a point Florida. I met hundreds of folks who are very wraps up in at halftime and Frieda’s was resting and ic- Religion is a complicated topic. Add in homosex- different from me. However, if you find common ing. Some of the injuries included cracked ribs, uality, and get ready for an onslaught of people ground with a person, if you treat them with a rough way split foreheads, torn finger ligaments—and saying, “You’re wrong,” “That’s sinful” and “We’ll respect and look them in the eye, if you ask BY MEL FERRAND one player was hit so hard she blacked out for never see eye to eye.” them questions about their life and sit down a moment. It should also be mentioned that With her new documentary, Fish Out of Water, with them for a cup of coffee, suddenly every- Lesions, and cracked ribs, and tears, oh my! a player came back from the emergency room Chicago filmmaker Ky Dickens tackles both sides thing become disarming. I learned that lesson The Chicago Metropolitan Sports Association with her head bandaged and her eye slowly with an arsenal of honesty, passion and a little quickly and, thus, had no conflict or tension in (CMSA) flag football leagues ended their fall swelling shut, but determined to be there to yellow bird. any of my interviews because, before launching seasons Nov. 22-23—and while the men suf- support her team. Ultimately, the perseverance Windy City Times recently caught up with into questioning, I made sure we connected as fered through frigid temperatures, the wom- of these women carried them to the winner’s Dickens to gain some insight into this ambitious human beings. en had more than Mother Nature to contend circle when Frieda’s won 20-14. process. WCT: What do you hope to achieve with this with. Finally, during the ceremony at the end- Windy City Times: When and why did you film? With the continued growth of the league, of-season party, Rebel Tara Lykowski was the decide to become a filmmaker? KD: I hope to give people the resources and the women split three into four divisions for recipient of the second annual Angie Oldham Ky Dickens: My parents got me a camcorder tools to talk about this issue. It isn’t just GLBTQ the playoffs yielding some interesting results. Memorial Award that was started last year to for my 12th birthday, and I carried it around folks who need tools to talk about this issue Further, this year, regular season stats tended commemorate the dedication Angie had to with me everywhere. I really enjoyed capturing but politicians, teachers, therapists and families to matter less than usual and even “Las Vegas” sports and CMSA. The award recognizesexcep- the simple nuances that make people and places need to know both sides of this argument. I also would have had a hard time predicting these tional play in spirit, hustle and sportsman- unique. Suddenly, with my new camcorder, I wanted to find a way to talk about this issue in outcomes. ship. could capture the aspects of moments that of- an accessible, colorful and light way. Therefore, In the Competitive Division, the seventh- ten are forgotten when those moments turn into we are using an animated character [a yellow seed Head Cases successfully upset two higher- ranked teams to march into the finals, only to a memory: the tapping of someone’s foot, the bird] as the narrator. This frees us from attach- Chicago Dragons be trounced in the end by number-one seed way someone cuts their food, they way some- ing a gender, race, sexual orientation or age to Rebels. Additionally, in the Upper Recreational show Jan. 24 one stutters or blinks. I was instantly addicted, our narrator’s perspective. We animate the Bible Division, during the age-old match-up between Local gay and gay-friendly rugby team the and from the time I was 12 to the time I was any time that it is mentioned. We hope by treat- age/experience and youth, youth (Celtic Crown, Chicago Dragons will hold its 3rd Annual Ms. 18 I constantly had a camera around my neck. ing the film as entertainment, and the content the number-two seed) eventually won out over Ruck & Maul Contest Saturday, Jan. 24, at Side- I would edit footage together by using two as information, that we can reach a broad audi- number-five seed Synergy during an incredibly track, 3349 N. Halsted, 5-8 p.m. VCRs—one to play my tapes and the other to ence. close game that ended 26-21. Several mem- Tickets for the event—which will feature record the edited version. Fish out of Water, which was filmed locally, bers of Synergy have been playing football to- team members in drag—are $20 in advance WCT: Where did the idea for Fish Out of Wa- will be released in 2009. gether, under various team names, for the last and $25 at the door. In exchange, patrons get ter come from? ten years and currently the average age of the four drink tickets and a whole lot of entertain- KD: I went to school in the South ... right in Entertainment players is over 35. They will definitely be back ment. This event is one of the team’s biggest the middle of the Bible belt at Vanderbilt Uni- to avenge their loss and champion older female to help raise money for club expenses such as versity [in Nashville, Tenn.]. When I came out news athletes everywhere. field costs, travel and equipment. my senior year in college, a lot of my friends Jack Mackenroth, who competed on the The Intermediate and Lower Recreational See www.ChicagoDragons.org. were deeply affected and offended. Their griev- reality-TV show Project Runway, recently re- divisions are where things got even more un- vealed his HIV/AIDS education campaign at ances centered around religion. They were com- usual. Hail Mary’s was successful in barely de- the Gay Men’s Health Crisis’ “Fashion Forward” Softball classic pletely certain that I was hellbound and that feating nemesis Blue Spin to earn a spot in the benefit in New York City, according to Advocate. the devil had hold of my heart and that I had finals, only to have their hopes dashed by the com. Mackenroth, who has been HIV-positive seeks volunteers fallen out of grace and was a different, tainted Diesel Daisies in a nail-biting double-overtime The Chi-Town Softball Classic will take July for almost two decades, has called the program person than the one they had loved for three championship match-up. The game was fierce, 2-5, 2009, and event organizers are seeking “Living Positive by Design.” years. They were able to quote what seemed like with each team executing intricate plays and volunteers. The movie Milk got off to a very strong start a hundred different Bible verses to prove to me scoring on almost every possession. When the Volunteers of all types and talents are being in its first week of limited release, according that I was a sinner who needed to change. clock ran out, the score stood at 27-27 and sought in various areas, including marketing, to CNN.com. The film biography of the late gay I was incapable of defending myself so I de- the captains were called in for overtime rules. hospitality, Web design and graphic design. politician Harvey Milk (which stars Sean Penn) cided to go talk to a few ministers about the After the first overtime, the teams were once Interested persons should e-mail ChiTown- grossed $1.4 million in just 36 theaters, an av- things they were saying to me and if they were again locked in a tie, so the markers were reset [email protected]. erage of $38,375 a cinema. The movie that won true in the eyes of Christian doctrine. I felt that and the teams took the field again. Eventu- the box office for that weekend, Four Christmas- the only way to keep my friendships was to de- ally, Hail Mary’s defense was unable to push es, averaged $9,571 in 3,310 theaters. bate them on their playing field. And that play- the Daisies, and the final score was 40-33. The Navratilova and The Trevor Project—which runs the only na- ing field was the Bible. I was shocked by what twice-defeated number-one seed will have to tionwide, 24-hour crisis and suicide-prevention Takei on British I heard from some Nashville-area ministers be- hope three is a charm as they prepare to return helpline for LGBTQ youth—will honor Oscar- cause most of them told me that the verses used next fall. nominated actress Sigourney Weaver Dec. 7 reality show to condemn homosexuality were totally taken The championship game for the Lower Recre- Legendary lesbian tennis player Martina in Los Angeles, according to PR Newswire. Ac- out of context, and that being gay is an iden- ational Division was where one must have sus- Navratilova and out actor George Takei (Star tress Anne Hathaway will present Weaver with tity to be celebrated along with other God-given pended all disbelief. To begin, the match-up Trek) are two of the famous people featured the Trevor Life Award, which honors individuals identities. was between the two “worst” or lowest-seeded on the latest season of the British reality show who inspire LGBTQ youth. Weaver has been in By the time I had acquired all the information teams in the entire league. One, Halsted’s, had I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here, accord- movies such as Infamous and Jeffrey, and will be needed from the ministers, we had all gradu- lost every single regular-season game going ing to ESPN.com. featured in the upcoming Lifetime film Prayers ated. But I decided to write a letter to my best into the playoffs; while the other, Frieda’s, had In the show, the cast of 10 is filmed in for Bobby, in which she plays a conservative friend, the one that I wanted to lose the least. a total of seven players available to compete the Australian jungle performing stunts such woman who questions her homophobia after her The letter was about six pages long and, in it, I in the championship match. To compound this as eating bugs and crawling into tanks with gay son’s suicide. outlined an argument to every spoonful of Bible deficit, several of them were injured—a couple snakes in return for food. abuse she ever fed me. I discussed the seven during the game—and then to add insult to Dec. 3, 2008 27

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