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PAGE 10 VOL 34, NO. 03 OCT. 10, 2018 Photo courtesy of Angie Wines www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com JOHNGONE TOO MOSSMANSOON Transgender woman killed on West Side. Facebook photo of Ciara Minaj Carter Frazier ODE TO 4 CROSSING ORLANDO JORDAN Out actor Leslie Traveling exhibit honors Pulse victims Jordan is a ‘Cool Kid.’ Photo by Crystal Shin Lesbian bishop on leading 22 her church for 15 years Turn to page 16 EXPANDED MARTHA WASH DANCE DIVA ARTS DISHES ON CHICAGO MUSICAL COVERAGE AND NEW CD IN GOOD EVERY WEEK PAGE 23 PAGE 12 Martha Wash. Photo by Sean Black FAITH Bishop Phyllis V. Pennese. www.artsandtheaterweekly.com Photos from Pennese @windycitytimes /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com 2 Oct. 10, 2018 WINDY CITY TIMES WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 10, 2018 3 NEWS Trans woman killed on West Side 4 LGBT needs assessment to launch 4 LGBT History: Willyce Kim 5 Kavanaugh confirmation means changes 6 ELECTIONS 2018: Lauren Underwood 8 Orlando Traveling Memorial 10 Angelica Ross bringsTransTech back to Chicago 11 Profile: Bishop Phyllis V. Pennese 12 Domestic-violence panel 13 Viewpoints: Mombian; letter 14 INDEX ENTERTAINMENT/EVENTS Theater reviews 16 Classic music feature 20 Theater feature: Les Innocents 21 DOWNLOAD Television: Leslie Jordan is a ‘Cool Kid’ 22 THIS ISSUE Martha Wash moves into musicals 23 Books: Poetry by H. Melt, Kapri 24 AND BROWSE THE ARCHIVES AT Music: Trans singer Kim Petras 25 www.WindyCityTimes.com Art for Life marks 30 years 26 NIGHTSPOTS 27 Calendar 30 PAGE 10 VOL 34, NO. 03 OCT. 10, 2018 Photo courtesy of Angie Wines www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com JOHNGONE TOO MOSSMANSOON Transgender woman killed on West Side. Facebook photo of Ciara Minaj Carter Frazier ODE TO 4 CROSSING ORLANDO JORDAN Out actor Leslie Traveling exhibit honors Pulse victims Jordan is a ‘Cool Kid.’ Photo by Crystal Shin Lesbian bishop on leading 22 her church for 15 years Turn to page 16 EXPANDED MARTHA WASH DANCE DIVA ARTS DISHES ON CHICAGO MUSICAL COVERAGE AND NEW CD IN GOOD EVERY WEEK PAGE 23 PAGE 12 Martha Wash. Photo by Sean Black FAITH Bishop Phyllis V. Pennese. www.artsandtheaterweekly.com Photos from Pennese @windycitytimes /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com online exclusives at www.WindyCityTimes.com RYAN’S HOPE WCT talks with Million Dollar Listing: New York’s Ryan Serhant (left). Photo courtesy of BWR Public Relations LAUGHTER, THOUGHT OPENHOUSECHICAGO.ORG POPULAR VOTES GET BEHIND-THE-SCENES ACCESS WCT talks with political candidates Sean Casten and Betsy Londrigan. TO BUILDINGS ALL OVER CHICAGO THAT’S SHOW BIZ Find out the latest about Megan Mullally, the show Riverdale and Lee SPONSORS Daniels. Vic Gerami’s celebrity column “10 PRESENTING SPONSOR Questions with Vic” turns its spotlight plus on Kathy Griffin. MEDIA SPONSORS PARTNERS DAILY BREAKING NEWS Photo of Griffin by Jerry Nunn 4 Oct. 10, 2018 WINDY CITY TIMES Transgender woman killed Advocates to launch on Chicago’s West Side LGBT community BY MATT SIMONETTE A transgender Chicago woman died after a fight needs assessment the week of Oct. 1—the second such murder in BY MATT SIMONETTE with the organizations. the city in just more than a month. “In our last data-collection effort, we had The 31-year-old victim was stabbed to death The LGBT Community Fund of the Chicago Com- some of our community-engagement team at after a fight at about 9:30 p.m. on Oct. 3 in an munity Trust will this month launch a new needs- bars on Friday nights,” added Morten. “They were abandoned apartment building on the 4500 block assessment measuring the needs and concerns of at black-tie events. We really tried to be in all- of W. Adams Street, according to Chicago Police the city’s LGBT residents. different kinds of places at all-different times.” Department, whose report identifies the victim as This will be the first such local study under- Data collection will last from mid-October male. taken since 2011, when the last assessment through mid-January, with a full report likely Chicago Sun-Times on Oct. 4 identified the in- took place, noted Mary Morten, president of the in March. Denise Foy and Adnaan Hamid are co- dividual as Ciara Minaj Carter Frazier. Morten Group consultancy, which is undertaking chairs of the LGBT Community Fund. According to a CPD spokesperson, Frazier was the study. Morten emphasized the uniqueness of the 2012 discovered in the rear yard of the building and “The world is a different place than it was in report, which she said has been accessed thou- was initially unresponsive before she died. The 2011 and 2012,” Morten said. “So now [the LGBT sands of times. offender fled in a white-colored vehicle, and two Community Fund] wants to check in and see how “There are lookalike projects happening, based weapons were located in the area of the incident. Ciara Minaj Carter Frazier. things are and how needs have changed.” on what we did in Chicago,” she said. “It’s unusu- No offenders are in custody and Area North De- Facebook photo Among the shifts Morten said to expect are an al that we get to go around seven years later and tectives are still investigating. increased focus in questions on issues surround- do another round of data collection. It will really Frazier is the 22nd known transgender indi- Chicago Sun-Times’ article is at https://chica- benefit the community, not just here in Chicago, vidual murdered in the United States in 2018, ac- go.suntimes.com/news/woman-fatally-stabbed- but all across the country.” cording to HRC. Another transgender Chicagoan, body-stashed-behind-abandoned-west-side- Dejanay Stanton, died by homicide Aug. 30. building-police/. tion at 1-2 p.m. in the Harris Hall of Center on Events on trans roles Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted St., that will focus on Johnson’s legacy with several guest speakers. in LGBT rights in Oct. The reception will be followed by a brief out- For this LGBT History Month, a coalition of door ceremony at 2 p.m. in front of the Center, community agencies will focus on expanding where the bronze memorial will be revealed. awareness of the transgender community. Following Johnson’s induction, there will be The Village Chicago, Howard Brown Health, a similar ceremony at 2:30 p.m. to welcome Lakeview Presbyterian Church, and the Gerber/ famed Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchai- Hart Library and Archives will present a two- kovsky to the Legacy Walk at 3311 N. Halsted part signature program, “Putting the ‘T’ First: St. Honoring the Role of the Transgender Commu- Both ceremonies will be followed by a “Dedi- nity in the LGBT Rights Movement.“ cation Celebration” at Sidetrack, 3349 N. Hal- The first event took place Oct. 9 at Howard sted St. Brown Health/Gerber/Hart Library and Ar- See LegacyProjectChicago.org. chives, 6500 N. Clark St. The next one will hap- pen Tuesday, Oct. 16, 3-5 p.m., at Lake View Mary Morten. Presbyterian Church, 716 W. Addison St. 25th Annual Personal Photo courtesy of Morten Part one will cover history and politics, lan- guage and identity, safety and oppression, and PAC luncheon Oct. 11 ing accessibility and gender. She added, “Percep- Personal PAC—the only Illinois organiza- medical-support services. Part two will focus tions around gender have changed so much in the tion whose sole mission is elect to pro-choice on the lived experience of members of the trans last several years. The spectrum around how peo- leaders and defeat anti-choice candidates— community, behavioral health support services, ple identify themselves has changed tremendous- will hold its 25th Annual Awards Luncheon on and support services for identity issues. ly, so we’ll be increasing our focus around this Thursday, Oct. 11, at the Chicago Hilton In- For more information, call 708-752-2725. part of the community as well as putting together ternational Ballroom, 720 S. Michigan Ave., at a small, four- or five-person advisory team. Some 12 p.m. of those individuals are subject matter-experts, Former two-term Michigan governor and at- Legacy Project to and we’ll be asking them for their idea’s in how to torney general Jennifer Granholm will be the best connect with these communities that have featured speaker. The 2018 honorees include induct Johnson, been chronically underrepresented.” Chicago Foundation for Women President/CEO Employment will also be another primary focus, Tchaikovsky in Oct. K. Sujata, Illinois Handmaids and Men4Choice. she added. Participants in the 2011 study cited The Legacy Project has announced the fall Launched in 1994, Personal PAC’s annual that as a primary concern as well. inductions of transgender activist Marsha P. luncheon gala recognizes individuals and orga- Many local LGBT organizations will take part Johnson and Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich nizations that have made significant contribu- in distributing the survey, among them Howard Tchaikovsky onto Chicago’s award-winning out- tions to protecting the reproductive rights of Brown Health, where the Oct. 17 launch is taking door LGBT History Museum “The Legacy Walk.” women. place. The Trust will also utilize a “community The inductions will take place on Saturday, See PersonalPAC.org. Oct. 13, beginning with a pre-ceremony recep- drop box” at local events and gathering spots for persons who might not utilize or be affiliated WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 10, 2018 5 LGBT HISTORY MONTH a great role model for me because I thought I was childhood, she went to college near the Haight- the only one.” Ashbury in 1964, two years before Compton’s Kim’s writing deals with female empowerment, Cafeteria Riot and five years before Stonewall.