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Burning Bright Lorraine Hansberry. Photo by David Attie VOL 33, NO. 18 JAN. 17, 2018 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com THE WRITE STUFF TV special looks at playwright/ SANDRA ANTONGIORGI Artist/musical talks about upcoming benefit. PAGE 18 Photo by Esteban Rivas 19 author Lorraine Hansberry MARIA HADDEN Aiming to be Chicago’s first Black queer alderperson. Photo courtesy of Hadden BURNING 6 CHANGE BRIGHT IN THE AIR Creating Change co-founder Sue Affinity holds annual Hyde reflects on leaving. Photo from National LGBTQ Task Force Burning Bowl event Charlene Carruthers and Imani Rupert-Gordon. 10 Photo by Tracy Baim @windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com 2 Jan. 17, 2018 WINDY CITY TIMES WELCOME, DR. BRIAN ROSETT! Dr. Brian Rosett is excited to come home reconstructive surgery. to Chicago to join Shifrin Plastic Surgery. Additionally, his medical background An accomplished surgeon, Dr. Rosett has includes five years of general surgery residency performed thousands of cases and has a proven at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and medical track record of helping patients realize their best school at Rush University in Chicago. Having vision of themselves. grown up in the Windy City, he brings an earnest His return to the Midwest comes after an Midwestern sensibility to both the office and the advanced fellowship in Los Angeles, where he operating room. worked with some of the very best surgeons At the center of his medical philosophy is in Beverly Hills. There, he also subsequently the belief that strong communication leads to trained with one of the most regarded facial the best outcomes. From consultation all the plastic surgeons in the United States, honing his way through post-operative recovery you can aesthetic surgical skill and brings many of the expect Dr. Rosett to be engaged and easily field’s newest techniques back to the Midwest. accessible for any questions or concerns. During his plastic surgery training at His patients often remark that his kindness the University of Illinois-Chicago, Dr. Rosett and demeanor helped ease the stress and fear performed nearly twice the number of cases that can sometimes come with surgery. Dr. required by the American Board of Plastic Rosett’s hope for every patient is a surgical Surgery, affording him a broad range of operating success that boosts their self-esteem allowing competency in the realms of both aesthetic and them to live more confident and fulfilling lives. SPECIALS FOR WINDY CITY TIMES READERS: Complimentary Consultations with Dr. Rosett (for a limited time) $650 per syringe for dermal fillers $12 per unit of Botox or Dysport Welcoming Dr. Rosett!! Award-Winning Plastic Surgery DR. DAVID SHIFRIN 312.502.6200 • 680 N. LAKE SHORE DR., #1425 • www.davidshifrinmd.com WINDY CITY TIMES Jan. 17, 2018 3 NEWS Blood-ban res. moves forward, locally; column 4 Obit: Therese Curran 6 Affinity’s annual Burning Bowl 7 Woman aims to be city’s 1st queer Black alderman 8 Creating Change co-founder readies to leave 10 ‘March to the Polls’ details 11 Viewpoints: Monroe 12 ENTERTAINMENT/EVENTS Winter theater special 13 INDEX Theater reviews 14 DOWNLOAD THIS ISSUE AND BROWSE THE ARCHIVES at www.WindyCityTimes.com Lorraine Hansberry. Photo by David Attie Television: Special looks at Lorraine Hansberry 18 VOL 33, NO. 18 JAN. 17, 2018 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com Artist/musician Sandra Antongiorgi 19 THE WRITE STUFF NIGHTSPOTS 20 TV special looks at playwright/ SANDRA ANTONGIORGI Artist/musical talks about upcoming benefit. PAGE 18 Photo by Esteban Rivas author Lorraine Hansberry Classifieds; calendar 22 19 MARIA HADDEN Aiming to be Chicago’s first Black queer alderperson. Photo courtesy of Hadden BURNING 6 CHANGE BRIGHT IN THE AIR Creating Change co-founder Sue Affinity holds annual Hyde reflects on leaving. Photo from National Above: WCT reviews the production Flamingo & Decatur. LGBTQ Task Force Burning Bowl event Charlene Carruthers and Imani Rupert-Gordon. 10 Photo by Tracy Baim @windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com Photo by Evan Hanover online exclusives at www.WindyCityTimes.com TAKE A DANCE ON ME WCT also has a listing of winter dance events as part of the seasonal special. Photo by Tsai Ming-yuan (left), by Liu Chen-hsiang WHAT ABOUT BOB? COMIC RELIEF Comedian Emma Willman talks stand- up, Louis C.K. and more. THAT’S SHOW BIZ Find out the latest about Juliana Margulies, Johnny Weir and the She Rocks Awards. As part of its political lineup, WCT plus interviews gubernatorial candidate DAILY BREAKING NEWS Bob Daiber. Publicity photo 4 Jan. 17, 2018 WINDY CITY TIMES GUEST COLUMN BY MICHAEL A. HORVICH I Don’t Mind Your Asking This question, again, was asked of me recently. of societal norms by declaring and accept- Good naturedly, with love, and with sincere ing our homosexuality, we often times had caring ... but always unexpected. It caused to set out our own norms, expectations, and Crispin Torres and Erik Roldan address the Committee on Health and Environmental Protection. me, in my explanation, to once again have to milestones along with the accompanying mill- Photo by Matt Simonette articulate my feelings and I decided to share stones. them with you here, even though somewhat Up front let me state, YES, I am a gay man personal. How is that for a set up? and therefore find other men sexually desir- Committee advances The question usually runs like this: Have you able. Like most gay men, I guess I am always started dating again? Are you going to be dat- checking out those around me and would not ing? Are you looking for a partner? And with turn down a sexual advance if the occasion blood-ban resolution lower implications: Are you going to get a arose. But just because I am a widow does NOT roommate? mean I am looking for a new relationship! The answer runs like this. “While I do not I enjoy my solitude. I love having the condo to city council rule out all possibilities, NO, NO, NO and NO!” to myself ... to keep clean or to mess up as I With a smile but emphatically. The question choose. The cats, Emma and Gigi, greeting me BY Matt SIMONETTE nications manager, also spoke, mentioning his always takes me by surprise, if only because it when I arrive home, their mad chasing each disappointment when first told that he could not is the last thing I want, desire, or even think other at least three times a day, and their warm The Chicago City Council’s Committee on Health donate blood. Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th Ward) about (unless asked). purring when snuggling in at night will NEVER and Environmental Protection unanimously recalled that he once ignored the rule and do- I have had the LOVE OF MY LIFE. After 12 replace my Gregory, but they provide more than passed a resolution on Jan. 12 calling for the nated anyway, believing that the greater good years of living with Dementia/Alzheimer’s, enough “human contact” and a fair amount of federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to justified lying about his orientation. Gregory died approximately 18 months ago and responsibility. revoke its ban on blood donations by men who “We have a blood shortage, a platelet short- is still a large part of my life, especially after My friends and family fill my time comfort- have had sex with other men in the previous year. age,” Lopez said. “ …Yet we have hundreds of 41 years. Why would I want another partner? ably and are there when I need support, for The non-binding resolution was proposed in thousands of individuals to whom we can say, life mate? lover? roommate? Just because I am example picking up a few groceries for me if November by Ald. Tom Tunney (44th Ward), who ‘Thanks, but no thanks.’” a widow (prefer that word to widower). Why I am ill. They are there to help meet my “nur- in the Jan. 12 hearing said that the current rules He added, “It’s high time that we allow people would people automatically think I am on the turing quotient” as I support them. Calls and are draconian and discriminatory. to do it without lying.” lookout for the next relationship or a room- e-mails are exchanged, meals in and meals out “The original ban was because we don’t know Committee Chairman Ald. George Cardenas (2nd mate? are shared, events are jointly attended, mov- enough about HIV,” Tunney explained. “Today, Ward) concurred with the witness testimony and Relationships take a lot of work. I often re- ies and theater are shared. More than enough this [rule] doesn’t have scientific backup.” committee comments, noting, “Science has to be ferred to Gregory and my “union” as one based comfort for me. Health officials and rights advocates have long the liberator from prejudice.” on “The 49/51% Controlling Interest Princi- I am never lonely, except when my emotions sought to overturn the rule, which had been Tunney’s fellow members of the council’s LGBT pal.” The give and takes, negotiations, con- choose to visit, unexpectedly, with their life modified in 2015 from an outright ban of dona- caucus—which includes Lopez and Cappleman versations, and arguments that are involved in lessons and my grief for Gregory’s having died tions from men who’d had same-sex sexual rela- as well as Alds. Deb Mell (33rd Ward) and Car- any relationship are difficult. The ones that are takes over. But after some tears and some in- tions at any time since 1977. That initial ban los Ramirez-Rosa (35th Ward)—co-sponsored the part of a love relationship can at times seem trospection I come out the other side feeling lingered from the height of the ‘80s AIDS crisis.
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