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The U.S. Senate, last week, confirmed lesbian magistrate Mary Rowland to a U.S. district court judgeship in Illinois, prompting U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth to express appreciation for the Trump administration’s “will- PASSAGES helpline and HIV/AIDS hotline; he also was an ingness to work with us and with our nonpartisan assistant to agency staff and was a team mem- screening committee to reach consensus on nom- Randy Boston ber on the organization’s volleyball team. inees who will serve the people of Illinois well.” Randy Boston died July 1 in Rogers Park. He Also, Randy was very knowledgeable and President Trump nominated Rowland in June was 56. well-read in the arts and cuisine. He was a 2018—his first openly gay appointee to a fed- He was the eldest of six children and was member of the Usual Suspects Book Club. eral judgeship. The Senate Judiciary Committee preceded in death by his mother. Randy is fondly remembered by family and recommended Rowland’s confirmation by a 16-to- Randy grew on Chicago’s South Side, in the many loving friends. He was a valued, cher- five vote, but the nomination was never advanced Back of the Yards community. He graduated ished, thoughtful, sensitive, funny and good to the full Senate. When the 2017-18 Congressio- from Lane Tech High School in 1975, where he and supportive friend to many. Randy often, nal session adjourned, Trump re-nominated most studied office administration. Randy was the selflessly and tirelessly, offered his help and of his other yet-to-be-confirmed nominees, but fellowship coordinator and administrative as- assistance to all of his friends and co-workers. Rowland’s name was no longer on the list. sistant in the division of hematology/oncology He was a good travel companion and once, Then, in May of this year, the Trump adminis- at Northwestern Memorial Hospital during 1999 while visiting New York City, he casually met tration re-submitted Rowland’s nomination. The through 2011. Randy was so professional that actor Neil Patrick Harris and, without pretense, Judiciary Committee recommended her confir- he was the personal assistant for five physi- shared his delightful encounter with those mation by a 14-to-eight vote, and the nomina- cians, exceeding the department normal as- traveling with him. His wonderful and loving tion sat on the Senate calendar until July 31. signment of three. presence will be longed missed and remem- The nomination was approved along with about a After high school, Randy resided in Chica- bered by many. We all loved him dearly. dozen others, by a voice vote. go’s Rogers Park, Lake View and Andersonville Memorial services will be held Saturday, Aug. Rowland, 57, is a native of Ohio and attended neighborhoods. Randy, like many members of 24, 4-7 p.m., at Francesca’s on Bryn Mawr, University of Michigan and then University of the LGBTQ+ community, found acceptance and 1039 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. in the Verona Room Chicago Law School. She clerked for a federal community at Horizons—a social-service agen- (phone: 773-506-9261). Immediately after ser- judge in Michigan, then worked for two years cy that later became known as the Center on vices, all are welcomed to join in for refresh- with the ACLU of Illinois. Since 2012, she has Halsted. While at Horizons, he first was an ac- ments, in loving memory and celebration, of served as a magistrate judge for the U.S. District Judge Mary Rowland. tive member in Horizons’ youth program. Later, our dear friend Randy Boston. Court for Northern Illinois. The American Bar As- Photo by Hal Baim he volunteered on Horizons’ gay and lesbian —Courtesy of Armando Smith sociation rated Rowland as “well qualified” for the position. to the federal bench, San Diego attorney Patrick Rowland resides in Oak Park, Illinois, with Bumatay, is still pending in committee. Trump spouse Julie Justicz and their two children. The nominated Bumatay in October 2018 to serve on questionnaire she filled out for the Judiciary the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Like that Mills, Logue among Committee included mention that she is a mem- of Rowland, his nomination was also sent back to ber of the Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of the president after the end of the Congressional ACS honorees Chicago and was a member of Lambda Legal be- session. But when Trump re-nominated Bumatay Attorney and activist Alan Mills was among tween 1992 and 2010. It noted she had made in February of this year, his slotted him for a dis- those honored July 24 at the 2019 Legal Leg- three presentations before the Chicago gay legal trict court seat, not the appeals court. His nomi- ends Luncheon of the Chicago Lawyers Chapter group and spoke to a law firm about her “path to nation has not moved since. of the American Constitution Society. Mills, the bench as an out lesbian” in June 2017. And Several court-watch media reported that Trump who is executive director of the Uptown Peo- she has worked on several Democratic campaigns. did not consult with U.S. sens. Dianne Feinstein ple’s Law Center, is active in representing the At Rowland’s confirmation hearing last August, and Kamala Harris, both Democrats from Califor- rights of persons experiencing homelessness Senator Durbin (D-Illinois) introduced her, say- nia, for nominees from that state, as is tradition. as well as transgender persons, among other ing she was a “trailblazer…inspiring a generation And they said both senators opposed Bumatay Chicagoans. of LGBTQ attorneys who watched her break glass because he believes in strict reading of the con- Also honored at the luncheon was openly les- ceilings with fearlessness and determination.” stitution, a reading that often works against the bian Cook County Circuit Court Associate Judge He and Senator Duckworth (D-Illinois) welcomed interests of LGBT people. Several conservative Patricia Logue, who was unable to attend. Ca- “Mary’s wife, Julie Justicz,” to the hearing, not- news sources are speculating Trump might re- milla Taylor, director of constitutional litiga- ing that their children were off at school. Row- nominated Bumatay to a Ninth Circuit seat that is tion for Lamdba Legal, accepted the award on Logue’s behalf. land’s connections to the LGBT community, in- expected to come open soon due to a retirement. Alan Mills. —Matt Simonette cluding pro bono work for Lambda Law. © 2019 Keen News Service. All rights re- Photo by Matt Simonette President Trump’s second openly gay nominee served.

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I was lucky to [also] play in a hearts—and tribute ribbons attached to play- Shawn Albritton of Chicago. couple of softball tournaments with him.” ers’ and umpires’ uniforms. The balls and strikes, CMSA Hall of Fame member Marcia Hill, induct- Nicholson was voted Most Valuable Player at safe and out calls were, in large part, secondary ed in 2007, simply said: “CMSA has lost one of the Emerald City Classic softball tournament in to the memories that ran throughout the Open [its] bests.” Seattle by his Chicago Jackhammer teammates. Sunday Softball League of the Chicago Metropoli- “Bobby was in a class by himself,” said Brian “When I think of Bobby, I will always remem- tan Sports Association (CMSA), at all fields, in all Sommer of Chicago. “He was always so nice and ber his smile and the way he made everyone feel games, in all divisions. kind to all softball players.” special,” said Julie Colwell. “I always had a blast CMSA, particularly softball, lost a local legend And comical, too, even if it was a dry humor. [umpiring] the Senior Cup for Bobby. on Friday night, August 2. Robert F. “Bobby” Sommer, for instance, recalls umpiring a game “He truly was an ambassador for CMSA Softball, Nicholson passed away, leaving a long local and with Nicholson, with Nicholson working as the [a] hard-working umpire and [he] could remem- national gay sports legacy that dates back about plate umpire. “He told me that he would signal ber softball stories for days. 40 years. He was 69. [to] me every time the teams switch, so I would “The entire NAGAAA family will miss his smile, Nicholson is a member of the CMSA Hall of Fame, know if it was the top or bottom of the inning,” his laugh and wit that made you just want to inducted in its second-ever class of inductees in Sommer said. “So, for the top of the inning, he hug him. He will just have to share his softball Robert "Bobby" Nicholson. 2008, along with Richard Essig, Art Johnston, would stand in front of the plate and just start stories with all the Cubs fans in heaven.” Photo courtesy of David Liechty Doug Malm and Sidetrack. He also later served hitting the top of his hat, [thus] I knew we were Sam M., a longtime friend of Nicholson, added: on the CMSA Hall of Fame committee. Plus, Nich- in the top of the inning. Then for the bottom of “I have a tremendous amount of great memories olson was a 2009 inductee into the NAGAAA Hall the inning, he would stand in front of the plate ship rubbed off on me and those who knew him.” from my friendship with Bobby. First as a player of Fame from the North American Gay Amateur and just start spanking his own butt. Nicholson was from suburban Evergreen Park, with the [team called the] Bushmen, then as an Athletic Alliance, which operates the annual Gay “I laughed so hard whenever it was the bottom but lived in Kansas City, Missouri until his return owner/sponsor for The North End, then just as a Softball World Series. That 2009 induction class of the inning. to Chicago in 1965. He joined the Gay Athletic player again. also featured fellow Chicagoans Phil Runions and “I will miss his humor and kind words so much.” Association (GAA), the predecessor to MSA and “I was so excited that Mike Travers and me, Sam Coady. Albritton added, “His fun spirit and sportsman- later CMSA, to continue his lifelong joy of playing along with our teammates, were able to retire team sports. the 16-inch championship trophy to Bobby and From 1980 through 1999, he was a softball The North End. I was sad when Bobby sold his player, in both 16- and 12-inch gay softball part of The North End because he also had to ‘sell’ leagues in Chicago. He was a member for 13 the MSA trophy to the new owner. Bobby told me NAGAAA Gay Softball World Series teams. that was his only regret about getting out of the “Bobby represented the best of LGBT sports,” bar business—[that] he couldn’t keep the trophy. BLOCK said Kevin Boyer of Chicago. “He was always “I’m going to miss that guy. He was a major there with a joke and a laugh. [He was] smart, supporter of GAA/MSA and me. He’ll not be for- fair, and committed to the players. Every game gotten by me. I think the ribbons worn by the [that] he umpired was more fun.” players [on August 4, the day after his death] Added Brian Lopez, of Chicago: “I’m having was a fitting and well-deserved honor for a great trouble comprehending that he’s gone. Unfortu- guy.” nately, I don’t have a quote or words to express Nicholson played in the Windy City Athletic As- Sat. how amazing this guy was. For so many of us, he sociation’s basketball league in the mid-2000s. PARTY was one of the first introductions we had into the He also was the umpire-in-chief for the 2006 AUG. 24 gay sports world, and what an incredible repre- Gay Games, held in Chicago, for both the men and This event is free and sentative he was.” the women’s divisions. 11am-5pm open to everyone! Nicholson, during 1983-1999, was the co-own- Nicholson’s longtime partner, David shared the er of The North End, a sports bar in Boystown, sad news, saying: “It is with great sadness and Join us as we celebrate our 40th Anniversary on and he financially sponsored softball, bowling, a heavy heart that I write to you [that] our dear volleyball and flag football teams. friend Bobby Nicholson passed away today. Ac- (Farragut Ave. From 1984-1990, he bowled in the Thursday cording to his wishes, there will not be a public and Friday night GAA/MSA leagues. service. Instead, we ask that you pause and re- at Clark St.) Nicholson was the 1995 recipient of the James flect on those special memories you shared with We’re saying thank you to the community that made us 40 Years Strong with live entertainment from: R. Brody Award, presented to the Open Sunday him, remembering the laughs and smiles you Softball League player for outstanding sports- brought to each other’s day. He truly enjoyed Drag Queen Story Hour The Clamor & Lace manship. time spent with friends and family. with Muffy Fishbasket Noise Brigade Nicholson started umpiring CMSA’s Open Soft- “Tonight, before you fall asleep, as a tribute to ball league in the late-1990s, including a time as Bobby, whisper ‘Good Night Irene’ to wish him She’s Crafty (Chicago’s All-Female its umpire-in-chief. well on his journey. Thanks for being a part of ShaZah Beastie Boys Tribute Band) “I knew Bobby for 28 years … he was my umpire his life!” mentor many years ago,” said Doug Malm, who is CMSA will pay tribute to Nicholson during Plus a mini “Taste of Andersonville” with free refreshments from a variety of now the CMSA Open Sunday Softball League UIC. the Open Sunday Softball League’s end-of- neighborhood restaurants, kids games, a feminist crafting station and more! “He taught me how to be an umpire on the field season get-together on Sunday, Sept. 15 at and a better person off the field. I will miss his Jackhammer. Additional information on the See the full line-up & learn more at www.womenandchildrenfirst.com friendship.” tribute are forthcoming. WINDY CITY TIMES Aug. 7, 2019 7 ACLU opens arguments for trans prisoners’ healthcare rights BY MATT SIMONETTE Strawberry Hampton, a recently incarcerated transgender woman who successfully lobbied to ACLU of Illinois began arguments the week of be transferred into an all-female facility—and July 30 for a federal injunction they say would who is one of the five persons represented in the improve healthcare conditions for transgender suit—also attended the July 24 briefing. state prisoners. Hampton said that she was subjected to treat- According to a May lawsuit filed by five trans- ment in prison that left her feeling “embarrassed, gender Illinoisans, transgender state prisoners degraded and dehumanized” during her time in are subject to medical decisions made by ad hoc prison. committees, not all of whom have core com- “It was a disgrace to be transgender” in prison, petencies or necessary training in transgender Hampton said. “Every day you were in there, you healthcare. As such, transgender prisoners cannot were fighting for your life.” obtain gender dysphoria-related medical treat- “It has been a struggle to get IDOC to see it ments save for hormone therapies, said plaintiffs. as an issue they should focus on,” Knight added. ACLU of Illinois' John Knight and transgender former inmate Strawberry Hampton. The suit was filed in East St. Louis, Illinois. Photo by Matt Simonette There are about 100 transgender persons in the Illinois prison system at any given time, according to John Knight of ACLU of Illinois. In a July 24 press briefing at ACLU’s downtown offices, organization officials, and additional attorneys and advocates, described conditions wherein transgender prisoners were routinely de- Lambda Legal nied essential care as it pertains to gender dysphoria. The lawsuit asks for an injunction that would require reforms to the standards of medical care, salutes and would seeks certification of a class of all transgender persons seeking care for gender dysphoria. Knight, who is director of ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project, said that Illinois Department of Correc- tions (IDOC) determines to whom it doles out services by committee; those committee members, he added, quite often have no core competency, or even basic knowledge, about transgender health. IDOC rarely provides transgender health services beyond hormone therapy, and that’s only after the prisoners must wait years for their treatment to begin. Quite often, added Randi Etner, MD, a specialist in transgender healthcare, those hormones are misdiagnosed at dangerous levels. Knight suggested that committee determina- tions are fraught with inaccuracies and catch- 22s. IDOC officials, for example, frequently say that prisoners must address “trauma” before initiating hormone therapy. Most experts would agree, however, that untreated gender dysphoria and being in incarceration would indeed be a source of trauma.

@windycitytimes 8 Aug. 7, 2019 WINDY CITY TIMES Sebastian Patti: Legal icon talks past, health issues and accomplishments BY ANDREW DAVIS And—I hope you’re sitting down for this— when I went to law school in Kansas (so it was To say Sebastian Patti has achieved milestones— an in-state school), tuition was $750 a semester! for himself and the LGBTQ community—might be We certainly don’t do that any more. giving him short shrift. I was interested in environmental law. I teamed More than two decades ago, Patti, 66, became up with a professor to write a couple law-review the first openly gay appointed judge and, in articles on wildlife law. 2009, he took his seat as the first openly gay WCT: And on a more personal level, when did appellate court justice. He retired from being a you come out? Cook County Circuit Court judge last year, and is SP: You know, I knew I was gay when I was in now in Los Angeles, hearing asylum cases for the high school—11th or 12th grade. By the time I U.S. Department of Justice. Recently, he received went to college, I knew I was gay—and I didn’t an award from the Alliance of Illinois Judges—a hide it. By the time I moved to Chicago in ’79, I group of lesbian and gay judges in Cook County. was completely out. Windy City Times: Looking into your back- WCT: And the political climate for the [LG- ground, I noticed that you were a history/ BTQ] community has changed since then. science major [at Duke University]. What pro- SP: I’ll say! If someone had put a gun to my pelled you to go into law? head in 1995, when I was appointed judge, and Sebastian Patti: Zoology is a real passion of said that same-sex marriage would be a constitu- The Honorable Sebastian Patti with the Honorable Nancy Katz, the first lesbian judge in Illinois. mine—birds, and so forth. However, the rea- tionally protected right, I would’ve said, “Abso- son I went into law is [really] simple: My father lutely no way.” Photo by Mary C. Marubio believed that a legal education was extraordi- WCT: You’ve established some firsts in your narily important. He admired lawyers a lot, and legal career. Do you see yourself as a role with so many options that I feel an obligation to WCT: And what do you consider to be the he thought the world of his personal lawyer. He model? give back—no matter how that manifests itself. most groundbreaking cases for the LGBT com- thought practicing law would be hugely benefi- SP: I actually don’t. My position is that I have I try to capitalize on it, so if I have a way, an ap- munity? cial for me. been so lucky in life, and life has presented me proach or a manner at looking at an issue, I do it. SP: There are several. I’d definitely say United If that ends up the sum and substance of being a States v. Windsor [which struck down the Defense role model, I plead guilty. of Marriage Act] and Obergefell v. Hodges [which When I got that award on June 26 [from the Al- established same-sex marriage as a constitutional liance of Illinois Judges]. … I [mean], I received right], but there are also Bowers v. Hardwick [a an award that was named after me! What an hon- controversial case that upheld the constitution- or—but, with my self-deprecating humor, I said, ality of a Georgia sodomy law] and Lawrence v. 300 west superior street | chicago, illinois 60654 “I’m still alive, and I’m getting this award!” I Texas [which held that laws prohibiting private raised my right hand and swore I’d never jaywalk same-sex relations between consenting adults are THROUGH AUG. 30 again. [Laughs] It really was a wonderful event. unconstitutional]. WCT: You’ve moved to L.A. There are some WCT: Looking back over your career, what who thought you’d be in Chicago forever. would you say is your biggest regret—and SP: I had some health issues. I was diagnosed what are you proudest of? with throat cancer in early 2016. Of course, it SP: Well, that’s one I didn’t see coming! was life-altering; the treatments were brutal, [Pauses] I think my greatest satisfaction is be- and my stamina is not what it used to be. So a ing able to look back and say that I was (and warmer climate is easier on me. I’m looking out am) regarded as an excellent judge and—because right now—there isn’t a cloud in the sky, and the of that—in some way, I have been able to con- temperature is probably 82, 83. tribute to people saying, “If that old Patti can WCT: Being an immigration judge for the DoJ do it, then maybe I can do it!” And maybe this is in the age of Trump… What can you say about the functional equivalent of being a role model, I it? love that I’ve encouraged people to not be afraid SP: Never a dull moment! I actually have noth- and take the leap. We now have 16 or 17 openly ing but very positive things to say. [Note: Patti gay judges in Chicago. That’s amazing! requested that this be the extent of questioning As for my biggest regret, I can’t say that I regarding his current job or thoughts regarding have a significant professional one. I once told a immigration.] therapist, “You know what? If I go to the pearly WCT: When I last interviewed you in 2008, gates tomorrow, I’d be happy to present myself I asked if you had any LGBT icons. You listed because I’d have no explaining to do.” It’s that Ron Sable, Tom Chiola, Nancy Katz and Jon- satisfaction that, in large measure, helped me get Henri Damski. Just curious: Should that list through the cancer treatment. I’m a pretty posi- remain intact? tive person—even with developments like not SP: I’ll always remember [Jon-Henri] wearing having salivary glands now, so I have to keep that cap. I’d keep that list—but I’d add [presi- water with me all the time. I told my oncolo- dential candidate] Mayor Pete Buttigieg and gist, “You fried my salivary glands, but you know galleryvictor.com | [email protected] | 312.722.6447 Judge Mary Rowland [confirmed to federal district what? You cured me of cancer, and I can do that court in Illinois]. math.” He smiled. WINDY CITY TIMES Aug. 7, 2019 9

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August 10 & 11 | 3245 N. Halsted, Parking Lot | 12 - 6 p.m. 10 Aug. 7, 2019 WINDY CITY TIMES Angela Barnes discusses chairing Center on Halsted’s board BY ANGELIQUE SMITH have the ability to “get to zero” so we can help eliminate the HIV threat to our community, but Growing up in the South Shore neighborhood of we have to make sure that the benefits are reach- Chicago, Angela Barnes learned the importance ing all of the members of our community. of “volunteering and giving back as much and as WCT: How do you foresee your time as board often as you can” early on from her parents. chair being different from your predecessor, From bringing queer women together to em- Richard Turner? power others through co-founding She100— AB: I don’t know Richard that well, [though] which will be relaunching soon—to serving on I’ve gotten to know him and I think that he’s the leadership council for GLAAD, Barnes’ name very thoughtful. Obviously, he’s comes at this often appears on the rosters of various organiza- whole position from a different perspective. I Angela Banres. tions. And now, as the new chair of the board for think that my perspective fits very neatly into Photo courtesy of Barnes the Center on Halsted, she is looking forward to where the Center is going in terms of our stra- making the board more diverse and robust. tegic mission, our desire to make sure that this A corporate attorney who also has her own isn’t just a building that sits in Lake View that is consulting business (Hoffman-Barnes Risk Man- seen as catering just to white, male LGBTQ—that agement), Barnes attended Wellesley before ob- the Center represents something greater. We need taining a juris doctorate from Columbia Univer- to make sure that its impact is being felt around sity School of Law. An avid runner and golfer, the city. To that end, we try to move into other Coalition was doing. He knew that I was con- different things like that, but one of the things Barnes has been with her partner, Sofia Anasto- communities with our presence, our services, and cerned about young people and my community, I did respect about her is that she’s just wicked poulos, for more than 20 years. our support. and he kind of thought this would be something I smart. As far as I was concerned, this was a no Windy City Times: What do you think is the WCT: Meaning? could be involved in and really make a difference. brainer. most pressing issue affecting the LGBTQ com- AB: We’re serving all of these young African- I met with him as a favor to his wife, Michelle WCT: And now that’s she’s mayor? What do munity and how does the Center on Halsted American people and they have to get on a bus Saddler, and I had every intention of having this you think having an openly Black, lesbian (the Center) plan on addressing it? or a train and come to the North Side usually, in beer with him and saying, “I’m really too busy to mayor means for the city? Angela Barnes: From my perspective, there’s order to not only get these services but, on some be on this board, but thank you and I’ll consider AB: I think it’s a game changer. It’s not go- an intersectional component. While I think that level, to feel community. It shouldn’t be that you it.” And I left being like, “And what else can I ing to be all rainbows and bubblegum, we have there’s still frontiers in terms of the rights of the have to go and seek it out. do?” a lot of issues that have to be addressed. I think LGBTQ community, and there’s much more that Given that there are so many organizations WCT: Some of the stats on the organization’s what you’re going to have is somebody who is can be done in terms of transgender rights, I that serve populations on the South and West website were surprising. approaching issues in a more equitable way than have to say that it’s our communities of color sides, what can the Center do to support building AB: I think probably 80 percent of what I knew has been historically done. You really need to that I’m primarily concerned about. that community so that people really feel com- about homelessness was challenged. It was so rebuild a lot of these neighborhoods that have We have to ask, with all of the gains that we fortable where they live? And that means a lot of amazingly eye-opening for me. Because we’re an been ignored for a lot of years. Where are a lot of make, how is it impacting every component? Our things, it doesn’t just mean you feel comfortable advocacy group, the only service we provide is these kids coming from who come to the Center? communities of color are still struggling. It’s in, “I’m out, I’m gay and I’m proud,” but what are legal clinic. And to see what they’re doing for There’s going to be a ripple effect and I think it’s great that we can get married, it’s great that we the services that are lacking in these communi- families and for young people, it made me think going to be very good for the LGBTQ community ties and can we do anything to help? It has to that I hadn’t done enough in my life to help the and, again, that intersection of communities of involve a lot of listening. And I think I bring the cause. color. perspective of understanding these communities Two years ago, I became the chair of that board Fred’s Wrigleyville Garage a lot better because I’m from that community. and, mercifully, my term ends in two months … and Auto Repair is offering WCT: Which programs or events at the Center and really only because I’m taking on the Center. are closest to your heart? Being at the Coalition helped me decide to join Author Toni AB: Silver Fork is my favorite! At base level, the the Center board. I saw a direct connection FREE AC INSPECTION it’s a jobs program. Taking people in and saying, between the work that the Coalition does with Morrison dies at 88 AND 10% OFF “Here’s a skill,” and it’s a skill that [can help you] youth homelessness and the populations that the Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison go out and get a job. That’s important. And a lot the Center serves. It made sense, there’s such an has died at 88. ON ANY AUTO of these culinary programs are very expensive, so overlap given how many homeless youth are in Morrison was the first Black woman to re- REPAIR they’re prohibitive to a lot of people. To have the LGBTQ community. ceive the Nobel literature prize, awarded in space and the expertise to have people teach- WCT: You hosted a fundraiser at your home 1993. Her novel Beloved—in which a moth- Present this coupon at the shop to get ing front of the house, back of the house, and for Lori Lightfoot in advance of her becoming er, Margaret, makes a tragic choice to murder your car inspected for FREE and get your then we also try to find jobs for people so they mayor. What inspired you to put your support her baby to save the girl from slavery—won car ready to beat the heat. can be placed, this is something that should be behind her candidacy? the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988. replicated. We are going to, or might have even AB: I was an early supporter of Lori because She also chaired the humanities depart- already started, replicating it at Daley College. I know Lori. I am not a big fan of politicians ment at Princeton University, where she These are the types of programs that work. and typically don’t support them. I’m a bit cyni- taught from 1989 to 2006. WCT: How did you get involved with the Chi- cal, being a Chicagoan. When Lori reached out Director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ film cago Coalition for the Homeless? and said she was running … I’m not a religious Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am recently ran AB: I have been on the board for about six person, but I thought my prayers have been an- at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre. In 2010, her years now. I became involved because of the for- swered. I practiced with her at [law firm] Mayer novel A Mercy was a selection for One Book, For appointments, call Fred mer executive director, Ed Shurna. He is probably Brown years ago. I looked at her as a mentor One Chicago. Her last work, God Help the Child, was pub- at (773) 549-7777 one of the most amazing people I’ve ever met, and I certainly looked up to her. After we became just in terms of his passion for the work that the friends, we disagreed on some social issues and lished in 2015. WINDY CITY TIMES Aug. 7, 2019 11 Rainbow pylons are now city landmarks BY MATT SIMONETTE

The rainbow pylons dotting the Halsted Street landscape —and are the basis of the Legacy Walk outdoor museum—are officially city landmarks. The City Council approved a recommendation July 24 that the pylons be given landmark status. The approval was part of a larger set of recommendations forwarded by the Council’s Commit- tee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Stan- dards. The measure did not elicit any comment beyond brief remarks by Ald. Tom Tunney (44th Ward), who chairs that committee and in whose Gary Wasdin and Norman Sandfield, with Dureau photo. ward the pylons stand. Photo by Matt Simonette Flanked by longtime activists Lori Cannon and in many circles,” he added. “ … Mapplethorpe Rick Garcia, Tunney said, “The designation will learned a lot from Dureau and their works are make the Legacy Walk and the rainbow pylons Leather Archives almost identical—including Mapplethorpe repro- streetscape the only multi-acre site in the world unveils Dureau photo ducing Dureau’s same works. But Mapplethorpe to be declared a landmark because its importance BY MATT SIMONETTE has gotten the glory. Nevertheless, Dureau’s black to the LGBTQ people.” and white works, especially his male nudes, are Tunney also acknowledged Legacy Project Ex- Leather Archives & Museum (LAM), on July 28, stunning.” ecutive Director Victor Salvo, who was in the unveiled a newly acquired photograph by the late The photograph was donated to LAM by Chi- Council chambers as well on July 24. photographer George Dureau (1930-2014). cago philanthropist and LAM supporter Norman The rainbow pylons were erected in 1998, and Best known for capturing images of male nudes, Sandfield. The acquisition was arranged through plaques dedicated to notable LGBT individuals Dureau was noted for having been a key influence the archives of the late Fort Collins, Iowa-based were first mounted on them in 2012. The final on the work of Robert Mapplethorpe, said LAM collector and artist William Doan (1940-2015), plaques were dedicated once the Legacy Walk Legacy Walk plaque of Alfred Kinsey. Executive Director Gary Wasdin. who spent many years in Chicago and was a mem- reached capacity in 2018. Photo courtesy of Impact Signs “He’s a photographer that’s not well-known ber of the ONYX leather club.

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Organizers said they were heartened by the turn- out—about 80 or 90 people—for a July 23 meeting to discuss how Barrington can be supportive of its LGBT residents. “We received a great deal of support from the community, and there were a lot of distinguished members of the community who showed up,” said co-organizer Patrick Watson. “They just wanted to show support for us.” Co-organizer Diane Scholten, who is lesbian, noted that even Village President Karen Darch attended a portion of the meeting, adding, “It was a really wonderful night.” The meeting was prompted in part by two anti- LGBT incidents that occurred within the past several months in Barrington. The first involved a lesbian couple whose Pride flag was stolen and replaced by an American flag. The second involved a lesbian high school student whose reporting of online harassment led to vandalism on her front lawn. That student’s family awoke to the sight of numerous forks on their lawn—to be construed as “fork you”—along with a sign suggesting she should kill herself. That incident has been treated by authorities as a hate crime. The student’s mother, Sharon Nelles, was a pan- Diane Scholten (with Cook County elist July 23, as was Scholten; openly gay Cook Commissioner Kevin Morrison behind her) County Commissioner Kevin Morrison; Village of addresses the Barrington meeting courtesy of Barrington Trustee Emily Young; Equality Illinois One Barrington Area. Director of Civic Engagement Anthony Galloway; Photo courtesy of One Barrington Area THE MAGIC IS BACK® Pastor Jana Chwalisz of St. Paul’s United Church of Christ; therapist Brittany Rotelli-Morey; and ‘What can we do to make things better?’” Schol- parent Barbara Pintozzi. ten added. “Even at that first [board of trustees] Watson, a local activist and organizer who is an meeting, a lot of people said, ‘This is great— ally of the LGBT community, formed a Facebook what’s next?’” group, One Barrington Area, after many commu- Beyond discussing the anti-LGBT episodes, nity members attended a village trustees meeting Scholten further emphasized that the July 23 shortly after the episode involving Nelles’ daugh- gathering was also about conceiving of an action ter to register support. plan which organizers will develop using surveys “Both Diane and I thought about, ‘What can they collected following the meeting. She also we do beyond that?’” Watson said. “What can praised Watson’s efforts as well as the initial en- we do to have some form of action that could thusiasm from the community and local officials. continue to happen over a short period of time? Watson added that perhaps the moving portion We thought it should be a form of community of the meeting was when Chwalisz described the conversation, and we had a panel of people that work her church had done so as to be welcoming came together and just spoke about the LGBTQ to LGBT persons and their families. community in the Barrington area as a whole. “[Chwalisz] made it well-known that her These are your neighbors and these your friends. church is very open to everyone, that they are They have been in the community for years, so a very affirming church, and that anytime we what can we do going forward?” needed space, are welcome to the church, free of Watson added that some residents have floated charge,” Watson said. “There are members of the the idea of a Pride event for Barrington, and they congregation from all backgrounds.” thought the online and in-person conversations Scholten said, “That might have been the first would be ideal platforms from which to start part of the night when there was spontaneous working. An additional goal is likely to address applause—a lot of applause on that one.” 5050 North Clark Street Chicago, Illinois 60640 bullying of LGBT youth. For more information on One Barrington Area, chicagomagiclounge.com “Patrick and I are both of the persuasion of, see bit.ly/2YnXdXL. 312.366.4500 @windycitytimes /windycitymediagroup

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ROSEMONT.COM @VillageofRosemont 14 Aug. 7, 2019 WINDY CITY TIMES BOOKS Another reason the story Noe tells has largely been ignored is that society overall has failed to comprehend how a group of straight women could Victoria Noe documents have been profoundly affected by HIV/AIDS. Noe said that her physician years ago scoffed when she first asked to be tested for HIV. straight women on front “He asked, ‘Why would you need to be tested? What have you been doing?’” she recalled. “I said, ‘Why shouldn’t I be tested?’ … That was be- lines of HIV/AIDS crisis cause the narrative, at least for the first 15 years, was overwhelmingly about gay men.” BY MATT SIMONETTE and founded a similar program in Washington The energy around this particular moment in State. AIDS activism died down with the advent of AZT A new book by Chicago author Victoria Noe pays “Linking these patients with church volunteers triple-therapy in the mid-’90s, Noe said. But her tribute to dozens of unsung heroes of the HIV/ was unheard of, even here [in Chicago],” Noe book details a number of contemporary straight AIDS crisis, chronicling myriad contributions said. “The relationship between those two com- women who are making their voices prominent in from straight women who, since the early ‘80s, munities was tense, to put it mildly.” HIV/AIDS activism. have intervened in numerous capacities to give Noe added that, when she contacted her, James “The Positive Women’s Network is doing re- aid and comfort to those persons impacted by similarly questioned why an author would be in- markable work, mostly with minority women,” the infection. terested in her story. she said. “What I also love is that today’s divas “They felt compelled to help, knowing that Noe herself put in much time contributing en- Victoria Noe. are women of color and are younger. The divas they’d get little to no recognition, and it’s been ergy to AIDS-related causes and activism, and did Photo by Matt Simonette of the old days were mostly older and white, that way since the beginning,” said Noe. “It’s worked as a fundraiser for various organizations. and there’s nothing wrong with that. But now, still that way, but maybe a little less so. It was She doesn’t remember if any one incident or de- small. Then it was like it just exploded. I was they are women who are younger, mostly African certainly that way for the first 10 or 15 years.” velopment specifically inspired her to become a in the theater, so it was affecting people that American, and can harness social media. They Fag Hags, Divas and Moms: The Legacy of active, she said. I worked with and guys that I went to college are able to reach their communities in ways that Straight Women in the AIDS Community, pub- “I think it was just the growing worry,” Noe with. I was outside the [LGBT] community, but it someone like me could not do.” lished in late March, documents how numerous recalled. “At the beginning, it just seemed so was reaching me.” women around the world stepped up in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, even when on Halsted Chief Operating Officer Kim Fountain government, media and the general public were said, “Center on Halsted is in alignment with all in the dark about AIDS’ origins and its po- EXCLUSIVE: Community Lighthouse Foundation that there is racial equity tential consequences. Among those persons Noe and inclusion work to be done in ‘Boystown and profiles are healthcare providers, researchers, re- Beyond’ to work toward ending racism within the ligious personnel, mothers and celebrities. activists launch focus on LGBTQ communities of Chicago. This focus is not Noe’s book shatters a number of stereotypes new to Center on Halsted, though it seems we about who was doing much of this activism work. approach the work differently.” She notes, for example, that numerous members Center on Halsted She added, “Racial Equity and Inclusion as a of the Junior League were early activists on be- primary focus was put into the [Center’s] Stra- BY MATT SIMONETTE “At the end of the day, the buck stops with half of persons with AIDS, volunteering at hos- tegic Plan. From this, a Director of Racial Equity him,” Frazier added. “We believe that rank-and- pices and day care centers dedicated to their and Inclusion was hired as well as nationally rec- After several community conversations this sum- file folks who work at Center on Halsted are doing care, at a time when many Americans were not ognized REI consultant Inca Mohamed. These two mer about allegations of racism from some Boys- a great job serving our community, despite a very willing to do so. individuals helped to form the Equity Leadership town business owners and other organizations, a high people of color turnover rate [there]. Noe said, “They’d been doing that since 1986. Groups for the Board and Staff. In May, Center Chicago activist organization is calling for Center Walsh Security’s presence at the Center has There’s such a stereotype about Junior League on Halsted stopped all programing for two days on Halsted to drop its security provider, Walsh long been the focus of community controversy. members—it sort of blows up that stereotype.” while the staff attended an REI staff develop- Security, which has long been associated allega- In 2012, Windy City Times reported that officers The organization shared with her their vast re- ment meeting. Inca Mohamed also met 1:1 with tions of racism. at the Center wore hats and sweatshirts that ob- cords that detailed the work, not attributing to most staff and hosted six open meetings to speak Lighthouse Foundation—a non-sectarian, fuscated the fact that they were not police, for them much importance. with staff in groups about REI at the Center. She non-profit social justice organization associated example. Furthermore, various persons of color “The international office in New York and the will use this information to guide the ELG and Se- with Lighthouse Church of Chicago—is organiz- have alleged they’ve been made to feel unwel- [local] office in San Francisco just sent me stuff,” nior Team through the development of work plans ing the initiative through its Coalition of Allies come in the Center by its security. Walsh Security Noe said, adding that upon actually reading addressing REI improvement strategy implemen- for Racial Equality (CARE) arm. is headed by CPD Officer Thomas Walsh. In 2017, the materials, she’d often end up asking Junior tation.” “The folks who came together [in previous CWB Chicago noted that Walsh was allegedly in- League officials, “Do you know what it is that Fountain also said that the Center was “explor- community forums] essentially said two things,” volved in a brawl and repeatedly used a racial you have here?” ing different models for security,” adding, “When explained Rev. Jamie Frazier of Lighthouse Church epitaph at the Lucky Horseshoe Lounge in 2013. Indeed, many of the persons she profiled did the Center first recognized the need for security, of Chicago, who is the Foundation’s board presi- Frazier said that so far he’s culled anecdotes not see any significance in their accomplish- there were some trials and errors, resulting in to- dent. “One was that they want to create busi- and information from about 10-15 persons, in- ments. day’s team which does not wear uniforms, does nesses and not-for-profit centers that center cluding himself, about problems with security at “It wasn’t about [service] awards, or anything not carry firearms, and is more of a reflection of the experiences and needs of Black LGBTQ-plus the Center. like that,” said Noe, who said she tried to present the communities served. Several months ago, the folks. The second thing was they wanted regular “I have spoken to current and former Center a mix of different stories. Senior Team began to focus on alternative se- accountability from people who have amassed on Halsted employees,” he added. “I have spoken She was especially proud to be able to tell the curity options like that used at the Los Angeles great resources to serve Black LGBTQ-plus folks. to African-American LGBTQ-plus folks who have story of Trudy James, an Arkansas hospital chap- LGBT Center, which trains and employs members We think that Center on Halsted sits at the very visited or frequented the Center on Halsted. I my- lain who noticed that few of the AIDS patients in of the community. We have also reached out to apex of that conversation; they have received so self have done programming at Center on Halsted her charge received visits from family or friends. community partners to ask about their security many grant dollars and [so much] financial sup- and I’ve met with staff before. I do have my own James eventually coordinated a large-scale pro- companies. port in the name of LGBT inclusion. For them to personnel experiences with that institution.” gram that linked persons with AIDS and their “Until a solution is reached, Center on Halsted be employing a racist security firm is just unac- Center on Halsted officials, for their part, say families with pastoral volunteers, essentially de- is also working with Walsh Security to engage an ceptable.” that they’ve tried to engage the activists in con- veloping an AIDS ministry; she was nevertheless REI training organization that uses a model that Frazier added that the target of the protest versation to no avail and are committed to racial adamant that those volunteers were not allowed we use when we do trainings in organizations to proselytize, however. She eventually moved is not the Center itself, but rather CEO Modesto equity and inclusion (REI) initiatives. ‘Tico’ Valle. In a statement to Windy City Times, Center Turn to page 16 WINDY CITY TIMES Aug. 7, 2019 15 Leather/kink event highlights LGBTQ+ Joey McDonald. history, health Photo by Julia Hale BY MACKENZIE MURTAUGH AND JULIA HALE and manager of events and volunteers at Cen- ter on Halsted, and Butch Romero, co-founder “Leather and Kink in the LGBTQ+ Community: His- of Women’s Cruise Night at Chicago’s leather tory and Clinical Considerations” was held at the bar Touché and founding board member for the Center on Halsted on July 26. The event focused Leather History Preservation Foundation. The rest on the history of leather and kink communities of the panelists were sex-positive therapists and and served as an education seminar for health- psychologists Danielle Carlson, the director of care providers who work in the LGBTQ+ commu- training and a staff psychotherapist at Lifeworks nity, so they can be more informed and culturally Psychotherapy Center; Carrie Jameson, a thera- lationships such as kink and non-mongamy. conventional sexual practices, concepts and fan- aware. pist in private practice who is becoming a sex The panelists stressed the importance of clini- tasies.” At the talk—which Center on Halsted and therapist; and Braden Berkey, a psychologist and cal inclusion of the leather/kink community and Following the panel talk was a question-and- Howard Brown Health sponsored—five panelists associate professor in the Clinical Psy.D. Program how its stigmatization can endanger the queer answer session that let the audience inquire spoke on their connection to the leather/kink at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. and trans folk who participate. The panelists about leather and kink, and their relation to the community, and why education and stigmatiza- Their collective work focuses on queer and trans also discussed basics; for example, McDonald LGBTQ+ community. The program ended with a tion of the community are important to under- couples and individuals, as well as alternative re- described kink: “Simply put, it’s the use of un- lunch and discussion. standing it. 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Reisberg said that the Board of Education has held meetings with “stakeholders” invested order, agency plans in gender identity protections, notably Equality Illinois. BY JOSHUA IRVINE as key issues the new board plans to take on. “I’ve been really happy with the direction we’ve “We have some big issues as a board we’re try- seen the community advance, but there’s still sig- After several years as a University of Chicago ing to tackle,” Reisberg said, adding the board is nificant issues that need to be addressed,” Reis- (UChicago) administrator, former Illinois State planning a retreat in September to formulate a berg said. Board of Education official Darren Reisberg has “strategic plan” in response to these concerns. Darren Reisberg. Reisberg hails from northern New Jersey and returned to the agency as chair of the board. Reisberg’s appointment also coincides with Photo courtesy of Reisberg has lived in Chicago since 2000. He graduated Reisberg entered the four-year term after seven Gov. JB Pritzker’s call for a plan to combat harm- from Duke University and received his J.D. from years with UChicago, where he was the inaugural ful treatment of trans students in Illinois public students prior to the beginning of the coming Yale Law School in 1999. He previously worked director of its Institute of Politics; vice president schools. An executive order signed June 30 by school year. for the law firm Sidley Austin LLP and clerked for and secretary of the university; and, most re- the governor calls for an “Affirming and Inclu- “Every year that goes by where, before the be- U.S. District Court judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer. cently, vice president of strategic initiatives and sive Schools Task Force” to produce a report on ginning of the school year, we don’t have guid- In addition to his role with the Board of Educa- deputy provost. He was with the Board of Educa- policies affecting trans, nonbinary and gender ance to our school districts, its another year that tion, Reisberg is also vice president for programs tion from 2005 through 2012, where he worked nonconforming students; Reisberg spoke at the the school districts and the students don’t neces- and strategy at the Joyce Foundation, a non- as a deputy superintendent and general counsel. ceremony unveiling the order. sarily know how to deal with these issues that are profit funding public policy research and advo- “It’s exciting to be back in state education Reisberg—a gay man who came out at age becoming more important and more prevalent,” cacy in several Midwestern states. policy,” Reisberg told Windy City Times, calling 30—said he personally recognizes the need for Reisberg said. himself “passionate” about his new role oversee- an inclusive and affirming environment around ing the agency. sexual orientation and gender identity in schools Reisberg leads the nine-member board selected and called the task force report a “top priority.” EXCLUSIVE from page 14 Frazier said that before any meetings take by the governor to oversee the Board of Edu- He said the Board of Education addressed some of place, stakeholders from his coalition will be en- cation. The board, which meets once a month, these concerns with anti-bullying policy enacted where there has been anti-LGBTQ incidents. These gaging in extensive research to make sure their prepares the agency’s $12-billion budget for the during his tenure as a deputy superintendent but are not one-off trainings but rather more longi- demands are clear. He anticipated that after an governor and General Assembly as well as over- did not explicitly address protections for trans tudinal engagements. Tom Walsh has received a upcoming Saturday, Aug. 8, community meeting, sees the distribution and implementation of persons and had not pursued the issue since. list of recommendations for organizations that Lighthouse Foundation would send a letter to those state and federal funds to 852 school dis- “There’s a real hunger and need for there to be do trainings and offer technical assistance, and Valle requesting a meeting. tricts enrolling 2 million students. some guidance from the state, and that’s what Center on Halsted will ensure that there is follow “We will lay out our research, ask for his feed- It also appoints such roles as state superin- I’m hopeful we’ll be able to produce through the through. Thus far, in the several years that Center back and lay out our demand that Walsh Security tendent; Reisberg and his fellow board members work of this task force,” Reisberg said. on Halsted has worked with Tom Walsh Security, be fired,” Frazier added. selected Carmen Ayala for the role in February— Reisberg stressed that the members of the task all the requests made have been met.” Lighthouse Foundation’s Aug. 8 CARE meeting and she is the first woman and person of color to force had not been chosen yet and said that any Fountain further acknowledged Walsh’s alleged takes place at 10 a.m. at Lighthouse Church of hold that role. number of people, including himself, could be problematic behavior and language, but added Chicago, 2335 N. Orchard St. For information, The board is also active in combatting the eligible for the position. that he had made “a commitment to be trained visit https://bit.ly/2ZFSfmJ. many issues that face the nearly 4,000 schools The task force’s report is due to be delivered to and mentored, to make a public apology, and CWB Chicago’s 2017 reporting on the Lucky operating under the agency. Reisberg named a the governor’s office on Jan. 1. Reisberg said that to continue to meet with the Center to explore Horseshoe incident is at https://bit.ly/2OERmd3. shortage of teachers in rural and urban areas and he hoped the Board of Education could develop more options and his team’s relationship with the improving allocations to low-performing schools preliminary guidelines for the treatment of trans youth.”

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BVYC0103_BIKTARVY_B_10x10_WindyCityTimes_KeepLoving_DR4_r1v1jl.indd All Pages 5/3/19 1:24 PM 20 Aug. 7, 2019 WINDY CITY TIMES ART Del LaGrace Volcano: ‘About Face’ photographer on works, ‘gender terrorism’ BY ANDREW DAVIS of the U.S. for more than half of my life. I’m 62. WCT: I was wondering about your residence; A variety of artists are exhibiting provocative a 2017 article described you as “a non-binary, works at “About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New intersex American photographer.” Queer Art”—an exhibit at Wrightwood 659, 659 DLV: I’m a dual citizen now; I’ll be American W. Wrightwood Ave. until I die. I’m an American who lives in Swe- Among them is the redoubtable Del LaGrace den. I’m a non-binary, intersex, queer activist- Volcano, a genderqueer artist who has been artist. My 7-year-old and my 4 1/2-year-old call showing their works for four decades. (“About themselves non-binary (and it’s “icke-binär,” in Face” curator Jonathan David Katz called Volcano Swedish)—and came out that way in a docu- “a world-class genius photographer” when talk- mentary. Both of my kids were assigned male ing with Windy City Times.) at birth, and they’re regularly considered to be Windy City Times: How did you become part girls and we roll with it. We don’t care about of this exhibition? Del LaGrace Volcano: Jonathan curated a ret- rospective seven years ago at the Leslie Lohman [Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, in New York City]. He’s known my work for a long time, and Part of Del LaGrace Volcano's 1999 work "Gender Optional: Mutating Self-Portrait." I’ve been doing this for 40 years. Photo courtesy of Volcano Jonathan—who is like a little brother to me— has an incredible capacity for people, as do I. I pronouns, but in Sweden there’s a gender-neutral WCT: I mentioned to Jonathan that you work by making images of people in my commu- pronoun that we prefer people use. [Note: The seem to be everyone and no one in “Gender nity, in the queer diaspora. I was a street kid; I video can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/ Optional.” ran away at 14. I had a hard family life, as many watch?v=4sPj8HhbwHs.] DLV: I don’t decide about what I’m going to queer people do. Then, I got it together and got WCT: On your website, you’re described as a look like when I wake up. I just put on the clothes a scholarship to go to art school. I then came out “part-time gender terrorist.” What does that that feel right to me in that moment. I just care in art school, and was rejected by my teachers mean? about staying safe; I have been queer-bashed. and students; [to them,] it was fine to make edgy DLV: It comes from an experience at an airport You have to alter behavior in some places. work—but when I started documenting my own in London—when I had a long-distance relation- WCT: With this exhibition title, what do you community, which was leather dykes and others ship with a queer psychologist (before my current think of when you hear “Stonewall?” in the Mission District [of San Francisco], that partner). I was wearing a mini-skirt, platform DLV: When you asked me that question, what was not cool. If it sounds like I hold a grudge boots, boa—I was flamboyant, and I was meet- came to mind was something else. I first thought against the San Francisco Art Institute, that’s ing my flamboyant lover. People complained, about The Duchess, where I hung out in New York absolutely true. Del LaGrace Volcano. the police was called and I was asked to leave. I City. It was a lesbian bar that was very close to Now, I live in Sweden, and have been outside Photo courtesy of Volcano guess I was scaring people because I was being Christopher Street. I rode my motorcycle cross- genderqueer. country in 1981, and I spent a lot of time at The When I came out as intersex and let my beard Duchess. I was recruited to work at writer Kate grow, I felt that people saw me as disgusting or Millett’s farm in Poughkeepsie [that year], and I Activism meet-ups, repulsive. I dealt with that for a year, and then ended up hanging out at The Duchess. It was an personal book recommendations, I started taking testosterone. I can pass as male amazing time. now, but I choose not to. Most people still see me I also think about appropriation. I think about weekly events, Kids Storytime, and more! as a man in a dress, or a trans woman. the commercialization of the whole concept of WCT: I went on a tour of the “About Face” Stonewall. I’m in a number of Stonewall exhibi- There are so many reasons to support exhibit, my favorite work of yours was a mon- tions, and it feels like a lot of straight institu- tage of photos of you [‘Gender Optional: The tions and media are trying to catch the wave— Chicago’s only feminist bookstore. Mutating Self Portrait”]. but what about the next 50 years? DLV: Ahhh, yes. It was made on the very last I have cult status in my community, but I now hour of the last day of the last century, actually. need economic validation. It’s good to have your In four years, my husband, Johnny Volcano, was work valued. The people who value my work are clicking at my instruction while my other lover also marginalized and disenfranchised; they’re was doing the makeup. not valued. The queer community—especially WCT: Is there an overall message to your those in the lesbian and trans-masculine part of work? the spectrum—value my work, but the straight DLV: Yes; it’s about conformity. The first sys- world see my works as niche. Why are we rel- tem we’re subjected to, in terms of regulation, is egated to Pride Month and not seen as valuable the gender system. People are called “bad boy” to the mainstream? or “sweet girl.” Their genders are constantly re- “About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New inforced. It’s about what’s available to you and Queer Art” will run at Wrightwood 659 what’s not. The theme is “Resist—and be fabu- through Saturday, Aug. 10. See https://wright- lous.” wood659.org/. WINDY CITY TIMES Aug. 7, 2019 21 admiration at not only her personal growth but with the friendships she made. But she knows it’s College student balances all just a part of growing up and moving onto bigger things. “But it is a part of growing up when you have LGBTQ+ activism, student life to go off to college and try to do your studies and BY MACKENZIE MURTAUGH space to feel safe, accepted and meet other peo- all of that,” Sowle said. ple like them. Growing up in Evanston and attending Evan- After her semester at a new college, Zaiden Sowle Sowle first got involved with ISSA after the ston Township High School prepared Sowle with a knew she found what was lacking at her previous president of her high school’s gay-straight al- good education and the liberal ideology that led college. liance asked the club if anyone had interest in her to study women and gender studies and soci- Before, her experience at Connecticut Col- joining, and Sowle jumped at the opportunity. ology at Connecticut College. But her experience lege—a small, liberal arts school in New London, Helping kids in similar situations to her was there was a mixed bag. Connecticut—was not the personal and intellec- something she looked forward to. The adviser for the woman and gender-studies tual time she expected to love. Instead, she felt Her experience at ISSA was not only volunteer department took Sowle under her wing after a dif- ostracized by the lack of LGBTQ+ resources and work—the time she spent with them helped her ficult first semester. Once the women and gender culture on campus. realize and then understand her trans identity. studies department suggested the department’s At her new school, Simmons University—a “Youth committee meetings, just every other name to be changed to “gender, sexuality, and women-focused private school in Boston—Sowle week, really helped me to realize for myself that intersectionality studies,” Sowle felt this was not found a better fit: a more trans-inclusive environ- I am trans,” Sowle said. “When I realized it, then a department that reflected that name change. ment. As a trans woman, Sowle searched for a I came out to the people at the meetings. Just His adviser was the only Black woman working school that would be more accepting of her iden- seeing how happy they were for me for figuring Zaiden Sowle. in the department, and one of the few working tity and people like her. Simmons prides itself as it out and how accepting they just gave me the Photo courtesy of Sowle at the school. This controversy was one of many being one of the first colleges to include trans- courage to eventually come out to my family and that prompted Sowle’s transfer to Simmons. gender students in their women’s school. friends at school.” and all of that.” “It’s just amazing,” Sowle said of Simmons. Before Sowle began college, she worked to When she was on her way home for an event Once Sowle graduated from high school, her “It’s very LGBT-friendly, and it’s very trans-friend- amplify those voices that tend to go unheard with ISSA, she made that decision to come out to life-changing time on ISSA’s youth committee ly. It has a very large population [of LGBTQ+ stu- in schools and create safe spaces for them. As her parents after some time talking it over with came to an end. dents] relative to other schools.” a former member of the Illinois Safe Schools Al- other youth committee members. “They gave us [the seniors who were leaving] a Sowle enters her second semester at Simmons liance’s (ISSA’s) youth committee, she planned “After my first summit that I helped to plan round of applause, and I just lost it,” Sowle said. in the fall. She plans to continue her studies and and organized events for LGBTQ+ youths which and even attend, that night I decided to come “Crying my eyes out. It really was like I have a graduate within the next few years, studying included annual sleepaway camps and summits. home and come out to my parents,” Sowle said. family with these people, and to think that that women and gender studies as well as sociology. ISSA works directly with schools on policy and “Just because I was coming out of such a high was coming to an end was really difficult.” “I want to be a social worker, working with advocacy. The youth committee consists of many of the day and being around similar people and Sowle’s time she spent with ISSA is a time that LGBT youth, hopefully as part of a nonprofit or LGBTQ+ youths who give other LGBTQ+ youths really feeling empowered through the workshops she looks back on with great appreciation and something,” Sowle said. 22 Aug. 7, 2019 WINDY CITY TIMES viewpoints

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We need to talk about VOL. 34, No. 32, Aug. 7, 2019 The combined forces of Windy City Times, the ‘Pose’ hospital founded Sept. 1985, and Outlines newspaper, episode right now founded May 1987. PUBLISHER Terri Klinsky The TV show Pose, on FX, is nothing less than astounding to me. So much could have gone wrong, EXECUTIVE EDITOR Andrew Davis with the era, the themes, the characters, and—the MANAGING EDITOR Matt Simonette aspect of the show closest to my heart and my criti- DIGITAL DIRECTOR Jean Albright cal eye — the disease that looms over it all. ART DIRECTOR AND ASSOCIATE EDITOR Trans writers and advocates are better qualified to Kirk Williamson SOCIAL MEDIA DIRECTOR Scott Duff remark, and have, on the show’s moving depiction BUSINESS MANAGER Ripley Caine of the ballroom scene in the 1980s and ‘90s and SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES Terri Klinsky, the trans people of color who populated it. The tal- Kirk Williamson, Scott Duff, Kathy Breit ent of the leading actors, who are trans, is now a NATIONAL SALES Rivendell Media, 212-242-6863 given rather than a novelty. What makes the show THEATER AND DANCE EDITOR Catey Sullivan so absorbing is its depiction of their lives on the SENIOR WRITERS Jonathan Abarbanel, Mary margins and how they redraw societal lines around Shen Barnidge, Liz Baudler, Charlsie Dewey, Ross Forman, Carrie Maxwell, Rev. Irene Monroe, their chosen family. Jerry Nunn, Tony Peregrin, Angelique Smith, HIV has been a leading character, too, playing the Sari Staver, Sarah Toce, Melissa Wasserman villain that kills the partner of ballroom master of WRITERS Sarah Katherine Bowden, Ada Cheng, ceremonies Pray Tell as it infiltrates the close-knit Billy Porter portrays Pray Tell on Pose. Sheri Flanders, Joe Franco, Veronica Harrison, Kelsey Hoff, Aaron Hunt, Eric Karas, Brian Kirst, community of house families. Pray is HIV positive Photo courtesy of FX Paige Listerud, Billy Masters, Scott C. Morgan, himself, and this season has dealt with his resis- Amelia Orozco, Ariel Parrella-Aureli, Kerry tance to taking AZT, the only approved HIV medica- But then this thing happens, this surreal blend of with tears, and it might be because of the physical Reid, Dana Rudolph, Ana Serna, Karen Topham, sickness and song and blood and jazz, and I’m still pain he is in, or it might be because he is overcome, Regina Victor, Sean Margaret Wagner, Lauren tion in 1990, when the season takes place. Warnecke, Steve Warren, Lauren Emily Whalen Which brings us to “Love’s in Need of Love To- trying to process. listening to the last beautiful thing he will ever SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHERS Kat Fitzgerald, Hal day”—episode six of season two, the episode that Pray’s dead lover shows up in another hallucina- hear. Baim, Tim Carroll, Ed Negron, Vernon Hester tion and urges Pray to make it to the AIDS cabaret “Thank you,” Pray tells his doomed audience dur- CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Jean Albright aired on July 23, 2019. DISTRIBUTION Ashina, Allan, Dan, John, Sue Pray Tell lands in the hospital, and it’s a dingy one, fundraising benefit that Blanca has been planning. ing their applause, although you have to wonder and Victor folks, which is about all he can afford. The décor Suddenly Pray is decked out in silver tails and a who among them had the strength. “I hope I enter- WEB HOSTING LoveYourWebsite.com (lead consists of weak air conditioning units and pasty train, honey, that is nearly the length of the hospital tained you.” programmer: Martie Marro) hallway and festooned with illuminated plastic bio- In this single feverish episode, Pose manages to PRESIDENT Tracy Baim walls. It’s depressing, but the real horror hasn’t even (773) 871-7610 FAX (773) 871-7609 started. hazard bags. A jazz combo starts up and Pray begins combine activist politics, the inequalities of our Editorial: [email protected] singing a rendition of “The Man That Got Away.” healthcare system, the unrelenting mortality of the Sales: [email protected] Pray blames Blanca, a house mother, for talk- Calendar: [email protected] ing him into taking AZT, because the side effects And that’s not even the part that I can’t get out plague years, and our deep need as gay men to do a Circulation: [email protected] made him sick. Now Pray will have to go off the of my mind, not now, not two days later and after little song and dance if it will keep the boogeyman Art/ad copy: [email protected] Theater: [email protected] AZT and recover from the damage. Their argument midnight, as I sit here writing this. away for a few moments longer. in his hospital room over the drug dramatizes the Pray sashays into a room in the hospital where I have not even mentioned the musical perfor- Copyright 2019 Lambda Publications Inc./Windy City Media Group; All rights reserved. Reprint by permission only. Back HIV community’s complicated history with AZT. Was the event is taking place, and “AIDS Cabaret” could mances in this episode by subversive icon Sandra issues (if available) for $5 per issue (postage included). not be a more apt description of the proceedings. Bernhard and the greatest living Broadway diva, Return postage must accompany all manuscripts, drawings, it approved too quickly because of community and and photographs submitted if they are to be returned, and activist pressure for something, anything, to treat A spotlight follows Pray, still singing, as he gently Patti Lupone. Pose creator Ryan Murphy is not fuck- no responsibility may be assumed for unsolicited materials. All rights to letters, art and photographs sent to Windy HIV? (Note: I grinned at a well-researched prop in greets the audience members, each and every one of ing around, y’all, and he is clearly being aided enor- City Times will be treated as unconditionally assigned them patients who are clearly dying of AIDS. mously by producers Janet Mock and Our Lady J. for publication purposes and as such, subject to editing an earlier episode, when Blanca takes her AZT. There and comment. The opinions expressed by the columnists, it was, that unmistakable white pill with the little I am not talking about pretty death. I’m talking Pose might enjoy its surrealism and its glitter, but cartoonists, letter writers, and commentators are their own and do not necessarily reflect the position of Windy City blue stripe around the middle. No long-term survivor about hospital gowns stained with vomit and gory I’ve been in those hospital rooms. I’ve seen those Times. Publication of the name, photograph, or likeness of open wounds and bandages and IV drips. The pa- men in the wheelchairs. I’ve known the confusion a person or organization in articles or advertising in Windy missed the historical accuracy of that capsule.) City Times is not to be construed as any indication of the tients are watching Pray perform, some of them hap- and the exhaustion of singing when you could be sexual orientation of such person or organization. While Pray suffers from a few hallucinations, which is we encourage readers to support the advertisers who make mostly a great excuse to bring back the recently de- py to be entertained, even if they can barely express crying. this newspaper possible, Windy City Times cannot accept parted Candy for some shady chatter and another it. They’re weak. They have days left. 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Bernadette Peters. Photo by Andrew Eccles 24 Aug. 7, 2019 WINDY CITY TIMES THEATER REVIEW no exception. A true ensemble work with no star oh-so-rapidly—presented in checkerboard fash- by eight onstage musicians conducted by Cynthia roles and little dance (but lots of movement), it’s ion. Kortman Westphal. The handsome unit set is by Come From Away superbly performed by an appealing and gifted Six men and six women play all the townsfolk Beowulf Boritt with Howell Binkley’s lovely in- Authors: Book, music & lyrics by national touring company. and airplane folk. The story centers on Gander’s plain-sight lighting. Irene Sankoff and David Hein On Sept. 11, 2001, 38 international flights mayor, cop, bus driver and teacher among other Despite its congeniality, Come From Away left At: Cadillac Palace Theatre, headed for the United States were diverted to locals, emphasizing their independent spirit me saddened or at least deeply reflective, as 151 W. Randolph St. Gander, about 40 miles from the Atlantic coast (Newfoundland joined Canada only in 1949). noted at the top. Your see, it isn’t really about Tickets: 800-775-2000; of Newfoundland. In the pre-jet era, Gander was Among the stranded strangers are American Air- people acting in extraordinary ways. Although BroadwayInChicago.com; $35-$105 a major refueling stop for planes to/from Europe. line’s first female pilot, a couple who fall in love, triggered by exceptional circumstances, it’s about Runs through: Aug. 18 By 2001 it was a semi-rural town of 9,000 which another couple (gay, as it happens) who break people acting as people should act at all times. found itself forced to host 6,600 people and 19 up, a woman whose son is a New York City fire- It’s about fundamental human concern and de- BY JONATHAN ABARBANEL animals for five days. Come From Away tells that fighter and a Muslim chef. Curiously, there are cency. Ironically, some will contend that Ameri- story to the driving rhythms of Irish tabors and no children, yet kids must have been part of this ca’s churlish now descends directly from the then With the United States flush with bigotry, men- pipes. story. of 9/11. Come From Away isn’t religious, but it dacity, megalomania and bullying from the White Come From Away runs 95 fast and engaging Nearly through-scored with few applause displays Western Judeo-Christian values as they House down, it’s ennobling—and chastening—to minutes. It’s energetic, but pleasantly without breaks, Come From Away honors the Irish heri- still may be in Canada but no longer are in our see a Canadian musical that celebrates generos- the phony pumped pizazz of many Broadway tage of many Newfoundlanders with a rousing, nation. It beats no drum but reminds us nonethe- ity, kindness, selflessness, courtesy and good shows. Perhaps that’s because it’s based on real mostly up tempo folkloric score (with light rock less. humor. Most reviewers praise Come From Away people and real micro stories of both Newfound- elements), featuring chiefly acoustic guitars, as heartwarming, nurturing or uplifting and I’m landers and passengers, which are honestly—if fiddle, Irish flute and pipe and percussion played

THEATER REVIEW strains to hear the actors over the cacophony struck me as especially harsh. It certainly feels that gets them to fall in love, makes for a per- from the trees. Once darkness falls and the bugs that way here, as Minh goes off on her like a fect distraction and counter to the other subplot. Much Ado About go to sleep, though, things clear up and everyone rocket while poor Hero, who doesn’t even know Wakefield and Woods work well in these roles, can settle into enjoying an evening with Beatrice what is going on, crumbles in pain and even her more than capable of delivering their characters’ Nothing and Benedick and the rest of the denizens of Mes- father Leonato (Patrick Blashill) doesn’t know biting lines and likable enough that it’s easy to Playwright: William Shakespeare sina in a play both rife with hilarious verbal ban- what to think. want them to get together. In addition, Wake- At: Oak Park Festival Theatre, ter and burdened by seriously outmoded gender At least Keller is careful to empower the women field’s comic mannerisms add physical humor to 167 N. Forest Ave, Oak Park politics. here as much as it is possible to do so. Ursula, Benedick’s droll tongue, and Keller creates some Tickets: OakParkFestival.com Director Melanie Keller shares my concerns Leonato’s sister (Noelle Klyce) fiercely advocates very funny blocking as each of them tries to keep Price: $15-35 about the play’s treatment of its young heroine for her niece. Margaret, Hero’s lady in waiting hidden to listen to people talking about them. Runs through: Aug. 31 Hero (Tina El Gamal), the victim of an evil trick (Lizzy Bourne), is given the full breadth of her Between them and the malaprop-ridden Dog- by Don John (Bret Tuomi, who also shines as witty rejoinders. And of course Beatrice herself berry, Shakespeare keeps the audience laughing BY KAREN TOPHAM Dogberry, one of the Bard’s most iconic clowns). (Eunice Woods) is easily a match for Benedick’s despite the play’s darker center. John convinces the men in Hero’s life, including (Bryan Wakefield) often caustic but always pi- Oak Park’s Much Ado, despite the cicadas and It’s Shakespeare versus an army of cicadas at her fiancé Claudio (Ian Michael Minh), that she is quant and amusing put-downs. other occasional issues with lighting and sound, Oak Park Festival’s Much Ado About Nothing and, unfaithful, rendering her unworthy of marriage. Although the story of Claudio and Hero takes is a very enjoyable evening under the August at least for the first half hour or so, the insects One can’t blame a 16th Century playwright for up considerably more space in the play, it is stars. Bring a blanket, a picnic, and maybe a clearly have the upper hand. adhering to a 16th Century perspective about Benedick and Beatrice that everyone remembers bottle of wine; you’ll have a great time. As the expositional scenes of the play set women, though Claudio’s decision to “shame her” most. Done well, the banter between these two, up the comedy and the conflicts, the audience in public at their would-be wedding has always as well as the jovial game played by the others c CRITICS’PICKS THEATER REVIEW the theater. ily dynamic, while Shelby struggles to find her Based on the 1996 film of the same name, The voice in a controlling marriage. Meanwhile, Ghost Quartet, Black Button Eyes Productions The Spitfire Grill Spitfire Grill opens with Percy Talbott (Jacque- Hannah must contend with a broken leg and the @ Stage 773, through Aug. 17—Dazzling vocal Playwright: James Valcq and Fred Alley, lyne Jones) arriving in Gilead, Wisconsin after memories of a son who disappeared long ago. and instrumental musicianship in the town’s most based on the film by Lee David Zlotoff five years of incarceration. Sheriff Joe Sutter James Valcq and Fred Alley’s country-western unique musical; a mash-up of fantasy, gothic hor- At: American Blues Theatre at (Donterrio Johnson), also Percy’s parole officer, score deftly conveys every complex emotion, ror and fairytale with Dave Malloy’s melodic and Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave. is confused as to why anyone would willingly from longstanding grief to pure and unadulter- diverse score. JA Tickets: $19-49; move to such a tiny town. Percy quickly finds ated joy, and illustrates both major and minor Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Lookingglass stage773.com/show/spitfiregrill a job at the Spitfire Grill—the only restaurant characters with nuance. Theatre, through Aug. 18. David Catlin’s richly- Runs through: Aug. 17 in town—and a boss/landlady in tough-as-nails Where this Spitfire Grill falls down is in the textured multi-dimensional adaptation of the Hannah Ferguson (Catherine Smitko), as well as pacing. Director Tammy Mader keeps the pro- classic horror story employs every item in the BY LAUREN EMILY WHALEN a friend in Hannah’s niece-in-law Shelby (Dara duction moving at exactly two hours counting catalogue of this endlessly creative Chicago com- Cameron). The three cook up a scheme to un- intermission, but at the expense of the dramatic pany. MSB Female-driven musicals are still a rarity. The cli- load the restaurant that’s been on the market reveals, many of which occur in the show’s sec- The Music Man, Goodman Theatre, through mate is changing with the successes of shows for 10 years, but soon enough, each woman will ond half. Mader is skilled in characterization Aug. 18—Mary Zimmerman’s buoyant, festive like Waitress, The Prom and Six (the latter is be forced to confront her past, present and fu- but seems afraid to let actors and audience alike staging of one of America’s most festive musi- now headed to Broadway in 2020), but the ture. take a breath and absorb the characters’ words cals celebrates a more optimistic and big-hearted demand for rich female characters and stories In the world of Gilead (thankfully very dif- and actions. It’s a shame, because the seven- USA; a perfect summer show and antidote for to- remains. ferent from the Gilead of The Handmaid’s Tale), member ensemble bring their best work to the day’s inglorious bastards. JA The Spitfire Grill is not driven by one woman, men are almost inconsequential, relegated to stage, especially Jones as ex-con Percy. Her Heroes (We Can Be Us Just For One Day), but three—each with her own demons and tri- good guys or buffoons (the latter is Hannah’s range is astounding, her lyrical interpretation Shakespeare’s Motley Crew at Winnemac Park, umphs and eventually, a shared goal. American nephew and Shelby’s husband Caleb, played by intelligent and down-home, and her struggles through Aug. 25. The Bard meets Bowie (David, Blues Theater’s production tends to rush the Karl Hamilton). There’s a romantic subplot, but real. If it weren’t for The Spitfire Grill’s some- that is) in the SMC’s seventh Midsummer Madness dramatic moments in the name of tight pacing, it pales in comparison to the three women’s what hasty delivery, American Blues Theatre mashup of cross-generic Greatest Hits. MSB but the stunning vocals and complex storyline journeys, both individual and collective. Percy would have a gem on its hands. Instead, it’s make for a pleasant yet empowering night at is running away from a troubled, violent fam- just this shy of perfect. —by Mary Shen Barnidge and Jonathan Abarbanel WINDY CITY TIMES Aug. 7, 2019 25 2019 140 EVENTS FROM MAY 31 THROUGH SEPT. 15 INCLUDING

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LEAD REACH TEACH PLAY SPONSOR: RAVINIA.ORG SPONSOR IN HONOR OF SANDRA K. CROWN 26 Aug. 7, 2019 WINDY CITY TIMES Windy City Times: How was performing at [cheekbones aren't] here for no reason! Chicago Pride Fest? WCT: Lyft is helping people by partner- Alex Newell: So good! I love coming to Chicago. ing with the National Center for Transgender Everyone knew my music when I got here and Equality to help with the name-change pro- NUNN ON ONE they were singing along. I didn’t have to actually cess. sing. They sang it for me! AN: They are paying for it. It is hard out in WCT: You have done Pride Fest a few times in these streets. People that are transitioning and Living the past. trying to live authentically don’t always have the Alex AN: I did Pride Fest a few years ago, then Mar- means to do all of that. ket Days. I did Pride Fest as a headliner this last WCT: You are described as an LGBT activist. outside time—and she’s back again! What does that entail? Newell: WCT: As part of the parade… AN: I get my inspiration from one of my good AN: Listen, they said they would put me on a friends, Laverne Cox. She’s always spreading posi- the box float and I was all for it. tivity. I am living my life and showing people it’s WCT: How did you start working with Lyft? okay to be unabashedly yourself. You don’t have AN: When I was young, Lyft was the mustache to worry about what other people say because car in West Hollywood and I wondered what it at the end of the day only you pay the bills. We was. As I got older and moved to New York, I come into the world alone and we go out of this started using it more and more. world alone. You have to live your own truth. If I was at a dinner for Lyft and they used the you are not happy, what’s the point? hashtag Two is Too Few. The story was a behind WCT: You’ve come a long way since we talked it that there should be more than male or female during The Glee Project. gender options to pick on their profiles. Being a AN: Honey, I was 18 then. She’s damn near 28 non-gender conforming and non-binary person, now! my picture would show up for the driver to pick WCT: Do you miss Glee or still talk to anyone Alex Newell. up, but they didn’t know how to gender me. I from the cast? Photo by Ricky don’t want to be male or female. I want to be AN: I was just talking to Amber Riley last night. Middleswirth something other than that. Having that option That’s my mother and I came out of her womb. was something I was inclined to support. I was always considered a hybrid of Chris Colfer BY JERRY NUNN Afterward, Newell became a series regular on I love that they are going for it and I’m happy and Amber Riley. I will allow it. One has a Golden the fifth season of Glee and went on to record to be a part of it. Globe! Performer Alex Newell refuses to be put in a box. several singles finally touring with singer Adam WCT: Why aren’t more companies doing it? I miss it sometimes. It was nice to come to Best known for the playing the character Unique Lambert around the world. AN: It’s a social construct of what gender is work and see so many familiar faces. They were Adams in the Fox series Glee, Newell competed on As a representative of the rideshare company and trying to put people in boxes. If someone my family. I also loved singing all the time. It Oxygen’s The Glee Project beforehand to eventu- Lyft at the 2019 Chicago Pride parade, Newell sat is male it’s easy for some people to understand was a hardship, but I loved it. ally earn a two-episode spot on the hit show. down to discuss music and current projects. them. That’s terrible because if someone is male No matter what I do in my life that show is the or female or non-binary or trans, that doesn’t de- staple. Everyone knows me from that show. It’s fine them as a person. nice to know I impacted people with it. WCT: What pronouns do you want used? WCT: Why doesn’t Ryan Murphy get you on AN: So at that dinner they asked about pro- Pose? THE WORLD nouns on a form. Mine was not listed, but I AN: We can’t do Pose, honey! I went in for Pose PREMIERE OF checked every box. My pronouns are a paycheck, as the character Blanca, who Mj Rodriguez is The so here we are! playing. I looked at it and said, “This isn’t for My gender transcends all of genders because I me,” threw the script down and walked out. don’t want to be defined by my gender. As an ac- I love the show to this day, but I knew someone tor, why would I? I might be out in a box because would portray it better than me. I have the highest singing voice known to man Read the entire interview online at WindyCi-

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PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS PRODUCTIONS HELL IN A HANDBAG A IN HELL DIRECTED BY BY Cheryl Snodgrass SPOTLIGHT David Cerda “The Bad Seed” e We love the title, Violent Surprise, A Fems- lash Parody Festival, at Otherworld Theatre, A wicked parody ofREADER RECOMMENDED 3914 N. Clark Street, Aug. 9-11 only. Other- "Cerda's latest... world spe- cializes in HIGHLYHIGHLY RECOMMENDEDRECOMMENDED is a winner for science fiction and fantasy theater so director Iris Sowlat—who “This show kills!” summer camp." has a self-proclaimed "passion for queering the cannon"—has produced a festival of 11 parodies that give a "What if?" queer -Chicago Theatre Review -Chicago Reader twist to such popular culture icons as I Love Lucy and The Color Purple and The Avenger. Until recently, she says, "there wasn’t much representation of queer relationships in pop culture at all. Jul. 5 - Aug. 24 We never had a gay equivalent of I Love Lucy." Now we do. Thurs - Sat: 7:30 pm Among the 11 offerings are I Really Love Lucy by E. Mitchel (rehearsal photo above), The Avengers (rehearsal photo left) and BROWNPAPERTICKETS.COM Purple Is the Warmest Color by Naomi Phoenix Victoria. Details: otherworldtheatre.org 1-800-838-3006 5400 N. Clark St. Photos courtesy of Iris Sowlat WINDY CITY TIMES Aug. 7, 2019 27 28 Aug. 7, 2019 WINDY CITY TIMES

Lynn Mooney and Sarah Hollenbeck outside the store in 2019. Photo by Laura Austin

Ann Christophersen and Linda Bubon ribbon-cutting ceremony to add more storefront space at Andersonville location. Courtesy of Christophersen

Park at 922 W. Armitage Ave.; five years later they called The Women in Print Movement, which in- moved three blocks away to 1967 N. Halsted St. cluded women’s bookstores, publishing houses, before settling at their current Andersonville lo- printing presses and writers. Christopherson Women & Children First: cation in 1990. said the movement was focused on expressing “We also wanted to be a gathering place where women’s lives and providing children’s books that all kinds of women felt welcome, comfortable, pushed beyond the gender, racial and traditional Forty years of and able to talk openly and safely about their family stereotypes of the time. ideas, experiences, love, pain and the changes “Women’s bookstores across the country—in- they wanted to see and make in the world,” said deed, around the world—varied in terms of size book-selling history Christophersen. “We also wanted it to be a place and the materials we carried, but we all shared BY CARRIE MAXWELL Our friends at Kaye Publicity, Dana Kaye and Julia where women and feminist men could discover essentially the same mission: supporting women Borcherts, were the ones who suggested we take or sharpen their politics and find the issues and in all their diversity and adding our voices to an To celebrate Women & Children First’s 40th an- it into the street.” organizations best-suited to their activism.” all-inclusive feminist movement,” said Christo- niversary, the store will be hosting a summer “We did not want there to be any obstacles to “We wanted a place where we could be in phersen. block party with a feminist slant Saturday, Aug. everyone coming to celebrate with us and that it charge of what we wanted to sell,” said Bubon. Upon Christophersen and Bubon’s retirement, 24 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on Honorary Women & be family-friendly” said Women & Children First “Nurturing women writers and finding and sup- they announced the store would be sold. Hollen- Children First Way (Farragut Ave at Clark Street). co-owner Lynn Mooney. porting women writers was a key thing for us. If beck and Mooney put a proposal together with The celebration will feature a variety of en- Hollenbeck, a bookseller at the store, and we were to grow, more women had to write and the hopes that they would be chosen to purchase tertainment options, children’s activities and Mooney, who was then store manager, took own- get published.” it. Mooney said there were proposals from other games, feminist crafts and free food and drinks ership of the store in Oct. 2013 when the found- Bubon and Christophersen have hosted thou- people so it was never a given that they would from a number of Andersonville restaurants. ers and then-owners Linda Bubon and Ann Chris- sands of events for authors including Maya An- become the owners. “When we began thinking about how we wanted tophersen decided to retire. gelou, Dorothy Allison, Adrienne Rich, Gloria “We knew we likely did not have the deepest to mark our anniversary, we realized very quickly In November 1979, Bubon and Christophersen Steinem, Alice Munro, Alison Bechdel, Margaret pockets of those in the running, but Ann and Lin- that it should be a festive free thank you to our joined forces to create a space where women Atwood, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sapphire, Jhumpa da knew us and knew we were committed to the community instead of a ticketed fundraiser,” said could find books, magazines and music that Lahiri, Carol Anshaw, Dorothy Roberts and Sara store and to its mission,” said Mooney. “Between Women & Children First co-owner Sarah Hollen- spoke to them; it was also intended to be wel- Paretsky, among others. [the two of] us we had a lot of relevant expe- beck. “The store is currently healthy and thriving coming place for families, especially those with When asked what her favorite moments were, rience, but we also brought fresh perspectives, because of our loyal neighbors and supporters. children. The store’s first location was in Lincoln Christophersen said there were many but one that especially about the direction that feminism was stands out was their friends helping them put the moving and how to renew its relevance.” bookstore together before it opened, a shared Since taking ownership, Hollenbeck and Mooney community endeavor that has characterized the have continued having author events and other store ever since. activities at the store. In Chicago for “They pounded nails into bookshelves, con- “I'm still a little in shock that only a handful structed the sales counter, hung the vertical sign of months after buying the store, I was standing One Night Only! projecting out from over our front door, and, in next to Linda in front of 1,200 people introducing the eleventh hour, brought us a cash register to Gloria Steinem and Roxane Gay,” said Hollenbeck. Don’t miss the multinational music use for making sales,” said Christophersen. “The “I strongly believe that the Andersonville performed by London’s only LGBT symphonic wind band, the London LGBTQ, literary, feminist and broader political neighborhood is one of our most important com- Gay Symphonic Winds, as they play community then carried us forward.” munities in Chicago,” added Mooney, who sits on a dazzling program ranging from Both Bubon and Christophersen praised their the board of the Andersonville Chamber of Com- traditional folksongs to pop music on staff members, whom they call brilliant and tal- merce. “There are so many smart, creative, entre- August 24, 7pm, at the ented, and the supportive customers who kept preneurial business owners in Andersonville and Studebaker Theater. them in business. I learn something every time I attend a meeting “It has never been just about the owners, but or training. We are extremely lucky to be part of all the great readers who have shared their love this neighborhood—we benefit from the vibrant of books throughout the years,” said Bubon. “Our mix of businesses and the strong foot traffic.” sales representatives have also been amazing, Hollenbeck said the most important thing for educating us and listening to our demands for her was to make the store more visible both in more diversity in kids' books and better represen- the neighborhood and across Chicago. BANDS ACROSS THE WATER tation for marginalized writers.” “When Lynn and I bought the store, we talked to When Christophersen and Bubon started the a lot of different audiences and were dismayed to LEARN MORE AND GET YOUR TICKETS NOW: store, they never imagined it would be one of the hear how the store was still shrouded in mystery largest feminist bookstores in the United States. lakesidepride.org/london They were a part of an international endeavor Turn to page 37 WINDY CITY TIMES Aug. 7, 2019 29

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First time riders only. Not valid on UberCAB. 30 Aug. 7, 2019 WINDY CITY TIMES NUNN ON ONE all the sights. I like to come in and do my job. My Bernadette Peters. routine is vocalizing and going to the gym, then Photo by Andrew Eccles vocalize again, go to rehearsal and do the show. It’s all about the show. ‘A Little Night Music' WCT: How do you protect your voice after all this time? BP: I take singing lessons and I vocalize. You with Bernadette Peters have to keep it up. It’s a muscle. I’m always BY JERRY NUNN throwing benefits for Broadway Cares/Equity learning how to preserve it. Fights AIDS and Broadway Barks to support her WCT: Is there one thing you require in your The legendary Bernadette Peters has a career that love for both the LGBT community and her pets. dressing room on tour? has spanned decades thanks to her theater, tele- She even writes children’s books involving her BP: I try not to get attached to anything, but I vision and film work over the years. She has taken dogs with proceeds going to help Broadway Barks always have to have the hot water for my tea. I home trophies along the way, including multiple as part of the deal. like a hot kettle! [Laughs] Tony Awards, three Drama Desk Awards, several Windy City Times: Hi, Bernadette. You are WCT: Is there one Broadway show that you lifetime achievement awards and a star on the coming to the Paramount Theatre this month. want to do, but haven’t? Hollywood Walk of Fame. Bernadette Peters: Yes, I will be in Aurora. BP: I have been so lucky to have done most of Her iconic work in musicals includes Into the WCT: Do you bring a band or just an accom- the great ones. I originated Sunday in the Park Woods, Annie Get Your Gun, Gypsy and, most re- panist? with George and Into the Woods, but then I got cently, when she took over from Bette Midler in BP: We have a 10-piece band. I will have my to do Annie Get Your Gun and Gypsy. I loved the Hello, Dolly last year. She will be forever remem- lighting designer and sound. The Bob Mackie role in A Little Night Music. I never knew how bered in films like Silent Movie, The Jerk and Pen- dress will be there too! well-constructed the show Hello, Dolly was until nies from Heaven. Peters had unforgettable tele- WCT: I love some Bob Mackie! Do you have a I did it. vision appearances starting early with The Carol favorite memory from The Carol Burnett Show? WCT: Did you feel competition from Bette Burnett Show, continuing with many television BP: It’s so funny, I will see a clip now and again Midler when you took over the lead in Hello, movies and leading into a major role in Amazon’s and think, “How lucky was I?” I got to work with Dolly? Mozart in the Jungle recently. Her latest project, Carol Burnett and play Raven in The Exorcist BP: No. I actually like her very much and she’s The Good Fight, a spinoff of The Good Wife, has sketch. It was so much fun. my friend. her playing Lenore Rindell, the mother of a les- I’m in awe more of Carol now than then! Back WCT: What led you to being involved with the bian attorney portrayed by Rose Leslie (who was then, I was just in the moment and doing the LGBT community? on Game of Thrones). work. I look at it now and go, “Wow!” BP: In the beginning, I was doing summer Her solo music includes six albums, with several WCT: Do you like all the traveling when on stock and was asked to be in a show at the Caffe Grammy nominations for recordings of Stephen tour? Cino. I did Dames at Sea. The audience was hys- Sondheim as well as Rodgers and Hammerstein. BP: When I am traveling, I am so focused on terically laughing there. They got every joke and Peters puts her money where her mouth is by work. I don’t like to distract myself with seeing Turn to page 37 WINDY CITY TIMES Aug. 7, 2019 31 LGBT CRUISES & TOUR EVENTS

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2021: African Safari Jan 5-15, 2021 - Japan Cruise April 14-23, 2021 (800) 592-9058 - AquafestCruises.com 32 Aug. 7, 2019 WINDY CITY TIMES NUNN ON ONE so it’s important that we pay respect and honor our history as queer people. I have spent a lot of time watching documentaries and reading up on where we have come from. It has brought me so much pride to know that I have Brian Justin Crum. come from a long line of fighters. I have benefitted so much from what they Photo by Mark Mendoza The talented Brian went through. I’m grateful and indebted to them. WCT: You must have heard from so many LGBT folk after your appear- Justin Crum coming ances on America’s Got Talent. BJC: I have. I knew that the show was very popular, but I didn’t grasp how worldwide the reach was. I got messages from kids who were living in for Market Days the Philippines and Africa, places from all over the world, where going gay BY JERRY NUNN is punishable by death. I even got a message just yesterday from a kid in Morocco. America’s Got Talent finalist Brian Justin Crum came out to audiences on Whether we agree on how large corporations may possibly use gay people national TV during season 11. He told personal stories in between classic at least we live in a country where we can be who we are and be proud. cover songs and returned for America’s Got Talent: The Champions to sing It’s amazing the reach and visibility AGT has brought. Elton John’s “Your Song.” WCT: How was returning to the show for America’s Got Talent: The His background includes being in various Broadway musicals, including Champions? Wicked, Altar Boyz and Grease. He toured with productions of The Addams BJC: It was cool! When you are doing these reality shows you can feel like a Family and We Will Rock You. number. You are in a holding room with tons of people. It is a lot. Champions Crum just released new music with the song “I & U” and has plans for play- felt like a gathering of a small group of people that they were very passion- ing live in Chicago at Market Days. ate about. They took very good care of us. It was very nice to be back under Windy City Times: Hi, Brian. You have a lot of musicals on your resume. different circumstances. Brian Justin Crum: I do. I actually got my start in professional musical WCT: People wanted you to win. theater in Chicago. I debuted in Wicked in Chicago when I was 18 years old. BJC: It wasn’t America voting this time. They selected people to vote. It WCT: That’s when I met your fellow cast member Telly Leung, who was felt like a practice run for them. They didn’t quite have it all down, but it later in Glee. went great. I felt the support online. BJC: I love Telly! WCT: Was covering the song “Creep” a daunting task? WCT: Is Wicked your favorite musical? BJC: It’s the one song I still perform live from all the songs at AGT. It’s a BJC: My favorite musical in general is Next to Normal, which I did a while part of me now. When I chose that song I knew what it was going to do. I ago. knew what talking about my mom raising me was going to do. I had a feeling WCT: Do you plan on doing more musicals? it was going to touch people. There wasn’t really another option. I knew that BJC: I am focusing on my music now, but I would dive back into the world was going to be my song. of musicals when the right opportunity comes along. WCT: How do you make a cover song your own and connect to it? WCT: What do you have planned for Market Days? BJC: For me, it’s about putting my own experience onto it. I don’t think BJC: Market Days is going to be my all-out show. I’m bringing dancers and too much about changing it because these songs are classic songs. They are costumes. It’s a whole new setlist. I’m debuting new music and singing “I & amazing songs because they are already amazing. You don’t have to do too U” and “Circles.” It’s really going to be a 40 minute party with some hot boys much. It’s about putting yourself into it and seeing what they brings out. behind me. It’s going to be a good time and I’m keeping it light hearted. The WCT: Talk about your new single “I & U.” Chicago audience is going to have a good time. BJC: I have to say that I am beyond excited. I just posted about it this WCT: How was Pride Month and what does that mean to you? BJC: It means so much right now. It was the 50th anniversary of Stonewall Turn to page 37

ter their first meeting, Webster and Raymund space, cultural creativity, networking and new ex- brought Izquierdo onboard as a co-promoter. periences for our community while raising money Clandestina “Brooke and Monica had a conversation about for the projects that really need grassroots fund- the queer women's scene here in Chicago,” said ing,” said Webster. Izquierdo. “Having both lived in New York City, Izquierdo said Clandestina’s goal is “to provide organizers they were surprised that Chicago, despite being unique and creative experiences in a safe and such a great cosmopolitan city with a large queer supportive environment.” on relaunching community, did not have more options than it did Izquierdo cited the event's hiatus at the end of at the time.” 2016 on increasing work commitments; also, with event, “I had moved back to my hometown of Chicago Raymund leaving Chicago to pursue other film/ after a successful career on the East Coast that TV opportunities, they did not have time to plan future plans included ownership of Meow Mix Bar in Manhat- new events. Politics also became a factor. BY CARRIE MAXWELL tan and Cattyshack in Brooklyn,” said Webster. “The November 2016 election results sent us all “Monica and I knew each other from New York reeling,” said Izquierdo. “I think at the time we After an almost three-year hiatus, Clandestina City and decided we needed fun, diverse, expe- were all stunned and worried about the future of Chicago (Clandestina) co-promoters City Winery riential events for our community. She met Alma the country and the LGBTQ+ community. We were Chicago Riverwalk Manager Brooke Webster and on the set of the Chicago shows and Clandestina focused on efforts to support our community and Chicago PD Makeup Department Head Alma Izqui- was born.” all the non-profit organizations that were being Raymund has since moved away from Chicago threatened by the new administration.” erdo have announced a re-launch event Saturday, Renauda Riddle, Brooke Webster and Alma Aug. 24, 8 p.m.-12 a.m., at SX Sky Bar, 808 S. after departing from her role on Chicago Fire, so “Monica suggested we bring Clandestina to Webster and Izquierdo decided to team with Leg- Izquierdo. L.A., but Alma and I are committed to Chicago,” Michigan Ave. Photo by Ben Douglas A second event will take place Sunday, Sept. acy Project and Coalition for the Homeless board said Webster. “Both of us also have extremely 22, 3-8 p.m., at City Winery, 1200 W. Randolph member and revenue auditor Renauda Riddle to board because she has wanted to curate events busy full-time jobs so we need to be a trio for St. resume these events. (In addition to their day with Webster and Izquierdo for quite some time. this to work.” Clandestina started in early 2015, when Web- jobs, Webster has raised funds for a variety of She said this opportunity came at the right mo- Bringing back these parties was serendipitous, ster and then Chicago Fire star Monica Raymund non-profits, while Izquierdo is a Center on Hal- ment for her since she is in the process of restruc- according to Izquierdo. joined forces to create a new space for queer sted Women’s Action Council member.) turing her event company. “Brooke and I had been talking for a few women and their allies in Chicago. Shortly af- Riddle told Windy City Times that she came on- “Our mission has always been to create a safe Turn to page 34 WINDY CITY TIMES Aug. 7, 2019 33 34 Aug. 7, 2019 WINDY CITY TIMES TRAVEL Driftless and daring: Mineral Point, Wisconsin BY KIRK WILLIAMSON Gallery (22 High St., www.boyoyoboy.com) is an African art collective, displaying works by some Thousands of years ago when the glaciers razed of the continent’s most thought-provoking young the Midwest and flattened the landscape, they artists, including paintings, textiles, sculpture left certain areas untouched, unmarred. These and more. Owners Michel Metford Platt and Henk areas—known as the “driftless” areas—abound with lush, green, rolling hills and timeless natu- ral splendor. Meander through these ancient hills in southwestern Wisconsin and you’ll find Min- eral Point, a community of artists and lovers of beauty, with an intriguing queer history. Founded by Cornish settlers in the mid 1800s, Left: The historic Pendarvis House with a postcard Mineral Point got its start as a bustling zinc min- of Robert Neal and Edgar Hellum. Above: Mike ing town, many of the settlers having mined tin Zupke of Brewery Creek Brewpub & Inn. back in Cornwall, England. But when the industry All photos by Kirk Williamson changed, the town fell into decline and was in danger of extinction. Enter Robert Neal, lifelong resident of Mineral Point, who met a man named a more more, folksy feel, check out Longbranch Mineral Point’s devotion to art education is ex- Edgar Hellum in 1935 when Hellum came to town Gallery (203 Commerce St., www.longbranchgal- emplified in the Shake Rag Alley Center for the to buy building supplies. lery.com). Co-owners and artists Judy Sutcliffe Arts (www.shakeragalley.com), which bills itself The two men formed not only a loving relation- and Sandra Scott have been running Longbranch as a nonprofit center for the visual, literary and ship, but also a commitment to preserving the since its founding in 2002. Sutcliffe’s prints and performing arts. Over 200 classes and workshops limestone structures and brilliant charm of the mosaics and Scott’s figurative sculpture are all in any imaginable artistic discipline are offered town. Their most important effort, the Pendarvis available, amongst a dizzying display of works by from late winter through mid-November. many of Mineral Point’s favorite creators. House (114 Shake Rag St., www.pendarvishis- Turn to page 38 toricsite.org), stands today and is a vital touch- stone to the past of the area. The preservation of Artwork on display at Boyoyoboy. many other remaining structures soon followed and signalled the revitalization of Mineral Point. Klijn are committed to “shifting perceptions, About 500 structures in the town are on the Na- while engendering social transformation,” ac- tional Registry and Neal and Hellum are regarded cording to their website. Elsewhere in town you’ll as the gay godfathers of the town. find Stonewall Art Studio/Gallery (231 High St., Today, the streets of Mineral Point are lined www.stonewallartstudio.com), offering fine pho- with galleries and shops, appealing to everyone tography from co-owner Kirk Williams, practical from the casual art lover to the devotee of fine, ceramics and other housewares and surreal, hy- international art. Boyoyoboy Contemporary Art perspace paintings by artist Madison Hawley. For

CLANDESTINA from page 32 ganizers raised money for Project Fierce and Proj- ect Vote and will continue to donate a part of the months about all the ideas we had been coming proceeds from each event to Chicagoland LGBTQ up with since our last event,” said Izquierdo. “We organizations. knew it was going to take a little more effort with Events will take place in both Chicago and the just the two of us but we were really psyched. neighboring suburbs and will range from “free” We missed doing what we love; organizing events location takeovers to higher priced sit down Above: Details from The Tuckpoint at Shake Rag Alley. Right: that brought our community and friends together meals with most events ranging from $10 to $25 Stonewall Gallery for a phenomenal time. that will include a beverage or food item. “Then I found out Renauda was not going to “We are putting our efforts into offering as continue with the Brunch Remix events. She is an many unique experiences to appeal to people Mineral Point will celebrate its third annual remarkably talented organizer. We have worked across the spectrum,” said Izquierdo. “We know Pride this weekend, August 8-10. The high- together for years on the Women's Action Council you cannot please everyone. However, we want to light of this year’s Mineral Point Pride will and I knew she would be the perfect fit as a co- be intentional in keeping everyone in mind when be the display of six 12’ by 6’ panels of the promoter. When I asked Brooke, she was all for we design each event.” AIDS Memorial Quilt. Accompanying the quilt it.” Izquierdo, Riddle and Webster’s goals for these display, Mineral Point Pride will host a recep- “We wanted to resume because we had many re- events include adding to the vibrancy of the LG- tion at Boyoyoboy on August 8, and events quests from members of the community to bring BTQ social scene and that guests make friends, at Tequila Point (43 High St.) and L&L Public it back; and the fact that we had a chance to network, discover volunteer opportunities, create House (52 High St.) on August 9 and 10, in- have a great partner come onboard like Renauda amazing memories and find new love connec- cluding live music, games, and two drag show was icing on the cake,” said Webster. “We are tions. performances by Illusions Midwest (including a blessed that this is a trio mightier than Char- To RSVP for the Aug. 24 event, visit https:// family-friendly show). The documentary “Com- lie's Angels and fiercer than 007 with the class www.eventbrite.com/e/clandestina-tick- mon Threads” will be streaming thoughout the of Michelle Obama to bring fun important events ets-65946125637. weekend. for LGBTQ community in these dark times in our See https://www.facebook.com/clandestina- Photo courtesy of the NAMES Project nation’s history.” chi/. During Clandestina’s first year of operation, or- WINDY CITY TIMES Aug. 7, 2019 35 BILLY MastersMasters

“But at the same time, my God, if you’re 3 years old and you’re saying you’re feeling a certain way, or you think you’re a boy or a girl or whatever the case may be, I just think it’s dangerous as a parent to make that determination then, OK, well then you’re gonna be a boy or a girl, whatever the case may be.”—Mario Lopez shares his thoughts on transgender children during a podcast with pro-Trump conservative Candace Owens. BTW, he later apologized, saying, “The comments I made were ignorant and insensitive, and I now have a deeper understanding of how hurtful they were.” Mario Lopez (above) has had some Remember when summer used to be filled with backtracking to do. reruns? That’s how I’m feeling about this week’s Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images column. Not that the stories are old, but many paying gigs on the books! BTW, as of when we of them relate to days gone by. Take our opening wrote this, I’m breaking news of this gig BEFORE quote from Mario Lopez, where he incoherently Kathy’s own website. babbles about trans children. Of course, Lopez This week, Lil Nas X’s song “Old Town Road” has been a longstanding ally of the LGBTQ com- broke the Billboard Hot 100 record by remaining munity and has since apologized. But his ram- #1 for 17 weeks. Making this more historic is that bling reminded me of Miss South Carolina’s an- he’s an openly gay singer. And I wouldn’t be Billy swer when Mario hosted the 2007 Miss Teen USA Masters if I didn’t remind you that you can see pageant—a moment touted by most as epic in every inch of Lil Nas X on BillyMasters.com. pageant history. Back then, Mario tried to stifle a Despite numerous break-ups, The Go-Go’s will laugh. Watch both clips on BillyMasters.com and be back in a big way next year. First off, Show- see if you can do the same. time will air an extensive, no-holds-barred docu- Tituss Burgess has been flying high on Un- mentary about the band that was shot by Alison breakable Kimmy Schmidt and is currently pro- Ellwood, who helmed a two-part documentary moting his new CD, Saint Tituss. But everyone about the Eagles. For The Go-Go’s project, she reis talking about his feud with Andy Cohen. Ti- portedly tracked down everyone who was ever in- tuss was on What Watch Happens Live and Cohen volved with the band and left no stone unturned. asked a viewer question about the film Burgess Coinciding with that release, the band will play just made with Eddie Murphy. Tituss was effusive Washington, D.C., on July 4, 2020. Belinda Carl- in his praise for Murphy. isle hints that there may be more gigs: “Because Then Andy asked, “Did you get to chat with we don’t go out that often, there’s always a big him at all?” Tituss said, “Of course I did. Why demand for the band in the States. ... With the wouldn’t I?” Cohen added, “I just wondered if documentary coming out, I’m sure we’ll do a little you got close at all because he was very prob- bit of work.” lematic for the gays at one point when I was Remember when I told you that the upcom- coming up.” Burgess responded, “Oh, I see. He ing “Arrowverse” will have two Supermen? Well, ing everything else we have in the show, but: wasn’t problematic for Tituss; he was great and there could be a third. We hear that Tom Well- Homelander [played by Antony Starr], after be- any troubles he may have had with gay people ing is in talks to appear. And he’s not the only ing dressed down by Stilwell in episode two, was I guess are gone because he loved me.” Fellow one—Lynda Carter may also turn up. Although standing on one of the Chrysler building eagles. panelist Laverne Cox (wearing blue eye shadow) she previously played the president on Supergirl, He pulled his pants down and started jerking off, interjected, “It was a long time ago—people the powers that be are trying to convince Lynda mumbling, ‘I can do whatever I want’ over and evolve.” Meanwhile, Tituss batted his eyelashes to once again play Wonder Woman. Interestingly over again until he climaxed all over New York while mouthing and gesturing something to the enough, Carter also once appeared on Smallville. City.” I can’t imagine why Amazon had a problem audience. “What was that?” Andy asked. “Keep Our “Ask Billy” question comes from Terrence in with that! going, girl—do your show,” said Tituss. We’re New York: “Is it true that Chace Crawford shows When there’s something wrong with masturbat- told that when the live telecast was over, Tituss all in some new movie he’s in?” ing all over a city, it’s definitely time to end yet quickly left the set and refused to sign the guest It’s not a movie. It’s a new series from Ama- another column. This week, we mourn the pass- book, saying, “He knows I was here.” Cohen was zon Prime called The Boys, which is based on the ing of a real legend—Harold Prince. As a pro- later asked if Tituss would be invited back. Cohen comic book of the same name. The main charac- ducer and director, Hal revolutionized Broadway said, “He’s been on four times. He can do what- ters are superheroes, many of whom are disgrun- and won 21 Tony Awards along the way (more ever he wants. I just don’t want to offend him.” tled with the company they work for. Crawford than anyone else, by the by). He will be missed. Kathy Griffin has been everywhere promoting plays The Deep, who rules the oceans—which What you definitely shouldn’t miss is a single her movie, Kathy Griffin: A Hell of a Story. In means he’s not wearing a helluva lot of clothing. week onBillyMasters.com—the site where I can People magazine, she again talks about Cohen, From what I can see, his most prominent feature do whatever I want. If you have a question, dash saying during her time at Bravo, “He treated me is a tan line which, yes, I will show on BillyMas- it off to [email protected] and I promise to like a dog. He was one of the worst bosses I ever ters.com. get back to you before we remind you that Mario had.” I’m sure she’ll have a whole lot more to say I was struck by an interesting anecdote shared Lopez identified as male during his infamous Nip/ when she hits Provincetown on Aug. 16 for a pair by the show’s creator, Eric Kripke: “There was one Tuck shower scene. So, until next time, remem- of shows she’s calling “Sweatin’ For The Gays” scene that Amazon said, ‘Fuck, no—you have to ber: One man’s filth is another man’s bible. at Town Hall. Well, so much for not having any cut it.’ I couldn’t quite understand why consider- 36 Aug. 7, 2019 WINDY CITY TIMES time.” one or two more mainstays to the menu as Mendoza led our meal, starting us with well as a rotating meal of the month. “We are elote (roasted corn, lime aioli, guajillo chili, 85-percent authentic Mexican,” he said. “There queso and cilantro), pozole (a Mexican pork are techniques that we use that are more fine the DISH and hominy soup) and guacamole with tortilla dining, [but] the flavors are all as traditional as Dining Guide in chips. Shortly after, we were served six tacos, [possible]. This isn’t Tex-Mex,” he said. “It’s a of which I ate three: the chicken tinga, the al real taco.” WINDY CITY TIMES pastor and the mushroom. The al pastor was my Note: Restaurant profiles/events are based favorite, featuring pork shoulder and pineapple. on invitations arranged from restaurants and/ SAVOR The mushroom was a close second; the sole or firms. vegetarian taco option tasted like I had bit right Asadito into a vegetable garden. Following the tacos, we BY JULIA HALE Asadito al pastor tacos, churros and were served churro bites, with spiced chocolate Margarita. and caramel dipping sauces. I have to say that “F**k Me, I’ll Have Another,” reads the electric the uber-sugary churros were my favorite part of Meghan Leigh Photography blue neon sign that hangs on the white wall the meal. behind the bar at Asadito (30 N. Clinton St.; With 85 agave-based spirits, Asadito offers and Little Toasted. (The restaurant is right next https://slightlytoasted.com/wp-content/ guests more than 2,000 margarita options. After door to Slightly Roasted.) Tyler Mendoza, the uploads/2019/07/food-menu-mock.pdf), the trying its roasted pineapple margarita, I can “son” in "father-son," explained what makes the new authentic yet modern taqueria and tequila understand why the sign behind the bar is there. tacos at Asadito different from the “corporate” bar in the West Loop. The sign is surrounded In addition to vast margarita options, Asadito tacos you can find throughout Chicago. DRAG PROFILE by white metal baskets filled with Jarritos soft also offers cocktails, including the Hyper Snyper, OF THE WEEK He said, “Tortillas are made fresh to order, from drink, plastic fruit, cans of beans and coconut which has espresso and milk; and the Buddah BY TONY PEREGRIN masa sourced locally. We make it in-house every cream, Mexican Cokes and Topo Chico water. The Monk, with green chili vodka and aloe liquor. The day." The restaurant gets its masa from Pilsen. wall to the left of the bar is filled with religious beer list features Mexican and American lagers, “We use actual trompos [vertical rotisseries] for and cultural art and photos. in addition to categories like "Boozy Soda,” the pastor, which means that all the meat, all the It’s not your typical taqueria. “Sours,” “Apples,” “Hops” and “Dessert Beer,” proteins including the mushrooms, take at least Asadito—“little roasted” in Spanish—is owned with two beers on tap. ::will return in two weeks:: four days [to cook]. We make everything, literally and operated by Barrel Aged Hospitality, the According to Mendoza, Asadito will be adding father-son duo that also runs Slightly Toasted everything, from scratch—and a lot of it takes

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They would tell their friends once said, “Thanks for the learning the finger- challenges or other causes for your home’s clutter, about my shows and then I started having a won- ing,” which I did. That film really is a classic now, disorganization, dysfunction, etc. We can organize for derful audience. They understand people that isn’t it? the downsizing of your current possessions to more sing. If I am singing something with real emo- easily move into a smaller home. With your help, we tion, they get it. People have asked me about the WCT: Yes, defintely. So, The Good Fight was can help to organize your move. We can organize following before and I would say, “Because they picked up for a fourth season. Are you on that and clean for the deceased in lieu of having the be- Do ask. Do tell. are smart!” again? reaved needing to do the preparation to sell or rent WCT: You have done a lot for the community BP: I did that the beginning last year. 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CRUM from page 32 sense of nostalgia about it, but it’s very modern. WOMEN from page 28 past 5 years, and I am thrilled at its growth, its I am pushing boundaries with the clothing I am commitments and its vision for the future,” said morning and it’s already getting so much love. I wearing in it. I am very excited for people to see for a lot of folks who could be customers if they Bubon. “Ann and I could not have chosen better am getting emails and messages about how it’s a it. only walked through our door,” said Hollenbeck. people to be at the helm.” great song. I am happy it’s being well received. I WCT: Do you feel fashion is moving into men One of the first things they did was rearrange In addition to the block party, the store is set recorded it a while ago and we have been waiting being more feminine with their clothing? the store to make it more inviting. They also did to host a midnight release party for The Testa- to put it out. It felt like the perfect time to share BJC: Absolutely. Gender is dead. I think it’s outreach to a new generation of feminists to tell ments by Margaret Atwood Monday, Sept. 9; a it with the world. time that this heteronormative “masc4masc” them the store had an intersectional feminist conversation and book signing with U.S. Supreme It’s a continuation on “Circles,” and that was bullshit goes away. I grew up gay in musical the- mission that was transgender-inclusive and gen- Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wed., Sept. 11, all about being in a toxic relationship. “I & U” ater. From the time I was 6 years old, I was told der expansive. at Senn High School Auditorium; Ann Patchett on is about the ending of that relationship and the to butch it up and be more masculine. I want to “We made an effort to reach out and support Monday, Oct. 21; Jeanette Winterson on Thurs- confusion we have about the longing for it to express myself however I want to express myself. communities of color through expanded events, day, Oct. 24; Carmen Maria Machado on Friday, have it back. We have a way of fantasying and If someone has a problem with it then it’s on programming, activism and fundraising,” said Nov. 8; Rebecca Traister on Sunday, Nov. 10; and remembering only the good when relationships them. Hollenbeck. “Ann and Linda were already doing Lindy West on Tuesday, Nov. 12. end. The song is about still wanting someone af- I love that Billy Porter is out in the world and this work, but we were able to ‘demystify’ our For more information, see WomenAndChil- ter all they went through, with all the lack of living his fullest fantasy. 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