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Republican supporters of a Congressional can- Dickie V. and Me: Sexual didate dubbed a “mini-Trump” in Minnesota used a family photo of his Democratic lesbian Identity in 1950s America opponent to draw attention to “her female marriage partner and their 4 teenage sons.” Dickie V. wanted to see me. I received I was 15 years old. I tried to make Democratic opponents of a gay Republican this message from my mother who had sense of it all. I suggested he appeal to candidate for sheriff in Arizona ran an ad that received it from Dickie’s mother. I hardly the bishop. He said he had. I suggested claimed “we can’t trust him with our kids.” knew Dickie. His family lived on the rich he try another diocese. He would not. I In Oregon, threats and taunts against inside of the tracks; my family on the poor asked Dickie if his nervous breakdown cumbent Gov. Kate Brown, a bisexual, have side. was caused by this rejection. He only escalated in recent months over her calls for I crossed the Larimer Avenue Bridge cried. tighter gun controls, prompting an increase in which separated us poor folk on Larimer Then, he said, “They think I’m homo- Avenue in East Liberty, Pittsburgh, Penn- sexual, they think I’m not a man.” her security detail. sylvania, from the rich folk on Stanton One week later Dickie V. committed And a story in the conservative Des Moines Avenue in Highland Park. I was in my suicide. He was 14. He jumped from the Register characterized Iowa’s openly gay Re- second year at Central Catholic HS; Dickie low WPA Art-Deco railing of the Larimer publican candidate for the state senate as a Openly gay Arizona candidate Daniel in his first. Avenue Bridge onto the road far below in 50-year-old man “living with his mom” and de- Hernandez (above), who once saved the life Dickie’s mother welcomed me into her the ‘holler’. scribed his Democratic opponent as having a of U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords. fancy home, decorated in Italianesque My mother told me Dickie had com- “muscular campaign organization.” Photo courtesy of Hernandez Baroque furniture and replica art works. mitted suicide. In the 1950s, newspa- But while anti-LGBT sentiments and tactics pers did not publish might still be in evidence these days, there is ting there. Her race is polling as a “toss-up,” such deaths, which much to be appreciated for how matter-of-fact- were spoken of by according to RealClearPolitics.com. ly the sexual orientation of most LGBT candi- adults in whispers Craig, a vice president of global human re- “I was 15 years old. I tried to make dates is being regarded. Many LGBT incumbents over coffee and sources for a medical devices manufacturer face no opposition to reelection. And in the sense of it all. I suggested he appeal cigarettes. I didn’t in St. Paul, left that position to run for Min- San Francisco Bay Area, there are two races in to the bishop. He said he had. I know what to say. which the competition is between two openly nesota’s 2nd District seat in the U.S. House. She added, “I found LGBT candidates. Craig’s website bio features a photo of her, her suggested he try another diocese. pictures of naked Even in the South, in conservative and sol- wife and their four boys. She’s the Democratic men under your idly red Kentucky, openly gay Democratic can- Farmer Labor party candidate for a seat opened He would not. I asked Dickie if his under wear.” I told didate Jim Gray told the Washington Post his up by retiring Republican John Kline, and she’s nervous breakdown was caused by her they were phy- being gay hasn’t been a problem on the cam- running against a former talk-show host, Jason sique magazines for paign trail. Lewis, whose provocative statements prompted this rejection. He only cried.” people who wanted Gray is the only openly gay person running The Atlantic magazine to dub him “Minnesota’s to make muscles for a U.S. Senate seat, but there is a record mini-Trump.” and that the men number of LGBT people running for seats in the Among other things, Lewis has characterized weren’t naked, they The chairs and couches were covered in were in posing straps. She said, “I think U.S. House this year: 12. Six are incumbents the “vast majority of young single women” as plastic—typical of 1950s aspiring Ital- Dickie was a homosexual.” I said I had expected to easily win re-election; six are new caring about only “abortion and gay marriage” ians. I presented her with a box of exqui- no idea whether he was or not. Then she comers, only one of whom is said to have a and called the idea of allowing transgender students to use the restroom of their gender site pizzele waffle cookies which my mom said, “I know you’re not a homosexual good chance at winning. had made—no Italian visited an Italian because homosexuals hate their mothers Add to that at least 21 openly LGBT people identity “an abomination.” And he’s argued that “Gay couples are no more discriminated home without a present—and which I and commit suicide.” running for state senate seats, 61 running for had been tempted to eat on my long walk She sent me to Dr. DeNinno, our family state house seats, one governor and four other against than the polygamist, the drug user, or the loan shark.” One state GOP official used a to Dickie V.’s home. physician. statewide offices, at least 53 local offices and Dickie’s mom ushered me into a sun- DeNinno examined me, gave me a shot 17 seats on various state and local courts, and photo of Craig’s family to solicit attendance to a Lewis fundraiser, noting that Craig is “liberal room where Dickie sat in an over-stuffed of vitamin B, some Royal Canadian Air the total—170—sets a new high (compared to chaise lounge, an expensive carpet- Force isometic exercise manuals—you and this is her family. She and her female mar- 152 in 2012 and 164 in 2010). blanket draped over his legs. Next to him don’t need to pump iron to make mus- riage partner and their 4 teenage sons.” Here’s a look at some of the most high-profile stood a wrought-iron glass-top stand on cles, you can make muscles anywhere— Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund President Aisha races involving LGBT candidates next month: which were laid a pot of coffee and an and charged me $2. He said he would C. Moodie-Mills said the use of Angie Craig’s Oregon Gov. Kate Brown: Brown, who identi- array of Neapolitan cakes. The sun poured tell my mother there’s nothing to worry fies as bisexual, took office in February 2015, family photo was used “to attack both her and through the windows, intensifying the about. when her predecessor resigned in scandal. She’s LGBT families” and is “more indicative of the suffocation I started to feel as soon as I DeNinno’s concluding postscript: “Hide considered a safe bet to keep that job. A Port- hate her opponent Jason Lewis spreads, than it entered this home. your magazines in better places, espe- land-based polling firm found her eight points is of politics for LGBT candidates nationwide.” Dickie tried to make a polite remark cially if you’re going to the seminary, and ahead of Republican challenger Bud Pierce in “LGBT candidates undoubtedly face addition- then broke into violent sobs. I had no remember, the world isn’t ready for you, early September. Brown was previously secre- al hurdles because of homophobia and trans- idea what was happening. I waited. yet.” tary of state; Pierce was an oncologist. phobia, but fortunately these attacks are less Dickie said the doctors said he was hav- Dickie V. wasn’t even finished with pu- But there have been some troubling moments prevalent than in the past,” said Moodie-Mills. ing a nervous breakdown. I just listened. berty. Maybe the second testicle would for Brown this year. Earlier this month, pro-gun Craig has raised almost $1.5 million for her I thought nervous breakdowns were have descended. Maybe not. I don’t know demonstrators burned an effigy of her, and The campaign, according to Federal Elections Com- strange things that happened to women. whether Dickie V. was gay or straight or He asked me if it was true that I was in- asexual or transgender or as I prefer to Oregonian reports that Brown’s security detail mission records. Lewis has raised $369,000. tending to go into the seminary in my call myself Q to the 4th power. I don’t has been increased. The paper reported that Washington state Rep. Brady Walkinshaw, junior year of HS. I said, Yes. He asked think he had the slightest idea. I only someone posted a message on Twitter, calling 32, is running for the state’s 7th District seat had I had the physical examination be- know that a needlessly cruel system Brown a “sexually confused progressive” and to the U.S. House against another progressive Democrat, state Sen. Pramila Jayapal. Jayapal fore being accepted. I said, Yes. Then, he pushed Dickie into a corner from which blamed her for the death of a man who joined a told me that he had failed the physical he could not imagine any escape other group trying to occupy a federal wildlife refuge got twice as many votes as Walkinshaw during the primary, but, as one of the top two vote- exam. than to kill himself. in the state. Another threatened an “attack” on Dickie had only one partially descended Dickie V. died before he had a chance her house for a ruling by a state labor commis- getters in the nine-person field, Walkinshaw advanced to the general election. Walkinshaw testicle. You had to have two fully de- to figure things out. I suspect he might sioner who ordered a bakery to pay $135,000 scended testicles to be admitted to the have made a good priest. to a same-sex couple for refusing to sell them has also picked up some important endorse- ments: the Seattle Times and the third top seminary. He started crying again. I learned how to hide my physique a wedding cake. But the Oregonian also noted I was way out of my depth. I looked mags better. I still have the Royal Cana- primary vote-getter, openly gay King County that a previous governor, Barbara Roberts, carefully at Dickie. He looked like an dian Air Force manuals Dr. DeNinno gave Council Chairman Joe McDermott. Walkinshaw’s received death threats in the 1990s over her overweight young boy who had not yet me. campaign website notes that he lives with his pro-choice stance and efforts to protect the entered into puberty. But, by no means I regret that Dickie V. didn’t have a Dr. spotted owl. husband on Capitol Hill, a predominantly gay did he seem unusual. There were many DeNinno on his side. neighborhood. Six new candidates for Congress: In addi- chubby Italian boys. tion to Gray’s run for the U.S. Senate in Ken- Oklahoma state Sen. Al McAffrey is making tucky, six other new LGBT candidates are run- a second run for a U.S. House seat to repre- Nick Patricca is professor emeritus at Loyola University Chicago, president of sent Oklahoma’s 5th Congressional district. He ning for seats in the U.S. House this year. Most Chicago Network and playwright emeritus at Victory Gardens Theater. of them are considered long shots, but Angie won this year’s Democratic primary, despite a Craig in Minnesota has the best chance of get- Turn to page 5 WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 5, 2016 5 BALLOT from page 4 en on Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Rand plan for one of the city’s at-large seats. Paul. Gray told the Washington Post that his Kimberly Alvarenga is running to be the first being gay has not been an issue in the cam- lesbian in 16 years to serve on the San Fran- recount to challenge his 40-vote margin of vic- paign, but he’s also trailing 12 points behind cisco Board of Supervisors. And according to tory. But he’s got a tough race now against a Paul, according to the most recent poll. And the Bay Area Reporter, her election could main- well-funded one-term incumbent Republican. the Kentucky Herald-Leader notes that a sig- tain an important part of LGBT history. Since In addition to incumbent U.S. Rep. Kyrsten nificant number of “Business Leaders for Jim 1977, when Harvey Milk was first elected to Sinema, there are two new openly gay candi- Gray” have failed to contribute to his campaign the Board, “there has been at least one LGBT dates for Congress in Arizona on Nov. 8—a Re- coffers. His campaign has raised $1.8 million, supervisor,” notes the paper. But new term lim- publican and a Democrat, running in separate compared to Senator Paul’s $2.3 million. its are jeopardizing that trend. Plus current gay districts. Board member Scott Wiener is running for the Former Arizona state Rep. Matt Heinz, an Statewide races: old and new state senate. That leaves lesbian union leader, emergency-room doctor at Tucson Medical Cen- There are some familiar names and some new Alvarenga, trying to fill the void. She is up ter, is running for the state’s 2d Congressional ones among the 87 known openly LGBT candi- IL State Rep. Greg Harris. against another union leader. district House seat. That seat is currently held dates running for statewide offices next month. Photo by Matt Mills In Texas, Jenifer Rene Pool made history as by former Air Force Colonel Martha McSally, In addition to Oregon’s Brown, there is Dem- the first openly transgender person to win a “the first woman in our nation’s history to pi- ocrat Tina Podlodowski, a longtime lesbian po- first bid for elective office, seeking a seat in primary in Texas. She defeated a fellow Demo- lot a fighter plane in combat and command a litico, running to become secretary of state in the state house. crat and took 78 percent of the vote for a seat fighter squadron.” Heinz is the Democrat. An Washington state. Podlodowski left a success- There are at least five openly LGBT candi- on the Harris County Commissioners Court in independent poll released Sept. 26 shows Re- ful career at Microsoft in 1995 to win a seat on dates for public office in Illinois. Three are Houston. She’s now running against an incum- publican McSally with a 19-point lead. the Seattle City Council. She’s up against an Democrats running for re-election state house bent Republican. In Congressional District 1, openly gay Sher- incumbent Republican. seats: Kelly Cassidy (District 14), Greg Harris Not surprisingly, California has the most iff Paul Babeu of Pinal County is the Republi- Toni Atkins is another well-known lesbian (District 13, and unopposed), and Sam Yingling openly LGBT candidates (43), followed by Tex- can, running seven points in the polls behind politico. She served as California Assembly (District 62). One Republican gay man, Andy as and Florida (with nine each), Massachusetts the Democrat for an open seat. Babeu’s cam- Speaker of San Diego but is now running for Kirchoff, is seeking to challenge an incumbent and Georgia (with eight each, and Washington paign seems hobbled by news that he approved the seat representing Senate District 39. Be- Democrat for the District 24 seat. And Cath- state (with seven). Michigan has four. of the use of controversial discipline measures cause she won more than three times the votes erine Schneider is running for a Cook County “LGBT candidates are running strong races against students at a school he ran for at-risk her Republican challenger did in this year’s Circuit Court seat. Schneider edged her oppo- in parts of the country thought unviable just youth in Massachusetts. An attack ad from open primary, Atkins is considered likely to win nents in the primary, even though the Chicago an election cycle or two before,” said Victory Democrats focuses on that scandal and says, Nov. 8. Tribune endorsed one of her opponents. Fund’s Moodie-Mills. “We can’t trust him with our kids. How can we Daniel Hernandez made headlines five years Among the more “unviable” states where trust him in Congress.” Log Cabin Republicans ago as the openly gay staffer who helped save Local races to watch LGBT candidates are running this year are the criticized the ad as exploiting an anti-gay ste- the life of U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords following a Fifty-three openly LGBT candidates are vying solidly conservative Republican states of West reotype. mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona. A Democrat, for local elective office, including two candi- Virginia, Montana, and Wyoming. “Attack ads don’t get more homophobic than he’s now running for a state house seat against dates for mayor—incumbent Alex Morse in Moodie-Mills said candidates in these more this,” said Log Cabin national President Greg- a Democratic incumbent and a Republican Holyoke, Massachusetts, and Kriss Worthington difficult environments “can make an outsized ory Angelo. challenger. The top two vote-getters represent in Berkeley, California. impact on equality if elected in November.” In Connecticut, openly gay Republican Se- the district. Meanwhile, Berkeley’s first openly gay Black “Voters are viewing LGBT candidates holisti- lectman Clay Cope of Sherman is running to Less well-known is Beth Tuura, a television City Councilman, Darryl Moore, is fending off cally—so qualified LGBT candidates with the unseat an incumbent Democrat. The Texas producer and winner of three Emmys for sports a challenge from the LGBT community—Nanci right message can run competitively and win,” native and supporter of Republican presiden- coverage. Tuura, a Democrat, is challenging a Armstrong-Temple, who Bay Area Reporter says she said. “It is rarely easy, but we are making tial candidate Donald Trump is out to unseat Republican incumbent for a House seat repre- identifies as queer. enormous progress, and it upends the narra- Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty, senting Orlando, Florida. Next door, in Oakland, two other LGBT can- tive that LGBT candidates can only win blue or of the state’s 5th Congressional district, who And another new name on the horizon is Sam didates are squaring off for one seat on that purple states and districts.” earned a perfect score from the Human Rights Park, a young attorney born and raised in Geor- city’s Council: Oakland mayoral aide Peggy ©2016 Keen News Service. All rights re- Campaign for her voting record. gia to immigrants from Korean. He’s making his Moore is challenging incumbent Rebecca Ka- served. And in Kentucky, Gray, a Democrat, has tak- 6 Oct. 5, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES Marie J. Kuda, Chicago gay pioneer, dies By Tracy Baim to the M. Kuda Archives for photos and other materials. As did WTTW for its Out & Proud in One of Chicago’s pioneering lesbian activists, Chicago documentary, among many others who Marie J. Kuda, has died at age 76 after compli- used her research and archive. cations from multiple illnesses, including heart While Kuda always felt more comfortable be- disease. ing part of the “gay” community, as she had Kuda, born Dec. 8, 1939, was inducted into friends among both men and women, she was the first class of Chicago’s LGBT Hall of Fame in also a fierce and feisty lesbian, through and 1991. She began her activism on gay rights in through, and organized major writers confer- the mid-1960s and continued to work on LGBT ence specifically for lesbians. She had lasting rights in the areas of politics, literature and friendships with icons of the lesbian movement, history for the rest of her life. and she made sure her extensive archives, in- Kuda’s accomplishments were many, and she cluding correspondence with key lesbian move- was one of only a few Chicagoans who were ment figures (Barbara Gittings, Renee Hanover, active in the pre-Stonewall gay-rights move- Pearl Hart, Valerie Taylor, etc.), were carefully ment who used her own name. She and William collected and donated to the Kinsey Institute. B. Kelley, who died in 2015, joined forces on The five Lesbian Writers Conferences she or- many projects. They were critical pillars in the ganized in 1974 to 1978 provided a link to movement’s fight against police harassment, both writers and readers from across the U.S. institutional discrimination, media bias and They were the first-ever gatherings of lesbian cultural erasure. writers in this country. She was proud of that In an era when academics ignored or con- accomplishment—a difficult task in that era— sciously edited out LGBTs from their work, and the posters from those events still hang in Kuda was one of a handful of people across the homes of women who proudly attended. the country who would tour with “slide shows” Kuda founded Womanpress on 1974, part of documenting the contribution of LGBTs, es- the burgeoning Women In Print movement na- pecially lesbians, to world history. During the tionally. She also wrote about LGBT history in 1970s and 1980s, as literature and film barely chapters and columns for books and newspa- scratched the surface of the work of LGBTs, pers. She wrote for almost every Chicago LGBT these touring shows provided a critical lifeline media outlet over the years, especially those for people trying to find out about their past. published from the 1960s-1990s. These in- She presented to hundreds of groups over the cluded Chicago Gay Pride in 1971, The Paper years. in 1972, the Chicago Gay Crusader during its “In the years before we had our own pub- entire run from 1973 to 1976, Lavender Woman lished histories, a bunch of us, like Greg (1971-1976), Women in Print Newsletter start- Sprague, Tee Corinne, JEB [Joan E. Biren] and ing in 1976, the paper knower as women’s Allan Bérubé, were itinerant storytellers going news…For a Change in 1977, GayLife (1975- around with our slide projectors, sharing our 1985), and then later Gay Chicago, Windy City history whenever queers were gathered,” Kuda Times and Outlines newspapers. had said when asked about those shows. She edited and published works that have Kuda was a Renaissance woman, mostly self- been essential reading in lesbian literature and Kuda on the cover of GayLife newspaper, March 13, 1981. taught, so she often felt left behind once the scholarship, including Two Women: The Poetry academic world caught up, and people landed of Jeannette Howard Foster and Valerie Taylor, Chicago. She edited and wrote articles for the well-paid jobs doing the work she had mostly and Women Loving Women: A Select and An- group’s newsletter, including about police ha- volunteered to do for decades. This was a simi- notated Bibliography of Women Loving Women rassment. That newsletter, a precursor to later lar plight faced by many LGBTs who put their in Literature, the first annotated lesbian bibli- gay media, was a lifeline for so many people hearts and souls into the movement, setting ography. experiencing discrimination at the hands of in- aside traditional career tracks, sacrificing both “I am remembering her lesbian history slide- stitutions, and family, in the Chicago area. financially and physically for the movement. shows at Mountain Moving Coffeehouse,” said A few years ago, Kuda told her Mattachine She struggled in her later years, and relied on lesbian activist Kathy Munzer. “I also remem- Midwest (MM) story to Sukie de la Croix for his the kindness of friends and strangers for sup- ber her teaching lesbian lit classes at Jane Ad- Chicago Whispers column in Windy City Times: port. dams, her pride in producing the first lesbian “The monthly meetings to put the paper to- “Marie Kuda was not sweet, but she was kind writers conferences here in Chicago—an ex- gether were held in Valerie Taylor’s basement and loyal,” said longtime activist and writer traordinary LGBT historian, archivist and activ- apartment on Surf Street. Various people would Kathleen Thompson. “She was not an academ- ist—smart, funny, sweet, curmudgeonly, rogu- come and go dropping off copy and cruising. ic, but she was a scholar. She was not a ro- ish, generous—a brilliant butch and legendary Bill would type the entire paper and I would mantic, but she had a gruff sentimentality that storyteller.” help ‘set’ paper-type for headlines or display softened the edges of her life and those of oth- “Marie Kuda was the personification of lesbi- and set clip-art for ads received without cam- ers. I reconnected with her only recently and an activism,” said Chicago lesbian pioneer Pat era-ready copy. Those were pre-PC days. The I was so looking forward to seeing her again. McCombs. “She worked tirelessly for the LGBT Advocate was our first national ad. Most of the If I were sitting at a bar with a whiskey in my community and made numerous contributions. local advertising was from bars and bookstores hand, I’d say, ‘They don’t make them like Kuda Her strong commitment was exhibited by the (porn) with an occasional birthday or anni- anymore.’ And I’d be speaking the truth.” work she did and the great sacrifices she made Kuda in 2015. versary greeting. The first ads comparable to On a personal note, I worked with Kuda since for our community. She will be greatly missed what is now de rigueur in the back section of 1984, when I first started as a reporter at Gay- and I will always remember her witty personal- “Although it’s been years since I’ve seen her, any gay paper was Man-to-Man Computer Dat- Life newspaper in Chuck Renslow’s office com- ity and straight forwardness. Always keeping it I was very fond of Marie,” said Philadelphia- ing Service. At some point in the afternoon Val plex in Andersonville. Kuda was a force to be REAL. RIP Marie.” based gay pioneer John Cunningham. “I met would whip up a one-pan meal of some kind reckoned with, and we often butted heads on Kuda was an early member of the Gay and her through Barbara Gittings. Marie always usually accompanied by garlic bread. … stories and her push for perfection in an era of Lesbian Task Force of the American Library As- stood ready to help when the American Library “I also volunteered for MM’s hot-line. In speed. She wrote extensively on a period of gay sociation, and worked alongside such national Association convention was in Chicago. When those paranoid days, callers would get MM’s history from which little original source ma- activists as Gittings to educate and inform li- I was co-chair of the Gay Community Center of hired answering service who would take their terial existed, and was frustrated by the lack brarians to get ‘the lies out of libraries’ and to Philadelphia in the early ’80s, Tommi Avicolli number and then contact whoever was working of acknowledgment for her work and her per- make available bibliographies, reviews and pro- Mecca and I worked to bring Marie to Phila- the hotline that day; and they in turn would ception that the community did not even care grams which enable the acquisition of books delphia to present her slide lectures on lesbian return the initial call. Many callers were too about this history. accurately reflecting the spectrum of the gay history and literature to a packed house. She frightened to give their numbers and weren’t Kuda was a key contributor to several of and lesbian lifestyle, according to her Hall of knew so much and took great joy in sharing heard from again. Most needing legal or medi- my books on LGBT history, especially Out and Fame biography. She served for 16 years on her knowledge with others. I loved her sense of cal referrals persisted. … As I recall the male Proud in Chicago: An Overview of the City’s Gay that task force, and she was the first open les- humor and her deep caring for our community.” membership at the time was about 250 [and a Community and Gay Press, Gay Power. She was bian to write book reviews for the ALA’s Book- While literature was her primary continuous few women]. An average of 40 showed up at also the reason my Barbara Gittings: Gay Pio- list, contributing more than 200 reviews from interest, and she was reading and commenting membership meetings and upwards of 100 at neer book ever happened, since she introduced 1990 to 1994. (and recommending books to others) up until MM-sponsored social events like the opening me to Gittings’ widow, Kay Lahusen, and rec- Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Ency- her last days, she was also a mover and shaker of the play The Boys in the Band at the then- ommended me for the project. clopedia cites Kuda as “a leading chronicler of in Chicago politics. Studebaker Theatre in the Fine Arts Building— When the Chicago History Museum was curat- lesbian and gay life, particularly as it unfolded Her political activism started in the mid- I never saw so many floor-length furs!” in the Midwest.” ing its major LGBT exhibit, its officers turned 1960s with the Mattachine Midwest group in Turn to page 24 WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 5, 2016 7 ‘Change Chat’ takes on bisexuality By Liz Baudler Both women felt that the bi community need- Adrienne Mccue ed clear labels to communicate their existence and Marla Depew. A small but mighty group attended the latest and unite the community, and that choosing Photo by Liz Center on Halsted Change Chat on the evening not to use the term bi was internalized hatred. Baudler of Sept. 28. Host Andrew Fortman tied this Fortman mentioned that in preparing for the chat’s theme, “Bi the Way,” to other bi-focused bi chat, he was surprised to find a lack of in- COH programming in September (traditionally tersectional issues affecting the bi community, the month that celebrates bisexuality), and in- suggesting to him that the community was not troduced two local bi community figures. at a point to form subgroups. He wondered out Adrienne McCue, founder of the BiSocial Net- loud if the community’s inclusiveness hindered work, began a blog discussing her identity back its visibility. Depew floated a theory that bi- in 2008 after losing her job. The emails she sexuality is hard to see partly because it’s not ated from the larger bi population. Orange Is the New Black for having a protago- received from bisexuals who felt invisible were visible in couple form: any member of a same “We’ve been talking about visibility for 20 nist who is bi in practice but not in profession. McCue’s inspiration for the “I am Visible Cam- or different-gendered couple could be bi. years,” said McCue, who marveled that an au- Yet at the end of the day, there’s more to paign,” which starred actors Paul Fitzgerald When Fortman asked the women about pos- dience of Chicago bisexuals hadn’t heard of bisexuality than mere existence. “We focus on and Alan Cumming and scored McCue an 2011 sible next conversations for the bi movement, BiNet, the self-proclaimed leading bisexual invisibility, but there’s many things that are invitation to the White House’s LGBT reception. Depew discussed the difference between bisex- organization. She also recalled having con- amazing,” Depew said. Both Depew and McCue Often asked “What do you like more?” when uality’s acceptability in men and women. “It’s versations with GLAAD and feeling that “they joked about having packed resumes and multi- it comes to gender, McCue said she doesn’t bigger topics we need to talk about now,” said didn’t know what bi [meant].” McCue felt the faceted careers as another possible aspect to have a type. “I don’t like more, I like the per- McCue, who wants her organization’s current solution was increased collaboration across all their identity. Depew claimed to be “bi in ev- son,” McCue said. She remembered having an focus to be more on community projects such LGBTQ communities. “A lot of groups don’t talk ery way,” whether it’s her career or her dinner intimate connection with a childhood friend, as combating homelessness. In her experience, to each other,” she said. Depew wanted to see order. “I see more possibilities,” Depew said. Gloria, while simultaneously being a huge Rick those with complex identities can feel alien- more bi characters in film and TV, and critiqued “I think it’s the wiring,” McCue concurred. Springfield fan. Yet McCue didn’t realize there was a term for her identity until college. Marla Depew, a comedian who hosts Just Dickin’ Around, a women and queer friendly comedy series, described her attractions in terms of “specific gender” rather than “specific sex,” saying she was attracting to the soft mas- culinity of alpha women and beta men. Both Depew and McCue found the bi community to be quite inclusive. “It’s a little bit of everyone,” said McCue, who remembered feeling out of place because of her height and race in women’s spaces. Depew felt that when she was in lesbian space as a bisexual, she was “accepted with a caveat.” McCue was irritated by both ongoing iden- DEAR tity segregation in the LGBTQ community and the lack of separate bi space. Depew, queer for 10 years before coming out as bi at 28, said she felt shut out from the queer community for dating the man who became her husband. She CHICAGO, felt her experience was why bi people, such as actress Cynthia Nixon, choose to stay closeted. UN official to look into anti-LGBTI It’s pretty safe to say that there’s something very cool abuses about the Windy City and the winds of change. The United Nations expert Vitit Muntarb- horn was given a three-year term on Sept. 30 to investigate abuses against LGBTI I ocially came out a few years ago, because the world people. Muntarbhorn is an international law needed to know who I really am. Aside from being professor at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, and has served on sev- incredibly open, I’m also home to some of the best food, eral UN committees. The council that ap- pointed him overcame objections by Mus- drinks, art, history, adventure, and humble-bragging you’ll lim countries, including Saudi Arabia. Human Rights Watch welcomed the ap- ever experience. pointment, saying the UN council “made history.” Hundreds of LGBTI people have been And remember, I’m less than a 2 hour ﬂight away. So killed and thousands injured in recent years, including various knife attacks, come see me soon! rape, genital mutilation and gay people being thrown from buildings. Love, Marriage plaintiff Windsor remarries RVA Edie Windsor—the marriage-equality plaintiff who successfully challenged the federal Defense of Marriage Act in 2013— recently remarried City Hall in New York. On Sept. 26, Windsor, 87, wed Judith Kasen, 51, a vice president at Wells Fargo. Windsor initially arrived before the Su- WWW.RICHMONDISOUT.COM preme Court in her challenge to a federal estate tax bill of more than $360,000 after the 2009 death of her spouse, Thea Spyer. 8 Oct. 5, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES Israeli activists talk LGBT rights By Matt Simonette change not only the LGBT community, but going back and changing the places we came Activist Chen Arieli describes the Aguda, the from,” Kalmann added. Israeli LGBT organization that she co-chairs, Marriage equality has not yet been achieved as sometimes being “like a Jewish mother—all in Israel, but Arieli and Kalmann explained that the kids left home and we were angry.” the matter was mainly tied up as part of argu- Those “kids” are actually other organizations ments over whether marriage is a civil matter that have over the years been born within the or should be determined by rabbinical courts. Aguda and split off to achieve other, focused Arieli noted that there are about a million Is- goals, such as working on behalf of LGBT youth raelis who were unable to be married in their or HIV/AIDS prevention. Now, Arieli and Co- country. Chair Imri Kalmann, who both spoke at Temple “The system in Israel is religious,” added Kal- Sholom Sept. 28, are trying to ensure that mann. “Maybe we will have same-sex marriage they are working alongside those other orga- before we have civil marriage.” nizations and competing less over the same He further noted that the LGBT Israeli com- resources. munity was a “microcosm” of the country as LGBTQs, gun-violence “We need to release the power that comes a whole. When asked whether there had been from the center,” said Arieli. “We need to build efforts to give LGBT Palestinians a larger role platforms for other activists to do their work in the work, Kalmann said that the Aguda had prevention coalition to and give them what they need.” made overtures to two queer Palestinian orga- The Aguda was formed in 1975 and has nizations, but those did not want to affiliate provide education, action branches in Tel Aviv, Be’er Sheva, Kiryat Shmo- with the Aguda since it accepted funding from na and Eilat. the Israeli government. CHICAGO—In response to the epidemic of Chicago Survivors; John Gruber from The Brady Many young LGBT Israelis are drawn to Tel In the meantime, Arieli and Kalmann want to shootings in Chicago, and the massacre of Campaign; Kathleen Sances from G-PAC; and Aviv once they grow old enough to leave home, see the Aguda function as a “gateway” orga- mostly LGBTQ, mostly Latino individuals at the Commissioner Mona Noriega of the Chicago especially if they come from a particularly anti- nization, one that opens the door for work on Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Chicago-area LG- Commission on Human Relations. LGBT environment, Kalmann said. But the city causes besides those of the LGBT community. BTQ, Latinx, community and gun violence pre- The event is 6-8:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 20, is extremely expensive, so it’s difficult for many “We have to stop talking about what we vention organizations are coming together for at Ebenezer Lutheran Church, 1650 W. Foster young people to make ends meet once they ar- need and start talking about what we can give “Disarm Gun Violence: An LGBTQ Town Hall For Ave., Chicago. The program will start at 6:30 rive. So the Aguda is putting resources behind back,” said Kalmann. Action” Thursday, Oct. 20. The event will focus p.m. disseminating a message of equality that spans A Wider Bridge, Temple Sholom and Or Cha- on education, coalition building and action. Main Illinois Gun Violence Prevention Coali- the entire country, not just its cities. dash sponsored Arieli and Kalmann’s talk. The free program will feature various speak- tion partners for the event are Chicago Sur- “We think [the Aguda has] the power to ers who are doing the work on anti-gun vio- vivors, The Brady Campaign, G-PAC, Illinois lence, including through activism, advocacy Council Against Handgun Violence, Organizing and electoral politics. LGBTQ activists will ad- for Action, and People for Safer Society. dress the need to amplify the existing organi- LGBTQ and allied community partners in- zational work, and bring new resources to the clude: Affinity Community Services, AIDS table for more effective coalitions. Foundation of Chicago, ALMA: Association of Joy McCormack, founder of Chicago Survi- Latino/as Motivating Action, Broadway Youth vors, an organization that provides crime vic- Center of HBH, BUILD (Broader Urban Involve- tims services to families who experience vio- ment & Leadership Development), Center on lent loss, is working with Pride Action Tank, Halsted, Chicago Black Gay Men’s Caucus, Chi- Windy City Times and the Illinois Gun Violence cago Coalition of Welcoming Churches, Chicago Prevention Coalition to develop the event. House, Commission on Human Relations, Digni- McCormack will discuss the story of her own ty Chicago, Equality Illinois, Erie Neighborhood family’s loss as a result of gun violence in Chi- House, Gays Against Guns Chicago, Heartland cago, and she will be joined by others who Alliance, Howard Brown Health, Illinois Coali- have felt personal loss, including John Ziegler, tion for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Illinois whose friend Mbiganyi Lashani was gunned Safe Schools Alliance, La Casa Norte, Lambda down this summer. Legal, Lighthouse Church of Chicago, National Other speakers include: Cleopatra Pendleton, Center for Lesbian Rights, National LGBTQ Task whose daughter Hadiya’s murder in 2013 gar- Force, Northbrook United Methodist Church, nered national media attention; Channyn Lynn Northalsted Business Alliance, Or Chadash, Parker, a trans advocate from Chicago House, Pillars Fund, Pride Action Tank, Puerto Rican discussing the dramatic rise in murders of trans Arts Alliance, Temple Sholom’s Social Justice, women of color; anti-violence advocate Lisa Thresholds, TransTech, United Latino Pride, and Gilmore; anti-gun activist Maria Pike; Mark Windy City Times. Walsh of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ Violence; Kim L. Hunt, executive director of events/1752325601684422/ Pride Action Tank; LGBTQ and Latinx advocate Additional information: JThaney@aidschi- Emmanuel Garcia; Muslim LGBTQ advocate and cago.org or http://prideactiontank.org/ Imri Kalmann and Chen Arieli. attorney Nabeela Rasheed; Dawn Valenti from Photo by Matt Simonette

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UNBC1839_MA1_WindyCityTimes_10x13.5.indd 1 3/27/15 3:37 PM 10 Oct. 5, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES There’s a quote from the late Thomas J. Watson that Hadley Rue holds “She was professional and knowledgeable,” Rue said. “I hired her to sell near and dear to his heart. Watson, who was the chairman and CEO of my personal property and she did. We became friends and every time we IBM, said: “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business talked, the question was, ‘When are you getting your license?’ and your business in your heart.” “So after being asked plenty of times I decided to get it. And the rest Rue, who previously worked in finance and management, is in his is history.” second year of real estate. And, he’s been awarded the Rookie of the Year Rue’s grandmother also was a very successful realtor on the Main Line by Chicago Agent Magazine, along with the Five Star Professional Award. in Philadelphia, “so it is in my blood,” he said.

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• Age • Favorite movie “This is a huge honor and acknowledgement,” he said. Rue’s forte in the field is residential real estate, [and] also being able to 37 Home Alone The award is for 2016 and he will be listed in the October issue of tell what sound investments are for my clients, regardless if [it] is their • Neighborhood • Relationship status Chicago Magazine as a Top Agent in the Chicagoland Area. The award, he primary property or an investment,” he said. Edgewater Partnered added, “is a testament to my passion for the business.” Rue said his favorite part about the job is simply meeting new people. with Anthony • Favorite TV show Rue said he was surprised and elated to learn of the honor. “You develop a trusting relationship that turns into a friendship,” he Leonette, a school Antiques Roadshow “I consider it a major accomplishment,” he said. “How many real- said. psychologist estate agents are there in Chicago? [It’s about 20,000], so, for me to be Rue said about 65 percent of his clients come from the LGBT community. • Hobbies • Little-known fact recognized and awarded this shows my dedication.” Rue also has served on several different boards within the community, Shopping for “I speak fluent Rue got hooked on real estate through, naturally, a realtor: Barbara including Equality Illinois, GLAAD and the Trevor Project. antiques and Polish.” O’Connor, who represented the seller on the first property he bought. traveling

BERWYN from cover for a township trustee post. Paul, Reardon and Paul called her city clerk candidacy “an im- requiring council permission for city contracts Johnston, like Ramirez, are openly gay. portant first step in terms of visibility for LGBT over $10,000. Oftentimes, what we see is them Berwyn, they give you a look. I respond by say- “We’ve got people that really reflect the di- residents. I’ve represented the 3rd Ward for two constantly having serial contracts under that ing, ‘When you grow up, and you’re ready to verse demographic makeup of the city of Ber- terms. I handily won the election the first time, threshold. We may pay a company $90,000 a settle down, have a yard and garage, be part wyn,” Paul said. and was able to increase that in the second year, but it’s with 10 $9,000 contracts. In the of the school system, and have a family, that’s Sixth Ward Ald. Theodore “Teddy” Polashek, election.” aggregate it’s well over $10,000. They find a where it’s at.’ I’ve been with my partner for 25 who is currently running for mayor, approached It’s the first time Reardon has run for elected loophole. There are other loopholes with the years, and we just wanted a home that was Paul about running for city clerk. “We knew office. She said she is looking forward to con- building code, the zoning code and the liquor ours.” each other but weren’t closely acquainted,” tinuing the work that Paul began in her terms ordinance. The position of Berwyn United is Ramirez is running as part of a political ac- Paul recalled. “Over time, we developed a mu- as alderman. that you don’t get a fair shot in town unless tion committee calling itself Berwyn United, tual respect for the things we were trying to “There are many neighbors whose voices still you play by the rules.” which includes 3rd Ward Ald. Marge Paul, who is do for our community. About six months ago, haven’t been heard,” Reardon said. “I’ve en- “It’s not always clear who’s connected to running for city clerk; Jeanine Reardon, a hos- we sat down and he let me know that he was joyed walking around the neighborhoods and what, and who’s being served,” said Reardon. pital chaplain who is running to replace Paul planning to run for mayor and asked me to run talking to them.” Johnston said that Berwyn residents need in the 3rd Ward; and Joey Johnston, who works for city clerk.” Reardon also explained that she has noticed more choices in leadership too. for a renewable energy company and is running a perception that “if you ‘know somebody’ in “In the last election, a lot of people ran town you can get anything done. If you don’t unopposed on the city side and the township know anybody, you can’t. A lot of things get side,” he added. “It’s good now that there is in the way. That’s not the way things should another choice for the people.” work. We have a pretty high Hispanic popula- Ramirez also said infrastructure is another tion here, for example, but they’re not well- issue that needs work in Berwyn. “Like all cit- represented in city council. Their concerns are ies, we have a budget crisis,” he explained. “We not being brought to the table. I’m not sure don’t have the money to do what we should I’m the best candidate for that. I think Jose do, and we’re not getting the money from the Ramirez has a better connection, so I hope I state. There’s an area there called the Depot continue to stay connected with him and do District. People go by on the train and what do right by the whole community.” they see? Broken sidewalks, an area that’s not Johnston is a Berwyn native who moved kept up. There’s a proposal to modernize the away but returned about two-and-a-half years Depot District. Unfortunately, when [Bruce] ago. He said he’s running for trustee because, Rauner became the governor, they kind of cut “I’ve always wanted to become involved in my that out, so unfortunately that’s at a stand- community. I grew up with Teddy, and he and still.” I are close friends. He’s involved in a lot of Despite their criticisms of the current state stuff and he persuaded me to become involved of local government, each candidate praised in a way that was good for the community. … Berwyn as a welcoming city for the LGBT com- There’s a movement now for Berwyn for change, munity. Ramirez noted that many residents and here’s the perfect opportunity to do.” were like Johnston—they’d move away when Each of the candidates makes the argument they reached adulthood, but then return at for more transparency in the municipal govern- some point. ment. “A lot of kids can’t wait to get the heck out “I think it’s a city government that’s not lis- of where they grew up,” Ramirez said. “Here we tening to the new residents, and old residents,” have a population of people who say, ‘I grew Ramirez said. “It’s not representing everybody up in Berwyn and moved out, I did my thing, equally. In order to move Berwyn forward, we and when I was ready to settle down, I moved need an administration in office that are go- back to Berwyn.’” ing to represent that. … New residents want The city “has come a long way in terms of a voice. They want to be heard. What we have accepting diversity and welcoming diversity,” now is an administration that kind of does Paul said. “It shows the commitment to open- things the old-fashioned way. They don’t use ing up the city to anyone who wants to move Facebook. They don’t use Twitter. We need to in. We’re happy to have them.” modernize the administration and representa- The four LGBT candidates are having a T- tives of the people of Berwyn.” Dance Fundraiser on Saturday, Oct. 15, at the Ramirez said one step in that direction would Krew Rock Lounge, 6319 W. Roosevelt Rd., be putting recordings of city council meetings Berwyn, at 3-7 p.m. Entertainment will be by online, for example. “That way everyone [in the Ms. Cee Cee LaRouge and tickets are $25 in community] can participate,” he added. “Let’s advance and $30 at the door. For more informa- face it, everyone in the community has a dif- tion, visit BerwynUnited.com. ferent life and different hours.” [There is one additional candidate running Paul said “there are pressing issues for us, in the Berwyn election, under the Democratic as city council members, that we really need Citizens of Berwyn (DCOB), and we will report to address. For example, we have an ordinance on this in next week’s Windy City Times.] WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 5, 2016 11 more Asian, definitely Browner, definitely lot of yelling; that we’re not listening to each Blacker. Women of all backgrounds will break other. The two challenges in the news indus- Jose Antonio Vargas all the barriers they should and must break. So, try are technological and demographic. We are in some ways, you could make the argument still grappling with the technological part and that what’s at stake in America is the soul of we are missing the demographic part. In this white, heterosexual men and how much change country, 88 percent of the top total overall on the forefront of they can handle. population growth is going to come mostly We are facing an era of unprecedented demo- from Latinos and Asians and yet, for the most graphic changes. For the first time in the histo- part, we talk about America as if it’s only Black an emerging U.S. ry of this country, white people are an emerg- and white. It almost seems like newsrooms now ing racial minority. How are we dealing with are less diverse than when I started in journal- By Gretchen Rachel Hammond that? Look at racism in the gay community ism in the late ‘90s. which is something we don’t really talk about It’s important for us to hear, read and watch As part of Chicago Ideas Week, on Oct. 17 at that much but it’s just as big a problem as rac- the news from as many different perspectives Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre, six people— ism in the straight community. Far too often, as possible so that we can actually have con- each renowned as among the most consum- the way identity and marginalized groups are text, nuance and perspectives. For example, mate in his or her respective field—will tackle portrayed and reported on in the media is as you can see the way the Black Lives Matter or Life’s Big Questions. marginalized minorities. We are all a majority the trans movements are covered. Look at im- Stanford’s Product Design Executive Director of one. I’m tired of being at the peripheral. migration—the fact that [it] has become the Bill Burnett; author and journalist Sebastian The other thing [#EmergingUS] is going to province of reporters who report on it from the Junger; game publishing giant Electronic Arts do a lot of is the intersection of race and LGBT perspective of the politicians. Not the human co-founder Dave Evans; international lawyer communities. There’s not [been] as much in toll. We have bought into Donald Trump’s nar- and think tank New America President/CEO depth coverage of that and I think that’s a rative and I don’t know why. A few months ago, Anne-Marie Slaughter; Olympic gold medalist mistake. The word intersectionality gets used I was on the Bill O’Reilly show and at some and FIFA Women’s World Cup soccer champion a lot but, outside of academia, I’m not sure point he says to me on air, “Jose, just so you Abby Wambach; and Pulitzer Prize-winning people understand what that is. I’m the liv- know, you don’t deserve to be here.” I started journalist, filmmaker and entrepreneur Jose ing embodiment of it—being gay, undocu- thinking, “What did Bill O’Reilly ever do to de- Antonio Vargas form an appropriately num- mented and Asian with a Latino name. For me, serve to be here?” bered panel for the sixth year of a festival #EmergingUS is a continuation of the work that Twenty or 30 years from now, when we look which hosts a worldwide audience of 30,000 I’ve been doing with Define American. How do back at the state of journalism when it comes in an arena where innovative confrontations of we define all the changes that are happening to immigration, we are all going to have to global issues spur active solutions rather than in this country? apologize. We keep thinking of immigration as agonized but ineffectual debate. WCT: In the UK, the Brexit vote occurred the border, the wall, Mexico when, really, it’s For the openly-gay, Philippine-born Vargas, for a lot of the same reasons you described. us. Thankfully it is now culturally unacceptable the question of What Does it Mean to be an Are we underestimating Trump’s base? in this county to be anti-gay. It is completely JAV: I’ve been saying this for more than a acceptable to be anti-immigrant. American? has been the cartographer of his Jose Antonio Vargas. year now that we are absolutely underestimat- WCT: And Immigration Customs Enforce- life’s journey whether as a 12-year-old undocu- Photo by Gerry Salva Cruz mented immigrant to the United States who ing his base. There are many people in my ex- ment (ICE), especially in terms of the way reached the highest steeple of what he called perience who are Donald Trump supporters who it treats LGBTQ immigrants, does not seem would never admit publicly that they are. So I to be regulated. the “church” of journalism, his co-founding shown outward signs of unraveling. would argue that he has much more support JAV: ICE is one of the biggest untold stories of the immigration advocacy nonprofit Define Windy City Times: How does #EmergingUS than what we are seeing. in investigative journalism. I’m waiting for the American, taking the fight for the DREAM Act address the rhetoric in what has become The other thing that this has shown us is team to have the resources to figure out how to President Obama, the autobiographical film such an increasingly divided country? how much the political news media in many ICE got to be as big and unregulated and un- Documented in which Vargas outed his immi- Jose Antonio Vargas: Since coming out as ways is irrelevant. No matter how many fact controllable it is. I don’t think the American grant status, his highly publicized arrest by undocumented more than five-years-ago, I checks happen, or if the New York Times writes public knows that there’s a congressional bed border patrol agents and, most recently, his have done more than 850 events in 48 states an indictment of Donald Trump, none of that quota that more than 30,000 beds have to be creation of the media start-up #EmergingUS and I have visited close to 300 college cam- matters. All of my travels in the past five years filled every day. Who’s paying for that? We are. which presents America in a way that the news puses. The rise of Donald Trump doesn’t sur- lead me to believe that Donald Trump may ac- Tax payers. I also find it really interesting that media is unwilling to do—as a country with an prise me one bit. I can’t think of another issue tually win this presidency. I have been to the a lot of Americans believe that immigrants like increasingly diverse human topography whose as politically toxic and as least understood as America that we don’t really get to see. What me should earn out citizenship because it begs survival depends on seeing “ each other, fully, immigration. He took [that] issue and rallied is at stake is really the question of how we, as the question of what have Americans done humanely and with empathy.” people around it saying “you’ve been suffering, a people, define who and what an American is. to earn their citizenship? What does earning Vargas spoke with Windy City Times by phone your jobs have been going overseas, here are WCT: You once described journalism as one’s citizenship actually mean? It’s not about about #EmergingUS and the future, not only of the people to blame.” your “church.” What would you say is that papers. It’s not about law. At a time of un- the profession in which he was forged but of If there’s one silver lining with what’s hap- state of that church at the moment? precedented demographic changes, that is the the country that he has loved deeply enough pening with Donald Trump, it’s that he’s show- JAV: Our church is in crisis. question we must all grapple with. to explore for the past five years in search of ing parts of us to ourselves that we don’t want One of my favorite quotes about journalism WCT: LGBTQ immigrants have particular each of the threads that weave us together in to see. There are people out there who don’t is from the playwright Arthur Miller who said a beautiful but delicate fabric. believe that an emerging U.S. is happening— that “A good newspaper is a country talking It is one that, particularly since the fight for the country is only going to get more LGBTQ, 2016’s succession of political power began, has to itself.” I would argue that there’s a whole Turn to page 13

Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016 / 8 pm CARNIVALE 702 W Fulton Market howardbrown.org/event/bob2016 12 Oct. 5, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES Pride Action Tank, the Illinois Gun Violence Prevention Coalition and Windy City Times invite you to: Thursday, October 20 6:30-8:30 p.m. Doors open 6 p.m. Free. Ebenezer Lutheran Church, DISARM 1650 W. Foster, Chicago Speakers include advocates! who have GUN VIOLENCE been impacted by gun violence, leaders from the anti-gun movement, An LGBTQ Town Hall For Action and LGBTQ community advocates. Education / Coalition Building / Action

In response to the epidemic of Speakers: Cleopatra Pendleton shootings in Chicago, and the Joy McCormack Dawn Valenti massacre of mostly LGBTQ, mostly Kim L. Hunt John Ziegler Latino individuals at the Pulse nightclub Mona Noriega Maria Pike in Orlando, Chicago-area LGBTQ, Emmanuel Garcia Lisa Gilmore Latino, community and gun violence Channyn Lynne Parker Mark Walsh prevention organizations are coming Nabeela Rasheed John Gruber together for this forum. Kathleen Sances

Illinois Gun Violence Community partners for this event: Prevention Coalition Affinity Community Services Illinois Coalition for Immigrant partners for this event: AIDS Foundation of Chicago and Refugee Rights Chicago Survivors ALMA: Association of Latino/as Illinois Safe Schools Alliance The Brady Campaign Motivating Action La Casa Norte G-PAC Broadway Youth Center of Lambda Legal Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence HBH Lighthouse Church of Chicago Organizing for Action BUILD (Broader Urban National Center for Lesbian People for Safer Society Involvement & Leadership Rights More coalition partners, partial list below: Development) National LGBTQ Task Force Center on Halsted Northbrook United Methodist ABJ Community Services Jewish Council on Urban All! Saints Episcopal— Affairs Chicago Black Gay Men’s Church !Chicago Joint Action Committee for Caucus Northalsted Business Alliance Ann & Robert H. Lurie Political Affairs Chicago Coalition of Or Chadash Children’s Hospital Northwest Suburbs Welcoming Churches Pillars Fund Community of Organizing for America Congregations Open Communities Chicago House Pride Action Tank Community Renewal Organizing Catholics for Commission on Human Puerto Rican Arts Alliance Society Justice Relations Temple Sholom's Social Justice Faith Community of St. Parents for Peace and Dignity Chicago Thresholds Sabina Justice Greater Institutional AME Peace & Justice Committee Equality Illinois TransTech Church Episcopal Diocese of Erie Neighborhood House United Latino Pride Gun Responsibility Chicago Gays Against Guns Chicago Windy City Times Advocates Peaceful Communities Increase the Peace Purpose Over Pain Heartland Alliance Englewood Saving Chicago’s Youth Howard Brown Health

Additional information: [email protected] or see http://prideactiontank.org/ ! WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 5, 2016 13 VARGAS from page 11 problems whether it is with asylum, or com- South Side Help ing out to officials. What is it going to take for us to see them? Center salutes JAV: It is facing the intersection of the issues and how these identities are connected. I 20 men of vision by Vernon Hester am still haunted by this moment but the first

Black president who oversaw the largest expan- In commemoration of National Gay Men’s sion of LGBTQ rights was having a celebration HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, the South Side Help of the same-sex marriage decision in the East Center (SSHC) presented its inaugural Men of Wing of the White House. A trans immigrant 20/20 Vision Awards, a salute to 20 gay and woman Jennicet [Gutierrez] said “what about same-gender-loving men who lead HIV/AIDS trans Latinas? Are you going to stop deporting advocacy in the African-American community. us?” I think the President kicked her out of the The event took place Sept. 27 at The Promon- room. Jennicet [told] me that most of the gay, tory, 5311 S. Lake Park Ave. white people around her were saying “This is SSHC, which was founded in 1987, original- not the time. This is not the place.” ly set a goal of educating the African-Ameri- WCT: It seems to me #EmergingUS takes on can religious community so it could be sensi- a lot of the major issues we’ve discussed— telling raw stories of humanity as journal- tive to the needs of people dealing with AIDS. ists should do and elevating those stories The Center has evolved beyond that goal and whether they are of a trans immigrant or a HIV prevention to include direct-care services Native American. and a range of youth and capacity-building JAV: In the past few decades, we, as journal- programs for minorities at risk. Currently, the ists, have been forced to worship at the altar SSHC connects HIV+ clients to free medical of objectivity. When I started reporting on HIV services through its recent affiliation with the From left: Charles Nelson, Anthony Galloway and Vanessa Smith. /AIDS in Washington DC. I remember an edi- AIDS Healthcare Foundation, and is expand- Photo by Vern Hester tor of mine, who I really liked, stopping by my ing to offer additional services. desk and saying “Writing about AIDS is not re- SSHC Executive Director Vanessa Smith and munity as a radio personality) and Daniel Da- E. Gaylord (U.S. Department of Health and ally the way for you as a gay man to get ahead SSHC MSM Project Director Charles E. Nelson vid Mendez (for his work at the CORE Center Human Services), Serette B. King (project in this newsroom.” I remember covering the II presided over the award presentation. The and as CDPH Project Coordinator at The Center manager at Howard Brown Health Center), ’08 campaign for The Washington Post, there recipients of this year’s awards were John On Halsted). Nelson (of SSHC) and Louis O. Spraggins were two of us—me and this African-American Fleming (for his advocacy through his Mad Also receiving awards were Keith Green (in (communicable disease control investigator, reporter and it was almost like the editors Man Productions), David Ernesto Munar (for the areas of community advocacy, education Thresholds). doubted our objectivity. As people who are his stewardship of the AIDS Foundation and and the spoken-word art form), Arick Buckles Award recipients David Ernesto Munar, John part of marginalized communities, objectivity currently as chief executive officer of Howard (of the Illinois Alliance for Sound AIDS poli- Fleming and Art “Chat Daddy” Sims were not belongs to people who don’t have to fight for Brown Health Center), Erik Glenn (executive cy), Sherman Bryant (co-chair of the Chicago in attendance. anything. I think of [#EmergingUS] as a nec- director of The Black Gay Men’s Caucus), Fa- Black Treatment Advocate Network), John For further information regarding services essary intervention, correction and liberation. ther Mario Balenciago (for his advocacy and Sykes (MSW, LCSWW, psychotherapist), Ben offered by the SSHC, visit SouthSideHelpCen- Visit Chicago Ideas for tickets to Jose An- outreach work), Shaune Freeman (for his Montgomery (retired congressional adminin- ter.org. tonio Vargas and panelists answering Life’s work as clinical coordinator with the CBA), strator), Bruce C. Edwards (Chicago Depart- See more photos from the event in the on- Big Questions. Anthony Galloway (for his work with the AIDS ment of Health and Human Services), Daniel line version of this story at www.windycity- Go to #EmergingUS for more information. Foundation of Chicago), Art “Chat Daddy” Parker (for his community advocacy), Saul mediagroup.com. Sims (for his advocacy and work for the com- Avina (for his community outreach), Sanford

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AFC funnels 90 percent of the money raised Thousands participate in AFC’s at this event to the participating Community AFC president and Direct teams. Fundraising will be ongoing CEO John Peller. throughout October. Photo by Tracy Baim 15th annual AIDS Run and Walk Performer and activist Delia Kropp hosted the closing ceremony with music provided by DJ Photo by Tracy Baim Moose. Part of the NAMES Project Memorial Quilt was set to be on display, but the rain prevented by Carrie Maxwell tions, having a vision for an AIDS-free generation, AIDS healthcare provider, a Super Strider, that from happening. The CORE Center provided free HIV testing On the rain-soaked morning of Oct. 1, about AFC staff member or volunteer. This was the and information about HIV/AIDS prevention 2,500 participants gathered for the AIDS Foun- second year the bands were available to wear. including PrEP. dation of Chicago’s (AFC) 15th annual AIDS “We’re a little disappointed that it’s rained Winners in the 10K race included Sheila Mur- Run & Walk outside of Soldier Field. but we’ve been incredibly lucky with the phy in the women’s category, Milo Vieland in This year’s theme was Band Together. weather in the past,” said AFC President and the gender-neutral category and Jamie Kelly in WGN Entertainment Reporter Dean Richards CEO John Peller. “What’s amazing is, despite the male category. The 5K winners were Kim- kicked off the opening ceremony ahead of the the rain, people are sticking together and com- berly McClain in the women’s category, Timothy 5K walk, 5K run and 10K run alongside perfor- pleting this event because they made a com- Carbonara in the gender-neutral category and mances by the Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus and mitment to their donors and friends and I think Mark Scheitler in the male category. Jeff Award-nominee Donica Lynn, and remarks that really shows the power of this event as a by Hamilton Chicago cast member Joseph Mo- community-building exercise. rales (Alexander Hamilton alternate) and en- “We’ve raised $471,531 so far today and tertainer Honey West. most importantly we have 33 Community Di- Joy Miles of Fitness Formula Clubs led a rect teams. That’s 33 agencies doing work who warmup stretch session for participants. are directly benefiting from AIDS Run & Walk. For the second year in a row, participants For some of the smaller agencies, this critical were able to pick out a COLORband denoting unrestricted money will be used to help clients their status at the event—living with HIV, with food or transportation or emergency ser- caretaker or family member of someone with vices that they otherwise wouldn’t be able to HIV, lost someone to AIDS-related complica- provide.”

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Call to Action Coalition Event Partners Include: Giveaways, Raffle and Refreshments catered by a youth culinary arts program included! Photo by Tracy Baim WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 5, 2016 15 an artisan and craftsperson, English/Hebrew calligrapher and a foodie. Being a fan of all Evanston synagogue things culinary, she bakes and cooks. She even took this passion to an audition for the clergy episode of Food Network’s “Chopped.” welcomes its first “I really think America needs to see someone who looks like me—who is a cisgender, lesbian, fem, reconstructionist, kippah-wearing rabbi— female and lesbian rabbi is a what a rabbi looks like,” said Weiss. By Melissa Wasserman lives,” Weiss said about what JRC strives to do. JRC was founded in 1964 and has over 500 After graduating from Evanston Township families in its congregation. Weiss is adamant Evanston native Rabbi Rachel Weiss comes to High School, Weiss went on to graduate from about making her congregants comfortable. Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation (JRC) Grinnell College in Iowa with a B.A. in Span- “Specifically, for LGBTQ Jews of all ages and as the synagogue’s first female and first openly ish with an interdisciplinary concentration in all life experiences, we are open and welcome gay rabbi. gender and women’s studies. Following her de- and as a lesbian rabbi who has basically spent “For me, it’s been a really profound and won- gree, Weiss was a social worker for five years in the majority of my career, serving the Jewish, derful homecoming,” said Weiss. Highwood, Illinois, working with recently im- queer community, my door is really open,” Weiss has been involved with the synagogue migrated Latino families and advocated for im- Weiss said. Weiss said her high holiday sermons and con- long before leading it. JRC is the place she at- migrant rights and community services. Then, Rabbi Rachel Weiss. gregational readings this year will have themes tended Hebrew school, became a bat mitzvah, she attended the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Photo by Esteban Kuriel worked as a religious school teaching assis- College in Pennsylvania where she earned a of renewal, forgiveness and hope. She added her sermons and readings will also bring vari- tant, came out—and married her wife, Julia, certificate in Congregational Life. She was or- sive of all families. How do we add those who in 2002. dained in 2009. ous topics into conversation, including LGBTQ are on the margins, how do we bring to the rights, transphobia, violence against the trans “Belonging to a reconstructionist synagogue, Her professional background also includes surface the fact that Judaism can and should for us, was about belonging to a Jewish com- being the rabbi of Congregation Am Haska- community of color, the Black Lives Matter and does include all of us in our varying ways movement and Jewish-Muslim dialogue. Con- munity where our social values combined with lah in Pennsylvania, a senior staff and faculty of being in the world?’” our traditional Jewish practices and rituals member of Camp JRF and a rabbinic fellow at gregant voices, she said, need to be heard. In 2014, she was named one of the New York JRC, Weiss said, has an active gender-inclu- could be observed fully,” Weiss said about her the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs. Pride Guide’s “45 Under 45” for her leadership. family joining JRC when she was a child. “So, Before coming back to JRC in August 2016, sion task force and, in addition, the congrega- Now, in her current position, according to JRC, tion is hoping to have a presence in the Chi- we made our congregation the Jewish Recon- Weiss served as the associate rabbi at New Weiss holds another significant title beyond her structionist Congregation. It is fully egalitar- York City’s LGBTQS synagogue Congregation cago Pride parade. synagogue. She is the only openly gay rabbi, in “While we are working to make all of our ian, feminist, inclusive, diverse in all different Beit Simchat Torah (CBST). There, she directed a senior role, to currently lead a congregation kinds of ways and I would say now JRC has the Limmud Family Education program, among bathrooms safe spaces, we’re also working to in the Chicagoland area. create an all-gender bathroom at the syna- grown to be even more diverse.” other duties. “I hope that people see JRC as a synagogue Weiss recalled seeing many of her peers reject “Many young adult Jews have the experience gogue and we have a good number of gender- that has a lesbian rabbi who is proud to be variant and trans kids within the congregation a Judaism that felt too narrow and traditional, of growing up and really discovering the world, who I am and takes inspiration from that to be lacking in progressive values, as they were de- whether it’s through college or through work who are growing up with supportive parents out about who they are, whether they’re gay who are using the synagogue as a home base veloping their own identities. This was not the or through development of their own identity or lesbian or bisexual or trans or gender queer type of Judaism she knew. She added that she and their own values, and have difficulty rec- to really show that diversity and to show their or straight; that part of the value of Judaism kids that whoever they are and whatever gen- feels privileged to be serving the synagogue onciling that with traditional Judaism,” Weiss is being created in the image of God, is to she grew up in that is “out about the fact that explained. “I grew up with a congregation der they identify with now and however they own who you are and be out about that,” said may identify throughout their life, it’s sup- Judaism does evolve and change and grow over that added the names of the matriarchs to Weiss. “Because we can’t live our full lives in time, just like we do.” the names of the patriarchs. Then I went on ported within their Jewish community as well,” shame. Judaism commands us to live in the im- said Weiss. “How do we preserve Jewish rituals and prac- to serve the world’s largest LGBTQ synagogue age of the Devine and I believe that the Devine tices and texts that are meaningful and inter- where we said, ‘Let’s not just name the tradi- To learn more about Weiss, JRC and its ser- is commanding us to be who we are.” vices, visit https://www.jrc-evanston.org/. pret them through a lens that also includes tional matriarchs and patriarchs by relationship Besides all of her rabbinical work, advocacy and embraces and celebrates our contemporary with marriage, but let’s look at how we’re inclu- and being a mother of two, Weiss is a linguist,

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Due to the development of antiretroviral become an emotional safe space for anyone WINDY therapies, savvy advocacy, well-funded pub- who is living with HIV, or who may be vulner- lic health campaigns, and greater emphasis able to the virus. on early testing, many gay and bisexual men To people younger and older, opposite-gen- CITY who are HIV-positive and have access to regu- der-loving or gay or bisexual, there is wisdom, Robin lar treatment now live long and thriving lives. not shame, in being aware of your HIV status KELLY The transformational pre-exposure prophylaxis and even sharing your status with people whom (PrEP) enhances the opportunity for people you trust or wish to encourage with your story. TIMES more vulnerable to contracting HIV to lead Likewise, there are sure regrets to an individu- VOL. 32, No. 2, Oct. 5, 2016 Recognizing loving lives in the context of intimate family, al’s or a community’s willful ignorance and si- The combined forces of Windy City Times, friendly and romantic relationships. lence on the issue. Therefore, I implore health founded Sept. 1985, and Outlines newspaper, founded May 1987. National Gay Still, the veracity of HIV impacts a certain care providers to be vigilant to the unique Men’s HIV/AIDS gay and bisexual community on a deeper, more needs of gay and bisexual men living with HIV. intersectional level: young, African-American I encourage all people—especially gay and bi- PUBLISHER & EXECUTIVE EDITOR Awareness Day gay and bisexual men bear the greatest brunt sexual men—to insist that HIV screening is a Tracy Baim of HIV. regular part of the wellness experience. Being ASSISTANT PUBLISHER Terri Klinsky U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly wrote the Current trends suggest that one in two Black aware of your own HIV status and having em- MANAGING EDITOR Andrew Davis following piece in recognition gay and bisexual men will be diagnosed with pathy for the unique health and social chal- ASSOCIATE EDITOR Matt Simonette HIV in their lifetime, and in my home state lenges that accompany the HIV experience can BUSINESS MANAGER Ripley Caine of National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS of Illinois, there are 1,800 new HIV infections only engender a healthier, stronger nation. I, DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA Jean Albright Awareness Day (Sept. 27) ART DIRECTOR/NIGHTSPOTS EDITOR Kirk Williamson each year, 50 percent of which are in the Black too, am sure to get tested regularly. SENIOR REPORTER Gretchen Rachel Hammond community. According to the Illinois Depart- As chairwoman of the Congressional Black Senior Account Executives Terri Klinsky, Kirk Today, on National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Aware- ment of Public Health, nearly 40 percent of new Caucus Health Braintrust, I am committed to Williamson, Amy Matheny, Gretchen Rachel Hammond, ness Day, we ponder the significance of HIV HIV cases in the state are among young people engaging with local and national HIV/AIDS Scott Duff, Monika Pickett, David Strzepek and AIDS as an American and international re- NATIONAL SALES Rivendell Media, 212-242-6863 aged 20-29. These reports show that we must advocates, such as the AIDS Foundation of SENIOR WRITERS Bob Roehr, Tony Peregrin, Lisa ality. 35 years have passed since our country continuously intervene with those most vulner- Chicago, to learn more about the unique tri- Keen, Yasmin Nair initially confronted the biological challenges able to provide timely and culturally relevant als of people living with HIV. Moreover, I am THEATER EDITOR Scott C. Morgan of this epidemic. We still grapple—oftentimes health discussions, policies and programs. so very proud of those tirelessly involved in CINEMA WRITER Richard Knight Jr. clumsily—with stigma and our social response, SPORTS WRITER Ross Forman In the late 1990s, my esteemed forerunners the frontlines against HIV/AIDS. Whether you ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WRITERS while contending with the precarious nature of of the Congressional Black Caucus were astute are an advocate, researcher, loving partner or Mary Shen Barnidge, Lawrence Ferber, Mel Ferrand, life in the face of HIV/AIDS. Yet neither stigma enough to declare a state of HIV emergency parent to someone living with HIV, you are ab- Jerry Nunn, Jonathan Abarbanel nor silence nor apathy have any constructive within the Black community. In their wake, I solutely the force behind this fight. I am all COLUMNISTS/WRITERS: Yvonne Zipter, Jorjet Harper, place in our collective battle to end the HIV Charlsie Dewey, Carrie Maxwell, Billy Masters, Sarah again ring the alarm. By consistently raising the more enthused to promote equitable ac- Toce, Dana Rudolph, Melissa Wasserman, Joe Franco, epidemic. consciousness within our friend, family, and cess to quality health programs, and to craft Nick Patricca, Liz Baudler, Rex Wockner, Angelique We know that HIV in the United States dis- socio-political circles, I am very hopeful that thoughtful, well-informed policy interventions Smith, Meghan Streit proportionately affects gay and bisexual men. we may usher in an AIDS-free generation. that advance the overall health of our nation. SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHERS Kat Fitzgerald, Hal Baim, In the early 1990s, AIDS was the number-one Tim Carroll, Ed Negron There is great opportunity to be a part of this U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly originally wrote this WEBSITE LISTINGS VOLUNTEER Gene Naden cause of death for men ages 25-44 years, with momentous effort. Schools and teachers can op-ed for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago. the greatest burden existing among gay and bi- host the hard conversations with young people This viewpoint is being run with the organi- CIRCULATION sexual men. While we are no longer experienc- about sex and sexuality. Worship centers and zation’s permission. CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Jean Albright ing such a dire death toll, the HIV disparities worship leaders can hold transparent youth DISTRIBUTION: Ashina, Allan, Dan, John, Sue and are still stark. Currently, the Centers for Disease forums about the importance of complete well- Victor Control and Prevention estimate that gay and ness and wisdom in decision-making. You can WEB HOSTING: LoveYourWebsite.com (lead programmer: Martie Marro) bisexual men represent over half of people liv- personally support community-based centers, ing with HIV in the U.S. Perhaps your favorite like the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, that are Copyright 2016 Lambda Publications Inc./Windy City Media uncle, your church deacon, or you are among Group; All rights reserved. Reprint by permission only. Back repositories of correct and empowering infor- issues (if available) for $5 per issue (postage included). this group. mation on HIV. More than anything, you can Return postage must accompany all manuscripts, drawings, and photographs submitted if they are to be returned, and no responsibility may be assumed for unsolicited materials. All rights to letters, art and photographs sent to Windy City Times will be treated as unconditionally assigned for publication purposes and as such, subject to editing and comment. 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We must uproot coincide with preventing dangerous individuals Equality Florida -- which will remain focused on regional media in the U.S. Only survey partners hate and prevent those who seek to do us harm from accessing the tools to kill. uprooting hatred of LGBTQ people and on pass- with a nationwide footprint were able to generate from accessing weapons of mass slaughter. a greater number of responses.” —David Marshall, —Restricting access to assault weapons ing statewide nondiscrimination protections Research Director, Community Marketing, Inc. Equality Florida is committed to common sense and high capacity magazines -- will partner with gun safety advocates and gun violence prevention measures in combina- There is simply no legitimate reason for pri- other allies in the LGBTQ movement and be- tion with our work to move equality forward for vate citizens to have access to military-style yond to combat the epidemic of gun violence. LGBTQ people. assault weapons like the Sig Sauer MCX firearm Equality Florida’s Position Paper on Gun Vio- We know all too well that discrimination used to murder 49 people at the Pulse Night lence Prevention can also be found at EQFL. against our community can be lethal—gay- Club in Orlando on June 12. These weapons of org/gun_violence_prevention. rights icon Harvey Milk was assassinated, Mat- war do not belong in civilian hands. thew Shepard was beaten to death with a pis- Equality Florida tol, and not a month goes by when we don’t More than 20 percent of hate crimes reported hear of the murder of yet another transgender nationally in 2014 targeted people based on WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 5, 2016 17 WINDY CITY TIMES DIVERSIONS THEATER • FILM • ENTERTAINMENT • SPORTS

Art of ‘Conversation’ 18 26 26 WCT reviews the production The City of Conversation. Photo by Charles Osgood Photography Identita Golose in Chicago. Reeling closes at Progress.

SCOTTISH PLAY SCOTT and ensemble member Judy Fabjance, passed “GayCo XX: Gay for Play” is at 7:30 p.m. away from cancer this past August. Saturday, Oct. 15, at Second City’s UP Com- Bennett credits Fabjance for playing a ma- edy Club, 230 W. North Ave. Doors open at jor role in the creation of GayCo. But also he 6:30 p.m. General admission tickets are stresses that Fabjance being out and open as $20; visit GayCo.com for more information. GayCo at 20 a lesbian helped to make The Second City far more welcoming to LGBTQ performers through Dueling lesbian dramatists BY SCOTT C. MORGAN velop their craft with their defenses down, too. her long affiliation with the organization start- The five finalists of Pride Films and Plays’ Bennett mentioned that when he took comedy ing as a starry-eyed fan and later as a much- 2016 LezPlay Contest will have their works per- Gay activist and performer Jim Bennett was classes at Second City and i.O. in the 1990s, beloved improvisation instructor. formed in staged readings from Friday, Oct. 7, amazed when he saw the sketch-comedy show there often was a “frat element” that could “Judy grew up at Second City. They knew to Sunday, Oct. 9. The LezPlay Contest strives Whitney Houston, We Have a Problem back in intimidate others and push LGBTQ characters her since she was a 15-year-old girl hanging to enhance the visibility and viability of wom- 1996 at The Second City’s Donny’s Skybox Stu- into the same old stereotypes. But that’s not to around just wanting to meet everyone. So for en who write for the stage and screen in which dio. It was the very first production of GayCo, say that wasn’t friction within GayCo itself, es- Second City and certainly for us, they began lesbian characters and themes play a pivotal which would go on to become Chicago’s old- pecially when it came to disagreements among to understand the issues of what it would like role. For example, this month Pride Films and est and longest-running LGBTQ sketch comedy members of the LGBTQ community. to be LGBT because they knew Judy—they Plays is producing the world premiere of last troupe. “The majority of our humor was found in the came out with Judy,” Bennett said. “For Judy year’s LezPlay Contest winner, Nancy Nyman “I was floored and I loved it,” said Bennett, differences between lesbians and gays and sort to struggle within Second City and not feel and Heather McNama’s Resolution. adding that, at the time, he was just starting of the odd way that our community is just put completely welcome, because they knew her so The 2016 LezPlay Contest features Lena Wil- to take improvisation classes with The Sec- together,” Bennett said. “It was always a per- well, they as an organization realized that the son’s Fraying Live Wires Tend to Give Off Sparks ond City Training Center. “It was incredible to fect place to mine humor and it would both LGBT community needs to feel that The Second at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 8. Performances on Sat- see this show that’s completely done on gay play out in rehearsals and in the shows them- City is their home and that’s where their voice urday, Oct. 8, feature Rae Brinstock’s Watch Me themes and the talent that was in it, and it was selves. We would have times when the guys is. We owe a ton of their understanding and Burn at 1 p.m. and Geraldine Inoa’s Bold as really something that I wanted to do.” would be talking about sex, what people did their willingness to bring us into the fold be- Love at 7 p.m. Performances on Sunday, Oct. 9, Bennett joined GayCo in 1999. He stepped and what it was like at the Manhole [bar] that cause of Judy.” feature Ann L. Gibbs and Judith Allen’s To Bury away only a few years ago due to his full-time night, and if the women shared one story that Part of GayCo’s 20th-anniversary show will a Stranger at 11 a.m. and Corinne J. Kawecki’s job as Midwest regional director for the Lambda was about something they did, the guys would play tribute to Fabjance’s life and work by fea- The Days are Shorter at 3 p.m. All shows are Legal Defense Fund when the battle for mar- go, ‘Stop! That’s gross.’ And we would have turing some of her sketches. Bennett said one at the Center on Halsted’s Hoover-Leppen The- riage equality really started intensifying. huge fights over this double standard and then of Fabjance’s strengths was writing relation- atre, 3656 N. Halsted St. Pay-what-you-can For GayCo’s one-night-only 20th-anniversary we would find that hilarious.” ship material that still holds up today. admission, though $10 is the suggested do- show titled “GayCo XX: Gay for Play,” a number The 20th anniversary of GayCo is one for cel- “It’s going to be very painful to do some of nation. Visit PrideFilmsAndPlays.com for more of GayCo alumni like Bennett will be return- ebration, but also for much reflection and sad- Judy’s scenes,” Bennett said. “Although I’m information. ing. Others include Martin Garcia (Blackish, The ness. That’s because original GayCo cofounder very excited that we’re doing them.” Mindy Project), Celeste Pechous (Hot in Cleve- land, Workaholics) and Andy Eninger (head of The Second City’s writing program). “It’s going back to the material over the past 20 years,” Bennett said. “One thing that is interesting is the selection of scenes is based more on the funny rather than the political. Partly because a lot of the political scenes feel dated.” Not to say that GayCo was ever afraid to tackle controversial issues through the years. Bullying, the U.S. Military’s former “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy and even the Iraq War’s Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal provided fodder for GayCo sketches. GayCo also dealt with issues that initially weren’t on the front burner like marriage equality. Bennett pointed out that he wrote GayCo’s first sketch about gay marriage long before they were legalized in the state of Massachu- setts. The sketch was born out of headaches Bennett and his future husband faced in trying to get a mortgage as a couple who were not legally recognized by either federal or state governments. “I was always considered ‘the political gay’ in our group, so for me to have a voice, to be able to bring the issues I care about but to be able to do it with humor was amazing,” Ben- nett said. “With comedy you can slide so much through when people’s defenses are down.” From left: The late Judy Fabjance, Robin Trevino, Jim Bennett, Mandy Price, Andy Eninger and Kelly Beeman. GayCo also allowed LGBTQ performers to de- Photo courtesy of GayCo 18 Oct. 5, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES THEATER REVIEW Man in the Ring Playwright: Michael Cristofer At: Court Theatre, 5535 S. Ellis Ave. Tickets: $45-$65 Runs through: Oct. 16 Thomas Cox (left) and Kamal Angelo BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE Bolden in Man in the Ring. Boxing fans recognized the real-life events fic- Photo by tionalized in Oliver Mayer’s Blade to the Heat Michael Brosilow right away when it premiered in 1994, but changing social attitudes since then currently permit Michael Cristofer to safely recount the facts in the scandal that forever altered public perceptions of a once-popular pastime. The career of Emile Griffith, between 1958 and 1963, was the quintessential all-American success story. Under the management of fac- tory owner Howie Albert, the milliner from the Caribbean island of St. Thomas was a six-time world champion, commanding fees more than than necessary to secure his victory—that main forever haunted by the memory of those arms of his life-partner, sensitively portrayed sufficient to support his mother and six sib- would leave his opponent dead, only days later. fatal few seconds when the man who had long by Gabriel Ruiz—never spill over into generic lings, and if members of the athletic commu- The mythology of quasi-gladiatorial combat declared “I ain’t no killer!” succumbed to blind stereotype, but retain the gravity appropri- nity knew of his excursions to gay dance clubs, as spectator sport is rife with chest-beating fury. ate to biographical drama viewed as classical they kept quiet. (In 1959, even Liberace found hyperbole but, for Griffith, whose choice of vo- The playbill for this Court Theatre production tragedy. Enhancing this ambience is a chorus it advisable to maintain a veneer of hetero- cation was always based more in his financial lists not only a fight consultant, but a medi- of auxiliary personae providing a live-action sexuality.) His good fortune ended in 1962, responsibilities than in any innate attraction cal one as well. Together, Sam Colonna’s and soundscape invoking not only the staccato however, during the preliminary “weigh-in” for to its practices, this violence far exceeded the William Harper’s abilities ensure that Kamal drumming of fists-on-flesh, but the gentle na- a match with Benny Paret, who taunted him limits of the job he had been hired to do. He Angelo Bolden and Allen Gilmore, who play, re- ture of the child as yet unaware of his destiny with homophobic slurs. That night in the ring, would continue to work until the neural dam- spectively, the young and old Emile—the for- as the unwitting instrument of what he most Griffith would not only defeat Paret, but would age associated with repeated concussions fa- mer reveling in his youthful vitality, the latter fears. do so with a barrage of blows—many more cilitated his retirement in 1977, but would re- racked by dementia, but finding comfort in the

THEATER REVIEW to her unexpected loneliness, Margery has or- Margery is the hero, once she realizes that Ja- abandonment when someone dies unexpected- ganized a youth puppet ministry at the local son, too, is lonely, in shock and needy which ly. The intellectual play is Askins’ bitter attack Hand to God church and recruited Jason as a participant she has failed to understand in her own selfish on Christianity. It’s something of a shotgun Playwright: Robert Askins along with horny bad boy Timothy (Curtis grief. Only then can the battle for Jason’s soul wedding as Jason and Margery’s problems are At: Victory Gardens Theater, Edward Jackson) and teenage Jessica (Nina begin, with Margery assisted independently by not rooted in religion, nor does religion help 2433 N. Lincoln Ave. Ganet). All the participants, oddly, are ado- Jessica in a mutual crush with Jason. solve them. Jason is a good boy, but there’s Tickets: 773-871-3000; lescents vs. younger children. Jason creates a Hand to God intentionally amuses and shocks no evidence that he’s devout. Askins then VictoryGardens.org; $27-$60 Kermit-like frog hand puppet, Tyrone—a sca- audiences through its blasphemous humor and adds the overlay of sexual urgency, with teen- Runs through: Oct. 23 brous, evil, foul-mouthed fiend who plays eas- lurid touches of Grand Guignol, a turn-of-the- age Timothy and self-serving Pastor Greg (Eric ily on Jason’s weaknesses, desires and fears. Is last-century French theater troupe that titillat- Slater) making equally inappropriate plays for BY JONATHAN ABARBANEL Jason himself releasing his inner evil twin? Or ed viewers with realistic depictions of behead- Margery. is it actual demonic possession? Author Robert ings, maiming, torture, impalements and other As staged by the expert Gary Griffin and with Hand to God, set in Bible Belt Texas, is a bitter- Askins lets you decide. bloody mayhem. The play is kinda-sorta one Joe Shermoly’s clever revolving scenic design, ly comic look at loss and Christianity in which Jason/Tyrone is the star role, and Weisman— part Muppets, one part The Exorcist and one Hand to God has speed, surprise, fine perfor- a demonically possessed puppet takes over the already a distinguished actor at just 29—is part Grand Guignol. For me, the final blood- mances and even absurdity, but I can’t help thoughts and actions of an adolescent puppe- brilliant, creating for Tyrone a different voice letting is a step too much, not because of its feeling that once you remove the shock value, teer, Jason (Alex Weisman). and delivery even as Weisman’s own facial and vividness but because the story seems to be there’s less here than meets the eye. It concerns Jason and his mother, Margery body expressions remain those of Jason at- over by then. (Janelle Snow), whose father/husband died tempting to resist Tyrone. But Jason/Tyrone Askins also has created a double play. The hu- of a heart attack six months earlier. Reacting is the antagonist, not the crucial character. man play is about grief, loss and the anger of

THEATER REVIEW ists and the Democratic reaction. Mortensen partner (Brian Keys) and reunites with Ferris’ c is in her element in this role; she is powerful grandmother. This is probably the weakest of The City of yet incredulous at the things she’s hearing in the scenes in the play but it does crescendo her home. Her command of the stage really to a moving end that did have me wipe away CRITICS’ Conversation brings home this woman’s desperation as the a tear. The line about thinking the battles Written by: Anthony Giardina evening spins out of her control. The right- about race being over by electing Obama is PICKS Directed by: Marti Lyons and left-wing discussions of race relations are very accurate. Amour, Black Button Eyes Productions at At: Northlight Theatre, beyond timely. Mortensen really brings life to every part Athenaeum Theatre, through Oct. 8. There are 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie The second half of this show is in the ‘80s of this play. Greg Matthew Anderson has the some glaring plot holes in this tale of a mild- Tickets: Northlight.org; $15-$81 as Ronald Reagan is trying to get his Supreme tough role of being different in each part of mannered clerk who discovers he has the power Runs through: Oct 23 Court nominee Robert Bork confirmed. Ferris the play, from young idealist to embittered to walk through walls—but composer Michel is working to torpedo the nomination while adult to the grown-up grandchild. He’s pretty LeGrand’s score is certainly something to savor BY ERIC KARAS her son and his wife (now in their own Repub- successful at the first two, and I wish he had in this production. SCM lican careers) are trying to get him confirmed. created more of a character for the final scene A Comedical Tragedy for Mister Punch, Complicating things is the love they all share but, then again, it’s not the best of them. House Theatre of Chicago at Chopin Theatre, Northlight Theatre presents the Midwest Pre- for Ethan (Tyler Kaplan), Ferris’ grandson. Hawkinson is really spot-on as the ambi- through Oct. 23. Fans of the House’s tradition- miere of Anthony Giardina’s political/family (They clue us in that he might be gay be- tious fiancee who Ferris rightly calls out as breaking Nutcracker will recognize in this Vic- drama The City of Conversation. cause he is obsessed with Disney’s Cinderella an All About Eve character. She isn’t a cari- torian-styled spectacle a fable of discovering This play starts off in the 1970s as the on VHS.) cature but you truly feel she believes every- that our parents are human, with all the con- Carter presidency is slipping into its own mal- The meat of the play is probably in this sec- thing she’s saying. (I love the Tippi Hedren tradictions inherent therein. MSB aise and Ronald Reagan is hot on his heels. tion as it shows how the Democrats are using hairdo she sports at one point.) Monsion is so Grizzly Mama, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, Socialite and Democratic wife Hester Ferris this nomination to get a victory against Rea- perfect as the Southern conservative senator through Oct. 15. Don’t be fooled by the ini- (Lia D. Mortensen) is throwing a dinner party gan and the “back room” gentlemen’s agree- that you wish his character would return at tial buffoonery—George Brant’s satire takes to convince a conservative right-wing sena- ment dealing of the past is being destroyed least for a moment. The supporting cast is all no prisoners in his skewering of both left and tor (Tim Monsion) to vote for her husband’s for ultimate partisan separation. (Something perfectly cast here. right-wing extremism. MSB legislation. Things do not go to Ferris’ plans we are still seeing the negative effects of). Marti Lyons’ direction keeps things mov- Wonderful Town, Goodman Theatre, extend- when her son (Greg Matthew Anderson) shows The audience had a hearty laugh at the line ing and you don’t feel like it’s too stagy in ed through Oct. 23. I’ve serious bones to pick up with his new fiancee (Mattie Hawkinson), about a President always getting their Su- one set location. For people who are political with this production, but when might we see an ambitious Republican who has turned his preme Court nomination through. junkies or love family dramas, this is a really this 1950s musical rarity again? The dazzling head and helped him stand up to his mother. In the third part of the show, President excellent one. score by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden The interplay from these beginning scenes Obama has been elected. Ethan (now played and Adolph Green, is magnificently played and show the rift between the Democrats and Re- by Greg Matthew Anderson) has grown up sung. JA publicans that will be torn apart by the up- to be a gay man with an African-American —By Abarbanel, Barnidge coming years of Reagan’s right-wing extrem- and Morgan WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 5, 2016 19

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312.443.3800 | GoodmanTheatre.org Major Production Major Corporate Sponsor Major Production Support GROUPS OF 8+ ONLY: 312.443.3820 Sponsor 20 Oct. 5, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES MOVIES Bruce Vilanch, Cleve Jones discuss Vito Russo, ‘The Celluloid Closet’ By Richard Knight Jr. It was hard to see these things—you know, there was no Turner Classic. We actually had Any discussion of pivotal figures at the fore- to go to revival houses to see these things and front of 20th-century gay activism, gay history you had to dig them up in some cases out of and gay culture would be unthinkable without collections and libraries. I was one of those including Vito Russo. people and we actually did it together. We all Russo—whose landmark book The Celluloid had opinions about Franklin Pangborn and Ed- Closet, published in the 1980s and never be- ward Everett Horton—the all-stars from the ing out of print since—died in 1990 from the Golden Age who carried the banner of gayness. disease he fought so passionately against both WCT: That sort of hiding in plain sight. publicly and privately. But his legacy contin- BV: Exactly. ues to influence queer culture and now Russo WCT: So many gay people had—and have (along with trans activist Sylvia Rivera) is that same camaraderie over movies which of Bruce Vilanch (left) and Cleve Jones. about to be honored as the latest addition to course, I love. So, in the ensuing years when PR photos the Legacy Walk, the historic freestanding mu- you both had such enormous successes—did seum dedicated to honoring the often unsung you ever turn to each other and say, “Who ethnic groups in the movies and he was le- Leading to my favorite line from Mike Nichols, heroes of Our People. Russo’s bronze memorial would’ve thought?!” gitimizing the portrayal and participation of when he said, “It used to be the love that dare plaque, which was vetted by his biographer Mi- BV: No; I don’t think either of us viewed gay people in the movies. He was the first one not speak its name and now it’s the love that chael Schiavi, will be dedicated at a special our successes as being that gigantic because to actually do that. It caught on and in addi- won’t shut up.” And that was directly because ceremony on Saturday, Oct. 15, with a pre- we knew people who had truly gigantic suc- tion to doing that he was an activist. It was a of Vito and what he did. reception at the Center on Halsted followed by cesses—people we had known beforehand and very potent combination because he used that WCT: We’re thrilled to have you here in the dedication of the plaque on Halsted and an now they couldn’t go out. I mean Barry Ma- thing he did in the cultural world to influence Chicago for this momentous occasion. after party at Sidetrack. nilow could not go to Macy’s to buy something politics as well. He created a study that nobody BV: I am thrilled—any excuse to be on the Two of Russo’s close friends—Bruce Vilanch— because there would be a trail of screaming knew was out there. streets of Chicago. [Laughs] funnyman and multiple Emmy award winner for women because he’d become that kind of pop WCT: It must be lovely to see that your the hilarious quips he has put into the mouths star. We had a bunch of those in our bag. What dear friend is being remembered for his hard of everyone from Bette Midler to Whoopi Gold- we had wasn’t that—we were well known in work. berg—and Cleve Jones—founder of the Names our circles. We were not impressed with our- BV: It is and it’s also important—I don’t WCT: When did your friendship with Vito Project—the AIDS Memorial Quilt and longtime selves in that regard. know exactly what the chronology is—but it begin? activist, immortalized in the award-winning WCT: Can you talk about the importance of seems to be that all of these gay film festi- Cleve Jones: It was back in the gay Jurassic film Milk and soon to be the subject of an ABC Vito’s legacy from the film aspect? vals flow from the closet door that was opened when he was developing The Celluloid Closet. miniseries scripted by his close friend Dustin BV: He identified the role that gay people when he wrote his book and the subsequent That began as a series of lectures and he did Lance Black based on his forthcoming memoir, were playing onscreen which nobody had done documentary. His book was about visibility and one of them at the Roxy Cinema in San Fran- When We Rise—will be in town for the dedi- before and he pulled it out and categorized once it became clear that we had been invis- cisco and I remember meeting him there. He cation ceremony. In separate interviews, these it in the way that other people were writing ible, a lot of us said, “That’s the end of that— was also one of the people featured in the doc- two towering figures of Our Community—queer about Black people in the movies and other now we’re going to be as visible as we can be.” umentary Common Threads: Stories from the icons themselves—chatted briefly about their Quilt which won the Academy Award for Best dear friend Vito Russo. Documentary in 1989. My connection with Vito Windy City Times: I’d forgotten until I saw Raia, who worked with both Russo and Rivera was primarily activism though before I decided Jeffrey Schwarz’s documentary Vito, which Legacy Walk in GAA in the 1970s. Never have all these to focus on activism I had briefly been a film we showed at the Center on Halsted a few dedication people been brought together for a celebra- major so we did have a little bit of a connec- months back on Vito’s birthday about your tion quite like this. tion there. close friendship with him. Can you talk to honor Sylvia The event will be in three parts: I really loved what he did with The Celluloid about how you first knew him? —1-3 p.m.: Opening Reception and Pro- Closet; we connected around AIDS activism Bruce Vilanch: I wish I could remember. Rivera, Vito Russo gram, at Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted and one of the things that I was particularly [Laughs] It was the ‘70s and we were all chemi- Dedicated in 2012, Chicago’s Legacy Walk St. grateful to him for—you know ACT-UP and The cally altered and it seems to me that I met him is the world’s only outdoor LGBT history mu- Transgender activist Myles Brady-Davis of Names Project both started around the same on one of those movie nights in New York. I seum. This half-mile installation features Howard Brown Health, gay activist Cleve time—and while I think everyone involved in was living in Chicago, writing for the Trib and bronze biographical memorials celebrating Jones and NAMES Project AIDS Memorial The Names Project supported ACT-UP as well, Chicago Today, and I was in New York for some- the lives of people like Leonard Bernstein, Quilt will be featured in “Reflecting on the there were people within ACT-UP who were ex- thing. It’s all very cloudy. It might have been Audre Lorde, Sally Ride, James Baldwin, Jane Evolution of Activism across the Decades.” tremely hostile to the Quilt—who thought it with Bette Midler who was living in the village Addams, Rudolf Nureyev, Frida Kahlo and —3-4 p.m.: Legacy Walk Induction Cer- was kitschy; who thought it was passive; who and was kinda the queen of the village in those Alan Turing. emonies at the Northalsted streetscape, fea- would say stupid things like, “You can’t fight days [laughs] and I was writing for her and I The Legacy Walk’s markers serve as an turing the LGBTQ youth from Lyons Township AIDS by sitting around making quilts” when we would come in and plot things we were going “outdoor classroom” for bullied LGBTQ youth High School. understood that the Quilt was actually a door- to have her do in her stage show. who come for guided tours in order to learn Sylvia Rivera Bronze Memorial Dedication, way to bring people into activism. We used to go to a bar called Marie’s Crisis, about historically significant positive LGBT 3656 N. Halsted St.: Personal reflections of WCT: Of course. which was a piano bar where it was guaranteed role models whose contributions have made Judy Bowenwiener and Phillip Raia, Sylvia CJ: And Vito from the beginning understood that when you walked in the door you would an incalculable difference in the world we Rivera’s friends that and one of the great things about Vito was hear somebody singing “Rose’s Turn.” I think share. Vito Russo Bronze Memorial Dedication, that while he was passionate in his convictions that’s actually where we met. Bette knew him On Saturday, Oct. 15, they welcome two 3411 N. Halsted St., with personal reflec- he could listen carefully to people and he was because he’d been involved in what was called LGBT iconic activists to the Legacy Walk— tions of Bruce Vilanch, Emmy Award-winning never confrontational just for the sake of being the gay liberation movement. I think she did transgender icon Sylvia Rivera, from the writer-producer-actor confrontational. He was a very thoughtful man; one of the first rallies in Washington Park and Stonewall era; and gay film activist/histo- —4-6 p.m.: Celebration Party, Sidetrack, he reasoned things out. he took many pictures of it. rian Vito Russo, who co-founded both ACT 3349 N. Halsted St., “Building a New Legacy So, at a time when a lot of the people in WCT: There’s that astonishing video foot- UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) and for the Future of Our Past.” ACT-UP were saying really mean and stupid age, too. I believe he gets up and Sylvia Ri- GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Tickets for this multi-part event are avail- things about the Quilt, he was really working vera, too, along with Bette. Defamation). Their considerable legacies will able for $30, $50 and $100, and include light on building bridges and helping people un- BV: Yes, that’s right. A dim memory is form- soon be added to the 35 stories of achieve- appetizers and variable bar service. There will derstand that the Quilt was part of our larger ing. So I went back to Chicago but we just kept ment that already line the streetscape. also be raffle prizes and door prizes. LGBT struggle and that all of these different strate- up. I would see him when I was in New York This all-day tribute will feature legendary people from throughout the metropolitan gies were useful. Thinking about Vito is always but mostly just socially and we would talk on gay activist Cleve Jones, Chicago transgender area are expected to turn out to celebrate very poignant for me but I think what people the phone a lot. spokesperson Myles Brady-Davis, Emmy-win- this unique Chicago cultural institution— should know about him is that he was ex- WCT: The first thing I knew about Vito was ning writer-producer-actor Bruce Vilanch and built by our community, for our commu- tremely intelligent, he was a political radical, what a lot of people knew—the ground- trans pioneer Judy Bowenwiener, a close per- nity—in this salute to the contributions of he believed in direct action, he believed in the breaking The Celluloid Closet. Did he share sonal friend of Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, LGBT people. power of popular culture to transform people stuff with you when he was working on it? from the post-Stonewall era. Bowenwiener Tickets are available at https://www. and wanted us to pay attention to the way the BV: Absolutely. I was somebody who he will be talking about their involvement as eventbrite.com/e/legacy-walk-dedication-v- people we now called LGBT were portrayed in would call and we would talk about old movies three trans women in New York’s Gay Activist tickets-27530936773. the cinema and had just a real love for telling and how people how been depicted in movies. Alliance (GAA). She will be joined by Phillip those stories about what at that time was still WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 5, 2016 21

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Vito Russo. Photo by Liz Lauren a kind of hidden queer presence within cinema. are coming up, the Legacy Project is without WCT: So, as we come to honor this ex- question one of the most effective. I’m really traordinary individual whose life touched proud of Victor [Salvo, founder of the Legacy so many—how do you think Vito would feel Project] and all the folks that worked so hard about where the movement is now? to make this happen. You have to be all in to CJ: I don’t want to speculate too much but do something like this. I think if Vito were alive today he would be WCT: And you should know! doing what so many of us are doing—which CJ: Yes. What else to say about Vito? I had is to try and inform the young people of what enormous love and respect for him. He is some- life was like when we were young; what life one I still think of frequently and wish so much was like for those who came before us; what that he was here today to see all this that has life was like before the plague, how we strug- happened. That is a constant source of sor- gled, what we won, what we lost and he also row for me that so many of these great heroes loved telling stories. That’s something I have didn’t live long enough to see the victories of in common with Vito. In a way, Vito is still recent years. He would be the first to admon- “ A masterful achievement telling those stories and that’s part of why ish us that we still had a long way to go but I’m so excited about the Legacy Project doing he would also want to celebrate what we have on every level.” this. Of all of these efforts that are going on accomplished. — Chicago Sun-Times around the country to memorialize our history http://legacyprojectchicago.org/Events_ and make it accessible to the generations that and_News_Links.html

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Caption: RaShawn Thompson stars as Older Teddy Pendergrass in Black Ensemble Theater’s revival of Jackie Taylor’s I Am Who I Am (The Story of Teddy Pendergrass). Photo courtesy of 50 East Congress Parkway, Chicago Black Ensemble Theater Joffrey Dancers: Christine Rocas & Rory Hohenstein | Photo by Cheryl Mann 22 Oct. 5, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES During the same dates, it’s also running the Gay-bar literary first major retrospective of artist Tseng Kwong CULTUCULTURERE CLUBCLUB submissions wanted Chi (1950-1990) in “Tseng Kwong Chi: Perform- Story curators/collectors S. Renee Bess and ing for the Camera.” Lee Lynch are asking writers to create pieces of By juxtaposing objects and artworks related work that explores the role the gay bar’s cul- to mourning from the Victorian Era and dur- ture has played in their lives or in the lives of ing the AIDS crisis, “Shadow” examines two LGBTQI people in general. analogous cultures of bereavement. The show Works may be either fiction or non-fiction/ includes loans from the Leather Archives & Mu- essay/memoir (but not erotica). It can be seum and the Museum of contemporary Art as prose or poetry, and the work must be original well as the Block Museum collection. and not previously published. If submissions Artists in the exhibition include Eric Avery, are accepted for an anthology, writers will be Felix Gonzalez-Torres, David Grieger, Robert sent contracts and will receive free copies of Mapplethorpe, Richard Mock, Domingo Oreju- the collection. dos, Andres Serrano and Leonard Rifas. Items from writers of color are especially In addition, Block Graduate Fellow C.C. McK- welcome. ee will draw connections between mourning- WORLD PREMIERE related objects and artworks from the Victorian Written and performed by Philip Dawkins Submissions must be presented in Microsoft Word, in Times New Roman, 12-point font. Send Era and during the AIDS crisis in “Keep the Co-produced with Sideshow Theatre Company it as an attachment in an email to both Bess Shadow: The Body and Mourning” on Thursday, Oct. 13, 6-8 p.m. The “immensely talented” (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES) Philip Dawkins retraces the story at [email protected] and Lynch at greenhat66@ of the women in his family and their journey to a magical kingdom gmail.com. In the subject line, write “Bar Sto- As for Tseng show, the artist—born in Hong ries, Fiction,” “Bar Stories, Non-fiction” or “Bar Kong, educated in Vancouver and Paris, and Now-October 23 Stories, Poetry.” later based in New York City—produced pho- 773-404-7336 greenhousetheater.org The deadline is Jan. 1, 2017, and the word- tographs that both captured the l downtown count limit is 5,000. Manhattan art and club scenes of the 1980s, and reflected the increasingly globalized movement of people across nations and continents. He in Haa Handbag andbag Productions presents Northwestern to run Tseng died at age 39 from complications related to AIDS. The LGBT, AIDS exhibitions See BlockMuseum.northwestern.edu. RSVP WOD PREMRE Northwestern University’s Mary and Leigh for the Oct. 13 “Shadow” event at https:// Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle Dr., Evan- www.eventbrite.com/e/keep-the-shadow-the- of ston, will run the art exhibition “Keep the body-and-mourning-tickets-26689099816. Shadow, Ere the Substance Fade: Mourning during the AIDS Crisis” through Dec. 11 at the Katz Gallery. Ear Taxi Festival by David Cerda on Oct. 5-10 directed by The Ear Taxi Festival—a first-of-its-kind cel- Derek Van Barham ebration of contemporary music in Chicago— Sept. 29 • Nov. 4 will showcase Chicago’s contemporary-music Showtimes: See website for times scene Oct. 5-10. 5400 N. 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MercuryTheaterChicago.com 773-325-1700 TheBardyBunch.com WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 5, 2016 23 AFC’s Project Elevate hosts premiere of video vignettes By Carrie Maxwell AFC’s Youth Expert Advisory Board and the work they’re doing to educate young people about AIDS Foundation of Chicago’s (AFC) Project El- STI prevention, including these vignettes and evate hosted a red carpet premiere of storyog- social media outreach ahead of the screening. raphers video vignettes Sept. 29 at the Hyde Poet/singer Storie Deveraux emceed and per- Park Art Center. formed a hip-hop poem that reflected the in- These personal video vignette stories were tentions of the videos being presented. produced by six transgender and cisgender During the post-screening Q&A with three of young adults ages 13-24. They addressed over- the storyographers (Beverly, Jaine and Meghan) coming abandonment, bullying and sexual and producers/lead listeners (Marquez Rhyme abuse as well as promoting self esteem and HIV and Seed Lynn, the panelists spoke about the From left: Justin Williams, Storie Deveraux, Marquez Rhyme, Jaine, Beverly, Seed Lynn, and STI prevention. process of creating these vignettes. Meghan, Brooke Greene and Olivia Blocker. The red-carpet premiere was produced in Beverly noted how helpful Lynn was while Photo by Carrie Maxwell partnership with the PrEP4Love campaign and creating her vignette and Meghan explained featured music by DJ Tess and a dance perfor- that she had to picture herself back in those stories. noted she’s working on a second story about mance by The HITTAS as well as mocktails and moments when she was bullied in high school. Rhyme spoke about the retreat structure in everyday life as a transgender woman. movie style snacks and refreshments. Jaine said she used the metaphor of Chicago’s which they had the storyographers speak more Also on hand were the storyographer’s vid- Approximately 50 people gathered to view lakefront to illustrate her story. and they (the retreat organizers) spoke less. eographers: Olivia Blocker, Brooke Greene and The Corridor by Meghan, Good Enough by As for future plans of these vignettes, They said it started with a story circle and grew Justin Williams. Jaine, Love & Acceptance by Beverly, Protect- Meghan said she wants to use them within Chi- from there until every storyographer knew what Project Elevate is, according to AFC’s web- ing Karma by Karma, The Guy in the Field by cago Public Schools and other school districts story from their lives they wanted to tell. site, “a citywide collaboration with AFC, Chica- Brandon and The Monster by Rayna. to teach students and staff/teachers about the When asked what they want to see more of in go Public Schools, the Chicago Department of Meghan’s video focused on what it was like effects of anti-LGBT bullying on LGBT students. the media, Meghan said she wants to see trans- Public Health, Planned Parenthood, Lurie Chil- to navigate an anti-LGBT high school first as a They all indicated that the HIV/STI focused gender characters portrayed in a good light. dren’s Memorial Hospital, Affinity and a host of gay person, and then as a transgender person videos would be great additions to sex educa- Beverly explained that she wants the broadcast other community partners. This peer-led proj- while Jaine’s video talked about being aban- tion classes across the board. networks to produce documentaries showcas- ect focuses on the input of the Youth Expert doned by her mom and how she’s doing things When asked how it felt to work on this proj- ing positive stories about minority communi- Advisory Board, ages 13-24, to shape market- differently with her own kids. ect, Jaine said it was the beginning of her ties including the transgender community. ing materials in support of a robust HIV and The remaining videos were produced under healing process while Beverly noted that her Another point the panel emphasized is the STI prevention program and increase awareness the Step Up Get Tested umbrella and zeroed in chains were finally broken. Meghan explained need for companies to hire transgender people. of access to services. The program is sponsored on the lack of education surrounding HIV pre- that the weekend long retreat with the other They said it’s vital for businesses bottom line in partnership with PrEP4Love Campaign and vention and what each of them did to change storyographers helped her gain confidence to to give transgender people a chance in their Storyographers.” that for themselves and others. tell her story because she knew she wasn’t workplaces. See AIDSChicago.org/page/our-work/preven- AFC Vice President of Prevention and Commu- alone. Lynn added that it was a labor of love As for what’s next for everyone, Meghan tion/project-elevate for more information and/ nity Partnerships Cynthia Tucker spoke about for him to help the storyographers tell their said she wants to tell more stories and Beverly or to view the videos. 24 Oct. 5, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES

Above: Kuda’s 50th birthday party, held at Mountain Moving Coffeehouse for Womyn & Children Dec. 9, 1989. Back row, from left: Susan Korn, Julie Zolot, Mimi Lewin, Kuda, Nancy Fincke, Chris Johnson. Front: Kathy Munzer, Arne Chris Straayer and Joyce Bolinger.

Top right: Longtime couple and gay activists Ed Lazeo and Jim Bradford with Marie Kuda in 1990, at her birthday party.

Bottom right: Marie Kuda, Barbara Gittings and John Cunningham celebrate Gittings’ 50th birthday in 1982. Photo courtesy of Philadelphia Gay News

KUDA from cover many ways that is the completion of our life came to mind, William Kelley and Marie Kuda. Jorjet Harper and Judith Markowitz, writing cycles which create spaces for new generations RIP and hope the two of you are keeping things about Kuda in the book Out and Proud in Chi- She served on the City of Chicago’s Commit- to carry on the work of bringing equality to all correct.” cago, stated: “The part that Kuda has played in tee on Gay and Lesbian Issues, and on the of us. Today I say goodbye to a strong war- Kuda’s various paid jobs over the years in- the gay movement cannot be calculated solely organizing teams of Gerber/Hart Library, the rior princess who leaves an indelible mark for cluded working for Commerce Clearing House, according to her awards and achievements; her Tavern Guild of Chicago, Chicago Gay Alliance, the space she occupied during her years with Harcourt Brace, in bookstores and as a book- work conveying positive images of our culture the Windy City Athletic Association, Chicago us. Marie Kuda was a person who was quick to keeper, and as a short-order cook, a house has inspired many others, especially lesbians. Lesbian Liberation, the Illinois Gay and Les- share her vast history of experiences growing painter, and a graphic artist. She once worked “Over the years her listeners have extended bian Task Force, the 47th Ward Gay and Lesbian up in a changing world from oppression to ac- for DePaul University Library and Northeastern her contributions and her conviction that LGBT Association, Chicago’s Lesbian Agenda and ceptance. I last saw Marie at a Chicago LGBT Illinois University and Ravenswood Hospital’s history was as important to document as to Moby Dykes. She also helped create a lesbian Hall of Fame induction ceremony with an au- Mental Health Clinic. create. She gave many women the courage to blood drive during the early years of the AIDS dience surrounding her to catch any words of “She was a little kid in many ways,” said Shir- come out. She gave gays and lesbians crucial epidemic. wisdom she shared. ley Rissmann, who was partnered with Kuda information they didn’t even know they needed As she told de la Croix: “In the early 1970s, “When I think of those who we depended for 24 of the 26 years they were friends. “She about the lives of gays and lesbians of the past Bill Kelley and I often found ourselves in the upon to review the content of our manuscripts amazed everybody and pissed everybody off and, for some, the tools they sought to make same venue whether questioning then-Governor and other style of writing, two giants always and they loved her. She was a force.” sense of their own lives. Walker on his promise of a gay-rights amend- “Kuda talked about the links between histori- ment at a downstate accountability session, cal figures in a way that showed not only that testifying in St. Louis at Democratic Platform gays and lesbians in the past fully understood Committee hearings, calling attention to dis- who they were, but that many of them were crimination in the industry before the Illinois well aware of each other. Insurance Board, or he in front of the camera, “Her inspirational slide shows and lectures and I planted in the audience as a questioner covering a wide range of topics on lesbian and (I looked so matronly in my testifying suit) on gay history, in particular, proved—sometimes such early Chicago talk-TV as the Lee Phillip to the astonishment of her audiences— that Show. Mattachine was just one of the hats I ‘we are everywhere’ was not just a catchphrase wore. As I became more involved with lesbian but an actual reality. For the first time, we heard liberation issues and political action I drifted that many of our lesbian foremothers were away from MM, but never from the talented and women of amazing courage, generous heart and dedicated people I met there. breathtaking accomplishment.” “In 1979 after five intense months in San Longtime gay businessman and activist Chuck Francisco (including the murders of Mayor Renslow called Kuda “a pioneer, one of the Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk), I re- truly great women of the LGBT movement. I turned to Chicago and received the fourth was proud to call her a friend and often called Pearl Hart Memorial Plaque from then Matta- upon her knowledge and talent. I was proud to chine President John Power—Ms. Hart had died be inducted into the Hall of Fame with her in in1975—it was my first and most treasured 1991, and honored to call her my friend. I re- recognition from the Chicago gay community. ally, really liked her.” “Someone has to be first, and MM was the Kuda graduated from DePaul University. first gay-rights organization to effect REAL Survivors include her cousin Harry Nimo, her change in the status of gays in the Chicago companion and dearest friend Marilyn Black- community. Henry Gerber’s short-lived Society man, her longtime friend Shirley Rissmann, for Human Rights incorporated in Illinois in and other friends throughout Chicago and the 1924 gets the title as first, but MM was the United States. fiery nest that incubated the next 25 years of A memorial service is being planned for Sat- activism in Chicago.” urday, Oct. 29, at 2 p.m. at Touche bar, 6412 N Israel Wright of the Chicago LGBT Hall of Clark St., Chicago. Email editor@windycityme- Fame stated: “We continue to see our gay- diagroup.com for more information. rights pioneers reach the end of their lives. In Mattachine Midwest honors Kuda in 1979, from GayLife newspaper.

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First-time riders only. Up to $20. Expires 12/31/16. 26 Oct. 5, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES tion Tank. An active supporters of gay rights, Ben- nett (also a Chicago-native) chose Pride Action Tank because of the group’s work helping LGBTQIA and other homeless youth through a collaborative the DISH process of inquiry, advocacy and action. nightspots Weekly Dining Guide in Leghorn Chicken is Element Collective’s socially WINDY CITY TIMES conscious chicken shop in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood. A fast-casual, BYOB concept featur- the big ing fried chicken sandwiches by Van Camp, Leg- SAVOR horn supports local and sustainable farmers and TO-DO artisans and proudly and enthusiastically champi- Leghorn’s pro-LGBT ons gay rights, with a portion of profits donated to OUR WEEKLY PICKS TO PLAN move; Identita Golose organizations to support the cause. YOUR NIGHTLIFE CALENDAR In the fall of 2014, Leghorn launched Leghorn Monteverde chef Sarah Grueneberg. BY ANDREW DAVIS Cafe, a breakfast-focused, fast-casual shop located Photo by Andrew Davis in Chicago’s River North neighborhood at 600 N. Femme’s Room Leghorn sandwich benefits Pride Action Tank LaSalle St. See LeghornChicken.com. Identita Golose hits Chicago There is more on Twitter at @leghornchicken, @ A collaboration between Chicago singer Taylor jaredvancamp and @_TaylorBennett. The culinary event known as Identita Golose Bennett and Leghorn Chef Jared Van Camp is a new took place at Chicago’s Eataly’s La Scuola on Oct. specialty chicken-and-waffle sandwich. 1-2. The theme was “Don’t Waste the Planet.” The spin on Leghorn’s classic hot chicken thigh Windy City Times attended Master Class 1, with is housed between two of The Winchester’s cel- Chefs Giancarlo Perbellini (Casa Perbellini, Verona) ebrated Belgium-style liege waffles and layered and Sarah Grueneberg (Monteverde) preparing, with maple jalapeno butter and smoked bacon— respectively, the pasta dishes gnocchi di polenta Thu., Oct. 5, 11 pm and will benefit Chicago-based LGBTQIA advocacy di storo and cacio whey pepe (a take on cacio e Berlin, group Pride Action Tank (PAT). pepe). CBS-2 reporter Vince Gerasole moderated. 932 W. Belmont Ave. While the sandwich collab officially debuted at Chefs Carlo Cracco (Cracco, Milan) and Michael DJ Mister Wallace and Harry Cross. Host- the second annual Taste Talks Chef BBQ Oct. 2, Tusk (Quince/Cotogna, San Francisco) presided ed by Lucy Stoole, Aria, Lexi and Jordy Leghorn will keep the sandwich exclusively on over the second Oct. 1 class. The following day Marilyn. Presented by Men’s Room and Stardust. the menu at its Ukrainian Village location, 959 N. featured a four-course lunch that famed chef Lidia Western Ave., for $8 the two weeks following the Bastianich hosted; Chefs Carlo Cracco, Michael event—10% of proceeds from every sandwich sold Tusk, Gianacarlo Perbellini, and Eataly Chicago’s will directly support the youth homeless work of Rob Wing prepared the items. Chicago-based LGBTQIA advocacy group Pride Ac- For more information, see IdentitaGolose.com. October “Man of the Month”

Fri., Oct. 7, 10 p.m. Charlie’s, 3726 N. Broadway There will be a line dance lesson and lots of two-stepping to country music. In addition, the Men of Charlie’s will be raising money for charity and crowning their new Man of the Month.

Sidetrack Saturday Market

Sat., Oct. 8, 1-4 p.m. REELING CLOSING PARTY @ PROGRESS, THU. SEPT. 29 Sidetrack, 3349 N. Halsted St. Photos by Jerry Nunn A wonderful collection of vendors to present produce, juices, pies, cheese, preserves, confections, baked goods and many more wonderful products. There will also be scrumptious ready-to-eat treats and sandwiches perfect for lunch or an afternoon snack.

CrossFit Social Night

Sat., Oct. 8, 1-4 p.m. The Sofo Tap, 4923 N. Clark St. Are you a CrossFit athlete looking to meet others who are into the challenge? A place to meet and mingle with other CrossFit athletes. $4 Fireball shots, SIDETRACK $4.50 Blue Moon drafts, $4.50 seasonal drafts. Photos by Jed Dulanas WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 5, 2016 27 Billy Masters

“I recently had hernia surgery. My dick was so big, black and swollen, I had to fight those Kar- dashians off with a stick!”—Leslie Jordan. I bet with these attributes, he’d be fighting the gay boys off with a stick, too. You kids out there may not know this, but gays weren’t always on television. These days, every show eventually trots out a gay character—usually a persnickety type often portrayed by Wilson Cruz, Alec Mapa, Jai Rodriguez or Rex Lee. If I didn’t know them personally, I’d swear they were the same person. The roles Leslie Jordan has a lot to say. they play are so alarmingly similar, surely one of these talented gents could handle them all— ashes (hopefully the bottom half). At the time, and still have time to occasionally fill in forRa - Julien’s Auctions had estimated the ashes from chel Maddow! Anyway, my point is that in the the estate of the late Joanne Carson would go long history of television, gays are a relatively for $4-6K. In a shocking turn of events, the ash- new addition. es went for $45,000! The new owner, who wishes And much of the credit for that visibility to remain anonymous, has pledged to take the must go to Will & Grace. This was really the ashes with him around the world, which is in first TV show with gay leading characters that line with what Capote asked Carson to do. “He was a hit. Sure, it wasn’t perfect, and some of told her he didn’t want to sit on a shelf,” said the characters perpetuated some stereotypes. Julien. But the show also reflected a number of issues Someone who I think would make a kick-ass that were going on in the real world. So, who Truman Capote is our very own Leslie Jordan. better to help inspire people to vote than Will For now, he’ll have to settle for appearing on and Grace and Jack and Karen (with a little help American Horror Story. He turned up last week from Rosario)? as Cricket, a psychic from New Orleans. Need- The cast reunited to film a mini-episode, and less to say, he was a welcomed presence, in- they slipped back into their roles seamlessly— deed. Alas, he won’t be a season regular. Leslie with the exception of Mullally’s now-red hair. tells me he’s only in one more episode. But it’s While it is unlikely that the characters and the a doozy. “Lady Gaga makes me fuck her!” Must apartment would not have changed in the de- See TV, indeed! cade since the show went off the air, the epi- I caught up with Leslie at the annual Gay Days sode picks up where the series left off—save Anaheim last weekend, which was a smashing for Jack opening the refrigerator and exclaim- success. It’s hard to believe that this tiny little ing, “Why does everything in there look 10 years event which started with a couple dozen friends old?” Although it sounds like they are using a (including moi) going to Disneyland in 1998 really horrible laugh track, that won’t keep me has turned into an annual event which attracts from posting the full video on BillyMasters.com. thousands of people from around the world. The While the thrust of the episode appears to be centerpiece of the festivities was a performance pro-Hillary Clinton, it is actually called #Vote- by Steve Grand at the Kingdom party. Although Honey. Debra Messing clarified that message he didn’t take off his shirt onstage, he showed in a tweet: “No; it was for #VoteHoney. [Jack] quite a bit of skin at the Plunge pool party the wasn’t going to vote. Karen was for Trump, W&G next day. You can check out pics on our website. were for HRC. Msg was you HAVE to vote. Sitting And while online, check out GayDaysAnaheim. out is not OK.” OK. com. Kudos to everyone involved. Time for our Finding Prince Charming update. Let me get back to Leslie for a moment. I got And I am shocked—yes, shocked! I went on re- to see his latest one-man show, Straight Outta cord saying that Paul Hollowell—the guy with Chattanooga. The titles of these shows are al- the dead ex—would be the winner. WRONG! Paul most inconsequential since the stories change is history. The die was cast when they were in night to night depending on Leslie’s mood. So the gym and Robert saw Paul struggling to do if you go to see him multiple times, you will crunches. Robert was surprised—after all, Paul’s NEVER see the same show twice. At this par- got a hot body. Then came Paul’s confession: “I ticular sold-out event, he talked about the now- basically told my trainer, ‘I don’t do anything openly gay singer Ty Herndon. In details that I with my muscles, so I don’t need something dare not share (but Jordan will tell you if you functional. I just need something that looks go to his shows), Leslie reveals that Herndon good.’” Truer words were never spoken. But Rob- has a 12-inch penis. I’ll let you chew on that ert was taken aback—you’d think he’d be used for a while... to being taken from the back by now! He felt all When Ty’s more than just a little bit country, along that Paul was very reserved and a perfec- it’s definitely time to end yet another column. tionist and would like to see him more relaxed We ran SO long. And I had a great “Ask Billy” and unguarded. Well, this only makes sense. question to share with you—which included a How could someone with Robert’s colorful past celebrity nude. I guess it’ll hold till next time. (which is documented by numerous videos on But maybe it will turn up early on www.BillyMas- our website) be with someone who is perfect? ters.com—the site with no limits. If you have a After the fact, Paul posted the following cryp- question, I’m always here for you. Just send a tic post online: “I didn’t realize that one of the note to [email protected] and I promise other guys was there for one reason: to win at to get back to you before Leslie Jordan is cast in any cost.” Any guesses? a revival of Tru. So, until next time, remember: Remember when I told you about the auction One man’s filth is another man’s bible. of Truman Capote’s ashes? Well, there’s half his 28 Oct. 5, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES WEDDINGS 2015 and started our life adventure together. ... We were instantly connected. I was in love with him from the very beginning and being Rody-Sollors with him in person was the most natural thing I’ve ever felt. Our love was so apparent to ev- They made it official: Brian Rody and Karsten eryone we would come into contact with on our Sollors had an outdoor wedding Sept. 25 in the adventure in Sedona.” Lincoln Park area of Chicago. Sollors moved to Chicago permanently in Rody and Sollors met in August 2015, on February 2016. They were in Hawaii when they Facebook, and continued talking on Facebook announced their engagement. As for the wed- and Skype. Rody wrote to Windy City Times, “I ding ceremony, Rody added that it included responded to a friend request from him with a “the pouring of sand from Germany; France; note back telling him it was nice to meet him California; Vancouver and Kelowna, Canada; and after looking through some of his pictures Wisconsin; and Chicago—with the pouring I complimented him on his look and photos. symbolizing the blending of the families and Little did I know he would write back and on the new family that is created with our mar- that 20th day of August I would meet the per- riage.” son that I would want to spend the rest of my The reception took place at Gilt Bar. life with. Left: Karsten Sollors kisses new husband Brian Rody. Right: Sollors (left) and Rody. The couple’s wedding link is at https://you- “We met at the airport in Phoenix on Nov. 4, Photos courtesy of the couple tu.be/YUXxZy55oBM.

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Gay Liberation Network organizing New Town Writers’ Workshop Partici- Anniversary Postponed due to con- 6:00pm - 8:00pm 111 W Kinzie St. meeting Monthly planning meeting pants are asked to bring copies of their struction. New information will be post- of Chicago’s multi-issue direct action work so other writers and listeners can ed here when it is available. 7:00pm group that promotes the rights of LG- Tuesday, Oct. 11 follow along. 7:00pm - 9:00pm Gerber Gerber Hart Library and Archives 6500 BTI people. Through demonstrations and Part I Before Stonewall: The LGBTQ Ex- Hart Library and Archives 6500 N Clark N Clark St Chicago http://www.gerber- advocacy, GLN changes the social and perience in the ‘50s and ‘60s Series St Chicago hart.org political situation of police brutality, la- Lecture by Tracy Baim, Publisher and Ex- LezPlay Weekend Formal readings of the bor, immigration, and more. Oct. 5, Nov. ecutive Editor of Windy City Times. 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