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HOLIDAY VOL 33, NO. 11 NOV. 29, 2017 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com CAMP LGBTQ holiday productions dot Chicagoland’s landscape PAGE 6 PAGE 19 Mitchell Fain in this Way Outta Santaland. Photo by Charles Osgood NANCY WBEZ airing queer podcast. Photo of Nancy co-hosts Kathy Tu 6 and Tobin Low by Amy Pearl 2017 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE week one of two KELSEY MURPHY MILES Daughter of lesbian couple dies at 26. PAGES 31-34 Photo by Malcolm Riordan 10 @windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com NORTHSHORECENTER.ORG 847.673.6300 Sun, Dec 03 at 7:30pm RUFUS WAINWRIGHT NORTH SHORE CENTER “With only a grand piano and his wits, the usually maximalist singer’s majestic melodies and FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS IN SKOKIE soaring choruses are balanced by raw, confessional material..” –The Guardian 2 Nov. 29, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES THIS FREE LIFE FLAG29 NEON ERIC SS WINDY CITY TIMES FULL PAGE AD TRIM: 10" x 10" Prepared by : 8/2/17 Above: Author Dwight Okita. Photo courtesy of Javier Perez WINDY CITY TIMES Nov. 29, 2017 3 NEWS Miss Trans Israel; blood-donation ban 4 WBEZ’s queer podcast 6 Trans Day of Remembrance event at Center 7 Obit: Kelsey Murphy-Miles dies at 26 10 Profile of Heels & Hardhats 12 Physician discusses anal cancer 14 Local World AIDS Day events 16 Viewpoints: Mombian’s holiday suggestions 18 ENTERTAINMENT/EVENTS LGBTQ holiday-show roundup 19 Theater reviews 23 INDEX Okita, Serbu book reviews 24 Out film director Stephen Cone 26 DOWNLOAD Trans musician Gavin Russom of LCD Soundsystem 30 THIS ISSUE AND BROWSE THE ARCHIVES AT www.WindyCityTimes.com BENEFIT CONCERT HOLIDAY HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE, PART ONE 31 VOL 33, NO. 11 NOV. 29, 2017 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com CAMP LGBTQ holiday productions dot Chicagoland’s landscape PAGE 6 PAGE 19 Mitchell Fain in this Way Outta Santaland. Photo by Charles Osgood Families of Chicago banquet coming up 35 PROFESSIONAL SINGERS FROM NANCY WBEZ airing queer podcast. Photo of Nancy co-hosts Kathy Tu 6 and Tobin Low by Amy Pearl 2017 HOLIDAY NIGHTSPOTS 36 GIFT GUIDE Classifieds; calendar 38 week one of two CABARET, THEATER AND OPERA KELSEY MURPHY-MILES Daughter of lesbian couple dies at 26. PAGES 31-34 Photo by Malcolm Riordan 10 @windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com NORTHSHORECENTER.ORG JOIN FORCES TO SUPPORT AND REMEMBER 847.673.6300 Sun, Dec 03 at 7:30pm RUFUS WAINWRIGHT NORTH SHORE CENTER “With only a grand piano and his wits, the usually maximalist singer’s majestic melodies and FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS IN SKOKIE soaring choruses are balanced by raw, confessional material..” –The Guardian THOSE AFFECTED BY HIV/AIDS SCHEDULED ARTISTS INCLUDE online exclusives at CHICAGO CABARET PROFESSIONS MEMBERS Kevin Wood, Beckie Menzie, Tom Michael, Carla Gordon, www.WindyCityTimes.com Cynthia Clarey, David Edelfelt, Denise McGowan Tracy, Cheryl Szucsits, along with Amanda Marchesci, Jessie Oliver, Katherine Werbiansky, Jeremy Cohn, Amy Friedl Stoner, SEEING STARS Sandee Kastrul (left) talks about the Amy Malaney and David Meulemans nonprofit group IC Stars, which helps low- income young adults develop leadership and other skills. Photo by Liz Baudler WARD OF MOUTH SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY Friday, December 1 at 7pm WCT traveled to Charleston, South Ebenezer Lutheran Church Carolina, which was full of nice folks, incredible food—and some 1650 W. Foster, Chicago controversial history. TICKETS AVAILABLE AT www.brownpapertickets.com THAT’S SHOW BIZ Find out the latest about Armistead Maupin, comedian Erikka Innes and SPONSOR the show House of Cards. plus Andre Ward (above) is in the PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT production Escape to Margaritaville. DAILY BREAKING NEWS PR photo 4 Nov. 29, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES speak, and these are tools that I have right now.” Vocal supporters of Israel’s LGBT community, She now resides in Tel Aviv, where there is like Abu Hanna, have frequently been criticized Miss Trans Israel relative acceptance of the LGBT community. “You by commentators and advocates who have main- can go there and be who you are, and where the tained that the Israeli government extolls its pro- clothes [of the person] you are. It was hard, but gressive record on LGBT-rights in order to distract talks about title, work today they accept it more. Today, it is not dan- from its treatment of Palestinians in the West gerous [in Tel Aviv]. There had been some danger Bank and Gaza as well as Israeli Palestinians. BY MATT SIMONETTE with my life.’” there before.” She maintained that her work “was not about In May 2016, Abu Hanna, a Catholic Arab born Even in Tel Aviv, it is still difficult for trans politics,” adding, “This is my real life. Let me tell Talleen Abu Hanna said that she was inspired to and raised in Nazareth, was named the winner persons to find employment, but Abu Hanna said you something about pinkwashing: I’m not here compete to be Miss Trans Israel by a love for be- of Israel’s first transgender beauty pageant. The there are several non-profits who can offer as- to ‘wash’ anything. Yes, there are a lot of prob- ing on the stage. following September, she placed second in the sistance, adding, “Now, it’s really well-developed, lems between Jewish and Palestinians. But that “I’m a dancer,” Abu Hanna said during a recent Miss Trans Star Competition in Barcelona. That and there are organizations that do a lot.” Her is not my expertise. I believe in peace. … I’m not visit to Chicago. “I dance and I teach dancing. I first contest, which drew media attention around mother has supported her transition and public here for Israel. I’m here to make change for my love the stage; the stage is my life. When I saw the world, “was such a big show,” she recalled. work, but not her father; Abu Hanna said that she community. When I come here and tell my story, I that this was the first [such] competition in his- Abu Hanna said that she ran mainly “to be able had not been to her family home in two-and-a- make a change for me and my LGBTQ community.” tory, I thought it would be interesting. … I said, to tell people something [about trans people] half years. She said she thinks he’ll come around. ‘Okay, this is the chance to do something new outside of social media. I didn’t have the tools to Aldermen sponsor resolution calling for end to blood-donation ban Miss Trans Israel Talleen Abu Hanna. BY MATT SIMONETTE The resolution noted that blood supplies had Photo by Matt reached critically-low levels, and that a City Hall Simonette The five members of the Chicago City Council’s blood drive was scheduled for Nov. 28 in response LGBT Caucus, as well as two other alderman, in- to the drop. troduced a resolution on Nov. 21 calling for the The resolution further stated that “The restric- end of the ban on blood donations from gay men tions on MSM blood donations perpetuates stig- and other men who have sex with men (MSM). ma and discrimination against MSM in particular The ban was implemented in the ‘80s at the and the LGBT community in general; and whereas height of the AIDS crisis, and said that MSM if the one-year deferral for MSM blood donations who’d had sex with someone of the same gender is lifted, an estimate from the Williams Institute since 1977 couldn’t donate blood. That ban was suggests the donated blood supply in the United modified sightly in 2015, allowing for donations States could increase by 2 to 4 percent annu- if an MSM had not had sex in the previous year; ally and potentially save the lives of hundreds of many advocates have said that a requirement thousands of people … Lipinski foe to host that MSM donors should not have been sexually “Be it resolved that the City Council calls upon active for a year was in essence perpetuating a the FDA to remove its ban on blood donations Sidetrack event de facto ban. by men who have had sex with men within the Marie Newman, a first-time candidate for U.S. Alds. Raymond Lopez (15th Ward), Deb Mell last year; and be it further resolved that the City Congress in the 3rd Congressional District of Il- (33rd), Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th), Tom Tunney Council calls upon the FDA to base all bans on linois, will be hosting a fundraiser at Sidetrack (44th) and James Cappleman (46th),—all mem- blood donations not on stigma but on an assess- Thursday, Dec. 7, at 5:30 p.m. This event will bers of the LGBT Caucus—sponsored the Nov. 21 ment of each individual’s risk as measured by help her continue to oppose Democratic U.S. resolution. Other sponsors included Alds. Scott blood tests and recent exposure to diseases such Rep. Dan Lipinski, the anti-LGBT incumbent. Waguespack (32nd) and Harry Osterman (48th). as HIV that can be transmitted through blood.” Lipinski was one of the few Democrats to support a constitutional amendment to de- fine marriage as a union of “one man and one woman” and voted against the Employment have the option of making the donation “in Non-Discrimination Act, which aimed to ban Back 2 School aiding honor of” or “in memory of’ a friend or family discrimination against LGBT+ employees. underserved member). In contrast, Newman has a trans daughter and developed an anti-bullying non-profit. She students is a strong supporter of marriage equality, vows Back 2 School Illinois (B2SI)—a Chicago- ‘Planting Hope’ to support ENDA and said she will not stand Marie Newman.