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The Club Industry fitness convention plus visited Chicago. DAILY BREAKING NEWS Photo by Andrew Davis 4 Oct. 11, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES Parking-meter art GUEST COLUMN to benefit youth by Toni Marie Preston homeless projects Welcome CHICAGO—Ava’s Change4Youth, a program of My name is Toni Marie Preston. I am a Black, white institution has been difficult but it has Pride Action Tank (PAT), is launching Oct. 11 as queer, trans femme with sickle cell disease. I’m taught me a lot about the world. I grew up in a part of the Andersonville Arts Week on Chicago’s also currently a senior sociology major and a lower-middle-class, predominately Black neigh- women’s and gender studies minor at Illinois borhood with parents who sheltered me so I was North Side. State University. comfortable and protected from the realities of The campaign visually raises awareness of My work centers around intersectionality, abo- society. youth experiencing homelessness in Chicago litionism and radical liberation. I have consult- Once I got to college, I realized how I was while collecting small change in donation sta- ed on projects, moderated panels and presented different from most of the students on my cam- tions to make big differences in the lives of educational workshops. In 2016 I presented at pus and I had to face the realities of the world. youth. This program also promotes community ISU’s CRCC conference, and in 2017, I spoke on Facing these realities has been difficult but it’s building through art and advocacy efforts. a MBLGTACC student panel and co-facilitated an what drives me to abolish systems of oppression Ava’s Change4Youth is a project created by identity workshop. I am invested in liberation and it’s what drives me to want to go into the youth for youth. Ava Volpe-Santos, 13, brought work and challenging institutions that hinder field of social work. I have a passion for educat- the idea to PAT after seeing other cities using the growth of the most marginalized communi- ing, advocating for others and helping marginal- re-purposed parking meters to raise funds for the ties. ized populations because I know from first-hand homeless. Santos-Volpe and her moms, Theresa Throughout my life, I have had to overcome experiences what it’s like to be marginalized. and Mercedes, worked with nationally renowned many obstacles and cope with many struggles Now that I’ve told you all a little bit about Chicago artist Sam Kirk to create a model art me- because of my intersecting identities. myself and my story, I want to briefly talk about ter for Chicago, with a special design, “Forward I have also had to continuously work to un- the current political climate. Focused,” for the first meter. Program founder Ava Santos-Volpe, right, and derstand my identities, the world around me and This administration has attacked just about That Art Meter will be unveiled at Women & artist Sam Kirk. how I am affected by systems of oppression in every marginalized population. Women, Black Children First Bookstore Wed., Oct. 11, during Photo from Ava’s Change4Youth society. people, undocumented folks, LGBTQ people and Andersonville Arts Week kick-off party, 4-8 p.m., As a Black, queer, trans femme with sickle disabled folks. 5233 N. Clark St. The bookstore will continue to first area to launch the Ava’s Change4Youth cam- cell, I had to learn how to navigate the world in So now more than ever, we are coming to- house the art meter after arts week. paign. certain ways in order to survive and cope with gether to provide each other with emotional and “I heard about the high rate of homelessness All of the donations will go to AIDS Founda- trauma. Growing up, before I knew that I was financial support because we know that at the among youth, including an estimated 40% who tion of Chicago, which is the parent organization trans and queer, my biggest struggle was having end of the day, we have to have each others are LGBTQ,” said Ava. “My friends and I really for PAT. Program youth participants will serve sickle cell. I didn’t want to tell anyone when I back. We have to protect our communities and want to have an impact, even if that means 25 on an advisory board to help decide how funds was younger because I didn’t think they would other communities who are marginalized. cents at a time, or larger donations to this im- are allocated to applicants from youth homeless understand what I go through and I didn’t want In order to protect ourselves and our broth- portant cause. My hope for Ava’s Change4Youth is projects. When working in collaboration with PAT anyone to feel sorry for me. ers, sisters and siblings, we must educate, agi- for teens to enjoy art and be a part of something on decision-making, youth are empowered to be After years of being silent and not being open tate and resist because violence and oppression that makes them feel good about themselves, actively involved with solving a problem. They about having sickle cell disease, I decided that should no longer exist. In order to live in the knowing they’re supporting others who might be promote the program through sharing their sto- I needed to be vocal because there needs to be society that we deserve, we have to dedicate going through tough times too.” ries, community building and leadership. more sickle cell disease awareness. Sickle cell ourselves to liberation work. We know that leg- Artist Sam Kirk, well known for her murals Ava’s Change4Youth is a unique program be- disease affects more than 100,000 people in the islation, policies and reform are not enough be- across the city of Chicago, will attend the launch, cause funds raised are directed toward impacting U.S. and more worldwide, yet there hasn’t been cause we have experienced and lived through along with Ava and her family. youth specifically, while actively engaging them huge lump sums of funds allocated to finding the failure. “I am so excited to be part of Ava’s Chang- to help with a problem affecting their lives. a cure and helping families pay for medical ex- We need to begin thinking of radical ways to e4Youth,” Kirk said. “It is so meaningful to work Individuals, business owners, artists and poli- penses. get free because as we know from looking back with youth on this issue. As a lifelong Chicagoan ticians can support the project in the following If no one speaks up and advocates for health- on history, no people have gotten free by being and artist, I know we need many people, includ- ways: care access and talks about the health issues we kind and polite. It’s time to start thinking about ing artists, to be involved in helping solve these —Alderpersons can assist in installing Art Me- face, we will continue to not be visible in this ways to get free and taking action. complex issues.” ters in prominent areas in their ward. world. In a world where people who are able I will talk more about radical liberation, lever- The art meter will be placed at the bookstore —Businesses, groups and individuals can spon- bodied are privileged, it is important to have aging your privilege and creating equity in so- these conversations about accessibility, eco- ciety more in-depth in my future columns, but I through Oct. 13, when there is a Friday night sor an Art Meter by funding the purchase, instal- nomics/poverty, healthcare access, and other will end my introduction with one of my favorite Stroll & Soriee art walk throughout the neighbor- lation and upkeep of a meter. Install one near things that affect folks with disabilities. quotes by a famous activist by the name of As- hood. It will also be displayed during the City their organization or business to show support Though having sickle cell has made it difficult sata Shakur: “It is our duty to fight for our free- Made Handmade Market in the Swedish Museum’s for the program. For sponsorship levels, contact for me to excel in academia, I have achieved a dom. It is our duty to win. We must love each parking lot at Foster and Ashland Oct. 14-15. Jackie Thaney, [email protected]. lot thus I am grateful for my education and lived other and support each other. We have nothing Arts Week attendees are welcome to donate spare —An artist can donate their time to mentor a experiences. Being a student at a predominately to lose but our chains.” change to the working Art Meter and learn more youth in the creation of a meter(s). about the program from Ava and program volun- —A youth can contact Thaney to volunteer to Toni Marie Preston, they/them/their(s) and she/her/hers is an Illinois State University teers. work with an artist or join the advisory board. sociology major with a women’s and gender studies minor. The goal of Ava’s Change4Youth is to have doz- —A volunteer who wants to help can also con- ens of Art Meters, designed by artists and youth tact Thaney. impacted by homelessness, across the city. In ad- Direct donations are accepted at PrideAction- dition, Art Houses painted by youth will be avail- Tank.org/ac4y-donate. @windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup able as donation stations in retail outlets. The See http://andersonville.org/aaw/ for more Andersonville Chamber of Commerce and 48th information on the Andersonville’s Chamber of Ward Ald. Harry Osterman were excited to be the Commerce’s Arts Week. @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 11, 2017 5 PASSAGES ford of Florida, Winston (Karen) Rysdahl of Chi- loved to travel and snowboard, and was an avid cago, Amiel (Kris) Rysdahl of Chicago, and many player in the Chicago Metropolitan Sports As- Karen Knudstrup relatives and friends. sociation volleyball league. Everyone who came Karen Knudstrup passed away Sept. 16 at age Karen was a Chicago Symphony chorister and in contact with Russ experienced his generos- 78. an opera singer with Lyric Opera of Chicago. She ity, kindness and compassion. He had the ability She is survived by her widow and partner of was a Golden Apple Award winner, committed to to make other people smile even when he was 52 years, Diana Haskell of Chicago; brother Paul the education of Chicago Public School students sad. He will be greatly missed by his family and (Sue) Knudstrup and sister Kristine (Dale) Taylor, as a teacher at Phillips and Marshall High Schools friends. both of Michigan; children Avril (Joseph) Ruther- and Kenwood Academy. In a statement to Windy City Times, Open Karen was also a protector. She protected the Hand/Chicago founder Lori Cannon said, “Eight rights of teachers as a long-standing delegate of years ago Russ signed up to volunteer and serve the Chicago Teachers’ Union and the lives of her low income men, women, and children, living Sisters and Brothers in the United States Navy. with HIV/AIDS ... and he never looked back. Her legacy will live on through the lessons we “This man had a unique and profound sensitiv- give our children and the thousands of children ity for those who struggled. His calm demeanor she taught throughout her career. and sweet smile was a staple around Groceryland In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the every Thursday night. Tree House Humane Society: TreeHouseAnimals. “Russ was old-school when it came to making org. a commitment and following thru with client ser- vice. We all were aware of his health struggles PASSAGES and wished him well when he asked for a leave of absence. Russell Pryga He leaves a wonderful legacy and will surely be Russell “Russ” Pryga, 52, died Sept. 30 in Chi- missed around here. Thank you, Russ.” cago; he was 52. Survivors besides his parents, John Jr. and He was born June 10, 1965, and grew up in Barbara, include his daughter, Kelly (Josh) Pryga- Mosinee, Wisconsin, the son of John Jr. and Bar- Ahrens, Hamel, Minnesota; and a sister, Debbie bara (Hollingsworth) Pryga. (Kurt) Strohmeier, Saint Paul, Minnesota. Volunteering and giving were a huge part of Memorial services were held Oct. 7 at Beste Fu- Russ’s life. He spent many hours volunteering neral Home, in Mosinee. Online condolences can at “GroceryLand,” a food pantry for those with be made at www.bestefh.com HIV/AIDS, and other charitable organizations to In lieu of flowers, donations to the Heartland ensure he helped make a difference to those in Health Outreach’s North Side grocery center, Gro- Karen Knudstrup. need. Russell Pryga. ceryland, would be appreciated. The address is Photo courtesy of Amiel Rysdahl He was a Green Bay Packers fan, loved his dogs,T:9.75” Photo by Tracy Baim 5543 N. Broadway, Chicago, IL 60640.

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The motion, titled “Expression of opposition Tatyana Moaton—Howard Brown Health’s di- to decision of President Donald J. Trump to ban versity and inclusion services coordinator, who members of transgender community from military is a veteran—also testified. She told Windy City service,” passed unanimously and will be for- Times that the resolution solidifies Chicago’s sta- warded to the entire City Council Oct. 11. It is tus as a sanctuary city and “sends a message to expected to easily pass since 40 of the 50 mem- transgender veterans, and transgender persons in bers of the City Council are listed as sponsors of general, that, ‘You are welcome here. You matter. the resolution, along with Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Your healthcare matters. Your life matters.’” If it does pass, HR Committee Chair Ald. Pat Only one member of the public spoke against Dowell (D-3rd) said it would be sent to the White the resolution. House, federal and military officials and members Before the meeting focused on the trans issue, Supporters at the City Council committee hearing, from left: Anthony Galloway, Dr. Brandon Hill, of Illinois’ congressional delegation. a number of individuals who had been recom- Jean Albright, Taytana Moaton, Mona Noriega, Vanessa Sheridan, Matthew Williamson, Elissa In testimony, Chicago Commission on Hu- mended to appointment for the city’s veteran’s Jeffers, Jessica Rose Wallace (a new member of the city’s veterans advisory council). man Relations Commissioner Mona Noriega said advisory council were introduced. Brandon Marty, that the ban was founded on untruths and per- a veterans rights advocate seeking an appoint- Photo by Tracy Baim petuated outdated negative stereotypes, noting ment, registered his backing for the resolution. that studies found government expenditures on “As a veteran and the father of a transgender City Times, Cupich said, “We support Fr. James transition-related health expenditures—one of child, I certainly support that resolution,”he Cupich invites author Martin, a well-regarded priest and author, and Trump’s prime rationales for the ban—would be said. look forward to his visit during the Lenten sea- comparatively small. The resolution reads in part: “WHEREAS, A Rand of LGBT book for talk son.” “The Trump administration is looking to turn Corporation study commissioned by the Depart- By Matt Simonette The Chicago Sun-times article is at http:// back the clock on nearly 70 years of progress,” ment of Defense estimated that there are fewer bit.ly/2fJlUcC. Noriega said. than 10,000 members of our armed forces who Cardinal Blase Cupich has asked Father James Transgender activist Alexis Martinez pointed are transgender, and concluded that allowing Martin, a Jesuit priest who is author of a con- out the inherent unfairnesses in the government members of the transgender community to serve troversial book about LGBT Catholics, to speak PPIL responds to singling out trans persons. “This is a country would not impact unit cohesion, operational ef- at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago during Lent based on democratic principles,” Martinez said. fectiveness, or readiness; and early next year. birth-control policy “ … There are constitutional rights that we are “WHEREAS, Notwithstanding the willingness of The invitation was first reported in Chicago Planned Parenthood of Illinois (PPIL) was all under.” these transgender troops to voluntarily defend Sun-Times on Sept. 26. among the many groups who responded to the Coast guard veteran Matthew Williamson, who the freedoms we all hold dear. President Donald Martin’s book, Building a Bridge: How the Trump administration’s move of rolling back the said they are non-binary, discussed being clos- J. Trump decided, on the 69th anniversary of Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Obama-era requirement that employer-provided eted while serving in the military: “I wore a mask President Truman’s order to integrate the mili- Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compas- health-insurance policies cover birth control. every day so that I could blend in with other tary, that these soldiers can no longer serve in sion, and Sensitivity, instigated anti-LGBT ele- Now, any company or nonprofit group can ex- servicemembers.” our armed forces . … ments to protest scheduled talks by the author clude coverage for contraception on the basis Elissa Jeffers of Lambda Legal, transgender vet- “BE IT RESOLVED, That we, the Mayor and Mem- in three locations in the U.S. and the United of religious or moral objections. eran Vanessa Sheridan of Center on Halsted, Air bers of the City Council … condemn the arbitrary, Kingdom. Those talks reportedly had nothing Jennifer Welch, president/CEO of Planned Force veteran Jean Albright, and Anthony Gallo- divisive, and discriminatory decision by President to do with the book, but protesters were in- Parenthood of Illinois, said in a statement, way of Equality Illinois also spoke in favor of the Donald J. Trump to ban members of the transgen- censed by Martin’s having tackled the contro- “The Trump administration’s latest attacks on resolution. Lambda Legal has a lawsuit pending der community from serving in the United States versial subject matter nonetheless. women’s health is yet another attempt to regu- against the ban. military; and In an interview with the Sun-Times, Cupich late women’s bodies. Birth control has been “The ban was founded in ignorance and rep- “BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That suitable cop- encouraged people to read the book and decide vital to women succeeding in several areas, in- resents an apparent desire to pander to the ha- ies of this resolution be delivered to President for themselves whether Martin’s ideas stood on cluding education, career, family.Birth control temongers in our society,” said Sheridan. “It is Donald J. Trump, Secretary of Defense James Mat- their own merits. Martin told the paper that he has an enormous economic impact for women, mean-spirited, demeaning to the transgender tis, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman was “delighted” with the invitation. allowing them to maximize their contributions community, and a betrayal to men and women John McCain, and House Armed Services Commit- Building a Bridge is described in promotion- to society. Last year, Planned Parenthood of Il- who were already deemed fit to serve--and who tee Chairman Mac Thornberry.” al materials as “a roadmap for repairing and linois had over 42,000 contraception visits. We strengthening the bonds that unite all of us as will continue to make sure all of our patients God’s children. Martin uses the image of a two- are able to get the care and information they way bridge to enable LGBT Catholics and Church need to be able to live their best lives.” @windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup leaders to come together in a call to end the Following the November elections, Planned ‘us’ versus ‘them’ mentality.” Parenthood of Illinois saw a 460-percent in- Martin’s publishers, HarperCollins, said the crease in online appointments for long-acting @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com author was travelling and could not be reached birth-control methods. for comment. In a statement provided to Windy WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 11, 2017 7 National trans group launches political arm for impact on elections by CHRIS JOHNSON, to represent Ward 4. Both candidates could be WASHINGTON BLADE the first openly transgender people elected to city council in a major U.S. city and Cunning- A leading national transgender group has ham would be the first openly transgender man to launched a political arm aimed at electing candi- hold public office anywhere nationwide. dates to advance transgender rights. Additionally, the organization launched two The National Center for Transgender Equality, new initiatives aimed enhancing the voices which has existed since 2003 as 501(c)(3) lob- of transgender people. One is “Voices for Trans bying group, announced its new 501(c)(4) at an Equality,” which seeks to train trans people to event Oct. 3 at the D.C.-based law firm of Squire, be better advocates for trans rights. The other Patton, Boggs. is “Families for Trans Equality,” which seeks to Mara Keisling, executive director of the Nation- works with families with trans youth. al Center for Transgender Equality Action Fund, The organization also launched the National said during the event the new political arm will Council of Advisors, which seeks to solicit impact foster a new direction for the organization. from local transgender leader across the nation. “We’re really here to serve to trans people, Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, director of external we’re here to take action, to get things done, relations for the National Center for Transgender Equality, said the new efforts will “amplify the voices of trans people.” “We’re going to send out our story-tellers so they can help change the narrative that’s out there,” Freedman-Gurspan said. This article is from the Washington Blade, as part of the National LGBT Newspaper As- sociation. Chris Johnson is the chief political and White House reporter for the Washington Blade. Johnson attends the daily White House press briefings and is a member of the White House Correspondents’ Association. Legacy Walk dedication Oct. 15 The Phase 6 dedication of the Legacy Walk Out- door LGBT History Museum will take place Sunday Oct. 15. This year, there will be the addition of a bronze Mara Keisling. memorial commemorating The Harlem Renais- Photo from National Center for Transgender sance, the cultural watershed that established Equality the first urban LGBTQ community in the United States. The public ceremony will start at 2 p.m. at hold people accountable and move the ball for- 3247 N. Halsted St., and will feature remarks ward,” Keisling said. “Things are scary right now, from Mona Noriega, chair of the City of Chicago trans people and our children are being attacked Commission on Human Relations; Dr. Kevin Mum- everywhere, but I promise you we have not come ford, professor of history at the University of Illi- this far to only come this far. We’re still moving nois and the consulting scholar on the endeavor; Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017 forward.” Paul Highfield, representing The Highfield Group, Already the organization has made three en- sponsor of the bronze memorial; and Victor Salvo, dorsements upon its debut. One is Danica Roem, CARNIVALE executive director and co-founder of the Legacy a Virginia transgender journalist seeking to re- Project. place anti-LGBT Del. Bob Marshall in his seat rep- Following the ceremony, a dedication celebra- 702 W Fulton Market, Chicago resenting the state 13th district in the House of tion will take place at Sidetrack, 3349 N. Halsted Delegates. Roem could be the first openly trans- St., 3-5 p.m., emceed by NBC Chicago’s Wayne gender person to be elected and serve in a state TIX AND INFO Johnson (“Wayne’s Weekend”), and starring jazz legislature. vocalist/recording artist Tovi Kahli. The other two candidates are running for Min- Tickets ($50 each) may be purchased at neapolis City Council. One is Andrea Jenkins, run- howardbrown.org/event/bob2017 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/legacy-walk-ded- ning to represent Ward 8 on the city council, and ication-6-tickets-38013139323. the other is Phillipe Cunningham, who’s running 8 Oct. 11, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES MIDWEST LGBTQ HEALTH SYMPOSIUM Symposium addresses HIV treatment, prevention and elimination By matt simonette “We have to talk about it in a way, that asks, “How can you have yummy sex the rest of your Delivering the kickoff speech at Howard Brown life?” Green said, emphasizing that such rhetoric Health’s 2017 Midwest LGBTQ Health Symposium needs buy-in from all stakeholders in HIV treat- on Oct. 7, Richard Elion, clinical professor of ment and prevention. medicine at George Washington University School “We need to all have the same language,” of Medicine, said, “There has never been a time Green said. ”It does no good if it turns a person when it’s been more important to make progress off. There’s no way they’re going took want to as a society.” come in and see me.” Elion—a prominent advocate for HIV/AIDS pre- Green and Pickett emphasized that one use- vention and treatment in Washington, D.C.—was ful adaptation might be a switch from referring speaking about the decline in the overall number to HIV “screening” rather than HIV “testing.” of new HIV infections there. Providers, they noted, usually refer to “screen- “We’ve now gotten to the point where new cas- ing” for other chronic conditions, such as heart es are just under 450 [new infections],” he said. disease or diabetes. That’s a trend mirrored in a number of American “We have to look at our own stigma,” Green cities, Chicago among them. Overall infection said. rates have been declining, but new infections re- Pickett spoke at length about the PrEP 4 Love main on plateaus or on the rise within particular advertising campaign that was launched in 2016, demographics. which attempted to deliver a sex-positive mes- Chicago recently launched a citywide program sage about PrEP. Pickett said that the ads were Broadway Youth Center’s Latonya Maley and George Washington University School of Medicine’s aimed at curtailing infections by the year 2027. intended to not invoke risk or judgement, or de- Richard Elion. But any city doing that needs to address how, liver a message about condoms. Photo by Matt Simonette what and to whom it communicates about HIV/ AIDS, Elion said. He called such strategies “a MIDWEST LGBTQ and polyamorous, among other identities. She behaviors such as drug and alcohol use, unpro- good example of science influencing pubic poli- HEALTH SYMPOSIUM said the stigma around bisexual people involves tected sex, sex work, higher number of sexual cy,” especially strategies stressing the important invisibility (otherwise known as bi-erasure), in partners and pregnancy termination than gay, of Treatment as Prevention interventions, or TasP, Professor talks which people refuse to “name it in research, in lesbian and heterosexual people. She also noted and pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP. practice settings, in the larger culture and in that bisexual people have a higher rate of chron- “Testing is not the way to get out of the epi- bisexual research at LGBT spaces.” ic disease, disability and pain-related physical demic,” he added, noting that some individuals Bostwick explained that oftentimes bisexual complaints. Bostwick provided data on smoking, do infect others even when they know their HIV health symposium people are seen as pathological and/or through heavy drinking, marijuana use and other drug status. Rather, advocates need to also aggres- By Carrie Maxwell the lens of sexual behavior i.e. that they engage use along with physical and psychological health sively promote how individuals can have resourc- in “risky” behavior and this is especially true for concerns to showcase these disparities. es to protect themselves against infection, or be- Howard Brown’s Center for Education, Research men and most especially men of color. In addition to her current research project on gin prompt treatment should they be diagnosed and Advocacy hosted the Midwest LGBTQ Health In terms of studying bisexual health, Bostwick racially and ethnically diverse bisexual women, with HIV. Symposium Oct. 7 at the JW Marriott Chicago. said it is complex due to the wide range of behav- she will also be doing one focusing on racially In a different session, John Schneider, M.D., The symposium featured healthcare profession- iors, identities and other factors that encompass and ethnically diverse bisexual men (both grants who now heads Howard Brown’s new 55th Street als, educators, researchers and advocates speak- the bisexual community. According to data from funded by the National Institute on Minority location and has been active in HIV/AIDS health- ing on the theme, “Breaking the Stigma.” the National Survey of Sexual Health and Behav- Health and Health Disparities) since bisexual- care delivery on the South Side for some time, Dr. Wendy Bostwick, PhD, MPH (University of ior, 2.6 percent of adult men and 3.6 percent of identified people of color are even less under- spoke further about the possibility of total elimi- Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing Health Sys- adult women as well as 1.5 percent of young men stood than their white counterparts. Bostwick nation of transmission events nationwide, which tems Science Department associate professor) and 8.4 percent of young women (ages 14-17) in explained that they will be collecting diary date he said would be possible by the year 2041 “if kicked off the LGBTQ education and research track the United States self-identify as bisexual. over 28-days, using measures of microaggres- we invest at current levels, provided there is no with her lecture, “It’s not a phase: Health inequi- “Why does any of this matter?,” asked Bost- sions, conducting qualitative interviews and as- public health collapse.” ties among bisexual men and women.” wick. “Research has shown that there are sig- sessing access to social supportive and support- Schneider added, “We have the tools we need; Bostwick said stigma has informed much of her nificant health inequities within the bisexual ive communities. we just have to utilize them.” work for a long time. She defined stigma that is population; much more than among the gay, les- Bostwick said more empirical research is He gave smallpox and polio as examples of dis- specifically targeted toward bisexual people as bian and heterosexual populations. These health needed on bisexual people because they are still eases that were effectively eliminated. “I’m not “the process of naming differentness because disparities have been found consistently across under-theorized and overlooked in queer theory. saying it will be ‘zero’ [new HIV cases],” he said. they do not conform to expected social norms— social and behavioral science research over sev- She said it is important for bisexual people to “There will be outbreaks of 50-100 people. ... But however this does not include openly discuss- eral decades. This suggests that bisexual men and build communities and develop uniquely bisexual that’s much better than this sledgehammer every ing or accepting differentness.” Stigma includes women exist in a web of synergistic epidemics spaces. year where we get these numbers of people.” naming difference, stereotyping, categorization that interact with one another to produce nega- “We need to understand the why in order to get Maya Green, MD, who heads Howard Brown’s separation and status loss/discrimination, ac- tive health outcomes due to stigma, discrimina- to appropriate and relevant interventions,” said 63rd Street clinic, and Jim Pickett of AIDS Foun- cording to Bostwick. tion and trauma.” Bostwick. “The lack of data and theory contribute dation of Chicago addressed how providers, advo- When talking about bisexual people, Bostwick Bostwick said bisexual people report higher to few meaningful interventions or programs as- cates and officials can discuss PrEP to emphasize noted that she uses the word frequently in gen- rates of psychosocial health issues like depres- sociated with bi-plus health disparities, at any that the intervention can enhance sexual plea- eral conversation and, at times, she uses the sion, anxiety, substance use, interpersonal vio- level.” sure, not just be a clinical tool. term “bi-plus” to refer to the larger umbrella of lence and death by suicide as well as health risk A Q&A session followed the presentation. people who are bisexual, pansexual, ambisexual WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 11, 2017 9 Noriega said she hopes the summit will help “to educate people, to inform them, mobilize them, UIC to host second help them understand what the law is, encourage communities to access the law, access services that are available to them, understand when to hate-crimes summit report, who to report to, how to report.” Kim Hunt, executive director of Pride Action By Melissa Wasserman networking, collaboration and study. Tank, is facilitating the “How to Have Hard Con- “We see there is underreporting and we think versations” workshop at this year’s Hate Crime Raising awareness and action against hate, the that that is a problem that we can help address Summit. Having been on the planning committee Hate Crime Coalition brings the Hate Crime Sum- by raising the issue, by educating the various for the Hate Crime Summit in 2014, Hunt said she mit: Bridging Systems Against Hate to University communities and stakeholders around what a wanted to attend this year to help educate and of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) on Wed., Oct. 25. hate crime is, how to report it, why is it impor- be part of the conversation. This is the second year that the Hate Crime Co- tant, what it looks like, how it affects different “I wanted to get involved because hate crimes alition is delivering the Hate Crime Summit, with communities, so we’re really hoping to raise the are under-reported, so I think it’s important to the first in 2014. issue to all the people—all the various stake- educate people on what a hate crime is,” said “I think our environment has changed,” said holders,” said Noriega. Hunt. “I also want to be a part of discussions Mona Noriega, commissioner of the Chicago Com- Holding this summit in October was done to that involve finding ways to make sure hate crime mission on Human Rights (CCHR). “I think we’re commemorate the anniversary of the Matthew victims have the supports they need.” in an environment where we are hearing reports Shepard & James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Preven- “This summit is so important this year because of hate speech, hate incidents, hate crimes tion Act that President Obama signed into law in the tenor of the previous presidential election across the country.” October 2009. The message is that hate crimes has created an environment for hate to come The Hate Crime Coalition is a group of indi- continue to increase and be an everyday reality. out of the closet,” said Hunt. “Hate crimes have viduals who represent the various stakeholder “It’s an opportunity to call attention to the le- gone up, white supremacist groups are gaining agencies that work to address the issue of hate gal protections that we have,” said Noriega. visibility and policies are being put forth that crimes, in their respective jurisdiction or areas of The summit’s workshops will be divided into attack the most marginalized in our society. In expertise. The CCHR assembled the coalition in breakout sessions throughout the day and will times like these, people need to know that there 2011 and since then the coalition has delivered include: Law Enforcement: Responding to Hate are laws on the books that protect them and we numerous training and educational forums. Crimes; Hate Crimes and Community; Bystander need to give notice to those who seek to do harm “Each of the members of the Hate Crime Co- Intervention Training; Active Shooter Train- Kim Hunt. based on identity need to know that their crimes alition bring a different perspective and are in- ing; Intersection Between LGBTQ Youth and Photo by Brian Solem will undergo a high level of scrutiny.” volved differently in addressing hate crimes as an Hate Crimes; How to Have Hard Conversations; Hunt added that many hate crimes are directed Coalition Building and Affirmative Community issue,” said Noriega. tian Picciolini, a former white supremacist turned towards LGBTQ people, particularly gender expan- Responses to Hate Crimes; Disability and Hate The event is geared toward service providers, entrepreneur and peace advocate; Pardeep Kaleka, sive people. Crimes, Race; Racism and Hate Crimes. educators, researchers, students, community a licensed therapist and founder of Serve2Unite; “Our community needs to know about their There will also be a lunch time performance groups, law enforcement, policy-makers and oth- and Stephen Scaffidi, a radio talk show host and protections through hate crimes legislation at of “Forging From Fire,” which tells the various ers who can play a role in addressing hate crimes. former mayor of Oak Creek, Wisconsin. the federal and local levels,” said Hunt about the journeys that individual Youth Empowerment Attendees in the legal, social work and law en- “People can benefit by learning,” said Noriega. LGBTQ community. “Our organizations also need Performance Project (YEPP) ensemble members forcement fields also have the opportunity to “Some of the breakout sessions will offer some to have this knowledge as they do outreach to have taken to build lasting relationships and how earn learning credits through some of the sum- skill building. It’s an opportunity to create com- other communities.” circumstances, behaviors and choices can cause mit’s workshops. munity to connect with others who are of like- For more information about the 2017 compromising situations. The purpose of the summit is to provide an mind in terms of wanting to denounce hate Hate Crime Summit, visit: https://www. Featured speakers will include Kimberly M. opportunity to raise awareness regarding hate crimes and who affirmatively work to address cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/cchr/supp_ Foxx, the first African-American woman to lead crimes, while addressing the barriers to report- hate crimes.” info/2017HateCrimesSummit.html. ing hate crimes, as well as providing a space for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office; Chris-

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Member FDIC. ©2017 U.S. Bank. 171177 8/17 “World’s Most Ethical Companies” and “Ethisphere” names and marks are registered trademarks of Ethisphere LLC. 10 Oct. 11, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES LGBT HISTORY MONTH Lyon, Martin paved the way for lesbians By Alex Madison Wedding bells In a time when President Donald Trump has di- When former San Francisco Mayor Gavin New- rected a ban on transgender individuals from som ordered city officials to issue marriage li- serving in the military, his administration has censes to same-sex couples in February 2004, rescinded protections for trans students in public the “Winter of Love” was unleashed, as images of schools and the advancement of LGBTQ national happy gay and lesbian couples lined up outside historic landmarks are in question, the stories of City Hall were beamed into living rooms across those who fought for equal rights in an earlier the country, and around the world. But that day, era seem to be more important than ever before. Feb. 12, started off with a quieter ceremony in- One such story is that of Phyllis Lyon and side a City Hall office, where Newsom married Del Martin, who ushered in the modern lesbian Lyon and Martin, as LGBT community leaders and movement and made history by becoming the others looked on. first same-sex couple married in San Francisco— Ultimately, the California Supreme Court ruled twice. Their accomplishments as activists and several months later that those 2004 marriages the love they shared have become a symbol of were invalid because Newsom had exceeded his perseverance, strength and hope for the LGBTQ authority. Lyon and Martin—and the thousands community. of others—would have to wait four more years, “If you got stuff you want to change, you have when the same court in May 2008 overturned to get out and work on it,” said 93-year-old Lyon. Proposition 22, a same-sex marriage ban, and “You can’t just sit around and say, ‘I wish this or said that denying marriage rights to same-sex that was different.’ You have to fight for it.” couples violated the state Constitution. Wedding Lyon is still a beacon of strength, wit and bells began ringing in the Golden State in June. Del Martin (left) and Phyllis Lyon are married by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom on June 16, charm as she reminisced about her younger years. (The same-sex nuptials were halted in Novem- 2008. Although Martin died in 2008 at age 87, Lyon ber of that year, after state voters passed the Photo courtesy of Associated Press still lives in the couple’s one-bedroom home nes- Proposition 8 marriage ban. After years of legal tled in the hills of Noe Valley, which they shared wrangling, the U.S. Supreme Court in June 2013 it to be a humorous conversation, after Lyon put Together more than 50 years, the couple found- for more than 50 years. tossed out Prop 8 on a technicality and same-sex her on hold to ask Martin. They said yes a few ed the Daughters of Bilitis in 1955, the first so- “I can’t be out galloping around like I used to, marriages resumed in California.) minutes later. cial and political organization for lesbians in the getting stuff done,” said Lyon as she sat in her Martin and Lyon were the first same-sex cou- Kendell attended both marriage ceremonies, an United States. In 1956, they started a newsletter living room during a recent interview with the ple to be married in the city in 2004 and 2008. emotional experience for her. called the Ladder, which grew into a publication Bay Area Reporter. Decades ago, the room served Framed, yellowed San Francisco Chronicle articles “I burst into tears, as did other staffers,” she about lesbian politics and culture and became a as a gathering place for lesbians during a time of of the couple’s historic weddings grace the walls said. “You knew you were a part of something lifeline for hundreds of women isolated and si- social conformity, when the lesbian community of Lyon’s well-lit living room. The headlines read, historically very important standing there.” lenced by the restrictions of the era. only had a handful of bars in the Castro district “Wedding Bells to Ring in a New Era” and “The For someone who grew up in a time where Martin also became an activist for the femi- in which to meet and socialize. Wait is Over.” lesbianism was seen as “immoral, sick and ille- nist movement in 1963 when she was the first “Oh, gosh, we used to have dance parties here “We got it started for everybody else,” Lyon gal,” Lyon said she never believed she would live out lesbian to serve on the board of directors of all the time,” Lyon recalled, smiling. said of her 2004 wedding. “We didn’t get married long enough to marry her “sweety-puss” and the the National Organization for Women. The women Although Lyon said she has not considered sub- just for us. We knew it was important to a lot of love of her life, as she called Martin, let alone were pioneers, tireless activists and together a mitting her home to become a national or local other people.” see same-sex marriage legalized nationally. But symbol of what it means to fight for equality and landmark after she passes, one step inside the Although their first marriage was ended after sure enough, in a landmark decision on June 26, love in the LGBTQ community. cozy abode reveals the couple’s history-making 181 days, it didn’t stop the couple from continu- 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that same-sex Their many contributions over the past five de- life, seen through countless pictures, knickknacks ing their fight. Martin and Lyon exchanged vows couples could marry in all 50 states. cades are credited with shaping the modern LGBT and newspaper clippings. again on June 16, 2008. “I think we’ve made tremendous progress,” said movement. Kendra Mon, Martin’s only child from her first Martin died Aug. 27, just 74 days after again Lyon, laughing about how she is still amazed that In 2005, Lyon and Martin were inducted into marriage, remembers spending summers at the making history. people don’t fall over dead when she tells them the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Associa- couple’s home when she was a student at UC The matching pink and blue suits the couple she is a lesbian. The incredible accomplishments tion’s LGBT Journalists Hall of Fame. Berkeley. Over the years, Mon has come to un- wore are now in the permanent collection in the of Lyon and Martin no doubt played a role in the “No, we are not back in the 1950s, but we are derstand the important role her mother and Lyon archives of the GLBT Historical Society. progress of the LGBTQ community in San Fran- facing some of the most threatening and danger- played in the lesbian community, something she A longtime friend of both women, Kate Kend- cisco and beyond. When Martin died, then-House ous times, certainly in my lifetime,” Kendell said didn’t quite grasp as a young adult. ell, executive director of the National Center for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) famously of the Trump administration’s lack of support of “Lesbians would call the house from all over Lesbian Rights, personally asked Lyon and Martin said, “We would never have marriage equality in the LGBTQ community. “Phyllis and Del are exam- the world,” said Mon, a retired mother of two who to be the first same-sex couple to wed in 2004. California if it weren’t for Del and Phyllis.” ples of how you live during difficult times. I look lives in Petaluma, Calif. “A lot of their friends “I called the house and Phyllis answered the to them as an inspiration, a north star of how you were scared at that time. Mom gave them a place phone. I told her I needed them to do one more Earlier days show up, you fight and be present.” where they could feel safe.” thing for the movement,” Kendell said, recalling Martin began working as an activist after re- Lyon plans to donate some of the items in ceiving her degree in journalism from UC Berke- her home to the Smithsonian Institute after she @windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup ley. While working at a newspaper in Seattle, is gone, but, as Kendell said, the memory and Martin met Lyon in 1950 and the two began legacy of Martin and Lyon live on through their working on behalf of lesbians in their community, writings, perseverance and love for one another. @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com health-care access, advocacy on behalf of bat- Alex Madison is a freelance reporter for the tered women and issues facing elderly Americans. Bay Area Reporter. WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 11, 2017 11 Genderqueer author opens local symposium By Matt Simonette “Kids are used to not knowing things,” they said. “It’s adults who can’t handle their confu- Giving the morning keynote at Illinois Safe sion. ... Kids are a lot more aware than people Schools Alliance’s inaugural symposium on Oct. realize.” 9, author Alex Gino acknowledged, “2017 is com- Gino praised the work of the Alliance and said plicated as A.F. .... We are seeing our rights as that, even if times are politically difficult, there queer people [and others] at risk.” are at least opportunities such as the symposium But Gino, who described themselves as a “cyn- to gather and exchange ideas about LGBT youth ic,” also acknowledged, “While we’re seeing some and their allies. terrifying stuff this year, there are more rights to “Youth are just about the only thing I believe Alex Gino. protect than ever before.” in,” they said. “Maybe they’ll do a better job than Photo by Matt Simonette Gino identifies as genderqueer and uses “they” many of the people before them.” as a pronoun. Their 2016 middle-school novel George was the first book published by Scholastic that focuses crease your sales up to 300%. Because when day, Oct. 12, 6:30-8 p.m. on a transgender central character. 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Activism meet-ups, personal book recommendations, weekly events, Kids Storytime, and more! There are so many reasons to support Chicago’s only feminist bookstore. 12 Oct. 11, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES Queer Brown filmmakers collaborate with CPS students By Liz Baudler could be able to ask a question and we would be able to stop for a moment and actually give them Vincent Martell didn’t find himself inspired by techniques and knowledge.” filmmaking until he went to college in Barcelona. Student shadows both gained professional ex- There, Martell, who now runs VAM Studios (which perience and got paid, but they were not the sole has been around for just two years), was inspired beneficiaries of the experiment. “I think we at by the local film scene. VAM got a lot more out of it than we intended “I kind of wanted to find the edginess within to,” Martell explained. “We sat back and realized, my art culture back home in Chicago,” Martell re- we have to do this for every production.” membered. “I looked around and saw all of this VAM is now budgeting to include at least one amazing art happening with no one really docu- CPS student in forthcoming projects, and their Vincent Martell (right) collaborating with students. menting it.” smooth inclusion in the “LSD” production sur- Photo courtesy of Martell Martell didn’t go to film school, and he doesn’t prised Martell. “The idea of a production is al- regret his lack of formal education. “There are a ready stressful enough, but incorporating those creative position. ence those lessons in order to learn and grow, lot of constraints put on filmmakers throughout other extra elements, it could have easily been a “One thing I’ve learned is that our production and in doing so it’s made me a lot more unapolo- film school, and me being a queer person of color, disaster,” he said. “But I think what kind of got crews are the most diverse in the city,” said Mar- getic.” I think it was important for me to kind of jump it done was this underlying need to create some- tell. “They’re filled with people of color, they’re He said he wishes more established companies in it, and create my own terms, what I thought a thing cool, not just for us, but for the kids too.” filled with women, they’re filled with queers, and with deeper pockets would follow VAM’s lead with production company should look like, versus hav- He remembers a moment he shared with the that’s not something that we intended to do, we similar student programs. “I think VAM is based ing those rules or regulations that film students contest winner, Ashley Huicochea, during the just knew all of these really amazing filmmakers off of collaboration, said Martell. “We don’t do it learn throughout their studies,” he said. video’s first shoot, at 5:30 a.m. on a South Side who happened to be queer, who happened to be alone, so the act of including a younger genera- It also taught him the importance of collabora- beach. “I think I was one of the first people to people of color, who happened to be women.” tion of artists, it’s a no-brainer, and I wish it was tion. “I had a really supportive group of filmmak- arrive on the beach for the scene, and Ashley For these students, Martell wants to be the a no-brainer to more people running production ers and artists who had the background, had the got there pretty early too, which is really really model that he and Bailey did not have in the in- companies and people in the film industry.” experience, and were willing to teach me along impressive. Ashley and I just walked across the dustry, though he acknowledges that role’s chal- And he predicted that Chicago will continue to the way,” he explained. “I think there’s this in- beach, kind of talked about the process and how lenges. “There’s this pressure to always do well, keep its artistic name on the map in the fore- tegrity that’s built with that: you learn this by the day would go, and she started to get emo- because as someone from a marginalized group, seeable future. “There’s something bubbling right yourself, so you’re going to make sure that it’s tional. And it was a cool little moment that we we can’t have those failures,” he explained. “Be- now in the art culture where all of these artists right.” had that made me kind of wake up to the idea of cause then it’s a loss of jobs, it’s a loss of op- are working together and creating a huge voice According to Martell, VAM tries to approach how valuable these experiences can be.” portunity. Whereas people not from those com- together. It feels to us like this is home, but this with artists who fit their ethic, which led the In a documentary VAM created about the “LSD” munities can fail a couple of times. It’s a lot more is also the coolest place to be right now. There’s a company to work recently with spoken word art- collaboration, it’s clear that the students valued difficult for people like me. What I’ve learned is power when artists decide to stay in Chicago and ist Jamila Woods on a video for her latest single, the chance to learn from older versions of them- that it’s OK to experiment, it’s OK to fail, and it’s create in this environment.” “LSD,” an ode to Chicago and its communities. selves. Patricia Frazier, the camera shadow, men- OK to try new things out, because sometimes we The video is at https://youtu.be/gz_kxQd- “She takes from this need to show Black girl tions deliberately watching director Sam Bailey don’t get the opportunity to do that. As queers, SEeE. magic and black joy, women empowerment, and I as an example of a woman of color in a powerful people of color, and women, we need to experi- think that’s something VAM has always preached about,” Martell said of Woods. But for this production, it wasn’t just VAM coming up with ideas. Both Woods and Chance the Rapper, featured in the “LSD” video, wanted to work with CPS students, and so the studio WEDDINGS reached out to aspiring young creatives. “We didn’t want to go through the CPS sys- Yospin- tem; we wanted to interact directly with the kids through social media via Twitter, via Facebook, Valentour Marcia Yospin and Erin Valentour were via Instagram,” said Martell. “The kids that ap- married July 15 in the Crystal ballroom in plied really wanted to apply. This wasn’t a part of Evanston. their curriculum. They did it because they really Photo of Yospin (left) and Valentour by wanted to be on set, do something cool, which Rick Aguilar Studios I loved.” The VAM crew originally planned to select one treatment winner, but they found themselves amazed by the students’ ingenuity. Ultimately they selected 6 students to shadow various pro- duction elements, and the team set about quickly adapting their work processes. “I think from when we received the final treatments to production was probably about a two-week span,” said Martell. “Within that, we wanted to make sure that we can create an inclu- sive set, but also a teaching set so that the kids WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 11, 2017 13 Talking with Eric Grazetti for a few minutes, one realizes that he is in his element as Loews Chicago Hotel’s director of sales and marketing— and that he loves it. Grazetti was in the Washington, D.C., area for 25 years, moving to Chicago in 2011 when he was with a different hotel company. (He’s originally from a small town in Pennsylvania.) “When I went to Montgomery College [in Rockville, Maryland], I had already been working at a community college for a couple years—and decided that was what I wanted to do. “You learn so much about the industry [on the job]—and [a lot] of it is about understanding in the LIFE people,” Grazetti said. “If you learn that quickly and be empathetic to people, you can become Erik Grazetti very successful in this business.” TEXT BY ANDREW DAVIS PHOTOS from Grazetti

• Age • Neighborhood 47 Boystown Moving to Chicago was a big decision for the sales and marketing [efforts], but Loews is • Relationship • Hobby Grazetti—in part, because of his husband. “He’s starting to change that. Now, my role is about Married to Ian, an Cooking (“I’ll go to an interior designer, so he desperately wanted 90-percent marketing; I get involved in sales interior designer a restaurant, then me to choose New York—and I love, love, love when I need to. I have a director of sales who go home and try to • Job title Chicago,” Grazetti said. “I brought him here for a works for me.” re-create a dish.”) Director of sales tour of the city in February, so it was snowy, icy Asked what the best and worst aspects of his job and marketing, • Favorite restaurant and cold—and he wanted to move [here], which are, Grazetti said they’re both related to variance: Loews Chicago PR Italian Bistro was a big surprise to me.” “I love that every day is different, because you Hotel and Balena Grazetti’s role (which involves everything are dealing with people. You never know how from attending multiple meetings to overseeing things are going to go. However, because of that • Favorite snack • Personal mantra photo shoots—possibly in one day) is one chaotic nature, it can be difficult to meet a hard Backyard Barbeque “Nothing is that that has shifted over the years, he said: “My deadline—but that’s fine, because I get bored so Kettle Brand potato serious.” role traditionally had an individual overlooking easily.” chips Grazetti (left) with husband Ian.

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mates, dance, celebrate, blot out pain with liquor and sympathetic ears, and be our real selves for a few hours. WINDY Lee Not to romanticize the experience, the bars also LYNCH gave us the opportunity to feel isolated from our CITY own people, breathe in dangerous levels of tobacco THE AMAZON TRAIL smoke, develop into alcoholics, get into fights, be ripped off by the owners, and arrested by the police. TIMES Happy hours I wrote a whole book about that last, it’s called The VOL. 33, No. 04, Oct. 11, 2017 Raid. The combined forces of Windy City Times, One day, out of the blue, I received an email from founded Sept. 1985, and Outlines newspaper, When I did Off the Rag: Lesbians Writing on Meno- founded May 1987. well-respected writer Renee Bess. In her thoughtful, pause and The Butch Cook Book, my co-editors and elegant style, she asked if I would be interested in I had to coax, beg, plead, transcribe and otherwise PUBLISHER & EXECUTIVE EDITOR working together to produce an anthology about the badger submissions from women interested in writ- Tracy Baim role gay bars have played in our lives. ing about the subject. With Happy Hours, Renee and I was on board before I finished reading. A gay I were elated to be inundated with heartfelt, quality ASSISTANT PUBLISHER Terri Klinsky bar anthology, I immediately thought, was a bril- MANAGING EDITOR Andrew Davis donations of every type of writing from a hefty cross ASSOCIATE EDITOR Matt Simonette liant idea and worked in so many ways. section of our tribe. BUSINESS MANAGER Ripley Caine For one thing, it would capture a big chunk of our And donations they were. We’re really hoping to DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA Jean Albright history, and document it, whether it be in the form make a difference to our kids with this fundraiser; ART DIRECTOR Kirk Williamson Senior Account Executives Terri Klinsky, of memoirs or poems or fiction or essays. For an- every stitch of work is volunteered. Of course, writers Kirk Williamson, Amy Matheny, Scott Duff, other, it would honor that history. Perhaps, I hoped, are used to giving away our work just to get it into Monika Pickett, David Strzepek it would give young LGBT people an understanding print somewhere. This time, though, the publisher, conflicts or arguments. A lot of the time, all I had to NATIONAL SALES Rivendell Media, 212-242- 6863 of the attraction of the bars, of places of our own, Patty Schramm is taking no money and expending do was say yes to Renee’s creative ideas. SENIOR WRITERS Bob Roehr, Tony Peregrin, back when holding hands under a table was both hours and hours plus a goodly sum for producing I continue to be stunned by the devotion everyone Lisa Keen, Yasmin Nair daring and forbidden. Happy Hours: Our Lives In The the book, which will be the inaugural project for her has shown to our cause. The ambitious contributors, THEATER EDITOR Scott C. Morgan Gay Bars is not about the pleasures or tragedies of CINEMA WRITER Richard Knight Jr. company, Flashpoint Publications. Patty’s knowledge though, are a special breed. Their excitement over SPORTS WRITER Ross Forman alcohol, but the camaraderie we found—or didn’t of the publishing process is magic. She’s doing the Happy Hours is a joy to see. All they needed was the ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WRITERS find—inside those loud, dark, smoke-filled rooms typesetting herself. go-ahead and they began promotion and marketing Mary Shen Barnidge, Lawrence Ferber, Mel where we took our freedoms. Award-winning cover artist Ann McMan is in great on their own. Ferrand, Jerry Nunn, Jonathan Abarbanel COLUMNISTS/WRITERS: Yvonne Zipter, Jorjet Renee emphasized how important it was to her to demand, yet gave her time not only to produce a Our writers and poets make a little community, Harper, Charlsie Dewey, Carrie Maxwell, Billy have a widely diverse collection. I felt the same and genius cover, but to our requests for tweaks and with their wide spectrum of gender, color, back- Masters, Sarah Toce, Dana Rudolph, Melissa we committed to vigorous outreach. changes. The result is a dynamic and irresistible grounds and ethnicity. Wasserman, Joe Franco, Nick Patricca, Liz Renee proposed we do the book as a fundraiser for Baudler, Rex Wockner, Angelique Smith cover that truly represents what’s inside. Writers All the collaborators remind me of the old days, SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHERS Kat Fitzgerald, Hal youth shelters, the antithesis of the bars. All profits Lori Lake and Nann Dunn have also heartily pitched when we were so embattled, a united front was a Baim, Tim Carroll, Ed Negron would go to that cause. Sounded perfect to me. We in. Editing, copyrighting—all the unglamorous stuff necessity. While I don’t long for the days of col- WEBSITE LISTINGS VOLUNTEER Gene Naden both chose programs in the cities where we entered has been taken over by the gay women who seem to lectives, communes, and the teachings of Chairman CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Jean Albright DISTRIBUTION Ashina, Allan, Dan, John, Sue the gay world, Philadelphia for Renee and New York live to create and broaden our literature. Mao’s Little Red Book, Happy Hours is the product and Victor for me. My energy reserves get lower every year, but I of the kind of enthusiastic shared undertaking that WEB HOSTING LoveYourWebsite.com (lead We had an enormous pool of contributors from knew this book needed to be out there and Renee powered the labor, civil-rights, women’s and gay- programmer: Martie Marro) which to draw. Not many writers resisted the com- was the perfect partner to make it happen. She’s rights movements. Copyright 2017 Lambda Publications Inc./Windy City Media panionship offered in the heydays of the bars. That’s done all the hard administrative work: concept, After the Stonewall riots, it may be the best thing Group; All rights reserved. Reprint by permission only. Back issues (if available) for $5 per issue (postage included). where we could feel normal for a while, where we complications, keeping on top of things. We’re both to ever come out of our bars. Return postage must accompany all manuscripts, drawings, and photographs submitted if they are to be returned, and could go to hang out with friends, meet our soul- pretty low key and agreeable types, so have had no Copyright Lee Lynch 2017 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. The opinions expressed by the columnists, cartoonists, letter writers, and commentators are their own letters and do not necessarily reflect the position ofWindy City Times. Publication of the name, photograph, or likeness of a person or organization in articles or advertising in Windy City Times is not to be construed as any indication of the By referring to transgender people’s desires to the world and the history that He has entrusted to sexual orientation of such person or organization. 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To say that transgender people are acting against lows one to see as open to free choice—which it’s In another section of his talk, the pontiff said that the plan of God is actually itself a rejection of God’s not!—is thus likely to dismantle the source of en- men and women “were created, in their blessed dif- plan for these sacred human beings. ergy that nourishes the alliance of man and woman ference; together they have sinned, for their pre- Francis DeBernardo and makes it creative and fruitful.” sumption to replace God ... to honor the care of New Ways Ministry WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 11, 2017 15 WINDY CITY TIMES DIVERSIONS THEATER • FILM • ENTERTAINMENT • SPORTS

19 28 28 ‘Choir’ learning WCT reviews the production Choir Boy. L.A. Burdick. RPDR “Final Five” at Roscoe’s. Photo of Choir Boy’s cast by Christopher Semel

SCOTTISH PLAY SCOTT Genius in decline BY SCOTT C. MORGAN starred as Williams in a fully staged developmen- tal production of God Looked Away by Dotson Out actor Danne W. Taylor was surprised at how Rader (famed for his gossipy memoir Tennessee: quickly the Chicago premiere of His Greatness Cry of the Heart, which detailed his high times as came about. It was only about three months ago a companion to Williams). that Taylor shared a published edition of Daniel God Looked Away was eviscerated by critic MacIvor’s Tennessee Williams-inspired script to Charles McNulty in the Los Angeles Times, so Pride Films and Plays executive director David it’s unlikely that Rader’s drama will be seen lo- Zak. cally any time soon. In the meantime there’s His “I figured it might show up a year or two later Greatness, which also explores the sad artistic down the line,” Taylor said. “But then almost im- and personal decline of one of America’s greatest mediately David was emailing me saying that he playwrights. had talked to the playwright and wanted to do “It was such a tragedy at how his life ended a reading. And then we were casting and doing up,” said Taylor said about Williams’ latter days rehearsals.” before his accidental choking death in 1983 at Now Taylor is starring in His Greatness at the the age of 71. “Falling deeper into drugs and al- Pride Arts Center. MacIvor’s drama, which Taylor cohol and things like that—it became a vicious had first seen at the New York Fringe Festival in cycle.” Andrew Kain Miller, Whitman Johnson and Danne W. Taylor (from left) in His Greatness. 2009, doesn’t specifically name the mastermind His Greatness plays from Saturday, Oct. 14, PR photo by David Zak behind such iconic plays as The Glass Menagerie, through Sunday, Nov. 12, in The Buena of the A Streetcar Named Desire or Cat on a Hot Tin Pride Arts Center, 4147 N. Broadway. Tickets The plot of Zombie Bathhouse concerns a DJ “It’s the opposite of slut shaming,” Free said Roof. are $20 for previews (through Oct. 15) and named Michael, who invites his friends to the lo- with a laugh, noting the copious amount of men- Yet MacIvor was inspired to write His Greatness $25 during the regular run. Call 800-737- cal bathhouse when he gets a Pride celebration in-towels costuming involved in the production. after hearing of an apocryphal incident involv- 0984 or visit PrideFilmsAndPlays.com. gig. But then all hell breaks loose when a zombie The Zombie Bathhouse co-creators also joked ing Williams during a Canadian visit to the Van- outbreak occurs. at how they were both familiar with the milieu couver Playhouse for a 1980 production of his The Cruising Dead Now both Free and Kirst wanted to steer clear of their show’s setting. Kirst even noted that he lesser-known play The Red Devil Battery Sign. Set Just in time for the Halloween season, Camp- from any allegories to diseases like HIV/AIDS or briefly worked at a snack bar within the bath- over the course of two days in a hotel room, His songs Productions is unleashing the world pre- to illicit drugs for Zombie Bathhouse. house Man’s Country after he was laid off from a Greatness focuses on the power plays between miere rock musical Zombie Bathhouse. It’s an “There is a social/political background to how corporate job. an aging gay writer (Taylor as “The Playwright”), idea and title that first struck songwriter Scott our zombies are created,” said Kirst, who took “I have gone back since I’ve written it, purely his devoted younger companion (A.K. Miller as Free (Homolatte, Witches Among Us) almost a historical inspiration from pre-Stonewall bar raids for research,” Kirst said. “Kind of bone up on “The Assistant”) and an interloping street hustler decade ago. for the show’s flashback sequences. “It may not Steamworks and Man’s Country just purely for (Whitman Johnson as “The Young Man”). “It was just a combination of the two ideas of have been our original intent, but just because of subtext and texture.” “Maybe it didn’t really happen, but the story is zombies and bathhouses,” Free said with a laugh. our passion and interests in activism, that kind Campsongs Productions’ world premiere of out there,” Taylor said. “The Assistant started out “Nothing deeper than that.” of happened.” Zombie Bathhouse plays from Friday, Oct. 13, in the same place as The Young Man they hire to Yet Free knew he needed a collaborator who On the other hand, Kirst said he and Free have through Sunday, Oct. 29, in the Center On Hal- escort him to the premiere.” was thoroughly versed in horror to write the also been accused of slut shaming courtesy of sted’s Hoover-Leppen Theatre, 3656 N. Halst- Now His Greatness is not the only end-of-life script. So Free corralled playwright Brian Kirst, negative Facebook comments (even though Zom- ed St. Tickets are $20; visit CenterOnHalsted. Tennessee Williams drama out there. Earlier this famed for his blog Big Gay Horror Fan, to write bie Bathhouse had yet to play any public perfor- org or ZombieBathhouse.net for more informa- year at California’s Pasadena Playhouse, Al Pacino the musical’s book. mances). tion. 16 Oct. 11, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES

What is TRUVADA for PrEP? Who should not take TRUVADA for PrEP? TRUVADA for PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) is a prescription medicine that is used Do not take TRUVADA for PrEP if you: together with safer sex practices to help reduce the risk of getting HIV-1 through sex. ® Already have HIV-1 infection or if you do not know your HIV-1 status. If This use is only for HIV-negative adults who are at high risk of getting HIV-1. To help you are HIV-1 positive, you need to take other medicines with TRUVADA to treat determine your risk of getting HIV-1, talk openly with your healthcare provider about HIV-1. TRUVADA by itself is not a complete treatment for HIV-1. If you have HIV-1 your sexual health. and take only TRUVADA, your HIV-1 may become harder to treat over time. Ask your healthcare provider if you have questions about how to prevent getting HIV. ® Also take certain medicines to treat hepatitis B infection. Always practice safer sex and use condoms to lower the chance of sexual contact with What are the other possible side effects of TRUVADA for PrEP? body fl uids. Never reuse or share needles or other items that have body fl uids on them. Serious side effects of TRUVADA may also include: IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION ® Kidney problems, including kidney failure. Your healthcare provider may do What is the most important information I should know about blood tests to check your kidneys before and during treatment with TRUVADA. TRUVADA for PrEP? If you develop kidney problems, your healthcare provider may tell you to stop taking TRUVADA. Before taking TRUVADA for PrEP: ® Too much lactic acid in your blood (lactic acidosis), which is a serious but ® You must be HIV-negative before you start taking TRUVADA for PrEP. You must rare medical emergency that can lead to death. Tell your healthcare provider get tested to make sure that you do not already have HIV-1. Do not take TRUVADA right away if you get these symptoms: weakness or being more tired than usual, to reduce the risk of getting HIV-1 unless you are confi rmed to be HIV-negative. unusual muscle pain, being short of breath or fast breathing, stomach pain with ® Many HIV-1 tests can miss HIV-1 infection in a person who has recently nausea and vomiting, cold or blue hands and feet, feel dizzy or lightheaded, or a become infected. If you have fl u-like symptoms, you could have recently become fast or abnormal heartbeat. infected with HIV-1. Tell your healthcare provider if you had a fl u-like illness within ® Severe liver problems, which in rare cases can lead to death. Tell your the last month before starting or at any time while taking TRUVADA for PrEP. healthcare provider right away if you get these symptoms: skin or the white part Symptoms of new HIV-1 infection include tiredness, fever, joint or muscle aches, of your eyes turns yellow, dark “tea-colored” urine, light-colored stools, loss of headache, sore throat, vomiting, diarrhea, rash, night sweats, and/or enlarged appetite for several days or longer, nausea, or stomach-area pain. lymph nodes in the neck or groin. ® Bone problems, including bone pain, softening, or thinning, which may lead to While taking TRUVADA for PrEP: fractures. Your healthcare provider may do tests to check your bones. ® You must continue to use safer sex practices. Just taking TRUVADA for PrEP Common side effects in people taking TRUVADA for PrEP are stomach-area may not keep you from getting HIV-1. (abdomen) pain, headache, and decreased weight. Tell your healthcare provider if I'm passionate, ® You must stay HIV-negative to keep taking TRUVADA for PrEP: you have any side effects that bother you or do not go away. ® Get tested for HIV-1 at least every 3 months. What should I tell my healthcare provider before taking ® If you think you were exposed to HIV-1, tell your healthcare provider right away. TRUVADA for PrEP? ® To further help reduce your risk of getting HIV-1: ® All your health problems. Be sure to tell your healthcare provider if you have or not impulsive. ® Know your HIV status and the HIV status of your partners. have had any kidney, bone, or liver problems, including hepatitis. ® Get tested for other sexually transmitted infections. Other infections make it ® If you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known if I know who I am. And I make choices that fi t my life. easier for HIV to infect you. TRUVADA can harm your unborn baby. If you become pregnant while taking ® Get information and support to help reduce risky sexual behavior, such as TRUVADA for PrEP, talk to your healthcare provider to decide if you should having fewer sex partners. keep taking TRUVADA. TRUVADA for PrEP™ is a once-daily prescription medicine that ® Do not miss any doses of TRUVADA. Missing doses may increase your risk of ® If you are breastfeeding (nursing) or plan to breastfeed. Do not breastfeed. If can help reduce the risk of getting HIV-1 when taken every day getting HIV-1 infection. you become HIV-positive, HIV can be passed to the baby in breast milk. ® If you do become HIV-1 positive, you need more medicine than TRUVADA ® All the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter and used together with safer sex practices. alone to treat HIV-1. TRUVADA by itself is not a complete treatment for HIV-1. If medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. TRUVADA may interact with you have HIV-1 and take only TRUVADA, your HIV-1 may become harder to treat other medicines. Keep a list of all your medicines and show it to your healthcare ® TRUVADA for PrEP is only for adults who are at high risk of getting HIVthrough sex. over time. provider and pharmacist when you get a new medicine. TRUVADA can cause serious side effects: ® If you take certain other medicines with TRUVADA, your healthcare provider ® You must be HIV-negative before you start taking TRUVADA for PrEP. may need to check you more often or change your dose. These medicines ® Worsening of hepatitis B (HBV) infection. TRUVADA is not approved to treat HBV. include certain medicines to treat hepatitis C (HCV) infection. If you have HBV and stop taking TRUVADA, your HBV may suddenly get worse. Do Ask your doctor about your risk of getting HIV-1 infection not stop taking TRUVADA without fi rst talking to your healthcare provider, as they You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the will need to monitor your health. FDA. Visit www.FDA.gov/medwatch, or call 1-800-FDA-1088. and if TRUVADA for PrEP may be right for you.

Please see Important Facts about TRUVADA for PrEP including important warnings on the following page. Learn more at truvada.com

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What is TRUVADA for PrEP? Who should not take TRUVADA for PrEP? TRUVADA for PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) is a prescription medicine that is used Do not take TRUVADA for PrEP if you: together with safer sex practices to help reduce the risk of getting HIV-1 through sex. ® Already have HIV-1 infection or if you do not know your HIV-1 status. If This use is only for HIV-negative adults who are at high risk of getting HIV-1. To help you are HIV-1 positive, you need to take other medicines with TRUVADA to treat determine your risk of getting HIV-1, talk openly with your healthcare provider about HIV-1. TRUVADA by itself is not a complete treatment for HIV-1. If you have HIV-1 your sexual health. and take only TRUVADA, your HIV-1 may become harder to treat over time. Ask your healthcare provider if you have questions about how to prevent getting HIV. ® Also take certain medicines to treat hepatitis B infection. Always practice safer sex and use condoms to lower the chance of sexual contact with What are the other possible side effects of TRUVADA for PrEP? body fl uids. Never reuse or share needles or other items that have body fl uids on them. Serious side effects of TRUVADA may also include: IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION ® Kidney problems, including kidney failure. Your healthcare provider may do What is the most important information I should know about blood tests to check your kidneys before and during treatment with TRUVADA. TRUVADA for PrEP? If you develop kidney problems, your healthcare provider may tell you to stop taking TRUVADA. Before taking TRUVADA for PrEP: ® Too much lactic acid in your blood (lactic acidosis), which is a serious but ® You must be HIV-negative before you start taking TRUVADA for PrEP. You must rare medical emergency that can lead to death. Tell your healthcare provider get tested to make sure that you do not already have HIV-1. Do not take TRUVADA right away if you get these symptoms: weakness or being more tired than usual, to reduce the risk of getting HIV-1 unless you are confi rmed to be HIV-negative. unusual muscle pain, being short of breath or fast breathing, stomach pain with ® Many HIV-1 tests can miss HIV-1 infection in a person who has recently nausea and vomiting, cold or blue hands and feet, feel dizzy or lightheaded, or a become infected. If you have fl u-like symptoms, you could have recently become fast or abnormal heartbeat. infected with HIV-1. Tell your healthcare provider if you had a fl u-like illness within ® Severe liver problems, which in rare cases can lead to death. Tell your the last month before starting or at any time while taking TRUVADA for PrEP. healthcare provider right away if you get these symptoms: skin or the white part Symptoms of new HIV-1 infection include tiredness, fever, joint or muscle aches, of your eyes turns yellow, dark “tea-colored” urine, light-colored stools, loss of headache, sore throat, vomiting, diarrhea, rash, night sweats, and/or enlarged appetite for several days or longer, nausea, or stomach-area pain. lymph nodes in the neck or groin. ® Bone problems, including bone pain, softening, or thinning, which may lead to While taking TRUVADA for PrEP: fractures. Your healthcare provider may do tests to check your bones. ® You must continue to use safer sex practices. Just taking TRUVADA for PrEP Common side effects in people taking TRUVADA for PrEP are stomach-area may not keep you from getting HIV-1. (abdomen) pain, headache, and decreased weight. Tell your healthcare provider if I'm passionate, ® You must stay HIV-negative to keep taking TRUVADA for PrEP: you have any side effects that bother you or do not go away. ® Get tested for HIV-1 at least every 3 months. What should I tell my healthcare provider before taking ® If you think you were exposed to HIV-1, tell your healthcare provider right away. TRUVADA for PrEP? ® To further help reduce your risk of getting HIV-1: ® All your health problems. Be sure to tell your healthcare provider if you have or not impulsive. ® Know your HIV status and the HIV status of your partners. have had any kidney, bone, or liver problems, including hepatitis. ® Get tested for other sexually transmitted infections. Other infections make it ® If you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known if I know who I am. And I make choices that fi t my life. easier for HIV to infect you. TRUVADA can harm your unborn baby. If you become pregnant while taking ® Get information and support to help reduce risky sexual behavior, such as TRUVADA for PrEP, talk to your healthcare provider to decide if you should having fewer sex partners. keep taking TRUVADA. TRUVADA for PrEP™ is a once-daily prescription medicine that ® Do not miss any doses of TRUVADA. Missing doses may increase your risk of ® If you are breastfeeding (nursing) or plan to breastfeed. Do not breastfeed. If can help reduce the risk of getting HIV-1 when taken every day getting HIV-1 infection. you become HIV-positive, HIV can be passed to the baby in breast milk. ® If you do become HIV-1 positive, you need more medicine than TRUVADA ® All the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter and used together with safer sex practices. alone to treat HIV-1. TRUVADA by itself is not a complete treatment for HIV-1. If medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. TRUVADA may interact with you have HIV-1 and take only TRUVADA, your HIV-1 may become harder to treat other medicines. Keep a list of all your medicines and show it to your healthcare ® TRUVADA for PrEP is only for adults who are at high risk of getting HIVthrough sex. over time. provider and pharmacist when you get a new medicine. TRUVADA can cause serious side effects: ® If you take certain other medicines with TRUVADA, your healthcare provider ® You must be HIV-negative before you start taking TRUVADA for PrEP. may need to check you more often or change your dose. These medicines ® Worsening of hepatitis B (HBV) infection. TRUVADA is not approved to treat HBV. include certain medicines to treat hepatitis C (HCV) infection. If you have HBV and stop taking TRUVADA, your HBV may suddenly get worse. Do Ask your doctor about your risk of getting HIV-1 infection not stop taking TRUVADA without fi rst talking to your healthcare provider, as they You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the will need to monitor your health. FDA. Visit www.FDA.gov/medwatch, or call 1-800-FDA-1088. and if TRUVADA for PrEP may be right for you.

Please see Important Facts about TRUVADA for PrEP including important warnings on the following page. Learn more at truvada.com

TVDC0139_PrEP_B_10x10_WindyCityTimes_Vogue_p1.indd 1-2 7/10/17 12:26 PM 18 Oct. 11, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES

IMPORTANT FACTS This is only a brief summary of important information about taking TRUVADA for PrEPTM (pre-exposure prophylaxis) to help reduce the (tru-VAH-dah) risk of getting HIV-1 infection. This does not replace talking to your healthcare provider about your medicine.

MOST IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS OF TRUVADA FOR PrEP TRUVADA FOR PrEP TRUVADA can cause serious side effects, including: Before starting TRUVADA for PrEP: • Those in the “Most Important Information About TRUVADA for PrEP” section. • You must be HIV-1 negative. You must get tested to make sure that you do not already • New or worse kidney problems, including kidney failure. have HIV-1. Do not take TRUVADA for PrEP to reduce the risk of getting HIV-1 unless you are • Too much lactic acid in your blood (lactic acidosis), which is a serious but rare medical emergency confirmed to be HIV-1 negative. that can lead to death. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you get these symptoms: weakness or being more tired than usual, unusual muscle pain, being short of breath or fast breathing, stomach • Many HIV-1 tests can miss HIV-1 infection in a person who has recently become pain with nausea and vomiting, cold or blue hands and feet, feel dizzy or lightheaded, or a fast or Symptoms of new HIV-1 infection include flu-like symptoms, tiredness, fever, joint or infected. abnormal heartbeat. muscle aches, headache, sore throat, vomiting, diarrhea, rash, night sweats, and/or enlarged • Severe liver problems, which in rare cases can lead to death. Tell your healthcare provider right away lymph nodes in the neck or groin. Tell your healthcare provider if you have had a flu-like illness if you get these symptoms: skin or the white part of your eyes turns yellow, dark “tea-colored” urine, within the last month before starting TRUVADA for PrEP. light-colored stools, loss of appetite for several days or longer, nausea, or stomach-area pain. While taking TRUVADA for PrEP: • Bone problems. • You must continue to use safer sex practices. Just taking TRUVADA for PrEP may not Common side effects in people taking TRUVADA for PrEP include stomach-area (abdomen) pain, keep you from getting HIV-1. headache, and decreased weight. • You must stay HIV-negative to keep taking TRUVADA for PrEP.Get tested for HIV-1 at least These are not all the possible side effects of TRUVADA. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you every 3 months while taking TRUVADA for PrEP. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you have any new symptoms while taking TRUVADA for PrEP. think you were exposed to HIV-1 or have a flu-like illness while taking TRUVADA for PrEP. Your healthcare provider will need to do tests to monitor your health before and during • If you do become HIV-1 positive, you need more medicine than TRUVADA alone to treatment with TRUVADA for PrEP. treat HIV-1. If you have HIV-1 and take only TRUVADA, your HIV-1 may become harder to treat over time. • See the “How To Further Reduce Your Risk” section for more information. BEFORE TAKING TRUVADA FOR PrEP TRUVADA may cause serious side effects, including: Tell your healthcare provider if you: • Have or have had any kidney, bone, or liver problems, including hepatitis. • Worsening of hepatitis B (HBV) infection. TRUVADA is not approved to treat HBV. If you • Have any other medical conditions. have HBV, your HBV may suddenly get worse if you stop taking TRUVADA. 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TVDC0159_PrEP_B_10x10_WindyCityTimes_Cafe_p1.indd 3 8/3/17 11:48 AM WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 11, 2017 19 THEATER REVIEW Williams, as Tabitha/Louise, has a wacky charm as Tabitha and generates over-the-top laughs as Bewildered From left: the drunk Louise Tate. The rest of the cast—in- Music: Aaron Benham Robert Williams, cluding the magical stage hands—are all terrific Book & Lyrics: Aaron Benham & Ron Weaver Scott Sawa and and well cast. Directed by: Brigitte Ditmars Elizabeth Morgan As in almost every Hell in a Handbag show, At: Stage 773, 1225 W Belmont in Bewildered. Ed Jones steals the show. His Uncle Arthur is so Tickets: handbagproductions.org and Photo by hilarious that the stage lights up whenever he’s Stage773.com: $22-$39 Rick Aguilar there. Runs through: Nov. 11 Studios Ron Weaver’s book is not only funny but very smart. He gives depth to the Kravitz character BY ERIC KARAS that we’ve never thought about before. Is she spying on her neighbors because she’s in an Hell in a Handbag productions celebrates its 15th unhappy marriage or has low self esteem? Aar- anniversary with the staging of Bewildered, a on Benham’s music is fun and joyous, perfectly parody musical of LGBT favorite Bewitched told matching the ‘60s sitcom feel—and they have from the perspective of nosy neighbor Gladys a full band, which sounds great. Ditmars keeps Kravitz. things moving along and I especially loved her The original TV series only worked because of pathos, desperation and humor of this comic re- fabulous outfits and side-eye sarcasm. The two use of the magical stage hands as props and the appeal of Elizabeth Montgomery as Saman- lief character forced into the spotlight. Elizabeth Darrins (you know there had to be two), played greek chorus. tha Stephens. Bewildered has to work due to the Morgan does a fine job as Samantha but this is by Scott Sawa are AJ Wright, are letter-perfect. Fly your broomstick over to Stage 773, and appeal of Caitlin Jackson as Gladys Kravitz and truly Caitlin and Gladys’ show. AJ hasn’t quite lost his Blanche Devereaux (from check out this hilarious and fun show. she is more than up to the task. She brings the David Cerda is in his sweet spot as Endora, all their Golden Girls show), and I love it. Robert

THEATER REVIEW virtues (or pragmatics, anyway) of ethical disci- caprices with fraternal patience, as does Junior mencement exercises, its affirmation of faith dis- pline presents dramatic potential too irresistible Davis, the former’s sidekick, while loner David playing an ironic edge after a secular tune (Skip Choir Boy to ignore. Heard sequesters himself within his call to the Scarborough’s ”Never Been So Much In Love”) Playwright: Tarell Alvin McCraney What distinguishes the lads of the Charles R. ministry. Headmaster Marrow and guest instruc- intrudes to further disturb the placid surface of a At: Raven Theatre, 6157 N. Clark St. Drew Prep School For Boys from their counter- tor Pendleton offer what counsel they can, but feigned unity. Tickets: $43-$46 parts at Groton or Gonzaga is, first, that the five even adults endowed with experience and wis- The chorale selections are performed by an Runs through: Nov. 12 whom we meet are all African-American and, dom are not without their blind spots. adroit cast exhibiting crystalline a cappella har- second, that their chief extracurricular activity Given the absence of foreshadowed tropes evi- monies under the vocal tutelage of Frederick Har- BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE revolves, not around sports, but music—specifi- denced in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s universe, the ris and choreography of Breon Arzell. This doesn’t cally, the gospel choir cherished by nearly a half- warblers’ propensity for expressing themselves mean that playgoers are to wallow in mindless There are probably hundreds of private schools century of Drew alumni. through their concert repertoire becomes a valu- reverie as they would at a musical, however. No throughout our nation where young men com- The loyalties in this band of brothers are divid- able aid to our comprehension of the collective matter whose side we take in professor Pendle- plete their educations with no life-altering in- ed between Bobby Marrow, the headmaster’s re- zeitgeist and the occasional individual unease ton’s class discussion regarding the slave origins cident, but you won’t find them in fiction. The bellious nephew, and Pharus Young, an immense- as well. McCraney’s soliloquies encompass folk of the songs now called “spirituals,” the pallia- premise of culturally unruly and hormone-racked ly talented and proudly gay scholarship student lamentations like “Motherless Child” or country tive power of these prayers for deliverance from adolescents confined within a unigender environ- not above flaunting his excellence. Anthony “AJ” hymns like “Trust and Obey.” This last selection suffering demand our attention. ment charged with indoctrinating them in the James, the latter’s het roommate, tolerates these serves as the invocation for Drew academy’s com- c

THEATER REVIEW volume, he begins to embrace the role imposed CRITICS’PICKS upon him by his disciples. When the lawless ac- The Heavens are Hung in Black, Shattered The Making of a Christopher tions of his zealous followers threaten to eclipse Globe at Theater Wit, through Oct. 21. The year Meister in the good intentions at the root of the charade, 1862 tested Abe Lincoln to his political and per- Modern Folk Hero The Making Renzo’s faith in his own manifesto—though it sonal max. James Still’s history pageant makes Playwright: Martin Zimmerman of a Modern could also merely be hubristic egotism, depend- a few bits up, but brings Abe to life as well as At: Other Theater at Chicago Folk Hero. ing on how you look at it—as he confronts the anyone has, especially as played by Lawrence Dramatists, 1105 W. Chicago Ave. Photo by assassin sent to kill him leads him to plead for Grimm. JA Tickets: $25 Carin Silkaitis the spectacular martyrdom he once craved. The Audience, Timeline Theatre Company, Runs through: Oct. 29 Audiences should not allow themselves to be through Nov. 12. We Yanks just can’t get enough distracted by Zimmerman’s irreverent approach of Buckingham Palace gossip, and Peter Morgan BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE to his narration, however. Despite the Pepe Le is happy to serve up his silver-fork speculations Pew accent sported by Hannah Toriumi’s hit- in properly satisfactory manner. MSB You wonder how cults are born, swelling from turned-congressman David Dover, with a scheme woman, Renzo’s frequent reliance on arcane ex- Fun Home, Victory Gardens Theater, through small enclaves to encompass tribal sects world- for circumventing bureaucratic obstacles in his ercises prescribed by his former acting teacher Nov. 12. Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori’s Tony wide. Martin Zimmerman offers a cautionary quest for humanitarian reforms. The plan is to and the shadow-puppet special effects created Award-winning musical adaptation of Alison fable of a massive messianic movement whose hire a low-profile Nobody to pose as a high- by Celeste Burns, Adelina Feldman-Schultz and Bechdel’s 2006 graphic memoir is back. Broadway origins lie in an actor of pudgy physique and profile Somebody capable of spurring citizens to Becca Sheehan, neither Kelly Howe’s direction, veteran Gary Griffin directs a gloriously intimate modest talents, a cheap Halloween mask-and- demand an end to the selfish practices of a cor- nor Christopher Meister, Aida Delaz and Robert and heartbreaking production that musicalizes cape costume and a populace desperate for a rupt government. This icon is to be called “Volo N. Isaac’s performances, are employed in pur- Bechdel’s life as a budding lesbian in contrast prophet to lead them out of their oppression. Publius”—a title loosely translating to “The suit of simple cutesy nerd-culture drollery. How- to her closeted gay dad’s troubled existence. SCM When we first meet Renzo Rafaeli, he is pre- People Want”—his slogan is to be the colloquial ever, they instead reflect a sharply satirical look Sylvester, or The Wicked Uncle, Lifeline The- paring to post his suicide on the internet, hop- “Let’s get this shit done!” and his gospel spread at the hazards of superstardom—not just in the atre, through Oct. 29. A regency romance framed ing to achieve in death the enduring eminence throughout the global community by investiga- realm of politics, but in every social sphere of in the visual device of a board game makes for eluding him in life, when his farewell address tive blogger Vanessa “Indie-tegrity.” every age. extra playfulness in Christina Calvit’s latest is interrupted by the arrival of boyhood chum- Renzo is understandably skeptical at first, Georgette Heyer makeover. MSB but as the mystique of Volo Publius grows in —By Abarbanel, Barnidge and Morgan 20 Oct. 11, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES eSPOTLIGHT The cast of Queerly Beloved. Another national tour of the global hit musical Photo by Les Miserables is back for a brief, barricade- Sam Bengston busting run in Chicago. Do note that this tour is not based upon the original turntable-domi- nated production, but rather directors Laurence Connor and James Powell’s version featuring projections of Hugo’s own Parisian sketches and paintings. Les Miserables plays Oct. 11-29 at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, 151 W. Randolph THEATER REVIEW appear throughout the show, though these seem St. Tickets start at $57, and go up to $272 Caption: Nick Cartell stars as Jean more vehicles for comedy rather than to display for VIP packages; call 800-775-2000 or visit Valjean in the national touring return of Les Queerly Beloved: An musical talent. BroadwayInChicago.com. Miserables. Photo by Matthew Murphy The performance space is comfortably set, with LGBT+ Comedy Revue cocktail tables and chairs and a bar/lounge out- Robin Hood in medieval England; and recurring themes. Indeed, with the title Queerly Beloved, Written by: Katie Lee, Meaghan Morris, Kevin side. The vibe is casual and purchasing drinks is themes of “first-time” stories and coming out ex- one thinks immediately of topics like same-sex “KJ” Snyder, Evan Starkweather encouraged. And while this rough-around-the- periences with parents. marriage, gay families, long-term relationship is- and Nathaniel Strain edges revue comedy ala Saturday Night Live or One memorable sketch portrays a pair of les- sues, LGBTQ situations in the workplace, etc. Yet At: Annoyance Theatre & Bar, MADtv is geared to the LGBTQ audience, young bian/gay teenage friends (played by Katie Lee these themes are surprisingly vacant. This may 851 W. Belmont Ave. straight folk may still connect to its millennial and Evan Starkweather) trying to innocently be due in part to the lack of age and cultural Tickets: TheAnnoyance.com; $10-$12 themes. watch a movie while repeatedly being accosted diversity among the show’s collaborators, as they Runs through: Nov. 8 The jokes and sketches tend to draw from child- by Katie’s overreactive parents (Nathaniel Strain all appear to be recent college folk. hood and collegiate subjects, as well as contem- and Meaghan Morris), who don’t quite realize That being said, however, Queerly Beloved still BY JAMES R. WILKE porary TV, movies and politics. Older and more that nothing romantic is happening. Equally provides a light-hearted entertainment suitable theatrically versed audiences might not connect memorable is a scenario where Kevin “KJ” Snyder for a Wednesday evening out. And even with the This show represents the first LGBTQ revue for with many of the jokes and references. However, channels Barron Trump circa 2020, as the young rough edges of the still-developing cast, one can- Chicago comedy troupe Huggable Riot—perhaps for the young millennial-and-college crowd, this man discovers his passion for wearing women’s not help but wonder upon leaving this show if an apt name given the youthful, huggable charm show might feel refreshingly current. high-heeled shoes. one of these creative young writer-performers of the performers. The hour-long, mostly scripted Sketches vary, from a group of friends enjoy- While the performers bring high energy and un- might eventually grow to become a famous name production includes a varied range of original ing a role-playing evening of Dungeons & Drag- apologetic vigor to the stage, the main drawback in comedy someday. comedic sketches written by the all-queer-iden- Queens; to one-celled organisms discovering the of this show may be its lack of more mature LGBTQ tifying cast. Musical and singing moments also joys of sexual reproduction; to the hanging of

one that gave us the expression “tilting at wind- THEATER REVIEW mills.” Godinez is an exquisitely droll guide and manipulator of his helpers, with small ad-libs, as Quixote: On the needed. Conquest of Self One audience member turns out to be a plant Playwright: Monica Hoth & Claudia and joins Quixote for the last half of the 95-min- Valdes Kuri, translated by Georgina Escobar ute work. No spoilers intended, but it is a mod- At: Writers Theatre, 325 Tudor Ct., Glencoe ern young Latina (Emma Ladji) who becomes a Tickets: 847-242-6000; stand-in for Aldonza/Dulcinea, that most beaute- WritersTheatre.org; $35-$80 ous gentle lady for whom Quixote fights. It’s at Runs through: Dec. 17 this point that the piece weds modern themes to classical ones, and raises issues specific to BY JONATHAN ABARBANEL Mexico, where this work originated. Teaching and learning from each other, the Hispanic knight Quixote: On the Conquest of Self gives theater and the Latina lady touch on ecology and forest veteran Henry Godinez a rare opportunity to be preservation, illegal immigration and assault. To- a clown, and Godinez--who generally plays seri- gether they passionately denounce “the monster ous roles (when he takes time from directing and of Apathy,” the heart of indolence that enables teaching)—is worth the ticket price all by him- evil. Quixote earlier has noted, “When you truly self. I don’t mean he’s funny (although he’s bril- surrender to a cause for the common good, you liantly funny), but that he embraces the profound truly find a strength beyond yourself.” physical, emotional and philosophical depths of Despite the brilliance of Godinez and his en- great clowning and the human comedy. Godinez ergetic partner, the play’s final portion is too is a masterful comedian because he is a master- precious. The audience is asked to call out hope- ful actor. ful and progressive thoughts to save the dying It doesn’t hurt that he plays one of Western Quixote, which is too Tinkerbell-do-you-believe- Henry Godinez with audience members Jon Faris, Arik Beatty and Megan Otto. culture’s most magnificently profound fools, Sir in-fairies for me. Quixote and his lady then send Photo by Michael Brosilow Quixote de la Mancha—the passionate, romantic us forth to carry on their mission. “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul,” idealist who sees a beautiful impossible world Quixote notes early on that the original, by abridgments and musicals before abridging him- concludes a famous Victorian poem, and that’s where others see cynicism, self-interest and cu- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), is so self, inducing audience members to act out less- the take-away of Quixote/Conquest, an iteration pidity. The twist here is that Quixote fights the long and convoluted that almost no one reads familiar sub-stories from the work. First, though, of the title’s “self” and of Quixote’s impossible printed book for control of his narrative, the bal- the complete work. Addressing his audience di- he dispenses with its most famous episode, the struggle to emerge from Cervantes’ authorship. ance shifting frequently with comic physicality. rectly from a square, bare black stage, he decries WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 11, 2017 21 Music ensemble looks to tell Chicago stories By Matt Simonette the musicians who regularly play with BBE and will take part in Chicago Stories. According to Bach + Beethoven Ensemble (BBE) That engagement between musician and audi- Artistic Director Brandi Berry, her musical orga- ence BBE strives for can take many forms, Alaan nization’s mission is all about “tearing down the said. He sometimes even solicits audience sug- walls between musicians, [other] performers and gestions for lyric-subjects of his vocal perfor- the audience.” mances. At a recent performance, he ended up The ensemble is in large part dedicated to singing about “Mickey Mouse having sex with presenting music in its historical context, using Minnie, and Goofy walking in on them,” he re- instruments that are appropriate to the period. called. But Berry maintained that another important part Each performance has a “mascot” or symbol of of its guiding principles revolves around making sorts, usually a stuffed animal that BBE commis- that music accessible to a contemporary audi- sions especially for the occasion. But the Chicago ence, fostering a sense of community between Stories performance will be different; the en- audience and musician. semble will have what’s ostensibly a book about Their next performance, in mid-October, is en- Chicago on hand, but the inside will be blank, titled Chicago Stories and features six original and attendees will be invited to jot down their compositions from three composers; subjects of thoughts and memories about the city. the new works include Chicago’s Assyrian immi- Indeed, Alaan and Berry hope that the Chicago grant community, the Pilsen Latin jazz scene, stories presented this month will be the first of and minority women in leadership roles “and the many BBE interprets in the years ahead. Berry ‘glass ceilings’ they’ve shattered along the way,” said they want to have work by an LGBT composer “Elegant. Executive Director Thomas Alaan said. reflecting on the city’s LGBT community in a fu- BBE was formed in 2009 by a group of musi- ture installment. Profound. cians who were new to Chicago and looking for “That’s something we really would like to do,” Moving. a means by which to break into the city’s per- she added. formance market. They began reorganizing as a Chicago Stories will be performed at Univer- Beautiful.” nonprofit in 2013, a process largely spearheaded sity of Illinois at Chicago, UIC Student Center by Berry and Alaan. Some performances consist of East, East Terrace, at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. — Ballet Dance Magazine just Berry, a violinist, and Alaan, a vocalist. Oth- 14, then at Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, 4802 ers have featured anywhere from 5-20 musicians. N. Broadway, at 3 p.m. on Oct. 15. For more Openly gay performer David Schrader is among information, see BBEnsemble.org. CHICAGO PREMIERE

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But when Gund went home to New York, she got busy with other projects and put the tapes away. When Vargas died three years sexual outlaw ago, Gund unearthed her tapes, “a veritable gold mine of footage,” she said. “I knew I had some- thing rich and unique.” Realizing she had what might be the begin- nings of a new project, Gund showed her friend Kyi a section of the footage. “She was mesmer- ized,” said Gund. The two spent the next two years finding footage of interviews and concerts, as well as doing their own interviews with people who had known Vargas. With grants from wide- ranging sources, the two were able to complete the film on a “half-million-dollar budget,” which Gund says is typical of documentaries of this type. Already an established filmmaker with enough awards to fill several walls, Gund said she is nev- ertheless thrilled with the reception her new film is receiving. “It’s been unanimously positive,” by Sari Staver film festival. Gund, who identifies as queer, has evening of the BAR interview in early June. A she said. “We’ve had great luck selling it over- another documentary, Dispatches from Cleveland, New Yorker who began her film career making seas. Europe, Central and South America, pretty There is a stunning new documentary about the screening during Frameline. That documentary videos of ACT-UP in the 1980s. Gund went on to much everywhere. We knew Chavela had a gigan- life and times of iconic chanteuse and sexual out- tells the story of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was make a number of award-winning documentaries. tic and enthusiastic audience in Mexico, and we law Chavela Vargas. killed by gunfire by police but was blamed for his Her work gained national attention after her film were thrilled to learn that she resonates every- Vargas, who died in 2014 at age 93, was a dar- own death by local prosecutors. “Dispatches” is “Born to Fly” was nominated for an Emmy after where people see the film and hear her music.” ling of Mexico City’s bohemian club scene in the a docuseries, with five chapters showcasing how screening on PBS’ Independent Lens series. There will be a special preview screening of 1950s, when she challenged mainstream Mexican intersecting social-justice movements are em- Kyi, a freelance film and television director and Chavela (with co-director Catherine Gund in morals by dressing in men’s clothing while she powering marginalized groups, including those producer currently living in Atlanta, has made attendance for a post-film Q&A) on Tuesday, sang songs intended for men to woo women, within the transgender community. films such as”Most Daring (2007) and La Voz Kids Oct. 17, at Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. South- refusing to change the pronouns. The tequila- “Yes, I’ve been very busy,” said Gund, who had (2013). Kyi also produced Gund’s film Dispatches port Ave. The film officially opens Friday,O ct. drinking, cigar-smoking rabble-rouser sang at two children graduating from high school on the from Cleveland. The co-directors met and became 20. See MusicBoxTheatre.com. Elizabeth Taylor’s marriage to Mike Todd (and ran off with Ava Gardner), and lived with Frida Kahlo winner and three-time Jeff nominee. Making her and Diego Rivera for more than a year. ‘50s return in PFP debut as his co-worker Norma is Autumn Social-change film The new documentary tells Vargas’ life story, Teague. Bob and Norma’s secret significant oth- an amazing journey from a 14-year-old rejected Pride Films’ ers are played by Lane Anthony Flores, and Riley festival Oct. 13-15 runaway from Costa Rica to a world-renowned, Mondragon. The national nonprofit organizaiton Social ‘Arrangement’ Change will host its social-change film festival, Grammy-winning Mexican icon. With Catherine Pride Films and Plays is now presenting Per- Kelli Harrington, a two-time Jeff Award-win- (“Cat”) Gund and Daresha Kyi as co-directors, ner, plays Barbara Grant—another State Depart- #ChangeFest, in three states: Illinois, California fect Arrangement, by Topher Payne, through and New York. Chavela has taken the world by storm following Oct. 22, 4139 N. Broadway, Chicago. ment official who has something to lose. its premiere at the 2017 Berlin International Film Completing the cast are Armando Reyes and In Illinois, it will take place Oct. 13-15 at It’s 1950, and new colors are being added to the Harold Washington Cultural Center, 4701 S. Festival, where it was awarded the second-place the Red Scare. Two U.S. State Department em- Amber Snyder as Bob and Norma’s bombastic, audience award. After its busy film festival tour, uber-patriotic boss and his wife, Theodore and Martin Luther King Dr. ployees, Bob and Norma, have been tasked with The festival will feature: the film has gone or will go into commercial re- identifying sexual deviants within their ranks. Kitty Sunderson. Additional casting includes lease in the United States, with fall screenings in Tommy Thurston (u/s Bob & Theodore), Christo- —29 films, including 16 world premieres— There’s just one problem: Both Bob and Norma one of which is from first-time filmmaker Monica New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. It has also are gay, and have married each other’s partners pher Young (u/s Jim), Kendra Verhage (u/s Mil- been sold to television and film distributors in lie and Kitty), and Shannon Webber (u/s Norma Raymund, who stars as Gabriela Dawson in NBC’s and moved next door to each other as a care- Chicago Fire; dozens of cities worldwide. [Editor’s note: The fully constructed cover. Inspired by the true & Barbara). movie, in July, won the Audience and Grand Jury Tickets are available at PrideFilmsAndPlays. —Films with famous actors like Barkhad Abdi story of the earliest stirrings of the American (Captain Phillips), Anthony Anderson (from the prizes for Best Documentary Feature at Los Ange- gay-rights movement, madcap classic sitcom- com or 800-737-0984. les’ Outfest.] hit show Black-ish) and Eamonn Walker (Oz; style laughs give way to provocative drama as Chicago Fire); and In a telephone interview with the Bay Area two “All-American” couples are forced to stare Reporter (BAR), Gund said she was “thrilled and —the film Fear (about Chicago’s violence), down the closet door. from local filmmaker Chan Smith. excited” to be presenting at the Castro Theatre Appearing as Bob is Eric Lindahl, a Jeff Award during the then-upcoming San Francisco LGBT See ChicagoSocialChange.org. WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 11, 2017 23 NUNN ON ONE Carol Burnett of radio. I cried! WCT: Talk about the Sexy Liberal Resistance Tour. Radio-show host SM: It is like the Mafia. Just when I thought I was out they pulled me in again. We thought we would be done. It was great fun. We were play- Stephanie Miller ing our last show in Washington that we thought would be Hilary’s inauguration. It ended up being the day of the women’s march. That is where the talks Trump, tour name came from. It is selling out again, but it is amazing what by Jerry Nunn Miller talked the current cast and that state of I am seeing this time. It is not just a comedy the world by phone before arriving in Chicago. show. People come up to us crying afterward be- Radio-show host Stephanie Miller continues to Windy City Times: Let’s first get to know you. cause they finally feel like they are not the only mix comedy with politics and these days there’s Stephanie Miller: How romantic! ones going insane! It is a national trauma, this plenty of material. WCT: You were born in Washington, D.C.? presidency, however long it lasts. It is a solidarity The daughter of U.S. Rep. William E. Miller, she SM: Yes and I grew up in Buffalo, New York. We tour with so much love. It is like a support group. started performing sketch comedy in high school. moved there when I was three. I don’t remember We joke that they aren’t even going to see us Stephanie Miller. She worked comedy clubs while being on the ra- Washington. anymore, but to be with each other. People make PR photo dio in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Miller hosted her own WCT: I was thinking about all the politics real friends there. late-night television talk show and then several and being born into it. The show is completely different, not only from other shows followed, including I’ve Got a Secret SM: My dad was a congressman and ran for vice two years ago, but from last month. It changes issues and we are encountering so much of that for the Oxygen Channel. president so that is why I was born in Washing- so much from each news cycle and the incessant because of Trump. John Fugelsang is brilliant This year, her radio audience has grown to ton. I was only 3 when he ran in 1964. tweeting. It is exhausting. about moral values and the bible. It is a strong around 6 million weekly listeners. In 2010 Miller WCT: How many years have you been on the I think this has become a way for people to set of voices we have put together. It is a primal came out publicly on her radio show, saying, “I’ve radio? process things in a way that empowers them and scream of what is happening in America. We are reached my personal tipping point to say I am a SM: About 1,000! No, more like close to 30 makes them feel better. having a ball. gay woman.” years. I always say, “Radio is when you go when WCT: Who is on the tour with you? WCT: The NFL must be the new topic. She is started taking her satire on the road all of your other dreams have died.” SM: This time it is Frangela, who started in Sec- SM: My first 10 minutes are about taking the with Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour in 2011 then WCT: I just started doing radio and I like it. ond City. It makes Chicago a cool date for us. It is knee to the anthem, and a one-finger salute to changed the name after Donald Trump was elect- SM: I love it. It actually is my passion. I want- Frances Callier’s hometown. I did radio and have our commander in chief. ed. It inspired a comedy album Stephanie Miller’s ed to be Carol Burnett so that is what my dream lived there before as well. Look for Miller and more on the Main Stage Sexy Liberal Tour, Vol. 1 and it reached number was. I did get to meet her and she thought I was People tweet that even though they have seen at Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport one on the charts for iTunes, Amazon.com, and 35 years old so I will love her forever for that. 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VICTORYGARDENS.ORG LEAD PRODUCTION SPONSORS In Memory of Doris Conant Burton X. and Sheli Z. Rosenberg 24 Oct. 11, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES world. And there are other trans people, actors Jeffrey Tambor in and characters, that are part of Maura’s world.” Transparent. WCT: Have any ideas proved too loopy or in- Photo courtesy sane and got shot down so far? of Amazon Prime JS: Well, when Ali is at the women’s music fes- Video tival [in season two] and has a hallucination and sees Tante Gittel (a transgender character who lived in 1930s Berlin at the Hirschfeld Sex Insti- tute, played by transgender actress Hari Nef) in this modern dance confrontation with the Nazis, at one point that was actually going to be a mu- sical number with singing and dancing. I’m glad we got rid of the actual lyrics. My sister Faith loved musicals, so we are still trying to get a mu- sical aspect in. I just don’t think we necessarily needed to connect it with the Holocaust. WCT: There has been some news about a new showrunner for the fifth season. Can you clari- fy this, and how the show might be different? TELEVISION JS: OK, so there is not a new showrunner. I’m going crazy trying to fix this problematic press issue. I’ve always been the creator of the show, but somebody else has been running the show ‘Transparent’: ever since season two. There is a show runner named Jill Gordon. For the past couple of years we had a show runner named Bridget Bedard. I’m not leaving the show, I’m not working any less hard. I direct all Stuck in transit the time, I still write all the time. I’m going to be directing a lot of the fifth season and in the writer’s room. The narrative that I’m stepping By Lawrence Ferber Josh (Jay Duplass)—unearth more secrets and tell the real stories of what’s actually happening down and somebody is taking over is bit of a PR discoveries about their family line, sexualities/ right now in the world. For queer people, trans blunder we’re working on fixing. Jill Soloway is Transparent won’t be winding down anytime relationships and identities, while set against the people, for identity. Intersectionality. The ques- not stepping down. soon. A fifth season of the multiple Emmy- and Israel-Palestinian conflict and Andrew Lloyd Web- tion of having to choose between your queerness WCT: What is the most surprising feedback Golden Globe-winning series (about a transgen- ber’s Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack. and your Jewishness, your Jewishness and your you’ve received to the show so far? der female who began a gender transition late in Having based the character Maura on a trans- trans-ness. You’re being asked to choose, but not JS: That’s a good question. The shocking thing life and her family’s subsequent self-revelations) gender parent who came out in their 70s, cre- really able to. is I meet people who say they came out [as trans- began pre-production even before season four’s ator/director/writer Jill Soloway, who will head- WCT: Is there a Dana International cameo? gender] because of the show. They didn’t think recent premiere on Amazon Prime Video. line Chicago’s Humanities Festival in October, has JS: [Laughs] No. In fact, I heard of her but they could before, but watching the show allowed This season, the Jewish-American Pfefferman evolved along with Transparent’s Pfeffermans and didn’t know enough about her to work her into them to realize they could be trans and be ac- clan ends up in Israel, where patriarch-turned- currently identifies as gender non-binary (and the season. cepted. They use the show to come out to their transgender-matriarch Maura (Jeffrey Tambor), goes by “they” pronouns). Via telephone, Solo- WCT: Did anyone in Israel recognize the cast families, they tell them to watch the show first ex-wife Shelly (Judith Light), and their children— way elaborated on season four, the show’s other while shooting? and then give them a call. They look at the con- Ali (Gaby Hoffman), Sarah (Amy Landecker), and transgender characters and, of course, season five JS: We actually didn’t go to Israel. We shot in viviality of the fact they remain family. A show (and no, Soloway isn’t leaving the show despite Los Angeles. We got some B-roll, but we didn’t where the trans person is part of the fabric really misleading press reports). bring the actors there. It’s a camera trick. We had normalizes trans-ness in a way where coming out Windy City Times: What did season four al- a fake Dead Sea at Universal Studios and a fake doesn’t mean losing your family. That’s a huge low you to do that’s different from the last Wailing Wall at Paramount. effect of the show that I didn’t really prepare for. season? WCT: I understand that Maura’s HIV-positive WCT: Are you familiar with 9-year-old drag Jill Soloway: We realized how much we love it mentor and friend, Davina, played by Chicago queen Lactacia and this trend of adolescents when the Pfefferman family is together. Normally transgender actress Alexandra Billings, has a who use social media, like 15-year-old Ins- in a show when you start to give people things spotlight episode this season. tagram makeup tutorial diva Jake Warden, to to do, you create love interests for them and new JS: Yes. Davina is an amazing, really important share and celebrate their own style of gender characters. Ali has a crush on lesbian Syd [Carrie part of the show. What we do is tell the story of bending, queerness and fabulousness? Brownstein], Josh is in love with Rabbi Raquel how she got there. The experience is really dif- JS: Yeah, I think that’s fantastic and so glad [Kathryn Hahn], and Sarah is choosing between ferent for trans women who come up through the those people are out there. Tammy [Melora Hardin] and Len [Ron Huebel]. gay world and those who come up through the WCT: Would you give any of them an oppor- But what we wanted to do this season is let the heterosexual cross-dressing world. There are re- tunity to do a Transparent walk-on? characters turn toward each other and have that ally two different paths on this gender journey, JS: I love that idea. Yeah. I think social media is a great place to look for all the up-and-coming LPME Jazz Orchestra presents comedy and love of being in a family. and for trans women who came up through the AmeRicA the BeAutiful | nightmare WCT: What were some of the biggest issues gay world, the drag world, the pageant world, trans talent, and I’ll definitely check out who’s doing tutorials on Instagram and see if we can Sat., October 14 @7:30 pm hashed out in the writers’ room for season four? their story is one of Stonewall, of HIV and AIDS, JS: Well, the family goes to Israel, so we of moving from the gay world into the straight find our next star. Alphawood Gallery wanted to tell that story in a way that resonated world. So we really tell that story. WCT: Finally, do you have an end game for 2401 N Halsted St differently for each member. A lot of the season WCT: What about new transgender or non- Maura? General Admission: $20 | Military/Students/Seniors: $15 has a Jesus Christ Superstar rock opera kind of, binary characters this season? JS: No. I need to keep everyone in the fam- Children 12 & under are free with an accompanying adult ily slightly unhappy so that we have more story. lakesidepride.org/falljazz your memories of being a child, and whatever you JS: Well, we start to tell the stories about Ali thought it meant to live in Jesus’ time and come Pfefferman’s relationship with their own gender I feel the same about Maura as all of the kids down with Messiah complex—those are the kinds identity. We do Davina’s history, of the women and people in the family. Keep frustrated, keep Promo Code: WINDYCITY Unity & Resistance searching, keep dreaming, and trying to become. 2017-2018 Concert Season of broad, funny stories. 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See Ticketfly.com for tick- ets. 26 Oct. 11, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES BOOKS pitch. I took voice lessons from an excellent voice coach for two long years before I finally got it. It was kind of like that scene out of “My Fair Lady” where the male lead goes; “by Jove, I A self-made woman: think she’s got it!” WCT: You transitioned at 50. Do you think age informed your experience and, if so, how? DCD: You know, the detractors out there who Talking with Denise are so adamantly against the transgender person always harp as one of their main arguments for not going through with gender-affirming surgery, Chanterelle Dubois is that you will have strong regrets the second you wake up, and those regrets will remain with you for the rest of your life. By Owen Keehnen ing inside was being ripped in two? I was at war with myself; my true self against the phony self Well, let me tell you something about myself: The only regret I have in any of this is that I Milwaukee-born transgender actress and busi- that I had put up around me and that was a toxic did not do this sooner! How I wish I had! In nesswoman Denise Chanterelle Dubois has atmosphere certain to lead to problems as I grew my middle twenties and in 1978, I tried. A gen- penned a frank and fearless new memoir entitled, older. I was also a true believer in the Catholic der clinic had opened that I’d heard about and I Self-Made Woman about her long journey to self- faith right up to when I graduated from Catholic went there. I met with the head psychologist and acceptance and her eventual gender confirmation grade school. The message from that part of my worked through the lengthy intake process which surgery in 2003 at age 50. life was powerful and in no uncertain terms made took nearly a year. When it finally came time to Along the road, in an effort to fight the gender it clear that people like me weren’t welcome. The start hormone treatment, I was rejected by the dysphoria she had felt since the age of 4, Denise overpowering guilt and shame I felt over this re- Denise Chanterelle Dubois. clinical doctor because alcohol and drugs were (as Dennis) acted out with exhibitionism, theft, jection eventually drove me from the church. Photo courtesy of Dubois found in my blood draw, plus I lacked anything meth addiction and alcohol abuse. She was even- WCT: Your memoir is so honest. You discuss close to the financial resources required for such tually arrested for dealing drugs and sentenced your exhibitionism, your love of punishment ers when I was able to finally embrace Denise in an undertaking. I was devastated. I often think to prison, but turned informant to avoid doing at the hands of dominant females, your binges my life. back to that time and suspect that had I been hard time. and purges of clothing and female domina- WCT: Your parents were never supportive of able to transition then, it would have saved me In her absorbing new autobiography, Dubois tion pornography, your drug use, your even- your choices or identity. If you were to give from decades of alcohol and drug abuse, and I holds nothing back. Self-Made Woman is written tual bust for cocaine dealing, and becoming a some advice to parents out there what would would’ve been much less a burden on society. I with an unflinching honesty which successfully confidential informant for the DEA. Were you it be? honestly think the drug dealing and prison time conveys the damage and self-destructive impulse tempted to hold anything back? DCD: Save your trans child from a life of rejec- would never have happened. that consistently emerged from Denise’s inability DCD: I thought long and hard about holding tion, hopelessness, anger, shame, guilt, alcohol The plus side to transitioning one month shy of to address her gender issues for so many years. back, in fact most of those things you mention, abuse, drug abuse, criminality, loneliness, heart- my 50th birthday, was I had moved past all the After reading Self-Made Woman, I was thrilled but how could I? How could I not tell it? I had to break, and please embrace and shower your trans alcohol and drug abuse, had matured, and was to sit down with Denise and discuss her tumultu- do the mea culpa and put it all out there because child with love and acceptance for who she or he confident and happy in my new life as Denise ous and amazing story. I wanted the reader to absorb the full impact of is! Allow your trans child to be their true self! which was such wonderful feeling for me. Windy City Times: What made this the right what happened to me in my life, and in that pro- Give them the time they need to figure this out WCT: What is your advice to those who are time to write your memoir? cess maybe reach others who are like I was, and because they will, and don’t try to ram gender experiencing gender dysphoria? Denise Chanterelle Dubois: Interestingly who are still in that deep, dark, forbidding pit of conformity down their throats because that is a DCD: Don’t do this alone like I did because enough, it wasn’t the recent national interest in hopelessness that I was in and maybe help them sure recipe for disaster. loneliness like fear, is the mind-killer. Let that trans issues that made it the right time for me. I climb out. WCT: Real life experience [living as a woman loneliness and fear go through you, around you, started writing my memoir in 2010, and finishing You know, I did talk to a close friend who just for a year publicly], hormone-replacement and then behind you, as you step away from it. the first draft manuscript which had ballooned happens to have her Ph.D in psychology down in therapy or the gender-affirming surgery it- Reach out to others who truly care for your true to 650 pages in 2014. Prior to 2010, I had given California and practices. I asked her about this self—what for you was the most challenging self, and don’t think there isn’t anyone there for thought of writing my memoir but wasn’t that back in 2010 when I first began writing the book aspect of the process and why? you because there is. Learn to love yourself, your motivated. and how much should I put out there? She un- DCD: It was the RLE [real life experience] that true self, so you reach out and learn to love oth- Then, oddly enough, when I was sitting on equivocally told me to go for it. That helped to by far was the most difficult part of the process ers and they will repay in kind. Find your inner the beach out on the north shore of Kauai and give me the push I needed to write it truthfully. for me. I came out very late, doing my RLE at strength because you know it’s there. You are happened to have a yellow legal pad with me WCT: What kept you going through all these age 48. Yet, I was convinced that RLE would be strong, a survivor, and remember it’s not what because I was making out a grocery list for shop- challenges? a breeze as I told my therapist at the time. Gosh, society thinks of you, but of what you think of ping later that day, I just on a whim jotted down DCD: Interestingly, it was several things. Some- was I ever wrong on that one! I thought so be- yourself that truly matters. You’re a beautiful hu- a few notes on several life stories. Then, when how, somewhere, deep in my psyche, I have this cause I had been dressing for so many decades man being; full of life, hope, dreams and promise. I got back to my little studio that I was rent- unique resiliency to bounce back from the worst by now, but pretty much only in private, and Don’t let yourself down! Be strong! ing out there, I fleshed out those stories on my of situations no matter how dire the conditions thought I had it all down, but then stepping out WCT: What does the future hold for you? desktop. It did feel like the right time because become. This saved me more than once from utter into broad daylight was a whole new experience DCD: Gosh, Owen—what does the future hold once I got into it I realized that my story could collapse. By that I mean either dead, in a nursing and I was absolutely petrified which showed ev- for any of us? It’s never too late to have a future, help others. That was a great moment for me be- home from a drug overdose, in an insane asylum, erywhere I went. Simple things like going to the even at my age. Life goes on and will go on long cause something seemed to be lacking in my new or spending the rest of my life in prison. I could grocery store became a dramatic and traumatic after myself and everyone I know is long gone life as Denise, and I had finally found myself, my always pull myself back from the abyss at the experience for me. from this wonderful, beautiful, glorious, Mother motivation, my mission. I wrote nonstop for the very last moment. Friends have told me I’m like a It took time for me to get comfortable in my Earth. next four years. cat, and always land on my paws. new gender when out in public and the learning I want to teach love, acceptance, and forgive- WCT: Where did all that come from—your I also have always managed to keep my myself curve became paramount to my eventual success ness. That’s what the future holds for me. I hope roots, the media, your Polish Catholic family physically fit and active by mainly running ev- in making it as Denise. There was so much to that’s what the reader finds in reading my mem- background, society? eryday and lap swimming. Even in the worst of learn; how to walk, sitting correctly, my gestures, oir. It was a long a road for me to reach this time DCD: It was a combination of all those things times, and even if I’d miss weeks or even months my expressions, my posture, age appropriate in my life, I want to use what I have left wisely, and more. I always had a sense of duty as the first of doing this, I always went back to it. Exercise is clothing, my hair, my make-up, my shoes, my ac- and reach out to whoever will let me, and just born male in my family and felt absolutely hor- a tonic to my soul; fighting off depression, keep- cessories, and most importantly to me at least, be Denise. rible that I couldn’t live up to the lofty standards ing me physically healthy, helping me with my my voice! Decades of talking as a male had to be Read the entire interview with Denise Chan- that my parents had for me. They wanted me to sense of self-worth, and keeping me optimistic unlearned, and the new cadence of talking as a terelle Dubois at WindyCityMediaGroup.com. be successful but how could I when my very be- about the future not only for myself, but for oth- female had to be learned along with proper voice WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 11, 2017 27 MOVIES Sean Baker on his newest ‘Project’ Sean Baker. by Jerry Nunn would focus on my entire career. Photo by Jerry Nunn WCT: How did Tangerine come to be? After studying film at New York University, Sean SB: I live a mile from Highland and Santa Mon- Baker wrote and directed his first film, Four Let- ica. This is a corner that everyone knows about ter Words. He followed that with Take Out, and but doesn’t spend time on in. They pass by it, and then created the game-changing sitcom Greg the it was an unofficial red-light district. It is pretty Bunny. much gentrified at this point. He showed the hustler way of life in several I thought every neighborhood had been shot films such as Prince of Broadway and the trans- in California, but this community had never been gender-focused iPhone-made feature Tangerine. represented on film or TV. I wanted to focus on His latest production, The Florida Project, fol- transgender sex workers who worked there. lows the life of a 6-year-old girl named Moonee Chris Bergoch, who also [wrote the screenplay], who lives in The Magic Castle Motel managed by and I were from outside that world so we had to Bobby, played by Willem Dafoe. work our way in. We had to befriend someone Windy City Times: Start off describing some- who would open the door for us ,and that was thing that influenced your movie making while Mya Taylor. She wanted to be a star of this movie growing up. so she introduced us to Kiki Rodriguez and all of Sean Baker: The Little Rascals. Hal Roach influ- her friends. We eventually found our script, but it enced my whole career. started with us making a movie about Donut Time In Tangerine, the opening segment has a Harry and that area. Horlick rendition of Toyland. Harry did a lot of or- WCT: How was it different with The Florida chestration for The Little Rascals. My other films Project? have little homages here and there. SB: Chris introduced me to the issue, but we In general, I am into genres such as horror couldn’t take frequent trips to the area. The more films and mainstream Hollywood films. It wasn’t I read about it made me decide to make a mother until I was at NYU that I got to know more of foreign cinema. I think that shifted to what I Turn to page 30

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“You know, very few people on Planet Earth, if Little Richard dials somebody’s phone number, there’s nobody on Earth that wouldn’t answer it. I don’t care if it’s the president of the United States or the president of Africa.”—Danny Shelton on Three Angels Broadcasting Network. The Presi- dent of Africa???? He’s probably friends with the emperor of Asia! Here’s what I’ve learned lo these many decades in the gossip biz—many media outlets simply re- print a story that someone else reported. They don’t go back to the source, they don’t do addi- tional research—it’s just cut and paste. So I was curious when I read headlines that Little Richard, the alleged architect of rock ‘n’ roll, was pub- licly denouncing homosexuality. Aside from the obvious, I wondered how someone who is 84 and Cher is coming to Chicago—and then going to hasn’t had a hit in several decades was making Broadway, Billy says. news. And because I have standards, I watched Photo by Jerry Nunn every minute of his endless interview with the Three Angels Broadcasting Network—a network I behind the scenes are blaming her for the plug don’t believe you’ll find on Spectrum or Comcast! being pulled on the sequel which supposedly was First things first: Where’s the wig? When I think poised to begin shooting. Bu, everyone neglects of Little Richard, I picture him with a mop of to mention that Kim never agreed to be in it! She hair on his head reminiscent of Miss Maxine Wa- never signed a contract. She never negotiated. ters! In this interview, he looks like OJ at the She said she didn’t want to do it from day one. McDonald’s drive-thru! Since 3ABN is a religious So, if the studio went ahead and planned a network, most of the chat focuses on Richard’s shooting schedule around someone not signed to faith. I had trouble focusing on anything other the film, how is that her fault? I’m told it was than his purple sequin pumps! Little Richard says a bullying tactic—plan the film, announce it, he’s turned down hundreds of thousands of dollars schedule filming, and guilt her into doing it. But, to do shows because it is impossible to serve two baby, Cattrall don’t play. And she doesn’t feel bad masters. Personally, I’ve never found that par- about it. Last week, she told Piers Morgan, “I ticularly difficult. Occasionally, I’ve served more don’t feel like a victim. I feel like I came out of than two—but that’s another story. Of course, this on top. This has given me a fantastic plat- Ritchie also revealed that after his last show, his form. Sarah Jessica, she could have been nicer. nephew said, “It’s time for you to stop—‘cause She could have in some way. I don’t know what you sound awful.” A far more believable scenario. her issue is—I never have.” So if someone is to One of the quotes I keep reading is Little Rich- blame for this franchise being dead in the water, ard condemned “unnatural affections.” So, here’s you might wanna look at the star and producer. For years, Bette Midler has begged Disney to the context—Richard was talking about the sec- BTW, Kim may not be down for another “SATC”, make a Hocus Pocus sequel. But each time she ond coming of Jesus (and you haven’t lived until but she’s open to discussions regarding Manne- brings it up, nobody at the studio seemed inter- you’ve had someone named Jesus come twice!). quin 3. Mind you, she opted out of 1991’s Man- ested. Therefore, it’s intriguing that Disney just He reportedly said, “All these things, so much un- nequin Two: On The Move, which was called “one announced a made-for-TV remake of the flick— natural affections. So much of people just doing of the worst follow-ups ever made.” If she stars which sounds like it will not include Bette Midler, everything and don’t think about God and don’t in Mannequin 3, I suspect she’d be a mannequin Kathy Najimy or Sarah Jessica Parker. If SJP is want no parts of it.” I don’t find that particularly at Ross Dress for Less. so hot to make a sequel, she might wanna see if pointed or inflammatory. It’s official:Cher is heading to Broadway. No, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon are interested The next alleged anti-gay comment was this not the real Cher. Not even the hologram that in this. quote: “When I first come in show business, they substitutes for her during large chunks of her When I’m calling Sarah Jessica a witch, it’s wanted you to look like everybody but yourself. “live” shows. No, this is the Broadway musical definitely time to end yet another column. I And anybody that comes in show business, they The Cher Show, which will traverse the pop icon’s know what you’re all thinking—where is this gonna say are you gay, are you straight, are you a life with three different actresses portraying week’s celebrity dick? Look, sometimes you’ve homosexual or something? They’re gonna say it. different eras. The show, which will utilize the got a dick—sometimes you don’t. And while I’ve But the God Jesus made men men, he made wom- singer’s extensive back catalog, will debut out- had some this week, none were worth writing en women. And you gotta live the way God wants of-town at Chicago’s Oriental Theatre on June 12, home about—and certainly nothing worth post- you to live. But, see, he made you. He loves all 2018, for a five-week tryout. If all goes well, it ing on www.BillyMasters.com, the site that has of us. He loves whatever you are, he loves you. I will then hit the Neil Simon Theatre on Broadway standards. I’m sure the drought will be over next don’t care who you are, he loves you.” Maybe I’m next fall. Even Cher doesn’t seem to be able to week. In the interim, you can write to me at Bil- missing something, but that sounds to me like take this all in, saying, “My life as a musical on lyMasters.com and I promise to get back to you someone espousing an all-loving God. Broadway. It seems crazy, exciting, and bizarre. before Little Richard appears as a judge on Ru- Kim Cattrall is still getting huge backlash But that’s probably how my life seems to most Paul’s Drag Race! Until next time, remember: One from her decision not to make a third Sex and people.” And, yes, this show will feature the cos- man’s filth is another man’s bible. the City film. Everybody from co-stars to people tumes of Bob Mackie. 30 Oct. 11, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES Harding and Samhita Mukhopadhyay. of mystery, sexy surprises, and other- N. Broadway 800-838-3006 Tickets: For this event, Kate and Samhita will be worldly delights. Community Leader http://www.handbagproductions.org COMMUNITY joined by Samantha Irby, Megan Stiel- awards will be presented to Pride Action stra, and Sarah Hollenbeck. 7:00pm Tank’s Kim Hunt and the LGBTQ Giving Tuesday, Oct. 17 CALENDAR Everybody’s Coffee, 935 W. Wilson Ave., Council of Chicago Foundation for Wom- Workshop: Building a Trans-Inclu- Chicago, IL Tickets: http://tinyurl.com/ en. $60. 6:30pm - 10:30pm Sub 51, 51 sive Community Presented by Kate yah87q92 W Hubbard St., http://www.facebook. Harrington-Rosen & Jes Scheinpflug. Wed., Oct. 11 the kates Chicago comedian and kates com/events/1438981836180318/ Tick- 6:30pm - 8:30pm Lake Street Church Lost and Found: Exploring Chicago’s cast member Amy Sumpter hosts the all ets: http://community.centeronhalsted. of Evanston, 607 Lake St., Evanston Dyke Spaces of the 1970s and 1980s female comedy showcase. 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North Ave.; Lakeside Pride presents America the Harlem Renaissance, the cultural wa- the LGBTQ Community How to work https://howardbrown.org/event/lost- Beautiful, Nightmare Join us for an tershed that established the first urban with and provide services to LGBTQ and-found-dyke-bar-chi/ FUNNY DISPOSITION engaging, thought-provoking program LGBTQ community in the U.S. Big reveal adults with developmental disabili- Saturday, Oct. 14 of jazz, ‘60s folk and soul music explor- at 2 pm, with remarks by Mona Noriega, ties. 5:30pm - 8:30pm Center on Hal- Thursday, Oct. 12 ing historical and current threats to civil Commissioner of Human Relations; Dr. sted 3656 N Halsted Chicago Tickets: The 53rd Chicago International Film Cameron Esposito (above) liberties in America. 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Patrick Stewart and comedy to The Vic. pride.org representing The Highfield Group, spon- Kesha’s Rainbow Tour 7 p.m., Aragon Alfre Woodard to be honored at events Cameron Esposito, Rhea Butcher in Back sor of the bronze memorial; and Victor Ballroom 1106 W Lawrence Ave., Chica- Photo by Mandee Johnson during the run, see site for dates and to Back Tour Chicago native Esposito Salvo, executive director and co-founder go Tickets: http://www1.ticketmaster. times. 6:00pm AMC River East 21 The- returns to her hometown with her wife of the Legacy Project. 2:00pm 3247 N. com/kesha-rainbow-tour-2017-chicago- and fellow comedian Butcher. Door 7pm Halsted http://www.legacyprojectchi- ater 322 E Illinois Ave Chicago 312- and talk with Susan R. Nussbaum, au- illinois-10-18-2017/event/040052FBA1 8:00pm Vic Theater, 3145 N. Sheffield cago.org. 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