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VOL 33, NO. 01 SEPT. 20, 2017 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com ‘REEL’ TIME Reeling 35 LGBTQ film fest in Chicago EDIE WINDSOR Featured films in Reeling 35 include En Algun Lugar (top), The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (below, clockwise from upper Marriage-equality champion dies at 88. left), Happiness Adjacent, Saturday Church, Center Of My World and Woman on Fire. Photo by Tracy Baim 4 PR photos STARTING ON PAGE 20 FAWZIA MIRZA Lesbian actress on her new movie Signature Move. Photo courtesy of Mirza 22 ARW2017_10x1_WCT_Entire Group_v1 PRINT.pdf 1 8/9/2017 4:31:02 PM C @windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com M Y CM #BANDTOGETHER MY CY CMY AIDSRUNWALK.ORG K 2 Sept. 20, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES WINDY CITY TIMES Sept. 20, 2017 3 NEWS Marriage-equality giant Edie Windsor dies 4 Former Chicagoan David Wilshire passes away 5 Commemorating 30 years of hope Law’s legitimacy challenged 6 TPAN to celebrate “30 Years of Hope” 8 Thursday, sepTember 28, 2017 Center official talks LGBT suicides 10 City clears out Uptown tent residents 11 Women’s Park & Gardens event 12 In the Life: Martin Whalley 13 INDEX DOWNLOAD AIDS Run & Walk ambassadors 14 THIS ISSUE Viewpoints: Nelson; letter 16 AND BROWSE THE ARCHIVES AT www.WindyCityTimes.com ENTERTAINMENT/EVENTS Scottish Play Scott: Artemesia 17 Theater reviews 18 Reeling Film Festival reviews 20 Lesbian actress Fawzia Mirza 22 Emmys roundup 23 Actor Nelson Rodriguez talks ‘En Algun Lugar’ 24 Artist Tennessee Loveless 25 NIGHTSPOTS 28 Classifieds; calendar 30 Above: Vinny Cousineau (left, with husband LT) is one of the AIDS Run & Walk ambassadors. Photo courtesy of Cousineau online exclusives at www.WindyCityTimes.com OUT OF AFRICA PrideTV—Africa’s first LGBT network— recently marked its first anniversary. Photo of PrideTV’s Joanne Raphael Katz (left) from the network YEARS HAVING A BALL TPAN was founded in 1987 as Chicago’s grassroots response ‘SWELL’ DONE to the AIDS epidemic. On Thursday, September 28, The Care Plan hosted “South Side TPAN’s founding members will be honored in an evening Swell,” a networking event. commemorating the work of the organization they started. Join guest speaker Peter Staley, an early member of ACT UP, also founded in 1987, as we celebrate TPAN’s 30th anniversary. THAT’S SHOW BIZ Find out the latest about Jamie Lee Thursday, sepTember 28, 2017 Curtis, Samira Wiley and Mario Lopez. Moonlight StudioS 1446 W. KINzIe STreeT, ChICAgo VIP $175 • General admIssIon $125 plus The annual Green Tie Ball featured tpan.com/tickets Chicago Fire star Taylor Kinney. DAILY BREAKING NEWS Photo by Jerry Nunn 4 Sept. 20, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES Edith Windsor, lesbian activist who took down DOMA, dead at 88 BY CHRIS JOHNSON, Jacob. I also know that her memory will be a WASHINGTON BLADE blessing not only to every LGBT person on this planet, but to all who believe in the concept of Edith Windsor, a lesbian activist who was a pio- b’tzelem elohim, or equal dignity for all.” neer for LGBT rights and brought down the anti- Windsor’s story was inspirational far beyond gay Defense of Marriage Act, died Sept. 12 at age the LGBT community. Last year in an interview 88. with the Washington Blade, Democratic presiden- Widow Judith Kasen-Windsor issued a state- tial nominee Hillary Clinton identified Windsor as ment Sept. 12 confirming Windsor’s death, but an LGBT person she sees as a role model. Windsor, didn’t disclose a cause. The two were married in an enthusiastic supporter of Clinton in her bid for 2016. the White House, said she was “so honored” the “I lost my beloved spouse Edie, and the world candidate chose her as a role model. lost a tiny but tough as nails fighter for freedom, Anthony Romero, executive director of the justice and equality,” Kasen-Windsor said. “Edie American Civil Liberties Union, said in a state- was the light of my life. She will always be the ment “we lost one of this country’s great civil Edie Windsor with Jim Obergefell in Philadelphia in 2015, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the light for the LGBTQ community which she loved rights pioneers” as a result of Windsor’s passing. nation’s first public marches for gay rights, in that city. so much and which loved her right back.” “The wheels of progress turn forward because Photo by Tracy Baim The New York lesbian, who obtained a master’s of people like Edie who are willing to stand up in degree in mathematics from New York University the face of injustice,” Romero said. “One simply ter, the Hetrick-Martin Institute, and Services & steps of the Supreme Court, describing marriage in 1957, was out as member of the LGBT com- cannot write the history of the gay rights move- Advocacy for LGBT Elders, or SAGE. as more than just rights and benefits but also munity at a time when being gay was criminal ment without reserving immense credit and grati- Aisha Moodie-Mills, CEO of the Gay & Lesbian as ‘magic’—a powerful recognition of indescrib- under state law in many parts of the country. Her tude for Edie Windsor. We were proud to stand Victory Institute, said in a statement Windsor able love. Edith opened the door for all LGBTQ longtime partner, Thea Spyer, first proposed mar- with Edie when she took her fight on behalf of was “our fierce heroine” and “will be remembered Americans to experience this magic—and we are riage in 1967, but the two never wed until 2007. same-sex couples everywhere to the Supreme as a seminal figure in our inevitable march to- forever indebted to her because of it.” They held a ceremony in Canada, one of the first Court.” ward equality.” This article is from the Washington Blade, countries where same-sex marriage was legal. A public memorial will be held Sept. 15 at at “Edith felt deeply the injustice of being denied as part of the National LGBT Newspaper As- But Windsor is best known for being the Riverside Memorial Chapel in New York City. In the right to marry her partner of more than 40 sociation. plaintiff in the lawsuit that led to U.S. Supreme lieu of flowers, Windsor had requested that any years, and she committed herself to fighting back Video from the Sept. 15 memorial for Wind- Court’s landmark decision in 2013 striking down donations in her memory be made to the NYC with determination and a smile,” Moodie-Mills sor is at https://venue.streamspot.com/video/ the Defense of Marriage Act, which prohibited LGBT Center, Callen-Lorde Community Health Cen- said. “I will never forget Edith standing on the d204bfd75b. federal recognition of same-sex marriage. That ruling was the precursor for the 2015 Obergefell decision extending marriage equality nationwide. a civil-rights giant who will impact hundreds of thousands of people for Represented by New York lesbian attorney Ro- Groups, individuals decades to come and will be remembered as a woman whose bravery and berta Kaplan and the American Civil Liberties react to Windsor passing insistence on equality and respect changed the course of history.” Union, Windsor sued the United States for enforc- —American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony Rome- A plethora of national organizations and well-known individuals issued ro: “Today, we lost one of this country’s great civil-rights pioneers, Edie ing DOMA after the U.S. government forced her to statements reacting to the Sept. 12 passing of lesbian activist/marriage- pay $363,000 in estate taxes upon the death of Windsor. The wheels of progress turn forward because of people like Edie, equality advocate Edie Windsor. who are willing to stand up in the face of injustice.” Spyer, who died in 2009 of a heart condition after Just a few of the reactions are below: the two were together 44 years. —PFLAG National Executive Director Jaime M. Grant: “We’ve lost —SAGE CEO Michael Adams: “Words can’t describe how important Edie a lesbian national treasure, someone who committed to love and never On the day of oral arguments of her case in Windsor is to SAGE and LGBT elders across the country. Long before she was 2013, Windsor famously appeared before the me- stopped pushing for change and justice. Edie had such joy for life, and a household name, Edie was as an early leader of SAGE, serving multiple gave our community so much. I hope she felt our love for her, and that we dia on the steps of the Supreme Court with an terms on our board of Directors. She shed her brilliant light in every corner iconic pink scarf that flew in the wind. At the gave back to her in the same way she gave to all of us.” of SAGE’s work. She was a trailblazing pioneer in every sense, appearing —Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin: “Edie Windsor is a time, Windsor said she was humbled by the role in an early New York Times ad for SAGE at a time when few others had the the LGBT movement bestowed upon her in pursuit hero and civil-rights icon who pushed our country closer to the promise courage to be out.” of a more perfect union. Future generations will learn how she faced down of marriage equality. —Lambda Legal: “Our hearts are with Edie’s wife, Judith Kasen-Win- “I am today an out lesbian who just sued the discrimination with courage and defiance, and boldly challenged the Unit- dosr, their family, friends and all whose lives were changed because Edie ed States government to treat her marriage to Thea Spyer equally under the United States of America, which is kind of over- so fearlessly stood up for herself and her community.