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SELF-LOVE WiG’s quarterly special section on self-improvement premieres in this issue. page 17 THE voICE OF PROGRESS FOR WISConsIN’S LGBT COMMUNITY April 4, 2013 | Vol. 4, No. 11 LLOVEOVE ONON TTRIALRIAL HighHigh CourtCourt rulingsrulings duedue inin June,June, butbut marriagemarriage battlebattle isis wonwon Illustration: DANA Verkouteren/AP By Lisa Neff gays and lesbians from marrying, thousands promised, “In the end, love is always going to Staff writer rallied in the plaza outside. That there was a win the game.” Rulings on two U.S. Supreme Court cases demonstration is not extraordinary. What is The wave rushed out from the court. INSIDE for marriage equality aren’t expected until extraordinary was the wave of support for Millions of surfers on the Web exchanged For coverage of the U.S. Supreme June, but in other realms victory for same- same-sex marriage compared to the minis- personal profile photos for a red equal sign, Court arguments on DOMA and sex marriage can already be declared. cule numbers marching against. or variations of the box – from ordinary Joe Proposition 8, excerpts from the hear- As the justices on March 26 assembled Addressing a cheering crowd, activist in Wisconsin to Willie Nelson in Texas, from ings and reactions to the historic to hear a defense and a challenge to Cali- Brendon Ayanbadejo, a Baltimore Ravens ordinary Jane in Florida to Martha Stewart events, see pages 10-12. fornia’s constitutional amendment barring linebacker who declared himself a “patriot,” COURT page 11 PRINCE Gay Applebee’s server bashed by POPPYCOCK COMING TO MILWAUKEE co-worker’s spouse in Rice Lake By Louis Weisberg According to Phares and his sister Krista using a 2 x 4 piece of lumber. In a written The rising star Staff writer Kathrine, they were getting out of his car statement, Krista Kathrine said she heard from “America’s A gay employee of Applebee’s in Rice in the parking lot of a Perkins restaurant her brother’s head smack the pavement, but Got Talent” head- Lake was brutally bashed by the husband of at about 6 a.m. on March 17 when Rien Tim Phares lost consciousness and doesn’t lines his first Mid- a co-worker, then told by the restaurant’s Hendricks and his wife Shannon Hendricks remember anything else before waking up west show at the Milwaukee Rite manager he could not return to his job due pulled up behind them in an SUV. in the hospital. to publicity surrounding the incident, he said. “(Hendricks) was getting out of his vehi- Phares suffered head and facial abrasions Temple. In advance of the royal Timothy Phares subsequently did return cle, and he said, ‘Fucking faggot, I’m going to as well as multiple facial fractures that will visit, the prince spoke with WiG’s to his job as a server after Greg Flynn, CEO kill you,’” Phares said. ultimately require surgery to implant metal Gregg Shapiro. of Apple American Group franchise, inter- At that point Phares said Hendricks plates, he said. page 20 vened on his behalf. struck him in the head with great force BASHED page 4 2 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | April 4, 2013 News with a twist WiGWAG By Lisa Neff & Louis Weisberg DELIVERING don’s most bull turned down the offer soliciting and disseminating as archaic, but Republican THE NEWS notorious to appear at the August con- pornographic images of a state Sen. Kevin Lundberg NBC News anchor Jenna gay bars vention. Republicans hoped minor girl and aggravated opposed the repeal bill, argu- Wolfe took a seat on the in the late to feature Pitbull at an event criminal sexual abuse. ing moral standards are as “Today” show March 27 to 1980s. In for the Hispanic Leadership important as ever. talk about her new blog on her memoir “The Power of Network. WATER SPORTS? NBC’s website. She’s writ- Positive Drinking,” come- The Philadelphia Phillies’ CHEESY CRIME ing about being pregnant. dian Cleo Rocos said her FACE IT top minor league affiliate, New Jersey police recent- PHOTO: COURTESY But there was a news hook highness went unrecognized. James Denham Watson, a the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, ly arrested an Illinois man – Wolfe hadn’t previously “She did look like a beautiful Virginia man whose room- is working with a British accused of stealing 21 tons disclosed her pregnancy and young man,” said Rocos, who mate drew a penis on his streaming media company of Wisconsin cheese – CovER-UP she hadn’t publicly come out was part of the prank. “She left cheek with permanent to install a “urinal gaming Muenster. The cargo, found “Mad Men” star Jon about her partner, foreign was always a very fit girl, marker while Watson was system” in Coca-Cola Park. in a refrigerator truck, was Hamm’s not-so-private correspondent Stephanie so they might have thought, sleeping, went a bit crazy. The bathrooms will have a stolen from K&K Cheese in parts are causing problems Gosk. In her first blog post, ‘There’s a nice young man He beat the roommate so video display above each uri- Cashton, Wis., and valued at on the set. The actor’s pen- Wolfe wrote, “Of all the jaw- with pert buttocks.’” badly that he caused severe nal. When a fan approaches, $200,000. The thief allegedly chant for going commando dropping, head-turning and facial damage. Watson was the video console will sense forged paperwork to pull off is causing quite a distrac- eye-popping things I’ve ever Gaga VS. GOP arrested and charged with his presence and switch into the heist. tion, particularly when he’s told my friends and family Lady Gaga turned down malicious wounding. gaming mode. The guy aims wearing the tight pants that (‘I swam with killer sharks,’ $1 million to perform dur- left or right to control the NOT KOSHER were popular in the 1960s. ‘I jet-packed 30 feet out of ing last summer’s Republican A TOTAL PIG play on the screen. J&D’s, a company with the Producers reportedly have the water,’ ‘I scaled the tallest National Convention. The A central Illinois man tagline “everything should politely instructed their star building in Canada’), nothing revelation is included in a busted in 2010 for killing a WHAT HAPPENS taste like bacon,” has come to wear underwear while on garnered more shock and lawsuit filed by the American cow with a crossbow was IN DENVER out with a line of latex camera. TMZ ran the head- awe than when I told people Action Network, a GOP fun- arrested again in March on Colorado has finally condoms printed in realis- line, “Underwear companies I was pregnant.” draising organization, against charges that he shot two repealed a law criminalizing tic-looking bacon patterns. make bid to harness Jon’s a vendor retained to stage pigs with a crossbow and adultery. 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Attorney at Law, CPA 1305 Zetley 9.5x5.25__Outside PubP2.indd 1 3/1/2013 9:17:26 AM WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | April 4, 2013 3 4 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | April 4, 2013 Told by manager not to return to work due to bad publicity over his bashing BASHED from one attack. informed us that this indi- the post, saying, “We aren’t in be fired.” Earlier that evening, Phares Despite the anti-gay slur vidual’s wife, who works at the practice of hiding things At that and his sister attended a party shouted prior to the attack, the restaurant, has not been on there (Facebook).” About point, Phares at the Hendricks’ home, but there is not adequate evi- charged and is not a sub- 20 minutes later, she called to said, he put in said they left because the dence to prosecute the ject in the investigation. The thank WiG for bringing the his two-week couple treated them rudely. alleged assault as a hate employee who was attacked slur to her attention and to notice. According to a criminal crime, according to Barron is still employed with the say it had been deleted. But before complaint filed by the Barron County District Attorney franchisee. Although he had Phares said the reason the attack, County District Attorney’s Angela Beranek. She said voluntarily resigned prior to behind the assault is a mys- Phares had office, a patron seated in Per- Wisconsin law requires the incident, the franchisee tery to him.

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