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REACHING the SUMMIT WCT Profiles Longtime Activist/ Vol 33, No REACHING THE SUMMIT WCT profiles longtime activist/ VOL 33, NO. 14 DEC. 20, 2017 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com businesswoman Marge Summit PAGE 14 Marge Summit posing on a rock in her younger years. Courtesy of Summit OWEN DANIEL-MCCARTER Leaving Illinois Safe Schools Alliance. Photo courtesy of Mary Morten 6 DANCE EDMUND WHITE WCT reviews book about esteemed writer. MASTER 23 Ashley Wheater marks a decade at Joffrey’s helm ROXANA PIXLEY PAGE 19 Trans Latina owns Ashley Wheater in The Dream. successful local restaurant. 26 Photo by Herbert Migdoll) Photo by Roberto Sanabria @windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com 2 Dec. 20, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES WELCOME, DR. BRIAN ROSETT! Dr. Brian Rosett is excited to come home reconstructive surgery. to Chicago to join Shifrin Plastic Surgery. 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LAKE SHORE DR., #1425 • www.davidshifrinmd.com WINDY CITY TIMES Dec. 20, 2017 3 NEWS Top 10 LGBT political stories of 2017 4 Changes at Illinois Safe Schools Alliance 6 Chicago Board of Health’s Juan Calderon 8 LGBTQ Care Fair focuses on seniors 10 Families of Color honor LGBTQ youth 12 In the Life 13 Profile of businesswoman Marge Summit 14 Viewpoints: Monroe; letter 18 ENTERTAINMENT/EVENTS Dancin’ Feats: Ashley Wheater marks decade at helm 19 INDEX DOWNLOAD THIS ISSUE AND BROWSE THE ARCHIVES AT www.WindyCityTimes.com Theater reviews 20 REACHING THE SUMMIT The year in movies 22 WCT profiles Book reviews: Edmund White, Tarantella 23 longtime activist/ VOL 33, NO. 14 DEC. 20, 2017 Bent Nights: The year in music 24 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com businesswoman Marge Summit Music: The Script’s Glen Power 25 PAGE 14 Marge Summit posing on a rock in her younger years. Courtesy of Summit OWEN DANIEL-MCCARTER Trans Latina heads local restaurant 26 Leaving Illinois Safe Schools Alliance. Photo courtesy of Mary Morten 6 NIGHTSPOTS 28 DANCE Classifieds; calendar 30 EDMUND WHITE WCT reviews book about esteemed writer. MASTER 23 Ashley Wheater marks a decade at Joffrey’s helm Above: The Golden Girls: The Lost Episodes (holiday edition). ROXANA PIXLEY PAGE 19 Trans Latina owns Ashley Wheater in The Dream. successful local restaurant. 26 Photo by Herbert Migdoll) Photo by Roberto Sanabria @windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com Photo by Rick Aguilar Studios online exclusives at www.WindyCityTimes.com ‘FALL’-inclusive Steve Grand (on the right in left photo) talks about his newest project his acting debut in the web series Falling for Angels. Image courtesy of Here Media THE JINGLE LIFE LAST MINUTE Five Worth Finding has one last list of holiday ideas, from To’ak Chocolate to the Onyx Youth Magnet Mask. THAT’S SHOW BIZ Find out the latest about Lenny Kravitz, Ruby Rose and Kristin Chenoweth. Kesha (above), Demi Lovato and Liam Payne were among the luminaries plus at this year’s 103.5 KISS FM’s Jingle Ball. DAILY BREAKING NEWS Photo by Jerry Nunn 4 Dec. 20, 2017 WINDY CITY TIMES likely come before the Supreme Court to test the tially disappeared after his inauguration. The issue in the future. only positive things he had to say about LGBT Top 10 LGBT news 6. Gay ambassador nominee is still pending. people in his first year were statements purport- In one of the few pieces of good news involving ing to explain why he sought a ban on Muslims Trump and the LGBT community this year, Trump coming into this country (he said it would pro- nominated an openly gay political operative, Ric tect LGBT people from such attacks as the one on stories of 2017 Grenell, as ambassador to Germany. But at year’s an Orlando nightclub in 2016). end, the full Senate had yet to vote on Grenell’s Many LGBT people felt more like they needed BY Lisa KEEN nomination, and reports indicated Democrats protection from Donald Trump. He chose heads of KEEN NEWS SERVICE were behind the stall. departments with notorious anti-LGBT histories 5. Trump issues transgender executive order. In who rolled back many of the pro-LGBT policies This was the year the 1960s tried to make a July, Trump announced on Twitter that the De- established under President Obama, he appoint- comeback. partment of Defense should ban transgender peo- ed federal judges who disagreed with landmark There was the resurgence in white nationalist ple in the military. A month later, he issued an pro-equality Supreme Court decisions, he initi- activity, widespread sexual harassment, and re- official memorandum, directing the DOD to do so. ated and directed a ban on transgender people newed concern about the use of nuclear weapons. But the ACLU and LGBT legal groups jumped into in the military, he repeatedly praised Russian The new president, Donald Trump, fanned peril- action, filing lawsuits and requesting injunctions President Vladmir Putin, whose anti-LGBT poli- ous fires. He also tried to make friends with Rus- to stop the order from taking effect. By year’s cies have escalated in recent years, and he used sian President Vladimir Putin while an unfolding end, at least three federal judges issued prelimi- the most high profile bully pulpit in the world to investigation was showing the Trump campaign nary injunctions to stop the Trump order from give solace and encouragement to extreme right- had met with Russian officials as Russian opera- taking effect until the courts can decide whether wing protests that included anti-LGBT chants and tives hacked into and leaked damaging informa- the ban is unconstitutional, but the Department signs. tion from the campaign of Trump’s 2016 oppo- of Justice is seeking stays of those injunctions. 1. Alabama voters chose Democrat for Senate nent, Hillary Clinton. 4. Trump administration gutted many policies seat. A special election in Alabama in December There was fierce resistance to the white nation- for LGBT people. Under Trump, the Department became a bellwether. In a surprise development, alist uprising. Crowds of counterprotesters met of Education, with the Department of Justice, the heavily and historically Republican state them on the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, withdrew an advice letter to schools that had chose a progressive Democrat over a ultra-con- and other towns around the country. And large suggested transgender students were protected servative Republican to fill the U.S. Senate seat numbers of women (and some men) came forward by Title IX. The Department of Health and Human vacated by Jeff Sessions’ departure to the attor- to point a finger at men in powerful places who U.S. Sen.-elect Doug Jones (D-Alabama). Services announced it would no longer interpret ney general’s seat. This was not a simply parti- had sexually assaulted or harassed them. Pro- Photo from Jones’ campaign website the Affordable Care Act to prohibit discrimina- san or ideological race. Moore’s claim to being LGBT legal groups doubled down to fight efforts tion based on gender identity and it removed a staunch Christian with reliably conservative, by right-wing groups to find loopholes in the law to them. The decision in that case—and future questions from at least two federal surveys that family-oriented values was shredded by persis- that could open the floodgates to discrimination prospects for Kennedy’s record on LGBT record— would have identified data specific to LGBT peo- tent widespread allegations that, in his thirties, against LGBT people. And the pro-LGBT groups will be revealed sometime next year. ple. Housing and Urban Development canceled a he had sexual contact with two females under sought new ways to use existing laws to provide 9. Jeff Sessions became U.S. attorney general. survey to determine the prevalence of homeless- the age of consent in Alabama (16) and five who protection from such discrimination. As Alabama’s U.S. senator, Jeff Sessions estab- ness among LGBT people, and removed from its were between 16 and 18.
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