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Pride Series 2 includes pix from PrideFest & paradepage 19 June 12, 2014 | Vol. 5 No. 15 Wisconsin celebrates first gay marriages page 14 4 New fly zones 6 25 years after 35 Jenniferize Pride 41 Up and coming 44 Summer freeze Climate change is Defying government, Chi- Jennifer Hudson aims to Milwaukee band Guilty La Coppa Artisan Gelato affecting bird behavior, nese remember demon- “Jenniferize” Chicago’s Wanted graduates to and others are giving ice including where and when stration, massacre in Pride Festival this month. headline position at cream the cold shoulder. species migrate. Tiananmen Square. Summerfest. 2 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 12, 2014 News with a twist WiGWAG By Lisa Neff & Louis Weisberg STORMY SEXISM? kids at the ceremony: Rosie to return mail for LGBT citizens in their in the yearbook was titled Researchers at the Uni- O’Donnell, Chelsea Han- postmarked BEARDS, BARS party platforms. “Wasatch Stud Life.” In it, versity of Illinois-Cham- dler, Whitney Cummings, with the stamp AND BEARS shirtless male students paign have concluded that Peter Facinelli and Sia. to the sender or Cue the Buffett and pack MAKING A POOP STOP appear under a headline people are more likely to refuse to accept the flip-flops. A fantasy A US Airways flight from that proclaims, “Studs doin’ fear hurricanes with mas- CHRISTIE AND THE it from their postal carriers. festival of bars, beards and Los Angeles to Philadel- what studs do best!” culine names than feminine BACHELORETTES Milk, who served briefly on bears takes place in Key phia made an emergency names. The researchers New Jersey Gov. Chris the San Francisco Board of West, Florida, in mid-July. poop stop in Kansas City. POTABLE FROM conducted six experiments Christie brightened the day Supervisors before he was That’s when some 125 burly The unscheduled landing POOP? and found in each case that of a bride-to-be when he assassinated, was one of characters compete in the was made after a service Researchers at Michigan people were more likely to and Gov. Bill Haslam unwit- the first out gay men ever annual “Papa” Hemingway dog pooped twice in the State University say tech- heed warnings for storms tingly went to a restaurant elected to public office. look-a-like contest. It’s all aisle, creating an odor that nology to extract drinkable named Christopher, Victor, hosting a bachelorette part of Hemingway Days, sickened the passengers. water from manure could Alexander and Danny than party. Christie was making THE CHINA which also includes prose The flight resumed after go commercial this year. storms named Christina, a sweep of GOP events in CONNECTION and poetry readings, an off- the mess was cleaned up, The McLanahan Nutrient Victoria, Alexandra and the state in an attempt to Five men — four from beat “Running of the Bulls” the plane aired out and the Separation System has pro- Kate. The consequences? gauge what the reaction the Atlanta area and a fifth and a street fair on Duval. dog and its human com- duced water that’s clean In the United States, hur- would be like among Dixie from Alabama — face fed- panion booked on a differ- enough for cattle to drink ricanes with feminine- Republicans to a Christie eral conspiracy charges for BETTER THAN ent plane. Such events are and can extract about 50 sounding names tend to be presidential bid. While Ten- allegedly illegally importing SECESSION? rare, according to reps for gallons of water from 100 deadlier (Katrina, Sandy), nessee pols had a negative male enhancement prod- Flouting science, a draft the airlines and service dog gallons of manure. They say probably because people reaction, the bachelorettes ucts from China. The gov- of the Texas Republican Par- organizations. the technology has practi- underestimate their wrath. gushed and had their pic- ernment claims the men ty’s new platform endorses cal, life-saving applications. tures taken with New Jer- told their China connection gay conversion therapy, COVER UP CALIFORNIA sey’s biggest highway haz- to mislabel the boxes con- which is considered so Female students at NO PRIDE CEREMONY ard. They did not, however, taining Viagra products to damaging psychologically Wasatch High School Utah A Salt Lake City police Rocker Melissa Etheridge ask him to strip. avoid detection by the U.S. that it’s been outlawed for discovered that their year- officer was placed on leave and TV exec Linda Wal- Food and Drug Administra- minors in California and book photos had been after refusing an assign- lem married on May 31 at DON’T WANT MILK? tion, as well as Customs New Jersey. The platform altered electronically ment to work at the annual the San Ysidro Ranch in A Christian hate group is and Border Patrol. The men also condemns homosexual to cover up most of their Utah Pride Parade on June 8 Montecito, California. The urging its followers not to allegedly purchased about behavior. According to the exposed skin. But the same in Salt Lake City. “We don’t couple had announced their accept mail bearing the new $2 million in Viagra over Huffington Post, Republi- yearbook contained pho- tolerate bias and bigotry wedding plans last sum- Harvey Milk stamp. Instead, three years. Not quite the cans in 43 states promote tos of boys exposing their in the department,” said a mer, after the demise of the American Family Asso- life-and-death stuff of Dal- opposition to same-sex bare chests and dressed in department spokesperson. Prop 8. Joining Etheridge’s ciation wants its followers las Buyers Club. marriage and other rights boxers. In fact, one spread WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014 3 4 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 12, 2014 Shifting flight patterns Climate change’s impact on birds By Lisa Neff National Audubon Society. lected and used by Audubon Staff writer Researchers have looked scientists to identify pat- Could it be that some at the impact of climate terns and trends over time. day the “oh-sweet-canada” change on specific species, An analysis of the counts whistle of the white-throat- such as the peacock, a bird provided evidence that cli- ed sparrow or the steady indigenous to Pakistan that mate change is seriously musical trill of the pine war- typically breeds in June and impacting natural sys- bler won’t be heard in Wis- July and nests through the tems, especially influencing consin? summer. Delays in the mon- migration. The co-author of At least two climate soon season have brought the Audubon study, Greg change models — one from heavy rains in September Butcher, wrote, “Birds are the Canadian Climate Cen- that can damage peacock showing us how the heavy ter and another from the eggs. And severe flooding hand of humanity is tipping United Kingdom’s Hadley has caused some peacock the balance of nature and Center for Climate Predic- populations to migrate to causing ecological disrup- tion and Research — indi- more mountainous habitats. tion in ways we are just cate that by 2100 many bird At the University of East beginning to predict and PHOTO: NATION AL AUDUBON SOCIETY species now found in Wis- Anglia in England, scientists comprehend.” The peacock. Science suggests that climate change is impacting the bird’s breeding and consin will be locally extinct, in the school of biological The Audubon research migration patterns. including the white-throat- sciences studied a popula- was focused on North ed sparrow, red-breasted tion of Icelandic black-tailed America and showed a nuthatch, mourning warbler godwits for two decades. strong correlation between and pine warbler. During that time, the flock shifting ranges and winter Other research efforts advanced the end of its temperature trends. Birds show that climate change spring migration by two are found further north in is impacting birds and weeks. warmer winters than they their behavior — especially The scientists found are in colder winters. Also, migration and breeding — that a younger generation many birds are moving away around the globe, raising was pushing up the sched- from coastal areas, where questions for the fate of the ule. “We found that birds oceans help moderate tem- proud peacocks of Pakistan, hatched in the late 1990s peratures, and are being the brown pelicans of Cali- arrived in May, but those seen farther inland as tem- fornia, the pine warblers of hatched in more recent peratures rise. Wisconsin and more. years are tending to arrive The birds, according to “The science is clear: Car- in April,” said lead research- Audubon, are following bon pollution is profoundly er Jenny Gill. “So the arriv- the biological imperative PHOTO:COURTESY damaging to our air, water, al dates are advancing to move into areas with Canada Geese. natural spaces and wild- because the new youngsters suitable climate. Over the life, and failure to tackle are migrating earlier. 40-year period, the red- PHOTO: JOSEP H KNOLL the problem is no longer an “Climate change is likely breasted merganser has Pine Warbler. option,” said David Yarnold, to be driving this change moved 317 miles north and president and CEO of the because godwits nest earli- the green-winged teal, 157 er in warmer years and birds miles north. The pine siskin that hatch earlier will have has moved 288 miles north more time to gain the body and the spruce grouse, 316 condition needed for migra- miles north. tion and to find good places The data also showed to spend the winter, which that: can help them to return • Twice as many bird spe- early to Iceland when they cies moved north as come back to breed.” south. One of the most signifi- • Twice as many species cant studies on the subject, moved inland as moved “Birds and Climate Change coastally.