THE VOICE OF ’S GAY, LESBIAN, BI AND TRANS COMMUNITY SINCE 1985 February 20, 2008 • vol 23 no 23 Slain Calif. Teen: Hate-Crime Victim? By AMY WOOTEN organization. “The tragic death of Lawrence King is a wake-up call for our schools to better The young, gay victim of a school protect students from harassment at school. As shooting has died after allegedly being shot by a society, we can prevent this kind of violence HIV Lottery a 14-year-old classmate because of his sexual from happening.” Ticket orientation and gender expression. California has laws that aim to protect LGBT A classmate shot junior high school student students. On Jan. 1, a California law (The Cali- Launches page 6 Lawrence King, 15, in the head Feb. 12. King fornia Student Civil Rights Act) went into effect; was pronounced brain-dead the following af- this statute protects students from harassment ternoon. Charges have been filed to investigate and discrimination based on gender identity and the matter as a hate crime. The attacker will be sexual orientation. Another law, The California charged with murder. Student Safety and Violence Prevention Act, The eighth-grade, openly gay student was went into effect in 2000. shot by a classmate at E.O. Green School in Ox- In a statement, Masen Davis, executive di- nard, Calif. Ventura County Star reported that rector of the Law Center, said the King suffered a massive stroke Feb. 13, causing organization is proud that California has such his brain to die. laws, but “the sad reality is that even with these The Los Angeles Times reported that of protections, violence against gay and gender King say he identified as gay, and occasionally Photo illustration of Lawrence King. Family non-conforming students happens all too often. wore make-up and feminine clothing. He was photo. We must address the culture of bullying in our also harassed at his school, according to Equal- schools to ensure that all youth have safe places Greg the California Department of Education. ity California. to learn.” Many LGBT organizations have released state- Authorities are investigating the shooting as The executive director of GLSEN, Kevin Jen- Sanchez ments highlighting that anti-gay harassment a possible hate crime. nings, called the incident “senseless” in a recent and violence in the classrooms and hallways LGBT students are often victims of bullying statement. “As a nation, we’ve had our heads in Turns It need to stop. and harassment. LGBT students are more likely the sand for far too long,” he said. “We need to page 9 “With young people coming out at younger Around to be threatened with a weapon and feel un- do everything we can to prevent something like ages, our school—especially our junior highs safe at school, according to the Gay, Lesbian this from happening again.” and middle school—need to be proactive about and Straight Education Network’s (GLSEN’s) Web Award-winning documentary filmmaker Debra teaching respect for diversity based on sexual site. LGBT California students are five times more Chasnoff, whose work includes the film That’s El- orientation and gender identity,” said Gay- likely to report being threatened or injured with Turn to page 4 Straight Alliance Network Executive Director a weapon, according to a survey conducted by Carolyn Laub in a statement released by the

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index News State Department lifts ban 4 Sen. Craig admonished 4 Bush budget and AIDS 4 Michaeline Chvatal dies 4 Calif. teen: Hate-crime victim? 4 Martinez’s lesbian backers 5 Howard Dean in Chicago 5 HIV lottery ticket launches 6 Pro-trans ruling in name case 6 National news 7 World roundup 8 ’s Profile: BEHIV’s Greg Sanchez 9 (above) discusses the play and his Quotelines 9 influential hard-rock band, Living Rev. Irene Monroe; letters 10 Colour. See page 11. Obama and wards 19 (reprint from last week’s issue) Photo by Joan Marcus

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HOT AS ICE NITRO’s Visuwil and the boys buy online at www.steppenwolf.org celebrate one year well done or call 312-335-1650 this Saturday night at Circuit. nightspotsn Production Sponsor of Carter’s Way: 4 February 20, 2008 ment policy should change to reflect that. guilty plea to be an attempt to evade the legal the need to fight the spread of AIDS, especially They tried administrative channels but those consequences of an action freely undertaken by in minority communities, but this budget makes proved futile and they filed suit in federal court you— that is, pleading guilty,” the letter said. all the talk sound like empty promises,” said in 2002, charging a violation of The Rehabilita- The panel also stated their disappointment in Craig E. Thompson, executive director of AIDS tion Act. Craig for using campaign funds to pay his legal Project Los Angeles. The department threw up every procedural bills. Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights challenge possible to avoid having to face the In a statement received by The Associated Campaign said, “We are deeply disappointed substance of the issue, but it lost in court at Press, Craig said he disagreed with the ethics that, in light of recent reports of startling in- every turn. It finally threw in the towel as the committee. creases in HIV/AIDS cases in the U.S., particu- trial date approached, and changed its medical No further action has been taken against larly among young gay and bisexual men and in guidelines. Craig, who will continue to serve the rest of his communities of color, the President is seeking “We are extremely pleased with this change,” term until it expires. even more money for anti-gay abstinence-only- said Bebe J. Anderson, HIV project director at until-marriage programs while neglecting so Lambda Legal. “The new guidelines mean that many domestic HIV/AIDS priorities.” candidates for Foreign Service posts who have Bush Budget However, proposing low funding for HIV pro- HIV will now be assessed on a case-by-case ba- Shortchanges AIDS grams is a long-standing tradition at the White Lorenzo Taylor. Photo by Bob Roehr sis, as the law requires. At long last, the State By Bob Roehr House. Bill Clinton often proposed little or no Department is taking down its sign that read increase for those programs knowing that the ‘People with HIV need not apply.’” AIDS advocates are furious with the budget that then Republican controlled Congress would do Department Taylor agreed to a settlement of his lawsuit President George W. Bush has submitted for the job for him. that was not conditional upon his employment. the next fiscal year. Overall, the Department of But relying upon Congress to address short- Lifts Ban on He had moved to the first of this Health and Human Services will be slashed by comings has become a more difficult task un- year in a new position within his old agency at more than $2 billion. The Ryan White CARE Act der current budgetary constraints. That did not Positive Diplomats the Department of Health and Human Services. changed after Democrats gained control of that will receive a token increase of $1 million, to By Bob Roehr In personal correspondence he said, “I’m hap- body. $2.143 billion. py that State has finally done the right thing, The U.S. Department of State has changed its The budget shuffles some relatively small but I only wish that bringing them to this point policy prohibiting the hiring of persons who are change around within specific AIDS programs. had not taken so long and so much effort. With HIV-positive. The decision ends a five-year le- One hand increases grants to states by $8 mil- a little courage, this could have been resolved gal challenge to that policy, which was headed lion, but it cuts $8 million for cities. The AIDS years ago instead of on the eve of the trial. for arguments in a federal courtroom later this Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) picks up $6 “My joy is tempered by my sadness for all the month. million, but advocates that it needs a $133 mil- foreign service officer candidates through the The Feb. 15 announcement came while Presi- lion increase. years whose talents and service have been over- dent George W. Bush was flying to Africa on a AIDS funding at the Centers for Disease Con- looked because of their HIV status and who were tour that would highlight the U.S. response to trol and Prevention (CDC) will stay the same, also victims of this archaic policy.” AIDS on that continent. but $40 million will be shifted from prevention The decision lifts the blanket ban on hiring to increased testing for the virus. A big win- persons who are HIV-positive to serve as diplo- Senate ner is abstinence only programs, the darling of mats. The department will now hire and assign social conservatives, which get $27.7 million Michaeline Chvatal (left). current and future employees worldwide on a Admonishes Craig more. The National Institutes of Health will be case-by-case basis based on their overall health BY AMY WOOTEN flat funded. status. “The President’s proposed budget for fiscal PASSAGES The lawsuit was brought by Lorenzo Taylor, A Senate ethics panel has officially admonished year 2009, if enacted, would spell disaster for now 51, a graduate of the Georgetown Uni- Sen. Larry Craig, saying he acted improperly dur- the nation’s health, and by extension, our na- Michaeline versity School of Foreign Service. He is fluent ing and after an airport bathroom sting. tional effort to respond to the HIV/AIDS epi- in three languages and had passed all of the The Senate Ethics Committee was displeased demic in the United States,” said Christine Lu- Chvatal Michaeline Chvatal, an integral part of the hurdles to join the State Department when, in with Craig’s actions after he was arrested for binski, executive director of the HIV Medicine local lesbian feminist choral group The Ar- 2001, a medical review dashed his plans to be- soliciting sex at a Minneapolis airport in June, Association. temis Singers, passed away Feb. 16. She died come a diplomat. according to a letter of admonition signed by all “It is appalling that the President is recom- surrounded by several good friends from Ar- State Department regulations at the time said six members of the panel on Feb. 13. mending a measly $1 million or .004 percent temis who sang for her. that new employees must be available for world- Craig tried to withdraw his guilty plea and has increase for the Ryan White CARE Act, which A strong supporter of the arts, Chvatal con- wide service and that being HIV-positive was an appealed a judge’s decision that his plea was provides healthcare and medications for low- tributed to such organizations as the collec- automatic exclusion. However, current employ- accurate. The ethics panel, in a letter to Craig, income people living with HIV/AIDS,” said Gene tive Arts of Life. ees who seroconverted were allowed to continue wrote that they believe he “committed the of- Copello, executive director of the AIDS Insti- There will be a memorial March 9 at Unity to work so long as their health allowed. fense” and knew what he was doing when he tute. “This does not even keep up with infla- Church, 1925 W. Thome. More details about Taylor, with the assistance of Lambda Legal, plead guilty. They also wrote that his pleas of tion, let alone take in account that more people Chvatal’s life and memorial will be posted on- sought reasonable accommodations from the de- innocence “do not appear credible.” His behav- need services due to new infections, new testing line as they become available, and will run in partment. They argued that the introduction of ior “reflected discreditably” on the Senate, they initiatives, and people are living longer.” next week’s . highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) had added, That compares with billions of additional dol- changed the medical situation and the employ- “We consider your attempt to withdraw your lars that the President is seeking for interna- tional AIDS activities. “The president has talked a good game about

VICTIM from cover because of his sexual orientation and gender expression. We do know that adults at his ju- ementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School, nior high school did not stop it and that kind called the tragedy a “horrific reminder” that of tolerance of anti-gay bigotry is pervasive in violence and bullying of LGBT students contin- our nation’s schools. Our hearts go out to Law- ues. “We wish we could say we’re come a long rence’s family—and to all young lesbian, gay, way since 1998 when Matthew Shepard was bisexual and transgender kids who are— right murdered when he was in college just because now, right this minute—being bullied and he was gay. But now, similarly-motivated hate beaten in school while adults look the other crimes are occurring in middle schools.” way.” “This terrible incident underscores the fact King is being memorialized through events that we cannot let hate go unchecked in our as well as words. On Feb. 19, the San Francisco schools and communities,” Judy Shepard, exec- LGBT Community Center—in conjunction with utive director of the Matthew Shepard Founda- several other organizations, including Commu- tion and mother of hate-crime victim Matthew nity United Against Violence and the Transgen- Shepard, said in a statement released by GLS- der Law Center—was slated to hold a candle- EN. “Our young people need our direction and light vigil. And on Feb. 15, the Ventura County guidance to prevent this type of crime from Rainbow Alliance sponsored a vigil at the Art happening. I urge all parents and teachers to Barn that was attended by approximately 100 educate their children and students about ac- people, according to the Ventura County Star. ceptance, understanding and compassion.” On Feb. 16, approximately 1,000 Oxnard youths The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and supporters took part in a march that paid also recently released a statement. “Right now tribute to King, according to the Los Angeles we don’t know exactly how anti-gay hate ex- Times. pressed itself in the murder of Lawrence King, said executive director Matt Foreman. “We do know is that he was harassed on a daily basis February 20, 2008 5 doors, call registered voters and more. Not all reactions were positive, Morales said, but the women proved that they are a force to be reck- oned with. Morales purposely sought out openly gay Lati- nas to get involved in the campaign because she felt it was crucial to keep Martinez in office. She said she could have chosen anyone else to help with the fight, but felt the race, in addition to being a Latino issue, had become a gay issue. “We fought very hard to get her in as a state senator,” Morales said. State Sen. Iris Martinez. All of the lesbians involved were new to poli- tics. Morales called the experience a “comedy of errors.” However, the fresh faces to politics— Sen. Martinez out lesbians from neighborhoods such as Pilsen and Humboldt Park—were recruiting volunteers, Gets Help from canvassing, manning offices and more. Latina Lesbians Martinez, who works alongside State Senate BY AMY WOOTEN President Emil Jones as assistant majority lead- er, took home over 50 percent of the vote. Brad- With the 2008 Illinois primaries a thing of the ley came in second with slightly over 42 percent past, local activist Marilyn Morales is proud of of the vote. the unprecedented mobilization of Latina lesbi- Not only did the women help Martinez keep ans in the 31st Ward that was sparked by the her seat, but also felt they received “renewed fear that State Sen. Iris Martinez would lose her respect,” Morales said. It provided much-needed legislative seat. visibility and recognition of gays and lesbians Many were pleased to hear that history would within the Latino community, where homopho- be made when State Rep. Rich Bradley stepped bia is still very prevalent. Howard Dean aside to allow lesbian candidate Deb Mell to run Morales feels that the gay Latino community Visits Chicago unopposed in the 40th District. However, many isn’t as involved as it should be, and wants to The Gay and Lesbian Leadership Council of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) host- Latina lesbians feared that Mell’s victory would use this unprecedented experience as a stepping ed a reception on Wed., Feb. 13, at the Ann Sather Restaurant, 909 W. Belmont, to benefit come at the expense of Illinois’ first Latina sena- stone for further action. The group of women the national party and boost support for Democratic leadership. DNC chairman and former tor. When Bradley decided to run against incum- plan to continue their work by, first of all, dis- presidential candidate Governor Howard Dean and Andrew Tobias, DNC’s openly gay treasurer bent Martinez, the possibility that they would cussion of how Latina lesbians can continue to (in the lower left photo), headlined the event. lose their community ally became a reality. be a viable part of the Latino community. She During a brief address to the intimate crowd, Dean made sharp remarks against the leading Martinez kept her seat, no doubt in part be- envisions them working on issues crucial to the Republican candidate for the 2008 presidential bid, John McCain, while stating that he would cause of a passionate group of Latina lesbians Latino community, such as health care, educa- be happy to support Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. who organized and oversaw between eight and tion and immigration, and working toward get- “There is extraordinary change going on in this country,” Dean added concerning the sur- nine precincts (nearly half of the precincts in ting the larger LGBT community to understand prising voter turnout in this year’s primaries. The Democratic chairman believes that more the 31st Ward) in the 20th District. The group the importance of these issues. young people are inspired to vote in this election because Obama and Clinton show diversity, won all but one precinct. “This was a big deal for us,” Morales said. “I’m an attractive political trait in the under-thirty demographic. Text by Tully Satre; photos by Kat “I’m really proud of us,” said Morales, an out just really excited about the work that we did. I Fitzgerald. See more photos at www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com. lesbian who spearheaded much of the effort to think we were really instrumental.” get “just your neighborhood dykes” to knock on

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Danny Davis; sev- The Center received the award and $15,000 denied access to the judicial process because of during the Local Initiatives Support Corporation eral bill sponsors such as State Sen. Jacqueline her gender identity or financial status. Collins and State Reps. Greg Harris, Connie How- of Chicago’s annual award ceremony on Feb. 7. It Duann Turner, a 52-year-old low-income trans- was recognized for its commitment to the LGBT ard and Eddie Washington; and local activists gender woman represented by Lambda Legal, Ida W. Byther-Smith, Marc Loveless, Ben Mont- community and its “design ingenuity,” accord- was denied access to the judicial process last ing to a statement released. gomery and Michael O’Connor. summer when the Will County Circuit Court re- One hundred percent of the net proceeds from fused to file her papers and provide her an offi- the sale of the tickets—a little over 27 cents cial case number because it felt her request was Participants needed per dollar—will fund HIV/AIDS prevention, edu- unnecessary. Turner wanted to begin the process for HIV survey Illinois Deputy Gov. Louanner Peters. Photo cation and treatment programs. The money will of legally changing her name, and also request- The Illinois Women of African Descent Coali- courtesy of Illinois Lottery be appropriated to the Illinois Department of ed a waiver of court fees. The Illinois Supreme tion is seeking women of color ages 12 and older Public Health (IDPH), which will award grants to Court ordered the lower court to file her Petition to participate in an HIV attitudes and beliefs local HIV/AIDS organizations. to Change Name and her Application To Sue As a survey. The coalition wants a better understand- Instant Lottery Harris, who is HIV-positive, spoke of the ac- Poor Person. ing of the needs of women of African descent for tivists and local organizations who have been Lambda Legal’s Midwest Regional Office con- use in future messages and interventions. The Ticket for “working in the trenches” over the years. He siders the case a victory. “From our perspective, survey can be accessed at http://www.survey- feels the “real beauty” of the ticket is that it will this case has always been about providing equal monkey.com/s.aspx?sm=UrL0Ux7mgbWkIX5E_2b HIV/AIDS Unveiled help fund services provided by local HIV/AIDS BY AMY WOOTEN access to the court system,” senior staff attor- Twu6Q_3d_3d. organizations. “The real impact is in the small ney Christopher Clark said. community organizations … that know the folks In July 2007, Turner submitted applications After overcoming a hurdle last year, the nation’s on the block,” Harris said. Artreach to hold first instant lottery ticket where 100 percent of to change her name and sue as a low-income benefit concerts Tickets are available 30 weeks out of the individual. According to the lawsuit, Turner was the net proceeds go towards HIV/AIDS preven- year through Dec. 31, 2012. The top prize is tion services is now available at Illinois Lottery allegedly told by Twelfth Judicial Circuit Chief at gay bars $20,000. Judge Stephen White that her application was Artreach Educational Theatre, which teaches retail locations. Illinois ranks sixth in the nation for AIDS cas- Illinois Lottery officially unveiled the “Red denied because he felt a name change was un- children performance skills such as acting and es. Also, the face of HIV/AIDS has been chang- necessary and not urgent. singing, will hold a number of benefit concerts Ribbon Cash for Quality of Life” instant lottery ing locally and beyond. Minority populations, ticket Feb. 11 at the James R. Thompson Center, Illinois law entitles low-income people to a at local LGBT bars throughout Spring. such as African-American women, are dispropor- waiver of court fees if they can’t afford them. Artreach instructors will perform Broadway’s 100 W. Randolph, after what Illinois Lottery Act- tionately affected. At the event, Collins said she ing Superintendent Jodie Winnett called a “very Turner requested that the fees associated with hit showtunes at shows that will take place Feb. felt a “moral imperitive” to sponsor legislation legally changing her name be waived. Lambda 23 at @mosphere; March 1 at Hydrate; March long journey.” Illinois Lottery estimates that the for the “Quality of Life” ticket and push it for- tickets will raise $3 million annually. On Feb. 15, Legal filed suit, requesting that the Will County 15 at Hunters Nightclub; March 22 at Krave Club ward. Circuit Court comply with the law so that Turner and March 29 at Mary’s Attic. Learn more at the tickets started being distributed; they will “This ticket today is a step forward in mankind be fully distributed across the state by Feb. 22. could begin the name-changing process. www.artreachspotlite.com. and humankind,” said IDPH Director Dr. Damon Clark said that although there is no way to The idea for “Red Ribbon Cash” happened in Arnold. a Chicago Black Gay Men’s Caucus meeting. The estimate how many times the court has failed to Center to measure was passed by the General Assembly in comply with the law over the years, individuals honor Sheahan across the nation still face unequal access to the June 2007. It received an amendatory veto by Center on Halsted will honor Patrick Sheahan judicial process due to bias. Gov. Rod Blagojevich back in August, causing a at its 18th Annual Human First Gala Sat., April According to Clark, the case highlights that 12, at the Hilton Chicago, 720 S. Michigan. there is not only transgender bias in the court Sheahan will be honored as the Center’s 2008 system, but also a bias against low-income indi- Human First recipient for his significant contri- viduals. “It’s a victory in both of those respects,” butions with the LGBT community and its allies. Clark said. As a significant force behind building the new Lambda Legal expects the Will County Circuit Center and being the organization’s co-chair for Court to comply with the order. its opening gala co-chair, among other things, he has worked among corporate, public and non- Chicago Takes Off profit sectors to build consensus around specific raises $100K LGBT issues, according to a press release. Test Positive Aware Network’s two Chicago Lesbian comedian Kate Clinton will be the eve- Takes Off shows raised more than $100,000. ning’s mistress of ceremonies. Tickets are $300 Over 1,200 people attended the steamy event per person; $500 includes a premium seating Feb. 9 at Park West, 322 W. Armitage. and private reception. This was the artistic event’s second year, and See www.centeronhalsted.org. featured choreographed dances, performers and elaborate costumes. In a statement released Fairygodmother by TPAN Executive Director Rick Bejlovec, he Foundation thanked the Chicago community for its “over- whelming support.” holds raffle Tickets are now available for Fairygodmother Foundation’s Spring Raffle. The package includes WTTW to run a relaxing weekend downtown at the Hotel Cass, ‘Out and Proud’ complete with dining, a comedy at Second City Local television station WTTW-11 has begun and more. Tickets are $10 each or six for $50, production on a new special profiling the his- and can be purchased by calling 312-573-0028 tory of Chicago’s LGBT community. Out & Proud ext. 10 or online at www.fairygodmother.org. In Chicago is in production and will premiere in The raffle will be drawn April 1. June. The Fairygodmother Foundation grants wishes Out & Proud In Chicago—which features to terminally ill adults. Windy City Media Group Publisher Tracy Baim as its special consultant—will profile a wide range Art Against AIDS of people, from everyday folks to the famous. Among those who will be profiled are lesbian Feb. 28 author/activist Valerie Taylor, activist/Baton Artists from across the nation will come to- Show Lounge owner Jim Flint, the late cartoon- gether for Heartland Alliance’s Art Against AIDS ist Danny Sotomayor and social-activist couple benefit Feb. 28. and Mary Rozet Smith. The event will take place from 6-10 p.m. at Individuals interested in contributing to the the River East Art Center, 435 E. Illinois. Over 80 production fund should call 773-509-5535. For works of art by local and national artists will be more info, see www.wttw.com. auctioned off. Tickets are $100 in advance and $125 at the door. Call 312-660-1313 or see www.heartlan- dalliance.org. February 20, 2008 7 In Massachusetts, a federal appeals court Obama. “Why would ruled that it is okay for an elementary school NATIONAL we spend money kick- to use children’s books that promote gay tol- KEEN ON THE TRAIL ing out Arab-speaking erance, reported Gaywired.com. The families of Gay news from the linguists that we need ROUNDUP two students filed suit because of the school’s BY AMY WOOTEN presidential campaign trail ... right now in order to position of not providing parental notification BY LISA KEEN, KEEN NEWS SERVICE apprehend terrorists for LGBT-friendly materials used in the class- After becoming the first state to reject a con- because of some hang- room. They felt that the school’s use of children’s stitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage ups that are outdated books Molly’s Family, King & King and Who’s in a back in 2006, legislators are pushing to ask Obama takes lead and outmoded and make no sense. We are go- Family? conflicted with their personal religious voters to ban gay marriage in Arizona again. The winds of change blew in Barack Obama’s ing to overturn it.” beliefs and the religious training of their kids. According to The Arizona Republic, leaders in direction last week, as the Illinois senator “How am I going to do it?” he continued. A lesbian mom was recently convicted in the both houses introduced a measure to place a overtook U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York “I’m going to do it by putting together a murder of her infant son, according to 365gay. same-sex marriage ban on the November ballot. in the delegate race for the Democratic presi- military panel made up of people like General com. The mother was sentenced to This ballot measure is slightly different this time dential nomination. [John Shalikashvili].” 15 years to life for the murder of her 23-month- around because it does not ban other relation- After first winning the caucus and primary Shalikashvili, who was chairman of the Joint old son. Her partner, who pled guilty in May, ships, such as domestic partnerships. races over the weekend in Washington, Louisi- Chiefs of Staff during President Bill Clinton’s is currently serving her 15-year sentence. The Bay Windows reports that Stan McGee, one ana, Nebraska and Maine, Obama made another first term, said last year that, although he infant was beaten to death in September, and of Massachusetts’ Gov. Deval Patrick’s openly clean sweep of the newly dubbed “Potomac initially supported the “don’t ask, don’t tell” both women blamed each other for the death. gay aides, was arrested in Florida for alleg- Primary” states of Maryland, Virginia, and the policy of excluding all but the most closeted of An openly gay student who was shot in the edly sexually assaulting a 15-year-old. McGee is District of Columbia on Tuesday. gay men and lesbians from the military, he no head by a classmate was recently declared an aide for the state’s Secretary of Housing and Obama’s latest winnings boosted his dele- longer believes gays would undermine military brain dead, according to the Los Angeles Times. Economic Development. He was arrested in late gate count above that of Clinton’s for the first efficacy. The 15-year-old Oxnard, Calif., junior high stu- December. time in the campaign, though both counts are “If we can get military officers to credibly dent, Lawrence King, was declared brain dead on San Jose State University’s president sus- relatively close and Clinton is favored to take talk about this issue –the most recent polls Feb. 13. The 14-year-old suspect, who has not pended the school’s on-campus blood drive the giant delegate states of Texas and Ohio have shown the average person who is serving been identified by local authorities because of in protest of anti-gay federal donation guide- March 4. in Iraq and Afghanistan don’t think this is an his young age, will now face first-degree murder lines that prohibit gay men from donating, On Tuesday night, Clinton and Obama issue,” said Obama. “This is a political issue. It charges. Students at the school say that King according to Out in America. The university’s reached out to rallies in their favored strong- needs to stop being a political issue. We need was targeted because of his sexual orientation. president, Don Kassing, announced his decision holds --Clinton to the large state of Texas, to solve the problem.” A new gay travel social networking site, to students via e-mail, writing that the federal speaking in El Paso; and Obama in the small There seemed to be only scattered other Gaypedia.com, launched on Valentine’s Day. The guidelines conflict with the school’s non-dis- state of Wisconsin, speaking in Madison. mention of gay issues in the campaigns in this site serves as a one stop shop for travel informa- crimination policy. He said that the suspension On the Republican side, U.S. Senator John week’s primary and caucus states. Several news tion, as well as social networking. The site gives of the blood drive will continue until the Food McCain of Arizona bested former Governor Mike reports in Washington State made note of the visitors an inside peek into numerous travel and Drug Administration reviews its policies. Huckabee of Arkansas in four out of six states fact that caucus ballots asked voters whether destinations by informing them of the laws that Former Bush aide Karl Rove revealed that last weekend and Tuesday. McCain, with 812 they were gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgen- impact LGBT people at each destination. he is uncertain whether or not his adoptive delegates, appears poised to reach the magic der. The Williams Institute at UCLA Law School father, who died in 2004, was gay at a re- number of 1,191 as early as March 4 in Texas “I went to the Democratic gathering at High- announced that $5.5 million in new gifts has cent chat at a Connecticut high school, reported or Ohio. land Middle School, in the Overlake part of been contributed to support its research on the Hartford Courant. He was responding to a But on the Democratic side, Obama and Clin- Bellevue,” wrote Seattle Times reporter Danny sexual orientation law and policy. The Williams student’s question, which referenced published ton are in a delegate-by-delegate fight for the Westneat. “…Practically everyone refused to Institute is the first national think tank to dedi- accounts of his sexual orientation. Rove, when nomination that has some party officials wor- fill out the part of the ballot that asked wheth- cate itself to such issues and research. The insti- asked by a student, also discussed his thoughts ried that a resolution may require a contentious er they were gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgen- tute’s endowment is now up to $15 million. on gay marriage. He explained that he feels that and controversial vote by “superdelegates”— der. Why a political party needs to know who Straight ally and brother of activist Larry the issue of marriage should be left up to a state 796 (current) party leaders who can vote on you’re sleeping with, I have no idea.” Kramer, Arthur Kramer, died at age 81, accord- legislature, not the courts. the nomination by virtue of their having held And campaigning for her mother in Wiscon- ing to GLAAD. Kramer was the lead funder of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary public office or party leadership positions. Na- sin, which holds its primary Feb. 19, Chelsea his brother’s initiative for Lesbian & Gay Studies Clinton has more gay super delegates than tional Stonewall Democrats said Feb. 12 that Clinton was asked about Sen. Clinton’s posi- at Yale University, donating $1 million in 2001. Sen. Barack Obama, according to the Washing- at least 21 of these are openly LGBT. tion on equal rights for gays. According to the Kramer’s law firm, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Fran- ton Blade. Because the race is neck-and-neck, Capital Times, a Madison newspaper, Chelsea kel, tackles many LGBT issues. super delegates will play a very important role Talking the talk Clinton was well-versed in her mother’s posi- According to Outincolumbus.com, the Ohio in deciding who will be nominated. The Blade Obama mentioned gays in his stump speech tions. She noted, among other things, that Health Department plans to study gay teens’ reports that there are 21 super delegates who at least twice during last week—before large, Clinton supports civil unions but not marriage smoking habits. The state’s health officials al- identify as LGBT in the electoral system. Twelve general audiences in Seattle, Wash., and Alex- and believes “don’t ask, don’t tell” should be located $60,000 in federal dollars to study the of those delegates have pledged their support andria, Va. repealed. issue. Nationwide, gay and lesbian teenagers, In Alexandria, he said, “I’ve seen how politi- for Clinton, while two have pledged their sup- © Lisa Keen. All rights reserved. and the LGBT community in general, tend to cians can exploit our fears to make us afraid port for Obama. Seven remain undecided. read the entire column at www. smoke more than their straight counterparts. of each other,” said Obama. “Afraid of immi- A Colorado lesbian couple who wants to get WindyCityMediaGroup.com. married recently filed suit in Denver County Ohio wants to conduct the study because it does grants, afraid of gay people. I’ve seen how de- court, reported The Advocate. The couple wants not have any statewide data on LGBT smoking structive, how corrosive fear can be.” Colorado’s ban on same-sex marriage to be habits. He was also prompted by a questioner in the declared unconstitutional. In 2006, voters ap- audience in Alexandria, a gay veteran named proved a ballot measure that amended the state Dustin Davis, to explain what he would do constitution to ban same-sex marriage. The les- to repeal the military’s “don’t ask/don’t tell” bian couple was arrested in 2007 on trespassing policy. charges after they attempted to obtain a mar- “Why would we not want able men and riage license. women who are willing to sacrifice on our behalf—why would we tell them no?” said

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HRW where [this committee’s] position does not have in animal pornography and she believed that and that in Cuba that wouldn’t cause an earth- photo a majority,” said FELGTB’s Sylvia Jaén. “We were made homosexuals untrustworthy. quake or anything like that,” Prieto, who is a successful in overcoming this situation but un- The court unanimously rejected Sjöholm’s de- member of the Politburo, told reporters after fortunately our Dutch and Brazilian friends were Romania considers fense, as did a lower district court, according to a screening of a new documentary about folk not.” a report in the Stockholm publication The Lo- singer Silvio Rodríguez. Groups that have succeeded in achieving ECO- same-sex cal. Prieto, 57, also is a member of the Council of SOC consultative status in recent years include marriage ban Sjöholm must pay Bergström $3,085 in dam- State, Cuba’s governing body. The Herald noted the Swedish national gay group RFSL (its former Romania’s parliament is considering defining ages for discrimination and harassment, and re- that he is the only top government official with initials are now its full name), Canada’s Coali- marriage as between a man and a woman. Cur- imburse $6,940 to the state Ombudsman against “shoulder-length hair.” tion gaie et lesbienne du Québec, the Danish rent law defines it as “between spouses.” Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation Prieto’s statement is one of several pro-gay National Association for Gays and Lesbians, the A bill passed unanimously Feb. 4 by the Sen- for its legal expenses. developments in Cuba in the past year. Lesbian and Gay Federation in Germany, Interna- ate Judiciary Committee would change the law In November, Mariela Castro Espín, director tional Wages Due Lesbians, Australia’s Coalition to read, “The marriage between a man and a of National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX), U.N. turns down of Activist Lesbians, and the European branch of woman is the basis of the family.” said her dad, Raúl Castro, supports letting open the International Lesbian and Gay Association. Human Rights Watch denounced the measure. gay groups gays serve in the military. Raúl Castro is leading The status allows nongovernmental organiza- “There is no excuse for playing politics with The United Nations Committee on Non-Gov- Cuba during his brother Fidel’s lengthy illness. tions—some 2,900 in all—to access U.N. meet- families’ welfare,” said Boris Dittrich, advocacy ernmental Organizations is again opposing and Castro Espín also has said the island will begin ings, deliver oral and written reports, contact director of HRW’s LGBT Rights Program. delaying gay groups’ requests for consultative offering sex-change operations. country representatives and organize events. “These proposals not only deliberately dis- status with the Economic and Social Council “There are 27 transsexuals waiting for the criminate against same-sex couples but threaten (ECOSOC). operation [and] the medical team is being their families, including children. It is an insult On Feb. 11, the committee recommended de- Israel OKs trained,” she told the Buenos Aires newspaper to Romania’s achievements elsewhere in over- nial of, or deferred action on, the applications Clarín three months ago. “As soon as it’s ready coming discrimination.” of Spain’s State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, gay adoption ... they will start to operate.” Israel’s Justice Ministry announced Feb. 10 Transsexuals and Bisexuals (FELGTB); the Bra- In December, two Havana lesbians were sym- that same-sex couples can adopt children. zilian Association of Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, bolically married in CENESEX’s courtyard. Móni- “When it is for the good of the adopted child, Spaniards support Transvestites and Transsexuals (ABGLT); and the ca, 19, and Elizabeth, 28, tied the knot before it is possible to agree to requests from same-sex same-sex Dutch national gay organization COC (its former 60 friends and supporters in the first-ever same- couples to adopt a child who is not the child of initials are now its full name). sex union to receive support from a government marriage law one of the partners,” the ministry announced on “It was a shocking first experience at the agency. Three-quarters of Spaniards support the na- behalf of Attorney General Menachem Mazuz. U.N.,” said Joyce Hamilton of COC, whose appli- The ceremony was filmed by students from the tion’s two-year-old law that lets same-sex cou- Welfare Minister Isaac Herzog welcomed the cation, along with that of ABGLT, was deferred. Cuban Higher Institute of Art. ples marry. move, saying: “There is no reason why same- “This blatant structural discrimination against And last July, the Roman Catholic vicar general Spain is one of six countries that have opened sex couples who meet the criteria for adoption LGBT organizations shows the need for a contin- of Havana, Monsignor Carlos Manuel de Céspedes traditional marriage to gay couples. should not be able to join the process of adop- ued battle.” García-Menocal, wrote that he supports “stable A new Instituto Opina/Cadena Ser poll found tion and of parenthood. We must adapt to the FELGTB’s application was recommended for same-sex relationships” being “protected by that 74.5 percent of respondents support the spirit of the times and the changes that are rejection in a tie vote. Support for the appli- civil laws.” law and only 18.1 percent want to see it re- afoot.” cation came from Colombia, Dominica, Israel, “Contemporary Western society is no longer pealed. The remainder had no opinion. Ultra-Orthodox lawmakers denounced the deci- Peru, Romania, the United Kingdom and the U.S. the same as that which arrived at present clari- President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero re- sion, saying it will lead to children being placed Opposition came from Burundi, China, Egypt, fications concerning marriage,” Céspedes said. cently reaffirmed his support for gay marriage, in an unnatural environment. Pakistan, Qatar, Russia and Sudan. Four nations saying, “We will not take one step backward in abstained—Angola, Guinea, India and Turkey— our defense of tolerance and freedom.” —Assistance: Bill Kelley

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Sanchez was “Back when I found out I was positive, there of LGBT Americans. For seven long years, the “If I say I was being stereotypical and certain nothing was wrong with him since he was only one [treatment] pill and there still were Bush Administration has tried to divide us— I [then] do what ‘shouldn’t’ be stereotypical, felt fine and didn’t look sick. a lot of deaths [among patients]. I went to a lot only seeing people who matter to them. It’s then I’m living my life for somebody else and When he finally realized that he was positive, of funerals,” he said. “Hopefully we’re changing been a government of the few, by the few, and I’m marching to the beat of somebody else’s Sanchez was shocked, saddened and, quite sim- that, especially since treatment has gotten a lot for the few. And no community has been more drummer, and that, I think, is a worse thing. ply, at rock bottom. easier. invisible to this administration than the LGBT [B]eing out is just about being who you are. “I was scared to death, living in northwest “So many kids today hear about AIDS and HIV, community. I will change that.” — Presiden- It’s a worse crime to have to be a certain [non- Indiana in a large Catholic family,” said Sanchez. but they don’t really relate with it. We’re trying tial candidate Hillary Clinton on Feb. 4 in “A stereotypical] way. And really, I think that is “It was very difficult to talk to anyone or even to change that.” Message to LGBT Americans: ‘I Want to be Your being a little homophobic. It’s just me being access any resources. I felt hopeless. Thus, his presentations—especially at President.’” me, and if you don’t like it, that’s just too “When I learned I was positive, I went into schools—are very visual, showing HIV-infected bad.” — TV celebrity Carson Kressley, of Queer denial, mostly because I didn’t know how I was patients of all shapes, sizes, colors, religions “There were, indeed, some factual in- Eye fame, to AfterElton.com, Jan. 30. going to tell anyone. I didn’t think I was going and nationalities. accuracies in President Clinton’s statement to be alive.” “We have to remember where we have been, about ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Sanchez even cashed in his life insurance pol- where we are and where are we going and learn Tell.’ ... Military members icy. from those people who have passed on before us cannot be out to anyone, In 1997, Sanchez went from an HIV-positive and no longer have a voice,” Sanchez said. “We at any time, while serv- status to an AIDS diagnosis. need to bridge the gap between the generations ing under the law. State- GLAAD photo. Now 42, openly gay and living in Chicago’s that experienced AIDS at its worst and today. ments to friends, family Rogers Park neighborhood, Sanchez has had a “Back when I came out about AIDS publicly members or anyone else wide-ranging, amazing life, especially over the it had its repercussions. But [today’s youth can are grounds for dismissal past 10 years. That life included a high-profile be] strong and their lives meaningful.” Being out is from the armed forces, as stint on a locally produced reality show for FOX- Sanchez has had quite a diverse life since they have been since day just about TV. learning he was HIV-positive and, ultimately, one. The law, indeed, prac- “Cancer, for instance, is very important to sup- afflicted with AIDS. Just consider: being who tically prevents any gay port,” Sanchez said. “I know people with cancer —He was part of an ex-gay ministry for about American, who is out in and support it, too. I support the cancer pink- three years in the 1990s. you are. any way, from serving in —Carson Kressley. ribbon campaign [for breast cancer] and any —He was one of the first in South Bend, the military.” — Aubrey other types of cancers that happen to people. Ind., to speak out about AIDS and HIV, “and, of Sarvis, executive director of I’m hoping one day soon, I’ll see a red ribbon [in course, that had its own repercussions,” he said, the Servicemembers Legal support of AIDS research] on a pack of Tic Tacs referring to his house being egged and having Defense Network, to syndi- like I’ve recently seen with the breast cancer to endure vandalism of his property, among oth- cated gay press columnist pink ribbon. And why not red Tic Tacs, too? er things. “It was scary, but [what I was doing Chris Crain, Jan. 24. “HIV/AIDS needs to be supported by more big was] gratifying.” community businesses, big corporations and our —In 1990, he was involved with an abusive “What’s a feminist government through a bigger awareness cam- relationship. civil-rights supporter paign, and not just putting the emphasis on —Chicago’s FOX-TV affiliate, WFLD, held an ex- to do? This is an embar- Africa, but in our own backyard, too. The lo- periment a few years ago, mixing gays, lesbians rassment of riches we have cal venues—like the bars—are always hit up for and straights. They lived together for a week, in the Democratic primary. Sure, they all have money, and I’m sure it can wear on them to have debating numerous hot-button subjects, such as their limitations, but when was the last time “I’m supporting her [Hillary Clinton] that expectation so often. HIV, hate crimes, adoption, marriage, etc. San- we had some viable, charismatic choices? because I know her and I like her and she’s “HIV/AIDS still a stigma attached to it. It chez admits he was hesitant to participate, but When didn’t you hold your nose to vote for the smart and a tough girl. But I don’t have much involves talking about death, sex, drugs, and ultimately was chosen from among about 800 president. ... We feminists are between a Ba- respect for either party. I just think Republi- diverse populations of people who usually are applicants. “And it really was a great experi- rack and a hard place. Our fantasy presidential cans are worse.” — Cher to USA Today, Feb. 6. perceived in some communities as marginalized, ence in my life, though quite stressful,” he said. teams are flush.” — Tracy Baim, publisher of different and/or outcasts from family, friends “Some of us really bonded and still talk today. the Chicago gay newspaper Windy City Times, in and others. Not so with others.” In fact, Sanchez said a five- a Jan. 16 opinion column. —Assistance: Bill Kelley Sanchez now works at Better Existence with year reunion of the 2003 crew was discussed, HIV (BEHIV) as an education outreach preven- but some would not participate, he predicted. “I always wanted to design clothes, tion specialist, making HIV/AIDS-related pre- “It was a great experience, especially since I or decorate houses, or just be fabulous, sentations to schools and elsewhere in the com- heard from so many people who were struggling but I didn’t expect it to come in the form of munity. with their sexuality, their spirituality and their fame, and certainly didn’t expect to have a TV He is involved with testing and counseling re- personal lives,” he said. show. I never even imagined that. Queer Eye garding HIV, among other STDs. He also works in For 2008 and beyond, Sanchez said, “I have was just an amazing, happy accident. I guess crisis intervention. The bulk of his work is done just one goal, and that’s to help people, what- it’s like that old adage where preparation met in the Chicago Public School System. ever way that is.” luck and it all worked out and was just really

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VOL. 23, No. 23, Feb. 20, 2008 The combined forces of Windy City Times, VIEWPOINTS founded Sept. 1985, and Outlines newspaper, founded May 1987. at the Waterfront restaurant. And he said to me, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Donnie McClurkin he would really appreciate it if he didn’t get his and other anti-gay leaders sitting down with LGBT PUBLISHER & Executive EDITOR REV. IRENE photo taken with my mayor. He said he would re- community leaders telling them how much they Tracy Baim ally not like to have his picture taken with Gavin,” are evil and going to hell while Obama sits back MONROE Assistant Publisher Terri Klinsky former Mayor Willie Brown told the San Francisco and says, ‘“We should work together and hope for MANAGING Editor Andrew Davis Chronicle. change.” Business manager Cynthia Holmes Four years later and a denial from the Obama And while many of us will rationalize and em- Director of New Media Jean Albright campaign, Newsom told Reuters: “One of the three brace Obama’s “big tent” strategy, in truth, Obama ART DIRECTOR Kirk Williamson account managerS: Amy Matheny, Suzanne Democrats you mentioned as presidential candi- is on the “down low” with the LGBTQ communi- Kraus, Kirk Williamson, Jerry Nunn, Terry Wiegel Yes, You Can dates, as God is my witness, will not be photo- ty. He has repackaged a softer and more gentler Promotions director Kathleen Ulm graphed with me, will not be in the same room anti-gay platform than the Republicans which is OFFICE Robb Olson Change Obama! with me, even though I’ve done fund-raisers for perhaps why so many of us uncritically and defen- NIGHTSPOTS MANAGING Editor Kirk Williamson SENIOR NEWS REPORTER Amy Wooten that particular person—not once, but twice— sively come to Obama’s defensive. National Sales Rivendell Media, 212-242-6863 Obama has “barack’d the vote” by getting disin- because of this issue.” “You and the white gay establishment are hold- TheatER Editor Jonathan Abarbanel terested and disenfranchised Americans involved Newsom’s a staunch ally to our community. He ing Obama to a double standard that is ridiculous Cinema WRITER Richard Knight, Jr. in his campaign for the presidential bid. His prom- has neither publicly veered away from photo-ops and disingenuous. What about Hillary Clinton? If BOOKS WRITER Yasmin Nair ise to cease partisan politics and the old beltway SENIOR WRITERS Bob Roehr, Rex Wockner, David with us nor from our allies promoting marriage you’re going to judge people by the company they Byrne, Cathy Seabaugh, Tony Peregrin boys’ bickering has not only raised the hope of equality. keep, it should be across the the board and not ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WRITERS the American public, but it has also brought out Many LGBTQ supporters of Obama, however, will selective condemnation,” an avid critic of mine Mary Shen Barnidge, Jim Edminster, Steve Warren, untold numbers of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans- argue that Obama, then like now, must tactically wrote me. Lawrence Ferber, Mel Ferrand, Tim Nasson, Romeo gender and queer Americans to cast our votes San Vincente, Scott Morgan, Catey Sullivan, Eric do what he has to do to shave off the vitriol of The argument that Hilary isn’t and Bill wasn’t Eatherly, J. S. Hall for him. And with Obama’s win of the Democratic religious conservatives to win. any better on LGBTQ issues is true. However, that’s Columnists/Writers: Yvonne Zipter, Mubarak presidential primary in South Carolina last month, Okay! not the issue here. Dahir, Michelangelo Signorile, Susie Day, Jorjet his inspiring “Yes, we can change” speech proved But how is he then the candidate of change? Why? Harper, Lee Lynch, Steve Starr, Joe Rice, Dan that not only can he reach across this nation’s Woog, Marie-Jo Proulx, Lisa Keen, Chris Crain, And how does Obama’s political strategy reconcile Because Obama is the new guy on the block chal- Charlsie Dewey, Aqua Terra Travel, Michael Knipp dividing lines, but we as Americans can, too: with these words he spoke in South Carolina? lenging the old establishment. He’s allegedly es- PHOTOGRAPHERS Mel Ferrand, Kat Fitzgerald, “This election is about the past vs. the future. “We’re up against the idea that it’s acceptable to pousing a differently political platform, one where Steve Becker It’s about whether we settle for the same divisions say anything and do anything to win an election. he says if,..” we are met with cynicism and doubt ARTISTS/CARTOONISTS Alison Bechdel, Mikeoart and distractions and drama that passes for politics But we know that this is exactly what’s wrong with and fear and those who tell us that we can’t, we CIRCULATION today or whether we reach for a politics of com- Circulation director Jean Albright our politics. This is why people don’t believe what will respond with that timeless creed that sums up Distribution: Ashina, Allan, Carol, Crystal, Dan, mon sense and innovation, a politics of shared their leaders say anymore. This is why they tune the spirit of the American people in three simple Ed, Jack, John, Maria and Sue sacrifice and shared prosperity.... out. And this election is our chance to give the words—yes, we can.” “Don’t tell me we can’t change. Yes, we can. Yes, American people a reason to believe again.” But Obama’s “big tent strategy” to ascend to we can change. Yes, we can. Yes, we can heal this Hmm?! the White House and his elusive and “down low” nation. Yes, we can seize our future.” While it is true, in Obama’s case, that a picture promises to the LGBTQ community play us like But as Obama helps the nation to seize a better with us would perhaps now say more than his elo- pawns on a chess board. 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really see these plac- tatively titled and it’s, Corey Glover: es. And I have little basically, . We’re trying to take children, and I’d like some real interesting [things] and turn things From Colour to see them every now upside-down. and then. They come WCT: Living Colour has won a couple of to ‘Christ’ out and see me peri- Grammys. Did you catch the most recent By Andrew Davis odically, but it’s not Grammys? the same thing as put- CG: No, I did not. I was working that day, and The traveling theatrical production of Jesus ting them to bed and the television in my hotel room only gave me Christ Superstar is in Chicago this week—and an waking up with them. MSNBC. And I wasn’t going to the hotel bar to integral part of this musical is Corey Glover, who WCT: So what places watch the Grammys. plays the traitorous Judas Iscariot. Glover—best are you looking for- WCT: I was going to ask what you thought known as the lead singer of the Grammy Award- ward to checking out of [singer] Amy Winehouse and some of the winning Black hard-rock band Living Colour— in Chicago? other performers. talked with Windy City Times about the play, the CG: I don’t know be- CG: I think [she’s] great. Some folks have been classic war movie Platoon (in which Glover has a Corey Glover (right) and in Jesus Christ Superstar. Photo by cause it’s snowy and saying [her winning] was like rewarding bad be- role) and Amy Winehouse. Joan Marcus cold! Actually, my chil- havior. It’s not about her behavior—shouldn’t Windy City Times: What initially drew you to dren and wife are com- it be about her singing? Ms. Winehouse has a this production? ing up, so I’m looking problem; that’s pretty evident. But when you admit—and I’m admitting a lot of stuff to you Corey Glover: The fact that it was Jesus Christ forward to that more hear her songs like Back to Black, you can really today—that what I do is a bad imitation of Carl, Superstar—this show that I’ve loved for a very than anything else. hear her pain and you can’t deny it. I couldn’t anyway. long time and there’s this part I’ve always want- WCT: Something I did not know is that you’re care less about her antics; I’d like to hear more WCT: I’m not sure I believe that, because ed to play in it. And, it was a chance for me in the 1986 film Platoon. What was filming from her. There’s a lot more to that album than the reviews have been great. One review to do something outside what people would’ve that like? the fact that she has a severe problem. called you “deeply talented” and another re- expected of me. There was a whole bunch of CG: Very interesting. We spent three months in If the Grammys were not about awarding ferred to your performance as “riveting.” Just [reasons]. the Philippines shooting that. What was inter- [artistry], it’d be a completely different show. wondering: Do you read reviews? WCT: I was looking up Jesus Christ Superstar esting is that originally someone else was picked Were you honoring Tina Turner because she was CG: Sometimes I do, but I disregard them all. and came across Ted Neeley’s name. I thought for the gig, and that person decided not to do it. abused? What about Bob Dylan or Frank Sinatra After a while, they make no sense. What [re- I had accessed info about the 1973 movie So they contacted me on a Monday, and on Tues- or Billie Holiday—because of what they did out- viewers] see on the outside is based on that [which Neeley stars in]—but he’s the lead in day I was on my way to the Philippines. I had no side of their artistry? Half of that stuff informed day. A music review [may] be based on one or this current production as well. What’s it like time to prepare and they gave me a script when their artistry, there’s no doubt in my mind. But two listens of a song or several songs, so they performing alongside him? I got there. Plus, to prepare us all, on Thursday we honor what they put on vinyl or plastic, or don’t have the depth of what it is we’re going CG: It’s really great. He’s still doing what he they put us in a jungle for two weeks, with no what you can download. It’s just a recent phe- through. did in the movie—not exactly [all], but you hear hotel, no nothing. [Laughs] nomenon that you’re actually privy to artists’ WCT: So if someone is reviewed badly on a all that stuff—so you feel that much more com- WCT: Now, switching to music, this year is personal lives. particular night, that review is unwarranted fortable; you’re right there and are completely the 25th anniversary of the start of Living WCT: What’s your advice to someone break- because the reviewer has no idea of what you immersed in it. Colour. ing into the biz? all are going through? WCT: Do you become so immersed that you CG: Yes, [although] I wasn’t in the band when CG: Never stop doing what you do and don’t CG: Absolutely. Something could be a direc- become lost doing your performance? it originally started. But it’s also the 20th an- deviate from what you do. What you bring to the tor’s choice and they blame it on the actor— CG: That has happened to me once or twice, niversary of [the Grammy-winning album] Vivid. table is unique and viable, and worth someone’s that makes no sense to me. I must admit. But you get over it and you keep WCT: Thanks for making me feel old, Corey. time. WCT: What are the best and worst aspects of going. CG: Hey! You’re younger than me. I can guaran- Jesus Christ Superstar is at the Cadillac Pal- touring? WCT: The late Carl Anderson played Judas in tee you that. [Interviewer laughs] ace Theatre, 151 W. Randolph, through Feb. CG: Traveling and traveling. You get to see a the movie. Were you concerned about being WCT: What’s in the future for Living 24. Tickets are $20-$75; visit www.Ticket- lot of different places but you’re on a bus, so compared to him and filling his shoes? Colour? Master.com, stop by the Broadway in Chicago you’re constantly moving and you don’t get to CG: I’m trying to be me, although I have to CG: We’re making a record right now. It’s ten- box offices or call 312-902-1400. 12 February 20, 2008

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The cover of Sybil Shearer’s autobiography. orthodox way. Soon after arriving in Illinois she Photo by Helen Balfour Morrison met Morrison, who became her lighting direc- Also, on Jan. 29 the Silk Road Theatre Project It’s Too Darn Hot and Bewitched, Bothered and tor, photographer, filmographer and artistic col- was honored by the Chicago Commission on Bewildered in a wintertime indoor warm-up laborator for 40 years. The screening is free but Human Relations with an award for “outstand- that’s part of the city’s Museum of Modern Ice seating is limited and reservations are recom- ing achievements in promoting cross-cultural programming. And it’s free! Stage Door mended: 847-291-9161 or www.morrisonshearer. interactions” and “efforts in using the theatre The Chicago Cultural Center always has several org. as a means of fighting discrimination and preju- art exhibits going in its various halls and galler-

Jonny The Second Sex Women’s Theater Series at dice.” ies. Among the current crop is Women of Islam: By Jonathan Abarbanel Bailiwick is getting a on Women’s History Cabaret diva Kat’ (sic) Taylor warbles this Photographs by Rania Matar, running through Month with a one-night reinvention of a classic Saturday, Feb. 23, 12-1 p.m., at the Chicago March 30—another good choice for Women’s You’re young, you’re Jewish and you’re a fage- TV game show, and you’re invited to be a contes- Cultural Center’s Randolph Street Cage. Her pro- History Month. lah. No? OK, you’re young, you’re not Jewish but tant!! The Lesbian Dating Game (single lesbians gram—billed as “steamy old and new Broadway you go coo-coo-nuts for Jewish guys like those come out, come out) and The Lesbian Newly-Bed hits”—will feature such songs as Steam Heat, butch, dark-haired Israeli soldiers in tight uni- Game (couples who have been together at least forms. Yummy! Either way, such a deal Jonny’s three months). It’s tomorrow night (Feb. 21) got for you. For the first time to Jonny’s knowl- starting at 7 p.m. at T’s Bar in Andersonville, edge, an LGBT trip is being offered for young 5025 N. Clark, and you’re invited whether you’re professionals in their 20s and 30s who wish to straight, lesbian, gay or something in-between. explore gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Kelsie Huff is the host. There is a $10 entry fee issues in Israel. Pride in Israel invites inquiries that benefits the Second Sex Series. Hey, there SPOTLIGHT from groups, couples or individuals. are prizes, too! The 10-day trip is being offered in June and The new exhibit at the Museum of Contempo- How I Learned to Drive again in August—Oy! In the desert in the middle rary Art (MCA) is a survey of 15 years of paint- of summer!—with stops in Tel Aviv (beaches), ing, drawing, sculpture, photographs, video and Jerusalem, Massada and the Dead Sea, among installation by scatter artist Karen Kilimnik, A young woman, her dysfunctional fam- other classic sites. Pride in Israel includes the featuring celebrity images of Leonardo DiCaprio, ily, her too-loving uncle and the driving opportunity to meet gay soldiers in the Israeli Paris Hilton and Elizabeth Taylor as well as Old lessons he gave her during her adolescence army; dance at gay and lesbian clubs; attend Master-influences works. Kilimnik is known for create the territory of pain, surprising hu- the Tel Aviv Gay and Lesbian Film Festival; and combining the romantic tradition, childhood mor and profound emotion covered in How speak with LGBT activists and leaders. For more nostalgia, pop culture and feminine psychology, I Learned to Drive, by out playwright Paula info contact Linda at 212-303-7462 or pride@ some of which is patently punk and deconstruc- Vogel (whose interview ran in the WCT last yjimpact.org. As the Pride in Israel announce- tionist, thus leading to the “scatter are” label. Nov. 21). Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize ment says, “You never thought a trip to Israel The exhibit, which runs at the MCA through June for Drama and the Susan Smith Blackburn could be so gay. You never thought a gay trip 8, is Kilimnik’s first solo U.S. survey exhibition. Prize, Vogel’s powerful play has lost none of could be so Jewish.” Jonny’s friends at the Silk Road Theatre Proj- its punch since its 1998 premiere. Now Back- One of the first events of Women’s History ect, real-life couple Jamil Khoury and Malik Gi- Stage (sic) Theatre Company has mounted a Month will be a free screening of The Dances lani, are the recipients of two prestigious awards new production of How I Learned to Drive, of Sybil Shearer On Film, hosted March 5 by unique to Chicago, one of which comes with a presented at The Viaduct, 3111 N. Western, the Morrison-Shearer Foundation at The Spertus check for $5,000, which sure beats a stick in the through March 9; 312-683-5347; $20. Institute of Jewish Studies, 610 S. Michigan, eye. The League of Chicago Theatres will pres- 6-7:30 P.M. The screening includes both public ent its Emerging Theater Award to Silk Road at performances by the legendary dancer and cho- a March 31 gala, a presentation that includes reographer as well as rare footage of Shearer $5,000 underwritten by Broadway In Chicago. CULTURE CLUB

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Anderson APRIL 3 – MAY 11, 2008 Foundation 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, IN For more shows and listings, check out www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com GIO-08_Windy_2x3_page_bw.indd 1 2/11/08 11:14:10 AM February 20, 2008 15 visiting Mrs. Townshend in the hospital. (Hav- ing worked for a cleaning service during grad Athenaeum to school, we can tell you that’d never happen. Had Debut Horror Classic he done even a modicum of research, Dresser On Sun., Feb. 24, at 7 p.m., WildClaw Theatre would have discovered likewise.) will perform the world stage premiere of Arthur And finally there is Grant Sabin’s representa- Machen’s The Great God Pan at Chicago’s Ath- tional set, a sweep of pink marble that works enaeum Theater, 2936 N. Southport. beautifully—until Molly brings in a pair if silver Considered one of the Victorian era’s most candlesticks and inserts a glaringly inconsistent controversial tales, Machen’s mix of dark sen- element of literal realism into the proceedings. suality and horror provoked controversy and Polish though they might, even the most gift- outrage when it was first published. The story ed actors can’t save Augusta. has been credited with inspiring horror writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King and Peter THEATER REVIEW Straub. After Feb. 24, The Great God Pan will run Othello Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Playwright: William Shakespeare Sundays at 3 p.m. until March 30. Tickets are At: Chicago Shakespeare Theater $20 and can be purchased through Ticketmas- at Navy Pier, 800 W. Grand Linda Eder. ter or at the Athenaeum Theater 773-935-6860. Phone: 312-595-5600; $44-$70 For more info, please visit www.wildclawthe- Augusta. Runs through: April 6 atre.org. BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE Eder Sings with THEATER REVIEW Pops Orchestra Illness Changes Imagine a band of former prep-school chums, Broadway legend Linda Eder will sing along- Opera Lineup Augusta now grown to adulthood, but still fond of play- side the Chicagoland Pops Orchestra Sat., Feb. Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez has been Playwright: Richard Dresser ing adolescent pranks on one another. Inject 23, at the Rosemont Theatre, 5400 N. River, forced to cancel all performances in Lyric Op- At: American Theater Company, into this privileged milieu a lad of humble birth Rosemont, at 8 p.m. era of Chicago’s production of The Barber of 1909 W. Byron whose rise to success exceeds their own, but Besides her success on the Broadway stage, Seville, running through Mar. 22, due to a Phone: 773-929-1031; $30, $35 who never adopted his new comrades’ irreverent Eder has recorded seven albums, each a blend throat infection caused by swallowing a fish- Runs through: March 2 attitudes. Then introduce a diehard elitist who of standards, pop hits and original music. She bone, Lyric’s general director William Mason so resents this upstart that he takes what begins has sung renditions of everything from Some- announced. American tenor John Osborn will BY CATEY SULLIVAN as a nasty, but potentially harmless, joke much where Over the Rainbow to Bring On the Men. replace Flórez. too far, resulting in violence and murder. From her Drama Desk and Outer Critics’ Circle This summer, Osborn will debut at the Salz- Edward Kross is a comedic actor whose eccentric Thus, director Marti Maraden reveals just how Award nominations for Best Actress in a Musi- burg Festival as Romeo in Gounod’s Roméo et charm could generate laughs reading the phone close Shakespeare’s gloomy fable of vengeful cal for Jeckyll & Hyde (which was her Broadway Juliette opposite Anna Netrebko. Future proj- book. But even Kross can’t redeem Augusta, deception comes to Wodehousian farce. Her debut) to her award-winning recordings, she ects include La Juive for the Netherlands Op- Richard Dresser’s tiresome attempt to tell us transposition of the story to late-Victorian pe- is compared to the great female voices of our era, L’Italiana in Algeri for the Teatro Comnu- that—surprise!—it’s tough going for the work- riod makes for an ambience of straitlaced ar- time. nale in Florence and his first Edgardo in Lucia ing poor in these United States. With laborious tifice recalling the comedies of Oscar Wilde, Tickets are $45-$60. Visit www.Ticketmaster. di Lammermoor for the Theatre Royale de la exposition and preposterous plotting, Augusta or even Gilbert & Sullivan. And the casting of com, call 312-559-1212 or go to the Rosemont Monnaie in Brussels. trots out ideas that are neither original nor fresh-faced Paul Niebanck as the duplicitous Theatre box office. Tickets are $42-$187. See www.lyricopera. originally presented. Directed by Nora Dunn, the Iago, as contrasted with Derrick Lee Weeden’s piece is a singularly inauspicious beginning for Listen to Eder’s interview with Amy Matheny org. rustic-accented Othello, renders us immediately by visiting www.WindyCityQueercast.com. American Theatre Company under the reign of aware of the cultural dissimilarities between the new artistic director PJ Paparelli. two. In this context, our villain is no brooding, If Kross’s talents are squandered, that goes teeth-gnashing, moustache-twirling schemer— double for Kate Buddeke, a powerhouse actor indeed, Iago’s ruses are so transparent that only who radiates an unconventional, battle-scarred the gullibility of his peers allows him to get beauty. She’s a master craftsman whose seen- away with as much as he does—but a socio- it-all, world-weary expressiveness often seems pathic brat whose fault lies in his refusal to let to be barely containing an inner imp that, if his victims in on the gag, even after the stakes unleashed, could turn a High Latin Mass into a grow deadly. Fat Tuesday bacchanal. Sadly for Chicago, Bud- Playgoers who prefer their tragedies to be deke is now based in New York. It should be a hankie-wringers from beginning to end may be joy to have Buddeke back and performing with dismayed by the number of laughs excavated in the company she helped shape. But there is no the early parts of the action by Maraden’s con- joy in Augusta. temporary approach. Those on the alert for sub- Augusta’s best scene is its first, when clean- texts associated with race-based tensions will ing lady Molly (Buddeke) must justify her posi- likewise have to search hard for evidence attrib- tion—and by extension, her very existence—to uting the Moor’s outsider status to anything be- her new boss Jimmy (Kross). Anyone who has yond Venetian snobbery. If Othello’s home had suffered the insufferableness of a middle-man- been located, not on the African, but the Euro- agement punk half his age and an eighth of his pean coast of the Mediterranean Sea—Calabria, intelligence will empathize immediately with say, or Corsica—it’s no likelier that Desdemona’s Molly’s humiliation. stuffy old dad would have welcomed him any It’s downhill from there, as Molly and twenty- more warmly as a potential son-in-law. something Claire (Gwendolyn Whiteside) scrub The technical expertise required to sustain the their way through the absent Mrs. Townshend’s pace required for a show running just minutes house and too much exposition. About 40 min- over three hours—Niebanck’s superlative long- utes into this 90-minute morass, the plot finally line phrasing, for example, or Weeden’s pris- starts to show up. This is not an improvement. tine-edged enunciation—never calls attention There’s some ludicrous nonsense about a set of to itself, but instead is seamlessly integrated 10 spoons Claire and Molly believe are so valu- into the psychological dynamic in this Chicago able they’d solve all their financial problems. Shakespeare production. Vocal coach Christine When you realize you’ve been doing math in Adaire and text coach Larry Yando together your head for the better part of a scene (Let’s share the credit for this accomplishment this see, 10 spoons = maybe $10,000 = maybe a time. In the future, when attending any Shake- year’s bare survival), you know that the story speare play, check the playbill roster for staff at hand is less than engaging. Even if you buy consultants employed in this capacity. If you the premise that a set of utensils will set you don’t find them, ask why not. up for life, Dresser keeps piling inconsistencies upon unlikelihoods. There’s Claire’s shock when Jimmy makes a pass at her—after she checks into a single hotel room with him at a company conference. Her abrupt naivete is almost as pa- tently unbelievable as the fact that she’s certain that attending a conference of cleaning com- pany mangers will usher her into the halls of power and a land of untold riches. There’s Jimmy 16 February 20, 2008 been explored. Also, the actual quilt making and THEATER REVIEW its significance is left largely in the background CRITICS’ PICS without a stronger metaphor to tie the women’s Breathing Corpses lives to their practical art. Playwright: Laura Wade Jesus Christ Superstar, Cadillac Palace, The small cast size in Gee’s Bend also points At: Steep Theatre, 3902 N. Sheridan through Feb. 24. Hey sanna, hosanna, sanna to an unfortunate trend where American play- Phone: 312-458-0722; $18 ho isn’t the latest gangsta rap but Andrew wrights are encouraged to create economical Runs through: March 22 works by keeping the number of actors low. The Lloyd Webber’s ode to Nazareth’s native son. Ted Neeley’s gotta be 30 years older than fact that the cast sings along with pre-recorded BY JONATHAN ABARBANEL gospel tracks to provide a richer sound shows JC when he died, but Superstar is about miracles. CS just what is missing. British playwright Laura Wade draws her title Machos, Teatro Luna at 16th Street The- Though Wilder’s play isn’t the greatest, the from Sophocles: “When a man has lost all happi- atre, Berwyn, through Feb. 17. Based on Northlight cast assembled by director Chuck ness, he’s not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.” scores of interviews with men, Teatro Luna’s Smith for Gee’s Bend is superlative. The old Greek was on to something profound, all-Latina writers and performers create a Charlette Speigner shows once again that she but Wade isn’t quite up to delving into it. Her drag king show of serious intent and dead- is a formidable Chicago actress to watch as she seven characters are discontent, dysfunctional on impersonation, void of camp. Closes this embodies the headstrong quilt maker Sadie. and unhappy with themselves and relationships, Charlette Speigner and Penelope Walker in weekend. JA Speigner particularly impresses in the scenes but not so fundamentally disenchanted as to Gee’s Bend. Photo by Michael Brosilow The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Noble Fool where Sadie defies her husband to march in the lack all happiness. Wade parades contemporary Theatricals, through April 12. Director Kevin Civil Rights movement and get her voter regis- disaffection and boredom rather than deeply Bellie whips up plenty of Victorian silliness THEATER REVIEW tration card. metaphysical despair. in his rolling remount of Rupert Holmes John Steven Crowley is strong as Sadie’s equal- Her circular 85-minute play jumps in time as interactive musical comedy adaptation of Gee’s Bend ly headstrong husband, Macon, while Jacqueline each of its five intimate scenes carries over a Playwright: Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder Charles Dickens’ unfinished novel. SCM Williams wins most of the laughs as Sadie’s blunt character or situation from the scene before. At: Northlight Theatre, The Time Of Your Life, Provision Theater and unwed sister, Nella. Penelope Walker pro- Death is omnipresent: three characters discover 9501 Skokie, Skokie at the Viaduct, through March 2. You’ll find vides solid support work as both Sadie’s wise bodies and two become bodies themselves. Thus, Phone: 847-673-6300; $35-$55 flashier versions of Saroyan’s richly-textured mother, Alice, and her grown daughter, Asia. in Scene Two a storage facility owner discovers Runs through: March 9 mural depicting America in troubled times In Gee’s Bend, one gets the message that de- a murder victim in locker B16; in Scene Three between wars, but none more forthright or spite all the hardships of poverty and institu- we see the victim and the cause of death; in BY SCOTT C. MORGAN uncluttered than this sturdy ensemble. MSB tionalized racism, the talented women of the Scene Four we witness the locker facility owner’s

community went on to unwittingly create ad- post-traumatic distress that leads to his suicide There are great performances to behold in North- —By Abarbanel, Barnidge, mirable and practical works of art. As a play to previously revealed in Scene One. light Theatre’s production of Elyzabeth Gregory educate and enlighten (particularly during Black Morgan and Sullivan Wilder’s 2007 drama Gee’s Bend. Unfortunately, Breathing Corpses is grim—although sprinkled History Month), Gee’s Bend does its duty, but with quirky humor—but it’s never tragic, and the play itself doesn’t rise to the occasion of its not to the fullest or finest effect. compelling subject matter, or the fine cast and that’s the limitation. The characters lack gravi- play closes on an ambiguous note: Is her glow of crew assembled at Northlight. tas; they are silly people. Wade is a young au- happiness one of joy or merely excitement and The isolated Alabama town of Gee’s Bend has ONLINE thor not yet of weight and depth, although her potential danger? become famous this decade due to the finely crisp dialogue technique shines. Wade provides Marcus Stephens’ beige-and-yellow scenic de- crafted folk art quilts made by generations of THIS WEEK... fine opportunities for actors and a clearly fo- sign creates four distinct playing areas lined up its African-American women. Award-winning cused director in a series of two-character and across the wide but shallow stage, surrounded by newspaper articles on these women have helped three-character scenes, most of which could be corrugated steel panels—a la storage lockers— put Gee’s Bend on the map, while their praised THEATER little one-act plays all by themselves. to suggest the constricting box-like rooms ref- handcrafted work has been displayed in major REVIEWs OF Fortunately, Steep is deep in talented actors erenced by several characters. It’s good-looking museums and featured on a series of U.S. post- guided by the experienced director Robin Witt. but limits the staging possibilities for several age stamps. —Talking It Over Scene Three is the prime showcase, in which scenes that are self-consciously static. Now comes Wilder’s definitively titled play Lucy Carapetyan and Jonathan Edwards portray The company use rather good British accents Gee’s Bend, but it comes up lacking despite the an attractive young couple bound by mutually and yet there’s nothing singularly British about comprehensive 60-year timeline attached to it. —Pitching Penguins inflicted physical violence, both sexual and asex- Breathing Corpses—a few word changes and it Wilder tries to make a five-character composite ual. The fury of their self-centered characters is could be American. This underscores the generic family (played by four actors) to represent the both terrifying and titillating. Julia Siple opens nature of this early Wade play. For real British and closes the play as a whimsical hotel house- despair, the late Sarah Kane remains the un- wider Gee’s Bend community at large. www.windycitymediagroup. Unfortunately, the drama Wilder creates is keeper a bit too fascinated by the bodies she beatable champ. Perhaps Breathing Corpses is largely of an everyday domestic nature, making com finds in the beds. In the final scene she meets a intended to be taken completely as comedy, and you feel that a more dramatic angle could have live one at last, yet despite their flirtation the I didn’t get it. BOOK REVIEW beauty of the Kansas landscape, she falters in her attempts to maintain suspense. For in- Entertainment News Bleeding Kansas stance: Susan Grellier’s anti-war stance alien- Grammy-winning Amy Winehouse claims by Sara Paretsky, ates her son Chip; he enlists in the army and that her new male companion, artist Blake 431 pages, $25.95 dies in Iraq. That’s not a plot spoiler because Wood, seen with her everywhere while hus- REVIEW BY YASMIN NAIR Paretsky tells us as much in the pages that lead band Blake Feilder-Civil sits in the slammer, up to Chip’s death in a series of annoying asides is gay, according to The Sun. The two have Pity Kansas. Its reputation as a conservative like “If he’d [Jim] left Chip alone…If. If.” And: been seen all around town since Winehouse state has reached idiomatic proportions, and “He often wondered … if things would have left rehab. The Sun reports that Winehouse the query posed by Thomas Frank’s 2004 book, turned out differently.” Bereft of the accoutre- met Wood through Kelly Osbourne, and her What’s the Matter with Kansas?, doesn’t help it ments of a spy story, Paretsky is like a talkative husband has nothing to worry about because much. child entrusted with a secret. Wood is gay, although his Facebook page says Sara Paretsky’s latest is her first novel that’s The characters are as flat as the landscape he is bisexual. The creators behind the 2003 not a spy story, and it rests upon a familiar nov- they inhabit. Gina, a lesbian wiccan from Man- cult movie Girls Will Be Girls recently announced they elistic device: uncovering the layers of life in a hattan, is saddled with a cappuccino machine will be releasing a series of comedic we- small town with the assumption that these are to signify her urbane lifestyle. Susan, despite bisodes. The first websisodes are now avail- somehow paralleled in the larger nation. Set in her dedication to alternative politics, is some- able online at www.girlswillbegirlsonline.com, present-day Kaw Valley, Kan., its events spring how unaware that the rationale for war has long and feature original characters Evie and Coco, from a decades-long feud between the Grelliers been disputed until Gina shows her the light. as well as comedian Scott Thompson (Kids in and the Schapens. Susan Grellier, wife of Jim But when even Myra (who lacks only a broom to the Hall). New shorts will be released each and mother to Lara and Chip, is committed to complete the witch-like caricature of her) has a month. “communist” ideas like grocery co-ops and or- blog, it’s ridiculously unrealistic to think that Porn director Chi Chi LaRue recently took ganic farming. In contrast, Myra Schapen is a Susan wouldn’t have come across the anti-war in the gay porn discourse that permeates even conservative Web a stand against barebacking fundamentalist Christian matriarch and the writ- industry, according to Gaywired.com. LaRue’s heifer whose arrival is hailed by fundamentalist sites these days. er of a blog that promises hell and damnation gay adult company, Channel One Releasing, Christians and Jews as the signal to rebuild the Bleeding Kansas strains hard to make a mean- upon sinners, her neighbors included. Bleeding released a new Web site and public service an- Temple in Jerusalem. ingful statement about war and the battle be- Kansas is a novel of big ideas—war, peace, his- nouncements that come out against the trend Was the fire started by Myra Schapen? Was the tween conservatives and liberals, but Paretsky is torical memory—filled with details straight out of barebacking videos. The message: “safe sex behind the curve on these issues. The sad and of a horror film: an ancient, abandoned man- young hippie Elaine’s lover and the father of her is hot sex.” LaRue has come out against un- unbearable reality about this war, which even sion; a tale of a mysterious fire that killed a baby? Will the heifer’s existence spark another safe sex practices in the industry before. young male hippie in the free-love ’60s; an in- conflict in the Middle East? a novelist could not have dreamed up, is that digent and demented woman Elaine who mut- Do we really care? fiction loses out to the lies we have heard and ters about her murdered baby; a perfectly red While Paretsky vividly describes the strange upon which we have chosen to act. February 20, 2008 17 tomers for Mr. Fletcher (Danny Glover). The duo seems like a modern-day update on Ralph Kram- den and Ed Norton of TV’s The Honeymooners. When the taciturn Mr. Fletcher is told that the KNIGHT building that houses the failing video store is to AT be condemned, he sets out to explore ways to THE improve his business by checking out his com- petition. He leaves Mike in charge and warns MOVIES him to keep Jerry, who he doesn’t trust, out of the store. During a failed sabotage attempt on the nearby electrical plant (which he’s con- vinced is melting his brain), Jerry becomes mag- netized and, the next day, accidentally erases all the VHS tapes in the store. (DVDs have yet to come to Mr. Fletcher’s.) In order to keep their From left: Melonie Diaz, Jack Black and Mos Def in Be Kind Rewind. few loyal customers happy, including the dotty Mrs. Falewicz (Mia Farrow), Jerry and Mike re- create mini-versions of Ghostbusters, Rush Hour, ness of Farrow and the spunkiness of Diaz are Secret Service agents. There’s also the fact that The Lion King, Driving Miss Daisy, Robocop and Be Kind Rewind, also standouts, while Gondry’s script pulls off the main action (set in Spain) places the presi- other movies, enlisting Alma (Melonie Diaz) to the neat trick of being nearly epithet-free—a dent on an outdoor stage in broad daylight in a come on board as the love interest. Eventually, Vantage Point refreshing rarity in a contemporary urban com- courtyard ringed by windowed buildings in front the newfound popularity of the one-of-a-kind By Richard Knight, Jr. edy. of screaming hordes—a scenario that, given our recreations alerts the authorities, who charge Unlike previous Gondry films, the imagina- current standing worldwide, is highly unlikely to the trio with copyright infringement. The first great movie of 2008 is here and, ironi- tive The Science of Sleep and Eternal Sunshine occur for years to come. In one last ditch attempt to save the store, cally, it’s about the unforgettable impact mov- of the Spotless Mind, Be Kind Rewind may push The gimmick of the movie, as stated, is in Jerry, Mike and Alma decide to film an original ies have on all of us. Be Kind Rewind is not the writer-director into the mainstream. Just the Run, Lola, Run style, which recaps the 20 story—the life of Fats Waller, the great jazz mu- just movie-crazy—a plus for anyone who shares as original in its own way as those two offbeat minutes or so following the president’s murder sician who Mr. Fletcher told them once lived in a similar passion—its story and characters are indie efforts, Be Kind’s simplicity and subject many, many times (it might have been as many the building. The recreations have been wildly also daffy and writer-director Michel Gondry matter give it an edge. Sleep deprivation and as eight—I lost count). Each time, more clues as inventive up to this point but when movie fe- works from an irresistible viewpoint that is both memory loss (the subjects of Science of Sleep to who really killed the president, who planted ver overtakes the whole neighborhood during innocent and effervescent. This is a movie for and Eternal Sunshine) are filled with complexity, the bomb, etc., are revealed—and as the pretzel the making of the Waller movie, it goes into hy- mad, hopeless dreamers tilting at windmills. Be while the visceral impact that movies—even not logic of the plots get intertwined the movie, too, perdrive—making the scene in which the locals Kind Rewind is nostalgic and endearing and it’s very good ones—can have on receptive audienc- gets backed into a corner. But if you decide to gather to watch their little masterpiece almost also funny as hell—a supremely blissful movie es is so simple and tantalizing that even simple toss out reason and plausibility, Vantage Point unbearably bittersweet. Scored to a forlorn solo going experience. dreamers like Jerry and Mike understand it. is an entertaining, shamelessly good time (with piano piece called Solitude (written by Jean-Mi- Gondry’s setting has the scruffy charm of one of those kick-ass car chases to boot). And chel Bernard), the sequence is almost as power- two signature Norman Lear sitcoms from the To fall for Vantage Point, a political thriller in there’s a great bonus for gay audiences—the ful as the final moments of It’s a Wonderful Life 1970s—Chico & the Man and Sanford & Son— which the assassination of the U.S. president terrorists are some of the most beautiful men (and Gondry should have taken a cue from Capra and given the premise, this isn’t surprising. Two (played by William Hurt) is told from multiple you’re likely to see outside of a circuit party. and ended his film with it). simpletons in a rundown area of Passaic, N.J.— viewpoints, you have to throw away any con- Check out my archived reviews at www. Gondry’s valentine to the movies is aided Jerry (Jack Black) and Mike (Mos Def)—are good nection to reality. Nothing in it is faintly plau- windycitytimes.com or www.knightatthemov- enormously by his diverse cast—especially friends who endlessly pick at each other in the sible—from the CNN-like reporter espousing her ies.com. Readers can leave feedback at the Black, whose exuberant, comic mugging could manner of their TV forebears. Feisty, wild- eyed own political views on camera to Forrest Whi- latter Web site, where there is also ordering easily have overwhelmed the others (particularly Jerry lives in a camper in the junkyard where he taker as a camcorder-wielding tourist chasing information on my new book of collected film Def, who gets sneaky laughs as Black’s straight works, just across the street from the video store after a group of terrorists to Dennis Quaid and reviews, Knight at the Movies 2004-2006. man). The quiet authority of Glover, the spaci- where Mike, who doesn’t say much, tends cus- Matthew Fox (TV’s Lost) as handsome but flawed

DATING from cover process for dating shows. I told them I’ve dated a five-foot-six Puerto Rican guy from New York; I’ve dated a six-foot-six Danish guy; I’ve dated day, and I have ever since it happened almost all different shapes and sizes and educational nine years ago. But he’s just like a fond memory backgrounds. The core things that are important or like an angel hovering over my shoulder now. to me are a kind and gentle heart and a sense of I don’t compare anybody I’m dating now with humor.” Barry. I wouldn’t expect a man I date now in my Having gone into the show not knowing if she mid-thirties to act like or do anything like Barry would really connect on a personal level with and I did in our early twenties.” the suitors, Addams was surprised. “Actually, I Witnessing the impact of Solider’s Girl, Add- did get emotionally invested in the guys. I cried ams set out to form a production company to almost every single time I had to send someone provide positive images of trans people. She home. It was a real experience for me. We all sort moved to Hollywood, co-founded Deep Stealth of mutually agreed to enter into this situation of Productions (www.deepstealth.com), and was heightened reality. The circumstances are man- soon consulting on and appearing in multiple aged by the show producers but our reactions television shows like CSI and, later, the Oscar are real.” nominated film, TransAmerica. From that role, Calpernia Addams (right) with best friend/business partner (left) and TransAmer- Neither audiences nor the guys will get to Deep Stealth moved on to producing the short ican Love Story host . see the biker side of Addams on Love Story. “I film Casting Pearls, which played frequently on wrecked my motorcycle last Thanksgiving … so I Logo and paved the way for a collaboration. to the office staff, people are trans and bi and have to deal with the men’s misconceptions and didn’t have a bike while we were doing the show. Addams (www.Calpernia.com) explains, that gay and lesbian; so there’s just an awareness of preconceptions of what a is.” You just never know what’s going to happen. I she and her friend and business partner Andrea the issues and it’s from top to bottom. Noth- “These last two or three years have been like love to ride so much, it feels like flying to me. James pitched Logo a scripted series. The chan- ing guarantees a perfect understanding of trans- the dawning of opportunity for trans actors and It’s my alone time that I need desperately; at nel liked their idea, but with the writers strike sexuality. A lot of gay people still don’t get us actresses,” Addams contends. But she’s still ner- the same time, I think—if you have a motor- and budget constraints in mind, they suggested but…heterosexual media has tended to exploit vous about the future. “We, as trans women at cycle you have to kind of be ready to die.” the dating show instead. us a lot more for the freak factor.” least have been so hypersexualized that we’re But the viewers and guys will see Addams whip “At first, I had reservations,” Addams admits. To avoid that kind of treatment, Addams in- being accepted pretty quickly and we’re being out her fiddle in a scene or two, and even debut “We actually made fun of reality TV in our short sisted that Love Story be upfront about her gen- allowed to be sexual, which is kind of interest- a dance single on one of the episodes. “It’s re- film Casting Pearls. There’s a general level of der. “The guys know that I’m trans. They know ing, but kind of dangerous that we’ll be over- ally inspired me,” She reveals. “I can’t promise concern that tends to make they are going to be on television and out about sexualized.” that I’ll have a whole album but I’m going to be people look…horrible, grasping [and] sad.” dating me. The show is really just about a girl Although she appreciated the dating assis- putting out some more music.” For example, Addams blasts I Love New York’s dating guys…and what it’s like for straight men tance, Addams confesses, “It was humbling to Trans author Jacob Anderson-Minshall writes star: “I’m sure that what New York puts on to date me. It’s normal.” have myself put up as some object of desire… the weekly syndicated column, TransNation. screen is somewhat of a character. That charac- Recognizing that dating is difficult for every- as, ‘She’s hot, she’s beautiful, she’s sexy and you He can be reached at [email protected]. ter, I think, is the basement of humanity. I won’t one, Addams suggests that trans women face should want her!’ I’m just like, ‘Oh, God I hope I © 2008 Jacob Anderson-Minshall judge Tiffany as a person, but I will say that the particular struggles. “I never learned any of the live up to that!’” character I see on television is horrible.” heterosexual dating rituals mothers teach their She’s a little embarrassed that the men of TransAmerican Love Story airs Mondays on In the end, Addams says, “The bigger concern daughters. I never dated women at all, so I nev- TransAmerican Love Story all end up being a the Logo channel at 9 p.m. CT. For more infor- [was] what is this doing for trans people’s por- er even sort of saw it from the other side. A lot bunch of white guys. “Just know that we re- mation, see www.logoonline.com. trayal in the media?” She decided Logo’s reputa- of trans women share that experience, so that ally did look across the board in terms of age tion made the difference. “This is made by LGBT once we transition we start dating this weird and race and experience. We cast with diversity people. The producers, the directors, even down animal that we know nothing about. Then…you in mind. [But] there’s a pretty tough screening 18 February 20, 2008 REAL ESTATE

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Part of the following story was inadvertently of the vote. varez trailed behind with 27 percent. Suffredin omitted from the Feb. 13 issue. It is now being Obama also took suburban Oak Park with 78 took home a third of the vote in the 46th, where Local Events run in its entirety. Windy City Times regrets the percent of the vote to Clinton’s 20 percent. he received the most votes. Alvarez was second Listen in: Tune in to Sargam radio (WSBC error. Although it was no surprise that Obama would with nearly 29 percent. Allen took the 47th Ward 1240AM-WCKF 1470AM), a gay-friendly radio carry his home state, exit polling done by NBC with 35 percent of the vote. Suffredin was also program catering to the East Indian, Pakistani LOCAL NEWS showed that voters in California and New York favored in the 48th Ward, with 37 percent of the and Bangla Deshi community, every Sunday who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual favored vote to Alvarez’s 27 percent. He was also most night from 9-11 p.m. See sargamradio.us for Obama Captures Clinton over the Illinois senator. NBC was the popular in the 29th, with 42 percent of the vote, more info. Heavily Gay Wards only mainstream organization to include sexual and in the 43rd Ward, with 34 percent of the Pair up: The Second Sex Theater Series orientation in its exit polling, but only did so in vote. presents The Lesbian Dating Game and The by Amy Wooten two states, not Illinois. The 4th Ward favored Brookins, who received Lesbian Newly-Bed Game on Feb. 21, starting In other races, U.S. Rep. de- 32 percent of the vote, followed by Suffredin at 7 p.m., at T’s Bar & Grill, 5025 N. Clark St. Now that Super Tuesday is in the past, how feated opponent John Nocita by a landslide in with nearly 22 percent. Suffredin also carried A $10 donation supports the Second Sex The- did Chicago wards with large LGBT populations the 9th District, which includes North Side wards suburban Oak Park, followed by Alvarez. ater Series. Email your photo and description vote? such as the 44th and 48th. The longtime LGBT Openly gay Board of Review candidate Jay to [email protected] if you Keeping in line with the rest of the state, Sen. ally received the most Chicago votes in the 44th Paul Deratany may have lost to Democratic Party are interested in being a contestant. Barack Obama was the most popular candidate Ward, where she received nearly 93 percent of heavyweight Joe Berrios after giving him a run Work it: The Sex Workers Art Show, a cab- in Chicago’s heavily LGBT-populated wards in the the vote. for his money in this countywide race, but he aret-style show featuring visual and perfor- Democratic Party presidential primary. He won In one countywide race, the candidate with was favored most in wards heavily populated by mance artists like Erin Markey, Tre Vasquez by a two-to-one margin or more in all wards with the longest history with the local LGBT com- LGBT’s. Over 56 percent of 44th Ward voters fa- and more, comes to town Feb. 23, from 7-9 large LGBT populations. In the 4th Ward, which munity typically fared best. Cook County State’s vored Deratany. Although Berrios took the 47th p.m., at Funky Buddha Lounge, 728 W. Grand includes Hyde Park, nearly 92 percent voted Attorney insider Anita Alvarez will go head-to- Ward with 53 percent of the vote, Deratany took Ave. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at for Obama. In the 32nd Ward—which includes head with Republican candidate Tony Peraica in with 32nd with 50.8 percent. Deratany took 53 the door. See www.brownpapertickets.com or neighborhoods such as Lincoln Park, Wicker Park November’s general election after a tough battle percent of the 48th Ward and 57 percent of the www.sexworkersartshow.com for tickets. and Bucktown—Obama received nearly 70 per- for the Democratic ticket. On Feb. 5, the six- 43rd Ward as well. Have a ball: Save the date for LCCP’s 17th cent of the vote. In Boystown’s 44th Ward, near- person contest became a close race between Annual Ball Sat., March 8, from 6 p.m. to ly 67 percent of voters chose Obama and 31.4 Alvarez and long-time Northwest Side Ald. Tom midnight at the South Shore Cultural Center, percent voted for Sen. Hillary Clinton. Uptown’s Allen as the evening went on. However, Cook 7059 South Shore Dr. For information and to 46th and 47th wards favored Obama identically, County Commissioner and community ally Larry purchase tickets, see www.lccp.org. with each giving him 66 percent of the vote. In Suffredin was the favorite in LGBT-heavy wards. the 48th, which includes neighborhoods such as In the 32nd Ward, Suffredin came in first with Andersonville and Edgewater, 64.5 percent voted 29 percent of the vote. In the 44th Ward, Suf- for Obama. Obama was even more dominant in fredin took home nearly 34 percent of the vote. the more diverse 49th Ward—which includes the Allen came in second with 28 percent, and Al- Rogers Park neighborhood–taking 72.7 percent

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Feedback may be Jackson’s favorites, this noteworthy debut has a lot to latest hit, but there’s no feed- quench music-thirsty fans. back or distortion quite like Lightspeed Champion lands on his feet with what is heard on the epony- Falling off the Lavender Bridge. The guitarist mous titled outing by Liars, from the short-lived indie favorite Test Icicles, out now on Mute. Here, the Dev Hynes, returns under this new moniker. Now trio steps out of the big shad- on his own, Hynes cites multiple influences from ow cast by crossover alterna- country to alternative rock, but remains a crafty tive pioneers Depeche Mode songwriter. The slide guitar compliments his and Radiohead. Just check quirky aching vocals throughout this bow. Windy POP out the video for Plaster Casts City fans will be treated to an acoustic show on MAKING of Everything. Here, Karen O Sat., March 1 at Av-aerie, 2000 W. Fulton. from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs Pop-culture references run rampantly through- SENSE makes a cameo in this clip di- out electronic outfit Peachcake’s work like on rected by Patrick Daughters. the cleverly titled tracks If I Were Superman A headlining tour is wrap- You’d Be My Lois Lane, Did I Just Do That or Shelby Lynne. ping now, but Liars previously Was It Jim Carrey? and I Fell in Love with You opened for Interpol. While Listening to My Favorite Morrissey Album. During this never-ending Breakfast in Bed effortlessly. No beehives were Just when it seems Peachcake could not get any winter, X-press 2 provides harmed in the process. sweeter, the pair is featured in the indepen- by David Byrne and Tony Peregrin warmth with its dance hit Give It, an ode us- Many have tackled Springfield’s songs, includ- dent film Dreams Are Essential and volunteer for ing visuals to recount a summer ending prema- ing Samantha Fox, the Puppini Sisters and Annie hotlines helping troubled teens. The duo is due With her recent releases, there have been ques- turely. Best known for recruiting former Talking Lennox’s former band, The Tourists. Add bright- to stop at The Beat Kitchen, 2100 W. Belmont, tions whether Janet Jackson would make a tri- Heads frontman David Byrne for the surprise eyed Broadway veteran Kelli O’Hara to the list. for the early show on Sat., Feb. 23. umphant comeback. During this time, only Don’t Ibiza anthem Lazy six years ago, X-press 2 has The beautiful songbird steps off the stage to Stop stands out. Hopefully, a new label and a Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner lending his southern remake Spooky along with James Taylor’s Fire hit-making production team (Jermaine Dupri, styled vocals and poetic delivery on Give It. The and Rain and Billy Joel’s And So It Goes on her Ne-Yo, Stargate, Tricky Stewart and The-Dream) flawless production perfectly fuses the irresist- full-length Wonder of the World. Not only does will help Miss Jackson with her latest, Discipline. ible grooves and the uplifting gospel choir, mak- Harry Connick, Jr., chime in the title track, but Pre-orders from iTunes grant buyers the new ing Give It reminiscent of the classic Love Come he also handles the arrangements for these com- track Rock with U. Despite popular belief, it is Home by Our Tribe featuring Franke Pharoah and positions. O’Hara does not limit herself to cov- not a cover of older brother Michael’s post-disco Kristine W. Give It can be found on X-press 2’s ers, though; she also pens two of the numbers hit—but a subtle sample is there. Don’t fear, the album Makeshift Feelgood. of her stellar jazzy debut. This two-time Tony youngest of the Jacksons proved she can redo Critically acclaimed singer-songwriter Shelby Award nominee has been in Jekyll & Hyde, Fol- something from the family vault with the 1993 Lynne makes heads turn with Just a Little Lovin’ lies, Sweet Smell of Success and Dracula. B-side One More Chance. Discipline’s first single, by resurrecting Dusty Springfield’s catalog. Pro- There are some albums where it is clear the Feedback, has been remixed by Moto Blanco and duced by Phil Ramone (Aretha Franklin, Elton band had a lot of fun recording it. This is ap- Ralphi Rosario, and it’s her best reworking since John), Lynne’s latest is no “identity crisis”—it parent on Clothes Minded People by Austin At- the Brothers in Rhythm added some magic to reminds listeners why she won the Best New teberry and Friends. But Clothes Minded People their mix of If. Expect the 41-year-old superstar Artist Grammy in 2001. Ever the musical cha- is not just another soundtrack to excuse twenty- to dominate the club charts with material from meleon, she admits to having studied videos of somethings getting festive, as heard on Party her new set. Also a standing ovation will be in Springfield before going into the studio to cap- Tonight. The Chicago-based quintet wears au- order when Jackson will receive the Vanguard ture her essence. Lynne glides through Spring- thentic rock quite well on Letter of Three Words Janet Jackson. Award at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards field’s favorites such as The Look of Love and and Guitar Man. While the more carefree tunes ceremony April 26. Fish On and Jesse James may become crowd

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I could do [the tornado] on the trampo- molds: Elvis Stojko was very macho who did tae ued to motivate me to get better and better. line, and the other skaters said, “You have to do kwon do, and Scott Hamilton and Kurt Brown- When you’re a young kid, any type of atten- that on the ice.” In 2003, I did it for the first ing skate in jeans and T-shirts as opposed to tion or acknowledgment or recognition that you time in a performance—and, luckily, I survived the stereotypical figure-skating outfits. Football get for doing something better than other kids it. players get labeled as dumb jocks, and that’s not ... you want even more. That’s what motivated WCT: You also have a foundation. Could you true in all cases. me to continue to skate. Now, years later, I’m talk a little bit about that? WCT: What do you consider the highlight of performing each night, doing what I love and MW: Sure. I started the Michael Weiss Foun- your career to be? getting paid to do it. dation a few years ago. When I was a kid, my MW: I’ve had a number of great moments in WCT: What do you like most and least about parents struggled to keep all of us in athletics— competitive figure skating that I really enjoyed. touring? they were spending $50,000 a year to keep us One of my coolest moments was in [the Salt MW: It’s almost the same thing sometimes. You skating. I always said that if I were in a situa- Lake City Winter Olympics]. Not many Olympic get to travel the world; by the time I was 25, tion where I could give back, I would. I am for- athletes get to perform in an Olympic games in I had seen everything—and that’s cool. But I tunate enough to use my resources and name to their home country. All they had to do was an- have [two children] and a wife at home, and the make money for the foundation and give schol- nounce my name and that I’m from the United Michael Weiss. worst part is being away from them. It’s [tough] arships to young kids. We’ve raised and awarded States, and all the people in the venue were on balancing being on the road and being a family over $115,000 in scholarships for young figure my side. Then, to go out in front of those 18,000 man. I’ve been able to do things seasonally, so skaters—and one of our recipients for the last people in the venue as well as millions of people SPORTS I’m on the road for four to five months and the couple of years, Mirai Nagasu, won the ladies’ behind the camera and perform one of the best rest of time I’m able to be with my family. It’s national championship this year. [Editor’s note: programs in my life—including landing a quad- Michael Weiss kind of a give and take; I’m gone for a long time Another recipient, Adam Rippon, won the junior toe, triple-toe, double-loop combination, the but when I’m home, I’m completely devoted to men’s championship.] first time anyone landed that [combo] in Olym- on Ice them. WCT: Figure skating is often stereotyped as pic competition—and to finish my program to a By Andrew Davis WCT: It’s interesting that you talk about a “gay” sport. Do you have any comment on standing ovation and see the Olympic rings was enjoying cities, because I kept thinking it’d that? a pretty special moment for me. Michael Weiss has been entertaining people with be practice, practice, practice and that you MW: Like with any stereotype, it’s about not WCT: One more question: Did you see Blades his skating since he was 9 years old. Now, the wouldn’t get to [take in] these cities. understanding the sport. Figure skating certain- of Glory? three-time U.S. champion, 31, is part of the MW: We do [when we’re] on tour. We just had ly has its share of gay people in it, but I think MW: [Laughs] Yes—it was hilarious. It was one traveling Smucker’s Stars on Ice “Live and In two and a half days off in San Diego, and my it provides an atmosphere for gay people to be of the funniest movies I’ve seen in years. Color” show that will visit Rosemont’s Allstate wife and kids flew to spend those days with me. themselves and be open. If you go to football Smucker’s Stars on Ice will perform at All- Arena, 5400 N. River, Feb. 23. Weiss discussed The weather was perfect—75 degrees—and we locker rooms, there are gay people there, but it’s state Arena Feb. 23 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets start everything from the revised scoring system to were at SeaWorld and on the aircraft carrier USS not as accepted for a football player to go out at $25 and may be purchased at the Allstate the perception that skating is a “gay” sport with Midway. Also, for my kids it’s cool; for people on the field with a sequined football helmet. But Arena box office or Ticketmaster ticket cen- Windy City Times. who live on the West Coast, In-n-Out Burger is figure skating not only accepts it, but also re- ters; by logging onto www.ticketmaster.com; Windy City Times: What can fans expect at no big deal but for kids on the East Coast... My wards it, with grace, athleticism and ballet—but or by calling 312-559-1212. this show? sons told all of his friends that he was going to it’s also a stereotype that you would consider For more info on Michael Weiss, see www. Michael Weiss: They can expect a show that’s In-n-Out Burger. gay people to be more graceful. michaelweiss.org. pretty entertaining for everybody—like they say, WCT: What do you think of the revised scor- It’s also something a lot of young figure skat- “entertaining for the whole family.” [Laughs] I ing system? ers deal with growing up; some people will say have a 9 year old and an 8 year old who actually MW: I’ve competed under the old and new that figure skating is for girls and not for boys. watch the show pretty regularly, and it keeps systems. Right now, it’s kind of confusing for their attention the whole time—which is pretty the spectators; it’s difficult to understand all verbal or physical altercation, nor did I have difficult to do at that age. the details. [The new system] has potential to Brady Quinn any interaction with the police. I want to be Sasha Cohen does a program that’s the clas- be good. Before you started with the 6.0, and Accused of clear that I did not engage in any of the al- sic figure-skating beauty, with flexibility and if you made mistakes, [the judges] subtracted leged conduct, nor did I make inappropriate fast spins; a lot of women like that number. points. With this new system, you accumulate Anti-Gay Comments comments to anyone. Any allegations to the There’s [also] one rock-and-roll number we do, points for everything you do positively; you By Ross Forman contrary are either untrue or the result of mis- and Jennifer Robinson performs in that; it’s a start at zero and a triple toe is four points and identification.” pretty sexy number, and some of the husbands a triple axel is 7.5 points—but then the skaters He is one of the most popular pro athletes In a statement, the Browns stand by Quinn. like that. [Laughs] And there’s something for the learn what the best point-scoring elements are within the gay community for his boyish looks “We are aware of the alleged comments made kids, too: Todd Eldridge does a number that’s and they all do the exact same thing. Then, it and sculpted physique, but Cleveland Browns by Brady Quinn, which the Browns take seri- pretty funny. Everybody goes away happy. starts to become a cookie-cutter performance. quarterback Brady Quinn is under fire for al- ously. After speaking with Brady and his repre- And there are seats on the ice, which is one Also, [judges’] cheating is easier to hide in a legedly yelling anti-gay slurs and harassing sentatives we find these reported accusations of the cool things. I get comments from people, system with many different nuances. patrons outside a Cleveland bar. without merit.” saying that they’ve never been that close to WCT: Now, you have this move called the Quinn vehemently denies the accusations Quinn was the Browns’ first-round draft pick Olympic-level figure skating. You see it on TV, “tornado” [a backflip with a full twist]. How and the Browns have stood by their player. in 2007 and appeared in one game last season, but you don’t really get the perspective of speed does one even come up with something like Quinn was not arrested and no charges have completing three of eight pass attempts for 45 and power. You also realize how small the girls that? been filed against him. yards. He threw no touchdowns. are, although they take up the whole TV screen. MW: My dad was an Olympic gymnast, so I’ve On New Year’s Eve, Seth Harris placed a call Quinn was a standout at Notre Dame, break- WCT: How did you become interested in fig- been flipping and twisting since I was a kid. My to 911, accusing Quinn of harassing gay pa- ing 36 school records during his four-year run ure skating? dad actually taught [skater] Scott Hamilton his trons at a local bar. According to the Associat- with the Fighting Irish. MW: I had two older sisters, and one of them backflip when I was a kid, and then Scott tried ed Press, Harris told the 911 operator, “There’s was a world junior champion in diving, and I ac- to learn [the tornado] but was unsuccessful at a group of football players, Brady Quinn from tually dove when I was younger. The other sister being confident and comfortable enough to do the Browns ... and he’s trying to cause a fight. Elevation 2008 was a figure skater, and I followed her to the it. 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