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Open To Thinking by Nick Patricca I Write: I Vote

Why I write. state who voted for Trump.) For me, to write is an act of faith: in The number of U.S. representative myself and in you. To write, I must be- districts is determined by the popula- lieve that what I write is worthy of your tion of the state with each state guar- attention. To write, I must believe that anteed to have at least one representa- your reading and responding to what I tive district regardless of population. write is worthy of my attention. Thus, Wyoming with a population of When I write, I try to write the best around 600,000 receives 3 electors in I can about what matters most to me. I the Electoral College. Nor does your have to believe that what matters most vote add to Hillary Clinton’s chances of to me might also have meaning for you. winning the election because the popu- It isn’t easy to write well, to be hon- lar vote totals, as such, do not deter- est, to do careful, painstaking research, mine who wins the election. 2016 Hall of Fame inductee Kim Hunt. to think before writing—to think criti- Four times in the history of our presi- Photo by Gretchen Rachel Hammond cally of myself and of my opinions as dential elections the person ‘elected’ well as of the world and its affairs. For president did not win the popular vote. me, writing requires an act of faith that Al Gore won the popular vote in 2000 transcends my vanity, my pride, my but lost the presidency to George Bush. Hall of Fame looks And, one time in our history, the “In the end, I can only say that for person who won ahead to new year neither the popu- me voting is an act of faith. For me, lar vote nor the Electoral College on, but for the most part it has been a smooth By Matt Simonette my art of being a writer is conjoined vote—John Quincy transition,” Wright said. “It is something that Adams—was ‘elect- has been acceptable to people we do business with my art of being a citizen. The Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame, which will hon- ed’ president by a or its new inductees in a ceremony at Chicago with. It was something we considered in order Both arts are rooted in my faith in vote of the House History Museum Nov. 9, continues to make to be more inclusive. Generally, we achieved of Representatives. changes that ensure the longtime organization that, and we made many people happy. It’s the human experiment, and in the Aside: John Quincy is relevant for generations to come. a lot of work that goes into changing your experiment we call ‘America.’” Adams was a great The organization, which just recently changed name—legalities, documents, letterhead.” president. its name from the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Morten emphasized that the name change Even though our Hall of Fame to better reflect its inclusivity was put into place to properly brand the orga- system of electing and diversity, is adding new board members, nization. “The reality is, since the organization ego, my desire for praise and recogni- our president is not as straightforward updating its website and will soon introduce a came into being in the early 1990s, it always tion, my ambitions. Writing, for me, is and as transparent as it might be and streamlined online process for nominating new has had people who were bi and trans,” she simply too hard to sustain with only even though it is not always clear how members, according to officials. said. those motives. I must believe that my my vote counts, I insisted that my god- This year’s inductees include philanthropist “There were members of those communities writing has value beyond myself, that son vote anyway. He said he would. Robert Allerton; illustrator Tom Bachtell; police who had already been honored, and we felt we it has value because of you. Every time My friend and mentor Daniel Berri- investigator Ronald E. Bogan; Association for should be more inclusive,” Wright added. “This I write I have to renew this act of faith. gan, who died this past April, refused Latin Men for Action (ALMA) co-founder Ro- was a good way to honor their contributions.” It doesn’t last. to vote. He judged both of our political man Buenostro; Hell in a Handbag Productions “Times have changed,” Chichester added. Sometimes I write—without faith or parties to be hostage to bankrupt ideas co-founder David Cerda; graphic designer David “We have to keep up.” hope—because I cannot find any other and policies. Daniel Berrigan worked Csicsko; author Patrick Dennis; Pride Action Wright said the Hall of Fame is open to way to exist. The subjects themselves for a ‘more perfect union’ and a more Tank Executive Director Kim Hunt; physician “reaching out to as many individuals, organiza- command the writing—Oscar Romero, just America in many effective ways Thomas Klein; activist Norma Seledon; TransLa- tions and friends of the community as possible Primo Levi, Langston Hughes, Juana but voting was not one of them. I was tin@Coalition President Maritxa Vidal; and to let them know who we are and that we’re Inés de la Cruz. I have to believe that never able to persuade him that voting filmmaker Yvonne Welbon. Organizational in- available to provide recognition of achieve- their stories have importance for us all, mattered. ductees include Amigas Latinas and Big Chicks. ments.” I don’t understand mathematics or The John Marshall Law School and former Gov. He added, “There is a larger effort to reach that their stories help us to understand statistics well enough to offer you any Pat Quinn will also be inducted as “Friends of out to youth to participate. We have always ourselves, to understand what it means reasons to vote or not to vote. And, the Community.” had an openness about accepting and includ- to be a human being in our world. philosophically, democracy is a most The new inductees represent an “esteemed ing youth. As with many organizations, you Often, my writing becomes an ex- problematic enterprise. group of individuals and organizations,” said see older individuals managing something and istential act in a world of absurdist Hall of Fame Executive Director Israel Wright. you feel like it’s not something that’s relatable, theater—at least Don Quixote saw the In the end, I can only say that for “We have personalities like David Csicsko, until you enter it and you find out it’s just as windmills he mistook as knights errant. me voting is an act of faith. For me, who has worked all over the city, and and relatable as anything else.” my art of being a writer is conjoined Tom Bachtell, who does drawings for the New The Hall of Fame’s website will be upgraded, Why I vote. with my art of being a citizen. Both Yorker.” as will the nomination process. The organiza- My godson Daniel, who lives and arts are rooted in my faith in the hu- Friends of the LGBT Hall of Fame Board Co- tion will soon accept nominations online. works outside of the U.S., posted a man experiment, and in the experiment Chair Gary Chichester added he was particularly “We have certain things that need to be notice on FB that discussed why it is we call ‘America.’ Voting expresses my excited about Dennis’ inclusion; the author’s done, and when people previously sent in often ‘statistically meaningless’ to vote faith in the future of our nation and family is expected to be in attendance. Chich- nominations they sometimes didn’t include in the U.S. presidential election be- in the value of the individual person ester joked that Dennis’ story Auntie Mame “is pictures or certain write-ups,” Chichester said. cause of our Electoral College system. If participating in our civil society. This a ‘gay starter-upper.’” “So that’ll be ‘policed’ by the website itself.” you are voting for Hillary Clinton in the isn’t an argument: it is an ethic and an Board co-chair Mary Morten will step down Beyond the November induction ceremony, state of Illinois—usually a blue state— aesthetic of how I would like things to at the beginning of 2017. She’s been in the the Hall of Fame will also unveil an exhibit at your vote cannot add to her electoral be. It is my act of faith in you and in role for about four years and led the organi- Harold Washington Library in December. delegate count because that number is me. zation’s recent round of strategic planning. “Part of the work I’ve been doing the last pre-determined by the number of U.S. Read. Think. Vote. The search is still on for a replacement, she four years has been support beyond the cere- senators (2) and the number of U.S. © [email protected] said, adding, “We would ideally have a man mony,” noted Morten. “We’ve added new people representative districts (18). (The same and woman co-chair the board and we are still power and we still need volunteers. We are al- fact would be true for a person in a red looking for someone from the inductee ranks ways looking for help.” to fill my role.” The 2016 induction ceremony is free and The board expanded its membership to eight open to the public. It takes place Wed., Nov. Nick Patricca is professor emeritus at Loyola University Chicago, president of this year and the organization changed its 9, at Chicago History Museum, 1601 Clark St., Chicago Network and playwright emeritus at Victory Gardens Theater. name from the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of with a reception at 5:30 p.m. The ceremony Fame to the LGBT Hall of Fame. begins at 6 p.m. “There are some details we’re still working WINDY CITY TIMES Nov. 2, 2016 5

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This is a place where they can come and “Any reader is welcome to reach out to us” people as young as 11 and 12 years old asking feel relaxed, and ask questions and not be em- to request a workshop at their agency, said youth with support to learn more. barrassed.” Maley: “We are constantly going out to offices, Like many of her fellow staff, Maley, who at- schools, [and] churches, telling them that this By David Thill tended Catholic school, didn’t have easy access Spreading the word is what Youth Outlook is. to services like these when she was younger. With requests for more drop-in centers and “Our number-one need is to let people know Fifty-five percent of students feel unsafe at “It was definitely an option … but not pub- community outreach, one of Mullen’s biggest that we exist.” school because of their sexual orientation, and licized,” she said. Due to the safety risks that hopes is for Youth Outlook to gain more vol- 38 percent feel unsafe because of their gen- often face people who identify as LGBTQ, “up der expression, according to the 2013 National until recently, [Youth Outlook] did a lot of work School Climate Survey released by the Gay, in secret.” Supreme Court to Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN). Now, though, thanks in large part to the shift This lack of safety in school seems to lead in the public mind, Maley is working to make hear trans many young people to seek it after they leave. Youth Outlook more visible in the community. “With more than half of LGBTQ young peo- restroom case Particularly in light of current issues, most no- By Andrew Davis and ple [in the country] saying they feel unsafe tably access to school facilities for transgender Gretchen Rachel Hammond in school, this is a place offering that space students, “we want to be as visible an organi- to relax and be yourself,” said Rachel Maley, zation as possible,” Maley said. The United States Supreme Court (USSC) an- resource development associate at Youth Out- nounced Oct. 25 that it will review a Fourth look. Since 1996, the social service organiza- Transcend Circuit Court of Appeals finding that federal tion has offered drop-in services to LGBTQ+ Transcend, Youth Outlook’s drop-in center for anti-discrimination laws protect the right of youth throughout Chicago’s western suburbs. transgender and non-binary youth, is the or- transgender teenage boy to use the men’s re- “We are exploding,” said Nancy Mullen, MSW, ganization’s largest and fastest-growing group. strooms at his Virginia high school. LSW, who has served as Youth Outlook’s execu- Since it began a few years ago, it now has lo- The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) tive director since 1998. In the 18 years she cations in Palatine and Naperville, and has be- brought the case on behalf of Gavin Grimm has worked with the organization, its services come the agency’s biggest and busiest group, challenging the Gloucester County School Board’s decision to force him into separate, single-stall restrooms that no other student Gavin Grimm. is required to use. Photo courtesy of ACLU The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals had sided with Grimm after the ACLU argued that decision and stating that objections should the school board’s policy is a clear violation be voiced to the school board. of Title IX, a federal law barring sex discrimi- Grimm’s case carries with it ramifications nation by schools receiving federal funding. that are as deeply personal to his own expe- That decision had cleared the way for rience as they are far reaching. Grimm to start his senior year at Glouces- “When Gavin is forced to use a separate ter High School using the restroom in accor- restroom from the rest of his peers, it’s not dance with his gender identity rather than only humiliating but it interferes with the being singled out for it. ability to get an equal education that Title But the school board appealed and the IX and our civil-rights statutes are supposed USSC issued an Aug, 3 stay while the eight to protect,” Block said. “Gavin has to plan judges decided on whether or not the case out how he is going to go to the restroom Youth Outlook at the Chicago Pride Parade. would be reviewed. when he’s in class, he has to do everything Photo from the organization “I am disappointed that I will have to go he can to avoid drinking liquids and hold his through more of a school year discussing urine as long as he can.” have grown substantially. What began as two said Mullen. During the summer, it sometimes where I’m going to be using the restroom,” It was a sentiment echoed by the LGBTQ drop-in centers in Hinsdale and Aurora has brings in more than 40 people in one night. Grimm said. “But I’m not afraid and I’m not parents advocacy group PFLAG who said, in expanded to seven drop-in centers across five While most of Youth Outlook’s drop-in groups discouraged. I’m looking forward to using my a statement, that “no student should have west suburban Chicago counties, serving LG- have a consistent base of attendees, Mullen platform for as much positive awareness to to choose between getting an education and BTQ+ youth ranging from 12 to 25 years old. said that it’s impossible to predict who will this conversation so that, hopefully in the their personal safety; forcing students like Two of these drop-in centers serve transgen- come from week to week. “We specifically do future, no other kids are going to have to go Gavin to use a restroom that does not align der and non-binary individuals specifically, and not collect contact information,” Maley noted, through this.” with their gender identity will put them sig- there is another group for parents of LGBTQ+ adding that parental permission is not neces- ACLU LGBT Project Senior Staff Attorney nificantly in harm’s way.” youth. sary either: “Some kids’ parents don’t know Joshua Block echoed that disappointment A Supreme Court decision in Grimm’s favor Additionally, Youth Outlook offers community that they come.” but added that “we are going to tell the Su- will have a positive impact on transgender presentations and workshops. Representatives Maley also emphasized that the drop-in cen- preme Court and tell the country the reality students nationwide. visit agencies throughout the Chicagoland area ters are not clinical therapy groups. Rather, of who Gavin is and who trans kids are across “Ultimately this about making sure that looking to learn more about how they can serve “they’re social, supportive, welcoming environ- the country.” all people, including transgender people, are their LGBTQ members. ments,” where young people can go without In Illinois, those kids include a transgender allowed to fully participate in school life,” “There are shifts in people wanting to un- having to worry about issues that might arise student in Palatine’s District 211 whose fight Block noted. “The [USSC] can always decide derstand and get education” about serving LG- at school—for example, what bathroom they to use the girl’s locker room led to a conten- it on a narrower ground but, since 2000, BTQ youth, said Mullen, noting how much more can use, or whether they will be able to play on tious debate in 2015 and, ultimately, a vote we’ve had a steady drumbeat of court deci- common it is now than in the past for high the athletic team that matches their identified in her favor. sions holding that, when you discriminate schools to seek Youth Outlook’s services. She gender. In short, they can come to the drop-in But, in May of this year, a group calling against someone because they’re transgen- has also watched the organization’s clientele center “without having to watch their backs,” themselves Students and Parents for Privacy der, you are discriminating against them on grow younger as people come out at younger she said. brought suit against the federal government the basis of sex and this might be an op- ages. While in its early years it served primarily For many of Maley’s fellow staff, “this [was] and District 211. portunity for the Supreme Court to join that youth in high school and college, it now serves the first place they felt they could fully be With a ruling yet to be made, the student’s chorus of decisions.” themselves.” Mullen said she sees many such rights remain unresolved. However, with at present only eight jus- instances of youth who receive services during Immediately after the USSC stay in Grimm’s tices, there seems no clear measurement of CWIT marks 35 their formative years and return later as volun- case, Evanston Township High School District predicting where that decision will fall. teers and staff members. 202 abruptly canceled an Aug. 4 committee “I hope that all eight justices rule to af- years on Nov. 7 Another notable—and positive—shift that meeting that, according to a report from the firm the fourth circuit’s decision,” Block said. Chicago Women in Trades (CWIT) will Mullen has seen during her time at Youth Out- Evanston Review, was originally slated “to “A core issue in this case is the dignity of mark its 35th anniversary with an event look is that of parents’ perspectives. “There is a discuss the district’s policy on transgender individual trans people and Justice [Antho- Monday, Nov. 7, 5:30-8 p.m., at Lagunitas lot more parent acceptance of gay and lesbian students.” ny] Kennedy has been very vocal in saying Brewing Company, 2607 W. 17th St. kids, that we didn’t see back in the late ’90s,” In September, Windy City Times reported that protections against sex discrimination Tickets are $35-$70, and the cost cov- she observes. 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Photo by Gretchen Campaign aims to Rachel Hammond end Chicago youth homelessness by 2020 By Gretchen Rachel Hammond Heartland Alliance, La Casa Norte, Teen Living From left: Lisa Morrison Butler, Hanke Gratteau, Avik Das, Programs, The Night Ministry and Unity Parent- Debbie Reznick and Laura Washington. Even with some of the sheer numbers of home- ing and Counseling Services. ness,” Brennan asserted. of the 300 individuals who are subject to elec- less youth in Chicago and the challenges they “One of the things that’s important to our The campaign’s target date for ending youth tronic monitoring but have no place to stay, face reinforced to an Oct. 25 capacity audi- work is stronger communities, stronger neigh- homelessness is one matched by the federal one third are youth. ence at the Chicago loop offices of Chase Bank, borhoods and an important part of that is government which, according to National Net- “Unlike prison, where there’s a definite day it was the testament of Unity Parenting and addressing and ending homelessness,” Office work for Youth Director of Public Policy Eric that somebody’s going home, at the jail some- Counseling youth leader Caprice Williams who of the Mayor Neighborhood and Community Masten, last year made the commitment on a body could go to court tomorrow and have presented the most devastating and persuasive Engagement Senior Advisor Roderick Hawkins national level by 2020. their charges dropped and, in a very short case for the unprecedented goal of the I AM IN said. “I have a passion for youth homelessness “When we say ‘end youth and young adult time, we have to cobble together a discharge campaign launched that morning to end youth in particular. I know this [campaign] will lead homelessness’, we [don’t] mean there will plan,” she said. “We’re trying to do discharge homelessness in Chicago by 2020. to better coordination, communication and ac- never be youth who experience homelessness, planning on the first day somebody comes into The campaign is the next step after more tion that ends youth homelessness.” but it will be rare, brief and non-recurring,” our custody. But that’s an enormous task. Last than five years of tireless work and engagement It was a statement energetically reiterated he said. year, we had 52,000 people who spent at least from The Chicago Taskforce on Homeless Youth by All Chicago CEO Nonie Brennan. Masten noted that the nationwide com- one night in the jail before they were released. and each of its partners. With support from the “We know that we can end youth homeless- mitment has support from Congress though But, just because it’s hard, doesn’t mean we advocacy group All Chicago, The Taskforce has ness because we are already ending homeless- increased funding for runaway and homeless shouldn’t do it.” structured a campaign which All Chicago called ness in Chicago,” she said. “We absolutely have youth programs to a record $119 million along Das said that there are approximately 3,000 “a world-class, cross-systems road map.” to work together. We need one list of every sin- with initiatives such as the HUD grants. young people on some form of active proba- Williams, who has been homeless since the gle homeless youth in this city. We need great A national policy research initiative will pro- tion. age of 15, is part of the campaign’s youth ad- data to drive our work. We need a path forward vide the kind of data Brennan cited as needed “One unfortunate situation [is] where you visory board. They will be integral to decisions about where we are going to go and we have to propel the both the Chicago and U.S. cam- have the young person that turns 18, and the made in the navigation of that map and the to be flexible.” paigns forward. family says, ‘You’re done. You’ve got to go,’” accomplishment of its ultimate goal. Brennan went on to announce that, thanks According to Chapin Hall at The University of he asserted. “The probation officer and the “I ended up getting fired from my job, sleep- to the work of the Taskforce, Chicago is “po- Chicago Executive Director Bryan Samuels, the colleagues they work with in the community ing in my car, sleeping on the train,” she said. sitioned to be successful” for a youth home- multidimensional strategy behind The Voices [have] to figure out what to do with that “My car got repossessed when I was pregnant lessness demonstration project grant made of Youth Count is designed to “systematically young adult.” with my daughter. When I was five months available in August this year from The United go through and document the ways in which “It’s inexcusable, in a country as resourced pregnant, me and her father were standing out- States Department of Housing and Urban De- young people become homeless as well as to as ours to have this issue,” Reznick said. “One side and someone hopped out of a van, walked velopment (HUD). design strategies with the ultimate goal of challenge in particular right now is our state up on him and shot him in his neck and his Teen Living Programs Executive Director Jeri ending homelessness.” budget and the tragic impact on the work that arm.” Linas noted the four key goals the campaign Data collected by 27 teams led by youth who many [agencies] are trying to do. We have “My story is not the only one like this,” she intends to address which will make the City of had or were experiencing homelessness yielded many things that are working but we need added. “It’s more than just us. It goes deep. Chicago “an amazing candidate for this grant.” over 600 surveys of runaway and homeless more and different models of [them].” It’s so much more than us getting funding. I They are safe and stable housing, education youth in Chicago. Morrison Butler stressed the importance of went to the Chicago Urban League. They didn’t and employment, physical, mental and behav- “We’ll be able to look at what young people sharing data between organizations and agen- do anything for me. Whatever we are building, ioral health and permanent connections. say they need verses what’s available locally,” cies. make sure you have people who are compas- According to Linas, Chicago boasts “a very Samuels said. “All of that data will be [forth- Gratteau presented some. sionate about it. There are some people who culturally competent and diverse model of ser- coming] over the next couple of months here “The number of people who do say up front will take a position because they see how much vices” such as street and community outreach, in Chicago and also in 21 [participating] com- that they are homeless have an average of nine the money is and they see the media attention drop-in centers and beds available in low- munities around the country.” prior bookings when they come into our custo- it could bring to them but they could care less threshold overnight shelters, interim housing, Linas stressed the need of identifying and dy,” she said. “We currently have a 26-year-old about the person they’re trying to help. transitional living and permanent supportive bridging service gaps such as “family engage- man in our custody. He has been with us on 51 “We are homeless, we have a story, we want housing. ment, resiliency and reunification, foster care different occasions. He was thrown out of his to be heard,” she concluded, struggling to con- She noted that these services are geographi- conditions, juvenile justice engagement, host house by his grandma when he was 18-years- tain her emotions. cally located across Chicago and take into ac- homes, rapid rehousing and coordinated access old and his crime is homelessness.” Before Williams spoke, it was clear that she count “the racial and ethnic diversity of our that is youth focused.” Das added that, of those involved in the and her peers were joined in solidarity by ev- city [and are] inclusive of the LGBTQ popula- A panel moderated by Chicago Sun Times court system, “About 45 percent are 18 or eryone in the room. tion and trafficked youth.” columnist and ABC 7 political analyst Laura older. About 1,300 young people. When I’m They included representatives from orga- “Even if HUD does not select Chicago, the S. Washington and comprised of City of Chi- looking at how we switch on the lights so that nizations attached to the I AM IN campaign work that we’re doing here today and the work cago Department of Family and Support Ser- we’re more aware of this need, I’m looking at steering committee Chicago House, The Illinois we’re doing on this initiative is going to posi- vices (DFSS) Commissioner Lisa Morrison But- those neighborhoods that are heavily repre- Department of Children and Family Services, tion us to move the needle on youth homeless- ler, Sheriff’s Justice Institute Director Hanke sented in our population and the kinds of re- Gratteau, Cook County Juvenile Probation and sources and agencies [who] are plugged into highest risk, and the damage it can do to a Court Services Acting Director Avik Das, Esq. doing that hard work on the ground.” Researchers: HIV whole population over time. Sadly, we’re still and Polk Bros. Foundation Senior Program Of- Yet, of all the challenges presented, it was source entered seeing some of these same problems today. ficer Debbie Reznick not only illustrated the Williams and the youth advisory board who of- “In Illinois, one in six people with HIV commitment of city and county services as well fered the most profound if the 2020 elimina- U.S. in ‘70 or ‘71 don’t know they are infected, and about one as philanthropic organizations to the I AM IN tion of youth homelessness is ever to become Researchers from the University of Arizona in four people with HIV are diagnosed very goal but also the challenges which the cam- a reality. and the University of Cambridge claim they late, suggesting that they have been living paign faces. “We want somebody to relate to us, we want have dated when HIV arrived in the United with HIV for over a decade without treat- For Morrison Butler, chief among the con- somebody to feel us, we want somebody to un- States—and tracked its spread across the ment. The U.S. needs continued financial in- cerns faced by the DFSS is resources. derstand what we’re saying and what we’re go- country. vestment in the National HIV/AIDS Strategy “We would like to have more overnight shel- ing through,” she said. “It’s time for a change. In doing so, they claim to have cleared the to address these challenges.” ter beds, more capacity,” she said. “Collabora- We just want to stand up and take everything name of the infamous Patient Zero (a.k.a. In a statement, GMHC (Gay Men’s Health tion [across agencies] needs to be supported. on. It’s not easy. Even if don’t get this grant. Gaetan Dugas), a Canadian flight attendant Crisis) CEO Kelsey Louie said, “Society, and The government by itself can’t solve this prob- Even if we don’t get ending homelessness, we who was cited for bringing HIV to the States. in particular the media, were all too eager to lem. This is messy work and emotionally, we are have our minds and we have our hearts. Money The researchers reconstructed viral RNA cast blame on a single person, rather than all grappling to try to figure out how to do it.” is a factor, but if we don’t get it, is that going sequences from patients infected with HIV reflect on the stigma they were creating and Gratteau stated that the Sherriff’s office in- to be it?” in the late 1970s in New York City and San the lack of political will to actually do some- teracts with homeless youth through the evic- “Together, as a comprehensive, coordinat- Francisco. When the scientists analyzed thing about the disease. tions of families from their homes, with run- ed community response, we can absolutely blood samples from Patient Zero, they said “The stigma created in the past is still aways through their Child Protection Unit and set youth up for long term success, to avoid they proved he was not the source. Moreover, strong today and prevents many from even in the Cook County Jail. chronic homelessness and, instead, become they discovered that HIV entered the United getting tested for HIV for fear of being la- “That’s where their homelessness becomes thriving adults and member of Chicago,” Linas States in either 1970 or 1971—a full decade beled a carrier. Were it not for Larry Kramer, criminalized,” she said. “The jail, too often, is said. “Are you in?” before AIDS was officially initially observed. Larry Mass, Edmund White, and the other hardship housing for the homeless and, while For information on All Chicago and The AIDS Foundation of Chicago President/ founders of GMHC, we would not be as close we are a point of intersection and interven- Chicago Taskforce for Homeless Youth, visit: CEO John Peller told Windy City Times, “This as we are now to ending the epidemic and tion, when they land in our custody it’s often http://www.allchicago.org/COC/Committees/ study demonstrates further how deadly HIV someday finding a cure.” too late.” Youth. can be without regular testing for people at —Andrew Davis Gratteau added that, on any given day, out WINDY CITY TIMES Nov. 2, 2016 9 and the 2015 Charleston church shooting. Ac- cording to the ticket sales page, The Room “is CPS stops school from hosting a real-life haunted house. Guests will experience IN YOUR FACE scenes of dark reality. … event depicting shooting You will walk in 10 Rooms and encounter individuals who will make choices. The choice is By Matt Simonette when I saw Pulse was mentioned, my head just life or death; sin or salvation; heaven or hell. about blew up. How could they depict that?” The scenes will be action-packed, real and jaw- A Far South Side grade school did not co-host CPS spokesman Michael Passman told Windy dropping.” a haunted house that contained, among other City Times in an Oct. 28 email that the event Nat said they were particularly bothered that depictions, a representation of the June shoot- will not take place at Fernwood. promoters were talking about the events “in ings at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, “The event organizers mischaracterized the terms of ‘moral choices’—whose moral choices according to Chicago Public Schools (CPS) of- true content of the event, and we did not ap- are we talking about? Is it immoral to just want ficials. prove any association with the activities the to go out and be with your friends and dance? Fernwood Elementary School, 10041 S. Union organizers have now advertised,” said Pass- And what really bothered me was that this was Ave., was advertised by promoters as the loca- man. “The event will not be held on CPS prop- in a public school supported by our tax dol- tion of a haunted house entitled The Room: erty.” lars.” A Journey to Hell that was scheduled to take Advertised as a “Christian interactive experi- Windy City Times attempted to contact Ty- place the evenings of Oct. 29 and Oct. 30. ence,” the event is produced by Tyrone Tappler rone Tappler Productions for comment at the Larry W. Wilson. Fernwood was also initially listed as a co-spon- Productions. On Aug. 31, the company asked number given on the The Room’s Facebook sor of the event. on Facebook for volunteers who’d depict the page, but the call was not returned by press PASSAGES Nat (who asked that their complete name victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting: “Club time Oct. 28. Tappler later said on Facebook not be used) said that they saw a flyer for the Pulse, Dancers, Victims … CAGED PEOPLE/ that ticket sales would be refunded. Larry W. Wilson haunted house at a restaurant at 104th Street SCREAMERS, Extras needed trying to escape “If you want to have a haunted house with and Torrence Avenue, adding, “I went in for a cage! … SOUNDS INTERESTING? COME OUT that kind of thing in it, have at it,” said Nat. Larry William Wilson, of Chicago and some dinner, and promptly lost my appetite THIS SATURDAY!!!” “But don’t do it in a public school.” Bourbonnais, passed away peacefully at when I saw that.” Among other scenarios reportedly depicted home Oct. 18 after a long and courageous Nat was initially intrigued by the event, “But in the haunted house were a botched abortion battle with cardiovascular disease. He was 70. Larry was born July 16, 1946 in Winslow, Arizona, to Don E. and Freida E. (Mosley) Wilson. 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His deep loyalty to those he loved will never be forgotten, as he always thought of others who were in need in order to help in any way that he could. Larry strived for perfec- tion in everything he did and he will be thoroughly missed by those he touched in personal and distinctive ways. He is survived by a sister, Elizabeth Noone of Herrin, Illinois; niece, Tamara Karnes (David) of West Frankfort, Illinois, nephew, Frank Noone of Herrin, Illinois; two great-nephews, Jordan and Seth Karnes; a great-niece, Tayler Karnes; and many longtime friends across the country. He is also survived by a very special friend, The difference between impossible and possible often starts with a person saying, “I think I can.” confidant and caregiver, Vincent Henrisey; and Stephen Finkelmeyer, of Chicago, life At U.S. Bank, we think you can too. And with our online tools and resources, we’re here to help in partner of 35 years. 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Do not stop taking TRUVADA without ﬁ rst talking the other does not. to your healthcare provider. If your healthcare provider tells you to Ask your healthcare provider if you have questions about how to prevent stop taking TRUVADA, they will need to watch you closely for several getting HIV-1. Always practice safer sex and use condoms to lower the months to monitor your health. TRUVADA is not approved for the chance of sexual contact with body fluids. Never reuse or share needles treatment of HBV. or other items that have body fluids on them. Who should not take TRUVADA for PrEP? Do not take TRUVADA for PrEP if you IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION already have HIV-1 infection or if you What is the most important information I should know do not know your HIV-1 status. If you are HIV-1 positive, you need to take other about TRUVADA for PrEP? medicines with TRUVADA to treat HIV-1. 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Your healthcare provider TRUVADA for PrEP or at any time while taking TRUVADA for PrEP. may do blood tests to check your kidneys before and during treatment Symptoms of new HIV-1 infection include tiredness, fever, joint or with TRUVADA for PrEP. If you develop kidney problems, your muscle aches, headache, sore throat, vomiting, diarrhea, rash, night healthcare provider may tell you to stop taking TRUVADA for PrEP. sweats, and/or enlarged lymph nodes in the neck or groin. u Bone problems, including bone pain or bones getting soft or thin, While taking TRUVADA for PrEP to reduce your risk of getting may lead to fractures. Your healthcare provider may do tests to HIV-1 infection: check your bones. u You must continue using safer sex practices. Just taking u Changes in body fat, which can happen in people taking TRUVADA or TRUVADA for PrEP may not keep you from getting HIV-1. medicines like TRUVADA. uYou must stay HIV-negative to keep taking TRUVADA for PrEP. Common side effects in people taking TRUVADA for PrEP are stomach- Have you heard about u area (abdomen) pain, headache, and decreased weight. Tell your healthcare To further help reduce your risk of getting HIV-1: TM • Know your HIV-1 status and the HIV-1 status of your partners. provider if you have any side effects that bother you or do not go away. • Get tested for HIV-1 at least every 3 months or when your healthcare What should I tell my healthcare provider before taking TRUVADA for PrEP ? provider tells you. TRUVADA for PrEP? • Get tested for other sexually transmitted infections. Other infections u All your health problems. Be sure to tell your healthcare provider if you The once-daily prescription medicine that can help reduce make it easier for HIV-1 to infect you. have or have had any kidney, bone, or liver problems, including hepatitis • Get information and support to help reduce risky sexual behavior. virus infection. the risk of getting HIV-1 when used with safer sex practices. • Have fewer sex partners. u If you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known if • Do not miss any doses of TRUVADA. Missing doses may increase TRUVADA can harm your unborn baby. 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Ask your doctor about your risk of getting HIV-1 infection and if HIV-1 may become harder to treat over time. u If you are breastfeeding (nursing) or plan to breastfeed. Do not TRUVADA for PrEP may be right for you. TRUVADA can cause serious side effects: breastfeed. The medicines in TRUVADA can pass to your baby in u Too much lactic acid in your blood (lactic acidosis), which is a serious breast milk. If you become HIV-1 positive, HIV-1 can be passed to medical emergency. Symptoms of lactic acidosis include weakness the baby in breast milk. or being more tired than usual, unusual muscle pain, being short of u All the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter breath or fast breathing, nausea, vomiting, stomach-area pain, cold medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. TRUVADA may interact or blue hands and feet, feeling dizzy or lightheaded, and/or fast or with other medicines. 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Lightford (D) Y Y IVI – Independent Voters of Illinois/Independent Precinct Organization the 114th Congress HRC – Human Rights Campaign PP – Planned Parenthood Illinois Action 5th SENATE DISTRICT PP – Planned Parenthood Illinois Action Patricia Van Pelt (D) Y Y Y PF – Pridefund to End Gun Violence WCT IVI HRC PP CNOW – Chicago NOW PAC 7th SENATE DISTRICT 1st congressional district Heather A. Steans (D) Y Y Y Y To see Hillary Clinton’s responses to a survey given by Gay Men’s Bobby L. Rush (D) 100 Y Health Crisis, see http://gmhc.org/files/editor/file/GMHC-PresReport- August (O’Neill) Deuser (R) 8th SENATE DISTRICT 2016-A.pdf Ira I. Silverstein (D) Y Y 2nd congressional district WCT IVI HRC PP PF CNOW Robin Kelly (D) 100 Y 10th SENATE DISTRICT John F. Morrow (R) John G. Mulroe (D) Y Y Hillary Clinton (D) Y Y Y Y Y Y Donald J. Trump (R) 3rd congressional district 11th SENATE DISTRICT Gary Johnson (L) Daniel William Lipinski (D) 57 Martin A. Sandoval (D) Y Y Jill Stein (G) 4th congressional district 13th SENATE DISTRICT Luis V. Gutierrez (D) 30/30 100 Y Kwame Raoul (D) Y Y IL STATE COMPTROLLER 5th congressional district 14th SENATE DISTRICT WCT – Windy City Times questions, number listed is of the total Mike Quigley (D) 30/30 100 Y Emil Jones III (D) Y Y Y questions correct for that race Vince Kolber (R) PPAC – Personal PAC Rob Sherman (G) 16th SENATE DISTRICT EI – Equality Illinois PAC Jacqueline “Jacqui” Collins (D) Y GPAC – Gun Violence Prevention PAC 6th congressional district PP – Planned Parenthood Illinois Action Amanda Howland (D) Y 17th SENATE DISTRICT Peter J. Roskam (R) 0 Donne E. Trotter (D) Y Y WCT PPAC EI GPAC PP 7th congressional district 19th SENATE DISTRICT Susana Mendoza (D) 21/23 Y Y Y Y Danny K. Davis (D) 30/30 Y 96 Y Michael E. Hastings (D) Y Y Leslie Geissler Munger (R) Jeffrey A. Leef (R) Claire Ball (L) 2oth SENATE DISTRICT Tim Curtin (G) 8th congressional district Iris Y. Martinez (D) Y Y Raja Krishnamoorthi (D) 29/30 Y Y Peter “Pete” Dicianni (R) 22nd SENATE DISTRICT COOK COUNTY RACES Cristina Castro (D) 20/23 Y Y Y Y WCT – Windy City Times questions, number listed is of the total ques- 9th congressional district Tracy Smodilla (R) tions correct for that race. So for example if there were 20 questions Janice D. Schakowsky (D) 30/30 Y 100 Y in a race, and we state 18/20, that means they got 18 of 20 answers Joan McCarthy Lasonde (R) 23rd SENATE DISTRICT correct. Thomas E. Cullerton (D) Y Y Y Seth Lewis (R) IVI – Independent Voters of Illinois/Independent Precinct Organization 10th congressional district PPAC – Personal PAC Brad Schneider (D) 28/30 25th SENATE DISTRICT CNOW – Chicago NOW PAC Robert Dold (R) 92 Corinne M. Pierog (D) 21/23 Y Y Y Y EI – Equality Illinois PAC Jim Oberweis (R) RC – Reclaim Chicago 11th congressional district GPAC – Gun Violence Prevention PAC Bill Foster (D) 29/30 100 Y 26th SENATE DISTRICT PP – Planned Parenthood Illinois Action Tonia Khouri (R) Kelly Mazeski (D) Y Y Dan McConchie (R) WCT IVI PPAC CNOW EI RC GPAC PP 12th congressional district Charles “C.J.” Baricevic (D) 28th SENATE DISTRICT COOK COUNTY clerk Michael Bost (R) 16 Laura Murphy (D) Y Y Y Y Dorothy A. Brown (D) 17/18 Y Y Paula Bradshaw (G) Mel Thillens (R) Diane S. Shapiro (R) 14/18 13th congressional district 29th SENATE DISTRICT RECORDER OF DEEDS Mark D. Wicklund (D) Julie A. Morrison (D) Y Y Y Y Karen Yarbrough (D) Y Rodney Davis (R) 32 Benjamin Salzberg (R) David M. Gill (I) state’s attorney 31ST SENATE DISTRICT Kim Foxx (D) 22/24 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 14th congressional district Melinda Bush (D) Y Y Y Y Christopher E. K. Pfannkuche (R) Jim Walz (D) Michael Amrozowicz (R) Randall M. “Randy” Hultgren (R) 0 COOK CO. BOARD OF REVIEW-2nd DIST. COMMISSIONER 34th SENATE DISTRICT Michael Cabonargi (D) Y 15th congressional district Steve Stadelman (D) Y Y John M. Shimkus (R) 16 METROPOLITAN water reclamation district 38th SENATE DISTRICT VOTE FOR THREE SIX-YEAR AND ONE TWO-YEAR TERMS 16th congressional district Christine Benson (D) Y Y Josina Morita (D) 16/18 Y Y Y Y Adam Kinzinger (R) 36 Sue Rezin (R) Barbara McGowan (D) 15/18 Y Y Y Y Mariyana T. Spyropoulos (D) 16/18 Y Y Y Y 17th congressional district 40th SENATE DISTRICT Karen Roothaan (G) Cheri Bustos (D) 100 Y Toi W. Hutchinson (D) Y Y Y George Milkowski (G) Patrick Harlan (R) Michael Smith (G) 41st SENATE DISTRICT Herb Schumann (2-yr.) (R) 18th congressional district Christine Radogno (R) Martin J. Durkan (2-yr.) (D) Y Junius Rodriguez (D) Christopher Anthony (2-yr.) (G) Darin LaHood (R) 0 43rd SENATE DISTRICT Pat McGuire (D) Y Y US SENATE 44th SENATE DISTRICT ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY RACES Bill Brady (R) WCT – Windy City Times questions. WCT – Windy City Times questions, number listed is of the total ques- HRC – Human Rights Campaign 114th Congress, ratings are a percent- tions correct for that race 46th SENATE DISTRICT age of total 100% based on HRC tracking of how candidates voted in IVI – Independent Voters of Illinois/Independent Precinct Organization David Koehler (D) Y Y the 114th Congress. * HRC also endorsed for presidential and senate PPAC – Personal PAC races. Initially, they had endorsed Mark Kirk, but that was rescinded EI – Equality Illinois PAC 47th SENATE DISTRICT and Tammy Duckworth got the endorsement. RC – Reclaim Chicago Jil Tracy (R) PP – The Planned Parenthood Action Fund compiles a scorecard to edu- CNOW – Chicago NOW PAC cate and inform citizens about members of Congress’ record of support GPAC – Gun Violence Prevention PAC 49th SENATE DISTRICT for women’s health. PP – Planned Parenthood Illinois Action Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant (D) Y CNOW – Chicago NOW PAC Michelle Smith (R) WCT HRC PP CNOW WCT IVI PPAC EI RC CNOWGPAC PP 52nd SENATE DISTRICT Tammy Duckworth (D) 28/30 100 Y* 100 Y 1ST SENATE DISTRICT Scott M. Bennett (D) Y Y Y Mark Steven Kirk (R) 100 80 Antonio “Tony” Munoz (D) Y Y Michael P. Madigan (R) Kenton McMillen (L) Scott Summers (G) WINDY CITY TIMES Nov. 2, 2016 15 WCT IVI PPAC EI RC CNOWGPAC PP WCT IVI PPAC EI RC CNOWGPAC PP WCT IVI PPAC EI RC CNOWGPAC PP

58th SENATE DISTRICT 27th representative DISTRICT 66th representative DISTRICT Sheila Simon (D) Y Y Y Monique D. Davis (D) Y Y Y Nancy A. Zettler (D) Y Y Y Paul Schimpf (R) Allen Skillicorn (R) 28th representative DISTRICT 1st representative DISTRICT Robert “Bob” Rita (D) Y Y 67th representative DISTRICT Daniel J. Burke (D) Y Y Litesa E. Wallace (D) Y Y Y 29th representative DISTRICT 2nd representative DISTRICT Thaddeus Jones (D) Y Y Y 68th representative DISTRICT Theresa Mah (D) Y Y Y Y Tricia Sweeney (D) Y Y 30th representative DISTRICT John M. Cabello (R) 3rd representative DISTRICT William “Will” Davis (D) Y Y Luis Arroyo (D) Y Y 69th representative DISTRICT 33rd representative DISTRICT Angelique A. Bodine (D) Y Y Y 4th representative DISTRICT Marcus C. Evans, Jr. (D) Y Y Joe Sosnowski (R) Cynthia Soto (D) 19/23 Y Y Y 34th representative DISTRICT Elgie R. Sims, Jr. (D) Y Y Y 71st representative DISTRICT 5th representative DISTRICT Mike Smiddy (D) Y Y Y Juliana Stratton (D) 22/23 Y Y Y Y 35th representative DISTRICT Tony M. McCombie (R) Frances Ann Hurley (D) Y Y 6th representative DISTRICT Victor Horne (R) 72nd representative DISTRICT Sonya Marie Harper (D) Y Y Y Michael W. Halpin (D) Y Y Y 38th representative DISTRICT Brandi McGuire (R) 7th representative DISTRICT Al Riley (D) 20/23 Y Y Y Emanuel “Chris” Welch (D) 21/23 Y Y Y 75th representative DISTRICT 39th representative DISTRICT Martha J. Shugart (D) Y 9th representative DISTRICT Will Guzzardi (D) Y Y Y Y Y David Allen Welter (R) Arthur Turner (D) Y Y Y 40th representative DISTRICT 77th representative DISTRICT 10th representative DISTRICT Jaime M. Andrade, Jr. (D) 22/23 Y Y Y Kathleen Willis (D) Y Y Y Melissa Conyears (D) Y Anthony Airdo (R) Mark Spognardi (R) 42nd representative DISTRICT Kathleen V. Carrier (D) Y Y Y 78th representative DISTRICT 11th representative DISTRICT Jeanne M. Ives (R) Camille Lilly (D) Y Y Ann M. Williams (D) 23/23 Y Y Y Y Gary Mandell (R) 43rd representative DISTRICT 80th representative DISTRICT Anna Moeller (D) Y Y Y Y Anthony DeLuca (D) Y 12th representative DISTRICT Sara Feigenholtz (D) 23/23 Y Y Y Y Y 44th representative DISTRICT 81st representative DISTRICT Gene Witt (R) Fred Crespo (D) Y Y Greg Hose (D) Y Y Y Y Kathy Dolan Baumer (R) David S. Olsen (R) 13th representative DISTRICT Gregory Harris (D) 22/23 Y Y Y 45th representative DISTRICT 83rd representative DISTRICT Cynthia Borbas (D) Y Y Y Y Linda Chapa LaVia (D) Y Y 14th representative DISTRICT Christine Jennifer Winger (R) Kelly M. Cassidy (D) 23/23 Y Y Y Y Y 84th representative DISTRICT Arthur Noah Siegel (I) 46th representative DISTRICT Stephanie A. Kifowit (D) Y Y Y Y Deb Conroy (D) Y Y Y Y Mike Strick (R) 15th representative DISTRICT Heidi Holan (R) John C. D’Amico (D) Y Y Y Y 85th representative DISTRICT Jonathan Edelman (D) 48th representative DISTRICT Emily McAsey (D) Y Y Steve Swanson (D) Y Y Y 16th representative DISTRICT Peter Breen (R) 86th representative DISTRICT Lou Lang (D) 23/23 Y Y Y Y Lawrence “Larry” Walsh, Jr. (D) Y 50th representative DISTRICT 17th representative DISTRICT Valerie L. Burd (D) Y Y 92nd representative DISTRICT Laura Fine (D) Y Y Y Y Keith R. Wheeler (R) Jehan Gordon-Booth (D) Y Y

18th representative DISTRICT 55th representative DISTRICT 93rd representative DISTRICT Robyn Gabel (D) Y Y Y Y Y Martin J. Moylan (D) Y Y Y Y John Curtis (D) 17/23 Jessica Tucker (D) Dan Gott (R) Norine K. Hammond (R)

19th representative DISTRICT 56th representative DISTRICT 94th representative DISTRICT Robert Martwick (D) Y Y Michelle Mussman (D) Y Y Y Y Bobby Pritchett (D) Y Y Jillian Rose Bernas (R) Randy E. Frese (R) 20th representative DISTRICT Merry Marwig (D) 18/23 Y Y Y Y Y 57th representative DISTRICT 98th representative DISTRICT Michael P. McAuliffe (R) Elaine Nekritz (D) Y Y Y Natalie A. Manley (D) Y Y Y

21st representative DISTRICT 58th representative DISTRICT Silvana Tabares (D) Y Y Scott Drury (D) Y Y Y Y 103rd representative DISTRICT Martin (Marty) Blumenthal (R) Carol Ammons (D) Y Y Y Y 22nd representative DISTRICT Michael J. Madigan (D) Y Y Y 59th representative DISTRICT 110th representative DISTRICT Carol Sente (D) Y Y Y Dennis F. Malak (D) Y 23rd representative DISTRICT Dawn Abernathy (R) Reginald “Reggie” Phillips (R) 8/23 Michael J. Zalewski (D) Y Y 61st representative DISTRICT 112th representative DISTRICT 24th representative DISTRICT Nick Ciko (D) Y Y Katie Stuart (D) Y Y Y Elizabeth “Lisa” Hernandez (D) Y Y Sheri Jesiel (R) Dwight Kay (R) Andy Kirchoff (R) 62nd representative DISTRICT 113th representative DISTRICT 25th representative DISTRICT Sam Yingling (D) Y Y Y Jay Hoffman (D) Y Barbara Flynn Currie (D) Y Y Y Rod Drobinski (R) Katherine L. Ruocco (R)

26th representative DISTRICT Christian L. Mitchell (D) Y Y Y Y Y

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JUDICIAL EVALUATIONS Cook Circuit Court-7th Sub (Burrell vacancy) Windy City Times does not endorse candidates. LAGBAC – Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago Marianne Jackson (D) R R Q HR HQ HQ HR HR R Rather, we list their answers to our questionnaire PRB – Puerto Rican Bar Association of Illinois Cook Circuit Court-7th Sub as well as the ratings of legal organizations so that WBAI – Women’s Bar Association of Illinois (Rivkin-Carothers vacancy) readers can make informed choices when they vote. CNOW – Chicago NOW PAC Patricia “Pat” S. Spratt (D) 28/28 R R WQ R NE Q R R R Y Cook Circuit Court-9th Sub Key to Organizations: Key to Ratings: (Berman vacancy) WCT – Windy City Times questions, number listed is Q – Qualified Jerry Esrig (D) 26/28 Y R R HQ R Q Q R R R of the total questions correct for that race. So for NQ – Not Qualified Cook Circuit Court-10th Sub example if there were 20 questions in a race, and we WQ – Well Qualified (Howard vacancy) state 18/20, that means they got 18 of 20 answers HQ – Highly Qualified Eve Marie Reilly (D) 27/28 R R Q R Q Q R R R correct. HR – Highly Recommended Cook Circuit Court-11th Sub PPAC – Personal PAC R – Recommended (Kelly vacancy) IVI – Independent Voters of Illinois/Independent NR – Not Recommended Catherine Ann Schneider (D) R R Q R Q Q R R R Precinct Organization NE – Not Evaluated Cook Circuit Court-11th Sub AAB – Asian American Bar Association (D) – Democrat (Zwick vacancy) BWL – Black Women’s Lawyers Association (R) – Republican William B. Sullivan (D) 26/28 R R Q R Q Q R R R CCL – Chicago Council of Lawyers Cook Circuit Court-12th Sub (Kazmierski, Jr. vacancy) CCBA – Cook County Bar Association To view additional ratings from the Decalogue Soci- Marguerite Anne Quinn (D) 27/28 R R WQ R Q HQ HR R R HL – Hispanic Lawyers Association ety of Lawyers and Hellenic Bar Association, go to Thomas William Flannigan (R) NR R Q R NQ NQ NR R NR ISBA – Illinois State Bar Association voteforjudges.org. Cook Circuit Court-12th Sub (Mathein vacancy) Janet Cronin Mahoney (D) R R Q NR NQ NQ R R R WCT PPAC IVI AAB BWL CCL CCB HL ISB LAG PRB WB cnow James Leonard Allegretti (R) R R Q R Q Q R R R App. Ct-1st Dist. Cook Circuit Court-12th Sub (Epstein vacancy) (Tristano vacancy) Eileen O’Neill Burke (D) R R Q R Q Q HR R R Carrie Hamilton (D) R R Q R R Q HR R R App. Ct-1st Dist. David Studenroth (R) R R Q R Q Q R HR R (Quinn vacancy) Cook Circuit Court-12th Sub Bertina E. Lampkin (D) R R WQ R HQ HQ HR HR R (‘A’ vacancy) App. Ct-5th Dist. James Edward Hanlon, Jr. (D) Y R R Q R Q Q R HR R Y (Stewart vacancy) Steven A. Kozicki (R) R R Q R Q Q R R R Brad K. Bleyer (D) Cook Circuit Court-13th Sub John B. Barberis, Jr. (R) (Fecarotta, Jr. vacancy) App. Ct-5th Dist. Ketki “Kay” Steffen (D) 27/28 R R Q R Q HQ HR R R (Wexstten vacancy) Kevin Michael O’Donnell (R) NR NR Q NR Q NQ NR R NR Jo Beth Weber (D) Cook Circuit Court-14th Sub James R. “Randy” Moore (R) (Murphy vacancy) Cook Circuit Court Matthew Link (D) NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR (Biebel, Jr. vacancy) John Fitzgerald Lyke, Jr. (D) R R Q R Q Q R R R RETENTION JUDGES Cook Circuit Court 1st Appellate (Elrod vacancy) Joy Virginia Cunningham Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Rossana Patricia Fernandez (D) 10/28 Y R R Q R Q Q R R R Cook Circuit Court Cook Circuit (Hogan vacancy) Sophia H. Hall Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Alison C. Conlon (D) 26/28 Y Y R R Q R Q Q HR R R Y Irwin J. Solganick Y Y Y N Y Y Y Y Y Cook Circuit Court Alexander Patrick White Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y (Howlett, Jr. vacancy) Vincent Michael Gaughan Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Aleksandra “Alex” Gillespie (D) 26/28 Y R R Q R Q Q R R R Y Robert W. Bertucci Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Cook Circuit Court Deborah Mary Dooling Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y (Johnson vacancy) Timothy C. Evans Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Carolyn J. Gallagher (D) 25/28 R R Q R Q Q R R R Y Cheryl D. Ingram Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Cook Circuit Court Raymond L. Jagielski Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y (Karnezis vacancy) Bertina E. Lampkin Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Mary Kathleen McHugh (D) R R Q R Q Q R R R William Maki Y Y Y Y Y N Y Y Cook Circuit Court Sharon Marie Sullivan Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y (Love vacancy) James Patrick McCarthy Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Brendan A. O’Brien (D) R R WQ R Q Q NR R R Arnette R. Hubbard Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Cook Circuit Court Nicholas R. Ford Y Y N Y Y Y Y Y Y (O’Brien vacancy) Charles Patrick Burns Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Maureen O’Donoghue Hannon (D) R R Q R Q Q R R R Denise Kathleen Filan Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Cook Circuit Court John Patrick Kirby Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y (Palmer vacancy) Diane Joan Larsen Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Susana L. Ortiz (D) R R Q R Q Q R R R Daniel Joseph Lynch Y Y N Y N Y Y Y Cook Circuit Court Kathleen Mary Pantle Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y (Ruscitti Grussel vacancy) Kevin Michael Sheehan Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Daniel J. Duffy (D) 28/28 R R NQ NE NQ Q R R NR John D. Turner, Jr. Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Cook Circuit Court LeRoy K. Martin, Jr. Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y (Walsh vacancy) Paula Marie Daleo Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Patrick Joseph Powers (D) 27/28 R R Q R Q Q R R R Laurence J. Dunford Y Y Y Y Y Y N Y Y Cook Circuit Court-1st Sub Robert Balanoff Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y (Brim vacancy) Jeanne R. Cleveland Bernstein Y N Y Y Y Y Y Y Jesse Outlaw (D) R R Q R Q Q R R R Kathleen Marie Burke Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Cook Circuit Court-1st Sub Kay Marie Hanlon Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y (Hopkins vacancy) Thomas J. Kelley Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Rhonda Crawford (D) NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR Claire Elizabeth McWilliams Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Cook Circuit Court-2nd Sub Mary Lane Mikva Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y (Savage vacancy) Patrick T. Murphy Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y D. Renee Jackson (D) NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR Timothy Patrick Murphy Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Cook Circuit Court-4th Sub Jim Ryan Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y (Kunkle vacancy) Edward “Ed” Washington, II Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Edward J. King (D) R R Q R Q Q R R R Thaddeus L. Wilson Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Cook Circuit Court-5th Sub John C. Griffin Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y (Eadie-Daniels vacancy) Daniel James Pierce Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Leonard Murray (D) Y R R Q HR Q HQ R R R Allen F. Murphy Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Cook Circuit Court-5th Sub William H. Hooks Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y (Stuart vacancy) Thomas V. Lyons Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Freddrenna M. Lyle (D) R R Q HR Q Q R R R Raymond W. Mitchell Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Cook Circuit Court-5th Sub Edward Harmening Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y (Williams vacancy) Daniel Malone Y Y Y Y Y Y N Y Y Daryl Jones (D) R R Q R Q NQ R R R Geary W. Kull Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Cook Circuit Court-6th Sub John P. Callahan, Jr. Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y (Ponce De Leon vacancy) Steven James Bernstein Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Eulalia “Evie” DeLaRosa (D) Y R R Q R Q Q R R R Bonita Coleman Y Y N Y Y Y Y Y Y Cook Circuit Court-6th Sub Ann Finley Collins Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y (Santiago vacancy) Daniel J. Gallagher Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Richard C. Cooke (D) R R Q R Q Q R R R Sharon O. Johnson Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Cook Circuit Court-6th Sub Linzey D. Jones Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y (‘A’ vacancy) Terry MacCarthy Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Anna Loftus (D) Y Y R R Q R Q Q R R R Sandra G. Ramos Y Y Y Y Y Y N Y Y Susan Kennedy Sullivan Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y WINDY CITY TIMES Nov. 2, 2016 17 Windy City Times Editorial Board Endorsement for U.S. President, 2016:

Hillary Rodham Clinton 18 Nov. 2, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES ELECTIONS 2016: STATE COMPTROLLER Susana Mendoza Susana Mendoza. talks budgets, Official photo Mike Madigan

to pay more for their sticker. We don’t charge By GRETCHEN RACHEL HAMMOND SM: People are genuinely frustrated and apa- a revenue problem, we have a spending prob- outrageous administrative fees that I think is thetic towards politicians for good reason but lem. The reality is that we have both. I have a nickel and diming people. We run a better op- In every election recently held Illinois, it I can tell you that the comptroller’s office al- strong responsibility to protect the taxpayer’s eration now and it is fair to give those savings seems there is always one race that involves a ready has the power to put legislators at the dollar. So how much money can I save? Where back to the taxpayers. record amount of campaign spending. end of the pay line and that’s exactly what I’m can I cut costs? Where can we trim the fat? People deserve an independent, fiscal watch- Ironically, this year it is the face-off for going to do when I’m comptroller. I absolutely That’s how I’m going to approach this office. dog who will be a truth-teller as to what’s go- comptroller between Chicago City Clerk and agree that legislators should not be prioritized, My opponent and the governor are on the re- ing on in state government. In my opinion, former Illinois House District 1 Rep. Susana especially when you see the pain and suffering cord acknowledging that we’re going to need they do not have that degree of that indepen- Mendoza (D) and Leslie Munger (R) who was that’s being experienced by social services in to increase revenues in this state and that dence at all coming out of the comptroller’s appointed to the office by Governor Bruce this state. means increasing taxes. But I truly believe office. It might as well be Comptroller Rauner Rauner in 2015 following the death of Judy Comptroller Munger has had this power from that a responsible budget should include cuts whose name is on that office. Baar Topinka. the day she was sworn in. But she did not to programs that are bloated or not essential. The Munger campaign has nearly four times WCT: Munger has said that you are tied to bother to use it or even talk about it until it The budget is just a list of priorities for both the budget of Mendoza’s, but Mendoza says she Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan and was campaign season. She should have done parties. You’ve got to be able to come to the is a woman who has been fighting all her life. special interests and so not an independent this 10 months earlier at least, when the legis- table and negotiate out what’s going to stay The comptroller’s office is therefore one she voice. How do you answer those accusations? lature went through the entire year which end- and what’s going to go. SM: What else do you expect her to say, intends to win—a victory she believes is es- ed without a budget. What took her so long? Having said that, my opponent and the gov- right? I know my opponent certainly isn’t in- sential for a number of reasons she discussed She made a choice to continue paying legisla- ernor are both in favor of a flat tax. I am not. I terested in the facts. If she were, she wouldn’t with Windy City Times. tors instead of paying folks who are the most am 100 percent in favor and a vocal proponent have omitted the fact that I got to the legisla- Windy City Times: Take us behind your de- vulnerable in our state. You pick your social of a progressive income tax. When I was in the ture by taking on Speaker Madigan’s endorsed cision to run for comptroller. service provider and they had to wait before legislature, there was very little political will candidate who was, at the time, an incumbent. Susana Mendoza: The office is in fiscal disar- the legislators. to get that done. But I believe it’s a different I lost by 55 votes but I didn’t give up and I ray and our state is going through the worst I have a hard time believing that [Munger] time right now. The majority of states that sur- came back. [Madigan] doubled down against fiscal crisis in its history. I feel like I have had no choice but to wait until 10 months af- round us have progressive income taxes. Gov. me the second time but I won with 55 percent the level of executive management experience ter she could have taken action. I’m going to Rauner talks all the time about how his politi- of the vote. along with the relationships I built over ten continue the policy of keeping legislators at cal mentor was [Wisconsin] Gov. Scott Walker I didn’t get there by being appointed by the years in the legislature that are great on both the back of the line but the concept of a law and Wisconsin has a progressive income tax speaker, so it’s interesting that [Munger] would sides of the aisle. that is No Budget, No Pay is not even neces- that’s working very well for them. [Illinois] say that coming from someone who was liter- I could really bring some value to Illinoisans sary because she has the power to do that now. Rep. Lou Lang had introduced a great piece of ally appointed by the governor and who lost at a time when they need an independent voice It’s a perfect little gimmick that she’s going to legislation that basically provided a tax cut for her State Rep. race before that. I’ve never been down there who knows how to get things done. use as a campaign tool from now until elec- 99 percent of the population and a significant appointed to anything ever in my life. I’ve had Running the second largest office in the City of tion time. increase for those making millions of dollars to work hard for everything. Chicago has been a great training ground for WCT: But if you prevail, would you make every year. It’s an easy narrative to create that I just me in terms of being able to create efficiencies. No Budget, No Pay a policy? Obviously, my opponent and the governor are belong to the speaker which is what they say To take an office that was once seen as an of- SM: What I would do is make sure that leg- adamantly against that. They happen to fall about anybody who serves in the Democratic fice that shouldn’t even exist and turn it into islators have to wait in line until the very end. within the one percent so it makes sense that Party. They even say that about Republicans today what is widely seen as a model in gov- They’re not getting paid right now because, like they would look out for their self-interests, but who oppose the governor. Sam McCann is a ernment efficiency wasn’t easy to do and I did everyone else, they have to wait their turn and my job isn’t to look out for them. It’s to look perfect example. He opposed the governor on it in less than five years when we’d had over they’re not at the front of the line. [Munger] out for the other 99 percent who really have an issue regarding labor and then all of these 100 years of men running the show, basically knows that No Budget, No Pay will be dead on been carrying a disproportionate amount of the commercials, the millions that they spent showing up, turning on the lights and that’s it. arrival. It’s something Gov. Quinn tried to do tax burden. against this poor guy, all tied him to Speaker Under my tenure, I have eliminated the long and it was found to be unconstitutional but it For more information on Susana Mendoza’s Madigan. It’s the same script that they use in lines that used to exist at City Hall for, primar- plays very well in the press and with people. campaign, visit: http://susanamendoza. every election. ily, poor people. Not only were they paying for WCT: She’s also criticized you for voting com. I am a Democrat, so clearly the speaker is the most expensive [city] sticker in the coun- in favor of tax increases. Would you still be Windy City Times reached out to Leslie going to be supportive of me but also because try, but they had to take time off work to pay for that or, instead, see where we can trim Munger’s campaign but, as of press time, he’s seen over the years how much of a fighter the tax. I vowed to change that when I ran for some excesses? there has been no response. City Clerk and, if you go by the clerk’s office I am for causes I believe in. I’ve opposed the SM: You hear the concept that we don’t have today, you’ll see that the lines are gone. I did it speaker on many policy issues in the House of with 10 percent less payroll than when I start- Representatives. I’ve always been virulently ed. I’ve come in under budget every single year pro-choice and the speaker is not. I voted forms of ID, one of which shows the voter’s that I’ve been Clerk. I cut my overtime expen- against every single pay raise for legislators Grace-period current address. ditures by over 70 percent and we’ve actually but that doesn’t fit [Munger’s] narrative. See ChicagoElections.com/en/grace-pe- generated over $50 million in new revenue for WCT: Munger has suggested a No Budget, voting, registration riod-registration-and-voting.html to deter- Grace-period (in-person) voter registration the City of Chicago without asking tax payers No Pay policy. Where do you stand on that? mine the precinct. is taking place through Nov. 7. 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Forti to the 8th Subcircuit vacancy recently were primarily focused on other constitutional created by the passing of Justice Laura Cha- matters. There was a separate division that yu Liu, making Forti the latest member of the was formed that handled those cases, which LGBT community who is now a Cook County are very challenging. I think people are over- judge. whelmed—that is, they’ve had tremendous Forti’s appointment became effective Sept. case loads. However, that’s no excuse for not 30 and ends Dec. 3, 2018. He ran in 2012, but being on top of your cases, but I empathize lost to Jessica O’Brien. with some of those folks. Forti recently talked with Windy City Times WCT: You also were chief counsel for the about the appointment, LGBT issues and hypo- Illinois Department of Transportation, which thetical cases. would seem to be a nice segue for what Windy City Times: What do you feel is you’ll do as a judge. duty, first and foremost, as a judge? Forti: Well, that was probably the most inter- Michael Forti: Well, the area that I’ve been esting and challenging job I’ve ever had. Com- assigned—like most judges—is in the munici- ing from Chicago, having gone to Northwestern pal district. I assume we’ll be handling traffic for law school and having lived in East Lake matters in circuit court, and that’s where I’ll View and having worked for the city, many of begin my substanative assignment. us end up thinking that the entire state is syn- WCT: You were deputy corporation counsel onymous with Chicago. But there is a big, big From left: Michael Forti’s aunt Sarah Zicardi; Forti’s mother; Forti; Justice Charles Freeman; for the city of Chicago for 14 years. Give me state south of [Interstate] 355. Working in Chicago and Springfield was the and Forti’s partner, Dan Joseph. breadth of Illinois, and I came to appreciate Photo courtesy of Forti that. I helped that I’m originally from St. Lou- is, so I was familiar with the east side of down- number of LGBT judges? the law and seek out appointments, because state Illinois. That job was fascinating because Forti: That’s a really good question. we are lagging in that area. Being qualified is I was really responsible for all of the legal is- I recognize that when I was thinking about the number-one criterion, but it’s a bonus if sues, on some level, for the department. And my run in 2012 and this journey, there have you bring a different perspective—and I think at that time, under Gov. Quinn’s leadership, been great strides with the LGBT commu- LGBT judges do that. the department was very active, whether it be nity—with marriage equality being the most WCT: Here’s a hypothetical: If you, as a high-speed rails, improvements in the railway prominent—but that, in the legal profession, judge, could’ve sat on any case throughout system or dealing with the highway system. It some of those issues have been lagging. For history, which one would it be? was a very exciting time to be in IDOT. example, even though I greatly admire [cur- Forti: [Smiles] That’s a really tough question. WCT: Moving back to your judicial post, rent Cook County Judge] Sebastian Patti and I think one that comes to mind, around the how did you find out you’d be appointed? [former Cook County Judge] Tom Chiola, they time I was born, was the Supreme Court deci- Forti: I had been in discussions with [Su- are back in the ‘90s—that’s 20 years ago. I sion in [Brown v.] Board of Education; that was preme Court Justice Charles] Freeman, and I can’t think of many judicial appointments in a critical case that changed the trajectory of needed my evaluations by the various boards the Eighth Subcircuit of LGBT individuals, so the country. I also believe that Thurgood Mar- to be updated. I was confidant I’d be found I’m honored that it’s time for a qualified LGBT shall was one of the lawyers on that case, and qualified; at the end of the day, I was actually candidate to be appointed. seeing him as a practicing attorney would be traveling on the bus when I got the good news. Now, fortunately though, in the Eighth, there very interesting. This, of course, is something that I’ve wanted are several judges who have been elected, and I think Loving v. Virginia would be very in- to do for many years. This is the culmination I count those individuals as my colleagues. teresting. The movie [Loving] was at the To- for a more-than-five-year journey. Judge Ehrlich is someone I’ve worked with, and ronto International Film Festival, and it did WCT: What do you think of election of he ran and won, so I think the Eighth is open very well. That case, too, was the precursor for judges, versus appointment? to electing openly gay candidates. I encour- those who advocated for marriage equality for Forti: As a policy matter, I think it’s a very age lawyers who are openly LGBT to go into the LGBT community. interesting question—and I know that Illinois Judge Michael Forti. is different from other jurisdictions in terms of Photo courtesy of Forti elections versus appointments. I think, in the end, it’s best to look at Illinois as somewhat of some idea of what you handled there. a hybrid system—so appointments fill vacan- Forti: It was a very, very interesting job. I cies, but ultimately anyone who is appointed served first as a chief and then a deputy for to the circuit court must run on their own. Annual Veterans Day Dinner a division that changed its name many times, I think there are advantages and disadvan- but I think the best way to describe it was as a tages to both systems. 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So we were at the have to prove to voters in 2018 that I’m worthy COO! NaBonal Able Network forefront of addressing Second Amendment of remaining in my position. concerns, and the U.S. Supreme Court found WCT: I received an email this very morning ReservaBons can be made by mailing your check to: there was an individual right, pursuant to that from Lambda Legal about a report, “Justice AVER " P.O. Box " 29317 Chicago, IL 60629 amendment. out of Balance,” that discusses the lack of For more informaBon call 773-‐752-‐0058 www.averchicago.org or visit I was fortunate enough to have some great LGBT judges throughout the country, among LIKE us Facebook on : AVERChicagoChapter bosses during the time I was there, and we other things. On finding, for example, said worked on cases involving redistricting chal- there are only two transgender and zero ReservaBons by phone or email: [email protected] lenges to the closure of Meigs Field, so it was openly bi judges in the United States. 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@windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com 20 Nov. 2, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES ELECTIONS 2016: a piece of legislation that takes a step in the resenting this community. You have to get it. STATE REP right direction and I am very optimistic be- You have to understand and be part of a com- cause you have prosecutors and public defend- munity for a long time to fight for things and ers who are inside the General Assembly who not reject them. I tried to explain to him that Sara Feigenholtz seeks are trying to pass a law. I’m 100 percent for for him to even allude to the fact that people gun control but I am, also very weary of how may want to change their gender to get minor- our jails are stacked with minorities. We need ity contracts was really, really offensive. I tried to continue record to begin to take people out of jail for petty to explain to him how it happens in real life. offences and not put them in there in the first In our office, we just had a mother who has place. Mandatory minimums became a very ra- a child who is transitioning. When she came in of service in the 12th cial issue. So much work is being done now by to see me, she asked me for help and told me it every legislator and I’m holding out hope that was important for the future of her child. Had By Gretchen Rachel Hammond some of the folks who are ardent gun lobby she walked into Gene Witt’s office, he would supporter will come to the table on this one have summarily turned back the clock. Out his- Illinois state Rep. Sara Feigenholtz (D) has because we’ve hit a tragic number of homicides tory and legacy in Lake View is tolerance and prided herself on the over two-decades of ser- in this city. you would think he would have figured that vice she has provided to the diverse people of WCT: Your opponent is against the ability out. the 12th District and her history of listening to for transgender people to change birth cer- I sponsored the bill with the ACLU many their needs and taking action on them. tificates without surgery. We still have mas- years ago. I think people have evolved. The Republican challenger Gene Witt claims he sive unemployment and violence problems [LGBTQ] community has a lot to be proud of. offers voters their first choice in six years. In in that community. What’s your opinion of They are the examples everybody uses on how what is being called a “change election” both Mr. Witt’s stance on birth certificates and to organize and band together to fight which is up and down the ballot, Witt is hedging his what do you see Springfield doing to address why they will be so effective on the gun issues. campaign on the belief that voters are frustrat- transgender rights moving forward? They will be formidable and I know where my ed with the Democratic majority in Springfield SF: The bottom line is that Gene is very out money is. It’s not on the gun lobby. and what he calls the “political game.” of touch with the community. For him to have For more information on the Sara Feigen- Feigenholtz talked with Windy City Times such an insensitive, uneducated, ill-informed holtz campaign, visit SaraFeigenholtz.com. about the accusations Witt has leveled at her position is reflective of how he would fit in rep- and addressed some of the issues paramount to her constituency and the LGBTQ community should she prevail Nov. 8. ELECTIONS 2016: Windy City Times: There’s been a lot of STATE REP frustration on the Illinois budget stalemate. Your opponent has called you one of Speaker State Rep. Sara Feigenholtz. Gene Witt sets sights Mike Madigan’s “top lieutenants” and says Photo courtesy of Illinois House Democrats the state’s financial issues are on you both. How do you respond? Sara Feigenholtz: I think that Mr. Witt has a This is the third Republican governor I have on longtime very bad sense of history. Before Bruce Rauner worked with. There has never been a governor took office, we were on a path to right the ship like this. Every other Republican governor sat incumbent Feigenholtz after the 2008 recession. We cut Medicaid by down and compromised, had respect for the branches of government, did not call the Su- $1.3 billion. We began to reform pensions by By Gretchen Rachel Hammond trying to pass a pension reform bill that was preme Court “corrupt,” did not start launching attacks on House Democrats on television in subsequently rejected by the court but, at the As the owner of a financial advisory firm and same time, we created a two-tiered system for the middle of a legislative session creating an environment of hostility. [Rauner] governs only an active volunteer in Lake View, Republican new employees coming in to all parts of the Gene Witt believes that he can give residents budget whether they were teachers or state by chaos and has cut a path to destruction. He does not understand the branches of govern- of the Illinois 12th District a choice that will workers. We knew we would have latitude with- unseat incumbent Rep. Sara Feigenholtz (D), out constitutional considerations so that we ment or the legislative process and, if he does, he disrespects them. who has held the office for over two decades. could remedy the problem. Witt talked with Windy City Times on why We also removed some barriers to bill pay- WCT: There’s a lot of discussion right now about the importance of down-ballot races. he believes that choice needs to be made ing, we stopped the bad habit of cycling our given the state’s financial woes alongside a Medicaid liability, we cut budgets and trimmed On the top of the Republican ticket, Trump wants to rid the U.S. of establishment poli- devastating rate of gun violence homicides fat everywhere we could and we were paying and why he would be the best option on Nov. our so bills. We were heading in the right direc- ticians. Your opponent seems to be running on that. Why should voters stick with you? 8. tion. We had a temporary income tax increase Windy City Times: You’ve talked a lot that helped us do all of this and we were do- SF: Gene is making a presumption that anyone who’s been in office for X number of years about the Illinois budget impasse. Demo- ing zero-based budgeting. Mr. Witt doesn’t crats say the problem is Rauner’s insis- know that we would responsibly take a look at is entrenched, corrupt, stale or lazy. I’m sure there are some elected officials out there who tence on a turnaround agenda. Rauner the revenue estimates that came in, not only wants lawmakers to compromise. How do from the Bureau of the Budget, but also from deserve that. There are 110,000 people who live in my district who I represent. If they want you bridge this division and get a budget the Forecasting and Accountability Office. We balanced? Gene Witt. would come to an agreed number that we had me to do something contrary to what the Dem- Gene Witt: I’m looking at this from a finan- Photo courtesy of Witt as revenue. It was divided in the House into ocratic leadership ask me to do, I vote with my constituents because they’re the boss. I cial perspective and we have to prioritize and five separate committees who went through do a better job of evaluating where waste is am constantly connected to them. I am listen- in Chicago and you can find a homeless per- our budget line by line. If there was an initia- going. Our deficit is staggering, and trans- ing to what my community needs. I get things son. Our money is not being prioritized prop- tive that a bipartisan committee of legislators lates to about $45,000 per taxpayer. Because done. I deliver for my community. I change erly. At the end of the day, if we get into a agreed needed to be funded, we would trim of that, the next generation is going to find things for the state and my record speaks for standoff, we lose sight of our responsibility. from another line. We had a capitated number themselves with unbearable debt. More peo- itself. I have the energy, knowledge and where- I want to find a solution that is logical and and we could not spend through it. If that’s ple are leaving Illinois which reduces our withal to be effective. makes sense. not responsible budgeting I don’t know what tax base and forces both sides to have to WCT: The LGBTQ community has come to- WCT: The plight of the homeless is a is. increase the tax rate. gether to address gun violence. Should you massive concern. There’s a campaign to Everything changed when Bruce Rauner tried The governor presented a budget that I prevail, where do you see Springfield going end youth homelessness by 2020. But a to interject his turnaround agenda into the was not in agreement with because it was on the issue? lot of the advocacy organizations are suf- budget process. In the years I’ve been in the still $4 billion off balance. The Democrats SF: When [former Chicago Police Depart- fering because of the budget and Demo- General Assembly, I have never met a governor presented budget that was $7.5 billion. This ment Superintendent] Garry McCarthy came to crats say Rauner is the problem. who didn’t know when a bill filing deadline was isn’t a solution. We have to find ways of cut- Springfield with his mandatory minimums bill, GW: We have to step back a second. Where’s for substantive bills, who held social services, ting expenses in order to be able to meet our he wasn’t very familiar with the politics of Cook the money going to come from? We have such care for the disabled and the elderly, kids going obligations. With the tax base reduced, we’re County and the City of Chicago. Had I been the a big obligation on pensions, Medicaid, on so to public schools and higher education hostage going to have a spiral because the tax rates chief of police, I would have spent a great deal many different areas. I don’t have a relation- because of a greedy agenda that had no place are going to have to keep going up. of time with the representatives who represent ship with the governor. I don’t know much in the budgeting process. If you take a look I think we have to prioritize some of the the communities who are being affected by gun accuracy there is in the information I have at all of the things that are on Bruce Rauner’s social services. Education is obviously impor- violence and with legislators who struggled access to but we have to look at the amount turnaround agenda, in the context of budget- tant to be funded but we have to look at the with his proposal. We at the General Assembly of money we’re pulling in. If we’re going to ing, what is the dollar value of the passage of way it is operated because there’s a lot of were not ready for it. I believe that people who continue funding all these projects, we’re go- each of those items as far as the impact on waste and there’s more efficiency that can be are in possession of illegal guns should serve ing to have to raise taxes to a point that our budget? When we have a capitated number brought to the table to provide better educa- more time and be taken off the streets. we’re going to end up reducing our tax base. and a bottom line, where do we plug in his tion with not such high, wasteful spending. But the fact that some our criminal code will We’re not putting cuts in the places that agenda? Nowhere. There is a zero-dollar value We don’t have proper services for people to his agenda. He wanted a quid pro quo, he put people in prison if they steal a packet of hot dogs longer than illegally possessing a gun who struggle or suffer from mental illness. never sat down with leaders. He just hoisted it That’s pretty sad. You walk almost anywhere Turn to page 23 out to the media and made it divisive. is a problem. We are trying to carefully craft WINDY CITY TIMES Nov. 2, 2016 21 ELECTIONS 2016: policies are being implemented. AW: Of course, at the top of the list are is- STATE REP WCT: If things go the Republican’s way at sues pertaining to the transgender community. the top of the ticket on Nov. 8, there are I’m one of the sponsors of Greg Harris’s bill a lot of people in your district who will be about birth certificate modifications. The fact facing Mr. Trump’s threats of deportation that it’s still a discussion in Springfield shows Ann Williams talks squads. How do you keep their families in- that we’ve got a ways to go. There’s nobody tact? left in the entire Republican caucus who sup- AW: We can do lots of things on a local and ported marriage equality. That shows that we budget, gun violence state level to ensure that people have services, still have a substantial challenge in terms of that they are welcomed. They are human be- equality whether it applies to adoption or fi- ings who are part of our culture and economy. nancial situations. The fact that we’re still talk- To pick on the fears of uneducated individuals ing about what bathroom people can go to, I and LGBTQ rights just to move your agenda forward is very harm- mean, come on. It’s 2016. I don’t see why it ful. If, God forbid, that did happen, we’re go- matters and why we are spending time trying By Gretchen Rachel Hammond ing to have to take steps on a state level just to pigeonhole people. to show people they are valued. For more information on the Ann Williams Illinois state Rep. Ann Williams (D) faces a WCT: What are some of the next LGBT- campaign, visit VoteAnnWilliams.com. number of issues should she be re-elected to rights issues in a post marriage-equality serve the 11th District on Nov. 8. world? They include resolving the state’s budget crisis and ensuring the safety of her community it first before we get down to the minutiae. in an increasingly violent city. ELECTIONS 2016: STATE REP If, in four weeks, they found almost $300 But, first, she must overcome the challenge million in savings, I believe there’s probably presented by Republican Gary Mandell, who plenty more in there. says he holds career politicians “responsible for Gary Mandell talks WCT: Rep. Williams says it is Gov. Rauner their policies that that have led to the finan- solutions to budget who is holding things like social services cial disaster now facing our state.” and higher education hostage in order to Williams spoke with Windy City Times about impasse, inequality advance his agenda. Do you agree or can how she would go about addressing the state’s By GRETCHEN RACHEL HAMMOND there be a meeting in the middle? finances and other key issues should voters GM: She has continually said that Governor Gary Mandell is a Republican who marches send her back to Springfield. Rauner will not discuss until his turnaround in the Gay Pride parade but he is also one Windy City Times: One of the principal is- agenda is completely passed which is totally who follows the party line of putting a stop sues on which your opponent Gary Mandell untrue. Two years ago, they carved out the to what he calls “more of the same ‘tax and is running is balancing the state budget. If education budget so that could be passed ir- spend’ policies the Democratic Party has of- people were to vote you in for another term, respective of anything else. [Speaker] Mike fered.” what would be your strategy in getting the Madigan didn’t like the fact that they passed It is why the founder of the personal finan- state’s financial house in order? an education budget without Mike Madigan State Rep. Ann Williams. cial planning firm The Mandell Group wants Ann Williams: Until the past year and a half, being able to hold it hostage so, when they Photo courtesy of Illinois House Democrats to unseat 11th District incumbent Rep. Ann we’ve always had a state budget in place. What passed a $7 billion, out-of-whack, so-called Williams (D) on Nov. 8. has changed is our leadership at the top. The a bargaining chip. budget, Madigan did not separate out the ed- governor said this to me directly: He refuses I’ve voted for a lot of cuts and I’m sure that ucation part. Gov. Rauner agreed to a prop- to negotiate the budget unless and until his more there’s more that need to be made. But, erty tax increase with the promise that there political agenda is passed. Some of the items when pressed, [my opponent] was unable to would be negotiations on pension reform. in his turnaround agenda are certainly viable give me one program, service or line item that I’m not here to support or even promote and worth discussing. he would suggest to be cut. Governor Rauner’s programs but for Ann Wil- The problem is that putting your political WCT: One of the other key issues Mr. Man- liams to say that nothing can get done until agenda ahead of actually governing is not do- dell raises is one of safety. Gun violence has everything [the governor] wants is passed ing your job and that’s what created the im- been something the LGBTQ community has is totally ridiculous. If that were true then passe. Republicans and Democrats can easily taken up since the Orlando massacre. Where the last two years of Chicago Public Schools go through the budget and disagree about cer- do we begin to start curbing gun violence (CPS) wouldn’t have been funded. Mike Ma- tain line items but, at the end, of the day, they and how would you hold your own against an digan and Ann Williams (who votes with him come together. But we’re not even getting to a organization like the NRA? 84 percent of the time) is not willing to ne- discussion about priorities because the gover- AW: It’s the issue I’m hearing most about gotiate anything. Rauner was even willing to nor is demanding his agenda first. from constituents. The NRA does a report talk about a temporary income tax increase. WCT: If you came up with a compromise card on the issue. I got an “F” rating and I’m Madigan didn’t want to do that nor did John that Speaker Michael Madigan didn’t agree very proud of it. On my Facebook page, there Cullerton in the Senate because it was an with, would you be prepared to go against were a few pro-NRA voices who could be quite election year and it would cost them votes. him? threatening. It’s an issue where there’s no gray So, they are clearly more interested in pro- AW: I wasn’t supported by the speaker when area. The NRA is incredibly powerful. The Il- moting themselves for political reasons than I first ran and I have frequently gone against linois House passed a bill to legalize silencers. they are in doing what’s best for the citizens both the speaker and the mayor in order to The argument used was that it was to provide Gary Mandell. of the state. advance what I thought was in the best inter- security and protection to hunters. I’m not WCT: You don’t like tax increases, either. ests of my constituency. But for the governor, Photo courtesy of Mandell concerned about going up against the NRA. Al- Rep. Williams has said she is for a gradu- for example, to hold human service agencies, though we passed concealed carry, I joined a ated income tax. Is that a fair solution? Mandell spoke with Windy City Times about community mental health programs and higher number of my colleagues to push for common GM: Until we can get a handle on how alternative solutions to the Illinois budget education hostage while he pushes his political sense restrictions. much wasted spending is going on in the crisis, while offering his take on gun vio- agenda through doesn’t make sense and is not The item I was not able to get included state, we really don’t have any idea how lence, employment and LGBTQ civil rights. what any of us should be doing. but which I am partnering with the Repub- much extra revenue we need. If we tried Windy City Times: The budget is high WCT: You opponent also says that in- lican leader on is banning the carrying of a to pass a budget like they did last year and on your list of issues to be addressed but creasing revenues by increasing tax rates is concealed weapon in a restaurant that serves we didn’t take a look at cost savings that Rep. Williams says you are not very spe- flawed logic. The high income-tax rate is a alcohol. The bill says you can’t have one in a would be unfair to the tax payers whether cific, for example, on line items you would concern for a lot of people in Illinois. bar but you can get just as drunk in a restau- it’s a graduated or a flat tax. Under my pro- eliminate. So, how would you go about AW: He’s not hearing the facts. He’s using a rant. It’s a matter of getting a critical mass of gram, we would be expanding the tax base balancing the budget and what line items lot of talking points and generalizations. Be- legislators that are going to respond to these by making Illinois a better place to operate would you address? fore I was in office, they raised the income tax violence issues. a business, to employ the many unemployed Gary Mandell: There are two ways to bal- to 5.25. It was rolled back in 2015. So it’s on WCT: Mr. Mandell’s solutions include in- people in the state, to try to bring back the ance the budget: increase revenues and the low end of income taxes. What could solve creased police funding but that does not million or so tax payera who have left over decrease spending. I believe there’s a lot the budget crisis as well as providing an up- mean a safer LGBTQ community because of the last ten years and bring back the people of wasteful spending, fraud and corruption dated and more fair tax structure would be to the profiling that happens. If we are to go who are diving to Illinois and Wisconsin going on so I can’t really specify line items provide for a graduated income tax. Illinois is down that road, how do we ensure that the to work and paying income taxes to those without there being an audit or a review. Last one of a very small minority of states that still community is respected? states. Are there ways to save money so we week, there was a task force put together to utilizes the flat tax. So-called, pro-business, AW: Gary didn’t fill out the NRA, the Equal- don’t need to raise as much revenue? If we review Medicaid expenditures. red states like Illinois and Wisconsin utilize a ity Illinois or the pro-choice questionnaires cut expenses that are wasteful, fraudulent or They found something like $230 million of graduated income tax. They have an updated because he doesn’t want the public to know corrupt and we also make Illinois a better expenditures that were mainly to dependents code that provides for taxing of services rather where he stands. It also shows someone who place to operate a business, we will have a of Medicaid recipients who may or may have than goods. is very out-of-step with our community; one surplus. But Ann Williams and Mike Madigan not been entitled to those benefits. There are If you layer Indiana’s tax on Illinois’ econo- that is very strong for equality, choice and have never brought up a revenue raising pro- hundreds if not thousands of line items in my, we would have something like $4.7 billion against the NRA’s positions. I would agree that posal other than raising taxes for two years. the budget. There are many areas that prob- in revenue. So that’s what we should be ad- we have a lot of work to do about educating ably are more ripe for cost savings than oth- vancing but the Republican caucus won’t even and extensive training for law enforcement and ers. We need to take a 10,000-foot view of mention it. Even the governor has said that we personnel in prison and jail settings. You have Turn to page 29 need to increase revenues, but he is using it as to ensure that there’s monitoring on how these 22 Nov. 2, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES ELECTIONS 2016 ELECTIONS 2016: U.S. REP LGBTs in the mix Duckworth speaks The next general elections, to be held Nov. She is ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran on LGBT issues; 8, feature a number of openly gay and lesbi- Church in America, and is a rostered leader in an candidates. The following individuals have the Chicago Metropolitan Synod. (See a profile HRC now backs her publicly stated that they are members of the at WindyCityMediaGroup.com/ lgbt/Building- By MATT SIMONETTE LGBT community and were on the ballot as of Berwyn-LGBT-candidates-on-Feb-election- late February. slate/56739.html.) U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth—who’s running —Joe Johnston to unseat incumbent U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk in —Catherine Schneider Race: Berwyn trustee the Nov. 8 general election—said that the Race: 11th Subcircuit, Cook County (Kelly Website: BerwynUnited.com/copy-of-town- LGBT community has to be vigilant about Vacancy) ship-trustee widespread and persistent right-wing attacks Website: SchneiderForJudge.com Johnston, who works for a renewable energy on legislative and legal victories that they’ve The skinny: Judicial candidate Schneider company, is running for a township trustee enjoyed in recent years. Basic struggles, she has more than two decades’ experience as an post. (See a profile at WindyCityMediaGroup. added, are “still there.” attorney and is a recognized expert in civil com/ lgbt/Building-Berwyn-LGBT-candidates- “I feel like the LGBT community may feel litigation. In addition, she is co-chair of the on-Feb-election-slate/56739.html.) like the struggles have been won, but I re- Women’s Bar Association of Illinois’ Access to ally think the struggles are just now starting Justice Committee. She is unchallenged in her at a low level … where those people who race. oppose LGBT issues and the reality of what —Kelly Cassidy it means to be equal are going to work at Race: Illinois state representative (14th Dis- [a local] level to change the system and in- trict) troduce new laws,” Duckworth said. “If we Website: RepCassidy.com don’t pay attention to them, they will spread The skinny: Cassidy, who defeated another across this country. It’s the same as what we lesbian candidate, Paula Basta, in March 2014, saw with reproductive rights—they’ve been is this time running unopposed in the Demo- going through state by state, enacting laws cratic primary—and she has no Republican and regulations.” challenger, either. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), on Tammy Duckworth. —Sam Yingling Oct. 29, reversed its controversial endorse- Photo courtesy of Duckworth Race: Illinois state representative (62nd Dis- ment of Kirk following a remark about Duck- trict) worth’s heritage during an Oct. 27 debate, Website: SamYingling.com and endorsed Duckworth instead. gate child, are they each only going to get The skinny: What’s old is new again. Yin- “Leadership is about more than the legisla- 10 days? Is the army going to discriminate gling is running unopposed in the primary for tion one sponsors and the votes one casts,” against the child because of the fact that the his third term. He is the first openly gay House said HRC President Chad Griffin in a state- parent didn’t give birth to the child? That’s member from outside metropolitan Chicago. ment. “On [Oct. 27], Senator Kirk’s com- one of the things I’m working on right now— And Republican Rod Drobinski of Wauconda Marge Paul. ments about his opponent’s heritage were to change maternity and paternity leave pol- is, again, Yingling’s opponent for the general Photo courtesy of Paul deeply offensive and racist. His attempt to icies to a family leave policy, which I think election; Yingling prevailed in 2014. use Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth’s race would be about 12 weeks combined.” —Greg Harris as a means to undermine her family’s Ameri- Although marriage equality is the law of Race: Illinois state representative (13th Dis- —Marge Paul can heritage and patriotism is beyond repre- the land, Duckworth said the LGBT commu- trict) Race: Berwyn city clerk hensible. Yesterday, Senator Kirk tweeted an nity must remain vigilant about defending Website: GregHarris.org Websites: “Marge Paulf for Berwyn City apology that failed to adequately address the their legal freedoms, citing Township High The skinny: Harris—who was chief co-spon- Clerk” (Facebook) and BerwynUnited/Clerk real harm and magnitude of his words.” School District 211, which is in her legis- sor of SB10, the legislation that brought about Paul is relinquishing her aldermanic seat to Duckworth, for her part, accepted Kirk’s lative district, as an example. In that epi- marriage equality in Illinois—has a district run for city clerk. She has called her city clerk apology on Twitter on Oct. 28: “Thanks, Sen. sode, a transgender girl fought for the right that includes several North Side neighbor- candidacy “an important first step in terms of Kirk. Let’s honor my family’s service—and to change in the girls’ locker room, and the hoods. He was first elected in 2006 and, like visibility for LGBT residents. I’ve represented your own—by sticking to the issues for the district nearly lost federal funding when the Cassidy, is currently running unopposed, ensur- the 3rd Ward for two terms. I handily won the final week.” school was found not to be in compliance ing his re-election. election the first time, and was able to increase But Duckworth adamantly maintained that with Title IX regulations. The district reached —Andy Kirchoff that in the second election.” (See a profile at Kirk has sat on the fence when it comes to an agreement with legislators, but that deal Race: Illinois state representative (24th Dis- WindyCityMediaGroup.com/ lgbt/Building- major issues. (Windy City Times was, as of has now been challenged in federal court. trict) Berwyn-LGBT-candidates-on-Feb-election- press time, unable to coordinate an interview “The solution was not the ideal one, that Website: AndyFor24.com slate/56739.html.) with Kirk’s election campaign.) the student could change in a curtained off Kirchoff is an openly gay Republican, and —Jose Ramirez “He’s not really done much of anything,” area,” Duckworth said. “I didn’t feel like he’s seeking to represent the 24th District, Race: Berwyn alderman (2nd Ward) Duckworth explained. “He’s been a senator she should have to do that, but the student which includes Berwyn, Cicero, Riverside, Website: BerwynUnited.com/alderman-2nd- for six years and you haven’t seen much of agreed to the compromise, which showed the Brookfield, Stickney and Chicago’s Little Vil- ward anything that he’s done. When it’s an elec- level of maturity that she had. Yet, you had lage neighborhood. Kirchoff, a healthcare pro- Ramirez is advocate for various changes, tion year, he shows up and gets his photos people from outside issuing court challenges fessional, spent several years discerning the including putting recordings of city council taken. He may even cast a vote or two along against it, people with no skin in this other priesthood with the archdiocese of Chicago be- meetings online. “That way everyone [in the the lines of what he needs to maintain his than opposing this child.” fore earning a bachelor’s degree in philosophy community] can participate,” he added. “Let’s image, but never when those votes were tie- Duckworth also calls economic develop- from Loyola University Chicago. Kirchoff sup- face it, everyone in the community has a differ- breaker votes, never when those votes were ment a “huge issue. As I travel the state, ports LGBT rights and immigration reform, but ent life and different hours.” He and his part- significant to get anything done. I, on the people say that the economy is getting bet- is also staunchly pro-life and backs the state’s ner, Thomas Stebbins, have been together more other hand, have been out there working on ter but they’re not seeing it in their home concealed-carry law. than 25 years and were married in November issues from my first days in the House.” town. We must get the economic revival 2015. (See a profile at WindyCityMediaGroup. One example she gave about an issue she’s in manufacturing and medium- and small- ***** com/ lgbt/Building-Berwyn-LGBT-candidates- been passionate about is the Department of businesses, because those are the ones that (Note: The elections in Berwyn are not until on-Feb-election-slate/56739.html.) Defense’s family-leave policy. “Because my keep jobs here. …Tied to that is investment February. The mayoral election in Evanston is —Mark Tendam husband was still [on] active duty when I in education. If we don’t have an educated in January.) Race: Mayor of Evanston had when we had our baby girl, he only got work force, we don’t have companies that —Scott Lennon Tendam is currently an alderman (6th Ward) 10 days’ leave. I asked, ‘Is that true for all can compete on a global scale.” Race: Berwyn alderman (1st Ward) in Evanston, joining the race alongside Ald. Bri- men in the military? It turned out it was. She added that she would demand both a Lennon has said that he is running for sev- an Miller (9th) and businessman Steve Hagerty. If you gave birth to the child, you had six vote and a hearing on Merrick Garland’s nom- eral reasons, including an infrastructure that Tendam, a 1978 graduate of the University of weeks’ leave, and even that’s not enough.” ination for the U.S. Supreme Court. “I think needs improvement. (An interview is at Windy- Cincinnati, is a retired graphic designer, having She worked on the issue for a long time on the Senate needs to do its job in demand- CityMediaGroup.com/lgbt/Scott-Lennon-runs- worked in the field for 35 years. He’s served on the issue, but said that the issue would be ing hearings and demanding that leadership for-Berwyn-aldermanic-post/56816.html.) the boards of Better Existence with HIV, the especially pertinent in the wake of Don’t Ask do its job,” Duckworth said. “I don’t know —Jeanine Reardon McGaw YMCA and the Democratic Party of Evan- Don’t Tell being struck down. if Hillary is going to continue that nomina- Race: Berwyn alderman (3rd Ward) ston. Tendam—who lives in northwest Evan- “What are you going to do when there are tion of Garland, but the president’s nominee, Website: BerwynUnited.com/alderman-3rd- ston with his husband, Neal Moglin—is the two fathers?” Duckworth asked. “What about regardless of whether that’s Hillary or Donald ward first openly gay politician elected in Evanston. service members who are married and serv- Trump, deserves a hearing.” Reardon is a hospital chaplain who is run- ing openly. If they adopt or have a surro- See TammyDuckworth.com. ning to replace Marge Paul in the 3rd Ward.

@windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com WINDY CITY TIMES Nov. 2, 2016 23 WITT from page 20 without a staff to get accurate information on freedoms. They don’t want gun manufactur- With respect to birth certificates, the law somebody’s voting record. Sara’s got 22 years ers held civilly accountable or gun sellers. builds upon itself and, when you start allowing in the House so I can’t give you specifics, but Doesn’t this bring you at odds with them? people to change birth certificates, it opens can afford to have cuts and social services and the budget’s a pretty big one. It was $7.5 bil- GW: When the Constitution was written, we up a Pandora’s box and more things will start schools are getting beaten up. We’re more than lion out of balance. Where was that money go- lived in a completely different world and our being changed. Eventually, people can change 120 days behind in our bills. We have to do ing to come from? Mike Madigan pushed that society has evolved and changed. We have a everything on their birth certificates. I don’t a better job of evaluating all of the different for a reason that was probably to intimidate problem with gun violence, but if you take have a problem with somebody changing their segments of the budget and make some serious the governor. If the state is in the financial away the guns you would still have a problem gender on a driver’s license of a passport, but cuts so that social services do get the funding mess that it’s in, you don’t vote on something with violence. You have to understand where going back and changing a document from way, that they need and that education is a priority. that is that far out of whack. it stems from. I don’t have a problem with be- way back, I have a problem with across the We have to find ways so that we can afford to WCT: Where are you in terms of gun vio- ing at odds with the NRA or the Republican board. I don’t believe in changing an official, do the right thing for the people who cannot lence in Illinois and people who buy guns at Party. When it comes to making laws, you have legal document from the past. take care of themselves. a gun show in Indiana and sell it to someone to be logical, fair and do what’s in the best WCT: The man at the top of your ticket has Over the summer, we found a number of [pris- in Chicago? interests of society. I do not believe in taking divided your party. Voters are going to the on] inmates who were collecting food stamps GW: If somebody is caught with a gun that away people’s rights to own a gun but, at the polls looking at who is or is not supporting and it translated to 50 or 60 million dollars. is illegal or unregistered, the penalties have to same time, I don’t know where you draw the Donald Trump. Where are you on him and his There’s a whole black market for people selling be really severe. But our prison system is over- line on the sale of semi-automatic weapons. candidacy? their Link Cards. Don’t get me wrong, I want to crowded and there are people who are in prison It’s a balancing act. GW: Mr. Trump’s popularity came about be- help people who need to feed themselves but, who really shouldn’t be. The prisons have to WCT: In terms of the LGBTQ community, cause he’s an outsider from Washington and I when tens of millions of dollars are being given be cleared out so that we can put real crimi- were you for marriage equality? think that a lot of America is upset with Wash- to people in prison, that’s money that could be nals in them. Regarding the secondary market, GW: It’s fair. It’s the right thing to do. Two ington, as I think a lot of people from Illinois going to help people who are homeless. there’s a problem with that. The law has to ap- people who are in love and want to spend their are upset with Springfield. Honestly, I thought WCT: You’ve called Rep. Feigenholtz one of ply across the board. In a situation like that, lives together have the right to do that. Donald Trump’s entrance into the race was a Speaker Mike Madigan’s “top lieutenants.” the person who sold the gun also has to be WCT: But you are not in favor of transgen- publicity stunt. I never took it seriously. I was She has said that she votes against the held accountable for the crime that’s involved. der people being able to change their birth really surprised that he resonated with so many speaker on issues that affect her constitu- If they choose not to do a background check certificates without surgical-confirmation people. ency. Can you name specific areas where you on someone, there’s a consequence to that. procedures. These surgeries are unafford- A lot of the comments he made that were would be a better choice for reining in Ma- But if you and I were friends and I wanted to able to most. Insurance companies won’t offensive, especially towards the Latin[o] com- digan? buy you a gun for your birthday, to have to go cover them. So how are transgender people munity, scare me that they resonated with as GW: I don’t think Mike Madigan is doing a through a background check in a situation like supposed to have their gender identities re- many as they did. The Latin[o] community is good job as speaker of the House. He controls that adds to administrative work and we start flected on official documents? not all full of criminals and drug dealers. I the agenda and Sara has voted to keep him as increasing expenses that the state can’t afford GW: I don’t understand a lot of the mean- think that the Latino[o] is the most family- Speaker for the last twenty-some years. I think at the moment. spirited judgement on the community. It’s a oriented community I have ever engaged with. we need a new speaker. I would hope that we could create better whole lot easier to get along with people than We should have a president that has more class One of the challenges with the way our sys- communication with surrounding states. With it is to fight and criticize them. We talk about and I’m not in agreement with a lot of his com- tem is set up is that, in order to go and look all the technology we have, we need to be America being a free country, but freedom isn’t ments and views, although I will tell you I am at somebody’s voting record, it’s very opaque more efficient with being able to get informa- just my definition. If somebody is comfortable equally concerned about Hillary. to find the details: to click on a House bill that tion more quickly and more accurately. doing something that doesn’t harm anybody For more information on the Gene Witt refers to another House bill that’s an amend- WCT: The NRA want more 2nd Amendment physically or financially, what is the problem? campaign, visit WittForIllinois.org. ment, it’s very difficult for somebody like me

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tend LGBTQ families don’t exist, or think that start—although I think saying “Parent” and talking about us means talking about sex. “Parent” from the beginning would have been WINDY Highlights added that it was important to better. This brings us to takeaway three: Even them “that every child feels that Highlights is allies can still learn. And while Cicada and the truly for them. We will continue to think deeply company’s online teen forum have published CITY Dana about inclusion—specifically, how to address many LGBTQ-inclusive pieces, including one RUDOLPH it in developmentally appropriate ways for our about drag queens and another about a bisexu- broad audience.” al teen, the LGBTQ content for younger ages is TIMES MOMBIAN Cue hundreds of further comments on High- still sparse, despite the above examples. lights’ Facebook page urging representation of Daniel Resner, associate editor of Cricket VOL. 32, No. 6, Nov. 2, 2016 The combined forces of Windy City Times, Magazine uproar LGBTQ families. Author Megan Dowd Lambert Media’s Spider magazine for six- to nine-year- founded Sept. 1985, and Outlines newspaper, (who has written several lesbian- and gay-in- olds, later left a comment on my blog, not- founded May 1987. offers lessons on clusive children’s books) launched the #High- ing, “I very much agree our younger magazines representation lightLGBTFamilies hashtag to aid the effort. have room to improve. The first step is acquir- One could see Highlights being dragged ing the content—and we welcome writers from PUBLISHER & EXECUTIVE EDITOR Tracy Baim The recent responses of two different children’s along the learning curve. In one response to a all underrepresented groups, including LGBTQ- publishing companies when asked about LGBTQ Facebook commenter, they said, “It has always IA+ folks, to submit stories, poems, etc.! ASSISTANT PUBLISHER Terri Klinsky MANAGING EDITOR Andrew Davis inclusion in their magazines offer us several been a discussion of ‘when’–not ‘if’–Highlights He added via e-mail that Spider “would love would feature a LGBTQ family in our maga- to see age-appropriate stories featuring fami- ASSOCIATE EDITOR Matt Simonette takeaways about representation of our families. BUSINESS MANAGER Ripley Caine It started when Kara Desiderio wrote to zines.” They eventually issued an official state- lies and gender identities of all kinds” and “I DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA Jean Albright Highlights Magazines to express disappointment saying, “We know that there are many would be thrilled to see manuscripts directly or ART DIRECTOR/NIGHTSPOTS EDITOR Kirk Williamson SENIOR REPORTER Gretchen Rachel Hammond ment that her daughter did not see two-mom ways to build a family, and that love is the indirectly featuring non-heteronormative fami- essential ‘ingredient.’ This conversation has lies in thoughtful, graceful ways.” Senior Account Executives Terri Klinsky, Kirk families like hers in the pages of Hello, High- Williamson, Amy Matheny, Gretchen Rachel Hammond, lights’ title for toddlers. Her spouse, Kristina helped us see that we can be more reflective The final takeaway, then, is that herein lies Scott Duff, Monika Pickett, David Strzepek Wertz, followed up with a note on Highlights’ of all kinds of families in our publications. We an opportunity. Over the past decade, I’ve NATIONAL SALES Rivendell Media, 212-242-6863 SENIOR WRITERS Bob Roehr, Tony Peregrin, Lisa Facebook page, saying in part, “There is a deep are committed to doing so as we plan future is- seen many LGBTQ parents try to self-publish sues.” The second takeaway, then, is that com- children’s stories that reflect their families. Keen, Yasmin Nair need for books that positively reflect back the THEATER EDITOR Scott C. Morgan diversity of the world around us and I hope panies can change, especially if we offer them Some are great, but many could benefit from CINEMA WRITER Richard Knight Jr. that Highlights embraces that diversity be- constructive feedback and personal examples an editor and/or a professional illustrator. Oth- SPORTS WRITER Ross Forman ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WRITERS cause we would love to keep it in our little of the effects of their actions. ers don’t have the resources to market widely. I decided to do some comparative investiga- Rainbow Rumpus, an online magazine for chil- Mary Shen Barnidge, Lawrence Ferber, Mel Ferrand, one’s life as she grows.” Jerry Nunn, Jonathan Abarbanel Highlights’ initial response, however, seemed tion, and reached out to Cricket Media, another dren with LGBTQ parents, seems to be on hia- COLUMNISTS/WRITERS: Yvonne Zipter, Jorjet Harper, focused more on the fears of straight parents children’s magazine powerhouse. The differ- tus. And while we want stories for and about Charlsie Dewey, Carrie Maxwell, Billy Masters, Sarah Toce, Dana Rudolph, Melissa Wasserman, Joe Franco, than on including the children of same-sex ence was clear. Stephanie Hoaglund of Cricket’s our families, many of us also want quality, media relations department told me, “We have engaging reads that also build literacy skills. Nick Patricca, Liz Baudler, Rex Wockner, Angelique ones: “We understand your wish to see your Smith, Meghan Streit If mainstream publishers like Cricket are will- family’s situation represented in Highlights indeed shown LGBTQ families and stories. Our SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHERS Kat Fitzgerald, Hal Baim, Hello. For much of our readership, the topic of magazines continually feature content that ing to reach out to us for our stories and help Tim Carroll, Ed Negron WEBSITE LISTINGS VOLUNTEER Gene Naden same-sex families is still new, and parents are tries to honestly represent the experiences us bring them to life, then it’s a win-win all still learning how to approach the subject with of kids today.” She noted that Cicada, their around. their children, even the very little ones. We be- magazine for teens, “continually strives to rep- Put pen to paper or fingers to keys, then, CIRCULATION CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Jean Albright lieve that parents know best when their family resent teens in the LGBTQ and other underrep- or turn on a recorder the next time you tell resented groups,” and that Cricket Magazine, your child a bedtime story. Let’s help publish- DISTRIBUTION: Ashina, Allan, Dan, John, Sue and is ready to open conversation around the topic Victor of same-sex families.” for kids nine to 14, “also has many examples.” ers like Cricket and yes, Highlights, make sure WEB HOSTING: LoveYourWebsite.com (lead The first takeaway, then, is that 37 years af- She pointed out a January 2015 letter to the they have the content to reflect our authentic programmer: Martie Marro) magazine from a girl who proudly noted she voices and our diversity. ter the first children’s book in the U.S. to show Copyright 2016 Lambda Publications Inc./Windy City Media a lesbian relationship (Jane Severance’s When had two moms. Dana Rudolph is the founder and publisher Group; All rights reserved. Reprint by permission only. Back Additionally, a family tree activity in Cricket, of Mombian (mombian.com), a GLAAD Me- issues (if available) for $5 per issue (postage included). 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Andy has also stated Making decisions a greater number of responses.” —David Marshall, that he believes for-profit businesses such as Chicago Research Director, Community Marketing, Inc. caterers and bakers should be able to discrimi- Dear Editor: nate against gays and lesbians if the owners Center on Halsted CEO Modesto “Tico” Valle re- of those for-profit businesses have deeply It was bad enough that Center on Halsted sponded: held religious beliefs against homosexuality management decided to nix the name SAGE or same-sex marriage. Finally, Andy has stated (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders) from Center on Halsted is a large, very well-connect- that he believes that organizations such as LGBT programming for us senior patrons of the ed organization with a long history of doing Catholic Charities should be able to discrimi- Center on Addison. much of what SAGE offers to its affiliates. nate against gay couples seeking adoption ser- We were never consulted. 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Seeing the ‘light’ 28 34 35 WCT talks with the minds behind the acclaimed film Moonlight. Photo of Moonlight’s Alex Hibbert and Mahershala Ali by David Bornfriend Green Zebra. Halsted’s Halloween parade.

SCOTTISH PLAY SCOTT made out to be the controlling malevolent seen in a theater-in-the-round staging at the force he often is in the book. intimate Circle in the Square Theatre. But for When asked about her own reaction to the the national tour, Tony Award-winning director musical, Bechdel has been full of nothing but Sam Gold has re-staged Fun Home to fit into A ‘Fun Home’ praise when quoted. the many massive proscenium arch theaters “I find myself a little bit envious of what across North America. musical theater can do. It’s a very emotional So LGBTQ theater fans and their allies have medium,” said Bechdel following a keynote much to celebrate now that Fun Home is going appreciation presentation of a 2015 Queers & Comics con- to have a wider audience across the country. ference in New York. “I’ve watched both of my Who knows? Maybe some day Fun Home might brothers, like, crying at this play when they be adapted into an animated film in the same BY SCOTT C. MORGAN coup, former Miss America and Northwest- didn’t cry when they read my book.” way that the graphic novel Persepolis made the ern University alumna Kate Shindle plays the Fun Home also has the distinction of being leap to the big screen in 2007. You have to hand it to the creators of the grown Alison on tour. the first Broadway musical to put a lesbian “I’m very happy that young lesbians had ground-breaking Broadway musical Fun Home. Fun Home the musical also features two front and center as its central protagonist. Dykes to Watch Out For and didn’t have to read If ever there was a musical that shouldn’t have other actresses portraying Bechdel as a child Previously in Broadway musicals like Falsettos, The Well of Loneliness like I did,” said Bechdel worked, it would have been one based upon (Alessandra Baldacchino as “Small Alison”) and Rent and If/Then, lesbians were just support- when asked about her influential legacy in de- lesbian cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s award-win- a as a college student (Abby Corrigan as “Me- ing characters. picting LGBTQ life in comics and graphic novels ning 2006 graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family dium Alison”). The shifts in Alison’s time peri- Fun Home also broke barriers for Kron and like Are You My Mother? and Fun Home. “I’m Tragicomic. ods provides for a very eclectic score with folk Tesori as the first all-female writing team to being a little glib, but it’s a weird honor and But to my pleasant surprise, the stage ver- and pop-influenced songs that ape the sounds win Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Score great responsibility.” sion of Fun Home more than met my high of the Jackson Five and The Partridge Family. of a musical. Unfortunately, Kron and Tesori’s The national tour of Fun Home continues expectations when I saw it on Broadway not Kron and Tesori also crucially flesh out wins and full speeches were not seen on net- through Sunday, Nov. 13, at the Oriental long after it won five well-earned Tony Awards Bechdel’s parents. Bechdel’s mother, Helen work TV because CBS opted not to feature the Theatre, 24 W. Randolph St. Tickets are $22- including Best Musical in 2015. Now, Chicago (played by Chicago actress Susan Moniz), is musical writing categories on the Tony Awards $95; call 800-775-2000 or visit Broadway- audiences will get a chance to see the melodic given a heartbreaking song near the end called broadcast that year. InChicago.com. and theatrical brilliance of Fun Home for them- “Days and Days,” while the father, Bruce (for- When it played on Broadway, Fun Home was selves courtesy of a reconfigured national tour mer Chicago actor Robert Petkoff), isn’t quite playing at the Oriental Theatre through Sunday, Nov. 13. I was an instant fan of Bechdel’s revealing memoir about her own coming-out process and uncovering the painful truth of her closeted bisexual father’s contradictory life and likely suicide. It helped that I was already a vora- cious follower of Bechdel’s syndicated lesbian comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, which ran in several LGBTQ newspapers like Windy City Times until 2008. So I was very apprehensive when I read a 2012 item in The New York Times about Fun Home being transformed into a musical by out playwright Lisa Kron (Well, The Secretaries) and composer Jeanine Tesori (Shrek The Musi- cal, Caroline, Or Change). My first thought was: “How in the world are they going to make that work?” Fun Home is a very personal-is-political piece of history that documents the amazing shifts in attitude and acceptance of lesbians and gay men in America. It’s also very notable for its non-linear and intensely introspective storytelling which is intelligently and densely packed with so many references to great 20th- century literature. It’s this latter aspect that probably explains in part why Fun Home is increasingly being taught as part of college cur- ricula beyond the expected ghetto of gender studies. In adapting Fun Home into a 90-minute in- termission-less musical, Kron and Tesori carried through with the book’s non-linear structure. Yet they also came up with the brilliant dramatic framing device of having Bechdel herself looking back on her life while illustrating the Kate Shindle in Fun Home. panels that make up Fun Home. In a casting Photo by Joan Marcus 26 Nov. 2, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES THEATER REVIEW East Texas

Hot Links Luce Metrius, Antoine Pierre Playwright: Eugene Lee Whitfield, Willie B., Kelvin At: Writers Theatre, 325 E. Roston Jr., A.C. Smith and Tudor Ct., Glencoe IL Tyla Abercrumbie in Tickets: 847-242-6000 or East Texas Hot Links. WritersTheatre.org; $35-$80 Photo by Runs through: Jan. 22, 2017 Michael Brosilow BY SEAN MARGARET WAGNER

Fine performances have the ability to keep you delighted for a short time, and more nuanced performances may inspire you to alter your thinking. But truly astounding theater, like Writers spouting endless philosophy. So much credit is due to set designer Jack becomes a target of violence. You might feel Theatre’s East Texas Hot Links, does something To the rest, this hilltop sanctuary is a way- Magaw for the gorgeously po-dunk environ- kinship, like I did, with Smallwood as XL, the remarkable: It forces you to reassess who you point on their journey. Delmus (Luce Metrius) ment, and director Ron OJ Parson and the odd man out, who can’t seem to control his are. When you see Eugene Lee’s deceptively is young and impatient to make a success of incredible acting ensemble that bring this provoking nature. And you might regret that small masterpiece, whether you realize it or himself, and XL (Namir Smallwood), has taken production to life. Author Eugene Lee has an impulse when you see exactly what XL is ca- not, your sensibilities are being scrutinized. uncharacteristically selfless action to help him uncanny knowledge of how audiences will align pable of. The heart of East Texas Hot Links lies The artistic team is willing you to see beyond find employment. Roy (Kelvin Roston, Jr.) can’t to these characters, and it is reveletory when with the unassuming Wilson as Columbus; in a their crew of Black Texans in a rural watering stop asking Charlsetta for a little affection, and you realize that Lee, Parson and ensemble way, the story centers on how far his forgiving hole in 1955, and discover the corruption that like a pair of tarot cards, Boochie (A.C. Smith) members have foreseen and subverted your ex- nature will stretch before it snaps. lives closer than they know, and still plagues brings knowledge of the future and Buckshot pectations. There is something truly affecting to be us over 60 years later. (Antoine Pierre Whitfield) administers rewards When Abercrumbie and Roston ratchet up shown that you don’t exist apart from an ac- In East Texas Hot Links, oddly, there are no on some and punishment on others. Charlesetta and Roy’s sexually tense argu- tive brutality that still thrives in the open. more hot links. Charlesetta (Tyla Abercrumbie) Rumors of missing Black men grow to flood ments, you don’t expect the come-ons might Hate is easy to compartmentalize when acts has taken up her father’s helm at the family’s the sacred hideaway, but to describe how be the only thing to bring you solace when of violence and racism are distant blips on a roadside stop, and pared down the menu to would take away from the thrill of this theater their world is rocked. When Metrius puffs up social landscape far from you. But East Texas beer and pickled pigs feet. The old spirit of experience. Just go, and know that this story his chest as Delmus, annoying his elders with Hot Links brings the blood of Black men and extending a hand to the hungry has dried up, is important. Everything you see onstage has promises to leave them in the dust, you don’t women close enough to stain your dress shoes, except maybe for Columbus (Alfred H. Wilson), been somebody’s devastating reality. anticipate that you might rally to him when he and dares you to look away. a forgiving landlord and Adolph (Willie B.),

THEATER REVIEW the center of Kander’s contemplative narrative. outside editorializing is supplied by the framing cannons in this Stage Left production. While What this means is that the day, 10 years device of a documentary filmmaker conducting the lessons of great-aunt Myrna (played by The Bottle Tree earlier, when Doug Mason died from a police- interviews with the characters a decade later— the always formidable Kathleen Ruhl) may Playwright: Beth Kander man’s bullet after arriving at East Maple High frees Kander from agenda-fueled restrictions to reflect attitudes outdated today, there is no At: Stage Left at Theater Wit, School armed with his great-grandfather’s civil instead introduce audiences to a wide spectrum denying their validity as a response to their 1229 W. Belmont Ave. war musket and proceeding to open fire on his of ballistic imagery: weapons serving as memo- times. Whether you regard firearms as evil Tickets: $20-$30 fellow students, is less important as his half- rials to ancestral heroes in distant wars, as de- destroyers of innocents (sometimes true) or Runs through: Nov. 20 sister’s struggle to endure the hostility of their terrents to unwelcome predators, as acknowl- noble guardians of the meek and oppressed rural Mississippi townfolk. Assisting Allison in edgment of entry into adulthood and, yes, as (also sometimes true), whether you shudder BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE her recovery are a genial therapist, a class- a deadly adjunct to an irrational mind. By the at the thought of teenagers operating shoot- mate with a personal connection to the fatal time Allison affirms her advocacy of firearms ing irons—while making exception for combat Its publicity claims the subject of Beth Kan- event and a long-deceased family ghost whose regulation, the instruments under scrutiny soldiers and Ralphie Parker’s Daisy rifle—if you der’s play to be “gun culture”—a summary akin wisdom continues to influence her kinswom- have been divested of their mythical aura to be wear your opinions like body armor, you do well to declaring To Kill A Mockingbird a study of en, chiefly through the presence in the front exposed as once-ubiquitous utilitarian objects. to leave them at the door of this latest in the Alabama law practice. However titillating it is yard of a “bottle tree”—a protective talisman Director Amy Szerlong’s microcosmic approach 30 world-premiere plays making their debut in to speculate on a killer’s motives, or emotion- against menacing spirits hearkening to slave to Allison’s recollections and subsequent con- Chicago this fall. ally satisfying to weep for slain victims, these beliefs often found in Southern regions. clusions likewise rejects stereotypes—don’t options are open only to survivors like those at Strict adherence to individual experience— expect any shiny automatic weapons or stealth

THEATER REVIEW c Resolution Playwright: Nancy Nyman and Edward Fraim, CRITICS’ Heather McNama Aneisa Hicks At: Pride Films and Plays at and Tiffany PICKS Rivendell, 5779 N. Ridge Ave. Mitchenor in Life Sucks, Lookingglass Theatre, through Tickets: $25-$30 Resolution. Nov. 6. Is too much love a good thing? What Runs through: Nov. 20 Photo by Lynn do you see without rose-colored glasses? The Sorrentino spirit is warm, autumnal and hilariously sad BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE in this Americanized, modernized take on Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. It’s Chekhov-lite, but Were it not for its decidedly modern attitude Eve in 1892, the servants have been sent were still regarded as dangerous perversions, lovingly written and brilliantly played in rich toward a topic until recently couched in si- home with generous holiday bonuses, among punishable by imprisonment, under the law. comic style. JA lence, audiences might be forgiven thinking them housekeeper Margaret O’Malley and her To what lengths will the devoutly Catholic Merge, The New Colony at Den Theatre, that Pride Films and Plays had stumbled upon husband Harrison (who narrates our story). Margaret take her disapproval? Will she over- through Nov. 13. Spenser Davis’ theatrical take a lesser-known work by Eugene Scribe or Vic- When the pay envelope is inadvertently left look what she has seen, or quietly tender her on the rise and fall of Atari is a frenetic nos- torien Sardou, founders of the “well-made“ behind, Margaret returns later that night, resignation, or surrender the distraught lovers talgia trip for audiences in their 40s. It’s back- school of drama in the 19th century, or per- intending to retrieve it undetected, only to to prosecution by the authorities? stabbing creative and corporate tale filled with haps a stage adaptation of an early 20th-cen- discover that her employers—thinking them- A director mistrusting playgoers’ attention lots of sound and fury. SCM tury novel by Edith Wharton or Henry James. selves alone for the evening—have divested spans might have opted to present this mate- The Room, A Red Orchid Theatre, through This impression is testimony to the exper- themselves of their disguises and are revealed rial as camp melodrama, replete with DelSarte Nov. 13. In Pinter’s world, what you don’t know tise evidenced in Nancy Nyman and Heather to be, in fact, both women. posturing and shrill vocals. While the progress might not kill you, but since we all have se- McNama’s replication of “vintage” literary History, myth and fiction are rife with exam- of Nyman and McNama’s narrative may strike crets, it can still get pretty damn scary and conventions for their award-winning play ples of females adopting male attire in pursuit us today as wordy and slow-paced—though nobody does silent menace better than Red (dubbed a “thriller” by the authors, but more of the economic advantages conferred upon actually running a mere 75 minutes—Diana Orchid. MSB reminiscent of a pioneering exercise in social- that gender, so Jacqueline/Jack Buchanan’s Raiselis has done her homework, as has her Starting Over, MPAACT at Greenhouse The- ly-conscious realism). masquerade is not outside the realm of possi- cast (billed in gender-neutral period style), ater Center, through Nov. 11. When Shake- Our story opens in the sumptuous New York bility, nor is that of her finding a like-minded who deftly navigate their museum-accurate speare extolled true love’s constancy despite City apartment of Jack and Hannah Buchan- consort in Hannah. Also plausible is the af- text with unwavering conviction to gener- obstacles engendered by changes in circum- an, a well-to-do African-American couple, ad- fluence enjoyed by citizens of color in cosmo- ate sympathy and suspense right up to the stance, he never anticipated gender fluidity mired in the community for their philanthro- politan urban centers during the Gilded Age. surprise twist concluding the steadfast lovers’ becoming one of them. MSB py and civic enterprises. On this New Year’s Cross-dressing and same-sex unions, however, adventures in the best classic tradition. —By Abarbanel, Barnidge and Morgan WINDY CITY TIMES Nov. 2, 2016 27 At the center of the story is Prism (radiant touch, the sharp social commentaries which Kiki Layne), who exercises magnetic power suddenly jab you and quickly flow to the next Mykele Deville and Ryan over men and enjoys potentially dangerous potent image. “How secure are your borders Hallahan in Octagon. kinky sex. At first, she’s having a none-too- when the enemy is you?” Atticus asks us at one Photo by Joel Maisonet committed affair with fellow poet Tide (Tra- point, while at another Tide declares that lov- vis Delgado), but that changes late in Act I ing Prism “is unlearning the fear of losing her, with the arrival of Atticus (Ryan Hallahan), a and that’s all the religion I need.” bad-boy rookie poet who’s willing to take on Under director Tara Branham (who also di- Prism without a safe word. Over them all is Pen rected Good Friday), the performers are pow- (Sydney Charles), a mother figure who runs the erful, passionate, playful and sharing. The Octagon and emcees the slams. ensemble physical work alone (drumming and The heart of the play isn’t the thin story stomping rhythm) demands unity and focus, about who will make the four-person slam and no performer fails. The individual charac- team. (Frankly, you won’t care about that.) terizations exude intensity each in a different Rather, it’s the individual performances of the way from the others, thereby making every poets, for each of whom Colon has written one character memorable. In addition, sound (Jef- or more exquisite solo arias. I can’t begin to frey Levin), lighting (Claire Sangster) and cos- convey the richness of her language, the won- tume (Mieka van der Ploeg) contribute greatly derful rhythms, the deep emotions these raps to a unique production. SPOTLIGHT THEATER REVIEW ductions, Good Friday, was a realistic play so e improbable as to be unbelievable, but Octagon The touchy issue of depression and the Octagon is far more successful, perhaps because it isn’t stigmas attached to seeking help color Playwright: Kristiana Rae Colon realistic. It’s a work of verbal and emotional the lives of a standup comedian, an ad At: Jackalope Theatre, Broadway impressions which frequently breaks the Fourth executive and a young girl preparing to Armory, 5917 N. Broadway Wall to directly engage viewers as a slam club do a presentation on astronomy in Ronan Tickets: JackalopeTheatre.org; $5-$25 audience, as physically realized by Shaun Ren- Marra and Elsa Hiltner’s world-premiere Runs through Nov. 30 fro’s eight-sided, pit-like scenic design. drama The Mars Assignment, for Collabo- The story concerns six young hip-hop poets, raction Theatre Company. Panelists from BY JONATHAN ABARBANEL all regulars at the Octagon, a slam club that the National Alliance on Mental Issues sends a four-person team to an annual slam will participate in post-show talkbacks, Kristiana Rae Colon’s super-energized 2014 championship. The racially diverse poets (I as- while a special post-show comedy night is play explores the subculture of hip-hop slam sume Colon’s play dictates this vs. the whim of scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 12. The Mars Assignment continues through Sunday, Nov. 20, poetry with the richest, sharpest language this a director) go by nicknames only, such as Chim- at Collaboraction’s Pentagon Theatre in the Flat Iron Arts Building, 1579 N. Milwaukee Ave. side of Hamilton. ney (Mykele Deville), Chad (Will Kiley), Palace Tickets are $20-$30 and $10-$15 students; for more information, call 312-226-9633 or visit Octagon lacks a strong dramatic structure (Eric Gerard) and Jericho (Tina Munoz Pandya), Collaboraction.org. and becomes preachy at times, but sweeps past who is controversial because she takes her po- Caption: Joe McCauley plays Eric and Justin Wade Wilson is Jeff in the world premiere of its weaknesses with high style and charisma. litical protests to the streets. Collaboraction’s The Mars Assignment. Photo by Joel Maisonet Colon’s recent world premiere at Oracle Pro-

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Charles. Camilla. William. Kate. harry. One family hOlds the future Of Great Britain in its hands. But What Will it Be? 2015 OLIVIER AWARD: BEST NEW PLAY BEGINS SATURDAY Tere O’Connor Dance NOVEMBER 3, 4 and 5, 2016 • 7:30 p.m.

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Tere O’Connor Dance dancer Eleanor Hulihan. Photo: Julieta Cervantes PRODUCTION SPONSORS Burton X. and Sheli Z. Rosenberg Gayle and Glenn R. Tilles 28 Nov. 2, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES MOVIES character into a different person. I wanted munity that threw rocks at me down the street. them to be their own being from story to story. That was the same community that gave me Myself and the editor would do the work to free dance and acting classes. unite them. WCT: For the emotional scenes, how did Jenkins, McCraney WCT: I have seen Janelle Monae perform you prepare the actors? live, but this was very different for her, as BJ: I approached it all the same way. From an actress. how an actor puts a pot on the stove to two BJ: I didn’t know why Teresa was in the piece. guys making out. Everything is sacred and on their powerful It could have been a grandma or an aunt. nothing is sacred. TAM: I did have several women in my life who The last five minutes of the film were filmed were really kind to me. They would drop off on the last day. I had respect for that. It was clothes or cook for us. It was interesting that the farthest the character was going to go. film, ‘Moonlight’ they would never overstep boundaries or talk WCT: Are there frontrunners for Oscar time, bad about my mother. with this being such an ensemble piece? by Jerry Nunn life turned out. It was a Jimmy Stewart mo- There were women as well as men who were BJ: I love them all equally. There were no ment of thinking about what I could have done not biological blood to me but they found a egos on this film. I never expected awards for The new movie Moonlight has some of the differently. I wrote the original script here in space for me in their life. the film. What I love about it is that there are year’s best performances and, if there is any 2003, when I graduated from DePaul. BJ: The cool thing about working with people now that wouldn’t have heard about it justice in the world, it will make a clean sweep Friends of Barry’s gave him the script in Janelle is she understood that, not as an actor otherwise. The more we can spread the word come awards season. 2012. We had not met before despite the fact but as a person. about it will allow someone to see themselves It tells the story of a gay protagonist named that we went to some of the same schools to- WCT: You bring up a good point that, as in it. Chiron in three different stages of life in Mi- gether. We lived within blocks of each other gay people, we have other forms of family WCT: Do you think it will have a big cross- ami. Moonlight stars Trevante Rhodes, Andre and both our mothers struggled with crack co- sometimes. This is not shown in movies of- over appeal? Holland, Janelle Monae, Ashton Sanders and caine addiction, depicted by Naomie Harris in ten. BJ: I was in New York last week and screen- Naomie Harris. the film. TAM: We don’t see communities that are op- ing it. There was no crossover needed. The au- pressing us can also nurture us. Sometimes it is diences were all ages and all races. Everyone the scary part that they do it at the same time. was there to receive the characters and give I always ask Barry when can we go back and do themselves over to the story. This movie is something for the community. The same com- reaching people!

Félix González-Torres, Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, Derek Jackson, Kia Labeija, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Kiki Smith, Joey Terrill, David Wojnarowicz and Martin Wong. Added to the traveling exhibition ex- clusively for its Chicago presentation will be works by a variety of other artists, among them major works by famed Chicago Imagist Roger Brown. Racial and ethnic minorities have historically and presently not benefited from the same visibility as white male artists in shap- ing the narrative of the epidemic. The Chi- cago presentation of Art AIDS America will include additional works by artists, as well as programming, focused specifically on expanding the exhibition’s inclusivity. Related programming in the form of panels, discussions and performances will explore how the underlying issues of race, politics, culture and institutional practice have created barriers to more equitable representation. Admission to the exhibition will be free with timed tickets; it opens on World AIDS Roger Brown’s “Peach Light” (1983) Day. Prior to Chicago, Art AIDS America will Image copyright The School of the Art have appeared at the Tacoma Art Museum in Institute of Chicago and the Brown family Washington state, the Zuckerman Museum in suburban Atlanta and the Bronx Museum of ‘Art AIDS America’ the Arts in New York City. Major support for the exhibition and cata- Moonlight director Barry Jenkins (left) and writer Tarell Alvin McCraney. coming Dec. 1 logue has been provided by The Andy Warhol Photo by Jerry Nunn Art AIDS America—a groundbreaking exhi- Foundation for the Visual Arts and The Paul bition that underscores the presence of HIV G. Allen Family Foundation. Additional sup- Director Barry Jenkins collaborated with WCT: How did you find the actors? Were in art in this country—culminates its U.S. port for the U.S. tour was provided by the writer Tarell Alvin McCraney to create an unfor- many from Florida? tour at the Alphawood Gallery, 2401 N. Hal- Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian gettable masterpiece in character study. BJ: No; it was a mixture. We had a casting sted St., Dec. 1-April 2, 2017. Art and by Gilead Sciences. Jenkins first project was 2008’s Medicine for director based in L.A. It was about 60 percent This temporary space has been created in Tickets will be accessible this fall by visit- Melancholy. Moonlight is his second effort and from Miami and the rest from everywhere else. a former bank by the Chicago-based Alpha- ing ArtAIDSAmericaChicago.org. is already earning rave reviews. For the character that Naomie plays, Paula, we wood Foundation to bring the exhibition to McCraney is a member of Teo Castellanos/D needed a very skilled actor to play that part. its only Midwest venue. Projects Theater Company in Miami. He became She did all the heavy lifting. This is the first exhibition to explore how Married authors at a resident playwright at the Royal Shakespeare For the main character I was open to fresh the AIDS crisis forever changed American W&CF on Nov. 3 Company and an ensemble member of the Step- faces. We scoured the country and the UK. art. Since the first reports of mysterious ill- On Thursday, Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m. at Wom- penwolf Theatre. Piece by piece we built it out. nesses in the early 1980s, HIV and AIDS have en & Children First, 5233 N. Clark St., Flan- Windy City Times: You both grew up in WCT: I heard Naomie shot her scenes touched nearly every U.S. resident in some nery O’Connor Award winner and LGBT author Florida? quickly. way. While acknowledging and honoring the Anne Raeff (The Jungle Around Us) will have Tarell Alvin McCraney: Miami, yes. We have BJ: In three days. It wasn’t meant to be that enormous anger, loss and grief generated a reading/conversation with her wife, LGBT known each other for about four years. way because we shot the movie in sequence. by the epidemic, the exhibition refutes the award-winning author Lori Ostlund, who is WCT: How did you meet? We had to shift the whole schedule because narrative that AIDS is only a tragic tangent releasing the paperback edition of her novel Barry Jenkins: Through a group called of problems with her visa. It yielded some in- in U.S. art. Instead, Art AIDS America of- After the Parade. Borscht Corp. They have a mission to take art- teresting results. Mahershala Ali worked for fers a story of resilience and beauty revealed Author Christine Sneed (The Virginity of ists who have moved away to come back home 30 straight days because he was filming Luke through the visual arts, and of the communi- Famous Men) will also read and host their to tell stories. They knew Tarell and I were from Cage. He flies back and forth from Miami to ties that gathered to bring hope and change conversation. the same neighborhood. They assumed we had New York. in the face of a devastating disease. Raeff and Ostlund are the only married a common experience and holy hell we did. WCT: Andre Holland just told me you made The Chicago presentation of Art AIDS couple who have both won the Flannery WCT: So the story of Moonlight was very the decision to not have them watch other America will feature more than 100 signifi- O’Connor Award (with Ostlund winning it autobiographical for you, Terrell? scenes. What is the story behind that? cant contemporary works in a wide range of earlier for her story collection, The Bigness TAM: Yes. It chronicles portions of my life in BJ: I didn’t want people to mimic the other media—from oil on canvas and photography of the World). They’ve been together for al- the original piece called In Moonlight Black actors. One of the things that struck me in to three-dimensional installations and video. most 25 years. Boys Look Blue. It deals up to a certain point the source material is how each character was The artists represented include Judy Chicago, See WomenAndChildrenFirst.com. where I was trying to track and deal with shaped by this lack of nurturing. I felt these Chloe Dzubilo, Karen Finley, Robert Gober, things poetically. I wanted to iron out how my things were so heavy that they reshaped the WINDY CITY TIMES Nov. 2, 2016 29 MANDELL from page 21 advantage of estate tax laws, your partners insurance or filing a joint married tax return. For- tunately, some of that has been changed. I’m CULTURECULTURE CLUBCLUB WCT: One of the other things Illinois suf- not sure what you do to prove that somebody fers from is gun violence. Your solutions talk wasn’t hired because of their sexual orienta- about neighborhood watches, more funding tion or because they were transgender or due to police. Where do you stand on the issue to the color of their skin. If you see a pattern of guns? from a specific employer, there are certainly GM: I have been very consistent in strength- civil penalties. ening and enforcing existing gun laws. I believe WCT: So it’s fair to say you’re for full LG- that most of the violent crimes committed with BTQ equality, then. guns are with those that aren’t properly regis- GM: Absolutely. Always have been. The civil tered, maybe were never registered or are in rights act in the United States was passed 51 the hands of the people they weren’t registered years ago. Is anybody seriously going to claim to. I don’t think the majority of gun-related that there’s not racial discrimination? Of course crimes are being committed by people who are there still is. To the extent that we can fight the lawfully registered owners of guns. for equal employment opportunities and equal We have gun laws on the books. They just treatment, we absolutely have to. Society has need to be enforced. In New York, where they to be based on that. have stop-and-frisk, there’s an issue about WCT: There’s a lot of talk about down bal- whether it violates civil rights and that needs lot races given the man who is at the top of to be discussed. It’s not necessarily that the your ticket. Mr. Trump has split the Repub- police are doing a bad job. You can’t go into lican Party. Which side did you end up on? every house and you can’t stop everybody. The GM: I’ve never supported him. I came out problem is the in-flow of illegal or unregistered with a very strong message on Facebook when weapons. the recent tapes came out. In the strongest WCT: To be clear, is stop-and-frisk some- words I could use, I disavowed any connec- thing you want to see discussed as policy tion with him. I never supported him from the in Illinois? beginning and I’ve been very transparent about GM: No, I’m just saying that, for the most that. part, we don’t know until after the fact that For more information about Gary Mandell’s a crime was committed by someone who had campaign, visit: https://www.mandell- a gun he shouldn’t have had. I can guess that forstaterep.com/index.html. the numbers are very high. WCT: You’ve talked about high school grad- uates finding jobs or getting into college. Can you go into detail about employment programs for youth or college affordability in the state? GM: Let’s talk about the ninth-grader who goes to school and he’s not learning a lot of skills that can be applied immediately to the job market. Even if he was, jobs aren’t available. If we made Illinois a batter rate to operate a business and someone in ninth grade could get trained for these jobs when they get out of high school, they won’t drop out, join a gang and be a part of a violent culture. I’m a big supporter of increasing vocational education in high schools. It will reduce violence and increase the graduation rate. If we reduce violence that will reduce the amount of polic- ing that we need. For the child that wants to go to college, we have to fund these MAP grants. It’s ter- rible what’s happening at Chicago State and U.S. Reps. John Lewis and Robin Kelly. the University of Illinois. Under my program, Photo by Hal Baim there’s more of a surplus that will provide the money for these grants and all the other social services that the Democrats claim are being cut Lewis helps Kelly’s out of animus. re-election WCT: But there are problems of hiring dis- Civil-rights pioneer U.S. Rep. John Lewis crimination that are faced by people of col- came to Chicago to help stump for Democratic or and particularly transgender community Congressional candidates, including U.S. Rep. members. It’s very hard to prove it, so how Robin Kelly. The duo are pictured here at an do you get employers not to engage in it? event hosted Oct. 29 by the Serbian Social GM: As a financial planner, I’ve been deal- Center, 18550 S. Stony Island Ave., in Lansing, ing with forms of discrimination such as sexual Illinois. orientation for 35 years. You could not take

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by kate hennig directed by nick bowling HHHHH “a theatrical event not to be missed” – Chicago On the Aisle timelinetheatre.com 773.281.time (8463) Photo by Joe Mazza / Brave Lux Inc. 30 Nov. 2, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES BOOKS KOKUMO becomes ‘Reacquainted with Life’ By Liz Baudler play. And so I wanted the poems to be tandem with that concept. Chicago poet, activist and performer KOKUMO WCT: What was the hardest poem for you is celebrating publication of her first book. to write? Reacquainted With Life is a raw, performative KOKUMO: I guess it would be the poem “My work in which KOKUMO details her history with Desperation Road,” because that poem comes abuse, rape and violence, and critiques the from being fat, from being dark-skinned, and culture of activism. Yet at times, a dark sort from feeling like I could never be loved, and of humor breaks through, making an already letting what the world has told me about my- incredibly engaging work even more so. self seep into me to the point where I don’t “I feel like sometimes you just gotta laugh or take care of my body. blow your brains out,” KOKUMO said, about the I’ve had points in my life where I didn’t take relationship of humor to trauma and outrage. care of my body because I didn’t care about Windy City Times spoke with KOKUMO shortly it—because I disassociated from it via all the after the book’s publication. abuse. And so the poem “My Desperation” is Windy City Times: In the beginning of about wanting someone to love you even the book, you have a manifesto of things though you don’t love yourself. Wanting some- E Nina Jay. you believe, and you also turn the author’s one to love you in lieu of yourself. And I guess Photo by Liz Baudler note into a poem. Why did you choose those what was so difficult about that is that it came BOOKS forms? from a really true place. A place of not always KOKUMO: I just wanted to be creative, and I feeling worthy of love, or even possible to have just wanted to make the entire book a poem. I it or know what it is. wanted this to be my For Colored Girls, I want- WCT: Which is most important to you: lan- In new collection, guage, image or emotion? KOKUMO: Sometimes one is more important that the other, but I feel like for the most part E Nina Jay takes they all work together for me. I can’t write a poem about envisioning what it feels or what it looks like to be in a specific type of pain. And then, I guess it’s a chain reaction. First, back her body I feel it, then I think about the image, then I think about the way in which I can convey By Liz Baudler it doesn’t look like hiding. I’d go to Michfest the image on paper. And then, the emotion— when it was going, and one of my goals was that’s a given. It always has to play a part. For Chicago poet E Nina Jay, her book Body of to go topless. I went for 13 years and I did it That’s what I love most about poetry, making Rooms is a reclamation of herself. for five minutes until one person noticed, and people feel me. We live in a world where people “For a long time, I didn’t have myself,” said then I put my shirt back on. I don’t enjoy those don’t want to feel. We’re trained to not feel. So Jay. “For so many years I wrote a lot of poems kinds of freedoms and I just covet it.” for like, as a poet, as a musician, as an artist, about friendships and flowers, and all this shit Jay intersperses her poems with long prose that’s my job, is to make people feel. I thought people wanted to hear about. The meditations. “For me, the book is the room, WCT: As an artist viewing an audience, how writing was a vehicle, I had never used it, but the journals could be the hallways,” she said. do you know when you’ve connected with I had to learn to use it for myself. I didn’t know The first of these journal entries continues the people? it was mine yet, or what that meant.” tone of the initial poems, talking about how KOKUMO: I feel like when I perform live and In Body of Rooms, Jay’s using her voice to Jay overheard a Black male speaker at a bonfire I can no longer hear people breathing, that’s take on issues like sexual violence and rac- talking about the armor he wore to get through how I know I’ve done my job. There’s always the white world, and segueing into an explo- that ebb and flow of a live performance where ration of that armor’s function with rape sur- the audience or the speaker or the artist is giv- vivors and personal trauma and insecurity. “I ing the art, and then the audience is receiving wanted to leave those journals exactly as they it. were, and that informed what I really wanted WCT: What artists or inspirations have to say,” Jay said. “I struggled to leave it exact- been with you over the years? ly like it was, and I’m still struggling with it.” KOKUMO: I honestly would say Push and For Some of Jay’s most memorable poems are dia- Colored Girls”[were] the two biggest. I wouldn’t logues. Her poem “colorb(l)ind” interrogates a say obsessed, but they were like my compass. white woman who refuses to truly acknowledge KOKUMO. Those entire pieces were those type of pieces Jay’s Blackness, claiming “she doesn’t see col- Photo courtesy of IAMKIAM Studios that are the type of pieces where people stop or.” “do you see white?/do you think white?/ breathing. Because it’s so honest. I wanted you sure think white?/i know you’re white,” ed this to be my Push, I wanted this to be my to write like Ntozake Shange and Sapphire. I Jay writes. Another piece, “dear this fucking poem” is one that Jay says she sometimes can’t book that discussed those issues that I believe wanted to write poems that would make people stand to look at. It takes the form of Jay’s ar- are pertinent to me. Being plus-sized, being literally cry. Or literally, you know, like, want to gument with a piece that creeps up on her as dark-skinned, being intersex, being femme, commit suicide. Or literally—it had to be that she’s washing dishes, about a breakup that left being a survivor of a life of sexual abuse and visceral for me. And so those two, they were Jay standing naked as her lover drives away. physical abuse—I just wanted something that like my Biggie and Tupac. Both pieces, while very different, have the could talk, that could attest. WCT: What was something you needed to feel of conversation. “That’s what poems are, WCT: Have you always written poetry? learn while writing this book or to write it? conversations,” Jay said. “Sometimes I’m hav- KOKUMO: One, everything doesn’t have to KOKUMO: I’ve always sung and written poet- ing them with myself, sometimes I’m having rhyme. I feel like poems are better when they ry. I’ve always loved the rawness of poetry. I’ve them with other people. Usually I’ll just say, always loved how I was able to say whatever don’t rhyme. Two, it doesn’t always have to let me pick up the pen and have the conversa- make sense, just write it. Sometimes, it’s not I needed to say in poetry. The process I went ism, pen poems of deep passion and love, tion however I’m having it, that’s just how it through with this book was that at the actual gonna make sense, because it’s not coming and address her own considerable trauma. Of- comes out.” moment of processing the actual experiences, from a logical place. It’s just coming from the ten, she said, her work comes from a place of All of the book’s poems were written in the I wrote the pieces. That’s what makes many of place of pain, and pain has its own language. loss. “That’s the part I acknowledge and that’s past year, and Jay remembered being roused them so visceral. It’s like the words were burn- Sometimes, the job of the artist is to be a where I stay, which keeps me from getting to by current events like Black Lives Matter, but ing off of my tongue and singing through my conduit to other people’s pain. Like, give peo- a lot of places,” she said. “Part of that process hampered by her own needs to process. This skin. Most of it was free-written. Like, I just ple the tools to feel their own pain. As an art- with the book was to let go of that.” conflict inspired the poem “i need to talk experienced the pain of trauma and then I just ist, that’s my job, to not always feel but be a The body as symbol is personal for Jay. “I’m about rape.” wrote. conduit, a platform, a catalyst to which other so tired of being locked in my body with my Jay will read Body of Rooms Monday, Nov. [Reacquainted with Life] was birthed out of people can feel their own pain. And see that emotions,” Jay said. “I mean, physically. I love 7, 6-8 p.m. at Affinity Community Services, another project I was working on called “Beau- there’s nothing to be afraid of. Emotions are winter. I was just saying to someone the other 2850 S. Wabash Ave., #108. ty is My Revenge,” which was supposed to be fun, once you get control over them. day that I was so glad that winter was coming A copy of Body of Rooms can be obtained about four Black trans women who were all Reacquainted With Life can be found at because you can wear as many clothes as you for $20 (plus shipping) by emailing Jay at doing sex work. It was originally written as a Topside Press at TopsidePress.com. want and it makes sense. You can hide, and [email protected]. WINDY CITY TIMES Nov. 2, 2016 31 them. So maybe I have more experience looking. That’s a skill that takes a while to culti- Tom Bachtell. vate just like anything else.” Photo courtesy of Music and dance, always inspired Bachtell, Jennifer Greenburg and it took him a long time to see their con- Drawing on nection to his cartooning. “I thought I should just keep exploring them, there’s obviously a reason why I’m doing it,” Bachtell said. “Move- instinct: ment’s really important to me. I need to move. And, of course, I’m inspired by music, drawing to it. Ultimately the common denominator is rhythm. I love rhythm, and I like attaining New Yorker some kind of rhythmic life in my drawings and vitality. I like them to sort of look like they’re alive.” cartoonist For many years, Bachtell’s partner was An- drew Patner, the Chicago arts and cultural critic who worked with WFMT. Patner passed Tom Bachtell away suddenly in 2015. “I fell in love with An- drew like that,” Bachtell remembered. “I swear to you, Andrew started to open his mouth to speak, and I fell in love with him as the sounds started coming out.” Bachtell appreciated how his extroverted partner helped him observe and connect to the world. “If he couldn’t get to you on the radio, he’d go door to door,” he joked about Patner. “It was so great just to be with him and observe people, observe events, concerts, political events, read the news together, and talk about it, and laugh together. He was giving me a front-row seat to the world, and that’s kind of a remarkable thing.” Like many of his artistic associates, Bachtell has insecure moments, although his occur with By Liz Baudler tors did not like what I was doing, and I also ing in a relationship with somebody. There are regular frequency due to the nature of his work. recognized what they were looking for. I had to people who are simply hard to draw, and there “I almost feel as though I’m only as good as my “I just always wanted to be well-rounded,” said kind of go to that look she had onstage where are other people who maybe don’t have quite last drawing,” he said thoughtfully. “I’m really New Yorker cartoonist Tom Bachtell. “At least she was sort of exuding something—for lack as much to look for. Like, really sort of blandly grateful to be able to do what I do. In some in the way I’m informed about the world, and of a better word, presidential. It’s revealing a attractive people are horrible to draw.” ways, I kind of landed in it, and in other ways the way that I connect to the world, particu- slightly different side of her. It wouldn’t have Bachtell said one of the struggles he’s had I think my instinct sort of pushed me toward it. larly since professionally I”m doing stuff that worked if I hadn’t had that outside influence.” is to keep the spontaneity of his work obvious I’m kind of an introvert, though I love people, is culturally and politically observant.” Still, he enjoys drawing the former Secre- while becoming more technically skilled. “My and I love the world, and this has given me the Bachtell’s work at the New Yorker has him tary of State. “There are certain people I really drawings tend to have more detail now, there’s opportunity to connect to the world, and I’m contributing weekly to the Talk of the Town never get tired of drawing, and I think that more finish,” he explained. “The challenge is not isolated, and I’m not alone in the world.” section and doing illustration work throughout part of it is if it’s a person in particular who to keep it from being a stiff-looking drawing. Along with his artistic studio partner, David the publication. “This is a magazine where ev- you can always get to know a little bit more,” I want the drawings to look as spontaneous as Lee Csicko, Tom Bachtell will be inducted into erybody wants to get into it, but everyone who Bachtell said. “Her eyes, there is so much going they can. Technically—I can’t believe it—but the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame on Wed., Nov. 9, works there is talented and smart, and there on in her eyes. She’s very difficult to know, she I’m just better at drawing varied kinds of lines, at the Chicago History Museum, 1601 N. Clark are all kinds of people who are feeding their has so many layers, and I think that’s kind of and I feel that I’m always trying to look at St. The ceremony starts at 5:30 p.m.; visit GL- opinions back to me, and I have to please a one of the things that makes subjects interest- everything fresh everytime I draw a person, so HallFame.org. lot of people, and I have to do it on deadline,” ing. You can keep peeling it away. It’s like be- I’m always trying to look at different aspects of said Bachtell. “ I have to remove myself from the reality that all of these people are waiting est songs written for women in the Broadway for me to get something done and I can’t freak Kartemquin film canon, with Broadway great Capathia Jenkins out. And I still have to get it done, and kind of headlining. calm myself down.” fest Nov. 2-4 It will take place Monday, Nov. 7, at 6 p.m. Deadlines aided Bachtell as he grew artisti- Kartemquin Films will mark the culmina- at Uptown Underground, 4707 N. Broadway. cally. A self-taught cartoonist working in Chi- tion of its 50th-anniversary year with The Jenkins was featured in the NBC live tele- cago throughout the ‘80s, his New Yorker break Kartemquin Fall Festival, to be held in part- came in the late 80s when an editor noticed a nership with ArcLight Cinemas at the ArcLight cast of The Wiz. On Broadway, she has ap- caricature of Tom Wolfe that Bachtell had done Chicago NEWCITY location, 1500 N. Clybourn peared in Newsies, and Caroline, or Change, in Advertising Age. Ave., on Nov. 2-4. among other productions. “My career sort of took off almost a little The event will feature two Chicago pre- Also, it has been announced that American faster than I could keep up with it at first,” mieres, sneak previews of three works- Idol veteran Rayvon Owen (who made the top Bachtell explained. “It was a very steep learn- in-progress and new work from emerging four in season 14) will join the show. ing curve, and it was really helpful for me to Midwest documentary makers who have grad- A select number of VIP tickets are avail- working with another artist, sharing space, uated from Kartemquin’s filmmaker develop- able for the benefit at $150, and include a because I knew nothing about production and ment programs. pre-show reception with appetizers and open materials, about composition. You learn a lot Among the films to be shown are America wine bar at 6 p.m. General-admission tickets of that stuff by simply practicing it. I wasn’t To Me, which covers a year in Oak Park and are $75 each, and include the performance very fast, but there’s nothing like a little dead- River Forest High School; and The Dilemma of and a post-show dessert reception. Call 800- line to focus the mind. And I also learned that Desire, which examines female sexual desire. Jim Petrakis. 737-0984 or visit PrideFilmsAndPlays.com. I may not be completely happy with what I’ve See KTQ50.org/fall-festival and ArcLight- Photo courtesy of SOFA CHICAGO done, but I wanted to do the best that I could Cinemas.com. up until the point where I had to turn some- events. thing in.” Another notable occurrence will be a “living Bachtell also finds the idea of audience help- SOFA expo Nov. 3-6 room” for HIV/AIDS survivor Jim Petrakis that ful, whether the audience is readers or editors. at Navy Pier designer/DIFFAChicago Executive Board mem- He recounted his recent experience drawing The Sculpture Objects Functional Art and ber Richard Cassis and designer/dedicated Hillary Clinton for the magazine’s endorsement Design (SOFA) CHICAGO expo returns to Navy volunteer Jake Theisen have created in the issue. “I knew that it was going to be kind Pier’s Festival Hall Nov. 3-6, with nearly 80 “LIFE : FIGHT : LOVE” exhibit. of a challenge, because I remember doing the national and international galleries. See SOFAExpo.com. Obama endorsement issue in 2008, and it just SOFA CHICAGO will kick-off with an open- had to be kind of an idealized drawing because ing-night preview on Thursday, Nov. 3, offer- they were endorsing him. I couldn’t be satirical ing the public, collectors and the art and de- Capathia Jenkins to in the usual sense,” Bachtell said. sign community a first look at this year’s fair. His editors were not thrilled with his ini- head ‘Sensational’ Among the expo’s highlights will be the tial attempts at drawing Clinton. “I knew that I wouldn’t get it right the first time,” said Corning Museum of Glass hot glass road show; Nov. 7 at Uptown Pride Films and Plays’ annual fall benefit, Bachtell. “The deadline is really tight, but in a special exhibits; the Connect Design com- Rayvon Owen (left, with Jussie Smollett). “Simply Sensational,” celebrates the great- compressed period of time, I realized the edi- petition; and a lecture series, among other Twitter photo 32 Nov. 2, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES discuss it, but in the end the pope takes what In her interview with Hellwig, Quinn ex- they’ve said and makes up new pronounce- pressed frustration with nuns who want to go ments or policies. We need to have that right back to more traditional ways and who don’t to set policies, to discuss them, to say how it’s advocate for change. “Oftentimes, I’m in ten- meaningful to us.” sion with nuns when they don’t speak up,” she In both her Windy City Times interview and told Hellwig. her chat with Hellwig, Quinn saw expanding “I think we have to have people that speak women’s role in the church as crucial to its up, and we have to have a voice without being survival. “I mean, the church is just going to called in for dissent,” Quinn told Windy City die away. 39% of people do not go to church. Times. “That’s what they call it in the church, Young people don’t pay any attention to it, dissenting from those core pronouncements it’s lost its meaning for them. Until they call made by males only.” women equally, I don’t see a lot of change in Quinn ended both interviews by reiterating that,” she said. the importance of women’s participation in Quinn also alluded in both interviews to the church processes and beliefs, such as giving ongoing election. “I was happy in the last women the right to vote in papal elections and debate, at the end of it Hillary did say repro- respecting women’s reproductive autonomy. ductive rights, but also the rights of the LGBT “I mean, we have to have a core of moral val- community, “ Quinn told Windy City Times. ues,” Quinn told Windy City Times. “And they “was thinking the issue was almost becoming have to recognize women’s moral authority on invisible. Now we’ve got marriage equality ... these issues. We have to preach the right mes- ho hum, let’s take a break. Well, like racism, it’s sage, and that right message is on the side of on the books, but it’s not in the hearts. And we justice for everyone.” see that so often in this election.”

include Minority Korner (with gay co-host James Arthur), Risk! (gay host Kevin Alli- son) and Tomefoolery (with gay host Cody Melcher). Also, there are several podcasts that are part of Postloudness, which is Chica- go “collective of independent audio shows by Donna Quinn. people of color, women, and queer-identified Photo by Liz Baudler hosts.” Saget will be interviewed by Kevin McDon- ald of Kids in the Hall during a live record- ing of McDonald’s podcast, Kevin McDonald’s Activist nun Donna Kevin McDonald Show, on Friday, Nov. 18, at 7 p.m. at the Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport Ave. Tickets are $30 for general Quinn has the floor admission and $45 for premium seating. Other parts of the festival are $20-$45; see ChicagoPodcastFestival.org. in Chicago Frank Lloyd Wright By Liz Baudler constantly looked to his example as she en- tour Nov. 5-Dec. 17 tered a religious order, often surprised by the The Wright Around Chicago bus tour, by the The Chicago Women’s History Center was ex- conservatism she found. Frank Lloyd Wright Trust, has been extended cited to bring renowned activist Catholic nun Schlumpf and Quinn explained that the gen- and will be offered on Saturdays only from Donna Quinn to the Cenacle at 513 W. Ful- esis for CCW was partly in lack of women’s Nov. 5 to Dec. 17 (except Dec. 3). lerton on the afternoon of Oct. 23. Mary Ann representation. At a huge religious meeting in In addition to visits to The Rookery lob- Steven Strafford in Methtacular! Johnson, the Center’s president, placed Quinn’s Detroit in 1976, of 17 people going to repre- by, which Wright remodeled in 1905, and Photo by Kevin Thomas Garcia work in the context of the organization’s resent Chicago Catholics, only one was a woman, Wright’s Oak Park Home and Studio, Wright cent focus on women community organizers. Schlumpf said. Around Chicago includes a comprehensive Quinn recently published a memoir about her “Over 100 women would appear at our meet- tour of the Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School work with Chicago Catholic women and signed ings,” Quinn rembered about the early days of ‘Methtacular!’ of Architecture Historic District in Oak Park. copies of the book after the event. CCW. Both Schlumpf and Quinn recalled lots of The group will stop for lunch at Oak Park res- The event began with a presentation by aca- protests on the steps of Holy Name Cathedral, Nov. 11-12 taurant Winberie’s before heading to Chica- Methtacular!—Steven Strafford’s auto- demic Heidi Schulmpf, entitled “Holy Mischief: and Quinn remembered sneaking into Catholic go’s Hyde Park neighborhood to see Wright’s biographical account of his three years as a Donna Quinn, Chicago Women’s Religious and conferences—which didn’t allow the women’s Frederick C. Robie House. crystal-meth addict in Chicago—will return the Rise of Catholic Feminism.” As a child, group—with media passes. Male reaction, A ticket to the Wright Around Chicago guid- Nov. 11-12 as part of Steppenwolf Theatre’s Schlumpf said she had absorbed many of the Quinn said, “just gave the group more valid- ed bus tour is $150 and $125 for Frank Lloyd LookOut Series. stereotypes about nuns. She added that it ity.” Wright Trust members; visit cal.flwright.org/ The production will take place at Steppen- was only after she began working in the field In a separate interview with Windy City tours/WACbustour or call 312-994-4000. as a reporter for a Catholic publication that Times, Quinn recalled speaking to NCAN about wolf’s 1700 Theatre, 1700 N. Halsted St. she realized that “religious women are some LGBT rights and working with CCW to get coun- Methtacular! was honored with a Jeff of the strongest, most independent, feminist selors in Catholic schools an education about Award nomination for Best Solo Performance Pet Shop Boys at women.” LGBT issues. “The counselors were happy to get following its 2014 run with About Face The- In response to an audience question about anything about it. They were just looking to atre in Chicago. It has also run in New York, Civic Opera Nov. 5 why nuns in the United States are so outspo- absorb it, hear a different message from the Cincinnati, Sacramento and Portland as well Longtime duo Pet Shop Boys announced ken, Schulmpf described early nuns as attract- one that’s in the books,” she said. as colleges across the country. the first leg of the act’s “Super” world tour, ed to religious life because they didn’t want Quinn calls herself an activist. “That means, Tickets are $20 each; visit Steppenwolf.org which starts Friday, Oct. 21, in Las Vegas. to be held back by social conventions such as to me, working for justice wherever it is found. or call 312-335-1650. The 27-day run includes shows in the United raising a family. She explained that in the ‘40s I don’t think we’ve moved much at all in the States, Canada, Germany, Holland, Denmark and ‘50s, religious orders ended up sending church issues,” she said. “Now, in societal is- and Russia. many nuns to college to keep them qualified sues, thank god, like the issue of racism, at Chicago Podcast The stops include a show at Chicago’s Civic to teach in schools. This created a generation least it’s on the books. At least we got the Opera House, 20 N. Upper Wacker Dr., on Sat- Festival Nov. 17-19 urday, Nov. 5. of educated nuns who were exposed to second- marriage equality, and semblances of equality The Chicago Podcast Festival announced wave feminism in the 1960s and ‘70s. Organi- out of Springfield and across the United States. Their latest album, Super, is out on x2 Re- that comedian Bob Saget will be one of the cords via Kobalt; it recently entered the UK zations like NCAN, or the National Coalition of But as far as the church goes, I think it should featured celebrity guests at the first annual Catholic Nuns, and Chicago Catholic Women, an hang its head in shame, because it has not re- album charts at number three, marking the Chicago Podcast Festival, happening Nov. 17- duo’s 16th UK top 10 album. In addition, organization of both nuns and outside Catholic sponded to the needs of the people. The cry of 19. women, fought for abortion rights and an in- the poor, the most downtrodden.” the new single “Twenty-something” will be Some of the other guests will be Scott Ad- released on digital and CD formats June 17, creased role for women in the church. Quinn criticized the current Pope while ac- sit (30 Rock), rapper Che “Rhymefest” Smith, In an interview with Maureen Hellwig, a knowledging that under his reign, the Church is with the official video premiering on Univi- actress Kirsten Vangsness (Criminal Minds) sion.com. CWHC board member, Donna Quinn, a NCAN less likely to go after outspoken nuns. and K. Todd Freeman, of Steppenwolf Theatre “Francis does not do enough enough for Among the act’s many hits are “West End member and CCW’s founder, said she was in- Company. fluenced by what was going on around her in women,” Quinn said. “Women are not allowed Girls,” “Go West,” “Being Boring” and “What As for LGBT aspects of the show, Tyler the 1970s: “Vietnam, Vatican Two, and Civil to vote in the church. Women should able to Have I Done To Deserve This?” Greene, who’s openly gay, is the artistic di- Rights,” she remembered. Quinn grew up in elect the next Pope. We should be able to be to See LiveNation.com for tickets. rector of the event. Podcasts with LGBT hosts Chicago’s Canaryville, into a religious family. be at synods, the Bishop’s meetings. They take Her brother later became a priest, and Quinn on appropriate issues of our day, and so they WINDY CITY TIMES Nov. 2, 2016 33 LGBTQ Download our new Windy City Times LGBTQ Wedding Guide magazine! Wedding Guide www.windycitymediagroup.com/pdf/WCMG_weddingguide_20160803_web.pdf

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In this tempestuous election year, having our voices heard is more important than, perhaps, nightspots ever before. Chicago’s bar community is aiding in that effort with Out of the Bars and Into the Streets, an organized effort to get people together to talk, to dance, and, most importantly, to the big vote. This first-of-its-kind event, presented by Chicago Votes and Organized Grime Crew, will begin at noon, Saturday, November 5, gathering at Replay, 3439 N. Halsted St. in Boystown. At 1 TO-DO p.m., there will be a march from Replay to the polling facility at Merlo Branch Chicago Public OUR WEEKLY PICKS TO PLAN Library, 644 W. Belmont Ave. An afterparty will be held at 3 p.m. at Hydrate, 3458 N. Halsted St., YOUR NIGHTLIFE CALENDAR with DJs Harry Cross and Cindel. “Political realness” looks are encouraged for the entire event. The event derives its name from a quote by instrumental gay politician Harvey Milk and is being organized by Derek Elliott Bagley, development director of Chicago Votes, a local non-profit Mister International tasked with registering, educating, and activating young voters across Chicagoland. Rubber (MIR) 20 “Our community has a history of marching for our rights,” states Bagley. “It has been our greatest tool to make our presence known in the public arena. After the unprecedented tragedy at Pulse Orlando this summer, it is clear that our visibility is key to ensuring our ability to be who we are this election year. We encourage all people—queers and allies alike—to join us in this effort as we stand our ground for our rights.” Windy City Times is a proud sponsor of this event.

the DISH Thu., Nov. 3 - Sun., Nov. 6 Weekly Dining Guide in Berlin, 954 W. Bemont Ave. WINDY CITY TIMES The 20th anniversary weekend includes an array of events, including;

SAVOR MIR Welcome Party Thu., Nov. 3, 11 p.m. Green Zebra Touche, 6412 N. Clark St. BY ANDREW DAVIS Welcoming MIR 20 attendees with a bar night filled with surprises for all in attendance. No cover charge. Featuring When I first went toGreen Zebra (1460 W. Chicago Beet tartare (left) and corn cake from Green Zebra. MIR 19, Chicago’s own Jeffrey “Gum- Ave.; GreenZebraChicago.com) several years ago, mibärchen” Basile (pictured). Photos by Andrew Davis I came away with a new appreciation of vegetar- ian/vegan cuisine—and the room that makes your ishes. is served with smoked potato puree, parsley and Rubber Hole coats toasty during the winter was a nice touch Fri., Nov. 4, 11 p.m. I heartily recommend the fermented beet (not country sourdough. Jackhammer, 6406 N. Clark St. as well. beef) tartare, delicately balanced with borscht yo- And please take time for dessert. Although the A party in The Hole for MIR attendees. A recent visit to the Shawn McClain-led eatery, gurt, candied pistachios, dill pollen and raspberry olive-oil cake was not there (I remembered that Cover charge possible. which opened in 2004, did nothing to dispel said powder. And my favorite item was probably the from my previous experience there), tantalizing appreciation, as I was continuously dazzled by ap- pumpkin pot stickers (with sesame soy dipping items such as fried apple pie and dark chocolate Meet the Contestants petizing selections. sauce), although the apple pierogis weren’t far be- cake are available. Sat., Nov. 5, 4-5 p.m. Chef de Cuisine David Chapman (an affable, in- Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted St. hind. To make sure you have a filling experience Get to know the contestants through credibly funny fellow) started things promisingly Fresh spring rolls were tasty and refreshing; (physically and otherwise), I’d recommend getting one-on-one conversation in the social with an amuse bouche of squash, reduced apple they’re filled with snow peas, pickled shiitake at least three dishes apiece. That way, you can zone or watch them go to town in the cider and pecans (just in time for fall), followed mushrooms, Ruby Streak mustard greens, cucum- have a more well-rounded experience at this in- demo pit. by hen of the woods mushroom pate, served with ber, mint and apricot soy sauce. And I have to credible space. raspberry mostarda and shaved watermelon rad- give props to the poached duck egg dish, which MIR 20 Contest (two nights) Fri., Nov. 4 and Sat., Nov 5, 9-11 p.m. Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted St. Night one begins with fun and erotic entertainment, with competitions in “Rubber Image” and “Rubber Fantasy.” The contest concludes on night two, with the ever-popular judging of the onstage question, a “mystery bag” and the opportunity to vote for the new Mister International Rubber.

3rd Annual Puppy Brunch Sun., Nov. 6, 11 a.m. Cell Block, 3702 N. Halsted St. Hosted by Sir Justin and Pup Tork.

For a full schedule of events, see mirubber.com/attend/schedule-of- events/.

Sidetrack Election Day Party

Tue., Nov. 8, 3 pm Sidetrack, 3349 N. Halsted St. Join Chicago’s LGBT community after you cast your vote. The event is free and open to everyone 21+. Doors open at 3 pm. No cover. Results all day and night DRAGAPALOOZA @ SIDETRACK on the Sidetrack Big Screen until 2 am. Party sponsored by Chicago LGBTQ for This year’s “Night of 100” was on fire for Equality IL, Thu., October 27. Hillary. Photos by Jerry Nunn WINDY CITY TIMES Nov. 2, 2016 35 Billy Masters

“I don’t want to say it was big, but I believe it had an elbow!”—Nathan Lane discusses seeing John Slattery naked back in 1989, when the two appeared off-Broadway in The Lisbon Traviata. The two are currently appearing on Broadway in a revival of The Front Page, where, I believe, all elbows are covered. The Saturday matinee performance of Rossini’s opera William Tell at the Metropolitan Opera in Billy gets into legal waters this week, NYC was stopped before the last act, and the discussing British codebreaker Alan Turing. audience was ushered out while local police and federal agents investigated. During the intermis- sion, a suspicious-looking man walked down to wrong. the front of the theatre, reached into a black bag The first phase of the parliamentary process is and then sprinkled some powder into the orches- an open debate on the floor. Conservative gov- tra pit. An orchestra member reported this activity ernment Minister Sam Gyimah spoke first. He felt and the theatre worried about a possible terrorist that pardoning everyone across the board would attack—because if there’s one thing ISIS hates lead to some people who are actual criminals be- more than Hillary Clinton, it’s opera! Turns out, ing cleared. He proposed amending another bill the culprit was Roger Kaiser, a 52-year-old opera which would pardon only people who died. Those buff from Dallas who had flown up to NYC specifi- who are still alive could go through a “disregard cally to go to the Met and scatter some ashes of process” to have the matter stricken from their re- his friend and mentor. While leaving ashes in spe- cords. Gyimah used all of the 25 minutes allocated cial places like Broadway theatres, sports arenas, for the debate—killing the possibility of the bill etc. is a common occurrence, it’s foolish in these even being voted on. Writer of the bill, MP John hypersensitive times. Thus far, Kaiser is not being Nicolson, said, “It’s great to forgive all the people charged with any crime. Met head honcho Peter who are now dead, but it’s kind of sentimental. Gelb said, “We appreciate opera lovers coming to I’m more interested in forgiving the people who the Met; we hope that they will not bring their are still alive, and have lived with this for de- ashes with them.” cades.” Carol Burnett has had one helluva week! On Tom Hanks is all for the remake of Splash. And Monday, it was announced that she’s headed to he’d like to be involved ... as Channing Tatum’s ABC to star in a sitcom created by Amy Poehler. lover! Hanks said, “Look: I think if they were re- The next day, I was at the grocery store and saw ally going to be bold, I would come back as Allen the front cover of The Globe tabloid that ex- Bauer, and I would go off with Channing Tatum. claimed “Carol Burnett, 83—THE END! Brave fare- That would be a bold move. And I am suggesting well to fans.” So, what’s the truth? While I believe it right now.” I guess while you can take the fish Burnett is in fine health, ABC may have hedged out of the man, you can’t take the man out of their bets just a tad. The plot of the new sitcom the fish! is as follows: A young couple gets a great deal on After swearing they’d never reunite, ABBA was their dream house, but it comes with one condi- on stage together in June to celebrate the 50th tion—they must live with the current owner, an anniversary of Benny and Bjorn meeting—Ag- older actress, until she dies. Guess who plays the netha and Anni-Frid sang “Me and I.” (You can actress? see the video on BillyMasters.com.) That event It was announced that, for the first time in their thawed the quartet to the possibility of working 111-year history, the Spiegel catalog will feature together, and they’ve just announced a partner- a transgender cover model. Can I see a show of ship with Spice Girls mastermind Simon Fuller for hands who thought the Spiegel catalog WAS histo- a “groundbreaking venture.” Benny said, “We’re ry? Keep those hands up. Now, can I see a show of inspired by the limitless possibilities of what the hands of people who never heard of Spiegel? Wow, future holds and are loving being a part of creat- I expected more hands—I’m playing to an older ing something new and dramatic here. A time ma- demographic than I thought. That’s why you never chine that captures the essence of who we were. complain about all those Marilyn Maye stories! And are.” More details will be announced next Great Britain was on the brink of making history year, but we hear it will be some sort of virtual when Parliament considered passing the Alan Tur- reality—kinda like when they wouldn’t turn on ing Law, which would pardon thousands of men Posh Spice’s mike! who were convicted of being gay. It was named Our “Ask Billy” question comes from Randall in after the famed English mathematician and scien- London. “Have you checked out The Young Pope? tist, who was portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch It’s really great. And you get to see Jude Law’s in The Imitation Game. It was Turing who broke ass!” the Nazi code in World War II and is credited with Do people actually want to see any pope nude— helping the Allies defeat Germany. Four years af- young or otherwise? I suppose for Jude Law, we’ll ter this accomplishment, he was prosecuted for consider it. The show also has Diane Keaton play- “homosexual acts.” Two years later, he committed ing a nun, which intrigues me. It started airing in suicide. Although Queen Elizabeth II granted him England last week, and will be on HBO in February. a posthumous pardon in 2013, close to 50,000 But why wait? You can see the important parts of other men were also prosecuted. 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Scream, Queen, Scream!

The annual Northalsted Halloween Parade turned 20 on Oct. 31 this year. Judges Dixie Lynn Cartwright, Miss Foozie, and Trannika Rex hosted the evening on the microphone where contestants won awards for creative costumes such a Hodor from Game of Thrones with an actual door strapped to his back. Stranger Things and the singer Sia were spotted multiple times in the neighborhood. Superheroes are always popular choices along with video game characters such a Pokemon and Super Mario Bros. There was lots of drag of course adding to the Scream, Queen! theme this year. Police were on hand with barricades set up along the parade route to control the large attendance. Salvation Army handed out hot dogs and hot chocolate at a booth for mobs of people. The judging panel was placed in front of Roscoe’s this year for a change with competitors strutting from Belmont to Addison on Halsted Street. Afterwards many lined up for the bars while city crews cleaned up the surrounding area. Visit www.northalsted.com for upcoming events in Boystown.

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(director of The Matrix movies and cago 800 737 0984 http://www.pride- Nov. 16. $8. 8:00pm Annoyance The- The new production will frame Char- Sense8), which raises money for our filmsandplays.com atre 851 W Belmont Chicago 773-697- lotte’s story through a transgender lens. TransLife Center.Proceeds benefit Chi- Election Eve Bash Dance for Democracy 9693 http://TheAnnoyance.com Through Dec. 10. About Face Theater cago House and Social Service Agency’s Clandestina Chicago, Alma Izquierdo, KPMG+ Pride Chat one on one with Pride, OH, BOY! 7:30pm Theater Wit 1229 W Belmont TransLife Center, which provides hous- Brooke Webster, Monica Raymund and KPMG’s network of LGBT professionals. Ave. Chicago Tickets: https://www.the- ing, employment, legal, and healthcare Sophia Bush present DJ Samantha Ron- KPMG LLP, audit, tax and advisory ser- Thursday, Nov. 3 aterwit.org/tickets/productions/291/ services. 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From left: Betsy, Hazel and Sara Rubinstein. Photo courtesy of the couple Chicago Sky not Santa Speedo Run retaining Chatman Dec. 3 in Boystown After six seasons, the Chicago Sky has de- The Santa Speedo Run—an annual holiday cided Head Coach and General Manager Pokey event to benefit local LGBT charities in Chi- Chatman will not be retained. cago—will take place Saturday, Dec. 3, at Under her direction, the Sky had an overall Sidetrack, 3349 N. Halsted St. regular season record of 106-98, including an Participants run one mile through the heart 18-16 campaign in 2016, during which they of Chicago’s Boystown neighborhood wearing made the playoffs. only a Santa hat and Speedo (as well as run- Chatman’s tenure was highlighted by two ning shoes, of course). All are welcome. important franchise firsts: a first-ever playoff The sign-in will begin at 12 noon, and the appearance in 2013 and a trip to the WNBA run will start at 2 p.m. There is a $25 re- Finals in 2014. quested donation. “I want to thank the incredible fans of Chi- See “Santa Speedo Run - Boystown” on cago, my staff and all of the players for their Facebook, or visit https://community.cen- hard work and dedication in helping to grow teronhalsted.org/Speedo. the franchise,” said Chatman in a statement. “I am proud of what we were able to accom- plish, and appreciative of the opportunity given to me by Michael Alter.”

LETTERS from page 24 parameters, we also understand that there are unique needs within our LGBTQ community including finding someone who has knowledge of We found that our ability to fund our work— LGBTQ aging needs and who has the credentials and, thus, provide excellent services to our to meet these needs. community—was better served by being inde- Britta Larson, director of senior services, will pendent of SAGE in terms of affiliation. We con- be meeting with patrons to talk about the hir- tinue to be involved with SAGE opportunities ing process and to receive feedback from them such as SAGEWorks and to partner with them so that we are certain to have a well-informed, on public policy efforts locally and nationally community engaged process. While the Cen- BIRTHS and consider SAGE a partner. ter cannot discriminate in the hiring process, Regarding our newly open staff position, as given how integrated this person will be in the Hazel Grace Rubinstein many people in historically oppressed commu- living and social spaces of our residents, we Betsy and Sara Rubinstein are thrilled to announce the birth of their daughter, Hazel Grace Rubin- nities will appreciate, the Equal Employment also want to ensure that we have the best pos- stein. Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has worked sible fit for the range of residents and patron in Hazel was born Sept. 14, weighing 7 pounds 10 ounces, and measuring 20 inches long. hard to ensure that employers adhere strictly our Senior Service Program. Betsy is the associate director of strategic development at Heartland Alliance as well as the board to a set of guidelines when hiring. Within these chair at Chicago Women’s Health Center, and Sara is a certified orthotist at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Sara and Betsy will have been together eight years in January, and have been married for three years. Photo courtesy of the couple WINDY CITY TIMES Nov. 2, 2016 39

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