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GUEST COLUMN by Kathleen Falk 2017 brings continued progress on LGBTQ health

More than one year after marriage equal- gible to get covered right now – go to ity became the law of the land nation- www.GetCoveredIllinois.gov to find out wide, President Obama, Secretary Sylvia and to get free, expert help. Mathews Burwell, and my colleagues and But that’s not the only thing that the I at the U.S. Department of Health and law offers for LGBTQ communities. In Human Services continue to seize oppor- May, my colleagues at the HHS Office for tunities to improve the health and well- Civil Rights spelled out significant new being of LGBTQ Americans. nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ We do so because the sad reality is people under the Affordable Care Act. Bishop James Dukes (right) in the meeting about the LGBT-focused school. that LGBTQ people still face discrimi- The new rules mean that all LGBTQ Photos by Tracy Baim nation in many areas of life, including people—whether lesbian, gay, bisexual, healthcare. This discrimination worsens transgender, non-binary, gender non- the very real health disparities that LG- conforming, or intersex—are protected BTQ people face, such as higher rates of from discrimination just for being who Community members depression, smoking, HIV, and experi- they are. These protections apply in ev- ences of violence. ery state and mean that: The Obama Administration has made — Health insurance plans sold through discuss school for GetCoveredIllinois. gov can no longer have categorical ex- LGBT students clusions for services “But when I’m asked about the related to gender By Matt Simonette convening in the spring. transition. “The conversation needs to be mobile,” most important thing we’ve — A hospital or Dukes said. “We need to go to where [youth About 20 community advocates gathered Oct. clinic that receives are] at.” 18 at McCormick Theological Seminary in Hyde done for LGBTQ health, the federal funds can- Park for a brainstorming session about a pos- Illinois Safe Schools Alliance Executive Di- answer is always the same: the not turn you away sible LGBT-focused high school. rector Owen Daniel-McCarter expressed concern because you are The effort, which is the third attempt at such that such an endeavor would be to the det- Affordable Care Act.” transgender or in a a school in the last several years, is initially riment of efforts to reduce bullying and oth- same-sex relation- being led by Bishop James Dukes of Pentecos- erwise make all schools safer and welcoming ship. tal Christian Liberation Center. for all LGBT students. But he agreed that there — You have the Dukes’ idea is for an alternative model pub- may be a need for such a school. right to be placed lic school that would have a focus on serving Myles Brady-Davis, of Howard Brown Health, in a hospital room mainly but not exclusively LGBT students. In further cautioned that the role of trans stu- historic advancements for the LGBTQ or ward based on your gender identity. 2014, Dukes unsuccessfully spearheaded an dents in an LGBT school had to be thoughtfully community, and as we celebrate that — You should not face harassment effort to open a similar program but the idea determined, since their needs have quite often progress, we know there is still more to from a healthcare provider, such as a gained little traction. His idea came about af- fallen by the wayside. “I know that my commu- do. We’ve proudly required all hospitals doctor or nurse intentionally refusing to ter he became aware of numerous displaced nity would suffer the most if this is not done receiving Medicare or Medicaid funds use your correct name and pronoun. LGBT youths in his neighborhood. right,” Brady-Davis said. (nearly every hospital in America) to al- This means that even more LGBTQ peo- Dukes said that he has initially gotten buy-in Equality Illinois’ Brian Johnson added that low visitation rights for LGBT patients, ple have the opportunity for more mean- from state and city officials, and that Chicago a dedicated professional would be needed to funded the first national resource center ingful health insurance coverage starting Public Schools had encouraged him to submit spearhead the planning and development ef- for older LGBT individuals, and released Jan. 1. an application by the beginning of the year for forts. the nation’s first comprehensive National If you face this or any other type of a projected fall 2017 opening. But attendees Dukes was asked how he envisioned himself HIV/AIDS Strategy, among many other discrimination, we urge you to file a at the Oct. 18 gathering largely recommended fitting into the long-term plans. He answered initiatives. complaint with the regional Office for aiming for a fall 2018 opening at the earliest, that he saw himself as a liaison between plan- But when I’m asked about the most Civil Rights at www.hhs.gov/ocr . so as to allow adequate time for fundraising, ners and the faith community, who would likely important thing we’ve done for LGBTQ We know more can be done to improve awareness-building and needs assessment ef- be integral for widespread acceptance of the health, the answer is always the same: LGBTQ health and we will continue to forts. school. the Affordable Care Act. build upon the strides we have already Many at the meeting stressed the importance “My vision was to create a group of like- You may know some of the law’s ben- made together. But now we need your of asking LGBT youths what they would be look- minded individuals,” he said. “To do this walk, efits—like financial help to help eligible help to make these protections a reality ing for in such a school, not just relying on the there’s going to be people who need gentle consumers afford health insurance, cer- for millions of LGBTQ people across the judgment of advocates and service providers. conversation and friendly persuasion, and some tain recommended preventive care like country. cancer and HIV/STI screenings without Visit GetCoveredIllinois.gov to enroll Initially, attendees hoped to utilize community of those folks may be in the faith-based side.” cost sharing, and coverage for preexist- and talk to your loved ones about doing organizations such as Broadway Youth Center The next planning meeting will be in early ing medical conditions. the same. You may be eligible to enroll to poll youths, as well as consider a large-scale December. But many do not realize just how today. Financial help is available to make much the law offers for LGBTQ Illinois- insurance more affordable: in 2016, ans. Why? Because LGBTQ people are nearly 7 in 10 people could have select- ously assisted NBA with organizational de- more likely than their straight, cisgender ed a plan for less than $75 per month. Northalsted alliance velopment. peers to be uninsured. In fact, because And you can sit down or call to make a Formed in 1980, NBA represents more than of the Affordable Care Act, the uninsured free appointment with an LGBTQ-friendly juggles leadership 100 businesses along the Halsted Street cor- rate for low- and middle-income LGBT expert who can help you understand your The Northalsted Business Alliance (NBA) ridor. The organization hosts major events people dropped from 34 percent in 2013 options. has announced the departure of Executive throughout the year, including Chicago Pride to 26 percent in 2014. For LGB people, With financial help, new nondiscrimi- Director Christopher Barrett Politan. Fest, Pride Prom, Northalsted Market Days, the uninsured rate was nearly cut in half nation protections, and better quality Current Director of External Affairs Chad the Halloween Parade, Frost Fest and the from 2013 to 2015. coverage, there’s never been a better Honeycutt is assuming the role of acting ex- Legacy Live Series. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, time to be out, be healthy, and get cov- ecutive director. To help with the transition, For information about NBA, visit Northal- more LGBTQ people have health insur- ered. NBA is bringing aboard Kimberly Bares as an sted.com. ance than ever before. You may be eli- interim consultant to conduct a search for the next executive director; Bares has previ-

Kathleen Falk is the regional director of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. She oversees activities in Illinois as well as Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and @windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup Wisconsin. @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 26, 2016 5 PASSAGES HIV conference Joe M. Nguyen features Anthony Fauci By ROSS FORMAN Joe M. Nguyen—who was born and raised in by Bob Roehr It is using vedolizumab (trade name Entyvio), Vietnam and has lived in Chicago since 1988, a human anti-alpha-4, beta-7 monoclonal an- working as a graphic designer—passed away Monkeys infected with SIV, the primate equiva- tibody that was approved by the FDA in 2014 Oct. 16 in his sleep. He was 48. lent of HIV, were given a nine-month course to treat the irritable bowel diseases (IBD) ul- Nguyen worked for Independent Signs & of a monoclonal antibody while on antiretro- cerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. Fauci said Graphics and lived in Chicago’s Andersonville viral therapy (ART)—then all treatment was the Japanese firm Takeda Pharmaceuticals has neighborhood with his husband, Mark Harrer, stopped. Two of the treated monkeys showed been “incredibly easy to work with” in terms and their daughter, Lynn. no rebound of the virus while the remaining of sharing data and preparing for the study of Nguyen and Harrer, friends for 26 years, ten animals showed a “viral blip” before they vedolizumab. dated for 21 years and were married June 26, naturally suppressed their virus to a very low “I have to emphasize over and over again 2014. They adopted Lynn at age 2; she is level. Certain subsets of immune cells also were that we don’t know what the mechanisms” of now 16, a junior in high school. replenished. action are—how or why it works—“but it is “He was a very caring person with a strong A study using a human version of the an- loud and clear what the effect is.” Fauci said, personality. He was very confident, very gen- tibody is already underway and results from “I would not be surprised if we found out it erous. It’s really hard to even process,” said those first patients should be known by late was a different mechanism” from that seen Chung Luu, of Chicago, friends with Nguyen 2017 or early the following year. with IBD. since the mid-1990s. “Back in the day, we Chicago HIV prevention activist Jim Pickett were inseparable. We were like pots and expressed the ambivalence of many who heard pans.” the presentation. While a “functional cure” for When going out together in the city years HIV would be warmly embraced, they don’t ago, Luu always asked Nguyen how he want to raise false hopes within the commu- looked, and Nguyen once replied, “You look Joe M. Nguyen. nity for something that may not pan out, and fear,” instead of fierce. “That was always our Photo courtesy of Mark Harrer if it does, is likely to require many more years inside joke.” of research. Nguyen and Harrer, 55, met through Case in point: As a kid he became a self- “If monkeys were perfect predictors, then we friends. Nguyen said it was “Joe’s personal- taught beautician, learning how to cut hair would have an HIV vaccine by now,” cautioned ity,” which stood out most. “He was just a just by watching others at work. He also was Kenneth Mayer, director of research at Fenway nice person to be around, a giving person a self-taught chef, Harrer said. Health in Boston. who would do anything for anybody,” Harrer Nguyen helped introduce his daughter to said. “He was my rock. If anything was going ice skating and figure skating, Harrer said. on, I could go to him and he’d tell me that “Joe was an amazing, perfect dad, and Lynn Housing available everything would be OK, don’t worry.” was the love of his life,” Harrer added. for HIV+ young adults Nguyen enjoyed working out, music, danc- Nguyen is survived by his mother, three El Rescate, an initiative of the Puerto Rican ing and cooking. sisters and one brother—all of whom live in Cultural Center (PRCC), provides transitional “Joe always knew what he wanted,” Harrer Chicago. Joe was the second-youngest of five housing to youth ages 18-24 who are strug- said. “He was the type of person who could siblings. gling with housing stability and identify as do anything that he wanted. Anything he set A wake/visitation was held Oct. 21 at LGBTQ or are HIV+. his mind to, he would do and become good Cooney Funeral Home, 3918 W. Irving Park They are providing immediate enrollment for at it.” Rd. The funeral was Oct. 22 at the same site. eligible individuals who are living with HIV re- gardless of sexual orientation or gender. Resi- dents can live at El Rescate for up to two years or until they turn 25. In addition to hous- THE BRAD LIPPITZ GROUP presents October Featured Properties ing, in-house case management support aims to work together with the resident to secure Anthony Fauci. needed supportive services including, but are not limited to: Photos by Bob Roehr —Linkage to HIV Medical Care and Treatment —HIV Non-medical Case Management Anthony Fauci ripped up his scheduled re- —Linkage to Mental Health Care and Treat- marks to present a detailed look at the data ment in an opening plenary address Oct. 17 at the —Psychosocial Counseling and Substance HIVR4P (research for prevention) conference Abuse Treatment 2212 N BURLING 2920 N COMMONWEALTH #9A 750 W HUTCHINSON in Chicago. It was based on a paper published —AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) Oct. 14 in the journal Science. Totally renovated, classic light-filled With glorious views of the park Architecturally magnificent George —Public Assistance (i.e., cash assistance Fauci is perhaps the world’s best-known face home on double lot in Lincoln Park and lake, this 4 bedroom, 3 Maher city estate set on nearly 6 and/or food stamps) exemplifies timeless design and offers bath vintage condominium of a lots, a half block from the lake. No of HIV research. He has headed up the National the best of city living. Includes a classic pre-war elevator building other city house offers such grand —Job Search and Placement Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases fantastic coach house, a 4-car garage offers classic elegance and a entertaining spaces, both inside —Enrolling in educational programs as well and beautiful yard. $4,995,000 wonderful floor plan for living and and out, with the warmth, light, (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health entertaining. $925,000 layout and privacy conducive to as tutoring and mentoring (NIH) since the start of the epidemic, making modern family living. $4,595,000 —Life-skills training; and more major contributions in his own lab and distrib- Contact M Echeverria, program coordinator at uting more than $29 billion is HIV research El Rescate, at 872-829-2662 or mecheverria@ funding, approximately half of all NIH funding prcc-chgo.org. on the disease since 1984. The alpha-4, beta-7 monkey antibody the re- searchers created blocks a similarly named re- MBGLTACC in ceptor that appears on the surface of CD4 and other immune cells. Normally, the receptor is Chicago in Feb. used to help guide immune cells to the gut, a The Midwest Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay, Trans- 3150 N LAKE SHORE #24F 545 W ALDINE #3F 444 W ROSLYN #1A central site of HIV infection. There were clues gender, and Ally College Conference (MB- Truly spectacular, total renovation Wonderful bright south-facing Elegantly finished with fabulous from other studies that alpha-4, beta-7 might GLTACC) will take place Feb. 17-19, 2017, at of expansive 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath 2 bedroom, 2 bath condo in designer finishes throughout, residence with the most amazing one of East Lakeview’s most this 2 bedroom, 2 bath residence be important, so Fauci thought it would be in- Chicago’s Navy Pier, and will kick off with views in all directions of the lake highly coveted boutique elevator was renovated by the highly- teresting to block the receptor. #BlackLivesMatter co-founder Patrisse Cullors. and the city, both day and night. buildings. Attached heated deeded acclaimed Belgravia Group. $799,000 garage space included! $489,000 $459,000 “What was exciting about it was how pro- Cullors, an openly queer performance artist found the difference was between the two” from Los Angeles, started the Twitter hashtag groups of monkeys, Fauci later explained to #BlackLivesMatter (with Alicia Garza and Opal A proud member and supporter of our community for over 20 years, no real estate broker reporters. All of the animals that received the Tometi) in response to George Zimmerman’s in the city sells or gives back to our community as much as Brad. antibody were able to control the virus once 2013 acquittal in the fatal shooting of Florida they stopped ART, while the animals that did teenager Trayvon Martin. BRAD LIPPITZ not receive the antibody all got sick. The initial The 2017 MBLGTACC will mark the 25th an- 3323 N. Broadway | Chicago, IL 60657 group of animals remains healthy about two niversary of the first conference and will center 980 N. Michigan Ave #900 | Chicago, IL 60611 years after stopping ART while a second group on the theme of “United in Solidarity.” Approx- 773.404.1144 remains healthy after about a year. [email protected] imately 2,500 people are expected to attend. BradLippitz.com Even before the paper was published, the For more information or to register for the NIH launched a proof of principle study in hu- conference, visit https://mblgtacc.org. mans, enrolling the first of an estimated 15 to 25 patients 6 Oct. 26, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES Another man repeatedly drove around the stand with them, and we stand with Dr. Martin block, extending his middle finger each time he Luther King and his message of love.” Uptown residents stage passed the Westboro demonstrators. Numerous Counterprotestor Cindy Clayton, an Uptown individuals held signs supporting transgender resident, came as part of the group Jesus Peo- people. ple USA. counterprotest to Ald. James Cappleman (46th Ward) said his “This is a misrepresentation of Christ,” Clay- office had been made aware of the protest a ton said of Westboro. “This is not what Chris- few days earlier, adding, “Uptown is a commu- tians are. We have to stand up against hate as Westboro rally nity that is incredibly diverse and we welcome Christians; it’s so important. People think this diversity in all its forms. We especially welcome is what Christians are. Jesus loves, and this is By Matt Simonette members of the transgender community who’ve hate.” faced incredible obstacles. …We’re going to About 50 Uptown residents and other com- munity members staged a counter-protest the morning of Oct. 21 when members of Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church staged an anti-LGBT protest at Weiss Memorial Hos- pital. About seven Westboro members brandished anti-LGBT signs and sang along with music with anti-gay parody lyrics. The Weiss protest, according to the group’s website, was osten- sibly to protest the Transmale Genital Surgery Cadaver Course, which was taking place at the hospital’s Center for Gender Confirmation Sur- gery. Another protest was planned at the Uni- versity of Chicago later in the day. Numerous counterprotestors engaged the Westboro demonstrators, arguing theology and trading barbs. Activist Ryne Poelker, who advocates on behalf of Uptown residents ex- periencing homelessness, castigated the dem- onstrators as he pointed to the underpass up Deborah Birx, Mike Quigley and David Munar (from left). the street where numerous persons have been Photo by Matt Simonette living. “Are you all doing anything for the homeless? AIDS ambassador Judge recommends What have you done to help them?” Poelker asked. speaks on value of against locker-room neighborhood clinics injunction By Matt Simonette By Matt Simonette

Speaking at Howard Brown Health’s 63rd U.S. District Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Gilbert, Street Clinic on Oct. 20, Deborah Birx, am- on Oct. 18, recommended the denial of a pre- bassador-at-large for Global AIDS Efforts, liminary injunction that would have banned a said that President Obama’s call for an AIDS- transgender student at Township High School free generation served as a wake up call for District 211 from using the locker room and many service providers and HIV/AIDS activ- restroom facilities of the gender with which ists. she identifies. Birx and her colleagues knew that immea- District 211, in 2015, ran afoul of Title IX surable hurdles would lie ahead for those rules and nearly lost federal funding when looking to treat and prevent new HIV trans- it disputed the student’s facilities accommo- missions. dations. It cut a deal with the government, “In most places around the world, the gov- but a group of families, in May 2016, filed ernmental leadership is denying the facts,” a lawsuit to bar the student from using the Birx said, noting that persons with HIV/ girls’ locker room and restrooms. Assuming AIDS—particularly sex workers, men who that U.S. District Judge Jorge Alonso agrees have sex with men and I.V. drug users—still with Gilbert’s denial, she’ll be able to go on face unrelenting stigma and discrimination. using them while the matter is settled. She recalled that PEPFAR sites in Tanzania In a statement, John Knight of ACLU Illi- were raided because they were storing and nois, which is representing the student, said, distributing lubricants, for example. “Judge Gilbert’s decision is welcome news, Birx called for an integration of strate- reducing some of the uncertainty experienced gies from political leaders, community ac- by our clients in this case. The Judge plainly tivists and scientific researchers to combat recognized that the organizations who filed the stigma. New models of care, she added, this case are unable to demonstrate any harm needed to be implemented at the neighbor- to their clients from sharing restrooms and hood level, an idea that spoke to the value locker rooms with students they perceive as of the 63rd Street clinic, which opened this different, while Student A and other trans- past summer. gender students would have been isolated Clinic medical director Maya Green, M.D., and stigmatized if they were forced out of said that residents expressed gratitude for the appropriate restrooms and locker rooms having primary care services on top of HIV/ after using the facilities without incident for AIDS services and added that in the long run several years. that would help reduce HIV/AIDS stigma. “As the decision makes clear, ‘[h]igh school Howard Brown Health CEO and President students do not have a constitutional right David Munar noted that Green was insistent not to share restrooms or locker rooms with that Howard Brown be positioned as a pri- transgender students’ and ‘sharing a restroom mary care facility, not just a specialized HIV/ or locker room with a transgender student AIDS clinic. does not create … a hostile environment “Populations that are marginalized feel like under Title IX.’ they can’t go to their providers,” Green said. “Barring Student A and other transgen- “They can’t go to their families. They can’t go der students from the restrooms and locker to their spiritual advisors. … Sometimes its rooms that match their gender challenges like they walk in with a mask; that mask lets their basic identity and humanity, suggests stigma thrive.” that they should be ashamed of who they U.S. Reps. Mike Quigley and Robin Kelly are, and puts them at serious of long-term also spoke at the presentation, highlighting emotional and psychological injury. We are government’s role in ensuring accessible ser- pleased that Judge Gilbert rejected specious vices for all members of the community. arguments about privacy and protected the “Our jobs right now are to get the funds interests of all the students.” into the right spot,” Quigley said. Uptown residents stage a counterdemonstration to the Westboro protest. Photos by Matt Simonette and Peter Serocki WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 26, 2016 7

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We want to call, not only our clergy the world’s oldest religious institutions. and hierarchy to accountability [to commu- On Oct 20, in Arlington Heights, representa- nity] but each individual baptized Christian.” tives from Catholic priest movements and lay However, McGinnity affirmed the group’s sup- reform organizations based across the world port for Pope Francis’s reform initiatives par- gathered to lay out a series of direct challeng- ticularly in church governance and structure. From left: Markus Heil, Kate McElwee, Margaret Roylance, William McGinnity and Sam Bowns. es to the Catholic Church on everything from “We believe it’s critical that our church has Photo by Gretchen Rachel Hammond women’s equality to LGBT rights. to reach out to those who feel marginalized The announcement, also carried via a live or sanctioned by the institutional church,” he global webcast, came at the conclusion of said. the third international conference of its kind However, in terms of the Pope’s August 2016 ber that kids are coming from circumstances during which 40 priests and lay persons from comments about transgender individuals dur- Event focuses on beyond their control and have in most cases 10 countries—Argentina, Australia, Austria, ing which he called them “The annihilation of been profoundly disappointed by the adults Germany, Ireland, Italy, Slovenia, Switzerland, man as the image of God,” Heil said that the potential foster in their lives. But she found that the rewards United Kingdom and the United States—met conference focused on LGBT issues as a whole for welcoming teenagers were plentiful. for three days “to develop strategies for reform rather than singling out transgender issues. parents of teens Tia, who was in foster care for eight years, in the Catholic Church including the full par- “There are a lot of strange ideas in the Catho- By Matt Simonette reminded the audience that teenagers don’t ticipation of women in the Church, confronting lic theology these days,” he added. “There is need nighttime feedings, and can help clericalism and supporting LGBT Catholics.” some education needed and the church is try- An Oct. 22 gathering at Kennedy-King Col- around the house. Sam Bowns, an activist working on the res- ing to catch up.” lege encouraged families to open their homes “Don’t call me your foster child, call me toration of women priests; William McGinnity, This was the first time that the conference for teenage foster children. Approximately 40 your child,” she said. “Don’t just kick me out from the National Council of Priests of Aus- was held in the United States and it arrived at people attended. when I mess up.” tralia; Margaret Roylance, of the Voice of the a time of substantial political and social rifts, In a program that Jeremy Harvey—asso- Josh, who along with his wife, Erin, be- Faithful; Kate McElwee, co-executive director particularly concerning the issue of undocu- ciate deputy director of in the Division of came a foster parent to 15-year-old Simone, of The Women’s Ordination Conference; and or- mented immigrants with the possible threat Strategic Planning and Innovations at the said, “Once the barriers come down, it’s in- ganizer Markus Heil served as the gathering’s of mass deportations and a resulting need for Illinois Department of Children & Family Ser- credible.” representatives. church sanctuary. vices—moderated, three teens in foster care Seventeen-year-old Jesse, vice president of “In this space we wrestled with the damag- “My gut feeling is that there are a number and three foster parents weighed the chal- the Cook County Youth Advisory Board, is in ing effects of oppressive structures knowing of Roman Catholics in this country that will do lenges facing those who are engaging the his second round of foster care after a failed that patriarchy and hierarchy hurt us all,” McEl- everything in their power to ease the misery foster-care system. adoption. However, he said he has been hap- wee said. “We discovered, time and again, that and help our fellow human beings,” Bowns “The best people to tell us who makes the py in his new home. by sharing as equals and asking hard questions said. best Forster parents are people within the “What I thought was just going to be a we can transform, ourselves, our church and McElwee announced “Two statements that system,” said Harvey. bed for me has transitioned into a family,” our world.” both unify us and call us to action for the work Tammy (only panelists’ first names were he said. “With this new connection, I’m able “One of the guiding principles of our assem- ahead.” used), who has been a foster parent for many to develop and thrive.” bly was unity in diversity,” Roylance said. “En- The first was to send a Spirit Day message of years, said that she particularly enjoys wel- Ashley Lepse, recruitment and program visioning an active change in the church means solidarity with and acceptance of LGBTQ youth. coming teens with special needs, adding that support coordinator for Hephzibah Children’s appreciating our differences.” “We commit ourselves to stand against vio- it was especially vital that foster families Association, also spoke at the event, which Roylance singled out clericalism (the elite lence in all forms, physical, emotional and build a bridge of trust between themselves included sponsors such as AdoptUSKIDS, Catholic hierarchy which seeks to control and spiritual towards LGBTQ people,” McElwee said. and their charges early on. One way she does Windy City Times, Pride Action Tank, Aunt maintain power) as a quintessential issue in “We encourage church leaders and individual that is by providing her kids with a key to her Martha’s, ChildServ, Hephzibah, Illinois Cen- the church. members to make the same commitment.” house—many foster parents force their kids ter for Adoption and Permanency, Illinois “It reflects a deeper problem,” she said. “The McElwee went on to read a proclamation from to wait outside if nobody else is at home. Her Department of Children and Family Services, failure to recognize the rights and responsibili- members working on full equality for women kids can also eat or drink whatever is in the Kaleidoscope, Lakeside Community Commit- ties of each baptized person. In the absence of in the Catholic Church “who are too often ig- refrigerator as well. tee, Lawrence Hall, Lutheran Social Services a right to be treated with respect or to follow nored, rejected, silenced and dismissed.” “I want a child in my home to feel like they of Illinois, Little City, National Youth Advo- one’s own conscience, real pain and injustice “To our brothers in the wider church, we are are at home,” Tammy said. cate Program and SOS Children’s Villages. result: sexual abuse, the closing of active par- asking you to deeply listen to the women in She added that it is important to remem- ish communities, the mistreatment of divorced your circle [and] in your communities,” McEl- and remarried Catholics [all] perpetrated in the wee stated. “In the spirit that invites transfor- name of our church.” mation, we ask you to carefully reflect on male “We believe that there can be no meaning- and clerical privilege and risk stepping out and @windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup ful change in the church without fundamental acting courageously for full equality in our rights for all of our members,” Bowns asserted. church. [It] has become an ever more broken “People live in two different worlds. In church, body. We need to walk this journey together.” @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com VOTE NOV. 8 12 Oct. 26, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES Town hall takes steps toward ending gun-related violence By Gretchen Rachel Hammond Legal, Lighthouse Church of Chicago, National Center for Lesbian Rights, National LGBTQ Task It was a haunting rendition of Andra Day’s Force, Northbrook United Methodist Church, “Rise Up,” which Victor Valencia performed, Northalsted Business Alliance, Or Chadash, Pil- that set the tone for “Disarm Gun Violence: lars Fund, Pride Action Tank, Puerto Rican Arts An LGBTQ Town Hall For Action” Oct. 20 at the Alliance, Puerto Rican Cultural Center, Temple Ebenezer Lutheran Church in Chicago’s Ander- Sholom’s Social Justice, Thresholds, TransTech sonville neighborhood. and United Latino Pride. More than 120 people attended the event, For the first public step, Disarm Gun Violence which took place on the second anniversary of brought together a packed audience of people Photo by Tracy Baim the death of Laquan McDonald, whom Chicago representing the entire LGBTQA spectrum of Police Department (CPD) officer Jason Van Dyke all races and economic backgrounds who were rector Kim Hunt moderated a panel that includ- ping the flow of guns into Illinois.” killed, and four months after the murder of 49 unified in the purpose of clearly defining the ed Latinx advocate and Gay and Lesbian Hall of He suggested that regulation occur at a state people on Latinx night at the Pulse LGBTQ bar problem of gun violence and pledging to take Fame alumnus Emmanuel Garcia; attorney and level. in Orlando, Florida. immediate action to end it. Muslim LGBTQ advocate Dr. Nabeela Rasheed, To that end, Sances emphasized the impor- Even though the issue of gun violence has “Today, let us be educated, motivated and ac- Ph.D.; Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence tance of voting in the Nov. 8 election. affected the LGBTQ community for decades, tivated as we hear about the ways in which the Campaign Manager John Gruber; and G-PAC Ex- “At the top of the ticket, we have someone the massacre at Pulse June 12 galvanized the LGBT and gun violence prevention communities ecutive Director Kathleen Sances. [Donald Trump] proud to be endorsed by the movement in Chicago. Two months ago, the not only intersect but share a common goal,” Gruber noted that the 1993 Brady Handgun NRA,” she said. “[They] have pumped unprec- first steps were made in building a coalition Chicago Survivors founder Joy McCormack said. Violence Prevention Act which requires back- edented millions of dollars into his campaign. needed to take the kind of decisive action that “Let us impact this human-rights epidemic by ground checks for those purchasing weapons He promises that, if he becomes president, he led to historic LGBTQ civil-rights victories after understanding two realities; that the hate and at federally licensed dealers does not apply to will get rid of all gun-free zones and put us all 1969. discrimination against LGBTQ people is lethal internet transactions, or private transfers at a in danger all of the time. [Hillary Clinton] has In order to stand up to the lobbying power and [that] we live in a country where guns are gun show. made gun violence prevention one of her main and often intimidating tactics utilized by the too easily accessed without sufficient account- issues. It’s something we’ve been waiting for because the loss of life has been devastating John Zeigler. in every state.” Sances added that voters needed to address Cleopatra Pendleton. gun violence both up and down the ballot. “[G-PAC] has a voter guide,” she said. “If you don’t see your state representative or state senator on that list, it’s because they chose not to participate and get on record that they support safety measures. So don’t vote for them. This is our go time. We have to protect the people that we already know are going to Channyn Lynne Parker. support life-saving policies and we have five opportunities to get votes in both houses to get us to a gun-sense majority.” Photos by Gretchen Rachel Hammond Garcia noted the 56 transgender and gender nonconforming people murdered in the last three years in this country. In 2016 alone, the number of individuals slain stands at 23. Mona Noriega. “Our community has carried that pain while also fighting against the transphobia that ex- ists,” Garcia added. “Some people have been murdered through guns and we haven’t seemed to mobilize around that issue. When you talk to different people of color, our communities are experiencing interpersonal and systemic violence through poverty and [lack of] educa- Kim Hunt, Joy McCormack and Tracy Baim. tion.” Despite attempts, following Orlando, to drive a wedge between the Islamic and LGBTQ com- munities Rasheed recalled meetings designed “In some states like [neighboring] Indiana, to bring organizations and people into a defi- National Rifle Association (NRA), organizers ability and safety measures.” I can go to a gun show or I can meet up with ant unity called The TRUST Collective with a said it is essential that the coalition be just as McCormack recalled her 21-year-old son, someone online who can sell me a gun no mission to consistently support each other par- formidable and equally aggressive. Frankie, “at the prime of his life, looking for- questions asked,” he said. “Some states [like ticularly following a tragedy. The coalition partners for the Oct. 20 ward to all of the wonders. He was very ac- Illinois] have closed the [gun show] loophole Director of Urban Education and Community event—which Chicago Survivors, Pride Action tive in social services around Chicago and he but the approximate average is that 40 percent Partnerships at DePaul University’s Steans Cen- Tank and Windy City Times organized—includ- was nominated to intern at the White House,” of all gun sales in America go without a back- ter for Community-Based Service Learning John ed Illinois gun violence-prevention organiza- she said. “On Oct. 31, 2009, Frankie went to ground check. If you look at the gun violence Zeigler received such support in passionate ap- tions like The Brady Campaign, G-PAC, Illinois a Halloween party. Twenty minutes after arriv- all over the city [of Chicago], you’re seeing a plause after he recalled the life of his friend Council Against Handgun Violence, Organizing ing, he was standing in front of the house and lot of guns come from out of state.” Mbiganyi Lashani who was murdered on Chi- for Action and People for Safer Society, plus gangbangers came by with a TEC-9 semi-auto- Gruber also pinpointed Illinois gun deal- cago’s South Side July 29, 2016. a large list of LGBTQ advocacy and activist matic weapon. They opened fire. This was a gun ers who are not effectively regulated. One of “[M.B.] became such a vital part of work- groups, plus allied community organizations: bought illegally for $300. That’s all it took and the most prolific is Chuck’s Gun Shop & Pistol ing with young people,” Zeigler said. “The kids Affinity Community Services, AIDS Founda- our son was gone.” Range in Riverdale, Illinois—a community that loved him. My family loved him. I look at him tion of Chicago, ALMA: Association of Latino/ “Where was Frankie’s right to life?” She is 94 percent Black. as an ancestor. There’s a small community that as Motivating Action, Broadway Youth Center asked. “Where was his right to choose to be “Chuck’s is owned by a very affluent white has begun to put up leaflets around [South of HBH, BUILD (Broader Urban Involvement & here? We have to remind ourselves that this guy who lives in the south suburbs,” Gruber Peoria Street] searching for his murderer.” Leadership Development), Center on Halsted, is a human-rights issue. This is a civil-rights said. “Over the course of four years, Chuck’s Suicide is a tragedy that dramatically impacts Chicago Black Gay Men’s Caucus, Chicago Co- issue.” Guns supplied one in 12 of the guns used on the LGBTQ community, particularly its youth alition of Welcoming Churches, Chicago House, “What we want to do is make sure that any the streets of Chicago. It is one of the lead- where it is the leading cause of death. Commission on Human Relations, Dignity work that happens is not redundant but ampli- ing sellers of NRA memberships in the United Gruber addressed the more than 20,000 gun Chicago, Equality Illinois, Erie Neighborhood fies the work that’s already begun in Chicago States.” suicides in the United States each year (50 ev- House, Gays Against Guns Chicago, Heartland and Illinois,” Windy City Times Publisher and “We need action at the federal level,” he ery day) and the fact that those who attempt Alliance, Howard Brown Health, Illinois Coali- Executive Editor Tracy Baim asserted. said. “But, until we have some commitment suicide with a gun have a higher than 50-per- tion for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Illinois In order for people to understand the scope either by a Republican Congress or at a federal cent mortality rate. Safe Schools Alliance, La Casa Norte, Lambda of the problem, Pride Action Tank Executive Di- level, we’re not going to get a lot done stop- According to Gruber, prevention begins with WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 26, 2016 13 Far left: Kim Hunt (left to right), Dr. Nabeela Rasheed, John Gruber, Emmanuel Garcia and Kathleen Sances. Left: Joy McCormack (left to right), Channyn Lynne Parker, Lisa Gilmore, Maria Pike and Mark Walsh. Photos by Gretchen Rachel Hammond

her grandma’s heart aches, her brother’s heart aches,” Cleopatra said. “It doesn’t end. We, the victims or survivors of violence, serve life sen- tences. There are so many lives that are taken and nobody knows who did it. We have a lot of things to consider when we elect officials. Gun safe storage in the home. 24-year-old Ricky Pike who was gunned down ness every single day of your life because that violence might be at the top of that list. I’ve “We are not demonizing gun owners,” he in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood in makes us better as a society. Take a risk and go become a single-issue voter because I know said. “What we are saying is that, if you’re a August 2012. Maria is a member of the Moms to places you have never been because you will what it feels like to be on this side of gun vio- parent and you really care about your kid and Demand Action Survivor Network—an organi- be pleasantly surprised.” lence. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.” you happen to be a gun owner, make sure that zation created following the 2012 Sandy Hook “Nothing stops a bullet like a job,” Walsh Chicago Commission on Human Relations gun is locked up.” Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Con- said. “This is all of our problem and we all need Commissioner Mona Noriega urged the audi- Suicide has had a devastating effect on the necticut and now has over three million mem- to work together.” ence to file complaints against any kind of dis- transgender community. bers nationwide and growing. Parker similarly challenged the audience by crimination, which she described as “Violence Chicago House TransLife Center project man- Gilmore’s suggestions included to “Challenge suggesting that they “Stop relying on the me- against all our communities.” ager and advocate Channyn Lynne Parker as- culture to decrease the vulnerability we experi- dia to define trans people.” “The TRUST Collective is so important be- serted that, as a transgender woman of color, ence as LGBTQ people.” “It’s our responsibility to interrupt trans- cause it centers the voices of communities we “My right to self-identify and to self-determine “We need to address homelessness,” Gilm- phobia, violent language and behavior at all all recognize,” she said. “All our lives, we’ve is undermined as I navigate what is a cis-het- ore added. “Internal to our own LGBTQ com- costs,” she said. “Invest in trans people in been getting our asses kicked. Now we are fi- ero, oppressive, patriarchal society that vio- munities and groups, we need to stop [reject- real, tangible ways. Provide us actual spaces nally coming together to recognize the power lently polices my body.” ing] people, especially LGBTQ youth for being to thrive in life. I strongly urge that our trans of the community. We have to own it. It is “Working with trans women of color on a homeless and present in front of us. Choose to women and men get out and vote. Through upon us.” daily basis, I see the violence that is inflicted be together and to really see each other.” history I’ve noticed that movements begin in So it was that the community stood as one upon [them],” she added before telling the “One of the things I deal with in Springfield basements, in church or in living rooms. It’s so and, led by Chicago Survivors’ crisis responder story of Eisha Love who was held for nearly all the time is legislators who are scared be- imperative that young people create spaces of Dawn Valenti, the audience repeated a promise four years without trial in the maximum secu- yond belief because they know that, every time their own because [their] voices are powerful.” to reverberate in a politically cynical and indif- rity Division IX of the Cook County Jail for an a vote comes up that make sense, one that 90 “Oftentimes, we think about an us-versus- ferent world. act of self-defense. percent of Americans support, they get 150 them conversation,” McCormack said. “We for- “Today was the first of many steps that we Parker was also part of the final panel of the phone calls that say ‘I will take you out of of- get that the statistics we’re seeing on Monday shall take together,” Valenti said. “Today we evening tasked with setting out an agenda fice,’” Walsh asserted. “So it’s important that morning are us. This is our community, these promise to honor with more than prayers and where, as McCormack stated, “We’re not just [state and federal] legislators hear from us.” are our families, this is our Chicago.” sympathy [but] to honor united in action. We talking about the problem but we’re actually “When my son was killed, I found out that There could be no more devastating illus- stand together united as one Chicago [that] focused on actions and solutions.” the [killers] were involved with guns coming tration of that sentiment than the testament calls for the freedom to walk in a park, raise Moderated by McCormack, the panel includ- from out of state or places like Chuck’s gun provided by Cleopatra Pendleton, mother of our children, drive down the street, move our ed Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence shop,” Pike said. “I also found out that guns 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton who was gunned kids into dorm rooms and celebrate our identi- (ICHV) Campaign Director Mark Walsh and anti- exacerbate the systemic issues that we have down while talking with friends in a Kenwood ties with love and without fear.” violence advocate Lisa Gilmore. in our society. We have issues of poverty, edu- park in January 2013. Organizers plan to do additional educational They were joined by Maria Pike, the mother of cation, lack of opportunities. Do acts of kind- “My heart aches, her father’s heart aches, and action events in other areas of the city.

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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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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 Oct. 26, 2016 17 ELECTIONS 2016 The 12 are members of the National Gay Me- prejudice,” she writes. dia Association (NGMA), a trade association of The members of NGMA who are each endors- the nation’s major-market legacy LGBT newspa- ing Clinton in their own pages are: Bay Area pers. NGMA members have a combined circula- Reporter (San Francisco), Washington Blade, Windy City Times tion in print and online of more than 1 million Philadelphia Gay News, Dallas Voice, Windy City readers per week. Times (Chicago), Between the Lines (Detroit), This is an unprecedented joint announce- Bay Windows (Boston), Georgia Voice, SFGN General Election Guide ment from the newspapers because several do (Ft. Lauderdale), Watermark (Orlando), Gay City not engage in political endorsements: Thirty- News (New York) and The Pride LA. 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By Gretchen Rachel Hammond bers to successfully do that? KC: I think that we’re getting very close As an openly gay legislator and representa- to that point. People who have never voted tive for the 14th District, Kelly Cassidy (D) has against the speaker, voted against the speaker fought innumerable battles since taking on the on the [Stopgap]. I do think there is a great role vacated by Harry Osterman in 2011 includ- deal of frustration on the part of rank and file ing marriage equality, the prohibition of con- members and I think the more time people are there is a lot at stake at the top of the version therapy, school bullying policy reform spending in their district campaigning and ELECTIONS 2016: ticket. What do you think that is in terms and mandatory paid sick leave. talking to people, the more clear it’s going STATE REP of both presidential and down ballot rac- On Nov. 8, Cassidy faces a new challenge in to be to put these non-budgetary issues aside es? the form of independent candidate Arthur Noah and get the work done that you’re there to do. Independent Siegel ANS: If we get someone like Trump who Siegel—an everyman who says he was inspired Throughout all of this process, social services aims to unseat has a short temper and who doesn’t know by the Bernie Sanders campaign in his decision have been thrown to the wayside. It’s very what they’re doing, that cannot be good for to make a bid to unseat the incumbent. clear to me that, on the part of the governor, Kelly Cassidy growing our country. Other countries will ask Cassidy spoke with Windy City Times about it’s very calculated and it can’t continue. My By Gretchen Rachel Hammond themselves why the American people elected the election and her continuing work in Spring- district is an area that has a huge need and an a president who is mentally unstable. field should she prevail in the election. incredible reliance on social services and it is Arthur Noah Siegel, an Independent candi- The state is in crisis right now in terms Windy City Times: Some of the bills you reprehensible that the most vulnerable people date for the 14th District, claims a long list of the budget. We’ve got tent cities emerg- sponsored in 2016 have a focus on restor- in our state are the ones paying the highest of professions on his resume, including work ing under Lake Shore Drive, CPS [Chicago ative justice and criminal-justice reform. price for this impasse. as a touring musician, auto mechanic, truck Public Schools] don’t have enough books for How confident are you about them passing? WCT: We’ve been seeing a lot of ads dem- driver and carpenter. In 2010, Siegel moved their students and we’re opening up Charter Kelly Cassidy: My district is incredibly diverse onstrating Gov. Rauner’s support for the top from San Francisco to his birthplace of Chi- schools to replace public schools. A lot of and these issues are deeply personal to me. My of the Republican ticket. These have been cago where he set up a handyman and con- people from Illinois are leaving the state be- family has been impacted by the criminal-jus- effective attacks for Democrat down ballot struction business. cause of bad contracts, a lack of communi- tice system and, in addition, I see every day in candidates in Illinois but, in a post-Brexit Claiming to be inspired by Vermont Sen. cation and a lack of compromise. Not being my neighborhood the disparate impact of the world, isn’t there a concern that Trump’s Bernie Sander’s run during the Democrat pri- affiliated with any party, I can really make way we administer justice in this state and in base is being underestimated? maries and an allegiance neither to Demo- the hard choices for the people of Illinois this country on the people that I represent. So KC: Absolutely. People rely on the polls. crats nor Republicans but “the people of the because we’ve got to get on track with the it’s incumbent upon me to find ways to make We’ve seen that in the last several elections 14th District,” Siegel aims to unseat popular state budget and rebuild our foundation fi- things better. We are at a really special time here whether it’s that polling hasn’t really sate Rep. Kelly Cassidy (D) at a point in his- nancially. in our history where a lot of conservatives caught up with new technology. There’s also tory that he calls “a crisis” for the people of WCT: Where do you lay the blame for the are realizing that we’ve been foolishly spend- an inaccuracy in the way they are reported. I budget impasse? ing money on policies that aren’t working. So don’t think a lot of people are willing to admit ANS: When you’re in office, you’ve really there’s this wonderful confluence that we have support for Trump. But it is scary, very real and got to consider the people of Illinois and I now that I feel really compelled to take advan- very possible that [a Trump victory] could hap- feel that the politicians are not compromis- tage of and get as much success as we possibly pen. ing or working together. Republicans and can. WCT: If it does, there are policies such Democrats have been struggling for a long We’ve done some great work this year on as penalizing Chicago as a safe city for un- time against each other and they’re playing repairing some of the reentry policies of the documented immigrants that may come into politics right now. State representatives and state. I believe they will make a huge differ- play. How do you push back against Trump’s senators who have been in office for a long ence in people’s lives. But we’re not done yet. ideas and a Republican governor who sup- time are out of touch and have interests to There’s more to do and we can always do better. ports him? make money off of the state. Bringing new WCT: Siegel seems to agree on a number of KC: The first priority is not letting [Trump] people in with fresh ideas would be really your positions but his problem is the stale- win and holding Republicans who are afraid good for the state. mate over the state budget. He isn’t alone in to speak out against him accountable. It is WCT: Do you think people in Illinois are that sentiment even with the stopgap mea- unimaginable that any person of conscience motivated to replace the status quo? sure passed in the summer. How would you would stand up for this guy. My commitment ANS: There are some Republicans running describe the state of impasse and what prog- between now and election day is to do every- who are little more on the independent side. ress do you think you can make in 2017? thing I can to make sure that, not only do we But a lot of the people who have been in of- KC: To be honest with you, I think it’s a fail- defeat this man in the election for president, fice for a long time are unopposed. Electing ure of leadership. I’ve spent a lot of time work- but that we prevail in those down ticket races. an independent would be a big step because ing with rank and file members on both sides of WCT: What are the attitudes in Springfield, there hasn’t been an independent for over 80 the aisle who are ready to be the grownups in post-marriage equality? Are LGBT issues re- years. So, just having independents means the room and that’s really what needs to hap- igniting? free thinkers who have fresh ideas to really pen. The action of a handful of us who refused KC: I think the issue around trans use of get out of this hole. One step at a time. to pass the speaker’s out-of-balance budget bathrooms have given people pause on the WCT: You’re running against a popular that would have just been more of the same, victory lap because our work isn’t ever really candidate who has taken the lead on many is what pushed us to at least get to the place done. I’m meeting in [Washington] D.C. with issues facing the LGBTQ community. What of a Stopgap. The Maryland Department of Children and Fam- Arthur Noah Siegel. is your position on them? As we return, we will see a lot more folks from ily Services, who are doing some really innova- Photo courtesy of Siegel ANS: I have a lot of the same ideas as Kelly the rank and file who are pushed to the point tive work around the placement of LGBT youth Cassidy. I agree with her on a lot of issues of forcing real solutions. Every single person in foster care in order to explore options for us the 14th and the state of Illinois. but we have to get the budget straightened in that building, save a couple, knows that we here. It took two years to pass the conversion- Siegel talked with Windy City Times about out before we move on to any other issues. need to add revenues to the budget. We cannot therapy [ban]. It took two years to pass bul- his plans should he prevail Nov. 8. She’s done a lot of great things but I’m will- possibly cut our way out of this and we can’t lying, and it’s still watered down and doesn’t Windy City Times: What, in particu- ing to go the extra mile for the citizens of continue to do this dance over non-budgetary have the enforcement I would like to see in lar, was it about Sanders’ campaign that Illinois because I was born in the district at items holding up the budget. It’s become a there. Our community must be mindful of pro- spurred your decision to make a run for Edgewater Hospital and I love the city of Chi- very personal and pitched battle between the tecting those who do not have equality yet. the 14th? cago and the state of Illinois. I’m willing to governor and the speaker and that needs to Some people think that they get to take their Arthur Noah Siegel: I went to some of his work really, really hard to get the state back stop. The way that stops is by rank and file wedding cake and go home but they don’t. rallies and then I started volunteering for his on track. members standing up and saying “enough.” Visit http://citizensforcassidy.com/kelly- campaign. What he represents for the country WCT: So, as far as continuing the fight WCT: Are there enough rank-and-file mem- cassidy. is the people and the anti-corporation move- for LGBT equality—particularly transgen- ment. He really put his heart and soul into der civil rights—do you believe none of his campaign and his political career. That’s that can be accomplished until the bud- @windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup why I’m going into this race as a middle class worker and a non-politician. WCT: The media and pundits claim that @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com Turn to page 24 22 Oct. 26, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES ELECTIONS 2016: STATE REP AK: On everything, Gretchen. Trump is that he is the antithesis of public WCT: True enough. So where are you on the service. We’re dealing with a man who brags leader of your ticket? about the fact that he is in this for himself. AK: I’ve been a vocal never-Trump proponent He says things that, most of the time, can’t Gay Republican from the very beginning. I’m in a district that’s even be done. The kind of rhetoric that comes majority Latino and, as you can imagine, Trump from him is stuff that I expect from third world is politically toxic over here in spite of every- dictators. makes bid for change thing else. For me, the real issue with Donald Visit AndyFor24.com. in 24th District ELECTIONS 2016: STATE REP By GRETCHEN RACHEL HAMMOND 24th District incumbent Andy Kirchoff believes that “it’s time for some- thing better.” faces a challenge In his bid to unseat incumbent Elizabeth Hernandez (D) as state representative for the By Gretchen Rachel Hammond 24th District, the Berwyn-born, openly gay Re- publican accuses legislators in Springfield of Elizabeth Hernandez has served as the Illi- “lackluster representation” that “hurts our lo- nois House Representative for the people of cal communities” and “the rest of the State of the 24th District for well over a decade. Illinois as well.” Currently vice-chair of Illinois Legislative In terms of the budget impasse, Kirchoff has Latino Caucus, during her tenure, Hernandez gone as far as to accuse elected officials of en- has been a staunch proponent of immigrant gaging in a “form of political malpractice.” rights and has tackled and won on issues in- But how does a gay Republican who is cluding domestic violence, low-income child aligned with the party on issues such as abor- care assistance and anti-crime programs. tion, support of the Second Amendment and However, both nationally and on a state religious freedom marry that with his belief in level, incumbent challengers have asserted LGBT rights, immigration reform and the exis- that 2016 needs to be a change year, partic- tence of a “social safety net” when the top of ularly in Illinois where the continuing bud- his ticket has been taken over by an alt-right get impasse in Springfield has angered and movement that wants the exact opposite? frustrated voters who are seeing vital social Windy City Times: Give me some more de- services impacted by what many believe is tails on why you decided to run. inaction on the part of legislators. Andy Kirchoff: There’s a lot of different rea- Hernandez now faces a serious threat to sons that culminate into one big event. Run- her seat in the form of Republican Andy Kir- ning as Republican, needless to say, I’ve got choff, whose campaign is gathering both mo- plenty of disagreements with Representative Andy Kirchoff. mentum and endorsements. Hernandez on many issues. I had certainly Photo courtesy of Kirchoff Hernandez spoke with Windy City Times Elizabeth Hernandez. grown tired of seeing her going unchallenged and laid out her case for another term. Photo courtesy of Amigos for Lisa political courage. I’ll be a political “one-term year-after-year. Windy City Times: Kirchoff said that he wonder,” if that’s what it takes. I would love to For me, the final straw was when I called Rep. once called your office and got a three- serve the people of this state as long as I can sustains middle class and low income people. Hernandez’s office about a particular bill and it month old voicemail, that you are not but, ultimately, it comes down to doing the I was one of the ones who fought hard to went straight to voicemail. The voicemail it- there for your constituents and that, po- right thing regardless of what happens to me ensure that, in the Stopgap budget, we put self was describing an event that occurred in litically, you play it safe. How do you an- on a personal and political level. funding back into services that was taken a Berwyn hospital that had happened three swer those accusations? WCT: You support concealed carry. Do you away. months ago. So it was clear that, for whatever Elizabeth Hernandez: Three months? Come believe that it is wise in a state where we In the stopgap budget were able to, at reason, her office manager or whoever was not on. It’s complete exaggeration and lies. It’s have so many guns on the streets that have least temporarily, meet the needs that the even checking voicemails. In addition to the just a way to discredit me in one way or an- contributed to [more than] 500 homicides people in my district were depending on. I fact that I disagree with her on issues, she other. My strongest area is my constituency, in Chicago this year? have a district that has two schools that are wasn’t event able to provide basic constituent in terms of responding to and working with AK: I understand the concerns about gun on the verge of closing. I can’t go back, I will services. my constituents. Does the phone answer ev- violence and there’s no doubt in my mind that not go back to constituency empty-handed. WCT: The budget impasse tops your list of ery time someone calls? No. I can’t be sure Through some of the work, some of the ne- guns are not always the answer to a problem that it’s 100 percent. I have three full time issues. Where do you stand on fault? and they can escalate it and make it worse. But gotiations, we were at least able to work out AK: I want to get past this whole battle of staff [members] so it would be practically having a concealed gun helps to save a life. Ul- year-round school finding but, I’m going to egos. There’s plenty of blame to go around for impossible unless they call when the office is timately, guns are tools and tools can be used be very honest with you, we are not out of the current budget fiasco in terms of Rauner closed. My [house] attendance record is that in good ways. As far as I’m concerned, provid- the woods. Our community needs someone and Madigan. You can go over the fact that I’ve been there every single day. As a matter ing an avenue for people to defend themselves who is experienced and who has a real un- Rauner should have used line-item veto power of fact, [Kirchoff] took some folks to Spring- can only be seen as a good thing. I do support derstanding of how we have to move ahead. for the initial budget that was way out of bal- field and it was almost like he was poking various measures to make sure guns do not fall I admire Andy for throwing in his hat, but he ance. You can mention the fact that, later on, around to see how I would react. I was re- into the wrong hands. Obviously, I’m not the has a lot to learn. He’s not there. Speaker Madigan and [state Sen. John] Culler- sponsive and addressed the folks who came NRA’s poster child but I do believe in the hu- WCT: Would you be prepared to go ton couldn’t agree on a budget to send to the in even though it had to do with an issue we man right to self-defense and know that guns against Speaker Madigan to fight for your governor after he said he was going to sign are not on the same page about. can serve that purpose. There are plenty of district? something. WCT: The budget crisis is on the mind of people in the LGBT community who own guns. EH: I would and I have. Andy has to make But, ultimately, what got us to this situation a lot of people and they are looking at leg- WCT: You’ve also expressed support for me look like I’m not my own person. I did is decades and decades of really bad budget islators with the feeling that maybe some religious-freedom laws. Where do you stand not get into office very easily and it wasn’t priorities in the state of Illinois. It’s been go- house cleaning is needed to get it sorted. on those [laws] that have been proposed or through the help of Madigan. The first time ing on longer than I’ve been alive. The pension As an incumbent, why is such change un- enacted in other states that restrict LGBTQ I threw in my hat was in 2002 and there situation with the $115 Billion and counting necessary and how will this impasse then rights? was no incumbent. I saw an opportunity for in pension liabilities is the reason we have the be resolved? AK: I’m a very strong supporter of freedom of change, however I didn’t win even on the budget crisis in the first place. Politicians will EH: I’m in my fifth term and there is a rea- speech and freedom of religion. I think they are second time because I was working against a come and go. I’d much rather focus on the root son people have put me there. There has to human rights. LGBTQ rights are human rights, very hard machine. I am not a Madigan fol- of the problem and finding solutions that get be some sense of trust or confidence in me too, and I want to find a way to protect both. lower. I’m in agreement with a lot that he our budget priorities where they need to be. to hoist their concerns in Springfield. Since has done because I think it’s going to benefit I know the people who most vocally express the time that I have been in office, I’ve been WCT: Our current comptroller, Leslie Mung- their support of religious freedom laws tend my community. Am I always? No, I’m not. er, has proposed no pay until a settlement is very careful on what committees I selected The speaker has heard the voice of my dis- to be odds with the LGBT community and that because how I selected them was a reflection reached. Are you for that? makes it hard to find common ground but I re- trict and he respects that. AK: Absolutely. I support the No Budget, No on my district. Two particular committees ally do think there are legitimate concerns on WCT: Something you’ve fought really Pay Act. I would gladly sign on as a co-sponsor. that I sit on that have to do with funding both sides and I want to make sure that both hard for is immigration. Among Trump’s I wish my opponent would do the same thing. are Appropriations for Elementary and Sec- are respected. Someone at least has to try. many positions is the penalizing of safe WCT: Should you prevail, how will you be ondary Education, and Appropriations for cities and the introduction of a deporta- I know it doesn’t score me many points with Human Services. That is what is extremely able to create an effective coalition around the LGBTQ community. There are some who are tion squad. This is going to affect the peo- you to gain some momentum on the budget important: having a voice at the table to ple in your district should he prevail. How downright furious with me for even defending make a difference when you’re in discussion. measures you’ve proposed? [religious freedom restoration acts]. But, as a do you fight any anti-immigrant initiatives AK: You have to be willing to buck your party In terms of the budget, in order for us to public servant, you’ve got to do the right thing, that may come out of a Trump presidency? leadership and I am willing to do that and iden- have reached some agreement there had to regardless of what it costs you politically. tify the people on the other side of the aisle be agenda items that the governor wanted. WCT: Donald Trump has flip-flopped on who also want a way out of this mess, who are That agenda called for doing away with what LGBT issues….. Turn to page 24 willing to go the extra mile and demonstrate WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 26, 2016 23 ELECTIONS 2016: STATE REP propriations Committee, I listen all day long are the next barriers to equal rights that the to agencies who are facing ruin because the state needs to overcome? governor will not sign a budget and is trying to GH: We need to pay close attention to chang- hold things hostage to his turn around agenda. ing laws that have historically not taken into Greg Harris looks If causing people to close businesses and lay account needs of transgender people of which off workers is a way to grow the economy, then there are a lot because when these laws were his definition of success is way different than passed in the ‘40s, ‘50s and ‘60s, there was just forward to next term mine. not the awareness of the needs of transgender WCT: People feel like everything is siloed. people that there is today. So we need to go By Gretchen Rachel Hammond The governor is coming from one and the back and be sure that the laws of the state of house and senate from another. Illinois welcome and take care of trans people. Although 13th District Rep. Greg Harris (D) is GH: Well, he is because he just keeps focus- As you look at all the different services that unopposed on Nov. 8, he is not breathing any ing on getting rid of unions, to stop paying for families need, whether it’s a family that is cis- easier. injured workers, cutting down on voting rights gender, transgender, gay, straight or bisexual, Harris knows there is too much to do as and access to the polls; those are the things he services must be delivered in a fair way, with the state of Illinois reels from the effects of cares about. Everyone else is saying “what are no bias an there must be cultural competency. a seemingly endless budget stalemate and the we going to do about our schools? What are we In healthcare and human services, cultural LGBTQ community faces more civil rights hur- going to do about our seniors?” competency is very important and it’s going to dles. Violence towards the transgender commu- WCT: So, no way to meet in the middle? take a lot of training to bring agencies up to nity and on the streets of Chicago has become GH: We have sent numerous budgets to the speed. You see that at all levels from senior an epidemic with little attempt to address the governor and they have all been vetoed. There services to making sure LGBT youth are treated cause of the issue or to move towards a cure. were a couple of Stopgap budgets that allowed appropriately in schools and that the problems Even with the polls looking positive for people to just limp along but they’re not solv- of homeless youth are addressed because so Democrats on the top and down the ballot, the ing the problem, they’re just kicking the can many are LGBT kids and we have to sensitive possibility remains that 2017 will see the in- down the road. If you look at the history of Il- to their needs. auguration of a Trump presidency in a country linois, Republicans and Democrats have always WCT: Is there going to be movement on that has already been severely damaged by the been able to get together and figure out our these issues in Springfield or is there still a politics of fear, racism, hatred and division. number one job which is paying for things that sense that, with equal marriage done, noth- Harris spoke with Windy City Times about are important for our state. That is until this ing else needs sorting out? how he intends to move forward in Springfield term when suddenly the governor just can’t get GH: We pay attention to things that our con- through his next term, no matter who occupies that done. stituents bring to us. Everyone has families in The White House. He’s a self-funding billionaire. I’m not even their district who are affected, for instance by Windy City Times: The Illinois credit rating sure his base is happy. If you go out to subur- issues surrounding trans people because there’s Greg Harris. has been reduced again due to the budget ban areas, DuPage county, folks out there are somebody who’s in their family or who goes Photo by Gretchen Rachel Hammond impasse. Do you see a resolution anytime worried about Autism, their schools staying to their church or temple or at work who is soon and what are lawmakers doing in order ture is our most important job to provide an open, their kids being able to go to a state trans. We need to raise those issues up with to make that happen? adequate budget to pay for the things that college or university, but when you are a self- elected officials. I think a lot of colleagues of Greg Harris: The biggest problem facing the families need. funded guy writing your own checks, you have mine paid attention to marriage because, all state is getting our financial house in order. WCT: A lot of social service organizations a different perspective than a lot of average of a sudden, in the media and from families in That means putting aside all these outside is- families. their district, they were hearing a lot about it. sues that the governor keeps trying to drag and nonprofits are shutting down or cutting back on staff. When we talk about HIV/ AIDS WCT: So is budget inaction a fair descrip- So it’s our job to go in and say that there are into the conversation as a precondition to dis- tion? How would you define it? other issues that are yet to be addressed and cussing the budget. Taking care of our human organizations, services for homeless youth and seniors, there must be concern on the GH: I think that it’s hostage holding. they’re also important. service organizations, our education system, WCT: The fight for equal marriage was For more information about Harris, visit higher education, public safety, our infrastruc- part of your colleagues. 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5625 N. Broadway, Chicago 866-725-9900 ChicagoToyota.com 24 Oct. 26, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES ‘Before Stonewall’ delves into lives of LGBT seniors By Gretchen Rachel Hammond in spite of the fact I had to protect myself and never say exactly who I was.” The second of the two-part series “Before Matteson said that he dated and had inter- Stonewall: The LGBTQ Experience in the ‘50s course with a number of women before he had and ‘60s” (with Lincoln Park Village, Gerber/ “any inkling that I was interested in men.” Hart Library, Lake View Presbyterian Church and “Like many adolescent boys in that period of Howard Brown Health presenting) introduced history, I was taught that to have sex with a four senior representatives of the L, G, B and T woman before you were married was a sin,” he segments of the rainbow Oct. 18 at the church. recalled. “But nobody said a word about ho- Moderated by Peggy Walker—an ally and mosexuality. My parents were Protestants and mother of a trans son—the panel included Lin- never said anything about homosexuality but coln Park Village member and retired American my small town Methodist church did.” Library Association Executive Director Bill Gor- In his senior year of college, Matteson met don who spoke as a gay man; David Matteson, and fell in love with his wife Melissa. The cou- From left: Bill Gordon, David Matteson, Peggy Walker, Martha Smith and Gloria Allen. professor emeritus from Governors State Uni- ple have been married for 56 years. Photo by Gretchen Rachel Hammond His book I Took Both Roads: My Journey as a versity, who represented bisexual individuals; have fallen through the cracks in the system. Bisexual Husband is dedicated to her “because former Allied Medical professional and open We are very fortunate to live in a place like of her incredible generosity and ability to con- Point Foundation lesbian woman Martha Smith; and longtime Town Hall.” tinue to love me even when the marriage was transgender activist and Center on Halsted Allen, who was celebrating the two Jeff Charm School founder Gloria Allen. very different than what she expected it to be.” event Oct. 27 Awards recently won by Northlight Theatre’s Point Foundation (Point)—which pro- “I’m representing gay males but it needs “We have been honest about everything in presentation of the Philip Dawkins play Charm vides higher education scholarship, men- to be said that none of us is distinctly one our relationship from the very beginning,” Mat- based on Allen’s life and work, recalled 40 toring and leadership training to LGBTQ thing or another, there’s a continuum” Gordon teson added. “When I finally realized that I was years as an out transgender woman. students—will hold an event Thursday, said. “I’m 80-years-old and, when I look back bi, then we needed that communication.” “I’m here to say that transgender women Oct. 27, 6-8 p.m., at Venue Six10, 610 S. on those early years, I sometimes can feel my Smith, 71, described herself as an “Illinois have been thrown under the bus for years,” she Michigan Ave. heart begin to pound.” farm-bred gal, card-carrying lesbian and femi- said. “My family accepted me. In high school, The event will be an opportunity to meet Gordon remembered being as young as 4 nist.” I was chased home. There were bottles and Point Scholars and Alumni, enjoy cocktails when he began to feel the earliest hints of his “Feminist has become almost a dirty word. bricks. I was sacred but I am a survivor and a and hors d’oeuvres, and for individuals and sexuality. In the eighth grade, he noticed a We seldom hear it used anymore,” she asserted. fighter. You might dislike me but I don’t dislike companies to learn how they can help sup- Readers Digest article headlined “Homosexual- It was in Houston, Texas at the age of 20 you but don’t put your hands on me.” port the foundation’s programs and initia- ity: The Scourge of America.” that Smith met her first lover. She recalled being violated at an early age tives. “I was momentarily frightened,” he said. “We started living together,” she recalled. by the son of her babysitter. The abuse went Tickets are $100, and guests must be 21 “[It] was written by two M.D.s and two Ph.D.s “She was certifiably crazy, we had a very on for a year. years of age; visit PointFoundation.org/ in psychology. One of them promoted that we strange and scary relationship. It was physi- “I didn’t know what was going on or how to ChicagoCS16. cally abusive and eventually I escaped it and should all be castrated, another said that we explain this to my parents,” Allen said. “I hat- hightailed it back to the farm with mom and should all have lobotomies performed on us. ed boys for that. It stayed with me for years. dad.” Another said, ‘‘If you are a parent of a child Parents didn’t teach us about sex. Everything ‘Older, Wiser, and Although Stonewall was included in her list who may be gay, be sure to have them institu- that I learned was from the streets, which was of pivotal events in the ‘60s, Smith stated that tionalized.’ Can you imagine how that felt to a wrong.” Stronger’ Oct. 28 she was, at the time, unaware of its signifi- “Older, Wiser, and Stronger: Living Well 12-year-old?” “Parents who have children who are differ- cance. As You Age with HIV” will take place Friday, At Gordon’s small-town Kansas public library, ent, gay, trans[gender] should sit down and “A couple of nights of bottle-throwing and ri- Oct. 28, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at 111 E. Pearson the card catalog listing for homosexuality read, talk to them about the world,” Allen said. “I oting on the part of, as the [news]paper called St., at Loyola University’s Lewis Towers. “See mental illness and criminal activity.” just can’t understand why we, as transgender them, ‘butch lesbians and drag queens in New The keynote speaker will be Nelson Ver- “In 1953, I was in high school and looked women, are so hated for no reason at all. We York’ really didn’t make the news,” she said. gel, how has been HIV-positive for more at the [news]paper and there was the headline should stand, speak up and talk about it. I’m “Back in the day, the bars [were] our social than three decades; he is now an advocate ‘President Eisenhower signs executive order to not afraid to tell people who I am. I came out touchstone. I did my share of partying and and expert on nutrition, salvage therapies fire homosexuals,’’’ Gordon recalled. “I thought, early in life and I’m going to continue to come drinking.” and successful aging. He is the author of ‘There’s that word again. That’s what I am.’ Sev- out and raise a ruckus for my sisters and gay Smith successfully battled throat cancer but Testosterone: A Man’s Guide, and co-author enteen thousand people were fired [from the family.” was left with massive medical bills. of Built to Survive. Vergel writes and fit- federal government] in the first 90 days. How Following a brief discussion between the au- “I bring this up because it is not unique,” ness and nutrition for TheBody.com. could I possibly run the risk of getting a job dience and panelists Matteson and Windy City Smith said before acknowledging her neighbors It’s a free program about aging and HIV; with the government? How could I ever get a Times Publisher/Executive Editor Tracy Baim in the 80 units of independent living provid- breakfast and lunch will be provided. Reg- job with a public institution?” (who had the lecture during part one of the ed by Heartland Alliance Housing’s Town Hall istration is required by Tuesday, Oct. 18. Gordon admitted that the Oct. 18 event was series at the Gerber/Gart library), they were on Apartments in Lake View which she described Contact Jessie Mott at 773-989-9400, ext. the first time he had “said it out loud to a hand to each sign copies of their books, I Took as a “lifeline.” 232 or [email protected]. group of people. I’m a man who is predomi- Both Roads and Out and Proud in Chicago, re- “There are people there who have survived nantly gay. I’d been in a wonderful marriage for spectively. 10 years. I had a female lover for 30 years and accidents, illness, at least half a dozen 30-year I’ve had a wonderful life and wonderful friends survivors of AIDS,” Smith said. “Lots of us who SIEGEL from page 21 are just pointing fingers and they’re not taking responsibility for why they got elected into of- fice. The pension issue is part of the problem tion to that, it absolutely has to be brought to HERNANDEZ from page 22 get is settled? but it’s a combination of multiple angles on their attention. ANS: No. People are involved in that and I’m why we’re in the hole and why we we’re going WCT: Since the Orlando massacre, a lot all for it. I go to Gay Pride and I think people into debt every year. I think voters don’t know EH: What most people don’t know is that of people in the LGBTQ community want to have the right to do what they want to do and what’s going on because there’s a lot of inside there are different ways that immigration has see the NRA fought in order to get guns off leave government out of it. I think we should information that isn’t released to the press. presented itself. In Springfield, there’s been a the streets of Chicago. There’s a sense that still move forward but my main focus is the WCT: As an independent, do you intend to series of anti-immigrant bills that have been legislators run and hide from the NRA. How state budget because that [affects] everyone let voters in on that information? introduced but, though my efforts and others, would you approach fighting such a well- in Illinois and not just [one] community. ANS: I’ve been a grass roots opponent and we’ve been very fortunate to keep those from organized lobbying body? WCT: In terms of that budget, it is a con- I want to keep that going if I get elected. I even moving. That is what is needed in Spring- EH: I think there needs to be more restric- flict between the ideologies of House Speak- will have open communication. I will hit the field: to be a watchdog so that we don’t have tions and safety. My husband is retired law en- er Madigan and Gov. Bruce Rauner. How do streets and still keep in touch with the general any laws that would take us backward. forcement so we have our differences but there you begin to resolve that conflict? public because ideas are worth a million dol- Locally, I have people who come into my are no guns in my house. I won that fight. ANS: People are blaming it on Rauner be- lars. If you have town hall meetings and talk office with issues of a family member facing I’m not a friend of the NRA and, believe me, cause he’s a Republican but that’s part of the to people, they may have ideas you didn’t think deportation. Even in my own town of Cicero, they’ve reached out to me in many ways. I just politicking that’s going on right now. But we’ve about. there have been issues and I’ve had to confront never give in to it. I’m a strong supporter of got to dig deep and look at all the bad con- For more information about the Arthur the administration with what is happening. I ant-gun measures. tracts we have in Illinois. We’re spending a lot Noah Siegel campaign, visit: http://ar- was part of pushing Cicero to pass a resolution Visit AmigosforLisa.com and StateRepHer- of extra money on them and people aren’t com- thursiegel.com. nandez.com. for them to be a sanctuary. If there is interrup- promising. We’ve got to work together. People WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 26, 2016 25 ELECTIONS 2016 on-Feb-election-slate/56739.html.) (Facebook) and BerwynUnited/Clerk —Scott Lennon Paul is relinquishing her aldermanic seat to Race: Berwyn alderman (1st Ward) run for city clerk. She has called her city clerk Lennon has said that he is running for sev- candidacy “an important first step in terms of LGBTs in the mix eral reasons, including an infrastructure that visibility for LGBT residents. I’ve represented needs improvement. (An interview is at Windy- the 3rd Ward for two terms. I handily won the of Chicago before earning a bachelor’s degree The next general elections, to be held Nov. CityMediaGroup.com/lgbt/Scott-Lennon-runs- election the first time, and was able to increase in philosophy from Loyola University Chicago. 8, feature a number of openly gay and lesbi- for-Berwyn-aldermanic-post/56816.html.) that in the second election.” (See a profile at an candidates. The following individuals have —Jeanine Reardon —Marge Paul WindyCityMediaGroup.com/ lgbt/Building- Race: Berwyn alderman (3rd Ward) publicly stated that they are members of the Berwyn-LGBT-candidates-on-Feb-election- Website: BerwynUnited.com/alderman-3rd- LGBT community and were on the ballot as of slate/56739.html.) late February. ward —Jose Ramirez Reardon is a hospital chaplain who is run- Race: Berwyn alderman (2nd Ward) ning to replace Marge Paul in the 3rd Ward. —Catherine Schneider Website: BerwynUnited.com/alderman-2nd- She is ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Race: 11th Subcircuit, Cook County (Kelly ward Church in America, and is a rostered leader in Vacancy) Ramirez is advocate for various changes, the Chicago Metropolitan Synod. (See a profile Website: SchneiderForJudge.com including putting recordings of city council at WindyCityMediaGroup.com/ lgbt/Building- The skinny: Judicial candidate Schneider meetings online. “That way everyone [in the Berwyn-LGBT-candidates-on-Feb-election- has more than two decades’ experience as an community] can participate,” he added. “Let’s slate/56739.html.) attorney and is a recognized expert in civil face it, everyone in the community has a differ- —Joe Johnston litigation. In addition, she is co-chair of the ent life and different hours.” He and his part- Race: Berwyn trustee Women’s Bar Association of Illinois’ Access to ner, Thomas Stebbins, have been together more Website: BerwynUnited.com/copy-of-town- Justice Committee. She is unchallenged in her Scott Lennon. than 25 years and were married in November ship-trustee race. Photo from Lennon 2015. (See a profile at WindyCityMediaGroup. Johnston, who works for a renewable energy com/ lgbt/Building-Berwyn-LGBT-candidates- company, is running for a township trustee Race: Berwyn city clerk on-Feb-election-slate/56739.html.) post. (See a profile at WindyCityMediaGroup. Websites: “Marge Paul for Berwyn City Clerk” com/ lgbt/Building-Berwyn-LGBT-candidates- 5 Easy Ways ParEnts Can BE MorE LGBTQ-friendLy

By Katie slivovsky

“The experience of being welcome or unwelcome, visible, or invisible begins in early childhood.” —from Do No Harm (article) in Young Children, January 2010, NAEYC

Catherine Schneider. Facebook photo We parents and caregivers have the privilege and opportunity to model inclusion and acceptance every day. Here are a few tips to help ensure our LGBTQ* family and friends are welcomed and included in our homes and communities. —Kelly Cassidy Race: Illinois state Representative (14th Dis- trict) * LGBTQ = Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning Website: RepCassidy.com The skinny: Cassidy, who defeated another • Mention LGBTQ people in everyday • By reading LGBTQ family-friendly lesbian candidate, Paula Basta, in March 2014, 1 conversation: “Remember my work-friend children’s books on a regular basis (link is this time running unopposed in the Demo- Include LGBtQ people Cynthia? She and her wife just got a puppy!” to book list below), children can be more cratic primary—and she has no Republican supportive and welcoming when they in your conversation • Going to a wedding? Mention all the challenger, either. and daily life marital possibilities: man/woman, encounter a transgender child or a family —Sam Yingling man/man, woman/woman, transgender. led by a same-sex couple. Race: Illinois state Representative (62nd District) Website: SamYingling.com • It takes a little thought and practice, • Doing this makes room for children who The skinny: What’s old is new again. Yin- 2 but avoid reinforcing the gender binary feel they don’t fit into either category and gling is running unopposed in the primary for think beyond the by always thinking in terms of girl/boy, deemphasizes perceived differences and his third term. He is the first openly gay House gender binary woman/man, female/male. focuses instead on what children have member from outside metropolitan Chicago. in common. And Republican Rod Drobinski of Wauconda • Rather than saying, “Hi boys and girls” is, again, Yingling’s opponent for the general try, “Hi friends” or address a group based election; Yingling prevailed in 2014. on what children are doing: “Hi artists/ —Greg Harris climbers/explorers,” etc. Race: Illinois state Representative (13th Dis- trict) • When hosting playdates, don’t let gender • When purchasing gifts, don’t limit Website: GregHarris.org 3 determine the activity. Offer art, active play, yourself to toys labeled “boys” or “girls.” All The skinny: Harris—who was chief co-spon- Challenge your dress up, superhero play, dance, etc. to all children deserve the opportunity to explore sor of SB10, the legislation that brought about children, no matter their gender. a variety of interests. marriage equality in Illinois—has a district gender assumptions that includes several North Side neighbor- hoods. He was first elected in 2006 and, like • The people who love you and take care • If a boy and girl are playing together, avoid Cassidy, is currently running unopposed, ensur- 4 of you are your family. When meeting your comments that assume they’re boyfriend/ ing his re-election. Broaden your definition child’s new friends, ask “So, who’s in your girlfriend. of love and family family?” or “Tell me about your family” ***** • As children get older, don’t assume rather than assuming children live with a the gender of their love interests. Keep mom and dad. (Note: The elections in Berwyn are not until language gender-neutral: “So, who do you February 2017.) have a crush on these days?”

—Andy Kirchoff Visit An assessment tool for teachers, Race: Illinois state Representative (24th Dis- www.ChicagoChildrensMuseum. • 5 org/index.php/about/lgbtq-pride- “How LGBTQ-friendly is my classroom?” trict) share resources with Website: AndyFor24.com events#lgbtq-resources to access the Kirchoff is that rare individual: an openly friends and teachers following resources: Katie Slivovsky, mother gay Republican, and he’s seeking to represent • A list of LGBTQ family-friendly of two, is the Exhibit the 24th District, which includes Berwyn, Ci- children’s books Development Director and cero, Riverside, Brookfield, Stickney and Chi- LGBTQ Inclusion Chair at • A LGBTQ glossary vetted by cago’s Little Village neighborhood. Kirchoff, Chicago Children’s Museum. www.WelcomingSchools.org a healthcare professional, spent several years discerning the priesthood with the archdiocese This piece first appeared in the Fall/Winter 2016-2017 newsletter of The Alliance for Early Childhood. Fall/Winter 2016–2017 9 www.TheAllianceForEC.org 26 Oct. 26, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES viewpoints

in 2011 stated that LGBTQ communities of than addressing these problems, they are spun WINDY color are one of the demographic groups ex- into a damaging discourse of blame, shame, periencing high incidents of domestic violence. stigma and misinformation. And with many of However, obtaining accurate statistics of us having to confront the daily microaggres- CITY how high IPV is in these communities is ob- sions of racism and homophobia in the work- Rev. Irene fuscated by social stigmas and cultural taboos, place and out in the world, the last thing many MONROE and there are also racism as well as other forms LGBTQ victims want to tackle is IPV at home, TIMES of oppressions and discriminations. often considered a “safe space.” What also interferes in obtaining accurate Jill’s spouse suffered from bipolar disorder VOL. 32, No. 5, Oct. 26, 2016 The combined forces of Windy City Times, Love and violence statistics on how high IPV is in these commu- and always attributed her spouse’s violence to founded Sept. 1985, and Outlines newspaper, nities of color is that same-gender interperson- her mood changes. Looking back, we sister- founded May 1987. in Black LGBTQ al violence is clouded with myths. And within friends only saw the couple during what they communities these communities there are several cultural depicted as being “jubilantly high on love.” barriers preventing reporting domestic violence The dominant view by both healthcare pro- PUBLISHER & EXECUTIVE EDITOR Tracy Baim [Note: The names are fictional and the couple and receiving interventive services. fessions and law-enforcement officers is that described is a composite of numerous couples The Black Church is one of them. communities of color, especially of African de- ASSISTANT PUBLISHER Terri Klinsky I counseled on interpersonal violence (IPV).] Jill grew up in the church and whenever trou- scent, have a predisposition toward violence MANAGING EDITOR Andrew Davis bled and heavy burdened she took her woes that gravely interferes with victims taking ac- ASSOCIATE EDITOR Matt Simonette BUSINESS MANAGER Ripley Caine The Jills were the envy among us lesbian cou- and concerns there. The network of support tion and a community raising awareness. DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA Jean Albright ples of African descent. Their public display of through prayer and counselling wasn’t avail- With a cultural distrust of law-enforcement ART DIRECTOR/NIGHTSPOTS EDITOR Kirk Williamson love for each other and their exchanges of their able to Jill and her spouse once she came out. officers due to the rash of shootings and kill- SENIOR REPORTER Gretchen Rachel Hammond Even in 2016, many Black churches are woe- ings of unarmed Black men and women in Senior Account Executives Terri Klinsky, Kirk special terms of endearment was the stuff you Williamson, Amy Matheny, Gretchen Rachel Hammond, read in romance novels. They were inseparable, fully far behind the country’s acceptance of streets, most in my community—straight or Scott Duff, Monika Pickett, David Strzepek and we distinguished them by calling them Jill LGBTQ Americans. These places of worship are LGBTQ—call for them only in extreme dire situ- NATIONAL SALES Rivendell Media, 212-242-6863 and Jillie. still spewing homophobic rhetoric from their ations, with prayers and hopes of no fatalities. SENIOR WRITERS Bob Roehr, Tony Peregrin, Lisa bully pulpits. And, unfortunately, some LGBTQ Consequently, victims of IPV, especially LG- Keen, Yasmin Nair When I received the call that one was be- THEATER EDITOR Scott C. Morgan ing seen in the ER and other one was being victims of IPV have internalized the church’s BTQs, are not taken seriously. CINEMA WRITER Richard Knight Jr. detained by the police for battering, I knew message that they are abominations to God For example, the myth that since both the SPORTS WRITER Ross Forman it had to be a mistake. But looking back there and, therefore, deserved to be abused, flogged victim and the abuser are of the same gender ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WRITERS and beaten. and are also in a consensual sexual relationship Mary Shen Barnidge, Lawrence Ferber, Mel Ferrand, were visible signs of interpersonal violence Jerry Nunn, Jonathan Abarbanel (IPV) that we sistah-friends came to under- “I thought I showed strength by staying in may lead many officers to confuse same-gender COLUMNISTS/WRITERS: Yvonne Zipter, Jorjet Harper, stand and wished we could have intervened on the relationship. I thought if we acted happy sexual violence as part and parcel of being ho- Charlsie Dewey, Carrie Maxwell, Billy Masters, Sarah their behalf. But we were so enamored, envious we would become happy,” Jill stated. mosexual. Toce, Dana Rudolph, Melissa Wasserman, Joe Franco, With too many churches espousing a theol- Healthcare disparities in communities of col- Nick Patricca, Liz Baudler, Rex Wockner, Angelique and awestruck by their oversized demonstrative Smith, Meghan Streit displays of love and seeming respect for each ogy emphasizing the place and value of suffer- or and LGBTQs are only exacerbated for LGBTQ SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHERS Kat Fitzgerald, Hal Baim, other, we didn’t see their troubled marriage. ing in one’s life as a test from God like that of people of color. Sadly, this creates distrust as Tim Carroll, Ed Negron October is Domestic Awareness Month, the biblical Job coupled with the marriage vow well as a lack and underutilization of resources WEBSITE LISTINGS VOLUNTEER Gene Naden and within LGBTQ communities of color, not “for richer or poorer until death do us part” the toward healing, moving on and prevention. enough attention, education, intervention and act forgiveness is seductively elevated as both The Jills have finally separated—but not CIRCULATION advocacy are given to this issue. redemptive and virtuous that too many LGBTQ because of police intervention or heathcare CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Jean Albright victims remain in abusive relationships. prevention. We sister-friends stepped in. Not DISTRIBUTION: Ashina, Allan, Dan, John, Sue and The 2014 Advocate article “2 Studies That Victor Prove Domestic Violence is an LGBT issue” re- The politic of silence is another cultural bar- everyone has a support system. 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Of course, some older gay 15 years. I love people with stories to tell. interest among their readers in this year’s LGBT Consumer Index Survey. Out of approximately 100 by date and we ugly the place up. I laughed a men move to Fort Lauderdale, in that inflamed So don’t panic, young people. You can all pustulant running sore called Florida, where breath a sigh of relief—I won’t be dragging my print and online media partners who participated lot when I read that article, as I have no desire in the survey, Windy City was the best performing to hang out in bars with young people, talking leaving your child to fry in a locked car is revolting wrinkled-up old carcass into your line regional media in the U.S. Only survey partners young-people things and listening to young de rigueur and you can hire a hit man in any of tweaked-up vision anytime soon. I’ll be here with a nationwide footprint were able to generate Walmart parking lot. in Palm Springs, in a house built as an homage a greater number of responses.” ­­—David Marshall, people’s music. In fact, I would rather have my Research Director, Community Marketing, Inc. eyeballs pierced than spend an evening in a In Palm Springs, nearly everyone is of a cer- to the movie Casablanca and whose previous gay bar with young people. Everything they say tain age. I don’t have to explain who Judy Gar- owner danced with Ginger Rogers, and I’ll be I’ve heard before, everything they do I’ve seen land is, who Anita Bryant was, and everyone sitting in the sunshine by the pool, drinking before, I’ve taken all the drugs they’re taking, knows of Sylvester, the Cockettes, and a time orange juice and spending my twilight years had all the sex they’re having—been there, when condoms were only used to stop preg- being lonely, miserable and waiting to die— done that. BORING!!! nancy. not!! Do I really want to be in Hydrate listening to I surround myself with people who have lived remixes of Adele, Rihanna and Pitbull, or Diplo, a long life and have stories to tell. Last night Calvin Harris and David Guetta? No, I don’t. I I spent the evening with a famous author and don’t even know who those people are. I had friend of Michael Jackson and Zsa Zsa Gabor; WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 26, 2016 27 WINDY CITY TIMES DIVERSIONS THEATER • FILM • ENTERTAINMENT • SPORTS

It’s a history to me 28 34 34 Hamilton is here—and WCT reviews the record-breaking production. Photo by Joan Marcus Papa Ray’s Pizza & Wings. Howard Brown Health’s Big Orange Ball.

NUNN ON ONE: THEATER KE: We have been getting some great feed- to death coming home. Some guy was trying back. I feel the audience being entirely en- to pick her up off the street. She was with a grossed and empathetic. Everyone can see woman in the evening time. She explained she themselves somewhere in this story, whether was gay, but was openly killed for that. Karen Eilbacher they are LGBTQ or straight. People are open I played that part. It was about the coming to it and love hearing someone else’s story. It of terms in her sexuality. She came to love an- is very human from actor to audience. I am other young woman named Marisol. She came returns ‘Home’ humbled every night. out to her mother in New Jersey. There was a WCT: Are there several LGBT cast mem- lot to the story. by Jerry Nunn another, how what we go through affects our bers? It was a fantastic experience. At the time I every waking moment. KE: I am definitely one of them. I am among was coming to terms with my own sexuality. It Actress Karen Eilbacher is coming to town with I went to visit the Hungarian Heritage Mu- a fantastic cast and crew who is full of all col- was quite a journey for myself. the show Fun Home. This is her first national seum here in Cleveland. I am German-Jamaican ors, shapes and forms. I like to take things at We were floored the night of the GLAAD tour with a show that is full of diversity. and my grandmother was Hungarian. I was tell- face value and people being open with their Awards. I had been with that show from a bare Fun Home took home five Tony Awards with a ing the people that run it about the subject sexuality, whatever that journey might be. It bones production of it to that moment. tale of three Alison’s based on Alison Bechdel’s matter and the inclusiveness of it. The next has been fantastic to get to know people in the Thank you for asking about that. best selling novel. The story of a dysfunctional thing I know they are telling people visiting way that they share themselves. WCT: They need to revive it. family follows the life of a lesbian protagonist the museum that everyone knows someone who We have some queer members and non queer KE: Yes, they do. It was fabulously directed and her journey through life. Eilbacher plays is queer, bisexual, gay, lesbian, or questioning. members, but everyone is onboard with every- by Jared Culverhouse. I told Chisa to write her girlfriend Joan. They talked about the show to them. thing that is LGBTQ. Fun Home is a fun home! a screenplay. I don’t stay young forever and Windy City Times caught up with her on the There are all kinds of portals for people to [Laughs] It is a fun place to work. There is a lot would love to play that role again! road to discuss the Obie Award-winning show. place themselves in this story. That is pro- of understanding and generosity. Catch the Chicago two-week run of Fun Windy City Times: Hi, Karen. Where in the foundly incredible and beautiful. That speaks WCT: Tell me about your past performance Home Nov. 2-13 at the Oriental Theatre, 24 world are you calling from? for Alison’s story making. It is Broadway show on She Like Girls. W. Randolph St. Visit BroadwayInChicago. Karen Eilbacher: Cleveland, Ohio. that we are touring and sharing with people. KE: It was from Chisa Hutchinson and we won com or call 800-775-2000 for ticket infor- WCT: Where are you from originally? WCT: It must be rewarding to bring this a GLAAD Award for the off-off-Broadway show mation. KE: White Plains, New York, Westchester show to small towns. You might change in 2010. I did the show for three years. It was County. someone’s life in Ohio after [that person based off the real happening of Sakia Gunn. WCT: Did you study acting in school? sees] Fun Home. She was 15 years old when she was stabbed KE: Yes, I went to NYU Tisch. WCT: Did you ever think you would be in a show like Fun Home? KE: I did. My friend Roberta Colindrez was playing Joan on Broadway. I watched her work. It is definitely a role I have sniffed around be- fore. I am forever grateful that the experience has become real. WCT: How is your take on the character dif- ferent than Roberta’s? KE: We are two different individuals. There is always something to discover every single night because I am living and breathing on- stage. It depends on who I am working with and being receptive to a fly moving on the wall or a bed moving for example. I am open and ready for anything that adjusts my perception or instinctual choices with Joan. I try to expand my repertoire to who is this person and how does she love? What does she want? Every single night it is always something beautiful to discover. WCT: For the people who haven’t seen it, please discuss the plot. KE: It is based off a true story. It is written by Alison Bechdel. There are three ages that are explored—small, medium and older Alison. She looks back on her life and her relationship with her father—what that does to her as be- ing out and a lesbian cartoonist is the show. Her father is gay and kills himself. She tells the tale of being the same age as him when he killed himself by stepping in front of a truck. It is about how that affects her life, love and disfunction. It is about family and how we relate to one Karen Eilbacher. PR photo 28 Oct. 26, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES MUSICAL REVIEW Hamilton Book, music and lyrics: Lin-Manuel Miranda Miguel Cervantes and At: The PrivateBank Theatre, Ari Asfar in Hamilton. 18 W. Monroe St. Photo by Tickets: 800-775-2000; Joan Marcus BroadwayInChicago.com; $62-$600 and up In an open run

BY SCOTT C. MORGAN

It’s a shame that the hype and ticket prices for the musical Hamilton have become so inflated. Anyone who spent hours battling online ticket bots or who forked over hundreds of dollars for premium (or scalped) seats could potentially also paints the country’s founding fathers to be duction’s amazing performances. And though his part is small as King George be let down by the actual show. endearingly complex and flawed people, too. For instance, Tony Award winner Karen Olivo, III, Alexander Gemignani is hilarious with his But Hamilton rightly deserves all the critical The creative team’s decision to cast Hamil- as Alexander Hamilton’s sister-in-law Angel- over-the-top foppish British accent singing the praise and prizes that have been lavished upon ton non-traditionally also emphasizes how this ica Schuyler, was an entrancing revelation of Beatles-styled break-up song “You’ll Be Back.” it since its 2015 New York debut. And more to essential chapter of America’s origins belongs strength and painful regret. And in the dual The one qualm I had with Hamilton in Chi- the point, the Chicago-dedicated run of Hamil- to everyone. And all the production elements roles of the Marquis de Lafayette and Thom- cago is Miguel Cervantes’ take on the title role. ton at The PrivateBank Theatre deserves to run ranging from Thomas Kail’s astute direction as Jefferson, Crhis De’Sean Lee is a joyously I expected more of a hungry swagger and con- for years on end. to Andy Blankenbuehler’s popping choreogra- showboating dynamo who wows with dexterity fident energy. What Cervantes offered was more The brainchild of songwriter/author/actor phy feel as if they were cut from the same rich at spinning out lyrics. measured and dignified, especially when com- Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights), Hamil- cloth of inspiration. Joshua Henry gets some of the best songs as pared to his flashier co-stars. ton is a brilliant synthesis of U.S. history with I didn’t see Hamilton in New York and steered Aaron Burr, but also his dramatic journey from So although obtaining Hamilton tickets smart musical theater storytelling that taps clear of the Broadway cast album (I wanted to wary Hamilton colleague to bitterly jealous ri- might be an expensive hassle, the brilliance into diverse music styles like hip-hop, R&B, experience Hamilton fresh in the theater), so I val is chilling. There’s also great dignity and and emotional power of the work speaks for gospel and pop with virtuosic verve. Focusing can’t equivocate on how the Chicago produc- power to the performances of Jonathan Kirk- itself. And more importantly, the historical sig- on the rise and fall of the first U.S. treasury tion compares to the original. But I can say land as George Washington and Ari Afsar, who nificance of both the musical and its subject secretary, Hamilton is jam-packed with savvy that I wish a Chicago Hamilton cast album portrays Hamilton’s smitten and heartbreak- matter make Hamilton feel especially timely for historical details that not only educate, but could be pressed to preserve many of this pro- ingly betrayed wife, Eliza. this generation.

THEATER REVIEW teenagers may be seduced by terrorist recruit- ference grounds. What could go wrong? you expect?” he rebukes Natalie, whose ac- ers into committing reckless deeds, or that do- It turns out that plenty can go wrong. On counts of brutal beatings inflicted by hostile Multitudes gooders who align themselves with high-visi- the eve of Kash’s presentation, his Anglo-Sax- skinheads echo those emerging from Belfast in Playwright: John Hollingworth bility radical factions may encounter suspicion, on girlfriend, Natalie, announces that she has the 1970s or our own Southern states in the At: Rasaka and Vitalist Theatre censure and notoriety from their neighbors. In converted to Islam, and his daughter, Qadira, 1960s. Companies in conjunction with the order to rectify this perceived ignorance, he seeks the company of the tent-city occupants. The combined expertise of the Rasaka and International Voices Project at the proposes to illustrate the negative effects of When a Muslim woman is severely injured in Vitalist companies—notably, director Liz Carlin Biograph, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave. xenophobia. (Nobody yet has found any posi- a fall, rumors immediately circulate that she Metz, no stranger to sprawling didactic narra- Tickets: $30 tive ones.) was pushed, leading to violence in the streets. tives—strives mightily to inject human ele- Runs through: Nov. 13 His parable is set in the city of Bradford, a Natalie is aghast, Qadira is angry and reporters ments into a talking-heads text further clut- Midlands community in the United Kingdom, from the London news bureau are ecstatic. tered by Brock Alter’s video footage of World BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE whose population is 20-percent South Asian. Perhaps because we Yankees are familiar with Events and actors double- and triple-cast, edi- Councillor Kash, the son of Muslim immigrants, civil unrest—or, at least, with artistic expres- torializing in Catherine Gillespie’s pinpoint-ac- Proclaiming the obvious is a common flaw of plans to run for Parliament and has tailored his sions thereof—our response to Hollingworth’s curate Yorkshire dialect. While the sad truth is plays by actors-turned-playwrights, who tend upcoming speech before members of his Con- emotion-fueled tales of homefront atrocity is that all social conflict, whatever its purported to focus more on technique than content. servative Party to reflect multicultural toler- less likely to be shock and horror, and more in goals, has a way of exacting collateral damage John Hollingworth thinks his fellow Brits ance. Meanwhile, a crowd of protesters against keeping with Kash’s dismay at the naivete of among its citizenry, Hollingworth’s efforts to are not sufficiently aware that anti-immigrant military intervention in the Middle East hold his kin, who clearly have given no thought to “represent multitudes” in his sermon ultimate- bigotry exists in England, that impressionable quiet vigil from their encampment on the con- the consequences of their actions. “What did ly undermines his good intentions.

THEATER REVIEW 29 (and he was 58), etc. Harrison extends the c Saturn Returns. so-called Saturn Year to ages 27-31 to cover Saturn Returns Photo by Joe the actual ages of herself and her co-per- Playwright: Tif Harrison and cast Mazza/Brave Lux formers, each of whom offers personal details CRITICS’ At: Neo-Futurists, 5153 N. Ashland Ave. which mostly fit the pattern, although some Tickets: 773-275-5255; are intentionally amusing stretches. PICKS Neofuturists.org; $10-$25 But what actually is offered is something Life Sucks, Lookingglass Theatre, through (pay-what-you-can Thurs.) much more personal to each performer. One, Nov. 6. The spirit is warm, autumnal and hi- Runs through: Nov. 19 a musician, observes that “The intention of lariously sad in this Americanized, modernized sound is as good as sound itself,” while an- take on Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. It’s Chekhov BY JONATHAN ABARBANEL other cautions us to “Learn the difference lite, but lovingly written and brilliantly played between intention and compulsion,” while in rich comic style. JA Sometimes the Neo-Futurists present plays Harrison herself declares, late in the 100-min- Merge, The New Colony at Den Theatre, and sometimes performance pieces, with ute show, “I’m here to teach you about being through Nov. 13. Spenser Davis’ theatrical take 2016 devoted to the latter. alone.” That’s a tip-off, for the show’s pre- on the rise and fall of Atari is a frenetic nos- Saturn Returns is the third Neo-Futurist cipitating incident is the death of Harrison’s talgia trip for audiences in their 40s. It’s back- work I’ve seen since February in which loosely father, and each performer explores loss or stabbing creative and corporate tale filled with assembled theatrical devices serve as psycho- loneliness—actual or only feared—in some lots of sound and fury. SCM drama through which an artist exorcises his/ which takes 29.5 years. Astrology says that form. Naperville, Theater Wit, through Nov. 6. Ro- her demons. The first piece, Pop Waits, was you will have a climactic year whenever Sat- The performers do not act—that is, they man comedy divided its populace between City the best, possibly because it had principal urn returns to the orbit point it held when don’t create characters. They play themselves, and Country, but Mat Smart gives the suburbs characters with emotional through-lines as you were born, approximately ages 29-30 project their own personalities and improvise their say in this stereotype-free glimpse of plays do, even though it wasn’t a play. Saturn and 58-60. One can expect to experience an a little. This doesn’t mean they haven’t re- pioneers gathering themselves for their next Returns has neither, presenting five writer/ eventful death, a meaningful relationship or hearsed the set material and the extensive journey. MSB performers of equal weight within the show, its end, financial or professional success/fail- physical business, most of which defies brief You on the Moors Now, The Hypocrites at although none has anything approaching a ure, personal elation or trauma and—if this description—everyone frequently rings a Den Theatre, through Oct. 30. The great Vic- sustained arc of action or emotion. The scat- show is to be believed—quite possibly an in- desk bell, there are projections, people play torian heroines of literature fight for personal tershot result provides amusing bits here and sect infestation. with water—yet Jen Ellison’s direction seems fulfillment over lucrative marriage in a literal thoughtful bits there, but ultimately lacks So, yeah, Saturn Returns is really quirky, minimal and loose. The wide stage is inhab- Battle of the Sexes that leaves its surviving force. filled with oddball bits seeming to support ited by Saturn Returns and its few props, not veterans scarred, but wiser. MSB Tif Harrison is billed as Creator (capital the concept: World War I ended when Hitler designed for it. Jason Richard’s music is good. “c”), not just another writer/performer. Her was 29, one actor’s first car was a Saturn, Hey, Neo-Futurists: I’m ready for a play again! —By Abarbanel, Barnidge framing concept concerns the orbit of Saturn, Gwyneth Paltrow’s father died when she was and Morgan WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 26, 2016 29 rate surroundings. Oh, and by the way, Rayna Much of the action in this 90-minute nar- Jerico Bleu and Maria Montero Hall is now Ryan Gilroy. rative occurs in parallel time, with Sierra Buf- in Starting Over. It is at this point that Shepsu Aakhu’s play fum and Kejuan Darby’s Rayna and Young Jar- Photo by Shepsu Aakhu diverges from others of its genre in making its rod simultaneously occupying the same stage story not that of how Rayna became Ryan. (In space as Jerico Bleu and Keith Surney’s Ryan this MPAACT production, Rayna is played by a and Older Jarrod, in addition to assorted cari- cisgender female actor, and Ryan—comfortably cature-free antagonists, all underscored by Red settled in his new gender identity—by a cis- Clay and Desta Sound’s guitar-and-percussion gender male.) Jarrod is the one who struggles musical subtext. Lauren Lundy’s deft direction to reconcile his memories of the past with the keeps audience members aware of the issues evidence confronting him in the present—to under discussion in Aakhu’s fluid environ- ignore physical appearances (“I’m not gay!” ment—notably, the necessity of fleeing toxic he warns Ryan) and rediscover his connection environments and finding your own path be- with the person he once loved. (Jarrod’s con- fore embarking on a journey along another’s flict is not solely psychological—his workplace road—and for playgoers who still don’t get it, frowns upon fraternization between the ranks.) the O’Jays “Now That We Found Love (What Are As the men look back on their youth, their very We Gonna Do With It)” sends us home to con- language echoes the confusion and uncertainty template the prejudices that continue to delay presenting the last obstruction to fulfillment. deserving pilgrims their just rewards. e SPOTLIGHT The cards are stacked against classmates Jar- THEATER REVIEW The Lyric Opera of Chicago teams again rod Wintercastle and Rayna Hall from their first with The Second City for the new comedy meeting at a high school dance in their rural Starting Over show Longer! Louder! Wagner! The Sec- Playwright: Shepsu Aakhu Midwestern town. Jarrod lives with his single ond City Wagner Companion. See how At: MPAACT at the Greenhouse, mother on the shabbier side of the railroad collaborators Jesse Case and Tim Sniffen 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. track dividing the town geographically and work with a cast of Second City comedians Tickets: $16-$32 socially, and Rayna with her affluent family and two opera singers to find humor from Runs through: Nov. 20 on the other. Jarrod is African-American and the controversial life of Richard Wagner, Rayna is Anglo-Saxon White. Their parents ini- the megalomaniac mastermind behind the BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE tially disapprove of the friendship, but grudg- epic Ring Cycle and other lengthy 19th- ingly tolerate it. century operas. Longer! Louder! Wagner! The course of true love ne’er ran smooth back Following graduation, Jarrod seeks his for- The Second City Wagner Companion plays from Thursday, Oct. 27, through Sunday, Oct. 30, at when Shakespeare made his observation. En- tune in New York City, while Rayna departs for the Civic Opera House’s William Mason Rehearsal Hall, 20 N. Wacker Dr. Tickets are $35-$45; lightened citizens in 2016 may congratulate California’s Stanford University. Jarrod’s mother call 312-827-5600 or visit LyricOpera.org. themselves on their progress in striking down consoles her heartbroken son, reminding him Caption: Travis Turner in rehearsal for Longer! Louder! Wagner! The Second City Wagner barriers once impeding marriages of like minds, that young love may flower again in maturity. Companion for the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Photo by Andrew Cioffi/Lyric Opera of Chicago but with that progress come new obstacles no Fifteen years later, the comrades encounter less perilous. each other again, this time in big-city corpo-

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Actors typically make bold choices in rehearsal and performance. But few would be so bold as to contact the artistic director of a theater company and suggest that an entire production be mounted just so they could star in it. But that’s essentially what happened with About Face Theatre’s revised revival of gay playwright Doug Wright’s one-man play I Am My Own Wife. Transgender actress Delia Kropp thoroughly researched Wright’s Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama before making her case to About Face artistic director Andrew Volkoff. “I send an email to Andrew and it basically outlined the proposal for a multi-actor version of the show and for me to be essentially the first transgender Charlotte von Mahlsdorf,” Kropp said. “The whole idea of having me in- volved, for me bringing this forward, is to actu- ally do this with the sensitivities and sensibili- ties of a transgender person.” I Am My Own Wife explores Wright’s fasci- nating and complex friendship with the aging Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a pioneering 20th- century transgender woman who survived the Nazis before and during World War II and later under the repressive Communist regime in East Germany. Wright wrote the play as a solo show, Delia Kropp. which requires a charismatic actor to switch Publicity image by Margo Joy Hawk back and forth between von Mahlsdorf and a multitude of other roles. About Face Theatre presented the world pre- neighborhood. Since they had never worked miere of I Am My Own Wife in 2003 at Chi- together, Volkoff wanted to see how Kropp cago’s Museum of Contemporary Art before handled the material. the production transferred to New York for an “To Delia’s credit, she started working with a off-Broadway run. The critical response was so German dialect coach then for that reading,” phenomenal that commercial producers later Volkoff said. “We did have one woman at the transferred I Am My Own Wife to Broadway. end who said, ‘I had no idea [Delia] was not Original star Jefferson Mays not only won a German.’” 2004 Tony Award for Best Performance by Lead- Equally important was to see how the play ing Actor in a Play, he also got the Jeff Award worked beyond its usual one-man structure for the same category when I Am My Own Wife with the addition of three actors. Getting played a 2005 Chicago return engagement at Wright’s permission for any changes to his the Goodman Theatre. script was also a concern. Kropp laughs now when she considers how But to Volkoff’s delight, very little had to be she contacted About Face’s Volkoff out of the changed in the script. Volkoff said Wright has blue with her suggestions, even though the also been enthusiastic about the implications two had never worked together. The fact that of About Face’s I Am My Own Wife revival star- Volkoff had already directed a 2008 produc- ring Kropp. tion of I Am My Own Wife for Barrington Stage “[Wright] is very excited to see what having a Company in Massachusetts also worried Kropp trans actor will do for the integrity of the piece whether he would want to repeat himself. and the integrity of Charlotte’s story,” Volkoff “I was so impressed with Delia’s courage and said. “In the 13 years that AFT did the first the letter of her proposal was so incredibly presentation of this, so much has changed in well-thought-out,” said Volkoff, who was open the world around the conversation of gender to Kropp’s artistic suggestions. “As the artistic and transgender visibility. To approach this director of About Face, I think it’s important to piece today and in this climate, it really re- court the queer artists in our community and quires a thoughtfulness and an intentionality to have one reach out this passionately about about wanting to be truthful about how we are a project that originally started with us, it just presenting the story of a transgender woman seemed like a perfect fit.” who lived through the 1940s and beyond.” Kropp had multiple reasons for not wanting For Kropp, it’s a huge honor to play one of to do the play as originally written for a solo the more famous, but also divisive, transgender performer. One idea was to give von Mahlsdorf figures from 20th-century history. more of a constant presence in the play. Other “[Charlotte was an] incredibly rich, incred- “brought the house down” implications were more complex. ibly complex, and incredibly ambiguous kind – Chicago Sun-Times “As a trans woman, I am very much aware of person morally in some respects, which as of what the general population’s perception a transgender actress, that’s what you want,” of us is and for many people, they think this Kropp said. “I love playing heroes, but you re- is an act and it’s just external—it’s about the ally want to show a fully fleshed-out, 360-de- clothes, the makeup—things of that nature,” gree complex human being and with this role, said Kropp, who legally transitioned with the TICKETS START AT $15 you sure have it.” state of Illinois in 2011 and returned to acting About Face Theatre’s I Am My Own Wife plays 205 East Randolph Drive professionally in 2015. from Friday, Nov. 4, through Saturday, Dec. HarrisTheaterChicago.org “I didn’t want to have a performance going 312.334.7777 10, at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave. Pre- back and forth over the gender lines. About 95 views run through Nov. 6, with an official press percent of the other characters in the play are October 28 & 29 | 7:30PM opening 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10. Previews male,” Kropp said. “I feel very uncomfortable Harris Theater for Music and Dance are $20 and $10 for students, and regular-run being expected to be my dead or former self.” shows are $40 and $20 for students; call 773- GIORDANO DANCE CHICAGO As a sort of test run, About Face teamed up 975-8150 or visit AboutFaceTheatre.org. with the Chicago Inclusion Project to stage an Note: I Am My Own Wife cast member and April 2016 reading of I Am My Own Wife star- About Face Theatre Artistic Associate Scott ring Kropp at the DANK Haus German Ameri- Duff is an employee of Windy City Media Group, FALL SERIES can Cultural Center in Chicago’s Lincoln Square which publishes the Windy City Times. WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 26, 2016 31 Gay activist/scholar headlines ‘Home Is Where the Art Is’ By Carrie Maxwell who died due to complications from AIDS in 1990. Openly gay Puerto Rican writer, activist and Garcia noted the role of language in the LG- scholar Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes was the BTQ community and the fact that queer has featured speaker at the “Home Is Where the Art been taken back by the community, especially Is: Queer Ricans Insights on the Latinx Experi- among young folks, and asked La Fountain- ence” event Oct. 22 at the National Museum Stokes to comment on this phenomenon. He of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture in Humboldt noted that he’s obsessed with language. Park. La Fountain-Stokes explained that he was La Fountain-Stokes was born and raised in raised bilingual and, to this day, alternates San Juan, Puerto Rico. He moved to the states between Spanish and English. He calls English to attend college (B.A. in Hispanic studies his imposed language and said he still doesn’t from Harvard and a master’s degree and Ph.D. speak it very well. in Spanish and Portuguese literature from Co- “I often see myself as a cultural and linguis- lumbia University) and teaches at the Univer- tic translator and mediator,” said La Fountain- sity of Michigan, where he specializes in LGBT, Stokes. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes (left) and Emmanuel Garcia. Latina/o, Puerto Rican and Hispanic-Caribbean La Fountain-Stokes noted the book he wrote Photo by Carrie Maxwell studies. La Fountain-Stokes also appears as his for kids ages 10 and above, A Brief and Trans- drag persona, Lola von Miramar, at venues in formative Account of Queer History, that’s in Latin America and the United States as well as both English and Spanish. There’s a compan- Kayla said she lacks support at home be- that she came out in eighth grade, and when on the online show Cooking with Drag Queens. ion paper dolls book featuring 27 characters cause there’s a divide between her parent—her her parents found out they beat her physically National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and in both languages that comes with the book. mom and sisters/brothers are supportive while and took her phone away. Kayla pointed out Culture CEO Billy Ocasio welcomed the ap- Garcia brought up the word “Latinx” and her dad is not. She also noted that there are that her mom lets Yvette come over to their proximately 50 people in attendance. Then, the idea of taking away gender in language; not a lot of safe spaces to get information house due to her family situation. La Fountain-Stokes read an excerpt from his La Fountain-Stokes responded that he likes the about the LGBTQ community in the area, add- Public Narrative President Susy Schultz led fiction story “SJU-ATL-DTW (San Juan-Atlanta- concept but that the term is hard to translate ing that, while she liked La Fountain-Stokes’ an interactive storytelling workshop and pre- Detroit)”—featured in the Great Books Foun- into Spanish because that’s a language that re- kids book, it wouldn’t have helped her situ- sentation to close out the day’s events. dation’s anthology, Immigrant Voices: 21 Cen- lies on gender. ation. Kayla (who mentioned that her uncle The event was partially supported by a grant tury Stories (every attendee received a copy of Garcia explained that La Fountain-Stokes has is gay) explained that she came out to close from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the book)—ahead of his conversation and Q&A written about the Orlando Pulse nightclub mas- friends when she was a freshman and that, for was a collaboration of the National Museum of session with Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame in- sacre, and asked him to elaborate on that day. the most part, their teachers and fellow stu- Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, the Great Books ductee, Vives Q creator and activist Emmanuel La Fountain-Stokes said it happened the same dents accept her. Foundation, the Chicago Cultural Alliance and Garcia. day as the National Puerto Rican Day parade in Yvette said that queer students at her school Public Narrative. Garcia asked La Fountain-Stokes about New York City, of which he was a participant. can express who they are and everyone there See LarryLaFountain.com for more informa- Puerto Rico, both generally and his relation- He said it was a very confusing and strange knows she is dating Kayla. Yvette also noted tion. ship with the island. He noted the specific time for him. La Fountain-Stokes noted how and complex nature of being a Puerto Rican happy he was to see the memorials for Pulse because the island is a colony of the United along the Paseo Boricua section of Division States which means they have U.S. passports Street, reminding everyone of the work that MEANING…IS but not the most basic rights of citizenship. La still needs to be done to achieve acceptance ATTAINED NOT FROM Fountain-Stokes explained that he goes back and equality. STORY BUT FROM and forth frequently but said the reason why he A panel discussion on Latinx life with three SENSATION. left initially was because he’s gay and felt like queer Roberto Clemente High School students —The New York Times he couldn’t stay because of his sexual orien- (Destiny, Kayla and Yvette) and Clemente tation. He said things have gotten better and School Community Representative Jessie Fuen- now there’s a thriving LGBTQ community that tes followed La Fountain-Stokes’ conversation includes activists. with Garcia. Fuentes and Garcia served as mod- “I’m a part of that social change in Puerto erators. Rico,” said La Fountain-Stokes. Destiny noted that schools, including Clem- In terms of the cultural loss in the early years ente, lack any kind of LGBTQ history in their of the AIDS pandemic, La Fountain-Stokes said classes. She said she came out at school when it was devastating. He also mentioned writing she was 16 because of how accepting everyone about Manuel Ramos Otero, one of the first was there, despite the school’s lack of resourc- Puerto Ricans to write about being gay, and es for LGBTQ youth. CULTURECULTURE CLUBCLUB

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SEPTEMBER 29 – DECEMBER 18, 2016 615 W. WELLINGTON AVE. | 773.281.8463 x6 | TIMELINETHEATRE.COM 32 Oct. 26, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES beautiful exchange between the two and an outpouring of love.” But immediately following the meeting, the reality of McDonald’s situation was brought CeCe McDonald in home with cold indifference. Free CeCe. “When CeCe had to leave us, we were hug- Photo courtesy ging her and [correctional officers] came in of Women in Hollywood and started saying things like, ‘He needs to be strip-searched now before he goes back,’” Gares said. “Immediately the misgendering happened and we were crushed. But CeCe just smiled and waved goodbye to us. She is an incredible hu- man being with an indomitable spirit.” Despite her involvement with each of the is- sues covered by In The Life, the production of Free CeCe provided Gares with an unexpected and harsh education. “I really learned how much of a problem peo- ple have with human rights,” she said. “It re- ally just struck me how people were not seeing CeCe as a human being. Because she had been put into the criminal injustice system, she was seen as less than human in many people’s eyes. What surprised me is how much that propelled me to listen to CeCe’s story.” Powerful documentary to “There were times when Laverne and I would be talking to people at the The Sylvia Rivera Law Project or the AVP [New York Anti-Violence Project] and asking questions like, ‘What does premiere at ‘TransReelization’ safety mean? and ‘What does violence mean to people in the trans community?’” Gares added. “There were things that we had ideas about and things we had no idea about. So the ability to By Gretchen Rachel Hammond Box Theatre will serve as the Chicago premiere go deep on a lot these issues really carried over for Free CeCe. to me in making the portrait of a Black woman In one of the most powerful moments of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) as a human being especially in a society that award-winning documentary film Free CeCe, professor and TransLife Center advisory board really does not value trans women.” transgender activist and civil rights icon CeCe member Mickey R. Mahoney has served as the For Mahoney (a longtime friend of Gares), McDonald talks with award-winning actress, co-curator of the event with fellow board mem- Free CeCe is a major accomplishment. activist and executive producer of the film La- ber Karin Winslow for each of TransReelization’s “I knew about the film, as Jac was mak- verne Cox about her dreams while McDonald three years. ing it,” Mahoney said. “So I was keeping up spent 19 months at the Minnesota Correctional “Because I teach a trans film class at the on its progress. I kept thinking, ‘How did you Facility (a level IV men’s prison) for defending Art Institute, I know about the films coming get footage like the [police] interrogation of herself against a brutal attack by a drunken in,” Mahoney said. “I’d been wanting to get my CeCe?’ It’s amazing that Jac was able to pull group of white individuals outside the South hands on [Free CeCe] for a long time. It is such that off but, at the same time, it makes my Minneapolis Schooner Tavern on June 2, 2011. a powerful piece and relates to everything the stomach turn when I watch it because it’s so “All I dreamed of being in there was to be TransLife Center is about. It brings to light all horrific the way she was treated. I’m glad that this more glamorous person and appreciate my of the things that happen to trans women of it was all brought out in the way the film is femininity and my womanhood,” she said. “I color and I am thrilled we have it.” structured.” guess it’s the policy with the entire Department The screening of the feature-length docu- “The only thing I felt that I could do was of Corrections where things are very misogynis- mentary is a departure from the fundraiser’s report the facts,” Gares said. “I wanted to rep- tic. Unfortunately, as a trans woman, they still traditional menu of short films dealing with resent the violence and the remembrance of view us as men and we aren’t entitled to those trans issues. trans women who are victims of brutality but things that women have; I couldn’t wear my The format of the event has also changed. I didn’t want to do it in a way that would dis- clothes a certain way or shorts or things that Following an afternoon matinee of Free CeCe, tance the audience. I wanted people to con- accentuate my body.” a VIP after-party will be held at the Kinowerks nect with CeCe in her moment of remembering “They hypersexualized me in their own man- studios, offering a once-in-a-lifetime, intimate and memorializing.” ner because I was a woman in a men’s prison, look at the breathtaking work of award-win- Because the film is to be screened at the Mu- McDonald added. “By creating these policies ning filmmakers Lana and Lilly Wachowski, an sic Box, rather than in the smaller audience around just me. They would say, ‘It’s for your opportunity to meet McDonald alongside Free Free CeCe producer Jac Gares. capacity of Kinowerks, Mahoney hopes that safety. We’re doing it to protect you.’ It’s like, CeCe director and producer Jac Gares, a silent Photo courtesy of Gares particularly students will take that opportunity “Honey, I’m in prison. If somebody wants to and online auction that includes an original to connect with McDonald’s story. jump off, they could.’ I feel like a lot of things painting by Lilly entitled Duck Call of Cthulhu “There’s student discounts,” he said. “If they they did were created to take away my trans- (a reference to an H.P. Lovecraft story) and a ers would have to spend time in jail. We saw enter the word ‘college’ on the Transreeliza- ness and turn me into a man.” sneak preview of the second season of the hit the misgendering [of CeCe] in the mainstream tion website, they can get tickets for $15. The The film shows McDonald attending a party Netflix series Sense8. media and I was frustrated by that coverage. screening is a community event and a celebra- celebrating her 2014 release, her dreams sud- “We decided to expand TransReelization to It was why I wanted to do this story so badly tion of sorts that is also educational and im- denly and gloriously real. make it an option for people who couldn’t and do it right. Laverne is not only a gracious, pactful. That and the VIP party are different Wearing a glamorous dress and showing off swing a $500 ticket,” Mahoney said. “So this incredible collaborator and human being, she’s events but still super-important and a really all her curves, McDonald joins performers on a is going to be something completely different also a fierce advocate. So it was a pleasure to fun time.” stage, dancing with unrestrained and ecstatic for us.” make this film with her and really be able to lift People will need to move fast if they want freedom from often months at a time of soli- For Gares, Free CeCe is the culmination of up CeCe’s story.” to experience it. According to Chicago House tary confinement which she described as “no over three years of work that began when she The first shoot in that task involved Gares Corporate Relations Associate Anthony DiFiore, contact with anybody at all. It was really de- was a showrunner for the LGBT-themed PBS travelling with Cox to the prison in St, Cloud, tickets to TransReelization are going to sell out pressing especially knowing what their reason- show In the Life which ran for an extraordinary Minnesota, where McDonald was being held at soon. ing was. I feel like they made you try to hate two decades. the time—access for which Gares credits both “We’ve already had a huge amount of RSVPs,” yourself as someone who’s nonconforming.” “We were kind of like a rebel crew,” she said. the reputation of In The Life and the rise of he said. “So we’re really excited.” Free CeCe is a film that takes audiences on a “We didn’t have a lot of money to make the Cox’s career through the phenomenally suc- He hopes that TransReelization will raise visceral journey through the mental and physi- show but what we put out there, we wanted to cessful Netflix series Orange is the New Black,. $100,000 for the TransLife Center. cal suffering that occurs throughout the course be ethical, factual and something that ampli- “Neither one of us had ever set foot in a “I think for anyone who is a person of color of a grave injustice and the once-impossible fied the voices of those who are marginalized prison before,” Gares said, “So it was uneasy or a trans person of color, Free CeCe is really dreams of a trans woman of color locked up for in society and certainly within the LGBT com- for us to go through everything to get in. We about the commonalities of CeCe’s life whether trying to live an authentic life. munity.” had to be very low impact. I could only use you are young or old,” Gares said. “I hope these It warns of the absolute worst that society Following the segment A Conversation With DSLR [Digital Single-Lens Reflex] cameras and commonalities will further the discussion and can do to the civil and human rights of an in- Janet Mock and Isis King, which dealt with that determined how the rest of the film would shine a light on local policies that will make dividual. moving past Trans 101 narratives and represen- be shot. When they brought CeCe to us, which change and a difference in this community. I The residents of the TransLife Center at Chi- tations, Gares began working with Cox on ideas you see in the film, it was incredible to meet want people to see how a human being was cago House have at least some defense against for In The Life. her. I thought ‘Why is this woman in a men’s treated by the justice system for defending her society’s ceaseless attacks upon their person- Cox immediately brought up McDonald. prison?’ She had a beautiful energy and was so life. My hope is that they will become agents hood. “We both knew of the story when it broke kind and with a generous spirit.” for change on a large scale.” So, it is only fitting that the third annual in 2011,” Gares said. “I was outraged that a “I knew it was going to be powerful to put For more information, visit ChicagoHouse. TransReelization fundraiser benefitting the Black trans woman who was defending herself Laverne and CeCe together,” Gares added. “I org/home/transreelization. TransLife Center to be held Nov. 5 at the Music and trying to get away from one of her attack- didn’t realize how powerful. There was just a WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 26, 2016 33 ing DePaul University. They also received their Intersexion documentary. Mitchell would later Pidgeon Pagonis. master of arts in women and gender studies become a mentor to Pagonis. Photo courtesy of Pagonis from DePaul University. “Mani came to Chicago and interviewed me,” “In my thesis class, I came up with the idea said Pagonis. “We had this connection right off of doing a written ethnography and then I the bat and commiserated about our horrible turned it into my film,” said Pagonis. airport experiences because of being intersex.” Pagonis joined interACT youth (the world’s The White House Champion of Change event first intersex youth project) while still in col- is what led Pagonis to the set of Transparent. lege and later served as an intern. They par- Pagonis’ old boss at interACT nominated them layed that into a combined full-time job con- and after passing a background check they sisting of the communications and operations were told they would be honored. manager and youth leadership coordinator. As “My dad, who was a key person in my docu- communications and operations manager, Pag- mentary, was my plus one and I was so happy onis was, among other tasks, in charge of all he got to see me get an award for my work,” the social media. said Pagonis. “It was a beautiful moment to be “My work as the youth leadership coordi- able to speak my truth about being intersex in nator is what meant the most to me,” said front of everyone there, but most importantly Pagonis. “Youth project members at interACT my dad who told me how proud he was of me. worked with the cast and crew of Faking It I was really excited and nervous, but it was a to help write the intersex character Lauren great memory that will stay with me for the played by the fabulous Bailey De Young. We rest of my life.” would get the scripts in advance and provide Among the other awardees that day was the the producers and Bailey with feedback about cast and creators of Transparent and Pagonis her character. We did a Q&A with Bailey and ended up meeting them ahead of the day’s she also came to our intersex conference last events. year. Every young person at the conference was “At the time I’d never even heard of the show adoring her.” and then, a few months later, I was in Trans- Their many accolades includes being pub- parent,” said Pagonis. “We started reminiscing lished in the Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics about Chicago because so many of the people academic journal, being awarded by the White from the show are from here. Amy Landecker House as an LGBT Champion of Change in No- and my dad talked about her dad, John Re- vember 2015, being featured in the documen- cords Landecker, because my dad liked him as tary Intersexion and becoming one of Windy a radio DJ. Jill Soloway and I talked about all City Times’ 30 Under 30 awardees in 2013. the things we love about Chicago. I spent the “The cool part about it was that edition’s ed- most time with Alexandra Billings because she itor was intersex and a friend of mine from here was the moderator of the panel I was on. She in Chicago,” said Pagonis. “What’s interesting did an excellent job. I loved it when Jeffrey is they wanted stories from intersex people and Tambour told the audience that because he has ‘experts’ to have balance for that edition of the white, straight, male, cisgender privilege he journal.” gives free acting classes to transgender actors Pagonis explained that, about eight years to help them achieve their goals. The entire ago, they were contacted by New Zealand in- cast and creative team were wonderful.” tersex activist Mani Bruce Mitchell about their Pagonis noted that the show rolled out the Pidgeon Pagonis: On their film, White House visit, being on ‘Transparent’

By Carrie Maxwell Intersex Awareness Day next year. As for the most meaningful place Pagonis has Self described gender non-conforming intersex shown their film, they said the 2014 Intersex activist and filmmaker and Chicago native, Pid- Conference in Cincinnati to a room full of only geon Pagonis (born in 1986 on the Northwest intersex people and some of their family mem- Side of Chicago) has been making waves in the bers and friends. LGBTQIA community for about a decade includ- “That was the most emotional moment for me ing their documentary, “The Son I Never Had: regarding my film and its impact,” said Pago- Growing Up Intersex.” nis. “It felt like all of us were healing ourselves Northwestern University’s Rainbow Alliance and each other while watching my film.” recently hosted a screening and discussion of Pagonis explained that their documentary is Pagonis’ film at Harris Hall. an auto ethnographic storytelling piece. “It felt like a homecoming of sorts,” said “I was inspired by Audre Lord’s autobiog- Pagonis. “Growing up and going to Children’s raphy which she called a ‘biomythography,’” Memorial Hospital [now Lurie Children’s Hos- said Pagonis. “I string together two different pital of Chicago] my resident doctors were voices—one is myself and my family’s subjec- students at Feinberg School of Medicine at tive voice and the other is the objective voice Northwestern. Also, it’s rare that I get booked of science and reason which is me reading my at a Chicago venue, so it was nice to have my medical records.” closest friends in the audience. It was a beauti- They noted that intersex babies occur in one ful, amazing experience and the students asked out of every 2,000 births which is the same some of the best questions I’ve ever been amount of red heads in the world. asked.” “I went to an all -girls Catholic high school This wasn’t the first time Pagonis has in the suburbs,” said Pagonis. “It’s interesting screened their film, having traveled to 20 dif- because I’m intersex, but I didn’t know it back ferent venues, mostly outside of Chicago, since then. What I don’t talk about much is I was 2014. Pagonis recently got a grant from the As- into traveling softball which I did almost every traea Lesbian Foundation for Justice’s Intersex day of my life for a long time. This saved me Fund to put the finishing touches on the film. from going to church regularly because we had They also plan on submitting it to film festivals tournaments on the weekends.” in the coming months and will release it for Digital cinema was Pagonis’ first choice free with a companion website for people to go for their college major but they switched to for resources and call to action information on women and gender studies shortly after enter-

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Sex, Gender, & Martin Bob the Drag Queen. Photos by Ed Negron Howard Heidegger Brown Health hosts Sat., Oct. 29, 3-5 pm Leather Archives & Museum, 6418 N. Greenview Ave. hauntingly What is gender? Why leather? Guest lec- turer Das Janssen, Ph.D. tackles these questions. Free and open to the public. fun affair 18+. Admission to the museum galleries is $10.

By Ed Negron

While most Chicagoans focused on the Cubs vs. Dodgers fifth (and World Series-clinching) game, Stranger Thang Howard Brown Health held its second annual Halloween spooktravagant event, The Big Orange Ball, Halloween Party at West Loop restaurant and event space Carnivale on Oct. 22. Guests arrived in their most eye-catching attire ready to celebrate Halloween, a favorite LGBTQ holiday. Carnivale’s main event space was transformed into a ghoulish ballroom, with smaller spaces for tricks and treats. One such room was the Kink Room, complete with a St. Andrew’s cross. Board Member and Mr. Chicago Leather 2014 Miguel Torres offered demonstrations, and provided floggings for a small donation. Torres was joined by the reigning Mr. Chicago Leather, Todd Harris. The evening was kicked off with a special performance courtesy of Rebirth Garments. Designed and made by hand by Sky Cubacub, Rebirth Garments are gender non-conforming wearables and Sat., Oct. 29, 9:30 pm accessories for people on the full spectrum of gender, size and ability. This was followed by plenty Mary’s Attic, of dancing to the spooktacular sounds of DJ Larissa and DJ Megan Taylor. 5400 N. Clark St. Before the main event, an announcement was made that caused the entire ballroom to cheer and Bring your best Nancy, Monster, Papa, Barb, roar at the top of its lungs—“CUBS WIN, CUBS WIN!!! The Chicago Cubs are going to the World Joyce, Eleven, Dustin, Lucas or sexy Chief Series!” Hopper. Get your pics taken under Mary’s/ The main event of the evening was a performance by Bob The Drag Queen, the winner of RuPaul’s Joyce’s wall of lights, and win prizes for Drag Race’s eighth season. The day before the ball, Bob stopped by the Broadway Youth Center to best costumes at 1 am. DJ Moose spins all take a tour of the facilities and for a private meeting with the youth and peer advocates. The energy the best of the soundtrack, ‘80s synth, and Halloween favorites. of the meeting was said to be phenomenal and truly inspiring. Funds raised during the gala will support Howard Brown’s medical care and community initiatives Sidetrack Halloween for adults and youth. Founded in 1974, Howard Brown serves more than 20,000 adults and youth each year in its health Costume Contest and social service delivery system focused around four major programmatic divisions: clinical care, research, education and advocacy. To learn more, visit HowardBrown.org.

Mon., Oct. 31, 10 pm 3349 N HALSTED SIDETRACKCHICAGO.COM Sidetrack, @SIDETRACKBAR 3349 N. Halsted St. Watch the Northalsted Scream Queen parade on their screens. Costume con- test at 10 pm, with a $500 cash prize and hosted by Dixie Lynn Cartwright. No cover. WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 26, 2016 35 Billy Masters

“If you vote for Hillary Clinton, I will give you a blow job. And I’m good. I’m not a douche, and I’m not a tool. I take my time. I have a lot of eye con- tact. And I do swallow.”—Madonna. In a related story, Madonna also pledged to blow people who voted for Trump. I find it staggering that technology can make enormous strides forward while, at the same time, art can take just as many steps backward. In the golden age of movie musicals (the ‘40s, ‘50s and The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Laverne ‘60s), songs were lip-synched—in many cases, to a different person’s voice! And yet, the end Cox did not live up to expectations, Billy result was often not only convincing but award- says. winning. This ability seems to be lost—much like the mystery of the pyramids or Pia Zadora’s issues. At the same time, he was let go by Fox career. Fox, the network that revolutionized live News after they told him he was “unlikeable.” musicals on TV with Grease: Live!, all but killed Since then, he’s bent over backward—and for- the genre with a misguided and pointless remake ward—to prove them wrong! How did he prepare of The Rocky Horror Show. While there is enough for his new profession? First thing he did was blame to go around, the sound designers and get butt implants. As I always say, play to your producers should be charged with crimes against strengths! In the past year and a half, he’s taken humanity at The Hague. Nobody seems to care the industry by storm. You can see some of his about matching the ambient sound in a recording work on BillyMasters.com. studio to that on a soundstage. Likewise, the per- With all these new TV shows about time travel, formers don’t realize that a great studio recording I’m beginning to feel like I’m catapulting through is far different than one that is realistic for act- time. In 1995, Glenn Close was starring in Sunset ing and movement. Blvd on Broadway. At the same time, jettisoned But the biggest mistake was the casting of La- star Patti LuPone was down the street starring verne Cox. Strike that—the biggest mistake was in Patti LuPone on Broadway. These worlds will Laverne Cox accepting the role. With this one be colliding once again. Earlier this year, Close decision, she undid whatever good she’s done returned to the role of Norma Desmond in a semi- for the transgender movement. She’s playing a staged production with the English National Op- role confusingly referred to in the revised script era in London. She had so much fun revisiting as both “she” and “he.” (Usually, “he” is used.) the role, she will return to Broadway for a limited And, when the character sings “I’m not much of a 20-week run at the Belasco Theatre starting in January. man,” we’re seeing these ginormous titties burst- 3349 N HALSTED SIDETRACKCHICAGO.COM @SIDETRACKBAR ing out. After Rocky has sex with Frank-N-Furter, Meanwhile, Patti LuPone and Christine Eber- why is he so intrigued by Janet? In the original, sole were the toast of Chicago this summer trying it’s because he’s never touched breasts. Maybe in out the new musical War Paint—about the lives of this case, it’s because her breasts were so small Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden. The show ... and less tanned! Cox never seemed to have a was clever, provocative, had good music for the clear grasp on who this character was. And, what two ladies, and needed just a few tweaks. Hope- was that accent? It was like a cross between Tim fully, those tweaks have been made because the Curry and Dame Joan Collins. In fact, it was as show will be docking at Broadway’s Nederlander if Dame Joan were doing a Curry impersonation! Theatre on March 7. Sounds like 2017 could be a For someone who has fought hard to be accepted rematch of Patti vs. Glenn at the Tonys. Perhaps as a woman, Cox gave a performance that seemed Patti will come out on top this time. You can like an audition for RuPaul’s Drag Race. So much judge for yourself, since we have a video of the fi- for progress. BTW, I am not alone in my opin- nale of War Paint exclusively on BillyMasters.com. ion—the bulk of the reviews were middle-of-the- Dorothy Gale made much of the phrase “There’s road to abysmal. As to ratings, half the number of no place like home” in The Wizard of Oz. Alas, people who tuned in for Grease: Live even both- Dorothy’s iconic ruby slippers need our help. ered to check this out. The sparkly shoes are housed in the Smithson- While Fox was setting the trans community ian and are, apparently, falling apart. They are back decades, Fox News moved forward by reveal- turning to Kickstarter to try and raise $300K to ing the biggest non-secret since Anderson Cooper preserve the pumps. came out. Yes, Shepard Smith finally acknowl- There’s been lots of talk about Garrett Clayton edged he is gay. Shocking! Next thing you know, playing gay porn pup Brent Corrigan. But an- Mrs. Muir will make a stunning revelation! In an other former Disney star is making a buzz with his interview with The Huffington Post, Shep talked new project. Ross Lynch, who starred in Austin & about his sex life solely to defend his former Ally and Teen Beach Movie, has been cast as the boss, Roger Ailes. He wanted to counter reports gay cannibal serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. That’s that Ailes made him stay in the closet. As for quite a role for a Disney star to chew on! any other personal details, Smith’s keeping his When Disney stars can make money where their mouth shut. mouth is, it’s definitely time to end yet another It would be interesting to hear Shep’s take on column. Before ending, several of you have asked Jim Walker, another Fox News anchor. Well, I me to post Clayton’s King Cobra sex scenes (and should say former anchor. He’s now making news his ass shot). Like Garrett, I’m happy to oblige, because of his new occupation—gay-porn actor! and you will find them on www.BillyMasters.com, Northalsted Halloween Parade in 2014. the site where everyone ends up. If you have a His porn name is Dallas Steele, but he doesn’t Photo by Jerry Nunn seem to mind blurring the lines between the two. question, send it along to Billy@BillyMasters. In a recent interview, he reveals this transition com and I promise to get back to you before Ma- lots of treats. happened during a difficult time in his life. His donna ends up in a Disney film! Until next time, Halloween Parade There will also be a “Zombie Bar Crawl” on partner died and this left him with huge financial remember: One man’s filth is another man’s bible. Saturday, Oct. 29, 4-8 p.m. The participation Oct. 31 in Boystown fee is $20. The 20th-annual Northalsted Halloween The parade—which, this year, has a Parade, which the Northalsted Business Al- “Scream Queen” theme—happens Halloween liance is presenting, will take place Monday, night at 7:30 p.m., kicking off from the cor- Oct. 31. ner of Halsted Street and Belmont Avenue, First, however, there will be a Saturday, and traveling north to Cornelia Avenue. The Oct. 29, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., celebration for kids competitive costume contest will award win- at Space Park, 815 W. Roscoe Ave. In partner- ners in four categories: Drag, Group, Scariest ship with Triangle Neighbors and Children’s and Theme. Registration is 5-7 p.m.; partici- Learning Place, the event will feature tons of pation is free. family fun including crafts, some tricks and See Northalsted.com. 36 Oct. 26, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES KNIGHT at the movies

By Richard Knight, Jr.

Moonlight; The Handmaiden

In my 12-and-a-half years as film critic for Windy City Times, I cannot recall another instance of what is happening this weekend at your local cinema: not one, but two, examples of superlative LGBT films are opening in Chicago. Okay: I know a certain team is in the World Series (yes!) but, pre- or post-game, please do make time for these movies. Moonlight, from director Barry Jenkins, is an Alex Hibbert and Mahershala Ali in Moonlight. unexpected breakthrough that is no less than Photo by David Bornfriend, courtesy of A24 a game-changer while Park Chan-Wook’s The Handmaiden is a breathtaking ratification mother is one of Juan’s customers. circumstances before) if it weren’t for Jenkins’ playboy, Count Fujiwara (Ha Jung-woo), who of the South Korean’s protean talents. It’s a The nearly mute boy morphs into the sullen, laser-sharp focus. is in the process of wooing a wealthy heiress. very heady combination; a one-two punch that skinny teen who has become an expert at fitting Moonlight is a deeply lyrical work but unfussy The con man hires Sook-hee (Kim Tae-ri), a raises the bar for queer cinema in fundamental in and deflecting the psychological blows from in its approach and the director is helped pickpocket from the provinces who he trains ways. his now drug-addled mother. An unexpected immeasurably by the stellar performances. In to pose as a handmaiden for the object of his Moonlight is based on “In Moonlight Black physical encounter one moonlit night on the Dee Rees’ lovely Pariah, mainstream filmgoers con: the lovely and fragile Lady Hideko (Kim Boys Look Blue,” a never-produced story by beach with his best friend, Kevin, opens up a were given glimpses of the interior life of a Min-hee). Sook-hee is tasked with convincing the Black gay playwright/actor Tarrell Alvin world of possibilities—that is quickly quashed young Black lesbian and now we have, at long Lady Hideko to fall in love with the count and McCraney (a Steppenwolf company member). by circumstances. last, its male twin, although Moonlight digs marry him instead of her overbearing uncle, Jenkins has directed and adapted McCraney’s When we last meet Chiron as a down much deeper. How long have audiences handing her vast fortune over to the con man story for the screen which focuses on a young twentysomething adult, the hulking, muscular been subconsciously (and consciously) been in the process. Black boy, Chiron. Chiron’s life is seen in three man we encounter is barely recognizable to waiting for this kind of sensational film? I The fly in the ointment turns out to be Sook- defining stages—as the quiet, watchful boy we us. Jenkins leaves it to us to intuit much of can’t recall a film since Marlon Riggs’ 1989 hee, whose ardor for Lady Hideko—and vice first encounter, as the cautious teen eager to what has taken place in the ensuing years as polemic Tongues Untied that has examined versa—is palpable from the moment the two fit in and as a life-scarred man in his 20s. The Chiron decides on a whim to track down Kevin so closely and with such insight the life of a women first encounter one another when the film is split into these three sections with a (played as an adult by Andre Holland), who gay Black male. I’m glad, as a queer film fan handmaiden arrives to take on her duties. The trio of actors—Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders is now working in a diner in Georgia. Their and critic, that I lived long enough to see this intrigue and tremendously erotic subterfuge and Trevante Rhodes—playing Chiron. encounter—and a visit with his mother— extraordinary movie and what I sincerely hope that follows is quintessential Park. Madness, When we first encounter Chiron in sunny brings to light the tremendous cost Chiron has will be a game-changer for cinema. violence, plenty of plot twists (don’t tell!) and Miami in the 1980s, he’s in flight, running away paid as he has struggled to come to terms with Impressive from an altogether different a battery of silken close-ups follow (and there’s from bullies who have sniffed out what they his sexuality and what it means to be a man perspective is Park Chan-Wook’s sensual thriller a plenty hot romance between the two women discern is his innate gayness. Chiron’s tough in our fragmented society. Don’t be surprised, The Handmaiden. A period piece that is part to boot). The Handmaiden is ravishing cinema single mother, Paula (the luminous Naomie my gay brethren and sisters of every stripe, potboiler, part thriller and full-on sensual art, that calls attention—gorgeously—to itself Harris), has sniffed it out, too, and when push if this final scene between Chiron and Kevin Park’s movie contains the Hitchcock-influenced every step of the way. comes to shove, lets him have it. Trapped on all doesn’t find you weeping tears of bittersweet set pieces that have becomes this visually sides, Chiron finds an unexpected ally in Juan recognition—as it did me. dazzling director’s signature. (The unfairly (Mahershala Ali), a local drug lord who shares For Chiron (or for the audience), there are overlooked 2013 movie Stoker, scripted by out a home with his girlfriend Teresa (a warm and to be no easy answers and no easy summation writer/actor Wentworth Miller, is my favorite sympathetic Janelle Monae). The unusually to neatly define his coming out and this previous example.) ‘Haunting History’ tolerant and respectful Juan suspects but never open-endedness is part of the magic of this Based on the Victorian set novel Fingersmith pushes the truth and, under his guidance, the expressive masterpiece. Jenkins’ method by Welsh writer Sarah Walters but reimagined Oct. 28-31 boy begins to blossom—until, in the most is calm and exacting, and might seem to in the Japanese-occupied Korea of the 1930s, in Evanston terrible of ironies, Chiron discovers that his verge on the stereotypical (we’ve seen these the plot concerns a con man who poses as a “Haunting History with David Parr: A Magical Halloween Treat for Grown-ups” will take place Oct. 28-31 at Evanston His- tory Center, 225 Greenwood St. The shows will be at 7, 8 and 9 p.m., and people will explore the corridors of the historic Dawes House, completed in 1895. An introductory video is at https://youtu. be/590ZHZEqgww. Tickets are $25; no one under 13 will be admitted. See DavidParr.com.

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Straight for Equality program, from 2006 John and Char Cepek to 2010. This program has presented LGBT John and Char have been committed allies to diversity trainings throughout corporate the LGBT community in a variety of settings America over the last ten years. In the area ever since their son, John, came out to them of faith communities, John and Char chaired in 1991. John served as national president the Open and Affirming Taskforce at the First of Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians Congregational Church of La Grange. and Gays (PFLAG), where he originated the

been recording and touring the U.S. and the Johnny Hickman world for 25 years. Johnny grew up with a gay Johnny Hickman is guitarist, co-founder and brother and a transgender sister and is here to co-songwriter of the band Cracker who have share his story of their journey together.

Washington brings more than two decades Laura S. Washington of experience as a multi-media journalist Laura S. Washington is a Chicago Sun-Times and non-profit professional specializing in columnist and political analyst for ABC 7, African-American affairs, local and national Chicago’s ABC-owned station. She is also politics, race, and social justice. From 2003 a contributing editor to In These Times to 2009 she served as the Ida B. Wells-Barnett magazine. She served as a 2015 Fellow at the University Professor at DePaul University. University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics.

Lab Chicago, which has put 400+ new tellers Scott Whitehair on stage since 2011, and director of Do Not Scott Whitehair is a storyteller, teacher, Submit, a citywide network of ten open mics and instructor living in Chicago who is as focused on connecting neighbors through passionate about hearing your stories as he story. He performs anywhere someone will is about telling his own. Scott is the host of listen, teaches a monthly class and coaches This Much Is True, one of the longest running people and organizations in developing their storytelling series in the city, creator of Story voices. WINDY CITY TIMES Oct. 26, 2016 39 CONNEXIONS MAKE IT YOUR BUSINESS

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