Black Lives Matter Co-Creator Talks About the Movement, NFL Protests

Alicia Garza.

vol 31, no. 32 May 4, 2016 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com A MATTER OF TIME Black Lives Matter co-creator talks about the movement, NFL protests

by Gretchen Rachel Hammond tor for the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) Alicia Garza took the stage at the Chicago Athletic Association for The dynamic, passionate ascendancy of the Black Lives Matter a beautifully candid discussion with New York Times reporter NICK OF TIME (BLM) movement was felt in Chicago from the NFL Draft to and columnist Jenna Wortham. Nick Jonas talks about his new CD the more intimate setting of the Chicago Humanities Festival Less than a mile away from the Chicago Humanities Festi- (CHF) April 30. val event, the relentless insurgence for justice which Garza and the anti-LGBT N.C. law. 20 That afternoon, BLM co-creator and Special Programs Direc- Photo by Yu Tsai Turn to page 10

GARDEN OF EVE TRANS-WORKPLACE FORUM CHICAGO HOUSE BRUNCH Howard Brown Health holds annual event. Chicago Fed hosts “TRANSitioning in the Workplace.” Last event for CEO brings bittersweet tone. Photo by Kat Fitzgerald, www.mysticimagesphotography.com Photo of (L to R) Lori Fox, Barbra Getz, Crispin Torres and Channyn Lynn Parker Photo of Rev. Stan Sloan by Kat Fitzgerald, 14 by Gretchen Rachel Hammond 8 www.mysticimagesphotography.com 21

@windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com

Starring JOHN O'HURLEY from “Dancing with the Stars” & “Seinfeld” MAY 10–15 • • 800-775-2000 •

Tickets available at all Broadway In Chicago Box Offices and Ticketmaster retail locations. Groups 10+: 312-977-1710 PHOTO BY RICHIE FAHEY 2 May 4, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES

Actual Size (15.4 mm x 7.3 mm)

One small pill contains rilpivirine, emtricitabine, and New Odefsey® tenofovir alafenamide (TAF).

is now available Ask your healthcare provider if ODEFSEY is right for you.

To learn more visit ODEFSEY.com

Please see Brief Summary of Patient Information with important warnings on the following pages.

ODEC0006_OdefseyJrnlAd-C_Spread_10x13-5_WindyCityTimes.indd 1-2 3/30/16 11:04 AM WINDY CITY TIMES May 4, 2016 3

Actual Size (15.4 mm x 7.3 mm)

One small pill contains rilpivirine, emtricitabine, and New Odefsey® tenofovir alafenamide (TAF). is now available Ask your healthcare provider if ODEFSEY is right for you.

To learn more visit ODEFSEY.com

Please see Brief Summary of Patient Information with important warnings on the following pages.

ODEC0006_OdefseyJrnlAd-C_Spread_10x13-5_WindyCityTimes.indd 1-2 3/30/16 11:04 AM 4 May 4, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES

Brief Summary of Patient Information What is ODEFSEY? Pregnancy registry: there is a pregnancy registry for women who take HIV-1 • Depression or mood changes. Tell your healthcare provider right away about ODEFSEY medicines during pregnancy. The purpose of this registry is to collect information if you have any of the following symptoms: ODEFSEY is a prescription medicine that is used to treat HIV-1 about the health of you and your baby. Talk with your healthcare provider about – feel sad or hopeless ODEFSEY (oh-DEF-see) in people 12 years of age and older: how you can take part in this registry. ( – feel anxious or restless emtricitabine, rilpivirine and tenofovir alafenamide) tablets • who have not received HIV-1 medicines in the past and have an amount of • are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. Do not breastfeed if you take ODEFSEY. Important: Ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist about medicines HIV-1 in their blood (“viral load”) that is no more than 100,000 copies/mL, or – have thoughts of hurting yourself (suicide) or have tried to hurt yourself – You should not breastfeed if you have HIV-1 because of the risk that should not be taken with ODEFSEY. • to replace their current HIV-1 medicines in people who have been on the same • Change in liver enzymes. People with a history of hepatitis B or C virus of passing HIV-1 to your baby. There may be new information about ODEFSEY. This information is only a summary HIV-1 medicines for at least 6 months, have a viral load that is less than 50 infection or who have certain liver enzyme changes may have an increased risk – At least one of the medicines in ODEFSEY can pass to your baby in your and does not take the place of talking with your healthcare provider about your copies/mL, and have never failed past HIV-1 treatment. of developing new or worsening liver problems during treatment with ODEFSEY. medical condition or treatment. breast milk. It is not known if the other medicines in ODEFSEY can pass into Liver problems can also happen during treatment with ODEFSEY in people without It is not known if ODEFSEY is safe and effective in children under 12 years of age your breast milk. a history of liver disease. Your healthcare provider may need to do tests to check What is the most important information or who weigh less than 77 lb (35 kg). – Talk with your healthcare provider about the best way to feed your baby. your liver enzymes before and during treatment with ODEFSEY. I should know about ODEFSEY? When used to treat HIV-1 infection, ODEFSEY may help: Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including • Changes in body fat can happen in people who take HIV-1 medicine. • Reduce the amount of HIV-1 in your blood. This is called “viral load”. ODEFSEY can cause serious side effects, including: prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. These changes may include increased amount of fat in the upper back and • Increase the number of CD4+ (T) cells in your blood that help fi ght off • Build-up of lactic acid in your blood (lactic acidosis). Lactic acidosis Some medicines may interact with ODEFSEY. Keep a list of your medicines neck (“buffalo hump”), breast, and around the middle of your body (trunk). other infections. may happen in some people who take ODEFSEY or similar medicines. Lactic and show it to your healthcare provider and pharmacist when you get Loss of fat from the legs, arms and face may also happen. The exact cause acidosis is a serious medical emergency that can lead to death. Lactic Reducing the amount of HIV-1 and increasing the CD4+ (T) cells in your blood a new medicine. and long-term health effects of these conditions are not known. may help improve your immune system. This may reduce your risk of death acidosis can be hard to identify early, because the symptoms could seem like • You can ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist for a list of medicines that • Changes in your immune system (Immune Reconstitution Syndrome) can or getting infections that can happen when your immune system is weak symptoms of other health problems. Call your healthcare provider right interact with ODEFSEY. happen when you start taking HIV-1 medicines. Your immune system may get (opportunistic infections). stronger and begin to fi ght infections that have been hidden in your body for a away if you get any of the following symptoms which could be signs of • Do not start a new medicine without telling your healthcare provider. Your You must keep taking HIV-1 long time. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you start having any new lactic acidosis: ODEFSEY does not cure HIV-1 infection or AIDS. healthcare provider can tell you if it is safe to take ODEFSEY with other medicines. – feel very weak or tired medicines to control HIV-1 infection and decrease HIV-related illnesses. symptoms after starting your HIV-1 medicine. How should I take ODEFSEY? – have unusual (not normal) muscle pain Ask your healthcare provider about how to prevent passing • New or worse kidney problems, including kidney failure. Your healthcare HIV-1 to others. Do not share or re-use needles, injection equipment, or personal provider should do blood and urine tests to check your kidneys before you – have trouble breathing • Take ODEFSEY exactly as your healthcare provider tells you to take it. ODEFSEY items that can have blood or body fl uids on them. Do not have sex without start and while you are taking ODEFSEY. Your healthcare provider may tell you is taken by itself (not with other HIV-1 medicines) to treat HIV-1 infection. – have stomach pain with nausea or vomiting protection. Always practice safer sex by using a latex or polyurethane condom to to stop taking ODEFSEY if you develop new or worse kidney problems. – feel cold, especially in your arms and legs • Take ODEFSEY 1 time each day with a meal. lower the chance of sexual contact with semen, vaginal secretions, or blood. • Bone problems can happen in some people who take ODEFSEY. Bone – feel dizzy or lightheaded • Do not change your dose or stop taking ODEFSEY without fi rst talking with problems may include bone pain, softening or thinning (which may lead to Who should not take ODEFSEY? your healthcare provider. Stay under a healthcare provider’s care when – have a fast or irregular heartbeat fractures). Your healthcare provider may need to do tests to check your bones. taking ODEFSEY. • Severe liver problems. Severe liver problems may happen in people who Do not take ODEFSEY if you also take a medicine that contains: The most common side effects of rilpivirine, one of the medicines in ODEFSEY, • Do not miss a dose of ODEFSEY. take ODEFSEY. In some cases, these liver problems can lead to death. Your • carbamazepine (Carbatrol®, Epitol®, Equetro®, Tegretol®, Tegretol-XR®, Teril®) are depression, trouble sleeping (insomnia), and headache. • If you take too much ODEFSEY, call your healthcare provider or go to the liver may become large and you may develop fat in your liver. Call your • dexamethasone (Ozurdex®, Maxidex®, Decadron®, BaycadronTM) The most common side effect of emtricitabine and tenofovir alafenamide, nearest hospital emergency room right away. healthcare provider right away if you get any of the following • dexlansoprazole (Dexilant®) two of the medicines in ODEFSEY, is nausea. symptoms of liver problems: • When your ODEFSEY supply starts to run low, get more from your healthcare • esomeprazole (Nexium®, Vimovo®) Tell your healthcare provider if you have any side effect that bothers you – your skin or the white part of your eyes turns yellow (jaundice) provider or pharmacy. This is very important because the amount of virus in ® or that does not go away. • lansoprazole (Prevacid ) your blood may increase if the medicine is stopped for even a short time. – dark “tea-colored” urine • These are not all the possible side effects of ODEFSEY. For more information, • omeprazole (Prilosec®, Zegerid®) The virus may develop resistance to ODEFSEY and become harder to treat. – light-colored bowel movements (stools) ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist. • oxcarbazepine (Trileptal®) – loss of appetite What are the possible side effects of ODEFSEY? • Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side • pantoprazole sodium (Protonix®) – nausea effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088. • phenobarbital (Luminal®) ODEFSEY may cause serious side effects, including: – pain, aching, or tenderness on the right side of your stomach area This Brief Summary summarizes the most important information about ODEFSEY. ® ® ® • See “What is the most important information I should know • phenytoin (Dilantin , Dilantin-125 , Phenytek ) If you would like more information, talk with your healthcare provider. You can ask • You may be more likely to get lactic acidosis or severe liver problems if about ODEFSEY?” • rabeprazole (Aciphex®) your healthcare provider or pharmacist for information about ODEFSEY that you are female, very overweight (obese), or have been taking ODEFSEY • Severe skin rash and allergic reactions. Skin rash is a common side effect • rifampin (Rifadin®, Rifamate®, Rifater®, Rimactane®) is written for health professionals. or a similar medicine for a long time. of ODEFSEY. Rash can be serious. Call your healthcare provider right away ® For more information, call 1-800-445-3235 or go to www.ODEFSEY.com. • Worsening of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. ODEFSEY is not approved • rifapentine (Priftin ) if you get a rash. In some cases, rash and allergic reaction may need to be to treat HBV. If you have HBV and take ODEFSEY, your HBV may get worse • the herb St. John’s wort or a product that contains St. John’s wort treated in a hospital. If you get a rash with any of the following symptoms, Keep ODEFSEY and all medicines out of reach of children. (fl are-up) if you stop taking ODEFSEY. A “fl are-up” is when your HBV infection Issued: March 2016 What should I tell my healthcare provider stop taking ODEFSEY and call your healthcare provider right away: suddenly returns in a worse way than before. before taking ODEFSEY? – fever – Do not run out of ODEFSEY. Refi ll your prescription or talk to your healthcare – skin blisters provider before your ODEFSEY is all gone. Before taking ODEFSEY, tell your healthcare provider if you: – mouth sores – Do not stop taking ODEFSEY without fi rst talking to your healthcare • have liver problems including hepatitis B or C virus infection – redness or swelling of the eyes (conjunctivitis) provider. • have kidney and bone problems – swelling of the face, lips, mouth or throat – If you stop taking ODEFSEY, your healthcare provider will need to check • have had depression or suicidal thoughts ODEFSEY, the ODEFSEY Logo, GILEAD, the GILEAD Logo, and GSI are trademarks your health often and do blood tests regularly for several months to check – trouble breathing or swallowing • have any other medical conditions of Gilead Sciences, Inc., or its related companies. All other trademarks referenced your HBV infection. Tell your healthcare provider about any new or unusual – pain on the right side of the stomach (abdominal) area • are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known if ODEFSEY can herein are the property of their respective owners. symptoms you may have after you stop taking ODEFSEY. – dark “tea-colored” urine harm your unborn baby. Tell your healthcare provider if you become pregnant © 2016 Gilead Sciences, Inc. All rights reserved. ODEC0006 03/16 while taking ODEFSEY.

ODEC0006_OdefseyJrnlAd-C_Spread_10x13-5_WindyCityTimes.indd 3-4 3/30/16 11:04 AM WINDY CITY TIMES May 4, 2016 5

ODEC0006_OdefseyJrnlAd-C_Spread_10x13-5_WindyCityTimes.indd 3-4 3/30/16 11:04 AM 6 May 4, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES WINDY CITY TIMES INDEX

NEWS ‘TRANSitioning in the Workplace’; column 8 download Black Lives Matter co-founder Garza 10 this issue Storage project for homeless youth 11 and browse the archives at Gender-identity options for college applications 12 LGBT Ethiopian Jews talk in Chicago 13 www.WindyCitytimes.com Garden of Eve photos 14 Panel talks LGBT, reproductive rights 15 1 Views: Frank Pizzoli; letter 16 alicia Garza. ENTERTAINMENT/EVENTS Scottish Play Scott 17 LOOKING? Nick Jonas on N.C. law, new CD 20 vol 31, no. 32 May 4, 2016 Chicago House brunch/fashion show pics 21 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com Knight: Viva and Janis: Little Girl Blue 22 ‘Gayby Baby’ screening, discussion 23 A MATTER NIGHTSPOTS 24 OF TIME Black Lives Matter co-creator talks Wedding listing 27 about the movement, NFL protests

by Gretchen rachel hammond tor for the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) Alicia Garza took the stage at the Chicago Athletic Association for The dynamic, passionate ascendancy of the Black Lives Matter a beautifully candid discussion with New York Times reporter NICK OF TIME (BLM) movement was felt in Chicago from the NFL Draft to and columnist Jenna Wortham. nick Jonas talks about his new cd the more intimate setting of the Chicago Humanities Festival Less than a mile away from the Chicago Humanities Festi- (CHF) April 30. val event, the relentless insurgence for justice which Garza and the anti-lGbt n.c. law. 20 That afternoon, BLM co-creator and Special Programs Direc- ARE WE STILL OUTLINES Photo by Yu Tsai Turn to page 10 Classifieds 28 Calendar Q 30 GARDEN OF EVE TRANS-WORKPLACE FORUM CHICAGO HOUSE BRUNCH howard brown health holds annual event. chicago Fed hosts “tranSitioning in the Workplace.” last annual event for ceo brings bittersweet tone. Photo by Kat Fitzgerald, www.mysticimagesphotography.com Photo of (L to R) Lori Fox, Barbra Getz, Crispin Torres and Channyn Lynn Parker Photo of Rev. Stan Sloan by Kat Fitzgerald, 14 by Gretchen Rachel Hammond 7 www.mysticimagesphotography.com 21

@windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com

Starring JOHN O'HURLEY from “Dancing with the Stars” & “Seinfeld” MAY 10–15 • • 800-775-2000 •

Tickets available at all Broadway In Chicago Box Offices and Ticketmaster retail locations. Groups 10+: 312-977-1710 PHOTO BY RICHIE FAHEY F online exclusives at www.WindyCityTimes.com

mary, quite contrary The always-candid singer Mary Lambert (left) aired her views and performed some songs at Northwestern University recently. Photo by Vern Hester THE HISTORY OF HOOKING UP EQUAL TIME

THURSDAY MAY 19 5:30 P.M. RECEPTION • 6:30 P.M. PROGRAM

Join Brian Mutanski as he moderates PURCHASE TICKETS Government and community leaders a talk with Jeremy Birnholtz, and gathered at the University of Illinois at General Admission | $20 Michelle Birkett about the social Chicago for the Midwest Convening in Members & Students | $15 Racial Equality. and historical development of hooking Photo of Cook County Commissioner Jesus “Chuy” up. From face-to-face meetings in bars, Ticket includes light Garcia by Gretchen Rachel Hammond club scenes and bandana culture to appetizers and refreshments. brute force early online chat rooms, dating websites, The Chicago Force dominated in their MY KIND OF TOWN and mobile apps, this conversation first home game of the season. explores how interactions in these environments have progressed and

how the LGBTQ community navigates Major support for Out at CHM comes intimacy, self-identity, and self- from the Exelon Corporation, Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett, with additional support myth understanding presentation in cyberspace. from Lakeshore Beverage. The Fairy Gardener quashes three myths about growing plants.

#OUTatCHM | chicagohistory.org/outatchm THAT’S SHOW BIZ Find out the latest about Stevie Nicks, George Takei and Viola Davis.

Clark Street at North Avenue | 312.642.4600 | chicagohistory.org

plus Christophe Caballero talks about being The Chicago History Museum gratefully acknowledges the support of the Chicago Park District on behalf of the people of Chicago. DAILY BREAKING NEWS part of the traveling tour of Chicago. PR photo 1.577 pt

WINDY CITY TIMES May 4, 2016 7

Brian had his HIV under control

with medication. But smoking with

HIV caused him to have serious

health problems, including a

stroke, a blood clot in his lungs

and surgery on an artery in his

neck. Smoking makes living with

HIV much worse. You can quit.

CALL 1-800-QUIT-NOW.

#CDCTips

HIVHIV alonealone didn’tdidn’t causecause thethe cloggedclogged arteryartery inin mymy neck.neck. SmokingSmoking withwith HIVHIV did.did.

Brian, age 45, California 8 May 4, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES Chicago Fed looks at ‘TRANSitioning in the Workplace’ Open To Thinking By Gretchen Rachel Hammond are multidimensional.” Getz noted that the cost incurred by a transi- by Nick Patricca If there is any light to be found between the tioning individual is not solely financial. hatred, intolerance and antagonism cast by “Oftentimes, it is the loss of family, the loss North Carolina’s anti-LGBT bill HB2 and its of friends, the loss of spouses,” she said. “It counterparts in legislative committees or on can be a very devastating process and a huge Discrimination: Religious liberty?! House and/or Senate floors across the United adjustment. There are families who will disown States, it is in organizations like Target. you. It can get really ugly.” The discussion of the principle of ‘Reli- It seems clear that FGM should not be Despite concerted efforts by hate groups Fox added that, in terms of adjustments, the gious Liberty’ in our current presidential forced upon anyone, especially not on such as the American Family Association and legal maze faced by a transgender or gender- electioneering has generated so much children. In my judgment, therefore, our One Million Moms (which actually has 85,000 nonconforming individual is just as momen- darkness and so many red herrings that civil society cannot tolerate this practice members) to boycott its stores, Target has tous. I have been reluctant to take on the whether it be considered a cultural or a stood its ground in support of its transgender “If you think about a trans-identified person, topic. Since candidate Ted Cruz and oth- religious practice and should prohibit its and gender nonconforming employees and cus- every single legal document in their life has ers, however, keep raising this important imposition on any woman. tomers to use the restroom in accordance with to change,” she said. “That all starts with the issue, I would like to review some of the In the case of conventional male cir- their gender identity. process of going through a legal name change. cumcision (some The company is not alone. The amount of time and money it takes is sig- would say muti- The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Chica- nificant.” lation), medical “By focusing on the baking of wedding science does not go Fed) played host to employers ranging from For a company to be an affirming place for demonstrate serious multibillion-dollar corporations to small busi- a trans or gender nonconforming individual is cakes or on the preparing of floral adverse medical and nesses at its Chicago Loop arrangements for two adult citizens psychological dam- offices April 27. entering into a legal marriage, I think age. In fact, there is Human resources and some evidence that management personnel Cruz and others are not promoting a male circumcision gathered to learn more genuine discussion of the meaning of has some health about the “financial, pro- benefits. In this fessional, interpersonal religious liberty in our society.” case, the State has and psychological factors” no compelling inter- affecting employees who est and no basis for are “TRANSitioning in the interfering in the Workplace.” philosophical issues at the heart of this parent’s right to impose this surgery on The event was organized civil liberty. their male infants. Regarding the practice by Spectrum, the Chi- As stated in the First Amendment of of ‘oral suction circumcision’ by some or- cago Fed’s LGBT employee our U.S. Constitution, the idea seems thodox rabbis, however, I do think that group, and was part of the clear and straightforward: “Congress shall the State has a compelling public health 2016 calendar of Citywide make no law respecting an establishment objection because of the possible trans- Lori Fox, Barbra Getz, Crispin Torres and Channyn Lynn Parker. of religion, or prohibiting the free exer- mission of Hepatitis C and other viruses. Pride events supported by Photo by Gretchen Rachel Hammond the national workplace cise thereof … .” By focusing on the baking of wed- advocacy organization Out Historically, this phrase has been un- ding cakes or on the preparing of floral derstood to imply two inter-related legal arrangements for two adult citizens en- & Equal. principles: 1) the State cannot establish tering into a legal marriage, I think Cruz It was also part of the Chicago Fed’s Money not only a propitious way to do business but a religion, nor can it favor any religion, and others are not promoting a genuine can be life-changing for the employee and his, Smart Week of presentations. Whether deliber- nor can it interfere with any religion; and discussion of the meaning of religious ate or not, that alone carried its own poignant her and their colleagues. 2) the individual U.S. citizen is free to liberty in our society. These cases are message about the financial sense of transgen- To that end, Fox urged attendees to think choose his religion, practice his religion, brought to court as political distractions der inclusion over discrimination, both in hir- about a “culture of inclusion” that should not change his religion, not practice his reli- and incitements by those opposed to ing practices and in the workplace. merely be dependent upon attaining a 100 per- gion, and not have a religion as the indi- equality for LGBTQI peoples. These cas- The lively discussion—with panelists Out & cent score from the Human Rights Campaign vidual sees fit. These two philosophical/ es are properly adjudicated under anti- Equal board member and diversity consultant (HRC’s) Corporate Equality Index. legal implications do not always live in discrimination laws and regulations, not Lori Fox, Allied Counseling Services owner There are too many occasions where that harmony with each other. under the principle of religious liberty. Barbra Getz, Lambda Legal Midwest Regional number has often been rendered meaningless. In our civil society, the State has inter- What is of importance is a proper dis- Office Community Educator Crispin Torres, Chi- While she acknowledged it as an adequate fered in the practices of some religions. cussion of the implications of the Su- cago House TransLife Care Coordinator Chan- tool, Fox also noted that it “doesn’t measure Two examples: Mormons are not allowed preme Court’s decision (June, 2014) in nyn Lynn Parker and Chicago Fed Senior Vice or change behavior.” to practice polygamy even if they per- favor of Hobby Lobby which re-affirmed President, Associate Director of Research and “There can be a 100 percent score but if the ceive this practice as a divine mandate; the legal understanding of corporations Director of Financial Markets David Marshall jokes don’t stop or the passive aggressive, neg- and adherents of Christian Science may as functional equivalents of ‘persons’ who (who moderated)—put an exclamation point ative behavior doesn’t stop it can really pull not deny certain life-saving, modern have ‘free exercise rights.’ In this case, it on how a practice of gender identity inclusion an organization down,” she said. “It is very medical procedures to their children. In was decided that the religious liberty of is a recognition of humanity that is ultimately powerful to have people feel safe. It is critical the former case, the State denied the le- the owners of the corporation could be beneficial for both employer and employee. for your organization to have a formal gender gal right to an adult male citizen to enter injured by certain regulations of ‘Obam- “The workplace environment is just a piece transition in place.” into a valid civil marriage with more than acare’ because the corporation is entirely one woman. In the latter case, the State owned by one family with—allegedly— of a large life puzzle for every person,” Torres “We have to hold employees accountable for denied the absolute right of parents to one uniform religious faith. According to said before citing statistics from Injustice at their behavior and it’s not being done,” Getz nurture and educate their children. this legal judgment, the religious liberty agreed. “I have several clients whose compa- Every Turn—the report of the National Trans- In both of these cases, the State in- of the individual employees does not gender Discrimination Survey conducted by the nies are 100 percent on the Corporate Equality truded forcibly into the “privacy” and count, nor would the religious liberty of National Center for Transgender Equality and Index and they’re terrified of coming out. Ter- “rights” of the individual to safe-guard the limited number of individual stock the National LGBT Taskforce—stating that 90 rified. There will be a lot of times that I hear values the State judged essential to the holders in a ‘closely held’ corporation. percent of transgender individuals had experi- from my clients about a snide remark or a joke. well-being of the political community. Just as the Supreme Court’s decision in enced “harassment, mistreatment or discrimi- A person is not just trans. They are a human The State elects to interfere when the Citizens United (January, 2010) means in nation on the job” and 26 percent had “lost a being.” core values of the civil society cannot practice that more money buys you great- job due to being transgender or gender non- “We live in a conversation culture,” Torres tolerate the specific religious practice at er political power, so too in Hobby Lobby conforming.” added. “We are at a time right now politically, issue. more money buys you more religious lib- “I came to offer an alternative perspective culturally where we are trying to find a bal- Let us consider Female Genital Muti- erty. with regards to transgender issues in the work- ance between how much do I need to ask this lation (FGM). This form of circumcision The unforeseen and unintended con- place,” Torres added. “Moving away from the employee versus how much do they need to tell has been practiced for millennia among sequences of Citizens United have pro- concept of focusing on the body, focusing on me what is appropriate.” many peoples, cultures and religions. foundly changed our political system. the medical transition, how do you refer to Parker advocated for one-on-one discus- Today, FMG is mostly a practice of some The unforeseen and unintended conse- someone or pronouns? The issues facing trans- sions. “We always assume what people know Islamic and Animistic ethnicities. Medi- quences of Hobby Lobby should be the gender people are so much more diverse, just but it ends up being the complete opposite,” cal science has demonstrated that this subject of our political conversations on like most people are. The question we should she said. “A good foundation helps us not only form of circumcision causes serious ad- religious liberty in this presidential elec- be asking ourselves is not ‘How do I not mess understand our trans employees but better un- verse medical and psychological damage. tion campaign. up?’ but ‘How do I make more space, shift the derstand ourselves. When we do that, we see conversation and change the way I think about the humanity in other individuals. It is some- people?’ Workplace affirmation is a step be- thing to continuously do and constantly keep Nick Patricca is professor emeritus at Loyola University Chicago, president of yond workplace fairness.” in practice.” Chicago Network and playwright emeritus at Victory Gardens Theater. Recalling that she began living as her au- For more information about Out & Equal, thentic self at 15, Parker reminded attendees visit OutAndEqual.org. that transgender people “are multifaceted; we WINDY CITY TIMES May 4, 2016 9 for our community, and an experienced legal Tiven’s leadership, Immigration Equality built and political strategist who gets results. I look a $17 million pro bono program, quintupled Lambda Legal announces forward to working with her during this transi- client services to aid more than 5,000 people tion.” annually. Before becoming a lawyer she worked Former Chicagoan Karen Dixon, who had been at Bloomberg Business News and Lambda Le- new executive director co-chair of the Lambda Legal national board, gal. As a lawyer, she represented immigrant cli- Rachel B. Tiven has been hired as the new years. Under his leadership, the organization led the search team for Lambda’s new CEO. Chi- ents at the Legal Aid Society of New York and CEO of Lambda Legal, the nation’s oldest legal grew exponentially and won numerous civil cagoans Roderick Hawkins and board co-chair served as a law clerk to the Honorable Barbara organization fighting for equality on behalf of rights victories in courtrooms and communi- Stephen Winters were also on the search com- S. Jones in the Southern District of New York. LGBT people and those living with HIV. Tiven is ties around the country. Lambda Legal was the mittee.Tiven, a graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe She is a recipient of Columbia’s Public Interest currently executive director of the Immigrant architect of overturning the sodomy laws that College and Columbia Law School, joins Lamb- Law Foundation award. Justice Corps. criminalized LGBT lives; led the fight for in- da Legal with a strong history of civil rights “Rachel’s track record of strengthening and clusion in institutions from the military to the leadership. She was the executive director of Suburb to institute growing mission-driven organizations into Boy Scouts; and sought to protect people with Immigration Equality for eight years, during national forces for legal, political, and so- HIV/AIDS from being fired, evicted and denied which time it won many victories for LGBT and gender-neutral cial change made her the clear choice to lead equal healthcare. Under Cathcart’s leadership, HIV+ immigrants. For the past two years, she Lambda Legal going forward,” said Tracey Wal- Lambda Legal also has won groundbreaking has led Immigrant Justice Corps, the nation’s restrooms lace and Stephen Winters, co-chairs, Lambda victories for the rights of transgender people, first fellowship devoted to representing immi- The Chicago suburb of Highland Park has in- grants. stituted that all new single-occupancy bath- “The work ahead is thrilling and it is neces- rooms must be designated as “gender-netural” New Lambda Legal sary,” said Tiven. “It is our job to end discrimi- or “all-gender,” WLS-TV reported. CEO Rachel B. Tiven. nation everywhere in America, wherever it hap- Officials contend the policy is designed to pens; to protect our partners and our children accommodate the transgender community. throughout their lives; and to fight for every Legislation involving transgender individuals member of our community. I am so honored to and restrooms have been in the spotlight re- join the talented team of lawyers, advocates, cently. Laws in Mississippi and North Carolina staff, and supporters who make up the Lambda require transgender people to use restrooms Legal family.” that correspond to the gender assigned on “It’s been my great honor to lead this incred- their birth certificates instead of the ones with ible organization for the past 24 years,” Cath- which they currently identify. Other states—in- cart told supporters in an email. “And now it is cluding Illinois, Wisconsin, Kansas, Massachu- an equally great honor to pass the torch to my setts, Tennessee and Missouri—are considering successor … . There is more work to be done— similar statutes. and Rachel is exactly the person to lead that The article is at http://abc7chicago.com/ work. Last summer’s Supreme Court ruling in news/highland-park-designates-single-bath- favor of marriage equality was one of the great- rooms-as-gender-neutral/1317335/. est legal victories we’ve seen yet, but if there’s Legal Board of Directors. “The list of victories and the organization played a central role in one message I can leave with you it is this: The yet to be won is long, and requires a leader last year’s victory in Obergefell v. Hodges, fight is not over. We are already seeing a major backlash against LGBT people with discrimina- Correction who can ensure equality and dignity for our which established the freedom to marry for all In the April 20 issue, the review of the play tory legislation passing in statehouses around community, our families and all our loved ones. same-sex couples nationwide. Mitera should have stated that the youngest the country, and there is violence and discrimi- We’re confident Rachel is the leader to take us “I saw Rachel’s strategic, tireless leadership sister, Dimitra, is the one who identifies as nation directed at members of our community forward.” first-hand when she built Immigration Equality LGBT and is expected to marry, not Olga. every day.” Tiven will succeed Kevin Cathcart, who led into a force for LGBT immigrants and asylum- Windy City Times regrets the error. Lambda Legal as its executive director for 24 seekers,” said Cathcart. “She is a fierce fighter The Justice Corps’ website states that under 10 May 4, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES MATTER from cover helped to nurture was exemplified by a group of equally fierce women comprised of BLM members, the Black Youth Project (BYP100) the grassroots collective Assata’s Daughters and F.L.Y. They chained themselves across the intersection of Lake Shore Drive and Jackson Boulevard and stood with defiant fists raised in a demand for accountability in the 2012 slaying of Rekia Boyd by Chicago Police Department officer Dante Servin and recent budget cuts designed to hamstring Chicago State University (CSU). The women, in hardened disregard to the pouring rain and the deafening chorus of im- patient horns as traffic came a standstill, re- mained in locked solidarity until the CPD arrested and forcibly removed them. “Decision makers at the local and state levels have made it clear where their financial priori- ties lie,” organizers said in a statement. “We continue to receive cuts to the institutions that keep Black women safe—institutions that continue to be replaced by terrorist cops who brutalize and murder Black women without penalty.” Before Garza and Wortham took their seats at the Humanities Fest, the capacity audience rose to their feet and chanted “Black Lives Matter.” “What we are seeing here in Chicago is an incredible direct action,” Garza said in response to Wortham’s question about the style of the movement. “That is a style to me around intersectionality and understanding that we Alicia Garza (left) and Jenna Wortham. don’t live single-issue lives and therefore the Photo by Gretchen Rachel Hammond work that we do in our communities cannot be siloed into single issues. “There is definitely a relationship between “We choose to #RememberRekia by demand- other people who then co-created this moment and recognition. Something about the way our the ways in which we fund law enforcement at ing that Dante Servin be fired without a pen- with me.” celebrity culture works makes us yearn for ac- the expense of other really pressing needs of sion and instead that decision makers commit As the action on Lake Shore Drive was in cess to ‘celebrityness’. These are not new prob- our communities,” she added “We deserve to full, permanent funding to Chicago State Uni- progress, Twitter users created their own narra- lems. The infrastructure that was built in the have communities that are full and rich. There versity,” the protesters concluded. tive around it. last period of civil rights was so intentionally is a real focus on intersectionality, which is an At the CHF event, Garza took on the subject “looks like the girl scouts came out to protest decimated that it has left huge gaps. One of 18-letter word just to say ‘three-dimensional of social media. in their best @2chainz cosplay,” one user said. them has been political homes for Black people people’. So our movement must also be three- “We get talked about a lot as a hashtag,” she “Black women & femmes got in formation to- to learn how to be movement actors and social dimensional. We have continued to lift up the said before noting that the hashtag which pre- day and shut down #Chicago’s #NFLDraft2016,” change agents. I would rather have a conflict fact that culture change and policy change go cedes Black Lives Matter was unintentional. “It wrote another. about political vision versus than who gets the hand-in-hand.” started as a love letter to Black people. Then “When we tell our stories on social media, the mic and how many times you’ve been on T.V.” “Dante Servin murdered Rekia Boyd because my sister Patrisse put a hashtag in front of formats we have are often truncated,” Garza Garza had a message to those people who he felt he could,” read the statement from the three words that then allowed other people to acknowledged. “Because we are connected so have co-opted Lives Matter with their own pre- Lake Shore Drive protesters. “Lawmakers refuse be a part of the conversation and to help shape immediately, it’s great because we can fol- fix. to give CSU the funding it needs because they it.” low things in real time, but it can also mean “Stop doing that,” she insisted to applause. feel there will be no repercussions.” “One thing I think is really important for peo- that we truncate the nuances of the stories of “Black Lives Matter is our art; it’s our creation. “Our continued resistance serves as the pen- ple to know is that I am a person who made a what’s happening right now. Who is involved in It’s really painful to watch as the content of alty for destroying Black Lives,” they asserted. statement on social media in response to being [this movement]? Is it just Black Lives Matter the baby that you birthed gets mutated and “There will be no uninterrupted NFL Draft Town outraged by the acquittal of George Zimmer- or is it dozens and dozens of organizations and erased. What does it mean to take the Black when Black women die without justice. There man in the murder of Trayvon Martin,” Garza thousands and thousands of people all over out of Black Lives Matter and replace it with will be no silence while Mayor Emanuel and the added. “That doesn’t make me the keeper of the world? Retweeting and sharing is great for something else? That is a replication of colo- City Council are cutting a $302,000 deal for an the movement. It makes me somebody who is getting out information but it’s not building nialism and imperialism. You can’t just come event worth $3.2 million at the same time that involved in this period of movement building, power, and that’s ultimately what we’re trying somewhere because you like it and say, ‘This we cannot afford to fund Black education.” who had something to say that resonated with to do.” is mine’. It doesn’t work that way. How do we “Fierce Femmes of @StopChicago, @ navigate how we understand anti-Blackness BYP_100, @BLMChi led this shutdown!” The and the erasure of Black people from every tweets continued. landscape?” “For us, our narrative is not about one charis- “All Lives Matter is probably the most egre- matic leader,” Garza said. “Our narrative is very gious,” she continued. “Yeah, no! Black people Family. Friends. much rooted in the nuances of our community, have been saying ‘All Lives Matter’ for 400 which means that it’s important to us that years while chained and shackled and made to queer Black women get our due. Black commu- labor for free and build all kinds of wealth that Community. nities are not monoliths. We aim to break that we still don’t have any access to. We live in a narrative that being gay is a white thing, that culture where all lives don’t matter. If they did, we’re all out in the streets to save the lives of we wouldn’t have people living on the streets, cis Black men, that we only focus on police we wouldn’t have one million Black people Linda Kuczka, Agent We’re all in this together. violence. We are so many things—education behind bars [and] the average life expectancy 954 W Webster ® justice, economic justice, racial justice, gender of a Black trans woman wouldn’t be 35-years- Chicago, IL 60614 State Farm has a long tradition of being there. justice; you name it, we’re doing it.” old.” Bus: 773-975-9111 That’s one reason why I’m proud to support Garza firmly addressed the tension and divi- Daylight faded and a Twitter video showed [email protected] the LGBT community. sion that has occurred within any community the last of the protesters being released from Get to a better State®. fighting for change. CPD custody. “Even though we say the same things, we As she concluded her Humanities Fest appear- don’t all agree,” she said. “Those divisions be- ance, Garza reflected about the successes and come more distinct the more visible this move- failures of the movement and its objectives ment becomes. Something about living in a moving forward. 1211007 State Farm, Bloomington, IL capitalist society makes us yearn for visibility

@windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com WINDY CITY TIMES May 4, 2016 11 ings.” Brooks added, “Thanks to this group of creative funding partners, secure storage units Storage project will soon be available at overnight youth shel- ters, drop-in centers, and schools. We are also piloting virtual or cloud-based storage for legal gears up to help youth documents, mail, and family photos.” Access to safe and secure storage has both short- and long-term impacts. The stigma of experiencing homelessness carrying around bags and suitcases is pro- found—and young people are keenly aware of CHICAGO—Imagine trying to get to work or to loss or theft,” said Debbie Reznick, senior the discrimination that individuals experienc- school or a doctor’s appointment while carry- program officer with Polk Bros Foundation. ing homelessness face. “For many young peo- ing everything that matters to you. Now add “Storage assists young people practically and ple, storage access means that they are more some of Chicago’s extreme weather elements can also be used as an opportunity to engage likely to attend job interviews and enroll in and one has a sense of what young people ex- youth not currently accessing services.” school. Young people also described the harms periencing homelessness navigate. Left with Founded by the Pierce Family Foundation, and targeting they experienced moving through unreliable or infrequent storage options, young Knight Family Foundation, Polk Bros Founda- neighborhoods or on public transportation people hide their belongings in alleys, dump- tion and Windy City Times, the newly launched Youth using locker. with suitcases and bags,” said Lara Brooks. In sters, yards, abandoned buildings, bushes, and Chicago Youth Storage Initiative will install 250 these ways, storage access promotes mobility under porches. super-size lockers by the end of 2017, with the and may reduce violence and other harms. In the absence of stable housing, posses- first 100 storage installations at Ujima Village tion and Polk Bros Foundation commissioned Serving on the leadership team are Marianne sions necessary for employment and education- (Englewood), which received 65 lockers plus a study of storage realities and options, and Philbin (Pierce Family Foundation), Heather al opportunities—such as state identification, related support; Teen Living Program’s Drop In the initiative began to take shape from there. Parish (Pierce Family Foundation), Becky employee uniforms, and school books—are in Center (Washington Park); El Rescate (Hum- Community leaders committed to making stor- Knight (Knight Family Foundation), Debbie constant danger of being lost, stolen, or dam- boldt Park); and Mercy Home for Boys and Girls age available began meeting to create a plan, Reznick (Polk Bros Foundation), Jeanne Krach- aged. This loss comes with long-term enduring (West Loop). The initiative is being housed at raise money, and hire a staff person. “The idea er (Crossroads Fund), Tracy Baim (Windy City consequences related to health, well-being and the Crossroads Fund, a social-justice organiza- of storage is creative and innovative. We felt it Times), Julie Mineman (Owens Foundation), community connection. tion serving as the fiscal manager while provid- was critical to act quickly and flexibly, so that Michael Mock (Community Member) and Lara The Chicago Coalition for the Homeless es- ing technical and administrative support. young people seeking shelter or support in this Brooks (Chicago Youth Storage Initiative). timates that in 2014 a staggering 12,000 Chi- “This is an unusual collaboration spearhead- city get this need met right now,” said Becky Other foundations supporting the program cago youth between the ages of 14 and 21 ed by a group of foundations that paid atten- Knight, president of the Knight Family Founda- include the Alphawood Foundation, the Alvin were homeless and lived on their own with- tion to what young people said they needed, tion. “Knowing their belongings are in a safe Baum Foundation and the Owens Foundation. out support from a guardian or family member. and then decided to do something about it,” place is a respite from some of the anxiety and In its second year of operation, CYSI plans to Consider that only 374 youth shelter beds exist said Marianne Philbin, Executive Director of uncertainty in a young person’s experience of expand storage access to high school and col- for young people—and only 40 secure storage the Pierce Family Foundation, which has been homelessness—especially in winter.” lege sites and explore the feasibility of creat- lockers were available in the entire city, until leading the charge. “This initiative is the first “A very real intersection exists between stor- ing stand-alone storage and laundry centers, now. coordinated, citywide effort in the U.S. de- age access and health, well-being, and safety,” in addition to installations at existing drop-in Thanks to a group of innovative Chicago signed to provide physical and virtual storage said Brooks. “The stress this adds to the trau- and shelter sites. foundations, however, new storage sites will options to improve the lives of young people mas of homelessness is enormous—and unnec- Additional donations will support the contin- now be available for young people to store experiencing homelessness.” essary. For example, young people told us that ued expansion of this effort. Crossroads Fund clothing, supplies, family keepsakes, mail, and The storage issue was a frequent topic of it was difficult to participate in youth center accepts donations on behalf of the Chicago legal documents. “Youth without a stable place discussion at the Windy City Times’ Chicago activities, talk to counselors or access health- Youth Storage Initiative. to live often do not have a safe place to store Summit on LGBT Youth Homelessness in 2014. care due to the chronic stress and hypervigi- For more information, visit www.crossroads- their belongings, which leaves them vulnerable Soon thereafter, the Pierce Family Founda- lance associated with protecting one’s belong- fund.org/CYSI.

THE BRAD LIPPITZ GROUP MAY 14 presents May Featured Properties FEBRUARY DWELL STUNNING BEAUX ARTS MEET YOUR MAGAZINE HOUSE OF THE MONTH MASTERPIECE FAVORITE CHICAGO, IL AUTHORS

830 W Buena Ave | $2,975,000 3400 N Lake Shore Dr #2D | $1,325,000

SUPER COOL BUCKTOWN HOUSE NEW YORK STYLE PRE-WAR ON THE 606 THREE BEDROOM

TIG NOTARO JAZZ JENNINGS BEING JAZZ: MY LIFE AS A COMEDIAN (TRANSGENDER) TEEN

1800 N Wolcott Ave | $1,195,000 421 W Melrose St #12C | $525,000

BRAD LIPPITZ 3323 N. Broadway | Chicago, IL 60657 980 N. Michigan Ave #900 | Chicago, IL 60611 HANNAH HART DAVID LEVITHAN 773.404.1144 VLOGGER & AUTHOR EVERY DAY [email protected] BradLippitz.com THE BOOKCON.COM /THEBOOKCON @THEBOOKCON | #THEBOOKCON 12 May 4, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES tion, the difference between the UCA—which There are still a number of those benchmarks took Campus Pride’s counsel and changed it to yet to be reached. Gender-identity “legal sex” and The Common Application which The recent move by both the UCA and Com- changed it to “sex assigned at birth” is prob- mon Application focuses on gender identity lematic for trans people and something that but not an optional question regarding sexual could have been resolved had The Common Ap- orientation. options added to plication chosen to work with them. “It’s a good step but it’s not quite the full Of additional concern is the pandemic of range of questions that we wanted for LGBT Religious Freedom legislation contaminating students.” Windmeyer said. college applications State Capitol buildings nationwide. Resolving that remains high on Campus One of the colleges on The Common Applica- Pride’s list of goals as does increasing their tion is the University of North Carolina which outreach efforts to administrators and student By Gretchen Rachel Hammond advised each of its campuses to comply with leaders based in rural campuses and those in

the state’s infamous HB2 anti-transgender leg- Southern states. It is a monumental task which On April 25, both The Universal College Ap- islation passed in late March. Windmeyer hopes to achieve with funding to plication (UCA) and The Common Application Having a gender-identity question could take on additional staff members. announced significant changes to their college make a transgender student applying to any “We can’t force a college campus to want to application forms beginning in the 2016/2017 university across North Carolina understand- do better,” Windmeyer said. “For the last two academic year. ably nervous even though the question is op- years, we have been spending more time on The UCA will both change the question of an tional. the campuses that are the worst of the worst; individual’s sex on its standardized form to ‘le- “What happened in North Carolina has com- those that openly discriminate.” gal sex’ as well as adding an optional field for plicated a lot of issues,” Windmeyer said. “If “We’re making sure that LGBT young people an applicant to note their gender identity. a trans student chooses to self-disclose, they and their families are aware and we are doing a The Common Application declared that need to understand the campus they are ap- lot of work around bias and hate crime preven- “starting in the upcoming 2016-2017 academic plying to.” tion,” he added. “On some of those more con- year, students applying to college through The In order to help, Campus Pride offers a com- servative campuses, students have the respon- Common Application will have the ability to prehensive database called the Campus Pride sibility on their backs to create a safe learning express their gender identity in several ways Index, which lists college campuses that are environment for especially LGBT student. We including within the Profile page, optional free supportive of LGBT issues and have created try to create a team approach where adminis- response text field, as well as in member col- an inclusive atmosphere around the extensive trators, faculty and staff are working together.” leges’ specific sections.” benchmarks the organization created a decade The Common Application altered the field de- For more information about Campus Pride, ago. noting the sex of an applicant to “sex assigned visit CampusPride.org. at birth.” Launched in 2007, UCA offers a centralized denies highly vulnerable, low-income people application form for incoming and transfer LGBT groups release with HIV access to the newest and most ef- students interested in attending 44 colleges fective treatments,” said Ramon Gardenhire, throughout the United States. homelessness report AIDS Foundation of Chicago’s vice president By Matt Simonette After more than 41 years in use, The Com- of policy and advocacy, in a statement. mon Application now boasts a roster of over “Increasing access to single-pill HIV medi- Campus Pride’s Shane Windmeyer. The National LGBTQ Task Force (Task Force) 600 institutions of higher learning to choose cations will save Illinois money by reducing Photo courtesy of Campus Pride and the True Colors Fund, on April 26, an- from. On the organization’s website, it states hospitalizations and improving overall health nounced the release of, At the Intersections, that “each year over 1 million students use The outcomes,” he added. “It will also drastically success and retention rates. The students who an extensive online report on LGBT Youths Common Application to submit over 3.5 million improve the lives and productivity of people come to campuses who are already out as LGBT who are experiencing homelessness. applications.” living with HIV, as well as reduce additional should have an option to be able to list that. In the decade since the last report, accord- In its announcement, The Common Applica- transmissions. We urge Medicaid to immedi- Campuses will then be able to be held accounting to Meghan Maury, senior policy counsel tion noted that the change was made “after ately cover HIV medications without bureau- able. It existed for the race of a student but and Criminal and Economic Justice project an ongoing dialogue with member colleges and cratic prior authorization requirements.” not for gender identity.” director of the Task Force, “the perspectives universities and in consultation with the Appli- That has changed with a victory not easily cation Advisory Committee, comprised of mem- around how to advocate have changed quite won. a lot, and so has our language, and what we ber representatives, and the Outreach Advisory “There were a lot of challenges from with- Report reveals Committee, which is made up of high school consider to be best practices.” in and outside the community that centered The core of the new report, Maury added, colleges requesting and CBO counselors.” around misinformation about today’s young The UCA credited its members alongside the “is centering the voices of the young folks students who identify across the spectrum who experience homeless and looking at the religious exemptions Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource when it comes to their gender and sexual iden- The U.S. Department of Education has pub- Professionals and Campus Pride—a national, issues through their eyes.” tities,” Windmeyer recalled. “These [central- Jama Shelton, deputy executive director lished new documents that identify religious volunteer-driven nonprofit whose resolutely ized] application companies include schools colleges that have sought and received ex- working to create and ensure safe college envi- of the True Colors Fund, said that the col- that are religious or may not agree with hav- laborators were “no longer focused solely on emptions from Title IX. ronments for LGBTQ students. ing the gender identity as part of the standard The controversial waivers allow the colleg- For Campus Pride, the changes to both the a crisis response—we’re aware now that we application. We had to get them to focus on need to do more than provide shelter beds es to receive federal funding without violat- UCA and then The Common Application are the student safety and about doing better by being ing their religious beliefs. As of April 1, 232 result of an exhaustive 10-year effort. for young people if we want them to succeed responsible for all students.” and thrive as adults.” colleges had obtained a religious exemption The organization works with 1,400 colleges In 2011, despite intensive lobbying efforts from Title IX and 31 requests are pending, across the country—yet only has two full-time Christa Price, program officer for True Col- by Campus Pride and an amassed army of 25 ors, added that the document would be up- according to the department. employees and 12 staff volunteers, students or LGBT and higher education organizations, The The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) initially staff based on college campuses who help run dated online periodically as new information Common Application turned them down. became available. “We wanted to keep that called on the department to take action in Campus Pride’s programs. “Their excuse at the time was ‘we need to fig- a report released in December called “Hid- Shane Windmeyer serves as Campus Pride’s collaborative spirit we had when we started ure out what our members want’,” Windmeyer the experience,” Price said. den Discrimination: Title IX Religious Ex- executive director. said. “But ultimately it was about them not emptions Putting LGBT Students at Risk.” In “In 2006, we began a process of creating The report can be read at AtTheIntersec- wanting to lose revenue from their members tions.org. the report, HRC spotlighted 56 colleges and what we would consider to be benchmarks for especially religious campuses. The same year universities, based in 26 states, that have inclusion around LGBT issues,” he told Windy that we asked for an LGBT identity question on requested religious exemptions under Title IX City Times. “When it came to transgender stu- the common app. they added a religious ques- Atripla removed since 2013. dents, we wanted to determine what colleges tion.” The department’s requests and responses should be striving for as far as being an inclu- In addition to centralized forms, colleges from preferred have been divided into those occurring be- sive campus.” utilize internal applications. So Campus Pride fore and after 2009. A chart shows that Illi- In an increasingly competitive market, col- went after individual institutions. According to drug list nois schools that have requested exemptions The AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) and leges put considerable effort in increasing Windmeyer, the first one to agree to add an include Brisk Rabbinical College (requested Howard Brown Health (HBH) have confirmed both their retention and recruitment numbers. LGBT-identity question to its admission appli- in 1977 and received the Office of Civil that the Illinois Department of Healthcare Those figures are as routinely detailed as they cation was Elmhurst College in Illinois. Rights grant in 1985), Saint Mary of the Lake and Family Services (HFS) has removed At- are coveted by administration staff and their Campus Pride worked relentlessly to add 23 Seminary (1977 and 1985, respectively), ripla from the preferred drug list in an effort Boards of Directors. However, an important and more institutions to its list. The UCA eventually Telshe Yeshiva-Chicago (1985 and 1986, re- to reduce costs. exponentially growing student demographic took notice and began working with the or- spectively), The Hebrew Theological College Atripla was the only single-tablet regimen tends to be missed. ganization. The Common Application took the (both in 1985), Trinity Evangelical Divinity (STR) HIV medication covered under the Il- “Colleges track retention rates around stu- same gender identity steps on the same day School (1976 and 1985, respectively), Trin- linois Medicaid program’s preferred drug list. dents of color, international students, athletes UCA made its announcement. ity International University (2003 and 2005, New patients enrolling in Fee-For-Service, and gender,” Windmeyer said. “But never have “Supposedly The Common Application had respectively) and Wheaton College (1976 and administered by the Medicaid program within they looked at retention rates when it comes been talking about this for a while but, a year 1985, respectively). HFS, will be denied access to any STR without to LGBT young people. We know that they are ago, they were still saying ‘no, we’re not go- For more about the U.S. Department of undergoing the prior authorization process. at higher risk of substance abuse, depression, ing to do this’,”Windmeyer said. “They never Education’s requests and responses, visit “Not covering the newest HIV drugs under suicidality and other negative health conse- reached out to us.” http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/ Medicaid, and restricting access to Atripla, quences. If we knew that about any other pop- He added that, in terms of sexual identifica- frontpage/pro-students/rel-exempt-pr.html. ulation, we would be tracking their academic WINDY CITY TIMES May 4, 2016 13 LGBT Ethiopian Jews speak on their lives in Israel By Matt Simonette “They believe in the Torah. To come to this community, and say that we are LGBT? Most When Liel, a young Israeli woman of Ethiopian say that it is a curse that white people give descent, came out to her mother as bisexual, us, because we are with them in schools and her mother was perplexed. The concept of the army.” same-sex love was completely foreign within Their families are ostensibly accepting of the Israeli Ethiopian community. their being gay or bi, but have misgivings with “She didn’t understand what I said, because their being public about it; Ethiopian com- we don’t even have a word for ‘LGBT,’” Liel said. munities are tightly knit and gossip spreads Despite the dislocation Liel felt in that mo- quickly. Yaniv said his father was worried that ment, she was nevertheless not alone, she he was the “first one.” would soon learn. She joined a group of LGBT “It’s not what you want, it’s how you can Ethiopian Israelis, KALA (Kehila Lahatavit help your parents. It’s a struggle to be a bridge Ethiopit), which formed online in 2014. The between the Ethiopian community and the group has not officially incorporated yet, but LGBT community,” said Liel. From left: Yaniv, Liel and Sarah. now boasts about 70 members and has been While the migrations of the Ethiopian Jews to Photo by Matt Simonette meeting in person frequently. Israel, the most significant episodes of which Liel spoke in several U.S. cities along with took place in 1984 and 1991, provide the na- Black students. Blood banks, in the mid-’90s, “Not to say there hasn’t been a very small two other members of the LGBT Ethiopian tion with an inspiring historical narrative, the often threw away donations that came from minority that has been able to do well in Is- Israeli community, Sarah, one of KALA’s co- reality of the Ethiopians’ integration into Is- Ethiopians. Police profiling has been a frequent rael, but if you take the community, 30 years founders, and Yaniv. Because the three are raeli society has been difficult. Liel, Sarah and occurrence too. later, it’s not where it should be,” Yaniv added. not completely out in their community, they Yaniv—all of whom were born in Israel—said “If someone is hanging out in a predomi- “There are so many beautiful things that our could not give their full names. They spoke in that Ethiopian Israelis encounter discrimina- nantly white neighborhood, immediately they community can bring to the culture, and I Chicago twice, on the South and North sides. tion frequently. will be profiled. They can be arrested for noth- don’t think that it’s reached that point yet. … Their visit was sponsored by the organization A Some Jewish practices and traditions that ing,” Yaniv said. We take pride in who we are, and not trying to Wider Bridge, which fosters relations between the Ethiopians brought with them are much Sarah and Liel both said they wished their be something that we’re not.” the LGBT community and Israel. older than those most Israelis are familiar parents’ generation would have been more as- KALA members are getting ready to take on Liel and Sarah both came out when they were with, so the Ethiopians often find themselves sertive in fighting for their rights. But that the challenges of building an organizational doing their military service, they said. having to defend their status as Jews. generation sacrificed and suffered greatly to infrastructure to what’s been, up until now, an “I studied at a very religious school,” said “Being Jewish is something we have to make the journey to Israel, and was reluctant online group. Sarah. “The military let me be who I am. I prove,” said Yaniv. “It’s something we have to to make waves. Sarah said, “I want people to know that KALA wasn’t judged.” explain. People see the color first.” “They were a very quiet community,” Sarah exists and that we’re not going anywhere. We Liel explained that the Ethiopian Jewish Discrimination can take many forms, he add- said. “They didn’t do anything. It made me sad. need a lot of help. We need to build a commu- community’s religious roots run deep, adding, ed. Some schools tried separating white and Especially the Ethiopian LGBT community.” nity that can deal with struggles.”

Learn to play Your financial needs are unique. Whether you want to provide for your loved ones, support the organizations that are important to you, or plan for your own comfortable retirement, I can help you plan for your goals. I’ll look at all aspects of your finances, then find solutions that are right for your unique needs. And as your goals and needs change, I’ll be there to adjust ® your plan and help put your dreams within reach. This is one of the many benefits of working with a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ practitioner. Call me today at 312.346.1000 to get started.

Phillip J. Sitar, CFP®, CRPC®, MBA 6 LESSONS 3 WEEKS $99 Financial Advisor CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ practitioner STARTS JUNE 4 33 N Dearborn St., Ste 1400 There’s a reason the word “LOVE” is Chicago, IL 60602 312.346.1000 used in tennis. It’s because tennis is [email protected] not so much a sport as it is a passion. ameripriseadvisors.com/phillip.j.sitar And you can learn it in no time at Midtown Athletic Club.

Ameriprise Financial is proud to be recognized with another perfect score on the Human Register at midtown.com/tnt Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index.

Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. owns the certification marks CFP®, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and federally registered CFP (with flame design) in the U.S., which it awards to individuals who successfully complete CFP Board’s initial and ongoing certification requirements. Investment advisory products and services are made available through Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc., a registered investment adviser. Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. Member FINRA and SIPC. © 2015 Ameriprise Financial, Inc. All rights reserved. (7/15) 14 May 4, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES

‘Garden of Eve’ celebrates women in fiery atmosphere

Photos by Kat Fitzgerald, www.mysticimagesphotography.com. See more online at www.windycitytimes.com .

By Gretchen Rachel Hammond

The glow of the unrelenting flames radiating from the furnaces used by the West Loop’s Ig- nite Glass Studios to create exquisite art was the perfect backdrop for Howard Brown Health (HBH) to celebrate all women at their Garden of Eve event April 29. The rest of the studio was transformed by the Chicago-based organization Kehoe Designs into the similarly appropriate atmosphere of limit- less and pioneering creativity. Unparalleled strength combined with graceful elegance was demonstrated by aerialist performer Zoe as her mid-air grand waltz with silken blue took the breaths from the attendees who had come in support of the HBH’s programs and initiatives which, according to the event’s press release, “provide affirming, sliding scale health care to all LGBTQ women and allies including breast/chest cancer screenings, contraceptive management, alternative insemination and transgender healthcare.” “We are here because we believe in the power of women,” event co-chair Brooke Ricketts said. “Our services are so vital to our community. We are demonstrating that they matter. If you go to a medical provider who doesn’t understand your specific health care needs, you understand how important the services that the Howard Brown provides are.” “We know that women continue to be mar- ginalized even within the LGBT community,” HBH Manager of Women’s Health Services Shena Willbrandt added before highlighting the organizations free services for sexual and reproductive health and prevention care services such as HIV/STI testing, birth control and counseling. Broadway Youth Center (BYC) Director Latonya Maley underscored the need for a program that has been a lifeline to disenfranchised youth, 34 percent of whom identify as women. “Every day at our center we see young people who have been kicked out of their homes, who are looking for a safe place to have their sexual health needs met and who have been coming to us for years and have finally found a community to call their own,” she said. That community is growing. HBH President and CEO David Ernesto Munar announced the opening of the organization’s fifth clinic, located at 63rd and Halsted streets on the city’s South Side. “We could not be more excited,” he said. “The mission of the Howard Brown is to make sure that LGBTQ people all over Chicago have access to affordable, high quality healthcare that really treats people with respect, that helps them thrive. We’ve made progress culturally and socially but, as a group, LGBT people still have health disparities in every category.” For more information about Howard Brown Health, visit HowardBrown.org. WINDY CITY TIMES May 4, 2016 15 Panel discusses intersection of LGBT, reproductive rights By Matt Simonette Camilla Taylor, counsel for Lambda Legal, said, “We hope that it becomes more clear that There is good reason for the LGBT community the assault on our reproductive autonomy … is to be concerned with matters of reproductive an assault on our families.” choice, according to progressive activists: Taylor noted that “the same political dynam- Those people and organizations bent on limit- ic is a challenge for both our communities,” ing women’s reproductive rights invariably are adding that women who have had abortions the same ones seeking to subjugate the rights are stigmatized and, as such, will stay closeted of LGBT individuals and families. about their decision. She also noted that lesbi- At government hearings, according to Per- ans, bisexual women and transgender men did sonal PAC President/CEO Terry Cosgrove, just need access to abortions on occasion. a few individuals from right-wing organiza- Religious refusal laws, such as North Caro- tions—such as Illinois Family Institute or Fo- lina’s HB2, threaten not just LGBT rights, but cus on the Family—usually show up to testify, the rights of anyone guaranteed freedom from no matter the issue. “It’s the same four white discrimination as well, she said. “They are try- guys sitting at the table,” Cosgrove said. ing to write new law. … They shouldn’t be able From left: Terry Cosgrove, Camilla Taylor, Toi Hutchinson and Ramon Gardenhire. Cosgrove moderated a discussion on how the to undo precedent.” Photo by Matt Simonette politics of reproductive choice overlapped with Ramon Gardenhire, vice-president of policy LGBT rights, among other issues, on April 28 at for AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC), said “a Gardenhire said. “Understanding that my being The conference will focus on a variety of top- Weinberg/Newton Gallery, 300 W. Superior St. lens of intersectionality” was now needed to ‘comfortable’ makes someone else ‘uncomfort- ics in human rights, including clean water and State Sen. Toi Hutchinson described the diffi- put so many progressive issues into perspec- able’ is so powerful. Until you are able to en- sanitation, LGBTI equality and the UN Univer- culty of moving progressive legislation through tive, noting that many struggles, including gage in those conversations from a respectful sal Periodic Review process. the State House. Although Illinois is usually those pertaining to healthcare, still resonate place, we won’t make a dent.” The conference, which will take place at characterized as a “blue” state, it should not from racial justice challenges. John Marshall Law School, includes speakers be described as being “pro-choice” overall, AFC has been advocating on behalf of Illinois from the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the U.S. she said, adding, “A Democratic senator from service providers who have struggled to make UN Association Department of Justice and Windy City Times. Quincy is not necessarily the same as a Demo- ends meet since the governor and legislature The largest single network of advocates and cratic senator from Oak Park. … There are 102 stalemated on an FY2016 budget last year. He Chicago chapter to supporters of the UN in the world, UNA-USA counties, 94 of which [outside Chicago and its was blunt in his assessment of the current situ- discuss human rights has more than 20,000 members, with 150 collar counties] look like each other.” ation, saying that the state’s failure to imple- On Thursday, May 5, the Chicago chapter chapters in communities and college campuses Hutchinson said that her commitment to ment a budget amounted to a “form of oppres- of the United Nations Association of the USA nationwide. The Chicago chapter launched in women’s rights was inspired by her mother, sion” against its residents. He further said that (UNA-USA), in partnership with John Marshall 2004, and has more than 200 members. who became pregnant unexpectedly just before different communities would have to commit Law School, will host a day-long conference on Pricing starts at $12 for the full day of ses- abortion was legalized in the Roe v. Wade deci- to some uncomfortable conversations in order human rights and the role of the United Na- sions and includes lunch. To register for the sion. “I don’t feel anything but sympathy for to lend support to one another’s causes. tions. conference, visit http://unapublicconsult.bpt. who that 19-year-old girl was in 1972.” “We isolate ourselves into echo chambers,” me/.

May 10, 2016 Host a conversation. www.onthetable.com 16 May 4, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES viewpoints possible collaborator and for being gay. WINDY And even with full acceptance into the U.S. military and marriage rights, Employment Non- Discrimination legislation (ENDA) has been in- CITY troduced in every Congress since 1994 except Frank the 109th. Similar legislation has been intro- PIZZOLI duced without passage since 1974. Twenty- nine states do not have anti-discrimination TIMES statutes prohibiting discrimination and 38 do VOL. 31, No. 32, May 4, 2016 Is dead white not have law prohibiting gender identity dis- The combined forces of Windy City Times, crimination. Yet we can marry on Saturday, founded Sept. 1985, and Outlines newspaper, go to war Monday while a spouse reports to founded May 1987. Christopher work and is fired for being gay. So the question becomes, how does a recently married, newly PUBLISHER & EXECUTIVE EDITOR Isherwood minted queer soldier in the U.S., Israeli or Tracy Baim Palestinian army react to such circumstances? By towing the same line as Woolf’s Septimus ASSISTANT PUBLISHER Terri Klinsky still relevant? MANAGING EDITOR Andrew Davis Smith or Isherwood’s George who shielded his ASSOCIATE EDITOR Matt Simonette The basic tenant of the artfully edited The grief from those around him? BUSINESS MANAGER Ripley Caine American Isherwood, by James J. Berg and DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA Jean Albright Chris Freeman (University of Minnesota Press, Loss of community ART DIRECTOR/NIGHTSPOTS EDITOR Kirk Williamson SENIOR REPORTER Gretchen Rachel Hammond 305 pages), is that a writer owns nothing else Isherwood both wondered and worried about Senior Account Executives Terri Klinsky, Kirk but his experience. In this sense, Christopher the life of his queer community. After the 1954 Williamson, Amy Matheny, Chris Cheuvront, Gretchen Isherwood was an “existentialist,” not in a publication of The World in the Evening, he re- Rachel Hammond, Scott Duff, Freddie Bain murky hopeless way but by firmly clutching the ceived stacks of fan mail. He said at one point NATIONAL SALES Rivendell Media, 212-242-6863 SENIOR WRITERS Bob Roehr, Tony Peregrin, Lisa idea that experience counts as primary in our Isherwood and Woolf’s characters were denied. about the letters: “...it’s heart-breaking, the Keen, Yasmin Nair lives. “Because, after all, what else does he re- Threads lacing through the essays bring to sense you get of all these island existences, THEATER EDITOR Scott C. Morgan ally have?” he asked about writers. The col- mind that homosexuals are raised in a patriar- dotted about like stars and nebulae” much like CINEMA WRITER Richard Knight Jr. lected essays begin with Isherwood’s migration the alienation nouveau recently chronicled by SPORTS WRITER Ross Forman chal society. Since many gay men now openly ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WRITERS to the United States in 1939. mature against a backdrop of post-Don’t Ask, a LOGO study—”Gay Men in America: Commu- Mary Shen Barnidge, Lawrence Ferber, Mel Ferrand, Don’t Tell and court-supported same-sex mar- nity at a Crossroads”—sampling 1,000 gay men Jerry Nunn, Jonathan Abarbanel Review riage, are they filling the ranks of a new patri- ages 18-49. COLUMNISTS/WRITERS: Yvonne Zipter, Jorjet Harper, “What I know is what I am,” Christopher Results reveal that while acceptance is at Charlsie Dewey, Carrie Maxwell, Billy Masters, Sarah archy? How is military service and marriage for Toce, Dana Rudolph, Melissa Wasserman, Joe Franco, Isherwood said. What he knew by the time he gay men (and lesbians, bisexual, and transgen- an all-time high, 61 percent of gay men in Nick Patricca, Liz Baudler, Rex Wockner, Marie J. died in 1986 as a cis, white, gay man remains der people) different from the old patriarchy their 20s and 30s believe “in the past, the gay Kuda, Angelique Smith, Meghan Streit startlingly relevant to the current ultra-diverse that denied Isherwood’s George and Woolf’s community was more united than it is today.” SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHERS Mel Ferrand, Hal Baim, Tim queer universe. A “camera with its shutter Eighty-five percent agree “even as gay people Carroll, Ed Negron Smith the satisfactions of open relationships? WEBSITE LISTINGS VOLUNTEER Gene Naden open” is the most frequently used metaphor In Jamie Carr’s essay Writing the Unspeakable become more accepted, we should have places describing Isherwood’s work. Readers with in A Single Man and Mrs. Dalloway, she quotes that are just for us.” Six in 10 gay men in their 20s say “now that CIRCULATION shutters open will see parallels with the iconic Erin Carlston’s Thinking Fascism: Sapphic Mod- CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Jean Albright writer’s struggles and today’s issue making ernism and Fascist Modernity: “...to be disloyal gay marriage is legal in so many places, my DISTRIBUTION: Ashina, Allan, Dan, John, Sue and headlines. to patriarchy—by flouting the paradigms of family expects me to get married and have chil- Victor Organized into three sections, the editors do dren one day” and perhaps populate a new pa- WEB HOSTING: LoveYourWebsite.com (lead compulsory heterosexuality...is to be disloyal programmer: Martie Marro) a marvelous job of beginning each section with to the patria, to call into question the terms of triarchy? Even though 88% agree “gay people a piece that provides context for what essay- one’s membership in the national community.” shouldn’t have to conform to straight people’s Copyright 2016 Lambda Publications Inc./Windy City Media norms and values.” Group; All rights reserved. Reprint by permission only. Back ists in each portion of the book address. The For example, now that queer men and wom- issues (if available) for $5 per issue (postage included). first section is devoted to Isherwood’s A Single en are allowed to serve openly in the Armed Sixty percent agree “it’s harder for younger Return postage must accompany all manuscripts, drawings, Man. The second section considers the authors gay men to take advice from older gay men be- and photographs submitted if they are to be returned, and Forces will they feel comfortable challenging no responsibility may be assumed for unsolicited materials. well-known spiritual life and relationship to military policies? Or will they acquiesce fearing cause the world is so different today.” Perhaps All rights to letters, art and photographs sent to Windy guru swami Prabhavananda. The third section not if your next book club includes Christopher City Times will be treated as unconditionally assigned the tarnishment by the old myth that queers for publication purposes and as such, subject to editing focuses on Isherwood’s work as it relates to (Isherwood’s preferred term) are a new kind of Isherwood. and comment. The opinions expressed by the columnists, friends, Hollywood’s celebrity culture, and the security risk? Thus forming a new patriarchy. Originally published in Lambda Literary cartoonists, letter writers, and commentators are their own and do not necessarily reflect the position ofWindy City reception of gay-themed writing in 1960s Cold That’s Puar’s point regarding homonationalism: Review Times. Publication of the name, photograph, or likeness of War America. Richly detailed gems culled from How LGBT “acceptance” and “tolerance” have a person or organization in articles or advertising in Windy City Times is not to be construed as any indication of the Isherwood’s archive provide Berg and Free- become the barometer by which the right to sexual orientation of such person or organization. While man’s introductory pieces and the essayists’ and capacity for national sovereignty is evalu- we encourage readers to support the advertisers who make portrayals with deep authenticity. Although at Letters to this newspaper possible, Windy City Times cannot accept ated.” responsibility for advertising claims. moments turgidly academic, the essays are ac- In 2011, Sarah Schulman wrote in the New the editor: (773) 871-7610 FAX (773) 871-7609 cessible to general readers. York Times about “the co-opting of white gay One tiny Tiny e-mail: [email protected] or people by anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim po- [email protected] Single consideration litical forces in Western Europe and Israel.” Home improvement www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com The book’s first section is a comprehensive Maya Mikdashi writes in Jadaliyya (Dec. 16, podcast: WindyCityQueercast.com look at A Single Man and its relationship to 2011): “A gay Israeli in a military uniform is Dear Editor,

E.M. Forster’s Maurice and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. both an enemy and a target of anti-occupation WINDY CITY MEDIA GROUP, Dalloway. politics, just as a gay Zionist in the United The exterior of the Tiny Home (in the April 5315 N. Clark St. #192, Chicago, IL, 60640 U.S.A Following a visit with Isherwood, Forster be- States is an enemy of the Palestinian cause and 27 issue of Windy City Times), as shown (MAILING ADDRESS ONLY) gan writing Maurice resolving that he would the cause of queer Palestinians because they in side view, looks like a marvel of design hardly to be improved upon. Windy City Times Deadline every Wednesday. not let his story tragically end. The 81-year-old are rooted within that Palestinian national Nightspots Deadline Wednesday prior to street date. Forster subsequently explained: “a happy end- cause.” In other words, does the kind of inclu- That is, unless the wooden front porch OUT! Resource Guide ONLINE ing was imperative. I was determined that in sion not socially acceptable in Maurice or Mrs. upright support columns were shortened a www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com www.WindyCityQueercast.com fiction anyway two men should fall in love and Dalloway but now allowed thwart resistance to foot or so, and a simple flat climbing lad- remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction military policies by LGBT soldiers because they der was made from the saved materials and attached flush to the brick wall (plumb “Windy City Media Group generated enormous allows.” Like Isherwood’s fiction challenged, fear a return to exclusion? interest among their readers in this year’s LGBT Woolf’s Clarissa Dalloway and “shell-shocked” Perhaps Out in the Dark illustrates the ten- down from the dip?), accessing what would Consumer Index Survey. Out of approximately 100 soldier Septimus Smith explored “normative” sion between equal rights and political obliga- then be a very spacious surface for sun- print and online media partners who participated in the survey, Windy City was the best performing mourning. She wanted her characters “to criti- tions to one’s nation. The film centers on the bathing in season on both gentle inclines of the whole roof. regional media in the U.S. Only survey partners cize the social system” in much the same way love affair between two men on opposite sides with a nationwide footprint were able to generate Jasbir Puar’s concept of “homonationalism” of the Middle East conflict: Palestinian stu- a greater number of responses.” —David Marshall, (Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in dent Nimer and Roy, an Israeli lawyer. Deeply Sincerely, Research Director, Community Marketing, Inc. Queer Times, Durham, N.C.: Duke University in love, Israeli security forces eventually force J. Stephen Hunt Tenant, The Malden Press, 2007) shreds current belief systems Nimer’s deportation from Tel Aviv back to Ra- FOUNDING MEMBER around equality if defined primarily by marriage mallah, where he is immediately rounded up (Mercy Housing - “Live in Hope”) and military service, the open happy endings and killed by Palestinian militants for being a

FOUNDING MEMBER

FOUNDING MEMBER WINDY CITY TIMES May 4, 2016 17 WINDY CITY TIMES DIVERSIONS THEATER • FILM • ENTERTAINMENT • SPORTS

‘Secretaries’ day 17 26 24 WCT spotlights The Secretaries and director Anne Kauffman. See below. Photo of the cast by Christopher Semel Imperial Lamian. ‘Leather Eye’ at Touche.

SCOTTISH PLAY SCOTT Sign… focuses on the contentious relation- to one another and fight for what they want ship between the title writer character and his and what they believe in.” struggling actress wife, Iris, as they get swept The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window con- Lorraine Hansberry and up in the radical and social issues of the day. tinues through Sunday, June 5, at the Good- “It’s about a married couple who is grow- man Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn St. Previews ing apart without noticing it,” Kauffman said. continue through Sunday, May 8, with an of- “That emotional personal core is what initially ficial press opening 7 p.m. Monday, May 9. Five Lesbian Brothers drew me to the piece,” Tickets are $25-$75; call 312-443-3800 or Also in the mix is an abrasive gay playwright, visit GoodmanTheatre.org. an African-American activist and a moralizing About Face Theatre’s Chicago premiere of get new productions politician whose speechifying Kauffman says is The Secretaries by The Five Lesbian Brothers unfortunately relevant in light of the current plays from Friday, May 6, through Sunday, BY SCOTT C. MORGAN products at the time. Metzgar also added that U.S. presidential primaries. June 12, at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont there’s a heavy influence of David Lynch’s TV “[At the play’s core] is a call for action— Ave. Preview tickets are $20 and $10 for se- Two theater directors currently working in series Twin Peaks on the play’s tone. a call for commitment and recommitment,” niors and students. Regular-run performanc- Chicago are on a mission. Their goal: To ex- “It’s a secretarial pool at a lumber mill, and Kauffman said. “Socially, politically and per- es are $35 ($20 for students and seniors). pose audiences to plays that they both feel it’s absurdist in that they have a club that all sonally, I think Lorraine is telling the story of a For more information, call 773-975-8150 or are wrongfully neglected and to rethink play- the secretaries belong to and once a month— marriage where they have to actually recommit visit AboutFaceTheatre.org. wrights who have been pigeonholed. on the event of having their menstrual peri- Out director Bonnie Metzgar is doing her part ods—they secretly kill a lumberjack,” Metzgar to highlight the satiric and subversive feminist said. “As like a sacrificial killing, that is all the work of the collective known as The Five Lesbi- energy they store up because they withhold so an Brothers by staging the Chicago premiere of much from themselves” because they can’t eat their 1994 off-Broadway comedy The Secretar- due to their strict dieting routines. ies, for About Face Theatre. Meanwhile, director Although The Five Lesbian Brothers’ work has Anne Kauffman wants to change perceptions of been well-respected in New York, their plays the late lesbian playwright Lorraine Hansberry aren’t as well-known or produced around the by staging her 1964 Broadway drama The Sign country on the level of their 1980s and ’90s Bonnie Metzgar. in Sidney Brustein’s Window in a high-profile LGBTQ contemporaries like Terrence McNally or Photo by Kat Fitzgerald, production at the Goodman Theatre. Paul Rudnick. By staging The Secretaries for www.mysticimagesphotography.com “I’ve known The Five Lesbian Brothers all About Face, Metzgar hopes to do her part in through their career,” said Metzgar, reflecting changing that perception around. upon her own New York theater origins before Although not a lesbian, director Anne Kauff- moving to Chicago to become About Face’s ar- man has said she loves the collaborative works tistic director from 2008 to 2013. (Metzgar is of The Five Lesbian Brothers. That’s due in part also finishing out as interim artistic director to her own involvement in another New York for American Theater Company before handing writing/performing theater collective known as off the job to Will Davis.) The Civilians. Consisting of the writer/performers Maureen But now Kauffman is making a case for The Angelos, Babs Davy, Dominque Dibbell, Peg Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, which closed Healy and Lisa Kron (a recent Tony winner for on Broadway just days before Hansberry’s 1965 co-authoring the hit Broadway musical Fun death from cancer. The Sign… confounded Home), The Five Lesbian Brothers collaborated many audiences at the time because it was so on many plays starting in the late 1980s before different from Hansberry’s monumentally ac- their final collaboration in 2005 called Oedipus claimed African-American family drama A Rai- in Palm Springs. sin in the Sun. “They should be considered part of the can- “[The Sign…] was ahead of its times in a lot non of American dramatic literature,” said of ways. One of the things that I think was dif- Metzgar, likening the works of The Five Les- ficult for critics and certain members of the au- bian Brothers to the better-known gay camp dience was that Lorraine Hansberry was writing creations of the late Charles Ludlam and The about white people,” Kauffman said. “I think Ridiculous Theatre Company. it’s still true today that we ghettoize our writ- “Probably because [The Five Lesbian Broth- ers of color by thinking that they should only ers] did originate all these parts and they’re so be writing about race.” identified them, we don’t think of their text as There were also issues of Hansberry’s writing really great plays,” Metzgar said. “So I’m excit- experiments in form and style for the creation ed to have a group of professional actors work of The Sign… It stretches to embrace both on this text, because it can stand up against realism and absurdism, which Kauffman feels any of Charles Ludlam’s plays.” would be seen as post-modern by today’s audi- Set in 1993, The Secretaries pokes fun at ences. Anne Kauffman. extreme feminist activism and also how the Set in the early 1960s in New York’s bohe- Photo courtesy of the Goodman Theatre media was bombarding women with dieting mian neighborhood of Greenwich Village, The

@windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com 18 May 4, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES THEATER REVIEW Dry Land Bryce Gangel and Playwright: Ruby Rae Spiegel Jessica Ervin in At: Rivendell Theatre Dry Land. Ensemble, 5779 N. Ridge Ave. Photo by Michael Brosilow Tickets: 773-334-7728; www.RivendellTheatre.org; $32-$35 Runs through: May 28

BY JONATHAN ABARBANEL

Elsewhere this week I review Taste, in which two men perversely bond over a blood sport with psychosexual manifestations. Just blocks away from Taste, Rivendell Theatre’s Dry Land concerns two adolescent women who bond over blood—a harrowing DIY abortion—although without the same extreme psychosexual per- versity. Both plays, running about 90 minutes, feature graphic enactments of their respective bloody spectacles. It’s kind of surprising to find plays with such parallels in Edgewater the- aters at the same time. Still, the differences are greater than the similarities, as the young women in Dry Land embrace life while the men front of others by loudly accusing Ester of lust- the play. In the brief closing scenes, it’s Ester notes performances of Gangel and Ervin, who in Taste do not. ing for her. who exhibits a new self-confidence and Amy carefully articulate the emotional arcs of their Florida high schoolers Amy and Ester are Halfway through the play, the focus switches who is left alone, tearful and trembling with characters, with the Ester/Victor scene as the on the swimming team. Ester (Jessica Ervin) from Amy to Ester. In the only scene in which loss and desire. pivot point. Amy isn’t likeable—her self-loath- seems more committed to swimming, seeing the girls are apart, Ester connects with a col- Playwright Ruby Rae Spiegel packs a huge ing is revealed when she’s drunk—and Gangel a college athletic scholarship as an avenue lege boy who’s a longtime family friend. In her amount into Dry Land, yet it never seems to bravely follows the playwright’s and Gordon’s to a larger life. Amy (Bryce Gangel) is beauti- conversation with Victor (Mark Farabee), Ester be too much, and all of it has the ring of truth lead, allowing Ervin to grow before our eyes. ful, very popular and early-stage pregnant, al- learns things about herself and Amy. Returning to my ears. Her pithy dialogue seems matter- The very capable Farabee offers pitch-perfect though she’s not as slutty as she pretends. Amy home, Ester calmly assists Amy in her after- of-fact and the vulgar teenaged moment—es- collegiate awkwardness in his one scene. Great crosses clique lines to befriend Ester, needing a hours abortion in the locker room. An uncon- pecially when Amy intentionally shocks with set, too! You can smell the chlorine in Joanna closed-mouth confidante who will assist her in cerned janitor wordlessly cleans up the bloody her sexual awareness—resonances and has nu- Iwanicka’s dead-on all-tile locker room, and DIY abortion efforts in the school locker room. mess they leave behind as if he’s done it be- ances. It’s brought to life by Hallie Gordon’s hear towels snap. Willfully manipulative, Amy humiliates Ester in fore, which may be the most shocking thing in skilled, incisive direction and the no-false-

THEATER REVIEW and future at large. are identified by planetary names, though they There’s also a very strong environmental That’s a lot to take on for a humble studio- largely function as a changeable ensemble tak- message driving Connected, which is important Connected theater production, and you can often feel the ing on many roles in stories tied to the Big even as it comes off as preachy. The emphasis Playwright: Anthony Moseley strain of too much being bitten off all at once. Bang, Plato’s cave prisoners, a Lakota tribe cre- on a few songs from the 1960s also gives Con- At: Collaboraction at Flat Iron Some aspects of Connected are truly thoughtful ation myth and a modern-day extended family nected a hippie-dippy vibe that could easily Arts Building, 1579 N. Milwaukee Ave. and sublime in their high-tech glory. Other bits gathering. Connected’s sci-fi framework cen- make some cringe, even though that decade Tickets: 312-226-9633 or involving puppetry and actors imitating cave- tered around a little girl identified as “Planet was important as the founding ferment for so www.collaboraction.org; $15-$30 men come off as laughably hokey. X” (Stella Moseley) should allow for all of these many progressive freedoms that Americans take Runs through: May 29 The defining ethos of Connected is to bring disparate story strands to be tied together, but for granted today. audiences and actors together as if everyone it’s very easy to be baffled along the way. Although Connected can be extremely dis- BY SCOTT C. MORGAN is participating in a campfire gathering that Connected also embraces the here and now jointed, it sometimes impresses as it draws looks backward and forward at the same time. of the performance you’re attending, but those upon old and new theatrical practices to get its The sentiments expressed in Collaboraction’s Set designer Ashley Woods seats the audience who don’t really want to do audience participa- points across. Collaboraction certainly has the world premiere Connected are certainly noble. around a central fire pit of sorts, while sur- tion are not forced to do so. Thankfully there right to be indulgent for its 20th anniversary, Created by artistic director/writer Anthony rounding screens allow for video designer Joe were no telecommunication interruptions in though the mishmash end result of Connected Moseley to celebrate Collaboraction’s 20th an- Burke to project impressive images in 360-de- the last part of the show on the night I at- often feels like a low-rent planetarium show niversary, Connected makes no bones about be- gree configurations. Lighting designer Erik tended, since the audience is invited to turn straining to inspire awe. ing an expansively reflective work stressing the Barry and sound designer Matthew Reich also on their phones mid-performance to snap self- importance of storytelling through time as a offer up some very impressive work. ies as a document of their experience at Con- way to help define mankind’s place in the world The generational and racially diverse cast nected. c

THEATER REVIEW time they meet. seems less intense at first with his appealing Benjamin Brand’s odd play is so darkly hu- humor, beguiling smile and calmly in-charge CRITICS’ Taste morous through much of its 90-minute length attitude, but his own neediness soon belies Playwright: Benjamin Brand that one might review it by saying it gives his affability as the couple’s interdependence PICKS At: Red Theatre Chicago & Aperture the phrase “hide the sausage” a whole new develops. Jerusalem, Profiles Theatre at the Main Entertainment at Redtwist Theatre, meaning. One might note that nerdy Victor One must keep in mind, however, that Victor Stage, extended through May 22. British anti- 1044 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. (Kevin V. Smith), the consumee, cannot eat and Terry are pursuing a horrifically extreme establishment playwright Jez Butterworth is Tickets: www.redtheater/org/tickets; onions, garlic, shallots, scallions, tomatoes or and illegal fetish and both men are very sick. at it again and nobody does amoral unshaven FREE (donations accepted) seafood, and is socially inept—so no wonder This inhibited me from being fully engaged dropout better than Darrell W. Cox. MSB Runs through: May 22 he wants to die! But either evaluation would in even the wittiest moments performed just Mary Page Marlowe, Steppenwolf Theatre, be much too glib. Consider: If someone took inches from my seat, let alone the gory and extended through June 5. Playwright Tracy BY JONATHAN ABARBANEL your life according to a pre-arranged and sometimes gratuitously graphic moments. Letts prods audiences to puzzle through the mutually-agreed-upon plan, you might need Consensual or not, what they are doing is pieces of an “ordinary” woman’s life in this How many people would you trust with your to feel closer to that individual, to trust him/ wrong. world-premiere drama stocked with a large cast life, seriously? One, two, none? Rarer still, her, more than anyone else on earth. Both Terry and Vic are gay, but it’s of sec- of wonderful actors. SCM how many people would you trust to take your That’s the serious premise behind Taste, ondary importance. Given the extreme cir- Mosque Alert, Silk Road Rising, through life, assuming you wanted it taken? Those which is executed—pardon the word—with cumstances, the play’s one sexual act could May 15. This world premiere set in Naperville who love you deeply probably would refuse, incredibly focused performances from Smith occur just as believably between two straight touches on Islamophobia, Islamic homophobia, especially knowing suicide, assisted suicide, and Gage Wallace as uber-gourmet/host Ter- men or a mixed-sex couple. Sexuality is not assimilationist Islam and, indirectly, attitudes mercy killing and premeditated murder are il- ry Lavery. Tall, thin Smith plays Victor as a the overriding theme or action of Taste. expressed by Presidential candidates. It’s time- legal—even if consensual. man who clearly wants to be controlled, even Director Aaron Sawyer and company have ly, important and well-done. JA Taste is about all that, emphasizing “trust.” abused—and is used to that. His perfor- done well with this tricky, potentially offen- Sender, A Red Orchid, through May 29. In It also adds consensual cannibalism: one of mance is riveting as the blood games begin. sive little shocker. At bottom, however, it is Ike Holter’s new comedy, four millennials must the play’s two characters wishes to be killed, Playwright Brand requires him to maintain a a shocker more concerned with actions than decide whether to be adults or fall under a cooked and eaten while the other wishes to nearly punishing level of intensity as a man motivations or its characters’ abnormal psy- charming slacker’s spell. It’s a little short on execute and consume. They met on line, natu- in physical distress and psychological turmoil chology. substance but the characters are sharply-drawn rally, and the first time they meet is the only and Smith is shockingly convincing. Wallace and Holter’s comic riffs are potent. JA —By Abarbanel, Barnidge and Morgan WINDY CITY TIMES May 4, 2016 19

Everyone’s talking about the many faces of

180 Degree Rule. Photo by Johnny Knight

THEATER REVIEW with many actors tearing into the emotional drama of the main characters struggling with 180 Degree Rule love, frustration and regret. Particularly memo- Playwrights: Barbara Lhota and M.E.H. Lewis rable are Kate Black-Speance as the plucky At: Babes With Blades at City Lit 1960s film professor Katie Dunham, who te- Theater, 1020 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. naciously investigates the rumored 1930s love Tickets: 773-904-0391 or affair between a reclusive German film actress www.babeswithblades.org; $14-$22 named Margot Faber (Lisa Herceg) and the “Intensely Runs through: May 21 pioneering U.S. filmmaker Ruth Alice Bennett (Amy E. Harmon). Bennett not only dared to thoughtful… BY SCOTT C. MORGAN break the play’s title film-framing rule, but she the work has also died in a suspicious studio fire. It’s generally poor taste to speak ill of the Clues are provided by former friends, like depth and dead. But in the case of Babes With Blades’ the British actor Gilbert Bailey (Jason Andrew world-premiere lesbian mystery drama 180 De- Narvy) and the French film editor Hedwige Sou- an elegant gree Rule, I’m sorry to suggest that one major rile (Kimberly Logan). Then there’s also very drawback to the otherwise impressive produc- characterful work by supporting actors like potency” –Variety tion could be due in part to an artist who is no Tommy Bullington, Chris Cinereski and Kelly longer with us. Yacono, who each get a workout switching As stylishly staged by director Rachel Ed- through roles ranging from sycophantic press wards Harvith, 180 Degree Rule comes off like reps to brutish Nazi thugs. a labor of love, thanks to an abundance of cre- Unfortunately, what sinks 180 Degree Rule is ative theater work and engaging performances. its script by Babes With Blades company mem- The moment audiences enter the theater ber Barbara Lhota and the late M.E.H. Lewis. space, set and projection designer G. Max Max- The mystery setup and witty banter by Lhota in IV conjures up an evocative movie-making and Lewis are all promising, but the ultimate world. Cluttered prop tables and a star dressing denouement comes off as a huge let-down— “Deeply moving… room flank the largely blank center stage can- particularly since so many conspiracy theories vas that allows for time-shifting video visuals involving spying, blackmail and studio interfer- intoxicatingly by film director Carter Martin suggesting 1930s ence fall by the wayside. thrilling. ” Berlin and Hollywood. And those expecting lots of stage combat—a (out of four) Costume designer Beth Laske-Miller adorns major reason for Babes With Blades’ very exis- the ensemble cast with lovely period costumes tence—might also be let down by the relative –Chicago Tribune to help delineate the different eras. Meanwhile, lack of it, compared to past productions. sound designer Leigh Barrett and lighting de- There’s no denying that 180 Degree Rule is signer Laura Wiley team together to use dis- wonderful exercise in mysterious mood and pe- torted music and shadowy effects to create a riod style. But without a satisfying conclusion By ensemble member Tracy Letts fabulous aura of film noir-like mystery. to the script, all that loving labor lavished on The cast of 180 Degree Rule is also strong, the production ultimately rings hollow. Directed by artistic director Anna D. Shapiro steppenwolf. org | 312-335-1650 Through May 29 SPOTLIGHT “A captivating portrait of an e “Artfully crafted… ordinary life” The Neo-Futurists Andersonville home known as luminous The Neo-Futurarium isn’t exactly accessible to –TimeOut Chicago those with mobility issues. So as a way to make performances” up for that, The Neo-Futurists offer its second-ev- –Daily Herald er “Neo-Access” performance of its long-running flagship showT oo Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind at the Biograph Theater operated by Vic- tory Gardens Theater. Lead Production Support Corporate Production Sponsors The American with Disabilities Act-friendly event utilizes a touch tour for the blind, audio de- scription headsets, closed-captioning, American

Sign Language interpreters, and Braille and large- print programs. The special-access performance of Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind plays at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 7, at 2433 N. Lincoln Major Support for Steppenwolf’s New Play Development Initiative Ave. Tickets are $4 plus the roll of a six-sided die ($5-$10); call 872-222-9555 or visit www.neofu- The Davee Foundation | Zell Family Foundation turists.org more information. Major Foundation Support Caption: Interpreter Al Raci uses American Sign Language to translate a past performance National Endowment for the Arts | Edgerton Foundation of The Neo-Futurists’ Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind at the Victory Gardens Bio- The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation graph Theater. Photo by Will Sonheim 20 May 4, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES

Nick Jonas. Publicity photo

MUSIC Nick Jonas: N.C. law, new CD and getting personal

by andrew davis shows. I hope that they’re understanding and last night. It’s basically saying that life after of the tougher songs I’ve ever written because follow our lead on this. Hopefully, they’ll be a a break-up can be challenging—but once you it’s so personal—but the emotions really come Usually, singer/actor Nick Jonas is known for positive outcome. realize that you are OK and will get through the through on the song. what he accomplishes—but recently he’s been WCT: Let me move on to this albu. The title situation, it feels really good. In fact, it feels WCT: Yes; songs can certainly reflect what in the headlines for something he’s not doing. is Last Year Was Complicated. Of course, ev- so good that you might as well throw bacon on one is going through. Hopefully, your next Jonas and tourmate Demi Lovato announced ery year is complicated for just about ev- it and make it that much better. album will have a happier tone. that they will not be performing a pair of North eryone—but why was last year that way for WCT: “Chainsaw” is catchy—but I also NJ: [Laughs] Yeah—we’ll see. Carolina shows to protest the new anti-LGBT you? found myself singing along to the F-word in WCT: I wanted to ask you a general ques- law House Bill 2 (HB2), also known as the NJ: I went through a break-up last year over that song. Any reason for the [anger]? tion: If you could change one thing about “bathroom bill.” In so doing, the pair joined the summertime, which a lof of the writing on NJ: I was in the house that I spent a lot of the music industry, what would it be? acts such as Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam and the record is about. But on top of that, there time in with my ex, after we broke up. I was NJ: Ooh—that’s tough. One of the things Cirque du Soleil in boycotting the state until were a lot of things that influenced the writ- walking through the halls and I found it hard that’s most challenging is the fact that there’s the law is overturned. ing, from transitioning from being in a group to enjoy being in the house because I was so so much business involved in the music indus- However, what is going ahead (besides the for so many years to being a solo artist and torn up emotionally over the situation. “Chain- try. As a creative person, that’s sometimes a rest of the tour) is Jonas’ new CD, Last Year Was traveling alone. It was a big year of adjust- saw” really represents the idea to really let go Complicated, which will drop Friday, June 10, ment, and I’m happy I grew so much—and I of somebody and moving on. I think it was one Turn to page 28 on Safehouse/Island Records. He already has a put all of that into the songs. hit on his hands with “Close” (with Tove Lo), WCT: I see. After hearing five songs on the and there are other songs such as “Champagne album, I think my favorite cut is “Cham- LGBTQ program part Writer Jewelle Gomez Problems” and “Chainsaw.” pagne Problems,” although I’m not sure Windy City Times: Hey, Nick: Let’s start what that says about me. [Jonas laughs.] of Sinfonietta season to receive award Chicago Sinfonietta has announced program- Lesbian writer Jewelle Gomez will receive with something that will certainly resonate How did you go about choosing these songs? ming for its 2016-17 season, entitled “Chro- the Golden Crown Literary Society (GCLS) with the LGBT demographic and with the Many sound like hits. matic”—and its diverse offerings include its 2016 Trailblazer Award July 9 in Alexandria, readers of this publication. What motivated NJ: It was just about whatever worked. I had first-ever program dedicated to LGBTQ com- Virginia. you and Demi to take the stance you did, a very clear vision for the creation of the record posers and musicians. Gomez is the and cancel the North Carolina shows? early on, not just [with the sound] but lyri- “Concert IV: More than a Letter”—a night author of seven Nick Jonas: You know, it was a really tough cally—what I wanted to say. If things didn’t devoted to LGBTQ composers and musi- books, including call to make. Overall, the situation is just re- fit, it became clear very early. I’m proud of this cians—will take place Saturday, March 25, the double Lambda ally unfortunate. We talked about it, and we record; it’s my most solid work yet. 2017 at 8 p.m. at Wentz Concert Hall, 171 E. Literary Award-win- felt that the biggest impact to make a positive WCT: There’s a song on the album called Chicago Ave., Naperville; and Monday, March ning, Black lesbian change was to take this strong stand, with the “Bacon” [with rapper Ty Dolla $ign]. What’s 27, 2017, at 7:30 p.m. at Symphony Center, vampire novel The understanding that it’s going to be disappoint- that about? 220 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago. Among those Golda Stories, in ing to fans who were looking forward to the NJ: We just shot the music video for that whose works will be covered are Leonard Ber- print from Firebrand nstein, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Jennifer Hig- Books continuously don and David Conte. Michael Morgan will be since 1991. the guest conductor. Her play about an The season starts with “Chicago Sinfonietta imagined moment CULTURECULTURE CLUBCLUB Plays Ravinia” on Thursday, June 16, 2016, of indecision in the at 8 p.m. Other shows include “Chicago Sin- life of author/activ- WRI Jewelle Gomez. ist James Baldwin, fonietta Plays Cantigny Park” on Thursday, Photo by Aug. 4, at 1S151 Winfield Rd., Wheaton; Waiting for Giovanni, Irene Young “Concert II: Dia de los Muertos (Day of the premiered in San Dead)” on Saturday, Oct. 29, and Monday, Francisco. Her new play—Leaving the Blues Oct. 31; and “Concert III: Dr. Martin Luther about singer/composer Alberta Hunter—will King Jr. Tribute Concert” on Jan. 14, 15 and premiere next year at San Francisco’s New WRITERS THEATRE WITH THE SECOND CITY PRESENTS 17, 2017. Conservatory Theatre Center. Single tickets go on sale July 1, 2016, with She was also on the founding boards of the prices being $18-$60 for concerts at Sym- Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation phony Center and $48-$60 for concerts at (GLAAD), the Astraea Lesbian Foundation Wentz Concert Hall, with special $10 pricing and the Open Meadows Foundation. Former- available for students at both concerts. Tick- ly the director of grants for Horizons (now ets can be purchased by calling Chicago Sin- known as Center on Halsted), she is also the fonietta at 312-236-3681, ext. 2, or online former president of the San Francisco Public ChicagoSinfonietta.org. Tickets to Chicago Library Commission. Sinfonietta’s performance at the Ravinia Fes- The GCLS Trailblazer award recognizes tival are on sale now and available for pur- lifetime achievement and is presented each TH BEGINS APRIL 27 chase at Ravinia.org. year to a single author in recognition of the WRITERSTHEATRE.ORG | 847-242-6000 contributions made to the field of lesbian PICTURED: MICHAEL PEREZ, KAREN JANES WODITSCH, JENNIFER ENGSTROM, JOHN HOOGENAKKER AND literature. MARC GRAPEY. PHOTO BY SAVERIO TRUGLIA. WINDY CITY TIMES May 4, 2016 21 Chicago House fundraiser strikes bittersweet tone By Matt Simonette

Chicago House and Social Services Agency’s 2016 spring brunch and fashion show, held May 1 at Morgan Manufacturing, had a twinge of the bittersweet as community members came out to give their regards to CEO Rev. Stan Sloan, who will leave his post at the end of June. It was the 30th anniversary of the spring event and, as usual, local fashion designers unveiled their latest collections in several runway shows. Among the collections on display were Borris Powell, Peaches Carr and CRAM Fashions. Bucket Boys, Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus and Elliott From of ArtBeat Live provided the entertainment. Las Vegas-based performer Blanche DeBris served as emcee. Among those in attendance were U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, Ald. James Cappleman and newly elected Cook Photos by Kat Fitzgerald, www.mysticimagesphotography.com. See more online at www. County Associate Judge Mary Cay Marubio. U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley were among those windycitytimes.com . presenting video testimonials on the impact of Sloan’s work. Board of Trustees member Ray Lechner said that Sloan has “given 16 years of pure devotion to Chicago House. … Sadly, I’m old enough to remember a time when individuals with AIDS were being kicked out of their homes.” Lechner credited Sloan’s leadership and fundraising acumen with dramatically shifting the scope of Chicago House, adding, “Our mission has shifted from one of loss and despair to hope and opportunity.” Lechner and fellow Board of Trustees member Ray Koenig presented Sloan with a framed photograph of Chicago House’s clients as well as a copy of a proclamation praising Sloan that Quigley read into the Congres- sional record on April 29. “There’s not a better place I could have been for the last 16 years,” Sloan said. “I’m very excited for what’s next; I still don’t know what it is. … [Chicago House] has got a legacy and it will continue long past when I’m gone and these guys are gone. So, what you are doing here today is important. I’ll try to come back next year and I want to see you all back next year. The best is yet to come for Chicago House.” Also speaking at the event were Chicago House clients as well as event co-chairs Derek Bagley and Chris Bagley.

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s hit Broadway musical OPENS APRIL 29 is coming to the iconic Civic Opera House!

Two performances A cast featuring Broadway’s on Mother’s Day! brightest will delight with (1:30pm & 6:30pm) one familiar song after another: Shall We Dance? Getting to Know You Something Wonderful Rodgers & Hammerstein’s THE KING AND I Music by RICHARD RODGERS Book and Lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II ...and more! Based on “Anna and the King of Siam” by Margaret Landon Original Orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett Original Dance Arrangements by Trude Rittmann Original Choreography by Jerome Robbins

The King and I production created by the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, on June 13, 2014. General Director: Jeanluc Choplin. Photo: Todd Rosenberg The King and i pRoduction SponSoRS 312.827.5600 the negaunee two anonyMouS RobeRt S. and SuSan e. Foundation donoRS MoRRiSon LYRICOPERA.ORG 22 May 4, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES moment and is interrupted when he discovers his father, Angel (Jorge Perugorria)—newly KNIGHT released from prison—in the audience. Angel promptly gives Jesus a bloody lip before being at the tossed out of the club. Upon returning home, Jesus finds dad snoring off a hangover. Worse: movies The following morning Angel tells Jesus he is back to stay and further lays down the law—no more drag numbers. By Richard Knight, Jr. A familiar, dramatic father/son drama with many of the typical plot sidebars then plays out, as Jesus isn’t about to give up his dream so easily. What saves Viva is its large heart Viva; Janis: and winning performances—the relationship between Jesus and Angel builds honestly to Little Girl Blue a mutual respect and understanding that is genuinely moving. When Jesus/Viva finally tri- Transformations umphs at the club, it’s a tremendously affect- The urgent desire to transform, and the ab- ing moment. solute need to become someone else and leave There are many such transformative moments behind emotional abuse at home or school— in Amy Berg’s documentary portrait of rock often lived out on stage—that transcends an legend Janis Joplin in Janis: Little Girl Blue, emotionally crushing reality are feelings that which is screening all month on PBS as part of have long been familiar to Our People. They its American Masters series. Joplin onstage— also apply, most palpably, to the central figures the only place she seemed happy—was truly in a duo of new movies—the Cuban familial something to behold. The bisexual rock singer’s drama Viva, which is focused on a budding meteoric rise to the top of the music world, drag queen, and the searing documentary Ja- kickstarted by her performance at the Monterey nis: Little Girl Blue, about rock legend Janis Pop Festival in 1967, is traced through vintage Joplin. footage and remembrance interviews. Barely Irish director Paddy Breathnach’s Viva fo- three years later, Joplin was dead at 27 from a Janis Joplin in Janis: Little Girl Blue. cuses on Jesus (Hector Medina), a young gay heroin overdose. Copyright Fantality Corp. hairdresser in Cuba who’s scraping by doing the Joplin’s propensity for the blues is easily wigs for the performers at the local drag bar. traced back to her difficult childhood and teen He’s recently left hustling behind and, more years. Always an outsider in the blue-collar pain is all too familiar. Peggy Caserta, identi- history. The site this time is the Louvre, with than anything, wants to join the other drag town of Port Arthur, Texas—taunted for her ar- fied as “former friend and lover,” is just one a special focus on its fortunes during the Nazi queens onstage, especially Mama (Luis Alberto tistic leanings and less-than-glamourous looks interviewee heard in voiceover talking about occupation. http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/ Garcia), the club’s star performer who nightly and figure—Joplin fled to San Francisco as Joplin’s drug addiction, revealing the duo shot francofonia mesmerizes Jesus with his power to galvanize soon as possible. There, she found her first girl- up heroin while they were together at Wood- Sworn Virgin (May 6)—An Albanian woman the crowd. At home, he practices to sultry Cu- friend (who is briefly interviewed in the film) stock before Joplin’s meandering performance. (Alba Rohrwacher) who—according to her re- ban singers’ recordings his late mother left be- and slowly but surely found her unique vocal Although Joplin wasn’t able to find a perma- gion’s custom—has lived as a man for most of hind. His abusive father has long since gone, stylings and the immense but fleeting comfort nent way to quell her inner demons, she was her life now wants to reclaim her sexual iden- too—incarcerated years before for a violent of the adulations of millions. Sadly, Joplin’s learning to take control of her singing voice, tity. It’s playing exclusively at Facets Cinema- crime. transformation as a rock ‘n’ roll goddess didn’t and her final recording revealed a maturity theque, 1517 W. Fullerton Ave. http://www. Jesus pleads with Mama to perform and he is guarantee personal happiness, and her abuse that hinted at a long musical future ahead. facets.org/cinematheque/films/may2016/ finally given his chance. But Jesus’ debut num- of drugs and alcohol to salve her emotional That’s tragic enough—as is the thought that sworn-virgin.php ber is less than the hoped-for A Star Is Born Joplin might never have found any personal Viva (May 6)—See details above. solace. The version screening on PBS features Mother’s Day with Mamma Mia! (May 8 An action-packed, music-filled, theatrical event! deleted scenes that include interviews with only)—Meryl Streep, looking tanned and fit, Follow the rise and fall of Shakespeare's kings, Melissa Etheridge, Pink and Juliette Lewis talk- sings up a storm in Mamma Mia!, the frothy and the uncommon courage of common men. ing about the importance of Joplin on them 2008 big-screen adaptation of the Broadway personally and for breaking down barriers for musical comedy sensation that utilizes the ‘70s women in music. Check local listings for air hit songs of Abba as its score. Dick O’Day (the dates. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/american- alter ego of yours truly) hosts a third annual masters/janis-joplin-janis-little-girl-blue- Mother’s Day sing-a-long screening at the Mu- about-the-film/6284/ sic Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Ave., on OF Sunday, May 8, at 2 p.m. A ‘70s costume con- Pool party test (mother-daughter combos encouraged), In Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party, Chicago- prizes and an interactive screening guide are FOREIGNAR FIRE an writer-director Stephen Cone again ponders included in the fun. http://www.musicboxthe- TUGEDWARD III HENRY V W HENRY VI PART I faith and homosexuality—the same turf he ex- atre.com/events/mother8217s-day-with-mam- plored in his critically acclaimed 2011 feature ma-mia-2016-may-8-sun-0200pm The Wise Kids. My Big Night (May 13)—This is Spanish di- It’s 17-year-old Henry’s birthday and it’s rector Alex de la Iglesia’s (The Perfect Crime) pretty clear that the birthday boy (winningly deliciously overstuffed showbiz satire. It’s set portrayed by the adorable Cole Doman) is gay. at a TV studio where a gaudy New Year’s Eve However, whether he’s ready to declare that special is being shot under chaotic circum- to the world, let alone himself, is just one of stances. http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/my- the issues touched upon during the long after- bignight noon and evening of the pool party attended The Family Fang (May 13)—An actress (Ni- by both friends and parents—many with their cole Kidman) and her brother (Jason Bateman) own woes. investigate the mysterious disappearance of Cone’s critically acclaimed film is now avail- their parents, two performance artists known able on DVD and online from Wolfe Releas- for their elaborate hoaxes. Bateman directs ing. The DVD includes a brief featurette with this rather dark comedy.

Freddie Stevenson , photo by Jeff Sciortino Doman, Cone’s director commentary and a High-Rise (May 13)—A doctor (Tom Hid- short film he made. https://www.wolfevideo. dleston) moves into a London skyscraper where com/products/henry-gambles-birthday-party/ rising tensions and class warfare lead to an- LIMITED archy. J.G. Ballard’s “unfilmable” 1975 sci-fi ENGAGEMENT Upcoming movie calendar novel of dystopian society comes to the screen Highlights from films (alphabetized by date) at last. Gay actor Luke Evans, Sienna Miller, BEGINS MAY 12 opening in Chicago, May 6 and May 13 (some Jeremy Irons, and Elizabeth Moss co-star. adapted and directed by descriptions come from studio press materials). Money Monster (May 13)—Out actor-direc- BARBARA GAINES Captain America: Civil War (May 6)—The tor Jodie Foster (Little Man Tate, Home for the superheroes are back in this third (or is it Holidays, The Beaver) helms her fourth film, 10th?) film in the ever-expanding Marvel uni- a dramatic thriller with George Clooney as a verse which kicks off the summer blockbuster TV finance guru taken hostage on-air by a dis- season. gruntled viewer (Jack O’Connell) after losing Francofonia (May 6)—In this companion his family’s money following a tip from Cloo- 312.595.5600 • chicagoshakes.com piece to his Hermitage-set Russian Ark, di- ney. Julia Roberts plays Clooney’s producer. rector Alexander Sokurov once again uses an Dominic West, Caitriona Balfe and Giancarlo Doris Conant SHAKESPEARE 400 PRODUCTION CHICAGO SPONSOR in memory of iconic museum as the jumping-off point for Esposito co-star. LEAD SPONSORS Howard Conant a dense and digressive meditation on art and WINDY CITY TIMES May 4, 2016 23 Cinderella

Dreams.

Gayby Baby director Maya Newell in a video message at the movie’s screening. Photo by Liz Baudler Transformation. At ‘Gayby Baby’ screening, Magic. the focus is on LGBTQ families Love. By Liz Baudler student. Jill, his mother, talked about finding her son an appropriate school and all of the When Maya Newell, the director of the new concerns she had as he transitioned. She said documentary Gayby Baby, saw the 2010 movie a current concern for Jason, as he chooses to The Kids Are Alright, it was the first time in play with gender presentation, is finding safe 23 years she’d ever seen her family on the big bathrooms when they’re out in public. screen. “Gayby Baby came from wanting to Julie Toole, from Baker Demonstration give voice to kids from families like mine,” said School, spoke to the audience as both teacher Newell, an Australian filmmaker with lesbian and parent. Her younger child, Leo, now identi- parents. She recorded a special video message fies as female, and Toole wanted to make sure for the screening for the Chicago-area screen- her school had a statement about gender iden- ing of Gayby Baby, held at Kinoworks April 30. tity before she discussed her child’s transition “This is a film about our families,” said The- with other parents. In terms of acceptance, resa Volpe, from the board of directors for One Toole noted “the kids are the easiest part.” She Million Kids for Equality and the event’s orga- said Baker’s 90-student middle school started a nizer. In her introduction, Volpe thanked the Gender-Sexuality Alliance; 30 kids showed up Wachowski sisters, Lana and Lilly, for letting for the initial meeting. their space be used for the viewing. Kara Ingelhart, from Lambda Legal, discussed LGBTQ family advocate Zach Wahls also re- various issues that LGBTQ families and students corded a message for the screening. Wahls re- faced, including ongoing birth certificate chal- minded the audience that they were not alone, lenges in Florida and Wisconsin. “Children are and remembered feeling like he had to lie harmed by their parents not being recognized about his family or use anti-gay slurs to fit in under the law,” Ingelhart said. She also men- with his peers. He advised kids that they didn’t tioned that Lambda is currently focusing on the have to answer every question about their fam- bathroom bills popping up around the country, ily. “Your family is your family,” Wahls said. and reminded the audience that Lambda’s Help Volpe convened a children’s panel to discuss Desk is always available. responses to the film and issues their families Ron and Bernadette Whitfield from PFLAG faced. Ava Santos-Volpe, Volpe’s 11-year old concluded the panel. “We’re from the Western daughter, was struck by Graham, a young boy suburbs, and I am so blown away by the sup- in the film who’d moved to Fiji and could no port you get,” said Bernadette. “There’s really longer be open about having two dads in his a lot of work to be done.” She mentioned that new home. “I would be used to talking about while they normally deal with LGBTQ students, it,” she said. Generally, panelists felt accepted talking about LGBTQ families could be a new CELEBRATING by their peers. A panelist’s mother remembered mission. “Every child needs a safe school,” she taking her son to kindergarten and a small said. child asking, “why does Sam have two moms?’ More photos are at WindyCityMediaGroup. 60 YEARS ‘Lucky, I guess,’” the other mother replied, and com. the kids agreed that Sam was lucky. The adult panel represented a wide variety of experience. Kim Hunt, executive director of PFLAG event by Pride Action Tank, recalled watching her own kids deciding when to “come out” about their Sidetrack May 8 MAY 11–22 lesbian mom, and discussed Pride Action Tank’s PFLAG’s “Kisses From Mom” event will work with homeless LGBTQ youth. The organi- take place on Mother’s Day—Sunday, May zation is planning to work with DCFS to help 8—at 3-9 p.m. in front of Sidetrack, 3349 LGBTQ kids tell their stories and place them N. Halsted St. TICKETS START AT $32 with LGBTQ-friendly foster families. About two dozen PFLAG moms will give Jerry Pohlen, the author of Gay and Lesbian back this Mother’s Day by rotating shifts JOFFREY.ORG/CINDERELLA History for Kids, realized that no such book throughout the event. existed when he researched the subject. “As a PFLAG Northern Illinois Council president gay man, I thought that was kind of sad,” said Toni Weaver said that “PFLAG is accepting 800.982.2787 Pohlen, who added that he wrote the book for donations in exchange for a (chocolate) all families. kiss from mom to help the organization advocate for a world where diversity is cel- Katie Zlivovski from the Chicago Children’s CINDERELLA CINDERELLA PERFORMS AT: Museum, discussed how her institution strives ebrated and all people are respected, val- PRESENTING PRODUCTION to be inclusive. Zlivovski said her staff never ued and affirmed inclusive of their sexual SPONSOR SPONSOR argues with guests about their all-families-wel- orientation, gender identity, and gender Margot and Josef Sandy and Roger expression.” come policy: it’s a rule just like no hot coffee. Lakonishok Deromedi “We strongly feel that we need to see all fami- Donations to PFLAG Northern Illinois will 50 East Congress Parkway, Chicago lies and gender identities reflected,” she said. be accepted at the event, at PFLAGIllinois. org, or sent to PFLAG Council of Northern “No one can tell you your own gender,” said Joffrey Dancers: Christine Rocas and Temur Suluashvili | Photo by: Herbert Migdoll Jason, a musician and transgender high school Illinois, P.O. Box 734, Elmhurst, IL 60126. 24 May 4, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES nightspots weekly nightlife section in /nightspots @nightspotschicago @nightspotschicago Sidetrack hosts ‘Havana in Chicago’ PASSAGES by Vernon Hester

This past week saw the loss of two well-loved fixtures of Chicago’s LGBTQ On April 30, First Hand Aid presented the nightlife community. fourth annual “Havana in Chicago” at Boys- town nightspot Sidetrack. The event, which was sponsored by Bacardi Rum, is a benefit to help Juan Martinez, who most recently and support the needy and disenfranchised in worked for LKH Management (Hydrate, Cuba by supplying badly needed food and medi- Seven, Elixir, Replay) and who gained cal supplies. This version of Havana in Cuba many friends in his former position at featured a live and silent auction, a Cuban buf- the now-shuttered SPIN, passed away fet dinner, live music and dancing. suddenly Sunday, April 24, while on va- “Havana in Cuba” focuses on assisting First cation in Los Angeles with his son. Mar- Hand Aid—who, through its host committee, tinez was 37. travels to Cuba and hand-delivers supplies to He leaves behind the aforementioned people in dire need. Although restrictions on Photos by Vern Hester son and a husband, Joey Teague. traveling to the island have diminished and A special celebration of life will take tourism has increased, the need for humanitar- place Wed., May 4, at Hydrate, 3458 N. ian aid is still a major concern. Halsted St. Doors open at 8 pm with a Co-hosted by co-chair and Sidetrack owner Art hosted bar until 9 with a $10 donation. Johnston and producer Bryan Smith, the event A drag show begins at 9 and will fea- drew an energetic near-overflow crowd of sup- ture Naysha Lopez, Shea Coulee, Serena porters and participants. Members of First Hand Fiierce, Ruff N Stuff, Jade Sotomayor, Aid from Grand Rapids, Michigan, including Ex- Kelly Lauren, Mimi Marks, Debbie Fox, ecutive Director Marc Bohland, drove through DiDa Ritz and many more performers. the cold, wet weather to attend the event. As All donations and proceeds from the guests sampled Cuban appetizers and frozen show will go to assist Martinez’s family daiquiri shots, local Cuban soul group Angel with final expenses. d’Cuba performed throughout the evening. The 2016 event featured a number of fine-arts pieces put up for auction or sale by the art- Juan Martinez (right), pictured in 2014 at SPIN with Joey Kissling, who also recently ists, including paintings by Nancie King Metz, passed away. as well as photography by Jason Kennedy and Photo by Anthony Meade for Nightspots David Weinberg. Among the other items on the auction block were boxes of Habanos and Cohi- va cigars, Havana Club rum, a full-course dinner and service for 16 provided by J & L Catering, tickets for the upcoming plays Fun House and War Paint, eveningwear by Oscar de la Renta, a private party for 50 at Sidetrack, a cruise and bottle of Dom Perignon provided by Papa’s Para- dise Cruises, and gift baskets provided by the Chicago Cubs, the Chicago Fire Department and the Chicago Police Department. The live auction got off to a dramatic start with the sale of the cigars and rum, which are not legally sold in the United States. Equally action-packed was the bidding for the dinner for 16, which was locked in such a dead heat that Ted Grady, the owner of J & L Catering, decided to split the prize between the two top bidders. Ultimately, each bidder ended up with a dinner package for eight rather then sixteen. To round out the bidding, this portion of the evening ended with the dispersal of $100 and $50 “goody bags.” Siboney Cuban Cuisine provided the dinner buffet. With the help of Bacardi Rum as sponsor, all of the event’s proceeds went to First Hand Aid. Photo collage of Terry Rogers. Photo from Facebook event page for TERRY ROGERS: A Celebration of Life, courtesy of Greg Haus

Terry Rogers (aka Terri Michaels), a performer with a wicked sense of humor and an infec- tious laugh, passed away Friday, April 29. Rogers was a fixture on the scene, most notably at @mosphere, Berlin and more. After her passing, remembrances began to swirl on social media from venues as far back as Vortex. Berlin, 954 W. Belmont Ave., is planning a celebration of life this Saturday, May 7, at 2 pm. The event includes a memorial at 2, with readings from Berlin owners Jo Webster and Jim Schuman, and a celebration at 3 pm. The dress code for the event is black and platinum. The event will culminate in a parade from Berlin to the lake at 4 pm. The organizers request that the community share memories and photos of Rogers at https://www.dropbox.com/request/ueLEkHRDe4A0RVwZ6C4N. WINDY CITY TIMES May 4, 2016 25 Billy Masters

“He loved to play with his snake.”—Gloria Vanderbilt tells Andy Cohen what her son An- derson Cooper was like as a child. After watching 20/20’s report on the new book by the father of David Miscavige, head of the so- called Church of Scientology, one impression was seared into my brain. In the numerous photos they showed of Miscavige and Tom Cruise, Tom towers over David. Now, we know Tom Cruise is on the border of being a little person—in fact, Anderson Cooper is apparently a snake I’m not entirely convinced he would be allowed to ride on Space Mountain. So, how short does handler. that make David Miscavige? If a movie of his life Official CNN photo is made, would he be played by Peter Dinklage? You’ve all heard that Kelly Ripa did eventually no longer contemporaries. Martin Short will play return to “Live!”—but she did it on her terms. Edna’s husband and Derek Hough, the boy who Michael Strahan will no longer be staying until just can’t say no, will play Corny Collins. Harvey he starts full-time at Good Morning America in tweeted: “Marty Short is going to marry me! I September; his last day is now May 13. Ironically am pumped. Marty will be my husband and Derek enough, last weekend the duo won the Daytime will be my...Well, we’ve got time to figure that Emmy for best talk-show hosts for the second out. HA!” HA is right! The open call for potential year in a row. And thus ends the streak. Tracys brought out thousands of candidates, so As to his replacement, my sources confirm that we expect some news in the next few weeks. the short list is the two people who were candi- And now, some news that will be music to dates the last time: Anderson Cooper and Neil your ears. Chris Isaacson, producer of oodles of Patrick Harris. For NPH, it would be a step in fabulous shows in the Los Angeles area, has an- the right direction after his variety-show disas- nounced a reunion of the original stars of Dream- ter. But it would be quite limiting in terms of girls. Yes—Sheryl Lee Ralph, Loretta Devine future acting. Anderson is a better fit, on many and Jennifer Holliday will be joining forces for levels. And, as it happens, his CNN contract is “one night only” on July 10 at the Ford Amphi- up at the end of the year. Perhaps ABC could theatre in Hollywood. We don’t know how much sweeten the deal by throwing in a position in of the show they’ll do since it is billed as a re- its news division (a division replete with gays). union “for conversation and song.” A portion of Plus, Anderson would get to spend every day the proceeds will benefit The Actor’s Fund and working with his best friend, Ripa. When asked Sheryl Lee’s DIVA Foundation. You can get tix by Andy Cohen if he would take the job, Cooper and info at ChrisIsaacsonPresents.com. said, “Look—I’m very happy at CNN. It would be Hundreds of you have been writing me asking Pridefest_2016_WindyCItyƒ.pdf 1 4/8/16 2:50 PM a dream to work with Kelly, but nobody’s offering the same question. Since Jim in Orlando wrote anything.” Yet. first, he’s got our “Ask Billy” question: “Everyone This leads to yet another update from Cooper. is talking about John Barrowman’s hot husband Last week, I told you about his older brother Scott showing all on a video, but by the time I Christopher’s 40-year estrangement from the went to see it, it was gone. HELP!” family. Cohen asked Cooper about his relation- With a penis that large, cutting it out would ship with his older brothers, and the silver fox leave a HUGE gap in the video—although we made this seemingly innocent statement: “It’s hear it fills a HUGE gap elsewhere. Here’s the good. Stan is a great guy and I’m close with his story. John Barrowman was doing a live video kids. And Chris has come back in my mom’s life chat from his hot tub in Palm Springs, and Scott and, um, so, it’s good.” Sounds like the docu- Gill walked into the background completely na- mentary helped bridge this four-decade gap— ked and—I dare say—somewhat fluffed. Person- good news for the 92-year-old Gloria Vanderbilt. ally, I think it was planned. Anyhoo, Barrowman And just in the nick of time. feigned shock, Gill jumped in the water and we Remind me to find out what makeup mirror never saw the penis again (although Barrowman Carly Fiorina uses. I certainly don’t want to be did get Scott to jump up so people could see one of the many people out there saying that his “arse”). Johnny said, “I have to be careful she looks like a starving jackal. Frankly, I don’t or he’ll stand up and wangadangdang”—which I care what my politicians look like—unless I’m suppose is the technical word for it. But those fucking them. But the current VP on the “not of us swift of action managed to snag the full C a snowball’s chance in hell” ticket just revealed video, and you can see every inch of its impres- why she was sacked by HP: “Of course, the fact sive glory on BillyMasters.com. M that I’m beautiful didn’t help me at all. ... I can When Barrowman’s beau needs a wheelbarrow, Y tell you from personal experience, however, that it’s definitely time to end yet another column. the general opinion that beautiful people have it This could be a first—the first time we haveCM easier in life is a great misconception.” Uh, OK. the penises of both guys in a relationship ... at MY Caitlyn Jenner took Donald Trump up on his least where both guys are not in gay porn. And CY offer. She went to Trump Tower and used the la- you can see them on www.BillyMasters.com, the dies’ room to pee. And she filmed it. And she site where you can get your wang dang doodle, CMY posted it online! Well, why wouldn’t she? Isn’t all night long. While you’re online, feel free to K that how Kim got famous? Actually, it’s probably drop me a note at [email protected], and the one hole Ray J didn’t use! I promise to get back to you before Mrs. Muir We’ve got some casting news for the TV ver- bends over backwards (and forwards) to get An- sion of Hairspray. As predicted, Harvey Fierstein derson to join ABC News. To my Albanian fans will immortalize his Edna for posterior ... er, pos- out there, Krishti u ngjall. To the Greeks, Chris- terity. Jennifer Hudson will be playing Motor- tos anesti. And to everyone else, remember: One mouth—so apparently those two characters are man’s filth is another man’s bible. 26 May 4, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES nightspots the big TO-DO OUR WEEKLY PICKS TO PLAN YOUR NIGHTLIFE CALENDAR

Bear Den: White Sox ticket giveaway

Thu., May 5, 9 pm Big Chicks, 5024 N. Sheridan Rd. TOUCHE/LEATHER 64TEN Wear your sexy sports attire (whichever team you play for) and get a chance to Scenes from a leather makeover contest. This year’s Leather Eye for the Preppy Guy raised $504 for Vital Bridges’ Groceryland Pantry. win tickets to see the White Sox play Photos by Kirk Williamson the Minnesota Twins, courtesy of Miller Coors in celebration of Big Chicks’ 30th year. quire talking a little louder, as the restaurant’s capacity can reach 200 people (although some of those people will be in semi-private rooms). Also, Chigaygo: despite the presence of children on the night I Cinco de Gayo the DISH visited, the menu prices might prevent a lot of Weekly Dining Guide in families from hitting this spot, say, every week WINDY CITY TIMES (primarily because you’ll want to try at least five or six dishes). However, it’s a very special place SAVOR that deserves to be savored. Hamburger Mary’s on ‘Undercover Boss’ There will be a viewing party to mark Hamburger Imperial Lamian; Thu., May 5, 10 pm Mary’s being on the CBS show Undercover Boss. Laugh Factory Chicago, Mary’s on ‘Boss’ The event will take place Sunday, May 15, at 8 p.m. at 5402 N. Clark St. Ashley and Brandon 3175 N. Broadway Crispy duck salad at Imperial Lamian. Five (cinco, get it?) of Chicago’s fun- BY ANDREW DAVIS Wright, the co-owners of Hamburger Mary’s, will be Photo by Jeff Schear niest queer comics kick off the holiday. featured on the episode. Featuring Shannon Noll, Eric Lewis-Bak- The northwest corner of Hubbard and State streets See “Hamburger Mary’s on ‘Undercover Boss’ er, Mitchell Fain, Sarah Gallagher, and (in Chicago’s River North area) has seen its fair nese restaurant that’s not in Chinatown. Viewing Party” on Facebook. Gwen LaRoka. Hosted by Scott Duff. Use share of restaurants come and go, including Bar I started things off at a recent media visit with promo code PRIDE for $10 tix online and Umbriago (which I still miss), Centro and Vong’s a very tasty drink known as a Lantern Four-9ine at the door. Thai Kitchen. (with four and nine being good-luck numbers However, one hopes the restaurant gods will this year—the year of the fire monkey). Things Sidetrack Saturday Market smile upon Imperial Lamian (6 W. Hubbard St.; got better from there, with favorites include the Imperial-Lamian.com)—an Indonesian-based res- chicken wing stuffed with tiger shrimp; kicky Chi- taurant making its initial U.S. appearance—and nese pickles; comforting miso soup; crispy duck allow it to stay for a long time. It’s a fantastic salad, with shallots, pomegranate and hoisin-truf- place. fle dressing; soup dumplings—including one with Imperial Lamian (named after hand-pulled lami- Gruyere cheese; jasmine tea-smoked ribs (my fa- an noodles) features Chinese cuisine with dishes vorite dish); and a dramatically presented seafood prepared by three master chefs expertly trained in fried rice. their individual crafts—making for the best Chi- There are two caveats. Conversation may re- Sat., May 7, 1-4 pm Sidetrack, 3349 N. Halsted St. Shop (and drink) local at this monthly market, featuring juices, pies, cheese, pre- serves, confections, baked goods and more. Scrumptious ready-to-eat treats and sand- wiches, perfect for lunch or an afternoon snack.

May Tea Dance

Sun., May 8, 2-5 pm Charlie’s, 3726 N. Broadway Get yer boots on for this country/western tea dance. DJ Fifi plays all your country favorites. “Miss Incredible” HAMBURGER MARY’S OAK PARK dance lessons from Herb at 2:15. It’s karaoke. It’s drag. Stop, you’re both right! Grand opening weekend, Sat., April 30. Photos by Kirk Williamson WINDY CITY TIMES May 4, 2016 27 Download our new Windy City Times LGBT LGBT Wedding Guide magazine! Wedding Guide www.windycitymediagroup.com/pdf/WCMG_weddingguide_20160217_web.pdf

ACCOMMODATIONS Frank Event Design Gayle Weiss Design Consulting Lisa Howe-Ebright LGBT see also VENUES Frank J. Andonoplas, Master Bridal 708-207-8001 Photography WeddingFIFTH EDITION Guide Lang House Bed & Breakfast Consultant www.gayle weissdesigns.com 708-710-2874 Winter/Spring 2016 7421 N. Sheridan Rd. 5555 N. Sheridan Rd., Arcade Level [email protected] www.LHEphoto.com 773-764-9851 773-275-6804 [email protected] www.langhousechicago.com www.frankeventdesign.com LEGAL [email protected] [email protected] Donald J. Boyd, Jr, Family Law Andre LaCour, Photographic 113 S. Marion St., Ste. 100 Artist CATERING Audrey Gordon, Empress of Oak Park, IL 773-485-0841 Berghoff Catering Schmooze 708-848-1005 www.andrelacour.com 17 W. Adams St. 312-504-3600 www.boyddivorce.com 312-408-0200 [email protected] Maxey Mediaworks www.ag-parties.com A SURPRISE WEDDING www.berghoffcatering.com Ray J. Koenig III, Clark Hill PLC 708-359-6455 Page 12 [email protected] 150 N. Michigan Ave., [email protected] Greatest Expectations Suite 2700 www.maxeymediaworks.com PLUS What’s hot and what’s not: Wedding trends for 2016 312-994-2321 800-949-3124 Page 10 Polo Catering Weddings without rules www.greatestexpectations.com 312-985-5900 Page 18 3322 S. Morgan St. Tres Jolie Photo Business listings Page 32 773-927-7656 [email protected] 414-737-9576 Page 32 www.polocafe.com FINANCIAL PLANNING www.clarkhill.com [email protected] James E. Elvord, AWM, www.tresjoliephoto.com/love Tri-Star Catering Financial Advisor Lambda Legal InterContinental Chicago 150 S. Wacker Drive, Chicago 312-368- RBC Wealth Mgmt. 312-663-4413 REAL ESTATE Magnificent Mile 8266 312-559-1738 or www.lambdalegal.org Olin Eargle, 505 N. Michigan Ave. www.tristarcatering.com 800-683-3246 312-321-8735 @ Properties www.icchicagohotel.com [email protected] [email protected] Roger V. McCaffrey-Boss, Esq. 312-771-1328 Law Offices of Roger V. [email protected] CLEANING SERVICES Christina Frum, McCaffrey-Boss & Associates, www.olinsellschicago.com Keith House Chicago Cleaning Co. GCG Financial, Inc. P.C. 1900 S. Prairie Ave., Chicago 312-907-7909 773-896-7161 Three Parkway North, 33 N. Dearborn St., Suite 800 Scott Ferguson, Dreamtown www.keithhousechicago.com [email protected] Suite 500, 312-263-8800 [email protected] Deerfield, IL [email protected] scottfergusonhomes.com 847-457-3228 Morris Performing Arts Center DENTAL 105 W. Colfax Ave., Compass Dental [email protected] Rosemary Mulryan, VENUES www.gcgfinancial.com South Bend, IN 415 W. Belmont Ave. Mulryan & York, Attorneys at A Church 4 Me MCC 574-235-5612 773-525-2011 Law 1545 W. Morse Ave., Chicago www.palaisroyale.org www.compassdentalchicago.com FLOWERS 4001 N. Wolcott 708-951-4862 The Blossom Boys Chicago, Illinois 60613 www.achurch4me.org North Shore Center for the Dr. Sims Dentistry 9911 S. Walden Pkwy. 773-248-8887 5503 N. Clark St., 2nd Floor 773-779-4400 www.mulryanandyork.com Performing Arts Chicago History Museum 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie, IL 773-878-7467 1601 N. Clark St. Events manager at www.GrantSimsDDS.com GIFTS LICENSES 312-799-2254 www.chicagohistory.org/hostevent 847-679-9501 x 3005 Leigh Gallery David Orr www.northshorecenter.org/rent-the- 3306 N. Halsted St. ENTERTAINMENT Cook Co. Clerk’s Office center/ Artists, Events and 773-472-1865 cookcountyclerk.com/ City Winery Chicago Entertainment Inc www.theleighgallery.com vitalrecords/marriageequality 1200 W. Randolph St., Chicago 312- [email protected] 229-5989 Palmer House 312-832-1100 Catering Team www.artistsandevents.com www.citywinery.com OFFICIANTS [email protected] 17 E. Monroe St. INVITES Dignity/Chicago 312-422-1325 Becca Kaufman Orchestra Shirts Illustrated www.dignity-chicago.org/content/ www.palmerhousehiltonhotel.com/ 847-892-4150 1340 W. Belmont Ave. families Congress Plaza Hotel weddings www.beccakaufmanorchestra.com 773-871-4785 520 S. Michigan Ave. [email protected] 312-427-3800, ext. 5071 www.beatmixmusic.com shirtsillustrated.weebly.com Living Well Ministries [email protected] [email protected] Polo Cafe and Catering 773-655-4357 www.congressplazahotel.com Bill Pollack Band www.livingwellministries.net 3322 S. Morgan St. 847-475-0411 Total Promotions, Inc. 773-927-7656 Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa [email protected] Contact David Strzepek, Rite On! Ceremonies www.polocafe.com 773-505-7794 Galena, IL Deb Rostorfer, M. Div. DJ Moose www.totalpromote.com 800-892-2269 Renaissance Chicago 312-547-0725 www.eagleridge.com [email protected] www.riteonceremonies.com Downtown soundcloud.com/moosebox JEWELRY [email protected] 1 W. Wacker Dr. Jan Dee Custom Jewelry Firehouse Chicago 312-372-7200 Michelle Marchisotta, venue manager www.renaissancechicagodowntown.com Elaine Dame 1425 W. Diversey Pkwy., Chicago Michele Wolgel Rose, 773-871-2222 1545 W. Rosemont Ave. 773-296-0831 Certified LifeCycle Celebrant www.jandee.com 773-850-1545 www.elainedame.com 847-215-7715 Rotary Botanical Gardens Janesville, WI [email protected] [email protected] Galena JDC 608-752-3885, ext. 16 Marshall Pierce & Company roselifecycleceremonies.com Lucy Smith’s Soul Celebration 29 E. Madison St., Suite 600 www. galena.org/weddings [email protected] www.rotarybotanicalgardens.org 773-844-9135 312-372-2415 PHOTOGRAPHY/ www.lucysmithjazz.com www.marshallpierce.com Grand Geneva Resort & Spa [email protected] VIDEO 7036 Grand Geneva Way, Sidetrack Steve Quick Jeweler amyBcreative photography Lake Geneva, WI 3349 N. Halsted St. 847-571-0684 773-751-0034 800-558-3417 773-477-9189 Psychic Entertainment by [email protected] www.stevequickjeweler.com www. GrandGeneva.com www.sidetrackchicago.com Barbara G. Meyer www.amybcreative.com [email protected] 773-282-6556 [email protected] Sparkles Fine Jewelry The Grove Redfield Estate Bean Blossom Prod. www.bgmeyer.com 5405 N. Clark St. 1421 Milwaukee Ave. St. John’s Episcopal Church www.BeanBlossomProductions.net 773-944-9600 Glenview, IL 3857 N. Kostner Ave. 773-727-5642 www.SparklesFineJewelry.com 847-298-0095 773-725-9026 EVENT PLANNING www.redfieldestate.org www.stjohnschicago.com Amy Bloom Inc. Tucker, Inc. John Gress Photography 773-742-1753 312-545-5438 5 S. Wabash, Suite 507 Hilton Orrington www.amybloominc.com http://johngress.com [email protected] 312-263-3315 847-556-7940 www.tuckercompany.net www.orringtonevanston.hilton.com [email protected] 28 May 4, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES COSMETIC DENTISTRY RELIGIOUS SERVICES The Law Offices of CLASSIFIEDS FRESHEN UP! COSMETIC DENTISTRY AND BO- TOX AVAILABLE. Host a Botox partly of 3 or Roger V. McCaffrey-Boss ADVERTISE HERE more and the host/hostess gets a special deal. & Associates ADVERTISE HERE: Want to advertise your Dr. Rudziewiez is a licensed dentist and certi- product, service, etc. to thousands of readers? fied Botox specialist. Lakeview location and When experience counts... Place an ad in the Windy City Times! We offer home visits available. For consultation or more In service to the community affordable rates, convenient service, and as a information call 872-999-0110. (5/25/16) bonus, your ad runs in our online section for for over 35 years. CUDDLING free. To place an ad, contact Terri at 773-871- • Bankruptcy 7610 ex 101, terri@windycitymediagroup. com, or go to our website http://www. • Wills, Trusts & Probate windycitymediagroup.com/placeaclassified. • Real Estate Closings php. • Premarital Agreements ADULT MALE ENTERTAINMENT BORED?? WE HAVE THE SOLUTION! Check 33 N. Dearborn St., Suite 800, Chicago, IL 60602 SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS out www.gayflicks.com. Buy DVDs, Stream 312-263-8800 [email protected] Gay Movies, Download them or just Pay Per ARE YOU INTELLECTUALLY GIFTED? Are you in- Minute and watch only the scenes you want terested in meeting other LGBTs like you? Come We are a debt relief agency. We help people file for bankruptcy relief under the bankruptcy code. to! You will love these xxx gay movies. WWW. join the LGBT and Allies Special Interest Group GAYFLICKS.COM (5/25/16-4) in Chicago Area Mensa. To inquire, contact [email protected]. (4/20/16-52) BOOKKEEPER AVAILABLE Wanna Cuddle Chicago? QUICKBOOK BOOKKEEPER AVAILABLE. Ac- Platonic cuddling reduces stress counts Payable/Accounts Receivable, Invoic- & opens up your heart. ing, Collections, Time Tracking, Bank & Credit REAL GAY MEN CUDDLE! REAL ESTATE card reconciliations, Financial Statements, Spring Discount: $40 for an hour. Journal Entry, Reports for accountants for (Reg. $80 an hour) REALTORS Robert T. Badesch CHICAGO’S TOP GAY REALTORS INSTANT FREE year-end and Much More! www.rockstarbooks. Book a session with Dwight or Tony Tina Abramovitch webs.com only at ACCESS TO CHICAGO’S TOP GAY REALTORS. FREE Buyers Representation - FREE Sellers Market Cory Blalock•Nicole McKinnon BOOKS Analysis - FREE Relocation Kit any City, USA! William McSurley•Karen VanderMeer DECK CLEANING On-line: WWW.GAYREALESTATE.COM or Toll bestgaybooks4you.com CEDAR PRO, deck cleaning, staining, and res- Free 1-888-420-MOVE (6683). No Cost or LGBTQ Family Law • Divorce • Mediation toration. Protect your deck. Free estimates. Go to the above website Obligation (2/28/17-52) Adoption • Paternity • Division of Property 847-414-3422. (5/4/16-4) for complete descriptions. • Custody • Children’s rights FOR RENT - TWO BEDROOM HELP WANTED APARTMENT Child support and enforcement Gay Murder Mysteries CATERING & CAFE ASSOCIATES NEEDED. EDGEWATER COMMUTER ADVANTAGE Walk to • Maintenance • Domestic violence Passion Servers, bartenders, captains, kitchen prep beach, red line, bus and shops. Awesome living Post divorce enforcement and modification & dishwashers. Past experience highly Sexy Guys room. Big kitchen with pantry. Large bed room. Grandparents and extended family rights recomended. Must obtain BASSET and Illinois $1500 with heat. Plus laundry, video intercom Pre-nuptial and post nuptial agreements All eBooks $0.99-$2.99 Food Handler Certification.Send resume and patio. Call 773-275-3216. (4/27/16-2) & photo to [email protected] by (4/27/16-1) REAL ESTATE - FOR SALE - OUT ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRITS WANTED. Achieve G. TOBY KING OF TOWN Personal & Financial FREEDOM. Help us NORTHWEST INDIANA PRIVATE LAKE HOMES. help you help others. It’s what we do. Earn Hidden hideaways located about an hour from CLEANING SERVICES $10,000/month while you learn to invest VERY downtown in Northwest Indiana. Charming CHESTNUT CLEANING SERVICES: We’re a house PROFITABLY in Real Estate. For a brief online home that could be run as a bed and break- cleaning service for homes, small businesses overview, call or text your name to 708-292- fast over looking Pine Lake in LaPorte Indiana. and small buildings. We also have fabulous 8778. (5/25/16-4) There is also a private ranch style home near organizational skills (a separate function at Tee Lake. Swimming, fishing, or canoeing in a a separate cost that utilizes your assistance) HOME IMPROVEMENT & private lake community of homes. Call or text for what hasn’t been cleaned in many months PAINTING Tommy Sunn of 1st Choice Realty Group at or years due to long-term illness, depression, MAKE YOUR HOME LOOK FABULOUS! We do 219-575-0881 for more information on these physical/mental challenges, for the elderly, Bathroom Remodeling, Carpentry, Drywall homes or any other in Northwest Indiana. Take if you have downsized and more. Depressed Repairs, Painting and more. “A+” with BBB. the virtual tours at www.tommysunn.com Family Owned & Operated Since 1965 about going home to chaos? We can organize Licensed-Bonded-Insured, One year Warranty. (5/4/16-2) your chaos, straighten out your chaos, help Free Estimates! Andy OnCall 847-328-3100 24-Hour Emergency Service you make sense of your chaos and finally clean www.andyoncallchicago.com (12/16/16-56) VACATION RENTAL We Service ALL Makes & Models what is no longer chaos. Can we help you? DOOR COUNTY SPRINGTIME RETREAT Private, Bonded and insured. Chestnut Cleaning Ser- MASSAGE spacious, central to entire peninsula on 40 • Residential • Service vice: 312-332-5575. www.ChestnutClean- MASSAGE FIRST-CLASS ASIAN MALE MASSEUR. acres of meadow and blossoming wild apple • Commercial • Installation ing.com (11/23/16-52) London-trained and qualified. Over 25 years of orchard, natural views in every direction. worldwide experience and 100% attuned to Between Sister Bay and Egg Harbor, 5 min • Industrial • Sales your needs. Satisfaction assured. Please call from sunset over water. 3 bed/2 bath, fully Dennis at 773-248-9407 (7/6/16-16) equipped for 6. New listing! Please contact Find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/AAService 847-729-7889 agent for info: [email protected] www.AAServiceCo.com (5/11/16-2) 550 Anthony Trail, Northbrook, IL

JONAS from page 20 little hard for me to wrap my head around. Just that balance of both being able to create and doing what you have to do on the business front [can be difficult]. If there could be more of just the creative side, I’d be happy. Mulryan WCT: My last question actually involves your shows King- dom and Scream Queens, which are both LGBT roles. What attracted you to those roles? Was it the chance to stretch your acting muscles or was it the chance, in the case of Scream Queens, to work with Ryan Murphy? NJ: I think the roles were both great characters, you know? & York That was the focus for me. However, it’s also the chance to work with great creative Attorneys At Law people, like Ryan or the team on Kingdom, which is amazing. I think it’s just the chance to work with great people. You grow from every experience, no doubt. 4001 N. Wolcott See NickJonas.com. To pre-order the album, visit http:// smarturl.it/LastYearComplicated. Chicago, IL 60613 (773) 248-8887 WINDY CITY TIMES May 4, 2016 29 CONNEXIONS MAKE IT YOUR BUSINESS

HeRe TO gIVe YOU fInanCIaL PeaCe Of MInD! Es is Results. Es Experience. CaLL fOR YOUR fRee is COnSULTaTIOn TODaY! Es is Your Real Estate Guru. Jeff Lange, J.D., CPa Esmeralda (Es) Román [email protected] Cell/Text: 630.747.7338 | [email protected] 312-953-1099 Es SERVING THE LGBT COMMUNITY WITH INTEGRITY accounting and Tax Services full-Service, Year-Round

Ray J. Koenig III and Clark Hill PLC

• Divorce • Child Custody • Probate • Adoption • Trusts • Cohabitation Agreements • Guardianship • Domestic Violence • Estate Planning • Spousal and • Elder Law Kimberly J. Child Support Janice L. Boback Anderson Clark Hill is an entrepreneurial, full service law firm that provides serving: Artists business legal services, government & public affairs, and personal legal services to our clients throughout the country. With offices Professionals in Arizona, Delaware, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Proudly serving same-sex couples! Washington, D.C. and West Virginia, Clark Hill has more than 300 Business owners attorneys and professionals. 115 S. LaSalle St., 26th Floor 312.985.5938 [email protected] 312-715-0870 www.illinoislawforyou.com clarkhill.com www.abd-cpas.com • (847) 257-7330

LAURENCE A. JACOBS, M.D. TM Building Your LGBT Family Freshen Up SERVING OUR See Dr. Jacobs for all your infertility needs, including: You can be who you want to be! COMMUNITY • complete evaluations FOR OVER 15 YEARS • inseminations Services Available: Cosmetic Dentistry Botox • ivF • RecipRocal ivF • suRRogacy CHAD DUDA Convenient Lakeview Location Broker Associate For a consultation, call Home Visits Available 847-549-3746 Sat & Sun appointments available. Host a Botox Party (3 people minimum), 773.398.4097 and Hostess gets a special deal! [email protected] CHADDUDA.COM RainbowReproduction.com Call for a consultation or for more info: The first and best website devoted to 872-999-0110 “I’m excited to get you Providing All Fertility Options for Dr. Rudziewicz, licensed dentist and Botox specialist, Building Your LGBT Family will return all inquiries within twelve hours. into your new home!” i l o

i 25% OFF

l Custom Framing o

CUSTOM FRAMING Framing Chicago’s art since 1991. 1478 W. Berwyn - 773.784.3962 1435 W. Rosemont Ave, #1W , Chicago, IL, 60660 30 May 4, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES

including children of young parents. fare from Cantina 1910, and dancing feelings too at the PFLAG “Kisses From COMMUNITY All identities are welcome. 4:30pm - in support of the Legal Council’s work Mom” event on Mother’s Day 3:00pm 7:30pm St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, for those most vulnerable. Dr. Nabeela - 9:00pm Sidetrack 3349 N Halsted 5700 Midway Park, Chicago (Austin) Rasheed will host us at her turn-of- St Chicago http://www.pflagillinois.org CALENDAR 773-378-8111 the-century, HGTV-featured residence Tickets: http://www.pflagillinois.org Celebrando Nuestras Raices (Celebrating in the West Loop. 6:00pm - 12:00pm Our Roots), National Museum of Mexi- Contact organizer for location Tickets: Monday, May 9 Wed., May 4 can Art’s upcoming gala Co-chaired by http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2nd-an- Evan Wolfson, founder and president of Duriel E. Harris’ ‘Thingification’ at Diana Palomar, VP of community affairs nual-may-ball-tickets-21280514592 Freedom to Marry Speaking at North- MPAACT Thingification, a one-woman for ABC7 Chicago, and Carlos Carde- Affinity Trailblazers Dancing in Style A eastern Illinois University’s commence- show by Duriel E. Harris, of poetry, per- nas, SVP & Managing Director for Win- night of music, dancing and fun. 7:00pm ment ceremony 4:00pm UIC Pavilion formance, music and dance that invigo- trust, spotlights Mexican heritage, art - 1:00am Carribean Cove Restaurant, 525 S. Racine Ave. Chicago; http:// rates with the power of word and sound. and culture with food, drinks and live 8020 S. King Drive, Chicago https:// www.neiu.edu/about/news/evan-wolf- Set in contemporary Chicago, the play entertainment. Tickets $500/person, www.facebook.com/pages/Caribbean- son-be-commencement-speaker transports the audience through time $5,000/table 6:00pm - 11:00pm The Cove-Restaurant/115805741831664 and space, enacting collective struggles Geraghty, 2520 S. Hoyne, Chicago Tick- Evita Andrew Lloyd Webber’s passion- Tuesday, May 10 against “thingification”-the annihilat- ets: https://co.clickandpledge.com/ad- ate and powerful rock opera about the On The Table 2016: Host a Conversa- ing, objectifying force at the core of all vanced/default.aspx?wid=115178 complex and haunting story of Argen- tion Join thousands of Chicagoland oppressions. $16, showtime 7:30 p.m. The Secrtearies: About Face Theatre tina’s controversial first lady Eva Peron. residents on Tuesday, May 10, to talk See mpaact.org/shows.html . 7:30pm presents the Chicago premiere Equal Through June 5 8:00pm The Marriott about how we can help unite the place Greenhouse Theater Center 2257 N. Lin- HALL OF FAME parts humor, horror and satire, THE SEC- Theatre 10 Marriott Dr Lincolnshire, IL we call home. Time: TBA Locations coln Ave. Chicago http://mpaact.org/ Friday, May 6 RETARIES is Twin Peaks meets Stepford 60069 847-634-0200 Tickets: http:// of your choice https://onthetable.com/ shows.html Tickets: https://red.ven- Wives .By The Five Lesbian Brothers. Di- www.marriotttheatre.com/ register-to-host/ dini.com/ticket-software.html?t=tix&e A street-naming ceremony in rected by Bonnie Metzgar Through June Sappho’s Salon Co-curated by Eileen Tull =630d7c6fa09cd63124513c5df7551364 honor of Joel Hall will take 12. 7:30pm Theater Wit 1229 W Bel- Sunday, May 8 and Liz Baudler. A monthly performance place on the North Side. mont Ave. Chicago 773-975-8150 Tick- The Family of Women Book Group This salon, featuring expressions of queer- ets: http://www.aboutfacetheatre.org group reads fiction and non-fiction ex- ness, gender, and feminism. Doors open Thursday, May 5 Photo by Gretchen ploring women’s familial relationships. 7:00 pm. 7:30pm Women & Chil- Dreamgirls Performances added in Chi- Rachel Hammond The group meets the first Sunday of dren First Bookstore 5233 N Clark St cago through May 22. 1:30pm Stage Saturday, May 7 each month at 2 p.m. 2:00pm Women Chicago https://www.facebook.com/ 773 1225 W Belmont Chicago https:// Depression & Bipolar Support Alliance & Children First Bookstore 5233 N. Clark sapphossalon2/?fref=tsundefined www.facebook.com/PorchlightMusicTh Friday, May 6 (LGBTQ) Support meeting to talk about illnesses, symptoms, treatment, doc- St. http://www.womenandchildrenfirst. eatre/?fref=ts Tickets: http://porch- “Honorary Joel Hall Way” Street Nam- tors, and personal issues such as dating, com/familyofwomen Wed., May 11 lightmusictheatre.org/dreamgirls/ ing Ceremony 1:30 to 1:45 pm- Pre- relationships and work. Every Saturday. Dick O’Day hosts Mother’s Day with Spring Wine Tasting More than 100 American Veterans for Equal Rights Ceremony gathering at JHDC Studio. 11:00am - 12:30pm Center on Halsted Mamma Mia Fabu-lush, fun pre-show wines from around the world. Benefits (AVER) LGBT military veterans meet on 2:00 pm - Street-Side Unveiling Cer- 3656 N Halsted St., http://dbsa-glbt- (70s costume contest), prizes, and in- Equality Illinois’ work in Springfeild. the second floor first Thursday of each emony (at the southeast corner of Clark chicago.com teractive screening guide for the sing- VIP ticket includes $10 off voucher for month. 7:00pm Center on Halsted & Elmdale/Peterson). 2:15 pm to 5:00 Or Chadash Shabbat Morning Service & a-long. And mimosas available in the purchased wines and an extra hour of 3656 N Halsted Chicago 773-472-6469 pm - Reception at JHDC Studio with Study Synagogue dedicated to meeting Music Box Lounge. Advance tickets on tasting. 5:30pm - 8:30pm Sidetrack http://www.averchicago.org Light Refreshments. RSVP requested the needs of the LGBT community in sale. 2:00pm Music Box Theatre, 3733 3349 N Halsted St Chicago Tickets: New Town Writers Workshop Participants by April 29. 1:30pm - 5:00pm Joel the Chicago area meets first Saturday of N. Southport Ave.; Tickets: http:// https://equalityfederation.salsalabs. are asked to bring copies of their work Hall Dancers & Center, 5965 N. Clark each month. 10:00am Emanuel Con- www.musicboxtheatre.com/events/ com/o/35010/p/salsa/event/common/ to share with other writers and listen- Street, Chicago http://salsa4.salsalabs. gregation, 5959 N. Sheridan Rd., Chi- mother8217s-day-with-mamma-mia- public/?event_KEY=3669 ers. 7:00pm - 9:00pm Gerber Hart com/o/51536/p/salsa/event/common/ cago http://www.orchadash.org 2016-may-8-sun-0200pm Library and Archives 6500 N Clark St public/?event_KEY=6121 Legal Council for Health Justice’s 2nd PFLAG “Kisses From Mom” event PFLAG Chicago http://www.gerberhart.org Harbor 57: Free Food and Support for Annual May Ball Evening of celebra- Northern Illinois ready with kisses ... Homeless Youth Youth ages 13-25, tion, champagne, cocktails, delectable and hugs, back slapping, and good

NUNN ON ONE: TELEVISION be a member you have to submit an application. You have to be a parent of a transgender person or gender fluid person. They monitor Reality show features everything and provide help with a doctor, if needed. The mom from the show I Am Jazz is a mem- football, gender fluidity ber of this online group. It is a tight-knit community where everyone helps and educates ing my story that it might change one family’s by Jerry Nunn each other. mind about their child. WCT: Have you heard negative feedback? We made sure that we ran this by her and Esquire Network’s Friday Night Tykes: Steel SM: I read comments on Facebook where explained how big this could be. There might Country is bringing attention to a gender-fluid there are quite a few ignorant people. People be kids that don’t accept it or poke fun but 8-year-old this season. One of the cast mem- will say what I am doing is child abuse. It is she doesn’t care because people already know bers prefers to be called Abby Scott some days ridiculous. If there is one person that I help her as Adam or Abby. All the kids she wrestles and Adam Scott on others while being raised in then I have done my job. That is all I want with call her Adam. Kids are more accepting Monaca, Pennsylvania. The Esquire reality show to do, educate and help people. I didn’t know than adults. centers around six football teams in the Beaver what gender fluid was for seven years but may- WCT: Did you consider just calling your County Youth Football League, in which Scott be I can help even one family. child “A?” plays. Someone said I am letting her make adult SM: No, because there are days when she Windy City Times was given a rare interview decisions but that is not true. I am letting an wakes up I can tell she is Abby and then days with Sara Markustic, Scott’s mother, concerning 8-year-old decide who they want to be and be- where she is Adam. She will wear her girl this sensitive topic involving her family. come comfortable in their own skin. There were clothes on the Abby day. We went through and Windy City Times: How did the show hap- times I couldn’t get her in the bathtub because got rid of most of them, but she kept a few pen for you, in the first place? she didn’t want to see herself naked. Cutting select things, the day after that she wore her Abby/Adam Scott. Sara Markustic: The second week of practice, her hair and things like that have helped her brother’s pants. Adam seems to be a lot nicer Screen shot Abby came to me and told me to talk to the get in the bathtub herself. head coach of her team. Abby wanted to be to me than Abby! WCT: Do you think things are changing? called Adam. I talked to the coach and he said, WCT: This must be a big learning experi- filming wrapped? For example, gender-neutral bathrooms are “Not a problem. Forgive me if it takes a few ence for you. SM: I continue to educate myself and others. becoming more common these days. SM: It is. There was one day where she want- I learned a lot about my friends and family in days to get used to it.” He then talked to the SM: Her school offered her a private bath- ed to put on makeup with her sister then the terms of who is there to support me and who other kids about it. Someone from Friday Night room, which I thought was really cool. Some next she wanted to go play with trucks. I nev- is not. It is nice because I have had a lot of Tykes heard about it and wanted to talk about people have trouble with their school districts er wanted her to feel like there is something support from friends. being on the show. I wanted to make sure ev- but not here. Her school reached out to me be- wrong with her and take her to a therapist. I WCT: There are not a lot of television erything was portrayed positively. cause they know about the show and had a feel like there is a lot of stigma for that. I just shows covering this topic is there? A lot of people probably don’t understand safe, neutral bathroom for her. let her be herself and accept her for who she is. SM: It has been talked about on Dr. Phil be- that you aren’t paid to be on the show. Every- Abby is not worried about it yet. I am go- She is 8 years old right now. This is the easy fore. She is always interested in those shows. thing we do is not for money. I want to reach ing along for the ride to watch her grow into time. The tough time comes when puberty Until a year ago we never talked about the people and let them know about this other herself. community. I didn’t even know about the term starts. community and being gender-fluid. We told her Visit tv.esquire.com for more information gender fluid until a year ago. WCT: Have you talked to any doctors? there are safe ways to reach out to other kids on Friday Night Tykes: Steel Country, airing I thought she might be transgender. I didn’t SM: Yes. I have talked to her doctor and we like her. I am a member of a community on- Tuesday nights at 8 p.m. know there is a community that doesn’t iden- have discussed maybe one day doing a blocker. line where parents and kids discuss this. It is tify with being either gender. I hope by shar- WCT: How have things changed since the called Parents of Transgender Children, and to

@windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com Out at the Office 2016 v5 PRINT.pdf 1 4/27/2016 6:50:20 PM

WINDY CITY TIMES May 4, 2016 31 Kick Off Prie Monh in Chicgo OF THE

Y OFFICE

CMY

Pics by Ed Negron/WCT Pics by Ed JUNE 1, 2016 5:0 P.M. TO 8 P.M. The GODFREY Rooftop 127 W. Huron at LaSalle, Chicago Enjo sponsore cockils, csh br n ligh re.

OUT OF THE OFFICE ws conceive 15 ers go b comm ni s ppor er BENEFITTING n Chicgo p blicis , Anrew Hes, s w o kick off Prie Mon h n a project of AIDS Foundation of Chicago benefi locl LGBT chri ies. To e Don’t MISS more hn $50,000 hs been rise the PARTY! b his pr benefi ing mn Because last year’s event LGBT nonprofi orgniz ions sold out, you can now order advance tickets onlne. The Gofre n I|O hve been n MEDIA SPONSORS excep ionl pr ner for his even , Visit www.lgbtcc.com and look for OUT of Office or go directly to where in 2015, he pr enjoe over lgbtcc.com/pride-kick-off-june-1/ 600 pr goers! Be s re o ell o r friens o join o for wh ’s cer in o be no her gre evening of LIBATION SPONSORS connec ions, comm ni n cock ils. 32 May 4, 2016 WINDY CITY TIMES

Say hello to savings

Get to where you need to go for way less when you share your uberX trip with another rider. Request POOL and we'll connect you with someone heading in the same direction. Only a few minutes will be added to your trip and you’ll both save big.

Get your rst ride free today. Sign up with the code WINDYCITYTIMES at uber.com/app.

*First-time riders only. Up to $20. Expires 12/31/16.