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PAGE 20 PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM WINDY CITY THE VOICE OF CHICAGO’S GAY, LESBIAN, BI AND TRANS COMMUNITY SINCE 1985 DEC. 15, 2010 TIMES VOL 26, NO. 11 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com Rahm Emanuel: In his own words BY ANDREW DAVIS building in which the interview was conducted. Windy City Times: I remember hearing you For Rahm Emanuel, this is the best and worst Rahm talk about how if Mayor [Richard] Daley ever of times. Emanuel. stepped down, you’d like to succeed him. Thanks to a variety of factors—not the least of Photo What is it about the position that you find so OPRAH LOVES GAY- which is name recognition, thanks to his years from attractive? in the Clinton and Obama administrations— Caroline Rahm Emanuel: A couple things. One thing OWNED TEA COMPANY Emanuel is seen as the prohibitive favorite in Weisser is that it’s a great city. It’s been my home; I PAGE 21 the 2011 Chicago mayoral race, with various was born here. My grandfather came to the city polls placing him squarely in the lead. in 1917; he immigrated here from Russia and However, as practically everyone knows, Romania. My uncle’s a police officer and my fa- Emanuel is also in the political fight of his life ther immigrated in 1959 to Chicago, to practice right now, as well over a dozen people have medicine, with my mother. My entire family has challenged his residency. If the electoral board been here. votes against him, he will be out of the race. nated under Clinton. The mayor can get things done, put in place a In addition, the LGBT community is split about On Dec. 10, Emanuel sat in the Center on Hal- set of policies. Sometimes I feel like, when I was Emanuel, with some people linking him to the sted for an exclusive interview with Windy City “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy that origi- Times. He talked about the fight regarding his Turn to page 9 residency, DADT and his connection to the very U.S. Senate rejects DADT repeal Out & BY Lisa KEEN MEREDITH KEEN NEWS SERVICE BAXTER interview The Senate has rejected an attempt to bring PAGES 19 about the defense-authorization bill to the floor, ef- fectively killing the prospects for repealing Openly gay actor Alan Cumming “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) this year, and talked with WCT movie critic nightspots likely for years to come. The vote was 57 to 40. Richard Knight, Jr., at the Chicago tDecember 8, 2010 It could not be determined immediately International Film Festival, where 2010 which three senators did not vote. Most mod- Gift Guide the ‘Good Wife’ actor received an erate Republicans, including Massachusetts’ Storied glasses from Brown Elephant. OUTrageous award. Read the talk page 10 Scott Brown, Illinois’ Mark Kirk and Maine’s Pubert’s guide on page 18. Photo by Bob Dowey to better health. 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Among other things, and lesbian citizens and around the institution the attorneys in the case. they seemed annoyed that the deputy county of marriage,” Olson told the judges. “That is a In an ornate courtroom on the third floor of clerk rather than the actual clerk is pursuing the violation of the equal-protection clause and it’s —Martina San Francisco’s historic James R. Browning U.S. move. a violation of the due-process clause.” Navratilova Courthouse, amid murals, stained glass and stat- As to whether the people who put Prop 8 on Attorney Charles Cooper for the Prop 8 pro- hospitalized ues dating to 1905, the attorneys replayed some the ballot should be allowed to step into the ponents told the judges that his case in de- of their main arguments and the judges offered shoes of the state government and defend a fense of Prop 8 centers on “procreation.” —Dustin Lance hints of where the case might go. piece of the state constitution that the state In Cooper’s view, it is rational for the state to Black (left), Log The gay side’s lawyers, who include famed itself refuses to defend, the judges hinted that limit marriage to men and women because the Cabins attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies, sought they might bounce that question off of the Cal- reason marriage exists in the first place is be- upset at HRC to defend U.S.