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KINSEY SICKS’ IRWIN KELLER PAGE 22 WINDY CITY THE VOICE OF CHICAGO’S GAY, LESBIAN, BI AND TRANS COMMUNITY SINCE 1985 OCT. 17, 2012 VOL 28, NO. 2 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.comTIMES ‘Kinky’ Harvey BIOGRAPHER TALKS STREISAND page 25 gloria ALLRED talks WITH WCT page 10 page 8 Actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein discusses Kinky Boots, in town before A new legacy going to Broadway. Press photo PRESERVING THE page 20 The long-awaited Legacy Walk, the outdoor museum of LGBT history, was offi- prairie district cially dedicated this past week along Halsted St. Read the details and see photo pagE 12 coverage of the dedication ceremony. Photo by Hal Baim 2 Oct. 17, 2012 WINDY CITY TIMES Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center offers advanced diagnostics to detect cancers in their earliest, most curable stages. 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Actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein discusses Kinky Boots, in town before going to Broadway. Press photo page 8 PRESERVING THE page 20 The long-awaited Legacy Walk, the outdoor museum of LGBT history, was offi- PRAIRIE DISTRICT cially dedicated this past week along Halsted St. Read the details and see photo PAGE 12 coverage of the dedication ceremony. Photo by Hal Baim Then click on any ad and be taken directly to the advertiser’s Web site! “It’s great to be known for your shoes, but it’s better online exclusives at to be known for your sole.” www.WindyCityMediaGroup D , E , H TIME WARP .com Relive the ‘80s with pics of Adam Ant, Bananarama and Cyndi Lauper (left). Also see pics from shows with Norah Jones and Alanis Morissette. 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Photo by Andrew Davis night nightspots spots #1078 • October 10, 2012 Graduate Open House MUSIC MASTERS: October 27 THE RESIDENT DJs VICTOR 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. SALVO OF BERLIN Page 15 Show 280 S. Columbus Dr. MUSIKMeet MASTERS the resident DJs of Berlin. OF THE #490 Register online at LEGACY Hornisha’s big film debut. page 30 TPAN’s 25th Find Nightspots onPLUS Hour. page 12 saic.edu/grevents WALK www.WindyCityQueercast.com saic.edu | 312.629.6100 | [email protected] 4 Oct. 17, 2012 WINDY CITY TIMES with seven percent undecided. But by November ONLINE AT of 2011, it was 48 percent for and 43 percent against, with 9 percent undecided. WINDYCITYMEDIAGROUP.COM Five reasons to The latest Star-Tribune survey of 800 likely NATIONAL NEWS voters, taken September 17-19, showed a “sta- tistical dead heat.” Forty-nine percent would vote “Yes” for the constitutional ban on same- stay awake Nov. 6 sex marriage, 47 percent would vote “No” and 4 percent said they were undecided. The margin of error was plus or minus 3.5 percent. Polls show ballot battles will be tight The Star-Tribune said the strongest support for the ban lies in the suburbs, a reality that seems —Bloomberg (left) BY LIsa KEEN to echo the tribulation of Prop 8. gives $250K for KEEN NEWS SERVICE An exhaustive analysis of pre-election polls marriage equality and voting on California’s same-sex marriage Anti-gay activists opposing marriage equality for ban found that the votes of more than half-a- —Phelps: Gay people same-sex couples are counting in fives. They’re million parents with kids living at home were should be put distributing videotapes to pastors, laying out a prepared to vote against Proposition 8, sending to death five-step plan-of-action for each church. They’re it to defeat. Then, in the last weeks of the 2008 distributing another video offering five reasons campaign, proponents of the ban saturated the —Nordstrom backs voters should defeat marriage equality ballot airwaves with advertisements that warned par- same-sex marriage measures at the polls. And they’ve got their ents that the legalization of same-sex marriage eyes on five votes Nov. 6: four statewide ballot would require public schools to teach children measures and one Iowa Supreme Court justice that same-sex marriage is a viable option for up for a retention vote. Here’s how things are them. The No on 8 campaign failed to respond for the veracity of certain claims in a fast-mov- stacking up: directly and quickly to that claim, said the ing television advertisement. study’s author David Fleischer, and the parents’ Maine votes were converted to “Yes.” Prop 8 passed 52 Iowa justice Tony Perkins of the national Family Research percent to 48 percent—or barely 600,000 votes Iowa Supreme Court Justice David Wiggins was Council has distributed a video aimed specifi- in an election in which 13.7 million votes were one of seven justices who voted unanimously cally at pastors, giving them a five-point action cast. that the state constitution guarantees same-sex plan to implement in their church to defeat But Minnesota’s constitution has a quirk. It couples equal protection under the law. Three of Question 1. The five steps are: Recruit a leader, requires that amendments must be passed by a those justices were up for their retention votes hold a voter registration event by Oct. 14, de- number of votes that totals a majority of all bal- in 2010 and were ousted. Now, Wiggins is due liver a “Vote No on 1 Sunday” sermon, collect lots cast. That means that anyone who votes for a retention vote and press reports in Iowa say an offering for ProtectMarriageMaine.com, and president and some of the other offices on the it’s a fierce fight once again—even three years push to get congregants to the polls to vote No ballot but does not vote on Proposed Amend- beyond the landmark decision. on Nov. 6. ment 1 will be counted as a “No” vote on Pro- The usual suspects are back to try and defeat There are 19 political action committees in posed Amendment 1. So, if 100 people go to the the justices: Bob Vander Plaats, the National Maine listed as providing funds on the state’s polls, it would need 51 “Yes” votes to pass, even Organization for Marriage, and even failed Re- same-sex marriage initiative, Question 1—12 in if only 60 people voted on the marriage measure publican presidential candidate Rick Santorum. support of its passage, seven opposed. To look and a majority of 60 would total only 31. Santorum rode a “NO Wiggins” bus around the at their totals, one might expect passage to be Gov. Martin O’Malley’s state of Maryland is the state late last month, and making stops to tell a slam dunk: $4.7 million in support of same-sex site of a heated battle for marriage equality. Washington voters a vote against Wiggins is “vitally impor- marriage, $697,000 against. Photo by Patsy Lynch In Washington state, the Preserve Marriage tant.” The latest poll by the Portland Press, conduct- Washington coalition seeks to overturn the leg- “Seven individuals decided to change the en- ed Sept.