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The Truth About Consequences VOL 31, NO. 3 OCT. 14, 2015 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com The new plaque honoring Leonard Bernstein is unveiled. Photo by Melissa Wasserman LIVING LEGACY Legacy Walk unveils five new bronze memorial plaques PAGE 9 fulfilling for a while. He taught inmates and farmers to read and write, and he worked with indigenous groups in remote HIV, day to day: locations for the Mexican government until the mid-’90s, when the political crisis forced him out of the country. He got to California in his 30s with a tourist visa. He worked The truth about at a family restaurant for a while, but at first he missed his country and his job. He knew he had to study and get credits to get a permit to find a better job, which he did eventually, as a teacher assistant, in 2006. He worked in kindergardens, consequences elementary and junior high schools, teaching everything from math and U.S. history to dance. 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He helped them, he fell in love, he danced Times that “people not only become addicted to the drugs, Photo by Brian Kinyon 13 at the best Folk Ballet of Mexico, he got his BA in sociology in the University of Coahuila, and his professional life was quite Turn to page 10 TRANSGENDER FORWARD AISHA MOODIE-MILLS CHICAGO INT’L FILM FEST A history of transgender achievements. Victory Fund CEO talks equality. A look at some of the LGBT offerings. PR photo of Caitlyn Jenner Photo by Matt Simonette Still from I Am Michael with James Franco and Zachary 6 8 Quinto 17 2 Oct. 14, 2015 WINDY CITY TIMES WE FOCUS ON HIV TO HELP YOU FOCUS ON AskTODAY your doctor if a medicine made by Gilead is right for you. onepillchoices.com © 2015 Gilead Sciences, Inc. All rights reserved. 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If the histories writ- mians.” I was fine with that, if perhaps ten about that 1969 riot agree on one into the a little disappointed, but midway though thing, it’s that nobody knows for sure the show Galileo, the male lead, made who threw the first brick, even if we know an unintentional reference to gay sex, a who threw most of the rest. future mild innuendo. Pop, a crusty hippie char- Luckily I had plenty of help telling acter, then mugged for the audience like the story from the community, people his rear end hurt, and the crowd roared. like photographer Dan Nicoletta, who Music Saturday, November 7, 7–10 pm Roared! After the laughter died down, as a young man worked in Harvey Milk’s Food & DrINK Pop said something like, “Whatever floats Castro Camera and whose iconic photos Swedish American Museum your boat, man.” you have likely seen many times, and Su- Live DJ Really? You appropriate the songs of zanne Manford Swan, surviving daughter Silent Auction 5211 N. 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