THE VOICE OF CHICAGO’S GAY, LESBIAN, BI AND TRANS COMMUNITY SINCE 1985 Mar. 3, 2010 • vol 25 no 22 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com Silent protest has everyone talking BY SARAH TOCE Adam Bouska and Jeff Parshley are at the helm of something pretty spectacular in the LGBT community. Their thought-provoking silent pro- POW-WOW page 7 test against hate and Proposition 8 helped to create the widely-popular NO H8 Campaign that has transcended race, color, religion, sexuality and party lines (Cindy McCain just posed). I recently joined “the boys” in their studio in Los Angeles to have my photograph taken and chat with Adam and Jeff about Proposition 8, the upcoming pool party at The Dinah in Palm Springs and how the whirlwind that is the NO H8 Campaign all began. Oh, and Rosie O’Donnell—if you’re listening, they want you to call them. Windy City Times: By now, I’m pretty con- fident that almost everyone has seen or at least heard of the NO H8 Campaign. For the few people who are unfamiliar with the NO H8 Campaign, can you describe what it is about and how it started? Liz Taylor Adam Bouska: The NO H8 Campaign is a si- page 15 lent photo protest we started in our living room Book in our apartment after the passage of Proposi- tion 8 in California. It was never intended to be this big campaign. We just wanted to speak out to our social networks (our own friends and Turn to page 6 Adam Bouska (above) co-founded the “NO H8” campaign. Photo courtesy of Bouska Ladies and gentlemen: Joan Rivers BY JERRY NUNN JR: I still do, all the way through college. I have been on Broadway three times and been For over four decades Joan Rivers has kept audi- nominated for a Tony. It goes back and forth and ences rolling in the aisles at her performances. now I do both, which is so great. I just did a NEW! This comedic icon juggles more plates than a play in London. Also, Nip/Tuck—all that stuff. page 17 circus act with her stand up act, writing books WCT: I read that you once played a character Dining and selling jewelry. With an upcoming show in in a show about a lesbian who had a crush on Illinois, Windy City Times asked her, “Can we Barbara Streisand. talk?” JR: Yes, that was the first show that I did Off Gays (like this one) Got Talent tMarch 3, 2010 at Spin. Broadway. It was the first thing that we both page 12 Windy City Times: Hi, Joan. What an honor nightspots it is to talk to a legend. Did you always have did. a desire to be a comedienne? WCT: And you have been friends ever since. Joan Rivers: I never wanted to be a comedi- JR: Not friends, good acquaintances. We don’t enne. I wanted to be an actress. But if you make call each other every night to say, “What a day I an agent’s secretary laugh then she will like you. have had!” [both laugh] But we are very happy I was always making people laugh. Someone said to see each other when we see each other. pick it up Strip It you can make six dollars a night making people WCT: Who have you wanted to arrest with Chicago Takes O hits the ground Sat., March 6. pages 2, 19, 30 take it home Mad about American Idol’s laugh in comedy clubs, so it is what started me the Fashion Police on the E! Channel? Mardi Gras at Blake Lewis. Sidetrack. page 10 page 16 JR: Oh, there is so many! You just say, “Who in doing that. Joan Rivers. Photo by Charles William Bush WCT: You did some acting, though. 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Impeccable and gorgeous — A landmark event!” —Time Out Chicago NEWS Officers testify re DADT 4 Maryland’s marriage battle 4 “Marvelous! Stylized and raw, mythic and immediate — ‘NO H8’ co-creators 6 Incredibly ambitious and accomplished!” —Chicago Reader 46th Ward race taking shape 6 POW-WOW’s slate of events 7 HUD’s town hall 7 “A music-infused, hilarious, tragic, complex Chicago Takes Off’s Kiech 8 multi-generational telling of the African-American experience!” —New City Wis. LGBT college confab 8 Hate-crime charges in attack 9 Quotelines 9 “Surely the greatest piece of writing by an American playwright Views by Monroe; letters 10 under 30 in a generation of more.” —Chicago Tribune ENTERTAINMENT Gary Griffin on Sondheim 11 Theater reviews 12 The Department of Housing and Urban Guitarist Sharon Isbin 13 Development held a groundbreaking Knight’s queer Oscar roundup 14 town-hall meeting. Read page 7. DVD: Baby Formula 14 Photo of Helena Bushong by Mark Corece Mann on Elizabeth Taylor 15 Tim Miller’s view 16 Joan Rivers talks 16 NEW: Dining columns 17 Gays Got Talent pics 17 Billy Masters 21 OUTLINES Real estate; classifieds 18 Calendar Q 20 Sports: Hockey; Weir 22 Sports: Ruck ‘n Maul pics 22 Tim Miller has written a first-person perspective on his newest project, Lay of the Land. Read more on page 16. Photos on left side of cover (from top): Photo of C.C. Carter courtesy of Carter; photo of the cover of How to be a Photo courtesy of Tim Miller Movie Star; photo of Greg Perrine courtesy of Perrine J`c\ekgifk\jk_Xj \m\ipfe\kXcb`e^ GFN$NFN ;FNECF8;K?@J >fkfnnn%N`e[p:`kpD\[`X>iflg%Zfdkf[fnecfX[Zfdgc\k\`jjl\jf] C`qKXpcfi 9ffb CX[`\jXe[^\ekc\d\e1AfXeI`m\ij N`e[p:`kpK`d\jXe[E`^_kjgfkj% E<N ;`e`e^ K_\eZc`ZbfeXepX[Xe[Y\kXb\e[`i\Zkcpkfk_\X[m\ik`j\iËjN\Yj`k\ the brother/ www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com Gays (like this one) nightspots Got Talent tMarch 3, 2010 at Spin. page 12 ONLINE INDEX sister plays n nightspots KAT’S ENTERTAINMENT written by Tarell Alvin McCraney This week’s Pop directed by ensemble member Tina Landau CHICAGO Making Sense features TAKES OFF! entertainers such as Le A breakthrough theatrical event: three interconnected plays in Strip It two programs by a brilliant new American voice. Grand in scope, Chicago Takes O hits the ground Sat., March 6. pages 2, 19, 30 Kat (right) and Sade. Mad about American Idol’s Mardi Gras at Blake Lewis. Sidetrack. page 10 page 16 yet intimate and heartfelt, Tarell McCraney’s plays are daring, funny and genuine. ACTRESS Photo by Jon Abeyta CHRISTINE EBERSOLE Now Playing! In the Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre SHOW #355 IT’S A DIFFA WORLD See photos from DIFFA’s gala that awarded grants to HIV/AIDS agencies. steppenwolf www.WindyCityQueercast.com Photo courtesy of Karen Hyland buy online at steppenwolf.org or call 312-335-1650. Corporate Foundation Hotel Partner ACE OF ‘FACE’ Production Sponsor Production Sponsor TVN QueerTVNetwork.com Makeup artist Scott Barnes (right) talked with WCT about his new book, Check OUT OUR About Face; Jennifer Lo- video CHANNEL for pez; and the top makeup new videos WEEKLy mistake women make. www.QueerTv Network.com Photo courtesy of Ilisa Wirgin 4 Mar. 3, 2010 mony last week when he told the Senate Armed ONLINE AT Officers testify Services Committee “My personal belief is that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would WINDYCITYMEDIAGROUP.COM about DADT be the right thing to do.” As Gibbs explained, NATIONAL NEWS BY CHUCK COLBERT “You heard for the first time ever the chairman of Joint Chiefs discuss the need to repeal ‘Don’t In the same week that Sen. Joe Lieberman, I- Ask, Don’t Tell.’” Conn., said he would introduce legislation to Although military officials comments contrast- repeal the military’s ban on openly gay service ed with Mullen’s full-throated call for openly gay members, top officials from the Air Force, Army, service members, repeal advocates voiced opti- Marine Corps and Navy testified on Capitol Hill, mism about the review process and eventual re- —N.Y. Gov. (left) voicing reservations to the president’s call to peal. not seeking end “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” In response to the Casey-Schwartz testimony, another term Only Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, in offering is for example, Aubrey Sarvis, executive direc- personal view, said gays should be permitted to tor the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network —Gay softball serve openly. (SLDN), said, “Neither Gen. Casey nor Gen. players attacked Both Pentagon and White House spokesper- Schwartz expressed opposition to the plan their Secretary of the Army John McHugh.