WINDY CITY THETIMES VOICE OF CHICAGO’S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985 VOL 34, NO. 29 JUNE 26, 2019 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com 20TH ANNUAL 30 UNDER 30 AWARDS page 55 GENERATION STONEWALL page 31 COUNTRY STAR TY HERNDON page 74CHICAGO BANDITS’ ALESHIA OCASIO page 14 CHICAGO PRIDE FEST page 78 @windycitytimes /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com G O S I N steppenwolf.org | 312-335-1650 T ON G E K E STAGE F ICK TS A C T G I S T NOW O T ! I N G F A S T ! 2 June 26, 2019 WINDY CITY TIMES WINDY CITY TIMES June 26, 2019 3 4 June 26, 2019 WINDY CITY TIMES Proud to be our community’s broker! Brad Lippitz has supported and contributed more to LGBTQ causes and candidates over the years than any other real estate broker in the City of Chicago. And Brad’s team happens to be in the top 10 in all Chicago with over $80 million sold in 2018. 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Brad Lippitz is a Real Estate broker affiliated with Compass. Compass is a licensed Real Estate broker with a principal office in Chicago, IL and abides by all applicable Equal Housing Opportunity laws. All material presented presented material All laws. Opportunity Housing Equal applicable all by abides and IL Chicago, in office principal a with broker Estate Real not is licensed This a is Compass Compass. with approximate. affiliated are broker footages Estate square Real and a is Lippitz measurements Brad All notice. without changes and omissions, errors, to subject is but reliable deemed sources from compiled is only, purposes informational for intended is herein brokerage. Estate of Real realm outside the advice professional or other accounting as legal, be construed shall herein Nothing listed. already property solicit to intended 649 W. Bittersweet Pl., #3 | Buena Park | $429,000 735 W. Buckingham Pl., #3 | East Lakeview | $395,000 Top floor of a jumbo vintage 3-flat only a few steps from the park and lake. Open-concept vintage on the top floor with huge deck and parking. WINDY CITY TIMES June 26, 2019 5 NEWS Scholar/producer to receive new honor 6 Talking with Mayor Lori Lightfoot 8 Nursing student writes about trans healthcare 10 Women’s lawyer group has trans-focused program 12 Softball player talks about teamwork, sexuality 14 Pro-LGBT Catholic group preps for nat’l confab 16 When A Great Deal Matters, Shop Rob Paddor’s... Addict finds way thanks to foundation 20 EXCLUSIVE: Presidential candidate pens op-ed 24 Evanston Subaru in Skokie Profile: Real-estate broker Brad Lippitz 28 Generation Stonewall 31 Viewpoints: Monroe, letter 44 See us in the Pride Parade this Sunday! INDEX ENTERTAINMENT/EVENTS Theater reviews 46 Second City celebrates Pride 48 DOWNLOAD Poet aims to have women discard shame 50 THIS ISSUE Art: Derrick Woods-Morrow 54 30 UNDER 30 55 AND BROWSE THE ARCHIVES AT Queer Eye’s Tan France on new book 68 WindyCityTimes www. .com Artist talks social-media ban 72 ON EVERY Ty Herndon on album, GLAAD concert 74 NIGHTSPOTS 82 % NEW Classifieds 84 2019 WINDY Calendar 66 CITY SUBARU THETIMES VOICE OF CHICAGO’S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, NEXT ISSUE: JULY 10, 2019 TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985 OUTBACK VOL 34, NO. 29 JUNE 26, 2019 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com 20TH ANNUAL 30 UNDER 30 AWARDS page 55 GENERATION STONEWALL & LEGACY page 31 Cover photo credits:. 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Option to purchase; Legacy $13,355, Crosstrek $15,094, Outback $16,829, Ends 7/03/19 6 June 26, 2019 WINDY CITY TIMES Scholar/producer to receive new honor, speaks on life goals BY MELISSA WASSERMAN without any connection to major stakeholders in Hollywood and making it more culturally sincere Aymar Jean Christian, Ph.D., has dedicated his and flexible in the ways stories are told, produced life to communicating with meaning. Now the and distributed,” said Christian. “Open TV charts scholar, producer, founder and writer/director is the democratization of television, especially after being recognized for his work with the first Lead- the advent of streaming video, a moment when ers for a New Chicago award, courtesy of The Field it seemed possible to have TV by and for the Foundation. people.” Christian grew up in Bergen County, New Jer- “I hope to open people’s eyes to the richness of sey. The child of Caribbean immigrants, he was America’s creative landscape by introducing them raised to work hard in school. to a ton of new creators, stories, companies, “It was a context in which my parents sort of and innovators,” said Christian of what he hopes knew I was going to be one of the few Black kids readers take away from Open TV: Innovation Be- in class and wanted me to understand the barriers yond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television. behind me,” said Christian. “But on a day-to-day Christian said he is driven to come up with new basis it wasn’t like I was ever teased or harassed ways of understanding culture broadly.