Pride Series 3 The last of our special issues celebratingMonth. Pride page 18 June 26, 2014 | Vol. 5 No. 16 4 Catching the wavea Despite a string of legal victories, Wisconsin same-sex couples find themselves in legal limbo. 8 ‘Freedom Summer’ Fifty years later, we remember Mississippi‘s deadly civil rights battles that changed history. 30 Summerfest gems Naima Adedapo and other more obscure acts shine beneath Selfie Summerfest’s headliners. satisfaction page 16 34 The art of summer The visual arts continue to brighten the summer in Mil- waukee and Madison. 2 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 26, 2014 News with a twist WiGWAG By Lisa Neff & Louis Weisberg GUNS DON’T SHOOT hams, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar usually have be pretty shocking,” the duo Club Allure Chicago and ing kidnapping, assault, and PEOPLE? and Robert Hayes. this many peo- posted. “The homophobia the village of Stone Park in criminal sexual contact. A Macon, Georgia, resi- ple when we do we’ve experienced is evi- their lawsuit filed June 13 in dent carrying a .45 caliber COSTCO ENCOUNTER this.” dence of the oppression that Cook County Circuit Court. REAL BEASTS OF N.J. handgun accidentally fired Supreme Court Justice still exists in society, and They claim the club violates New Jersey lawmakers a round into his own man- Sonia Sotomayor says she MAN DEFEATS FOOD has given us all the more Illinois zoning laws, which are working to pass legisla- hood when he tried to hol- was “just shopping” when Adam Richman, the reason to be visible within require a 1,000-foot buffer tion making sex with ani- ster the weapon during a she dropped by a Costco former host of the Travel the community.” between adult entertain- mals a fourth-degree crime. stop at a gas station. He in suburban Virginia and Channel’s beloved Man v. ment facilities and places of New Jersey is one of 14 drove to a friend’s house decided to get a signed Food, has lost more than EAT AWAY THE GAY worship. states that does not explicit- to assess the damage. He copy of Hard Choices at a 60 pounds since the series Jeremy Schwab, a for- ly ban bestiality. Lawmakers decided to go to a hospital Hillary Rodham Clinton ended in December 2011. mer member of Log Cabin COCAINE BELLY? pushing for the legislation after realizing the bullet had book-signing. U.S. Rep. John Richman, the host of the Republicans who helped Police in Deltona, Florida, point to the case of a man pierced his penis and exited Lewis also stopped by, as NBC game show Food Fight- convince Texas Republicans recently arrested a man for who can’t be punished for his ass. Too bad there wasn’t did Costco co-founder Jim ers, is showing off his slim- to back so-called “ex-gay” possession of cocaine and molesting cows. Apparently someone around with a gun Sinegal. Clinton’s book tour trim look in a mostly nude therapy in the state party’s 23 grams of marijuana. The that activity isn’t covered to protect him from himself. currently doesn’t include a centerfold in Cosmopolitan platform, claims he over- man was stopped for failure under the animal cruelty Wisconsin stop. UK. He says it’s nice to now came his homosexuality by to wear a seat belt. At 450 statute. CROWD-PLEASER say “no” to the richest dish indulging in a lot of food. 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Yes, that Otto, the at the field near Dyersville popular YouTube science “get into my OWN pants.” ing that being a rape victim inflatable blowup pilot who where the 1989 movie was show have received a num- DOG BITES MAN is now a “coveted status” was pleasured in Airplane! shot. Hundreds of onlookers ber of homophobic com- NUNS VS. STRIPPERS A kidnapper’s attempt to sought by college women. Otto is now appearing in a watched as Costner played ments. Greg Brown and A convent of nuns in sub- sic his dog on a victim back- He also suggested women Travel Wisconsin ad cam- catch with his boys, 7-year- Mitch Moffitt hostAsap - urban Chicago has filed a fired after the pup refused to who say they’ve been raped paign spoofing the 1980s old Cayden and 5-year-old SCIENCE, which has over 2 lawsuit against a neighbor, take orders and bit the kid- are “delusional.” “The col- comedy with Wisconsin Hayes. The movie fans million viewers. Some vid- a strip club they say plays napper instead, according to umn was offensive and inac- natives David and Jerry clapped when the boys eos have received up to 15 throbbing music while the deputies in Las Cruces, New curate, we apologize for Zucker, who directed the made a play, prompting million views. “The hate nuns try to pray. The Sis- Mexico. Gabriel Garcia was publishing it,”WaPo said in a film, as well as Jim Abra- Costner to note, “We don’t that comes from people can ters of St. Charles named indicted on charges includ- statement. WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 26, 2014 3 4 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 26, 2014 Amid unprecedented legal momentum for same-sex marriage, Wisconsin couples remain in limbo By Lisa Neff didn’t issue a stay — requested before her Staff writers ruling by Republican Attorney General J.B. As gay couples in Wisconsin waited in Van Hollen — until June 13. So for six days legal limbo in mid-June, equality foes con- in early June, same-sex couples applied for tinued working to defend anti-gay amend- and obtained marriage licenses in 60 of ments in the courts and marched on Wash- the state’s 72 counties. At least 550 gay ington. couples were married in Wisconsin. But those foes are caught in a losing While the case is pending appeal with the streak. The march on Washington on June 7th Circuit in Chicago, there’s uncertainty: 19 fell flat, and there have been 21 consecu- For those with licenses who didn’t marry, tive court rulings for marriage equality since should they wed? For those caught in the last summer, when the U.S. Supreme Court five-day waiting period, can they marry in overturned a key provision in the anti-gay another state? For those who married, what Defense of Marriage Act. benefits, responsibilities or protections do On June 25, a federal judge struck down they have? Indiana’s same-sex marriage ban as uncon- “I think the harder questions are like stitutional. The court clerk in Marion Coun- adoptions, the really hard issues,” said Carl ty, home to Indianapolis, began issuing mar- Tobias, a professor at the University of Rich- riage licenses to same-sex couple about an mond School of Law. That’s why these stays hour after the decision was announced. are so gut-wrenching for people.” On the same day, the 10th Circuit Court On June 16, Wisconsin’s congressional PHOTO: AP/SCOTT ANDERSON/JOURNAL TIMES of Appeals in Denver upheld a lower-court Democrats asked U.S. Attorney General STANDING UP FOR LOVE: Gary Jones holds a rainbow flag in front of the Racine County ruling that found Utah’s prohibition of Eric Holder to confirm, as he has done in Courthouse on June 13 during a rally protesting the county’s refusal to grant marriage same-sex marriage unconsitutional. The 3-2 similar situations in Utah and Michigan, licenses to same-sex couples. Racine County was one of only 12 in the state that refused ruling affects all states in the 10th Circuit: that the federal government will recognize to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples during the week following U.S. District Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, the marriages of Wisconsin gay couples and Judge Barbara Crabb’s finding that the state’s marriage equality ban is unconstitutional. Utah and Wyoming. guarantee them: On June 13, Crabb issued a stay bringing a halt to the marriages at the insistence of But the appeals court immediately put a • The ability to sponsor a foreign spouse Wisconsin Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, a staunch equality opponent. stay on marriages in those states pending a for legal residency. U.S. Supreme Court ruling. • Health, workers’ compensation, retire- “Earlier this year, you made clear that Just weeks before the June 25 rulings, ment and other benefits for the spouse of a • Joint income tax filings, as well as couples who married in Utah and Michi- U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb on June federal employee. spousal exemptions of gifts, inheritances gan after federal judges struck down those 6 found that Wisconsin’s constitutional • Health benefits, spousal ID cards, and the value of employer-provided spou- states’ bans are entitled to full federal rec- amendment barring gay couples from mar- housing allowances and on-base support sal health coverage.