TALKING WITH HOLLIS RESNIK WINDY CITY THE VOICE OF CHICAGO’S GAY, LESBIAN, BI AND TRANS COMMUNITY SINCE 1985 NOV. 14, 2012 PAGE 14 VOL 28, NO. 6 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.comTIMES MATT MCTIGHE A Special Windy City Times AND THE FIGHT FOR MARRIAGe- LGBTQ Youth Investigation EQUALITY WINS page 4 TALKING WITH GLAAD HEAD HERNDON page 17 GRADDICK page 6 In this week’s Windy City Times, we begin an 8-week series on LGBT youth in the city, especially those most at risk, more in need of support, and gravitating to Halsted, the location of many PROFILING of the community’s OUT LESBIAN bars, businesses COLLEGE COACH and the Center on SHERRI MURRELL pagE 21 Halsted. Two young people share a private moment outside the Crib, the Night Ministry’s LGBT-friendly shelter. Photo by Bill Healy. 2 Nov. 14, 2012 WINDY CITY TIMES “This Christmas Carol will gayly ring in “This touching and clever Carol is sure to be the Holidays and so it should!” a queer Christmas classic!” Janet Davies, ABC-7 News Mike Wood, Instinct magazine “A sweet and distinctive spin on a holiday standard.” Alonso Duralde, author, “Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas” A HOLIDAY MOVIE FOR ALL OF US the Music Box Theatre http://www.musicboxtheatre.com/events/scroogeandmarley Thursday, Nov. 29 | 6:30pm – red carpet, 7 p.m. screening followed by Q&A Friday, Nov, 30 | 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1 | Noon Scrooge & Marley is a modern day variation on Charles Sunday, Dec. 2 | Noon (ASL interpreted) Monday, Dec. 3 | 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4 | 2:30 p.m. Dickens’ classic story of the holidays, “A Christmas Carol.” Wed., Dec. 5 | 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6 | 2:30 p.m. On Christmas Eve, Ben Scrooge, the man who hates the holidays, is given the chance to begin again when he is visited by three spirits. Recounted from a gay sensibility with heart, comedy and music, the magic of Dickens’ timeless tale comes alive from a fresh Gene Siskel Theatre perspective that will appeal to audiences of all persuasions. Friday, Dec, 21 | 8:15 p.m. Directed by Richard Knight Jr. and Peter Neville. Starring David Saturday, Dec. 22 | 7:45 p.m. Pevsner, Tim Kazurinsky, Bruce Vilanch, Rusty Schwimmer, Thursday, Dec. 27 | 7:45 p.m. Megan Cavanagh, Ronnie Kroell, David Moretti and narrated by Judith Light. 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Eagle needs Adding to the historic night, voters in Mary- new home land approved a same-sex marriage law that the legislature had passed earlier this year 52 per- cent to 48 percent, while in Minnesota, a consti- tutional ban went down to defeat, 51.3 percent “What this election shows is that marriage to 47.6 percent. equality is going mainstream,” said Lee Swis- A referendum in Washington state that would low, GLAD’s executive director. “It has support uphold that state’s marriage equality law also on both sides of the aisle, across all kinds of won by a margin of 52 percent to 48 percent, Mainers United also raised more than $3.4 Apparently, those efforts paid off. Election demographics, and across regions. For courts to meaning same-sex marriages will take place million for a sustained campaign. results show that in the localities of Augusta, see that widespread support can only be good.” there, too. Unlike 2009, marriage equality advocates Biddeford, and Lewiston, same-sex marriage Legislatively, the four ballot measure out- In Maine, supporters were overjoyed at the placed Question 1 on the ballot. And this time, gained ground from three years ago. In fact, comes may bode well for the advent of same-sex victory. they also included a faith and religion compo- marriage equality won by more than 1,000 votes civil marriage in Illinois. “Supporters from Portland to Presque Isle nent in the campaign strategy and collaborated in Biddeford, both heavily Catholic and Franco- “The clear popular support for marriage equal- thought that truth and love are more powerful with independent faith coalitions. American. ity in all four ballot initiates—on both coasts than fear and deception,” Matt McTighe, cam- “The 2009 campaign was basically a secular Catholic University junior Ryan Fecteau, a Bid- and in the Midwest—confirmed what we’ve paign manager of Mainers United for Marriage, campaign,” said the Revered Marvin Ellison, deford native who logged more than 200 days now known for a while. That there is clear, un- told hundreds of jubilant supporters who gath- president of the Religious Coalition Against Dis- with the campaign, explained, in speaking with equivocal, bipartisan public support for marriage ered in Portland at the Holiday Inn by the Bay. crimination, one viewing “support for marriage voters, “I stressed the importance of being Cath- equality,” said Bernard Cherkasov, CEO of Equal- McTighe, who is openly gay, thanked Maine as a basic civil right for all. olic and supporting marriage equality were not ity Illinois, the state’s oldest and largest organi- voters who “put family over politics by voting “When RCAD showed up [in 2009], the cam- mutually exclusive.” zation advocating LGBT equal rights. ‘Yes’ on 1 tonight.” paign was grateful but did not know what to In the cases of Franco-American voters, “I “That doesn’t mean the battle is over, but it Maine has “proved that voters can change do with us,” Ellison said.