40 YEARS AFTER ROE V. WADE Abortion remains the nation’s most divisive social issue, but choice activists are working to counter common misconceptions. Pages 4-5 THE VOICE OF PROGRESS FOR WISCONSIN’S LGBT COMMUNITY Jan. 24, 2013 | Vol. 4, No. 6 Obama inauguration emphasizes the strength of nation’s diversity PHOTO: PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS/AP President Barack Obama, left, and Vice President Joe Biden listen as poet Richard Blanco delivers the inaugural poem on the west front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 21. Blanco, a gay Cuban-American, is the first out poet ever to deliver the On the poem in a tradition that was begun by President John F. Kennedy, who tapped poet Robert Frost for the job. front By Lisa Neff the realities of our time.” And the journey, the president ebration on the National Mall. Staff writer The quest for equality, the presi- continued, is not complete “until Another gay American on the Voces de la Barack Obama, grayer and wiser dent continued, “guided ... all those no citizen is forced to wait for Mall, 67-year-old Veronica Toress, than on his Inauguration Day four men and women, sung and unsung, hours to exercise the right to vote. cried as the president spoke. “I years ago, began his second term who left footprints along this great Our journey is not complete until never thought I’d hear those words Frontera calling for “we, the people” to be Mall, to hear a preacher say that we we find a better way to welcome in an inaugural speech. Never. I guided by the star that led Ameri- cannot walk alone; to hear a King the striving, hopeful immigrants didn’t think the day would come,” marches on cans from Senaca Falls to Selma to proclaim that our individual free- who still see America as a land of she said. Stonewall. dom is inextricably bound to the opportunity – until bright young Toress cried again when inau- By Lisa Neff In the inaugural address he deliv- freedom of every soul on Earth.” students and engineers are enlist- gural poet Richard Blanco, the gay Staff writer ered on Jan. 21 on the west steps Now, Obama said, comes the ed in our workforce rather than son of Cuban exiles who eventu- The marches take activists across of the U.S. Capitol, the president “task to carry on what those pio- expelled from our country. Our ally settled in Miami, recited “One bridges, down streets, through began with a quote from the Dec- neers began. For our journey is journey is not complete until all Today.” parks, along the lakefront, around laration of Independence: “We hold not complete until our wives, our our children, from the streets of Blanco, the first openly gay and the Capitol, into the halls of gov- these truths to be self-evident, that mothers and daughters can earn Detroit to the hills of Appalachia, first Latino inaugural poet, as well ernment. all men are created equal; that they a living equal to their efforts. Our to the quiet lanes of Newtown, as the youngest to hold the honor, Always the goal for the activists are endowed by their Creator journey is not complete until our know that they are cared for and began his poem, “One sun rose on with Wisconsin-based Voces de la with certain unalienable rights; that gay brothers and sisters are treat- cherished and always safe from us today, kindled over our shores,/ Frontera is to pave a path to citi- among these are life, liberty, and ed like anyone else under the law harm.” peeking over the Smokies, greet- zenship – for young dreamers and the pursuit of happiness.” – for if we are truly created equal, Responding to the president’s ing the faces of the Great Lakes, also for the adults in their families. We, the people, he said, are on then surely the love we commit words on Twitter, gay American spreading a simple truth/across the “Our huge priority this year “a never-ending journey to bridge to one another must be equal as Nate Green, 21, tweeted, “Way to Great Plains, then charging across is to fight for federal immigra- the meaning of those words with well.” go, bro,” from the inaugural cel- BLANCO page 6 tion reform, VOCES page 10 2 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | January 24, 2013 News with a twist WiGWAG By Lisa Neff & Louis Weisberg misrepresenting gay and him praying while lying atop emissions. The reprimand equality in the state in transgender people with Rising cost new bishops who are on letter, which runs four November, leading to the sensational and dehuman- of hate the floor, clothed and cov- pages and is dated Dec. 10, first same-sex weddings in izing coverage.” BRO was House Repub- ered in white clothes. charges the Social Security Maryland on Jan. 1. instrumental in encourag- licans secretly Administration employee ing the insurance division renegotiated their STRIPPING IN with “conduct unbecoming THE FLYING of the Oregon Department contract with attorney THE SQUARE a federal employee” and PRIEST of Consumer and Business Paul Clement to defend The same day that hun- “creating a hostile work A former Catholic priest Services to announce that the anti-gay Defense of dreds of thousands of environment” because of busted for selling crystal insurance companies doing Marriage Act at the U.S. anti-gay marriage demon- repeated gas passing. The meth sometimes appeared business in Oregon must Supreme Court. This is strators marched in Paris, letter contains a chart doc- at his Connecticut church end discriminatory exclu- the third-time that bud- four women staged a small umenting 60 instances of in drag and was fond of sions of medically neces- get hawk Republicans have but highly visible protest flatulence, nine on one day sex in the rectory, accord- sary healthcare for trans- upped the legal contract – for marriage equality in St. in September. The employee ing to a published report. PHOTO: COURTESY gender Oregonians. the cap was originally set at Peter’s Square. The women blamed lactose intolerance. Kevin Wallin, 61, nick- Robin Williams as $500,000. went topless to protest named “monsignor meth,” Mrs. Doubtfire. POPULAR VOTE the Vatican’s opposition to THE VOTE MADE resigned as spiritual leader DOUBTS A Public Policy Polling TOP PASTOR gay marriage as the pope HIM DO IT of St. Augustine’s Parish in ABOUT TRANS survey found that Congress A Detroit pastor wants delivered a prayer from his A Maryland lawmaker Bridgeport in 2011, but DEPICTION has a 9 percent favorability YouTube to remove a video studio window overlooking charged with operating a continued to receive a sti- rating and, on a popularity of him lying on top of new the square. News reports boat under the influence pend from the diocese until Fox News became the scale, Congress rates below bishops as part of their said he “appeared not to of alcohol says he began his Jan. 3 arrest on drug focus of another protest cockroaches, carnies, Geng- consecration ceremony. have been disturbed.” drinking heavily after long- charges. Speculation is that petition after Fox Nation his Khan, Donald Trump, Bishop Wayne T. Jackson time colleagues betrayed he might have been laun- illustrated a news story traffic jams, political pun- told The Detroit News that YOU COULD RUN him by voting for same- dering his drug profits at about health care cover- dits, France and Nickelback insults left on his Facebook YOUR CAR ON IT sex marriage. Delegate a Westbury porn store he age for transgender citizens but above Lindsey Lohan, page in response to the A federal government Don Dwyer, a Republican owned called the Land of with a photograph of Robin playground bullies, the Kar- video have “been a main agency did more than wrin- from Anne Arundel, said he Oz. His arrest reportedly Williams as Mrs. Doubt- dashians, Fidel Castro and attack on homosexuals.” kle its nose at an employee’s spent years working against shocked his former flock, fire in the movie of that John Edwards. Lots of room The video, taken in August flatulence problem, issuing the issue. He also said it who remembered him as name. 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