MANCHESTER REWOUND Melissa Manchester talks about her latest release, which demonstrates the evolution of her career. WiGOUT! Pa g e 21 THE VOICE OF PROGRESS FOR WISCONSIN’s LGBT COMMUNITY March 22, 2012 | Vol. 3, No. 10 Photo: Jason Getz/AP GOP is turning back the clock for women By Lisa Neff now on won’t take up so much yardage/ against the song and the singer. Atlanta demonstrators who circled the Staff writer Miniskirts hot pants and a few little fancy But that was then. state Capitol to protest what’s become Patty Shannon was just nine years old frills/Yeah I’m making up for all those years Right? known as the GOP war on women. when Loretta Lynn charted an anthem for since I’ve got the pill.” “Barefoot and pregnant, that was like my Shannon marched with friend Nancy reproductive freedom. “The Pill” was controversial then, in 1975, grandma’s fight,” said Shannon, who never Smith, 39, who thinks prescribing birth con- “This old maternity dress I’ve got is going when some country stations kept the tune expected to make the fight her own. But trol pills should be as controversial as an in the garbage/The clothes I‘m wearing from off the air and ministers preached sermons on March 12 she joined hundreds of other WOMEN page 9 This Wis. cities move toward equality issue By Louis Weisberg partnership policy during the March 20 common ship policy last fall, overcoming stiff resistance inside and online at Staff writer council meeting, said Fair Wisconsin executive from right-wing Christians affiliated with Julaine wisconsingazette.com The Manitowoc Common Council has voted director Katie Belanger. She worked with Mayor Appling. The head of Wisconsin Family Action, to extend health care benefits to the registered Justin Nickels, Ald. Matt Kadow and other mem- Appling is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit to overturn News domestic partners of city employees, joining a bers of the common council to coordinate pas- the state’s domestic partnership registry. WiGWAG ......................2 growing number of small cities in Wisconsin that sage of the measure. Ironically, the never-married Appling lives with Political Gaze .................4 are creating fairer workplaces for their gay and The Manitowoc Common Council was spurred a longtime, also never-married female companion Regional Gaze ...............7 lesbian workers. into action on the issue after Racine adopted a in a home the two own together in Watertown. Editorial ....................... 12 Manitowoc council members voted 5 to 4 in domestic partnership policy earlier this month. Belanger said the state’s domestic partnership National Gaze ............ 14 favor of adopting a new policy that will provide The vote in that city was 10 to 4. Racine Alds. registry has facilitated the adoption of laws and same-sex couples with the same employment Bob Mozol and Melissa Kaprelian-Becker spear- policies extending employment benefits to same- Features benefits as married heterosexual couples. headed the effort. sex couples in the state. WiGOUT! .................. 21 Not a single person spoke against the domestic Appleton’s elected officials enacted a partner- EQUALITY page 19 Theater ........................ 22 Music ............................ 24 On the Town .............. 30 ENDORSEMENTS FOR APRIL 3 ELECTIONS PAGE 10 2 W ISCONSINGAZ ETTE. COM | March 22, 2012 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | March 22, 2012 3 LGBT news with a twist WiGWAG By Lisa Neff & Louis Weisberg LIGHT HIM UP Diego Tea Party was riage equality in Vermont. p.m.” message posted on a menu nation in the state. The move Pat Robertson surprised view- arrested March 15 on board and statements from some outraged equality supporters, ers of his religious broadcast charges of kidnapping, TIME TO QUIT? women – including posts on Yelp because there’s no legal recourse “The 700 Club” recently by say- sexual assault and sex A Madison group placed a – that they have been refused in Missouri for LGBT people who ing marijuana should be legalized with a foreign object full-page ad in the Sunday New service. The state is looking into are targeted for discrimination. and treated like alcohol. The war after allegedly pulling a York Times urging “liberal” and the complaint since the Illinois on drugs has cost taxpayers bil- 56-year-old woman into his “normal” Catholics to leave the Human Rights Act prohibits dis- OLYMPIC lions of dollars and failed, he said. car and attacking her. Before his Church over its opposition to crimination on the basis of sex in ORIENTATION People should not go to prison arrest, Michael Kobulnicky had contraception. The Freedom from public accommodations, including Organizers of this summer’s for smoking pot, he added. endorsed a national boycott of Religion Foundation’s ad, which bars. Olympics in London led volun- the drink Red Bull after its mak- ran under the headline “It’s Time teers through a multiple-choice RESTROOM ART ers aired a commercial in South to Quit the Catholic Church,” SORRY FOR THE quiz on dealing with sensitive A 1989 mural that pop artist Africa featuring a cartoon Jesus. asked: “Will it be reproductive TROUBLE situations. About 70,000 people Keith Haring created on the walls He’d also posted an engagement freedom, or back to the Dark After spending more than attended the training sessions of a men’s restroom at the LGBT announcement on his Facebook Ages? Do you choose women $100 million publicizing the and took a quiz that included community center in Manhattan page, saying he planned to marry and their rights, or Bishops and rapture through billboards and questions such as, how does one went on public view in March. on April 7. their wrongs? Whose side are broadcasts on his Oakland, Calif.- respond to a complaint from a Haring, who died of AIDS-related you on?” The ad blamed the based Family Radio International, spectator made uncomfortable illness in 1990, called the mural WHOLESOME AS Church for causing misery, pov- doomsday preacher Harold by two men holding hands? A) Tell “Once Upon a Time.” The bath- APPLE PIE erty, unwanted pregnancies and Camping admitted his predic- him “stop being a homophobic room where he painted the piece Vermont-based Ben & Jerry’s deaths, and it criticized Church tion was something of a hoax. idiot.” B) “Politely ask the couple has since been stripped of its renamed its Apple Pie-flavored leaders for protecting pedophiles. Camping, 90, apologized to his to stop holding hands.” C) “You toilets for use as a different kind ice cream to Appl-y Ever After to followers in an open letter that explain that there is a huge diver- of meeting room. This past year, promote gay marriage in the U.K. UNWELCOME AT acknowledged he had “no new sity of people at the London the mural underwent a $25,000 The company said, “Social justice Wang’s evidence” for his apocalyptic 2012 Games, which includes gay, conservation. The artwork was is at the core of our values. The Illinois Department claims. lesbian and bisexual individuals part of a project to mark the Since our humble beginning 34 of Human Rights is investigat- and couples.” And the answer is? 20th anniversary of the Stonewall years ago, Ben & Jerry’s has been ing a complaint that Wang’s, a GUN EQUALITY riots. an advocate for equal rights.” A gay bar in Chicago’s Boystown The Missouri House passed a couple years ago, B&J renamed its neighborhood, is not welcom- bill that would add gun owners Wedding’s off? popular Chubby Hubby flavor to ing to women. The complaint to the list of groups that are spe- The spokesperson for the San Hubby Hubby to celebrate mar- stems from a “Men Only After 11 cifically protected from discrimi- Join WiG on Facebook. Campbell_WIGaz_burg_hlf_Layout 1 3/14/12 11:28 AM Page 1 hen considering facial rejuvenation, remember that board certification is just the beginning when choosing a cosmetic Wsurgeon. 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Tell us Friess brings unwanted POLITICAL GAZE [email protected]. attention to Rice Lake Dems fight to take Dane Co. seats By Louis Weisberg A $3.7-million which he made his now- Staff writer famous comment about the Foster Friess popped up sports use of aspirin, Friess told By Louis Weisberg says that during his 25 years in county – by misrepresenting his record and on the public’s radar recently Mitchell that a man recent- Staff writer politics, “I’ve never seen this amount of hiding behind the façade of a moderate. when he offered his pre- complex in ly approached him at his Progressives are closely watching excitement and interest among activists “He’s a very genial man, and when he scription for birth control “country club” and said that three Dane County Board races in on our side.” goes out and talks to people, he tells to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell: Rice Lake is Santorum is too extreme for which political newcomers are challeng- But Republicans will be drawn to the them how moderate and independent “Back in my days, they used opposing same-sex marriage.