PRIMARY ELECTION VOL 33, NO. 26 MARCH 14, 2018 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com 2018 MINT ‘CONDITION’ Guide to WCT reviews The Condition of the LGBTs Femme. Photo of Michelle Bester by Cody Jolly Photography 32 and ‘SIMON’ Election SAYS Talking with ‘Love, Charts Simon’ director Greg Berlanti. Publicity shot of Berlantii and star Nick Robinson inside 34 MIRIAM HOOVER Local philanthropist dies at 104. Photo courtesy of Michael Leppen 5 @windycitytimes1 /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com FORBIDDEN LOVE. POLITICAL INTRIGUE. ULTIMATE BETRAYAL. “SOME OF THE MOST GORGEOUS MARCH 17–25 OPERA MUSIC IN RECENT MEMORY.” At the Athenaeum Theatre - BROADWAYWORLD FELLOW TRAVELERS AN OPERA BY GREGORY SPEARS LIBRETTO BY GREG PIERCE BASED ON THE NOVEL FELLOW TRAVELERS BY THOMAS MALLON LYRICOPERA.ORG | 312.827.5600 2 March 14, 2018 WINDY CITY TIMES WINDY CITY TIMES March 14, 2018 3 NEWS Obits for Ketenjian, Smith; column 4 This Week's Featured Properties Philanthropist Miriam Hoover dies 5 o LGBT judges talk about careers 6 t AIDS garden planned at Belmont Rocks 7 ubject ark s s Light-filled single family Point Foundation holds networking event 8 i P ut Women of color candidates speak 9 b home on corner lot in prime ELECTIONS: Out attorney Ed Underhill 10 location. eliable Lincoln AG candidate changes from anti-LGBT stance 11 r ELECTIONS: Charts, early voting and more 12 - eemed ELECTIONS: Congressman Mike Quigley 24 d 1865 N. 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He was born Oct. 21, 1961 in Arlington Heights, BY JANO Illinois. He was a graduate of Barrington High School and earned a BS degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Var owned a dog-grooming business in Bar- rington, and for the past eight years he was a You might find this hard to believe, but it’s school, to cook with her Easy Bake Oven and factory manager. true. play hours of boring games like hopscotch and Var is survived by his cousins Ani Karagozian, Before I came to earth I had already picked rock teacher. When I became old enough to un- Andre Balian, Viken Stamboulian, Chris Stambou- out my parents and siblings and waited for the derstand where babies came from, which to me lian and Ohan Stamboulian. Var is also survived correct body for myself. I waited until I grew was the main thing that made girls different by his loving fiance, Todd Davidson. impatient and finally requested, “Next avail- from boys, I figured one day, I too would have Var was a huge jeep fan, loved to travel, loved able, please.” The third day of August, I was a child. In my naiveté I imagined I could have to cook and was a huge animal lover. For the past born a 6 lb 5 oz baby girl. enough children to form a basketball team. three years, he was especially fond of birds, and For many years I thought that my little girl’s The day before I was to enter eighth grade is survived by Perci, Sparky, Mango, Kiwi, Bobo life was like most little girls. I played drums my life changed forever; I came on my period. and George. with pencils on the top of the grits box. I woke Although my mother had been very instructive He was preceded in death by his mother, Mar- up looking forward to playing baseball with my about menstrual cycles and what it meant, the garet Ketenjian, and will be buried next to her. plastic ball and bat. On Friday nights, I went thing I remember her saying sadly and almost Var was loved by many far and wide. His smile, Varoujan A. Ketenjian (right) with fiance, to sleep listening to the boxing match on the apologetically was, “You can no longer play laugh and personality will be remembered by Todd Davidson. radio as my bedtime story and dreamed of play- with the boys like you have been. You have to friends and family forever. Photo from Davidson’s Facebook page ing for the Chicago Cubs when I grew up. be more careful now.” She even admitted that Visitation was March 13 with a funeral service One day, a backyard friend told me that if I she had prayed that I did not start menstruat- In lieu of flowers, please consider the needs at Davenport Family Funeral Home and Crematory, could kiss my own elbow, I could change into ing until I turned 17. of the family in this difficult time: https://www. 149 W. Main St. (Lake-Cook Rd), Barrington, IL a boy. He had witnessed my frustrations, as For the next 40 years, life was dictated by my gofundme.com/vars-funeral-and-legal-fund. 60010. adults on the street on the other side of our menstrual cycle. In the beginning, the joy and fence had commented on my baseball enthu- wild abandon I had in playing an impromptu siasm. They often made my friends, who were game of slow-pitch softball became an excuse boys, feel bad for being out hustled by a girl. or feigned disinterest for not joining in. The flame of my natural desire to climb a tree or South Side Help scale a fence was dampened by the red and “For many years I thought white between my legs. At any moment, I Center founder dies that my little girl’s life could go from laughing with the boys to be- Mrs. Betty L. Smith, the founder of Chicago’s ing pulled aside and whispered to, about the South Side Help Center, has passed away, ac- was like most little girls. I untimely red stains on the back of my clothes. cording to a press release from the organization. played drums with pencils Moving from my teens to adulthood did not She passed away at home after a long illness and make these monthly visits any easier. The boy complications of Alzheimer’s disease. on the top of the grits box. that lived inside of me had learned how to im- Her daughter, Vanessa Smith, is the center’s I woke up looking forward personate a girl so well.