A CApital neW yeAr From the Capitol to beyond the Beltway, a new political era has dawned. Page 5 the voiCe of progress for WisConsin’s LgBt Community January 13, 2011 | Vol. 2, No. 5 gay man called hero in giffords shooting From WiG and AP reports That Saturday morning Daniel Hernandez Jr. meeting was disrupted by applied pressure to Gabrielle gunfire. Jared L. Loughner, Giffords’ wound Jan. 8, hoping 22, is accused of shooting to slow the flow of blood, 20 people – killing six and hoping to save the congress- wounding 14. Recovered woman’s life. documents, online postings On Jan. 10, Arizonans and witness accounts indicate hailed Hernandez, 20, as a that Loughner raged about hero. government intrusions on his The out gay intern, a rights. He now faces multiple the CONSERVATIVE political science major at federal counts, including the the University of Arizona attempted assassination of and a member of the Tucson Giffords, who after a bruising Commission on GLBT Issues, campaign with a Tea Party tide: hoW high had been working with Republican was elected Nov. Giffords’ office for less than 2 to her third term in the a week when he was assigned House. to help with traffic control When the shooting start- Will it rise? and register constituents ed, Hernandez was around during the Congress on Your the corner, about 30 feet Corner meeting outside a from Giffords, 40. He said he Tucson Safeway Jan. 8. heard the gunshots and he ran in her direction. Using his nursing training, By Louis Weisberg secuting LGBT people, it Hernandez began tending to Staff writer poLitiCAL AnALYSIS sends a signal right out of This the victims. He checked for In his inaugural address, the gate that these people pulses, going from victim to Gov. Scott Walker might are going to dismantle the issue victim. have fired his administra- concerning line,” said Fair cits and reducing govern- Wisconsin way of life.” inside and online at When he saw Giffords lying tion’s opening salvo against Wisconsin executive direc- ment, their social views are But Belanger was wisconsingazette.com on the ground, Hernandez LGBT equality when he tor Katie Belanger. largely in step with those of relieved that the first round rushed to her, brought her vowed to “honor and Amid the rising conser- the radical right. of legislation proposed by News to his chest so that she respect the foundational vative tide in Wisconsin, “We can’t even see the the incoming GOP did not WiGWAG ����������������������2 wouldn’t choke on her blood role of the family in our as throughout the nation, end of the right wing they’re include a measure to repeal Regional Gaze ���������������4 and applied pressure to the society.” LGBT citizens and political going to run to,” predicted the state’s domestic partner Editorial ����������������������� 10 wound in her forehead, first Although most LGBT progressives are anxiously Wisconsin Democratic registry. “It’s really going to Opinion ����������������������� 11 using his hands and then people would agree with watching the Tea Party- Party chair and former Fair be interesting to see how National Gaze ������������ 15 using butcher smocks from Walker’s statement on its infused GOP and searching Wisconsin director Mike closely (Republicans) stick the grocery store. face value, it sounded to for signs of coming struggle. Tate. to their jobs agenda,” she Features Holding her hand in his, many like standard-issue Although most of the newly “We know that they’re said. “Hopefully, they’ll stick WiGOUT �������������������� 17 Hernandez accompanied rhetoric from the anti-gay elected Republicans ran going to come out and do to the jobs development Art Gaze ��������������������� 18 Giffords to the hospital, right. “I certainly saw that campaigns focused on cre- some very anti-LGBT stuff,” stuff, but it’s something that Film ������������������������������� 20 where, as of WiG press time, line, and it certainly is a ating jobs, eliminating defi- he said. “If they start per- TIDE page 12 On the Town �������������� 24 she remained in critical con- Community Events.... 27 dition. HERO page 14 Man found deAd At milwaukee bathhouse, pAge 4 2 W i s C o n s i n g AZ e t t e .C o m | January 13, 2011 W i s C o n s i n g AZ e t t e .C o m | January 13, 2011 3 LGBT news with a twist WiGWAG By Lisa Neff & Louis Weisberg seCondhAnd rose? comes from John’s 1971 another woman. I abhor,” Close said of the video. Sherak, president of the Academy Barbra Streisand is working to hit song “Levon,” about In the pictures posted by Her statement read, “The cynical, of Motion Picture Arts and secure the film rights to remake another Christmas Radar Online, Mack appears unauthorized use of my image in Sciences for the early morning tra- “Gypsy,” the New York Post baby, weighed in at 7 to be having her breasts licked this video is deeply offensive and dition. The 83rd Academy Awards reports. Streisand would direct pounds and 15 ounces. by Edra Blixseth, a Bono campaign insulting, and was the result of a ceremony will take place Feb. 27 at the movie and star as Mama Rose, Details about the donor and former billionaire who seemingly innocent request made the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. the pushy mother of legendary surrogate parent were not is currently under investigation during a visit to an aircraft carrier Wisconsinites will tune in on ABC stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. released. for fraud by the FBI. Mack is the over four years ago.” to see Anne Hathaway and James The 1962 big-screen version of widow of the late Sonny Bono, Franco co-hosting and a line-up the Broadway classic by Arthur no Welcome who was elected to Congress in kind of A of co-presenters that includes Laurents starred Rosalind Russell wagon for Linds 1995. She took over Bono’s seat CompLiment? Jeff Bridges, Halle Berry, Sandra as Mama Rose and Natalie Wood Us Weekly reports that Lindsay after he was killed in a Nevada ski Bill James, a county commission- Bullock, Marisa Tomei and Oprah as Gypsy Rose Lee. It flopped with Lohan, who recently completed 90 accident in 1998. er in Mecklenburg, N.C., recently Winfrey. critics and audiences alike. days of rehab at Betty Ford Center, In November, Mack won her hit the “send” tab to e-mail his Laurents, who famously guards has moved into a new home next re-election bid over Palm Springs thoughts on gays in the military LoW his work, told the Post he’s all in door to her ex, Samantha Ronson, Mayor Steve Pougnet, who is to colleagues on his board. James CRUISING favor of having Streisand interpret in Venice Beach, Calif. Apparently openly gay. wrote that gays are “sexual preda- A man who posed online as a “Gypsy.” Ronson had nothing to do with tors” and allowing them to serve lesbian stricken with cancer to “Barbra and I have been getting the move. A source for the CLose up openly threatens military readi- entice teenage girls into relation- along very well now for some celebrity rag is quoted as saying Actress Glenn Close says she’s ness and unit cohesion. That’s the ships was sentenced to more than time,” he said. “We’ve talked about that Ronson only learned about offended by the unauthorized use of insult. And the compliment? Well, 10 years in prison. it a lot, and she knows what she’s Lohan’s plans after she saw her her image in a lewd video that aired he did refer to U.S. Rep. Barney According to his plea agree- doing. She has my approval.” being moved in. “She was shaking on a closed-circuit system aboard Frank, D-Mass., as “the leading ment, Douglas Lee Patrick, 39, her head and looking disgusted,” a U.S. naval ship in 2006. The video homosexual in Congress.” That’s of Baltimore pretended to be a And he shALL the source said of Ronson. “She became public Jan. 2 and prompted not quite as powerful as House cancer-stricken 18-year-old girl on Be Levon kept saying, ‘I didn’t plan it this an outcry that cost the man respon- speaker, but … social networking sites, where he Elton John and his longtime way.’” sible for the video – Navy Capt. solicited the girls to send him pic- partner David Furnish welcomed Owen Honors – his command. rise And gLITTER tures of their genitalia. their first child, born via surrogate oh, mAry! Close is seen in the video sitting “Precious” actress Mo’Nique, A search warrant executed mother in California on Christmas An online publication has at a desk, wearing a USS Enterprise who won an Oscar statuette for at his home in 2009 resulted in Day. posted pictures that show U.S. badge with a parrot in her lap. “I am best supporting actress last year, the seizure of videos and images Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish- Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., distraught that my image has been will announce the Academy Award depicting child sexual abuse from John, whose second middle name in a compromising position with used to perpetuate something that nominees Jan. 25, joining Tom his computer. Date Night. At home on your sofa, thanks to TECHTERIORS! TECHTERIORS Intelligent Environments™ CUTTING-EDGE HOME ENTERTAINMENT MADE SIMPLE. Delafield Mequon 3700 Hillside Drive 12308 Corporate Pkwy. 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