November 14, 2007
Weakened ENDA disappoints GLBT community groups
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act—legislation to end job-related discrimination based on sexual orientation—passed the U.S. House of Representatives Nov. 7 but faces... Full Story
Here’s how representatives from Illinois voted on HR 3685, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act... Full Story
Opinion
Thirty years ago this month, 20,000 women gathered in Houston to talk about women’s rights. They were elected from smaller conferences held in every state of the union... Full Story
The Williams Institute at the University of California Los Angeles School of Law is one of our community’s most important think tanks, producing high-quality studies on sexual... Full Story
Nation Report
Ferndale elects Michigan’s first openly gay mayor
FERNDALE, Mich.—Ferndale, a city of 22,000 in the Detroit suburbs, elected Michigan’s first openly gay mayor Nov. 6. Craig Covey, 50, won 54 percent of the vote to move into the city’s... Full Story
Gay doctor who served under Clinton dies at 49
LOS ANGELES—Dr. R. Scott Hitt, an AIDS specialist and the first openly gay person to head a presidential advisory board, has died. He was 49. Hitt... Full Story
Poll shows record majority in support of civil unions
WASHINGTON—A record 55 percent of American voters support civil unions for gay and lesbian couples in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll... Full Story
Gay and lesbian candidates win elections across U.S.
WASHINGTON—The Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund reported last week that 31 of its 71 endorsed openly gay and lesbian political candidates won election Nov. 6, with three more advancing... Full Story
Anti-gay amendment stalls in Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN—Legislators in the Puerto Rico House of Representatives adjourned Nov. 8 without taking action on a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay and lesbian marriage... Full Story
Freestyle: arts, entertainment & lifestyle
“Starrbooty” duty: an interview with RuPaul
The camera loves RuPaul. Anyone who remembers RuPaul’s music videos or talk show knows that’s a fact. So it’s perfectly logical that RuPaul would eventually be playing the lead role in a movie. “Starrbooty”... Full Story
Reeling 26: The Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival continues through November 18. Among the titles expected to be popular are “2 Minutes Later,” gay filmmaker Robert Gaston’s suspenseful follow-up... Full Story
“Better Days Ahead” is the cheerfully optimistic title of artist Rob Bondgren’s first one-man show, now on view at the recently opened Finch Gallery on West Fullerton... Full Story
Jeep improves Liberty and cuts its price, too
Jeep officials have performed a feat of alchemy—they’ve reduced the starting retail price of their revamped-for-2008 Liberty sport... Full Story
Home
Two-level living: Double your space with a duplex
What do you do when you need more space in the city? With prices for single-family homes reaching well over a million in many Chicago neighborhoods, you either make do with what you have... Full Story
Dining
Karlin finds more misses than hits at O’h
Not many things about the 1970s, other than the music (and even that’s iffy), have stood the test of time. The Hyatt... Full Story
Music
The brilliant Feist plays the Riviera, 4746 N. Racine, at 7:30 p.m. More
Obit
Robb Thomas, 51, a longtime fixture on Chicago’s bartending scene, passed away peacefully after a brief illness... Full Story
More News
I’m all for coming out and, really, I’m open to the fact that people have to do it in the way that they’re most comfortable. Still, I have to admit that I just don’t get the “Republican politician comes out in a bathroom” trend this year... Full Story
Conference tackles issues surrounding youths and AIDS
A regressive Illinois notification law, the failure of abstinence-only sex education and rising infection rates were just a few topics addressed at a Nov... Full Story
Backers laud Quality of Life lottery bill
Activists in the African American GLBT community last week heralded Illinois legislators for overriding a veto by Gov. Rod Blagojevich and establishing a lottery scratch-off game with proceeds dedicated... Full Story
Mayor OKs more AIDS housing funds
Mayor Richard Daley Nov. 5 proposed increasing rental assistance for persons with HIV/AIDS by $250,000 in 2008. The increase comes after the City has already proposed set... Full Story
Black sexuality forum provokes wide-ranging discussion
Speakers and audience members at a forum on black sexuality Nov. 10 discussed a diverse set of concerns and issues that affect how black GLBTs express love and sexuality to... Full Story
Chicago Episcopalians bypass lesbian priest in bishop vote
WHEELING, Ill.—A moderate church leader, the Rev. Jeffrey Lee, was elected the 12th Episcopal Bishop of Chicago at the diocesan convention Nov. 11 over seven other candidates... Full Story
Lakeview Lutheran church plans to ordain lesbian pastor Nov. 18
A Lakeview Lutheran congregation plans to challenge denomination policy by ordaining an openly lesbian minister who refuses to pledge celibacy... Full Story
Alva, Crump speak at AVER dinner
SSGT. Eric Alva, Edward Wosylus and Rochelle Crump pause during the 15th annual Veterans Day Dinner held Nov. 11 at the Center on Halsted by the Chicago chapter of American Veterans for Equal Rights. Alva, a gay veteran and the first... Full Story
Obama issues strong statement on GLBT rights
Sen. Barack Obama, in a statement issued last week to GLBT newspapers around the country, repudiated “beliefs about homosexuality” espoused by one of his supporters and reiterated his support for... Full Story
Deratany runs for Board of Review
Chicago attorney Jay Paul Deratany last week filed papers to run against longtime incumbent Joseph Berrios for Cook County Board of Review... Full Story
Conference discusses GLBT suicides
Mental health and GLBT health officials and experts came together for a two-day conference in Chicago last week that shed light on issues surrounding suicide in the GLBT... Full Story
Theater Reviews
Some plays are more dream than drama, with all the lowered expectations that come with nocturnal visitations. A dream’s pictures can take on an urgency that daylight dissipates... Full Story
A worthy truth lurks in the indulgent length of this earnest two-act. But it takes so long to arrive it almost forfeits its welcome. That revelation is that, 30 years later, the civil rights... Full Story
Timeline Theatre Company’s production of Jeffrey Stanley’s “Tesla’s Letters” works both as a passionate examination of the bloodthirsty... Full Story
Editorial
“A right delayed is a right denied,” Martin Luther King Jr. once said. Perhaps no words could better describe what happened in the debacle that the Employment... Full Story
I am responding to the letter to the editor concerning Sen. Barack Obama from Bob Schwartz (CFP, Nov. 7). This is not the first time he has written such a letter here. And like previously, he has... Full Story
Freetime
Midlife Crisis No. 188: I love myself
It’s true that for the last 56 years I’ve been deeply in love with myself and now…well, I wouldn’t say it was all over between us, but I would say the relationship is going through... Full Story
“Cut Sleeve Boys” (here! Films/Regent)—Gavin (Mark Hampton), a London computer geek by day and men’s room cruiser by night dies in a stall in a public lavatory while having sex with another man... Full Story
Back in the day: Moments in Chicago's GLBT history
1976 One popular gay bar at this time was called Sunday’s Children, located at 430 N. Clark St.; the owner chose the name from a popular children’s... Full Story
Making a claim such as “I Created Disco” (AlmostGold), as Calvin Harris does with the title of his new disc, takes guts. But after you listen to the titular track, you may find yourself... Full Story
As time passes, life’s mysteries are revealed to us like the recent public display of the mummy of King Tutankhamun, unearthed 85 years ago in the Valley of the Kings... Full Story
Shopping
Critters’comfort: products for the pet-friendly home
More than a decade ago I brought in my eldest feline friend, Wednesday April Adams, to help review a collaboration between Rita Mae Brown and her cat companion, Sneaky Pie... Full Story