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OP-ED Creep of the Week Donald Trump
By D’Anne Witkowski
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ON MONDAY, OCT. 27, DONALD Trump swore in his third Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett under the cloak of night. And like many things that necessitate darkness, it was a sordid afair that will leave a lasting stain. And let’s be clear: this is not an accomplishment, despite what Republicans might claim. We do not say that a bank robber’s sudden windfall is an accomplishment. We do not say that a child’s pack of grape Bubbilicious stolen from Kroger is an accomplishment. Nor should we say that the Republican packing of the Supreme Court, not to mention so many lower courts, in the U.S. is an accomplishment. It is a fact, yes. It is an intentional action yielding their desired result. But there is nothing to be proud of here. Te immorality of the Republican Party in staggering.
You’ll remember, of course, that in President Barack Obama’s last year in ofce, the Republicans, led by Mitch McConnell, refused to consider his Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland. Tey said that in an election year the people should decide who should be the next president, and the next president should get to nominate someone for the court.
And we all know how that turned out.
Note that Garland was appointed in March. MARCH. His appointment was blocked by the Republicans for over six months. It was too close to the election, McConnell said.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Sept. 18. McConnell and the Republicans rammed through Coney Barrett’s nomination in less than a month, because they have no principles. No morals. Tey care only about power.
Te most corrupt and incompetent and irresponsible president in history was able to put three justices on the Supreme Court. Tese justices were chosen specifcally because they will vote against LGBTQ rights, against reproductive freedom, against access to health care, against voting rights.
But let’s not forget that there’s an election happening right now. Hell, by the time you read this, election day may have come and gone.
Te other day a pickup truck drove past me with two giant fags fying from the back. One was a black-andblue American fag, the other was the traditional American fag with the words, “Trump 2020 F*UCK YOUR FEELINGS.” Tese fags truly represent everything the Republican Party — and let’s be clear that Trump is NOT separate from the Republican Party, he is the ultimate symbol of what this party is — stands for.
First, the so-called “Blue Lives Matter” fag. It is intended to be a show of support for law enforcement in response to the Black Lives Matter movement. It is ftting that this fag is black and blue, like a bruise. Of course, if your response to the idea that Black lives should matter and that the police shouldn’t be able to kill them with impunity is to say that, no, actually police ofcers killing Black people is fne with you, then you’re probably racist. If you really want to support law enforcement, then support policies that would make them and the communities they serve safer and more secure like training in deescalation, licensing requirements, transparency, and accountability.
Secondly, the stars and stripes with “F*UCK YOUR FEELINGS” scrawled across it is the equivalent of wearing the fag as a diaper. Trump’s self proclaimed patriots love to shout about respecting the fag when Black athletes are kneeling to protest police brutality, but are more than happy to use the fag as a billboard for their hated and general assholery.
Te U.S. is a fawed country, no doubt. But we were built on ideals that are worth trying to live up to. We’ve moved backward under Trump.
Tat said, the Democrats are a fawed party. But they are the only party that thinks this country’s ideals are aspirational. Tey are the only party with candidates who care about people. Tey are the only party that believes in science. Tey are the only party that believes that COVID-19 is real and that we must do everything we can to slow the spread and save lives.
Republicans, who consider themselves the “tough guys” because they have open disdain for caring about other people, have given up on trying to control the virus. Te biggest health crisis this country has faced in my lifetime and the Republicans have said, “Nah, that’s too hard.”
Tey are losers and failures. And that should be refected in the election results across the board.
It’s not over on Nov. 3. Even if Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are elected and Trump and Pence lose as they so rightfully deserve to lose. Te hatred and the violence and the false reality that have been encouraged and given legitimacy by the Fox News Administration isn’t going away any time soon, and Trump is going to ramp up his trashing of the country on his way out.
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D’Anne Witkowski is a poet, writer and comedian living in Michigan with her wife and son. She has been writing about LGBT politics for over a decade. Follow her on Twitter @MamaDWitkowski.
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OP-ED Massive voter turnout brings victory to Joe Biden
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By Colby Etherton
AS SOON AS EARLY VOTING started on October 13, Texas saw record numbers of people coming out to vote. By October 30, Texas had exceeded 100 percent of its total 2016 turnout with more than nine million Texans casting their ballots before Election Day.
Tose incredible numbers hopefully point to a shift in higher voter participation not just in our state, but also around the country.
Te number of registered voters that show up for presidential elections tends to hover between 50 and 60 percent, a number all too low and even lower in midterm elections. Te 2018 midterms had the highest voter turnout in four decades, and even then, turnout was only 53 percent. According to the Associated Press, the tallied votes accounted for 62% of the eligible voting-age population in the U.S as of Sunday, Nov. 8. Tat’s a 0.4 percentage point increase so far over the rate hit in 2008, when the nation elected its frst Black president.
In Texas, at least 66% of the 17 million registered voters cast ballots in the 2020 general election, also according to AP. Tat’s 6.6 percentage points higher than total turnout in 2016. What is it that has energized Texans when it comes to our elections? On one hand, I think our newfound status as a battleground state has partly infuenced that; Texas has traditionally been a stronghold for Republicans. As we continue to expand in population, become more diverse, and voting becomes easier for everyone, the more our state moves toward becoming purple.
Tere’s a feeling among left-leaning voters that our votes count more than ever. It’s surreal to think that Texas may now be considered a swing state in upcoming elections, though it’s also possible that we have this unusual distinction in 2020 because of the divisive, hateful rhetoric that Donald Trump has amplifed. It’s possible that Texas may move back toward familiar Republican territory if that party felds someone “normal” (though just about anyone would seem normal in comparison to Trump) in a future election.
But the gains Democrats have made cannot be ignored. Our voice is growing and will continue to do so. We saw that in the upset of Lina Hidalgo’s win in Harris County, and Lizzie Fletcher’s win over 9-term incumbent John Culberson in Texas’ 7th congressional district.
Nationwide, records have been shattered with the unprecedented early voting and voting by mail numbers. Tis is largely fueled by the ongoing pandemic. Unfortunately, we are seeing Republicans in power resort to the dirtiest tactics possible to undermine and disenfranchise voters. Republicans tried several times to get drive-through voting in Harris County halted, and in late October once again asked the Texas Supreme Court to intervene, this time requesting that the hundreds of thousands of votes cast via drive-through voting be invalidated. In Minnesota, voters potentially have not had their votes counted after Election Day. Te Supreme Court ruled that in Wisconsin, votes that arrived after Election Day (even if they were postmarked Nov. 3 or earlier) would not count. Tis is voter suppression, pure and simple. What we are seeing is a Republican party terrifed by the unprecedented turnout we’ve seen thus far. Republicans know that the more people that get out there and vote, the less of a chance they have of holding on to power. Te comical thing is that votes arriving after Election Day and continuing to be counted afterward is a completely normal aspect of elections, and it suddenly becoming an issue now is telling: Republicans see the writing on the wall. Whether by limiting polling locations, cutting into early voting or strict signature-matching requirements for mail-in ballots, Republicans at every turn have tried to make it harder to vote for everyone. Trump exacerbates this with his encouragement of his supporters to go to the polls to poll watch, a clear attempt to intimidate those who don’t support him. If there is one silver lining to the blatant attack on voting rights that Republicans have launched, it’s that perhaps this issue will be met head-on with the gumption that it deserves with a Democratic White House, House of Representatives, and Senate. Something like automatic voter registration would probably terrify a lot of rank and fle Republicans, with inevitable claims that it opens the door for voter fraud —of which there is no evidence. Voter fraud is incredibly rare in the United States). Truly, increased voter participation can only be a good thing. Countries like Australia and Germany all have north of 90 percent voter participation. What a win it would be if the U.S. could someday match those numbers. It took four days to determine that Joe Biden will be President. Perhaps now we can begin to undo the damage of the last four years. But this sweeping Democratic Party victory won’t mark the end of our fght as there are cases being addressed by the Supreme Court in November that will have huge ramifcations on our nation — namely, the future of the Afordable Care Act and a case in Philadelphia that could threaten anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ parents seeking to adopt. Te views expressed in this article do not necessarily refect those of Montrose Star, and are entirely those of the writer. e
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By Chris Azzopardi
ALOT HAS HAPPENED THIS YEAR, and that’s aside from Jim Parsons dancing around in a bra. Tat bit, of course, graced screens across the world thanks to Netfix’s Hollywood, the Big Bang Teory actor shedding his well-established onscreen TV persona to play a sleazy Hollywood agent in the fashy revisionist drama. Te Ryan Murphy series garnered him an Emmy nomination, but best of all: It wouldn’t be the only time in 2020 that Parsons would be taking on the role of a bitchy queen. In Netfix’s Te Boys in the Band, again produced by Murphy, Parsons is a standout among standouts in the remake of the pioneering 1970 gay-centric drama, directed by William Friedkin. Initially staged as an Of-Broadway play in 1968, the flm is based on Mart Crowley’s screenplay, written about a group of gay friends and frenemies living in New York City. An awkward birthday party for their friend Harold, a self-proclaimed “ugly, pockmarked Jew fairy,” becomes the breeding ground for savage takedowns, as they tear into each other, exposing the kind of self-hatred familiar to gay men trying to survive the oppressive state of pre-Stonewall America. Parsons plays seething party host Michael, a semilapsed Catholic whose aggressively nasty observations about his friends reveal more about him than it does about them. In the remake, Parsons reprises his role alongside the original – and entirely openly gay – cast of the 2018 Broadway revival: Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer, Andrew Rannells, Charlie Carver, Robin de Jesús, Brian Hutchison, Michael Benjamin Washington and Tuc Watkins. Parsons’s out Hollywood co-star Joe Mantello, who directed the Broadway revival, once again directs. On Zoom recently, Parsons talked about the revealing conversations he shared with Crowley about Te Boys in the Band before his death in March and how working on the project led to a deeper understanding and questioning of his own self-worth. Being the bitchy queen doesn’t seem like something that comes naturally to you. Apparently I have an afnity with it, or an interest in it. Or Ryan Murphy
has an interest in forcing me to do going into the beginning of the rehearsal it! I’m not sure which. Ha! process, knowing that you’re dealing with What has that experience been like for you? It’s been heaven. As an actor, I’ll be honest with you: Both of these men are complicated characters, and the two roles this year in Hollywood and in Boys in the Band were very diferent in many ways, but they had a similar feeling to me. Going into the projects, there was a mystery and an unknown quality about the challenge that lied ahead. I felt confdent that I would be able to get there with both of them, but it was exciting to know it wasn’t a done deal. I was going to work to get there, and I was going to have to, most importantly, get on set and start doing these scenes for both these characters and see what happened, and that was exciting. Your role in Hollywood earned you an Emmy nomination, which must have felt validating after being uncertain about playing that role. Tat was a great feeling. Playing more challenging characters such as these, when do you know, “OK, I think I’ve got it”? I feel like that specifc feeling comes in little spots through the process, where you just feel good about something. But in general, everything I do, by the time it’s all done and the months go by until it’s released, suddenly I start having trouble remembering any of the good moments and I’m like, “Oh god, oh god. It’s coming.” When I worked on Hollywood on the character Henry, that was a longer process than the flm because it was episodes and it went on for about six months. We were about midway through the process when I actually wrote Ryan Murphy an email just telling him how appreciative I was of the experience, and it was because I had crossed some bridge about working on that character. It had really clicked in me what a special opportunity this was, this character, that I just hadn’t seen as clearly when I frst started. a character who is compensating as much as he can. I always had this phrase in my head every time I was working with the character: He’s just dancing as fast as he can in order to keep things afoat. But it’s so superfcial because there’s this elemental part of himself that he is completely unhappy with and so, as happens in this, just the right amount of things break the wrong way and he’s cracked. What’s interesting about both characters is that Henry in Hollywood was based on a real man, Henry Wilson, the man who invented Rock Hudson, and so I had this beautiful book by Robert Hofer that is Henry’s biography. Robert had done so much research about who he was and when he was young and when he got old, and we focus on one specifc part of Henry – and invented so much around it too; it wasn’t all pure truth – so to have all that information gave me a humane quality to Henry that I understood. Michael was a little diferent. Even though I consciously knew that he was a rough stand-in for the writer, Mart Crowley, I didn’t want to presume how much, nor did I want to put that responsibility on myself. At the time, both for the play and the movie, Mart was alive and I just thought, “Don’t even think about it.” But it kind of couldn’t help creeping in, and the more chances I had to be around Mart and talk to Mart and exchange emails with Mart, one thing after another began to click and I was like, “Te character of Michael is a writer just like Mart is.” From this distance, now that we’ve had this put to bed for so long, although it’s just now being released, I see a version of it where this is partly the story of Mart before he was able to write Boys in the Band. For me, the main magical thing about Boys in the Band comes from the fact that Mart was fnally able to reveal himself Photo Netflix to become something that’s not just about gay men. It’s become something that’s about all people sufering under oppression and shame. And that’s the way the world went, but I don’t think, unless you’re willing to open a vein the way that Mart was, that, going back to Michael, I believe that you can’t create something that impactful and be that honest until you accept yourself for everything that you are. Tat’s where we leave Michael, with Harold telling him, “You will always be a homosexual. Tere’s nothing you can do to change it.” And we don’t see Michael transition into a healthier, self-loving person, but the more I think about it, the more I think that if he’s truly a stand-in for Mart, then that’s where Michael goes. Maybe he goes of to write his Boys in the Band. It’s interesting to me to think that the flm, when it was released in 1970, before the lexicon of LGBTQ identities expanded, resonated with an especially niche group of people. And that was, specifcally, gay men. Now, that specifc demographic seems almost antiquated because identity is far less restrictive. One of the things I’m realizing – and please understand that so many things that I’m realizing I’m realizing them in the moment as we are now able to talk about the release of this flm and the evolution that this story that Mart created has gone through – that no writer or anybody could predict because you don’t know With Michael, the reasons for his ruthless and his situation and the people that what’s going to happen in the world. disdain really reveal themselves at the end of the he knew and loved with so much brutal Stonewall happened shortly after flm. When you’re playing characters as vicious honesty. I think that’s why it connected Boys in the Band. It was a moment that as Michael and Henry, what’s your process for with so many people. I think that’s why created a real backlash from the gay exposing the layers of humanity beneath the it stood the test of time. I think that’s community against Boys in the Band, surface of these characters’ rough edges? why, as a piece of literature, it has stayed and for all the complaints, the main one In the case of Michael, I think that’s bubbling in our consciousness this was, “We don’t want to be represented a big part of what you carry with you long, and lo and behold has expanded like this, as unhappy, self-hating, haveFind us on P v Facebook.com & t Twitter
to-hide at-home (people).” And I totally understand that. Especially in that infantile time, that embryo of this independence starting to form, you need all the nutrition you can get, ha!
But because of the eforts of so many, we have come far enough that we are more than OK to look at an honest portrayal of a real side of what it was to be gay. And even though it’s not as intense in this way, there’s residual (issues).
One of the things I discovered going through this and having the luxury to spend so much time with this part, both in the play and in the movie, was how much of those feelings that I thought I didn’t really have because of my age and the acceptance in the world. Bullshit. I do. I do. It’s not as intense. It’s a diferent world. But it’s not gone completely. And there is still a part of me that, as a gay person, I see more clearly having played Michael for so long. (I’m) still dealing with – and it’s truly OK, consciously I know this – but there’s that little voice inside sometimes that still goes, “Am I enough? Am I OK?” I recognize that, with my very good friends especially, there’s a language that we speak with each other that’s tart-tongued and lovingly bitchy. I’m wondering if the way these gay men talk to each other on-screen translated of-screen since you worked with a cast of all gay men. (Smiles.) You know what? I don’t know if it was because of who we are or because of the time we’re living – ha! – or because we were actually working together: It was certainly not as biting; it’s a lot kinder, although Charlie, sweet thing, may disagree. He takes a beating from us! But you know what? Tat’s youth, and that’s what you get. Ha!
But no, defnitely, it was one of the most profound things about going through this process, and I’m not even speaking about whether or not this is refected in the fnal product on flm. I’m really talking about my own personal experience of working on this: I feel we have the luxury now of not needing for safety and for personal comfort to be surrounded by your tribe of gay men. Many people have plenty of gay friends, and so many people solely, but it’s not for the same reasons in my opinion that it would’ve been in the late ’60s, early ’70s where it was like, “Truly, we have to stick together.” Tat’s wonderful. But what I realized working with these guys is there’s a language spoken. I don’t know if it’s all gay men all over the planet. All gay people. I don’t know if it’s strictly specifc to a gay American male. I will say it’s the only time I’ve gone to curtain call and repeatedly – and I don’t even know why because I hate saying this, but I’m like, “Hey heney!” I mean, I never talk like that. Ha! But every once in a while, I would grab Zach Quinto’s hand on stage before the bow and I’d go, “Hi heney!” Ryan Murphy has said we need more stories about the history of LGBTQ people. Aside from starring in Boys in the Band this year, you are producing the LGBTQ docudrama Equal for HBO Max. What are some other LGBTQ stories you would like to see revived for new generations of LGBTQ people to experience? Tat’s hard to say. You know what’s funny to me, and I don’t know what this says about me, exactly – well, it says that I’m a child of privilege, that I’m a gay man of privilege living in the world that I’ve grown up in. But I’ve been so fortunate that the people that I’ve worked with have called on me to be a part of these things, whether it was Normal Heart or Boys in the Band. Even Equal was something that was being created and thought of and they included me in on it. So I have been blessed with this story lesson since I was, again, just too privileged and going about my own daily business in order to go research on my own.
But I guess my answer is twofold: I don’t know what the next story is that should be revived, and the second thing is that I do realize the importance because of the impact that it’s had on me being exposed to these stories, and a strength and a wellroundness that I feel as a gay man by understanding more specifcally the historical context within which I walk as a gay man in 2020 now. It’s crucial for making me the person I am.
And I get sweaty palms at the thought of, were it not for the slidingdoor moments of these people asking me to do this, I might miss it, or not understand it, or feel it the way that I do now. So I hope that these projects go out to people and give a similar level of that. I don’t want to say education because it’s entertainment and I want people to watch it, for Christ’s sake. Ha! But I hope that we’ve portrayed it in a way that is realistic and humanizing enough that you can’t help but get the point. e
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By Paula Dream (AKA Kale Haygood)
WELL, GUYS AND GALS, HERE WE are: Another holiday has passed and one of my favorites is just around the corner. Te recipes I am giving you in this issue are some of my favorites for the fall season. Of course, I love chicken (don’t say anything!) any way you prepare it. But on a cool fall evening, the tomato soup really does me right. And in keeping with the season, the pumpkin mufns with cream cheese icing can’t be beat for breakfast or just a snack. Like my Dad would say, “Easy as falling of a log.” Folks, more than ever, please support our advertisers and our family of businesses who have struggled to re-open their doors, or just to keep them open. Additionally, many folks have lost their jobs or been furloughed with no or little income. Donate if you can to the Pride Pantry at Barcode (817 Fairview Ave.) that my buddies Joe and Keith have been instrumental in organizing. Tank you all so much. I look forward to seeing you all out at the watering holes when it’s safe!
IRON SKILLET SPINACH CHICKEN
4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 tablespoons kosher salt 1 tablespoon black pepper 2 tablespoons butter Flour for dredging 1 cup shallots, minced 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 cup dry white wine 1 cup heavy cream 4 cups fresh baby spinach 1 tablespoon fresh parsley, hopped Lemon wedges Add olive oil to a large iron skillet on medium-high heat. Sprinkle chicken breasts with salt and pepper. Dredge chicken in four, shaking of excess four. Place chicken in skillet, cooking about eight minutes per side, turning once, until browned. Remove and keep warm on a plate. Turn down heat to medium and add butter to melt. Add shallots and garlic. Cook one to two minutes, continually stirring. Add wine, scrapping skillet bits. Simmer until liquid is reduced in half. Add heavy cream. Cook fve minutes, stirring continually until thickened. Remove skillet from heat. Sauté spinach in skillet until wilted. Cut chicken across the grain in strips and return to skillet. Sprinkle top with parsley. Serve with lemon wedges.
ROASTED TOMATO SOUP
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1 yellow onion, coarsely chopped 2 garlic cloves, coarsely chopped 2 tablespoons fresh basil, chopped 2 tablespoons thyme leaves, coarsely chopped 2 jars (12 ounces) roasted bell peppers 1 can (28 ounces) can whole peeled tomatoes 2 cups chicken stock Heat olive oil on medium heat in a large pan. Add onions; sauté until tender. Add garlic, basil and thyme, and cook for about two minutes. Stir in red peppers and tomatoes with juice. Simmer for a couple of minutes. Add chicken stock and allow to simmer about 5 more minutes. Place all of the ingredients into food processor and puree, or use an immersion blender. Return to saucepan. Soup is done. Serve with homemade biscuits or cornbread.
CREAM CHEESE ICED PUMPKIN MUFFINS
3 cups flour 1 tablespoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon ground ginger 1 teaspoon nutmeg 2 teaspoon baking soda 1 1 teaspoon salt 3 cups sugar 1 can (15 ounces) pumpkin 4 large eggs 1 cup vegetable oil 1 cup apple juice 1 cups walnuts, finely chopped Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Using cupcake liners, prepare mufn tins for 30 cupcakes. (I have found that using cooking spray on cupcake liners works great for releasing mufns from liners.) Stir four, spices, baking soda and salt together in a large bowl. In another bowl combine pumpkin, eggs, sugar, oil and juice; beat until just blended. Add four mixture to pumpkin mixture, stirring until just moistened, and then add walnuts. Spoon batter into prepared mufn cups, flling about three-quarter’s full. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until they pass toothpick test. Allow to cool 10 minutes before removing from mufn tin.
Cream Cheese Icing
1 block (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened 1 stick butter, softened 4 cups powdered sugar 1 tablespoon vanilla extract Beat cream cheese with a mixer for about 30 seconds. Add butter and beat together. Add the powdered sugar and vanilla. Beat until fufy and smooth. Top cupcakes. e
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