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Daley and queer Chicago: Reflections on the mayor's last week
by Joseph Erbentraut
(profile)
Wed. May 11, 2011 8:49:36 PM
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Short URL: http://gopride.com/Z4no
Chicago, IL —
After 22 years in office, Richard M. Daley is set to wrap up his tenure as mayor of Chicago with his retirement effective next Monday.
Mayor Daley with Art Johnston at 2008 Pride Reception
credit :: jay shaff
credit :: jay shaff
Though his record on LGBT issues is not without flaw, Daley is recognized by many activists within the community as one of Illinois' (if not the nation's) most important and vocal allies with a list of accomplishments few elected officials could match including, but not limited to: In 1991, Daley brought Chicago its Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame and, later, the annual military salute to LGBT veterans (still the country's only government-sponsored projects of these kind). In 2004, he publicly stated his support for marriage equality and helped lobby for the passage of the state's civil union bill in 2009.
These accomplishments are especially noteworthy considering Daley did not start out on the best foot with queer Chicago. After he took office in 1989, he was vilified by many gay activists, many associated with the city's vocal ACT UP chapter, over what they perceived to be a slow response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the city. In late 1989, he abruptly stormed out of a meeting with gay community leaders.
ChicagoPride.com checked in with a few of the city's leading LGBT advocates for their thoughts on our soon-to-be former mayor's legacy.
According to William Greaves, director of the city's Advisory Council on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues since 2000, Chicago has become "the best city in the country to live in if you're LGBT," largely thanks to Mayor Daley's leadership. He described his working under the mayor as "an enormous honor and education."
Chief among his favorite memories of Daley are his "strong, personal support" for marriage equality and unfailing support for Lakeview's Center on Halsted.
"He has always been willing to learn about our community," Greaves said, acknowledging the initially tense relationship between Daley and gay activists. "He may not have understood it completely at the beginning, but as he learned more he became supportive. He has brought our community forward in so many different ways."
Daley told ChicagoPride.com, "Equality is an American virtue, that's why I was happy to become one of the first national civic leaders to embrace same-sex marriage, support domestic partner benefits and expand the City's Human Rights Ordinance to include ‘gender identity.' It was important to ensure the LGBT community felt at home and that's why I designated North Halsted Street an official neighborhood, I supported the Center on Halsted and appointed the first openly gay member of the Chicago City Council."
Rick Garcia, Equality Illinois founder and long-time Chicago gay activist was often one of those who challenged Daley and his response to the apex of the AIDS epidemic in Chicago. But today, he described the outgoing mayor as "an extremely hard act to follow" in terms of his relationship with the city's queer communities. Garcia traced Daley's progressiveness back to when he served as the Cook County State's Attorney and appointed a liaison to the gay community, a rare move for elected officials at that time.
That said, Garcia was also a handful of activists who "screamed at him and screamed at him" and were arrested, alongside activists like the late Danny Sotomayor and Billy McMillan in a demonstration that took place in Daley's office early in the mayor's tenure.
As activists got to know him, however, and AIDS funding was ultimately increased, Garcia said he ultimately became "the best mayor in the country for the LGBT community." He recalled an interaction with Daley about the civil unions bill when the mayor pulled Garcia aside in the hallways of the state capitol in Springfield late last year.
"He leaned in toward me and said, 'How close are we to passing the gay rights bill?' and I said, 'Close, but not close enough,'" Garcia recalled. "To that, he said whatever we needed him to do, he would do it and then he looked me dead in the eye and said, 'Rick, if they don't pass it this year, go for marriage. Just go for marriage.' Here I am the gay rights activist and I'm being more moderate than he is."
Garcia also applauded Daley's refusal to appoint a controversial religious figure, Pastor Wilfredo De Jesus, to an aldermanic post in the city's 26th Ward, though he had been the appointee of the previous outgoing alderman. De Jesus held a number of anti-gay positions.
When Garcia spoke with Daley about De Jesus, Garcia says the mayor became teary-eyed. He later appointed Roberto Maldonado, a progressive lawmaker with a strong record on LGBT issues.
"He said it would be an embarrassment to the city and that we couldn't have that," Garcia said.
Julio Rodriguez, life-time Chicago resident and president of ALMA, the Association of Latino Men for Action, added his fondest memories of Daley include meeting the mayor when he was inducted into the Gay & Lesbian Hall of Fame and watching him speak passionately about the community at the opening ceremonies of the city's Gay Games at Wrigley Field in 2006.
"I am very struck by how far he has come in starting to embrace the diversity of the LGBT community," Rodriguez said. "I just remember watching him [at the Gay Games] and that night felt surreal. He was so matter of fact in talking about the LGBT community as one of the most important communities in the city of Chicago."
"I had never imagined in my whole life I would watch the mayor of the city of Chicago do that," he added, "and at that moment it felt like every reason I believed why it would never happen was completely wrong. It made me feel like I'd forgotten what the possibilities for our community were and are."
Daley concluded, "Today, Chicago is a stronger and more vibrant city because of all that we've done together to support the LGBT community over the past two 22 years."
Daley's successor, mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel will be formally sworn in on Monday, May 16, at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park.
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Phill
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Why did you misuse the anti gay slur to describe Mayor Daley's history with gay people?
Great memories....thank you Bill...
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I may be from st Louis but I love Chicago and Mayor Daley
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THE CURE for HIV/AIDS.......AMBUSH
THE IDEA that AMBUSH cures AIDS
is being proven by the more than 400 individuals who have taken a dose of 60 ml three times daily for 21 days. The result is that AMBUSH 'KILLS' the virus by causing the protein envelope to rupture and the viral particles are discarded by the white blood cells. AMBUSH is able to 'KILL' the virus that are 'hiding' in the lymph system by its 'natural radioactive' properties. This process allows the body to 'return to normal health' with a corresponding immunity to that or those strains of the virus.
What is AMBUSH ?
AMBUSH is a radioactive isotope of uranium that is found in the 'palm' plant of which there are more than 3000 species. When ingested, AMBUSH causes the body temperature in the trunk area to rise to about 102 degrees when the individual is sleeping. The preparation takes four hours per batch, which is then given to the individuals for consumption 60 ml three times daily for 21 days. AMBUSH is a herbal preparation in this form but it contains an active ingredient which is a 'NEW' crystalline substance, a drug from the 'palm plant' similarly to ASPIRIN originating from the willow tree bark
RESULTS:
After 21 days on AMBUSH, ALL the individuals experienced a decrease in viral load to undetectable, an increase in cd4, increase in RBC, an improvement in general health such as more color to the face, decrease in Buffalo hump, an increase in gluteal muscles, a decrease to having no joint pains whereby individuals can bend to touch their toes, and walk up steps are but a few examples. There is also a dramatic increase in their sexual appetite beginning after the first week of therapy
DISCUSSION:
In any plant concoction such as percolated 'tea', there are 30-40,000 compounds, whi ch would take the scientific community twenty years to isolate one particular ingredient if they knew what they were looking for. The LORD GOD has given me seven steps to isolate the active ingredient, which is soft and metallic in nature and has a carbon- uranium-sulfur-(classified)-phentolamine configuration or structure. This is similar to Federick Kekule and the discovery of the benzene ring where he dreamt the structure.
As an antiviral and 'natural radioactivity' producing agent, AMBUSH is also effective against leukemia, lupus and HPV. Here I am saying that I have 'GIVEN' AMBUSH in the same 'strength' and dosage to patients with leukemia, lupus and HPV. A 35 year old male with HIV found it difficult to impossible to urinate was put on 'green tea' and water while the doctors contemplated prostrate surgery. One of the doctors gave him my number , I sent him a supply of AMBUSH an d he has not been given any more ARV's, since taking AMBUSH 18 months ago, is in 'good' health and has expressed a willingness to be examined by HIV investigators like many others who have taken AMBUSH.
I have sent this 'IDEA' to most HIV research agencies, scientist of the field, universities, hospitals, clinics, politicians and news agencies to which it is REJECTED because the name of THE LORD GOD is mentioned. He has steered me scientifically through the processes such as which plant and how to produce the active ingredient. What are the odds of a Florida Pharmacist picking a plant would contain the CURE for HIV/AIDS ?
I have never charged any of the people for their supply of AMBUSH but a life saving has been spent on the project with NO renumeration from any sources because AMBUSH falls outside the walls of modern medicine and research.
PROPOSAL:
My proposal is that I PROVE that AMBUSH CURES HIV/AIDS by giving it to a number of END-STAGE or DRUG-RESISTANT people and the scientific community watches their recovery. This proposal addresses the problem in that I have already outlaid the results to be obtained.
This IDEA is unconventional in that the scientific community has rejected AMBUSH because I say it is GOD given. Secondly if I wrote it according to certain standards, then it might be peer reviewed. However, THE LORD GOD has also shown me that there are five enzyme systems associated with the virus, reverse transcriptase, protease, fusion and two more of which causes the virus to be AIRBOURNE. This means that without DIVINE intervention mankind and ALL warm- blooded mammals will be extinct in a number of years.
The PROOF of what I am saying is found in scientific papers wherein it is found that when the protease cuts the viral strands, it cuts it at DIFFERENT lengths EVERY time, to which it should always be a valine at the end but is a different amino acid every time. This is why it is IMPOSSIBLE to produce a VACCINE.
Since this is NOT a hypothesis but there are about 400 individuals who have taken AMBUSH, here lies a vast area in which to check, recheck and confirm that AMBUSH CURES AIDS. Let it be mentioned that during the HIV reproductive cycle, reverse transcriptase converts viral RNA into DNA compatible to human genetic materials. Thus the human DNA has been 'hijacked' and since each person has a DIFFERENT DNA, then the new viral copy is unique to that person which shows that each individual has a DIFFERENT STRAIN of the virus. Consider two HIV positive people swapping viral strains and increasing its complexity with multiple partners.
It can also be proposed that they be revisited as proof that the strain or strains that they had were 'killed' at the time of taking AMBUSH considering that a person can catch as many different strains as there are people who are infected by HIV.
I am also willing to work with the scientific community in identifying those individuals who took AMBUSH and wish to be identified with this process notwithstanding that some are stigmatized while others are jubilant,
Once AMBUSH is verified as being able to accomplish that which is aforementioned then the next stage might be the natural and artificial synthesis of the substance.
Finally, if this is accepted or not, believed or not, THE LORD GOD always wins and this is the heavenly truth to which AMBUSH was divinely given to mankind for the CURE of HIV/AIDS and it will be here forever.
The WORLD is therefore COMPELLED to listen......sooner or later....your choice !!!!!
Apostle Shada Mishe.
apostleshadamishe@gmail.com
Here is a video taped presentation that I gave at t he Martin Luther King library in Washington
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V53D1w__Po
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPwuwlVBOV0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZejptOwMTzQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqcTgIAhrhc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7HPKcT_iwY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9iQfgiYAnw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3RzRS6tJDM
THE IDEA that AMBUSH cures AIDS
is being proven by the more than 400 individuals who have taken a dose of 60 ml three times daily for 21 days. The result is that AMBUSH 'KILLS' the virus by causing the protein envelope to rupture and the viral particles are discarded by the white blood cells. AMBUSH is able to 'KILL' the virus that are 'hiding' in the lymph system by its 'natural radioactive' properties. This process allows the body to 'return to normal health' with a corresponding immunity to that or those strains of the virus.
What is AMBUSH ?
AMBUSH is a radioactive isotope of uranium that is found in the 'palm' plant of which there are more than 3000 species. When ingested, AMBUSH causes the body temperature in the trunk area to rise to about 102 degrees when the individual is sleeping. The preparation takes four hours per batch, which is then given to the individuals for consumption 60 ml three times daily for 21 days. AMBUSH is a herbal preparation in this form but it contains an active ingredient which is a 'NEW' crystalline substance, a drug from the 'palm plant' similarly to ASPIRIN originating from the willow tree bark
RESULTS:
After 21 days on AMBUSH, ALL the individuals experienced a decrease in viral load to undetectable, an increase in cd4, increase in RBC, an improvement in general health such as more color to the face, decrease in Buffalo hump, an increase in gluteal muscles, a decrease to having no joint pains whereby individuals can bend to touch their toes, and walk up steps are but a few examples. There is also a dramatic increase in their sexual appetite beginning after the first week of therapy
DISCUSSION:
In any plant concoction such as percolated 'tea', there are 30-40,000 compounds, whi ch would take the scientific community twenty years to isolate one particular ingredient if they knew what they were looking for. The LORD GOD has given me seven steps to isolate the active ingredient, which is soft and metallic in nature and has a carbon- uranium-sulfur-(classified)-phentolamine configuration or structure. This is similar to Federick Kekule and the discovery of the benzene ring where he dreamt the structure.
As an antiviral and 'natural radioactivity' producing agent, AMBUSH is also effective against leukemia, lupus and HPV. Here I am saying that I have 'GIVEN' AMBUSH in the same 'strength' and dosage to patients with leukemia, lupus and HPV. A 35 year old male with HIV found it difficult to impossible to urinate was put on 'green tea' and water while the doctors contemplated prostrate surgery. One of the doctors gave him my number , I sent him a supply of AMBUSH an d he has not been given any more ARV's, since taking AMBUSH 18 months ago, is in 'good' health and has expressed a willingness to be examined by HIV investigators like many others who have taken AMBUSH.
I have sent this 'IDEA' to most HIV research agencies, scientist of the field, universities, hospitals, clinics, politicians and news agencies to which it is REJECTED because the name of THE LORD GOD is mentioned. He has steered me scientifically through the processes such as which plant and how to produce the active ingredient. What are the odds of a Florida Pharmacist picking a plant would contain the CURE for HIV/AIDS ?
I have never charged any of the people for their supply of AMBUSH but a life saving has been spent on the project with NO renumeration from any sources because AMBUSH falls outside the walls of modern medicine and research.
PROPOSAL:
My proposal is that I PROVE that AMBUSH CURES HIV/AIDS by giving it to a number of END-STAGE or DRUG-RESISTANT people and the scientific community watches their recovery. This proposal addresses the problem in that I have already outlaid the results to be obtained.
This IDEA is unconventional in that the scientific community has rejected AMBUSH because I say it is GOD given. Secondly if I wrote it according to certain standards, then it might be peer reviewed. However, THE LORD GOD has also shown me that there are five enzyme systems associated with the virus, reverse transcriptase, protease, fusion and two more of which causes the virus to be AIRBOURNE. This means that without DIVINE intervention mankind and ALL warm- blooded mammals will be extinct in a number of years.
The PROOF of what I am saying is found in scientific papers wherein it is found that when the protease cuts the viral strands, it cuts it at DIFFERENT lengths EVERY time, to which it should always be a valine at the end but is a different amino acid every time. This is why it is IMPOSSIBLE to produce a VACCINE.
Since this is NOT a hypothesis but there are about 400 individuals who have taken AMBUSH, here lies a vast area in which to check, recheck and confirm that AMBUSH CURES AIDS. Let it be mentioned that during the HIV reproductive cycle, reverse transcriptase converts viral RNA into DNA compatible to human genetic materials. Thus the human DNA has been 'hijacked' and since each person has a DIFFERENT DNA, then the new viral copy is unique to that person which shows that each individual has a DIFFERENT STRAIN of the virus. Consider two HIV positive people swapping viral strains and increasing its complexity with multiple partners.
It can also be proposed that they be revisited as proof that the strain or strains that they had were 'killed' at the time of taking AMBUSH considering that a person can catch as many different strains as there are people who are infected by HIV.
I am also willing to work with the scientific community in identifying those individuals who took AMBUSH and wish to be identified with this process notwithstanding that some are stigmatized while others are jubilant,
Once AMBUSH is verified as being able to accomplish that which is aforementioned then the next stage might be the natural and artificial synthesis of the substance.
Finally, if this is accepted or not, believed or not, THE LORD GOD always wins and this is the heavenly truth to which AMBUSH was divinely given to mankind for the CURE of HIV/AIDS and it will be here forever.
The WORLD is therefore COMPELLED to listen......sooner or later....your choice !!!!!
Apostle Shada Mishe.
apostleshadamishe@gmail.com
Here is a video taped presentation that I gave at t he Martin Luther King library in Washington
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V53D1w__Po
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPwuwlVBOV0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZejptOwMTzQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqcTgIAhrhc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7HPKcT_iwY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9iQfgiYAnw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3RzRS6tJDM
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