What this says to me is that there is an organized anti-Jewish movement in the LGBTQ community in the Chicago area

It sure implies that this paper is caving into those who have anti-Jewish sentiments, and want her removed

Must hide the messenger in the sales department.

Disgusting.

Maybe it should be?

Is vitriol against us.

I declined to move to Israel in the 1950s. Getting out of the Army, working for JFK, left me extremely proud and loving of my adopted USA.

I probably made a mistake.

Ms. Hammond is a transgender woman, which shows how some are willing to sacrifice ANYONE to promote their anti-Semitism.

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I lost my voice in 1981 when I was 11-years-old. My dad was one of those fellows who thought Britain still had an empire. He didn’t appreciate my more effeminate personality traits so, to cure me of them, he sent me to a posh, all boys school where teachers walked around in black cloaks as if they were each cosplaying Darth Vader with an inferiority complex. You didn’t speak unless spoken to. Dissention, attempts to display a personality or any kind of half-Indian pride were beaten out of me with a cane. My voice was instead hidden in movies I obsessed over like “Masada” and “The Great Escape.”

After I’d finished doing time at school, I fled England because I believed the marketing imported through American TV shows from “The Bionic Woman” to “Dallas” which promised that I could find my voice in a land where anything was possible. But the foreign exchange company screwed up. Instead of sending me to live with Cagney and Lacey in one of the three cities I’d heard of: New York, Los Angeles and Miami (because of “Miami Vice”), they sent me to a family of Mormons in New Albany, Indiana.

When I transitioned in 2007, I tried to find my voice as a woman but it was lost under the noise of a society that was still coming to grips with the people behind a series of letters that kept increasing in number and an LGBTQIACCODODIPO community still coming to grips with itself.

So, for four years as a senior reporter for a small LGBT newspaper, I walked between the silos of that community and gave voice to its stories. Those stories made me wealthier than the dreams of Gates or Buffett.

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