Boys on the Board
The Sun-Times’s Cindy Richards distilled several of the study’s arguments:
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Pleased to read this sympathetic coverage, CWIP members were perplexed by a contrary editorial in the Sun-Times a couple of days later: Mild-mannered and not especially intelligible, the editorial reasoned, “Everybody and his or her cause needs dough. As for breaking down charity for women’s issues, wouldn’t education, health care and job programs all be considered women’s issues? If foundations allot so many dollars to women’s groups, the pie could soon get smaller, not larger, for women’s concerns.”
Among the flurry of critical letters the editorial summoned was one from the Chicago Foundation for Women. “The Sun-Times has generally covered women’s issues with great intelligence,” observed executive director Marianne Philbin and board chair Kathy Hurley, “in part because of the contributions of writers like Cindy Richards and Carole Ashkinaze. We were therefore disappointed and concerned that the Sun-Times would have misunderstood this issue.”
Carey was later named as a survivor, along with Goode’s mother and brother.
Our correspondent commented, “The Sun-Times apparently doesn’t print the names of same-sex companions, but even their ‘no immediate survivors’ is better than the NYTimes’s error. There are almost always ‘survivors,’ and Markopoulos left many–I hardly knew him well, but his films changed my life.”
