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2008 Bud Light Windy City Gay Idol Finalists
2008-06-11

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Cori Calderon

Mary's attic

Nickname: Popcorn Girl, Green Bean

Age: 27

Single/Partnered: Partnered to JJ. It will be 2 years this August.

City/Neighborhood: Edgewater

Unique Talent: My step dad says I can sell ice to an Eskimo.

Who's Your Gay Idol: Yoda Joe, aka Joey Williams, my voice teacher in Manhattan

Guiltiest Pleasure: Jack Daniel's on the rocks with a splash of Coke

Worst Habit: I have to be in control of everyone and everything all the times... sorry babe.

First Concert: Celine Dion

Alicen Santos

SPIN

Age: Older than you'd think

Single/Partnered: Both

City/Neighborhood: Been all over.

Worst Habit: Interrupting people, but im working on it!

First Concert: Pink

Jeff Johnson

HYDRATE

Nickname: Filthyrebel

Age: 34

Single/Partnered: Partnered two and half years

City/Neighborhood: Lincoln Square

Unique Talent: My impressions of Aaron Neville and Peter Griffin/Family Guy

Who's Your Gay Idol: Rob Halford/Judas Priest

Guiltiest Pleasure: Lots of chocolate chip cookies

Worst Habit: Smoking

First Concert: Bulletboys/Slaughter/Poison

Judith Weirauch

@MOSPHERE

Nickname: Jude

Age: A lady doesn't tell.

Single/Partnered: Very happily partnered

City/Neighborhood: Andersonville

Unique Talent: Ask my girlfriend...

Who's Your Gay Idol: John Waters

Guiltiest Pleasure: Stupid romantic comedies

Worst Habit: Forgetting people's names

First Concert: Styx

Jamie Newland

SCARLET

Nickname: Tiger

Age: 38

Single/Partnered: Boyfriend

City/Neighborhood: Boystown

Unique Talent: Improv comedy

Who's Your Gay Idol: Kelly Clarkson and Gay Idol 2007 Dan Kerry!

Guiltiest Pleasure: Old Super Friends cartoons

Worst Habit: Double dipping

First Concert: Barenaked Ladies

Valerie MacCabe

SPIN

Nickname: Tink, Tinkerbell

Age: 24

Single/Partnered: Just moved here, very single... and looking.

City/Neighborhood: Wheeling ( Northwest Suburbs )

Unique Talent: I make a mean grilled cheese. No, really.

Who's Your Gay Idol: Freddie Mercury

Guiltiest Pleasure: I still color in coloring books.

Worst Habit: I'm ALWAYS late.

First Concert: The Vandals on my 16th birthday

James Gavin

@MOSPHERE

Nickname: Stamos

Age: 24

Single/Partnered: Engaged to a wonderful man named Dustin Johnson

City/Neighborhood: Edgewater

Unique Talent: I do this really cool thing with my tongue.

Who's Your Gay Idol: Elton John—an amazing song writer and an amazing gay icon.

Guiltiest Pleasure: Fast food

Worst Habit: I'm constantly singing no matter where I am.

First Concert: Too far back to remember

Lori Anderson

THE CLOSET

Nickname: Andi, PeaNut or Lockport Lori

Age: 40-something

Single/Partnered: Partnered with Sue. She's beautiful and amazing. I live to see her smile.

City/Neighborhood: Lockport, IL

Unique Talent: I can palm the floor.

Who's Your Gay Idol: My brother, Pammie Schultz

Guiltiest Pleasure: Playing and singing with my peeps. Love those harmonies, girls!

Worst Habit: Can't think of any. Even my girlfriend couldn't!

First Concert: Elvis

S.R.

SCARLET

Age: 28

Single/Partnered: Who wants to know?

City/Neighborhood: Boystown, relocated to Chicago from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in December of 2005

Unique Talent: Putting together an outfit that looks like a million bucks from discount stores, or home decorating...

Who's Your Gay Idol: Honey West

Guiltiest Pleasure: Sugar on theatre popcorn

Worst Habit: Impatience

First Concert: Michael Jackson's History Tour

BRIAN Tiffany

CLUB KRAVE

Nickname: Vampire

Age: 28

Single/Partnered: Taken for now

City/Neighborhood: Southside

Unique Talent: I am me and I am unique.

Who's Your Gay Idol: I would like it to be Malik or myself ( gotta root for the Southsiders ) .

Guiltiest Pleasure: The company of straight men, lol

Worst Habit: Correcting people when they're wrong

First Concert: Aerosmith

Malik Samuel

CLUB KRAVE

Nickname: Hoops

Age: Legal

Single/Partnered: Partnered

City/Neighborhood: Beverly

Unique Talent: Basketball playing

Who's Your Gay Idol: George Michael

Guiltiest Pleasure: The Internet

Worst Habit: Facebook

First Concert: New Edition's Heartbreak Tour

Antonio King

HYDRATE

Nickname: Tony

Age: If I told you, I'd have to kill you.

Single/Partnered: Partnered to one of the sexiest men alive!

City/Neighborhood: Bronzeville

Unique Talent: I can make my ears click—yes, click!

Who's Your Gay Idol: The late, great Bayard Rustin

Guiltiest Pleasure: ICE CREAM!

Worst Habit: According to my partner it would be leaving my clothes laying around.

First Concert: With my music teacher in grammar school, Mrs. Robinson

Marla Depew

STAR GAZE

Nickname: Mars

Age: The big 3-0

Single/Partnered: My boyfriend Rusty loves my goofy, queer feminist self.

City/Neighborhood: Andersonville

Unique Talent: I have yet to meet anyone who can flare their nostrils out and in and out again faster than I can.

Who's Your Gay Idol: My second grade gym teacher Miss B.

Guiltiest Pleasure: The Bachelor and The Bachelorette

Worst Habit: I'm too damn lazy.

First Concert: The Lemonheads


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