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Music, Music Feature Jun 23, 2020
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Chicago punk was born queer

How three gay bars—La Mere Vipere, O’Banion’s, and Oz—became the cradle of the city’s punk scene
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Chicago punk, punk, queer, gay, gay bars, La Mere Vipere, Oz, O’Banion’s, Terry Fox, Sex Pistols, Kenny Ellis, Ken Ellis, Ramones, 2132 N. Halsted, Anarchy at La Mere, Punk-o-Rama, Blondie, Jim Skafish, Skafish, Tutu & the Pirates, Effigies, Silver Abuse, Da, Hüsker Dü, D.O.A., Naked Raygun, B.B. Spin, Steve Maas, Mudd Club, La Mere Gabba Gabba Gazette, Gabba Gabba Gazette, Busted at Oz, Sasha Geffen, Glitter Up the Dark, Dem Hopkins, Noah Boudreau, Noe Boudreau, Tom Wroblewski, Snake Pit, Mike Rivers, Sparkle, John Morales, Taco, Dugan’s Bistro, Bearded Lady, Cheeks, Paradise, Marilyn’s, Sunday’s, Sounds Good Records, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, Greenleaf, Lend-a-Man, John Molini, Rick Faust, Gay Chicago News/Journal, Dick Nielsen, Mary Alice Ramel-Hoeksema, Rolling Stones Records, Jeanne Genie, Monica Lynch, Steve Miglio, Spin, Joe Shanahan, Metro, Smart Bar, Neo, Tuts, Elvis Costello & the Attractions, Michael Cegur, Beluga, Cary Baker, Bomp! magazine, Nancy Rapchak, Russell Clancy, Bill Meehan, Bob Bell, Ken Mierzwa, Gay Chicago Magazine, Wax Trax!, Everett Rogers, Poison Squirrel, Immune System, Clox, the Ranch, Strike Under, Earl Letiecq, Oil, Jane Byrne, Subverts, Minor Threat, Dead Kennedys, Greg Ginn, Black Flag, Minutemen, Mike Watt, New Alliance Records, D. Boon, Land Speed Record, Rather See None, Club Foot, Roseann Kuberski, Coolest Retard, I.R.S. Records, Tommy Boy, punk history, punk venues, Pride 2020, Video

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Jun 16, 2020
I have recurring wet dreams about myself

Straight men question what it means to be heterosexual.
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, gay, homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Apr 22, 2020
My naked wife gives me anxiety attacks

What’s on the inside does count.
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, Sex, wife, anxiety, coming out, gay

Music, Music Feature Dec 10, 2019
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Rapbrarian Roy Kinsey finds his voice in queer hip-hop

With his next album, he wants to make the music he wishes he’d heard as a young man.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Roy Kinsey, rapper, librarian, rapbrarian, Blackie: A Story by Roy Kinsey, Blackie, Kinsey: A Memoir, gay, queer, Futurehood, Not Normal Tapes, Not Normal Tapes & Records, Ralph Rivera, Banjee Report, RoyAl, DePaul University, AliveOne, Tonic Room, Keep the Receipt, Beautiful Only, Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns, Helen Thompson, Great Migration, Steppenwolf, LookOut, Marcy-Newberry Association, Chicago Public Library, CPL, Wang’s, Boystown, Fetish, Nick Castle, DJ Castle, Doc Ill, Jack Hill, Push Beats, Rookie of the Year, Austin-Irving, Dominican University, Harold Washington Library, Lyricist Loft, Mike Jones, Mike Schpitz, Grumpy Old Men, For Colored Boys, Jungle Book, Phoelix, Red Black and Green, Ring Ring, Anthony Pabey, Aceb00mbap, Erik Wallace, Mister Wallace, Mykki Blanco, Cakes da Killa, BSAYF, Saya Naomi, Video

News & Politics, Feature Oct 23, 2019
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Asylum City

The harrowing stories of six asylum seekers who now call Chicago home
- By Sarah Conway, Michelle Kanaar, Apoorva Mittal, Kash, and Borderless Magazine
- Tags: Feature, Asylum, immigration, shelter, persecution, torture, gangs, sexual orientation, gay, migration, donald trump, nigeria, mexico, cuba, pakistan, detention center, sanctuary, ICE, border, trauma, Video

News & Politics, Comics Feature Jul 31, 2019
What should allies do after Pride?
- By Marina Labarthe del Solar and Carter Schneider
- Tags: Comics Feature, Pride, LGBTQ, trans women, queer artists, survivors, mental health, binaries, sex work, gay

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Sep 12, 2018
Gay, middle-aged, and lonely as hell

Dan Savage advises a trio of late bloomers.
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, Dan Savage, Savage Love, gay, hookup aps, Michael Hobbs, Together Alone: The Epidemic of Gay Loneliness, depression, being single, loneliness, living alone, Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone, Eric Kleinbenberg, relationships, suicidal ideation, social anxiety, Stephen Fry

Blogs, Bleader Mar 23, 2018
Five gay films from an era when queer themes were invisible in Hollywood

Films by Hitchcock, Cukor, and Minnelli turn up on this list of classics from before the Stonewall era.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, LGBTQ+, On Video, Hollywood, film, queer, gay, GLBT, Facets Cinémathèque, Basil Dearden, Victim, Nick Davis, Stonewall The Wild Party, Clara Bow, flappers, Joseph Moncure March, Fredric March, Dorothy Arzner, Paramount, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Sylvia Scarlett, George Cukor, Katharine Hepburn, Edmund Gwenn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne, French New Wave, John Collier, Joseph August, Rope, Alfred Hitchcock, Patrick Hamilton, Farley Granger, John Dall, Rear Window, James Stewart, Joan Chandler, Cedric Hardwicke, Dave Kehr, Tea and Sympathy, Vincente Minnelli, CinemaScope, Robert Anderson, Hays Office, censorship, John Kerr, Deborah Kerr, The Cobweb, Home From the Hill, Some Came Running, Leif Erickson, Edward Andrews, Darryl Hickman, Reflections in a Golden Eye, John Huston, Chapman Mortimer, Gladys Hill, Carson McCullers, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Aldo Tonti, Julie Harris, Brian Keith

Music, Music Feature Feb 21, 2018
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The world catches up to iconoclastic composer Julius Eastman

He died homeless almost three decades ago, and his work was nearly lost. But classical music finally has room for a queer black voice in the minimalist pantheon.
- By Kerry O'Brien
- Tags: Music Feature, Julius Eastman, composer, minimalist, minimalism, Gay Guerrilla, Evil Nigger, Crazy Nigger, Prelude to the Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc, The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc, Femenine, black, queer, gay, Frequency Festival, Seth Parker Woods, Peter Margasak, Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, S.E.M. Ensemble, Petr Kotik, SUNY Buffalo, Mary Jane Leach, Unjust Malaise, Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental, Bowerbird, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Dustin Hurt, Renée Levine Packer, Clarice Jensen, Northwestern University, Peter Maxwell Davies, Eight Songs for a Mad King, John Cage, Song Books, Gay Guerrilla: Julius Eastman and His Music, Julius Eastman: The Zürich Concert, C. Bryan Rulon, Eightfold Path, New York Public Library, Performing Arts Research Center, Luciano Chessa, Meredith Monk, Arthur Russell, Joan of Arc, Gerry Eastman, Ithaca, Sacred Songs, The Four Books of Confucius, Buddha, One God, Our Father, Ryan Dohoney, June in Buffalo, Frederic Rzewski, Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Lucier, Carman Moore, Tania León, Curtis Institute of Music, Center of the Creative and Performing Arts, the Kitchen, Andrew Hanson-Dvoracek, Peter Gena, For Members Only, Video

Arts & Culture, Feature Jan 3, 2018
Last night at Man’s Country

The pioneering gay bathhouse’s 13-hour final hurrah
- By Aaron Gettinger and Brittany Sowacke
- Tags: Feature, Man's Country, Chuck Renslow, Ron Ehemann, International Mr. Leather, Leather Archives & Museum, Uptown, gay, LGBTQ, Harry Cross, Men's Room

Blogs, Bleader Apr 6, 2017
Illinois senate reintroduces religious freedom bill advocates say is attack on LGBTQ people

The legislation would allow people of faith to deny services to LGBTQ customers.
- By Nico Lang
- Tags: News, Politics, LGBT, LGBTQ, gay, marriage equality, religious freedom, RFRA, ACLU, Kyle McCarter, Civil Rights Act, Senate Bill 64

News & Politics, Politics Nov 29, 2016
This lawsuit could have major impact on LGBTQ employment protections

A federal appeals court revisits the suit of an Indiana teacher who says she was fired for being gay.
- By Robin Amer
- Tags: Politics, Kim Hively, Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana, Greg Nevins, Lambda Legal, LGBTQ, gay, lesbian, transgender, employment, Title VII, 1964 Civil Rights Act, discrimination, Donald Trump, Antonin Scalia, William Pryor

Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Nov 16, 2016
We don't need ‘unity’ after Trump's election. We need resistance.

He's #NotMyPresident.
- By Derrick Clifton
- Tags: Identity & Culture, Election Day, election, Election 2016, presidential election, president, 2016, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, voting, protest, resistance, unity, politics, White House, Stephen Bannon, white supremacy, racism, white nationalism, Muslim, Mexico, Mexicans, LGBT, gay, black, African American, women, sexism, misogyny, #NotMyPresident

Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Sep 21, 2016
Performance artist to Chicago: Get off our areolas

Bea Cordelia thinks the city’s liquor-license law has a gender-bias problem.
- By Derrick Clifton
- Tags: Identity & Culture, #FreeTheNipple, Bea Cordelia, Bea Sullivan-Knoff, art, poetry, spoken word, gender, gender identity, trans, transgender, sexism, misogyny, transphobia, women, cisgender, cisgender women, gay, lesbian, bi, LGBT, nipple, nudity, aereolas, performance art, live performance, bars, venues, nightlife

Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Aug 16, 2016
Illinois pastors don’t deserve exemption from conversion therapy ban

Conversion therapy aimed at “curing” queer kids is harmful, fraudulent, and discredited, no matter who’s practicing it.
- By Derrick Clifton
- Tags: Identity & Culture, LGBT, lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, conversion therapy, reparative therapy, mental health, Youth Mental Health Protection Act, religion, sexuality, faith, sexual orientation, Pastors Protecting Youth, Kelly Cassidy, Faith in America, Equality Illinois, Movement Advancement Project, World Psychiatric Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Psychiatric Association, American Medical Association, National Association of Social Workers

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Mar 26, 2015
Straight guy seeks massive cocks

Plus: A GF who can't take birth control, another who can't stop subbing, and another who finds bodily secretions 'icky.' Can their partners' sex lives be saved?
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, Dan Savage, Savage Love, anal sex, gay, straight, Aaron Schock, Ted Haggard, birth control, condoms, submissive, BDSM, dom/sub, bodily secretions, ggg

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Aug 8, 2013
How to handle little brother's asshole boyfriend

Or his bragging about all the pussy he's getting. Plus: a pedophile father's legacy.
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, gay, adoption, high school, senior, Los Angeles, BMW, statutory rapist, pedophile, James Cantor, University of Toronto, Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, therapists

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Jul 25, 2013
Should I marry my roughhousing, possibly asexual, crap-in-bed true love?

More no-brainers from the inbox. Plus: another word of advice for FURFAG.
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, straight man, married, Craigslist, Casual Encounters, blow jobs, porn, bisexual, gay, situational homosexuality, SexInfoOnline, Saudi Arabia, gonorrhea, syphilis, fiance, asexual, endocrinologist, urologist, medical attention

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Jul 18, 2013
Does sex cause STIs?

And other uncomplicated questions. Plus: An easier anal experience.
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, gay, STI, trans boy, hormone therapy, condom, unprotected sex, pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, HIV, bi, virgin, role-play, online sex, bachelor's degree, graduate school, online relationship, Internet, kinks, Skype, anal sex, lubrication, top, bottom, butt plugs, vibrating eggs, London, dungeon, Tumblr

Arts & Culture, Feature Jul 17, 2013
Where things stand with Here Comes Honey Boo Boo

Is it exploitation? Is it schlock? Is it an exportable American product? A survey of the TLC reality hit as it enters its second season.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Feature, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, Brooklyn, New York, gender, body type, sex, reality show, McIntyre, Georgia, Milledgeville, Flannery O'Connor, Alana Thompson, teacup pig, gay, Lena Dunham, Girls, farts, People magazine, Us Weekly, Toddlers & Tiaras, children's pageant circuit, Bollywood, Native American, Thanksgiving, June Shannon, Redneck Games, Atlanta, 1996 Olympics, Sugar Bear, collard greens, southern accent, stereotypes, The New Republic, Atlantic, Allison Yarrow, Hollywood Reporter, Tim Goodman, TLC, A/V Club, Ryan McGee, Adam Levine, TV Guide, Maroon 5, Nancy Grace, YouTube, Crazy Tony, Willa Paskin

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Feb 28, 2013
"Stop cock-in-frock-blocking your friend"

Plus: It’s never too early to start thinking about birth control.
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, transvestite, Las Vegas, Kevin Garnett, Europe, gay, bisexual, beer goggles, transgender, Tumblr, sex-reassignment surgery, cross-dresser, drag queens, gynandromorphophiles, high school, virgin, college, birth control, IUD, nonhormonal copper IUD, progesterone-releasing IUD, sexually transmitted infections, condoms

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Feb 9, 2012
What are these two old married dudes thinking?

Plus: Self-outing in the Grindr era, and do I tell my GGG girlfriend that I kissed a guy?
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, Grindr, coming out, in the closet, outing your friend, bisexuality, cheating, pegging, exhibitionism, spanking, Catholic guilt, hotel sex, gay

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Jan 19, 2012
Is using "safe word" as a safe word laughable?

Plus: what to do when your son comes out, call for monogamy testimonials
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, gay, coming out, gay son, out of the closet, GLSEN, Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network, school harassment, Safe Space Kit, BDSM, safe word, You're Doing it Wrong, YDIW, monogamish, gay monogamy, gay marriage, Canada

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Jan 12, 2012
Dan Savage sticks it to Rick Santorum

And the frothy mix has it coming
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, Rick Santorum, santorum, lube, U.S. President, gay, same-sex marriage, homophobia, polygamy, Elizabeth Santorum, sex, bigotry, anal sex

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Dec 1, 2011
Do I have to call myself a lesbian?

Plus: barf as a turn on, hyperhorny boyfriend, grateful Christian conservative kinkster
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, lesbian, gay, GGG, ball bursting

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