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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

News & Politics, Feature Jul 24, 2019
The burden of proof

How immigration court is especially challenging for LGBTQ asylum seekers
- By Justin Agrelo and 90 Days, 90 Voices
- Tags: Feature, immigration, asylum, lgbtq, border, migrants, trans, queer, mexico

Arts & Culture, Pride 2019 Jun 28, 2019
Generation Stonewall LGBTQ Profiles
- By Tracy Baim
- Tags: Pride 2019, LGBTQ, LGBTQ Pride, Pride 2019, Stonewall

Arts & Culture, Pride 2019 Jun 26, 2019
LGBTQ Glossary

From allosexual to zaza and zir, terms you won't find in your Funk & Wagnalls
- By S. Nicole Lane
- Tags: Pride 2019, LGBTQ, Glossary, Language, Words, Queer

Arts & Culture, Pride 2019 Jun 26, 2019
End Pride Month with a bang

Your guide to some of the biggest LGBTQ events this weekend
- By S. Nicole Lane
- Tags: Pride 2019, LGBTQ, Pride Parade, Pride 2019, Chicago is a Drag Festival, HIGH FEMME, Pride South Side Festival, Chicago Pride Parade, Chicago Dyke March, TRQPiTECA

Arts & Culture, Pride 2019 Jun 26, 2019
LGBTQ button history
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Pride 2019, LGBTQ, Pride Issue 2019, Robert Castillo, Nancy Katz, Marie J. Kuda, Windy City Times

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jun 20, 2019
With the release of her second book, Bricks, Blood & Water, e nina jay discusses how poetry has saved her life

“Poetry is my language more so than who I am. If I could just do it all in poems, I would. If I could just talk to my friends and family in poems, I would.”
- By Terrence F. Chappell
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, e nina jay, poet, poetry, Lori Lightfoot, LGBTQ

Arts & Culture, Art Feature Jun 13, 2019
Video
From the Bubbly Creek festival to sculptures made from straws

A roundup of art events happening this weekend
- By S. Nicole Lane
- Tags: Art Feature, Bridgeport, performance art, Bubbly Creek, labor, immigrant labor, Zhou B Art Center, Defibrillator Gallery, south side, Pride Month, Gerber Hart Library & Archives, archives, LGBTQ, queer art, Out of the Closets & Into the Exhibits, Stonewall Riots, Smart Museum, Hyde Park, University of Chicago, Tara Donovan, sculpture, Chicago Art Department, LGBTQ, Muscle Memories, painting, Video

Arts & Culture, Pride 2019 May 29, 2019
How a 13-year-old girl brought LGBTQ pride to Buffalo Grove

Middle schooler Molly Pinta and her mother, Carolyn, have organized the northwest suburb’s first pride parade and festival.
- By Tony Peregrin
- Tags: Pride 2019, Molly Pinta, Buffalo Grove Pride Parade, LGBTQ, Chicago Pride Parade, Stonewall

Arts & Culture, Festival May 3, 2019
RuPaul's Drag Race winner Raja and Tiffany Pollard will headline Chicago’s first drag fest

Chicago Is A Drag will include performers from across generations, neighborhoods, and performance styles.
- By KT Hawbaker
- Tags: Festival, LGBTQ, Pride, drag, RuPaul's Drag Race, A Queer Pride

Arts & Culture, Festival Apr 4, 2019
The bumpy road from Stonewall to Pride in the Park

Is this pricey debacle what our queer ancestors had in mind 50 years ago?
- By Devlyn Camp
- Tags: Festival, Pride in the Park, Stonewall, Stonewall 50, LGBTQ, Chicago pride parade, Iggy Azalea, Steve Aoki

News & Politics, Politics Apr 1, 2019
The road to victory

A timeline of historic moments in LGBTQ elected history in the Chicago area.
- By Reader staff and Windy City Times
- Tags: Politics, LGBTQ, Chicago's LGBTQ history, politics, Windy City Times

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 7, 2019
Recommended
A toast to a chosen family with a shot of Southern Comfort

The bluegrass musical centers trans love and queer joy.
- By KT Hawbaker
- Tags: Theater Review, Southern Comfort, Pride Films and Plays, JD Caudill, North Homeward, Kyra Leigh, Lizzy Sulkowski, Ricki Pettinato, Benjamin Flores, Sinclair Willman, Robert Eads, LGBTQ, chosen family, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jan 25, 2019
Dada Woof Papa Hot shows that modern parenthood's not just for straight people

"Isn’t being normal the most radical thing of all?" God no!
- By Dan Jakes
- Tags: Theater Review, Dada Woof Papa Hot, About Face Theatre, Jos N. Banks, Peter Parnell, Keira Fromm, LGBTQ, parents, parenting

News & Politics, News Jan 17, 2019
LGBTQ community needs assessment survey closes January 31

Results will be used to inform grant-making decisions this spring; members of underrepresented groups are encouraged to participate.
- By Terrence F. Chappell
- Tags: News, LGBTQ, LGBT, Morten Group, LGBT Community Fund, Chicago Community Trust, Dr. Keisha Farmer-Smith, Affinity Community Services, Imani Rupert-Gordon, Mary Morten

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Jan 3, 2019
'Please tell me where I can find my porn!'

How Tumblr's ban on NSFW content harms queer and kinky people. Plus: you shouldn't need a "spotter" at a swinger party.
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, bisexual, bisexuality, edging, Tumblr, Alexander Cheves, Porn, LGBTQ, swinger, GGG

Music, Music Feature Oct 10, 2018
Punk’s not dead—and it’s not white either

The Black, Brown, and Indigenous Crew connects underground music with radical politics to make a community with room for everyone.
- By Kerry Cardoza
- Tags: Music Feature, Black, Brown, and Indigenous Crew, Black, Brown, and Indigenous Crew Punk Fest, The Resurrection, Blacker Face, Molcajete, Frank Waln, K.E.N, the Breathing Light, Mermaid N.V., Megiapa, Las Bizcochos, Caliwaukee North, Black and Brown Punk Show Collective, BnB Fest, punk, hardcore, radical, inclusive, QTIPOC, LGBTQ, Shanna Collins, Donté Oxun, Monika Estrella Negra, Ephran Ramírez Jr., YouMedia Center, Kyle Ozero, Break Free Fest, the Universe Is Lit, Chicago Boricua Resistance, Brown and Proud Press, Chi-Nations Youth Council

Arts & Culture, Feature Aug 8, 2018
The roving live talk show The Hoodoisie makes radical politics entertaining and accessible

If the world can be saved, host Ricardo Gamboa believes it will be through open dialogue and dirty jokes.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Feature, The Hoodoisie, Ricardo Gamboa, talk show, Pilsen, radical politics, Daniel Kisslinger, Xavier Ramey, Hilda Franco, gentrification, education, Sameena Mustafa, LGBTQ, queer issues, women’s issues, race, Anti-Gentrification Summit, Trump era

Blogs, Bleader Jul 30, 2018
Trans woman Strawberry Hampton reports continued assaults while detained at men’s prisons

Despite filing multiple complaints against guards and inmates, Strawberry Hampton is being denied a transfer to a women's prison.
- By David North
- Tags: Criminal Justice, LGBTQ+, News, Strawberry Hampton, Dixon Prison, Menard Prison, Lawrence Prison, Pickneyville Prison, Prison, PREA, MacArthur Justice Center, Uptown People's Law Center, IDOC, transgender rights, queer rights, LGBTQ

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 19, 2018
Recommended
LGBTQ young people reimagine their autobiographies as Scary Stories to Save Your Life

Vampires, stalkers, monsters, and other horrors included.
- By Albert Williams
- Tags: Theater Review, about face youth theatre, lgbtq, about face theatre, donny acosta, vampires, monsters, center on halsted, claire sangster, spencer meeks, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Jun 11, 2018
Slideshow
Drag queens find unlikely spot to perform—on a 50-foot climbing wall

Brooklyn Boulders, which recently hosted Out to Climb, plans to hold a monthly climbing meet-up for the LGBTQ community.
- By Pat Nabong
- Tags: LGBTQ+, Photography, Sports, drag queens, Brooklyn Boulders, LGBTQ, Howard Brown Health Center, Bambi Banks, Slideshow

Blogs, Bleader May 25, 2018
The Memorial Day Parade and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend

Bike the Drive and more goings-on 5/25-5/28.
- By Steve Heisler
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Music, Film, bike the drive, bonnie jones, experimental sound studio, memorial day parade, breezy radio, smoke daddy, sen morimoto, cannonball, empty bottle, mayfestiversary, dovetail, begyle, max clarke, cut worms, lincoln hall, the laramie project, factory theater, lgbtq, first reformed ethan hawke, the book of maggie, nox arca, dj quik, arie crown theater

Film, Movie Review May 4, 2018
The not-so-incredibly-true adventure of two Orthodox Jewish girls in love

With Disobedience, Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio delivers a heavy-handed message about following your heart.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Disobedience, Sebastián Lelio, Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, Alessandro Nivola, Orthodox Judaism, Jews, lesbians, LGBTQ, Danny Cohen, Rebecca Leniewicz

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Mar 13, 2018
Michael Allen Harris’s Kingdom reveals a young playwright on the brink of greatness

Now in its world premiere, his new drama explores three volatile gay relationships in one working-class African-American family.
- By Justin Hayford
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Kingdom, Michael Allen Harris, Broken Nose Theatre, African-American family, LGBTQ, Kanome Jones, Ike Holter, Chicago playwrights

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

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