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- Music, Music Review Apr 6, 2021
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Serpentwithfeet’s Deacon soars with subversive joy
- News & Politics, News Analysis Apr 6, 2021
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The promise of health care for queer folks in Chicago
As the city shutters LGBTQ+-focused health-care clinics, unemployment surges, and the pandemic rages on, community health-care centers struggle to pick up the pieces.
- City Life, Public Service Announcement Nov 20, 2020
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Transgender Day of Remembrance ensures we don't forget
Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
- Film, Movie Feature Sep 23, 2020
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At home with the Reeling International Film Festival
The themes that emerged in the 38th annual LGBTQ fest align perfectly with the current, chaotic moment.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Jul 6, 2020
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#iPlan2Live takes over TikTok
Kale Williams initiates an online movement celebrating Black softness and purpose.
- Arts & Culture, Pride 2020 Jun 26, 2020
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Coming out over and over again
Why visibility and community are more important now than ever
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Jun 26, 2020
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Pride is alive this year at Lost Lake's Chick-Feel-Gay 2.0
Don't let Christian-corporate fast food tell you anything different: fried chicken is queer.
- Arts & Culture, Pride 2020 Jun 24, 2020
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#QTTRs make their mark
These four queer artists are building their own community in the tattoo world.
- Arts & Culture, Pride 2020 Jun 23, 2020
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Queer self-care straight from the Vine
Lifestyle and event brand Peach launches a digital headspace.
- Arts & Culture, Pride 2020 Jun 23, 2020
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‘It was really a freeing kind of feeling’
Gary Chichester reflects on the riotous roots of the first-ever Pride parade.
- Arts & Culture, Feature May 28, 2020
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Growing up queer with The Sims
“Za Woka Genava” means “I think you are hot” in Simlish, and I think that’s beautiful.
- Film, Movie Review May 6, 2020
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After nearly seven decades, A Secret Love is secret no more
The Chicago-based documentary expertly weaves together LGBTQ history, baseball, and the ups and downs of loving someone for a lifetime.
- City Life, Stay at Home May 2, 2020
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The Reader's stay-at-home chronicles: days 43 and 44
What we're reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
- Music, Music Review Apr 10, 2020
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Legendary Chicago experimentalists Ono confront centuries of race-based violence on the transformative Red Summer
- Film, Small Screen Mar 23, 2020
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Feel Good honestly explores bad times
Stand-up Mae Martin’s new series gets heavy, but there’s always a laugh waiting around the corner.
- Arts & Culture, Comedy Mar 19, 2020
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From Catholicism to comedy
Cameron Esposito looks back on her defining moments in the memoir Save Yourself.
- Film, Movie Feature Feb 18, 2020
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Endometriosis, vibrators, and sex education, oh my!
8,000 uses comedy to discuss a painful reality.
- Music, Concert Preview Feb 7, 2020
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Plack Blague straps a heavy metal jockstrap to disco
- Arts & Culture, History Oct 10, 2019
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Remembering forgotten lesbian history
“Lavender Women & Killer Dykes” at Gerber/Hart Library and Archives shines a light on the people, places, and publications that shaped Chicago’s lesbian culture.
- Film, Movie Feature Sep 19, 2019
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The Reeling International Film Festival shows queer people as the complex heroes and villains of their own stories
In its 37th year, the fest continues to celebrate queer history, modern life, and plenty of subcultures.
- News & Politics, Comics Feature Jul 31, 2019
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What should allies do after Pride?
- News & Politics, Feature Jul 24, 2019
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The burden of proof
How immigration court is especially challenging for LGBTQ asylum seekers
- Arts & Culture, Pride 2019 Jun 28, 2019
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Generation Stonewall LGBTQ Profiles
- Arts & Culture, Pride 2019 Jun 26, 2019
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LGBTQ Glossary
From allosexual to zaza and zir, terms you won't find in your Funk & Wagnalls
- Arts & Culture, Pride 2019 Jun 26, 2019
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End Pride Month with a bang
Your guide to some of the biggest LGBTQ events this weekend