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| | Obama at memorial for Dallas officers, speaks of African American despair
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR FALLEN DALLAS POLICE OFFICERS Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Texas, July 12, 2016 THE PRESIDENT: Mr. President and Mrs. Bush; my friend, the Vice President, and Dr. ... | | 
| | GOP Convention Preview: Trump vs. The Establishment
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is an unattractive political choice for many voters because of his unabashed hostility toward Muslims, Mexicans, and media scrutiny. But, oddly enough, he is still the most ... | |
| | National Archives LGBTQ event in Chicago July 15-16
On July 15-16, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) will host the National Conversation on Rights and Justice: LGBTQ Human and Civil Rights at the Center on Halsted and the Chicago History Museum. This program ... | | 
| | Event focuses on foster care and adoption in LGBTQ community
Let it Be Us focused on finding foster and adoptive families within Chicago's LGBTQ community with its program "Call to Action! Foster and Adopt Our Children" July 9 at University of Illinois at Chicago's Student Center. ... | | 
| | Gay officer among
those shot in Dallas; groups comment on developments
A former Army reservist who served a tour in Afghanistan went on a shooting rampage over July 7-8 during a protest over recent police shootings of African-American men in Minnesota and Louisiana, killing five police officers ... | |
| | LGBT groups condemn shootings of Black men
From press releases
At least two national LGBT organizations have issued releases condemning the July shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile—Black men who were recently shot by police in, respectively, Louisiana and ... | | 
| | LGBT-rights ally Judge Abner Mikva dies at 90
Abner Mikva, a liberal fixture in Chicago politics who maintained posts in all three branches of government, died July 4. He was 90. Mikva made a number of contributions in the advancements of LGBT rights, especially ... |
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| | Health guide released for uninsured, underinsured
The Chicago Health Guide: Resources for the Uninsured and Underinsured was unveiled at a July 12 press briefing with health care and community leaders during the 41st Annual Conference of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses ... | |
| | Relationships & Law Today: Transgender Phobia Continues
Being a teenager is hard enough, so one can only imagine the difficulty in being a transgender teenager. Transgender teens face a host of issues as they struggle for support and acceptance at home, at school ... | | 
| | New CEO speaks on Lambda Legal's future visibility
For Rachel Tiven, the incoming CEO of Lambda Legal, her new position represents a sort of homecoming. "I started my career at Lambda, back in 1999," said Tiven, an attorney and activist who has, for the ... | |
| | VIEWS...While Black
With all that is going on with police brutality in our nation today, I thought that it would be somewhat therapeutic to share my experiences with law enforcement. I could share many incidents with you but ... | | 
| | Local events coming up
Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
Salonathon's fifth anniv. July 18 Salonathon—described as "a home for underground, emerging and genre-defying art"—will mark its fifth anniversary Monday, July 18, at Beauty Bar Chicago, 1444 W. Chicago Ave. ... | | 
| | National roundup: Pride Fund, Fair Michigan, trans ad, Christian Mingle
Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
In response to the nation's worst mass shooting in history and stalled efforts in Congress to implement gun reform, members of the LGBTQ community announced the formation of the Pride Fund to End Gun Violence (Pride ... | | 
| | World news: GENDR app, Brazil deaths, amfAR event
Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
GENDR—the world's first app created for the gender-variant and queer community—recently held its global launch, according to a press release. Available for download to mobile devices from the App Store and Google Play Store, membership fees ... | | 
| | Skokie's Illinois Holocaust museum to hold Wiesel tribute
Skokie's Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center plans to host a special commemorative event in memory of Elie Wiesel, who was an Auschwitz and Buchenwald survivor, author, humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize Winner. The event will ... | |
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Center on Halsted still waiting on testing payments
Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
Among the numerous social-service agencies still waiting for payment from the state of Illinois for services they've rendered is Center on Halsted, which has yet to receive about $200,000 for HIV testing services it offered in ... | | 
| | VIEWS The problem is fear: Gun control and LGBTs in wake of Orlando
I am a pretty good shot with a rifle. I won a turkey shoot as a teenager. I have destroyed clay pigeons and discs skeet shooting with a double-barreled shotgun. I trained on an M-16, an adaptation of the AR-15. So ... | | 
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Vice President Joe Biden on Standing together to stop the violence
In last week's address, Vice President Joe Biden commemorated the lives of the five police officers who were killed and the seven people who were wounded in Dallas. The police officers were providing safety to those ... | |
| | Trans Legal fund Names Jillian T. Weiss Executive Director
From a press release
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) today announced the appointment of Jillian T. Weiss as its new Executive Director. Weiss is a nationally recognized transgender rights attorney and law professor who brings three decades of ... | |
| | House Republicans Hold Hearing Anti-LGBTQ Bill
From a press release
The Human Rights Campaign denounced House Republican leaders for holding a hearing on a deeply discriminatory anti-LGBTQ bill on the one-month anniversary of the horrific attack in Orlando. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is ... | | 
| | Protesters converge at Taste of Chicago
Demonstrators protested at The Taste of Chicago on July 9. The protest was part of a larger set of actions across Chicago—including one in the loop and another on North Michigan Avenue—as well as the country. ... | |
| | Center on Halsted still waiting on testing payments
Among the numerous social-service agencies still waiting for payment from the state of Illinois for services they've rendered is Center on Halsted, which has yet to receive about $200,000 for HIV testing services it offered in ... | |
| | 'Privilege to Pee' taking place July 11
The concept of Circle Theatre's Full Circle Series is simple: Produce an evening of performance from which all of the proceeds go directly to an organization that is tied to the show's central message. After a ... | |
| | Manning attempts suicide; lawyers decry privacy breach
On July 5, reports surfaced that trans whistleblower Cheslea Manning was rushed to the hospital from the prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, after an apparent suicide attempt. On July 11, Chelsea Manning's attorneys Chase Strangio, Vincent ... | |
| | Atty Gen Lynch statement on Dallas shooting of police
The following statement was delivered July 8, the day after the killings of 5 police officers in Dallas at the end of a protest against police violence. Among the officers wounded was gay officer Jesus Retana, ... | |
| | MA gov signs trans protections into law
Today, Massachusetts Republican Gov. Charlie Baker signed into law legislation extending commonsense, non-discrimination protections to transgender residents and visitors to the state. While Massachusetts state law already prohibits discrimination against ... | |
| | VIEWS: Talking guns and race
On July 8—the same day many learned about the shootings of police and a civilian in Dallas, Texas—I learned that the lockdown of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. had been lifted after 40 minutes after ... | | 
| | Trans pioneers celebrated at Vives Q
Vives Q presented their inaugural First Tuesday forum of 2016 on July 5 at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen. With the recent murders of so many Latinx LGBTQA people in Orlando, this edition ... | |
| | Chicago House announces new board members
From a press release
Chicago House and Social Service Agency has welcomed new leaders to assist the organization in achieving its objectives and to serve individuals and families who are disenfranchised by HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ ... | | 
| | New Resource Illustrates Coordinated Effort to Pass Anti-LGBT Laws
From a press release
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Freedom for All Americans has launched a virtual resource and infographic illustrating the interwoven relationships between anti-LGBT activists and organizations working to pass laws that harm LGBT ... |
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| | THEATER REVIEW Wastwater
Playwright: Simon Stephens. At: Steep Theatre, 1115 W. Berwyn. Tickets: 866-811-4111 or www.steeptheatre.com; $25-$35. Runs through: Aug. 13 The name of the deepest lake in England lends its moniker to Stephens' latest drama, an intriguing trio
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| | OPERETTA REVIEW The Cousin from Nowhere
Music & Libretto: Rideamus (Fritz Oliven) and Eduard Kunneke. At: Chicago Folks Operetta at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave. Tickets: 773-327-5252, or at Stage773.com or ChicagoFolksOperetta.org; $25-$40. Runs through: ... | | 
| | Theater spotlight on WOZ: A Rock Cabaret, Critics' Picks
Theater spotlight Tony Award-nominee and Broadway veteran André De Shields (The Wiz, Ain't Misbehavin') is the very special guest star playing The Wizard for the return of WOZ: A Rock Cabaret. Instead of the classic ... | |
| | Karen Olivo, Miguel Cervantes and Alexander Gemignani join Chicago Hamilton cast
KAREN OLIVO, who electrified audiences with her Tony Award-winning portrayal of Anita in the 2009 Broadway revival of WEST SIDE STORY, returns to the stage as the brilliant and beautiful Angelica Schuyler in the Chicago production ... | | 
| | BI AND BI: Evan Rachel Wood provides Forest fire
Openly bisexual actress Evan Rachel Wood is fired up lately about the Orlando massacre, misconceptions about bisexuality and her role in the post-apocalyptic indie Into The Forest. Headed by queer female dream team Ellen Page, Wood, ... | | 
| | DANCIN' FEATS Thodos' 'New Dances,' unplugged
Each summer, the company dancers of Thodos Dance Chicago get to show off their choreographic panache in the New Dances series. Apart from supporting Thodos' mission to foster well-rounded artists who dance, teach and choreograph, New ... | | 
| | THEATER 'Space Age' focuses on queer kids of color
Talking to Ricardo Gamboa and Sean Parris mere hours after Orlando felt uncanny. The couple, well-known in Chicago's theater scene, have co-written a play, Space Age, about growing up as queer kids of color, and clearly ... | | 
| | Knight at the Movies
Ghostbusters; Wiener-Dog I ain't afraid of no (female) ghosts The storm of controversy that has broken over the heads of the filmmakers and cast of the remake of Ghostbusters—which opens Friday, July 15—would seem to be ... | | 
| | MUSIC Steven Tyler climbs 'Out on a Limb'
Rock icon Steven Tyler is taking his new solo album out on the road, with a Chicago stop planned. "Love Is Your Name" is his first single from his debut country solo record, We're All Somebody ... | | 
| | 'Mamby on the Beach' takes over Oakwood Beach
Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
On July 2-3, the music festival Mamby on the Beach overran the Oakwood Beach area. Buses shipped in tons of music fans from remote parking areas. For two days a variety of artists were offered; Milky ... | | 
| | Entertainment news: Zachary Quinto, Dolly Parton, Tig Notaro, Michael Sam
Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
Heroes and Star Trek actor Zachary Quinto is set to star and executive produce Biopunk, an hourlong drama based on the book Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life, by Wired magazine's senior business/technology writer ... | | 
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THEATER REVIEW Dating & Dragons
Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
Playwright: Mike Ooi. At: Factory Theater, 1623 W. Howard St. Tickets: 866-811-4111 or TheFactoryTheater.com; $10-$25. Runs through: Aug. 13 | | 
| | Hell in a Handbag brings back Bette, Live at the Continental Baths
CHICAGO (July 12, 2016) — Hell in a Handbag Productions is pleased to bring back last season's steamy, sell-out hit Bette, Live at the Continental Baths, with Caitlin Jackson recreating Bette Midler's historic bathhouse concert in ... | | 
| | Billings, McKechnie join PFP board
Pride Films and Plays' (PFP's) board of directors announced that Broadway legend Donna McKechnie and actor/activist Alexandra Billings (Transparent) have become the inaugural members of the group's honorary board. In ... | | 
| | PFP establishing Pride Arts Center
Pride Films and Plays, the LGBTQ+ focused company founded in 2010, will take up residence in the two theaters at 4139 and 4147 N. Broadway (collectively known as the Pride Arts Center) that Profiles Theatre recently ... | | 
| | Comedians perform for a cause
On July 7, comedians came out for a good cause at The Laugh Factory Chicago to raise money for The Center Orlando, an LGBT center aiding the survivors and victims' families of the June 12 Pulse ... | |
| | National Archives LGBTQ event in Chicago July 15-16
On July 15-16, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) will host the National Conversation on Rights and Justice: LGBTQ Human and Civil Rights at the Center on Halsted and the Chicago History Museum. This program ... | |
| | Rivendell presents Midwest premiere of Grizzly Mama
From a press release
Rivendell Theatre Ensemble (RTE), Chicago's only Equity theatre dedicated to producing new work with women at the core,announces the Midwest premiere of Grizzly Mama. The production, directed by RTE member Megan Carney ... |
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| | 'Out at the Sox' topped with Sox win
Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
'The Chicago White Sox LGBT Pride event known as "Out at the Sox," which benefits Equality Illinois, took place July 9 at U.S. Cellular Field. The White Sox defeated the Atlanta Braves 5-4. More than 100 ... | |
| | VIEWS The Problem is Fear: Gun Control and the LGBT Community in Orlando's wake
I am a pretty good shot with a rifle. I won a turkey shoot as a teenager. I have destroyed clay pigeons and discs skeet shooting with a double-barreled shotgun. I trained on an M-16, an adaptation of the AR-15.So when ... | | 
| | Ride for AIDS culminates with emotional festival
The 13th annual Test Positive Aware Network (TPAN) Ride for AIDS Chicago fundraiser ended its two-day weekend event with a festival July 10 at Leahy Park in Evanston, Illinois. The event began in Evanston with a ... | | 
| | Dining news: Lobster Festival, AIRE, Cochon's special
Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
—Shaw's Crab House (in Chicago and Schaumburg) will be celebrating lobsters this summer at its annual Lobster Festival. People are encouraged to stop by Shaw's Chicago through July 31 and try one ... | | 
| | Sports news
Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
'CLLAW XXV' July 30 The Chicago League of Lady Wrestlers (CLLAW) is back at "CLLAW XXV: The Summer Showdown" on Saturday, July 30, at Logan Square Auditorium, 2539 N. Kedzie Ave. CLLAW's 25th benefit match will ... |
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