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| | Vigil for T.T. honors slain trans woman, celebrates Black trans power
In an unprecedented display of defiance and frustration, more than 150 people from across the racial and gender spectrum gathered outside Wellington Avenue United Church of Christ in Lakeview Oct. 6 to hold a vigil and ... | | 
| | GLN founder arrested during protest for homeless rights
Gay Liberation Network co-founder Andy Thayer, Northside Action for Justice member Marc Kaplan and Uptown Tent City organizer Ryne Poelker were arrested at the Uptown offices of 34th ward Ald. James Cappleman Oct. 3. They were ... | | 
| | PASSAGES Marie J. Kuda, Chicago gay pioneer, dies
One of Chicago's pioneering lesbian activists, Marie J. Kuda, has died at age 76 after complications from multiples illnesses, including heart disease. Kuda, born Dec. 8, 1939, was inducted into the first class of Chicago's LGBT ... | | 
| | Thousands participate in AFC's 15th annual AIDS Run and Walk
On the rain-soaked morning of Oct. 1 about 2,500 participants gathered for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago's (AFC) 15th annual AIDS Run & Walk outside of Soldier Field. This year's theme was Band Together. WGN Entertainment ... | | 
| | Ala. judge Moore suspended, fined
Alabama's Court of the Judiciary—saying Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, 69, violated judicial ethics when he ordered judges not to respect the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling on same-sex marriage—unanimously decided to ... | | 
| | Man found guilty of rape, murder of teen lesbian couple
In Texas, a San Patricio County jury found David Stickland guilty of capital murder and aggravated sexual assault in connection with a 2012 attack on Mollie Olgin, 19, and Kristene Chapa, then 18. Following an eight-day ... | |
| | Equality Florida to join gun safety advocates to combat epidemic of violence
From a press release
ORLANDO, FL - Today, Equality Florida made a significant policy announcement to formally endorse common sense gun violence prevention policies in response to the hate-fueled attack in Orlando this past June, targeting the LGBTQ community at ... | |
| | More than $9.5 million raised for Pulse victims
From a press release
ORLANDO, FL - Equality Florida announced a total of more than $9.5M has been raised for the victims of the horrific Pulse Nightclub shooting largely through a record-setting GoFundMe campaign that drew more than 120,000 donors ... |
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| | Building Berwyn: LGBT candidates on Feb. election slate
According to businessman Jose Ramirez, who is running to be Berwyn's 2nd Ward alderman, having four openly LGBT candidates on their ticket in the city's primary election next February is "a big deal because it's not ... | |
| | OPEN TO THINKING Dickie V. and Me: Sexual Identity in 1950s America
A recurring column
Dickie V. wanted to see me. I received this message from my mother who had received it from Dickie's mother. I hardly knew Dickie. His family lived on the rich side of the tracks; my family on the poor side. I ... | | 
| | 'Change Chat' takes on bisexuality
[*Item updated after publication. See note below.] A small but mighty group attended the latest Center on Halsted Change Chat on the evening of Sept. 28. Host Andrew Fortman tied this chat's theme, "Bi the Way," ... | |
| | Marriage plaintiff Windsor remarries
Edie Windsor—the marriage-equality plaintiff who successfully challenged the federal Defense of Marriage Act in 2013—recently remarried City Hall in New York. On Sept. 26, Windsor, 87, wed Judith Kasen, 51, a vice president at Wells Fargo. ... | |
| | UN official to look into anti-LGBTI abuses
The United Nations expert Vitit Muntarbhorn was given a three-year term on Sept. 30 to investigate abuses against LGBTI people. Muntarbhorn is an international law professor at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, and has served on ... | | 
| | Israeli activists talk LGBT rights
Activist Chen Arieli describes the Aguda, the Israeli LGBT organization that she co-chairs, as sometimes being "like a Jewish mother—all the kids left home and we were angry." Those "kids" are actually other organizations that have ... | | 
| | Jose Antonio Vargas on the forefront of an emerging U.S.
As part of Chicago Ideas Week, on Oct. 17 at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre, six people—each renowned as among the most consummate in his or her respective field—will tackle Life's Big Questions. ... | |
| | Recognizing National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly wrote the following piece in recognition of National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (Sept. 27) Today, on National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, we ponder the significance of HIV and AIDS as ... | |
| | Victory Fund statement: Future debates must address LGBT issues
From a press release
Washington, DC — Today, Victory Fund President & CEO Aisha C. Moodie-Mills expressed concern that Mike Pence was not asked about his strong anti-LGBT record during the Vice Presidential debate: "Mike Pence has made a career ... | |
| | Legacy Walk dedication to honor Sylvia Rivera, Vito Russo
Dedicated in 2012, Chicago's Legacy Walk is the world's only outdoor LGBT history museum. This half-mile installation features bronze biographical memorials celebrating the lives of people like Leonard Bernstein, Audre ... | |
| | Gay-bar literary submissions wanted
Story curators/collectors S. Renee Bess and Lee Lynch are asking writers to create pieces of work that explores the role the gay bar's culture has played in their lives or in the lives of LGBTQI people ... | | 
| | AFC's Project Elevate hosts premiere of video vignettes
AIDS Foundation of Chicago's (AFC) Project Elevate hosted a red carpet premiere of storyographers video vignettes Sept. 29 at the Hyde Park Art Center. These personal video vignette stories were produced by six transgender and cisgender ... | | 
| | Gay series 'Feral' on Dekkoo.com
Like HBO's Looking or Girls, but set in Memphis, Tennessee—that's how creator Morgan Jon Fox characterizes Feral, a Dekkoo.com original TV series that debuts Oct. 6 exclusively on the subscription streaming service dedicated to gay men, ... | | 
| | National: Calif. bills, DignityUSA slams pope, bisexual governor
Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill (AB) 1732, authored by Asm. Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) and sponsored by Equality California, the Transgender Law Center and California National Organization of ... | | 
| | Evanston synagogue welcomes its first female and lesbian rabbi
Evanston native Rabbi Rachel Weiss comes to Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation (JRC) as the synagogue's first female and first openly gay rabbi. "For me, it's been a really profound and wonderful homecoming," said Weiss. Weiss has been ... | | 
| | World: Nuns' civil union, Israelis hosting soldiers, medical news
Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
Two former nuns who met in a convent have been joined in a civil union in a ceremony in a small town in northern Italy, LGBTQ Nation noted. The Italian news agency ANSA said the women, who were identified in Italian ... | |
| | IVI-IPO hosting Glynn Sudberry Awards Oct. 7
Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
IVI-IPO, the Independent Voters of Illinois-Independent Precinct Organization, will host its annual Glynn Sudberry Awards Friday, Oct. 7, 6:30 p.m., at Lazo's Tacos, 2009 N. Western Ave. The emcee will be Illinois state Rep. Kelly Cassidy. ... | |
| | 'Before Stonewall' series Oct. 11, 18
Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
The series "Before Stonewall: The LGBTQ Experience in the '50s and '60s" series—which the Lincoln Park Village, Gerber/Hart Library, Howard Brown Health and Lake View Presbyterian Church are presenting—will take place Oct. ... | |
| | ALMA announces scholarship
Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
The Association of Latino/as Motivating Action (ALMA) Chicago has announced its annual ALMA Young Latino Leaders for Creating Change Scholarship. This scholarship was developed in order to provide financial assistance ... | | 
| | LGBT History Month honors ex-president, athletes, actors
Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
Former U.S. President James Buchanan joins cultural icon David Bowie and Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel as a few of the 31 Icons to be celebrated during October's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) History Month ... | |
| | VIEWS How providers can address disparities in LGBTQ patient health
Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
Here in the United States, the LGBTQ community's most recent victory came when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the freedom to marry. Now the Equality Movement faces its next battle: equal access to healthcare ... | | 
| | Before Stonewall, there was Cooper Donuts
Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
It was a torrent of doughnuts and coffee that kicked off the LGBT-rights movement. Sure, the Stonewall Riots of 1969 in New York City get all the glory, but ten years earlier there was a small, ... | | 
| | Black Panthers and Gay Liberation Front: Did Black Lives Matter then, too?
Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
Few instances in the modern movement for gay and lesbian equality (what we now call the LGBT movement) produced as much controversy — and turmoil — as the New York Gay Liberation Front's relationship with the ... | |
| | Obergefell, plaintiff in supreme court marriage equality case, here on Coming Out Day
From a press release
In support of LGBTQ History Month and National Coming Out Day, Hyatt joins forces with Human Rights Campaign to celebrate LGBTQ equality advocate Jim Obergefell, co-author of Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the ... | |
| | CIAA moves championships out of NC, fallout from anti-LGBTQ HB2 law continues
From a press release
WASHINGTON — Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, and Equality NC, the statewide organization working to secure ... | |
| | Trump's position on trans military service part of anti-LGBTQ platform
From a press release
WASHINGTON — Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, slammed Donald Trump for refusing to support the Obama ... | |
| | #AskTheGays: VP Debate Puts LGBTQ Equality Front and Center
#AskTheGays tweet-up to begin in advance of debate
From a press release WASHINGTON, DC — Ahead of tomorrow's vice presidential debate, the Human Rights Campaign is spotlighting the particularly stark contrast on LGBTQ equality between Tim Kaine and Indiana Governor Mike Pence — who ... | |
| | Palm Center sees steady progress in integrating transgender service members
From a Palm Center press release
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Aaron Belkin, director of the Palm Center, released the following statement in response to the Defense Department's publication of an implementation handbook to support transgender military members, who have been permitted to ... | | 
| | LGBTQ groups, Illinois Gun Violence Prevention Coalition join for education, action
From a press release
CHICAGO — In response to the epidemic of shootings in Chicago, and the massacre of mostly LGBTQ, mostly Latino individuals at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Chicago-area LGBTQ, Latinx, community and gun violence prevention organizations are ... | |
| | USCIS reverses plan to punish civil disobedience, Chicago youth granted DACA
From a press release
Chicago, IL — Chicago immigrant rights organizer and educator Nadia Sol Ireri Unzueta Carrasco has received notice that the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has approved her request ... | | 
| | LGBT candidates, a preview
Republican supporters of a Congressional candidate dubbed a "mini-Trump" in Minnesota used a family photo of his Democratic lesbian opponent to draw attention to "her female marriage partner and their 4 teenage sons." Democratic opponents of ... | |
| | UN Human Rights Council names expert on sexual orientation, gender identity
From a press release
Today, on 30 September 2016, the first ever Independent Expert focused on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council (HRC). The HRC appointed Vitit Muntarbhorn, a law professor and ... | |
| | Governor Signs Bill to Protect LGBT Students at Private Universities
From a press release
Sacramento California Governor Jerry Brown today signed Senate Bill (SB) 1146, authored by Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) and sponsored by Equality California. The bill requires private universities receiving ... | | 
| | South Side Help Center salutes 20 men of vision
In commemoration of National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, the South Side Help Center (SSHC) presented its inaugural Men of 20/20 Vision Awards, a salute to 20 gay and same-gender-loving men who lead HIV/AIDS advocacy in ... | |
| | Governor signs California "All-Gender" Restroom Bill
From a press release
Sacramento—California Governor Jerry Brown today signed Assembly Bill (AB) 1732, authored by Asm. Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) and sponsored by Equality California, the Transgender Law Center and California National Organization ... | |
| | On the Table conversations yeild insights into issues Chicagoans care about
From a press release
CHICAGO September 29, 2016 The Chicago Community Trust today released a report from the University of Illinois at Chicago's Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement (IPCE) assessing the impact of the third year of ... | |
| | ACC moves championship game to Orlando after NC refuses to repeal HB2
From a press release
WASHINGTON — Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Equality NC, the statewide organization working to secure equal rights and justice for LGBxTQ North Carolinians, responded to the decision by ... | |
| | 2016 LGBT History Month honors 31 icons in October
From a press release
PHILADELPHIA, PA — A former President of the United States joins cultural Icon David Bowie and Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, as part of the 31 Icons to be celebrated during October's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and ... | | 
| | HRC. top pediatric groups release guide supporting transgender youth
From a press release
WASHINGTON — Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation joined with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American College of Osteopathic Pediatricians (ACOP), which together represent more than ... | |
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Fostering and adopting teens is focus of Foster Our Youth event Oct. 22
From a press release
The Call to Action: Foster our Youth! Coalition in partnership with the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, Pride Action Tank, Windy City Times and the Illinois Center for Adoption and Permanency is hosting a ... | |
| | Federal Solitary Confinement Reform Bill introduced, ACLU responds
From a press release
WASHINGTON — Sens. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) introduced the Solitary Confinement Reform Act, which would require federal prisons to ensure that any period in solitary is as brief as possible and under the ... |
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| | THEATER REVIEW The City of Conversation
Written by: Anthony Giardina. Directed by: Marti Lyons. At: Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie. Tickets: Northlight.org; $15-$81. Runs through: Oct 23 Northlight Theatre presents the Midwest Premiere of Anthony
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| | SCOTTISH PLAY SCOTT GayCo at 20
Gay activist and performer Jim Bennett was amazed when he saw the sketch-comedy show Whitney Houston, We Have a Problem back in 1996 at The Second City's Donny's Skybox Studio. It was the very first production ... | | 
| | THEATER REVIEW Man in the Ring
Playwright: Michael Cristofer. At: Court Theatre, 5535 S. Ellis Ave.. Tickets: $45-$65. Runs through: Oct. 16 Boxing fans recognized the real-life events fictionalized in Oliver Mayer's Blade to the Heat right away when it premiered in ... | |
| | THEATER REVIEW Hand to God
Playwright: Robert Askins. At: Victory Gardens Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave. Tickets: 773-871-3000; VictoryGardens.org; $27-$60. Runs through: Oct. 23 Hand to God, set in Bible Belt Texas, is a bitterly comic look at loss and Christianity ... | | 
| | MOVIES Bruce Vilanch, Cleve Jones discuss Vito Russo, Celluloid Closet
Any discussion of pivotal figures at the forefront of 20th-century gay activism, gay history and gay culture would be unthinkable without including Vito Russo. Russo—whose landmark book The Celluloid Closet, published in the 1980s and never ... | | 
| | Theater Spotlight on I Am Who I Am, Critics' Picks
Theater Spotlight Black Ensemble Theater continues its 40th-anniversary season of "greatest hits" by reviving Jackie Taylor's I Am Who I Am (The Story of Teddy Pendergrass), from the company's 2006-07 season. The musical charts the tragic ... | | 
| | Northwestern to run LGBT, AIDS exhibitions
Northwestern University's Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle Dr., Evanston, will run the art exhibition "Keep the Shadow, Ere the Substance Fade: Mourning during the AIDS Crisis" through Dec. 11 at the ... | |
| | Ear Taxi Festival on Oct. 5-10
The Ear Taxi Festival—a first-of-its-kind celebration of contemporary music in Chicago—will showcase Chicago's contemporary-music scene Oct. 5-10. Spearheaded by composer Augusta Read Thomas and co-curated by trumpeter Stephen Burns, the ... | | 
| | Billy Masters
"I recently had hernia surgery. My dick was so big, black and swollen, I had to fight those Kardashians off with a stick!"—Leslie Jordan. I bet with these attributes, he'd be fighting the gay boys off ... | |
| | A'ville Arts Weekend Oct. 14-16
More than 30 businesses in Chicago's Andersonville neighborhood will unite to showcase the work of more than 90 visual and performance-based artists for the 14th annual Andersonville Arts Weekend on Oct. 14-16. Just a few of ... | |
| | Dance collaborations to be held Oct. 8
The Chicago Dancemakers Forum and High Concept Labs have announced the first-ever, city-wide Artist-Presenter Collaborations for Dance symposium, to be held Saturday, Oct. 8, at HCL, 2233 S. Throop St. This day-long symposium is one of ... | | 
| | Entertainment news: Broadway stars, Michelle Rodriguez, Lil Wayne, 'Drag Race'
Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
Tectonic Theater Project has announced casting for Tectonic at 25!, a benefit performance celebrating 25 years of theater, a press release stated. The star-studded evening, directed by Tectonic Theater Project founder Moises Kaufman and hosted by ... | | 
| | Lin-Manuel Miranda visits dance company
Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
On Sept. 26, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago welcomed Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and original star of Hamilton: An American Musical, to the Hubbard Street Dance Center, 1147 W. Jackson Blvd. More than 160 invited guests included students ... | | 
| | NUNN ON ONE: TELEVISION Nico Scholly sets sail on 'Below Deck'
Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
Chicago local Nico Scholly is on board for this season of Bravo's Below Deck. This series documents the crew onboard an $11-million luxury yacht and the drama that unfolds. Windy City Times interviewed gay cast member ... | | 
| | THEATER REVIEW Visiting Edna
Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
Playwright: David Rabe. At: Steppenwolf Theatre, 1640 N. Halsted St. Tickets: $20-$89. Runs through: Nov. 6 The first characters we meet introduce themselves to us as, respectively, Television, played by a bubbly Sally Murphy, and Cancer—the ... | | 
| | BENT NIGHTS Yoko and the Oh No's; Atta Boi
Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
With Against Me!, Sleater-Kinney and Bob Mould turning up in the top slots in the summer festival line-ups this year, it would be easy to think that queer rock has abandoned the gay ghetto for the ... | |
| | About Face Theatre presents I Am My Own Wife
From a press release
CHICAGO (October 4, 2016) — About Face Theatre is pleased to launch its 2016-17 Season with a reimagining of Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife, the Tony, Pulitzer Prize and Lambda Literary Award-winning play first ... | | 
| | GayCo Productions alumni to celebrates 20th anniversary in one-night extravaganza
From a press release
CHICAGO—When they began, they couldn't get married, serve openly in the military, adopt, or have federally recognized unions thanks to the brand new Defense of Marriage Act. Matthew Shepard was still alive. AIDs was still a ... | | 
| | Michael Halberstam to receive special Jeff Award
From a press release
October 3, 2016 - Chicago, IL. The Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee will pay tribute to Michael Halberstam at the 2016 Equity Jeff Awards Ceremony on Monday, October 17. The Artistic Director of Writers Theatre since its ... | |
| | LGBTQ ghost hunters debuts online
From a press release
September 30, 2016, San Francisco, CA......The first show about LGBTQ ghost hunters debuts online Saturday, October 1st at 7pm EDT as we kick off LGBT History Month and the month of Halloween. The docuseries follows real ... |
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| | In the Life: Hadley Rue
There's a quote from the late Thomas J. Watson that Hadley Rue holds near and dear to his heart. Watson, who was the chairman and CEO of IBM, said: "To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business ... | | 
| | SAVOR Leghorn's pro-LGBT move; Identita Golose
Leghorn sandwich benefits Pride Action Tank A collaboration between Chicago singer Taylor Bennett and Leghorn Chef Jared Van Camp is a new specialty chicken-and-waffle sandwich. The spin on Leghorn's classic hot chicken thigh is housed between ... | | 
| | WEDDINGS Rody-Sollors
They made it official: Brian Rody and Karsten Sollors had an outdoor wedding Sept. 25 in the Lincoln Park area of Chicago. Rody and Sollors met in August 2015, on Facebook, and continued talking on Facebook ... | | 
| | Dining news: Tuscany restaurants, 312 Chicago, fourteensixteen
Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
—In celebration of National Pasta Month this October, Phil Stefani's Tuscany Restaurants in Chicago, Oak Brook and Wheeling will offer a chef's pasta flight for $20. (Flight items include fettucine boscaiola, raviolacci ... | | 
| | Leghorn sandwich benefits Pride Action Tank youth homeless projects
A collaboration between Chicago singer Taylor Bennett and Chef Jared Van Camp, a new specialty chicken and waffle sandwich presents Van Camp's elevated chef spin on Leghorn's classic hot chicken thigh housed between two of The ... |
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