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Windy City Times 2016-11-30
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Federal court rehears gay discrimination case

Federal court rehears gay discrimination case

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, on Nov. 30, reheard oral arguments in the case of Kimberly Hively, an Indiana math instructor who was allegedly denied promotion and ultimately fired for being a lesbian. The case, ...
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Lambda Legal fights in federal court for math instructor fired for being gay

From a press release

Today, the full 11-member Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in the case of Lambda Legal client, Kimberly Hively, a lesbian math teacher who was repeatedly denied promotions and ultimately fired from her job after ...
Forum plots LGBT action in Trump presidency

Forum plots LGBT action in Trump presidency

For many in the LGBT community, according to Howard Brown Health CEO and President David Munar, the Nov. 8 elections amounted to nothing less than "a traumatic event." Speaking at a Nov. 28 forum on LGBT ...
Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies

Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies

By Andrew Davis and Matt Simonette

Longtime Cuban ruler Fidel Castro has died at age 90. The country declared nine days of national mourning to mark his death. President Barack Obama—who, two years ago, brokered a deal to restore diplomatic ties between ...

  News

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NLGJA President Receives CNN Diversity Ovation Award

From a press release

Washington, D.C.- Today NLGJA - The Association of LGBTQ Journalists is excited to announce that NLGJA President Jen Christensen is the recipient of the 2016 CNN Diversity Ovation Award. Christensen is an exemplification of NLGJA's commitment ...
'Strut' fashion show benefits South Side Help Center

'Strut' fashion show benefits South Side Help Center

Special to the online edition of Windy City Times

On Nov. 20, Madman Productions presented the eighth edition of Strut, the annual fashion event to acknowledge World AIDS Week and to raise funds for HIV/AIDS organizations. The 2016 version took place at The Promontory. 5311 ...
Museum presents two exhibits on AIDS crisis

Museum presents two exhibits on AIDS crisis

Special to the online edition of Windy City Times

On Nov. 18, the International Museum of Surgical Science presented two exhibits that document very different aspects of the AIDS epidemic. The first—"Affinity in the Tall Grasses of California," by ...
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Relationships & the Law Today: Supreme Court looks at transgender bathroom policies

A recurring column

A transgender boy banned from using the boys' restroom at his high school sued his county school board alleging that it impermissibly discriminated him in violation of Title IX of the U.S. Constitution. The student's birth-assigned ...
PASSAGES Ian Harris Schroeder

PASSAGES Ian Harris Schroeder

Former Windy City Times 30 Under 30 honoree and beloved Chicago trans activist, artist and social worker Ian Harris Schroeder passed away Nov. 9, friends and family announced. Schroeder had been battling brain cancer which was ...
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AMA adopts new policies

The American Medical Association (AMA) recently gathered physician and medical student leaders from all corners of medicine during its Interim Meeting and voted to adopt new policies aimed at improving the health of the nation. Among ...
'San Antonio Four'
exonerated

'San Antonio Four' exonerated

The highest court in Texas has exonerated the so-called "San Antonio Four." Elizabeth Ramirez, Kristie Mayhugh, Cassandra Rivera and Anna Vasquez were convicted in the late 1990s of gang-raping two little girls who were Ramirez's nieces. ...
Sock drive adds to holiday spirit for youth at The Crib

Sock drive adds to holiday spirit for youth at The Crib

For the youth experiencing homelessness who enjoyed the Nov. 24 Thanksgiving dinner at The Night Ministry's Lake View shelter The Crib, there was an extra serving and it was one that had some of them literally ...
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Tel Aviv shelter specializes in helping LGBT youth

Beit Dror, which means "House of Freedom" in English, is the only facility for LGBT youths experiencing homelessness in the Middle East. The shelter, located in Tel Aviv, Israel, has 14 beds. Lesbian, gay and bisexual ...
Chicago woman alleges CPD attack during protest

Chicago woman alleges CPD attack during protest

On the second anniversary of the brutal shooting of Black teenager Laquan McDonald by an officer of the Chicago Police Department (CPD), a small group of people gathered near the scene of the crime at 4100 ...
Serving the rainbow youth

Serving the rainbow youth

By David Thill

Several Illinois agencies are taking action to reduce the problems that are specific to LGBTQ youth in the child-welfare system. Renee Lehocky, LCSW, began her career in social services in 1989, a time when same-sex couples ...
Airbnb to tackle LGBT, race discrimination on its platform

Airbnb to tackle LGBT, race discrimination on its platform

Fewer than 20 states in the country prohibit housing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. And although the Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, sex and national origin—with an ...
Website gathers stories of Irish LGBT emigrants for sake of policy

Website gathers stories of Irish LGBT emigrants for sake of policy

Paul Dowling believes in the power of story-telling and how it can create change and connection. He shows this belief in his story/policy initiative about LGBT Irish emigrants, At Home Abroad. Dowling hails from Ireland and ...
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HoF panel on arts and culture Dec. 7

On Wed., Dec. 7, at 6 p.m., the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame will hold a panel for the organization's second annual exhibit. The event will take place at the video theater at the Harold Washington ...
BYC prepares for move into new building

BYC prepares for move into new building

Broadway Youth Center (BYC) is entering the final weeks of preparation for its move to a new Uptown location in January 2017. The drop-in center, operated by Howard Brown Health, has for some time been located ...
Trans pioneer Judy Bowen looks back at community changes

Trans pioneer Judy Bowen looks back at community changes

Trans activist Judy Bowen, 72, has seen a lot. She moved to New York from the South in the mid 1960s and quickly immersed herself in the Greenwich Village scene. She started organizations, became an entrepreneur, ...
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Post-election talk Dec. 5 at the Center

Another post-election discussion, "Where Do We Go From Here? The Trump Presidency and Our Civil Liberties," will take place Monday, Dec. 5, 6-7:30 p.m. at the John Baran Hall at Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted ...
An Uber-driven love story

An Uber-driven love story

If you are one of the many thousands who will take an Uber in Chicago this season whether to holiday parties, shows or to load up on shopping, you might just meet Tanya Serrano-Bargas and Marisela ...
Howard Brown Health holds community input meetings

Howard Brown Health holds community input meetings

Howard Brown Health held two community input meetings—Nov. 15 at Brown Elephant Andersonville and Nov. 17 at Howard Brown Health 63rd Street—ahead of developing its three-year strategic plan. Howard Brown ...
WORLD AIDS DAY PROFILE Jim Petrakis: Consultant becomes face of HIV/AIDS

WORLD AIDS DAY PROFILE Jim Petrakis: Consultant becomes face of HIV/AIDS

Most people may not know Jim Petrakis—but just about everyone is familiar, either directly or indirectly, with what he has gone through the past few years. Petrakis is an AIDS survivor. However, more than surviving, he ...
Art AIDS America co-curator talks activism, exhibition

Art AIDS America co-curator talks activism, exhibition

On World AIDS Day Dec. 1, The Alphawood Gallery in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood will officially open the extraordinary and historic new exhibit for which the building was conceived and designed. Since its Oct. 3, 2015 ...
Quilt, speaker at ISU's World AIDS Day week

Quilt, speaker at ISU's World AIDS Day week

An exhibit of panels from the National AIDS Quilt and a keynote address by a local HIV/AIDS expert will be part of the events leading up to World AIDS Day at Illinois State University (ISU). Selected ...
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MOMBIAN Picking up the shards

I made a cake on Nov. 8 to celebrate what I thought would be Hillary Clinton's election. For decoration, I melted sugar into sheets and broke it into shards to represent the glass ceiling that I ...
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LETTERS Making it better, Chicago Gay Men's Chorus calls for harmony

Making it better Dear Editor: I spoke at a small high schooler-led LGBTQ acceptance conference in rural northwest Indiana (Vice President-elect Pence's stomping ground) recently. Maybe 15 or 20 people showed up at the local YMCA, ...
World news: Trump's UK choice, Ukrainian Parliament, gay-dating app

World news: Trump's UK choice, Ukrainian Parliament, gay-dating app

Special to the online edition of Windy City Times

Donald Trump wants Nigel Farage to be a UK ambassador to the United States, according to PinkNews. The president elect took to Twitter late at night to claim the former UKIP leader "would do a great ...
National roundup: World AIDS Day, mayor harassed, ex-pol comes out

National roundup: World AIDS Day, mayor harassed, ex-pol comes out

Special to the online edition of Windy City Times

In honor of World AIDS Day (Dec. 1), The Advocate (with the support of Michael J. Libow and in conjunction with The NAMES Project Foundation) is bringing three installation panels from the AIDS Memorial Quilt to ...
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Leather Archives' health event Dec. 1

Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco, Ph.D—a Canadian-Chilean educationist, researcher, POZ activist, author and visiting scholar at the Leather Archives & Museum 2016-2017—will be in conversation with queer HIV-positive educator/activist ...
SAGE LGBT elder hotline dedicated to LGBT older people

SAGE LGBT elder hotline dedicated to LGBT older people

From a press release

[New York, NY] On November 1, as part of its work to improve the lives of LGBT older people, Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) launched the country's first hotline dedicated to LGBT elders. The ...
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New journal article explores sexual victimization by women

Press release from The Williams Institute

LOS ANGELES — Using U.S. federal agency data, researchers find that female sexual perpetration is more common than previously recognized. The researchers' findings contradict the common belief that female sexual ...

  Entertainment

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BENT NIGHTS Holiday releases

Although people may think that as the writer behind Bent Nights, I am a pagan witch who has an affinity for roasting small animals and children alive, in all actuality I appreciate the year-end holidays just
...
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Leather collection focus of Dec. 11 talk

Leather Archives & Museum (LA&M) visiting scholar Scott Herring will give a presentation on the special collections of Samuel M. Steward at the museum, 6418 N. Greenview Ave., on Sunday, Dec. 11, 1-3 p.m. Gay artist ...
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'World of Chocolate' Dec. 1 at Revel

The AIDS Foundation of Chicago's 15th annual World of Chocolate winter gala will take place Thursday, Dec. 1— World AIDS Day—at Revel Fulton Market, 1215 W. Fulton Market, 6-9 p.m. There will be elaborate decor and ...
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Victory, Center, Art AIDS hosting talk, tour Nov. 30-Dec. 1

Victory Gardens Theater, Art AIDS America Chicago and Center on Halsted have announced the two-day World AIDS Day event. "We're Still Here: HIV/AIDS Then & Now." "We're Still Here: HIV/AIDS Then & Now"—an HIV/AIDS arts and ...
SCOTTISH PLAY SCOTT Homo for the holidays? A December theater preview

SCOTTISH PLAY SCOTT Homo for the holidays? A December theater preview

Whether you're in the mood for a heartwarming Christmas tale or an irreverent camp comedy, there are all kinds of stage plays and musicals to get you in the mood for the holiday season. Here's a ...
THEATER REVIEW Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley

THEATER REVIEW Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley

Playwright: Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon. At: Northlight Theatre at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie. Tickets: $30-$81. Runs through: Dec. 18 If the thought that crosses your mind upon ...
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THEATER REVIEW The Fundamentals

Playwright: Erika Sheffer. At: Steppenwolf Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St. Tickets: $20-$89. Runs through: Dec. 23 The speechwriters for the recent election got it wrong. The people of whom we should beware are not those with ...
THEATER REVIEW Electra

THEATER REVIEW Electra

Playwright: Sophocles, translated by Nicholas Rudall]. At: Court Theatre, 5535 S. Ellis Ave. Tickets: 773-753-4472; CourtTheatre.org; $48-$68. Runs through: Dec. 11 Two citizens meet in ancient Athens. "So who will win the playwriting prize at the ...
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'SheFest' Dec. 12

Pride Films and Plays will host SheFest at The Broadway, 4139 N. Broadway, on Monday, Dec. 12, at 7:30 p.m. SheFest is a one-night variety show which celebrates queer, female-identified artists through music, movement, spoken word, ...
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Deeply Rooted concerts Dec. 3-4

Deeply Rooted Dance Theater will stage its 20th-anniversary kickoff concerts Saturday, Dec. 3 (7:30 p.m.) and Sunday, Dec. 4 (2 p.m.) at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E. 60th St. Deeply ...
THEATER REVIEW Finding Neverland

THEATER REVIEW Finding Neverland

Music and lyrics by Gary Barlow & Eliot Kennedy. Book by James Graham. At: Cadillac Palace Theater, 151 W. Randolph St. Tickets: 800-775-2000; BroadwayinChicago.com; $27-123. Runs through: Dec 4 Finding Neverland, the Broadway musical tour, has ...
Theater spotlight on The Complete Deaths, Critics' Picks

Theater spotlight on The Complete Deaths, Critics' Picks

Theater spotlight Take a comically macabre journey through the more than 70 onstage and often gruesome deaths in William Shakespeare's complete works with The Complete Deaths. Created by the comic troupe Spymonkey based out of Brighton ...
NUNN ON ONE: THEATER Tom Hewitt hooks into 'Finding Neverland'

NUNN ON ONE: THEATER Tom Hewitt hooks into 'Finding Neverland'

Inspired by the 2004 movie, Finding Neverland has now been made into a musical Broadway show. After closing this past August in New York, the production is now traveling and making its way to the Windy ...
NUNN ON ONE Swingin' with Jane Lynch

NUNN ON ONE Swingin' with Jane Lynch

Actress Jane Lynch returned to her roots in Illinois to accept a Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding contribution to comedy. She appeared at Second City to discuss her accomplishments at the opening reception for the Chicago ...
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Leslie Jordan at NEIU on Dec. 8

Emmy-winning actor and comedian Leslie Jordan will perform his stand-up at Northeastern Illinois University on Thursday, Dec. 8, to conclude NEIU Gives Back Week. The performance, titled "An Afternoon With Leslie Jordan," is scheduled for 3 ...
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Stevie Nicks in Chicago Dec. 3

Grammy-winning icon Stevie Nicks has announced The 24-Karat Gold Tour, which began Oct. 25. The tour will bring Nicks to Chicago's United Center on Saturday, Dec. 3. The Pretenders will be the special guests. Nicks, a ...
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'The Trans List' to air Dec. 5

HBO Documentary Films will debut The Trans List Monday, Dec. 5, 7-8 p.m. CT, on HBO. Directed by portrait photographer/filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (HBO's The Black List, The Out List and The Latino List, among others) and ...
Sidetrack's OUTspoken! Series: December's featured storytellers

Sidetrack's OUTspoken! Series: December's featured storytellers

The December edition of OUTspoken! LGBTQ storyteller series takes place Tuesday, Dec. 6, at Sidetrack, 3349 N. Halsted St. Doors open at 6 pm, stories begin at 7. See www.outspokenchicago.com for more info. Bea Cordelia Bea ...
Entertainment news: Andy Cohen, Ruby Rose, RuPaul, GALECA's top actresses, Madonna

Entertainment news: Andy Cohen, Ruby Rose, RuPaul, GALECA's top actresses, Madonna

Special to the online edition of Windy City Times

Bravo's Andy Cohen thinks Donald Trump is actually a Democrat, Page Six noted. During a panel with Sarah Jessica Parker at 92Y, Cohen said if he could talk to the president-elect, "I would say, 'I know ...
NUNN ON ONE: THEATER Breon Arzell is a 'Travel'-ing man

NUNN ON ONE: THEATER Breon Arzell is a 'Travel'-ing man

Special to the online edition of Windy City Times

Actor Breon Arzell presents Pegasus Theatre's Rutherford's Travels playing the title character, Rutherford Calhoun. It is the tale of Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave who travels to New Orleans and winds up on a slave ...
Drag legend Charles Busch's one-man show to launch Pride Arts Center series

Drag legend Charles Busch's one-man show to launch Pride Arts Center series

From a press release

CHICAGO: Pride Arts Center presents Charles Busch; That Girl, That Boy in The Broadway in the Pride Arts Center for two nights only on January 29 and 30, 2017. This is the first time this theatrical ...
Film to critique Hollywood representations of disabled characters

Film to critique Hollywood representations of disabled characters

From a press release

CHICAGO - A group of disability activists, scholars, and filmmakers are announcing their Kickstarter campaign to raise completion funds for Code the the Freaks, "a blistering critique of Hollywood representations of disabled characters that gives the ...
Handbag Productions Presents The Rip Nelson Holiday Spectacular

Handbag Productions Presents The Rip Nelson Holiday Spectacular

From a press release

CHICAGO (November 23, 2016) — Hell in a Handbag's favorite bitter television has-been returns — and just in time for the holidays! David Cerda's world premiere comedy The Rip Nelson Holiday Spectacular directed by Steve Love, ...

  Outlines

DISH: SAVOR Hugo's Frog Bar

DISH: SAVOR Hugo's Frog Bar

Special to the online edition of Windy City Times

Hugo's Frog Bar (1024 N. Rush St.; HugosFrogBar.com) is part of the Gibsons Restaurant Group—which means it comes quite the reputation. A lesser restaurant might have caved under the pressure of being associated with such a ...
Gift Guide

Gift Guide

Week One of Two

Book it Jared Milrad and Nathan Johnson—the history-making same-sex couple featured in Hillary Clinton's viral presidential campaign commercials ("Getting Started," "Equal")—have co-written So, You Want to Get (Gay) Married. ...
VEHICLE REVIEW 2017 Nissan Armada: really huge, really cozy and really gay

VEHICLE REVIEW 2017 Nissan Armada: really huge, really cozy and really gay

BY SAM GOMEZ, GAYWHEELS.COM

Ever been invaded by something big and overwhelming and Spanish? During the Renaissance, the Spanish Armada was a force to be reckoned with—until Queen Elizabeth I took it down a peg or three, that is. Today's ...
In the Life: Betsy Ade

In the Life: Betsy Ade

Well-Known Strangers was formed about 18 months ago, and the group just recently celebrated its first show. There's nothing but smiles going forward from Betsy Ade and her musical mates, who have been entertaining Midwest audiences ...
BUSINESS
The story of a suit: A woman's custom tuxedo at Dapper Club

BUSINESS The story of a suit: A woman's custom tuxedo at Dapper Club

Amy Silverman wanted a tuxedo. She had a few weddings and charity evenings coming up, and she wanted to look like James Bond. But her dream tuxedo proved elusive. "I kind of makeshift things from what ...
SAVOR Mama's Boy event; Yoshi's Cafe gala

SAVOR Mama's Boy event; Yoshi's Cafe gala

DISH: Weekly Dining Guide in Windy City Times

Windy City Times recently had the honor of attending two different special events. Thankfully, the one thing in common was that they both featured excellent food. Mama's Boy Peasant Italian ...
CMSA Hall of Fame welcomes six in the class of 2016

CMSA Hall of Fame welcomes six in the class of 2016

Leslie Wallin started playing 16-inch softball before some in today's Chicago Metropolitan Sports Association (CMSA) leagues were even born. She started in 1987. And in the early 1990s, she joined the Outlines flag football team. In ...
Barry's Bootcamp brings workouts to Chicago

Barry's Bootcamp brings workouts to Chicago

Joey Gonzalez came home in mid-November for "one of the most climactic and meaningful moments" of his career: the opening of Barry's Chicago, 11 W. Erie St., in River North. Gonzalez is, after all, a Chicago-area ...
Dining news: BrewLights, Bourbon and Bites, Cookie Exchange

Dining news: BrewLights, Bourbon and Bites, Cookie Exchange

Special to the online edition of Windy City Times

—Louis Glunz Beer, Inc. and Lincoln Park Zoo's Auxiliary Board are hosting the third annual BrewLights on Thursday, Dec. 1, 5:30-9:30 p.m. The festival features a dozen local craft, seasonal and import beers on tap throughout ...
Skinner Ricketts named CMO of Cars.com

Skinner Ricketts named CMO of Cars.com

Special to the online edition of Windy City Times

Cars.com announced the appointment of Brooke Skinner Ricketts as the company's chief marketing officer (CMO), effective immediately. Skinner Ricketts most recently served as vice president of brand and design at Avant. Previously she was ...




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