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Windy City Times 2018-04-18
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PASSAGES Pioneering LGBTQ advocate Donna Red Wing dies, organizations respond

PASSAGES Pioneering LGBTQ advocate Donna Red Wing dies, organizations respond

From press releases

From One Iowa: [Des Moines]—Donna Red Wing passed away on Monday, April 16 after a courageous battle with lung cancer. Red Wing served as executive director of One Iowa from 2012-2016, expanding the organization's work into ...
Activist Green to announce 2019 mayoral bid

Activist Green to announce 2019 mayoral bid

Activist and advocate Ja'Mal Green is set to officially announce a campaign to be mayor of Chicago. Green, 22, who heads up the Majostee Allstars Community Center in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood, was set to make ...
Former Lambda attorney kills self over environment

Former Lambda attorney kills self over environment

Well-known Lambda Legal attorney David Buckel was found dead in a public park in Brooklyn, New York, Saturday, having apparently taken his own life in protest over the use of fossil fuels. Buckel was on the ...

  News

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Schock corruption trial continues

Department of Justice prosecutors and attorney for former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Illinois) met in a Chicago federal appeals court April 18 regarding corruption charges against the ex-politician, Politico reported. ...
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HRC releases HIV college guide

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation has released a new comprehensive guide for college administrators, staff and students outlining many of the critical steps higher-educational institutions can take to improve ...
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Judge rules lawsuit over anti-trans Trump ban will go to trial

A federal judge in Seattle rejected the Trump administration's claim that its "new" plan to ban transgender people from serving openly in the U.S. Armed Services is different from its 2017 directive, Bloomberg reported. U.S. District ...
Black women anti-rape advocates unite at UIC

Black women anti-rape advocates unite at UIC

"After Rosa, Before #MeToo"—a panel of the history of Black women's anti-rape organizing efforts—was a chance for four powerful women to commiserate on a subject they knew intimately. Organized by Keisa Reynolds of the University of ...
Illinoisans lobby on behalf of curriculum bill

Illinoisans lobby on behalf of curriculum bill

More than 100 community members became advocates and activists April 11 when Equality Illinois rallied its supporters at LGBTQ Advocacy Day at the Illinois Statehouse. The LGBT-rights organization usually brings community members to Springfield to lobby ...
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Officials say Lesbian mom who drove family off cliff was drunk

In California, Mendocino County authorities said that a woman who drove herself, her wife and their adopted children off a cliff in the family SUV in March was legally drunk, according to SFGate. A toxicology report ...
Dr. Margo Jacquot talks career, Juniper Center, LGBTQ initiatives

Dr. Margo Jacquot talks career, Juniper Center, LGBTQ initiatives

Dr. Margo Jacquot—the founder/owner/director of the Juniper Center—has been serving the community through her Park Ridge-based psychotherapy practice for more than 20 years. The Juniper Center is a counseling and ...
Prevent Blindness' Jeff Todd discusses organization, LGBT activism

Prevent Blindness' Jeff Todd discusses organization, LGBT activism

For the past 15 years, Jeff Todd has worked as the director of public health and chief operating officer of Prevent Blindness (the nation's oldest volunteer eye health and safety organization) and, recently, the board of ...
Log Cabin Republicans claims to be locally reactivated

Log Cabin Republicans claims to be locally reactivated

The Illinois affiliate of the Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) has been "reactivated," according to Chcagoan Morry Matson, who announced April 10 that he had been elected as the state president. The Illinois chapter "has been dormant ...
VIEWPOINT Catholic LGBTQIs see mixed record in first five years of Francis papacy

VIEWPOINT Catholic LGBTQIs see mixed record in first five years of Francis papacy

Marianne Duddy-Burke, executive director of DignityUSA, recently issued the following statement in conjunction with the fifth anniversary of the election of Pope Francis: On March 13, 2018, Catholics and many others in the world marked the ...
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Barbara Bush dies at 92

Barbara Bush—who was only the second woman in history (besides Abigail Adams) to be the wife of one president (George H.W. Bush) and mother to another (George W. Bush)—died April 17. She was 92. She had ...
PHOTOGRAPHY Annie Leibovitz clicks with audience at MCA event

PHOTOGRAPHY Annie Leibovitz clicks with audience at MCA event

"You will learn the most by looking back at your work," said Annie Leibovitz, the legendary and influential portrait photographer, to a sold-out, well-heeled crowd at an April 11, 2018 luncheon marking the 50th anniversary of ...
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P'town hosting women's events

ProvincetownForWomen.com announces the dates for a perennial favorite: Single Women's Weekend. The weekend will be May 18-20. Combined with ProvincetownForWomen.com's other events (Memorial Day Weekend on May 24-28, Women of ...
GLAAD Media Awards honors Spears, Parsons

GLAAD Media Awards honors Spears, Parsons

The GLAAD Media Awards took place April 12 in Los Angeles, with comedian/actress Wanda Sykes as host. GLAAD honored Britney Spears, Jim Parsons and outstanding LGBTQ images in film and television at the 29th Annual GLAAD ...
Women2Women launches with party

Women2Women launches with party

Women were heard loud and clear at Women2Women's (W2W) launch party at EvolveHer on April 14. Women2Women is a place where women can share their evolving journeys as women who love women. It sets out to ...
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PrideFest Milwaukee headliners announced

PrideFest Milwaukee will welcome the B-52s, Jussie Smollett, and Daya to the Miller Lite Main stage this June 8-10 on the Summerfest Grounds. Also, PrideFest enters its 31st official celebratory year and 22nd year at the ...
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Driehaus appoints new executive director

Chicago's Richard H. Driehaus Museum has announced the selection of its new executive director, Richard P. Townsend. The appointment came after an extensive national search by the museum's board of trustees. Townsend, who will be responsible ...
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Trans show part of Chicago Fashion Week

A transgender-themed show will be part of Chicago Fashion Week, which will take place April 23-30. (FashionBar is presenting the weeks' events.) Among the events is "Trans, Media and Fashion," which will take place Sunday, April ...
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Center's 'Human First' gala April 21

Center on Halsted's annual "Human First" gala will take place Saturday, April 21, that Grammy-Winning music legend Jody Watley is scheduled to perform live at the Center's gala on Saturday, April 21, at The Geraghty, 2520 ...
LGBT Chamber of Commerce holds spring mixer

LGBT Chamber of Commerce holds spring mixer

Special to the online edition of Windy City Times

On April 10, The LGBT Chamber of Commerce of Illinois threw a spring mix-and-mingle event that featured networking activities; a recap of this year's event and a preview of what is to come in 2018; a ...
PASSAGES Poet J.D. McClatchy passes away at 72

PASSAGES Poet J.D. McClatchy passes away at 72

J.D. "Sandy" McClatchy, the acclaimed poet at literary critic, died April 10 at his home in Manhattan following a long battle with cancer. He was 72. McClatchy was the author of eight highly praised volumes of ...

WORLD Anti-gay law, Middle East report, serial killer

WORLD Anti-gay law, Middle East report, serial killer

Special to the online edition of Windy City Times

In Trinidad and Tobago, judge Devindra Rampersad said sections of the Sexual Offences Act—which prohibited "buggery" and "serious indecency" between two men—criminalized consensual same-sex activity between adults, and were unconstitutional ...
NATIONAL Military ban, Joy Reid, Sen. Doug Jones

NATIONAL Military ban, Joy Reid, Sen. Doug Jones

Special to the online edition of Windy City Times

Recently, several anonymous White House officials told Slate and Think Progress that hate-group activists were behind the transgender military ban—and, now, LGBT organizations are asking a court to force them to turn over their communications in ...
LGBT journalist Ronan Farrow wins Pulitzer

LGBT journalist Ronan Farrow wins Pulitzer

Journalist Ronan Farrow—who recently came out as a member of the LGBT community at the Point Foundation event Point Honors New York—was among those who have been announced as Pulitzer Prize winners. Farrow, as well as ...
BUSINESS Button Brigade trying to come to the rescue

BUSINESS Button Brigade trying to come to the rescue

Where does one go for a good button-up shirt? For the recently out Katie Cooper, this question proved frustratingly difficult to answer. "Really, the only buttons-up that fit me OK, not even really that well, are ...
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Wonka Ball, Saturday Night Live: The Experience, May 11

About Face Theatre's annual gala, Wonka Ball (theme "Saturday Night Live: The Experience!" ) will take place Friday, May 11, at 8 p.m. (VIP cocktailreception 7 p.m. ) at the Museum of Broadcast Communications, 360 N. ...
LGBT Voices from Middle East, North Africa in 'No Longer Alone' Videos and Report

LGBT Voices from Middle East, North Africa in 'No Longer Alone' Videos and Report

From a Human Rights Watch press release. Video below

(Beirut, April 16, 2018) — Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activists from Arabic-speaking countries in the Middle East and North Africa are defying state-sponsored repression and social stigma, Human ...
Pride event held in Pence's hometown

Pride event held in Pence's hometown

In Columbus, Indiana—the hometown of U.S. Vice President Mike Pence—a Pride event drew more than 2,000 people, according to a U.S. News & World Report article. Erin Bailey (who identifies as bisexual) organized the event, believed ...
LGBT candidates positioned to help Democrats take back House and Senate majority

LGBT candidates positioned to help Democrats take back House and Senate majority

The following is the first in a series of articles examining how LGBT candidates and organizations are positioned to help Democrats take back the majority of the U.S. House and Senate this year. Republican House Speaker ...
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Lambda Legal Challenge to Military Trans Ban on Course to Proceed to Trial

From a press release

(SEATTLE, April 13, 2018) — Today, a federal court in Seattle rejected the Trump Administration's claim that its "new" discriminatory plan to ban transgender people from serving openly in the U.S. Armed Services passes muster. Instead, ...
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Trinidad and Tobago: Court Overturns Same-Sex Intimacy Ban

From a press release

(Washington, DC, April 13, 2018) — The High Court of Justice in Trinidad and Tobago ruled on April 12, 2018, that the country's laws criminalizing same-sex intimacy between consenting adults are unconstitutional, Human Rights Watch said ...
Chicago Filmmakers Ribbon Cutting Ceremony April 28

Chicago Filmmakers Ribbon Cutting Ceremony April 28

From a press release

Chicago Filmmakers invites the public to the opening of its new home, a 1928 Chicago Historic Landmark firehouse purchased from the city of Chicago in 2016. After extensive renovations, Chicago Filmmakers has restored the retired firehouse ...
Andersonville Flower & Garden Show April 21-22

Andersonville Flower & Garden Show April 21-22

From a press release

CHICAGO (April 11, 2018): The Andersonville Flower & Garden Show returns next weekend for its 4th year of spring celebrations throughout the district. Organized by the Andersonville Chamber of Commerce ...
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Communities who Exposed Gang Database Criticize CPD Superintendent's Plan

From a Organized Communities Against Deportations press release

For the last year and a half, a group of community organizations has been working to research and expose the harm of Chicago's Gang Database in communities of color across the city, resulting in the campaign ...
No Straight Lines: The Story of Queer Comics launches fundraising

No Straight Lines: The Story of Queer Comics launches fundraising

April 9, 2018, Berkeley, CA — Today, filmmaker Vivian Kleiman and comics artist and advocate Justin Hall announced that their feature-length documentary film, No Straight Lines: The Story of Queer Comics, will launch a Kickstarter fundraiser ...

  Entertainment

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NUNN ON ONE MOVIES Peaches Christ, worshipping at altars of John Waters, Mink Stole

Director John Waters has influenced and created many movie stars over the years with an iconic career. Known as the Dreamlanders, many of his actors were repeatedly used in multiple films, as in the example of
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Season of Concern hosts 'Cabaret for Care'

Season of Concern hosts 'Cabaret for Care'

Special to the online edition of Windy City Times

Season of Concern's 2018 annual benefit titled Cabaret for Care came to the Goodman Theatre on April 9. The evening had donors enjoying entertainment for around 90 minutes along with a special VIP reception beforehand. Host ...
DANCE PROFILE Getting to know Lucky Plush dancer Aaron-Raheim White

DANCE PROFILE Getting to know Lucky Plush dancer Aaron-Raheim White

How does one go from being a quiet young boy with an unstable home to being a successful Reiki master-teacher and MFA in dance? This isn't a rags-to-riches story, energy healers and dancers being on the ...
THEATER REVIEW Our Great Tchaikovsky

THEATER REVIEW Our Great Tchaikovsky

Playwright/Performer: Hershey Felder; Music: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky At: Steppenwolf Theatre Upstairs, 1650 N. Halsted St. Tickets: 312-335-1650 or Steppenwolf.org; $55. Runs through: May 13 Hershey Felder has built up an ...
THEATER REVIEW 33 to Nothing

THEATER REVIEW 33 to Nothing

Playwright/Composer: Grant James Varjas At: A Red Orchid Theatre, 1531 N. Wells St. Tickets: 312-943-8722; ARedOrchidTheatre.org; $30-$35. Runs through: May 27 On the heels of Steep Theatre's Birdland, A Red Orchid Theatre takes its own dive ...
THEATER REVIEW Ghosts of War

THEATER REVIEW Ghosts of War

Playwright: adapted by William Massolia, from the novel by Ryan Smithson. At: Griffin Theatre Company at The Den, 1331 N. Milwaukee Ave. Tickets: $30-$50. Runs through: May 6 At the very outset, our narrator warns us, ...
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Critics' Picks

The Gentleman Caller, Raven Theatre, extended through May 27. You can see this play because it's so literary or because it's so gol-durn romantic, but you should also see it because it's going to launch its ...
THEATER REVIEW Lettie

THEATER REVIEW Lettie

Playwright: Boo Killebrew At: Victory Gardens Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave. Tickets: 773-871-3000; VictoryGardens.org; $15-$56. Runs through: May 6 Sometimes a role fits an actor so seamlessly it feels as if it were written specifically for ...
THEATER SPOTLIGHT Midsummer Night's Dream

THEATER SPOTLIGHT Midsummer Night's Dream

When the Joffrey Ballet takes on Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman's Midsummer Night's Dream, the performance will be a world away from Shakespeare's original. For one thing, Swedish indie rocker Anna von Hausswolff ...
THEATER REVIEW 9 to 5 The Musical

THEATER REVIEW 9 to 5 The Musical

Music and lyrics: Dolly Parton Book: Patricia Resnick. At: Firebrand Theatre at the Den Theatre, 1329 N. Milwaukee Ave. Tickets: $20-$45; FirebrandTheatre.org. Runs through: May 20 Here are two things about Nine to Five that have ...
THEATER REVIEW Another Jungle

THEATER REVIEW Another Jungle

Playwright: Kristin Idaszak At: The Buena at the Pride Arts Center, 4147 N. Broadway. Tickets: $25. Runs through: April 29 Produced by Cloudgate Theatre in collaboration with The Syndicate, playwright ...
THEATER REVIEW South Pacific

THEATER REVIEW South Pacific

Playwright: Rodgers & Hammerstein (music/lyrics/book) and Joshua Logan (book) At: Drury Lane Theatre (Oakbrook Terrace) Tickets: 630-530-0111; DruryLaneTheatre.com; $47-$62. Runs through: June 17 Wherever U.S. military ...
BOOKS Nina Packebush talks 'Girls Like Me'

BOOKS Nina Packebush talks 'Girls Like Me'

Nina Packebush's first novel, Girls Like Me, breaks new ground with the story of a pregnant queer teenager, Banjo. Recently named as a recommended title by the In the Margins 2018 Book Awards, Packebush says she ...
THEATER
'L'Imitation of Life' shows parody will get you everywhere

THEATER 'L'Imitation of Life' shows parody will get you everywhere

Hell in a Handbag productions are the gaudiest you'll find in Chicago, with camp parodies ranging from Golden Girls to a revisioning of A Miracle Worker, with a drag queen Helen Keller. The company returns with ...
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PFP's 'His Greatness' in Dublin in May; fundraisers planned

Pride Films and Plays' Chicago premiere production of Daniel MacIvor's His Greatness—inspired by a 'potentially true story' during the declining days of Tennessee Williams—will be performed at the 15th Annual ...
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'The Roommate' June 21-Aug. 5

Steppenwolf Theatre Company will present the Chicago premiere production of The Roommate, by Jen Silverman and directed by Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad. The Roommate begins previews June 21, and the production runs through Aug. 5 ...
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Bridge Dance Festival through May 6

The Bridge Dance Festival—the culmination of four years of Japanese focused programming at Links Hall, 3111 N. Western Ave., including the National Performance Network Asian Exchange, Beyond the Box and Links to Japan—is taking place through ...
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'Big Package Auction' April 21 at Center

Chicago Gay Men's Chorus will present The Big Package Auction '18, hosted by the hilarious musical duo Amy & Freddy, on Saturday, April 21, 5-8 p.m., at Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted St. There will ...
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Lavender Country performing April 26

The LGBT artist Lavender Country will be performing in Chicago at The Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia Ave., on Thursday, April 26, at 9 p.m. Lavender Country is a band featuring Patrick Haggerty, a lifelong social-justice activist ...
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Julia Sweeney's show to start April 24

The Second City announced that SNL vet Julia Sweeney's one-woman show Julia Sweeney: Older and Wider will move to the theater's e.t.c. stage for a six-week run April 24-May 30. Sweeney is a writer, actor, comedian, ...
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'Stars on Ice' on April 29, with Adam Rippon

Out Olympian Adam Rippon will be among the figure skaters featured when the Stars on Ice tour comes to the Allstate Arena on Sunday, April 29, at 4 p.m. Other skaters on the tour include 2018 ...
Ted Allen talks Dining Out for Life, 'Chopped' and 'Queer Eye'

Ted Allen talks Dining Out for Life, 'Chopped' and 'Queer Eye'

Ted Allen was originally introduced to the country when he was one of the original quintet in Bravo network's television program Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, which ran 2003-07. After appearing on Top Chef as ...
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Siskel showing 'Best of Black Harvest'

The Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago announced increased funding for The Best of Black Harvest West with a grant of $8,000 as part of an overall package of ...
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Springfield drag show April 28

On Saturday, April 28, the Phoenix Center will present Springfield Pridefest Club LaCage Drag Show at the Hoogland Center for the Arts, Theatre III, 420 S. Sixth St., Springfield. This event is chaired by Deanna Knight. ...
BOOKS
In 'Red As Blue,' Ji Strangeway creates universe of possibilities

BOOKS In 'Red As Blue,' Ji Strangeway creates universe of possibilities

Ji Strangeway describes the 1980s in Denver as the "dark ages," explaining that she grew up surrounded by evangelical-sponsored billboards filled with messages of hate and intolerance and people who were equally bigoted. Strangeway said being ...
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'Waa-Mu Show' May 4-13 at NU

The 87th annual Waa-Mu Show—Northwestern University's student-written and -orchestrated musical presented in collaboration with the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts at Northwestern University—will take place May 4-13 ...
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Howard Brown's 'ChiQ' on April 28

Howard Brown Health will hold "ChiQ" (formerly Garden of Eve) on Saturday, April 28, 7-11 p.m., at South Shore Cultural Center, 7059 S. South Shore Dr. There will be dancing, performances by Jeezy's Juke Joint, light ...
NUNN ON ONE TV Ross Marquand on his gay character in 'The Walking Dead'

NUNN ON ONE TV Ross Marquand on his gay character in 'The Walking Dead'

Special to the online edition of Windy City Times

Hailing from Colorado, performer Ross Marquand grew up impersonating celebrities that eventually led to a career in voiceover work. His talents have been heard on the cartoons Robot Chicken, and Phineas and Ferb, as well as ...
SHOWBIZ 'Pose,' Beyonce, 'Days of Our Lives,' Serena Williams

SHOWBIZ 'Pose,' Beyonce, 'Days of Our Lives,' Serena Williams

Special to the online edition of Windy City Times

Television audiences got their first glimpse of FX's hotly anticipated, history-making series Pose with the release of the show's first trailer, The Huffington Post noted. The eight-episode season will "explore the juxtaposition ...
May Pride Film Fest "Celebrating Who We Are" May 8

May Pride Film Fest "Celebrating Who We Are" May 8

From a press release

Chicago, IL - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Pride Films and Plays' eighth monthly festival of LGBTQ independent films will be screened on Tuesday, May 8, 2018. The theme for this 82-minute program of nine films is "Celebrating ...
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Artemis Pride More Than Music concert, dance June 9

From an Artemis press release

Artemis Singers' More Than Music Pride choral concert and community dance, will include poet e nina jay, author of Body of Rooms, and DJ OCD in the soaring gothic acoustically beautiful space of First Unitarian Church ...

  Outlines

Getting to know American Beauty Show's Paul Dykstra

Getting to know American Beauty Show's Paul Dykstra

Later this month, Cosmetologists Chicago will kick off its annual America's Beauty Show for salon professionals. The first, as it was called at the time, Midwest Beauty Trade Show took place in 1924 and now the ...

DINING Earth Day items, Just Salad, Palm Chicago reopens

DINING Earth Day items, Just Salad, Palm Chicago reopens

Special to the online edition of Windy City Times

—In honor of Earth Day (April 22), I/O Godfrey Executive Chef Nathaniel Cayer will share his mixology techniques with guests. On Wed., April 25, at 7 p.m., Chef Cayer will lead a Conscious Cocktailing Class, teaching ...




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