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Windy City Times 2018-09-19
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Chicago Reader sold to investment group, Tracy Baim to be publisher

Chicago Reader sold to investment group, Tracy Baim to be publisher

An agreement has been reached between the Chicago Sun-Times, owner of the Chicago Reader weekly newspaper, and a private investment group which has formed an L3C to purchase the Reader to ensure it remains a vital ...

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News

Change is in the air

Windy City Times is marking its 33rd anniversary this month. As co-founder and publisher, I could not be more proud of what this paper and related sister publications have accomplished. I know we have not been ...
Slain trans woman's mother reflects on daughter's life, passing

Slain trans woman's mother reflects on daughter's life, passing

Valerie Griffin will always remember her late daughter—Dejanay Stanton, who went by the nickname Dada—as a free spirit who loved to both travel and shop, and was always respectful and affectionate toward her mother. "She never ...
2018 MIDWEST LGBTQ
HEALTH SYMPOSIUM Boykin focuses on racism and health, wellness

2018 MIDWEST LGBTQ HEALTH SYMPOSIUM Boykin focuses on racism and health, wellness

Black AIDS Institute (BAI) Policy, Advocacy and Mobilization Senior Coordinator Maximillian Boykin addressed a packed, standing-room-only crowd about "How Racism is Killing us, and How We Stop it" during the morning session at the Midwest LGBTQ ...
News

Court Rules Wisc. State Employee Health Insurance Must Cover Transgender Workers

A federal court found that denying health insurance for gender-affirming medical care violates the Constitution and federal non-discrimination law. The federal lawsuit was filed on behalf of Alina Boyden, a graduate student at the University of ...
News

State Dept Cannot Rely on Binary-Only Gender Policy to Deny Passport

(Denver, CO, September 19, 2018) — A U.S. District Court Judge today ruled that the U.S. State Department exceeded its authority under the Passport Act of 1926 when it denied a passport to Lambda Legal client ...
2018 MIDWEST LGBTQ HEALTH SYMPOSIUM Jessica Halem keynote LGBTQ health symposium

2018 MIDWEST LGBTQ HEALTH SYMPOSIUM Jessica Halem keynote LGBTQ health symposium

Jessica Halem, a former Chicagoan and Harvard Medical School's first-ever LGBT program director, gave the keynote address, "Honor the Dead and Fight for the Living," at the Midwest LGBTQ Health Symposium Sept. 15 at Malcolm X ...
News

Chicago priest, parishioners burn Rainbow flag in defiance of Archdiocese orders

In defiance of a Chicago Archdiocese order, Resurrection Catholic Church Pastor Fr. Paul Kalchik and a number of parishioners cut up and burned the Rainbow flag featuring a white cross overlaid with the flag colors that ...
News

LETTER Calling out Kavanaugh

Open item from the National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund: It took courage for Professor Christine Blasey Ford to publicly come forward with her accusations of physical and sexual assault at the hands of Supreme Court ...
News

Architect to discuss local projects Oct. 2

Mark Sexton—co-founder of the firm that designed the Millennium Park's Crown Fountain (2004) in collaboration with artist Jaume Plensa—will tell the story behind the fountain and other projects in the ...
News

Galesburg to host 'One State Together'

The Illinois Arts Council Agency (IACA) and Arts Alliance Illinois announced that the next One State Together in the Arts conference will be held in Galesburg, Illinois, on Oct. 22-23. Additional pre-conference events for the Illinois ...
DeRay Mckesson, fighting for Black lives

DeRay Mckesson, fighting for Black lives

By the time this interview was conducted Sept. 7, DeRay Mckesson, one of the most visible Black Lives Movement organizers, was already on his book tour in New York for his memoir On the Other Side ...
News

U.S. District Court Denies Move to End Injunction Blocking Transgender Military Ban

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California rejected the Trump-Pence Administration's latest attempt to implement its discriminatory transgender military ban Tuesday, denying a motion ...
WORLD Cuban president, trans athlete, Trinidad and Tobago, Dua Lipa

WORLD Cuban president, trans athlete, Trinidad and Tobago, Dua Lipa

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has backed same-sex marriage, BBC.com reported. The Cuban leader, who took over from Raul Castro in April, said he was in favor of recognizing "marriage between people without any restrictions." In an ...
Sept. 22 ball to honor drag queen/activist Marsha P. Johnson, prominent Stonewall figure

Sept. 22 ball to honor drag queen/activist Marsha P. Johnson, prominent Stonewall figure

Mothers LaSaia Lauren and Jahari Mizrahi will present the "Pay It No Mind Ball" Saturday, Sept. 22, at 5110 S. Prairie Ave., 10 p.m.-3 a.m. The free event will celebrate the life and contributions of Marsha ...

NATIONAL Third-gender option, HIV+ military, intersex guide, West Hollywood

NATIONAL Third-gender option, HIV+ military, intersex guide, West Hollywood

People born in New York City who don't identify as male or female will have the option of changing their birth certificates to "X'' under legislation the City Council passed, a U.S. News & World Report ...
Broadway in Chicago season tickets open soon, include off-season specials

Broadway in Chicago season tickets open soon, include off-season specials

CHICAGO (Sept. 17, 2018) — Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce its next season will go on sale to the public this Sunday, September 23. The season includes: A BRONX TALE, ANASTASIA, CATS and Tony ...
LGBTQ military veterans to hold national conference and Sept. 22 banquet

LGBTQ military veterans to hold national conference and Sept. 22 banquet

The Chicago Chapter of AVER (LGBTQ military veterans) will host the National AVER Convention at the Center on Halsted Sept. 19 through 21 and will host an associated banquet on Saturday, Sept. 22 at Ann Sathers ...
Women's March Chicago announces event expansion

Women's March Chicago announces event expansion

On Sept. 12, at the corner of Jackson Boulevard and Columbus Drive in Grant Park, board members from Women's March Chicago (WMC) and representatives from partnership organizations announced expansions and new features to its upcoming March ...
The Baton Show Lounge's Ginger Grant remembered

The Baton Show Lounge's Ginger Grant remembered

Entertainer Harry Hodges, a.k.a. Ginger Grant, passed away the week of Sept. 10 in Chicago. Hodges, performing under Grant's persona, was a longtime emcee at The Baton and a close friend of its owner, Jim Flint. ...
News

HRC calls for halt to Supreme Court confirmation process

WASHINGTON — Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) called for the Senate Judiciary Committee to halt the Supreme Court confirmation process for Brett Kavanaugh and investigate the sexual allegation against ...
Massachusetts AG Maura Healey at LPAC event

Massachusetts AG Maura Healey at LPAC event

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey attended a small gathering for the national LGBTQ political action committee LPAC Sept. 12 at an event hosted by attorney Gail Morse at the law offices of Jenner & Block in ...
News

EI PAC calls on Gov. Rauner to stop contributing to anti-gay candidate

Statement from John Litchfield, Chair of the Equality Illinois PAC, which is dedicated to securing and defending the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) Illinoisans through engagement ...
News

Court Rules Case Challenging Defense Dept. HIV Discrimination Can Proceed

(Alexandria, VA September 14, 2018) — Today, a Virginia federal court ruled a case filed by Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN, along with pro bono counsel from Winston & Strawn LLP, challenging the ...
News

Federal Court in Michigan Allows Challenge to Discriminatory Adoption to Continue

DETROIT — A federal district court in Michigan ruled today that a challenge to the state of Michigan's practice of allowing discrimination against same-sex couples in the public foster care system can move forward. The American ...
News

5th Florida Black Transgender Women is Found Murdered

SARASOTA — Equality Florida issued a call to action following the murder of Londonn Moore, the fifth Black transgender woman murdered in the state in a little over six months. At 3pm ET today a national ...
News

LGBTQ+ family group Fortunate Families responds to Cathlolic clerical abuse

Fortunate Families, Inc., Catholic Family, Friends & Allies Ministry Supporting LGBTQ+ Sisters and Brothers, today sent a letter to Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, President of the United States Conference of Catholic ...
News

Intersex-Affirming Hospital Policy Guide Published

Follows Legislative Acknowledgement of Non-consensual Surgeries

(New York, NY) — interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth, Lambda Legal, and Proskauer Rose LLP have released the nation's first intersex-affirming hospital policy guide, offering concrete steps for medical providers ...

  Entertainment

Entertainment

Arms and the Man

Playwright: George Bernard Shaw At: City Lit Theatre, 1055 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. Tickets: City:Lit.org; $32. Runs through: Oct. 21 This 1894 comedy is one of George Bernard Shaw's most frequently-produced works, part of a group
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Entertainment

Odessa

Playwright: Michaela Heidemann At: Otherworld Theatre, 3914 N. Clark St. Tickets: theRBP.org; $10-$20. Runs through: Oct. 6 The Ukrainian city of Odessa may be best known in popular culture for the famous "Odessa Steps" sequence in ...
Second Skin

Second Skin

Playwright: Kristin Idaszak At: The Den, 1333 N. Milwaukee Ave. Tickets: WildclawTheatre.com; $15-$30. Runs through: Oct. 13 If you were going to give the elevator pitch version of Kristin Idaszak's Second Skin, now in a world ...
Birth, rebirth and reinvention, Goddess Warrior The Poet

Birth, rebirth and reinvention, Goddess Warrior The Poet

After more than a year of hideout and hiatus, Dianna Tyler, aka Goddess Warrior The Poet, came out strong with her first spoken-word album More Than a Woman, which is due to be released Saturday, Sept. ...
BOOK REVIEW Perfectly Clear

BOOK REVIEW Perfectly Clear

Author: Michelle LeClair, with Robin Gaby Fisher $27; Berkley; 289 pages Michelle LeClair is an openly queer Scientologist who thought she could have it all. She was very, very wrong. Perfectly Clear, LeClair's memoir about an ...
Poetry in the air, Chicago poetry events Fall 2018

Poetry in the air, Chicago poetry events Fall 2018

This fall, "local author" shelves of Chicago's indie bookstores will be flooded with titles that "disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed," as the old adage says art should. In almost all of these new works, ...
Blythe Baird, young and hungry

Blythe Baird, young and hungry

Blythe Baird, a "mostly lesbian" author, spoken word performer and unstoppable creative force, is the poster child for successful, young artists. Originally from Palatine, a northwestern suburb of Chicago, Baird is currently living in St. Paul ...
FALL THEATER PREVIEW
Multicultural world premieres dot fall theater season

FALL THEATER PREVIEW Multicultural world premieres dot fall theater season

"Yo, what's up, white people?" chirps a character in the first minutes of Qui Nguyen's Vietgone [running at Writers Theater through Sept. 23], reminding us that our world is occupied by a diversity of races, cultures ...
The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?

The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?

Playwright: Edward Albee At: Interrobang Theatre Project at Rivendell Theatre, 5779 N. Ridge Ave. Tickets: $32; InterrobangTheatre.org 312-219-4140. Runs through: Oct. 6 However steadfastly we may support the right of all people to love, couple and ...
Entertainment

Crime and Punishment

Playwright: Chris Hannan, adapted from Dostoevsky At: Shattered Globe Theatre at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave. Tickets: 773-975-8150; ShatteredGlobe.org; $39. Runs through: Oct. 20 Adapting a Dostoevsky novel for the stage requires a lot of ...
Entertainment

Tangles and Plaques

Playwright: Kirsten Riiber At: The Neo-Futurists at The Neo-Futurarium, 5153 N. Ashland Ave. Tickets: $10-25; https://neofuturists.org; 773-878-4557. Runs through: Sept. 29 Tangles and Plaques—at the Neo-Futurists, a Neo-Lab commission about ...
Entertainment

Critics' Pics

Radio Golf, Court Theatre, through Sept. 30. A gifted cast and director bring power to August Wilson's final play, concerning African-American upward mobility in Pittsburgh's gentrifying Hill District ghetto ... a slippery ...
SPOTLIGHT Elider DiPaula

SPOTLIGHT Elider DiPaula

Out Brazilian concert pianist Elider DiPaula is launching a four-concert series that will bring out, internationally acclaimed musicians to Berwyn. The True Unity Classical Concert Series kicks off at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, with German ...
Little Shop of Horrors

Little Shop of Horrors

Playwright: Alan Menken (composer), Howard Ashman (book and lyrics). At: Drury Lane Theatre, 100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace. Tickets: 630/530-0111; $55- $65; DruryLaneTheatre.com . Runs through: Oct. 28 Well-dressed theatergoers ...
Scraps

Scraps

Adapted by Anthony Whitaker At: The Den Theatre, 1333 N. Milwaukee Ave. Tickets: $25; TheDenTheatre.com; 773-935-6875. Runs through: Sept. 29 One of the most endearing characters from L. Frank Baum's Oz stories is the little patchwork ...
FALL DANCE PREVIEW Flamenco, swans and Sri Lankan devils

FALL DANCE PREVIEW Flamenco, swans and Sri Lankan devils

Can you smell the intermingling of chalky rosin and glistening sweat? That means one thing: It's time to put that tingle back in your fingers and feet! Here, the top dance concert and events to see ...
FALL THEATER PREVIEW Checking out the LGBTQ lineup

FALL THEATER PREVIEW Checking out the LGBTQ lineup

From world premieres to revivals of old favorites, the fall season offers a complex lens on LGBTQ stories. Some draw inspiration from past works, while others come straight from the creators' own lives. —Homos, or Everyone ...
Entertainment

UrbanTheater to start 'Not for Sale' Sept. 21

UrbanTheater Company (UTC) kicks off its "lucky 13th" season with the world premiere of Guadalas del Carmen's play Not for Sale—UTC's first commissioned play—Sept. 21-Oct. 20 at Batey Urbano, 2620 W. Division ...
Entertainment

Rescripted renews mentorship program

Rescripted has announced the second session of The Key: Young Critics Mentorship Program, which started Sept. 18 and hosted this year at Steppenwolf Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St. Regina Victor (founder of the online arts journalism ...
Entertainment

Sketch Comedy Fest applications open

Stage 773 now has applications for The Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival's 18th anniversary. The nation's largest sketch-comedy festival will take place Jan. 10-20, 2019, at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave. The festival debuted in January ...
FALL THEATER, 'Destinos' theme is lifelong journey for founder Myrna Salazar

FALL THEATER, 'Destinos' theme is lifelong journey for founder Myrna Salazar

Think Rita Moreno mixed with your favorite world-traveler aunt who brings you trinkets from far-away lands and mesmerizes you with stories of intrigue and adventure. That's Myrna Salazar, executive director and co-founder of the Chicago Latino ...
Entertainment

'Destinos' picks

SIDEBAR to 'Destinos' theme, lifelong journey for founder

Destinos: The 2nd Annual Chicago International Theater Festival runs Sept. 20-Nov. 4. Produced by the Chicago Latino Theater Alliance (see related story by Amelia Orozco), the festival will spotlight artists ...
FALL THEATER PREVIEW From Schaumburg to New York, Alexandra Billings puts on a show

FALL THEATER PREVIEW From Schaumburg to New York, Alexandra Billings puts on a show

Roughly 30 years ago, trans* actor/recording artist/pageant queen/activist Alexandra Billings was sentenced to death. The diagnosis: She was HIV-positive. She remembered the doctor's advice with the crystalline clarity: "He said ...
Burlesque community mourns abrupt closing of Uptown Underground

Burlesque community mourns abrupt closing of Uptown Underground

The speakeasy-style cabaret bar Uptown Underground was evicted Sept. 10, abruptly leaving performers to find a new home for their shows. The venue, a staple in Chicago's cabaret and burlesque communities, owed more than $100,000 in ...
FALL THEATER PREVIEW Easy does it, A dozen classic plays and musicals

FALL THEATER PREVIEW Easy does it, A dozen classic plays and musicals

My gambit is to recommend revivals of works that have been staged and tested previously in Chicago and elsewhere, sometimes uncountable times over many centuries—in other words, the classics. Several are quite new to be considered ...
Entertainment

Paula Vogel in Chicago Sept. 20

Goodman Theatre will host its "Igniting Imagination: The Art of Great Teaching" education and engagement luncheon on Thursday, Sept. 20, with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright/educator Paula Vogel. Vogel will join Walter ...
FALL THEATER PREVIEW Artemisia Fest fights for femme presentation

FALL THEATER PREVIEW Artemisia Fest fights for femme presentation

Google Artemisia Gentileschi's 17th-century oil painting Judith Beheading Holofernes. Seriously. Do it. I'll wait. The image is emblematic of Gentileschi's art: Magnificent, lush and thematically violent. It was also revolutionary: ...
Entertainment

The Shipment

Playwright: Young Jean Lee At: Red Tape Theatre, 4546 N. Western Ave. Tickets: https://redtapetheatre.org; free. Runs through: Oct. 3 Written by Korean-American playwright Young Jean Lee, The Shipment is a minstrel show, but not on the ...
FALL OPERA PREVIEW Operas cover love, lust and lesbians

FALL OPERA PREVIEW Operas cover love, lust and lesbians

Replete with princes in crowns, queens in leather, women in love and womanizers in lust, the start to this year's opera season is rich with traditional blockbuster, off-Loop revolutionaries and superstar voices. Don't know where to ...
MCA, bicoastal and multidisciplinary

MCA, bicoastal and multidisciplinary

BLast year, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) unveiled Marisol, a restaurant and bar in the lower level of the museum, adjacent to the theater lobby. Created by Jason Hammel of Logan Square's acclaimed Lula Cafe ...
Jean Leigh runs Boystown gallery for everyone

Jean Leigh runs Boystown gallery for everyone

Jean Leigh always had a clear vision for what she wanted her Halsted Street gallery to be: "I wanted a gallery where you could walk in and get something, rather than walking out brokenhearted." Since 2005, ...
LGBT-themed films abound at 2018 CSAFF

LGBT-themed films abound at 2018 CSAFF

The Chicago South Asian Film Festival (CSAFF), founded in 2010 and organized by the Chicago South Asian Arts Council, takes place this year. This festival, the largest of its kind in the Midwest, will present more ...
Entertainment

LGBT films at CSAFF 2018

Evening Shadows explores how a mother, Vasudha, copes with her young gay son's revelation of his sexuality in a small town in Southern India. Bound by traditions and morality, she has no one to turn to ...
Entertainment

EXPO Chicago Sept. 27-30

EXPO Chicago: The International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art will take place Sept. 27-30 at Navy Pier's Festival Hall. The seventh annual exposition will host 135 galleries from 27 countries and 63 cities, and introduce ...
Entertainment

Holly Near in Chicago Sept. 28

Musician Holly Near will perform Friday, Sept. 28, at Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln Ave., at 8 p.m. Near is celebrating her first album in three years, Peace Becomes You, and she's ...
Steppenwolf to run 'Ms. Blakk' in May

Steppenwolf to run 'Ms. Blakk' in May

Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company is replacing its previously announced production of Tarell Alvin McCraney's Wig Out! with the world premiere of Ms. Blakk For President—about the life of real-life drag queen Joan Jett Blakk, who is ...
Reeling 2018 reviews

Reeling 2018 reviews

For complete festival information including locations, and to buy tickets, visit reelingfilmfestival.org . Canary (HHH) (Sept. 21, 7 p.m.) In South Africa in the mid-'80s, a smalltown boy (cue Bronski ...
BYP100's Charlene Carruthers on being Black, feminist and queer

BYP100's Charlene Carruthers on being Black, feminist and queer

Despite the fact that, in Chicago, Charlene Carruthers and I are neighbors, the only time we can find to have this conversation is with 800 miles between us, which perfectly sums up Carruthers' schedule recently. As ...
BYP100'S Charlene Carruthers gets
'Unapologetic'

BYP100'S Charlene Carruthers gets 'Unapologetic'

First-time author Charlene Carruthers' Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements was published in August by Beacon Press. Carruthers is the co-founder of Black Youth Project 100 ...
Lise Weil reading Sept. 29 at Barbara's

Lise Weil reading Sept. 29 at Barbara's

Lise Weil will be reading from and discussing her new memoir, In Search of Pure Lust, on Saturday, Sept. 29, at 4 p.m. at Barbara's Bookstore, 111 N. State St. In Search of Pure Lust is a chronicle of Weil's immersion ...
Writer/performer R.C. Riley on queer identity, #MeToo

Writer/performer R.C. Riley on queer identity, #MeToo

Writer and performer R. C. Riley's journey toward full acceptance of her queer woman identity has gone through many stages and now she is embracing that label in a big way. That journey was painful for ...
Checking out the fall literary scene

Checking out the fall literary scene

Book lovers have a lot to look forward to this fall; literary festivals will bring small presses and authors from all over the country to Chicago. The annual Chicago Lit Crawl brings readings, presentations and performances ...
Entertainment

See Chicago Dance gala Sept. 25

See Chicago Dance (SCD)—the dance industry's nonprofit marketing and advocacy organization—will host its fourth annual gala Tuesday, Sept. 25, 6 -10 p.m., at City Winery, 1200 W. Randolph St. The ...
Sykes, Rippon speak at Chicago House event

Sykes, Rippon speak at Chicago House event

Being one's "authentic self" was the theme as comedian Wanda Sykes and athlete Adam Rippon headlined Chicago House's 2018 Speaker Series and Luncheon entry on Sept. 14 at the Chicago Hilton and Towers, 720 S. Michigan ...
Off the beaten path: 
From steelworks to truckers, Anne Balay writes about LGBTQI lives

Off the beaten path: From steelworks to truckers, Anne Balay writes about LGBTQI lives

Anne Balay was working as an assistant professor in 2014 when her book on queer Indiana steel mill workers Steel Closets was published. When she wasn't offered tenure, Balay decided to use the opportunity to do ...
Haring mural exhibit in Loop thru Sept. 23

Haring mural exhibit in Loop thru Sept. 23

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events will present "Keith Haring: The Chicago Mural" through Sunday, Sept. 23, at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St. The exhibition will be ...
When They Call You a Terrorist, A Black Lives Matter Memoir

When They Call You a Terrorist, A Black Lives Matter Memoir

By Patrisse Khan-Cullors & asha bandele $24.99; St. Martin's. Press; 257 pages You can't look any longer. Whatever it is, it's just too painful, too scary, so you hide your eyes and pretend that nothing's happening. ...
Billy Masters

Billy Masters

"Makeup. Five pounds of makeup."—Cher explained why she looks so good in Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again. She added, "Also the director really liked me. I think he took extra special care to light me." ...
2018 Reeling film fest lights up Chicago screens

2018 Reeling film fest lights up Chicago screens

Reeling—Chicago's film festival dedicated to illuminating the diverse facets of the LGBT community—kicks off its 2018 edition on Thursday, Sept. 20, and festival organizers are promising a wide range of entries this ...
NUNN ON ONE, REELING The Queens film holds court at Reeling

NUNN ON ONE, REELING The Queens film holds court at Reeling

The Queens will be coming to Reeling Film Festival this year in a new film about the Miss Continental Pageant. Filmmaker Mark Saxenmeyer takes viewers behind the scenes as a camera crew documents the trials and ...
Entertainment

Martha Wash in 'WaistWatchers' in Sept.-Oct.

WaistWatchers The Musical! makes its Chicago premiere at the Royal George Theatre, 1641 N. Halsted St., beginning Sept. 13 for an open run, with a press opening Sept. 21. Produced by Dana Matthow and featuring musical ...
SHOWBIZ Trans singer, Viola Davis, Jim Parsons, 'Wicked'

SHOWBIZ Trans singer, Viola Davis, Jim Parsons, 'Wicked'

Filipino pop star Jake Zyrus—formerly known as Charice when he was on the TV show Glee—has released "Diamond," marking his first English-language crossover since coming out as a trans man last year, Billboard.com noted. In the ...
'Maisel,' 'Thrones,' RuPaul rule Emmys

'Maisel,' 'Thrones,' RuPaul rule Emmys

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Game of Thrones and RuPaul's Drag Race were the big winners in the areas of comedy, drama and reality competition, respectively, at the 70th annual Primetime Emmy Awards, which took place Sept. ...
FALL THEATER Theater festivals and special events

FALL THEATER Theater festivals and special events

In addition to the many individual shows, there are several festivals and special events that will enrich the autumn theater season. Here's a quick look at some of them, listed by dates: —New Stages Festival: This ...
Entertainment

GLAAD celebrates LGBTQ-inclusive 70th Annual Emmy Awards

September 18, 2018, New York, NY — GLAAD today celebrated the LGBTQ-inclusive winners of the 70th Annual Emmy Awards, while encouraging greater diversity and LGBTQ representation throughout the entertainment industry. ...
MUSIC Cris Williamson talks music, love and the industry

MUSIC Cris Williamson talks music, love and the industry

Cris Williamson—the legendary singer-songwriter, feminist, activist and trailblazer for women in the music industry—received the Jack Emerson Lifetime Achievement Award on Sept. 12 from the Americana Music Association in Nashville ...
Entertainment

Writers Theatre presents the World Premiere of Witch

Glencoe, IL— Writers Theatre, under the leadership of Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma, presents the World Premiere of Witch, written by Jen Silverman, inspired by The Witch of Edmonton by Rowley, ...

  Outlines

Five Worth Finding: Glamping, AIDS Run & Walk, and more

Five Worth Finding: Glamping, AIDS Run & Walk, and more

—Glamping at The Gwen (https://www.thegwenchicago.com/rooms-suites/glamping/): Time is winding down to enjoy the glamping experience at the upscale River North hotel The Gwen, on the private terrace of the Gwen Lux ...
Amateur, a trans memoir of masculinity, boxing and being a man

Amateur, a trans memoir of masculinity, boxing and being a man

Thomas Page McBee is many people: a husband, an uncle, a brother, a son. He's also the first trans man to fight in Madison Square Garden. Amateur: A True Story of What Makes a Man (Simon and Schuster) is McBee's second ...
Chicagoan raises money and pride walking to fight HIV/AIDS

Chicagoan raises money and pride walking to fight HIV/AIDS

Christopher Pazdernik was filled with fear and shame that day in 2009 when he learned he is HIV-positive. "I was so embarrassed and terrified; I had no idea what was going to happen next," he said. ...
A new breed, Chicago artist draws his 
way to LGBT comic success

A new breed, Chicago artist draws his way to LGBT comic success

Tony Breed, a Chicago-based artist and writer who has been making comics which he publishes online since 2006, is also active in making sure the work of LGBT comic artists is amplified across the country. Breed ...
DINING Hoptoberfest, "Breakfast at Tiffany's," Nacional 27

DINING Hoptoberfest, "Breakfast at Tiffany's," Nacional 27

—Starting at 10 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 23, HopCat, 2577 N. Clark St., will host Hoptoberfest, and continue the fun with Hofbrau beer dinner on Tuesday, Sept. 25. The beer dinner will feature a five beer, ...
TRAVEL Hello, Columbus, Much more than a college town

TRAVEL Hello, Columbus, Much more than a college town

I've had the good fortune to travel to Columbus, Ohio, a few times—and I've convinced more and more people that it's a great place to visit. Why is that? Because, despite some individuals' perceptions that The ...




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