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| | Study finds young Black men have higher HIV rates, despite less unsafe sex
A new Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine study says that young Black men who have sex with men (MSM) are 16 times more likely to have an HIV infection than their white peers—despite more frequent ... | |
| | President George H.W. Bush dies at 94
Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush the 41st chief executive of the country, and one of only two individuals to be the father of another president has died at 94 in Houston. Bush's death happened several months after ... | |
| | Democrats nominate Pelosi as speaker
On Nov. 28, U.S. House Democrats resoundingly picked current Speaker Nancy Pelosi as their nominee for the same position Pelosi was nominated as speaker in a closed-door meeting by a vote of 203-32 vote. However, some ... |
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| | Asians & Friends holiday party Dec. 16
On Sunday, Dec. 16, at 5 p.m., LGBTA organization Asians & Friends Chicago will hold its annual holiday party at The Piggery, 1625 W. Irving Park Rd. The spot features BBQ and comfort food. Attendees should ... | | 
| | Chicago braces for long mayoral season
The announcement this past fall that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel would not be seeking another term in the 2019 election opened an already-crowded playing field even wider. Some 21 individuals had submitted petitions by the deadline ... | |
| | Historians looking for survey participants
Writers/historians Sukie de la Croix and Owen Keehnen are collaborating on an upcoming project, tentatively called "Tell Me About It," and are looking for folks to answer 10 questions each. NOTE: Participants can sign their full ... | |
| | N.Y. center starts Stonewall project
The Center in New York, NY, has launched Stonewall Forever, a project to find, preserve and share the untold stories of the Stonewall Riots of 1969 and the early years of the LGBTQ rights movement. The ... | | 
| | Nigerian LGBT activist on his journey and fight for equal rights
Davis Mac-Iyalla has been an LGBT activist in his home country of Nigeria and across West Africa for decades, first with Changing Attitude Nigeria and now with the organization he founded in 2016, Interfaith Diversity Network ... | | 
| | Gaylon Alcaraz on new job, activism and campaign lessons
Longtime activist and marathon runner Gaylon Alcaraz has been speaking out on LGBTQ equality, anti-violence initiatives, housing rights, gender equality, health prevention and reproductive rights for nearly 25 years. Alcaraz ... | | 
| | Buffalo Grove Pride parade, festival on track for June
A Pride parade and festival is scheduled to take place June 2 in Buffalo Grove, the first time such an event has taken place in that suburb. The events are currently scheduled for June 2 and a route for the parade ... | | 
| | LGBTQ-inclusive La Casa Norte to open new facility
Sol Flores, like her first name's meaning in Spanish (which translates into "sun" in English), lights up when she talks about the new Humboldt Park facility for La Casa Norte that is scheduled to open in ... | | 
| | Chicago sees fewest new HIV infections in decades
According to Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH), the City of Chicago saw 752 new HIV infections in 2017. "The Illinois Department of Public Health [IDPH] is committed to getting to zero new infections in the ... | |
| | World AIDS Day 2018 ramblings
I arrived at Naval Station Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, ready and eager to be honorably discharged, on March 18, 1980. I was lucky enough to get to spend two weeks in San Francisco before ... | |
| | LETTER A matter of urgency
In recognition of World AIDS Day (which took place Dec. 1) and to call public attention to the disproportionate impact of the AIDS epidemic on Black communities, National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC) Executive Director David Johns ... | | 
| | 'Haunted Christmas' Dec. 7-8 in suburbs
The creators of the 13th Floor Haunted House Chicago, 1940 George St., Melrose Park, will host "Krampus: A Haunted Christmas" Dec. 7-8, 7-11 p.m. Chicago's world-famous 13th Floor Haunted House has been transformed to tell the ... | | 
| | NATIONAL Gay doctor, PFLAG death, Emma Gonzalez, 'pumping'
NBC News recently profiled Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who the outlet called the "radical gay doctor" behind New York City's declining HIV rate. Daskalakis—deputy commissioner for the Division of Disease Control at the New York City Department ... | | 
| | WORLD Chile's pro-trans bill, gay wrestler, Russian courts
Chilean President Sebastian Pinera signed into law a bill that allows transgender people over 14 to legally change their name and gender without surgery, The Washington Blade reported. The bill received final approval in Chile's congress ... | | 
| | 'Stand Up for Red' marks World AIDS Day
On Nov. 29, Center on Halsted partnered with DIFFA/Chicago to host the second annual Stand Up For Red indoor street festival, bringing together local restaurants, musicians and artists to raise HIV/AIDS awareness in preparation for World ... | | 
| | Vida/SIDA marks 30 years with gala
On Dec. 1, The Puerto Rican Cultural Center-Vida/SIDA celebrated its 30th anniversary and acknowledged World AIDS Day with an anniversary gala at 3949 Gallery on Chicago's Northwest Side. Despite the cold and rain, the event was ... | |
| | Biden Foundation shares stories of acceptance, rejection by families of LGBTQ youth
Launches "As You Are" story map
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Biden Foundation today announced it has collected almost 500 stories of family and community acceptance and rejection as part of its "As You Are" campaign, many of which can now be read on a ... | |
| | Women & Children First Books plans holiday season events
The holidays have arrived at Chicago's Only Feminist Bookstore. Care for Real Toy Drive Nov. 30 to Dec. 14 Come support Care for Real, a wonderful local organization making a difference for families in our community. ... | |
| | Affinity Community Services plans Burning Bowl 2018, will honor Kim Hunt
Chicago, Illinois- December 3, 2018—Affinity Community Services, is hosting their annual kick-off event, Burning Bowl 2019. The theme this year is: Ever ours: Resisting with Purpose to Thrive in the New Year. As always, the event ... | | 
| | World of Chocolate provides dessert for a good cause
Hundreds of community members visited AIDS Foundation of Chicago's (AFC) annual World of Chocolate celebration and fundraiser at Revel Fulton Market, 1215 W. Fulton Market, on Nov. 30. Nearly two dozen vendors from across the region ... | | 
| | Judge says transgender artist's suit can proceed
A federal judge ruled in mid-November that a transgender woman's lawsuit against the City can move forward. Judge Andrea Wood ruled Nov. 12 that Bea Sullivan-Knoff could proceed with a lawsuit challenging Chicago's ban on exposure ... | | 
| | Appellate court denies trans student's injunction motion
An Illinois appellate court ruled Nov. 30 that a trans student's appeal of a trial court's earlier ruling in favor of her high school is moot since the student has graduated. The court noted that Nova ... | | 
| | AFC holds World AIDS Day breakfast talk
AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) held a World AIDS Day breakfast event Nov. 30 at AFC headquarters in the Loop. Community leaders joined AFC's Community Organizing Manager Coleman Goode to discuss future ... | | 
| | 'Santa Speedo Fun Run' on Dec. 8
The annual Santa Speedo Fun Run will take place Saturday, Dec. 8, at Sidetrack, 3349 N. Halsted St. Sign-in and registration will start at noon, with the one-mile run through Boystown starting at 2 p.m. There ... | |
| | Double Door to reopen in Uptown
The nightspot Double Door—which originally closed in 2016 and which hosted acts as varied as Common and the Rolling Stones—will reopen in Uptown at 1050 W. Wilson Ave., Fox32Chicago.com noted. The old Double Door had to ... | |
| | DignityUSA responds to Pope Francis' new book, excluding gay people
Boston, MA, December 3, 2018. DignityUSA, the world's oldest and largest organization of Catholics committed to justice, equality, and full inclusion of LGBTQI people in the church and society, expressed its deep concern about reported passages ... | |
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Planned Parenthood Doubles Down on HIV/AIDS Prevention on World AIDS Day
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, on the eve of the 30th annual World AIDS Day, Dr. Leana Wen, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund, is doubling down on Planned Parenthood's commitment ... | |
| | Lambda sues for couple blocked from foster parenting, govm't seeks dismissal
(Washington, DC, Nov. 30, 2018) — A federal district court today heard oral argument in the Trump administration's effort to have Lambda Legal's lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the ... | | 
| | Planned Parenthood launches initiative reaffirming reproductive care as standard care
NEW YORK, NY — Today, Planned Parenthood launches "This is Health Care," a national awareness effort aimed at reinforcing that reproductive and women's health services are standard medical care. "Reproductive health care ... | |
| | National Black Justice Coalition on Impact of HIV/AIDS Epidemic on Black communities
WASHINGTON — In recognition of World AIDS Day on December 1 and to call public attention to the disproportionate impact of the AIDS epidemic on Black communities, David Johns, Executive Director of the National Black Justice ... |
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| | Critics' Picks
The Safe House, City Lit Theatre at Edgewater Presbyterian Church, through Dec. 16. The occupants of the title dwelling may be a three-generation white, het Norman Rockwell family in suburban Michigan on the surface, but author ... | | 
| | Billy Masters
"I thought the stain was going to be bigger. Y'know, it was so low. To me, it was probably he hadn't pulled up his pants and just hit her with a wet tip!"—Wendy Williams' takeaway from The Clinton Affair documentary. Last ... | |
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3Arts announces award winners
Chicago-based nonprofit grantmaking organization 3Arts awarded 20 Chicago artists with unrestricted grants at the 11th annual 3Arts Awards Celebration at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago Ave. The celebration, which drew more than 300 ... | |
| | 'When Adonis Calls' through Dec. 9 at Pride Arts
Thompson Street Opera Company is collaborating with Pride Films & Plays on the production When Adonis Calls, which will run Fridays through Sundays Nov. 30-Dec. 9. Fresh from its premiere at Ashville Lyric Opera, When Adonis ... | |
| | Elton John tribute show Dec. 8
On Saturday, Dec. 8, at 7 p.m. at the Gallery 1070 Auxillary Building, 1101 W. Granville Ave., the Edgewater Artitsts in Motion will present its second concert with Great Moments in Vinyl (G.M.I.V.), now performing Elton ... | | 
| | Trending ethnic hairstyles for the new year
By Vee L. Harrison
Chicago barber Andrew Martinez goes by "Dreux" behind the chair. He works at Urbane Blades, a barber shop at 948 N. Orleans St. He's an open book and has no more problem telling you like it is. His bisexuality isn't what ... | | 
| | She Wants It
By Jill Soloway $27; Pegasus Random House; 241 pages Jill Soloway can tell a story. Celebrity memoirs are a dime a dozen, and often require one of two elements to be legitimately good reads: a specific ... | | 
| | Fiction round-up, LGBTQ+ YA fantasy
As winter blows into Chicago—and freezing temperatures with it—the temptation to curl up in front of the fire with a good book is strong. As the world burns with political dissent, the desire to escape to ... | | 
| | SHOWBIZ 'Handmaid,' Kristen Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Viola Davis
Margaret Atwood is currently writing a sequel to her best-selling dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale, TheWrap.com noted. Due out in September 2019 from publishers Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, The Testaments is set 15 years after Offred's final ... | | 
| | Jane Lynch, Kate Flannery make the yuletide swing
Actresses Jane Lynch and Kate Flannery are teaming up this holiday season and hitting the road. The album—A Swingin' Little Christmas! Jane Lynch—features Lynch, Flannery and singer Tim Davis. It was recorded in 2016 and has ... | | 
| | Familiar
Playwright: Danai Gurira At: Steppenwolf Theatre Company, 1650 N. Halsted St. Tickets: 312-335-1650; Steppenwolf.org; $20-$109. Runs through: January 13 The foundation for Danai Gurira's 2015 play is, indeed, familiar. It ... | | 
| | SPOTLIGHT The Book of Merman
The Book of Merman: Merman meets Mormons in the musical tale of Missionaries attempting to "save' the legendary Broadway belter. In Flying Elephant's production, composer Leo Schwartz packs the score with original music to tell a ... | | 
| | A Christmas Carol
By: Tom Creamer At: The Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn St. Tickets: GoodmanTheatre.org; $25-$119. Runs through: Dec. 30 Charles Dickens' manner of telling the simple man's story lives on in the Goodman Theatre's A Christmas Carol, ... | | 
| | HeLa
Playwright: J. Nicole Brooks At: Sideshow Theatre Company at the Greenhouse, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. Tickets: 773-404-7336; GreenhouseTheater.org; $30. Runs through: Dec. 23 HeLa juxtaposes three storylines linked only abstractly. ... | | 
| | The Buttcracker, A Nutcracker Burlesque
Playwright: Scripted by Jaq Seifert and choreographed by Darling Shear At: (Sub)version Productions at Reggie's Music Joint, 2105 S. State St. Tickets:. TheButtcrackerBurlesque.com; $20-$40. Runs through: Dec. 26 (Wednesdays only) ... | | 
| | The Revolutionists
Playwright: Lauren M. Gunderson At: Strawdog Theatre, 1802 W. Berenice Ave. Tickets: Strawdog.org 773-644-1380; $35-$40. Runs through: Dec. 29 You probably haven't thought about revolution—not the kind extolled by advertisers ... | | 
| | MEASURE FOR MEASURE Yuletide tunes
We don't think any music director would program "Oh, Holy Night" and "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" back-to-back, but both are part of the vast array of music which contributes to the holiday season. ... | | 
| | John Grant weaves 'Magic' spell on fans
Out singer John Grant was born in Michigan, started a band called The Czars in Denver and eventually moved to Europe. Along the way he created a legacy of solo work that included his debut album, ... | |
| | Kahlo works at Glen Ellyn campus in 2020
College of DuPage, in partnership with the McAninch Arts Center and Cleve Carney Art Gallery, expanded upon the plans to host the largest private collection of works by Frida Kahlo at the Cleve Carney Art Gallery ... | | 
| | Steppenwolf to honor Gurira Dec. 10
Steppenwolf Theatre Company has announced that Obie-, Helen Hayes- and NAACP Award-winning actress/playwright Danai Gurira as the honoree at the 10th annual Steppenwolf Women in the Arts fundraising luncheon on Monday, Dec. 10, at the Radisson ... | | 
| | Red Bull festival features LGBT talent
Red Bull Music Festival Chicago presented a late-night music event called Futurehood & Friends at the Wicker Park nightspot Subterranean. The concert venue filled two floors with people from the LGBT community ready to be entertained ... |
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| | WINDY CITY TIMES HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE 2018 Part two
Ross examination Diana Ross puts her indelible spin on holiday classics such as "The Christmas Song," "Winter Wonderland" and the title song on the CD Wonderful Christmastime—a collection of holiday recordings from Diana Ross that were ... | | 
| | A Cradle Song, Part Eight
by Mark Zubro; Illustrated by W.S. Reed
A Cradle Song, written by Mark Zubro and illustrated by W.S. Reed, debuts in the Windy City Times as the new holiday classic. Filled with travail and woe, warmth and great joy, it is a story for the ages. It will ... | | 
| | SWZLE, part of the reusable straw revolution
GIFT GUIDE EXTRA
Reusable straws have become a central focus in helping to preserve the environment—so much so that banning plastic straws was an issue on the Chicago ballots during the recent midterm elections. To that end, former Chicago ... | | 
| | DINING Gift drive, Theater on the Lake, 'Charlie Brown' Christmas
—Caffe Umbria, in Logan Square (2545 W. Armitage Ave.) and River North (346 N. Clark St.), is hosting a gift drive to benefit Friends of the Children. There will be a complimentary espresso with a gift ... | | 
| | 10 Questions by Vic: Greg Louganis
Greg Louganis is the greatest diver in history. In the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Louganis achieved gold medals in both the men's three-meter springboard and 10-meter platform events. At the 1988 Olympic Summer Games ... | | 
| | Pro-LGBTQ sports group looks to increase membership
Just more than four years ago, Chicago's Jake Lenz was searching for other LGBTQ individuals who worked in sports and entertainment as connections. When he did not find who, or what, he was looking for, he ... | | 
| | SAVOR Conrad's Grill; Swissotel's Santa Suite
DISH Dining Guide
Apparently, students at Michigan State University know how to party—and how to eat after one. The fast-casual restaurant Conrad's Grill (1422 N. Milwaukee Ave.; https://www.conradsgrill.com/)—a staple in the university's city ... |
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