Windy City Media Group Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Trans News

Windy City Media Group Frontpage News

Home

CELEBRATING 25+ YEARS OF Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender NEWS

Search Gay News Articles

Advanced Search

Gay News Sponsor

Windy City Times 2012-02-01

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Athlete Eleonora 'Elo' Sears, a lesbian, profiled ...

Center's Oscar party at Park West Feb. 26

Center on Halsted's 2012 "On the Red Carpet" Oscar party will move venues, ... more

Read More Gay News Below

Breaking News

•	Penney's won't be firing Ellen despite protesters

•	9th Circuit: videotapes will remain under seal

•	Coalition launched to repeal 'Defense of Marriage Act'

•	Sky basketball launches tribute to Title IX

•	Wash. senate approves bill legalizing same-sex marriage

•	Gerber/Hart move poses questions

•	GLSEN 'Think Before You Speak' ads to run during Super Bowl

•	Anti-gay adoption and foster bill filed in General Assembly

•	Activist, former WCT employee John Pennycuff dies

DOWNLOAD
WINDY CITY TIMES
2012-02-01 PDF

Download our *NEW*

iPad / iPhone App

DOWNLOAD
NIGHTSPOTS
2012-02-01 PDF

Browse Gay News Index

Browse Gay News Archives

Most Popular Headlines

Joan Rivers vs. Chelsea Handler; Spartacus: Vengeance creator defends sex scenes
Joan Rivers and Chelsea Handler are embroiled in a feud. According to the New York Post, Handler, 36, asked Howard Stern, "What the ... more

•	Gerber/Hart move poses questions
•	Gov. Christie calls gay lawmaker "numbnuts"; Barney Frank gets engaged
•	HRC Urges Minn. election board to investigate anti-gay group
•	Queer Occupy members protest HRC in NYC for honoring Goldman Sachs
•	Coming out on 'Top': Out chef Dale Levitski on his new Boystown spot

Local

Dennis LoBue
Dennis LoBue died Feb. 1 at the age of 70. He was born in Chicago Heights, Ill., Aug. 31, 1941. He was a ... more

•	Wine tasting at KAFKA with Judge Celia Louise Gamrath
•	Sky basketball launches tribute to Title IX
•	Daily news posts on www.WindyCityTimes.com also in the Feb. 1, 2012 print issue of Windy City Times
•	Mostly LGBT cycling club to mark 20 years
•	'Stars on Ice' at Rosemont March 11

Nation & World

New HUD rule called 'historic'
In a speech before a national LGBT conference Jan. 28, U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan said President Obama views ... more

•	Military contractor to add LGBT workplace protections, Freedom to Work declares victory
•	Penney's won't be firing Ellen despite protesters
•	HRC Urges Minn. election board to investigate anti-gay group
•	HIV-positive man denied Atlanta police job wins day in court
•	9th Circuit: videotapes will remain under seal

Film / TV / Gossip

Billy Masters
"For me, it is a choice. I understand that for many people it's not, but for me, it's a choice, and you don't ... more

•	Woke Up Black Chicago screening in Chicago Feb. 27
•	MTV and Logo 'It Gets Better' special Feb. 21 with Dan Savage
•	GLSEN 'Think Before You Speak' ads to run during Super Bowl
•	Out filmmaker directs Meryl Streep
•	Knight at the Movies: The Innkeepers

Theater / Dance

Time Stands Still
Playwright: Donald Margulies. At: Steppenwolf Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St. Phone: 312-335-1650 or www.steppenwolf.org; $20-78. Runs through: May 13 Human beings are ... more

•	Talking with Victory Gardens' Chay Yew
•	GayCo show: Are you there, Judy? It's me, Cancer.
•	Race
•	Black Pearl Sings!
•	Spotlight: Long Gone Lonesome

Nightspots / Nightlife

That Guy
So I totally fk'd up the online Jepardy test last week. On any given day at 3:30, I'm sitting on my couch ( ... more

•	Antronio's opens in Berwyn
•	Watch312.com launches
•	MARRS ATTACKS: 10 Pickup Lines that Cut to the Quick
•	Former Nightspots/Windy City Times office manager Pennycuff
•	Download the Nightspots PDF (Print Version)

Music

Yahoo! removes violent anti-gay comments from Adam Lambert interview
New York, NY, February 2, 2012 - GLAAD, the nation's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy and anti-defamation organization, today announced ... more

•	Chicago launches 2012 cultural plan initiative
•	Manilow postpones Feb. 2-4 Chicago dates
•	Graffiti6 returns to Chicago
•	Pop Making Sense
•	E. Faye Butler's 'Valentine' Feb. 13 at Millennium Park

Books / Art

Athlete Eleonora 'Elo' Sears, a lesbian, profiled in new book
Eleonora "Eleo" Sears was ahead of her time, way ahead. She died in 1968, before most lesbian athletes within the Chicago Metropolitan Sports ... more

•	Chicago launches 2012 cultural plan initiative
•	Gerber/Hart move poses questions
•	Baton owner Jim Flint subject of 'Fireside Chat'
•	Gayle Pitman: Sexual orientation research under the microscope
•	J. Edgar screenplay available in book form

AIDS & Health

AIDS Getting personal with state Rep. Greg Harris
The accomplishments of State Rep. Greg Harris, D-13th, are numerous. Since being elected to the Illinois General Assembly in 2006, one of the ... more

•	HIV-positive man denied Atlanta police job wins day in court
•	AIDS Brothers OutLive present: Bayard Centennial honoring Black AIDS Day
•	AIDS Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day event at Trinity
•	AIDS 'Life Skills' intervention may reduce HIV risk
•	AIDS 'Pizza and policy' at AFC

Lesbian

Sky basketball launches tribute to Title IX
The Chicago Sky women's pro basketball association team launched a season-long, multi-level initiative to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Title IX and how ... more

•	SLDN on lawsuit filed by Southern Poverty Law Center
•	CMSA holds women's social
•	Fundraiser for U.S. Senate candidate, Rep. Tammy Baldwin
•	Gingrich-Jones: Kelly Cassidy is the next Tammy Baldwin
•	Debra Shore holds fundraiser

Sports

Sky basketball launches tribute to Title IX
The Chicago Sky women's pro basketball association team launched a season-long, multi-level initiative to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Title IX and how ... more

•	GLSEN 'Think Before You Speak' ads to run during Super Bowl
•	SkiBudz going to Midwest Gay Ski Weekend Feb. 3-5
•	'Stars on Ice' at Rosemont March 11
•	Weir returns to competitive skating
•	Mostly LGBT cycling club to mark 20 years

Youth

Out DePaul student honored with resolution
Anthony Alfano, the DePaul University senior who is the first openly gay student-body president in the school's history, was honored Jan. 18 at ... more

•	MTV and Logo 'It Gets Better' special Feb. 21 with Dan Savage
•	ACLU on Michigan case concerning school counselors, LGBT discrimination
•	White House: Special message on National Gay-Straight Alliance Day
•	Former student in Washington wins harassment settlement
•	Indiana license plate is first for LGBT youth

Trans

Glenn Close on 'Albert Nobbs', gender-bending and 'Damages'
Twenty-four hours before the Golden Globes ceremony, for which she's been nominated as Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama, Glenn Close is ... more

•	Trans group responds to Occupy arrests
•	T in the Life
•	Worldwide LGBT march announces Chicago leader
•	Transgender controversy with Girl Scout troops
•	Store's specialty: transgender women

Views

VIEWPOINTS In Defense of Cynthia Nixon: Why 'Born This Way' Doesn't
Cynthia Nixon is in hot water with some gays for comments she made to The New York Times about whether she "chose" to ... more

•	Suppressing the sissy: My complex relationship to gender
•	VIEWPOINTS In Troy Davis's name, NAACP renews call to abolish the death penalty
•	VIEWPOINTS There are no Gay Jews
•	MLK Day reflection for LGBTQ justice in the Black church
•	VIEWS: It's official: Gay is the new Black

Food

Restaurants' Valentine's Day offerings; Alpana Singh's new spot
—Carnivale, 702 W. Fulton Market, has a $33 prix fixe menu on Thursdays. Menu items in the three-course meal include baby arugula salad ... more

•	Coming out on 'Top': Out chef Dale Levitski on his new Boystown spot
•	Sugar and Spice: Tapas Las Ramblas
•	Gay baker makes great impression
•	Dining news
•	Sugar & Spice: Brunch at Nookies Edgewater

Travel

Key West promotes gay trolley tour
Key West Business Guild announces a new time, new location, and new partnership for the Gay Key West Trolley Tour, one of the ... more

•	Twenty Days and 20 Ways to Celebrate the Chicago River
•	Chicago half-day guided bus tours include "LGBT Chicago"
•	Ecuador: Welcome to the jungle
•	President unveiling strategy to book tourism
•	Weekend Winter Fest in New Buffalo, MI

Obits & Passages

Dennis LoBue
Dennis LoBue died Feb. 1 at the age of 70. He was born in Chicago Heights, Ill., Aug. 31, 1941. He was a ... more

•	Founder of Rape Victim Advocates dies
•	Former Nightspots/Windy City Times office manager Pennycuff
•	PASSAGES Randy Williamson, 1949 - 2012
•	AAS honors the late Dr. Frank Kameny's lifetime efforts for equal employment rights
•	Marilyn Urso, HBHC MACS "mother," dies

Real Estate

Lesbian-owned B&B puts a modern twist on the business
Tucked onto a quiet street in Chicago's Andersonville neighborhood, Nina's Bed and Breakfast brings a distinctly modern yet homey feel to the city's ... more

•	Kent Bartram on Frank Lloyd Wright and old Hollywood
•	Cindy Gaffney on buying and selling, economy and family
•	Gold Coast B&B: A nugget in the heart of the city
•	Kelly Fondow talks suburbs, selling—and BP
•	Cook County clerk's mortgage surplus fund

Autos

Trends at Detroit's 2012 auto show
Walking the floor of the North American Auto Show in Detroit, it's easy to become overwhelmed. Staff from each company rattle off details ... more

•	Chicago Auto Show Feb. 9-19 at McCormick
•	Three easy ways to do good this holiday season
•	The Italian Fiat 500 comes to the U.S.
•	The best cars for coming out
•	2012 Fiat 500: Will it live up to the Italian icon?

Pets

Pets
Cat Kora (yes, that's her full name) is eager to find a permanent home. Cat Kora first came to Tree House September 27, ... more

•	HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM WE HEART PETS!
•	Pets
•	Pets
•	Global project: Pills to end the killing of millions of homeless dogs
•	We Love Pets

Windy City Times Index

COVER STORY: Gerber/Hart move poses questions
When a "for rent" sign appeared in the window of Gerber/Hart Library in late January, community ... more

•	Windy City Times News RSS Feed.
•	Windy City Times AIDS RSS Feed.
•	Windy City Times Lesbian RSS Feed.
•	Windy City Times Trans RSS Feed.
•	Windy City Times Theater RSS Feed.

Queercast


			Legendary Performers Joan Rivers and Carol Burnett Host: Amy Matheny Amy is proud to present two legendary performers to the Queercast. Our own Jerry Nunn talked to Joan Rivers and Carol Burnett! Guest: Joan and Melissa Rivers join Jerry on the Queercast to talk about their reality show, Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best? They also discuss the Golden Globes and the Oscars. Joan will be coming to Chicago at the end of March so stay tuned! Richard Knight Jr. Movie Minute: Pina Guest: Carol Burnett also joins Jerry for this star studded celebrity Queercast. Carol will be making an appearance on Joan Rivers' reality show. She gives her opinion on television shows of today and why no variety shows work today. Music Featured on This Queercast: Graffiti6 -"Free", Hospitality - "Friends of Friends" and The Carol Burnett Theme Song Photo Credit: Joan & Melissa Rivers: E!/NBC - Carol Burnett: Mabel Cat Inc. by: Randee St. Nicholas

Gay News from Around the Web

•	Gay candidate faces tough battle in Finland vote - Sacramento Bee
•	Gay marriage supporters say they're seeing gains - The Keene Sentinel
•	2 gay men say they were jailed in Ohio without pants for a day, claim bias in ... - Washington Post
•	15 Gay Reasons to Watch the Super Bowl (Not Counting Madonna) - Huffington Post (blog)
•	JC Penney stands behind Ellen DeGeneres as spokeswoman - Los Angeles Times

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

About WCMG Contact Us Online Front Page Windy City Times Nightspots OUT! Guide
Identity BLACKlines En La Vida Archives Subscriptions Distribution Windy City Queercast
Queercast Archives Advertising Rates Seasonal Promotions Deadlines Advanced Search
Press Releases Event Photos Join WCMG Email List Email Blast
Events Todays Events Ongoing Events Post an Event Bar Guide Community Groups In Memoriam Outguide Categories Outguide Advertisers Search Outguide Travel Dining Out Blogs Spotlight Video News Videos Nightspots Videos Entertainment Videos Queercast Videos Comedy Videos
Classifieds Real Estate Personals Place a Classified

Windy City Media Group produces Windy City Queercast, and publishes Windy City Times,
The Weekly Voice of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans Community,
Nightspots, Out! Resource Guide, and Identity.

5315 N. Clark St. #192, Chicago, IL 60640-2113 • PH (773) 871-7610 • FAX (773) 871-7609.

www.windycitymediagroup.com
contact editor	•	contact advertising	•	contact webmaster

Website Powered by LoveYourWebsite.com