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Gerber/Hart Library and Archives holds third annual Spring Soiree benefit
- Gerber/Hart Library and Archives (Gerber/Hart) hosted the "Courage in Community: The Gerber/ Hart Spring Soiree" event April 18 at Sidetrack, marking the everyday and extraordinary intrepidness of the entire LGBTQ+ ...
BOOKS Frank Bruni gets political in 'The Age of Grievance'
- In The Age of Grievance, longtime New York Times columnist and best-selling author Frank Bruni analyzes the ways in which grievance has come to define our current culture and politics, on both the right and left. ...
UK's NHS releases trans youth report; JK Rowling chimes in
- An independent report issued by the UK's National Health Service (NHS) declared that children seeking gender care are being let down, The Independent reported. The reportpublished on April 10 and led by pediatrician and former Royal ...
Women & Children First marks its 45th anniversary
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By Tatiana Walk-Morris
- It has been about 45 years since Ann Christophersen and Linda Bubon co-founded the Women & Children First bookstore in 1979. In its early days, the two were earning their English degrees at the University of ...
Judith Butler focuses on perceptions of gender at Chicago Humanities Festival talk
- In an hour-long program filled with dry humornot to mention lots of audience laughterphilosopher, scholar and activist Judith Butler (they/them) spoke in depth on their new book at Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Ave., on ...
Kara Swisher talks truth, power in tech at Chicago Humanities event
- Lesbian author, award-winning journalist and podcast host Kara Swisher spoke about truth and power in the tech industry through the lens of her most recent book, Burn Book: A Tech Love Story, March 21 at First ...
RuPaul finds 'Hidden Meanings' in new memoir
- RuPaul Andre Charles made a rare Chicago appearance for a book tour on March 12 at The Vic Theatre, 3145 N. Sheffield Ave. Presented by National Public Radio station WBEZ 91.5 FM, the talk coincided with ...
Without compromise: Holly Baggett explores lives of iconoclasts Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap
- Jane Heap (1883-1964) and Margaret Anderson (1886-1973), each of them a native Midwesterner, woman of letters and iconoclast, had a profound influence on literary culture in both America and Europe in the early 20th Century. Heap ...
There she goes again: Author Alison Cochrun discusses writing journey
- By Carrie Maxwell When Alison Cochrun began writing her first queer romance novel in 2019, she had no idea it would change the course of her entire life. Cochrun, who spent 11 years as a high ...
Chicago author's new guide leads lesbian fiction authors toward inspiration and publication
- From a press release: Award-winning and bestselling lesbian fiction author Elizabeth Andrethe pen name for a Chicago-based interracial lesbian couplehas published her latest book, titled Self-Publishing Lesbian Fiction, Write Your ...
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BOOKS Lucas Hilderbrand reflects on gay history in 'The Bars Are Ours'
- In The Bars Are Ours (via Duke University Press), Lucas Hilderbrand, a professor of film and media studies at the University of California-Irvine, takes readers on a historical journey of gay bars, showing how the venues ...
BOOKS Owen Keehnen takes readers to an 'oasis of pleasure' in 'Man's Country'
- In the book Man's Country: More Than a Bathhouse, Chicago historian Owen Keehnen takes a literary microscope to the venue that the late local icon Chuck Renslow opened in 1973. Over decades, until it was demolished ...
Photographer Irene Young launches book with stellar concerts
- "Something About the Women" was appropriately the closing song for two sold-out, stellar concerts at Berkeley's Freight & Salvage November 19, in celebration of the new book of the same name by Irene Young, the legendary ...
LGBT HISTORY PROJECT: Exploring 70 years of lesbian publications, from 1940s zines to modern glossy magazines
- Since the '40s, lesbians have created a vibrant history of publications. From the exploration of daily lesbian life to literary and feminist pursuits, to the modern age of glossy magazines, for over 70 years, lesbians have ...
Banning the Banning of Books: Illinois and California lead the way
- In June, at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago, Governor JB Pritzker signed legislation banning book bans in Illinois public libraries. This legislation, initiated by Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, passed the Illinois House and ...
BOOKS Writer/HIV survivor Mark S. King talks about 'My Fabulous Disease'
- For decades, HIV survivor and GLAAD Award-winning writer Mark S. King has penned the blog "My Fabulous Disease"a warts-and-all look at his life covering everything from an encounter with an armed crystal-meth addict to a major ...
Gerber/Hart holds Fall benefit, This Archive is Queer
- On the evening of October 13, Gerber/Hart Library and Archive held its fall benefit titled This Archive is Queer, with an aim to raise money for the continued expansion of the organization and the purchase of ...
BOOKS Rachel Maddow talks 'Prequel,' fascism and gay vampire fiction
- In Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism, New York Times best-selling author and MSNBC host Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve U.S. democracy to the early days of World War II, when a clandestine network ...
BOOKS/SAVOR 'Made in Chicago' authors dish on stories behind local treats
- When it comes to culinary scenes, Chicago is second to none, but do people really know the origins of local dishes—or even which ones have origins in this city? Revered food journalists Monica Eng and David ...
BOOKS Intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis candidly talks about life and new memoir
- In the book Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir, intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis details their journey through a sea of trauma that consisted of lies, misdirections and surgeries. It wasn't until their college years that Pagonis ...
Dykes to Watch Out For launches as audio series
- From 1983 to 2008, Alison Bechdel's comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For offered playful, incisive commentary on lesbian culture. Forty years after the comic's inception, it's been adapted into an audio series produced by author-journalist ...
PASSAGES Radical poet, theorist, educator, activist Minnie Bruce Pratt
- Radical poet, essayist, educator, theorist and feminist, LGBTQ+, anti-racist and anti-imperialist activist Minnie Bruce Pratt died June 2 in Syracuse, New York surrounded by friends and family members, after a brief and sudden illness. She was ...
American Library Association to distribute $1M for the fight against censorship
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--From a press release
- CHICAGO (June 22, 2023) — The American Library Association (ALA) will distribute $1 million to respond to censorship challenges ...
Lambda Literary names winners of the Jim Duggins, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize
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--From a Lambda Literary press release
- Lambda Literary is pleased to announce Ryka Aoki and Aaron Hamburger as the winners of the 2023 Jim Duggins, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize. Dedicated to the memory of author and journalist Jim Duggins, this prize ...
GLAAD and EveryLibrary announce Community Response Toolkit
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--From a press release
- (New York, NY - June 6, 2023) GLAAD, the world's largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, along with EveryLibrary, a national organization supporting campaigns against book bans, announce a new resource to help communities unite and engage ...
Writing Queer tour begins at American Writers Museum
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--From a press release
- (CHICAGO - June 1, 2023) - The American Writers Museum (AWM) launches its new Writing Queer tour that will take visitors through the entire museum, using queer authors as a sort of map through the exhibits. ...
Turner's book details a life-journey beginning 'When the World Didn't End'
- Screenwriter-actor Guinevere Turner has published a new memoir, When the World Didn't End. The book describes both her childhood spent within the Lyman Family cult, and the emotionally-wrought adjustments her family made when Turner's mother left ...
Screenwriter Guinevere Turner book launch June 4; book chronicles growing up with infamous Lyman Family cult
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--From a press release
- CHICAGO—The book launch of acclaimed screenwriter Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End, a memoir of her childhood growing up with the infamous Lyman Family cult, will be held Sunday, June 4, 2-5 p.m. at Whiskey ...
CAKE Chicago taking place June 3-4 at Broadway Armory
- After several setbacks, the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) Chicago will take place June 3-4 at the Broadway Armory, 5917 N. Broadway. The COVID pandemic caused the cancellations of the 2020 and 2021 in-person expos, and ...
Illinois middle-school teacher loses job for promoting 'This Book Is Gay'
- Making This Book Is Gay available to her eighth-grade students resulted in Illinois teacher Sarah Bonner being reported to policeand eventually losing her job, according to an item from The Advocate. According to Today.com, Bonner (who ...
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