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|  | Jobe to become Illinois tourism chief - Springfield city council member and Illinois comptroller official Cory Jobe has been picked to be the state's new director of ...  | | | ELECTIONS 2015: Challengers seek aldermanic posts - 5TH WARD Urban policy pro Jocelyn Hare runs for 5th Ward seat. Read article at the link: http:// . 46th ... | | | Chicago Women
Take Action forum
hosts mayoral candidates - The pews of the Chicago Temple were crammed with supporters and guests of Chicago Women Take Action ( CWTA ) ...
Author: Gretchen Rachel Hammond | | | Religious extremists target bakers with requests for 'God Hates Fags' cakes - From a Truth Wins Out press release - CHICAGO — Yesterday, Peter LaBarbera triumphantly posted a series of anti-gay videos from Theodore Shoebat, son of extremist Christian convert ... | | | Softball player critically injured at gay tournament in Las Vegas - A San Diego man was seriously injured at a gay softball tournament in Las Vegas on Jan. 18. Mike Petracca ...
Author: Ross Forman, Windy City Times | | | Lambda Legal on nomination of Rev. Meeks as Chair, IL State Board of Education
- From a press release - ( Chicago, IL, January 23, 2015 ) — In response to Governor Rauner's nomination of Reverend James Meeks as Chair ... | | | Out at CHM opens series with transgender resilience - The Chicago History Museum began its 12th annual Out at CHM series on January 22 with Transmopolitan: Transgender Resilience. Trans ...
Author: Gretchen Rachel Hammond | | | Lamia Beard, transgender woman of color, killed in Norfolk - From a press release - The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs ( NCAVP ) has learned of the homicide of Lamia Beard a transgender woman ... | | | Chris Johnson, printer, artist, feminist leader, dies - Christine Johnson, a former Chicagoan who played a key role in the early Women-in-Print and women in trades movements locally ... | | | PASSAGES Punk rocker Meghan Galbraith dies
- Meghan Galbraith, 35, front woman for the queer Chicago-based rock/pop/punk trio band 8 Inch Betsy, died Jan. 22 after a ...
Author: Carrie Maxwell, Windy City Times | | | Center on Halsted's 2015 Human First Gala to convene as Kinfolk - From a press release - Center on Halsted will host the annual Human First Performance & Gala on Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 5:30 p.m. ... | | | Saks withdraws argument that trans people not covered by Title VII - From a National Center for Lesbian Rights press release - HOUSTON, TX — In two major victories for transgender civil rights, today Saks Fifth Avenue withdrew a motion to dismiss ... | | | TPAN receives $115,000 from Alphawood Foundation - From a TPAN press release - Chicago, Illinois, December January 26, 2015—Test Positive Aware Network ( TPAN ) received a grant for general operations in the ... | | | Transgender woman of color killed in Texas - From a NCAVP press release - The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs ( NCAVP ) has learned of the homicide of Ty Underwood, a transgender woman ... | | | DJ held after fatal Lake Shore Drive crash - A popular Chicago DJ is being held on $1 million bond after a Jan. 19 car crash resulting in the ...
Author: Matt Simonette | | | Original 'ex-ex-gay' John Evans dies - From a TWO press release - CHICAGO — Truth Wins Out today mourned the death of John Evans, a man who in 1973 co-founded the first ... | | | AFC's 30 year gala May 16, star of Transparent master of ceremonies - From a press release - WHAT: The AIDS Foundation of Chicago ( AFC ) commemorates 30 years of action with the HIV/AIDS community during its ... | | | HRC to Mormon leaders: Don't leave anyone behind - From a press release - WASHINGTON - Today, the Human Rights Campaign ( HRC ) recognized the three apostles and a senior female leader of ... | | | World: Turing notebook; ISIS killing gays; king makes history - Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - A notebook said to contain detailed mathematics and computer science notes written by Alan Turing, the late gay British cryptographer, ...
Author: Andrew Davis, Windy City Times | | | National: N. Dak. marriage; Mary Cheney; Anderson Cooper - Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - Ty Underwood, a 24-year-old transgender woman of color, was fatally shot early Jan. 26 in North Tyler, Texas, according to ...
Author: Andrew Davis, Windy City Times | | | Dining: Kanela cocktails; Crew's ownership changes - Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - —Kanela Breakfast Club in Old Town, Lake View and Wicker Park—which recently received its liquor license—has debuted a menu of ...
Author: Andrew Davis, Windy City Times | | | The fight of her life: Longtime activist Healy battles cancer - Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - Sheila Healy focuses on today, maybe tomorrow. She finds joy with her beloved Cavalier King Charles Spaniel dog named Maddie ...
Author: Ross Forman, Windy City Times | | | Chicago Auto Show set for Feb. 14-22; Uber apologizes - The Chicago Auto Show will take place Feb. 14-22 at McCormick Place, 2301 S. Lake Shore Dr. Called North America's ... | | | VIEWS Historic Black
LGBTQ talk on
'Selma' takes place - If Bayard Rustin were alive today, he certainly would have been proud on Monday as the LGBTQ communities held discussions ...
Author: Rev. Irene Monroe | | | Chicago Women in
Trades forges new,
nontraditional lives - One of the legacies left when feminist leader Christine Johnson passed way Jan. 23 was an indelible advancement in the ...
Author: Gretchen Rachel Hammond | | | Apartment Adoption
Projects starts for
homeless Chicago youth - CHICAGO—The 750 Club Apartment Adoption Project has launched in Chicago to provide private apartments for youth moving out of transitional ... | | | 39TH WARD Gay aldermanic candidate runs as 'anti-Emanuel' - ELECTIONS 2015 - Joe Laiacona is an out gay man who has lived in Albany Park for over a decade. Under the pen ...
Author: Gretchen Rachel Hammond | | | Lesbian candidate
vies to win seat as
46th Ward alderman - ELECTIONS 2015 - Business attorney Amy Crawford, an openly gay partner with the Chicago firm Kirkland & Ellis, is mounting a campaign to ...
Author: Matt Simonette | | |
35TH WARD
Openly gay candidate
seeks to unseat Colon - ELECTIONS 2015: - Organizer Carlos Ramirez-Rosa has been, since September, working to unseat longtime 35th Ward Ald. Rey Colon. Ramirez-Rosa is the first ...
Author: Matt Simonette | | | 5TH WARD
Urban policy pro
Jocelyn Hare runs
for 5th Ward seat - ELECTIONS 2015 - Growing up in a multiracial household as the granddaughter of first-generation Chinese immigrants, candidate Jocelyn Hare ( who identifies as ...
Author: Angelique Smith | | | Immigration and
the LGBT community:
Inside ICE detention - Part three - Every Friday at 7:15 a.m., Sister Pat Murphy and Sister JoAnn Persch of the Sisters of Mercy in Chicago arrive ...
Author: Gretchen Rachel Hammond | | | LGBT issues part of 2015 aging confab - Aging in America 2015 will take place March 23-27 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago, 151 E. Wacker Dr.—and LGBT issues ... | | | Claps continues as IDHR director under Rauner - Illinois Department of Human Rights ( IDHR ) Director Rocco Claps has been re-appointed by Gov. Bruce Rauner to continue ...
Author: Matt Simonette | | | Of interest: Or Chadash; Her HRC; State of AIDS; teen web series - Cornel West lecture Feb. 1 at Rockefeller The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture Annual Public Lecture ... | | | Artist hosts 'ap[ART]'
benefit, celebration
- Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - Family, friends and fans came together as a community to support Erik Sosa's "ap[ART]" fundraiser at Chicago's National Museum of ...
Author: Lauren E. Childers |
| | Entertainment: Zarley's new CD; Dan Savage project; Kylie Minogue - Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - Out singer-songwriter Matt Zarley will release his newest album, hopefulROMANTIC, on Feb. 10, according to a press release. hopefulROMANTIC will ... | | | Billy Masters - "Happy Birthday Russell. Birthdays are like rim jobs—you gotta get involved. Open up and get ready for another great year!"—So ...
Author: Billy Masters | | | 'Orange' nabs SAG awards
- The awards season continued with the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Jan. 25. The Netflix series Orange Is the ... | | | Knight at the Movies: Baby, it's cold outside! - When the weather outside is frightful—as it is these short, frosty days—that's the time when a film fan like myself ...
Author: Richard Knight, Jr., for Windy City Times | | | Music events: Artemis concert Feb. 6-7; OUTMusic Awards put off - Artemis Singers concert Feb. 6-7 Chicago lesbian feminist chorus Artemis Singers will present "Loves Lost, Loves Found," a concert of ... | | | Theater Spotlight; Critics' Picks - If you've ever wanted to attend an immersive performance art happening, now is your chance to do so with REVIVAL ... | | | PBS series includes 'Limited Partnership' and 'Homestretch'
- A film about a couple's decades-long fight for the right to marry and a documentary about homeless Chicago youths are ... | | | Chicago Theatre Week grows; About Face's 'A Kid Like Jake' in Feb. - Chicago Theatre Week is expanding. The upcoming celebration of theatregoing in Chicago is returning for its third year and will ... | | | THEATER REVIEW
Accidentally,
Like A Martyr - Playwright: Grant James Varjas. At: A Red Orchid Theatre, 1531 N. Wells St. Tickets: 312-943-8722; ; $30-$35. Runs through: March ...
Author: Mary Shen Barnidge | | | THEATER REVIEW
Plastic Revolution - Book: Will Cavedo & Andrew Hobgood; Score: Julie Nichols and Hobgood. At: The Den Theatre, 1333 N. Milwaukee Ave. Tickets: ...
Author: Scott C. Morgan, Windy City Times | | | THEATER REVIEW
Mr. Burns, A
Post-Electric Play - Playwright: Anne Washburn; music by Michael Friedman. At: Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave. Tickets: 1-773-975-8150; ; $38 ( $25 ...
Author: Jonathan Abarbanel, Windy City Times | | | THEATER REVIEW The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle - Playwright: Ross Dungan. At: Steep Theatre, 1115 W. Berwyn Ave.. Tickets: 866-811-4111; ; $10-$35. Runs through: Feb. 28 Consider for ...
Author: Mary Shen Barnidge | | | BENT NIGHTS George Ezra holds concert at UIC Pavilion - Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - Regardless of how her career evolves from here on out, Adele will go down in history for bringing back the ...
Author: Victor Salvo | | | BOOKS
'Boystown' moves from
online to print - Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - When Jake Biondi set out to begin writing Boystown in the summer of 2013, his intention was to make it ...
Author: Joe Franco | | | Event headlines in dance, music, art - Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - Giordano Dance at Auditorium Jan. 31 The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, 50 E. Congress Pkwy., will present Giordano Dance ... | | | MUSIC Gwen Stefani: Underneath it all - From bed in her Los Angeles home, Gwen Stefani insisted she doesn't mind doing her first gay press interview in ...
Author: Chris Azzopardi | | | Coming up in film and music - Films on LGBTs and the Middle East on Jan. 31 Silk Road Rising and the Chicago Palestine Film Festival will ... | | | MUSIC Mike Maimone and the Mutts set out to
impress in 2015 - Mike Maimone is a gay musician whose most recent passion project is as manager, vocalist, and keyboardist with the band, ...
Author: Lauren E. Childers | | | NUNN ON ONE: THEATER K. Todd Freeman flies freely in 'Airline Highway' - Steppenwolf ensemble member K. Todd Freeman is bringing sass to a Sissy this season. Directed by the "Wicked"-ly talented Joe ...
Author: Jerry Nunn, Windy City Times | | | SCOTTISH PLAY SCOTT A modern 'Princess' - Out playwright and performer Aaron Holland's world premiere play Princess Mary Demands Your Attention includes a mystical drag queen, pot-smoking ...
Author: Scott C. Morgan, Windy City Times | | | Joel Grey officially
comes out as gay
- Broadway and movie veteran Joel Grey has officially come out as a gay man, according to People magazine. Grey was ... |
| | Moxie networks LGBTs
in urban planning areas - Steven Vance, a transportation blogger for Streetsblog, made a simple suggestion last January: that there be a group for queer ...
Author: Ross Forman, Windy City Times | | | CGHA to skate at Soldier Field after Hockey City Classic - When members of the Chicago Gay Hockey Association ( CGHA ) took the ice at Soldier Field in Chicago for ...
Author: Ross Forman, Windy City Times | | | 'Mr. Cub' Ernie Banks dies - Chuck Jacobson was living and working in Chicago in 2005 when he went to New York City for a June ...
Author: Ross Forman, Windy City Times | | | Quare Square a
South Side stronghold - Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - Quare Square, a monthly open mic for queer women of color and allies, is a flashback to the now-defunct POWWOW, ...
Author: Ross Forman, Windy City Times | | | Five Worth Finding - Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - —Glovely ( http:// ): They not only look stylish—but they're multifunctional. Glovely items not only keep your digits warm, but ... | | | 2015 Detroit Auto Show recap: Five best cars, three trends - - The media preview of the 2015 North American International Auto Show has come to an end, and most of us ...
Author: Richard Read, GayWheels.com | | | DISH: Crew Sports Bar + Grill; Leghorn expands - - A few years ago, I remember attending an LGBT-focused event downtown. There were various goodies on the table, and I ...
Author: Andrew Davis, Windy City Times | | | Letters to the editor: Bowled over - I was delighted to read the Jan. 21 article by Carrie Maxwell entitled "Affinity kicks off 20th-anniv. year with Burning ... | | | in the Life: David Garcia - Some see David Garcia as simply a hair dresser, hairstylist or hair guru. But he considers himself, a style educator. ...
Author: Ross Forman, Windy City Times | | | Queer children's book
author Gonzalez creates gender-neutral character - Queer children's book author and illustrator Maya Christina Gonzalez did something unique with her third picture book; she didn't specify ...
Author: Charlsie Dewey | | | DISH: SAVOR
El Mariachi
Tequila Bar - Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - El Mariachi Tequila Bar ( 3906 N. Broadway; http://elmariachitequilabar.com/ ) is in the same family of restaurants as Tutto Fresco ...
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