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Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Milk letters up for auction

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 22, 2009

With the release of a movie based on his life, Harvey Milk’s life and work have gained a new significance in the public eye. Milk was the first openly gay member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and served for 11 months before being assassinated by Dan White in 1978. While there is considerable material about his life in San Francisco, relatively little is known about his early years. On July 28, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, 1338 W. Lake, will offer two signed letters from Milk that provide a glimpse into his thoughts and life in that time period.

Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Dallas does principles: Dallas Principles frame next steps

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 22, 2009

Over the weekend of May 15-17, 24 people gathered in a hotel room at the Dallas/Fort Worth airport to discuss the next steps for the LGBT movement. They emerged with a set of eight points that they called the Dallas Principles. These include statements like, “separate is never equal” and “the establishment and guardianship of full civil rights is a non-partisan issue.” In addition, the group emerged with a list of “Full Civil Rights Goals,” which includes “Dignity and Equality,” and a “Call to Action.” Windy City Times spoke separately to two of the authors, Juan Ahonen-Jover and Jon Winkleman, about how the document came about and where they see it going.

Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Citywide Pride: Talk focuses on diversity and inclusion

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 9, 2009

There exists today a panoply of services and staff training resources to aid companies in ensuring that their workplaces achieve mandated diversity requirements. But do these help or hinder a corporation, and how does the notion of diversity relate to the bottom line of profits?

Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Huberman attends forum on LGBTQ students

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 24, 2009

Gender JUST (Justice United for Societal Transformation) held its first Safe and Affirming Education Community Forum at Lozano Library, 1805 S. Loomis, June 15. The event highlighted the issues facing LGBTQ/GNC (lesbian, gay bisexual, transgender and queer/gender non-conforming) students in CPS. The group invited Ron Huberman, the openly gay chief executive officer of Chicago Public Schools (CPS), to attend.

Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Panelists discuss “Stonewall and Beyond”

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 17, 2009

The 40th anniversary of Stonewall falls on June 28 this year, the same date of the original riot in 1969. Since Stonewall, the LGBTQ community has seen the formation of the Gay Liberation Front in the 1970s, the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and the rise of the same-sex-marriage movement in the late 1990s and beyond. To commemorate the event, the Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted, hosted an intergenerational roundtable discussion entitled “Stonewall and Beyond” June 11.

Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Arrests on Halsted: Radicals Clash with Police

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 3, 2009

Reports of an event on the night of May 30 have surfaced amidst rumors that a group of straight people marched through Lakeview’s North Halsted Street, and then set upon and attacked a group of gay individuals. What is known is that a gathering involving a large group of people resulted in several arrests.

Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Pilsen in step with 2009 Dyke March

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 1, 2009

The Chicago Dyke March moved to Pilsen last year in an historic attempt to take the event to neighborhoods outside the mostly white gay enclaves of the north side. The Dyke March Planning Committee envisioned that the march would rotate between the city’s various ethnic neighborhoods, to show that queers are, indeed, everywhere.

Chicago Chronicles Reporting

Thayer talks about his arrest in Moscow

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 27, 2009

Chicago gay activist Andy Thayer, of Gay Liberation Network, was in Moscow recently, for a May 16 event that Russian gay-rights activists planned as Moscow Pride. In Russia, gay-related events have been stalled by repressive state policies that do not permit citizens to rally in public, and by what many consider to be a climate of widespread social and political homophobia.

Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Suicides and bullying: A closer look

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 20, 2009

Two school students as young as 11 years old recently committed suicide within 10 days of each other after enduring anti-gay harassment. Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover of Springfield, Mass., killed himself April 6 and Jaheem Herrera of DeKalb County, Ga., hanged himself with a cloth belt April 16 after similar taunts. The incidents have created waves of shock and dismay and generated a public conversation about such instances of bullying.

Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Chicago Activist found not guilty of felonies

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 13, 2009

Andy Thayer is best known for his work as a marriage activist in Gay Liberation Network (GLN) . However, he has also been a longtime anti-war activist as well as a critic of police brutality in Chicago.