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Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism

Fred just happens to be Frederic Jameson, one of the most influential theorists of postmodernity.

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Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Rage, or The Lack Thereof

Rage has dissipated into conciliation and a call for the status quo.

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Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

LGBTQs take education to the streets

Several families of Chicago Public School (CPS) students, teachers and education activists turned out August 26 for a protest at CPS headquarters at 125 S. Clark, where the Chicago Board of Education was due for a budget meeting.

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Gay Marriage Hate Crime Legislation Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Interview with Human Rights Campaign’s Joe Solmonese

Joe Solmonese, executive director of Human Rights Campaign (HRC) , frequently finds himself in the eye of the LGBT political storm.  In recent years, criticism of the nation’s largest gay organization has increased, whether for what many described as the betrayal over the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) or its rumored agnosticism over “Don’t Ask, Don’t […]

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Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Dallas does principles: Dallas Principles frame next steps

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 […]

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Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Arrests on Halsted: Radicals Clash with Police

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.

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Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Suicides and bullying: A closer look

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.

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Feminism Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

“Yasmin Nair: Eat This!” Or: How to Leave Comments Without Going up In Flames

The classic method used to silence a woman: question her mental health and then drag her through what you fondly imagine is the mud of her sex life.

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Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

’80s Hades: Panelists talk of “surviving Reagan”

The Reagan years defined a new era in LGBTQ organizing.  The community struggled against governmental apathy towards AIDS while forging activist communities that demanded resources and health care for those affected by the disease. For the most part, historians have paid attention to LGBTQ activism in this decade by focusing on the two coasts.  However, […]

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Academia Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Daley double: Scholar talks local LGBTQ history

Chicago’s infamous machine politics is as much the stuff of lore as a reality of Chicago life.  Richard J. Daley, most associated with the machine, was mayor from 1955 to 1976.  His son, Richard M. Daley, has been mayor from 1989 to the present.  Except for a period of 13 years in the interim, there […]