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Prop 8 Donors: A Closer Look

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Chicago Chronicles Politics Reporting

Interview with John Fritchey

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Democrat John Fritchey is currently the 11th District State Representative.  He’s also among the many candidates seeking to fill Rahm Emanuel’s recently vacated seat in Illinois’s Fifth Congressional District.  Fritchey has a reputation as a progressive and is backed by a number of labor unions.  He spoke to Windy City Times about his views on […]


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Chicago Chronicles Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

7 arrested at V-Day marriage protest

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When Proposition 8 passed in November 2008, it prompted a series of actions across the country and legal challenges in California.  On March 5, the California Supreme Court will begin to hear arguments against Prop 8.  In order to highlight the importance of the upcoming trial, Gay Liberation Network (GLN) and Join the Impact.


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

Equal Rep.com/Nation-Wide Campaign to Create a New Secretary of GLBT Affairs. Or, How To Silence Queers and Still Love the Idea

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As for DADT, I’m not sure how you can be anti-war and anti-Republican war-mongering and also want to wage war.


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Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Conversations with God Hates Fags/Westboro Baptist Church

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“Two men?  It was perfectly fine for them to go have sex in the bathrooms or in the bushes or whatever.  So they brought God into it, saying that God loves everybody.  Of course, God doesn’t love everybody.”


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Chicago Chronicles Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

“Day Without a Gay” supporters

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In the wake of Proposition 8 in California, gay groups across the country urged people to take a day off from work by calling in “gay for a day” and refusing to spend any of their dollars contributing to the economy.  They chose December 10, which is also International Human Rights Day.


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Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Blagojevich and gay politics

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Illinois voters were stunned this past week by the news of Governor Rod Blagojevich being arrested on corruption charges.  Along with his chief of staff John Harris, who has since resigned, Blagojevich was charged with, among other allegations, holding out President-elect Barack Obama’s soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat for a “pay-for-play” deal.  The two men were both […]


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Gay Marriage On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Gay dollars, labor and boycotts

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For Eric Stanley, economic boycotts “uphold the free market myth of capitalism in ‘non-boycott’ times.”


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James Dobson and the National Radio Hall of Fame

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Why pretend that judgments about the value of someone’s work are strictly apolitical and impartial?


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

Minority workshop focuses on LGBTQ families

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LGBTQ families are frequently non-normative, and not just because they’re headed by queer people.  Queer families may consist of single women raising children with sperm donors who maintains links with their offspring.  Two men might raise children together even after breaking up.

All this becomes more complicated when race and/or ethnicity enters the picture.  How does the media respond to such unlikely configurations and what can—and should—LGBTQ families do to effect the representations of their families?


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