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Sex workers hold local conference

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Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP), a national group that works on the decriminalization of prostitution, held its third annual conference in Chicago.  Members attended panels on topics like sex trafficking and the issues facing transgender sex workers.


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Ryan White’s mother speaks at Center

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According to the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), the latest statistics on HIV indicate that the populations at greatest risk for new infections are African-American men who have sex with men, and African-American women.  This is a marked shift from the early years of the epidemic, when HIV/AIDS was perceived—and stigmatized—as a white gay men’s disease.


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Gay Marriage On Books and Publishing

Nancy Polikoff’s Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law

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Polikoff shows why it’s necessary to separate marriage from the state’s responsibilities.


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D’Emilio Marks Anniversary

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Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing

Kevin Barnhurst’s Media Queered: Visibility and Its Discontents

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We have queered capitalism, and are paying the price. 


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Immigration Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Queers and Immigration Reform: Where Do We Stand?

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Relocating and/or moving between two countries can be difficult and taxing but that, my friends, is not exile.  That’s mobility.


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Gay Marriage Immigration Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Queer Immigration: Change the Paradigms

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The emphasis on documented couples as more deserving of protection undermines progress towards immigration reform that benefits all immigrants, undocumented or not, single or otherwise.


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An Interview with PETA’s Dan Mathews

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We spent many years kicking the door open and now we’ve got a foot in it.


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Animals On Books and Publishing

Dan Mathews’ Committed: A Rabble-Rouser’s Memoir

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“Kids shouldn’t talk to strangers, even if the stranger is a vegetable.”


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

Who Needs Larry Kramer?: A resurrected ACT UP does not a progressive queer agenda make

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When you have queers simultaneously fighting against a war and for the right to fight in it, the end of the world seems nigh.


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