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Feminism On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Bella DePaulo’s Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After

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There’ll be no one to claim the body or your pitiful estate. 


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Chicago Chronicles Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Group stages sit-in at Durbin’s office; 13 arrested

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Thirteen LGBTQ protesters staged a sit-in at U.S.  Sen.  Richard Durbin’s Chicago office May 20.  They went to insist that the senator sign a pledge affirming his support for a transgender-inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) .  The senator was not in his office, but the activists refused to leave unless the pledge was signed; Durbin […]


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Academia Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Alexandra Billings speaks at UIC’s Lavender Graduation

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For the third year in a row, the University of Illinois at Chicago’s (UIC’s) Gender and Sexuality Center (GSC) hosted a Lavender Graduation.  When it first started in 2007, the event was designed to give LGBTQA students a way to celebrate their graduation and academic achievements while recognizing that their sexual and gender identities were […]


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Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Gender JUST takes over CPS building

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Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History

“Out at CHM” looks at queer Latinos

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The Chicago History Museum’s Out at CHM series hosted its first Latina/o event March 4.  Titled “Queer Latinos: Art and Change,” the program showcased the work of two researchers, Lourdes Torres and Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes who presented on their Chicago-based work in the Latino/a community.  They were introduced by Ramon Rivera-Servera, an assistant professor in […]


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Chicago Chronicles Immigration Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Queers a big part of Chicago youth immigrant movement

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The Immigrant Youth Justice League (IYJL), a group of young immigrants, held a press conference Jan.  12 to announce its support for the 2009 Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity Act (CIR ASAP) of 2009.


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

Rage, or The Lack Thereof

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


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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

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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

APA report warns against conversion therapy

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In recent years, the ex-gay movement has been making claims that it is possible to convert gays and lesbians to heterosexuality.  Those claims may be somewhat dulled now that the American Psychological Association (APA) has published a resolution explicitly stating that mental health professionals should avoid telling clients that they can change their sexual orientation […]


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Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Dallas does principles: Dallas Principles frame next steps

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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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