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Angela Davis at Columbia College

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Angela Davis’ appearance at Columbia College’s Getz Theater April 30 was book ended by standing ovations.  As she strode out onto the stage, the intergenerational audience that had been buzzing in anticipation rose as one and clapped wildly.  In a mark of her status as a living cultural icon, some in the audience were sporting […]


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Gender JUST takes over CPS building

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Howard Brown: More questions than answers

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It has now been almost a month since Windy City Times first broke the news that Howard Brown Health Center (HBHC) had placed its CEO and CFO, Michael Cook and Mark Joslyn, respectively, on paid administrative leave.  Since then, HBHC has revealed no details about the reasons for its actions, only issuing a series of increasingly cryptic press releases promising further details.


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D’Emilio talks Nixon and gay liberation

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The Chicago History Museum’s (CHM’s) ongoing series, Out at CHM, featured local gay historian John D’Emilio on April 15.  D’Emilio, a professor of history and gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, presented a piece entitled “Richard Nixon, Gay Liberationist?” Speaking to a packed auditorium, D’Emilio discussed the implications of his […]


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The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For

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A very specifically lesbian world.


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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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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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Chicago makes a rainbow connection: Interview with Jessica Max Stein

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“A generation has grown up absorbing Richard’s art, and I have to believe that every one of them is a smarter, funnier, stronger, sillier, more generous person because of him.”


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Clash at the Center

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Things became quite intense at the Center on Halsted, 3656 N.  Halsted, when five members of God Hates Fags (GHF) “also known as Kansas’ anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church (headed by the Rev. Fred Phelps) “showed up December 13 near the facility before a forum was scheduled to take place.


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LGBTQs take education to the streets

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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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