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Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Arrests on Halsted: Radicals Clash with Police

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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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Gay Marriage Immigration Queer Politics, Culture, and History

UAFA (Uniting American Families Act): Facts and Fiction

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Did you really think your love would be enough?


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Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Pilsen in step with 2009 Dyke March

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The Chicago Dyke March moved to Pilsen last year in an historic attempt to take the event to neighborhoods outside the mostly white gay enclaves of the north side.  The Dyke March Planning Committee envisioned that the march would rotate between the city’s various ethnic neighborhoods, to show that queers are, indeed, everywhere.


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Chicago Chronicles Reporting

Thayer talks about his arrest in Moscow

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Chicago gay activist Andy Thayer, of Gay Liberation Network, was in Moscow recently, for a May 16 event that Russian gay-rights activists planned as Moscow Pride.  In Russia, gay-related events have been stalled by repressive state policies that do not permit citizens to rally in public, and by what many consider to be a climate […]


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Gay Marriage Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Prop 8 is a Distraction, or: NOW can we Dump Gay Marriage as a Cause?

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Why build up the power of the state to coerce people into marital relationships they don’t want just so that they can get the basics like healthcare?


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality

Does This Debt Make Me Look Guilty?

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Debt is the little black dress in everybody’s wardrobe.  You may not want it, it doesn’t really excite you, but you’re encouraged to have one because you never know when you might need it. 


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Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Suicides and bullying: A closer look

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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

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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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Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

The Real Costs of the HIV Ban

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“There is no good reason, absolutely no science.”


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Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Chicago Activist found not guilty of felonies

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Andy Thayer is best known for his work as a marriage activist in Gay Liberation Network (GLN) .  However, he has also been a longtime anti-war activist as well as a critic of police brutality in Chicago.

On January 7, during a visit by President George W. Bush to Chicago, Thayer was among those who tried to stretch an anti-war banner across the path of the presidential motorcade.  He was charged with two felony counts of aggravated battery on a police officer.  Thayer’s case went to trial May 5, and a decision the same day found him not guilty.


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