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Film, Art, Television, and Media Reporting

Interview with Bashar Barazi: A Dream of Arabia

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Bashar Barazi is the president of 3B Media, Inc., the parent company of MAQAM, a sponsor of the 2006 Gay Games VII in Chicago.  MAQAM brought artists to perform at the Opening/Closing Ceremonies and is now producing A Dream of Arabia.  Barazi spoke to Windy City Times on the phone about the upcoming show.


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

Dyke march forum takes on concerns

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Soon to enter its 13th year, Dyke March Chicago is, for many lesbians and transgender people, an alternative to Pride Parade.  Historically, the March has remained on the city’s North side.  This year, it’ll be in Pilsen, home to a predominantly Latina/o community.  In the last few weeks, organizers began hearing complaints about the change […]


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On Books and Publishing

Queer Wars AND That’s Revolting

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Growing up queer does not mean giving up the struggle for a better, more contentious, and a more just world.


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On Books and Publishing

Living Oprah: My One-Year Experiment to Walk the Walk of the Queen of Talk

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By Robyn Okrant; Center Street; 257 pages

 


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Academia Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Confab looks at queers and sex offenders

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“What’s queer about sex offenders?  Are sex offenders the new queers?”  That was the provocative title of an all-day conference on sex-offender laws, hosted by the University of Chicago and the Center on Halsted and held at the Center May 27.   Speakers included literary theorists, activists, artists, legal scholars and political scientists.


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

E. Patrick Johnson talks about Sweet Tea

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Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Gender JUST protests CPS again

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

Sweet Tea comes to life

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Sweet Tea, a new production of E.  Patrick Johnson’s one-man performance of the stories and lives of Black gay men in the South, began its theatrical run May 7 at the Viaduct Theatre.  The piece is based on Johnson’s book of the same name, a compendium of interviews with 63 subjects.  The May 8 performance […]


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Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

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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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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