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Chicago Chronicles Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Prop 8 Donors: A Closer Look

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Chicago Chronicles Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Nikki Patin’s body language

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Nikki Patin is a Chicago-born performance artist and activist, who has appeared on HBO’s Def Jam.  Her work combines burlesque, spoken word and music to address the themes of body image, race and class.  Patin will be touring New Zealand and Australia from the end of February through April, and is hosting a series of […]


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Chicago Chronicles Politics Reporting

Interview with John Fritchey

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Democrat John Fritchey is currently the 11th District State Representative.  He’s also among the many candidates seeking to fill Rahm Emanuel’s recently vacated seat in Illinois’s Fifth Congressional District.  Fritchey has a reputation as a progressive and is backed by a number of labor unions.  He spoke to Windy City Times about his views on […]


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Chicago Chronicles Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

7 arrested at V-Day marriage protest

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When Proposition 8 passed in November 2008, it prompted a series of actions across the country and legal challenges in California.  On March 5, the California Supreme Court will begin to hear arguments against Prop 8.  In order to highlight the importance of the upcoming trial, Gay Liberation Network (GLN) and Join the Impact.


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

Lesbian Teen Pregnancy Rates: Can We See the Inequality beyond the Stigma?

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LGB is itself hardly a stable identity category, especially for someone just figuring out sexuality.


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Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Conversations with God Hates Fags/Westboro Baptist Church

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“Two men?  It was perfectly fine for them to go have sex in the bathrooms or in the bushes or whatever.  So they brought God into it, saying that God loves everybody.  Of course, God doesn’t love everybody.”


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Chicago Chronicles Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

“Day Without a Gay” supporters

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In the wake of Proposition 8 in California, gay groups across the country urged people to take a day off from work by calling in “gay for a day” and refusing to spend any of their dollars contributing to the economy.  They chose December 10, which is also International Human Rights Day.


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Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Panel speaks on Chicago’s gay ordinance

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The Chicago Ordinance on Human Rights, which banned discrimination against gays and lesbians and other minorities, was passed on December 21, 1988.  Gerber/Hart Library, 1127 W. Granville, recently organized a panel discussion to mark the occasion.


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Politics

Class in Drag or Who’s Middle Class Anyway?: Sarah Palin, Joe Sixpack, and Main Street

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But even more fascinating to me is the extent to which we hold on to the idea that we’re all just part of a struggling middle class, despite mounting evidence that a lot of us are just plain poor. 


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Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Lesbian fundraiser focuses on global crises

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Climbing PoeTree, a two-member spoken word group, was in Chicago performing its latest piece, “Hurricane Season: The Hidden Messages in Water.” The first performance was at Columbia College, the second at the Center on Halsted (COH).


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