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|  | Exxon Mobil hit with Illinois LGBT employment complaint - Oil and gas giant Exxon Mobil is the target of an LGBT Illinois workplace discrimination complaint filed May 22, after ...  | | | Advocates: votes are there for marriage bill - With the end of the Illinois' spring legislation session just days away, LGBT leaders say that equal marriage legislation has ...
Author: Kate Sosin, Windy City Times | | | Immigration bill passes; no gay amendments - The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee approved an immigration reform bill today without voting on two amendments seeking to provide benefits ...
Author: Lisa Keen, Keen News Service | | | Harris: marriage bill will pass by month's end - The chief sponsor of Illinois' equal marriage bill says he is "absolutely" ready to call for a House vote on ...
Author: Kate Sosin, Windy City Times | | | President Clinton backs Illinois Marriage Equality
- From a press release - As a final vote in the Illinois House of Representatives approaches, President Bill Clinton called on lawmakers in Springfield to ... | | | Reeling LGBT film fest hires 2 directors - From a press release - Chicago Filmmakers, the presenting organization of Reeling, the world's second oldest LGBT film festival, has announced return dates for the ... | | | MSM Menongoccocal disease case reported in Chicago - A case of the disease that causes meningitis has been reported in Chicago among a man who sex with men ...
Author: Kate Sosin, Windy City Times | | | White House highlights "Harvey Milk Champions of Change" - From a White House press release - WASHINGTON, DC — On Wednesday, May 22nd, the White House will honor ten openly LGBT elected or appointed officials as ... | | | Center on Halsted gala puts Chaka Khan, honorees on center stage - Video links below - Center on Halsted hosted its annual Human First Gala and performance at the Hilton Chicago May 18. The untraditional black-and-white-tie ...
Author: Melissa Wasserman | | | Protesters clash over marriage bill in Little Village neighborhood - Video link below - Groups both for and against marriage equality in Illinois faced off in the city's Little Village neighborhood May 18, in ...
Author: Kate Sosin, Windy City Times |
| | Beth Richie on race, gender and the 'prison nation' - Beth Richie is professor of African American Studies, criminology, law and justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago and ... | | | Letter to a prisoner - A letter from Andrew Deppe to Charles in prison, Sept. 17, 2012. Dear Charles: Just checked my email and spent ... | | | Dear Brother Behind Bars: LGBTQ letter-writing
to prisoners - Part of a Windy City Times Special Investigative Series - Ditching technology and the email that goes with it, men reach for pen and paper to write letters to their ...
Author: Melissa Wasserman | | | Cook County Jail works on transgender policies
- Part of a Windy City Times Special Investigative Series - Cook County Jail has quietly expanded its transgender policies and services in recent months, opening a protective unit for transgender ...
Author: Kate Sosin, Windy City Times | | | Chicago House partnering with jail on transgender programs - Part of a Windy City Times Special Investigative Series - HIV service agency Chicago House has been making headlines the past two years for a massive expansion into transgender housing, ...
Author: Kate Sosin, Windy City Times | | | LGBTQs and the Criminal Legal System series index - A Windy City Times Special Investigative Series - When we talk about LGBTQ people and the courts today, we're often referring to the seemingly endless stream of LGBTQ ... | | | Boystown LGBT senior housing project nears groundbreaking - The City of Chicago, the Center on Halsted and Heartland Housing are about to break ground on the Midwest's first ...
Author: Steven Chaitman | | | Advocates: votes are there for marriage bill - With the end of the Illinois' spring legislation session just days away, LGBT leaders say that equal marriage legislation has ...
Author: Kate Sosin, Windy City Times | | | Lambda Legal CLC holds conversation on women and equality - "Leading Chicago: Women Making the Case for Equality" was the theme of Lambda Legal's Chicago Leadership Council's (CLC) conversational salon ...
Author: Carrie Maxwell, Windy City Times | | | Nate Silver talks statistics, politics during Chicago visit - Statistics and politics were the themes of a talk by openly gay statistician, blogger and author Nate Silver May 19 ...
Author: Carrie Maxwell, Windy City Times | | | ILGA'S state-sponsored homophobia report 2013: Happiness, anger - From a press release - Geneva, 15 May 2013 — The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) has launched its 2013 issue ... | | | GLAAD president resigns - Barely a year after GLAAD named its new president, Herndon Graddick is resigning from his position with the LGBT media-watchdog ... | | | Harris: marriage bill will pass by month's end - The chief sponsor of Illinois' equal marriage bill says he is "absolutely" ready to call for a House vote on ...
Author: Kate Sosin, Windy City Times | | |
Victory Fund has kickoff in Chicago - A reception for table captains for the second annual Victory Fund brunch took place in Chicago. Todd Connors and Andrew ... | | |
Charges filed in hazing case - Charges have been filed in the high-profile case involving Maine West High School hazing rituals, the Cook County State's Attorney's ...
Author: Kate Sosin, Windy City Times | | | OUT! Queer Proms As Organizing Tools, Not Veneers of Safety - A recurring column - An event that started nine years ago as a fundraiser for a local community radio show has become a staple ...
Author: Tania Unzueta Carrasco | | | Levin appointed first openly gay head of APA - The first openly gay head of the D.C. Department of Health has just cracked the American Psychiatric Association's glass ceiling. ...
Author: Sarah Toce | | | Anti- and pro-equal marriage protests planned for May 18 - From a Gay Liberation Network press release - As Illinois's legislative session comes to an end May 31 and passage of Illinois's equal marriage rights bill goes down ... | | |
NCAVP responds to New Jersey murder - From a press release - The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) is deeply concerned about a recent homicide that occurred in Clark, New Jersey ... | | | Ambassador Susan E. Rice on Internat'l Day Against Homophobia - From a press release. Video link included - Video Message by Ambassador Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, on International Day Against Homophobia, May ... | | | Matthew Morrison, HRC partner for LGBT equality - From a press release - Emmy, Tony, and Golden Globe-nominated star Matthew Morrison is proud to announce that he is partnering with the Human Rights ... | | | Georgian priests lead thousands of marchers against gays - From a press release - New York, NY- Violence erupted during a peaceful celebration of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHoT marchers) in ... | | | Neil Steinberg Is 2013 Jon-Henri Damski Award winner - From a press release - Chicago Sun-Times columnist and author Neil Steinberg has been named winner of the 2013 Jon-Henri Damski Award, which honors individuals ... | | | France president signs marriage equality law - From a press release - Paris, France - On Saturday, President Hollande signed a bill that gives gays and lesbians the right to marry France. ... | | | Center on Halsted gala puts Chaka Khan, honorees on center stage - Video links below - Center on Halsted hosted its annual Human First Gala and performance at the Hilton Chicago May 18. The untraditional black-and-white-tie ...
Author: Melissa Wasserman | | |
Milwaukee Pride June 7-9 with big stars and Stonewall vets - From a press release - The Milwaukee Pride Parade announces a partnership with Cream City Foundation to bring two veterans of the Stonewall rebellion to ... | | | Hennepin: The quiet revolution for LGBT equality - Nearly every LGBT person knows about "Stonewall" —the spontaneous resistance to police intimidation of LGBT patrons at the Stonewall bar ...
Author: Lisa Keen, Keen News Service | | | White House highlights "Harvey Milk Champions of Change" - From a White House press release - WASHINGTON, DC — On Wednesday, May 22nd, the White House will honor ten openly LGBT elected or appointed officials as ... | | | Obama to honor Sally Ride with Presidential Medal of Freedom - From a White House press release - WASHINGTON, DC — Today, President Barack Obama announced he will award a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom to Dr. Sally ... | | | MSM Menongoccocal disease case reported in Chicago - A case of the disease that causes meningitis has been reported in Chicago among a man who sex with men ...
Author: Kate Sosin, Windy City Times | | | Many gay couples with kids in worst areas on marriage - From the Williams Institute - LOS ANGELES— The metro areas with the highest percentages of same-sex couples raising children are in states that have a ... | | | Dignity holds 41st anniversary liturgy - Dignity Chicago held its 41st-anniversary liturgy and award presentations at at Broadway United Methodist Church May 19. The organization presented ... | | | President Clinton backs Illinois Marriage Equality
- From a press release - As a final vote in the Illinois House of Representatives approaches, President Bill Clinton called on lawmakers in Springfield to ... | | | Peace Corps open for same-sex couples - From a press release - Peace Corps Deputy Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet today announced that the agency will begin accepting applications from same-sex domestic partners who ... | | | Gay Games Chicago 2006 Anniv. Celebration July 13
- From a press release - More than 11,000 athletes and artists from nearly 70 countries participated in the 2006 Gay Games Sports & Cultural Festival ... | | | Howard Brown still facing struggles - Howard Brown Health Center's (HBHC) former CEO and president Jamal Edwards departed the organization in August 2012, amid a flurry ...
Author: Yasmin Nair, Windy City Times | | | Obama may be seeking gay immigration amendments delay - In a surprise development that has some LGBT activists angry, reports began circulating late Tuesday morning that the White House ...
Author: Lisa Keen, Keen News Service | | | GLAAD's president leaves; ex-GOP Congressman weds partner - National roundup: Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - Barely a year after GLAAD named its new president, Herndon Graddick is resigning from his position with the LGBT media-watchdog ...
Author: Andrew Davis, Windy City Times | | | Immigration bill passes; no gay amendments - The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee approved an immigration reform bill today without voting on two amendments seeking to provide benefits ...
Author: Lisa Keen, Keen News Service | | | Puerto Rican activist discusses life, poems - Luzma Umpierre-Herrera, a leading and out lesbian Puerto Rican poet and critic, was in Chicago this past week to present ...
Author: Yasmin Nair, Windy City Times | | | LETTER Marine to representatives on marriage - Dear Representatives: Will Davis Mary Flowers LaShawn Ford Eddie Jackson Chuck Jefferson Andre Thapedi I'm a Marine Corps veteran ... | | | Vendor nears end of leather era - A fixture in the Chicago gay community is closing its doors, literally, thus ending a long, storied history—with Stanley Harrison ...
Author: Ross Forman, Windy City Times | | | Vital Bridges center receives check, food - As part of its ongoing efforts to combat hunger in the Chicago area, Fifth Third Bank presented a check for ...
Author: Vern Hester, Windy City Times | | |
Forum on race, immigration, sexuality May 28 - The Chicago Dyke March Collective and Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Chicago are co-hosting "Connecting the Dots: Immigration, Race, Sexuality and Community" ... | | | Bar association offers training regarding LGBT domestic abuse - BY MATTHEW C. CLARK - "Feel free to walk out now if you don't want to get in touch with your feelings," said Director of ... | | | Letter from NYC: An AIDS reunion - By Frank Pizzoli - By the time the first national AIDS education campaign was launched in 1988, when 107 million brochures entitled "Understanding AIDS" ... | | | Study looks at lesbian moms and male donors - From the Williams Institute - LOS ANGELES— Research suggests that children of lesbian parents are satisfied with their current level of contact with their male ... | | | Exxon Mobil hit with Illinois LGBT employment complaint - Oil and gas giant Exxon Mobil is the target of an LGBT Illinois workplace discrimination complaint filed May 22, after ...
Author: Kate Sosin, Windy City Times | | | Chicago Dyke March Community Forum to look at range of topics - From a press release - Chicago - The Chicago Dyke March Collective announces its annual Community Forum on Tuesday, May 28, from 6:00-7:30 p.m., at ... | | | Protesters clash over marriage bill in Little Village neighborhood - Video link below - Groups both for and against marriage equality in Illinois faced off in the city's Little Village neighborhood May 18, in ...
Author: Kate Sosin, Windy City Times | | | 'My God is Not a Bully!' launch May 29
- It began in 2011 at a meeting in Tucson, where the national Coordinating Team of the Church Within A Church ... | | | Chicago Veggie Pride Parade June 1
- From a press release - To raise awareness about the benefits of a plant-based diet, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) Commissioner Frank ... | | | Lambda Literary Awards finalist readings May 22 - Chicago will host a reading of nine finalists for the 2013 Lambda Literary Awards Wed., May 22 at 7 p.m. ... | | | France approves marriage; Amaechi's mixed message - World news: Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - World news: France approves marriage; Amaechi's mixed message COMPILED BY ANDREW DAVIS France's president, Francois Hollande, has signed into law ...
Author: Andrew Davis, Windy City Times | | | Pride Month Calendar
- Compiled by PRIDEChicago www.ChicagoPrideCalendar.org - www.ChicagoPrideCalendar.org. PrideChgo@aol.com. 773-348-8243 Call phone number listed on each event to verify date and time. To add an event, contact ... | | | LETTER A taxing situation; bad raise - Dear Windy City Times, Cardinal Francis George, in a desperate attempt to prevent the legalization of same-sex marriage here in ... | | | VIEWS State-run health insurance; Why AFC opposes HB 3227 - The AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) recently made the difficult decision to oppose legislation pending in Springfield that creates a ...
Author: John Peller | | | LaTrobe battles cancer, fights for trans rights - June LaTrobe was on Belmont Avenue near the Red Line Jan. 3 when she passed out. June (as she prefers ...
Author: Ross Forman, Windy City Times | | | Lawsuit claims LGBT bias in Exxon Mobil hiring - From Freedom to Work and GetEqual press releases - Exxon Mobil is charged with workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and violation of the Illinois Human Rights Act according ... |
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Music event June 27 honors LGBT composers, benefits AFC - From a press release - Young and talented local musicians are going to celebrate LGBT pride with a concert honoring classical and contemporary LGBT composers, ... | | | Mathews Mans Up! - Ross Mathews became an overnight success thanks to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, where he was coined "Ross the ...
Author: Jerry Nunn, Windy City Times | | | Rachleff reflects before swan song at Philharmonic - CLASSICAL MUSIC Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - Longtime principal conductor and music director Larry Rachleff will bid farewell to the Chicago Philharmonic at its final concert for ...
Author: Carrie Maxwell, Windy City Times | | | Flying high with Pam Ann - NUNN ON ONE - The air hostess with the mostest—Pam Ann—is flying into Chicago, and hilarity is expected with a title like "Cockpit!" For ...
Author: Jerry Nunn, Windy City Times | | |
Dancing with the Queer Stars in Chicago June 8 - Lanita Davis Dance Theatre's annual dance camp will be funded by the 3rd annual Dancing With The Queer Stars fundraiser ... | | | Chicago Public Library, Queer Film Society offer free Pride series - From a press release - The Chicago Public Library, in association with the Queer Film Society, present Celebrating Diversity, a free series celebrating LGBTQ movies ... | | | Reeling LGBT film fest hires 2 directors - From a press release - Chicago Filmmakers, the presenting organization of Reeling, the world's second oldest LGBT film festival, has announced return dates for the ... | | | Casella work wins Great Gay Play Contest
- From a press release - Pride Films and Plays announces that Directions for Restoring the Apparently Dead by Martin Casella has been named the winner ... | | | Billy Masters - "Who hasn't dated a gay dude? He didn't tell me, but I just sort of figured it out. There were ...
Author: Billy Masters | | | Jessica Halem talks NYC, political correctness - COMEDY - Jessica Halem may have changed residences over the years—living in cities such as Chicago, Seattle, New Orleans and, now, New ...
Author: Andrew Davis, Windy City Times | | | Knight at the Movies: Behind the Candelabra; Portrait of Jason - It's perhaps fitting that Steven Soderbergh—who won the Palm d'Or at Cannes in 1989 for his breakthrough feature, the sexually ...
Author: Richard Knight, Jr., for Windy City Times | | | Young, gifted and Black
- SCOTTISH PLAY SCOTT - The Chicago theater scene is about to lose the gifted out actor and playwright Sentell Harper. He's planning on relocating ...
Author: Scott C. Morgan, Windy City Times | | | Alec Mapa's 'Showville': Teaching tolerance through laughter - TELEVISION Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - On Thursday, May 23, AMC will unveil its new reality series Showville, which Alec Mapa hosts. The openly gay comedian ...
Author: David-Elijah Nahmod | | | Laura Nyro's songs June 1 at Davenports - From a press release - From the mega hits—"Eli's Coming" and "Wedding Bell Blues"—to the hidden gems like "He's a Runner", vocalist Shepley Metcalf brings ... | | | SPOTLIGHT The Glass Menagerie - Director Hans Fleishmann's re-imagining of Tennessee Williams' classic drama The Glass Menagerie for Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company was so rapturously received ... | | | In the Company of Men - THEATER REVIEW - Playwright: Neil LaBute. At: Profiles Theatre's The Main Stage, 4139 N. Broadway. Tickets: 773-549-1815; www.profilestheatre.org; $35-$40. Runs through: June 30 ...
Author: Scott C. Morgan, Windy City Times | | | Orange Flower Water - THEATER REVIEW - Playwright: Craig Wright. At: Bare Bones Theatre Group/Interrobang Theater Project at Raven Theatre, 6157 N. Clark St. Tickets: 773-338-2177; www.raventheatre.com; ...
Author: Mary Shen Barnidge | | | Lear - THEATER REVIEW - Playwright: Young Jean Lee. At: Red Tape Theatre, 621 W. Belmont Ave. (St. Peter's Church). Tickets: www.redtapetheatre.org; $25. Runs through: ...
Author: Jonathan Abarbanel, Windy City Times | | | CRITICS' PICKS - Death Takes A Holiday, Circle Theatre at Stage 773, through May 26. What is Romance, but Love triumphing over Death—no ... | | | Stella and Lou - THEATER REVIEW - Playwright: Bruce Graham. At: Northlight Theatre at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, 9501 N. Skokie Blvd., Skokie. ...
Author: Mary Shen Barnidge | | | 'Glamorama' talent announced - Macy's Passport Presents Glamorama 2013 will feature nine-time Grammy Award winner Sheryl Crow and performance group Cirque du Soleil at ... | | | Bailiwick Chicago announces 2013-14 Season - From a press release - CHICAGO (May 20, 2013) — Bailiwick Chicago Theater is pleased to announce its 2013—14 Season, which celebrates daring new work ... | | | Richard Pryor Jr. in 3 Squares' 'Lipstick' - The company 3 Squares Productions, LLC, will present its first play, the world-premiere comedy Lipstick Goes On Last, at the ... | | | About Face presenting 'The Pride' June 6 - About Face Theatre will kick off LGBTQ Pride Month with the Chicago premiere of the Olivier Award-winning drama The Pride ... | | | Isle of Klezbos in Chicago July 21 - From a press release - The Isle of Klezbos will play at the Mayne Stage, Sunday, July 21, 7:30 p.m., 1328 W. Morse Ave., Chicago. ... | | | Chely Wright, partner have twins; John Barrowman's new gig - Entertainment news: Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - Country-music singer Chely Wright and her wife, Lauren Blitzer-Wright, are now the parents of identical twin boys, Gay Star News ...
Author: Andrew Davis, Windy City Times | | | Patti Smith Band; Rondi Charleston - BENT NIGHTS - In as short a time as forty years it has become impossible to peg Patti Smith with a label. After ...
Author: Vern Hester | | | Windy City Gay Idol competition goes on at DS Tequila Co. - Windy City Gay Idol continued its 11th year of competition of top amateur gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) singers ... | | | 2013 Mazda MazdaSpeed3 - VEHICLE REVIEW - Some people (and cars) are just born with that special something—a star power that not only makes them special, but ...
Author: James Hamel, GayWheels.com | | | Chicago welcomes International Mr. Leather XXX5 - The 35th annual International Mr. Leather contest charges into town this Memorial Day weekend, bringing with it thousands of leather ... | | | 'Transvisible' screening May 30 at UIC - Unid@s: The National Latin@ LGBT Human Rights Organization is presenting the film screening of Transvisible: Bamby Salcedo's Story. A film ... | | | 'Out at CHM' unveils Ebony Fashion Fair - Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - Ebony magazine strutted off its glossy pages at Chicago History Museum's (CHM's) "Fierce and Fabulous: A New Look at the ...
Author: Melissa Wasserman | | | Behind the Candelabra: Screenwriter Richard LaGravenese - Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - Richard LaGravenese received an Oscar nomination for writing the screenplay to The Fisher King (1991). His numerous credits include authoring ...
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| | Gay and Lesbian Wedding Guide Business listings - Donald B. Boyd, Jr., Family Law 232 S. Lathrop Ave., Forest Park, Ill. 708-848-1005 www.boyddivorce.com Specializing in civil unions, LGBT ... | | |
Force clinch division title, scorch Indy 82-20 - From a press release - Indianapolis, IN. Records were shattering throughout the evening as the Chicago Force destroyed the Indy Crash at Marian University. Chicago ... | | | ASK LAMBDA LEGAL: HIV disclosure - Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - Q: I was online and reading about people getting prosecuted for having sex because they didn't tell their partner they ...
Author: Scott Schoettes | | | Dining news: Whippen's honor; Lillie Q's reopening - Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - —Chicago q chef/partner Lee Ann Whippen has been named a 2013 Kraft Foods Pitmaster. The Kraft Foods Pitmaster team consists ...
Author: Andrew Davis, Windy City Times | | | The fairy gardener - It's going to be a noisy summer—the cicadas (brood II) are back from their last appearance in 1996. Do not ...
Author: Jim Edminster | | | Come out a winner in selling a house - Part of a series - With the real estate market glutted with properties the three biggest mistakes I see sellers make are the following: Overpricing. ...
Author: Roger McCaffrey-Boss of Roger V. McCaffrey-Boss & Associates | | | Chicago Sky opens season May 27 - The Chicago Sky has never had a winning season in its seven years in the WNBA, and has finished 14-20 ...
Author: Ross Forman, Windy City Times | | | Nat'l Restaurant Show unveils trends, speakers - Food service professionals (including restauranteurs, caterers and others) descended upon McCormick Place May 18-21 for the NRA (National Restaurant Association) ...
Author: Andrew Davis, Windy City Times | | | FITNESS Trainer John Hall lays it out there - Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - Of course, impending summer means more heat—as well as people tossing aside their parkas and wearing less clothing. John Hall, ...
Author: Andrew Davis, Windy City Times | | | Gay in the Life: Raphael Ferreira - Everyone has some sort of responsibility with his or her job. However, Raphael Ferreira is responsible for the information of ...
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