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WOW Looks for Bending Gender Balance in City Hall
Former ChicagoTalks reporter and editor Ellyn Fortino reports that a new Chicago organization, Women Organizing Women (WOW) is hosting a “Women Against the Machine” town hall meeting on January 10 The event will feature 16 women who are running for alderman and are progressive and independent from the “machine.” Read on for details. Women Organizing Women | Progress Illinois Non-incumbent, female […]
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I walked around the city carrying a poster filled with pictures of interracial couples. The looks I received were all too familiar. As I tried to stop people to talk, I got it all: eye rolls, quick refusals, laughs and whispers. This is something I have experienced for years, as I have dated men from […]
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An Unlikely Life: Burlesque Performer Reflects on How He Got Where He Is Today
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Seth Nayes, a Chicago-based burlesque performer and print model, talks about his transformation from a very unusual childhood on a Native American Reservation, a stint as a wrestler and how he became a burlesque performer in Chicago who now lives under the spotlight. The profile story of Seth Nayes 双性艺人的真实写照 Like this: Like Loading…
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There will be a discussion & reading from a new book by ‘The Honest Courtesan’ Maggie McNeil at 1700 S. Loomis in Pilsen on July 23 from 7 to 9 p.m. Maggie McNeill, the popular sex worker rights blogger, retired librarian and retired call girl behind “The Honest Courtesan” just published her first short stories collection, Ladies of the Night. […]
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Started in 2010 by the Marin Foundation, a Chicago non-profit organization that works to increase understanding between LGBT community and churches, the campaign is an activism of love, apologizing to the LGBT community for the way Christians have cause harmed.
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In efforts to increase African-American LGBQT community awareness and support, Chicago Black Gay Caucus organizes a Black Gay Pride every year a week after the city’s Gay Pride celebration. The Black Gay community doesn’t want to be singled out, but they stand out. Black Pride is not to be confused with Gay Pride that’s occurring […]
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Mr. Sam Greenlee passed away on May 19, 2014. He’s survived by his wife Maxine McCrey Montano, his daughter Nakita and granddaughter Nailah. Mr. Greenlee was 84 years-old. The DuSable Museum of African American History will host a memorial service for Sam Greenlee, a lifelong Chicagoan, on Friday, June 6 at 6:30 p.m. Early arrival […]
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