Gary Chichester reflects on the riotous roots of the first-ever Pride parade.
Author Archives: Devlyn Camp
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Indecent Advances tells the secret history of a time when propositioning another man was grounds for murder
And the press stoked antigay paranoia as a way to sell more papers.
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The bumpy road from Stonewall to Pride in the Park
Is this pricey debacle what our queer ancestors had in mind 50 years ago?
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Dugan’s Bistro and the Legend of the Bearded Lady looks back at a time when River North was full of drag queens and glitter
“After all these years of repression, people were just ready to party,” says author Owen Keehnen.
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Why should the government interfere with the very personal process of gender identity?
Days after a Trump administration memo calls for a strict binary definition of gender, the Intersex Justice Project marches to protest surgeries on babies and children with ambiguous genitalia.
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Following the Van Dyke trial through the WBEZ podcast 16 Shots
The audio show explores every perspective of the high-profile case.
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Fatimah Asghar’s first collection of poetry, If They Come for Us, is a warning about the consequences of ignoring history
The Brown Girls cocreator examines the effects of her own family’s trauma.
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Pride double standard? Bars upset after police forced some to close early after parade
“It’s anti-hospitality and counterproductive to the community and our celebration of our culture,” one bar owner said.
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What I learned about gay pride from the Mattachine Society
Gay pride is a daily protest.