Patti Flynn thought that April 2020 would be a momentous month. She was slated to fly from Chicago to India for gender-confirmation surgery, which would finally bring her body and sense of self in line. And then came COVID-19. Flynn, like many people, faced pandemic-related impacts to her health care. But unlike most, transgender and […]
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Pritzker has repealed the state’s HIV criminalization law
The 32-year-old statute was enacted during the height of homophobic panic about HIV and AIDS.
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Pride with a price tag
A double-digit entrance fee at a Rogers Park pride festival violated city rules—and left many in the queer community feeling exploited and excluded.
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Journalist Danny Fenster’s detainment shows we are living Fahrenheit 451
The Columbia College graduate has been held in Myanmar to the detriment of free speech everywhere.
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The fight for inclusion in Northalsted is not over
After a much-delayed name change of the neighborhood, there is still work to be done.
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When crime goes viral
Activists say Illinois’s law that makes it illegal to expose others to HIV is racist and homophobic. Now they’re close to changing it.
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COVID’s invisible victims
The narrative that young and previously healthy Americans are the “new” pandemic patients is an erasure of Latino victims.
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By the numbers
A local nonprofit, Lighthouse Foundation, is surveying some of the city’s largest LGBTQ+ institutions and will be grading them on just how far their diversity and inclusion goes.
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Local leaders and advocates agree: Biden’s $2T infrastructure package would be great for Chicago transportation
Biden’s $2T infrastructure package would dramatically beef up funding for transit, vehicle electrification, and Amtrak.
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‘A city within a city’
Ten years after the last Cabrini-Green high-rise came down, former residents look back at the community that shaped them.
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Sexual violence survivors say Moody Bible Institute still isn’t taking their claims seriously
Nearly six months after dozens of people came forward with allegations, the religious school has made few moves—and isn’t talking.
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Predatory lenders want Pritzker to veto a limit on triple digit interest rates
State legislature targets usury “to get to the heart of systemic racism”
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Hidden figures
Health officials aren’t addressing—or even tracking—the impact of COVID-19 by gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation.
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Escalating violence and lack of police response put the city’s homeless even more at risk
A string of fires and stabbings have many advocates worried, and challenges in reporting and investigating these crimes leave little hope for justice.
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Tell us what you need as an essential worker
Essential workers have kept our economy going; now we want to hear what they need to keep going.