The office door resembles that of private detective Sam Spade. Peer through the dusty inset glass and you’ll see red square telephones with attached pencil holders. Don Ruda opened Key Personnel at 4006 N. Milwaukee in 1952, to secure permanent clerical jobs for young women—for a 12 percent salary fee. “Catholic high school girls started […]
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Playwright Sarah Gubbins didn’t think she was gay—or a writer
But with a couple world premieres this year, she’s come into her own.
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Back to school with Dan Savage, class of ’82
“Getting beat up by boys I wanted to blow me was no fun”
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Back to school with Bill Savage, class of ’80
“A school that graded everything on a scale of 0-99, with no possibility of scoring 100—because, we were told, only God was perfect”