In recognition of World AIDS Day in 2009, the Illinois Lottery and the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) launched a new Instant Ticket to raise funds for the Quality of Life grants, which are distributed to organizations across the state that work in HIV/AIDS prevention education, and treatment. Since its inaugural year, sales from […]
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Help support individuals experiencing homelessness or housing instability with your purchase of a “BLACKJACK” Instant Ticket from the Illinois Lottery
In 2019 the Illinois Lottery launched a new Instant Ticket to raise money for agencies and organizations that support people experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity throughout the State. The Illinois Lottery gives 100 percent of profits from the ticket to the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS), which then utilizes funding for a grant program […]
’Well done, Gloria Allen’
Black trans icon Mama Gloria is remembered for living an extraordinary and full life.
Nobody’s Darling is for everyone
When longtime friends Angela Barnes and Renauda Riddle decided to open up a high-end cocktail bar in Andersonville, they never predicted the enthusiastic fervor that would follow. Just months after opening, Nobody’s Darling has enjoyed a word-of-mouth popularity usually reserved for the main Boystown or Andersonville thoroughfares, ones that reflect the current culture in the […]
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.
‘We’re not asking for any more than what we are already deserved’
Boystown, the enclave billed as a place where LGBTQ+ people of all stripes are safe to be themselves, faces a racial reckoning decades in the making.
Transgender Day of Remembrance ensures we don’t forget
Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
Wherever you go, there you are
Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
Wrong Way Journey takes a trip through the life of one Black, queer, Christian woman
In R.C. Riley’s solo show, a rape and a crisis of faith lead to self-acceptance.
20/20 celebrates being young, gifted, and queer
About Face Youth Theatre turns 20 with this contemporary look at LGBTQ history.
LGBTQ young people reimagine their autobiographies as Scary Stories to Save Your Life
Vampires, stalkers, monsters, and other horrors included.
Joe Biden’s American Promise Tour, and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week
Andrew Bird at Fourth Presbyterian Church, and more goings-on about town the week of December 11-14.
Windy City Rubber Ducky Derby, Megan Stielstra’s book launch party, and more of the best things to do this week
Leftist comedy in Monkey Wrench, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf: The Good Parts, and more happenings 7/31-8/3
Laura Kipnis talks sex on campus, the House Music Conference, and more things to do in Chicago his week
Art Brewt, Plucky Lush, and more happenings from May 22-25