Illinois House majority leader Greg Harris wraps up a historic career.
Tag: HIV
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AIDS Diva, AACM Great Black Music Ensemble, and more
Gerber/Hart is partnering with the Leather Museum (6418 N. Greenview) for a free screening of AIDS Diva: The Legend of Connie Norman. Connie Norman was a trans woman who advocated for her fellow HIV-positive community in Los Angeles in the late 80s and early 90s. AIDS Diva is a documentary that follows her work, not […]
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Art on the south side, Dining Out for Life, and more
Through September 11, the University of Chicago’s Arts + Public Life initiative is celebrating 10 years of their artists-in-residence program (dubbed AIR) with the exhibition “All That Light.” The AIR program was originally conceived by artist Theaster Gates, and is jointly hosted by Arts + Public Life and the university’s Center for the Study of […]
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Pritzker has repealed the state’s HIV criminalization law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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Thirty years ago, a Black queer zine captured the scene that birthed house
Robert Ford and Trent Adkins shaped the bold, subversive, gossipy, funny, deeply engaged voice of Thing, which was felled by the AIDS pandemic in 1993.
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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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Pink Orchids and The Green Bay Tree look back at the bad old days of 20th-century queer life
The AIDS crisis! The evil gay villain!
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The hidden ME too: 100,000 people in Illinois could suffer from debilitating disease
Chicago researchers are searching for a cure for ME, which is more widespread and serious than previously thought.
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‘Help, my penis is bent up at a 90-degree angle!’
WTF? A urologist explains. Plus: Dan counsels a lad newly diagnosed as HIV positive and a married man with an uncooperative member.
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Should a hookup who lied about his HIV status get a second chance?
Dan weighs in. Plus: tips for a sexually frustrated young wife and a sexually frustrated young woman
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If Trump cuts HIV funding it could devastate public health, LGBTQ groups warn
A failure to reauthorize the Ryan White Care Act, coupled with the possible repeal of Obamacare, could be devastating for people living with AIDS.
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Tseng Kwong Chi, downtown New York’s photographic ambassador
The Block Museum hosts a retrospective of one of the most overlooked artists of a vibrant era.
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No vasectomy, no more open marriage?
A wife wants her husband snipped—or else. Plus: a solution for the sexually fickle, a possible dastardly dick, and a self-described straight 64-year-old who wants to try “the gay side of life”
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LGBTQ people were especially screwed by Illinois’s budget impasse
Even with the stopgap deal, government inaction was bad news for queer and trans people.
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The alleged David Cameron-Brexit-O’Hare-pizza connection, and other Chicago news
Also, Chicagoan Raj Fernando is at the center of a Trump-Clinton feud.