A year after Martin Urbina was murdered, his best friend searches for the truth.
Tag: LGBTQ+
Posted inFood & Drink
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 […]
Posted inNews & Politics
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.
Posted inMusic
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.
Posted inNews & Politics
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.
Posted inMusic
Chicago rapper KC Ortiz brings buckle-your-seat-belts fun to The Campground
Rapper KC Ortiz grew up in Mobile, Alabama, and fell in love with Chicago after her drag mother showed her a video of local female-impersonation pageant Miss Continental. As she told Windy City Times last year, “I hadn’t transitioned at that time and didn’t know that world existed. When I saw that video, I wanted […]
Posted inMusic
Scott Free reinvents himself as a radical queer socialist balladeer
Homolatte founder and longtime queercore scene staple Scott Free is releasing his first solo album in 12 years, The Last Revolution.
Posted inFilm
How And Then We Danced changed a nation
Levan Akin’s latest feature makes history for LGBTQ+ visibility in Georgia.
Posted inMusic
Sheila Rashid makes possibilities you can wear
Chicago designer Sheila Rashid makes unisex clothes that give people the freedom to define themselves.
Posted inMusic
The B-52s gave Chicago one last gift at Riot Fest
Even if the B-52s really are retiring from the road, they’ve left a permanent mark on the city through their influence on house music.
Posted inMusic
The most colorful parties in the city are Noire
Nick Alder and Rae Chardonnay Taylor of Party Noire get to fun by going through respect, safety, community, and empowerment.
Posted inNews & Politics
Chicago Pride Parade 2019
Sunday’s Pride Parade celebrated 50 years since the Stonewall uprising which sparked the modern LGBTQ rights movement and 49 years since Chicago hosted its first Pride Parade on June 27, 1970. It was cut short due to afternoon thunderstorms, but not before photographer Kathleen Hinkel captured a few of the day’s memorable moments. Pride Parade […]