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Home » Pride 2021

Tag: Pride 2021

Posted inReader partners

Windy City Times Special Pride insert (PDF) in this week’s issue

by Chicago Reader June 9, 2021August 18, 2021
Posted inArts & Culture

LA&M’s dirty 30

by Adam M. Rhodes June 9, 2021August 18, 2021

A reflection on the museum’s storied past and more inclusive future

Posted inNews & Politics

Queer to the Left came to raise hell

by Annie Howard June 9, 2021August 27, 2021

The group rejected the mainstream gay rights movement and kept alive the spirit of radical LGBTQ+ activism.

Posted inArts & Culture

Dee Alaba celebrates her authentic self

by Irene Hsiao June 9, 2021August 18, 2021

Dee Alaba seeks collaborators who celebrate and respect identity.

Thing published ten issues between November 1989 and summer 1993. Zine cofounder Lawrence Warren appears on the cover of the third issue, pictured here at lower left.
Posted inMusic

Thirty years ago, a Black queer zine captured the scene that birthed house

by Leor Galil June 9, 2021August 18, 2021

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 inMusic

Original Rainbow Burger on the gig poster of the week

by Salem Collo-Julin June 9, 2021August 18, 2021

This week’s featured gig poster was created for an outdoor food, drag, and music carnival by Paul Octavious and Aaron Lowell Denton.

Pride in the Park 2019
Posted inArts & Culture

Pride 2021: picnics, music, boat races, and (digital) performances

by Salem Collo-Julin and Kerry Reid June 8, 2021August 18, 2021

The parade’s postponed till October, but you can still celebrate Pride outdoors and online this month.

Posted inMusic

Cosmic Country star Andrew Sa drops a high lonesome covers collection

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil June 8, 2021August 18, 2021

Cosmic Country star Andrew Sa drops a high lonesome covers collection, Dave Rempis releases a double album of live performances that COVID couldn’t stop, and more.

Top from left: Kirsten Baity, Megan Carney. Bottom from left: Mikael Burke, Sharon Pasia
Posted inArts & Culture

About Face turns 25 by nurturing the next generation of LGBTQ+ artists

by Catey Sullivan June 8, 2021November 1, 2021

About Face Theatre takes the mystery out of training next-generation LGBTQ+ artists—while putting it into a streaming production.

New signs replace the “Boystown” banners in the north side neighborhood.
Posted inNews & Politics

The fight for inclusion in Northalsted is not over

by Adam M. Rhodes June 8, 2021August 18, 2021

After a much-delayed name change of the neighborhood, there is still work to be done.

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