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07/14/2025

In a “tale as old as time,” Disney’s Beauty and the Beast returns to Chicago after over 10 years. The story follows a cursed prince who is desperate to find true love after being transformed into a Beast by a witch. He lives in a castle surrounded by his servants, who were changed into househo...

07/14/2025

On July 10-12 Gender Fu**ed Productions, in partnership with the Chicago Park District’s Night Out in the Parks, unveiled the inaugural Transilience: A Trans Pride Festival. The festival was ambitious in scope—spread out in three city parks with each segment featuring a stacked line-up of LGBTQ+...

07/14/2025

It’s unlikely that many people have heard of William Dorsey Swann. Some people have recognized Swann as the first LGBTQ+ person to lead a resistance movement, and he was known as a leading drag figure. And Swann—a Black person—did these things in the late 19th century in the South. In the upco...

07/13/2025

—Seeing “Signs”: Iconic comedienne/actress Lily Tomlin will appear at Chicago’s Siskel Film Center on Thursday, July 24, at 1 p.m. for a sneak preview of the newly restored The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, according to a release. Before the film, Tomlin will engage i...

07/11/2025

“We are trailblazers, we are educators, we are innovators. We areunstoppable,” spoke Michelle Brown to a crowd of awardees, familymembers and friends at Sidetrack, 3349 N. Halsted St., for the 2025 Esteem Awards on July 5. The awards celebrated an array of change-makers, artists and community le...

07/11/2025

As the death toll rises in Texas, Trump has done everything but tap dance naked to deflect the media from discussing climate change (hoax), or how his staff cuts to the National Weather Service (600 cuts in May) likely affected flood warnings. So it is understandable that in the clickbait environmen...

07/11/2025

The Wisconsin Supreme Court cleared the way for the state to ban conversion therapy in a ruling that gives the governor more power over how state laws are enacted, NBC News noted. In a four-to-three ruling, the court decided that a Republican-controlled legislative committee’s rejection of a state...

07/11/2025

The Kyiv Independent reported that, in a landmark decision, Kyiv’s Desniansky District Court formally recognized a same-sex couple as a family. Ukraine does not recognize same-sex marriages or partnerships; however, this ruling may serve as a critical legal milestone in expanding rights for LGBTQ+...

07/11/2025

Thirty-five famous names representing movies, television, music, soaps, Broadway and comedy will be added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame next year, per ABC 7. In the television category, Good Morning America anchors Robin Roberts (a member of the LGBTQ+ community) and George Stephanopoulos will be ho...

07/10/2025

Rogers Park’s Pride North multi-day festival (June 27-29) was canceled last month due to lack of a special event permit from the event’s longtime organizer and sponsor, The Glenwood Bar (6962 N. Glenwood Ave.). The event was set to take place on Glenwood Avenue between Lunt and Morse Avenues. Al...

07/10/2025

Jewel Thais-Williams—the founder of Jewel’s Catch One, L.A.’s first Black-owned LGBTQIA+ nightclub—has died at age 86, media outlets reported. DJ Mag reported that the team at Catch One wrote on Instagram that it was “honoring the life” of Thais-Williams “with heavy hearts,” adding,...

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