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Why Do Robots Kill? reading and discussion by author Judith Markowitz Jun 30
Author Judith Markowitz will discuss the question, Why Do Robots Kill?, and read from her book Robots that Kill Sunday, June 30, 2019 from 2 to 4 p.m. She will give examples from folklore, science fiction, ...
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Five Worth Finding: Pride, Carol's Cookies, Kimpton Gray and more
—The Queeriodic Table: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Culture: Harriet Dyer's book ( a take on the periodic table, of course ) contains a glossary on current lingo and definitions; a condensed timeline of queer events from ...
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BOOKS ON STONEWALL Indecent Advances, The Stonewall Riots, Out in Time
Indecent Advances By James Polchin $26; Counterpoint Press; 256 pages The Stonewall Riots Edited by Marc Stein $35; New York University Press; 341 pages Out in Time By Perry N. Halkitis $34.95; Oxford University ...
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Nursing student writes the book on trans healthcare
A nursing student who graduated this year from Resurrection University wrote a manual on healthcare delivery for transgender and gender non-conforming persons during her undergraduate clinical work. Naomi Blumenthal, a Chicago native, had been involved with ...
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Author of new book on assisted reproduction hopes to empower soon-to-be LGBTQ parents
Kim Bergman has helped bring more than 1,700 babies into the world throughout her 30 years working in the assisted reproduction field. She and her wife Natalie, who celebrate their 36th anniversary this October, also have ...
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'Great Believers' out in paperback
Chicago-based author Rebecca Makkai celebrated the paperback release of her novel The Great Believers June 8 at Unabridged Books. Author Owen Keehnen moderated a discussion with Makkai about the book, which has won numerous awards and ...
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Printers Row Lit Fest on June 8-9
The 35th Annual Printers Row Lit Fest will take place June 8-9 along South Dearborn Street, from Polk Street to the newly named Ida B. Wells Drive ( Congress Parkway ). This year's fair includes more ...
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Lambda Literary Award winners honored
Lambda Literary Award winners were celebrated at a star-studded ceremony last night in New York City at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. Once again, the winners of this year's Lambda Literary Awards demonstrate ...
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Gerber/Hart exhibit to focus on LGBTQ activism
Gerber/Hart Library and Archives, 6500 N. Clark St., will run the exhibit "Out of the Closets & Into the Streets: Power, Pride & resistance in Chicago's Gay Liberation Movement" starting Saturday, June 1, and running through ...
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MOMBIAN Trans/gender-creative children star in new picture books
Three new children's books each offer different approaches as they highlight different aspects of gender identity and expression. When Aiden Became a Brother, written by Kyle Lukoff and illustrated by Kaylani Juanita ( Lee & Low ...
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MOMBIAN Princess, maiden fall in love in new children's book
A maiden falls in love with a princess at a multiracial royal court in a delightful new children's book that adds to the growing number of LGBTQ fairy tales. Maiden & Princess—by Daniel Haack and Isabel ...
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Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein graduate to a new level in Booksmart
On the eve of their high school graduation, two best friends Amy ( Kaitlyn Dever ) and Molly ( Beanie Feldstein ) party like never before in the entertaining new film Booksmart. Olivia Wilde directs the ...
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BOOK REVIEW Gender Identity: Beyond Pronouns and Bathrooms
by Maria Cook $22.95; Nomad Press; 128 pages What exactly is gender? How does one determine pronouns, for themselves and others? And why, exactly, is the bathroom debate such a big deal? Nomad Press is an ...
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Ani DiFranco talks new memoir at Women & Children First event
Women & Children First hosted a reading and conversation with singer-songwriter and social justice activist Ani DiFranco focused on her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, May 10 at Wilson Abbey. Music critic and ...
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Author documents straight women on front lines of AIDS crisis
A new book by Chicago author Victoria Noe pays tribute to dozens of unsung heroes of the AIDS/HIV crisis, chronicling myriad contributions from straight women who, since the early '80s, have intervened in numerous capacities to ...
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Printers Row Lit Fest to include "Year of Chicago Theatre" in June
CHICAGO, IL ( May 14, 2019 ) — The 35th annual Printers Row Lit Fest, presented by the Near South Planning Board, is proud to announce its participating authors and programming highlights. The much-anticipated 2019 Printers ...
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Chelsea Clinton among authors at Women & Children First Bookstore in May
Chelsea Clinton returns to Women & Children First on the evening of May 2 ( https://chelseachicago.brownpapertickets.com/ ) for a book signing, adrienne maree brown on May 3, Ani DiFranco on May 10, and Celeste Ng & ...
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Panel focuses on queer identity within the fantastical
On April 25, Chicago History Museum's OUT at CHM hosted "Out of This World"—a panel by LGBTQ speculative authors discussing how highly fictionalized worlds reflect and inform queer identity and history. With Pride Action Tank Executive ...
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The Publishing Triangle's 31st Annual Triangle Awards
April 25, 2019—The 31st annual Triangle Awards, honoring the best LGBTQ fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and trans literature published in 2018, were presented this evening at the New School's Auditorium ( 66 West 12 Street, New York ...
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BOOKS
Inclusive anthology 'Halal' launches at Poetry Foundation
The Poetry Foundation was packed the night of April 11 for the book launch of Halal If You Hear Me, a collection of poems and essays by Muslims who are women, queer, genderqueer, non-binary or trans. ...
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Sheridan discusses workplace training and new book
Vanessa Sheridan, who is Center on Halsted's director of gender equity and inclusion, frequently gives public trainings about the transgender community. Sheridan's goals, she tells her audiences, are twofold: "The first is to give the best, ...
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Monica Helms discusses trans flag creation, new book, activism
In 2005, transgender U.S. Navy veteran Monica F. Helms started writing her autobiography, but eventually she set it aside, deciding that "my life was still continuing." "Last year, something in my head told me I needed ...
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BOOKS Chris Rush looks back on 1970s adolescence in debut memoir
Chris Rush was a closeted Catholic 12-year-old when he took his first tab of LSD. "My older sister introduced me to [drugs] at a very young age," the author of The Light Years said via phone ...
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BOOKS Inclusive anthology 'Halal' launches at Poetry Foundation
The Poetry Foundation was packed the night of April 11 for the book launch of Halal If You Hear Me, a collection of poems and essays by Muslims who are women, queer, genderqueer, non-binary or trans. ...
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BOOKS Queer scholar profiles Chicago house music
When Micah E. Salkind was a teenager in Kansas, he found the music that would change his life. "I went to raves and would hear Chicago house music," said the queer scholar, whose first book Do ...
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BOOK REVIEW Dugan's Bistro and the Legend of the Bearded Lady
By Owen Keehnen $17; Out Tales Publishing; 148 pages Bob Theiss contained multitudes—most under a completely different name. Known as the Bearded Lady ( or BL ) to gay Chicagoans of the 1970s and early '80s, ...
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BOOK REVIEW She He They Me: For the Sisters, Misters and Binary Resisters
By Robyn Ryle $22.99; Source Books; 400 pages Imagine being a young, queer or curious child with a lot of questions, but not a lot of resources on gender, sexuality, and terminology that come without judgement ...
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Library foundation president named
The Chicago Public Library Foundation ( CPLF ) announced that Brenda Langstraat is its new president. Langstraat comes to the Library Foundation after seven years as CEO of Working in the Schools ( WITS ). WITS ...
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Women & Children First marks 40 years with 20 best-sellers
Turning the page, Women and Children First ( W&CF )began its 40th anniversary programming with a panel discussion on March 24. People gathered into the store to see the panel, which featured W&CF co-founders Ann Christophersen ...
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BOOKS Trans author talks 'layered identity' in new memoir
"I wanted to be two things when I grew up: a writer and a boy." Life has never been easy for Nate Cannon. Diagnosed with major depression and bipolar disorder at 12 years old, the trans ...
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BOOK REVIEW Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
By T Kira Madden $27; Bloomsbury Publishing; 304 pages Anyone who came of age in the late 1990s and early 2000s knows the name Steve Madden. Trendy and chunky, the shoes were lusted after by many ...
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BOOK REVIEW Dugan's Bistro and the Legend of the Bearded Lady
By Owen Keehnen $17; Out Tales, Publishing; 148 pages Bob Theiss contained multitudes—most under a completely different name. Known as the Bearded Lady ( or BL ) to gay Chicagoans of the 1970s and early '80s, ...
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Clarence Darrow Symposium in Chicago on March 13
CHICAGO—The annual Chicago tradition marking the anniversary of the death of famed Chicago attorney Clarence Darrow will take place Wed., March 13—and will mark the 95th anniversary of the Leopold-Loeb murder case, which raised profound and ...
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Gerber/Hart hosts Black Lesbian Archives stop
Kru Maekdo is a 26-year-old creative director, archivist, and artist. She is the owner of Maekdo Productions, a multimedia production and event programming company serving women's art's and community within the LGBTQ community. On Feb. 23, ...
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BOOKS Chicago author talks space opera, queer representation
Chicago author/Hollywood stuntwoman SL Huang ( author of the science-fiction novel Zero Sum Game ) has recently teamed with fellow authors Becky Chambers ( The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet ), Yoon-Ha Lee ( ...
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BOOKS Kimberly Dark's 'Daddies' issues
Writer and raconteur Kimberly Dark plucks the fig leaf off the patriarchy in her latest work. In The Daddies, writer and raconteur Dark excavates layers of man culture and custom that have saturated everyday life. As ...
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BOOKS Sissy Pride, Talking With Gender Activist and Author Jacob Tobia
Sissy: A Coming of Gender Storyis a smart, compelling, honest and very funny new memoir by Jacob Tobia. In the book, the activist, writer and co-producer/host of the MSNBC television series Queer 2.0 shares the personal ...
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SHOWBIZ Tyler Blackburn, Ellen Page, Isaac Mizrahi, Annie Lennox
Former Pretty Little Liars actor Tyler Blackburn recently talked with Entertainment Weekly about the same-sex relationship his character, Alex, has on the new CW show Roswell, New Mexico with extraterrestrial jaded genius Michael. In part, Blackburn ...
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Women & Children First March events include noted authors
Wednesday, March 6 at 7 p.m. Am I Man Enough? Storytelling Show & Podcast ( This is the rescheduled date due to the January weather cancellation. ) Am I Man Enough? is a storytelling show ...
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Five Worth Finding: Emotional book, Studio Three and more
—The Truth About Aaron: This book about the late football star/convicted murdered Aaron Hernandez, written by brother Jonathan, is a warts-and-all account of the sometimes brutal childhood Aaron had. Among other things, Jonathan discusses Aaron's talent, ...
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The Best Party of Our Lives: Stories of Gay Weddings
By Sarah Galvin $18.95; Sasquatch Books; 226 pages Your summer is filling up quickly. It starts with graduations and confirmations. You've already got a pile of "Save the Date" cards for a bunch of weddings, and ...
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NATIONAL Gay-club owner, HIV/AIDS news, Nashville feat, Roxane Gay
The proprietor of a gay nightclub in El Paso, Texas, is under fire for attending a rally in support of President Trump, then posting photographic evidence on his Instagram page, Yahoo! News noted. Johnny Alcantar—one of ...
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New biography details secret gay life of Eisenhower advisor
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed Executive Order 10450 in April 1953, effectively banning gay people from working in the federal government. While thousands of gay men and women lost their jobs in what's now known as ...
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Symposium to explore Clarence Darrow's Leopold and Loeb defense 95 years ago
New two-location format, Wednesday, March 13
The annual Chicago tradition marking the anniversary of the death of famed Chicago attorney Clarence Darrow will mark the 95th anniversary of the Leopold-Loeb murder case, which raised profound and disturbing questions about social class, criminal ...
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Patricia Nell Warren, author of first gay novel on NYT Best Seller List, dies
LOS ANGELES - Patricia Nell Warren, age 82, died on Saturday February 9th at the UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, California after a long battle with cancer. Warren is best known for her groundbreaking novel ...
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Library foundation president named
The Chicago Public Library Foundation ( CPLF ) announced that Brenda Langstraat is its new president. Langstraat comes to the Library Foundation after seven years as CEO of Working in the Schools ( WITS ). WITS ...
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Gerber/Hart Library History of LGBTQ Activism lecture and other dates
A four-part series of talks on the history of LGBTQ activism will be given by LGBTQ historian John D'Emilio on the four Thursdays of February, 6:30-8:00 pm at Gerber/Hart Library and Archives. The first talk, on ...
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Peter Shinkle, author of Ike's Mystery Man, Feb. 11 at Pritzker Military Library
Peter Shinkle, Ike's Mystery Man: The Secret Lives of Robert Cutler, is a view into the inner workings of the Eisenhower White House and the indispensable contributions and sacrifices made by patriotic gay Americans in the ...
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Women & Children First to host Chloe Benjamin, Anne Elizabeth Moore
Women & Children First is feeling the love this February at Women & Children First with two Valentine's Day event and a With Love from Andersonville supporting Chicago Books to Women in Prison. Feb. 14 through ...
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Northwestern authors launch new Black woman-centered titles
Just as Chicago's record-cold spell began to let up the evening of Jan. 31, community members filled Women & Children First Bookstore to standing-room-only capacity to launch books by Northwestern University scholars E. Patrick Johnson and ...
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BOOKS Chicago writer explores feminist accountability
One of the biggest struggles within activist movements is that they tend to emulate the institutions and power structures they are trying to change. For instance, within the feminist movement, organizations tend to be led by ...
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'Great Believers' author talks early AIDS crisis at Howard Brown event
AIDS affected many, including a budding young author home sick from school who was watching a Donahue episode featuring Larry Kramer. "I was 7 years old at the time the book starts," Rebecca Makkai said of ...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver dies
Poet Mary Oliver—who wrote of nature and won a Pulitzer Prize—died at her home in Hobe Sound, Florida, from lymphoma, according to Deadline.com. She was 83. Oliver authored more than 15 poetry and essay collections, focused ...
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Gerber/Hart, Howard Brown to host 'Great Believers' discussion
On Wed., Jan. 16, 6-8 p.m., Howard Brown Health Clark and Gerber/Hart Library and Archives will host a discussion on The Great Believers with author Rebecca Makkai and Howard Brown Health President/CEO David Ernesto Munar, followed ...
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BOOK REVIEW Growing Up Queer
Growing up is hard. Most sentient adults would agree, and decline a chance to 'teen again; between changing bodies, mean girls, bullies and facing adulthood, it's enough to have endured it once. But for kids who ...
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DiFranco book out May 7
On May 7, Viking will publish No Walls and the Recurring Dream, a memoir from longtime singer/songwriter/poet/activist Ani DiFranco. According to a press release, "DiFranco is one of the most prolific indie artists of the last ...
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Johnson/Nash book release party Jan. 31
A joint book release celebrating E. Patrick Johnson's Black. Queer. Southern. Women: An Oral History and Jennifer Nash's Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality will take place Thursday, Jan. 31, at Women & Children First, 5233 N. ...
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Gerber/Hart seeks board members
The Gerber/Hart Library and Archives, 6500 N. Clark St., is seeking new board members in 2019, as a number of its current members are rotating off at the end of their terms, according to a press ...
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Novelist's fascination with history comes alive on stage
Novelist Emma Donoghue has had a long and rewarding relationship with Regency historical figure Anne Lister. Lister created a series of coded diaries that documented her love affairs with women while operating as part of the ...
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The Rest of It, Hustlers, Cocaine... 1976-1988
Parts of your life are missing. Maybe you've forgotten, purposefully or by accident. You were overwhelmed and didn't look, too influenced by love, anger, or adult beverages to take full notice. Sometimes, you wonder what's missing ...
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Gay couple talk relationship, new Oak Park bookstore
When gay couple Bill Fletcher and Don Moss moved from suburban Seattle to a 100-plus-year-old house in Oak Park, Illinois, six months ago, they brought thousands of books with them. There were so many books the ...
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Women & Children First bookstore events include Shout Your Abortion
Women & Children First Loves Chicago Books to Women in Prison Donation Drive January 2 through February 14 We're kicking off the new year by partnering with one of our favorite non-profits, Chicago Books to Women ...
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Best books of 2018
Everybody, it seems, has a best of 2018 List out for the year—best vacation, best TV shows, best movies, best place to eat. So here are the Absolutely Can't Miss, Don't Pass Them By, Wipe Your ...
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Book chronicles local gay disco scene
The new book Dugan's Bistro and the Legend of the Bearded Lady, by author/activist/grassroots historian Owen Keehnen, is a folklore-bio of the local disco era—a time that was key in the evolution of Chicago's LGBT community. ...
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BOOK REVIEW Ladies Lazarus
By Piper J. Daniels $16; Tarpaulin Sky Press; 128 pages Piper J. Daniels is many things: a Columbia College Chicago graduate, a Michigan native, a queer intersectional feminist, and a professional ghostwriter. Impressive bio and city ...
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Historian Batza talks gay clinics' origins at book launch
On Jan. 4, Women & Children First welcomed a standing-room-only crowd for the launch of Before AIDS, historian Katie Batza's book about gay health clinics in the early 1970s. Singles, couples and even children hung on ...
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Gary Sinise book event Feb. 18
Steppenwolf Theatre Company has announced a special event as part of co-founder Gary Sinise's book tour promoting his new book Grateful American: A Journey from Self to Service. Sinise will reflect on his book in a ...
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They, A Biblical Tale of Secret Genders
What if you could meet a secret society of welcoming misfits—omitted from patriarchal biblical history—just because they are not in keeping with gender norms? With They: A Biblical Tale of Secret Genders, author Janet Mason posits ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Pants Project
By Cat Clarke $16.99; Sourcebooks; 272 pages Mom said you're growing like a weed. It's true: you've outgrown your favorite sweater, your best shirt, and all your summer shoes. The only thing that fits is ...
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Dugan's Bistro and the Legend of the Bearded Lady
New book chronicles Chicago's early gay disco scene
Before Studio 54… Dugan's Bistro was the hottest gay disco in Chicago. From 1973-1982 the sign above the door and on the club's matchbooks read: "Dugan's Bistro, the Home of the Bearded Lady." A Chicago nightlife ...
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A Cradle Song Part Ten
by Mark Zubro; Illustrated by W.S. Reed
A Cradle Song, written by Mark Zubro and illustrated by W.S. Reed, debuts in the Windy City Times as the new holiday classic. Filled with travail and woe, warmth and great joy, it is a story ...
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Gerber/Hart unveils AIDS-awareness stamps
On Dec. 13, Gerber/Hart Library and Archives unveiled a new exhibit among its collection of LGBTQ historical records: Red Ribbon for AIDS awareness stamps. This marked the 25th anniversary of the stamps' circulation in the United ...
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Trans author talks 'gender outlaws,'prison breaks in novel
The New York Times called Jordy Rosenberg's debut novel, Confessions of the Fox, "[a] mind-bending romp through a gender-fluid, 18th-century London … a joyous mash-up of literary genres shot through with queer theory and awash in ...
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A Cradle Song: Part Nine
by Mark Zubro; Illustrated by W.S. Reed
A Cradle Song, written by Mark Zubro and illustrated by W.S. Reed, debuts in the Windy City Times as the new holiday classic. Filled with travail and woe, warmth and great joy, it is a story ...
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BOOK REVIEW Honor Girl/Lost Soul, Be at Peace
By Maggie Thrash $14.99; Candlewick Press; 267 pages ( Honor Girl ), $18.99; Candlewick Press; 190 pages ( Lost Soul, Be at Peace ) There is no loneliness like teenage loneliness. Even those who experienced their ...
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