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Stand up and be counted
- As the LGBTQ+ navigator of Chinese Mutual Aid Association, I want to encourage everyone, both LGBTQ+ individuals and cisgender/straight allies, to get counted in Census 2020. Many of you might wonder whether completing the Census really ...
LETTERS On justice, racism, solidarity
- Demanding justice Dear familia: In June, another transgender woman of color was murderedthis time, in our own home, in the Southwest Side of Chicago. Today, we honor Selena Reyes-Hernandez. Selena was murdered because of transphobia. This ...
LETTER Standing up against racism
- Dear community: June is Pride Month. Over 50 years ago, on June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village. It was one of a long history of raids that the queer community had been regularly ...
MOMBIAN Supporting LGBTQ families requires that Black Lives Matter
- Black lives matter. Black LGBTQ lives matter. And we will never have a just world for LGBTQ families until we have racial justice. Black same-sex couples are roughly twice as likely as white same-sex couples to ...
LETTER Say their names
- Dear community: SAY THEIR NAMES Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. Nina Pop. George Floyd. Tony McDade. Regis Korchinski-Paquet. We know you are tired. We know you are hurting and filled with anger. We are tired of adding ...
LETTER Black lives matter
- Dear community: Today and every day, Black Lives Matter. Like so many of you, I am reeling after the last week and this weekend. WE ARE NOT OK. Our country, our city and many of us are not OK. In fact, ...
Remembering a leader: Larry Kramer
- We lost a great leader this week with the death of Larry Kramer. Larry was an accomplished man and activist who earned a degree from Yale, an Academy Award nomination as a screenwriter, two Obie Awards ...
THE AMAZON TRAIL Is there a doctor...
- It's that time again. I need to find a healthcare provider. I live in a rural community where there is a large turnover of medical professionals and a constant shortage of qualified staff. The health organization ...
Planning your legacy: VA benefits for LGBTQ veterans and servicemembers
- Dear community: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) stands strong in supporting our LGBTQ servicemembers and veterans. As members of the LGBTQ community, we understand you may face many challenges. The last thing you need to ...
VIEWS LGBTQ discrimination is a disgrace
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Named plaintiff in landmark Supreme Court gay marriage case talks cases now before court
- Re the New York Times article, "Aimee Stephens, 59, Plaintiff in Transgender Rights Case" (obituary, May 14): Our world has long been gripped by questions of mortality and legacy, perhaps more than ever in recent months ...
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OP-ED: Census 2020 is complicated for LGBTQ people, but it counts
- By now, everyone should have received a mailing from the U.S. Census Bureau to get counted. I have complicated feelings about the census. While the census is critically important to ensure a fair allocation of funding ...
LETTER Handling the pandemic
- Dear community: How is our community responding to the coronavirus pandemic? The key seems to be a social-distance approach that many of our medical and political leaders are counseling. Our religious communities are putting the people ...
LETTER In praise of Pritzker
- To the Editor: Illinois physicians and hospitals commend Gov. J.B. Pritzker for his steadfast leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. Every day he faces tough choices and he is clearly making decisions with the interests of Illinoisans ...
MOMBIAN: COVID-19 pauses family-building for many LGBTQ people
- Nina Willbach and her wife, a Philadelphia couple, have been trying to get pregnant since last June via assisted insemination. In March, they were told that their most recent attempt didn't workand they couldn't try again ...
OP-ED The media needs to stop reporting about Queen Latifah's sexuality
- Does the media's cat and mouse game of chase with Queen Latifah lead many of usespecially in the LGBTQ+ communityto another "Gotcha!" moment of her coming out- that ain't!? A recent Zoom version of Red Table ...
THE AMAZON TRAIL A giant
- "We lost a giant today," tweeted California state Sen. Scott Weiner, who is chairman of the LGBTQ caucus. A giant is exactly what the ninety-five-year-old Phyllis Lyon was, along with her partner Del Martin, who died ...
OP-ED: COVID-19 LGBTQs, minorities disproportionately affected
- These are some truly historic times. And in what may come as no surprise to many, the coronavirus pandemic is adversely affecting many more people in marginalized communities, such as the LGBTQ demographic and racial minorities. ...
LETTER Administrative errors
- Dear Editor: For war against an unforeseen enemy, we need a war administration. If the framers of the Constitution had foreseen the current lack of steady and effective leadership, they surely would have included a mechanism ...
Teachers Union: South Side Black residents need ready access to services
- CHICAGO, April 6, 2020Registered nurses at Provident Hospital are holding a media availability during their shift change to describe how the closure of Provident Hospital's emergency department could impact the health and safety of the patient ...
LETTER Missing Marc
- Dear Editor: I want to add some thoughts about the contributions Marc Loveless made beyond those mentioned in his obituary in the March 18 issue of Windy City Times. Marc was involved in the Illinois Regional ...
COVID-19, closed churches and LGBTQ Catholics
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BY FRANCIS DEBERNARDO
- Is anyone anywhere around the globe thinking about anything other than COVID-19, the coronavirus that has paralyzed almost all human activity? I imagine that very few are. The cloud of the virus hangs over everything from ...
OPEN LETTER Census 2020: The LGBTQ+ community counts
- It's a new decade, and that means it's time to complete the Census. The Census is done every 10 years, and informs funding for neighborhood improvements, school districts, public health, the building of new roads and ...
Stop comparing coronavirus to early HIV/AIDS. Just stop.
- People ask me if our lives today feel like the early years of HIV/AIDS, and I want to scream. There is no comparison. Just stop. No one cared about people dying of AIDS in the early years of the pandemic. The ...
THE AMAZON TRAIL Mick's potato fertilizer
- When I asked for advice about growing potatoes, our friend Mary wrote, "Here is what Mick does: blood meal, green sand, or wood ash, bone meal, a handful of each above item for each potato you ...
Open letter about Coronavirus and the LGBTQ+ communities
- New York, NY - Over 100 national and local organizations have signed on to an open letter to health and media outlining how COVID-19 may pose an increased risk to the LGBTQ+ population and laying out ...
VIEWS In 2020, being queer could be key to a courageous career
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by Steve Yacovelli
- Remember, in The Wizard of Oz, how the Cowardly Lionwhen he got to see the wizardwas like, "What? I already had courage? WTH?" I mean, it was kinda poopy that the wizard made the poor cat ...
OPINION 'Trans-formal' education
- "The year started well, but substitute teachers were not told about Dave's name," my friend Pat told me. "My son was called a distinctly feminine name in a time and at a place where no one knew he was transgender. Without ...
VIEWS Warren's America would center our voices
- Days before I marched in my first Pride Parade in 2015, I waited anxiously for the Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court decision that guaranteed same-sex couples the right to marry. I still recall the profound image ...
LETTER Impeachment
- Dear Editor: President Donald J. Trump has been impeached. These words, for me, mean an intentional check on Trump's efforts to corrupt the 2020 election. Dec. 18 was a reckoning for my ancestors who lived on ...
THE AMAZON TRAIL The tabloid edition
- Bath Door Balks at Booting Hostage Hostage Trapped for NINETY-MINUTES Suspect Subdued with Electrical Weapon A woman in a remote town in Oregon suffered a harrowing 90 minutes before her rescue by three brave public servants. ...
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