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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 Lion—when he got to see the wizard—was 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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VIEWS College for LGBTQ students
- Finding yourself and becoming comfortable with your identity is something that people within the LGBTQ community struggle with every day. There is coming to terms with your sexual orientation and/or gender identity, and how you choose ...
MOMBIAN LGBTQ parenting: The year in review
- This past year saw many challenges to LGBTQ equality—but there was still some progress. Let's review the parenting-specific news of the year. Some setbacks The Trump administration's Department of Health and Human ...
THE AMAZON TRAIL All I want for the holidays is a left earbud
- Not really. My greatest wishes would be for world peace, a year of pain-free good health for all my family, friends, and neighbors, and a brand-new president and Senate majority leader. It would, however, be nice ...
LETTER GroceryLand anniversary
- Dear Editor: Twenty-five years ago, our beloved GroceryLand opened its doors and served its first participants! On Christmas Eve in 1988, a steadfast and caring crew of volunteers—led by Heartland ...
MOMBIAN Childhood stories of LGBTQ, other social justice activists
- Every social justice hero was once a child. Some became activists as children; others did so as adults because of things they experienced when they were young. A new middle-grade book from the prolific Robin Stevenson ...
LETTER Voice your choice
- Dear Editor: On Nov. 5, New York City overwhelmingly approved ranked choice voting by referendum. We should do those residents one better and enact ranked choice voting for all of Illinois. The Illinois Senate currently has ...
THE AMAZON TRAIL The Terminator
- This week I went to the movies. It's been a long time since I've said that. Do people even say "the movies" anymore? I married a movie geek. My sweetheart can tell you within a nanosecond who starred in which and ...
LETTER Response to hate
- Dear Editor: God's presence is always reflected in us. As a person of faith, I believe in Jesus Christ. No wonder this generation is starving for the community, connection and relationship when we see attacks on ...
Halloween unmasks our troubled history with race
- Halloween is one of this country's favorite yearly activities. Unfortunately, Halloween can be America's scariest, too—especially for those of us seen as costumes you wear rather than the human beings that we are. Asian Americans, Native ...
MOMBIAN LGBTQ-inclusive books, and hope, in rural schools
- LGBTQ students in rural schools are more likely to face bias and discrimination than those in urban and suburban ones, but their schools are also less likely to have LGBTQ-inclusive resources to support them. That's why ...
LETTER Attorneys needed
- Dear Editor: According to the report "The Justice Gap," low-income Americans receive no or inadequate legal help for 86 percent for their non-criminal legal problems. These individuals include senior citizens, veterans and those with disabilities. They ...
GUEST COLUMN Ignorance and shortsightedness lead us to the Supreme Court
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Jonathan Matthias Lassiter
- We will always find ourselves going back to the courts to fight for inclusion until we place the needs of the most vulnerable people first. Those in the mainstream are less inclined to protect those who ...
VIEWS Visibility isn't the goal
- In mid-July, I interviewed non-binary rapper CJ Run. In discussing the coming out of gay country rapper Lil Nas X, Run articulated something interesting regarding queer visibility. "Around the country there are a lot more queer-ish ...
Activists halt U.S. Conference on AIDS to protest CDC
- Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) surely saw it coming. Protests are part of the DNA of the United States Conference on AIDS (USCA), and conference organizers have ...
VIEWS A straight man's foray into an LGBTQ world
- My first assignment for Windy City Times looked something like this: I hopped in my car and drove from my white, middle-class, cookie-cutter suburb to a tiny theater in a part of the city I'd never ...
Stuff happens. Housing discrimination doesn't have to
- Stuff happens—sometimes really awful stuff. Most of my 20+ years of involvement in the LGBTQ community in Chicago has been good stuff. I have been fortunate enough to be a member of the board of directors ...
Remembering Michael Bauer, a call to pick up the baton
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by Coco Soodek
- Remarks as prepared for delivery at the memorial service for community leader Mike Bauer, Sept. 3, 2019. I'm here to speak for the hundreds of people for whom Mike was also a mentor, a teacher, a ...
We need to talk about the 'Pose' hospital episode right now
- The TV show Pose, on FX, is nothing less than astounding to me. So much could have gone wrong, with the era, the themes, the characters, and—the aspect of the show closest to my heart and ...
OP-ED How 'Queen Sugar' increases Black LGBTQ visibility
- In 2018, there were more LGBTQ people of color on TV than their white counterparts. OWN's Queen Sugar is part of a quiet revolution of increasing queer representation on TV. Pose is rightfully getting the Emmy-nominated ...
Volumes of racism, xenophobia on blast
- The first time I heard the racial trope "Go back to where you came from," I was getting off of a school bus in a white section of town in Brooklyn. Little did I know then I'd hear those words from ...
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