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Gayest Halloween costumes of 2017
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Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
by Mikey Rox
- It seems like every day is a new nightmare in America, but there's no substitute for the spooks and scares of Halloween (which is really just Christmas-come-early for you queens). This year, we were blessed with ...
IN THE LIFE Erik Grazetti
- Talking with Erik Grazetti for a few minutes, one realizes that he is in his element as Loews Chicago Hotel's director of sales and marketingand that he loves it. Grazetti was in the Washington, D.C., area ...
PRO SPORTS Wrestler Anthony Bowens: Talking about sport, coming out as bi
- Earlier this year, professional wrestler Anthony Bowens made waves and amassed support when he came out as bisexual. However, he also experienced some negative feedback, including from those within the LGTQ community, who questioned the validity ...
Unity Temple open for tours
- Unity Templewhich some consider one of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest public buildingsis now open for tours. The Frank Lloyd Wright Trust provides tours year-round, Monday through Saturday, at Unity Temple, 875 Lake St., Oak Park. Wright ...
Providers discuss risk factors for LGBT suicides
- While health providers and researchers agree that LGBT individuals can be at a higher risk for attempting or completing suicide, the extent of that risk is difficult to determine. If a person completes a suicide, oftentimes ...
Center Chief Program Officer addresses LGBT suicide risks in current climate
- The United States recently recognized National Suicide Prevention Week, at which time experts noted that recent and continuing eventsincluding those both directly and indirectly affecting the LGBT communitycan be taxing ...
In the Life, Martin Whalley
- Looking at Martin Whalley's life, one of the words that certainly comes to mind is "cosmopolitan." Educated at Britain's University of Bristol (where he studied biological sciences), Whalley, a consul, has worked in London, at The ...
Bernie Brommel looks back at early years of TPAN
- As the Test Positive Aware Network prepares to celebrate its 30th anniversary as an official agency, and more than that as a group of HIV-positive people gathered for support, one of its original members, Bernie Brommel, ...
Powerhouse Church a 'safe space of worship for all people'
- Pastor Keith McQueen has found his calling: creating safe and inclusive places of worship for allincluding LGBTQs. He began fulfilling this mission about five years ago in Indianapolis, where he opened the Powerhouse Church of Indianapolis. ...
Legal specialist talks about aspects of criminal-justice system
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By Emagin Tanaschuk
- Angelica D'Souza (a Windy City Times 30 Under 30 honoree this year) is the only LGBT and hate-crime victim witness specialist at the Cook County state's attorney's office. She works with LGBT individuals as well as ...
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In the Life, Brock Mettz
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By Emagin Tanaschuk
- Brock Mettz, always knew he wanted to be an interior designer, and gets to live out his lifelong dream everyday as the owner and senior designer at Brock Mettz Design. Growing up in a family that ...
IN THE LIFE Liam Nolan
- "In 2001, I came over to America with two suitcases and $200. However, [I had something] more valuable: three degrees. So, as long as you've got that you have everything." This was senior pathologist assistant Liam ...
Queer Black-Mexican rabbi shares her unique point of view
- Ramona Hernandez-Perez is a queer, female Black-Mexican rabbi with stories to tell. Hernandez-Perez is in her 60s and is a third-generation Chicago native. She was transgender and is now female, explaining while there is nothing wrong ...
LGBT-elder advocate Terri Worman shares her story
- Terri Worman is a Jane of all trades. She's a classically trained violinist and performs in musicals, but she also can be found working diligently to ensure that LGBT elders live their best possible lives. Worman's ...
For queer couple, creating Jewish home is part of the job
- For Megan GoldMarche, creating a home alongside her wife Paige is literally part of her job. Megan has, since 2016, been rabbi at the Silverstein Base Hillel in Lincoln Park. It serves all area universities and ...
ELECTIONS 2018: GOVERNOR J.B. Pritzker talks campaign, trans cousin and state budget
- J.B. Pritzker seems to be everywhere these days. The seemingly ubiquitous commercials touting his campaign as governor might be the sign of someone who has a lot of financial firepowerbut Pritzker has also tried to convey ...
Community leader Wanda B. talks about being a stud
- For Wanda B., founder of the social club Stud 4 Life, the word "stud" stands for "Solidarity, Trustworthiness, Understanding and Dependability"and those principles extend to the service mission of her organization. Beyond Stud 4 Life's social ...
Federal Bar Assn makes history with LGBT section
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Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
- Last year, the Federal Bar Association carved its own place in LGBT history with the formation of a law section specifically for that demographic. Since then, the LGBT Law Section has held various events to increase ...
BOOKS Lillian Faderman: Trailblazer reflects on her legacy
- Lillian Faderman, a scholar of LGBTQ history best known for her work on lesbian culture, remembers what inspired her to begin writing about lesbian life through the ages. "I think I wouldn't have had the courage ...
NGLCC celebrates 15 years of backing LGBT businesses
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National advocacy reaps returns for enterprise and community
- The historically unparalleled accelerated advancement in LGBT cultural acceptance and civil equality has been successful and strengthened in large part due to the engagement of the business community. No greater ally has served as a more ...
BUSINESS Pyramid Seven's period underwear, a tale of two entrepreneurs
- Zipporah Jarmon and Michelle Janayea have stamped themselves as two young, trailblazing entrepreneurs breaking barriers in the LGBTQ+ community. Business partners Jarmon and Janayea have recently launched their underwear line ...
IN THE LIFE Alvin Uy
- Alvin Uy was the DJ for a high school dance as he was knew all the top current hits to play. Thereafter, random students would see him and simply say, "You're the DJ." And he still is. "I'd like to say ...
Psychologist talks sexual orientation, LGBQ-affirmative therapy
- Richard H. Reams, Ph.D., is a teacher, psychologist and associate director of counseling services at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, where he has worked since 1994. He specializes in sexual orientation and the development of ...
EY executive urges workplace leaders to value diversity
- Beth Brooke-Marciniak's decision to publicly come out as lesbian in 2011 made her one of the most senior out executives in the world at the time. But for Brooke-Marciniak, EY's (formerly Ernst and Young) global vice ...
The lifeblood of the Chicago House TransLife Care program
- When the Chicago House TransLife Center (TLC) opened in July 2013, it was so much more than a modest, multi-story home in the quiet North Side Chicago neighborhood of Edgewater. For the nine transgender and gender ...
In the Life: Monroe Stevens
- A photographer found his profile and asked if he'd be interested in doing some modeling; after determining it wasn't a scam, he leapt at the chance. Now, four years later, Monroe Stevens has participated in approximately ...
Sarah Buino changes the tune of therapy
- Using her head and heart, Sarah Buino, LCSW, CADC, CDWF brings her own colorful touch to the therapy field. As a child growing up in southern Ohio, Buino wanted to be a Broadway star. Singing was ...
Center on Halsted, museum host 'Boystown' event
- On May 18, the Chicago History Museum held an event at the Center on Halsted ("The Center") that both explored the development of Boystown and debated the positive and negative ramifications of the changes the neighborhood ...
Chicago Gender Society marks three decades
- The Chicago Gender Society (CGS) will celebrate 30 years of social, charitable and educational outreach Saturday, May 20, at their Glitz and Glam event at the Sheraton Suites Elk Grove. Transformations by Rori is co-hosting the ...
BOOKS Honduras and the U.S.: Distant neighbors, common struggles
- Melissa Cardoza was overwhelmed by the wide selection of products while she shopped at a supermarket in the United States. "I had no idea what to pick," said the feminist organizer, writer and poet from Honduras, ...
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