Iowa City, New York join list of Pride cancellations

Apr 20, 2020 | LGBTQ+, 2020, Eastern Iowa, News and Features

Iowa City Pride has made the painful decision to cancel its 50th anniversary Pride celebration,...

Six more LGBTQ Pride celebrations cancel 2020 events

Apr 20, 2020 | Northern Illinois and Chicagoland, 2020, Eastern Iowa, LGBTQ+, News and Features, Northwest Illinois

Six more Pride celebrations throughout Illinois and Iowa have cancelled this year’s events...

Waldo’s Forever Fest, Pride events among the Illinois and Iowa events adjusting to coronavirus crisis

Apr 16, 2020 | 2020, News and Features

Saturday’s Waldo’s Forever Fest in Chicago is one of the biggest events to adjust this month...

U of Iowa’s Jenni Fitzgerald is ‘selfless’ teamwork embodied

Mar 21, 2020 | 2020, Central Iowa, Eastern Iowa, News and Features, People Profiles, Women

Jenni Fitzgerald excelled at not only basketball, but also volleyball and softball while attending North Scott High School in Eldridge, near the Quad Cities, from 1982 to 1986. She helped lead the girls’ volleyball team to a state championship her senior year, guided the girls’ basketball team to an undefeated, top-ranked season in 1985-86, and helped the girls’ softball team to a top ranking, too.

A look at two of Iowa’s health care heroes

Mar 12, 2020 | Health, 2020, Eastern Iowa, News and Features, People Profiles, Politics and Voting, Western Iowa

Learn about Glenn Hurst, M.D., a rural doctor based in Minden, Ia., and the Free Medical and Dental Clinic in Iowa City.

Why newspapers matter

Mar 8, 2020 | 2020, LGBTQ+

The suspicion of media among LGBTQ people and people of color runs deep. So deep, that even a...

E-stim adds new charge to intimacy

Mar 5, 2020 | Fetishes and Kinks, 2020, Eastern Iowa, LGBTQ+, Mature Content, News and Features

Erotic stimulation through electricity sounds a little “scary” at first, says Bill Dudley, an experienced practitioner who presents workshops regularly.. “Any time you mention electricity, people get a little bit nervous and rightfully so.”