Progressive businesses across Iowa buck #COVIDKim, recommit to facial coverings
IOWA — Progressive and LGBTQ-identified establishments across Iowa are making their distaste...
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Category: LGBTQ+
Key City Pride in Dubuque moves forward with diverse tone starting Feb. 6
DUBUQUE — Key City Pride is moving forth with at least five months of events through June,...
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“Kindness Queers,” “queerantine kits” brighten LGBTQIA youths’ lives during pandemic
CHAMPAIGN, ILL. — When Anna Peters and her business partner at the Art Coop began to think...
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Fresh Feel Fade team brings family feel to contemporary style
IOWA CITY – When Johanna Lopez-Velador began receiving chemotherapy in November and needed...
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“POC and Q+T-centered:” new Methodist denomination takes intersectional to new levels
“No one is shunned,” announced Rev. Alex Da Silva Souto, a queer native Brazilian Methodist pastor...
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Three Iowa cities, Chicago show top LGBTQ ‘equality’ rankings
Three Iowa communities garnered perfect scores for their formal LGBTQ-affirming policies, laws and...
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Queer, BIPOC activists unpack white privilege, white urgency in “Dah Tea”
Burnout among Black activists and community leaders is real, and so is the role that white...
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Support for Trump increased this year among Black, Latino, LGBTQ voters
The progressive post-mortem is already in on last week’s presidential election, and it’s grim:...
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Quad Cities “Count Every Vote” ONLINE vigil leads post-election events in Iowa, Illinois
(UPDATED NOV. 6, 2020) DAVENPORT — Almost a dozen vigils, rallies or strategy events are...
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Anti-racism protest of Rittenhouse hearing Friday; Trans Summit, LGBTQ+ Community Center fundraiser coming
Friday’s counter-protest against hate and racism in Waukegan, outside of the Kyle Rittenhouse trail, is one of several racial justice events coming up in Iowa and Illinois.
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