For nine years, the Black Alphabet Film Festival has provided opportunities for Black LGBTQ+ and same-gender-loving (SGL) filmmakers to help share the experiences of their community. You can partake of this year’s event Saturday and Sunday either virtually, or in-person in Chicago.
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Before Stonewall, there was the gay purge. It happened at universities across the country, mostly...
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Viminda Shafer leads The Village Project, a chance to learn about gender, pronouns and other things LGBTQ+.
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Michelle Servadio’s cannabis policy advocacy began when she met cancer patient Benton MacKenzie of the Quad Cities.
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Levitation Jones is a bass music star hailing from the Northeast who aims to attract “anybody that feels a little more misunderstood.”
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Find ways to honor National Coming Out Day Oct. 11, and LGBTQ+ History Month all through October, at communities throughout Illinois and Iowa.
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Evanston, Berwyn, Cedar Rapids and the Iowa Green Party are among the Illinois and Iowa entities exploring ranked choice voting.
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Now that abortion is no longer a constitutional right in America, the state of Illinois and its...
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DAVENPORT — You’ll find some beloved veteran local musicians, like Jordan Danielsen...
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Read about why it’s time to rebrand monkeypox to MPX, the history of MPX, and other timely questions and answers.
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