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New column, The Jaded Optimist, introduces improved MainStream grounded in thoughtfulness, expression
The Jaded Optimist is a new column about thoughts and experiences from MainStream Multimedia, an LGBTQ affirming and intersectionally aware magazine and website serving Illinois and Iowa.
Living with HIV “a blessing” for Bloomington woman now speaking out to end stigma of HIV, domestic abuse
Tonie Scott, a Bloomington, Ill., mother of four who contracted HIV seven years ago, has found empowerment by speaking out about living with HIV.
News & Features
Illinois Central College seeks auditioners for “The Cake”
Your chance to audition for “The Cake” at Illinois Central College in East Peoria happens this weekend.
Illinois woman’s killing by police inspires Sunday vigil against police brutality, for George Floyd Justice in Policing Act
Quad Cities Interfaith will hold a vigil to remember Sonya Massey, the Illinois woman killed by a sheriff’s deputy in her home July 6. The Sunday vigil will also press for passage of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
Opinion
About the missing $30,000: why I had to write it
I wrote one of the hardest stories I’ve ever had to write, earlier this week. It was a piece about $30,000 in donations to a revered LGBTQ+ Pride organization that is “unaccounted for.” I wrote it as a freelance writer for another publication, but an angry social...
Victims of private violence will suffer the most for Will Smith’s public slap of Chris Rock
Thanks to Will Smith’s super-public slap of Chris Rock, I’m willing to bet that thousands more face slaps, punches, hits and kicks are taking place in private these last few days.
