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Clock Inc. seeks teams, individual players for kickball tournament
ROCK ISLAND -- Clock Inc. LGBT Community Center is seeking teams to sign up for its 2nd Annual Kickball Tournament this weekend. Teams of eight or nine players can sign up, with a fee of $10 per player. Proceeds benefit Clock Inc. The tournament will take place at...

Drag N’ Paint in Peoria brings creative twist to paint party trend
Drag N ‘ Paint brings a new twist to paint parties and offers a Peoria Proud brunch edition Sunday.
News & Features

Two days of Quad Cities Pride fun start tonight, introducing a month of events
The two-day Quad Cities Pride Festival kicks off tonight, introducing a month full of Pride events for the Quad Cities region.

Siouxland Pride Alliance, SUX Pride team up for four days of Sioux City Pride
Four days of Pride in Sioux City starts Thursday with a parade and continues through Sunday with a community resource fair, drag shows, food vendors, kids’ activities, educational seminars, an interfaith service, and more.
Opinion

Share the joy of books, reading in “Off the Shelf” reviews
Welcome to our new book review feature, "Off the Shelf." Open to any book reader who wants to share your thoughts on how you're affected by what you read, Off the Shelf is also led by decades-long voracious reader and personal reading activist Cathy Chavez, who will...

A game that’s serious about LGBTQ+ community, relationships: Mass Effect
I often tell people I was born with an Atari 2600 controller in my hand. One of my earliest memories was my parents showing off the Atari at my grandparents' house to my aunts and uncles. Games of Berzerk, Missile Command, and Space Invaders lasted long into the...