News & Features
Diverse entertainment at 2025 Quad Cities Pride Fest this weekend
Some bold steps in live music, and a celebration of drag artists local and nationally-known, are what you’ll find at Quad Cities Pride Fest in Rock Island, Ill. this weekend.
June 2025 edition of MainStream available now across Iowa, Illinois
The new June 2025 edition of MainStream is now available, with more pages, more copies, and more places where you can find it.
Opinion
About the missing $30,000: why I had to write it
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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...
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.
