News & Features
Save the Homies wants Black men to test for prostate cancer earlier
Prostate cancer and Black men: Corey Lewis, Larry Twitty and their upcoming group Save the Homies are out to get more Black men tested earlier and save lives.
Drag, sparkle and song as salve for religious trauma: Flamy Grant is coming through Iowa and Illinois
Drag folk musician Flamy Grant, who has devoted her career to helping LGBTQ+ people overcome religious trauma, has nine shows in Iowa and Illinois through May and June.
Opinion
Orville Peck helps demonstrate the future of country music is ‘gay’
Orville Peck, mask and all, brings authenticity to queer storytelling in country music.
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.
The Project Pages
Pride 5K, Party at Bass Street Landing Saturday top another 14 Quad Cities Pride events still to come
The Pride 5K, and the Pride Party at Bass Street Landing, are both happening this Saturday and among 14 Pride events still to come in the Quad Cities.
New lending library at The Project of the Quad Cities reflects LGBTQ, BIPOC and female identities
The Project of the Quad Cities is trying to help provide readings to identities who are most often the target of book bans. TPQC’s new lending library focuses on LGBTQ, BIPOC and female writings, at a time when Pen America reports explosive nationwide growth in book bans in states that include Iowa.
The Green Wave
Elias pioneered cannabis policy in Iowa before House run
Michelle Servadio’s cannabis policy advocacy began when she met cancer patient Benton MacKenzie of the Quad Cities.
The Revealing History of Cannabis
The history of cannabis involves a lot of America leading the way in marginalizing a plant now recognized to have health benefits.
