Tag Archives: Chicago

CHICAGO: Pro Sports Heroes Cheered At Gay Pride Parade

A massive crowd cheered the first-time appearances of major league sports teams in yesterday’s gay pride parade in Chicago. An eclectic mix of stars — the Stanley Cup with former Blackhawk Brent Sopel, the Cubs’ Ernie Banks and country singer Chely Wright — basked in the celebration of an estimated 450,000 who attended the 41st annual Pride Parade in the …

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CHICAGO: Hockey’s Stanley Cup Trophy To Be Hoisted At Gay Pride Parade

Representatives of the Chicago Blackhawks will bring their just-won Stanley Cup trophy to this year’s pride parade. Blackhawk defenseman Brent Sopel has volunteered to represent the team. “I am honored to do it,” said Sopel, who will be accompanied by wife, Kelly, and his four kids, Jacob, 12, Lyla, 8, Jayla, 6, and Paul, 20, whom they adopted three years …

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Disabled Trans Man Wins IML 2010

Tyler McCormick, a disabled trans man from New Mexico, has won the 32nd Annual International Mr. Leather. In the short clip below, the top three winners are announced.

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No Bareback Porn On Sale At IML

The International Mr. Leather convention has followed through on their vow to ban the selling of barebacking porn at their vendor mart. Via Chicagoist: “For many years, our organization has always preached the importance of safe- sex,” explains [IML coordinator RJ] Chaffin. “It has been on the lips of many people, [the fact that] we speak out on safe-sex, but …

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Gay PUMA Site Claims Obama And Rahm Emanuel Visited Chicago Bathhouse

HillBuzz, the Hillary Clinton PUMA site founded by gay political gadfly Kevin DuJan, has got the wingnut blogosphere all aquiver over a claim that some mysterious MSM journalist is at last investigating their ridiculous claim that the president and Rahm Emanuel were once regular patrons of the Chicago-area bathhouse, Man’s Country. This has to be cloak-and-dagger for the time being, …

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CHICAGO: Thirteen Arrested At ENDA Sit-In At Office Of Sen. Richard Durbin

This just in via press release: As part of a broad strategy to gain a vote on ENDA this year, a group of thirteen Chicago activists have been arrested after a sit-in in Senator Richard J. Durbin’s office. The sit-in was initiated due to the Senator’s lack of response regarding a pledge (seen here) that a coalition of activist groups …

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Chicago Free Press Folds

Yet another LGBT print publication has bitten the dust. The Chicago Free Press, once one of the largest GLBT newspapers in the U.S. has gone under. The paper had been on the “death watch” list since the editor in chief, art director, graphic designer, senior writer and most of the writers walked out in late December because the company had …

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Midweek Mix – DJ Ted Eiel

Shake off your hump day doldrums with this banging “chunkhouse” mix from Chicago’s DJ Ted Eiel. Setlist. Website. Podcasts. Upcoming gigs: Hydrate @ IML Chicago, Meat Rack @ Eagle Los Angeles, Bearracuda @ San Francisco Pride. PREVIOUSLY ON JMG: DJ Herbie James. DJ David Knapp. DJ Dave Huge. DJ Corey Craig.

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Three Chicago-Area Men Charged With Hate Crimes For Train Attack

In January I told you about Daniel Hauff, the Chicago gay man who fended off three homophobic attackers on Chicago’s public transit by falsely telling them he was HIV-positive. Hauff had come to the defense of a gay kid whom the men had been harassing and was beaten and called a “faggot” for intervening. Yesterday all three men were indicted …

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Lesbian Becomes First Openly Gay Co-Owner Of Major League Sports Team

The Windy City Times reports that 42 year-old Laura Ricketts has become the first openly gay co-owner of an American major league sports franchise. When Laura Ricketts and the rest of her family closed on the deal to purchase the Chicago Cubs baseball franchise last fall, the furthest thing from her mind was the impact this would have on the …

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Gay Seniors Program Gets Federal Grant

The Chicago chapter of SAGE has been awarded $475K for program services by the federal government. The program, Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders, or SAGE, is part of the Center on Halsted, a gay and lesbian community center in Lakeview, and was profiled by the Tribune last June. Its director, Serena Worthington, said the $475,000 grant from the U.S. …

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Gay Good Samaritan Beaten On Chicago Subway, Pretends To Be Poz To Escape

When a gay man got attacked by three thugs yelling anti-gay slurs on the Chicago subway yesterday, he pretended to be HIV-positive to escape. Daniel Hauff, 33, said he tried to quell a dispute between two men on the train when one of them, joined by two other riders, began yelling gay slurs and other taunts at him. Hauff said …

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Staff Of Chicago’s Gay Paper Quit

The woes of queer print media appear unending. Staffers of the long-running LGBT paper Chicago Free Press have quit because their salaries weren’t being paid. The art director, graphic designer and most of the writers at the Chicago Free Press left the gay publication Monday after the company stopped paying its employees, according to Matt Simonette, who also left his …

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Oprah To Announce End Of Her Show

Today Oprah Winfrey will tell her audience that she’s calling it quits. Sounds like major news, but in fact her contract with ABC runs for two more years and after that she will launch the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) in a deal with the Discovery Channel. The last episode of Oprah is scheduled for September 9th, 2011. ZOMG! Only 500 …

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910-308-7619

It’s not too late to call Donna Miller (910-308-7619) at the Concerned Women for America and book your seat at Saturday’s annual dinner for Peter LaBarbera’s Americans For Truth About Homosexuality. None other than Matt Barber will be on hand to promote his new memoir, The Right Hook: From The Ring To The Culture War. (Sadly, there are no reviews …

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Gay Liberation Network To Protest Porno Peter LaBarbera’s Annual Hate Buffet

Peter LaBarbera’s Americans For Truth About Homosexuality will hold their annual orgy of hate in suburban Chicago this Saturday. And the Gay Liberation Network will be there. Chicagoans, please consider lending your support! The Facebook event page is here.

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Slap On Wrist For Chicago-Area Teacher Who Railed About “Black Fags”

Last night the Geneva School Board in suburban Chicago voted to only give high school teacher Dave Burk a warning for telling several classes, “How do you feel about your tax dollars being spent to fund black fags taking pictures of other black fags in New York?” The notice against teacher David Burk states that any further improprieties could result …

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Chicago Teacher Tells Students: Taxes Shouldn’t Be Spent On Black Fags

During a rant about tax funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, Chicago-area high school teacher Dave Burk allegedly told students, “How would you feel about your tax dollars going to pay some black fag in New York to take pictures of other black fags?” Openly gay Geneva High School student Jordan Hunter is now spearheading a call for …

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Limbaugh: Obama Should Have Lobbied For Kenya To Get 2016 Olympics

Continuing the right-wing’s exultations over Chicago losing its bid for the 2016 Olympics, Rush Limbaugh says that President Obama should have lobbied for Kenya to win, if he were to be “true to form.” Like the rest, Limbaugh overlooks the fact that Chicago’s Olympic bid began years before Obama took office.

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Chicago’s Cabbies Want Hurling Fee

If you hurl, blow chunks, and/or spew in a Chicago taxi, the city’s drivers union wants to you have to pay them $50. “If somebody throws up in the back of a cab, it’s no laughing matter to that cabdriver, who now has to take a couple of hours to detail the cab. It’s hard to get that smell out …

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