Tag Archives: Chicago

Dance music fans poured onto social media late Monday night, hoping that reports of the death of house music legend Frankie Knuckles, 59, were an impossibly cruel April Fool’s hoax. Sadly, his passing has been confirmed by the Chicago Tribune, which thus far reports only that Knuckles “died unexpectedly at home.” Knuckles was known to all as the Godfather Of …

Lambda Legal this week debuted its first-ever mass transit campaign on Chicago’s red line. “This is a celebration campaign,” said Jim Bennett, Regional Director for the Midwest Regional Office of Lambda Legal. “We’re very happy to have our plaintiff couples as the faces of a campaign on the CTA Red line, a great place to be seen by our community. …

CBS Chicago reports that a trade newspaper for the local taxi industry is threatening to out five “closeted homosexual” Chicago city aldermen over their support for ride-sharing services like Uber. But this is probably all a prank. In an editorial in The Chicago Dispatcher, publisher George Lutfallah said the trade publication “has learned that five of the city’s 50 aldermen …

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that a court has ruled that same-sex marriages may commence immediately in Cook County. The law was due to go into effect statewide on June 1st.  UPDATE: From the ACLU of Illinois. I am so pleased to let you know that a short while ago, U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman ordered Cook County Clerk …

PREVIOUSLY ON JMG:  In September 2012, Paprocki told his diocese that if they vote for a Democrat, Satan will take their soul. In January of 2013, Paprocki testified against same-sex marriage before the Illinois legislature. Paprocki then ordered all of the priests in his parish to read an anti-gay letter to their congregations.  Also in January 2013, Paprocki defended a …

The Chicago Cubs have unveiled the team’s first mascot. Clark, a young bear wearing a Cubs jersey and backward blue baseball cap, was accompanied Monday at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center by a dozen team prospects. The mascot is named after the North Side Chicago street on which Wrigley Field is located. Team officials say they held focus groups before …

This happened in Chicago last week. A secular group set up a giant red A in Chicago’s Daley Plaza to make a statement about the separation of church and state, and a group of activists decided to retort by doing the Christian thing: placing a giant banner right in front of it. This led to quite the confrontation between the …

(Via Towleroad)

We haven’t heard much from Chicago homocon Kevin DuJan lately as he appears to have abandoned his Sarah Palin fan site. He hasn’t posted there in six months and his co-blogger Megan Fox hasn’t posted since September. (Of course, Tea Party sites such as World Net Daily continue to repeat DuJan’s infamous claim that President Obama goes to bathhouses.) The …

Via press release: A community celebration of the freedom to marry will begin tonight, Tuesday, Nov. 5 in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood. Media outlets are invited to cover festivities at Sidetrack, 3349 N. Halsted St., Chicago. The party lasts through the evening, but between 8 and 9 pm, we hope to have leading supporters of the marriage equality bill stop by …

Chicago’s Velvet Rope bar was destroyed by arson in July 2012. Anti-gay slurs were found scrawled on the walls. On Friday, the club’s owner was arrested for the crime. The former owner of an Oak Park bar and restaurant destroyed in a fire last year was arrested Friday night and charged with two counts of arson and one count of …

Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, seen above officiating at Minnesota’s first same-sex wedding, is in Chicago today to launch “Marry Me In Minneapolis,” a campaign that invites Illinoisans to visit his city for their gay marriages. Rybak’s message is that Chicagoans no longer have to make a long and expensive trip to the coasts to get married, just the six-hour drive …

Tonight the National Gay & Lesbian Sports Hall Of Fame will induct its first class of honorees in Chicago. Dave Pallone, who was part of Chicago history when he umpired the first night game at Wrigley Field, is returning to Chicago to take part in another chapter of American sports history: His inclusion in the inaugural class of what organizers …

“When you start bending over spiritually and intellectually to people who take care of you all day, you can pretend by boycotting a single city with a stand your ground law that somehow you don’t have to boycott Chicago, where 700 people are slaughtered every year because they’re not standing their ground.  They’re let out of their cages to create …

The Illinois Family Institute, an SPLC-certified hate group and the former home of Porno Pete, is calling on its followers to contact the Chicago police and demand that the above list of “public morals codes” be enforced at this weekend’s Chicago Pride events. The IFI writes: Though open containers with alcoholic beverages are illegal during the Gay Pride Parade, missing …

UPDATE: DuJan has a new fan at NOM.

Nutcase homocon blogger Kevin DuJan (above right) may be facing a lawsuit from a Chicago teacher whom DuJan claims makes racist jokes about his students during his moonlighting gig as a stand-up comedian. Kevin DuJan, the same blogger who speculated that President Barack Obama was a gay man with a cocaine habit, posted a story on his HillBuzz blog on …

The Postal Service has suspended mail service to the University of Chicago’s Phi Delta Theta fraternity after a racist and homophobic “prank” was pulled on a mailman. Postal carrier Iran Becton said about a week after Memorial Day he had an order to deliver dozens of postal supply boxes to the Phi Delta Theta fraternity at 56th Street and University …

Following shortly behind was a gay group. (Via Jeremy Hooper)

Activists will stage a marriage equality protest tonight in Chicago’s Boystown neighborhood. Via joint press release from the Gay Liberation Network and the Civil Rights Agenda: What should have been a cakewalk instead became an epic fail. Activists are denouncing what they say was a consistent failure by the bill’s sponsors to reach out to other minority communities and involve …