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- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 26, 2019
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Urban Theater Company re-creates the house music scene from Back in the Day
But the dance sequences undermine the attempts to address serious issues.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 4, 2019
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After AIDS, love endures—and so does Falsettos
The glorious Broadway revival makes a quick stop in Chicago.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 2, 2018
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The Last Session's backstory makes it more than a relic of the AIDS crisis
Playwright Steve Schalchlin's survival turns the musical into something hopeful and defiant.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 4, 2018
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Gone too soon: five films by directors who died young
These final films by five directors who died too young give a taste of what was left unrealized.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Aug 16, 2018
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The inconsequential first half of Holding the Man is as hard to swallow as its devastating conclusion
Tommy Murphy's adaptation of Australian author Timothy Conigrave's coming-of-age memoir fails to question the sociopolitical forces that led to the AIDS crisis.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Aug 8, 2018
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Hurricane Damage dives into the wreck of the AIDS crisis
Even with a hunky handyman, there's no escape.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 20, 2018
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Queer filmmaker Derek Jarman gets a Pride Month retrospective at FilmStruck
FilmStruck celebrates Pride Month with a retrospective on queer British filmmaker Derek Jarman.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 20, 2018
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Pink Orchids and The Green Bay Tree look back at the bad old days of 20th-century queer life
The AIDS crisis! The evil gay villain!
- Arts & Culture, Feature Jun 14, 2018
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The 1980s AIDS epidemic in Chicago revisited in Rebecca Makkai’s new novel, The Great Believers
"I would love for people who lived through this to feel some recognition, to feel some catharsis."
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 4, 2018
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Chicago Underground Film Festival at 25: A look back
As the 25th Chicago Underground Film Festival approaches, here are ten stand-out features from festivals past.
- News & Politics, Feature May 10, 2018
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The hidden ME too: 100,000 people in Illinois could suffer from debilitating disease
Chicago researchers are searching for a cure for ME, which is more widespread and serious than previously thought.
- Columns & Opinion, Savage Love May 9, 2018
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‘Help, my penis is bent up at a 90-degree angle!’
WTF? A urologist explains. Plus: Dan counsels a lad newly diagnosed as HIV positive and a married man with an uncooperative member.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Sep 7, 2017
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A return to Chicago’s 1980s gay paradise, the Belmont Rocks
The Belmont Rocks was one of the city's most significant public LGBTQ destinations. Now author Owen Keehnen is assembling an oral history of the dearly departed lakeside cruising spot.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 24, 2017
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If Trump cuts HIV funding it could devastate public health, LGBTQ groups warn
A failure to reauthorize the Ryan White Care Act, coupled with the possible repeal of Obamacare, could be devastating for people living with AIDS.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Dec 15, 2016
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A former bank in Lincoln Park is housing an incredible exhibit about AIDS
“Art AIDS America Chicago” is a massive overview of artworks about the virus.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Sep 29, 2016
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Tseng Kwong Chi, downtown New York’s photographic ambassador
The Block Museum hosts a retrospective of one of the most overlooked artists of a vibrant era.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 26, 2016
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LGBTQ people were especially screwed by Illinois’s budget impasse
Even with the stopgap deal, government inaction was bad news for queer and trans people.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 15, 2016
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Orlando shooting renews debate on blood donations from gay and bisexual men
Men who’ve had sex with men in the past year are still prohibited from giving blood. Researchers and politicians in Illinois say that needs to change.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 1, 2014
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How a grandmother's 1950s friendship with a gay photographer wound up on a Chicago stage
Diana Fruend, grandmother of local director Jake Fruend, talks about seeing the story of her friendship with an openly gay photographer in the 1950s come to life.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 15, 2014
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The flu is worthy of our respect but not our headlines
Risk isn't necessarily newsworthy.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 20, 2013
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This week in Claire Denis: Talking with Andrea Gronvall about I Can't Sleep and Trouble Every Day
A conversation about two of the French filmmaker's most challenging and most lurid films
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 6, 2013
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But is The Normal Heart good?
TimeLine Theatre gets an important play pumping.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 21, 2013
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Is it possible to beat HIV?
A Northwestern researcher has discovered a protein that may stop production of HIV.
- Arts & Culture, Book Review Sep 30, 2013
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The End of San Francisco: Between memory and forgetting
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's masterful new memoir tracks a radical activist's education in a changing city.
- News & Politics, Feature Jul 24, 2013
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In the weeds of the state's medical marijuana law
Illinois's new cannabis program will help some ill patients, but its many rules, restrictions, and uncertainties are a real buzz kill.
