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- News & Politics, News Nov 25, 2020
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‘We're not asking for any more than what we are already deserved’
Boystown, the enclave billed as a place where LGBTQ+ people of all stripes are safe to be themselves, faces a racial reckoning decades in the making.
- City Life, Public Service Announcement Nov 20, 2020
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Transgender Day of Remembrance ensures we don't forget
Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
- Music, Music Review Jul 22, 2020
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Vile Creature embrace resistance and power amid despair on Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!
- Music, Music Review May 29, 2020
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Indigo Girls see the past clearly on Look Long
- City Life, Stay at Home May 2, 2020
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The Reader's stay-at-home chronicles: days 43 and 44
What we're reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
- Music, Music Review Apr 10, 2020
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Legendary Chicago experimentalists Ono confront centuries of race-based violence on the transformative Red Summer
- News & Politics, News Jan 17, 2019
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LGBTQ community needs assessment survey closes January 31
Results will be used to inform grant-making decisions this spring; members of underrepresented groups are encouraged to participate.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 13, 2018
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The Chilean drama A Fantastic Woman is a person-first success
The latest feature by Sebastián Lelio shows a character battling transphobic prejudice.
- 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 Aug 2, 2017
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In their words: How the folks at Fed Up Fest help keep queer punk a ‘community of care’
Everything about this year's Fed Up Fest—the bystander intervention training, the panel discussions on aging in punk, the frenzied yet thoughtful music—manifested the spirit of resistance, hope, and direct action.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Feb 1, 2017
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The Trump resistance is building solidarity across movements
Groups are collaborating across race and color lines to oppose the president’s executive orders.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Jan 25, 2017
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Can Chicago forgive Rahm Emanuel?
He’s starting with the “man in the mirror,” but will the DOJ report help him change his ways?
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 11, 2017
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A farewell to Obama—our country’s most inclusive president
The audacious vision of a Chicago president changed politics as we knew it.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Dec 21, 2016
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Don’t blame ‘identity politics’ for what went wrong in 2016
We marginalized folks didn't start this garbage fire.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Dec 13, 2016
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Moonlight urges the need for deep self-reflection
The Golden Globe-nominated film poses a simple but profound question.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Dec 5, 2016
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How Chicago activists sought to ‘decolonize’ Thanksgiving at Standing Rock
About a dozen or so people traveled to the still-contested Dakota Access Pipeline to show their solidarity with Native American protesters.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Nov 16, 2016
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We don't need ‘unity’ after Trump's election. We need resistance.
He's #NotMyPresident.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Oct 10, 2016
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Activists won’t let Chicago forget that black trans lives matter
A community in pain rallies for TT Saffore, a black trans woman killed in Chicago last month.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Sep 21, 2016
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Performance artist to Chicago: Get off our areolas
Bea Cordelia thinks the city’s liquor-license law has a gender-bias problem.
- 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.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Aug 16, 2016
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Illinois pastors don’t deserve exemption from conversion therapy ban
Conversion therapy aimed at “curing” queer kids is harmful, fraudulent, and discredited, no matter who’s practicing it.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 2, 2016
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Talking to fans and bands at the pro-queer, anticapitalist Fed Up Fest
This weekend's Fed Up Fest brought together radical queer communities from all over the midwest.
- Best of Chicago, Reasons to love Chicago Jun 23, 2016
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The Lucky Horseshoe is Chicago’s most distinctive gay nightlife spot
The male strip club in Boystown is an acquired taste—but there’s no reason to feel ashamed about it.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 14, 2016
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Whether it’s in Orlando or Chicago, queer and trans people of color are more likely to face violence
We can’t ignore the disproportionate impact of violence on black and Latinx LGBTQ people.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 29, 2015
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Remembering God Is My Co-Pilot: 'We're here / We're queer / We're gonna fuck your children!'
Given all the 90s nostalgia going around, playfully avant-garde NYC queercore band God Is My Co-Pilot definitely deserve their share.