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- Arts & Culture, Ghost Light Sep 11, 2020
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The MCA and Smart Museum provide tool kits for plague times
Yanira Castro, Meshell Ndegeocello, and Irene Hsiao create performance pieces for the at-home audience; Pride comes out of the closet with a new name.
- Music, Music Feature Jun 26, 2020
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Scott Free reinvents himself as a radical queer socialist balladeer
The Homolatte founder and longtime queercore scene staple is releasing his first solo album in 12 years, The Last Revolution.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Jun 24, 2020
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COVID can't stop the Pride celebration
This year, queer performers dismantle digital boundaries while creating their own spaces.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 23, 2020
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Reunion Chicago, Slo ’Mo, and Open Television throw a three-night virtual Pride party
Plus: Brent Gutzeit of TV Pow assembles a massive compilation to benefit the fight for racial justice, and rapper Roy Kinsey teases a new single with an all-star cast of Chicago women.
- News & Politics, Comics Feature Jul 31, 2019
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What should allies do after Pride?
- Music, Music Feature Jul 25, 2019
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The most colorful parties in the city are Noire
Nick Alder and Rae Chardonnay Taylor of Party Noire get to fun by going through respect, safety, community, and empowerment.
- Reader, Reader events Jun 28, 2019
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Chicago Reader Pride Block Party 2019
- Music, Music Feature Jun 25, 2019
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Baltimore rapper TT the Artist helps femmes celebrate themselves
She brings her high-energy set to the Black queer space of Renaissance One on Thursday.
- City Life, Public Service Announcement Jun 20, 2019
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P is for Pride
Chicago organizations that offer help, advice, and solidarity
- Music, Music Feature Jun 19, 2019
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How Homocore Chicago propped open the gate for queer punks
Today’s activist bookers face dramatically different hurdles, but Joanna Brown and Mark Freitas gave them all a running start with this 1990s concert series.
- Music, The Block Beat Jun 12, 2019
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Lucy Stoole: a good look for Chicago
The city’s beloved drag mom uses a favorite vintage store to make a point about showing up for your community.
- Arts & Culture, Festival May 3, 2019
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RuPaul's Drag Race winner Raja and Tiffany Pollard will headline Chicago’s first drag fest
Chicago Is A Drag will include performers from across generations, neighborhoods, and performance styles.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 29, 2018
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Pride double standard? Bars upset after police forced some to close early after parade
"It’s anti-hospitality and counterproductive to the community and our celebration of our culture,” one bar owner said.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 15, 2018
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Photographer Pat Nabong climbed to new heights for our cover story—literally
"Climbing got me through a lot of hard times and taught me lot about life."
- Music, The Block Beat May 17, 2018
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The Vixen revisits the starting line of her personal drag race
She didn’t win over RuPaul, but she’s carrying on the fight for inclusivity that she began at the south side’s venerable Jeffery Pub.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 12, 2018
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Chicago R&B singer Ravyn Lenae brings her heavenly voice closer to earth on the new Crush EP
Ravyn Lenae reaches outside her Zero Fatigue crew to work with Odd Future-affiliated R&B guitarist and producer Steve Lacy.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 27, 2017
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Original Rap Karaoke makes a comeback at Township
Plus: Evil bands play for good causes at the Mousetrap, and Berlin hosts Big Dipper’s LaCroix Boi: The Party.
- Music, Music Feature Jul 27, 2016
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Can Vic Mensa radicalize Lollapalooza?
The Chicago rapper publicly supports Black Lives Matter and LGBT rights, among other progressive causes—which makes him an interesting fit for a festival that tries to please everyone.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 15, 2016
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After Orlando, flying the PFLAG at half-mast
Dear parents: We need you to fight with us.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 15, 2016
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Where and when to celebrate Pride in Chicago
How Chicago's LGBTQ community is stepping up to celebrate post-Orlando.
- News & Politics, What the hell is this place? May 10, 2014
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What the hell is this place? 1623 W. Estes
Rogers Park’s leopard-print house has been the talk of the neighborhood for more than a decade.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 23, 2011
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In the beginning, God created smug teenage boys
Torah reading as bragging rights
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Aug 18, 2011
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Grit & Glitter
To be young, black, gay, and glamorous in Chicago's ball scene
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 15, 2010
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Aliens in the City
"Chicago360 v.5: Aliens in the City," the final production of seven-year-old nonprofit Split Pillow, premieres tonight at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
- Arts & Culture, Calendar Jun 25, 2009
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Pride Weekend 2009
A guide to GLBTQ-pride related events this weekend
