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Arts & Culture
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Feature
Jun 27, 2019
Queer parenting
The beauty of the sometimes less-visible modern family
By Ryan Edmund
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jamila raegan
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ziwu zhou
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tyler greene
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raub welch
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nate tanner
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justin colville
Columns & Opinion
,
Savage Love
Jul 25, 2018
‘Help, my otherwise swell boyfriend wants me to kick him in the balls!'
Dan Savage answers burning questions on ball busting, pegging, bottoming, panty wearing, and more
By Dan Savage
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Blogs
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Bleader
Jul 16, 2018
Rauner showers praise on Mike Pence, leaving no doubt how he feels about gay marriage
"Mike Pence, along with President Trump, are doing it for every American right now," our governor says.
By Ben Joravsky
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Funeral Blues
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Four Weddings and a Funeral
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Goodfellas
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Barack Obama
Arts & Culture
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Theater Review
Apr 26, 2018
The plot is ripped from the headlines, but
The Cake
lets in a whiff of ambiguity
Bekah Brunstetter's play takes its characters to exquisitely complicated places.
By Justin Hayford
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Savage Love
Nov 17, 2016
Mourning in America
Sex and other consolations postelection
By Dan Savage
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Sep 1, 2016
Recommended
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For writer-director Ira Sachs, it’s all about the real estate
Little Men
is a tale of friendship and gentrification.
By J.R. Jones
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Jun 25, 2015
Taken hostage by a fiancee repulsed by sex
Advice for a student 'technically engaged.' Plus: the proper response to family who won't come to your gay wedding, how to handle a BF gone silent
By Dan Savage
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Bleader
Feb 11, 2014
The death of Ron Dorfman
Ron Dorfman, a founder of the
Chicago Journalism Review
, dies.
By Michael Miner
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Sydney Weisman
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Book Review
Dec 16, 2013
Gay marriage by the headlines
In a new book, Leigh Moscowitz looks at how gay activists harnessed the power of the press.
By Yasmin Nair
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Nov 7, 2013
Marry you must!: Gay marriage in Illinois
When it comes to things like health care and immigration, marriage creates its own incentives. But who gets left out?
By Yasmin Nair
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Sep 4, 2013
Video
Cameron Esposito is the future of late-night TV
A Chicago comic has a great moment on
The Late Late Show
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By Aimee Levitt
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Jun 26, 2013
Show some pride, Chicago: Boo Mayor Rahm in Sunday's parade
The buck stops somewhere else—Mayor Emanuel plays the blame game for the failure of the gay marriage bill and a resolution to the teacher pension issue.
By Ben Joravsky
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DePaul basketball arena
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House Speaker Michael Madigan
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Jun 5, 2013
Gay marriage breakdown: The Republican state of Chicago's Democratic politics
With gay marriage as with school closings and crony capitalism—we live in a land of Democrats who are ruled by closet Republicans.
By Ben Joravsky
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DePaul basketball arena
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McCormick Place
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Jan 9, 2013
Mayor Rahm sabotages Bill Daley's run for governor
Unable to pass gay marriage, Mayor Rahm elects to undercut Daley's run for governor instead
By Ben Joravsky
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News
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Bill Daley
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Governor Pat Quinn
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Bleader
Dec 27, 2012
Another evolution: President Obama and Mayor Rahm take a stand
President Obama slowly starts another one of his famous evolutions—on marijuana reform and gun control—just in time for the shifts in the polls
By Ben Joravsky
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Nov 14, 2012
Straight-up gratitude for gay marriage votes
Plus: sex beyond blow jobs?
By Dan Savage
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Film
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Movie Review
Aug 29, 2012
A gay dad fights to reclaim his son in Patrick Wang’s
In the Family
The heart-wrenching indie drama returns to town for a second run at Facets
By J.R. Jones
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the South
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Sebastian Banes
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Trevor St. John
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Park Overall
Arts & Culture
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Performing Arts Review
Jul 3, 2012
We're All in This Room Together, Second City
Sharing space with Second City E.T.C’s
We’re All in This Room Together
By Tony Adler
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Andel Sudik
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Aidy Bryant
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Michael Lehrer
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Artist on Artist
May 22, 2012
Artist on Artist: Posdnuos of De La Soul talks to Rhymefest
"Kids don't listen to Obama—they listen to 50 and Drake, and they'll actually listen to Obama because Drake said so"
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Bleader
May 16, 2012
Talk about strange marriages: Condoleezza Rice and Mitt Romney!
If President Obama does the right thing on gay marriage, who cares about his reason?
By Ben Joravsky
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Clout City
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Savage Love
May 15, 2012
Yes we cane
Plus:
Fifty Shades of Grey
, a legal gray area, and a shout-out to Obama
By Dan Savage
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Bleader
May 10, 2012
My theory on President Obama's evolution on gay marriage
Let's be honest—President Obama always supported gay marriage
By Ben Joravsky
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Feb 21, 2012
Birth control and birthday cake
What the hell is "artificial birth control"?
By Sam Worley
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Savage Love
Jan 19, 2012
Is using "safe word" as a safe word laughable?
Plus: what to do when your son comes out, call for monogamy testimonials
By Dan Savage
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Nov 22, 2011
Gingrich: This is what democracy smells like
Is that odor the OWS protesters, or something else?
By Steve Bogira
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