The Guy

Our friend Shawn Hazen of Roscoe’s will be hosting a special benefit for The Trevor Project, the national organization focused on crisis and suicide-prevention efforts among LGBT youth. I urge you to help out by attending Monday, Oct. 25. Your kind and generous donations will be rewarded, not only by the knowledge that you have helped in the fight, but by magnificent performances by Amy Armstrong & Freddy Allen, Frida Lay, Debbie Fox, Honey West, the girls of The Baton and so much more. Show starts at 8 p.m. See roscoes.com for more details.

Or you can donate directly by going to TheTrevorProject.com.

While were on this very vital topic, I further urge you to grab a copy of this week’s Windy City Times. We are running a very special section of essays and stories about LGBT bullying and teen suicide. I am proud to have contributed an essay to this section. Read my piece entitled “Wait ‘Til the Facts Are In” and send me an email with your feedback. LGBT kids are literally DYING to hear from us on this matter.

Ed Jones is black… oops, I meant BACK (sorry, the afro threw me off) in Hell In a Handbag’s Rip Nelson Halloween Spooktacular. Watch Rip’s star-studded attempted comeback from semi-obscurity with writing by David Cerda and direction by Cheryl Snodgrass. Playing Fridays and Saturdays through Nov. 6 at Mary’s Attic, with a special added performance benefit show on Halloween, Sun. Oct. 31.

Happy second anniversary to STARDUST at Berlin.

Also, check out Sunday brunch at Cocktail’s The Gardens. You’ll plotz.

kirk@windycitytimes.com