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Windy City Times 2023-07-05 |
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| | Baseball team cuts player who defends anti-LGBTQ+ post
Last month, the Toronto Blue Jays cut pitcher Anthony Bass after he said he didn't think an anti-LGBTQ+ social media post he shared last month was hateful, NBC News noted. The move happened hours before Bass ... | | 
| | Woman running to be first openly trans president in world's history
Tamara Adrian recently registered as a presidential candidate in the Venezuelan primary—becoming the first openly transgender person in the world to do so, The Washington Blade reported. The professor/attorney/author/LGBTQI+-rights activist—a ... | | 
| | Mayor Johnson names lesbian attorney as first assistant corporation counsel
--From a press release
CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson announced Amy Crawford will serve as first assistant to the City of Chicago's corporation counsel. Crawford will work with Acting Corporation Counsel Mary Richardson-Lowry, who was appointed in June by the ... | | 
| | VIEWPOINT U.S. higher education under siege; freedom of inquiry and speech at risk
The Covid pandemic threw a harsh spotlight on higher education in America, exposing forces eating away at the foundations of college and university learning, calling into question the traditional purposes of such education in our post-modern, ... | | 
| | Pride South Side and DuSable close out June celebrations
On July 1, DuSable Museum and Pride South Side presented Present and Beyond: The Fifth Annual Chicago Black Pride South Side Festival at 740 E. 56th Place. The event was the best-attended of the last four ... | | 
| | Gilead prevails in HIV antitrust suit brought by consumers
On June 30, pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences triumphed over consumers in a $3.6-billion class-action suit that claimed the company deliberately manipulated the market in order to profit off of its expensive HIV treatment drugs, Courthouse News ... | | 
| | Prime Minister Trudeau condemns Canadian university stabbings
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned the June 28 stabbings of a professor and two students in a gender-studies class at the University of Waterloo after police revealed the motive was hate-related, calling it "heinous violence," ... | |
| | Campus Pride: College administrations must articulate plans to combat systemic racism in admissions
--From a Campus Pride press release
CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 30, 2023 — Campus Pride decries the Supreme Court's ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, which prohibits colleges and universities from considering race as an ... | | 
| | PASSAGES Music producer, vocalist, business owner Ralph Lampkin Jr.
Music producer, vocalist and business owner Ralph Lampkin, Jr. died June 24 of a heart attack. He was 66. Lampkin was born April 29, 1957, in New York City, where he lived with his parents Ralph ... | | 
| | WORLD Australia case, Turkey march, Elton John, Mexico City, China
In Australia, the judge overseeing an inquiry examining the 30-year-old unsolved murder of former AC/DC manager Crispin Dye criticized New South Wales (NSW) Police after the revelation of explosive evidence in the case, The Advocate noted. ... | | 
| | Chasse Rehwinkel named Chicago comptroller
Mayor Brandon Johnson has named Chasse Rehwinkel comptroller for the City of Chicago. The comptroller is tasked with the collection or disbursement of city revenues and all funds required to be in the custody of the ... | | 
| | NATIONAL Title IX, anti-drag law, Sarah McBride, march, Wellness in Action
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) recognized the 51st anniversary of Title IX—the groundbreaking 1972 law passed to protect individuals from discrimination in education on the basis of their sex. In a statement, HRC President Kelley Robinson ... | | 
| | VP Kamala Harris, husband host Pride reception with GLAAD
On June 28, Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff hosted a reception in partnership with GLAAD to celebrate LGBTQ Pride Month and to urge leaders to unite in the fight for LGBTQ+ acceptance ... | | 
| | SAVOR Owners of LGBTQ+-owned Wunderkeks talk activism, company and sweets
Anyone who considers himself/herself/themself a connoisseur of sweets has probably heard of Wunderkeks, the Austin-based company that has only been in the United States for three years. However, what some may not know is that Wunderkeks ... | | 
| | Meeting House marks anniversary with drag fundraiser
Meeting House Tavern, 5025 N. Clark St., marked its fifth anniversary with Living Out Loud, an event it billed as "a fundraiser in defense of drag." Proceeds from the evening went to the ACLU's Drag Defense ... | | 
| | Illinois attorney general files brief to protect trans students' privacy
--From a press release
Chicago — Attorney General Kwame Raoul, along with 16 attorneys general, filed an amicus brief supporting schools' ability to protect the privacy of transgender students who have shared their identity with school staff. The brief is ... | | 
| | Nepal's Supreme Court orders marriage registration for same-sex couples
The Supreme Court of Nepal recently issued an interim order directing the office of the prime minister and council of ministers as well as other relevant ministries to establish a "transitional mechanism" to ensure the registration ... | | 
| | Judges block gender-affirming bans for minors in Tennessee, Kentucky
Federal judges have temporarily blocked most aspects of the Tennessee and Kentucky bans on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, according to media reports. The Tennessee injunction, issued June 28, lets the ban on gender-affirming surgeries for ... |
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| | Lesbian filmmaker raising funds for Chicago-set movie
Lesbian filmmaker Wendy Jo Carlton (who's helmed the movies Good Kisser, Easy Abby, Jamie and Jessie are Not Together and Hannah Free), has shared the Seed & Spark campaign for her next queer feature film, Lucy ... | | 
| | SHOWBIZ Rocker comes out, Billie Eilish, Luke Evans, 'Housewives,' 'Masculinity' book
Josh Kiszka, frontman for the Grammy-winning rock band Greta Van Fleet, came out as gay in an Instagram post, according to Instinct Magazine. He wrote, in part, "The greatest mortal gift of all is our capacity ... |
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| | Red Stars prevail; Fire comes up short
The Chicago Red Stars got themselves back into the win column on July 1 with a 1-0 victory over the San Diego Wave FC. Defender Tatumn Milazzo and forward Ella Stevens connected in the first half ... |
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