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•	Big Cities Health Coalition holds monkeypox virus briefing

•	CDPH, community partners provide monkeypox update as Market Days nears

•	Brittney Griner found guilty, sentenced to nine years

•	Voters preserve abortion rights in red state Kansas

•	Pritzker issues monkeypox public-health emergency declaration

•	Michigan court: State law protects LGBTQ+ people

•	New York, San Francisco issue monkeypox declarations

•	Chicago monkeypox count exceeds 300

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Journalist Chuck Colbert passes away at 67
Journalist Charles "Chuck" R. Colbert—who had written for several LGBTQ+ publications, including Windy City Times—passed away June 30. He was 67. He was a freelance journalist based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, according to his biography on ... more

•	PASSAGES Janan Lindley, wife of longtime activist/former bar owner Marge Summit
•	TELEVISION Darwin Del Fabro ('They/Them') talks horror, love scenes and inner strength
•	Staffers, older LGBTQ+ residents establish ties at The Admiral at The Lake
•	Vallas speaks at event of group known for anti-LGBTQ+ views [UPDATE]
•	SHOWBIZ Comic Con, WNBA player, Timothee Chalamet, Kate McKinnon

Local

Cook County officials discuss MPV timelines
Members of the Cook County Health and Hospitals Committee gathered Aug. 8 to hear details from local health officials on the monkeypox virus' (MPV's) impact on both suburban Cook County and Chicago, and their planned responses. ... more

•	Monkeypox vaccine events being held Aug. 13-14
•	Howard Brown Health employees win union election
•	StoryStudio Chicago's LGBTQ+ nonfiction writing class starting Aug. 17
•	Big Cities Health Coalition holds monkeypox virus briefing
•	Center on Halsted hosting monkeypox vaccine clinics

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Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom names first queer woman to state supreme
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced his intention to appoint Alameda County Superior Court Judge Kelli Evans to serve as an associate justice of the California Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by Justice Guerrero's elevation ... more

•	Young LGBQ adults experience more psychological distress than older LGBQ people
•	NYC Black Pride to mark 25th anniversary with events
•	PASSAGES Trailblazing lesbian activist Pat Norman dies

Film / TV / Gossip

Chicago filmmaker releases documentary about activist, writer Joseph Beam
A Chicago filmmaker's desire to learn more about the quote "Black men loving Black men is a revolutionary act" led him to a community of writers and activists who helped tell the story of the man ... more

•	Haven Chicago presenting first-ever Festival Au Cinema on Aug. 26-28
•	Billy Masters
•	SHOWBIZ Jane Lynch, Dwayne Johnson, 'Star Trek,' Beyonce, Shea Coulee

Theater / Dance

THEATER Kokandy's 'Sweeney Todd' running Sept. 8-Nov. 6
Kokandy Productions will continue its 10th-anniversary season with a revival of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street that will run Sept. 8-Nov. 6. The production will feature music and lyrics by Sondheim, ... more

•	COMEDY Talking with 'World' traveler Annick Adelle
•	Congo Square Theatre's 'What to Send Up When It Goes Down' at Lookingglass on Sept. 24-Oct. 16
•	Dance for Life 2022 taking place Aug. 13 at the Auditorium Theatre

Music

•	Market Days marks 40 years
•	PASSAGES Singer/actress Olivia Newton-John dead at 73
•	SHOWBIZ Jane Lynch, Dwayne Johnson, 'Star Trek,' Beyonce, Shea Coulee

Books / Art

StoryStudio Chicago's LGBTQ+ nonfiction writing class starting Aug. 17
StoryStudio Chicago is offering a unique writing class titled "June Is Not Enough: An LGBTQ+ Nonfiction Writing Class." The idea behind the class is to promote and foster the work of LGBTQ+ people. Writers who register ... more

•	Haven Chicago presenting first-ever Festival Au Cinema on Aug. 26-28
•	Journalist Chuck Colbert passes away at 67
•	BOOKS Inside Sinkhole, a darkly comic coming-of-age fiction

Trans

NATIONAL Okla. schools, Tenn. lawsuit, political items, Mich. library
Oklahoma public schools have started requiring students from kindergarten to college to complete "biological sex affidavits" if they want to compete in school sports, in accordance with a state law that took effect earlier this year, ... more

•	Attorneys general file brief in Indiana trans case
•	Judge: W. Va.'s Medicaid program must cover transgender care
•	Angelica Ross to be first trans lead in Broadway's 'Chicago'

AIDS & Health

Monkeypox vaccine events being held Aug. 13-14
The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH), along with City Colleges, will be holding monkeypox (MPV) vaccination events. The two events will be held at Malcolm X College on the West Side and Kennedy-King College on ... more

•	Cook County officials discuss MPV timelines
•	Big Cities Health Coalition holds monkeypox virus briefing
•	Howard Brown Health employees win union election

Lesbian

WCT co-founder Tracy Baim stepping down from The Chicago Reader
The board of directors of the Reader Institute for Community Journalism (RICJ), publishers of the Chicago Reader, announced that Tracy Baim (who co-founded Windy City Times in 1985) is stepping down as president and publisher at ... more

•	PASSAGES Trailblazing lesbian activist Pat Norman dies
•	PASSAGES Lesbian writer/activist Elana Dykewomon dies at 72
•	Brittney Griner found guilty, sentenced to nine years

Sports

Cubs win 'Field of Dreams' game; White Sox, Sky lose
In the "Field of Dreams" game on Aug. 11, the Chicago Cubs (46-65) defeated the Cincinnati Reds (44-67) 4-2 in Dyersville, Iowa. True to the nature of the classic 1989 movie, the game was played by ... more

•	Sky lose historic game; Cubs fall; White Sox split
•	Sky, Red Stars, Fire and White Sox all win; Cubs do not
•	WORLD Zelensky, French position, UK drag-queen shows, triathlons

Youth

Sexual-misconduct report findings force Chicago charter-school leader to leave
A Chicago Public Schools inspector general's report substantiating allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct with a student forced Tim King, the head of a prominent charter school network, to resign recently, WBEZ reported. King, who founded Urban ... more

•	Utah school district removes LGBTQ+ books from libraries
•	NATIONAL Lesbian activist dies, school report, Robin Roberts, Joe Rogan
•	Florida school districts sued over 'Don't Say Gay' law

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