Rambunctious radicals form an activist group to confront homophobic politicians in this wild guerilla satire. A spirited collective of queer, self-described “raging, atheist, meat-eating, HIV-positive, colored terrorists” fight back against […]
Thanks to Media Burn, footage of the House of Avant-Garde’s Unity Ball (1991) and the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre Ball (1992), can now be viewed online! Commentary and footage from […]
Duro Wicks, Lori Branch, Juba Kalamka, and Ronald Clark. Hip-hop celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, and the occasion is prompting a lot of reflection on the culture’s legacy. In […]
A one-of-a-kind performance event, creating a space for all to get loud, get Fly, and get together. Born from a legendary annual event, The Fly Honey Show, founded in Chicago […]
When three of Chicago’s leading curators of culture and cool got together in spring of 2015, Party Noire originated as a simple yet profound idea to bring together black creative […]
Creating Black Queer Cultural Spaces Free Film Screening + Conversation + Party, Saturday, July 1, 2023 beginning at 7:30 p.m. Green Line Performing Arts Center, 329 W Garfield Blvd For […]
A majority (84%) of non-LGBTQ Americans support equal rights for queer people. GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, has announced the findings […]
It’s more important than ever to go to Pride this year to show that we won’t be bullied back into the closet! Christian nationalists, racists, and other reactionary forces think […]
Stephen Winter, the award-winning filmmaker, writer and artist, photographed Pam Johnson for issue number 4 of Thing back in 1991. He went on to write, produce and direct his 1996 […]
A podcast created and written by Stephen Winter and Tristan Cowen. Adventures in New America is the first sci-fi, political satire, Afrofuturistic buddy comedy, serialized for New Americans in a […]