Who Got Big Lips?
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 […]
Category: Things
The Fly Honeys Party Concert
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 […]
Party Noire : A Movement for Black Joy
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 […]
Fierceness Served
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 […]
Study Reveals High Support for LGBTQ Equality
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 […]
Safety at Pride
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
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 […]
Adventures in New America
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 […]
Chocolate Babies
“We are Black faggots with a political agenda. We are your worst nightmare.” Stephen Winter’s 1996 indie classic calls us to join a band of HIV-positive black drag queens, trans […]
The Illustrious Blacks
Two fabulous kings sing, dance, spin music, and share their views on art, activism, politics, and what it means to be queer and Black in America. The Brooklyn-based talented duo […]