Where Love Lives
A story of dance floor culture & expression. This hour-long video will give you all the feels! Where Love Lives explores music’s enduring power to manifest diverse and inclusive community, […]
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Black AS U R
Theater and film director Micheal Rice brilliantly explores homo/transphobia within Black communities in this powerful, rich documentary.
The Book of Queer
This new five-episode series features fun reenactments about notable queer personalities and their impact on history.
Think Ink Magazine
Think Ink was a black-and-white magazine Robert Ford, Trent Adkins, and Lawrence Warren launched in 1987 with the assistance of graphic designer Simone Bouyer. “Fashioned as a black arts paper […]
How’s the Hair?
by Trent Adkins, 1988 Black is back! Not that African Americans had ever really gone anywhere. Hopefully, Black Power was, is, and always will be. But now it’s much nearer […]
Believe in Yourself
Deep House Mix by DJ Ein Sof DJ Ein Sof is a native Chicagoan who has visited and lived on 5 of the world’s 7 continents and has a rich […]
2022 LGBTQ State of the Union Address
Angelica Ross, the “Pose” and “American Horror Story” star, delivered the 2022 LGBTQ+ State of the Union address on March 1, 2022. Ross delivered an amazing speech that addressed the […]
ALL Black Lives Matter
Violence against Black trans people is often left out of the national conversation. If you’ve been supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, it’s important to include LGBTQ+ people in your […]
THING: She Knows Who She Is
Excerpts from the Chicago History Museum’s Thing magazine online exhibit at Google Arts & Culture. What is THING? Thing magazine was founded as a platform for black LGBTQ+ life. As such, […]
Thirty Years Ago, a Black Queer Zine Captured the Scene that Birthed House
by Leor Galil for the Chicago Reader, June 2021 – In February 2021, dance-music site Selector republished a list of 100 important house records taken from a 1992 issue of […]
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