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  • 4 days ago | windycitytimes.com | Carrie Maxwell

    The June 2 Naperville CUSD 203 board meeting's public comment section focused on trans girls' sports participation for a second month in a row. This comes after a trans girl athlete won multiple events at a recent girls track meet held at Naperville CUSD 203's Jefferson Junior High School. After that meet, some parents expressed outrage that a trans girl was allowed to participate and showed up at the packed May board meeting to speak out.

  • 6 days ago | windycitytimes.com | Carrie Maxwell

    One Roof Chicago hosted its Spring Gala May 31 at the Chatham home of the organization's executive director, Jim Harvey. This year's honorees included Chicago City Council 3rd Ward Ald. Pat Dowell; Diasporal Rhythms co-founder, professor, art curator and African Art: The Diaspora and Beyond author Daniel Texidor Parker; and surprise awardee Pride Action Tank Executive Director and AIDS Foundation Chicago Policy and Advocacy Special Projects and Innovation Vice President Kim Hunt.

  • 6 days ago | windycitytimes.com | Carrie Maxwell

    Katie Chandler's queer-women focused contemporary romance novel, Backhanded Compliments, came to fruition due to what she calls "a particular burnout with a fantasy novel I'd been trying to write for years."Chandler, who identifies as queer, had spent many nights agonizing over her writing and calmed herself by watching the 2022 Australian Open and that is when the idea for this novel was born.

  • 6 days ago | windycitytimes.com | Carrie Maxwell

    Equality Illinois held its annual Pride Kick-Off brunch June 1 at Venue West in Chicago's West Loop neighborhood, with the occasion marked by the announcement that Brave Space Alliance CEO Channyn Lynne Parker would be pulling double duty as Equality Illinois's interim CEO.

  • 1 week ago | windycitytimes.com | Carrie Maxwell

    Chicago American Veterans for Equal Rights (AVER) chapter President and Navy veteran Ben Diseroad died suddenly in his Chicago home on May 19. He was 44. Diseroad was born Sept. 3, 1980, in Beech Grove, Indiana and raised in Martinsville, Indiana. He graduated as a valedictorian from Martinsville High School in 1999 and received his BA degree in Economics summa cum laude from Northwestern University in 2003.

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