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5 days ago | 
windycitytimes.com | Carrie Maxwell
Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre (Theo) Co-Founder and Artistic Director Fred Anzevino died April 28 in his Evanston home after a brief illness. He was 67. Out gay artist Anzevino was open about his longtime HIV-positive status. He was born Sept. 3, 1957 in Providence, Rhode Island. During his youth, he displayed potential as a baseball player but instead decided to study theater at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City and Rhode Island College.
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6 days ago | 
windycitytimes.com | Carrie Maxwell
The multi-service, grassroots TaskForce Prevention and Community Services (TaskForce) held an "Empower and Engage" event May 8 at Room 1530 in the West Loop.
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2 weeks ago | 
windycitytimes.com | Carrie Maxwell
Resisting Erasure is the theme of the third annual LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project exhibition which held its opening reception April 25 at Center on Addison in Chicago's Lake View neighborhood. Founded in the Summer of 2019, the LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project is a partnership between Center on Halsted, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Chicago.
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2 weeks ago | 
windycitytimes.com | Carrie Maxwell
Author and award-winning journalist Nico Lang appeared at an April 23 DePaul University reading and conversation with E3 Radio and and Queer News podcast host Anna DeShawn to discuss Lang's new national bestseller and 2025 Stonewall Book Award Honoree book American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era.
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3 weeks ago | 
windycitytimes.com | Carrie Maxwell
Gerber/Hart Library and Archives (Gerber/Hart) hosted the Queer All Year! The Gerber/Hart Spring Soiree event April 17 at Sidetrack, 3349 N. Halsted St.The fourth annual event celebrated Sidetrack co-owners, longtime activists and married couple Arthur Johnson and José "Pepe" Peña who received the 2025 Friendship and Freedom Award (named after activist Henry Gerber's short-lived newsletter that lasted two issues) amidst many supporters.
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1 month ago | 
windycitytimes.com | Carrie Maxwell
The Lesbian Community Cancer Project (LCCP), later renamed the Lesbian Community Care Project, was honored with a tribute wall April 13 at Howard Brown Health's (Howard Brown) Halsted Clinic in Lake View. In 2007, LCCP merged with Howard Brown. The tribute wall, designed by local graphic artist Desiree Fuller, features the names of all the honorees on individual leaves of a tree with blank ones so other names can be added in the future.
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1 month ago | 
windycitytimes.com | Carrie Maxwell
AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) celebrated 40 years of service to the community at its sold-out gala April 5 at The Geraghty in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. Over 750 people attended the event. Since 1985, AFC has worked at the intersections of advocacy, prevention, treatment, housing and education to ensure its many thousands of clients receive the necessary support and services they need to survive and thrive.
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1 month ago | 
windycitytimes.com | Carrie Maxwell
Celebration of Community was the theme of this year's Center on Halsted (The Center) annual Human First Gala March 29 at The Geraghty in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. The festivities kicked off with the Center's Board Chair Victor Ravago addressing the packed house. He recognized the elected officials who were in attendance-Illinois state Sens. Sara Feigenholtz and Graciela Guzman; Illinois state Rep. Kam Buckner; Chicago Alds.
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1 month ago | 
windycitytimes.com | Carrie Maxwell
On Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) (March 31) trans leaders and various elected officials promised resilience, visibility and collective strength in the face of numerous and increasingly dangerous attacks on transgender rights at a City Hall press conference organized by trans-led organizations Brave Space Alliance, Chicago Therapy Collective, Life is Work, Speakers included Brave Space Alliance Executive Director Chanynn Lynne Parker; Chicago Therapy Collective Executive Director Iggy...
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1 month ago | 
windycitytimes.com | Carrie Maxwell
Gallimaufry Gallery co-owner and LGBTQ ally Patricia Ann Rodarte Merkle died March 14 due to complications from multiple long-term illnesses. She was 74. Rodarte Merkle was born Jan. 12, 1951 in Corpus Christi, Texas. At the age of five, her family moved to Chicago where she lived for the rest of her life. She graduated from Senn High School and took some post-high school classes. Her first full-time job was at Grant Hospital as a ward secretary on the alcoholism unit.
