OutLoud Chicago Presents Queer Comedy (Contest) at Zanies

by: OutLoud Chicago  OutLoud Chicago has been bringing queer entertainment to mainstream Chicago for almost a year now. Our goal is to show that there is no difference between quality and queer. One of our shows… Read More

It Is Now Symbolically Necessary to Relect Obama

by: Justin Huang It’s been said before, and it’s being said especially now, but no one campaigns quite like Obama. As the first sitting president to publicly support marriage equality, he has once… Read More

Working With My Bits: Finding My Sexuality Since I Was Seven

by: Timothy Lalowski  Writer’s warning: Not for all types of innocence levels. This is a looking glass into the fucked up world we call my mind. I suggest to my relatives, and any… Read More

The Diva Has Died: My Life in Donna Summer

by: Timothy Oleksiak “MacArthur Park” plays as I am sitting in my boyfriends apartment thinking two things. First, Manila is performing the shit out of this song! Second, fuck if I don’t love Donna… Read More

Hey, Mr. DJ: A Stand Against “Corrective Rape” Jokes

by: C. Kendrick  In a socio-political climate where queer-centric issues such as peer bullying, teen suicide, and marriage equality remain firmly planted in the nation’s headlines, a Cleveland-based DJ has now joined the… Read More

40 Reasons I Love Being a Chicagoan

by: Nico Lang Last year, Travel and Leisure named Chicago fourth-best in civic pride — of the country’s major cities. In “Proud of Their City,” T&L put Chicago after New Orleans, San Juan and Savannah. As they… Read More

Things You Should Know Before You Date a Writer

by: Jamie Anne Royce The whole professional writer thing is the only game I have. To an unsuspecting potential mate, I’m just like every other unremarkable femme with long dark hair and glasses… Read More

Poetry: Correspondence vol. 1

by: The Gill Brothers Note: As a form of mental calisthenics and an interesting form of keeping in touch, in their weekly correspondence  Jeff and Patrick Gill send each other lists of words they could use… Read More

Fiction: “The Affair That Never Happened”

by: Shelly Phillips   Fine.  I’m going to do absolutely fine. As Alexia Miller steadily made her way down the shaded sidewalk, book bag bouncing with every light step, it occurred to her… Read More

Remembering Maurice Sendak and the Wild Things He Brought to Life

by:  Courtney Rust Maurice Sendak, award-winning and widely beloved author and illustrator of children’s literature, passed away on Tuesday, May 8th at the age of 83 as a result of complications from a… Read More