Thu. September 11, 2014
By Sukie de la Croix
Gay life in Chicago this week, back in ...
1984
The Top 5 Non-Fiction Lesbian Bestsellers at Women & Children First, 1967 N. Halsted, are: 1) "Women-Identified Women" ed. by Darty and Partee Kampmann; 2) "Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy" by Mary Daly; 3) "The Coming Out Stories" ed. Stanley and Wolfe; 4) "Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds" by Judy Grahn; and 5) "Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology" ed. by Barbara Smith.
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1998
The annual Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Lambda Ladies at the Links golf benefit takes place at the South Shore Golf course, Lake Shore Drive & 71st St. Tee times are 10-6 p.m.; a BBQ picnic is 11:30-5 p.m. on the lawns and beach. Picnic only $15, golf only $40; $50 for both. Children are welcome; under six eat free. The lucky golfer hitting a hole-in-one is the winner of a new Subaru Forester, courtesy of Evanston Subaru.
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2003
"The Partly Dave Show," a variety show hosted by Dave Awl, is at the No Exit Café, 6970 N. Glenwood, and features the theme Gathering of the Gods, with performers impersonating mythological figures. Rachel Claff as Persephone; Christopher Platt as Achilles; John Pierson as Loki; Stephanie Shaw as Skadi; Edward Thomas-Herrera as Dionysus; Diana Slickman as "Surprise Mystery Deity"; and Awl as Osiris.
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IMAGE: God Save the Queens – Nightspots January 19, 2006
Homolatte: Queer Words and Music is hosted by Scott Free and this week is a benefit for Unbound Books with Liberty Unlocked, Jennie Mutation, Selly Thiam, that Ducky Boy, and songs from Alan Conkle's Love Pollution, at the No Exit Café, 6970 N. Glenwood.
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Chi-Town Squares advanced level square dance classes begin at Ebenezer Lutheran Church, 1640 W. Foster.
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It's Bucks, 3439 N. Halsted St., Summer Carnival to benefit Direct Aid with mega-prizes.
Homework
Who remembers Medusa's?
Are Chi-Town Squares still around?
Who remembers the fire at Clarks on Clark?
Gay Chicago Photo Rewind
Dave Ouano photographs Sidetrack crowd for Chicago Free Press April 9, 2008
Gay Chicago magazine celebrates 25 years in April 15, 2001 issue
Jack Sitar's Speak Out in Gay Chicago August 13 1987. Where are these guys and gals now?
Kirk Williamson photographs these gals at Berlin for Nightspots March 6, 2003.
Thanks go to publishers Michael Bergeron for Chicago Gay Crusader, Ralph and Craig Gernhardt for Gay Chicago, Grant Ford and Chuck Renslow for Gay Life, Malone Sizelove for Babble/Gab, David Costanza and others for Chicago Free Press, Jeff McCourt for Windy City Times, Stacy Bridges and Mark Nagel for GRAB, and Tracy Baim for all the publications at the Windy City Media Group, which aided the above research. St. Sukie de la Croix is an internationally published reporter, playwright, photographer and historian. He is also the author of Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago Before Stonewall published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
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