Gay life in Chicago this week, back in...

1984

On the cover of Gay Life this week: "Eyler is Out on Bail: Bail Lowered to $1,000."

"Murder suspect Larry Eyler walked out of jail on $1,000 bail on Monday."

For what happens next: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Eyler

(Image: Chicago Cabaret – Gay Chicago January 3, 1985)

Also on the cover of Gay Life: "Mayoral Liaison to Gay Community Beefed Up."

"A second mayoral staff liaison to gay and lesbian Chicagoans was designated last week during a meeting between members of the Illinois Gay and Lesbian Task Force and mayoral representatives.

"Kit Duffy, already serving as Mayor Harold Washington's freedom-of-information officer, attended the Feb. 2 meeting accompanied by Kenneth Glover, a mayoral aide who had previously been publicized as Washington's liaison to the gay community."

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(Image: C.H.A.P.S. – Gay Chicago January 31, 1985)

Gay bestsellers from Unabridged Bookstore, 3251 N. Broadway:

Softcover:

1) "Cum" – Boyd McDonald (Gay Sunshine $12); 2) "The Alexandros Expedition" – Patricia Sitkin (Alyson $5.95); 3) "Sex Behind Bars" – Robert N. Boyd (Gay Sunshine $10); 4) "The Boy Harlequin" – Girard Kent (Gay Sunshine $7.95); 5) "The Movie Lover" – Richard Friedel (Alyson $6.95)

Hardcover:

1) "Male Couples: How Relationships Develop" – David McWhirter and Andrew Mattison (Prentice-Hall $16.95); 2) "As If After Sex" – Joseph Torchia (Holt, Rinehart & Winston $13.95); 3) "Nights in Aruba" – Andrew Holleran (William Morrow $12.95); 4) "Family of Max Desir" – Robert Ferro (E.P. Dutton $13.95); 5) "Embracing the Exile: Healing the Journeys of Gay Christians" – John E. Fortunato (Seabury $11.95)

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In Gay Life's column Street Talk: "The men who bring you Dungeon-Master, the gay male S&M magazine, are conducting a series of lecture-demonstrations in ‘safe and sane S&M' through their "Sandmutopia University School of Continuing Education." Classes are held alternate Tuesdays upstairs at Touché."

1992

(Image: Cheap Ass – Nightspots January 10, 2007)

In the bars and clubs this week Cum–Get Raw every Monday with the Christopher Tracy Male Dance Revue at Temptations, 10235 Grand Ave., Franklin Park; "Step By Step: Two Steppin' Lessons" every Sunday at Berlin, 954 W. Belmont; Join Kenned & Carl for an evening of live music at North End, 3733 N. Halsted; "Harness Race" comes to Chicago. "We are searching for the hottest man in a Harness and you don't have to be hung like a horse," at Deeks, 3401 N. Sheffield; there's a Wet Jockey Shorts Contest at L.A. Connection, 3700 N. Halsted; it's DJ Jeff Berry's Farewell Party at Bistro Too, 5015 N. Clark St; Chicago's Original Country Dance hosted by David Boyer with Ron Goodman, DJ, is at Puszh Studios N. Broadway; "Lingerie Obsession," both male and female modeling of romantic wear from The Pampering Touch at Le Market, is at Berlin, 954 W. Belmont.

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In this week's Gay Chicago: "The Goodman Theatre presents Andrea Marcovicci in a concert to benefit AIDS Legal Council of Chicago. Marcovicci, hailed as ‘the most Sinatra-like' of the new generation of cabaret performers will perform ‘December Songs,' a commissioned cycle of cabaret songs written exclusively for her by Maury Yeston, the composer of Broadway hits ‘Nine' and ‘Grand Hotel.'"

1996

Bailiwick Theatre, 1229 W. Belmont, and the Chicago Chapter of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation present a preview of a new Bailiwick play, "Hello Again" on Friday 9, 1996 as a benefit for GLAAD/Chicago. Tickets for the reception and play are $35.

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Bringing Our Hearts Together Presents the 1996 Hearts Party Dance, a benefit for Test Positive Aware Network takes place on Saturday February 10, 1996 at the Morgan Street Warehouse, 375 N. Morgan St. Music by renowned L.A. DJ Mike Duretto. Lighting design and special effects by Montreal's Denis Brossard, Tickets $45 in advance and $55 at door.

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Quotes in Quotelines of the February 1996 Outlines include:

"I DON'T MIND STRAIGHT PEOPLE AS LONG AS THEY ACT GAY IN PUBLIC." – a t-shirt worn by Chicago Bulls basketball star Dennis Rodman during a press conference after a Jan. 23 game in New York.

"Colin Powell could have a part in my gay sitcom if Don Rickles or Pat Robertson aren't available to play the drag queen." – Roseanne, casting a proposed spinoff featuring a gay couple, Leon and Fred, who wed on her show in December.

"All my life I wanted to look like Elizabeth Taylor. Now I find Liz Taylor is beginning to look like me." – the late Divine, quoted in the Chicago Tribune.

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k.d. lang is at the New Rosemont.

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The Howard Brown Health Center hosts a "Contemplating Parenthood" workshop at 945 W. George St.

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A Food and Wine Festival with local chefs, live music, and dancing is held at Whole Foods Market, 3300 N. Ashland, to benefit Open Hand.

Gay Chicago Photo Rewind

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