Think Pink Radio

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Finn and Charlie Are Hitched, By Tony Breed

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*Flyer For July’s FKA, Chicago’s Best Queer Dance Party
John D’Emilio’s article in this week’s Windy City Times is a reaffirmation of my belief in the power of a queer dance party. He gives a brief history of the role that dancing and organized dances have played in the gay liberation movement:
“In discos, at women’s music [...]

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All the rampant nipple sweat in Pride weekend makes you think, “what about the kids?” Where can they go and just be themselves with other like minded queer youth? The Broadway Youth Center has put together a schedule for the pocket queers and it makes me wish I had known about their shizz when I [...]

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Can Europe just stop already? They have all the coolest bands, blogs, politics, and now they have to take Chicago’s beloved Frankie Knuckles? I can’t read Italian, but it looks like Pig Mag/Pig Radio is not gay. Just sayin’. The pioneer of house music put together a mix for the mag and it is free and [...]

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“Boy George will help celebrate New York City’s Department of Sanitation Family Day this summer! George will be playing a free concert as a big thank you for the kindness shown to him by the DSNY. On August 17th he will play all his [...]

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“Really Queer Dance with Harps and Quartet with Three Gay Men” is the title of a new dance piece by Neil Greenburg, a New York Based choreographer. This project has been getting good reviews and is set to a musical score that includes live accompaniment by harpist Zeena Parkins. The show runs through June 21st [...]

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Years ago, when BUTT magazine first came out, there was supposed to be a lesbian equivalent called KUTT, but I never saw one and it might have just turned out be a rumor. However, the audience is there for a smart, real, alternative magazine by and about queer female artists. Enter Girls Like Us, a [...]

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*Plaintiff Michael Carmichael gives the judges his whole life story, for crying out loud.
Controversial Court Ruling Upholds Homosexual’s Right To Prance Around Demanding Attention And Being A Drama Queen
Flanked by his lawyers, Carmichael thanked his mother, quoted from Gloria Gaynor’s anthem “I Will Survive,” insulted several reporters’ shoes, and called the members of the Connecticut [...]

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Who doesn’t love a gay parade? I can get drunk with my friends and laugh at the ridiculous commercialization and empty political gestures as much as anyone, but after a while my inner activist wants to get real. That’s where the Dyke March comes in, Chicago’s only true organized, annual protest that embodies the current [...]

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