OWEN KEEHNEN

GUEST POST: 3 Chicks After Dark June 2014 June is Pride Month, a time originally set aside to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots in...

A Place For Us: LGBTQ Life at the Belmont Rocks By Owen Keehnen Since even before the early days of modern gay movement, the Belmont...

The Meaning of Our Bars: A Chicago Perspective Back in January I read about the closing of Irene’s Cabaret in Quincy, IL, after 36 years...

From the 2008 book Out and Proud in Chicago. Daniel Sotomayor was born in 1958 and grew up in poverty in the Humboldt Park area of...

The entryway walls are emblazoned with bold monochromatic photos from ACT UP/Chicago demonstrations. The tone is set immediately....

My heart broke a little when I read in Windy City Times that Irene's Cabaret in Quincy, Illinois, had closed late in 2016 after 36 years...