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She has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Professional Journalists-Chicago. Baim has been inducted into the National LGBT Journalists Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Women Journalists-Chicago Hall of Fame, and the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame. A working journalist since 1984, she is also the author or co-author of 12 books on LGBTQ history (including Out and Proud in Chicago, Obama and the Gays, Gay Press, Gay Power, and biographies of Barbara Gittings, Vernita Gray, Chuck Renslow, and Jim Flint), as well as the producer of four films and the creator of the That’s So Gay! LGBTQ trivia game. Tracy Baim is co-publisher of the Chicago Reader and owner and co-founder of Windy City Times, a 36-year-old LGBTQ newspaper. In this hour-long virtual program, activist Gary Chichester, journalist Tracy Baim, and scholar Timothy Stewart-Winter will discuss queer culture in 1970s Chicago and the importance of Bughouse Square in the emergence of LGBTQ+ activism in the city, as it progressed toward today’s more inclusive, intersectional movement. It was a space they wished to demarcate their rejection of, and to symbolically walk away from, as they began Chicago’s first Pride Parade. The park-known colloquially as “Bughouse Square”-symbolized “the closet” to Chicago’s burgeoning and newly energized gay activists. In Chicago, the march took place on June 27, 1970, commencing in Washington Park. Over the course of the next year, gay and lesbian activists in large cities across the country planned marches to coincide with the Stonewall riots, scheduling them for the end of June. June 1970 was a turning point for the LGBTQ+ community in the US.Ī year before, New York City police had stormed the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village, inciting a series of protests by the city’s gay community. Join us for a virtual discussion about the origins of Chicago’s Pride Parade, its connection to Bughouse Square-right across from the Newberry-and the history of LGBTQ+ culture in Chicago during the 1970s. NOTE: You can also watch a live stream of the program on the Newberry Facebook page or YouTube channel.
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Please register for free in advance here. This program will be held virtually on Zoom.