Back in April 4, my friend Devin read a piece at The Skewer, a monthly spoken word show thing at Logan Square's Cafe Mustache. When talking to my mom about it aftewards, I struggle to describe what it was actually about. But now that there's a video, I can just embed it ( Read more... )

In the second half of January, I wound up writing not one, but two articles about youth homelessness.

The first article was something I wanted to do for a while. Back in 2015, I wrote an article for Austin Weekly News about a Chicago non-profit's plan to build a homeless shelter in North Lawndale specifically for LGBT youth. Which was a big deal, ( Read more... )

In October 28, 2017, Illinois State Representative Jeanne Ives decided to challenge incumbent Republican governor Bruce Rauner in the March 20, 2018 Republican primary. Her issue wasn’t Rauner’s position on economic and labor issues - it was the fact that he signed House Bill 40, which undid the Illinois law that would make abortion illegal in ( Read more... )

Earlier today, at around 8:00 PM, I was walking Lakeview, through the part that, depending on who you ask, may or may not be part of Boystown [Note](it depends on whether you count Halsted Street or the entire area around the historic Chicago Pride Parade route). As I crossed Belmont and kept walking north on Broadway, past the Walgreens, I noticed a ( Read more... )

A surprising bit of news from my home town of St. Petersburg came across my Twitter feed this afternoon.

According to the Fontanka online newspaper, the Krasnogvardeyskiy neighborhood court convicted married couple Ilya Vasil'yev and Yulia Semkina of robbery. Which in on itself wouldn't be big of a deal. But these two didn't just rob anyone. They ( Read more... )

To be honest, I wasn't sure whether to write anything. I didn't think I really have that much to say that other people haven't said better. But I kept having a nagging feeling that I should write something... So here we are.

At this point, everybody at least knows the basics. If you don't, BBC has a decent summary for the English-speakers, and ( Read more... )

I didn't watch Eurovision this year. To be honest, I didn't realize Eurovision aired on May 14 until I saw mysticowl's tweets a day later. Which is kind of shame. From what I gathered, voting got pretty close at times, so there was lots of tension, and we got the kind of spectacle we've come to expect from Eurovision. Plus, I would have loved to see the ( Read more... )

I was looking at the Livejournal front page, and I saw that omonatheydidnt had not one, but two posts about social attitudes toward lesbians in South Korea.

First, nana_the_dwarf posted a KoreaTimes article about how an online drama series depicting a lesbian romance earned an ire of ROK regulators.
( The repost of the article under the cut )

This morning, I saw All About Them (À trois on y va in the original French), which was screened as part of the 51st annual Chicago International Film Festival. I wasn't originally going to write a post about it, but so long as I have a bit of time before I have to head off to an assignment, I figure I might as well jot down a few thoughts.


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This week is the Bisexual Awareness Week. Snarky tweets aside, it is, in my very unhumble opinion, a pretty important thing to have. Out of all the sexual minorities that make up the LGBTQ alphabet soup, bisexuals are most likely to fall under the radar. The issues they face don't get as much attention, and they have to deal with misconceptions and ( Read more... )