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  7/30/22: Gay Liberation, Gay Pride screening at Doc Films

  Bill Stamets, Events, Global Village, John Reilly, LGBTQIA, Outside Agitators, Politics

  Media Burn presents: Gay Liberation, Gay PrideDoc Films at the University of ChicagoSaturday July 30 at 5pm1212 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637$7 ticket/$25 summer pass (Cash only)  Join us for a series of short videos from Media Burn Independent Video Archive offering a brief and vivid history of Gay Liberation and queer community in Chicago and elsewhere. The program includes: 1. An interview with Gay Liberation activist Jim Fouratt, taken from a 1969 compilation made by the group Global Village. It […]

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  Can LGTBQ + School = Safe?

  Beyondmedia Education, LGBTQIA

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  America’s First Drag Queen President

  1992 Election, Bill Stamets, Black, Blog, Chicago, Chicago Politics, Communities, LGBTQIA, Politics

  “A presidential campaign is like a drag show.” Joan Jett Blakk In 1992, there was another candidate against Bush, and her name? Joan Jett Blakk. For Pride month, Media Burn is highlighting and celebrating the work of queer activists of the past. Blakk was the drag persona of performer Terence Smith, who was a performer and leader of Chicago Queer Nation in the 70s. In the 1990s, Blakk campaigned for various political positions, such as mayor of Chicago, President (as […]

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  Novo Dextro: Purity & Danger

  Bill Stamets, Chicago, Communities, LGBTQIA

  Documentary by Bill Stamets about the American Nazi Party’s “anti-queer, pro-life” rally held in 1982 in Chicago’s Lincoln Park in response to the city’s annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade.

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  MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour 4/3/1987

  Communities, LGBTQIA

  This edition of the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour covers a variety of topics, including a spy affair at the Moscow embassy, an interview with Jimmy Carter about the Middle East, the case of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, a congressional special election in San Francisco, and The PTL Club televangelist scandal.

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  [Socialist-Feminist Conference: Lesbian Panel, Antioch College 1975]

  Chicago, CLIR, Communities, Kartemquin Films, LGBTQIA, Outside Agitators, Politics, Roots of Video

  The Lesbian Panel at the Socialist-Feminist Conference, July 1975 at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

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  [Joan Jett Blakk announces candidacy for president]

  Bill Stamets, Black, Chicago, Communities, LGBTQIA, Outside Agitators, Politics

  Joan Jett Blakk announces her candidacy for president at Ann Sather restaurant and the Berlin nightclub on Belmont Avenue in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood.

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  Joan Jett Blakk: Queer Nation’s Candidate for President, 1992

  Bill Stamets, Chicago, Communities, LGBTQIA, Outside Agitators, Politics

  Uncut footage of an interview with Joan Jett Blakk, Queer Nation’s candidate for president in 1992.