Edward Snowden’s revelations about U.S. government spying on virtually every American with a cell phone and an internet connection blew the lid off liberal pretensions that the Obama administration is in any respect better than the Bush administration on civil …
Edward Snowden: Blowing the Whistle on Government Criminality Read more »
The first promise of the newly-minted Obama administration back in 2008 was to shut down the Guantanamo Bay prison. Today, dozens have spent many years there without charges, let alone trial, and have been “cleared” for release, but haven’t been. …
11 Years of Guantanamo Prison – Shut it Down! Read more »
La Fiesta restaurant in south suburban Alsip did its level best to deny service to a local gay couple, Frankie Nielsen and Danny Hankes. What Frankie and Danny found out was that the enforcement provisions of Cook County and Illinois …
Kissing-In for Equal Rights in Cook County Read more »
Upon inauguration, President Obama’s first promise to the American people was to shut down the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison. Not only did Obama break that promise, he has managed to make the United States’ record on civil liberties violations even …
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Andre Perez leads a discussion of a new project he’s launching focusing on an often-neglected portion of the LGBT community, recording the histories of Transgender, Transsexual,Intersex, and Genderqueer people. Since our show is for a general audience of people who …
Transgender Oral History Read more »
How did the modern gay political movement emerge onto the public stage after decades of repression? What can we learn from the early modern gay movement of the early 1970s? On the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion in New …
Learning the Lessons of the Stonewall Rebellion Read more »
Jamie Moran, a Masters candidate in Women & Gender Studies, leads a discussion of the political and social issues that Transgender people face, including basic living issues like laws relating to gender, public restroom use, to cost and available of …
Transgender Issues and Rights Read more »
State Representative Greg Harris joins the Gay Liberation Network’s Andy Thayer to discuss the prospects for winning the equal rights for same-sex couples in Illinois. Harris is the lead sponsor of a bill for civil unions, a lesser form of …
Equal Marriage Rights in Illinois Read more »
Missy Lorenzen of Join the Impact-Chicago and Andy Thayer of the Gay Liberation Network discuss the anti-gay federal “Defense of Marriage Act,” also known as DOMA. DOMA was signed into law by President Clinton in 1996 and forbade any federal …
REPEAL the “Defense of Marriage Act” Read more »
Until his death in 2011, Ifti Nasim was perhaps the most prominent political and cultural voice in Chicago’s vibrant South Asian community. A Pakistani-American who left his native country in the 1960s to escape homophobia and an arranged marriage, Nasim …
Ifti Nasim on War & Civil Liberties Read more »