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Publishers
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SILBER
FUCHS
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Contributors
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ANTHONY
Chris Azzopardi
Dan Chisholm,
Kevin Lee, Omeed Memar,
Roger V. McCaffrey-Boss,
Anthony Morgano,
Mark Nagel, Tom Olah,
Mikey Rox,
Erik Sosa-Kibby
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Production
Stacy Bridges
James Gumb
Photography
GRAB
HOLLY
GRAB A BOOK
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MARK SEGAL - OPINION
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GRAB ROGER - LEGAL
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DRINK SPECIALS
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NEXUS DANCE CHART
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GRAB NEWS
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GRAB MUSIC
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GRAB EVENTS
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GRAB THEATER
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Bar/Restaurant/
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GRABBY REVIEWS
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MAP
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CLASSIFIEDS
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Bear Lens Photography
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Sales
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Judy Kyle
Todd Wise
Public Relations
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FASHION
GRAB SILBER FUCHS
Silber
Fuchs
Clothing
By Mark Nagel
Silber Fuchs NYC is a
family business created
by Donald and Denis,
born and raised in NYC.
Their goal is to create fun
and slightly naughty
designs. They started
with some T-shirts but
hope to expand to
different types of apparel
and some home goods.
Donald and Denis work
closely with local printers
and distributors to bring
the highest quality
product at affordable
prices. GRAB Magazine
recently had the chance
to chat with designer
Denis about their fun and sassy
clothing line.
MARK NAGEL: What does Silber
Fuchs mean?
DENIS KOHLER: It
means Silver Fox in
German.
MN: My one year of
German in high school
did not catch that
[laughs]. You and your
husband started the
company? How does
that work, living and
working together?
DK: We have been
together since we were
like 19, fell in love,
came out together, built
a life and somehow 30plus years have passed.
We are native New
Yorkers and have lived
in the Chelsea-Union
area for the last 15
years.
MN: Why did you start
the company?
DK: I am a graphic
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designer and have been working
for companies all my life and just
wanted to try something on my
own, I put it out there
to see how it would
do. I have been
playing around with
some designs for a
possible T-shirt
business. One day,
we just said, let’s see
what I have and a
whole kind of story
evolved with a bear
and the fox came
later. Friends always
call me a silver fox
and since I am first
generation German, I
looked into the
translation for silver
fox and we got Silber
Fuchs. We went for it
and a year-and-a-half
ago, we launched.
We started to take
photos of ourselves
and friends wearing
the T-shirts and
posted them on our
website and on
Facebook. It just
grew from there and
has taken off. I still
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work a full-time job but my
husband is devoting all his time to
Silber Fuchs.
MN: I think it would be so much fun
to go to a relaxed place like Key
West and walk around in your Tshirts and see the reactions you
would get. I can just see someone
going what the f*ck did I just see?
DK: That’s what we are going for.
MN: I find your T-shirts very sassy
and funny. Are you baked or
drinking when you come up with
the ideas?
DK: [Laughs] No, I am sober.
MN: Typically, in fashion, you
design for a season, so do you
design for a season or does a new
shirt come out when you have a
new idea?
DK: We have new designs come
out in the spring and in the fall.
Sometimes one shirt might pop up
midsummer but just one shirt and
sometimes around the holidays, the
same thing.
MN: Your designs are for everyone,
MN: Let’s say you had a
design idea today. Would it
come out in the fall?
DK: Yes, it would be out in
the fall
MN: I saw some of your
shirts at CRAM and the one
that cracked me up was the
shirt with the word “ass” in a
heart. They really work my
giggle factor up. Does
CRAM have all your items?
DK: They have most of
them, so you can go to
CRAM or to our website at
www.silberfuchsnyc.com
but what size ranges do they come
in?
DK: Small to XXL.
MN: What’s next for Silber
Fuchs?
DK: We are kind of going
with the flow and
experimenting here and
there with new products.
This side project has taken a
life of its own and has
become my husband’s fulltime job. We hope to explore
different kinds of printing
processes. We have ideas for home
products like pillows, mugs and
aprons. Our goal is to Fuchs the
world!
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GRAB THE RAINBOW
BOOK
Stories From
Beneath the
Rainbow
By Jason Salerno
SHORTS: Stories From Beneath
the Rainbow is peppered with
characters not usually written about
in gay fiction. There is a dried up
spinster, a Navajo dyke, a
completely unfiltered twink, a
Somali refugee who experiences
his first same-sex kiss and a
transgendered doctor. Every story
looks at LGBTQ life from a different
angle and perspective.
Collectively, they are meant to
show the humanity of the
community and how, like
heterosexuals, queer people
struggle with self-esteem, fall in
love, help others and fight to
survive even the harshest of
realities.
It’s the latest work from Hans
Hirschi, the author behind the gay
fiction darlings,
Willem of the Tafel
and Living The
Rainbow: A Gay
Family Triptych.
Hirschi is known in
gay literary circles as
“The Queen of
Unconventional
Happy Endings”
which is why his
latest project is
raising eyebrows. In
SHORTS: Stories
From Beneath the
Rainbow, several
stories end not-sohappily. Hans Hirschi
explains.
Jason Salerno: For
the first time, you’ve
written several stories
that end sadly. Why?
Hans Hirschi: The
format of the short
story is different than
a novel. In shorts, we
merely get a glimpse
at someone’s life for
a bit, and then
we leave
them to their
'Fahrenheit'
life. There is always the
possibility that the next
chapter in their story will be
better.
JS: Stories do remain, as a
whole, very hopeful. HH: I’m an optimist. I do
believe in a better future for
humankind, although it
seems naïve, especially
after Pulse Nightclub. But if
we don’t believe things can
get better, why would we
even care to get engaged
and work for that future?
Every now and then, there
is some good news, like
Italy’s decision to allow for
civil unions. It’s slow, but
it’s progress.
JS: What does the
community need to do to
make sure we remain on
the path to rainbow
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equality?
HH: I think we need to
acknowledge a couple of things.
First: we’re no better than the rest
of society and second, the fight
never stops. For every great
victory there will be a backlash. We
need to never give up, never stop
working for our rights. Right now,
our trans siblings are in the
crossfire. Only together will we
prevail.
JS: One story in the book, “The
Loner”, paints a sad picture on
how the gay community views
middle-aged gay men. Do you
think the community needs to get
over its Peter Pan syndrome? HH: Wouldn’t that be nice? We
love youth and superficial beauty. I
don’t see that changing any time
soon. I’m really glad that I no longer
have to do the whole dating thing.
As a married man with a son, I can
focus on what really matters: the
inner values of people. I don’t have
HH: People always say that a good
author can write about any kind of
character. I decided early on to try
and branch out, and capture more
of the rainbow. I wrote two stories:
one about a Navajo mother and
another about a public servant.
They are two very different
characters and two very different
stories. I’ll let the ladies decide if I
got it right.
‘Getting Married’
to fret over rejection because I’m
not the perfect male with sculpted
abs and a defined six-pack. There’s
so much more to life.
JS: And the trans experience?
HH: There has been so much talk
about what it means to be trans
lately. So many of my friends, gay
and straight, don’t understand what
it means to be trans, and that trans
isn’t just an orientation or
condition. Being trans means so
many things. “Alex” is an attempt
at showing that trans persons can
live full and happy lives. Most of the
trans stories I’ve read end rather
glumly. They deserve more happy
endings, as we all do.
JS: What do you hope readers get
from the book?
JS: When did you write “Getting
HH: I hope they get an interesting
Married”? How does it reflect on
look into the variety that is LGBTQ
your own marriage?
HH: I once got engaged to a
life. We’re more than stereotypes,
woman with a daughter. It was
and we are as deeply flawed as
shortly before I came out. I realize anyone. I’m not trying to preach,
but merely show a kaleidoscope of
now it was a completely crazy
attempt at
creating an
instant family
Author Hans Hirschi (middle) with
and never
husband Alex and son Sascha
having to prove
anything again.
“Getting
Married” is a
very short
glimpse into
the brutality of
that situation;
the suffering
the groom is
going through
and the
loveless
marriage that
awaits the poor
bride.
JS: This is the
first time you
write about the
lesbian
experience. How did that
come about?
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'Sandra's Grandma'
different scenes of people’s lives,
and I hope readers enjoy it. If I
happen to help someone to see the
community in a better light, all the
better.
SHORTS: Stories From Beneath the
Rainbow by Hans M. Hirschi is
available digitally and in softcover,
on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble
(Nook), Apple’s iBookstore,
Smashwords, and at select local
bookstores.
OPINION
MARK MY WORDS
Donald Trump, Orlando
and Nazi skin-heads
By Mark Segal, Guest Columnist
Like many of you in the LGBT
community, I have been overwhelmed
by the outpouring of support from
allies here and around the world after
last month’s mass shooting in
Orlando. But I also have many
questions and am perplexed by what
I’m seeing and hearing as some
people attempt to explain or use this
incident for their own purposes — or
even to bash other communities in
our name. Those mixed feeling are
slowly building up to anger.
On June 12, the day of the attack,
my email was full of statements from
religious organizations — even
including the Vatican — as well as
political figures and others
condemning the violence against
members of the LGBT community in
Orlando. But one stuck out as
insulting and hurtful; it should be no
surprise it was from Donald Trump.
He used the most tragic of times
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to attack rather than calm an alarmed
nation. In total, his statement was
seven paragraphs. It seems few have
noted what was missing from that
statement.
His words in part read, “President
Obama disgracefully refused to even
say the words ‘Radical Islam.’ For
that reason alone, he should step
down. If Hillary Clinton, after this
attack, still cannot say the two words
‘Radical Islam,’ she should get out of
this race for the presidency.”
While Trump used those
paragraphs to bash Obama and
Clinton, he didn’t know how to say a
few other words: “gay,” “lesbian” or
“LGBT.” Nowhere in his statement did
he mention the community that was
most affected by the largest mass
murder in American history. Mr.
Trump, if you cannot say some
comforting words to the LGBT
citizens of this country at this time,
then you are
not fit to be
president. Also of
importance,
most of the
victims were
Latinos. And
of those
Latino LGBT
people who
were the
victims, how
many of them
would Trump
deport? And
would he
deport their
parents if they
didn’t have a
green card?
Lose a child
or get
deported?
Then
there’s the
issue of who
and what
Omar Mateen
was. Was he a
Muslim
terrorist? Was
he gay? Did
he want to kill
gays or was it
Latinos?
All those
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answers may eventually be known
but here is what we know now:
Whatever Mateen was, he committed
a heinous crime and his religion is of
no importance.
We in the LGBT community
cannot and will not allow anyone to
use our community’s tragedy to bash
an entire other community. We know
discrimination because we suffer it
every day. We also understand unfair
immigration laws. Until recently, if
LGBT people married someone from
another country, that person might be
refused entrance or citizenship in the
United States. Our community will
also recall clearly when people with
HIV were forbidden to enter the
United States. So please do not use
the still-warm dead bodies in Orlando
to suggest that we bar all Muslims
from the United States.
While Trump was raging about
blocking Muslims from doing this
again, did he even understand that
the man who did this was an
American citizen? His unilateral
banning of Muslims would not have
stopped a similar event; it might very
well have created one. Barring
Muslims would not have stopped this
nor San Bernardino, nor Fort Hood,
nor Columbine …
In 1973, the Upstairs Lounge, a
gay bar in New Orleans, was
firebombed, killing 34 individuals.
That attack came from a Christian.
Should our community hate
Christians? The answer is no.
We and all communities should
begin to look at all extremists —
whether they are on the left or the
right. When extremism and instability
mix, an Orlando, a San Bernardino, a
Fort Hood, a Columbine happen.
Extremism is what is the real
danger to this country, and
unfortunately, extremists are homegrown. And Trump seems to have a
very cozy relationship with them —
especially the racist, anti-Semitic,
homophobic Nazi skin-heads, whose
hate messages he consistently
retweets. Enough said.
Mark Segal is the nation’s mostaward-winning commentator in LGBT
media. His recently published
memoir, “And Then I Danced,” is
available on Amazon.com, Barnes &
Noble or at your favorite bookseller.
Mark Segal, PGN publisher, is the
nation’s most-award-winning
commentator in LGBT media. You
can follow him on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/
MarkSegalPGN or Twitter at https://
twitter.com/PhilaGayNews.
Photo By
Anthony Meade
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COLUMNIST
GRAB ANTHONY
The Other Gayborhood
By Anthony Morgano
Andersonville twice a week to
Boystown is famous (perhaps
work the door at @mosphere –
infamous?) across the nation – and
right smack dab in the middle of
even in certain sparkly areas of the
“the other gayborhood.”
world – for its enclave of rainbow
I was hired immediately
floating in the grey of the larger city.
before
that year’s
It was the lure of gayborhood, with
Midsommarfest, Andersonville’s
its strip of bars, clubs, restaurants,
annual street festival, and so
hot men and (I assumed) free
unicorn rides that first drew 18-year- was quickly swept up in all that
the neighborhood had to offer. I
old me to think of Chicago as
loved the more easy-going, laidsomewhere other than a city of
back feel compared to the strut
museums, theatres and the
and attitude of Boystown and
Magnificent Mile.
the sidewalk cafe culture on
After my first peek at Boystown
Clark that Halsted seemed to
– post-dancing in my first Pride
Parade, eating with a huge group at lack. I loved the eclectic mashup of worlds that seemed to
Yoshi’s wearing only a Speedo,
create Andersonville – a place
being snuck into the old Cocktail to
where the traditional and the
dance the summer before college, I
avant-garde mingled and traded
was hooked. A college bestie of
lifestyle tips.
mine started dating a now dear
Back in the latter half of the
friend living in Boystown and so we
made the trip down multiple times a 17th Century, when Chicago still
mostly reeked of the
year: For New Year, Pride, Market
slaughterhouse, Andersonville was
Days, his Super Bowl Party, any
but a northern suburb populated
excuse to venture to the
gayborhood and find a little trouble. primarily by Swedish immigrants.
(I’ve read that the area east and
It was during one of these early
north of Foster and Clark used to be
trips that I first heard of
a cherry orchard and sometimes like
Andersonville, or as I frequently
to imagine I can still smell the cherry
began hearing it called, “the other
blossoms when traversing the
gayborhood.” It was described as
streets there.) Nearby Edgewater
such: “When you first come to
soon became a favorite retreat from
Chicago, you live in Boystown. You
the city for the rich, populated with
go out, you come home late, you’re
hotels, restaurants and jazz clubs
crazy. And then you meet a guy at
until the Depression hit when, like
the clubs in Boystown and
many urban areas, this one began
eventually, someday, you settle
to decline as folks headed for the
down and then you move together
suburbs.
to Andersonville.”
A new wave of immigrants –
The closest we got to this
from Korea, Lebanon and more –
“gayborhood of the North” (insert
revived the neighborhood with their
Jon Snow-balling joke here) was
taking the Red Line from Addison to own businesses, built alongside
other longstanding Swedish
Bryn Mawr to spend the day at the
establishments. And then, as the
veritable meat market that is
’80s wore on, urban renewal started,
Hollywood Beach.
folks discovered Andersonville and
It wasn’t until five years ago
when I moved to Chicago that I first its proximity to the beach and easy
commute to downtown, for its treevisited Andersonville. I’d moved
lined streets and beautiful old
(predictably) to Boystown – just a
buildings.
block-and-a-half west of Hydrate –
My boyfriend, who grew up two
and a gay neighbor I befriended
miles due West of Andersonville,
gave me a heads-up about a job at
remembers going to the Swedish
a bar called @mosphere. So, one
bakery with his mom as a kid and to
sunny Monday afternoon when the
a now-closed Greek diner. In high
bar was closed, I put on a cute
outfit and began the two-and-a-half school, he explored the
neighborhood with friends,
mile walk up to Andersonville.
discovering Svea, a Swedish diner
Needless to say (if you’ve read
that remains our favorite breakfast
many of my columns), I got the job
haunt. When asked to describe
and so began trekking up to
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Andersonville circa 2000, his
response is “a little more hippy-ish
but basically the same.”
Most recently, the queers came
to Andersonville and helped make
the neighborhood their own. Even in
the five years since I’ve been in
Chicago, the number of gay bars in
Andersonville has increased and the
popularity of the neighborhood
(which was already beloved for its
quirky quaintness, lack of chain
stores and restaurants and laidback vibe) seems to grow, as does
the crowd at Midsommarfest each
year.
Over the last five years, I’ve
come to adore Andersonville – from
the martinis at Marty’s to pH’s lovely
brand of improv theatre to the
Andersonville Puppet Bike and
more. I’d go so far as to say it’s one
of my favorite neighborhoods in the
city (and there are so, so many
neighborhoods). And now, I’m
excited to say, I get to call
Andersonville home, at least for the
next year. (Watch out Puppet Bike –
I’m coming for you).
Don’t get me wrong – Boystown
is lovely. It also remains the “prime
gayborhood” in my head if only
because it has so many more
options for bars and clubs and
remains the more popular enclave,
the most likely to be visited by outof-towners and the place you’ll
most often find yourself when
you’ve been dancing all night and suddenly realize it’s 5
a.m. When you think “gay Chicago” it’s nearly
impossible not to envision the giant rainbow pylons that
dot Halsted Street.
I loved my time living in Boystown. I loved being
able to satiate a restless feeling on a Tuesday night by
taking a stroll down Halsted, and actually stopping
somewhere “for just a drink” (instead of the ritual that
“going out to Boystown” becomes once you’ve moved
away). I loved walking to the market or the dentist or
the train and finding rainbows everywhere I went. I
loved the way the music from Pride and Market Days
woke me up those summer mornings, the ground
pulsing with bass.
And while I wouldn’t quite say I’ve “settled down” in
Andersonville, I understand what those gay men at a
party years ago were talking about. Boystown is where
you go to party, to be wild, to dance all night and sleep
all day. Andersonville is where you go for breakfast
before 3 p.m. because all the good breakfast places
close; it’s where you sit on the sidewalk and enjoy a
lovely dinner or in an open window sipping on a
cocktail and watch the neighborhood pass by. In short
– it’s a place where you can really live.
And I plan to do a lot of living here in “the other
gayborhood.”
Anthony is a storyteller, casual social anthropologist
and man-about-town. He recently moved to Chicago
after graduating from the University of WisconsinMadison with a degree in Journalism and currently lives
in Boystown. If you would like to contact Anthony his
email is [email protected]
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LEGAL
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Who Pays the Bills
When Someone Dies
By Roger V. McCaffrey-Boss, Esq.
Q: When my lover died, I
discovered that he owed $75,000 in
charge card bills and $110,000 in
unpaid hospital bills. Everything
that he owned (the house and the
bank accounts) was held in joint
tenancy with myself. He also had
several life insurance policies and
IRA accounts which named his
children as beneficiaries of these
accounts. Do I have to sell the
house to pay my lover’s bills? Do
his children have to use the money
from the life insurance and IRA
accounts to pay their father’s bills?
A: First, the law says that a
person can’t transfer their property
to defraud their creditors or get out
of paying their bills. If, however, you
and your lover owned the house
and bank accounts in joint tenancy
before the debts arose, then that
property will pass to you as the
surviving joint tenant owner without
deduction for payment of your
lover’s bills.
Creditors of a deceased person
may only go after property in the
deceased person’s probate estate,
which means property your lover
owned in his name alone, and does
not include joint tenancy
property. Also benefits paid
under a life insurance policy or
IRA account with a named
beneficiary is not considered part
of someone’s probate estate and
is not subject to the claims of
creditors. Accordingly, the life
insurance and IRA money would
go to your lover’s children and
would not have to be used to
pay creditors.
If you and your lover were
married, my answer would
change depending upon the
nature of the debt. Illinois
married spouses would be
subject to several “Family statutes”
750 ILCS 65/5 and 750 ILCS 65/15
(also known as the Family Expense
Act). They provide that spouses are
not generally liable for one
another’s debt. The statute states
also that your wages, earnings and
separate property are not liable for
the separate debts of your spouse.
However, 65/15 does hold both
spouses jointly and separately
liable for the “expenses of the
family.”
The law defines such
“expenses” to include medical and
funeral expenses, as well as many
other services and goods that
benefit the family. Therefore, any
medical bills, including those from
a hospital, doctor,
clinic, laboratory,
etc. would be
chargeable upon
your property if
your spouse
should die and the
creditors look to
you for payment.
Q: My lover
died last month
and I haven’t been
able to find his
original will,
although I do have
a carbon copy. I
know he named
me as his
beneficiary. I
called my lover’s
lawyer, hoping
that he would
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have the original will and the lawyer
told me that he used to have the
original will but before my lover
died, he wrote the lawyer and told
him to tear up the will. Now my
lover’s family tells me that because
the will was destroyed, my lover
died without a will and they get
everything. What are my legal
rights?
A: Even though your lover
directed his lawyer (by letter) to tear
up his will and throw it away, Illinois
law does not consider that to be a
valid revocation of his will. In order
to revoke a will, the destruction of
the will (tearing it up) must be done
by the person who made the will or
by another person in the presence
of the person who made the will.
The law requires a revocation
of a will to be performed according
to the requirements of the law.
Because the will was physically
destroyed in a manner contrary to
Illinois law, the family members will
lose and the surviving lover will
prevail. The surviving lover can file
in court a petition to probate the
will using the carbon copy of the
original will.
Roger McCaffrey-Boss is a
gradute of Hamline University
School of Law, St. Paul,
Minnesota, and is a member of
the Chicago Bar Association. You
can email him at
[email protected]. He
suggests that you consult your
own lawyer for any specific
questions regarding the issues
raised in this column.
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Match Buckets, $4 Jager Shots. Sidetrack: Open at 3pm. Musical Monday Show Tunes 8pm-2am.
SoFo Tap: $5 Jameson Shots, $3 Well and Select Call Cocktails, $3 All Draft Beers, $2 SIN (Service
Industry) Feature, 8PM – Close, SIN – Service Industry Night. Steamworks: $5 off w/Student ID, Quick
Trix 9a-1p $7 lockers, The Office: $5 Martinis (you-call-it). Touche: Big Game Night Come Out & Play.
@mosphere: 1st Tuesday of the month Killer Cabaret 9-11pm. 2nd & 3rd Tuesdays Killer Open Mic
9-11pm 3rd Tuesdays of the month is Killer Babes Drag Show 10pm, $4 Freball Shots $6 Stoli Cocktails.
Charlie’s: Rockstar Karaoke with Jeremiah 9pm-1am. Top 40's Dance Beats with Lightning
LuLu 1am-4am. $2 Draft Pints, $3 Fireball, $13 You-Call-It Pitchers. Crew: $1 Tacos, $5 Beergarita
Pints, $5 Michelada, $20 mexican beer buckets. Kit Kat Lounge: Half priced martinis & 33 percent off
small plates; Tarot Card Readings by Therese Murphy. "Burger, Beer, Bitch!" $14.95 Burger & Sam
Adams. Lucky Horseshoe: Open Auditions for male dancers 7pm. Open at 3pm, Dancers 7pm.
North End: Open at 11am, $5.75 22 oz Lites. Phoenix Bar: Dollar Drink Night (Well liquor only), $5
Manager Shot Special. Progress Bar: Industry night 50% off everything for industry people with a valid
pay stub $4 Fat Tire drafts, $5 Jack Daniels products. Replay Beer & Bourbon: Tat-Tuesdays with
Keith, Ryan and HO-sted by Debbie Fox, Richard on Door, FREE Tattoo weekly! Sidetrack: Open at
3pm, TRL Tuesday: Totally Rad Line-up of 90's and early 00's Music Videos 8pm-2am. SoFo Tap:
$5 Absolut cocktails, $6.50 Big Beers (all drafts), 9PM Tringo (Trivia Bingo) with host Sister Margaret
Cootersnatch. Scarlet: $4 You-Call-Its, $4 Jager, Jameson, Rumpleminze Shots. Steamworks: Come
Back Tuesdays Use your weekend receipt to get $4 off anytime Tuesday or Wednesday, 4p-7p-Howard
Brown Open Testing To the Public. $5 off w/Student ID. The Call: Vodka Night & Music Videos. $5 Skyy
Vodka Cocktails. Touche: Hardcore Cruisin’ $1 off drinks for those in leather, Club Room Open.
@mosphere: Naughty Stripper Bingo 8:30pm $5 Rosebud Shots, $5 Sultry Shots. Baton Show
Lounge: Shows at 8:30pm, 10:30pm & 12:30am. Charlie’s: Shower Contest Hosted by Carlos $100
Cash Prize for first place! Sign up by 11pm. $2 Wells $1 Draft Pints, DJ Alex Cabot spins till 4am. Crew:
$5 off all pitchers of beer (Beer buddy Wednesdays) $5 stoli cocktails. Kit Kat Lounge: Half-price
Cocktails & Martinis, Buy one entree get one free. Lucky Horseshoe: Open at 3pm, Dancers 7pm.
North End: Open at 11am, $5.75 22 oz Lites. Phoenix Bar: Hump Day! $5 Absolut Vodka, $5
Manager Shot Special Progress Bar: $4 Svedka Flavors and $3 Coronas. Scarlet: $3 Miller Lite, $4
Svedka, $4 Old School Shots. Shakers: $1 Off Craft Beers, $1 Off Long Island Iced Teas and Flavored
Teas. Sidetrack: Open at 3pm, Woof Wednesday 1st Wed of Month, monthly All Things Beyonce and
Sync It Parties other Wed.'s 9pm-2am SoFo Tap: $4 Fat Tire Drafts, $6.50 Fat Tire Big Beers, $4
Fireball Shots, 9PM Live Game Show with host Dick Guhzinya. Steamworks: Come Back
Wednesdays Use your weekend receipt to get $4 off anytime Tuesday or Wednesday, $5 off w/Student
ID. The Call: Showtunes Absolut & Skyy Martini Specials. The Office: $3 Wells & $2.50 16oz Draft
Beers. Karaoke at 9pm Touche: Jockstrap Night Free Pants Check $1 off drinks for those in jocks.
Thursday
@mosphere: Male Dancers 10pm. Baton Show Lounge: Shows at 8:30pm, 10:30pm & 12:30am.
Charlie’s: Industry Night! Dancers, $3 You-Call-It Drinks, Shots, and Beer All Day! (Excludes
LongIsland) Dart League 8pm. Dart Tournament 10pm. Afterhours Dance Music with Ron G from
11pm-4am.. Crew: Karaoke 10pm, $3.50 Draft beers (not including high ABV). Hydrate: $5 Effen
Cocktails & Bombs. Kit Kat Lounge: Half-priced martinis and $5 mojitos; Tarot Card Readings by
Therese Murphy. Lucky Horseshoe: Open at 3pm, Dancers 4pm. North End: Open at 11am,
$10.75 Miller Lite Pitchers. Phoenix Bar: Dancers and Go-go Boys! $5 Bacardi, $5 Vegas Bombs.
Progress Bar: 1st Thurs Illuminaughty Party, Every Thurs $4 Fireball and $3 Miller LIte drafts.
Scarlet: $5 40 oz. Miller Lite, $5 24 oz. Corona, $5 Long Island Mini-Pitchers, $5 Old School Shots.
Shakers: $4 Fireball Shots, $2 Miller Lite Bottles, $4 Well Drinks. Sidetrack: Open at 3pm, Comedy
Videos 8pm-12am, Music Videos 12am-2am. SoFo Tap: $6 Miller Lite Draft and a Shot of Jameson, $3
Blueberry or Raspberry Vodka Lemonades, $1 Jello Shots Steamworks: $5 off w/Student ID.
Touche: Handballer Night Red/White Hanky Specials Club Room Open.
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Friday
@mosphere: Male Dancers 10:30pm. Baton Show Lounge: Shows at 8:30pm, 10:30pm &
12:30am. Charlie’s: Free Two-Step Line Dancing Lessons @10pm Country Dancing until 1:30am,Top 40
Dance/House Mixes with Lightning LuLu till 4am. $5 Draft Pitchers & $13 Long Island Pitchers.
Crew: $4.25 Lagunitas IPA pints, $2 PBR cans, $4.50 Skinny Lemonade F.O’Mahony’s: $15 All-U-Can
Eat Fish & Chips. Hydrate: $4 Jameson Shots. Kit Kat Lounge: $32 three course prix-fixe menuincludes a martini, salad and entree. Lucky Horseshoe: Open at 3pm, Dancers 4pm. North End:
Open at 11am, $5.75 22 oz Lites. Phoenix Bar: Dance Night with Go-go boys! $5 Three-Olives Vodka, $5
Fireball. Progress Bar: 9PM to 10PM POWER HOUR $2 All Svedka Cocktails, No Cover EVER DJ starts at
10PM. Shakers: $3 Molson Golden Bottles, $5 Cosmos. Sidetrack: Open at 3pm, T.G.I.F. Show Tunes
5-9 pm, High Energy 9pm-2am. SoFo Tap: $6 Big Miller Lites, $4 Red Stag Shots or Cocktails, $4 Fireball
Shots, $2 PBR Cans, 3PM – 7PM, Customer Appreciation – Free Food (while supplies last), Free Darts, first
10 people in get a scratch off Lotto Ticket 9PM – Close, GRR… It’s Friday – Bear Party. Steamworks:
Quick Trix 9a-1p $7 lockers, 9p-12a TPAN HIV Rapid Test. The Office: DJ’s @ 10pm. Touche: 7/29
ONYX Club Night, 8/5 M.A.F.I.A. Club Night.
Saturday
Daily Specials
GRAB YOUR FRIENDS
@mosphere: Male Dancers 11pm. Baton Show Lounge: Shows at 8:30pm, 10:30pm & 12:30am.
Charlie’s: Smoke & Mirrors hosted by Khloe @ Midnight, Lightning Lulu spins Top 40 mixes till 4am. $3 ApplePie
Moonshine Shots, $5 Draft Pitchers, $13 Long Island Pitchers. Crew: $4.25 Coors Lite tall boys, $7-9 Crew Bloodies,
$15 bottomless mimosas (with entree purchase). Hydrate: $5 Effen Bombs. Lucky Horseshoe: Dancers all
day! 2pm. Mid City Cocktail & Supper Club: 5/21 $6.00 Long Islands, $3.00 Diva Shots. North End: Open at
11am, Welcoming CMSA and AAC teams. Phoenix Bar: Dance Night with Go-go boys! $5 Svedka Vodka, $5
Fireball. Progress Bar: No Cover Ever. DJ starts at 10:30 p.m. Scarlet: $5 Well Drinks, $5 Imported Beers, $95
Classic Stoli Bottle Service. Shakers: $5 Jager Shots, $4 Fireball Shots, $1 Off all Imports. Sidetrack: Open at
1pm, Sidetrack Video Mix 1-9 pm, High Energy 9pm- 3am. SoFo Tap: $4 Stella Drafts, $4 Fireball Shots, $4 Skinny
Lemonades, Noon – 3pm Doggy Days – Afternoon Dog Party, First Saturday of the Month - 9PM – Close, DILF, Last
Saturday of the Month – 9PM – Close, GEAR. The Office: DJ’s @ 10pm. Touche: 7/30 RIPE Party, Deep
beats, dim lights, hot go-go dudes DJ Harry T, 8/6 BEAR Night with Great Lakes Bears.
Sunday
Funday
@mosphere: Best Music of the 70‘s, 80‘s & 90‘s every week with Monthly Special events & Drink
Specials. Baton Show Lounge: Shows at 7pm, 9pm & 11pm. Charlie’s: Euchre Club 5pm-8pm.
Rockstar Karaoke with Jeremiah 9pm-1am. Top 40's Dance Beats with Lightning LuLu 1am-4am. $5 Draft
Pitchers, $13 You-Call-It Pitchers. Crew: $5 Beergarita pints, $12 Miller Lite pitchers, $7-9 Crew
Bloodies, $15 bottomless mimosas (with entree purchase). F.O’Mahony’s: $20 Mimosa Brunch.
Hydrate: $4 U-Calls Its Kit Kat Lounge: Half priced martinis, 33 percent off small plates;
Divalicious Brunch staring Madam X, 11am-4pm; $29.95 prix-fixe; $14.95 “Build your own” cocktail
package. Lucky Horseshoe: Dancers 2pm. North End: Open at 11, Playing all the Sunday
Funday games! Phoenix Bar: Latin Night / Variety Latino Show! $4 Corona Bottles, $7 Long Island,
$5 Patron Silver Shots. Progress Bar: Sunday Funday! $10 Bottles of Bubbly/Mimosas $10 Pitchers
of Miller Lite or Coors Light $3 Miller Lite or Coors Light drafts, DJ Chip every Sunday playing all of your
favorite music videos and always taking requests. Shakers: $6 Bloody Mary Bar, $4 Mimosas, $13 Mix
& Match Buckets, $5 Chocolate Martinis. Sidetrack: Open at 1pm, Show Tunes 4-9pm, Flashback
Videos 9pm-2am Retro with a beat. SoFo Tap: $5 PBR and a Shot of Jameson, $3 Miller Lite Drafts,
$5 SoFo Marys, $4 Skinny Lemonades. The Office: $2.50 Bloody Marys, $2.50 Champagnes, &
$2.50 16oz Draft Beers. Karaoke at 9pm. Touche: BEER BUST $1 Bud, Bud Light Drafts & Sodas
After the Beach Party 3-7pm, Movie Night at 7pm.
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TRANSGENDER
GRAB HOLLY
Disarm the
Police
By Holly Maholm
I am a member of the LGBT
community, and considering the long,
sad history of confrontations between
LGBT folks and the police, I feel I
must speak up. Now, seeing all that
has happened recently involving
police shootings, I want to make two
specific proposals to reduce the
carnage. (One today; the other next
issue.)
Why are we (and by “we” I mean
black men) in so much danger today
from police? Here is what I see:
Young men are trained as policemen;
then they are given a service weapon
and sent out into the street to
“enforce the law.” Now… police work
is boring – 98% of the time - but
there is that other 2% - which is a
frenzy of fear, panic and life-or-death
battle for survival. When that 2%
comes upon him, that young officer
finds that his judgment (and what
little training he received) is drowned
in a sea of testosterone, telling him
“Kill the aggressor! Or you will die!”
Though I am sure there are plenty
of racist cops out there, I do not
believe this is a problem attributable
primarily to racism. When that young
man (a cop) hits the 2%, he naturally
reaches for his service weapon –
which he is trained to carry on his hip
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in a holster, easily available at an
instant’s notice Well, more like 1.8
seconds, as the Tamir Rice killing
showed us.
Then, we see his service weapon
is (usually) a 9mm semi-automatic
holding 14 or 15 rounds. So if that
officer is pushed to start firing, he has
a huge number of bullets he can fire,
and every one of them is lethal. Just
one round can easily kill (see Tamir).
That is way too much lethal firepower
to put in the hands of an easilyexcitable young man hopped up on T.
Here is my proposal: Police
officers should be armed with a
weapon which is “non-lethal,” and
that weapon should be the “Go-To”
weapon he turns to first when he hits
the 2%. The first weapon he reaches
for should NOT be one that is lethal,
or that holds 15 rounds.
(Now, I am not suggesting the
officer should be sent out into the
streets without his side arm – in our
society, today, that would be
madness. I AM suggesting that his
side arm should not be the officer’s
ONLY – or primary - weapon.)
What is the value of a non-lethal
Go-To weapon? Well, if the officer
pulls the trigger (and then regrets his
action), it is much more likely the
citizen will not be killed. So
unnecessary deaths are avoided.
Next, we see all-to-many cases
where a drunk guy with a knife starts
advancing on a cop, and the cop
reacts by firing several 9mm rounds,
killing him. Well… that drunk didn’t
need to die. A GoTo weapon with a
high “shock value”
would have
stopped him
without causing
death.
Right now,
when a cop is
confronted by an
angry, threatening
man, that officer
can choose to use
just his own
strength and
training to subdue
that person (maybe
using his
nightstick), but that
choice will often
result in the two of
them wrestling on
the ground. At this
point, the officer
will rightly become
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fearful that the man will take his own
service weapon away from him – and
he will get shot with his own gun (a
not-uncommon occurrence). So
instead of getting into a wrestling
match, the officer will often draw his
9mm and start firing – killing the man.
In this case, if that officer had,
instead, carried a non-lethal - but
painful and shocking Go-To weapon he could have used “non-lethal force”
to make the arrest, and he would
have avoided both a wrestling match
and a shooting.
What do I mean by a “non-lethal”
weapon? We all know about rubber
bullets used by police doing crowdcontrol at a riot. Usually these bullets
are fired from an ordinary pump
action shotgun, and they deliver a
shock to the rioter without causing a
fatal injury. However, we cannot
expect a cop to routinely carry a
shotgun during his shift. It would be
too heavy and unwieldy.
We need to ask our firearms
industry (we can ask the NRA to help)
to do some serious research and
product development, and come up
with a weapon an ordinary cop can
carry with him. One that will cause
that angry man to be shocked – No,
hurt! – enough that he will stop his
attack, but without killing him.
If we can spend billions of dollars
every year on military weapons
(designed to kill) why can’t we spend
a few dollars to develop non-lethal
weapons? Weapons that can be used
by our police to keep us safe –
without (un-necessarily) killing us? Holly Maholm is a transgender
woman living in Cleveland, Ohio.
Look for Holly’s up-coming book
Brave in Leather, or Miss Sissy
Whip… rescues the Queen of the
Fairies from Impending Doom! Other
articles by Holly can be found at
www.hollymaholm.com. LGBTQ Artist
Gallery Opening
Photos By Anthony Meade
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FETISH
GRAB A LEASH
The Social Contract of the
Puppy-Trainer Community
By Daddy John (John Pucker)
Regardless of the origins of the
modern human puppy-trainer kink,
there can be little debate that
through assimilation and new
knowledge as well as social input
from new generations like the
Millennials and post-Millennials, it
has become an independent body
large enough that social norms have
been created and are in the process
of being revised in an attempt to
create a better state. In essence, the
puppy-trainer community has
created a social contract.
Social Contracts
Where individuals with similar
interest become a large enough
body that social norms are created
by the very nature of multiples
interacting, a social contract is
created. Others that enter the group
with moral intentions are either
eager to participate and conform to
the social norms, are willing to
conform to these norms in order to
achieve some personal gain, or see
the good in the body and will
attempt to adjust the social norms to
a perceived better state. In doing so,
these individuals are participating in
the interrelationship between the
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group and the individual
and, thus, are
assimilated into the preformed social contract.
As individuals enter and
leave, this social
contract is ever shifting
with the creation of new
dynamics and new
knowledge. The social
contract captures a
consensus of individuals
in the group, sometimes
built on explicit consent,
sometimes on tactical
consent and sometimes
it operates as a
hypothetical account of
what individuals
subjecting themselves
to the contract ought to
consent to if they are
reasoning and moral.
When a social
contract emerges,
governing the norms of
the contract in an effort
to maintain the social
essence that the contract was
created for to begin with is inevitable
or the contract fails and the body
ceases to exist or is
recreated under new
norms and a new
contract. In establishing
systems to govern these
norms, individuals give up
some of their personal
freedoms in conforming.
Each individual within the
body agrees to follow
these norms on condition
that everyone else does
the same. That way, all are
relatively safe with each
other and all benefit from
the other social goods
that result from the group
dynamic.
At its most basic
levels, individuals in social
contracts are willing to
sacrifice some
independence so long as
the sacrifice is not too
great and they gain some
reward from said sacrifice.
Human nature dictates the
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reward most easily agreed upon is
that of self-preservation in the form
of safety and established norms to
ensure that all that fall within the
social contract are able to rely on
one another to keep their
agreements.
The new body politick the puppy
trainer community
“We’ve created a new nation,
rawer, cruder and less refined, but
no less single-minded in its belief
that we are an independent nation.”
Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia
1776.
Unlike the social contracts
created by other kinks (Leather,
Rubber, Master/Slave, AB/DL,) the
normalization of puppies and
trainers into a community as a
phenomena is a relatively recent
occurrence. As such, the
foundational principals that govern
the norms within that social contract
are currently being tested and
clarified. This is particularly true
where local and regional social
contracts integrate with and come
into conflict with social contracts of
the larger puppy-trainer community.
The relatively recent creation of
the puppy bill of rights, Mosh
rules, Guidelines for handlers and
trainers, and rules governing puppytrainer contests and their hierarchies
are all current examples that are
defining the nature of this social
contract. Though outside kinks and
fetishes will continue to have a
profound impact on the puppytrainer world, in order to maintain the
integrity of its social contract, the
puppy-trainer kink must continue
down its path of growth and
development as an independent
body with its own norms, ideas and
limits.
Our community exists in an
exciting time. The freedoms offered
by the norms and social contract
that is the carefree human puppytrainer kink are in congruent
alignment with the social
expectations of the two most recent
generations that have come of age.
This, along with changes in health
care, a world and larger society in a
heightened state of unrest causing
the need for more people to seek an
avenue of pleasurable escape and
the proliferation of social media are
but some of the reasons that have
led to an enormous influx individuals
into the kink communities through
the puppy-trainer world.
The
leaders of
other kinks
and fetishes
will
hopefully be
farsighted
enough to
see this
influx as a
positive for
all kinks and
continue to
support and
encourage
the growth
of the
puppytrainer
community.
Many entering the Puppy-Trainer
social contract see the community
as a gateway into the kink and fetish
world. Some will stay with the
puppy-trainer kink forever; some will
branch out and try new things and
become members of other fetishes
as well.
We, in the puppy-trainer
community, have a moral obligation
by the very nature of our social
contract to keep our members safe
physically and mentally, as well as to
grow the kink in positive ways as the
norms of the community expand and
change. In doing so, the puppytrainer community has an obligation
not only to itself, but to the larger
kink and fetish community. The kink
and fetish communities have been
given an opportunity at rebirth. We
exist in a much different social time
than when other kinks and fetishes
came into their own. As with the
creation of America, the old world
didn’t cease to exist when the
United States established itself; we
all learned to coexist. Our
communities need to do the same.
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NEWS
CENTER ON HALSTED
WELCOMES SENIOR
LEADERSHIP AND NEW
BOARD CHAIR AT START
OF FISCAL YEAR
The Center on Halsted has
announced new leadership within
the organization who will advance
its community-based mission of
securing the health and well-being
of LGBTQ people of Chicagoland
and assist in guiding the
organization in its new 3 year
strategic plan.
Kim Fountain, PhD, is joining
the organization in the newly
formed Chief Operating Officer
position, a role which will assist
Modesto Tico Valle, CEO, in
executing the 3 year strategic plan
while overseeing programs and
grants. Fountain, previously
Executive Director of the Pride
Center of Vermont, has spent
nearly twenty years working in the
LGBTQ movement. In her various
roles, she has taken to the streets
in protest with other queer activists;
provided direct services to LGBTQ
survivors of violence; successfully
advocated with government
agencies for LGBTQ full inclusion;
worked on LGBTQ legislative
campaigns; has been published in
academic journals and community
based reports on LGBTQ
community building and issues of
violence; and helped to represent
LGBTQ concerns on numerous
government and community based
task forces and committees. Kim is
a cultural anthropologist who
focuses on issues of violence within
and against the LGBTQ
communities.
To lead the organization as the
Chair of the Board of Directors is
Richard Turner, a long-time
activist in the Chicago LGBTQ
community. Turner, now retired
after a long career in professional
philanthropy, was one of the first
inductees into the Chicago Gay and
Lesbian Hall of Fame. Turner found
his true calling during the decade
he worked for the Chicago
Community Trust, beginning in the
mid-1980s. He then went on to
work for 14 years as manager for
corporate contributions for Peoples
Gas. He was co-founder and
national president of Funders
Concerned about AIDS. He has led
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and volunteered for numerous civic,
cultural, and charitable groups
including the AIDS Foundation of
Chicago, Dance for Life Chicago,
and Season of Concern. His
pioneer role in funding for AIDS and
gay and lesbian issues has earned
him a reputation for leadership,
integrity, and honesty in Chicago.
“We are very excited to have
Kim joining our team and Richard
reengaging in board service as the
chair,” says Modesto Tico Valle,
CEO of Center on Halsted. “Kim’s
fresh ideas will reinvigorate our
work going forward, while Richard’s
community longevity will provide
sound guidance and stability. I am
confident that as a leadership team
with these new additions we will be
able to successfully execute and
achieve the lofty goals we have set
forth for ourselves in our new
strategic plan.”
For more information on The
Center on Halsted visit
www.CenterOnHalsted.org
FIRST-IN-THE-U.S. WORLD
OUTGAMES MIAMI
LAUNCHES EARLY
REGISTRATION
MIAMI, FL – World OutGames
Miami, the 10-day event that will
bring to life 34 sports and more
than 450 events across the areas
of Sport, Culture and Human
Rights, has launched advanced
registration. Thousands of athletes,
participants, spectators and thought
leaders from around the globe will
converge on Miami for World
OutGames IV to be held Friday,
May 26 through Sunday, June 4,
2017.
“We’re excited to bring World
OutGames to the United States for
the first time as a global expression
of inclusiveness and healthy
competition,” said Ivan Cano, chief
executive officer of World
OutGames Miami. “We encourage
people to register now for this
transformative experience, which
will challenge our athletes
physically, stimulate attendees
intellectually and enliven spectators
emotionally.”
Registration is available online
at outgames.org. Athletes who
register before September 1, 2016
can save $100 USD. The
comprehensive registration
package includes credentials,
welcome bag, admission to
July 26, 2016
Opening and Closing Ceremonies,
official shirt, access to OPEN sports
and culture events and souvenir
program book, participation medal,
transportation pass, and unlimited
access to Festival Village.
Every four years, World
OutGames brings together LGBT
athletes, many from countries
where homosexuality remains
illegal and hidden. In the spirit of
true inclusiveness, the World
OutGames are open to all,
regardless of sexual orientation.
Registration is open to anyone 18
and older. However, a specific
youth program for those between
the ages of 14-17 will be
coordinated in partnership with
Pridelines Youth Services, a Miami
based not-for-profit which offers a
safe place for LGBT youth, adults
and allies.
For more information about
World OutGames Miami, visit
www.outgames.org.
LOGO’s NEW DATING
COMPETITION SERIES
“FINDING PRINCE
CHARMING”
Logo has announced the
greenlight of a brand new reality
dating competition series, “Finding
Prince Charming.” This first of its
kind dating show, featuring a cast
of all gay men, is currently in
production and will debut on the
network this fall. Hosted by Lance Bass,
“Finding Prince Charming” will
include 13 charming and gorgeous
suitors, all housed together, who
compete to win the heart of one of
the nation’s most eligible gay
heartthrob. The sexy suitors
grapple to stand out from the crowd
all hoping for a moment of intimate
connection, romance and, perhaps,
true love. One by one, the suitors
are eliminated until the heartthrob
chooses one ideal man to sweep
him off of his feet and commit to an
exclusive relationship.
"Finding Prince Charming” is
produced by Brian Graden Media.
Executive Producers for Brian
Graden Media are Brian Graden
and Dave Mace with Fred
Birckhead and Nick Murray also
serving as executive
producers. Chris McCarthy, Pamela
Post and Stevenson Greene are
Executive Producers for Logo and
Jen Passovoy serves as producer. Alunageorge’s New Album “I
REMEMBER” Now available
for Pre-order; Album Due out
Sept.16th
MUSIC
KT Tunstall Announces New
Album 'KIN' To Be Released
September 9th
I'm In Control Tour Dates for
Chicago are July 27th at Lincoln
Hall and July 28th-29th at
Lollapalooza.
For more information visit https://www.facebook.com/
alunageorge
Brielle Releases Her Debut
Album Self-Titled Album
"BRIELLE"
KT Tunstall returns with an
explosive 11 track collection of
songs on her fifth studio album KIN
to be released September 9th on
Caroline Records. The album will be
available for pre-order at all
participating retailers.
Two years ago, KT Tunstall
thought she was done with music:
"As an artist I feel like I died," she
says. "I stopped. I gave up. I didn't
want to do it anymore." She put her
stuff in storage and bought a little
house in Venice Beach, California
and enrolled in the Sundance
Institute's elite Film Composers Lab.
It was a turning point in her life.
Two years later KIN was born.
Produced by Tony Hoffer (Beck,
Fitz and the Tantrums, Air, M83 and
more), and written and recorded by
KT in LA, it exemplifies the very best
of guitar pop. "The truth is, I've
finally made peace with being a pop
songwriter," KT says. "This record
was very much embracing my
dharma as an artist, which is to write
positive songs that have muscle, but
also show their vulnerability."
It has been over ten years since
KT released her multi-platinum
debut, Eye To The Telescope, and in
KIN, KT sees its full bodied and
blooded follow up. The album's new
focused sound is exemplified by the
teaser track 'Evil Eye'; a stripped
back, primal rock 'n' roll track that
seeded the whole record. The
album's lead single 'Maybe It's A
Good Thing' shows KT in top form: a
moment in life captured in a bright,
powerful pop song with an
irresistible and unforgettable
melody.
The diverse collection also
includes a duet with KT fan James
Bay, the raucous rebellion of 'It Took
Me So Long To Get Here, But Here I
Am', 'Run On Home', the call to
arms of 'Hard Girls', and the
beautiful album closer 'Love Is An
Ocean'.
Upcoming tour dates September
21st House of Blues, Chicago, IL
September 22nd at The Vogue,
Indianapolis, IN and September
23rd at Barrymore Theatre
Madison, WI.
Tickets on sale now at kttunstall.com/live.
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I Remember - the eagerly
awaited sophomore album from
London duo AlunaGeorge - is now
available for pre-order on itunes.
The album will be released by
Interscope Records on September
16th.
Those who pre-order will receive
instant downloads of the band's
new single, "Mean What I Mean,"
featuring Leikeli 47 and Dreezy, as
well as the previously released
tracks "I'm In Control," featuring
Popcaan, The Flume-produced "I
Remember," and "My Blood,"
featuring Zhu. "Mean What I Mean"
premiered yesterday on Annie
Mac's 'Hottest Record In The World'
on BBC Radio One in the UK.
Written and recorded in focused
bursts of creativity in LA and
London, the album sees them
confidently maintain their unique
sonic palette while pushing forward
into bolder territories, channeling
personal experience into a
delicious mélange of pop styles.
"We were going for that holy grail of
songwriting," says Aluna. "It was an
attitude of 'let's see what else we
can do'," adds George. At the same
time, it marks an opening of their
creative process to new inputs and
influences, as exemplified in its
diverse list of collaborators.
Aluna says, "It started to feel a
bit like we had all these friends in
music that we liked hanging out
with but we haven't shared
AlunaGeorge with anyone else,
and at some point we were like
'why not?' Let's open it up a bit
more. We wanted to let people in a
bit more now that we're more
confident in our sound".
AlunaGeorge, which is singer/
lyricist Aluna Francis and producer George Reid, are currently
on the road for their "I'm In Control"
Tour, which includes a headlining
show at Lincoln Hall in Chicago,
plus several festival dates
(Promowest, Forecastle,
Lollapalooza, Panorama, Life Is
Beautiful and more) before
wrapping up on August 3rd in
Seattle. The band will then join Sia
on her Nostalgic For The Present
arena tour, which kicks off on
September 29th.
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Billboard chart-topping Pop/
Dance songwriter and recording
artist Brielle releases her debut
self-titled album "BRIELLE" to rave
reviews. "This is a special time in my life
as I am finally able to release to the
world what I have been working on
for so long," says Brielle. "The time
has come for everyone to see the
different sides of me and my
journey. Simply put, I am just
excited!," she adds. BRIELLE - the album, was led
by the catchy single "Ought To Be"
and it's now being followed by the
classic, "Rock The Catwalk" (also
know as Rock The Cabash by
Clash), just in time for fashion
weeks across the globe.
The album includes the catchy
lead single, "Ought To Be" where
its basically reminiscent of a perfect
time in your mind. Where you get
lost in a thought of having a great
night wishing it never ended. Then
you have the classic "Rock The
Catwalk", a remake originally
released by The Clash. In this
song you are able to experience
Brielle's love for fashion and the
industry. You will also find the
powerful song, "Wasted" wherein
Brielle shares the ups and downs
of being in a one-sided relationship
and when eventually after trying to
work it out over and over, you
basically end up wasted of
emotions.
Another song is the inspirational,
"Catch A Star For You". The song
which started out as a poem,
reminds you of not allowing yourself
to fit into a box, but simply be who
are for you and not others. Then
you have the patriotic yet summerfriendly, "Rocket", where Brielle's
pays homage to the National
anthem while reminiscing of
a fun summer spent with friends. For more visit:
BrielleOnline.com
The Fourth Annual Chicago
Comedy Festival
EVENTS
Celebrating Two Years of
OUTspoken! LGBT
Storytelling at Sidetrack
Retell. Relive. Relate.
OUTspoken!, Chicago’s monthly
evening of LGBTQ Storytelling
celebrates its two-year anniversary
on Tuesday, August 2. The August
evening of storytelling and
celebration will include special
moments and surprises for the
always-supportive, engaged
audience.
OUTspoken!’s second year
included going on the road with a
feature spot in Lifeline Theater’s
FILLET OF SOLO, a special joint
event with Chicago Public Libraries
to present at Sulzer Library as part
of Pride Month, and being a
featured workshop at CREATING
CHANGE 2016 in Chicago.
OUTspoken! is presented at
Sidetrack, 3349 North Halsted.
Storytellers identify as LBGTQ
(Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay,
Transgendered, or Queer) but
audiences of all walks of life have
found the nights of storytelling
enlightening, inspiring and
entertaining. And while all stories
do not have sexuality or gender
identity as their focus, all stories
are told from the perspective of
LGBTQ persons.
OUTspoken! is curated by
David Fink (Co-founder of Acorn
Theater in Three Oaks, Michigan)
and emceed by Kim L. Hunt
(Executive Director of Pride Action
Tank) and Art Johnston (Cofounder of Equality Illinois). August
storytellers scheduled to appear
are M Shelly Conner, Art
Johnston, Brad Lippitz, Erin
Marshall, Ella Nelson and Hadeis
Safi.
OUTspoken occurs on the first
Tuesday of every month from
6-9PM. Doors open at 6:00 with
the stories beginning at 7:00. There
is no charge for this event.
Storytellers vary month to month,
but all identify as LGBTQ.
For more information visit
https://www.facebook.com/
pages/OUTspoken-LGBTQStories/ or for more information on
Sidetrack visit www.sidetrackchicago.com
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The vibrant comedy hub of
Chicago, Stage 773, will host the
4th Annual Chicago Nerd Comedy
Festival, taking place August 11
through August 14 at 1225 W.
Belmont. Featuring an eclectic line
up of shows and events, The
Chicago Nerd Comedy Festival
celebrates all that is the Chicago
nerd comedy scene. Nerds will
unite for one glorious weekend in
Chicago to laugh, pay homage, and
perhaps worship their favorite
genres of nerd-ness. Now in its
fourth year, the festival is bigger
and better than ever, featuring an
expanded schedule of shows, a
day of panels and workshops, and
exciting events to connect
performers, audiences, and artists
in nerd comedy central.
Video creator, speaker,
transgender advocate Jackson
Bird and the online comedy
sensation Team StarKid are
headlining. Bird, known for his work
with the Harry Potter Alliance and
production of The Boy Who
Vlogged videos, will perform a live
version of his popular YouTube
series ‘Will It Waffle?’ His videos
have been featured on Buzzfeed,
Mashable, Upworthy and more.
Team StarKid is pioneering the use
of the internet as a new and
innovative way to produce theater,
blending live performance and
quality HD filming. Team StarKid
first appeared on the comedy
scene with A Very Potter Musical—
a fan-made parody that
immediately went viral and the
group never stopped making
people laugh!
“It’d be harder to tell you what
isn’t new at Nerd Fest this year!
2016 is an exciting year for the
festival as it welcomes Jackson
Bird, Team StarKid, and several
incredible acts to Stage 773 for the
first time. This year we wanted to
double down on the idea of
community,” says Producer Aaron
Amendola. “If you’re a living
breathing human being and like to
laugh, then you’re going to have a
fantastic time! Muggles will be able
to discover new groups they’ve
never heard of before, and
seasoned geeks and nerds will
revel in seeing some of their
favorite performers on stage doing
what they love.”
July 26, 2016
Highlights of the 2016 Chicago
Nerd Comedy Festival include All
Geeks, an all-inclusive cosplay
variety show started in Chicago by
Adam Guerino and Clown Car To
Sicily, a Chicago-based musical
improv and sketch comedy group
that uses various improv forms,
sketch comedy, choreography, and
beautiful harmonies to have you
singing and laughing as you watch,
and humming as you leave. Other
featured performers include Matt
Griffo & All The Feelings, The
Stuntmen, Steve Gadlin’s Star
Makers, Just The FAQs and more.
Tickets may be purchased at
www.stage773.com or by calling
773-327-5252.
Art AIDS America Exhibition
to Open in Chicago on
World AIDS Day
Art AIDS America, a groundbreaking exhibition which
underscores the deep and
unforgettable presence of HIV in
American art, culminates its U.S.
tour at the Alphawood Gallery
(2401 North Halsted Street,
Chicago). This temporary space
has been created in a former bank
by the Chicago-based Alphawood
Foundation to bring the exhibition
to its only Midwest venue.
This is the first exhibition to
explore how the AIDS crisis forever
changed American art. Since the
first reports of mysterious illnesses
in the early 1980s, HIV and AIDS
have touched nearly every
American in some way, and
operated as an undeniable, though
often unacknowledged, force in
shaping politics, medicine, culture
and society. While acknowledging
and honoring the enormous anger,
loss and grief generated by the
epidemic, the exhibition refutes the
narrative that AIDS is only a tragic
tangent in American art. Instead,
Art AIDS America offers a story of
resilience and beauty revealed
through the visual arts, and of the
communities that gathered to bring
hope and change in the face of a
devastating disease. Admission to the exhibition will
be free with timed tickets; it opens
on World AIDS Day, Thursday,
December 1, 2016, continuing
through Sunday, April 2, 2017.
For more information visit
ArtAIDSAmericaChicago.org
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playing Mondays at 8 pm through –
August 15, 2016 at the NeoFuturist Theater, 5153 N. Ashland
Ave. in Chicago. Throughout the
summer months, Barrel of
Monkeys will premiere stories from
the 2015-16 school year – all
conceived and written by Chicago
Public School students and
adapted for the stage and
performed by Barrel of Monkeys
Company Members.
Clever and funny – touching
and poignant – the collection of
short sketches featured in That’s
Weird Grabdma is equally
entertaining for adults and children.
The line-up of the long running,
critically acclaimed revue changes
each week by audience vote, so no
two shows are ever the same. THEATER
Barrel of Monkeys Presents
THAT’S WEIRD, GRANDMA:
The Summer Strikes Back
Now through August 15
Barrel of Monkeys present brand
new stories at That’s Weird
Grabdma: The Summer Strikes
Back, directed by Artistic
Director Joseph Schupbach,
Underscore Theatre Company
Presents
The 3rd Annual CHICAGO
MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL
August 8 – 28
Underscore Theatre Company is
pleased to announce the full lineup for its third annual Chicago
Musical Theatre Festival, featuring
14 new musical productions.
Created to showcase and support
Chicago’s burgeoning field of
musical theatre creators, this year’s
festival will be held August 8 – 28,
2016 at Victory Gardens Richard
Christiansen Theater, 2433 N.
Lincoln Ave. in Chicago. Each
production will receive four
performances during the Festival.
Back by Popular Demand!
BETTE, LIVE AT THE
CONTINENTAL BATHS
Starring Caitlin Jackson August 12 – September 10
Hell in a Handbag Productions is bringing back last season’s
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From a Righteous Brothers
tribute – to re-imaginings of Greek
mythology – to a celebration of
Jewish cuisine and culture, the
Chicago Musical Theatre Festival
offers something for everyone.
After receiving more than 60
submissions, the festival’s team
has chosen 14 new musicals –
twelve to be presented in full
productions – along with two
workshop productions. This year,
Underscore is also partnering with
CPA Theatricals and Kokandy
Productions for “The Bridge
Program,” in which composing
teams are paired with an
established theatre company that
oversees casting and rehearsals to
give writers and composers a
sense of what’s involved in the
production of a new work. Bailiwick
Chicago, which is presenting one
of this year’s workshop
productions, will also provide
equipment and additional
sponsorship for the festival.
"This year's festival continues
CMTF's trend of growth to better
serve and provide an artistic home
for our vibrant Chicago community
of musical theatre creators,"
steamy, sell-out hit Bette, Live At
The Continental Baths, with Caitlin Jackson recreating Bette
Midler’s historic bathhouse concert
in New York City. This year,
Handbag is bringing the
bathhouse to Boystown with nine
performances only from August 12
– September 10, 2016 at Stage
773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave. in
Chicago. Bette, Live At The
Continental Baths is adapted
by David Cerda and Caitlin
Jackson, directed and
choreographed by Christopher
Pazdernik, with music direction
and arrangements by Jeremy
Ramey.
Handbag Diva and ensemble
member Caitlin Jackson returns to
pay tribute to the Divine Miss M’s
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Barrel of Monkeys, a Chicagobased arts education theater
ensemble now in its 19th season,
conducts creative writing
workshops with 3rd through
5th grade students in underserved
Chicago Public Schools. The
ensemble of actor-educators then
turns their stories and words into
professionally performed theater,
presented both in-school and for
the general public through its
revues. Barrel of Monkeys
annually performs more than 300
student-written stories for the
students in their schools and
175 stories on the stage for the
general public.
For tickets, reservations and
information visit www.barrelofmonkeys.org or call
773-506-7140.
comments Festival Director and
Underscore Theatre Company
Artistic Director Alex HigginHouser. "This year, we’re providing
composing teams more
opportunities than ever before to
connect with the musical theatre
powerhouses of Chicago. Kokandy
Productions and CPA Theatricals
are taking over the production
process for our Bridge Program –
and Bailiwick Chicago will be
producing a workshop in the
festival, joining past participants
such as New American Folk
Theatre. We've also welcomed
productions that have previously
succeeded at the New York
Musical Theatre Festival and now
are looking to bridge the gap into
regional productions so that their
shows can have a life beyond the
first presentation. We are also
thrilled to work with Victory
Gardens to combine our similar
missions of producing
groundbreaking new work."
The full schedule (Tuesdays –
Sundays) can be found at
www.cmtf.org, with single tickets
and festival passes currently onsale.
legendary cabaret act at the
equally legendary Continental
Bathhouse in New York City.
Featuring live music from Jeremy
Ramey as Barry Manilow, Chad as
Mr. Gerald, bathhouse patron and
hairdresser to the stars, and
singing bathhouse boys in
strategically placed towels (TJ
Crawford and Will Wilhelm), this
loving recreation of the beginning
of Ms. Midler’s stellar career
features the fabulous songs she
sang for the boys in the
bathhouse, including Chattanooga
Choo-Choo, Superstar, and of
course, Chapel of Love done in
Bette’s inimitable style.
Tickets are currently available
at www.stage773.com or by
calling 773-327-5252. GRAB CARTER
PORN
Porn Star
Carter Dane
By Tom Olah
Tom Olah: How did you first get
into porn?
Carter Dane: Although I had
always been drawn to the idea of
a porn career, it was my best
friend who had to finally give me
that last little push. This led me to
apply to a few studios
including men.com for whom I
shot my first scene in Men in
Canada. Soon after I was told to
look into cockyboys and they
allowed me to make that amazing
scene with Colby Keller I had
been fantasizing about for so
long a reality. Binbadaboom! An
exclusive contract inssued and
here I am today.
TO: Was the first person you had
sex with a boy or a girl?
CD: It was actually a boy, when I
was younger. We were camping
somewhere in New Hampshire
and this boy and I got along pretty
well. One evening, after a day of
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swimming and mud throwing we
finally went for a shower. Then, well
July 26, 2016
I'll let you guess what happened
next.
TO: Boxers or briefs kind of guy?
CD: I started off as a boxer-brief
kind of guy, but now briefs and
jockstraps have become my
everyday go-tos.
TO: What type of guy turns you
on?
CD: A type of guy that turns me
on, eh? Well, I am attracted by
many types of guys, but in terms
of pure and instant lust I get weak
in the knees when approached by
tall scruffy men. This probably
comes from my longing for a
hairier body and face .
TO: You were recently in Chicago
for the Grabbys so I have to ask
have you ever slept with a fan?
CD: As of now it has never
happened. And anyways, to be
completely honest, most people
have no clue who I am, so I am
pretty sure the chances are slim for
me to sleep with a "fan" per say.
TO: Has working
in porn had any
impact on sex in
your private life?
CD: Well,
working in this
industry gave me
the chance to
meet people
who are, for the
most part,
comfortable
sexually
therefore at ease
with talking
about it.
"Communication
is key" is not just
a saying and it is
valid in so many
areas in one's
life, including
when having
sex. So to
answer your
question before I
blab on for
hours, porn has
made me a better
communicator in my sex life,
enriching every bit of it.
TO: What has been the best thing
about working in porn so far?
CD: As I confess in my upcoming
new scene with no other than
Adam Ramzi on cockyboys.com,
the intimate chemistry that I have
been lucky enough to share with
some of scene partners is
undeniably why I'm still here.
Granted, sometimes I might have
wished I shied away from getting
too close. That being said, I could
never let myself regret falling for
someone or else I fear I would miss
out. "Live and learn" for sure, but
"live" is required for that.
TO: You have an amazing body
what is your workout routine like?
CD: Hmmm... I jog first thing in the
morning, then go to the gym 5-6
days/week while splitting up the
different muscle groups. However,
it does change pretty often
depending on my goals. Also, one's
routine is decided by levels, goals,
etc. hence I feel like "following" my
workout routine would not be a
good idea. Plus I am no expert. But
eh, I am sure Diego Sans or any
other personal trainers out there
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Photos By
Anthony Meade
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could better explain
what a good routine
looks like ;).
TO: You are a
Cockyboys
exclusive so what
can we look forward
to be seeing you in?
CD: As mentioned
before, I am really
excited for my new
scene with Adam
Ramzi coming out
soon. Afterwards,
scenes with Boomer
Banks, Jimmy
Durano and
"cameo" if you want
with Levi Karter will
be featured within
the "Just Love"
summer series
on cocky
boys.com. Some
other exciting
scenes are in the
making but I cannot
say anything just
yet, sorry. Oh! And
there is the "All
Saints" project, which we should
start shooting later this summer.
Fingers crossed for a mid to late fall
release .
TO: Who has been your favorite
cockboy to get naked with so far?
CD: That is a hard one, litterally and
figuratively. I am always
uncomfortable picking, since I can
find ways of complimenting every
scene partner I have had. Mostly
that I was fortunate enough to get to
work with some of the A-lists of the
industry... But at cockyboys
specifically, I have to say that my
lust and desire for Colby Keller has
now found a match in Adam Ramzi.
But I will let you guys be the judge
of that.
TO: Best way for your fans to keep
up with all things Carter Dane?
CD: My Twitter and Instagram
accounts are probably the best
ways to keep tabs. Both are
@_carterdane
PHOTOS COURTESY OF
COCKYBOYS.COM
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773-296-2400 - 2835 N. Sheffield
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3000 N. Halsted #509
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773-296-8400
3000 N. Halsted St, # 711
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773-271-9382
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www.quare2collective.org
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[email protected]
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3857 N. Kostner - 773-725-9026
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Pushing Limits
Sexflix and Chill
2016. FALCON
Directed by Steve Cruz
Starring: Ryan Rose, Sebastian Kross, JJ Knight,
Jacob Peterson, Brenner Bolton, Scott Demarco,
Carter Dane and Jack Hunter
Ryan Rose is online searching for dick and he
finds Carter Dane. Twenty minutes later Dane is
ringing Rose's bell. Once in the door no words are
PORN
said... they both like and get started on getting each
other naked. Dane is the first to go down on Rose,
and when it's time for Rose to work it's some
amazing ass eating on the amazing Dane ass! After
the amazing ass eating, don't be shocked when
Dane needs a dick to sit on.... a better word would
be bounce! Next we have Jacob Peterson in bed
This movie begins with Sebastian Kross and
watching porn wacking off with his friend Scott
Tegan Zayne in their jock straps making out. Then
Demarco (who is sleeping but has a hot bouncing
Kross bends Zayne over and we realize Zayne has a erection). Well Peterson is horny and decides to
toy up his ass that Kross wants even further up
wake up his friend by sucking on his dick. He likes it
there. After some cock sucking, Zayne has a big
so much he fucks Peterson (did not see that
dildo up his ass and Kross is pounding him with it.
coming!). Our next couple is Jack Hunter (2016
Don't worry, Zayne finally gets some real Kross dick Grabby winner for Best New Comer) and Brenner
up in there.
Bolton who is
Next we have
lucky enough to
Sean Zevran
suck on some
and Rex
big Hunter dick!
Cameron, and
The friendly
in no time
Carter Dane is
Cameron has
now hanging
Zevran's big
out in his
dick in his
undies with
mouth. Their
sexy Sebastian
limit pusher is
Kross watching
a big metal
porn and there's
rod going up
no surprise
Cameron's
where this is
ass, followed
going to lead.
by a glass
The real hot
butt plug and
part is Dane
then a long
has an amazing
string of anal
ass and Kross
beads. Luckily
is one of the
Cameron
best ass eaters
could still feel
in porn, so this
Zevran's dick
scene is hot!!!
when the time
Last we have JJ
came. After Dorian Ferro eats Fabio Acconi's ass for Knight (2016 Grabby winner for Hottest Cock)
five minutes, it's Ferro with a mini medal butt plug up having a webcam session. Brenner Bolton is in the
his ass. Follow that with a long metal butt plug, only house and decides he needs to suck on some big
to be followed by the ben wa balls. Ferro still enjoys Knight dick. After Knight eats on Bolton's ass, he has
some Acconi dick after all the ass-play. Last, but not the guts to sit on the big Knight dick! I have to say
least, we have Nick Sterling dilating Alex Mason's
that this movie really felt like an old school Falcon
hole. It starts with his tongue and then a series of
movie... the only thing missing was some white
dildo's to scare the average man. At one point
Calvin Klein undies.
Sterling and a dildo are double fucking Mason's hole!
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3.9 Stars!
3.8 Stars!
2016. Hot House Video
Directed by Nick Foxx
Starring: Dorian Ferro, Sean Zevran, Sebastian
Kross, Tegan Zayne, Alex Mason, Fabio Acconi,
Nick Sterling and Rex Cameron
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157 E. Ohio
BATON SHOW LOUNGE
312-644-5269 • 436 N. Clark
BERLIN • 773-348-4975
954 W. Belmont
BIG CHICKS • 773-728-5511
5024 N. Sheridan
BOBBY LOVES • 773-525-1200
3729 N. Halsted
BRIANS SPEAKEASY
312-464-1400 • 440 N. State St.
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3702 N. Halsted
CHARLIES • 773-871-8887
3726 N. Broadway
CLOSET • 773-477-8533
3325 N. Broadway
CREW BAR • 773-784-CREW
4804 N. Broadway
ELIXIR ANDERSONVILLE
773-975-9244 1509 W. Balmoral
ELIXIR LOUNGE 773-975-9244
3452 N. Halsted
FANTASY NIGHTCLUB
773-325-2233 • 3641 N. Halsted
GRANVILLE ANVIL
773-973-0006 • 1137 W. Granville
HYDRATE • 773-975-9244
3458 N. Halsted
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6406 N. Clark
JEFFERY PUB • 773-363-8555
7041 S. Jeffery Blvd
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3501 N. Halsted
LUCKY HORSESHOE
773-404-3169 • 3169 N. Halsted
MANHANDLER • 773-871-3339
1948 N. Halsted
MARTYS MARTINI BAR •
773-561-6425 • 1511 W Balmoral
MARYS ATTIC •
773-784-6969 5400 N. Clark
MINI-BAR • 773-871-6227
3341 N. Halsted
PROGRESS • 773-697-9268
3359 N. Halsted
REPLAY • 773-975-9244
3439 N. Halsted
ROGERS PARK SOCIAL
6920 N. Glenwood
• 773-281-3355
34 ROSCOES
3356 N. Halsted
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38 SCARLET
3320 N. Halsted
• 773-528-3253
1 SCOT’S
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3206 N. Halsted
ON CLARK •
45 SHAKERS
773-327-5969 3160 N. Clark
39 SIDETRACK • 773-477-9189
3349 N. Halsted
52 SOFO Tap • 773-784-7636
4923 N. Clark
CALL • 773-334-2525
12 THE
1547 W. Bryn Mawr
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3701 N. Broadway
MARY’S
14 HAMBURGER
773-784-6969 • 5400 N. Clark
CAFE
55 HORIZON
773-883-1565
3805 N. Broadway
KIT KAT LOUNGE & SUPPER
22 CLUB • 773-525-1111
3700 N. Halsted
Open Daily 5:30pm-2am
32 LARK • 773-348-9696
3441 N. Halsted
36 NOOKIES • 773-248-9888
3334 N. Halsted
ANDERSONVILLE
67 REPLAY
773-654-1369 • 5358 N. Clark
SOCIAL CLUB
65 REVIVAL
773-293-6435 • 1133 W. Granville
• 773-935-9663
43 WOOD
3335 N. Halsted
CULTURE
ON HALSTED
25 CENTER
3656 N Halsted • 773-472-6469
GERBER/HART LIBRARY
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RAM BOOKSTORE &
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3511 N. Halsted
40 STEAMWORKS BATHHOUSE
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SUBURB BARS
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618-332-6141 (Centreville, IL)
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708-597-8379 (Blue Island, IL)
MANEUVERS •
118 E. JEFFERSON ST.
815-727-7069 (Joliet, IL)
MID CITY COCKTAIL/SUPPER •
124 Main Street
(West Chicago, IL)
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847-258-3087 (Elk Grove, IL)
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CHESTNUT ORGANIZING &
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those floors, area rugs and runners
lots of TLC down on my hands and
knees. Call me at 708-280-8022
[email protected]
HELP WANTED
STYLIST FOR CRAM
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Men’s Boutique: Cram Fashion is
accepting applications for energetic,
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candidates who have an eye for
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coursework in the retail
management/fashion business fields
are preferred. Opportunity for
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[email protected]
MALE DANCERS WANTED;
The Lucky Horseshoe Lounge 3169
N. Halsted. Open Auditions every
Tuesday at 7pm. 21+ I.D. Required.
STEAMWORKS - Come work at
the hottest club in town.
Steamworks is accepting
applications for all positions and
shifts. Stop by and fill out an
application at 3246 N. Halsted.
PIANO/VOICE LESSONS
PIANO OR VOICE LESSONS in my neighborhood studio or your
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