Cook County is urging those who have not received the COVID-19 vaccine to get vaccinated. As an incentive, the health department is giving away free tickets to Six Flags Great America. Cook County Health is offering everyone age 12+ the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine free of charge at our mass vaccination sites located in Des Plaines,…
Wizard World is returning to live events on October 15-17 with Wizard World Chicago at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois. The organizers say that all tickets purchased for the originally scheduled event in 2020 – which was also postponed from August 2021 – will be honored. Other ticket details, including sale…
Replay Lincoln Park hopes to appeal to both Millenials and those who experienced Nickelodeon’s heyday with a new pop-up arcade bar concept that combines ’90s nostalgia with a love for retro gaming. Every kid from the late 1980s into the 1990s watched a Nickelodeon animation at some point. These cartoon series – such as Rugrats,…
Last month, Bachelor star Colton Underwood came out as gay in an interview on Good Morning America. Colton said he has been running from himself and hating himself for a long time. He stated that he came to terms with his sexual orientation earlier this year and that there was a long time where he…
If you’re like us, you’re always looking for the next big movie or show to watch on Netflix. Thankfully with Netflix, you never have to wait very long. New content is constantly coming every single month. In fact, it doesn’t just come in one dump at the start of the month but in tranches throughout…
Colette has won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short at the 93rd Academy Awards. The documentary appeared in the video game Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond. Colette is a documentary from Respawn Entertainment in conjunction with Oculus Studios. Respawn is a studio of Electronic Arts. This achievement is one of the biggest in the industry,…
When you live in a society that undervalues you in medicine, education, politics, religion, policing, and general societal rhetoric, as a gay person, it becomes quite easy to internalize such negative beliefs. Internalized homophobia is the internalization of negative beliefs about oneself or one’s group, specifically homosexuals. It leads to a person hating or disliking…
Jeopardy has just announced a slew of new guest hosts including LeVar Burton, Robin Roberts, and George Stephanopoulos. The popular television game show is currently rotating guest hosts after the passing of long-time host Alex Trebek, who sadly succumbed to pancreatic cancer last November at the age of 80. The current guest host is Anderson…
I am a 25-year-old man who is uncomfortable around heterosexual men. I think my discomfort started around the age of eleven, around the time that I entered middle school. Before middle school, I had several guy friends. We would play video games together, watch TV and movies, play sports, wrestle, and have sleepovers. But around the age of…
The holy month of Ramadan is a time of fasting when Muslims across the globe place a focus on mercy, gratitude, and spiritual revival. The holy month requires abstaining from food from sunrise to sunset each day, but with that comes a delight each night: eating. Not everyone who fasts has a meal guaranteed at…
