Joseph Erbentraut

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• Posted Today's Transgender Day of Remembrance Honors the Dead to Chicagoist
  The gruesome murder of 19-year-old gay man Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado in Puerto Rico last week has shone new light on the potentially life-threatening dangers facing those who do not easily slide into our society's conventions of gender. He, and 161 others murdered due to anti-transgender violence and prejudice, are memorialized worldwide today as part of Transgender Day of Remembrance.
• Posted GayCo's The Audacity of Nope a Definite Yep to Chicagoist
  GayCo, Chicago's home for gay and lesbian sketch comedy, delivers the laughs with its new show, The Audacity of Nope or How I Fell for a Pansy Scheme, which runs through Dec. 5 at Strawdog Theater. Written by the performers themselves, the show has enlivened recent events facing the LGBT community with loads of laughter that leave practically no stone unturned, including Iowans singing about ham balls and equality.
• Commented on Gay Couple Banned From Wal-Mart For Life (And More Gay News)
  Good call. Thanks for the geography lesson! (I'll blame it on it being a Friday.)...
• Posted Gay Couple Banned From Wal-Mart For Life (And More Gay News) to Chicagoist
  While we've been busy watching just a few of the many fine films screened at Reeling this year, a mighty lot of gay-centric news has come across our desk. Consider this little round-up a crash course in the past two weeks in the world of LGBT Chicago, headlined by a gay couple that now faces perhaps the most far-reaching denial of equal rights in our modern world: A lifetime ban from Wal-Mart.
• Posted Zombies of Mass Destruction Brings The Blood, Laughs to Chicagoist
  The people of Port Gamble have many differences between them - politics, ideologies, religion and sexual orientation to name a few - but they must come together a battle a zombie virus in this film being screened Friday as part of the Reeling International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. The festival concludes Sunday.