Oh, Billy. He always seems to make the news these days for everything but music. Yes, the Smashing Pumpkins are slated to play the Riviera this fall in support of a new album, but the thing everyone is talking about right now is his online feud with a guitar pedal engineer who also happens to be a transgender activist. Even if either side was justified in responding to defend themselves, the slinging and name calling that ensued went way too far. more ›

Hunters Nightclub, a suburban gay bar that gained international media attention earlier this year by instituting a door policy banning patrons whose ID photos do not match their gender presentation, is the subject of an activist demonstration planned for Fri., Oct. 23, at 11 p.m. Transgendered Chicagoans and their allies will "storm" the bar dressed in drag and gender-variant gear as a challenge to the policy they (plus the ACLU and gay media nationwide) consider discriminatory. more ›