Join us for the opening reception at Gerber/Hart of this special exhibit looking back at 40 years of Windy City Times, Chicago’s LGBTQ+ newspaper and media company.

The opening reception from 6-8 PM will feature a conversation with co-founder of Windy City Times Tracy Baim and historian John D’Emilio. Tickets are $50 and include appetizers and beverages.

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Windy City Times @40: Breaking News, Breaking Silence will be on display in the Sandfield Exhibition Gallery from through January 2026.

The exhibit includes dozens of covers from Windy City Times, Outlines, BLACKlines, En La Vida, Nightlines and more. Plus special photos from the 1987 March on Washington, the first major AIDS protests and benefits, parades, pioneers, and nonprofits. Some of these images have never been seen by the public. Also see buttons, posters, t-shirts, and other special items from the past.

The exhibition and reception will take place on the second floor of 6500 N Clark Street. Stairs are located inside the front door (by the entrance to Walgreens). An elevator is located at the end of the hallway (past the Howard Brown front desk).

Tracy Baim

Tracy Baim is executive director of Press Forward Chicago, a pooled fund for community journalism based at The Chicago Community Trust. Baim is co-founder and owner of Windy City Times. She is former publisher of the Chicago Reader newspaper. Baim has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Chicago Headline Club and the Chicago Journalists Association. She is in the NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists Hall of Fame and the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame. She has won numerous LGBTQ community and journalism honors, including the Studs Terkel Award in 2005 and the Lambda Legal Bon Foster Award in 2023. Baim has written and/or edited 14 books, her newest a biography of Howard Brown Health.
John D’Emilio

A pioneer in the field of LGBTQ history and the history of sexuality, John D’Emilio is the author of several books, including Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America; Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-70; and Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties. He has served twice as president of the board of Gerber/Hart Library and Archives, and his book, Queer Legacies: Stories from Chicago’s LGBTQ Archives, is based entirely on research in Gerber/Hart’s
About Windy City Times:

Founded in September 1985, Windy City Times helped document the rise of Chicago’s LGBTQ+ movement, from the fight for gay rights to the battles against HIV/AIDS, the rise of trans organizing, to the push for visibility by lesbians and people of color. That and so much more was documented in the thousands of issues of LGBTQ+ media published by Windy City Times, Outlines, and sister publications.
About Gerber/Hart

Founded in 1981, Gerber/Hart Library and Archives is a non-profit organization that seeks to collect, preserve, and make accessible the history and culture of LGBTQ+ communities in Chicago and the Midwest in order to advance the larger goal of achieving justice and equality.

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