Chicago: Queer & Now: Recent Episodes
Chicago Reader, Taryn Allen, Adam M. Rhodes
Chicago Queer & Now is a podcast hosted by Chicago Reader staffers Adam M. Rhodes (they/them) and Taryn Allen (she/her) who are exploring Chicago's queer culture through guest interviews, dives into the Reader archives, and conversations about current queer events, pop culture, identity, and more.
The show is hosted by Adam Rhodes and Taryn Allen, produced by Brianna Wellen, and edited by Adam Rhodes. It features original theme music by Richard Brasseale, voice work by Kirk Williamson, and show logos by Taryn Allen. Reach out to us at CQN@chicagoreader.com, follow us on Twitter @chicagoqueernow, and support this podcast and the rest of the Chicago Reader team by going to chicagoreader.com/donate.
This show is brought to you in part by the “RISE UP: Stonewall and the LGBTQ rights movement” exhibit opening October 17 at Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie. Find out more at ILHolocaustMuseum.org.
In the season finale Taryn and Adam reflect on the first ten episodes of Chicago Queer and Now, the ways in which the show has impacted listeners, and being vulnerable while exploring queer identity in a very public way.
Have a question for Adam and Taryn? Want to share your queer pick of the week? E-mail cqn@chicagoreader.com or tweet @chicagoqueernow to hear your question answered on the pod!
Stay queer, Chicago!
Related Reader stories:
QTTRs make their mark by Taryn Allen
The Sky’s the limit by Andrew Davis
Legalizing equity by Tatiana Walk-Morris
Links to people, places, and things mentioned in today’s ep:
Why Is Gender-Neutral Clothing So Boring? by Robin Craig
The Home Edit
Taryn Allen (the one and only!)
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This week Taryn and Adam discuss their holiday plans and touch on the challenges queer people may face during this season. Our hosts are then joined by journalist Sonal Soni (they/them) to discuss their sprawling career aspirations (marine biology, anyone?), queer representation in media, and finding their place in the world of journalism.
Have a question for Adam and Taryn? Want to share your queer pick of the week? E-mail cqn@chicagoreader.com or tweet @chicagoqueernow to hear your question answered on the pod!
Stay queer, Chicago!
Related Reader stories:
The bumpy road from Stonewall to Pride in the Park by Devlyn Camp
Happiest Season review by Marissa De La Cerda
Mutual aid networks help keep us warm by Salem Collo-Julin
Links to people, places, and things mentioned in today’s ep:
Rise Up: Stonewall and the LGBTQ Rights Movement
Broadway Youth Center
Brave Space Alliance
Molasses
Sonal Soni’s work at The DePaulia
“I Kissed a Girl” by Katy Perry
E.R. Fightmaster on Grey’s Anatomy
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Taryn and Adam talk about how gross (but lovable!) their pets are. Then, hold onto your hats Harry Styles stans, the hosts go hard into the pop star’s queer baiting, discuss their own “Ring of Keys” moments, and discuss Adam’s recent reporting on a murder trial.
Have a question for Adam and Taryn? Want to share your queer pick of the week? E-mail cqn@chicagoreader.com or tweet @chicagoqueernow to hear your question answered on the pod!
Stay queer, Chicago!
Related Reader stories:
Chicago Reader’s Pets Issue
Queer history through the eyes of the Readerby Adam M. Rhodes
‘If they cannot hear you when you whisper, watch when you say a cuss word’ by Francesca Mathewes
Alison Bechdel remembers Mama by Elly Fishman
Kinky or killer? By Adam M. Rhodes
Links to people, places, and things mentioned in today’s ep:
Billy Porter’s comments on Harry Styles
Nancy
Fun Home
“Ring of Keys”
Husky Jeans
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This week Taryn and Adam discuss the inherent queerness of Halloween, goth camp, and favorite horror movies–queer horror movies, of course. They then get into Adam’s upcoming piece on death doulas and the profound experiences and challenges that come with the profession.
Have a question for Adam and Taryn? Want to share your queer pick of the week? E-mail cqn@chicagoreader.com or tweet @chicagoqueernow to hear your question answered on the pod!
Stay queer, Chicago!
Related Reader stories:
How to not be an offensive jerk this Halloweenby Derrick Clifton
The five best horror films shot and set in Chicago by Drew Hunt
Cannibals, vampires, and visions, oh my! by Cody Corrall
Links to people, places, and things mentioned in today’s ep:
Woolly Mammoth Chicago
Foursided
Linda Belcher as “Cheriff” inBob’s Burgers
Jennifer’s Body
I Know What You Did Last Summer
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
Halloween sugar cookies
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This week Taryn and Adam get into Lil Nas X’s iconic debut album and their own musical pasts then talk tattoos and creative expression.
Have a question for Adam and Taryn? Want to share your queer pick of the week? E-mail cqn@chicagoreader.com or tweet @chicagoqueernow to hear your question answered on the pod!
Stay queer, Chicago!
Related Reader stories:
Lil Nas X embraces his role as queer hero by Adam M. Rhodes
QTTRs make their mark by Taryn Allen
Chicago’s gay grandaddy of tattooing by Micco Caporale
Links to people, places, and things mentioned in today’s ep:
Montero by Lil Nas X
“Lucky” by Britney Spears
Hayley Kioko
Troye Sivan
@lucyarbeit
@scratch.pepper
Tom of Finland
@wild_coma
@doe.parker
The Great British Baking Show
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This week Taryn and Adam explore the highs and lows of modern-day Pride celebrations. They’re then joined by Reader co-publisher and co-editor in chief Karen Hawkins who talks about passion projects, lesbian joy, and being a Black, queer woman in mainstream media while our hosts shower her with compliments.
Have a question for Adam and Taryn? Want to share your queer pick of the week? E-mail cqn@chicagoreader.com or tweet @chicagoqueernow to hear your question answered on the pod!
Stay queer, Chicago!
Related Reader stories:
‘It was really a freeing kind of feeling’ by Devlyn Camp
What should allies do after Pride? by Marina Labarthe del Solar and Carter Schneider
The bumpy road from Stonewall to Pride in the Park by Devlyn Camp
No Pride in a police state by Adam M. Rhodes
Links to people, places, and things mentioned in today’s ep:
Chicago Pride Parade & Festival
Queer Liberation March
Helsingborg Pride
Denver Pride
Rebellious Magazine
NLGJA
Glee
Pose
Queer Capricorn Party
Darling by K. Ancrum
Black and Pink
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This week Taryn and Adam dive into the Reader archives searching for queer coverage, attempt to decipher classified ads of years past, and learn more about Chicago’s leather scene.
Have a question for Adam and Taryn? Want to share your queer pick of the week? E-mail cqn@chicagoreader.com or tweet @chicagoqueernow to hear your question answered on the pod!
Stay queer, Chicago!
Related Reader stories:
The angriest queer by Joseph Crump (1990)
Requiem for a teenage cross-dresser by Todd Savage (1994)
LA&M’s dirty 30 by Adam M. Rhodes
Gay bathhouses were barely surviving. And then came COVID-19. by Adam M. Rhodes
Not a drag: The Golden Girls find a new home by KT Hawbaker
Links to people, places, and things mentioned in today’s ep:
Archive Dive
Jaboukie Young-White
Leather Archives & Museum
International Mr. Leather
That Golden Girls Show
“Hippity Hoppity Frogs”
Telfar bag
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This week Taryn and Adam reflect on gender performance during the pandemic, mourn the queer communities they haven’t yet gotten to explore, and discuss Adam’s recent reporting on poppers.
Have a question for Adam and Taryn? Want to share your queer pick of the week? E-mail cqn@chicagoreader.com or tweet @chicagoqueernow to hear your question answered on the pod!
Stay queer, Chicago!
Related Reader stories:
The pandemic, gender, and me by Adam M. Rhodes
(Re)opening up by Reader staff
Sheltering in a collapsed place by Bill Savage
Links to people, places, and things mentioned in today’s ep:
Berlin Nightclub
Marty’s Martini Bar
Sidetrack Chicago
FDA advisory against poppers
Continuum by Chella Man
UGGPRIDE
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This week Taryn and Adam revel in their loving relationships and queer expression, then talk with Reader culture editor Salem Collo-Julin (she/they) about accidentally coming out on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Have a question for Adam and Taryn? Want to share your queer pick of the week? Email at cqn@chicagoreader.com or tweet @chicagoqueernow to hear your question answered on the pod!
Stay queer, Chicago!
Related Reader stories:
Coming out over and over againby Salem Collo-Julin
After nearly seven decades, A Secret Love is secret no more by Taryn Allen
LGBTQ Glossary by S. Nicole Lane
You can read all of Salem’s work in the Reader here
Links to people, places, and things mentioned in today’s ep:
Monica (Taryn’s gf)
Queer Nation
Berlin Nightclub
Northalsted Market Days
Jeffrey Pub
Unabridged Bookstore
Women & Children First
People Like Us Bookstore
Vans pants
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In the season debut, hosts Adam M. Rhodes and Taryn Allen share their evolving personal wardrobes, hate on Harry Styles, and dive deep into each other's queer identities.
Have a question for Adam and Taryn? Email at cqn@chicagoreader.com or tweet @chicagoqueernow to hear your question answered on the pod!
Stay queer, Chicago!
Related Reader stories:
The pandemic, gender, and me by Adam M. Rhodes
Rebirth Garments makes clothes for every body by Aimee Levitt
What were you watching, reading, or listening to when you first came out? by KT Hawbaker
Links to people, places, and things mentioned in today’s ep:
Foxtrot
Meow Wolf
Big Boy Pin Ups
Nasty Pig
Briana King
Lane Webber
Tj Lucas-Box
Billy Porter
Alok Vaid-Menon
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complexedited byEric A. Stanley and Nat Smith
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey
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Chicago Queer & Now is a podcast hosted by Chicago Reader staffers Adam M. Rhodes (they/them) and Taryn Allen (she/her) who are exploring Chicago's queer culture through guest interviews, dives into the Reader archives, and conversations about current queer events, pop culture, identity, and more.
Season one premieres Tuesday, September 7.
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Bonus interview from the original Windy City Times/Chicago Reader collaboration with Amy Matheny.
We look back at 40 years of HIV+ representations in Film and Television with Dr. Jennifer Brier, Director of Gender and Women’s Studies at University of Illinois at Chicago
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Bonus interview from the original Windy City Times/Chicago Reader collaboration with Amy Matheny.
On this Chicago: Queer and Now, Amy talks with KC Ortiz. KC Ortiz is becoming a tour de force Chicago music maker who the Chicago Reader says “drops meaty, assertive rhymes with a triumphant punch, and her frisky performances can make any instrumental sound better.”
New SINGLE! STREAM “BEAT BEAT BEAT”: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/kcortiz/beat-beat-beat
http://kayceeortizmusic.com/
In the Reader:
"Chicago rapper KC Ortiz brings buckle-your-seat-belts fun to The Campground"by Leor Galil (2020)
"Talking about God, the air force, and Britney Spears with Chicago rapper KC Ortiz"by Julia Hale (2018)
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On today’s inaugural show, Amy Matheny talks with Windy City Times Editor Andrew Davis and Senior Staff Reporter Matt Simonette about the 1 year anniversary of the pandemic and the new collaborative effort of WCT and Chicago Reader. (Download the special insert PDF.) Plus our deep dive of the Reader Cover story “A Racial Reckoning for Boystown” with publisher & editor, Karen Hawkins and Social Justice Reporting Fellow Adam Rhodes.
Featuring the music of KC Ortiz: "Ain’t Tamer," "Miss Pearl," "Friends of Cha," "Skinhouse"
Related Stories: "Chicago rapper KC Ortiz brings buckle-your-seat-belts fun to The Campground" by Leor Galil (2020) and "Talking about God, the air force, and Britney Spears with Chicago rapper KC Ortiz" by Julia Hale (2018)
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