NEW ISSUE: A look at Chicago’s Black queer nightlife

Valentine's Day illustration by Anya Davidson on the cover [View this email in your browser]( [READER Logo]( Daily Reader | February 8, 2024 [New issue out now: online and in print!]( On the cover: Illustration by [Anya Davidson]( [a cheeseburger on a orange tray]( [Making Black queer spaces]( How the last 100 years of Chicago’s LGBTQ+ nightlife influenced the Black queer party organizers of today. by [DMB (Debbie-Marie Brown)]( | [Read more]( → [Finding poetry in the mundane]( At Cleve Carney Museum of Art, three painters present contrasting portraits of our city. by [Dmitry Samarov]( | [Read more]( → [The price of safety]( Selling Kabul is powerful in its words and silences. by [Amanda Finn]( | [Read more]( → [Lidia Vomito, DJ of the Graveyard Hour]( “I like to visualize people sitting in their homes and turning on the radio and making their own visuals in their minds as they listen. It’s sort of like Lights Out.” by [Jamie Ludwig]( | [Read more]( → Hot off the grill every Friday. [GET THE INSIDE SCOOP ON FOOD & DRINK]( Get the latest issue of the Chicago Reader Thursday, February 8, 2024 [READ ONLINE: VOL. 53, NO. 9]( [VIEW/DOWNLOAD ISSUE (PDF)]( [Become a member of the Chicago Reader.]( [Twitter icon]( [Facebook icon]( [Instagram icon]( [LinkedIn icon]( [YouTube icon]( [Website icon]( [Logo] You received this email because you signed up for newsletters from the Chicago Reader. Want fewer emails from us? [Click here to choose what you want us to send you](. Or, [unsubscribe from all Reader emails](. We’ll miss you! [Sign up for emails from the Chicago Reader]( | [Forward this e-mail to a friend]( © 2024 Chicago Reader. All rights reserved. Chicago Reader, 2930 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 102, Chicago, IL 60616