Welcome to the Queer Issue 2025!

Welcome to the Queer Issue 2025!

Show up. Fuck shit up. Be a little vain. Be safe. Run faster than the cops. by Hannah Murphy Winter Remember June 2024? Me neither. That was at least a decade ago. But sliding into Pride Month, it’s palpably different this year. In the final week that we were making this issue, we covered two far-right, anti-LGBTQ rallies in our own backyard. A group called Mayday USA intentionally came into our historically queer neighborhood, set up a Bumbersh…

Little Village issue 341: June 2025 - Little Village

Is Pride a party or a protest? Are cops welcome? What does it mean to resist? Local leaders with skin in the game discuss what’s at stake as the state clamps down on LGBTQ+ rights. Also in this issue, trans writer Achilles F. Seastrom visits queer-friendly Iowa congregations that were practicing radical inclusivity long before conservatives learned the word “woke.” Plus, John Busbee profiles a pair of old friends, mural makers, DnD roleplayers a…