Chicago-based Built In released its 2022 LGBTQIA+ Advocacy Awards Program today, recognizing employers who excel in creating an inclusive workplace for its LGBTQIA+ employees. Companies including Chime, Dropbox, Merck, and Zipper
In conjunction with the globally-recognized Pride Month celebration, NBCUniversal Local Chicago has announced its two-time GLAAD Media Award-nominated LGBTQIA+ discussion series, It’s OK to Ask Questions, will be premiering brand-new episodes
ONE at Optimus is bringing on Megan Stowe, an accomplished LGBTQIA+ commercial, TV, and film director, to its talent roster. Stowe, who was featured in SHOOT’s 2023 New Directors Showcase,
For the first-time ever, NBCUniversal Local Chicago’s 24/7 live streaming channel – NBC 5 Chicago News – will be delivering commercial-free, live streaming coverage of the 2024 Chicago Pride Parade on Sunday, June 30 beginning
Grindr Inc. the world’s largest social networking app for the LGBTQ+ community, has announced the opening of a new office in Chicago. This new office will serve as the company’s
Award-winning health and wellness advertising agency AbelsonTaylor Group received the inaugural ACE Aspire Award for its employee Psychological Safety Initiative from the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA). The Award was presented yesterday at
Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival unspools 41 feature films and 12 short film programs over the following 10 days with virtual streaming continuing until October 8. Reeling is the second longest-running film
The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics has announced its 14th Dorian TV Awards nominations for the best in all of TV, mainstream to LGBTQIA+ content. Leading the list of TV’s
The 38th Chicago Latino Film Festival announced today the winners and runners-up for its Audience Choice Awards. The slate of 50 features and 36 shorts from Latin America, Spain, Portugal
The Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago announces the 2021 winners of the Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Black Harvest Film Festival Prize.
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center announces the full festival schedule for its 27th Annual Black Harvest Film Festival, which will take place both
Chicago nonprofit, 826CHI, is holding their biggest fundraising event of the year today, October 14th! “Eat Your Words” aims to raise enough money to ensure 750 local students have equitable access to
For more than three decades, Burnetters have hedged their bets on Cannes Lions winners with 90% accuracy! After a supremely challenging 2020 and a year off for the Cannes Festival
Twenty years after launching the first LGBTQ print ad encouraging travelers to “see the world on your terms,” travel site Orbitz is debuting a new national ad campaign and call to action
Charles Andrew Gardner’s Long Ride Home will compete for Best Short Film this week at Academy Award winner Geena Davis’ Bentonville Film Festival. In the powerful short film, Long Ride Home, Brandon is an
The 3% Movement will host a digital conference themed “The Radically Inclusive Future of Work” for their 9th annual event, July 27-29, where attendees are invited to reimagine work from
The creative agency and the Chicago healthcare center offer dignity, inclusion and resources through new “Culturally Competent Healthcare” campaign mcgarrybowen Chicago abetted the Howard Brown Health Center in a monthlong
Fourth annual run premieres the doc, “Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché” about the world’s first female director Columbia College Chicago will launch the fourth annual Chicago Feminist
According to an ongoing study at San Diego State University, a mere 18% of 2017’s top 500 grossing films were directed by women. In other words, audiences are missing out.
There was a collective round of “yesses” heard along with gasps as the multitalented “queer girl from the South Side” was recognized for her amazing work on the just as
