Elle Halo: Remembering LGBT heroes like Josie Carter and the trail blazed for future generations
The Cooper Do-Nuts Riot of May 1959. The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot of August 1966. The Black Cat Protests of February 1967. Few of these early LGBTQ uprisings ever made news headlines, and few if any factual police records exist from those incidents. As the greatest...
When AIDS became an epidemic: Memories of finding joy during the struggle despite all of the grief and loss
Forty years ago the CDC reported the first cases of what would come to be known as AIDS among five previously healthy gay men. I was a teenager at that time, coming to grips with my sexual orientation. When I moved to San Francisco as a 23-year-old gay man, AIDS was a...
James Baldwin: On speaking the naked truth to a country caught in a lie of its pretended humanism
Honoring the loss and the inestimable gifts left behind, we mark what would have been the 97th birthday of James Baldwin. An incandescent writer, masterful orator, out gay Black man, and fierce advocate for justice who long and incisively spoke “the naked...
Watchdog groups files campaign finance complaint in Wisconsin against ALEC’s voter software scheme
Wisconsin was among 15 states listed in a recent campaign finance complaint filed against the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and its legislative leaders, for illegally giving and receiving sophisticated voter management campaign software linked to the...
Free Cream Puffs: Wisconsin State Fair collaborates with DHS to host on-site COVID-19 vaccine clinic
Governor Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) announced a collaboration with the Wisconsin State Fair to hold an on-site COVID-19 vaccine clinic for the duration of the fair. The vaccine clinic will be open from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. from...
DNC 2024: Milwaukee contemplates another attempt to host the Democratic National Convention
Mayor Tom Barrett said Milwaukee “remains interested in being a national political convention site.” But he added that the process of bidding to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention would require buy-in from a number of parties. The national party has sent...
Wisconsin grants $10M of aid to local investment projects in effort to boost state’s tourism industry
Governor Tony Evers visited the Riverwalk Commons Pickleball Courts in Milwaukee on August 3 to announce that $10 million of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds would be used to provide grants to bolster Wisconsin’s tourism industry. The grants would also...
Illegal sidewalk riding of electric scooters triggers public safety ban on Downtown Milwaukee usage
A mandated resolution by Milwaukee required Zone 1 “pause” after excess of trips on sidewalks causes safety problems. Beginning August 3, companies that operate electric scooters in participation of the 2021 City of Milwaukee Pilot Study were prohibited...
MCTS Freeway Flyers to resume commuter service on August 30 as more Downtown offices reopen
The Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) announced on August 2 that all Freeway Flyer routes would resume service, with schedule adjustments, on August 30. Freeway Flyers Routes 40, 43, 44, 46, 48, 49, 79, and 143 are buses that operate primarily between Park &...
Study finds that monitoring Milwaukee wastewater for SARS-CoV-2 virus can evaluate community health
Because SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can be found in sewage, the concentration of the virus in wastewater gives public health officials the opportunity to monitor an entire community at once, independent of testing. But sewage surveillance during a...
The Unvaccinated Penis: Research finds mild COVID-19 can cause male infertility and sexual dysfunction
By Ranjith Ramasamy, Associate Professor of Urology, University of Miami Contrary to myths circulating on social media, COVID-19 vaccines do not cause erectile dysfunction and male infertility. What is true: SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, poses a risk for...
Live music returns: Foo Fighters perform first major concert in Milwaukee since COVID to sold-out crowd
The famed Seattle rock band Foo Fighters performed to a sold-out crowd at the new American Family Insurance Amphitheater on July 30, the first concert held at the Milwaukee venue since the city was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Founded by former Nirvana drummer Dave...
