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Art Johnston and Pepe Peña, owners of the iconic gay bar Sidetrack in Northalsted, are the subjects of a new documentary. The film follows their love story — spanning 50 years — and the history of the Sidetrack bar amid the fight for LGBTQ+ rights in Chicago.
Scarlet, a popular nightclub in Hawaii, has filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the state and county.
An extensive look at will be screening at this year's Chicago International Film Festival, which takes place from October 12-23.
'Art and Pep' spotlights the life and love of Chicago civil rights leaders Thu. April 1, 2021 9:20 AM by Ross Forman photo credit // artandpep.org 'ART AND PEP is the love story behind the long battle to love – and live – freely,' says director Mercedes Kane Art Johnston was doing a two-year theatre program at Northwestern University when some guys in the theatre department told him that about bars in Chicago “for people like us.” Johnston soon thereafter walked into a gay bar in 1973 named Shari’s, where a bartender that...