Fieldwork FlashbacksAs Treasure Island closes its stores and union workers sue the grocery store chain, I began to reflect of all of the changes that have...
Gay Life's Featured Bars from the mid-1970sBelow are some clippings from Chicago's Gay Life, chronicling some of the gay neighborhood's most prominent gay bars in and around New...
Research Media CoverageI was organizing the newspaper articles I clipped during my fieldwork and came across one of my study of Boystown. It was published in...
In the archivesI spent this week doing a lot of revisions and going back to the archives, page by page, flipping through resources like Chicago Gay...
East Lakeview Arts FestivalFor the next few months, I will be writing short pieces here about key moments documented through my fieldwork in Chicago's Boystown that...
Starbucks and The Problem with Commercial "Safe Space"In the days after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, acts of racism, Islamophobia, homophobia, and misogyny that...
The LGBTQ+ People and Festivals of Boystown, ChicagoHere are some photos of Pride and Market Days from 2007-2010, which I took during my ethnographic fieldwork in Boystown, Chicago. #gay...
On Writing Ethnography (for the first time)Writing has never been a problem for me. I have always loved writing. But writing an ethnography has been such a huge challenge. There...