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[[File:Genderqueerchicago.jpg|alt=A group portrait of 16 people in 3 rows. Many are smiling or making silly poses for the camera. |thumb|Genderqueer Chicago members circa 2018.]] | [[File:Genderqueerchicago.jpg|alt=A group portrait of 16 people in 3 rows. Many are smiling or making silly poses for the camera. |thumb|Genderqueer Chicago members circa 2018.]] | ||
Genderqueer Chicago is an iɲ-person community group that hosted discussions and clothing swaps. Meetings were "open to anyone... wanting to talk and think about gender" (except reporters and researchers).<ref name=":0">"Blog". Genderqueer Chicago. Captured by Wayback Machine January 8, 2018.https://web.archive.org/web/20180108203705/http://www.genderqueerchicago.org/blog/</ref | Genderqueer Chicago is an iɲ-person community group that hosted discussions and clothing swaps. Meetings were "open to anyone... wanting to talk and think about gender" (except reporters and researchers).<ref name=":0">"Blog". Genderqueer Chicago. Captured by Wayback Machine January 8, 2018.https://web.archive.org/web/20180108203705/http://www.genderqueerchicago.org/blog/</ref> | ||
The group's website described their goals as giving people a place to discuss new perspectives on gender, creating visibility for gender variant people, and making Chicagoans in general aware of the concerns of gender variant people.<ref>"About". Genderqueer Chicago.https://web.archive.org/web/20180313111222/http://www.genderqueerchicago.org/</ref> | The group's website described their goals as giving people a place to discuss new perspectives on gender, creating visibility for gender variant people, and making Chicagoans in general aware of the concerns of gender variant people.<ref>"About". Genderqueer Chicago.https://web.archive.org/web/20180313111222/http://www.genderqueerchicago.org/</ref> | ||
Every other month, the group had special meeting where they assembled blanket forts in the meeting room and discussed topics chosen by members that day (rather than a single topic chosen ahead of time).<ref name=":0" /> | |||
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