Genderqueer Chicago
Genderqueer Chicago is an in-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).[1] A former member described the group's attendees circa 2009 as "pink-haired, pierced and denim-clad mischief-makers" who were often loud by the standards of the library where they convened.[2] Another member described GQC members as "mostly queer, genderqueer, and/or trans-identified".[3]
The group's website said they sought to give people a place to discuss new perspectives on gender, to create visibility for gender variant people, and to make Chicagoans in general aware of the concerns of gender variant people.[4]
Every other month, the group had special meetings 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).[1]
Some attendees chose to keep socializing after the end of most meetings, relocating to a nearby 24-hour diner.[2]
Ryan of the Beyond Bryn Mawr blog called the group "one of the reasons [Ryan] moved to Chicago" and
Works Cited
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Blog". Genderqueer Chicago. Captured by Wayback Machine January 8, 2018.https://web.archive.org/web/20180108203705/http://www.genderqueerchicago.org/blog/
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 White, Ro. "Take Me Back to Standees". Autostraddle. August 9, 2022. https://www.autostraddle.com/take-me-back-to-standees/
- ↑ Ryan. "Thank You, Genderqueer Chicago." Beyond Bryn Mawr. April 13, 2011. https://beyondbrynmawr.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/thank-you-genderqueer-chicago/
- ↑ "About". Genderqueer Chicago.https://web.archive.org/web/20180313111222/http://www.genderqueerchicago.org/
