Happening Today & Tomorrow
- May 13, 6:00 pm: Monday Meditation • Cedar Rapids and online
- May 13, 6:00 pm: Queries Pre-Teen Support Group • Champaign
- May 14, 3:00 pm: Change and Acceptance Remain (CAR) Support Group • Moline IL
- May 14, 3:00 pm: Pride Hangout • Iowa City
- May 14, 7:00 pm: Fetish, Erotic and Kink Figure Drawing • Chicago, Ill. and online
- May 14, 7:00 pm: LGBTQ+ Singles Mixer • Waterloo
- May 14, 7:00 pm: Lift Up • Champaign
- May 14, 8:00 pm: Bingo at Micky's • Iowa City
- May 14, 9:00 pm: Karaoke at Mary's on 2nd • Davenport IA
- May 14, 9:30 pm: Trivia Tuesday • Des Moines
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The Latest
New lending library at The Project of the Quad Cities reflects LGBTQ, BIPOC and female identities
The Project of the Quad Cities is trying to help provide readings to identities who are most often the target of book bans. TPQC’s new lending library focuses on LGBTQ, BIPOC and female writings, at a time when Pen America reports explosive nationwide growth in book bans in states that include Iowa.
Public hearing today for Iowa TG ID proposal, tax credit pitch in Illinois, business orgs and redlining, the warmest January ever, and the future of cultivated meat
Read today’s curated news briefs, including an advance of what’s led up to this evenings 5 p.m. public hearing over Iowa House Bill 649, and what comes after. Plus, an Illinois lawmaker proposes a tax credit for people leaving states like Iowa, business organizations push back against redlining, January sets a record, cultivated meat gets a closer look.
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Iowa City rocker Nikki Lunden Trotter shares 11-year journey to recovery
Nikki Lunden Trotter, best-known for her songwriting and energetic stage performance as founder and leader singer of Natural Habits Band, gave up alcohol and drugs more than a decade after she realized she needed to. Read about her journey to recovery.
Support for Black and Hispanic teen girls, artificial intelligence and climate change, gun views among multicultural, urban teens
AI is helping to tackle climate change: Detecting ocean garbage for removal, deforestation patterns that may be harmful, and icebergs melting the fastest are ways that artificial intelligence is having a positive impact on the world, writes the World Economic Forum....
Progress on minimum wage, lack of progress on racial and gender leadership in Hollywood, and more
Minimum wage. Climate change. Women and people of color in Hollywood. And Claudia Gay’s resignation. It’s in today’s curated briefs and links.
Understanding new blood donation rules, stopping pre-textual stops, dangers of doomsaying, and are Iowa Republicans standing down on LGBTQ+ issues this year?
Will Iowa Republicans stand down this session when it comes to LGBTQ+ issues? The Quad-City Times writes, yes. But is that good news? Caleb McCullough writes that Republicans also plan to focus more strongly on education and "religious freedom." A quick reminder of...