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LSA of Eastern Iowa seeks more players and spectators, including from the Quad Cities
The Lambda Softball Association of Eastern Iowa is gearing up for a spring season featuring a new W+ league, more Quad Cities outreach, a focus on spectators through concessions, and more.
New column, The Jaded Optimist, introduces improved MainStream grounded in thoughtfulness, expression
The Jaded Optimist is a new column about thoughts and experiences from MainStream Multimedia, an LGBTQ affirming and intersectionally aware magazine and website serving Illinois and Iowa.
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Local civil rights history honored at MLK Park dedication in Davenport
Read about how the new MLK Park in Davenport honors not only MLK, but local civil rights history.
Siouxland Pride Alliance, SUX Pride team up for four days of Sioux City Pride
Four days of Pride in Sioux City starts Thursday with a parade and continues through Sunday with a community resource fair, drag shows, food vendors, kids’ activities, educational seminars, an interfaith service, and more.
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.
Hundreds attend Clock Inc. Grand Opening in Rock Island
An overflowing crowd turned out April 28 from throughout the Quad Cities to help Clock Inc. LGBTQ+ Community Center celebrate its new space at 4102 46th Ave., Rock Island.
About the missing $30,000: why I had to write it
I wrote one of the hardest stories I’ve ever had to write, earlier this week. It was a piece about $30,000 in donations to a revered LGBTQ+ Pride organization that is “unaccounted for.” I wrote it as a freelance writer for another publication, but an angry social...
New, worse opioid epidemic calls for better solutions including legal cannabis in Iowa
Cannabis legalization in Iowa, or at least expansion of its medical marijuana program, needs to be part of the solution to a new, worsening opioid epidemic.