Erica Gunderson | July 17, 2021, 5:30 pm
New Documentary ‘Seguimos Aquí’ Explores LGBTQ+ COVID-19 Experience
Erica Gunderson | July 17, 2021 5:30 pm
The last 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic have laid bare the many inequities marginalized communities face, inequities that the LGBTQ+ community knows all too well.
A new documentary, “Seguimos Aquí: Pride, Pandemic and Perseverance” explores those inequities through the experiences of four LGBTQ+-identifying Latinx Chicagoans as they navigate the COVID-19 pandemic in their personal and professional lives.
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Filmmaker David Moran of Soapbox Productions and Organizing says making a documentary about a pandemic as the pandemic is still happening presented both challenges and opportunities.
Black Chicago Activists ‘Not Holding Their Breath’ for Biden-Harris Administration to Make Sweeping Changes
Many Black Americans were enthralled when President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were inaugurated Wednesday, Jan. 20, but some Black Chicago activists aren’t depending on the country’s new leadership to make gains for them.
“I’m afraid that Biden and Harris won’t be held accountable,” Brave Space Alliance coordinator and organizer Tatyana Chante told Block Club Chicago. “I don’t think they’ll cause as much damage as Trump would’ve done if he had been elected for another four years, but I am worried about what they won’t get done.”