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Kevin Romero and Philip Maziarz walk with their dogs Parker and Wickett outside their Uptown home on Saturday, April 15, 2023, in Chicago.
LGBTQ residents moving to Illinois from states with conservative agendas: ‘I don’t want to be ashamed of where I live’ Mark Niehaus-Rincon, 67, has lived in Omaha, Nebraska, for 12 years but says “life is too short” to stay there. He and his husband, Alex, a native of Omaha, have faced the silent treatment from others at their gym for 10 years. They’ve also dealt with uncomfortable and hostile workplace environments and homophobic slurs.
That treatment, combined with Nebraska’s current legislative agenda — which includes restricting women’s access to reproductive health care and limiting the rights of the LGBTQ community — helped push Niehaus-Rincon and his husband toMayor-elect Brandon Johnson speaks the media Wednesday, April 19, 2023, at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield.
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