To help foster and nurture a community conversation in Chicago about gay men's health, LifeLube and partners hold three to four free community forums each year. Join us for our next one - see below.

2011

Get Freaky
10.25.11
This "gay birds and the bees" featured a panel of sexperts
including Gary Bucher - anal health specialist, director
Anal Dysplasia Clinic Midwest, Debby Herbenick - sex
researcher and Time OUT Chicago's sex columnist, and
John Stryker - Howard Brown Health Center nurse practitioner.
Moderated by Feast of Fun.

Check out pics from the event on LifeLube's FB page.

Listen to the Feast of Fun podcast.

Prevention Revolution or Magical Thinking?
06.15.11
A robust public debate is under way about the potential use of anti-HIV drugs to prevent HIV infection (also known as pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP). Speakers at this forum included Keith Green, AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Bob Grant, Principal Investigator from the iPrEx trial, and Rico Herrera, a Chicago PrEP user. Moderated by the Feast of Fun.

Click here for photos on Facebook.

Check out the Feast of Fun podcast here.

Trans-Body Politics
05.19.11
Featured panelists included Alexandra Billings, performer and community leader, Jamison Green, PhD, University of California, San Francisco Center of Excellence for Transgender Health, and Lara Brooks, manager of the Broadway Youth Center. Moderated by Fausto Fernos and Marc Felion of the Feast of Fun.

Check out the Feast of Fun podcast of this forum here.

Past Forums

2010

It's Not Just "Faggot!" End Homophobia Now - 12.8.10

Click here for a recap on the LifeLube blog. Click here for pics. Click here for a recording of the forum - Part 1. Click here for Part 2.

What's Love Got to do With It? - 09.21.10

Researchers Colleen Hoff (San Francisco State University) and Patrick Sullivan (Emory University) will present their findings. Listen to the September 15 Windy City QueerCast show on this topic. Listen to the Feast of Fun podcast exploring this issue as well.

Love in the Age of Grindr - 5.19.10
Gay men and hooking up, shacking up, relationships and intimacy

Justice for All? - 01.28.10
What is justice for the gay black man?
Media coverage from the event:
Chicago forum examines justice for black gay men - EDGE
Panelists discuss fairness for Black gay men - Windy City Times
More coverage on the LavenderPoppin blog (incl. a few pics)
Blog commentary on LifeLube
Video E. Patrick Johnson: Justice is "Being our complete self" in the world
Video Keith Boykin: Justice is hindered by "Internalized Oppression"

2009

Risky Business - 08.17.09 Link to Podcast Photos from the evening	We're Taking Pleasure Back 11.11.09 Photos, More Photos Link to Podcast
Hermanos de Luna y Sol - 01.28.09 Link to Presentation Slides Photos from the evening Info	Generation You - 05.20.09 Podcast, Photos, more Photos, Video Gay Adults! Gay Adults! Where Are You?

2008

Tunnel of Love - 11.20.08 Link to Podcast Photos from the evening Info More info	*Let’s Take a Glass Together - 07.29.08* Link to Podcast Photos from the evening More photos Info - including a full transcription
*Sex on the Superhighway - 07.02.08* Link to Podcast Photos from the evening Info	*Good Sex, Bad Sex - 05.02.08* Link to Podcast Info More info