Bloom Archives
LGBTQ
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Introducing Singer Emma Peridot, Formerly B-town’s Emily Morrone
To launch her new album, Morrone, as Peridot, will do some weekend touring around the Midwest, including a performance in Bloomington at The Back…
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How Hate and Divisiveness Spread on the Internet
In the most recent issue of Bloom, the story “The Trials LGBTQ+ Groups Face with Booth at Monroe County Fair” revealed the struggles Prism…
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The Trials LGBTQ+ Groups Face With Booth at Monroe County Fair
Vandals scrawled anti-gay insults on their booth. Parents pulled children away from their rainbow stickers. A woman told them they were all going to…
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Janae Cummings: Chair, Bloomington PRIDE
The level of support for LGBTQ+ people in Bloomington depends on your identity, says Janae Cummings, the chair of Bloomington PRIDE. “If you’re gay…
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Spencer Reimagined
Once an economically vibrant community, Spencer saw its fortunes decline in the last decades of the 20th century. But now things are changing again,…
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Local Group Creates STANDwithPRIDE
BY CARMEN SIERING When a lone gunman killed 49 people and injured 53 others at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on June 12, the…
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Quarryland Men’s Chorus: A Choir with a Purpose
BY MAGGIE MARTON In the summer of 2002, a group of men—inspired by the Gay And Lesbian Association (GALA) Choruses around the world—decided to…