Paper Cuts: My Life in Chicago’s Volatile LGBTQ Press

Rick Karlin

Scoop – Rick Karlin began working at Gay Life in 1978 and continued writing for gay newspapers and magazines in Chicago, through his move to Florida in 2012, until 2016. This page-turner is equal parts personal memoir, history of one big, bruising battlefield in Chicago’s scrappy newspaper wars, and welcomed time capsule interspersed with a Who’s-Who of brief biographies of various leaders active during those nearly 40 years who were inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame.