Author Archives: Tracy Baim
Tracy Baim is co-founder and owner of Windy City Times, a founding member of the News Is Out collaborative. She is former publisher of the Chicago Reader. Baim received the 2013 Chicago Headline Club Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014, she was inducted into the NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists Hall of Fame. The Chicago Journalists Association gave her a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022. She has won numerous LGBTQ community and journalism honors. Baim has written and/or edited 13 books, including Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers in America; Obama and the Gays: A Political Marriage; and Out and Proud in Chicago.
