Tracy Baim

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Tracy Baim
Born1963 (age 61–62)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationDrake University
Occupation(s)Journalist, writer
Years active1984–present
Known for
Movement LGBTQ rights

Tracy Baim (born 1963) is a Chicago-based LGBTQ journalist, editor, author, and filmmaker. As one of the founders of Windy City Times (WCT), she is the current owner of the newspaper and Windy City Media Group. She is also a former publisher of the Chicago Reader newspaper. [1]

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In addition to her publishing career, she has also written 14 books like Out and Proud in Chicago: An Overview of the City’s Gay Movement (2008), Obama and the Gays: A Political Marriage (2010), and Gay Press, Gay Power (2012).

Biography

She was born in 1963 in Chicago, Illinois, into the Baims, a family of journalists and photographers. [2] Her mother was Joy Darrow (1934–1996)—the former Chicago Tribune reporter and grandniece of Clarence Darrow who was born in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. [2] [3] Her father is photographer Hal Baim, who is also involved with the WCT.

Baim attained a journalism degree from Drake University in the field of news-editorialism in 1984. [3]

Career

In 1985, Baim, Drew Badanish, Bob Bearden, and Jeff MacCourt founded Windy City Times , an LGBTQ-focused newspaper. Baim also started Sentury Publications to publish the paper. [4] [5] She is currently the publisher and executive editor of the paper. She also co-founded another newspaper Outlines in 1987 after leaving Sentury.

Baim joined the Chicago Reader in 2018. Following a debilitating public dispute between Baim and then-editor and co-owner Leonard Goodman, during which ownership was transferred to a nonprofit, Baim resigned in 2022.

Awards and honors

Baim was also nominated in 2013 for a Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Studies [9] for Gay Press, Gay Power.

Works

Journalism

Books

Films

Other projects

References

Notes

  1. ↑ "Baim stepping down as Reader publisher end of 2022". Chicago Reader (Press release). 2022-08-05. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
  2. 1 2 McClory, Robert (1996-09-12). "Angel of Mercy". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 2025-07-08.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Tracy Baim: a gay-media torchbearer". Chicago Tribune. 2013-02-08. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
  4. ↑ Barnhurst, Kevin G. (2007). Media Queered: Visibility and Its Discontents. New York City: Peter Lang. pp. 143–147. ISBN   978-0-8204-9533-0.
  5. ↑ "The 50 Most Powerful Women in Chicago Tracy Baim". Chicago Magazine. April 13, 2020.
  6. 1 2 3 Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame 1994.
  7. 1 2 Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice 2014a.
  8. ↑ American Institute of Architects.
  9. 1 2 3 4 Association of LGBTQ Journalists 2014.
  10. 1 2 3 4 Hieggelke 2020.
  11. ↑ HuffPost.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice 2014b.
  13. ↑ Baim & Keehan 2014.

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