Tracy Baim is one incredible person! This week, Amber gets to know her  and shares it all with you. As publisher of the Chicago Reader and  co-founder/owner of Windy City Times, Tracy has seen it all. The  knowledge and wisdom of her experience shines through in this incredible  interview. From the early days to the LGBTQ movement to today to the  future of our country, you won't want to miss Tracy's thoughts on it  all.

Tracy Baim

Tracy Baim is president and publisher of the Chicago Reader newspaper. She is co-founder and owner of Windy City Times. Baim received the 2013 Chicago Headline Club Lifetime Achievement Award. She is in the NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists Hall of Fame, the Association for Women Journalists-Chicago Chapter Hall of Fame, and the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame. She has won numerous LGBTQ community and journalism honors, including the Community Media Workshop’s Studs Terkel Award in 2005. 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. Baim was executive producer of the lesbian film Hannah Free, starring Sharon Gless, and Scrooge & Marley. She directed and produced e. nina jay’s Body of Rooms film. She is creator of That's So Gay!, an LGBT trivia game. Baim is the founder of the Pride Action Tank and the Illinois LGBT Chamber of Commerce. She was also co-vice chair of Gay Games VII in Chicago, and in 2013 was founder of the March on Springfield for Marriage Equality.