****************************************************************ī!TCH3Z Drinking Project begins the evening serving a select Bijou-inspired champagne cocktail within the immersive installation work of artists April Lynn and Sofia Moreno. This inaugural PiNK EYE event was made possible through the collaborative programming efforts of Performance Director José Hernandez, Moving Image Co-Curators David Nasca and Jules Zinn, and Exhibition Director Jonny Sommer *21+ With the closing of Bijou, a site of majority “classic” gay, cis-male presenting individuals, PiNK EYE: New Classics sought to respectfully pay homage to a legendary Chicago sexual institution while offering a critical space for new queer ideas, cultures and "classics" to emerge. Utilizing the vintage gay porn films and ephemera of Chicago’s recently defunct gay adult theater/sex club Bijou, PiNK EYE: New Classics examined historic and current representations of sexual fantasy, authenticity and queer identity. "I will deeply miss Jim Dohr.PiNK EYE: New Classics was a one-night event of video and performance work curated by the Pilsen-based artist collective PiNK EYE, replete with archival footage/ephemera from The Bijou Theater and exhibited in collaboration with naomi FINEARTS and 1618 Gallery. "I could always count on Jim for being a true friend without pretension or animosity. What a trip that was! We took the time to do what ever we wanted, from the Great Smoky Mountains to Disney World and everything in between. Jim loved to travel and one of my fondest memories is of him and I doing our 'Thelma and Louise' down to Florida. We 'grew up' together both managing the Gold Coast Bar and producing International Mr. Needless to say I got instantly hard and everybody said, 'Oh yeah, you're gay.' I kind of knew I was gay already, but I didn't know there was a whole world of people out there." "Longtime friend Gary Chichester e-mailed Windy City Times, "Jim Dohr and I been friends for almost 35 years. On the train I met some people I knew from the same dormitory, and one of them pulled out a porn magazine.
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I came out earlier that year on a train going down to Southern Illinois University. The Annex was approximately where the Lakeview Health Clinic is now. In the archives of the now-defunct gay newspaper Outlines, Dohr talked about the first gay bar he visited: "I believe it was one of three bars, either Ruthie's, Shari's, or the old Annex, which were all on Clark Street. He was 59.Dohr worked at the Chicago Department of Health as director of administrative services. She served four years on the Carbondale City Council, capped by an unsuccessful run at mayor in 2007 she is currently a clinical associate professor of law at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale." +++ Obituary for Jim Dohr, written by Andrew Davis in Windy City Times: "Jim Dohr, a gay-rights activist who was very active in the leather scene, has passed away. and the daughter of late distinguished Illinois politician Paul Simon. "Simon, 49, is a native of Carbondale, Ill. 2010 Article by Steven Chaitman in Windy City Times begins: "After winning the majority of state Democratic officials' votes on Saturday, Sheila Simon will be Gov.
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