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It’s planned to be released 2022.</p><p>“The story of Chigo polics is the story of an LGBTQ uprisg,” executive producer Kev Hswirth said. “You n pot to any big moment the past 40 years — whether ’s the Cy Council wars, Harold Washgton or the first passag of LGBTQ-clive legislatn — and Art and Pep were there for all of .”</p><figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-vio is-provir-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-rat"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"><iame allowfullscreen="" allow="toplay; fullscreen; picture--picture" height="1000" width="710" src=" tle="Art and Pep (Teaser)" loadg="lazy"></iame></div></figure><p>Johnston was visg Chigo 1973 to plete a short teachg program at Northwtern Universy when he met Peña. Some buddi om the school’s theater partment remend Johnston vis a bar “for people like to be able to go.”</p><p>“It was this ltle bar wh no sign on , and Art stck up a nversatn wh the bartenr,” Hswirth said. “That bartenr happened to be Pepe, and they’ve been together ever sce.”</p><p>Peña ma his way to Chigo om Cuba, and often says the cy is the “first place where he felt like he uld be ee,” Hswirth said. When they opened Sitrack together, “ was this ty ltle bar where you sat on the s of beer, but was a place where you’d step si and be ee.”</p><p>Merces Kane, director of the documentary, said the uple’s love for the LGBTQ muny is what motivated them to open Sitrack and act as civil rights lears throughout the HIV/AIDS crisis and gay liberatn movement.</p><p>“They are this pillar of love the muny,” Kane said. “Art and Pep fell love, then built Sitrack, which is where they exprs their love for the muny, and then they had this fight to love eely and are still together after 45 years.”</p><p>That fight had Johnston and Peña on the ont l of the AIDS epimic and battl for anti-discrimatn laws and marriage equaly. Sitrack has always served as a meetg space for people anizg to advance those .</p><p>“Durg that time, our muny was disverg that we uld have polil power,” Johnston says a <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">teaser</a> for the documentary. “There was joy fightg back, and fected all of and we have learned how to be polilly effective and change the world.”</p><p>The film also highlights the work of several LGBTQ activists and muny lears who are ntug the advocy many cred Johnston and Peña for havg started. They clu Brian Johnson, CEO of Equaly Illois, which Johnston helped -found; Brad Balof, general manager of Sitrack; Channyn Lynne Parker, a transgenr muny advote at Howard Brown Health Centers; Anna DeShawn, a board member for Affy Communy Servic; and Sen. Mike Simmons, who is the first openly gay Illois state senator.</p><p>“To thk that Art was only planng to be Chigo for a year, but he end up stayg bee he fell love and end up transformg the cy a lot of ways,” Kane said. “And now there are so many people rryg the torch that Art and Pep started.”</p><p>The film is partially fund through a media sponsorship om Canon, but the film’s creators are fundraisg to ver the rt of productn’s expens. Donatns n be ma at <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href="></a>.</p><p><em>Jake Wtich is a </em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href="><em>Report for Ameri</em></a><em> rps member verg Lakeview, Lln Park and LGBTQ muni across the cy for Block Club Chigo.</em></p><p><a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href="><em>Subscribe to Block Club Chigo</em></a><em>. 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