Gapers Block published from April 22, 2003 to Jan. 1, 2016. The site will remain up in archive form. Please visit Third Coast Review, a new site by several GB alumni.
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Thursday, May 2
Ketty Teanga, matriarch of Chicago's Latin-American transgender community, died last week. She was featured in an A/C article about La Cueva in Little Village, and was profiled in the Reader a couple years ago.