Americans are now queerer than ever! A new Gallup poll shows 9.3% of folks now identify as something other than straight—up from 7.6% in 2023. And Gen Z? A whopping 23%!

Party!

While it seems like the country’s getting more conservative, people's sexuality and gender identity says otherwise.

Joining us today is the self-proclaimed ‘lesbian on the weekends’-- the West Side comedy queen of raunch, Tiny Thickemz, along with her comedy partner in life and onstage, OhJay Lamont. Together they host ‘Love is Blind’ at Chicago’s Laugh Factory, where real couples do joint stand-up sets about their relationships—LIVE on stage, TONIGHT FEB 27!

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• A big fat beaver on Chicago’s Southside becomes an overnight celebrity.

• Pope Francis is in the hospital in critical condition.

• Republicans are upset with the Super Bowl winners, the Philadelphia Eagles, for skipping a fast food meal with the President at the White House."

• We look back at the lives of Roberta Flack, best known for her hit song ‘Killing Me Softly,’ and Lynne Marie Stewart, beloved as Miss Yvonne—the Most Beautiful Woman in All of Puppetland on Pee-Wee’s Playhouse—both of whom passed away this week.