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St. Sukie de la Croix (born 1951) is a St. Sukie de la Croix (Born September 16, 1951) Born in Bath, England, St. Sukie de la Croix is an internationally published journalist, columnist, fiction author, playwright, and photographer.

Career
In Britain de la Croix wrote for the mainstream, radical, and alternative press, and contributed articles to Capital Gay, Gay Times, Pink Paper, and other publications, where he wrote under several names.

In Chicago, he was an editor, reporter, photographer, book reviewer, and weekly columnist for Outlines/Windy City Times, Nightlines, Nightspots, En La Vida, Blacklines, Clout!, Chicago Free Press, Gay Chicago and chicagopride.com. He has also been published in Front Page NC, Gay People’s Chronicle and Expose in Ohio, Etc. and Southern Voice Ga., and others.

As a historian, de la Croix has published dozens of articles about Chicago’s gay history, scripted and acted as tour guide on the Chicago Neighborhood Tours’ gay history bus, and written a ten-week series on Chicago’s LGBT history for the Chicago Tribune.

A White Light in God’s Choir and Two Weeks in a Bus Station With An Iguana, two of de la Croix’s plays, were staged by the Irreverence Dance and Theatre Company in 2005 and 2006.

In June 2012 de la Croix’s book Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago Before Stonewall was published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

Personal Life
St. Sukie de la Croix lives with his partner of 24 years in Chicago, he has two children and four grandchildren.

Awards
St. Sukie de la Croix has won several awards but is particularly proud that he received an Esteem Award for Outstanding Newspaper Reporter or Columnist.

Books
"Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago Before Stonewall" (University of Wisconsin Press)