Rick Karlin

Rick Karlin has been a freelance journalist and editor for the past 40+ years, He is currently the Arts and Culture editor for Out South Florida. His last book, with St Sukie de la Croix,  Last Call Chicago: 1001 LGBT-Friendly Taverns, Hangouts, and Haunts, was published in 2022 and was ranked number one in Amazon’s LGBT Studies category. His memoir Paper Cuts: My Life in Chicago’s Volatile LGBT Press was published in 2019. He is currently working on Last Call South Florida, an encyclopedia of LGBT bars from Palm Beach to Key West. After too many Chicago winters, he retired to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he lives with his husband, poet and journalist Gregg Shapiro, and their fur baby Miss Coco.