Chicago Baker’s Dream Shattered as Drag Act Sets Neighbors Against Her

Corinna Bendel-Sac is closing UpRising Bakery after anti-drag protesters drove customers away and set municipal authorities against her

James Finn
Prism & Pen
Published in
7 min readMar 21, 2023

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Corinna Bendel-Sac (L), owner of UpRising Bakery. Publicity photo for a drag queen bingo event at the bakery. Photos from the bakery’s Facebook page.

Corinna Bendel-Sac had a dream … of waking up hours before dawn every morning to bake cinnamon rolls, fry donuts…

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James Finn
Prism & Pen

James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.