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Chicago will be enhancing police presence in Boystown and other areas of the city after the deadly massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, city officials announced Sunday.
Chicago's LGBT community and supporters will gather Sunday night in response to the Orlando mass shooting that has left 50 people dead and 53 others injured.
Organizers of PrideFest Milwaukee will introduce full metal detection at the admission gates and increase security staffing across all areas of the festival grounds following the early Sunday mass shooting at a gay night
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a statement called the Orlando mass shooting a "horrifying act of terrorism" that was "an attack on our most fundamental values as Americans."
After 50 people were killed and 53 injured in a shooting early Sunday morning at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Boystown Chicago business leaders and organizers have responded with an outpouring of support.
PrideFest Milwaukee is positioned to shatter last year's all-time attendance record 32,822. Tickets went on sale Feb. 15, have been selling like wildfire, organizers said.
To celebrate its fourth anniversary, Chicago-based dance party producer Neverland is holding Neverland Pride 2016 – a three-day, three-party spectacle that will draw thousands from across the U.S. and beyond when the Win
PRIDEChicago, the organizers of Chicago's annual gay pride parade, announced Wednesday that Chicago Fire star Monica Raymund will be the Grand Marshal for the 47th Annual Chicago Pride Parade.
Eddie Volkman still recalls, with pride, that he was part of the first radio or TV station to participate in the Chicago Pride Parade.
As LGBT Pride Month sparks festivals and political movements around the globe in June, 'Chicago's Proudest Neighborhood' is ready to host some of the city's biggest events.
There's a moment during the Closing Ceremony of the annual Ride For AIDS Chicago that hits hard. Tears flow, emotions are on overload as some of the cyclists join with select members of the crew, and this small group lea
Hamburger Mary's in Andersonville was vandalized with anti-gay graffiti over the weekend.
On Monday, May 30 the Chicago Chapter of American Veterans for Equal Rights (AVER) will hold the first anniversary celebration to the monument honoring lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) veterans.
David "Tigger" Bailey, Mr. New Jersey Leather 2016, was named International Mr. Leather 2016 at the 38th annual IML Competition in Chicago Sunday, May 29.
The annual Grabbys Award Show, better know as The Grabbys, will celebrate its fifteenth anniversary Saturday night at Metro Theater, 3730 N. Clark, in Chicago.
International Mr. Leather opens Friday welcoming the leather and fetish world to Chicago this Memorial Day weekend.
This Memorial Day weekend, Chicago will be heating up as thousands of leathermen, adult stars and bears descend on the city for International Mr. Leather, the Grabbys, Bear Pride and more.
Meeting in Peoria on Friday, delegates to the state GOP convention voted overwhelmingly to retain a plank in the party platform that defines marriages between a man and a woman.
Major changes have started at the former Circuit Nightclub in Boystown as married Dallas couple Erwing Mancini and Arthur Hood hope to revive the venue with a new look, new feel, new name, new setting, food offerings and
Chicago Ald. Proco "Joe" Moreno (1st) Thursday announced a plan for an LGBT-friendly, mixed-use development with 100 percent affordable housing units that would be built in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood.
Neverland invites you to get down and dirty with the animal inside this Memorial Day Weekend for the first-ever IML edition of their high concept theme dance parties: "Animal Farm."
Prom. It's a high school rite of passage that, for many in the LGBT community, was anything but a glamorous time.
Over the past two years, Howard Brown Health has seen a steep increase in new patients seeking care. Patient volume grew 25 percent in 2014 and 20 percent in 2015. And new patient trends have remained strong in 2016, off
Chicago native Alex Cabot brings a Miami-infused Latin/Caribbean influence to his music.