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Equality Illinois hosts Out at the Sox, an LGBT Pride Night fundraiser, as the Chicago White Sox face the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday, August 16.
About 12,000 are expected Saturday at the opening ceremonies for Gay Games 9 at Quicken Loans Arena in downtown Cleveland.
Former professional skateboarder Tony Hawk has joined the Human Rights Campaign's (HRC) Americans for Marriage Equality campaign.
A 2015 beefcake calendar starring Olympic diving champ Tom Daley went on sale this week in Britain.
British Olympic diver Tom Daley says coming out gay shouldn't make headlines.
A television comedy inspired by Robbie Rogers is under development.
Australian Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe has come out gay.
More than 300 riders are on their way home to the Chicago area as part of the 200-mile, two-day Ride for AIDS Chicago (RFAC).
The National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame (NGLSHOF) recognized its second induction class of honorees during a ceremony Friday at Chicago's Center on Halsted.
Ian Thorpe, the Australian Olympic swimmer nicknamed the Thorpedo and Thorpey, has come out gay.
Out at Wrigley, the nation's largest annual LGBT sporting event, returns this Saturday, July 12, when the Cubs take on the Atlanta Braves in the now 100-year-old Wrigley Field. The event is again teaming up with the Nati
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago City Council passed a resolution on June 25, recognizing the participants and volunteers in the 11th Annual Ride for AIDS Chicago (RFAC) for their commitment to raising awareness and fu
Actress Laverne Cox topped UK paper The Guardian's third annual World Pride Power List, which celebrates the world's most influential lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
For Ride for AIDS Chicago 2014 participant Rodney Winterland, 34, a nuclear engineer of Uptown, the ride is not simply a bicycling event but a way to become more involved in his community as well as a way to support his
The National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony is Friday, July 11, 2014, 6 p.m., at Center on Halsted, 3656 H. Halsted, Chicago. Organizers said inductees Billy Bean, Wade Davis, Esera Tuaolo, Fallon
The 33rd annual Proud to Run LGBT 10K run and 5K run and walk steps off Saturday morning along Chicago's lakefront.
The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) will become the first professional sports league to celebrate LGBT Pride on national television when the Tulsa Shock takes on the Chicago Sky, Sun., June 22 at 12 p.m. (
Proud to Run celebrates their 33rd annual LGBT 5K race on Saturday, June 28, 2014 along Chicago's lakefront.
PRIDEChicago, the organizers of Chicago's annual gay pride parade, Tuesday announced openly gay athlete and music artist Will Sheridan as the Grand Marshal for this year's 45th Annual Pride Parade.
The St. Louis Rams have signed Michael Sam, making him the NFL's first openly gay player.
Former Los Angeles Laker Rick Fox says the public must demand acceptance for gay athletes.
Michael Sam, the first openly gay football player to be drafted by the NFL, has said his teammates respect him as a human being
NBA player Jason Collins says he knew he was gay at 16 but didn't say it out loud until he was 32.
