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The Civil Rights Agenda (TCRA) will now be shifting the focus of their efforts, after the Illinois marriage equality victory, to rights that have been denied to the often marginalized transgender community of Illinois.
Center on Halsted, Chicago's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community center, Friday announced it was awarded a three-year grant totaling $45,000 from the Comcast Foundation.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday reiterated his call for Congress to approve the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which seeks to prohibit workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identi
On Nov. 20—while many in Boystown celebrated Illinois becoming the 16th state in the nation with full marriage equality—the people who filled a narrow wing of the Center on Halsted were more somber.
The White House on Wednesday released a statement marking the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR).
The national Transgender Day of Remembrance, to raise public awareness of hate crimes against transgender people and to publicly mourn and honor the lives of those who might otherwise be forgotten, is Wed., Nov. 20.
Reeling, the second oldest LGBT film festival in the world, closes Thursday, Nov. 14 with a red carpet reception at the Stan Mansion, 2408 N. Kedzie Ave.
Ald. Tom Tunney was among the speakers at a standing room only South East Lake View Neighbors ( SELVN ) meeting at Second Unitarian Church, 726 W. Barry Ave., on the future of Broadway Youth Center's ( BYC ) current loca
The coalition of conservative groups behind an effort to repeal California's first-in-the-nation transgender student law said Sunday that it had collected enough signatures to qualify for an initiative that seeks to repe
Reeling, the second oldest LGBT film festival in the world, returns Thursday after being placed on hiatus last year by Chicago Filmmakers, the not-for-profit organization that produces the event.
President Barack Obama on Sunday called on Congress to approve the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA).
Cabler OWN's upcoming Houston Beauty reality show features transgender teen Mia.
Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto and Jennifer Garner star in a featurette for the film Dallas Buyers Club, which opens in select cities Friday.
Last Thursday, Oct. 17, Thought Catalogue's "Boys, An Anthology: The Voices, Stories, And Lives of Gay, Queer, And Trans* Men" -- more commonly known as BOYS -- debuted at #3 in essays on Amazon, ahead of David Sedaris,
Twenty-one-year-old Raika Ferraz on Monday won the title of "Miss T Brazil" in Rio.
Tonight, University of Northern Iowa student Steven Sanchez made history as Iowa's first transgender homecoming queen. Steven was crowned homecoming queen sometime after 8 pm this evening, marking the first ever transgen
October is National Bullying Prevention Month and Ronnie Kroell and Elliot London, cofounders of the Friend Movement, are celebrating by walking from Chicago to New York City over a period of 37 days to raise awareness f
A transgender teen was named homecoming queen of a high school in California on Friday.
Anti-gay activist Peter LaBarbera and Christian conservative Linda Harvey over the weekend agreed that discriminating against gays was a sign of a healthy society.
Col. James Pritzker, the billionaire heir to the Pritzker fortune, now identifies as Jennifer Natalya Pritzker, according to Crain's Chicago Business.
Army private Bradley Manning intends to spend the rest of his life as a woman and "begin hormone therapy as soon as possible," according to a statement released Thursday.
Dan Joseph of the conservative Media Research Center said that he would pretend to be a transgender woman in order to be allowed into girls' bathrooms and changing rooms to watch women change.
California Governor Jerry Brown on Monday signed a first-in-the-nation bill that gives transgender K-12 students certain rights.
The National Gay & Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame, the first of its kind in the United States, recognized its first class of honorees during a ceremony Friday at Chicago's Center on Halsted.