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Equality Illinois' Dining Out for Equality is Thursday, October 11 this year, a date that takes on added significance as it falls on the inauguration day for the Chicago Legacy Walk and also National Coming Out Day.
The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), in partnership with GLAAD, has released a series of public service announcements outlining how transgender Americans can keep their right to vote this election day.
Thousands of people ran and walked along Chicago's lakefront on Sunday morning as part of the AIDS Run & Walk 2012, one of the city's high-profile fundraisers to combat HIV/AIDS.
AIDS Run & Walk Chicago, one of the city's high-profile fundraisers to combat HIV/AIDS, is this morning. The 11th annual event takes place at Soldier Field, located along Lake Shore Drive on Chicago's Near South Side.
Affinity Community Services, the Gender and Sexuality Center at UIC, Illinois Safe Schools Alliance and The Civil Rights Agenda are pleased to announce a new initiative that invites lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender an
On Friday, Sept. 21 Positively Aware magazine, published by the Test Positive Aware Network (TPAN), asks people to "take their best shot against HIV" as part of their "A Day with HIV" campaign.
It was announced that local non-profit leader in AIDS services, Chicago House, was selected as one of eight national grant sites to study the link between HIV and retention in care of transgender women of color.
TJ Chernick anchors Gay Chicago TV's Gay Report for Sept. 14, 2012.
Twelve individuals and three organizations will be inducted in November into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame, the country's only known government recognized hall of fame that honors members of the lesbian, gay,
Just months after celebrating its fifth anniversary, Center on Halsted has unveiled new organizational mission and vision statements it says will guide the Boystown-based facility through the next several years.
Drag performers Sharon Needles and Pandora Boxx have released videos for the It Gets Better campaign.
Student Darnell "Dynasty" Young and his mother, Chelisa Grimes, are suing Indianapolis Public Schools, alleging administrators failed to stop the anti-gay bullying of classmates.
President and Chief Executive Officer of Howard Brown Health Center (HBHC), Jamal Edwards, announced Friday that he has stepped down from his role with the organization.
While Six Flags Great America, located less than an hour outside Chicago in Gurnee, Ill., has been supporting the Chicagoland LGBT community for a decade, this year's Out in the Park will be unlike any other.
Campus Pride on Aug. 21 released its 2012 "Top 25 List of LGBT-Friendly Colleges & Universities" in association with Huffington Post.
Crowded streets, delicious food and endless shopping marked the 31st Annual Northalsted Market Days street fair, Aug. 11 and 12, in Chicago's Boystown neighborhood.
A Rogers Park church has begun efforts to open an LGBTQ youth shelter after the church's minister preached Sunday that he had been called to the task.
A young person found deceased in an abandoned building on the city's West Side has been identified by community members as a gender-variant young person.
Northalsted Market Days, the Midwest's largest outdoor street fest, kicked off Saturday in Chicago's Boystown neighborhood. The two-day festival continues Sunday from 11 a.m. until 10 p.m.
Thousands of people from across the country will converge on North Halsted St. this weekend for the 2012 Northalsted Market Days, the largest two-day outdoor street festival in the Midwest, taking place Sat., Aug. 11 - S
Seeking fairness and equality for everyone in Illinois will be front and center at the Illinois State Fair, which opened Thursday, as the first-ever LGBT-focused booth, staffed jointly by Equality Illinois and Lambda Leg
The Town of Cicero settled a civil rights lawsuit brought by Bianca Feliciano, a young Latina transgender woman, who alleged she was illegally stopped, searched and harassed by Cicero Police Officers.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), often referred to as Obamacare, bars health care discrimination against transgender people, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said in a memo released earlier this month.
With gender-variant people of nearly ever age and background represented, hundreds gathered in Union Park July 29 for Chicago's first ever transgender pride event.