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California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill banning therapies that attempt to alter a minor's sexual orientation from gay to straight, making California the first state to enact such a law.
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.
TJ Chernick anchors Gay Chicago TV's Gay Report for Sept. 14, 2012.
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.
Kayla Wingert came out as a lesbian at the age of sixteen. Ever since, she has fought to promote anti-bullying efforts and support of the LGBTQ community throughout her predominately conservative neighborhood and her Cat
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.
Gay student Jordan Addison received more than $10,000 worth of free car body work thanks to a Roanoke, Virginia auto shop.
Have you seen the new One Direction parody by 'Wrong Direction,' a studly boy band comprised of perfectly toned male models.
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
Former N'Syncer Lance Bass, who was forced to reveal that he's gay in 2006, has said he knew his sexual orientation at age 5.
A Missouri Eagle Scout was stripped of his Boy Scout honor and fired from his job at a summer camp after coming out gay.
Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T and an executive board member with the Boy Scouts of America, wants the nonprofit to lift its ban against gay members and leaders.
In recent days, we've seen some very high profile people come out in many different fields- like CNN's Anderson Cooper, R&B Singer Frank Ocean, Jamaican Singer Diana King, and Olympic Soccer player Megan Rapinoe. While C
Despite claiming he is "no cyclist," this weekend's Ride for AIDS Chicago is not 22-year-old Kalman Varga's first multi-day bike ride. Last year Varga rode AIDS/Lifecycle in his home state of California and afterwards pr
The city of New York has committed $3.3 million to help renovate a residence for homeless LGBT youth. The residence will be named for Bea Arthur, the star who left $300,000 to the Ali Forney Center in her will.