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Eric Alva, a gay Marine veteran who lost a leg during combat in the Iraq War, was booed last week as he testified in support of a gay-inclusive anti-discrimination ordinance in San Antonio, Texas.
Scott Blackmun, CEO of the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC), said this week that athletes competing in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi should "comply" with a Russian anti-gay law.
Singer-songwriter Kelly Clarkson's video for the single 'Tie It Up' features wedding photos from fans, including gay couples.
Love is Love. That's the message in a new YouTube video released Friday by Groupon.
A lesbian couple got engaged Friday at a Macklemore and Ryan Lewis concert broadcast live from Central Park on ABC's Good Morning America.
Governor Quinn has today signed The Sexual Health Education bill (HB 2675) into law.
A well-known burlesque performer has been found safe after a four-day search by friends.
Developers behind the proposed OUT Chicago Hotel in Boystown are back with another set of new designs after neighbors shot down the project in July.
After being accepted at New York's Columbia University two years ago, actor Ben Platt was forced to defer his college career – not once, but twice. Fortunately, he's been skipping school for all the right reasons.
Puerto Rican boxer Orlando "The Phenomenon" Cruz has proposed marriage to his partner.
WWE wrestler Darren Young (real name Fredrick Douglas "Fred" Rosser) has come out gay, making him the WWE's first openly gay wrestler.
Ald. Tom Tunney plans to close his Ann Sather location in Andersonville at the end of the year, leaving just three locations on the city's North Side.
Windy City Times and Center on Halsted are launching a 9-month series of LGBTQ educational programs featuring prominent scholars known nationally for their innovative research and work.
Russian political journalist Anton Krasovsky announced that he is gay on live television and was promptly fired from his job.
Interior designer Nate Berkus will return to television next spring.
The California Supreme Court this afternoon essentially ended all attempts by anti-gay marriage groups to revive Proposition 8, the voter passed law of 2008 which outlawed same-sex marriage but was deemed unconstitutiona
Friends and family continue to search for a well-known burlesque performer, missing from his Pilsen apartment since Monday.
After competing and placing in the top 10 in San Francisco last year, Team Roscoe's, better known as Team 'Hell on Heels', is back to compete in the 2013 Chicago Red Bull Flugtag.
Senator Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York, has endorsed New York Times columnist Frank Bruni's idea of nations waving Gay Pride flags during the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
The American Bar Association (ABA) adopted policies relating to the "gay panic" defense when the association's policymaking body met during the 2013 ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, a press release stated.
California Governor Jerry Brown on Monday signed a first-in-the-nation bill that gives transgender K-12 students certain rights.
Out singer-songwriter Steve Grand performed his hit single "All-American Boy" during this weekend's Northalsted Market Days in his hometown of Chicago.
Lakeview - and Chicago's Boystown neighborhood - have snagged a top spot as one of the best neighborhoods in a major city.