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Following a call by Equality Illinois last week for Chicago to drop its sister city status with Moscow, the Chair of the Moscow Committee of Chicago Sister Cities International released a statement July 31 saying that it
AIDS Legal Council of Chicago (ALCC) will hold its annual summer benefit on Wed., Aug. 14, 6-9 p.m., at Sidetrack, 3349 N. Halsted St.
Lady Gaga took to Twitter on Monday to slam the Russian government for its treatment of the LGBT community.
Tegan and Sara joined Seattle rapper Macklemore and DJ/producer Ryan Lewis at Montreal's Osheaga Music Festival on Saturday to perform the marriage equality anthem 'Same Love.'
Monday's summer finale of the ABC Family drama The Fosters ends with a lesbian wedding.
A Portland, Oregon gay couple traveling in Albuquerque were told to sit in the back of the bus because they were holding hands.
English actor Ben Whishaw has come out gay and in a civil partnership with partner Mark Bradshaw, an Australian composer
Olympian Matthew Mitcham has described a Russian law that prohibits the public promotion of gay rights as "horrific."
Nearly 350 gay and lesbian fans watched the Chicago Cubs take on the Los Angeles Dodgers Saturday as part of Out at Wrigley, the largest LGBT-attended major league sports event.
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.
Actor Darren Criss on Friday remembered Cory Monteith, who died last month from an overdose of heroin and alcohol at the age of 31.
Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley, a Democrat, plans to introduce a resolution calling on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to condemn an anti-gay law recently approved in Russia ahead of the Winter Olympics to be held
Barbie Breakout, a well-known German drag queen and DJ, sewed her mouth shut to protest Russian anti-gay laws.
Actress Raven-Symone Christina Pearman, known simply as Raven-Symone or Raven, has come out lesbian in cheering for recent gay marriage wins.
U.S. Congressman Brad Schneider (D-IL) today helped introduced the Social Security Equality Act, which would guarantee that same-sex couples are not denied the Social Security benefits to which they are entitled. The bil
The Chicago Cubs will be inducted into the inaugural class of The National Gay & Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame this evening, joining other organizations, former pro sports officials, activists, journalists, retired athlete
Today, U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (D-IL), U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and U.S. Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS
Organizers of the March on Springfield for Marriage Equality have launched a new website and an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds for March promotion and logistics.
A male couple together 41 years were among those marrying as a gay marriage law took effect Thursday in Rhode Island.
Chicago's archbishop has drawn a line in the sand for immigrant rights groups supporting equal marriage in Illinois.
Longtime couple Margaret Miles and Cathy ten Broeke were the first to marry in Minneapolis as Minnesota's gay marriage law took effect on Thursday.
A Russian lawmaker has denied that gay athletes and tourists attending the Winter Olympics in Sochi will be exempt from the nation's recently approved "gay propaganda" law, which prohibits the public promotion of gay rig