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'Battlestar Galactica's' Avan Jogia says 'man up' for your gay male friends

Mar 5, 2011

Chicago Flower & Garden Show opens this weekend

Mar 5, 2011

New poll shows rising support for gay marriage

A new poll shows that support for gay marriage continues to increase.

Mar 4, 2011

John Boehner on DOMA: 'We are going to intervene'

Mar 4, 2011

'90210's' Trevor Donovan, Freddie Smith preparing for romance

Mar 4, 2011

Court rules that high school students can wear anti-gay T-shirts

The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled this week that students at Nequa Valley High School in Naperville, Ill., have the right to wear "Be Happy, Not Gay" T-shirts to school.

Mar 3, 2011

Supreme Court allows Westboro Baptist Church's anti-gay military funeral protests

Mar 3, 2011

Illinois investigating foster care groups that discriminate against gay parents

The State of Illinois is investigating whether social service organizations that turn away gays and lesbians as foster parents are violating state anti-discrimination laws.

Mar 2, 2011

HIV/AIDS Lobby Day continues in Springfield

Mar 2, 2011

California Attorney General asks court to immediately allow gay marriage

California State Attorney General Kamala Harris has asked a federal appeals court to allow gay marriages to resume immediately, as the battle over Proposition drags through the system.

Mar 1, 2011

Adam Lambert wowed by Lady Gaga 'Born This Way' video

Mar 1, 2011

Mike Huckabee insists gay marriage decision could 'destroy' Obama

Mar 1, 2011

Anti-gay pastor arrested for masturbating near playground in New Orleans

Every year, the Rev. Grant Storms takes his bullhorn and his anti-gay rhetoric to the Southern Decadence festival in New Orleans. This year, he might not make it -- he was just arrested for masturbating near a children's

Feb 28, 2011

Chicago designer Borris Powell wins gold at Oscars

Feb 28, 2011

'King's Speech' beats lesbian parenting film, others to win Best Picture Oscar

"The King's Speech" beat the lesbian moms in "The Kids are All Right" and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in "The Social Network" to take top honors at the Oscars Sunday night.

Feb 27, 2011

Local designer Borris J. Powell wins gold at Oscars

Feb 27, 2011

Going for gay gold at tonight's Oscars

Feb 27, 2011

Ricky Gervais' John Travolta gay jibe wasn't funny, says James Franco

Feb 27, 2011

Texas school district kicks off Christians in effort to exclude gays

Flour Bluff Independent School District in Corpus Christi, Texas, is so determined to exclude a gay student group from campus that they're also kicking out the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA).

Feb 26, 2011

Openly gay man, Jeremy Bernard, named White House Social Secretary

Jeremy Bernard is making history by becoming the first man and first openly gay person to be named White House Social Secretary.

Feb 25, 2011

Adam Lambert's bass guitarist Tommy Joe Ratliff plans more gay advocacy

Feb 25, 2011

TV news broadcast outs closeted gay men in India

A TV news "investigation" has outed several gay men in the Indian city of Hyderabad, leading to at least one man attempting to commit suicide.

Feb 24, 2011

Russian gay activist begins U.S. tour in Chicago this Saturday

Feb 24, 2011

Hawaiian governor signs civil unions bill into law

Hawaii's governor signed the state's civil unions bill into law on Tuesday, making the islands the seventh U.S. state to acknowledge gay and lesbian relationships in law.

Feb 23, 2011