 |  | IML visitors are off to (the leather) market - International Mr. Leather visitors shopped and took part in demonstrations at the event's famous (infamous?) Leather Market at the Congress ...  |
| | Chicago Fire FC launches Play Proud League; Fire's Pride Night on June 10 - Chicago Fire FC announced the launch of the Play Proud League as a new addition to the Chicago Fire Rec ... |
| | Raoul responds to Archdiocese of Chicago's comments about child sex-abuse report - --From a press release - Chicago — Attorney General Kwame Raoul today released the following statement expressing surprise and dismay at comments made by Cardinal ... |
| | IML 2023 begins - Visitors from around the world gathered in the Florentine Room of the Congress Hotel on May 25 to kick off ...
Author: Joseph Stevens |
| | Chef Art Smith talks upcoming dinner and activism - More than 6 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease, including more than 230,000 Illinoisans. Additionally, more than 11 million ...
Author: Andrew Davis |
| | British Cycling to ban trans competitors from female category - After a nine-month investigation and review, British Cycling will ban transgender women from the female category in a change that ... |
| | SHOWBIZ Warhol, Sarah Paulson, upcoming books, Rufus Wainwright, Elliot Page - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled seven to two that the late artist Andy Warhol wasn't allowed to use a photographer's ...
Author: Andrew Davis |
| | NATIONAL Google Doodle, drag laureate, Nebraska bill, NYC AIDS Walk - D.C. poet/activist/journalist Ivy Young passed away at age 75, per a press release. Among other things, Young worked at Chicago's ...
Author: Andrew Davis |
| | WORLD Japanese bill, 'HRC Equidad CL,' center closes, UN expert, amFAR gala - LGBTQ+-rights activists criticized a new bill submitted to the Diet (Japan's national legislature) aimed at "promoting understanding" of equality issues ...
Author: Andrew Davis |
| | State Rep. Kelly Cassidy denounces violent acts stemming from political speech - --From a press release - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — State Rep. Kelly Cassidy, D-Chicago, along with members of the House Dobbs Working Group responded to increasing ... |
| | Joy heals: Artist Hannah Sellers's works explore gender, trauma and clothing - Note: This article mentions sexual assault and trauma. Color Club Gallery, 4146 N. Elston Ave., was well-lit by the early ... |
| | Illinois Healthcare Cultural Competency Coalition applauds passage of HB 2450 - --From a press release - The Illinois Healthcare Cultural Competency Coalition applauds passage by the Illinois General Assembly of legislation that will ensure cultural competency ... |
| | Leading LGBTQ+ groups raise alarm to business community on coordinated anti-LGBTQ+ attacks; call on Target to lead - --From a press release - Organizations calling on Target and all businesses to stand up against anti-LGBTQ2S+ extremism in statement below: Family Equality, GLAAD, GLSEN, ... |
| | Board of Commissioners unanimously passes Bodily Autonomy Ordinance Amendment with support of Equality Illinois, ACLU Illinois - --From a press release - Chicago, Ill. — May 25th 2023 — Today, the Cook County Board of Commissioners unanimously passed an amendment to the ... |
| | TaskForce Chicago's ED talks organization, AIDS stigma and queerness - Among the many organizations helping Chicago youths is TaskForce Prevention & Community Services. The West Side-based organization helps hundreds of ...
Author: Andrew Davis |
| | Screenwriter Guinevere Turner book launch June 4; book chronicles growing up with infamous Lyman Family cult - --From a press release - CHICAGO—The book launch of acclaimed screenwriter Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End, a memoir of her childhood growing up ... |
| | Louisiana Senate committee kills anti-trans bill aimed at minors - The Louisiana Senate Health & Welfare Committee has stopped an anti-trans bill aimed at minors, WBRZ News 2 in Baton ... |
| | Louisiana Senate Health & Welfare Committee kills bans on gender affirming care, HRC responds - --From a press release - Baton Rouge, Louisiana — Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) ... |
| | Dr. Petros Levounis takes office as American Psychiatric Association president - --From a press release - WASHINGTON, D.C., May 24, 2023 — Petros Levounis, M.D., M.A., an internationally renowned addiction expert and advocate of LBGTQ+ mental ... |
| | HRC condemns Ohio state senate for passing education censorship bill - --From a press release - Columbus, Ohio — The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) — the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil ... |
| | Openly gay experimental artist/filmmaker Kenneth Anger dies at 96 - Experimental filmmaker and artist Kenneth Anger has died at age 96. According to Variety, his gallery—Sprueth Magers, operated by Monika ... |
| | Target removes some Pride merchandise after receiving threats - Ahead of Pride Month (June), Target is pulling some of its LGBTQ+ merchandise after facing "threats" and backlash from customers, ... |
| | Attorney general concludes Illinois Catholic clergy sex-abuse investigation - Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul released a comprehensive report detailing decades of child sex abuse by members of the Catholic ... |
| | GLAAD, Equality Florida release resource of DeSantis' record of anti-LGBTQ+ info, actions - --From a press release - (Tuesday, May 23, 2023) GLAAD and Equality Florida released the LGBTQ record of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, an ongoing documentation ... |
| | San Francisco's Harvey Milk School celebrates birthday of its namesake - Students at the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy in San Francisco's LGBTQ Castro neighborhood took to the streets Monday, May ... |
| | About Face Theater hosts Leppen Leadership Awards - On May 14, About Face Theater presented its Leppen Leadership Awards to members of the LGBTQ+ community for their activism ...
Author: Vern Hester |
| | Dodgers re-invite LGBTQ+ group - The Los Angeles Dodgers apologized to the L.A. order of the LGBTQ+ drag group Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence about a ... |
| | Sodomy laws repealed in Minnesota and Maryland - Sodomy laws are no longer on the books in Minnesota and Maryland. According to The Los Angeles Blade, Minnesota Gov. ... |
