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ChicagoPride.com
March 25, 2012

At ChicagoPride.com, Sunday means that it's time to look back at this week in gay Chicago news as covered by the GoPride.com News Staff. The top local and national stories of interest as ranked by popularity on the network.

Special Report: Rescuing Chicago's homeless LGBT youth
http://chicago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/27736564
While gay men and women can now fight for their homes and same-sex couples are gaining acceptance and building homes together, LGBT youth across the nation are struggling to find a home. This issue is as old as the Gay Rights Movement itself.
(Photo: El Rescate in Humboldt Park, courtesy Ed Negron)

Man beaten in Boystown attack, police search for 3 suspects
http://chicago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/27610516
A man was beaten and critically injured in a fight Monday morning near Halsted and Roscoe in Chicago's Boystown Neighborhood.

Former President Jimmy Carter: Jesus never said a word about homosexuality
http://chicago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/27600025
In his new book, "NIV Lessons from Life Bible: Personal Reflections with Jimmy Carter," the former president talks about his own support for gay marriage, but his unwillingness to force churches to allow same-sex nuptials.

Low voter turnout in Illinois primary
http://chicago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/27642001
Despite sunshine and warm temperatures, voter turnout in the March 20 Illinois primary was "extremely low" in the city according to the Chicago Board of Elections.

Illinois anti-gay adoption bill voted down
http://chicago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/27757600
A bill designed to allow religion based discrimination against gay and lesbian couples when it comes to foster and adoption services in Illinois was voted down Friday at the Illinois Senate Subcommittee on Civil Rights.

Gay men arrested on cruise ship humiliated, put in cell with roaches
http://chicago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/27789169
John Robert Hart, 41 and Dennis Jay Mayer, 43, said that after they were arrested for "buggery" on board a gay cruise in Dominica, they were interrogated, humiliated and tossed into a jail cell with roaches.

GLSEN youth activists gather to support safe schools legislation
http://chicago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/27799696
On Saturday, March 24th, roughly 40 queer students and allied adults from across the country who "demonstrate superior leadership skills, live in key legislative districts, and have shown an interest in legislative advocacy" convene in Washington, D.C. for GLSEN's 2012 Safe Schools Advocacy Summit.

Mixed results for LGBT judicial candidates in Illinois
icago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/27715536
Low voter turnout certainly played into the mixed bag of results when it came to electing out LGBT judicial candidates in Illinois during Tuesday's primary.

Out in Chicago exhibit wins Allan Bérubé prize
http://chicago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/27778644
The Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History (CLGBTH) announced the Out in Chicago exhibition, produced by Chicago History Museum (CHM), as a winner of Allan Bérubé Prize. The award recognizes outstanding work in public or community-based lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer history.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate rejects idea of making homosexuality legal
http://chicago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/27726049
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has announced that she has no intention of making homosexuality legal.

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