Top Trending: November 24 - 30, 2013

The Most Fabulous Santa Speedo Run is back for it's third year and organizers Karl Sponholtz and his partner Jeff Colgan are ready to bring gay Chicago a new holiday tradition with all the trimmings.

A federal court Monday ordered the Cook County Clerk to immediately issue a marriage license to a terminally ill Chicago woman and her partner.

The night before Thanksgiving is unofficially considered the busiest night of the year for bars and taverns, so much so that the night is often referred to as Black Wednesday.

Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann has refused to include LGBT families in an adoption resolution.

Butler University on Thursday announced its opposition to a proposed gay marriage ban in Indiana.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a Republican, has described Wisconsin's ban on gay marriage as part of a "healthy balance" of LGBT rights.

Rick Garcia, a long-time gay rights activist, issued a blistering criticism of New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan for suggesting that the Catholic Church is "caricatured as anti-gay."

The Salvation Army has taken down links from its website to two "ex-gay" ministries.

After Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed into law a bill that makes Illinois the 16th state to legalize gay marriage, Arcola resident Mark Wathen, a disabled Navy vet, proposed marriage to his boyfriend with a full-page ad in the Arcola Record-Herald.

A New Jersey family has denied allegations they stiffed a lesbian server on a tip because of her "lifestyle."