Top Trending: December 15 - 21, 2013

Neverland, a new themed costume party series that hit Chicago in 2012 and saw major growth in the last year, is saying goodbye to a wild ride in 2013 with their second annual Purity Ball on December 29 at Hydrate.
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Colonel (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker, IL ARNG (Retired) is a former soldier, an entrepreneur and investor, an adventurer and philanthropist, and a pioneer. And now, she has agreed to chair the Equality Illinois 2014 Gala, the civil rights organization announced Monday.

Lakeview, including Boystown, is one of 10 Chicago neighborhoods that experienced an increase in crime between 2011 and 2013, according to a recently released study.

As the Indiana General Assembly prepares to consider a proposed constitutional amendment which would ban gay marriage in the state, Indiana's six Roman Catholic bishops have weighed in on the issue.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner said that he would have vetoed Illinois same-sex marriage legislation if he were governor.

Phil Robertson, a star of A&E's reality show 'Duck Dynasty', was suspended from the show Wednesday after making anti-gay statements in an interview with GQ magazine.

Same-sex couples in Cook County, Illinois who face life-threatening illness could wed immediately following a federal court decision released Monday.

A New Mexico Supreme Court ruling handed down Thursday joins the state with 16 others and the District of Columbia in allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry.

Social conservative groups opposed to Illinois' gay marriage law have failed to deliver on making the issue part of next year's primary races.

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) on Thursday announced a $100,000 donation to the Russian Freedom Fund, a vehicle for making financial contributions in support of Russia's LGBT rights movement and efforts to combat anti-gay discrimination in the former Soviet Republic.