Top Trending: FL man robbed by Grindr date, Chicago among kinkiest cities, Center hosts BHM series, and Trump says he supports gay equality

ChicagoPride.com
January 21, 2018

At ChicagoPride.com, Sunday means that it's time to look back at the week in gay news - in and out of Chicago - as covered by the GoPride.com News Staff. The top local and national stories of interest as ranked by popularity on the network from January 13 - January 20, 2018. 

At ChicagoPride.com, Sunday means that it's time to look back at the week in gay news - in and out of Chicago - as covered by the GoPride.com News Staff. The top local and national stories of interest as ranked by popularity on the network from January 13 - January 20, 2018. 

Florida police say a man was attacked and robbed at gunpoint by a man he met on Grindr, a popular dating app for gay and bisexual men.

A new survey from KinkD, a fetish dating app, has identified which cities are the 'kinkiest' in the country for gay men. With over 155 thousand gay male users in the United States, the app analyzed America's kink hotspots, surveying its subscribers on which cities are the most friendly to the kink lifestyle.

Center on Halsted (COH) will host a series of Black History Month events in February. 'The At the Intersections' series will kick-off on Thursday, Feb. 1 with Quiet Storm: The Art & Times of Black LGBTQ Life.

Tony Award nominee, Drama Desk Lifetime Achievement honoree and two-time MAC Award winner, Charles Busch, who performed two sold-out shows at Pride Arts Center in January 2017, will return on Jan. 21-22 with "Charles Busch: My Kinda '60s."

Mark Sakalares, who has played, coached and umpired for years in the Open Sunday Softball league, run by the Chicago Metropolitan Sports Association (CMSA), has added a new role: Commissioner.

Out Canadian pairs figure skater Eric Radford and his skating partner Meagan Duhamel have qualified for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Singer-actor Ricky Martin revealed in a new interview that coming out gay was "extremely painful" for him.

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has criticized President Donald Trump's letter to a group of LGBT conservatives in which he said that he supports LGBT equality.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and out singer Adam Lambert will be guest judges on the upcoming season of VH1's RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars.

President Donald Trump has congratulated the Log Cabin Republicans on its 40th anniversary.

 

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