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The Gerber/Hart Library remains in operation, but will soon be moving from its Edgewater neighborhood location to an unspecified new facility.
(photo courtesy Kate Sosin/Windy City Times)

Downstate Republicans have again filed legislation to allow religion based discrimination against gay and lesbian couples when it comes to foster and adoption services in Illinois.

Actress Cynthia Nixon has backtracked on her controversial comment where she said homosexuality was "a choice" for her.

Mark Ishaug, the former President and Chief Executive Officer of AIDS Foundation of Chicago, is stepping down as President and CEO of AIDS United, effective February 29, 2012 according to a press release from the group. Ishaug has accepted a position as CEO of Thresholds, a Chicago based non-profit.

Steven Ondo and Jonathan Simcox of Cleveland, Ohio, have filed a federal lawsuit claiming they were arrested on false pretenses and hauled away without their pants on because they are gay.

Chicago will receive nearly $1 million in federal grant funding for HIV testing and treatment, which will be available for community mental health and substance abuse centers throughout the city.

Virulently anti-gay Tennessee State Sen. Stacey Campfield (R-Knoxville) was kicked out of a Knoxville restaurant on Sunday.

A campaign to fire Ellen DeGeneres as the spokeswoman for JCPenney because she is openly gay has roundly been rejected by the company.

Equality Illinois, the State's largest organization advocating for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality, announces the appointment of Mitchell Locin as its first Communications Liaison.

A six-minute YouTube video, which shows a gay youth being ‘scrubbed clean' of his sexuality, has shocked and outraged the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).