Top Trending Stories: April 8 - April 14, 2012

The White House is welcoming more than 35,000 people to its 134th Egg Roll this Monday April 9 and among them is a family from suburban Chicago: four-year-old Siena Rose Garcia-Rizzo and her dads, Jaime Garcia and Daryl Rizzo.

New York City Catholic Charities junior board member Joseph Amodeo has quit after Cardinal Dolan sent a caustic letter in regards to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender teenagers.

A new study proves what a lot of gays and lesbians already suspected: people who are overtly homophobic are often in denial about their own same-sex desires.

As the nation remembers CBS newsman Mike Wallace as a journalism pioneer, gay rights activists have resurrected his 1967 documentary, The Homosexuals.

A New Zealand man won the title of Mr Gay World during a competition that ended late Sunday in Johannesburg.

Smoke filled the area near Sheridan Road and Belmont Avenue as an afternoon fire broke out in a Lakeview apartment building Sunday afternoon.

A man was wounded this afternoon in an apparent drive-by shooting in the Lakeview neighborhood on the North Side.

Psychiatrist Dr. Robert Spitzer, whose research on so-called "ex-gays" gave ammunition to homophobes, now says that he was wrong.

The much-talked-about documentary "Bully" will open in general release today, including theaters throughout Chicago.

Respected out gay actor David Pevsner will be joined by former Saturday Night Live cast member and Second City veteran Tim Kazurinsky in the title roles of Scrooge and Marley in the new independent film being shot in Chicago this May. Pevsner and Kazurinsky are both native Chicagoans.