Top Trending Stories: April 15 - April 21, 2012
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April 22, 2012
At ChicagoPride.com, Sunday means that it's time to look back at this week in gay Chicago news as covered by the GoPride.com News Staff. The top local and national stories of interest as ranked by popularity on the network.
At ChicagoPride.com, Sunday means that it's time to look back at this week in gay Chicago news as covered by the GoPride.com News Staff. The top local and national stories of interest as ranked by popularity on the network.
There's now a growing awareness of the bullying epidemic in this country, and many parents and activists are just now realizing that schools and families must do much better to keep young people safe.
Officials at Howard Brown Health Center said April 16 that the LGBT health agency has restored its financial stability, implemented sweeping technological and administrative changes and is poised to grow into a healthcare center that can serve clients "from the time they're born until the time they die."
Despite a disagreement over tactics that boiled over April 16, groups that have been working to get a comprehensive order on the books detailing how Chicago police interact with transgenders are expressing hope that they will achieve their goal soon.
Windy City Gay Idol is kicking off its 10th year of searching for the best amateur LGBT singer in the Chicago area. This highly anticipated annual contest has made a definite impact in both the LGBT and performing communities over the last decade, inspiring careers and bringing performers together.
Chicago's LGBT community is reacting to news that a transgender woman was found shot and killed in Chicago's West Garfield Park neighborhood Monday morning.
The University of Texas at Austin will soon start putting transgender students' preferred names on all official school documents, including medical records.
U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Illinois) honored Center on Halsted Tuesday afternoon from the floor of the United States Capitol where he spoke about the work of the LGBT community center over the past five years.
State Rep. Greg Harris (D-Chicago) doesn't believe a marriage equality bill he pushed in February will pass in Illinois this year.
Major Archibald Butt and artist Frank Millet were traveling together on the Titanic and might have been lovers, new research suggests. Both men went down with the ship.
After weeks of planning by students, professionals, and allied adults, a dance for queer youth was held in Evanston's McGaw YMCA on the evening of April 14.