Top trending: Wrestling with prose; New Boystown parking restrictions; and Gaga makes history at Wrigley

ChicagoPride.com
August 27, 2017

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 August 19 - August 26, 2017.

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 August 19 - August 26, 2017.

Dylan Geick has long wanted to be an author. He's been reading and writing creatively for as long as he can remember, and admittedly would tear through books in a single day as a youngster.

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed legislation that will modernize Illinois law allowing transgender and intersex individuals to change the gender marker on their birth certificate without undergoing gender reassignment surgery.

A new parking restriction pilot program is being explored along North Halsted and it could impact your weekend plans in Boystown.

Lady Gaga brings her "Joanne World Tour" Friday to Wrigley Field, 1060 W. Addison, becoming the first woman to headline a concert at the famed Cubs' ballpark.

With Netflix unwilling to renew Sense8, but with the story left untold, xHamster has stepped up to offer themselves as a production partner.

Reeling, the second-oldest LGBTQ film festival in the world, celebrates its 35th anniversary with an exciting slate of movies that showcases the amazing diversity of the queer experience.

For one night, on two stages, for three hours, more than 25 drag queens (and a drag king) will strut their stuff at Sidetrack.

Out actor-television personality Jai Rodriguez has joined an HIV campaign that reaches out to black and Latino gay and bisexual men.

The new online magazine from Grindr carries a fun slap at common lingo on the popular, gay, social-networking app – and a strong Chicago tie.

The White House is expected to issue guidance to the Pentagon on President Donald Trump's ban on transgender military service as early as Thursday.

 

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