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ChicagoPride.com
March 25, 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 March 18 - 24, 2018.

(Pictured: Auston Matta and David Brown, Two Bad Toursists) 

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 March 18 - 24, 2018.

(Pictured: Auston Matta and David Brown, Two Bad Toursists) 

An eight-week renovation at Roscoe's Tavern is set to begin at the end of March, though the popular Boystown bar will remain open throughout.

Lollapalooza has announced its 2018 lineup, bringing major headlining acts like Jack White, Arctic Monkeys, Bruno Mars, and The Weeknd to Chicago this summer.

During a congressional hearing on Tuesday, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Ben Carson said that transgender people in homeless shelters make other people "not comfortable."

They moved to Chicago in 2008 and within a year or so, David Brown and Auston Matta were already contemplating a move to California, probably San Diego, which is about a six-hour drive from Phoenix, where most of their families live.

Vice President Mike Pence was greeted with rainbow pride flags as he participated in Saturday's St. Patrick's Day parade in Savannah, Georgia.

President Donald Trump on Friday issued an order banning most transgender troops from serving in the military except under "limited circumstances".

In a recent interview with Billboard, Australian actor Keiynan Lonsdale talks about coming out.

A gay parody of a children's book written by Vice President Mike Pence's daughter is outselling the original.

In a major development in the fight for federal oversight of the Chicago Police Department (CPD), over a dozen community groups today reached an agreement with the City of Chicago and the Illinois Attorney General.

Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, released the following statement on the primary election results in Illinois' 3rd Congressional District.

 

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