Top Trending: August 5 to August 11, 2012

The Gay Liberation Network re-launched a boycott of the embattled Chick-fil-A fast food chain, with a protest at the only Chicago franchise Wednesday. (Image courtesy Windy City Times)

Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain has said that Chick-Fil-A CEO Dan Cathy confided to him that the company earned $30 million on Appreciation Day and said that he would donate that money to "the charitable organizations they support."

Thousands of people from across the country will converge on North Halsted St. this weekend for the 2012 Northalsted Market Days, the largest two-day outdoor street festival in the Midwest, taking place Sat., Aug. 11 - Sun., Aug. 12.

This weekend, international superstar Olivia Newton-John takes the stage at Chicago's hottest street festival, Northalsted Street Market Days.

Matthew Harvat's CircuitMOM Productions (CMP) is hard at work preparing to transform the House of Blues into a Saturday night Revolution party like no other.

Seeking fairness and equality for everyone in Illinois will be front and center at the Illinois State Fair, which opened Thursday, as the first-ever LGBT-focused booth, staffed jointly by Equality Illinois and Lambda Legal, joins the festivities. (From news release)

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), often referred to as Obamacare, bars health care discrimination against transgender people, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said in a memo released earlier this month.

With the nation-by-nation parade of athletes at the Games of the XXX Olympiad, history was made – in the sports arena and in the political arena.

Jujubee, Latrice Royale and Manila Luzon are among the 12 drag queens returning for RuPaul's All Stars Drag Race.

Mitt Romney has reiterated that he disagrees with the Boy Scouts of America's ban on openly gay scouts and leaders.