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Since 1985, Windy City Times cofounder Tracy Baim said they have been writing the first draft of history of the community in Chicago.

Justin LeBlanc calls Chicago home. The deaf queer fashion designer and installation artist has competed on Bravo’s Project Runway Season 12 and All Stars Season 4. Today, LeBlanc helps mold the creative skills of burgeoning fashion designers as an Associate Professor at Columbia College Chicago. As told to Ari Bendersky. Coming from a small town in North Carolina

After more than 35 years of covering major events like the HIV/AIDS epidemic and writing about diverse communities, Chicago’s main LGBTQ publication is still going strong.

'Mama Gloria: The Story of Legendary Trans Activist Gloria Allen,' is airing as part of the documentary series 'AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange.'

The documentary chronicles the relationship of LGBTQ civil rights leaders Art Johnston and Pepe Peña, owners of Sidetrack.

By deep-sixing ‘Boystown,’ the leadership of Chicago’s LGBTQ community would abandon a name of exclusion.

David Jay Collins introduces LGBTQ fiction and horror, set right here at home

Murals celebrating LGBTQ life will be coming to Chicago in the coming days, including to the Magnificent Mile. The work by Chicago artist Sam Kirk was previously on display in New York City, wrapped around Times Square’s main stage during WorldPride last year. The international event last summer marked the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots that helped spark…

As a queer sex therapist who works with both individuals and couples, I have been especially excited to personally and professionally witness CBD’s benefits in enhancing sexual wellness within our community.

It’s a family reunion for LGBTQ Chicago. It’s a citywide celebration that draws 1 million people into streets transformed by music and laughter, pink hair and washboard abs, rainbow flags and feather headdresses. It’s a chance to celebrate who you are, loudly and proudly, at teeming festivals and boisterous bars. However you define Pride Month, the June celebration of LGBTQ identity an

The Illinois lawmaker was infamous for opposing same-sex marriage and the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” and his anti-LGBT voting record

The City Council signed off on a study of the idea proposed by Chicago’s first openly-gay mayor.

Ora Amber, a 16-year-old ex-Catholic, stood across the street from St. Francis High School last week lofting a yellow, white, purple and black flag that represents people whose gender identity is outside the male/female binary. Amber, who uses they and them as pronouns, was part of a small crowd rallying against the Wheaton school’s refusal to use such nontraditional pronouns for its students

Say you’re 18. You’re gay. Stuck in rural ‘Merica. No LGBT center or organization on the countryside. Your parents won’t accept you, so you relocate to the nearest city. You get an apartment. Things…

The Black Queer Equity Index will grade five LGBTQ nonprofits on how well their organizations are creating opportunity and representation for Black LGBTQ people.

A Chicago man celebrates 'Pride in the Pews' within the Black Church and calls for Christian queers to their share stories.

When South Sider Jack Henning-Sepkoski came out as transgender, he sought to change his Ohio birth certificate so it reflected his correct gender and name. But state policy bans it.

This Notables section features 56 LGBTQ executives and 10 companies that champion diversity. A number of the honorees work for or support leading advocacy organizations, including AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Center on Halsted, Chicago House & Social Service Agency, Equality Illinois and Howard Brown Health.

There’s no Chicago Pride Parade due to the pandemic. So this Pride Month we put together this list to highlight some key places and event in the city’s gay life and history.

Businesses in the west suburb are sporting rainbow colors, the brainchild of a group called OUTspoken Leaders.

Some of the protesters who come to the Brave Space Alliance LGBTQ center in Hyde Park have been shot with rubber bullets or beaten with nightsticks, says executive director LaSaia Wade. One needed a change of clothes after being tased. “We were lucky -- we had spare clothes, so they could change clothes because they urinated on themselves,” said Wade. “They appreciated the clothes, and the

For years, Chicago attorney Jill Rose Quinn has wanted to be a judge. 

Even though he is living and working--for now, at least--in Chicago, the hugely talented young playwright Isaac Gomez is fast becoming the Bard of El Paso, Texas.

With a “for us, by us” approach, Brothers Health Collective in Chicago reaches a community often missed by larger organizations.