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Legislators and LGBTQ advocates call out State Farm after insurance giant pulls support for gender...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIllinois legislators and advocacy group Equality Illinois issued a joint statement Thursday calling...
'In finding each other we started developing power': A look at Midwest’s largest gay bar
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWith 15,000 square feet spanning two stories and more than eight storefronts, Sidetrack is believed...
New law allows Illinoisans to change sex on birth certificate without doctor’s affirmation
The State Journal-Register via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIllinoisans seeking to legally change the gender on their birth certificate will have an easier time...
A Savannah-based artist emerges out of the darkness into the light of creativity
Savannah Morning News via Yahoo News· 6 days ago“My hope is that I’ll get to that place where I am very successful, and I am a household name, and I...
Bill allowing multi-occupancy bathrooms to be gender neutral passes Illinois House
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA measure that would allow multiple occupancy public restrooms to be labeled gender-neutral was passed by the Illinois House on Thursday with the bare minimum of votes. The bill, which now moves ...
After son’s suicide, Chicago couple push measure for greater scrutiny of social media use
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 days agoCHICAGO -- Rose and Rob Bronstein were blindsided by their 15-year-old son Nate’s suicide in early...
First Black, Trans Woman Becomes Water Reclamation Commissioner in Chicago
21 Ninety via Yahoo News· 9 months agoPrecious Brady-Davis is the first Black transgender woman in the history of the state to be...
Illinois activists and legal scholars say Supreme Court abortion decision means LGBT rights and...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSome legal experts in the Chicago area say the Supreme Court’s legal reasoning in overturning Roe v....
Pritzker signs Illinois bill allowing gender-neutral, multiple-occupancy public bathrooms
Belleville News-Democrat via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA measure that allows multiple-occupancy public restrooms to be labeled gender-neutral was among...
Illinois joins Nevada and Virginia by taking Equal Rights Amendment to appeals court
Rockford Register Star via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSPRINGFIELD – Attorneys for the state of Illinois joined their colleagues in Nevada and Virginia Wednesday in asking a federal appellate court to declare that the Equal Rights Amendment has ...