WINDY
CITY
MEDIA
GROUP
NATIONAL Rufus Gifford, school items, N.C. situation, Texas judge
- Rufus Gifford, the highest-ranking openly LGBTQ+ official at the State Department, is leaving his post as chief of protocol to become finance chair for President Joe Biden's re-election campaign, The Advocate reported. Gifford, who is married ...
UPDATE: NU fires football coach in wake of hazing scandal
- Northwestern University fired longtime coach Pat Fitzgerald on July 10 amid allegations of widespread hazing within the football program, according to media reports. ...
Students sue to block discriminatory Idaho restroom ban
-
--From a Lambda Legal press release
- (Boise, ID, July 7, 2023) Lambda Legal, Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, and Alturas Law Group, PLLC, last night filed a federal lawsuit against the Idaho State Superintendent of Education Debbie Critchfield and other Idaho ...
One in five LGBT high school students experiences hunger because of food insecurity
-
--From a press release
- A new study by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law finds 20% of LGBT high school studentsan estimated 371,000 youthexperienced hunger last month because there was not enough food at home. Among older youth ...
Guest essay by Florida mom Nicole Pejovich: What's Happening to Florida's Public Schools?
-
Related video below
- A queer Florida parent answers questions about recent laws, how Floridians are coping, and how you can help Books pulled from school library shelves by the dozens. All evidence of inclusivity stripped from classrooms. The politically ...
Fabrizzio Subia navigates loss and grief through art
- When it comes to loss, Fabrizzio Subia may know more than most people. Having dealt with everything from familial loss to the erasure of his history, the Ecuadorian-American multidisciplinary artist (who has also done things like ...
Artist Isabella Mellado illuminates the masks within community
-
By Jess Savage
- Chicago-based artist Isabella Mellado's paintings and sculptures are vibrant, colorful and larger than life. Her work represents autobiographical and allegorical scenes, nearly all of it featuring characters inspired by the ...
Art-felt: Pearl Dick helps young victims of trauma with mentoring
- Almost a decade ago, glass artist Pearl Dick and clinical psychologist Dr. Brad Stolbach co-founded Project FIRE (Fearless Initiative for Recovery and Empowerment), an arts program that provides victims of trauma the chance to heal through ...
NATIONAL La. bills, LGBTQ Southerners, gay-bar shooting, Maddow, Lemon, Grindr CEO
- The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) issued a press release criticizing Louisiana legislators for advancing three discriminatory bills targeting LGBTQ+ youth. The Senate passed a Gender Affirming Care Ban (HB 648) ...
Violent clash takes place at Calif. school-board meeting over LGBTQ+ rights
- On June 6, protesters clashed and fights erupted outside a meeting of the Glendale Unified School District board, which was scheduled to vote on recognizing June as Pride Month, ABC7 reported. After the skirmishes, police in ...
Headlines continue after advertisement...
Out and Aging
Presented By
Lightfoot to teach at Harvard in the fall
- Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is slated to teach at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she will lead a course tentatively titled "Health Policy and Leadership," The Chicago Sun-Times reported. The course ...
San Francisco's Harvey Milk School celebrates birthday of its namesake
- Students at the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy in San Francisco's LGBTQ Castro neighborhood took to the streets Monday, May 22, and marched on Harvey Milk Day. The day of special significance in California honors the ...
Illinois middle-school teacher loses job for promoting 'This Book Is Gay'
- Making This Book Is Gay available to her eighth-grade students resulted in Illinois teacher Sarah Bonner being reported to policeand eventually losing her job, according to an item from The Advocate. According to Today.com, Bonner (who ...
NCLR, GLAD, Trevor Project, coalition of groups support Biden administration's proposed Title IX Athletics Rule
-
--From a press release
- WASHINGTON, DC — The National Center for Lesbian Rights, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), and The Trevor Project — along with the National Education Association and more than a dozen other organizations — have submitted ...
UIC's 'lavender' graduates step out into the world
- On May 2, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) held its 17th annual Lavender Graduation Ceremony in front of a crowded room of queer graduates and their friends, allies and families. The event was held in ...
Indiana governor signs anti-LGBTQ+ bill that focuses on students
- Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb signed a measure that will require schools to notify a parent if a student requests a name or pronoun change at school, according to ABC 7 Chicago. It was one of the ...
Louisiana House passes discriminatory education bill targeting LGBTQ+ youth, HRC responds
-
--From an Human Rights Campaign press release
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana — Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, condemns the Louisiana House for passing HB ...
Illinois to become first state to punish book-banning
- Illinois is about to become the first state to punish public institutions that ban books. Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker has said he supports a House bill that would withhold state funding from any of the state's ...
Families, doctors challenge Oklahoma's ban on health care for trans youth
-
--From a press release
- OKLAHOMA CITY - Families, transgender adolescents, and their medical providers are challenging a new law criminalizing age-appropriate medical care for transgender adolescents signed by Governor Kevin Stitt yesterday. In a ...
LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project hosts first art exhibit at Center on Addison
- On April 28, the LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project hosted on opening reception to kick off its first ever art exhibit, Iridescent Footprints: Stories and Glories of Our Lives, at Center on Addison. The exhibition features collaborative ...
CDC: One in four high-schoolers identifies as LGBTQ
- CDC: One in four high-schoolers identifies as LGBTQ Approximately one in four high school students identifies as LGBTQ, according to a report the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released on April 27, The Hill ...
Biden administration files lawsuit challenging Tennessee's ban on trans youth care, HRC responds
-
--From an HRC press release
- WASHINGTON- Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, applauded the Department of Justice's filing of a federal lawsuit ...
NATIONAL Trans-rights cases, Brittney Griner, Elton John, law firm, passages, Twitter
- The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals plans to meet as a full court to consider a pair of trans-rights cases from West Virginia and North Carolina, NBC News reported. The Richmond-based appeals court said it ...
Lambda Legal: Proposed national transgender youth sports ban 'ignorant and despicable'
- (Washington, DC, April 19, 2023) — Today the U.S. House of Representatives considered HR 734, the Orwellian-titled Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, that would ban trans girls and women from participating in school ...
Florida bans teaching of sexuality, gender identity in K-12 public schools
- The Florida Board of Education has forbidden the teaching of gender identity and sexuality throughout all grades in K-12 public schools. In doing so, it is extending a nearly year-old legislative ban on such lessons from ...
PASSAGES Charles "Chuck" Williams was founder of the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity Law, Public Policy
- Charles "Chuck" Williamsthe founder of the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy, a think tank at the UCLA School of Lawpassed away April 11. Williams Institute Executive Director Brad Sears ...
Conversion therapy doc sparks healing conversation in Hyde Park
-
- On April 15, United Church of Hyde Park, 1448 E. 53rd St., hosted a showing of Pray Away, an Emmy-nominated 2021 documentary depicting the complex harms from conversion therapy. The event was hosted by United Church's ...
SAVOR Chef aims to help youths in oppressed communities; Hotel Zachary space opens
- The Evolved Network aims to help youths in systemically oppressed communities through gardening, culinary training and employment opportunities, among other ways. The organization is the brainchild of Sebastian White, a ...
Chicago Academy for the Arts meets million-dollar challenge with gala
- The Chicago Academy for the Arts held its "Inspire: Red Carpet Gala" on April 1 at Chicago's Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel. The event, according to an email from school head Jason Patera, raised more than $400,000 ...
Iowa, Georgia ban medical treatment for trans minors
- Two more states have enacted laws that prohibit medical treatment for transgender minors. On March 22, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed two bills into law that affect transgender minors in the state, NBC News reported. Senate ...
Load more Headlines