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Hundreds attended a Deerfield school board meeting to support a trans student after the Department of Education launched an investigation into her locker room use.
An openly gay suburban Chicago school superintendent says he was only trying to be funny when he took videotaped interviews with his new teachers, spliced in his own gag questions, and made the faculty members look like killers, strippers, and drug users.
He was subjected to episodes of violence and called derogatory slurs, the lawsuit alleged.
An Illinois law prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity has become a reality nearly a year after Gov. Rod Blagojevich (pictured) signed it into law.
Equality Illinois helped usher in new legislation that will make it easier for LGBT people to affect policy in schools, hospitals, and prisons.
The decision from a federal appeals court comes in the case of a lesbian who says she was physically and verbally assaulted other tenants at her senior housing facility.
Clinton, Edwards, and Obama all reached out to the community in different ways, leaving gay activists to choose which candidate's approach will produce results for LGBT equality.
The U.S. senator from Illinois, a stroke survivor and five-term veteran of the House, is going out on a limb for LGBT Americans.
The law currently applies to employers with 15 or more workers, but the vetoed bill would have extended its coverage to all employers.
A transgender girl in suburban Chicago said requiring her to use a privacy stall in the girls' locker room was discriminatory.
Illinois is the fifth state to require that schools teach about the contributions of LGBTQ people.
Last year activists worried that the Supreme Court's ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby opened the door to discrimination — but in one trans employee’s case, the bias was already occurring.
Judi Brown says she was subjected to transphobic and racial harassment at a Circle K store in Illinois.
Michelle Obama states her case for why an Obama presidency would make for an LGBT-friendlier America.
