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LGBTQ+ Chicagoans outraged as city imposes new limits on this year’s Pride parade
Members of the mayor’s LGBTQ+ advisory council’s says it has not been included in conversations about the changes.
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Prosecutors decline to charge suspect identified in alleged anti-trans mass shooting
The shooting caused the death of a trans woman and her mother and left three other victims wounded.
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Out Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is under fire after allegedly defending the Proud Boys
Lightfoot reportedly said it’s “an overstatement” to call the Proud Boys a far-right, anti-gay, antisemitic group.
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Chicago police & families search for answers after hit-and-run kills 3 outside Black gay bar
As a group of young men tried to stop a fight outside of a local gay bar, a car suddenly plowed into them, killed three and injured a fourth.
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Lori Lightfoot laughs off absurd-sounding “homophobic” sex scandal rumors
Social media was abuzz with the claim that Chicago’s first out mayor would step down. She made light of the rumors, but had stern words for serious calls for her to resign as well.
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A trans woman was murdered on Christmas Day. Police are choosing to misgender her.
Courtney Eshay Kay’s family told Chicago police that she was a trans woman. They’re still classifying her under the wrong gender.
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A Chicago cop called a protestor a “f****t.” The mayor is a lesbian & she’s not having it.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot has never been shy about standing up for LGBTQ people.
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Jussie Smollett faces 6 new felony charges for allegedly making false hate crime reports
A special prosecutor says Smollett repeatedly lied to police, but he says the police are “maliciously prosecuting” him to cover up its own incompetence.
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The ‘Empire’ star strikes back: Jussie Smollett countersues city of Chicago, police chief
Jussie Smollett maintains his original claims about being attacked, and now the investigators are under even more scrutiny for their tactics.
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Chicago cop accused of forcing a trans woman to perform oral sex on him in his squad car
He threatened her with jail time unless she did it. The department let him retire after they found out.