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Monday, June 09
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Source: Chicago Tribune , Celebrating Diversity blog Lesbian and gay Christians and their supporters talked with members of a suburban Chicago mega-church this weekend in what was described by one participant as a "very gracious dialogue." Members of American Family Outing were welcomed to Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, one of the Midwest's largest churches. The group -- including Jay Bakker, the son of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker -- met with Willow Creek leadership, including senior pastor Bill Hybels, hoping to begin a cordial dialogue about how the church views...
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Wednesday, May 14
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Source: Chicago Tribune , CBS 2 Chicago , Windy City Times Larry McKeon polished relations between Mayor Richard M. Daley and Chicago's gay and lesbian community in the early 1990s before becoming the first openly gay member of the Illinois General Assembly, where he successfully pushed legislation to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. McKeon, 63, died Tuesday, May 13, in Springfield, apparently after suffering a stroke. His death was announced Wednesday to lawmakers by House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie (D-Chicago). A Chicago Democrat, McKeon served five terms in the House...
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Thursday, April 24
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Source: Naperville Sun The third time was the charm for a Neuqua Valley High School student who wants to express his sentiments on homosexuality by wearing a “Be Happy, Not Gay” T-shirt to class. Neuqua sophomore Alex Nuxoll had twice filed for an injunction that would suspend what his anti-gay activist lawyers claimed is “the school’s policy that allows speech in favor of homosexual conduct, but bans speech critical of homosexual conduct.” And twice courts had denied that request. But on Wednesday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit reversed the lower courts’ rulings against Nuxoll,...
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Saturday, April 05
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Source: Daily Herald , Associated Press via Chicago Tribune A federal appeals court heard arguments from attorneys today that could determine whether a Neuqua Valley High School sophomore will be allowed to wear a previously banned anti-gay T-shirt at school. The expedited appeals hearing was requested because of Alexander Nuxoll's desire to wear a shirt bearing the message "Be Happy, Not Gay" during April 28's National Day of Truth at his Naperville school. The Christian-based event follows the pro-gay National Day of Silence held this year April 25. background in Qnews : Another...
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Thursday, March 13
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Source: Chicago Tribune , Associated Press , ECLA press release The first draft of an unprecedented social statement on human sexuality by the nation's largest Lutheran denomination does not discuss whether the church should permit gay and lesbian clergy to serve, but emphasizes the importance of trust at the center of people's relationships with friends, family, sexual partners and God. While the statement, long-awaited by members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ECLA), stresses traditional marriage as between a man and a woman, it also acknowledges the significance of committed...
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Thursday, February 21
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Source: Christian Post and Chicago Tribune An evangelical leader who was invited to speak at Wheaton College Tuesday evening about his new book on Christian engagement in society drew criticisms from a group that accused the speaker of supporting what they call the "homosexual agenda". Jim Wallis, founder of the progressive social justice group Sojourners and Call to Renewal, was the featured speaker at Wheaton College’s Center for Applied Christian Ethics (CACE). He was invited to campus as part of a series of speakers on the general theme of Christian moral engagement in society, and...
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Wednesday, February 20
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Source: Daily Herald , Chicago Tribune , Associated Press The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a friend of the court brief on the 1st Amendment rights of a Naperville high school student who wants to wear a T-shirt to school that opposes homosexuality on moral grounds. The ACLU filed a brief late last week with the U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit, arguing that sophomore Alexander Nuxoll should be allowed to wear a T-shirt to school that reads "Be Happy, Not Gay." Neuqua Valley High School of Naperville has prohibited Nuxoll from wearing the message under its policy forbidding...
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Monday, February 04
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Source: Chicago Tribune Chicago's new Episcopal bishop and the church's national leader sent a clear message Sunday about where they stand on gay clergy, a smoldering issue that threatens to tear apart the denomination. Wrapping up a five-day tour in honor of Jeffrey Lee, the new Chicago bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori declared that the American church will not stand alone in its support of gay clergy during an international meeting in July in Lambeth, England. "Many more [bishops] than you might expect are sympathetic," Jefferts Schori, the presiding Episcopal bishop, told...
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Tuesday, January 15
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Source: Southtown Star University Park, Ill. -- School violence -- including shootings, teasing and bullying -- will continue across the country until education leaders take a closer look at gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues that affect young people, an expert at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) said. Patrick Finnessy, director of gay, lesbian and transgender concerns at UIC, delivered this message to a group of about 30 teachers, counselors and other youth advocates from across the Southland on Friday at Governors State University (GSU) in University Park. The seminar was...
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Saturday, January 05
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Source: New York Times CHICAGO -- John Holloway received a diagnosis of AIDS nearly two decades ago, when the disease was a speedy death sentence and treatment a distant dream. Yet at 59 he is alive, thanks to a cocktail of drugs that changed the course of an epidemic. But with longevity has come a host of unexpected medical conditions, which challenge the prevailing view of AIDS as a manageable, chronic disease. Mr. Holloway, who lives in a housing complex designed for the frail elderly, suffers from complex health problems usually associated with advanced age: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease...
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Friday, January 04
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Source: Naperville Sun and Chicago Daily Herald Naperville, Ill. -- Attorneys for a Neuqua Valley High School student fighting the school’s ruling that he cannot wear an anti-gay T-shirt are hoping the third time will be the charm. Twice, Neuqua sophomore Alexander Nuxoll has filed for an injunction that would suspend “the school’s policy that allows speech in favor of homosexual conduct, but bans speech critical of homosexual conduct,” said his attorney, the Alliance Defense Fund’s Jonathan Scruggs. And twice now courts have denied that request -- the latest instance coming Dec. 21 when U.S. District...
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Friday, December 28
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Source: Chicago Sun-Times A Cicero man angry about an alleged homosexual advance raped the man he claimed propositioned him, and then sodomized him with a broomstick, officials said. Felipe Rivera, 43, is charged with a hate crime as well as aggravated criminal sexual assault and other offenses, said a spokesman for the Cook County state's attorney's office. If convicted, he could face more than 30 years in prison, a source said. According to a spokesman for Cicero police, Rivera and the victim encountered each other at a party Friday night in the 1200 block of South 50th Avenue. "Mr...
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Thursday, December 27
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Source: CBS2 Chicago Activists fear gay African-Americans are being targeted for murder. Two openly gay men were killed recently on the South Side, as CBS 2's Mike Parker reports. African-American gay and lesbian groups are talking about the murders of two openly gay Black men in the past month. On November 17, 24-year-old Larry Bland was shot to death in his Englewood home. Bland, a security guard at Northwestern Hospital was shot more than once after struggling with a man who had entered the house through an unlocked basement door. Then on December 23, 47-year-old Donald Young, the choir...
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Tuesday, December 25
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Source: Chicago Tribune Chicago's immigrant rights movement was on the verge of making history, and Nicole Perez was ready to lend her voice when she was told, with an angry sneer, that she was not welcome. That was March 10, 2006. Perez and her lesbian partner, Xiomara Santana, had joined more than 100,000 demonstrators in the Loop for a march that kicked off a nationwide struggle for immigrant rights. Holding hands, the U.S.-born women looked at the Latino faces around them and were reminded of their own families. Then an elderly man 2 feet away cursed at the couple, spitting out: "Why...
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Monday, December 10
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Source: ScienceDaily and Chicago Sun-Times A new study is providing insights into the genetics of homosexuality -- at least in fruit flies. Researchers have discovered a gene involved in homosexual behavior in the tiny flies. They also found a way to turn homosexuality on and off with drugs. Humans have a similar gene. But it's unclear what effect, if any, the gene has on homosexual behavior in people, said biologist David Featherstone of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Featherstone and colleagues described their findings in the journal Nature Neuroscience. The team led by Featherstone...
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Monday, November 19
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Source: Chicago Tribune Sitting in sight of her father and grandfather, both Lutheran ministers, Jen Rude on Saturday became the first ordained lesbian pastor since the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America urged bishops to not penalize congregations who violate the celibacy requirement for gay clergy. Several of the more than 100 congregants present wept as the 27-year-old stood before them, a beaming smile drawn across her face. Under church policy, homosexual ministers are required to make a vow of celibacy before they can be ordained. But heterosexual ministers are not, and Rude, who is not...
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Tuesday, November 13
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Source: Associated Press via The Advocate Chicago (AP) An organ donor in Chicago infected four transplant patients with the AIDS virus in what a donor group says is the first such transmission in the U.S. in 13 years. The transplants occurred in January at three Chicago hospitals. The patients infected with HIV and the virus for hepatitis C did not learn of their status until the last two weeks, according to medical officials. Dr. Michael Millis, chief of the transplantation program at the University of Chicago Hospitals, said his staff was told of the problem on Nov. 1, and brought in the two...
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Saturday, November 10
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Source: Chicago Tribune and CBS2 Chicago The Reverend Jeffrey Lee was elected the new Episcopal bishop of Chicago on Saturday, culminating an election that drew world-wide attention to select the next leader of the 41,000 member church. At their annual diocesan convention in suburban Wheeling, church leaders elected Lee from a slate of eight candidates, which included a lesbian priest, Rev. Tracey Lind. Lee is rector of St. Thomas Church in Medina, Wash. He becomes Chicago's 12th bishop and succeeds the Rev. William D. Persell, who has served as bishop since March 1999. The Chicago election...
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Monday, October 29
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Source: Chicago Sun Times The problem of domestic violence involving women is well-known and extensively studied, but the problem is just as bad with another less studied group: gay men. So says a study conducted by two researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In fact, they found that 1 out of every 3 men in a same-sex relationship has been abused. That is similar to what studies of battered women have found. More than 32 percent of the men reported experiencing verbal, physical or sexual abuse in an intimate relationship. Just under 20 percent said they were physically or sexually...
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Tuesday, October 16
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Source: Chicago Tribune It was every parent's worst nightmare in an era when people didn't dream those kinds of dreams. The notorious triple homicide, which occurred 52 years ago Tuesday, is ancient history now, the stuff of yellowed newspapers and microfilm, but still elicits a shudder in Chicagoans of a certain age. The bodies of three young boys were discovered in a forest preserve on a cool October morning in 1955. Nothing before or since, not the Leopold-Loeb thrill killing, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Richard Speck or John Wayne Gacy, ever struck more fear into Chicago....
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Friday, September 28
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CHICAGO (AP) — Three women claimed Thursday in a federal lawsuit that an off-duty Chicago police officer roughed them up and called them names because of their sexual orientation after this year's gay pride parade. The lawsuit could become the latest...
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Monday, September 24
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Wheaton, Ill -- In an impassioned Sunday morning sermon to more than 2,000 worshipers at a Wheaton church, a leading critic of the Episcopal Church's liberal stance on homosexuality spoke against sexual sin, saying unity must come from transformation...
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