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Transgender Day of Remembrance 2023 events included a Sunday West Loop ballroom competition, during which trans people could be themselves.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law a bill that provides more protection for patients coming to Illinois to seek gender-affirming health care. The move comes as several states attempt to restrict gender-affirming care for transgender people.

Brave Space Alliance provides services such as a network of food pantries, a transgender relief and funeral fund, and support groups.

One week after a hit-and-run that left three people dead on Chicago’s Far South Side, the victims’ loved ones and LGBT-plus community stood in unity as they...

Evanston LGBTQ activist Elise Malary, whose body was found in Lake Michigan March 17, and Chicagoan Tatiana “Tee Tee” Whetstone, 33, who was found dead in a garbage bin March 18.

In categories including budgeting and safety, LGBTQ leaders with Brave Space Alliance and Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation gave the mayor’s and the sheriff’s efforts on protecting trans rights an “F.”

Fighting what some saw as a "whitewash" of gay history, some in Chicago are trying to document the city’s Black LGBTQ community, which can trace its roots to the early 20th century.

WBAL Radio 1090 AM - Black trans women live in fear after pattern of deaths in Chicago

Danielle A. Scruggs for ABC News(CHICAGO) -- The story of De'Janay Stanton's death is one that many transgender women in Chicago fear. The 24-year-old Black transgender woman was shot and killed by a romantic interest in 2018, and since then more and more stories like hers have come to light -- in her city and across the U.S. "They want to date our girls in darkness -- they don't want to be in public," said her sister, Chimera Griffin. "She never expressed danger to...

Black trans women in Chicago live in fear following local attacks on the LGBTQ community.