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Advocates urge Gov. Rauner to sign bill to help transgender Illinoisans SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – House ...
Equality Illinois initiative says victims' sexual orientation or gender identity no excuse for murde...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – A measure to modernize Illinois law allowing people to change the gender marker ...
CHICAGO, Ill – LGBTQ Americans find themselves in a position we haven't been in for nearly a decade:...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Equality Illinois announced on Monday its 2017 legislative agenda, a package of ...
CHICAGO, Ill. – A proposal to update and modernize a more than half-century old law allowing people ...
A Statewide Coalition of Organizations that Work with LGBTQ Illinoisans Issued the Following St...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Equality Illinois on Thursday denounced a new attempt by anti-LGBTQ forces in th...
CHICAGO, Ill. – Chicago Human Relations Commissioner Mona Noriega and Personal PAC CEO Terry Cosgrov...
28 LGBTQ people and allies to assist with policymaking at state's largest LGBTQ civil rights organiz...
CHICAGO, Ill. - More than 1,400 attendees, including more than 100 political figures and community V...
CAMDENTON, Mo. - A double homicide in Camden County, Mo. is being investigated as an anti-LGBT hate ...
CHICAGO, Ill. - Equality Illinois today condemned the lawsuit filed by a small handful of pastors ag...
CHICAGO, Ill.– Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan on Wed. joined 12 other attorneys general thro...
U.S. District Court Judge Staci Yandle to honor recipients CHICAGO – Forty Illinois...
CHICAGO, Ill.– Of the many personal, medical and legal challenges faced by transgender Illinoisans, ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The Illinois General Assembly on Tuesday passed legislation ensuring pension fai...
CHICAGO, Ill. – As LGBT Pride Month begins June 1, Brian C. Johnson assumes the leadership of Equali...
COLUMBIA, Mo. - The Columbia Police Department has appointed Officer Clinton Sinclair as its first L...
CHICAGO, Ill. – U.S. Rep. David Cicilline, chief House sponsor of the Equality Act, will be the keyn...
PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. - A St. Robert Missouri City Councilman has published a series of anti-LGBT post...
CHICAGO, Ill. – EqualityCon 2016, a two-day conference of LGBT champions, progressive advocates, all...
CHICAGO, Ill. – Equality Illinois (EI), the state’s oldest and largest organization advocating for l...
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - The Old Glass Place in downtown Springfield was filled with members of the Queen ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Advocates from Equality Illinois and the AIDS Foundation of Chicago–including a ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Equality Illinois, partner organizations, and citizens from across the state are...
Includes end to panic defenses, non-discrimination in jury service and easier birth certificate chan...
CHICAGO, Ill. – The Equality Illinois Political Action Committee (EI PAC) issued its second and fina...
CHICAGO, Ill. – The Equality Illinois Political Action Committee issued its first round of endorseme...
CHICAGO, Ill. – The Equality Illinois 25th Anniversary Gala this Saturday will celebrate a quarter c...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Following a spate of similar legislation across the nation, a anti-transgender "...
CHICAGO, Ill. - According to Equality Illinois, individuals can use the restroom consistent with the...
This week, U.S. Rep. Bob Dold (R-IL) became the first Republican in Congress to co-sponsor the Equal...
Kentucky‘s newly appointed governor Matt Bevin is inheriting a legal bill for his state’s failed att...
Statement by Bernard Cherkasov, CEO, Equality Illinois, November 6, 2015: ...
CHICAGO, Ill. – Leaders from lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) state equality...
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - The Xi Omicron Iota sorority at Missouri State University has changed i...
SPRINGFIELD, IL – Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner signed two more pro-equality bills today, inc...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A transgender woman died in the early hours on Saturday morning after repeatedly ...
The Mid-America Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (Mid-America GLCC) was honored today with the ...
SPRINGFIELD, IL - LGBT community leaders and allies, progressive advocates, civic official...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner today signed House Bill 3930 or the Enhance...
Illinois U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Mark Kirk, along with several members of the Illinois U.S. Ho...
CHICAGO, Ill. – Equality Illinois this week launched a new publication and a series of training semi...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon announced today that he has issued an executive...
SPRINGFIELD – In a bipartisan vote on Tuesday the Illinois Senate approved a measure ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The Illinois Senate on Wednesday unanimously gave final approval to a ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - In a bipartisan vote on Tuesday the Illinois House approved a measure ...
RAYMORE, Mo. — A Missouri high school teacher was removed from the classroom and placed on administr...
The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals announced on Wednesday that they will delay the hearing o...
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - An LGBT-inclusive nondiscrimination ordinance in Missouri's third large...
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Mirroring a wave of anti-equality efforts in state legislatures and cit...
OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Tax commission has denied an application for a personalized license pla...
CHICAGO – Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner met with LGBT leaders for the first time today commit...
DES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa state Senate has passed a bill that would ban mental health pr...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – A notable group of Illinois mental health, medical and academic organi...
CHICAGO – An online petition was launched yesterday by a coalition dedicated to fighting s...
Hundreds of businesses in both Arkansas and Nebraska have signed a pledge with the Human Rights Camp...
COLUMBIA, Mo. — The University of Missouri, Columbia will offer a new gender-neu...
TOPEKA, Kansas – Thousands are expected today at the Kansas state capital to rally in prot...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a St. Louis County ...
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau says he is...
LOS ANGELES— LGBT Americans face greater social and economic disparities in the South, Mid...
COLUMBIA, MO – Boone County will grant employment, retirement and survivor benefits to sam...
Add Arkansas and Mississippi to the growing list of states to have their same-sex marriage...
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a...
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, today, denied the Kansas request to stay U.S. District ...
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO – On October 28, 2014, Southeast Missouri State University's Boar...
ST. LOUIS – When the Supreme Court struck down section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act last year, t...
ST. LOUIS – This year has proven to be a monumental year for LGBT Missourians. Tho...
SPRINGFIELD, MO – In a 6-3 vote last night, the Springfield City Council passed comprehensive nondis...
KANSAS CITY, MO – The ACLU of Kansas today filed a lawsuit against district court clerks i...
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster announced Monday that he would not appeal last week...
KANSAS CITY, MO – Circuit Judge J. Dale Youngs has ruled today that the marriages of 10 same-sex cou...
ST. LOUIS – PROMO, Missouri’s statewide LGBT advocacy organization today sent a letter to supporters...
KANSAS CITY, MO – Oral arguments were heard Thursday morning at the Jackson County Courthouse in a h...
KANSAS CITY, MO - On September 25 at 9:30am, Jackson County courthouse in Kansas City will hear oral...
SPRINGFIELD, MO – Outrage over a prominent southwest Missouri attorney’s letter denouncing equality ...
OZARK, MO – A letter penned by a well-known Springfield, Mo. attorney about equality efforts at a so...
OZARK, Mo. — The Ozark Fire Department in southwest Missouri has been told that the state constituti...
JEFFERSON CITY, MO. — A federal judge will now hear one of the lawsuits challenging Missouri’s ban o...
Colleen Simon is suing the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph for firing her from her parish food pan...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jackson County, Mo., will not fight a lawsuit challenging Missouri’s ba...
FORT LEONARD WOOD, MO – The Maneuver Support Center of Excellence and Fort Leonard Wood ce...
WAYNESVILLE, MO – Janell Jackson just wanted some information on an upcoming Pride Luncheo...
COLUMBIA, MO – This afternoon, the University of Missouri Board of Curators voted in favor...
KANSAS CITY, MO - The St. Louis LGBT History Project joined sister projects from Kansas Ci...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The 2014 Missouri state legislative session adjourned Friday without...
COLUMBIA, MO - With marriage equality comes same-sex divorce. Or at least that should be t...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Impeachment efforts to oust Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon over his decisio...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Opponents of same-sex marriage have asked a Missouri court to block ...
HANNIBAL, Mo. — An honors-caliber college student says he was denied readmission to a nort...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A Missouri House Committee on March 13, heard testimony on the propo...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The city council in Kansas City, Mo., on March 7, voted in favor of a r...
BLOOMINGTON, IL - Republican McLean County Clerk Kathy Michael says she hopes to be issuin...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — While Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer deliberates the fate of her state’s an...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A bill that would prohibit the use of controversial gay-to-straight co...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Show Me State’s annual Equality Day was held at the state capito...
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Members of the Westboro Baptist Church, home of the anti-gay extremists be...
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Missouri joined the growing list of states facing legal challenges to the...
