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30 Rock’s Jack McBrayer and Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog visited a Chicago hot dog stand where the staff is famous for its rudeness. One of the best Conan O’Brien bits in a long time. Huge warning for language and for some lines that will surely pop up on your Facebook feed this weekend.(Via Towleroad)

The governor, the Attorney General, and now the state attorney of Cook County all support same-sex marriage in Illinois. Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez’s office says she’ll submit a filing Thursday that indicates she agrees with several parts of two lawsuits challenging the same sex marriage ban in Illinois, in a move that signals another legal victory for proponents …

Arson investigators are on the scene of the Chicago-area gay bar Velvet Rope after it was destroyed yesterday in a fire. Anti-gay slurs were found scrawled on the bar’s walls. The fire was reported at about 6:25 a.m. Sunday after someone smelled smoke, said Oak Park Police Sgt. Anthony Thomas. Flames charred the inside of the club, but no injuries …

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The 34th annual International Mister Leather convention is taking place this weekend in Chicago, where attendees at the host hotel could potentially face a picket line over a long-running union labor dispute. The Hyatt Regency Chicago, site of the recent competitions, has been at the center of a bitter a contract fight with workers represented by the union UNITE HERE …

Lawyers for the men say undercover police planted evidence as part of a campaign to discredit the Occupy movement.

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Chicago’s venerable Howard Brown Center, which provides invaluable health services to the city’s LGBT population, must repay over $700K in federal grant money that was meant to be used for an HIV study. The deal comes two years after the health clinic network announced the federal Department of Health and Human Services was investigating Howard Brown officers’ use of federal …

This was the demonstration that got Porno Pete so worked up yesterday. Windy City Times reports: Despite a blistering cold morning, more than 20 LGBT activists protested outside of Holy Name Cathedral Feb. 12, a demonstration held in conjunction with National Freedom to Marry Day. The protest, held every year outside the church around Valentine’s Day, carried special weight this …

“During a recent TV interview, speaking about this year’s Gay Pride Parade, I used an analogy that is inflammatory. I am personally distressed that what I said has been taken to mean that I believe all gays and lesbians are like members of the Klan. I do not believe that; it is obviously not true. Many people have friends and …

“I’ve become a pariah in Boystown not just for my support of Sarah Palin and the Tea Party and my opposition to Barack Obama and the Left, but mainly for my insistence that it’s childish and flat-out wrong for the ‘gay community’ to direct hatred at Christians for refusing to allow the word ‘marriage’ to be redefined as something this …

In response to a pro-gay editorial by the Chicago Tribune, the Illinois Family Institute is siding with those hell-bound papists at the Catholic Church over this year’s Chicago Pride parade. The virulent hatred many homosexual activists have for Catholic (and Protestant) orthodoxy is fully comparable to the virulent hatred that members of the KKK had. Perhaps the Trib’s editorial board …

From the Chicago Tribune: The gay community wasn’t trying to antagonize Catholics when it drew up a plan that would send its floats past the Belmont Avenue church next June. Last year’s Chicago Pride Parade drew more than 700,000 spectators, and organizers and city officials agreed it had outgrown its old route. The change of venue was meant to address …

The ad will run in this Sunday’s Chicago Tribune. Via press release: Truth Wins Out stepped up its campaign calling on Chicago Archbishop Cardinal Francis George to resign today by placing a full-page ad in this upcoming Sunday’s Chicago Tribune. The ad is headlined, “Hey, Cardinal Francis George, Gay is not like the KKK,” and slams the Cardinal for foolishly …

“The Chicago Gay Pride Parade has been organized and attended for many years without interfering with the worship of God in a Catholic church. When the 2012 Parade organizers announced a time and route change this year, it was apparent that the Parade would interfere with divine worship in a Catholic parish on the new route. When the pastor’s request …

In the face of growing calls for his resignation, Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George has retreated slightly on his claim that gays are like the KKK. “Obviously, it’s absurd to say the gay and lesbian community are the Ku Klux Klan, but if you organize a parade that looks like parades that we’ve had in our past because it stops us …