Welcome to Rainbow Cafe, a SAFE SPACE social/support group for high school age gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth in Southern Illinois. We also welcome those youth questioning their orientation and youth members’ heterosexual friends. Rainbow Cafe’s mission is to provide a safe and welcoming environment for gay, lesbian, bisexual, Read more [...]

We believe life is to be celebrated whenever possible and that everyone has a duty to support one another and lend a helping hand to those who need it. We have chosen to take our athletic abilities and love of performing to raise funds for the direct care services of Read more [...]

Athletic Alliance of Chicago (“AAC”) is a non-profit organization that operates a sports league in Chicago dedicated to the LGBT community and our straight friends. At AAC we are dedicated to building community through camaraderie and competition. Our mission is simple, through a wide range of athletic competition, AAC strives Read more [...]

The Chicago Metropolitan Sports Association (CMSA) is the largest not-for-profit gay and lesbian sports organization in the Midwest. We offer recreational and competitive level play in a variety of athletic leagues throughout the year. CMSA offers the following sports: – Badminton – Basketball – Billiards – Bowling – Dodgeball – Read more [...]

Chi-Town Squares is Chicago’s LGBTQA Modern Square Dance Club. The first Thursday of every month we host a no-experience-needed dance party. Learn some moves and have some fun! We’ll find a dance partner for you! Bring a friend! Registration begins at 7pm. Dancing begins at 7:30pm. Dress code is casual. Read more [...]

The Chicago Smelts is Chicago’s predominantly gay and lesbian U.S. Masters Swim Team, encouraging fitness, friendship, community, and competition through swimming. Membership is open to everyone including gay-friendly straight swimmers. The team currently has a roster of over 150 swimmers from around the Chicago area and includes athletes of all Read more [...]

Team Chicago provides individuals and organizations with the opportunity to participate in sporting and cultural events according to their personal interests and capabilities. Team Chicago’s mission is to provide support to the LGBT community, furthering participation, inclusion, and pursuit of personal best. We do this through promotion, outreach, and sponsorship. Read more [...]

About Face Theatre creates exceptional, innovative, and adventurous plays to advance the national dialogue on gender and sexual identity, and to challenge and entertain audiences in Chicago, across the country, and around the world. Our vision is to be Chicago’s celebrated center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and ally Read more [...]

The Chicago Gender Society is organized and operated for social, charitable and educational purposes. More specifically, CGS is a social, and educational organization for all members of the Transgender community, their supporters and for the benefit of the public. The goal of CGS is to provide social and educational activities Read more [...]

The mission of Chi Chapter is to support people who wish to present as the gender different than that which matches their birth sex.  This support includes help with self acceptance, help with acceptance by family, and help with a positive presentation.  Members self identify in many ways which include Read more [...]

United Latino Pride is organized as a community of Latino LGBTQQIA individuals supporting and connecting initiatives that work to create awareness and celebrate the plurality of our identities. In April of 2010, ULP was founded by a collective of individuals, organizations and business owners that joined together to organize a Read more [...]

This group is for people who want to get together to sample the vegan dining options available throughout the city as well as other social and activism opportunities. This group is for LGBTQ people and allies who are also vegan or vegan-curious. Both as LGBTQ people and as vegans, we Read more [...]

Frontrunners/Frontwalkers Chicago is a club for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transexuals and friends who are interested in running and walking together along Chicago’s great open lakefront. We always start and finish at the Totem Pole in Lincoln Park. See the course map for its location.

Chicago Riptide is a team for gay men & women and their friends to learn and compete in the sport of water polo. It is a sport that anyone with swimming ability and basic ball skills can play. It is played in a swimming pool 25-30 meters long by 13-20 Read more [...]

Welcoming Schools offers tools, lessons and resources on embracing family diversity, avoiding gender stereotyping and ending bullying and name-calling in elementary schools. It offers an LGBT inclusive approach that is also inclusive of the many types of diversity found in our communities. Administrators, educators and parents/guardians can find materials here necessary to create learning Read more [...]

The West Suburban Gay Association (WSGA) is an all volunteer-based, non-profit organization dedicated to meeting the needs of its membership. The West Suburban Gay Association is able to provide a safe and friendly environment through its social, recreational and educational events. Newsletters are also provided to paid members via hard Read more [...]

The Chicago Women’s Baseball League is an amateur women’s baseball league whose players hail from all over the Chicagoland area. We welcome all players 14–40+! We are ex-softball players, athletes, moms, students, and teenagers. But we all have one thing in common: we love baseball! The Chicago Women’s Baseball League Read more [...]

Reeling, the second-oldest LGBT film festival in the world, returns with another slate of movies that showcase not only diversity within the queer community but also diversity in the range of possibilities within film itself. From the sweet and sassy opening night comedy G.B.F. to the historical sweep of the Read more [...]

Eban means love, safety, and security. This group was originally started for young men of color to connect and commune in a loving, safe, and fun space to talk about whatever is on their hearts and minds. Today, Eban is open and affirming to the multiple and complex race, gender, Read more [...]

Hip-Hop Lyricism “Wordplay with a purpose…” This workshop connects social justice themes like racism, classism, poverty, gender and discrimination to the distinctly American form of creative expressionism known as Hip-Hop. About-Face Theatre Presents: Theatre-Activism Workshops “Undocumented in the Queer Community.” In these workshops we develop and share stories, build community, Read more [...]