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In May 2019, the Illinois General Assembly passed a bill (HB246) with 46 Democratic co-sponsors (passing the House by 60 votes to 42 and the Senate by 37 votes to 17) to implement an LGBT curriculum that would require public schools to educate students on contributions made by the LGBT community to Illinois and United States history.
The U.S. state of Illinois has an active LGBT history, centered on its largest city Chicago, where by the 1920s a gay village had emerged in the Old Town district. Chicago was also the base for the short-lived Society for Human Rights, an early LGBT rights advocacy organization (1924). In 1961 Illinois became the first U.S. state to ...
LGBT identification was higher among women (8.5%) than men (4.7%), with women more likely to identify as bisexual and men equally likely to identify as bisexual or gay. 28.5% of Gen Z women identified as LGBT compared with 10.6% of men, as well as 12.4% of Millennial women and 5.4% of Millennial men.
Milwaukee is one of the most LGBTQ+ friendly cities in the United States, according to a study from real estate data company Clever, which was published by Advocate magazine.. The report ...
With a population of around 3 million, Chicago is the third biggest city in the US, and around 150,000 of those people identify as lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender, questioning, or other. [1] Gay neighborhoods in Chicago have existed since the 1920s, when there was homosexual nightlife in Towertown, adjacent to the Water Tower.
Locally, Sangamon County saw a decrease from July 1 of 2020 to 2023 of 196,144 to 193,491, or 1.35% of the county's population was lost. An aerial view of Springfield is seen on Monday, April 1, 2024.
Homebuyers in LGBTQ+-friendly areas must earn $150,364 annually to afford the median-priced home, nearly 50% more than the requirement in areas without the protections.According to a Redfin report ...
Not all counties in Illinois record the number of marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples. [ 82 ] The 2020 U.S. census showed that there were 22,791 married same-sex couple households (11,471 male couples and 11,320 female couples) and 17,893 unmarried same-sex couple households in Illinois.