The Lighthouse Foundation's three-day Black Queer Pride: Winter Edition will stream from the group's Facebook page and feature performances from Black LGBTQ people in Chicago.

Boystown, the enclave billed as a place where LGBTQ+ people of all stripes are safe to be themselves, faces a racial reckoning decades in the making.

Northalsted Business Alliance ( NBA ) announced Sept. 23 that it would discontinue utilizing the term "Boystown" in its marketing of the area.

On July 3-5, Lighthouse Foundation will host a virtual Black Queer Pride in celebration of the organization's first-year anniversary.

In a statement, the Lighthouse Foundation noted that the Northalsted Business Alliance ( NBA ) has terminated its relationship with Walsh Security.

Lighthouse Foundation presented an online forum June 20 focusing on how white allies in the LGBT community can best focus their energies in struggles against racial inequities.

The Northalsted Business Alliance confirmed Friday it will stop contracting with a private security firm owned by a Chicago cop accused of a racist attack in 2013.

The Lighthouse Foundation's Black Queer Mutual Aid Fund will give out $100 micro grants to help Black LGBTQ people with rent, food and other needs.

Quantum Security, a black-owned firm employed by other LGBTQ centers, will replace Walsh Security on Feb. 17, the Center on Halsted announced.

At an Oct. 5 press conference, Lighthouse Foundation ( LF ) Board President Rev. Jamie Frazier and colleagues—who had just left a meeting with Center on Halsted ( the Center ) officials—announced that the Center has already issued a request for proposals to replace its controversial security contractor, Walsh Security, which has for months been a key goal for LF.

Lighthouse Foundation ( LF ) Board President Rev. Jamie Frazier called for Chicago Police Department ( CPD ) officer and Walsh Security owner Thomas Walsh Sr. to serve his 60-day suspension, of which he has appealed, during the Sept. 19 public comments section of the police board's monthly public meeting at the Chicago Public Safety Headquarters.

Lighthouse Foundation—a Chicago advocacy principally organizing around matters related to Black LGBT community members—will issue a written letter to Center on Halsted on Sept. 3 demanding that the Center fire its security firm, Walsh Security, and it is asking community members to sign in support.

After several community conversations this summer about allegations of racism from some Boystown business owners and other organizations, a Chicago activist organization is calling for Center on Halsted to drop its security provider, Walsh Security, which has long been associated allegations of racism.

“We as black queer folks are not looking for white saviors. We are looking for white soldiers,” said Jamie Frazier, lead pastor at Lighthouse Church.

In the wake of the recent controversy surrounding Boystown's Progress Bar, Lighthouse Church of Chicago UCC held a "Racial Justice Summit: Boystown & Beyond" event July 13 at Lincoln Park's St. Pauls United Church of Christ.