Gay Chicago Magazine: Leadership turmoil rocks Equality Illinois

Written by Gary BarlowCHICAGO - Just a little more than two weeks after securing passage of civic unions in Illinois, Equality Illinois, the state's leading LGBT advocacy organization, is in turmoil after CEO Bernard Cherkasov told Equality's longtime director of world policy, Rick Garcia, that the grouping was severing its kinship with him.Rick GarciaCherkasov gave Garcia the news Dec.