Gay/Lesbian News

The Senate has passed the HOPE Act which would lift the ban on research into organ transplant from HIV-positive donors to HIV-positive recipients.

A new comprehensive survey asked LGBT people about three key moments in their journey of realizing who they are: When they first thought they might be gay, when they first knew they gay and when they first told a close friend or family member they are gay.

Russian riot police detain LGBT rights activist Nikolai Alexeyev during an unauthorized gay rights rally in central Moscow on May 25. The lower house of Russia's Parliament voted Tuesday 443-0 to bar gay couples from other countries from adopting Russian children.

Finally, the groups backing same-sex marriage in Illinois are coming together, announcing new initiatives, and preparing for an organized push.

Everyone knows that what happens in Las Vegas "stays in Vegas." Maine's largest city is launching its own marketing campaign, and wants you to know simply that "life's good here."

The Pew Center studied roughly 500 news stories involving same-sex marriage, and found that coverage was more positive than negative- even on FOX News.

CBS News, New York reports that Elliot Morales, suspect in the May 18th shooting death of 32 year old Mark Carson in Greenwich Village is scheduled to be arraigned in a Manhattan court room today.

Attorney Julia Graves said she is concerned that Circuit Judge Robert Pegg is biased against the defendant because she is gay.

Yesterday, on "Washington Watch with Tony Perkins", the Family Research Council's daily online talk radio broadcast, 25 year old reality star Josh Duggar of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting? announced that he, has accepted the position of Executive Director of the anti-gay Christian organization FRC.

Can a fifth-grader be gay?

A just-released landmark survey of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered adults asked about three milestones: When they first thought they were gay, when they first knew they were gay and when they first told a close friend or relative.

A 5-year-old girl set up a lemonade stand across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church compound, and now the group is targeting her.

Most adults in developed countries favor gay marriage or some type of legal recognition for same-sex couples and think they should be able to adopt children, according to an international poll released on Tuesday.

It's often argued, including by me, that the GOP needs its own Bill Clinton or Tony Blair -- a leader to reposition the party and reinvigorate its political appeal.

The Daily Show's Samantha Bee talked to a pastor about the supposed oppression of Christians by lesbians and gays in this country..or the lack there of.

Two men charged with in the beating death of Craig Cohen, an openly gay man from Miami, and the beating of another man were sentenced to 15 years in prison

The Pew Research Center has released a study examining media coverage of gay marriage during the period leading up to, during, and after Supreme Court hearings on the issue.

OutServe-SLDN has announced that Lieutenant Josh Seefried, the co-chair of their board of directors, will be joining with a variety of other active duty lesbian and gay servicemembers in order to ring the Closing Bell to end the trading day on the New York Stock Exchange this upcoming 28 June.

Danielle Powell was kicked out of her ultra religious university in Omaha, Nebraska for being gay in 2012, and now says the only way the school will transfer her credits to another school is if she agrees to pay a tuition bill of $6,300.

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) has fifty-one cosponsors now, and another ten more might actually see it pass the Senate.