Gay/Lesbian News

Celebrate Valentine's Day with an overnight stay at Jumeirah Essex House, the luxurious Art Deco hotel with an unrivaled Central Park address, recently dubbed the "most romantic hotel" in New York by the Philadelphia Gay News.

Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish have sought out advice from counselors over fears their son will be "stigmatized" for having two gay dads.

Like every year at CPAC time, the "no strings attached" sex Internet is busy busy busy with self-hating closeted homosexual Republican men who like to take a break from cheering on homophobic bible clods by going back to the hotel with a discreet dude who wants to give/receive some oral, "maybe more with the right guy," etc.

I am constantly astounded by the lengths to which same-sex marriage opponents go to draw distinctions between their cause and the long-discredited cause of anti-miscegenation activists, when any clearheaded examination will show how similar they are.

A party-line Senate committee vote rejected changes to the state's Human Rights Act to protect gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people from workplace and housing discrimination.

The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously against a proposed state constitutional amendment to ban marriage for same-sex couples in Minnesota. Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak will sign the measure, which also urges state residents to vote against the amendment in November...

A south-side Des Moines church and its senior pastor are under fire through social media after he posted the message “Gay is not okay” on its marquee.

Three men have been jailed after becoming the first to be convicted of stirring up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation for handing out a leaflet calling for gay people to be executed.

A group of pro-equality lawmakers in Illinois filed a bill in the Illinois General Assembly that could legalize marriage equality. The bill, filed by the state's openly gay Reps. Greg Harris, Deb Mell and Kelly Cassidy, would create the Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act...

CNN's Roland Martin made national headlines this week for tweeting an anti-gay and violent comment.

President Barack Obama cited the repeal of the ban on openly gay and lesbian servicemembers as his administration's most important LGBT-specific accomplishments at a private fundraiser in Washington, D.C., on Thursday that raised $1.4 million for his re-election campaign.

Two Christian guest house owners who were ordered to pay damages after refusing to allow a gay couple to stay in a double room have lost their appeal.

To understand the "no" vote cast on same-sex marriage by Rep. Steve Kirby, a Tacoman who usually sides with his fellow Democrats, look at how the people in his district voted in 2009 on the successful referendum giving gay couples "everything but marriage." In its new shape after post-census redistricting, Kirby's diverse South Tacoma and east ... (more)

President Obama, who has opposed same-sex marriage but is said to be "evolving" on the issue, is attending a fundraiser Thursday at the home of a lesbian couple whose 2008 Chicago nuptials were described in a local paper as the "wedding of the season." Obama will collect an estimated $1.4 million for his re-election campaign from an intimate group ... (more)

Anti-gay activists in Virginia are dancing with delight. They stood up to Teh HomoSEXshull Agenduh and showed them librulls that they don't cotton to Teh Ghey so much in the Old Dominion State.

President Barack Obama is raising money from gay and lesbian supporters as he seeks to fill his campaign coffers against determined GOP opposition.

The Virginia state Senate passed legislation Thursday allowing private adoption agencies to deny placements that conflict with their religious or moral beliefs, including opposition to homosexuality.

A New Hampshire guardsman with terminal cancer traveled to Capitol Hill on Thursday to urge House Speaker John Boehner to stop defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

Oh no! Ellen DeGeneres mentioned One Million Moms, an affiliate of the hate group the American Family Association, because she mentioned them on her show.