Gay/Lesbian News

There have been very few voices to come along who could compare with the voice of the legendary Freddie Mercury, but it may just be possible that one voice could be doing that.

And, I really didn't need to know this to consider Komen Senior VP Karen Handel a thoroughly loathsome human being but John Aravosis, has dug up Handel's bigoted, Christian fundamentalist views on LGBT people from less than two years ago, though they read as though they are from the 1960s.

'I'm gonna make you an offer ya can't refuse. You can choose ta have lead weights tied to your feet and then be dropped in the river, or we can bludgeon you to death slowly with this hammer.

A new South Carolina license plate advocates equality for gay residents in a state that bans any type of domestic union.

For two years, a Mississippi blogger conducted a vitriolic "nightmare" campaign against two gay Nova Scotia men who operate a wilderness getaway near Kemptville in the southwest end of the province.

Legal Quirk Stops Gay Prosecutions

Florida is one of at least 32 states nationwide that have criminal statutes specific to HIV, many of which date to the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s, when fear of spreading the disease was at its peak.

As the science and treatment of HIV and AIDS have changed considerably in the ensuing decades, fear of infection has subsided. However, the laws remain on the books, and prosecutors continue to enforce them.

But in a stunning turn of events, courts are ruling that the statute cannot be applied to same-sex couples. The novel legal twist that has unfolded in the past year however is that courts are ruling that ‘intercourse’ under Florida law, is only defined as sex between a man and a woman. Thus, they are throwing out same-sex prosecutions for HIV transmission.

Freedom to Marry and the U.S. Conference of Mayors partnered to launch Mayors for the Freedom to Marry, a broad-based and nonpartisan group of mayors who believe that all people should be able to share in the love and commitment of marriage.

The Washington state Senate has passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, bringing the state a step closer to becoming the seventh to allow lesbian and gay couples to wed. But the threat of a ballot challenge looms.

The first openly gay member of North Carolina's legislature is waging a second child-custody fight with a second former partner.

Former Democratic state Sen. Julia Boseman of Wilmington is suing for joint custody of the two-year-old son born to the woman that Boseman had called her spouse. Boseman says she has shared parenting duties and deserves parental rights despite the end of the romantic relationship.

Boseman previously carried a custody battle to the state Supreme Court before it ruled in 2010 that she could not adopt the boy born to her same-sex partner without that woman losing parental rights. Boseman's former partner sued to negate the adoption after the couple separated.

The high court ruled state law does not allow same-sex adoption, but allowed joint custody of the child.

For his supporters, Pekka Haavisto's breakthrough into Finland's presidential runoff defies fears that tolerance is waning in Finland.

'You're marvellous... I'll never let go': Brother of gay suicide teen Tyler Clementi pens heart-breaking letters to his dead sibling. The older brother of Tyler Clementi today paid tribute to his sibling's life through tragic open letters and family photos reflecting on their time together before the gay teenager committed suicide.

Madonna has more to say about Lady Gaga in a new interview published by the LGBT-themed magazine The Advocate .

Sixteen million women in China are married to homosexual men, an expert claimed.

The Virginia House of Delegates is set for a final vote on legislation that would allow private, faith-based adoption agencies to deny placements that conflict with their religious beliefs, including opposition to homosexuality.

Bullying has become a major issue in schools across the country. And ways to counter such behaviour have become a battle of their own of late.