Gay/Lesbian News

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska announced her support Wednesday for same-sex marriage, becoming the third sitting GOP senator to back the right for gay and lesbian couples to marry.

In a statement on her website, Murkowski said supporting same-sex marriage is consistent with her values as a "lifelong Republican" who believes in "promoting freedom and limiting the reach of government."

President Barack Obama has nominated his former finance director to be U.S. ambassador to Denmark and tapped two major fundraisers for postings in Spain and Germany.

Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski announced in an op-ed today that she supports marriage equality citing recent statements by Reagan daughter Patti Davis

Rock legend and breast cancer survivor Melissa Etheridge is taking issue with Angelina Jolie's decision to have a double mastectomy.

In its continued effort to tie itself in knots over gay issues, the Church of England has a new policy.

In its unending quest to better society, the Idaho Republican party wants to void all local ordinances that offer LGBT workplace protections.

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Indiana's Bureau of Motor Vehicles extended its battle this week over specialty auto license plates for a group that counsels gay and lesbian youth, ordering an administrative law judge to review her findings that the agency improperly revoked the group's specialty license plate last year.

A Christian group has warned President Obama that God will strike America with His Wrath because the President celebrated Pride Month at the White House.

A Brazilian congressional human rights committee on Thursday approved legislation that would allow psychologists to treat homosexuality as a disorder or pathology.

A new study has found that same-sex couples are treated less favorably than heterosexual couples when seeking information about rental housing advertised online.

With the Supreme Court expected to issue major rulings on same-sex marriage any day now, ABC News court watcher Terry Moran tells Top Line that the court will likely avoid making a monumental ruling on the issue.

Moran says the justices “don’t want to be the judges of America when it comes to this issue” and predicts that they will find a way to defer to the states in the two cases dealing with same-sex marriage.

“They see this roiling democratic debate that's happening state-by-state, and the betting at the Supreme Court is that they'll find a way to decide this issue by getting themselves out of it,” Moran says. “They won't declare gay marriage legal all over the country or illegal. They'll say, 'Let the states handle it.'"

There was a time not that long ago when it would have seemed far-fetched to suggest that the law should protect gay and lesbian students in public schools from bullying or discrimination.

A new study finds that same-sex couples are treated less favorably than heterosexual couples when seeking information about rental housing advertised online.

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."