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Burnley MP Gordon Birtwistle said he staged a number of meetings in his con- stituency ahead of Tuesday night's vote on the Marriage Bill.

After lengthy and wrenching debate, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have voted to open their ranks to openly gay boys for the first time, but heated reactions from the left and right made clear that the BSA's controversies are far from over.

GWENT'S six MPs stuck to their guns in the House of Commons on Tuesday, with most voting for gay marriage and two against.

Cornerstone Baptist Temple in Dayton, Ohio took an ad out in their local paper offering $25 Chick-fil-A gift cards to married straight couples that attended an event honoring what the church called "Biblical marriage." In a statement to The Huffington Post, Chick-fil-A said the event was not sponsored by Chick-fil-A or any of its Dayton ... (more)

Two Democratic legislators and the head of a nonprofit organization advocating for LGBT rights in Virginia held a press call Tuesday to condemn the anti-LGBT records and rhetoric used by the GOP's statewide candidates, specifically Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, candidate for governor, and lieutenant governor nominee E.W. Jackson.

This film image released by HBO shows Michael Douglas, left, as Liberace, and Matt Damon, as Scott Thorson in a scene from "Behind the Candalabra," premiering Sunday at 9 p.m. EDT on HBO.

even as overall hate crimes are on the decline. The rise has sparked city leaders to address the problem as best they can.

The Peace Corps has announced that they will begin allowing same-sex couples to volunteer beginning this June.

The Boy Scouts of America's National Council voted to pass a law allowing gay Scouts, but they still won't let gay leaders serve.

GRAPEVINE, Tex. - The Boy Scouts of America on Thursday ended its longstanding policy of forbidding openly gay youths to participate in its activities, a landmark step its chief executive called "compassionate, caring and kind." The decision, which followed years of resistance and wrenching internal debate, was widely seen as a milestone for the Boy Scouts, a symbol of traditional America. More than 1,400 volunteer leaders from across the country voted, with more than 60 percent approving a measure that said no youth may be denied membership “on the basis of sexual orientation or preference alone.”

A Manhattan Criminal Court Grand Jury indicted Elliot Morales, accused of shooting and killing a gay man in the West Village last weekend for a hate crime murder.

College financial aid forms will be more fair and inclusive to LGBT and other nontraditional families starting Jan.

In his first installment, Tony Phillips explored Gay Days at Disney World and Disneyland and also brought EDGE readers up to date with the latest happenings at Universal Orlando.

A judge has ruled that a North Texas lesbian couple can't live together because of a morality clause in one of the women's divorce papers.

In case you were wondering, if you're gay, you're a really lousy employee. Or at least that what Mission America's Linda Harvey believes.

In the new film "Behind the Candelabra," veteran entertainer Debbie Reynolds has just three major scenes to flesh out one of the most complicated figures in piano-playing showman Liberace's life: his loving but sometimes manipulative mother Frances.

The biggest names in technology have normally been unflinching champions for the rights of same-sex couples. Yet, they were conspicuously silent this week as the Senate rejected the right for American same-sex couples to petition for visas for their foreign-born partners.

It was a gathering of clergymen worthy of a religious festival: a line of dozens of bearded priests in black robes, with heavy silver crosses hanging on their chests.

An intimate love story between two young women received rave reviews from critics at the Cannes film festival despite explicit lesbian sex scenes that could limit the film's distribution.