Gay/Lesbian News

The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee sent the legislation to the full Senate on Wednesday.

Opponents of same-sex unions rallied at the Colorado Capitol on Tuesday as tensions remained high one day after state House Republicans rejected a proposal to provide gay couples rights similar to marriage.

The Virginia General Assembly, which is predominantly ruled by Republicans, recently blocked the judicial nomination of an openly gay prosecutor, the Washington Times reported.

Chris Hughes and his partner Sean Eldridge pledged $100,00 to Mainers United for Marriage in order to help pass a measure that would legalize same-sex marriage in the state, the Maine newspaper, the Kennebec Journal , reported.

LONDON, England - Convening in London on 5 and 6 July, business leaders will consider ways to increase workplace equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees around the world.

World electronic dance music star Hayla joins the cast of headliners such as Karmin, Jessica Sutta and Dev at Christopher Street West's mammoth L.A. Pride, in West Hollywood, California.

Ontario NDP MPP Cheri DiNovo stood beaming in the Ontario Legislature on May 10.

"Today we have seen the 'progressive' in Progressive Conservatives. We have seen the true 'liberal' values in the Liberal Party,” she said.

DiNovo’s legislation, Bill 33, finally made it through second reading in the provincial legislature.

The bill -- also known as Toby’s Act -- has seen the floor of the legislature three times before. It’s named for well-respected trans rights activist Toby Dancer, who died in 2004. This time, for the first time, it appears that it may pass.

That, says trans rights activist Susan Gapka, is “historic.”

Ontarians favour the right of students to form gay-straight alliance clubs in Catholic schools by a margin of almost two to one, a new poll suggests.

Editor's note: In Ontario, Canada Catholic schools are fully funded by tax dollars just like public schools.

The White House threatened on Tuesday to veto the House Armed Service Committee's version of next year's defense budget, arguing that the $642 billion measure adds billions to President Barack Obama's request and limits the military's ability to execute a new defense strategy.

The House is voting on a Republican-written bill to renew the Violence Against Women Act, but the White House has threatened to veto it.

The Presbyterian Church's highest court found the Rev. Jane Spahr of San Francisco guilty of misconduct in 2010 for officiating at same-sex weddings when they were legal in California.

In a move that he admits could cost him some fans, hip-hop artist Yitz "Y-Love" Jordan, considered "the first black Jewish MC," has come out publicly as a gay man of color.

Matt Drudge, the creator and editor of the news aggregation website the Drudge Report, recently had a meltdown after the gossip site Gawker took a shot at his sexual orientation.

We all know what we want: full equality. Today, if possible. The history of the gay rights movement, post-Stonewall, however, may show another path -- that the "all or nothing" contingent of our movement ends up empty handed with no crumb.

Burma, formally known as Myanmar, has never been cited for its progress towards LGBT rights.

The Texas Democrat put Murat Gokcigdem on leave Monday after a Washington newspaper reported Gokcigdem had questioned the qualifications of a legislative staffer who applied for another job.

Just days afterA US President Barack ObamaA came out in favour ofgay marriage, another supporter of homosexual unions emerged in Japan:A Mickey Mouse.

That's what conservative Family Research Council president Tony Perkins told CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday about U.S. Sen.