Gay/Lesbian News

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, confers with the committee's ranking Republican, Sen.

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly addressed the media today in response to the hate crime killing of Mark Carson and recent wave of assaults against the gay community that has seen two additional incidences in the past 24 hours.

BRASILIA, Brazil -- A conservative party is challenging a judicial ruling that requires all of Brazil's notary publics to register same-sex civil unions as marriages if couples request it.

Illinois Rep. Greg Harris is confident that the state will become the 13th in the nation to recognize marriage equality.

Britain's House of Commons has passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in England and Wales.

There was applause in the House after MPs voted by 366 to 161 to give the Marriage Bill a third reading The Government's controversial plans to legalise gay marriage have cleared the Commons despite efforts by Tory backbenchers to derail the legislation.

As the Senate Judiciary Committee continues to hammer out a comprehensive immigration reform bill, some raise concern over the LGBT amendments that would positively impact thousands of same-sex couples, but could also simultaneously jeopardize the measure.

Gay rights advocates are rallying around an 18-year-old central Florida girl who was expelled from school and charged with having sexual contact with her 14-year-old girlfriend.

French right-wing historian Dominique Venner shot and killed himself on the altar of Paris' famed Notre Dame Cathedral today at 4PM local time in front of throngs of tourists in protest of France's recent legalization of same-sex marriage.

A Moroccan court has convicted two men of homosexuality and public indecency, and sentenced each to four months in prison, in the latest case against gays in this North African nation.

The Associated Press reports that Virginia Republicans have nominated the controversial conservative minister E.W. Jackson for the state's lieutenant governor, making him the first black candidate the party has nominated for statewide office since 1988.

NYC's hate crime spree continued last night when former Philadelphia club promoter Dan Contarino was jumped, kicked and beaten in the East Village by an attacker who shouted anti-gay epithets.

The move to extend civil partnerships to heterosexual couples was easily defeated in a free vote by a large majority of 370 The legalisation of gay marriage is poised to be approved by MPs after surviving a Tory backbench bid to derail it.

Policemen try to stop an Orthodox Christian activist during clashes with gay rights activists at an International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia rally on in Tbilisi, May 17, 2013.

The site where Mark Carson was shot on West 8th Street, New York. Police say the killing was a hate crime.