Gay/Lesbian News

Long ago, fledgling actors, writers and filmmakers would move to Hollywood, New York, London, or a small handful of other cities and hope that someone would notice they had arrived.

Quist, which launched this past summer, is a smart phone application designed to educate the LGBTQ community on its history and important milestones.

In this photograph taken on November 25, 2012 members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community and supporters attend the 5th Delhi Queer Pride parade in New Delhi.

Time magazine selected Pope Francis as its Person of the Year on Wednesday, saying the Roman Catholic church's new leader has changed the perception of the church in an extraordinary way in a short time.

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the constitutional validity of the penal provision making gay sex an offence punishable with upto life imprisonment.

In this photograph taken on July 7, an Indian sexual minority community member gestures over a rainbow flag while participating in a Rainbow Pride Walk in Kolkata.

Sex between consenting homosexual partners is once again illegal in India after the country's Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling Wednesday.

A New Jersey waitress let go over an anti-gay receipt case that turned out to be a hoax has allegedly been fired this week.

Officials from the LGBT rights group, Oregon United for Marriage, announced on Tuesday that they have gained enough signatures to place a marriage equality initiative on the November 2014 ballot, which will give Oregon voters the chance to repeal a ban on gay marriage, the Daily Kos reports.

More than 700 same-sex couples have gotten married or renewed their vows in New Jersey the first 47 days the state allowed gay nuptials.

A fashion college student from New York City says he was assaulted on Dec. 1 by a group of Hasidic men who hurled anti-gay slurs towards him, the New York Daily News reports.

The Virginia pastor convicted in a Vermont federal court of helping a woman and her child flee the country rather than share custody with her former lesbian partner is arguing that the case should be dismissed because his actions had no connection to Vermont, court documents say.

European Union Commissioner for Justice, Citizenship and Fundamental Rights Viviane Reding announced on Tuesday that she will not attend the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia in February because of the country's anti-gay law, Reuters reports.

British actor Ben Whishaw, who is openly gay, has been confirmed to star as Queen singer Freddie Mercury in the upcoming biopic directed by Dexter Fletcher, the U.K. newspaper the Independent reports.

An anti-gay member of the Republican National Committee made waves at a GOP holiday party last week, when he allegedly accused gays of pushing for health care reform because they die earlier.

The first same-sex weddings in England and Wales can take place from March 29, 2014, equalities minister Maria Miller has announced.

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A Christian charity is challenging a ban on its London bus advert suggesting gays can be helped to 'move out of homosexuality' Gay and lesbian rights activists are seeking to be the new "moral enforcers" and it is Christian religious conservatives who now need protection for their right to express dissent against "the new orthodoxy", the Court of ... (more)