Gay/Lesbian News

The Ministerial Committee for Legislation was scheduled to debate Sunday a bill that would allow same-sex couples to receive the same mortgage benefits granted to married couples.

Corporate support for gay and transgender rights is reaching workers in new corners of the country and economy six months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, according to a new report card from the nation's largest LGBT advocacy group.

The startup is housed in a garage-like space in San Francisco's tech-heavy South of Market neighborhood, but it isn't like most of its neighbors that develop software, websites and mobile-phone apps.

Corporate support for gay and transgender rights is reaching workers in new corners of the country and economy six months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, according to a new report card from the nation's largest LGBT advocacy group.

Using the national census, Gallup polls, Facebook, dating sites and porno searches, a study from The New York Times estimates that at least 5% of American men are gay, while many are in the closet or quietly suffering in heterosexual marriages - particularly in traditionally conservative states.

Moscow: British pop icon Elton John has escaped serious criticism in Russia after using a sold-out Moscow concert to challenge a highly contentious law banning the "propaganda of homosexuality" to minors.

Gay activists protest the Masterpiece Cakeshop in 2012. Owner Jack Phillips now faces charges for not baking a cake for the gay couple.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill is urging Speaker John Boehner to bring the Employment Non-Discrimination Act to the floor of the House of Representatives for a vote before the end of the 113th session of Congress.

A gay teacher at a suburban Philadelphia Catholic high school was fired Friday after he applied for a New Jersey marriage license.

Dayna Morales claimed that a couple didn't tip her and left her an anti-gay note on the receipt.

The New York comptroller's office announced Friday that it will audit hate crime reporting statewide after a legislator earlier this year cited an apparent spike in such crimes.

With his arm around new beau Tom Daley and his name back in headlines, it's no wonder that one of Dustin Lance Black's more risquA© films has found new life on the seedy underbelly of the Internet.

Gay and lesbian couples from around Australia joined in fragile marriages in Canberra on Saturday under the nation's beleaguered same-sex union laws that face a challenge in the courts within a week.

On Dec. 2, a D.C. Superior Court jury found Michael Poth, 22, of Washington, guilty of manslaughter while armed in the fatal stabbing of 24-year-old fellow Marine Philip Bushong in the city's Barracks Row neighborhood during the early morning hours of April 21, 2012.

Gay weddings made up 17 percent of marriages in Washington this past year, the first year gay marriages were legal in the state, state officials reported Wednesday.

As if the message wasn't already clear, the arrival of Kiehl's to the trendy neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen in New York City solidifies the enclave as the new gay mecca.

New Jersey's Bridgewater Patch reports that Dayna Morales, a waitress and former Marine who made headlines after claiming that she was denied a tip because she is gay and was instead left with a hateful note, may have not donated the money she was given over the incident to a veterans group, like she promised.

Longtime LGBT ally Kathy Griffin hosts when lesbian Emmy winner Jane Lynch receives the Trevor Hero Award at the TrevorLIVE benefit in LA on Dec. 8 at the Hollywood Palladium.

The Elton John concert planned for Moscow this Friday will go ahead as planned, say organizers, who note that the singer felt obligated to perform his sold-out show.

A state lawmaker and his partner plan to fly 3,500 kilometers across Australia to become one of the nation's first same-sex couples to legally marry at an after-midnight ceremony in the Australian capital.