Gay/Lesbian News

An elected official in eastern Iowa is the recipient of a White House honor given to openly gay, lesbian and transgendered public officials.

The Boy Scouts' vote to allow openly gay boys prompted some supporters and critics of the new policy to swing into action Friday.

Ex-gay therapy has been shown to be harmful and ineffective. For one Labour MP, this is the next frontier in LGBT rights.

The campaigners tried to unfurl banners denouncing the Kremlin-backed homophobic legislation in front of Russia's lower house of parliament, but were attacked by vigilantes carrying icons and crosses.

Participants of the Saturday's rally in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, held banners against discrimination and derogatory stereotypes of gays.

The United States Postal Service will reportedly release a stamp featuring the late gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk in 2014.

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health are awaiting the Supreme Court decisions on gay marriage cases this June for scientific reasons - they want to study the psychological impact of the outcome.

LGBT groups are crying foul after Gov. Bob McDonnell launched a campaign Friday aimed at finding homes for a thousand of the nearly 4,000 children in Virginia's foster care system.

Gays and guns seem as likely to go together as Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey. As a culture, even under attack, we are a peaceful lot -- you catch more bees with honey, right? "Wrong," says Gwendolyn Patton of Pink Pistols, a group that advocates gun ownership for the LGBT community.

Legislators in Puerto Rico on Friday approved a heavily debated bill that outlaws employment discrimination based on gender or sexual orientation.

On Thursday evening officials from the Boy Scouts of America voted to end their longtime policy that prohibits openly gay members from joining the organization.

After years of dedication to an organization that ultimately didn't want them, former gay adult leaders with the Boy Scouts of America were elated to see the group finally accept openly gay youth.

Eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Hunt, charged with a crime for having sex with a 14-year-old girl, rejected a deal Friday that would have required her to plead guilty to child abuse, according to Hunt's attorney.

A new children's book purports to "educate" the "next generation" about "God's plan" for families -- a plan that, according to author Amber Dee Parker, calls for heterosexual-only family units, reports The Advocate.com in a May 24 article.

Speaking to graduating Navy cadets, President Obama warned that the sexual assault scandal risks the trust that Americans place in the military

Nevada may be on the verge of legalizing gay marriage as the state's assembly recently approved a measure that would allow same-sex couples to tie the knot, the Las Vegas Sun reports.

In his daily email on Tuesday, president of the ultra-conservative and anti-gay organization Family Research Council, Tony Perkins, expressed concern over the Pentagon's recent report on the increasing rate of sexual assault in the military.

As expected, the anti-gay groups have begun voicing their anger over the Boy Scout's voting to allow gay members even warning about a mass exodus.

The gaming world may be slow to fight against sexism and homophobia, but it is helping those who are bullied find an outlet through which to escape the pain

Members of the British Parliament were able to vote as they wanted on equal marriage legislation, which has left some MP's to justify their votes.