Gay/Lesbian News

Tired of having to wait years for bills to give partial rights to the LGBT community, a group of activists and organizations are launching a campaign to get Congress to draft and pass an all-inclusive bill.

Arizona voters may be about to get their third shot at voting on marriage equality- this time in an attempt to repeal the 2008 ban on same-sex marriage.

At a Mass held to honor the 25th Anniversary of a Catholic LGBT outreach program, Cardinal George of Chicago refused communion to LGBT activist Joe Murray

Freedom to Marry has released the last video calling for marriage equality in the military ahead of the upcoming US Supreme Court decision on DOMA.

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is bravely going where none of his predecessors went- to a Pentagon Pride celebration.

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska announced her support Wednesday for same-sex marriage, becoming the third sitting GOP senator to back the right for gay and lesbian couples to marry.

In a statement on her website, Murkowski said supporting same-sex marriage is consistent with her values as a "lifelong Republican" who believes in "promoting freedom and limiting the reach of government."

President Barack Obama has nominated his former finance director to be U.S. ambassador to Denmark and tapped two major fundraisers for postings in Spain and Germany.

Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski announced in an op-ed today that she supports marriage equality citing recent statements by Reagan daughter Patti Davis

Rock legend and breast cancer survivor Melissa Etheridge is taking issue with Angelina Jolie's decision to have a double mastectomy.

In its continued effort to tie itself in knots over gay issues, the Church of England has a new policy.

In its unending quest to better society, the Idaho Republican party wants to void all local ordinances that offer LGBT workplace protections.

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Indiana's Bureau of Motor Vehicles extended its battle this week over specialty auto license plates for a group that counsels gay and lesbian youth, ordering an administrative law judge to review her findings that the agency improperly revoked the group's specialty license plate last year.

A Christian group has warned President Obama that God will strike America with His Wrath because the President celebrated Pride Month at the White House.

A Brazilian congressional human rights committee on Thursday approved legislation that would allow psychologists to treat homosexuality as a disorder or pathology.

A new study has found that same-sex couples are treated less favorably than heterosexual couples when seeking information about rental housing advertised online.

With the Supreme Court expected to issue major rulings on same-sex marriage any day now, ABC News court watcher Terry Moran tells Top Line that the court will likely avoid making a monumental ruling on the issue.

Moran says the justices “don’t want to be the judges of America when it comes to this issue” and predicts that they will find a way to defer to the states in the two cases dealing with same-sex marriage.

“They see this roiling democratic debate that's happening state-by-state, and the betting at the Supreme Court is that they'll find a way to decide this issue by getting themselves out of it,” Moran says. “They won't declare gay marriage legal all over the country or illegal. They'll say, 'Let the states handle it.'"

There was a time not that long ago when it would have seemed far-fetched to suggest that the law should protect gay and lesbian students in public schools from bullying or discrimination.

A new study finds that same-sex couples are treated less favorably than heterosexual couples when seeking information about rental housing advertised online.