Gay/Lesbian News

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.

One Million Moms is up in arms again, this time about the British transplant show "Mistresses" airing on ABC.

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.

Apparently, President Barack Obama has asked Senator Patrick Leahy to delay a battle over LGBT immigration rights until the bill goes before the full Senate

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.

Kaitlyn Hunt, 18, feels at home at Sebastian River High School, cheering for the team.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will officiate a mass wedding for same-sex couples during the Baltimore Pride Festival next month.

More than 100 mourners turned up on Saturday night to a candlelight vigil for Mark Carson, the 32-year-old gay man shot and killed by a homophobe early Saturday morning in New York City.

Thousands marched the streets of Manhattan Monday to protest the killing of a gay man allegedly taunted with homophobic slurs - the most recent in a spate of bias attacks stirring up anxiety, disbelief and outrage in a famously gay-friendly neighborhood.

A gay former state employee in Texas is appealing the dismissal of his employment discrimination lawsuit, alleging his boss created a hostile work environment after the employee came to a Halloween party dressed as a geisha.

Actor Sean Penn is urging the U.S. government to pressure Bolivia to free an American businessman jailed there since 2011.

The Alliance Defending Freedom's pro-discrimination message is failing hard across the nation as marriage equality gains ground.

The battle over an amendment to England's equal marriage bill not only threatens the bill, but could end up destabilizing the ruling coalition.

Singer Rihanna has said that she'd be willing to make out with Miley Cyrus...much to the big yawn of this corner of the LGBT Universe

A conservative group is raising hackles in sunny California by urging parents to keep their children home from school this Wednesday on Harvey Milk Day, commemorating the first openly gay lawmaker.

Senior members of the Church of Scotland voted Monday to let some congregations choose ministers who are in same-sex relationships - an important compromise that must still pass further hurdles before it can become church law.

The Rt Rev Lorna Hood called for unity and respect for the wide range of views on the ordination of gay ministers among Church members The Church of Scotland has voted in favour of allowing openly gay men and women to become ministers - whilst maintaining a traditionalist standpoint.

A spate of anti-gay attacks in New York City is prompting police to increase their presence in some gay-friendly neighborhoods heading into what's usually a time for celebration.

Kaitlyn Hunt, 18, had her entire life before her. Graduation. College. Job prospects.