The following statement was found via the GLSEN blog: This week, we sadly lost two young men who took their own lives for one unacceptable reason: they were being bullied and harassed because they were openly gay or believed to be gay. These unnecessary tragedies come on the heels of at least three...

  We fight, and we fight, and we fight. It’s true that LGBT activists are fighting a multi-front battle with little resources. Most of us are stretched thin. Many of us do what we do unpaid, under-appreciated, and sometimes even unrecognized. We manage the weight of our careers, our families,...

Boaz Drain, a seven-year-old from Topeka, Kan., and his six-year-old sister Faith are the picture of typical American children, chock full of energy, fun and imagination. They watch movies like “Shrek” and enjoy playing with the standards like “Star Wars” light sabers and ray...

BLANTYRE, Malawi — Malawi’s president on Saturday pardoned and ordered the release of a gay couple sentenced to 14 years in prison, but said that homosexuality remains illegal in this conservative southern African nation. Malawi has faced international condemnation for the conviction and harsh...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Servicemembers United, the nation’s largest organization of gay and lesbian troops and veterans, today released a newly obtained document from the National Guard Bureau showing 630 additional discharges pursuant to the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law...

A moderate Republican gubernatorial candidate and his openly gayrunning mate, Charlie Baker and Richard Tisei, are the target of a Massachusetts-based right-wing group. MassResistance (Massresistance.org )has spoken against the Republican nominees for the upcoming gubernatorial race in that state. On...

California State Sen. Roy Ashburn has become the first gay recipient of the “Pink Brick Award.” The award, given by the San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Committee, highlights a person (or organization) who has done the most to anger and/or disappoint the gay community....

NOTE: The following story was originally published via the Huffington Post. Efforts to proofread and correct grammatical errors, as well as errors in reference to the transgender men and women involved have been made to the best of our ability. New Orleans’ Black and transgender community members...

Recently, the United States has seen the rise of the Tea Party, a socially conservative fringe group that occupies those dark spaces even the most fundamentalist Christian Republican won’t. Known for their fiery rhetoric against the pretty much anything the Obama Administration has proposed from...

According to an update in On Top Magazine, Keith Kimmel, the man currently engaged in a suit against the Oklahoma Tax Commission for the right to be issued a “I’M GAY” license plate was found dead in his apartment chair early Wednesday morning. The announcement came via a Facebook...