Catherine Opie (born 1961) is an American artist specializing in issues within documentary photography. Throughout her work she has investigated aspects of community, making portraits of many groups including the LGBT community; surfers; and most recently high school football players. She’s also...

A national Christian organization will stop sponsoring an annual event that encourages school students to “counter the promotion of homosexual behavior” because the event has become too divisive and confrontational, the group’s president told CNN on Wednesday. “All the recent...

The following statement was received via @HomoPolitico: NARTH RESPONDS TO THE RECENT MEDIA COVERAGE OF DR. GEORGE REKERS The National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) is a professional scientific organization with hundreds of academic, research, and clinical members dedicated...

I am always on the look-out for good stories that highlight, involve, and/or discuss or otherwise address that age-old stereotype that athletes can’t be gay. We’ve heard them all: Only “fags” can be pro figure-skaters. Only “real” men can play pro football, be pro...

George Alan Rekers, of North Miami, has been a foremost voice in the United States’ anti-gay movement for decades. So, imagine our surprise when news broke that he was caught in the company of a male prostitute he hired from rentboy.com following a ten-day stay in Europe. “Lucius”...

NEW YORK — New HIV infections are increasing among homosexuals, drug users and prostitutes who don’t seek help because of laws that criminalize these practices, the head of the U.N. AIDS agency said Monday. Michel Sidibe, the head of UNAIDS, said “it is unacceptable” that 85 countries...

A Brazilian man has been granted asylum by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as violence against LGBT residents of the South American nation escalates. Augusto Pereira de Souza, 27, lives in Newark, N.J. He said he was worried that he would be in danger if he were forced to return to Brazil....

The biggest open secret in the landmark trial over same-sex marriage being heard in San Francisco is that the federal judge who will decide the case, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, is himself gay. Many gay politicians in San Francisco and lawyers who have had dealings with Walker say the 65-year-old...

ANNAPOLIS – A Baltimore County delegate introduced legislation Thursday that would ban recognition of same-sex marriages performed in other states and countries. Maryland Delegate Emmett Burns, D-Baltimore County, introduced House Bill 90 as Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler prepares to...

Chuck Iavarone, a U.S. Soldier, has tired of living two lives. Chuck Iavarone was 19 when he decided to start living his life as an openly gay man. He came out after he graduated from Cicero-North Syracuse High School. He started college, but left after the Sept. 11 attacks to join the U.S. Army Reserve. He...