(AP) — After Caster Semenya’s lawyers announced they will take legal action to allow her to run, Athletics South Africa said Thursday the 800-meter world champion at the center of a gender dispute could race next week if she talks “to the right people.” Semenya, who has not run since she...

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has partnered with Credo Mobile to help you “Queer the Census” by signing a petition and sealing your census form with a special sticker. Both can be found at the Task Force’s “Queer the Census” Web site. The petition supports the inclusion...

On the drug-ravaged streets he’s known as Fat Murphy. Feared by many, the burly suspected drug lord is clean-shaven and wears his second wife’s name tattooed on his arm. But the man who was banished from a crime-ridden suburb on the Cape Flats by furious residents protesting against alleged drug...

The first buzz of an “anti-gay” bill that would criminalize homosexuality in Uganda was ignited this past summer. Initially, there were no talks of death penalties and life sentences, but there were talks of restrictions such as forbidding homosexuals to publish literature that advocates...

The 18-year old South African runner, Caster Semenya, was subjected to extensive gender tests following questions regarding her gender. The IAAF is still awaiting the final results of the gender verification test carried out on the South African teenager during the World Championships in Berlin in August,...

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has for the first time publicly expressed his opposition to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill recently proposed in Uganda. His statement follows weeks of pressure, numerous calls for him to speak out and a petition signed by thousands urging him to condemn the...

England’s National Health Service is the first to base treatment on the assumption that it should be acceptable for boys and girls to look far from “normal”. That doctors may be better off doing nothing to “fix” the kind of confusing genitals that incite laddish, locker-room bullying....

James Barry, surgeon for the British Army James Barry (1792-1795 – 25 July 1865), was a military surgeon in the British Army. After graduation from the University of Edinburgh, Barry served in India and Cape Town, South Africa. By the end of his career, he had risen to the rank of Inspector General...