(AP) — Utah lawmakers will not consider a law that would ban discrimination against gay men and lesbians in the workplace and in housing, and will instead spend the next year studying the issue, key lawmakers said Friday. In exchange, opponents of gay-rights legislation will drop any effort to...

Kerry Bell As a child, Kerry Bell dreamed of growing up to become a policeman — both a police officer and a man. Becoming a cop was relatively simple — Bell joined the Bountiful Police Department 14 years ago. Becoming a man took more time. Born female, Bell came out as transgender about...

The Facebook status updates have been pouring in. The Twitterverse is all a-flurry. Everyone’s talking about it. We lost in Maine. It’s true. It’s a big loss. Maine would have been the first state in the history of the nation to pass a gay marriage law by popular vote. We’re...

Organizers of the Great Nationwide Kiss In understood the importance of a kiss when they first decided to turn it into a movement. They repeatedly told the stories of: the two men in El Paso who were kicked out of Chico’s Tacos in El Paso, Texas for kissing; the two lesbians kicked out of Rolling...