The court’s ruling is considered a “jurisprudential thesis” and does not invalidate any state laws, meaning gay couples denied the right to wed would have to turn to the courts individually.

A young man in Delta, Utah was robbed, had “Die Fag” carved into his arm with a knife, and was forced to drink bleach on a Saturday night in late April, but the story doesn’t end there.

The ABC Family docu-series “Becoming Us” follows a 16-year-old dealing with the usual challenges of high school and encroaching adulthood – plus the recent news that his father is becoming a woman.

The governor of the Mexican state of Chihuahua on Thursday announced his administration would no longer prevent same-sex couples from marrying.

The resolution approved Friday doesn’t force the government to take any action, as the state governments stopped short of sending a draft law to the lower house for a possible vote.

The suggested revisions came after some Republican lawmakers repeatedly tried to pass legislation in 2015 to void the policy.

Something one learns as a parent is that children are often not rational in their behavior. When something happens that is not to their liking, they strike out in a variety of fashions, many of which do not line up to a logical agenda of self-interest.

The June 19 event at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson will feature a drag show. It also will feature a speech by an Anchorage transgender activist.

Republican Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill Thursday that removes the language from Florida’s statutes – though the ban hasn’t been enforced for the past five years.

Boston is among the first cities in New England to institute gender-neutral restrooms in their city halls, says Mayor Martin Walsh.

The motion commits the government “to promote the adoption of a law on civil unions, particularly with regard to the condition of the people of same sex”.

A transgender teenager said in a lawsuit Thursday that he has been stigmatized by a policy that bars him from using the boys’ restrooms at his eastern Virginia high school.

Gov. Rick Snyder has signed a law letting private adoption agencies with state contracts decline to participate in referrals against their religious beliefs, despite criticism that it amounts to government-sanctioned discrimination against gay couples.

Abbott said Thursday he was proud to sign the bill, which allows clergy members to refuse officiating marriages that violate their religious beliefs.

A measure allowing some court officials to refuse to perform same-sex marriage responsibilities because of their religious beliefs has become law in North Carolina.

The 53-year-old Democrat became the nation’s first openly gay House speaker in 2010. He represented Providence for 11 terms in the state House.

The 22-year-old former Jonas Brothers frontman has a sizable gay following and plays a gay boxer on the DirecTV series “Kingdom.”

A transgender woman has filed a complaint against Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, saying she was denied breast implant surgery because of her gender identity.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in a press release cited local media reports that indicate Francela Méndez Rodríguez was murdered by a group of unknown assailants while visiting the home of a friend.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans expect the Supreme Court to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide when it rules on the issue within the next few weeks, according to a new poll.