Midway has become the eighth Kentucky city to adopt an ordinance prohibiting discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

A high school valedictorian who was barred from giving a graduation speech that revealed he is gay received another chance to deliver his message. Watch…

The U.N. human rights chief said in a new report that lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people are victims of “pervasive, violent abuse, harassment and discrimination” in all regions of the world and cites hundreds of hate-related killings.

The Connecticut legislature is sending a bill to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy that makes it easier for transgender people to update their names and gender on their birth certificates.

The North Carolina state Senate voted Monday night to override Gov. Pat McCrory’s veto of a bill that would allow some court officials to refuse to perform same-sex marriage activities because of religious objections.

Caitlyn Jenner’s loved ones were among numerous well-wishers to support her coming out Monday in Vanity Fair.

Jurors are expected to hear testimony this week in a lawsuit that claims a nonprofit violated state consumer fraud laws when it offered treatment it said would turn gays into heterosexuals by, among other methods, having them spend more time naked with their fathers.

Jenner speaks movingly about her journey, telling Vanity Fair, “If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, ‘You just blew your entire life.’ ”

He launched his bid for the Republican presidential nomination in the small South Carolina town called Central, where he grew up.

Leaders of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party are rejecting calls to embrace full-fledged marriage for gay couples following Irish voters’ decision to legalize it.

Center-left Labor Party leader Bill Shorten became the first leader of a major Australian political party to back a bill to overturn a national ban on same-sex marriage.

More than 30 years ago, when marriage equality seemed like an impossible fantasy, a law student at Harvard wrote his thesis on same-sex marriage. What seemed insurmountable then appears like a sure thing now, thanks to Evan Wolfson’s…

Educators and parents in southern Indiana are calling for more training and awareness of the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students after a high school’s failed attempt to establish a “Straight Pride” club.

“I think it’s important to understand that the Supreme Court doesn’t have the final word,” said the presidential candidate on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday.

A small group of activists tried to hold an unauthorized demonstration in support of gay rights outside the mayor’s office on Saturday. But opponents fought with them and police detained people from both sides.

Next week, Barnard’s trustees are expected to vote on an issue that has arrived loudly and emphatically on the front burner for women’s colleges across the nation: transgender admissions.

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley on Saturday joined the Democratic presidential race with a longshot challenge to Hillary Rodham Clinton for the 2016 nomination.

A former Marshall University football player has been accused of two felony civil rights violations stemming from his alleged April assault on a gay couple.

The Duggars were not just a benign family in which a horrific situation unfolded. They were advocates and proponents, not just of their own “lifestyle”, but in attacking various personas within the LGBT community umbrella, my family being one such target…

Watch LGBTQ Nation columnist Rob Watson on “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell,” Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT on MSNBC.

The Illinois state Senate on Friday approved a measure to ban therapy aimed at changing the sexual orientation or gender identity of LGBT youth.