Less than a week before the U.S. Supreme Court plans to hear arguments over the constitutionality of same-sex marriage bans, a GOP lawmaker has introduced legislation to strip federal courts of their power to interpret the Constitution as it relates to such matters.

The actress has left a big impression on Hollywood (and America) in a very short amount of time. Cox’s skillful performance as Sophia on “Orange Is the New Black” and her work advocating for transgender women make her one of our boldest beauties yet.

An Alabama House Committee voted Wednesday for a bill that would allow private adoption agencies to turn away same-sex couples on religious grounds.

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes and “Savage Love” columnist and LGBT rights activist Dan Savage discuss how Republican presidential hopefuls respond when asked if they’d attend a same-sex wedding for a loved one, and, as Savage notes, how anybody believes they would be invited to one at all.

Legislation that protects members of the clergy who refuse to perform a same-sex marriage ceremony has been approved by the Oklahoma House and Senate.

In a rare and revealing interview, Joe and Mimi Lemay shared why they let their son, Jacob, transition as part of NBC News’ series on Transgender Kids.

A transgender South Carolina teenager has settled a lawsuit challenging the state Department of Motor Vehicles’ policy governing a person’s choice to take a driver’s license photo wearing makeup.

A French newspaper reports that Pope Francis met France’s nominated ambassador to the Holy See, who is openly gay, and told him that the Vatican would not accept his appointment.

He’s been part of a wildly popular superhero team since its very beginning. But there’s something we never knew about Bobby Drake, aka Iceman of the X-Men… Bobby is gay.

The Nevada Assembly has rejected a bill that outraged transgender advocates and would have required students to use bathrooms corresponding to their biological sex.

Little Rock officials have voted to require companies contracting with the city to not discriminate based on sexual orientation or gender identity, challenging a new Arkansas law criticized as anti-gay.

A group of 100 conservative lawyers and academics recently filed a Supreme Court brief arguing that gay marriage will cause 900,000 abortions over the next 30 years.

New York’s attorney general’s office wrote this week to the Boy Scouts of America nationally, advising that state and city laws prohibit hiring discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Same-sex marriage opponents acknowledge they face a tough task in trying to persuade the Supreme Court to allow states to limit marriage to a man and a woman, but are urging the court to resist embracing what they see as a radical change in society’s view of what constitutes a marriage.

The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments next week in a landmark case on same-sex marriage, but most Americans already have made up their minds: There’s no turning back.

A Florida Senate panel on Monday declined to vote on a controversial proposal that would allow taxpayer-supported adoption agencies to use religious or moral beliefs to discriminate against prospective parents.

After the state faced widespread backlash over measures critics cast as anti-gay, several Arkansas cities worried about the economic fallout are challenging the new laws by expanding their anti-discrimination protections.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an attempt by the National Organization for Marriage to reverse a federal judge’s decision that allowed same-sex couples in Oregon to begin marrying.

A same-sex couple who sued for the right to marry in Wisconsin wants a federal judge to mandate that both parents’ names appear on their children’s birth certificates.

The resolution was introduced by Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.), who said the law, signed by Mayor Muriel Bowser, would infringe upon the religious rights of faith-based schools.