Marriage equality organization Maine Freedom to Marry announced July 30 that 60,000 Mainers have signed pledges defending the state’s marriage equality bill. “Volunteers, ready and willing to go door to door and speak neighbor to neighbor to protect marriage equality, are the fuel of our campaign to defeat Question 1,” Jesse Connolly, Campaign Manager of […]

The American Psychological Association declared Wednesday that mental health professionals should not tell gay clients they can become straight through therapy or other treatments.

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would ban workplace bias based on sexual orientation and gender discrimination, has a chance of becoming law by the end of 2009, according to Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., its lead sponsor in the Senate. The measure was introduced in the Senate on Wednesday with 38 co-sponsors, including Sens. Edward Kennedy, […]

A new online high school targeting LGBT students, believed to be the first of its kind, plans to launch in January 2010.

The Census Bureau plans to release raw data from the 2010 Census about the number of same-sex marriages in the United States, according to new guidelines issued Monday. The announcement reverses an earlier decision made under the Bush administration. Same -sex couples “will be counted, and they ought to report the way they see themselves,” […]

Gay couples trickled into county clerk’s offices in Wisconsin on Monday for their first chance to sign up for the state’s new domestic partnership registry.

Israeli police are hunting for a masked man who opened fire at a community centre for gay teenagers in Tel Aviv, killing two people and injuring another 15. A masked man entered the center for gay teens in downtown Tel Aviv late Saturday night, pulled out a pistol and opened fire, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld […]

University of Hawai’i head football coach Greg McMackin was suspended without pay for 30 days and will take a voluntary 7 percent pay cut from his $1.1 million salary after he used a gay slur during a Western Athletic Conference press conference yesterday in Salt Lake City, school officials announced. McMackin, who will lose approximately […]

Newly released film footage shows four LDS Church security guards separating and handcuffing a gay couple after the two men kissed on the Main Street Plaza. The Salt Lake Tribune obtained the film through an open-records request with Salt Lake City. The church provided the film to the city as part of a prosecutor’s review […]

“It’s gay. If one more person asks me if I have a Twitter, I’m going to tell them, ‘Twitter this [bleep], mother[bleep]er.’

The International Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (IGLCC) unveiled the results of the first edition of the International Business Equality Index today, announcing BT Group, followed by IBM and The Dow Chemical Company, as the most gay-friendly corporations world-wide. The Index is a measurement of the performance of multinational corporations in relation to Diversity […]

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) on Monday cemented her stand on the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays, announcing a hearing to repeal what she called “an unfair, outdated measure that violates the civil rights of some of our bravest,” and prompting the Senate Armed Services Committee to hold a hearing this fall. Gillibrand’s […]

HBO tops the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’s third annual Network Responsibility Index, a study that evaluates the quantity, quality and diversity of images of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people on television. Among the five broadcast and 10 of the highest-rated cable networks, once again none earned the top “excellent” ranking, with five, […]

The NOH8 Campaign is a photo project and silent protest launched by celebrity photographer Adam Bouska and partner Jeff Parshley.

In the shadow of Bruno comes “Humpday,” an interesting little film that has garnered critical acclaim at Sundance and Cannes.

E. Lynn Harris, the author who introduced millions of readers to the “invisible life” of black gay men, died Thursday while on a business trip in Los Angeles. Harris, 54, was a literary pioneer who wrote a series of novels that exposed readers to characters rarely depicted in literature: black, affluent gay men who were […]

The local newspaper in Elkhart, Indiana landed in the center of the same-sex marriage debate this week when it published an Iowa couple’s marriage announcement. Michael Berkey and James Chapin, both of Hanlontown, IA were featured in the newpaper’s July 12 engagement section because Berkey is a graduate of the local high school and his […]

A gay couple say they were detained by LDS security guards on a plaza owned by the Mormon church and later cited by police, claiming it stemmed from a kiss on the cheek. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said that the men became argumentative and refused to leave after being asked to […]

The White House said Thursday it was seeking ways to include same-sex marriages, unions and partnerships in 2010 Census data. The administration has directed the Census Bureau to determine changes needed in tabulation software to allow for same-sex marriage data to be released early in 2011 with other detailed demographic information from the decennial count. […]

An Independence, MO same-sex couple went to Iowa to get married, but two newspapers refused to publish the wedding announcement. After 10 years together, Mike and Chuck Hewitt finally got to exchange wedding vows. Iowa is currently the only state in the Midwest to allow same-sex marriages. But when they attempted to announce their nuptuals […]