The US military will consider opening its doors to transgender people who are currently banned from service and can be booted out if discovered, Pentagon chief Ashton Carter said Monday.
The secretary of defense made the revelation as he unveiled … Read the rest
More than 1,000 gay, lesbian and transgender Cubans marched through Havana on Saturday, proudly displaying their truest selves for a day in a society where they still endure discrimination.
The Eighth Annual March against Homophobia and Transphobia took on extra … Read the rest
Support for same-sex marriage in the United States has soared to a record 60 percent, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll released Thursday said.
The poll was conducted a week ahead of historic US Supreme Court hearings on whether the … Read the rest
Pretend the U.S. is as free as the Founding Fathers intended it to be. In this authentically (and classically) liberal America, no one can tell free men and women what to do with their property, namely their bodies, their abodes … Read the rest
A woman raised by two lesbians has provoked controversy after publicly announcing that she is against gay marriage because she says she missed out on having her father in her life when growing up.
Heather Barwick, a 31-year-old mother-of-four from … Read the rest
Movie companies have been told they must meet new targets for ethnic minority, gay and female characters on screen to be eligible for future funding from the British Film Institute.
The BFI, Britain’s largest public film fund, announced a “Three … Read the rest
Movie companies have been told they must meet new targets for ethnic minority, gay and female characters on screen to be eligible for future funding from the British Film Institute.
The BFI, Britain’s largest public film fund, announced a “Three … Read the rest
Joan Rivers calls President Obama “gay” and describes Michelle Obama with a homophobic slur.
Asked by a street reporter whether a gay president or a female president will take office first, Rivers replied, “We already have it with Obama.”
“You … Read the rest
A 20-year-old gay man was gang-raped and his mattress burned in Roodepan near Kimberley, Northern Cape police said on Monday.
He was raped in the early hours of Sunday at a house in Lerato Park, Lieutenant Sergio Kock said.
Asked … Read the rest
A business journalist has been forced to apologise for contravening his employer’s social media policy after he tweeted “it’s fine to be homophobic”.
Arabile Gumede was responding to the anti-homosexuality bill Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has signed into law.
Gumede … Read the rest
Spaced out along St. Petersburg’s main thoroughfare, about a dozen human rights activists staged individual protests to attract the attention of leaders of the world’s biggest economies to human rights violations in Russia.
Activist Iosiph Skakovsky said they held individual … Read the rest
More than two dozen activists were detained in Moscow on Tuesday as they were protesting a bill that stigmatizes the gay community and bans the giving of information about homosexuality to children.
The protesters attempted to rally outside the Russian … Read the rest
