Gay & Lesbian Issues

LONDON - The wife of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has joined thousands of revelers in London's annual gay pride march.

LONDON (AFP) - The wife of Prime Minister Gordon Brown took part Saturday in London's latest gay pride march through the streets of the capital's main shopping district.

A man who killed his lover by beating him to death with a fire extinguisher has been sentenced to 25 years behind bars.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian court ruling to decriminalize gay sex will boost the fight against AIDS, but a powerful stigma against homosexuality and uneven quality of healthcare will still hamper efforts, a top AIDS worker said.

In a shocking announcement on Friday, Alaska Gov. and former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin announced she is resigning from office.

A new report on the non-HIV health and human service needs of LGBT people in New York state shows significant disparities compared to non-LGBT people, reflecting national trends exacerbated by lack of adequate data and homophobia.

The Westboro Baptist Church clearly knows no boundaries.

New Whitney Houston: "The Voice" is back -- or is she -- with her big comeback track.

A Congressman for the Camp Pendleton area in Southern California is requesting that the Department of Defense investigate whether a gay sailor who was found dead on Tuesday was the target of a hate crime.

Bisexual reality TV star Tila Tequila -- who once dubbed herself the reason the California Supreme Court ruled to allow same-sex marriage throughout the state -- now has her sights set on overturning DADT.

The Washington, D.C. public school district restored nine LGBT-themed titles to its summer reading list for students after initially publishing a reading list that omitted the books, reports the School Library Journal.

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Francisco said a lawsuit seeking to overturn California's same-sex marriage ban will likely one day reach the U.S. Supreme Court.

India's High Court decriminalizes homosexuality, winning applause from activists, the ire of conservatives, and possibly opening the way for gay rights groups in neighboring countries

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The attorney representing two same-sex couples who were denied a right to wed in California said on Thursday he expected the case to end up before the U.S. Supreme Court, which has yet to hear a case on the gay marriage issue.

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Francisco says he wants to conduct a full trial on a lawsuit seeking to overturn California's same-sex marriage ban because he expects the case to one day reach the U.S. Supreme Court.

Adult fetish website Kink.com had been receiving government funding to the tune of nearly $47,000 for employee training up until April -- but the state of California yanked further financing when it discovered Kink.com was in the porn business.

The scourge of AIDS decimated an entire generation of men, including many who fought for gay rights back in the heady days that followed Stonewall in 1969. But one of those brave men, John Knoebel, is alive and well, and telling the story of the early days of gay liberation.

NEW DELHI - New Delhi's gay community celebrated a landmark court ruling Thursday that decriminalizes homosexuality — a decision that could end widespread police harassment and be a harbinger for gradual acceptance for homosexuals across this deeply conservative country.