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BERN, Switzerland (AP) — A soccer player judged to have used the word “gay” as an insult in a post-game interview was fined 2,000 Swiss francs ($2,070) by the Swiss Football...

Vahid Gold as Navid and Tesha as Serena Manteghi in The Other Half. (James Pardon) When British-Iranian actor Vahid Gold read the...

INDIANAPOLIS — Jon Brenes was drifting and he was depressed. It was 2014 and Brenes had moved from Puerto Rico to Indianapolis to take a job in marketing at Eli Lilly....

Singapore’s government has confirmed that it will continue to restrict LGBTQ film and media content to older audiences, despite overturning a decades-old law that banned gay sex. Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien...

My first experience at a gay bathhouse took place in D.C. during my junior year in college. This would have been in 1999 or 2000. I met a handsome Black man...

before today, discrimination against gay singaporeans existed because we inherited the law from the british. today, we took the bold step of making that discrimination our own, enshrining it in our...

A new theory about Rhaenyra Targaryen’s sexuality has developed after a few scenes have shown her with another girl in House of the Dragon. So, in order to decipher this hypothesis,...

Republican Shreveport mayoral candidate Melvin Slack told The Times he is ending his campaign Monday night.The announcement comes a day after Slack used gay slurs at a mayoral forum held by...

A Republican candidate running for a seat in Oklahoma's state House once said it is "totally just" to kill gay people in comments that have resurfaced amid his campaign.Scott Esk is...

Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson called federal efforts to protect same-sex marriage "completely unnecessary," arguing that landmark protections for gay marriage—unlike abortion—would "never be overturned" by the U.S. Supreme Court.In an...

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U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-5 of Swarthmore, recently violated the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012 by filing a late financial disclosure form revealing her husband sold five...

I left dream husband, home & job — now I'm gay and traveling ...

If you’re still reeling from Chloë Sevigny’s performance in “American Horror Story: Asylum,” get ready to relive that trauma afresh. The iconic actress is joining forces with Ryan Murphy and Naomi...

Would you believe the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have something in common? They both believe that the state should be able to force web...

This is sweet. News correspondent James Longman found himself in the English seaside city of Brighton over the weekend. The British reporter, who tends to report on foreign news for...

ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) - LGBTQ rights are top of mind for some Georgia Democrats who worry that the conservative-leaning U.S. Supreme Court could send decisions about same-sex marriage back to the...

Titanique creators and stars Marla Mindelle (in the gold-sequined dress playing Celine Dion) and Constantine Rousouli (in the...

By Catholic News Service • Posted August 22, 2022 BALTIMORE (CNS) — A U.S. District Court judge in Maryland has ruled that Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops’ overseas relief and...

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Roy Jackson was a school librarian in Atlanta when his work as part of a statewide booklist committee that chose two LGBTQIA+ titles brought traumatizing accusations. From the fall of...

Little things mean a lot. A tiny kiss, a love note written on a scrap of paper, you know how you cherish those...

A Florida-based Christian school sent out an email informing parents that LGBTQ-identifying students "will be asked to leave the school immediately." According to the email obtained by NBC News, the top administrator of Grace...

A GOP candidate in Oklahoma is getting attention for comments he made several years ago when he justified the death penalty by stoning for gay people. When asked recently about it,...

Milly Alcock as Princess Rhaenyra and Emily Carey as Lady Alicent. (HBO/Sky) The long-awaited Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon has...

A group of Singaporeans erupted in cheers as Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Sunday announced the city-state would repeal a colonial-era law that bans gay sex.LGBT activists have called the...

BANGKOK -- Singapore’s decision to decriminalize sex between men is being hailed as a step in the right direction for LGBTQ rights in the Asia-Pacific region, a vast area of nearly...

"We finally did it, and we're ecstatic that this discriminatory, antiquated law is finally going to be off the books. There's a sense that maybe it took a little too long,...

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Governor Glenn Youngkin signed into law SB 656 a few months back. The legislation requires Virginia teachers to identify “sexually explicit” content within their curriculums and mandates that principals notify parents...

Marlo, a gay love story set in 1950s conservative Australia, draws on library and archival research. We know this because at the end of his book, author Jay Carmichael – a...

The Walt Disney Company found itself embroiled in controversy earlier this year after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis introduced the Parental Rights in Education Act, also known as the “Don’t Say Gay”...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Singapore announced Sunday it will decriminalize sex between men by repealing a colonial-era law while protecting the city-state's traditional norms and its definition of marriage. What...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Singapore announced Sunday it will decriminalize sex between men by repealing a colonial-era law while protecting the city-state's traditional norms and its definition of marriage. During his...