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Facing a backlash after he was quoted saying he had recently decided to “retire” a homophobic slur, the actor Matt Damon said in a statement on Monday that “I do not...

A gay San Francisco man who once battled drug addiction himself will end his hunger strike outside City Hall Tuesday at 6 p.m. following pledges by seven San Francisco supervisors to...

DaBaby performs during the BET Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 27, 2021. REUTERS/Mario AnzuoniLOS ANGELES, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Rapper DaBaby was dropped from the...

Aug 3, 2021Free-agent forward Rudy Gay has agreed to a free-agent deal with the Utah Jazz, his agent, Raymond Brothers of Roc Nation Sports, told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski on Tuesday.1 RelatedThe...

HULL, Mass. (AP) — The former superintendent of Hull public schools alleges in a lawsuit that he was discriminated against because he is gay and his firing has made it impossible...

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Willie Gay Jr. is about to become the K.C. Chiefs best linebacker this season. He is also going to take the biggest leap, developmentally speaking, over anyone else on the team’s...

The dating app Grindr is supposed to be for men seeking men. But many underage boys are using it to hook up with adults, and that can put them at...

On the second day of free agency, the Utah Jazz brought in a player they’re hoping can add some versatility to the roster. Rudy Gay will wear a Jazz uniform after...

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, Brooklyn (WABC) -- Police in Brooklyn are searching for two men who yelled anti-gay slurs at three victims before assaulting them.The incident was reported around 9 p.m. on May 2...

Randy Thomas, former executive vice president of Exodus International, denounces the group's actions and "conversion therapy" as a whole in...

Jordan Windle’s a seven-time U.S. senior national’s champion, six-time U.S. junior national’s champion, two-time Junior Pan American Championships medalist, a diving World Cup competitor, and this week, he will become an...

Music festival Lollapalooza announced that DaBaby has been dropped from its lineup just hours before he was slated to perform, a move that came after the rapper made anti-gay comments...

Poland has accused Germany’s justice system of putting European standards at risk after a Cologne court fined a Polish theologian for an article describing gay people in the Catholic clergy as...

Following a bench trial this week a federal court in Michigan is set to rule in the case of a farm that was banned from a city-run market in East Lansing...

CNN —   Tom Waddell knew what to expect from an Olympics opening ceremony. He’d experienced one before as a decathlete at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics....

It’s been well-documented by now, but the pandemic-affected NFL season last year was tough on first-year players. You wouldn’t know it by watching the Kansas City Chiefs; rookies like Clyde Edwards-Helaire,...

Anti-gay bigotry is on the defensive in hip-hop right now.By Spencer KornhaberThe superstar Lil Nas X, who came out as gay in 2019, has been sparring with people who express many...

Stories coming out of Africa about the LGBTQ community fill me with dread. I read them with bated breath, certain the most recent one will be far worse than the...

In January 2013, a gay 15-year-old named Jadin Bell, from La Grande, Oregon, hanged himself from a piece of playground equipment and, after being kept on life support for several weeks,...

Three defendants have been removed from a federal discrimination lawsuit against Huntsville City Schools by the family of a student who say he killed himself in 2019 as a result of...

Rapper DaBaby is facing widespread criticism from celebrities and activists for comments he made about people living with HIV/AIDS. DaBaby, known for his hit song "Rockstar" and for being featured in...

“ ‘I feel incredibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champion.’ ” That was Olympic diver Tom Daley...

Same-sex relations are banned in more than half of Africa’s 54 nations. Some countries, including Botswana and Gabon, have moved recently to decriminalize homosexual relations, but others have stuck with penal...

TikTok and Twitter removed videos that exposed gay Olympians using the dating app Grindr. An Insider article found creators using Grindr's "explore" feature to find gay athletes. The videos risked...

The number of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender elected officials has continued to surge, growing by about 17 percent in the last year to nearly 1,000 nationwide — more than double...

TOKYO (AP) Recommended When Olympic diver Tom Daley announced in 2013 that he was dating a man and “couldn’t be happier,” his coming out was an...

Jack Whitehall says he didn’t know that his character McGregor in “Jungle Cruise” was gay when he originally auditioned for the film. “When I first read the script, there was only a...

Logan Fowler is the director of marketing and communications at Lewis-Clark State College in Idaho. He is also the pastor of the Truth Baptist Church.In the latter role, he has made...

Columbia Records YouTube Lil Nas X is unprecedented: he emerged from the depths of stan Twitter to take over the pop charts, all...

By James Finn | WASHINGTON – Last autumn as the US Conference of Catholic Bishops actively lobbied Congress to kill a proposed national suicide hotline because it directed help to suicidal LGBTQ people, the...

In April 2013, Joe Bell left his home in La Grande, a small town in the northeast corner of  Oregon, to walk across the country in honor of his 15-year-old son,...

HONG KONG—A TV show about a male love triangle is proving a big hit with viewers, but criticism from pro-Beijing politicians is stirring concern that broader freedoms could be caught up...

A man harassed a gay couple with racist insults in San Francisco this weekend, leading them to seek shelter in a hotel, videos of the event show."I'm not racist. I served...

Attorney Gloria Allred, responding to questions about the Human Rights Campaign president’s links to the Andrew Cuomo scandal, said taking an employee’s personnel file after leaving a place of employment would...