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More than 1,200 businesses, including Levi Strauss, Yelp and Lyft, have joined a coalition pledging not to discriminate against employees or customers based on factors such as race or sexual orientation.
At a summit in the Department of Justice's Great Hall on Monday, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the creation of a task force on "religious freedom."
Air Force defensive back Bradley Kim came out publicly on Friday, making him the first openly gay football player to play for a military academy.
An Indiana man who told police he was headed to Los Angeles' annual LGBT Pride event when he was found with weapons and explosives in his car has been sentenced.
In a recent interview, Pennsylvania State Representative Brian Sims said that he serves with "over a dozen closeted members."
With a unanimous vote taken on Monday, Madison became the second city in Wisconsin to ban therapies that attempt to alter the sexual orientation or gender identity of gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender youth.
Zach Stafford was living in Chicago and, admittedly, "was trying to figure out what I wanted to do next as a journalist." He had spent years doing taxing reporting on homicides, crimes and human-rights, and just wanted a
LGBT civil rights organizations, including Equality Illinois, are reacting to the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.
An Indiana church with an anti-LGBT message has been evicted from its building.
Maine Governor Paul LePage, a Republican, on Friday vetoed a bill that sought to ban therapies that attempt to alter the sexual orientation or gender identity of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth.
YouTube, which is owned by Google, has apologized for the ways it has "let the LGBTQ community down."
Police in Philadelphia are looking for two men in connection with a possible hate crime against transgender people.
According to a report released Monday, nearly half of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender employees in the United States remain closeted at work.
New York Senator Chuck Schumer on Sunday announced that his daughter is engaged.
Speaking Saturday at a forum on Catholic families, Pope Francis said that only heterosexual couples can form a family.
In a speech given on the Senator floor on Wednesday, Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, a Republican, talked about LGBT youth suicide prevention, saying that he timed his speech to coincide with Pride month.
Police in Portland, Oregon on Saturday broke up a standoff between preachers and revelers attending the city's annual Pride festival.
The Trump administration has signaled its support for a strategy to combat AIDS issued by the Obama administration.
It's time to get very personal with mega-popular, openly gay, muscle-packed singer Steve Grand, who lives in suburban Chicago and shot to worldwide fame five years ago with his viral video song sensation "All-American Bo
On June 12, 2016 at 2:02 a.m., tragedy struck Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, taking 49 innocent lives in what was, at the time, the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in United States history. It remains the deadlie
An Arkansas man has confessed to intentionally contracting HIV with the purpose of exposing others to the virus.
CrossFit on Wednesday fired an employee after he tweeted that celebrating LGBT Pride is a "sin."
A man was allegedly attacked by a mob while trying to defend a gay couple who were being chased after Saturday's Utah Pride Festival in Salt Lake City.
