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The nation's largest LGBT civil rights group says that Pope Francis' recent remarks about LGBT people and homosexuality make clear the leader of the Roman Catholic Church is promoting tolerance and pressing "the reset bu
Olympian Blake Skjellerup opposes a boycott of the Winter Olympics over a Russian anti-gay law.
Pope Francis, the leader of over1 billion Roman Catholics worldwide, on Thursday said that the church needs to be a more welcoming place for all.
Pope Francis has outlined a new path for the Roman Catholic Church and the way it deals with the LGBT people in the Church and elsewhere.
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu says God has commanded him to speak out on gay rights.
British Olympic diver Tom Daley brushed off rumors that he is gay, insisting that he'd come out if he were.
President Barack Obama met with gay rights activists in Russia on Friday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he can't be anti-gay because he gives gays prizes.
President Barack Obama will meet with gay rights activist during this week's Group of 20 summit in Russia.
Roughly 2,400 people marched Saturday in Berlin, Germany to protest a Russian law that prohibits the promotion of "gay propaganda" to minors, effectively banning public demonstrations in support of gay rights.
A senior Russian MP has proposed providing so-called "conversion" therapy to gays and a ban on gay men donating blood and organs
Australian snowboarder Belle Brockhoff has come out gay.
Editors of the online edition of the Oxford English Dictionary have updated the definition of the word "marriage" to include gay and lesbian couples.
Prison Break star Wentworth Miller has come out as gay in a letter to the organizers of a film festival in Russia.
Scott Blackmun, CEO of the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC), said this week that athletes competing in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi should "comply" with a Russian anti-gay law.
Russian political journalist Anton Krasovsky announced that he is gay on live television and was promptly fired from his job.
Senator Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York, has endorsed New York Times columnist Frank Bruni's idea of nations waving Gay Pride flags during the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
Russian news anchor Dmitri Kisilev has knocked Russia's controversial "gay propaganda" law, saying that it doesn't go far enough.
A petition signed by more than 320,000 people calling on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to condemn a Russian anti-gay law ahead of the winter Olympics to be held in Sochi, Russia was presented to Olympic bosse
President Barack Obama on Tuesday said that he had "no patience" for countries that discriminate against LGBT persons.
Lady Gaga took to Twitter on Monday to slam the Russian government for its treatment of the LGBT community.
Olympian Matthew Mitcham has described a Russian law that prohibits the public promotion of gay rights as "horrific."
Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley, a Democrat, plans to introduce a resolution calling on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to condemn an anti-gay law recently approved in Russia ahead of the Winter Olympics to be held
Barbie Breakout, a well-known German drag queen and DJ, sewed her mouth shut to protest Russian anti-gay laws.