Now that you’re legal and you have the license and the ring, the next step is to arrange with the church for the wedding ceremony, right? Right. In most faith denominations across the country, same-sex couples are not welcome to wed in the chapel, nor are they permitted to benefit from the blessing of the […]

As America prepares to ponder whether they will vote a former First Lady into the Commander-in-Chief’s chair in the oval office, a First Lady of years past serves as a sort of posthumous poster child for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) communities. In the modern world, a notorious movie director has always […]

An apologizing evangelical walks in his first Pride Parade, and experiences an overwhelming outpouring of love and acceptance from those in attendance. While he has been a long-time stalwart support of full inclusion and equality for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and queer (LGBTQ) communities in the faith space, he had also been consistently warned […]

North Carolina third grade teacher Omar Currie saw the familiar signs of bullying in his classroom. A group of kids singled out a boy and called him gay, a girl or a woman in all their references. The teacher intervened at first, but the cruelty continued with ongoing taunts that the boy was gay and […]

A Nebraska woman is suing all homosexual people in federal court. A Swedish peace group sends mixed signals to gay Russian sailors in a message that calls for greater efforts toward peaceful resolution of conflict, as well as for improved treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals in Russia. Litigating for God In […]

Civil rights struggles throughout time have never come easy, or quickly. Women have agitated, educated and organized for full and equal rights for well over a century now. While some countries see rapid change in the past decade in progress for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals, others nations still lag far behind, in […]

As laws change and marriage equality sweeps from coast-to-coast, gay couples are thinking of ideal locations for the beach wedding of their dreams. Just along the edges of the continental United States, some 7000 miles of coastal frontage beckon. There is certain to be just the stretch of sandy real estate that you and your […]

With shrill voices rising from diverse religious communities in opposition to gay marriage and equality on the basis of religious doctrines or beliefs, it is increasingly difficult as a gay person to feel welcome in almost any church. For many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals (LGBT), church is remembered as a place of pain. […]

Celebrities and allies stand up and speak out for the right to marry, the right to be who you are, and the right to love. In Kenya, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) groups win the freedom to organize and agitate for rights, although it is still a crime to be gay in the country. […]

Trans on the media stage started with a former Olympic gold medalist to a Hawaiian transgender individual who explains, “I didn’t take to life as my family’s son. I wanted to be their daughter,” stories of trans individuals coming out are in the news. Experts in human sexuality and social sciences note that, for many […]