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 […]

Authorities at a Catholic High School in Iowa acknowledge that they determined not to hire a qualified applicant who had been a substitute teacher at the school simply because he was open about his sexual orientation on social media. The teacher claims that he had been offered a full-time teaching position after successfully serving as […]

Among the most-protested books on the shelves of libraries and schools in the United States this year is an illustrated retelling of a true story about Same-Sex Parenting. And Tango Makes Three tells of the time when two male penguins at the New York Zoo partnered together to hatch an egg and give a young […]

An exhibit of Hollywood’s gay history at the Hollywood Museum has been extended from its original run in celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) month in June. It will now be open until September to accommodate the demand from the public to visit and enjoy the spectacle of the 1,000-plus objects commemorating the gay […]

Many people are following developing trends of freedom to marry in the U.S. for reasons that go beyond dreams of a beautiful wedding ceremony. As the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community receives the right to create legal family units built upon matrimony, the opportunity to be a full family with parental rights and […]

Studies show increased religious support for same sex marriage among a variety of religious groups in the recent decade. Some 42 percent of Muslims support freedom to marry, but only 28 percent of Mormons and evangelical Christians favor same-sex marriage rights. About 84 percent of Buddhists, 77 percent of American Jews, and more than 68 […]

Among states considering “religious protection” laws, Indiana stepped up into the line of fire, and drew heavy fire. Utah seems to have worked around many of the challenges faced by Indiana, Arkansas, and others by also passing explicit protection for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals alongside the “religious protection” law that the Church […]