YWCA-Billboard3-994x350 Hate groups are reaching out to minorities more than LGBT orgs
LGBT groups assume minority communities will climb on board and fight for our equality. That lack of outreach has become our Achilles’ heel.

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Hate groups are reaching out to minorities more than LGBT orgs

LGBT groups assume minority communities will climb on board and fight for our equality. That lack of outreach has become our Achilles’ heel.

Caitlyn Jenner (Photo: Richard Shotwell, Invision/AP)
Caitlyn Jenner to appear in new season of ‘Transparent’

The show's creator and executive producer Jill Soloway called the news "a dream come true."

The John Adams Courthouse in Boston, home to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
Massachusetts court to hear gay parental rights case

The same state court that paved the way for same-sex marriage in the U.S. is now being asked to decide a complicated case about the parental rights of a once-partnered but unmarried gay couple.

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Laughing at the absurdities of black homophobia

Only through humor can the absurdities of black homophobia keep you laughing to keep you from crying.

In this March 29, 2016 photo, Mitch Xia, left, rallies with other organizers during a march on Franklin Street against N.C. House Bill 2 in Chapel Hill, N.C. The new state law requires transgender people to use the restroom of their biological gender, not the gender with which they identify. (Photo: Whitney Keller, The Herald-Sun via AP)
Activists try to calm fears over transgender bathroom access

Stung by setbacks related to their access to public restrooms, transgender Americans are taking steps to play a more prominent and vocal role in a nationwide campaign to curtail discrimination against them.

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‘I am tired of straight cis men legislating my freedom’

One man's impassioned plea for tolerance: "This is what trans looks like, Governor McCrory."

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In this Tuesday, March 29, 2016 photo, police work the scene where a man was found shot to death and a woman fatally stabbed, in Los Angeles. A Los Angeles man charged with fatally shooting his 29-year-old son for being gay had repeatedly threatened to kill him over his sexual orientation, prosecutors say. (Photo: David Crane, AP)
UPDATE: Dad charged with killing son because he was gay had made repeated threats

Los Angeles County district attorney's office charged Shehada Issa, 69, on Friday with murder as a hate crime in the son's death.

Caitlyn Jenner, star of the reality series "I Am Cait," accepts the Outstanding Reality Series Award during the 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at the Beverly Hilton on Saturday, April 2, 2016, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
Caitlyn Jenner, Demi Lovato receive GLAAD Media Awards

The awards honor those who further GLAAD's mission of ensuring that stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are heard through media outlets.

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The 10 most powerful films about AIDS

A number of films have memorialized AIDS crisis of the 1980s, using the art of moviemaking to reach audiences even today.

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Manny Pacquiao: My comment that gays are ‘worse than animals’ was taken out of context

"The interview was five to ten minutes long and they cut it."

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PepsiCo CEO asks North Carolina governor to repeal anti-LGBT law

The CEO of PepsiCo, Inc., has joined the growing list of company heads and municipal officials voicing opposing to North Carolina's new anti-LGBT law.

James Dixon (left) and Islan Nettles.
NYC transgender killing suspect says he ‘didn’t want to be fooled’

James Dixon is charged with manslaughter and assault in the Aug. 17, 2013 death of 21-year-old Islan Nettles.

Gay-rights supporters take part in a rally outside the Capitol Thursday, March 31, 2016, in Jefferson City, Mo.
Business outcry doesn’t stop Missouri religious objections

Despite mounting opposition from top business groups, some Missouri GOP legislators say they will continue their efforts to protect businesses that deny services for same-sex weddings.

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In this March 19, 2016, file photo, San Francisco coach Jennifer Azzi talks to her players during a first-round women's college basketball game against Stanford in the NCAA tournament in Stanford.
Former Stanford and US star Jennifer Azzi comes out as gay

University of San Francisco coach and former Stanford and U.S. star Jennifer Azzi has come out as gay.

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Azealia Banks called us ‘the KKK’ and ‘weaklings.’ Now her new album’s out. Will you buy?

What to do when a popular artist continues to antagonize the LGBTQ community?

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Is Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!!! accidentally the gayest film of the year?

One columnist calls the film "an ode to straight-male bonding that doubles as a whole other kind of romp for gay men."

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Los Angeles father charged with murdering son for being gay

"The murder was committed because of the victim's sexual orientation," prosecutors said in a statement.

Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, right, walks past reporters on his way to a meeting of a youth jobs program board, at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Friday, April 1, 2016. Reporters asked him if he would sign a bill that would let government employees and private businesses cite religious beliefs to deny services to same-sex couples who want to marry. Bryant would not say whether he will sign House Bill 1523, noting he had not received it yet and would need to study it first.
Mississippi governor considers signing anti-LGBTQ bill

Gov. Phil Bryant has clearly stated he feels marriage is only between a man and woman.

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Kentucky lawmakers pass bill for 1 marriage license form

Applicants can check either "bride," ''groom" or "spouse" by their name.

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Barney Frank, the first openly gay congressman, sharply critiques Bernie Sanders

According to Frank, Sanders "has been in Congress for 25 years with little to show for it."

FILE - This Feb. 3, 2016 file photo San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr speaks during a news conference in San Francisco. Additional San Francisco police officers have been accused of exchanging racist and homophobic text messages, following a scandal that implicated 14 officers in a department now under federal review.
More San Francisco cops are caught sending antigay, racist texts

The new allegations in the liberal and diverse city come amid a national debate over police relations with minority communities.

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Violent antigay assault captured on tape while bystanders watch

Over a dozen bystanders snickered, but no one did anything.

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Mississippi Governor won’t say if he’ll sign anti-LGBT bill into law

"Gov. Bryant will review it if and when it reaches his desk," Bryant spokesman Clay Chandler said Thursday.

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‘Simpsons’ coming out episode was inspired by writer’s son

Veteran Simpsons writer Rob LaZebnik reveals the episode was written to support his gay 21-year-old son.

Duke Energy Center tower in Charlotte, NC lit with the colors of the transgender flag.
Wells Fargo lights Charlotte office tower with transgender flag colors

Wells Fargo is not only demanding repeal of North Carolina's new anti-LGBT law, they lit the 48-story Duke Energy Center tower in pink, white, and blue for the International Day of Transgender Visibility.

Hudson Garner, 16, right, sits with his mothers Kathryn Garner, center, and Susan Hrostowski, left, in Collins, Miss.. Garner, who is Hudson's birth mother, and her partner Hrostowski are among four lesbian couples to sue Mississippi in federal court, seeking to overturn its law banning gay couples from adopting or taking children into foster care.
Mississippi ban on adoption by same-sex couples ruled unconstitutional

The judge ruled for the couples who had sued, saying the ban is unconstitutional after recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions legalizing gay marriage and benefits for gay couples.

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Kim Davis’ lawyers want to defend North Carolina’s anti-LGBTQ law — for free

The group Liberty Counsel offered the General Assembly's Republican leaders its free labor.

Human Rights Campaign Executive Director Chad Griffin, center, speaks at a news conference at the old state Capitol Building in Raleigh, N.C. on Thursday, March 30, 2016. Griffin, Equality North Carolina Executive Director Chris Sgro, far left, and others delivered a letter to Gov. Pat McCrory signed by more than 100 corporate executives calling for repeal of a law limiting bathroom options for transgender people and prohibiting local anti-discrimination measures providing protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Because of new transgender law, drug maker reconsidering $20 million North Carolina factory

Braeburn Pharmaceuticals said it is "reevaluating our options based on the recent, unjust legislation".

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When this gay college basketball player was raped, it changed him forever. Now, he’s coming out.

Nathan Fort was just beginning to open up about who he really is when his path towards self-acceptance was split in two.