LGBTQ Life

HONOLULU -- Actor and singer Jim Nabors, best known for his starring role in the 1960s television sitcom "Gomer Pyle, USMC," married his longtime partner Stan Cadwallader ealier this month. [ Read more → ]

SAN FRANCISCO -- In the pages of Sports Illustrated, many readers will get a glimpse into a Bay Area 49er fan celebration they may not be familiar with. [ Read more → ]

Mike Ruiz seems to be everywhere these days: Playing judge on “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and Tyra Banks’ “America’s Next Top Model,” shooting celebrity photographs, or starring in a reality-TV show on Logo. [ Read more → ]

MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts talks to Jacob Rudolph, the LGBT teen from New Jersey who came out at a school awards ceremony. [ Read more → ]

Is this photo offensive? Well, somebody at Facebook thought so — and determined that this wedding photo that appeared on the Facebook page “Gay Marriage USA” not only violated their “policies and community standards,” but was worthy of blocking the page admin from posting on Facebook for a week. [ Read more → ]

Jacob Rudolph, a high school senior from in Parsippany, N.J., stood before 300 classmates on Friday night during his senior class awards ceremony to accept the honor of Class Actor. But Jacob's acceptance speech revealed that his acting went deeper than a few school plays. [ Read more → ]

A new print advertising campaign from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is marketing to gay and lesbian travelers with a new twist, promoting that in Sin City, "everyone’s welcome, even straight people." The stylish, five-ad series from local ad agency R&R Partners, each... [ Read more → ]

Derek Nance, a program director at the Mataguay Scout Ranch in San Diego, Calif., came out in this "It Gets Better" video posted on YouTube Thursday. Nance speaks out against the Boy Scouts of America’s anti-gay policies and says he knows “the time will come... [ Read more → ]

MINNEAPOLIS — Pauline Friedman Phillips, who as Dear Abby dispensed snappy, sometimes saucy advice on love, marriage and meddling mothers-in-law to millions of newspaper readers around the world and opened the way for the likes of Dr. Ruth, Dr. Phil and Oprah, has died. She... [ Read more → ]

In a rambling speech at Sunday night's Golden Globe Awards, actress Jodie Foster appeared to end years of speculation by casually coming out of the closet while accepting the Cecil B. Demille Lifetime Achievement Award. Foster took the stage for an acceptance speech that was anything but predictable. [ Read more → ]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The percentage of Americans who believe that homosexuality is a sin has decreased significantly in a year, according to a recent survey released Thursday by LifeWay Research, a Christian-oriented firm. The November 2012 survey of adults in the United States found 37... [ Read more → ]

Rosie O'Donnell and her wife Michelle Rounds on Wednesday announced the arrival of their newborn daughter, Dakota. [ Read more → ]

Home furnishings retailer Crate & Barrel is the latest national retailer to prominently feature a same-sex couple in its advertising. Its latest catalog, “January Inspiration 2013″ catalog includes an “Us & Always” page of ideas for spending a romantic night at home, featuring this pasta-loving male couple. [ Read more → ]

Jeanne Manford, mother of gay rights activist Morty Manford, pioneering straight ally in the gay rights movement, and the founder of PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), died at her home in Daly City, Calif., Tuesday. She was 92. Manford had been... [ Read more → ]

Eric Marcoux and Eugene Woodworth will celebrate 60 years together on June 13. [ Read more → ]

In what is being hailed as a first for ESPN, the cable sports network this past weekend broadcast footage of an openly gay athlete kissing his husband after a victory. [ Read more → ]

Television producer Ryan Murphy ("Glee" "The New Normal") on Tuesday tweeted a New Year's greeting, along with the first released photo of his newborn son, Logan Phineas Miller Murphy. [ Read more → ]

ABC's Good Morning America weather anchor Sam Champion married his partner, artist Rubem Robierb on Friday, in an intimate ceremony in Champion's New York City apartment. [ Read more → ]

Richard Adams, an early pioneer in the fight for marriage equality for gays and lesbians, died Dec. 17 in the Hollywood home he shared with Tony Sullivan, his partner of 43 years, his attorney said Sunday. Adams was 65. [ Read more → ]

Spencer Cox, the the New York-based AIDS activist who was featured in the documentary "How to Survive a Plague," died Tuesday of complications related to HIV. He was 44. [ Read more → ]