North America

Justin Trudeau will become the first Canadian prime minister to participate in Toronto’s annual gay pride march.

The Gulf coast state of Tabasco is closing the door to foreign couples and gay men looking to have a child by surrogacy.

The Canadian Armed Forces perpetuates a sexualized military culture that is hostile to women and gay members, according to a report.

A strongly-worded statement the court posted to its website said the majority of the judges who considered a case that challenged portions of the state of Sinaloa’s family code defining marriage between a man and a woman found them to be unconstitutional.

Courts in more than two-thirds of Mexico’s 31 states have granted same-sex couples the right to marry over the past two years in a series of rulings that will likely make marriage equality a reality nationwide in the near future.
(BuzzFeed News)

The Alberta government is making it easier for transgender people in the province to make changes to their personal documents without undergoing sex reassignment surgery.

A same-sex couple’s playful banter over laundry detergent and “past mistakes” is the focus of this Tide laundry detergent commercial from Procter and Gamble. (VIDEO)

MEXICO CITY — A global LGBT rights conference that formally opened on Tuesday in the Mexican capital has drawn hundreds of advocates from 50 countries. …

KINGSTON, Jamaica — LGBT people are the targets of unchecked violence and discrimination in Jamaica, frequently refused housing or employment in the Caribbean country typically described as the region’s most hostile to LGBT citizens, a leading human rights group says in a report released Tuesday.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba — A Canadian family says they are being bullied because their daughter is transgender and the school district isn’t doing enough to stop it. Izzy and Dale Burgos said ever since eight-year-old Isabella was four, she knew she was a girl inside. And that’s how she returned to school to start third grade last month — as a transgender girl.