Long-running British soap opera EastEnders cut a planned romance between two gay characters in the 1980s due to the introduction of anti-gay legislation. The show, which has been airing since 1985, caused public outrage in 1987 when it aired a relationship between…
A Department of Education (DOE) letter obtained by the Associated Press shows that the department is considering withholding federal funding from the state of Connecticut because it allows transgender high school athletes to compete with their gender…
A human resources manager at a Polish branch of IKEA could face jail after he was charged with religious discrimination. The manager had fired an employee, known only as Tomasz K., who posted homophobic Bible verses on the staff’s intranet…
A federal court ruled Wednesday that the Social Security Administration must consider claims for survivor’s benefits by same-sex spouses who were unable to be married for at least nine months because of state marriage bans. Even where couples married as…
On Wednesday, May 27, the LGBTQ community—and the world at large—lost a giant when AIDS activist and ACT UP founder Larry Kramer died at the age of 84. Kramer had been at the frontlines of the fight against HIV/AIDS for…
Gay and lesbian weddings have boosted state and local economies by an estimated $3.8 billion since same-sex marriage was legalized nationwide in the United States in 2015, according to a study published on Thursday. Nearly 300,000 gay and lesbian couples have…
A local court in Turkmenistan, a republic in central Asia between the Caspian Sea and Afghanistan, has sentenced an unidentified well-known gay actor, his husband, and several others to two years in prison on charges of sodomy…
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