Plans to ban trans people from using toilets and changing rooms have been abandoned in Florida.

David Cameron has been condemned by a Christian group for a pledge to end "profoundly wrong" gay ‘cure’ therapies.

Where do I get to sleep? That's what 14-year-old Isaac Cassels struggled with for weeks about an upcoming school trip.

Via Velvet Martin

Now that gay parents have become more common, it was only a matter of time before a disapproving parent would turn something that should be fun –- kids' birthday parties -- into a nightmare.

It's still unclear whether the state will honor the 1,360 same-sex unions that took place in the 17 days when they were legal.
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International Business Times Gay In Nigeria: LGBT Life In One Of The World's Most Homophobic Nations International Business Times LAGOS, Nigeria -- Life in Nigeria, one of the world's most anti-gay nations, according to a recent study, is a daily...

New Mexico Attorney General Gary King (D) on Monday officially filed documents urging the state Supreme Court to begin allowing same-sex marriage.

A transgender woman who was a national Scrabble champion took her own life after receiving abuse for being different, an inquest has heard. 

Mikki Nicholson, 36, told a psychiatric nurse that she “felt stigmatised” for being transgender and was being taunted in the street. She wanted to leave Carlisle where she was living because she hoped she would be less abused elsewhere, but had recently discovered that she would risk homelessness by moving.

Via NewDayStarts

After the shooting at the NSA, grief and a sense of fatalism spread among a group often marginalized.

The performer and activist will be the first transgender actor to appear on daytime television

Citizens should vote on the matter in a referendum, says church spokesman Vsevolod Chaplin.
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Mister Cee, the popular New York City-based HOT 97 DJ who was forced to resign after his solicitation of a male prostitute was leaked to the public, Tweeted later that day that he may be “better off dead.” The scandal began on Wednesday, according...

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has once again made outspoken remarks about HIV and is repeating claims that he can treat the virus with herbs.

 

People like this are dangerous. Their false claims kill, their hate kills; their mismanagement of the country (in this case) destroys, impoverishes and - indirectly - kills. Povery, exclusion, violence - all flow from rabid, pathological intolerance and lying.