Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, who last week signed his state's controversial religious-freedom bill into law, on Tuesday asked lawmakers to make changes to the legislation that critics say permits discrimination against gay and lesbian Hoosiers.
Indiana Governor Mike Pence on Thursday signed into law a controversial bill that could legalize discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people based on religious grounds.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris has taken legal action to suppress what she calls an "utterly reprehensible" ballot initiative that seeks to outlaw homosexuality and kill gay people in the state.
Benefits for gay spouses of United Nations employees will no longer be determined by the staffers' home countries' laws on same-sex unions, meaning the international organization will apply the same rules to all legally married couples.
A controversial bill that critics claim legalizes discrimination against gays and lesbians is on the verge of becoming law in Indiana. The Republican-controlled Indiana House on Monday approved the legislation, which purports to protect religious freedom.
California's Republicans extended an olive branch to gay and lesbian supporters on Sunday when they voted overwhelmingly to officially recognize the Log Cabin Republicans as a charter volunteer organization. The party's LGBT wing, which has at least 200 members in California, had long been marginalized.
Same sex adoption in Colombia will remain the same since last year's ruling, in which it was decided that at least one of the parents must be biologically related to the child in question. However, the Colombian legislature can pass a law to change this.
After a long legal battle, same-sex couples will finally be able to get married in more than half of Alabama's counties thanks to a federal judge who affirmed her ruling striking down the state's same-sex marriage ban on Friday.
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback on Tuesday did away with an executive order that for eight years had protected gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender state workers.
As same-sex couples line up to file for marriage licenses, Alabama's Chief Justice Moore orders probate judges to not issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Many judges followed his order across the state.
Microsoft posted to its blog on its official website in support of marriage equality in the workplace. The tech giant argued businesses like Microsoft can grow better with support of marriage equality.
Chile is one step closer to achieving equality for its gay and lesbian citizens. The South American country's legislature has passed a civil union bill that is to be signed by the president; however, the country still does not have marriage equality.
The owner of a Denver bakery has been accused of religious discrimination because she refused to put a gay slur on a Bible-shaped cake. Marjorie Silva, who runs the Azucar Bakery in the Mile-High City, prefers not to repeat what term the customer demanded to have written on the pastry; but it was harsh enough for her to draw the line, the entrepreneur said.
Chinese man awarded compensation for gay shock therapy A Chinese man won a court case, resulting in monetary compensation, after a court in Beijing ruled the electric shock therapy that was used to "cure" him of being gay.
While approximately 4.9 million undocumented immigrants may be eligible for President Barack Obama's immigration executive actions, one group did not receive as much protection from possible deportation: the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) community.
Two federals in Mississippi and Arkansas have overturned their respective state's same-sex marriage bans. The moves come as court after court throughout the country, with one exception, continues to find gay marriage bans to be unconstitutional. The Mississippi and Arkansas governments both have said they will appeal.
A record 366 businesses this year earned a top score in the Corporate Equality Index, which judges their stance on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality, the Human Rights Campaign announced.
Transgender Pioneer and “Stone Butch Blues” Author Leslie Feinberg dies at 65 Leslie Feinberg, the author of the seminal transgender coming-of-age novel "Stone Butch Blues," died Saturday, Nov.
