Gay groups were finally welcome at Boston's St. Patrick's Day parade on Sunday after as organizers had decided to lift a ban that had shut them out for decades. This year, the sponsoring South Boston Allied War Veterans Council invited Boston Pride and OutVets to join in the festivities.
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.
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.
Ellen DeGeneres has fired back at a pastor who claims "The Ellen Degeneres Show" "celebrates" the host's "lesbianism and 'marriage' in between appearances of guests like Taylor Swift to attract young girls."
Russia passed a law preventing people considered to be "sexual deviants" from obtaining driver's license in an attempt to curb the country's atrocious number of car accidents. However, human rights groups and activists have decried the Kremlin's actions.
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.
On Monday, the New York City Council approved a bill that would allow transgender people to change their gender on birth certificates without previous medical transitioning. The bill would grant greater freedoms of identity to transgender people in the city.
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.
The West African nation of The Gambia has come under criticism from the U.S. State Department as well international human rights organizations after the Gambian legislature approved a law that punishes "aggravated homosexuality" with life in prison. Uganda has also reached the final stages of a new anti-gay law.
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.
Ban on blood donation from gay or bisexual men may be partially revoked A 31-year ban preventing gay and bisexual men from donating blood may soon be under consideration to be partially revoked by Congress.
For many, the anti-LGBT sentiment is connected to religious teachings and upbringings within Latino households. And when deep rooted religious understanding is paired with machismo attitudes and incorrect information about homosexuality, it perpetuates hostility and homophobia.
A St. Louis district court overturned the state's same-sex marriage ban but the decision only applies to St. Louis County, leaving the rest of the state in limbo.
