NBA veteran Jason Collins was featured in a new 'It Got Better' video as part of a new effort to showcase the lives of openly gay individuals who are eager to share details about how things have improved for them since coming out.
A detention quota mandated by Congress is placing LGBT undocumented immigrants directly in harm's way, according to a report from the Center for American Progress. Not only does the Congressional quota require the Department of Homeland Security to maintain bed space to jail 34,000 immigrants each day, at a cost to taxpayers of more than $2 billion every year, the policy puts LGBT undocumented immigrants at a risk of sexual assault that is 15 times higher than that of their heterosexual counterparts.
Although Robert De Niro is known for his roles as the quintessential bad guy in major movie productions, the legendary actor showed his softer side in a recent interview with Out magazine, where he opened up about his gay father.
Less than half of undocumented youth living in the United States identify with the Democratic Party, while most of the others claim loyalty to independent parties or nonparty affiliations, according to a new study published earlier this week.
On Monday, Oregon became the 18th state to permit same-sex marriage after a federal judge ruled that the state's voter-approved ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional.
Same-sex marriages in Arkansas were put on hold on Friday after the state Supreme Court suspended the ruling of a lower court that struck down the state's same-sex marriage ban.
Recently drafted player Michael Sam has signed deal to do documentary series for Oprah's OWN. After Michael Sam became the first openly gay player drafted to the NFL, the whole country buzzed with the news.
Michael Sam has been in the spotlight even before the 2014 NFL Draft after openly coming out as gay, with some detractors calling him "overrated." But was Sam an undeserving target of such criticism?
Despite Garrett Bryant's attempts to hide his sexuality in order to maintain his youth staff position at the Boys Scouts of America, the 19-year-old Arizona college student was fired after a Facebook friend accidentally outed him.
UMass sophomore Derrick Gordon became the first openly gay player in Division 1 men's basketball on Wednesday after coming out in an article for Outsports.
As the U.S. Supreme Court debated Tuesday about whether for-profit companies could refuse the Affordable Care Act's mandate for contraception coverage to its employees citing religious beliefs, Hobby Lobby became part of a list of organizations to publicly take a religiously conservative stance on socioeconomic topics.
District judge overturns constitutional ban on same-sex marriage the Great Lakes state. The dominos continue to fall. Following 17 other states and the District of Columbia, Michigan will now allow same-sex marriages.
"Orange is the New Black's" first season redefined what a TV drama could be. Orange Is the New Black's first season redefined what a TV drama could be.
The passage of the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2014 by President Yoweri Museveni has caused a gigantic escalation of tensions between the hyper-conservative East African nation and its Western "allies."
It has been a week since Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed a state legislation that would've allowed companies to discriminate gays and lesbians on religious basis, and Apple Inc. could have played a play is swaying her decision.
While everyone reserves the right to choose their own labeling, the tension that exists between " identity and reality can be incredibly detrimental to the Latino community," in fact it could be lethal, because men who frequently have sex with other men but reject a homosexual identity, often engage in unsafe risky sex practices.
