"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." LGBTQ activists have long been at the forefront of creating change. Over the years, these trailblazers ...

I spent my young adulthood in the Castro during the height of the AIDS epidemic. President Ronald Reagan was ignoring the plight of my friends, our community, and worse, he was engaging in ...

In Marsha P. Johnson's final interview before her death in 1992, the activist later recognized as an icon of the movement that preceded LGBTQ rights in the United States explained why she, a ...

When 22-year-old Wendy Faith shared a Valentine’s Day kiss with 21-year-old Alesi Diana Denise in Uganda — a country infamous ...

The leader of Irida, or "Rainbow," has been targeted by Vladimir Putin's government for years.

With a wave of recent victories, marriage equality throughout the United States seems inevitable but much more needs to be done in areas such as immigration, poverty, and global rights. That was the ...

For the past several years, the LGBTQ+ movement has had to face a troubling new reality: our opposition has switched its targets in our community from adults to children, introducing hundreds of bills ...

NEW YORK -- Whitehall and Pearl streets today are bustling with activity, but on Sept. 19, 1964 it was quiet, and what happened at that NYC intersection built momentum for the LGBT rights movement.

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungarian lawmakers on Tuesday passed a law banning Pride events and allowing authorities to use facial recognition software to identify attendees, continuing a crackdown by Prime ...

Jennah Cherry-Romain, a recent graduate of Malcolm X Shabazz High School in Newark’s South Ward, has a passion for storytelling. For her first assignment as a reporter in a summer citizen journalism ...

An academic researcher examined how anti-LGBTQ+ movements have built increasingly strong international networks at a Georgetown University event Feb. 6. Phillip Ayoub, an international relations ...

Civil rights’ of gays include right to force Christian baker to make a cake for their wedding, professor says.