A Santa Cruz court is slated to hear a custody dispute between former lesbian partners in which the biological mother has become romantically involved with the sperm donor father of her 10-month-old twins. Kim T. Smith of Santa Cruz has sued for joint custody of the twins, saying she and former partner...

TOKYO — Police near Tokyo said Wednesday they had arrested three Japanese men and their transsexual “wives” from the Philippines for faking their marriage registrations. The Philippine nationals used the identification papers of women in their home country to pretend they were born as...

Photo taken from advocate.com NEW YORK, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In response to egregious human rights violations against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals in Uganda, American Jewish World Service (AJWS) has established the URGENT LGBT UGANDA FUND. The fund will...

(CNN) — A California judge ruled Wednesday to allow cameras in a federal courtroom to document a challenge to Proposition 8, a measure banning same-sex marriage. The courtroom footage will not be streamed live, but will be uploaded on the Web site YouTube daily, CNN affiliate KGO reported. Proposition...

Supporters of traditional marriage are outraged over a California judge’s efforts to bring television cameras into court next week to cover a trial challenging Proposition 8, California’s initiative against gay marriage. Judge Vaughn R. Walker, chief judge of the Northern District of California,...

Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza appeared at a packed court in Malawi’s biggest city Blantyre, where they will ask for bail on Monday. The pair held a traditional engagement ceremony over the weekend – believed to be the first gay couple in Malawi to start the process of getting married. Homosexual...

NEW PORT RICHIE, FLA. — John Allen Ditullio is a walking billboard for the neo-Nazi movement: a large 6-inch swastika tattooed under his right ear, barbed wire inked down the right side of his face, and an extreme and very personal vulgarity scrawled on one side of his neck. Jurors will never...