Three little words. That’s what keeps bringing us back to this intersection of low comedy and pathos. Three words, none longer than three letters — and yet, some of us still find them nearly impossible to say. Three words: I am gay. If he’d been able to say those words, who knows what...

JACKSON, Miss. — About a week ago, when Constance McMillan approached school officials at the Itawamba Agricultural High School about wanting to take her lesbian partner with her to the prom, she was met with scorn and discrimination. School officials advised her to get “guys” to take her...

A popular Mexican singer has publicly stated that she would rather see her children die than raised by a gay couple. Paquita la del Barrio, or “Franny from the neighborhood,” started her career in Mexico City in the 70s. She quickly rose to fame for her lyrics that took a stand against sexist...

Cracked open ye olde family Bible, and had an awful time finding a scripture that demonstrated Jesus expelling or excluding children. Also failed to find examples of Jesus holding children accountable for offenses their parents committed (if homosexuality is to be defined as an offense). I was however,...

NEW YORK (AP) Former Tennessee congressman and potential U.S. Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. got a tough reception while speaking to a gay advocacy group, and tried to explain he no longer opposes gay marriage. Ford had voted twice for a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between...

Performance artist, Brian Feldman has had enough, and he’s taking a stand. Citing a recently passed Florida law defining marriage as an institution shared only between a man and a woman as “absurd,” he’s decided to demonstrate the law’s absurdity in a the best way he can:...

PALOUSE, WA. — A male student at Garfield-Palouse High School in Palouse, WA is a cheerleader but he isn’t content with doing typical male cheerleader stunts. He wants to do the same dances and kicks and fist pumps as the females, but his mom says school administrators are discriminating...

Sixty members of Congress have issued a letter to President Obama and congressional leaders calling for immigration reform to include rights for LGBT binational families and couples. The letter asks to change the current law, which prohibits citizens from sponsoring their same-sex partners for residency...

A Brazilian man has been granted asylum by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as violence against LGBT residents of the South American nation escalates. Augusto Pereira de Souza, 27, lives in Newark, N.J. He said he was worried that he would be in danger if he were forced to return to Brazil....

MOHAWK, N.Y. (AP) – The bullying by classmates and taunts of “homo” only got worse after Jacob began dyeing his hair and wearing eyeliner in eighth grade. One student scrawled “I hope you die” on his shoe, he said; another drew a pocket knife on him. Jacob’s grades...