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...

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...

Last Friday, the LGBT Resource Center at the University of California at Davis was vandalized. Someone spray painted several anti-LGBT slurs on the Center’s door and building. The staff of the Center responded with a letter published in the student newspaper saying: As a center we wanted not to immediately...

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...

(AP) — LONDON – He was convicted of a crime more than half a century ago, but what he did in 1959-have consensual sex with another man-would be perfectly legal today. So John Crawford, 70, wants his criminal record cleaned up for good, so that he doesn’t have to disclose his conviction...

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....

Uganda’s controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill is likely to be changed, a minister has told the BBC. However, Deputy Foreign Minister Henry Okello Oryem did not give details of how he thought the final bill would be different to the current proposals. Uganda has come under intense international...

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...

BAY CITY, Mich. (AP) — Three Michigan pastors claim a new hate crime law infringes on their First Amendment rights and should be declared unconstitutional. They filed a lawsuit Tuesday to try to strike down a portion of the federal law, which was signed last fall. The law expands federal hate crimes...

(CNN) — The Transportation Security Administration has launched an internal investigation into an air marshal field office in Florida where supervisors are alleged to have used a crew assignment board to ridicule and keep score on women, gays and minorities, sources told CNN. The board, resembling...