A small but growing number of gay, lesbian and transgender asylum seekers are using U.S. immigration courts to argue that their sexual orientation makes it too dangerous for them to return home. Since 1994, sexual orientation has been grounds for asylum in the United States. That’s when former...

Andrew Grayson, of Grand Rapids, and other members of One Kalamazoo stand at the corner of Pitcher and Michigan in downtown Kalamazoo on Thursday evening holding signs trying to gain support from people to vote in support of anti-discrimination ordinance. To the left of Grayson is Anna Marek, 18, of...

The following is an update provided directly from Marc Roark regarding his struggle for justice and equality. Thanks so much to the Michigan LGBT Dem Caucus for their hard work and support, and a big thanks to Marc for standing up against injustice and setting a wonderful example! Today I met with State...

Soundarajan holds the national record for the women’s 3000 metres steeplechase clocking 10:44.65 seconds. At a national meet in Bangalore in July 2005 she won the 800m, 1,500m and 3000m. She won the silver medal in 800 m at the Asian Championships in Incheon, South Korea in 2005. Santhi Soundarajan...

With all the recent press in the last two months surrounding South African runner, Caster Semenya, everyone has been asking the same question: So, what exactly is “intersex?” According to the Intersex Society of North America, “Intersex” is a general term used for a variety of...

You’ve heard about carbon offsetting, where your decision to drive a Hummer or fly by private jet can be “offset” by paying a fee to a company like TerraPass to reduce your carbon footprint elsewhere. But what about hate offsetting? As in, if you want to buy a product from somebody...

Midwives often struggle to meet the needs of pregnant women who are lesbians, with patients reporting that the focus is often on their sexuality rather than the fact that they are expecting a baby, according to research in the November issue of the Journal of Advanced Nursing. The findings have led...

ROME (AP) – A Danish movie about a gay love affair between two members of a neo-Nazi group won top honors Friday at the Rome Film Festival, while Helen Mirren won the best actress award. Mirren won for her depiction of Leo Tolstoy’s wife in Michael Hoffman’s “The Last Station,”...

written by Warren J. Blumenfeld, Iowa State University I was [once] asked something like, why am I still so conscious of being gay, and why am I still doing the work, when a friend of mine – someone with whom I marched with in the early 1970s in the Gay Liberation Front years – doesn’t...

MONTREAL – Chris already has manly muscles, facial hair, a baritone voice and was accepted years ago by family and friends as a man. But he’s been told he cannot work for the Canadian military until he also gets a penis. The story of this transgendered applicant to the Canadian Forces suggests...