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...

What would GENDA do? This legislation would prohibit discrimination because of a person’s gender identity or expression. It would, in particular, make it impermissible to discriminate against an individual simply because that person does not fit a narrow stereotype of what it means to be a man or a...

Yesterday, for the first time in a decade, the Justice Department intervened in a gay rights suit. In August, an openly gay 14-year-old student named Jacob — with the help of the ACLU — sued the Mohawk Central School District in upstate New York because officials “did not appropriately respond...

The New York State Thruway Authority has been ordered to pay a transgender woman more than $55,000 in damages after a judge ruled she had endured a hostile work environment The New York State Thruway Authority has been ordered to pay a transgender woman more than $55,000 in damages after a judge ruled...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – A bill that would provide affordable housing protection for more people living with HIV/AIDS in New York City is getting support from both chambers of the state legislature. The measure would allow the city’s HIV/AIDS Services Administration to extend a cap on rent contributions...

Merely two months after two men were caught on tape beating a gay man nearly to death, and a week after the New York State Senate rejected a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, Tarlach MacNiallais, a prominent gay activist was tackled and beaten by bouncers at a Queens nightclub. According to police...

Led by Pastor Joseph Tolton of Rehoboth Temple, a group of LGBT activists spoke out against the hatred and rejection spewed from church pulpits across America. The activists purchased a full-age ad in Metro NY, which issued a call to LIVE for Black LGBT people, and spoke against what the group called,...

Hundreds of New Yorkers, including Governor David Paterson, gathered at New York City’s Union Square Thursday night to rally for marriage equality. The rally was the second in two nights in response to the state senate 38-24 vote Wednesday against legalizing same-sex marriage. A ferocious Sen....

(Albany, NY) A bill that would have allowed same-sex marriage was rejected by New York lawmakers, a bruising outcome for national advocates in a state that was the site of one of the gay rights movement’s defining moments four decades ago, and a huge victory for opponents who said it could influence...

As the votes rolled in following today’s tense and dramatic New York Senate debate, it became clear that the bill was not going to pass … it wasn’t going to pass by a long shot. 24-38, to be exact. The bill would’ve made New York the sixth state in the country to have passed...