LANSING, Mich. – A Michigan lawmaker said Saturday she wants to change state law to recognize gay marriages. The proposal announced by State Rep. Pam Byrnes faces an uphill climb. Michigan voters in 2004 passed a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman,...

The night a stranger kicked Caitlin Bernardi in the face, she was sitting on a curb with her best friends. It was late — 3 a.m. They were a block from their favorite nightclub when a man approached and asked for a cigarette. Bernardi and her friends didn’t have one. The guy focused on...

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Project Pushback invites voters to help select the best short video promoting the freedom to marry for same-sex couples. The contest, sponsored by the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center of New York City, asked videographers nationwide to...

Pres. Barack Obama “I am honoured to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt’s advancement. Together,...

Famed female impersonator Danny La Rue died in his home on Sunday after a short bout with cancer. He was 81. La Rue, born Daniel Patrick Carroll in Ireland, started his career entertaining fellow sailors during his deployment for the Royal Navy in World War II. When he returned, the performer toured...

He types awkwardly, his fingers scrunched on the keyboard, back hunched over and elbows bent outward. I’m guessing he’s rarely done it. “Never mind typing, I’ve never had to bathe myself,” he says, turning his attention back to a gay men’s Web site. Such is the life...

An openly lesbian 2008 South Carolina Democratic candidate for Congress has called out three Palmetto State Republicans for being closeted gays in an interview for a progressive Democratic blog. The bombshell statements were made in a FireDogLake interview on June 1 from Linda Ketner, an openly lesbian...

The New Hampshire Senate approved a bill this morning that would pave the way for gays and lesbians to marry. The bill would protect religious groups – and their employees – that choose not to perform same sex marriages. A separate bill legalizing gay marriage has already passed both chambers...

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