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Gay Couple’s 1971 Marriage is Validated, Making Them the Longest Married Same-Sex Couple

Michael and Jack McConnell’s 1971 marriage was officially validated by the Social Security Administration (SSA), making them the longest married same-sex couple in the U.S. and possibly the world, according to ...

Jussie Smollett Pleads Not Guilty to 16 Felony Counts

Empire actor Jussie Smollett has pleaded not guilty to charges that he staged a homophobic and racist hate crime against him for personal profit, reported USA Today. The star and his legal team appeared in a...

Trump Restaffs AIDS Council 15 Months after Firing All Members

Fifteen months after firing all members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, President Trump has restaffed the advisory body with nine new appointments. The Department of Health & Human Serv...

Genital Reconstruction Surgeon Fired for Posting Genitals of Trans Patients Online

Genital reconstruction surgeon Christopher Salgado, who was featured on the show "I Am Jazz" that followed trans teenager Jazz Jennings, has been fired for violating his patients’ privacy through Instagram post...

Majority of Americans Support LGBTQ Discrimination Protections

A new study from PRRI, conducted by Daniel Greenberg, Emma Beyer, Maxine Majle, PhD, Oyindamola Bola, and Robert P. Jones, PhD, found that across the country, no matter party or demographic, the majority of Ame...

Equality Act Returns — With House Democrats in Majority

Optimistic about the prospects of enshrining a prohibition on anti-LGBT discrimination into federal law with a new Democratic majority in the U.S. House, Democrats on Wednesday introduced legislation known as t...

State Department Releases Annual Human Rights Report

The State Department’s annual human rights report that was released on Wednesday notes anti-LGBTI violence and discrimination remained widespread around the world in 2018. The report cites statistics from th...

Study Finds Differences in Drug Use Among Straight and LGBTQ Americans

A new survey from Desert Hope Treatment Center of 1700 Americans, 400 of whom identified as LGBTQ, found key differences in drug use between LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ Americans. According to the survey, drug use s...

DOD Unveils Plan to Initiate Trump Transgender Policy on April 12

With court orders barring President Trump from enforcing his transgender military ban out of the way, the Defense Department late Tuesday unveiled its plan to make the policy a reality, announcing it would begi...

157 Democrats Make Up Largest Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus in History

157 Democrats – and zero Republicans –have joined the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, making it the largest in the history of the House of Representatives. The caucus has promoted LGBTQ rights within Con...

Trump’s New Budget Cuts Funding for Worldwide HIV/AIDS Treatment and Prevention

President Donald Trump revealed his yearly budget proposal on Monday. Despite the budget being the largest in federal history, it includes only $291 million for the fight to end HIV by 2030, which Trump pledge...

A time of reckoning: Atlanta's LGBTQ community addresses racism problem

Trans Men’s Ovaries Function After One Year of Testosterone Treatments

Prominent US Activist Denied Entry to Cuba

Reported Hate Crimes Increase in Counties Where Trump Rallied in 2016

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Paramount Wants to Edit Elton John’s Gay Sex Scene in ‘Rocketman’

Call Me By Your Name Sequel to Hit Bookshelves in October

YouTuber Shane Dawson gets Engaged to Boyfriend Ryland Adams