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State Department No Longer Challenging Gay Couples’ Children’s U.S. Citizenship

The State Department will no longer challenge court rulings that recognize the U.S. citizenship of two gay couples’ children who were born abroad via surrogates. The State Department in August appealed U.S. ...

New Research Explains Why Online Dating is More Popular Among LGBTQ Community

New research from Stanford University and the University of New Mexico found that more same-sex couples meet online than opposite-sex couples because of privacy issues and ease of identifying potential partners...

Ryan Murphy Plans to Turn Broadway Play “The Prom” Into Movie for Netflix

Gay television producer Ryan Murphy announced he plans to turn Broadway show The Prom into a Netflix movie, reported The Hollywood Reporter. The Prom opened on Broadway in November, making a splash at the Ma...

LGBTQ People Urged to Be Counted in 2020 U.S. Census

The D.C.-based National LGBTQ Task Force was part of a coalition of more than 15 national civil rights and progressive advocacy groups that launched a campaign last week to encourage members of marginalized com...

Alabama Senate Passes Bill to Eliminate Marriage Licenses

The Alabama senate has unanimously passed a bill to rid the state of marriage licenses because some judges won’t issue them to same-sex couples, according to LGBTQ Nation. Under this bill, a marriage license...

60% of Same-Sex Couples Meet Online, Study Says

According to a study done by sociologists Michael Rosenfeld and Sonia Hausen of Stanford University and Reuben Thomas of Arizona State University, almost 60 percent of American LGBTQ couples met online, compare...

Gender-Neutral and Same-Sex Couple Emojis Coming This Fall

Emojis featuring non-binary and same-sex couples will soon be available to iPhone and Android users, reported Gay Star News. Unicode, the company responsible for choosing the emojis available to iPhones, And...

Australian City Installs Same-Sex Crossing Signals

Australia’s capital city, Canberra, put up same-sex crosswalk signals as a celebration of the one-year anniversary of the Australian legalization of same-sex marriage. Eight new lights were installed in the ...

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal opposes anti-LGBT provisions to adoption bill

The proposed anti-LGBT amendment to state House Bill 159 does not have Gov. Nathan Deal's blessing. "I would hope they would reconsider the addition to this language that could put the whole bill in jeopardy...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Jan. 23

1. The baker of Donald Trump's inauguration cake got a lot of flak over the weekend for replicating Duff Goldman's 2013 cake for the Obamas. But she's also not taking any profit: all proceeds the Trump team pai...

Lynn Pasqualetti: Banking on equality during tax season

Last year’s hard-fought victory at the Supreme Court has brought an overwhelming sense of joy and dignity to same-sex couples across the nation, but navigating through the American tax system as a newly married...

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

White House Website Allows Visitors to Specify Pronouns

Biden Signs EO to Undo Trump’s Transgender Military Ban

Biden Takes Over, Signs LGBTQ Executive Order

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Gay Couple Directs Thriller ‘Antebellum’ While Novice Feature Director Helms Lesbian-themed ‘Two of Us’

Black History Reading List

Pandemic Brings Decrease in LGBTQ Representation on TV, GLAAD Report Finds

State Department No Longer Challenging Gay Couples’ Children’s U.S. Citizenship

New Research Explains Why Online Dating is More Popular Among LGBTQ Community

Ryan Murphy Plans to Turn Broadway Play “The Prom” Into Movie for Netflix

LGBTQ People Urged to Be Counted in 2020 U.S. Census

Alabama Senate Passes Bill to Eliminate Marriage Licenses

60% of Same-Sex Couples Meet Online, Study Says

Gender-Neutral and Same-Sex Couple Emojis Coming This Fall

Australian City Installs Same-Sex Crossing Signals

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal opposes anti-LGBT provisions to adoption bill

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Jan. 23

Lynn Pasqualetti: Banking on equality during tax season

White House Website Allows Visitors to Specify Pronouns

Biden Signs EO to Undo Trump’s Transgender Military Ban

Win, Lose & Live: Reunion with a Crush

History Repeats Itself

Gay Couple Directs Thriller ‘Antebellum’ While Novice Feature Director Helms Lesbian-themed ‘Two of Us’

As Horrifying as the Attack on Our Capitol Was, It Is a Comfort to Know Technology Will Hold Them Accountable

BLM Protests and the Capitol Siege Aren’t the Same

A Look at BLM in France

Black History Reading List

Shifting the Story Around Black Gay Men

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