Russia to ban married foreign gays from adopting
Russia is on its way to sharply limiting the adoption of children by people from countries that allow same-sex marriage. Under a measure that passed ...

Danish mothers hold public breastfeeding protest
Hundreds of Danish mothers have held a breastfeeding protest outside Copenhagen's City Hall after customers at a cafe told a woman suckling her baby ...

Thousands march for gay rights in Croatia
Several thousand people held a gay pride march Saturday in Croatia, where conservatives backed by the influential Catholic Church want to make same ...

Pope wades diplomatically into gay marriage debate
Pope Francis waded diplomatically into the gay marriage debate Friday, telling the Archbishop of Canterbury he wants to work together to promote ...
Israel's Tel Aviv holds annual gay pride parade
Drag queens, politicians, grandmothers and shirtless men descended on Tel Aviv in their thousands Friday to party in the annual gay pride parade, the ...

German court grants gay unions marriage tax breaks
Gay rights campaigners won a victory over the German government Thursday as the country's top court ruled that homosexual couples in civil unions ...

Now dads, Vaughn and Wilson bond with kids on set
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson have gone from womanizing "Wedding Crashers" to doting dads who bring their kids to work. The two actors reunite on ...

SKorea's gay film maker in news over wedding plans
The first time a South Korean celebrity announced he was gay, in 2000, the reaction was quick and without empathy. Popular actor and entertainer Hong ...

Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell are still friends
Rory McIlroy has dispelled any split in his relationship with longtime friend Graeme McDowell. McDowell confirmed that McIlroy will be leaving ...
French president signs gay marriage into law
France will see its first gay weddings within days, after French President Francois Hollande signed a law Saturday authorizing marriage and adoption ...

AP source: McIlroy to set up own management group
Two-time major champion Rory McIlroy is leaving Dublin-based Horizon Sports Management to set up his own management group. A person with knowledge of ...
Portugal expands adoption rights for gay couples
Portugal's Parliament has passed a law allowing same-sex married couples to adopt their partners' children, but lawmakers rejected legislation ...

Julianne Moore: 'bad Mom' role is her antithesis
Julianne Moore sometimes identifies with the characters she plays but when it came to playing a bad mother in "What Maisie Knew," she couldn't relate.

Russia had elder Boston suspect under surveillance
Russian agents placed the elder Boston bombing suspect under surveillance during a six-month visit to southern Russia last year, then scrambled to ...

'I'm gay': NBA player Jason Collins breaks barrier
Last summer, NBA veteran Jason Collins considered joining an old Stanford college roommate, U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III, at Boston's gay pride parade

NBA veteran center Jason Collins comes out as gay
With the simplest of sentences, NBA veteran Jason Collins set aside years of worry and silence to become the first active player in one of four major ...
Russia mulls foreign same-sex couple adoption ban
The head of a Russian parliamentary committee says the legislature is ready to prevent adoptions by foreign same-sex couples. In the wake of France's ...

Bomb suspect influenced by mysterious radical
In the years before the Boston Marathon bombings, Tamerlan Tsarnaev fell under the influence of a new friend, a Muslim convert who steered the ...

Sisters of Boston bombing suspects express sorrow
The sisters of the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects said Tuesday they were saddened by the violent actions that hurt so many people. In a ...

French protest against gay marriage turns violent
France legalized gay marriage on Tuesday after a wrenching national debate that exposed deep conservatism in the nation's heartland and triggered huge ...

Manhunt in Boston after bombing suspect is killed
Thousands of officers with rifles and armored vehicles swarmed the streets in and around Boston on Friday, hunting for a 19-year-old college student ...

NZealand is 13th country to legalize gay marriage
Hundreds of jubilant gay-rights advocates celebrated at New Zealand's Parliament as the country became the 13th in the world and the first in the ...