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U. Iowa adds optional LGBT question to application
The University of Iowa has become the nation's first public university to include optional questions about sexual orientation and gender identity on ...
Review: 'Any Day' is beautifully etched drama
Depictions of custody battles have become a cinematic staple, but few register with the heartfelt emotion of "Any Day Now." This 1970s Los Angeles-set ...
Uruguay's lower house approves gay marriage law
Lawmakers in taboo-breaking Uruguay voted to legalize gay marriage late Tuesday night, approving a single law governing marriage for heterosexuals and ...
British government to legalize same-sex marriage
The British government announced Tuesday that it will introduce a bill next year legalizing gay marriage — but banning the Church of England from ...
Transgender prostitutes face abuse in Ivory Coast
It seemed like a case of simple blackmail. Late one night last month, two cars carrying around 10 soldiers pulled up to a group of prostitutes in ...
Minn. gay couple in '71 marriage case still united
When Jack Baker proposed to Michael McConnell that they join their lives together as a couple, in March 1967, McConnell accepted with a condition that ...
Gay couples in Wash. start taking wedding vows
Keith Bacon and Corianton Hale wore dress shirts as they recited their vows at Seattle City Hall, as the city hosted more than 100 weddings on the ...
Same-sex couples in Wash. state start wedding vows
Scores of same-sex couples crowded Seattle City Hall for a day of wedding ceremonies on Sunday, the first day they could marry after the state's ...
Hope and fear in gay marriage cases at high court
Gay marriage supporters see 41 reasons to fret over the Supreme Court's decision to take up the case of California's ban on same-sex unions.
Same-sex weddings in Wash. to begin on Sunday
Two retired military women who fought for the rights of gays in the military were among the hundreds of couples who received their marriage licenses ...
Same-sex marriage cases get Supreme Court review
The Supreme Court is taking a potentially historic look at same-sex marriage by agreeing to hear two cases that challenge governments' different ...
Supreme Court will hear same-sex marriage cases
The Supreme Court plunged into the contentious issue of gay marriage Friday when it agreed to take up California's ban on same-sex unions and a ...
Chilean court fines motel for discrimination
A court in Chile has slapped a fine on a motel that banned entry to a gay couple in the first ruling associated with a new-antidiscrimination law.
Gay Washington state couples get marriage licenses
Hundreds of same-sex couples across Washington state started picking up marriage licenses Thursday as a voter-approved law legalizing gay marriage ...
Transgenders break into Brazil's modeling sector
Walking the catwalk in a Brazilian bikini is a nerve-racking experience for even the most seasoned of models, but for Felipa Tavares it's nothing ...
Gregoire signs Wash. gay marriage law
Gov. Chris Gregoire has signed into law a measure that legalizes same-sex marriage in Washington state, which now joins several other states that ...
Calif. gay therapy ban sparks competing rulings
Two federal judges in California have arrived at opposite conclusions on whether the state's first-of-its-kind law prohibiting licensed ...
George Takei beams into Archie's Riverdale
Mr. Sulu in Riverdale? Oh my! Actor and equal rights advocate George Takei, whose portrayal of the Star Trek character in television and film has made ...
West Point chapel hosts its first same-sex wedding
Cadet Chapel, the landmark Gothic church that is a center for spiritual life at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, hosted its first same-sex ...
Ban on gay change therapy faces first legal test
A first-of-its-kind California law prohibiting licensed psychotherapists from counseling gay minors on how to become heterosexual faced its first ...
Gay marriage before Supreme Court? Cases weighed
The running fight over gay marriage is shifting from the ballot box to the Supreme Court. Three weeks after voters backed same-sex marriage in three ...
Ukraine fights spreading HIV epidemic
Andrei Mandrykin, an inmate at Prison No. 85 outside Kiev, has HIV. He looks ghostly and much older than his 35 years. But Mandrykin is better off ...
Uganda's anti-gay bill won't contain death penalty
The Ugandan lawmaker who originally authored an anti-gay bill proposing death for some homosexual acts said Friday that a new version of the proposed ...
NY gays accuse NJ therapy group of false promises
Four gay men accused a New Jersey organization of fraud Tuesday for selling "conversion therapy" with false promises to make them straight. They said ...