I spent my young adulthood in the Castro during the height of the AIDS epidemic. President Ronald Reagan was ignoring the plight of my friends, our community, and worse, he was engaging in ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." LGBTQ activists have long been at the forefront of creating change. Over the years, these trailblazers ...

Last week, a St. Petersburg court in a closed door hearing, designated a leading Russian LGBT rights group, Coming Out, as an “extremist organization.” ...

For the past several years, the LGBTQ+ movement has had to face a troubling new reality: our opposition has switched its targets in our community from adults to children, introducing hundreds of bills ...

With a wave of recent victories, marriage equality throughout the United States seems inevitable but much more needs to be done in areas such as immigration, poverty, and global rights. That was the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Marsha P. Johnson's final interview before her death in 1992, the activist later recognized as an icon of the movement that ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungarian lawmakers on Tuesday passed a law banning Pride events and allowing authorities to use facial recognition software to identify attendees, continuing a crackdown by Prime ...

For years, people in power and the mainstream media have divided struggles against gun violence into categories: worthy versus unworthy of our attention and those that involve “innocent” victims ...

Government agencies have gotten rid of gender identity and sexual orientation data elements from over 360 data collections over the last year.

Most of the time in the media world, events happen, then newspapers, magazines and television and radio stations report on them after interviewing, researching and compiling information. But all ...

In Marsha P. Johnson's final interview before her death in 1992, the activist later recognized as an icon of the movement that preceded LGBTQ rights in the United States explained why she, a ...