Jennifer Priston and Michelle Caland are similar in many respects. They both live in Springfield, Ill., attended the same high school and graduated from the same local community college in 2011 after majoring in business administration.

Caland and Priston are also both the inventions of activists, and their fake...

On Monday night, two men in their 40s marched with thousands of New Yorkers just a few blocks from the historic inn where the modern gay-rights movement began more than four decades ago and talked about their distress over a recent slew of anti-gay attacks in their hometown.

"I just...

WASHINGTON -- Philip McAdoo and his partner Sean Cavenaugh talked about starting a family on their very first date, at a barbecue joint in New York City. Both men had been ready to leave New York, and they talked about moving to the suburbs to raise a family in a...

Opponents of proposed state legislation that would ban licensed therapists from offering so-called gay "conversion therapy" to minors are holding a press conference on Monday in an effort to rebrand the legislation the "Jerry Sandusky Victimization Act."

New Jersey's legislation, introduced in 2012 after California became the first state to...

A few weeks ago, Stephanie Tovar, a junior at  Lincoln Park High School in Chicago, met with a group of classmates, the dean of students at the school and a handful of young queer advocates. Tovar had been feeling confused about her sexuality; she'd also been in and out of...

NEW YORK -- At an outdoor basketball court in Greenwich Village this week, Peyton Bell, 66, was talking about Jason Collins.

"I support him," he said emphatically. "It's good for a male to come out."

Bell, who played basketball in high school and college, and now mostly comes...

NEW YORK -- The fight against a controversial therapy that purports to "cure" gay people of their gayness and make them straight has come to New York.

The therapy has been around for decades, but has come under increased scrutiny in the last few years as gay rights supporters have...

In the advertisement, two men stare down at a miniature circus tent. "Reagan's big tent isn't what it used to be…" the caption reads. "If you don't make the tent bigger, you might as well fold it up and go home."

In small print underneath the cartoon, the Log...

The mother of the brothers who have been named as the Boston Marathon bomb suspects told a longtime spa customer the Sept. 11 terror attacks were a U.S. government conspiracy to make Americans hate Muslims, said the customer, Alyssa Kilzner.

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, mother of the brothers, told...

Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, brothers, have been identified by authorities as the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing. Details are emerging about them online and from interviews with family and neighbors -- but there's little to explain how they wound up as suspects in a terrorist attack.

Shortly before...

A day after two explosions at the Boston Marathon killed three people and injured more than 175, experts say it's not unusual that no one has taken responsibility for the attack.

Although President Barack Obama on Tuesday said that the attacks were being investigated as an "act of terrorism,"...

Braiden Neubecker was sitting on the bed and her dad was shaving at the sink as the president made his historic remarks about gay marriage during his second inaugural address.

President Barack Obama talked about "our gay brothers and sisters," and declared "if we are truly created equal, then surely the...

NEWARK, N.J. -- On a recent Wednesday morning, James E. McGreevey, the former governor of New Jersey who resigned in disgrace nearly a decade ago, stands in the center of a circle of several dozen women, all prisoners at the Hudson County Correctional Facility.

"We talked a little bit about...

WASHINGTON -- Bonnie Quesenberry and Fay Jacobs celebrated their 31st anniversary in front of the Supreme Court on Wednesday. It would have been their 31st wedding anniversary had marriage been legal for same-sex couples back when they got together, in 1982, after meeting at a conference at John Hopkins University.

WASHINGTON -- Rarely has the divide over gay rights in the United States appeared so visible and so stark as on Tuesday morning on 1st St. NE, the road that runs past the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.

On one side of the street, a sea of rainbow flags and...

Before his son came out to him, Mike Neubecker had never thought about same-sex marriage. It was 1991; few Americans had. Sodomy was still a crime and gay rights activists were more focused on issues like AIDS, the military and anti-discrimination laws. What little Neubecker knew about the gay rights...

Although few hard facts have emerged about the alleged murder of Marco McMillian, the black openly-gay mayoral candidate found dead in Mississippi last week, family members, friends and civil-rights advocates say that the crime does not appear to be a random act of violence. They're calling on officials...

In the days since Marco McMillian’s body was recovered near a Mississippi Delta levee, people around the state and the world have begun to wonder if the openly gay, African American mayoral candidate was killed because of his sexuality, his political ambitions or none of the above.

McMillian...

Back in early 2011, Domaine Javier was on track to fulfill her childhood dream of becoming a nurse. She had been accepted to California Baptist University's nursing program with a pair of scholarships, one academic and one for music based on her audition for the university's woman's chorus....

NEW YORK -- If only the Vatican could solve its dispute with the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community as easily.

The Rev. Richard Baker walked into Lillie’s Times Square one day last week with a bone to pick. A drag queen named Epiphany and an event planner named Michael...