After publishing a recent HuffPost blog post on the rights of gays and lesbians, I received an email from an activist opponent of same-sex marriage and proponent of the notion that homosexuals are defective people who must be "fixed."
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Puerto Rico's government is supporting an effort to overturn a ban on gay adoption in the U.S. island territory. Puerto Rico...
An oft-told African proverb (whose precise culture of origin often changes with the teller) asserts that "When elephants fight, the grass suffers." Pu...
Openness, caring and compassion are absolutely vital ingredients. How could a group that purports to speak for families and family values undermine such efforts?
If you're religious to the point you refuse evolution as a concept, this is not the play for you. But for the rest of the world, Coming is that bitch-slap that will shock you and leave its impression after you leave.
While the U.S. has condemned egregious examples of rights-violating policies in Uganda, it still funds HIV interventions that are inherently anti-LGBT and anti-woman.
General James Conway's comments last week are illustrative of a push to create a second-class status for gay troops once DADT is repealed.
Gay troops have fought and died for our country since the Revolutionary War. Soon, they will no longer have to do so while being treated like second-class citizens.
Stay tough, stay hopeful, stay healthy and stay alive because, I promise you -- as a gay man, a medical doctor and, most importantly, as a survivor -- it absolutely does get better.
Despite a penal code that criminalizes homosexual acts with penalties of upwards of 10 years of imprisonment, Uganda has witnessed an astounding flowering of gay and lesbian organizations in recent years.
By Stephan Faris ROME, Italy -- Is it an insult to call somebody gay? That is the question Italians are pondering as they await a pivotal court d...
The first time I met Rabbi Ron he was lecturing at a tolerance festival about his life as an orthodox rabbi who is also gay. He is battling against homophobia, and doing so bravely.
Hundreds of worshipers walked out of a Catholic mass in Holland in protest at the practice of denying communion to open homosexuals, according to repo...
By Gregory Branch KAMPALA, Uganda -- Even as Uganda's parliament considers the Anti-Homosexuality Bill -- which calls for the death penalty for som...
BOSTON -- All across the world, countries, cultures, societies and religions are struggling with the issue of gay rights. Over the last year, GlobalP...
It's Cowell's biography that pushes this concert into the realm of serious social importance. For four years he was imprisoned in San Quentin for homosexual relations with a consenting man.
There's a swimwear round and a talent section where contestants can show off their singing and dancing. But organisers insist the contest to be held t...
Gay stereotypes, in this day and age, are relevant enough to be funny but outdated enough to be innocuous.
The irrationality and endurance of the intolerance of homosexuality really defies precise explanation, as does intolerance of Jews.
The city revoked the marriage license of two men who obtained it while one of them was dressed as a woman, officials said today....
How could our society grant more rights to a heterosexual one night stand wedding in Vegas than a gay couple that has been together for 3, 5, 10 years of true love?
Civil rights are not won in the war zone of national elections or State referenda but, rather, in a series of small but important evolutionary steps.
SAN FRANCISCO — California's highest court on Monday barred doctors from invoking their religious beliefs as a reason to deny treatment to gays ...
On the heels of a landmark California Supreme Court ruling that overturned a ban on gay marriage, the Presbyterian Church (USA) has done the same thi...
