Gay rights advocates won a major battle in Raleigh last week with the Senate’s passage of the School Violence Prevention Act, an anti-bullying measure that would direct local school systems to guard ...

NEW YORK — The Trump administration removed the rainbow-colored Pride flag from a flagpole outside the Stonewall National Monument, outraging local leaders who called the decision an affront to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gay rights activists rally in Albany on April 17, 1972. In the previous year, on March 14, 1971, 3,000 people marched to the state ...

A group advocating gay rights in Springfield has launched a public advocacy campaign in conjunction with national Gay Pride events. Equality Springfield purchased five billboard advertisements across ...

CHICAGO -- Police bar raids targeting gay people and secret underground newsletters warning the gay community of dangers may sound unimaginable now, but it was happening in Chicago decades ago.

Springfield gay rights advocates were overwhelmed with joy by the landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage across the United States, but opponents decried the decision. The U.S. Supreme ...

Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani flashed a beaming smile in a cringeworthy photo with a top Ugandan official who pushed harsh anti-LGBT policies — that included life imprisonment for gay people.

Longtime activist Rick Garcia, who helped strengthen the gay community’s voice and successfully pushed for local gay rights, died Monday from heart failure, friends said. He was 69. “There’s just no ...