LGBTQ

“I'm sorry for not having the courage to come out as Gay," Edward Thomas Ryan wrote.

An Idaho drag performer was awarded more than $1.1 million in a defamation suit after a far-right blogger falsely accused the performer of exposing himself in the presence of children.

It's been 20 years since Massachusetts issued the first state-sanctioned same-sex marriage licenses in the United States.

Ohio's Republican governor said the bill would affect a small number of children, “but for those children who face gender dysphoria ... the consequences of this bill could not be more profound."

Pope Francis has suggested there might be ways to bless same-sex unions. The Vatican on Monday published a letter Francis wrote to five cardinals on July 11 after receiving a list of five questions, or “dubia,” from them a day earlier.

Some medical providers are dropping continuing gender-affirming care for minors, even though it remains legal.

Canadian officials cited laws banning drag shows, restricting gender-affirming care and blocking participation in sporting events as reasons for the updated guidance.

The law bans medical professionals from providing hormone therapy, puberty-blocking drugs and surgical gender-transition procedures to most under 18.

If convicted, the 17-year-old boy accused of stabbing and killing O'Shae Sibley is facing a minimum of 20 years in jail.

Maxen is the first known openly gay male coach in U.S. professional sports.

With at least 20 states moving to ban or restrict such care for minors, some kids feel they are receiving the message that they cannot be themselves.

The Supreme Court said a Christian designer can refuse to make wedding websites for gay couples after her lawsuit pointed to a request from a man named “Stewart” and his husband-to-be. But Stewart says that never happened.