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The hilltop cottage belonging to a lesbian couple who were the first same-sex partners to legally marry in San Francisco has become a city landmark.

While promoting the fiction podcast “Sorry Charlie Miller,” the actor Zachary Quinto talked about coming out as gay and becoming his authentic self amid a spate of suicides among young LGBTQ people.

The big flashy red carpet has made its return to New York City — albeit in a massive socially distant manner — with the premiere of the third and final season of the FX series, “Pose.”

In an emotional interview with Oprah Winfrey, Elliot Page recalls the happiest moment since the start of his transition to become a transgender man.

Though Caitlyn Jenner is one of the most famous transgender people in America, the announcement of her candidacy for California governor was greeted hostilely by one of the state’s largest LGBTQ-rights groups

Tennessee House lawmakers have passed a bill that would put public schools at risk of civil lawsuits if they let transgender students or employees use multi-person bathrooms or locker rooms that don’t reflect their gender at birth.

By Jalyn Henderson. A is for Andrea Jenkins, the first openly trans Black woman elected to public office. B is for Bayard Rustin, an advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr. C is for Harlem Renaissance poet and playwright Countee Cullen. These are the ABCs of Black LGBTQ pioneers.

The Trevor Project launched a chatbot, Riley, who is designed to train counselors to speak with LGBTQ youth who are struggling with issues like coming out, or trouble at school. “AI is very powerful and is not often used to benefit marginalized communities who need the most help,” says Wilson Lee, The Trevor Project’s machine learning engineering manager.

Arkansas’ governor has vetoed legislation that would have made his state the first to ban gender confirming treatments for transgender youth, though lawmakers could enact the restriction over his objections.

Despite a growing number of athletes coming out as LGBTQ in college, fewer than 3% of NCAA D-I athletes compete in departments that fully protect their LGBTQ identities. Ohio State University, Boston University, the University of Miami and the University of Southern California were among the schools that performed the best.

Twenty years ago, the mayor of Amsterdam married four couples in City Hall as the Netherlands became the first country with legalized same-sex marriages.

As the Senate prepares to vote on the Equality Act, a new poll released Tuesday indicates that an overwhelming majority of Americans across religious and political affiliations support anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people

No relationship is perfect. And COVID-19 is forcing many couples to face that fact rather than hiding from it. Sex and relationship therapist Todd Baratz joined LX News to explain why your #relationshipgoals need to leave room for human imperfection.

Rep. Ritchie Torres, a New York Democrat, said Monday that he plans to reintroduce a bill that will expand a data collection rule for financial institutions to include LGBTQ-owned businesses. Torres, the first gay Afro Latino elected to Congress, told NBC News that the LGBTQ Business Equal Credit Enforcement and Investment Act will amend part of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act,...

Virginia lawmakers passed a bill that will ban the use of a person’s perceived or actual sexual orientation or gender identity as a defense in court for the assault or murder of an LGBTQ person

The U.S. House has once again passed the sweeping anti-discrimination bill known as the Equality Act, sending it to the closely-divided Senate where it will face a tougher road to passage. David Johns, the executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition, joined LX News to make a case for why the Equality Act is needed.

The Democratic-led House passed a bill that would enshrine LGBTQ protections in the nation’s labor and civil rights laws

According to a new Gallup poll of 15,000 people over the age of 18, the percent of Americans who self-identify as something other than heterosexual has jumped from 3.5 to 5.6 percent since 2012.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, R-Ga., tweeted a video of herself hanging a sign mocking Congresswoman Marie Newman, D-Ill., for putting a transgender pride flag outside her office. Newman has a transgender daughter.

An estimated 5.6% of Americans identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer, according to a new Gallup report. That’s up from 4.5% in 2017, the last year polling on the issue was conducted by the organization, NBC News reports.