GAY popularity and GAY trends

Replacements Limited, of North Carolina, lost customers and got a lot of hate mail when it and its founder urged voters to reject a gay marriage ban.

With apologies to ideologues of all parties, the latest Gallup poll on abortion shows just how pragmatic American voters can be when it comes to social issues. That may come as news to extreme special interest groups on both sides of the aisle. After all, these organizations have made a good living through the years by pushing their own brand of morality on American voters. These advocacy group...

El grupo cerrará la XXXIV edición de la marcha el próximo 2 de junio en el zócalo

League has yet to see its first active, openly gay performer. Yet some current stars are more than ready to embrace homosexual teammates.

A favorite talking point of marriage equality opponents will be dead a few months from now

MEMBERS of the NSW parliament have been urged to soften their hearts during a historic and emotional debate on gay marriage.

From abortion to school prayer to contraception, Americans never stop debating issues most developed countries settled long ago

David Cameron is set to give his MPs a free vote on whether gay couples should be allowed to marry, after a major rebellion by his own ministers.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is touting new polls that show growing support for gay marriage following the president's public embrace of same-sex unions....

Many Indian American leaders are all praises for Obama’s recent announcement supporting gay marriages. The leaders from diverse categories

Wedding bells will ring this summer for Marvel Comics' first openly gay hero, super speedster Northstar, and his longtime boyfriend.

Hard gels and rainbow lighting—the color palettes of leprechauns and gay pride parades. But for this week's Shooting Challenge, you mastered aggressive color. (Then you were all like, "double rainbow all the way!" C'mon, so dated, guys.) More »

In honor of Tel Aviv Gay Pride, series of photos depicts scenes of pride across the country.

Baylor University gets “sucks” domain back after letting it expire. It’s pretty easy to sit down here in Austin and say that Baylor sucks. You can get on its case for yanking a gay student’s scholarship. And for waiting until the 90s to lift a ban on dancing on campus. There’s also that little fact [...]

Earlier today we spoke to Fab.com CEO Jason Goldberg at TechCrunch Disrupt, on the anniversary of his company's pivot from gay social network to design focused flash sales site, and a week after its mini-pivot to curated social shopping site. In addition to expounding on the past, Goldberg spoke about his expanding vision for the new eCommerce, and how he saw Fab as essentially competing with ...

Could Superman be gay?

Zimbabwe's justice minister has rejected allegations the country has state-sponsored violence, and vowed not to recognise gay rights.

The largely symbolic move puts the N.A.A.C.P. in line with President Obama, who endorsed gay marriage a little over a week ago

Russian gay rights activists said Friday Moscow under its new mayor has banned a gay pride march set for May 27, saying that society would react negatively to the event which could be viewed by children

Les autorités de Moscou ont interdit pour la septième année consécutive une...

Hundreds of people attend the first gay pride event to be held in Burma, where homosexual relationships are banned.

Here are questions for Charles Gay,vice-president of American Applied Materials Inc and his answers.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Manny Pacquiao says he loves and supports gays and lesbians, even though he does not approve of gay marriage....

QUEEN Of Pop’s girl makes a statement with her clobber as she heads out in New York

IF ANYTHING, Tracy Thorne-Begland, a top state prosecutor in Richmond with a decade of courtroom experience, is overqualified for a judgeship on the General District Court. Mr. Thorne-Begland, who has prosecuted dozens of homicides and other major felonies, runs one of the biggest commonwealth’s attorney’s offices in Virginia. The caseload of the court to which he was nominated consists mainly ...

Economic issues have played second fiddle in the past week following Mr. Obama’s move to endorse gay marriage

We should look to Congress, not the Supreme Court, to change the laws.President Obama did the right thing last week by (finally) coming out in favor of marriage equality for all people. Gays and lesbians should have the same rights as heterosexuals to marry, and the president's explicit support should further that goal. But if the Supreme Court forces that change on the American people (through...

With the gay marriage debate heating up, freedom of speech is back on the agenda, says Philip Johnston.

US President Barack Obama said late Thursday gay marriage is a "logical" milestone towards a fairer America, as he was feted at a Hollywood fundraiser tipped to make a cool $15 million.

Barack Obama's support for same-sex marriage should not cost him many votes among African Americans in this November's presidential election, political analysts said.

The decision threw sand in the gears of his Republican opponent momentarily off the topic of the economy to reiterate his opposition to same-sex unions.

From the Guatemalan president’s condemnation of ‘Adam and Esteban’ to François Hollande’s support for equality, world leaders are divided on controversial issue

Celebrities have praised Barack Obama after he announced he supports gay marriage.

Gays and lesbians should be fully recognized

North Carolina's proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and civil unions appears poised to win in a romp in today's statewide ...

Traditional leaders want to remove a clause from the Constitution that protects people from being discriminated against due to sexual orientation.

The world of celebrities attracts the attention of us mortals, regardless of what they do or how they behave. Did Britney Spears shave her head again? Was Whitney found dead in her own bathtub? Is John Stamos gay or not? (For the record, John isn’t gay.) Tony Kanakaris of SocialDomainers.com has been developing various niche [...]

Chief executive Lloyd Blankfein tells gay activists the company lost at least one client because of its stance in favour of same-sex marriage

Ivan Kharchenko, aged 16, was released from the clinic under the public pressure. Ivan's father forced him to go to the clinic having learned of his homosexual orientation. Ivan came out to his friends as a homosexual on his 16th birthday. However, his father said that he would rather have his son as a "vegetable or a crippled person, rather than a gay."

While some Olympians have come out after their athletic careers ended, the wrestler Stephany Lee heads to London as one of the few active, openly gay athletes in the history of the Games.

A graduate student of famed neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran has found a group of men and women who report that their sexual identity can switch involuntarily to that of the opposite sex and back again. The transgender metamorphosis, these people assert, can occur several times a day and at inopportune moments. It is also accompanied [...]

When Chris Birch, 27, from south Wales claimed a stroke had turned him gay he suffered a backlash from friends and strangers alike. Now a BBC documentary has revealed how he is trying to rebuild his life.

The finals for the 2012 Mr Gay World pageant will take place this Easter Sunday at Johannesburg’s Gold Reef City.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The producers of the new TV musical drama series "Smash" were honored by gay and lesbian watchdog group GLAAD at a gala on Saturday that highlighted gay marriage and bullying.

It was difficult enough to share it with his mom and dad. But as a young athlete, steeped in the machismo of sport, there was one conversation that was even harder

Zimbabwean writer Tendai Huchu's debut novel, The Hairdresser of Harare, centres on the story of a single mother who falls in love with a gay man.

Sexual Minorities Uganda said that Mr. Lively conspired with local leaders to create hysteria that resulted in persecution of gay Ugandans.

Ohio State coach wrote a letter of apology and changed the color of the jersey that was used to signify players loafing in practice.

NILE RANGER and Manny Smith have been fined and warned for making homophobic slurs on Twitter

Jose Mourinho is the subject of a complaint by a gay rights group after he allegedly used a Spanish homophobic insult about match officials.

I’m a bad gay. I don’t like musicals. I am not a “Gleek” (though I am awestruck by "Glee’s" bold portraits of gay adolescent life  — I’d have given anything to watch a show like that when I was 15). I have trouble suspending disbelief when people spontaneously break into song; I get squirmy and my eyes dart around as if the singer is prancing naked in front of me, and I’m trying to give her pri...

Nixon clarifies remark about being gay by choice; Scherzinger, Jones not returning to 'X Factor'; Jack White to release 1st solo album in April.

Elles ont répété, un peu, vendredi soir. Mais évidemment, avec la robe, l'effet n'est pas le même. À cinq minutes de la cérémonie, hier après-midi, Élodie, 25 ans, et Corinne, 32 ans, sentent « le stress ». De l'autre côté du rideau rouge, la scène où elles vont échanger leurs voeux et le brouhaha de la salle du Gymnase, hôte du deuxième Salon lesbien, gay, bi, trans (LGBT).

LOOKING AHEAD TO 2012:DO YOU remember the time when Gay Mitchell, bless him, propagated the view that the Olympic Games could come to Ireland?

THE former chairman of Australia's biggest timber company appeared in court yesterday charged with insider trading.

UNITED NATIONS - The Obama administration has announced that it will use the supply of aid as well as diplomacy as a tool to improve gay and lesbian rights around the world.In a speech to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insisted gay rights were equivalent to all other basic human rights, according to a transcript available here.“It should never be a cri...

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The director is stepping down in the wake of a furor over his use of a gay slur.