The office of the Press Secretary at the White House has released a proclamation in which President Obama declares June as LGBT Pride Month.

US House voted to let the DOD repeal the ban on gay and bisexual people from serving openly in the military, a major step toward ending “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

For the first time in history, the Census will count both unmarried same-sex partners and legally married same sex spouses in its survey!

Gays and lesbians who live in states that ban gay marriage like Mississippi are more likely to suffer from alcoholism, mood disorder, or anxiety according to a study by the American Public Health Association.

Merideth Baxter comes out on the Today show.

The Senate passed groundbreaking legislation Thursday that would make it a federal crime to assault an individual because of his or her sexual orientation or gender identity.

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced plans to establish the first national resource center to assist communities across the country in their efforts to provide services and supports for older LGBT individuals.

The Copiah County School District is standing behind a decision not to publish Ceara Sturgis’ senior picture in Wesson Attendance Center’s yearbook because she chose to be photographed in a tuxedo instead of the drape reserved for girls.

A Wesson student is fighting back after being excluded from her high school yearbook for wearing men’s clothing in her class photo.

WLBT reports: Ceara Sturgis, a lesbian teen at Wesson Attendance Center’s high school, chose to have her senior class picture taken wearing a tuxedo. The school has informed her that the photo will not be included in the yearbook.

“People tend to believe that racism, on all sides of the color lines, is something that stops at the gates of the LGBT community… It just doesn’t happen that way,” writes actor Doug Spearman in an essay for the Human Rights Campaign’s Equality Forward series.