"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." LGBTQ activists have long been at the forefront of creating change. Over the years, these trailblazers ...

I spent my young adulthood in the Castro during the height of the AIDS epidemic. President Ronald Reagan was ignoring the plight of my friends, our community, and worse, he was engaging in ...

But there is no Constitutional right to bully LGBTQ+ kids out of existence just because they make you uncomfortable.

With a wave of recent victories, marriage equality throughout the United States seems inevitable but much more needs to be done in areas such as immigration, poverty, and global rights. That was the ...

Stonewall. They say it was the spark that set the fire ablaze. The start of the modern LGBTQ movement. Protests and riots that lasted for days in defense of gay rights. And from it, came gay pride ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Marsha P. Johnson's final interview before her death in 1992, the activist later recognized as an icon of the movement that ...

Washington, DC - As the nation marks the opening of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month, executive directors from 35 LGBT and HIV/AIDS organizations from across the U.S. have released a ...

NEW YORK -- Whitehall and Pearl streets today are bustling with activity, but on Sept. 19, 1964 it was quiet, and what happened at that NYC intersection built momentum for the LGBT rights movement.

Jennah Cherry-Romain, a recent graduate of Malcolm X Shabazz High School in Newark’s South Ward, has a passion for storytelling. For her first assignment as a reporter in a summer citizen journalism ...

The untruths of trans activism caused a backlash, but the LGBT movement has been on shaky factual ground for decades. \| Few things engender as much ...