(WB) Under the cover of chaos the day after Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, the Trump administration has officially nixed regulations barring federal grantees in the Department of Health & Human Services from discriminating against LGBT people, including in adoption services.

D. James Kennedy Ministries, created by the same pastor who founded Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, addressed the fervor surrounding Fort Lauderdale giving the church a proclamation during its weekly Facebook Live.

D. James Kennedy Ministries responded to the outcry from the LGBT community after Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church was celebrated by the city of Fort Lauderdale, saying it was “deeply disappointed.”

Ugly words from the past are surfacing everywhere this week.

In a matter of one week, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed two bills that remove rights for LGBT people — making it easier to discriminate against them in sports and health care. 

Negative campaigning thwarted LGBT candidates in pivotal districts, a reminder of the challenges faced by coming out of the closet.

TOPEKA, Kan. - A Kansas sperm donor's battle to avoid being declared the legal father of a same-sex couple's child has some similarities to the fight for gay marriage, the man's attorney argued in court filings.

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The lone Democrat on a list of endorsements from Florida’s leading anti-LGBT organization hails from Broward County.

Described as a gospel-centered approach to leading in 2020, a panel of church officials offered viewpoints on Florida’s family culture. 

Four months after being shot during a Republican congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, Rep. Steve Scalise will give a speech to the Family Resource Center, a group against gay marriage rights. This comes despite the fact that a lesbian police officer tried to protect him after the shooting.

In the uproar over Fort Lauderdale’s celebration of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, much has been written about the church’s history of anti-LGBT positions.

When two California university students were expelled for being in same-sex marriages, they filed a lawsuit claiming the school violated anti-discrimination laws.

During its Tuesday night commission meeting, the Fort Lauderdale Commission presented a proclamation to Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church and Westminster Academy, two entities with a long anti-LGBT history.

(WM) Estonia’s anti-LGBT, far-right interior minister, Mart Helme, resigned Nov. 9, a day after he called President-elect Joe Biden and his son Hunter “corrupt characters” without providing further details or evidence.

(WB) The European Union has sanctioned two Chechnya officials over their role in an anti-LGBT crackdown.

(WB) The number of hate crime incidents targeting gays, lesbians, and bisexuals in the United States decreased slightly from 17% of the total number of hate crime incidents reported to the FBI in 2018 to 16.7% of the total number reported in 2019, according to the FBI’s annual Hate Crimes Statistics Report released Nov. 16.

(WM) Among transgender-rights activists, there’s a powerful mix of hope and fear heading toward the Nov. 3 election. They’re yearning for President Donald Trump’s defeat but dreading the possibility that his administration might win four more years and continue targeting them with hostile policies.

Tonight, the Fort Lauderdale City Commission will be presenting a proclamation declaring March 21, 2021 as Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church Day and Westminster Academy Day in the City of Fort Lauderdale.

(WB) Lawmakers in Hungary on Tuesday approved proposals that would effectively ban same-sex couples from adopting children and define marriage as between a man and a woman.

(WB) The never-ending war by LGBT creators to protect their accounts against bullies who manipulate the automated fiefdom that is Instagram, has once again claimed another casualty as two gay Instagrammers had their account disabled with no apparent hope of appeal.

(WM) An Iowa man convicted of a hate crime for tearing down and burning an LGBT flag hanging outside a Des Moines bar has been sentenced to time served.

Dear Mayor Trantalis and Pastor Pacienza: I welcome the spirit of your recent joint statement regarding the controversy arising from the proclamation honoring Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church and Westminster Academy on the occasion of the church’s 60th anniversary.

I am outraged that the Fort Lauderdale City Commission is honoring this church on its 60th anniversary.

Model and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen recently shared devastating news with her social media followers: she and her husband, singer John Legend, had lost their child halfway through her pregnancy. She shared heartbreaking black-and-white photos of the couple at the hospital, including her clutching a tiny blanket bundle holding their son, who they named Jack.

(WB) South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard has signed into law a measure allowing taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to deny services and child placement to LGBT families out of religious objections, making him the first governor in 2017 to sign an anti-LGBT law.

(WB) With a new 6-3 majority on the U.S. Supreme Court, conservative justices appeared to side Wednesday with a religious-affiliated agency seeking a First Amendment right to reject LGBT couples in foster care services.

(WB) The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in favor of a religious-affiliated foster care agency seeking to refuse child placement into LGBT homes, issuing a decision with a limited reach that determined the City of Philadelphia’s enforcement of a contract with non-discrimination provisions violates freedom of religion under the First Amendment.

A bill that would add sexual orientation to the definition of hate crimes is dead in Virginia.

(WB) Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed into law a series of constitutional amendments that, among other things, formally defines marriage as between a man and a woman in the country.