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.

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

(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 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.

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.

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