ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The oldest son of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was arrested in a domestic violence case in which his girlfriend was afraid he would shoot himself with an AR-15 assault rifle, according to court documents filed Tuesday.

Fifty-one. That’s the number of transgender people murdered last year across the U.S. – the deadliest year on record since the Human Rights Campaign began tracking the murders of trans people in 2013.   

School officials in a suburban Chicago district said Friday they may back out of a newly minted deal with the U.S. Department of Education allowing a transgender student to use a girls' locker room, over a dispute about a hypothetical: What would happen if the girl decided against using the privacy curtains she's agreed to use?

A promising sugar daddy’s life was, allegedly, cut short by a gay porn actor.

Arts, entertainment, and happenings around South Florida.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Ramsey County authorities say the man suspected of shooting and killing his former lover early last week is likely relying on social media to find shelter while on the run from authorities.

Martin Shkreli, the pharmaceutical executive arrested Thursday on charges of securities fraud related to a company he previously ran, has resigned as the head of one of the companies he now runs, Turing Pharmaceuticals.

He would approach his victims as they went about their daily routines on the streets of Los Angeles, usually in the late evening or early morning. First he would shoot, and then he would steal whatever he could grab before fleeing.

Pennsylvania State Rep. Brian Sims, who represents Center City including Philadelphia's Gayborhood, announced Tuesday that he is running for Congress.

MARION, N.C. (AP) — Magistrates in a northwestern North Carolina county are refusing to perform same-sex marriages, citing the state’s religious exemption law, and officials in a neighboring county are stepping in to help.

The son of Alabama's chief justice - who has made national headlines recently for his efforts to block gay marriage in the state - has been arrested on drug charges.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The son of Alabama's chief justice has been indicted on drug charges.

A businessman from Zimbabwe is on trial in South Africa Wednesday after admitting he ripped out a man's heart and ate it "to show he was not gay," while the victim was alive, the Daily Mail reports.

Law enforcement has released a video of a man wanted in the sexual assault of a woman Monday morning at an Oakland Park spa.

(EDGE) New York City police said Tuesday they arrested man believed to have stabbed a gay man in the Bronx earlier this month, but did not charge him with a hate crime, the New York Daily News reports.

The Palm Beach County state attorney's office filed charges of criminal mischief and reckless driving against the man who allegedly defaced the pride intersection in Delray Beach in June.

In the case of a driver who defaced the Delray Beach pride intersection in June, the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office says the case is still under review and the filing date for charges is Aug. 5.

It’s been more than a month since a trans woman was found dead in the streets of Opa-Locka, and there have been no arrests in the murder of Nedra Sequence Morris.

Ten days after a 25-year-old gay man was attacked by presumed homophobes on South Beach, the LGBT community — including prominent leaders of local nonprofits such as Unity Coalition | Coalición Unida and the LGBTQ Advisory Committee for the City of Miami Beach — have rallied behind Luis Carlos Herrera to offer support in his time of need and healing.

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a man suspected in the murder of Royal Poetical Starz, 26, who was shot to death in October.

Philadelphia police are asking the public’s help in finding a man they identified who allegedly raped, beat and robbed a Canadian tourist he met on popular gar dating app Grindr, Wednesday. CSN Philly reports.

(LA Blade) The Grand County, Utah Sheriff’s Office released a statement that a suspect was identified in the double homicide last August of a newlywed lesbian couple Kylen Schulte, 24, and Crystal Beck Turner, 38.

Jenny De Leon, a 25-year-old transgender woman from the Tampa area, was killed Nov. 2 and the police and the community are asking for help identifying her killer.

A Tampa woman has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for sex trafficking three minors.

Tampa – A 50-year-old man shot and wounded an intruder Aug. 24, and that home invader happened to be his nephew.

A Texas inmate scheduled to be executed this week for killing a female impersonator 15 years ago insists the death was an accident during sex and has made multiple appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Here’s a look at what the candidates said on LGBT issues

The Catholic Church needed Rev. John J. McNeill much more than he needed that Church, but throughout his life – he died at the age of 90 on Tuesday, September 22, 2015 - he never stopped loving a Church that did not love him back.