Moore, OK (KFOR) -- Scott Esk is running for House District 91 state representative.

Paulette Armstead, an out black woman, was defeated in her bid to be the next Supervisor of Elections of Palm Beach County Tuesday night. She lost to the incumbent, Wendy Sartory Link, in a landslide with 71% of the vote.  

In an 11-page ruling, Delaware County Common Pleas Judge Barry C. Dozor denied convicted killer William F. Smithson’s request for a new trial.

(CNN) -- First, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers addressed rumors that he was gay on his weekly ESPN radio show, saying, "I am not gay. I really, really like women."

Russian President Vladimir Putin poured fuel on the anti-gay controversy Friday (January 17), saying gays visiting Russia for the Olympics can feel at ease as long as they “leave children in peace, please.”

Following Sunday night's debut of the reality series "I am Cait" on E!, former child star Raven-Symoné, who currently is sharing co-hosting duties on "The View" expressed her opinion that Caitlyn Jenner is moving too fast in positioning herself as the go to advocate for transgender rights.

Flip through the channels or scroll your social media feeds and you might rightfully think that monkeypox is the greatest health threat to society, even though COVID-19 diagnoses are surging again thanks to wily new variants. 

Whether old adages or worn clichés, “the more things change the more they stay the same,” and “those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it” almost always ring true.

A 26-year-old Black transgender woman from Pompano Beach was gunned down and killed late morning Saturday, Oct. 2, inside her Hummer on a residential Miami Gardens street.

The 2017 Warwick Rowers’ nude calendar, a project started to combat gender bias in sports, has been banned by Russia for promoting “gay propaganda.”

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered new assurances to gay athletes and fans attending the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics next month. Yet he defended Russia's anti-gay law by equating gays with pedophiles and said Russia needs to "cleanse" itself of homosexuality if it wants to increase its birth rate.

(SS) A Broward school district administrator has retired early after being accused by numerous employees of making racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic and sexually inappropriate remarks.

(WB) Over the July 4 holiday weekend an oversized campaign banner for community activist Justice Horn, who is running for the Jackson County Legislature, District 1, was vandalised with the homophobic slur ‘FAG.’

English soccer and rugby teams took to the pitch with multi-color laces to support the fight against homophobia.

A tenured conservative Christian associate professor in California, who was raised by lesbian mothers but has a long history of anti-gay behavior, is taking umbrage with a recent study that links homophobia with psychosis.

(AP) Police are trying to determine who spray-painted swastikas, racial and homophobic slurs, and President Donald Trump's last name on sidewalks and signs around a Cincinnati school whose students are mostly minorities.

You may not know who Nash Grier is, but 8.7 million people follow him on the social media video app Vine, which allows users to post six-second looped clips. 

A retired United Methodist minister from Texas burned himself to death last month to protest discrimination, sexism, racism and homophobia, Dallas News reports.

It’s not easy to be a person who is LGBT. Especially when you’re young. There’s so much pressure to succeed.

Truth Wins Out strongly condemned the cable network A&E [recently] for reinstating Duck Dynasty reality show actor Phil Robertson, who was suspended for making blatantly racist and homophobic remarks in an interview with GQ. In backing Robertson, A&E is turning a blind eye to bigotry in order to pad the bottom line. Their foul, indecent move may have inadvertently opened a new Wild West era in media where anything goes — including hatred of minority groups — as long as it turns a profit.

STORRS, CT (WFSB) -- Vandals added homophobic slurs to a popular exhibit being shown at the University of Connecticut.

Uganda President Yoweri Museveni won’t hastily approve a controversial anti-gay bill, despite being pressured by some Ugandan politicians and religious leaders, the Agence France Presse reports.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he is alarmed by reports of the arrest and torture of individuals in northern Nigeria believed to be homosexual and strongly hopes that the constitutionality of the country's new anti-gay law will be reviewed.

UPDATED 11/04: This update includes an interview with a second student, information regarding another gay teacher that resigned in 2006, and information about an email exchange between the school's lawyer and the Human Resources department regarding Scott Melton's employment.  

“I have to tell you this is the most racist and homophobic place I’ve ever worked,” declared Scott Melton in April at a faculty meeting in front of dozens of teachers, administrators and the board of trustees of Saint Andrew’s private school in Boca Raton.

(WB) A Washington State florist who refused to service a gay couple’s wedding for religious reasons is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse state court rulings that she violated the state’s LGBT non-discrimination law.

Call it a baby step in planning.