NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power and "Star Trek" star Zachary Quinto joined forces Thursday to promote gay rights while commemorating the 45th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Inn riots.

Former half-term Governor of Alaska and failed 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been busy playing Santa Claus in Alabama to a pair of anti-gay congressmen with money from her political action committee Sarah PAC.

NEW YORK (AP) — Two brothers have been sentenced for the murder of a Harlem man who was repeatedly stabbed with a fork.

NEW YORK — The NYPD is looking for four suspects who punched and kicked a man while yelling anti-gay statements.

Wilton Manors considers raising it all year long

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) - Formal adoption of children by a same-sex couple who challenged Michigan's ban on gay marriage is taking place in Oakland County Circuit Court.

ALBANY, New York — The Empire State Pride Agenda, which advocates for the rights of gay, bisexual and transgender New Yorkers, says it will conclude major operations next year, citing more than 100 legislative and policy victories over 25 years.

HOUSTON (AP) — The landslide defeat of a nondiscrimination ordinance in Houston has stunned LGBT-rights activists across the nation. They're now bracing for their opponents in other states to seize on the successful tactic of stoking fears over transgender people's access to public restrooms.

A gay dentist from the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan was arrested Friday and accused of a laundry list of heinous offenses that include drug possession, child pornography, sex with animals and intent to transmit HIV to his sexual partners.

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” fan favorite Alyssa Edwards is hitting the road again — her “yellow brick road to fame” — on the “Life, Love and Lashes Tour,” a one-woman show that chronicles her dreams as a shy young gay kid growing up in Texas to achieving international stardom. 

NEW YORK — Police say a New York City man has been arrested in connection with a bias attack in lower Manhattan against the first gay couple to be married at West Point.

Art is returning to Wilton Drive this season. On the third Saturday of each month, artists and businesses will resume showcasing and selling their original work. It’s called the Wilton Manors Art Expo. The first one is Nov. 21 along Wilton Drive’s Art and Entertainment District.

Taco Bell is launching a one-of-a-kind fan experience, Taco Bell Drag Brunch, a multi-city tour to celebrate the LGBT community and drag culture during Pride Month.

After almost 12 years of creating perfumes and oils under her company Black Baccara, Kalliope Amorphous decided to make it official and file for a trademark back in December 2020.

If the theaters along New York City’s Great White Way had been open last week, their lights would have been dimmed in memory of Bob Avian, a Broadway legend who passed away Jan. 21 of a heart attack. 

NEW YORK (AP) _ The kids at the Covenant House homeless shelter are always looking for somebody to lean on. They got it one summer night last year, along with a lullaby sung by some of Broadway's best.

Division I men's basketball has its first openly gay coach.

Brown failed to show up at The Georgia Freight Depot nightclub as thousands of his fans waited to see the ‘Loyal’ singer at his scheduled Saturday appearance during Atlanta Black Gay Pride Weekend.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Liberal discontent with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo could erupt into insurgency this weekend as the left-leaning Working Families Party gathers to nominate its pick for governor.

NEW YORK (AP) _ New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is unveiling a sweeping plan to reduce HIV infections and AIDS rates below epidemic levels in the state.

Albany, N.Y. (AP) -- New York's governor says transgender people should be protected from discrimination and says that if elected to a second term he'll push to include gender identity and expression in the state's civil rights law.

(WB) Embattled New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday resigned.

Add sexual harassment charges to the growing list of complaints against disgraced Congressman George Santos of New York. 

The calls for George Santos to resign are growing louder and coming from his own ranks, but the embattled gay congressman isn’t budging. 

NEW YORK - The Fire Department of New York is swearing in its first female and first openly gay chaplain.

(WB) French lawmakers on Tuesday approved a bill that would ban so-called conversion therapy in the country.

A university in New York is creating an "alternative" LGBT club, and Maura Healey of Massachusetts could become the first lesbian governor in the United States.

Convicted sex offender David Todeschini claims top Democrats and Hollywood a-listers are "pedophiles," and James Bond becomes Wisconsin's first LGBT cabinet secretary.

A trans doctor leaves after South Dakota's House passed a bill banning gender-affirming care, and three men were robbed using phone facial recognition in New York.

A drag story time in New York was met with anti-LGBT protesters, and LGBT voters in Pennsylvania have to decide which mayoral candidate will help their community the best.