2,000 at Kathmandu pride parade
Some 2,000 people turned out for the first large-scale gay pride parade in Kathmandu, Nepal, Aug. 25. Openly gay [...]
Orlando’s Parliament House: A Gay Community Landmark In Trouble
I first stayed at the Parliament House in Orlando in the summer of 1976, just a year after Bill Miller and Michael Hodges [...]
California Senate unanimously votes to repeal anti-gay law
The California Senate on Aug. 23 unanimously passed a bill to repeal a 1950s-era law that instructs the California [...]
California Legislature calls for census count of LGBTs
The California Assembly passed a resolution Aug. 23 urging Congress and President Barack Obama to require that the next [...]
Ken Mehlman comes out
Ken Mehlman, George W. Bush's 2004 campaign chief and the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, came out [...]
Mexican Supreme Court OKs gay adoption
In a 9-2 vote Aug. 16, Mexico's Supreme Court upheld the portion of Mexico City's same-sex marriage law that lets married [...]
U.N. tells Cameroon to legalize gays
The United Nations Human Rights Committee has told Cameroon to decriminalize gay sex, end anti-LGBT prejudice and [...]
Mexico City mayor sues Guadalajara bishop for defamation
The mayor of Mexico City, Marcelo Ebrard, has sued the Roman Catholic bishop of Guadalajara, Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, for [...]
What matters now in the Prop 8 federal case?
Various legal documents will be filed and then the federal Proposition 8 case will be argued in the 9th U.S. Circuit [...]
59% support same-sex marriage in Rhode Island
Fifty-nine percent of Rhode Islanders support legalization of same-sex marriage. Rhode Island is the only New England [...]

