More than a dozen families sued Tuesday to challenge a new Arkansas law banning unmarried couples living together from becoming foster or adoptive parents. The Arkansas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit on behalf of the families...

Young gay people whose parents or guardians responded negatively when they revealed their sexual orientation were more likely to attempt suicide, experience severe depression and use drugs than those whose families accepted the news, according to a new study....

As he looked around the Tel Aviv theater and asked questions of the audience, Israeli filmmaker Yair Hochner could see a smattering of Orthodox Jewish men distinguished by their religious dress - and the way they avoided his attention. "They were trying to...

Attorney General Jerry Brown's legal challenge to California's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage marks the first time that the state's top lawyer has refused to defend a newly enacted ballot measure since 1964 - another epic discrimination case that...

California Attorney General Jerry Brown has made the principled and politically risky decision to oppose Proposition 8 in court. It is highly unusual for an attorney general to use the weight of his office to try to invalidate a voter-approved initiative. But...

State Attorney General Jerry Brown, in a surprise turnabout, asked the California Supreme Court on Friday to overturn Proposition 8, saying the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage violates basic rights guaranteed in the state Constitution. Brown, who is...

Berlin's memorial to gay victims of the Nazis has been vandalized for the second time in four months. Berlin police say a window on the outside of the memorial has been broken, probably with a stone. The window allows visitors to see inside the concrete...

RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)Zanna, Don't! Musical comedy. Book, music and lyrics by Tim Acito. Directed by F. Allen Sawyer. With Price Adam Troche Jr., Stephen Foreman, Katrina McGraw, Cindy Im, Timitcio Artusio, Brian J. Patterson, Rodney Earl Jackson and...

A rash of attacks against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people across the country - including the severe beating of a New York man whose attackers believed he was gay - suggests the number of reported assaults could rise in 2008, an advocacy group...

Italian state television cut a gay sex scene from Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain" as well as a sequence showing the lead characters kissing when it aired the movie, drawing allegations of censorship Wednesday from gay rights groups. Activists protested that...

Activists had billed Wednesday as "a day without a gay," when gays and lesbians across the country would call in sick, boycott shopping and show the impact of their absence from everyday life. Designed to be a protest against the Nov. 4 passage of Proposition...

A Vermont legislator plans to introduce a bill to allow gay marriage in the state that first approved civil unions for same-sex couples. State Sen. John Campbell, a Democrat, says he will sponsor the bill in the legislative session beginning in January. He...

Editor - I was glad to see Sunday's front page article regarding blaming the African American vote as a cause for the No on 8 defeat ("Singling out black Prop. 8 vote ignores larger issues," Nov. 16). Scapegoating has never been an effective method of...

Outside the gates of a Mormon temple, Kai Cross joined more than 2,000 gay-rights advocates in a chorus of criticism of the church's role in a new statewide ban on same-sex marriage. Once a devout Mormon who graduated from Brigham Young University, the 41-...

Carrying signs and candles and unbreakable optimism, several thousand supporters of same-sex marriage gathered outside San Francisco City Hall tonight to buoy spirits and to declare that the fight for equality would continue. Despite the passage of...

Jack Hannan and his partner of 10 years, Steven Gard, didn't get married when Mayor Gavin Newsom took the historic step of granting licenses to gay couples in 2004. Now the San Francisco couple worry they won't get a second chance. "We waited because we...

Several legal challenges to California's newly approved same-sex marriage ban are under way, asking the state's highest court to overturn the measure. Two petitions filed Wednesday ask the Supreme Court to invalidate Proposition 8 on the grounds that voters...

A day after California voters approved a state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, the incendiary issue returned to the state Supreme Court, where gay and lesbian couples and the city of San Francisco filed lawsuits Wednesday seeking to overturn...

  San Francisco Valentine Weekend Revolution It was an "I do" heard around the world. Same-sex marriages with the papers to prove them - endorsed by the mayor - performed beneath the grand rotunda of San Francisco City Hall. It was a Valentine's Day...