Gay rights

The ACLU, which has opposed only four Supreme Court nominees in its 100-year history, may come out against its first non-white male nominee should U.S. Circuit Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett remain at the top of President Donald Trump's list of potential nominees.

Dozens of Pride and Black Lives Matter protesters met outside First Baptist Dallas where several demonstrators taunted police officers with doughnuts on a string.

A national ex-gay ministry network has announced it will disband after facing the loss of its two most recent directors. The group, Hope for Wholeness, engaged in conversion therapy, said McKrae Game, the group's founder.

A new German law bans the pseudoscientific practice of 'gay conversion' for minors, with penalties of up to one year in jail and fines of $32,000

Blood donations have dropped due to the coronavirus epidemic. Dropping the ban against gay and bi men could produce 300,000 pints of blood annually, potentially saving a million lives.

Some donation centers are still turning away gay and bisexual men because the centers haven't updated questionnaires and computer systems or trained staff to do otherwise.

Lt. Keith Wildhaber from St. Louis said he had been passed over for promotion 23 times.

"These are nominees that we're seeing who are not just inimical to LGBT protections but to civil rights generally," a senior attorney with Lambda Legal said.

The Supreme court kicked off its new term yesterday—from LGBTQ discrimination to gun control, here's what to expect in the next year

Introduced in 2017, the ban was overturned by ruling late last Friday by U.S. District Judge William Jung .

"They were punching us. They were kicking us," the victim recounted. "We were both down on the ground. We weren't able to defend ourselves."

Church United founder James Domen claims his ministry "helps pastors counsel others that are on their own journey toward a heterosexual identity."

A note addressed to the mother of Callum Hodge claimed it was "the consensus of the village" that he and his partner should have their wedding reception "far, far away from the village."

"Hatred will not stop us—it shows us more and more that we need to stand taller, shout louder and love harder," read a statement from the LGBTQ Center of Southern Nevada.

The announcement of a religious-freedom bill comes three months after rugby player Israel Folau was fired for claiming "Hell awaits" gay people.

Members of the Future Farmers of America reportedly shouted slurs at attendees and followed them into the parking lot of Frontier High School in Bakersfield, California.

"LGBTQ issues have been largely left out of the 2020 presidential primary conversation so far," said GLAAD's Sarah Kate Ellis. "This forum will bring these important topics to a national audience for the first time in this election cycle."

Performers had already begun withdrawing from "From Chopin to Gershwin," sponsored by an organization with ties to Gazeta Polska, a Polish magazine claiming the LGBT rights movement has "all the features of a totalitarian ideology."

"If you buy the argument of Hands On Originals, they can do anything they want in the name of religion," said Ed Dove of the Lexington Human Rights Commission.

Bowles appeared on "America's Most Wanted" multiple times and made the FBI's Most Wanted List just days before being brought in for questioning.

Pastor Barry Baker of Gracewood Baptist Church told the couple their "unbiblical lifestyle" was against "God's original design."

"We are excited to pass and enact the Inclusive Curriculum Law in 2019 [in] the 50th anniversary year of the Stonewall Riots," said Brian C. Johnson, CEO of Equality Illinois.

Rev. Robert E. Fowler Sr of Victory Missionary Baptist Church has lumped homosexuality in with adultery and child molestation.

Democrat and GOP state officials denounced a UW College Republicans tweet and the group president's warnings that conservatives—including President Donald Trump—are embracing the "cosmopolitan, GloboHomo agenda" of the left.

The New South Wales Waratahs' center posted a message on Instagram claiming homosexuals would join "drunks... adulterers, liars, fornicators [and] thieves" in hell unless they repented.

"The old saying is, once that camel gets the nose in the tent, you can't stop them from coming the rest of the way in," the chairman of the Liberty Counsel said.

The president signed the new trade deal with Mexico and Canada, but his administration used a 72-word footnote to avoid having to extend LGBTQ rights in America.

The historic ruling overturned a colonial-era law that made consensual gay sex punishable by up to 10 years in jail.

The parade follows huge protests against a controversial new law that bars gay men from surrogacy parenthood rights

Seth Owen, 18, left his family home after his parents tried to force him to attend a church that subjected him to conversion therapy.