LGBTQ

Activist dance group WERK for Peace participated in the "Shut Down DC" protest, helping to disrupt traffic by dancing in the street in Washington during rush hour on Monday.

"Pose" star Angelica Ross has announced she's stepping away from social media. The transgender actress recently criticized both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, drawing ire from backers of both men.

Two days before Evan Minton was scheduled to have a hysterectomy, Mercy San Juan Medical Center canceled the procedure, because it was "part of a course of treatment for gender dysphoria."

The incident comes amid what campaigners describe as a "culture of violence" against transgender people in the U.S..

Carson reportedly sent an agency-wide e-mail attempting to preempt the outrage brewing over his remarks.

The proposed statutes are "disastrous not only for women and religious and gender minorities, but for all Indonesians," said Human Rights Watch.

Co-hosted by GLAAD and The Advocate, multiple presidential candidates appeared, though Bernie Sanders was a notable no-show.

Religious protesters, apparently enraged by a production of the "Rocky Horror Show" musical, were given a show of their own when a gay couple paused for a kiss in front of the group this week in England.

Friday night's LGBTQ presidential forum is the first one of its kind since 2007. Every frontrunner except Bernie Sanders will be in attendance.

"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."

Authorities have charged Ed Buck, a prominent Democratic donor, in the 2017 overdose death of Gemmel Moore, who he is alleged to have injected with methamphetamine. Buck, who is a 65 year old white man, is alleged to have repeatedly preyed on gay black men.

The body of LGBT activist Yelena Grigoryeva was found in St. Petersburg on July 20, with evidence she had been choked and stabbed. Now a suspect has confessed but Grigoryeva's friends are dubious.

Photojournalist Gleb Garanich saved a teenager from an angry mob's attack as protests marred the first LGBTQ Pride parade in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Buck is a wealthy white man with "a predatory and injurious system of soliciting black men and watching them cling to life," according to a lawsuit filed by the family of another man who overdosed at his house in 2017.

"The history of drag is a long and winding road," Doonan told Newsweek about the history of drag.

"Duka and Koski's beliefs about same-sex marriage may seem old-fashioned, or even offensive to some. But the guarantees of free speech and freedom of religion are not only for those who are deemed sufficiently enlightened, advanced, or progressive."

"I'm deeply hurt and offended that someone felt the entitlement to ruin and tamper with personal property with hate speech," said Renee Gerrish.

"After a lifetime of being at war with my gender I've decided to embrace myself for who I am, inside and out," Smith said after announcing their gender pronouns to be "they/them."

"I do not choose whether I am a black American... the great vast majority of the psychological community says homosexuality at a very minimum is a choice," Pence said in the early 1990s.

According to Marilyn Synek of the Nebraska Family Alliance, the employee shouted, "You are f****** bigoted trash, and we do not want you in our restaurant."

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

"It is clear conversion therapy targeting people who are LGBT is rooted solely in discrimination and hate without any scientific evidence," one expert told Newsweek.

"We don't hate anyone, we just want to have our own celebration just like everybody else has a right to," John Hugo, a Straight Pride organizer, said.

"I don't know if maybe she's lacking physical touch from me, and so she's going to get it from somewhere else, but I don't think that that's fair."

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.

"I see this cookbook as more of a memoir, something I can't say I ever imagine myself being asked to compose."

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.

Washington, who was famously let go from the ABC drama "Grey's Anatomy" for using a homophobic slur, told Fox News on Wednesday why he left the Democratic party.