With a wave of recent victories, marriage equality throughout the United States seems inevitable but much more needs to be done in areas such as immigration, poverty, and global rights. That was the ...

They didn't set out to change history; they weren't the first LGBT Americans to mobilize against bias. Yet the June 1969 uprising by young gays, lesbians and transgender people in New York City, ...

The Supreme Court on Monday handed the LGBT rights movement another victory, declining to hear an appeal that challenged the rights of transgender students to use the bathroom of their choosing. The ...

In a landmark vote during the 27th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council a resolution was adopted to protect LGBT individuals globally from discrimination and violence. Member states ...

NEW YORK -- Whitehall and Pearl streets today are bustling with activity, but on Sept. 19, 1964 it was quiet, and what happened at that NYC intersection built momentum for the LGBT rights movement.

NEW YORK CITY– President Barack Obama announced Friday he was designating the area around the Stonewall Inn in New York City as the country’s first national monument to lesbian, gay, bisexual and ...

“Oppressive.” “Brutal.” “Terrible and worsening.” These were some of the fierce editorial lightning bolts to scorch Vietnam’s human-rights reputation last week, hurled in the wake of a surprise ...

President Barack Obama called on 3,000 LGBT rights activists gathered in Atlanta Jan. 25 to continue working toward full equality in a video message delivered to the 25th annual National Conference on ...