Though South African track star Caster Semenya will keep her world championship games gold medal, many questions about gender testing still remain.

The annual commemoration began in 1998 when founder and writer Gwendolyn Ann Smith marked the November 28, 1998, murder of Rita Hester, a trans woman, in Allston, Mass., near Boston.

 The following statement was issued by Judy Shepard, the president of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, on the murder of 19-year-old Jorge Steven López Mercado.

Washington, D.C.'s lax handling of AIDS programs could cost the city millions in funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development — and D.C. city council member David Catania is furious.

Congressional hearings on repealing the military's ban on openly gay service members have been postponed until 2010. Sen. Carl Levin, a Democrat, told C-SPAN that an investigation for the Fort Hood Soldier Readiness Center shooting on November 5 must be the top priority for the Senate Armed Services Committee.

A new Military Times poll on "don't ask, don't tell" first asks readers whether they've ever been hit on by gay service members.

Photographer Jeff Sheng is looking for as many participants as possible for a new photo project on closeted men and women in the U.S. military.

Students at the University of Texas at Austin rallied Thursday to call for domestic-partner benefits for faculty and staff members.

Current New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand leads in polls against former governor George Pataki by a small margin, according to a Rasmussen poll released Thursday. Gillibrand is leading Pataki with 45% of New York voters saying they would support her over 42% who said they would vote for him.

Juan Martinez Matos, who is accused of murdering a 19-year-old gay man in Puerto Rico, is being held in jail on a $4 million bond, according to the Associated Press.