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Tennessee Considers Straights-Only Marriage Option With No Minimum Age

Legislation to create this process is not only discriminatory but would enable child abuse, opponents say. After public outcry, sponsors have now added an age minimum.

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Ralph Lauren Features First-Ever Same-Sex Couple in Ad About Family

The luxury brand used real people and not actors in a new campaign that depicts the diversity of what families can be.

Broadway Legend André De Shields Finally Gets His Flowers

The acclaimed actor talks about the five decades he's spent working on Broadway, being a long-term survivor of HIV, and why he describes himself as "an unreconstructed hippie."

​Gay TikTok Influencers Nicky Champa and Pierre Boo to Divorce​

The two have been married since last year.

LGBT Elders Know There's Only One Side to Charlottesville

Queer seniors have been witness to decades of discrimination, and they know what false equivalence is.

State AGs to Target: We Support You, but You Shouldn't Have Pulled Pride Merch

Fifteen state attorneys general have sent a letter to Target in the wake of anti-LGBTQ+ threats against the retailer.

Op-ed: Tyler Oakley on Why Getting Older Is a Gift

YouTube personality Tyler Oakley may bridle at getting a few wrinkles, but he knows some LGBT youth aren't so lucky.

AnheuserBusch Threatens UFC Over Derogatory Language

Ultimate Fighting Championship sponsor Anheuser-Busch has threatened to pull its advertising if the the mixed martial arts organization doesn't pursuade its fighters and commentators to tone down some of their homophobic and sexist language.

Democrats introduce bill to aid older LGBTQ+ Americans in rural areas

The Elder Pride Act would establish a grant program to improve services for this population.

Impeachment of Texas's Anti-LGBTQ+ Attorney General Appears Imminent

Investigators say Ken Paxton may have done favors for a campaign donor and punished employees who objected.

10 states voted on pro-abortion referendums. 7 of them passed

Millions will now have access to abortion thanks to the passage of state constitutional amendments.

Bailey Anne Kennedy is first trans Miss Maryland USA

"I knew that it was going to mean a lot for all the LGBTQ kids out there who might feel like they don’t belong in a box — like me growing up," she says.

Clea DuVall, Tegan and Sara Talk New Queer TV Series 'High School'

"Now is the time for this story, because, I think, it is long overdue," DuVall says of the series about the lesbian twin musicians coming out and into their own.

David's Bridal Features Its First-Ever Same-Sex Brides in New Ad

The giant wedding retailer's new ad focuses on various kinds of women who wed. 

New Axe Ad Ditches Machismo for Fabulous Diversity

Axe body spray is ditching their amped-up version of hyper male sexuality in favor of celebrating the diversity of masculinity.

Terminated: Commercial Closet's Executive Director

Since early this year, Commercial Closet Association has been in negotiations with GLAAD to dissolve into one advertising media program overseen by the larger nonprofit. But CCA founder Michael Wilke says he was supposed to join GLAAD in this new joint venture. Then on Monday, CCA's board announced the merger -- and Wilke's termination...which Wilke says took him completely by surprise. The board says that's hard to believe and that Wilke was told he'd been terminated November 4.

Pornhub suspends Texas access over age verification: 'Ineffective, haphazard, & dangerous'

Pornhub said the law infringes "on the rights of adults to access protected speech" while "employing the least effective and yet also most restrictive" policies.