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.

The Human Rights Campaign, the country’s largest LGBTQ rights organization, is taking its LGBTQ equality message on the road with a multicity tour focused on changing more hearts and minds, ...

LGBTQ rights advocates have joined the nation’s civil rights leaders in reflecting on the life and work of the Rev. Jesse ...

On June 28, 1969, an uprising at the Stonewall Inn in New York City’s West Village unofficially launched the modern LGBTQ movement and became one of the protests that changed American history. At the ...

The past two decades have brought steady if uneven progress on the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning people. Landmark court rulings have decriminalized ...

The LGBTQ+ movement has historically neglected communities outside of the LGBTQ+ experience who have different values, she said.

Following the inauguration of Donald Trump in January 2017, we witnessed a sustained, years-long effort to erase protections for LGBTQ people across the entire federal government. This included an all ...

This summer in Chicago, three of the city’s most prominent art spaces are presenting major exhibitions with LGBTQ themes. One is scholarly: “The First Homosexuals,” featuring hundreds of artworks that ...

If Russia won’t let you fly the rainbow flag, well, you can be the rainbow. That’s what one group of six activists apparently figured out, as the group ventured around Russia wearing soccer jerseys ...

While LGBT activists concede their movement is facing sweeping losses at the legal level, they argue there’s a silver lining to the defeats. Legal and legislative victories by conservatives at the ...

Before Rick Garcia died Monday night, the indefatigable gay rights activist’s brother recalled a childhood photo. The young Garcia sat between his parents in the black-and-white shot. His legs dangled ...

NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union today announced that award-winning fashion designer Willy Chavarria will join the organization’s Artist Ambassador Program to advocate for immigrants’ ...