One hundred years ago, queerness was illegal in just about every way in the U.S. There were laws against cross-dressing and sodomy, being trans or queer was classified as a mental illness, and it was ...

President Barack Obama shakes hands with Frank Kameny (3R) after signing a memorandum extend benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees as (background, from left) Vice President Joe Biden, U.S ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHICAGO — A century ago, Henry Gerber founded America’s first documented gay rights organization in a boardinghouse at 1710 N.

Event organisers are drawing heavy criticism over a display of flags exposing countries where homosexuality is illegal.

Long before there was a real gay rights movement, a man went on a mission to bring injustices against homosexuals to light.Allen Irvin Bernstein was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, in 1913. He spent ...

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Hendricks helped create Montreal’s Parc de l’Espoir AIDS memorial with ACT UP activists and later fought to protect it, ...