During World War 2, lesbians enlisted in the WAC to contribute to the war effort as their archived letters tell their hidden stories of life and love.

Richard Dorment of Esquire Magazine talks to 5 transgender women and men who survived through harrowing times to transition and live to tell their stories.

Celebrating a year of making a difference in the lives of LGBT people, the Vanguard Awards will be honoring Jane Fonda and screenwriter Ron Nyswaner.

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There’s something about Pussy Galore of James Bond fame that people find mysterious. But now her secret can be finally told: she's actually a lesbian.

The Oxford English Dictionary has included the honorific Mx to staple titles such as Mr, Mrs, Miss and Ms., for those who refuse to be defined by gender.

History has a long tradition of gay marriage that didn’t follow today's concept of a wedding, but was still recognized by the early Catholic Church.

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The group Lesbians Who Tech held a summit in Berlin to give a voice to lesbians in the tech industry as well as to expand their community worldwide.

Struggling for recognition, lesbians celebrated who they were in the cabarets of Europe and the United States before the start of the Second World War.

It was July 1993. American geneticist Dean Hamer shocked the world when he released a study that suggested the existence of a “gay gene.” The gene, Hamer said, was on the X chromosome and passed on by the mother. Hamer’s findings were controversial because they offered scientific evidence that (gasp!) being gay wasn’t a choice. In the 20 years since the release of that groundbreaking study, others have been conducted that offer contradictory results. Bible thumpers and homophobes alike have often either denied Hamer’s research or mocked it. In 2011, Ann Coulter charmingly said, “As soon as they find the gay gene, guess who the liberal yuppies are gonna start aborting?” Now, the Washington Post reports new research finds that, despite what some naysayers would like to believe, Dean Hamer was right all along. A gay gene does exist. In fact, there are two of them. Maybe — in fact, probably — even more than two. Researchers at the Human Genome Project, an international scientific research group that examines human DNA, conducted a study on several pairs of gay brothers. “Sexual orientation has nothing to do with choice,” Michael Bailey of Northwestern University, who carried out the research, said. “Our findings suggest