Elsie de Wolfe and Elisabeth Marbury were considered the lesbian power couple of their period, both of them pioneers in their respective fields.

Measures are being raised to help lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders in cutting back on their smoking and address smoking-related health issues.

As soon as Cynthia Nixon stepped out of her role as Miranda Hobbes in Sex and the City, she drew attention for coming out as lesbian by choice.

Edna Thomas and Olivia Wyndham were able to admit their love for each other that transcended both the racial and sexual boundaries of the period.

A lesbian icon, Kate Clinton is a celebrity with an international stature, known for fighting causes for the LGBT. Her choice of weapon? Her sense of humor.

For Mathilde de Morny and Colette, their relationship was defined by a lesbian kiss on stage even as it scandalized the public.

Lesbians, bisexual women, and transgender men still need to get cervical cancer screening to avoid facing higher risks of cervical cancer.

Among the many lesbian who're making an impact on history today, Rachel Maddow is the first openly gay anchor to host a major prime-time US news program.

You have to admire how advertising seems to power the world today. Take, for example, the idea that Subaru is favored by a lot of lesbians.

In a time when they couldn't be open about themselves, Marion Morgan and Dorothy Arzner were fortunate enough to find each other.

As Pride Month comes to a close, we decided to come up with a list of reasons most cited by anti-LGBT people why they're always so hostile against us .

Who is the playwright Odalys Nanin? This Cuban-born, American-raised Renaissance woman is also an actress, director, and owner of the West LA Macha Theatre.

People are always telling us that coming out is the end all and be all of being queer. But what if it’s a bunch of baloney people tell themselves?

Brandon Teena, or Teena Brandon as he was born, would have been a charming young boy-- had he been a boy. But fate had a different story for him.

A pioneer of queer cinema, Barbara Hammer was known for being an experimental filmmaker who rode a Lambretta motorcycle and toted a Super-8 camera.

Harvey Milk was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California. His career was cut short when he was shot to death in 1978.

Lambda Literary has announced Bryan Borland & JP Howard as the finalists of the Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer awardees for LGBTQ literature.

As the first openly lesbian member of the gay political activist movement, Lilli Vincenz donated material on the LGBT struggle to the Library of Congress.

Edith Lake Wilkinson led an idyllic life as a painter in Cape Cod until she was committed to an asylum, her beautiful paintings packed up in a trunk.

There are LGBT monuments around the world, but the recent news that the White House is considering the creation of a national one is welcome indeed.

The GLSEN Respect Awards is set to honor George Stephanopoulos, Ali Wentworth, Ilene Chaiken, and Optimedia on May 23 in New York.

Anna Rüling delivered her groundbreaking speech on gay rights and women's rights in 1904, and she became the first known lesbian activist.

Organized by Aid for AIDS of Nevada, the 26th Annual AIDS Walk in Los Vegas recently drew more than 10,000 walkers who wanted to "make their mark."

Queen Anne Stuart was the ruler who helped England transition to Protestantism and was the last Stuart on the throne. She also loved women.

It takes silence for a voice to be heard. That's why every year in April, the Day of Silence marks a day of silent protest against LGBT bullying in school.

We're reminded that Hillary Clinton wasn't the first woman to run for the US presidency-- rather, it was Wall Street tycoon Victoria Woodhull in 1872.

Mindfulness meditation as an important facet of holistic medicine is now being recommended to LGBT patients who have mental health issues or chronic pain.

There's a swelling movement for greater diversity and representation in vdeogames with a number of LGBT videogame characters in your games.

In celebration of International Transgender Day of Visibility, we came up with 5 things about trans activist Michaela Mendelsohn you may not know about.

If straight women have problems such as men coming from Mars, we have uniquely lesbian problems too. Here are five that lesbians have to deal with daily.