Smithers of The Simpsons will finally get a chance to admit he's gay, but the question remains whether or not Mr. Burns will accept his unrequited love.

Athlete Ally, a sports organization supportive of LGBT, called on MBL teams to stop hazing rookies by cross-dressing them up in women's clothing.

In the wake of Pope Francis' visit to the US last week, media exploded with intrigue when controversial Kim Davis claimed she had an audience with the Pope.

The United Nations has called on countries to end violence and discrimination against LGBTI people, while asking these states to repeal discriminatory laws.

Lesbian rights won a round against discrimination after a South Carolina student was allowed by her school to wear a t-shirt proclaiming she's a lesbian.

Allowing consenting sperm donors: a man contacts his “willing to be known” sperm donor and has one of the most important conversations of his young life.

With a Grammy Award under their belt, The Band Perry will appear in CMT Hot 20 Countdown this Saturday with a single from their upcoming third album.

Federal officials have allocated $41 million to address the processing of 70,000 rape kit backlog all over the US at the urging of Senator Tammy Baldwin.

The 2015 Legacy Awards will honor Tom Hanks and Lisa Choldenko with a dinner this November, in support of the LA-based nonprofit organization Outfest.

When comedian host Jimmy Fallon challenges talk show Ellen DeGeneres to a lip sync battle on The Tonight Show, you know that sparks are going to fly.

An Alabama nursing home company agreed to settle an employment discrimination case for an undisclosed amount after firing a woman for being transgender.

Lesbian movies are thriving on Asian Cinema, though the subject matters are more quirky and unconventional. Here are five movies for your enjoyment.

Anti-gay religious group Westboro Baptist Church attacked Kim Davis, the Kentucky County clerk who refused to give same-sex marriage licenses.

Lesbian News Magazine features comedian Margaret Cho. Watch the video of her interview with Seth Meyers. Read our magazine to find out how she speaks her mind.

It’s thought that someone at the Ohio sperm bank misread the label on the vial, resulting in the white woman receiving sperm from an African-American donor despite having requested a Caucasian sample. A white woman in Ohio is suing a sperm bank because she says staff mistakenly gave her vials of semen from an African-American donor after she had requested samples from a white man. Jennifer Cramblett used the services of the Downers Grove-based Midwest Sperm Bank in 2011 and successfully became pregnant. She is now raising her two-year-old mixed-race daughter with her same-sex partner, Amanda Zinkon, in Uniontown, Ohio. Although she became aware of the mix-up when she was pregnant in April 2012, Cramblett says that she has decided to sue the sperm bank now because she has experienced difficulties in the child’s upbringing in a predominantly all-white community – which she describes in the lawsuit as ‘too racially intolerant’. She is suing for 'wrongful birth' and 'breach of warranty', saying that she has suffered

The Supreme Court has taken no action on appeals asking it to take up the issue of same-sex marriage. The gay marriage cases are not among cases the court agreed to hear in its term that begins next week. The justices are expected Monday to turn away appeals in hundreds of cases, although it is not likely the same-sex marriage cases will be among those. The justices meet again in private on October 10 to consider new cases, and decisions about what to hear could be announced then or on October 14. (Courtesy of HuffPost.com)  

Today, September 22, Judge Edward Rubin of the 15th Judicial District Court ruled in favor of the freedom to marry in a state legal challenge to an amendment in Louisiana that denies same-sex couples the freedom to marry. The case, Costanza and Brewer v. Caldwell, was filed in 2013 on behalf of Angela Marie Costanza and Chastity Shanelle Brewer, who are raising their 10-year-old son in Lafayette. The case sought respect for Angela and Chastity's marriage license; since Louisiana did not respect their marriage, one mother was not permitted to legally adopt her son. The ruling today grants the second-parent adoption and affirms that the Louisiana amendment violates the due process and equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment. The ruling today comes just three weeks after U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman became the first federal judge since June 2013 to uphold marriage discrimination, when he ruled in Robicheaux v. Caldwell in favor of marriage discrimination in Louisiana. Judge Rubin's order today is a

Singer-songwriter k.d. lang is featured on a new stamp released by the Canada Post, pictured above. Each stamp features a photo of lang taken by Jeri Heiden, whose art direction can be seen on lang's many iconic album designs. The stamp is one of five in the Post's Country Legends stamp series, honoring some of Canada’s most recognized country musicians, and part of Canada Post’s larger 2014 stamp program, which aims to demonstrate Canada's diverse combination of achievement, progress, and culture. The new k.d. lang stamp is now available to order via canadapost.ca. "Collectively we continue to capture moments that will long live through our stamp collection," says Deepak Chopra, President and CEO of Canada Post. "And we encourage everyone to take note of these stories as they truly mark who we are as Canadians." k.d. lang's latest album, Sing it Loud, was released on Nonesuch Records in 2011 and followed the 2010 career retrospective Recollection, which marked the 25th anniversary of

When "Orange is the New Black" writer Lauren Morelli started working on the series, she didn't realize how much it would also script her future. As Morelli wrote in an essay for Mic.com in May, writing for the Netflix hit helped her realize that she was gay -- even though at the time, she was married to a man. When production began on "OITNB," Morelli had been wed for five months. "I realized I was gay in fall 2012, one of my first days on the set," Morelli wrote. "It wasn't so much one thing, but the sum of many small details: how uncomfortable I felt around groups of lesbians or how I considered myself

Symantec, the software firm behind Norton AntiVirus, routinely allowed customers to filter out LGBTI websites One of the biggest web filtering services in the world has announced they are scrapping a system that allows homophobes to block access to 'gay and lesbian' content. Symantec, the online security firm behind Norton AntiVirus, has routinely been filtering out LGBTI websites offering news, charity and support as they consider them to be essentially the same thing as child porn. The fourth-largest software company in the world, they say the 'lifestyle-sexual orientation' category will now be steadily removed from its databases. 'Making this change was not only the right thing to do, it was a good business decision,' said Fran Rosch, executive vice president, Norton Business Unit, Symantec today (16 September). 'Having a category in place that could be used to filter out all LGBT-oriented sites was inconsistent with Symantec's values and the mission of our software.' While Symantec will allow customers to set their search to block offensive websites,

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is the fifth federal appeals court to hear arguments on same-sex couples’ marriage rights this year. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals appeared poised to strike down bans on same-sex couples’ marriages in Idaho and Nevada in nearly two hours of arguments on Monday. All three judges hearing the cases — Judges Stephen Reinhardt, Marsha Berzon, and Ronald Gould — appeared ready to rule the bans unconstitutional as violating equal protection guarantees. As with other appellate courts to hear marriage cases this year, the court did note that the judges expect the matter to be headed to the Supreme Court. When Monte Stewart, the lawyer arguing in support of both Idaho and Nevada’s bans, questioned the court’s view of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s opinion in last year’s case striking down part of the Defense of Marriage Act, Reinhardt retorted, “I think you’re going to have an opportunity to find out what Justice Kennedy thinks.” Although not as fireworks-filled as

Angelina Jolie is married, and so is her ex-girlfriend, Jenny Shimizu. Shimizu recently wed brand consultant Michelle Harper, according to Us Weekly. On Wednesday, photos of Harper wearing a voluminous wedding dress on Aug. 22 in the Soho neighborhood of New York City surfaced via Splash photo agency. Shimizu, a former Calvin Klein model, met Harper in 2012 at a party, per a New York Times profile on Harper, a club kid-turned-businesswoman. The two were recently featured in Vogue magazine wearing what Harper described in a June Instagram post as some "cray fun wedding garb." Shimizu and Jolie dated the 1990s after meeting on the set of 1996's "Foxfire." "I probably would have married Jenny Shimizu if I hadn't married my husband [Jonny Lee Miller]," Jolie told Girlfriends magazine in 1997. "I fell in love with her the first second I saw her. Actually, I saw when she was being cast in 'Foxfire,' and I thought she had just read for my part. I thought

Ceremony to take place at a time when number of potential marriage equality cases that might go before the high court grows Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an associate justice of the US Supreme Court, is set to perform yet another same-sex wedding ceremony this weekend - her fourth. Ginsburg, 81, will be conducting the ceremony of her former law clerk, Danny Rubens, and his fiance Danny Grossman. It was 13 months ago that Ginsburg performed her first same-sex wedding ceremony and she told the Washington Post at the time: 'I think it will be one more statement that people who love each other and want to live together should be able to enjoy the blessings and the strife in the marriage relationship.' This weekend's wedding takes place as the number of potential same-sex marriage cases that might go before the high court continues to grow. So far, cases in Utah, Virginia, Oklahoma, Indiana and Wisconsin are among the possibilities. Ginsburg had said earlier this year that she

Our hearts collectively broke earlier today when we learned that Joan Rivers passed away at the age of 81. The gay icon reportedly stopped breathing during a procedure on her vocal cords at a clinic last week and had been in and out of intensive care since the incident. While remembering Rivers' groundbreaking career, it must be noted that her contributions to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and queer visibility were massive. In honor of the legendary comedian, we present to you six of our favorite queer moments from Joan Rivers' life. Our thoughts are with her family and friends. [su_dropcap]1[/su_dropcap] Joan Officiates A Gay Wedding Last month Rivers officiated a gay wedding at New York's Plaza Athenee -- and it wasn't her first. In 2013 the comedian also presided over a King Kong-themed ceremony on top of the Empire State Building. "Every wedding I officiate has a cover charge and a two-drink minimum," she joked. [su_dropcap]2[/su_dropcap] Joan On Kissing A Woman In early 2013, Rivers opened up on NBC's "Today Show" about a recent

CHICAGO (AP) — A U.S. appeals court issued a scathing, unequivocal ruling Thursday declaring that gay marriage bans in Wisconsin and Indiana were unconstitutional, on the same day that 32 states asked the Supreme Court to settle the issue once and for all. The U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago was the fourth to hear arguments on the issue. The decision from a normally slow and deliberative court was released a little more than a week after oral arguments. The unanimous, 40-page decision from a three-judge panel blasted the states' justifications for their bans, several times singling out the argument that only marriage between a man and a woman should be allowed because it's — simply — tradition. There are "bad traditions that are historical realities such as cannibalism, foot-binding, and suttee, and traditions that

The state of Coahulia made history this week as the first in Mexico to pass marriage equality in the legislature. The legislation, which passed Congress in a 19 to 1 vote on Monday, will take effect in one week. The law now defines marriage as, "the free union with full consent of two people, which has as its objective to realize community life where both [people] seek respect, equality and mutual aid, and make in a free, responsible, voluntary and informed way reproductive decisions that fit their life project, including the possibility of procreation or adoption." In the U.S., 19 states plus the District of Columbia, currently recognize the rights of loving, committed same-sex couples to marry.   (Courtesy of HRC.org)  

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were married Saturday, in Chateau Miraval in France, a spokesman for the couple said Thursday. They wed in a small, nondenominational ceremony attended just by friends and family. Jolie and Pitt obtained a marriage license from a California judge, who also presided over the ceremony in France, the AP reports. The couple's six children took part in the festivities. Sons Maddox and Pax walked their mother down the aisle. Daughters Zahara and Vivienne threw flower petals, and Shiloh and Knox served as ring bearers, the spokesman said. Jolie and Pitt were engaged in April 2012 and began dating in 2005, after meeting on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. The relationship began as a Hollywood scandal, after "Brangelina" began their relationship while Pitt was still married to actress Jennifer Aniston. Aniston and Pitt divorced in October 2005, ending a five-year marriage. The couple have six children together; three adopted children: Maddox, Pax and Zahara; and three biological children: Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne. Pitt has been nominated for

What an incredible moment for queer visibility! Patricia Rodríguez, the winner and title holder of Miss Spain 2013, came out of the closet this week through an Instagram post with her partner. The move makes Rodríguez the first openly lesbian national beauty queen. Rodríguez later thanked her fans for the positive reaction to her decision to come out in a follow-up Instagram post, adding: "I published impulsively, I appreciate the outpouring of support. Thank you." Congrats, Patricia!   (Courtesy of HuffPost.com)  

What a difference a decade makes. I remember 15 years ago going to the Sparks games. Our group had the best seats right in the center of the 1st section. We still have those seats. I introduced myself to the media plus anyone that could possibly at the very least help me to get the WNBA to advertise with us. I wore all purple including my shoes managing to make the big TV screen in the middle of the auditorium, everyone cheered.  While it didn’t happen so quickly (does it ever?) when the WNBA decided to embrace its gay fans, it was in a major way: We’re talking Pride Tee-Shirts in the official shop, a full gay site at www.wnba.com/pride, sponsorship of Pride Games (the first Pride game aired back in June) and ads for the LA Sparks WNBA team being placed on well-respected lesbian sites like Lesbian News, North America’s longest running Lesbian publication. Buy LA Sparks tickets: http://www.axs.com/artists/113921/los-angeles-sparks-tickets   With statistics showing that 21%

67% of Republican voters would be happy to vote for an openly gay candidate but most still wouldn’t want to find out someone in their family was gay, according to new polling New polling by researchers at McClatchy and Marist College has found that only 30% of Republican voters would have a big problem with their party selecting an openly gay or lesbian candidate to be their representative, with 67% saying a candidate’s sexuality would have no baring as long as they had good qualifications. However almost as many would be upset if they found out their own child was gay or lesbian, with 37% saying they would be ‘upset’ and 23% saying they would be ‘very upset.’ Only around three-in-ten Democratic and independent voters said they would be upset to learn their child was gay or lesbian. The poll also found 63% of Republicans still oppose same-sex couples being allowed to legally marry, with 59% saying the issue should be settled on a state-by-state