With a wave of recent victories, marriage equality throughout the United States seems inevitable but much more needs to be done in areas such as immigration, poverty, and global rights. That was the ...

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.

Understanding how the U.S. went from marriage equality a decade ago to steep backsliding on transgender rights today could help determine what happens next for the country’s LGBTQ+ rights movement.

"Where democracy is undermined, so too are human rights." ...

Sylvia Rivera was one of the most influential activists in the Gay Liberation Movement of the 1960s and ’70s. A drag queen and transgender woman, Rivera was a key figure in the Stonewall Riots of 1969 ...

Michael Olenick was 19 and living a secret social life, letting loose with friends at a speakeasy-like bar with blacked-out windows and one of the few floors in town where men danced with other men.

David Mixner is acutely aware that now he is one of the last pioneering voices in his community. "I'm sort of sitting here by default, and I know it, and I know I carry that burden: To never let ...

It’s an incredible, historic day of celebration for the LGBT rights movement. And no one is partying harder than the activists and lawyers who have spent the past several decades working towards ...

A new biography, "Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson," tells the story of the Black transgender pioneer’s fight on the frontlines of history as a leader in the early LGBTQ rights ...

I opened an email announcement sent by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), an LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, with the subject line: these colors don’t run – Independence Day special. I felt as if I ...

Origins. The science of civil rights: the rise and demise of sexual deviancy ; Desire in the throes of power: gay liberation, psychiatry, and the politics of classification ; "Why is my child gay?": ...