by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Twenty people staged a protest outside a "gay conversion" conference in suburban Melbourne, Australia, on Sept. 19. They carried signs reading "Hands off queer kids" and "You can't straighten [...]

by Rex Wockner International News Briefs A new law that took effect in England and Wales on Sept. 1 allows a lesbian couple who conceive a child together to be named as the parents on [...]

by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The House of Representatives in Indonesia's Aceh province has enacted a new Islamic criminal code that punishes homosexuality with up to 100 lashes, Amnesty International reported Sept. 17. The [...]

by Rex Wockner Swedish Ambassador Krister Bringéus held a 'mini-pride' at his suburban Belgrade residence Sept. 20 when the gay pride parade was canceled after Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic met with pride organizers and told [...]

by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Some U.S. gay couples who get married in Canada and then later want to divorce find themselves in a pickle, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported Sept. 25. Forty-two U.S. [...]

by BTL Staff They say you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. You can, however, make a lovely dress out of a pig's intestine. Seeing is believing. Four of these delicate, [...]

by Jessica Carreras Ron Elkus Ron Elkus is the co-owner of The Shirt Box, a clothing store in Farmington Hills. The openly-gay Huntington Woods resident hopes to help men in need of good clothes [...]

DETROIT - The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan has received $100,000 from the Arcus Foundation to establish a permanent endowment to support projects and organizations that serve LGBT people of color in southeast Michigan. The [...]

By Caitlin M. Foyt ANN ARBOR - Indonesia has quite a gay past. There are ancient murals in temples across the country depicting homosexuals and transgendered people, it's been historically documented that gay relationships outside [...]

by Jessica Carreras Monique Goch wants to get one thing straight: You don't have to wear pants-paired business attire to come to a Suits and the City mixer. You just have to be willing to [...]

The first thing Evan Wolfson tells reporters is to stop calling the movement "gay marriage." "That makes it sound like something different or something new. Marriage isn't new. We have marriage in this country and [...]

by Bob Roehr HIV vaccine research got a much-needed dose of encouraging news on Sept. 24 when results of a study conducted in Thailand were released. The study in more than 16,000 volunteers showed that [...]

by Rex Wockner Maine voters will decide Nov. 3 whether to veto a law passed by the legislature and signed by the governor that legalized same-sex marriage. The law has not yet taken effect pending [...]

by Rex Wockner Courage Campaign Chair Rick Jacobs, right, and consultant Steve Hildebrand. Photo by Karen Ocamb A ballot initiative asking voters to repeal Proposition 8 in 2010 was filed with the state of [...]

by Bob Roehr The Ryan White CARE Act, which funds a large portion of HIV programs in the United States, did not expire on Sept. 30 but was extended for another 30 days as part [...]

Sunday, Sept. 27 is National Day of Action for Marriage Equality - and Maine needs help. Currently, Question 1 is up on the ballot for the November election in Maine, and enough "yes" votes could [...]