WASHINGTON -- In a major policy reversal, the Obama administration said Wednesday it will no longer defend the constitutionality of a federal law banning recognition of same-sex marriage.Attorney General Eric Holder said President Barack Obama has concluded that the administration cannot defend the federal law that defines marriage as only between ( Read more... )

Apologies that all the UK content seems to come from the Guardian, haha. Also, One Direction are a UK pop-act formed through The X Factor and GAY is a big London gay club.

Is there only One Direction for G-A-Y?Visitors to London's gay district, Soho, may have been surprised on Saturday to see the streets thronging with hordes of young teenage ( Read more... )

With just a signature from President Obama, a ban on openly gay servicemembers will no longer be the law of the land ( Read more... )

I'd be lying if I said that when I heard about a reality TV casting call asking "Do you bend gender roles? Do you go against the norm?" I truly believed a show was going to focus on folks who reject prescribed ideas of gender and sexuality. But just in case there was a show that wanted to feature, to make visible, people who go against the grain ( Read more... )

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
The Democratic Alliance (DA) on Monday wrote a letter to the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Maite Nkoane-Mashabe in response to South Africa's recent vote to remove reference to sexual orientation from a United Nations (UN) resolution on extrajudicial killings.

"We believe that this vote runs contrary ( Read more... )

The Pentagon on Nov. 30 released its long-awaited study on "don't ask, don't tell," which showed little risk in allowing gay men and women to serve openly in the military. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says repealing the policy would not produce the "wrenching, dramatic change that many have feared and predicted."
The change is not unprecedented. ( Read more... )

It's sort of bizarre how so many times I've heard a friend or a public figure note that they've had trouble with men/a certain man, and that life would be so much less complicated if they were gay ( Read more... )

If 2010 adopted a big gay slogan, surely it would be "It Gets Better." And if my email inbox is an accurate indicator, lesbian and bisexual women really want to believe that. Almost every day I get a message from an AfterEllen.com reader asking me if it really does get better. And if yes, when? And if yes, how ( Read more... )

In a perfect world, this would only be a story worthy of The Onion. But alas, a group of California parents are seriously trying to push the Vallejo City Unified School District to drop an anti-bullying program that fosters respect for all students. Why? Because the program addresses anti-gay bullying, and says that LGBT youth shouldn't be beat up ( Read more... )