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Subaru of America, Inc. today proudly announced its partnership with PFLAG, a national organization uniting families, allies, and people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ), for the Cultivating Respect: Safe Schools for All program. Since 2015, Subaru has partnered with PFLAG National and its network of chapters across the country to ensure that all youth – regardless of their family background or personal identity – are welcomed and accepted at school.

Organizers who have spent months planning celebrations are at odds with those who think the political situation demands a recasting of priorities.

As New York's Pride week kicks off, attendees may see displays of division within the LGBT community. #NoJusticeNoPride, an LGBTQ+ group whose blockade of the Capital Pride Parade in Washington, D.C., drew national headlines and mixed reactions from parade-goers June 10, plans to do it again at New York's parade June 25.

When I realized I’d never jump in the sky and fly away like the mythical African slaves in that old folktale, which was also around the time I figured Michael Jackson would never come to the projects and take me away in a rocket limo, I begrudgingly accepted my sexuality. I was still a child, a precocious one, about eight or nine years old who lived inside his overactive and always vivid imagination. I didn’t know what “gay” really meant, but I gathered from the casual and mean-spirited homophobia at home and in the working-class neighborhoods we shuffled in and out of that being “that way” or a “faggot” was a sin and shame.

For years Ashleigh Buch hid the fact that she was transgender. The Offutt airman reported to work each day as a man, telling colleagues little about her life. Off the base, in her Omaha apartment, above, she lived as a woman, donning wigs over the hair she kept trimmed short. But as part of a wave of social change to hit the military, the Air Force instructor’s days of appearing one way at work and another at home are over.

A new video reveals how non-sexual intimacy can change people's lives.

As a high school student, Brian Wenke was harassed and bullied before he even realized he was gay.

Studies can now be conducted to examine several generations of out queer people in ways that couldn't be done before.

The Independent is pleased to announce the shortlist for the British LGBT Awards 2017.  The awards celebrate community activists, public figures and straight allies who work to advance the rights of LGBT communities. The Independent is the British LGBT Awards Media Partner for 2017.

US-China Today is a student-driven publication of the USC U.S.-China Institute. The magazine focuses on the multidimensional and evolving U.S.-China relationship and on significant trends in contemporary China. The magazine offers coverage of and commentary on a wide range of political, economic, social, and cultural issues.

Mexican-American Alberto Mendoza created an online platform, Honor41, to help LGBTQ Latinos share their stories.

Gallup polling show that 4 percent of Americans are LGBT. But with more millennials self-identifying as LGBT, that number could one day reach the oft-cited ‘1 in 10.’

Gay pride events across the country have become the stage for a battle over what the gay-rights movement’s priorities should be.

“Our rage and our joy aren’t at odds with each other; they’re both integral to our history, our present, our future.”

Philadelphia has unveiled a new pride flag with black and brown stripes to represent LGBT people of color.

I see a lot working the door at gay bars in Los Angeles. Twice, patrons taught me what it really means to have a community.

From Los Angeles to Chicago to Salt Lake City and beyond PASSPORT Magazine uncovers the top emerging neighborhoods favored by LGBT communities.

Grab a coffee, take a survey, change the world. Making a difference is easy! Take the LGBT Community Survey and share with us your opinions and preferences, from an LGBT perspective.

When Mike Lujano and George Lenz hoisted a rainbow flag outside their business in a Victorian brownstone on Market Street two decades ago, they found that few neighbors in socially conservative Wheeling, West Virginia, knew it was a symbol of gay pride.

Special coming-of-age ceremonies catering to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people are growing popular in Japan, providing an opportunity for sexual minorities to celebrate and express their true selves.

Notice the gay man helping his dying father into a car, so that they can go watch the river that his father has always loved. When his father is hospitalized