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As society’s understanding of diverse sexual identities and gender expressions has grown more inclusive, so has the acronym used to describe them.

The pandemic is taking away a celebration that, for generations, has given LGBTQ people a chance to dress however they please, and be whomever they want.

Star Trek star George Takei appears to have started the online campaign to reclaim the label Proud Boys from the far-right group.

‘The Closest Profiles Are Miles Away’ - Finding love is hard. Finding love as a 30-year-old gay man living in his parents’ basement on an Iowa dairy farm during a pandemic is impossible. Lying in darkness in a room with cement walls, I hear my parents upstairs. Last year they celebrated 40 years of marriage. Before my grandparents died, they celebrated 52. Should I download Grindr again? For the rural gays, that’s the best place to meet. But the closest profiles are miles away and they’re usually closeted married men. So I stay away. Lonely on acres of land, I dream of connection. — Jordon Deutmeyer

There’s an ongoing culture war within the queer community between those who advocate for public sex and those who believe it’s abhorrent.

Immigration and family pressures pushed Freddy Grant and Burton Reynolds together fast, but an abiding affection for each other has kept them that way

During the COVID-19 crisis, queer and trans folk learn and love to slay at home while attending wild parties online.

Same-sex spouses feel more satisfied with their partners than heterosexual ones. What’s the secret?

Visibility. Representation. Humanization. Meet the photographer who is spreading love throughout the LGBTQIA+ community one picture and story at a time.

I'm a queer woman partnered with a transgender man, but everyone assumes we're a heterosexual couple. On the surface, we’re the quintessential Brooklyn duo: We have tasteful tattoos and piercings, we shop at food co-ops, we attend spin class together, and we’re creative yet gainfully employed. But while this relationship afforded me the privilege of banal nonconformity, I lost a piece of myself when I got together with my once-gym buddy

Devyn Galindo and Hope Steinman-Iacullo charted a three-month journey from Los Angeles to the Florida Keys, stopping along the way to photograph and interview queer people across the country.

The largest study of same-sex sexual behavior finds the genetics are complicated, and social and environmental factors are also key.

Influencer Davey Wavey's new mission: to teach his millions of fans and followers how to better connect — and live their best sex lives.

Some of us learned to make banana bread. Others made life-changing revelations.

The Proud Boys hashtag, which members of the far-right group have been using, was trending Sunday after gay men on Twitter hijacked it and flooded the feed with photos of their loved ones and families and with memes.

I realised that Joe and I shared our own gay culture the whole time we were married – we both loved the film Beaches

Filmmaker Rachel Mason, whose Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary “Circus of Books” explores her parents’ gay porn shop, writes about why we need to respect sex workers.

A simultaneous un-coordinated shift in the symbol for the LGBT community is taking place due to an international focus on Black Lives Matters protests, vitriol in the UK press about trans lives, and the rainbow use for the NHS amid coronavirus.

Do married lesbians use the title “Mrs.?” The answer is often “no.” Women also have strong feelings about the word “wife.”

Feel Something Foundation’s mission is “to support LGBTQ+ organizations that are moving the needle for communities of all ages and backgrounds,” singer says

Study finds Gen Zers have the most negative attitudes to LGBTQ+ people

Mastercard customers won't have to change their legal names when they apply for the cards

Dawn Covino was eager to use the genetic testing service 23andMe to find out more about her family history and that of her twin son and daughter she adopted from Kazakhstan in 2007. She submitted DNA

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