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Has Pride been coopted? This year’s parade goers are wearing black in honour of the victims of serial killers

The Pride Parade’s focus on masculine white men often pushes the rest of the LGBTQ community to the margins.

Corporations might genuinely support the LGBTQ+ community with Pride-related promotions, but is there a line between allyship and marketing that shouldn’t be crossed?

Three years ago this month, the U.S. Supreme Court made gay marriage legal in every state, but the LDS Church still hasn’t listed same-sex couples in its massive genealogy databank.

As we all begin to celebrate the various PRIDE celebrations throughout the country, it seems that all our news-feeds are displaying stories of solidarity, coming together and supporting each other as chosen family. It’s wonderful that as Gay men we are feeling more and more connected to each other a

Just in time for Pride Month, Gallup has released its annual report on how many Americans self-identify as LGBT, and the results point to an ever queerer future. In the Gallup poll's six-year history (they've been tracking this data since 2012), the …

As lead singer of the multi-million selling band Scissor Sisters, Jake Shears found fame - along with critical success - performing a heady mix of glam-rock and queer transgression. But in his new autobiography 'Boys Keep Swinging', the focus is on the more challenging parts of his life: his difficult…

Janelle Monáe has revealed that she identifies as ‘pansexual’ in a candid Rolling Stones Interview. After previously identifying as bisexual, the "Make Me Feel" singer explained she read into pansexuality and realised: “‘Oh, these are things that I identify with too’. I’m open to learning more about who I am”.

This is a question I get asked a lot by people curious about starting couples counseling. It really does vary a lot person to person, but in my experience I think the hardest part is letting go of your ego.

One man bids farewell to Craigslist's shuttered personals section.

Looking back at one incident that happened in the 1980s, Jeffrey Sidelsky he does wonder what he might have done if it happened in 2018 – in the undercurrent of the #MeToo movement – knowing everything he knows now.

It was in the 1900s that people started using the word "queer" in a derogatory manner when addressing a person who was not or perhaps did not seem to be straight or heterosexual.

I could relate to Elio's hesitancy to admit his sexuality in “Call Me by Your Name.”

If Mitchell made cult classic Hedwig and the Angry Inch today, would he be able to get away with it?

In the summer of 1978, Gilbert Baker created a rainbow flag as a decoration for San Francisco's Gay Freedom Day Parade. Now, 40 years later, the late artist and activist's flag has become a global symbol for the gay community - a unifying force far beyond the city. In June 2018, San Francisco is awash in the six colors of the flag's rainbow. In the Castro district and downtown along Market Street, there's a riot of rainbow merchandise in store windows ahead of Sunday's annual parade: T-shirts, feather wings, clip-on tails, tutus and even rainbow-striped rompers.

'Yaaas kween' is not here to stay. The future of LGBTQ language will reimagine how people see identity.

We don’t always like to talk about it, but blind solidarity can hinder the search for justice.

When François Clemmons joined the show's cast, he was surprised to learn he'd be playing a black cop. "The idea that he wanted me to become one of them

I downloaded Grindr as soon as my first iPhone was out of its box. 

An all-star Broadway revival raises the question: Does being gay mean anything anymore?

The “if only I was thin my life would be perfect” line finally revealed itself for what it truly was: a lie.

This year we've seen a number of mainstream stories focusing on straight people’s relationship to queerness — which insist that queer people are "normal" and "just like you!" — rather than queer people’s relationship to their own identities.

Last week, several LGBTQ-focused publications reported on a study that claims an overwhelming majority of younger gay men desire monogamy in their relationships, with some 86 percent of couples surveyed claiming to be monogamous and 90 percent of single men “seeking monogamy.” Though the study was published in 2016—an important detail seemingly lost in all the blog aggregation calling it “new”—its headline results have nonetheless generated much discussion. Many in the gay community have raised an eyebrow at the findings, given that they contrast sharply with personal experience and anecdotal knowledge in a sexual culture where open relationships and nonmonogamy of one sort or another are quite common. As it turns out, these doubts are justified: The study, titled “Choices: Perspectives of Younger Gay Men on Monogamy, Non-monogamy, and Marriage,” is riddled with methodological problems to such an extent that it’s essentially worthless—in 2016 and now. And when discussing gay relationships, what is at stake is not only a question of scientific accuracy but of the accurate communication of community norms and values both externally and among ourselves.

Next time you're hanging out with your queer friends, skip the usual heteronormative board games. Kick the old games to the curb and try one of these LGBT party games.

GLAAD is working on a new project with Google’s parent company.