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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.”

“Being out as a trans man isn’t new in my personal life, but it’s new in the public sphere,” says Yance Ford, whose documentary “Strong Island” is about the aftermath of his brother’s violent death.

The app has teamed up with elite dating club Social Concierge to launch events — and they want to get bankers from Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan involved.

Mike Pence responds after openly gay Olympic skater Adam Rippon declines a meeting with the Vice President due to his anti-LGBT measures

Barry Rothbart talks to the "Shoot This Now" podcast about being a heterosexual videographer at a gay nudist colony, where he also had to be nude

The bars show how welcoming a city is, across six metrics.

In 2000, Toby Young "dressed as a lesbian" to try to deceive women in gay bars into kissing him. Seventeen years later, can I reverse the trick?

In the queer community, it's all too easy to box ourselves in with labels like "daddy" and "boy." But if we don't break those stereotypes down, we'll never move forward.

compilation of sweet and emotional gay commercials

Even as a good Christian boy in Delaware, I knew deep down I was homosexual. But I didn’t know, until I started reading Will & Grace transcripts, that being gay was so much more

LGBT people in the South continue to face obstacles at higher rates than the rest of the country. Yet LGBT Southerners are resilient and continue to thrive.

An official Barbie Instagram page posted a photo of two dolls wearing ‘Love Wins’ shirts, designed by Aimee Song for LGBT Pride Month 2017

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

A young woman seeks answers to her sexual orientation online, where the endless quizzes she takes deliver whatever label she wants.

Ben Loehnen writes about the loss of his husband and almost losing his treasured Cartier wedding ring.

Some say it is high time that apps like Grindr changed their filter features.

Josh and Lolly Weed tried to make it work — one’s gay, the other isn’t — but in 2018, the experiment is ending

Nearly 700,000 adults in the country have been subjected to this harmful practice.

Everyone feels isolated at some point, but for members of the LGBTQ community, that loneliness hits harder.

On Wednesday, Democrat Doug Jones was sworn in as Alabama's newest U.S. senator after beating Republican Roy Moore in a tight race—and all eyes were on Jones's son. Senator Doug Jones (D-Ala.) participates in a mock swearing-in ceremony with Vice President Mike Pence as Jones's wife, Louise

Five days ago, on Dec. 17, Seventeen tweeted the following: "Moana" Directors Say an LGBTQ Disney Princess Could Be Coming Soon"  And to most sensible people, this was terrifically exciting news. In a time where there is marriage equality in all fifty states and LGBTQ rights have never been more abundant (or so we’re repeatedly told by the heterosexual masses, who are of course experts in the topic of LGBTQ experience) surely it makes sense that we start normalising LGBTQ individuals even further? And what better way could there be to achieve that than through the introduction of a beloved Disney character? To show children of all ages that love is not a sin or crime, but is a beautiful thing that should be felt and enjoyed by all without limitation? Well, unfortunately, this was not a sentiment shared by all.

On Nov. 14, just 4 days after Louis C.K. admitted to sexual harassment and 2 days before Al Franken was accused, Masha Gessen posed a provocative ques

I'll show you mine if you show me yours.

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, editor of the website TV Worth Watching, sitting in for Terry Gross. Today is World AIDS Day. And our guest today, who spoke to Terry in 2016, is longtime LGBTQ activist Cleve Jones. He thinks of himself as part of the last generation of homosexuals who grew up not knowing if there was anyone else on the entire planet who felt the way he did.