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A Russian nonprofit group, the St. Petersburg-based Coming Out, celebrated April 17 International Day of Silence by releasing a video “Break the silence,” which ends with “silence can break us / but…

This week new US rules for federal contractors went into effect, forbidding workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. When the executive order was issued last…

Ted Cruz did his best to win over the evangelical vote by kicking off his presidential campaign at Liberty University, apparently hoping to channel the ghost of evangelical kingmaker Jerry Falwell…

The White House announced this week that Pope Francis will visit President Barack Obama during his September trip to the U.S. Francis will be attending the Catholic Church’s World Meeting of Families…

A few quick hits to start this week’s recap: The Washington Blade’s Michael Levers reported last Friday that six members of Congress urged the US Agency for International Development to use funds from…

We have reported on the appointment of the first U.S. Special Envoy for LGBT Equality. This week, Adebisi Alimi, a lecturer in pre- and post-colonial sexual orientation and gender identity in Africa…

March 1 marked the second annual Zero Discrimination Day, which is promoted by UNAIDS to “celebrate diversity and reject discrimination in all its forms.” On March 2, a Russian diplomat demanded that…

The 2013 election of Pope Francis marked a number of firsts for the Catholic Church: the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, the first to have worked as a nightclub bouncer, and the first…

Despite media reports to the contrary, it doesn’t appear that San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is backing down from his attempt to dictate the private morality of teachers in San…

More than 100 million people have viewed a video produced by the Chinese branch of PFLAG urging parents to welcome their LGBT children home for Lunar New Year celebrations. The website Erasing 76…