Sylvia Rivera was one of the most influential activists in the Gay Liberation Movement of the 1960s and ’70s. A drag queen and transgender woman, Rivera was a key figure in the Stonewall Riots of 1969 ...

Frank Kameny was a pioneer in the modern gay rights movement and dedicated his life to fighting for LGBTQ+ equality. From his early career as an astronomer with the U.S. government to his later years ...

(AP) – Go back 50 years in time. Homosexuality was deemed a mental disorder by the nation’s psychiatric authorities, and gay sex was a crime in every state but Illinois. Federal workers could be fired ...

Gay journalist Andrew Sullivan said Thursday that the LGBTQ movement is losing ground in America because it has become "radicalized." In a New York Times guest essay, Sullivan marveled at how the gay ...

Mr. Sullivan, an early advocate for gay marriage, writes The Weekly Dish on Substack. Ten years ago Thursday, the movement for gay and lesbian equality scored a victory that only a decade before had ...