Trans Passions

What a day it was Wednesday for smaller government in the state of Florida. Despite House passage of bills that reduce the burden of loathsome laws, there were no celebratory gatherings of Tea Party members in the Capitol Plaza.

A $50,000 reward was offered on Thursday for information leading to the capture of a man suspected of killing a transgender person, whose family pleaded with the public for help.

GayCities , the most comprehensive city guide and travel review community, today announced the first iPhone app with "check in" functionality developed specifically for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, letting people instantly share where they are going and what the crowd is like with friends and fellow members.

KATMANDU, Nepal a " Nepal wants to paint Mount Everest pink.It wants gay honeymooners trekking through the Himalayas.It wants to host the world's highest same-sex wedding at Everest base camp.But mainly, the conservative Hindu nation wants a chunk of the multibillion dollar gay tourist market to help pull it out of poverty.That quest a " brushing ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee heard mostly supportive testimony Monday of a measure that would dole out harsher sentences in crimes motivated by hatred, bias or prejudice.

A man whose iPhone was stolen from his car used GPS to track it down. Tiernan Paine left a $400 phone in his unlocked car while at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in Oak Creek on Thursday night.

The day after a fundamentalist group will protest a play in Brookfield about the murder of a gay man, First Congregational Church of Danbury will hold a "Radically Inclusive Celebration" for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth, young adults and those who support them.

Looking in the mirror used to make Yiliam Gonzalez sick to her stomach. "I would see myself, and my body didn't match who I was," said the 28-year-old wedding pianist, who went by William before receiving a sex change under Cuba's universal health care system.

Eight years after opening with great fanfare, San Francisco's city-subsidized, $12.3 million Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center is on the verge of foreclosure - and is asking the cash-strapped city for a $1 million line of credit to help bail it out.

Looking in the mirror used to make Yiliam Gonzalez sick to her stomach. "I would see myself, and my body didn't match who I was," said the 28-year-old wedding pianist, who went by William before receiving a sex change under Cuba's universal health care system.

Why would a gay politician vote against gay rights? That describes the voting record of California state Sen.

If there is one thing I've learnt in my year of being an openly gay figure in the media, it is this: When you are an openly gay figure in the media, people ask you to do gay things at gay events because you are gay.

The Open Net Initiative on Friday said Microsoft's search engine Bing is more prudish than government censors when it comes to sex-related online queries.

The archbishop of Denver on Tuesday defended a decision by a Catholic school not to allow two children to continue as students because their parents are a lesbian couple.

Washington, March 9 : A new American study has revealed the prevalence of cyberbullying and its psychological impact on nonheterosexual youth.