Same-sex spouses in the U.S. military who are based in South Korea will be given legal protection. The Defense Department documents have confirmed this.
Sela Ward expressed her disappointment after Mississippi governer signed the HB 1523. Actress from Mississippi state, Sela Ward, expressed her sadness and disappointment over the passage of HB 1523 or the religious freedom law that its opponents argue legalizes discrimination against LGBT community.
Kentucky governor Matt Bevin has signed the bill that will remove the clerks' names from marriage licenses. This comes after a county clerk was jailed last year for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
North Carolina governor Pat McCrory issued an executive order that will restore anti-discrimination protections in the newly-passed transgender bill following backlash and criticism.
A US Appeals Court declares the ban on same-sex marriage in Puerto Rico unconstitutional. The ruling implies that the US Supreme Court decision allowing gay marriage all over the country includes US territories such as Puerto Rico.
Colombia's Constitutional Court has ruled that gay couples have the right to civil marriage despite strong opposition from the powerful Roman Catholic church.
The House of Congress in Tennessee has passed a bill that will permit counselors to deny any service to people that violate their religious beliefs. If the bill becomes a law, Tennesse will be the first state to enact such regulation.
Executives of several major U.S. corporations urged Mississippi on Wednesday to repeal a new state law that allows businesses to deny wedding services to same-sex couples on religious grounds.
The highest court in Massachusetts is being asked to make a decision over the parental rights of an unmarried gay woman whose former girlfriend gave birth to two children.
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge will be appealing a judge's ruling regarding an LGBT anti-discrimination law in Fayetteville. This has been confirmed by her spokesman on Wednesday.
San Francisco Mayor, Ed Lee, has issued a ban on all city-funded travels to the North Carolina after their decision to limit rights for transgender individuals.
The latest proposal for the Obamacare involves broadening rights for the transgender consumers. Covering gender transitions and realignment could be constituted under Barack Obama's health care law but big companies and employers are pushing back against it.
Court of Appeals upheld a 2014 High Court decision to allow LGBT individuals to register LEGABIBO. The court dismissed the governments appeal to ban the LGBT group.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed two separate suits, alleging sex discrimination based on sexual orientation, against Scott Medical Center and IFCO Systems.
Gov. Dennis Daugaard of South Dakota has vetoed a bill that would require transgender students in public schools to use bathrooms, locker rooms and other facilities that correspond to their gender at birth.
In a historical decision, the Italian Senate has approved a bill that will allow same-sex marriages throughout the country, and granted gay couples the same rights and privileges as every wedded couple.
A former food pantry coordinator who was dismissed from her job has reached after her same-sex marriage was mentioned in a newspaper report has reached a settlement with her lawsuit against the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph. The settlement resolves the case before it was supposed to begin trial on February 29.
Despite the heated debate, South Dakota is set to become the first state to enact a bill that would require transgender students to use bathrooms according to their gender at birth and not their preferred gender identity.
