Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips decorated a cake, in March 2014, inside his store in Lakewood, Colo. Prominent chefs, bakers and restaurant owners want the Supreme Court to rule against Phillips who wouldn't make a cake for a same-sex couple's weddin

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Sunday, October 22, 2017

Renowned international makeup company Belleza has proudly announced that its signature product, Lashnoire will be the official sponsor for the wedding gown designer Yumi Katsura at the New York Fashion Week. Yumi Katsura (yumikatsuracouture.com) has an upcoming show at the New York Bridal Fashion week and her show ‘Wearable Art Event’ has been organized for her sensational 2018 collection.

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Monday, October 16, 2017

The U.S. Supreme Court has set Dec. 5 as the day for oral arguments on whether a Colorado baker has a First Amendment right to refuse to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples over religious objections.
The high court announced Friday the case, known as Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, will be the first of two arguments on that day.

Consideration of the case will mark the return of the U.S. Supreme Court to the issue of LGBT

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Friday, October 06, 2017

While the battle to legalize gay marriage dominated many of the conversations about gay rights in recent years, workplace rights and protection against workplace discrimination have always been major concerns for LGBTQ activists...

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Saturday, September 23, 2017

For a business to turn away same-sex couples is “conduct akin a “White Applicants Only” sign, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

John Tunheim, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Minnesota, made the ruling in a lawsuit brought by the owners of a wedding video business, who claimed that the state’s antidiscrimination law infringed on their First Amendment rights to religious and artistic freedom, the Associated Press reports.

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Friday, September 22, 2017

Here we goes again: Cathy Miller, owner of Tastries Bakery in Bakersfield, refused to help a same-sex couple get a cake for their wedding.

Eileen Del Rio recently came into Tastries for a “cupcake date”—in which customer tries unlimited cupcakes to design a wedding cake. But she revealed she was engaged to a woman, Miller informed her that she wouldn’t help her, and offered to book Del Rio an appointment with a competitor.

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Monday, August 28, 2017

"It is always a good thing to be talking with children in constructive, positive, tolerance-building ways."

The Australian Psychological Society (APS) has released a guide for how to talk to children about same-sex marriage, as Australians prepare to vote in a postal survey on the issue.

The APS is Australia's largest professional organisation for psychologists, with more than 22,000 members. It released the guide last week and has an official position of supporting marriage equality.

Dr Susie Burke, a senior psychologist with the APS, told BuzzFeed News the first thing adults should know is that they can actually talk to their kids about same-sex marriage.

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Monday, August 28, 2017

US Navy veteran and creator of the transgender flag Monica Helms has spoken out about her time in service, her trans journey, and her opinion on Trump’s ban.

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Friday, July 28, 2017

By all accounts, photographer Alice Austen was an extraordinary woman. Born into an affluent family on Staten Island in 1866, she challenged oppressive Victorian conventions by embracing individuality and independence.

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Saturday, July 29, 2017

The shop, W.W. Boutique in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, handed the couple a form to fill out when they got there.
The form asked for the name of the bride and groom, and so they crossed out groom and replaced it with Kennedy’s name.

When they handed the form back to the assistant, she reportedly asked if the wedding would be same-sex.
When the assistant came to realise this, she told the couple that the shop could not be of service to them.

Kennedy explained: “She said, ‘I don’t know if you’ve heard, but we’re Christian and we don’t believe in that; our faith doesn’t let us believe in that’.”

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Monday, July 24, 2017

Barronelle Stutzman says state court rulings that she violated antidiscrimination law fail to recognize her freedom of speech and religion. Read More...

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Monday, July 17, 2017

What does LGBT Pride look like in different countries around the world in 2017.

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Friday, July 07, 2017

It is only the second former Soviet nation to recognize same-sex marriages of any kind.

While Germany celebrates the passage of same-sex marriage, another European nation is taking baby steps toward equality: Armenia has begun recognizing same-sex marriages performed abroad.

In an email to PanArmenian.Net, the Ministry of Justice indicated that marriage certificates registering the legal union of two people abroad are valid in the country after consular legalization, regardless of the participants’ gender.

That makes Armenia only the second former Soviet country after Estonia to recognize same-sex marriages performed abroad.

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Tuesday, July 04, 2017

The predominantly Catholic island nation of Malta, which only legalized divorce six years ago and where abortion remains outlawed, is on the cusp of sanctioning same-sex marriage.

At the urging of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, who won his second-straight term in a snap election last month, the Marriage Equality Bill is the first law...

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Tuesday, July 04, 2017

Germany's far-right Alternative fur Deutschland party, which is led by an openly gay politician, is planning a legal challenge to block same-sex marriage.

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Monday, July 03, 2017

A gay Australian couple who have been together for 30 years have "tied the knot" in an unofficial protest ceremony outside of Margaret Court Arena to protest the homophobic tennis player.

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Monday, July 03, 2017

Law Newz reports:

After the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear his case, Colorado baker Jack Phillips appeared Thursday on ABC’s The View to explain why he refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.

He told hosts that the bible said marriage was only between a man and a woman. When asked if Jesus would’ve done the same, he said yes. “I don’t believe that Jesus would’ve made a cake if he had been a baker,” Phillips. “Jesus would’ve made the cake,” said host Joy Behar.

To make the cake would’ve contradicted his religious beliefs, he argued. Sitting by his attorney Kristen Waggoner, he said he would’ve served other products to the couple, Charlie Craig and David Mullins, but not for their wedding.

Waggonner works for Alliance Defending Freedom, which as most of you surely know, advocates internationally for criminalizing homosexuality.

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Monday, July 03, 2017

It seems that young gay men aren't quite ready to tie the knot just yet...

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Monday, July 03, 2017

Donald Trump has named an anti-trans activist as a senior adviser to the office of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment. Bethany Kozma, who held positions in the White House and Homeland Security under George W. Bush, vehemently opposed guidelines issued by President Obama's administration that advised schools to let trans students use their preferred names and pronouns and use the restrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity, Buzzfeed reports.

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Friday, June 30, 2017

Germany's parliament voted by a wide margin on Friday to legalize same-sex marriage after Chancellor Angela Merkel did an about-face that freed members of her ruling conservative bloc to follow their personal conscience rather than the party line.

Merkel, who will seek a fourth term in a national election on Sept. 24, told reporters after the landmark decision that she had voted against the measure because she believed that marriage as defined under German law was between a man and a woman.

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Friday, June 30, 2017

Madrid is set to welcome members of the LGBT community to celebrate this years World Pride Event...

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Wednesday, June 28, 2017

In honor of Pride Month, we asked 13 couples to share their wedding photos, as well as a little insight into their relationship and special day. Read on to see what they had to say.

*Warning: you will 100% cry.*

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Wednesday, June 28, 2017

The Supreme Court will hear a case about a baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple in Colorado, after small businesses across the country have said laws requiring them to not discriminate against LGBTQ couples violate their right to religious freedom.

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Tuesday, June 27, 2017

BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel has walked back her opposition to gay marriage, clearing the way for the issue to win approval in the German Parliament without her center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) quashing it as a bloc.

The chancellor, who is vying for her fourth term in a September election, said Monday that she would like to see lawmakers vote according to their personal convictions, rather than toeing the party line of the CDU, which has long opposed marriage rights for gay couples.

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Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Some gay couples are making the most of a 2015 Supreme Court ruling that made same-sex marriage legal across the United States, but many LGBT adults are just happy to have their rights without needing to put a ring on it. After the Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that states could not ban same-sex marriages, 10.2 percent of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender adults are now married to their same-sex spouse, according to a Gallup poll published this week.

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Friday, June 23, 2017

Andrew and Steven both got ready for their day of days in Lancaster, Ohio at Cheers & Lakeside Chalet. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet stylishly decorated throughout the venue. In case you haven't guessed, rainbow was the theme. Everything was planned and executed well. Paper lanterns of all sorts, string lights, and mossy accents were scattered meticulously across the ceiling

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Thursday, June 01, 2017

Structures across the U.S. -- including city halls, bridges, and skyscrapers -- are bathed in rainbow lighting this weekend in honor of LGBT Pride.

June is internationally recognized as Pride Month, and many cities -- including New York City -- are hosting Pride marches on Sunday.

From New York City's Empire State Building to Minnesota's Lowry Bridge to San Francisco City all, cities of all sizes are gushing with Pride. And overseas, U.S. embassies and consulates are also paying tribute to LGBT Pride.

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Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Taiwan's top judges have ruled in favour of gay marriage, paving the way for it to become the first place in Asia to legalise same-sex unions.

Wednesday's landmark decision came as the LGBT community faces increasing persecution in the region.

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Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Nigerian police say they have arrested 53 young men who celebrated a gay wedding and charged them with "belonging to a gang of unlawful society."

Prosecuting officer Mannir Nasir told a court on Wednesday that the young men were arrested Saturday in the northern city of Zaria while attending a party organized for two men who got married last week.

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Thursday, April 20, 2017

RuPaul, you sneak! The most famous drag queen in the world got married out of the public eye this year ― and revealed it all for the very first time Wednesday morning.

The Supermodel of The World told Hollywood Today Live that he and his partner of 23 years, a rancher named Georges LeBar, got married on the anniversary of the day that they met.

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Tuesday, March 14, 2017

With fireworks and Cher sparking the moment, this proposal couldn’t miss.

Colton Haynes of “Teen Wolf” and “Arrow” fame announced his engagement to Jeff Leatham on Sunday, with pyrotechnics lighting up the sky and the “Believe” singer giving her blessing on a video monitor.

“I SAID YES!” Haynes, 28, captioned an Instagram photo of himself locked in a kiss with Leatham in Los Cabos, Mexico.

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Sunday, March 12, 2017