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Chief Justice John Roberts and conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh voted with the U.S. Supreme Court's three liberal-leaning justices September 14 to reject a request that would have undermined a New York City law prohibiting...

Democrats are punting a vote to protect same-sex and interracial marriages until after the November midterm elections, pulling back just days after Majority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed to put the Senate on the record on the issue "in the coming weeks.''

Nonbinary athletes will be able to run in next year's Boston Marathon without having to register as members of the men's or women's divisions, race organizers announced Monday.

Federal authorities on Thursday arrested a woman accused of calling in a fake bomb threat at Boston Children's Hospital amid a barrage of harassment and threats of violence over its surgical program for transgender youths.

Singapore's gay community Monday hailed a plan to decriminalize sex between men as "a triumph of love over fear"but warned there is still a long way to equality and new bans on same-sex unions could entrench discrimination against them.

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey won the Democratic nomination in the Massachusetts gubernatorial race on Tuesday night.

Transgender girls in Utah will be given the opportunity to participate in girls' sports as the school year begins, after a judge on Friday reversed a ban pending legal challenges from parents.

Doctors and other staffers at Boston Children's Hospital are being threatened with violence over its surgical program for transgender youths, administrators said, and other U.S. children's hospitals are also being harassed online.

Some Florida schools have moved library books and debated changing textbooks in response to a law critics call "Don't Say Gay''–and some teachers have worried that family pictures on their desks could get them in trouble.

Long-time reporter covered Catholic clergy sexual abuse