The United Arab Emirates on Monday banned the upcoming Pixar animated feature “Lightyear” from showing in movie theaters amid reports that the film includes a kiss between two female characters.

Britain today unveils its "action plan" to tackle discrimination against the gay community, which includes bringing forward legislation to ban the practice of conversion therapy.

Indonesian police forcibly cut the hair of a group of transgender women and made them wear male clothing, authorities say, amid a crackdown on the LGBT community in the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation.

Campus police shoot and kill a Georgia Tech student who they say was advancing on officers with a knife and refused to put it down outside a dormitory.

Turkish police fire tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse demonstrators who gathered Sunday for a gay pride rally in Istanbul despite a government ban.

The gunman who attacked a Florida LGBT nightclub had visited the club at least a dozen times before carrying out his attack, witnesses said.

We are left speechless with horror at the coldblooded killing of Xulhaz Mannan, an official of USAID and rights activist and his friend Mahbub Tonoy...

Bangladesh unit of al-Qaeda in the Indian Sub-Continent, Ansar Al Islam, has claimed responsibility of murdering a LGBT magazine editor and his friend in Kalabagan.

Posing as courier service staff, miscreants enter the house of an editor of the country’s first LGBT magazine and stab him dead along with his friend at his flat in Dhaka’s Kalabagan area. Cops suspect involvement of militant groups in the killing.

In the past year, a staggering 800,000 Americans came out on Facebook regarding their sexual orientation.

Actor Tom Hanks and writer-director Lisa Cholodenko will be honoured by Outfest's Legacy Awards.

Ellen DeGeneres has become the latest high-profile figure to join the tens of thousands of people responding to a powerful post on the Humans of New York Facebook page.