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The same week that gay Army private Bradley Manning faced a military judge, the San Francisco Pride board of directors affirmed its earlier decision: there will be no official honor for the whistle-blower at this year’s parade.

NBA veteran center Jason Collins, the first active athlete in one of the four U.S. major professional sports leagues to come out as being gay, marched Saturday in Boston’s gay pride parade with U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III, his onetime college roommate.

The gay rights movement has made incredible strides over the past five decades -- from a time when homosexuality was deemed a mental disorder by the nation’s psychiatric authorities, and gay sex was a crime in every state but Illinois.

R&B star Ciara is being for $10,000 by a West Hollywood gay club after allegedly backing out of a deal to appear at the club.

Tel Aviv’s annual gay pride parade is kicking off with floats and rainbow flags fluttering across the city.

A May 31 Pentagon memo acknowledges the contributions of GLBs in uniform, but drops the T; transgender servicemembers are still liable to be dismissed from the military. A new memoir from a trans SEAL might usher in a change, some news sources speculate.

LGBT unrest over the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee’s controversial selection and retraction of imprisoned Army Private First Class Bradley Manning as a Pride grand marshal has now escalated to the legal arena.

The San Francisco Pride board of directors faced off against an angry crowd of about 125 Bradley Manning supporters Tuesday evening at a meeting intended to hear public comments on its reversal of Manning as a Pride grand marshal.

Racing to stanch a flow of criticism, the president of San Francisco’s annual gay pride celebration said Friday that the U.S. Army private charged in a massive leak of U.S. secrets to the WikiLeaks website will not be an honorary grand marshal after all.

Tens of thousands of people marched through Taiwan’s capital of Taipei in order to celebrate the Asian island nation’s 10th annual Gay Pride.