Openly gay congressional hopeful Scott Galvin lost his bid Tuesday to represent South Florida's District 17.

Galvin, a North Miami city councilman for more than a decade, received less than six percent of the vote, ranking eighth in a crowded field of ...

A US court on Monday blocked same-sex marriages in California while an appeal of a landmark decision to overturn a state ban is considered, putting on hold ceremonies that would have resumed this week. The decision by the federal court of appeals came hours after gay marriage opponents urged the ban on the unions to be maintained in the West ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's governor and attorney general on Friday separately urged a federal judge to lift the state's ban on gay marriages pending an appeal of his ruling finding it unconstitutional. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Vaughn Walker's decision on Wednesday marked a legal and symbolic victory for the gay rights movement, although most believe ...

Two openly gay and married Hollywood celebrities have reacted to a federal judge's ruling that struck down California's gay marriage ban, Proposition 8.

Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled Wednesday that the law ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says it regrets a federal judge's ruling overturning a ban on gay marriage in California. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker made his ruling Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by two gay couples who claimed the voter-approved ban, known ...

A federal judge Wednesday struck down Proposition 8, California's gay marriage ban, as unconstitutional.

Gay activists waited patiently outside San Francisco's federal courthouse for Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker's long-awaited ruling in Perry v. Schwarzenegger.

“Today's federal ruling strikes ...

Gay activists are preparing for Wednesday's ruling on whether California's gay marriage ban, Proposition 8, violates the U.S. constitution.

It is the first federal trial to challenge the constitutionality of a gay marriage ban and ...

A gay soldier from California says he's been honorably discharged from the Army National Guard under the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Lt. Dan Choi, an Iraq war veteran from Orange County, was discharged from the New York Army National Guard on Thursday. He called ...

A judge has agreed to hear a case challenging the U.S. government's "don't ask, don't tell' policy against openly gay soldiers. Lawyer Dan Woods says U.S. District Court Judge Virginia A. Phillips in Riverside, Calif. agreed Monday to send ...

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a public law school in California could deny recognition of a student group that bans gay students from membership.

The Christian Legal Society (CLS) was rejected as a registered ...