In 1993, researchers discovered a stretch of DNA on the X chromosome they believed to be linked to male homosexuality. After studying the DNA of nearly half a million people with varying sexual experiences, the researchers found no evidence of a single “gay gene.” There was some genetic associatio

A landmark judgment by India’s highest court has overturned a colonial-era law that criminalizes consensual gay sex, in a long-fought for victory for the LGBT community..

Lee Daniels, director of 2009's Precious, sat down with Larry King to discuss, among other things, his new movie The Butler and how his perspective as a gay, black man influenced the film's focus on the civil rights movement. Later, Daniels shared his own story of growing up gay and the continued st...

Prison Break actor Wentworth Miller publicly announced his homosexuality in support of LGBT people in Russia after turning down an invite to the country's film festival.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama shares his thoughts on same sex marriage and homosexuality.

Did you know people have tried to cure homosexuality with forced cuddling, horse stroking, and monkey testicles? Let's take a disturbing tour of the last hundred years of insane ex-gay cures, some of which are still being practiced by quacks to this day. Gay Therapy Conversion is illegal in several ...

Something we've been wanting to talk about for a while now! Its OK to be smart and it's ok to be gay! We have been a gay couple for 7 years and proud of it. Reactions to the coming out video include: "So impressed and proud of the +AsapSCIENCE guys for making this video. The comments sadly rem...

Richard Socarides remembers coming out to his father, one of the founders of conversion therapy who believed homosexuality is a mental illness and can be cured. His aim is to help lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people learn more about their community, straight people learn more about...

A powerful new trailer for the Joel Edgerton-directed gay conversion therapy drama Boy Erased has been released (above). The film, adapted from the memoir by Garrard Conley, stars Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, and Russell Crowe as well as Troye Sivan. Boy Erased recounts Arkansas native Conley’s life

Believer follows Mormon Dan Reynolds, frontman for the Grammy Award-winning band Imagine Dragons, as he takes on a new mission to explore how the Mormon Church deals with homosexuality. “I just want to take this moment,” began Dan Reynolds at the Billboard Music Awards, “to say there are still 34 s