It's a Queer World

b. December 12, 1960 Volker Beck is one of Europe's leading advocates of GLBT rights. A member of Germany's parliament, the Bunde...

b.16 November 1964 British multimillionaire media entrepreneur and politician. He was co-founder and managing director of Planet 24, a TV...

b.  5 November 1968 Australian Labor Party senator for South Australia and the Federal Minister for Finance and Deregulation, Wong is...

b. August 28, 1965 “I'm not on a show with a pink triangle or rainbow flag—which means that being gay is just a part of who I am.” ...

b. August 10, 1963 Andrew Sullivan is an author and journalist who regularly appears on national television and whose commentary is fea...

In New York, A Transgender Candidate Is Hoping to Make History   “I’m not running because I’m transgender,” said Mr. Wymore, 50, who was bor...

MAVERICK federal MP Bob Katter has lost the support of unions representing hundreds of thousands of workers after broadcasting a political a...

b. February 27, 1965 All real and lasting change starts first on the inside and works it way through to the outside. Politically speaking...

b. February 10, 1959 “Each time we act against discrimination, we add a ring of life to the American tree of liberty.” John Berry is th...

b. January 1, 1931 "I learned in the civil rights era that nobody gives you anything - you have to fight for it. The same is true of...

b. 27 December 1944 Australian senator, the inaugural Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens, who was the first openly gay member o...

While the bulk of English language reporting on gay marriage has focussed on three English - speaking countries, the state level battles in ...

"An embattled Mississippi mayor has come out after an investigation revealed that he used city funds to cover personal expenses includi...

A Texas state board of education Republican seeking re-​election has come out as gay, and immediately lost the endorsement of a prominent co...

AN ex-cop who is Scottish Labour’s first transgender election candidate told last night how she was hounded out of the police. Carol Mapley...

Anna Grodzka has become Poland's first openly transgender parliamentarian. Grodzka, who transitioned last year, secured a place in the S...

b. 11th Sep, 1967  The story of Ivan Massow;s career has been steeped in controversy and scandal, but what I love about it, is the way tha...

b. 1790 d. May 17, 1862 George Herchmer Markland was the closest thing to royalty that existed in the Canadian colonies. Born in 1790 at ...