gay rights

Conservative and liberal religious leaders may not agree on much, but both are expressing displeasure with the Boy Scouts' proposal to accept gay members but reject gay leaders.

Under increasing pressure over its longstanding ban on gays, the Boy Scouts of America is proposing to lift the ban for youth members. The Scouts plan to continue to exclude gays as adult leaders.

In a small, former mining town turned artist colony, the city council approved on Apr. 2 an ordinance recognizing civil unions for same-sex couples. The measure — adopted with a vote of 5-2 following an emotional three-hour hearing — makes Bisbee the first Arizona city to validate civil unions.

A new poll shows that 55 percent of African-American adults do not agree with the LGBT community's claim that gay rights are the same as civil rights.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth is making history by coming out in favor of gay rights.

Chick-fil-A will continue serving University of New Mexico students, after the Student Union Building board voted 8 to 3 last week to keep the fast food chain on campus.

A bill proposed in the California legislature seeks to punish the local chapters of the Boy Scouts of America for prohibiting homosexual leaders and members from joining the organization.

The U.S. government announced last week that it was extending a number of federal benefits to homosexuals in the military.

President Barack Obama last week nominated Justice Department attorney Todd M. Hughes to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit -- who, if approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee, would be the first openly gay federal appeals court judge.