Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up An estimated 1,018,700 (3.7 percent) of African-American adults ...

On a four-hour visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., I was struck that I didn't see any exhibits dedicated to the unique cultural experience of LGBT ...

In San Francisco, African American LGBT seniors often face a double jeopardy in terms of discrimination. Within the black community, they struggle to overcome homophobia. In the LGBT community, they ...

In February 2012, the Maryland legislature passed a law legalizing same-sex marriage in the state. At the time, only seven other states allowed same-sex couples to wed, and the backlash was immediate.

Healing Detroit, a series of retreats for Detroit area LGBT African-Americans, is set to launch its fourth round of retreats in Feb., April and June 2011. This next series is supported by a $15,000 ...

"We're here. We're queer. We're gay student-athletes, and also people of color." OK, so that's not the jazziest sports slogan since "Just do it." But it's reality for more folks than anyone in either ...

Westword: Talk about The New Black. Yoruba Richen: The New Black is a documentary that looks at how the African-American community is grappling with the gay-rights issue in light of the ...

NEW YORK - Members of the Rivers of Living Water church, which serves the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, attend a Sunday service in a rented space on Manhattan's Upper West Side, ...

The Black Lives Matter movement has aimed not only to effect policy change but also to make structural racism a kitchen-table conversation, Alicia Garza, one of the original organizers of the movement ...