Philadelphia is now the only US city with wide ranging legislation to protect LGBT citizens and families.

Last week, on 9 May (Thursday), Mayor Michael Nutter signed Bill No. 130224. According to the city's website, the new law provides a tax credit to 'employers who offer health benefits to same-sex couples, life partners and transgender employees.'  No other city in the US offers such benefits to employers.

Otgonbaatar Tsedendemberel, executive director of Mongolia LGBT Centre talks to Gay Star News about the struggle to get the organization established, achievements and plans for the first ever Mongolian Pride this year.

When did Mongolian LGBT Centre open? How did it come about? 

In 2007, the mandate to register non-governmental organizations (NGOs) belonged to the Ministry of Justice and Home Affairs (MoJHA). At the time, MoJHA refused to register LGBT Centre, given the name of the organization was not recognized.

Millions of Facebook users turned their profile pictures for marriage equality last week, a Facebook report has found.

Roughly 2.7 million people in the US switched their main pics to the Human Rights Campaign image of a pink-on-red equal sign.

Users, as it is the internet, changed their profile photos to various versions of this image, some featuring Lion King characters, Star Wars storm-troopers and even Gay Star News ducks.

Newly-elected Pope Francis has received a frigid welcome from Argentina’s leading LGBT rights group.

In a statement released yesterday by the Argentine LGBT Federation (FALGBT), the organization condemns the election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the new pope, saying: ‘the election… marks a clear desire of the Vatican to radicalize its position against the recognition of diverse family structures’.

The election today (13 March) of Pope Francis as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church has led LGBT groups to call for a Pope different from his anti-gay predecessor Benedict XVI.

'For decades the Catholic hierarchy has been in need of desperate reform,' said Herndon Graddick (pictured), president of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

Allies are a critical piece of the puzzle in the fight for LGBT workplace equality.

It is a testament to the evolution of allyship in the workplace that the casual uttering of anti-gay views completely unacceptable in today’s corporate culture. It is almost impossible to imagine a gay slur being said in the majority of US, Canadian or European companies today.

An LGBT rights group is protesting President Obama's failure to enact LGBT workplace protections.

Civil rights organization GetEQUAL is staging a demonstration on the south side of the White House tonight at 6 PM Eastern Time, just two days before Obama's annual State of the Union Address during which he may address laws he wants passed in his second term in a speech given directly to both houses of the US legislature. 

President Barack Obama has spoken at the annual National Prayer Breakfast, sponsored by the Fellowship Foundation which allgedly supports Uganda’s Kill The Gays bill.

Obama did not heed to calls by civil right groups to boycott the event today (7 February) over allegations the religious right evangelical organization (also known as ‘The Family’) has aided the rise in anti-gay hate in Uganda.

The Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBT civil rights organization in the US, is standing behind City Council Speaker Christine Quinn in her run for mayor of New York City.

The Boy Scouts of America may end its national restriction regarding sexual orientation when its national board meets next week to consider changing its controversial anti-gay policy.

But the fact that local BSA chapters would still have the ability to not allow gay scouts or leaders to participate has Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin speaking out.

Since the Mormon Church was the biggest financial contributor to the campaign to pass California's gay marriage ban in 2008, it's a bit surprising to learn that one of the businesses calling for the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act is a hotel chain founded by a devout Mormon.

Marriott International Inc. is among the corporations that has joined a coalition formed by the Human Rights Campaign to fight for the end of a law that bans federal recognition of same-sex marriages in the US.

Since Chad Griffin took over the reins of the Human Rights Campaign last June, three US states made history by passing ballot measures making gay marriage legal.

Now the head of the largest LGBT civil rights organization in the US is looking ahead to 2013 with even more ambitious goals.