An LGBT History Month Happy 15th anniversary for marriage equality; America’s top court tackles trans teen toilet rights, LGBT advocates challenge Utah’s "no promo homo" classroom ban, Mormons toss "same-sex attracted" people a bone, Google sees red over Singapore’s Pink Dot restrictions, Britain’s House of Commons rejects a bill to pardon all men convicted of gay sex before it was legal, and more LGBT news from around the world!

October’s LGBT History Month flashes back to the early 80’s … an expanded "Rainbow Minute" honors Gay Games founder Dr. Tom Waddell … and in the news, Indonesia’s President tries tossing a life preserver to water-boarded queers, a Romanian marriage case divides top officials, Amsterdam’s prosecutor investigates homophobic death threat leaflets, civil marriage equality opponents march in Paris and Mexico City, Australia seats its first openly gay aboriginal MP … and more LGBT news from around the world!

Hear historic highlights from Washington’s first-ever LGBT mega-march; Australia’s Opposition pulls the plug on Turnbull’s wheezing civil marriage plebiscite; sexual and gender minorities are shut out of the U.N.’s "New Urban Agenda", Russia’s government shuts down an LGBT teen support website, a U.S. appeals court agrees to rehear an Indiana lesbian’s workplace bias lawsuit, France advances transgender rights, North Carolina gubernatorial candidates clash over HB2 [with comments by Governor Pat McCrory and challenger Roy Cooper] … and more LGBT news from around the world!

A classic collection inspires Coming Out Day; Aussie activists challenge their Attorney General on the government’s plebiscite plan, U.S. I.D. laws challenge transgender voters, HB2 drives junior college sports and a fine dining panel out of North Carolina, a U.S. national campus Christian group denies an equality supporter witch hunt, the Rentboy.com CEO plea deals to prison, there’s no more wondering about "Wonder Woman" … and more LGBT news from around the world!

Disability meets sexuality in India for a "Margarita With A Straw"; Hong Kong makes diversity pretty in pink, hundreds are detained for being proud in Kampala, Haitian authorities shut down a queer Afro-Caribbean festival, the "Times of India" reports more than a thousand arrests last year under Penal Code Section 377, the colonial era law criminalizing sex "against the order of nature", escalating boycotts of North Carolina because of its anti-LGBT law, HB2, prompts a major investment group to warn of a “state government-inflicted recession” … and more global LGBT news!

Edward Albee takes a final bow; Queensland crowns age of consent equality; queer Emmy highlights star Jeffrey, Jill, and Sarah; Northern Ireland stands alone after Guernsey okays marriage equality, a powerful police presence keeps Belgrade Pride peaceful, Charlotte shuns a rights repeal deal to solve North Carolina's HB2 debacle, a U.S. hate preacher finds no haven in Botswana, and more global LGBT news!

Canada’s "Queer Decade: 1995-2005" culminates in marriage equality; a banned U.S. hate preacher diverts his South African crusade to Botswana, college sports groups flee anti-LGBT North Carolina, the U.S. Army finally okays transition treatment for whistleblower Chelsea Manning, the curtain falls on Edward Albee, RuPaul’s Emmy win surely tops an enema, and even more queer news and culture!

How queer Canadian teachers taught public schools tolerance; a book about Germany’s pre-Nazi LGBT movement causes our queer life and literature commentator some sleepless nights; a "Rainbow Minute" profiles Katharine Lee Bates, the lesbian poet behind "America the Beautiful”; Indonesia’s government targets "Grindr" in its anti-gay crackdown, Mexicans march for and against marriage equality, Finland’s national church nixes wedding blessings, but Aruba gets "civil", and more LGBT news from around the world!

TV’s gay Asian Gets Away with Visibility; a disappointing defeat derails Canada’s "Queer Decade"; Australia’s Opposition throws marriage proposals into the plebiscite mix, Bermuda’s High Court okays a marriage equality lawsuit, New York’s highest court expands the definition of parenthood, the Church of England has its first openly gay Bishop, Pride drags into Kim Davis’ hometown, and more LGBT news from around the world!

Recalling the bookstore storm that brought Canada a reading rainbow; our queer life and literature commentator takes a novel look at queer life in the Middle East; a "Rainbow Minute" profiles the 1956 gay Olympian who never was; Australia’s marriage equality plebiscite meets political pandemonium, a Texas judge blocks Obama’s trans student guidelines, but another judge clogs HB2’s plumbing as Charlotte Pride overfloweth, and more global LGBT news!