I received my first, and only, sex talk because of George Michael’s “I Want Your Sex.”

We are never going to see a cultural shift in the Muslim mind-set about homosexuality until we value compassion, privacy and acceptance over judgment and bigotry.

Hamed Sinno is the frontman of Lebanese indie rock band Mashrou Leila and an openly gay Arab American from a Muslim family. He reacted strongly to a crowd following the mass shooting at an Orlando gay nightclub, lamenting the attack against the LGBT community as well as the rhetoric against Muslims and Arabs that followed.

A variation in the cognitive abilities of the two sexes may be more about social development than gender stereotypes

Writer and activist Feminista Jones talks about street harassment against black women and the #YouOKsis campaign.

Gwyneth Paltrow has had a stalker for almost two decades, and had to testify against him again this week due to recent threats and correspondence.

Sex advice from 1861. Let me be frank: Valentine’s Day is great if you’re getting laid. But there are, among the populace, a number of the “involuntarily celibate” for whom this “holiday” exists only to remind of isolation, rejection, and missed carnal opportunities. Where, in such times, can the lovelorn singleton turn for solace? There […]

Ghadeer Malek, Rachel Arinii and Nelly Bassily: Young feminists must help steer the fight against wider issues harming girls including poverty, marginalisation and exclusion

My parents moved from Libya, North Africa, to Canada in the early 1980s, and I am the middle child of eleven children...

Meet the forces behind the Women's Mosque of America, the first all-female Muslim prayer space in the country.

We're obsessed with Amy Heckerling's dream 'Clueless' musical casting

Following the "Titstare" fiasco at Disrupt, we're having a greater conversation about sexism in the tech industry. And women who work in tech won't be the only humans to benefit from the disruption of brogrammer culture.

Women should be able to wear what they want, without armed cops telling them to change. But let’s be clear: The ‘modesty’ of the burkini is dictated by men, too.

David Schwimmer has teamed up with Israel-American director Sigal Avin and MILK Studios co-founder Mazdack Rassi to create the #ThatsHarassment campaign to raise awareness about sexual assault.

Jury says gender was not a substantial factor in Kleiner Perkins' decision not to promote Ellen Pao, in case that has gripped Silicon Valley

In honor of International Women's Day, TIME looks at some unlikely revolutionaries, from Joan of Arc and Harriet Tubman to Russian punk-rockers.

"We are now so afraid after what happened in Orlando because we can see that it gave courage to the Islamist groups here," a march organizer said.

Até 1984 as mulheres ocupavam quase 40% dos cargos na área. Entenda os fatores que geraram uma mudança drástica

Priyanka Chopra: Female genital mutilation and child marriage destroy childhoods, but supporting girls and women will boost the lives of boys and men too

What happens when your same-sex partner controls, beats, or abuses you? BuzzFeed News spoke to survivors and the only national charity trying to help others like them.

“Why’d you let that ripe piece of ass get away?” There were 20 of them. Big fuckers. No like BIG fuckers. And they were drunk too. They were standing on the corner of Broadway and Columbus, outside the pizza place, with boxes of that greasy stuff. They were commenting on

Many women who have fled the fighting in North Waziristan find they have to go against tribal customs at the relief camp to get access to food and medical facilities.

Michael Sam Covers Out-St. Louis Rams defensive end Michael Sam covers the August issue of Out magazine with a spread photographed by Richard Phibbs. The

When two Iraqi men fell in love during intense fighting in the city of Ramadi in 2003, it was the beginning of a long, long struggle to live together as a couple.

Ellen Pao is seeking $16million after filing a sex discrimination suit against prestigious Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers.

New York-based photographer and visual artist Braden Summers travelled around the globe to create a beautiful photo series representing romantic scenes exclusively with gay couples. The photographs in the Kickstarter-funded “All Love Is Equal” project show a non-stereotypical representation of gay couples in iconic romantic scenes that were shot in 6 weeks and in six different countries: the UK, France, India, Lebanon, Brazil and the U.S.

Kesha is a chained woman. If you think comparing the pop singer to agunot—the unfortunate Jewish women whose husbands refuse to grant them a get, or religious divorce—is a bit much, consider the singer’s sorrows. In 2005, Kesha, then a senior in high school, met Lukasz Guttwald, or Dr. Luke. The producer had already written …

Four women tell their sordid tales of what it's really like to fundraise while female.

In 1990 the idea that your date could rape you was not widely understood, but Katie Koestner helped to change that.

You’ll have gathered from many of my previous posts that I’m a fan of murals and street art generally. So is Soraya at Suzee in The City, in fact she is currently working on her disser…

Director and former kickboxing champion Lexi Alexander has revealed she will direct an upcoming episode of the Supergirl TV series.

Denounced in Iran, a winner at Sundance, Maryam Keshavarz’s film ‘Circumstance’ stunningly captures the love affair of two 16-year-old Iranian girls.