Fifteen years ago Friday, Hillary and Julie Goodridge married amid great fanfare and great protests. In pastel suits, with broad smiles and colorful streamers, they exchanged vows and rings just hours after Massachusetts became the first state in…
Taiwan's parliament approved a bill on Friday that legalizes same-sex marriage, making it the first place in Asia to do so. Hundreds of supporters who gathered outside parliament cheered and embraced at the news. The island's Constitutional Court…
Audio will be available later today. Editor's Note: This story includes accounts of self-harm and attempted suicide. On a late afternoon in September 2015, a 27-year-old transgender inmate named Adree Edmo wrote a note in her cinder block prison…
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The comedian Ahmed Ahmed was performing in Naples, Fla., last weekend when he poked fun at negative stereotypes about Middle Eastern people. “Clap if you're from the Middle East,” Mr. Ahmed said. “All right. We got a handful of…
Audio will be available later today. After months of watching entry videos — over 6,000 of them — the judges of the fifth annual Tiny Desk Contest have chosen a winner! Quinn Christopherson is a singer-songwriter from Anchorage…
