Top Trending Stories: April 29 - May 5, 2012

Residents and visitors to Rockford, Illinois will be celebrating the city's inaugural Pride Fest on Saturday, June 9th, 2012.

Gay Utah teenager Jack Reese has committed suicide after being bullied at school.

Conservatives are waging a war of words against Dan Savage for calling "bullshit" on the Bible's anti-gay message.

Joel Osteen of the Houston megachurch Lakewood Church told Chris Wallace on Sunday that he believes being gay is a sin.

Anthony Bertolone, 22, an ex-Drake University student, was convicted today of five counts of third degree sexual assault following a bench trial which took place in late March 2012.

Shooting for "Scrooge and Marley," the highly-anticipated gay adaptation of Dickens' classic holiday novella, began here in Chicago on Monday April 30.

The gay bishop of New Hampshire, Gene Robinson, is about to retire -- and Episcopalians there might replace him with another openly gay bishop.

Openly gay Richard Grenell, a foreign policy spokesman and advisor to Mitt Romeny (R-MA) for President has quit following backlash from social conservatives.

Queen Latifah will headline the Long Beach Lesbian & Gay Pride Festival this month.

The list of nominations for the 2012 Tony Awards was announced Tuesday morning. Actor, singer, producer, director and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender advocate Neil Patrick Harris returns for a third time to host the awards ceremony which takes place at New York's Beacon Theater on June 10, 2012.