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The openly gay son of a Republican Arizona representative defended his father’s opposition to gay marriage in a recent interview.

You’ve been training all winter in anticipation of your very first white water rafting trip. Once you’ve got your wardrobe in check, then what?

A bar manager and go-go dancer helped stop a man from attacking patrons in a gay bar with an ax.

Wrestling students from an Arizona high school have been accused of hazing and bullying a fellow student.

A former state senator from Arizona could become the first open bisexual member of Congress after she won the Democratic primary for the U.S. House of Representatives.

Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton last month appointed Caleb Laieski as his office’s youth and diversity liaison.

Naz Meftah and her wife, Lydia Banuelos, have become tireless advocates for LGBT families who continue to face inequalities. And they draw upon their own experience to educate lawmakers-and anyone else with whom they speak.

When Paul Babeu, sheriff of a rural Arizona county, was outed by a Mexican lover whom he allegedly threatened with deportation, it played up the intersection (& sometime paradox) of the right-wing’s twin bugbears: illegal immigrants & out-gay allies.

"You’re a teacher, a guider. You transmit energy. You also have a deep connection to the spirit world, to spirits," says spiritual adviser Leon Pelletier, as he analyzes a Polaroid of my aura.

Merik Castro, 14, has collected more than 3,000 online petition signatures to force the Litchfield Elementary School District in Arizona to implement tougher bullying policies. The Avondale, Ariz., teen transferred schools after suffering what he described as relentless bullying.