Gay Austin: The Latest

What could have started as an Internet joke may turn into a reality.

The partner of George Michael, who died in 2016, says the late pop icon actually took his own life and did not die of natural causes, according to a report from the British tabloid The Sun.

A young athlete from California lost his wrestling college scholarship after a video went viral that showed him using a gay slur at a rally last month.

Too few people with signs of mental decline or dementia are getting checked during routine medical visits or told when a problem is found, says a panel of Alzheimer's disease experts who offered new guidance Sunday.

The British government faced intensifying pressure Sunday to take steps to legalize abortions in Northern Ireland, where terminating a pregnancy remains a criminal offense even as tight abortion restrictions are being lifted in the Republic of Ireland.

A transgender activist who won a discrimination lawsuit after her school refused to let her use the girls' bathroom will be TV's first transgender superhero.

Police in Toronto say the remains of all eight known victims of an alleged serial killer have now been identified.

An independent panel of experts on sexual harassment is being set up at UNAIDS after calls for the organization's head to resign over his handling of harassment allegations.

Riz Ahmed, who shattered glass ceilings as the first Asian man to win an acting Emmy, is celebrating fellow trailblazer Sandra Oh.

After eight previous tries, the husband of celebrity chef Paula Deen has won the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest held in the city where writer Ernest Hemingway lived and wrote during the 1930s.