His group has pressed the Boy Scouts to allow gay and transgender children. He said he still would like to see the group end its ban on atheists and agnostics. But, he said, ...

FILE: Boy Scout Casey Chambers carries a rainbow flag during the San Francisco Gay Pride Festival in California in this June 29, 2014 file photo.

A Maryland teenager is the first openly gay Boy Scout to become an Eagle Scout, the organization’s highest rank, according to the advocacy group Scouts for Equality.

The Scouts plan to continue their ban on gay adult Scout leaders. More than 2,000 Boy Scout leaders and officials are attending the meeting, which concludes Friday.

However, gay Scouts will face some limitations. "Any sexual conduct, whether heterosexual or homosexual, by youth of Scouting age is contrary to the virtues of Scouting," says one BSA document.

The Boy Scouts of America announced Monday that it’s lifting the ban on gay adults as Scout leaders. “On Monday July 27 the national executive board ratified a resolution removing the national ...

Perhaps the best summation of how LGBT groups felt about the vote — 61 percent of the 1,400 member Boy Scouts national council supported allowing gay Scouts — is in this Mother Jones headline ...

NBC News, which broke the story, says the Scouts are "close to ending ban on gay members, leaders.". The network reports that by allowing each local organization to select their own policy it ...

Openly gay youths will be allowed to join scouting, a historic decision the Boy Scouts of America says will keep it unclouded by “a single, divisive, and unresolved societal issue.” ...

Alex, a 19-year-old gay Wisconsin Eagle Scout and scoutmaster who didn’t want his last name used to protect his privacy, was in a room full of gay advocates in Texas when the vote was announced.

GLEN JEAN, W.Va. Two months after a vote that accepted openly gay boys as Scouts, officials for the Boy Scouts of America say they've put the issue aside and are focused on their 10-day national ...