News & Commentary about LGBTQ Rights

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A Meals on Wheels driver loading food into a truck

Nov 5, 2019

Trump Wants to Allow Discrimination with Billions of Dollars of Federal Funding

Oct 15, 2019

The Supreme Court Could Allow the Use of a Religious Litmus Test for Foster Parents

Oct 9, 2019

I Am One of Aimee Stephens’s Lawyers, and I Heard Yesterday’s Argument Firsthand

A crowd celebrates outside of the Supreme Court in Washington after the court declared that same-sex couples have a right to marry anywhere in the U.S.

Oct 8, 2019

What You Need to Know About the LGBTQ Rights Case Before SCOTUS

Sep 19, 2019

Gavin Grimm, From Teen Activist to Trans Icon

Empty cells at Arkansas Department of Correction prison in Malvern, Ark.

Sep 3, 2019

A New York Jail Forced a Trans Woman Into a Men’s Facility

Demonstrators holding signs with the message 'Open to All"

Aug 29, 2019

Taxpayers Have Been Ordered to Pay Over $2 Million For Discriminating Against LGBTQ People

A doctor showing a patient a syringe used to inject testosterone

Aug 9, 2019

Over 132,400 Opposed Trump’s Anti-Trans Health Care Plan

Jul 24, 2019

Trans People Led the Fight Against HB2 in North Carolina. And We’re Winning.

Jul 12, 2019

Pompeo’s New 'Human Rights' Commission is Up To No Good