• Stonewall exhibit showcases flash point in LGBTQ community

    Stonewall exhibit showcases flash point in LGBTQ community

    Jun 29, 2019 09:20 PM EDT

    ... with a performance by the iconic gay singer and comedian Justin Vivian Bond. Also featured were a younger generation of activists and entertainers.Jason Baumann: LGBTQ history really isn't taught in schools. They aren’t being brought up given this history. We’re often given this kind of narrative ...

  • 50 years after Stonewall, why so many LGBTQ people are 'still grieving'

    50 years after Stonewall, why so many LGBTQ people are 'still grieving'

    Jun 25, 2019 10:45 PM EDT

    During the era of 1969’s Stonewall Riots, police raids against LGBTQ establishments were common. But when Stonewall patrons fought back, the modern gay rights movement was launched. On Stonewall’s 50th anniversary, Judy Woodruff gets perspective from Reverend Emma Chattin, activist and journalist George Johnson, The Anti-Violence Project’s Beverly Tillery and Mark Segal of Philadelphia Gay...

  • Why the Stonewall Riots represented a 'sea change' for LGBTQ rights

    Why the Stonewall Riots represented a 'sea change' for LGBTQ rights

    Jun 24, 2019 10:20 PM EDT

    On a June night in 1969, patrons of a New York City gay bar called the Stonewall Inn battled with police and set in motion the modern movement for gay rights. Fifty years later, the milestone anniversary of the event has sparked observations and celebrations nationwide -- as well as reflections from LGBTQ Americans about...

  • YA literature has more LGBTQ characters than ever. Here are 5 books to read

    YA literature has more LGBTQ characters than ever. Here are 5 books to read

    Jun 21, 2019 09:11 PM EDT

    ... world still have work to do to ensure all readers see themselves on the page.” But, she wrote, the world of YA is “finally giving LGBTQ+ teens the literature they deserve.” In her own words, here are five of her favorites in LGBTQ young adult literature. 1. “If I Was ...

  • How LGBTQ generations born before Stonewall navigated life, in 4 stories

    How LGBTQ generations born before Stonewall navigated life, in 4 stories

    Jun 17, 2019 09:41 PM EDT

    The 1969 police raid at Stonewall Inn in New York City was a watershed moment in LGBTQ history, when, after years of police harassment and mistreatment, the bar’s patrons fought back. The initial raid and the resulting violent protests began June 28, 1969, and lasted several days. Though the ...

  • Presidential candidate O'Rourke unveils plan to protect LGBTQ rights

    Presidential candidate O'Rourke unveils plan to protect LGBTQ rights

    Jun 12, 2019 02:46 PM EDT

    ... public life without discrimination" in employment, housing and "public spaces and services." The plan released Wednesday includes a universal health care system that would guarantee LGBTQ people access to hormone "and other gender-affirming treatments." O'Rourke also pledges to make it easier for LGBTQ refugee seeking U.S. asylum ...

  • LGBTQ Catholics denounce Vatican's document on gender identity

    LGBTQ Catholics denounce Vatican's document on gender identity

    Jun 10, 2019 03:43 PM EDT

    The document rejected the idea that people can choose or change their genders and insisted on the sexual "complementarity" of men and women to make babies.

  • LGBTQ donors helping Pete Buttigieg defy 2020 expectations

    LGBTQ donors helping Pete Buttigieg defy 2020 expectations

    Apr 08, 2019 10:38 PM EDT

    ... kinds of people she meets while traveling the country. "One of the most astounding things about Pete's candidacy is that it's not the LGBTQ community alone that's fueling it," she said. "The average guy says 'that Mayor Pete guy, he makes sense. He's smart, he's ...

  • Barr orders FBI, Bureau of Prisons to probe discrimination against LGBTQ workers

    Barr orders FBI, Bureau of Prisons to probe discrimination against LGBTQ workers

    Apr 05, 2019 08:58 PM EDT

    ... queer employees, he said in a letter released Friday. The announcement came in response to concerns from DOJ Pride, a group that represents thousands of LGBTQ employees at the Justice Department and its component agencies. The group's board of directors sent a letter to Barr last week that asked ...

  • LGBTQ activists report new wave of detentions, torture and killings of gay people in Chechnya

    LGBTQ activists report new wave of detentions, torture and killings of gay people in Chechnya

    Jan 14, 2019 11:50 PM EDT

    The Russian republic of Chechnya has launched a new crackdown on gays in which at least two people have died and about 40 people have been detained, LGBT activists in Russia charged Monday.