• At Equality March, thousands rally for LGBTQ rights

    At Equality March, thousands rally for LGBTQ rights

    Jun 11, 2017 02:38 PM EDT

    ... event’s Facebook page that he drew inspiration from the worldwide Women’s March in January and hoped to create a similar event for the LGBTQ community. The march’s platform highlights a number of causes, including disability rights, preventing violence against LGBTQ people, and support for LGBTQ immigrants. The ...

  • How one photographer is challenging the myth that being LGBTQ is 'un-African'

    How one photographer is challenging the myth that being LGBTQ is 'un-African'

    Jun 09, 2017 09:13 PM EDT

    ... driven homophobia within Africa, there are fewer studies on African members of the LGBTQ community who have left the continent. Owunna believes that through fashion, LGBTQ Africans are visually deconstructing the idea of what it means to be both African and a member of the LGBTQ community. He hopes that ...

  • DeVos non-committal on banning discrimination against LGBTQ students in private schools

    DeVos non-committal on banning discrimination against LGBTQ students in private schools

    Jun 06, 2017 09:17 PM EDT

    ... accept all students, including students with disabilities, DeVos would not directly answer the question, saying only that schools accepting federal money should follow federal law. LGBTQ advocates slammed DeVos. "By once again turning a blind eye to LGBTQ students who experience discrimination in school, Secretary DeVos continues to prove why ...

  • 'Our Bible' app aims to support LGBTQ Christians who feel excluded

    'Our Bible' app aims to support LGBTQ Christians who feel excluded

    Jun 04, 2017 06:00 PM EDT

    ... that works for racial justice and LGBTQ acceptance within Christian institutions. The group traveled to religious universities whose policies allowed them to discipline or expel LGBTQ students. They would hold Bible study and educate students on LGBTQ identity, encountering frequent resistance from school authorities, some of whom forced them off ...

  • LGBTQ groups fear Tennessee bill would roll back civil rights

    LGBTQ groups fear Tennessee bill would roll back civil rights

    Apr 30, 2017 07:06 PM EDT

    ... dissent,” USA Today reported. But experts say the biggest legal consequence of HB 1111 is that it is redundant, confusing and riddled with conflicts. Still, LGBTQ groups are urging Gov. Bill Haslam to veto it on the basis that it could perpetuate the mistreatment and civil rights abuses of LGBTQ ...

  • What does North Carolina's HB2 compromise mean for LGBTQ rights?

    What does North Carolina's HB2 compromise mean for LGBTQ rights?

    Mar 30, 2017 11:13 PM EDT

    ... pass anything, they needed to get Democratic support. And what we really needed to have happen was for the governor, who is someone who the LGBTQ community worked very hard to get elected, someone who many people put their hope in as being someone who would help repeal HB-2 ...

  • In West Virginia, LGBTQ advocates see a shift toward support

    In West Virginia, LGBTQ advocates see a shift toward support

    Mar 26, 2017 08:01 PM EDT

    ... their gender. Meanwhile, “I wake up every day to go to school terrified,” Davis said. This Saturday, the deadline passed to move West Virginia’s LGBTQ nondiscrimination bills out of committee, which stops it from moving to the House for a vote. (A spokesperson for West Virginia House Speaker Tim ...

  • What Kentucky’s religious freedom bill could mean for LGBTQ students

    What Kentucky’s religious freedom bill could mean for LGBTQ students

    Mar 23, 2017 08:07 PM EDT

    ... still work to be done. “What we know is that there are student groups, particularly those religiously affiliated groups that want to discriminate based on LGBTQ status or religious affiliation as well,” Warbelow said. “When you do away with ‘all comers,’ you send a message that LGBTQ students aren't ...

  • Eight states censor LGBTQ topics in school. Now, a lawsuit is challenging that

    Eight states censor LGBTQ topics in school. Now, a lawsuit is challenging that

    Jan 29, 2017 11:02 PM EDT

    ... law remains in the state code, students and outside groups -- mostly centered in cities like Birmingham or Huntsville -- have mobilized to provide sexual education for LGBTQ students. Raven Rice, 17, and a senior at Grissom High School in Huntsville, Alabama, came out as bisexual toward the end of middle school ...

  • 'Everybody wants to be seen' -- exhibit showcases LGBTQ artists in prison

    'Everybody wants to be seen' -- exhibit showcases LGBTQ artists in prison

    Dec 03, 2016 06:27 PM EDT

    ... Jason Lyndon, and Janetta Johnson, executive director of the TGI Justice Project, a group that advocates for transgender prisoners -- spoke about the elevated risks that LGBTQ prisoners face of assault, harassment and solitary confinement. Black and Pink’s 2015 survey of 1,100 LGBTQ prisoners found that respondents were six ...