There are an estimated 1.5 million gay, lesbian and bisexual people over 65 living in the U.S. currently, and that number is expected to double by 2030.
... lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people. Two polarizing questions: What sort of access should transgender people have to public bathrooms? And are the advances for LGBTQ rights infringing on the religious freedom of some Americans? WHERE TRUMP AND CLINTON STAND Hillary Clinton is a staunch supporter of LGBTQ rights; she ...
Rebecca Sugar, creator of Steven Universe, spoke with us about her new book, attitudes toward LGBTQ themes in children's media and her personal history with fairy tales.
Late Thursday, minutes before Mississippi’s anti-LGBTQ law was to go into effect, a federal judge struck it down. The law would have allowed business and government employees to deny service to LGBTQ people based on religious beliefs. In his 60-page decision, Judge Carlton W. Reeves wrote that ...
What's it like to be Latino and gay? With most of the victims being Latino, and nearly half of Puerto Rican descent, the June 12 shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando is shedding light on LGBTQ communities of color. People are speaking out, sharing their perspectives on the intersectionality ...
Editor’s Note: Soon after North Carolina’s governor signed into law HB2, the so-called “bathroom bill,” which requires transgender people to use the public bathroom that matches the sex on their birth certificate, Mississippi passed HB 1523, which allows certain businesses to refuse LGBTQ people services based on ...
#HB1523 protest at the govs mansion #NoHateInOurState #msleg pic.twitter.com/KwUKeoOPtg— kendall (@hardykendall) April 4, 2016 Fallout continues one week after Mississippi passed a law that allows business owners and employees to refuse services to LGBTQ people based on “sincerely held religious beliefs and moral convictions.” After nearly ...
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has signed a state law that allows businesses to refuse LGBTQ people services based on religious beliefs, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. In his statement, Bryant said that he wanted the law "to protect the sincerely held religious beliefs and moral convictions of individuals, organizations and ...
India's Supreme Court has decided to re-examine Section 377 of the Indian Constitution, a law it reinstated two years ago that criminalizes LGBTQ sexuality. The law, which dates back to 1860, refers to oral and anal sex acts as "unnatural" and carries a potential punishment of up to ...
... as a gender non-conforming, working-class youth experiencing homelessness. Poetry is particularly important in giving visibility and voice to people who are disabled and LGBTQ -- people who are too often silenced, or told that only one part of their identity is valid, he said. "Queer and trans people and ...
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