• Twitter Chat: How well does Hollywood handle LGBTQ characters and issues?

    Twitter Chat: How well does Hollywood handle LGBTQ characters and issues?

    Sep 30, 2015 08:24 PM EDT

    ... character was portrayed." In our next #NewsHourChats, we’ll ask some of the questions raised by this issue: Should we be taking efforts to encourage LGBTQ diversity in Hollywood? What are some common mistakes Hollywood makes in portraying LGBTQ people? What are some ways a push for LGBTQ diversity can ...

  • Photos: LGBTQ Africans express identity in '(Limit)less' ways

    Photos: LGBTQ Africans express identity in '(Limit)less' ways

    Aug 28, 2015 04:39 PM EDT

    LGBTQ African immigrants are the heart of “Limit(less),” a photography documentary project that illuminates the lives of first and second-generation LGBTQ Africans in the diaspora. Photographer Mikael Owunna's childhood as a queer Nigerian-American informed his work and the creation of the project, he said. Owunna said ...

  • Photos: Why visibility matters to these LGBTQ youth

    Photos: Why visibility matters to these LGBTQ youth

    Jul 22, 2015 05:45 PM EDT

    Five years ago, 18-year-old Constance McMillen was banned from bringing her girlfriend to prom at Itawamba County Agricultural High School in Itawamba County, Mississippi. When McMillen protested the decision, the school canceled prom entirely. The controversy set off a wave of protests and coverage on LGBTQ youth, bringing ...

  • Backlash to Indiana’s religious freedom bill helped my LGBTQ students

    Backlash to Indiana’s religious freedom bill helped my LGBTQ students

    Apr 16, 2015 09:49 PM EDT

    ... marriage ban was lifted last year. This fear is deeply personal for my students, some of whom have been raised to believe that religion and LGBTQ equal rights cannot coexist. While not all of the local churches in our community reject gay marriage, many LGBTQ students have been told that ...

  • Former Justice Anthony Kennedy on political division and the state of the Supreme Court

    Former Justice Anthony Kennedy on political division and the state of the Supreme Court

    Oct 14, 2025 10:25 PM EDT

    ... t swing. And so that was one of the things explained in the book. Geoff Bennett: You were the pivotal voice in cases that expanded LGBTQ rights, that preserved abortion rights at the time, but also a ruling that struck down campaign finance restrictions. How do you reconcile or explain ...

  • Dallin Oaks, former Utah Supreme Court justice, named as new leader of Mormon church

    Dallin Oaks, former Utah Supreme Court justice, named as new leader of Mormon church

    Oct 14, 2025 09:01 PM EDT

    ... driving force in the church against same-sex marriage and in upholding a teaching that homosexuality is a sin — a position that causes uneasiness among LGBTQ+ members and their allies. He said in 2022 that social and legal pressure would not influence the church to change its posture on same ...

  • News Wrap: Texas National Guard troops arrive at training center near Chicago

    News Wrap: Texas National Guard troops arrive at training center near Chicago

    Oct 07, 2025 10:50 PM EDT

    ... tester. Saul Zabar was 97 years old.Still to come on the "NewsHour": the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on the controversial practice of conversion therapy for LGBTQ youth; soybean farmers feel the financial pain of tariffs on China; and a new book on the growing distrust of science.

  • October 6, 2025 - PBS News Hour full episode

    October 6, 2025 - PBS News Hour full episode

    Oct 06, 2025 11:38 PM EDT

    ... courts, we hear from the governor of Oregon. After agreeing to some parts of a peace plan, Hamas negotiates with Israel for an end to the devastating war in Gaza. Plus, the Supreme Court prepares to take up a case on the controversial practice of conversion therapy for LGBTQ youth.

  • A look at Colorado’s conversion therapy ban as it faces a Supreme Court challenge

    A look at Colorado’s conversion therapy ban as it faces a Supreme Court challenge

    Oct 06, 2025 10:35 PM EDT

    ... such bans in the past, but as Stephanie Sy reports, this case is being heard against a backdrop of intensifying cultural and political debates around LGBTQ rights. A warning, this story discusses topics of suicide. ... Geoff Bennett: The U.S. Supreme Court began a new term today marking the first ...

  • The Supreme Court begins a new term that will examine Trump's expansive claims of presidential power

    The Supreme Court begins a new term that will examine Trump's expansive claims of presidential power

    Oct 06, 2025 09:14 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday began a new term that will have a sharp focus on President Donald Trump's robust assertion of executive power. Pivotal cases on voting and the rights of LGBTQ people also are on the agenda. On Tuesday, the justices will hear arguments over ...