• Hungary passes anti-LGBTQ+ law banning Pride events

    Hungary passes anti-LGBTQ+ law banning Pride events

    Mar 18, 2025 06:36 PM EDT

    WATCH: ‘Have mercy’ on LGBTQ+ communities and immigrants, Episcopal bishop asks Trump Booksellers in Hungary have faced hefty fines for failing to wrap books that contain LGBTQ+ themes in closed packaging. Critics have argued Orbán's campaign amounts to an attempt to cut LGBTQ+ visibility, and that by tying it ...

  • Supreme Court will hear Colorado case about state bans on conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ children

    Supreme Court will hear Colorado case about state bans on conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ children

    Mar 10, 2025 03:43 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday in a case from Colorado to decide whether state and local governments can enforce laws banning conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ children. The conservative-led court is taking up the case amid actions by President Donald Trump targeting transgender people, including a ban on ...

  • Trump demands apology after bishop asked him to 'have mercy' on LGBTQ+ people and migrants

    Trump demands apology after bishop asked him to 'have mercy' on LGBTQ+ people and migrants

    Jan 22, 2025 02:56 PM EDT

    President Donald Trump is demanding an apology from the Episcopal bishop of Washington after she asked him to have mercy on the LGBTQ+ community and migrants in the United States illegally during a prayer service marking his inauguration.

  • WATCH: 'Have mercy' on LGBTQ+ communities and immigrants, Episcopal bishop asks Trump

    WATCH: 'Have mercy' on LGBTQ+ communities and immigrants, Episcopal bishop asks Trump

    Jan 21, 2025 07:47 PM EDT

    ... full prayer service below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmUo3z93fDw She ended her sermon with a direct appeal to Trump, to have mercy on LGBTQ+ people and undocumented migrant workers: “You have felt the providential hand of a loving God. In the name of our God, I ask you ...

  • Judge tosses Biden's Title IX rules, rejecting expansion of protections for LGBTQ+ students

    Judge tosses Biden's Title IX rules, rejecting expansion of protections for LGBTQ+ students

    Jan 09, 2025 09:22 PM EDT

    Civil rights advocates hailed it as a victory, saying it gave LGBTQ+ students new recourse against discrimination. But it drew outrage from conservatives who said it could be used to protect transgender athletes in girls' sports. The rule didn't explicitly address athletics and mostly detailed how schools and colleges ...

  • Attorneys see surge of LGBTQ+ parents seeking to adopt their children before new Trump term

    Attorneys see surge of LGBTQ+ parents seeking to adopt their children before new Trump term

    Dec 11, 2024 06:33 PM EDT

    ... their son was born, Swenson and Durana have settled into the parental reality of constantly trying to anticipate danger, but the prospect of an anti-LGBTQ+ administration at a time of rising anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment has introduced new fears. There’s the regular stuff, like worrying about how to shield ...

  • LGBTQ+ youth calls to mental health crisis line spiked by 700 percent after Election Day

    LGBTQ+ youth calls to mental health crisis line spiked by 700 percent after Election Day

    Nov 08, 2024 09:51 PM EDT

    ... while navigating coming out to their families or facing discrimination. Right now, the services are experiencing long hold times at an especially vulnerable time for LGBTQ+ people. WATCH: Study finds LGBTQ+ youth mental health suffering in states with anti-trans laws LGBTQ+ youth are afraid, confused and anxious about the ...

  • The teacher who created LGBTQ History Month reflects on how he sparked a movement

    The teacher who created LGBTQ History Month reflects on how he sparked a movement

    Oct 25, 2024 10:20 PM EDT

    ... Wilson, Founder, LGBTQ History Month: Well, there was so much going on outside of my classroom. My textbook for, example, didn't have anything about LGBTQ people or LGBTQ history. And at this point, I was completely out to, everyone except on the job, except to colleagues, except to my ...

  • Study finds LGBTQ+ youth mental health suffering in states with anti-trans laws

    Study finds LGBTQ+ youth mental health suffering in states with anti-trans laws

    Oct 20, 2024 09:35 PM EDT

    ... protecting and supporting and serving, being of service to all constituents, and that also means the trans and non-binary youth. That also means the LGBTQ plus families. That means everybody. You can't siphon off a section of your constituency because you don't understand them. Ali Rogin: There ...

  • Meet the teacher who created LGBTQ History Month

    Meet the teacher who created LGBTQ History Month

    Oct 10, 2024 04:30 PM EDT

    ... in a closet to being out of the closet more feasible, less painful, less hurtful to ourselves and others. How did you come to found LGBTQ History Month? In January 1994, I sent out a proposal to all the then-LGBTQ organizations suggesting that that October 1994 be recognized as ...