• 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 ...

  • WATCH: Walz delivers remarks at Human Rights Campaign event for LGBTQ+ equality

    WATCH: Walz delivers remarks at Human Rights Campaign event for LGBTQ+ equality

    Sep 08, 2024 08:18 PM EDT

    He also outlined a litany of Harris's achievements on LGBTQ+ issues, recalling an episode in when, as attorney general of California, she had to personally call a Los Angeles clerk who was declining to issue marriage license to same-sex couples. “'You must start the marriages immediately,'” Harris told ...

  • LGBTQ+ activists and supporters rally in Nepal's capital during annual Pride parade

    LGBTQ+ activists and supporters rally in Nepal's capital during annual Pride parade

    Aug 20, 2024 04:08 PM EDT

    KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Hundreds of LGBTQ+ people and their supporters rallied in Nepal's capital Tuesday during the annual Pride parade, the first since gay couples were able to register same-sex marriages officially in the Himalayan nation following a Supreme Court order in Nov 2023. The annual event brings ...

  • How the Lavender Scare forced LGBTQ+ workers out of the federal government

    How the Lavender Scare forced LGBTQ+ workers out of the federal government

    Jun 30, 2024 09:30 PM EDT

    ... might be discussions of perverts of deviance of misfits. And so that wouldn't necessarily be understood or interpreted by the broad population as referencing LGBTQ people. John Yang: A lot of these policies were on the books maybe not observed, but they were still official policies until the 1990s ...

  • WATCH: Biden speaks at opening of Stonewall visitor center, key location for LGBTQ+ rights

    WATCH: Biden speaks at opening of Stonewall visitor center, key location for LGBTQ+ rights

    Jun 28, 2024 05:24 PM EDT

    “He has a pretty long history of moving very quickly with the community and with where our needs are, even with the kind of gridlock we have in Congress,” Smith said. Winnie Stachelberg, a longtime advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, said Biden has always been about “meeting people where they ...