• Gavin Newsom tours South Carolina, a pivotal primary state for Democrats

    Gavin Newsom tours South Carolina, a pivotal primary state for Democrats

    Jul 08, 2025 06:58 PM EST

    ... hosted Trump's allies on his podcast, even stunning some members of his own party by agreeing with podcast guests on issues such as restricting transgender women and girls in sports. Saying dismantling police departments was “lunacy," Newsom also kept silent when longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon falsely said Trump ...

  • Digital archive aims to preserve Bayard Rustin's legacy as a queer Civil Rights activist

    Digital archive aims to preserve Bayard Rustin's legacy as a queer Civil Rights activist

    Jul 08, 2025 06:47 PM EST

    ... Gavin Newsom issued a posthumous pardon in 2020, acknowledging Rustin had been subjected to discrimination. Rustin and figures such as Marsha P. Johnson, a prominent transgender activist during the gay rights movement, continue inspire the LGBTQ+ community because they “were super intentional and unapologetic in the ways in which they ...

  • A look at rulings from the Supreme Court term that could have far-reaching consequences

    A look at rulings from the Supreme Court term that could have far-reaching consequences

    Jul 04, 2025 10:50 PM EST

    ... a concurring opinion and said -- in which she would have gone further and reached an issue that the majority didn't address, whether or not transgender people are a suspect or a protected class. And then they issued a decision in a case out of Montgomery County, Maryland, in the ...

  • How Trump's big bill could affect women, children and LGBTQ+ Americans

    How Trump's big bill could affect women, children and LGBTQ+ Americans

    Jul 02, 2025 08:05 PM EST

    A provision that would have prohibited Medicaid from covering gender-affirming care for transgender people — minors and adults — was stripped out by the Senate parliamentarian. But the Senate parliamentarian approved a provision that would prevent Planned Parenthood and other reproductive health care clinics from receiving Medicaid reimbursements for the provision ...

  • News Wrap: 'Diddy' jury reaches verdict on 4 of 5 counts and told to continue deliberating

    News Wrap: 'Diddy' jury reaches verdict on 4 of 5 counts and told to continue deliberating

    Jul 01, 2025 10:50 PM EST

    ... were either partially or fully canceled. Temperatures in Paris remained at 101 degrees Fahrenheit even at sunset. The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender athletes from its women's sports in order to resolve its federal civil rights case with the Trump administration. The Department of Education said ...

  • How a new twice-yearly drug is prompting hopes of curbing HIV cases

    How a new twice-yearly drug is prompting hopes of curbing HIV cases

    Jul 01, 2025 10:30 PM EST

    ... people understand their own sexuality, their own risk. It is certainly going to be used by some gay men and men who have sex with men, transgender individuals, people who inject drugs, sex workers, young women in -- particularly in Eastern and Southern Africa, where we see high rates of HIV.

  • Senate pulls AI regulatory ban from GOP bill after complaints from states

    Senate pulls AI regulatory ban from GOP bill after complaints from states

    Jul 01, 2025 06:49 PM EST

    ... and blamed a number of people and entities he said “hated the moratorium,” including China, Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a teachers union leader and “transgender groups and radical left-wing groups who want to use blue state regulations to mandate woke AI.” He didn't mention the broad group ...

  • News Wrap: Idaho investigators identify alleged gunman in firefighter ambush attack

    News Wrap: Idaho investigators identify alleged gunman in firefighter ambush attack

    Jun 30, 2025 10:50 PM EST

    ... improperly terminated for social media posts she made prior to her employment. Officials say Kari MacRae was fired in 2021 for making and reposting anti-transgender TikTok content. Environmental Protection Agency staff published a declaration of dissent today, saying the Trump administration's policies undermine the EPA's mission. It ...

  • What's in the latest version of Trump's 'big bill' Senate Republicans are trying to pass

    What's in the latest version of Trump's 'big bill' Senate Republicans are trying to pass

    Jun 28, 2025 08:04 PM EST

    The Senate provided $40 million to establish Trump’s long-sought “National Garden of American Heroes.” There's a new excise tax on university endowments, restrictions on the development of artificial intelligence and blocks on transgender surgeries. A $200 tax on gun silencers and short-barreled rifles and shotguns was ...

  • Around 100,000 march at Budapest Pride in defiance of Hungary's ban on the event

    Around 100,000 march at Budapest Pride in defiance of Hungary's ban on the event

    Jun 28, 2025 05:33 PM EST

    ... the latest crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights by Orbán's government, which has already effectively banned both same-sex adoption and same-sex marriage and disallowed transgender individuals from changing their sex in official documents. Police rejected several requests by organizers in recent weeks to register the Pride march, citing the ...