LGBTQ rights

Navy launches ship named for gay rights leader Harvey Milk

By Associated Press

Milk served four years in the Navy before being forced out. He then became one of the first openly gay candidates elected to public office.

Chappelle’s anti-transgender comments in Netflix special draws protest

By Alex Veiga, Lynn Elber, Associated Press

A small number of people gathered in advance of a planned walkout by Netflix employees. The action Wednesday is intended to highlight objections to Chappelle's stand-up special "The Closer" and the company's handling of it.

The Census Bureau’s first ever data on LGBTQ+ people indicates deep disparities

By Chabeli Carrazana, Orion Rummler, The 19th

Sexual orientation and gender identity were added to the U.S. Census Bureau’s survey of the pandemic this summer — the first time a national government survey has captured the LGBTQ+ economic experience.

Swiss approve same-sex marriage by wide margin in referendum

By Associated Press

Cheers rang out, hugs were exchanged and rainbow-colored flags waved overhead across Switzerland as the Swiss resoundingly voted to allow same-sex couples to marry, final results of a nationwide referendum showed Sunday.

Anti-LGBT resolution revoked by a regional assembly in Poland after U.N. threat

By Associated Press

The move came after the country's government asked authorities in several regions to revoke their largely symbolic anti-LGBT resolutions. The EU had put millions of euros of funding to those regions on hold.

AP report: Justice Department reviewing policies on transgender inmates

By Michael Balsamo, Mohamed Ibrahim, Associated Press

Policies on housing transgender inmates in the federal prison system are being reviewed after protections for transgender prisoners were rolled back in the Trump administration, The Associated Press has learned.

‘Anti-LGBT ideology zones’ are being enacted in Polish towns

By Simon Ostrovsky

Poland's right-wing populist leader Andrzej Duda came to power last year on a platform decrying a ‘LGBT-ideology’ he alleged was spreading throughout his country at the expense of traditional family values. Now, dozens of Polish municipalities have enacted "LGBT ideology…

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Tennessee sued over transgender ‘bathroom bill’ for public schools

By Kimberlee Kruesi, Associated Press

The federal suit filed by the Human Rights Campaign on Tuesday is the latest seeking to overturn a long slate of bills targeting transgender people that Republican Gov. Bill Lee signed into law earlier this year.

Louisiana Senate backs transgender sports ban veto override

By Melinda Deslatte, Associated Press

Louisiana state senators have narrowly voted to overturn Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards' rejection of a bill prohibiting transgender students from participating in school sports.