A wave of anti-LGBTQ state laws, and the recent Fulton Supreme Court ruling, show the need for the federal civil rights law that is awaiting Senate action.
The Biden administration's early actions to promote LGBTQ equality are getting high marks from rights groups.
The pandemic-related lockdown has exacerbated the isolation of India’s queer youth.
Protests erupted this week in response to a new abortion ban, but the government has been attacking women’s and LGBTQ rights for years.
This week’s Bostock decision creates stronger legal ground for more wins in housing, education, and health care, and in overturning the transgender military ban.
Groundbreaking writer-director Alice Wu surprises with her long-awaited second feature.
On Tuesday, the Arizona House banned transgender student athletes from participating on teams that align with their gender identity. All 31 Republican representatives supported the bill, which now moves on to the state Senate.
The new film by Céline Sciamma places equality at the center of a love story.
The House passed a comprehensive rights bill last year, but it died in the Senate. A new proposed compromise would ban discrimination — but with a major loophole.
Human rights advocates are decrying the Trump administration's policy of requiring asylum seekers to stay in Mexico for the duration of their immigration proceedings.
In her posthumous memoir, Edie Windsor details her vivacious sex life and in the process shatters stereotypes not only about lesbians but about older women in general.
The first-ever global survey on “conversion therapy” calls for government and the medical field to take steps to put an end to the discriminatory practice.
Five decades after that contentious moment in the fight for equality, it is still legal for employers to fire LGBTQ+ employees just because of their identity in most parts of this country. That may soon finally change.
Before Stonewall, lesbians were all but invisible in media. Fifty years of activism and advocacy have made a remarkable impact.
The media monitoring organization GLAAD recently released the 2019 edition of their Studio Responsibility Index, an annual report that this year found that of 110 films released in 2018, 20 (or 18.2 percent) of them included LGBTQ characters, the second-highest percentage on record. None of these characters, however, were transgender or non-binary.
Camila is the second trans woman reported killed in El Salvador just this month; in fact, she immigrated to the U.S. in the first place because she had received threat. Camila’s murder highlights the deadly impact of American immigration policies on vulnerable populations, especially women and LGTBQ people who migrated to the United States seeking safety.
On Tuesday morning, in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court lifted two lower court rulings that had prohibited Trump’s ban on transgender military service members from coming into effect.
Germans may soon be able to select a third gender option on their official identity records.
Human rights activists fear the worst after two young Malaysian women were convicted of engaging in a prohibited sex act and sentenced to six strokes of caning.
The House Appropriations Committee has passed an amendment that better enables taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to discriminate against queer and transgender families.
Orrin Hatch’s Senate speech is the latest example of how conservatives appeal to our emotions to mask their longstanding political inaction.
On Monday, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy signed a bill into law that codifies existing statues and practices designed to ensure fair treatment of women and trans people incarcerated by the state’s Department of Corrections.
Early Monday morning, six armed men robbed a Tijuana shelter where transgender women were staying. On May 8, the shelter was set on fire. Advocates voiced concern about the harassment of the trans women at the shelter and attributed this week’s violence to prejudice.
Pakistan’s first transgender news anchor has been hired by a local Pakistani television station, according to a story published Sunday by national English-language newspaper Dawn.
LGBTQ murders went up 86 percent in 2017, but remain vastly under-covered in cable and broadcast TV.