Advocates blast transgender youth health care ban
LGBTQ+ advocates vowed to fight a Jan. 28 executive order by President Donald J. Trump that could virtually eliminate transgender youths’ access to appropriate and meaningful health care. The order,...
View ArticleNew Trump order goes after trans students
On Jan. 29, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that bars schools that receive federal funding from allowing students to identify with the name and pronouns that best match their gender...
View ArticleNATIONAL Twin Cities Pride, Trump nominees, city councils, Michigan law
Michigan’s revamped hate-crimes law—which Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed recently—will soon be expanded to protect sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability and more, according...
View ArticleWORLD Pride in Australia, drag queen, Trump fallout, Holocaust Memorial Day
In Australia, Victoria Police will not participate in an annual pride march in Melbourne after event organizers decided to not allow officers to march in uniform without tactical equipment, as in...
View ArticleNATIONAL Military lawsuit, ‘A Night of Pride,’ dog-park verdict, GLSEN layoffs
Several transgender service members, an aspiring enlistee and Gender Justice League filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, challenging the constitutionality of...
View ArticleNATIONAL Anti-trans bills, Equality Florida, Sam Nordquist, SF Pride
Note: This column contains disturbing accounts of sexual violence. Democrats in the U.S. Senate blocked a Republican-led attempt to enshrine discrimination against transgender athletes in federal law,...
View ArticleChicago Women in Trades sues feds over anti-DEI executive orders
A local nonprofit supporting tradeswoman is suing President Donald Trump and his administration over his executive orders targeting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Chicago Women in...
View ArticleNATIONAL School-board protests, CDC, A Wider Bridge, Harvard doctors
Virginia’s largest student-led LGBTQ+-rights group, The Pride Liberation Project, announced it will protest school board meetings across the state in response to the rise in anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric from...
View ArticleNATIONAL Restroom measure, Musk’s trans daughter, NYC Pride, new Philly leader
In Tennessee, a measure that would require all public and private educational institutions that house students overnight to separate bathrooms “by immutable biological sex” is headed to Republican...
View ArticleThe 36th GLAAD Media Awards honor Cynthia Erivo, ‘Baby Reindeer’ and many others
Los Angeles, CA – Thursday, March 27, 2025 – GLAAD announced all winners across 33 categories for this year’s 36th GLAAD Media Awards, hosted by Michael Urie. Cynthia Erivo received the iconic Stephen...
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