Understanding how the U.S. went from marriage equality a decade ago to steep backsliding on transgender rights today could help determine what happens next for the country’s LGBTQ+ rights movement.

I opened an email announcement sent by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), an LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, with the subject line: these colors don’t run – Independence Day special. I felt as if I ...

As Pride Month wraps up, we look at the career and achievements of a pioneering LGBTQ+ comedian and activist. In 1979, Robin Tyler became the first out lesbian comic on national television. She has ...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the activist who championed transgender rights and protested in the historic Stonewall rebellion that galvanized the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement, has died. She was 78.

The Stonewall Uprising, a pivotal moment in the LGBTQ+ rights fight, occurred 56 years ago and sparked a movement led in part by two transgender activists: Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. The ...

The rights of trans youth could be a factor Virginia’s 2025 gubernatorial election and legislative control in Richmond.

When she was 16 years old, Rev. Shelley Washington realized two immutable truths about herself. The first was that she felt called to serve in the ministry. The second was that she was a lesbian. “I ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil Rights Movement and key architect of the March on Washington ...

Kash Patel is a 45-year-old Indian American attorney and Donald Trump loyalist who, in 2025, became the 9th Director of the FBI in Trump’s new administration. Patel rose from a career as a public ...

The Trump administration has removed all references to violence against LGBTQ+ people and gender-based violence in drafts of the State Department’s much anticipated annual report on international ...