LGBTQ

Corporations are pulling out of the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index just a few years after celebrating their contributions to LGBTQ+ inclusion.

Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday said that he supports restricting “single-sex facilities” in the Capitol, including restrooms, to “individuals of that biological sex”— which would effectively ban the first transgender congresswoman from using women’s bathrooms in the next Congress.

Wednesday is Transgender Day of Remembrance, which focuses on trans people who have lost their lives because of violence.

A U.S. Naval Academy graduate ripped down a tattoo shop’s LGBTQ+ pride flag and put it in the trash, Annapolis police said in documents charging him with a hate crime.

From Latino teens in Georgia to a lesbian Las Vegas business owner, they’re the latest to receive offensive and disturbing text messages that the FBI is investigating.

Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina introduced the resolution as Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, D-Del., is set to become the first out transgender member of Congress.

Thailand’s same-sex marriage law could add 4 million tourists and $2 billion in tourism revenue per year, according to a report commissioned by Agoda.

Three former Manchester Township School District employees have alleged hostile treatment and anti-LGBTQ bias.

Questions about sexual orientation, gender identity and changes to queries about race and ethnicity are on track to be asked in the most comprehensive survey of American life by 2027, U.S. Census Bureau officials said Thursday.

Thailand’s landmark marriage equality bill has been officially written into law, allowing same-sex couples to legally wed.

The practice of conversion therapy has stirred controversy and is opposed by the American Medical Association.

Oscar-nominated director David France said the voices of children have been left out of the nationwide debate over drag reading events.

More than 150 of the out athletes at the 2024 Games are women, according to sports site OutSports.

A federal appeals court panel ruled 2-1 on Friday that Tennessee does not unconstitutionally discriminate against transgender people by not allowing them to change the sex designation on their birth certificates.

Pennsylvania authorities confirmed that dismembered human remains found late last month are those of a transgender teenager who had been reported missing. 

LGBTQ older adults are twice as likely as their heterosexual counterparts to grow old single and living alone, according to SAGE, an advocacy organization for LGBTQ elders.

Those covered by the pardon will be able to apply to receive proof that their conviction has been erased, petition to have their discharges from the military upgraded and move to recover lost pay and benefits.

The Biden administration’s new Title IX rule expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students has been temporarily blocked in four states after a federal judge in Louisiana found that it overstepped the Education Department’s authority.

Lawmakers have approved legislation that would rename a New York City subway station in honor of the Stonewall riots. The state Legislature approved a bill Wednesday that would change the name of the Christopher Street-Sheridan Square subway station in Greenwich Village to the Christopher Street-Stonewall National Monument Station.

Cobalt Sovereign, 17, alleged a student assaulted her while she was leaving the men’s bathroom at her high school in Minnetonka, Minnesota.