News & Commentary about LGBTQ Rights

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Dec 19, 2019

10 LGBTQ Moments that Defined 2019

Menstrual activists demonstrate at the Capitol during a National Period Day rally.

Dec 17, 2019

Menstruation-Related Discrimination is Sex Discrimination — We Don’t Need to Erase Trans or Non-Binary People to Make That Point

Dec 9, 2019

Three Ways the “Fairness for All Act” Doesn’t Protect LGBTQ People from Discrimination

Demonstrators protesting FOSTA and SESTA.

Dec 1, 2019

Reducing HIV Transmission Requires Decriminalizing Sex Work

A Meals on Wheels driver loading food into a truck

Nov 5, 2019

Trump Wants to Allow Discrimination with Billions of Dollars of Federal Funding

Oct 15, 2019

The Supreme Court Could Allow the Use of a Religious Litmus Test for Foster Parents

Oct 9, 2019

I Am One of Aimee Stephens’s Lawyers, and I Heard Yesterday’s Argument Firsthand

A crowd celebrates outside of the Supreme Court in Washington after the court declared that same-sex couples have a right to marry anywhere in the U.S.

Oct 8, 2019

What You Need to Know About the LGBTQ Rights Case Before SCOTUS

Sep 19, 2019

Gavin Grimm, From Teen Activist to Trans Icon

Empty cells at Arkansas Department of Correction prison in Malvern, Ark.

Sep 3, 2019

A New York Jail Forced a Trans Woman Into a Men’s Facility