News & Commentary about LGBTQ Rights

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Demonstrators holding signs with the message 'Open to All"

Aug 29, 2019

Taxpayers Have Been Ordered to Pay Over $2 Million For Discriminating Against LGBTQ People

A doctor showing a patient a syringe used to inject testosterone

Aug 9, 2019

Over 132,400 Opposed Trump’s Anti-Trans Health Care Plan

Jul 24, 2019

Trans People Led the Fight Against HB2 in North Carolina. And We’re Winning.

Jul 12, 2019

Pompeo’s New 'Human Rights' Commission is Up To No Good

Jul 3, 2019

Thousands of Voices Are Telling the Supreme Court: Don’t Roll Back LGBTQ Rights

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.

Jun 26, 2019

Raising our Voices for Equality at Stonewall and the Supreme Court

A collage shows photos of LGBTQ people and historical newspaper clippings about LGBTQ rights, on a blue background.

Jun 17, 2019

Stonewall at 50. ACLU at 100. A Legacy of Fighting for Justice and Equality.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Jun 11, 2019

Patients’ Needs, Not Personal Beliefs, Come First in Health Care

May 30, 2019

Trump’s Anti-LGBTQ Agenda Will Keep Foster Children From Having a Loving Home

May 24, 2019

Black Trans Women Are Being Murdered in the Streets. Now the Trump Administration Wants to Turn Us Away From Shelters and Health Care.