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.

Congressman Seth Moulton is standing by his views on trans students in sports amid backlash.

Rep. Seth Moulton is facing backlash from fellow Democrats and the LGBTQ community over comments he made to the New York Times after the election this week. The Democrat from Salem was quoted in a story on identity politics, making an argument that the party was not focusing on the issues most important to voters. “Democrats spend way too much...

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.

A New Hampshire man is accused of a civil rights violation after he allegedly stole a pride flag off the same property three times between June and September 2023. Hayden Anderson, a Berlin resident, faces six violations of the New Hampshire Civil Rights Act, according to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office. The first incident was on June 18, 2023,…

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

The town common in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, will once again be adorned in rainbows, celebrating love and the LGBTQ+ community in the annual Small Town Pride celebration. “Small Town Pride tries to offer, like, big city experiences for the rural areas,” said Rural Justice Network President Rob Orpilla. After two years in West Brookfield, the Rural Justice Network got approval…

There are fewer bars and clubs dedicated to the LGBTQ community in Boston compared to the past, with so much migrating online. But if meeting people via app isn’t your thing, there are other options. “There’s always something to do,” said Beth McGurr. “You just need to know how to find it.” McGurr is the founder of Lesbian Nightlife,...