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Supreme Court agrees to hear gay wedding cake refusal case

On the two-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s sweeping decision in favor of marriage equality, the court announced Monday it had agreed to review a case in which a Colorado bakery refused to sell a we...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, March 1

1. Barely three months into 2017 and six transwomen of color have been killed. Ciara McElveen was stabbed to death. Her murder is the second reported death of a black transwoman in New Orleans this month, occur...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Feb. 17

1. Remember that florist in Washington state who refused service to a gay couple in 2013? The state Supreme Court ruled this week that she broke Washington's anti-discrimination law. Her lawyers plan to take th...

Ryan Lee: Matching the supreme pettiness of old white men

Donald Trump nominating to the U.S. Supreme Court a judge who colleagues and legal observers characterize as a stricter constructionist than Antonin Scalia is the first relief I've felt since the election. When...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Feb. 6

1. Prairieland, America's newest detention center for immigration detainees, opened last week in Texas. It has a separate, remote pod specifically for transgender detainees, which some LGBT advocates say may do...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Feb. 1

1. Last night, President Trump named Neil Gorsuch his pick to the Supreme Court. The folks over at Lambda Legal have some concerns about this choice, namely for his past anti-LGBT and religious exemption ruling...

Few bright spots in a year dominated by LGBT setbacks nationally

2016 will go down in the LGBT history books as a year of sobering pushback against the many gains won in the years prior. In the space of 12 months, the community has gone from having the most pro-LGBT presiden...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Nov. 10

1. The New York Times has a story on LGBT groups' responses to Trump's victory. 2. The Daily Beast's Jay Michaelson looks at the Trump effect on the Supreme Court. 3. “The LGBTQ community knows how to fig...

Trans bathroom case, anti-gay baker case highlight new Supreme Court session

There will be at least one case before the U.S. Supreme Court this session testing the ability of groups to claim an exemption to state laws based on their religious affiliation. A second case is asking the cou...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Aug. 19

1. The Kim Davis court fight is officially over, as a U.S. District Court has dismissed three lawsuits against the Kentucky court clerk saying that changes in the law since last year make them essentially irrel...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, July 19

1. The Republican delegates hoping to strip anti-LGBT language from the party's platform formally gave up on Monday, the first day of the Republican National Convention. They did not have the votes to force a f...

A time of reckoning: Atlanta's LGBTQ community addresses racism problem

U.S. Airlines to Offer Non-Binary Gender Option on Tickets

Bernie Sanders Announces Bid for 2020 Presidency

Report: Trump Admin to Launch Global Effort to Decriminalize Homosexuality

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Karl Lagerfeld Dies at 85

Actor Don Cheadle Sports Pro-Trans T-shirt on Saturday Night Live

Ghost Story-Themed Play Makes Magic