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Atlanta All-Male HBCU To Admit Transgender Men in 2020

Atlanta’s own Morehouse College, the country’s only all-male HBCU (Historically Black College and University), will begin admitting transgender men in 2020.The college’s board of trustees approved the new p...

Russian Trans Woman Wins Discrimination Suit in Historic First

In a historic first, a Russian court has ruled in favor of a transgender woman in a discrimination lawsuit against her employer, according to LGBTQ Nation.Transgender woman Anastasia Vasilyeva sued the Yano...

Release Date of “Pose” Season Two is Released

Mark your calendars, because the release date for the highly anticipated second season of Pose has finally been announced.Last week, FX announced that the second season of the drama, executive produced by o...

Trans Actors Call Out IMDb for Deadnaming

Transgender actors have criticized IMDb, a database of actors, for publishing their birth names on their site without the actors’ consent.Two trans actors with major TV credits told IndieWire anonymously th...

Transgender Military Ban Goes into Effect

Donald Trump’s transgender military ban has gone into effect today, potentially jeopardizing the livelihoods of thousands.Almost two years after Trump first announced on Twitter that he was planning to enac...

Betsy DeVos Knew Negative Effects of Discrimination when Making Transgender Bathroom Rollbacks

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos defended her agency’s decision to roll back protections for transgender students, reported The Hill.DeVos acknowledged the agency’s 2017 choice to rescind Obama-era bathro...

Mike Huckabee Says Gender Non-Conforming Identities Are “Threat” to Moral Fiber of US

Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and father to President Donald Trump's press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said he believed that varying gender identities pose the "biggest threat" to the mor...

Trans People May Be Four Times More Likely to Have A Heart Attack

Transgender individuals may be more likely to suffer from a heart attack than their cisgender counterparts, according to Medical Xpress.A new study led by researchers at George Washington University found t...

Transgender Military Ban is “Act of Cruelty,” says Nancy Pelosi

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi denounced the Trump administration’s transgender military ban as an “act of cruelty” after a screening of the documentary TransMilitary in Washington, D.C., reported the Thomas Reuter...

Equality Act Hearing Held in House Judiciary Committee

The first ever hearing on the Equality Act was help in the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday (April 2), with most of the eight witnesses supporting the legislation, according to LGBTQ Nation.Chair of th...

Transgender Woman Ashanti Carmon Murdered in Maryland

Trans woman of color Ashanti Carmon was reportedly fatally shot in Maryland on the eve of the International Day of Transgender Visibility (TDOV), reported ABC7.Carmon was shot to death early Saturday mornin...

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

Health Dept. Proposes Removing Data Collection on LGBTQ Foster Kids

Trump’s Transgender Military Ban to Affect Naval Academy

Same-Sex Couples More Likely To Be Denied a Loan, Study Says

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Frank Ocean Reveals He’s Been in a Relationship for Three Years

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Madonna Announces New Album ‘Madame X’