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North American Trade Agreement could Benefit LGBTQ Community

The new North American trade agreement, among the United States, Canada, and Mexico, could benefit the LGBTQ community, reported Politico.The agreement contains a requirement that the member countries take ...

CDC Chief on Anti-Trans Memo: Stigma ‘Not in the Interest of Public Health’

President Trump’s own director of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention pushed back Tuesday on the reported memo within the administration seeking to eliminate federal protections for transgender peo...

HHS Falsely Blames Obama Amid Outrage Over Anti-Trans Memo

Under fire for a reported anti-trans plan that would eliminate federal protections for transgender people, the Trump administration is pushing back in defense of its enforcement of the law — but with a stat...

Trump Administration to Narrow the Definition of Gender

The Trump administration is considering narrowing the definition of gender to “a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth,” reported the New York Times.The Department of Health and H...

Trump Administration Opposed LGBTQ Census Questions, New Evidence Shows

The transcript released from the testimony of a Commerce Department official illuminated a potential reason why previous plans to add questions about sexual orientation and gender identity to a national survey ...

White House Takes $260 Million from Cancer/AIDS Research to Keep Kids in Custody

According to multiple sources, the Trump Administration will soon re-allocate an estimated $260 million of public funds from medical research (including cancer research, and HIV/AIDS research) so that the Execu...

DeVos Proposes Change in Campus Sexual Assault Rules

The Department of Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, has proposed changes to Title IX, the law preventing sex discrimination in schools, hoping to rescind Obama-era regulations on sexual misconduct in education,...

Labor Dept. Uses “Religious Liberty” to Discriminate, LGBTQ Advocates Say

As part of an ongoing Trump Administration campaign stressing religious freedom, on August 10, 2018 the Department of Justice implemented Directive 2018-03, an addition to Executive Order 11246 that critics cal...

Government is revoking our passports, trans women claim

A pair of trans women claim that the federal government of the United States has revoked their passports. They say that the government's refusal is based on a scheme to deny trans women their preferred identity...

Department of Justice creates much-criticized “Religious Liberty Task Force”

The Trump Administration's Department of Justice has founded a government body that it says is dedicated to defending religious liberty. Critics claim it's designed to protect anti-LGBTQ legislation and policie...

Vice President Pence campaigns for anti-LGBTQ candidate Lou Barletta

On Tuesday, Vice President Michael Pence made a surprising stop in Pennsylvania.It seems the VP is campaigning hard for Congressman Lou Barletta, who is running for the Senate of that state. Pence took a tr...

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

Pete Buttigieg Places Third in National Poll

Methodist Church Set to Meet to Discuss LGBTQ Views and Possible Split of Denomination

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Whether Federal Law Bars Anti-LGBTQ Discrimination

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Nintendo Faces Backlash After Removing Trans Flag Level from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Converse Releases New Pride and Trans Pride Sneakers

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