The Trump administration’s highest-profile openly gay official, Richard ‘Ric’ Grenell, was sworn in Thursday as the new U.S. ambassador to Germany by Vice President Mike Pence — controversial in the LGBT community for his conservative stance on gay rights. “With Ambassador Grenell leading our diplomatic mission to Germany…
All that mattered was being there. J McKnight, a transgender man who was a girls sports star four decades ago, provided a poignant moment Saturday night at the Los Gatos High School Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Then known as Jennie McKnight while competing in basketball, softball and…
Mariela Castro, a Cuban lawmaker and daughter of Communist Party chief Raul Castro, says she will push for gay marriage to be included in a constitutional reform process expected to begin in July. The reform is expected to encompass a wide range of modernizing changes to Cuba’s 1976 constitution, which was designed for a Soviet-style command economy.
One of the nation’s largest anti-LGBTQ organizations claims that it’s been treated unfairly because of its homophobic, transphobic, and other derogatory positions. This week, the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) became upset after learning that Amazon would not allow customers to make donations to the group through the AmazonSmile program…
Last summer I met Jude, who shared with me the harrowing story of how he had found himself homeless for the first time at 14 years old. Jude, who was assigned female at birth, came out to his father as a lesbian, was kicked out of his home and was on the streets, alone.
As the Supreme Court of the United States is poised to rule in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission — a case involving a Denver-area baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple — a major new national survey found a strong majority of Americans in every state oppose licenses to discriminate against LGBTQ people.
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