Amid a months-long shutdown due to the global pandemic, the Stonewall Inn, a cornerstone of the LGBTQ+ rights movement, has launched crowdfunding campaigns to keep it from shuttering for good. The bar, in New York City’s queer mecca, Greenwich Village…
The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia — which was widely praised by LGBTQ advocates but condemned by social conservatives — will likely have broad ramifications that go far beyond employment protections, according to several legal experts…
With the Trump administration refusing to take back its rule permitting anti-transgender discrimination in health care following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on LGBTQ rights effectively countermanding it, LGBTQ legal advocates are returning to the courts to bring the…
Sir Ian McKellen has long been an activist. The British cultural icon came out publicly in 1988 to decry the UK’s Section 28 law that forbid the “promotion” of homosexuality, and since then has been active in a range of LGBTQ causes…
Gay trans man Jasper Lauter has shared a video of the horrific moment when two cisgender people verbally assaulted him in a hate-filled, transphobic incident in California. Lauter, who lives in Fairfax, California, was putting rainbow flags up around his…
Creative LGBT+ activists in Ukraine’s capital city Kyiv have used drones to vastly improve a Soviet-era monument. Like Pride parades around the world, the annual Kyiv Pride march – which has previously drawn violent far-right counter-protesters – has been cancelled in 2020 due…
At a virtual federal court hearing Wednesday, the judge indicated he’d likely unseal the tapes of the Proposition 8 trial. Judge William H. Orrick of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California stated that he will…
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