Alabama Republican Governor Kay Ivey signed a package of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation Friday including House Bill 322 which bans K-12 students from using bathrooms and school facilities consistent with their gender identity and enacts a bill similar to one recently enacted in…
About one-third of the 1,586 books banned from schools nationwide have LGBTQ themes and characters, according to a report from the free-speech organization PEN America. The bans have largely come from Republican politicians, conservative school boards and so-called “parents’ rights” groups…
Today marks the start of the Masters Tournament, one of the four major championships in professional golf. The event will have zero out gay male players, continuing 86 straight years of having none on its roster. “LGBTQ visibility in men’s golf…
In a landmark ruling, a federal court has ordered the Defense Department to end a long-standing Pentagon policy forbidding enlisted military service members from deploying in active duty outside the continental U.S. and being commissioned as officers if they have…
The year was 2010, and scarves were in. “Very European,” says EJ Johnson, the son of Magic Johnson, as he recalls when he came out as gay to his father. “Even in the summer, you had your linen scarves. That was…
Throughout her career, Ketanji Brown Jackson has been one of just a few Black women. When Jackson became a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer in 1999, less than 2 percent of the high court’s clerks at the time were Black…
Florida Gov. DeSantis has been caught lying about the family of a transgender student in order to promote his state’s Don’t Say Gay law. In the signing ceremony for the Don’t Say Gay law last week, DeSantis related the story…
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