Transgender people have additional protections from discrimination under federal law for having a disability if they experience gender dysphoria, the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday in a consequential decision that marks a first for a federal appeals…
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has signed an executive order aimed at discouraging conversion therapy in the state. “Conversion therapy is a traumatic practice based on junk science that actively harms the people it supposedly seeks to treat…
Things are better for young queer or gay men coming to terms with their sexuality these days compared to the past, but that doesn’t mean they’re perfect. Advice from those that have struggled with the same things may help or…
A hit-and-run collision in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood killed three people and injured another Sunday morning. The crash was captured on video by a dashboard camera. At 5 a.m., four men were struck by a sedan near the longtime…
The entire point of eliminationist rhetoric like the right’s ongoing smear of the LGBTQ community as pedophilic “groomers” is never simply to “own the libs”—it’s to create permission: permission to direct violence freely at the targeted minority group…
Three attorneys on the team that drove the US Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling to legalize gay marriage feel new anxiety after the high court’s June opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. The court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization opinion voided…
Can monkeypox spread on the subway? Can it kill like COVID-19? Is it transmitted through sex? Misconceptions, myths and a lack of public knowledge on the monkeypox virus are widespread. Despite 57 percent of adults recently polled by Morning Consult…
Copyright © 2024 | compassQ Media