In 1993, when President Bill Clinton signed the policy known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” into law, it represented a compromise between those who wanted to end the longstanding ban on homosexuals serving in the U.S. military and those who felt having openly gay troops would hurt morale and cause problems within military ranks.
Who could oppose the idea of ensuring patients are never discriminated against by hospitals because of their sexual orientation, their gender identity, or their gender expression? Sadly, the answer is federal health and justice policymakers. High-ranking officials are systematically tearing out even the humblest measures aimed at upholding the basic American values of fairness and equality.
Although LGBT people are becoming more visible in society, federal data reveal little about the U.S. LGBT population and its needs. In a first in U.S. history, the U.S. Census Bureau will explicitly count same-sex couples living together in the 2020 census. The decision to ask about same-sex relationships, announced on March 29…
The vocal leader of the Coast Guard will continue to allow transgender troops to serve until he’s legally forced not to. The commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, Adm. Paul Zukunft, said he remained committed to transgender service members until a specific policy lawfully requires the Coast Guard to ban them.
Shaun O’Boyle is behind a new initiative called House of STEM, which aims to connect LGBTQ scientists and create an inclusive community. Here, he outlines the challenges faced by the LGBTQ population and the plethora of inspiring efforts to overcome them.
The following is the first in a series of articles examining how LGBT candidates and organizations are positioned to help Democrats take back the majority of the U.S. House and Senate this year. Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan stunned many people with his announcement April 11 that he would “retire” from office next January.
It’s hard to imagine the Trump presidency going down in history as a fantastic time for LGBT rights. And yet LGBT people have been scoring several successive victories on the state and local level on a particularly critical issue: making conversion therapy a crime.
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