In the latest example of the Trump administration seeking to enable legal discrimination against LGBTQ people, the Justice Department is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to allow religious-affiliated adoption agencies to refuse child placement into LGBTQ homes…
A federal court ruled Wednesday that the Social Security Administration must consider claims for survivor’s benefits by same-sex spouses who were unable to be married for at least nine months because of state marriage bans. Even where couples married as…
The Trump administration’s expansion of religious exemptions is undermining civil rights protections and codifying discrimination against marginalized groups — particularly LGBTQ people — according to a report released Monday by three research and advocacy groups. Using a combination of new rules…
The Trump administration has removed an Obama-era requirement that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services collect data on the sexual orientation of children or parents in the foster care and adoption system as part of a demographic profile…
A lesbian couple in South Carolina are bringing a historic court fight against the policy that allowed a state-funded agency to bar same-sex couples from fostering children. Eden Rogers and Brandy Welch were turned away by a government-funded adoption agency because…
In the middle of a pandemic, a Florida court has struck down Jacksonville’s three-year-old LGBTQ+ nondiscrimination ordinance. On Friday, the First District Court of Appeal unanimously ruled that a 2017 ordinance amending the city’s anti-discrimination laws to add sexual orientation and…
More than 500 doctors and experts have urged United States authorities to to overturn a “scientifically outdated ban” on gay and bisexual men donating blood. The group of infectious disease and HIV specialists made the comments in an open letter addressed…
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