Three Iowa children left a club after it removed pro-LGBTQ messages, a network in New York debuted an anti-LGBT crime hotline, and a library in Alabama flagged a book because the author's last name is Gay.
A man was sentenced to prison for a hate crime in Seattle, students in Virginia staged walkouts in support of trans rights, and a Colorado court is set to hear the case of a baker who refused LGBT customers.
California's governor vetoes pro-trans bill, a Missouri school is criticized for having a trans homecoming queen, and the Pentagon will review pre-DADT repeal LGBTQ veterans' records.
Kansas wants to prohibit changes on trans birth certificates, a batman expert in Georgia cancels talk after being asked not to say "gay," and Ohio's mayor condemns Catholic anti-LGBTQ school policies.
Josh Kruger, 39, an award-winning gay journalist and former city employee, was shot dead this week inside his Point Breeze residence in Philadelphia.
On Oct. 1, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he is appointing Black lesbian EMILY’s List President, Laphonza Butler, to the vacant seat of the late U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein who died Friday at age 90.
People protested at a university in Texas for having it claiming an exemption from a law that protects LGBT people, a former county clerk in Kentucky is ordered to pay a gay couple $100K for discrimination, and California legislators vote to lift ban to travel to anti-LGBT states.
A California judge pauses a school policy on disclosure of pronouns, the supreme court says ban on gender-affirming care can pass in Texas, and a Georgia judge allows gender-affirming care ban.
In an emotional exchange on Sept. 14 at a town hall in Des Moines, Iowa, former Vice President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Mike Pence doubled down on his opposition to allowing minors to access gender-affirming health interventions.
It feels like anti-LGBTQ sentiment has been rising in the U.S. recently, and new data from the Human Rights Campaign backs that up. The analysis focused highly on gender-affirming care restrictions and bans nationwide targeting queer youth and adults alike. Twenty twenty-three saw a massive spike in that kind of legislation, with more than 550 bills introduced in 43 states, and more than 80 signed into law, more than doubling last year which was already the worst on record.
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