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.