These were the most-read national stories of last year.
Pope Francis on Jan. 6 named Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego, who has a record of support for the LGBTQ community, as the new Archbishop of Washington, D.C.
In recent closed-door conservative conferences, U.S. Supreme Court justices were eyeing other cases that would implicate key rights for transgender Americans, The Hill reported on Dec. 28.
President Joe Biden on Dec. 23 signed the National Defense Authorization Act with a provision that bans gender-affirming health care for children of U.S. servicemembers.
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated the president of an anti-LGBTQ Catholic group to become the next U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.
President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal on Jan. 2 to LGBTQ advocates Evan Wolfson, founder of Freedom to Marry, and Mary Bonauto, senior director of civil rights and legal strategies at GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders (GLAD Law).
According to Arlington Commonwealth’s Attorney Parisa Dehghni-Tafti, the charges against the two men — Specialist Matthew Henshaw, 21, and Private First Class Joseph DiGregorio, 23, — were dismissed after they successfully completed a recently initiated program called the Heart of Safety Restorative Justice Conferencing Program.
Continuing to flesh out his roster, President-elect Donald J. Trump appointed two gay men to high-ranking positions within the State Department.
Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 100, is being remembered by both admirers and political observers as a progressive southern Democrat and former Georgia governor who pushed for an end to racial injustice in the U.S., and as a beloved humanitarian who worked hard as president and during his post-presidential years to improve the lives of people in need throughout the world.
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s beleaguered pick to head the Defense Department, has walked back controversial comments on gays serving openly in the military.
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