LGBTQ
A place for news and opinions on the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning communities.


The Court will decide if therapists have a right to practice anti-LGBTQ “conversion therapy.”


Far-right gays are ascendant everywhere but here.


The first DEI case of Trump’s second term turns out to be an easy win against a rule that no one likes.


Ames v. Ohio should be an easy — and potentially unanimously decided — case, assuming the Court doesn’t overreach.


“Can I leave the country, and how can I leave the country?”


An executive order barring trans people from openly serving in the military isn’t really about their fitness to do so.


The Court appears likely to uphold bans on gender-affirming care, and may gut the rules barring all forms of sex discrimination in the process.


A new bathroom rule only adds to the party’s anti-trans broadsides.


The Biden administration proposed a change to school athletics that sought a compromise.


The legal question in United States v. Skrmetti is whether the word “all” means “all.” There’s no guarantee that this Court will say that it does.


Trump could weaponize Title IX against trans kids.


The Trump campaign’s anti-trans advertising is pure scapegoating — with a bigger, sinister purpose.


The justices return to Washington after an unforgivable betrayal.


What to know about Meta’s new restrictions on young people’s social media use.


The Court appeared to abandon Bostock v. Clayton County this weekend.


While better data is needed to understand just how wide the gap is, help doesn’t have to wait.

An exhausting — if not exhaustive — timeline of J.K. Rowling’s transphobia.


The forgotten Olympic history of trans athletes.


Republican Justice Neil Gorsuch surprised most Court watchers by supporting trans rights in Bostock v. Clayton County. We’re about to find out if he actually meant it.


Given the Court’s Republican supermajority, this case is unlikely to end well for trans people.


More Americans feel comfortable coming out. That doesn’t mean they’re all progressives.


The troubling corporate pullback on Pride Month, briefly explained.


History suggests LGBTQ voters and Biden are headed for a breakup. But there’s much more at play here.


The preschool teacher-turned-content creator is an advocate for all families. Conservatives are mad about it.


The Court mostly reinstates Idaho’s ban on transgender health care for children.


As one expert put it, “This is the Newsmax version of Catholic theology.”


This is a serious blow to the First Amendment and a victory for a notoriously anti-LGBTQ judge.


With courts coming for abortion and IVF, it’s hard not to wonder what the Supreme Court will go after next.


Some conservatives have seized on the shooting to frame trans people as threats.


For the third time in the last year, the Supreme Court turned away an opportunity to make life much worse for trans youth.


Do therapists have a right to tell patients to “pray away the gay”? The Court is leaving that question open.


Republicans are losing their fight to ban drag — at least for now.


Just months after a version of Uganda’s “kill the gays” bill became law, the first person was charged under one of its most extreme provisions.


The shooting highlights growing fears of anti-LGBTQ violence amid a surge in hostile GOP policies.


Republicans in the NC legislature recently overrode the Democratic governor’s veto.


A new federal appeals court decision is a terrible blow to trans rights, and a potential earthquake in the fight for LGBTQ equality.


Outlawing homosexuality has forced health care underground.


Gorsuch hands a victory to the Christian right by making false claims about an important First Amendment case.


Kentucky and Tennessee are the latest states to see parts of gender-affirming care bans targeting trans youth blocked by a federal judge.


Arnold Lobel’s quietly radical creations speak to those who don’t want to live a predetermined life.