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An independent bookstore in San Francisco has announced that it will no longer carry Harry Potter books after J.K. Rowling dedicated her private wealth to anti-transgender organizations.

Stanford Medicine will no longer provide gender-affirming surgeries to patients under the age of 19 after facing threats from the Trump Administration.

The Senate parliamentarian on Thursday struck down a Republican effort to ban federal funding for gender-affirming care through Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, ruling the provision cannot remain in the GOP’s reconciliation package—a sweeping Trump-backed bill that LGBTQ+ advocates warn would devastate vulnerable communities.

1985 marked a pivotal turning point in the global AIDS crisis. What had been dismissed by many as a distant or marginalized epidemic suddenly became a central issue in public consciousness, driven by a confluence of activism, celebrity, and political reckoning.

Supreme Court justices voted 6-3 in a decision released Thursday that prevents Planned Parenthood from legally challenging South Carolina over the state’s termination of the organization’s Medicaid funding because it provides abortions. That means that states can cut Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood.

A lot of queer people can tell you exactly where they were at 10 a.m. on Friday, June 26, 2015.

Nearly a dozen senators have reintroduced a bill that would allow sanctions against foreign individuals responsible for human rights violations against LGBTQ+ people.

Today is the 10th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Obergefell v. Hodges which established marriage equality nationwide. Anyone who is old enough knows that this ruling marked the culmination of decades of advocacy and legal battles for LGBTQ+ rights, and that these rights, and others, should not be taken for granted.

We’ll get through this. We’ve been through worse.