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Within 90 days, educators in Ohio will be forbidden from discussing LGBTQ+ identities — unless it’s to forcibly out queer students to their guardians.

Gay California U.S. Rep. Mark Takano has been named chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus for the 119th Congress, taking the reins as Republican lawmakers double down on anti-LGBTQ+ measures. The caucus, which advocates for equality regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, faces heightened challenges under a Republican-controlled Congress and the incoming second administration …

I keep telling everyone I know that this country will never see the likes of our 39th President Jimmy Carter again, one whose decency extended far beyond his presidency which many Americans don’t even remember.

The very first bill listed as a priority for early votes during the next U.S. congressional session is a bill targeting transgender people — a move that has « mystified » Sarah McBride and her fellow Democrats.

Disgraced gay ex-Congressman George Santos has been granted a delay in his sentencing in a fraud case, but less than the delay he asked for.

A Russian man has been fined 100,000 rubles — equal to about $950 — for jokingly claiming he had started the international LGBTQ+ rights movement.

Idaho Republican legislators have introduced a resolution on Tuesday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 decision that established marriage equality nationwide.

The swearing-in of U.S. senators is often a ceremonial occasion, a moment to celebrate the continuity of democracy. But as Vice President Kamala Harris presided over the event last week, the day became a study in contrasts—marked by moments of warmth and charm and flashes of tension and dissonance.

Elton John, the subject of the new documentary film Elton John: Never Too Late, has praise for another out artist who collaborated with him on a song for the film.

Sheldon « Turner » Freeman, a Black gay man who worked for 39 years in the District of Columbia Public Library system and established racially and LGBTQ-inclusive programming there, has died at age 64.