LGBTQ+ Rights & Equality

9+ hour, 31+ min ago   (1042+ words) Special Report, October 2026By Grace HarrisIn the United States (US), conservative backlash against 2SLGBTQ+ rights movements is producing violent, systemic persecution of transgender Americans. Transphobic ideology and political scapegoating have fueled efforts to deny transgender identities, exclude trans people from public life,…...

7+ hour, 28+ min ago   (535+ words) It's amazing what a $2 million medical malpractice lawsuit will do. On February 1, a jury awarded Fox Varian, a detransitioned trans patient, $2 million after she filed suit against the Westchester, NY, psychologist and plastic surgeon who urged her to get a…...

7+ hour, 28+ min ago   (384+ words) The Mamdani administration is entering into two contracts totaling $8.9 million to provide “gender-affirming” sex reassignment care to transgender patients under the age of 18. The move backs a policy the federal Department of Justice has challenged as medically dangerous and illegal....

21+ hour, 49+ min ago   (102+ words) KMOV NAACP East St. Louis to celebrate 72nd Annual Freedom Fund Awards Banquet with theme ‘We the People’ Man caught on camera inside Shaw home, arrested on Tuesday in connection with string of overnight bu Special session declared to discuss train…...

1+ day, 39+ min ago   (141+ words) Groups serving LGBTQ+ people are urging the Carney government to extend funding and programming aimed at growing mental health and security concerns. The Trudeau government in 2022 launched an action plan to support LGBTQ+ Canadians, such as funding security at Pride…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (846+ words) Slate A new term of the Supreme Court begins this week, and threats to LGBTQ+ people are already on the calendar. Several cases seem likely to build on several consecutive terms in which the court deployed a combination of procedural…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (90+ words) wpsdlocal6.com The Paducah McCracken County NAACP will host a judge executive town hall at Crounse Hall Tuesday at 6 p.m. And Bellview Baptist Church released a statement after a youth pastor was arrested on grooming charges Friday. Local church issues statement following…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (847+ words) Three months after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld state laws barring transgender girls and women from girls’ and women’s sports, most American voters say they support those laws, and Utahns back them even more strongly, according to a new Deseret News…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (353+ words) Hungary will not block the next technical step towards opening two more negotiating clusters in Ukraine’s European Union accession talks, the Financial Times reported on Monday, citing EU officials. According to the report, Prime Minister Péter Magyar has instructed Hungarian…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (187+ words) Let’s Go Washington gives over $22,000 to high school athlete’s family for anti-Trans ballot initiative Seattle Gay News Let’s Go Washington gives over $22,000 to high school athlete’s family for anti-Trans ballot initiative In less than a month, Washington voters will decide…...