Protests erupted this week in response to a new abortion ban, but the government has been attacking women’s and LGBTQ rights for years.
The jury is still out on the impact of his comments on the Vatican, and at a time when Senate Republicans are pushing a conservative Catholic nominee.
Oquita's undocumented status has not stopped her from advocating for immigration justice and fighting to defund and eventually abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
To improve the U.S.’s policies on this front, their government can look to a perhaps surprising place for a model for how to better support trans citizens: Uruguay.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's pardon of US Marine Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton in the killing of Jennifer Laude, a transPinay, in a hotel room in Olongapo reflects the country's historic subservience to US military interests.
While many people are aware of America’s history of suppressing the votes of racial minority communities, it’s a pattern that affects other minorities, too — especially trans voters.
J.K. Rowling immediately received backlash after sending a tweet that implied only women menstruate.
This week’s Bostock decision creates stronger legal ground for more wins in housing, education, and health care, and in overturning the transgender military ban.
Groundbreaking writer-director Alice Wu surprises with her long-awaited second feature.
I’m still learning today, but these are the three most important lessons that have helped guide this learning: Question everything. Learn so you can unlearn. Ask for help.
On Tuesday, the Arizona House banned transgender student athletes from participating on teams that align with their gender identity. All 31 Republican representatives supported the bill, which now moves on to the state Senate.
The new film by Céline Sciamma places equality at the center of a love story.
The House passed a comprehensive rights bill last year, but it died in the Senate. A new proposed compromise would ban discrimination — but with a major loophole.
A new report from GLAAD (the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) shows that there has been an incredible improvement in the representation of the LGBTQ community across TV platforms this year.
Human rights advocates are decrying the Trump administration's policy of requiring asylum seekers to stay in Mexico for the duration of their immigration proceedings.
In her posthumous memoir, Edie Windsor details her vivacious sex life and in the process shatters stereotypes not only about lesbians but about older women in general.
The first-ever global survey on “conversion therapy” calls for government and the medical field to take steps to put an end to the discriminatory practice.
Each week, Houston-based activist Diamond Stylz and her rotating cast of co-hosts serve up candid conversations about topics ranging from gender reveal parties to the latest installment of the television show Pose from a black, trans, and feminist perspective.
Charlie Martin is a British racing driver who was set to become the first trans woman to race as a support race in the world’s oldest sports endurance car racing contest: the 24 Hours of Le Mans, also known as “Grand Prix of Endurance and Efficiency.”
Five decades after that contentious moment in the fight for equality, it is still legal for employers to fire LGBTQ+ employees just because of their identity in most parts of this country. That may soon finally change.
Before Stonewall, lesbians were all but invisible in media. Fifty years of activism and advocacy have made a remarkable impact.
The media monitoring organization GLAAD recently released the 2019 edition of their Studio Responsibility Index, an annual report that this year found that of 110 films released in 2018, 20 (or 18.2 percent) of them included LGBTQ characters, the second-highest percentage on record. None of these characters, however, were transgender or non-binary.
Brazil has maintained its place as first among countries with the highest murder rate of trans and gender-diverse peoples. In a country that remains deeply conservative and religious, and under a president who has openly targeted the LGBTQ community to "rescue our values," Brazil's trans community especially is fighting to exist, freely, openly, and safely.
The six members of the Brazilian hip-hop group Quebrada Queer are young, black, queer, and from the impoverished outskirts of São Paulo — identities that are relatively rarely represented in Brazilian mainstream media, despite the fact that 54 percent of the country’s population is of African descent.
Since Sontag’s articulation of camp, however, camp has been elevated to a new cultural meaning and enactment, primarily by the LGBTQ community, and even more specifically by people of color in that community — a reality the Met Gala theme failed to acknowledge.