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WMC News & Features
January 22, 2026 | Susan Buttenwieser | Health, LGBTQIA, Politics
Trump Administration Proposes Restrictions on Gender-Affirming Care for Youth

Advocates are encouraging members of the public to weigh in during the public comment period for the proposed new rules.

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January 07, 2026 | Treva Lindsey | LGBTQIA, Politics
Resisting Intensifying Attacks on the LGBTQ Community

Solidarity, coalition building, and multifaceted organizing are needed to confront the right wing’s overwhelming campaign against LGBTQ rights.

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November 07, 2025 | Susan Buttenwieser | Health, LGBTQIA, Politics
Trump’s Second Term Escalates Assault on Transgender Youth

The attacks are coming from all three branches of the federal government as well as state legislatures.

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July 30, 2025 | Marcie Bianco, Ph.D. | Arts and culture, LGBTQIA, Media
On Trans Rights, the Pipeline From Media Misinformation to Bad Law

A new documentary, Heightened Scrutiny, exposes the mainstream media’s outsized and extraordinary influence in the law.

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January 17, 2025 | Susan Buttenwieser | LGBTQIA, Politics
What Will a Second Trump Presidency Mean for LGBTQ+ Civil Rights?

Advocates are preparing to fight back against anti-LGBTQ+ attacks at both the state and federal levels.

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November 20, 2024 | Susan Buttenwieser | LGBTQIA
LGBTQ Centers in US Experience Increased Harassment, Threats, and Violence

A new report documents connections between violent threats and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and legislation.

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August 03, 2023 | Susan Buttenwieser | LGBTQIA, Politics
How Anti-Democracy Initiatives Fuel Anti-LGBTQ, Anti-Abortion Laws

A new report documents the connection between the hundreds of anti-LGBTQ bills introduced in state legislatures and measures to restrict voter access.

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June 20, 2023 | Marcie Bianco, Ph.D. | LGBTQIA, Politics
What Pride Means in This Moment

This moment of heightened attacks on the LGBTQ+ community reminds us of the real meaning of pride and instructs us on how we can fight back.

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May 20, 2022 | Susan Buttenwieser | LGBTQIA, Politics
Advocates Fight Back Against a Flood of Anti-LGBTQ State Bills: ‘We are Scrambling’

The proliferation of attacks on LGBTQ rights, abortion access, voting rights, and immigration have prompted activists to intensify coalition-building work.

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August 02, 2021 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Arts and culture, LGBTQIA, Media
New Netflix Film Explores Complexity of Harmful Conversion Therapy Movement

The new documentary, Pray Away, offers surprising and nuanced insights.

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June 22, 2021 | Susan Buttenwieser | LGBTQIA, Politics
What the Equality Act Could Mean for LGBTQ Civil Rights

A wave of anti-LGBTQ state laws, and the recent Fulton Supreme Court ruling, show the need for the federal civil rights law that is awaiting Senate action.

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March 19, 2021 | Susan Buttenwieser | LGBTQIA, Politics
Undoing Trump’s Four-Year Assault on LGBTQ Rights: Biden Provides a “Sea Change”

The Biden administration's early actions to promote LGBTQ equality are getting high marks from rights groups.

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November 10, 2020 | Payal Dhar | International, LGBTQIA
Pandemic Magnifies Struggles for India’s LGBTQ Youth

The pandemic-related lockdown has exacerbated the isolation of India’s queer youth.

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October 29, 2020 | Juliette Bretan | International, LGBTQIA, Politics, Violence against women
Women’s and LGBTQ Rights Continue to Erode Under Poland’s Ruling Party

Protests erupted this week in response to a new abortion ban, but the government has been attacking women’s and LGBTQ rights for years.

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June 17, 2020 | Susan Buttenwieser | LGBTQIA
Stunning Supreme Court ruling on LGBT employees could have far-reaching impact

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.

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June 05, 2020 | Emily Wilson | Arts and culture, LGBTQIA
Alice Wu’s 'The Half of It' offers a unique view on love

Groundbreaking writer-director Alice Wu surprises with her long-awaited second feature.

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March 04, 2020 | Lauren Wolfe | LGBTQIA, Sports
Arizona House passes bill banning female trans athletes from girls’ teams

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.

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February 27, 2020 | Marcie Bianco, Ph.D. | Arts and culture, LGBTQIA
In “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” a feminist politics of love

The new film by Céline Sciamma places equality at the center of a love story.

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January 16, 2020 | Susan Buttenwieser | LGBTQIA, Politics
Trump’s attacks on LGBTQ rights underscore need for federal law

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.

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November 20, 2019 | Susan Buttenwieser | Immigration, LGBTQIA
LGBTQ asylum seekers are particularly endangered by Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy

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.

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November 14, 2019 | Marcie Bianco, Ph.D. | Arts and culture, Disability, LGBTQIA, WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
Marriage equality crusader’s memoir shatters stereotypes

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.

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September 05, 2019 | Marcie Bianco, Ph.D. | LGBTQIA
New study of “conversion therapy” exposes causes, as well as deep harms to LGBT people

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.

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June 28, 2019 | Julie Graves | LGBTQIA
Fifty years after Stonewall, the Equality Act may finally become federal law

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.

WMC News & Features
June 12, 2019 | Trish Bendix | Arts and culture, LGBTQIA, Media
50 years after Stonewall, a new media landscape for queer women

Before Stonewall, lesbians were all but invisible in media. Fifty years of activism and advocacy have made a remarkable impact.

WMC News & Features
May 30, 2019 | Aviva Stahl | LGBTQIA, Media
New report on LGBTQ representation in film reveals promising news

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.


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