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NEW YORK Thousands of people clad in rainbow colors marched Sunday through Greenwich Village and up Fifth Avenue for the annual Gay Pride parade, a massive celebration of LGBTQ identity. One of this year's grand marshals is tennis legend Billie Jean King, along with transgender advocate Tyler Ford and the civil rights organization Lambda Legal.
Amazon has launched a new set of guidelines intended to help company employees and leaders in the U.K. make transgender employees feel included in a productive work environment. "Diversity and inclusion is good for our business and our customers, and transgender employees are an important part of our team," said Amazon U.K. media director Simon Johnson, the Financial Times reported Friday.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, called the prevalence of suicide, especially among LGBT teens, "a serious problem that requires national attention" in a speech delivered on the Senate floor to commemorate Pride Month. "No one should ever feel less because of their gender identity or sexual orientation," Hatch said Wednesday, describing the bullying, discrimination and even estrangement experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth.
A decade ago, Colorado entrepreneur and philanthropist Jared Polis made history as the first openly gay man elected as a non-incumbent to Congress. But most voters did not get a glimpse of his longtime partner Marlon Reis until the night Polis won the Democratic primary, when the couple created a sensation by sharing a hug onstage at a victory party.
A school board in Virginia will continue to defend its transgender bathroom ban, arguing in court filings Friday that a federal appeals court should decide if it violated the rights of former student Gavin Grimm. The board's request follows a legal defeat last week in U.S. District Court in Norfolk.
A close friend and colleague of Chelsea Manning said Monday that the convicted leaker of government secrets and longshot candidate for U.S. Senate is safe after a photo on her Twitter account apparently showed the 30-year-old woman standing on the edge of an upper-story window ledge. The photo was posted to her Twitter account late Sunday with the words: "I'm sorry."
A close friend and colleague of Chelsea Manning said Monday that the convicted leaker of government secrets and longshot candidate for U.S. Senate is safe after a photo on her Twitter account apparently showed the 30-year-old woman standing on the edge of an upper-story window ledge. The photo was posted to her Twitter account late Sunday with the words: "I'm sorry."
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos apparently wasn't around to see it, but a message to her was projected on the Education Department's headquarters in Washington about policy on LGBTQ youth, asking, "How do you sleep at night?" The Human Rights Campaign, with artist Robin Bell, displayed data Wednesday night from a recently released survey revealing experiences of about 12,000 LGBTQ teens, taking aim at Trump administration policies that advocates say have targeted these young people. The survey was conducted by the Human Rights Campaign - the largest civil rights organization working in the United States to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people - and University of Connecticut researchers.
A California woman live-streamed her confrontation with a transgender person using the women's restroom at a Denny's restaurant. Jamina Saavedra, who is running for a congressional seat in California's 44th District, posted the video to Facebook Tuesday in which she can be seen walking toward the restroom and filming the door of a bathroom stall.
The Trump administration is rolling back an Obama-era protection for the LGBTQ community with a reversal of guidelines designed to defend transgender inmates from being harassed, assaulted or sexually assaulted while in prison. The Bureau of Prisons posted a change notice on Friday to their Transgender Offender Manual outlining new recommendations to use biological sex as the "initial determination" for housing designation.
Chelsea Manning is no longer living as a transgender woman in a male military prison, serving the lengthiest sentence ever for revealing U.S. government secrets. She's free to grow out her hair, travel the world, and spend time with whomever she likes.
Photo of Sara Ann Makenzie, one of two transgender Wisconsin residents challenging a state regulation that prohibits low-income Medicaid beneficiaries from obtaining medically necessary treatments for gender dysphoria. Credit: Spencer Micka Photography Top surgery, a common reference for chest reconstruction surgery for transgender patients, is a widely accepted and effective surgical procedure for treating gender dysphoria.
The Trump administration is coming under fire for rewriting a federal rule that bars discrimination in health care based on "gender identity." Critics say it's another attempt to undercut acceptance for transgender people.
The Trump administration is coming under fire for rewriting a federal rule that bars discrimination in health care based on "gender identity." Critics say it's another attempt to undercut acceptance for transgender people.
Henry, a small-business owner and radio host, said he felt the urge to get involved with politics after the election of President Donald Trump, whom Henry feared would roll back protections for the LGBTQ community. His wife, a substitute school teacher, woke him at 2 a.m. after election night in tears.
What started as a local high student planning a local event to celebrate diversity has ballooned into a festival drawing national attention that could bring 1,600 people to downtown Columbus today. Erin Bailey, a senior at Columbus Signature Academy-New Tech High School, said much of what she proposed to the Columbus Board of Works Feb. 20 has remained the same.
Council member Anita Bonds is finding LGBT support in her bid for re-election. Fourteen prominent LGBT Democrats have announced their support for the re-election of D.C. Council member Anita Bonds in a race in which a lesbian is running as an independent for one of the two at-large Council seats up for grabs in November.
Attorneys for a Nebraska death row inmate whose case inspired the 1999 movie "Boys Don't Cry" say he should be ruled ineligible for execution because he has the intellect of a young child. John Lotter was sentenced to death for his role in the 1993 killings of Brandon Teena, a 21-year-old transgender man, and two witnesses, Lisa Lambert and Philip DeVine, at a rural farmhouse in Humboldt, about 75 miles south of Omaha.
After The Atlantic hired former National Review writer Kevin Williamson, Media Matters and a number of others called out Williamsons' history of problematic commentary -- including his belief that "the law should treat abortion like any other homicide" and, as Rewire.News characterized it, that "women who have had abortions should face capital punishment, namely hanging." It turns out there are plenty of other reasons that The Atlantic should feel bad about the new hire and his self-proclaimed commitment to "raising a brand new kind of hell."