Two Virginia-based organizations that oppose LGBTQ rights filed separate lawsuits on March 29 and March 30 challenging a state policy that requires public schools to allow transgender students to have access to “restrooms, locker rooms [...]
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed into law a series of constitutional amendments that, among other things, formally defines marriage as between a man and a woman in the country. The Associated Press reported upwards of [...]
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced the State Department has officially disbanded a controversial human rights advisory commission that LGBTQ+ activists sharply criticized. “One of the core principles of human rights is that they [...]
Singer Demi Lovato recently revealed on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast that she is a member of the LGBTQ community and most closely identifies with the term pansexual. "I'm so fluid now,” she said on [...]
President Biden, in a first for any U.S. president, issued on Wednesday a formal presidential proclamation recognizing the Transgender Day of Visibility, according to an advance copy of the White House document obtained by the Washington Blade. [...]
The D.C. LGBTQ GOP group Log Cabin Republicans plans to increase its involvement in local and national politics this year after increasing its membership by 25 percent in 2020. And after its March 20 through [...]
Julia Monro, a spokesperson for the German Association for Trans Identity and Intersex People (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Transidentität und Intersexualität), in 2017 applied to become a police officer because she wanted to join the fight against Internet crimes. [...]
President Biden, in the first presidential news conference of his administration, outlined his views for reforming the filibuster in the U.S. Senate, which remains the sole obstacle for getting the LGBTQ Equality Act to his [...]
Rachel Levine made history on Wednesday by becoming the first openly transgender person to obtain Senate confirmation as a presidential appointee, sending an unprecedented signal gender identity is not a barrier for obtaining a position [...]
Family Equality transgender advocate and Chief Policy Officer Denise Brogan-Kator has announced her plans to retire at the end of May. She has a history of LGBTQ+ activism going back nearly 30 years. Brogan-Kator first [...]
Mary Trump, who needled former President Trump during his re-election bid with allegations of racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic remarks in his family, has joined a political action committee that works to elect queer women to [...]
The shootings at three Atlanta-area spas and massage parlors on March 16 have left members of the LGBTQ Asian American and Pacific Islander community deeply shaken and angry. A gunman killed eight people when he [...]
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” season 12 contestant Rock M. Sakura (aka Bryan Bradford) has, in the wake of this week’s alleged anti-Asian Atlanta massage parlor murders, revealed in an emotional series of tweets that prior to [...]
This week, another groundbreaking victory for the LGBTQ+ community: actress, dancer, activist and model Leyna Bloom has become the first trans woman of color to be featured in Sports Illustrated’s famed Swimsuit edition. “This is [...]
Elton John is pissed at Pope Francis. The pontiff said in a letter issued today through the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, the church’s orthodoxy office, that Catholic clergy may not bless same-sex [...]
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), whose support for the Equality Act is seen as crucial to winning Republican votes for the LGBTQ non-discrimination bill, is breaking her silence on the proposed revisions she’s demanding in exchange [...]
By Phillip Van Slooten Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed into law on Wednesday a bill banning the state’s transgender student-athletes from participating in sports consistent with their gender identity. Jace Pierce, a 35-year-old trans man [...]
The Vatican on Monday said the Catholic Church cannot bless same-sex unions. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which defends Catholic teachings, in a two-page decree it published on its website said it cannot bless [...]
The Biden administration signaled on Tuesday anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination among lenders of credit is illegal, marking the latest policy move to bring the U.S. government into compliance with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Bostock v. [...]
Comedian and actor Patti Harrison has made LGBTQ+ history by becoming the first transgender actor to voice a character in a Disney animated film. In the new movie “Raya and the Last Dragon," Harrison is [...]
The National Black Justice Coalition released a statement this week alleging anti-Black and anti-LGBTQ+ bias in the ongoing prosecution of actor Jussie Smollett. The statement, released in cooperation with Black Gifted and Whole, the National [...]
Bethany Christian Services, the largest Christian adoption agency in the U.S., has announced a new policy of inclusivity that will allow LGBTQ+ people to foster and adopt in all 32 of the states its serves. [...]
Were you hoping that one day Billy Eichner would get the big-screen debut he deserves? That it would be super gay? And that a major studio would distribute it? Hope no more! Eichner is starring [...]
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill that would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. “This long overdue legislation will provide millions of LGBTQ Americans [...]
Gavin Grimm’s fight to get his Virginia high school to allow him to use the restroom consistent with his gender identity — even though he graduated four years ago — isn’t over: Gloucester County School [...]
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), whose support for the Equality Act would be essential to passing the bill to expand the prohibition on discrimination against LGBTQ people under federal law, said Monday evening she won’t co-sponsor [...]
President Biden, ahead of the expected vote on the Equality Act next week, issued a statement Friday on the LGBTQ legislation, calling it “a critical step toward ensuring that America lives up to our foundational [...]
The Biden administration is set to declare it will take up and adjudicate cases of housing discrimination against LGBTQ people to comply with orders against anti-LGBTQ discrimination from the U.S. Supreme Court and President Biden. [...]
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday, amid coronavirus and impeachment crises, President Biden “stands by” his campaign pledge to sign the Equality Act to expand the ban on anti-LGBTQ discrimination under the law [...]
Two lawmakers on Wednesday announced they will reintroduce a bill that would require U.S. to promote LGBTQ rights abroad through its foreign policy. California Congressman Alan Lowenthal and U.S. Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) made the [...]
Data, and how it is collected, can have a big impact across a community. Naomi Goldberg, deputy director and LGBTQ program director for the Movement Advancement Project, wants Michiganders to know the importance of the [...]
Carmen Vázquez, a longtime LGBTQ activist, died on Wednesday from coronavirus complications. She was 72. A press release that the National LGBTQ Task Force and SAGE released on Thursday notes Vázquez was born in Puerto [...]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday she’s “optimistic” about the Equality Act and called its passage a “priority” amid expectations the House could vote on the yet-to-be-introduced measure as early as March. Pelosi made [...]
Twenty-eight years ago the Los Angeles LGBT Center moved from a rather dilapidated old motel and into a newly renovated 4,400-square-foot building in Hollywood. Along with that newly operational space came a new executive director [...]
Brandon Straka, a gay former hairdresser and aspiring actor in New York City who in 2018 launched a ‘Walk Away from the Democrats’ social media campaign that went viral, was arrested in Nebraska on Jan. [...]
WASHINGTON — This week the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and the Equality Federation Institute released their 7th annual State Equality Index. The SEI is a comprehensive report that details statewide laws and policies that affect LGBTQ+ [...]
Fielding questions during his confirmation hearing, Pete Buttigieg started his path Thursday toward becoming the first openly gay Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate, promising infrastructure would be key in the Biden administration. Buttigieg, who [...]
From the vantage point of the U.S. Capitol, attendees at the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States saw tremendous potential in the new administration, including change for LGBTQ people [...]
President-elect Joe Biden, on his first day in office Wednesday after taking the Oath of Office, is set to sign an executive order directing federal agencies across the board to implement the U.S. Supreme Court’s [...]
Rachel Levine, who Pennsylvania secretary of health guided her state through the coronavirus, has been tapped to become assistant secretary for health under the Biden administration, setting her up to become the first openly transgender [...]
In a historic development, the U.S. House voted Wednesday to impeach President Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors, making him the only president in U.S. history impeached twice, after instigating an attack on the U.S. [...]
The Presidential Inaugural Committee for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is calling on the LGBTQ community to participate in several planned virtual inaugural events that reflect the theme of “America United,” an [...]
Washington Blade Staff Report The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued an order on Friday blocking, in its entirety, a Trump administration rule that would have made it virtually impossible for all refugees, including those who [...]
In the aftermath of the assault on the U.S. Capitol instigated by President Trump, his one-time LGBTQ supporters are now distancing themselves from him without outright renouncing their previous support. Many LGBTQ Trump supporters didn’t [...]
Under the cover of chaos the day after Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, the Trump administration has officially nixed regulations barring federal grantees in the Department of Health & Human Services from discriminating against [...]
LGBTQ rights groups on Wednesday were quick to condemn the siege of the U.S. Capitol. “Today’s violence is revolting and nothing short of insurrection, a coup instigated by Donald Trump and abetted by cowardly Republicans [...]
Washington Blade Staff Report Thousands of President Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday as lawmakers certified the Electoral College results that confirmed the election of President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris. The siege [...]
Thousands of President Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday as lawmakers were beginning to certify the Electoral College results. The siege began shortly after President Trump spoke to his supporters who gathered on [...]
A look at the numbers in Tuesday’s U.S. Senate races in Georgia indicate that Democrats have won control of the Senate – a development with enormous favorable consequences for the LGBT community and the nation. [...]
The Trump administration has appeared to have given up a proposed regulation that would have allowed taxpayer-funded homeless shelters to refuse to place transgender people consistent with their gender identity, although another measure permitting HHS [...]
