California sues Trump admin over threats to trans athletes
The administration wants the state to discriminate against trans student athletes, which California refuses to do.
June 13, 2025
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Supreme Court will decide cases on LGBTQ+ book censorship and reproductive health care access soon
Rulings will come any day in Mahmoud v. Taylor and Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic.
June 12, 2025
Lesbian Rep. Becca Balint & ally Sen. Jeff Merkley file bill to nullify Trump's anti-LGBTQ+ executive orders
The No Place for LGBTQ+ Hate Act targets the trans military ban, the "two sexes" order, and more.
June 7, 2025
Wake Forest baseball coach apologizes for homophobic slur
Coach Tom Walter was caught on live television uttering the offensive epithet.
June 4, 2025
GLAAD CEO Sarah Kate Ellis rejects conservative guests’ anti-trans disinformation on live CNN panel
“It is so important that LGBTQ voices are represented in mainstream media to debunk these gross fear tactics," Sarah Kate Ellis told The Advocate.
June 3, 2025
Arizona Democrat Ruben Gallego adopts anti-trans, far-right talking points
He is the latest Democratic lawmaker to turn his back on the trans community.
May 30, 2025
Chasten Buttigieg’s kids’ book lands on New York Times Best Sellers list, proving LGBTQ+ stories belong
For the first time, a children’s picture book centering same-sex human parents has landed on the New York Times Best Sellers list.
May 28, 2025
Tennessee high school student-athlete banned from graduation after coming out on social media
The Tennessee Christian Preparatory School's handbook lists same-sex sexual relations along with bestiality and incest as sins of immorality.
May 28, 2025
Trump pressured Gavin Newsom over trans teen athlete. Then California changed its track championship rules
After facing threats from the president over a trans student’s inclusion in sports, the state quietly changed high school championship rules — but a transgender teen will still compete.
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May 27, 2025
Florida district alleges teacher who used student's nickname was grooming them to 'become gay'
The Brevard Public Schools opened an investigation of Satellite High teacher Melissa Calhoun based on allegations from a parent that the teacher referred to a child with a different name than the one assigned at birth.
May 21, 2025
Supreme Court restores voting privileges of censured anti-trans Maine Republican lawmaker
Rep. Laurel Libby can speak and vote in the Maine House while her lawsuit proceeds.
May 20, 2025
Virginia Republican candidate for governor addresses grads at extremely anti-LGBTQ+ schools
Both institutions explicitly disavow the LGBTQ+ community.
May 20, 2025
NYU withholds degree from gay transgender student over commencement speech
“[Logan Rozos] lied about the speech he was going to deliver,” a NYU spokesperson said.
May 16, 2025
The huge banner of a glaring Trump in front of the USDA is a literal sign the U.S. has lost its democracy
Opinion: When public spaces glorify the ruler, dissent is silenced, and history is rewritten, it's the end of America as we knew it, writes John Casey.
May 16, 2025
Tennessee schools at risk after governor signs misgendering bill
Critics said the new law should have been named the Bullying LGBTQ+ Students Act.
May 13, 2025
Virginia federal judge sets hearing on Hegseth’s censorship in military service members’ kids’ schools
The ACLU filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to block the Pentagon from purging books and culture.
May 8, 2025
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed anti-trans student-athlete bill
One LGBTQ+ advocate said the new law shows how Republicans like to "play political games and bully transgender children."
May 8, 2025
The sneaky way one Utah teacher showed support for LGBTQ+ students despite bigoted laws
Soon, rainbow flags will be banned in classrooms in the state.
May 5, 2025
Maine Gov. Janet Mills beats Donald Trump, gets school meal funds restored while defending trans kids
She said she would see him in court. She did. She won.
May 5, 2025
Donald Trump just spent a week showing us how much he despises children
Opinion: He's ruining Christmas, deporting American kids (one with cancer), endorsing conversion therapy and more discipline in schools, threatening Sesame Street, and eliminating a youth suicide hotline, writes John Casey.
May 3, 2025
100 days and 100 of the most hilarious, horrific, and heinous things done by the Trump administration
Opinion: A painstaking look at 100 of the top blunders, mishaps, and mistakes of Trump, his loyalists, and his minions, from John Casey.
April 30, 2025