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The justices appeared uncharacteristically cautious in a high-stakes case about religion in the workplace.
Republicans are unleashing a torrent of anti-trans bills at the state level ahead of 2024.
How the anti-trans movement took over legacy media.
Ron DeSantis is now losing to both Donald Trump and Mickey Mouse.
And it arrives at the Supreme Court at an absolutely horrible time.
Is the magic of Hogwarts Legacy — or any new Harry Potter storyline — ever worth enabling JKR’s transphobia?
It doesn’t go as far as Obergefell, but it still offers important protections.
The FIFA World Cup has highlighted Qatar’s laws and attitudes towards homosexuality.
What is art? The Christian right wants that question to be decided by the Supreme Court in 303 Creative v. Elenis.
Authorities are investigating the attack as a potential hate crime.
What’s so scary about a transgender child?
An expert explains how the community has learned to take care of itself when governments won’t.
After passing the House, the Respect for Marriage Act now faces an uncertain future.
“If we know we need a different future, then what are the texts that help us get there?”
The queer canon should point us toward the future. We made a list of new, vibrant queer stories helping us get there.
Roe v. Wade is now overruled. Are access to contraception, same-sex marriage, and even the right to choose your own sex partners next?
On the surface, Marietta Memorial Hospital v. DaVita is a Medicare case with little to say about LGBTQ rights. Dig deeper, however, and it is quite troubling.
The group, founded to draw attention to the AIDS crisis, has been called alienating. But they’re also more relevant than ever 35 years later.
Does Netflix even care that Ricky Gervais’s SuperNature is rife with transphobic TERF ideology?
Why the controversial song on “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers” falls flat.
LGBTQ Americans finally won Fair Housing Act protections. Here’s how they’re working.
Justice Alito is a staunch opponent of LGBTQ rights, but he may not have the votes to turn back the clock.
Ron DeSantis’s political theater isn’t about changing the company — it’s about clout.
“Groomer” accusations against liberals and the LGBTQ community are recycled Satanic Panic.
Why anti-LGBTQ laws and accusations of “grooming” children seem to be everywhere now.
Finding the language to describe the legislative assault on trans people is tricky. Pushing back against it shouldn’t be.
Florida Republicans are leveraging uncertainty to terrorize teachers and school administrators.
The state wants parents investigated for child abuse over seeking gender-affirming care.
This is unlikely to go well for LGBTQ people.
An emboldened religious right wants the public to pay for its schools.
The emotional labor of creating a more accepting league should not fall to LGBTQ athletes.
Why the Germany-Hungary soccer game will be a symbol for the future of Europe.
After a pandemic year, it felt like nothing had changed. But I had.
The Court’s decision in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia punts most of the important issued raised by the case.
The fights over Pride are really about whether Pride is even political anymore.
A Black LGBTQ high school student was found dead in the woods near Boston last month. Her family is searching for justice.
The Republican candidate wants to lead California. Her party, meanwhile, is decimating trans rights.
Exhibitionism lives on Twitter, if you know where to find it.
Let’s stop pretending that bills denying trans kids health care are something other than bigotry that will get children killed.
Arkansas just became to the first state to pass a bill that would cut off trans kids from medical care. More are set to follow.