Aiden Cordero, 18, was suspended from her Florida high school in February for using the girls’ bathroom. Cordero is a transgender girl and a senior at Frank W. Springstead High School, in a suburb of Tampa, where, she said, she’s been using the girls’ restroom for the last three years without issues. However, one of […]
NEW YORK (AP) — It was half of the Stonewall Inn, the gay dive bar where a 1969 police raid became a landmark moment for the LGBTQ+ rights movement. Yet for much of the 55 years since, there has been little outward indication that 51 Christopher St. was part of that history. It had housed […]
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — The University of Utah said some of its student resource centers will soon be closed or otherwise reorganized once House Bill 261 — “Equal Opportunity Initiatives” — goes into effect on July 1. “Under HB 261, ‘Equal Opportunity Initiatives,’ student services must be available to all students and not provided […]
Despite temperatures hovering around 90 degrees and a threat of rain earlier in the week, roughly 100 people flowed through the 500 block of Buckeye St. on Saturday to celebrate the LGBTQ community at the 2024 Kokomo Pride Festival. Music from a DJ could be heard from about a block away. Visitors who followed the […]
Nashville’s LGBTQ+ community and its religious, educational and corporate institutions rallied around one another beneath a 90-degree sun to celebrate Pride on Saturday. A spirit of encouragement coursed down Lower Broadway as more than 100 floats greeted thousands of bystanders, each side sending messages of solidarity. People march in the 2024 Pride parade downtown on […]
For Bliss Floccare, being a queer wedding photographer is bittersweet. On one hand, having an LGBTQ+ couple thank you is heartwarming, they said. On the other hand, it’s a reminder of the work that needs to be done to provide people with more inclusive spaces. “My favorite part about my job are those moments where […]
The gunman who killed five people and injured 19 others at an LGBTQ+ club that was a refuge in the conservative city of Colorado Springs pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges and was sentenced to 55 life terms in prison on Tuesday, but once again declined to apologise or say anything to the victims’ […]
June is Pride Month because it remembers the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York, a moment that galvanized the LGBTQ rights movement. Since then, it’s been one of the most popular times to host protests, vigils, and parties celebrating the LGBTQ community and remembering what it has gone through over the years. Georgia has already […]
DENVER (AP) — Anderson Lee Aldrich, who killed five people and injured 19 others at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs, is prepared to plead guilty to federal hate crime charges as well as gun charges Tuesday following new evidence of anti-gay slurs and weapons purchases before the mass shooting. Aldrich, now 24, is already […]
Take that mask off, I wanna see what’s under them achievements Why believe you? You never gave us nothing to believe in ’Cause you lied about religious views, you lied about your surgery You lied about your accent and your past tense — all is perjury. Shoutout to Kendrick Lamar for giving us all some […]
Over 40 LGBTQ+ elected officials from around Ohio gathered at Columbus City Hall Friday, the day before many of them would march in the Columbus Pride Festival, to discuss hostile legislation and strategies to combat it. This is the second time in two years City Council President Shannon Hardin invited LGBTQ+ officials to gather before […]
MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) — La Sala is a place for LGBTQ+ people in Washington Heights to feel at home. La Sala provides a safe space to for teens and young adults. It started with eight transgender women seven years ago. Currently, there are more than 100 people who benefit from the center. A group of […]