In new documentary, Sarah McBride navigates anti-trans hate on her historic path to Congress
"State of Firsts," debuting in select theaters Friday, follows the first transgender member of Congress on the campaign trail and into D.C.
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They never left Pulse behind. They just learned to carry it differently.
In 2016, a gunman killed 49 people and wounded dozens more at a pillar of Orlando’s gay nightlife. Ten years later, the tragedy reverberates.
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She broke barriers as a priest. She spends retirement organizing against 'Christofascism.'
From her ordination to organizing with the NAACP, Rev. Carter Heyward has always set a 'place at the table' for those previously denied.
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Politics almost broke them. Instead, they found power in community.
Mo Turner — queer, Muslim and Black — faced discrimination and censure in the Oklahoma legislature. They have found healing through activism.
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Support for LGBTQ+ rights has dipped. What changed?
Republicans’ views of same-sex couples are now similar to what they were between 2005 and 2014.
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Roller derby was already queer-friendly. Then it got more inclusive.
Years before trans athletes in sports embroiled national politics, roller derby — the five-player high-contact sport with punk rock nicknames — tackled the question of who could play.
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The first school year under a Texas law targeting LGBTQ+ students
Senate Bill 12 banned Pride clubs and required teachers to use students’ names and pronouns assigned at birth. Adrian Moore didn’t let it define his senior year.
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Anti-trans amendment puts women's history museum on pause
The Democratic Women’s Caucus pulled support after Republicans amended the legislation to require that the museum exclude transgender women.
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Barney Frank, first member of Congress to come out as gay, dies at 86
Frank entered Congress when being gay could end a political career, and served long enough to lead reforms after the 2008 financial crisis.
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The government’s fight against gender-affirming care just escalated
NYU Langone Hospitals in New York City has received a grand jury subpoena for patient medical records, hinting at a federal criminal investigation.