LGBTQ rights

As president-elect, Biden is making sweeping promises to LGBTQ activists, proposing to carry out virtually every major proposal on their wish lists. Among them: Lifting the Trump administration’s near-total ban on military service for transgender people, barring federal contractors from anti-LGBTQ job discrimination, and creating high-level LGBTQ-rights positions at the State Department, the National Security Council and other federal...

Taylor Small made history when she became Vermont’s first openly transgender state legislator. Small joins LX News to discuss what her progressive win means for all young queer and trans people across the country and how she will continue her work on health equity and non-citizen voting.

GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate said “everything is on the ballot” for LGBTQ Americans on Election Day, including the fate of gay marriage, and advised voters to look at the candidates’ records on gay rights when they make their choice for president.