LGBTQ rights

From activists to politicians, entertainers, scientists and journalists, members of the LGBTQ+ community have made an impact on our world through their work and their words. This Pride Month, we’re celebrating them by learning the ABCs of these LGBTQ trailblazers. CNN anchor and “60 Minutes” correspondent Anderson Cooper is one of the most recognized journalists in the news business and…

New York City’s Stonewall Inn was the site of a six day protest in 1969 against police harassment and discrimination against the LGBTQ community. It is remembered today as being a turning-point in the movement for acceptance and equality.

NBCLX is looking back at the most inspiring people we profiled this year as part of NBCUniversal News Group’s Inspiring America series. The first person we are recognizing is Nicolas Talbott, who sued the federal government after former President Donald Trump banned transgender servicemembers from the military.

George and Emily Spurrier are leaving their home of 16 years in central Arkansas due to a new law that will ban the health care that they say their 17-year-old transgender son needs, NBC News reports.

Arizona lawmakers have approved changes to sex education laws that make them some of the strictest in the nation when it comes to teaching about LGBTQ issues.

Despite a growing number of athletes coming out as LGBTQ in college, fewer than 3% of NCAA D-I athletes compete in departments that fully protect their LGBTQ identities. Ohio State University, Boston University, the University of Miami and the University of Southern California were among the schools that performed the best.

Virginia lawmakers passed a bill that will ban the use of a person’s perceived or actual sexual orientation or gender identity as a defense in court for the assault or murder of an LGBTQ person

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., placed a sign outside her office Wednesday mocking Democratic Rep. Marie Newman, whose office sits across the hall, after Newman hung a transgender pride flag next to her door in protest over Greene’s opposition to a LGBTQ rights bill

With the projected election of Democrat Raphael Warnock to the U.S. Senate for Georgia, LGBTQ advocates are hopeful about the fate of a bill called the Equality Act that aims to protect its community against discrimination. Sarah Kate Ellis, GLAAD’s president and CEO, joined LX News to explain why Georgia’s U.S. Senate elections will decide the future of federal protections...

A number of organizations, schools and businesses with either a history of anti-LGBTQ advocacy or policies that explicitly discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals have received millions in pandemic relief funding, according to an NBC News analysis of data released last week by the Small Business Administration. The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) — which was intended to help…

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.