President Joe Biden focused primarily on economic matters in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, dealing with job creation, boosting U.S. manufacturing, infrastructure, taxes, and similar matters. Read on » Read on » A new update to the simulation game The Sims 4 features options for transgender characters — a change that has thrown the anti-LGBTQ+ American Family Association into a tizzy. Read on » The Virginia House of Delegates Tuesday approved two anti-transgender bills, one that would bar trans girls from playing on girls’ school sports teams and another that would force public school personnel to out trans students to their parents or guardians. Read on » By AJ Willingham Read on » Two gay fathers who have a daughter attending a private Christian school in Arizona say they were told they weren’t welcome on campus. Read on » Barbra Streisand is going to publish her first memoir. Read on » Lawmakers in Missouri are considering a Republican-proposed bill that would ban the discussion of gender identity or sexual orientation at all ages and grade levels. Read on » On Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, we must remember the myriad ways the work to end the HIV epidemic overlaps with the work for LGBTQ justice and overlaps with the work to dismantle white supremacy. One of these overlaps is laws that criminalize HIV. Read on » Did anyone see the irony during Black History Month of a white balloon from a repressive country hovering over the United States like an existential threat, and then shot down over the coast of South Carolina, a state where 40 percent of Africans passed through on their way to slavery and torture in North America? Read on » Last year, Republican lawmakers in Florida proposed dissolving Disney’s special taxing district after the company criticized the state’s governor for enacting an anti-LGBTQ+ law. On Monday, GOP lawmakers proposed renaming the district and letting Gov. Ron DeSantis choose who runs it. Read on » By Betsy Klein and Arlette Saenz Read on » A new report commissioned by the dating app Hinge reveals that when it comes to LGBTQ+ relationships, communication is critical. Read on » Wyoming legislators have advanced a bill that would define the provision of gender-affirming care to minors as child abuse. Read on »
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